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Red Cross the bottom photo - 1/15/2006 8:43:48 PM    LuvDigginInIt Posts: 7 Joined: 1/9/2006 Status: offline Any ideas yet? LOL last one... Attachment (1) < Message edited by LuvDigginInIt -- 1/16/2006 9:01:42 AM > Post #: 1

RE: Red Cross the bottom photo - 1/15/2006 10:03:45 PM    capsoda Posts: 9832 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Hey Kala, Its a Red Cross med bottle. The 3iv is just the bottle size identifier. It would have been handed out during some type of natural or man made disaster. Where I am from it would have been for yellow fever or some other plague as the warm seasons here are quite long some years. They would probable be more common in Europe where hospitals were set up near battle fields during WW1. They are not supposed to be worth much because even the oldest were lable bottles, with a few exceptions. I have been digging for nearly 40 years and I have only seen 3 or 4 others, so I would hang onto it. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ http://www.bornagainamerican.org (in reply to LuvDigginInIt) Post #: 2

RE: Red Cross the bottom photo - 1/15/2006 10:56:49 PM    Ye Olde Prospector   Posts: 609 Joined: 1/23/2005 From: Bath, Maine Status: offline Hi Warren, Do you have any info on this RED CROSS bottle? It's 3 3/4 in. tall appears BIM, I would guess it was made around 1900 and appears to be a medicine from shape. Thanks. Cliff Attachment (1) (in reply to LuvDigginInIt) Post #: 3

RE: Red Cross the bottom photo - 1/16/2006 1:26:45 AM    madman Posts: 10369 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: offline hey cap im thinking pharmacy? hey cliff that is a sweet bottle!! the bottles ive found have it embossed on the base, ive found only 3, there was a typhoid outbreak here in the teens so it could also have been from the red cross mike Attachment (1) (in reply to LuvDigginInIt) Post #: 4

RE: Red Cross the bottom photo - 1/16/2006 1:29:50 AM    madman Posts: 10369 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: offline the bottles, also find alot of pharms with blue ribbon embossed on the bottom any info mike Attachment (1) (in reply to LuvDigginInIt) Post #: 5

RE: Red Cross the bottom photo - 1/16/2006 2:17:40 AM    capsoda Posts: 9832 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Hey Cliff, I was just talking to my wife about that perticular product. Mikes and Kala's bottles are from the now defunked World Organization of the Red Cross. Now days there is no world organization just the independent national organizations like our American Red Cross. Yours is a dye bottle. Don't know why they made them look like medicine bottles. There was a small store in my dads home town in northwest Florida that carried Red Cross Dye in little ACL medicine like bottles with what we called a German cross. One of my brothers and I wanted one of those bottles and persisted untill we got our fannys tore up with my dads belt. Later on the lady who owned the store gave use one when we went back to get sodas. After we got home the next day my brother and I got into an argument over whos dresser the bottle would be keeped in and the bottle got droped on the terazo floor and broke. You can guess the results of that. I don't know where it was manufactured but I have a better idea of how long ago they started and an addition to my story for my grand son who loves Paw Paw's stories Thanks Cliff for bringing back some fond memories of an easer time. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ http://www.bornagainamerican.org (in reply to LuvDigginInIt) Post #: 6

RE: Red Cross the bottom photo - 1/16/2006 9:11:33 AM    LuvDigginInIt Posts: 7 Joined: 1/9/2006 Status: offline Thanks so much for all your help!! You all have me so excited about my find. I guess I will be spending the rest of the day researching. Thanks again! Kala (in reply to LuvDigginInIt) Post #: 7

RE: Red Cross the bottom photo - 1/16/2006 10:00:53 AM    Ye Olde Prospector   Posts: 609 Joined: 1/23/2005 From: Bath, Maine Status: offline Hi Warren, Very interesting bit of info about the Red Cross Dye Company. Especially the German Cross embossing. Everything in print about the Red Cross World Organization and otherwise shows a simple square cross. Using logic and looking over the other bottle pictures with the base embossings I tend to think the other bottles were probably from that dye company as well. The use of very similar Capitol and lower case letters in the Trade Mark on my bottle are almost identical to the base embossed ones and they do not have the simple cross on them. Something to think about. Haven't had any luck finding any info on a Red Cross Dye Company as yet, maybe some one else will. Thanks for the help. Cliff (in reply to LuvDigginInIt) Post #: 8

RE: Red Cross the bottom photo - 1/16/2006 1:15:46 PM    capsoda Posts: 9832 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Hey Cliff, The dye bottles don't have the graduant marks or the size identifier. The first Red Cross bottle I dug had me very excited until a friend ID the bottle as a med and not the dye. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ http://www.bornagainamerican.org (in reply to LuvDigginInIt) Post #: 9

