JUMBO Peanut Butter Jar - FRANK TEA & SPICE CO. - Cincinnati, Ohio

 

Embossed Jumbo Peanut Butter Jar.

JUMBO

  1 LB - BRAND

 PEANUT BUTTER

FRANK TEA & SPICE CO.

CINNCINNATI, O.

Jumbo Peanut Butter was a product of our own Frank Tea and Spice Company, founded in 1896 by immigrant brothers Jacob, Emil, and Charles...

Frank Tea and Spice was sold to a national company in 1969. According to John Frank, the grandson of the founder and last owner of the company, Skippy approached them to toll manufacture their homogenized spreadable peanut butter. But Frank Tea and Spice refused because they didn’t have the money to invest in homogenization equipment. Skippy found another manufacturer and they and other brands like Peter Pan took over they market with their homogenized spreadable peanut butters. And, Jumbo Peanut Butter became a beloved brand of the past, whose jars are now widely collected.

Here is a link for more about that.

Cincinnati’s Own Jumbo Brand of Peanut Butter | dannwoellertthefoodetymologist (wordpress.com)

I don't think this jar ever had a paper label, unlike others I've seen. The jar is textured with wavy lines all around.

Western Stoneware Foot Warmer.

Western Stoneware Foot Warmer
Showing Western Stoneware Mark With Maple Leaf.

Maybe not a bottle, but close enough for me.  It is broken, but a lot of it is there.

I posted a stoneware foot warmer that I found a few days ago.  I cleaned it off enough to see the hallmark including the label Western Stoneware on a maple leaf.

After Some Cleaning the
Western Stoneware Mark Was Visible.

 

Foot warmers were filled with hot water or coals or something.  The one I found has a small hole, which I presume is for adding water.

In 1906 the Western Stoneware Co. was formed by the merging of seven different stoneware and pottery companies, these companies were now known as Western Stoneware Co. Plants One Through Seven. This new company kept the same style of maple leaf logo that the Monmouth Pottery Company had used previously. It just seemed to fit as the city of Monmouth is known for it's maple trees and is often referred to as "Maple City". Many of the early Western Stoneware vessels such as crocks and jugs were marked with the maple leaf logo that now read: Western Stoneware Co. Plant 1 or 2 or whatever number of the seven plants that had produced it.

See The Western Stoneware Company (bluewhitepottery.org)

Embossed Alfar Creamery Co. Dairy Bottles. Pint and Quart.

Embossed "DRINK ALFAR
CREAMERY CO MILK"

The half pint bottles were sold in schools for 6 cents.

Below is a larger Alfar bottle.

Reads: EAT ALFAR ICE CREAM
IT'S SO GOOD.

Alf R. Nielsen, a native Swede, who had been president of the Palm Beach Creamery Company, founded the Alfar Creamery Company in 1930. A dairy plant was built at 456 Flamingo Drive at the cost of $75,000, and opened with great fanfare and a party til midnight on November 20, 1930. A.E. Parker, the former city manager of West Palm Beach was vice-president and was also president of Bertana Farms. He was also Major Boynton’s son-in-law and managed the Boynton Hotel for many years. Bertana Farms was a combination of a part of his first name “Bert” and “Ana”, his wife.

They bought their milk from the big dairy producers of the day, the famous Pennock Plantation in Jupiter with its Jersey cows (specializing in unpasteurized milk), the Bertana and Winchester dairies in Boynton, and the Clark Dairy in Kelsey City (today’s Lake Park). The white trucks of the Alfar Creamery delivered milk daily all over West Palm Beach, packed in ice to keep it fresh in the heat...

In 1963, Alfar merged with the Boutwell Dairy in Lake Worth.  The Boutwell Dairy was founded by William Boutwell, who had invented the process that produced half and half. At its peak the Boutwell dairy had more than a 1,000 Guernseys at his dairy located at Congress and Forest Hill Boulevard (then called Selby Road). After the merger, products were sold as Alfar-Boutwell. Then in 1968, the T.G. Lee Dairy in Orlando bought the Alfar-Boutwell Creamery, and the Alfar name disappeared from the West Palm Beach area. In the continuing mergers, Dean Foods bought the T.G. Lee brand. By the end of the 1970s, all of the dairies in eastern Palm Beach County had closed as the land had become too valuable for dairy farming...

