Two Sizes Canada Dry Embossed bottles.

 

Large Canada Dry Bottle Showing CANADA DRY twice on shoulder
and CANADA DRY BOTTLING CO of FLORIDA INC and CONTENTS 1 PINT 12 FLUID OZ around the heal.

Below is the big bottle shown above along with a similar smaller bottle labeled CANADA DRY on the shoulder.

Pint CANADA DRY bottle (left)
along with smaller CANADA DRY bottle

The entire surface of both bottles is textured, which doesn't show well.

Smaller Bottle without embossing on heal.

The smaller bottle,unlike the pint size bottle, does have a makers mark on the bottom.

Bottom of smaller CANADA DRY bottle.

The maker's mark indicates CANADA DRY, also Consumers Glass Co.  

Here are two good links.  One is on Canada Dry and the second is on the Canada Dry bottling works in Silver Springs.

HISTORY OF BEVERAGE: History of Canada Dry (beveragehistory.com)

Vol48No2_MCStory.pdf (montgomeryhistory.org)

I have not yet dated these embossed bottles, which show no evidence of ACL or paper labeling.

Atlas Mason Jars.

Atlas E-Z Sea; Mason Jar.

The first canning jars emerged around 1809, when inventor John Landis Mason patented the Mason jar. His innovative design integrated a threaded screw top with a rubber seal to create an airtight container for food preservation. You would find this jar design vastly improved storage capabilities and extended the shelf life of preserved goods.

Over the years, other jar designs and innovations appeared, such as:The Lightning jar (invented by Henry William Putnam in 1882): This jar featured a bail-type wire closure and glass lid that secured with a metal clamp, providing a reliable seal.

The Atlas E-Z Seal jar (introduced around 1900): These jars showcased a glass lid with a heavy wire bail that locked down on the outside of the jar. This design innovation effectively sealed the jar without the need for a separate cap or screw-on lid.

Ball jars (produced by the Ball Corporation in 1885): Recognized as one of the most popular canning jar brands, these containers were made from high-quality glass and featured a variety of designs and closure styles over time. ( Source: Antique Canning Jars (Identification & Value Guide) (valuableantiques.org))

In the case of canning jars, the jar was the product.  They were bought for the canner to use, instead of coming with the product inside.  That means that the embossing on the jar gives the name of the brand of the jar.

Canning jars are common finds on the Treasure Coast.  Ball is the most common,followed by others such as Atlas, Kerr, Presto, Tropical etc.

Above is an exceptionally nice and clean older example of a blown Atlas bottle.  You can see some nice bubbles in the base.  The one below is more like the typical find.

Atlas E-Z Seal Jar.

Its about the same age, but not in such nice condition.\

Here is another Atlas jar.  This one is a Strong Shoulder Mason.

Atlas Strong Shoulder Jar.

The Atlas Strong Shoulder Mason jar, produced roughly between the 1920s and 1940s, is valued for its unique logo design. The logo showcases block letters that say “Atlas Strong Shoulder Mason.” The jar has a reinforced “strong shoulder” to prevent breakage when sealing, which highlights the technological advancements of the time...

Embossed SLOAN'S LINIMENT Bottle

Old Sloan's Liniment Bottle Find.

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This history was well supported by the Boston City irectories. Sloan was first listed in the Boston directories in 1880 and by 1882 he was listed at his first Portland Street location, 166 – 175 Portland, where he remained until 1887. This advertisement in the March 6, 1886 edition of the Black Hills (South Dakota) Daily Times confirmed that by this time Sloan’s Liniment was not just being marketed as a veterinary remedy.

The man or woman that has rheumatism and fails to keep and use “Sloan’s Liniment” is like a drowning man refusing a rope...

Ad for Sloan's From the 1880s.

For more: Sloan’s Liniment, Kills Pain – Bay Bottles

Certo Pectin brown embossed bottle. 1947.

 

Embossed on shoulder: CERTO / REG. U.S PAT. Off.

This is a bottle for CERTO pectin, which is used to make fruit into jam.  You add it to your natural fruit.  In Florida you could make citrus jam, sea grape, or Surinam cherry, or many others types of jam.

Certo was invented in the United States by a Robert Douglas from Scotland. He formed a company to sell it named the Certo Company. The Certo Company was bought by the Postum Corporation in February 1929: Certo was being advertised as early as 1921. Originally, it came only in bottles.

Embossed: FOR 1/2 BOTTLE / POUR TO HERE with arrows pointing to line.

Certo Pectin is still made but comes in a pouch in a box.  Below are some vintage ads.

