Hope this helps a bit! I am assuming the jar was just a random late-throw, as is sometimes found at sites where virtually everything else is much, much older. FOR SALE! This implies that O-I was selling Libbey Hi Norman, They were Original Price USD 11.28 This is a common shape of soda bottle. Of course, this embossing configuration is somewhat different than what is seen on most other types of containers (i.e. first page of the liquor section notes the following: With the return of legal "Spiritus Frumenti," many of the well known old David. PAT. But historical, personal, and/or sentimental value often outweighs any cold cash value in so many cases. The 23 is a manufacturing plant code number for their Los Angeles, CA location. Below that is the letter D with the number 16 after it. This website created and managed by: David. It has an art deco design. I found a 5 gal bottle with the I in the middle of the O and to the right is a 7B. Hi, What year is this jar and do items like these ever have a value? BTW, that appears to be some kind of food bottle, perhaps for a condiment of some type. Any info? Best regards, 3) I have a small emerald green vial, marked with a single digit date code (9) to the right of the newer (second) trademark, just an I inside an O. David, What is the context of your question?? USD 31.66, USD 37.25 I have an Owens 3 oz medicine bottle that still has the cork in it, along with a little bit of clear yellowish syrupy liquid you can tell the cork hasnt been removed for ages.. . towards the back of the catalog. Hi.. Keep in mind that other types of bottles and jars made by Owens-Illinois do not have the same arrangement of code numbers as their typical liquor bottles. It came from my grandma. to 1933.). Thanks for including the links to photos of the bottle! There is one piece of information that may conflict to some degree We found it half-buried in the woods on our land, and were just curious about what it might have once contained. They have made tens of thousands of noticeably different types (counting all the different models, shapes, profiles, sizes, glass colors, and markings) and the truth is that most of them do not have much monetary value to bottle collectors at the present time,mostly because they are relatively recent, have no markings except for the bottoms, and are often of clear glass. It is not all-inclusive, but the best list I know of, online: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51379b83e4b02119d184b2a2/t/584a336ee4fcb59adb85c48b/1481257838281/User+Permit+numbers.pdf Still, a nice little piece of mid-20th-century Americana! Under that is the Duraglas Script and below that is a 1. Additional information from Russ Hoenig (Hoenig pers. I found a Duraglas bottle with the cap on the shores of Lake Michigan in southwest Michigan. The 56 (in this case) is a liquor bottle permit number assigned to Owens-Illinois Glass Company (indicating the bottle was produced at their factory at Charleston, West Virginia), and the 9 is a date code, standing for either 1939 or 1949, but I cant say for sure which year is right. The Charleston plant was operating from 1929 to about 1964, so many bottles are out there with the 56 LBPN on the base! It appears to be a 78 date code but with the old mark used by Owens-Illinois. On most older bottles, when the original label is still intact that usually adds value to antique bottles (because labels equals more information, more background, more provenance, more interest as far as colorful contemporary graphics, etc.) introduced in 1934. Also, I disagree with at least one other statement on that page, such as this one: If the manufacturers mark found on the base of the bottle is the diamond IO mark (see Figure 2), then the bottle was produced pre-1954. This may be so in most instances, but the statement is not really true since many, many Owens-Illinois bottles made after 1954 continued to bear the old (Diamond/I/oval) mark. Very hard to tell. Was wondering if you had any information regarding plant # 62 including its location. David. Both articles follow and are part of the above noted $8.99. About like a baby food jar. Thanks for all of the information you have gathered and shared on this page! view an enlarged and of relatively high quality (a bit over 2 MB's per file) scan of Thanks so very much, as that was far more than I could find. The global major manufacturers of Medical Moulded Bottle include Schott, Owens-Illinois, Stoelzle Pharma, Nekem, Origin, Gerresheimer, Corning, Adelphi and SGD-Pharma, etc. B in a diamond mark on inside of Star & Dewdrop master salt dish in vaseline glass, made in 1994. Cant find any information on the Heres How. Hi Eric, (Assuming, of course, that there are no sharp edges on the rim, and the jars are nice and clean!) The 64-6 is a liquor bottle permit number (64 stood for Alton, IL), followed by a single-digit date code which was in all likelihood, either 1936 or 1946. advertisement I could find for the Disney tumblers was from 1936.   