Any Ideas on the maker on this one?

[Kilroy]

I haven't found any information on the initials on the bottom of this quart blob top Schlitz and in the book "Badger Breweries" by Wayne Kroll he asks for help identifying the maker. I Picked it up on ebay years ago. Is anyone familiar with this one? I'm not sure why but I get the feeling it's Western.

D.S.G.Co RBB

 

[Kilroy]

Here is the embossing on the front...

 

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De Steiger Glass Co., Lasalle IL. circa 1867- 1896....if you look in the top right hand corner of the page you will see a search button, there is a ton of info to be had just by hitting that button, welcome to the site...
Jim

 

[Kilroy]

Thanks for the info, the tip and the welcome Jim. I didn't notice the search function, that's going to come in handy.

Mike

 

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Joseph De Steiger and his three brothers moved from St. Louis to La Salle in 1878 (Link n.d.). The eldest brother, Joseph, was born ca. 1858 and was only 20 years old at the time of the move. Edward was a year younger. The family opened the De Steiger Glass Co., almost certainly replacing the earlier Phoenix Glass Co. This time, however, the emphasis was on container glass. A fire destroyed the plant in 1881, but it had been rebuilt by at least 1883, probably earlier (United States 1880; National Glass Budget 1909:4; Toulouse
1971:167-169). The new operation had two factories, but a devastating fire destroyed both of them on the morning of November 5, 1883. Rebuilding commenced February 4, 1884
(Decatur Review 11/7/1883; Decatur Herald 2/9/1884). William F. Modes, formerly with the Mississippi Glass Co., St. Louis, Missouri, a noted name in container manufacture for his entire life, became the manager of the factory at this time.

This decade was an interesting and intense period in the history of bottle manufacture. Valentine Blatz commissioned the first 26-ounce export beer bottle in 1873, and both the sale of bottled beer and the manufacture of export beer bottles skyrocketed the following year and for at least the next decade. The De Steiger plant was probably instigated as part of that trend, and beer bottles were almost certainly the main product of the factory, based on both empirical and documentary evidence (as shown throughout this article).
Because of the bottle boom in the late 1870s-early 1880s: Blowers were so scarce that it was a very difficult matter to keep places filled, and so hard pressed was the De-Steiger (sic) company at La Salle that it was compelled to procure workmen from Germany and Sweden, their coming having been the advent of the twister or turn ware makers (National Glass Budget 1909:4)

 

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ORIGINAL: Kilroy

Thanks for the info, the tip and the welcome Jim.  I didn't notice the search function, that's going to come in handy.

Mike

No problem Mike, I am fairly new here myself and this place is amazing, it's like having a museum worth of bottle books in your home with all the great people here, if it can't be answered here i doubt you'll find it anywhere else...

 

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While the bottle was made in Illinois, John Delfs was a brewer in Leavenworth Kansas, thought you might like to know...

 

[Kilroy]

Thanks once again. Definitely glad to know where Delfs was located. I have wondered that for years actually. After obtaining the bottle and with the unknown origin in the "Badger Brewery" book I hoped to find the city or at least the state it was from. I appreciate the additional info.

 

[ancientdigger69]

im not too far from lasalle illinois. i do know that anything from that glass works, local or not is highly collectable by the collectors in that area. i'll have to check my files, but i know i have some more info on that glass works i'll post up for ya in a day or too. very nice bottle!! thanks for sharing and welcome!!

 

[Kilroy]

Sounds great AD69, thanks. This is one of my older Schlitz bottles. It has an applied blob top as opposed to tooled and I believe is my only branch one without a location embossed.