Balm of Thousand Flowers

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What a great marketing slogan! Nice crude character with heavy glass whittle, indented main panels, and beveled corners that are embossed

Balm of Thousand Flowers, Fetridge & Co., New York - Circa 1845-1855 Crude Pontiled Medicine

This is the NY version (not Baltimore). It has a big open pontil for the size bottle. It's priced down due to a hard-to find hairline in the shoulder.

Embossing THE BALM // OF // THOUSAND / FLOWERS, // FETRIDGE & CO // NEW YORK
Color aqua
Height 5 1/8"
Top applied thick ring
Base open pontil, large for the bottle size

Structural Condition

The main reason that this isn't ~$175 is because there is a very slight and hard-to-find 3/4" hairline in the shoulder above the Fetridge and New York embossing. No other damage issues.

Surface Condition

probably dug and never cleaned because it has overall haze, light swirl etch and spotty wear. But this is one of those that I actually prefer to leave natural because the glowy patina shows off the whittle and embossing - not ugly stain.

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Reference No: GX154 Reserve It

Price: $7528

Payment Info

This bottle is on the far right in the group pic below