What a Crier....

[TedNuggent]

I dug this blob the other day, could not see the damage at first because I was amazed at the bottle, I have never heard of or seen it before. It is a Saratoga Bottling Co Mechanicville, NY. It's still nice and will go in my collection anyways, you can't get them all in good shape. It's actually pretty amazing how many bottles have made it to this day since the 1800's, even being transported and dumped down embankments and smashing into other bottles.

 

[hemihampton]

Looks like Saratoga Brewing co. not Bottling co. nice bottle. LEON.

 

[sunrunner]

it displays nicely .

 

[RED Matthews]

If I can't read the embossing - loose interest rapidly. I think you should realize that. Though not many do it. RED M.

 

[cannibalfromhannibal]

If I can't read the embossing - loose interest rapidly. I think you should realize that. Though not many do it. RED M.

Red, if you tap on the picture, it will enlarge allowing the embossing to be easily read. If not, you need a new pair of glasses.....

 

[RED Matthews]

So my age has a lot to do with it. Don't worry about it. After 77+ years of bottle collecting, which included 15 years of mold making and glass making with Thatcher Glass as an Applications Engineer - I worked the next 22 years traveling the worlds glass companies - sell them on the use of a special mold equipment metal - s lot of my time is spent helping glass collectors know how they were made. Besides that I have over 2000 different old glass products in my collection, and a lot of them will go to glass museums or sold by my daughter. HAVE FUN - LIFE IS SHORTRED M.

 

[cannibalfromhannibal]

Whatever.....

 

[tom.r.maguire]

Hi,

My great-grandfather was the president of Saratoga Brewing in Mechanicsville, NY. I've been looking for a bottle from them for the last few years. His name was Balthasar Baker, his step-son, Charles Baker was the accountant and Gaffney was his partner. The business opened in the early 1890s and was closed by 1900. Would you consider selling this example to me? If not, do you know of anyone else who may have one?

Tom Maguire

 

[TrashPanda]

Any identification?

 

[tom.r.maguire]

Of my great-grandfather as the president or my relationship to him?