Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.
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| Smooth Water On Indian River Lagoon. |
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I've been documenting bottles found along the Treasure Coast lately and posting them in my TGBottleBarn.blogspot.com site. This one is broken, but the embossing tells the story of what people in the area were using close to a hundred years ago on the Treasure Coast.
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| Embossed Frank Fehr Brewing Company Bottle. |
Embossed: FRANK FEHR BREWING CO, LOUISVILLE KY.
Frank Fehr Brewing Co. opened in 1890 and closed in 1901 it was open for 11 years. Items from breweries of this age tend to be more common and less valuable than some breweries. Early items can still be valuable as can rarer types of items. As a Pre-Prohibition Brewery, any advertising items or collectibles are likely to be valuable and desirable to collectors as they tend to be hard to find. Frank Fehr Brewing Co. was in an active brewing city. Louisville, KY was listed as having 37 breweries, which is quite a few. Sometimes a large number of breweries can lead to an active collecting community that will be willing to pay more for breweriana items than other collectors.
Source: Frank Fehr Brewing Co. – KY 36d | Old Breweries Information | Breweriana Values
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| Embossed S B and C (or G) Co. |
- S.B.& G.CO…………………….Streator Bottle & Glass Company, Streator, Illinois (1881-1905). The Streator plant eventually became part of the American Bottle Company, then later Owens Bottle Company, and finally part of the Owens Illinois Glass Company (Plant #9). “S.B.& G.CO.” is one of the most commonly seen marks on handblown beer bottles from the late 1800s and early 1900s. Many, many private brewers and bottlers from the Midwest and eastern United States had bottles specially made for them by Streator. The mark is also seen on other bottles of the period, including pickle bottles, soda bottles and other containers.
Broken, this bottle isn't worth much of anything other than the story it tells.
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Long ago, and oh, so far away - that is how the song begins. Looking back over a ton of photos in some USB drives, including a lot of find photos and things, I found this photo of me and mom. The world has changed a lot, and so have I and everyone I knew. A hundred years doesn't seem so long anymore.
iThat is me and my mom at a store once run by my grandparents.
Cool signs that would be worth some good money today.
But we were most rich, when we were poor.
The store still stands, but is a pizza shop today and there are very few people alive who know, or care, that it was once a general store, and before that a one-room school house attended by my and a class room full of country farm kids, or that arrow heads, left by those who lived there long ago, were found behind the store along the creek when my dad planted potatoes Time marches on and things keep changing. Time is a dimension too. A life span is a quick blip when you take a larger view.
Metal detecting for items from the past gives you perspective.
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Accodring to the surf predictions, the Treasure Coast surf will be near flat - only one or two feet for the nest week. The tides are getting bigger.
Always something opening up somewhere if you are adaptable and willing to chase it.
Good hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net