Antiques: Small bottle inks big history

AYou’re historical hunch is very good about your 120-year-old ink bottle. The vertical mold seam does not go to the very top edge of the opening and identifies a manufacturing process used circa 1890 to 1902. The likely maker – The Toronto Glass Company (Limited) – was located at the intersection now known as Sudbury Street and Dovercourt Road near Lake Ontario’s shore in downtown Toronto. It operated from 1893 to 1899 and continued operations there under new ownership by