Glass bottles came with permanent labels | News, Sports, Jobs
Syndicated columnists Glass bottles were expensive packages for alcoholic drinks and other liquids, including many beauty products, by the late 1700s. But makers liked to give products a permanent label, not just a pasted, handwritten or printed paper label. So bottles were made with a thin layer of glass that was heated to cover the label and adhere it to the bottle permanently. Other less decorative bottles were made with the product name captured in the mold. A label under glass couldn’t fall off, get damaged or become illegible, so they were favored by apothecaries, the drug stores of ...