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VOLUME 37, #12 • April 2021 FRONT COVER:

The Traveller's Bitters bottle, while indisputably quite rare and desirable, has long been the subject of one of the great mysteries in the Bitters World. Who is that figure in the long coat and bowler hat? Author and researcher Chris Bubash does some sleuthing and offers persuasive information that may solve the case. Read all about it beginning on page 7.

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In This Issue:

Editors: Ralph Finch Bill Baab Jodi Hall

Letters to the Editor........................................................................... 2

Managing Editor Libby Smith The Medicine Chest John Panella Joe Widman New England Review Mike George Bitters Columnist Bob Strickhart Spouting off on Mineral Waters Donald Tucker Contributing Writers: Ralph Finch Kevin Sives Design, Layout & Production Jake Pluta

Heard it through the Grapevine......................................................... 4 Unmasking the Traveller..................................................................... 7 John Ault, England's Bottle King.................................................... 11 History Written in Ink...................................................................... 14 Follow Your Dreams......................................................................... 15 Fruit Jar Rambles: The Farley Jar..................................................... 17 Classified Advertisements................................................................. 22 Show Calendar.................................................................................. 27 What Did They Do About Sex?........................................................ 30 Shards of Glory, Part 3: Phoenix Glass............................................ 35 Medicine Chest: House of Fahrney.................................................. 40

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Coming in May: What Do All These Bitters Bottles Have in Common?, by Bob Strickhart New England Review, by Mike George A Dump of Epic Proportions, by Eddie De Block Fruit Jar Rambles: Wells, Provost & Spratt, by Tom Caniff Medicine Chest: House of Fahrney: Part 2, by John Panella and Joe Widman And other very cool stuff! April 2021

LETTERS

to the Editor

Rochester Show: Down, Not Out!

Thanks for a Great Show

Hi, John,

I attended and set up at the bottle show at Round Rock Texas February 26-27, and was very glad that it was not canceled due to Covid 19 like so many other shows.

Thanks for the opportunity to reach out to the bottle community. We at the Genesee Valley Bottle Collectors Association would like to let everyone know what is happening with the Rochester show. As many of you know, we were excited to have celebrated our 50th anniversary show in 2019, and we feel we did it in a big way, with incredible vendors, displays and give-aways! Then came 2020 … ugh! All of our plans to continue the celebration into our 51st show were put on hold, along with the rest of the world. Hopefully, 2021 would be the year. Unfortunately, the timing of our show this April would not let it be. With the size of our show, 125 dealers, and the location at a college, and our state, New York, there was just too much working against us. So, the board of directors, along with the show committee, considered many options. Ultimately, we decided that we had to pull the plug on 2021. But, we want to assure everyone that the 50th was far from our last! Our 51st annual(ish) show is still going to happen. As the world opens back up after this scourge has been brought under control, there are certain to be celebrations, and our celebration, which has always been bottle shows, will again be bottle shows. GVBCA will celebrate with a great show, which is being planned for the 24th of April 2022. We look forward to seeing you all in Rochester, where we will raise a bottle in celebration! Aaron Weber GVBCA show chairman

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Dear John Pastor,

We wore our masks and followed the rules. All tables were sold out and it was really nice to see bottles, insulators, Coke bottles, Pepsi, beer advertising items, crocks, and other ‘go-withs.’ After a bad ice and cold storm, the weather was great. We need to thank two fellows, Gary Ingram and John Reed, for hosting a good show under extreme circumstances, plus all other dealers that helped out. It was good to see old bottle friends. As a bottle collector, we are getting back to normal after being locked up and are planning to attend the show next year, the good Lord willing. Chuck Bukin Richardson, Texas

A Call to Action The National Bottle Museum’s 41st Annual Saratoga Antique Bottle Show will soon be upon us. With this being written in mid-February there are still many uncertainties in front of us, but we look forward to having our show. A few years back, we asked if anyone would donate an outstanding bottle to be raffled by the Museum, and a generous collector responded. For 2021 we are again looking for a bottle to be donated, one that is bottle show quality to be raffled the day of the show. The proceeds will go entirely to the support of the National Bottle Museum. If you would be interested in donating a bottle to be raffled, please contact the National Bottle Museum, 76 Milton Ave Ballston Spa NY, 12020. Ph: 518.885.7589; Email info@nationalbottlemuseum.org

Thank you, and we look forward to seeing everyone in June! Phil Bernhard Adam Stoddard Roy Topka Saratoga Bottle Show Co-Chairmen

Request for Help Answered Terry Schaub from the St. Louis Antique Bottle Club lends a little help with a reader’s question that was posted on page 2, “Letters to the Editor,” in the March issue of AB&GC. Long-time subscriber Peter McQuade had a question regarding an attractive square green bottle embossed “HAUTHAWAY & SON’S - PEERLESS GLOSS.” Terry was kind enough to send along the newspaper advertisement (below) from the Wellington Enterprise (Wellington, Ohio), May 5, 1886. The ad states, “The old reliable C.L. Hauthaway & Sons’ Peerless Gloss for Ladies, Misses’ and Children’s fine shoes. ONLY 5 CENTS A BOTTLE. Warranted not to Crack.”

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Late Delivery of Magazines Unfortunately, many readers are experiencing late delivery of their magazines. The December and January issues were significantly impacted. Timely delivery of the February issue continues to be problematic, as some areas of the country are experiencing greater delays than others. We apologize for these delays that many of our readers have experienced. David Graci, Peter Samuelson, and Chuck Bukin

Three Bottle Friends — Write On, Guys! Dear John, What a surprise I had when my March 2021 issue of Antique & Bottle Glass Collector arrived. Not only had my latest article been published, but so had articles by two of my dear friends, David Graci and Chuck Bukin. Through the years, the three of us have done a lot of research pertaining to the pre-Prohibition spirits industry and have assembled impressive collections of these bottles, especially labeled ones. We also have fine collections of other antique bottles. We never thought that our articles would appear in the same issue of AB&GC. As a “thank you,” here is a group photo of us at a fairly recent New Hampshire antique bottle show. From left to right (above) are: David Graci, Peter B. Samuelson, and Chuck Bukin. Peter Samuelson Intervale, New Hampshire

The South Carolina Show Last October the South Carolina bottle club lost the show building they have had for the last twenty years. Show chairmen Marty Vollmer and Eric Warren scrambled about town and lucked up on the Jamil Temple at 206 Jamil Rd., Columbia, S.C. Our usual February date was put off until April 17, 2021. We are considering the delay a “pandemic positive.” The 240,000 sq. ft. building is three times the size of our old location. This spacious floor plan allows comfortable social distancing as well as for future growth of the show. The Jamil Temple has plenty of parking and is visible from Interstate 26. Food will be available from the Shriner’s kitchen inside the building. There are plenty of hotels and restaurants in the Harbison area just two miles away. We will be welcoming all of our old friends and encouraging some new dealers and shoppers to give the best show in the Southeast a shot.

We pride ourselves on meeting production deadlines and in delivering each month’s issue to the post office in a timely manner. December, January, February, as well as this current March issue, have been printed and delivered to the post office on schedule. Unfortunately, we have no control once they are in the postal system. We encourage you to contact your local postal representative to voice your concerns. The U.S. Postal Service has the following banner message on their website: ALERT: USPS IS EXPERIENCING UNPRECEDENTED VOLUME INCREASES AND LIMITED EMPLOYEE AVAILABILITY DUE TO THE IMPACTS OF COVID-19. WE APPRECIATE YOUR PATIENCE. Timely magazine delivery is suffering greatly due to the postal delays. We have been in communication with the post office and are working with them to try and mitigate the delivery issues. In the meantime, we appreciate your patience. — John Pastor

Marty Vollmer Lexington, South Carolina April 2021

Heard it through the

Grapevine When in Rome … Hoard 651 silver coins? Why not? A CNN story edited by Ralph Finch The details of a “very special” haul of 651 Roman coins found in the ancient city of Aizanoi in Turkey have finally been been released by researchers behind the discovery. The ruins of Aizanoi are found in modern-day Kutahya province, which is in western Turkey. The silver coins were found in a jug during archeological excavations led by researchers from Pamukkale University, according to the university’s press release. The coins were found in *2019 and date from the period of Emperor Augustus, who ruled from 44 BC to 14 AD. He was the first Roman emperor, who took over after Julius Caesar was assasinated, and built an empire that would eventually stretch from England to Egypt, boasting on his death bed that: “I found Rome built of bricks, and left it marble.” (*And why were the details only recently released? Probably the same reason that privy diggers, when they find a great spot, keep it private until the area has been completely dug.) Many of the coins feature Augustus’ face, while others bear the likenesses of Marcus Junius Brutus — one of the ringleaders in the assassination of Caesar in 44 BC — and some show Caesar himself. Elif Ozer, an archeologist and professor at the university, said the coins “may have been brought to Aizanoi by a high-ranking soldier. The majority of the coins appear to have been minted in southern Italy. It is the most special silver coin find of recent times,” added Ozer. (In September 2018, at least 300 Roman coins were found in a soapstone jar unearthed in the basement of the Cressoni Theater in Como, north of Milan.)

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TOP: A nice batch of 651 Roman coins. Well, they are no Buffalo Head nickels, but not bad. ABOVE: These gold coins were found around 2018, unearthed in the basement of a demolished theater in northern Italy. The coins date to the Roman Imperial times in the fourth or fifth century, and were spilling out of a two-handled soapstone jar called an amphora, buried in the dirt. The coins have engravings of the emperors Honorius, Valentinian III, Leon I, Antonio and Libio Severo, and do not go beyond 474 AD.

And last October, an ancient Roman coin described as a “naked and shameless celebration” of the assassination of Caesar set a new record for a coin sold at auction. It went for $3.5 million, and featured a portrait of Brutus. (Not the one in the Popeye cartoons.) What would you do with a bag of 651 ancient Roman coins? My suggestion? I’d go again with Janet over to Rome’s Trevi Fountain and toss a coin over my left

shoulder. I did that once with Janet in 2012. (Only I’d be more careful now. At 81, my shoulder isn’t what it used to be.) Wikipedia explains: The tradition of throwing a coin over your shoulder and into the fountain has its roots in Roman legend. The story goes that if you throw a coin into the fountain with your right hand and over your left shoulder, this guarantees that one day in the future you will return to Rome.

Heard it through the

Grapevine Hugo De Groot? Shoot! I missed him, but here’s a peek at his amazing life By Ralph Finch Because the hobby is a such a worldwide brotherhood (and sisterhood) of great glass and great people, Willy Van den Bossche of Belgium, one of Europe’s top collectors and historians, sent me an email Dec. 19, telling me of another painted bottle. (Decades ago, I had more of an interest in “painted women,” but my tastes have improved.) I like old and painted demijohns, so here is what Willy alerted me to: Offered by “the salesroom,” located in *Newbury, Berkshire, England, was Lot 658, described as: “A circular brown glass bottle with hand-painted portrait of Hugo De Groot with a painted inscription 1616, probably after a print by **Michiel Janszoon.” The auction house estimated the bottle as worth “100 GBP-200 GBP” ($134-$234), plus a 30 percent sales tax.) Willy, thank you for the “across-thepond” thoughtfulness. And, as every picture tells a story, here is the story behind that bottle. Wikipedia tells us that Dutch humanist Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) was a teenage intellectual prodigy, diplomat, lawyer, theologian, jurist, poet and playwright. WOW! When I was a teen, I struggled to get through high school, while Hugo studied at Leiden University, and was imprisoned for his involvement in the intra-Calvinist disputes of the Dutch Republic. He was exiled to France in 1617, but escaped, hidden in a chest of books. Grotius wrote most of his major works in exile in France. Impressive. (I was exiled once, from the Chicago bottle club, but that, like Hugo, is an old story. But did Hugo ever collect antique toilet paper? I have no shame.)

