Age of this beer bottle??? **SOLVED**

[MonkeyBoy]

Hello all,

I have a trash pit I have been digging.. 1940s stuff on top but lower layers as early as 1870s... I found this beer bottle pretty deep.. 3" or so.. it almost went in the junk pile but as I was looking at it.. the seems stops 1/2 way up the neck.. the seam is really rough and it appears to have an applied top?? So anybody have a guess to the age? It appears, by design, to be 1880s or so.. but looks so much like a modern beer bottle

Thanks,
MonkeyBoy

[Hill Billy]

What's the bottom look like?

[MonkeyBoy]

..picture of the bottom..

[MonkeyBoy]

Ha! I missread the bottom of the bottle the first time!! So a google search of the correct company produced this:

This bottle is also certainly an example of re-use in that the base is embossed M. B. & G. CO. which indicates manufacture by the short-lived Massillon Bottle & Glass Co. (Massillon, OH.) which began business in 1900, though was merged into the Ohio Bottle Company in 1904, making the latest manufacturing date at least two years before the label was made (Toulouse 1971). In addition, the back shoulder of the bottle has A. J. OAK. etched into the glass by hand almost certainly indicating that another unknown (Oakland?) brewery first purchased the bottle from Massillon, marked it with their ownership (ownership etching was not uncommon at that time), and the bottle eventually picked up for re-use by Wunder. Thus, we have quite conclusive dating that the bottle itself was manufactured between 1900 to 1904 and the label between 1906 and 1909. Click on the following links for more images: reverse side of the bottle showing shoulder etching of A. J. OAK.; base view showing the M. B. & G. CO. makers marking. (Photos and information courtesy of Jared Smith, Mesa Historical Museum, Mesa, AZ.)

..so the bottle is 1900ish..

MonkeyBoy