For more information and historic photos, here is the link.

Got Milk? Alfar Creamery made sure West Palm Beach did (palmbeachpast.org)

H. Clay Glover Co. New York Embossed Cure Bottle.

 

Bottle Embossed H. CLAY GLOVER on One Side and NEW YORK on the Other.

Because of the top of the bottle I thought this would be another hair care bottle, but my research, showed that Dr. Glover was a veterinary surgeon who primarily produced remedies for dogs, but also for man.

Gover Ad
Source: HAIR RAISING STORIES

The H. Clay Glover Company, Inc. was founded in 1876 (incorporated June 19, 1916) by Henry C. Glover in New York City, New York. Its industry was veterinary medicines and its headquarters were in New York City, New York (1876-1949).

See H. Clay Glover Company | MyCompanies Wiki | Fandom.

Also H. Glover Mange Factory at 9 Robbins Street - Hidden History Trail - Toms River

Scott's Emulsion Cod Liver Oil With Lime and Soda Bottle

 

Embossed Scott's Emulsion Bottle.

This bottle is embossed, SCOTT'S EMJULSION, followed by a picture of a man carrying a fish, and  TRADE MARK, and then COD LIVER OIL WITH LIME AND SODA.

Cod liver oil was a very common remedy and widely used long before Scott's emulsion, but Scott's emulsion also had lime and soda added.  Here is some of what I found.

Scott's Emulsion has a long tradition dating back to the late 19th century, when in 1873 Alfred B. Scott left England for New York with his partner Samuel W. Bowne to present an innovation.

Scott's revolutionary was not cod liver oil, which by those years was already well-known in the United Kingdom for Nordic influences, but its taste, more tolerable than its competitors. It was this that made him gain public acceptance.

By the 1890s, Scott had boosted his brand internationally. The company distinguished by the image of the man with the fish in his back, knew to reinvent for good a recipe that was believed to be unbeatable.

The problem of this substance was the unpleasant taste for the children and therefore, it was thought to modify the recipe so that it had a taste as pleasant as the one of the milk. Scott, although he was not a doctor or a chemist or a chemist, he did have visionary ideas.

The rapid development of scientific medicine between 1890 and the entire 20th century tested Scott's Emulsion, but it resisted the challenge and passed the scrutiny of the specialists. Although there is still much debate regarding the risks and benefits of cod liver oil, there is no doubt as to the efficacy of Scott's Emulsion. It has even been sponsored by the GlaxoSmithKline , One of the big companies dedicated to the pharmaceutical industry.

While a cod liver oil was used for a lot of years, the maker's mark on the bottom of this bottle narrows the bottle down to a ten-year period.  It has an O in a square, which indicates the Owens Bottle Co, and a date range of 1919 - 1929.

Two 5-Cent Florida Store Milk Bottles with embossed outline of the state.

 

Here are two embossed 5-cent Florida milk bottles showing the outline of the state of Florida. One side is embossed FLORIDA STORE BOTTLE and the other side shows an outline of Florida with the word FLORIDA. The five-cent mark and other decoration goes around the bottle and on the bottom. Both bottles are pretty much the same.

The five cents is for the bottle, not the milk.

You can also see the Owens Illinois maker's mark on the bottom.

Embossed 2 Fluid Oz. Penslar Bottle.

 

Treasure Coast Penslar Bottle Find.

Penslar sold products like toilet water and face creams.  I'm not sure what this bottle held.

Below is an old advertisement showing some of the Penslar products.

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J. R. STAFFORD'S OLIVE TAR Bottle.

 

J. R. Stafford's Olive Tar Bottle

The color of the bottle does not show in the photo.  It is actually greenish.

J.R. Stafford’s Olive Tar was a versatile Victorian medicine, first sold in the 1850s. It could be inhaled for its “healing balsamic odors” to soothe the throat and lungs. Or else you could take it “upon sugar” as a sort of makeshift cough syrup. And if you had muscle pain or a skin irritation, you could take whatever of the Olive Tar that you hadn’t inhaled or eaten and rub it on for “its magnetic or concentrated curative powers” of relieving pain.

