Hope All is Well up there, the snow must be melting by now? Anyways, I tried to put something on the Western Bitters Website and I got up today and I didn’t see it so I am not sure I did it right? I listed these 2 pictures and my comment was - - - -
This is an Ale bottle Dug in the Bay Area, on the Base it has the Number 4, like many of the Western Made & Dug Spices I have seen, Would this maybe be a Western Made Bottle? I Realize it is Not an Expensive bottle, but, I was Curious about it. Thanks and see you in a bottle show someday.
Rick Hall
I dug this exact same bottle next to a yellow Olive Pride of Kentucky in an Arizona ghost town along with some other mid 70s bottles. I would also like to know what it is. It's very crude deep apple green within applied top and the number four on the base. Kelly
ReplyDeleteAlthough there’s no proof, I have long believed these light green black glass shaped bottles are Western blown. I’ve dug quite a few of these in California from late 60s, early 70s context.
ReplyDeleteI have dug several of these bottles with partial labels at the Sierra Buttes Mine site. The labels were for India Pale Ale but I don't recall if they had the name of a western agent .
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We dug a lot of identical bottles in Nevada over time. One particular camp, dating TOC, had a real fondness for the beverage inside. The town dump was in a sandy wash and the labels were well preserved on some. They were Guinness Stout, had a black cat on the main body of the label, and the name E.J. Burke. The labels were multi colored, primarily a dark crème color with black letters and red highlights. The bottles, in this case, were European, not domestic. Some were two piece, others three piece, molds. Bases varied; some with just the dot, some plain, and others, if I recall correctly, were numbered. Tops, glass color and character were identical to his. I'd wager that Ricks is also an import from Great Britain
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