Description: A miniature 4 1/2 inch tall clear-glass TALL SLENDER square-shaped antique ORIGINAL SNAKE OIL PATENT (quack) MEDICINE bottle. This is the RAREST of the embossed SNAKE OIL LINIMENT bottles, a small SAMPLE or TRIAL SIZE version of this bottle that held only an ounce or do of ... SNAKE OIL. Most of these we've seen over the years have been damaged (which drops the value significantly) this one is in NEAR-MINT condition. This is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand Blown Into Mold bottle (BIM) with a tooled top, dating it all the way back to the late 1800's. Bottle Embossed: "CLARK STANLEY / SNAKE OIL / LINIMENT". Condition: This bottle is in EXCELLENT NEAR - MINT condition. It has maybe a trace of content haze or age wear, but there isn't anything specifically wrong with it. NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc. PLEASE see pictures to get idea of bottle's overall appearance and condition.Age: An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late 1800's. Shipping: FREE domestic shipping. We DO ship Internationally but we do NOT insure International orders unless buyer specifically requests this and we are able to provide an insurance estimate. If an international 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 important for foreign buyers to know as most of our foreign shipping charges are estimates. 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 your prompt payment will hasten the turn-around time. THIS IS IT, this is the quack medicine bottle that started all of the talk about 'Snake Oil' when referring to patent medicines and 'quack' medicines. The Clark Stanley. CLARK STANLEY Snake Oil Liniment bottles occur in 2 different sizes and 4 different embossings, this is the RAREST of them all. Way back in the 1880's, an easterner from Rhode Island by the name of Clark Stanley spent some time cowboy'ing way out west, in Texas. He did not want to engage in the cattle business as it was such hard work so while out there, he came across rattlesnakes and got the idea that the oil from these venomous creatures must surely be able to cure all types of human afflictions. After all, for just how wicked and evil the rattlesnake looked and for how fatal and lethal their bite is, if that venom could be refined into a concoction and administered as a medicinal cure, surely it would be potent enough to kill all the microbes that so afflicted mankind back in the day ... right? So Clark went back to Providence, Rhode Island, and started hist "Clark Stanley Snake Oil Liniment" business. He manufactured and sold this concoction in hand blown bottles with his name on them and the simple content of it embossed right into the glass of the bottle, SNAKE OIL LINIMENT. He originally mixed and advertised this concoction for people but realized he could get a greater share of the market if he widened out his target audience and started advertising it as a Man or Beast medicine, the "Best Horse Liniment in the World" he exclaimed. And there you have it, the birth of the ORIGINAL and TRUE 'SNAKE OIL' liniment. Some time ago we saw a labeled one of these bottles in a display, and the paper label shows 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 give him the title of THEE Snake Oil medicine man. This is the So here it is, the original and true SNAKE OIL LINIMENT except in this case, it is the RAREST of them all the small TRIAL or SAMPLE sized bottle with the LARGE LETTER embossing. This one was in our personal collection for DECADES. And more recently, a glass house auctioned off another rare SNAKE OIL liniment bottle and it topped out at over $600! 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!013-16z, 2555-58zALABAMA 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.
Price: 299.99 USD
Location: CLANCY MONTANA
End Time: 2024-10-28T01:00:01.000Z
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Country//Region of Manufacture: United States
Desirable Features:: * Small size * SNAKE OIL embossing * RAREST style * BIM
Item Description:: Small SAMPLE size antique SNAKE OIL LINIMENT bottl
Volume: A 4 1/2 inch tall bottle
Era:: Antique (Late-1800's)
Color: Colorless
Bottle Type: Medicines & Cures