1800’s baby bottle?

[Tidelarking]

Hi everybody,

I’m curious if anyone knows this bottle.
It’s embossed “Manhattan” on the top/front and it has a maker’s mark on the bottom of “H B & C”, which I believe was Hagerty Bros. & Co, who ran the Hagerty Glass works in Brooklyn (which was previously Brooklyn Green Glassworks and Hamilton Glassworks before that). I’m fairly sure that’s where it was made, but I’m unsure what to call this design?

I originally thought it was a baby bottle, but I’m wondering if it could be an invalid feeder? Or were they the same thing? It was found near a quarantine hospital that was active in the mid to late 1800’s.

Any help would be very appreciated:

 

[CanadianBottles]

I think it's a baby bottle, as far as I know invalid feeders have a hole in the top and a spout. Shame about the hole in the side!

 

[K6TIM]

I think it's a baby bottle, as far as I know invalid feeders have a hole in the top and a spout. Shame about the hole in the side!

this bottle with the "curved neck" is used for urination.The bottle was used at night to urinate into where there wasn't place to go.The bottle was used in the 1800's!

 

[nhpharm]

It's a baby bottle, not for urination.

 

[Nickneff]

Hi everybody,

I’m curious if anyone knows this bottle.
It’s embossed “Manhattan” on the top/front and it has a maker’s mark on the bottom of “H B & C”, which I believe was Hagerty Bros. & Co, who ran the Hagerty Glass works in Brooklyn (which was previously Brooklyn Green Glassworks and Hamilton Glassworks before that). I’m fairly sure that’s where it was made, but I’m unsure what to call this design?

I originally thought it was a baby bottle, but I’m wondering if it could be an invalid feeder? Or were they the same thing? It was found near a quarantine hospital that was active in the mid to late 1800’s.

Any help would be very appreciated:

Yes sir baby bottle some baby bottles are really cool I've seen them with little bunny rabbits all kinds of cool looking stuff in embossed n the glass

 

[Csa]

If you look for old Whitehall Tatum catalogs or Illinois glass catalogs from early 1900s, they have several models of baby feeders, curved snd straight, with nipple attached or log tube like nipple. Also show glass “thunder jugs” bed pans which were larger!

https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/IGCoCatalog1906.pdf

 

[hemihampton]

thought they were called Nurser Bottles for Nursing Baby's?

 

[Csa]

Yes. Here is page 40 from that long pdf.

 

[nhpharm]

I have an original iron mold used to blow the American Feeding Bottle nursers. It's pretty dang cool...not too many molds still around.

 

[Snorro]

More commonly called a nurser or nursing bottle. Late 1800's - early 1900's.