Nicholson Bottling Works

Author: Bill Lockhart · Year: 2004 (© Bill Lockhart 2004; July-August 2004 publication date in body) · PDF: assets/pdfs/2004-lockhart-nicholson-bottling-works.pdf

8-page Bill Lockhart monograph on the Nicholson Bottling Works. Body references “Gus” Nicholson (born Greece c. 1870) and bottling operations starting 1925. Typical Lockhart format — Society for Historical Archaeology-style with photographic plates and mark documentation.

Relevance to H&H

Peripheral. No KB pages currently cite Nicholson Bottling Works. Potential connections to evaluate on a curator read:

  1. Were Nicholson bottles ever used for H&H Extracts? The H and H Extracts brand produced flavoring extracts that would have needed small glass bottles. Lockhart’s pages would document Nicholson’s product line and any San Antonio distribution; if Nicholson supplied small extract-class bottles, the firm could appear in an H&H supplier chain. If the work is San Antonio-centric (the “Gus Nicholson, born Greece c. 1870, 1925 operations” framing suggests a particular location), the geographic overlap is plausible.
  2. San Antonio directory overlap. If Nicholson appears in 1920s-30s SA business directories alongside H&H, the resource provides peripheral context on the city’s small-manufacturer ecology.

Given no existing KB references, the most pragmatic move is to leave this resource as a research-reserve reference — keyword-searchable for any future glass-supplier or bottling-industry research thread.

See also

  • H and H Extracts — H&H beverage-extract line that may have used bottle suppliers