The painted bottle with an image of the illustrious Hugo De Groot.

FYI: *Newbury’s town centre retains a rare medieval Cloth Hall, an adjoining half-timbered granary, and the 15thcentury St. Nicolas Church, along with 17th- and 18th-century listed buildings. **Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt (15661641), was a Dutch Golden Age painter and draftsman who devoted himself first to still lifes; he eventually took up portraiture, in which he achieved such success

that the many commissions entrusted to him necessitated the employment of numerous assistants, by whom hundreds of portraits were turned out in factory fashion. Today over 500 paintings are or have been attributed to him. Comments/zingers can be sent to Ralph at rfinch@twmi.rr.com. Intelligent conversations can be sent to wvdbossche@ telenet.be. April 2021

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Unmasking the

Traveller By Chris Bubash

ne of the great mysteries of the bottle collecting universe concerns the identity of the individual on the exquisite (actually, beyond exquisite) Traveller’s Bitters bottle. For years it was thought that the embossed traveler depicted on the front of this bottle was nothing more than a folksy image similar to those on the Pike’s Peak flasks. Subsequent research seemed to indicate that the figure on the bottle could be that of General Robert E. Lee, and that the bitters were named for General Lee’s favorite horse, Traveller. Those arguments were, and still are, very convincing, so I do not discount the possibility that the above identification is correct. That being said, several things have always bothered me about that attribution, each of which I’ll discuss in turn. My first concern is that the figure on the flask is wearing what is clearly, in my opinion, a bowler hat, while General Lee was known to favor slouch hats. While this could be explained away as moldmaker’s license, I’m of the opinion that the mold-maker would have (should have) been able to much more accurately portray the hat so routinely worn by General Lee. My second concern is that the figure is wearing what appears to be elegant civilian clothing. I would think that a mold-maker attempting to portray General Lee would have made at least a modest attempt to portray him in military uniform. My third concern is the in-

ability to explain the 1834 date appearing on the back shoulder panel of the bottle. While 1870 clearly corresponds with the death of General Lee, the year 1834 seems to correspond with no major (or even minor) event in his life. All things considered, I think the latter concern is the one that left me feeling most uncomfortable with the figure’s current identification. After spending some downtime during the holidays researching this mystery, I believe I’ve discovered another possibility for our mysterious figure. This individual, his image, and his life story align perfectly with every aspect of the Traveller’s Bitters bottle, including the overall appearance of the figure, his hat, his cane, the 1834 date, the 1870 date and the name Traveller. Though I’ve yet to discover the proverbial smoking gun, the preponderance of evidence discovered thus far suggests that the figure on the Traveller’s Bitters is none other than the great author, Charles Dickens. Charles Dickens was at the time immensely popular in the United States, and it would make sense that an enterprising glassworks and/or bitters proprietor would wish to commemorate, and perhaps capitalize on, his recent death. To gauge his popularity, we have only to consult several letters he wrote while touring America. In a letter to William Charles Macready from Boston on January 31, 1842, Dickens states: “It is impossible to tell you what a reception I have had here. They

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cheer me in the theatres; in the streets; within doors; and without…Deputations and Committees wait upon me every day – some have come 2,000 miles – it is nothing to say that they carry me through the country on their shoulders, or that they flock about me as if I were an Idol. Nothing will express their affectionate greeting – I only wish to God that you could see it.” In a letter written to Angela Coutts from Baltimore on March 22, 1842, Dickens states: “The truth is that they give me everything here, but time…That I shake hands every day when I am not travelling, with five or six hundred people…They April 2021

things. The first: In the 19th century, it was not uncommon to spell “traveler” as “traveller” in the United States. I discovered numerous newspaper articles and books using the latter spelling. Could Traveller’s Bitters therefore be nothing more than bitters for travellers? I believe this to be a distinct possibility. The second: In the 20th century, a person who travels is generally known as a traveler (with one “l”) in the United States, but as a traveller (with two “l”s) in England. Could Traveller’s Bitters have some connection to someone in or from England? Under the assumption that 1870 did indeed correspond with the death of the individual on the flask, I reviewed a list of notable persons who passed away in 1870 that could have a connection to the bottle. Apart from General Lee, one name in particular caught my attention: Charles Dickens. The question became, was there any way I could tie him to the individual on the bitters bottle?

The Dates (1834 and 1870) As has already been established, Charles Dickens passed away in 1870. But what about 1834? Certainly not his birth date, as he was born in 1812. A review of his long career revealed an interesting fact: Charles Dickens’ first published work appeared circa 1834, albeit without his author’s byline. His story “A Dinner at Poplar Walk” was published in December 1833 in the London periodical Monthly Magazine under the pseudonym of “Boz.”

The caricature of William Makepeace Thackeray and Charles Dickens by Alfred Bryan.

gave me a ball at New York, at which three thousand people were present – and a public dinner besides – and another in Boston – and another in a place called Hartford. Others were projected, literally all through the States, but I gave public notice, that I couldn’t accept them, being of mere flesh and blood, and having only mortal powers of digestion.”

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Many other such passages exist in his letters and in newspaper accounts of his travels throughout America. Charles Dickens was, without a doubt, the rock star of his day!

The Investigation Begins My investigation began with the word Traveller. Some research revealed two

Peter Bracher of the University of Pennsylvania specifically discusses this timeframe in his dissertation entitled “Dickens and His American Readers, 1834-1870: A Study of the American Reception, Reputation, and Popularity of Charles Dickens and his Novels During his Lifetime.” What better way to celebrate the literary genius of Charles Dickens that by memorializing the date of his first contribution to the literary world (1834) and the date of his last contribution to the literary world (1870)

on the Traveller’s Bitters? A very nice commemoration indeed!

The Persona (The Traveller) Research revealed that Dickens founded a journal called “All the Year Round” in 1859. In that journal, a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences called “The Uncommercial Traveller” would turn out to be among his primary contributions. Dickens appears to have chosen for himself the title of The Uncommercial Traveller as a result of a speech he gave to the Commercial Travellers’ School in London. The persona of The Uncommercial Traveller turned out to be a perfect fit for him, a writer who loved to travel not only as a tourist, but also as a researcher. In his words, “I am both a town traveller and a country traveller, and am always on the road … Literally speaking, I am always wandering here and there from my rooms in Covent Garden in London – now about the city streets, now about the country by-roads – seeing many little things, and some great things, which, because they interest me, I think may interest others. These are my chief credentials as The Uncommercial Traveller.”

The Appearance (Coat, Cane, and Bowler) Dickens often demonstrated his awareness of the importance of his public image. As his own observations of fashion show, clothing had the potential to help you stand out from the crowd and, whether you liked how he dressed or not, Dickens made an impression. His appearance was often described as “foppish”, defined as being overly concerned with one’s clothes and appearance in an affected and excessive way. After reviewing numerous photographs taken over the years in an attempt to uncover one that resembled, or may have been the model for, the figure on Traveller’s Bitters, I uncovered the accompanying photo taken during the latter years of his life, circa his second visit to the United States between No-

vember 1867 and April 1868. As you can see, the photograph bears a remarkable resemblance to the figure on the bottle; the travelling coat, the hat, the cane, the beard. The cane was, in fact, used throughout his 1867-1868 tour, during which time he was plagued by inflammation of the foot. Also uncovered was the accompanying caricature of William Makepeace Thackeray and Charles Dickens by Alfred Bryan (18521899), curated by The Morgan Library, New York. Though done in caricature, the resemblance to the figure on the bottle is clear.

A Sidebar (Dickens on the Boston and Lowell) For those interested in the wonderful Railroad Flasks, during his 1842 tour, Dickens took his first ride on an American railway on the Boston and Lowell (memorialized on the GV-10 Lowell Railroad - Eagle flask) and described his experience in vivid detail. Following are some of his notes: “I made acquaintance with an American railroad, on this occasion, for the first time…There are no first and second class carriages as with us; but there is a gentlemen’s car and a ladies’ car: the main distinction between which is that in the first, everybody smokes; and in the second, nobody does…There is a great deal of jolting, a great deal of noise, a great deal of wall, not much window, a locomotive engine, a shriek, and a bell.” “The cars are like shabby omnibuses, but larger: holding thirty, forty, fifty people. The seats, instead of stretching from end to end, are placed crosswise. Each seat holds two persons. There is a long row of them on each side of the caravan, a narrow passage up the middle, and a door at both ends. In the centre of the carriage there is a stove, fed with charcoal or anthracite coal; which is for the most part red-hot. It is insufferably close; and you TOP: Charles Dickens in his later years. MIDDLE: From the Jan. 20,1842 Boston Post. BOTTOM: The Nov. 23, 1867 New England Farmer.

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see the hot air fluttering between yourself and any other object you may happen to look at, like the ghost of smoke.” “The train calls at stations in the woods, where the wild impossibility of anybody having the smallest reason to get out is only to be equalled by the apparently desperate hopelessness of there being anybody to get in. It rushes across the turnpike road, where there is no gate, no policeman, no signal: nothing but a rough wooden arch, on which is painted ‘WHEN THE BELL RINGS, LOOK OUT FOR THE LOCOMOTIVE.’ On it whirls headlong…the mad dragon of an engine with its train of cars scattering in all directions a shower of burning sparks from its wood fire…”

Some Final Thoughts While in America in 1842, Dickens attended sessions of Congress, toured the White House, met 10th U.S. President John Tyler, and hobnobbed with such luminaries as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Washington Irving, Edgar Allen Poe, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster. While touring America in 1867-1868, he met with 17th U.S. President Andrew Johnson and gave seventy-six public readings for which he earned an estimated $140,000 ($2.5 million today). So, there you have it. Charles Dickens. A man as world-renowned and beloved by the American people as the statesman Louis Kossuth (who toured America in 1851-1852) and the singer Jenny Lind (who toured America in 1850-1852). A man who, like Kossuth and Lind, was celebrated wherever he went. It is small wonder that he, like his contemporaries, would be chosen to be memorialized in glass by an enterprising glassworks or bitters proprietor. Perhaps someday someone will discover a labeled bottle or a newspaper advertisement proudly announcing “the recent availability of Traveller’s Bitters, honoring the late-departed Charles Dickens.” I, for one, am very much looking forward to that moment!

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TOP: Map of Charles Dickens' first American tour in 1842. ABOVE: Map of the second Dickens tour in 1867-68.

