Milk Bottles

Antique milk bottles before the 1930´s were a round shaped bottle. In the 1940´s a square, squat shaped bottle became the more popular style. Milk bottles since the 1930´s have used pyroglaze or ACL [applied color label] to identify the bottles. Before the 1930´s names were embossed on milk bottles using a slug plate. The name was debossed on the slug plate, then the plate was inserted into the mold used to make the bottle-the result was the embossed name on the bottle.

By the 1960´s glass bottles were replaced with paper cartons.

The first patent relating to milk bottles is dated to March 23,1880.

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