J. W. Grant and Co. was a grocery business on the corner of Hawthorne and Brown Streets from 1914 to 1916. Grant had been a grocer as early as 1902, but from 1905 to 1914 he shared the partnership of Nickerson and Grant with A. J. Nickerson. The two also formed the Standard Soda Water Company...
Interestingly, the accompanying base mold code markings (such as A 5, C 14, V 7, etc) seen on bottles of this type are also seen on many export beer bottles marked “A.B.G.M.CO.” which points to a strong connection between those two marks. Adolphus Busch Glass Manufacturing Company made huge...