BARNIZ lotion (?) bottle - Offered here is another likely lotion bottle made in milk glass that I believe is quite rare...or at least I've only seen a few and they were usually of colorless glass not milk glass.  The few milk glass ones I've seen came from the old Phoenix, AZ. dump as did this one back in the late 1960s.  I say lotion because a lot of milk glass bottles that come in the "druggist" bottle shapes (this one being a "Blake" style druggist bottle) held lotion.  However, Barniz is Spanish for "varnish" so maybe it was a lotion women used to "varnish" their skin soft?  I have a hard time imaging this bottle held regular varnish as it doesn't hold much - maybe 4-5 oz.

In any event, the bottle is embossed vertically with just BARNIZ though the base is embossed  with W. T. CO. (arched upwards) / P / U.S.A. (arched downwards) which is also for Whitall, Tatum & Co. - a marking they used the first two decades of the 20th century.  Base view to the left.  That was also the time frame for the noted Phoenix dump.  The bottle has a bit of dullness to the outside but hard to quantify due to the opaque glass color.  Otherwise it is free from chips, cracks or other damage.  It is 4.5" tall and has a tooled "prescription" style lip or finish in glassmaker speak.  Nice and believed rare item for your milk glass collection.  $30

Group of 3 small perfume bottles - (Click on the images to see much larger versions.)  At least I believe these to be all perfume bottles since they were all found together and the shoe and "flask" (upright one in images) almost certainly are.   The third "pipe" one could have had small, hard candies I suppose...or at least I remember little glass guns from my youth in the 1950s that were similar and had such in them. 

All these small bottles date from the 1870s to maybe 1890s, are made of colorless (clear) glass, are mouth-blown (aka "hand blown" or "hand made") in two-piece molds and have tooled single collar lips/finishes. Click HERE to see another different view image of the group.  All of these bottles are in very good condition with just a bit of haze from having been buried. Other individual bottle details follow:

-The shoe is 2.75" long, with the lip/opening being the toe of the shoe.  It has a minuscule touch (literally) of roughness in one small spot on the lip which can't really be seen but felt slightly.

-The "pipe" is 3+" long with fancy embossed hatch work around the bowl which has a segmented embossed bulbous cover.  There is also fancy fluting on the stem of the pipe.  The lip is very crude - almost looks applied, but I think it was just sloppy tooled.  There is a short "cracking-off" (the blowpipe) shallow flake just below the base of the lip which is smooth to the touch and simply an in-making crudeness feature. (The image above - click to enlarge - of the pipe has the shoe behind it to take an upright shot.)

-The "flask" (also with the shoe behind to make it stand up) is the only one with embossing. That is an embossed circle of rays with an inner circle having the letter "D" inside.  No idea what it stands for and the body is fairly wavy and crude. The bottle stands up fine on a flat surface; it is just being propped up with the shoe because of the cloth squishiness of my photo background.  It stands right at 3" tall and only about 3/8" deep at the base front to back...held very little perfume.  It also has two rings on the neck - one at the base and another about halfway up the neck.

Nice set of perfume bottles - a popular bottle collecting genre - and all for one price.  $35 

Three 19th Century English Stoneware "Bulk" or Powdered Ink Bottles -  These bulk ink bottles are definitively English made and, I guess, filled?  (I believe the P. & J. ARNOLD /LONDON impressed in the stoneware was the user - ink merchant - of the bottle?)  This listing includes all three of the stoneware or ceramic (depends on whom you ask) pictured here.  These were all found in the downtown Portland (OR) urban renewal area back during the late 1960s.  They are hard to date as such were made throughout much of the 19th century and into the early 20th according to Faulkner's excellent (and out of print like most good bottle books) book on ink bottles.   They note that these bottles were often shipped to the US and around the world as ballast in the holds of sailing ships.  Not sure that is true though I've heard it stated for round bottom & torpedo soda bottles also. (I've also heard that bricks and rocks were another form of ballast.)

Starting from the left in the image we have a wide, flaring mouth English-made bulk powdered ink bottle.  It is 6.25" tall, about 2.75" in diameter and has the same light brown glass top to bottom like all of these offerings.  It has small flake on the top of the mouth (click view of the mouth to see such) but is otherwise perfect.  I believe these wide mouth stoneware bottles were used for the powered ink that one could mix with water to reconstitute.

