My Lima, Ohio Milk Bottle Collection
Photos of my Lima milks, (and a few nearby towns). This is just a photo album post. I will separate them out and write info/history posts in the future, but needed to document what I have, and figured I'd share the pix with the internet-world.
I'm not going to address rarity or values in this post. I have been collecting Lima Ohio bottles for almost 20 years, and have paid from 50cents to $250, and have sourced bottles from farm auctions, garage sales, bottle shows, antique malls, ebay, and helpful friends. So please don't ask me about values, or where you can buy Lima Ohio milk bottles.
These bottles are NOT for sale.
I am not looking to buy duplicate bottles.
If you have a Lima milk bottle that is not pictured, then yes, please, I am interested in seeing a photo at least, and possibly buying your bottle.
If you are a Lima-area bottle collector, I would love to compare notes, and discuss our collections. Please consider joining me in the Findlay Bottle Club -- finbotclub.blogspot.com -- visitors are welcome to our meetings -- info on the website.
Below are tons of photos!
Click the pics to enlarge.
Standard milk bottle size and embossing codes used:
- TR = Tall Round (as in TREQ = Tall Round Embossed Quart)
- SQ = Squatty
- E = Embossed
- P = Pyro (Pyro = painted label)
- S = Square (as in TSPQ = Tall Square Pyro Quart)
- CT = Cream Top
- Q = Quart / P = Pint / HP = Half Pint / HG = Half Gallon
List is alphabetical, with new additions worked in, or added at the bottom of the list. Latest addition: September 2017.
#1 & #2
ALLEN COUNTY RAW MILK PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS ASS'N REGISTERED LIMA OHIO
TREP / TREQ
NOTE: see 2 BRIDGES bottles in the Other Towns section below, as one says LIMA, and one says BEAVER DAM.
#3A
TREQ BUCKEYE DAIRY LIMA O. (New addition 4/2020)
#'s 3,4,5,6,7
BUCKEYE PASTEURIZED MILK BUTTER LIMA O. (FRONT)
GRAHAM'S ICE CREAM (BACK)
ALL w/ ORANGE PYRO
L-R: TRCTPQ / RPHP / TRPQ / SPP / SPHP
#8
DECKER'S PASTEURIZED MILK CREAM LIMA, OHIO
(BACK: DEPOSIT STORE BOTTLE)
TSPHG RED / PLASTIC HANDLE
#9
DECKER DAIRY LIMA OHIO / DIVISION OF ACRES INC.
(BACK: TRY OUR DELICIOUS ...)
TSPQ / RED
#8 & 9
#10
DECKER'S PASTEURIZED MILK CREAM LIMA, OHIO
QT WAXED CARDBOARD ''KONE'' / GREEN INK
BACK: CAR AND BILLBOARD
STOP AT DECKER'S DAIRY BAR / ST RT #25 - SOUTH
#11 (ON RIGHT)
TSPHG / GREEN
DECKER'S PASTEURIZED MILK CREAM LIMA, OHIO
BACK: CAR AND BILLBOARD
STOP AT DECKER'S DAIRY BAR / ST RT #25 - SOUTH
BOTTLE ON LEFT, ABOVE, SHOWS THE FRONT THAT IS ON ALL FOUR BOTTLES, BELOW:
#12, 13, 14, 15
TRPQ's / GREEN
ALL 4 FRONTS:
DECKER'S PASTEURIZED MILK CREAM LIMA, OHIO
4 DIFFERENT BACK DESIGNS, L-R:
COTTAGE CHEESE; PLEASE RETURN/KID; HONEST QUALITY/BABY; and DAIRY BAR BILLBOARD/CAR
#16
DECKER DAIRY LIMA OHIO / DIVISION OF ACRES INC.
(BACK: TRY OUR DELICIOUS ...)
PHG / RED
#17 DECKER'S LIMA, OHIO / RPHP
#18 DECKER CRIDERSVILLE, O. / TREQ
#19 DECKER'S DAIRY / RIBBED TEHP / ACE OF DRINKS
#20 & 21
EL DORA FARMS LIMA OHIO
RED TPHP and TSPQ
#22 & 23
TRY HEFNER'S EL DORA
Delicious Ice Cream __ Cable Road Lima Ohio
ORANGE SPP and SPHP
#23a
EL DORA FARMS, LIMA OHIO TRPQ
#24,25,26
EQUITY SELECTED MILK LIMA OHIO
BLACK / TRPHP, TRPP, TRPQ
ALL w/ SAME BACKS:
FOR CHARM AND BEAUTY/GIRL'S FACE
#27,28,29
EQUITY SELECTED MILK LIMA OHIO
BLACK / TRPHP, TRPP, TRPQ
ALL w/ DIFFERENT BACKS:
COWS/PASTUERIZED DAILY; DELICIOUS ORANGE DRINK; SAFETY
#30,31,32
3 DIFFERENT EQUITY's THAT DO NOT SAY LIMA
(THE BLUE IS JUST SURFACE-PAINTED)
#33 - SLEN-DEE ICE CREAM CARTON - EQUITY DAIRIES INC, LIMA OHIO
#34 - EQUITY UNION CRY CO LIMA, O. - TREHP
#35 = FISHER'S MILK TREHP
#36,37,38 = PURE FRESH MILK PASTEURIZED BY THE FISHER DAIRY MODERN PLANTS LOCATED IN LIMA AND WAPAKONETA OHIO
TREHP, TREP, TREQ
#39,40, 40A
GRACELY DAIRY FARMS LIMA OHIO
TREHP / TRPQ ORANGE
New find (purchased March 2020), TREQ!
(Note: See a new H bottle at the bottom of the list.)
