Join us for the Annual Quad Cities Antique Bottle and Advertising Show & Sale on Sunday, August 25th at the Columbus Hall in Davenport, Iowa from 9am-2pm. This long running show offers an opportunity to buy, sell or trade antique bottles and advertising items as well as meet other collectors who...
I dug all these bottles from the mud today. Apparently someone really liked David Mayer beer 120 years ago. All the bottles were in the same area so I think it was the same person drinking them and stashing them, but they never came back to cash their deposits.
Bottles include:
1. David Mayer...
Found an interesting bottle today. It has the body style of a Hutch but looks to have been sealed with a lightning stopper.
In situ:
Fresh from the mud:
I have this kind of Hutchinson bottle morphology going on in the display cabinet now...
I have found some info on the maker but not on this particular bottle style he made and not on what seems to be a mold error. Any input on it would be appreciated.
I found this bottle today. It is a British imported soda bottle made in Castleford Yorkshire England by John Lumb & Co. between 1870-1905.
Interestingly, this bottle was made without tooling. The two piece mold seam, which is quite wide, extends completely from the bottle's base all the way to...
These are all bottles I recovered from a series of hunts I conducted on 2/5 2/6 and 2/7.
Bottles include from left to right:
1. Fred W. Fleer from Graham Ave. Brooklyn. Circle slug with horseshoe.
2. Chas H. Bevers from Hastings 'On the Hudson' NY
3. Lembeck and Betz from Jersey City NJ...
This blob top soda bottle was made for Bolen & Byrne of 423rd East 54th street NYC in 1895. It most likely contained ginger ale. B&B purported to have been the first sellers of ginger ale in the USA starting in 1857, though this claim is difficult to substantiate. They declared bankruptcy in 1903.
Found these two bottles today.
The Bolen & Byrne in situ:
Immediately after a quick rinse:
The bottle isn't perfect as it has a chipped lip but otherwise it is in nice condition.
The 5 Cent milk jug is marked "Store Bottle":
Later at home I noticed the Bolen & Byrne bottle had a date...
Mississippi Valley Annual Antique Bottle & Advertising Show and Sale
August 27th, 2023 9am-2pm
Knights of Columbus Hall
1111 W 35th St
Davenport, Iowa 52806
Admission $2. 14 and under is free.
Fruit Jars
Antique medicine Bottles
Breweriana
Local advertising
Blob top bottles...
From left to right:
1. Charles J. Fritz Bowery Bay House 924-926 Steinway Ave. L.I.C.
2. The John Eichler Brewing Co.
3. The Ebling Brewing Co. New York.
Conducted a short dig this afternoon at the 1910-era site. Uncovered three bottles including a large circle slug blob:
From left to right:
1. Charles J. Fritz Bowery Bay House 924-926 Steinway Ave. L.I.C.
2. The John Eichler Brewing Co.
3. The Ebling Brewing Co. New York.
John Eichler in...
These are all finds from a dig I conducted yestersay, May 7th 2023:
The large bottles include:
1. Tooled blob C. V. Garrison Flushing L.I. made by the Karl Hutter bottling works in 1908.
2. Tooled blob amber bottle, no markings.
3. Machine-made Artic Fruit Juice Co. Norfolk Va.
4...
This is a Bachmann-Bechtel Brewing Co. beer bottle from Staten Island N.Y. It was made between 1907-1911 and features a unique pictorial four leaf clover logo. The company went out of business after the owner, 30 year old William Bachmann, died of a long illness on April 5th 1910.
Went back to the 1910-capped clay pit bottle dump that I have been extensively excavating since January. It is very difficult digging but the trade off is the bottles often come out in great condition. In about two hours of digging I recovered three blob-top beer bottles, one tooled lip med, and...
I found this cracked C. V. Garrison beer bottle a few days ago. I dug it out from under about 6 inches of thick mud. It didn't have its top so I kept digging in the general area until I eventually found it. The top had been separated from the neck for so long that patina/pest had formed on the...
An unusual little bottle I found made for Broe and Gorman of 404-6 East 60th Street NY. It looks kind of like a Hutchinson but it isn't, it would have been sealed from the top with a porcelain lightning stopper or something similar.