Whats the smallest bottle you have found?

JakePhelps

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SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS

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Jake,
nice small bottle, they sure do come in all sizes.

One of mine enclosed.

have a good un............
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How about 1" across & 1 3/4" tall
 

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SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS

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Jeff,

any idea what it was for?

If I had to guess I would say some type "magic new life pills" which were big in late 1800's early 1900"s. So many different feel good pills were sold, a cure for everything.

have a good un.............
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MY GUESS their Perfume Bottles

This one 1 1/2 tall & 1 1/4 across & BOTH are 1/2" thick
 

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You beat us Jeff :D Those are the smallest bottles i have ever seen. They could be from free samples or pills, any idea how old they are?
 

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The top one has Threads & a 19 on the Bottom
the Bottom one has a top that would have took a Cork (Stopper) & has a 4 on the Bottom.

? My Guess these are Dates, & would make sense.

Holes are So Tiny on top, IF pills they would have to be Smaller then NITRO Pills,

TOP one 3/16"? Bottom one 1/4 "

That's why I think Perfume.

Yours May be an Old ALKA-SELZER Bottle ?
 

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Great looking bottles, all...
I have yet to find anything smaller than a pint...
Good luck & happy hunting~
 

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Jake:Your bottle with the tin top looks like this first pic. Second pic a little bigger and newer.
 

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Here is the pics.
 

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Jeff: Seems an exact match. Silver Label after shave lotion distributed by the Fuller Brush Company.
 

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Enter this first perfume in the smallest bottle contest. It's 5/8" square and 1 3/16" tall, mostly threads.
 

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One more mini--cobalt blue given to me by a guy named Mel, Key West 1980.
 

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this is the smallest bottle I hae found. I dug this up last weekend on a delta island in california. It is 2" tall and 1/2" wide.
 

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It does look old...I have seen this shape but cannot remember...hand blown,cork top...before 1900....maybe an opium bottle...nice find.
 

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My bottle is very similar to Jake's. Bottle is 2 3/4 inches tall and a 1/2 inch in diameter. It still has a clear fluid in it. I haven't been able to unscrew the cap. I'm not quite sure if I want to. I found it at a boarded up funeral home built in 1914. I found it buried with it with a few other bottles from the 1800's.
 

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I had to post these.? Do these qualify?

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