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Stoddard, or not stoddard?

I'll attach two photos of the Dyottville whiskey (base and lip) and one of the porter squat. It would be pointless to post the full image I have of the whiskey since relevant details would not be discernible. It is dark olive with a uneven whittled surface. The image of the porter bottle is...
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- Post #14
- Jun 5, 2022
- Forum: New to the Collection
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black glass ?

Looks like an English or Scottish whiskey. These kinds of bottles can date anywhere from the early to late 1800s. They were manufactured a long time in Great Britain.
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- Post #10
- Nov 8, 2011
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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Clear pontil bottle

Though this bottle is a clear not embossed bottle I've kept it many years and find it very interesting. Most patent medicine and common glass bottles before 1870 are made of aqua glass, the cheapest glass to produce. However, this patent medicine or perfume is a nice quality clear flint glass...
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- Nov 8, 2011
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- Forum: Digging and Finding
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Blue free blown bottle, South Jersey?

Basically the same bottle except three inches taller and light blue. Many thanks
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- Post #11
- Oct 26, 2011
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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My first bottle find, thanks to my grandmother

A favorite pastime visiting my grandmother during the 1950s was looking through her old trunk of family stuff. That probably inspired a lifelong interest in history. At about 12 years old she gave me a tin type photo of her uncle Elijah Holder in his Confederate uniform who fought at the battle...
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- Thread
- Oct 25, 2011
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- Forum: Digging and Finding
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Blue free blown bottle, South Jersey?

Slightly fuzzy but possibly better picture of pontil.
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- Post #6
- Oct 25, 2011
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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My first privy dig!

Good historical background on Scherff, provides interesting historical context for what might otherwise be just another clear pharmacy bottle to most readers.
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- Post #63
- Oct 25, 2011
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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Blue free blown bottle, South Jersey?

Thanks for your comments so far. The inside of the lip is not ground for a stopper. The pontil is exactly the type of circular broken glass pontil found on medicine bottles of the mid 1800s. If I saw the bottle at an antique shop I might be inclined to assume it was a reproduction. But my wife...
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- Post #5
- Oct 25, 2011
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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Aqua sodas are interesting too....

Colored bottles are the bottles most desired by collectors. However, over the years I've come to appreciate aqua glass for it's unique qualities too. Pictured are four aqua sodas from my collection; Field and Co 1866, N Richardson and Son Trenton, NJ, T & W, New York and a Wm Eagle New York...
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- Oct 23, 2011
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- Forum: New to the Collection
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Blue free blown bottle, South Jersey?

Digging at the site of the old Dayton, NJ hotel many years ago my wife and I found this free blown blue pontil bottle which is probably a cologne. The intense blue color reminds me of South Jersey blown glass of the 1850s. That this paper thin glass survived in such beautiful condition after...
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- Oct 23, 2011
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- Forum: Digging and Finding
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EL Kerns, King of Trenton, NJ bottlers

One of the superbly designed Kerns bottles from the turn of the century. Kerns was a perfectionist producing quality products which were professionally packaged. Even the use of his logo, ELK with an elk's head is a witty well thought out promotional design.
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- Post #11
- Oct 20, 2011
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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EL Kerns, King of Trenton, NJ bottlers

The serving trays are the only early advertising I've seen. I have seen advertising signs, door pulls, clocks, etc from the 1950s. I once asked Harold O'Neil if he had any old signs, etc. He said they never kept them. Harold's family had sold Kern's soda for 70 years. I think that's fairly...
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- Post #10
- Oct 20, 2011
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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EL Kerns, King of Trenton, NJ bottlers

Kerns, an avid sportsman, sponsored local sports teams as promotion for his bottling business.
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- Post #6
- Oct 20, 2011
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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EL Kerns, King of Trenton, NJ bottlers

One of Kerns early bottles, about 1895-96, and one of his last, 1950s to 70s.
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- Post #5
- Oct 20, 2011
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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How did you get started?

If you live in South East Pennsylvania you live in the bottle digging capitol of the US. There are more bottles dug in SE PA than any place I know. They must pop out of the ground as you're walking along.
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- Post #17
- Oct 20, 2011
- Forum: Digging and Finding