Saxlehners Bitterquelle Bottle

[jrsherman]

Saxlehner's Bitterquelle Bottle

Well, here's my newly cleaned mineral water, which I mistakenly had termed a bitters type bottle. Although, the fellow I dug it with had thought the same thing, and he's a veteran compared to me, so we both got a little eddification!! I had told Cynangyl of the color of this bottle, and the site which has the information has a good picture of it, but here's the pictures I got on mine. It's a pretty interesting story too, so here's the link:

http://www.sha.org/bottle/soda.htm

Just choose the "Hunyadi-Janos Bitterquelle" jump, or scroll down towards the bottom. Interestingly enough, they state that these are/were being found in California and were shipped there in the 1880's, and we found this one in a 1880's era dump here in Norfolk, VA, so maybe they had a much wider circulation than thought!

At any rate, here's the picture's for y'all, enjoy!!



Saxlehner's Bitterquelle Rim, Hunyadi-Janos Center



Didn't plan on it, but the white if my wall reflected really neat around the neck.



White piece of paper to try and show color a little better.



You can almost see it, but the inside of the bottle looks "dimpled" when looking into a light source.

Hope you all enjoyed these, happy digging, and Happy Thanksgiving!!

 

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[treasurefiend]

Re: Saxlehner's Bitterquelle Bottle

Sweet!!!

 

[Bent-Twig]

Re: Saxlehner's Bitterquelle Bottle

Hi, very nice bottle!! I find them up here in Northern Ohio too. I dug a dump just before the snow started that must of had about 20 of em all broken. Here is a picture of one of mine to try and help show the color of these bottles. I thought that these were bitters bottles too.

Happy Huntin' , Twig.

 

[ohannos]

Re: Saxlehner's Bitterquelle Bottle

So thats how they look like. Found the bottom of one about 2 months ago on a plowed field here in sweden.
Nice bottle/ ohannos

 

[phantomfinder]

Re: Saxlehner's Bitterquelle Bottle

SWEET LOOKING BOTTLE, WTG

 

[root]

Re: Saxlehner's Bitterquelle Bottle

Beautiful bottles gents!!

Twigs bottle shows the effect of being blown in a cold mold, thus the whittling effect.

HH,

root

 

[chong2]

Re: Saxlehner's Bitterquelle Bottle

i found one last year, its still half full and has cork, i posted somehwere here in this bottle furum awhile back

 

[crazyjarhead]

Re: Saxlehner's Bitterquelle Bottle

Thats a cool looking bottle............ nice color

 

[inta29]

I found mine at the beach in Hampton Bays NY, in Tiana Bay 8/2011.
Beautyful bottle! Life is Good!

 

[Harry Pristis]

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[sodetraveler]

We find allot of these is Hawaii as well.

I have several that were pulled from a dump that is well dated as ranging from 1892 - 1898.

Last week I was digging in some transition era (1915ish) stuff in my backyard and pulled what looked like the same bottle.

When I got home and cleaned it up I was shocked to find out that it was ABM!!!

Although I can't tell for sure from the pictures you posted, it sure looks like you got the 1915 ABM version there. It's easy enough to check - just look at the seam.

The 1890's version is tooled and I'm guessing that if there is an 1880's version it may be applied - but this is just speculation as I've never pulled one of these from an 1880's dump.

If I'm wrong about your bottle being ABM, I apologize - I do hate when someone calls one of my hand blown bottles machine made! Just wanted to share my recent experience with this bottles in hopes to continue the discussion

BTW - the ABM version looks EXACTLY like the tooled version. Same size, color and base marking. It even has whittle marks!!!