Coffee factory interior — Maxwell House cases and jar line
A wide black-and-white interior of a mid-century coffee-packing room: a long, serpentine floor conveyor carries a single file of small glass jars with pale l...
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A Coffee Whistle?
A small, light-wood quail- or call-type slide whistle, probably a mid-century grocery or radio-sponsor freebie: a notched end for the mouth, a square central...
A Crystalvac Jar from H and H Coffee
In hand is a large, clear, three-pound H and H Crystalvac jar: a tall square plan with big corner radii, a dark oxidized metal screw cap with a knurled edge,...
A Visit to Three Rivers
While traveling in South Texas, we made a day stop in Three Rivers, the home of the glassworks that made the square H and H Crystalvac line. Michael David Sm...
Trinity Bottling Works crown-top bottle (Three Rivers Glass)
Clear glass soda bottle with a crown finish and a short smooth neck. The shoulder carries vertical fluting that steps down into a horizontal panel where curv...
Three Rivers clear crown-top beer bottle (Shiner listing)
Clear glass bottle with a crown finish, long tapered neck, and straight cylindrical body — the “clear glass crown top” form called out in the seller title. T...
Milwaukee Drinks art-deco soda bottle (Three Rivers Glass)
Clear glass soda bottle with a metal crown cap still in place. The shoulder carries diagonal spiral flutes; the cylindrical body is covered in a raised diamo...
Dragon soda bottle (San Antonio; Three Rivers Glass)
Clear glass soda bottle with a crown finish, narrow neck, and rounded shoulders. On the shoulder panel a circular dragon roundel sits above embossed TRADE MA...