SODABOB
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Picked up this Vernor's bottle today at a Antique store. Appears to have a 1930 date embossed near the bottom. other side is embossed Registered. Bottom embossed Vernor's ect, ect. Nothing else on the outside. I assume it had a paper label at one time. I don't remember seeing another one with this 1930 date. I've seen lots of Vernor's bottles but don't go out of my way to look at them all. Curious if anybody else has this bottle or knows if it's a tough one or common? THANKS, LEON.
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Speaking of "glass," I came across the following that I thought was kinda interesting ...
This newspaper snippet is from the Detroit Free Press and is dated June 17, 1927. Its one of a series of articles the newspaper used to run about what happened on a particular day in the past. In this case, the particular day it refers to is June 17, 1877, which is exactly 50 years to the day when the 1927 article was published. Because of the way its worded, I'm assuming it refers to actual articles the Detroit Free Press published and is sort of like a "This day in history" column.
Anyway, notice it says ...
"James Vernor is putting in a glass front to his drug store at 235 Woodward avenue."
( I looked for the original 1877 article but have not been able to find it - at least not yet)
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Take a close look at the glass front in this early picture (exact date unknown to me but often described as circa 1870) and notice the windows appear to be in segments ...
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Now take a close look at the glass front in this next picture (which I also do not know the exact date for) and compare it to the windows in the last picture. Notice they are no longer segmented but are full panes of glass ...
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When you take into account what is says in the newspaper article and compare the pictures, it leads me to suspect the last picture was taken sometime after June 17, 1877, which might help to narrow down the date a little more, such as "circa 1877" (at the earliest).