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Has anyone seen one of these? - 12/21/2010 10:26:48 PM    cryptic   Posts: 219 Joined: 11/29/2010 From: Ontario Canada Status: offline I have been trying to find some information about this bottle. I think it is called a pumpkin seed bottle? I have no idea what would have been in it. Perfume? It has a star of david on it and the letters KB inside the star. Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: Has anyone seen one of these? - 12/21/2010 10:33:25 PM    div2roty   Posts: 1542 Joined: 12/23/2008 From: DC with a Delaware Antique Store Status: offline looks like a nursing bottle. _____________________________ Collector of Delaware Bottles, figural bitters, early freeblown. Ebay Antique Store (in reply to cryptic) Post #: 2

RE: Has anyone seen one of these? - 12/22/2010 2:33:12 AM    botlguy Posts: 907 Joined: 11/20/2009 Status: offline quote: ORIGINAL: div2roty looks like a nursing bottle. Nope, not a nurser. There is more going on there. Jimmy Durkin, Spokane, Wash. used a similar flask as a sample or give away for whiskey or wine. However, his had a 5 pointed star embossed and no initials. This one has a Jewish star so there is possibly / probably a religous conotation. Perhaps ceremonial wine? Jews have always been big on wine. I really like these little flasks, I hope someone else can add some additional info. _____________________________ Jim Sinsley from northern Idaho. 45 year bottle collector Always buying WAW-WAW bottles and advertising, Santa Ana, California and Coeur d' Alene, Idaho bottles, bottles 2 1/2 " or less tall, Bottles with embossed OWL. (in reply to div2roty) Post #: 3

RE: Has anyone seen one of these? - 12/22/2010 1:29:40 PM    div2roty   Posts: 1542 Joined: 12/23/2008 From: DC with a Delaware Antique Store Status: offline quote: Jews have always been big on wine. Thats not really evidence or accurate.  It looks like it has an angled neck which I've always assoicated with nursers or invalid feeders.  Could easily be something else though, bottlers would often use other bottle forms for different things, but just because it has a star of david embossed on it doesn't rule it out as a nurser. _____________________________ Collector of Delaware Bottles, figural bitters, early freeblown. Ebay Antique Store (in reply to botlguy) Post #: 4

RE: Has anyone seen one of these? - 12/22/2010 2:03:55 PM    Dean Posts: 988 Joined: 2/21/2006 From: Conway, Arkansas Status: offline Hello Everyone, I own several little flasks similar to the above that are both embossed and unembossed.  I firmly believe they are sample whiskey, but all have straight necks and if they had slanded necks, I would go with the nurser.  Most nurser have the slanded necks except for doll nursers.  Enjoy and have a MERRY CHRISTMAS & Happy New Year,   Dean Marvel Attachment (1) _____________________________ DEANS BOTTLE ROOM: http://deansbottles.webs.com/ WANTED: ARKANSAS and COLORED STATE CAPITAL DRUGGIST email: deanmarvel@conwaycorp.net (in reply to div2roty) Post #: 5

RE: Has anyone seen one of these? - 12/22/2010 2:18:06 PM    cowseatmaize Posts: 6462 Joined: 12/2/2004 From: Eastern Northwest West Central area of Mass Status: offline A nurser if the baby was fasting maybe. It looks way to small. I'm not sure about kosher whiskey either. I'd lean toward something in the clensing ritual for the bodies or something. Have you tried taking it to a Synagogue? A Rabbi may know for sure. The ritual may have a "one use only, then destroy" and that may be why  there are not a bunch around. _____________________________ Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati Eric (in reply to Dean) Post #: 6

RE: Has anyone seen one of these? - 12/22/2010 2:56:30 PM    CWBookAuthor   Posts: 262 Joined: 7/5/2007 Status: offline My wife collected nursers for many, many years and we always thought it was a nursing bottle for baby dolls. We no longer have the nursing bottle book, but it is in their. Mike _____________________________ Mike Russell, Author of The Collector's Guide to Civil War Bottles (in reply to cowseatmaize) Post #: 7

RE: Has anyone seen one of these? - 12/22/2010 2:58:46 PM    Wangan   Posts: 1136 Joined: 12/4/2009 From: Northern Maine Status: offline That looks more like the star of Texas than the star of David. Attachment (1) (in reply to cowseatmaize) Post #: 8

RE: Has anyone seen one of these? - 12/22/2010 3:01:13 PM    cowseatmaize Posts: 6462 Joined: 12/2/2004 From: Eastern Northwest West Central area of Mass Status: offline Doll accessory, good call Mike. That didn't occur to me. _____________________________ Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati Eric (in reply to CWBookAuthor) Post #: 9

RE: Has anyone seen one of these? - 12/22/2010 3:08:13 PM    Dean Posts: 988 Joined: 2/21/2006 From: Conway, Arkansas Status: offline With all the logic that we're using here, I have this question.  Is this bottle below for religious rites?    Merry Christmas,   Dean Marvel Attachment (1) _____________________________ DEANS BOTTLE ROOM: http://deansbottles.webs.com/ WANTED: ARKANSAS and COLORED STATE CAPITAL DRUGGIST email: deanmarvel@conwaycorp.net (in reply to cowseatmaize) Post #: 10