John Ault, England’s Bottle King At 68, he’s no slug when it comes to catching snails Ralph Finch quickly asks: Have snails always been popular with collectors? Well, yes and no. Once, maybe twelve years ago, in a little restaurant just off the square of the 14th-century Palace of the Popes in Avignon, in southern France, I asked the sweetie I was with if she’d like an order of escargot. “YUCH,” she replied, reacting as if I had suggested that she eat a snail. After much coercing, and with her cute face squinched up, she said she’d try just one, but she wasn’t happy about it. The result? Janet finished her order, and mine, and the next evening we went back to the restaurant for another round of escargot, snails cooked in garlic butter and served on a special silver dish. (Often, you can get them served in shells.) Recently, on Facebook, John Ault, perhaps England’s premier collector/ researcher, wrote: “Basically, I’m aged 20, but trapped in a 68-year-old car wreck of a body.” John explained: “I really missed my aqua glass version of a snail ink bottle when I swapped a load of inks for a little Vickery bears grease pot a few years ago, so when

“There is one other Vickery pot known,” says John Ault, and it was sold by Sotheby’s London in 2006 for $14,600 plus buyer’s premium.

this bottle came up in auction, Mary offered to buy it as a Christmas pressie. “She’s not a bad ole *stick; I think she might be a keeper.” (*“Stick” in English slang, implies attachment by affixing or by being glued together. And, a “snail” is a common antique shape of inkwell, often found in Europe.) John Ault later added: “The snail inks are French, c.1880. My cobalt version is the only known example, it turned up on eBay a few years ago, bidding was fierce, but I eventually won it for my £1,200 maximum bid. A lot of money, but there again it’s a lot of bottle! “My tiny bears grease pot from ‘Vickery Bishops Gate Street & Tavistock Street’ with the wonderfully naive image of a bear can be dated from between 1786, when William Vickery opened his 6 Tavistock Street warehouse (which appears on the pot), and 1790, when the Cheapside address is mentioned in period adverts. “This piece was from the Ben Swanson collection dispersed by Harmer Rooke Galleries New York in 1990. It was the star of the auction and after fierce bidding it was won by Peter Savage, who eventual-

John Ault has an appetite for antique escargot.

ly passed it on to yours truly after a swap involving the majority of my teakettle ink collection. “Prior to that, the pot was owned by Louis L. Lipski. He was a Polish expatriate who accumulated a huge collection during the 1940s and 1950s, at that time most of this type of pottery could be bought for just a few pounds. April 2021

This fancy French porcelain snail inkwell was offered on the internet … but can you only write letters in French? If you found these slithering in your yard, would you really complain?

John Ault must have been a good boy, having gotten this Christmas gift from his wife, Mary.

Offered on the internet recently was this nice English snail set.

Eventually Lipski, together with Michael Archer, co-authored the highly respected English Delftware book, which in itself is highly collectable.

“There is one other Vickery pot known, which was in the late Dr. Anne Young’s collection and sold by Sotheby’s London in 2006 for $14,600 plus buyer’s premium.

John’s final message to us: “Keep safe. Locked down here in Gravesend, roll on the vaccine!”

“When he died in 1978 Sotheby’s London was offered the chance to dispose of his vast collection. It was eventually divided into four separate sales, and in order not to flood the market his items were sold off over a period of two and a half years. These sales created a great deal of excitement amongst academics plus collectors alike, and led to a huge leap in values once the rarity of the pieces were fully realised.

“I have been married to Mary for 46 years; she was 18 when we married. People got hitched so young back then. We looked like children!

FYI: On the internet I found a website for “Exotic Snails,” which are kept as pets.

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“Ralph, you spend about the same amount of time on the computer (six-plus hours a day) as I do; Mary puts up with a lot, but she gets engrossed in her crafting hobbies. We are both very passionate in our interests.

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History Written in Ink Notes by Ralph Finch Most young people today have never actually used ink (or even know how to write by hand). But those of you who are “vintage” may actually remember one of these bottles, at least the one at far right. Photo courtesy of Fountain Pen Love.

hile trying to research a particular antique glass ink bottle company I came across a website on “vintage” ink. It is very readable and with really great photos. If you want to learn more, go to: https:// fountainpenlove.com/fountain-pen-ink/ identifying-vintage-fountain-pen-ink-bottles-and-boxes. (Or, in short: “Fountain Pen Love.”)

I took the liberty of borrowing the introduction (and the photo of Sheaffer bottles). The site, compiled by John Bosley, explains: “Long before the incredibly diverse selection of fountain pen inks and manufacturers we currently know existed, there was a much smaller variety available. The number of manufacturers could be counted on two hands and colors were more or less limited to very subtle variations of blue, black, red, green, purple and brown. Still, there is a certain charm and satisfaction to using vintage fountain pen inks, especially if you also use vintage fountain pens. There’s something special about filling a pen that was made in the 1940s with ink that is from the same era. “Collecting vintage fountain pen ink can be enjoyable and rewarding. It can also be overwhelming if you’re just getting

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started. There isn’t much information out there to help you identify or date the various bottles and boxes you’ll come across. In this post, I’d like to help you with identifying vintage fountain pen ink bottles and boxes. Years back, I actually wrote and self-published a book about vintage inks. In fact, most of the text in this article comes from that book. I spent almost a year sifting through old magazine advertisements, manufacturer catalogs and doing other research to come up with, what I believe to be, the most comprehensive vintage ink identification guide around.” In one post he focused on “the ‘Big 3’ vintage American pen and ink manufacturers: Parker, Sheaffer and Waterman. While their inks may not be very exciting compared to modern inks, 70 years ago their inks made up the majority of what was on the market.” I was particularly interested in Bosley’s section that warned his readers that: “Time has proven that this ink was dangerous for more reasons than its high velocity. Simply put, it eats pens. So, if you find a bottle of this ink and decide to use it (which is not recommended), make sure that you do not use it in pens of any value.”

FYI: John Bosley explains: “I’ve been using and collecting fountain pens for over 20 years. I got my first one in college when I got bored taking notes with ballpoints and pencils. Since then I’ve bought and sold hundreds of pens.” Bosley’s collection includes inks ranging from the late 1800s to the 1960s. Years back, he even wrote a book about vintage inks, and added: “On any given day, you’ll find at least one of my pens filled up with an ink that’s more than 70 years old.” Unfortunately, in response to a question about an early ink bottle, he replied: “Thanks for your note! Despite wanting to write everything by hand, sometimes email is just too convenient. :-) “To be honest, I know next to nothing about ink bottles pre-1930s, especially by manufacturers that didn’t make fountain pens. I have acquired some random old bottles through the osmosis of collecting, but to me they are just pretty things on my shelf that are loosely connected to fountain pens. Sorry I can’t be of more help!”

r To contact Bosley, write john@fountainpenlove.com

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Looking for artifacts (signs, display pieces, etc.) from the following: Chero-Cola, Royal Crown Cola, Nehi, Diet Rite Cola, Upper 10, Par T Pack Ginger ale!

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t all started for me when I was in the seventh grade. A friend and I would go down to the river and fish during recess. On one trip, I noticed bottles sticking out of the bank just above the water level. I put my pole down and started digging right away. I had no rake but brought home many bottles that day. My next trip to the dump was with my mother and a rake. I was twelve years old and the bottle bug had bit me hard. It took a summer to dig the dump. Many good bottles came out, including a G.O. Blakes in yellow amber, a Wilson Fairbank’s Whiskey, Geyser Springs, and more. The year was 1970. The following year my brother, David, brought home a Hood’s Sarsaparilla packed with ash and stained all over. He said he found it on the path off of South Main Street. My mother and I started digging. This was a large ash pit over the road bank. We went to the bottom of the bank and dug a ten foot wide trench. The ash was already two feet deep. As we dug up the bank, the ash got deeper and deeper. It took all we had just to keep the bottom in sight. You could see all the layers from all the years. Bottles would appear from the ash and you had to be careful not to break them, as most were pontiled and valuable. We had a cave-in which took weeks to clean out. It exposed many bottles, including the Zieber ink, Dr. Townsend’s Sarsaparilla, Harrison’s Columbian ink, Phoenix Bitters, etc. We dug there for five years before the interstate went over it.

TOP: The author, Peter McQuade, selling bottles in fall 1972 at Holiday in the Hills, Granby, Vermont. ABOVE: Delores McQuade holding a quart Zieber Ink dug by her son, Peter McQuade. The bottle was dug in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, in 1975.

Holiday in the Hills was an annual event held in Granby, Vermont. It started in the ’60s to generate funds to get electricity into the small town. It was a lot of fun, with log boring, blacksmithing, horse pulling, Revolutionary War reenactments, cannon firing, and much more. The picture is of me selling bottles in the fall of 1972! The bottle hobby has been very good to me. I still dig to this day, and dream about bottles often. I will have more stories later, but for now, happy digging! April 2021

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THE FARLEY JAR The jar embossed FARLEY CHICAGO in Photo 1, with its old-style lightning closure, looks something like a home canning or fruit jar, but of course, it’s not. The neat-looking clear, smooth-lip, rounded-square jar also looks at first glance like it should be a quart, but it actually holds somewhat less. And, according to Dick Roller’s STANDARD FRUIT JAR REFERENCE, it has a smaller diameter mouth (2 3/8”) than a standard BALL IDEAL quart. The FARLEY CHICAGO jar was made by an unknown glass company for use by the Farley Candy Co. of Chicago. It was used to hold a “House Party Assortment” of candy. Roots of the Farley Candy Co. are said to date back to 1870, when Gunther Farley and his two brothers established the Gunther Chocolate Company in Illinois. The CHICAGO [Illinois] EVENING POST, Nov. 17, 1871, carried a snippet under “Local Brevities,” which read “Ninety per cent nutriment is said to be contained in Gunther’s chocolate caramels, corner Twentieth and State streets.” In 1891, Gunther Farley’s candy business was merged with another smaller Farley candy company owned by a relative, creating the Farley candy company. In 1895, THE COURIER, of Waterloo, Iowa, made mention of the J.K. Farley Mfg. Co., of Chicago, as confectionery manufacturers. By August 1902, the company was known as the Farley Candy Co., located at 118 Superior St.; by October 1910, the company’s address had changed to 720 N. Franklin. In December 1916, the OMAHA (Neb.) DRUGGIST, “A Monthly Journal of Pharmacy,” carried the ad in Figure A, offering a “House Party Assortment

PHOTO 1: FARLEY CHICAGO candy jar.

[italics mine], A winning combination of the tastiest flavored Hard Centers. 1/2 lb. Jars… per doz. 3.50.” Although not mentioned by name, I don’t think there is any doubt that this was from the Farley Candy Co. The jar pictured sure doesn’t have a rounded-square shape Another teaser appeared in the July 21, 1921 MUSKOGEE [Okla.] DAILY PHOENIX AND TIMES-DEMOCRAT, with the Cardinal Drug Stores offering “Twenty-ounce jars, House Party Assortment Candy. Regular dollar value. Saturday–– 69¢.” Again, however, no identification of the candy maker, and this time no illustration of the jar.

FIGURE A: From the OMAHA DRUGGIST. FIGURE B: Ad for Farley's House Party Assortment.

Then, bingo! Found in an October 1921 ad in THE MEYER DRUGGIST, from the Meyer Brothers Drug Co. of St. Louis, was our ad in Figure B, displaying the proper-style jar with a label for “House Party Assortment Made by Farley Candy Chicago.” The ad states that “For utility purposes when empty, these jars can be used for fruit packing and other household purposes. Comes in two sizes, 20 and 40 oz. jars.” Pictured at the top of the ad are Farley’s “Tulip Hard Candies In 4 1/2 oz. Retail April 2021

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TIONS, with a wire carrying-handle that lays flat within the lid when not in use, was reported sold at auction, and it looks like it might be a more enticing collectible (Photo 2).

PHOTO 2: Tall painted FARLEY'S TULIP BRAND CONFECTIONS tin.

This ad was repeated in the November 1921 MEYER DRUGGIST, but then in the December 1921 issue of the MEYER DRUGGIST came a surprise. Figure C depicts the December offering, again showing the House Party Assortment labeled jar. It tells us, among other things, that “This jar contains 40 ounces of delicious hard candies in various shapes and flavors making a splendid treat... This 40-ounce House Party Jar usually retails at $1.40 but for a limited time can be sold at $1.25...” I had initially assumed that the 20 oz. jar would have been our FARLEY CHICAGO jar, as no FARLEY-embossed jars in the 40 oz. range have ever been reported to my knowledge. Since the FARLEY CHICAGO jar that we know of definitely holds less than 32 liquid ounces, it seems likely that these ads are referring to 20and 40-ounces dry weight, as would certainly be proper. Possibly the un-pictured jar was unembossed or even a different jar.

