Lot's of Oldies Found near 1800's area

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I have looked some of these up online, if anyone has more info on them please let me know.

I cannot find any Clarks Stanley Snake Oil Liniment bottles on Ebay, are these that rare?

Thanks

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Repro sign.....

http://cgi.ebay.com/CLARK-STANLEYS-S...item519523d787

There's this from The Rhode Island Bottle Collector's site...

iRI-475
(RI-356) CLARK STANLEY'S / SNAKE OIL LINIMENT (repeated on three sides)
square, tall & thin body
clear
6-1/2" h, 1-1/2" w $22.00 (s)

$22.77 (a)

$26.00 (a)

$28.00 (a) - light haze

$35.00

$100.00 (a) - full label

$102.50 (a) - Full label in excellent condition on unembossed side, complete box in very good condition

iRI-476 CLARK STANLEY'S / SNAKE OIL LINIMENT (repeated on three sides)
4 FL. OZ (on fourth side at shoulder)
square, tall & thin body
clear
6-1/2" h, 1-1/2" w $21.25 (a) - minor haze
iRI-476
iRI-476.1 CLARK STANLEY'S / SNAKE OIL LINIMENT (repeated on three sides)
square, tall & thin body
clear
pair, two different sizes
one is 6-1/2" h and embossed 4 OZ. (on fourth side)
other is 4-1/8" h and embossed 1-1/2 OZ (on fourth side) $59.00 (a)

iRI-476.1 CLARK STANLEY'S / SNAKE OIL LINIMENT (repeated on three sides)
1 1/2 FL. OZ. (at shoulder on fourth side)
square, tall & thin body
aqua
4-1/8" h $14.50 (a) - about perfect

iRI-476.2 CLARK STANLEY'S / SNAKE OIL LINIMENT (repeated on three sides)
2 FL. OZ. (at shoulder on unembossed side)
square, tall & thin body
clear $35.00 (s)

iRI-477 CLARK STANLEY (right side) // SNAKE OIL (front) // LINIMENT (left side)
square, tall and narrow
clear $25.00 (s) - 4 5/8"h. 13/16"w.; mint

$11.25 (a) - 4-1/2"h. 1/2" w.; excellent, one teeny nick

[jeff of pa]

I Don't know alot about old Bottles
But seems to me "SNAKE" OIL
means it's a pretend Bottle.

as far as I Know Snake oil existed but

usage of the phrase is as a derogatory term for quack medicine.

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Mr. Stanley.....

Clark Stanley
During the late 1800s a cowboy named Clark Stanley appeared on the American scene and sold a Snake Oil Liniment to many. He called himself "The Rattlesnake King" and his liniment was said to "be good for man and beast." During the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago he entranced onlookers as he slaughtered hundreds of rattlesnakes. He was dressed in colorful as he processed the snkae juices into his cure-all. An advertisement in the 1890s called his snake oil, "A wonderful pain destroying compound" and also "the strongest and best liniment known for the cure of all pain and lameness." The ad said the oil was to be "used external only" for the treatment of "rheumatism, neuralgia, sciatica, lame back, lumbago, contracted muscles, toothache, sprains, swellings, etc." It was "good for everything a liniment should be good for" and the ad went on to say that it "cures frost bites, chill blains, bruises, sore throat, and bites of animals, insects and reptiles." Selling for fifty cents per bottle, it promised "immediate relief." At one point Stanley claimed that a Moki Pueblo Medicine man gave him the secret recipe. This could be true, given that some Native Americans did treat ills with rattlesnake grease.

A shipment of Snake Oil Liniment was federally seized in 1917 and tests were conducted on the contents. It was found that the liniment was mostly mineral oil, with about one percent fatty oil that could have been beef fat, plus red peppers for the soothing warmth, and traces of turpentine and camphor for the medicinal smell.

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I Don't know alot about old Bottles
But seemes to me "SNAKE" OIL
means it's a pretend Bottle.

as far as I Know Snake oil existed but

usage of the phrase is as a derogatory term for quack medicine.

Pretend isn't the right term for the bottle, just the "medicine" that came in it and yes Snake Oil Salesman is derogatory for sure......Jim

[jgas]

Nice bottles...The measuring ones are utility bottles that are very common. The Cobalt Milk is fairly common too. I found an 1873 clear one. I believe a CH Phillips one. As far as the elixers goes....you got me on that one but I would guess pretty common. Still, nice finds. Congrats. jgas