It was supposed to be “a highly refined extract of the juices of the Olive and the Pine,” according to an 1880 advertisement in the National Repository...

Olive Tar was also supposed to work as an ointment for horses, too. Letters in the Working Farmer (1855) testify to its efficacy in healing the backs of horses, as well as cases of croup and asthma in people.

J.R. Stafford also made Iron and Sulphur Powders to “Re-Vitalize and Purify the Blood,” to energize the nervous system, invigortate the liver, strengthen digestion, “regulate the Secretions of the Body” and worked on “all Female Weaknesses” in the bargain. But at a dollar it was twice the price of Olive Tar.

Mr. Stafford’s establishment was at 442 Broadway, New York on “the east side of the Battery.” ...

Source: Stafford’s Olive Tar – The Vintage Medicine Cabinet (wordpress.com)

According to what I've found, the date range is 1875-1899.

Here is another good link.

J. R. Stafford’s Olive Tar – Bay Bottles

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Large American Bottle Company Blown Bottle.

 

Large Blown American Bottle Company Bottle.

This bottle is about fourteen inches tall and has bubbles in the glass.  According to the SHA.org site, the A B Co maker's mark, which is very faintly embossed on the bottom, indicates the bottle was made by the American Bottle Company, with a date range of 1906 - 1916.  I don't know what it held at this point.  Perhaps I'll find that out someday.  It is the largest blown bottle that I've ever found.  

Bottle embossed Chas. H. Fletcher's CASTORIA

 On one side reads: CHAS. H. FLETCHER'S and on the other side: CASTORIA.

This product started as Dr. S. Pitcher’s Castoria, the formula being patented on May 18, 1868.  Several years later the rights to that product and recipe was sold to Charles H. Fletcher, and marketed through the J. B. Rose Company,  and later the Centaur Company.

The 17-year patent for the original Pitcher’s Castoria product expired on May 18, 1885.   Several years after the patent expired,  in 1896 the firm  Heinsfurter & Daggett of Fargo, North Dakota began selling their own product under the name “Pitcher’s Castoria”.   Centaur brought this to court, and in January 1897 the judgment went in favor of Heinsfurter & Daggett to sell their product as “Pitcher’s Castoria”.

(Meanwhile, probably sometime during the period of 1893-1897, bottles sold by Centaur changed from being marked “Dr. S. Pitcher’s”, to “Chas. H. Fletcher’s”.)

These bottles measure about 4.75 inches tall.

See post showing Dr. S. Pitcher's bottle.

This 

Bottle embossed DR. S. PITCHER'S and CASTORIA.

 

Embossed Dr. S. Pitcher's Castoria bottle.  Embossed on one side CASTORIA and on the other side DR. S. PITCHER'S.

It is five inches tall, has bubbles in the glass and the seam only goes part way up the neck.

This product started as Dr. S. Pitcher’s Castoria , the formula being patented on May 18, 1868.  Several years later the rights to that product and recipe was sold to Charles H. Fletcher, and marketed through the J. B. Rose Company,  and later the Centaur Company.

The 17-year patent for the original Pitcher’s Castoria product expired on May 18, 1885.   Several years after the patent expired,  in 1896 the firm  Heinsfurter & Daggett of Fargo, North Dakota began selling their own product under the name “Pitcher’s Castoria”.   Centaur brought this to court, and in January 1897 the judgment went in favor of Heinsfurter & Daggett to sell their product as “Pitcher’s Castoria”.

(Meanwhile, probably sometime during the period of 1893-1897, bottles sold by Centaur changed from being marked “Dr. S. Pitcher’s”,  to “Chas. H. Fletcher’s”.)

See post showing Chas. H. Fletcher's bottle.

Embossed TIPO Wine Bottle.

 

TIPO Bottle Find.

TIPO, one of California’s most Iconic and Historic Wine Brands has come back to life. TIPO was originally established in 1906 and was considered “America’s Greatest Wine” both before and after Prohibition. TIPO was a popular brand for over seven decades.

Now it is being reintroduced by Stama Windry in Lodi, California...

It has an Owens Illinois makers mark on the bottom that shows it can't be older than 1929.

