BATAVIA Bottle Possibly Salad Dressing Purplish Color Circa 1900

Description

This bottle is 8.75 inches in height. It has no chips or cracks. There is a small bruise on the back side as seen in the second photo. It looks like the cap was a screw on as the ridge is angled downward. Sprague & Warner was a distributer of grocery items under the Brand BATAVIA. For what it is worth there is a town named Batavia in New York, Ohio & Illinois. These are the only 3 Batavias in the world so sayeth the Google. The bottle weighs over 13 ounces empty. Do you live in Batavia? Put this on a sunny kitchen window sill to see it get a darker hue of purple. Alabama, Arizona, Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Colorado, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Illinois, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Montana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, New York, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, West Virginia, Washington, Wyoming, Wisconsin & Washington, D.C.     420