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12/31/2020 |
Over 35,945 bottles are now listed with the addition of over
1,485 new bottles. A major effort was
undertaken to catalogue all of the beer bottles from
the Western United States. This includes
California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New
Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado. All
of the known bottles of Maine have been
catalogued. All of Maine's, Vermont's, New
Hampshire's, and Alaska's Hutchinson bottles have
been assigned the Hutch Book numbers. Bottles
from the state of Kansas have been reviewed
and all pre-Hutchinson soda bottles and all pre-crown beer
bottles have been catalogued.
Additionally, any Kansas town that has a pre-crown soda or beer
bottle has a least one bottle catalogued. Over
875 new and improved pictures have been
added! I still have a
backlog email contributions.
Added New Directory Functionality which has
a couple of components. First, when
searching for bottles for a specific firm, on the "Bottle
Search Results" and "Show Bottle" pages a link called
"Show
History" may show up next to the name of the firm.
This link appears when there are related articles, notes, or
directory listings available for the firm. Clicking on
the link will open a page listing the available articles,
notes, and directory listings. Clicking on the "Read
Document" link will display the relevant information.
Second, under the "History" menu on the
left side navigation bar, is a link called "Directories,"
which opens a page with links to glass related directories
listings, by city or state, and a second link to a page that
allows the user to dynamically search the database for
directory listings by name, occupation, city, state and
years. When the directory listing for the firm has
bottles listed on the site, the directory listing becomes a
link that will list the know bottles for the firm.
Effectively, you can drill into the directories from bottles
and from directories into the bottles. Nearly full coverage
can be found for New Bedford, MA, Jacksonville, FL,
Schenectady, NY, Amsterdam, NY, Leavenworth, KS, Providence,
RI and Manchester, NH.
Partial coverage is available for Rhode Island, New
Hampshire. Brooklyn and New York
City thru
1859 and Philadelphia after 1864. Other cities
coverage will be spotty or not at all. A final comment
is that mainly "business" directory listings were recorded
and not all firms at all times paid to be included these
additional listings. I "did not" in most cases check
the individual directory listings for these firms, so even
if you don't find an entry, they may be listed in the
resident directory chapter of the directory. There are
currently over 29,900 directory listings on the site.
Added New Documents Functionality
which attaches various excepts from books,
pamphlets, or any paper document and links these to the
firms that are listed on this site. This includes
bottlers, brewers, mineral water manufactures, glass works
or other firms. These documents will be included in a
list of links available "Show History" link next to the firm
name on the "Bottle Search Results" and "Show Bottle" pages.
Added New Newspaper Functionality
which attaches various articles from newspapers and links these to the
firms that are listed on this site. This includes
bottlers, brewers, mineral water manufactures, glass works
or other firms. These articles will be included in a
list of links available "Show History" link next to the firm
name on the "Bottle Search Results" and "Show Bottle" pages.
Added 11 new pontiled bottles. An
early green soda simply marked Ira Harvey from Providence,
RI. An aqua pony marked H. Graser & Co. from Leavenworth, KS. A
green porter from Wm Foord of Wilmington, DE. A
green porter marked J. Horner from Pottsville, PA. An
aqua porter marked J. Marlow in an oval slug plate, a green
porter marked E. & P. Stinson, a green porter from P. Duross in a double slug plate,
a green porter marked G. Weckert, and blue porter variant from
P. Conway all four from Philadelphia, PA. An aqua soda
from George Scribner of Indianapolis, IN. A green
porter marked M. McGunigal from an unknown location, but
believed to be from Pennsylvania.
Added 2 new Codd Patent bottles; one
bottles from H. Codd & Co. marked No 32 from New York City,
NY, and another from Rylands & Codd marked No 62 from
Barnsley England. Added
4
new Gravitating Stoppers a bottle from J. Broad of Port
Perry, ON a second from W. H. Wilson of
Portsmouth, VA, a third from T. C. Iwersen from Selma, AL
and a fourth embossed Henry Busch, from Baton Rouge, LA.
The second is the first gravitating stopper
bottle from Virginia and leaves South Carolina and
Mississippi as the only Southern States not having
Gravitating Stoppered bottles. Added
1 new A. B. C. Co. Stopper
marked J. C. Everett from New Haven, CT. Added 2 new Roobach Floating Ball Stopper
one from John Franz of Croton Falls, NY, and another from
Jones & Bareford of Waretown, NJ. Added 1 new Thasmo stopper
from the J. Schneider of Crown Point, NY.
Added Links to History Notes for Gary
Flynn's Brewery Gems Web Site with articles on brewers from
Washington, Oregon, and California. These links will
appear when firms or bottles are searched where historical
information is available.
Added History Notes for Best Soda Bottle,
Edmund S. Clark & His Mobile Bottles, Dated New Hampshire
Bottles.
Started an Article on the
Earliest Mississippi Bottles. Part 1, Natchez Bottles
is completed. Others parts are a work in process.
Updated the Article, Early Soda & Mineral
Water Bottles with some new information.
Added 2 Bottles to the Pottsville Collectors Shelf;
Including a new pontiled bottle from J. Horner and a green
quart from John Wingert.
Added 2 Bottles to the Wheeling Collectors Shelf;
Including a new export beer embossed L. S from L. Snider and a
pottery beer marked J. Thoner & Co.
Added 1 new pottery; Erastus Wentworth of Norwich,
CT.
Added Bookmarks on the beer and soda
closures page. The bookmark names are revealed by
hovering your mouse over the closure image. If you
hyperlink to either of these pages, and add the "#" and
bookmark name to the end of the URL, the link will go
directly to that page and the bookmarked closure will be
shown. To link directly to the Hutchinson closure, the
following will work:
http://www.sodasandbeers.com/SABBottleClosuresSoda.htm#Hutchinson
This functionality is also supported for manufacturers where the manufacturer number is the bookmark. These
are exposed by hovering your mouse over the manufacture mark
images. For example, to link to the Illinois Glass
Company's manufacturing history, the following link
including the bookmark can be used:
http://www.sodasandbeers.com/SABBottleManufBeerSoda.htm#50414
Moved
the 2019 what's new to an archive page and created created a clean
version of what's new for 2020. |
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