Emerson Drug Co. Bromo Seltzer bottle

granthansen

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It's not often I find bottles, and this little guy was in the same hole as the Chinese coin spill I found. Pretty common but a very nice cobalt blue. Dates to late 1800s... the company had factories in MD and NJ and were famous for this little blue bottle.

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That is a great bottle. Nice find!
 

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Very nice, intact blue beauty. This shows yet again why it's important to dig gingerly--you never know if another fragile relic is lurking alongside a target. Well done!
 

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I really enjoy findind those old colored bottles.Great save.
 

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Always liked the old blue bottles. I found a few of them in different sizes when I lived in Ohio and gave them to a friend who collects bottles. That one is in really good condition. HH
 

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Congrats on your find ! But I'm sorry, it doesn't date to the late 1800s,more like 30s or 40s. Keep your shovel dirty
 

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PikesPeakCharlie said:
Congrats on your find ! But I'm sorry, it doesn't date to the late 1800s,more like 30s or 40s. Keep your shovel dirty

Nice find Grant. 2 easy ways to semi date bottles is by it having threads or not. If it has threads it's not that old. If it is a stopper bottle check the mold seam. If it runs all the way through the lip then it is also not very old. Still a nice bottle though. I collect them and I would keep it for the cool color. HH.
 

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Hello Grant,

These are the later models, as PikesPeakCharlie noted.

It's predecessor looked like this, and came in several sizes:

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"...The small cobalt blue bottle pictured to the left contained one of the most popular medicines sold in the 20th century - Bromo-Seltzer - which continues to be popular today as a headache and stomach medicine. This is a typical early 20th century Bromo bottle and is embossed horizontally with BROMO-SELTZER / EMERSON / DRUG CO. / BALTIMORE, MD. The product came in many different sizes of similar shaped bottles which were mouth-blown in the earlier years (1890s to about 1911), machine-made in identically shaped cork stoppered bottles beginning about 1911, and most likely completely machine-made by about 1915. Between 1911 and 1915 it appears that the bottles were both mouth-blown and machine-made. The cork as a closure began to disappear by 1920 with total disappearance by 1928 when the bottles were sealed by a metal seal or cap; the finish for the metal seal looked about the same as the cork bead finish. The bottles switched to external screw thread finishes in 1954 and went to plastic bottles in 1986 (Easton 1965; Fike 1987). Click mid-20th century Bromo to see a later (1950s) example with a lug type external screw thread finish that is embossed with the brand name on the heel...." Medicinal Bottles

Yours looks like it might be a lug top. I cannot quite tell from the photos.

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I like to the cobalt blue bottles I scored a few cellary and something else written on it bottles a few years back . Nice Score !
 

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Thanks all for the clarifications. This is what happens when I do my research hastily before a long day of meetings! Really appreciate it!
 

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I have found two of these bottles one is 5" and the other looks like about 3" maybe, but I cannot take any photos
the reason for me finding these is that I have like a privy or a dump in my front yard AND I LIVE IN A TRAILER!?!? and its not that old
 

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