Julep bottle initials HELP!

[PlaneDiggerCam]

Here is the comparison:

Julep:

Washington Beverages from Norwich, CT

 

[RickNC]

I found a Julep like that today. The bottom was embossed with Tarboro, NC which is where I found it.

 

[5 gallon collector]

Lol...yeah, I looked at it several times, but never pulled the trigger.....

 

[5 gallon collector]

PlaneDiggerCam, and contributors,

Following the clues, Norwich CT, date about 1924, Washington Beverages, I checked in ancestry.com, the 1930 Norwich Directory, and there are the following entries, exactly as in the directory:

Page 63: Amedeo Onfrio (Mary C) (Washington Club Bottling Works) 172 N Main h171 do (Under the "A"s, so Amedeo is the surname)
Page 441: Washington Club Bottling Works (Onfrio Amadeo) 172 N Main

Note: the 2 variations of Amedeo and Amadeo are theirs, not my typo.

So we have an answer to what the O. A. stands for -- Onfrio Amedeo, the owner of the Washington Club Bottling Works-- actually Onofrio Amedeo, as per census and his naturalization papers, etc

[My clipping tool is kaput, otherwise I'd clip the directory entries.]

Ancestry has Norwich directories for every year, so it would not be difficult to look for him and Washington... in adjacent years, see when the business started and stopped.
I did look at the 1930 census, where he appears as Onofrio Amedeo, 33 years old, b in Italy, bottler of soda water; a copy of that page is attached.
Also available are many other records: immigration, marrriage, naturalization (page 1 attached; name spelling Onofrio Amedeo), other census, death etc. If you want these I can assemble them for you.

Nice bottle, great style. Wonder: what color were the contents?

Peter