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 Bromides are a class of tranquilizers that were withdrawn from the U.S. market in 1975 due to their toxicity.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.

Embossed F. M. Plank "Quack Cure" Bottle Chatanooga Tennessee

 

Embossed: MANUFACTURED BY F. M. PLANK.

CHATTANOOGA TENN

It is a blown bottle and shows some nice bubbles, for example in the diamond on the front, and is a little sun-purpled.

It is a "quack cure" bottle.

This ad is from 1906.

The ad was found in the 1906 Proceedings of the Florida State Pharmaceutical Association.

The other Plank bottles that I've seen have the bust of a man embossed on the bottle.  This one, however, has a diamond-shaped depression, that I imagine once had a paper label.  I haven't yet found when this type of bottle was used.  The bottle with the embossed bust is always described as being from the late 1800s.

Embossed Penslar Chemical Company Bottle.

 

Penslar Chemical Company Bottle Embossed "Penslar"

Small bubbles in glass.  Also embossed in small letters near bottom: 2 FL.OZ.

The Penslar Chemical Company of Detroit, MI (USA) produced this product. The company operated from 1907-1965. The company also had a plant in Walkerville, Ontario, Canada.

It appears they made a variety of toiletries, salves, creams and pills.

Heavily Embossed NEHI Beverages Bottle. Patent Date 1925.

 

Embossed 1925 NEHI Beverages Bottle.

This bottle is embossed NEHI BEVERAGES one one side and NEHI REG U.S. PAT OFF. on the opposite side.  In between those is MINIMUM CONTENTS on one side and 9 FLUID OUNCES on the other.  Down near the heal is NEHI BOTTLING CO.   On the bottom is DESIGN PAT'D MARCH 3, 25, along with a Owens Illinois and Duraglass mark.

It is in very nice condition.

The Chero-Cola company added Nehi Cola to its line of sodas in 1924 in order to offer a broader variety of flavors. It originally offered orange, grape, root beer, peach, and other flavors of soda. Nehi was instantly successful and outsold Chero-Cola entirely. The company changed its name to Nehi Corporation in 1928 and was listed on the New York Curb Exchange. Business went well until 1930 when a major crisis occurred. Reflecting the Great Depression, which followed with the stock market crash of October 1929, Nehi Corporation's sales figures dropped one million dollars in 1930 from a high of $3.7 million in the previous year. Sales continued to decline until 1932, the only year in which the company had ever lost money...

NEHI Ad With Knee-Hi Dress.

In the early 20th century, the advertising logo of Nehi was a picture of a seated woman's legs, in which the skirt was high enough to show the stockings up to the knee, suggesting the phrase "knee-high," to illustrate the correct pronunciation of the company name. This was referenced in Jean Shepherd's story "My Old Man and the Lascivious Special Award That Heralded the Birth of Pop Art" in the book In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, as well as in the film A Christmas Story, which was adapted from the book....

As this photo showed, the lady was not always seated.

And for information on the Nehi and Royal Crown bottling companies, here is a good link.

EPChap10a.pdf (sha.org)

Embossed Long Distance. A. M. Dodge Company bottle.

Long Distance, A. M. DODGE, INC bottle find.

This bottle is embossed Long Distance on the shoulder, and on the heal, A. M. DODGE, INC.

It shouldn't be hard to find information on that, but all I've found so far is one seller on ebay called it a beverage bottle, and it does appear to be that.  Any help on Long Distance, or the A. M. Dodge Company would be appreciated.

Embossed Hinds Honey and Almond Cream Bottle. A skin lotion.

 

Embosded; HINDS HONEY AND ALMOND CREAM.
A S HINDS CO. PORTLAND MAINE USA.

Here is one of many ads for Hinds Honey and Almond Cream lotion.  You can find them by using the link below.  It was advertised for sunburn, younger skin, etc.

The family business was the A. S. Hinds Co. in Portland which was famous for various creams for the face, hands, and Skin. The A.S. Hinds company was started in 1875.  They were bought out in 1907 by Lehn & Fink, maker of Lysol. The honey almond cream product was still available in 1948. 

