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Taylor & Co. Valparaiso

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Bottles & Insulators Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 900.00 USD
Taylor & Co. Valparaiso
SOLD
600.00USDto M*********n+ buyer's premium (108.00)
This item SOLD at 2016 Aug 07 @ 00:08UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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This is a choice example of the Taylor Valparaiso soda bottle. Unusual teal-green, full of elongated bubbles. Pontil. This example was in the Grapentine Collection. Taylor ran the Jessie Street Soda Factory in San Francisco in 1854. During that time, anxious people were making their way to California goldfields. Their first stop after rounding the horn in South America was Valparaiso, a European port established more than a century before the Gold Rush. As such, it was an exceptionally important way station for the weary would-be prospectors. Taylor took advantage of this and had a soda outlet there, though he also used the bottles in San Francisco, as evidenced by their being found in SF. City: San Francisco State: California Inventory Number: 39539