LETTERS
to the Editor
Advertisement for Fine Flint Glass Bottles Hi, John, Here is an item (at left) that I saw recently on eBay. As you see, it is an interesting promotion for a large, 2 1/2 gallon flint glass British bottle. Best to you, Dick Sheaff Bethel, Vermont
British ad sent in by Dick Sheaff
I think the jar column is going to go under sometime in mid-2021, but I have said that before. I think I’ve just about reached the end on my tether though.
Unusual Trademarks
Ralph and Janet, hang in there, and maybe we’ll yet see you at another show.
Hello John,
Thanks, Peter B. Samuelson Intervale, New Hampshire
Thinking Back, and Thinking Forward Chief AB&GC Editor Ralph Finch assembles readers’ memories and good wishes. On a recent winter day, Tom Caniff of Steubenville, Ohio, sent this email:
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Like everyone else, we’re hoping to see the end of this virus, but truth to tell, everyone dies and in the end it probably doesn’t matter whether the culprit is Crohn’s disease, COPD, or some goofy virus. It’s been a good run.
Editor’s note: That is a very interesting ad. This English glass manufacturer, J. Dunlop Mitchell & Co., must have had a niche market for these large store display bottles. We would love to see one of their bottles!
In my bottle collection are two crown top spring water bottles with odd embossed trademarks (at left). One bottle is from Crystal Spring Bottling Co., Barnet, Vermont; the other is from Lovers Leap Co., Lynn, Massachusetts. Perhaps the readership could tell me what the odd trademark designs represent.
Readers, any insights n these trademarks?
Since I’m not actively collecting, just maintaining the remnants of our 46-year accumulation, I don’t miss the bottle shows as such very much, but do miss seeing our surviving friends of long standing, such as Ralph and Janet. I do remember them in my prayers, but that’s not the same as having a chance to sit and visit and complain.
We’re still getting older day by day, but no new problems have appeared that we’ve haven’t had for some time. Trying to stay home as much as possible.
— Tom and Deena To Tom and Deena, Ralph replies: Fifty years of knowing you two … well, the memories of good bottles and much laughter could fill a book. I remember the day, maybe 35 years ago?, when my house caught on fire and you were the fire chief of Steubenville. I remember calling you and asking if you made home delivery with your trucks. It was extra-coincidental, since we were only hours away from heading off to your Steubenville bottle show. The coincidences continued. While you are the No. 1 jar historian, Chicago’s Jerry McCann, who had possessed perhaps the No. 1 jar collection in the world, was at my house when the fire broke out (I was at work). No, Jerry didn’t cause the fire and was the one who called the fire department, our fire department. Yes, so many good memories of so many good people. I just picked up a 1983 copy