The middle bottle is about 9" tall and has no pour spout - just the short flared collar you can see in the images.  The impressed verbiage is as follows:  VITREOUS STONE BOTTLE / J. BOURNE & SON. /PATENTEES / DENBY & CODNOR PARK POA...(can't read the end that word) / NEAR DENBY / P. & J. ARNOLD / LONDON   Click middle bottle to see the the taller (middle) bottle's impressed inscription up close.  The bottle is in about perfect condition but does have a very, very faint hairline in the lip on the right side which may be a crack? It is essentially invisible and nothing is missing but it is there.  This bottle holds about a quart I would guess and is about 3.4" in diameter.

This is a smaller bulk ink with a bit different impressed verbiage.  Specifically it reads:  VITREOUS STONE BOTTLE / J. BOURNE & SON. /PATENTEES / DENBY POTTERY / NEAR DENBY / P. & J. ARNOLD / LONDON  Click bottle on the far right to see a close-up of the impressed inscription of the smaller pour spout example.   Click close-up of the upper portion of this same bottle to see the pour spout closer and the flake chip on the side of the lip.

All three for one price for this nice set of about perfect stoneware bottles.  Great decorator items!?  $40

J&IEM "Igloo" ink bottle - This ink bottle is of a style called "igloo inks" by collectors, though I have no idea what period glass makers called them.  Actually, this prompted me to take a quick look at the 1880 reprint catalog I have from Whitall, Tatum & Co. and they referred to them a "teapot ink" bottle.  The catalog also illustrates an example with the panels on the lower side - like this example - and called it a "fluted fountain stand."  So I guess that is the proper period glass maker terms for these bottles. (Still learn something new about historic bottles pretty much every day!)  They are also called "turtle" inks by collectors and in William Covill's 1971 book on ink bottles he referred to them as "domed, with offset neck ink bottles."

This mid to late 19th century style of ink bottle didn't seem to make it into the 20th century as I can't find an example in any of the early 20th century bottle makers catalogs I have.  The Faulkner's note in their great work on ink bottles from the early 2000s that the latest reference to the use of this style was in an advertisement in 1893 by the company that used this bottle (below).  I suspect that the style lost out to the popularity of cone inks.

These are not rare bottles but popular with collectors due to their unique shape; a shape used by numerous companies.  This example is embossed J&IEM on five of the 10 lower side panels.  Those initials stand for J. & I. E. Moore who operated out of Warren, Mass. beginning in 1865, according to Covill's book.  He also noted they used the style for "over 30 years" placing the end of these in the mid to late 1890s.

This example is about 1.5" tall to the top of the neck and a bit over 2" in diameter; it dates from the 1870s based on context it was found decades ago.  Condition of this bottle is about mint with just a touch of haze in the bottom of the bottle.  The roughly "cracked off" neck (cracked off from the blowpipe) is typical of these bottles made up into the early 1880s.  This example has that type of "finish" if you can call it that.  The only "finishing" done on the lip was to grind it a bit to make if somewhat smooth.  That is what appears to have been done to this particular example though the cracking off resulted in an in-making dip which shows in the second image and is typically seen with these earlier J&IEM igloos.   After the early/mid-1880s they had similar looking finishes but the makers(s) took the time to re-fire the cracked off surface and more finely tool the orifice.  In any event, a nice example of the style.   $25

CRANE & BRIGHAM / SAN FRANCISCO Florida Water bottles - These two bottles are excellent examples of scarce/rare Florida Water bottles produced (blown) and used in San Francisco in the 1870s.  Both are pictured to the right (click to enlarge).  The following is from Bill & Betty Wilson's 1971 book 19th Century Medicine in Glass - "This firm started as Crowell, Crane and Brigham in about 1856.  It was originally established by Eugene Crowell several years earlier as a retail drug store.  In 1859 Crowell & Crane pulled out and started their own business, which lasted for only two years and Crowell sold his interests to William H. Brigham.  The firm of Crane & Brigham became one of the largest in San Francisco.  Henry A. Crane retired in the early 1880s but lived on to the grand old age of 82 when he died in 1922."

