Object Record

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1 of 1977

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Metadata

Object ID #

2006.010.002ab

Object Name

Bottle

Title

Intact Horlick's Malted Milk Jar

Lexicon category

5: T&E For Science & Technology

Year Range from

1970

Year Range to

1975

Artist

Dominion Glass Company

Made

Dominion Glass Co.

Place of Origin

Canada

Description

A pressed, colourless glass jar / bottle (a) of Horlick's Malted Milk. It is still intact, with a waxed cardboard seal holding in the brown powder. There is an embossed and knurled metal screw-top lid (b), that is lined with brown cardboard. A red and blue printed paper label with a lot of text to it is present on the jar. The label provides information re serving it to adults, and a second column describes how to prepare it for infants. It was sold by Canadian agents Gilmour Bros. & Co. of Montreal. The back of the jar has a large circular embossed trademark. See RELATED for the wrapper that was found on this item. The underside of the jar has a diamond-shaped Dominion glass company mark.

Provenance

Unknown. Found in Owen Sound, Grey County. Dates to 1970-1975.

Horlick's malted milk was a product introduced in 1886 in Wisconsin. There also was a British Horlick's factory. This particular printed wrapper is for a Horlick's malted milk product (that was bottled in Canada) and reads that the "sole manufacturers" were the Horlick's Malted Milk Corporation of Racine, Wisconsin, but the product was "put up in Canada". The Canadian agent for the company was Gilmour Bros. & Co.

Collection

Bottles & Equipment, 20th-c Collection

Material

Glass/Paper/Cardboard/Wax/Ink/Glue

Dimensions

H-17.5 Dia-8 cm

Found

Owen Sound, Grey County

Function

A commercially-produced glass jar of Horlick's malted milk powder. This product was retailed in Canada. The powder, when it was mixed with water, was often used for baby food, or for convalescents to drink. Horlick's Malted Milk is advertised in the 1927 T. Eaton & Co. Spring & Summer catalogue, on page 348: "Horlick's Malted Milk is easy for a baby to digest as it does not form tough curdles."