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Here are the McKearin numberedGVII-3 GVII-4 and GVII-5 Cabin style original E G BOOZ'S OLD CABIN WHISKEY /
120 WALNUT STREET PHILADELPHIA bottles and the Clevenger produced straight and beveled roof reproductions.
These are some of the most desired and pricey bottles available in the bottle collecting world.
It is also the most reproduced antique bottle on the Market.The Clevenger brothers made the best copy in 1930
of the straight roof version and have fooled quite a few people myself included. I will show also in this
post Clevenger straight and beveled roof versions for the ability to determine an original BOOZ from the Clevengers.
Only one GVII-5 original BOOZ exists and that is in the Corning Museum of glass.
While not extremely rare the GVII-3 is none the less rare and has a high percentage of roof
and corner damage because of the thinness of the glass in those area's of the bottle.It was difficult to blow
the glass into the bottles corners and crevices thus the bottles were weak at those points.This is why the
roof variant on the GVII-4 with the beveled roof was changed. Metal plugs were added in the corner peaks of
the roof in the mold to acheive this.
The bottle was manufactured at the Whitney glass works in Glassboro New Jersey
in the years 1858 through the 1860s and right on up to 1870.
The Whitney glass works had a retail office in Philadelphia at 118 Walnut street
and right next door to them Edmund G. Booz had his store front where he was
selling his cabin shaped Booz bottles to liquor merchants and tavern owners through out the
Delaware Valley.There was speculation that the bottles manufacture date was in the year 1840
but that has since been disproved as Edmund Booz would have been only sixteen years of age at that time,
an age probably a little to young to be a Liquor Merchant.
The original bottle had a paper label wrapper that depicted an early American cabin.
On the rear of the bottle on the roof is the date in bold font 1840.
This led many to beleive that the bottles date stamped on the roof was from William Henry Harrison's
presidential Campaign Log cabin and hard cider in the year 1840.
Early in the 20th century Edwin Atlee Barbers book titled American glassware and the book by
Stephen Van Rensselaer's American Bottle's and Flasks only fueled the myth regaurding the Harrison
presidential campaign.
A publication in 1926 by Hazel Mirkil in the magazine Antiques proved the 120 Walnut had not been in
existance before the year 1856 as the city of Philadelphia had renumbered their streets in that year.
The reason the city renumbered was simple the Center City portion was growing and
it was easier to label blocks in the city as the 100 block 200 block ect.
The old address of Boozs store would have been 26 Walnut street.
Booz also had a property directly behind 120 walnut street at 15 Granite street.
In the Days the famous Dr.Dyott had his store front at second and Race Front street being located on the river
was where all of the business's that shipped goods via the Delaware river.
This was only three city blocks from where Booz had his business on Walnut Street.
In fact all of the important business locals were on the river for easy access of shipping of goods.
There is sound justification that the mold maker who the Whitney glass works used for the bottle
modeled his cabin in the image of a glass workers home which in the early 1840s through up to 1970
dotted the landscape surrounding the old Whitney Glass works location in the heart of Glassboro.
The glass workers lived in small modest 4 room 2 story homes shaped exactly like the Booz bottle.
When you peeled the label off the bottle it now closley resembled the glass workers homes.
The last vestages of these old homes came down in 2007 as part of the down town revitalization project
the town of Glassboro was instituting.Glassboro has done a terrible job preserving its rich glass industry.
Only a handfull of the original colonial homes still stand today.The 5 point intersection where the Stangers had founded
the second glass works in New Jersey in 1775 has lost all of its historic charm with the original Stanger mansion
house as the only standing structure from the original works.
Here is a group picture of the the Original Booz bottles
and their Clevenger counterparts.Left to right the Clevenger beveled roof,the original Whitney beveled roof,
The original Whitney straight roof and the Clevenger straight roof
120 WALNUT STREET PHILADELPHIA bottles and the Clevenger produced straight and beveled roof reproductions.
These are some of the most desired and pricey bottles available in the bottle collecting world.
It is also the most reproduced antique bottle on the Market.The Clevenger brothers made the best copy in 1930
of the straight roof version and have fooled quite a few people myself included. I will show also in this
post Clevenger straight and beveled roof versions for the ability to determine an original BOOZ from the Clevengers.
Only one GVII-5 original BOOZ exists and that is in the Corning Museum of glass.
While not extremely rare the GVII-3 is none the less rare and has a high percentage of roof
and corner damage because of the thinness of the glass in those area's of the bottle.It was difficult to blow
the glass into the bottles corners and crevices thus the bottles were weak at those points.This is why the
roof variant on the GVII-4 with the beveled roof was changed. Metal plugs were added in the corner peaks of
the roof in the mold to acheive this.
The bottle was manufactured at the Whitney glass works in Glassboro New Jersey
in the years 1858 through the 1860s and right on up to 1870.
The Whitney glass works had a retail office in Philadelphia at 118 Walnut street
and right next door to them Edmund G. Booz had his store front where he was
selling his cabin shaped Booz bottles to liquor merchants and tavern owners through out the
Delaware Valley.There was speculation that the bottles manufacture date was in the year 1840
but that has since been disproved as Edmund Booz would have been only sixteen years of age at that time,
an age probably a little to young to be a Liquor Merchant.
The original bottle had a paper label wrapper that depicted an early American cabin.
On the rear of the bottle on the roof is the date in bold font 1840.
This led many to beleive that the bottles date stamped on the roof was from William Henry Harrison's
presidential Campaign Log cabin and hard cider in the year 1840.
Early in the 20th century Edwin Atlee Barbers book titled American glassware and the book by
Stephen Van Rensselaer's American Bottle's and Flasks only fueled the myth regaurding the Harrison
presidential campaign.
A publication in 1926 by Hazel Mirkil in the magazine Antiques proved the 120 Walnut had not been in
existance before the year 1856 as the city of Philadelphia had renumbered their streets in that year.
The reason the city renumbered was simple the Center City portion was growing and
it was easier to label blocks in the city as the 100 block 200 block ect.
The old address of Boozs store would have been 26 Walnut street.
Booz also had a property directly behind 120 walnut street at 15 Granite street.
In the Days the famous Dr.Dyott had his store front at second and Race Front street being located on the river
was where all of the business's that shipped goods via the Delaware river.
This was only three city blocks from where Booz had his business on Walnut Street.
In fact all of the important business locals were on the river for easy access of shipping of goods.
There is sound justification that the mold maker who the Whitney glass works used for the bottle
modeled his cabin in the image of a glass workers home which in the early 1840s through up to 1970
dotted the landscape surrounding the old Whitney Glass works location in the heart of Glassboro.
The glass workers lived in small modest 4 room 2 story homes shaped exactly like the Booz bottle.
When you peeled the label off the bottle it now closley resembled the glass workers homes.
The last vestages of these old homes came down in 2007 as part of the down town revitalization project
the town of Glassboro was instituting.Glassboro has done a terrible job preserving its rich glass industry.
Only a handfull of the original colonial homes still stand today.The 5 point intersection where the Stangers had founded
the second glass works in New Jersey in 1775 has lost all of its historic charm with the original Stanger mansion
house as the only standing structure from the original works.
Here is a group picture of the the Original Booz bottles
and their Clevenger counterparts.Left to right the Clevenger beveled roof,the original Whitney beveled roof,
The original Whitney straight roof and the Clevenger straight roof