DARK amethyst INDIAN COUGH CURE original antique PATENT MEDICINE bottle BIM

Description

A
6 3/8 inch tall
cylinder-shaped
deep PURPLE black AMETHYST colored
antique
INDIAN COUGH CURE
patent medicine bottle.
This is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a tooled top, dating back into the 1800's
.
Bottle embossed
:  "
HEALY & BIGELOW'S / KICKAPOO / INDIAN COUGH CURE
"
.
Condition
:   Bottle is in good condition.  It has some stain (patina) and wear from age and use, a tiny nick on the lip, some scratches, but other than this, there is NOTHING SIGNIFICANTLY wrong with the bottle.  It does NOT have any cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.  Pictures give an idea of overall condition
.
Age
: An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late
1800's
.
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
.
Back in the day when this bottle was in circulation, the Native American Indian was looked upon with aura and mystique.   Many early-day patent medicine men used them as a symbol to sell their medicines and suggested that the 'Indian' medicines held secret age-old formulas that had been concocted over the centuries by the Native American.   The Indian cures, bitters, liniments, sarsaparilla's, patent medicines, were often advertised as containing some kind of miraculous healing powers from natural ingredients that were extracted from different roots and herbs that the Native American Indians had used for centuries to treat such things.  In reality
, the
products were actually 'developed' by a patent medicine man back
in some eastern industrial center
using these Native American connotations as an allure to sell their concoction.   The Kickapoo Cough Cure and others were usually little more than a medicinal based liquid with flavoring, alcohol, a sprig of herbs, and possibly a narcotic ingredient.  This one says it all "KICKAPOO Indian Cough CURE", enough said!   Also this bottle has a nice looking indented panel on half of it, that all of the embossing fits inside of, which adds to the desirability of the bottle itself.  Most all of the Indian Cough Cure bottles that you see are an
aqua  marine color
, but this one is a BLACK AMETHYST, dark purple color.
You hear about old bottles turning purple from the sun.   This bottle was exposed to a light / heat source to enrich the purple color that would naturally occur if exposed to the ultra violet rays of the sun for a prolonged period of time.  Note that with a clear glass bottle you hold it up to the light to see through it and read the embossing, and the embossing reflects what ever patterns and colors are in the background.   Yet with this deep purple color, you are looking, not through the glass but right AT the embossing, which accentuates it and makes it much more visible!
The purple color also authenticates it as being truly antique as with few exceptions, only bottles produced prior to the 1920's will even turn this color
,
c
heck it out!
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!
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