Robby Raccoon
Trash Digger
I got these bottles [the paver-blocks are my own and make good platforms for photography-- my iconic red picnic-table some of you may recall will no longer be used] as payment for several days of labor:
The first bottle is a Michigan Maid from '46. He gave it to me because I had found only 1/3rd of this Dr. Pepper-owned product one day in the dunes. The second bottle should ignite more excitement among local collectors. He likes to have only one of a bottle instead of owning identicals, so he gave me this damaged one as his undamaged one was on display:
Here's why it is an exciting bottle beyond that Jepson was here from 1875 to 1886 and based out of an Opera House (being burned out thrice, tooIt's an Error-Bottle: It should be A. G. Jepson and not R. G. Jepson. Base is unmarked. Mouth is chipped. This next bottle I have been looking for for a few years now-- the first antique bottle-shard I found had been to one of this size (this bottle comes in two sizes,) shade, embossing, and it was also made by Root. It's how I learned about my favorite company to collect now: Muskegon Brewing Company.
This one is a crude tooled-crown circa-1901 and has so many bubbles-- many looking like scars-- in it. It had been tumbled. Here's a solid amber-colored Muskegon Brg Co. bottle that I thought came only in blob for this style. Also Root-made, this nice tooled-crown had been outside for 10 years covered in grass and surrounded by the gravel of his driveway. I, in helping him with stuff, found bottles he dumped and left there one day a decade in the past. We pulled out quite a few. My blob-version is S. B. & G. Co.-made and is BR'G not BRG. The back.
Here is one very exciting one to me: I've been searching for about a year and have found where all but one seemed to have ended up: Michigan Bottling Co. of Muskegon has a likely-complete collection of variations now found about one main-road away from me. I had thought that this company would have more than 2 different bottles as it was around from 1889 to 1901, but I could never find anything on the company let alone its bottles until just the other day. Now I have found 5 different bottles. They even had a very early tooled-crown.
The Baltimore Loop-Seal seemed to have been preferred by this company, but this is the crudest "Balto"-top that I have ever seen. It gives some indication of having been applied, but that's very unlikely due to that it was made in a more modern era (1880s-1890s.)Base and heel are unmarked.
A Hutter stopper that I found in his driveway and commented on. He gave me it too.As I cleaned it-- you can see that it was very dirty.