Domke & Hund St. Joe Mo

[mrbottles]

This is another crazy bottle. Great color crude example with folds in the glass and an 1870's applied blob and deep hinge mold base.

Anyone know anything on this one?

 

[Wheelah23]

Hinge mold base? Haven't seen that on a soda. Throw up a picture!

I'd also email todvon@verizon(dot)net about it. It's not listed on his site!

He has a pony version, but not your quart.

 

[mrbottles]

here is the bottom. I would have thought this is a beer bottle.

I will send him an email,

Thanks

Steven

 

[Wheelah23]

It could be a beer, there is no way to know without doing research into the company. Is that a hinged mold base, though? I've seen that on a lot of bottles, I thought THIS was a hinged mold.

I think what you have is a post bottom mold, which was mostly phased by the 1880's, of course there are exceptions.

 

[mrbottles]

For sure looks like the bottom one. I thought that was a hinge mold.

I would say this is a 1870's bottle by the way it is made.

Steven

 

[BillinMo]

I think this company is the predecessor to Hund & Eger, which is a relatively common soda bottle around the area of St Joe. I'm not very familiar with Dumke & Hund.

I have a friend who specializes in St Joseph bottles. I'll try emailing him and see what he says.

 

[Sodasandbeers]

This is definitely a beer bottle.

I found the Frederick W. Dumke & William Hund were in business from at least 1882 to 1888. In 1889, the firm became Hund & Eger. The earlier firm was Dumke & Gleitz, Gleitz was listed as a soda water manufacturer in the 1880 Census.

Thier 1882 directory ad is below:

1882 Hoye's St Josephs Directory DUNKE & HUND, (F. W. Dumke & W. Hund) soda water mfrs, beer bottlers, etc., 402 and 404 Main

Is this a pint or quart sized bottle? Is there any embossing on the reverse.

 

[mrbottles]

Ho Tod,

It is quart sized. Nothing on the back. From Wisconsin we have very few like this.

Steven

 

[bottlekid76]

That's a nice quart beer Steven. I'd be interested in it should you decide to sell it.

Tim

 

[mrbottles]

As luck would have it... It is part of a 200 bottle lot i bought yesterday. I am selling off many... Am buying another collection tomorrow. I don't have room and i only collect Wisconsin. Never intended to keep it.

Make a GREAT offer and it is yours. I have a lot of money into the buy.

Steven