I stopped by a buddy's barn sale after finishing up my route. He buys estate stuff and storage lockers and has huge sales. He said he had some bottles for me. A couple of really cool ones that are posted below. He said he got them out of the woods across the street from his barn. His words...
I picked up this Johann Hoff a while back. The embossing seems peculiar to me. I haven't seen a ton of these but I know they are fairly common. The ones that I have seen have a much bolder embossing while the embossing on this bottle is fainter and has the appearance of being done by hand...
I got these two bottles in a lot I purchased to get one bottle I really wanted. I have seen one of the green ones before but I have no idea who made them or where they were made. Both have porcelain stoppers, the blue on with a flower design on it. The green bottle has some embossing on the...
Here is a bottle made by my great, great grandfather, P.J. Ratigan of Bordentown, NJ. It's a 1864 Matthews Gravitating Stopper. Generously sold to me by a local NJ collector.
I rescued this bad boy from certain death on my route today. As I was pulling into the customer's driveway I saw it sitting in a big pile of branches to be burned. Asked the customer if I could have it since it was laying in their burn pile and they said no problem. The Keeley Brewing Company...