Any idea as to what was in it?

[hemihampton]

SODAPOPBOB, A link to more info on this bottle. LEON. https://www.antique-bottles.net/forum/Help-me-put-a-date-on-it-m654254.aspx

 

[RED Matthews]

Hi Robert - you generate smiles on my face. RED M.

 

[Robby Raccoon]

Very nice of you to say, Red. Thank you.

 

[RED Matthews]

WOW YOU GUYS DIG DEEP. Great forum of friends and intent. ?RED Matthews

 

[RED Matthews]

Wow, I am still digging in old boxed bottles from storage garage. Robert Birch Beer used to be one of my favorites. I have a bottle here being listed in my system update. Through all these years of collecting - I never tracked down each bottles history. We didn't have this many helpers. I have a clear glass one here on my desk right now, that I dug several years ago. It is about 7-3/8" high and has a clowdy system of having been in dirt. It was made in a two part mold, and has a neat domed punty rod pontil mark in the pushed up bottom. It is embossed with a curved "/ MINERAL WATER " over a central "/ BY " over "/ HASSINGER & OBRIEN " over "/17&0 OF'ALON STS, with the ts raised and under lined. and under that is "/ ST LOUIS " In this the T was small with an underline. Also- I think the & sign was a mold makers mistake and should have been cut as the number 8. The finish is a straight taper applied glass tooled with a radius on the top and the bottom. It is a neat one. RED Matthews