RARE Antique WATKINS FEMALE TONIC Bottle For PELVIC GENITIVE Organs And System
Item History & Price
A nice LARGE 8 3/8" tall rectangular-shaped clear glass antique FEMALE TONIC -- PATENT (quack) MEDICINE bottle. It is EMBOSSED and also has a COLORFUL full sized LABEL, a FEMALE TONIC for genitive organs concoction. This is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE Mold Blown bottle with a cork top, dating back ONE CENTURY OLD, a good 100 years old.Bottle embossed: "WATKINS / TRIAL MARK".
Condition: Bottle is in GOOD STURDY condition. It has trace...s of content residue and haze, and typical age/use wear. NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc. Label in good condition, COLORFUL , COMPLETE , and FULLY LEGIBLE. Please see photos for overall condition.Age: An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE mold-blown bottle (ABM) with a cork-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.It is definitely hard to find antique patent medicine bottles that had a 'female' slant to their products, that were prepared exclusively for women as their target markets. Especially when it came to the subject of genitive organs and female complaints, most of the companies were owned and operated by men, and not necessarily men with any medical background, so the female segment of society was overlooked in this field for the most part. Just the fact that women couldn't vote during this time period shows that female's needs and priorities were overlooked at this time. There were women that were instrumental in preparing commercial medicines and tonics (Lydia Pinkham, Amanda Wilson, both whose names are embossed on patent medicine bottles) for the female society and also women who were medical doctors, druggists, and pharmacists. For example, there is an antique pharmacy bottle embossed "MRS. A. L. COOK / PRESCRIPTION DRUGGIST / POCATELLO, IDAHO", and that bottle has an 1888 patent date, so during this time period more and more women were coming out of the house to work and more and more attention was being given to them and their needs. This WATKINS FEMALE TONIC bottle is one of the early products on the market that addressed these needs. The label goes on to say that it is "A Tonic to the Pelvic Organs of the Female System ... Stimulating nutrition, checking tissue waste and acting as a sedative on the pelvic and genitive organs", which probably was a welcome sight for a woman back then who was experiencing difficulty in these areas. Watkins was a household name at the time, as his bottled products were sold nationally and from door to door, and most of them that we see today contained products such as food coloring, flavoring extract, and liniment. But what else is great about this Trial Mark / WATKINS bottle, put up by Mr J. R. Watkins, Mr. household name, Mr. maker of good flavoring extracts, food coloring for cupcakes and candy, was also producing OPIUM HEROIN MORPHINE laced quack medicine products. He put out opiated liniment, heroin laced cough syrup, and morphined medicines. So who knows what was actually in this FEMALE TONIC that made it stimulating and a sedative. Also the label has a picture, a bust profile of old J. R. Watkins, comparable to the busts you see of the great Ceasers of Rome, Philosophers of Greece, Brass War Hero's of recent times, and ... J. R. Watkins. I am sure that Watkin's used the narcotic patent medicines responsibly and in good faith and believed that the ingredients would benefit the consumers who took it. It is just fun to me to think that such a wholesome maker of innocent household products of old, also had a line of medicines that were laced with such hard-core narcotics such as Opium, Heroin, and Morphine. This is a rare old bottle, there can only be so many bottles of FEMALE TONIC that still have their paper label fully intact as I would venture to say that 99.9999999999% of them did NOT survive the elements of time. To go along with that and everything else we just relayed, it is a Watkin's bottle label that we've not seen before, 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!6270-72sALABAMA 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: Bottle is in GOOD STURDY condition. It has trace...s of content residue and haze, and typical age/use wear. NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc. Label in good condition, COLORFUL , COMPLETE , and FULLY LEGIBLE. Please see photos for overall condition.Age: An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE mold-blown bottle (ABM) with a cork-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.It is definitely hard to find antique patent medicine bottles that had a 'female' slant to their products, that were prepared exclusively for women as their target markets. Especially when it came to the subject of genitive organs and female complaints, most of the companies were owned and operated by men, and not necessarily men with any medical background, so the female segment of society was overlooked in this field for the most part. Just the fact that women couldn't vote during this time period shows that female's needs and priorities were overlooked at this time. There were women that were instrumental in preparing commercial medicines and tonics (Lydia Pinkham, Amanda Wilson, both whose names are embossed on patent medicine bottles) for the female society and also women who were medical doctors, druggists, and pharmacists. For example, there is an antique pharmacy bottle embossed "MRS. A. L. COOK / PRESCRIPTION DRUGGIST / POCATELLO, IDAHO", and that bottle has an 1888 patent date, so during this time period more and more women were coming out of the house to work and more and more attention was being given to them and their needs. This WATKINS FEMALE TONIC bottle is one of the early products on the market that addressed these needs. The label goes on to say that it is "A Tonic to the Pelvic Organs of the Female System ... Stimulating nutrition, checking tissue waste and acting as a sedative on the pelvic and genitive organs", which probably was a welcome sight for a woman back then who was experiencing difficulty in these areas. Watkins was a household name at the time, as his bottled products were sold nationally and from door to door, and most of them that we see today contained products such as food coloring, flavoring extract, and liniment. But what else is great about this Trial Mark / WATKINS bottle, put up by Mr J. R. Watkins, Mr. household name, Mr. maker of good flavoring extracts, food coloring for cupcakes and candy, was also producing OPIUM HEROIN MORPHINE laced quack medicine products. He put out opiated liniment, heroin laced cough syrup, and morphined medicines. So who knows what was actually in this FEMALE TONIC that made it stimulating and a sedative. Also the label has a picture, a bust profile of old J. R. Watkins, comparable to the busts you see of the great Ceasers of Rome, Philosophers of Greece, Brass War Hero's of recent times, and ... J. R. Watkins. I am sure that Watkin's used the narcotic patent medicines responsibly and in good faith and believed that the ingredients would benefit the consumers who took it. It is just fun to me to think that such a wholesome maker of innocent household products of old, also had a line of medicines that were laced with such hard-core narcotics such as Opium, Heroin, and Morphine. This is a rare old bottle, there can only be so many bottles of FEMALE TONIC that still have their paper label fully intact as I would venture to say that 99.9999999999% of them did NOT survive the elements of time. To go along with that and everything else we just relayed, it is a Watkin's bottle label that we've not seen before, 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!6270-72sALABAMA 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.
