Featured Soda--Rare Charleston S.C. Branch Pontiled Soda

More evidence that many of the prolific bottlers of the era had foreign branch offices, this SMITH mold is very similar to the green examples found in New York. Virtually the same embossing style, size and form, the green New Yorkers just display the "PREMIUM" over the medium block "S", but this example displays the extremely rare Charleston embossing beneath. How many other branches were there for Smith? Was the "Smith & Co" of Charleston this Smith, or a derivation of A.P. Smith? And does this indicate that NY Glasshouses were the big supplier of Charleston sodas not marked "Union Glass Works"? I have my opinions, but not enough facts, save this important example. Like the Galveston Conant, this Charleston Smith is no doubt a branch office bottle, but with a much more distant "Yankee" home office. Note: The South seemed to favor the blue soda earlier than up North. Of the four known Charleston "Big S" sodas, all are blue. The New Yorkers are predominantly green.