Heinz Bottle

[slugplate]

I discovered a bottle exactly like this one and left it where I found it. Should I have gathered it up?

 

[WesternPA-collector]

I would say so. I know that plain bottles are a little iffy but that's not a design I often see. I wonder what number it had on the bottom of it.

 

[slugplate]

I would say so. I know that plain bottles are a little iffy but that's not a design I often see. I wonder what number it had on the bottom of it.

I have to go back and check out the number. I know it was made from the late 1880s - 1905 according to Heinz bottle design manufacturing records. More interesting, I have similar one, not Heinz, but an embossed J. Reitzel with the same shape. However, it is thin glass, appears to be blown in a wooden mold, very sloppy lip and seam. I can't find too much information on J. Reitzel though. I only know he was a grocer in Newark, NJ between 1890 - 1910. But he bottle certainly seems older than 1890... unless it was a lesser grade manufacturer.

 

[John Mount]

i have one of these. the base is embossed with: Pat Mar 14 1882 in an arc along the top. it has a plus sign and then the word Heinz (not H.J. , just Heinz by itself) and the number 7B. i don't know anything about it.

 

[John Mount]

j

 

[John Mount]

 

[PlaneDiggerCam]

I discovered a bottle exactly like this one and left it where I found it. Should I have gathered it up?

I usually take them since they are pretty neat shapes.

 

[PlaneDiggerCam]

I have to go back and check out the number. I know it was made from the late 1880s - 1905 according to Heinz bottle design manufacturing records. More interesting, I have similar one, not Heinz, but an embossed J. Reitzel with the same shape. However, it is thin glass, appears to be blown in a wooden mold, very sloppy lip and seam. I can't find too much information on J. Reitzel though. I only know he was a grocer in Newark, NJ between 1890 - 1910. But he bottle certainly seems older than 1890... unless it was a lesser grade manufacturer.

That J. Reitzel one is very cool then! Never seen another bottle of this type that wasn't a Heinz one! These shaped ones are one of the few ketchup bottles I don't mind finding.