Hinds Honey and Almond Cream was formulated and marketed by Aurelius Stone Hinds in Portland Maine.  He moved to Portland in 1862 and worked in a drugstore, which he bought in 1870. He worked on the formulation of the cream for a number of years, and began selling it from the drugstore probably sometime in the latter part of the 1870's. It was such a huge success that he soon had to put it into commercial production, first in Portland, and at some point distribution was shifted to a company in New Jersey. A number of different bottles from the very early days of the product are commonly found, but unfortunately, they do not carry a date...

Find out more about the company and view a number of ads by using the following link.

Friends Of Hinds - A.S. Hinds Company

Same Bottle Shown Above.

Hinds cream bottles are common finds.  They are found all around the U.S. and overseas.  This is obviously not one of the older ones.  Notice the screw cap.

No glass maker's mark is shown on the bottom.

Embossed Sauer's Extract Bottle.

 

Sauer's Extract Bottle.

Above is a Sauer's Extract bottle I found, probably from the 1920s or thereabouts.  I haven't narrowed the date range down yet but should be able to do that before long.

Embossing on Sauer's Extract Bottle.

It isn't a rare bottle, and unfortunately there is no glass maker's mark on the bottom.  The maker's mark often helps narrow down the date of a bottle. 

Below is a part of an ad that shows the same type of bottle with the paper label in place.

Sauer's Extract Bottle.
Source: See gjenwick.com link below.

Here is the link for a variety of Sauer's extract ads.

Sauer's Extract | Vintage Ads (gjenvick.com)

And here is a link for a timeline on the company.

Sauer Brands History: Founding, Timeline, and Milestones (zippia.com)

By the way, the Sauer's company is another Richmond, Virginia company.  As I've mentioned, a lot of the early 20th century bottles I've found around the Treasure Coast come from the East Coast of the U.S.  Not surprising.

Brown Embossed Piso Company of Warren PA Bottle.

Here is a Treasure Coast Bottle Find: Piso's Consumption Cure.
Top photo embossing: TRADE PISO'S MARK.
Bottom photo embossing: PISO CO. WARREN PA. U. S. A.

The bottle shows two large bubbles indicating that it is a blown bottle. Unfortunately, there is not a maker's mark on the bottom.  The maker's marks can really help narrow down the date of a bottle.

Talbott’s original formula for Piso’s Cure included opium and possibly other morphine derivatives. But the immediate post-Civil War era brought a revulsion against those drugs as many returning veterans had developed addictions to them as a result of treatment for their wounds.  Although Congress only later outlawed opium-derived ingredients in patent medicines, the Trio saw the ban coming and by 1872, according to company literature, eliminated opium and morphine from Piso’s ingredients. They later won a lawsuit on that score. The medicine still contained cannabis (marijuana), chloroform, and alcohol, but Piso’s label did not mention them.

Below is a trade card image advertising Piso's cure for consumption and catarrh.

Whether it was the effects of the Great Depression or the 1937 passage of the Marijuana Tax Act, effectively barring cannabis in medicine, Piso’s corporate life ended before World War II...

Here is a link with much more information on the Piso company and its medicines.

BandE_Pages_1-24.pmd (fohbc.org)

Embossed Cup for John Wyeth and Brothers Effervescent Sodium Phosphate Bottle.

The bottom reads, "THIS CUP HOLDS A HEAPING DESSERT SPOONFUL."  Around the rim are heavily embossed numbers - 1 thorugh 12.

The cup is in good condition but was a bit puzzling.  A little research soon gave me the answer.

It is the top of the John Wyeth and Brothers Effervescent Sodium Phosphate bottle shown below.

The bottom of the bottle is marked, "PAT MAY 16 1899."

I've seen many examples of the cup for sale for a few dollars - usually around five or six dollars.

The patent date suggests that the bottle is probably from the early 20th century.

Below is the link to the web site that provided the above picture.

http://www.bottlebooks.com/questions/august2001/august%202001%20questions.htm

Complete examples of this bottle type with this same embossing are from John Wyeth & Bro. and the bottle rim would have had a dose glass resting on it and the bottle said “TAKE NEXT DOSE AT” and then a mark so the dose glass can be rotated to the hour marked at its base.

This type of bottle was patented in 1899. Only the older bottles from this manufacturer are blue but it is not known when this bottle color was phased out. These bottles were handblown until 1910 which is also around the estimated time when the deep cobalt blue was discontinued.

