ORIGINAL antique SNAKE OIL HORSE MEDICINE embossed bottle w/LABEL Clark Stanley

Description

A
6 3/8" tall
clear-glass square-shaped antique
SNAKE OIL LINIMENT
patent medicine bottle.
NOTE:  The paper label on this bottle is a facsimile of the real label that went on this bottle
.
It is a high quality reproduced copy of the label that originally came on this bottle,
but this bottle
is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a tooled top, dating back to the 1800's
.
Bottle embossed
: "
CLARK STANLEY'S SNAKE OIL LINIMENT / FOR RHEUMATISM AND NEURALGIA / THE BEST HORSE LINIMENT IN THE WORLD
".
Condition
:   This bottle has some traces of cloudy stain but that's it.  NO cracks, dings, bruises, damage, etc.  PLEASE see pictures for good idea of overall condition
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 ship International but 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.
Way back in the 1880's, Clark Stanley spent some time cowboy'ing way out west, in Texas.   He did not want to engage in the cattle business as it was such hard work so while out there, he came across rattlesnakes and got the idea that the oil from these venomous creatures must surely be able to cure all types of human afflictions.  Originally from the east coast, he went back to Providence, Rhode Island, where he started his "Clark Stanley's Snake Oil Liniment" business.  He manufactured and sold this concoction in hand blown bottles with his name on them, as you see here for sale.   The label on this one shows a picture of Clark Stanley with a 5 - gallon cowboy hat on, a large handle-bar mustache, and surrounded by 2 rattlesnakes!   He originally mixed and advertised this concoction for people but realized he could get a greater share of the market if he widened out his target audience and started advertising it as a Man or Beast medicine,  the "Best Horse Liniment in the World" he claimed.  And there you have it, the birth of the ORIGINAL and TRUE 'Snake Oil' liniment.
NOTE:  The paper label on this bottle is a facsimile,
a high quality reproduced copy of the real label that originally came on this bottle
.
Since th
ere are few of these bottles that survived the elements of time with their label intact, and since there are so many collectors that would love to have one with the label,
we made a copy of the label that originally came on this bottle, so here it is,
check it out!
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thank you
!
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