Unknown bitters ???

[dm19700]

Brimfield Antiques was this week...tons of great finds.

Got these two bottles and was told they were bitters. Not sure but they are beautiful shapes!

Both are man made. Seam stops below top.

Any info is appreciated.

 

[GuntherHess]

I've seen sauce bottles similar to the one of the left but not exactly the same.

 

[botlguy]

From a former BITTERS specialist of 30+ years: "If it isn't EMBOSSED bitters or have an authentic label, it AIN'T a bitters". Now, that is just my opinion along with 95% of BITTERS hardcore. To my knowledge there has never been an authentic BITTERS found in that shape. That does not mean it isn't a Bitters.

My input is just enjoy & appreciate them for what they are no matter the contents. VERY nice appearing bottles.

 

[GuntherHess]

they are sort of calabash form

 

[dm19700]

The bottles are 8" tall and 3.75" wide

 

[jays emporium]

ORIGINAL: dm19700


Both are man made.

Aren't all bottles man made, or are there some from other planets?

 

[KentOhio]

I would consider them to be ketchup bottles but they could have held something else. Neither of them are common and an amber ketchup bottle is a very hard thing to find.

 

[diggerdirect]

ORIGINAL: jays emporium

ORIGINAL: dm19700


Both are man made.

Aren't all bottles man made, or are there some from other planets?

I had a girl friend once that worked at the owens brockway plant here in upstate ny, so some of them bottles were 'women' made.

 

[NHkeith]

I would call them sauce bottles. I really like the amber one.

I own the blue one, and it was sold to me as a sauce bottle, (from the lyndeborough collectors/diggers I buy from here in new Hampshire).

 

[Ye Olde Prospector]

Overall shape reminds me of SSP (S.S.Pierce) Olive Oil bottles. They were embossed but smooth surface and very similar shape. Just my guess.

Cliff