Henry White & CO. Embossed High Kick-up Liquor Rum Bottle.

 

Henry White & Co. Liquor Bottle.

Here is another bottle I found the other day.  It has a high kick-up and some nice embossing, which reads as follows.

BOTTLE MADE IN ENGLAND.

HENRY WHITE & CO.,

LONDON, ENGLAND.

Embossing on Henry White & Co. Bottle.

I haven't found much on the Henry White and Company.  Here is what I have found.

Henry White is another name that eventually figured in the founding of URM. In 1888, he registered the brand red Heart rum and in 1981 was honoured by becoming Master of the Vintners Company.

On Monday, February 25, 1889, a trademark application was filed for HENRY WHITE AND CO.'S RED HEART RUM LONDON with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. 

WM TEACHER & SONS Scotch Whiskety Bottle, Glascow, Scotland.

 

Embossed on shoulder: FEDERAL LAW FORBIDS RESALE OR RE-USE OF THIS BOTTLE.

On heal: BOTTLE MADE IN UNITED KINGDOM.

On bottom: WM TEAHER & SONS LTD.

This is not a really old bottle.  There are no bubbles in the glass.

A family-owned company until its takeover in 1976, William Teacher & Sons started out as a large chain of ‘dram shops’ in Glasgow before becoming a distiller and blender supplying whiskies worldwide...

In 1851 the company moved into the wholesale wine and spirits market, opening a warehouse in Argyll Street in Glasgow, and started creating bespoke blends to its customers’ individual requirements.

Teacher died in 1876, the same year his youngest daughter Agnes married Walter Bergius, bringing the other controlling family name into the company. In 1884, the company registered a brand name for its most popular whisky blend, Teacher’s Highland Cream, and also opened an office in London. A second office in Manchester followed in 1886. A year later, the company expanded its export markets and also began shipping mature barrels of whisky to Australia and back, believing the long sea voyage added complexity to the ‘Australian bonded’ brand. This practice continued until sea freight costs became prohibitively expensive in the 1920s...

Here is the link for more about that company.

William Teacher & Sons | Scotch Whisky

If you can date it for me, let me know.

TreasureGuide@comcast.net

Ball Mason Jars.

 

Aqua Ball Perfect Mason Jar.

Below is a table that will help you date Mason jars.

Ball Mason, Perfect Mason, Ideal, and Special Wide Mouth Jars.

Looks to me like the aqua jar at the top of this post might fall in the 1933 - 1960 range.  That seems reasonable, especially considering the popularity of canning food during the WW II years.

It all started with John Landis Mason, a New Jersey-born tinsmith who, in the 1850s, was searching for a way to improve the relatively recent process of home canning. Up until then, home canning involved using wax to create an airtight seal above food. Jars were stoppered with corks, sealed with wax, then boiled. It was messy, and hardly foolproof. Before canning, people in cold climates relied largely on smoking, salting, drying and fermenting to keep themselves fed through winter...

In 1858, a 26-year-old Mason patented threaded screw-top jars “such as are intended to be air and water-tight.” The earliest mason jars were made from transparent aqua glass, and are often referred to by collectors as "Crowleytown Jars" as many believe they were first produced in the New Jersey village of Crowleytown. Unfortunately for Mason, he neglected to patent the rest of his invention—the rubber ring on the underside of the flat metal lids that is critical to the airtight seal, and made wax unnecessary—until 1868, a full decade later. By this point, mason jars were being manufactured widely. Mason tried to regain control of his invention, but after various court cases and failed business partnerships he was edged out. He died in 1902, allegedly penniless...

Here are a couple links for much more information on Ball Mason jars.

A Brief History of the Mason Jar | Smithsonian (smithsonianmag.com)

Ball Mason Jars: Quick Value & Dating Guide (Rare Finds) (antiquesknowhow.com)

Coca Cola Star Soda Water Bottle

 

Banged Up Coca Cola Soda Water Bottle.

This bottle is really banged up but a great example of an early bottle.  On the shoulder and front, the bottle is embossed as follows.

First there is a five-pointed star on the shoulder, under which is

SODA WATER

PROPERTY OF

COCA COLA

BOTTLING CO.

The other side has the star and

SODA WATER

Another View of the Same Coca Cola Soda Water Bottle.

On one side around the heel is

MINIMUM CONTENTS

6 FLUID OZ.

On the other side around the heel is

PROPERTY OF COCA COLA

BOTTLING WORKS. 

You can see the bottom below.

I've found other Coca Cola Soda Water Bottles.  They are different.   I thought maybe I posted them before, but couldn't find any.  I think I sold all them.

I also need to do some more research on this one to nail down the date.  

I posted not too many days ago that the Fort Pierce bottling works began in 1914, so the date would be after that, but I don't think very much after that.