The original firm, Clinton Pharmaceutical Co., was founded in Clinton, N.Y., in 1887 by William McLaren Bristol, Sr., and John R. Myers. It was incorporated as Bristol-Myers Company in 1900 and by then had moved from Clinton to Syracuse and then to Brooklyn. The company first made drugs for...
Re: Might be digging an old dairy soon....
My experience shows that the bottles from the dairy property were mostly all broken, unless they got returned with too much gunk to clean (paint or something) inside. I did find a lot of whole bottles from other farms, some of them very rare. They just...
For some reason, Syracuse, NY beers don't command high prices like comparable bottles from other cities. Not many collectors to drive prices up through competition. There were a lot of breweries and many, many variations to collect. The Murphy quart blobs tend to sell in the $15-35 range.