My Finds From The Baltimore Bottle Show

[waskey]

It was a great show, as always, and I found plenty of bottles to add to the collection. Not too much on the local side, I did score 2 local milks however, so I decided to add to my Baltimore City milk collection. Hope everyone else had a great time at the show and found some stuff to add to their collection too!

First up, is probably the best bottle I was able to acquire. It is a quart Franklin Farm Dairy-Herman Gerken-Woodlawn, MD. This is a pretty scarce local Woodlawn milk that I have been looking to find for a long time, I got a fantastic deal on it too!

 

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Here is a rare variant local 1/2 pint Hill Crest Farms Dairy-Woodlawn, MD milk. This is only the second example I have ever seen.

 

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Here is a pint Biemiller's Dairy-O.T. Linthicum-Baltimore, MD. milk. Not an easy to find variation.

 

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Here is a nice, super clean, Highland Farm Dairy Co. Baltimore, MD quart.

 

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Here is a Chestnut Grove Dairy Baltimore, MD. quart. According to the Baltimore Bottle Book, this is a rare bottle.

 

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Here is a neat scrip lettering Gardiner Dairy quart. This dairy was in Baltimore City. This is a pretty tough variant to find. Gardiner goes back pretty early, I would say this probably dates around 1915.

 

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Here is probably one of the best bottles I was able to get. It is another Gardiner Dairy variant that is super early. I have never seen one this early from the dairy and it is unlisted and I don't think the milk collectors in the club have seen one either. It is pretty beat up but I got it cheap just to have the example. It has the Emper Patented Aug '01 on the base. Any idea on how early? 1905ish?

 

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Nice clean pint Montebello Dairy-Chas. F. Swem from Baltimore City.

 

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Central-J. Elmer Howard-Dairy. This one is Baltimore City

 

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Pleasant Valley Dairy from Baltimore.