found a local drug store bottle at thrift store

[RCO]

not sure if i found a good one or what , haven't seen too many if any local drug store bottles around . i found this one at a local thrift store , which had got a donation of some various bottles by the looks . they also had 2 others but in worse shape , another from the same drug store in a smaller corked bottle for gylcerine oil or something close to that . but the label was close to falling off .

anyways the one i purchased is for some sort of oil the starts with pu ??? ive oil , maybe pure olive oil ?

and paper label reads " Porritts Drug Store - Gravenhurst , Muskoka "
Always the best phone 49

its interesting it says gravenhurst muskoka instead of Ontario or canada and the two digital phone number must be pretty old i would think maybe its from 30's - 40's era . i know the bottle itself is pretty common but i would think the label is very rare .

 

[RCO]

another close up of the label , might show better

 

[myersdiggers1998]

Once you start collecting your locals, there is no turning back.

 

[epackage]

I don't know the rarity, but I do know those are some awful attempts at pics[8D], and the label looks like it has seen better days...[]

 

[AntiqueMeds]

I think a beaver ate the label.

It looks like a bottle maybe from 1930-1950 period.
Is there a glass house mark on the bottom?

 

[RCO]

the second picture didn't really turn out . i know an antique store in gravenhurst , the owners will likely know way more about this drug store and bottle . i'm going to ask them about it and if there interested maybe trade it for something else or i'll keep it as its unique . i know there was an old drug store downtown in that town , it burnt down a couple years ago . wouldn't be surprised if its from there .

 

[RCO]

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on the bottom is a C in a triangle and a 7


any ideas when they would of been using two digit phone numbers ? you think that date the bottle to at least before WW2 .

 

[cyberdigger]

The celluloid screw caps came into widespread use on these bottles in the 1930's

 

[luckiest]

cool find, if it was from the small town I grew up in the damage would not matter. Local bottles are always best.

 

[mctaggart67]

The Muskoka designation is pretty interesting as a play to the cachet of the regional name as a tourist destination. I wouldn't put too much stock into the two-digit phone number, since smaller telephone exchanges in Ontario towns like Gravenhurst would have used them right into the 1940s/1950s. The "C" in a triangle trade mark on the base is for the Consumers Glass Company of Toronto, the chief rival to Dominion Glass.