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LARGE colored PHARMACY or DRUG STORE bottle Wm B. RIKER & SONs
$ 26.39
- Description
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Description
A LARGE (just under 8" tall
) rectangular-shaped amber-glass antique
COLORED PHARMACY / DRUG STORE / APOTHECARY
bottle.
This is the 2nd largest sizes that these bottles came in - a nice LARGE PINT SIZED bottle.
This is a very early hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a tooled top,
dating back into the 1800's!
Bottle embossed
: "
W
M
. B. RIKER & SON CO. / MANUFACTURING CHEMISTS / NEW YORK
"
.
Condition
: Bottle is in nice clean condition. It just has some moderate patches of stain and traces of wear, nothing significantly wrong with it. NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc. PLEASE see pictures for good idea of overall condition
.
Age
: A hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late
1800's
.
Shipping
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DOMESTIC
shipping charges
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IMPORTANT NOTE:
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YOU
pay for shipping/insurance is very close to, if not exactly, the
ACTUAL
shipping costs! This is especially important for foreign buyers as most of our foreign shipping charges are rough estimates
.
It is hard to find colored drug store bottles in these larger sizes. They made them colored for a reason, for bottling medicinal products in them that were sensitive to light, and they were a specialty bottle so not that many were ever made in the first place. Then too the large sized bottles were much more susceptible to damage/breakage, so not many have survived for collectors today. Colored drug store bottles are a very popular category of collecting in themselves, and few collections have a pint size, this size bottle, leading the string,
check it out!
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