Please help a new bottle collector identify his first find

[callum2401]

today while walking on the beach in north west england i found a bottle. After reasearch i found out it was a medicine bottle. The rubber stopper has a "2" imprinted on it. Can someone date it please? thanks

 

[zecritr]

if the seam on the bottle goes all the way up then it was made on a machine,so after 1911 or thereabouts most likely, the 2 means 2 ounces most likely. nice looking bottle.

 

[botlguy]

Hi Callum, welcome to these forums. In order to be called a collector you need to have at least 2 of something, so get out and find another bottle or 100. [] Your first find appears to be an Iodine or Mercurochrome bottle because of the applicator stopper. I suspect the age is from early 1900s but we would need a bit more information about the side seams to know for sure. Even then, with this sort of bottle, it might be a guess. Nice start to a collection, keep it up and come back and share your finds.

 

[callum2401]

The seam goes all they way up the side and is quite prominent on the neck. You can see a slight gap on the neck towards the stopper and that runs all the way to the bottom.

 

[zecritr]

And yes Welcome to the Forum love that bottle,Cool for the First of hopefully many for you hopefully someone who knows more about tha kind of Bottle comes along.would love to know more about it myself

 

[ScottBSA]

I agree with botlguy because of the applicator style. If you found this on the beach, it still has its top and it is that clean, I am supposing that it has been recently washed out of a dump site. Are there streams flowing into the ocean near where you found this? There may be a dump not to far from where you found this. Keep looking. Scott