I recently found this bottle in a box of treasures in my attic. I don't remember where I got it. It looks like a beer bottle. It has no label but is embossed. Any ideas ?
Doesn't seem to be any brewer listed by that name in any reference book. How old's the bottle? Did it take a typical "crown" cap? Clear, brown or green glass? In the pre-Prohibition era, many breweries did not bottle their own beers and left that to local bottlers who bought and distributed kegs, and filled bottles with the brewer's beer from those kegs for the local market. They owned the bottles, and usually the beers were labeled with both the brand name and the bottlers name. They also usually bottled their own soft drinks and waters, etc. There are sites on the 'net that list all the known bottlers - here's one I use on occasion http://www.sodasandbeers.com/SABFindBottles.htm but no "Huco" listed there, either.
Sure that "C" in "Huco" isn't a "G"? There was a George B. Hugo & Co. bottling company in Boston. http://www.sodasandbeers.com/SABShowBottle.aspx?Bottle=56729AB&Firm_Number=56729 http://www.sodasandbeers.com/SABShowBottle.aspx?Bottle=56729AA&Firm_Number=56729
It is a brown bottle and is also embossed 151 Shawmut Ave Boston Mass. My wife seems to think it says Hugo not Huco. Hard to tell.
