Painted Soda Bottoms As Trademarks

These trademarks are from 1861. Anyone ever dug one of these western soda's with the bottom paint still intact?
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Dirty old bottles

Here we have a "C&R" on the left and a C&K next to it. Casey and Kelly first opened their soda water manufacturing business in 1858, but this type of embossing doesn't show up until 1860/61. Prior to that it is believed that the "Sac Eagle" embossed bottles were used to contain their products.

The "C&R" bottle is believed to have been made for and used by a James Kelly, a usurper, who listed the address of 109 K St as his place of business. This was the location of the C&K Works, a place to which he had no connection. C&K were understandably ticked off about this blatant copycat and went about securing a trade mark on their bottles. They also moved their works to 107 K, distancing a bit further from James Kelly who understood the situation and disappeared from the Sacramento soda water scene.

The C&K bottles are quite common, but the "C&R" not so. Notice the size difference between to two bottles, with the C&K being somewhat larger than the other.

Some Gerdes Love....

Here is a recent find fresh from mother earth's grasp.  Being 10' underground didn't phase this soda at all which turned out to be a crude sparkler after a light muriatc bath.  Lying in the same layer were several other sodas, master inks, spices, blacks, and a mysterious neck to a pure green whiskey 5th with a monstrous drippy top.

Miscellaneous Sodas

Bay City Soda Water S.F.

Gold Rush Sided Sodas Continued...

M.R.

Here are three of the known types of bottle that contained Martin Rancich's soda waters. Another bottle marked simply MR & D exists, but not in my simple grouping.
I dug the blue examples on the left and right, but "silver picked" the green one. I have dug the green misspelled variety but for some unknown reason sold them off over the decades. One pit on 6th St in Sactown held 33 mint regular MRs and 2 green ones. Shame all that is long covered up by progress. It was good while it lasted but disappeared much faster than we neophytes thought it would.

Bremenkampf & Regli- Eureka, Nev.

I have always liked the early Nevada sodas. The W.S. Wright, G.P. Morrill, and Stephens and Jose to name a few. here is a nice blob from Eureka, Nevada. The Bremenkampf & Regli's seem to be pretty scarce, and this example has some nice swirls of green throughout, and slag particles along with trails of bubbles. I know some green examples exist also. Dale M.

2 Tone Owen Casey Blob Soda

Here is one of my favorite Owen Casey Blob Sodas, its a 2-Tone, medium cobalt blue in the body and a Dark Cobalt Blue Top. No it hasn't been played with, nuked, repaired, or used in a sacrificial bottle rite. My Buddy AT dug this in Sacramento years ago, its Soooo Awesome. I used to have 25 different color shades of these Owen Casey Sodas, now I am down to around 8 or 9 and this one. DB

Gold Rush Sided Sodas

Alright Lance, I like your motivation. I still have some sodas left, I do favor the unembossed sided iron pontil gold rush sodas. These are currently sitting on the boob tube right now, been awhile since I have been to add a different one to the group, I did sell an aqua (Double) one at the Los Angeles Bottle Show to a Limey who was taking it back to England for a friend of his. Rick, AKA. Doctor Barnes

Congrats On Your New Soda Site

Hey J.F. Cutter,


I just sold my western soda collection and now you're getting a site going. I'm not much of a blogger, soleagent can attest to that, but I'll try to support your efforts and enthusiasm. Will you allow an EC&M insulator collector who owns only 8 or 9 western sodas on your site?


Thanks Lance,
Denny Bray

Lynde & Putnam