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York Company bottle - 9/19/2003 4:21:09 AM    debmarch   Posts: 2 Joined: 9/19/2003 Status: offline I've got this bottle. I am not sure that it's REALLY old, because it has a screw top (lid missing) and seam lines to the top. . The thing is, I have looked for this bottle and not found it anywhere. I feel it is unusual because of what it looks like. It is clear, and on one side in raised letters in the middle in a rectangle are the words "YORK COMPANY and a raised circle with a Y in the middle of it". On the either side of the retangle is a woman, each with an arm raised, and crossed with the other. Each woman has her head (with long hair) thrown back as if looking at the sky. They are nude, and as you view them from the side, see one bare breast on each of them. The view is as if they are standing behind the retangle. On the other side of the bottle is the same view, only the rectangle in the middle is clear (maybe held a paper label?). The ladies are raised glass. I cannot figure out what kind of product this must have held, as it's small for alcohol and I can't imagine that it is ladies cosmetics (with naked ladies on it) from the past when things were surely more conservative. The bottom has some raised numbers (I can't make them out) and a mark that sort of looks like Saturn on it I found this bottle maybe 25 years ago out in the hills on a walk. It is 5 inches tall (to the top of the top), almost 4 1/2 in. from the shoulder to the bottom. It is 1 1/4 inches deep, and about 2 1/2 inches across. It is a slight, very slight hour glass shape, with 3 raised bands on the sides, at the point where it (for lack of better word) curves inward. I have tried to research the York Company, with no luck. I would love to know what this bottle held and how old it is. It was appraised at $30-$40, but the gentleman who appraised it could not give me any ideas of where or how to research it. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Picture cropped to fit - Admin Attachment (1) < Message edited by Admin -- 9/19/2003 4:28:38 AM > Post #: 1

RE: York Company bottle - 9/19/2003 5:19:02 AM    Guest Welcome to Antique-bottles.Net !! One possibility is that it was from the L.T. YORK COMPANY CORPORATION, they made shampoo and those sort of things from about 1934 and were still going in 1988. Last known address was in Brookfield, Missouri so I would start your research by finding a local historian through Brookfield Public Library http://www.brookfield.lib.il.us/ The long hair does indicate shampoo to me and the nude figures are stylized Art Deco from the early 1930s although if I had to guess I would say that this bottle is later than that. quote: It was appraised at $30-$40, but the gentleman who appraised it could not give me any ideas of where or how to research it. If an appraiser can't give any ideas on where or how to research something they have just appraised then they are in the wrong business! Good luck and please keep us informed of progress. (in reply to debmarch)   Post #: 2

RE: York Company bottle - 9/19/2003 7:45:42 PM    debmarch   Posts: 2 Joined: 9/19/2003 Status: offline Hi Roger...thanks for the welcome and the info! lol@your comment about the appraiser. My thoughts exactly! Deb (in reply to debmarch) Post #: 3

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