What were these used for...

[chukers]

I found theses bottle while digging a silver plated spoon... there was a lot of broken glass and then theses popped out... I was shocked to see the color come out of the ground and not broken.... my question what would theses been used for... I assume medicine... the amber one has 1940 on the bottom... no clue to what the other symbols, letters and numbers are for.

Chukers

 

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[NaturalJWL]

You are correct.

Medicine used to come in colored bottles, years ago.

Nice find.

 

[black651]

The "B" in a circle was used by a company called Brockway Machine Bottle Company or Brockway Glass Company. Might want to check that angle on that one. I can't make out the other mark well enough to guess.

 

[Tony in SC]

The brown one looks like a "Pinkham" pill bottle. Most all women took Pinkham pills back in the 30s/50s. Tony

 

[Woodland Detectors]

The brown one looks like a "Pinkham" pill bottle. Most all women took Pinkham pills back in the 30s/50s. Tony

Right Tony. Wasn't the slogan like " A little baby in every Bottle?" Conceive pills I read.

Her name, picture and medicine became world famous and they allowed her brothers, sons, and grandchildren to successfully market her vegetable compound via a 14 1/2 oz. bottle well into the 20th century.


Lydia Pinkham

 

[chukers]

The "B" in a circle was used by a company called Brockway Machine Bottle Company or Brockway Glass Company. Might want to check that angle on that one. I can't make out the other mark well enough to guess.

best I can do... looks like a 3 I or 1 then 8 below that is 20 on the bottom edge it also says 5 DR, the opposite side of that there is a 0

sorry best photo I could do.