Shard ID

[digger dun]

Found this shard on my lunch break today. I work at a housing community called Stuyvesant Town on the lower east side of Manhattan. Most of the property is built on landfill dating from the 1840s to the 1880s, so I'm always looking when they dig a hole anywhere on site. I have boxes of killer shards now, but still have yet to find any thing whole from the earliest deposit dates. This shard along with the usual black glass english ale shards that are ubiquitous around here came from near first ave and E16th where they had dug up water mains for the fire hydrants. Does anyone know what this might have been? Don't recall seeing many sodas in this color ever, maybe a spring water?

 

[nhpharm]

Kissingen Water. You can see some photos here: https://www.antique-bottles.net/forum/Some-group-shots-of-my-bottles-m193371.aspx Would have been a nice one!

 

[MichaelFla]

Kissingen Water / Hanbury Smith Or one of a couple others

 

[cannibalfromhannibal]

I think you are on the right track.....Kissingen is an area in Bavaria and I presume like Saratoga in NY would be noted for mineral springs. I looked up in ABA past auctions and there is one commoner Kisssingen Water in arch with Hanbury Smith in straight line underneath sold for $180 in a deep emerald green. Likely a newer variant, as in the www.bottleauctionprices.com has numerous listings for this and other bottlers. The iron pontiled ones are pretty scarce and bring the best $ while the odd colors like yours seem to do next best $. HTH, and dig a whole pontiled one! Would like to see one. Jack

 

[digger dun]

LOL, yeah I'll keep my eyes peeled for a whole one! Thanks everyone!