FIGURE C: House Party Assortment, December 1921 MEYER DRUGGIST.

Jars,” at $3 per dozen. Although these little, round, screw cap, labeled jars look interesting, a 15 1/4” tall, painted tin for FARLEY’S TULIP BRAND CONFEC-

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On Dec. 19, 1921, an ad in the PITTSBURGH PRESS offered Christmas candies at attractive prices, including “Farley Hard Candies –– 20-oz. jar, 70¢ –– 40-oz. jar –– $1.35.” These sound like the House Party Assortment jars, but this was the last-found suggestion of the House Party Assortment jars that I’ve been able to find. Not a very long run for the FARLEY CHICAGO jars, but they’re far from common. RIGHT COLUMN: PHOTO 3: Labeled FARLEY'S CREAMY MINT CUBES candy jar. PHOTO 4: Small FARLEY-embossed "ON TOPS" shaker jar.

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As it grew, Farley Candy moved its operations from North Franklin Street in Chicago, then to Superior Street, and then, in 1951, to the north suburb of Skokie, Illinois. Following several company changes over the years, Farley Candy is now part of Farley’s & Sathers Candy Co. of Round Lake, Minnesota, manufacturers and distributors of a wide variety of non-chocolate confections and snacks. Other collectible Farley glass includes the 5 inches tall, rounded-square jar in Photo 3, embossed FARLEY and bearing a label for “Farley’s Creamy Mint Cubes ... Farley Mfg. Co. Chicago.” The jar takes a black, wide-mouth, metal screw-cap marked FARLEY’S CANDIES. And there’s also the small, 3 1/2-inches tall, square, smooth lip, shaker jar in Photo 4 embossed FARLEY on front and reverse shoulders. This one has a label reading “Farley’s On Tops 10¢ Candy Decorations for Cakes, Cookies, Salads, Desserts, Drinks, and Coloring Sugar, U.S. Certified Color Farley Mfg. Co. Skokie, Ill.” It has a perforated, metal shaker-screw-cap, and the little jar’s stippled base has the B-in-a-circle trademark of the Brockway Glass company.

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Aqua with Standing Indian ½ gallon size I'm from Wytheville and really want this bottle. My family knew some of the Nye family! Will pay a "good price". Larry Veneziano 27W115 Vale Rd. West Chicago, IL 60185 Email: LarryHH@Comcast.net

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FOR SALE: Extremely Rare 1890s Large 7" DP Coffin Shape Poison Bottle . . . KU-8. There are less than ten known to exist at this size. Out of all that I've seen, this is the most beautiful. The way the color transitions from a sapphire blue to cobalt, it looks amazing. Thank you! RALPH BRUNO, RalphBruno@ juno.com, Phone: 347-661-7131. 5/21 FOR SALE: (1) KD2 Extremely scarce Clear Poison Lewis Bear Drug Co Pensacola, FLA. Some Lip Chips, $225 (2) Hutch. Miller, Becker & Co. Cleveland Ohio, Deep Green, very nice, $95 (3) Buffalo Litha Water (Buffalo Springs VA.) Lt Green, nice, clean, nm $90 (4) Drakes Plantation Bitters 6-log, Amber, nm $195. PLUS SHIPPING. BILL HARRELSON, 843-855-0483, 4340 Hwy. 19, Conway SC 29526. 5/21

FOR SALE: Blown Three Piece Mold Decanter (GIII-16) Keene N.H. Olive Green - Perfect Condition, Open Pontil $750. Mammoth Size Snuff Jar - Possibly American 1860-1870, Tall Rectangular with Beveled Corners, Deep Amber - Crude Sheared Mouth-Smooth Base, Ht 9 5/8", Very Similar to M M Plate 230 #10 Nice Cond. $450. POSTAGE AND INSURANCE EXTRA. TOM DUFF, 860-649-3744. 4/21 FOR SALE: John's Bottle Shop, McGraw NY 13101. Selling my collection of 55 years. Call for appointment only, please leave message. 607-745-1828. 5/21 FOR SALE: Cobalt Phcy Bottle mint 8 & 1/4 tall Purcell & Littlejohn - Physicist Leesburg, VA. BILL SIMMS, 443-235-0114. 7/21

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FOR SALE: New York State (Hudson Valley) Decorated Stoneware. Rare 2 gallon crock signed Lewis Reehl, Peekskill AND 1 gallon jug signed William Lent, Peekskill. Also 2 Merchant Jugs each 2 gallon with cobalt birds, first signed Jacob Fromer, Tannersville and second signed L. Sherwood, Monsey. Contact me for pics and $$. TOM KEADY, jugs6@embarqmail.com, 973-650-7481. 4/21

Shows, Shops & Services d ANTIQUES ON FIRST - 919 FIRST ST. BENICIA, CA. When visiting the S.F. Bay Area or Napa Wine Country, be sure to stop in nearby historic downtown Benicia; a nationally designated small town “Main Street” with shops, restaurants and magnificent Bay views. Also location of the Gold Rush era brick State Capitol museum, Civil War Camel Barns military/ local museum, and legendary former waterfront Bottle Digging bonanza of the West (“Benicia Glass”, Balto torpedoes, cathedrals, sodas, bitters, pontiles). ANTIQUES ON FIRST has a rotating selection of locally dug Bottles, Clocks, Militaria, Railroadiana, Art, Advertising and more. Open Wed thru Sun 12:00 (often earlier) to 5:30. 9/21 Come to the 48TH ANNUAL SOUTH CAROLINA BOTTLE CLUB SHOW & SALE!! Saturday, April 17, 2021. 9am to 4:30pm. Set up 7am. New Location: Jamil Temple, 206 Jamil Rd. Columbia SC 29210 southcarolinabottleclub.com 4/21 WE HAVE A GREAT BOTTLE SHOP 20 miles south of Santa Fe, New Mexico on the Turquoise Trail, Highway 14. We have rocks, gifts and bottles. We have the Cerrillos Turquoise Mining Museum, Trading Post and Cerrillos Petting Zoo. Come visit! 5/21

Every bottle has a story! MY WEBSITE, PRE-PROHIBITION WHISKEY MEN, has almost 800 of those stories. Look in sometime and learn the often fascinating details of the men and women behind those bottles and jugs. JACK SULLIVAN 5/21 THE NATIONAL BOTTLE MUSEUM is announcing our 2021 museum show taking place on the first Sunday in June. Outdoor spots will again be available as well as indoor tables. Social distancing will be observed as well as masks, unless otherwise notified. Tables will be $40.00 and admission will be $5.00. Early admission is again at 8am and will be $15.00. Food will be available on the grounds, as well as free parking. We look forward to seeing everyone again, for a great time. If there is inclement weather shelter for outside dealers will be provided. Contact the museum at 518-885-7589. 6/21 THE CAPITAL REGION ANTIQUE BOTTLE CLUB has announced their show will take place in the summer instead of October. July 18th is the date we chose. This will be an outdoor show with 25ft. spaces and ample parking. The show will be at the Mabee Farm along the Mohawk River, Exit 1 (rt.5s) off of 890. The cost per space will be $30.00. There will not be food but it can be procured if enough people want it. We hope to see you all there. Our contacts are: ADAM STODDARD, 518256-7663; email: acstoddard63@gmail. com, or: PHIL BERNNARD, 518-4297641; email: explomar@hotmail.com 7/21

SOUTHERN STONEWORKS PROFESSIONAL POTTERY RESTORATION SERVICE. We can replace a handle or lip that's missing, hide chips or do a complete restoration. Alkaline, Salt and Bristol glaze reproduced to match. Excellent work with a quick turnaround. Before and after photos of past work and references available upon request. ERIC NYGARD, 706-691-1968. 4/21 April 17th, 2021, Columbia, SC. Don't miss the 48th Annual South Carolina Bottle Club Show and Sale in the spacious Shriner's Jamil Temple, 206 Jamil Rd, Columbia, SC. Antique bottles, Southern stoneware and small collectibles. Plenty of parking. 240,000 sq. ft. building for comfortable social distancing. Food available from the Shriner's kitchen. Hotels and restaurants in the Harbison area, less than two miles away. Show is located off of Interstate 26, exit 104 or exit 106a. We welcome all to the best show in the Southeast. For additional info, please contact Marty Vollmer: 803-629-8553; email: martyvollmer@aol.com or Eric Warren: 803-960-7814; email scbottles@aol.com

Wanted d WANTED: Hobbleskirt embossed Coca-Cola bottles: 1915's, 1923's, D-Patent's 6oz's and 6 1/2 oz's. Collector will buy or trade. JIM GEORGES, georges77@twcny.rr.com or 315-662-7729. 7/21

www.BottleTreeAntiques.com specializing in SC Dispensary painted label sodas, advertising and primitive furniture. 1960 Mt. Lebanon Rd., Donalds SC 29638, 864-379-3479. 5/21

WANTED: Better Albany N.Y. bottles and flasks, L.Q.C. Wisharts in rare colors / all variants. Guilderland, N.Y. Stoneware. DON KELLY, dmebottles@aol.com, Phone: 518365-3783. 12/21

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WANTED: U.S.A. Hospital Dept. and any pre-1866 embossed food bottles, mustards, early Baltimore, Wheeling, D.C., Alexandria sodas, beers (stoneware or glass) damage free. BRUCE, cwaddic@yahoo.com, Phone: 703-307-7792. 12/21 April 2021

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WANTED: EMBOSSED CURES WANTED: Including these pontils: Avery's, Benson's, Bernard's, Brown's, Bull's, Burt's, Cannon's, Flander's, Frambe's Geoghegan's, Hamilton's, Jacob's, Lay's, McAdoo's, McElroy's, Parham's, Rhodes' Prov. R.I., Rohrer's, Rudolph's, Star-in's, Stone's, Toledo, Woodman's. ALSO BIMALS: Anchor, Bavarian Bitters, Beesting, Bixler's, Bliss, Boot's Indigestion, Bowanee, Bower's, Bradford's, Bromo Mineral, Bronson's, Bull's (Baltimore), Carey's CholiCura, Clement's Certain (green), Collins' Opium (aqua), Cowan's Certain, Davis Indian, Detchon's Infallible, Edelweiss, Electrofluid, Ewer's Arcanum, Forest Pine (unpontiled), Francisco's, Frog Pond 8", Green's King's Cure, Large Handyside's (chocolate amber), Helmer's, Hilleman's, Hinderman's, Holden's (green), Hungarian, Indian Mixture, JBF, Kauffman Phthisis, Keeley's (opium, neurotine, solution), Large Kellum's, Kid-Nee-Kure, Lenape's, Lindley's, Long's Malaria, Loryea (green), Marsden, McConnon Cough, Amber McLean's (8"), Miniotti's (clear), Morning Glory, Murphy K & L. Pageapfel's, Park's (clear), Peck's, Pennock's, Peterman's (green), Rattail, large River Swamp, Scott's (bird), Streetman's, Tremaine's, Vosburgh, Wadsworth (goat), Warner's K & L Rochester (green, aqua, clear), Wildwest, Wilkinson's, Wilson Footrot, Winan's (no Indian), York Corn Cure. Looking for many others, especially embossed with label, contents, box. Also would like data on unlisted cures for future Cure Book. JOHN WOLF, ohcures@yahoo. com, 937-275-1617, 1186 Latchwood Ave., Dayton, OH 45405. 2/22 WANTED: 9 1/2 inch - Milk Glass Violin Bottle. SONNY SMILEY, Email: lithiaman1@yahoo.com, 540-478-2005. 4/21 WANTED: Clevenger North American Log Cabin Commemoratives GVII-25-A GVII-25-I and GVII-25-Q Clevenger Commemoratives GVII-16-A GVII-16-C and GVII-16-E. Phone or write. STEVE GRAY, 440-279-8381, 7533 Clay St., Thompson, OH 44086. 6/21

