A couple of years ago I decided to quit bottle collecting, sold most of my bottles and thought that was the end of it. One of the buyers was a local collector who didn't dig. I volunteered to take him out digging and on our first trip we found the dream bottle dump. What was amazing is the dump was just off the road, near Route 1 by an apartment complex. 1860s, 70s and 80s bottles were literally sticking out of the ground. How that dump got missed all these years is absolutely amazing.
Pictured is our first days finds and two C.H. Richardson green bottles.
C.H. Richardson was the son of notable Trenton, NJ bottler Nathan Richardson. When Nathan died Feb 8, 1876 his son Charles H moved the bottling business from the old State Bank building to Chancery Street Trenton and began business as "The Star Bottling House" Not the businessman his father was the company lasted less than two years. Consequently the bottles embossed "CH Richardson" are really scarce. We subsequently found a lot of early bottles at the dump site but the CH Richardson may have been the hardest to find.
Pictured is our first days finds and two C.H. Richardson green bottles.
C.H. Richardson was the son of notable Trenton, NJ bottler Nathan Richardson. When Nathan died Feb 8, 1876 his son Charles H moved the bottling business from the old State Bank building to Chancery Street Trenton and began business as "The Star Bottling House" Not the businessman his father was the company lasted less than two years. Consequently the bottles embossed "CH Richardson" are really scarce. We subsequently found a lot of early bottles at the dump site but the CH Richardson may have been the hardest to find.
] ~Mike
