A Recent Acquistion

Here's an early gold rush soda that I acquired at last weekend's Canyonville bottle show.

Boley & Co of Sacramento California started in business in 1852, right at the height of the California gold rush.

This example of the Boley has not been cleaned and has a lot of chunky whittle to the glass.

BOLEY & Co

SAC CITY CAL 

is embossed in a slug plate on the front of the bottle along with the

UNION GLASS WORKS

Philad.  A

 

embossed on the reverse side of the bottle.  Along with this great embossing

 

 

the base has an intact  iron pontil. A really nice example of an early soda bottle blown at the Union Glass Works and sent to the California gold rush country to sell to a thirsty miner.

 

 

The above ad was placed in the August 1852 Sacramento Daily Union newspaper. I believe this ad was prior to the embossed bottle from the statement "the bottoms of our bottles are painted Venetian red".

 

Boy would I love to find a Boley with the bottom painted Venetian red!