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Thomas Edison battery oil bottle - 7/12/2005 7:45:31 PM    dollarbill Posts: 2920 Joined: 5/6/2005 From: maysville, kentucky Status: online hey all have a few edison battery oil bottles of different types that were picked up along the boat canals in chicogo.i belive this to be the oldest the seams stop a half in. before reaching the top.the bottle says Thomas a Edison as signed t.e co. u. s. mark pat. off 4oz special battery oil Thomas A Edison inc. orange n.j. usa. any info i would be thankful for.bill Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: Thomas Edison battery oil bottle - 7/12/2005 7:47:47 PM    dollarbill Posts: 2920 Joined: 5/6/2005 From: maysville, kentucky Status: online heres another pic sorry they well you know Attachment (1) (in reply to dollarbill) Post #: 2

RE: Thomas Edison battery oil bottle - 7/12/2005 7:49:45 PM    dollarbill Posts: 2920 Joined: 5/6/2005 From: maysville, kentucky Status: online an another i know cheap digital can be me aah bill Attachment (1) (in reply to dollarbill) Post #: 3

RE: Thomas Edison battery oil bottle - 7/12/2005 11:53:12 PM    Bixel   Posts: 865 Joined: 8/30/2004 From: Strathroy, Ontario, Canada Status: offline I find some of those every once in a while beside the tracks while hunting for insulators! (in reply to dollarbill) Post #: 4

RE: Thomas Edison battery oil bottle - 7/14/2005 11:33:11 AM    WhiteLighting Posts: 485 Joined: 1/21/2004 From: The Electric City,Upstate NY Status: offline Ya got a good bottle/piece of history there!.... im not totally sure about the market in the old oil bottles but im pretty sure its late 1890's,and most likley used for the old "Mules-one of edisons creations that were used to drag the old canal barges past a restrected area fast,or through a busy canal area fast",they were also small train like, one man drivin machines that sat on one rail on the side of a canal or bridge,also in use at the Panama canal today for the ships that pass through.... but for historys sake and value to a collector of A.L.C.O. "Amer Loco" or Eerie canal / other canals in the us it might bring 30 to 75 bucks!,or abit more in the winter time to a car collector or who knows!..... If it had Schenectady on it id offer to buy asap!.//..lol _____________________________ It's time for another TEA PARTY!!!! (in reply to dollarbill) Post #: 5

RE: Thomas Edison battery oil bottle - 7/14/2005 5:25:01 PM    dollarbill Posts: 2920 Joined: 5/6/2005 From: maysville, kentucky Status: online thanks for the replys and info yall 1890s uh thought so.then here the next type seam gos all the way thrue this one still cork top though.this bottle is flat as were the older is round this one says special battery oil edison primary battery division thomas a edison bloomfield, n.j. on the back its signed trade . then THOMAS A EDISON as in signture then reg. us. mark patt. off. early 1900 ya think. Attachment (1) (in reply to dollarbill) Post #: 6

RE: Thomas Edison battery oil bottle - 7/14/2005 5:34:11 PM    dollarbill Posts: 2920 Joined: 5/6/2005 From: maysville, kentucky Status: online here a pic of the newest i belive. says edison battery oil made in the usa thomas a edison incorporated bloomfield, n.j. u.s.a. signture on the back thomas a edison Attachment (1) (in reply to dollarbill) Post #: 7

RE: Thomas Edison battery oil bottle - 7/14/2005 6:32:22 PM    lobeycat Posts: 6684 Joined: 9/8/2003 From: RED SOX Nation Status: offline Hey Bill, there are a bunch of different varieties of these bottles. They're very common, and don't have a whole lot of value. $2 or $3. Here's a little history on the oil and it's use. From Digger Odell's site: Lobey. Here's some more info dug up by Ed Faulkner from Sept. 16, 1999 issue of OLD CARS in which 2 readers give all the details: ...Thomas A. Edison Primary Batteries were widely used on railroads to energize track and signal circuits. The battery consisted of a glass jar 6" in diameter and 10" high. Each cell produced 0.8 volt. The elements had to be renewed at various times due to train density and other factors. The new elements consisted of zinc and lead plates, a can of caustic soda, and a small glass of oil. The caustic soda was mixed with water, the elements were suspended in the solution, and the battery oil was added to the top of the solution to prevent evaporation....The earliest patent date is July 23, '08. These batteries were still in use in the mid-60's...O.M. Middleton, Oregon, OH And Charles Turner of Redfield, Iowa described battery oil as " a pure nonconductive oil that is added to the potassium-based electrolyte in old Edison nickel-iron batteries to reduce water loss due to excessive gassing... These batteries were used with wind generator electric systems because they can be cycled at high rates without damage. Due to their high-charging characteristics, the Edison battery will boil the water out very quickly without a film of oil on the electrolytic fluid"... link: http://www.antiquebottles.com/edison/ (in reply to dollarbill) Post #: 8

RE: Thomas Edison battery oil bottle - 7/14/2005 9:17:38 PM    dollarbill Posts: 2920 Joined: 5/6/2005 From: maysville, kentucky Status: online hey thanks for the info lobeycat i was a thinking the first bottle i posted is a little older than 1908 the second one i belive is from around that date. thanks agian bill (in reply to dollarbill) Post #: 9

RE: Thomas Edison battery oil bottle - 7/14/2005 10:08:57 PM    lobeycat Posts: 6684 Joined: 9/8/2003 From: RED SOX Nation Status: offline My pleasure Bill! Lobey. (in reply to dollarbill) Post #: 10

RE: Thomas Edison battery oil bottle - 3/8/2013 2:09:41 AM    zecritr Posts: 575 Joined: 1/12/2013 From: Kentucky Status: offline http://www.antiquebottles.com/edison/codes.html they ain't doing to bad these days on e-bay _____________________________ LOOKING FOR WESTERN PUGET SOUND BOTTLES BREMERTON,SILVERDALE,PORT ORCHARD,POULSBO IF I CAN'T BUY IT HOW ABOUT A PIC OR TWO PLZZZZ :) (in reply to lobeycat) Post #: 11

RE: Thomas Edison battery oil bottle - 3/8/2013 7:56:01 AM    glass man Posts: 8359 Joined: 1/30/2008 From: GEORGIA Status: offline Wow!Cool ole thread of Bill and Lobes..man Lobes was polite too!! yep in 74 or so when I first started there were so many of the last ones Bill showed..I realized they couldn' t have been much to them...those were the days I collected acl sodas..i found them every where..under old stores..they were a lot under one country store..I got one of each and left the rest there..went back to get all of them in the 90's ,but someone had beat me too it..I still know where there are a few old ware houses that may still have some under them..but ain't in shape to go look..some one mighta already gotten them too..along the tracks etc..if I bought one it was no more then a quarter...no one collected them much back then and in 74-75 they didn't have much age to them..in the 30's-40's dump most were on top of the ground or could be gotten by little digging...man if I had kept that up..who knows what I would have now!Also soda signs were pretty easy to find of acl bottles.... Great to see this old post!!JAMIE _____________________________ LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED ! IF YOU NEED A BLESSING OR A SONG THAT WILL PICK YOU UP PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS SONG FROM"VAN THE MAN"MORRISON! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi4R2YXv_AE (in reply to zecritr) Post #: 12

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