8 Vintage Glass Harvest Bottles Jugs Coca Cola Clorox Ball Mason Clear Amber

Description

Lot of 8 assorted vintage 20th century glass harvest apothecary bottles and jugs. Lot includes Owens-Illinois One Gallon clear Coca Cola soda fountain syrup jug with screw cap (Circa 1960s-1980s); two Arkansas Glass Corporation Half Gallon clear jugs; three clear Ball mason jars ( two with ridged sides circa 1933-1962 and one with fruit medallion circa 1960-late 20th century); amber Clorox Bleach bottle; and 1954 Owens-Illinois One Pint amber liquor bottle with screw cap.

"The Arkansas Glass Container Corporation of Jonesboro, Arkansas was originally founded as McSwain Glass Company by Carl McSwain in 1948. McSwain Glass Company produced minnow-roach traps and specialty bottles. In 1956 Ownership changed via a stock purchase to local businessman, J.T. White. White and other stockholders renamed the facility to Arkansas Glass Container Corporation and switched to manufacturing food grade containers. The first shipment of bottles went out in September 1957. January 31, 1986: Twin brothers, Carl and Charles Rosenbaum, purchased the majority shares from White establishing themselves as the main owners of Arkansas Glass Container, a position they’ve held for more than 36 years. 1986: Anthony Rampley, CEO, takes over the leadership of Arkansas Glass Container Corporation, a position he continues to hold to this day. December 1987: The first of four original melter units replaced with a then-state of the art regenerative burner system. During this time, new I.S. (individual section) machines were installed as well. This installation began replacing seven old Lynch-style machines that dated from the 1930s – 1957. 1988-2001: Continued efforts to improve and upgrade equipment in all areas of manufacturing. The company continues operation to the present day." (Source: AGCC)

"Owens-Illinois Glass Company was the result of the 1929 merger between two glass-making giants of the industry: Owens Bottle Company (Toledo, OH – predecessor Toledo Glass Company began operation in 1896) and Illinois Glass Company (based in Alton, Illinois, with glass production dating from 1873). Formerly headquartered at Toledo, OH; now based at Perrysburg, OH, Owens-Illinois, Inc. had (and has) many glass manufacturing locations worldwide. Known as Owens-Illinois, Inc. since 1965, (and officially known as just “O-I” since 2005), this corporation is currently (2024) the largest manufacturer of glass containers in the world. Although Owens-Illinois has made containers of many different shades of color over the years, the great majority of glass bottles commonly found are found in clear (colorless), green (emerald, forest green or “seven up” green) and amber (“beer bottle brown”) glass. The “Diamond & oval with I” mark is by far the most common identification mark on glass containers found in trash dump sites in the United States from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Owens-Illinois took over operation of the Hemingray Glass Company factory, located in Muncie, Indiana, in 1933. Hemingray was a prolific maker of electrical insulators (of many types and sizes) for power lines, telegraph, telephone and other uses. Within a year or two, most glass insulators produced at Muncie were carrying date codes. Owens-Illinois continued to have the great majority of insulators marked with the “HEMINGRAY” brand name, with very few exceptions in later years. Other brand names used by O-I on insulators include “Lowex” and “Kimble“. Many millions of insulators were made at Muncie, the very last being manufactured in the year 1967. Owens-Illinois Inc. currently [2020] operates 20 glass manufacturing facilities within North America." (Source: Glass Bottle Marks)

"In 1880, Frank C. and Edmund B. Ball, two of the five Ball brothers, borrowed $200 from their uncle, George Harvey Ball, founder and first president of Keuka College, to buy the Wooden Jacket Can Company, a small manufacturing business in Buffalo, New York. Soon, the three other brothers (William, Lucius, and George) joined Frank and Edmund in Buffalo. The Ball brothers' company made tin cans encased in wooden jackets to hold kerosene, paints, or varnishes. The contents tended to corrode the tin cans. So they began experimenting with the use of a glass jar. With the experiment a success, the Ball Brothers decided to open their own glass jar manufacturing factory in the early 1880s. The brothers — Edmund, Frank, George, Lucius and William — moved the company from Buffalo, New York, to Muncie, Indiana, in 1887 to take advantage of abundant natural gas reserves and expand production. The 1900 Census stated, The largest fruit jar plant in the world, with a daily capacity of 240,000 jars, all machine-made, is in Indiana. Phillips combined the information about jar production with the numbers cited in the Census to come up with claim that Ball Brothers became the largest producer of fruit jars in the country. Anticipating growth and diversification, the company simplified their name from Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company to Ball Brothers Company. In 1956 Ball forms the Ball Brothers Research Corporation. Known today as Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. The company produces space systems engineering products, telecommunications technology, electro-optics, and cryogenics materials for government and commercial customers. In 1969 Ball enters the beverage can business, acquiring Jeffco manufacturing co. in Golden, Colorado, to form its metal beverage container operations as well as changing its name to Ball Corporation. Ball became a publicly traded stock listed on New York Stock Exchange in 1973. In 1993 Ball acquires Heekin Can, Inc. Heekin is the largest regional manufacturer of metal food containers in the U.S. prior to the acquisition. Combined with Ball Packaging Products Canada, Inc.’s six plants, the eleven former Heekin plants make Ball the third-largest producer of metal food-and-aerosol cans in the North American market. And in 1995, Ball forms Latapack-Ball Embalagens Ltda joint-venture; enters Brazilian beverage can market. Also in '95 Ball Aerospace delivers corrective optics to repair the Hubble space telescope. Ball’s aerospace business converts to a wholly-owned subsidiary, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. In 1996 Ball exits the glass jar business for which it is widely known. Ball sells its remaining interest in Ball-Foster Glass Company to Group Saint Gobain. It had entered a joint venture with the company a year earlier. In 1997 Ball acquires M.C. Packaging Ltd. in China. Combined with Ball’s FTB Packaging Ltd. joint venture there, it makes Ball the largest supplier of cans in the Chinese market. Ball acquires Schmalbach-Lubeca AG, the German-based metal-can beverage company, to create Ball Packaging Europe in 2002. In 2006 Ball acquires U.S. Can, a U.S.-based aerosol and specialty metal packaging company, and merges it with Ball’s metal food-packaging operations to form the metal food and household products packaging division. As of the 2010s Ball became the largest supplier of aluminumbeverage cans and aluminum slugs in the world. Ball Aerospace has contributed to the 2009 Kepler spacecraft carrying the largest camera ever sent by NASA beyond Earth's orbit, The Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1), now known as NOAA-20, launched in November 2017, and The James Webb Space Telescope in 2021." (Source: Ball)

Condition

Good Overall - Gentle wear; some residue

Dimensions

Largest - 6.5" x 12" (Diameter x Height)