Anyone one know when these bottles were in use?

[trimguy]

How about this bottle , I believe it's before my time.
I found it cleaning up some more storm damage today.

[Resonator]

Clorox has a website page dedicated to identifying bottles:

https://www.thecloroxcompany.com/company/our-story/bottle-guide/

[Old Greenhorn]

Now THAT'S a cool bottle and looks to be in prefect shape. I haven't seen one of those since I was a little kid. My grandfather had one in his shop he kept Kerosene in. But even in the early 60's that was an old bottle.

[trimguy]

Thanks Resonater, I thought it was cool too, Tom.

[SwampDonkey]

The back yard here was full of glass anything years ago. Although I can say I never found any booze bottles. The neighboring farmer, you could walk his fence every spring and fall and collect a kitchen table full of glass beer bottles. We used to get 2 cents, then it went to 5 cents a bottle for redemption. The big long necked quart beer bottles were 10 cents. I think they were a Quebec bottle. Back then there was no bottle depot like now. It was just guys buying them out of their garages and I think they went to Ontario by the tractor trailer loads. Boxed in original beer boxes. Last I talked with an antique dealer about glass was 8 years ago. He said antique glass isn't worth much in this region. I said I know for a fact my great grandmother's black carnival glass pitcher and cups is US $1000. Seen the exact thing on Antique Road Show. He said no one will pay that around here. So glass is worth more to some than others. :D

[trimguy]

Anyone know about milk bottles ?





It says 1-7-11-14 on the bottom and 1-11-14 on the side at the bottom, surely that's not date ? Anyone know ?

[SwampDonkey]

Nope, but I remember when a local farmer peddled his own milk in them bottles. Had a paper cap/tab.  

[cutterboy]

I can remember in elementary school (1950s) milk came in little bottles, both white and chocolate. School lunch cost one dollar for a five day week. Those bottles were thick and heavy and used over and over again. Back then you didn't throw things away, you used them again and again. Things were made to last!

[SawyerTed]

In the late 1960s in Lynchburg, Va, my mom had twice a week dairy deliveries.  We got milk in glass quart bottles, cheese, eggs, sour cream etc left in a little insulated tin box just outside our back door step. The tin cooler box had the dairy name in the outside. If there was a logo on the bottles I don't recall   I never saw the delivery guy, seems he made his rounds very early in the mornings.

The milk bottles were recycled by leaving the empties in the little tin cooler. The milk bottles were round like those pictured.  For a time they had a waxed heavy paper lid pressed on the top.  Latter they switched to a metal lid and new bottles that were rectangular ish. 

[SwampDonkey]

I remember we could get plastic lids for the bottles at the store. They had a ring that hooked to the neck of the bottle and the top sealed the bottle shut. Didn't come from the dairy that way, something we used after it was open. Heck I remember still having one of those into the 90's and a bottle or two kicking around. And yeah, they were square bodied. I remember the local COOP creamery came around with cream cans. They only made butter to sell direct, never sold the milk direct, perhaps to a bigger processor. That was still going on here until about 2000. They catered to the small 20 cow dairy farmer. The big boys sent their milk to big processors in bulk tanks. No local dairy farmers here anymore. The last one quit about 4 years ago. Still a handful of big dairy farmers around but slowly dwindling away. I don't see any at all now in eastern Maine, nothing. In fact a lot of them looked like they walked off the place  and left the door swinging. Down through Island Falls and Houlton area, now Amish own a lot of that land and none grow anything more than a small garden, no bigger than mine.