Another nice find from this past trip to NJ and even with already having several of these bottles it's always a welcomed addition. There were numerous Soda\Beer bottlers in Red Bank N.J. that serviced the Jersey shore as well as New York City.
Down the road W.A. French actually sold his operation to his competition H.G. Degenring which was common practice for many of these bottlers had actually worked with or for in the past...
With so much competition in this field there was always the problem of other bottlers re-filling their bottles with their product and selling it that way. Often the cost of the bottle itself was higher then the product itself so this was a obvious problem. There was also an "Industry" of people who would gather and sell the bottles to whoever would pay for them so this was on a bigger scale than just casual individual user.
Many bottlers started to emboss directly into the bottle itself a warning "Not to sell" to help prevent pirating of their bottles. Beer\Soda sales were often and these bottles were reused numerous times during their lifespans...
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