I'm back! I'm sorry to keep you waiting on one of my inexplicable hiatuses, but rest assured, I'm ok, the bottles are fine, so let's get back to it!
One of my favorite mystery dealers at a
local antique shop delivered yet again! I spotted an embossed aqua
blob, and to my delight it was embossed M.S. Horgan Newport, RI.
I have two M.S. Horgan bottles, one crown top and one blob, but they
are both clear. This is an unlisted earlier example. Since aqua
blobs from Newport are pretty hard to score, I gladly picked this one
up despite the high sticker price.
In a recent trade with another
collector, I was finally able to obtain a G.E.B. Fairbanks 394
Wickenden St. Providence, RI
medicine. I had allowed two of these to slip past my fingers over
the years, and as an added bonus the address was unlisted! G.E.B.
Fairbanks was succeeded by his son, G.W. Fairbanks.
While not exactly a new unlisted
bottle, I don't think I have covered it before in my blog. On
occasion in dumps from the late 1930s-early 1940s I have dug a base
embossed Warwick Club Ginger Ale Co. soda bottles. I have always
suspected they were Drink Speedball,
the orange soda, but haven't been able to confirm it until now!
Recently a fellow collector and I
purchased a massive collection of bottles, mostly consisting of amber
blobs. There were about two boxes of RI bottles, and that included a
Prophet Spring Co. Providence, RI seltzer. While nothing
fancy, it's uncommon and unlisted!
The same collector above has been
thinning out his own collection, and he sold me my second version of
the Warwick Club Ginger Ale Co. seltzer. Similar to my other
example, they are both different.
