Milk Bottle: Claycomb's Dairy?

[Crist Clapper]

Photo 4:

 

[Crist Clapper]

Photo 5:

 

[surfaceone]

Those photos are so unfortunately small. Blown way up, they're too small to convey any information. Take one of the whole bottle. Base, lip etc. Make them larger.

Maybe this size:

 

[Crist Clapper]

The photos were too large for a good upload... So here's a link to larger photos:

http://s1154.photobucket.com/albums/p535/MyWaggy/Claycombs%20Dairy%20Milk%20Bottle/?albumview=slideshow

 

[Crist Clapper]

Very cute! []

ORIGINAL: surfaceone

Those photos are so unfortunately small. Blown way up, they're too small to convey any information. Take one of the whole bottle. Base, lip etc. Make them larger.

Maybe this size:

 

[Crist Clapper]

How can I tell embossed or plate mold embossed? What is ABM, BIM, etc.,?

ORIGINAL: cowseatmaize

Welcome.
Clarion PA 1933 is my idea so that's something to start with. Did it or you come from that region? If so let us know. It would make a search a lot easier. Also a having an idea of how it was made like embossed or plate mold embossed, ABM or BIM etc. would be good. Got any actual pictures?

 

[Crist Clapper]

The hoot of it is that my uncle is third generation Claycomb who currently has the family dairy farm. He's a really informed person on all that is local. This is the first Claycomb's dairy milk bottle known to him. And good additional information... Got my homework assignment(s)!

ORIGINAL: surfaceone

ORIGINAL: Crist Clapper

Are there resources to research the location/history of Claycomb's Dairy?

Yes, there are. You're standing on em. Go talk to the older dairymen in the area. Go to the library, local historical societies. Go to Altoona and search the paper archive.
Milks are a local thing. The bottles, as a general rule, didn't travel too far from where they were sold.

Try the Claycomb Genealogy route.

Y'all have your own covered bridge,

there's probably folks on both sides that could provide information to you.

Where's the photo of your milk?

 

[surfaceone]

This would be a plate mould. It's made on an Automatic Bottle Machine (ABM) at O-I as previously noted.

I can't make out this lettering on the heel:

 

[Crist Clapper]

I have studied and studied the printing on the heel... No luck. What's the best way to raise the lettering to read?

ORIGINAL: surfaceone

This would be a plate mould. It's made on an Automatic Bottle Machine (ABM) at O-I as previously noted.

I can't make out this lettering on the heel:

 

[surfaceone]

What's the best way to raise the lettering to read?

You might try a rubbing to see if that will bring up the lettering. I suspect it might be the initials of a local dairy association.

So you guys are 3rd & 4th generation, but never knew your ancestors were bottling the milk?

Did you know of Jeanne Claycomb Berkey, of Somerset? She studied dairy manufacturing at Penn State, and seems to have married into the Berkey Creamery family.

Perhaps there are older relatives that could tell you more.