Crystal Spring Gallon Blob

[farmerdan]

Picked this up today at an estate sale for $14. Thought it was pretty cool. Now officially the biggest bottle in my collection! I pictured the quart lightning jar for comparison (same sale: $5) Embossing reads: Pine Hill/Crystal Spring Water/Co/Pine Hill NY/ Catskill Mountains.

 

[farmerdan]

Printing on the ceramic stopper is still pretty legible. Must of been an attic bottle, the rubber seal is even in pretty good shape.

 

[surfaceone]

Hey Dan,

That is a nice big'un, or a big nice'un, depending on how you look at it. Hecka deal too, see here. Matt/div2roty's gotcha beat size & topsy turvywise.

"From the beginning Pine Hill was noted for its clean air and pure water. It was called the ‘Saratoga of the Catskills’. This brings us to the Crystal Spring Water Company, a company that started operating about 1885 and employed twenty hands. The pure spring water was bottled and six to nine carloads per week were shipped, via the railroad, to New York City.

The early 1900’s saw a bottling operation, but instead of water they were bottling soda pop.

In February 1933 an explosion caused the fateful fire that destroyed the huge buildings and brought an end to the Crystal Spring industry and nearly to the fire department, as fourteen firemen were overcome with toxic gasses. However, it is still supplying Pine Hill with its pure water today.

Pine Hill was quite widely known as a big resort area. In the early 1800’s clergymen made it their summer headquarters, attracting professors, students and summer tourist. It was considered a health spa because of the fresh mountain air and pure spring water. There were well over twenty hotels and boarding houses in the area, including the Guigou House, rip Van Winkle, Alpine, Cornish house, Avon Inn, The Ulster, to mention a few of the larger ones." From. Sounds as if it might be a swell place to dig...

 

[JOETHECROW]

ORIGINAL: farmerdan

Picked this up today at an estate sale for $14. Thought it was pretty cool. Now officially the biggest bottle in my collection! I pictured the quart lightning jar for comparison (same sale: $5) Embossing reads: Pine Hill/Crystal Spring Water/Co/Pine Hill NY/ Catskill Mountai

Great looking bottle Dan...

 

[rockbot]

Nice pick-up Dan!

 

[myersdiggers1998]

That things on the verge of demijon,you need a bigger shelf.[]

 

[Dansalata]

NICEE COLOR...

 

[farmerdan]

Thanks guys - and thanks for the info Surf! - that 5gal carboy is way cool too. Would make a heckuva nice change jar. Yeah Pine Hill does sound like a good place to dig. Would be a weekend trip for me to prospect up there - bonus is that its not far from a HUGE hotel dump I found as a kid but never had a chance to dig in. That was in a pretty isolated area - who knows maybe it still hasn't been dug! My Dad's old college buddy has a cabin up that way........hmmmmm.....[]

 

[pigeonman]

That would'nt have any letters on the bottom would it?

 

[Oldihtractor]

I say its A gayner made bottle from salem NJ looks the right color and style to be.. does it have a mold number or G or GGW on the bottom.. the bird man is dying to know is it not a 5 or 6 pint size looks to be