See Certo Pectin - Healthy Canning in Partnership with Facebook Group Canning for beginners, safely by the book

I believe the date code on the bottom of the bottle indicates 1947.

Brown Embossed PABST Beer Bottle. WF & S. William Frazen & Son. MIlwaukee

 

Brown Embossed Pabst Bottle.

Embossed as follows

PABST

B

MILWAUKEE

THIS BOTTLE

NOT TO BE SOLD.

Base embossed WF&S MIL horizontally with no. 7 below.

 5. Horizontal on base – WF&S MIL with number (ca. 1913-1921) Our sample contained only a few of these, all with crown finishes – although Mobley claimed that one example had a “molded” crown finish (Figure 13). The older date in our range (ca. 1913-1921) is there solely because of the Mobley example. Because these were otherwise only on machine-made bottles and were so few in number, we would otherwise have selected ca. 1915 (or even later) as a beginning date.  From WilliamFranzen&Son.pdf (sha.org)

Reed and Co. Massillon Glass Works Bottle. Export Beer Bottle.

R & CO (Reed and Co.) Aqua Bottle.

The date given for Reed and Co. is 1887 to 1904.  The plant was known as the Massillon (Ohio) Glass Works.

Reed and Co. Bottle.

For more detail see MassillonGlassWorks.pdf (historicbottles.com)

Adolphus Busch Glass Manufacturing and American Bottle Company Blown Aqua Bottles.

All of the following bottles look like beer bottles to me.  The first four are Adolphus Busch bottles.  All of those are aqua and show some nice bubbles in the glass.

From the maker's marks on the bottoms, I can tell that the first four are from an Adolphus Busch glass plant, while the others are from the American Bottle Company, which made bottles for Busch after the Busch glass plant burned down. 

 

Four Aqua Adolphus Busch A B G M Co Bottles.

Of the Adolphus Busch bottles, only the third (most right above) bottle has a crown top.

Going left to right, the bottoms are embossed as follows. 

A. B. G. M. CO. in an arc with K86. 

A. B. G. M. C.  Not listed in SHA) full circle and larger letters than the first.  J in the middle.

A. B. G. M. CO.  straight across - not in an arc.  K23 below.  

All three of those would be from the 1892 - 1916 period according to the SHA.org site.

Crown bottle tops were invented in 1892 in England and were relatively rare for Busch bottles.  They were sometimes corked too.

Here is a great study on Busch bottles.  AdolphusBusch.pdf (sha.org)

Below is one older Busch Glass Co. bottle (far left) and three American Bottle Co. bottles.

Old Aqua Adolphus Busch Bottle (left) and 3 Crown Top American Bottle Co Bottles.

The Adolphus Busch bottle would be the oldest and is embossed on the bottom A. B. G. Co. straight across with an 8 below.  The G is indistinguishable from C.  The periods are very faint.  The age range of that bottle would be 1886 - 1892.   There is a very distinct line showing where the applied lip was applied to the neck of that bottle.

The other three bottles were made by the American Bottle Company.

Those three bottles have maker's marks as follows (left to right).

A. B. Co.  straight across with A 30 below. 

A. B. Co. same as above but F25 below.  

A B Co across without periods.  41 below.  This one, without periods, is not listed in SHA.org sitem but maybe the periods are just very faint.

From SHA.org, here are those marks.

Embossed Marnier Lapostolle Cognac Bottle.

 

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Embossed: MARQUE DEPOSEE

MARINIER-LAPOSTOLLE

MADE IN FRANCE

FEDERAL LAW FORBIDS SALE OR REUSEE OF THIS BOTTLE

Grand Marnier was founded by Louis-Alexandre Marnier Lapostolle in 1880. His father-in-law, Jean-Baptiste Lapostolle, established what would become Grand Marnier’s first distillery when he began making fruit liqueurs outside of Paris in 1827. Louis-Alexandre came from a winemaking family in Sancerre and started out as an assistant to Jean-Baptiste’s son, Eugene. While working at the distillery, he had a revolutionary idea to pair Cognac with a then-exotic ingredient, oranges, in the Lapostolles’ laboratory. After 10 years of experimentation, Grand Marnier was born.

Louis-Alexandre Marnier Lapostolle had the audacious idea to combine cognac with a rare variety of oranges from the Caribbean. The idea of blending them was simply avant-garde. This was the beginning of Grand Marnier orange and cognac liqueur, whose recipe has remained unchanged ever since.

The brand began in 1880 but continues to this day.  The bottle shown above might be called vintage, but certainly not antique.  Although of a distinctive shape and attractive bottle overall, it is not a blown bottle.  Probably no older than the sixties or seventies.

