Historical Information Service

Copyright © 2002 Digger Odell Publications

Are you interested in the historical background of your bottle? If you would like a quicker or more confidential response about an old bottle than I can offer in my Question I Get section of my web site please print out this Historic Information Form and send it with a self-addressed stamped envelope.  For a fee of  ($10 per item) I will provide  the following: 1) Written statement of general background information about your bottle. 2) Search of Patent Office Records and copies of any trademark, label registrations or design patents relating to your item that I find. 3) Search of 100s of reference books and magazines related to antique bottles. 4) Written estimate of value if possible.  5) Bibliography of sources when appropriate.

Your Name:___________________________________________________________
Your Address: _________________________________________________________
Your Email Address:____________________________________________________

IMPORTANT
To give you with accurate information, a picture is the best description you can provide.  If you are not able to send a photo then be sure to include a drawing. 

 If you send me information via email use this link>>> Be sure to make the subject "HISTORIC INFORMATION." I get a LOT of mail and this will help me pick yours out.  Unpaid requests will not be processed.

Include as much of the following information as you are able

CATEGORY: What do think the bottle might have been for ( beverage, food, medicine)

SHAPE:  ___ rectangular  ___square   ___cylindrical   ___sided   # of ___  sides ___other (describe)

EMBOSSING: Describe and mark if on the front, left, right, back, base or shoulder. 

 

 

HEIGHT (in inches or cm):  __________                  MOUTH type of lip: (drawing)

METHOD OF MANUFACTURE: (check one)
____Not machine made - mold seam stops below the lip of the bottle 
____Machine made - mold seam goes over the top of the lip (machine made bottles do not have a pontil) 

BASE: 
___base of the bottle is smooth  
___base has pontil mark (cannot be machine made and have a pontil)
___base has embossing  numbers, words or letters? (describe)

OTHER:
___has a label (describe including company information)
___ embossed geometric design (describe)

COLOR: ___ clear, ___ aqua, ___deep amber,  ___yellow amber,  ___yellow, ___cobalt,  ___ green, OTHER COLOR: _____________________

CONDITION, ___chips  ___flakes (describe size and location) ___stain  ___cracks 
___label condition (describe)

WHERE THE BOTTLE CAME FROM :

WHAT ELSE DO YOU KNOW OR THINK ABOUT THIS BOTTLE? 

 

You can expect about two week turn around for replies. Send this form together with a check or money order for $10 payable to Digger Odell Publication and a Self-Addressed stamped envelope (I will not process your order in a timely manner without a SASE) to:

Digger Odell Publications, 4943 Isaac Lane, Mason, OH 45040

Fine print:   Your payment may or may not result in information about your bottle.  I will make every effort to find out about your item's history but sometimes it will not be possible for the amount charged to conduct the kind of exhaustive research required.  Other times, the information simply may not exist.   Upon receiving your request, if it is clear I will not be able to find any  information, I will return your check in the SASE provided.  Your payment covers my time and the services described above.   Refunds will not be given if the services have been performed - even if no information is found.