Katz & Bestoff bottle

[john]

Here is a great piece of New Orleans culture that I found in my backyard while digging recently. Actually I found about 8 of them 2 feet down. Some old drug addict hiding a habit years back? Not much has changed in this city, then. I'm not sure how old they are, but the K&B company started in 1905 I think as a drug store. Any ideas on how old they are? Bottles are 2 1/2 by 1 1/8 inch
Also, should I try to clean the ones that are filled with mud, or leave them filled?
Thanks. John

 

[IRISH]

Hi john, welcome to the bottle forum.
The lip on them looks about 1920s to me, chemist/druggest bottles are good to collect in that they mostly have the place they came from on them and they are not hard to research the company history.
You are best to clean them as well as you can, just don't use hot water [] .