Here is a good history on that company and its marks.  OwensIllinois2018Part2.pdf (sha.org)

Brown Whiskey bottle embossed THE I. TRAGER CO. CINCINNATI, O.

 

I. Trager Co. Whiskey Bottle

This bottle is embossed THE I. TRAGER CO. CINCINNATI, O.

The I. Trager & Company was a distillery in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1887 until 1918 when prohibition ended this business enterprise like thousands of other companies during the “great experiment” known as prohibition. Imagine working for 40 years only to have the government shut your business down and send all your employees to the unemployment line. Sadly this was reality for tens of thousands of workers when this law was enacted in the early 20th century. The law also ended a way of life for the Trager family as they were forced to close their family business also. The company produced many brands of whiskey during their heyday, including Black Warrior, Creme de La Creme, Deerfield, Old Colony Club, Tulip Rose, Edgemont, Youghiogheny Malt, and Union Rye.

Here is the link for that information and more.

I. TRAGER & CO. USED BEAUTY TO CATCH YOUR EYE! - The Antique Advertising Expert

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Embossed MY WIFE'S SALAD DRESSING BOTTLE

Bottle Embossed

My Wife's Salad Dressing.

I found the bottle shown above a long time ago and never paid much attention to it.  It seemed like a novelty or something.  I thought people would put their own homemade salad dressing in it, but I just learned there was a commercial salad dressing by that name.  Below is an advertisement for the salad dressing and another product by the same company.

The bottle shown in the ad isn't like the one I found, but it is probably the same product, perhaps in a later bottle.  Here is what I found about the seller.

Fred Fear & Company was, at one time, the largest seller of pure maple syrup, clam juice, and Easter Egg colors in the United States. It was founded in 1892, and once operated plants in St. Johnsbury, VT, Brooklyn, NY, and Lewes, DE. In 1954, the company was acquired by the Childs Company.

Embossed Lucky Tiger Remedy Co. Kansas City MO. Bottle. Hair Care Bottle.

Embossed Lucky Tiger Hair Products Bottle.

Lucky Tiger Dandruff Remedy was first marketed around 1917 by the Lucky Tiger Dandruff Company of Kansas City, Mo. In the early 1920s, the company, now Lucky Tiger Remedy Company, was in the hands of Pleasant Stephen Harris, part owner of the successful Harris-Goar Company stores. The Lucky Tiger products were popular in barbershops, and in 1935 Harris trademarked the brand and began to market nationwide.

Advertising in the 1950s emphasized sex appeal, including an offer for free Lucky Tiger Pin-Up Girl posters for the well-groomed man’s "Tiger Lair." Although the products became less popular after hair styles changed in the 1960s, Lucky Tiger brand is still available in 2012, and includes a line of "Barber Shop Classics."

This bottle does not appear to be real old.    It has an H in a square as the bottle maker's mark on the bottom.  That indicates the Hemingray Glass Co., which according to the SHA.org site, would put it between 1924 - 1935.

The maker's marks can really help narrow down the date of a bottle.

Hazel Atlas Beer or Soda Bottle with Lightning Type Closure.

 

  

With a lightning type closure, there is a rubber stopper held by a heavy wire that is used to hold the stopper in place or open the bottle.  The has a wire and stopper that is in very good condition.

The type of closure was used mostly on beer and soda bottles, and also fruit canning jars.

Dating notes:  In general, Lightning-type closures were popular on soda and beer bottles between the late 1870s to at least National Prohibition in 1920.  After that time use was limited on beverage bottles; the crown cap dominated by then.  The peak of use on soda bottles was the mid-1870s to early 1890s though some use was made at least until 1911 (Elliott & Gould 1988).  For beer bottles, where this closure was as dominant as the Hutchinson closure was for soda bottles, the peak use period was wider than for sodas - about 1880 to the early 1910s (Feldhaus 1986; Elliott & Gould 1988).   Source (sha.org).

This particular bottle is a little bit of an enigma for me.  It was manufactured by the Hazel Atlas company and appears to me to be a later bottle than suggested by the paragraph above.    

In this case, I'm not sure of the date.  There seem to be contradicting indicators and information.

