Robby Raccoon
Trash Digger
Scroll down till you find my Twin City Dairy bottle when you click here for more information on it.
I never did look at the seam closely.... of which I feel dumb. But! last night I was admiring it and looked not at the embossing, but at the lip and saw that the seam becomes ghostly just before it. I then grabbed it and held it up to the light, looking at both seams and saw also that the vertical striations end at the same time--around the whole neck. Then I looked closer, noticing horizontal striations and realized, "It's hand-tooled!" So, my question is this: When did they stop hand-tooling milk bottles? At first we believed it was 1920s. But if it follows the rules of soda-pop bottles, it should have been totally ABM by 1910 (except in certain cases.) Is it 1920s, or is it earlier? The first image is the body's seam. Second is not really visible in photos, but shows the seam becoming faint. The third is the mouth.
I never did look at the seam closely.... of which I feel dumb. But! last night I was admiring it and looked not at the embossing, but at the lip and saw that the seam becomes ghostly just before it. I then grabbed it and held it up to the light, looking at both seams and saw also that the vertical striations end at the same time--around the whole neck. Then I looked closer, noticing horizontal striations and realized, "It's hand-tooled!" So, my question is this: When did they stop hand-tooling milk bottles? At first we believed it was 1920s. But if it follows the rules of soda-pop bottles, it should have been totally ABM by 1910 (except in certain cases.) Is it 1920s, or is it earlier? The first image is the body's seam. Second is not really visible in photos, but shows the seam becoming faint. The third is the mouth.