"The very first bottles sold by Watkins are assumed to date as far back as 1868, but I doubt that the very earliest containers were actually embossed with the Watkins name, but would have likely been “generic” hand blown bottles with a paper label affixed to indicate contents...
The earliest versions of the Watkins bottles were presumably made in aqua glass, were handmade (with a tooled lip) and have the lip fashioned for a cork closure. Later versions have a threaded-style lip for a screw-on lid.
The exact year when screw-top bottles were introduced by Watkins is unclear. Perhaps this would have been sometime in the 1920s. However, some products were continued to be sold in “cork top” bottles for many years after other products had switched to screw top containers. For instance, some of the flavorings and extracts are seen in bottles with a cork closure, but the paper labels on the bottles include a zip code in the company address information. This would definitely date those bottles to 1963 or later, the year that zip codes were introduced in the United States.
Some of the later bottles with paper labels and cork closures appear to be “special edition” or “commemorative” bottles that mimic the look of bottles they sold decades before.
There are probably hundreds of slightly different Watkins bottle mold variants in existence that have been used over the last 140 years, with a variety of differences in font style, exact wording arrangement, size and shape of the bottle, and I imagine it would be a monumental task to find just one example of every single one of them."...
Here is the source link where you can find more about the Watkins bottles and products.
J. R. Watkins Co, Winona, MN ~ vintage glass bottles ~ Information
No mention was made of milk glass containers in that article, but here is an example of a milk glass jar with paper label for Watkin's Cold Cream.
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