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    Hi all new here. I dug up a beautiful Mifflin Bottle today can anyone give a general idea when it was made.

    I don't know the specifics of Mifflin as a corporation, but based on the way the bottle is embossed and the screw top I'd guess sometime from the mid-1920s through the mid- 1940s.
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    Don't ignore 1970's dumps! You never know what's hiding in there!

    I'm of the minority that actually loves digging in mid-century dumps - some of the non-bottle items I find are awesome (scored a great milk glass sconce plate last week), and I love a good ACL soda or chemical. The 50s-60s dump I've been digging actually lead to an older 20s-30s dump nearby just...
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    Any idea?

    I doubt this 14 is a date code, probably a mold or plant number. The embossing is definitely weaker and a bit crude, so I don't think 1910s-1920s is out of the realm of possibility
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    What the heck is this???

    I'd guess something like a soda or Gatorade, from the 80s or 90s. Maybe someone else recognizes this particular one.
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    Square bottle 6 1/2" tall with cork , no nothing !

    Common medicine bottle, probably 1920s. Impossible to tell what was in it unless you can find another example with the paper label intact.
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    My collection

    Nice collection! These are right in line with a lot of the bottles I find and keep from the dump I've been visiting. ACLs are definitely a group of bottles becoming more and more collectable!
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    McMurray’s Extract

    Not a problem. I love to look into the history of things and researching my own ancestry, so it's a no-brainer for me (even though, like Ancestry, it's not the cheapest service).
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    What is this

    "Vaseline Glass" as you say is a nickname term given to glass from the 1920s-30s that is also known as Uranium or Depression Glass. These are usually a shade of green when seen in standard light, but due to the presence of Uranium in the glass they glow bright green when a blacklight is shined...
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    New stuff

    Amazingly one of the first bottles I found when I started walking rivers was a torpedo bottle - a Corry brand out of Belfast, N. Ireland, likely shipped over here to the east coast. Awesome grabs orrwhat, love the designs on that stein.
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    McMurray’s Extract

    Hi Pocopear, From everything I can find the McMurray's Honest bottles are the same company as yours, likely based out of St. Paul, MN as you said. It took a little searching on Newspapers.com, but I believe this company went by either the "William McMurray Flavoring Extracts Company" (what a...
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    KKK Medicine Co. Immatation Vanilla Flavor.

    It seems the KKK Medicine Company was based in Keokuk, IA, and they mostly marketed to the surrounding states - I can find ads on Newspapers.com in Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, and Illinois. The earliest of these begin to appears around 1907, and last into the 1990s. Here's an ad, from the LOC...
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    Marlboro bottle

    Bottles from this time period with basic embossing like this often hold little value. I don't know specifically what this brand was, and maybe the name Marlboro can fetch a few extra dollars, but I can't imagine it being more than $10.
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    Any help identifying any of these is greatly appreciated

    Hello and welcome to the site! Most of what you're finding are common mid-century dump items, generally dating from the late 1930s through the early 1970s. You're correct in that most are either medicine or condiments, however in this time period it's difficult to determine exactly what a...
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    Jos Leclerc - St Evariste Quebec embossed bottle

    Here's my Jos Leclerc - La Guadeloupe after a quick wash. Going to see if a dip in some CLR will clear a bit of the rust and residue marks. The dump this came from can be confidently dates between a few years following WWII (~1945-1947) and the early-mid 1960s (about 1962-63 when it was...
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    Vacuum Bell Jar

    Beautiful piece, especially with the purpling of the glass that has started to occur. I, like Leon, don't have any experience in the world of bell jars - but I can find a one similar example to yours that have sold on eBay recently for $70, but that one was only 14" tall and the glass was still...

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