So you cannot find your bottle listed.
I estimate there are 35,000 pre-crown bottles from
North America and this site lists only a fraction, but an
import group of these bottles. This site lists
all of the information that I have available on these
bottles. Go back and look at the attributes
section of the site to get information on your bottle and
use it to complete the "Date Your Bottle" function. Asking
me for more information will not yield any additional
information.
I am always looking to receive corrections on listed
bottles or missing information that fills in holes for
bottles where the information is incomplete.
Currently I am only accepting information on "unlisted" North
American pre-crown top bottles in the following categories:
All pontiled bottles
All cobalt blue bottles
All primitive pottery bottles
All pony, soda, drug store, tenpin, torpedo, round
bottom, Saratoga, porter, teepee, Saint Louis weiss
beer, early export beer, lager, early ale, oyster
cocktail, and root beer extract shaped bottles
All champagne beer bottles in colors other than
aqua, amber, or clear
All Hutchinson bottles in colors other than aqua or
clear
All bottles embossed "cream soda," Cronk, root beer,
birch beer, white or weiss beer.
All bottler suppliers' bottles and salesmen sample
bottles
All bottles with closures that are not documented on this site
All bottles with closures that did not achieve widespread
popularity (Occur on less than 100 bottles)
All Codd bottles
All Matthews gravitating stopper bottles
All North American bottles from outside the United
States and Canada
All bottles from Alaska, Arizona, Delaware, Hawaii,
Idaho, Maine, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New
Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont,
Wyoming, Alberta, Manitoba, Newfoundland, Northwest
Territories, Prince Edwards Island, Saskatchewan, and
Yukon.
All Philadelphia bottles
Email me with your name and contact information, the
embossing, shape, dimensions, lip style, closure, color and
base type at
Todvon@verizon.net. Attaching pictures can be
helpful.
If you have what you consider a complete or nearly
complete collection of some specific geographic area please
contact me at the above email address and I can arrange a
formatted way to exchange the information.
As always, I will answer all questions on all pre-crown
Philadelphia soda and beer bottles and the bottlers and
brewers that used them.
