My phantom mini milk bottle listing 'returns'! Can anyone help identify it?

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  1. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    Hi! I've not a clue what happened to this listing which I thought I put in the 'Finds' thread. Thanks to those who tried to help resurrect it! :)
    ~
    It reads>
    M is for MORNING wake up!
    M is for MOTHER the best!
    M is for MILK yes please!
    The main words are in a banner.
    It is 5-1/4" tall.
    Under the M for Mother it states; MADE IN ENGLAND also in green.
    The raised info around the bottom> 6 - 189ml - 15mm - (a reversed curved) E - R2 - two U shapes tucked into each other vertically - 1581 - then a bunch of raised dots which are likely to be time/date info.
    While all the paint/transfer is in great shape the rubbing around the base, about 1/2" up, appears to be from reuse.
    ~
    Can anyone tell me exactly where it was made/bottled, its age, and if you've a mind to offer value that would be a bonus. :)
    Thank you!
    p.s. I'll take more pics if you want. M CREAMER.jpg
     
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  2. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    Mother's Milk.......you gotta be kidding !! :hilarious::hilarious:

    I'm not even sure I want to search for that !!!! :).....:happy:......:woot:
     
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  3. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    Ha!!!!! OMG!!!
    WQQW!!!! ;)
     
  4. Ladybranch

    Ladybranch Well-Known Member

    Found a couple of these. Here's a link to one that sold on Esty saying English with a title of:

    "Antique Vintage English School Milk Bottle with Green
    "

    https://www.etsy.com/listing/126310491/antique-vintage-english-school-milk

    Here's one on Wanelo selling for $16 something with a title of:

    "Vintage British Pintie Monogramed, Small Milk Bottle"

    Have to sign in to read much about it. If a sign-in or whatever comes up blocking the pic, reloading the page usually keeps that sign-in thingy from popping up.
    https://wanelo.com/p/30612945/vintage-british-pintie-monogramed-small-milk-bottle

    --- Susan
     
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  5. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    Thanks!!! :)
    It seems neither know the age of it but it does seem that these aren't an alphabetical series.
     
  6. Bev aka thelmasstuff

    Bev aka thelmasstuff Colored pencil artist extraordinaire ;)

    When I was growing up, that size bottle was for cream.
     
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  7. Ladybranch

    Ladybranch Well-Known Member

    >...neither know the age...<

    If I had to guess I would say 1940s-1960s. Scroll down the following page to the 3th pic. I is of a 1940s English school room with student drinking from such size bottle.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...cking-nursery-scheme-taxpayer-1-36p-pint.html

    I believe I had such bottles of milk at school in Massachusetts in the 1940s and probably into the 1950s.

    >...that size bottle was for cream.<

    Yes, but, if memory serves, I remember having to scoop cream from the top of pasteurized milk bottles. With homogenized milk, there wasn't cream at the top - I thinkkkk. My knowledge of milk is limited!

    --- Susan
     
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  8. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    That's what I called this on the missing post but it states MILK on it so I was wondering what it should be called.
     
  9. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    Thank you! :)
    This one (and those other 2) is in pretty great condition so I wonder if they were just kept because they were so nice.
     
  10. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    in kindergarden we were served little bottles of milk.....maybe a tad larger....but not by much for small hands to grab....
     
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  11. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    We were expected to rumble at any moment so we had cartons.
    :)
     
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  12. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    I remember finishing off anyone's milk who handed it to me....:rolleyes:
     
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  13. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    :yuck::vomit:
     
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  14. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    I was in kindergarden !!!!!!!..........& I was thirsty !!! :woot::woot:
     
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  15. ola402

    ola402 Well-Known Member

    We had these bottles of milk when I was in grade school in the 1950s (without all the Ms). Our supply was from a local dairy, plain bottles. They were in a machine and you put your money in and the machine allowed you to extract one bottle. A good day was when my mother allowed me to select chocolate milk. She wasn't at the school so couldn't have known what I picked, but I wouldn't have dreamed of disobeying. I was pretty sure she would find out somehow. After lunch, the bottles were picked up and returned to the dairy for reuse. A "pintie" - I like that.
     
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  16. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    Not for cream. I'm a bit dubious about this having any age. It's metric, and we really didn't go in for that over much till, oh, the late 70s/early 80s. School milk bottles were plain and in Imperial sizes, not metric. It's a third of a British pint, which is about the right size for school milk, though. School milk was abolished in the 70s here - I think this thing is one of those retro ironic things, made then or a bit after. They still sometimes get used to serve milk in trendy restaurants.
     
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