Cod Liver OIl Mixture Cure Bottle Embossed HENRY K. WAMPOLE and CO. PHILADELPIA

Embossed HENRY K WAMPOLE and CO., PHILADELPHIA Bottle.

See Antique Bottle, Henry K Wampole & Company, Clear, Circa 1920s, Medicine Bottle, Cure, Embossed, Collectible (mountainairevintage.com)

The contents of this bottle was cod liver oil with other substances, including alcohol and wild cherry extract.

 This Treasure Coast bottle is in great shape.  I'd guess it to be from the 1920s, but haven't confirmed that yet.  You can see a couple nice elongated bubbles in the photo.

The Henry K. Wampole Co. started in the 1870s but continues until today.

A New York Times article of 1906 reads as follows.

"The body of H. K. Wampole, head of the firm of Henry K. Wampole & Co., of Philadelphia, was found floating in the North River off Weehawken on Friday, September 14...  

There were two partners in the business, a Mr. Koch and a Mr. Campbell. Wampole's death was thought to be suicide but there were various charges of theft and misuse of company money that can be found online.

Here is an ad from listing the product and a Florida pharmacy.

Wampole Ad Listing Pierson Drug Store of Pierson, Florida.

Brown Embossed Springfield Breweries Beer Bottle.

 

Broken Springfield Breweries Bottle.

The beer bottle is embossed SPRINGFIELD (top and bottom) and BREWERIES/REGISTERED between.

The following link shows that Springfield Breweries Co. dates to 1899 - 1918.

See Springfield Breweries | Beer Bottle Museum (tbbm.org)

Embossed Half-Pint Miami Biltmore Dairy Bottle.

Half-Pint Embossed Miami Biltmore Dairy Bottle. 

As the bottle makes perfectly clear, this is a "deposit" bottle.

The front reads:  DEPOSIT BOTTLE; PHONE 4-2260: BILTMORE DAIRY PRODUCTS; MIAMI. FLA.

The back reads: DEPOSITE BOTTLE on the shoulder and in huge letters below DEPOSIT BOTTLE.

So far I've only been able to find information on the Biltmore Dairy in North Carolina. 

If anyone can find more on the Miami Biltmore dairy products, I'd appreciate it.

Embossed KIL-LOL Electric Bug Killer by Omnia Chemical Co., New York, USA.

 

Electric Bug Kill Bottle Find.

This one is embossed, "KIL-LOL / ELECTRIC BUG KILLER / OMNIA CHEMICAL CO. NEW YORK U.S.A. ". There is an upside-down bug, embossed in a triangle under "KIL-LOL."

I saw an example of this type of bottle that sold for $75 in 2015.  It was said to be rare.

The Omnia Chemical Company obtained patents for liquid pesticides in 1905.  

Some bubbles and seam half way up the neck.  No makers mark on the bottom.

Embossed Hexagonal Aqua PEPTO-MANGAN (GUDE) Bottle.

 

Hexagonal Aqua PEPTO-MANGAN (GUDE) Bottle.

Embossed PEPTO-MANGAN (GUDE), CONTENTS 11 FLUID OUNCES.

This is an attractive hexagonal aqua bottle.

Pepto-Mangan was manufactured in Liebzig by Dr. A Gude & Company and as early as 1892, Max J Breitenbach, a pharmacist by trade, served as Gude’s sole agent in both the United States and Canada.

It appears that the bottle was mostly covered, perhaps five of six sides, by a paper label containing a lot of text.

The company did a huge amount of advertising.  Below are just a couple ads.

It was advertised for enriching the blood as well as a number of other benefits that were not supported by the medical community, It is therefore often referred to as a quack medicine.

Embossed Tropical CANNERS Jar.

 

Tropical Canners Bottle.

Embossed:  Tropical, TF (in diamond), CANNERS.

Concerning a similar Tropical CANNERS bottle on antiquebottles.net, I found the following information provided by jarsnstuff.  

Made ca. 1930's-1947 by Florida Glass Co., Jacksonville and 1950-1954 by Tropical Glass & Box Co. also of Jacksonville. Some jars have a ghosted FG on the base, apparently for Florida Glass. 

Here is the link.

Tropical Canners embossed jar... | Antique Bottles, Glass, Jars Online Community (antique-bottles.net)

There is also TF in a triangle

Blown Green Round-Bottom Bottles (Chiante?)

Two Round Bottom Bottles.

