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Star Embossed Blob - James Everard's Breweries

Best and last find of January 2023! Behold a rare star-embosed beer bottle from James Everard's Breweries! One of the few Irish brewers in the predominantly German NYC beer brewing industry, James Everard's buisness lasted from 1885 to 1926. In situ: The brewery operated at 3 East 134th...
- UnderMiner
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- Jan 31, 2023
- beer beer bottle blob blob top irish
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- Forum: Digging and Finding
Jug, Blob, Med, Key, etc.

The best of today's finds: Finds include: 1. Parker's Hair Balsam 2. Peer-Amid Re Umberto 3. Fred Schierenbeck Bottling Co. 403-405 East 101 Street. 4. One Gallon Stoneware Jug 5. A little whiskey sampler 6. Brass key Don't get too jealous just yet, the jug is not complete. It was the last...
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- Jan 27, 2023
- beer blob ceramic jug key medicine
- Replies: 10
- Forum: Digging and Finding
Finds From the Last Two Days

Went out digging over the last two days and plan to go out again tomorrow. Nothing beats bottle digging in January! Today's notable finds: 1. Boley Manufacturing Co. 2. The F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Co. (Clear variant) 3. Walter Gubner & Sons of 78 & 80 Bank Street NY (soda/water)...
- UnderMiner
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- Jan 26, 2023
- beer blob top schaefer
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- Forum: Digging and Finding
Rare Shell Motor Oil Bottle, Three Blobs, and A Couple Milks

All excavated today in one of the most exhausting hunts of the season, all in a muddy swamp. From left to right: Willow Brook Dairy, Reid's Union Dairy Ice Cream Corp. "It's The Best", Shell Motor Oil, G. Wm. Meyer, August Bay Bottling Co., and the Mini Blob is from the Union Bottling Company...
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- Aug 25, 2022
- beer blob motor oil bottle soda
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- Forum: Digging and Finding
One Gallon Jug and Two Blob Beers

Finds include: 1. The John Eichler Brewing Co. (Clear variant). 2. A. Hüpfel's Son's of 161st St. & 3rd Ave. 3. A full gallon stoneware jug, probably for whiskey, unmarked.
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- Aug 24, 2022
- beer blob gallon jug
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- Album: Bottles I Have Dug
- Category: Bottles and Glass
1890's Blob Top Beer + Other Finds

The bottles are as follows in order from left to right: 1. H. Straehle of New Rochelle, N.Y. 2. Citrate of Magnesia 3. Theo Young of 165th & 166th St Union Ave N.Y. 4. Bailis Bros. of Mt. Vernon Registered 1929 5. Mt. Vernon Dairy Co. Inc. of Irvington, N.J. 6. Coca-Cola of New Bern, NC
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- Aug 12, 2022
- 1890s 1929 beer blob tops citrate magnesia theo young
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- Album: Bottles I Have Dug
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1890's Blob Top Beer + Other Relics

Went on a fun and exhausting adventure today exploring a very inhospitable land long forgotten by time. A few things from over 100 years ago lay plainly visible on the surface in some places while in other places I had to dig through thick mud to get to them. Here's a picture of all the day's...
- UnderMiner
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- Aug 11, 2022
- 1890s beer blob top
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- Forum: Digging and Finding
Jacob Rupert - Tooled Crown Amber Beer

Interesting piece of US history. Rupert opened the brewery in 1913 in Manhattan. He later bought the Yankees in 1915 and opened Yankee Stadium in 1923. He employed some of the biggest legends of baseball including Babe Ruth. Hall of fame induction in 2013. And it all started with this beer.
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- May 30, 2022
- amber babe beer crown crown top jacob rupert ruth tooled yankees
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David Mayer Beer - Tooled Blob Top

David Mayer was an ex-Confederate soldier who moved to the Bronx, New York after the Civil War and started a brewery. The brewery was very successful but was closed by federal agents when Prohibition went into effect. This is one of the original bottles found close to where the brewery once stood.
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- May 29, 2022
- beer blob top glass purple tooled
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1940 Rainier Extra Export Stout Beer Bottle (1)

Year Made: 1940 Glassmaker: Owens Illinois Color: green Product: Extra Export Stout Beer Bottler: Rainier Brewing Company, Volume: 12 fluid ounces Height: 9 5/8 inches Weight: 13.2 ounces Diameter: 2 1/2 inches Seams: 2 seams all the way to top Label Type: paper Closure Type: pry-off metal cap
- WesternPA-collector
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- Jan 27, 2022
- 1940 beer california extra export stout green owens illinois glass paper labeled rainier brewing company san francisco
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- Album: 1940 Rainier Extra Export Stout Beer Bottle
- Category: Bottles and Glass
1940 Rainier Extra Export Stout Beer Bottle (2)

Year Made: 1940 Glassmaker: Owens Illinois Color: green Product: Extra Export Stout Beer Bottler: Rainier Brewing Company, Volume: 12 fluid ounces Height: 9 5/8 inches Weight: 13.2 ounces Diameter: 2 1/2 inches Seams: 2 seams all the way to top Label Type: paper Closure Type: pry-off metal cap
- WesternPA-collector
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- Jan 27, 2022
- 1940 beer california extra export stout green owens illinois glass paper labeled rainier brewing company san francisco
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- Album: 1940 Rainier Extra Export Stout Beer Bottle
- Category: Bottles and Glass
1940 Rainier Extra Export Stout Beer Bottle (3)

