Vintage Beer Bottles For Sale
From Washington, Oregon, New York, Ohio, Illinois, California, Maryland, and elsewhere.Bottles include: embossed, blob top, squat, porters, stoneware, and labeled.
"Boca
Beer" surounding a BBCo monogram (looks like BOB), on an 11.5" tall quart
bottle, ca. 1880s. Scarce bottle, in excellent condition.
SOLD
"National
Bottling Co." - above their Trade Mark eagle - and "San Francisco, Cal. /
Adolph B. Lang" - all on a 9⅜" tall, blob top, amber pint. Small open bubble on right shoulder, still excellent condition. $65
"Extra Export Stout / Rainier Brewing Company, San Francisco, USA" with "net contents 12 Fl. oz." and "alcohol content less than 1/2 of 1% by volume" on a 7 3/4" tall amber bottle. This is a prohibition bottling, ca.1926.
Excellent condition, with just a wrinkled corner on the label. Very scarce bottle! $40 
"Union
Brewing / and / Malting Co. / S.F. Cal." on a 11" tall, amber, quart, blob top beer, c.1902. The brewery's bottling works had to be rebuilt after the 1906 fire and earthquake, and they used only crown top bottles from then on. Excellent condition. $45
"Ruhstaller's
- Gilt Edge - Lager - Sacramento, Cal." on an 9" tall, amber pint, crown top bottle.
excellent
condition. $40
Also, an 11" tall, amber quart version (at right), in excellent condition as well. $45
"Cal.
Bottling Co. / Export Beer / S.F." embossed vertically on this 9¼" tall,
amber pint with a Baltimore loop finish. The California Bottling Co. was the
the John Wieland Brewery's own bottling works. Excellent condition. $45
(label for reference only)
"Cal.
Bottling Co. / Export Beer / S.F." embossed vertically on this
11½" tall,
amber quart with a Baltimore loop finish. The California Bottling Co.
was the John Wieland Brewery's own bottling works. Excellent
condition. $45
"Buffalo
Brewing Co. / S.F. Agency" encircling the BBC monogram logo, on a 11⅛"
tall, amber, crown top quart. Excellent condition. $45
"Buffalo
Brewing Co. / S.F. Agency" encircling the BBC monogram logo, on a 11½"
tall, amber quart with a double ringed blob collar. Excellent condition, but for
a flake at the lip (right). $40
"Dukehart
& Co. / Maryland Brewery / Baltimore" embossed on a 8" tall bottle, ca.
1877. The dukehart Brewery was an ale brewery, and they also made porter,
brown stout, and a malt tonic.
The consensus is that this is an Ale bottle, and I don't have proof
to the contrary. Condition is "attic mint." $125
"Geo.
W. Hoxsie's Premium Beer" vertically embossed on a 7" tall x 2⅝"
diameter, heavy (17oz.), half-pint, black glass bottle, ca.1861,
from Albany, NY
(1861 City Directory ad at right). Color is actually a dark,
chocolate amber (see image - far right) but is referred
to as "black glass." Great Civil War era bottle attributed to
the Westford Glass Works, CT (1857-1873). In a July 2015 Heckler
bottle auction a similar example sold for $445 (including
buyer's premium). This example is beautifully crude, full of
character, and in equally beautiful condition.
$300
"No.
American Brewing Co."
arching over the monogramed, six pointed brewer's star,
and "Hamburg & / Greene Ave's / Brooklyn, N.Y. /
registered". On the back heal: "this bottle not to be sold /
K.H. 1905". The bottle is a 9¼" tall, aqua blob-top pint, with a
Hutter porcelain stopper (at right). The "K.H." on the heal is
for Karl Hutter, who also had bottles made in NY - this one in
1905. It's in excellent condition with only a
chip out of the stopper. $55
"Jug Lager- Krug Bier - Grasser & Brand Brewing
Co. Toledo. O." and "Extra Quality - XXX Pilsner" on an
8¾" tall, stoneware, pint bottle, with lighting
stopper, ca.1890.
Beautifully detailed transfer.
Book price is $300-$400. Excellent condition with fine
overall crazing to glaze - no chips or cracks. $275
"North
Pacific Brewery / Astoria, Ore" - half-pint , crown top
finish beer bottle. c.1895. Label at right
is an example of what may have been on the bottle (for
info only). Excellent condition. $85
"Golden
Age / Beer" embossed above "Brewed by / Golden Age Breweries /
Spokane, Washington" and on the reverse is a raised oval
that would have held the label, with "Half Gallon"
embossed on the shoulder. This is the only other
proprietery growler in the shape of a barrel other than
one from the San Francisco Globe Brewing
Co. This
one is also from the early '30s. For
more information go to the history of the
Golden Age Brg. Co. Excellent condition.
$65
"Horluck's"
embossed diagonaly on the shoulder, and on the bottom, of this 9½"
tall,
11 ounce,
amber bottle from the Horlucks Brewing Co. of
Seattle, ca.1933. The bottle was privately made by the
Northwestern Glass Co. and contained the Brewery's White
& Gold draft beer. A rare bottle - only a few known.
Excellent conditon. $40
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