Round brown glass bottle with short, thin neck and cork closure; there is a paper label on the front of the bottle with the manufacturing information, title, and amount printed on it in black ink inside a decorative border and the letters "FB" printed in red in each corner; bottle is approximately …
Round brown glass bottle with short, thin neck and cork closure; there is a paper label on the front of the bottle with the manufacturing information, title, and amount printed on it in black ink inside a decorative border and the letters "FB" printed in red in each corner; bottle is approximately 1/3 full of dark liquid; the bottom of the bottle has the bottle manufacturing information embossed in it.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Received from anonymous donor via Kingston General Hospital Public Affairs.
Based on the date that the Anchor Hocking glass logo came into use, and the date Dodge & Olcott, Inc. was purchased and incorporated into the company.
Material
glass: brown
paper: tan
liquid: brown
cork: tan
ink: black, red
Inscriptions
Printed on label: "FB // FRITZSCHE BROTHERS OF // CANADA // LTD. // FB // TORONTO CANADA // ESEENTIAL OILS // AND // AROMATIC CHEMICALS // BASIC PERFUME // AND // FLAVOR RAW MATERIALS // C3C4523468 // OIL BOUQUET COMPOUND // NO. 136 // FB // 4 OZ. // FB"; embossed on bottom of bottle: "7386 // 3 // 6 // [anchor on top of] H".
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0010
0010-A2-7
Height
12.5 cm
Diameter
5.5 cm
Unit Of Measure
centimeters
Copy Type
original
Reference Types
Websites
Reference Comments
Testimonial to Frederick Henry Leonhardt on the occasion of his
Sixtieth Anniversary with Fritzsche Brothers, Inc., Saturday, April 17, 1954, FHL Foundation: https://fhlfoundation.org/testimonial-to-fritz-leonhardt/
Glass Bottle Marks, "Anchor and H entwined mark: Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation": https://www.glassbottlemarks.com/anchor-and-h-entwined-mark-anchor-hocking-glass-corporation/
"Anchor Hocking Glass Corp."
Bill Lockhart, Beau Shreiver, Bill Lindsey, and Carol Serr: AnchorHocking.pdf
Fritzsche Brothers was founded August 28, 1871, at 62 Cedar Street, New York City, a subsidiary of chemical maker Schimmel & Co., of Leipzig, Germany, They imported and sold essential oils.
Frederick Henry Leonhardt, president of the company until 1953, arranged for Ernest Guenther to travel the world and learn abotu essential oils. From this, Guenther created a 6-volume text, "The Essential Oils", published in 1947
"Oil Bouquet Compound" may refer to a mixture of floral scents.