🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Bottle / Jar Information

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Good morning and Merry Christmas to all Tnet members!

I'm looking for opinions on this old food jar that I recently acquired online in a lot with 5 other old bottles. Hoping, someone can tell me approximately what year it was made. Is it North American or European in origin and how it was made. The seller told me that he'd found it at a local yard sale here in Ontario. It's 6" tall and 2" wide at the base.

Thanks very much,
Dave

 

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[Blackfoot58]

Interesting piece. The style of the side panels immediately made me think of an old catsup or chili sauce bottle I found years ago. Although I’m not sure of yours being that.
The lip design and the air bubbles should help indicate an age. I don’t remember enough to be helpful.
Im sure a T Netter will have good info soon. 👍🏼

 

[Tony in SC]

Any markings on the bottom?

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Any markings on the bottom?

No sir, the bottom has an indent but there are no markings on it.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Interesting piece. The style of the side panels immediately made me think of an old catsup or chili sauce bottle I found years ago. Although I’m not sure of yours being that.
The lip design and the air bubbles should help indicate an age. I don’t remember enough to be helpful.
Im sure a T Netter will have good info soon. 👍🏼

Thanks for your post and for sharing your theories my friend.

 

[bowwinkles]

might get an idea here: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=vintage+square+mecicine+bottle&iax=images&ia=images

 

[flinthunter]

I'm not in any way an expert on bottles but I would guess it dates to the 1880's. I like the Hutchinson that is behind it.

 

[Robot]

Hi ANTIQUARIAN
Not an expert on old bottles, but I see this as an Antique Medicine Bottle, style Green Tinge with Cathedral Siding and indented bottom to prevent mold.

 

[pa plateau hiker]

I'm wondering if it might be a preserve bottle.

 

[unclemac]

i have some limited expertise with bottles and I must confess yours does not appear to be that old. It may be that the quality of your images is to fine, but this bottle reminds me of what I have seen for sale recently at Target and the like.

for a better answer post this in the bottle forum.. plenty of experts there.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

might get an idea here: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=vintage+square+mecicine+bottle&iax=images&ia=images

Thanks very much for the link, lots of older bottles there too.

I'm not in any way an expert on bottles but I would guess it dates to the 1880's. I like the Hutchinson that is behind it.

That's what I was thinking as well. Thanks for noticing the Hutchinson, I found in the woods next to a site I was detecting.

Hi ANTIQUARIAN
Not an expert on old bottles, but I see this as an Antique Medicine Bottle, style Green Tinge with Cathedral Siding and indented bottom to prevent mold.

Thank you for sharing your theory on what the original use for this bottle was, I appreciate it.

I'm wondering if it might be a preserve bottle.

I'm thinking along those same lines as well, thanks for your post.

i have some limited expertise with bottles and I must confess yours does not appear to be that old. It may be that the quality of your images is to fine, but this bottle reminds me of what I have seen for sale recently at Target and the like.

for a better answer post this in the bottle forum.. plenty of experts there.

I can appreciate what your suggesting here my friend. It's so true, with all the repros available today, it's often hard to tell the fakes from the real McCoy's.

 

[villagenut]

Don't know what it held but it certainly looks authentic 1860-80 to me. I am seeing distinct tooling in the finish.

 

[ToddsPoint]

My bottle guy says it’s a pickle jar.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Don't know what it held but it certainly looks authentic 1860-80 to me. I am seeing distinct tooling in the finish.

Thank you sir, as always I appreciate and value your opinion.

My bottle guy says it’s a pickle jar.

Thanks very much for the confirmation on this my friend, hope you have a great 2024!

 

[Blak bart]

It's a pickle jar im pretty sure...not 100%, but that's my guess. 1860s-1880s is my date range guess, and I'd guess it was blown in the north east of USA. All just guesses....now I'll look for some confirmation on my guessing from the interweb !!

 

[Blak bart]

Well....after looking at images I didn't see any exactly like yours.....although all are similar to the style of yours. Yours looks older and more primitive than the examples I saw....maybe a search of fruit jars is next ?

 

[Blak bart]

Similar but not quite.

 

[glass half fool]

Hi ANTIQUARIAN
Not an expert on old bottles, but I see this as an Antique Medicine Bottle, style Green Tinge with Cathedral Siding and indented bottom to prevent mold.

I'm not in any way an expert on bottles but I would guess it dates to the 1880's. I like the Hutchinson that is behind it.

The bottle in question is a nice item to add to your collection I also like the Hutchinson They always appeal to me

 

[DJV]

Good morning and Merry Christmas to all Tnet members!

I'm looking for opinions on this old food jar that I recently acquired online in a lot with 5 other old bottles. Hoping, someone can tell me approximately what year it was made. Is it North American or European in origin and how it was made. The seller told me that he'd found it at a local yard sale here in Ontario. It's 6" tall and 2" wide at the base.

Thanks very much,
Dave

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Greetings!

I've been finding these pickle jars for a good number of years now. I collect old glass, mostly for the beauty of it, and that jar you have is a beauty! I think most of them got shipped over from England ( some mudlarkers there are finding the same style bottles in their hunts as they are quite common ). Here's a few of mine, amongst a display of coloured glass, which looks great when the sun shines through!

 

[Dejure]

First, keep in mind, a lot of experts aren't [experts]. One of the Roadshow experts, with backing by others, told a lady her glass floats couldn't be real, because glass doesn't float.

I hope they called the Navy and warned them about their iron ships and things.

Merely that someone listed a jar as a pickle jar doesn't make it one. First, pickles need to fit inside it, then they have to be able to be removed.

It's been well over fifty-five years since my parents owned an antique-bottle-rock shop, and we spent our summers digging 100 year old homesteads and dumps for bottles. We came across a lot of somewhat similar bottles. Some more ornate than others, but nothing real elaborate in that category. That, if memory serves, included Lee & Perrins bottles.

The coarse exterior of some of the bottles shown suggest whittle marks from molds.

I have a Twinkie mobile (Grumman step van) with about six to ten cases of bottles from our digging days back in the sixties. Guess I should pull them out and go through them. Probably time to fire up the cabinet saw and makes some shadow boxes for a few of them, to make them into fun display bottles.