Who Collects Cobalt-Blue Bottles? Show us!

[Harry Pristis]

Who's got some cobalt-blue bottles to show off? Who doesn't like cobalt blue glass!

(For those that don't know, a cobalt mineral is added to the batch to produce blue glass.)

Here are some miniatures from my shelf. Two are embossed poisons. If all my bottles were this size, I'd have many more on my shelf than I do now.

Show us your cobalt-blue glass.

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[Road Dog]

Nice ones! I like that crude looking one on the right.

 

[epackage]

First two are from my Paterson NJ collection, my main bottle focus. The other two came in box lots I won, a small ink and a HUGE newer bottle, I'm guessing Mexican, that's alot of cobalt glass, about 22" tall I think....Jim

 

[bcboy]

I dug this one up in an old chinese town site about a year or so ago.

 

[Harry Pristis]

Excellent bottles, all!

Here's another:

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[bilt46]

Love the Cobalt-Blue - Nice looking bottles posted..
These are my found bottles......

 

[Road Dog]

I have alot of Cobalt.

 

[Harry Pristis]

Nice bottles (and jar)!

I really like that Lomax. I grew up in Chicago, and have always thought it would be nice to have a showy Lomax soda. But, it hasn't happened yet.

Here's another from my shelf:

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THE MEXICAN // HAIR RENEWER​

 

[Road Dog]

What kinda Lomax ya lookin for?

 

[Harry Pristis]

What kinda Lomax ya lookin for?

Well, a good example of a cobalt Lomax - pontil-scarred if possible from George Lomax in the 1850s. Got one? (I know you do!)

 

[Road Dog]

Don't have the pontil ones. Used to have two. A JAL and a G. Lomax. Sold them awhile back. Still have some hutch types.

 

[Harry Pristis]

C'mon, guys and gals, where are the cobalt bottles?

Here's another from my shelf:

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[Harry Pristis]

Here's a common one:

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[DiggerDave in Pa.]

Here's a common one:

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Here are a couple of my favorites. The first is a 9 1/4" Billings & Clapp chemist bottle from Boston. The swirled bottle I believe was made by Emil Larsen in NJ or at least that what I was told. DD.

 

[mamabear]

If I could find them, I'd collect them! seems a lot of people around here had heartburn.

 

[Harry Pristis]

Here are a couple of my favorites. The first is a 9 1/4" Billings & Clapp chemist bottle from Boston. The swirled bottle I believe was made by Emil Larsen in NJ or at least that what I was told. DD.

Outstanding bottles, Dave! Show us some more.

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THE NEW YORK
PHARMACAL ASSOCIATION //
THE BEST
REMEDIAL AGENT IN ALL
DIGESTIVE DISORDERS //
LACTOPEPTINE​

 

[DiggerDave in Pa.]

Here are a couple of my favorites. The first is a 9 1/4" Billings & Clapp chemist bottle from Boston. The swirled bottle I believe was made by Emil Larsen in NJ or at least that what I was told. DD.

Outstanding bottles, Dave! Show us some more.

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THE NEW YORK
PHARMACAL ASSOCIATION //
THE BEST
REMEDIAL AGENT IN ALL
DIGESTIVE DISORDERS //
LACTOPEPTINE​

Here's a flared lip, pontiled ink and a 1/2 pint reproduction cornucopia flask.

 

[Harry Pristis]

Here's a flared lip, pontiled ink and a 1/2 pint reproduction cornucopia flask.

I'll bet your heart fluttered for a moment when you saw that cobalt cornucopia flask!

Why do you believe the oval pontil-scarred bottle is an ink bottle? Does it have some distinctive feature?

Almost all the master inks I can recall ever seeing are round - cylinders - because that is the least-tippy form. I just browsed Covill's book. He figures the occasional 6-sided, 12-sided, tapering cylinder, square, and rectangular master inks, but not a single oval bottle.

Nice bottle, whatever it contained.

 

[Tigger]

Hey, DiggerDave (The swirled bottle I believe was made by Emil Larsen in NJ or at least that what I was told. DD.)
Please, tell us more about the beautiful swirled bottle. What was it for? Age? It's gorgeous!! (we need a drooling icon)
Tigger

 

[DiggerDave in Pa.]

Hey, DiggerDave (The swirled bottle I believe was made by Emil Larsen in NJ or at least that what I was told. DD.)
Please, tell us more about the beautiful swirled bottle. What was it for? Age? It's gorgeous!! (we need a drooling icon)
Tigger

Harry, My photo of the ink bottle is a bit deceiving. I took the photo to show the top and bottom. It is a round cone which I believe looks like an ink bottle. I'm sure it could've been used for something else though. DD.
Tigger, I bought 3 bottles about 25 years ago for $20 each. There was the cobalt one and two swirled amethyst bottles which one has applied decoration. I guess the mid 1930's on these bottles but they could be a bit newer. I think they were made to look pretty and not to be used as functional bottles. DD.