Last update for 2011! Over 22,000 bottles are now listed with the addition of over
450 new bottles. Added over 200 new or improved photos.
Updated the Early Soda and Mineral Water article with
addition of a picture of the McManus bottle and a change of
attribution from Philadelphia to Franklin, New Jersey.
Added 11 new pontiled bottles. Added a green
porter marked F. Quinn from Philadelphia, PA., a green soda
from James Harley of West Chester, PA, an earlier variant of
a green pony from Soult & Zerbe of Lewistown, PA, a green soda
from S. Swain of Cape Island, NJ., A Cole & Dean blue
mug based soda from Newark, N. J., interestingly this bottle
is not embossed Union Glass Works, a new lager shaped bottle
from G. A. Kohl of Lambertville, N. J., a green porter
marked I. P. Robinson of Salem, NJ, a green porter marked M.
Prickitt, Pleasant Mills, NJ, a green pony marked Craven,
from an unknown location, a blue soda marked C & M
Knickerbocker Soda Water, Troy, NY, a green porter marked
Taylor's Best, dug in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Added 2 New Codd stopper bottle; from Codd & Rylands No 32 and a
Rylands & Codd. No 42.
Added 2 new sub-categories; "Brewery" to
search for bottles used by brewers and "Test
Bottles" for bottles that were used to test bottle
closures, which generally have a hole drilled in the base.
Added 1 new collector's shelf for colored Hutchinson
bottle.
Added 3 new glass manufacturers; Lancaster Co-Operative Glass
Works Limited, of Lancaster, NY, Codd & Rylands, Barnsley,
England, and the Brooke Glass Company of
Wellsboro, WV. Added 1 new Jobber; Matthews Apparatus
Company of New York, NY. Added 1 new pottery; West
Troy Pottery, of Watervliet, New York. Updated the "S" in shield
mark to note a possible connection to the Streeter Glass
Company. Updates the profiles and notes for the
various firms that operated the Lancaster Glass Works in
Lancaster, NY, the Neptune Glass Works of Crowleytown, NJ,
The Albany Glass Works of Albany, NY, Hamilton Glass Works,
Brooklyn, NY, the Phoenix Glass Works, also of Brooklyn, NY,
and Rylands & Codd, Barnsley, England, and Hiram Codd
& Company of New York, NY..
10/06/2011
Over 21,550 bottles are now listed with the addition of over
300 new bottles. Added over 200 new or improved photos.
Added 5 new pontiled bottles. Added a sealed
Midwestern ale marked C. Schultz & Co.. Washington
Brewery from Cincinnati, OH, a green
McCloud & Wheaton variant from Saint Louis, MO., a green
pony from C. Pfahler of York, PA, a variant soda from
William Eagle of New York city, NY, and a green pony from G.
H. & Co. from Philadelphia, PA.
Added 1 New Gravitating stopper bottle;
Sedalia Bottling Co., Sedalia, MO. Added 1 New
Roorbach stopper bottles
from W. H. Edson from Plymouth, MA.
Added 1 new closure; a beer bottle closure patented
by Frederick Siemens of Dresden, Germany on November 27,
1891.
Added 1 new glass manufacturers; William Frank of Pittsburgh, PA.
Updated and added notes for W. Frank & Son. Added
additional entries to the Pittsburgh Directory pages.
8/03/2011
Over 21,250 bottles are now listed with the addition of over
350 new bottles. Added over 250 new or improved photos.
Updated the Early Soda and Mineral Water article with
addition of a picture of the Coggeshall bottle.
Geo-coded Philadelphia Firms with actual street address
where known. Add collectors shelf for Lehigh Valley
Bottles.
Added 11 new pontiled bottles. Added an aqua
pony from Kenzlerwaibel & Co. from Memphis, TN, and a new
variant of an aqua soda from Metcalfe from Memphis, TN, a
blue soda from Kissner & Farren of New York, NY, a new
green soda from Smith of New York, NY, a green soda from A.
W. Rapp of New York, NY, a green porter from C. Maick of
Reading, PA, a green porter from J. & G. Bossert of
Philadelphia, PA, a
green pony from Wilm Lange & Co. of Philadelphia. PA, a
new green porter from G. W. Flanagen of Philadelphia, PA, a
new green porter from James Williams of Philadelphia, PA, a
blue Magnolia Salt Sulphur spring bottle likely of Suffolk,
VA or Baltimore, MD.
Added 1 New Codd stopper bottle; from Corea & Co. of Kingston, St.
Vincent. Added 3 New Gravitating stopper bottle;
one from W. D. Hennessey of Rome, NY, and a second from C.
Demont, of Sanford, FL, and a third from J. D. Latisnere, of
Mexico. Added 2 New
Roorbach stopper bottles
from F. H. Merritt of Brewster, NY. Added 1 New Thasmo
stopper from E. O. Carlton of West Boro, MA. Changed the
Charles Jones & Co. bottle from Silver Lake, NY, from a
Roorbach closure to a Thasmo stopper.
Added 1 new closures; a beer bottle closures of
William Whitman,
of Chicago, Il, invented in 1878.
Added 4 new glass manufacturers; the Alexandria Glass Works, Inc. of
Alexandria, VA, the Newburg Glass Company of New Windsor, New
York, the Binghamton Glass Works, Binghamton, NY, and the Adolphus Busch Glass Company of Saint
Louis MO and Belleville, IL. Update the Adolphus Busch
Glass Manufacturing Company's history and added notes. Added minor newspaper article to Belle-Pre's Notes
page. Added 1 new glass jobber Brewers &
Bottlers Supply Company of Newark, N. J.
Added 1 new design and shape for canteen bottles.
Added
"strap side" as an edge design.