Year Made: 1940 Glassmaker: Owens Illinois Color: green Product: Extra Export Stout Beer Bottler: Rainier Brewing Company, Volume: 12 fluid ounces Height: 9 5/8 inches Weight: 13.2 ounces Diameter: 2 1/2 inches Seams: 2 seams all the way to top Label Type: paper Closure Type: pry-off metal cap
- WesternPA-collector
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- Jan 27, 2022
- 1940 beer california extra export stout green owens illinois glass paper labeled rainier brewing company san francisco
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- Album: 1940 Rainier Extra Export Stout Beer Bottle
- Category: Bottles and Glass
1940 Rainier Extra Export Stout Beer Bottle (4)

Year Made: 1940 Glassmaker: Owens Illinois Color: green Product: Extra Export Stout Beer Bottler: Rainier Brewing Company, Volume: 12 fluid ounces Height: 9 5/8 inches Weight: 13.2 ounces Diameter: 2 1/2 inches Seams: 2 seams all the way to top Label Type: paper Closure Type: pry-off metal cap
- WesternPA-collector
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- Jan 27, 2022
- 1940 beer california extra export stout green owens illinois glass paper labeled rainier brewing company san francisco
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- Album: 1940 Rainier Extra Export Stout Beer Bottle
- Category: Bottles and Glass
1940 Rainier Extra Export Stout Beer Bottle (5)

Year Made: 1940 Glassmaker: Owens Illinois Color: green Product: Extra Export Stout Beer Bottler: Rainier Brewing Company, Volume: 12 fluid ounces Height: 9 5/8 inches Weight: 13.2 ounces Diameter: 2 1/2 inches Seams: 2 seams all the way to top Label Type: paper Closure Type: pry-off metal cap
- WesternPA-collector
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- Jan 27, 2022
- 1940 beer california extra export stout green owens illinois glass paper labeled rainier brewing company san francisco
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- Album: 1940 Rainier Extra Export Stout Beer Bottle
- Category: Bottles and Glass
1940 Rainier Extra Export Stout Beer Bottle (6)

Year Made: 1940 Glassmaker: Owens Illinois Color: green Product: Extra Export Stout Beer Bottler: Rainier Brewing Company, Volume: 12 fluid ounces Height: 9 5/8 inches Weight: 13.2 ounces Diameter: 2 1/2 inches Seams: 2 seams all the way to top Label Type: paper Closure Type: pry-off metal cap
- WesternPA-collector
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- Jan 27, 2022
- 1940 beer california extra export stout green owens illinois glass paper labeled rainier brewing company san francisco
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- Album: 1940 Rainier Extra Export Stout Beer Bottle
- Category: Bottles and Glass
1940 Rainier Extra Export Stout Beer Bottle (7)

Year Made: 1940 Glassmaker: Owens Illinois Color: green Product: Extra Export Stout Beer Bottler: Rainier Brewing Company, Volume: 12 fluid ounces Height: 9 5/8 inches Weight: 13.2 ounces Diameter: 2 1/2 inches Seams: 2 seams all the way to top Label Type: paper Closure Type: pry-off metal cap
- WesternPA-collector
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- Jan 27, 2022
- 1940 beer california extra export stout green owens illinois glass paper labeled rainier brewing company san francisco
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- Album: 1940 Rainier Extra Export Stout Beer Bottle
- Category: Bottles and Glass
1940 Rainier Extra Export Stout Beer Bottle (8)

Year Made: 1940 Glassmaker: Owens Illinois Color: green Product: Extra Export Stout Beer Bottler: Rainier Brewing Company, Volume: 12 fluid ounces Height: 9 5/8 inches Weight: 13.2 ounces Diameter: 2 1/2 inches Seams: 2 seams all the way to top Label Type: paper Closure Type: pry-off metal cap
- WesternPA-collector
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- Jan 27, 2022
- 1940 beer california extra export stout green owens illinois glass paper labeled rainier brewing company san francisco
- Comments: 1
- Album: 1940 Rainier Extra Export Stout Beer Bottle
- Category: Bottles and Glass
1940 Rainier Extra Export Stout Beer

Here is a hard-to-find 1940 paper label beer bottle from Rainier Brewing Company. The bottle was made by Owens-Illinois. I am curious what the red number on the label means, and if each label had a unique number. Extra Export Stout began production in 1936. The product did not have a long run...
- WesternPA-collector
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- Jan 27, 2022
- 1940 beer extra export stout green owens illinois glass paper labeled rainier brewing company san francisco
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- Forum: New to the Collection
How rare is this bottle/I can't find any info on a beer bottle.

So recently I found this The Vincent Co. 1 pint bottle and I'm wondering what it's worth. On the top, it reads "Coca-Cola bottling works Auburn, ME." Unfortunately, part of the neck was broken off when I found it. I heard somewhere that it was maybe a "rare" size but all and all I don't really...
- Soda Bottle Love
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- Mar 4, 2021
- beer coca-cola lawrance vincent
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- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles AFTER 1900
Jacob Schmidt. Doesn’t look like anything online.

I found this Jacob Schmidt Brewing Conpany bottle in my digging hole. I googled it and the only one I see like it says “registered” On the front and does not say “contents - 13 FL OZ” on the back. Boom or bust?
- PorkDaSnork
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- Oct 10, 2020
- alcohol aqua beer bottle clear jacob schmidt minnesota
- Replies: 6
- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900