cobalt blue medicine bottle

[haide]

Hi,I'm a chinese beginner met bottles just less than a week ago.It seems that we don't have any formal forum or data about bottle collection in China so I turned to english searching and luckily being here.I bought some foreign bottles in China,here is likly a cobalt blue medicine bottle,which embossed MbpAHA4 6yTbI?K?（don't know what language），is BIM according to my narrow unsure knowing.Could you please give me more information about it？Thanks.

 

[haide]

It's about 15.5cm high

 

[sunrunner]

your bottle is an 1890s Russian medicine it may even be a 1900s , depending when Russia when machine .

 

[CanadianBottles]

I really like it! I don't think I've seen any Russian bottles from that era. Always interesting to see what collectors in other parts of the world find. I wonder if any of our members here can read Russian. I tried to figure it out with Google Translate but ended up with "WHEN MѢRANACH UTIKI." I don't think I did that right.

And yes you're correct that it's BIM, with a tooled lip.

 

[haide]

sunrunner$CanadianBottles：
Thank you !
So it's Big Brother's~
I found lot of Chinese medicine bottles here on the internet，but there is no systematic information about antique Chinese glass bottles.So I think it's much harder to date them than American's

 

[Robby Raccoon]

Welcome to the forum. Neat post.

 

[haide]

Thank you，I'll carry on.

 

[mctaggart67]

There are some great Asian and Eastern European bottles out there! Always nice to see!

 

[Harry Pristis]

The lettering is Cyrillic, but the usage is unfamiliar. The Communists changed to Russian alphabet - to modernize it - shortly after the 1920 Revolution. I'm just not familiar with pre-Revolution Russian (but, I do think it is Russian).

 

[haide]

mctaggart67:Yes!Some Chinese medicine bottles with handwriting calligraphy lables are so cool！

Harry Pristis：Thank you for the professional answer！