Photos for the new website design!

[tsalz14]

The new owners of the website are looking for new photos to incorporate into the new design, so we need some nice ACL photos that could be used. If you can, please post them in the 'Good News!' Thread in general chat. Thanks for helping!

 

[Robby Raccoon]

Why not here? :/ What background themes? You also want blobs, mostly embossed; paper labels too. Probably a scatter of jars and sauces to choose from. Bitters, soda-pops, milks?

 

[cowseatmaize]

A nice eclectic mix of glass from, say, Mesopotamia to now. []

 

[andy volkerts]

Yeah, a little bit of everything, blob sodas, bitters, whiskeys, cathedral pickles, ACLs, Medicines cures, historic flasks, figurals, colognes, commemoratives, etc, etc, etc............

 

[cowseatmaize]

Retirement party for Roger, just for a bit.

 

[tsalz14]

i guess it would be better if it all got posted here then.

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

I'm not entirely sure what type of bottles the new owners are looking for, but I consider this example to be one of the most significant bottles in my collection. Its a ... [font="comic sans ms,sans-serif"]Murdock & Freeman [/font][font="comic sans ms,sans-serif"] Portland, Maine [/font][font="comic sans ms,sans-serif"] 1895[/font] The crown closure was patented by William Painter in 1892 and this 1895 Murdock & Freeman bottle is the earliest example of a crown closure I am aware of. I presented this bottle to Bill Lockhart of the Bottle Research Group (BRG) and he concurred it was the earliest crown that his group was aware of. [attachment=Murdock V Freeman ...Soda mine base.jpg] [attachment=Crown Top Patent Image (504x800).jpg] [attachment=Murdoch & Freeman ... (2) (310x700).jpg]

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

For some reason the bottle image wouldn't insert, so I'm trying it again ... ( It won't insert, so you'll have to click-on to enlarge)

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Here's another example. But this time its with an 1895 Cork-top. Which tells us that Murdock & Freeman transitioned from a Cork-top to a Crown in the same year ...

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

By the way ... The earliest major brand I'm aware of to produce a Crown closure bottle was Hires Root Beer in ... [font="comic sans ms,sans-serif"] 1897[/font] 1. Ad is from an 1897 issue of Harpers Weekly2. I'm not certain about the date of this particular bottle, but its the closest match to the 1897 ad I have seen ... [attachment=Hires Ad 1897 Harpers Weekly.jpg] [attachment=Hires Root Beer Bo...4 Sold $152.00.jpg]