RED Matthews
Well-Known Member
Hello you bottle collectors. I just wrote to a man that collects bottles and gave him a description of a bottle interest of mine. It is a little long winded but I decided to see how many of you have them or know about them. So here is an excerpt.
I only touched on my interest in the Clyde Glass Works and their products. My interest started when I was maybe seven or eight. My Mother had a dresser set of white milk glass pieces that fascinated me as a kid. However I was basically forbidden to play with the pieces. The flat dresser plate, had "/ CLYDE GLASS WORKS CLYDE, NY " embossed on the bottom of it. There were two large cologne bottles and a little covered dish. I do not remember much more than that, and when she got older, my brother talked her out of them. Heaven only knows where they went from his home.
Years later when I got more acquainted with antiques, I visited the Strong Mansion, just outside of Geneva on the east side of the lake (Route 96). There I got acquainted with the White Milk Glass "FIRE DOWSER:" This bottle was equipped with a white milk glass stopper. Both parts were made hand blown in three part molds and they each had three lions heads embossed in the molds - divided on the parting line. There was also vine embossing similar to the ones that were on my Mothers old dresser bottles. The dowser bottles were kept on a shelf over fire places, on top of the bread boxes on old cast iron kitchen stoves, and sometimes on a shelf in the kitchen, near the stove. They let me examine one of the bottles. I discovered that the main bottle part was made in the 3-leaf mold and had a burst-off finish on it - left rough because it wouldn't contact anyone's mouth. I also found that the stoppers were made in a three part mold and had a rough crack-off of the blowpipe. They were fascinated about my comments.
From there we went to a little antique shop as part of the museum complex and they had two of the Dowser Bottles, which I bought. They were both white milk glass, but I found out later that they were also made of clear bottle glass. These bottles were shipped by the canal system to the great lakes and were sold in all the market systems that handled Clyde Glass, from the mid-west to New York City and New England.
Since then, I have managed to get two dresser milk glass cologne bottles which were made the same way - except the bottle finish was ground and the stopper blowpipe end was ground so no one at their dresser or vanity would have gotten cut.
So I just tried to embed a picture of one.
I don't think it will work for me. RED Matthews
I only touched on my interest in the Clyde Glass Works and their products. My interest started when I was maybe seven or eight. My Mother had a dresser set of white milk glass pieces that fascinated me as a kid. However I was basically forbidden to play with the pieces. The flat dresser plate, had "/ CLYDE GLASS WORKS CLYDE, NY " embossed on the bottom of it. There were two large cologne bottles and a little covered dish. I do not remember much more than that, and when she got older, my brother talked her out of them. Heaven only knows where they went from his home.
Years later when I got more acquainted with antiques, I visited the Strong Mansion, just outside of Geneva on the east side of the lake (Route 96). There I got acquainted with the White Milk Glass "FIRE DOWSER:" This bottle was equipped with a white milk glass stopper. Both parts were made hand blown in three part molds and they each had three lions heads embossed in the molds - divided on the parting line. There was also vine embossing similar to the ones that were on my Mothers old dresser bottles. The dowser bottles were kept on a shelf over fire places, on top of the bread boxes on old cast iron kitchen stoves, and sometimes on a shelf in the kitchen, near the stove. They let me examine one of the bottles. I discovered that the main bottle part was made in the 3-leaf mold and had a burst-off finish on it - left rough because it wouldn't contact anyone's mouth. I also found that the stoppers were made in a three part mold and had a rough crack-off of the blowpipe. They were fascinated about my comments.
From there we went to a little antique shop as part of the museum complex and they had two of the Dowser Bottles, which I bought. They were both white milk glass, but I found out later that they were also made of clear bottle glass. These bottles were shipped by the canal system to the great lakes and were sold in all the market systems that handled Clyde Glass, from the mid-west to New York City and New England.
Since then, I have managed to get two dresser milk glass cologne bottles which were made the same way - except the bottle finish was ground and the stopper blowpipe end was ground so no one at their dresser or vanity would have gotten cut.
So I just tried to embed a picture of one.
I don't think it will work for me. RED Matthews
