Posted 7 years ago
Tahiti1
(176 items)
Came across dozens of broken Clorox bottles, but when I found this upside down in the dirt, I told my sister that I wish I could find an intact Jug instead of all these broken Clorox bottles. I kept saying as I am digging, I hope this isn't another @%# Clorox bottle, but I kept digging because the size was different than the others. I finally got to the word Clorox, and to the end of the dig and pulled out a jug. Scored on this one, am happy for the day, but still didn't want to leave the dig yet. It is a half gallon amber jug with an outlined, embossed Clorox around the top portion of jug. It has a very fin beveled design on the base under the Clorox word. Has dashes on either side between the word, probably the fill line. Has an orange screw cap and seam does not run over the lip, also has a 36 on the top of the jug next to handle. Measures 11.25" X 4.5". Bottom has a circled I and a 13 to the right of that. Clorox in a diamond with a circled R in the bottom of diamond. There is a 4 to the left of diamond bottom and another 4 to the right. No chips, breaks or cracks. I dated this jug from around 1951 to 1954.
I'm afraid it's circa 1954, as Owen-Illinois didn't use that particular mark till then. Even then, most of their plants didn't switch over till around the late 1950s from their older mark, <(I)>.
Here is a very good page, with links to other good pages, on dating Owen-Illinois-made bottles:
https://www.glassbottlemarks.com/owens-illinois-glass-company-bottle-container-marks/
Thank you once again SpiritBear for your info. I got the dates that I used above from a page very similar to the link you sent me.
David Whitten, the author, is a go-to guy for all things related to dating bottles. Otherwise, Bill Lindsey does a very good page with dating bottles by characteristics in their manufacture, albeit not with specifics like date-codes.
https://sha.org/bottle/
Thanks again SpiritBear will definitely check into.