Dear Sir The current symbol for anchor glass looks like a chevron with a dot in the center between the ends. (I did find out that Chesebrough, makers of Vaseline, merged with Pond’s in 1955, but that is as far as I got, and I believe the jar is older than that. It’s supposed to be Swedish, probably. There were hundreds of small telephone companies in the early 1900s, now there are only a handful that control most of the market, as consolidation kept happening. This particular bottle was made at plant number “7” (Alton, Illinois). Welcome to the Early Canadian Bottle Works, my name is Darren Spindler, I am a bottle digger, collector and part-time researcher. Such lips were commonly produced between the years 1830-1850. The most important piece of evidence you can find is a makers’ mark. A.M.F.& CO……..Adelbert M. Foster & Company, Boston & Chicago (1873-1928). A (stylized design – hard to describe – see photo at right)…………. Thank you for your interest, understanding and support! Also be sure to see the listing cross-referenced by state. Perhaps a reader will recognize what brand or company this represents. Open pontilled bottles were made before the 1860s, iron pontilled bottles usually date back to the years 1845-1870. I’m interested in the history of the glass industry in the United States, especially the manufacturing of bottles, electrical insulators and tableware. And do you know which company manufactured the jar? A & P ……………Uncertain. 1 1/2″ thick. Take care, David, Hi David. Ask the Waste Wizard to find out where and how to properly dispose of an item. On earlier blob-top “export style” beer bottles and soda bottles, usually Belleville Glass Company, Belleville, Illinois (1882-1886). The mark was used by Owens-Illinois Glass Company, and for some more info and a number of different pictures of that mark, please check out this page: Owens-Illinois Glass Company. Best regards, mark on antique glass bottles & jars, “Letter L in cursive script” mark: Libbey Glass Company, Lynchburg Glass Corporation, Lynchburg, Virginia, M inside a circle: Maryland Glass Corporation, Baltimore, MD, McLaughlin Glass Company, Vernon, California, M.G.CO. David. Thanks alot for letting me know!! We have expanded 2 times and I now occupy 3 full rooms at the tower. I wouldn’t mind checking that out . This was one of the most prolific glass companies in Pittsburgh during the mid-to-late 1800s. Any info on this bottle? PA…………………Arbogast & Company (Alexander Arbogast), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (c. 1860-c.1863). Producer of acids and other chemicals. Duraglas trademark on base of generic amber half-gallon bleach jug. The mold engraver engraved the number correctly into the inside of the iron mold, so it appears backwards on the finished product. Hi Julia, That’s one of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company marks, used generally from 1929 to the mid and late 1950s. There’s definitely no substitute for experience when it comes to identifying antique bottles, get an antique bottle collector to be your guru, and examine as many as bottles as you can. [ A – B ]          [ C – D ]          [ E – L ]         [ M – R ]           [ S – Z ], American Can Company – Glass Division  logo (Photo courtesy Krisse Hale), A / L / 55 – Unknown marking on dark olive green bottle (Photo courtesy David Hubbard), AB (connected) mark on base of light aqua beer bottle – with P 11 code, Acorn logo used by Bellaire Bottle Company, Bellaire, Ohio. Many are made of emerald green glass, and manufactured by Owens-Illinois Glass Company. Hopefully this database will be of some help to those who are attempting to assign an approximate date range to a particular bottle, assuming it carries an identifiable glass manufacturer’s mark. It’s a very light green jar, but not Vaseline glass. 8.5” tall, about 2.5” at the bulb. We've created informative articles that you can come back to again and again when you have questions or want to learn more! Bottles issued by certain plants will show symbol of Coco-Cola on the base of the glass bottles. The “1669” is a mold or design number assigned to that bottle style. If you have up-to-date information on this mark, please contact me! The “6” would be a date code, likely for 1926 or 1936. The stamp on the bottom appears to be a capital I inside a diamond and oval. “D-number” such as D-2 or D-11 or D-26, is a liquor bottle. GLASBAKE marking on base of clambroth/white milk glass custard cup, Logo of two water drops – Pasabahce, Turkey. Thanks for posting~ B in a circle (shown)…………….Brockway Machine Bottle Company (1907-1933) which became Brockway Glass Company (1933-1988), Brockway, Pennsylvania. ), BA 2 (interspersed with various mold numbers and other codes, as seen on bases of  ten-sided, Ball……………………Ball Brothers Glass  Manufacturing Company/Ball Brothers Company (Ball Corporation after 1969), Muncie, Indiana and other locations (1888-1998) . Boldt Company, (also at times known as Chas Boldt Glass Company or Chas Boldt Glass Manufacturing Company), Cincinnati, Ohio and Huntington, West Virginia, at least on many of their early liquor bottles and other ware made in the circa 1900-1919 period. . On some glass items the mark is rather indistinct. How to Identify Vintage Antique Brown Glass Bottles. Loaded with detailed descriptions and diagrams, and luscious high res photos, this is a superlative one-stop educational resource and vicarious digger experience. Coke bottles manufactured in certain plants started to script the trademark on both the shoulders. Roughly two out of three pieces of sea glass you find will be clear or white. Thank you. