Posted 2 years ago
wickencrafts
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ARROWHEAD PURITAS WATERS in a glenwood inglewood box
Seems that 1976 has a cast 76 in thy bottom with stars
SPIRIT OF 76
Have a Number One Safe Happy Day
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How tall is the bottle?
5 GALLONS TALL
Long drink of water almost past the shin bone towards Knee Cap
When I find that little jug again will measure 4 Yo
Thanks, that answers my question so don’t bother with the exact inches.
If it’s from the 70s, it might have held distilled water. I worked in a hospital pharmacy back then - we had such bottles of distilled water for mixing certain medications. They were used in medical laboratories also.
In the ‘70s, building terrariums in giant bottles like that was a poplar hobby. I built one myself. Special long tongs and tools were used to insert soil, plants, pebbles and other decorative item thru that small opening of the bottle.
What a lot of trouble so it’s no wonder that hobby didn’t last long, plus, those bottles were hard to come by.
I wish I still had mine!
Thanks for posting yours.
I have the box carton case it came in. They had a pretty large $$ DEPOSIT Total $6 FIVE for the JUG and One Dollar for the case..
It does say distilled and spring water.
Inside the box the plastic seal cap is still there. That is for Spring Water
Like they would have in the old WATER COOLER
I did see those terrariums back in the day 60's 70's
A garden in a bottle instead of a ship.
Eons ago in my Chemistry classes at the University.... we called this bottle a carboy. The word carboy is from the Persian qar?bah (?????), from Middle Persian Kar?vah. Arabic also borrowed it as qarr?ba, meaning "big jug".