EvansBottles
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There is no guess work involved here. Your teal green soda is in fact a Porter style bottle. These bottles contained brewed
alcoholic beverages. There is one from Wilmington Del that has PORTER / ALE / CIDER embossed on the back. I don't see
a pontil scar on yours. So it would date to 1858 or later. The soda bottles are narrower. And have either a single tapered collar.
Or a blob top typically. Sometimes other types of applied lips. Such as the applied top on the Twitchell sodas from Philadelphia. We call them Twitchell tops when seen on bottles with other embossings.
alcoholic beverages. There is one from Wilmington Del that has PORTER / ALE / CIDER embossed on the back. I don't see
a pontil scar on yours. So it would date to 1858 or later. The soda bottles are narrower. And have either a single tapered collar.
Or a blob top typically. Sometimes other types of applied lips. Such as the applied top on the Twitchell sodas from Philadelphia. We call them Twitchell tops when seen on bottles with other embossings.