Cod Liver OIl Mixture Cure Bottle Embossed HENRY K. WAMPOLE and CO. PHILADELPIA

Embossed HENRY K WAMPOLE and CO., PHILADELPHIA Bottle.

See Antique Bottle, Henry K Wampole & Company, Clear, Circa 1920s, Medicine Bottle, Cure, Embossed, Collectible (mountainairevintage.com)

The contents of this bottle was cod liver oil with other substances, including alcohol and wild cherry extract.

 This Treasure Coast bottle is in great shape.  I'd guess it to be from the 1920s, but haven't confirmed that yet.  You can see a couple nice elongated bubbles in the photo.

The Henry K. Wampole Co. started in the 1870s but continues until today.

A New York Times article of 1906 reads as follows.

"The body of H. K. Wampole, head of the firm of Henry K. Wampole & Co., of Philadelphia, was found floating in the North River off Weehawken on Friday, September 14...  

There were two partners in the business, a Mr. Koch and a Mr. Campbell. Wampole's death was thought to be suicide but there were various charges of theft and misuse of company money that can be found online.

Here is an ad from listing the product and a Florida pharmacy.

Wampole Ad Listing Pierson Drug Store of Pierson, Florida.

Brown Embossed Springfield Breweries Beer Bottle.

 

Broken Springfield Breweries Bottle.

The beer bottle is embossed SPRINGFIELD (top and bottom) and BREWERIES/REGISTERED between.

The following link shows that Springfield Breweries Co. dates to 1899 - 1918.

See Springfield Breweries | Beer Bottle Museum (tbbm.org)

Embossed Half-Pint Miami Biltmore Dairy Bottle.

Half-Pint Embossed Miami Biltmore Dairy Bottle. 

As the bottle makes perfectly clear, this is a "deposit" bottle.

The front reads:  DEPOSIT BOTTLE; PHONE 4-2260: BILTMORE DAIRY PRODUCTS; MIAMI. FLA.

The back reads: DEPOSITE BOTTLE on the shoulder and in huge letters below DEPOSIT BOTTLE.

So far I've only been able to find information on the Biltmore Dairy in North Carolina. 

If anyone can find more on the Miami Biltmore dairy products, I'd appreciate it.

Embossed KIL-LOL Electric Bug Killer by Omnia Chemical Co., New York, USA.

 

Electric Bug Kill Bottle Find.

This one is embossed, "KIL-LOL / ELECTRIC BUG KILLER / OMNIA CHEMICAL CO. NEW YORK U.S.A. ". There is an upside-down bug, embossed in a triangle under "KIL-LOL."

I saw an example of this type of bottle that sold for $75 in 2015.  It was said to be rare.

The Omnia Chemical Company obtained patents for liquid pesticides in 1905.  

Some bubbles and seam half way up the neck.  No makers mark on the bottom.

Embossed Hexagonal Aqua PEPTO-MANGAN (GUDE) Bottle.

 

Hexagonal Aqua PEPTO-MANGAN (GUDE) Bottle.

Embossed PEPTO-MANGAN (GUDE), CONTENTS 11 FLUID OUNCES.

This is an attractive hexagonal aqua bottle.

Pepto-Mangan was manufactured in Liebzig by Dr. A Gude & Company and as early as 1892, Max J Breitenbach, a pharmacist by trade, served as Gude’s sole agent in both the United States and Canada.

It appears that the bottle was mostly covered, perhaps five of six sides, by a paper label containing a lot of text.

The company did a huge amount of advertising.  Below are just a couple ads.

It was advertised for enriching the blood as well as a number of other benefits that were not supported by the medical community, It is therefore often referred to as a quack medicine.

Embossed Tropical CANNERS Jar.

 

Tropical Canners Bottle.

Embossed:  Tropical, TF (in diamond), CANNERS.

Concerning a similar Tropical CANNERS bottle on antiquebottles.net, I found the following information provided by jarsnstuff.  

Made ca. 1930's-1947 by Florida Glass Co., Jacksonville and 1950-1954 by Tropical Glass & Box Co. also of Jacksonville. Some jars have a ghosted FG on the base, apparently for Florida Glass. 

Here is the link.

Tropical Canners embossed jar... | Antique Bottles, Glass, Jars Online Community (antique-bottles.net)

There is also TF in a triangle

Blown Green Round-Bottom Bottles (Chiante?)

Two Round Bottom Bottles.

Here are two Treasure Coast finds.  Notice the bottoms.  I wouldn't call them torpedo bottles - just Chianti wine bottles.

Both of these have nice big bubbles in the glass, indicating they were blown rather than machine made.  The smaller one has a seam that runs all the way to the applied top, while the larger one has no seam at all.  

I'm now thinking that the one with no seams as well as the "olive oil" bottle I recently showed without seams were made with the use of a turn-mold, which SHA says is not so much a mold as a process.  That process would not leave any seams.

On the smaller one you can see marks from when the lip was applied.

Applied Lip.

This one has a thick seam and what appears to be an accidental gauge or maybe a slightly damaged mold.  On a coin, it would be a mint error.  You can often find interesting little marks on bottles, especially blown bottles.

I don't know how old they are.  

Old Embossed California Fig Syrup Company Bottle.

 

The front is embossed as follows.

CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.

CALIFIG

STERLING PRODUCTS (INC.)

SUCCESSOR

The California Fig Co. opened at Reno, Nevada, in 1878, selling its only product, Syrup of Figs. The firm had a rocky beginning, reorganizing twice before it achieved success with the final 1897 corporation. The Sterling Remedy Co. purchased the California Fig Co. in 1912, and it remains in business to the present. California Fig packaged its products in a total of six different embossed bottles as well as at least one variation used in England. In addition, the different incarnations of the firm used generic bottles with paper labels both before and after the adoption of the embossed containers – an apparently common phenomenon in remedies successful enough to remain popular from the 1870s to the 20th century...

See CaliforniaFigSyrup.pdf (sha.org) for more information on the company.

There is an O in a square on the bottom of the bottle.  That mark was used by Owens Bottle Co., 1919 - 1929.  

That information was found on the SHA maker's marks web page, which is a great site.

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