The Hazel Atlas Glass company was formed in 1902 out of a merger between the Atlas Company (circa 1880's) and the Hazel Company...

Hazel Atlas was so successful in their production, that they were the only Glass Company and one of the few publicly traded Companies in the USA to pay a stock dividend during all the depression years. Source: Hazel Atlas History (hazelatlasglass.com)

Embossed 3 - In - One or Three - In - One Oil Company Bottle.

 

Bottle embossed 3 IN ONE OIL CO.  on both sides.

I don't bother with a lot of screw top bottles, but they can be older than you might think.  3-IN-One switched to screw-top caps around 1910, so it could be older than a lot of cork-top bottles.

3 - in - one was originally an oil for bicycles that accomplished three functions.

See About Us - 3-IN-ONE USA (3inone.com)

Embossed SAUER'S EXTRACTS bottle.

 

SAUER'S EXTRACT bottle.

Both sides are heavily embossed SAUER'S EXTRACTS.

There are some small bubbles in the glass.

Sauer Brands, Inc., was founded by Conrad Frederick Sauer as The C.F. Sauer Company in 1887 in Richmond, VA. Mr. Sauer, a 21-year-old pharmacist by training, saw an entrepreneurial opportunity to create prepackaged pure flavoring extracts, and make them available in groceries as well as drugstores. In fact, C.F. Sauer was the first company in the country to provide pure flavoring extracts in 5- and 10-gram configurations, to be sold for 15 and 25 cents, respectively.

Embossed Burnett's Standard Flavoring Extracts bottle.

 

Embossed: BURNETT'S STANDARD FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Extract bottles are common finds along the Treasure Coast.  McCormack bottles are very common, followed by Sauer's and Burnett's.

The Joseph Burnett Company’s claim to fame was a useful innovation in the production of vanilla extract. Unlike most of his competitors, having graduated from the Worcester College of Pharmacy, Burnett stands out as one of the few fully qualified proprietors certified as a pharmacist. In this capacity he played a role in the first painless dental surgery publicly performed using ether, as well as producing a string of less effective products, which include a cocaine product to “stimulate vigorous and healthy hair growth” ...

Mr. Burnett listened to the lady’s description of the flavoring she wanted. This extraordinary request challenged Mr. Burnett’s resourcefulness. A man ahead of his time, he believed in supplying what his customers needed, if he could. He busied himself in his laboratory. He [went to New York] and bought a pound of the very best vanilla beans he could procure [for $3.50] and extracted the rare, delicate flavor of which she spoke, and after long, careful experiments, when he was satisfied with its quality, he made the first Vanilla Extract. “The lady was so pleased she urged him to make more, promising to take her supplies of it from him and to introduce it to her aristocratic friends. This was the beginning of Vanilla and other extracts in this country and throughout the world...

Below is the link to a much more lengthy account of the Burnett Compay.

Burnett’s Standard Flavoring Extracts, Joseph Burnett Company, Boston, MA | Old Main Artifacts (wordpress.com)

And from the same article is one of several ads.

Ornate Sun-Purpled Embossed Casper Whiskey Company Inc. Winston-Salem, New York, Chicago, St. Louis.

 

Casper Whiskey Bottle

Embossed 

FROM

CASPER CO INC

WINSTON-SALEM

NEW YORK

CHICAGO ST LOUIS.

This bottle is already lightly sun-purpled.  It has a lot of large bubbles in the glass.

See CASPERS WHISKEY Final DRAFT.article (sha.org)

Blown in Dip Mold Case Gin Bottle Found On Treasure Coast.

 

Uncleaned Case Gin Bottle.

There is no embossing on this bottle, but there are some features that suggest that it is a later example.  There appears to be a slight depressed panel on the side shown above.  The surface has some irregularities that might be from a removed embossing or damage to the mold.  It is dark green glass, evidently made by using a dip mold.  See the following video to see how that would have been done by blowing glass into the mold and then finishing the lip side later.

(66) Square antique glass bottle - YouTube

Here is a great article on case gin bottles.

GIN BOTTLES (cecilmunsey.com)

Two Embossed Blue Milk of Magnesia Bottles.

