Hello all,
I'm new to the site and bottle collecting so let me know if I missed any needed information. I work at a thrift store and recently came across this bottle and began doing some research. This was the first time I had heard of the Sutherland Sisters and fell down a rabbit hole researching them. I have seen a lot online in regards to the Sutherland Sisters hair grower but very little pictures or information about the hair colorator, in fact I've only found 3-4 post from various websites about the colorator bottles. I've pieced together some general information regarding this bottle but I'm curious if anyone knows more as a lot of what I have is speculation and I could be very wrong.
On most, if not all of the Sutherland Sisters bottles they include the number "7" however, this bottle simply says "Sutherland Sisters Trade Colorator Mark" along with the name of one of the sisters (Dora Sutherland) on the sides of the bottle. At first I found this a little concerning wondering if it was a fake but I believe this bottle was made after 1912 and by that time two of the seven sisters had died and perhaps they changed their name due to this. Another curious thing is the name of only one of the sisters on the sides of the bottle, it's believed that they had a range of different colors for this product so maybe its possible that they used their names kind of as color names? but its also said that in 1908 Dora became the vice president of the company so maybe she took it upon herself to put her own name on the bottle? This of course is purely speculation on my part. I read somewhere that the sisters trademarked the word "colorator" in 1923 but stated they have been using the word since 1900, I don't have any confirmation of this however.
Let me know what you think or if you know anything more about the history of this bottle!
I'm new to the site and bottle collecting so let me know if I missed any needed information. I work at a thrift store and recently came across this bottle and began doing some research. This was the first time I had heard of the Sutherland Sisters and fell down a rabbit hole researching them. I have seen a lot online in regards to the Sutherland Sisters hair grower but very little pictures or information about the hair colorator, in fact I've only found 3-4 post from various websites about the colorator bottles. I've pieced together some general information regarding this bottle but I'm curious if anyone knows more as a lot of what I have is speculation and I could be very wrong.
On most, if not all of the Sutherland Sisters bottles they include the number "7" however, this bottle simply says "Sutherland Sisters Trade Colorator Mark" along with the name of one of the sisters (Dora Sutherland) on the sides of the bottle. At first I found this a little concerning wondering if it was a fake but I believe this bottle was made after 1912 and by that time two of the seven sisters had died and perhaps they changed their name due to this. Another curious thing is the name of only one of the sisters on the sides of the bottle, it's believed that they had a range of different colors for this product so maybe its possible that they used their names kind of as color names? but its also said that in 1908 Dora became the vice president of the company so maybe she took it upon herself to put her own name on the bottle? This of course is purely speculation on my part. I read somewhere that the sisters trademarked the word "colorator" in 1923 but stated they have been using the word since 1900, I don't have any confirmation of this however.
Let me know what you think or if you know anything more about the history of this bottle!