Three Small Ink Bottles: Carter's, Higgins, and Sanford's.

Three Small Found Ink Bottles.

I showed several found ink bottles before, but they were all of a larger size than these.  These ones are 1 ounce and 3/4 ounce ink bottles.

The one on the left above is a cut glass Sanford's ink bottle.

Sanford's Ink Bottle 

The center bottle is a Carter's ink bottle.

Carter's Ink Bottle.  One Oz. 

The Carter's bottle shows the Hazel Atlas symbol.  My father packed bottles in a Hazel Atlas plant in the early 1940s, so I wonder if he possibly packed that bottle.

The cork top ink bottle on the right of the top photo is a Higgins Drawing Ink bottle.

Higgins Ink Bottle.

I assume it is the oldest of the three, but haven't yet researched the dates yet.

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GORDON'S DRY GIN Bottles.

Two Very Similar Gordon's Dry Gin Bottles.

Front reads: GORDON'S DRY GIN.

One side reads: LONDON, and the other side: ENGLAND.

I've found a few of these and they all have the wolf's head symbol on the bottom.

Bottom of Gordon's Dry Gin Bottle.

The other bottom embossing varies on different bottles.

Both bottles show REGD 610617 on the back.

No. On One Side of Same Bottle.

The BayBottles.com web site (link below) says that number means the bottle dates to 1912 -1913.

The lips on these two bottles are different.

Lips On Same Two Bottles.

The lip on the greener bottle looks more crudely made.  The lip of that one is applied over the neck, which makes a more narrow opening.

The BayBottles.com web site also provides the following information.

The initial Gordon’s Distillery dates back to 1769 in London and they began making a form of dry gin sometime after the advent of continuous distillation in the 1830’s.

Gordon & Company merged with Tanqueray  in 1898 and it was around this time  that listings for Gordon Dry Gin began to appear in U.S. newspaper advertisements. The first mention that I could find in a New York City newspaper were several advertisements for Macy’s, who listed Gordons Gin under the heading “Fine Wines for Medicinal Use.”

Esquire Shoe Polish Embossed Bottles. Three Bottles. Skuff-Kote. Lanol. White.

Esquire Shoe Polish Bottle.

During the Great Depression Sam and Albert Abrams, chemists and entrepreneurs from Brooklyn, took over an ailing boot polish maker, the Knomark Manufacturing Company of Williamsburgh, Brooklyn.  In 1938 they purchased the Esquire brand.  After a saturation advertising campaign in 1944, the company became the best selling shoe polish manufacturer in the US... In the late 1950s, they sold the Esquire brand and the 1914-built Esquire Building on 330 Wythe Avenue in Brooklyn. In 1957, Revlon acquired the Esquire brand which made annual sales of 15 million dollars. Revlon sold the Esquire shoe polish brand and other Esquire product brands in 1969...  (From Wikipedia.)

Esquire Shoe Polish Bottle.

Bottom of Bottle Shown Immediately Above.

Notice the NOMARK INC. mark above the 555.

ESQUIRE LANOL WHITE.

Waterman's Barrel Ink Bottle.

In another post I showed three Waterman's ink bottles that are more recent than this one.  This is a 2 oz. bottle for no. 6 ink.

Waterman's Ink Bottle.

Opposite Shoulder of the Same Bottle.

Bottom of the Same Bottle.

Three Waterman's Ink Bottles.

Three Waterman's 2 Oz. Ink Bottles 

of the Same Type Shown From Different Angles.

Waterman's Pen Company was founded by Lewis Edson Waterman in New York City in 1884.  

Bottoms of Same Three Bottles.

Of course the bottles changed over the years, but bottles of basically the same shape as those shown are still sold today.

An old barrel shaped Waterman's ink bottle is shown in another post on this site.