I had a great time at the Somers Antique Bottle show yesterday. I got this nice Country Club Ginger Ale bottle from the 1930s, and this Hubbard Bro's milk bottle from West Springfield.
Had a successful day of antiquing this afternoon. Managed to find four Country Club quart bottles dating from the early 50s to mid 60s, plus a West Springfield Par-T-Pack quart. A Greenfield/Turners Falls football schedule with a nice Coca-Cola ad. And a Bissell's Dairy box and playing card...
I live in western Mass, and I've found many dumps over hills and in ditches, and along or near old stone walls. Often, I'll just follow the stone walls and they'll lead right to dumps. Lidar maps make it easy to find stone walls, hills, ditches, and cellar holes, showing you where there might be...
I managed to find two boxes containing mostly vintage soda and beer bottles for sale on the Facebook marketplace for only 5 dollars! Needless to say, I had to take advantage of such a good deal.
There were a lot of duplicate bottles in the mix, so here are the ones I am going to keep. There are...
First National Stores Inc. also known as Finast. It looks like they had a distribution plant in Boston. It makes sense if you are finding Pioneer Valley bottles as well.
Thanks, everyone! The straw is pushed between the paper and the white top, just in that one spot. Aside from that there is nothing else to indicate it hung from anything. My best guess is that would sit on a round pedestal and a bottle would sit on top of it, or it was a hat.