New York Beer (maybe soda)

[Diggrrr!]

Looking for info on a:

Clear BIM, beer/soda, with a hand-worked crown lip
Circular embossing on front reads: "Registered, Ferdinand Haas, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y."
Large script "FH" embossed in center of circle
Embossing along front base reads: "This bottle not to be sold"
I estimate the age as 1920s-1930s.

Sound familiar to anyone?

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[GuntherHess]

Were they doing many hand tooled crown tops after the 20s?

 

[Diggrrr!]

ORIGINAL: GuntherHess

Were they doing many hand tooled crown tops after the 20s?

I really can't say. I'm not used to seeing hand-tooled crown tops at all, but that is clearly what it is. I based the bottle age on other bottles pulled from the same strata. I found several attractive blue-green (not aqua!) BIMAL olive/pickle jars (my best guess), all with fairly crude lips and lots of bubbles. Looking at the jars you would think they were from the late 1800s to very early 1900s, yet one had the numbers 1936 on the bottom in a semi-cursive script that clearly made it look like a date. Might not be, of course.

Another possibility I have considered is that the dump is a large mix of bottles of various ages from the "turn of the century" that someone had collected in a shed or garage and finally cleaned them out around 1940. That might explain why some early-looking bottles are mixed in with more recent bottles.

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