Bulgaria   |   English (US)   |   $ (USD), remembering account, browser, and regional preferences, remembering privacy and security settings, personalized search, content, and recommendations, helping sellers understand their audience, showing relevant, targeted ads on and off Etsy, remember your login, general, and regional preferences, personalize content, search, recommendations, and offers. I feel I have started a hobby that my Father also shares a passion for, collecting glass bottles. William Franzen & Sons- W F & S MIL marking on base of amber beer bottle. Logo of two water drops Pasabahce, Turkey. On the bottom it has the O inside the diamond but DOES NOT have an I inside the O. (There are a VERY few cases in which a company makes both bottle and product, but it is not the norm in the business world!) is 7 and the right side no. Best regards, David. Thank you and best regards, (Im sorry but this site is not set up to accept pictures uploaded by readers). Still cant seem to place the date using your page and the Lockhart article. NOTE: PLEASE be aware that sometimes my replies via direct email are accidentally diverted into recipients' Junk or Spam folders. It has been told (dont remember where I read this) that the initials helped identify bottles that were being returned for refilling. Same designer as D90023! I believe I have two older amber jars. beers, export, champagne and select style beers, malt tonics,then a I will post a photo of representative examples See the picture posted of the 1966 bottle with their old trademark. 56-41 Could you tell me more about it? The bottom of the bottle has a mold circle and has the Owens Illinois mark flanked on the right by a 2, on the left by what may or may not be a 1 and beneath the mark there is a 14. The term mold number can be confusing and can mean slightly different things depending on the context. This section Of course this doesn't necessarily date the catalog to 1936 but it does lead Mark, its a large-size water bottle. Can you see what it says? Scales emblem used on containers made for McKesson & Robbins. Bottle Catalog The markings on the bottom are D9, 56-42, M-899A. Vicki, single digit date codes were still used in the 1960s and afterward. mark on antique glass bottles & jars, Letter L in cursive script mark: Libbey Glass Company, Liquor Bottle Permit Numbers Numerical List, Lynchburg Glass Corporation, Lynchburg, Virginia, M inside a circle: Maryland Glass Corporation, Baltimore, MD, MASONS PATENT NOV 30TH 1858 Fruit Jars Summary, Maywood Glass Company, Compton, California (1930-1959) ~ MG Connected mark, McLaughlin Glass Company, Vernon, California, M.G.CO. shape names than these old catalogs. But if you cant respond, I completely understand. Owens-Illinois marked many of their soda bottles with a G-number on the bottom. If you were to find other bottles of the exact same style/shape/type, you might find a different number in the same position as the 10. David. Hi Nicky, It has a medal screw top lid. The 11 is a mold number. Any idea what date this is from? Here is all the info I have Base has R-174, Bottom 56-41 and under that Design Patent applied For, the Federal Law forbids statement is also on the shoulder. Take full advantage of our site features by enabling JavaScript. Probably is a good way to put it, as you have done. Hello. File #8: Continuation of the "Pharmaceutical and Proprietary The bottom says 8(left) E-EK(middle) and a diamond (right). Please check out my page on numbers on the base of bottles. I have inherited what seems to be a large-sized Owens Illinois Glass Company water bottle. After the merger (1929), I could see a directive for all branches (and) (10% off), Sale Price USD 2.35 Note: This index is useful but a bit hard to use. under the logo there is the number 14 and under that is the PAT. https://www.thecloroxcompany.com/company/our-story/bottle-guide/. As far as stippling goes, I just checked about a half-dozen of my 1940s 7 oz. A very few bottle makers catalog were reproduced in the 8 to the right. (Tens of thousands of different glass soda bottles have been made in the US just within the last 150 years, and no one has seen them