Bottle run today

[cokemanracer]

Made my annual summer bottle run to several antique malls a few hours east of home. Usually hit the malls to the west, north and south a few times a year, but this trip is a bit further to make in one day.

Didn't find anything really good but prices weren't bad and I was able to upgrade on a few of the bottles.

Took these pictures in the garage just after unwrapping them and removing the tags, now I need to find room to display them all. The two Indian embossed bottles in the last picture are a bit hard to see, they say Indian River Soda Water, from Lexington, KY. They're Root Glass bottles and both slightly different.

 

[Semar]

That Twin Lights bottle is interesting. I wonder if the label picture is of Thacher Island near Cape Ann.
Where was it bottled?

 

[cokemanracer]

Hi

Attaching pictures of the Twin Lights bottles I currently have, they're from Thomas Wilson @ Co., Rockport, Mass. The quart bottles appeared a few years ago in quantity around where I live, the smaller ones not so much but I do see them from time to time.

Interesting, on the two taller of the other bottles the green glass is 7 oz. and the clear glass is 8 oz. The blue label on the 8 oz. has a slightly different logo than the others. The other two are 7 oz. as well.

Also, the taller green 7 oz. bottle says Ginger Ale on the label while all the others just say Beverages.

 

[cokemanracer]

Found this a minute ago about Twin Lights Soda., the lighthouses are on Thacher Island.

Twin Lights Soda - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Semar]

If you ever want to part with one please let me know.

There's an interesting history behind those two lights.
Thacher Island was originally named back in the colonial days as Thacher's Woe.
There's a reef offshore named The Londoner; Thatcher and his family were aboard a packet that sailed from London back before the Revolution; the packet wrecked on the Londoner reef. Thacher was the only member of his family that survived the catastrophe. As a result, the local gov't in that time gave him ownership of the island. During the revolution the lights along with most others were extinguished to confuse the British.