S.M. BIXBY BOTTLE

[shermanville ill]

BOTTOM HAS BI X BY.

all have a good un.........
SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS

 

[diggerjeff]

it is a glue bottle . i think they also made ink.

 

[shermanville ill]

Digger,
you got it right.

BiXby.................S.M.Bixby & Company, New York, NY. A prolific producer of ink, shoe polish and glue products. Their bottles are found in a variety of shapes, colors and sizes. Actual glass manufacturers who produced them are unknown.

have a good un
SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS

 

[GuntherHess]

I've see that bottle with a muscilage label. That falls under the glue heading.

 

[shermanville ill]

Gunther,
a mucilage bottle?????? No No No.
I can not tell people I found a"mucilage bottle"; all I would get are strange looks.

It is a glue bottle, a gum bottle, anthing but a "mucilage bottle."

all have a good un.........
SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS

 

[GuntherHess]

That's not bad... try telling people you dug a glass breast pump... or a Hoffmans Mixture For Gonorrhea bottle... how embarrasing.
Just the fact that you may be digging in an old outhouse is bad enough...

 

[Flaschenjager]

That's better than saying that you were handling a SPERM SEWING MACHINE OIL.[sm=tongue.gif]

Noticing the diamond shaped base - Most of these BIXBYs we dig have rounded bottoms.

 

[diginit]

BIXBY'S! Darn things got me hooked. Now my fingernails are always dirty, my clothes are trashed, my boots have holes in the toes, and I spend all my spare time looking for dumps to dig. Bixby's are to blame![]

 

[shermanville ill]

Diginit,
very, very nice collection.

have a good un..............
SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS

 

[diginit]

Thanks. They're all commons, but have a desirable shape. circa 1890 . Yours is worth maybe 5 bucks as are the others. Not bad considering that in 1915 the shoe polish sold for 7 cents a bottleLet me quote "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" Check this just for fun [ http://www.fldstone.com/BixbyHis.htm ]