show us your food bottles

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The base,watch your finger!

 

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The next two are a pair of sauce bottles,both dug from an early Illinois privy with my wife about a year later.One is embossed WESTERN SPICE MILLS and the other simply ST. LOUIS..They are both St.Louis bottles made for the same company and are both iron pontilled.These are probably my favorite bottles I own.

 

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Embossing

 

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another

 

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The bases

 

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The next is a very rare blue-green colored pickle jar,dug from a privy here in Ohio last fall.It is one of the most attractive designs I have seen on a bottle.Not a true cathedral but I am not complaining.It is embossed J. MCCOLLICK & CO. NEW YORK with floral designs on two of the sides.Enjoy

 

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Iron pontilled base on the pickle

 

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This one is Shriver's Oyster Ketchup in a killer green color dug this past winter.It came out of the hole encrusted in rust but cleaned up this nice without a tumble.This one dates to the civil war era and is not pontilled.Dug a broken copper-puce one with an iron pontil across the street.Would love to add more of these in different colors.

 

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Here is a rare 6 sided,smooth based cathedral dug a couple years ago.It is embossed HARISON & WILSON CINCINATI,O..I have heard of another but have not seen another of these.Notice they left a letter out of Harrison and Cincinnati to allow them to fit on the window panel.

 

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Embossing