Ultimate Quack Medicine Bottle SNAKE OIL LINIMENT - The REAL THING 100 Years Old
Item History & Price
A 6 3/8" tall clear-glass square-shaped antique original SNAKE OIL liniment PATENT (quack) MEDICINE bottle. This is a very early hand Blown Into Mold bottle (BIM) with a tooled top, dating back to the 1800's.Bottle embossed: "CLARK STANLEY'S SNAKE OIL LINIMENT / BEST HORSE LINIMENT IN THE WORLD / FOR RHEUMATISM AND NEURALGIA".
Condition: This bottle is in good sturdy condition. It has white patches of content stain on the interior and wear/haze on the exter...ior. Otherwise good. NO cracks, dings, bruises, damage, etc. PLEASE see pictures for good idea of overall appearance.
Age: An early 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.Way back when, in the 1880's, Clark Stanley spent some time cowboyin' way out west, in Texas. He did not want to engage in the cattle business as it was such hard work but while out there, he came across rattlesnakes and got the idea that if the venom from these wicked looking critters could kill people so bad that certainly the oil from something so mean and ornery ought to be strong enough to kill the 'microbes' that cause affliction and pain. So he decided to experiment with it. Originally from the east coast, he went back to Providence, Rhode Island, with a wagon load of rattle snakes and started his "Clark Stanley Snake Oil Liniment" business. He extracted the oil from them, blended and bottled it, and advertised this concoction as a horse liniment, the "BEST HORSE LINIMENT IN THE WORLD", as this bottle is embossed. He soon realized he could get a greater share of the market if he widened out his target audience and started advertising it as "Good for Man or Beast", so now it was not just limited to use on animals. As a matter of fact, a labeled example of this bottle states, it was used for "Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lame Back, Contracted Muscles, Sprains, Swellings, Frost Bites, Chilblains, Bruises, Sore Throat, Bite of Animals, Insects and Reptiles". The paper label on the bottle had a picture of Clark Stanley with a 5 - gallon cowboy hat on, a large handle-bar mustache, and surrounded by 2 rattlesnakes, all the right stuff to make for a great old 'snake oil' patent medicine! And there you have it, the birth of the ORIGINAL and TRUE 'Snake Oil' liniment ... check it out!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!ALABAMA ALASKA ARIZONA ARKANSAS CALIFORNIA COLORADO CONNECTICUT DELAWARE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FLORIDA GEORGIA HAWAII IDAHO ILLINOIS INDIANA IOWA KANSAS KENTUCKY LOUISIANA MAINE MARYLAND MASSACHUSETTS MICHIGAN MINNESOTA MISSISSIPPI MISSOURI MONTANA NEBRASKA NEVADA NEW HAMPSHIRE NEW JERSEY NEW MEXICO NEW YORK NORTH CAROLINA NORTH DAKOTA OHIO OKLAHOMA OREGON PENNSYLVANIA RHODE ISLAND SOUTH CAROLINA SOUTH DAKOTA TENNESSEE TEXAS UTAH VERMONT VIRGINIA WASHINGTON WEST VIRGINIA WISCONSIN WYOMING.
Condition: This bottle is in good sturdy condition. It has white patches of content stain on the interior and wear/haze on the exter...ior. Otherwise good. NO cracks, dings, bruises, damage, etc. PLEASE see pictures for good idea of overall appearance.
Age: An early 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.Way back when, in the 1880's, Clark Stanley spent some time cowboyin' way out west, in Texas. He did not want to engage in the cattle business as it was such hard work but while out there, he came across rattlesnakes and got the idea that if the venom from these wicked looking critters could kill people so bad that certainly the oil from something so mean and ornery ought to be strong enough to kill the 'microbes' that cause affliction and pain. So he decided to experiment with it. Originally from the east coast, he went back to Providence, Rhode Island, with a wagon load of rattle snakes and started his "Clark Stanley Snake Oil Liniment" business. He extracted the oil from them, blended and bottled it, and advertised this concoction as a horse liniment, the "BEST HORSE LINIMENT IN THE WORLD", as this bottle is embossed. He soon realized he could get a greater share of the market if he widened out his target audience and started advertising it as "Good for Man or Beast", so now it was not just limited to use on animals. As a matter of fact, a labeled example of this bottle states, it was used for "Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lame Back, Contracted Muscles, Sprains, Swellings, Frost Bites, Chilblains, Bruises, Sore Throat, Bite of Animals, Insects and Reptiles". The paper label on the bottle had a picture of Clark Stanley with a 5 - gallon cowboy hat on, a large handle-bar mustache, and surrounded by 2 rattlesnakes, all the right stuff to make for a great old 'snake oil' patent medicine! And there you have it, the birth of the ORIGINAL and TRUE 'Snake Oil' liniment ... check it out!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!ALABAMA ALASKA ARIZONA ARKANSAS CALIFORNIA COLORADO CONNECTICUT DELAWARE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FLORIDA GEORGIA HAWAII IDAHO ILLINOIS INDIANA IOWA KANSAS KENTUCKY LOUISIANA MAINE MARYLAND MASSACHUSETTS MICHIGAN MINNESOTA MISSISSIPPI MISSOURI MONTANA NEBRASKA NEVADA NEW HAMPSHIRE NEW JERSEY NEW MEXICO NEW YORK NORTH CAROLINA NORTH DAKOTA OHIO OKLAHOMA OREGON PENNSYLVANIA RHODE ISLAND SOUTH CAROLINA SOUTH DAKOTA TENNESSEE TEXAS UTAH VERMONT VIRGINIA WASHINGTON WEST VIRGINIA WISCONSIN WYOMING.
