Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Aqua Glass Horseradish Bottle [Owens-Illinois]

Figure 1

I found this (unfortunately) semi-broken horseradish bottle buried in the sand on the Kansas River. (Figure 1)





















Figure 2

The base has a circular Owens Automatic Bottle Machine suction mark. (Figure 2)

It is embossed with the 'diamond I-O' maker's mark, has the number 7 embossed to the mark's left, and the number 1 embossed to the mark's right.

Based on this information, we know that it was manufactured in the year 1931 at the Alton, Illinois factory.













Figure 3


Made by the Owens-Illlinois Glass Co., I was able to locate the exact catalog page for it from IGCo.'s 1926 catalog. (Figure 3)

This 6 oz. glass bottle is blue-green, or aqua, in color.  As the catalog page states, the bottle is made in their specially developed blue-green glass, revealing its contents as milk-white in color.

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