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. If your bottle has seams that “fade out” or appear “wiped”, and do not reach the very top of the bottle, it shows it to be a hand-made bottle. You might try asking on Facebook fruit jar collectors groups (there are at least two groups, possibly more, on Facebook), and on the http://antique-bottles.net discussion site, where they have a forum for jar collectors. David. Hi Laura, If so, it is certainly a product of Cunningham & Ihmsen of Pittsburgh. Bottle identification: does anyone recognize this bottle? The common physical model of a Klein bottle is a similar construction. Mass embossed on side B and overlying ? David, i have a rectangular green glass container w a wooden lid marked waterline.wondering what it is and what it is worth. Either the “A” or the “L” could be the first initial of the unknown glassmaker. Colors like cobalt blue was used to color bottles right from 1870s to the 1930s. Outside the diamond are 4 lines. Currently the company is the largest manufacturer of glass containers in North America, South America, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, with 79 plants in 21 countries. Thanks for writing, NOTICE: (this paragraph updated July 26, 2018). There are still millions of glass bottles being made here in the US every year, BUT the actual number of glass container companies has shrunk to only a handful, and most of those are HUGE multi-billion dollar corporations. I would encourage anyone interested in makers’ marks on beer bottles (and soda bottles) to check out his site….. he has a, From the standpoint of most collectors of antique bottles, the name and location of the company the bottle was made for, and the name of the product that was originally contained in the bottle (one or both of which may be embossed on the bottle) is often considered to be of more interest or importance than the glass factory where the bottle was actually manufactured. Anchor and letter “H” entwined logo (shown)……..Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation, Lancaster, Ohio and other plant locations (1937-to date). Federal had several versions of the F in shield, https://chataboutdg.com/gallery/details.php?image_id=627, Peter, thanks for the clarification. It’s very pretty. If you are wondering how to identify and tell the age of an old Pepsi bottle from all the fakes out there, then you are at the right place. I had to look at each link to find out that the info about this display was on the Museum page. In many cases, after I answer a query by email, I do not receive the slightest reply or acknowledgement, not even a brief “thank you”. Hi Diana, This measures about 6 and 1/2 inches in diameter. (Thanks to Greg Franklin for supplying info on this mark!). 2) In reference to Agnew & Company, there was a series of glass companies in the Pittsburgh area in which the Agnew family was involved, beginning as early as 1842 with Chambers & Agnew. Most bottles with a smooth base indicate that they were made after the year 1865. Uncertain, but possibly Bagley & Company, Knottingsley , England (see next entry). Your site has been an amazing tool to help me determine age of these beauties. I found a half pint brown bottle with federal law prohibits sale or reuse of this bottle embossed around the top and D-I 56-51 in the center on the bottom. Newark Star Glass Works-12-sided umbrella ink bottle – N with star (on left) on the base of bottle- (Photo courtesy Dave Beeler). “M in a circle” mark used by Maryland Glass Corporation. Recently I purchased a set with two square glass flasks. These marks usually served as some type of mold identification, indicating a particular mold used by a glass factory. These markings are the key to telling a fake from a find and to determining the age and value of your bottle. This was photographed on the base of a green non-returnable 16-ounce soda bottle with a 1990 date code, probably originally containing a lemon-lime soda or ginger ale. This mark dates from 1945 and was used into the 1950s or possibly later. Archaeological evidence collected from this era contains many glass coated artifacts. For more information, please see the, Brookfield (On glass electrical insulators)……………….. Brookfield Glass Company (c.1864-c.1921)  with factories at Brooklyn, New York and Old Bridge, New Jersey. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. A , entwined with a bird emblem with wings outstretched; appears as if flying through the “A”. Hope this helps, Info discovered by “Diana” and posted on November 10, 2015 has shown us who it is…… Cerva S.p.A., in Parma, Italy (1953 to date). 1959-1962). Beneath the words TO BE I see 2 small vertical lines with 2 small horizontal lines to the right of them. Hope this helps~ Thanks Maurice for this information! It has been increasingly more difficult to keep up with answering emails and posts concerning glass bottle markings and related information. O-I trademark/ logo used by Owens-Illinois, Inc. Welcome to our Glass Encyclopaedia, our very own identification guide to Antique & Vintage Collectable Glass.Over the years, as dealers in glassware, we have taken thousands of pictures of glass vases, bowls, paperweights, sculptures and other glassware. The older the glass the less common it … Best regards, David, Hi David, thank you so much for your quick response! Nearly all glass factories used mold numbers on their containers at one time or another. On the otherside of the top is written 10 FL OZ. Antique Trader Bottles Identification and Price Guide by Michael Polak is a large book, but it also comes in an electronic edition. Australian Bottle History. Five of the webpages on this site list glass manufacturers’ identification marks (alphabetically listed) seen on container glass (bottles, jars, flasks, jugs, etc) and on other types of glass including handmade and machine-made tableware and cookware. I would encourage any milk bottle collectors to try searching their list of marks here: Another webpage which I recommend, especially to collectors of tableware and art glass, illustrates many glassmakers’ marks frequently seen on carnival glassware and other upscale glass. Later became American Can Company, Glass products division (1962-1967), and then Midland Glass Company in 1968. Trademark is found base-embossed on their line of clear (“flint”) rectangular pharmaceutical/prescription bottles. This marking is on the base of a handblown “three-piece mold” dark olive green liquor bottle, with a label for W. Williams & Company, Aberdeen, Scotland, which was in business c.1897-1919. with NO RETURN written below. If you can't find what you want here, you could try Glasmarken Lexicon 1600 - 1945 by Carolus Hartmann. I can send you a photo if that would help. You can find a list of permit numbers used by various glass companies by typing in “Liquor Bottle Permit Numbers” into the google search engine.
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