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12/31/2025 |
39,230 bottles are now listed with the addition of over
435 new bottles. A focus on bottles from Cape May
County, New Jersey. Over 935 new and improved pictures have been
added! There are now nearly 29,500
bottle pictures are on the site. I still have a
backlog email and auction contributions.
Added 1 new Stewarts Stopper
Marked Geo. W. Otto from Philadelphia, PA.
Added 1 new Albertson 1864 Stopper
marked Bennett & Smith of Towanda, PA. Added 2 new
Matthews 1872 Patent Stopper one from P. Kling & Company
of Detroit, MI and a second from Joseph Harth of
Newark, N. J.
Added 2 new Roorbach 1885 Floating Ball Stopper a
variant of the S. Cope & Son of Taunton, MA and a second
dated 1886 from McKain & Son of Warren, PA. Added
a Bullet Stopper on a bottle form the Patterson Mineral
Water Works of Patterson, N. J.
Added 19 new pontiled bottles.
Three pontiled soda bottle from G. Landry, Albert Andraino &
Son, and J. Baechle & Co. all of Saint Joseph, MO.
A new variation of a John Ogden soda from Pittsburgh, PA. A
green porter of F. Goetz, another marked Michael Lynch, and
a blue Roussel soda, all from Philadelphia, PA.
A green soda embossed Mineral Waters only and an unembossed
quart Baltimore porter in an array of Baltimore colors and
an early quart porter marked B. G. W. for Baltimore Glass
Works. A large number of Coal Regions bottles: a quart porter marked
M. McGunigal with Dyottville on the base, and likely from
the Coal Regions. A Howarth & Bro. soda from Pittston
and a P. Sharkey from Mauch Chunk porter previously only known with a smooth
base another Mauch Chunk marked T. Siegfried and a third
Mauch Chunk green soda marked Walker & Co. A J. W. Krell
& Co. pony from Tamaqua, PA, a J. Zimmerman pony from
Schuylkill Haven, PA with Mineral Waters on the reverse. An
odd bottle marked Soda Charmant, which research indicates is
from Buffalo, NY and a Philip Young variant from Savannah,
GA.
Added directory listings from North Carolina from
1860 to 1890, a 1842 Directory of Western New York,
1871 Directory of Central New York, a 1854 Directory of the
Midwest, the New York State Directory for 1870. The Ohio State Gazette for 1860-61,
Maine Directory for 1855, Statewide directories for Vermont
1856 and 1857, New Jersey State Directory 1860, Michigan
State Directorirs for 1860, 1863, 1867, 1873, 1875, 1877,
Maryland State Directories for 1866, 1868, 1871, 1875, 1877, and 1878.
Pennsylvania Statewide Directory for 1873. All of
Arizona for 1881. Added Florida Statewide Directories 1886,
1895, 1907, 1911, Bay
City, Michigan for the years 1853 thru 1916, available
directories for Bradford, PA. and surrounding towns, added
Utica, NY directories for the years 1861 to 1880,
directories covering Hagerstown, Maryland, where available
for the years 1882 thru 1915, a 1852 Saint Louis Directory,
Tucson & Tombstone Director for 1883. San Bernardino,
California Directories for the years 1886-1922, Jersey City
for 1885, Directories from Bangor Maine from 1843-1919,
Lebanon, PA. directories for 1868-1921, added directory
listings from the 1908 Central America and the
Caribbean Directory, and random individual directories and additions to
previously published directories
Added 1 New Manufacturer Bennett & Gompper Company of
New York, NY, a jobber of siphon bottles.
Added 3 New Closures The Alston's 1900 Patent Closure,
Rich's 1879 Patent Closure,
and the Brome Closure from 1899.
Added Metal as a new material.
Added Notes for the following:
Cooper & Conger, Metal Bottle (John Howlett), The Riley's, Soda Charmant.
Added the over 850 newspaper and other documents as historical documents that will appear when the firm that produced the bottle has an article.
Added a Search function to the Newspaper landing page
under the History link allowing news papers to be
searched using various criterion. Also cleaned up some
dead links for newspapers. |
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