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The bottle gods were smiling on me! HOLY GRAIL FOUND - 8/5/2011 8:43:00 PM   
Wheelah23


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From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey
Status: online 		Dug today... Went a bit late, so it was hard to see in the bottom of the hole... Then I decided to widen out the hole by collapsing one of the side walls. I was stabbing away at the packed ash, then suddenly I saw some rust in the hole. In this dump, the ash has no bottles, and rust usually does. So I switched to my scratchers and got to work. Soon, I saw a base sticking out. It had some rocks and stuff next to it, so my hopes weren't high. I saw "K. HUTTER" on the base, so I knew it was a blob... Fatefully, I took a picture of it, not knowing what to expect. Eventually I got it loose, and it didn't even cross my mind that I might have found my dream bottle. I saw it was whole, and I breathed a sigh of relief. Now, to see what it is. I turned it over, to get a look at the embossing. I didn't recognize it at first, because I'm not used to seeing pictorial bottles. But when I saw what the picture was, I lost bowel control and had a heart attack. Only one bottle this could be: a T.P. Meyer & Co. from Montclair!

It's the rarest local bottle I know of. Before I collected locals, I saw it for sale for $60 at the last Oakland show in November. I asked the guy about it, and he said it was one of only a few known. Add one to that list! A few other people have also confirmed that it is very rare. I estimate there are less than a dozen known, but I've only confirmed the existence of two so far. I couldn't ask for a better bottle. This bottle was tied with a Glen Ridge blob for the "Holy Grail" status on my list. And now I've dug one!

It's hardly in mint condition, but I've seen much worse. It's pretty sick, but if there's one bottle I'd pay a lot to tumble, it's this one. I'm going to do a lot of research into finding a good tumbler, as I HATE overtumbled bottles with a burning passion. There is a tiny base chip and small resulting crack, but I'm sure there's a way to fix that too. I'm just happy to have one at all, I'm likely to never come across another!

It's embossed "T.P. MEYER & CO/ (motif of a rooster)/ MONTCLAIR, N.J.". It's the only pictorial bottle I know of from Montclair. Extremely rare. Not much more to say.




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RE: The bottle gods were smiling on me! HOLY GRAIL FOUND - 8/5/2011 8:44:15 PM   
Wheelah23


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Status: online 		Here's a picture of the hole before I started today. Does it look safe? I don't even care, if I'm finding bottles like this...




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RE: The bottle gods were smiling on me! HOLY GRAIL FOUND - 8/5/2011 8:46:04 PM   
Wheelah23


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From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey
Status: online 		Here's the bottle sticking out...




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RE: The bottle gods were smiling on me! HOLY GRAIL FOUND - 8/5/2011 8:47:09 PM   
Wheelah23


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From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey
Status: online 		I found some other great stuff today too! Some of the better stuff is soaking in the acid right now. Like I said, the bottle gods were watching over me.




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RE: The bottle gods were smiling on me! HOLY GRAIL FOUND - 8/5/2011 8:49:02 PM   
Wheelah23


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Joined: 8/9/2010
From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey
Status: online 		Here's a shard I was wondering about. Could it have something to do with "beech nuts"?




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RE: The bottle gods were smiling on me! HOLY GRAIL FOUND - 8/5/2011 8:49:38 PM   
madman


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quote:

ORIGINAL: Wheelah23

Dug today... Went a bit late, so it was hard to see in the bottom of the hole... Then I decided to widen out the hole by collapsing one of the side walls. I was stabbing away at the packed ash, then suddenly I saw some rust in the hole. In this dump, the ash has no bottles, and rust usually does. So I switched to my scratchers and got to work. Soon, I saw a base sticking out. It had some rocks and stuff next to it, so my hopes weren't high. I saw "K. HUTTER" on the base, so I knew it was a blob... Fatefully, I took a picture of it, not knowing what to expect. Eventually I got it loose, and it didn't even cross my mind that I might have found my dream bottle. I saw it was whole, and I breathed a sigh of relief. Now, to see what it is. I turned it over, to get a look at the embossing. I didn't recognize it at first, because I'm not used to seeing pictorial bottles. But when I saw what the picture was, I lost bowel control and had a heart attack. Only one bottle this could be: a T.P. Meyer & Co. from Montclair!

It's the rarest local bottle I know of. Before I collected locals, I saw it for sale for $60 at the last Oakland show in November. I asked the guy about it, and he said it was one of only a few known. Add one to that list! A few other people have also confirmed that it is very rare. I estimate there are less than a dozen known, but I've only confirmed the existence of two so far. I couldn't ask for a better bottle. This bottle was tied with a Glen Ridge blob for the "Holy Grail" status on my list. And now I've dug one!

It's hardly in mint condition, but I've seen much worse. It's pretty sick, but if there's one bottle I'd pay a lot to tumble, it's this one. I'm going to do a lot of research into finding a good tumbler, as I HATE overtumbled bottles with a burning passion. There is a tiny base chip and small resulting crack, but I'm sure there's a way to fix that too. I'm just happy to have one at all, I'm likely to never come across another!

It's embossed "T.P. MEYER & CO/ (motif of a rooster)/ MONTCLAIR, N.J.". It's the only pictorial bottle I know of from Montclair. Extremely rare. Not much more to say.



very cool! neat bottle! my guess from the pix youve shown of your dump theres going to be many more good finds there!


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RE: The bottle gods were smiling on me! HOLY GRAIL FOUND - 8/5/2011 8:50:18 PM   
cyberdigger


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Status: online 		Well, Wheelie, it seems some genuine congratulationisms are in order! Very well written account, it warmed my cockles thru and thru! It certainly looks like a hard to get one.. a rooster pictorial slug NJ blob bev is only now, with this specimen, become a real thing to me.. wood'n'a'thunkit..

