Old VETERINARY Berako COW CURE bottle from FRUITLAND IDAHO

Description

An
8 1/8"
rectangular-shaped clear-glass old
VETERINARY MEDICINE bottle
.  This is a very early hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a cork top, dating back to the early 1900s, maybe a century old.
Condition
: This bottle is in EXCELLENT CLEAN condition.  It has maybe a trace of haze OR light wear, otherwise it is in nearly perfect condition.   It has NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc. (see pictures for overall idea of the label's condition.)
Age
: A hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. early
1900's
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A pair of these flasks were found in some buildings on an old potato farm in southern Idaho.   They made it to an antique shop in Boise Idaho, where we found them.   There are some intriguing things about the bottles.  1)The bottle itself is an old whiskey flask, complete with a weakly embossed date on the base, 1898.   2)The label mentions mixing the contents of a pint bottle with a few gallons of water, and to sprinkle it on the cows' backs.  3)There is a disclaimer on the label about the seller not assuming any risk of how the contents of the bottle was used.   With all of this in mind we came to the conclusion that this was a product that was initially purchased as a concentrate then dispensed into bottles for use, and eventually diluted with water to make a cure.   We recognize the bottles are 'Olympia' style whiskey flasks.  Though not embossed, there are some from Idaho that ARE embossed, so this is what attracted us to them in the shop.  Then we noticed the 'Fruitland, Idaho' geographic location, an area in Idaho without much in the way of antique anything, especially an old whiskey flask!   Once we got them cleaned up and started studying the labels we come to the conclusion that the labels did not originate with the bottles, but the labels were meant to be applied to a bottle as needed for use.  Thus the disclaimer about the seller ot assuming risk.  Kind of like the old Pinex medicine, whereas a century ago a small bottle of concentrated 'Pinex' was procured but then you mixed a batch of it and put it into bottles for dispensing.  Then a 'Pinex' label was applied to whatever bottle the batch was put in.  I think these flasks were used as they are obvious 'pint' flasks and that is what the directions called for.   The labels also mention "
Cattle Grubs, Ox Warble, Heel Fly ... treating up to 50 head of cattle
", and concludes by saying, "
Packaged by CHANEY WHOLESALE CO. / Fruitland, Idaho  1 PINT
".   An interesting old veterinary bottle,
c
heck it out
!
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