Hello! Thank you for your question. The Rakow Research Library has trade catalogs from Wheaton/Nuline, which made milk bottle reproductions in the late 1960s and early 1970s that match your description. The bottles were available in blue, green, topaz, orange and "flint." They came in 3 sizes: 1/2 pint, pint, and quart. The bottles were made in Italy, had porcelain sealing caps, and were embossed as you describe.
The Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center Frequently Asked Questions - Museum of American Glass web page includes a discussion of "Wheaton bottles" that contains additional information.
Here is a list of materials in our collection on Wheaton/Nuline (Wheaton Products after 1973):
- Americana Collection [trade catalog]. Millville, NJ: Wheaton/Nuline Firm, 1970.
- Grandma Wheaton’s Receipts [sic] [trade catalog]. Millville, NJ: Wheaton/Nuline Firm, 1970.
- Wheaton Creations [trade catalog]. Millville, NJ: Wheaton/Nuline, 1972.
- Grandma Wheaton’s: Receipts [trade catalog]. Millville, NJ: Wheaton Products, 1973.
- Wheaton Glass [trade catalog]. Millville, N.J.: Wheaton Products, 1973.
- Grandma Wheaton 1974 [trade catalog]. Millville, N.J.: Wheaton Products, 1974.
- Wheaton Glass: 1974 [trade catalog]. Millville, N.J.: Wheaton Products, 1974.
Below are other items that might be of interest (links here and above are to Rakow Library catalog records unless otherwise noted):
- Giarde, Jeffrey Lyle. Glass Milk Bottles: Their Makers and Marks. 1st ed. Bryn Mawr, Calif.: Time Travelers Press, 1980.
- McKearin, Helen, and Kenneth M. Wilson. American Bottles & Flasks and Their Ancestry. New York: Crown Publishers, 1978.
- “New Raised Lettering on Glass Bottles.” Antique & Collectors Reproduction News 4, no. 9 (Sept. 1995): pp. 106-108.
- Nightingale, Mark. “Genuine or Reproduction Early Glass?” Antique Bottle Collector UK, issue 51 (Winter 2012): 11-13, ill.
- Taylor, Gay LeCleire. The Fires Burn On: 200 Years of Glassmaking in Millville, New Jersey. Millville, NJ: Wheaton Village, 2006.
- Taylor, Gordon A. Milk Bottle Manual; A Collector’s Pictorial Primer & Pricing Guide. Salem, Ore.: Old Time Bottle Pub. Co., 1971.
- Tutton, John. Udderly Delightful: A Guide to Collecting Milkbottles [sic] and Related Items: History and Price Information. 3rd ed. Front Royal, Va.: J. Tutton, 1998.
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