Your favorite local piece

[buzzkutt033]

here's a quart flask from my hometown of Catasauqua. this one was dug on Church St., about a block from where is was bottled....

 

[Bottle_boy_Buffalo]

That Woolner is killer, Bottleworm. Nice pottery bottle, Scott. I haven't seen too many like that around New York yet. Do you have an pics of the 1902 Coke, I would love to see it.

Gotta love the super local finds like that flask, buzz.

Here's another of my favorites, German American Brewing blob with original ceramic stopper. It actually came from the same auction lot that I got my Phoenix blob from too.

 

[mctaggart67]

In the grand scheme of things, this fellow's not that spectacular to others, but to me it's the best bottle I have and it's certainly my favourite local piece. You see, this bottle is one of the first dozen or so I found at a construction site when I was in Grade 6. It is also the bottle that hooked me on the hobby. I vividly remember holding it up to the sunlight as I was cleaning it in a plastic bucket, along with the other bottles retrieved from the construction site. Once the sunlight hit the bottle and refracted through the embossing cuts, I was hooked by the simply beauty. Even more importantly, the bottle came with a mystery. Who was "Scott the Chemist"? Answering this question got me into historical research, even at that young age, and this hooked me even more into collecting. By the way, he was Robert Donald Scott, who served his apprenticeship under Sarnia, Ontario druggist Richard T. Geary and who then operated his own drugstore from 1888 to 1897 before going onto medical school.

 

[ScottBSA]

BBB, here are two pics of my KC Coca Cola bottle. The script is not exactly the same as the logo. There are some minor variations compared to the company script. Interstate Glass Company was a short lived glass house, just a year and a half or so. I have 3 or four local bottles from that company. The remains of the plant were sold to Obear-Nestor after the flood and operated for about 50 years.

A Buffalo-Kansas City beer connection. Leonard? Berweger and JD Iler ran the Rochester Brewery in Kansas City until Bergweger moved to Buffalo to run the Iroquois Brewery. For years I wondered how they got the name Rochester Brewery until I discovered that Bergweger worked for Bartholomay in Rochester before coming to Kansas City.

The third picture is my basement bottles. I am in the process of building more shelves as we speak. The wooden beer crates have bottles in them as well, although the A/B crate from 1920 has labeled amber bottles of no particular value. When I sell the crate, the bottles will go with it.
Scott

 

[ScottBSA]

Back side

 

[ScottBSA]

Basement bottles

 

[toms sc]

My favorite four bottles

 

[Bottle_boy_Buffalo]

Very nice piece and nice basement setup, Scott! That script is just awesome.

 

[rockbot]

Sure is Jim. Nice pic too.

ORIGINAL: epackage

This Kinch came out of the ground like this, the soil must have been very acidic, it's killer!!!

 

[rockbot]

Super rare hometown druggist.