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Bottle from the early 1900's? - 5/4/2008 6:00:05 PM    mse7eng   Posts: 1 Joined: 5/4/2008 Status: offline I was digging in my back yard the other day and came upon a very old glass bottle.  I have included pictures for your review. The bottle is approximately 1 inch wide on all sides, by 3 inches tall.  I live in Pittsburgh, and my house was built in 1949, but the houses near mine were built in the early 1900s mostly. The bottle has a few small bubbles in the glass, and there are a couple small chips in the glass, otherwise it is in good condition. After some washing with water and scrubbing the inside with an old toothbrush, I was able to make out the text... "Acme Shoe Dressing Water Price The Wolff Chemical Co PHILA.U.S.A" A quick google search only yeilded an article from the NY times archives from 1902 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9906E5DC1E3DEE32A25756C2A9669D946397D6CF Here are the links to the pictures of the bottle on my photobucket site. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/mse7eng/P1010011.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/mse7eng/P1010015.jpg Post #: 1

RE: Bottle from the early 1900's? - 5/7/2008 6:48:50 AM    Alek77   Posts: 10 Joined: 5/1/2008 Status: offline is it a screw lid bottle? anyway nice find (in reply to mse7eng) Post #: 2

RE: Bottle from the early 1900's? - 5/7/2008 8:31:43 PM    beendiggin   Posts: 238 Joined: 6/30/2005 Status: offline Looks like your research has dated the bottle accurately..It looks like a hand tooled top and that date seems right.  If your neighborhod has some old houses you should be able to locate some more decent bottles close by. Keep digging...and welcome! _____________________________ Paul I will dig a cobalt skull. (in reply to mse7eng) Post #: 3

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