Paterson kinda morning...

[ScottBSA]

A few years ago I found this Kansas City Breweries keg from about 1907 or so at an antique barn and had the local glass shop cut a 13" circle for the top. I have postcards showing the brewery on top of the keg and under the glass.

Scott

 

[ScottBSA]

Here are two of my six beer crates. The top one is hard to read but it is a Rochester Brewery box, before 1905 and the other one is a Val Blatz. They had a large distributorship here. They are empty, but the four I have in the basement are holding bottles while I work on my shelves. I like the coffee table idea, I would use thrift store legs myself.

Scott

 

[epackage]

Nice Scott, did you do anything to the crates to darken them? I'm probably gonna redo the lettering on the Braun Bros, the Unions Bottling doesn't need it....

Tha barrel is killer[]

 

[ScottBSA]

All I did is GENTLY wash them with water. I think the lettering is ink and not paint. It wanted to come off with the dirt. I tacked skids make from 1x2 on the bottom to keep the metal bands from scratching anymore. The hoops on the keg are held in with some strategically placed galvanized nails. It is pretty shrunk up after 106 years. I would like to fill the Rochester and Blatz cases with quart bottles, but I don't think there are that many quarts from either brewer in Kansas City.

Scott

 

[MNJars]

ORIGINAL: antlerman23

ORIGINAL: MNJars

These Paterson crates are great! When I got my first crate from the company that I specifically collect, I was crazy excited!

would that be root?

Yessir it would.

 

[deacon_frost]

Nice scores, you might try some linseed oil on the one. I had a part of a crate that wasn't very visable and it seemed to help

 

[epackage]

Thanks DF, I'll give it a try...

 

[toms sc]

Nice finds jim.

 

[PASodas]

A veteran auctioneer once told me he cleans all his furniture with 1/3 linseed oil, 1/3 turpentine and 1/3 vinegar . . . leaves a natural looking patina . . . don't believe any of his furniture was painted though

 

[lblackvelvet]

Hi Jim, Was reading all the great ideas, The coffee table sounds sweet !! If you wanted to keep everything looking vintage, Maybe you could find a wooden barrel and cut it in half to allow each half to support each crate after you fabricate a frame to hold both crates together. Install a small wine rack at a 45 degree angle inside each crate to display some bottles under the glass top with a small watt light under the bottles. Just a thought! Kevin....