Summer Finds #5 2021

This post continues with more additions from my friend's construction site mega dump. One of the most exciting and surprising bottles he found was a Chagnon's Family Drug Store Artcic & Natick, RI. Chagnon bottles are fairly scarce, but they are only from Arctic. He opened a branch pharmacy in Natick that only lasted for about two years, so this bottle is extremely rare!

A free crier from the dig site was a McManus & Meade Weston Hotel Nasonville, RI seltzer bottle. And yes, it is supposed to say Western Hotel but instead says Weston! The McManus & Meade seltzers are quite rare to begin with, never mind an error version!

An L.D. Angell Providence, RI pharmacy showed up as well. It's been quite a while since I saw one of them. At 4-1/8” it is an unlisted size!

Quite possibly my favorite looking med from this site was a Wm. H. Hinds Providence, RI pharmacy. His larger bottles are nice and ornate, and at 6” this one is an unlisted size.

On the way back from a bottle show in CT I drove by a yard sale and it happened to be a member of the Little Rhody Bottle Club! I couldn't believe my luck as I walked away with three exciting RI bottles. The only unlisted one was a James O'Hare Benefit St. Providence, RI pharmacy. The later O'Hare bottles are quite common, but his early examples with the Benefit St. address are quite rare.

 

Summer Finds #4 2021

A friend was selling a blob top soda embossed Adolphus Sylvester Mill St. Central Falls, NY. Normally I don't give New York blobs a second glance, but the Central Falls town name gave me pause. A search on Google turned up no trace of Central Falls, NY ever existing. I then searched the Mill St address with results possibly connecting it to RI. I was finally able to visit the RI Historical Society and found proof that this is indeed an unlisted RI error bottle!

Craigslist yard sale ads are becoming less and less rewarding, so I was happy to finally find one with decent bottles. The winner by far was a Lymansville Mineral Water Co. Lymansville, RI blob. This completely unlisted mineral water was the short lived successor to the Lee Mineral Water Co, which is also a very rare bottle.

Also at the yard sale was an American Bottling Co. Opp. Union Station Providence, RI pint whiskey. It looked identical to my listed example, but lacked the period after St, so a new variant it is!

A friend sold me a McLaughlin's Soda Works Woonsocket, RI in aqua, which has proved to be rather elusive to me. It was also elusive to other club members as it was unlisted in that color!

A bottle collecting construction worker reached out to me about a huge dump he found on one of his projects. He doesn't collect RI bottles so he saved them all for me. Among the many exciting finds was a Manville Bottling Co. Manville, RI crown top. This one has a monogram which the listed ones do not have.