Blackglass
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The Citrate of Magnesia contained a medicine used as a laxitive these days, but at the time of its production it was probably said to cure a large number of things. There are many differenent brands that marketed this medicine, most are common. I've personally never seen that brand, but I don't collect them, so I con't help you value-wise. It is probably worth under $5, but it's still a cool bottle. Probably dates between 1910-20.
Clicquote Club was a huge soda corporation of its time. From Wikipedia:
"Founded in 1881 in Millis, Massachusetts, the beverage company was built by Henry Millis from money he had received from his father Lansing Millis. The company produced mainly sparkling cider for the first few years but later on Millis would experiment in other flavors as well. The sparkling cider was soon dropped and the company began focusing mainly on ginger ale. In 1885 the town of Millis, MA was founded in his family name. During this time the soda company hired a significant amount of the town's residents and would continue to do so for years to come. Millis continued to improve upon his beverages through his philosophy of making the drinks as though he were making them for his own friends. He imported high-quality exotic ingredients including Jamaican ginger, and Cuban pure refined sugar. These two were the key ingredients to his ginger ale making the company stand out in this field.
Even though word of his soda spread over southeastern New England in the next few years the cost of such fine ingredients eventually forced Henry Millis to sell his company in 1901. The new proprietors took advantage of every form of advertising, including a musical variety radio program, The Clicquot Club Eskimos. Such clever marketing expanded the company until the factory in Millis became 1/3 of a mile long, even with its own private train station. The section around this massive factory became known as "Millis-Clicquot, Massachusetts." Even with this huge building the company still staggered to meet its demand. In 1938 the company became the first to sell its beverages in a can, at this time known as a "cone-top" can, making it easier to manufacture. With the establishment of a new network of Clicquot Club Bottling Plants in 1938 the company soon had dozens of factories across the country. This number grew rapidly until in 1952 the company had plants in over 100 cities all across the United States, from Maine to California. In the 1950s the company began distributing internationally, in places like Nassau, Jamaica, the Bahamas, virtually all of South America, and the Philippines. The company began to decline in sales worldwide thanks to other soft drinks and was purchased in 1960 by the Cott Beverage Corporation of Connecticut. By 1965 the Cott Corporation was acquired by Canada Dry who sold off all product surplus before shutting down Clicquot. Today the original plant in Millis remains mostly abandoned, although 1/3 of it is currently (as of June 2006) occupied by garden and hardware stores. Although there has been contemplation of starting the company back up again in recent years no attempts have ever gotten further than the drawing board."
I'm not shure when they transitioned from embossed bottles to painted label bottles, but your bottle probably predates 1950 and is not older than 1920. They are extremely common and are worth around $1-$2.
The Cascadian bottle most likely contained some form of carbonated beverage. I don't know anything about the company or the bottles value, but it dates from circa 1910-20.
I could not find any information on the McK&R bottle, besides that it is the oldest bottle you got dating from circa 1885-1910 and that its shape suggests that it contained some form of medicine or medicinal whiskey. It is hand blown.
Your last bottle, as the shape suggests, contained milk. I am by no means a milk expert (infact, I practicaly know nothing about them), but I would guess it dates somewhere between 1915-1940. Hopefully someone else can help you with that one.
Blackglass
< Message edited by Blackglass -- 7/19/2011 11:07:04 PM >
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Looking for non-screw or
crown top sodas,beers, & ect,
BIM medicines, bitters, druggists,
and anything hand blown and black glass.
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