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Newbie with 40's Duraglas - 5/5/2008 9:12:39 PM    WillTB   Posts: 2 Joined: 5/5/2008 Status: offline Hello all, my first post- I was digging up a fence anchor in the back yard when I hit some glass. Hoping I'd run across some kid's buried piggy bank, I investigated and pulled out 2 broken bottles (though some may consider these jars). I eventually found 17 intact small ones and two larger ones (see photo) that all match. Also enough broken pieces for about 8 more. No labels and a few had rusty illegible lids. Small ones are about 3.5 in tall. I havent cleaned them up yet, but I did note the I-O mark on the bottom of some with a 2 digit year (some are unmarked) and the big ones only say Duraglas. Thanks to posts already in this forum, I've learned that they are Owens-Illinois from the 1940's. I'm trying to figure out what was in them. None had any contents (besides groundwater) or smell. It must have been some product that a farm family would have used a lot in the 40's. I doubt if it's caviar. Probably someone's collection of incurable diseases- lol! They were buried about a foot down. There may be more in the hole but I got tired of digging. I never imagined anything was there at all! Also there was one round bottle marked Amphvl. Any clues or thoughts? Thanks in advance. Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: Newbie with 40's Duraglas - 5/5/2008 9:39:40 PM    madman   Posts: 4103 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: online ahh tired of digging lol,  hey id dig more! looks like ya hit a 40s dump, never fouund any jars in that shape, prob some kinda food mike (in reply to WillTB) Post #: 2

RE: Newbie with 40's Duraglas - 5/13/2008 11:00:32 PM    WillTB   Posts: 2 Joined: 5/5/2008 Status: offline Well I had to go back to the hole. For one thing, I hadn't gotten the fence anchor out yet! I found one more intact bottle/jar and some pieces of the other broken bottles. I also found one of the metal lids which crumbled once I got it out, and a small porcelain item that may be an earplug or a stopper or a nipple of some sort. I dug around more until I was satisfied that everything was out, then refilled it. The one non-Duraglas bottle was marked Amphyl, and I found out that it is a kind of disinfectant made by the same company as Lysol. I didnt find a company history that would tell me when it was introduced. The I-O marked jars were all from 1946. The non-marked ones only had a single digit. I'm sure they are all from about the same time. Somebody sure was fond of that mustard (or whatever was in them)!! Thanks for the comment, madman. (in reply to madman) Post #: 3

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