Antique IMPERIAL Baby NURSING BOTTLE early BIM Turtle / Tear Drop Shaped NURSER

Description

A
6 1/4" tall
clear-glass UNIQUE OVAL
-shaped clear-glass
antique TURTLE shaped BABY or NURSING bottle
.
This is a
n early hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a tooled top
, dating it back to the 1800's, well over
ONE CENTURY OLD
, a good 100 years old + PLUS
.
Bottle embossed
:  "
IMPERIAL
".
Condition:
Bottle is in GOOD SOUND condition.  It has uniform inside water stain/haze, that's it.  NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.   Please see picture for overall idea of bottle's condition.
Age
: An early hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca.
1800's.
Shipping
: All
DOMESTIC
shipping charges
INCLUDE
insurance. We have enjoyed shipping our items all over the world and are happy to offer most of our items to international buyers. Yet insuring International parcels is very expensive so PLEASE NOTE; we do
NOT
insure International orders unless winning buyer specifically requests this and we are able to provide an insurance quote. 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 send payment acknowledgments and shipping confirmations. Your prompt payment will assure a very quick turn-around time.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
If our 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 especially important for foreign buyers to know as most of our foreign shipping charges are rough estimates.
T
his is a just a great looking antique nursing bottle.
This originally took a rubber nipple that was attached to a rubber hose that had a base like the base of a balloon that fitted tightly over the neck and mouth of the bottle.  Then a baby could lie on its back with the bottle lying on its chest or side, with the nipple extending from the bottle to the baby, via the rubber hose.
Not long after this bottle design came into existence there started to be hygienic problems with it. Even though the bottle could be cleaned of aged milk, the tube/nipple feeding apparatus could not, and became a breeding ground for bacteria that led to tragic consequences and this type of bottle was discontinued. As a result there's not a whole lot of them around as they were in service for a short time.
A rare example with the
"
IMPERIAL
"
embossing, AND one we've never heard of or seen before
,
check it out!
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thank you
!