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    A Mysterious '5' -- who made it?

    Digger dun, nice find. I wonder how it came to be roadside. I've never come across one discarded. Ozarka had plants all across the south. I'm interested in the western bottles, esp California, and the glass factories that made those bottles, and particularly the early years -- 19-teens to...
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    A Mysterious '5' -- who made it?

    Very interesting. Ghost villages, full of bottles and likely other durable items - though in time perhaps only the bottles will remain, most everything else decaying, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. For these water bottles the term carboy is sometimes used, but it's a weird word, and can be...
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    A Mysterious '5' -- who made it?

    Hezezilla, Embossing on the 5-gallon water bottles was more the rule than the exception, though most or perhaps all of the bottle makers also made plain bottles, used with stuck-on labels. I suppose, since these water bottles were used over and over again, that embossing the water company...
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    A Mysterious '5' -- who made it?

    A 5-gallon water bottle, pics attached, made for the Crystal Springs Water Company, S. F. Cal. (San Francisco, I suppose) is marked with a simple '5' on the base. The spout suggests a date before 1930, so the '5' might indicate 1925 --- or might indicate the volume, 5 gallons (more likely, I...
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    Orange Crush

    Hi, Iceman, yes. Please see message in conversations. Peter
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    Orange Crush

    Sitcoms: I must correct the original post and my earlier reply to you. The ebay seller, not familiar with larger bottles, mistook the size, thinking it was 5 gallon -- but it is really three gallon, which actually makes more sense. There was, as you noted above, that three gallon OC bottle...
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    Orange Crush

    Sitcoms, Very similar, but 3 gallons, not 5 -- if the ebay listing was correct. I have seen old soda fountain counter top dispensers but I believe that most of them were designed to hold just 1-gallon bottles of the syrup. I'm hoping to find an image of one with a three-gallon bottle, such as...
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    Orange Crush

    Orange Crush experts, Illinois Glass Co. experts, big-bottle experts, others in the know: what is known about the 5-gallon Orange Crush bottle that appeared this past week on ebay? It is has a cork closure spout, and is stamped on the base with the I-in-Diamond of the Illinois Glass Co...
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    RINGROSE'S PURE HORSERADISH BOTTLE, WHERE AND WHEN MADE?

    You might try to track down a descendant; who might be very pleased to have it and the history (or perhaps could not care less!)
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    RINGROSE'S PURE HORSERADISH BOTTLE, WHERE AND WHEN MADE?

    In the census reports, 1900, 10, 20, 30 he was farmer, garden farmer, pickle manufacturing and pickle factory. First name was Charles. B 1860, in MN, English parents, D 1947. Obituary attached.
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    RINGROSE'S PURE HORSERADISH BOTTLE, WHERE AND WHEN MADE?

    C. T. Ringrose made horseradish in MN. There are very few newspaper.com hits -- but there is a good article in The Minneapolis Journal, 27 September 1933 that gives some information. A couple of 2-line ads in The MN Star Tribune end of 1934 don't tell us much -- except that he did indeed...
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    Snider bottle

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    Snider bottle

    JSP1946, I think that L. M. Snider (Laney Merritt Snider), mentioned above, is likely your man. Here are some ancestry . com hits - I am sure that much more is available -- earlier census records, many additional city directory records, and so on.
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    Julep bottle initials HELP!

    PlaneDiggerCam, and contributors, Following the clues, Norwich CT, date about 1924, Washington Beverages, I checked in ancestry.com, the 1930 Norwich Directory, and there are the following entries, exactly as in the directory: Page 63: Amedeo Onfrio (Mary C) (Washington Club Bottling Works)...
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    Julep bottle initials HELP!

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    Tooled crown top water bottle?

    mikeya, Can you post, please, an image of the entire bottle -- showing any embossing on the body of the bottle. Thanks, P.
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    Anyone have experience with Muriatic acid?

    All good advice. Also consider goggles or a mask -- better safe than sorry; a splash can occur when you least expect it. And, an issue that most people are not aware of: that when diluting a concentrated acid, it is recommended to add the acid to the water, and NOT the water to the acid --...
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    First sign

    crwncrk -- bingo! Increments of 2/100 foot = 0.24 inch seems pretty fine, and not terribly useful if the water is not still -- in this picture one would be hard pressed to tell the level to the nearest 1/10 foot = 1.2 inches, but here is an image of the same ruler, in Oregon. Very nice .
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    Monday Morning Mystery Mark: The Walton Ice Co., Elyria, OH

    Raymond, you have indeed solved the mystery! Nice first posting! Though the G's look like C's and though there are issues with the Von Michow write up (the "50" marks on the bottles are very unlikely to mean that the bottles were made in 1950, as the cork spout disappeared from water bottles...
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    Monday Morning Mystery Mark: The Walton Ice Co., Elyria, OH

    PDC: please see my just-posted message -- I should have entered it as a reply to you.....for your attention. Thanks, P.

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