You can see some of the history of the company and the bottles by using this link.

Our Heritage and Origins | Grand Marnier

Shapely but slender lady's leg with a nice kick-up.  No, I'm not talking about one of the Radio City Rockettes.  It's just a bottle.  Not a real common bottle, but one that might catch your eye.

Reading the embossing, we find Marnier Lapostolle draped across the shoulder.  So what does that tell you?  

The liquor is still sold.  The bottle shown above might be called vintage, but not antique.  And there are several clues to its age.  The Federal Law Forbids Sale message places the bottle after 1935.

If you could look into the glass, you'd see no bubbles.  You'd also see that the seams to all the way to the top.  And the overall look of the bottle is modern.  The glass is thin and of uniform thickness.  I'd guess, without doing any further research, that it dates to maybe the sixties or somewhere around there.

The first bottles were very square in cross section.

The bottle shown at the top of this post is longer and thinner than the iconic shape adopted in 1892, but I have yet to date it precisely.  

It is a brand you can still purchase today.

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Embossed Silver Nip Bottle. Frostproof, Florida.

Silver Nip Bottle.

Embossed: 

DO NOT REFILL REGISTERED

SILVER NIP (both sides)

MIN CONTS 6FL OZS

And on the bottom: 

FLORIDA

12

SILVER NIP

Owens Illinois mark.

TRADE MARK REGISTERED.

 The Silver Nip brand was first trademarked in 1928. The producer of this drink was a company called Florida Fruit Canners, Inc., which was based in Frostproof, Florida, (Justia, 2023). This company was owned by citrus tycoon Latimer “Latt” Macy, who started his citrus enterprise in 1917 when he opened Lake Reedy Packing Company in Frostproof(Florida Citrus Hall of Fame,n.d.)..

August-2023-AOM.pdf (stofthpo.com)

And here is an informative video.

Silver Nip | Antique Bottle Stories (youtube.com)

Although he was not the first to plant citrus in the Frostproof area, Latt Maxcy was undoubtedly the most important citrus figure in the region’s history. He was inducted into the Florida Citrus Hall of Fame in 1971. He passed away in August of that same year...

Latimer "Latt" Maxcy - Florida Citrus Hall of Fame

 

1884 to 1920 Brown Flask-Shaped Bottle Bearing Edgar Breffit and Co. Mark.

 

Brown Flask Shaped Bottle bearing E B & Co Ld on the bottom.  The bottle would date to between 1884 and 1920.

It has small bubbles in the glass.

Flask shaped bottle with E. B. & Co. Ld. on bottom.

The mark indicates the glass maker as Edgar Breffit and Company and indicates a date of 1884 to 1920.

Here is a detailed article on the mark and company.

EdgarBreffit&Co.pdf (sha.org)

TRIPSONS DAIRY embossed quart milk bottle. From Vero, Florida.

 

TRIPSONS Dairy Quart Milk Bottle.

I picked this one out because I didn't remember having a Tripson's bottle.  The bottom has a 54 on it, which is probably the date.  that would make sense given the style of the bottle.

Waldo Sexton started the Vero Beach dairy in 1924.  His grandson, Tipson, took over the Vero Beach dairy, which became Tipson's. 

I'm sure I have Vero Beach dairy bottles, but don't know that I've posted any of them.

Bottom of TIPSON'S DAIRY Bottle
embassed witht the following.

VERO BEACH FLA 
Duraglass
54

Duraglas bottles were first introduced in the 1940s by Owens-Illinois Glass Company as a more durable alternative to traditional glass bottles.

Here are a couple more relevant and interesting links.

Eggnog And Elephants At Tripson’s Dairy - Vero Beach Magazine

All in the family | Indian River Magazine

1953 ROXY Soda Bottle. Hicksville Bottling Works.

 

Above (center) is a ROXY soda bottle I found.  I've found a lot of painted label soda bottles, but haven't posted many of them because they are usually in poor condition, like this one.  The painted labels just don't last where I find them.

The example on the left is from the internet and shows what mine would look like if it was in good condition.  I can make out enough of the label to tell it is the same bottle.

The back of the bottle tells that it came from the Hicksville Bottling Works (NY).

The bottom tells that the bottle was made by Owens Illinois in 1953.

I found good research on the company and product.

Long Island New York’s Hicksville Bottling Company had its roots with the mineral water business of a man named Edgar Davis. When Davis started the business is not clear, however, bottles produced for the Hicksville Bottling Company in the 1940’s and 1950’s include the phrase “Since 1873,” so it’s possible that it’s inception extended back that far....

