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  1. J

    Real or reproduction? Value? Union Shield Clasped Hands Flask Dark Amber

    Looks old in your photo
  2. J

    Help with ID/Age of this bottle

    British glass makers were using older techniques very late, sometimes difficult to date British bottles by an applied lip, black glass or general crudity. I have a British black glass ale with an applied crown top lip. Something you'd never see on an American bottle.
  3. J

    New dig in Alabama

    Bottle diggers often find old bottles and jugs underneath the crawl space of old buildings. Sounds like the jars you found are 1920s to 1930s. But that doesn't mean there isn't older stuff. Some great finds have been made under old buildings,
  4. J

    Finally aquired the Apple green

    Ryan may have used more blue bottles than any bottler I know of.
  5. J

    welp, I just had literally the most successful day in bottle hunting I've ever had.

    Nice finds, Hutchinson's are always fun to dig. Date 1890 to 1900.
  6. J

    Help with ID/Age of this bottle

    Probably 1910 - 1915.
  7. J

    questions on a couple of bottles

    The beer probably dates post 1900, but before 1915. The Sloan's Liniment appears to be machine made, post 1920 but possibly post 1930.
  8. J

    C. Clack S.C.

    Excellent example of an early to mid 1840s bottle. A star of any collection.
  9. J

    Please help me date this old bottle

    Probably European 1870? I have a similar pontil clear bottle. Definitely not the kind of bottle which would be reproduced. If I were going to reproduce a bottle it wouldn't be a common perfume or medicine. Historical flask maybe, but not a common product bottle.
  10. J

    What have they done to you Johnston?!

    Soda and beer bottles were somewhat more expensive but quality wasn't an issue until after 1880. Even then quality was not always a high priority. It's amazing some bottles sold to bottlers had all sorts of imperfections yet were accepted and used anyway. As long as they didn't leak they were...
  11. J

    Glass Manufacturer Catalog, 1906

  12. J

    Glass Manufacturer Catalog, 1906

    Variety of Hutchinson bottles, 1906 Illinois Glass Company.
  13. J

    Manufacturer Catalog

    Variety of Hutchinson bottles, 1906 Illinois Glass Company.
  14. J

    Transitional Hutchinson - The Ideal Mineral Water MFG. Co. - Found 4/5/2024

    How about us being civil to each other and not get so trapped in defending ourselves we throw civility out the window. I too have entertained the same questions about Hutchinson bottles with somewhat extended necks. But after 50 years collecting chose to leave ithat and other questions open. I...
  15. J

    Transitional Hutchinson - The Ideal Mineral Water MFG. Co. - Found 4/5/2024

    My Sullivan bottle illustrates well Hutchinson bottles with an elongated neck are nothing more than Hutchinson patent bottles. That bottle is a rarity for Sullivan, an anomaly. His common bottle is a 7 inch blob top. That bottle has the original spring stopper inside, no question it is a...
  16. J

    Transitional Hutchinson - The Ideal Mineral Water MFG. Co. - Found 4/5/2024

    Onikowski, Trenton NJ - typical Hutchinson style pronounced shoulder, short neck, Daniel Sullivan, Hutchison with slightly elongated neck, Star Bottling Trenton soda with extended neck. Sullivan has original spring stopper , Star bottle often found with Putnam closure, never spring closure.
  17. J

    Transitional Hutchinson - The Ideal Mineral Water MFG. Co. - Found 4/5/2024

    I looked closely at a few of my Hutchinsons comparing them to blob 7 inch soda bottles with similar bodies. What stuck out was Hutchinson bottles to accomodate the rubber gasket on the stopper had a very prononced shoulder, the other bottles though somewhat similar all had more sloping...
  18. J

    Transitional Hutchinson - The Ideal Mineral Water MFG. Co. - Found 4/5/2024

    I can understand how a collector might think those bottles used multiple closure types. But, never saw an example. I suspect Hutchinson spring closure bottles were efficient and satisfied bottlers needs. The spring stopper would have been cheaper too. Once introduced they became an almost...
  19. J

    Transitional Hutchinson - The Ideal Mineral Water MFG. Co. - Found 4/5/2024

    Hutchiison bottles with the slightly elongated neck are common in the north east, maybe other areas too, but I can't remember ever seeing one with anything other than the patent spring stopper. I always assumed they could have accommodated the Putnam, lightening or Hutter closures but after...
  20. J

    The Iron Pontil

    An interesting fact about ponitil bottles is patent medicines before the Civil War usually, but not always, have a broekn glass pontil. Whereas. green soda and beer bottles will have the iron pontil and very rarely a broken glass pontil. there's also the issue of why aqua soda or beer bottles...

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