Over 32,365 bottles are now listed with the addition of over
865 new bottles. Over 108 new and improved pictures have been
added! I know that that is pretty lame and I have a
huge backlog of pictures that I promise to update over the
next couple of weeks.
Added 14 new pontiled bottle. A new blue Roussel soda variant,
a green porter marked H. W. Echternach & Co., and a green Dyottville marked porter embossed Geo. Brady
and another from Steppacher also marked Dyottville, and a
different mold variant of the Headman's Excelsior Mineral
Water, a Ginger Soda marked Union Glass Works with
all six from Philadelphia, PA. Two new green
plated porters from the Coal Regions; I Mauer from
Minersville and J. G. Mayer from Ashland. A variant of the
Newton fluted shoulder with a reversed "6" on the back side
and from New York, NY and a variant of the XX pony form
Robinson & Charlesworth also of New York. A J.
Boardman soda also from New York, NY. A blue soda from A. Favier of
Washington, DC and an olive yellow early soda of the patent
shape from the same firm. An aqua soda marked Allan & Co. from Saint
Louis, MO.
Added 3 new Codd Patent bottle; added two Patterson Codd bottles; one
dated 1901 and a hybrid code dated 1903 and one from the
Standard Mineral Water Co. of Montreal, QC. Added 5
new Gravitating Stoppers a bottle from F. L. Lippman of Morristown, NJ,
another marked T. C. Thompson from Fulton, NY, a third from J. A. Getty from Brockport, NY,
and two from Rhode Island one simply marked Rocky Point 1872
and a J. S. Hazard & Co. from Westerly. Added
1
new Roorbach 1883 patent stopper from the Capitol
Mineral Water Works of Dover, DE. Added 1 new Roobach
1885 Floating Ball Stopper from A. C. Spatz & Bro.ther
of Saugerties, NY. Added 1 new
Matthews 1872 beer stopper for Knief & Sierichs of
New York. Added 1 new Thasmo stopper from Harvey & Straehle
of New Rochelle, NY.
Updated the Article, Early Soda &
Mineral Water Bottles with new
information on Finley & Phin of Charleston, South Carolina,
some new information on R. M. Meigs of Albany, and added two
new firms; A. Favier of
Washington, DC, and a bottle simply marked L. D.
Added 1 Beer Closure;
The earlier version of the Magic Bottle Stopper by Henry
Putnam.
Added 2 new manufacturer; The Keystone Bottle
Manufacturing Company of Uniontown, PA and the Southern
Glass Works of Louisville, KY.
Added a five new mini-articles to the Notes section.
Moved
the 2016 what's new to an archive page and created created a clean
version of
what's new for 2017.
