Rare photo chemical bottle in riginal crate

[breebree]

I have a very old bottle from photo chemicals along with the crate it came in. It's the largest container like this that I have ever seen. Information? Worth?

 

[nhpharm]

That's a cool carboy or demijohn in the original crate! Since there is a postal zone code after Milwaukee, the crate dates to after 1943, as that is when those postal zones were established. The bottle could be earlier than that but likely is of similar age. There isn't a great market for these honestly so far as I have seen; home brewers are the ones that typically buy them and they use them for fermenting. A new one typically costs $50-$60 so if they can get old ones cheaper they will usually buy them. From a collecting standpoint, most people are looking for crated demijohns that are a bit older.

 

[CanadianBottles]

That's a cool carboy or demijohn in the original crate! Since there is a postal zone code after Milwaukee, the crate dates to after 1943, as that is when those postal zones were established. The bottle could be earlier than that but likely is of similar age. There isn't a great market for these honestly so far as I have seen; home brewers are the ones that typically buy them and they use them for fermenting. A new one typically costs $50-$60 so if they can get old ones cheaper they will usually buy them. From a collecting standpoint, most people are looking for crated demijohns that are a bit older.

Were they still making applied-lip demijohns like that after WWII? I know that sort of specialty glass tended to be hand-made later than typical bottles but I didn't think applied lips had continued that late even for specialty uses.

 

[nhpharm]

I've seen an awful lot of these applied lip demijohns in 1940's or newer crates, but they certainly could be ones that were reused from earlier times and re-crated. These big bottles were never cheap to make, so reuse was definitely the intent...$10 was a good amount of money in the 1940's.