houseman
Well-Known Member
I ended up with them.
I was contacted by some good folks who are cleaning out their father's old farmhouse about some boxes of bottles they found. They offered to let me look through them to see if there were any I might want to buy. They pulled out several boxes of bottles they said their father had dug out of his field over the years. They were covered with mud and ash so I figured he must have been plowing along the edge of a dump. What threw me was that none of the bottles were from the area. The farm is in Snydersville, Pa, but most of the embossed bottles were from the Reading area. They told me repeatedly that he said he had dug them on the farm in Snydersville, although they couldn't tell me where on the farm!
Oh well, who am I to argue? The guy got them somewhere and here they were! I looked through about 200 bottles and ended up taking home 17 of them. All of these bottles are from outside the are I collect so I'm not very familiar with any of them. I paid $30 for the group...how'd I do?
milks
G.B Maurer / M / Reading, Pa. quart-2 of these
Farmer's / Fairfield Dairy / Co. pint-Reading area milk?
River Edge Farms / Guernsey Milk / Reading, Pa. half pint
J.C. Ziegler / Co. / Reading half pint
Zigler / Dairy Co. / Reading half pint
St. Lawrence / Pasteurized / Milk / St. Lawrence Dairy Co. half pint-Reading area milk?
H.F. Bush / B / Reading, Pa. half pint
Allentown / Dairy Co. / Inc. quart and half pint
sodas
Empire Bottling Works / Reading, Pa. aqua squat
H.P. Berger / Doylestown / Pa. aqua pony
Smith's Bottling Co. / Allentown / Pa hutch aqua
C. Miller / Chelten Ave / Germantown tall aqua blob top-2 of these
Northampton / Brewing & / Bottling Co. / Northampton, Pa. tall aqua blob top
A. Edw. Bittner / Manheim, Pa. tall blob top--nice light green!!
I was contacted by some good folks who are cleaning out their father's old farmhouse about some boxes of bottles they found. They offered to let me look through them to see if there were any I might want to buy. They pulled out several boxes of bottles they said their father had dug out of his field over the years. They were covered with mud and ash so I figured he must have been plowing along the edge of a dump. What threw me was that none of the bottles were from the area. The farm is in Snydersville, Pa, but most of the embossed bottles were from the Reading area. They told me repeatedly that he said he had dug them on the farm in Snydersville, although they couldn't tell me where on the farm!
Oh well, who am I to argue? The guy got them somewhere and here they were! I looked through about 200 bottles and ended up taking home 17 of them. All of these bottles are from outside the are I collect so I'm not very familiar with any of them. I paid $30 for the group...how'd I do?
milks
G.B Maurer / M / Reading, Pa. quart-2 of these
Farmer's / Fairfield Dairy / Co. pint-Reading area milk?
River Edge Farms / Guernsey Milk / Reading, Pa. half pint
J.C. Ziegler / Co. / Reading half pint
Zigler / Dairy Co. / Reading half pint
St. Lawrence / Pasteurized / Milk / St. Lawrence Dairy Co. half pint-Reading area milk?
H.F. Bush / B / Reading, Pa. half pint
Allentown / Dairy Co. / Inc. quart and half pint
sodas
Empire Bottling Works / Reading, Pa. aqua squat
H.P. Berger / Doylestown / Pa. aqua pony
Smith's Bottling Co. / Allentown / Pa hutch aqua
C. Miller / Chelten Ave / Germantown tall aqua blob top-2 of these
Northampton / Brewing & / Bottling Co. / Northampton, Pa. tall aqua blob top
A. Edw. Bittner / Manheim, Pa. tall blob top--nice light green!!