The earlier company (Crowell, Crane & Brigham) was responsible for two of the great and extremely rare (I've never seen either in person) 1850s Gold Rush era embossed bottles from San Francisco: the cobalt blue, mug based, iron pontiled soda bottle embossed C C & B / SAN FRANCISCO and the rectangular, blowpipe pontiled medicine bottle embossed on three sides with CROWELL, CRANE & BRIGHAM - SARSAPARILLA & - YELLOW DOCK - both of which date from the 1856 to 1858 period.  As there were no glass makers in the West (or even west of the Mississippi) at the time these bottles were blown somewhere in the east and shipped around the horn to San Francisco.  Then they were filled, used and eventually tossed with few of the extant.  In any event, these two Florida Water bottles date from the 1870s with the smaller one possibly being from the very early 1880s.  Both were found in the downtown urban renewal areas in Portland, OR. back in the late 1960s.

Although neither are embossed as to contents, the shape of them is of a type that was used about 100% of the time for that particular product - a type of inexpensive perfume/cologne which some claimed to have medicinal properties.  Typical of the style, the neck is about as tall as the body in both sizes. 

The larger bottle has three of the distinctive curved "R's" in the spelling which are firmly attributed to an unnamed mold maker/engraver working in the Bay Area from the late 1860s into the early 1880s.  This person created scores of - maybe several hundred - molds for embossed bottles that have this type "R".  Click on the image to the immediate left to see a larger version showing the embossing.  Most of the bottles attributed to this mystery mold maker/engraver (don't know if he did both or not) were clearly embossed as being from the West (typically California, Oregon, & Nevada) like both of these bottles or used by companies historically known to be operating in the West.  The smaller example has no "R's" in the embossing to curve though the "look" of the embossing is identical to its larger brother so it is certainly a product of the same mold maker.  Both were blown in the type of deeper blue aqua glass commonly seen with bottles blown at the San Francisco Glass Works or Pacific Glass Works or the combined company (San Francisco & Pacific GW) after merging in 1876.  The larger example is very much the "fiery" deep aqua color with the smaller one being a bit more muted but still of the same look in general.

The larger example is very scarce but more abundant than the smaller size in my experience.  It is embossed CRANE & BRIGHAM / SAN FRANCISCO vertically inside a deeply indented panel.  It is 9" tall, has a crudely applied "oil" style finish or lip, and smooth somewhat indented or domed base.  Click close-up of the applied lip to see such.  This bottle is a beauty and one of the finest example I've ever seen.  It has no post-production issues, i.e., no chips, cracks, pings, nibbles or even really any staining as the "fire aqua" glass from the Bay Area during that era was quite resistant to staining or patination.  The glass is fairly crude with decent whittling, a few bubbles and neck stretch marks. There are even a few specs of the original foil capsule showing on the upper neck!  Great example.  $85

The smaller and rarer example is also embossed vertically inside a deeply indented panel in a much more abbreviated manner (not as much room as the big bottle) with  C. & B. / S. F. although that says enough to make it certain to have been Crane & Brigham.  It is 6.25" tall, has a tooled "oil" style finish or lip, and a more proportionally indented domed base than the larger example.  The glass is a medium blue aqua and the neck is crude and a bit wavy on the inside from the use of the lipping or finishing tool.  The bottle is in very good condition though does have a bit of staining inside the shoulder, a bit of outside light dullness and a small flake at the heel on the backside.  Click close-up of the heel to see the latter issue.  Overall a nice example of a very rare SF Florida water (a recent sale of a mint one on eBay was for $280+).  $100

Amber Cone Ink - This is a nice amber cone ink dating from the 1890s to 1910 period.  This was found in Portland, OR. back in the late 1960s.  The color is a pleasant medium honey amber, it has a "bead" type tooled lip or finish, smooth base (a faint number "2") and is a bit under 2.5" tall.  Not much else to say about it that can't be seen in the image (click to enlarge) besides it is near mint with only a few faint small scuff marks; no chips, cracks or staining.  Nice example!  $35

LOW'S / EXTRACT - This is a small bottle found decades ago in the urban renewal portion of downtown Portland, Oregon.   Based on that fact and that I can't find any information on it, I believe it to be Western (CA.) in origin (the product contained in the bottle) but I can't say that for sure.  I used the bottle as one of many to illustrate the "Flavoring Extracts" section of the Food Bottles & Canning Jars typology page on my educational Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information website as it is a variation on the them of the "ball neck extract" bottle that was popular during the last half of the 19th century through at least the first third of the 20th.  Below is the verbiage from that description:

LOW'S / EXTRACT -  This relatively early (1860s to 1870s), ball neck extract bottle was probably used by a Western American (likely San Francisco) business as these bottles seem to be found only in the West; this example was excavated in Portland, Oregon (empirical observations).  It is 4.8" tall, has a early crudely tooled "prescription" finish and blown in a cup-base mold (both consistent with smaller bottles having these attributes earlier than larger bottles), a lack of mold air venting and overall crudeness commensurate with the relatively early manufacture. It was made with a non-manganese dioxide decolorized glass that actually has a straw tint possibly indicating the glass was decolorized with arsenic and/or selenium.  Click base view to see such; this image also shows the straw tint to the glass.  Click side view to see such.  Both these images show that the bottle is basically rectangular in shape with widely beveled and inwardly curved corners.  This is a shape indicative of the earlier, pontiled and non-pontiled (like this example) extract bottles used in the United States from the 1850s to possibly early 1880s (empirical observations).

The bottle is just under 5" tall and has a tooled one part finish which is somewhere between the "bead" and "prescription" style.   It also has the ring on the neck which was typical of extract bottles and was referred to as a "ball neck" instead of a ring.  Click close-up of the neck and finish to see such.  As noted in the excerpted paragraph above, it dates from the 1860s to 1870s based on the context it was found which included pontil scarred medicine and hair dye bottles.  Even though quite likely used by a Western concern, the bottle was likely blown in the East if the dating I noted is correct as it would have possibly pre-dated the first glass company in the West.  This is all based on speculation and circumstantial evidence but I think certainly possible.  The bottle itself is in essentially perfect condition with just a few virtually invisible wisps of water staining on the inside.  Interesting and quitet scarce extract bottle!  $25

PRICES / PATENT / CANDLE / COMPANY / LIMITED (English Registry marking) - These English (company based in London) bottles are popular with bottle collectors here and abroad due to the unique wedge shaped bottle, and of course, the deep cobalt blue color.  The product contained in these bottles were different types of "toilet soaps" with interesting names like "Buttermilk", "Court Bouquet" and dozens of others.  It was reportedly sold all over the world including the US.

The registry mark (a diamond shape with various code information) at the bottom of the embossing decodes the date the container was registered - I think the equivalent of a patent in the US?  This one has an "A" to the left of the centered "Rd" (which stands for "Registered") indicating the month of manufacture was December, the "4" to the right is for day of the month (4th) and the "Y" above Rd is for the year - 1850.  So this container (not product?) was registered December 4th, 1850.  The "6" at the bottom is for the registering entity which must have been Price's Patent Candle Company.  These registry markings don't allow for the determination of an actual bottle manufacturing date since all of the ones I've seen had this same exact marking.  (For more information on these markings see the link I used for interpreting this example - https://storage.snappages.site/y3h077nvhv/assets/files/English-Registry-Marks-%E2%80%93-Kovels.pdf  .)

Anyway...this example has a crudely applied "mineral" finish...or that is the closest finish type I can match it too.  (Click on the following link to see the discussion of the mineral finish/lip on my Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information Website at this link: https://sha.org/bottle/finishstyles.htm#Mineral%20or%20Double%20Oil ) Click upper body, neck and lip/finish to see such.  The bottle is 7.5" tall and 3" wide x 2.25" deep at the base.  The base contains an indented rectangle with no embossing; click base view to see such.  The back is not embossed an certainly had the label early in it's life; click reverse side view to see such.

Condition of the bottle is very good with no chips, cracks, dings or other post production damage.  It does have a bit of external wear here and there, the most noticeable being on the right side of the front embossing panel (click on the images to the left to see such).  The majority of the bottle surface however is shiny and bright.  The inside of the bore just below the finish rim has a ledge with some residual cork adhering indicating the bottle was sealed with a club sauce/shell cork type closure.  (See the discussion of such on my Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information Website at the following link: https://sha.org/bottle/closures.htm#Glass%20&%20Cork%20closure. )  A nice example of these deep cobalt blue English bottles...looks great in a window!  $195

Wickered & handled miniature demijohn "cologne" bottle -  The wicker and handles are, of course, just embossed on this cute little bottle.  These are early American (pre-Civil War) bottles that were largely produced as containers for cologne, though other "...cosmetic liquids as well as cologne and toilet or "sweet" waters" according to McKearin & Wilson's 1978 book "American Bottles & Flasks."  They dated the large and interesting group of Antebellum cologne bottles to "183o-1860s."  The open oval label space on the reverse (second image to the left) would have told the story about the contents if the label was still there, but it is long gone.

