Posted 10 years ago
FogNorth
(1 item)
Have been looking around for anything like this. Many similar on ebay but none exactly the same. 1st thing bottle is NOT embossed. Has the telltale ridges on the side indicating poison. 3 sided with 1/2 rounded back. Only marking is on bottom of bottle, it says E.L.& Co and the number 68. All others I have seen similar are 3 5/8 to 3 3/4 " tall and this one is only about 2". I can't think it would be newer than the other bottles with embossed POISON on two sides so think it might be older? Any information immensely appreciated.
Looks to be early 1900s. Poisons are assigned some confusing K-number, of which this general shape has many variants of known to be used by Lilly. Would have had paper labels.
Thanks for your comment. Any reference documentation you could point me to on the K series designation? Was Lilly the only one that used the K numbering scheme? I will do some more searching. Appreciate any direction to old bottle documents that are used by collectors? Thanks again SpiritBear !!