Just got a new local bottle from Ebay, an 1890s Frank McCloskey blob top from Tupper Lake, N.Y. Its the second champagne style shaped McCloskey bottle I own, but I also have the matching hutch variant, and two partnership bottles (one with Lebouf and one with Isaac Merkel). The bottom photo...
I'll add onto that actually. I've always thought sort of the same thing since I started collecting... we really collect things that someone threw away back in the day. I just think its amazing though how much things have changed to make even trash from 100 years ago turn into treasure today. For...
Actually, I found out it means 100-250 known. I find that quite odd actually but oh well. Its one of two examples I have seen in 11 years and the only other one was online so I'm still happy to have got it even though its not as rare as I thought
Thanks! Is scare 10 to 100 examples known or under 10? I'm unfamiliar with Porter's scale. I know on Hutchbook R is under 10 so I assume it would mean S is 10 to 100?
Today I got my first ever Christmas Coke from my hometown- a 1936 from Tupper Lake, NY. I believe it's listed as R or R+ in the Coke book and it's the first I've ever seen besides one photo of one that sold ages ago online. I also got the second ever known JE Laramay milk bottle from Tupper Lake...
There are four specific brands of Tupper Lake, NY I am missing that would complete my set of known brands. I would be interested in purchasing any of these four brands:
Austin's Pharmacy (Tupper Lake)
Blue Ribbon Dairy (Tupper Lake JCT)
PH McCarthy (milk) (Tupper Lake)
West End Brewing Company...
Just got some nice sodas from a friend in Indiana yesterday! Double Colas from Evansville IND, a beautiful Triple A Root Beer from Oklahoma City, a St Louis Double Dot Pepsi, a Muncie IND embossed Dr Pepper (my first Dr Pepper), a Double Dry, and a Double Cola from Rome GA.
Thanks! And kind of, Tupper Lake Junction is an older name for the region near the railroad station where I live. We still refer to it as that but it actually used to be considered the village of Faust, NY as I have mentioned in some previous posts. Its all simply Tupper Lake now. Tupper Lake...
Wow... what a year it's been already for my local collection- and it's not even February! Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting up with another collector from the Upstate New York region and he sold me hutches from Tupper Lake and Tupper Lake Junction! The clear Propp & Pimstein is a nice...
Everyone starts somewhere. My first bottle was a 1967 8 ounce Pepsi swirl ACL in 2010. Eleven years and probably 100+ dug quality bottles, and maybe 500 total, here we are. Keep looking and you'll have a pile yourself! Thanks for sharing
Thank you! And yeah, I'm not sure if that was just the way the photo came out or if they are amethyst. The Donovan's crown top definitely is though. These are all much to rare to keep outside though so they will stay these colors forever. I just take them outside for some nice photos. Always...