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bottle with brail - 7/18/2009 12:30:06 AM    judu   Posts: 319 Joined: 7/7/2009 From: greenville sc Status: offline ok, we just dug this one and i am very curious about it....it has a blue-ish color and the seem stops right where the neck starts..it has brail on it.i guess so that someone who could not see would know what they were taking....i had to use a magnfying glass to read the letters that are barely visible where the brail is...i could make out dr thatchers and syrup but there are other words i cant make out.....and i cant read brail......really a cool bottle though, has anyone ever seen a bottle like this ??? Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: bottle with brail - 7/18/2009 3:33:44 AM    cc6pack   Posts: 1161 Joined: 7/12/2003 From: Mableton, Ga. Status: offline dr thatchers worm syrup (in reply to judu) Post #: 2

RE: bottle with brail - 7/18/2009 9:45:47 AM    judu   Posts: 319 Joined: 7/7/2009 From: greenville sc Status: offline ah ,ok...worm syrup....i can make out the w so thats it....thanks cc6pack ...... are there many bottles that have braille on them?... (in reply to cc6pack) Post #: 3

RE: bottle with brail - 7/18/2009 10:34:15 AM    cc6pack   Posts: 1161 Joined: 7/12/2003 From: Mableton, Ga. Status: offline dan Your dots are not brail, those are vent holes in the mold. (in reply to judu) Post #: 4

RE: bottle with brail - 7/18/2009 10:48:00 AM    judu   Posts: 319 Joined: 7/7/2009 From: greenville sc Status: offline vent holes....thats interesting..what would cause that, they actually put the letters on the bottle after it was made but while it was still forming?...hmm, well anyway thanks again for the info......the more i know about a bottle the more i like it... (in reply to cc6pack) Post #: 5

RE: bottle with brail - 7/18/2009 11:09:46 AM    RED Matthews Posts: 2396 Joined: 8/2/2008 Status: online Hi judu and the rest of you,  I cannot see the shadows of lettering in the picture.  The dots could be vent holes, but some lettering should have been filled with glass in the final blow. These questionable venting problem really plagued making deep paneled medical bottles on an automatic bottle machine (ABM).  Can we get another picture try or can't you even see the lines of the lettering?  I just went back to look at the picture again.  It obviously has a tooled neck. So it may not have been an ABM production bottle.  What does the bottom have on it? Because I worked for Thatcher Glass, I have some interest in his bottles. RED Matthews < Message edited by RED Matthews -- 7/18/2009 11:13:39 AM > _____________________________ http://www.bottlemysteries.com/welcome/ (in reply to judu) Post #: 6

RE: bottle with brail - 7/18/2009 11:49:08 AM    cc6pack   Posts: 1161 Joined: 7/12/2003 From: Mableton, Ga. Status: offline Red ,I answered you inquiry a while back on another thread about Dr. Thatcher's stuff. I can't remember the thread but I think there was another about vent holes similar  the OP's. Again this Thatcher is NOT the Thatcher glass, of milk bottle fame. Here's the worm with the embossing. Bottle is 4 in. high x 1 in. square. Attachment (1) (in reply to RED Matthews) Post #: 7

RE: bottle with brail - 7/18/2009 11:54:26 AM    judu   Posts: 319 Joined: 7/7/2009 From: greenville sc Status: offline that picture is perfect. thats exacty what my bottle would say if you could read it clear..i can see the h. s. before thatcher on my bottle. the dots are on my bottle where it would say chatt tenn, but i cant see the letters there at all. i wonder if the embossing is just wore down or if the print was never really good to begin with?...any way, thats the bottle.. mine has a blue color though..heres a picture of the bottom. has nothing at all on the bottom.. Attachment (1) (in reply to cc6pack) Post #: 8

RE: bottle with brail - 7/18/2009 12:00:16 PM    judu   Posts: 319 Joined: 7/7/2009 From: greenville sc Status: offline here you can almost see where it dr is ..and a little of thatchers. i can see it best when help up to light..have you ever seen a milk bottle where the label has rubbed of but you can still see it when you hold it up to light?..thats kind of the way i can read this bottle. except i know it didnt have an applied lable.. Attachment (1) (in reply to judu) Post #: 9

