Cresylone Poison COBALT BLUE Canadian OWL DRUG RIGO bottle w/label KI-7 two ozs.

Description

A
4 1/4" tall
semi-triangular shaped
deep COBALT BLUE colored
antique POISON BOTTLE put
up by the
Canadian Owl Drug Co.
This is a very early hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a tooled top, dating it back
100 years old or more
.
Bottle embossed
:   "
2 OZ. / POISON / NOT TO BE TAKEN / USAGE EXTERNE / USE WITH CAUTION
".  Base of this bottle is embossed, "
RIGO
"
.
Condition
:   Bottle is in good solid condition.   It still has some content residue on inside and the outside is dull from age but there isn't anything specifically wrong with it.  NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.   The embossing is a little weak but entirely legible.  (See pictures for overall idea of bottle's appearance
.
Age
:  A hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. early
1900's
.
Shipping
:
FREE
domestic shipping,
includes
insurance.   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.
These RIGO poison bottles are sometimes confused with the dime-a-dozen NOT TO BE TAKEN English poison bottles, by novice collectors.   But the RIGO is a completely different bottle and a rarer bottle to find.   About 99% of the ones we've seen have been the 1 ounce size, this example is a little larger and is embossed "
2 OZ.
"   Though the embossing has a Foreign (French?) tone to it (
USAGE EXTERNE
) it also has an American tone to it, as the contents are embossed in the USA Imperial standard, ounces.   The metric system for
2 oz would be 59.14 ml or 56.70 grams, but neither of these are embossed on the bottle?!
The story that came with this bottle is that several of the 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.  Early on 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,
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