The many faces of Dr Hostetters

[ctbottledigger]

I am no writer by any means but i will try this out and see what happens.I have being reasearching Dr Hostetters lately as i own many of them and i have noticed the many different Bottoms on the bottles so i figured this could be a fun thing to try and figure out. so far i have found all of these diff bottoms on Hostetters that i own.L&WL&W/4L&W/10I.G.CO.L. /2I.G.CO.L. /3I.G.CO.L. /5AGW/CAGW/E280/I.G.CO.L.S McKEE & CO/110C (with a 6 inside of it)A & DHC./MX (large x)AA.Ix (small x)Cupped baseAll i have time for right now ill try to get back on later and add some more. if anyone has some that i don't please feel free to add them.[h4] [/h4]

 

[MichaelFla]

I have two, marked as follows: I.G.Co. / 488

 

[nhpharm]

Mine says W. McC & Co/C

 

[sandchip]

Here's mine.

 

[cowseatmaize]

Mines like yours sandchip, but a 3. What is that?, a lousy 6 I guess.

 

[ctbottledigger]

Spent a lot of hours not sleeping last night doing some research on the subject and found a Lot of different mold types find a few articles on Hostetters and took what i could gather from the articles and put them into the list. It seams Mc& Co made the most variants im still trying to figure some of these out its like a code from National Treasure. Dots slashes diamonds over slashes lol etc ok here we go.Embossed slashdot in center2 dots in center3* (Asterisk like symbol)Improved pontilGraphite pontilL & W
L & W 1
L & W 2
L & W 3
L & W 4
L & W 5
L & W 6
L & W 7
L & W 8
L & W 9
L & W 10
L & W 11
L & W 12 (2 IS BACKWARDS)
L & W 13
L & W 14
L & W 15 (L is backwards)
L & W 16
L & W 17
L & W 18
L & W 19
Mc C (embossed slash marks on top and bottom inside a depressed circle)
W.M.c & Co. (arched in a depressed circle )
W.M.c & Co. (arched in a double depressed circle )
W.M.c & Co. PITTS - (arched in a depressed circle )
W.M.c & Co. PITTS - X IN CENTER(arched in a depressed circle )
W.M.c & Co. arched around a D in center inside a depressed circle
W.M.c & Co. arched around a A in center inside a depressed circle
W.M.c & Co. arched around a B in center inside a depressed circle
W.M.c & Co. arched around a E in center inside a depressed circle
W.M.c & Co. arched around a G in center inside a depressed circle
W.M.c & Co. arched around a 1 in center inside a depressed circle
W.M.c & Co. arched around a 6 in center inside a depressed circle
W.M.c & Co. arched around a 7 in center inside a depressed circle
W.M.c & Co. arched around a 9 in center inside a depressed circle
W.M.c & Co. PITTS - Around the number 10 inside a depressed circleW.M.c & Co. PITTS - Around the number 11 inside a depressed circleW.M.c & Co. in a straght line acrossed middle of circle over the number 4S.McKEE & Co. Arched around depressed circle top of letters face center around number 1S.McKEE & Co. Arched around a 1 in center inside a depressed circle letters normalS.McK & Co. Arched around a 1 in center inside a depressed circleS.McK & Co. Arched around a 2 in center inside a depressed circleS.McK & Co. Arched around a 3 in center inside a depressed circleS.McK & Co. Arched around a 4 in center inside a depressed circleT .W & Co Arched around a M in center inside a depressed circleA & D .H. Arched around a A in center inside a depressed circleA & D .H. Arched around a B in center inside a depressed circleA & D .H. Arched around a C in center inside a depressed circleA & D .H. Arched around a D in center inside a depressed circleA & D .H. Arched around a E in center inside a depressed circleA & D .H. Arched around a F in center inside a depressed circleA & D .H. Arched around a G in center inside a depressed circleA & D .H. Arched around a H in center inside a depressed circleA & D .H. Arched around a I in center inside a depressed circleA & D .H. Arched around a J in center inside a depressed circleA & D .H. Arched around a K in center inside a depressed circleA & D .H. Arched around a L in center inside a depressed circleA & D .H. Arched around a M in center inside a depressed circleA & D .H. Arched around a N in center inside a depressed circleI G C o L Straight acrossed number 62 above letteringI G C o L Straight acrossed number 80 above letteringI.G.Co. numbers 1 thru 79 Straight acrossed depressed circleI.G.Co. Over Letter A in depressed circleI.G.Co. Over Letter B in depressed circleI.G.Co. Over Letter M in depressed circleI.G.Co. Over Letter Q in depressed circleI.G.Co. Over Letter P in depressed circleI.G.Co. Over A dot in depressed circleI.G.Co. Over A Diamond in depressed circleI.G.Co. Over A Triangle in depressed circleAGW/C
AGW/E
10
C (with a 6 inside of it)
X (large x)
A
A.
I
x (small x)
Cupped base ok this is about as full a list as i can find i must have seen every hostetter ever put on the internet and researched at least a 20 articles. thank you all and good night time for sleep lol

 

[botlguy]

I can add: I.G.Co L over 6 and 12

 

[sandchip]

Mines like yours sandchip, but a 3. What is that?, a lousy 6 I guess.

I just always figured it said 62, but you've got me wondering now. It don't even come close to looping around to make a decent 6.

 

[ctbottledigger]

M over a dot inside depressed circle

 

[ctbottledigger]

Found another A G W Over W