RE: Red Cross the bottom photo - 1/16/2006 2:08:00 PM    Ye Olde Prospector   Posts: 609 Joined: 1/23/2005 From: Bath, Maine Status: offline Hi warren, Then I gather from what you are saying that probably the Red Cross Dye bottles are less common than the Red Cross medicine bottles. I have seen very few of either in this part of the country. Some interesting info in any case. Thanks again. Cliff (in reply to LuvDigginInIt) Post #: 10

RE: Red Cross the bottom photo - 1/16/2006 3:05:17 PM    capsoda Posts: 9832 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Hey Cliff, Yes It would apeer so. Not too many RC meds here and no dye bottles to my knowledge. < Message edited by capsoda -- 1/16/2006 3:05:59 PM > _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ http://www.bornagainamerican.org (in reply to LuvDigginInIt) Post #: 11

RE: Red Cross Pharmacy bottle - 1/16/2006 3:07:14 PM    Humabdos   Posts: 446 Joined: 6/13/2004 From: Greenville Texas The Blackest land whitest people Status: offline Here's another type of Red Cross med bottle. I think they just used the name Red Cross maybe a franchise? Here in Oregon many small towns had a Red Cross Pharmacy. This bottle is from Roseburg I got it off Ebay for around $10. Glen Attachment (1) < Message edited by Humabdos -- 1/16/2006 3:08:17 PM > (in reply to Ye Olde Prospector) Post #: 12

RE: Red Cross the bottom photo - 1/16/2006 3:36:57 PM    Ye Olde Prospector   Posts: 609 Joined: 1/23/2005 From: Bath, Maine Status: offline Hi Glen, Thanks for the info. Wasn't familiar with that Franchise . Always fun to learn more about bottles. Sometimes certain bottles are common in one local area but scarce anywhere else. Just never know. Cliff (in reply to LuvDigginInIt) Post #: 13

RE: Red Cross the bottom photo - 1/17/2006 1:28:27 AM    madman Posts: 10369 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: offline hey guys great info!!! heres a couple more red cross cycle oil mike Attachment (1) (in reply to LuvDigginInIt) Post #: 14

RE: Red Cross the bottom photo - 1/17/2006 1:38:42 AM    madman Posts: 10369 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: offline embossed on shoulder Attachment (1) (in reply to LuvDigginInIt) Post #: 15

RE: Red Cross the bottom photo - 1/17/2006 8:47:59 AM    Ye Olde Prospector   Posts: 609 Joined: 1/23/2005 From: Bath, Maine Status: offline Hi madman, That's another interesting find. The shape of the Cycle Oil one looks a lot like the embossed bottle I have. I would imagine that the oil was for use on bicycles mostly as they were very popular in the late 1800's and early 1900's along with this style bottle. Thanks for a bit more Info. Cliff (in reply to LuvDigginInIt) Post #: 16

RE: Red Cross the bottom photo - 1/17/2006 11:47:04 AM    capsoda Posts: 9832 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Hey Mike, thats cool. The Red Cross moniker was sure used on a lot of different products. I had a Red Cross tire patch kit in a tin box but never saw the oil before. He Cliff, Looks like you could start a Red Cross collection if you were a mind to. You going to the New England bottle show? _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ http://www.bornagainamerican.org (in reply to LuvDigginInIt) Post #: 17

RE: Red Cross the bottom photo - 1/17/2006 12:05:16 PM    Ye Olde Prospector   Posts: 609 Joined: 1/23/2005 From: Bath, Maine Status: offline Hi Warren, This thread worked out well. Got quite a bit of info on Red Cross bottles etc. I still have lots of other odd embossed bottles that I have not found info on. This is a great forum to get info about bottles and other items dug up in the process. I am sure a lot of these bottles were very very limited production but they are still only worth what a collector is willing to pay for them. Rarity is only one factor in prices. Yes I plan to go to the NE Bottle Show. Hope to get another group shot of some forum members that attend. Always fun to meet people from the forums. Cliff (in reply to LuvDigginInIt) Post #: 18

RE: Red Cross the bottom photo - 1/17/2006 12:55:48 PM    capsoda Posts: 9832 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Hey Cliff, I'll see you there. My wife and I are comming up to visit Wayne and Pam {southernmainediver} during that weekend and we hope to meet some of our northern forum bottle collecter friends. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ http://www.bornagainamerican.org (in reply to LuvDigginInIt) Post #: 19

RE: Red Cross the bottom photo - 1/17/2006 1:45:53 PM    LuvDigginInIt Posts: 7 Joined: 1/9/2006 Status: offline Hello Cliff, Just had to tell you, that I love what you wrote about worth to a collector and rarity being only one factor in price. I totally agree, there are so many in my collection that I would never dream of selling. Thanks... Oh and have a great time at the bottle show, can't wait till I can attend one myself. Happy digging, Kala (in reply to Ye Olde Prospector) Post #: 20

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