Antique COCA MARIANI bottle ORIGINAL Coca Cola bottle contained COCAINE USA Made

Description

A
9" tall
deep
DEEP GREEN (
black glass
)
color cylinder-shaped
COCA MARIANI
antique
COCAINE WINE
bottle.   NOTE that this one is a
RARE VARIANT
of this bottle, it is
not
embossed PARIS
on the front, it is
embossed w/ U.S.A. Registration
, and it is a SUPER CRUDE bottle, hand blown into an
EARLY THREE 3 PIECE MOLD
,
one of just a few of this variant
that we've seen.  It is a USA made bottle, take a
L
QQ
K at IT
!   This is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIMAL
) with an APPLIED top, dating it all the way back to the 1800's.
Bottle embossed on shoulder
:  "
COCA MARIANI / TRADE MARK REG IN U.S. PAT. OFF.
"
Bottle embossed on base
:  "
COCA MARIANI / PARIS FRANCE
"
.
Condition
:  Bottle has heavy stain, patina, etching, and wear.  Otherwise it has NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.  PLEASE see pictures for better idea of overall condition
.
Age
: An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE bottle that was
hand-blown into an early 3-piece mold
and has a drippy hand applied-lip (BIMAL = Blown-In-Mold-Applied-Lip), ca. late
1800's
.
Shipping
:
FREE
domestic shipping,
includes
insurance.   We do NOT insure International orders unless buyer specifically requests this and we are able to provide an insurance estimate.  If an international shipping charge is much more than the actual shipping cost, we will refund the excess so what YOU pay for shipping/insurance is very close to, if not exactly, the ACTUAL shipping costs! This is important for foreign buyers to know as most of our foreign shipping charges are estimates.  We do not falsify information on the Customs Form, such as a price other than what the actual purchase price is, so please do not request us to do so. We ship several times a week and your prompt payment will hasten the turn-around time.
This product was actually the forerunner of what we know today as 'COCA - COLA', here's the story .... In the 1860's, Angelo Mariani, an Italian businessman and chemist, was intrigued by the stimulating effects of the coca plant (Cocaine). He had some ideas about concocting a coca-wine beverage that he could market for healthful reasons. He started importing coca leaves from the Andes, soaked them with Bordeaux wine, and called his product Vin Mariani or Coca Mariani. The beverage contained wine laced with cocaine. It was originally marketed as a healthful tonic and became so popular that he soon became the worlds largest importer of coca leaves. By the 1890s, his Coca Mariani had made him a millionaire, and the product was even being sold in the USA. Coca Mariani was endorsed by many significant people including Jules Verne, William McKinley, Thomas Edison, and Pope Leo XIII.  Even Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was said to imbibe the concoction and I think you can see it in the way he walks.   The success rate of his product inspired many others to further explore and create similar concoctions, including one John Styth Pemberton, a 19th Century Atlanta Georgia pharmacist and the eventual inventor of Coca-Cola. As a chemist in the 1800's, Pemberton had already been dabbling in patent (quack) medicines, manufacturing such products as Triplex Liver Pills, Globe of Flower Cough Syrup, and other patent medicines. Inspired by Coca Marianis success, Pemberton developed a product that he registered as French Wine Coca--Ideal Nerve and Tonic Stimulant, and he claimed that his tonic was the most Successful and Pleasant Tonic of the Age. Coincidently, the county that he practiced business in went dry in 1886, and though this tonic was developed strictly as a medicine, in 1886 he added another ingredient and turned it into a soft-drink or temperance drink. Pemberton named his new concoction "Coca-Cola". The original Coca Cola syrup / extract was added to soda water and, as an advertisement he wrote read, the drink was said to be an Intellectual beverage and temperance drink that contains the valuable tonic and nerve stimulant properties of the Coca plant and Cola nuts, and makes not only a delicious, exhilarating, refreshing and invigorating beverage (dispensed from the soda water fountain or in other carbonated beverages) but also a valuable Brain Tonic, and cure all for nervous affections-sick head-ache, neuralgia, hysteria, melancholy".  What he (knowingly or unknowingly) was describing, was the stimulating effects of Cocaine!  So it is true, the original soft drink that we know of as Coca Cola or simply "Coke",
DID
originally have cocaine in it according to its inventor, J. S. Pemberton Chemist, Sole Proprietor, Atlanta Ga.  Offered here for sale is a scarce (empty) cocaine wine bottle that once contained Coca Mariani, the forerunner of Coca Cola
,
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