Antique BAYER HEROIN TABLETS bottle BIM oldest style used w/ Bayer cross - 1904

Description

A
3.5 inch tall
rectangular-shaped clear-glass
antique
BAYER HEROIN HYDROCHLORIDE TABLETS
bottle that is both
EMBOSSED
(with a small substance control label) on one side, and a
FULL LABEL
on the other side.  This is an
ORIGINAL ANTIQUE BAYER BOTTLE,
but the label is a
REPRODUCED FACSIMILE
label, a
color photo
COPY
of  an original label that went on this bottle.  N
ote that the
BAYER
embossing is in a cross design and
the Bayer Cross is one of the world’s best-known trademarks and was registered in 1904
.  The bottle for sale here is the very
FIRST STYLE
of this bottle used by FREDERICK BAYER and it is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a ground-top, dating back to very early 1900.
Bottle embossed
:  "
BAYER / BAYER
", in cross pattern, the earliest style used by Bayer
.
Condition
:   Bottle is in GOOD SOLID condition.  It has content stain and wear from age and use.  Top of lip is rough, as it was ground down smooth after being broken away from the blow pipe.  There is nothing significantly wrong with it, NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.  The cap is not original but does works and completes the bottle's look.
Age
:   An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a ground-lip, ca. early
1900.
Shipping
:
FREE
domestic shipping,
includes
insurance.   We do NOT insure International orders unless buyer specifically requests this and we are able to provide an insurance estimate.  If an international shipping charge is much more than the actual shipping cost, we will refund the excess so what YOU pay for shipping/insurance is very close to, if not exactly, the ACTUAL shipping costs! This is important for foreign buyers to know as most of our foreign shipping charges are estimates.  We do not falsify information on the Customs Form, such as a price other than what the actual purchase price is, so please do not request us to do so. We ship several times a week and your prompt payment will hasten the turn-around time.
This is the VERY FIRST style of the rectangular-shaped bottle used by Bayer.   As noted,
the BAYER embossing in the cross design
is one of the world’s best-known trademarks and
was registered in 1904.
The bottle for sale here is the FIRST STYLE of this bottle used by FREDERICK BAYER and were designed to hold pills and tablets.  There were originally two (2) sizes and styles, t
his is the larger rectangular shape, there is also a smaller oval shaped that contained less.  Most all of the 'antique' Bayer bottles you see for sale on the internet are the newer bottles with the word Bayer just embossed on each side, these original bottles with embossing in cross are rarely seen for sale, hard to find!
Bayer started producing HEROIN in the late 1800's.
Using the name Heroin, supposedly because early testers said it made them feel heroic, like heros, and Bayer began selling it in tablet form in the 1890's. By 1899, Bayer was producing about a ton of heroin a year, and was eventually exporting the drug to other countries as well, including the USA. But reports of HEROIN addiction reached gigantic proportions so in the early 19-teens, Bayer wisely elected to withdraw from Heroin production. Bayer had released their aspirin tablets at about the time they were producing heroin and so they dropped the heroin production and turned all of its resources to the manufacturer of aspirin, as aspirin, the 'new' non-addictive painkiller and anti-inflammatory, was well on its way to becoming the most popular drug ever.   Note how you are starting to see labeled bottles with this same style label on them, on eBay?   All of these are coming from the original 4 bottles that WE had and sold on eBay.  Note that none of them are ORIGINAL BAYER BOTTLES, like this one is, but just junk blank bottles that weren't ever pill bottles, and yet folks are paying way too much for them?   At least this one HERE is the ORIGINAL DEAL, a true ORIGINAL antique BAYER bottle, HAND BLOWN INTO MOLD (bim) dating it as the earliest style
, check it out!
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