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A small 3 3/8" tall beautiful deep COBALT BLUE colored antique POISON BOTTLE put up by the Canadian Owl Drug Co.  This is a very early hand Blown Into Mold bottle (BIM) with a tooled top, dating it back 100 years old or more.

  • Bottle embossed:   "1 OZ. / POISON / NOT TO BE TAKEN / USAGE EXTERNE / USE WITH CAUTION".  Base of this bottle is embossed, "RIGO".

  • Condition:   Bottle is in PRISTINE SPARKLING CLEAN condition, NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc..

  • Age:  A hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. early 1900's.

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The story that came with these bottles is that several of these RIGO poison bottles were found in the basement of an old building in Vancouver, British Columbia. Then recently the rest of the stock from the same place was purchased by some antique dealers in B.C. Amongst the old stock that was found were several groupings of these Canadian Owl Drug Co. poison bottle labels that evidently went on the RIGO bottles, which had been previously discovered.  (For verification, please do search for eBay item # 310913361513 and read that seller's explanation).  We purchased the labels and a few of these bottles from a Seattle area antique bottle dealer, that most of us know, first the bottles when they were found, and later when the labels were found. So now, the labels have been reunited with the bottles, we put the labels back on the few bottles we received and that’s what this listing is all about. This bottle is listed as # KI-7 in the Poison Bottle Workshop book, the book on antique poison bottles. Antique poison bottles are quite collectible as they were most always made in odd shapes or forms, unusual colors, and had fancy or extraordinary embossing patterns on them. Though originally these were all things to let a user know, by sight and feel, that the bottle's contents were something not to be consumed, these things now are what makes poison bottles such a collectible category of antique bottle collecting, check it out!

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