Antique REXALL Drug Store LEECH or FISH BOWL very old AND very purple LAVENDER

Description

A
4 1/2" tall x 5 1/2" wide
nice SUN PURPLED AMETHYSTINE colored
antique
Gold FISH or LEECH bowl
in the old traditional FISH BOWL shape.
This is
NOT a reproduction but an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE
, 100 + year old genuine antique
b
owl.
Back in the day
drug stores were more like variety stores, they sold many things, including pet fish, like Gold fish.  BUT they also sold leech's for use in connection with blood work, blood letting, bleeding, so leech's were kept/sold in a bowl like this.
Bowl embossed
:   "
From / The Rexall Store
/
TRADE MARK
"
.
Condition
:  This bowl is in SHINY CLEAN condition.  It has wear from a century of use, light scratches, scrapes (mainly on the base from contact with another surface) AND the embossing is a little weak.  Really there is nothing specifically wrong with it.  NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.   See pictures for better idea of overall condition
.
Age
:  An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE blown-glass bowl, ca.
early 1900
.
Shipping
:
FREE
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What a beautiful looking bowl in this shade of sun colored amethyst!   T
his bowl was originally sold at a Rexall Drug Store, possibly as
a fish bowl
to keep gold fish in.   You see this today, Gold fish, Siamese Fighting fish or even guppies, being kept in a small bowl like this as pets.   Or it
possibly could of been in the store and contained leeches in it, a leech bowl.   Since it is from more than a century ago and since it is advertising a "DRUG" store, we are thinking it was a Leech bowl, as leech's back then were sold for medicinal purposes, at drug stores.   We are not sure.  But we do know that these
old REXALL bowls aren't commonly found, especially the
older
original ones like this one with the
amethyst color to it.  It is an older one for sure as w
ith few exceptions, only clear glass from before 1914 will turn sun-colored-amethyst. Not only does this deep purple/amethyst color make it
a very attractive looking bowl but it also authenticates it as being truly antique,
and a nice one at that
,
check it out!
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!
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