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12/31/2021 |
Over 36,565 bottles are now listed with the addition of over
620 new bottles. Over
1,450 new and improved pictures have been
added! There are now over 24,000
bottles pictured. I still have a
backlog email and auction contributions.
Added additional directory listings from Mobile, AL,
from 1881 to 1920 with just a few years missing.
Listings from 1861 to 1880 were previously available. Unfortunately, I do not have access to directory listings
from 1839 to 1859. Other Southern cities include
Savannah, GA from 1866 to 1920 and Charleston, SC from 1790
to 1920. Some years are missing for both cities. Added Directory listings for
Pittsfield, MA from 1859 to 1920. Added many entries for Nevada before
1885 and some later years. Added Directory listings
from several New England, New York State, West Coast, Canada and Caribbean Business
Directories. There are currently nearly 47,500
directory listings with 22 countries that are searchable.
This includes 6 Canadian Providences, 44 US States
and the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
Added 16 new pontiled bottles. A
blue pony from T. Jewell, Cobourg, ON and a blue soda from
Pilgrim & Co. of Hamilton, ON. First new
Canadian Pontiled bottle added in quite some time. An
aqua J. W. Rosa soda from Richmond, IN. An aqua
porter from Graymender & Feubel. of an unknown location,
but appears to be Midwestern in origin. A new variant of a
John Cable aqua soda bottle and a variant of the Rapp ten
pin, both from New York, NY. A new variant of the block
lettered McCormack pony from Richmond, VA. A green porter
from J. Stouffer of Tannersville, PA. A variation of a
green porter marked B. Carter, West Chester, PA. A green
and blue porter embossed J. Reynolds & Co. with Union Lava
Works on the reverse, a green porter marked John O'Neill, a green porter marked H. Gallagher, an early
ale marked R. K. Duffield in blue and embossed Union Glass
Works, a blue porter marked M. Dever with two slug plates, and a porter marked P. Dehm, Manayunk. The last
six are from Philadelphia.
Added 7 new Codd Patent bottles; 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 two round bottom Codds one marked H. Codd & Co. and
the other with just a patent date. 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 1 new Matthews 1872 Beer Stopper
from G. Avery Lord of Utica, NY. Added 1 new Stuarts Stopper,
from Edgar Davis of Hicksville, NY. Added 1 new Roobach Floating Ball Stopper from
W. H. Gilmore of Bloomsburg, PA. Added 1 new Thasmo stopper
a variant
from the Excelsior Bottling Works of Greenwich, NY.
Added 1 Beer Closure; A cork fastener patented in 1885 by
Alfred L. Bernardin of Evansville, IN.
Added 1 Soft Drink Shape; The round bottom shaped Codd soda water bottle.
Added Lettering as a new attribute type and created pages
for beer and soda bottler lettering types.
Updated information on the Rubin beer bottle closure,
including adding an earlier patent.
Added Bottles to the Kentucky Collectors Shelf;
Including a Graf & Weyd and several color variants of the
mug based mineral waters.
Updated the counts on beer and soda water closures and
manufacturers.
Cleaned up dead links on various pages.
Added a new page that is linked from the
Directories page which has a count and date range of
directory listings by Country, State, and City.
Added a country selection box to the
Directories search page and associated modifications to
better display of entries from various countries.
Added Several Notes for 2021 including some
interesting items on early Utah bottles.
Moved
the 2020 what's new to an archive page and created a clean
version of what's new for 2021.
I am repeating newly added functionality at the end
of 2020 in case you missed it.
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 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
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