J.R. Watkins Co Vintage Medicine or Liquid Large Antique Clear Glass Bottle Empt

Description: This listing is for The J.R. Watkins Co Vintage Medicine or Liquid Large Antique Clear Glass Bottle Empty. Clear embossed medicinal bottle by The J R Watkins Co. (empty). Height: 8.5 inches highWidth: 3 inchesDepth: 1 1/2 inchesWeight: 14 ozMaterials: GlassCondition - No Chips/Cracks, Uncleaned, Missing Cork/Stopper The J. R. Watkins Company began in 1868 as a small home-based business in Plainview, Minnesota, founded by entrepreneur Joseph Ray Watkins. Watkins distributed many different types of household products including cleaning products, food extracts and flavorings, cosmetics, home remedies, and other products. (They did not actually make the bottles in which these products were contained.) As business increased, in 1885 the company operations were moved from Plainview to Winona, Minnesota. The very first bottles sold are assumed to date as far back as 1868, but I doubt that the very earliest containers were actually embossed with the “Watkins” name, but would have likely been “generic” hand blown bottles with a paper label affixed to indicate contents. (If anyone has more information on this, please contact me!) By the very early 1870s, as business continued to expand, it is likely that bottles were being embossed with Watkins or “J. R. Watkins Co.” The earliest versions of the Watkins bottles were made in aqua glass, were handmade (with a tooled lip) and have the lip fashioned for a cork closure. Later versions (I don’t know the exact year, but probably by the 1920s or early 1930s) have a threaded-style lip for a screw-on lid. There are probably hundreds of slightly different Watkins bottle mold variants in existence that have been used over the last 140 years, with a variety of differences in font style, exact wording arrangement, size and shape of the bottle, and I imagine it would be a monumental task to find just one example of every single one of them. Many of the bottles from the 1920s-1940s are quite common, and are usually in clear glass and rectangular in shape. Sometimes the embossed company name is in a cursive font, and sometimes in a plain “block style lettering”. White milkglass salve or “ointment jars” were also sold. Most bottles now sold have just a paper label showing the company name, product information, etc, without an embossed marking in the glass itself (if the bottle is even made of glass). Apparently, Watkins has been gradually switching over to plastic containers for most of their products. If anyone has information to indicate when they started using glass bottles without the embossed name, and also when they began switching over to plastic for most of their bottles, please advise! No doubt a number of different glass companies have produced bottles for Watkins over the years, but Illinois Glass Company (“I inside a diamond” mark) and Owens-Illinois Glass Company have produced large quantities of them. Thanks for checking out this item! We have many related items listed, so be sure to check our other listings for similar items! Reasonable offers are highly considered, unreasonable ones are not...Sorry... :-)! Still have a ton of "not listed" inventory, so if you looking for something specific, please inquire as we may just be able to find it for you. We ship 6 days a week, so the faster you pay, the faster we ship! Thanks again for your visit and even more so if you purchase something! 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Price: 19.99 USD

Location: Oswego, Illinois

End Time: 2023-12-18T04:37:58.000Z

Shipping Cost: 9.99 USD