Greetings from Chicago! I'm not a bottle collector, but certainly understand the collector mentality with over 175 cigarette lighters, too many watches, 8mm film projectors and a few other collections.
I'm hoping maybe you fine folks can help me with something. The backstory is that I recently reconnected with my birth families, and after 64 years have a biological connection with my past. A part of that is on one side of my birth families they were druggists in Pennsylvania, opening a pharmacy in 1890 or so. In the process of researching all that I ran across a bottle from their store on eBay, and of course snatched it up. I have since then found two more. They are all different and I have found out approximate manufacturing dates of 1890 to around 1925. I was hoping that maybe you fine folks might be able to narrow those date ranges down. It's kind of a kick holding something that could well passed through the hands of my great-grandfather or possibly my grandfather over 100 years ago as he took over the business after his father retired..
The coloring is just water and a touch of food dye to give them a little pop sitting on my shelf.
The brown one is marked W.T CO with either a letter or number embossed in the center, but it's barely stamped and impossible to say exactly what it is.
The purple one is marked W.T. & Company with no other marks.
The green one is marker with a T C W and the logo with ATD stamped in it.
All the bottles have seams running up both sides.
Any insights you guys might have would be appreciated. It would be fun to be able to tell folks who ask a little more detail on the bottles.
Thanks so much!
I'm hoping maybe you fine folks can help me with something. The backstory is that I recently reconnected with my birth families, and after 64 years have a biological connection with my past. A part of that is on one side of my birth families they were druggists in Pennsylvania, opening a pharmacy in 1890 or so. In the process of researching all that I ran across a bottle from their store on eBay, and of course snatched it up. I have since then found two more. They are all different and I have found out approximate manufacturing dates of 1890 to around 1925. I was hoping that maybe you fine folks might be able to narrow those date ranges down. It's kind of a kick holding something that could well passed through the hands of my great-grandfather or possibly my grandfather over 100 years ago as he took over the business after his father retired..
The coloring is just water and a touch of food dye to give them a little pop sitting on my shelf.
The brown one is marked W.T CO with either a letter or number embossed in the center, but it's barely stamped and impossible to say exactly what it is.
The purple one is marked W.T. & Company with no other marks.
The green one is marker with a T C W and the logo with ATD stamped in it.
All the bottles have seams running up both sides.
Any insights you guys might have would be appreciated. It would be fun to be able to tell folks who ask a little more detail on the bottles.
Thanks so much!
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