The “Roxy ” brand came in a wide variety of flavors including cola, orange, cream, sarsaparilla, ginger ale and root beer.

Here is the link for that information, a lot more detail and additional bottle pictures, including older full embossed bottles.

Hicksville Bottling Co., Hicksville, N. Y., “ROXY” – Bay Bottles

Brown Debossed HY-PRO Bleach Bottle. Maywood Glass. Glass Bottle Blowers Association.

Two Views of HY-PRO Bottle.

I couldn't get a real good photo of that one.  And I haven't found much on the Hy-Pro product or company.  The marks on the bottom of the bottle were helpful though.

Bottom of Hy-Pro Bottle.

The glass bottle manufacturing company that made this bottle is indicated by the MG mark, which indicates the Maywood Glass Company.

In 1936, Maywood operated two continuous tanks, making “flint amber and green proprietary ware, beverage and liquor bottles, packers’ ware, bottle specialties” by machine.

Here is the link for more about that company.

MaywoodGlass.pdf (sha.org)

The stylized GBBA mark is also interesting.  It indicates the Glass Bottle Blowers Association.

Here is some information about that workers group.

In 1891, after four years of labor unrest, the two KOL glass blowers' divisions merged to become the United Green Glass Workers' Association of the United States and Canada. The glass blowers disaffiliated from the KOL in 1895 and formed a new, independent union, the Glass Bottle Blowers' Association (GBBA) of the United States and Canada.Denis A. Hayes was elected the new union's president in 1896, a position he held for the next three decades. 

HORLICK'S Malted Milk Bottle. Racine Wisconsin and England.

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Uncleaned Broken Horlick's Malted Milk Bottle Find.

Top to bottom front reads: 

HORLICK'S

TRADE

m.m.

MARK

MALTED MILK

RACINE - WIS - U.S.A.

SLOUGH, BUCKS. ENG.

Too bad the bottle is broken, but I found a lot of information concerning the product and the company.  Here is some of that.

Born in London in 1844, James Horlick and his brother, William (1846) eventually became the founders of Horlick’s Malted Milk. James became a licensed chemist (pharmacist) in 1869, the same year William migrated to Racine, Wisconsin. James worked for the Mellin Co., making infant food before joining William in Racine in 1870. Three years later (1873), the brothers formed the J&W Horlick Co., a Chicago corporation, to promote the dried baby food formula – called Horlick’s Food – developed by James (Bay Bottles n.d.; Grace’s Guide 2018; Horlick 1937; University of Wisconsin 2016). 

he brothers returned to Racine in 1875, where William added milk to the vacuum dried formula and patented the firm’s Malted Milk (Patent No. 278,967) – a sterile powder for use by babies and invalids – on June 5, 1883. On February 2 of that year, the brothers dissolved the original partnership and formed the Horlick’s Food Co. (Racine Journal Times 2/2/1883). The brothers received Trademark No. 14,856 for “Malted Milk” and for “M.M.” in a circular logo on October 5, 1887. The “M.M.” was produced in a strange font the looked almost like lower-case letters. Although we have not discovered a first use declaration, it was almost certainly in effect earlier, possibly as soon as 1883 (Figure 1). One of the most dramatic moves of the firm was to promote the product to soda fountains, where it became the “Malt” or “Malted Milk Shake” – a drink in great demand in the U.S. during the first half of the 20th century. James returned to England ca. 1890 to establish an office in London at 39 Snow Hill Rd... 

This bottle shows some nice big bubbles in the glass.

Here is the link for much more about the company and their bottles.

Horlicks.pdf (historicbottles.com)

Pint Atlas E-Z Seal Canning Jar.

 

Here is an Atlas E-Z Seal bottle I found a good while ago.  As you can see, I never cleaned it up.  It still has dirt on it.  Most importantly, it is missing it's top.  I like it, but nothing special.

Then I found one that cleaned up super well.  

Atlas E-Z Seal Pint Jar in Great Condition.

It has some great bubbles too.

The Atlas E-Z Seal jar, produced from the early 1900s to the 1950s, is a popular style among collectors due to its unique lid locking system. The jar has the Atlas name in block letters and the embossed “E-Z Seal,” a design that sets it apart from other Atlas Mason jars...

Those with bubbles, I would presume would be from the early part of that date range.  With more research, I could probably narrow down the likely date of these particular jars.

Here is a link for more about those jars.

Atlas Mason Jar Identification and Value Guide (heirloomsathome.com)

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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