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Recent finds. - 8/3/2011 6:36:15 PM   
SergioWilkins

 

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Hey, all!

I haven't had many chances to get out digging this year, due to summer work in the arctic (yes, above the arctic circle!), so I was happy to get out and find a few things when I did have time! A couple of them I am unsure of, though. Any help would be appreciated!
First off, while digging in a 1900-1920s dump that is commonly full of oddball meds and chem bottles, I turned up this cool little 4 oz ground-lip, screw cap square chemical bottle. It's brown glass with a round depressed circle on the base (no mould numbers), and the following embossed upon it in a round circle: "TRUAX / ["TRU" with a pictorial axe running through it] / CHICACO/ USA / LABORATORIES". The emblem is definitely cool - one of the coolest I have seen on a chemical company bottle. I can't find much out on the bottle itself (rarity, etc), although there is some limited information on the history of the company.
Can anyone offer any insight?




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RE: Recent finds. - 8/3/2011 7:00:06 PM   
SergioWilkins

 

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The second item is an old tooled-lip pop bottle from Mansfield, Ohio. This was found in St. Thomas, Ontario during all the digging along the old Canada Southern railway there. The city is a famous Canadian railway town, and is known as the location where Jumbo the elephant was hit by a train and killed. The 1870s-vintage rail line has long since been torn out, and is now being reclaimed as walking trail and for urban development. During all the digging, this piece was laying in a pile of dirt, far away from its home town. :P
The bottle reads, in a round slug plate on the front: "THE RICHARDSON / BOTTLING CO / MANSFIELD, OHIO". Any ideas?
Thanks, guys!




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RE: Recent finds. - 8/3/2011 7:26:11 PM   
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Status: online 		Don't know much about your finds but the logo IS very cool.




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RE: Recent finds. - 8/3/2011 9:59:22 PM   
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Status: offline 		Nice Barrett, real nice. Cant even send ol' Kyle an email to tell him you got there OK?!

Looks like somebody wont get to use the Canon Rebel I just bought for taking pictures of bottles and insulators!

Nice Mansfield bottle, you hadnt showed me that one!

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RE: Recent finds. - 10/25/2011 3:31:06 PM   
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Hey all!

I never heard much back about the TRUAX piece, but just in case anyone is interested, it is currently on eBay.
Take care,


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RE: Recent finds. - 10/25/2011 5:35:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		here is alittle amber beer bottle my wife and i found we cant find out what kind it is can someone help us out the only markings on the bottle is the ancor hocking trade mark on the bottom




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RE: Recent finds. - 10/26/2011 8:56:38 AM   
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Status: offline 		There is a thread on this board of that Charles Truax firm. It shows an older bottle from that company and has a bit of info.

http://www.antique-bottles.net/forum/m-165657/mpage-1/key-/tm.htm#165658

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RE: Recent finds. - 10/26/2011 9:04:16 AM   
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RE: Recent finds. - 10/28/2011 9:46:44 AM   
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The beer bottle might be worth 5 cents.  You could check and make sure it doesn't say no deposit no,  return.  I don't know about the others, I like the first one a lot. 

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RE: Recent finds. - 10/28/2011 10:22:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hello SerglioWilkins:  Your bottle was made after 1900, but it is a nice example of an early Owens Machine Made - Keeper.  The circle on the bottom is the shear mark where the vacuum lifted the melted glass (metal) into the first stage mold.  There should (or could) be curved light lines across the glass inside the circle.  These were made by the swing shear blade under the Blank Mold (first stage of making a Press & Blow bottle)  The shape that is created in this first mold is the exact shape of the parison which has all the control of the glass wall distribution in the jar in the next stage of making the bottle.  This parison included the jars finish and this would have been rough at that point.

Then the machine transferred the parison to the final mold where the mold closed around it and held the parison by the transfer-bead (or what is sometimes called a collar).  The next thing that happens is a blowhead (mold equipment piece which is carried on a swinging arm) comes down and covers the threaded finish, this blow head also has a tube in it and through that tube compressed air blows the parison shape out and down to make the final bottle.

The final operation it to take the jar out of the mold and between there and the lehr the top roughness is ground off. so there is a flat surface to seal the cap onto.         Guess that tells you more about your jar - so Happy Collecting.
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RE: Recent finds. - 10/28/2011 1:22:12 PM   
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Status: offline 		I couldn;t find your TRUAX bottle on eBay!

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RE: Recent finds. - 10/28/2011 8:50:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		nice finds like the mansfield soda! and the truax is a keeper in my book!

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RE: Recent finds. - 10/28/2011 10:42:35 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: RED Matthews

Hello SerglioWilkins:  Your bottle was made after 1900, but it is a nice example of an early Owens Machine Made - Keeper.  The circle on the bottom is the shear mark where the vacuum lifted the melted glass (metal) into the first stage mold.  There should (or could) be curved light lines across the glass inside the circle.  These were made by the swing shear blade under the Blank Mold (first stage of making a Press & Blow bottle)  The shape that is created in this first mold is the exact shape of the parison which has all the control of the glass wall distribution in the jar in the next stage of making the bottle.  This parison included the jars finish and this would have been rough at that point.

Then the machine transferred the parison to the final mold where the mold closed around it and held the parison by the transfer-bead (or what is sometimes called a collar).  The next thing that happens is a blowhead (mold equipment piece which is carried on a swinging arm) comes down and covers the threaded finish, this blow head also has a tube in it and through that tube compressed air blows the parison shape out and down to make the final bottle.

The final operation it to take the jar out of the mold and between there and the lehr the top roughness is ground off. so there is a flat surface to seal the cap onto.         Guess that tells you more about your jar - so Happy Collecting.
RED Matthews



















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sometimes how much you know about bottles scares me...............but intrigues me.............even if sometime i dont know what your talking about

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RE: Recent finds. - 10/28/2011 11:00:42 PM   
epackage


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Status: online 		Here's a TRUAX that just sold on E-Bay for $10.50, which I'm guessing is the one you listed and sold....Jim


http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-TRUAX-LABORATORIES-glass-chemical-medicine-bottle-Chicago-/220878325994?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item336d5fc8ea

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