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I found my stash of little poisons. I need to clean them, but this is one of three that has a glass applicator still in it.
 

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Yeah... maybe iodine? It's hard to say, because, no... nothing on it or the others like it. One is cobalt blue, though. And I've found iodine bottles from later dates, with old-style rubber on the applicator cap, so maybe it's that?
 

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Looks more like something makeup-related to me. I've never seen an iodine bottle that looks like that. Does it have a brush on the end of the applicator? An iodine bottle would just have a straight glass rod for an applicator. A brush makes me think mascara, although that brush looks a bit bushy for that (if I'm seeing it correctly and that's even what it is in the first place).
 

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Yeah, just straight glass applicator. And I've seen (and may still have) iodine bottles like it, but with rubber tops. What you're seeing is the cork and likely moss or something. I can't pull the whole applicator out without breaking off the remaining bit of cork inside. I have others like this one, just all packed away right now. It's definitely an applicator rod, but what it applied is a mystery. This was uncovered in N. Idaho, from a series of saloon outhouses we spent a summer digging in the 90s. It was from a town that was wiped out in a fire in 1900 or 1901, and there was a hospital near it where we found sealed opium tears, glass hypodermics, and plenty of other medicinal supplies that they'd basically bulldozed after the fire. It's hard to know if these bottles came from the saloons or the hospital, really. Which is what made me think poison in the first place, but yeah, seems more like an applied medicine.
 

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