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The Kentucky Blue Lick Water Co. Bottle, Blue Lick Springs, KY

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The Kentucky Blue Lick Water Co. Bottle, Blue Lick Springs, KY
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This item SOLD at 2018 May 08 @ 14:16UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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The Kentucky Blue Lick Water Co./ Covington, KY. // 10 3/4" x 3 1/4" in size . Bright, orange amber with yellow amber tone. This specimen is Extremely rare. I have never seen one before, in 46 years. Long tapered collar, applied top. Under the lip is some extra pieces of glass as well. There is a small 1/16" flake, on the lip...as well as a ding , the same size , on the edge of the base. But, the is a spider shaped , ultra minute flaw in this specimen, 3/8' in size.. It is located on the letter 'C " in " CO", near the shoulder area.. Also, a little dried contents. If cleaned with some small copper wire pieces, and water , and just swished around, hand cleaned......would come out beautiful . Very unusual glass, with thousand of bubbles. This type of glass is called " Early Morning Glass" When the blowers come to work, and the vats have been cooking all night, the first gathers, are filled with bubbles. That's where the name comes from. Very desirable . Blue Lick is in Nicholas County, Kentucky on the margin of the Licking River (The Lower Spring was literally 20 feet from the river in 1873). There were two separate springs, the Upper and Lower Blue Lick Springs, managed separately, according to Walton, 1873 The Mineral Springs of the United States and Canada. The upper springs were “exceptionally fine waters of the saline-sulphar class”. It was bottled and distributed ”in the leading cities of the Ohio and Mississippi Valley.” The Lower Springs were well known to Pioneers, and this spring was used by Daniel Boone, who also got salt from the site to cure venison.
HWAC# 53146 Date: 1865-1875... Location: Blue Lick Springs, Kentucky