Description
1905 AB-CONNECT ADOLPHUS BUSCH GLASS MANUFACTURING COMPANY Blue Aqua Beer Bottle
“Most bottles with the “AB-connected” mark embossed on the bottom are mouth-blown (handmade) and were made to contain beer. They date from the circa 1905-1917 time period, and (possibly) primarily from an earlier stretch within those years: c.1905-1909. The mark may have been used only at the two Adolphus Busch Glass Manufacturing Company plants (located in Belleville, IL and St. Louis, MO) that became part of the American Bottle Company merger in 1905. It may be that the mark was originally used by Adolphus Busch, and was later “adopted” (circa 1905) as the standard mark used on the base of generic beer bottles produced by American Bottle Company for some period of time thereafter.
This is a bottle from an estate collection that had been in storage from 1966-2017. The original collection was over 4000 bottles. The family that built this collection was deeply into historical preservation and conservation. They did their own digging, which included collecting all the of the paper travel memorabilia as they traveled across the American West looking for these old bottles (and insulators, and rocks – but we didn’t get those collections). In some cases, we have items that were prepared for going to shows, and then we have boxes and boxes of bottles that are “freshly dug”.
Please see our other listings for many other bottles from this collection, as well as the many paper collectibles.
Bottle Size: 9.5 x 2.5 x 2.5
