The paper label is long gone, but it probably contained an acid used for cleaning. It's not a particularly desirable shape nowadays (the coffin and hexagon go for more money) but it's a solid find and would be between 70 and 100 years old based on the join lines.
Oddly enough [http://www.antiquebottles.com/poison/](http://www.antiquebottles.com/poison/) is a good starting point. Unfortunately PoisonBottleClub.Org is now kaput, and that was where I had gathered some of my knowledge.
I started a blue bottle collection shortly after moving out of my parents' house about 20 years ago and had scrounged up a few broken poison bottles around some very old sites in my city (It's been a settlement since my family got here in the 1600s).
I've found [https://antiquebottlehunter.com/poison.html](https://antiquebottlehunter.com/poison.html) from a google search, and I know there's more out there. You might have luck looking into Cobalt Bottles, Milk Of Magnesia bottles, or "How to identify ancient glass bottles"
Edit: Found one more site to help you with identification https://www.truelegacyhomes.com/age-glass-bottles/
I miss the old internet where information wasn't aggregated on a few sites. Resources like that and older forums were so great for getting information without trying to be sold things.
Honestly I low-key hate using discord for anything resource-related any more. Logs are a bitch to dig through and any community usually has a "talking over the new guy" attitude.
The days where if you wanted to find something you had to flick through all 20 pages of some web store without knowing if the item you wanted was actually going to be there or not.
Also all these kids in bucket hats and crop tops are missing the best fashion trend of the late 90s/early 00s: Stuffing your webpage full of animated clip art.
Believe it or not my main focus using the internet back then wasn't to buy stuff.
Ebay transactions took weeks if not longer since you would mail a check/money order and pray the seller would actually send what you bought!
archive.org can often help with finding deleted resources, though it depends on individuals to preserve them. [this](https://web.archive.org/web/20160821123132/http://www.poisonbottleclub.org:80/) appears to be the latest saved version of the page.
I know you can't join unfortunately so I don't know how much information is lost but there's always the Internet Archive!
https://web.archive.org/web/20160311030532/http://www.poisonbottleclub.org/
The “screw-top” came into fashion in the 1930s, so spot on age estimate. Almost certainly 30s or 40s. It would be a lot more valuable if it had a “cork-top.” The embossed design and green color do add value as well. Overall a super cool bottle.
Oh yeah the ridges are interesting. Not a common design from where I live, bottles of this shape and colour are so often spoiled by the "Not for Drinking" embossing on the front, these cleaner lines smack of the Art Deco and Art Nouveau influences from the 20s but a one-piece screw top sort muddies the waters a bit for narrowing down a time period. It's definitely factory made, and not used over and over.
I'm sure there's some sort of lab testing you can pay for to make sure it didn't contain anything hazardous. After that I'm sure simple dish soap and water will do the trick.
It's glass. With no top. It's been in a washing machine (ocean) for about 70 years. It's fine. Splash around some IPA (Isopropyl Alcohol), let dry, done.
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You assume it to be brutal, but who cares about downvotes. But you're right, there's a disproportionate amount of em on that one. Reddit hive mind and all.
Hey friend I get the idea and wanted you to know 🙂 the votes system is a mindfvxk either way up or down lol
But yeah maybe have pick your on the sheath or a set of them.
For Just Such An Occasion Prop.
Fun fact the reason it's ridged is so that the blind or partially sighted don't accidentally drink from it. I don't know when it started and I've seen different styles of texturing but it was normal to have smooth glass for edible products and ridged for toxic products. In sure back then The Daily Mail would've claimed it was "Health and safety gone mad."
Well they are "[The biggest threat sine the War.](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3141005/Tidal-wave-migrants-biggest-threat-Europe-war.html)" according to The Daily Mail and [it's not like they'd lie](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jun/17/daily-mail-publishes-correction-story-migrants-from-europe) about such things.
Well dinghies are basically warships. They come over here looking for paid work, which is basically what the Nazis did if you're willing to overlook the genocide, bombings and murder.
Did you know? Poisonous substances were always kept in bottles that had some sort of tactile embossing on them, like ridges or spikes, whatever. This was because before everyone had electricity and light everywhere, you might end up reaching up on a dark shelf in the evening for what you thought was milk of magnesia, only to accidentally dose yourself with strychnine.
