Old Milk Bottle

[Johnny Rocky]

Found this old Milk Bottle but I can't seem to find too much on this company so any information would help. On the lower side it says BBGCO 48, and on the bottom it the numbers are 17 8.
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[CanadianBottles]

Hard to find info on the smaller dairies like that, often these were basically one family selling milk from their farm. It's from 1948, but that's about all I can tell you. I did find the address though, 65 Taylor Street in the 1933 directory: https://www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org/archives/files/original/ff9ff00442850fb00e93a0f330638d52.pdf

 

[Johnny Rocky]

Thanks for the help! Sort of a strange spot for a dairy farm I gotta say. On one side of the street is pretty dense housing mostly from the late 1800s and the others side is a development from the late 40s.

 

[Coled18]

Found this old Milk Bottle but I can't seem to find too much on this company so any information would help. On the lower side it says BBGCO 48, and on the bottom it the numbers are 17 8.
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The bottom has the mark of the Owens-Illinois Glass co, the “Diamond I O” <(I)>. The date code is to the right, with the 8 indicating 1938. The 17 is the plant no, in Calrion PA. BBGCO 48 on the heel with the Owens-Illinois on the base is listed from 1930-46, per the SHA link below. Also, Owens-Illinois bottles from the 40s usually have “duraglass” and almost exclusively have a period after the date digit.

BBGCO 48 on the heel is not a date code, rather a subsidiary plant/location code for the Berney-Bond Glass Co.

https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/BerneyBond.pdf

 

[CanadianBottles]

The bottom has the mark of the Owens-Illinois Glass co, the “Diamond I O” <(I)>. The date code is to the right, with the 8 indicating 1938. The 17 is the plant no, in Calrion PA. BBGCO 48 on the heel with the Owens-Illinois on the base is listed from 1930-46, per the SHA link below. Also, Owens-Illinois bottles from the 40s usually have “duraglass” and almost exclusively have a period after the date digit.

BBGCO 48 on the heel is not a date code, rather a subsidiary plant/location code for the Berney-Bond Glass Co.

https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/BerneyBond.pdf

Oh I totally missed that Owens Illinois mark, I'm so used to these having the date on the heel I scrolled right past it without seeing.

 

[CanadianBottles]

Thanks for the help! Sort of a strange spot for a dairy farm I gotta say. On one side of the street is pretty dense housing mostly from the late 1800s and the others side is a development from the late 40s.

Yeah I was thinking that was a strange location. I'm assuming either they renumbered the street at some point and it was actually further down at the end, with the cows on the land that was later developed as the housing co-op, or most likely the house was used as a backyard bottling operation/office but the cows themselves were somewhere else.

 

[Johnny Rocky]

Yeah that would probably make sense, a lot of the dead end streets around here used to be full roads that they never built on. Thanks for the help everyone!