AB of RI - New Finds 11

And in the continuing saga of New Stuff Of Little Value But Still Neat To Us Rhode Island Collectors, we present more of the current new additions to the Little Rhody Bottle Club's fabulous book, *Antique Bottles Of Rhode Island. And remember, all of the work that goes into these pages every month is worth it as long as you're* happy. It's all about you, isn't it? You, you, you.
Remembering last month, our heroes Art and Pam had the villain Evil Dave over to their house to photograph some RI bottles that weren't listed in the book. Unbeknownst to them, when they left the room to get cold adult beverages, Evil Dave began taking photos of Art and Pam's two cats and two dogs. In typical Evil fashion he planned to have flyers made up with the animals' pictures on them and a sorrowful plea from a sad third grader who claimed to have "lost" the animals on a family trip to the local Dairy Whiz. No, wait. Sorry. Wrong club.
	Art had told me about this first bottle a while back and I thought it was a slight variant of iRI-116. But when I finally saw it it was completely different from what I was expecting. iRI-116 is a stoppered apothecary bottle but this one has an applied round or ring lip. As you can see in the photo, it is embossed CASWELL HAZARD & CO (arched up) / NEWPORT R.I. / & / NEW YORK. The neck is much longer than iRI-116 and the color is aqua, not clear. The bottle has a ton of character including some great stretch marks on the neck. Art didn't tell me what he paid for it but that really doesn't matter to me. It's a great bottle, one you have to actually see to appreciate.

	This great WM. E. CLARKE / TRIAL SIZE / PROVIDENCE, R.I. with HUNT'S REMEDY on the left side and HUNT'S REMEDY on the right side comes to you complete with perfect label, contents and packaging from the collection of Richard Sheaff. If your memory is okay you might remember I showed you another bottle, the amber HUNT'S REMEDY CO. / ONE DIME SAMPLE, also from his collection, back in April. This Hunt's is listed as iRI-161 online and RI-116 in the printed book. Although not technically a "new" find, it is extremely rare to find the Hunts or Clarkes in this condition and complete.
I was cruising eBay again and came across our next tidbit. Although this CASWELL / MACK & CO. is a little guy, it packs a punch. The color is a gorgeous deep violet, but not as dark as it's big brother, iRI-119 (RI-086). This one is light enough to see through and you're really able to appreciate the color. The front is embossed as above and the reverse is embossed N.Y. & N.P., an unusual embossing for a Caswell Mack. For the curious, I believe the N.P. stands for Newport and this example is the only one I know of that has Newport represented with this abbreviation. Normally, Newport is spelled out on the Caswell related bottles and the only other spelling variation I know of is the HAZARD CASWELL with NEW-PORT hyphenated (iRI-284 in the online book and RI-215 in the printed book). This square bottle has bevelled corners and stands 2-5/8" high and is 15/16" wide. It has a nice tooled and flared lip. This New Find has been added to the online version of *Antique Bottles Of Rhode Island* and is numbered iRI-118.1
Well, that's all there is for this time. I'm tired and going to bed. Tomorrow I'll be working on the next installment of the New Finds page and oh can't you just wait to see what's in store. Good night, Mrs. Calabash, where ever you are.
Oh, and by the way. YOU could contribute to this page, too! If you find something not listed in the book, please email the information to me at dandrews@littlerhodybottleclub.com so I can add it.