This example - like most of the earlier ones I've seen - has a "blowpipe" style pontil scar (right image to left) which was formed by using the end of a (in this case) very small diameter blowpipe doing double duty as a pontil rod.  (I discuss pontil types at length on my other educational "Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information Website" on the following linked page:  https://sha.org/bottle/pontil_scars.htm ) I have two of these bottles and a quick comparison indicates they were made in totally different molds though upon casual looking appear identical.  They are not - having different looks to the wicker embossing, the faux handles and other subtle features - indicating that these bottles were either made over a long period of time (wearing out molds) or were made by different period glassworks...or both.  (I've also seen later examples which are not pontiled, were blown in a cup-base mold and have tooled finishes dating them to the later portions of the 19th century or even early 20th.  It was a popular style for cologne.)

This offered example is about 2.75" tall, has an inwardly rolled "straight" finish or lip, made in a true two-piece "hinge" mold and of a pale bluish aqua glass.  This example is perfect mint condition with no chips, cracks, or staining; I doubt it was ever buried.  It does have a bit a little wear on the base from sitting somewhere for at least a century and a half.  $60

JAMES S. / MASON & Co umbrella ink -  Here is a quite rare pontiled and embossed umbrella ink from Philadelphia, PA.  It is not listed at all in Covill's 1971 "Ink Bottles and Ink Wells" book though it is shown in the Faulkner's more recent (2009 second edition) book on inks.  It is from a company dating back to the early 19th century which primarily produced and sold blacking (aka shoe polish) although did sell black and blue writing ink.  The Faulkner's book noted that the company employed over 200 people and was the largest blacking company in the U.S. producing 10 million boxes of blacking per year as reported in an 1859 book!  Ink was a minor product though they did enough business that they used at least 4 different bottles - 3 being "bulk ink" bottles and the other this umbrella ink.  Apparently they stopped advertising ink in 1867 which also helps explain the rarity of the bottles and those they did use are all pontiled.

A quick check of the FOHBC auction results page shows that a few of these umbrella inks have been sold at auction from 2010 to 2020 ranging in hammer prices of $250 (2010) to the last one being 2020 for $425 (plus commissions).  There was also a "light blue green" example that sold for $550 and only one of the bulk inks shows up during that period.  The earliest auction example ($250) sounds like it could be this one I acquired recently (more below).  Suffice to say that these umbrella inks are desired by ink bottle collectors since embossed pontiled umbrella inks of any type are not common and this is apparently a rarer one.

As to the detail of this offering, it is a light bluish aqua glass, 2.3" tall, has a bold and sharp blowpipe pontil scar on the base as well as a cracked off, re-fired and rolled (inward) finish.  The glass is nice and wavy/whittled and has almost no staining and what there is is very hard to see (it may have been professionally cleaned?).  Click reverse view to see the back side of the bottle away from the embossing.  This bottle does have a very small shallow chip (maybe 4mm long and little depth) on the edge of the base.  It is shown in the following linked image with a squiggly arrow - base view.  The 2010 (first listing on the FOHBC auction report) example sold by Glass Works Auctions notes that it was ""Lightly cleaned to its original luster. Also a tiny chip is located on the edge of the base."   Sounds like it could possibly be this bottle.  The embossing is also quite bold; see the following links showing the embossing close-up - JAMES S. embossing panel; MASON & Co embossing panel.   All in all, this is a very nice example and maybe at a bargain price.   $250

Rarely seen, oval J. H. CUTTER WHISKY tray!  This is one of those items that I don't really collect but ended up with it many years ago as part of a trade for an Oregon bottle.  It is a metal serving or advertizing tray which measures 16.5" top to bottom and 13.75" at the widest side to side.  The center is dominated by a sailing vessel (see next paragraph) which has MOORMAN on the bow as the boats name.  Cool! (Click on the images to the right for a closer look at the details.)  The narrow banner coming off the upper main mast has C. P. MOORMAN & CO.  To quote John Thomas's Whiskey Bottles of the Old West - "Charles P. Moorman was a partner of John H. Cutter in the manufacture of Cutter whiskey in Louisville, Kentucky and the only person besides John Cutter (who) knew the secret of distilling J. H. Cutter whiskey"  (Thomas 2002). 

