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Mikis1981

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Anyone know what this is? Is it worth anything?
Found it along the river in Oregon on my property. Any help identifying the age or whatever info would be helpful!
I assume it is an old eye dropper bottle. Is only about 3" long, probably holds an ounce or so.
There was a post on the same bottle, only green in color in 2017. Notice the odd shape, and the two dimples on the one side.
It has a Pennant flag, with a "P" inside of the flag. Also says USA. This does differ from the original post because of the USA position, and the color. The bottle is exact.
 

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Vetus Vitrum

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Here is a little information on the manufacturer. Your bottle does not have the patent number on it but it is same bottle shown on the website except the color. Dating is difficult, the fact your does not have a patent number may help, whether that means closer to 1932 or 1971, I am not sure. Were there other bottles or jars found in the same area?

From glassbottlemarks.com:
  • P in a flag (P in a pennant)………….Pennsylvania Glass Products Company, Pittsburgh, PA……….. (Note added 12/8/2016): There had been some speculation this mark might indicate the Pfizer pharmaceutical company, but that is incorrect. The “P in a flag” mark has now been positively identified as having been used by the Pennsylvania Glass Products Company of Pittsburgh. This information has come to me from Lynor Lisi, who sent photos showing lettering on a cardboard carton of unused “NOS” emerald green bottles bearing the “P in flag” mark on their bases. The carton appeared to have been manufactured (or packed) in June of 1971. The bottles were actually manufactured by Owens-Illinois at their Fairmont, West Virginia plant. Apparently Pennsylvania Glass Products Co. distributed vials, medicinal and laboratory bottles at the wholesale level, selling products actually made by O-I. There are listings on the web that indicate PGPC is still in business, but the exact timeline of business activity between 1932 and the present is rather murky, and the total period of use of this mark on bottles is unclear. PGPC was evidently in business (to some capacity) as early as 1932, the president of the company (Tunis J. Dykema) receiving a patent for his invention of a combination bottle stopper/rubber dropper in that year. The original patent number is 1843812, the “Re-issue” number is #19520 which can be found on “Google Patents” as RE19520. That patent number is usually, if not always, marked on the base of the bottles along with the P marking.
 

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No, this just turned up during some excavation. It was the only one found. If you need more or better pictures, please reach out to me. Thanks so much for the info you provided!
 

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Definitely some kind of small med - eyedrops, low level painkillers, etc., further confirmed by the info about the P in flag logo from Vetus Vitrum above. I've dug bottles from other manufacturers with the same overall shape sans the dimples in a dump I can date from the 40s through the 60s - that's probably about as close as you can get with a date without finding an example that has a label still attached.
 

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