Starting a Vick’s study

[halfdime]

Doing some “archaeology” at an old foundation recently, Miss halfdime found a small Vick’s jar. My first instinct was that it didn’t belong. This foundation dates to the mid 1800s, and I found some wonderful oldies in the privy. Aerial photos reveal that structures were gone by the late 1930s. After doing a little research, I’ve come to understand that her find may reach back to about 1915, or when machine made bottles came to be. The triangle in a triangle base harkens back to the teens, twenties and even thirties so the jar (found under a rock and protected) could have been part of the homestead. Looking over my collection, we now have three of these, and all three are in some way different from the others. First, the triangles are different (as the pictures will show). Hers has a “1” and one has an “8.” The third has nothing. The one with “8” has “feet” on the bottom, one at each point of the triangle. The one without a number has four feet, much smaller. Her find has none. Two of the jars have seems running straight to the top; hers is staggered, the seam in the threads almost 1/4” to the right of the main seam. Does anyone know enough about these to elaborate on dates? Internet info is sketchy and one listing takes you to a porn site😳! Help!

 

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[Cobradude22]

Vics

I was digging in my local bottle dump 2 days ago. I pulled a vics jar that looks just like yours. The vics jar has 244 on the bottom of mine. My best guess would be sometime around the 1920s-1930s because I found this amber 1/2 cup Owens measuring bottle right next to it and it’s also from the 30’s. The small blue bottle is a Castoria and the large one is a Dr WB Caldwells Syrup Pepsin bottle.

 

[ohio larker]

Tonight I was rummaging through a small town dump dating from the pontil era to the late 1940's and found an early Vicks jar with a nearly complete tin lid and residue of the original contents. The jar has three triangles and a "45" on the bottom and is very dark midnight blue. I sprayed the tin lid with black Rust Oleum paint to preserve it since this is a very rare early Vicks jar. I will put it in my vintage pharmacy collection and in my vintage Procter & Gamble collection, since P&G makes Vicks,

 

[CreakyDigger]

That's a beauty!

 

[OH..POPS]

What a great idea. Lets see how many of you have Vicks jars and the logo should be interesting

 

[Scorpio_queen6]

I have the same one! My research said its from the 1930's-40's. Nice find!