Tiny antique sample bottle SOZODONT FOR THE TEETH from 1800's # 2

Description

A
2 1/8" tall
rectangular-shaped clear-glass
antique SAMPLE TOOTH POWDER bottle
.
This is a very old DENTAL bottle for the
MOUTH TEETH GUMS BREATH THROAT TOOTH
, an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a tooled top
, dating it well over
ONE CENTURY OLD
, back to the 1800's
.
Bottle Embossed
:   "
SOZODONT - SOZODONT - FOR THE / TEETH / AND / BREATH
"
.
Condition
:   Bottle is in EXCELLENT CLEAN condition.  It has just a few small spots of wear or stain, the embossing is just a little light, NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc
.
Age
:  An early hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late
1800's
.
Shipping
: All
DOMESTIC
shipping charges
INCLUDE
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IMPORTANT NOTE:
If our 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 especially important for foreign buyers to know as most of our foreign shipping charges are rough estimates
.
You don't find tiny SAMPLE
antique TOOTH POWDER bottles
very often, this is a very FULLY EMBOSSED
little bottle
.  In doing some research on this product we find that it was first
c
reated in 1859 by Roswell van Buskirk of NJ.  The name Sozodont isn't just an interesting sounding title but is related to early dentistry.  For example, the Greek word "sozo" means "to save" and the Greek word "dontia" means teeth.  So this title of this product meant that it was 'to save the teeth'.  However, shortly after 1900, negative reports by dentists about the product were published and the product faded from distribution.  All that remains today are just a few of these old bottles.
We used to think that Tooth Powder was the forerunner of tooth paste but as can be seen in our 'see other items' list, we have other types of antique liquid tooth paste bottles that prove that tooth powder wasn't the forerunner of tooth paste, it was an alternative.
Like so many of these products, they weren't just for cleaning the teeth but they also claimed to cure all diseases of the MOUTH THROAT TEETH, and GUMS and anything else remotely connected to the teeth.  An excellent example
, t
hese tiny sample bottles are a category of collecting in themselves
,
check 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.  Feel free to contact us with questions.
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