The mortar is embossed with " TODCO / TRADE MARK ". TODCo = The Owl Drug Co. Condition : Bottle is in very nice condition.
It may have some traces of wear and age, but there isn't anything specifically wrong with it. NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc. Age : An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca.
This bottle is still corked and still has a trace of ROSE WATER in it. Though this bottle is old and original, the paper label is a color photo copy, a facsimile made from the an original label that is on one of these exact bottles.
These old WHITE MILK GLASS Owl Drug bottles come in 6 different sizes, from the smallest 3 1/4" tall size (1 ounce) up to the 6" tall size (8 ounces). This one is a smaller one, about a 2 oz.Most of these milk glass bottles contained cosmetic lotions and scents, hand/face cream, like Jergens lotion of today, hygienic cleansers, Calamine Lotion for poison oak, sun burn and skin cures, so the white bottles were a reflection of lotions they carried and the pure, clean, and unblemished look that would result from the use of them. This is a super nice example of one of these bottles that looks like it was never in the ground , check it out!
We always have a nice variety of OWL DRUG CO. Collecting them has been a passion of ours, going on for over 40 years now!
PLEASE note that we have MANY Owl Drug Co. We also offer a free Owl Drug bottle appraisal service. If you have one and are wondering about it, feel free to ask, we have been appraising OWL DRUG bottles for decades. We put our 30+ years of experience in antiques to use in describing every item we list.