Antique G. W. Merchant Gargling Oil Lockport NY Medicine/Cure Bottle 1880s BIM
Up for sale is an antique G. Merchant Gargling Oil medicine bottle from Lockport, New York. Merchant's Gargling Oil was one of the more successful quack cures/medicines of the Victorian era, a topical liniment prescribed as "Good for Man or Beast" and marketed as such. The medicine's huge success around the turn of the century leads to a wide variety of different molds, colors, and sizes for bottle collectors to seek out. This is the more desirable "large size", standing 7.25" tall with a 3" by 2 base.
It has indented "tombstone" panels on the front and back, with rounded rectangular panels on either side. The front is embossed GARGLING OIL // LOCKPORT N. And the other panels and base are blank. It has a drippy applied tapered lip. Condition is excellent - sparkling bubbly quality and clarity to the glass with no chips, cracks, or scratches. There are two small (1/8" and 1/16") flakes off the lip from where the cork was pried out during during usage, and a ping on the neck, but no damage besides those. Each is only visible on very close inspection and the bottle displays exceptionally well. Merchant Gargling Oil Lockport NY Medicine/Cure Bottle 1880s BIM" is in sale since Sunday, July 26, 2020. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Bottles & Insulators\Bottles\Antique (Pre-1900)\Medicines & Cures". The seller is "hairkam" and is located in Ridgewood, New York. This item can be shipped to United States.
- Time Period Manufactured: Antique (Pre-1900)
- Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
- Bottle Type: Medicines & Cures
- Color: Green