Frank W. Brawner


Company Names, addresses, dates:1
  Frank W. Brawner, 320 N Royal Alexandria VA (1897-1903)
  Frank W. Brawner, 408 Princess Alexandria VA (1904)
  F.W. Brawner & Co, 410 Princess Alexandria VA (1905-1908)

Notes:
Frank W. Brawner (1868-1949)2 teamed up with Joseph S. Beach and built a mineral water manufactory in 1895 on North Royal Street3,4.

I haven't seen Mr Beach's name on any bottles, and he appears in the Alexandria directories as a grocer and a "coal and wood" seller, but it's at the same address (310 N Royal Street) as Brawner's Mineral Water manufactory is listed at, so Brawner & Beach must have shared a building.

There exists a bottle that is embossed "F.W. BRAWNER & CO RAMMEL BROS PROPS ALEXANDRIA VA". Also, the Rammel Manufacturing Company shows up in the 1910 city directory at the same address as that Brawner was at in the 1908 directory. For these reasons, I think it's apparent that the Rammel Brothers took over the Brawner mineral water establishment. Brawner is listed as having various other occupations (watchman, clerk, crushed oyster shells business) in Alexandria city directories after 1910.

Bottles:

brawner_03 book # 92
This is an aqua 7" 10-sided mug-base hutchinson bottle, embossed:
tombstone slugplate: F.W. BRAWNER & CO. / TRADE / FWB&Co / MARK / REGISTERED / ALEXANDRIA, VA.
brawner_04 book # 93
This is an aqua 7.7" hutchinson bottle, embossed:
round slugplate: F.W. BRAWNER & CO. / ALEXA, VA.
brawner_05 book # 93
This is a clear 8" hutchinson bottle, embossed:
oval slugplate: F.W. BRAWNER / & CO. / ALEXA, VA.
brawner book # 94
This is a sun-colored amethyst 8.4" crown top bottle embossed:
front: F.W. BRAWNER & CO. / ALEXANDRIA, VA.
brawner_02 book # 95
This is an 8.5" clear crown top bottle embossed:
round slugplate: F.W. BRAWNER / & CO. / ALEXANDRIA, VA.


1 Boyd's Directory for the Alexandria Virginia (various years)
2 Find-a-grave for Frank W. Brawner
3 Washington Post, 13-Mar-1895, page 8
3 Washington Post, 27-Mar-1895, page 8




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