Earliest Soda Bottles

[NCdigger5]

I could give you a few more from NC.

 

[Sodasandbeers]

ORIGINAL: nhpharm

Tod,

Do you know when the egg-shaped G.W. Merchant mineral water bottles date from? They have a real strange shape...kinda like the egg-shaped unmarked bottle in the 1840-1844 part of your article.

-Brandon

1845 exactly. This has been well documented in well research articles in the past.

 

[Sodasandbeers]

Please feel free to send me any blobs from NC.

ORIGINAL: NCdigger5

I could give you a few more from NC.

 

[Sodasandbeers]

Posted an update last night with more bottles and pictures and a couple of site improvements.

 

[nhpharm]

Tod,

Very cool! I've got one of those strange G.W. Merchant bottles...always liked the shape. I don't think they are too common.

 

[Road Dog]

Didn't see this one on there? Eagle Works Philada.

 

[Sodasandbeers]

The Merchant bottle is a great one, very collectable and super rare.

The Eagle Works is listed under its correct name Eagle Glass Works;

Link to Eagle Works Bottle

Note the colors!

 

[Road Dog]

Thanks Tod. Awesome Blue one. I'll try and look thru my stuff this weekend to see if there are any you don't have.

 

[Sodasandbeers]

They advertised they made green, blue, and red soda and beer bottles. I'm looking for the Red one!

 

[bottlekid76]

Lookin' great as always Tod []

~Tim