PURE PURPLE antique HOOD'S TOOTH POWDER - LOWELL MASS. bottle from 1800's.

Description

A
3 1/2" tall
oval-shaped
beautiful DEEP PURPLE AMETHYST colored
antique TOOTH POWDER bottle
.
This is a very old DENTAL bottle, it came packed with tooth powder for the
MOUTH TEETH GUMS BREATH THROAT TOOTH.
It is
an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a tooled top
, dating it back well over
ONE CENTURY OLD
, a good 100 years old + PLUS
.
Bottle embossed
:  "
HOOD'S / TOOTH POWDER / C. I. HOOD & CO. / LOWELL, MASS."
Condition
:   Bottle is in good solid condition.  It has cloudy content stain, haze, and wear, but it has NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.   Structurally speaking, it looks like it is nearly perfect
.
Age
:  An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late
1800's
.
Shipping
:
FREE
domestic shipping.   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.
A nicely embossed little bottle that once contained dentifrice or tooth powder. This is the same company that put out their famed Sarsaparilla and became millionaires from it as a result of the fact that it had absolutely no medicinal value so it was very
cheaply
produced, but their advertising campaigns made folks believe it could even prevent death, so away it sold.
This is a very early hand-blown bottle that was made all the way back in the 1800's.
Many of the collectors of antique dental bottles are dentists, building small collections of quality antique dental bottles to display in their waiting rooms and offices and this is a prime example of just this sort of thing as it says so simply, "T
OOTH POWDER".
This bottle has been exposed to a high heat/light source to enrich the
purple color that would naturally occur if exposed to sun light for a prolonged period of time.   With a clear glass object, you see through it, 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 every detail stand out / jump right out at you.   With few exceptions, only clear glass from before 1914 will turn sun-colored-amethyst.   Not only does this deep purple/amethyst
color make it a great looking bottle, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique!
Old dental bottles like this contained nothing more than a liquid or powdered tooth paste, yet they claimed that they had secret medicinal properties that, if used regularly, could cure any type of past or present disease of the mouth, gums, throat, even things that they still can't cure today.  A classic antique 'tooth powder / wash / dentifrice' style bottle,
c
heck it out!
* * NOTE:  We have a collection of antique DENTAL, TOOTH, TEETH related bottles and items that we are selling off.  Our father was a dentist and we collected these bottles over many years' time.  Some are quite rare and others are common but top end examples.  Please check our listings as we will work at listing the whole collection over time and please feel free to contact us with questions.
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