I found these weeks ago, just havn't had the time to post. So here the story goes...
My dad owns a small cabinate making buisness and has friends who own other types of buisnesses as well. One of his friends owns an excivation company and my dad lets him dump dirt in the back of his shope. I was walking by the pile and spotted glass shards an such, I've never dug for bottles but i desided to give it a shot and started to dig in the pile. There were loads of broken peices probably because of the excivation equiptment, but i did manage to get these things. I am new to this so and advice/id's on the bottles would help alot. I do know that the round light blue/green bottle is morphine "baby killer", the make-up jar, and the stem to a pipe (the pipe bowl and pipe stem are from 2 different ones because the bowl would have the letters "TD" on it)
Also some input on the double bottom mark on one bottle would help too.
**The 2nd picture the word is Barnett
Pictures are in two posts
Thanks
Kendall Tavern circa 1785
"Refreshments for man and beast can be found within" -Jonas Kendall
Most of 'em seem to be common household containers. The first pair in your gallery are what I call extract bottles, but they were used for OTC medicinals as well.
I like the sirop (French for "syrup") bottle . . . I wish I could read the lettering beyond the first word. Can you provide it, please.
I don't know what the little white (stoneware? milk glass?) bottle is . . . a pourer or dripper of some sort, possibly a creamer but it could be something else entirely, like an insulator.
“A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.”
--Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) in "The Sign of Four"
Most of 'em seem to be common household containers. The first pair in your gallery are what I call extract bottles, but they were used for OTC medicinals as well.
I like the sirop (French for "syrup") bottle . . . I wish I could read the lettering beyond the first word. Can you provide it, please.
I don't know what the little white (stoneware? milk glass?) bottle is . . . a pourer or dripper of some sort, possibly a creamer but it could be something else entirely, like an insulator.
The lettering on the french syrup bottle is "Sirop D'Anis Gauvin" I've done research on this name and the bottle was used for morphine AKA babby killer
Also the little white thing with the letter "T" on it, the hole goes right thru out of the bottom
Kendall Tavern circa 1785
"Refreshments for man and beast can be found within" -Jonas Kendall
The little white thing then is probably an insulator.
“A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.”
--Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) in "The Sign of Four"
Great finds !!! Hope they bring more of that dirt in for you !!!!
Thanks but can someone tell me what makes them so great please?
The reason they're great, cause they're old, not made any more and people like em for their bottle collection. I'm addicted to finding old bottles like this.
Great finds !!! Hope they bring more of that dirt in for you !!!!
Thanks but can someone tell me what makes them so great please?
The reason they're great, cause they're old, not made any more and people like em for their bottle collection. I'm addicted to finding old bottles like this.
how old? u have any idea how old they would be, i have an idea, but just wondering your oppinion
Kendall Tavern circa 1785
"Refreshments for man and beast can be found within" -Jonas Kendall
how old? u have any idea how old they would be, i have an idea, but just wondering your oppinion
These bottles are all turn of the century BIMALs (i.e. Blown In Mold Applied Lip). They are similar to bottles I've dug before ranging from 1900 to 1915
The small white ceramic piece is indeed an electrical insulator. I've found many of those that still have the rusty wires in the center and even seen them still in use in very old houses
The amber (aka brown) bottle is a whiskey flask and the tall round bottle with the screw top used to hold ketchup
Harry's identifications on the other bottles also seems accurate, so I think that covers most of them
Now, if I were out there and in your possition I would ask your dad's friend for permission to dig on his construction site!!!
BTW - if you place those clear ones out in the sun they will likely turn purple. It'll take awhile for the color to come out (months to years), but they are really pretty once they turn!
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