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N. B. Jacobs Hock Style Wine Bottle
These photos are from a very rare bottle from my collection which is the N. B. Jacobs San Francisco Seal Wine with Star. This bottle probably dates from the late 1860's and this specimen was dug by Dave Hartley when he lived in Sonora. He dug it from the dump which is just South of the town by the Water Treatment Plant. He kept it for all of these years and I can understand why as it is a great specimen with nice crudity and a great laid on lip ring of a top with some nice stretch marks. I think there are probably less than five known. I think Richard Siri has one, and anyone else is free to add in if they have one.
These photos are from a very rare bottle from my collection which is the N. B. Jacobs San Francisco Seal Wine with Star. This bottle probably dates from the late 1860's and this specimen was dug by Dave Hartley when he lived in Sonora. He dug it from the dump which is just South of the town by the Water Treatment Plant. He kept it for all of these years and I can understand why as it is a great specimen with nice crudity and a great laid on lip ring of a top with some nice stretch marks. I think there are probably less than five known. I think Richard Siri has one, and anyone else is free to add in if they have one.
I believe these bottles to be the earlier vessel used by Jacobs for his bitters. I have an advertisement that states he (Jacobs) has changed the style of the bottle so as to further prevent the counterfeiting of his Rosenbaums Bitters, which by the way was being infringed upon by P. J. Cassin as well as the Turner Brothers (in a similar shaped container), N.B. Jacobs stated in an ad dated September 1864 that his bitters would now be put up in square bottles with ROSENBAUMS BITTERS, N.B.JACOBS & C0, SAN FRANCISCO blown in the glass.
ReplyDeleteWarren, from my digging, that 1864 date really sounds right. All the large sq. Rosey's I've dug have been in 60s pits
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If the large Rosenbaums is 1864, at the earliest, and blown in the east, where does that put the Jacob's hock wine bottle? 1863 only if blown in the west?
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I doubt that Hock-style bottle was blown in the West. It's probably a little too early, especially if Jacob's initial runs of squares came from the East.
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I still think its a hock wine bottle for wine, as the ads in the Nevada directories show he was the agent for vineyards in Los Angeles, CA. Does anyone have one with a label on it? Also you may want to check out the glass manufacturing facts I just posted to my san francisco beer blog that speak to glass manufacturing in San Francisco in 1890. Has nothing to do with this early of a bottle but eductational none the less. No seams on the bottle, which indicates a high level of skill in manufacturing of the bottle. Foreign?
ReplyDeleteI believe the two hock wine bottles found in Dayton, NV had the remains of labels on them, part of Rosenbaum and Bitters could be read on one them. I would not think this bottle to be a western made one either, especially without seams.
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