Strange Shaped Arrowhead bottle

[smustang]

Thank You all very much for helping me ! []

 

[mtfdfire22]

You came to the right place from the looks of it. Congrats. That's the most concrete answer on a strange bottle I've ever seen. Red you amaze me.

 

[probe buster]

The McLaughlin Glass Company of Gardena, CA designed a machine for making the 5 gallon water bottles, then shortly after sold the business to the Arrowhead and Puritas Water Company in 1956. One of the McLaughlin sons, Don McLaughlin, continued to make glass at Arrowhead Glass Products Division for a number of years. He later operated his own 'home-type' business making odds and ends, including reheating and reshaping 5 gallon water bottles into forms such as yours and flatter fruit bowl shapes. He then sold them to a store known as Akron, much like Pier 1 Imports.

Here's a pic of one of Don's bowls: