A rare blob showed up on ebay recently.
It was a Chr. Kiess & Co. Dorrance St. Providence, RI.
It wasn't cheap, but when I saw it was unlisted I had to bite the
bullet!
Another rather funny but also exciting
find showed up on ebay as well. A half pint The Cal Wine Co. T.S.
Mitchell Providence, RI whiskey. It's a great looking whiskey
with a nice slugplate packed with embossing. Of course it is only
listed in a pint size, and now I have the unlisted quart and half
pint!
A fellow collector recently got to
explore the bottle-packed basement of a former RI digger. Among the
hundreds of bottles, he was able to find a few scarce RI pieces.
That included two Slocum's Drug Store Auburn, RI medicines.
These are great looking bottles, and quite rare. At 5-1/4” and
4-1/4”, they are both unlisted sizes!
I saw a Craiglist ad for two boxes of
bottles that appeared to contain some RI stuff. When I got there,
there were a bunch of your typical RI blobs, but the crown tops
really stole the show! I was quick to agree on his original $60
asking price, only to have him tell me “just take them!” After a
few attempts to give him some money, it was clear that he was set on
giving me the bottles. I thanked him profusely and went home to
clean the prizes. The first unlisted one was a crown top J.P.
Bottling Co. Providence, RI. It is listed as a quart, but this
was a small size.
My favorite from the lot was a stunning
Yacht Club Bott. Wks. Centredale, RI crown top. What makes me
like it so much is the icey blue aqua color, and the fact that it is
the oldest embossed Yacht Club bottle I have come across.
