Antique HEROIN embossed QUACK MEDICINE bottle RARE early hand blown

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Antique HEROIN embossed QUACK MEDICINE bottle RARE early hand blown:
$399.99

3 5/8\" tall amber-colored rectangular-shaped antique patent \'quack\' bottle that originally contained a HEROIN LACED medicine. This is a very early hand Blown Into Mold bottle (BIM) with a tooled top, dating it back well over 100 years old.

Bottle embossed: \"TERP - HEROIN / Bottle has a uniform dullness and white cloudy stain and patina. It actually gives the bottle a nice rustic look, but there is nothing significantly wrong with it, NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc. PLEASE see pictures for better idea of overall condition.
Age: A hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late 1800\'s.
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This bottle contained a strong concentrated patent medicine, the main ingredient being Heroin. Heroin was somewhat commonly used back in the 1800\'s as an ingredient in cough syrup, to suppress the cough and suppressing the discomfort that is associated with it. Yet it did much more than that as patients came to find out that they kept using the syrup long after the cough was gone. As they say, \'Caution, may be habit forming\', to say the least! It is one of the very few antique bottles that we know of that actually has the word \" HEROIN \" embossed in the glass which makes it quite appealing. And most importantly, this is not a commonly seen bottle, especially the early hand blown bottles in this NICE CLEAN condition,check it out!

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