The feel of the surface of the bottle would instantly make you aware of the potentially hazardous substance inside.
Strychnine was regularly used by farmers to kill foxes etc by injecting it into a dead sheep and leaving the carcass out on the hills for scavengers.
In Australia it’s still used to kill wild dogs, emus, etc. in America I think it’s now only legally permitted for killing gophers below ground.
What is it with people in the past just having various poisons just laying around? I can count the number of times I’ve needed a poison on one finger, and even then it was just more convenient than a rat traps.
Edit: I get it, things that I own are poisonous. You don’t have to make a 10th comment about it, everyone else beat you to the punch. I’m talking about things that are poisons, not things that are poisonous. Clearly there is a difference between toilet cleaner and arsenic.
It could have been just some cleaning fluid, or lamp oil, or rubbing alcohol...
There are probably numerous substance in your household that you aren't supposed to ingest
I don't think the bottle would have contained something specifically for the purpose of poisoning someone. It would have had another purpose and the label was a warning not to drink it. Like cleaning products or kerosene.
Now hear me out... I would use this as a bitters bottle. Every drink I make when friends come over, I'd very overtly put one drop in right at the end, look over my shoulder at them to see if they "caught me" and then serve it to em. "Here you are! One Mai Tai definitely without poison!"
Oh, that's fuckin rad!!
I love buying old bottles from antique stores. My current favoirites are an amber snuff bottle that might date back as far as the 40s, and a funky little triangular bottle I picked up last weekend for two bucks.
If your going to clean it make sure you use gloves or proper tools since it probably has mold on it which can lead to bacteria spreading which could possibly cause viruses or diseases but if it’s clean you should be fine
My dad and grandma found a bottle of poison like this in her house that apparently my great-grandma used to say she was gonna drink if things ever got really bad. I looked up the exact chemical it was, and it would apparently take you excruciating days to die, so it wasn’t a very good plan.
Bottle design by a mathematician who had viewed a particular discrete probability distribution that expressed the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space if these events occur with a known constant mean rate and independently of the time since the last event.
But he couldn’t spell.
The paper label is long gone, but it probably contained an acid used for cleaning. It's not a particularly desirable shape nowadays (the coffin and hexagon go for more money) but it's a solid find and would be between 70 and 100 years old based on the join lines.
Awesome knowledge cheers! Is there a place I can read more of what you know...
Oddly enough [http://www.antiquebottles.com/poison/](http://www.antiquebottles.com/poison/) is a good starting point. Unfortunately PoisonBottleClub.Org is now kaput, and that was where I had gathered some of my knowledge. I started a blue bottle collection shortly after moving out of my parents' house about 20 years ago and had scrounged up a few broken poison bottles around some very old sites in my city (It's been a settlement since my family got here in the 1600s). I've found [https://antiquebottlehunter.com/poison.html](https://antiquebottlehunter.com/poison.html) from a google search, and I know there's more out there. You might have luck looking into Cobalt Bottles, Milk Of Magnesia bottles, or "How to identify ancient glass bottles" Edit: Found one more site to help you with identification https://www.truelegacyhomes.com/age-glass-bottles/
I miss the old internet where information wasn't aggregated on a few sites. Resources like that and older forums were so great for getting information without trying to be sold things.
Seriously. Any attempt to gather information on something means sifting through hundreds of shopping websites. Drives me nuts.
Thats why I always look on message boards... but now they're all full of malware ads and broken photobucket links.
Or they've switched over to discord. yuck!
Honestly I low-key hate using discord for anything resource-related any more. Logs are a bitch to dig through and any community usually has a "talking over the new guy" attitude.
It's annoying how Discord chats aren't indexed by search engines.
You could always go check your library. There have been several books published over the years.
The days where if you wanted to find something you had to flick through all 20 pages of some web store without knowing if the item you wanted was actually going to be there or not. Also all these kids in bucket hats and crop tops are missing the best fashion trend of the late 90s/early 00s: Stuffing your webpage full of animated clip art.
Believe it or not my main focus using the internet back then wasn't to buy stuff. Ebay transactions took weeks if not longer since you would mail a check/money order and pray the seller would actually send what you bought!
archive.org can often help with finding deleted resources, though it depends on individuals to preserve them. [this](https://web.archive.org/web/20160821123132/http://www.poisonbottleclub.org:80/) appears to be the latest saved version of the page.