Side note:  Having served in the U.S. Coast Guard 50 years ago (where did the time go?) I am aware that their largest ships were referred to as "Cutters" - I having spent 2 or my 4 years on the U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Winona.  It was, of course, diesel powered with no sails...though not likely faster that that sailing "cutter" if the wind was up!  A search online finds that the illustrated ship is indeed a single masted "cutter" style sailboat and that the name is also used to refer to a vessel used by a  "governmental enforcement agency" - like the USCG.  Click the following link to a Wikipedia article on the subject:  cutter discussion.  So the illustrated ship fits the brand name perfectly!  But I diverge... 

The sail also has the words OLD / CUTTER / WHISKIES.  Within the inset portion of the tray is an upwards arching J. H. CUTTER  above the "cutter" and WHISKY (without the "e") below.  Below that is a hard to see (due to the black lettering riding the dark waves) C. P. MOORMAN & Co. LOUISVILLE, KY.  This can be seen in a close-up of the lower part of the tray at the following link: lower tray close-up.  Arching upwards on the reddish tray rim at the top are the words FROM SUNRISE 'TILL SUNRISE" with the rest of that thought  located downward arched at the bottom of the tray rim - GLADDENS THE INNER MAN".  I'll bet that was true since the empty Cutter whiskey bottles certainly have gladdened me for decades!  Click upper tray close-up to see that half of the tray.  Both middle edge sides of the tray also have the monogram with the entwined letters C. P. M. Co. for C. P. MOORMAN & Co.  Click close-up of the right side monogram to see such.

J. H. Cutter whisky must have been good stuff as the product was wildly popular in the West and likely the rest of the country also.  As the noted John Thomas book outline, there were many different bottles made for selling the product - and that book only covered the earlier examples, i.e., the "glob top" cylinders and flasks.  The brand seems to have disappeared with National Prohibition like so many brands did, though there is a company in California producing a whiskey with that old name in recent years having purchased a bottle at Costco a couple years ago.  Not bad stuff!

As the images show, the tray isn't in perfect unused condition as it was certainly used to serve patrons of some late 19th to early 20th century saloon somewhere in the West where this was found.  That is used until National Prohibition made the world much less fun from the mid-1910s in some Western States (like Oregon) to complete nationwide prohibition in 1920.  The tray shows many small spots of rust which are likely wear points from the tray distributing beer and whiskey...with the sloshing of those products helping the rust along with the tray likely being washed hundreds of times.  The back of the tray is painted black with a similar scattered density; click back view to see such.  Overall the tray is completely and easily readable and 95%+ of the graphics quite decent.  Not sure what a more perfect example would sell for by I've priced this one at what I think is a reasonable price given it's iconic name, brand and cool graphics.  $295

English made "hat whimsy" made in the bottom half of a three-piece ale bottle mold - This is one of many interesting bottle related "oddities" I've accumulated over my many years of bottle collecting.  Hats blown with the assistance of a bottle mold were a fairly commonly performed task during the mouth-blown bottle era. I've seen all kinds of interesting items through the years made from molds designed for an array of different bottles but altered by the glass blower into whimsical items for their own personal satisfaction or sale. 

For example, the molds for various early American (pre-Civil War) geometric ink bottles were often used to initially form the shape and surface design of small hats with the brim of hat being hand formed with some type of tool.  (Click geometric ink bottle to view such a bottle not made into a hat.)  Those type of molded "hats" were commonly made for sale by the glass company I believe.  I've never seen a "hat" - as collectors call these - made from a English ale bottle mold...but here is an example.

This unusual but large "hat" example was made with the lower portion of a larger three-piece mold ale bottle mold (upwards of a quart) leaving the top two pieces open. (It is also possible that the upper two halves were removable.) The lower portion of a typical three-piece mold does not have any vertical mold seams since it was one solid piece.  The body of this very large "hat" indeed has no mold seams in evidence.  To see what a three-piece mold would look like, click on three-piece mold illustration to see such on my educational Historic Glass Bottle ID & Information Website.

