Rare Shell Motor Oil Bottle, Three Blobs, and A Couple Milks

[UnderMiner]

All excavated today in one of the most exhausting hunts of the season, all in a muddy swamp. From left to right: Willow Brook Dairy, Reid's Union Dairy Ice Cream Corp. "It's The Best", Shell Motor Oil, G. Wm. Meyer, August Bay Bottling Co., and the Mini Blob is from the Union Bottling Company "UBC".

Bottom of the little blob:

It took me a few educated guesses but I found the logo to be from the Union Bottling Company which operated at 240 East 20th Street and 119 East 124th Street, NY and dates from 1873-1890's. Baybottles.com notes that the UBC made many unusual little bottles like this for soda water, ginger ale, and sider.

This is a very amazing and rare find, the original Shell Motor Oil quart bottle, back when big awkwardly tall glass bottles full of oil were common in the early days of motor vehicles, 1920's-1930's.

In situ:

 

[RoyalRuby]

Wow....Nice finds and sounds like it was a lot of work that paid off!

 

[Cola-Coca]

Awesome finds, love the in situ pics !

 

[WesternPA-collector]

Great photos and finds. Especially that Shell oil bottle. I've never come across anything like that. Most of the time they probably got broken since they are an unusual shape.

 

[Csa]

Very nice. Motor oil bottle is awesome. You digging in the marshes by NYC? I see zebra mussels in the “in place” shots. I have one of those Reid’s Union bottles. Paid 2$ for it thinking it was a Union county NJ bottle, but it’s a Brooklyn dairy I believe.

 

[PlaneDiggerCam]

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All excavated today in one of the most exhausting hunts of the season, all in a muddy swamp. From left to right: Willow Brook Dairy, Reid's Union Dairy Ice Cream Corp. "It's The Best", Shell Motor Oil, G. Wm. Meyer, August Bay Bottling Co., and the Mini Blob is from the Union Bottling Company "UBC".

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It took me a few educated guesses but I found the logo to be from the Union Bottling Company which operated at 240 East 20th Street and 119 East 124th Street, NY and dates from 1873-1890's. Baybottles.com notes that the UBC made many unusual little bottles like this for soda water, ginger ale, and sider.

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This is a very amazing and rare find, the original Shell Motor Oil quart bottle, back when big awkwardly tall glass bottles full of oil were common in the early days of motor vehicles, 1920's-1930's.

In situ:
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I found that UBC monogram on a simmilar squat blob. Thanks for the ID!