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I've seen a lot of posts like this, where people post a long list of all the bottles they have in a certain collecting category... I figured I might as well do the same. I collect bottles from Essex County, N.J., especially BIM sodas and beers, but meds too. I get new stuff every once in a while, so I guess I'll update the thread then. I've been collecting local bottles since February. Before that, unfortunately, I passed right over a bunch that I would've loved to have now. Here goes:

This is the first local bottle I bought. It's a George Greason blob from Montclair.


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I bought this one at the same time, without realizing the two were related. It's a tooled crown version of the George Greason family. I think this one is the newest of the set, because it has the fanciest monogram, and just looks newer to me. Still BIM, though.

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I think this is an earlier version of the other Greason crown. This is probably a 7 oz. size. It's got a much simpler monogram, so I think it's earlier than the other. I dug a broken one in aqua, so I'll be looking for that.

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Another tooled crown from Greason, this one is a quart size. It's probably contemporary with the 7 oz. size, as it has the same monogram. I dug a broken blob version with slightly different embossing. I like this one because it says "THIS BOTTLE IS REGISTERED". You usually see TBNTBS or the like.

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This is a nice local druggist I dug. It says "BENHAM & JOHNSON/ 550 BLOOMFIELD AVE./ MONTCLAIR, N.J." It's got some lip chipping and a couple tiny flash cracks, but I still like it.

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Another nice Montclair druggist. This one is from David H. Baldwin. I like the monogram on it. I dug a larger sized version of it, but it was (of course) broken. "D.H. BALDWIN/ DRUGGIST/ & CHEMIST/ MONTCLAIR/ N.J."

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My aunt gave me two of the ubiquitous Edison Battery Oil bottles. I know they're ultra common, but they're still local. The West Orange one is the one I'm looking for.

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I've got a bunch of bottles from East Orange, too. This one is an early ABM cork top medicine. On one side panel, it says "ANNA ELIZABETH WADE", and on the other, "EAST ORANGE N.J.U.S.A."

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This is an East Orange citrate bottle. It says "FRANK L. FIEGER/ MFG PHARMACIST/ EAST ORANGE/ N.J." This example is kind of rough. It's scratched up terribly, but the tumbling made it appear less bad. It's not over tumbled, but it's not great, either.

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The big mineral water/cider distributor in East Orange was J.W. Ransley. There's a whole bunch of information I pieced together in the Soda forum. I may post it here later.

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