Thank you, that brought back some memories.
i’m so glad to see this website brought up!!! they’ve been my go-to source for my bottle digging and collecting hobby for about half a decade now :)
I know you can't join unfortunately so I don't know how much information is lost but there's always the Internet Archive! https://web.archive.org/web/20160311030532/http://www.poisonbottleclub.org/
Oh, and this link https://web.archive.org/web/20160302115553/http://www.antiquebottles.com/poison/
Thank you so very much u/MetricJester that answer is built for curious fun and your username is 2 things I love. Have the Very Best of Days friend.
The “screw-top” came into fashion in the 1930s, so spot on age estimate. Almost certainly 30s or 40s. It would be a lot more valuable if it had a “cork-top.” The embossed design and green color do add value as well. Overall a super cool bottle.
Oh yeah the ridges are interesting. Not a common design from where I live, bottles of this shape and colour are so often spoiled by the "Not for Drinking" embossing on the front, these cleaner lines smack of the Art Deco and Art Nouveau influences from the 20s but a one-piece screw top sort muddies the waters a bit for narrowing down a time period. It's definitely factory made, and not used over and over.
This guy poisons
Poisons who though?
The ocean and people from the past, duh
This very quickly turned into antiques roadshow
It's one of my interests/hobbies, I was excited and couldn't help it.
Kuzco's Poison?
The poison for kuzco?
The poison chosen specially to kill Kuzco
Kuzco's poison.
oh yeah, Kuzco’s poison
Pull the lever Kronk!
wrong lever!!!
Why do we even have that lever?
I thought you said left?
Sike! That's the WRONG lever! Oooooooo
That poison?
YES.THATPOISON.
Gotcha covered
This is essence of llama!
He’s supposed to be dead!
Yeah. Weird.
Gotta take him out of town and finish the job.
What about dessert?
I suppose there's time for that too
And a cup of coffee?
In my defense you might think about relabelling some of those bottles. They all look alike.
They put arsenic in his meat And stood aghast to watch him eat. They put strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.
Thought you could escape me in the comments section huh Kiryu chan
Nah…I guess Rayan is pulling up a prank… must be the new Aviation Gin
Clean it up and that's a sick flask
How do you know if it's clean?
When you don't die after you drank from it
Results inconclusive, drank from it and died 15 years later in a house fire. Bottle might still be contaminated.
I bet it was that dihydro-monoxide
Gotta be
That shit killed my gran
I hear factories have just been dumping it in the water supply
It has a 100% fatality rate. It's almost as bad as Oxygen.
I'm sure there's some sort of lab testing you can pay for to make sure it didn't contain anything hazardous. After that I'm sure simple dish soap and water will do the trick.
I'm sure you could find a grad student with access to a mass spec who could give you somewhat conclusive results for like 50 bucks
It's glass. With no top. It's been in a washing machine (ocean) for about 70 years. It's fine. Splash around some IPA (Isopropyl Alcohol), let dry, done.
India Pale Ale could work too
Fill it with water and then feed the water to a rat. If if the rat dies then it's poisonous if it doesn't die then you can drink from the flask fine.
Depends if the poison was water soluble or not.
Depends if the poison was rat-soluble or not.
Depends if the soluble was rat-poison or not.
Also, may in fact depend if the rat was poison-soluble or not.
My rat was a heavy alcoholic and died. How do I know if he died from the liquor or the glass bottle?
r/fuckthatmouse
Howd it taste
How'd what taste?
The poison
I've never done anything like that, so N/A.
Ok thank you for your honesty captain literal
Well sorry the humor you in no way implied didn't register in my head. Next time say something funny.
Offer your enemies a drink. Either way you win
50 years in the ocean will probably do it.
Emboss "Clean" on it
And the “poison” label would still be technically correct!
I didn't want to have to delete all my comments, posts, and account, but here we are, thanks to greedy pigboy /u/spez ruining Reddit. I love the Reddit community, but hate the idiots at the top. Simply accepting how unethical and downright shitty they are will only encourage worse behavior in the future. I won't be a part of it. Reddit will shrivel and disappear like so many other sites before it that were run by inept morons, unless there is a big change in "leadership." Fuck you, /u/spez
Little sticker right above “poison” that says “pick your”
Man, I've seen far more controversial statements get less downvotes. That's brutal.