Five-Inch Tall Milk of Magnesia Bottle

Embossed:  MILK OF MAGNESIA

Trade Mark symbol

REC'D IN U.S. PATENT OFFICE

AUG. 21. 1906.

THE CHAS. H. PHILLIPS

CHEMICAL COMPANY

GLENBROOK.  CONN.

In 1885, The Phillips Camphor and Wax Company incorporated as the Charles H. Phillips Chemical Company. After Phillips died of apoplexy in 1888, his four sons continued to operate the business. In 1923—fifty years after Phillips patented Milk of Magnesia—the pharmaceutical giant, Sterling Products Corporation, bought the Charles H. Phillips Chemical Company. It quickly added Phillips Milk of Magnesia Toothpaste, Phillips Dental Magnesia Tooth Powder, and Phillips Milk of Magnesia Tablets. Heavy advertising, particularly of the original product, bolstered their national presence.

The Sterling Drug Company continued production in Stamford until 1976, when it shifted its operations to Gulfport, Mississippi. In 1994, Bayer AG acquired the over-the-counter U.S. business division of Sterling Winthrop from the British firm Smith Kline Beecham. The purchase included Phillips Milk of Magnesia and its iconic blue bottle.

Here is the link for more about that.

Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia Originated in Stamford - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project 

Nine-Inch Tall Milk of Magnesia Company.

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Embossed Cobalt Blue Bromo-Seltzer Bottles.

 

Five-Inch Tall Bromo-Seltzer Bottle.

Embossed: BROMO-SELTZER  

EMERSON 

DRUG CO. 

BALTIMORE.

Bromo-Seltzer was invented in 1888 by Isaac E. Emerson and produced by the Emerson Drug Company of Baltimore Maryland.  It was sold in the United States in the form of effervescent granules that were mixed with water before ingestion. The product took its name from a component of the original formula,sodium bromide. Bromides are a class of tranquilizers that were withdrawn from the U.S. market in 1975 due to their toxicity. Their sedative effect probably accounted for Bromo-Seltzer's popularity as a hangover remedy...

Bromo-Seltzer's main offices and main factory were located in downtown Baltimore, Maryland, at the corner of West Lombard and South Eutaw Street...  Source: Wikipedia.

Later Screw-Top Bromo-Seltzer Bottle.

This screw-top bottle is six inches tall and is embossed only Bromo-Seltzer on the shoulder.

Embossed WHITTEMORE'S Shoe Polish or Shoe Dressing Bottle

 

WHITTEMORE'S Shoe Polish Bottle.

Embossed: POLISH on one side and WHITTEMORE'S on the other side.

       Whittemore Bros. & Company (later known as Whittemore Brothers Corporation), Cambridge, Massachusetts (1852-c. late 1930s??)  was a large producer of shoe dressing  and related products, launched in 1852 by David and Joshua Whittemore.   (Cambridge is now part of the greater metropolitan area of Boston).   The majority of older Whittemore bottles are marked with either of the two embossing variations “WHITTEMORE / BOSTON / U.S.A.” or “WHITTEMORE / BOSTON // FRENCH GLOSS”.  

WHITTEMORE'S Shoe Polish Bottle
Other Side.

Three-inchTall Brown Ribbed Poison Bottle.

The bottom shows a big 67 mark.

 

HYBSON, WESTCOTT AND DUNNING small embossed bottle for mercurochrome.

This small embossed HYNSON, WESTCOTT and DUNNING bottle once held mercurochrome, an antiseptic commonly used in the 20th century.  The bottle would have a glass stopper/applier, which is not with this bottle.

I did not find when the company was formed.  They did produce a product, perhaps the same or different product, that was sold in a cobalt blue glass bottle.  I've not found one of those.

Here is a vintage or antique ad for mercurochrome.

Embossed McCormick & CO BALTIMORE Spice Bottles.

These spice bottles are common finds and come in a variety of sizes and can be slightly different, but generally very similar.

They are embossed similarly MCCORMICK & CO BALTIMORE

 

Below are a variety of seven.  Each is embossed with the same label but varies in shape.  The tallest is six inches and the shortest is just under five inches.

Seven Different Embossed McCormick & Co. Bottles.
Tallest six inches.  Shortest five inches.