Vapo Cresolene Co

[bottlerocket]

I found this bottle today and in researching on this site, it is a very common bottle. It is my first so please excuse the excitement.The history behind it is very interesting as you may know.I am wondering the age. It looks to be a BIM because of where the side seams disappear about 1/4 inch before the underside of the lip.I am assuming pre-1905? Your thoughts?It is a really attractive aqua blue.It does have embossed the US PAT of July 17 94 ENG JUL23 94.I guess until I find a dozen of them, this one is a keeper in my rookie collection.Thanks for looking.

 

[bottlerocket]

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[MichaelFla]

They are common, but I've only ever actually dug two of them. One was BIM (which I have lost) and the other ABM. They make a nice addition, whether common or not.

 

[bottlerocket]

It actually had a cork and some of the coal tar on it. Really nasty smelling stuff. I came from the Vicks up the nose era. I can't imagine what this smelled like heating up over a kerosine lamp.
Thanks for your comment. I think it is really a unique looking bottle.

 

[bottlerocket]

It actually had a cork and some of the coal tar on it. Really nasty smelling stuff. I came from the Vicks up the nose era. I can't imagine what this smelled like heating up over a kerosine lamp.
Thanks for your comment. I think it is really a unique looking bottle.

 

[botlguy]

I like your attitude about collecting. Keep that bottle as long as YOU decide it has a place in your collection. I've had bottles worth 1,000s and now I keep stuff that I couldn't get a nickel for. I enjoy getting new ones.

 

[bottlerocket]

Thank you, I have collected stamps, coins, arrowhead, and fossils all my life. At 53, this new bottle digging makes me feel young again.

 

[sunrunner]

the bottle came in amber,and blue.it is consiterd a poison becus of the contens. that being carbolic acid, and creasot.the bottle go,s as far back as the 1870s,and all the way into the 1950s.

 

[NHkeith]

I think its cool looking. I wanted to say it looks like a poison bottle with the bumbs all over it...

 

[slcholt]

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