8 sided glass bottle. Any ideas?

[Dray01]

Having a hard time finding this bottle. There have been close calls but the top is different. Any info/input would be greatly appreciated. TIA...

 

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[luke_00]

Heinz, either ketchup or 57 sauce
https://www.antique-bottles.net/threads/heinz-57-bottle.625391/

 

[No gold in NY]

Looks like the Owens-Illinois trade mark. If you look that up, the numbers will date the bottle. The shape looks like catsup, but the top has me guessing.

 

[villagenut]

probably a 1936 sauce bottle like ketchup but the lip finish does not look typical as stated above.....

 

[Dray01]

Thanks the lip is what had us stumped as well!! Frustrating lol when you can’t find a definitive picture with year and all the same components.

 

[ARC]

Looks like a 1890-1895 H.J. HEINZ Ketchup Bottle.

 

[pepperj]

https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/Heinzbottlecodes.pdf

 

[Red-Coat]

Your bottle was produced by the Owens-Illinois Glass Company at their Huntington, West Virginia plant. That plant opened in 1930 and your bottle has the date code for 1936.

 

[villagenut]

Looks like a 1890-1895 H.J. HEINZ Ketchup Bottle.

The Owens-Illinois mark cannot be before 1929 because the two companies merged that year and began this particular mark.

 

[smokeythecat]

I'd GUESS an early ketchup bottle. They were making the bottle style as early as the Civil War, but yours is a little later judging by the top.

 

[Red-Coat]

I'd GUESS an early ketchup bottle. They were making the bottle style as early as the Civil War, but yours is a little later judging by the top.

It's way later Smokey. It very clearly has the Owens-Illinois trademark. The merger between the two companies (the Owens Glass Co. and the Illinois Glass Co.) was formally approved on April 17, 1929 and they began using that trademark almost immediately. For Owens-Illinois bottles, the number at the left of the logo is the plant number and in this case it's a '2' which is for the Huntington, WV plant which did not open until 1930. Then, in addition, the number at the right of the logo is the date year. In this case, it's a '6' without a stop after it which is 1936. If there had been a stop after the number it would be 1946. They moved to 2-digit date codes from 1947 onwards.

For bottles from this period, there is usually a one- or two-digit number below the logo which I can't see clearly here. It might be '18' but it won't add much to the story because it's just a mould cavity code. For later bottles they used letter prefixes which help determine what the bottle was intended for.

 

[villagenut]

Agreed with RedCoat...........1936

https://glassbottlemarks.com/owens-illinois-glass-company-bottle-container-marks/

 

[Dray01]

Thank you all so much. 50+ year old bottle you stumble across when rocking isn’t bad!