Abner & Drury Brewers 209 W. Camden 1900

Abner & Drury was a brewery in Washington DC. They did not brew in Baltimore but opened a bottling house where beer was shipped from DC in kegs to Camden Yards and then transported by horse drawn wagons to the 209 W. Camden St. bottling house.

Abner & Drury was either not very popular in Baltimore or they gave up on bottling in Baltimore as the location was only used for one year, 1900 and then closed leaving few Baltimore versions of the Abner & Drury bottles.

The 209 W. Camden St. bottling house. Here the beer was siphoned from the kegs and bottled in the Baltimore Abner & Drury bottles.

Aluminum Cork Seal Company 200 N. Holiday 1898-1903

The Aluminum Cork Seal and the Ideal Stopper Company was a joint collaboration to advertise a new type of lip treatment, the Aluminum Cork Seal (ACS). The examples below were used as advertisement examples to show and persuade glasshouses to use this new lip treatment. Various glasshouses blew Baltimore beer bottles using this new lip treatment however this process quickly fell out of favor to the faster and cheaper Crown Cork and Seal lip treatment.

Anheuser Busch Brewing Association 1886-1919

Anheuser-Busch was never brewed in Baltimore. Beer was kegged at the brewery in other states and transported to Baltimore. Kegs were moved by horse drawn wagons to the bottling house. Here the beer was siphoned from the keg and bottled by A. Von Mitzel at 9 & 11 S. Eutaw St, from1886-1889, C. G. Edelen in 1890 then at ABs bottling house located at 707 Pratt St. and then later at Pratt, King and Penn Sts.

In 1890 Anheuser Busch closed their contracts with Alex Von Mitzel and other bottling houses preferring to complete all their own bottling. This location at Pratt, King and Penn had a train siding right next to the building allowing for the kegs to be rolled right out of the train and into the cold storage until bottling was needed. The embossed bottles below were more than likely all utilized at this location. Previous to this Von Mitzel and other bottlers would have used their own embossed bottles with an Anheuser Busch label.

#20

Horizontal oval slugplate with no glasshouses identified

Aqua Blob VR

#25

This example was found to be a duplicate of #60

#30

Private mold blown by JB and A.B.G.M. Co.

Amber Blob VR

Amber Crown C

Aqua Blob VR

Aqua Crown C

#35

Private bottle mold blown by NBBG Co and DOC

Amber Blob R

Amber Crown C

Aqua Blob VR

Aqua Crown Deadman

#40

Round slugplate with several versions. No glasshouses identified.

Amber Blob Deadman

Amber Crown VR

Aqua Blob VR

Clear Blob VR

#45

Round slugplate with several shades of amber and aqua. No glasshouses identified.

Amber Crown R

Aqua Crown VR

#50

Round slugplate blown by A.B.G.M. Co.

Amber Crown VR

Aqua Crown R

#55

Private mold blown by DOC

Amber Loopseal VR

Aqua Loopseal VR

#60

Round slugplate with varying punctuation. No glasshouses identified.

Aqua Blob VR

Aqua Crown VR

Clear Blob VR

#65

Private mold blown by EHE Co.

Amber Blob R

#70

Private mold with and without "REGISTERED" blown by NBBG Co. and OB Co.

Amber Blob VR

Amber Crown R

#75

Private mold with some examples ABM blown by AB Co and OB Co

Aqua Crown C

#80

8 ½ inch iron pontiled applied lip early Lager in bluish green with taper

With lower rounded collar (VR)

With American double taper (U)

#85

7 ¼ inch iron pontiled applied lip Porter

Aqua with English double taper (U)

Teal with American double taper (VR)

#90

7 ¼ inch iron pontiled applied lip Porter

Shades of deep aqua and green with tapered lip (R)

Double tapered lip (VR)

Single known example with tapered lip in deep aqua with odd solid glass tipped pontiled scarred base (VR).

Baltimore Beer Bottles

Abner & Drury Brewers 209 W. Camden 1900

#5

Aluminum Cork Seal Company 200 N. Holiday 1898-1903

#10

#15

Anheuser Busch Brewing Association 1886-1919

#20

#25

#30

#35

#40

#45

#50

#55

#60

#65

#70

#75

Peter Babb 1851-1857

#80

#85

#90

#80

#85

#90

Abner & Drury Brewers 209 W. Camden 1900

#5

Aluminum Cork Seal Company 200 N. Holiday 1898-1903

#10

#15

Anheuser Busch Brewing Association 1886-1919

#20

#25

#30

#35

#40

#45

#50

#55

#60

#65

#70

#75

Peter Babb 1851-1857

#80

#85

#90

#80

#85

#90

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