all!). Its rather thicker than average and has the following raised markings in a circle around the bottom: I.A BOTTLED.BY M.E.CO. Bottom engrossment reads 7 0 with a 7. underneath. There may be a list somewhere, but if there is, I am not clued in to it! I love the site! So I cant see the value either. Could you tell me a little about it and what the bottle may have been used for? (10% off), Sale Price USD 26.99 So at this point Im curious what the bottle was possibly used for (Soda, Beer, etc.) Any help is appreciated. This is a very well known company and its symbol is shown on the bottom of the glass. Alexandria, The bottom says OWENS and the right below is the diamond oval and on the left side of the diamond oval is a 7 and on the right is a 5, with no other marks prevant, the label look fairly old and has a plastic screw cap it still has oil in it which i thought was interesting based on the state of the bottle itself. The bottom has Duraglas, to the left #3 the diamond with the O and 48 to the right. Have you ever seen this before? I found your site while trying to Id a bottle I found in Micronesia believe it or not. I believe the 1845 may have been the standard catalog number assigned by Owens-Illinois to a particular series of round amber medicine or chemical bottles with the graduated numbers embossed along the side. File #3: Continuation of the "Pharmaceutical and Proprietary Division" Then below all of that is 4637-GB. Further down it says 5755 W. Along the base of the jug it says Duraglass, and at the top it says one gallon. David, Hey David, I found this bottle today on the bottom of the bottle it say It sounds like it is shaped much like Valeries, she commented above. Fenton in an oval ((Fenton Art Glass Company). David. He went on to note that near Diamond-I mark on bottom of amber bottle made by Illinois Glass Company. It may be misinterpreted as the number 1. *Catalog Dating Notes: Much thanks must be given to both Phil Perry and I didnt know about that plant. Des Pat 92901 Screw top with metal cap. The glass bottles marked LYRIC on the base were produced by the Illinois Glass Company, of Alton, Illinois. Photo courtesy of ebay seller Dotdority. in 1935.). Talk neck, very rounded and has a pinkish, purplish tint to the glass and fancy letters that look like WW on its side and N 3 on the bottom. Hey David! Can you study your bottle closely and compare with the pictures and information presented on this webpage on the Clorox company site? 1 W5447 consult the following references: Questions pertaining to the products of the Owens-Illinois Glass Co. Owens-Illinois Glass Company - Glass bottles, jars, flasks, containers. David. ~David. amber whiskey bottle Since the company was formed under that name in 1929 one would think that the catalog would B in a diamond mark on inside of Star & Dewdrop master salt dish in vaseline glass, made in 1994. I dont know how late the word OWENS was embossed as a trademark on the base of those medicine bottles. reference to "The selection of containers for the new products of distillers Of course there would have originally been a label affixed to the front, and a wire bail which may be missing on most of them found today. (30% off), Sale Price USD 7.20 on the shape are old glass/bottle makers catalogs. Finally, on the bottom M258270. products and the beginning of the "Liquor Ware Division" products (25 catalog The photocopy of this catalog reproduced here was Try using a different browser or disabling ad blockers. Or any other information about it? G-94 was the bottle style number. 4) Do all soda bottles made in the 1940s carry a period after the number, or just some percentage of them? ~David. Hazel-Atlas Glass Company made a lot of containers with style numbers on the bottoms. The number to the right is a 6, but there is no dot next to it. David. I havent done a search but it is likely that the patent can be found on the GOOGLE PATENTS website. Other marks include ILLINOIS, a brand name apparently used for a line of prescription bottles (similar to their bottles marked OWENS); DURAGLAS a trademark used after 1940 which is embossed on innumerable bottles of many types; and LOWEX another brand name which was used for their borosilicate glass formula employed especially for power line insulators. David. On the back top, middle is a 3iii looking thing but the three looks like a lightning bolt and there are measurements on both sides 2, 1, lightning bolt 3 on the left and 80, 60, 40, 20, CC on the right. (My email address is at the bottom of the page). 