Sunday, December 25, 2022

Summer Finds #1 2022

An ad for dug bottles in Fairhaven turned up a Modox (2x embossed) with ground off embossing in aqua! The aqua Modox bottles are very hard to find, and this is an unlisted example!



A trip to CT to see a fellow digger and buy a few bottles yielded a nice W.A. Walling Charles St. Providence, RI.



My friend also had a large size 6-1/2” Dr. Duprez's Cough Syrup. This size has eluded me for some time, and happened to be unlisted as well!



Another CT digger/collector recently bought a small collection that included a J.H. Branaghan 10 Pawtucket, RI blob. This bottler was one of the only two in the state that dated their bottles each year. I have every known year, but 1910 was not listed!



I bought a large collection of blob top sodas in CT from the relatives of a collector who wrote a book on blob top sodas from New England. It was a great collection, but sadly did not have a single Rhode Island bottle, despite there being quite a few being shown in his book. A few weeks later the family told me they had found another box! And behold, there was a Geo. Kulz & Co. Dorrance St. Providence, RI in the mix. I have never seen a Kulz with this address before!