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The Seltzer has C.& W.H. and looks kind of like a baseball diamond, haven't been able to find anything about it.
The slick looks like it was very crudely made, any ideas on a time period or what it was used for.
 

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Nice find on the seltzer! I'm pretty confident that it's from Charles and William Hausburg of Chicago. The slick looks like a pickle jar, likely from the UK and dating to around the late 19th/early 20th century or so, although it's possible that it's American and somewhat older.
 

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Nice find on the seltzer! I'm pretty confident that it's from Charles and William Hausburg of Chicago. The slick looks like a pickle jar, likely from the UK and dating to around the late 19th/early 20th century or so, although it's possible that it's American and somewhat older.
As always appreciate your help. I still haven't been able to come up with anything on the Seltzer, I'm going to keep trying. I am in Chicago but nothing comes up about it. The slick is a little big to keep but I just can't toss it out.
 

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As always appreciate your help. I still haven't been able to come up with anything on the Seltzer, I'm going to keep trying. I am in Chicago but nothing comes up about it. The slick is a little big to keep but I just can't toss it out.
Seltzers can be tougher to research if you're trying to find other examples of a specific one because they're typically much rarer than the other bottles a firm would have used, since they would have had large deposits on them and been distributed mostly to commercial establishments rather than homes. You may not be able to find definite proof that your bottle was used by the Hausburg brothers, with bottles that just use initials sometimes you just have to assume that it was used by whoever you can find with those initials near where it was found. Initials formatted like that are unlikely to have been used for anything other than two people with the same last name, and the Hausburgs were the only bottlers listed in your area on sodasandbeers whose names matched, so I would be very surprised if it was used by someone else.
 

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You're the best, couple times a year I go to the main library branch in Chicago. Seltzers were used for such a long period of time but this one appears to be an earlier one,find out I'll let you know. Thanks
 

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You're the best, couple times a year I go to the main library branch in Chicago. Seltzers were used for such a long period of time but this one appears to be an earlier one,find out I'll let you know. Thanks
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