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.

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 Hayner Whiskey Distillery Back Bar Bottle.

 

Embossed Back Bar Hayner Whiskey Bottle.

This embossed Hayner Whiskey bottle was found on the Treasure Coast.  It is a pre-prohibition bottle, meaning that it dates to pre-1920.  It is just over eleven inches tall.   You can see a bubble in the glass below the R in TROY.

There was a paper label between "HAYNER WHISKEY" and "DISTILLARY"

The bottom provides a lot of information.

Bottom of Same Hayner Whiskey Bottle.

The patent date is Nov. 20, 1897.

See Bottle Pickers (antiquebottlepickers.com)