..by the way, I'm not actually working on a book, it was a crazy hairbrained scheme from back when, as a naive young collector, I thought I already owned a good portion of them.. [&:]
Sorry, don't have a picture. I saw the bottle in a store here in Alabama and was curious about it. Searched for NJ bottles and got your post. The bottle has an arch slug plate like the last picture in the post by Dean. (the bottle on the left)
That is the bottle. Double your price (on the high end) and then add some to it and you could purchase the one I'm talking about! Never had the chance to go to a bottle show so i was just curious about how the prices compared.
NJ Siphons? I have some paper labelled NJ sodas also. If you decide to do a book I can help you with the mechanics of putting it together. You could even publish it online and not pay for printing.
Ah, I have over 100 embossed blob top sodas and beers from monmouth county, long branch, red bank, highlands, oceanic(rumson), fair haven, many more. I have always wondered what they might be worth...I know most of these people were not in business too long so there couldn't have been that many bottles made from most of these bottle makers. Either way, I bet they would help you, and that might help me later on haha.
There are so many more East Coast soda/hutch bottles than what we have here in the West from our various towns and cities. "Tombstone" slug plate mold hutches on bottles from California are few and far between. Most local brewers and bottlers had their bottles made in San Francisco where the glassworks didn't often use this type of mold...
Jason, thank you for reminding me about this one! []
mjl.. i can't help but be interested in what bottles you have, and I am wondering how you and I could lay down the appropriate framework for such a transfer of such vast quantities of data.. ..lunch??