Wheelah23
Well-Known Member
Today was a great bottle show... but not for me. I had a hard time finding any NJ bottles at all, let alone bottles from the towns I'm looking for! I ended up finding one local I was looking for, and had to pay $20 for it. All in all, an astounding number of bottles there, just VERY few I was looking for. I think I'll stick to NJ shows only from now on...
The bottle I got is nice nonetheless. It's a 10.5 inch tall aqua blob top something. Could be a beer or soda. It's very whittled and crude, so I estimate it's from the 1870's. Not pontilled. It's a pretty large bottle. It has "J. W. RANSLEY & SON/ EAST ORANGE/ N.J." embossed in a tombstone slugplate. On the other side, it has "THIS BOTTLE NOT TO BE SOLD". I think it was tumbled, which explains its shininess. The embossing is a tad faint, but it's not over tumbled.
I found from the website "sodasandbeers.com" that this bottle used Cunningham's Disk Stopper. According to the site, it was only used on 3 bottles, two of which were by the inventor's company itself. It was an unsuccessful closure type, which might make this rarer. Maybe... What do you think?
Slug plate
It has an applied lip
The bottle I got is nice nonetheless. It's a 10.5 inch tall aqua blob top something. Could be a beer or soda. It's very whittled and crude, so I estimate it's from the 1870's. Not pontilled. It's a pretty large bottle. It has "J. W. RANSLEY & SON/ EAST ORANGE/ N.J." embossed in a tombstone slugplate. On the other side, it has "THIS BOTTLE NOT TO BE SOLD". I think it was tumbled, which explains its shininess. The embossing is a tad faint, but it's not over tumbled.
I found from the website "sodasandbeers.com" that this bottle used Cunningham's Disk Stopper. According to the site, it was only used on 3 bottles, two of which were by the inventor's company itself. It was an unsuccessful closure type, which might make this rarer. Maybe... What do you think?
Slug plate
It has an applied lip
