Antique Oil Bottles at Wolff's Flea Market
Guest Blogger: Candice Lee Conner Last week on my social media journey through Wolff's Flea Market, I ran across these ball jars with weird spouts. At first glance, one might think these rustic spouts atop milk bottle like bottles are for the kitchen - or so I thought. Antique Oil Bottles at Wolff's Flea Market Chicago Turns out these small beauties are antique oil bottles from the Masters MFG Co. From Collector's Weekly , "Before disposable metal, paper, and plastic engine-oil containers became commonplace, drivers pulling into gas stations and asking for oil often had to watch and wait as the lubricant was hand pumped from a drum into a spouted glass bottle." The attendant at the gas station would bring one of these bottles to your car and fill it for you. Sometimes, you'd get to the gas station and they would already be there waiting in racks - just like the rack that you see in the picture! While they may not be used to a...