Featured Unpacked Some Small Glass Today

Don’t know too much about these, looks to be a variety of different types of things…I thought it might be fun to share and learn a bit.
Thank You!

 

Several of them look like eye cups.

 

Wow! Great references, Thank You!!

I initially thought the whiskey bottle was full…turns out it’s just solid glass all the way through…like a small paperweight or something. Odd.

 

You’re right! I had no idea what those were…Thank You!!

 

Nice collection!

Those little fish bottles tend to be vintage vs antique. I’m not saying which yours is, just sharing what I learned when I looked into them.

There is something a little whimsical about them that I absolutely love and I have a few

 

Old bottles are heavily reproduced. There are American makers like Wheaton and Clevenger (and others whose names I can't recall) but, as with so many other things, a lot of stuff comes out of China and Taiwan and other countries as well.

 

Known as eye baths here.

 

I think your "Elixir"bottle might be vintage and not antique--I bought one exactly like it in the late 1970s at a bottle museum in Australia....

 

https://www.hakes.com/Auction/ItemD...NON-PURE-RYE-WHISKEY-GLASS-BOTTLE-PAPERWEIGHT

 

the Wheaton bottles if old say wheaton on the bottom if not they usually say Taiwan. I use to sell my Wheaton bottles for $6 apiece now you are lucky to get $2 and only if it is really cute.

 

I would need to see how far up on the bottle's neck the mold line goes. Here is a link to help or you can just take a picture of the mold lines & bottom of the bottles & I could judge their ages better
https://sha.org/bottle/dating.htm

 

Owl drug became Rexall.... used to have a bunch of those in various sizes... I have the dark blue eye cup and a milk glass version, pretty sure mine are old but they may have reproduced them. I keep mine around as I have actually used them when getting something in my eye : safety glasses don't always work so well . They make neat displays for old glass eyes , should you happen to find a couple...lol. ( and I wonder where my 5 year old get's his Charles Addams sense of humor.....)