It's the tie to some real person in the distant past that underlies all of my amateur archeological interests, including bottle digging and collecting!
Hi Hemi and everyone else. That is most definitely a citrate shape and color. Check out these images from one of the prizes of my collection - came out of a barn in Baltimore County in the 1970s. Was used to store oil which preserved the closure metal perfectly. Label corresponds to the...
With luck, the discarded whole bottles will be from companies that went out of business quickly. Or maybe there’s errors on the bottles that made them unusable.
Hey Ken. I was hoping someone with your expertise would come along, but was beginning to despair! Thanks for the great info. Yes, our 8-sided Fitzsimons bottles are identical except for the 1885 and the P. instead of the J. I'm glad to hear mine might be uncommon, if not rare - or even...