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WANTED: PHILADELPHIA STRAPSIDED or Seamed Whiskey Flasks. I collect and catalog these and also have an interest in Thomas H. Dillon (TD) Philadelphia mineral water bottles. Please contact me if you have any in your collection or wish to sell. ART MIRON, 215-248-4612. jestar484@verizon.net 4/21 WANTED: John W. Steele Niagra Star Bitters - Seeking a green JW Steele Bottle cracked the entire length along one corner. I owned this bottle in 1972 and would love to have it again. JIM EVANS, jcevans@jamescevansllc. com 4/21 WANTED: Hello Fellow Bottle & Glass Collectors! "We" as a "specialized bunch" are becoming almost as "rare" as the "cool old stuff" we seek and collect. Please cultivate and encourage any young person that shows interest in our hobby. All the best, Past President (1994) Los Angeles Historic Bottle Club, TIM BLAIR. 4/21 WANTED: BUYING Pre-Pro etched & amp; embossed beer brewery glasses; whiskey shot glasses; pre-pro brewery mugs, steins including souvenir steins mugs; souvenir china; old advertising material: signs, trays, mirrors, saloon material; back bar whiskey bottles; other early American bottles, flasks, bitters, especially from Kentucky. PAUL VanVACTOR, Phone: 502-533-2693, email: pvanvactor@aol.com P.O. Box 221171, Louisville, KY 40252-1171.

WANTED: Harley bottles of West Chester, Pa. and Philadelphia, Pa. The West Chester bottles (3) display either J. Harley, James Harley or E.M. Harley. The Phila. Bottles (3) display Edwd. Harley, Schul (Schuylkill) 4th & Market St., Philada or E. Harley, 802 Market St. or E. Harley, West Market St. These bottling business operated in the late 1840s through the early 1880s. BOB HARLEY, rwh220@Yahoo.com, Phone: 215-721-1107. 12/21 WANTED: 3 Centa Soda Bottle made by Chattanooga Glass Company. ARCHIE HUFFSTETLER, nomorecop@aol.com, 704-827-5058. 4/21 WANTED: Looking for Bottles from Muskegon Co., MI that I don't have. Also seek souvenir china and spoons, postcards and memorabilia. Towns include Bailey, Brunswick, Casnovia, Fruitport, Fruitvale, Holton, Lake Harbor, Lakewood, Michillinda, Montague, Muskegon, Muskegon Hts, N. Muskegon, Ravenna, Sullivan, Trent, Twin Lake and Whitehall. Also items from Gladwin, Michigan. ELMER OGG, elogg@comcast.net, Phone: 231-5577526. 4/21 WANTED: San Pedro, California bottles and tokens. ERIC KLEPL, ekmail66@gmail.com, 707-499-2459. 5/21 WANTED: BALL PERFECTION No. 2 glass lid. FATHER PATRICK WILHELM, 973-986-3974. 5/21

WANTED: George Ohr Pottery Cabins. Or Cabin Inks. BOB TERRY, 303-5692502, llterryualusa@yahoo.com 9/21

WANTED: Anything pontil Charleston, S.C. JAMES WESTENDORFF, Phone: 843-4524419. 4/21

WANTED: Pontiled Wm W Well's Liniment Freehold, NJ and also the smooth base Belmar NJ version. BOB RANDOLPH, randgal@aol.com, 732-223-6938. 4/21

WANTED: Lancaster, PA. Looking for anything rare from Lancaster, PA. SAM NOLT, 717-807-4011. 4/21

WANTED: Paying top dollar for Rare Pottsville, PA colored Blobs, Hutches, and Squats. Also buying rare Pottsville, PA Milk Bottles and rare Schuylkill County PA Pyro Milk Bottles. SCOTT, tracylang1218@gmail. com, 570-366-2837. 4/21

WANTED: To buy rare American Poisons. Also looking for Marinette, WI and Menominee, MI bottles and memorabilia. In particular, looking for a Leisen Henes hutch from Menominee, MI. HENRY & TONI JOHNSTON, hankj@johnstonfurnace.com, 715-923-9351. 4/21

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WANTED: OWL DRUG bottles, tins, boxes, paper, anything from the Owl Drug Company. MARC LUTSKO, Email: letsgo@montanasky.net, 406-293-6771, Box 97 Libby, MT 59923. 1/22 WANTED: Pineapple Bitters (P-100), pontiled only. W & Co, in all the colors of the rainbow!! Need golden amber, lemon yellow, grass green and olive amber. Also, J. C. & Co., in colors. PERFECT CONDITION ONLY. Thank you! Hawkeye751@outlook.com, 415-518-4124, leave message. 5/21 WANTED: South Carolina Bottles Especially SC Dispensaries and Early Crown. Also Lightning Rod items. JOHN, rustycann@ mindspring.com 5/21

WANTED: FRUIT JARS - ESPECIALLY unusual closures and colors. Looking for pint BEAVER, AMBER, with CORRECT CLOSURE. Love the rare stuff including 1/2 pint Echo Farms, different styles of Hemingray Jars, 2" stopple closure, Webster Jar, and O Yes, those Lighting and Globe colors. PHIL SMITH, 859-912-2450 or 859-384-9651, 2281 Clarkston Ln, Union KY 41091. 4/21 WANTED: Searching for family bottle embossed, "SCHWERKOSK BROS / 58 / VAN WINKLE / AVE / JERSEY CITY, N.J.". These are clear, quart-size blob tops, likely 1880's, that held soda or other beverages. They were from my great grandfather and his brother in Jersey City. TOM SWIER, ptswi@aol.com 4/21

WANTED: Seeking treatments/cures for epilepsy/fits/hysteria. Preferred labeled if possible. Also interested in related cards/ advertising. DAN LUCIANO, dluciano56@ optonline.net, 914-271-9785. 4/21

WANTED: Pontiled Bottles with the name "Kelly" on them. kdziak@aol.com 4/21

WANTED: OLD MARBLES - Will buy or trade for old bottles. PAT DARNEILLE, 503-888-0665. 4/21

WANTED: Serious collector looking for Portage Wis or Portage City bottles or related items. Buy - Sell - Trade. Will pay up to $500 for any bottle I do not have. Call or text. TOM, 608-697-3452. 4/21

WANTED: COCA COLA HUTCH's and unusual or rare straight sided script cokes wanted to buy or trade. JEFF PEACOCK, Fricaba1@gmail.com, 360-731-1072, 20434 10th Pl SW Normandy Park, WA 98166. 4/21 WANTED: Buying / Trading: Old glass and pottery bottles from Flint, Fenton, Holly and nearby towns; including, but not limited to: Wildanger, McWethy, Koeppen, Wm Findlay, Root, Williston, Pearsall, Burroughs, Ingalls, Bush, Dullam Van Kleek, Hux, Mc-Intre, Shoulters, NYE, Steele & Austin, Case, and/ or others with Flint embossed on them. Also, fewer but some with crown caps and painted labels. DON SIMONS, 810-695-0433. 4/21 WANTED: OBSCENE prices paid for Fredericksburg, VA stoneware and bottles. I should be committed - don't tell my wife! KEITH LITTLEFIELD, klittl5191@ aol.com, 703-354-9544, 3902 Rose Lane Annandale, VA 22003. 4/21

WANTED: GIV-35 Masonic Flask. CHUCK BUKIN, 1325 Cypress Drive Richardson, Texas 75080-4721. 6/21

WANTED: AMBER PINT SHOOFLY FLASK EMBOSSED for J.H. & C.F. Miller from New York. JOHN CHENEY, 16 Bellevue St, Apt 3 Worcester, MA 01609. 4/21 WANTED: Amoyon Bitters Peter McQuade NY. Also McQuade liquor bottles from Utica NY. PETER McQUADE, 802-695-3393. 4/21 WANTED: Dr. Dunlaps Anchor Bitters (cabin style with embossed anchors). In excellent to mint condition only, please. ARLIE ANDERSON, arlieda@comcast.net, 541-915-6190. 4/21 WANTED: Topless Jars - I have the lids, just looking for the jars. Almy, any size, Wilcox, any size, Mason's Moon and Star. Phone only. BARRY SCHILLING, 410-749-7762. 4/21

WANTED: Bottles, Advertising, Paper, Ephemera, Souvenir China, etc. related to PERRY NY and or AVON NY, located in WYOMING County and LIVINGSTON County. Also looking for BLOOMFIELD ART POTTERY & ROADSIDE CRAFTSMEN Pottery, Textiles, Woodwork & Iron, Bloomfield NY. AARON WEBER, awebby@frontiernet.net, 585-749-3861. 4/21 WANTED: Glass Lid (insert) and Zinc Ring for Quart Ball Fruit Jar (BBGMCo.) RB #195-1. Will buy insert, ring or both. MIKE BEARDSLEY, casketeer@aol.com, 315-3455094. 6/21 WANTED: Attention Diggers! The SW Bottle and Jar Spa is looking to buy Hutchinson Stoppers to restore. Stoppers must have all their metal and we pay $1.00 bounty for each usable stopper plus your shipping costs. Contact us! cactusjoe@ swbottleandjarspa.com, 4511 N. Arbor Way, Buckeye, AZ 85396. 5/21 WANTED: New Jersey Sodas, New Jersey Picture Beers and Hutches, Hunterdon and Somerset County Bottles, Red or Milk Glass Violin Bottles. RAY BUCH, 908-735-5014. 5/21 WANTED: ILLINOIS BOTTLES $$$$: KEELEY & BRO ALTON ILL Black Glass Ale, SODA'S: BUFF & KUHL ALTON Gravitating Stopper, J. WEISBACH ALTON ILL embossed in straight line. A & F.X. JOERGER ALTON ILL, L.ABEGG's SODA MANUFACTORY BELLEVILLE ILL. JOS. FISCHER'S SELTERS WATER BELLEVILLE ILL. J.N. CLARK BELLEVILLE ILL, BECK & BRO. HIGHLAND ILL, MUELLER & BECK HIGHLAND ILL. WEBER & MILLER HIGHLAND ILL. DANL KAISER QUINCY ILL. MR & HW LUNDBLAD QUINCY ILL. THEO ADAMS, stlouissoda@aol.com, 618-781-4806. 4/21 WANTED: Rare Figural Bitters, Rare American & English Poisons, Scents & Colognes, Small Pontiled Medicines. BOB BARBOUR, bwbcsr@gmail.com, Phone: 913-248-1478. 6/21 April 2021

