RARE antique BUTTE MONTANA Milk Depot TIN TOP BIM bottle CHICAGO CREAMERY Co For Sale
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RARE antique BUTTE MONTANA Milk Depot TIN TOP BIM bottle CHICAGO CREAMERY Co :
$999.99
An8 3/4" tallquart-size cylinder-shaped clear-glass antique TIN TOP quart size 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 rare early 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 embossed 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: "BUTTE MILK DEPOT / PURITY / AND / CLEANLINESS / BUTTE, MONT." Lower half of back side is embossed "THIS BOTTLE / TO E WASHED / AND RETURNED / NOT TO BE BOUGHT OR SOLD".
- Base of bottle embossed: "CREAMERY PACKAGE MFG. CO. / CHICAGO / 2 IDEAL / D".
- Condition: Bottle has some nice shine to it. It has been professionally polished/tumbled/cleaned but still retains areas of wear, heavy in places, mainly around base. It still has some haze, mainly inside of neck. Otherwise there isn't anything specifically wrong with it; NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.
- Age: A true and original antique hand Blown Into Mold (BIM) milk bottle, ca. late 1800's.
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This is one of the top 5 Montana milk bottles in rarity and value. There is an amber buttermilk bottle from Butte, a Thatcher from Helena, a few other tin tops, and that is it. We've seen one of these in a small size but it and this one are the only two of these rare Butte Milk Depot bottles that we know of. Talk about a FULLY EMBOSSED bottle! This one is about as embossed as a bottle can get; on the front, back, and base. It also is a very attractive bottle to look at since it was polished it has a nice shine to it. And it has beautiful waves and whittle marks in the glass that bring it to life when you hold it up to the light and look it over. A milk bottle collector notified us about the Creamery Package Manufacturing Co. out of Chicagoand provided us with a link to learn about their role in the milk bottle industry. The Creamery Package Mfg. Co was not a milk bottle supplier but functioned more as a mediator between the small dairies and the glass houses. This company approached rural dairies to fill orders for custom made bottles. Once they had several orders they would then approach a large glass house and put in a large order for custom made bottles, from different dairies. That way they could provide custom made bottles for even the small out-of-the-way dairies, at an affordable price. The "2 IDEAL" embossed on the base dates no later than 1904, from what we could figure out and the "2 Ideal"referred to the bottle shape; using both cap-seat and “tin-top” (for Lightning style seal and a metal cap) finishes.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 this base embossing on some of the nation's most desirable antique milk bottles that were ever made, and this is one of the very few from out west. This bottle is about as rare of a milk bottle that there is for collector's today, really. Check it out!
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