What's New

 

1/xx/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 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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