This is a very tough pontiled midwestern soda in a splendid deep cobalt

Circa 1850-1855 with a longish neck and applied taper

Circa 1850, an increasingly hard to find deep cobalt

soda in splendid condition

A tumble polished example that is clean

but retains some scaling and etch wear, not bad

This is the super tough Philly name to acquire -

not many exist. Nice condition overall

A super tough Philly squat in a funky fat lager shape,

with beautiful irridescent patina, circa 1850

This is a nice dated southern pontil soda

with wrap-around block lettering

It took me 30 years to find a whole example

of this tough variant - and terrific condition

This is a very fat Conway, the uncommon

arched slug plate variant -circa 1850

From the Neil Moore Saratoga collection,

here is a heavily hammered quart

in yellowish tobacco - mint condition

This bottle is crazy crude, tilting the side so much that it

looks like it will tip over- it's a lovely deep cobalt

with purple hues, circa 1850-1860

This is an attic found example of a pretty tough

Philly squat, circa 1850-1855

A character-filled circa 1850-1855

New York green pontiled soda

This is the chunky and scarcer "4 lines"

of embossing variant Duross

This bottle is crazy crude, tilting the side so much that

it looks like it will tip over. It's a lovely deep cobalt

with purple hues, circa 1850-1860

A very scarce name Philadelphia squat

with crude drippy top, circa 1850-1855

This circa 1860-1865 soda has open block letter wrapping.

It's a tougher blue soda to find and in

near mint condition, nice embossing

An uncommon Philly lager squat from my collection, circa 1850-1855

An uncommon earlier squat, circa 1845-1850.

Hard to find one without damage like this one

This is one of several variant Kirschenmann

squats from Philadelphia

A decent example of the sloped shoulder lager variant Kohl, circa 1850-1855

An uncommon Augusta Ryan

This is a tougher name to find, and a splendid example.

An apple green example of this heavy squat

- Dyottville Glassworks variant

A whittled deep green example

From the Neil Moore Saratoga collection, here is a heavily whittled

emerald green quart in splendid condition

A scarce name for the Philly collection, small pony size

A super crude blue-green example, very chunky, circa 1850-1855

This is a scarce Philly pontiled squat, circa 1850-1855

This is a very heavy and boldly embossed example

of this circa 1850-1860 mineral water

A scarce wrap-around block lettered Philly pontiled soda, circa 1855

This is the shorter square-shouldered

Ware squat, uncommon, circa 1855

Circa 1850-1855, a medium cobalt soda,

marked down for an old lip chip

A splendid mint example in a rich true deep green. Nice charactar

This is a supurb example of the "H" variant Hall

with nice glass whittle, circa 1850-1855

A nicely whittled apricot mineral water with great mold strike

and loads of micro bubble character

This is the lager version McLaughlin with

overall opalescent sheen (benicia)

A deep reddish amber colored soda or

mini split beer, circa 1880

An uncommon slug plate squat, priced down

because of minor cork pry issues

A circa 1840 short squat with backward S errors

One of the many pontiled Hall variants, this one is blank on the reverse

A fat slug plate squat with heavy iron pontil,

priced down because of a lip chip

A super nice example of this uncommon Civil War era

squat from Bristol, a Delaware River town

One of the many Richardson squats in great condition, Civil War era

This is the 2-line embossing variant, circa 1855-1860

This is the earlier "long neck" block letter Roussel soda,

priced down due to a very slight lip flake

Less common than the star-Andrews-Johnston,

this Philly soda dates to about 1855

An uncommon squat that might have an

eroded pontil but selling as smooth-based

A deep green circa 1860-1865 New Jersey squat

A super nice example of this south-central PA Civil War squat

Much scarcer than the green blob soda, this is an

aqua colored R & M with taper top

A displayable example of a rare pontiled Philly squat - reglued top

A deep green squat with applied double taper top

A crude, bubbly and gem mint Congress & Empire

mineral water, circa 1870

A fresh privy dug squat, circa 1850

A circa 1865-1870 Philly classic with hat top

A circa 1890 aqua hutch with block letter embossing

For the Philly collector, this is the scarce "no Bottler" example -

suitable as an example or for making a drinking glass

A near mint example of this circa 1900-1910 southwestern soda

This is a fresh dug deep green soda with

an earlier sharp taper top, circa 1850

A pretty Saratoga type mineral water in a very pretty emerald-olive color

This is the McCurdy with the flower on the shoulder

and full address, circa 1850-1855

A fresh dug Philadelphia green squat, circa 1860

This is the sloped shoulder variant of the classic Civil War soda.

It has the applied tapered "hat" type top.

A Philly squat produced at a New Jersey glass house, circa 1860-1865

A fresh dug circa 1870 aqua blob top soda

This bottle was produced by William B. Emmerick, circa 1850-55

One of 2 sided Heiss sodas, but this is one of the few sided sodas

anywhere that has embossing on all 8 panel

iron pontil, taper top, circa 1850

A Civil War period southern NJ glass house soda

A circa 1870 square shouldered soda

An uncommon pontiled soda, circa 1850-1855

This example has a deep cobalt color, circa 1850-1860

This is a deep cornflower hued blue squatty southern

bottle with wrap-around block lettering

This is a very pretty circa 1860-1870 Chicago soda,

priced down because of a minor flake inside the lip

A circa 1855 earlier variant Twitchell with Hat Top Green Soda

A classic block letter blob soda, pontiled, circa 1855

This is an uncommon pony sized pontiled soda, circa 1850's

This iron pontiled hefty south Philly squat comes in different addresses.

This is great example of the one variant.

A rough example of a truly rare color variant, circa 1860

A fat, deep blue-green variant of the Conway Bottler

squat from Philly, Circa 1850

This is one of the rare small early sodas with short taper, circa 1845

Priced down because of two base flakes but really nice overall

This is the fat body CONWAY blue lager or soda, circa 1850 in deep cobalt blue

An early circa 1840's Philly dug squat

Circa 1850, here is one of the super elusive early blue Twitchells

seldom seen and offered for sale

This is one of the tougher earlier Roussel sodas,

undamaged in natural dug condition