been a good couple of months for new addttions

[baltbottles]

ORIGINAL: Wheelah23

Amazing stuff! I love the idea of collecting all the known bottles from a certain time period in a large city. I could never do it for Newark, there are just too many bottles! I guess I'm doing the same thing for my local towns, although obviously small town bottles are a lot less documented than stuff from Baltimore.

By my estimate I believe there are about 800 pontil age bottles from Baltimore This would include all known soda, beer, water, whiskey, bitters, food, chemical, ink, and utilities. This does not count historical flasks even though there are not many molds probably less then 30 that are positively Baltimore they all come in a boat load of colors I would think if you wanted to add the flasks in all the known molds in all the known colors for each mold you would add another 150 bottles. to the list not to mention a fortune in cost.

I would bet there are far fewer pontil era bottles from Newark then from Baltimore so its probably a very do-able project if one was diligent about it.

Chris

 

[epackage]

Your collection never ceases to amaze me Chris, continued success on your digs....

 

[baltbottles]

Thanks Jim

Chris

 

[sandchip]

Great additions, Chris. I've never noticed this one on your website. I saw it on ebay a few years ago. It sold out of middle Georgia, and although I have no way of knowing, for some reason, I feel like it was probably dug in Augusta. Dang good looking bottle.

 

[bottlekid76]

I bet that's a really good one there Jimbo...

~Tim

 

[baltbottles]

ORIGINAL: sandchip

Great additions, Chris. I've never noticed this one on your website. I saw it on ebay a few years ago. It sold out of middle Georgia, and although I have no way of knowing, for some reason, I feel like it was probably dug in Augusta. Dang good looking bottle.

Yeah I didn't get that one I was a bit short on cash at the time I had just bought a few other good bottles. A friend of mine did end up getting it though. So it did come home to the Baltimore area.

Chris

 

[KBbottles]

Far less pontil stuff from Newark NJ but a lot tough to find. Doable over time for sure. Some great mugbase sodas and some really nice short sodas that arent too pricey.

 

[Sodasandbeers]

I have 38 marked Baltimore soda and beer bottles listed with pontils from different molds. This does not include color variations or smooth based topedo bottles that are from the pontil era.

Newark has 34 listed.

Cities (over 20 molds)/States (with or should have pontiled bottles):

Florida - 0
Maine - 0
Vermont - 0
Arkansas - 0
Mississippi - 1
New Hampshire - 1
Texas - 1
Minnesota - 2
Kansas - 3
North Carolina - 5
Alabama - 6
Indiana - 7
Iowa - 8
Tennessee - 9
Michigan - 11
Rhode Island - 11
Washington DC - 12
Wisconsin - 13
Delaware - 20
Georgia - 25
Connecticut - 27
South Carolina - 27
Kentuckey - 30
California - 35
Illinois - 42
Maryland - 44
Virginia - 44
Massachusetts - 46
Missouri - 94
New Jersey - 139
Ohio - 155
New York State - 338
Pennsylvania - 1028

Savannah, GA - 22
Louisville, KY - 23
Charleston, SC - 26
Boston, MA - 29
Richmond, VA - 29
Chicago, IL - 30
Saratoga, NY - 32 (includes Saratoga type bottles)
Easton, PA - 33
Newark, NJ - 34
Reading, PA - 37
Baltimore, MD - 38
Pittsburgh, PA - 57
Cincinnati, OH - 88
Saint Louis, MO - 93
New York - 207 (Includes Brooklyn 14, Staten Island 1)
Philadelphia - 639

Philadelphia has to be the toughest city to collect due to the shear number of bottles!

 

[Sodasandbeers]

Forgot

New Orleans - 90 Same for the state of LA

 

[Sodasandbeers]

& West Virginia - 6