LARGE antique INVERTED SHOW GLOBE or specimen jar BLOWN GLASS w/LABEL & CONTENTS

Description: A LARGE 8 1/4 inches tall x 2.5 inches wide unique rounded base shaped antique Apothecary or Pharmacy DISPLAY bottle or INVERTED show GLOBE bottle. This bottle has FULL CONTENTS (large GREEN capsules) and has the remnant of a PAPER LABEL but it is no longer legible. This is a SCARCE larger SIZE, an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand Blown Into Mold vessel (BIM) with a LARGE FLAT FLARED tooled top, dating back to the late 1800's - early 1900 era. Condition: Bottle is in PRISTINE SPARKLING CLEAN condition. NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc. PLEASE see pictures for general idea of bottles appearance/condition. Age: An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled, wide-flat-flared-top, ca. late 1800's - early 1900's.Shipping: FREE domestic shipping. We DO ship International 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. This is a very larger antique apothecary display vessel, or I think the grammatically correct term is "INVERTED SHOW GLOBE", that was used to display medicines, herbs, powders, flowers, minerals and mining specimens, organics etc., and would sit on the counter, in an old cabinet, in a museum, or, as most people think of when they think of a "show globe", in the window of an old apothecary shop. I tend to think that this was a bottle that was set out on the front counter of an old pharmacy with the idea that, whoever could 'guess' the number of capsules in it, would get some sort of prize. The capsules look too BIG and the GREEN COLOR too radical to be a medicine of some type, so this is my guess, it was just used as some type of advertising ploy to guess the number of capsules within, to win a prize; just my guess. In definition, show globes are typically clear glass vessels filled with colored liquid and were displayed in an apothecary's front window. Although many sizes were made with respect to the position in the window display, the typical show globe is one-quart to two gallons in size. Originally, the show globe served a practical purpose, a sign of distinction between an apothecary's shop and other businesses. Much like road signs today, which show pictures rather than words, to communicate with folks of all languages, back in the day when show globes were popular, the general public was typically illiterate and required a simple picture or symbol rather than a name to recognize a business. Thus, the show globe was a well-recognized symbol of not only a place to obtain pharmaceutical supplies or remedies but also of the pharmacy profession itself. In 1931, the American Pharmaceutical Association adopted a resolution to legally make the show globe a sign solely of pharmacists and prohibited the use of show globes, the "recognized symbol of pharmacy," by any other business. The style of globe we offer here would sit with the cork end down and the large glass base up so the contents within would be totally view able. These 'inverted' show globes were also used by exhibitors at local fairs to display examples of seeds, grains, wheat stalks, etc., that they would enter into competition. These are rarely found for sale (especially in this LARGE size) as they weren't discarded but were used over and over again until they broke. Also they are blown in very thin glass so that the displayed items inside would not be distorted but clearly visible and as a result they are extremely light and fragile. Though some of the ones we've seen we're claimed to have been 'free blown' and have been called everything from footed specimen jars to show globes, they aren't free blown. These were hand blown into a mold, then spun in the mold to thin out the glass and make it very uniform. In the process the mold seams are obliterated and thus have the mistaken appearance of 'free blown' glass. Anyway, this is one that still has FULL CONTENTS and traces of a PAPER LABEL, things that are not commonly found on them, 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. 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Price: 124.99 USD

Location: Libby, Montana

End Time: 2024-08-20T01:00:01.000Z

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