Welcome to my milk bottle Web site!

Ralph and Bonnie Kipp
836 Lehman Drive
Chester, IL 62233
Phone (618) 826-2534
kipp.bottles@frontier.com
Members of The National Association of Milk Bottle Collectors
Click to see selections from the
Dairy Milk Bottles!

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Styrofoam bead bottle fill is back! This is a great way to show off pyro milk bottles. The fill comes packaged in a plastic bag and shipped inside a corrugated box for easy handling. The styrofoam beads can also be used for making FLOAM or other CRAFT projects. Click here for more information.

On April 1, 1929, my parents (Gottfried and Hermine Kipp) began bottling milk on a dairy farm near Chester, IL. The production of milk was primarily from Jersey cows. Customers were pleased to purchase milk with a deep cream line. Milk was bottled on the farm until 1951. At that time the operation changed, and the Kipps distributed New Era Dairy products. Later New Era Dairy was acquired by Prairie Farms Dairy which is presently serving a large area with quality products. A few years ago Bonnie and I became more actively interested in collecting milk bottles.

See my collection!
Click here for a list and photos of bottles.
Here are some photos of my embossed Illinois bottles.

Message Board Archives Old messages are still available for viewing.

You can also email me at kipp.bottles@frontier.com.

Other Links:

Click on the
Lori Kipp original
artwork to visit
other milk bottle Web sites.


Milk Bottle Capper
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You can use milk bottles in your decorating schemes. Click to see a Kipp bottle with a floral arrangement or to see a corner of the Kipp dining room. As a hobby, collecting antique bottles will be educational, fun, and enjoyable.

Color-applied lettering, or pyro glaze lettering, became available in the early 1930’s. All bottles with pyro lettering are filled with white styrofoam beads and are ready for you to display and enjoy. The bottle will have a cap or cover, but not a cap original to the dairy named on the bottle. Check this page often for information about milk bottles offered for sale. You will find bottles attractive to you for reasons such as the messages or scenes on the bottles. In earlier years of milk bottle collecting, collectors sought only embossed bottles for their collection. As collectors and decorators used the styrofoam beads to insert into the bottles the beauty of pyro bottles the interest to collect them grew. It is fair to say that the round bottles are more collectible than the square bottles. Square bottles are becoming collectible.

Click here for a list of my bottle collection.