HISTORIC BOTTLE
TYPES
PART IV
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Molded
Gin Bottles
with Hand-Added Neck and Lips Early Hand Blown Bottles did not have distinctive shapes for contents, except for the square-based case bottles used for gin in the early 18th c. Early 19th c. bottles had a square bottom with a conical body; Late 19th c. bottles had a square bottom and a parallel-sided body (S. Van Wormer) |
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Bottle Shape and Content Primrose Salad (Cottonseed) Oil, Telmo Queen Olives, Heinz Tomato Ketchup, Carter Superior Adhesive Mucilage |
Bottle Shape and Content Worcestershire Style Sauce and French Olive Oil (far left and right) and Bottle Reuse Burnett's Imitation Banana Flavoring; Van Duzer's Fruit Red Shade for Tinting Ice Cream, Jellies; Glycerin, John B. Starkey, Druggist, San Diego |
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Three Brands of Catsup Redwood, Snider's and Wilson(?) |
Extreme Cases of Bottle Reuse Buffalo Ammonia & Mexican Insect Fluid Put Into Prescription Bottles |