Local to you

[madman]

LOCAL???

 

[Jim]

I love local bottles! Here is one of my favorite druggists.

 

[Jim]

Lewistown's only iron pontil soda, c. 1855-1860.

 

[Jim]

1880s aqua pony. This is the only one of these around, as far as I know.

 

[Jim]

Yes, I love embossed milks, too. Great thread, I always enjoy seeing everyone's local bottles and sharing my own. ~Jim

 

[Jim]

Each one of these bottles has a story. I dug the fancy druggist from a deep, stone-lined privy in 2007. There was a nice little assortment of druggists in the pit, but this one was my favorite of the dig.

The Soult & Zerbe soda was an eBay victory. 770 bucks when the final hammer fell, but it would have taken a lot more for anyone else to get that one. I looked for three years to find this bottle. To add a little more pain just for fun, I dug a broken one just a few weeks after I saw and held another mint one that a collector friend owns.

I was with my buddy Rob when he dug the aqua Lewistown squat. I honestly expected him to say "Sorry, I'll keep you in mind if I ever get another one"...and wouldn't have blamed him one bit. However, Rob knew that I was nuts about local sodas and beers, so he wanted me to have it. Now that is a good digging partner! Every time I get a duplicate of a nice local druggist or milk that he needs, it goes straight to Rob's collection.

The nice milk in the final picture is one that I bought. It's a beautiful milk, plus I got a good deal on it. I dug a cracked one before, and traded it off before I collected milks. It's nice to have a good one now that I'm keeping them all. ~Jim

 

[baltbottles]

Here's a few nice Baltimore locals.

Chris

 

[Oldihtractor]

Nice guys It's nice to see the diffrence in bottles from place to place.. the variant that glass houses produced.. and what each town was sustained by.. from small towns to big citys.. from doctors to daries.. and also what everyone enjoys collecting!!

Chris great pic with awesome baltimore color...

 

[Lordbud]

Those bottles on the open shelves look nice and shiny and dust free. How often do you go through and dust/vacuum? That would drive me crazy..."only a hundred and thirty two bottles to go, and I'll be done cleaning!"

 

[CrewelaDeVil]

Here are some of mine.