nym9nyj7
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Thanks for that article, Surface, this is all starting to make sense now!
After reading it, I was confused as to how you connected the Winslow Glass Company to Owens-Illinois. So I searched and came up with this (not sure if you're as interested as I am, but I'll include the snip-it anyway):
In 1904 the Berney Glass Company and the Bond Glass Company merged to form the Berney-Bond Glass Company, which, in 1927, bought the Winslow Glass Company. Just three years later, however, it was the Owens-Illinios Glass Company that bought the Berney-Bond Glass Company and all of its plants.
Thus, my bottle could not have been made before 1930, because the Columbus, Ohio O-I plant did not exist until then. According to the second article I found, all O-I bottles made at the Columbus plant between 1930 and 1945 were only identified with a single number in the date area. However, in 1946, the Columbus plant began to use double-digits. Thus, as Jim said, the bottle HAS to have been made in 1936. [
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On a side note, the article I found also says that bottles produced at the Columbus plant have been found with date codes as late as '48. This is a year later than the diagram above says they were "switched" and two years later than the Business First article suggests they were converted. I'm sure somewhere between the three of them the truth doth lie. []
Anywho, here are some shots of my bottle!
After reading it, I was confused as to how you connected the Winslow Glass Company to Owens-Illinois. So I searched and came up with this (not sure if you're as interested as I am, but I'll include the snip-it anyway):
In 1904 the Berney Glass Company and the Bond Glass Company merged to form the Berney-Bond Glass Company, which, in 1927, bought the Winslow Glass Company. Just three years later, however, it was the Owens-Illinios Glass Company that bought the Berney-Bond Glass Company and all of its plants.
Thus, my bottle could not have been made before 1930, because the Columbus, Ohio O-I plant did not exist until then. According to the second article I found, all O-I bottles made at the Columbus plant between 1930 and 1945 were only identified with a single number in the date area. However, in 1946, the Columbus plant began to use double-digits. Thus, as Jim said, the bottle HAS to have been made in 1936. [
]On a side note, the article I found also says that bottles produced at the Columbus plant have been found with date codes as late as '48. This is a year later than the diagram above says they were "switched" and two years later than the Business First article suggests they were converted. I'm sure somewhere between the three of them the truth doth lie. [
]Anywho, here are some shots of my bottle!
