Over 27,600 bottles are now listed with the addition of over
1,600 new bottles. Added over 725 new or improved
photos.
Add 4 new glass manufacturer catalogues.
Including 2 for Cumberland Glass Manufacturing Co. of
Bridgeton, NJ, Illinois Glass Co. of Alton, IL and North
Baltimore Bottle & Glass Co. of Terre Haute, IN. The links are available under the
attributes menu and then under manufacturers with the
catalogue link. The links are also available by
manufacturer on the manufactures page by
clicking on the catalogue icon ().
Updated the Early Soda and Mineral Water article with
additional information on Thomas Greenleaf Chase (The
Pioneers), and two
new bottles and their histories; John Moon of
Philadelphia, PA and John Maicks of Reading, PA. Also
added
links to bottles of related firms mentioned in the articles.
Added 28 new pontiled bottles. Added two porters
from Whitehead, Ihmsam & Phillips of Pittsburgh, PA, a
green porter variant marked G. W. Brandt and Dyottville
Glass Works from Carlisle, PA, a
blue soda from John Kantner of Reading, PA, an amber J.
Maick early soda from Reading, PA, fourteen (yes 14) new
pontiled bottles from Philadelphia a scar pontiled J. Moon
Improved Patent OP type soda, an oval plate marked J.
Scherhammer and another marked P. P. Blasse, a green
double plated porter marked J. Reynolds, a second double plate porter with only a partial name of F.
M. in the plate, a
green porter marked F. Bode, another marked R. Humphrey,
another marked J. Montgomery, another marked S. McCormick,
another marked Planck & Haeffners, a new P. Conway
porter marked Union Glass Works and Brown Stout, a porter
from the same mold and marked Union Glass Works Brown
Stout , but with an empty plate,a new
Dyottville porter in green and blue (one in blue is a first
for a Dyottville porter and a deviation from the Dyottville
green) from Philadelphia, PA, a green porter marked Jas.
Duffin, Port Richmond (section of Philadelphia), PA, a Brown
& Reid, from PA (suspects are Philadelphia or
Lancaster), a salt jar from Clarke & White of
Saratoga, NY, A blue soda from F. Gleason of Rochester, NY
without the reversed letters, A Dr. C. L. Whitney's Patent
Soda & Mineral Waters from New York, NY, A blue mugbase
marked Elmer & Turell of Rossville (Staten Island), NY,
a pontiled version of the J.
T. Brown Torpedo from Boston, a green pony from Stephan C.
Heald of Lynn, MA, a sided aqua soda marked M.
Wange from Indianapolis, IN, and
a yellow green J. Cairns & Co. variant form Saint Louis,
MO.
Added 3 new Gravitating Stopper bottles; one from Bennett & Ketchum
of Meadville, PA. and two from L. H. Kerlee of Little Rock,
A Added 2 new Albertson stopper
bottles from William S. Kinch of Paterson, NJ. Added 5
New Codd Patents; one marked La Reina and two variations
of The
Dominion Soda Water Co. Ltd, both of Montreal, QE, one from Corea & Company and second from
R. T. Samuels both of St. Vincent. Added 5 new
Roorbach 1885 patent bottles, one from Emil Marcotte of
Taunton, MA, and another from the Westfield Bottling Co. of
Westfield, MA, a third fro the Claxton Bottling Works in
Claxton, GA, a fourth from the Hammack Lucas Mfg Co
of Atlanta, GA, and a fifth from William Leary of Chester,
PA. Added 1 new Universal Seal Stopper bottle from
Charles G. Eckinger of Harrisburg, PA.
Added 7 new glass manufacturer; The Cumberland Glass
Manufacturing Co. of Bridgeton, NJ., Gaynor Glass Works of
Salem, NJ, Whitehead, Ihmsen & Phillips
of Pittsburgh, PA, The Modes Glass Co. of Cicero, IN, Owens
Bottle Co. of Toledo, OH, The Chattanooga Bottle & Glass
Company of Chattanooga, TN, and
Nuttall & Co. Ltd. of St. Helens, England. Add 2 new potteries;
Sipe, Nichols & Co. of Williamsport, PA, and Western
Pottery Manufacturing Company of Denver, CO. Added 1 new
glass jobber; H. B. Sleeman of London. Added
additional notes to the Frederick Heitz Glass Works.
