Chemung spring water

[DDay 1972]

I'm looking for more information on this bottle Chemung spring water heavily embossed 5 gallon and Value

 

[RED Matthews]

Well Dave - I guess you hit it lucky with your opost. I spent 15 years working for Thatcher Glass in Elmira NY and that is in Chemung County- and they made a lot of the gallon size jugs for the Chemung Spring Water Co.. I have four or five five gallon jugs in New York. And some of them have a ground finish and glass stoppers. If you can send me a picture or a set of pictures of the finish, the bottlle and the bottom of the bottle, I can tell you some more about it. I also have eight or ten of the gallon size jugs also. Most of them had a threaded finish and screwed on caps. The old five gallon ones were shipped in wooden boxes that held six of them. I almost had a crate full at an auction but it went over my fund level - so I don;t know where it went. The glass stopper ones seem to price out at $75 to $125 depending on condition and how bad someone wants them. I don't have one with a pontil mark on the bottom. Does yours???My email is <RedMatthews@yahoo.com> RED M.

 

[RED Matthews]

Well I got that email wrong. It is <bottlemysteries@yahoo.com> Jt must be getting late.

 

[RED Matthews]

This is an old thread, but digging around in my glass, i found four, one gallon size bottles with the ground glass stoppers. Have you had any more luck? RED Matthews