Hi swizzle. Your little guy is a mustard jar, and he has two "brothers".
There are three different faces: one smiling, one frowning, and one in between, and they corresponded to how spicey the mustard was. I don't remember the name of the company. I can't remember if I got this info from...
Hiya. Try sudsy ammonia solution. You can find it in the grocery store in the cleaning products section. It works wonders with those brown/black tar-like substances. You will need to let it soak though, sometimes for a couple of weeks. A friend of mine says he had to soak something for a...
Hiya Rhona. I have an older book at home, somwhere, that focuses on Baltimore beers and gives date ranges. I will bring it to the meeting this Friday. If you can't make it to the meeting, I will bring the book to work and try to help you out when the boss isn't looking. [;)]
Hello s3iinc. Looking at the area of the break, your bottle appears to be a dark olive green in color. Is that glue I'm seeing, or is light getting under the edge of the break to give us a hint of the color?
Hi Rhona. I hate to tell ya, but those are very common in the Baltimore area. Only worth a buck or two, if that. Of course, that only goes for the ones I can see. Can you post pictures of the others? If you don't get a chance, maybe you could bring them to the meeting this Friday. [:)]
Hello glassnob, and welcome to the forum. I'm fairly certain your bottle was for perfume. It appears to have very thick glass, and this in turn makes it appear to be a "bottle in a bottle"
Hi Northern1, and welcome to the forum. The only thing I can tell you about your bottle is that the "dragon/horse" is from Japanese mythology and is actually called a Kirin.
Hi NoThreat. First of all, beautiful bottle! Second, for everyone who is concerned about carbon tetrachloride in these grenades, the chemical wasn't synthesized until 1918, (see this site: www.firehouse.com/news/2002/5/9_Pextinguish.html ) so you needn't worry about the older grenades.
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Hello, and welcome to the forum. The folks over here definitely find pot lids, though I suspect not in the numbers found in the UK. If you scroll down a bit, you will find a section about pot lids on this site.
Hi Lisa. Yes, people collect the reproductions. The newer ones for decorative purposes (bright greens, blues and yellows), the older ones because they can look so much like an original. Log in and go to the search option, which is in the same line as the log in at the top of the page. Do a...
Right time, right place. [:)] We recently had quite a thread with another Booze that was more difficult to authenticate. If you are interested in determining more about your bottle, I think you can search the thread. If you can't find it, I will be glad to help you. Some of the early...
Hello Lisa, and welcome to the forum. If your bottle says "Booze Bottle" on the bottom, then it is a repro. [:(] Even the repros look good in a window though.
Hi Ad. Your initial description makes me wonder if the article was mistaken about the use of these objects. Try doing a search for antique glass Victorian Christmas lights. I know it sounds crazy, but give it a shot and see if they look like the pictures in the article. I vaguely remember...
Hi Rhona. The aqua bottles such as yours held baking powder, and are sometimes embossed to indicate this. They are very common, and not worth much monetarily. [:(]Other similar bottles can be found for Davis baking powder and Seagull baking powder. I don't know if the two Rumford's are...
Hi RJ, and welcome to the forum. You have a nice teakettle ink. It appears to have a sheared lip, so it probably didn't have a brass cap as so many did. I'm not sure if it's American or European.
Hi folks. A "cop the cream" bottle actually has a policeman's face embossed on the bulge, which made a word play on "cop". It looks very much like the baby face milks.
Hey Rhona. That's a strange one all right. Looks like they didn't have enough glass in the gather to complete the bottle. Maybe a big air bubble at just the right (wrong?) time. I'm surprized it made it out of the factory instead of being broken into cullet.
Hi Rhona, nice dig. CLG Co stands for Carr-Lowrey Glass Company, from Baltimore Maryland. They were known for their colored glass, especially pharmacy bottles. Your deep green bottle looks like a citrate, but seems a little skinny for that type. How does it look in the window? If you can...