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We'll start with these-- Muskegon amber blobs, tooled crowns, and my first beer which is a machine crown:Muskegon Brewing Co. highlighted gold (my first antique beer, and the only intact embossed one that has gone on display from where I found it in the lake.)
Next is my latest addition, and one that was given to me by TrueDigr: A Muskegon Bottling Works bottle of a variation I hadn't known existed (I believe it to be a rare variation.) Click here to learn more and see more photos (all blue links have more photos.)
We then have a rare Michigan Bottling Co. bottle. Learn more here.
Next is a mint-condition Muskegon Br'g Co. bottle with intact porcelain stopper in black/red.
Then is a rare tooled-crown Frank Scott bottle. There is almost nothing known on it. Untill 1893, at least, he merely sold, not bottled-- Methinks, though, that he didn't start bottling till close to 1900 or so, and he didn't last long.
Finally, a hand-tooled Muskegon Brewing Co. bottle. Back of ambers. In the final photo:
A. Luders & Co. rare hutch. Hutchbook listing here. My first blob-- also a Muskegon Bottling Works bottle--circa late 1880s. More on it here from an early thread of mine. S. C. Chumard, who has many things to his credit but is never credited with them. I got it whilst here. Here is how S. C. Chumard, Muskegon Bottling Works, and Muskegon Brewing Co. all tie in (click the blue.) If you like to learn about bottles' histories, then follow the links. I try to get as much information as I can into such links, for I know someone else will one day find it useful.
 

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My first milk bottle: A 1920s one pint Twin City Dairy of Muskegon--not the Wisconsin version.
A bit of history on how I got it: Walking along the creek one day, a man began following me. Being creeped out, I watched him as he watched me. I tried hiding back in the bushes, but he countered that by getting a better view-- he started chucking large rocks. Thankfully, there was still snow on the ground and the creek swollen with freezing, melting ice and water-- he was on the opposite side. So, I leave the area, heading deeper into the woods to vanish, when suddenly I spot this lying atop a mound of broken, frozen mud at the foot of a tree. Freezing in place, I stare at it. I then move in for it, realizing what it could be, and nearly shatter it when running home in excitement to clean it up after hunting around more. Lol. Better still, it's a rare 1920s milk, and it was in an area with nothing else dating before the 1950s save for what was an old school turned police station. A little more here and, as I kind of took over a thread, near the end of here. An S.-S. Coca-Cola Bottling Works bottle, circa 1910s. One of three I pulled out of the lake, and all of 3 piece of one I pulled out of a hillside about 60 yards away from that. Three will sell for 15 dollars or 250-- I've seen them hit those prices. Really odd. :/ My favorite machine-made crown: A Coca-Cola owned company called Paul's Drinks I found in the lake-- I found pieces to another. Paul G. Miller, known for making a superior bottle-cleaner in the early 1900s, was the man who had this line of drinks going-- the only known flavor, and possibly only flavor, they put out was Strawberry (my favorite.) The last of the bottles I know of, if I recall, date to 1958. By 1960, it appears that (the next bottle-post's) Sun-Rise Strawberry (also Coca-Cola owned) put Paul's out of the picture. More here and here. This one is early 1920s-- possibly the earliest known to exist.
I now own the 1920s and 1930s ones. The other two in the final photo I traded here.
 

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Sun-Rise, also in the dump thread linked above, killed Paul's Drinks.
Then we have a 1945 Dr. Pepper bottle from Muskegon. Click here to see the in-the-field photos of the find and the GORGEOUS AREA SURROUNDING, as well as a debate focusing on God and hunger. Then is my first ACL: A, if I recall, 1946 Squirt bottle (pre-Little-Squirt character) that, after finding in the lake, rolled off my platform I use to stay in the water whilst hunting (found the Paul's bottle that day, too, which has remained in my memory as my first coordinated bottle hunt,) and was nearly lost again for another 65 years at the time. Amazing how it survived. I knew so little on bottles two years ago that I thought it would be 1960s. Lastly is a local Try-Me bottle with small error. Click here to learn more on it and other bottles, coins-- including a rare one--and a 1919 Red Cross pin I got that day.
 

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Some close-ups of the ambers. The Michigan Bottling Co. bottle, Frank Scott, and a Muskegon Brewing Co. one I've done some cosmetic work on.
 

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There is my smallest milk.
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You cannot see it well, but it has a cow on one side and cup of coffee on the other.
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Cottage Cheese bottle? All dug from here with two others. I also tell what I've gathered from that family.
 

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A colorful mix:
 

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It said "Circa 1912" on the containment unit with it, but I created a post here with questions on it. Here is a good one-- on the bottle from TrueDigr. Opened for the first time in over a century, the bail was frozen in place, and I jumped when it made the "CRACK!" noise that signaled it was coming open-- rust on rust. It works well enough now, but I dare not abuse it. The Lightning Stopper was used from 1875 to 1910. Circa 1885 when The City Bottlign Works became Muskegon Bottling Works.
 

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From the mint-condition light amber-orange blob comes the completely functional porcelain bail circa 1899 (when PURE AND WITHOUT DRUGS OR POISON came around) to 1905 when the glass co., S. B. & G. Co. (Streator Bottle & Glass Company,) when out. The patent is all screwey-- when I search for it, I come up with a farming machine. Help? Bore of bottle.
 

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Any questions, comments, concerns? Muskegon has had possibly 70 bottlers here over the last 150 years. I have a few more intact, and a few broken, but this is what is worthy of display. My mission is to create the most complete collection of Muskegon bottles from the first to about 1950. I'm actually ahead of schedule, quite blessedly. Bottles like the Gravitating Stopper of S. C. Chumard (pictured below with embossed bottom -- he came here in the mid-late 1860s and led to several bottling operations) and the Luders Hutch came earlier than planned. This is the history of Muskegon Bottling operations I have gained-- the physical bottles and the knowledge that goes with them. True Digr wanted to see my collection a decade from now, but I cannot guarantee that. So, here it is currently. I have always loved to share history. It isn't fun to have it all for yourself, but not many people care about it anymore-- even if it affected the community they live in in a strong manner. My local Museum has two sections for "local collections," but they did not desire to have mine for a temporary display. Last I saw was on I love Lucy. I think this is more important than that, so I do not understand why it was shot down.

Take care, all. Note on post above last: "It" refers to the Muskegon Pilsener Beer cap.
 

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Oh, by the way: Valentino got into history with me, too. He thinks he's playing Soldier as he learns with us all.
 

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