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Never seen one like this...any info? - 8/28/2008 10:07:45 AM    buffcajun   Posts: 48 Joined: 6/3/2008 Status: offline Lip Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: Never seen one like this...any info? - 8/28/2008 10:08:26 AM    buffcajun   Posts: 48 Joined: 6/3/2008 Status: offline oops Attachment (1) (in reply to buffcajun) Post #: 2

RE: Never seen one like this...any info? - 8/28/2008 10:09:03 AM    buffcajun   Posts: 48 Joined: 6/3/2008 Status: offline There is no other writing on the bottle. (in reply to buffcajun) Post #: 3

RE: Never seen one like this...any info? - 8/28/2008 12:08:39 PM    logueb   Posts: 1384 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Appears to be an older beer.  Can you post a pic of the whole bottle?  I believe it has a long tapering neck on the one that I dug. _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to buffcajun) Post #: 4

RE: Never seen one like this...any info? - 8/28/2008 2:51:36 PM    buffcajun   Posts: 48 Joined: 6/3/2008 Status: offline Here ya go Attachment (1) (in reply to logueb) Post #: 5

RE: Never seen one like this...any info? - 8/28/2008 3:03:55 PM    logueb   Posts: 1384 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Thanks,  I'll try to locate the one I dug.  It was in the oldest dump that I have ever dug.  I would guess 1880's.  But then there are members of the forum more knowledgeable on the earlier stuff than I am.  That's one strange top, some type of blob I guess. _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to buffcajun) Post #: 6

RE: Never seen one like this...any info? - 8/28/2008 3:11:24 PM    buffcajun   Posts: 48 Joined: 6/3/2008 Status: offline I know!!! I've checked with all my bottle buddies locally and no one has ever seen one like that! The offers from them are pouring in though...lol.  (in reply to logueb) Post #: 7

RE: Never seen one like this...any info? - 8/28/2008 4:19:55 PM    KentOhio   Posts: 730 Joined: 9/13/2004 Status: offline That is a pretty strange top. Looks like a beer bottle though. Made by the Root Glass Company, Terre Haute, IN, 1901-1932. (in reply to buffcajun) Post #: 8

RE: Never seen one like this...any info? - 8/28/2008 6:51:12 PM    GACDIG   Posts: 231 Joined: 9/10/2006 From: Concord NC. Status: offline Being a ROOT I'd say it is some kind of straight sided soda. It looks like someone cut of the top part of the lip. Let see a pic from the top down. _____________________________ Glenn YOU DIG IT ! http://www.geocities.com/gac3336/bottledigger.html (in reply to KentOhio) Post #: 9

RE: Never seen one like this...any info? - 8/30/2008 8:04:45 AM    buffcajun   Posts: 48 Joined: 6/3/2008 Status: offline What throws me off about the "ROOT" on the bottom is that the amber coke from Richmond has "ROOT" on it as well. (in reply to GACDIG) Post #: 10

RE: Never seen one like this...any info? - 8/30/2008 12:16:29 PM    appliedlips Posts: 1676 Joined: 1/30/2005 Status: offline  ROOT is the glasshouse mark as KentOhio posted,the mark appears on alot of bottles including many SS cokes.They are the company that first produced the hobbleskirt.Your bottle probably held beer but could have held soda also.Root produced embossed Indianapolis Brewing Co. bottles in about the same mold. I have dug quite a few of those in Indiana as well as unembossed ones like yours. _____________________________ I WOULD LIKE TO BUY OR TRADE FOR YOUR COLORED,AND OR EMBOSSED CATHEDRAL PEPPERSAUCE BOTTLES.I AM ALSO LOOKING FOR EMBOSSED MIDWESTERN ALES IN ANY COLOR. (in reply to buffcajun) Post #: 11

RE: Never seen one like this...any info? - 9/3/2008 6:41:41 AM    buffcajun   Posts: 48 Joined: 6/3/2008 Status: offline Anyone have a clue on the value? (in reply to buffcajun) Post #: 12

RE: Never seen one like this...any info? - 9/3/2008 7:24:03 AM    E   Posts: 171 Joined: 5/9/2008 Status: offline I dug a Pabst years ago that looked very similar to that = a half beer bottle/half ketchup bottle mutant. Nice oddball bottle but I would not speculate much value - except to the finder (if you like it that's all that really matters).  But, then again, perhaps there are "Root" collectors out there that would be interested in this variant. (in reply to buffcajun) Post #: 13

RE: Never seen one like this...any info? - 9/3/2008 9:36:01 AM    brokenshovel   Posts: 458 Joined: 8/29/2005 From: Westminster Maryland Status: offline ROOT...................Root Glass Company, Terre Haute, IN (1901-1932). Mark is often embossed very lightly along the lower heel, and sometimes is almost illegible. Root produced a huge variety of soda, mineral water and beer bottles. There were two separate factories in the early years, one for fruit jars and the other for bottles. The fruit jar factory was purchased by Ball Bros. in 1908, and operated by Ball until it was closed in 1912 or 1913. Root Glass Co. was bought by Owens-Illinois Glass Company in 1932. Later the plant became part of the American-Wheaton Glass Corporation, in 1962 it was sold to the American Can Company, and then sold again to Midland Glass Company in 1968. After being purchased by the Anchor Glass Container Corporation, the property was closed down in 1984. This info talks about the mark on the heal not the bottom.?. (in reply to E) Post #: 14

RE: Never seen one like this...any info? - 9/3/2008 1:30:51 PM    capsoda Posts: 7866 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline It is a mineral water bottle from the late 1890s to about 1910. Like the Pluto water bottles. The wife and I have dug many of them in downtown Pensacola. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to brokenshovel) Post #: 15

RE: Never seen one like this...any info? - 9/3/2008 7:35:58 PM    appliedlips Posts: 1676 Joined: 1/30/2005 Status: offline      Mineral water would be another possibility.Value would be minimal,similar to an unembossed hutch or blob.The dates brokenshovel posted are accurate,Root opened in 1901 so it was made  later than that.They embossed a good number of bottles on the base and a fruit jar on the front. _____________________________ I WOULD LIKE TO BUY OR TRADE FOR YOUR COLORED,AND OR EMBOSSED CATHEDRAL PEPPERSAUCE BOTTLES.I AM ALSO LOOKING FOR EMBOSSED MIDWESTERN ALES IN ANY COLOR. (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 16

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