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    Pontil or smooth base

    The 1852 marked bottles are referring to Ryan's founding year; 1852. These are his last bottles.
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    The Iron Pontil

    Improved pontil base (IP), circ: 1844-1860 This base type is distinguished by a gray metallic residue on the base of the bottle. This is also known as an iron pontil or graphite pontil due to the coloration of the residue. The amount of residue can very greatly and is many times worn off...
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    MOXIE GOLD?!?!?!?!?!

    Little different take on this bottle. The font is not like that on other Moxie bottles and "M" sort of looks like an "H" and it is Moxie Nerve "Food" and not Nerve "Tonic." As there is no advertising, I suspect what you have is a clever fake bottle designed to trick the public as to what they...
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    20 Significant historic embossed beers added to the collection in 2023 and a local too.

    Some mighty fine additions!
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    Is Bromo Selzer from O.B.CO. rare?

    Also, my observations on the mold number is that the 1260 is the id for the Bromo mold and the number underneath was the copy of the mold. So I suspect there is a 1260 / 1, 1260 / 2, and a 1260 / 3, in addition to your 1260 / 4 all in an identical style. There may be other molds with higher...
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    Is Bromo Selzer from O.B.CO. rare?

    I think the name of the works is the Ohio Bottle Co. 1904-1905 and the successor, the American Bottle Co. (1905-1929). Links on the names are to my research. An interesting item for a Bromo collector.
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    PROMOTING OUR HOBBY

    Nice job, love the Metcalfs in the display.
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    New W.P. Knickerbocker soda pontiled variant

    This is a "porter" bottle of William Pond & Company of New York. They purchased the Bottling works of Samual Smith, when he left New York City and moved to either Troy or Auburn in 1850. The Smith sided soda bottles also carry the 1848 date and Pond & Co. used his same mold and substituted...
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    Photos of all know Long Island Pontiled Bottles

    Definitely worth a repair.
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    Weird Lightning Closure variant that failed

    Is there any base embossing or either of these?
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    Help with John Chek Bottle blob top from Woodbridge N.J.

    Few more notes: Married Mary Bennes on November 24, 1891, she was from NY City, and he was from Woodbridge, NJ. They were both from Fony in Hungary 1905 NJ Census states he was born on February 3, 1868, was married, was in the country 15 years and was naturalized. 1915 NJ Census states he was...
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    Bottle in Belize

    Did you find and soda or beer bottles from Belize?
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    Photos of all know Long Island Pontiled Bottles

    Also the C. A. Sammis from Hempstead in Nassau County. Nicholas from Flushing in Queens County. And 14 from Kings County. Long Island Pontiled Soda & Beer Bottles I suspect that the Deer Park bottle was from J. H. Thomlinson who was a brewer and soda water manufacturer there in 1859 or a...
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    White Horse

    Some of these closures were to prevent the refilling of the bottles. There were a number of patents around the turn of the Century. Essentially ensuring one time use.
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    KORNAHRENS & WEDDING JACKSONVILLE, FLA Blob top

    HB monogram on the base id for Hagerty Brothers of New York
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