what is this mass bottle LA CROIX ?

[judu]

i have a bottle here that was dug up in new hampshire....LA CROIX MILLIS MASS ....a blob top that has alot of damage...i like it though and i am very curious as what this is..it looks to me to be maybe a nun ? and a cross in the slug plate....could this be a holy water bottle of some kind?.....

 

[judu]

one more

 

[epackage]

"Sparklng Water" I believe, probably a spring on the site of a monestary or something like that, definetely NOT a holy water..

 

[LynnRé]

I also have one. It seems we have the only known 2

 

[FreeRangeAsparagus]

I find them a fair amount in Massachusetts, but they are almost always broken. I've never found any other branded blob tops that are so consistently broken, even now I only have 2 that are complete and one has a big crack in it. I don't know anything about glassmaking but maybe this company was working with poor quality glass? I have been unable to find much about this bottle as well.

 

[treasurekidd]

Lacroix was Charles Lacroix, who started bottling sparkling cider in Millis, MA some time prior to 1887, when the company name was changed to Clicquot Club.

https://baybottles.com/tag/charles-lacroix/

 

[Skoda]

Small bit of additional information here. I have a LaCroix example with a different slug plate that is fitted with a Thatcher patent 1901 closure, which would imply that despite the company name evolving into Clicquot Club in the late 1880's, it seems likely that after the sale of the brand in 1901 he began bottling beverages under his name alone again, or was bottling them under his name through the 1890's and beyond in addition to the embossed Clicquot Club and Aqua Rex Bottling bottles of the 1880's-90's.

 

[FreeRangeAsparagus]

Small bit of additional information here. I have a LaCroix example with a different slug plate that is fitted with a Thatcher patent 1901 closure, which would imply that despite the company name evolving into Clicquot Club in the late 1880's, it seems likely that after the sale of the brand in 1901 he began bottling beverages under his name alone again, or was bottling them under his name through the 1890's and beyond in addition to the embossed Clicquot Club and Aqua Rex Bottling bottles of the 1880's-90's.

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Awesome bottle!