This spring was quite the productive one, from digging exciting new bottles to finding subtle variation of common bottles. Here are a few more that I noticed recently.
One of my trades from Bill Rose at the last Little Rhody
Bottle Club show was a common Geo. B.
Harris Centerville, RI medicine.
While quite easy to find, I noticed this one was clear. Matching RI-343, it’s an unlisted color! Sometimes it’s the little things.
Another unlisted common misc. bottle was a Geo. A. Peckham & Co. Grocers Supplies
Providence, RI. This faintly
embossed version appears to be lacking any punctuation, which makes it a new
variant. The George A. Peckham (no &
Co.) version is more common, so this might be
a tough one to get.
Among a recent large haul was a couple of base embossed J. S. Hazard & Co. Newport, RI
squat sodas. While the listed version
has Newport
arched up, I noticed one simply had the embossing in a circle around the
base. It also had an applied lip, so it is
probably an earlier version.
I also found two unlisted medicines in this haul, one being
a Caswell Massey and the other a Hazard Hazard.
The Caswell Massey & Co. New
York Newport example was a 2-1/4” small round wide mouth bottle, making it
the smallest Massey bottle I know of.
The Hazard, Hazard & Co.
Chemists New York & Newport is square with beveled corners and measures
6-1/4”. The square bottles with beveled
edges are a classic Caswell-Hazard shape. (pic of small one to come!)