Here are two Treasure Coast finds.  Notice the bottoms.  I wouldn't call them torpedo bottles - just Chianti wine bottles.

Both of these have nice big bubbles in the glass, indicating they were blown rather than machine made.  The smaller one has a seam that runs all the way to the applied top, while the larger one has no seam at all.  

I'm now thinking that the one with no seams as well as the "olive oil" bottle I recently showed without seams were made with the use of a turn-mold, which SHA says is not so much a mold as a process.  That process would not leave any seams.

On the smaller one you can see marks from when the lip was applied.

Applied Lip.

This one has a thick seam and what appears to be an accidental gauge or maybe a slightly damaged mold.  On a coin, it would be a mint error.  You can often find interesting little marks on bottles, especially blown bottles.

I don't know how old they are.  

Old Embossed California Fig Syrup Company Bottle.

 

The front is embossed as follows.

CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.

CALIFIG

STERLING PRODUCTS (INC.)

SUCCESSOR

The California Fig Co. opened at Reno, Nevada, in 1878, selling its only product, Syrup of Figs. The firm had a rocky beginning, reorganizing twice before it achieved success with the final 1897 corporation. The Sterling Remedy Co. purchased the California Fig Co. in 1912, and it remains in business to the present. California Fig packaged its products in a total of six different embossed bottles as well as at least one variation used in England. In addition, the different incarnations of the firm used generic bottles with paper labels both before and after the adoption of the embossed containers – an apparently common phenomenon in remedies successful enough to remain popular from the 1870s to the 20th century...

See CaliforniaFigSyrup.pdf (sha.org) for more information on the company.

There is an O in a square on the bottom of the bottle.  That mark was used by Owens Bottle Co., 1919 - 1929.  

That information was found on the SHA maker's marks web page, which is a great site.

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Benn-Hubb Candy Company Embossed Peanut Butter Jar. Bennett Hubbard Company. Chatanooga, TN.

 

Embossed Benn-Hubb Peanut Butter Jar.

Here is a different kind of bottle find.  It is profusely embossed as follows.

PENN-HUBB.

PEANUT BUTTER

MADE WITH PEANUTS AND SALT

NET WT.  1 LB.

BENNETT HUBBARD

CANDY COMPANY

CHATTANOOGA, TENN.

UNION MADE

There is also a grid embossed all the way around the jar.

Sanford Bennett and Stephen Hubbard were veterans of the confectionery industry by the time that they formed Bennett-Hubbard Candy. Mr. Bennett had been a partner with Albert Aull in a bakery/candy wholesale operation on Carter Street. Mr. Hubbard had moved to Chattanooga in 1893 from Chicago, where he had been employed by a large candy manufacturer. He had worked at other sweets factories in Chattanooga, including one at 7th and Market which also housed a saloon, and was a supervisor at the Brock Candy Company. Arthur Lazenby joined Bennett-Hubbard as its city sales manager, and had previously worked with Mr. Hubbard.

Bennett-Hubbard operated in a building on Eleventh Street which was next door to the Shubert Theater, later known as the Albert Theater. Their first candy was produced on March 18, 1919. In addition to hard candy and chocolates, the firm made chocolate marshmallows and peanut butter. Occasionally, the decorative peanut butter jars of Bennett-Hubbard are found at antique malls and shows. Bennett-Hubbard’s business increased during the 1920’s, and distributed its products throughout the South, Southwest, and Midwest. In those years, most candy was sold around Christmas, and candy manufacturers would have layoffs after the holidays. An advertisement for Bennett-Hubbard during the Christmas shopping season of 1928 read, “For unexpected guests! Candy about the house solves the problem of refreshments when guests arrive.”...

While Bennett-Hubbard prospered during the Great Depression, World War II presented a different set of challenges. During the war, the government rationed sugar, and candy manufacturers were each given a quota. However, if a business acquired another, it received that company’s allotment. On March 11, 1943, it was announced that the 100-employee Bennett-Hubbard Candy Company would be sold to the Topps Chewing Gum Company – the baseball card people - of New York. Topps had only been in business since 1938, but had begun buying out smaller companies for their sugar quotas starting in 1942. In acquiring Bennett-Hubbard, Topps envisioned expanding their business into the South...

Here is the link.

What Did That Building Used To Be? Bennett-Hubbard Candy - Chattanoogan.com