Joshparshey
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The older Bromo Seltzer bottles have tooled lips, easily distinguished by observing the seam line which does not extend all the way to the top of the bottle for these examples. The machined cork top version is probably the most common and dates to the 1920's and 30's. The tooled ones date to the 1910's and older. By the 1940's and 50's the bottles began using a different style of closure and the embossed lettering became very small and placed only on the very lower bottom half of the bottle.I found a dozen or so of these blue Emerson bottles. How do you know which are the oldest? Very few have marks on the bottom. One has a 3 dot triangle. 3 have numbers.
So helpful! And exciting!The older Bromo Seltzer bottles have tooled lips, easily distinguished by observing the seam line which does not extend all the way to the top of the bottle for these examples. The machined cork top version is probably the most common and dates to the 1920's and 30's. The tooled ones date to the 1910's and older. By the 1940's and 50's the bottles began using a different style of closure and the embossed lettering became very small and placed only on the very lower bottom half of the bottle.