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12/31/2019 |
Over 34,465 bottles are now listed with the addition of over
1,000 new bottles. Over 1,500 new and improved pictures have been
added! A big Sodas & Beers' thanks to Scott Wallace
of
Maple Leaf Auctions for permission to use pictures from
the auctions on this site. This will go a long way to help
populate pictures for rarer Canadian bottles. I was able to
process all auction pictures for the year, but still have a
backlog email contributions.
Added 10 new pontiled bottles. An aqua pony
from H. Grone & Co. of Saint Louis, a variation of a
blue soda bottle from J. & A. Dearborn, New York, NY, a blue P. Farrell
and an E. Hughes, both
from Philadelphia, PA, a new J. J. Freedley variant from
Norristown, PA, a Rock Bridge Alum Water from Alum Springs,
VA, a light green
porter marker Peter Worrall from Nether Providence, PA, a
new variant of a Dyottville Glass Works porter, an
unembossed Pittsburgh porter, and a variation of the Premium
Mineral Waters sided green soda.
Added 5 new Codd Patent bottle; one
bottles from A. Seilheimer from Hackensack, NJ. a new
variant of the Thomas & Pruyn from Great Barrington, MA,
two new Pilgrim Bros. & Co. variants from Hamilton, ON, and
one from the Excelsior Beverages Co. of Toronto, ON. Added
5
new Gravitating Stoppers a bottle from Smith & Drury of
Albion, NY, a H. Downes & Co. from New York, one from
Corcoran & Ready of Jersey City, NJ, a A. Fralick from Orillia, ON, and a variation of the F. Diffin from St.
Catharines, ON. Added 2 new Matthews 1872 Beer Stopper
one from G. Fingar of Upper Red Hook, NY, and another from W. S. Lathrop from Champion, NY. Added 1 new Albertson Stopper
from William Eagle of New York, NY. Added 2 new Stuarts Stopper,
one
from Robert Elting of Hudson, NY and a second from John Arto
of Houston, Texas. Added 2 new Roobach Floating Ball Stopper from
the Lone Star Bottling Works of Corsicana, TX and another
from Gustav Schaefer of Wilmington, DE. Added 1 new Thasmo stopper
from the Krause Bottling Works of Wilmington, DE.
Added History Notes for William Massey &
Successors, Dated Stoneware Bottles, Samuel Smith and the
Washington Smith Pottery, and Mills B. Espy.
Added New Functionality of Maps under the History menu item.
This includes statistical information about bottles on the site.
Updated the Article, Early Soda & Mineral
Water Bottles with new information on Neale & Co., Adam
W. Rapp, and Robert Flanagan and the
confirmation of his second bottle with a picture.
Added 1 Soda Shape;
The Globe shape that was used 1900-1920.
Added 3 Beer Closure;
Two variants of the Hutter porcelain stopper one by Charles
De Quillfeldt of Amityville, NY and date August 10, 1897 and
a second by Charles De Witt of Baltimore, MD and dated
September 7, 1897, and an 1883 Lloyd's patent stopper by
Edwin L. Lloyd of Philadelphia, PA.
Added
several Plate Molds for the Western Glass
Manufacturing Company of Denver.
Updated Counts of bottles with makers marks.
Updated the Pennsylvania Directory listings
to include the 1913, 1916, 1919 and 1922 Industrial
Directories' entries for bottle makers and a few other
categories.
Updated the Pittsburgh Directory listings
to include 1903 and 1904 and other miscellaneous entries.
Updated the Boston Directory listings
to include 1903 entries.
Added 3 new manufacturer; The Spring City Glass Works
Limited of Spring City, PA, D. Bottle Works from an unknown
location, and Beck, Phillips & Company of Pittsburgh, PA.
Changed manufacturer of T. C. Co. to the
actual T. Campbell Company of Pittsburgh and added history
and references.
Updated Notes on Harry W. Streeter's glass
works.
Added actual locations to the Glasgow,
Scotland
Potteries.
Added 3 new potteries; James Stiff & Sons of Lambeth,
England, the Possil Pottery, Glasgow, Scotland, and the
Glass Brothers & Company of London, ON.
Added 4 new jobbers; The E. Packham Jr., & Company of
Baltimore, MD, Benjamin Boley of New York City, NY,
Manufacturers' Bottle Company of Boston, MA, and the Koscherak Siphon Bottle Works,
of Hoboken, NJ.
Updated information on the American Glass
Works of Redman Mills and Boley Manufacturing Company of New
York City, NY.
Add 4 New Collector's Shelves Early Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Puce bottles.
Fixed Google Maps; had to get a license to continue
to use mapping functions.
Moved
the 2018 what's new to an archive page and created created a clean
version of
what's new for 2019. |
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