RYANS GOLD MEDAL LIQUID BLUE Bottle

[TripleB]

Totally new to this. . . Just started looking around for cool bottles and I stumbled across a bottle I can't find ANY INFO on. . . Maybe you pros can help??

Ryans
Gold Medal
Liquid Blue
Manufactured
Only By
Wm. H Ryan, Phidala

 

[deepwoods]

I think this is a very cool,unusual bottle about which I confess,I am at a complete loss. Could this be a 'blueing' bottle? I never saw one in that form before.'Blueing'was a product that was a dye used I believe,for the hair.What else could "liquid blue"be? Anyway its a fascinating bottle.Any Philadelphia collectors out there?

 

[woody]

I've always thought that blueing was used to whiten the laundry. like bleach.

 

[deepwoods]

Woody I heard that too-and then somebody who was "sure" told me the thing about the hair..travelers tales,but now that you mention it I think youre right.Did you ever see a blueing bottle that looked like that?

 

[woody]

No, I can't say I've seen one like that bottle.
It is nice, though.
Most of the blueing bottles I get up here are "Sawyer's Crystal Blueing" bottles.

 

[sauceman]

Gunsmiths use blueing to blue the metal parts of guns, you can get liquid blue in plastic bottles though they are usually only small.

 

[IRISH]

Blueing is for making your white washing look whiter, Gunsmiths blueing is a different stuff that puts a light layer of blue oxide on the surface of the iron.

 

[olddump]

They are the laundry type of bluing I dug these from a dump that is 1870s to 90s. that is all I know they intrest me as my son is a Ryan and I sent him a set of them too that odd shaped one comes in a small size too. Here is a pic of three I have [I have the other small one too but can't place it at the moment] I don't get too good pics at night
sorry forgot to shrink it Good luck Tom, Olddump

 

[TripleB]

Thank You all SOO Much! I have recently been taking walks in a patch of woods looking for whitetail deer antler sheds, but instead of antlers I have been leaving the woods with bottles. Mostly ol'soda bottles, but somehow I stumbled across this Ryan's 'Liquid Blue' bottle; with only about a 1/2 inch of glass showing through the leaves, took about 10 minutes to get it out of the ground. I really think I can get into this bottle collecting hobby!