Wheelah23
Well-Known Member
Dug today... Went a bit late, so it was hard to see in the bottom of the hole... Then I decided to widen out the hole by collapsing one of the side walls. I was stabbing away at the packed ash, then suddenly I saw some rust in the hole. In this dump, the ash has no bottles, and rust usually does. So I switched to my scratchers and got to work. Soon, I saw a base sticking out. It had some rocks and stuff next to it, so my hopes weren't high. I saw "K. HUTTER" on the base, so I knew it was a blob... Fatefully, I took a picture of it, not knowing what to expect. Eventually I got it loose, and it didn't even cross my mind that I might have found my dream bottle. I saw it was whole, and I breathed a sigh of relief. Now, to see what it is. I turned it over, to get a look at the embossing. I didn't recognize it at first, because I'm not used to seeing pictorial bottles. But when I saw what the picture was, I lost bowel control and had a heart attack. Only one bottle this could be: a T.P. Meyer & Co. from Montclair!
It's the rarest local bottle I know of. Before I collected locals, I saw it for sale for $60 at the last Oakland show in November. I asked the guy about it, and he said it was one of only a few known. Add one to that list! [
] A few other people have also confirmed that it is very rare. I estimate there are less than a dozen known, but I've only confirmed the existence of two so far. I couldn't ask for a better bottle. This bottle was tied with a Glen Ridge blob for the "Holy Grail" status on my list. And now I've dug one! []
It's hardly in mint condition, but I've seen much worse. It's pretty sick, but if there's one bottle I'd pay a lot to tumble, it's this one. I'm going to do a lot of research into finding a good tumbler, as I HATE overtumbled bottles with a burning passion. There is a tiny base chip and small resulting crack, but I'm sure there's a way to fix that too. I'm just happy to have one at all, I'm likely to never come across another!
It's embossed "T.P. MEYER & CO/ (motif of a rooster)/ MONTCLAIR, N.J.". It's the only pictorial bottle I know of from Montclair. Extremely rare. Not much more to say.
It's the rarest local bottle I know of. Before I collected locals, I saw it for sale for $60 at the last Oakland show in November. I asked the guy about it, and he said it was one of only a few known. Add one to that list! [
] A few other people have also confirmed that it is very rare. I estimate there are less than a dozen known, but I've only confirmed the existence of two so far. I couldn't ask for a better bottle. This bottle was tied with a Glen Ridge blob for the "Holy Grail" status on my list. And now I've dug one! [] It's hardly in mint condition, but I've seen much worse. It's pretty sick, but if there's one bottle I'd pay a lot to tumble, it's this one. I'm going to do a lot of research into finding a good tumbler, as I HATE overtumbled bottles with a burning passion. There is a tiny base chip and small resulting crack, but I'm sure there's a way to fix that too. I'm just happy to have one at all, I'm likely to never come across another!
It's embossed "T.P. MEYER & CO/ (motif of a rooster)/ MONTCLAIR, N.J.". It's the only pictorial bottle I know of from Montclair. Extremely rare. Not much more to say.
