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[Harry Pristis]

Thank you, 'Road Dog'!! I am glad to see a label for these little flasks!

I think I posted a question about these flasks - perhaps on antiquebottles.net - some years ago (2003); but, I didn't get any definitive answer. I suspected Jamaican Ginger as one possibility or some other potent intoxicant in a ladies' handbag size. I am tickled to see the image.

 

[Road Dog]

Let me add this pic as well.

 

[chukers]

Let me add this pic as well.

That look almost identical... ya know when I found it I thought of castor oil but then I also said naaa its too small... it was found at an old homestead... so yeah I bet that is it!

Thanks

Chukers

 

[sodetraveler]

Let me add this pic as well.

You guys are doing a great job of finding flasks that were not used for whiskey, but I'm quite certain that you would have a much easier time finding flasks that were used for whiskey!

I appreciate the learning experience and the effort. However, I think you are not helping Chuckers by doing this. He needs to know that for every castor oil, liquid asprin, etc. flask that's out there, there are hundereds of examples of similar flasks that were used for whiskey.

This bottle just posted up today (looking for cleaning advice) is a good example. Would any of you suggest that it's not a whiskey flask?

 

[sodetraveler]

PS. I'm not trying to pick a fight or suggest that Chucker's flask might possibly not be a whiskey. I just want Chucker's to understand the odds a bit better. Perhaps the fact his flask doesn't have the volume embossed on it suggests non-whiskey? Don't know, but I'd still place my bet on whiskey!

Peace!

 

[Road Dog]

Yours is a definate whiskey and looks nothing like his. His probably could have been used for a number of things as the glass factory just sold generic bottles to distributers of all sorts of stuff. Although the caster oil is an identical type bottle to his.

 

[Harry Pristis]

...I appreciate the learning experience and the effort. However, I think you are not helping Chuckers by doing this. He needs to know that for every castor oil, liquid asprin, etc. flask that's out there, there are hundereds of examples of similar flasks that were used for whiskey....

I think I detect a little "Confirmation Bias" -- the tendency to look for and perceive evidence that is consistent with our hypotheses and to deny, dismiss or distort evidence that is not.

Show us your little whiskey flasks, 'sodetraveler'.

 

[sodetraveler]

Show us your little whiskey flasks, 'sodetraveler'.

No fair! I asked first

Anyway, I don't have a whole lot of whiskey flasks in my collection. Those I do have are boxed and wrapped.......

What Road Dog said is correct. The glass factories sold generic bottles that the purchaser could use for whatever they please. I tend to think that most of these bottles would have been used for whiskey, but perhaps people preferred larger whiskey bottles and the smaller ones were not generally used for whiskey? Without more information we will never know.

Based on the information presented on the SHA website here:

http://www.sha.org/bottle/typing.htm

This bottle may have been used for liquid asprin, relabeled as a whiskey and then later used for castor oil! BTW - I'm specifically referring to the Lash's Bitters that is re-labeled as Amonia. I'm assuming that you wouldn't tell someone that an unlabeled version of this bottle was anything other than a bitters bottle.

Hopefully Chuckers is enjoying the lively debate and appreciating the two key SHA statements regarding any bottle identification excercise:

1) The same type or style of bottle may have been used for distinctly different products.
2) Any given bottle could have been recycled and reused many times for totally unrelated products.

It's been fun playing with you guys!

 

[chukers]

Show us your little whiskey flasks, 'sodetraveler'.

No fair! I asked first

Anyway, I don't have a whole lot of whiskey flasks in my collection. Those I do have are boxed and wrapped.......

What Road Dog said is correct. The glass factories sold generic bottles that the purchaser could use for whatever they please. I tend to think that most of these bottles would have been used for whiskey, but perhaps people preferred larger whiskey bottles and the smaller ones were not generally used for whiskey? Without more information we will never know.

Based on the information presented on the SHA website here:

http://www.sha.org/bottle/typing.htm

This bottle may have been used for liquid asprin, relabeled as a whiskey and then later used for castor oil! BTW - I'm specifically referring to the Lash's Bitters that is re-labeled as Amonia. I'm assuming that you wouldn't tell someone that an unlabeled version of this bottle was anything other than a bitters bottle.

Hopefully Chuckers is enjoying the lively debate and appreciating the two key SHA statements regarding any bottle identification excercise:

1) The same type or style of bottle may have been used for distinctly different products.
2) Any given bottle could have been recycled and reused many times for totally unrelated products.

It's been fun playing with you guys!

I am reading every word... anything I read is just an education for me... I am always learning. It all good to me!

Chukers

 

[Rooter]

I just found and purchased a bottle like that from my local thrift store. It is very flat and has nothing on the bottom. There are remnants of a label. I thought it was a whisky flask also but it's so small it wouldn't even be a 1/4 pint. The label looks more medicinal and I can make out the partial words John and sons. I'll try to post a picture later.