Some new stuff!

[Wheelah23]

Other panel says "BITTERS".

 

[Wheelah23]

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[JOETHECROW]

Very cool,...I like the 'ink outs" ...The Rush's is great too.

 

[pikewaynepabottles]

If I sent you a picture you wouldn't have believed that shoulder on the crowntop isn't cracked ... just super crude ! Glad you like them and were suprised ! Never lose your passion for bottles & digging ! I started digging dumps at age 5 with my uncles in 1969 ... 42 years ago ! Ed

 

[Wheelah23]

ORIGINAL: pikewaynepabottles

If I sent you a picture you wouldn't have believed that shoulder on the crowntop isn't cracked ... just super crude ! Glad you like them and were suprised ! Never lose your passion for bottles & digging ! I started digging dumps at age 5 with my uncles in 1969 ... 42 years ago ! Ed

Wish I had started when I was young [:-]...[][][] The bottle diggers I know taunt me about the dump I'm digging now... They're probably exaggerating to make me jealous, but they said you used to be able to just walk around and pick up local blobs from the ground! [][][] If I was collecting bottles when I was 5, I wouldn't have missed out on that...

Yeah, funny about that shoulder. The early machines were crude, so I guess that's why that manufacturing flaw happened. Adds character to the bottle.

 

[BellwoodBoys]

those ink out bottles are cool[]

 

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ORIGINAL: Wheelah23

I doubt there's a nicer Ink Out bottle out there than this one. And I doubt there's a nicer guy out there than Jim! It comes sealed in the original metal tube, with the original non screw cap top! I love this thing!

Thanx for the kind words Connor, was a pleasure talking to you and your mom...Jim

 

[Wheelah23]

December 31, 1915 is when the NY Times was advertising the auction sale of the entire firm, so that year is the absolute latest the bottles could be.

John W. Ransley was born 1847, so I think he is unlikely to have been the owner of a revived Ransley firm, assuming one ever existed after the 1915 end date. I have no proof that anyone ever revived the Ransley business, but I'm just putting the idea out there.

William Ransley, his son and partner in the business, was born in 1871. So he would've been in his 50's if a Ransley soda water firm resurfaced in the 20's. All these dates make sense to me, but I think I'll have to arrange them into a sort of timeline if others are to be able to follow my train of thought. I think I'll post this in the Soda forum, and see if I get any help regarding the deco shape.