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Cobalt 7�' western soda with a great graphite pontil.

Blob top smooth based soda from Montanna Territory. Also see full size image

In 1853, New York had it's own Crystal Palace Exposition, a poor copy of the London Original. The building was poorly constructed and rain leaked through the roof soaking exhibits and visitors alike. It 1858 a fire destroyed the building. It's place in history is that it was the first such international exhibit on American soil.

Blob top, quart size, dark amber.

Rare aqua open pontiled soda from Alabama.

Here's a few more shots of this bottle: Front, Back, Pontil Base.

Note that style of top of this pyramid differs from the pyramid below.

C. Alf was a druggist on North King Street in Charleston SC in 1840. He is considered by many to be the first soda water bottler in North America. He learned his technique from Paris druggists who were pioneers in carbonated beverage bottling. The first type of bottle was the pyramid shape which had a defect in design with the neck being too thin. This defect along with the fact that he was only a bottler for one and a half years has made the pyramid the rarest of the colored sodas. The newer design (see example below) was a shorter reinforced thicker glass bottle that was more compact.

This is the shorter style that came after the pyramid listed above.

back embossed SUPERIOR / MINERALWATER / UNION GLASS WORKS

Cobalt pontilled mug-based soda.

Emerald green, pontilled squat soda from Womelsdorf PA, which is in Berks county and is not too far from Lebanon.

Check out the neat pontilled base.

Only cobalt pontilled soda from N.C.

Rare cobalt Ryan with tent style top (usually come with blob style top).

Ryan only had a branch in Atlanta during 1867, and very few bottles were produced.

This bottle was also featured on the cover of OLD BOTTLE MAGIZINE in 1976. Dug from a dump in Baltimore county Maryland. Dr. Benjaman Bates is listed for four years 1873-1876. His offices were located at the Northeast corner of Balto & Charles streets in 1873 and in 1875 he was located at 228 west Balto St.

Rare 1850's torpedo soda from Baltimore.
From the collection of Chris in Baltimore

South Carolina bottle from Port Royal (on Hilton Head Island), the town that was established during the war of the Northern Aggression. Port Royal was the base for the blockade ships and a place for the sailors to relax. The main street was named 'Robbers Row', and that is where John Knechtle had his business. This civil war town located on the north part of the island was only active for three years, so this Soda Bottle would be circa 1862, to April of 1865.
Bottle was sold on eBay Sep 29, 2000.

Circa 1863 teal green soda from Hilton Head Island, SC.

Embossing in circular slug plate. Smooth base. Rarest soda from Florida and the only colored soda from Florida. Only 5 known examples.

Deep olive green with iron pontil base and mint.

A very rare Virginia soda.

Only known example of this bottle is rare citron color.

Sold by Reggie Lynch, Email: rlynch@antiquebottles.com

Cobalt blue, ten-pin shape, smooth base, and rare horizontal embossing.

Owned by Rod Walck, Email: rodwalck@ptd.net

Reggie Lynch, Email: rlynch@antiquebottles.com

This bottle was distributed by Blount Springs Hotel - more info on the hotel can be found in the 1960 book 'Historic Alabama Hotels and Resorts' pages 58-69.
At first I thought the strange-shaped lip may have been the result of grinding down the lip to hide a chip in the top of the blob lip, but further research has shown the lips came this way on these bottles and some grinding may have occurred during manufacturing of the bottle. Another example of this bottle is pictured on page 186 and 219 in 'The Illustrated Price Guide of Antique Bottles' by Carlo Sellari - that picture shows the same lip shape.
History/info about bottle courtesy of Mitch Brown, Email: MBrown1501@aol.com

Also see quart size version.

Medium emerald green (looks blue in PIC, but it's green), 8 panels, graphite pontil base that still has the graphite residue, a rare bottle - no other example reported.
Sold by Reggie Lynch.

Deep teal green with smooth base, near mint.
Sold by Reggie Lynch