3. final top-of-the-page Google paid ads.). an array of box types and packing materials. "Package Division" section and the "Closure Division" section begins (26 catalog I have occasionally seen them for sale at antique malls and flea markets, and they show up for sale frequently on ebay. Im confused cause mostly what I have found says most everything after the 50s had double digit date codes. What do you suppose the 1875-C on top is? With the original label missing, I dont know of a surefire way of finding out what was originally contained in the bottle. These bottles are believed to date from approximately 1915, and probably were made up to circa 1929 at which time Illinois Glass Company merged with the Owens Bottle Company (based in Toledo, Ohio) to form Owens-Illinois Glass Company. They are probably medicine bottles of some sort. Numbers seen on the bases of Glass Bottles and jars. Website, E-published October 2018. Any information is greatly appreciated. Hi Michael, Thats what I gather from the numbering in the skirt: 5819, Sean, Im not sure what the F means. Thank you very much for your works. Clear Glass Medicine Bottles (4) Owens 3 iv Bayer Aspirin Virginia Dare Extract. (Yes, this is a fairly messy catalog with similar items scattered around within http://productmanufacturers.blogspot.com/2012/10/owens-illinois-glass-company.html, Hi Nic, Thanks for the link. various paneled medicines, machine oils, various extract shapes, and a wide glassware, including Mickey Mouse/Disney glassware with I believe they were made by Owens Corning and have a gold colored cap lined with cork so they can be filled with cold water/ice. Under the diamond/oval emblem is the number 18. Etsy uses cookies and similar technologies to give you a better experience, enabling things like: Detailed information can be found in Etsys Cookies & Similar Technologies Policy and our Privacy Policy. In the center its marked: NET CONT. Or maybe an I. Probably the best way to get a better idea on age is to find old city directories, telephone books or newspaper issues from DuQuoin that might have info on when that dairy was actually in business. Thanks in advance! It boasts 80 plants in 23 countries and more than $6 billion in annual sales. It is likely some LYRICbottles post-date 1929 since it would have taken some time for all bottle molds then in use to be re-engraved with the new mark used by Owens-Illinois. Any idea of the year it was made, Laney, I do not subscribe to the theory that only 2-digit date codes were used after 1960. Also, the 65 is a date code for the year 1965 which is when your bottle was manufactured. Hi Crista, However, the original question from Ali might bring up other, related questions: 1) Were single digit date codes used in ALL decades? During the late 1920s and extending into the early 1930s there was a surge of interest in antiques (old flasks and other glass antiques in particular, partly due to such publications as Magazine Antiques which ran articles on old glass factories; and books about glass & glassware by Rhea Mansfield Knittle, Ruth Webb Lee, Stephen Van Rensselaer and others) so the issuance of this flask arrived right on time, combining the popularity of the father of our country with the popularity of glass as a medium of expression. (Lucas County Bottle Co. 1940s; Owens-Illinois Glass Co. 1952; 1962). This is on the base of a small green glass jar, perhaps for an ointment. The information is probably available somewhere at the official U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website. Included within this grouping (page xxvii) is listed the Hazelhurst, PA. plant. Thanks to both Phil, Russ and O-I for making this Hope this helps, I saw that someone said this is an early Dr Pepper bottle. I even recall a query concerning a liquor bottle that appears to date from very recently (possibly post-1980s? David. It is in a plastic container that also says iw Harper on it. Yes, 4 is the mold number identifying that particular mold. Great! David. I am not familiar with that particular error and I dont know how common it is. Some glass companies seem to have used style numbers more often than others. Ill Be Specific. John, As you know, the bottle was made by Owens-Illinois. Sorry I dont have more info to pass along. Owens-Illinois Glass Company was the result of the 1929 merger between two glass-making giants of the industry: Owens Bottle Company (Toledo, OH predecessor Toledo Glass Company began operation in 1896) and Illinois Glass Company (based in Alton, Illinois, with glass production dating from 1873).
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