American Cloth Cleaner Bottle

[b.ecollects]

There are bubbles in the glass and the bottle itself is a yellow color. My estimate is that it's from the late 1800s due to the applied double collar. My big question is, why is it yellow? Was it left out in the sun too long, or was it irradiated? I've never seen a yellow bottle like this, so I'm a bit confused.

 

[CanadianBottles]

Despite the name, this looks to me like it's a British bottle (the name would likely be to make it sound more exotic in that sense). This was a much more common colour for British bottle-makers to use than American bottle-makers. Some American bottles used this colour too, although it was never as popular there. The Bunker Hill Pickles jars are the most widely known example.
It's also the colour you get when you irradiate a clear bottle which was made with selenium rather than manganese, but this bottle looks a bit too early for that (even if it is British).

 

[b.ecollects]

Thank you. Do you think it's a good find? I was a bit leary about the bottle at first, but now that I know that it wasn't irradiated, I feel a bit better.

My biggest fear was that it was irradiated to bring out the color.

 

[nhpharm]

Definitely British and fairly common. Pretty, but likely not worth more than perhaps $25 or so.

 

[Bohdan]

Definitely British and fairly common. Pretty, but likely not worth more than perhaps $25 or so.

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