Pottery Bottles

Frank Raymond was a Milwaukee Agent to the A.P. Dickenson Brewery in Chicago in the early 1860's.

Phillip Altpeter was a beer bottler in Milwaukee. This one is the earliest variety. The stamp was dipped in cobalt. I has remnants of the Putnum wire cork retainer.

The stamp and shape of this example is the same as the previous but lacks the cobalt. The cobalt one is more difficult to find.

This bottle has the same stamp as others but the form resembles that of bottles in eastern U.S. States. The closure is a flat metal band that has a rubber disk attached (now gone on this one)) held in place by a metal loop. It was stamped several times by a frustrated potter.

This one is similar to the previous except stamped once.

Stamped P.A. with the band fastener like the triple stamped one above. The glaze resembles Denby inks. It may have been made by Henry Kummerow Pottery in Fond du Lac.

There are several varieties of pressed (molded) Altpeter bottles. This one has a large turkey dropping. There is an article on this site about the patented process used to make pressed bottles. https://milwaukeebottleclub.org/pressed-stoneware-bottles

Another 12-sided molded Altpeter stamped P.A. in a different font.

Same as the above except it has Albany slip glaze on the exterior and the inside. It is possible that Altpeter put up a different product such as root beer but that's just a guess.

Phillip Altpeter from Milwaukee. If you look closely at the neck you can see verticle lines. They were in the mold for some reason.

Stamped B.A. ATWELLS CELEBRATED TABLE BEER COR. STATE & JOHNSON STS MADISON WIS this quart sized earthenware bottle was made by one of the two Portage City potteries, probably the Dewitt street pottery (1859-1863). Ben Atwell opened a grocery in 1856 that ran until the mid-1860s. Atwell was a retailer, not a brewer.

They G.B. CO. stamp could be G. Banse but we can't be certain. They turn up in Wisconsin and northern Illinois and the lip is smaller than Wisconsin bottles.

From Beaver Dam.

From Milwaukee, There is an article on this site about this bottle. https://milwaukeebottleclub.org/a-stoneware-bottle-find-and-a-timeline

Possibly Fred Bock is from Boscobel Wis.

There is a good article about John Bollow on this site: https://milwaukeebottleclub.org/a-bottle-a-murder-and-a-mystery-john-bollow

The Beebe Bros were listed in the 1870's Milwaukee City directories as root beer bottlers.

Blatz bottled massive quantities of beer in Milwaukee in the 1870's and 1880's but there are virtually no bottles from Milwaukee. Apparently the used paper labels only. There are many branch Baltz bottles from around the country for some reason and this is one of them.

This quart bottle was made around 1880 but virtually nothing is know about this company.

This bottle is quite rare. Felix Calgeer bottled beer in Milwaukee