kitty
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Hello everyone!!! Recently I went to a rummage sale and bought a bottle from an old lady because she just looked so sad that she hadn't sold anything. So of course I had to try and cheer her up and by a milk bottle from her. The bottle stands 10 inches high and has been sold on ebay for just a couple dollars more than what I bought it for. But anywho I was wondering if anyone knew when this made and any other info on it. It has a green tint to it, says ABSOLUTELY PURE MILK on the front and has a cow on the back. The bottom of the jar says VEA MADE IN ITALY( I may be wrong about the V part, It looks like there was already a V embossed and they embossed three horizontal lines to make an E) I tried to look it up and all I found was this info :::quote:
In 1886, a glass container was made that featured an embossed cow. This may have been the first milk bottle (Gallagher and Munsey 1969:331). Although the very first patented milk bottle appeared in 1878, it was not until Dr. Harvey D. Thatcher of Pottsdam, New York, patented Thatcher and Barnhart’s closure for milk jars in 1886 that the delivery of bottled milk became practical (Gallagher and Munsey 1969:332; Scharnowske,1998:6; Tutton 1985:6). Thatcher’s container became so popular that he was called the father of the milk bottle, and his bottle was called the “Thatcher Milk Protector.” By 1885, Thatcher was advertising his milk protector as “the ONLY PLAN KNOWN that secures to the consumer ABSOLUTELY PURE MILK in such manner that it can be kept sweet for several days, furnish a good coat of cream and is handy to use. . . . I was going to post pictures but for some reason it won't let me. Hopefully I have given enough info
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absolutely pure milk bottle green tint Age??? - 
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