• Bottle embossed on shoulder:  "Glyko - Heroin".

• Bottle's label reads in part:  "GLYKERON ... EACH FLUID OUNCE CONTAINS 1 GRAIN CODEINE PHOSPHATE (OPIUM DERIVATIVE -- MAY BE HABIT FORMING ... ALCOHOL 3 1/2 % BY VOLUME ... MARTIN H. SMITH CO. NEW YORK U.S.A... EXEMPT NARCOTIC ... "

• Base of bottle embossed:  "MARTIN H. SMITH CO. / CHEMISTS / NEW YORK".

• Condition:   Bottle is in excellent clean near mint condition.  It may have a wisp of content haze or trace of age wear but there's nothing specifically wrong with it, NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.  As seen in the pictures the embossing is very light, hard to read.  THE LABEL IS A COPY OF A REAL LABEL.  PLEASE see pictures for a better idea of the bottle and label's condition.

• Age: An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE mold blown (ABM) bottle with a cork-top, ca. early 1900's.

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Heroin was used over a century ago as an ingredient in cough syrup, to suppress the cough and suppressing the discomfort that is associated with it.  Yet it did much more than that as patients came to find out that they kept using the syrup long after the cough was gone.   Heroin is one of the most addictive substances known to mankind.   This is one of the very few antique bottles that actually has the word " HEROIN " embossed in the glass which makes it quite appealing.   It is a bottle that is not commonly found and are getting increasingly harder to find.  This product originally hit the market in the 1890's as "Glyco - Heroin", and it was put up in a bottle that looked just like this bottle BUT it was a tooled top.  As time passed and the FDA was organized, the name of the product was modified to "GlyKeron", a shortened version of Glyco-Heroin, which is what this bottle's label is for.   It was toned down, the Heroin ingredient was dropped, but as the label states on this one, it was still "HABIT FORMING" as it still had a narcotic ingredient (Codeine / Opium) and was classified as an "EXEMPT NARCOTIC".  So instead of it being Glyco-Heroin with Heroin in it, it became Gly-Keron with Codeine in it, as this example is.  This is one of a very few antique bottles that has surpassed a century of time with the paper label intact, though it is a copy, but it makes it quite appealing since the label mentions both CODEINE and OPIUM, check it out!

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