Milk Bottle – Zoller Bros Co

 

One Pint

Zoller Bros Co, 742 State St, SCHENECTADY, N.Y.

 And at this [website] regarding “breeds of cattle” I found the following relating to Zoller.

[After the last importation by Barton, the United States government prohibited any further importations of cattle from Switzerland because of the spread of foot-and-mouth disease in Europe. In 1931 imports were again allowed and several animals entered within the year. A.E. Bower and A. Oliver Bower of Bushton, Illinois, brought in the bull, Imported Mars 25100, and the female, Burgis Drosel 36800, both bred in Switzerland. Broadview's Mexico 25700, bred in Mexico, was imported by Mrs. Clara J. Cleaveland of Moline, Ilinois, and Ralph Mooney of Ft. Dodge, Iowa. J. Frank Zoller of Schenectady, New York, brought in imported Jack of Walhalla 25300, bred in Switzerland, and Blankus of Walhalla 25301, bred in Mexico.]

And from Time Magazine’s archives here:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,744408-2,00.html

Monday, Sep. 19, 1932
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Died. J. Frank Zoller, 54, General Electric Co.’s tax attorney, foremost U. S. breeder of Brown Swiss cattle; from injuries inflicted by a prize bull; at his Walhalla Farm outside Schenectady, N. Y.

Internet research tells me that Walhalla Farm was in Rexford, NY.

Utica Club

 

Of course we have to show this with Schultz & Dooley. The West End Brewing Company, which I think is now FX MATT is still located in Utica, NY. We found the Utica Club bottle in a local dump and immediately placed it with our Utica Club character steins.

 

Ball canning jars

While looking for Mason canning jars, I ended up getting lots of information on Ball. This jar has “Perfect Mason” embossed on the jar. The second just has “Mason”.

[History of Ball Corporation]

-Pat

Julius Schmidt

 

The writing on this bottle inside the center circle is

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  • JULIUS SCHMIDT

  • 431 So Center St

  • SCHENECTADY N.Y.

And of course like all the rest, at this moment of time I know nothing about this bottle or Julius Schmidt.

-Pat

Clorox bottles

 

These bottles look to be one-quart and maybe one-pint. Of course that was when our manufacturer’s made them to hold a standard size instead of 10 ounces or some weird thing like that.

I still haven’t gotten into the European measurement of kilometers and liters. I sure hope I don’t have to.

I did find a link on the Clorox company’s website for history. [Clorox History] If you visit, tell them I said “Hi.”

 

Lucas Bros…

 

I know nothing about this bottle. It’s about 7 inches tall, and I have a similar one with no markings on it.

 

Mason Canning Jars

 

Every dump should hold at least one Mason jar. This one has the rubber under the screw cap intact. I was a bit surprised. The second was found in one of the local dumps, no cap and very dirty.

[Mason Jars
In 1858, an inventor and tin smith from New York City, John L. Mason, invented the mason jar. He invented a machine that could cut threads into lids, which made it practical to manufacture a jar with a reusable, screw-on, lid. This was the  difference between his design and predecessors, the sealing mechanism:  a glass container with a thread molded into its top and a zinc lid with a rubber ring.  The rubber created the seal, and the threaded lid maintained it.  The jar included his patent: "Mason’s Patent Nov. 30th. 1858." --found on the web]

-Pat

Burnett’s Cocoaine

 

[Burnett's Cocoaine (c. 1880) contained coconut oil not cocaine as its primary ingredient. Hoping to capitalize on the popularity of products containing cocaine and their association with "modern medicine," some manufacturers developed similarly sounding proprietary names. Burnett's Cocoaine bottles are bought and sold by many modern collectors who mistakenly believe the product contained cocaine. They must be similarly confused about the nature of "cocoa" and "coca" products. ("Cocoanut" is also a variant spelling of "coconut," and hence the aptly named product.)]

[found at http://wings.buffalo.edu/aru/preprohibition.htm]

Special thanks to Beagle for bringing to my attention that this hair tonic bottle did not contain cocaine. All these years I had this bottle and all these years I thought it did.

-Pat

Hersey Ginger Ale

 

This bottle’s information is painted on. As you can see on the back of it, it was bottled in Schenectady. I don’t know when but I do remember a Pepsi bottling plant on Freeman’s Bridge Road in Glenville.

[more info to follow here]

-Pat

Whistle

 

I don’t know anything about this bottle, but the bottom clearly shows Schenectady, N. Y. The ID at the bottom shows A 363 8

Okay, I found some great information and a beautiful webpage with beautiful bottles at this [website]

 Whistle originated in the midwest, by Silvester Jones, very popular in the 20s. Jones introduced Vess flavors around 1927, using letters from his name as the product’s name. There was a change of ownership because of bankruptcy during the depression, but Whistle continued on. Paper label bottles of the teens and early 20s were followed by an unusual embossed pinch bottle in the mid-20s. Around 1938, ACL bottles, as well as the Whistle Elves were introduced and were around until the early 50s. Interesting cardboard signs, die-cuts, bottle displays and a beautiful wood and masonite cutout clock are among the most sought after collectibles.

-Pat