One last thing before we wind up last week’s “spiral bottle” thread…
From 1884, Stickney & Poor’s patented bottle design for a hexagonal spiral glass bottle. Like many figural glass bottles of the time, the structural packaging concept trumps the graphic design…
“These bottles were neck labeled since labels could not adhere well to the lumpy body.”
via: Society for Historical Archaeology
The non-spiral neck portion was labeled like this…
(See also Dr. Fisch’s Bitters in which a figural, fish shaped bottle was labeled on the bottom.)
(Rufus Barrus Stickney’s design patent, after the fold…)
–Randy Ludacer
When was production discontinued?