Over 22,325 bottles are now listed with the addition of over
325 new bottles. A number of new Montana bottles were
added from the from A Bottle Guide To Montana by Marc
Lutsko. I believe
that Montana is now close to complete. Added a number
of bottles, with pictures, from the Upper Bux-Mont area of
Pennsylvania thanks to David Buck. More bottles
listings and pictures from North-west New Jersey from Aaron
Bechtel. Added over 240 new or improved photos.
I got the new book Bottles In Illinois and synced up
the web site listings that I had with the illustrations in
the book for bottles that were pottery, pontiled or with
unusual closures. You will see the references in the
variant notes with "BII Figure" followed by the
illustration number. The exact additions are listed
later in these notes.
Added 33 new pontiled bottles. Added an aqua
pony from J. Fischer of Belleville, IL, a J. Weisbach pony
from Alton, IL; an aqua A. & F. X. Joerger pony from
Alton, IL; two aqua ponies from Fischer & Ab Egg;
various colored L. A. Egg pony and two different Clark
bottles and a barrel shaped beer bottle from T. Herberer
Bros. all from Belleville, IL; a blue variant of the Hedlund
& Co and a blue Hedlund, both from Chicago, IL.; a new
blue variant of the Hutchinson & Co. soda from Chicago,
IL; an aqua T. Kane porter from Chicago, IL; Three black
glass porters from Taylor & Brother of Chicago, IL;
three black glass porters and a blue pony from J. Evans of Galena,
IL; a black glass porter from Volz & Glueck of Galena,
ILL; two aqua pony bottles from James E. Eaton of
Galena, IL; two Mueller & Beck aqua ponies from
Highland, IL; a light green sided soda from Weber &
Anton from Highland, IL. a S. M. Hickey pony and two R.
Hickey & Co ponies from La Salle, IL; an aqua R. Hickey
pony and a E. J. Humphreys soda from Peoria, IL; a Daniel
Kaiser soda in various colors and Kaiser "quart"
sided soda from Quincy; IL.
Added 3 new Gravitating stopper bottles; one from
William Galterman from Danville, IL; a D. H. Kammann from
Kankakee; IL.; a James J. Allison from Nelson, IL 3 new
Kelley stopper bottle one from F. C.
Lang of Chicago, IL; a second from Wm, Hausburg of Chicago,
IL. and a third from G. Wurster of Chicago, IL. Added 1 New Floating Ball stopper bottle;
from Charles Demont of Sanford, FL. Added 1 new
Christin stopper bottle from J. A. Lomax from Chicago,
IL.
Added 1 new design a barrel shape.
Added a new page for Mavericks and search to identify
bottles that are from
firms whose location is not known. Improved
the search results page to now show what the results are for. This required
updating the pages that feed this page. Moved
the 2011 what's new to an archive page and created clean up what's
new for 2012.
Added Milk as a new category for milk bottles
that look like soda or beer bottles. Added a new
rare bottle to the Wheeling Virginia's Collector Shelf and
added X new collector's shelf for the earliest pontiled soda
and mineral water bottles.
Updated the counts
for manufactures, closures, lips and shapes. Fixed an
issue in the database extract process that was
preventing Cuban bottles from being loaded.
