What color is my ink?

[botlguy]

ORIGINAL: soda bottle

I hesitate to throw a damper on this thread but have these been reproduced? If so I am not aware of it and am just trying to inform myself.

Good point but I dont believe they have ever been reproduced. This example has base wear and the same embossing seen on other J&IEM inks I have seen.

I'm REALLY glad to hear this, I was hoping it was so. I absolutely HATE reproductions and fakes.

 

[creeper71]

you people sure it's not citron ?

 

[botlguy]

Each monitor, each camera, each eye is different but I see no green in it at all which in my mind is required for Citron. I have a Citron LIGHTNING Fruit Jar and this and that look nothing alike.

 

[cowseatmaize]

Each monitor, each camera, each eye is different but I see no green in it at all which in my mind is required for Citron. I have a Citron LIGHTNING Fruit Jar and this and that look nothing alike.

Doesn't matter, call it citron and double the price.[][][]
People love citron or just saying that word????[][][][]

 

[RED Matthews]

HI ALL; I noticed in this thread a concern about this side spout ink bottle possibly being a repro. I sure woouldn't worry about that possibility. First of all it requires a mold. but most importantly it requires a formed parison that is almost shaped like a golf club head on a blowpipe. That side laying bubble of glass has to be placed and closed in the mold while it is still quite pliable to the pull of gravity. When it is closed int he mold the final blow has to be quickly done; because the center top of the bubbled parison can fall and touch the bottom glass - creating a bird swing in the bottle. Off-set or side set parisons made a lot of the AVON bottles a ( hell-of-a-job ) when I worked at Thatcher Glass. People got fired and even quit their jobs trying to make some of those like the Pheasant, Duck, and several that didn't get made on the I-S Machine. RED Matthews

 

[CazDigger]

There are repro unembossed igloo inks with the higher dome in bright colors that have fooled a lot of people, but the JEIM embossed ones are all good as far as I know. Nice find!

 

[Poison_Us]

Citron has a hint of green in it. So I wold call this a light honey amber.

 

[Stardust]

It is true we all see things differently [8|]
Here's a guide that may help.

http://www.antiquebottles.com/color/

 

[Calbottlegirl]

I would say yellow amber and I have never seen that color in an igloo. Awesome find!
Citron is more green /yellow.
Jan [8D]

 

[deenodean]

you might try and take a picture of it outside in natural light...I am sure you will get more opinions...regardless, what a SCORE..