Heinz Bottle

[SAbottles]

I'm putting this one in as before 1900, though it may well have been almost spot on 1900!

Dug this in the Lane and was about to toss it as a "modern" sauce bottle when I spotted that It had rather a nice embossing:

 

[SAbottles]

A close up of the main embossing:

and the embossing on the base:

 

[SAbottles]

My question is: was this just a typical tomato sauce or "ketchup" bottle, or did it have anything more esoteric in it ?

 

[surfaceone]

Hey Dale,

It's one of the nicer "ketchups."

"#56 this bottle was produced by the Heinz Company glass factory located in Sharpsburg, PA. Sharpsburg, a suburb of Pittsburgh. The bottle held Heinz Ketchup and was made from 1890 to 1895. The bottle Had a cork embedded in the top opening to keep the ketchup clean from any Foreign elements. It also had one of the first Keystone shaped die-cut labels. The number 56 was the 56th bottle design. It had no reference to any Varieties." From.

There's that keystone with a skeleton key again. Kinda uncommon, in my experience, at least.

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[LC]

I dug one years ago that was embossed Heinz Brothers , dated 1888 I think , been so long ago . Didn't have a keystone logo though , the bottom half was kind of shaped like a barrel . Still have it boxed away somewhere .

 

[surfaceone]

Hey Louis,

Are'ya talking about the 3rd one from the left in the following picture?

I've got a couple of those gracing the inside of unlabeled boxes my ownself. Haven't dug one in ages. I like those, and the ribbed Jos. Campbell's.

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[LC]

Yeah , that's it Surf . There was a kid locally here years ago had a really nice looking Heinz that I would call an onion bottle style . It had four fancy embossed strips embossed vertically around the bottle . Some one posted a pic of one on here some time back . I thought it was a neat looking bottle . Tried to buy it from the kid but had no luck , he thought it was worth a fortune .

 

[AntiqueMeds]

nice looking Heinz that I would call an onion bottle style . It had four fancy embossed strips embossed vertically around the bottle

I think they call that the baseball design. The embossing looks like baseball stitching. They are uncommon but not really rare.

 

[LC]

Could be Matthew , never thought of that , it does look like stitching . I never did come across one in all my diggings over the years . The one the neighbor kid had was the only one I have seen in this area .

 

[soda bottle]

Here's a Heinz bottle that I always wondered how old it was? Does anybody know if they are common? Did it hold Ketchup or some other condiment? I think it probably was some other sauce because the pour spout would have been to tiny for ketchup to come out of it unless it is not the original spout.

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