Add 3 new closure. A soda bottle closure
patented by John Schrink in 1875, a lever stopper made by
the Keystone Stopper Company for beer bottles, and the Kork-N-Seal closure
patented in 1906.
Added a new category of Fire Extinguisher.
Added the Virgin Islands (U. K.) as a new country.
Added the Virgin Islands (U. S.) as a new State.
4/17/2013
Over 26,000 bottles are now listed with the addition of over
325 new bottles. Added over 275 new or improved
photos. Thanks to Ed Nikles for contributing many
listings for Wayne County, Pennsylvania. Thanks to the
Bux-Mont Bottle Club members and Mark Spangler for coverage
of Abraham R. Cox bottles, listings and photographs,
spanning the 45 years Cox was in business.
Added a new feature that documents glass manufacturer
catalogues. These will attempt to identify the
specific molds and the bottles that were made in them and
will be a valuable reference to early soda bottle
researchers. The links are available under the
attributes menu and then under manufacturers with the
catalogue link. Links are also available from the
manufactures information on the manufactures page by
clicking on the catalogue icon ().
The first catalogue is for the Diamond Glass Company of
Royersford, PA.
Added 12 new pontiled bottles. Added an aqua soda
of J. F. Miller from Davenport, IA, an aqua pony from
Christ & Heblich of Evansville, IN, a Stoddard Stubby
marked R. R. on the shoulder and from an unknown location, a
green soda marked M. Kom and Great Western, a green soda marked
E. Gudyjunst, Jersey Shore, PA, a quart sized porter marked
C. Matchin of Danville, PA, a green porter marked Take & Veile
Lager Beer, from Easton, PA, which to date has only been
known in smooth base, three new A. R. Cox bottles including
two different green porters and a taper toped green soda, a quart porter with a blank plate and
likely a Dyottville product, and a new variation of the Roussel ten
pin that does not have "Phil.a" under the glass
works marking.
Added
2 New Sykes 1883 Patents; one from Philip Brown of
Haverstraw, NY, and a second from Fred Thorn of Wilkes Barre,
PA.
Added 1 new collector's shelf for early Norristown,
PA bottles.
2/28/2013
Over 25,675 bottles are now listed with the addition of over
425 new bottles. Added over 225 new or improved
photos.
Added a new search feature that allows you to search
for bottles from a point on a map or near your location.
Added 4 new pontiled bottles. Added a green pony from
Morton Bros of Newark, NJ, a new variant of a Bridgeton
Glass Works pony from Bridgeton, NJ, a S. Keys beer from
Burlington, NJ, which was previously reported but in smooth
base, and a new C. Abel sided variation from Saint Louis,
MO.
Added 1 new Gravitating stopper bottles; one from P.
H. from an unknown location. Added 1 New Matthews 1872
Patent; from D. T. Sweeny of Key West, FL.
Add 1 new closure. A beer bottle closure
patented by William S. Dorman in 1903.
Added 4 new glass manufacturers The Duquesne Glass
Company of Paden City, West Virginia, the VanKueren &
Stone Bottle Company of Roulette, PA, Baker Brothers &
Company of Baltimore, MD, and the Old Dominion
Glass Company of Alexandria, VA. The notes for Old
Dominion are very extensive and paint an interesting picture
of the history of that works. Updated the counts of
bottle produced by the various glass manufactures on the
manufactures page.
Added plate mold codes for bottles embossed "THE
PROPERTY OF" over the plate. The codes are T201G,
T201N, T250N, TP201, and TP250.
Added Jamaica as a new country.
Moved
the 2012 what's new to an archive page and created a clean
version of
what's new for 2013.
Added additional entries
for 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908 and 1909 to the Pittsburgh Directories
page.
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