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antique bottle HELP! page
This page contains images of antique bottles of a variety of categories about which I know not nearly enough. If you can add any information--provenience, manufacturer, use, rarity, dollar value, etc--I would be happy to hear from you. I will try to share interesting comments with other collectors, here or elsewhere. E-mail me. -----Harry Pristis(Best viewed by "maximizing" your window.)
Emerald green blob-top beer, 8.75 inches tall,
smooth base. Embossed in a slug-plate near base:
OLD HOMESTEAD
BOTTLING WORKS
POINT PLEASANT, N.J.
[and on the base in a horizontal diamond
shape logo]
CD Co
[and below the logo]
325
Any information on this company or the rarity of this bottle would be appreciated.
RESPONSES:
Ernest Bower reports:The Old Homestead Bottling Works operated in the last decade of the 19th century and the first few years of the 20th century. The green blob-top, "heel embossed" bottle is "scarce."
Old Homestead Bottling Works was not a brewery, rather it bottled beer from kegs bought from breweries.
The use of green blob-tops is a rarity in New Jersey except for Monmouth and Ocean Counties where several firms used these distinctive bottles. All the green blob-tops are very desirable and difficult to get.
In coastal New Jersey, these bottles sell for $25+. Elsewhere, they are much more expensive--as much as $75-100.
SQUARE BOTTLE WHISKEY
7.5 inches tall, smooth base, applied lip. The body of the bottle is a cube, roughly 4 inches to a side. Embossed on two sides:
SQUARE BOTTLE WHISKEY and
MUNRO
DALWHINNIE
SCOTLAND
REUSE OF BOTTLE
PROHIBITED
Can anyone add anything about the rarity (value) of this interesting whiskey bottle?
This bottle IS interesting. It seems that Dalwhinnie is a small town in the Scottish Highland, the mountainous region of Scotland. (The town doesn't get even a mention in tour guides.)
In 1891, Sir Hugh T. Munro published a list of Scotland's mountains higher than 3,000 feet. Publication of Munro's list was followed immediately by much contention over the accuracy of the list. A peak on the list came to be referred to as a "Munro". The practice of "Munro Bagging" (climbing the 277 peaks) started soon after the list was published, and today is a national passion (according to the Lonely Planet's guide)
The "Munro" embossed on this whiskey bottle could be a reference to a specific peak at Dalwhinnie, as in "Munro Dalwhinnie." Or "Munro" may be a reference to an individual distiller...Munro is a fairly common Scottish name.
There is reference to a distillery and its malt whiskey named "Dalwhinnie." The distillery was established in the 1890's and is still operating. It is the highest distillery in Scotland. There is no mention of "Munro" or of "Square Bottle Whiskey."
Pickle bottles - emerald-green barrel figurals.
On right: 9.5 inches tall, 5 inches diameter, 1.5 inches wide mouth. Smooth base, applied lip. Similar to Zumwalt pp. 264 which is embossed "LaM, A & F". Zumwalt says: "Possibly a French import dating to just before the turn-of-the-century."
On the Left: Base embossed WOLFF & REESSING N.Y. According to Zumwalt's book, Wolff & Reessing were importesr and purveyors of canned goods in New York City from the 1870's till the turn of the century.
Black (olive-amber) glass bottle, nine inches tall, free-blown, applied lip, typical English kick-up with pontil scar. This bottle resembles an "onion" in some ways, yet the lip suggests early 1800's. Someone suggested this might be Scottish in origin. Anyone else have any thoughts about this bottle?
Amber "lady's leg" 10.5 inches tall.
CRYSTAL BREWAGE
BALTIMORE, MD
U.S.A
Embossed in the center is a song-bird in flight on a field of stars. (Is it a Baltimore oriole or the blue-bird of happiness with a six-pack dangling from its beak?)
stoneware 8.75 inches tall
MOERLEINs
OLD
JUG-L AGE
KRUG~BIER
in a circle with a monogram:
TRADE MARK
THE-CHRISTIAN-MOERLEIN-BREWING-CO-CINCINNATI-O
on the margins amidst the hops, ivy, and cherubs:
EXHILARATING
STIMULATING
REJUVENATING
WHOLESOME
DELICIOUS
& PURE
Olive-amber case bottle, 9 inches tall, smooth base, applied lip, embossed: W.B.MACIVER&C
Cannot find a listing for this bottle. The bottle resembles a Dutch case gin, but this embossment sounds somehow British.
RESPONSE:
Peter Vermeulen, the Dutch researcher and author on case gin bottles, writes: "I don't have dates on the Maciver case gin. I purchased one myself in England. Most probably it is the name of a British agent, selling Dutch geneva [gin] under its own name. I have also other British, Indonesian and Surinam embossed case gins with local names on them."
POISON BOTTLE - deep emerald green, 10.75 inches tall, blown in a mold/applied lip, smooth base, vertically embossed: RATIN and on the base embossed: "1000" (milliliters = one liter). This is a Danish rat-poison, and an uncommon one, at that. A German bottle-dealer appraised it recently at more than one hundred dollars(!).
Olive-green decanter(?), 7.75 inches tall, free-blown, sheared-lip with oversize string, pontil-scarred base, paddled on four sides, but overall it is a crudely-made, heavy bottle. Any ideas on its origin?