A 5 inch tall half-pint cylinder-shaped light SUN COLORED AMETHYST color antique TIN TOP milk bottle. About 99.9 % of the milk bottles you see are machine made bottles with a seam that encircles the top of lip to prove it. This is a super-early super-unique hand Blown Into Mold bottle (BIM) with a tooled top, dating back to the 1800's. It is a "TIN TOP" milk bottle, as these early milk bottles were called as they had a tin cap (top) connected to a wire 'lightning' style clamp that seated the tin cap down into the neck of the bottle to seal it. Again, 99.9 % of the milk bottles that you see are newer post - 1900 machine made bottles. This one clearly precedes all of these and dates back to the 1800's.- Bottle embossed in slug plate: "TACOMA / HYGEIA / MILK CO." Lower half of back side is embossed "TO BE WASHED / AND RETUR NED / NOT TO BE BOUGHT OR SOLD".
- Base of bottle embossed: "186 H". According to past bottle collector and expert John Thomas, this 186 / H is the mark of the 'HOLT GLASS WORKS' that was in West Berkeley, California, manufacturing bottles and glass from the late 1800's into the early 1900's when it burned down, never to be re-built. If this is true, this is a WESTERN blown glass bottle?!
- Condition: Bottle has some nice shine to it. It does have typical 'case wear' from rattling around with others in the back of the old horse drawn milk wagon. Otherwise it has nothing specifically wrong with it, NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc. PLEASE see pictures to get a good idea of bottle s overall appearance and condition.
- Age: A TRUE ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand Blown Into Mold milk bottle (BIM) with a tooled top, ca. late 1800's.
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According to past bottle collector and bottle expert John Thomas, the "186 / H" base mark on this bottle is the mark of the 'HOLT GLASS WORKS' that was in West Berkeley, California, manufacturing bottles and glass from the late 1800's into the early 1900's when it burned down, never to be re-built. If this is true, this is a WESTERN blown glass bottle?! Regardless, this is an early hand blown into mold bottle, BIM, which makes this a very early and rare bottle. Note even the embossing that is on the backside "TO BE WASHED / AND RETURNED / NOT TO BE BOUGHT OR SOLD" is the markings that only the oldest of milk bottles have before they were mass produced by the automatic bottle machine. This is one of very few antique milk bottles from the Northwestern USA that was hand-blown into a mold and the lip was hand formed with a tool called a lipping tool. On a side note, the glass blower's had to get it right, for the cap to seat or tin - top to sit properly in the groove on the lip to seal the bottle, was most important. This is one of the reasons milk bottles were some of the earliest of the machine made bottles, so that the tops could be machine molded to perfection instead of a glass blower trying his best to form the lip by hand. You will see that these hand finished milk bottles are some of this nation's most desirable antique milk bottles that were ever made, and this is one of the very few from the Northwest, check it out!
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