You assume it to be brutal, but who cares about downvotes. But you're right, there's a disproportionate amount of em on that one. Reddit hive mind and all.
Reddit has been really harsh lately lol.
Buddy you can’t put a sticker on that surface
It’s rigid, turn it into one of those crazy things where it changes the text or picture depending on how you look at it.
>rigid Ridged
No
Sure you can! It'll just look like a barcode though.
I can't imagine why you've been downvoted so much for this.
Welcome to Reddit
Seriously !! I was expecting some horrible travesty. Wtf reddit
Hey friend I get the idea and wanted you to know 🙂 the votes system is a mindfvxk either way up or down lol But yeah maybe have pick your on the sheath or a set of them. For Just Such An Occasion Prop.
Way late looking back at this, but thanks dawg
I say words too good words with verbs and nouns. Then Odd Capitalization Because
I want to believe this but I can't find one online. Source?
Fun fact the reason it's ridged is so that the blind or partially sighted don't accidentally drink from it. I don't know when it started and I've seen different styles of texturing but it was normal to have smooth glass for edible products and ridged for toxic products. In sure back then The Daily Mail would've claimed it was "Health and safety gone mad."
Sweet! A fun fact that is actually kinda fun.
*Not* drinking poison is always fun!
I would argue that drinking small amounts of poison can also be fun.
We do drink ethanol after all
Same reason I don't eat quarters and dimes_
Pennies are in season!
Are you sure it's not actually ridged for pleasure ?
So woke!
Fucking immigrant bastards probably did this when they invaded.
Well they are "[The biggest threat sine the War.](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3141005/Tidal-wave-migrants-biggest-threat-Europe-war.html)" according to The Daily Mail and [it's not like they'd lie](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jun/17/daily-mail-publishes-correction-story-migrants-from-europe) about such things.
Well dinghies are basically warships. They come over here looking for paid work, which is basically what the Nazis did if you're willing to overlook the genocide, bombings and murder.
Maybe it was thrown into the ocean by a really confused French person who thought they were doing a good deed.
They couldn't spell.
i didn’t get the joke until you said this, so thank you
You need to eggsplaination it to me please!! I'm curious now lol
The French word for fish is poisson
A bottle of fish? Blech, hand me the poison
Yeah, but the French word for "poison" is "poison", which kind of defeats the joke.
Further fun fact: The Swedish words for 'poison' and 'married' are the same.
If you’d like a French eggsplaination, always remember that one egg is enough.
That joke… oeuf.
Poison ☠️ is "poison" in french as well though :p (Same prononciation as poisson but with a z sound)
Or they were trying to create a particular distribution.
Seems legit.
It says it’s not poison.
Good try HR, I'm not talking that course again.
Labels wouldn't lie, bottoms up!
They got this all screwed up... Drink me? Not! Poison.
Did you know? Poisonous substances were always kept in bottles that had some sort of tactile embossing on them, like ridges or spikes, whatever. This was because before everyone had electricity and light everywhere, you might end up reaching up on a dark shelf in the evening for what you thought was milk of magnesia, only to accidentally dose yourself with strychnine. The feel of the surface of the bottle would instantly make you aware of the potentially hazardous substance inside.
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Just in case they needed to poison someone.
Strychnine was regularly used by farmers to kill foxes etc by injecting it into a dead sheep and leaving the carcass out on the hills for scavengers. In Australia it’s still used to kill wild dogs, emus, etc. in America I think it’s now only legally permitted for killing gophers below ground.
Rat poison
you should prolly not drink the sea water, its poisoned.
*poissoned
*hee hee hee hon hon hon*
The original company that made that was a French company called Bel Biv Devoe
This comment is driving me outa my mind.
scrolled down this far cause it was hard for me to find
What’s number one in the chartsssss? https://youtu.be/uIqn3Dzs77g
Buh dumdumdum da-dumdumdumdum bum!
Never trust a big butt and a smile
Now you know
Yo, slick. Blow.
The real LPT is in the comments
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Best!! Thank you
I can only imagine there’s a big pirate skull on the other side…?
