Lunt Dairy Farm

Sea Captain Watson Lunt, the 200 acre farm was on Clark Cove in Town Hill. WW Lunt was from Calais, his wife from St. Andrews, they raised 7 children. Lunt had milking machines and a creamery. Some of the Lunt bottles say Bar Harbor and some Northeast Harbor so they had routes in both towns. Apparently a son, H.R. Lunt took over the farm at some point. H.R. Lunt had 45 cows and 80 acres.

Harold "Jake" (H.R. Lunt) told his daughter, Lori Randolph, that during Prohibition he and his brothers would meet their Father's (W.W. Lunt) ship, the FG French, with a wagon at the shore on their property very early in the morning. They would row out to the ship and load on the rum barrels on to the smaller boat. The boys would then ride the wagon around and unload the rum barrels into various dry wells on the property. Then the rum could be taken to the customers with the daily milk delivery run.

For the milk bottle collectors out there, this collection contains an unusual bottle. (See first photo below.) It has black pyro lettering on one side and embossing on the other (you can see the embossing through the glass in the photo). It is almost like the bottle salesman said to W. W. Lunt "try this new fancy colored lettering out for free on the back of the embossed bottle that you usually order to see how durable it is". There must have been a point when the farmers were wary of something new and the bottle manufacturers were trying to think of ways to get them to try that new technology. I think this bottle is the "missing link" between the older style and the newer, and collectors almost never see it. Notice that the pyro on the bottle is up on the neck/shoulder area away from the sides of the bottle. The neck is safe from wear and tear and rubbing against the metal dividers in the milk cases of that period. The pyro is in great shape and the embossed lettering and the whole lower parts of the bottle have a lot of case wear. I thank my friend and milk bottle collector Frank Shaw for trading this to me. Usually a one of a kind bottle doesn't pass out of a collection.