Summer Finds #4 2018

Believe it or not this is blog 200!  That means I've documented over 1000 unlisted RI bottles so far.  It's pretty hard to believe, and at this rate there has to be a couple hundred more out there!

The one that almost got away joined it's little brother last summer! An extremely rare 7-1/4” Paine's Vegetable Pain Curer. This is the hardest to find size and this one has a different top than the others!

The Westford CT show was quiet but I did get yet another Otis Clapp & Son! This one is a nice larger 8-1/4” square.

One of my old haunts was getting landscaped, so I had one last go at it before it was gone for good. Among the goods was a nice Alfred Barth & Brother Providence, RI medicine. It was an unlisted 5” size.

Back at the mega-dump a real crier turned up. A small size Combination Ladder Co. (Providence). These are hard to find, and this new size is exciting! I hope there's a whole one out there.

(picture coming!)

I usually don't pay a lot for common pharmacy bottles unless there's something special about them. When it comes to large sizes that's one of my weaknesses. An 8-1/4” Fisk & Co. Druggists Pawtucket, RI rounds out my Fisk collection now.

Summer Finds #3 2018

A fellow northern RI digger has been turning up a few RI bottles. Among them was a Blanding & Blanding Pharmacists Providence, RI in an unlisted 8-1/8” size.

One of his best finds was a Household Doctor, Life Saver 30 Years, which is actually a Dr. Harrison's Pain Curer missing the front panel embossing. How interesting!

I added another very rare RI fruit jar, this time it was the older Earle & Perry Pat. April 17, 1877. A friend who collects jars was nice enough to part with it in a trade.

It is very rare for a Craigslist ad to pay off. This one did, though it was just one bottle. The Mason B. Woods Druggist Watchemoket, RI was an unlisted 4-1/2” size.

A friend spotted this tough to find L.P. Beaudry & William Harrop Pawtucket, RI medicine at a flea market. It was also an unlisted 5-1/2” size.

Summer Finds #2 2018

A couple on the upper East Side put an addition on their house and discovered it was built on a dump. The bottles dated to the later 1910s, and while most were common a J.A. Hebert Central Falls, RI whiskey caught my eye. I have one in a quart size, and it's the only whiskey from Central Falls. This pint makes an excellent addition!

Back at my friends' giant bottling factory dump I found a great crier. A J. Lipfschitz Providence, RI soda with a painful chunk out of the neck. There are no examples listed with a monogram, and this one looks nice!

One classic RI pictorial soda is Bell Bottling Co. Providence, RI. While not rare, there are apparently a few variants. This was the first one I've seen with no slugplate.

Thanks to a house cleanout in Barrington, I was able to grab a few quart sodas. A heel embossed Sherba Beverage Co. West Barrington, RI is nothing special looking, but I sure wonder what the label looked like!

The other quart was a shoulder/heel embossed Deep Rock West Barrington, RI in clear. I have one in green and both are unlisted.