Well I must say it has been quite a while since I have been
completely “caught up” with this blog! I
suppose I’ll have to blame the frozen ground and single digit
temperatures. Ebay was gracious enough
to offer me a Bailey & Eaton
Paraffine Sewing Machine Oil. About two years ago I made a chance purchase
of a Bailey & Eaton Gun Oil bottle which I later discovered was from
Boston/Providence. This is the same
deal, and just as rare!
The bottle show also bequeathed me with a nice green Liberty Club Beverages Providence deco
soda. While these are common in clear,
you don’t come across the green one often, which is an unlisted color.
I recently contacted a local digger who had done a lot of
digging in the 1970s-80s. While he had
sold most of his finds off, I was able to get a few to make the visit a
fruitful one. A Mt. Hope Distilling Co. Providence, RI soda was surprisingly ABM
(machine made). These bottles are very
common, but they stuck with handmade bottles until they went out of business
thanks to the prohibition. This must
have been one of the last bottles the company made.
Another exciting online purchase was a P. Lynch Bottler Nasonville, RI soda. Surprisingly, I do have one of these rare
unlisted sodas, but this one is quite different, and quite striking for a crown
top. Patrick Lynch ran the Western Hotel
before McManus & Mead took it over.