RE: bottle with brail - 7/18/2009 12:05:30 PM    judu   Posts: 319 Joined: 7/7/2009 From: greenville sc Status: offline by the way, does anyone know the approx. age of this bottle?....maybe 1910 or 1920? (in reply to judu) Post #: 10

RE: bottle with brail - 7/18/2009 12:14:52 PM    cc6pack   Posts: 1161 Joined: 7/12/2003 From: Mableton, Ga. Status: offline dan I think your's is closer to 1880-1890 range, Here's some more stuff Thatcher made. http://www.antique-bottles.net/forum/m-233982/mpage-1/key-/tm.htm#234003 (in reply to judu) Post #: 11

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RE: bottle with brail - 7/18/2009 1:01:30 PM    RedGinger Posts: 6727 Joined: 12/7/2007 Status: offline The first thing I thought before I opened the post, was I bet it's a poison bottle (since the patterns were there for people who couldn't read or see in the dark).  Would be interesting to find out if braille was ever put on a bottle.  I would think not, though.  _____________________________ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyVTdY2BI3g (in reply to Deleted User) Post #: 13

RE: bottle with brail - 7/18/2009 10:38:19 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 11470 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline So far I dont think I have ever run across Braille lettering on a bottle. You see that poorly blown embossing that looks sort of like braille sometimes on turn of the century bottles. Its fairly common on late Dr Kilmer bottles and a few others. _____________________________ FREE Online Medicine Guide - http://www.antiquemedicines.com/MedicineNexus/Nexus.htm Web Site - http://antiquemedicines.com Email : mknapp@antiquemedicines.com (in reply to RedGinger) Post #: 14

RE: bottle with brail - 7/18/2009 11:21:49 PM    madman Posts: 10371 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: offline yo gunth ok that answers the question there were no braille bottles  thanks med man ! < Message edited by madman -- 7/18/2009 11:23:17 PM > _____________________________ always looking for, Toledo Ohio, Knoxville Tn. milks pharms and sodas, (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 15

RE: bottle with brail - 7/18/2009 11:28:20 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 11470 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline it wouldnt surprise me if there is a bottle with embossed braille , I just cant think of any. _____________________________ FREE Online Medicine Guide - http://www.antiquemedicines.com/MedicineNexus/Nexus.htm Web Site - http://antiquemedicines.com Email : mknapp@antiquemedicines.com (in reply to madman) Post #: 16

RE: bottle with brail - 7/18/2009 11:30:10 PM    RedGinger Posts: 6727 Joined: 12/7/2007 Status: offline http://www.antique-bottles.net/forum/m-88954/mpage-1/key-braille/tm.htm#89033 Here is a thread from the famous, but not forgotten, Bearswede that relates to this question. _____________________________ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyVTdY2BI3g (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 17

RE: bottle with brail - 7/18/2009 11:38:30 PM    RedGinger Posts: 6727 Joined: 12/7/2007 Status: offline http://www.antique-bottles.net/forum/m-3109/mpage-1/key-braille/tm.htm#3109 Just search braille on here. _____________________________ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyVTdY2BI3g (in reply to RedGinger) Post #: 18

RE: bottle with brail - 7/18/2009 11:43:39 PM    madman Posts: 10371 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: offline well after people drank 40 million bottles of fletchers castoria, mom.caldwells syrup pepsin, im sure they new what the bottle was in the dark kinda like bein blind, and i hope they didnt keep the poison in the med cabinet, but if they did you sure new what that was when ya felt it!  mike _____________________________ always looking for, Toledo Ohio, Knoxville Tn. milks pharms and sodas, (in reply to RedGinger) Post #: 19

RE: bottle with brail - 7/18/2009 11:49:18 PM    RedGinger Posts: 6727 Joined: 12/7/2007 Status: offline Eh, no, I'm not going to make a joke here. _____________________________ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyVTdY2BI3g (in reply to madman) Post #: 20

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