Little ones

[blobbottlebob]

There's another thread about big bottles so, why not some little ones as well. I always love those tiny medicines where they try to pack too much on the tiny front. Here is a perfect example. At right is a bottle that reads, A. V. BURK & SON / DRUGGISTS / WHITEWATER, WIS. This measures 2 & 1/2 inches tall by 1 & 1/8 wide and 3/4 inches thick. The bottle at right is a regular small medicine at about 3 & 5/8 inches tall. It is from the ESPENHAIN DRY GOODS CO / MILWAUKEE, WIS.

 

[blobbottlebob]

Here's a mini - jug (almost like a motto jug) but it might be a sample or advertising gimmick. It reads, HOFFMAN HOUSE / BLENDED WHISKEY / H.F. CORBIN & CO. / CINCINNATI

 

[morbious_fod]

I'll bite. Here are some of my actual vintage miniature sodas that aren't the later versions.

 

[morbious_fod]

A Hinds Honey and Almond Cream trial bottle with a Pinolium trial bottle.

 

[sandman]

I really like those mini sodas. I never see anything like that when i'm out . That blue mini 7up is awsome looking.

 

[blobbottlebob]

Those little sodas are shaped perfectly so that you wouldn't be able to tell that they were miniatures without the coke in back. Were they actually used to bottle soda (as a sample or something) or are they salt-shakers (or the like)?

 

[morbious_fod]

Actually the 7-up is supposed to be green, the color must be a bit off. The crazy thing is that it's just some type of paint.

These bottles were made by a company called Billy that made these as novelty items back during the 1950s and 1960's, they never contained the real soda, but were usually filled with fluid that mimicked the real thing, but all had "not filled with (insert brand here)" so that people wouldn't go drinking them. I love all of these, and there are quite a few more, but my favorites are the Orange Crush and the debossed mini Dr. Pepper (which I still don't have).

 

[TJSJHART]

hello peoples , thought i would show theses they fit in..we (the wife and i )picked them up in vegas about 25 years ago when we got hitch in the chapel of fountain in circus circus .

 

[TJSJHART]

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[cyberdigger]

I like the little fellers... []