#41-48
GROUPING OF HEFNER DAIRY BOTTLES
(SEE #22,23 ABOVE FOR HEFNER'S EL DORA BOTTLES)
#41,42,43
HEFNER'S DAIRY LIMA OHIO
PYRO QT and 2 HP's
#43A
Hefner SQ PYRO PINT
#44 - HEFNER'S DAIRY - SQPG
#45 = EJ HEFNER AND SONS DAIRY LIMA OHIO / TSPQ
#46 HEFNER DAIRY LIMA OHIO / AMBER SQSPQ
#47 SHOULDER EMBOSSED HEFNER'S LIMA OHIO / SQSEQ
#48 = HEFNER DAIRY LIMA OHIO / PASTEURIZED & RAW
#49 = HEFNER DAIRY LIMA OHIO / PASTEURIZED
BOTH ORANGE TRPQ
#50 = HEFNER'S DAIRY CARTON
#51,52 - INDEPENDENT DAIRIES LIMA O. - TREP / TREQ
#53,54 - INDEPENDENT DAIRIES / LIMA OHIO
TRPHP / TRPQ / BLUE
#55 / TREQ
INDEPENDENT / LIMA, O. / SELECTED DAIRIES
GROUPING OF KOLTER BUCKEYE BOTTLES
#56,57,58
THE KOLTER BUCKEYE DAIRY CO. LIMA O.
TREHP / TREP / TREQ
#59 = SPQ KOLTER BUCKEYE CO.
#60 = SEQ / SHOULDER / KOLTER BUCKEYE CO. / LIMA OHIO
#61 BUCKEYE QT. CARTON
#62 LINNWOOD DAIRY LIMA O. / TREP
#63 SERVICE DAIRY LIMA OHIO / ACE OF DRINKS (BACK) / RIBBED PINT
#64 MEADOW GOLD TPCT / LIMA OHIO ON CAP ONLY
#64-1 MEADOW GOLD DAIRY / LIMA --
BABY NURSER BOTTLE - blue pyro painted label, advertising give away (?).
#65 SHADY SIDE DAIRY LIMA O. / TREQ / BASE EMBOSSED: T. M'FG. CO PAT 1882
#66 THE LIMA CR'Y.& C.S.CO. LIMA O. (LIMA CREAMERY AND COLD STORAGE CO.) / SQREQ
#67 SHAWNEE DAIRY / S / PASTEURIZED PRODUCTS / TREP
#68 NORDIC DAIRY INC. LIMA OHIO / SQSPHP
#67A SHAWNEE embossed pint and half pint.
GROUPING OF SHELLEY BOTTLES
#69,70 - SHELLEY DAIRY LIMA OHIO
TRPHP, TRPQ / ORANGE
#71 SHELLEY DAIRY LIMA, O. -- SPQ/ORANGE
#72 SHELLEY DAIRY -- PHP/BLUE
..
#71A - SHELLEY SQ PYRO PINT
#73 SHELLEY DAIRY REGISTERED LIMA, O. - EHP
#74 SHELLEY-TOWNSEND LIMA, O. - EHP
#75,76 SPRINGER'S / LIMA, O. / DAIRY
TREHP / TREQ
#77,78 SPRINGER'S DAIRY (THESE DO NOT SAY LIMA ON THE BOTTLES) (ONE HAS A SPRINGER'S LIMA & WAPAKONETA O. CAP)
TREQ / TRPQ
#79 SUNNY DALE [2 WORDS] FARMS / LIMA OHIO / ''KOOPS'' ON BACK / ORVILLE W. KOOP ON CAP - TRPQ/ORANGE
#80 O.W. KOOP / SUNNYDALE [1 WORD] FARMS / LIMA, OHIO - SPQ/ORANGE
CLOSE UP OF #79, AND CAP
#81 WHITE MOUNTAIN / LIMA OHIO / DAIRY CO - TRECTP pint
#82 WHITE MOUNTAIN / LIMA OHIO / DAIRY CO - TREP
#82-2 WHITE MOUNTAIN DAIRY CO. / LIMA OHIO / HALF PINT
#83 WHITE MOUNTAIN (ON SLANT, NO TOWN) - TREQ
#81 - 2 WHITE MOUNTAIN / LIMA OHIO - TRECTQ quart cream top
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NON-LIMA MILK BOTTLES (FROM SOME NEARBY TOWNS)
#84 PROPERTY OF JESSE SHILLING / ALGER, OHIO - TREQ
#85,86 HYGRADE DAIRY / BLUFFTON, O. -- TREP & TREHP
#87 HOFSTETTER DAIRY / BLUFFTON, OHIO - TREQ
#88 NATURAL MILK / NATURE'S BEST FOOD / HOFSTETTER DAIRY / BLUFFTON, OHIO - TRPQ/GREEN
#89 BRIDGES & SONS DAIRY / BEAVERDAM, OHIO - TREQ
#90 BRIDGES & SONS DAIRY / LIMA, OHIO - RPHP/RED
BRIDGES BOTTLES w/ POSTCARD FOR
E.M. BRIDGES TASTEE FREEZ / BEAVERDAM OHIO
#91,#92 - PLAIN VIEW DAIRY / COLUMBUS GROVE, OHIO
TREP / TRPQ/ORANGE
#93 RANSBOTTOM & SON / ROCKFORD OHIO - TREQ/BRICKNECK
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Note: These items are part of my ''Collecting Lima Virtual Museum''. They are not for sale.
If/when I find more information on these items, I will add it to the post.
Read the Introduction to my ''Collecting Lima'' Virtual Museum Project, all about my Lima Ohio Bottles, Advertising, Antiques collection.
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