Harmonica
Member
Hello everyone.
My name is Terry and my online handle is "Harmonica". I came to bottles as a coin collector. I do not collect coins exactly, I am more into exonumia (tokens and the like).
I love anything New Brunswick and Maine (with a soft spot for Nova Scotia and Saint Pierre too boot).
I always picked up bottles from hiking the old railroad tracks and what have you but it became more serious lately. I am collecting cheques and other fiscal documents from the Maritime Bank of the Dominion of Canada. They had a branch in Woodstock, NB. The bank was bought out by the Bank of New Brunswick. It later became Baird's Pharmacy and then Newnhman and Slipps, NB's oldest drug store! Needless to say I needed to buy a couple drug bottles for my numismatic exhibit on said bank.
I found this post through the magic of Google
https://www.antique-bottles.net/showthread.php?338932-H-PAXTON-BAIRDS-BALSAN-OF-HOREHOUND
I am not sure if passthebottle is still active but a) smart username and b) I hope to hear from a fellow "border rat".
Now that I found one bottle I kind of what more to add to my collection. Anything H. Baird should be easy enough to find local I reckon.
I also want milk bottles. What would go better with my Atlantic Canadian dairy token collection then matching bottles!
Ginger Ale, Root Beer and Moxie all also have peaked my interest. Being a former British Colony tea is big in New Brunswick. I collect tea memorabilia. Tins, tea cards, envelopes from said companies, signs etc. So I explained why tea was big here but do you know why Ginger Ale and Root Beer grew in Atlantic Canada/New England? Prohibition. My great grand father was a rum runner, I found his arrest mentioned in an old 1920 paper. I think I found one of his old jugs at my aunt's house! Yes bootleggers, the Klan, Orange-men and the cops all fought it out on the ME/NB border and I want to own the bottles! When you couldn't drink alcohol (or needed something to make the white lightning go down) you turned to soft drinks!
Sorry for the long uninteresting story but I wanted to explain what I am looking for and how I want to use my future bottles to tell the story of Maine/New Brunswick relations and to enhance my coin collection.
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As for references I found the Ginger Beers of New Brunswick by Steven Dickenson, great work. Any other leads on milk bottles of NB/ME or Ginger ale/beer Root Beer of the same area?
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Thank you all for excepting my registration request, I hope to learn a lot.
My name is Terry and my online handle is "Harmonica". I came to bottles as a coin collector. I do not collect coins exactly, I am more into exonumia (tokens and the like).
I love anything New Brunswick and Maine (with a soft spot for Nova Scotia and Saint Pierre too boot).
I always picked up bottles from hiking the old railroad tracks and what have you but it became more serious lately. I am collecting cheques and other fiscal documents from the Maritime Bank of the Dominion of Canada. They had a branch in Woodstock, NB. The bank was bought out by the Bank of New Brunswick. It later became Baird's Pharmacy and then Newnhman and Slipps, NB's oldest drug store! Needless to say I needed to buy a couple drug bottles for my numismatic exhibit on said bank.
I found this post through the magic of Google
https://www.antique-bottles.net/showthread.php?338932-H-PAXTON-BAIRDS-BALSAN-OF-HOREHOUND
I am not sure if passthebottle is still active but a) smart username and b) I hope to hear from a fellow "border rat".
Now that I found one bottle I kind of what more to add to my collection. Anything H. Baird should be easy enough to find local I reckon.
I also want milk bottles. What would go better with my Atlantic Canadian dairy token collection then matching bottles!
Ginger Ale, Root Beer and Moxie all also have peaked my interest. Being a former British Colony tea is big in New Brunswick. I collect tea memorabilia. Tins, tea cards, envelopes from said companies, signs etc. So I explained why tea was big here but do you know why Ginger Ale and Root Beer grew in Atlantic Canada/New England? Prohibition. My great grand father was a rum runner, I found his arrest mentioned in an old 1920 paper. I think I found one of his old jugs at my aunt's house! Yes bootleggers, the Klan, Orange-men and the cops all fought it out on the ME/NB border and I want to own the bottles! When you couldn't drink alcohol (or needed something to make the white lightning go down) you turned to soft drinks!
Sorry for the long uninteresting story but I wanted to explain what I am looking for and how I want to use my future bottles to tell the story of Maine/New Brunswick relations and to enhance my coin collection.
.................................................. .................................................. ..
As for references I found the Ginger Beers of New Brunswick by Steven Dickenson, great work. Any other leads on milk bottles of NB/ME or Ginger ale/beer Root Beer of the same area?
.................................................. .................................................. ...
Thank you all for excepting my registration request, I hope to learn a lot.