RE: Has anyone seen one of these? - 12/22/2010 3:14:04 PM    cowseatmaize Posts: 6462 Joined: 12/2/2004 From: Eastern Northwest West Central area of Mass Status: offline Sorry Dean, I missed that second to last sentence. Credit given. _____________________________ Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati Eric (in reply to Dean) Post #: 11

RE: Has anyone seen one of these? - 12/22/2010 3:44:15 PM    SAbottles   Posts: 1122 Joined: 8/21/2010 From: Cape Town - South Africa Status: offline Definitely a doll's nursing or feeding bottle. We have a large collection, including several with exactly that embosing. (in reply to cowseatmaize) Post #: 12

RE: Has anyone seen one of these? - 12/22/2010 11:15:03 PM    botlguy Posts: 907 Joined: 11/20/2009 Status: offline O.K. First, a small complaint about a pet peeve, I have to address this to CRYPTIC because his profile reveals no real name. Maybe I am having Antique-Bottles.net newbie problems but I don't know any better. Cryptic, please supply us with additional information. 1. Show us a better picture of the "Star". You described it as a " Star of David" which means to me a JEWISH star. King David was Jewish you know. However, one or two didn't see it properly perhaps because they called it a TEXAS star or some such thing. 2. Show us a side view. div2roty / Matt (thank you) seemed to think it had an angled or turned up neck. I don't see it that way. Looks straight to me. 3. Please give us the dimensions. It looks too big for a doll nurser and too small for an infant nurser. Looks just right for a nipper or sample or give away whiskey / wine flask. The picture posted by Dean looks exactly like the Jimmy Durkin flasks I referred to in my first post. Could you give us a size on that one also please? cowseatmaize / Eric (thank you) points out that the size, if similar to sample whiskey / wine flasks, would require multiple refills or baby starvation if it were actually a human baby nurser. All that being said, I do not want this post to sound too critical or complaining. It is difficult to expess my true "tongue in cheek" attitude by simply typing a post. I am enjoying this thread and hope everyone else does too. Please do not take me too seriously. I believe and have expressed previously that I am enamored with this list / group. _____________________________ Jim Sinsley from northern Idaho. 45 year bottle collector Always buying WAW-WAW bottles and advertising, Santa Ana, California and Coeur d' Alene, Idaho bottles, bottles 2 1/2 " or less tall, Bottles with embossed OWL. (in reply to SAbottles) Post #: 13

RE: Has anyone seen one of these? - 12/23/2010 1:57:48 AM    cryptic   Posts: 219 Joined: 11/29/2010 From: Ontario Canada Status: offline Thanks everyone for the suggestions and input and ideas for what this bottle might be! :) Sorry for being a newbie. Perhaps if I enter my real name and get over 200 posts I will become an expert? I guess I will just call it a 6 pointed star from now on. Like the one atop my X-mas tree. Hopefully this picture is better than the last one. Attachment (1) (in reply to botlguy) Post #: 14

RE: Has anyone seen one of these? - 12/23/2010 1:59:25 AM    cryptic   Posts: 219 Joined: 11/29/2010 From: Ontario Canada Status: offline Here is a side view. The neck is straight. Attachment (1) (in reply to cryptic) Post #: 15

RE: Has anyone seen one of these? - 12/23/2010 2:01:26 AM    cryptic   Posts: 219 Joined: 11/29/2010 From: Ontario Canada Status: offline Here is the neck and lip where the seems fade. I have learned that that means it will be pre 1900. Attachment (1) (in reply to cryptic) Post #: 16

RE: Has anyone seen one of these? - 12/23/2010 2:03:22 AM    cryptic   Posts: 219 Joined: 11/29/2010 From: Ontario Canada Status: offline And here is a picture of the bottom. Is this an oval pontil? Attachment (1) (in reply to cryptic) Post #: 17

RE: Has anyone seen one of these? - 12/23/2010 2:07:11 AM    CHRISTHEHAWK   Posts: 38 Joined: 12/23/2010 Status: offline Very interesting ! (in reply to cryptic) Post #: 18

RE: Has anyone seen one of these? - 12/23/2010 2:07:18 AM    cryptic   Posts: 219 Joined: 11/29/2010 From: Ontario Canada Status: offline The dimensions of this little bottle are 2 1/2" x 1 1/2" x 5/8" If there are any more questions I will be happy to answer them :) (in reply to cryptic) Post #: 19

RE: Has anyone seen one of these? - 12/23/2010 2:26:34 AM    cryptic   Posts: 219 Joined: 11/29/2010 From: Ontario Canada Status: offline This one is very similar but not exact. http://www.antique-bottles.net/forum/m-265231/tm.htm (in reply to cryptic) Post #: 20

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