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WANTED: Excited to announce the Summer 2021 opening of the Royal Crown Cola Museum in Columbus, GA, home of Royal Crown's founder Claud A. Hatcher! Looking for artifacts (signs, display pieces, etc.) from the following: Chero-Cola, Royal Crown Cola, Nehi, Diet Rite Cola, Upper 10, Par T Pak Ginger ale! Please contact Allen Woodall! ALLEN WOODALL, 706-332-6378. 4/21 WANTED: Colored Illinois and Missouri Sodas. Also Colored Fruit Jars. Top $$$ Paid. Call, text or email. STEVE KEHRER, kehrer00@gmail.com, 618-410-4142. 3/23 WANTED: Chester Co. PA colored squats/ sodas, C.F. Brown Phoenixville, Josh. Scott Downingtown, Stolen from Samuel Pugh (Avondale), J. Dowdall (Avondale) blue mugbase. MARK SPANGLER, mspanglr@ yahoo.com, 610-247-3270. 5/21 WANTED: "Dr. Fahnestock's Vermifuge" pontiled bottles that I don't have. Especially the error bottle with the upside-down F and backwards N. Also interested in unusual Fahnestock or McLane's Vermifuge pontiled bottles with embossing errors, odd colors, flared lips or labels. ZACK BAER, zackbaer5014@gmail.com 724-549-6739. 5/21 WANTED: Soda Henry C. Hall Manchester, N.H. RAYMOND TROTTIER, 603-9343839, Flaghole Road, Franklin, NH 03235. 6/21 WANTED: Paying top dollar for the following Syracuse Bottles: Kaplan & Kaletzki, Kaplan & Werbofski, M. Kast, W.L.R. Ogens & Blaustein, Moore & Pendergast, J. Pfohl, W.L. Ross, Frederick Sembach, Behm & Wanner, Casey Bros., P.J. Cawley, L.M. Conine, Stuber & Co., Sullivan & Downey, W.S. Van Vorst. Also Both Rypski Ginger Beers. Plus Embossed Amer. Round Bottoms. HOWIE, 508-385-7014. 4/21 WANTED: Bottles - Especially Milk Bottles - from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and surrounding towns, including Highspire (Highspire Whiskey Bottles), Middletown, and Steelton. CHARLES KIHM, 717-9390288. 5/21

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WANTED: Looking to improve my collection of Painted Label Sodas. Want ACL's with nice graphics, not name only lettered bottles. Write, call or email. ROD KRUPKA, rod.krupka@yahoo.com, 248627-6351, 2641 Echo Lane, Ortonville, MI 48462. 5/21 WANTED: Stoneware from Buckhannon, Weston & Jane Lew, West Virginia. DON HENDERSON, buckantmal@aol.com Phone: 304-266-5523. 5/21 WANTED: In search of bottles from Bennington County VT. JIM CHATTERTON, vtdigger05262@yahoo.com 6/21 WANTED: Tennessee Blob Top Beers. Top Price Paid. TERRY WILLIAMS, Phone: 931-389-0425, PO Box 129 Wartrace, Tenn. 37183. 5/21 WANTED: ISO ILLINOIS RT 66 BOTTLES showing name clearly -- Berwyn, Plainfield, Countryside, Willowbrook, Romeoville, Elwood, Godley, Odell, Cayuga, Chenoa, Ocoya, Lexington, Towanda, Normal, Shirley, Funks Grove, McLean, Atlanta, Lawndale, Broadwell, Elkhart, Williamsville, Sherman, Springfield, Glenarm, Divernon, Famersville, Waggoner, Mt Olive, Livingston, Hamel, Mitchell, Granite City, Madison, Fairmont, Venice, Chatham, Auburn, Thayer, Girard, Nilwood, Benld. smkpromo@yahoo.com Hudsonville, MI. 5/21 WANTED: Hello all! As V.P. for the National Bottle Museum, we are looking for some bottles for a display to complete our 50 state map. They are N. Carolina, N. Dakota, New Mexico and Alaska. No ABM's. Blobtops, hutches, or lightning stoppers. We can purchase if necessary. P. BERNNARD, Phone: 518-429-7641. 5/21 WANTED: Saratoga County Mineral Water Bottles - rare and hard to find colors - Also Saratoga go-withs. DAVE MERKER, dmerker634@frontier.com. 4/21 WANTED: Any bottles from S.C. especially sodas, medicines or blob top beer bottles. VIC SVENDSEN, 843-270-4624. 5/21

WANTED: Williamsport PA bottles embossed or labeled, Dr. Porter medicines, Towando PA, Minnequa Springs Canton PA, Danville PA squats, Rohr McHenry jugs Benton PA. Advanced collector looking for the best. BOB KANE, 570-220-5982. 5/21 WANTED: Most Pre-1960 Kent & Queen Annes Counties, Maryland postcards, ephemera, bottles, advertising, souvenirs, crocks, banknotes, railroadiana, maps, militaria, steamboatiana, cannery items, photos, matchcovers, signs. Primary towns: Dolchester (Beach), Betterton (Beach), Chestertown, Centreville, Love Point. MARK NEWSOME, 9265 American Legion Rd, Chestertown, MD 21620, 410-699-0893. 4/21 WANTED: Advertising Signs made by Wells & Hope, Philadelphia or Tuchfarber of Cincinnati. JOHN O'NEILL, 650-6198209, joneill@risk-strategies.com 5/21 WANTED: Common Pontiled Medicines. Also any good condition Wisconsin Medicines. And Original Midget Fruit Jar Lids. LEE BERNARD, Bernard Antiques@ core.com Phone: 262-677-2789. 5/21 WANTED: Saratoga Type Mineral Waters, Rare molds and off colors. JEFF ULLMAN, jullman@nycap.rr.com, 518-925-9787. 5/21 WANTED: Historical Flasks - one or a collection. MATT LACY, mlacy28@yahoo. com, Phone: 440-228-1873. 6/21 WANTED: Warner Safe Bottles and gowiths. Buy-Sell-Trade. MIKE & KATHIE CRAIG, 408-591-6511. 6/21 WANTED: Looking for Mason Jars, Fruit Jars, Lids, inserts, etc. Please email me. AtoZbottles@gmail.com 6/21

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APRIL 18

MAY 15

DAPHNE, ALABAMA

HARRISONBURG, VIRGINIA

RICHMOND, RHODE ISLAND

The Mobile Bottle Collectors Club's 48th Annual Show & Sale, (9 AM to 3 PM; Dealer setup Friday, April 2nd, 3 PM to 7 PM, and Sat. 7 AM to 9 AM), at the Daphne Civic Center, 2603 US Hwy 98, Daphne, AL 36525. Free Adm., Free Appraisals. Info: ROD VINING, 251.957.6725, Email: vinewood@mchsi.com, or Facebook: "Mobile Bottle Collector's Club Show & Sale."

The Historical Bottle-Diggers of Virginia 49th Annual Antique Bottle and Collectible Show & Sale, (9 AM to 3 PM), at the Rockingham County Fairgrounds, U.S. Rt. 11 South, (Exit 243 off I-81), Harrisonburg, VA. Info: SONNY SMILEY, PH: 540.434.1129 or email: lithiaman1@yahoo.com

The Little Rhody Bottle Club tailgate swap meet, (9AM to 2PM) at the Jules Antique Center, 320 Kingstown Road, Richmond, Rhode Island (3 miles East of Route #95 on Route #138). Free set up for all! Bring your own tables. Info: WILLIAM ROSE, 508.880.4929; Email: sierramadre@comcast.net

APRIL 18

MAY 16

HUTCHINSON, KANSAS

WASHINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA

The Kalamazoo Antique Bottle Club’s 41st Annual Show & Sale, (10 AM to 3 PM, early buyers 8 AM), at the Kalamazoo County Fairgrounds, 2900 Lake St., Kalamazoo, MI. Info: JOHN PASTOR, P.O. Box 227, New Hudson, MI 48165, PH: 248.486.0530, Email: jpastor@americanglassgallery.com, or: MARK McNEE, PH: 269.343.8393.

13th Annual Kansas Antique Bottle & Postcard Show & Sale, (9 AM to 3 PM), at the Kansas State Fairgrounds (Sunflower South Bldg), Hutchinson, KS. Free Adm. Info: MIKE McJUNKIN, PH: 620.728.8304, email: scarleits@ cox.net, or, MARK LAW, Phone: 785.224.4836, email: kansasbottles@gmail. com. Sponsored by the Kansas Territory Bottle & Post Card Club.

Washington County Antique Bottle Club 47th Annual Show & Sale, (9 AM to 2 PM), at the Alpine Star Lodge, 735 Jefferson Ave., Washington, PA 15301. Adm. $3. Info: ED KUSKIE, 352 Pineview Dr., Elizabeth, PA 15037. PH: 412.405.9061, email: bottlewizard@comcast.net

APRIL 17

MAY 2

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA

EAST WINDSOR, NEW JERSEY

New date, Larger and better Location! The South Carolina Antique Bottle Club's 48th Annual Show & Sale, (9 AM to 4:30 PM; dealer set-up 7:30 AM to 9 AM), at the Jamil Shrine Temple, 206 Jamil Road, Columbia, SC. Info: MARTY VOLLMER, PH 803.629.8553, email: martyvollmer@aol.com, or ERIC WARREN, PH: 803.960.7814, email: scbottles@ aol.com

New Date! New Location! The New Jersey Antique Bottle Club (NJABC), 25th Annual Show & Sale, (9 AM to 2 PM) at the Kyle Family Farm, 831 Windsor Perrineville Road, East Windsor, NJ 08520. Come join the fun! For contracts please email: bottlediggerkev@ aol.com; Other questions - please call JOHN LAWREY: 973.222.7635.

APRIL 10

KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN

MAY 8

APRIL 17

MANSFIELD, OHIO

LITITZ, PENNSYLVANIA

The Ohio Bottle Club’s 42nd Mansfield Antique Bottle & Advertising Show & Sale, (9 AM to 2 PM, early buyers Friday 3 to 6 PM, $35), at the Richland County Fairgrounds, Mansfield, OH. Adm. $5. Info: MATT LACY, PH: 440.228.1873, Email: info@antiquebottlesales.com; or LOUIS FIFER, 330.635.1964, Email; fiferlouis@yahoo.com Website: www. ohiobottleclub.org

New - Tailgate Antique Bottle Show, (6 AM to 10 AM), 15 North Lane, Lititz, PA. Free admission! Just Show Up, Sell, Buy & Go! Set-up in parking lot or INSIDE in the event of Inclement Weather. NOTE: No tables provided. 8' tables Must be Reserved in Advance at $10 / each. No charge if you bring your own tables! Sponsored by Timeless Treasure Auctions, LLC. Info: STEVE GUION, PH: 717.371.1259, email: william03301956@ gmail.com.

