OWL DRUG bottle Gwl error TRANSLUCENT PURPLE color CRISP & CLEAN !

Description

A
4 1/8 inch tall
) rectangular-shaped
nice PURPLE AMETHYST color
antique druggist bottle from
The OWL DRUG Co
.  This is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a tooled top, dating well over 100 years old, that is, OVER ONE CENTURY OLD
.  Note that bottle is clearly embossed on back shoulder '
G
wl' not '
O
wl'
!
Bottle has a wonderful embossed picture of an Owl perched on a druggists mortar, clutching a pestle. The mortar is embossed "
TODCO
". (TODCo = The Owl Drug Co.)
Back shoulder of bottle embossed
:
"
The Gwl Drug Co
"  -
'
G
wl' not '
O
wl'.
Condition
:   Bottle is in nice clean condition.  It does have 2 tiny nicks in the top side of lip, but overall it is in SPARKLING CLEAN condition
.
Age
:  An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. early
1900's.
Shipping
:
FREE
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A nice looking Owl Drug Co. bottle. This is about a
2 OUNCE
bottle. These came in 10 sizes from the smallest 2 1/2" tall 1/2 oz., to the nearly 10" tall 32 oz. FULL QUART size, this one is towards the smaller size.  You hear about old bottles turning
purple in the sun?   The beautiful purple amethyst color of this bottle is the result of being made with manganese in the glass, a mineral that was pulverized and added to vats of liquid glass that acted as a decolorizing agent to turn naturally aqua-colored glass into a pure crystal clear colorless glass.  Exposure to ultraviolet rays of the sun or other sources of UV rays, triggers a chemical reaction and the manganese oxidizes and turns a wonderful amethyst color.  With few exceptions, only glass made before 1914 will turn purple.  Not only does this deep purple/amethyst color make this a great looking bottle, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique.
There are different schools of thought on this Gwl bottle. On one hand this looks to be a blatant mistake. As such, it could be that the Owl Drug designer who made the error did it without catching the mistake and went on to register and patent this "Gwl" motif as the Owl Drug Co's Trade Mark, and the Gwl bottles were then produced from this design. This would partly explain it because even though these are scarce to find, these "Gwl" bottles come in nine different sizes and even in different styled bottles. Yet not only glass bottles, but we have also seen paper letterheads, paper labeled bottles, even old newspaper ads that likewise have the "Gwl" spelling of Owl.
Therefore one of two conclusions have been reached:
1) That these were originally a mistake, as considered, and many of them were manufactured before the mistake was realized. In this scenario, they then went on to continue with the Gwl printing on other items as well, so that all of the advertising coming out at that time consistently had the Gwl printing so as to not cause consumer confusion, and to also make it look like no mistake had been made.
2) That these are not error bottles at all, that the "G" in "Owl" is actually a fancy Old English or Victorian style of the letter "O". Everyone has their own opinions yet look closely at the picture, the close up of the Gwl embossing, and then you decide. Whichever the case, these are scarce old Owl Drug bottles, desirable on account of the Gwl embossing,
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