ROBBYBOBBY64
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The flat space on the one side was where the label went.The blobs?
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The flat space on the one side was where the label went.The blobs?
Look slightly toasted. Just adds to the age of it.The blobs?
"Poison" ? Yes, the contents may have been poisonous - but what were the contents intended for?It's a poison bottle from the early 20th century, probably 1910s-20s. It's machine-made and has an Owens scar, not a pontil mark. And it does have seams, they're just hard to see.
"Poison" ? Yes, the contents may have been poisonous - but what were the contents intended for?
Not many bottlers selling "Poison" unless it was specifically marketed as rat or insect or ? poison.
Iodine is a case in point: most Canadian iodine bottles (the little amber ones) had a skull and crossbones embossed on them - but are not now called "Poison" bottles.
They were and still are "iodine bottles" .
It would be nice, though, to know what the original contents were.
It has a few spots where the there are, I really don’t know what to call them they look like what I can only describe as blobs of glass. I will try to take a pic that you can see them in! I did find a seam. Maybe it was in a fire briefly at one time and melted a little ? I have no clue but, it’s a nice little find to add to my collection. My collection is special to me bc I have found or dug up each and every one I have.
I know that almost none of the bottles marked as having contained poisonous contents were actually sold as something intended to be used for poisoning. Bottle collectors call anything marked with warning markers to warn about poisonous contents a poison. That's just the term that's used. And yes iodine bottles marked with a skull and crossbones and the word "poison" are called poisons by collectors.
I've been collecting bottles since the late 60s - Have been digging with literally hundreds of different people in 4 provinces in innumerable towns and cities in Canada. I have found (or been digging with other people who found) probably dozens of "iodines". No-one I know ever called them other than what they were: "IODINE BOTTLES".
You can call anything you want "poison" - that's your choice - but don't pontificate and lay your personal opinion on the rest of us as if there was some sort of bottle diggers' language code that you are privy to and the rest of us aren't. I've been doing this far to long to play that silly game.