TINY antique CREME de CAMELIA sample bottle COBALT BLUE San Francisco OAKLAND

Description

A tiny
2 1/2" tall
rectangular-shaped
beautiful DEEP COBALT BLUE colored
antique
COSMETIC CREAM
b
ottle.
This is a very early hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a tooled top, dating WELL OVER 100 YEARS OLD, that is over ONE CENTURY old
.
Bottle
FULLY
embossed on sides
:  "
CREME DE CAMELIA / FOR THE COMPLEXION - THE BORADENT CO. INC. / SAN FRANCISCO & NEW YORK
"
.
Condition
:   Bottle is in VERY GOOD condition.  It looks like it has a little wear and etching yet I have seen several of these over many years of collecting, even ones that were in the original box that have never been out in the elements and yet they too looked just the same.  I think they were made with VERY CHEAP glass to begin with as they were meant to be given away as a FREE SAMPLE and discarded so they were very crude and cheaply made.  Bottle has NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc
.
Age
: An early hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late
1800's - early 1900
.
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.
Just a great looking little colored cosmetic bottle, very crudely or should we say 'cheaply' made.  According to the embossing, the Boradent Company who made this product, was operating out of San Francisco and New York.   YET the labels on all of the ones we've ever seen say "
NATIONAL PHARMACY CO. / MANUFACTURERS / Oakland, Cal. U.S.A.
", so evidently it was sold to or distributed, by this company in Oakland, right across the bay from San Francisco.  You don't see colorful and crudely made little bottles like this too often that are as FULLY EMBOSSED as this little guy, lots of embossing is very crudely all squished into the small panel, it looks about like a 6 year old child carved the mold,
check him out!
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