Click view of the hat with a ruler to view such showing that the hat is about 6" tall whereas the entire mold would have produced an ale bottle that would have been around 11" tall.  Click hat and large ale bottle side by side to view such showing what the style of bottle which the complete mold would have produced; the pictured bottle is 11.5" tall.  (Note: The larger comparison bottle is almost certainly English made but probably produced 30 or more years prior to the hat.  It does, however, make for a decent comparison as the same style in large and smaller sizes were made into the early 1900s.)   Both the hat and the large ale bottle have the same 2.9" diameter at the base which must have been a standard for that sizse of ale bottle blown by English glass works.

And to round out the history behind this bottle molded hat, the base has the embossed makers marking C. S &  Co LD.  That is the makers marking for Cannington, Shaw & Co. of St. Helens, Lancashire, England who used that particular marking from 1892 to 1913.  Click Cannington Shaw & Co article to view the extensive article on my other website on this particular English glassmaker.  The base also has the number 1351 which is a mold tracking or catalog number of meaning only to the glass company.

Isn't that some interesting history?  The "hat" glass is a nice medium olive amber with a bit more green than amber to my eye.  It is in perfect condition with no issues whatsoever which is not surprising since it was made to be retained and used for decorative purposes, hold pencils, cut flowers or whatever the owner wished to use it for.  I suspect it is likely a whimsy made by a gaffer (blower) at Cannington, Shaw, & Co. as a gift or for some now unknown utilitarian use.  Cool item!  $125

DR. MORSE'S INDIAN ROOT PILLS advertising Confederate Currency - Here is another medicine go-with for Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills.  This is a "FAC-SIMILE" (sez so on the front!) of a Confederate $20 bill that was given out as an advertising item for the famous patent medicine in the late 1800s I would estimate.  Of course the back of the bill is not like was printed up for the Confederate nation.  The advertising part on the reverse notes it was a "...specific cure for most of the Blood, Stomach and Liver Diseases."  The pills were also for "...Giddiness, Headache..." (wouldn't want to get to "giddy" with a headache).  This advertisement is a good replica of a Confederate bank note from a few decades earlier that measures 7" by 3". 

This IS the real thing and not a modern reproduction (which I've never seen anyway).  I picked this up - actually two examples - in a lot of weird bank or bank-like notes at a numismatic auction decades ago when I had a bout of coin and paper money collecting.  This item is essentially pristine with no stains, rips, or other issues...just a couple very faint creases which can't even be seen in the scans.  A fantastic and certainly rare go-with quack medicine item that is in fantastic shape.  $25

 

MICHAEL J. OWENS GLASS COMMEMORATIVE BUST - Here is a great "go-with" for a bottle collection which was procured long ago to illustrate on my other educational Historic Glass Bottle ID & Information Website.  This was produced a few years after the death of Owens in December 1923.  Click HERE to view an image of Mr. Owens removing and inspecting a beer bottle from one of his early automatic machines.  Click the following link to see the video clip from which that still image was apparently taken.  The video is on my noted educational website and was provided to me by a now retired engineer who worked decades for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company in Alton, IL.   (The clip may need to be downloaded to play on your computer.)

Film clip of an early Owens Automatic Bottle Machine in operation.

This glass bust is embossed around the lower edge near the base with 1859 M. J. OWENS 1923.  A bit of history about these is found at the following link on the National Depression Glass Assn. website  -  http://www.ndga.net/rainbow/1976/76rrg09c.php  These were produced by the Owens Bottle Co. at their Heisey Plant in Newark, Ohio in 1927, a few years after Owens death.  They were made using a "pressed glass" method - a process invented in the 1830s and used...well, likely used in some modern form today to make non-bottle glassware.  Mr. Owens "Owens Automatic Bottle Machine" was a blow-and-blow type machine that used a two mold process for forming a bottle.  Take a look at the film clip; it is fascinating!

As noted, these are a pressed glass item which was frosted to give it a nice appearance.  It is a bit under 5" tall and about 5" wide at the base.  This example is essentially perfect with no post production issues besides a small, extremely shallow flake on the base resting surface which was a function of the base being ground smooth (like a mouth-blown canning jar).  It barely shows as a pin prick reflection to the upper right of the base in the base photo at the following link - Base View.  Great historic item which are quite hard to find.  $50

 

