Baltimore Beer Bottles

#545

7 1/4inch iron Porter

Blue Green with American Double Taper R

Dark Green with rounded Double Taper R

Yellow Olive with rounded Double Taper VR

Pure Yellow, lip unknown VR

#545

#1920

11 inch hand thrown stoneware bottle

Scratch Impressed as:

Cole & co.

Blob VR

#1925

11 inch hand thrown stoneware bottle

Impressed as:

COLE & co.

Blob VR

#1930

11 inch hand thrown stoneware bottle

Impressed as:

COLE & Co.

Blob R

#1935

11 inch hand thrown stoneware bottle

Impressed as:

COLE & CO.

Blob U

#1940

11 inch hand thrown stoneware bottle

Impressed as:

BOSTON

COLE & CO.

(rear)

R. BEER

Blob R

#1945

11 inch hand thrown stoneware bottle

Impressed as:

R. BEER

COLE & CO.

(rear)

BOSTON

Blob R

#1950

11 inch hand thrown stoneware bottle

Impressed as:

R, BEER

(rear)

BOSTON

Blob R

#1955

11 inch hand thrown stoneware bottle

Impressed as:

OLE & CO. (sic)

Blob VR

Columbia Bottle Cap Company 1907

Columbia Bottle Cap bottles were a way to advertise a new type of lip treatment. The example below was used as advertisement examples to show and persuade glasshouses to use this new lip treatment. Besides the one example noted here only one other brewery very briefly adopted the Columbia Bottle Cap lip treatment, that being the Iroquois Brewing Company on one embossed bottle. As the Crown Cork & Seal lip treatment had been available since 1893 and was the cheapest and quickest way to cap a beer bottle, the Columbia Bottle Cap quickly fell into obscurity.

Columbia Bottling Company 1898-1908

The Columbia Bottling Company was operated to bottle beer from local breweries. Originally operated by the Knoche Bros (Charles, Henry, Louis Jr. and Otto) on Ridgely & Fremount and later on Granby, the company was later run by George Schacher at the 214 S . Caroline St address. George Schacher originally partnered with Charles Brendel in their Brendel & Schacher Bottling house from 1898-1902 before leaving and purchasing the Columbia Bottling Company.

The Columbia Bottling Company was operated in several locations throughout the years including off Frederick Rd and later at 1062 Granby.