Thatcher steiny

[crkgrl]

Has anyone ever found one of these? I will try to get a pic. From reserach it looks like Thatcher was mostly milk bottles, although they went into these shorter beer bottles later. Cant find out much about the numbers on the base. It doesnt correspond with any of the plant and date codes I have found.

 

[crkgrl]

Picture 1 of Thatcher Steiney

 

[crkgrl]

Picture 2. The number is "38" at the bottom

 

[capsoda]

Hey Elisabeth, Here is the info about the Thatcher mark.

Thatcher Manufacturing Company/Thatcher Glass Mnfg. Corporation (c.1904-1985). First plant at Elmira, NY, but later many others were added including locations at: Kane, Pa; Streator, IL; Wharton, NJ; Mt. Vernon, OH; Lockport, NY; Clarksburg, WV; Olean, NY; Winchester, IN; Cedar Grove, WV; Parkersburg, WV; Lawrenceburg, IN; Muscatine, IA; Saugus, CA and Tampa FL. Mark is often indistinct and the 2 smaller letters may be illegible. This mark was first used about 1949 and is a variation on their earlier mark which was also MTC, but in a more legible format (see MTC mark).

 

[crkgrl]

Hey thanks, Capsoda,

So I guess the 38 at the bottom doesnt meen 1938?

It was pretty different the way I found the bottle. I run through a cemetery for exercise and often walk up the hill around some of the gravesites on my way back to the car. I saw the bottom only of this one, flush with the ground. It was buried neck down. I pulled it out gingerly. I guess one of the cemetery workers left it and it worked it's way up during drought.

Finding bottles this way just encourages me to be lazy and not do the heavy digging you guys do.[]