Stoddard Mineral Waters

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Does anybody know if Stoddard manufactured unembossed Mineral Water Bottles?

 

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Hey Mark,

I think the short answer is "Yes," but with attribution questions always following...

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As personalized two-piece mold bottles blown for sodas and mineral water bottles gained in popularity, freeblown and dip-molded "junk" were largely replaced by unembossed molded bottles of uniform size and shape. Included among these bottles are the so-called "Stoddard stubbys" which were in fact blown at numerous different Glass Houses and remained popular through the 1870s. Bottles designed for blacking and snuff had by this point evolved into two distinctly different forms - snuffs were generally rectangular with beveled edges and blackings were square without chamfered corners. Although primarily unembossed, brands of particular popularity were blown into personalized two-piece molds as early as the 1830s. Still, most snuff and blacking bottles were labeled rather than embossed, as was the case with the ubiquitous whiskey cylinders of the period. Although there are some exceptions, the great majority of the whiskeys blown in the pre-war period were unembossed and those that were embossed were done so on the base, not with the name of a private label but rather with the name of the Glass Works in which they were produced. Bottles of this type were blown at a multitude of Glass Houses, including Whitney (in New Jersey), Dyottville, Stoddard, Willington and Ellenville, New York. Made in the same fashion as those English bottles patented by Rickett in 1821, these cylinders were generally blown in a three-piece mold that was hinged at the shoulders." Thanks to Jeff: http://www.jeffnholantiquebottles.com/webpages/ChapterFifteen.html