Scarce TRIAL SIZE small KICKAPOO INDIAN OIL blown glass antique BOTTLE 1800's

Description

A small
3 inch tall
cylinder-shaped clear-glass scarce
TRIAL SIZE
antique
INDIAN OIL
bottle.
This is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a tooled top, dating it 100 years old or more
.
Bottle Embossed
: "
HEALY & BIGELOW / KICKAPOO INDIAN OIL / TRIAL BOTTLE
"
.
Condition
:    This bottle is in good clean condition.  It was blown very crudely, the glass has lots of defects and imperfections in it.  The embossing looks like a child wrote it out as it is so small the mold maker had a hard time making such small letters.  There is a lot of roughness and unevenness to the glass finish, along with some wear, some haze, but mostly it is just a crudely or carelessly made bottle.  NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.  (See photos for overall appearance of bottle)
.
Age
:  An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca.
late
1800's.
Shipping
:
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We haven't seen many of these small 3" tall Kickapoo Indian oil TRIAL BOTTLEs as normally you see the larger, regular sized aqua bottles.   So
the sample or TRIAL BOTTLE is a hard one too find
.   What a great sounding old patent medicine with the 'KICKAPOO
INDIAN OIL' name.
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 'developed' by a patent medicine man back
in the eastern industrial center of the USA,
using the Native American connotation as an allure to sell their concoction.   The Kickapoo Indian Oil itself was most likely just a medicinal based liquid with flavoring, alcohol, herbs, and possibly a narcotic ingredient, and the advertising did the rest.  But, t
his bottle is the real thing, a TRIAL BOTTLE advertising a great old INDIAN OIL quack concoction from the 1800's
that claimed to cure about every affliction known to mankind,
with an Indian connotation attached to it
,
check it out!
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