Small cylindrical brown glass bottle with tan cork closure and two tan paper labels; front label indicates product information and manufacturing company; partial back label contains part of a warning, missing a third of label; inside contains residue; bottom has embossed numbers and a logo with an …
Small cylindrical brown glass bottle with tan cork closure and two tan paper labels; front label indicates product information and manufacturing company; partial back label contains part of a warning, missing a third of label; inside contains residue; bottom has embossed numbers and a logo with an "H" on an anchor.
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
cork: tan
paper: tan
ink: black, red
Inscriptions
Printed on front label: "FB FRITZSCHE BROTHERS OF // CANADA // LTD. FB // TORONTO CANADA // ESSENTIAL OILS // AND // AROMATIC CHEMICALS // FRITZSCHE BROTHERS OF CANADA LTD // TORONTO ONT // REG. CAN. PAT. USA. // BASIC PERFUME // AND // FLAVOR RAW MATERIALS // CS225DTT69 // CHLOROPHYLL // WATER SOLUBLW NEW // FB // 1 OZ. // FB"; printed on back label: "L BEFORE // NG"; embossed on bottom of bottle: "6 // 9 // 7345 // H [superimposed on an image of an anchor]."
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
Water soluble chlorophyll was most likely used as a colour additive, giving a green colour to food or liquid.
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