Antique OPIUM based patent med bottle EMBOSSED and LABELED and ORIGINAL old AQUA

Description

A
4 3/4 inch tall
rectangular-shaped
nice TURQUOISE AQUA MARINE colored
antique
BALSAM
bottle.  This bottle has NO contents but according to the label, it originally came with
TWO GRAINS
OPIUM
to the fluid ounce.  T
his is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a tooled top, dating back to the late 1800s
.
Bottle is embossed on sides
: "
DR. SETH ARNOLD'S / COUGH KILLER
".
Label reads in part
: "
TWO GRAINS OF OPIUM TO THE FLUID OUNCE ... ALCOHOLIC STRENGTH 50% ...
"
Condition
:   This bottle is nice and clean and has NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.  PLEASE see pictures o
f labels to get idea of overall appearance.
Age
: An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late
1800's
.
Shipping
:
FREE
domestic shipping,
includes
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What makes this bottle so collectible is that the label says "
TWO GRAINS OPIUM TO THE FLUID OUNCE ... ALCOHOLIC STRENGTH 50%
".
It seems that these bottles are often found in small caches or groups of them as the user usually got hooked on the NARCOTIC and often hid the empty bottles away so no one would find out.
We have several of these we bought as part of a small cache of them that were found just like this, tucked away in a basement crawl space, and they have the label's still intact and the glass is in excellent clean condition
.  Some are this size, some of are smaller 'sample' sizes, some of them are newer clear glass varieties, and some of them even have a backwards "S" in the "
S
ETH ARNOLD
S
" embossing.  In summary, only so many labeled bottles survived a century of time with paper label intact, and since it was found in a basement and out of the elements, it is in NICE CLEAN condition, N
O damage w/ a FULLY LEGIBLE label.
A great looking antique NARCOTIC BASED quack medicine bottle
,
check it out!
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