Steve/sewell
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Warren the Whitney glass works had a huge presence in the city of New York in the mid 1800s.
The glass works Clientele list of 1865 shows a Whitney Patent inside screw stopper for this bottle.
It would be safe to assume that if they were producing inside screw stopper enclosures for this bottle that
they would have access to the mold for the bottle as the tops were usually LTC type.
I cant see them importing topless bottles to put their inside screw stoppers on them.Although rare the bottle does exist .
I also believe that they were produced in the Lancaster glass works in New York state and this alone explains
the different colors we sometimes see in a lot of the bitters bottles.
The Whitney glass works and the larger glass works located in New York state at the same time were the makers of
the following Bitters bottles also,The Fish Bitters,The Dr. Fish Bitters, National bitters,Plantation Bitters,Drakes Bitters,
(that is the reason for varying log amounts on these bottles) being made at more then one glass works.There were only so
many glass works capable of turning out the mass amounts of these bottles.The Whitney glass works were enormous in
size in their peak years from the 1860s through the early 1880s.
The glass works Clientele list of 1865 shows a Whitney Patent inside screw stopper for this bottle.
It would be safe to assume that if they were producing inside screw stopper enclosures for this bottle that
they would have access to the mold for the bottle as the tops were usually LTC type.
I cant see them importing topless bottles to put their inside screw stoppers on them.Although rare the bottle does exist .
I also believe that they were produced in the Lancaster glass works in New York state and this alone explains
the different colors we sometimes see in a lot of the bitters bottles.
The Whitney glass works and the larger glass works located in New York state at the same time were the makers of
the following Bitters bottles also,The Fish Bitters,The Dr. Fish Bitters, National bitters,Plantation Bitters,Drakes Bitters,
(that is the reason for varying log amounts on these bottles) being made at more then one glass works.There were only so
many glass works capable of turning out the mass amounts of these bottles.The Whitney glass works were enormous in
size in their peak years from the 1860s through the early 1880s.
