Thorndike Paper label

[Fleetbag]

I was looking for some idea of age and value of this bottle. I don't why I didn't take a pic of the entire bottle showing the lip, I wasn't thinking about posting it hear when I took the pictures. It is an early lip and not machine made? It is not blob top.... Thanks Much appreciated![attachment=20151104_143006_resized.jpg] [attachment=20151104_143006_resized.jpg] [attachment=20151104_143010_resized.jpg] [attachment=20151104_143035_resized.jpg]

 

[Dansalata]

i think its not the right label..i have the same bottle...

 

[botlguy]

That bottle with that label is FANTASTIC, must be 200 + years old and worth thousands. Thanks so very much for sharing your treasure with us. Please come back again and again and share your multitude of other TERRIFIC finds with us. Am I off the TROLL list now? Sorry, I just couldn't resist. [] Actually I don't have any worthy input on this one. Jim

 

[cowseatmaize]

[][][][] Jim The Siegert bottles I know of were apéritif or digestif cordials or "bitters". I think Dan is correct unless Siegert is on the label also.

 

[nhpharm]

The bottle is probably 1890's and the label dates to the 1920's. I suspect it is a more recent marriage (label pasted on a bottle recently) but both components do have some age and t is always possible that the bottler was saving money by bottling in re-used bottles (though unlikely in this case because it would have been very hard to cap this bottle with soda inside...would have blown a cork right out). Value of the Siegert bottle is probably about $5.

 

[2find4me]

A typical paper label ginger-ale would usually have a crown top, and occasionally a blob top. This bitters has either a cork style "whisky" top, or a "lea & perrins" style top. I'm not sure what the exact names for these tops are, this is just what I call them. Also if you read the entire label you would expect to see Siegert listed somewhere on it. I am guessing this bottle had foreign origins?

 

[sunrunner]

most defiantly not the right label for this bottle . Siegert was not a ginger ale .

 

[botlguy]

One thing I will post here, if I may, is that if one peruses old city directories one would find listings for "used bottle sellers". (not that exact title) This would indicate that some businesses commonly placed their products in cast off bottles and placed their labels on them. I have seen a substantially large number of these over the years. Example: Furniture polish in a (unembossed) tooled crown top beer bottle - Spokane, Washington. Jim Sorry for the double post but I REALLY wanted to make my point. [8D][&:][][]

 

[botlguy]

One thing I will post here, if I may, is that if one peruses old city directories one would find listings for "used bottle sellers". (not that exact title) This would indicate that some businesses commonly placed their products in cast off bottles and placed their labels on them. I have seen a substantially large number of these over the years. Example: Furniture polish in a (unembossed) tooled crown top beer bottle - Spokane, Washington. Jim

 

[cowseatmaize]

OK, I'll leave the second one.