Need help identifying a purple bottle.

[b.ecollects]

Hello. Today I have an A.Peterson Toronto bottle I found at an antique store.

The bottle is embossed on the front with "A.Peterson Toronto" on the front, but there are no embossed lettering on the base, nor are there any makers marks on it.

From the look of it, it was made with a three piece mold, and from a source I go to in order to find the dates of bottles, dates between 1820 to 1870. That's all I roughly know about the bottle. I can't find any other sources on the internet about A.Peterson of Toronto Canada.

 

[saratogadriver]

Crown top beer or soda. Being a crown top puts it later. 1890 on? It's been nuked, exposed to light that has made it turn that slightly purplish color. It was likely aqua as made.

Jim G

 

[b.ecollects]

Crown top beer or soda. Being a crown top puts it later. 1890 on? It's been nuked, exposed to light that has made it turn that slightly purplish color. It was likely aqua as made.

Jim G

Thank you for the information.

 

[hemihampton]

Most likely made after 1900 in my opinion. LEON.

 

[DavidW]

Hi B.ecollects - The "crown lip" style was introduced on bottles in 1892. The bottle has been irradiated to change the color. The original color would have been a very light aqua, or clear. If left in the sun for awhile it might have changed to a light purple. But that shade of color is so dark it was most likely "nuked". Did that antique store have any other bottles for sale in shades of purple?

Sometimes people who nuke gobs of bottles sell them in large lots to flea markets and antique stores. Just a note- some bottles will turn pretty dark after a long time under the sun, but most will only turn to light shades of purple. It depends on how much manganese was in the glass "batch" (formula) when the bottle was first made.

 

[b.ecollects]

Thank you for the info. They did have a few other bottles that had the same shade of purple.

Hi B.ecollects - The "crown lip" style was introduced on bottles in 1892. The bottle has been irradiated to change the color. The original color would have been a very light aqua, or clear. If left in the sun for awhile it might have changed to a light purple. But that shade of color is so dark it was most likely "nuked". Did that antique store have any other bottles for sale in shades of purple?

Sometimes people who nuke gobs of bottles sell them in large lots to flea markets and antique stores. Just a note- some bottles will turn pretty dark after a long time under the sun, but most will only turn to light shades of purple. It depends on how much manganese was in the glass "batch" (formula) when the bottle was first made.

 

[saratogadriver]

Thank you for the information.

I couldn't tell if it was ABM or not. I knew the crow top came out some time in the early 1890s. But I suspect you are right at post 1900.

Jim G

 

[Leep1660]

1915-1923 A. Peterson, toronto. I have a small size clear version bottle myself in my collection

 

[mctaggart67]

Likely this bottle came up with the thousands and thouands Toronto's digging community brought to market in the 1990s and early 2000s. A few of these diggers took common bottles from the period around 1890 to 1920 and irradiated them to enhance amethyst and amber hues. I'd say that this bottle is from the beginning of the firm's existence.

 

[b.ecollects]

Likely this bottle came up with the thousands and thouands Toronto's digging community brought to market in the 1990s and early 2000s. A few of these diggers took common bottles from the period around 1890 to 1920 and irradiated them to enhance amethyst and amber hues. I'd say that this bottle is from the beginning of the firm's existence.

Okay, thank you for the information!