Any info 1930s?

[tiltsix]

A friend of mine was cleaning out his mom's basement and found this.any info?

 

[ragtopfury]

Just did a little more searching on it... It appears that Dodge was a brand of embalming fluid in the 1940's and they made these glass bottles to sell their preserving juice for dead bodies.

Max Huncke is known as the grandfather of the embalming process. He started the EMBALMERS SUPPLY COMPANY of Brooklyn, New York in April 1886. Operated as "The Brooklyn Fluid Works" and "Dodge (Dolge) and Huncke Company of Brooklyn". The Embalmers' Supply Company, trade name ESCO, has been the first with many items for use in this industry

 

[ragtopfury]

Also found this blurb...

Embalmer glass bottle from Dodge Chemical company. graduated and numbered embossed side, this bottle measures eight inches. Clear perfect glass. A great postmortem collectble.

 

[pishta]

Man, that is morbid. Closed casket for me, make it out of Pine. Don't cry for me, throw a party for me when I leave.

 

[RustyRatRod]

Use it for a washer bottle. Hell, I'd sanitize it and use it for a whiskey decanter. lol

 

[diymirage]

Pretty sure thats an early dodge brother blinker fluid reservoir

 

[tiltsix]

Thanks, I had no idea.it was filled with turpentine when he found it.

 

[tiltsix]

I will clean it and display it behind my bar.Great conversation piece

 

[tiltsix]

Pic of side

 

[ragtopfury]

@tiltsix you should ask your friend the history on it. How did an embalming fluid bottle end up in the family?

 

[tiltsix]

His mother was execeter of all her family from when she was in her teens.she recently passed away at the young age of 97.she would collect what ever the rest of the family didn't want.,.......,..jeff