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Coco Mariani Victorian 3 piece blown antique glass bottle.Nine inches of glistening emerald green glass.No chips or cracks. Marked Paris France. Circa 1890 this lovely old glass bottle show nice neck stretch marks and even has original cork. I found this great old quack medicine in very deep mud in an estuary creek off Shelter Island N.Y. while scuba diving. See pictures
Coca is an Andean plant from which cocaine is derived. Used by native South American peoples since the dawn of time and a majt ingrediant of Coco Mariani In 1565, Nicholas Monardes of Seville made note of the coca plant. In the 1850s, German scientists singled out cocaine as an active ingredient; and in the 1880s it was used as an anesthetic in eye surgery and then in dental and other surgeries. The Late Victorian period saw Mariani's Coco Wine, bottled by chemist Argelo Mariani. A medicinal, it was enjoyed by Pope Leo XIII, Queen Victoria, Thomas Edison, Sarah Bernhardt and William McKinley. This was way before the days of celebrity rehab.
She don't like, She don't like, Cocaine.
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