Odo-Ro-No bottle...
I found a bottle on a walking trail in the woods. It wasn't buried, which made me think it could just be a modern bottle. But it was also a small clear bottle, and I'm not sure that there are many of those made anymore. It is about two and a half inches tall. If it isn't an old bottle the only thing I could think that it could be is a sample alcohol bottle. I am attaching several pictures. The seams go all the way up over the lip of the bottle and around the shoulder. I have attached a picture of the seams...and in the same picture is an arrow showing where there is a "slot" inside the neck of the bottle. There are three of these vertical "slots" inside in the circumference of the neck. The embossing on the bottom appears to say obo-Ro-no. But I can't be sure. It also has a number 3 below the letters. Can someone tell me if this is an old bottle? And if so, what it could have been used for? Thanks!
Jamie
Jamie
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I do believe this is an earlier 20th century bottle but have no idea what it contained. Medicine, food or cosmetic, if that limits the choices at all.
Jamie
I found a bottle just like this, and it still had it's original bakelite cap.
Mine as well appears to say Obo-Ro-no, though mine has a 5. on the bottom.
Like you I haven't been able to find much about this (yet) but I will say that this bottle came from a cache of bottles dug out of a riverbank dump site, the majority of the bottles coming from the 1920's the oldest one I found dating at 1934.
My guess is that it came from in between these times, especially since bakelite screw tops were used quite a bit in this time.
I know this post is rather old, but if you or anyone else has any more information on it since, I would LOVE to know. It is the ONLY bottle in my collection I have yet to identify as far as what it's contents were.
It's not "obo" it is "ODO"... apparently it is a deodorant.
The image in this website shows a bottle, roll on, and a cap that I believe predates mine.
Your's however might be closer in age to this one, given that it has a 3 on it.
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/permalink/the_armhole_odor_test/
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/How-Advertisers-Convinced-Americans-They-Smelled-Bad-164779646.html