been a good couple of months for new addttions

[baltbottles]

I've had a great couple of months picking up some Rare Baltimore pieces for my collection. I added two new pontiled soda molds to my collection I didn't have. One color variation of a pontiled sodaI already had a couple of, three new stoneware bottle names I didn't have and a pontiled medicine variation in a size I didn't have. Anythime I add 7 new bottles to the collection in two months I'm doing really good.

Chris

The 3 sodas a W. COUGHLAN / BALTO in a rectangular slugplate, a JOHN CLARK / F.P. / BALTO in a rectangular slugplate, and a light green F.&L. SCHAUIM / BALTIMORE / GLASS WORKS

 

[baltbottles]

Here's a Dr. J. A. BROWN stoneware root beer bottle circa 1840sTheer are known Dr. Brown bottles from New york also as he moved there after he was in Baltimore. The new york bottles look different and do not have the J.A. initials on the bottles.

 

[baltbottles]

Here's a very hard to get Baltimore stoneware root beer bottle marked Mattingly's Boston R. Beer Boston style root beer was very popular in Baltimore during the 1840s. there are sever stoneware bottles from different Baltimore bottlers marked as such during this period.

 

[baltbottles]

And finally a new unlisted Baltimore stoneware bottle probably containing mead or root beer marked simply JOHN SPANN.He was listed as a grocer during the 1860s This one came as a trade from a forum member. I also got a small pontiled Medicine from the same forum member but forgot to get a picture of it

Chris

 

[Oldihtractor]

Chris Nice additions to your ever growing collection

 

[LC]

Those are nice additions Chris . I have seen quite a few of your bottles over the years you have posted . If I were closer to you , I would love to see your entire collection , it has to be quite impressive . epackage I would guess also has a nice collection of locals as well . I was raised in a small town , and all the years I have collected I have only found one small medicine bottle from a local druggist . I concentrated some over the years on Cincinnati bottles and have come up with quite a few . If I had the extra money to spend on bottles over the years I would have had quite a collection of Cincy bottles . Just as well I guess , don't have a lot of room to have an expansive collection , but I have greatly enjoyed seeing other collections over the years . Good luck with continually expanding your collection of locals .

 

[baltbottles]

There are still 16 more soda molds I need and 14 stoneware bottle names to have atleast one bottle from all the known pre 1870 marked Baltimore bottlers.

Chris

 

[LC]

What is your official count as for Baltimore bottlers ? I visited my Uncle who lived in Ellicot City a good many years ago . He owned a paint factory in Baltimore . I remember walking around the quite large building and there was a ravine in the back area that just looked like it would have to be a dump hiding there !

 

[baltbottles]

Right now of bottlers brewers and several other occupations that just happen to have bottled soda or beer before 1870 and have a marked bottle either glass or pottery known from them there are 48 different names. As for glass bottles there are currently 60 different molds I know of that date before 1870 some of the most prolific Baltimore bottlers have 10 or more different molds used over the span of their business.

There are many more bottlers and brewers that are listed in the directories during this time that currently no know marked bottles have been found. So either the used paper labels or their bottles have been lost to history.

Chris

 

[bottlekid76]

Looks great Chris, really glad you could get those!

~Tim