Need ID on an ink?....COSTAR on bottom.

[OmegaFirefly]

Hello Diggers,
I have this bottle what looks like an ink. It is cylindrical in shape, is 2-3/4" high, and 2" in diameter at the base. It is very crude looking, is aqua color and has embossed on the bottom COSTAR.
If anyone has information on this, please contact me. I have other photos if you want to contact me directly at omega2012@centurylink.net
Thanks very much,
Dave

 

[OmegaFirefly]

Another COSTAR photo of the bottom

I dug this, what I think is an ink, in Fernandina Beach in the 70's when an old dump was opened up to bottle clubs for a short time. Perhaps some of you were there? It looked like a war zone when I arrived and there were 100's of diggers with their water pumps going. Some were even digging under some neighboring shanti's and the proches of the houses were falling down. It was mad fever and so exciting. We were finding bottles from the 1700's as well as from the 1800's. This little ink, or whatever it is, I found fairly close to the surface so it is probably from the 1800's. I found a lot of pontils that day and had to leave since I had to get back to Miami where I lived at that time. It killed me to leave and I'm sure some of you can sympathize with me.
So, if anyone has any knowledge about this little bottle, please let me know. My above message has one photo of the full bottle and I am leaving a photo of the bottom with this thread.
Thanks for your time,
Dave

 

[epackage]

RE: Another COSTAR photo of the bottom

poison powder for rats and vermin not an ink...

 

[AntiqueMeds]

RE: Another COSTAR photo of the bottom

COSTAR definately made bug powder. That one has a different form. Maybe their bed bug poison, it also came in a bottle.

 

[OmegaFirefly]

Thanks everyone.....very interesting discussion. You guys are tops!! Google could sure learn something from you all.
I thought it was an ink because when I Googled it, there is a company with this name who sells ink cartridges so thought it might be the same company which had survived all these years.
I will now say it is a poison for vermin and rats....maybe specifically for bed bugs.
Best regards,
Dave

 

[Poison_Us]

RE: Another COSTAR photo of the bottom

ORIGINAL: OmegaFirefly

There is more embossing under the COSTAR, it's weak but looks like STA....could be a second COSTAR, but the font looks different, & it's centered. I do have a double embossed KR-6b, so I know it happens....but it's too different to be that.

 

[AntiqueMeds]

RE: Another COSTAR photo of the bottom

Its the same embossing, THe glass just touched the embossing for a second while they were blowing blowing it and picked up a little of the embossing. Its a common effect for hand blown bottles.

 

[epackage]

RE: Another COSTAR photo of the bottom

Most likely not a poison, please check out this info I found.....Jim


https://www.antique-bottles.net/forum/m-461953/mpage-1/key-/tm.htm#462336