E ROUSSEL PHILADA fancy script variant 1860's Green Squat Soda NICE
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OFFERED Is a classic 1860's mineral water / soda or beer bottle from Philadelphia Pa. Embossed in fancy script letters that surround the bottle E ROUSSEL and in smaller double lined block letters PHILADa. Green glass, big applied blob lip, smooth base no pontil. It is in great condition - the glass is clean and there is no stain. No chips, cracks, scratches, or case / ground wear. Likely lightly tumbled, but with no harm to the glass. Embossing is weak as is typical for this variant. Please see the pictures for more detail A bit of history from the web site "sodasandbeers" Roussel is credited by early industry authors as being the first to flavor his waters with fruit juices or more accurately the first to bottle flavored soda water. Although neither is technically correct, he is the first to have made a success of it and thus deserves the credit as the "father of the American bottled soda water industry." The Pharmaceutical Era Volume 46 in 1913 likely used Harpers as a source to recount the early days of bottled soda water: In 1838 or 1839 the first syruped soda water was bottled in this country by Eugene Roussel, a Frenchman, who kept a perfumery shop in Philadelphia. He had a dispensing apparatus in his store, and the idea came to him that there was a legitimate extension of his business in the bottling and sale of soda water
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