MAY 22 & 23 ADAMSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA New, Special Spring Shupp's Grove Bottle Festival, (Sat. & Sun. 6 AM to dusk, early buyers Friday, 3 PM), at the famous 'Shupp's Grove', 607 Willow Street, Reinholds, PA 17569. Info: STEVE GUION, PH: 717.626.5557, or: 717.371.1259, Email: affinityinsurance1@ windstream.net JUNE 6 BALLSTON SPA, NEW YORK The National Bottle Museum presents the Annual Saratoga Springs Show & Sale, (9 AM to 2:30 PM; early adm. 8 AM, $15), at the Saratoga County Fairgrounds, 4H building, 162 Prospect St, Ballston Spa, NY. Adm. $5, Children 12 and under free. Info: NATIONAL BOTTLE MUSEUM, 76 Milton Avenue, Ballston Spa, NY 12020. PH. 518.885.7589; Email: info@nationalbottlemuseum.org. JUNE 12 CAMBRIDGE CITY, INDIANA Cambridge City Jar & Antique Show, (9 AM to 3 PM, dealer set-up 7:00 AM), outdoors at Crietz Park, 150 N. Foote St, Cambridge City, IN. Info: MARTY TROXELL, PH. 765.478.3800. April 2021

Show CALENDAR JUNE 19 JOHNSTON, IOWA The Iowa Antique Bottleers 51st Annual Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show and Sale, (8 AM to 2 PM; Early buyers 6 AM), at the Johnston Lions Club, 64th Place and Merle Hay Road, Johnston, IA. Adm. $2, Children Free. Info: MARK WISEMAN, 3305 Sheridan Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50301. PH: 515.344.8333, or JOYCE JESSEN, PH: 515.979.5216. JUNE 20 (Rain date June 27) UPTON, MASSACHUSETTS The Little Rhody Bottle Club Show & Sale, (9AM to 2PM; Early adm. 8AM, $10), outdoors in the front parking lot of the Blackstone Valley Vocational Regional High School, 65 Pleasant Street, Upton, MA (Exit 21B off 495). Tables will be provided. Adm. $3. Info: WILLIAM ROSE, 508.880.4929; Email: sierramadre@comcast.net JULY 17 RICHMOND, RHODE ISLAND The Little Rhody Bottle Club tailgate swap meet, (9AM to 2PM) at the Jules Antique Center, 320 Kingstown Road, Richmond, Rhode Island (3 miles East of Route #95 on Route #138). Free set up for all! Bring your own tables. Info: WILLIAM ROSE, 508.880.4929; Email: sierramadre@comcast.net JULY 17 & 18 ADAMSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA The 21st Annual Shupp's Grove Summer Bottle Festival, (Sat. & Sun. 6 AM to dusk, early buyers Friday, 3 PM), at the famous 'Shupp's Grove', 607 Willow Street, Reinholds, PA 17569. Info: STEVE GUION, PH: 717.626.5557, or: 717.371.1259, Email: affinityinsurance1@windstream.net

JULY 18 ROTTERDAM JUNCTION, NEW YORK New date, New location! The Capital Region Antique Bottle Club outdoor Show & Sale, at the Historic Mabee Farm along the Mohawk

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River, 1100 Main Street, Rotterdam, NY (exit 1, Rt. 5S off 890). Info: ADAM STODDARD, PH: 518.256.7663; Email: acstoddard63@ gmail.com, or: PHIL BERNNARD, PH: 518.429.7641; Email: explomar@hotmail.com AUGUST 6 & 7 SYRACUSE, NEW YORK FOHBC 2021 National Antique Bottle Show, OnCenter Civic Center, Syracuse, N.Y. View and download info. packet & contract at fohbc.org. Additional info: JIM & VAL BERRY, Email: jhberry10@yahoo.com, or: JIM BENDER, Email: jbender@millservicesinc. com. FOHBC National Show – Eastern Region. AUGUST 28 BRIMFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS New date, New Location! 51st Annual Somers Antique Bottle Club Show & Sale, (9AM to 2PM) at the Brimfield Auction Acres, 35 Main Street, Brimfield, MA. Adm. $5 (Free parking). Info: DON DESJARDINS, 22 Anderson Rd., Ware, MA 01082. Ph: 413.687.4808, Email: dondes@comcast.net

SEPTEMBER 19 CHEEKTOWAGA, NEW YORK The Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association 22nd Annual Show and Sale, (9:00 AM to 2:00 PM), at the Polish Falcons Hall, 445 Columbia Avenue, Depew, NY. Info: TOM KARAPANTSO, 716.487.9645, email: tomar@stny.rr.com, or: PETER JABLONSKI, 716.440.7985, email: peterjablonski@roadrunner.com; or JOE GUERRA, 716.207.9948, email: jguerra3@ roadrunner.com SEPTEMBER 26 BALTIMORE, MARYLAND Rescheduled from March! The Baltimore Antique Bottle Club's 41st Annual Show & Sale, (9 AM to 3 PM), at the Physical Education Center, CCBC-Essex, 7201 Rossvile Blvd. (I-695, Exit 34), Rosedale, MD. Info: Show Chairman RICK LEASE, 410-4589405, email: finksburg21@comcast.net. For contracts, call: ANDY AGNEW, 410-5271707 or email: medbotls@comcast.net. Website: baltimorebottleclub.org. JULY 28 - AUGUST 1, 2022

SEPTEMBER 11 & 12

RENO, NEVADA

ADAMSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA

FOHBC 2022 National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo, Grand Sierra Resort & Casino. Information: RICHARD SIRI, email: rtsiri@sbcglobal.net, or FERDINAND MEYER V, email: fmeyer@fmgdesign.com. FOHBC National Convention – Western Region.

Special Shupp's Grove Fall Bottle Festival, (Sat. & Sun. 6 AM to dusk, early buyers Friday, 3 PM), at the famous 'Shupp's Grove', 607 Willow Street, Reinholds, PA 17569. Info: STEVE GUION, PH: 717.626.5557, or: 717.371.1259, Email: affinityinsurance1@ windstream.net SEPTEMBER 18 RICHMOND, RHODE ISLAND The Little Rhody Bottle Club tailgate swap meet, (9AM to 2PM) at the Jules Antique Center, 320 Kingstown Road, Richmond, Rhode Island (3 miles East of Route #95 on Route #138). Free set up for all! Bring your own tables. Info: WILLIAM ROSE, 508.880.4929; Email: sierramadre@comcast.net

ATTENTION READERS: Due to COVID-19 precautions, a number of upcoming bottle shows have been postponed or cancelled. Please check with local show chairperson to see if your favorite shows are affected. We will have further updates in future issues as new information becomes available. Thanks.

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Greer #s of the mint state #1265 United States Syrup #1685 United States Syrup #1383 Dr. Perkins’ Syrup #5 Arthurs Renovating Syrup #778 Halls / Palingenesia / Or Regenerator

Also non Greer bottles of the mint state Dr. C.W. Robacks Scandinavien Blood Purifier Cincinnati, O, IP

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John Keating P.O. Box 13255 Olympia, WA 98508 360-628-9576 johnkeating473@yahoo.com

WANTED: Clarke’s Vegetable Sherry Wine Bitters, Sharon, Mass. All bottle sizes & variants…pontil/smooth base. Also, ANY ephemera..newspaper ads, invoices, letterhead, etc.

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April 2021

What Did They Do About Sex? What every bottle collector should now know By Steve Ketcham

ust how much do we know about the sex lives of our ancestors? And what options did they have when outcomes were less than desirable? Let’s see if we can learn a little bit about our forebears intimate lives by checking out some of the artifacts they left behind. A wide variety of commercial products were once available to help deal with sex-related issues. These items may not have been sitting around on the kitchen or bathroom counter, nor were they openly discussed, but at least some folks who lived 100-150 years ago were certainly familiar with them. The historic commercial containers are still around, and they provide some clues to how our ancestors dealt with it all. Don’t be shy, take a look!

Sexually Transmitted Diseases If prostitution is the oldest profession, then products offered for sale to cure the possible aftermath of one’s indiscretions may well be among the oldest medicines. During the second half of the 19th century and early in the 20th century, such products were often discreetly offered for sale by the local druggist. This would have been well before the discovery of penicillin, so the efficacy of these dubious products is questionable, but that never stopped the charlatans of the day from offering them. Nor did it stop the desperate from using them. The treatments were often bottled, and some examples are shared here together with some advertising signs which were likely hung on the wall above the urinals in the men’s room.

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"For Gonorrhoea or Gleet Use Banc Koko For Sale By All Druggists" bottle.

For Gonorrhoea or Gleet Use Banc Koko For Sale By All Druggists. This early STD remedy bottle was dug from a circa 1890s Minneapolis privy hole by the author forty years ago. Gleet is a word once used to describe the watery discharge associated with gonorrhea. This product must have been short lived — very few of the bottles still exist. Author’s collection.

"The Evans Chemical Company Proprietors Big G Cincinnati, O. U. S.A." bottle.

The Evans Chemical Company Proprietors Big G Cincinnati, O. U.S.A. According to Fike’s The Bottle Book, the label for this product read: “Big G, Compound of Borated Golden Seal, to remedy Catarrh, Hay Fever, Irritations, Inflammation, Ulceration of Mucous Membranes on Linings of the Nose, Throat, Stomach and Urinary

Organs. Cure for Social Diseases.” Notice how that final little sentence was slipped in at the last moment. This product bottle is fairly common, suggesting that the diseases it promised to cure were also common. Circa 1910. Author’s collection. Baker’s Great American Specific / R. H. Hurd, Proprietor / N. Berwick, Maine U. S. A. Fike’s The Bottle Book reports an 1860 ad which reads: DR. BAKER”S SPECIFIC will cure Gonorrhea, Gleet, Stricture, Seminal Weakness and All Diseases of the Genital Organs. Reader, have you a private disease? Do not neglect it. Delay is dangerous….” Dr. Baker was much more direct in his advertising when compared to the Evans Chemical Co. He also chose to emboss the bottle with an image of Uncle Sam holding the product. A proud American symbol on a venereal disease cure? Say it ain’t so, Uncle Sam! Author’s collection. The Specific A No. 1 A Self Cure. Here was a product that at once used subtlety and bravado in its name. While not letting on that the product was a treatment for venereal disease, it still told the buyer that it was a top of the line product, being A No. 1. The 1971 publication, 19th Century Medicine in Glass by Bill and Betty Wilson lists this product as a cure for gonorrhea and gleet first sold in 1884 by Augustus Schoenheit of San Jose, Calif. Author’s collection.

TOP LEFT: Baker’s Great American Specific / R. H. Hurd, Proprietor / N. Berwick, Maine U. S. A. TOP RIGHT: The Specific A No. 1 A Self Cure. BOTTOM: Pabsts’s Okay Specific, Pabst Chemical Company, Chicago, Ill. labeled bottle and carton.

Pabsts’s Okay Specific, Pabst Chemical Company, Chicago, Ill. This was a product with a long shelf life. It survived the various American Pure Food and Drug laws, the first of which was enacted in 1906. While the bottle pictured here dates to circa 1900-1910, the match box holder also pictured bears a 1934 calendar indicating the potion somehow flew under the Pure Food and Drug radar for another 28 years. Again, notice that the bottle label does not mention exactly what the product is supposed to treat. No relation to the Pabst Brewing Co. of Milwaukee. Author’s collection. April 2021

Troy Compound Buchu. With 47 percent of this product being alcohol, it may have just as easily been sold across the bar in a saloon as over the druggist counter. The box advises that the compound was to be “Employed in the Treatment of Diseases of Urinary and Genital Organs.” While not explicit, the suggestion is clearly made that this was a product for the treatment of STDs. Our search found no newspaper ads for Troy Compound Buchu nor for the manufacturer, Troy Pharmacy Co. of San Francisco. However, the February 20, 1909, issue of the San Francisco Call did carry a short story regarding one Alice Barnes who died of an overdose of headache powders containing acetanalid, a deadly poison once marketed as a headache cure. The powders found in Miss Barnes’ home were manufactured by Troy Pharmacy Co., suggesting that the company was not shy about vending goods of questionable merit. Author’s collection.

LEFT: Troy Compound Buchu. ABOVE: Black Caps sign.

Black Caps and Kuragon signs. These two tin signs most likely spent time on the wall in the men’s room. They may also have been used in the ladies’ room. Both promised that the product advertised would end all troubles brought on by gonorrhea and gleet. Author’s collection. Swift’s Syphilitic Specific. While most of the STD products of the past were sold in small, unassuming bottles, Swift’s Syphilitic Specific, a somewhat earlier product than most of the bottles shown here, used a large and eye-catching cobalt blue vessel to contain its quackery. An ad appearing in the 1882 Morrison, Plummer & Co. The Druggists’ Ready Reference brags that “Swift’s Syphilitic Specific Is No Humbug!” and claims that the potion “Cures That Most Loathsome Disease Syphilis…” Morrison, Plummer & Co. of Chicago was a drug wholesaler. Swift’s was based in Atlanta, Georgia. The version of the bottle shown here dates to circa 1860-1870. Author’s collection.

