Skunk Oil

[JustGlass]

I ran across a amber cork top bottle that was for sale for $14.00 the other day. It was a cylinder shaped bottle about 5 inches tall with flat lip with seam ending in neck area. It had a well aged label that was all there and in excellent shape that had skunk oil in large letters along with maker and address. What was skunk oil used for? I was told that oldtimers would use it for trapping is this true? Is this bottle something that might be collectable and should be purchased?

 

[surfaceone]

Hey JustGlass,

I kinda doubt it on the ye olde trapper tale. Check out wiki-skunk oil.

Under New Patents in the 1884 edition of American Druggist there is this listing that involves skunk oil: "291,714. Medical Compound.—Daniel A. Green, Scott, N. Y. Consisting of mutton-tallow, honey, pine-pitch, beeswax, Unseed oil, saltpetre, borax, alum, salt, hen's oil, skunk oil, Castile soap, laudanum, spirits of turpentine, oil of origanum, ether, and oil of sassafras." From.

Make an offer. T'would be worth it's weight in conversational fodder, if you like it.