Antique ABSINTHE liquor bottle PERNOD FILS hand blown w/ CRUDELY APPLIED seal

Description

A LARGE
12" inch + tall
beautiful DEEP OLIVE GREEN colored
cylinder shaped
ANTIQUE ABSINTHE LIQUOR BOTTLE
that has an applied seal on the shoulder.
Note the SUPER CRUDE applied seal on this one, it was like the glass blower applied the seal and then started to leave before it was ready and he started to take part of it with him!
This is a very early hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old
A
pplied
L
ip bottle (
BIMAL
), it actually has a crude 'laid on ring' and the
SUPER CRUDE
separately applied seal, dating it back to the mid-late 1800's
.
Seal embossed
: "
* / PERNOD FILS / *
"
.
Condition
:
This bottle is in overall EXCELLENT CONDITION, comparatively speaking, as these usually have heavy stain (patina) and etching.   This one has just some traces of stain, age wear, and has remnants of the lead foil that at one time covered the neck but other than these things, there is NOTHING SIGNIFICANTLY wrong with it. NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc. (See photos for overall condition)
.
Age
: A super early hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with an applied-top / laid on ring, and an
APPLIED-SEAL
, ca. mid-late
1800's
.
The seal on the shoulder is APPLIED not molded or embossed, which is a desirable characteristic and testimony of a super early bottle
.
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:
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domestic shipping,
includes
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As clearly seen in the pictures, this
bottle is EMPTY, it has NO contents.  NOTE
THE SUPER CRUDE applied seal on this one, it was like the glass blower applied the seal and then started to leave before it was ready and he started to take part of it with him!
In researching this bottle we find that it contained Absinthe, and Pernod Fils was a popular brand of absinthe prior to 1915, the year absinthe was banned throughout most of Europe.
Like most absinthe, Pernod Fils was produced by macerating the herbs wormwood, fennel, melissa and anise in high-proof grape spirit in a copper alembic where they were then distilled, to produce a transparent liquor. Part of the distillate was then steeped with more green-colored herbs, such as hyssop and petite wormwood, to produce a green colored liquor that was then filtered and mixed with the main part. This was mostly to impart additional flavor and aroma to the absinthe, but also had the additional benefit of enhancing its visual appeal and it came to be know as The Green Ferry (La Fée Verté).  The final product was roughly 68% alcohol. The predominant flavor in Pernod Couvet, like all absinthe, was anise, which has a pronounced liquorish taste.
After mental-health issues started to arise about Absinthe users
, manufacturers began producing variations of it and promoting it as a healthful tonic
, in an attempt to combat the attacks on absinthe during the early twentieth century.   Some very notable artists, authors, actors, poets, musicians, and entertainers all shared a common ground in Absinthe.  Notable past Absinthe users include such ones such as
Oscar Wilde, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway;
and it's even been said that the author
Mary Shelley wrote the book 'Frankenstein', while under its influence?
Here is a very nice example of this ever popular bottle, it actually is one of the better ones we've seen
,
check it out!
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