SCARCE 5" TALL old OWL DRUG Co larger POISON bottle COBALT BLUE color TRIANGLE

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A 5 1/4" tall beautiful deep COBALT BLUE colored antique POISON BOTTLE put out by the OWL DRUG CO. This is a very early hand B lown I nto M old bottle ( BIM ) with a tooled top, dating it back a good 100 YEARS old, that is, a CENTURY old!Bottle embossed : " POISON / The Owl Drug Co . ", with embossed picture of an owl perched on a druggists' mortar, stirring a pestle. The mortar is embossed with, " TODCO/ TRADE MARK ". TODCo = The Owl Drug Co.Condition : Bottle is in SPARKLING CLEAN condition. It has a few areas of cloudy content stain, nothing significant. It has NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc. See pictures for idea of overall condition.Age : A hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. early 1900's.Shipping : All DOMESTIC shipping charges INCLUDE insurance. We have enjoyed shipping our items all over the world and are happy to offer most of our items to international buyers. Yet insuring International parcels is very expensive so PLEASE NOTE; we do NOT insure International orders unless winning buyer specifically requests this and we are able to provide an insurance quote. 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 send payment acknowledgments and shipping confirmations. Your prompt payment will assure a very quick turn-around time. 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.These old BIM cobalt blue triangular shaped Owl Drug bottles come in 10 different sizes, from the tiny 2 1/2" tall (1/2 oz.) size to the GIANT 9 3/4" tall FULL QUART size. This one is nearly halfway up, the 5" (5 1/4") size. The larger they get, the harder they are to find as these bottles were susceptible to breakage. For example, once discarded, they lie on the flat side which left the thin edge upright and very vulnerable to being crushed from the top. The larger the bottle, the bigger the exposed area, and then they are history. This bottle is listed as # KT-1 in the Poison Bottle Workshop book, the book on antique poison bottles. Antique poison bottles are quite collectible as they were most always made in odd shapes or forms, unusual colors, and had fancy or extraordinary embossing patterns on them. Though originally these were all things to let a user know, by sight and feel, that the bottle's contents were something not to be consumed, toda y these are all the things t hat makes poison bottles such a collectible category of antique bottle collecting, and this one with the deep COBALT BLUE color, TRIANGULAR shape, and with large POISON spelled, makes it a grand example of this. They did NOT make a lot of the 5" size, for some reason it was not a popular content size, which today translates into a hard bottle to find , check it out!Terms of Sale : Our goal is 100% customer satisfaction. We put our 30+ years of experience in antiques to use in describing every item we list. Items are sold in a store front format and your purchase is a binding contract, so please don't be hasty when looking over the listing. We find that communication is the key to successful transactions so PLEASE completely read the item description AND ask questions before purchasing, thank you ! read more

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