SCORE late 1800/1900 bottles ..I D HELP please

[silversurfer1111]

A friend and I when to look at a construction site to Metal detect .. I ended up finding all these bottles in the dirt ...lots of broken bottles to..think it was a old dump .. you know how old any of them are or what they were used for pleas let me know thank you . if you know a good way to clean the inside of them pleas let me know ...I have # the bottles in 1 on the pics so you can tell me whats what .you can click on the pics up to 3 times to make them bigger thank you for looking .

 

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[bottles10]

About 1900 to 1920s. Nothing worth much. .50 cents to 1.00 but you are in good area. If you can keep looking The round bottle with DR on bottom was a vinegar bitter. paper label. very common.

 

[silversurfer1111]

About 1900 to 1920s. Nothing worth much. .50 cents to 1.00 but you are in good area. If you can keep looking The round bottle with DR on bottom was a vinegar bitter. paper label. very common.

thanks for the info ! ... a friend told me that # 4 is from thee late 1800 cus that company Changed the label later ..and he said the mold seams start to disappear on the low part of the neck so that make it 1 of the older ones . but I don't know . I dont think he is a expert .

 

[surf]

Hello silversurfer,

Gotta love those construction site smorgasbords of old glass. I roughly agree with bottles10 on the dating. Let's call them TOC.

I'm gonna try and play 9 pins with you. #1 is likely a medicine bottle. #2 was the infamous Peruna, put up by Dr. Samuel B. Hartman.

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"Sounds like you have found a turn of the century dump. The Bottle marked Dr. S.B.H. is a Peruna bottle. Peruna was a top seller around 1900 and was a true cure-all. One testimonial says, "I am happy to say that my little boy, five years old, is cured of deafness by your Peruna." The medicine was for catarrh, cough, weakness, consumption, grippe, dyspepsia, stomach and bowel trouble and a host of other ailments. Dr. Samuel Hartman first started in the patent medicine business in the late 1870s with his LA-CU-PI-A. Around 1879 he began making the Peruna as well as another medicine MAN-A-LIN. He moved to Columbus, Ohio from Pennsylvania. Where he successfully sold a bitters he had purchased from Benjamin Mishler, Mishler's Herb Bitters. By 1905, Peruna, which Hartman preferred to spell, PE-RU-NA, was perhaps the top selling brand in the country. One reason was a voluminous advertising campaign and another was it was 28% alcohol. A bottle of Peruna was made from about a half pint of cologne spirits, 190 proof, with a pint and a half of water, adding a little cubebs for flavor and a little burnt sugar for color. The cost to Dr. Hartman was about 15 to 18 cents for a bottle which sold for $1.00." John "Digger" Odell

#3 looks like a sample salad dressing, perhaps by Horton-Cato. Royal Salad Dressing,Horton-Cato Manufacturing Company,condiments,1900

#4 is the Dr. S Pitcher's Castoria. They were being made into the late 1890's, and beyond. Fletcher's Castoria / Pitcher's Castoria

Dr. Pitchers Castoria Mint in Original Box ​

#5 probably contained pills, perhaps an oil.

#6 was some kind of household chemical or medicine.

#7 is an ink.

#8 is an ammonia bottle.

#9, I'd call a cream pot. Perhaps others may have additional suggestions.

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[silversurfer1111]

Hello silversurfer,

Gotta love those construction site smorgasbords of old glass. I roughly agree with bottles10 on the dating. Let's call them TOC.

I'm gonna try and play 9 pins with you. #1 is likely a medicine bottle. #2 was the infamous Peruna, put up by Dr. Samuel B. Hartman.

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"Sounds like you have found a turn of the century dump. The Bottle marked Dr. S.B.H. is a Peruna bottle. Peruna was a top seller around 1900 and was a true cure-all. One testimonial says, "I am happy to say that my little boy, five years old, is cured of deafness by your Peruna." The medicine was for catarrh, cough, weakness, consumption, grippe, dyspepsia, stomach and bowel trouble and a host of other ailments. Dr. Samuel Hartman first started in the patent medicine business in the late 1870s with his LA-CU-PI-A. Around 1879 he began making the Peruna as well as another medicine MAN-A-LIN. He moved to Columbus, Ohio from Pennsylvania. Where he successfully sold a bitters he had purchased from Benjamin Mishler, Mishler's Herb Bitters. By 1905, Peruna, which Hartman preferred to spell, PE-RU-NA, was perhaps the top selling brand in the country. One reason was a voluminous advertising campaign and another was it was 28% alcohol. A bottle of Peruna was made from about a half pint of cologne spirits, 190 proof, with a pint and a half of water, adding a little cubebs for flavor and a little burnt sugar for color. The cost to Dr. Hartman was about 15 to 18 cents for a bottle which sold for $1.00." John "Digger" Odell

#3 looks like a sample salad dressing, perhaps by Horton-Cato. View attachment 889152 Royal Salad Dressing,Horton-Cato Manufacturing Company,condiments,1900

#4 is the Dr. S Pitcher's Castoria. They were being made into the late 1890's, and beyond. Fletcher's Castoria / Pitcher's Castoria

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Dr. Pitchers Castoria Mint in Original Box ​

#5 probably contained pills, perhaps an oil.

#6 was some kind of household chemical or medicine.

#7 is an ink.

#8 is an ammonia bottle. View attachment 889160

#9, I'd call a cream pot. Perhaps others may have additional suggestions.

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WOW you are awesome ! ... thank you very much grate info. I am just getting in to glass .. so this helps me out BIG TIME ! ... I did not think I would get this much good info at one time...

 

[minnesota outdoors north]

i agree with surf...i can get about 7.00 for the ink wells that say carters on them..a little less if no name...if you find a bottle with a hand applied lip or top, that will bring a little more in my area...excelsior, mn. because people that live around the lake minnetonka area love history on the lake...see pic attached of one gallon bottle in a 3 part mold...

Gary

 

[PeteWmass]

how about snapping some pics of the dump...I always like analyzing a dump.....