Maybe?? Owens-Illinois Milk bottle

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I have a "Sealtest" milk bottle from the Rochester, NY area 1963, Hope the date code is right, but here's the catch; The I-O plant code and date codes are in the right positions, but there is no I-O symbol as usual. The plant code would be #17 Clarion, PA. What there is, a 5 pointed star and letters and numbers which read MR 42385this is on the bottom. So from top to bottom on the base it reads


17 63

MR 42385

an actual 5 point star

My guess is that this is an Owens-Illinois bottle, but I've not found anything that confirms this.
Help please, thank you
Ed Flugel

 

[CanadianBottles]

Could you post a picture of the base? The star could be related to the dairy rather than the glassmarker, a lot of dairies marked their bottles on the base to easily identify when competitors' bottles got mixed in with their own.

 

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I hope this will help. After I read your post I was thinking it was 'Blue Boy "All Star Dairy"', but I didn't think they were in the Sealtest family. Thanks for any help

 

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Could you post a picture of the base? The star could be related to the dairy rather than the glassmarker, a lot of dairies marked their bottles on the base to easily identify when competitors' bottles got mixed in with their own.

I have posted a picture

 

[CanadianBottles]

I have posted a picture

Huh, yeah I don't know about that one, never seen that mark before. Definitely looks like a glassmaker's mark rather than a dairy's mark.

 

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Huh, yeah I don't know about that one, never seen that mark before. Definitely looks like a glassmaker's mark rather than a dairy's mark.

OK Thank you, Couldn't find any info about a "star' shape, looking in the references I know of.

 

[DavidW]

Are there ANY markings along the lower heel area? Can you post a photo showing the entire bottle, and also, a closeup showing the SEALTEST lettering?
Virtually all bottles made by Owens-Illinois bear a glassmaker mark, so this is rather odd if it was really made by O-I. If the star is a makers mark (and I have doubts that it is) it might (MIGHT!!) be the star mark used by Star City Glass Works of Star City, West Virginia. Their mark was a "C inside a star" but on some bottles the "C" is not visible. They made clear bottles of various types in the 1948-1976 time period.
HOWEVER, in the book "Glass Milk Bottles: Their Makers and Marks" by Jeffrey L. Giarde (1980), on page 111, Giarde writes that Star City "probably" did not make milk bottles.

I should add that the bottle most likely is a product of Owens-Illinois, since plant #17 (Clarion, Pennsylvania) did make a lot of milk bottles. But if so, there should be at least a faint logo in between the 17 and the 63.

 

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Are there ANY markings along the lower heel area? Can you post a photo showing the entire bottle, and also, a closeup showing the SEALTEST lettering?
Virtually all bottles made by Owens-Illinois bear a glassmaker mark, so this is rather odd if it was really made by O-I. If the star is a makers mark (and I have doubts that it is) it might (MIGHT!!) be the star mark used by Star City Glass Works of Star City, West Virginia. Their mark was a "C inside a star" but on some bottles the "C" is not visible. They made clear bottles of various types in the 1948-1976 time period.
HOWEVER, in the book "Glass Milk Bottles: Their Makers and Marks" by Jeffrey L. Giarde (1980), on page 111, Giarde writes that Star City "probably" did not make milk bottles.

I should add that the bottle most likely is a product of Owens-Illinois, since plant #17 (Clarion, Pennsylvania) did make a lot of milk bottles. But if so, there should be at least a faint logo in between the 17 and the 63.

I will look even closer to see if there is any I_O mark and later this afternoon I'll get some pix up. Thank you. Ed

 

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I will look even closer to see if there is any I_O mark and later this afternoon I'll get some pix up. Thank you. Ed

Sorry about getting these up so late but life got in the way... I looked very closely bwtn the plant # and date# and saw nothing and rubbed my finger over the spot and nothing was felt either. Hope this helps. Thanks again, Ed