My most recent visit to the tidal river produced some decent
bottles. I was particularly excited to
find a Turbitt & Orme Wickenden St.
Providence, RI soda. This ABM crown
top has “two cents will be paid for the return of this bottle” on the heel, which
is a very early use of the “return for deposit” phrase. I have a handmade version of this bottle, and
both are unlisted!
I was recently getting ready to sell some of my common
duplicates, and came across a Red Fox
Beverages Providence, RI art deco soda.
These bottles are so common I have started to leave them at my dig
sites, but that might have been a mistake.
I double checked the heel embossing, and one reads “Registered Cap.
7-1/2 Oz.” No listed version has
registered spelled out, so I added it to the Fox family.
Another dreadfully common bottle is the Berry Spring Mineral Water Co. Pawtucket, RI. The radiant cross on the front and variety of
bottles they made help keep things interesting though. This common pint size bottle has 16 Fl. Oz.
embossed on the back heel instead of the normal One Pint. That makes it my 11th version!
The last bottle club meeting produced an Eagle Bottling Co. Warren, RI crown top
soda. I had mentioned finding one of
these a few years ago a few posts back, so while I thought I already had it, I
was still happy to see a bottle from Warren. My first version has 8 Fl. Oz. embossed on
the heel, but you can clearly see where it was erased inside the slug
plate. This bottle turned out to be the
un-erased version!
Also present at the meeting was a nice Star Soda Bottling Works East Providence, RI ABM crown top. While I have four different bottles from this
company, something looked different.
Sure enough, this was RI-1527, but my version was a very light aqua, and
this one was a dark grayish aqua.
