A 3 3/4" tall rectangular-shaped clear-glass antique BAYER HEROIN HYDROCHLORIDE TABLETS bottle that is both EMBOSSED (with a small substance control label) on one side, and a FULL LABEL on the other side. This is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE BAYER BOTTLE, the label is a FACSIMILE of the original label, a COPY of an original label that went on this bottle. This is a very early original bottle, dating it all the way back to the early 1900's, well over ONE HUNDRED YEARS old.
This is the first style of bottle used by Bayer, this style possibly dates back to the latter 1800's. These early bottles came in 2 sizes and styles. This is the larger rectangular shape, there is also a smaller oval shaped that contained less. Most all of the 'antique' Bayer bottles you see for sale on the internet are the newer bottles with the word Bayer just embossed on each side, these original bottles with embossing in cross are rarely seen for sale, hard to find! Bayer started producing HEROIN in the late 1800's. Using the name Heroin, supposedly because early testers said it made them feel heroic, like heros, and Bayer began selling it in tablet form in the 1890's. By 1899, Bayer was producing about a ton of heroin a year, and was eventually exporting the drug to other countries as well, including the USA. But reports of HEROIN addiction reached gigantic proportions so in the early 19-teens, Bayer wisely elected to withdraw from Heroin production. Bayer had released their aspirin tablets at about the time they were producing heroin and so they dropped the heroin production and turned all of its resources to the manufacturer of aspirin, as aspirin, the 'new' non-addictive painkiller and anti-inflammatory, was well on its way to becoming the most popular drug ever. This bottle is one of the few examples left that show a connection between the Bayer name and Heroin, check it out!
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