What's the best ketchup bottles

[east texas terry]

 

[JerryN]

 

[Bernie19]

I dug this one in a TOC dump. Caught my eye because it wasn't a screw top. Never seen one with this type of closure. Maybe an off brand ketchup? Anybody seen a top like this on a ketchup?

 

[ROBBYBOBBY64]

I dug this one in a TOC dump. Caught my eye because it wasn't a screw top. Never seen one with this type of closure. Maybe an off brand ketchup? Anybody seen a top like this on a ketchup?

That is an odd one. Maybe English? P.S. nice ketchup collection. I like that you've labeled them all. Thanks for the pictures. I have one bottle I cannot identify. You know this mark. Looks like a Hazel atlas mark but it isn't.
ROBBYBOBBY64.

 

[sandchip]

These are probably up there for the best ketchup bottles
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You nailed it. The Shriver's tops them all.

 

[willong]

These are probably up there for the best ketchup bottles
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Damn! If discussion and photos posted to this thread had not already done so, that array of extraordinary antique bottles certainly should provide an affirmative answer to the question posed last Thursday: " Is there such a thing as a Best or Good Ketchup Bottle? Most the ones I dig are pretty plain & Slicks & thrown back into the Hole or Dump. LEON. "

 

[EdsFinds]

Okay, like everyone else, I see a lot of these old "nondescript" ketchup bottles from the 60s and 70s. For the most part, I ignore them, since they have no real appeal or value. However, I am encouraged after seeing pmustang27s collection since I have the same more or less ones that I found and kept. But, yeah, not much value in ketchup bottles unless they are really appealing, like ROBBYBOBBY64s OR they are from the early 1900s. Here is one I just found that is interesting (I'm pretty sure it is a ketchup. Let me know if I'm way off my rocker!). Please excuse the bottom picture, it came out as green, but it is clear in color.

 

[waynera]

Is there such a thing as a Best or Good Ketchup Bottle? Most the ones I dig are pretty plain & Slicks & thrown back into the Hole or Dump. LEON.

 

[waynera]

of them
I am different i save a few of them for the history of them and also i display them
so the public see can them [ i also leave some of them at the dump to ]

I have dug many old ketchup bottles dating back to 1880's... the hexagon shaped Heinz are definitely the most enduring design compared to other bottles; few are ever found broken.. that design has endured a century of ground freezing, dozers pushing basements in... bottles are pre-steel capped versions

 

[UncleBruce]

I dug this one in a TOC dump. Caught my eye because it wasn't a screw top. Never seen one with this type of closure. Maybe an off brand ketchup? Anybody seen a top like this on a ketchup?

The top is called a PHOENIX BLOB. It is still an active patent and in use today though not in this small size. I have a lot of beer bottles that have this lip on them.