A 5" tall cylinder shaped light aqua colored antique MORPHINE LACED antique baby Teething Syrup bottle.  This is a very early hand Blown Into Mold bottle (BIM) with a tooled top, dating it back well over one CENTURY old, probably older.  Along with this are two pictures (below the bottle) of the same type of bottle but with the FULL ORIGINAL LABEL on it.  This labeled bottle is NOT included in this sale, rather it is just used to show that this bottle originally contained a patent medicine with MORPHINE in it, which were used as a Pain Killer for teething babies.  Again, the labeled bottle is NOT available for sale and is NOT part of this sale:

Now, about the bottle in this listing without the label ...

• Bottle embossed:   "SIROP D'ANIS GAUVIN".

• Condition:   Bottle is in good condition.  It does have extensive stain and etching, often referred to as 'patina' though most of it looks like it is on the inside as content residue.   It also has some wear, what you may expect when you picture a bottle that is well OVER a CENTURY OLD.   It has NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.
  

• Age:  An early hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late 1800'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.

As the labeled bottle in the picture shows, this was a patent (quack) medicine bottle that held a morphine laced baby teething syrup.  No wonder the babies quit crying!  Not only did the morphine dull the pain but a little baby also became addicted to the drug.  It was quack medicine products like this that prompted the formation of the Pure Food & Drug Administration, a Government Administration that started to crack down on quack medicine ventures.  Once the morphine was taken out of the teething syrup all that was left was a sweet syrup with a watered down alcohol base that didn't do anything for pain, and that was the end of the Pain Killer Teething Syrup, and once that failed, all that is left is a handful of these old bottles to testify to the fact that the that the product ever existed, check it out!

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