We began photographing the artifacts that Pete mentioned in yesterdays blog. The Ban Deodorant container has an aluminum lid, but the base is white milk glass. Embossing on the bottom reads, "Bristol-Myers Co. Contains Aluminum Chlorhydroxide. Net Wgt.1.05OZ. New York, N.Y."
We have not yet tried to open the container, but it is heavy for its size. Who knows how much product might be left.
Several small machine-made bottles with screw-top threading also came from the unit inside the foundation. The brown glass bottle is embossed on the bottom with "L-60 23" and is warped, possibly a mistake made during manufacture. The small glass bottle has a square base with an embossed "2" on it.
The larger colorless bottle is Duraglass, made by Owens Illin
ois Glass Company based in Toledo, Ohio. The bottom of the bottle has an "I" with an oval. This mark was introduced in 1954 and by 1958 most Owens Illinois bottles used this mark. The side has graduated volume marks in half ccs. This was probably a medicine bottle.
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2 comments:
Anne, was the brown bottle subjected to heat? It seems unlikely that a bottle manufactured incorrectly would be allowed distribution.
The way the bottle warped doesn't look like fire damage. It is rather precise. I agree that it wouldn't have been distributed intentionally. Maybe it slipped by quality control?
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