Antique TOM SAWYER famous PAIN KILLER bottle LARGE SIZE Perry Davis / MARK TWAIN

Description: A 5 7/8" tall rectangular-shaped light TURQUOISE / AQUA MARINE colored antique PAIN KILLER patent medicine bottle. This was the patent medicine that Tom Sawyer fed Peter the Cat in Mark Twain's book, 'Tom Sawyer'. The label on this bottle may or may not be original. For many years this bottle was part of an old Frontier Town drug store display that was shut down and sold off. This is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand Blown Into Mold bottle (BIM) with a tooled top, dating back to the 1800's. Bottle embossed: "VEGETABLE / DAVIS / PAINKILLER". Labels read in part: " . . . PERRY DAVIS / VEGETABLE PAIN KILLER / 51% ALCOHOL . . ." Condition: Bottle is in good clean condition. It has some traces of age wear and patina. There are NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc. PLEASE see pictures for general idea of bottle and label's overall appearance / 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. Patent medicine was a medicine that was pre-packaged and sold by local druggists way back when this bottle was marketed. Perry Davis Vegetable Pain Killer was a very early American patent medicine that was embraced by the masses of American's, starting all the way back in the early 1800's. The bottle for sale here is an extraordinary example as it has the paper label intact. In Mark Twain's American classic "Tom Sawyer", Tom's Aunt Polly got caught up in the patent medicine cure-all claims of the day. Early on in the story, when Tom was being tormented by his conscience day and night on an unrelated matter, and he was as 'dismal as a hearse', she would fill him up with quack cure-alls. She heard of the Pain-Killer and, as the book states, ordered a lot of it at once. It was described as 'fire in liquid form'. Tom decided that as long as Aunt Polly thought he was taking the Davis Pain Killer, things would go a lot easier between them. So he schemed on other ways to dispose of the Pain Killer. After he filled a crack with it in the sitting room, he targeted Peter the cat who was curious about the product. Peter, thinking that if it was 'people' food it had to be good, was agreeable so Tom pried his mouth open and poured the remaining Pain-killer straight down his gullet. Peter shot straight up, delivered a war-whoop, crashed throughout the house, and made his exodus out the window, tangled up in the curtain and taking a house plant along the way as we went out. And there you have it, Davis Vegetable Pain Killer. Not a lot of early patent medicine bottles have a legacy as this one does. Again, the label on this bottle is a colored copy of the original label that went on this bottle. It is a very collectible old bottle, with embossing on three sides of it, 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!1263-67z, 1708-11zALABAMA 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: 99.99 USD

Location: Libby, Montana

End Time: 2024-12-16T02:00:01.000Z

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