Paterson Guru Day!!

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Spent a few hours at the Guru's house this morning, took some photographs of some amazingly rare bottles, and I gained access to some of his years of research materials. Tom also gave me some bottles for my collection, he's just one hell of a nice guy, along with giving me the thumbs up for all my posts and history provided on njbottles.com regarding Paterson. Nothing like hearing what a good job you're doing from THEE GUY...

Here are a few random shots of some of Tom's collection along with the new bottles he was kind enough to give me...

 

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The labeled flasks are cool!

 

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Tom is such a great guy and mentor he wouldn't let me leave without going thru his collection and giving me some bottles I need for my collection, I can't thank him enough. He gave me a amber quart blob, a quart hutch, a rare crown top, two Steam Bottling Works, a milk and a seltzer I didn't have.

On top of it all he gave me a copy of the Paterson Directory for 1853 and all of his cards detailing every possible person/company that may have produced bottles for their products, be it medicine, soda, beer, water, wine or whatever up until 1918. This is years of his hard work and research that he was kind enough to share with me so that I can document it all. I wish everyone had a bottle mentor like him...[]