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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.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 usually take them since they are pretty neat shapes.I discovered a bottle exactly like this one and left it where I found it. Should I have gathered it up?
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.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.