If you are just visiting and found the information you were looking for please contribute to the running costs by making a donation.	Forums : : Register : : Log In : : Log Out : : Help : : Calendar : : Search
	My Setup : : Member List : : Contact Admin : : Today's Posts

All Forums >> [Bottle Forums] >> New to the Collection >> Recent eBay pickup - First Glen Ridge bottle!

Page: [1]

Login Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>

Recent eBay pickup - First Glen Ridge bottle! - 8/11/2011 11:19:33 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 4296 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: online I won this great lottle (I just typed that by accident, but from now on that's my new portmanteau of "little bottle"... ) on eBay recently. It's my first bottle from Glen Ridge, which is the town I live in! Doesn't get more local than that. Glen Ridge is a very small town; the population as of 2010 was 7,527. It's a very narrow town, only six blocks wide at its widest! Sometimes only two or three. It's got a total area of 1.3 square miles. There's only one "industrial" area in the town where I think the pharmacy could have been, as most of the town is houses with the typical trees and gas lamps in front, which we are famous for. It's a real nice, small bottle. I found out that the Glen Ridge Pharmacy incorporated in 1911, and I can find state document references to them at least until 1918, so I don't think this bottle is extremely rare. I'm still very glad to have it, and it has no damage. My main passion is sodas and beers, but all local bottles are special to me. Even better, the extremely generous eBay seller gave me an extra bottle in the box. It's a common medicine from his town, Bangor, Maine. It's got one of the coolest shapes I've ever seen. It looks like a miniature version of the collared ring lip hutch from Paterson that epackage has... I really like this one, even if it's common. Attachment (1) _____________________________ 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. Post #: 1

RE: Recent eBay pickup - First Glen Ridge bottle! - 8/11/2011 11:20:37 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 4296 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: online The base says "M. C. G. CO.". I got no help from the myinsulators website... " M.C.G.CO...............Unknown." Attachment (1) _____________________________ 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. (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 2

RE: Recent eBay pickup - First Glen Ridge bottle! - 8/11/2011 11:21:17 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 4296 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: online The weird med is a Johnson's American Anodyne Liniment. Attachment (1) _____________________________ 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. (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 3

RE: Recent eBay pickup - First Glen Ridge bottle! - 8/11/2011 11:40:54 PM    JOETHECROW Posts: 9807 Joined: 9/3/2005 From: Northwestern Pa. (Near scenic Lake Perfidy) Status: online Very cool local druggist... _____________________________ Joe ``````````````````````````````````` In the woods we return to reason and faith. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooTyuRd9zSg&feature=related (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 4

RE: Recent eBay pickup - First Glen Ridge bottle! - 8/12/2011 12:17:29 AM    epackage Posts: 9891 Joined: 5/3/2009 From: Jersey Status: online Happy to see it's in finally in your hands Connor, very cool....Congrat's buddy.....Jim I wonder if it's the same building that the GR Pharmacy is in now, here is a cool little article from 1915 about a Mr. John Fagan who worked there.... http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40B14FA385C13738DDDAD0A94DD405B858DF1D3 _____________________________ I WANT PATERSON NJ BOTTLES !! Being NICE for the SAKE of OTHERS !!! (in reply to JOETHECROW) Post #: 5

RE: Recent eBay pickup - First Glen Ridge bottle! - 8/12/2011 12:32:29 AM    epackage Posts: 9891 Joined: 5/3/2009 From: Jersey Status: online I'm assuming this was the first owner.... Glen Ridge Pharmacy - Glen Ridge, Corp. Act. July 25, 1911 Agent, William C. Appleton. I'm assuming he was a later owner..... Raymond F. Giegerich was born 19 Jan 1911 in Elizabeth, NJ, and died 27 Jun 1969 in Elizabeth, NJ. He married Mildred Winifred Stein on 23 Oct 1937 in Elizabeth, NJ, daughter of Frank Anthony and Mary Phillips. Notes for Raymond F. Giegerich: He went to St. Michael's School and was in the same class with both Mildred and Frances Stein. He then graduated Battin High School, Rutgers U. as a pharmacist and owned the Glen Ridge Pharmacy in Glen Ridge, NJ. < Message edited by epackage -- 8/12/2011 12:35:17 AM > _____________________________ I WANT PATERSON NJ BOTTLES !! Being NICE for the SAKE of OTHERS !!! (in reply to epackage) Post #: 6

RE: Recent eBay pickup - First Glen Ridge bottle! - 8/12/2011 12:34:05 AM    epackage Posts: 9891 Joined: 5/3/2009 From: Jersey Status: online I guess it was in this one block run on Bloomfield ave.... "The block-long row of shops on Bloomfield Avenue opened in May 1911, one of the only pieces of commercial property in an otherwise strictly-residential town" I wasn't a member of the site and couldn't get the rest of the article....sorry < Message edited by epackage -- 8/12/2011 12:38:14 AM > _____________________________ I WANT PATERSON NJ BOTTLES !! Being NICE for the SAKE of OTHERS !!! (in reply to epackage) Post #: 7

RE: Recent eBay pickup - First Glen Ridge bottle! - 8/12/2011 12:45:11 AM    epackage Posts: 9891 Joined: 5/3/2009 From: Jersey Status: online A book to keep your eyes open for, maybe check at the library.... http://cgi.ebay.com/MONTCLAIR-GLEN-RIDGE-VERONA-NJ-NEW-JERSEY-PHOTO-history-/220819970000?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3369e557d0 _____________________________ I WANT PATERSON NJ BOTTLES !! Being NICE for the SAKE of OTHERS !!! (in reply to epackage) Post #: 8

RE: Recent eBay pickup - First Glen Ridge bottle! - 8/12/2011 12:46:43 AM    epackage Posts: 9891 Joined: 5/3/2009 From: Jersey Status: online The pharmacy might have been in here in the 30's.... Attachment (1) _____________________________ I WANT PATERSON NJ BOTTLES !! Being NICE for the SAKE of OTHERS !!! (in reply to epackage) Post #: 9

All Forums >> [Bottle Forums] >> New to the Collection >> Recent eBay pickup - First Glen Ridge bottle!

Page: [1]

New Messages No New Messages Hot Topic w/ New Messages Hot Topic w/o New Messages Locked w/ New Messages Locked w/o New Messages

Post New Thread  Reply to Message  Post New Poll  Submit Vote  Delete My Own Post  Delete My Own Thread  Rate Posts