Plumbata
Well-Known Member
One of my sub-collections is products and ephemera from the "Mexican Amole Soap Co." of Peoria, which operated from 1892 to 1916.
Here is an image of the bottles and a soap box (with a series 1898 tax stamp on it) that I have:
So I was browsing through eBay, searching tiitles and descriptions for "mexican amole" and came across a nondescript listing for this:
Lot (7) Small Vintage Assorted Bottles/Jar
Well in that lot was a gem of a bottle which I had never heard of, nor seen a shard of, and in fact I think it may be the only embossed Milk Glass Peoria bottle out there, though you really never know.
It is a 4 ounce cream jar with the original aluminum lid, and there is no damage to the bottle. The embossing is in a slug plate, but i have never seen this style of jar before, have any of you? It is ABM, but the base is totally smooth. I would guess that it was made right around 1910, when the business changed hands and started being more aggressive at promoting its products. I bought it from a lovely woman in Texas, and one of the bottles in the previous image came from Arizona, so the company must have enjoyed quite the export trade.
Probably the first and last Peoria milk glass bottle I'll ever find. Pretty cool in my book.
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Here is an image of the bottles and a soap box (with a series 1898 tax stamp on it) that I have:
So I was browsing through eBay, searching tiitles and descriptions for "mexican amole" and came across a nondescript listing for this:
Lot (7) Small Vintage Assorted Bottles/JarWell in that lot was a gem of a bottle which I had never heard of, nor seen a shard of, and in fact I think it may be the only embossed Milk Glass Peoria bottle out there, though you really never know.
It is a 4 ounce cream jar with the original aluminum lid, and there is no damage to the bottle. The embossing is in a slug plate, but i have never seen this style of jar before, have any of you? It is ABM, but the base is totally smooth. I would guess that it was made right around 1910, when the business changed hands and started being more aggressive at promoting its products. I bought it from a lovely woman in Texas, and one of the bottles in the previous image came from Arizona, so the company must have enjoyed quite the export trade.
Probably the first and last Peoria milk glass bottle I'll ever find. Pretty cool in my book.
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