Small Regional Glasshouse Olive-Green Lady's Leg Whiskey Bottle (?)

 

Beauty doesn't scream.  It doesn't have to.  You can't help but be absorbed into it, like the subtle hint of a totally confident smile dominates an entire room.  You want a name, but the smile makes it unnecessary.

Wait a minute.  You aren't on the wrong site.  I'm just playing around.

Above is an attractive dark green applied-lip blown bottle find.  The "ladys-leg" neck shows several long stretch bubbles.  The nicely proportioned barrel seems to taper ever so slightly.  There is no embossed name, but there are some hidden hints begging to be interpreted.

Here is the bottom of the bottle.

You can see a rather clear symbol that looks like maybe a plus or X and opposite that a very faint O or something.  

If the signs and symbols are correctly interpreted, I'd say this is a 1850–1870 American whiskey bottle from a small regional glasshouse

The dark olive-green is a classic whisky color. The lady's leg is typical 1840 - 1870 era. The 13-inch height and four-inch base is also rather standard for a whiskey. On the bottom you can see a post-mold tooling scar. The plus sign, or whatever it is, is probably a hand-engraved mold cutter's mark, and the O, probably a mold identifier.

Watkins Embossed Milk Glass Container

 

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...

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 below is an example of a milk glass Watkins jar with paper label for Watkins Cold Cream.

I do have another post showing a J. R. Watkins bottle.  You can find that by doing a search.

Embossed green Byrrh bottle.

 

BYRRH Bottle.

BYRRH is embossed three times around the shoulder of the bottle.  There are no other markings. 

The bottle has a high kick-up.  The mold seam goes all the way to the top.  There are no bubbles.  The bottle isn't very old.  The bottle hasn't been cleaned.

Bottom of Same Bottle.

Byrrh is an aromatic wine aperitif made of red wind, mistelle and quinine. Created in France in 1866 and trademarked in 1873, it was popular as an apéritif in the early 20th century. With its marketing and reputation as a "hygienic drink", Byrrh sold well. It was even exported, despite the similarity of its name to "beer", complicating sales in English- and German-language speaking regions

Byrrh was sold in the United States until Prohibition. As of 2012, Byrrh has been reintroduced to the United States.

Again, by the look of the glass, it obviously a recent bottle and not worth anything.

Here is a link for more about Byrrh.

Byrrh - What It Is, How to Buy It, and How to Use It

Parker Super Chrome Ink Bottle made by Armstrong Cork Co.

Parker Ink Co. Super Chrome Turquoise Blue Ink Bottle
with Paper Label. 

Superchrome was developed by Gaylen H. Sayler and patented in the early 1930s, but it was not widely marketed until Parker began producing the Parker 51 pen.

The label reads inn script  - writes dry with wet ink.

PARKER

Super chrome

... turquoise blue

permanent ink

The Parker Pen Co. Janesville, Wis??. U.S.A.

Here is the top to the bottle.

The bottom reads as follows.

3 0Z                                  88CG

10                               A in circle underlined.

MADE IN U.S.A.

The makers mark is for the Armstrong Cork Co. which later got into glass.

The logo consisted of the Circle-A mark with a notable underline. As with the others, it was found on both amber and colorless glass, and it occurred on liquor containers but, these lacked the “MADE IN U.S.A.” found on the ones with the Circle-A “rmstrong” marks. 

Here is that link for more about that.

ArmstrongCork.pdf

However this bottle has the circled and underligned A along with the MADE IN U.S.A. mark.