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Vintage Beer Bottles For Sale

From Washington, Oregon, New York, Ohio, Illinois, California and elsewhere.
Bottles include: embossed, blob top, squat, porters, stoneware, and labeled.


 

CALIFORNIA



National Bottling Co. amber pint, SF"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

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Union Brg. & Mltg. Co. amber quart SF c.1903"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

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Gilt Edge crwon top pint beer bottle"Ruhstaller's - Gilt Edge - Lager - Sacramento, Cal." on an 9" tall, amber pint, crown top bottle. excellent Ruhstaller Gilt Edge Lager quartcondition. $40
 
Also, an 11" tall, amber quart version (at right), in excellent condition as well. $45

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Calif. Bottling amber blob top pint SFCalif. Bottling Wieland extra pale label"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)

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Calif. Bottling amber blob top court SF"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

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Buffalo Brewing Company quart SF agent"Buffalo Brewing Co. / S.F. Agency" encircling the BBC monogram logo, on a 11⅛" tall, amber, crown top quart. Excellent condition. $45


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Buffalo Brg. Co. amber ring top quart SF agencyBuffalo quart lip chip"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


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ILLINOIS


Meister Brau half-gal. bottle with ACL label"Meister Bräu - Real Draft Beer - the Custom Brew" on a 14" tall, half-gallon bottle, ca.1968 (on base). The applied (ACL) pyro-glaze label is in near mint condition. From Meister Brau, Inc. of Chicago.  $45
 

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NEW YORK



Geo. W. Hoxsie's Premium Beer bottle, Albany, NY, ca.1865Hoxsie's Premium Beer bottle - back litHoxsie's Premium Beer bottle - bottom view
"Geo. W. Hoxsie's Premium Beer" vertically embossed on a 7" tall x 2⅝" diameter, heavy (17oz.), half-pint, black glass bottle, ca.1861, 1861 Albany City Directory ad for Hoxsie's Premium Beerfrom 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 - for $100 less!  $345
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No. American BC aqua pint from Brooklyn c.1905No. American BC Hutter porcelain stopper"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
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OHIO


Grasser & Brand stoneware beer from Toledo"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. $285

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OREGON 


Noth Pacific Bry., Astoria, OR, half pint beer bottleNorth Pacific Brewery bottle label"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

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WASHINGTON


Golden Age half-gallon jug"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

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Horluck's 11 oz. bottleHorluck embossed bottle with ad"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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Last updated - 23 Mar. 2024

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