Yesterdays dig...Ball liquor bottle and a few others...

I'm thinking maybe a whiskey??? Any ideas on how old this one is? I know it's not anything real old I just thought it was pretty and it cleaned up well and I have a small variety of different ball type jars now to!!

Close up....

Bottom side....

Weird knob thing....what is that there for? I have a few other bottles with this on them as well....

I believe its from the 50's. Nice and clean though. Finding those types and ages of bottles got my interest ...and 5 years later I am completely addicted. Keep up with the finding, digging, and posting. Great hobby. Nice bottle by the way.

Listerine Lambert's Pharmacal Co. ( I thought it was a strange spelling unless I didnt see the I in there somewhere)

Still dirty...just outta the bucket..... Anyone know what the FLUFF jar was?

The fluff jar was most likely fluff. Go to the grocery store and look in the aisle with the peanut butter and jelly and look for a marshmellow type substance commonly referred to as fluff. Swiz

Sakes alive! Dont tell me you have never had a Fluffanutter sandwich!!??[:-][]

Hello Amanda,

That "Federal Law Forbids..." language dates it from 1935-mid 1960's.

"FEDERAL LAW FORBIDS SALE OR REUSE OF THIS BOTTLE


FEDERAL LAW FORBIDS SALE OR RE-USE OF THIS BOTTLE inscription on the shoulder of a machine-made pint liquor flask manufactured in 1956 by the Owens-Illinois Glass Company. This embossing was legally required on all liquor bottles sold in the U.S. between 1935 and 1964.

In the U.S., National Prohibition was repealed in late 1933 and was subsequently followed by the passage of Federal laws prohibiting the reuse or sale of used liquor bottles. This requirement was intended to discourage the re-use of bottles by bootleggers and moonshiners, though the biggest discouragement to that illicit activity was that liquor was now legally available. On January 1st, 1935 all liquor sold in the United States was required to be in bottles that had the above statement embossed in the glass (Busch 1981). The statement was not required on wine or beer bottles, the latter category which was - and to some degree still is - bottled in re-useable bottles.

If your bottle has this statement embossed in the glass, it is a machine-made liquor bottle that dates between 1935 and the mid-1960s. This inscription is found only on machine-made bottles, with the rare exception of some Mexican-made (for the U. S. market) bottle being mouth-blown during that era.

In 1964, the law requiring this statement was repealed. Be aware however that for some years after 1964, liquor could still be found in bottles with this phrase since not all liquor producers switched immediately to new bottles due to the expense of new molds or to deplete an existing supply of bottles (Ferraro 1966) Click 1974 liquor bottle to view a picture of the base of a liquor bottle which has the reuse prohibition embossing though was made well after (10 years) the regulations requiring the statement were eliminated. The linked bottle was made by the Thatcher Glass Manufacturing Company (Elmira, NY.) and has a date code for 1974. The company used the stylized "TMC" mark from 1949 to 1985 (Toulouse 1971; Giarde 1989; Whitten 2005)." From Bill Lindsey's excellent site.

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