Nice RICHMOND HOME BREWING Peter Stumpf Bottle

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For our collectors of early Richmond and Virginia beer bottles, is a great HOME BREWING bottle. This bottle still has some of the old Peter Stumpf embossing showing beside the word HOME. I think the local bottle diggers call this "the ghost Home Brewing bottle". Peter Stumpf & Company were located at 1203 - 11 West Clay Street in Richmond Virginia 1893 - 97. In 1898 Peter Stumpf was taken over by the Home Brewing Company which operated at that location until 1916. This bottle was made from the converted Peter Stumpf mold. Note the small size lettering on the word HOME. On the later HOME BREWING bottles HOME was written in much larger letters. The embossing reads HOME BREWING RICHMOND VA with the eagle sitting on the stump holding a beer keg in his beak. T is a dollar sign on the end of the keg. On the back of the bottle reads THIS BOTTLE NOT TO BE SOLD. The bottle stands 8 and 3/8 inches tall and the diameter is 2 and 3/4 inches. T are no visable chips or cracks on this bottle but it could use a good cleaning as t is still what looks like red clay around the neck and inside. As you can see, the bottle still has part of the original wire with glass stopper intact. However the small wire is broken on one side. I am assuming this is the original latch for this bottle as it was brought to me with this intact on the bottle. I understand read more

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