PP Bottle cobalt blue

[JOETHECROW]

one more,...the lighting is terrible, but it's raining right now.... Joe

 

[GuntherHess]

They may have dropped the BP CO after johnson bought them out?
i can see how people might think it was a poison, its small, blue , and an odd shape. it doesnt have the tell tale signs of poisons like skulls, hobnails, or ridges.

 

[1890sandigger]

Thanks for the info on the PP bottle, our mystery is solved, that is great you guys are so helpful!! I saw your note on Fahrney bottles and here is one we have if this is what you were talking about??

 

[1890sandigger]

Here are some more bottles from a mining dump, it seems the age of bottles vary with what we find there, 1800-1900s depending on how far down we go, but i thought the stoneware jug was a quicksilver but maybe not? and the other looks like perfumer perhaps, one has a screw cap *tiny perfume? and the other one not sure if its a ink or maybe perfume, it has ribs and i think its a machined top and the lines stop at lip, any info guys thanks!

 

[1890sandigger]

Another pic of the dug bottles from mine in AZ, thanks for any info!

 

[RED Matthews]

Hello 1890sandigger, When these bottles were made the mold metal was cast iron. The practice of peening unwanted letters in molds was a common, in existing molds to blot our an old identity, if the customers company was sold or changed hands. The mold makers just used a hammer and a blunt end chisel to move the iron enough to obliterate the lettering. After this was done they would bench the peened surface with a file - riffle tool to take out any loose or dislodged iron and to work the mold cavity out to where the letters couldn't appear too objectionable.

It was an expedient to machining out iron and putting an insert in the mold side. This is some times a slug plate proceedure, if they needed new cut lettering in the cavity.

Steel wasn't used because of the difference in thermal conductivity. Making a bottle in any mold is an extraction of temperature at a rate compatable with the stages of forming the objective product.
RED Matthews

 

[GuntherHess]

Fahrney bottles

Hi, I mostly collect the local Fahrney bottles from here in Maryland​

The Chicago bottless are related but not of as much interesting to me. .​

 

[kastoo]

Nice

 

[JOETHECROW]

I'm ressurecting this post for Mr. Fred,...He found one of these bottles down by the river today and had some questions about it.[]....That's cool that you found one of these Fred,...I always thought they were extra cool...! Joe

 

[JOETHECROW]

Note to self: .... Unless I want Fred to generously GIVE me a bottle he just found (and got wet feet doing so) DO NOT mention how cool I think it is... [] Check it out....Mr. Fred gave me this tiny (sample?) size "B.P.& CO." with the back to back "P's"...Here's a pic with my other variants.