Help with Bottle found today on Okinawa...

[Dave N Japan]

I don't find many bottles here in Okinawa, but on my hunt today found a bottle at a site that might have been a camp for Americans during the Battle of Okinawa. Found a lot of unspent rounds at the same location as if they were camped there and fooling around and it looked like there was no fighting at that same area at a old castle site on top of a bluff.... It says
HORLICK"S
THE ORIGEINAL
HORLICK"S
Trade
M. M.
MARK
Malted Milk
Lunch Tablets
RANCING-WIS-USA Thanks for any info and date!

 

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[Gypsy Heart]

Not really worth that much but its rich in history!

While probably best known as the key ingredient in malted milkshakes, the invention had its roots in England, where the brothers were born.

William Horlick came to Racine in 1869 to work in a cousins quarrying business, while James Horlick studied pharmacy in England, where he developed a wheat and malt-based nutritional supplement for infants.

William Horlick persuaded his brother to bring his idea to the United States. The two formed a company in 1873 to manufacture the product they first marketed as Diastoid.

Their factory was built in 1875, and by 1883, William Horlick had patented the method for preparing malted milk: malted barley and wheat flour mixed with whole milk, evaporated into a powder.

Physicians endorsed it for infants and patients with digestive problems.

It didn't take long for malted milk, with its sweet taste, to be used for confections.

Another Racine company, Hamilton Beach, sealed the connection when it patented the first practical electric mixer in 1911, at William Horlick's urging. The glass cup attached to one of the original mixers bears the Horlick name.

Until 1922, malted milk consisted of milk, chocolate syrup and malt powder. But what's commonly referred to as a malt today was invented when a soda jerk at a drug store in Chicago added ice cream to the mix.

The Horlicks jumped on the trend, evidenced by a 1923 photograph from a drug store in Trenton, N.J., that shows a soda fountain stocked with what looks like the Hamilton Beach mixer and an advertising sign that reads, Horlicks. The Original Malted Milk.

By then, other companies were making versions of malted milk, Driscoll said.

While James Horlick eventually returned to England to set up a branch of the company, malted milk found some unexpected markets in the United States.

Explorers such as Robert Peary and Roald Amundsen included it among their provisions to the North and South poles because it was lightweight, high-calorie and would not spoil.

William Horlick became a patron of Antarctic exploration, contributing $30,000 to Adm. Richard Byrds 1933-34 expedition.

Byrd later named a mountain range in Antarctica for Horlick and a plane used to take aerial photographs of the continent.

Horlicks isn't made in the United States anymore. The brand is owned by Britain-based GlaxoSmithKline.

one is on ebay....
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6272964738&category=369&fkxs=1

 

[Dave N Japan]

WOW,,,Gypsy...Thanks a lot!!! You are a champ! I didn't think it was worth much, but it looks like a keeper..
Looks like one of the troops here during the war may have brought it with him for a quick pick-me-up!
Thanks Again!!!

 

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

Dave,

nice find.

That bottle sure has done some traveling.

It's a keeper just for the fact of where it was
found and the backgroung of it.

Nice going Gypsy.

have a good un.................

 

[trk5capt]

DAVE, Interesting Find, Rich In History, Good Hunting. trk5capt...

 

[twister]

I cant help you with it but it sure is a nice bottle

HH Twister

 

[southbound]

Cool find Dave!
Vern

 

[Michigan Badger]

I didn't think it was worth much, but it looks like a keeper..

Being it's a WWII relic it's worth a lot more than it's normal collector value.

I'm always interested in these types of things.

If you could locate a site with lots of War relics, and you didn't want to keep them yourself, you could make some very good money on ebay.

People don't look down on those who do this. Most Americans are thrilled that someone over there is offering these things for sale.

Great find!

Badger