What the... Have you ever?

[Jeff]

Saw a bottle like this?  

I don't feel it is incredibly old, but it is incredibly durable. It survived getting, (fictitious account) thrown from a late 1950s dodge truck with one headlight and a taped up vent window and missing muffler, at about 2:15 in the morning on the way home from the Raber bay bar 2 days before buck season after an evening of drinking and table shuffleboard. It just missed the large rocks used to make the road bed and settled into the fresh fallen snow on N.Caribou Lake rd.  Over the years it filled with sediment and small rodent hair, and absorbed into the earth, and was lost to mankind. 

This week, it survived the mulching of the tag alder roots and choke cherry, and wild clematis vines and earth surrounding it and was brough back to the surface.

While inspecting the newly mulched area, I spied what I though was a broken long neck of a beer bottle sticking out of the slash. I bent over and picked it up to find this whole bottle.  Long story short, I can not find ANY examples of it on the internet. What did I find??



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[doc henderson]

looks like Jos Schlitz brewing company.  can you type out what is on the bottom?

[doc henderson]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Schlitz_Brewing_Company

[doc henderson]

https://www.fohbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/SchlitzBeerBottles_1Winter2004.pdf

more about bottles

[Jeff]

I know its a schlitz bottle, because it says so. The bottom says Not to be refilled. No deposit no return.  I can not find another example of that bottle stlye or label. Plus its heavy and the label is impregnated into the glass.

[doc henderson]

Jos. Schlitz Brewing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA - Tavern Trove

this group of photos has part of that label pictured.



1895 to 1900.  they advertised the brown bottle for purity.  the light degraded the beer.

[doc henderson]

It seems to have a logo on the label and the bottom in the glass, that looks a little like a harp.  hard to see.  great mystery.

[chet]

Twist off cap?  The fact that it is non refillable would appear to date it during our drinkin' days.

[rusticretreater]

On the bottom it says no deposit no return plus manufacturing information.

Looks like the original pony bottle one can carry in their pocket on in a lunch pail.

[Jeff]

Twist off cap?

No. Opener.

[Hilltop366]

Searching "Schlitz 1849 malt lager" shows cans with that label but no bottles.

So no help with that but the thread does confirm the bottle washer portion of chief cook and bottle washer.

[doc henderson]

this image from 1968 has features of the bottle.  the circular label parts and a bull with 3 lines behind.  no bottle that looked like that.  the label must be foil, not paper.

[doc henderson]

never saw that bottle in all the ad photos.  they did have a paper milk carton style for use at large events.

[Jeff]

$300 @POSTON WIDEHEAD :D

[doc henderson]

did he find it?

[Old Greenhorn]

I am guessing it is a limited edition or commemorative edition. Sometime in the mid to later 60's because of the 'no deposit' stuff. I believe this is around the time they started to include plastic into the glass to make it more durable, but it also made it non-refillable.
 I too did some heavy searching and could not find an example of it. 1849 was the year the company was founded.

[Resonator]

Was that the bottle that: "Sally was sippin' on the seashore?" ???
(Old saying). ;D

[chet]

Sometime in the mid to later 60's because of the 'no deposit' stuff.

Not necessarily. Rather than stamp or cast the return on bottles, many times they would include a paper collar on the neck of the bottle, with that info.
Jeff, how many ounces is it?  My guess is it was the bottle version of the Schlitz Malt in shorty cans.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Aren't you the Chief Bottle Washer?
You get paid the same....carry on and don't drop it! 😂😂😂

[doc henderson]

I get it, 300 bucks is a goat unit of value.!

SGU  see forum dictionary.

[SwampDonkey]

See a bunch of Schlitz bottles on ebay, but none like that. Not even the shape.

[Bert]

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-schlitz-malt-liquor-beer-3226015952

[SwampDonkey]

Thanks for finding that Bert. I went to ebay and searched it.

ebay Schlitz Malt Liquor Bottle

[Bert]

I wanted to, but could not bring myself to pay for bid history.  :D I hoped it was worth a fortune though!

[chet]

Ding Ding Ding I win   8)   :D