Wheelah23
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From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey
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I came home from school today and saw a bottle on my counter with a bow on it. "Huh?", I said. Well, after some questioning, my mom told me that my neighbor had given me the bottle. She apparently goes to yard sales and flea markets a lot, and bought this in the past. When she found out I collect bottles, she gave me this! I went over and thanked her, then she told me about some of the flea markets she frequents. The moral of the story is, tell people that you collect bottles, as you you never know what you'll get!
The bottle is pretty much as good as it gets. It's an attic mint blob top with the original hutter stopper and wire and cool embossing. If it was from any of my local towns, it would be perfect, but Newark is the next best thing. I've actually got a pretty decent collection of Newark sodas and beers, because it's the nearest big city and I come across them without even trying. I think this might be an error bottle, or the information I've found is all wrong. The bottle is embossed "A. HEITZMANN/ (AH monogram)/ REGISTERED/ NEWARK, N.J./ THIS BOTTLE/ NOT TO BE SOLD". I found a bottle like it listed in Tod's sodasandbeers.com site, but his listing has only one N in Heitzmann. I also found a tidbit of information in an online record of the 1910 "American Bottler" magazine. It says:
"We regret that some errors crept into our report of the merger of A. Heitzman with the Consolidated Bottling Co., both of Newark, N. J. The consolidated firm's name is The Consolidated Bottling Co. The Consolidated's plant is thoroughly up to date with a capacity of 100 barrels a day. A. Heitzman is president, and P. C. Strebinger, general manager of the new Consolidated Bottling Co.".
This is the 1910 edition, so I would assume that my bottle is before 1910 for sure, because the merger occurred in 1910.
A few pages before that, in what I assume to be a publication page, "A. Heitzman" from Newark is listed as one of the directors of the American Bottlers' Publication Co.
Now, this makes me think that "Heitzman" is the correct spelling, since it is mentioned a couple of times in a publication from the age. That would make my bottle's embossing and stopper wrong. Error bottles are generally rarer, right? Common or not, I still like this bottle, and it's in perfect shape.
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Looking for bottles from Glen Ridge, Montclair, Bloomfield, Orange, East Orange, West Orange, South Orange, and if I like 'em, any other bottles from Essex County NJ! Also Manahawkin NJ! Message me if you want to find them a new home.
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A nice gift from my neighbor! - 
I still have about 100 soda and beer bottles Conner. They are what we found quite a bit of in my youth.I always liked the blob tops.
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