Oregon Centennial Beam Bottle - Yes, this isn't near as old as the other bottles on this website. However, I think they are very interesting mid-20th century "relics". This Jim Beam bottle commemorates the 100th Centennial of Oregon's statehood in 1959. Front of the bottle has trees, beaver (state animal), river with fisherman, and the wording 1859 OREGON 1959 /CENTENNIAL. The label is on the front below the scene and is totally intact with just a little wear/scuffing. The reverse has the wording 1859 OREGON 1959 /100 YEARS with a bunch of snow covered peaks and trees. The bottle also has opposing beavers chewing on the stumpy (literally) neck. Base has the usual "Federal Law Forbids Sale or Re-use of This Bottle" verbiage and other manufacturers marks with the date 1959. Colors are bright and the bottle is mint with only the usual imperfections of manufacturing that all Beam's have (glaze irregularities and the like).  It also has the most of the front label.  A very esthetic bottle that used to sell for $50+ back in the early 70's before the market for Beam bottles crashed.  The Sesquicentennial was in 2009 making this a 62 year old bottle already!  $20-$25 (I have several of these which are all perfect as to the bottle and cap though some are missing some [<75%] or all the front label ($20) to those with at least 90%+ intact [$25] like the pictured example.)

 

ONIZED CLUB playing cards 1943-44 - Here is an interesting glass maker "go-with" for bottle collectors.  Alton, IL. was the main office and factory for the relatively "new" (at that time) Owens-Illinois Glass Co.  The company was formed from an assortment of different, previously independent glass companies during the first few decades of the 20th century, consummating in 1929 into the Owens-Illinois Glass Co. which is still in business today and probably still the biggest producer of bottles in the US.  For more information on the company see the two part article on the company on my educational Historic Glass Bottle ID & Information website:  https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/OwensIllinois2018Part1.pdf and https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/OwensIllinois2018Part2.pdf

In the early 1930s (1933 I guess) the company and its employees formed the Alton Onized Club.  Lots of pins and other knick-knacks were made for various events and occasions over the years including the 10th anniversary of the club itself in 1943.  These playing cards were made for that occasion and the backs read "The Symbol of Co-Operative Friendship ALTON ONIZED CLUB (O-I in superimposed on the old flattened diamond shape which was inherited from the Illinois Glass Co) 1943-44 10th Anniversary." There is two decks of what look to be unused cards since they are stiff, unbent and unsoiled looking.  Both decks have all their 52 regular cards (ace through king) and a 53rd advertising card for the company that produced the cards Duratone Playing Cards.  Click HERE to see that advertisement card on top of the rest of the cards.  The tan colored deck does not have any jokers, the blue deck has one...so I guess not totally complete. 

The condition of the box of cards it pretty good with some wear here and there but nothing too bad.  See the other images of the box of cards as follows:  box with the cover lid up;  back of the box.  The top "lid" part of the box is padded and has a white and green speckled look (shows behind the lower part in the image to the right).  A quick check of eBay found no equivalents to this box of cards but lots of other club mementos; looks like one could make quite a collection out of such souvenirs.  As a bonus, I'll throw in a metal ONIZED club pin!  For scale, it is about 1.5" left to right.  Click HERE to see an image of it.  $15

 

CALIFORNIA Insulator - That is embossed boldly (first image) on the lower part of this interesting insulator.  I admit that I know very little about insulators except that they are big hunks of glass (usually) and highly collectible.  This is one of only a couple that I've had for years and I have no idea how I ended up with it.  I have only one other insulator - the very popular (with collectors), pony style, and deep blue aqua E.C. & M. S.F. which was used on telegraph lines in the West (and BC) in the 1870s to early 1880s I believe.  The history is what attracted me to that one since it was made by some San Francisco glass company of that period.

A quick check of the internet and David Whitten's great website on bottle and insulator makers indicates these were produced in Long Beach, CA. by the California Glass Insulator Co. (and subsequently renamed California Glass Works) whom operated for a short time from 1912-1916.   See the following link for a bit more information:   https://glassbottlemarks.com/california-glass-insulator-company   They made an assortment of different insulators in an assortment of colors including many shades of purple/amethyst like this example.

The offered insulator weighs about 1.25 lbs, has the period typical threading on the inside (click base view to see such), is a smoky amethyst glass (a really great color in bottles! possibly sun colored?) and is pretty near perfect shape for an insulator in my limited experience.  The skirted base is about perfect with only some minor roughness at the mold seam line - likely manufacturing related.  There is two "dings" on the back side which show in the second back view image.  Click close-up with dings pointed out to see such closer.  Otherwise the insulator has no staining, noticeable scratching or other issues.  Nice!  $25

 

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