RARE antique figural OIL DERRICK bottle Bowen's CRUDE OIL PRODUCTS hair grower

Description

A rare
6 1/2 inches tall
tower-shaped clear-glass (
light Sun Colored Amethyst - SCA
) antique
CRUDE OIL
embossed quack
HAIR GROWER
bottle.  This is a
FIGURAL bottle
, designed and embossed to resemble an old time
OIL DERRICK
.  It is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a tooled top, dating back to the 1800's.
Bottle embossed
:  "
BOWEN'S / GENUINE / CRUDE OIL / PRODUCTS
"
.
Condition
:   Bottle has some light stain (patina) and a shallow 1/4 inch 'ding' (impact mark, no glass missing; visible in 5th picture) on its lower panel.   Note that the embossing is smudged.  It is hard to read the company name (BOWEN) and product information (CRUDE OIL PRODUCTS) embossing as they are smudged, as seen in the close up pictures.  Please see pictures for accurate idea of overall 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 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
.
NOTE that
the bottle for sale here (as seen in the
first
5 pictures) is empty, has NO contents and has NO label
, and it has a
nice lavender hue
to the glass.  (
The last 5 pictures show another example of this bottle with full contents and labels, to give the viewer an idea of what this bottle originally looked and what it came filled with (CRUDE OIL ... HAIR GROWER)!   The labeled bottle is
NOT part of this sale, it is NOT included in THIS SALE.   Again, it is used just as an example to show what this bottle originally came filled with
).
This bottle comes from an era when even hair tonic was advertised with exaggerated and fraudulent statements, quack claims such as
Crude Oil Hair Grower.
That's why we included pictures of the labels as it makes statements on the label like "crude oil hair
GROWER
, A
Secret Formula
,
Nature's Great Offering
,
known
ONLY to Bowen
's
..."   As a matter of fact, the label's read in part, "
BOWEN'S /
(THE GENUINE CRUDE OIL)
/ HAIR GROWER ... "Liquid Velvet" / A Secret Formula known only to Bowen's.  Blending Genuine Parafine Base Crude Oil, with Other Rare Material of Wonderful Value for Hair and Scalp.  Nature's Great Offering ... Prepared only by EDWARD J. BOWEN Philadelphia, Pa.
"   BUT even without the labels and contents, it is actually a FIGURAL bottle, designed and shaped to look like an old time oil derrick.
The label shows that this product was concocted in Pennsylvania, probably from Pennsylvania crude oil that was pumped from old time oil derricks just like what this bo
ttle resembled.
Anyway, this
'figural' bottle
is a rare bottle, making this just one out of three that we've ever seen
,
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
!
1345-49x, 9381-85x
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