Toronto Utility Bottle - Please help with ID

BeachComber · Jul 1, 2015

Hi All,I recently found this bottle on a dive. It looks like a utility bottle to me but I am not sure. Also on the base is an embossing that reads "T A Lytle & Co Toronto". I am unable to find any information on this company. If any one could help with what the bottle was used for, age, etc, that would be great! Thanks! A [attachment=20150701_124755.jpg] [attachment=20150701_124746.jpg]

teamballsout · Jul 1, 2015

Hey there i have done a little research in the past i live up in Can. They were a Toronto comp started in 1908 well moved to the current location still a museum. an canning/pickiling comp u can find info on google with a lil pokin around.
Jason

treasurekidd · Jul 2, 2015

I would call that a pickle or condiment jar, and a really nice on at that. Here's a link to some info on the company: https://books.google.com/books?id=ZbSvZVDVXIEC&pg=PA20&dq=T+A+Lytle+%26+Co+Toronto&hl=en&sa=X&ei=39eVVZ7_AYG5oQSE6JeQDA&ved=0CCEQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=T%20A%20Lytle%20%26%20Co%20Toronto&f=false

mctaggart67 · Jul 2, 2015

T.A. Lytle & Co. (and other incarnations of the company) were a Toronto-based food processor established as early as the 1890s. They made pickles and other preserves, condiments, ketchup, juices, etc. The 1908 date referred to above is when the firm moved into a new plant on Sterling Ave. The bottles don't command much interest among collectors unless labelled, I'm afraid.

mctaggart67 · Jul 3, 2015

Sorry, meant to say as early as the 1880s.

sunrunner · Jul 3, 2015

it most likely haled plums or peaches some thing like that.

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