Added Saint Vincent as a country. Added
newly added manufactures to the Manufactures location map.
5/31/2011
Over 20,900 bottles are now listed with the addition of over
400 new bottles. Added over 250 new or improved photos.
Major updates were made to coverage of Richmond, VA bottles.
Updated the Early Soda and Mineral Water article with
additional information on Finley & Phin, including a
picture of the bottle.
Added 9 new pontiled bottles. Added green
porters from P. Wilbacher marked XXX Porter, XX Ale and Lager Beer
all from Richmond, VA, a green W. Canfield porter from Richmond,
VA, a blue M. Bowen soda from Richmond, VA, an olive amber
M. McCormack XX Ale & Porter from Richmond, VA, a green
Church Hill Alum Water from Richmond, VA, a green ale from
Robert K. Duffield of Philadelphia, PA, and a new variation of the Hassinger & O'Brien mineral water bottle from Saint
Louis, Mo.
Added 1 New Gravitating
stopper bottle; from Knoxville Steam Bottling Works of
Knoxville, TN.
Added 2 new glass manufacturers; the Modes-Turner Glass Company of
Cicero and Terre Haute, IN and the Virginia Glass Company of
Alexandria, Virginia. I updated the
listings for the American Glass Works and its predecessor
the American Glass Works Limited, including a view of the
glass factory.
Cleaned up the links and missing Cullen Ad on the early
Early Mineral Water article.
4/23/2011
Over 20,500 bottles are now listed with the addition of over
825 new bottles. 20,000 bottles is a major
milestone. Are we halfway there? Who knows.
A number of Northern New Jersey bottles, many with pictures,
were added. This includes the addition of bottles from
over 30 towns that were not previously represented. Added over
475 new or improved photos.
Added a new section to the site for in depth articles on
soda and beer bottles. The articles are listed under
the soda and beer histories. The first article is on the earliest
artificial soda and mineral water bottles manufactured
before 1845. Other articles will follow
periodically. New articles will be listed on the home
page under a new link called "Featured Article".
Added 34 new pontiled bottles. Added America's
oldest embossed soda water bottle from John Cullen of Philadelphia, PA, a
green porter from Kensington Glass Works, a green A.
Shoemaker porter from Philadelphia, A porter from J. Corwell
and marked Union Glass Works, from Germantown in
Philadelphia, PA, A green P. O. Brien porter form Philadelphia,
PA, a new variant of a green soda marked Headman from
Philadelphia, PA., a green porter from R. H. Hunter of the
Richmond section of Philadelphia, a blue pony
from F. X. Endress of Johnstown, PA, a green pony from Crell
& Co of Tamaqua, PA, a blue pony from Lewis Buehler of
Tamaqua, a green porter from the same, a green porter marked J. Reichard
& Co. from Wilkes-Barri, PA. and marked Dyottville Glass
Works, an aqua soda from Smedley & Brandt of Columbia,
PA, a green pony from
Gannt & Hoffman of Gloucester, NJ., an aqua soda from
Wake & Co. of Saint Louis, an aqua pony from E. Lester
of Saint Louis, MO, a new variant from D. Culvert of Saint
Louis, MO, a deep aqua J. Shields pony from Saint Louis, MO,
a Q & M ale from Saint Louis, MO, and a D. ST. Evans ale
from Saint Louis, MO, an E. Quinelan a green porter from S.
Nicholl of New York City, NY., a new variant of a Burr &
Waters porter from Buffalo, NY, a green porter from S. R.
Devinney & Co. of Mays Landing, NJ., a D. T. Davis green
porter form Bridgeton, N. J., a new variant of the green
Demott's porter from Jersey City, NJ, two variants of light green
porters from the Bridgeton Glass Works, of new Jersey, an olive amber
porter from Geo. Burrill, added two Boyd & Son open
pontiled variants from Baltimore, MD, added a new Saratoga
style bottle marked Plantagenet Water, Canada, a green soda
marked N & Co., and a green
porter form an unknown town marked G. Schroth.
Added 2 new Codd stopper bottle one from Louis
Lawrence of Nanaimo, BC, and another from the Harvey Mineral
Water Works, of Newport, RI. Added 2 New Gravitating
stopper bottles; one from Ryberg, Peckham & Company of New York City,
NY and a second variation from W. R. Jernee of New Brunswick,
NJ. Added 1 new Christin stopper bottle from D.
Pallisar of Mobile, AL. Added 1 new Thasmo stopper bottle
from the Wantage Bottling Works of Deckertown, NJ.
Added 1 new closure; a soda water closures of Henry Blossom Anderson,
of Saint Louis, MO, invented in 1879.
Added 1 new shape in soft drink bottles for the
citrate shape.
Added 1 new base type for soft drink bottles for the
bar or solid pontiled base.
Added 5 new glass manufacturers; Owens-Illinois Glass,
Pennsylvania Glass Company, a T. C. Company, Dobson
& Nail, Limited, and the
Indianapolis Glass Works Company. Added 3 new potteries;
Haxstun & Company of Fort Edward, NY, N. A. White
& Son of Utica, NY, and Robinson Clay Products Company
of Akron, OH. Added 1 new jobber; The Liquid
Carbonic Company of Chicago, IL. Based on geospatial
analysis, I changed the Middleton Glass Works to the
Massillon Glass Works.
Cleaned up the drop down boxes for bottle closures and moved
the 2010 what's new to an archive page. Added a new
rare bottle to the Wheeling Virginia's Collector Shelf and
added 1 new collector's shelf for the earliest pontiled soda
and mineral water bottles. Updated the counts
for manufactures, closures, and shapes. Improved the
firms search page with some JavaScript functions.
