Bottle ID help

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I never knew there was such an interest in old bottles for anything other then decorative items. We have a old lumberjack camp/dump site on our property that has been used many times over the past 100+ years so there are are multiple layers of stuff. Everytime I'm in the woods I walk by and pull out whatever is sticking out of the ground there is about 1 good bottle that is sticking through the leaves once a month. Here are the last two I stumbled across. Any idea what they are? Thanks.
 

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Greetings the second picture may be a medicine bottle. If you want to know how old it is, just look at the seam lines on the sides. if it goes all the way up to the top to the bottle than it is modern. The lower the seam lines the older it is.If no seam lines, than it was blown.
 

The P.J. Ritter ketchup bottle has the maker's mark of Owens-Illinois, a mark that was in use primarily in the 1940s.

The second bottle is probably 1930s or 40s, by the looks of it.
 

seashells said:
The first pic "P.J.Ritter Company"
is a ketchup bottle.
woo look out she got skills!!
 

mlw67 said:
The P.J. Ritter ketchup bottle has the maker's mark of Owens-Illinois, a mark that was in use primarily in the 1940s.

The second bottle is probably 1930s or 40s, by the looks of it.

In 1935 Owens-Illinois partnered with Corning Glass Works to become Owens Corning. so a bottle marked Owens-Illinois may be older than 1940's. or perhaps they still continued to make glass labled Owens-Illinois. Just a thought.
 

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