While out boating and swimming today I found an old beer bottle on the bottom of a local [[unsustainable suburban) lake. I’m trying to date it. I took a couple photos but it’s kind of hard to photograph clear glass well.



On the front it says in embossed lettering

“KOPPITZ-MELCHERS
[five-pointed star]
BREWING CO.
DETROIT, MICH.”

“REGISTERED”





And on the back at the bottom it says

“PURE AND WITHOUT
DRUGS OR POISON’

Google yields info that Koppitz-Melchers Brewing Company ran from 1891 until 1919, then again as Koppitz-Melchers Inc. from 1934 until 1947 when I think it was bought by Goebbels.

I’d really like to date the bottle. It’s in amazingly good condition for something that’s been on the bottom of the lake for decades. Interestingly, the empty bottle weighs almost as much as a full modern 12 oz. beer bottle.