mctaggart67
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This is one of the two earliest styles of Canadian poison bottle. In the last few years, a number of caches of the 1/2 ounce size have been found. One lady in London, Ontario found around three dozen in the basement of a building that was formerly a pharmacy. She sold them for a very reasonable $20 to $25 each. She found them in "fresh-from-the-glassworks" condition. I bought around another dozen at an auction in Stratford, Ontario four years ago. And more recently somebody in the Kingston, Ontario area has found a stash of the same bottles. Given all this, the 1/2 ounce size is hardly rare. Two other sizes that turn up with regular frequency are 1 ouncers, 2 ouncers, 3 ouncers and 4 ouncers. Larger sizes are much rarer, with the 16 ouncer only being rumoured to exist. Their design and original manufacture appears to trace to Nova Scotia in the very late 1890s / early 1900s, where they were made in clear and amber glass (rarest of all). Through the corporate takeovers and amalgamations that led to the formation of Dominion Glass, production of the style was spread westwards from Trenton / New Glasgow, Nova Scotia to Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton and then Wallaceburg. There are dozens and dozens of variants: regular cobalt, light cobalt, purplish cobalt, clear, amber, amber-streaked clear, SCA, pointy dots, flat dots, mould numbers on bases, no mould numbers on bases, "D" in diamond trademarks on bases, no "D" in diamond trademarks on bases, etc., etc. I've also noticed that many K-10 examples have slightly wonky necks and wobbly lips, indicating rapid and uncareful -- sloppy? -- manufacture. I've been collecting Canadian poison bottles for 30+ years, and my favourite K-10 is the 1/2 ouncer I pulled out of a pile of excavated dump dirt at a construction site. Only a bottom corner of the bottle was visible, but I knew what it was, almost as if it had spoken to me. Experience diggers will know this six-sense feeling.
< Message edited by mctaggart67 -- 1/22/2012 1:10:22 PM >
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Collecting embossed and labelled drugstore bottles from all over Canada.
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