Vetus Vitrum
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About 4 hours of searching today. The 2 oldest pieces are the aqua glass beer bottle at the back right, it is has a tooled finish with the A B connected (American Bottling Company or Adolphus Busch Glass Manufacturing Company) on the base and then the amber medicine bottle, near front left, it is a P. D. & Co. (Park Davis & Company), also a tooled lip, the rest are 100% machine made. I have an interest in learning more about the panel jars, they seem early, one has a light amethyst color and a few large bubbles. Also of note is the small milk glass jar up front, it is an AVON product, also seems early. All of these will clean up nicely, the only one with a flaw is the squat square jar farthest right, it has a half inch internal crack in one of the sides. A number of the bottles and jars I find have carbon deposits that seem to be bound on a molecular level to the glass, I have been able to remove them with muriatic acid but it sometimes leaves a frosted look in that area. Anyway, I am pleasantly satisfied with today's finds and pleased to have a place to show them.