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The larger bottle is embossed inside of an indented panel plate mold? The stated capacity on the current product is 7.

As portrayed by the image of an early 19th century pewter inkwell to the left, a lot of late 18th to early 20th century inkwells were not bottles or even made of glass.

Click to see an image of the embossing which also includes a B above and 8 below the embossing - mold numbers of unknown meaning now although many examples have the B in the same location.

Of course the specifics of manufacture as well as the closures and finishes used varied over that time, e.

"OGN" was an abbreviation for Oregon which was vogue during the 1870s to mid 1890s empirical observations.

so it appears that this bottle was used for the hair balsam first, then reused by the same company for the shampoo? All of the stoneware ink bottle styles illustrated above are commonly encountered on historic sites in the U.

These bottles were made for Apollos W.

It was marketed until at least 1948 Fike 1987.

5" in height, oval in cross section, has a crude inwardly rolled finish, and was blown in a true two-piece hinge mold as indicated by the mold seam equally dissecting the base.