rare original and intact emerald or teal green glass sand pontiled eugene roussel soda or mineral water bottle with oversized block lettering

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UR-22790-15
possibly union or dyottville glass works, philadelphia, pa.

 

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original and intact privy dug late 1850's or 1860's vibrant teal soda bottle manufactured for famed philadelphia bottler eugene roussel. the low, sloping shoulders and short, tapering neck are finished with an applied rounded collar that exhibits some slop. the lower body features a clean strike in the form of the characteristic open-lined block lettering "e. roussel / philad.a" with a raised end-letter 'a' in the abbreviated city name. side seams are visible running from heel to bottom of finish. the smooth base is slightly recessed and evidences manufacture with sand pontil. crudities are typical of its age and date of manufacture, including surface wear from being dug. the body contains a number of bubbles, including an open bubble, and some on the interior of the glass. the vibrantly colored glass has been lightly cleaned and features minor haze, as well as allover rainbow-colored irridization. eugene roussel came to philadelphia in 1838, and immediately set up a perfumery where he made fancy soaps and toiletries, and additionally had a mineral water fountain. xavier bazin, roussel's lab director throughout the 1840's, bought the perfumery business from him when roussel wanted to focus on his mineral water venture; he continued to use roussel’s name until 1853. between 1840-1844 there was an explosion of bottlers in the region, caused largely by the craze for eugene roussel’s bottled soda and mineral waters; in 1838 or 1839 roussel bottled the first syruped soda water, a lemon flavor. he innovated in the taste and quality of bottled waters using his training in a parisian perfumery and lab to invent recipes that were more palatable, with none of the medicinal or bland qualities soda water of the time commonly had. the craze he created was so great that public demand for bottles triggered the reopening of the closed dyottville factories in 1842. roussel is credited as being the first to flavor his waters with fruit juices, or the first to bottle flavored soda water; neither is technically correct, though he is the first to have made a success of it and thus garners credit as the “father of the american bottled soda water industry". measures 7 1/2 inches high.

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