rare original mid-nineteenth century medium blue green porter shaped bottle finished with an unusual intact blob top and ring manufactured by pennsylvania area glassworks for john a. seitz.

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j.a. seitz, easton, pa.

 

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original and intact mid-nineteenth century (1865-1872) medium blue green porter shaped bottle finished with an unusual intact blob top with ring manufactured by philadelphia area glassworks. the body features a clean strike in the form of a deeply embossed but caseworn “j.a. seitz / easton pa” with raised end-letter "a" in the abbreviated ‘pennsylvania’. a large open-lined "s" is embossed on the reverse. the bottle features typical crudities, including whittling at the neck, bubbles, and minor surface wear in the body. the base has a shallow kickup with traces of residue from the iron pontil. john seitz was the son of philadelphia bottler frederik seitz sr., who emigrated to philadelphia in 1819, and established a brewery in 1821. the initial iteration of the firm, seitz & goundie soon bought land and built a brewery near the delaware river. frederick seitz purchased his partner's share of the brewery two years later and soon focused on industries that augmented his brewery. first he built a brick malt house on the north side of ferry street. initially bottling was done at the brewery and bottles were marked "f. seitz." one of seitz's claims was that he was the first brewer to bottle beer in pennsylvania (although it is more accurate to say he was the earliest brewer to bottle beer in marked bottles of his own mold, starting in about 1844 or 1845). seitz also built a bottling works on bushkill street on ground he purchased in 1853. from this point forward, the bottles were marked seitz & bro. seitz brewed ale, lager beer and porter, at a capacity of 225 barrels a month in 1862 (and 800 barrels by 1866). by 1871 the business was being carried out fully by seitz’s sons, with three distinct branches (brewing, malting, and bottling). from tax records it appears the firm of seitz & brothers paid taxes until october of 1865, and then john a. seitz had control of the bottling business. by 1873, according to the easton directory, john a. and the bottling business joined seitz brothers. by 1877 the seitz brothers still in the business incorporated as the seitz brewing company, which operated until 1928 and ran under several names until closing for good in 1938.

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