Antique OWL DRUG Green BLOB TOP Cylinder Shaped CITRATE MAGNESIA Bottle
Item History & Price
A 9 1/2" tall beautiful deep EMERALD or 7 UP GREEN colored antique CITRATE of MAGNESIA BOTTLE put out by the OWL DRUG CO. This is a very early hand Blown Into Mold bottle (BIM) with a tooled BLOB top, dating back a good 100 YEARS old, that is, a CENTURY old!Bottle embossed: "The Owl Drug Co. / with embossed picture of an owl perched on a druggists' mortar, stirring a pestle / San Francisco". The mortar is embossed with, "TODCO/ TRADE MARK". TOD...Co = The Owl Drug Co.Condition: Bottle is in good solid condition. It looks like it was professionally polished as it is fairly clean but it still retains a lot of ground wear, scratches, etching, still scarred from a century of time. The embossing is somewhat washed out and weak, which isn't uncommon for these bottles, but many of them have much bolder embossed birds on them. Still quite an astonishing bottle with the blob top, the green color, and the embossed owl. It is a structurally sound bottle, see pictures for idea of overall condition.Age: A hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-BLOB-top, ca. early 1900'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.These bottles come mainly in this EMERALD or 7 UP GREEN color, but the color can vary. I know of one collector who has about ten different shades of color, from a bright yellowish green to a deep olive green color to a deep turquoise or teal blue color. Not a super commonly seen Owl Drug bottle, with all the owl drug collectors that there are starting to be, there are getting to be fewer on the market. I think that bottle collectors in general buy these when they see them as they are so attractive, then end up putting them on the shelf instead of reselling them as they are just too beautiful to let go. Plus it is one of the few Owl Drug bottles that is a departure from the rectangular shape. A labeled example revealed that the bottle contained, 'CITRATE OF MAGNESIA', which was an old time laxative type remedy. This bottle held one dose, so they were meant to be discarded after just one use, which meant it was a very cheaply made bottle. Many of these that you see have been dug up and are in pretty rough condition on account of the low quality glass they were made out of which reacted badly to the minerals in the ground As kids, when we first found one of these bottles, we thought it had to be a shampoo bottle from the beautiful look to it, as it reminded us of the green Prell Shampoo that was being sold at the time, 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! 7428-31xWe always offer a nice variety of OWL DRUG CO. bottles for sale. Collecting them has been a passion of ours, going on for over 40 years now and we have MANY Owl Drug Co. bottles for sale, on-line and otherwise. We are continually buying new stock, selling old stock, and have them constantly coming and going. Not only do we purchase them (one {1} at a time to one thousand {1, 000} at a time) but we also offer a free Owl Drug bottle appraisal service. If you have one and are wondering about it, how old it is, what it contained, how valuable it is, please feel free to ask as we have been appraising OWL DRUG bottles for decades now ~
