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The listing, Antique Medicine Bottle from a Nortorious Pharmaceutical Company has ended.

Rinsed & soaked in laundry soap. This bottle w/ "Purdue-Frederick Co" embossed is about 8" tall w/Crown top, dates prior to 1920. See my auction for Antique Listerine bottles for more bottle-dating info.
The collectable-value of this item is amplified by its subsequent linage. As indicated below, via online sources, the manufacturers are still in business today, and producing some of world's most prescribed, powerfully addictive and abused pain medications.

"Purdue Pharma has its beginnings in 1892 when Dr. John Purdue Gray and George Frederick Bingham founded The Purdue Frederick Company on Manhattan's Lower East Side. The first product to market is Gray's Glycerine Tonic Compound, a sherry-based tonic for numerous ills.
Today Purdue Pharma is the leader in the industry when it comes to manufacturing pain medications such as hydromorphone, oxycodone, fentanyl, codeine, and hydrocodone. They are most widely known for the production of drugs such as MS Contin, Oxycontin, and Ryzolt
In May 2007 the company pleaded guilty to misleading the public about Oxycontin's risk of addiction, and agreed to pay $600 million. Its president, top lawyer, and former chief medical officer pleaded guilty as individuals to misbranding charges, a criminal violation, and agreed to pay a total of $34.5 million in fines. In addition, three top executives were charged with a felony and sentenced to 400 hours of community service in drug treatment programs."

If that doesn't just wreak of an evolutionary and historical "The father's sins visited on the son"-kind of collectible curiosity-value, I'll eat my Stradivarius.

10-day Auction to allow for personal research, evaluation & consideration.
Just $4.00 to help with shipping. Thank you for your time and kind consideration.
Best of luck.

Questions & Comments

"Nortorious" is the wod I would use for a Pharma Corporation who creates painkillers, then misleads health professionals and the public about their addictive qualities and, subsequent life-shattering damage they can cause. WOW! What a discovery!

Nov 1st, 2011 at 9:43:54 PM PDT by

Check out the pics of the celebrated individuals who, due to their addition to one Pudue Pharm drug (Oxycotin) have been forced into Re-hab or died because of it.
Those are just a few. This is not a celebration, but a warning. Well established companies with great reputations can make very bad, though calculated, decisions. In the end, it is the consumer that pays the greatest price.

Nov 1st, 2011 at 9:49:11 PM PDT by

Just wondering if there are any cracks in this bottle? thanks :)

Nov 2nd, 2011 at 1:35:40 AM PDT by

I am examining it closely and what I see is a small line on the bottle's bottom, but it appears to be a seam, as it goes all around. There is a couple tiny "dings" on the top of the crown (more like scratches than cracks or chips, because I can't feel them when I run my thumb across it). It has some red rusty color on the inside, in a few spots. All in all, I would say that it is in awfully good shape for something that was supposed to be deposed of 80 years ago. If I were to keep it, I would probably try TarnX to get it out, if it were rust. Like I said above, it has been soap-soaked and rinsed, but needs some more help to be its most pristine....if that is the way you want it. The fellow that I got it from apparently liked the rustic look of this one and the Listerine bottles I have listed, because it had some actual soil on the inside and cobwebs. Best of luck if you if you choose to bid and thanks for commenting/questioning. For every Listian who takes the time to ask a question, there are, no doubt, twenty or thirty who are wondering the same thing. Questions and comments are, therefore, always welcome.

Nov 2nd, 2011 at 7:22:30 AM PDT by

I decided to SHP FREE WITH GIN or if the bid reaches 6000. Best of this auction. A collectible with a bonus history. What a deal

Nov 4th, 2011 at 4:47:14 PM PDT by

watching & fanned

Nov 7th, 2011 at 12:40:18 PM PST by

I can't understand why no one seems to want this or, at least, bid on it. With it's connection to today..... wow! One never knows what Listians will go for, except gift cards that is.

Nov 10th, 2011 at 4:06:08 PM PST by

I would love to add it to my collection but I don't have shipping money at this point... perhaps that is why more people haven't bid yet? Good Luck on selling it and Good Luck to any bidders!

Nov 11th, 2011 at 7:58:21 AM PST by

I'm sure you are right. Though I usually have "free money" in my paypal account to pay for low shipping, I know that things are tight for folks. This particular bottle is worth quite a bit (I was going to keep it, but someone had already bid) and wll simply get more valuable. I will ship it free if the bid goes over 1000. I am hesiant, but I am commited to it. Thanks for your comment.

Nov 11th, 2011 at 4:27:41 PM PST by

Antique Medicine Bottle from a Nortorious Pharmaceutical Company is in the Antiques category