This is a four and seven-eighths inch tall, Aqua, two-piece mold, Davis Vegetable Painkiller bottle. This bottle is in near mint condition, with no chips, cracks, or damage of any kind. The bottle is extremely clean, with just a minor spot of brown residue on the inside base of the glass. The bottle has its' original cork stopper dropped down into the bottle (the cork actually looks more like a rounded piece of wood, but I couldn't get it out to examine more closely.) This bottle is circa 1860-1880, and is embossed on the front, in a single indented arch, with "DAVIS," then on each side panel indentation, "VEGETABLE" and "PAINKILLER." The applied double collar lip is very drippy and crude (looks awesome,) and the seam runs from below the bottom of the lip, over the base edge, diagonally across the bottom of the bottle and up the other side (see photo #4 for base of bottle.) Another common term for "applied double collar" these days, is "Davis Lip," which is based on the lip of this bottle. Additionally, although not extremely heavy, there is definitely some whittling of the glass on this bottle, which adds even more character to it. Excellent bottle!

Some background to this bottle is that the contents were created in 1840 by Perry Davis and patented in 1845 (Perry Davis was born in 1791 in Dartmouth, MA and was crippled early on in his life.) Davis Vegetable Painkiller is believed to be the first Nationally advertised remedy made specifically for pain. In its' heyday, it was widely recognized as a wonder drug...but was derived mainly from opiates and ethol alcohol. Davis' son, Edmund joined his father in the business in 1850, and it was then known as Davis & Son. Perry died in 1862 and Edmund in 1880. Edmund's Son then took over the business in 1880, when his Father died.