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I picked this up nice and cheap at the GR bottle show a couple days ago.
William Foord from Wilmington, Delaware. I've never had anything from old Del. before.
It has 2 large bubbles and one medium bubble-- one right in front with the embossing. I like bubbles in bottles.
It is a tooled top, not applied, from what I can tell. I've lost some bottle vocab in my absence but believe they call this a double tapered collar?
I assume that it is 1880s?
I found that they had founded a bottling operation and malt house in 1828, and annoyingly the son and grandson were named after the founder William....
Bottling continued until Prohibition.
Is this a fairly common variant? I've seen like 7 others in my research. Empontiled bottles to a crown.
William Foord from Wilmington, Delaware. I've never had anything from old Del. before.
It has 2 large bubbles and one medium bubble-- one right in front with the embossing. I like bubbles in bottles.
It is a tooled top, not applied, from what I can tell. I've lost some bottle vocab in my absence but believe they call this a double tapered collar?
I assume that it is 1880s?
I found that they had founded a bottling operation and malt house in 1828, and annoyingly the son and grandson were named after the founder William....
Bottling continued until Prohibition.
Is this a fairly common variant? I've seen like 7 others in my research. Empontiled bottles to a crown.
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