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[barrelsofbottles]

Hello everyone! I am new to this forum as I have said in an earlier post. I will try not to bore you with a ton of details but I would like you to know why I am here. []

My friend and I have a small local bottle slumping (aka: melting) business so we are always looking for unique bottles. I came upon an auction where they were selling 55 gallon drums of vintage bottles. I was there by myself. So, as it turns out, we ended up with 22 barrels of bottles, hence the name.

These bottles are so cool! I just don't want to slump anything that would be of value. Plus, I have kept a few because they are beautiful. We have old soda, beer, liquor, medicine, perfume, bleach, etc. I was going to list the barrels on craigs list until I started researching. That is when I came across this forum.

So far, from what I have read, you all seem to be knowledgeable and I thought, rather than craigs list, why not start here. I have no idea what we have so I am posting a few pictures. This is the tip of the iceberg! SO MANY BOTTLES!!![]

I would really appreciate your input.

 

[barrelsofbottles]

Booster Beverages East Chicago
Garrett & Co, Inc. Established 1835 Pioneer American Wine Growers Refilling Prohibited New York Contents 2/5 Pint
Bostelmann Chicago

 

[epackage]

Barrels it would be best to start your own post regarding the barrels of bottles you have.


Connor that Sossin is really nice, love the diag embossing. Mad Mike sent you two nice ones as well, congrats...Jim

 

[barrelsofbottles]

Thanks Jim. I will do that....

Liz

 

[cyberdigger]

Hey, lookie that! The ABN box is still a'travelling.. that makes me happy.. seems to be in good shape after at least 3 trips in the mail..
..now I gotta go back and read what else is on this thread.. [&:] ...[]

 

[JOETHECROW]

Nice bottles Connor...The aqua Edison is cool , and that Sossin has a real nice color to it.

 

[Rockhounder55]

The Orange, NJ Edisons seem to be harder to find than the Bloomfield ones. ~Mike

 

[Plumbata]

Nice stuff good sir. Fitting that the Orange soda has the orange-peel effect, eh?

 

[Wheelah23]

ORIGINAL: Rockhounder55

The Orange, NJ Edisons seem to be harder to find than the Bloomfield ones. ~Mike

The rarest are West Orange ones. They're BIM and aqua, and are the earliest of the battery oil bottles. Edison's lab in Orange burned down in 1915, so all the Bloomfield bottles are all newer than that year... And they're all dirt common.

ORIGINAL: Plumbata

Nice stuff good sir. Fitting that the Orange soda has the orange-peel effect, eh?

Didn't even realize that! Haha what a coincidence. Now I need to find an orange colored bottle... [8D]