Bottles in context

[cobaltbot]

I posted a pic of the bottles I brought back from the Baltimore show, but a group shot of bottles like that does not do a very good job of showing how they fit into your collection. Some things you just start collecting because you dig a couple or in this case I was given a couple grant style back bar bottles from an Aunt so the day before the show I found the Port bottle on the far right locally and paid $20 for it. I don't think the stopper is original. The whiskey is the one I got at the show for $5. Though they dont all look exactly alike I believe they were made by the Warren Glass Works of Cumberland, MD. At the show there were some attributed to a Wheeling, WV glass house but they had a different look to them.

 

[cobaltbot]

Here's the bottoms. The two on the left that I got from my Aunt are smooth based. The Port bottle to the far right has a pontil that is still rough. The Whiskey, second from the right looks like it had a pontil but is now smooth. For some reason the pontiled one is the lightest with the clearest glass.

 

[cobaltbot]

This little John F. Patton bottle Ry brought to the show for me was one of his first bottles. He sold me the dose cup a long time ago and they are both sitting on the York bottle book.

 

[cobaltbot]

The WELSH'S PRIDE on the far right is the latest addition to my collection of rectangular York whisky quarts. The one next to it from the same company is embossed WELSH'S YORK, PA. These all would turn SCA.

 

[bottlediger]

Very cool Steve, so glad it went to a good home. You have a great york collection growing


Digger Ry