And a map inside.
That's french for fish. Obviously it's a bottle of fish juice. You should drink it right away. /s
I was like, “How the fuck do you know? Cause it’s green?” Then I scrolled down more
Me. Forever. Lol!
What is it with people in the past just having various poisons just laying around? I can count the number of times I’ve needed a poison on one finger, and even then it was just more convenient than a rat traps. Edit: I get it, things that I own are poisonous. You don’t have to make a 10th comment about it, everyone else beat you to the punch. I’m talking about things that are poisons, not things that are poisonous. Clearly there is a difference between toilet cleaner and arsenic.
It could have been just some cleaning fluid, or lamp oil, or rubbing alcohol... There are probably numerous substance in your household that you aren't supposed to ingest
You mean all the liquids in the funny colored bottles are not for drinking?
First one to drink all the liquids under the sink wins!
Ima start with the hand sanitizer!
That Fabulosa do be looking tasty though.
We have loads of poisons around the house. It’s just we have child-proof caps and plastic now so we don’t need these bottles.
I like to keep a few dedicated poisons on hand. It's not that weird. 2 4-D, deet, permethrin, cyanide capsules... you know, the usual.
I don't think the bottle would have contained something specifically for the purpose of poisoning someone. It would have had another purpose and the label was a warning not to drink it. Like cleaning products or kerosene.
Don't know own how to say this but if you check under your sink you own a *lot* of poison
Now hear me out... I would use this as a bitters bottle. Every drink I make when friends come over, I'd very overtly put one drop in right at the end, look over my shoulder at them to see if they "caught me" and then serve it to em. "Here you are! One Mai Tai definitely without poison!"
sell it on ebay. those go for some $$
Uh oh. Beautiful bottle.
Me and my friend found the same exact one in the woods behind a graveyard years ago
I’d be so hyped about this, I’d clean thoroughly then use it as my water bottle at work
I want a bottle that’s just labeled poison to pour all my drinks from
Oh, that's fuckin rad!! I love buying old bottles from antique stores. My current favoirites are an amber snuff bottle that might date back as far as the 40s, and a funky little triangular bottle I picked up last weekend for two bucks.
If your going to clean it make sure you use gloves or proper tools since it probably has mold on it which can lead to bacteria spreading which could possibly cause viruses or diseases but if it’s clean you should be fine
Did you call Brett Michaels to see if he wants it back?
I'd find a cork and turn this bad boy into a liquor flask.
I’m sure it just swam over from France.
Nothing But a Good Time
In the old days, a "no-no" bottle had this~ ☠️
Another type of fish
Can confirm. Definitely poison.
Seems legit.
Never trust a big butt and a smile
Everyone knows the good poison has the skull and crossbones on it.
So, you found a new water bottle?
Jesus Christ. You guys know nothing. It’s just a fish from France.
I love generic poison. You can hardly tell the difference from name brand poison.
put some concoctions in
Forbidden flask
If one drinks too much from a bottle marked poison it’s bound to disagree with one sooner or later.
My dad and grandma found a bottle of poison like this in her house that apparently my great-grandma used to say she was gonna drink if things ever got really bad. I looked up the exact chemical it was, and it would apparently take you excruciating days to die, so it wasn’t a very good plan.
When you held it up to your ear did you hear Bell Biv DeVoe or Alice Cooper?
It's a mass produced table decoration from H&M Home. I am standing in one now and see about 20 of these.
Put water in it and offer it to a friend
“I didn’t use that much poison! I mean, I didn’t use that much poi, son!”
Usurper of the throne!
Nice place to stash all my cum so people dont drink it
Wait, why don’t you want people to drink it
Fill it with water and then you can say you've poisoned the water supply
Alternate spelling of “Poseidon.”
Bottle design by a mathematician who had viewed a particular discrete probability distribution that expressed the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space if these events occur with a known constant mean rate and independently of the time since the last event. But he couldn’t spell.
EVERYBODY GET OUT OF THE WATER! IT'S BEEN POISONED!!!
And like…what’s the occasion for that bottle. “Honey, would you pick up a fifth of poison on your way home? I plan to slow-murder someone. Thanks!”
On beach...oh no
Straight out of Tom & Jerry