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Hello, Wise Ones,
I am looking for information about the bottle maker who made a 5-gallon water bottle for the Feather River Spring Water Company of Sacramento, California, in 1954. The mark seems to be a joined capital W with a capital P. I was not able to find this mark on two of the on-line glass/bottle mark reference sites. I did find a joined W with B (on sha.org's W list --- Whitney Bros., 1880 -- far too early), and this bottle's mark seems clearly to be WP, not WB. Images are attached of the bottle and the base. (The bottle has a dense haziness, exterior I'm told-- I may come back with questions about 'cleaning' -- but that's another issue, except for now as it affects the images.) There might* be a prize for the for the first responder who correctly identifies the mark. But hey, you're not responding for a reward.....are you?
* or more likely might not, beyond satisfaction
Any information appreciated,
Peter
Also, why would they have called it "Spring Water"? Would they not have bottled in the summer, fall, and winter? -- ah, winter I can see, the water would have been frozen, how could they get it into the bottle? -- but summer and fall?
I am looking for information about the bottle maker who made a 5-gallon water bottle for the Feather River Spring Water Company of Sacramento, California, in 1954. The mark seems to be a joined capital W with a capital P. I was not able to find this mark on two of the on-line glass/bottle mark reference sites. I did find a joined W with B (on sha.org's W list --- Whitney Bros., 1880 -- far too early), and this bottle's mark seems clearly to be WP, not WB. Images are attached of the bottle and the base. (The bottle has a dense haziness, exterior I'm told-- I may come back with questions about 'cleaning' -- but that's another issue, except for now as it affects the images.) There might* be a prize for the for the first responder who correctly identifies the mark. But hey, you're not responding for a reward.....are you?
* or more likely might not, beyond satisfaction
Any information appreciated,
Peter
Also, why would they have called it "Spring Water"? Would they not have bottled in the summer, fall, and winter? -- ah, winter I can see, the water would have been frozen, how could they get it into the bottle? -- but summer and fall?
