A few months ago I had eyeballed a Yacht Club Bottling Works Centerdale, RI shoulder embossed
soda. It sported a higher than appealing
price, but I made a note to check the size.
Sure enough, it was a pint sized bottle, which was unlisted.
Responding to a Craigslist post almost turned out to be a
wash. Aside from one RI blob, I finally
added an amber ABM Otis Clapp & Son
Incorporated medicine. It is only
listed as BIM.
It was finally that time of the year again! After a lot of procrastinating at river
sites, I finally revisited the Warwick
dump. It had met the owner back in
March, and we had made an agreement of $1 per decent, undamaged bottle. I had found enough to see the site had
immense potential. Summer brought an
impenetrable blockade of Japanese knotweed.
This revisitation was an exciting one, as I got a hand from a backhoe. The landowner dug up a spot I was skeptical
of, and before long I had my hands full!
One semi-crier was a Cappelli
Bros. Spruce cor. Sutton St. Providence, RI blob. This is an early (1880s) blob from before
A.F. and Nicola Cappelli went their separate ways. This example had a period after Spruce and Providence.
The Warwick
dump produced a lot of Roger Williams
Bottling Co. Cranston, RI sodas. A
crown top with the HK monogram turned out to be another variant, this one being
my 13th!
