I stumbled across this 3 oz colorless glass Listerine bottle (4.50" x 1.75") yesterday at the beach on Little Talbot Island half-buried in the sand next to some pissed off endangered wild birds.
We can identify this bottle as machine-manufactured (the majority of bottles were manufactured this way by 1917) with a small-mouth, continuous external-threaded improved tooled finish mold design (only really seen on glass bottles after 1895):
-Two additional vertical seams, called ghost seams, run parallel to the main seams from the base of the bottle and vanish before reaching the neck--typical occurrence seen on Owens Automatic Bottle Machine manufactured bottles.
-The bottle is an unusual hybrid between cup-bottom mold and post-bottom mold: it has a horizontal mold seam running along the heel of the bottle, and the two main vertical side seams run up from that mold seam, AS WELL AS a circular "post" seam on the center of its base, with the two ghost seams connecting on either sides of the circle on the base and running up the sides of the bottle's body. The dating for the respective mold types sadly does not overlap, so we may assume that this druggist bottle was either manufactured before the mid-1870s or after the mid-1870s. So helpful.
-The thread on the finish wraps around the outside of the finish just over one full turn.
-There is a difficult-to-see horizontal seam that is just below the rim of the finish, as well as a horizontal seam that appears just below the neck of the bottle--another tell-tale sign of an improved tooled finish.
The base of this Listerine bottle has three lines:
"23"
[a simple diamond-shaped mark]
"68"
I believe that the diamond-shaped maker's mark belongs to the Diamond Glass Company, established 1891-1913. Following 1913, the company became Dominion Glass Company. The diamond logo was used until 1917, when Dominion Glass Co. began using a the "D-in-a-diamond" logo.
As far as dating the bottle goes, the numbers "23" and "68" most likely represent the mould number and year of manufacture. However, there's little indication as to which is which.
I Have a similiar bottle with a plastic cap and the words Lambert Pharmacy near the bottom inside the bottle there is a hollow glass tube with a ridge at one end and rounded on the other I assume it is a dropped or a dauber of some kind that was attached to the top
ReplyDeleteI have same bottle but bigger in size, with metal cap an mine has 4 an 69 stamped on the bottom. Any idea of the value?
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ReplyDeleteThe listerine bottles from the twenties had corktops, not screw on. The first type of screw on top wasnt used until the late 20's. Your bottle is from 68.
ReplyDeleteI found a Listerine cork type (no threads) Lambert Pharmaceuticals. Interested in the date
ReplyDeleteSo,my bottle is a cork bottle, has slight indentation on bottom, the numbers are "15". And two numbers separated by makers mark are"2 and a 7"
ReplyDeleteI have a similar bottle. Literine. With just the #15. Does anyone know what they are worth.
ReplyDeleteI found one same as yours but min has the number 14
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