Screw Top Bottles

[Codes]

Hey everyone,

I went out for my first bottle hunt and a friend and I found a few bleach bottles (Clorox and Linco) from the 1950's. All the bottles we have been finding with the exception of a few are screw top bottles. I was just wondering a ballpark year of when screw top bottles started to be used.

-Codes

[Harry Pristis]

Although they were used earlier to some degree, screw tops were not widely used on bottles until 1900. Shortly thereafter, automatic bottle machines dominated the bottle-making industry. It is the pre-machine, hand-finished bottles that antique bottle-collectors prize. Even when they are a hundred years old, Clorox and Linco bottles will not have the appeal of hand-finished glass.

But, don't be discouraged. Older bottles are sometimes buried a few inches beneath the newer bottles . . . that is the quest -- to find those bottles.