Antique BAYER HEROIN TABLETS Bottle 1st Style Hand Blown In Mold BIM 1800 ' S
Item History & Price
A 3 3/4" tall rectangular-shaped clear-glass antique BAYER HEROIN HYDROCHLORIDE TABLETS bottle that is both EMBOSSED (with a small substance control label) on one side, and a FULL LABEL on the other side. This is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE BAYER BOTTLE, but the label is a REPRODUCED FACSIMILE label, a color photo COPY of an original label that went on this bottle. Bottle also has a tin cap. DO NOT let the screw top of this bottle fool you, this is an O...RIGINAL ANTIQUE hand Blown Into Mold bottle (BIM) with a tooled top, dating it all the way back to the late 1800's.Bottle embossed: "BAYER / BAYER", in cross pattern, the earliest style used by Bayer.Bottle's cap embossed: "BAYER / BAYER", in cross pattern. Condition: Bottle is in GOOD SOLID condition. It has wear and stain from from age and use. Overall the bottle is good, it has NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc. The cap is old and corroded, but it works and completes the bottle's look.
Age: An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late 1800'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. This is the first style of bottle used by Bayer, this style possibly dates back to the latter 1800's. These early bottles came in 2 sizes and styles. This is the larger rectangular shape, there is also a smaller oval shaped that contained less. Most all of the 'antique' Bayer bottles you see for sale on the internet are the newer bottles with the word Bayer just embossed on each side, these original bottles with embossing in cross are rarely seen for sale, hard to find! Bayer started producing HEROIN in the late 1800's. Using the name Heroin, supposedly because early testers said it made them feel heroic, like heros, and Bayer began selling it in tablet form in the 1890's. By 1899, Bayer was producing about a ton of heroin a year, and was eventually exporting the drug to other countries as well, including the USA. But reports of HEROIN addiction reached gigantic proportions so in the early 19-teens, Bayer wisely elected to withdraw from Heroin production. Bayer had released their aspirin tablets at about the time they were producing heroin and so they dropped the heroin production and turned all of its resources to the manufacturer of aspirin, as aspirin, the 'new' non-addictive painkiller and anti-inflammatory, was well on its way to becoming the most popular drug ever. Note how you are starting to see labeled bottles with this same style label on them, on eBay? All of these are coming from the original 4 bottles that WE had and sold on eBay. Note that none of them are ORIGINAL BAYER BOTTLES, like this one is, but just junk blank bottles that weren't ever pill bottles, and yet folks are paying way too much for them? At least this one HERE is the ORIGINAL DEAL, a true ORIGINAL antique BAYER bottle, check it out, AND I mean, check it out!PLEASE do NOT steal my title, description, items specifics, or pictures, etc. Not only is it against eBay POLICY but more importantly, we worked very hard to research and put all of this info together!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!7249-52x
Age: An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late 1800'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. This is the first style of bottle used by Bayer, this style possibly dates back to the latter 1800's. These early bottles came in 2 sizes and styles. This is the larger rectangular shape, there is also a smaller oval shaped that contained less. Most all of the 'antique' Bayer bottles you see for sale on the internet are the newer bottles with the word Bayer just embossed on each side, these original bottles with embossing in cross are rarely seen for sale, hard to find! Bayer started producing HEROIN in the late 1800's. Using the name Heroin, supposedly because early testers said it made them feel heroic, like heros, and Bayer began selling it in tablet form in the 1890's. By 1899, Bayer was producing about a ton of heroin a year, and was eventually exporting the drug to other countries as well, including the USA. But reports of HEROIN addiction reached gigantic proportions so in the early 19-teens, Bayer wisely elected to withdraw from Heroin production. Bayer had released their aspirin tablets at about the time they were producing heroin and so they dropped the heroin production and turned all of its resources to the manufacturer of aspirin, as aspirin, the 'new' non-addictive painkiller and anti-inflammatory, was well on its way to becoming the most popular drug ever. Note how you are starting to see labeled bottles with this same style label on them, on eBay? All of these are coming from the original 4 bottles that WE had and sold on eBay. Note that none of them are ORIGINAL BAYER BOTTLES, like this one is, but just junk blank bottles that weren't ever pill bottles, and yet folks are paying way too much for them? At least this one HERE is the ORIGINAL DEAL, a true ORIGINAL antique BAYER bottle, check it out, AND I mean, check it out!PLEASE do NOT steal my title, description, items specifics, or pictures, etc. Not only is it against eBay POLICY but more importantly, we worked very hard to research and put all of this info together!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!7249-52x
