The most exciting bottle from the river
digger was a pontiled Burrington's Genuine Croup Syrup Providence,
RI. The Burringtons are hard to find pontiled, and this version
embossed Genuine I have only heard of one other!
Another big ebay surprise was a Central
Bottling Co. Arctic, RI soda. I had dug a shard of one of these
and it became the rarest known Arctic soda. I was thinking it might
take me a decade or more to track down a whole one but I got a lucky
break!
Also in the lot was a Walter Price &
Co. Pure Drugs Westerly, RI.
These early Price bottles are harder to find and this is an unlisted
6-3/4” size.
Another nice medicine was a Barbour's
18 Broad St. Westerly, N.Y. While not a rare error, it's always
fun to find one, and this larger 7-1/4” size is also unlisted!
The last exciting find was a King
Westerly, RI green quart soda. Most King bottles are common, but
the quarts are scarce, and you almost never see Kings in green.
