Odd Colored Whittemore & Bixby

[Bixby Bill]

Here`s a Whittemore shoe polish that I recently picked up on fleebay to match the Bixby I have with the same weird coloration. They are light green with amber towards the base, almost as if the amber was heavier and settled to the bottom. It`s my guess that they were probably made from the same glass batch as the colors are identical. I`ve seen a couple other Bixbys like this, but never any other bottles until this one popped up. Does anyone else have a bottle with the same color?

 

[Road Dog]

Nice! you see that happen more in the fruit jars.

 

[Digswithstick]

Very nice Bill ! I know i have dug 30 or 40 of the clear ones ,but never have seen one that color no shards either.[]

 

[CazDigger]

I have seen medicines and soda & Beers that look like that, don't recall the name but I believe the ones I have seen were blown at a northern PA or southern NY glassworks near Binghamton NY. I had a SS coke from Binghamton once that looked like a mix of aqua, yellow-green and faint amber swirls. Very odd looking.

 

[JOETHECROW]

That's kind of coincidental Bill,...I used to dig the occasional "Whittemore Boston" bottle in citron shades, in one of my original dumps from the 70's, that is now covered by a giant wood proccesing plant... It was the site of an early boarding house, as I later learned when I became more interested in local history and lore... I also discovered bixby bottles (for the first time) in that dump..and would dig many diff. colors of them,...I was told they were common, and didn't know they weren't (in odd colors) back then...although I never dug a bixby with the odd amber towards the bottom like that. Those are cool and interesting bottles.

 

[donalddarneille]

Hello Bill,

Figures I searched French Gloss and not Whittemore when looking for other examples so did not see this post. Thanks for your response to my post, would you mind if I asked how much you paid for your example?

Here is a shot of mine, color is very close to what it looks like in person.....

 

[Bixby Bill]

I don`t remember exactly how much it was, probably in the $20 - $30 range. Usually if I come across an odd Whittemore I`ll pick it up if it`s reasonable, it`s getting very tough to find Bixbys I don`t have anymore. Plus I had the Bixby with the same color, so I just couldn`t resist it!

 

[rockbot]

I've been told that the citron glass was formed when the glass house added left over amber to the aqua batch. A friend of mine had two citron hutch sodas from my home town and they sold for $$$$

great color!

 

[coboltmoon]

CITRON GREEN SAWYER’S CRYSTAL BLUEING

 

[tigue710]

I had a dump that produced those whitmores in citron, amber and aqua glass, along with every shade bixby...

Another dump that madpaddler and I were digging threw all kinda of strangely colored commons at us. It was strange, father johns, sawyers, whitmores so many others in strange shades...

Here's a cool one found there, the syphol naythol co in teal!