Anniversary trip results in bottles

[jays emporium]

At the Houston bottle show last summer a young couple at my table asked if I buy old bottles. It seems their grandparents dug bottles in New Orleans 40 years ago and now their parents had inherited the collection and don't know what to do with them. I asked what kind of bottles and they didn't know but said there are lots of ink wells and some like that (pointing to a Hutchinson). The collection is in Lake Charles, La though, which is about a 4+ hour drive from where I live. I kept the phone number and in my imagination I kept seeing pontiled squat sodas, umbrella inks and of course, a Price's Patent Tonic Republic of Texas bottle.
Well, my 25th wedding anniversary was coming up on Dec 27 and about a month before my wife asked what I had planned for our anniversary. "Honey, I've got a trip planned for us, we're going to spend 3 days and 2 nights at the Isle of Capri resort hotel and casino in Lake Charles." While I was still a "wonderful husband" I added, "There are some antique malls there we could go to and a bottle collection to look at."
I made the arrangements and it worked out that on the afternoon of our anniversary day we were to look at the bottles. I was expecting maybe 4 or 5 boxes of bottles. When we got there the whole side wall of the garage was stacked 3 deep with boxes of bottles, probably 30-40 boxes. Some they had started to sort by category and some they hadn't even looked at yet. I spent 3 hours going through boxes of dirty bottles before my wife and the owners said "Thats Enough".
My imagination was not too far off but the suspected Prices Tonic bottle turned out to be a Dr Prices Extract bottle instead.
There were some squat sodas and at least one of these is pontiled.

 

[jays emporium]

New Orleans blobs. I got 92 of these representing 10 different bottlers. Some there are 20 alike and some just one. I left behind 20 or 30 that had small chips or cracks. I lined them up for the picture since I doubt I'll ever see this many at one time again.

 

[jays emporium]

There were only 2 true Hutcinsons. Opelousas, La and San Antonio, Texas.

 

[jays emporium]

Keppler Mineral Water New Orleans
Conrad's Original Budweiser
New Orleans Brewing Assn

 

[jays emporium]

A couple of Saratoga type bottles came out of the boxes. I told the owners those bottles didn't come out of the ground in New Orleans, maybe your parents bought them at an antique shop somewhere. They both adamently told me NO, they would never have spent MONEY on a bottle, maybe somebody gave them as a gift.
Clark & White and Congress Water.

 

[jays emporium]

Cone inks anyone? I bought the aqua inks for a buck apiece and $5 each for the colored ones. They kept about 20 inks to give to friends.

 

[jays emporium]

Then some master inks. The crock bottle is Thadeus David and the teal and amber bottles are Carters.

 

[jays emporium]

There were a few bitters but not many.
Pepsin Calasaya
yellow looking Browns Iron
Hartwig Kantorowicz milkglass
green lookin Hostetters
I bought half a dozen other Hostetters that were stained so bad you could not tell what color they were but of course they are all amber.
There were some broken bitters, Old Hickory and a New Orleans bottle I have never seen but I left them.

 

[jays emporium]

And lastly, a box of Bromos. I told them I just pay 25 cents for Bromos and that was OK. They kept about 30 to give to friends and I got 68 of them.
Now I'm trying to figure out how to get back to Lake Charles and look in the rest of the boxes I didn't get to.

 

[cowseatmaize]

Oldtimer wants one of those Bromo's. He doesn't have a one.[]
Really though, the top right and left are earlier tooled lip from the look of them. Check all of them for reverse Z. They do well on the bay, cheap to ship and cleaned up will make your 25 cents back plus probably 15 bucks.