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Soda Bottle FAIRBANKS GINGER ALE BOSTON MASS 1800s Lyndeboro NH Round Bottom
$ 17.95
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Description
Rarely ever Seen, Here is an Exceptional, American, 1870-80’s-Era, Round-Bottom Blob-Top Soda -“Ginger-Ale” Bottle from Boston Massachusetts.Measuring about 8 1/2” High, The Crudely “Mold-Blown”, Thick-Cylindrical Bottle is Blown of a Slightly Deeper-Shade of Aquamarine Colored, Bottle-Glass.
It Features an “Applied / Hand-Tool-Formed” Round, “Blob-Top Lip-Finish”, which is Wonky and Full of Tooling-Waves, + Nice Looking Early-Glass Making Crudity.
The Sides of the Bottle are Vertically Embossed w/ Older-Style Crooked Letters which Read: “FAIRBANKS / GINGER ALE / BOSTON MASS.
There is Nice “Whittle” to the Thick Glass-Sides which are Home to Nice Entrapped “Air-Bubbles” of Various Shapes and Sizes adding to the Looks of this Rare Boston Mass 19th. Century Soda Bottle.
The Thick Round Bottom of the Bottle is Seen to Have a Nice Wavy Shimmer when Held to Natural Daylight as seen in the Photos.
This “Round-Bottom-Ginger-Ale” from Boston Mass seems a Bit Smaller or More Slender, Than Most of the other Ginger-Ales in the same Very Collectible Bottle-Category.
CONDITION: The Bottle is in Excellent Original Early Condition w/ NO FORMS OF “DAMAGE”, NO CHIPS, NO CRACKS, NO OPEN-BUBBLES, NO “POT-STONE-RADIATIONS”, NO BRUISES, NO STRIKES OR “IMPACT-DINGS”, NO DISTRACTING STAINING - Some Faint-Scratches / Superficial, Light Exterior Wear in Places but nothing significant really. Bottle May “Clean-Up” with a Warm-Water Washing but I haven’t tried anything - Very Nice (!!!!)
This is a Rare and Very Hard-to-Find, “Round-Bottom-Ginger-Ale” Bottle for Specialized-Collectors and is Probably the Only Example I have ever Seen, in Over 35-Years of Antique Bottle Chasing here in South Eastern Massachusetts (within about 80-Miles of The City of Boston).
“George Fairbanks” was a Massachusetts Druggist and a Very Successful Marketeer and Bottler of Medicinal-Whiskeys, Beers and Flavored Soda Beverages. His Name appeared on Many Many different Massachusetts Bottles, often along with his Business Partners “Luke Beard”, “Boyd”, “Otis S. Neale”, among others. His (Probably) most Desired Bottle is His Square-Shaped, Golden Olive-Amber Colored “MONK’S OLD BOURBON WHISKEY / FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES / FAIRBANKS + CO. / BOSTON MASS”, which was Documented to have been Blown at the Granite Glass Company of Stoddard New Hampshire in the 1840-50’s.