Queen City bottling company

[Aged10Years]

Picked this up at an estate sale for a few bucks. I’m thinking 1920’s-30’s? Can anyone give me any info on the bottle?

Thank you in advance.


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[nhpharm]

Looks like an embossed slug plate on the back of the bottle? Can we get a photo of that? Is the bottle a crown top or blob top? Based on what I see so far, I'm thinking 1910 or so.

 

[Aged10Years]

I’ll get some better photos as soon as I can. I’m at work and the bottle is at home.


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[Screwtop]

I lost an auction for one of these once. It was a blob I was bidding on...

 

[Robby Raccoon]

While bottled water has always been very popular, its heyday seems to be the 1910s-1920s. Oddly, the only reference I see for Aerox Distilled Water is from 1931. Queen City Bottling works seems to have references back to 1887 but most popularly in the 1920s.
Ref. to Aerox:
https://books.google.com/books?id=I...hUKEwia5vnZ2-_mAhVPZ80KHcVlD0cQ6AEwAHoECAIQAQ

What I want to know is what Vim is. A vitamin drink, perhaps?

 

[Aged10Years]

Here are a few more pics...


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[Robby Raccoon]

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Looks pretty old. 1890s perhaps?

 

[nhpharm]

I think 1905-1910ish. Cool find. Very hard to find such bottles with labels.

 

[bottle-bud]

Looks like VIM was the name of Queen City's Ginger Ale. Found ads that date from 1915 to 1920. Could be a wider range of dates though.
Found this ad in the Cincinnati Enquirer dated July of 1920.

 

[Aged10Years]

Very interesting, thanks to everyone that responded!


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