Man w/huge fish amber embossed

[glopf43]

Hello all. I just dug up this pretty amber bottle 9 1/2" in hight, screw-top, Owens Ill. mark on base: 4<>8. As you can see in the photo it has a great embossing of a fisherman hauling a huge fish, nice color too. Any ideas on age, company, product, value, etc.

 

[Dirranbandi]

G'day

Your bottle is a Scott's Emulsion which used Cod Liver Oil and has been discussed on previous discussion threads - https://www.antique-bottles.net/forum/m_11916/mpage_1/key_emulsion/anchor/tm.htm#12018

The Digger Odell website http://www.bottlebooks.com/questions/1999miscel/question.htm lists the following information:
"Your bottle is a product of Alfred B. Scott & Samuel W. Browne, who began to manufacture Scott's Emulsion around 1876 in NYC. The famous man carrying a fish was their trademark and logo and was embossed on the bottle beginning in the 1890s. Your bottle probably dates between 1876 and 1890. By 1915 they had grown tremendously and had moved their business to New Jersey. The product was a very popular one and so the bottles are quite common and can easily be found for $3-5, slightly more with the embossed trademark.
Digger" .

I have attached a copy of their 1915 Advert for your information.

Cheers,

Dirranbandi

 

[glopf43]

Thanks Dirranbandi, I thought it was likely a cod liver oil product. Yummy! I dug it from a 1930s era dump. It still had a cap with lots of residue inside. Interesting smell too. I really appreciate the help...

 

[oldshoe4u]

https://www.antique-bottles.net/forum/m_16264/mpage_2/key_/tm.htm# About 1/2 way
Here's My scotts emulsion, but I don't have the guts to open it...

 

[madman]

heres mine these are cool bottles , even no there common mike

 

[glopf43]

Hey Oldshoe, I'm not afraid[]. Send it my way and I'll clean it up but then I'll want to keep it[]! I'll even pay for shipping...I've already cleaned some funky stuff out of some of my bottles; scott'a emulsion, embalming fluid, nail & shoe polish, peanut butter (about 50yr's old)[:'(]. It's always an dventure!
Thanks for the photo, madman!

 

[NORG]

Here's some of my Scott's Emulsion's...

 

[madman]

hey norg nice collection, what do you date those babys!! hey digger miester can i see a pix of the base of your bottle mike

 

[NORG]

madman, I think they're from the 1930's-1940's.

Rob

 

[diggermeister]

Hey Mike, Heres a pic of the bottom of my scotts bottle. Looks like a '4' and a '0' or '9'.