Need Help with Year

[BrentC]

How do you tell the year of manufacturing on a milk bottle? I have one that has a 43 on the bottom and an 18 on the heel of the bottle. It is a pint from the Waymart Dairy in PA.

Thank you.

 

[CanadianBottles]

1943 sounds like the date to me. It would fit the right timeframe for that sort of milk bottle.

 

[BrentC]

That is what I thought too.

Thank you.

 

[UncleBruce]

These machine made embossed milks run from about 1910-1940s. You might check the newspapers of the area for possible ads and this would give dates of operation. A lot of family type dairies sold locally and didn't produce much advertising.