Internally Crusty C. 1930s Bols Apricot Blown Glass Rhino Bottle (with Owl Box) graphic tin 8 3/4" x 1 3/8"

8 3/4" x 1 3/8" x 1" and in very good condition

when a stationmaster suggested that the trains should have an audible signaling device

I find them about as pure and poignant as it gets

though one might be tempted to leave this handsome mustachioed Chicago fireman right where he is

made into a bookend at some point long ago

Internally Crusty C. 1930s Bols Apricot Blown Glass Rhino Bottle (with Owl Box) graphic tin 8 3/4" x 1 3/8"As found, this c. 1930s Bols blown glass rhino shaped bottle contains some long since hardened and crystallized remnants of the apricot liqueur that once filled it entirely, the effect of which I love, making an ancient looking creature appear all the more so, and with the transparency of the glass granting a view into the creature's interior world! The stopper is still firmly in place, itself crusted over, so that the breath of this rhino is forever