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RE: The bottle gods were smiling on me! HOLY GRAIL FOUND - 8/5/2011 8:51:37 PM   
Wheelah23


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Joined: 8/9/2010
From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey
Status: online 		A food bottle I was able to find a bit about. Seville Packing Co. I'm too lazy to look through this text for errors, Google Books' picture-to-text feature is kind of screwy.

"
Financial Inquiries
Seville Packing- Co.
4fS<(-ยป. (Worcester, Mass.) Will you kindly state all you can obtain in regard to the Seville Packing Company, olives, etc.. New York city. Please give your opinion at length on the company as an investment consideration, character of men managing. Have you seen any of the reports and statements, etc., of said company?
Ans.: The Seville Packing Company was Incorporated Nov. 1. 1897, with a capital of ?100.000 fully paid and non-assessable, divided into shares of a par value of $100. The stock was nearly all subscribed for by officers of The company and a few others. There have been very few recent transfers of shares, and no price can be quoted for the stock. The officers are: president. Marc M. Michael, of the firm of J. M. Sebalos & Co., of New York, and formerly an army contractor; vice-president, Jothn S. Fisk: treasurer, Anderson C. Wilson; and secretary, B. F. Bogart, formerly of the large grocery house of S. T. Willits & Co., of New York. The principal business of the company is the manufacture of the combination of queen olives and Spanish plmientos known as p'.m-olas. This product has been widely advertised and has been In good demand sinco first placed on the market two years ago. They placed the company on a go*nd footing bv their quick popularity, and dividends on a basis of 6 per cent per annum were paid for the first time in November, 1898.
There is now considerable competition, but it is claimed by the Seville Company that their business is not seriously affected by it.
Snles of pim-olas for October amounted to $8.5^0, while sales for the year 1898 were to the extent of $00,000, showing that the receipts for the past month exceeded by $1,000 the average monthly receipts of last year.
The poor olive crop of this year has created a great scarcity of good olives, but as the Seville Company has 2,00 casks of olives stored in New York, It Is thought that the poor crop can have but little effect on its profits for the coming year."




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RE: The bottle gods were smiling on me! HOLY GRAIL FOUND - 8/5/2011 8:52:37 PM   
Wheelah23


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From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey
Status: online 		I think it says "MODO" in the trademark picture? "SEVILLE PACKING CO./ NEW YORK"




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RE: The bottle gods were smiling on me! HOLY GRAIL FOUND - 8/5/2011 8:54:54 PM   
Wheelah23


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Status: online 		I usually leave these, but this one is embossed. it says "RESINOL/ BALTO. MD/ CHEMICAL CO." on the base.




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RE: The bottle gods were smiling on me! HOLY GRAIL FOUND - 8/5/2011 8:55:15 PM   
cyberdigger


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This is part of a bacon jar. ..not chewing gum and not tobacco.. it was bacon...!

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RE: The bottle gods were smiling on me! HOLY GRAIL FOUND - 8/5/2011 8:56:17 PM   
Wheelah23


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From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey
Status: online 		I think it's onea them fancy newfangled semi-automatic doohickeys... Everything in this layer is too old for it to be ABM...




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RE: The bottle gods were smiling on me! HOLY GRAIL FOUND - 8/5/2011 8:58:04 PM   
Wheelah23


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From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey
Status: online 		A nice crude slick... It had the original dispensing apparatus in it too. A cork on the top, connected by a metal stick to some kind of cloth sponge on the other end. Had some black stuff inside. It has a very large bubble and a crude lip.




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RE: The bottle gods were smiling on me! HOLY GRAIL FOUND - 8/5/2011 8:58:31 PM   
Wheelah23


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Status: online 		Lip is strange and uneven.




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RE: The bottle gods were smiling on me! HOLY GRAIL FOUND - 8/5/2011 8:58:33 PM   
marjorie040


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Status: online 		Wheelah23,
Great story! Great bottle! Congratulations!!
Can't wait to see the rest cleaned up!
Thanks,


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RE: The bottle gods were smiling on me! HOLY GRAIL FOUND - 8/5/2011 9:01:16 PM   
Wheelah23


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ORIGINAL: cyberdigger

Well, Wheelie, it seems some genuine congratulationisms are in order! Very well written account, it warmed my cockles thru and thru! It certainly looks like a hard to get one.. a rooster pictorial slug NJ blob bev is only now, with this specimen, become a real thing to me.. wood'n'a'thunkit..


Thanks! You may never see another one... And if you do... BUY IT!

...Cockles?



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RE: The bottle gods were smiling on me! HOLY GRAIL FOUND - 8/5/2011 9:02:48 PM   
epackage


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RE: The bottle gods were smiling on me! HOLY GRAIL FOUND - 8/5/2011 9:29:23 PM   
Wheelah23


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Status: online 		It certainly is... The rest of the cleaned up stuff should be interesting too...

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RE: The bottle gods were smiling on me! HOLY GRAIL FOUND - 8/5/2011 9:35:50 PM   
RedGinger


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ORIGINAL: Wheelah23

A nice crude slick... It had the original dispensing apparatus in it too. A cork on the top, connected by a metal stick to some kind of cloth sponge on the other end. Had some black stuff inside. It has a very large bubble and a crude lip.





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RE: The bottle gods were smiling on me! HOLY GRAIL FOUND - 8/5/2011 9:37:03 PM   
pikewaynepabottles

 

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Status: offline 		Congratulations ! Your hard work is paying off ! Cool Picture Blob !

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