Glass Containers

Getting the shucked oysters to the consumer was achieved in numerous ways. Initially it was probably common to sell in bulk by the pound or count. To make it more convenient, not to mention sanitary, oysters for the smaller retail markets were placed in glass containers. This is still a common practice today but the container types have gone through many changes. The early glass containers looked very much like the milk or cream bottles which they likely were copied from. The two displayed here both have the word oysters embossed in the glass but there probably were many unmarked ones which of course could be recycled for either milk, cream or oysters. The two bottles below are from the east coast and the cover cap is one used by a Willapa processing firm in the 1930-1940 period.

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