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12/31/2024 |
38,800 bottles are now listed with the addition of over
800 new bottles. A focus on bottles from Ford
City, Scranton, and Chester, Pennsylvania. Over 1,890 new and improved pictures have been
added! There are now nearly 28,600
bottle pictures are on the site. I still have a
backlog email and auction contributions.
Added directory listings from Pittsburgh for years
available 1815-1860, Williamsport and surrounding towns in
Central Pennsylvania where directories were available
between 1866 and 1920, All Scranton, Pennsylvania
directories 1859 to 1920 including other Lackawanna and
Luzerne County cities and towns, Chester, Pennsylvania
Directories 1869 to 1883, All of Canada for 1896, Albany,
New York, 1813 thru 1869, Des Moines, Iowa directors for the
years 1886 to 1881, Butte City and some other towns 1883 to
1910, New London, CT for years available
between 1855 and 1920, all known directories covering
Armstrong County Pennsylvania until 1920, directory listing
for various Connecticut towns from a statewide directories
for 1866, 1868, 1869, 1871, 1873, 1874, and 1875, All of
Texas for 1884, Chicago, Illinois for 1855, 1867 Louisville,
Kentucky, All of Michigan Directory for 1856, All of
Missouri Director for 1860, an 1882 Directory covering
Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Newark, New Jersey for
1894, and Buffalo, New York for 1870, 1880, and 1890, Utica
New York, 1817, 1844, and 1858, Cincinnati, Ohio, additional
entries 1849 to 1856, Memphis, Tennessee from 1850 to 1870,
Nashville, 1853 to 1900, and individual directories and additions to
previously published directories
Added 1 new Matthews 1872 Stopper
Marked Lippincott from Long Branch, NJ. Added 4 new Roobach 1885 Patent
an embossing variation of a bottle embossed J. P. Kiernan,
Pawling, NY, a second embossed P. F. Cullen from Chester,
PA, a third from Thos. Clements of Philadelphia, PA and a
fourth from Henry Le Feber from Superior, NB. the second
from that state. Added 4 new Gravitating Stoppers a new variant from
Palmer & Green of Georgetown, D. C., a new
bottle from J. H. Collins, of
Ithaca, NY, another from Williams & Fowler of Macon,
MO, and a third from Charles Walters of Saint Paul, MN. Added
1 new Albertson Stopper bottle from Wells Brothers
of Montgomery, AL.
Added 24 new pontiled bottles. A blue sided soda
marked J. Lay, with one letter on each panel and from
Galesburg, MI. A F. Brown soda variation from Boston,
MA. A green sided soda marked S. W. Cronk
from Tarrytown, NY. An aqua pony from Kansas City, MO and
marked J. Kump & Co. A new green soda variation of the W. H.
Buck soda from Norfolk, VA and a J. H. Myer green pony from
Fredericksburg, VA. A green pony from R. C. & T of New
York City, NY, A Union Glass Works soda bottle with
two plates, from Philadelphia, PA, a lost G. Wood green porter bottle
marked Union Glass Works from Reading, PA, a green pony
marked J. J & J. A. Sprenger from Lancaster, PA, a green porter
marked W. Whitehead from Conshohocken, PA, the first
confirmed pontil bottle from Conshohocken with a bottler's
name. A puce large sided R. Munro & Co from Pottsville
in an early ale shape and an aqua J. F. Heinitsh early OP
soda from Lancaster, PA. And from Philadelphia, a green OP
soda from E. Roussel, a green
Roussel soda marked "Soda Waters," a green porter marked
John B. Welscher and a M. Blessing both previously known
only in smooth base, a green porter from Thos. Barlow with a
hand embossed, an aqua J. Fretz porter, a porter marked J.
Gormley, a dual plated porter marked G. W. B., a green
Dyottville porter from James Calley and A green porter
marked James Miller from Philadelphia, PA. A
gallon sized Bailey Spring Water bottle from Florence, AL.
A mineral water bottle from the Talladega Sulphur Springs
from AL.
Added 1 New Manufacturer Arbogast & Company of
Pittsburgh, PA in operation only during 1862. Updated
the attribution of the W. H. S. and W. S. H. marks.
Added 3 New Beer Closures John Trimble's screw down
closure patented in 1874, Frank Burns Bail Stopper dated
1884 and the Joly stopper patented by George, John George,
and Martin Rehfuss in 1889.
Updated the Article Early Soda & Mineral Water Bottles 1820-1829
More Trials with information on the newly discovered John F.
Heinitsh bottle of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Added Notes for the following: A New Western Soda: Bordwell & Company Attributed, Early Weiss Beer Bottle of Henry Brenkmeyer (Brinkmeyer), Maverick Lang Beer Bottle Identified to a Victor Colorado Bottler, McCormack Bottles Decoded, and Wisconsin's First Soda Bottle.
Added the over 680 newspaper and Other Documents as
historical documents that will appear when the firm that
produced the bottle has an article.
Added plate shapes to the data base Added a new page
listing the shapes, dates, descriptions, and notes.
Added plate shape to the attributes search page and the show
bottles page and incorporated into the Collectors Shelf
creation and Maps pages.
Added Trade Cards as historical
documents that will appear when the firm that produced the
bottle has an associated image of this type. |
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