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Bottle (Addendum): UNEEDA Bottling Works — Beaumont, Texas
artifact active p3
A confirmed Three Rivers Glass customer bottle beyond Smith's 75-item price list: UNEEDA Bottling Works, Beaumont, Texas. Clear, 9 inches tall; embossing verbatim — UNEEDA (shoulder), BOTTLING WORKS (near shoulder), MIN. CONT. 8 FL. OZ. (heel), 3 Rivers star (heel), 8 FL. OZS. / W. (base). Documented as the addendum entry in the Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co. online catalog (© 2026), which presents it as a genuine customer bottle not in the numbered list.
Next action: None — documented in the Hoffmann-Hayman collection; watch for a second specimen or period Beaumont directory corroboration.
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Why Track This
The first physically documented Three Rivers customer bottle beyond Smith’s canonical 75 — evidence the price list undercounts the customer base, exactly as the embossed-bottle census caveats predict.
Current State
Single specimen documented in the Hoffmann-Hayman collection with full verbatim embossing including the 3 Rivers star heel mark. Not in Smith (1989) p. 39.
Next Action
None active. Corroboration candidates: a second specimen, or UNEEDA Bottling Works in period Beaumont city directories.