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Spring 2025 Auction
May 23, 2025 10:00 AM PT - June 01, 2025 7:00 PM PT
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Italian Soda Water Manufactory San Francisco / Union Glass Works Phila.
This is a fantastic example of the ever popular Italian soda! In pristine condition with virtually zero casewear, this is truly a top example pontiled soda. All we can find is a pinprick sized nibble off the edge of the top and a small patch of light scuffing on the reverse. It will be a long time before an Italian in this condition shows up.
Lot # 1
Opening Bid
$200.00
Jackson's Napa Soda
Here is a beautiful example of a blue Jackson's. In an uncleaned, as dug condition, with light amber swirls and a touch of whittle. Very light interior stain.
Lot # 2
Opening Bid
$200.00
Los Angeles Soda & Mineral Water Factory / H.W. Stoll
Here is one of the few 1870s Western blown bottles from Southern California. This example is a rich aqua with very minimal casewear. There is a mininsule area of roughness under the lip where the bail was and minor crush on the N in Mineral.
Lot # 3
Opening Bid
$100.00
Haas Bros Natural Mineral Water / Napa Soda
A popular 1870s soda hailing from Napa California. These come in nearly every shade of blue, from light to cobalt. This example is a nice cornflower color and is just loaded with seed bubbles throughout.
Lot # 4
Opening Bid
$100.00
Wood's Napa Soda / Natural Mineral Water T W F A.G.T
These cobalt Wood's often have small checks or flashes, but this example appears problem free. In addition, there is no case wear! Looks like a soda that was dug, washed, and put on the shelf. There is a minuscule open bubble or surface fleabite on the front right, see photos. Thomas W Fenn was the agent for the famous Napa Soda in the early 1870s.
Lot # 5
Opening Bid
$100.00
Owen Casey Eagle Soda Works / Sac City
Owen Casey soda bottles are around, but problem free green examples like this seldom show up. Here is a pristine example with beautiful seedy glass in original as dug condition. If you look carefully you might see some dirt the original digger didn't clean.
Lot # 6
Opening Bid
$200.00
Owen Casey Eagle Soda Works / Sac City
Another Owen Casey, yet this time in strong cobalt blue with swirls seen in backlight. There is shallow 1/2" line of missing glass and minuscule surface fisheye, caused during manufacturing. The bottle is crude, and when turned, one notices the front of the bottle is caved. See photos.
Lot # 7
Opening Bid
$80.00
Owen Casey Eagle Soda Works / Sac City
Here is an off color Owen Casey in a medium teal blue with some light whittle. No issues.
Lot # 8
Opening Bid
$80.00
Kimball & Co
Here is an early pontiled soda from Marysville, California. It has a crude, offset pontil which is most likely an iron pontil that was cleaned. In a medium blue with light whittle and large block letter embossing. There is a little patch of very small in making surface fissures above the embossing. See photos.
Lot # 9
Opening Bid
$200.00
Woods Napa Soda / Natural Mineral Water
This late 1860s variant of the Wood's Napa Soda is almost always found in aqua. Here is a blue example in great shape with just a touch of casewear on the top and body!
Lot # 10
Opening Bid
$200.00
Ghirardelli's Branch Oakland
A great example of the Ghirardelli's soda from Oakland with a strong strike, crude top, and nice character. Upon close examination you'll notice a very small crush on the D in Oakland.
Lot # 11
Opening Bid
$150.00
Deamer Grass Valley / W.E.D
A popular 1870s soda from Grass Valley, California. This example maintains its original wire bail and was likely a surface find up in the mountains of Gold Country. In great condition with no major issues. We do see a tiny area of roughness under the top, above the wire bail.
Lot # 12
Opening Bid
$90.00
Cottle Post & Co Portland Ogn.
With an embossed Phoenix on front. While these Portland, Oregon sodas date to the early 1880s, they are almost always tooled like this one. This beautiful light teal blue color is rare for this bottle, most are a much darker teal color. No issues.
Lot # 13
Opening Bid
$100.00
Pacific Soda Works / Classen & Co. San Francisco
This is the rare Western blown Classen soda circa mid 1860s. Put it next to a regular Classen and you will see it is an entirely different mold. We'd estimate there are one of these for every 30 Eastern blown Classen. This example has nice whittle and clean bubbly Western glass.
Lot # 14
Opening Bid
$100.00
Breig & Schaefer S.F.
With an embossed fish on the front, these bottles are unique in terms of Western sodas. Breig & Schaefer owned the Pacific Soda Works so perhaps there is a link between the fish and the Pacific Ocean, but after over 70 years of bottle collecting on the West Coast, nobody is quite sure. This is a top example and is just loaded with seed bubbles, a great strike, and some light whittle.
Lot # 15
Opening Bid
$80.00
B&G San Francisco
Here is one of the few mug based pontiled sodas from San Francisco. This example has a great flying saucer top and most of the iron remaining on the pontil. Some casewear and surface fisheyes (one 1/8" on side of top), if you look hard enough, but nothing abnormal for a pontiled soda.
Lot # 16
Opening Bid
$200.00
Williams & Severance San Francisco Cal / Soda & Mineral Water
This is an early 1850s, iron pontiled Gold Rush soda from San Francisco. Medium green with some of the iron pontil intact and nice long neck. No major issues, just typical light casewear that is usually found on most sodas of this age. Better than most Williams & Severance sodas we've seen.
Lot # 17
Opening Bid
$300.00
Bay City Soda Water S.F.
An iconic 1870s soda from San Francisco, California with an embossed star on the reverse. This example is loaded with whittle, with great seedy glass and a nice medium blue color. A few small rough areas on the embossing, but overall, a great example!
Lot # 18
Opening Bid
$100.00
Bremenkampf & Regli Eureka NV
Applied top. These late 1870s sodas are typically found in aqua, but are much tougher in green. This example has some faint dirt residue on the inside, but is overall in great condition with faint amber striations.
Lot # 19
Opening Bid
$150.00
Babb & Co San Francisco Cal.
A classic San Francisco pontiled soda in superior condition. This example has great whittle and a crude iron pontil. Almost no case wear.
Lot # 20
Opening Bid
$100.00