My bottle collection

[Lovebottles]

Here is a picture of my bottle collection that I started two months ago. Some look old but have no idea the dates. Hopefully I have at least one or two from the 1800s. Sorry about the fussy pictures my tablet takes bad pictures.

 

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[Rookster]

Welcome to Tnet from Mississippi. Nice collection

 

[Lovebottles]

Welcome to Tnet from Mississippi. Nice collection

Thanks for having me! Hopefully somebody can tell me how to tell the date the bottles.

 

[Rookster]

Thanks for having me! Hopefully somebody can tell me how to tell the date the bottles.

We have bottles experts ready and willing to help. Just stand by. Good luck finding even more.

 

[villagenut]

Looks like a range from 1900 to 1930 period, I can't read any embossing but it looks like a bromo and a fig syrup in there.....pretty common ones. Need neck close ups and embossing details to verify. What is on the milk bottle, slugplated marks?

 

[Bass]

Agreed. Welcome to the glass department and feel free to post pictures of anything you have. You have a nice assortment there.

 

[Lovebottles]

Dr. Bwhairs Bronchial cough remedy Hamilton, Ohio.


The J. Walker brewing co Cincinnati, Ohio


The milk bottles say Latunia Springs Dairy summe & rater Mann

The other one says
The french-bros and bauer-co 312-322 w.7th street Cincinnati, Ohio.

Most of the bottles have air bubbles and corked topped. The seams don't run all the way to the lip because they fade out. The cork top bottles necks are really crooked.only one has an pontil mark that is rough.

 

[Lovebottles]

This may not be relevant but the Cincinnati Ohio bottles were found during the construction of Paul Brown Stadium. The man who found these bottles also found two or three root beer bottles they don't regular glass almost like a salt glaze.

 

[Hawks88]

Great bottle collection. Thanks for sharing. Welcome to tnet from Niagara Falls.

 

[Lovebottles]

Just a quick update the Cincinnati milk bottle is 1904

 

[Plumbata]

You have some nice bottles after only 2 months, keep up the good work!

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It appears that the aqua bottle on the left here is a pontiled puff, if it has a ring of sharp broken glass in the center of the bottom then you're looking at a pre-1860 piece, rather older than you were hoping! As far as I understand, the stoneware glazed root beer bottles from Cincinnati are of a similar 1860s and earlier vintage.

Keep your eyes open and always try to check out fresh excavation or construction sites. Iconic and valuable colored bottles like these are still waiting underneath the older parts of the city:

 

[Lovebottles]

Yes that's the one with the sharp pontil mark on the bottle. Could you tell me what the puff bottle was used for? It's super thin Also the lip is bigger on one side then the other.
He has two tubs of bottles that he's dug up from construction work. I work for him at his house and I asked if they could pay me half of my cash and half in bottles.

 

[Plumbata]

My understanding is that they were generic low-cost "utility" bottles that were filled with whatever the bulk buyer of the empty bottles was trying to market. Probably used to package individual prescriptions at pharmacy/apothecary shops, plus patent medicines, chemicals, extracts, etc. I haven't seen many with labels so perhaps someone has more insight on them.

Also, if you're getting paid in bottles, it is better to get a few good ones than a box full of mediocre common ones. A 100 dollar bottle takes up less space and is easier to liquidate than 50 2 dollar bottles.

 

[Lovebottles]

My understanding is that they were generic low-cost "utility" bottles that were filled with whatever the bulk buyer of the empty bottles was trying to market. Probably used to package individual prescriptions at pharmacy/apothecary shops, plus patent medicines, chemicals, extracts, etc. I haven't seen many with labels so perhaps someone has more insight on them.

Also, if you're getting paid in bottles, it is better to get a few good ones than a box full of mediocre common ones. A 100 dollar bottle takes up less space and is easier to liquidate than 50 2 dollar bottles.

Yeah, I went there today she's going to get them out Sunday and let me look through them. We couldn't today because her grandchildren were there. I'm pretty sure she has some old bottles that are pretty rare and she doesn't even know it. I seen that Puff bottle was just laying around waiting to get broken until I saved it.

 

[WannaDig3687]

Yes that's the one with the sharp pontil mark on the bottle. Could you tell me what the puff bottle was used for? It's super thin Also the lip is bigger on one side then the other.
He has two tubs of bottles that he's dug up from construction work. I work for him at his house and I asked if they could pay me half of my cash and half in bottles.

Welcome to the site, Lovebottles, from the northern part of the SW Ohio region. You have some cool bottles and I like your arrangement with your boss!