Upstate New York bottles (Amsterdam, Troy...)

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A few weeks ago I asked permission to MD on a property I've been dying to check out. So far it's yielded me very little as far as MDing However, in my hunt I found a spot that started to get hits left and right. It took me longer than I'd like to admit to figure out I'd hit someone's old trash dump. Lots of half rotted cans and pull tabs. Swinging the MD in this area is pretty much impossible, every inch, to some degree, has metal scraps beneath it. However, I did end up finding bottles. As silly and worthless as they are I've enjoyed finding old Genesee beer bottles. I'm a sucker for amber glass. However, I also ended up getting my hands on two local soda bottles (and later a bottle from Troy was found and given to me by my MD co-owner).

I tried to look up a bit of history for these as well, however limited. (Included in the attachments is a news article I found at one point regarding both Amsterdam bottles)


The first bottle is a Fitzgerald's soda bottle (1956), it says...

Side 1
A Favorite
FOR OVER 70 YEARS

FITZGERALD BOTTLING CO., INC.
SCHENECTADY-AMSTERDAM, N.Y.

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Side 2 (most is worn off/faded)
BEVERAGES

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Bottom
C-109

DURAGLAS

4 (I) 56

5

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I love this one in person. I tracked down the address of the bottler from the article out of curiousity. There's a house on the property but it looks like there was probably more to the left of the house at one point that's now pretty demolished/overgrown.

REDDINGS
BEVERAGES

REGISTERED
CONTENTS 7 FL.OZ.

AMSTERDAM, N.Y.


Bottom:
3 <(I)> 48
1 R
G6717

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My Troy bottle. From my googling, I think it may have held mineral water?

One side

REGISTERED

PHILIP J. RAMROTH
TROY, N.Y.

CONTENTS
8 FLUID OUNCES

500

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Other side

THIS BOTTLE
NOT TO BE SOLD

[jprice90]

think your 2nd is Owens Illinois, and the 3/48 may be the date it was made, nice bottles!

[IMShooter]

first two are OI bottles... they created the Duraglas process...the mineral water is a nice one too. Good finds. I especially like the deco bottle on the Redding's.. I'm a sucker for those bottles.