Bellwoodboys
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Most of my collecting years have been dedicated towards bottles. Collecting bottles often encompasses a wide spectrum of glass, so collectors specialize in an area, such as historical flasks or pontilled sodas. Mine has always been bottles from Monmouth and Ocean county. There is just something so special about a bottle from your hometown! You can often locate exactly where the bottling works/dairy was located as well as what they sold through in-depth research as well as speaking with some of the older residents in town (who often have other very interesting stories 
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That's why I love local bottles so much! Finding the bottle is only the beginning of the fun, next comes the research about what kind of character the bottler was, where he bottled, and other additional info. Bottlers were often colorful characters who lived unusual lives.
The first picture depicts some of the hardest shore blobs to find! The one on the far right is a VERY early hutter blob from Matawan. This bottle was likely one of the first Monmouth County tall blob sodas, and the bottler Zimmerman is almost untraceable. The bottle is extremely rare.
The second one in the middle is a mint tall clear blob from Belmar. Only 3 of these bottles are known to exist. All 3 were found by my friend during a house demo in Belmar years ago.
The third one is a tall aqua blob from Atlantic Highlands with a very unusual slugplate. The embossing "Lehn's Bottling Works, Atlantic Highlands, NJ" are all piled on top of each other. Possibly evidence of a lazy mold carver who didn't feel like aligning all the embossing on the typical oval or circular slugplate. Although it would still be a lot of work to carve all those letters out! This bottle is also very rare.
More to come later, off to detecting!
)That's why I love local bottles so much! Finding the bottle is only the beginning of the fun, next comes the research about what kind of character the bottler was, where he bottled, and other additional info. Bottlers were often colorful characters who lived unusual lives.
The first picture depicts some of the hardest shore blobs to find! The one on the far right is a VERY early hutter blob from Matawan. This bottle was likely one of the first Monmouth County tall blob sodas, and the bottler Zimmerman is almost untraceable. The bottle is extremely rare.
The second one in the middle is a mint tall clear blob from Belmar. Only 3 of these bottles are known to exist. All 3 were found by my friend during a house demo in Belmar years ago.
The third one is a tall aqua blob from Atlantic Highlands with a very unusual slugplate. The embossing "Lehn's Bottling Works, Atlantic Highlands, NJ" are all piled on top of each other. Possibly evidence of a lazy mold carver who didn't feel like aligning all the embossing on the typical oval or circular slugplate. Although it would still be a lot of work to carve all those letters out! This bottle is also very rare.
More to come later, off to detecting!
