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A 5 1/2 inch tall oval-shaped pristine AMBER colored old CODEINE and CHLOROFORM COUGH SYRUP bottle. This is a bottle that was put up by the Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company out of Kalamazoo Michigan. From what we have pieced together, this bottle was never filled but was sold empty as a "collectors sample bottle" based on what the box said that they originally came in. Again, they were truly Upjohn Codeine & Chloroform based cough syrup bottles but were never filled or sold full, instead sold to pharmacists and drug stores as display bottles for an advertising ploy. This is a cork-top bottle with the full label and the bottle is empty.

Bottle's label reads in part: "4 ounces CHERACOL with Codeine ... Each fluid ounce contains CHLOROFORM ... CODEINE PHOSPHATE ... THE Upjohn Company Makers of Fine Pharmaceuticals Kalamazoo, Mich."
Condition: Bottle is in PRISTINE SPARKLING CLEAN condition as it was never buried, NOT a dug bottle. It has NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc. PLEASE see pictures for better idea of overall condition.
Age: A Mold-Blown glass bottle (ABM) with a cork-top, ca. early-mid 1900's.
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Again, we saw a box that originally came packed with 24 of these bottles. The box listed the contents as just what this bottle claims but also had printed on it in large letters "24 - 4 ounce (Empty) Upjohn Cheracol Empty Collector's Bottles Sample Bottles". In the box there was still a few of these bottles in pristine sparkling clean condition, all containing their original corks, but with NO contents, they were never filled. So I take that to mean that they were sold to pharmacists and drug stores as display bottles for an advertising display. Some even have the "M" in a circle, trade mark of the Maryland Glass Company I believe, the company that was formed by Mr. Bromo Seltzer himself (Emerson) to make his bottles since no other glass house could keep up with the demand for his bottles. Again, this is a cork-top bottle with the full label and the bottle is empty, so the age coincides with the Bromo Selter bottles as well. A great looking bottle in excellent clean condition, check it out!

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