Welcome (and for some, welcome back!). This week I will keep plugging away at bottles from the Otis
collection. I’ll start with an ABM crown
top soda, B. Colantonio Dean St. Providence,
RI. There are bottles from
DePasquale & Colantonio from the same address, so it appears DePasquale
left and Colantonio continued the business.
A plain but noteworthy soda is embossed Nasonville Bottling Co. on the heel. While it doesn't grab one's attention, Nasonville variants are
pretty hard to come by, and this is one of the newest ones I’ve seen with a
date code for 1918.
It was only a matter of time before I ran into another
unlisted Palmer & Madigan Importers
Providence, RI. This half pint is
unlisted in this embossing version.
I have a couple of Fisk & Co. medicine bottles from Pawtucket. I was rather pleased to see a Fisk & Co. 200 Main St. Pawtucket, RI
(in script) in an unlisted larger size (6-1/4”). It is one of the less-common bottles from
this prolific company.
Another nice medicine was a Helmer Drug Co. 3 Stores Providence, R.I. There is no recorded Helmer bottle with 3
Stores embossed, and it’s the only RI bottles with that kind of embossing to my
knowledge. The sides and back consist of 13 panels in a rectangular shape, which is also a less common shape.
