bottlekid76
Well-Known Member
As for the St. Louis area, Rudolph & John Adams was one of the first bottlers and in business as early as 1845. Their bottles are known with an iron pontiled base, although there is evidence of a few open pontiled examples from a couple of other soda water manufactures in or around the same time frame. I have never seen an OP R&J Adams bottle, whether one exists or not has yet to be discovered, but they are one of the earliest in business in that area of the country, and all of their examples are iron pontiled that are known. I know its already been covered that further back east they were using iron pontils on bottles much earlier, and I believe that is what you are working on defining. []
~Tim
~Tim