Recent Poison find.

SergioWilkins · May 4, 2012

Hey, all

Dug this poison a few days ago - it's a style I've not seen around here before. I was wondering if anyone could shine some light on origin, rarity, etc.
I think it's a 1oz size. It has embossed beads running vertically up and down the front, with "POISON" in large, thin letters. The rear and sides are blank.
Take care!

SergioWilkins · May 4, 2012

And another shot. The base is just embossed "4"... though it looks like there could be another digit or two after it.

Poison_Us · May 4, 2012

Well, you dug this in the right area. It's a KR-10 and is Canadian. It's somewhat scarce, but they are popular amongst collectors. You can read a little bit on this from this thread:

https://www.antique-bottles.net/forum/Bottle-show-finds/m-485605/tm.htm

mctaggart67 is an avid collector of Canadian poisons and could answer any specifics you would like.

mctaggart67 · May 4, 2012

Definitely a Canadian poison bottle, made by Diamond Flint Glass Co. and then Dominion Glass Co., during the period from circa 1900 to around 1915. These 1 ouncers are actually fairly common from a supply side of things, but high demand for them keeps them relatively scarce. For instance, I recently sold four of them at a general antique show in Edmonton, Alberta. All of them went to non-bottle collectors (one customer wanted one for a shabby chic bathroom display collection, two were "goth people" looking for things related to death, and the other collected medical instruments). My feeling - again, just a feeling, is that these little guys were often used for iodine until Dominion Glass brought in new lines of irregular hexagons, which we call Canadian Coffins up here. As to your example, we Canadian collectors, in a fit of incredible imagination, call them Dot Poisons, for obvious reasons. They range in sized from 1/2 ounce to 16 ounce. I've seen glass catalogue references to the 16 ouncers, but have never seen one in real life. The largest size I've seen is 8 ounces. Typical colours range from very light cobalt, verging on cornflower blue, to a very dark, purplish cobalt. As far as I know, Dot Poisons are exclusively Canadian designed and manufactured, and the Diamond Flint/Dominion ones may be based on a clear variant that was developed by Nova Scotia's Lamont Glass Co., a company which Diamond Flint bought out.

jerry2143 · May 5, 2012

Do you by any chance know what glass company made the aqua and amber KR-10 bottles?

madman · May 5, 2012

NICE!

SergioWilkins · May 7, 2012

Awesome stuff!
Thanks for the info on the piece you guys. It's awfully cool to know that it's Canadian-made. Now to keep an eye out for that 16 ounce one.

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