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LEFT: Swift’s Syphilitic Specific ad appearing in the 1882 Morrison, Plummer & Co. The Druggists’ Ready Reference. ABOVE: Kuragon sign.

Erectile Dysfunction Here’s another topic which in the past was seldom discussed in polite company. However, impotence presented another opportunity for mountebanks to peddle all manner of products designed to pry dollars from the pockets of the gullible public. No-To-Bac. The number of No-To-Bac tins found today suggests this was a relatively popular product. Early on, the tin was lithographed with a dramatic image of the No-To-Bac warrior defeating Nicotine. But wait! Not only does the tin carry the promise of ending the tobacco habit, but it also brags: “Makes Weak Men Strong, Impotent Men Gain Weight, Manly Vigor and The Old Man Feels Young Again.” Without directly stating it, here was a promise to bring back manhood. Author’s collection. No-To-Bac tins.

The eye-catching cobalt blue Swift’s Syphilitic Specific bottle.

Make Man Tablets. By its name alone, this product makes a promise to restore manhood. The carefully worded text, found on both sides of the tin, elaborates upon the many virtues of the product. Most telling is a sentence on the reverse side of the tin informing the user that the pills are “nature’s greatest aid to repair the nervous system giving power of endurance and capacity to enjoy every pleasure.” Subtle but direct. Author’s collection. Spanish Nerve Grains. Here was a product that didn’t mince words. It declared itself “The Greatest Known Nerve Restorer.” It goes on to list an amazing number of ailments which it promises to treat, beginning with “Weak Memory” and ending with “Loss of Sexual Power and All Affections of the Generative Organs in Either Sex.” Author’s collection.

Spanish Nerve Grains tins.

Tins of Make Man Tablets.

P. Cantharis. This cobalt blue, label-underglass apothecary jar, its product name written in Latin, once held Spanish Fly. An actual beetle, it was for centuries dried and powdered for various medical and amorous uses. The powder was dangerous and even lethal but was nevertheless ingested, sometimes unknowingly, to stimulate April 2021

and inflame various body parts. Because it caused such reactions, it was believed to be an aphrodisiac and was used to treat impotence. It was also used to stimulate a miscarriage. The long-term effects were often very unhealthy and included renal damage. We cannot speculate upon how the contents of this jar might have been used; we can only imagine. Author’s collection.

Pennyroyal and the Unwanted Pregnancy As may be expected, engaging in sex often led to pregnancy, and sometimes that pregnancy was not supposed to happen. In that event, ladies of the past would sometimes turn to pennyroyal, a medicinal herb of the mint family. Much like Spanish Fly, pennyroyal has a checkered past. Even today it is sometimes used as a topical to treat various ailments such as gout. However, ingestion is dangerous and not recommended. Quack medicine companies of the past still quietly offered it for sale to either induce miscarriage (in large doses) or stimulate menstruation (in smaller doses). Chi-Ches-Ters Pills. This product was once supposed to contain pennyroyal, but its formula and labeling were changed once the Pure Food and Drug Laws of 1906 were enacted. Earlier packaging did use the word “Pennyroyal.” While the product’s purpose is nowhere to be found on the packaging shown here, the phrase “reliable female pill” is included in the text. Two-and-one-half pages are dedicated to Chi-Ches-Ters Pills in Volume One of Nostrums and Quackery (published by the American Medical Association in 1911). The verdict offered in the text is that “no drug or combination of drugs which, taken by the mouth, will with certainty produce” the desired effect. The doctors writing about Chi-Ches-Ters Pills in Nostrums and Quackery go on to say: ”The use of this nostrum is pernicious and in the interest of public health and public morals, its sale, and the sale of similar nostrums, should be prohibited.” Author’s collection.

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P. Cantharis bottle.

Dr. Prince’s Pennyroyal Pills. This small tin puts it out there; it contains pennyroyal. However, the closest it comes to any kind of statement regarding its purpose is that it is “Safe. Sure. Effective.” After that, it is up to the consumer to figure it out. Author’s collection. Princes Brand Tablets. Perhaps an attempt to confuse the consumer is found here as the product name is very similar to Dr. Prince’s Pennyroyal Pills. Again, there are no overt statements regarding the product’s purpose. Even the directions, also pictured here, are vague and understated. The user is to “take one pill every two hours, until the desired effect is produced.” Author’s collection.

PHOTOS (from top): Tin of Chi-Ches-Ters Pills. Tin of Dr. Prince’s Pennyroyal Pills. Princes Brand Tablets tin. Directions for taking Princes Brand Tablets.

Shards of Glory 3:

Phoenix Glass By Jeff Mihalik

(This article was originally written in 2014 but was never published.)

hile digging in Monaca (one of our local Ohio River towns) my digging partner, Rick Ronczka, and I kept finding use layers which contained very colorful and unusual glass shards. We surmised that these shards may have been associated with the Phoenix Glass Works, but back in the day, we didn’t save them for research or study. However, as potential Phoenix glass shards kept rising from the privy depths, I started to save them. Let me start by providing some background history of this business and the community in which it was (and still is) located. The Phoenix Glass Co. was incorporated in 1880 under the supervision of Andrew Howard, president of the Phoenix Glass Co. It was located in the town of Phillipsburg, Pa., which is now called Monaca. Phillipsburg itself has a very colorful history. Originally known as Water Cure, it became known as New Philadelphia (which later became Phillipsburg) when, in 1832, Count De Leon and his followers settled here after breaking away from the Harmony Society, which was located upriver in Economy, Pa. I read that this breakaway may have something to do with the Harmony Society espousing

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celibacy, among other issues. These German immigrants were mostly adherents of Pietism and lived communally. They were also skilled in many crafts and brought a zeal for work and labor to this area. Move forward about fifty years and we now see a growing population and growing industry along the towns of the Ohio River. Having access to local raw materials and good transportation routes to markets, Phillipsburg was an ideal location for constructing a glass manufacturing facility. Dig Site 1: We have been scoping out this particular home for many years. It shows up on both our 1861 and 1876 maps and there lies our interest. The owner, as we found out, had mental health issues. He would not really talk to us let alone discuss digging in his backyard. Then, recently, I noticed that a condemned notice was attached to the front door and the windows were boarded up. Apparently, there was a fire that totaled this structure. We were very familiar with all the neighbors and wanted to get a dig in before the home was torn down. A couple weeks later we probed the lot and found two probable privy sites. The first privy was an 1890 to 1910 privy, filled with unembossed whiskey flasks (over 70) and a few common medicines. April 2021

Privy 2, which was up close to the home just off the back porch, picked up where the first privy ended. As we dug down, going from 1890 to circa 1880, I found a layer of glass shards in a pile on one side of the privy. I immediately recognized these shards as probable Phoenix Glass due to their unusual colors, unknown forms, and colored cullet mixed in. Unlike years earlier when we dug similar shards, I knew to put these aside and keep for further investigation and study. Digging to the bottom, we found the only whole pontil bottle we have ever found in Monaca. It was a nice Nerve and Bone Liniment. Nothing special, but a cool keeper from our home area. Dig Site 2: Directly across the street was another home which, although it did not show up on our maps, had double chimneys and had that old look to it. The owner of this home was losing it to foreclosure and did not care what we wanted to do. We found another two likely privy spots. This time, one was near the alley next to a garage, and the other was along the property line in front of the garage. We dug the one next to the garage along the alley first. This privy contained a lot of newer trash in the first couple of feet and it was hard to determine if it had been dug previously. However, as we dug further, we started to find whole bottles dating to around 1890. Nothing special, but at least blown in the mold. At about the five foot level I uncovered another grouping of Phoenix glass shards. Once again, the color, type and cullet all indicated that this was locally produced, at least this is what I surmised. I dug the second privy by myself in 90-degree heat. I didn’t have our shade umbrella so I rigged up a tarp and secured THIS PAGE: Images from the dig site and objects on display at home. FOLLOWING PAGE: Three Joseph Webb patents for glassware and some of the many shards of Phoenix glass recovered.

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it over the pit by tying it down to filled trash cans in order to have some shade. Hey, this actually worked. The soil in this area is very rocky and sandy river material, as this part of town is not far from the Ohio River. It was difficult to determine if the probe was hitting a glass object or some flat shale rock, but I dug on. When I got to the five foot level, I found another clump of glass shards all piled together (are you seeing a pattern here?). These shards appeared to be of Phoenix glass origin but some of the others were hard to say. At about the seven foot level I hit the privy trash layer (bottles in night soil). The glass here was all broken and was of the 1870 era (very typical of privies in this area, usually always dipped). Again, not much in the way of whole good bottles for these two privies, except another 60 or more clear whiskey flasks, but I kept the shards from Phoenix glass. Dig Site 3: This site was right next to Dig Site 2. The owner had been very curious with all the other digging we had been doing and allowed us onto this lot. Once again I found two privy sites. One was closer to the home and the other was next to the garage but away from the alley. We dug the one closer to the home first. When we hit a trash use layer, the whole and broken bottles indicated another 1890s-era privy. This pit once again had a grouping of glass shards and cullet that pointed towards a Phoenix Glass origin. I have not mentioned this yet, but all of the privies dug so far had been wood-liners.

THIS PAGE: Another look at some of the many shards found during the digs.

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Pit 2 at this site turned out to be a brickliner. It was about 4 foot wide and 5 foot long. As we dug into this pit, we started to find some 1880s era bottles. Several embossed local drugstore bottles and medicines were found, as well as some local Hutches. This pit ended up being over 7 feet deep. Near the bottom of this pit I again started to find a pocket of glass shards of Phoenix

origin. I also found several glass canes. Two were clear with a frosty strip and one was a deep emerald green color. Many other colorful shards were also recovered. By now I had several buckets of shards. Some were highly unusual forms that I could not even decipher what they may have been used for. Maybe they were endof-the-day whimsies or test forms that a glassblower was experimenting with. I even thought that maybe the glassblowers would bring home broken or seconds examples instead of leaving them in the glass shop. What I do know is that these shards represented what was being either owned and tossed, blown and tossed, or just tossed into privies during the period of 1880 to 1900. Now started my research. The Phoenix Glass Co. began operations in a newly constructed plant on Aug. 5, 1880 in Phillipsburg (now Monaca), Pa. Phoenix was founded by Andrew Howard and originally made flint chimneys and shades. Phoenix remained in continual operation until 1970 and is in fact still operating today under the name Anchor Hocking. From my research, it appears that the time period of 1883-94 is of greatest interest to glass collectors. This was the period of Phoenix’s art glass production. Phoenix Glass Co.’s great success in art glass is due mainly to one man, Joseph Webb Jr., the son of an English glassmaker, Joseph Webb Sr. Joseph Webb Jr. was an active glassmaker at Coalbourn Hill near Stourbridge in England prior to his immigrating to the U.S. and becoming plant superintendent for Phoenix (from 1883-93, he was a metal maker, glass formulator, or plant superintendent). His knowledge of glass was so extensive that some of the glass made at this time by Phoenix could not be made by any other company in the U.S. He was responsible for many innovations in glass manufacturing and glass formula-

tion. However, very little documentation remains of the glass he produced. The most recent book on Phoenix Art Glass, by Leland Marple, started with the process of elimination in order to identify Phoenix Glass items. Phoenix Glass identification is also made more difficult due to the fact Phoenix did not issue catalogues for its glass, which was sold primarily through its own showrooms in Pittsburgh and New York. Phoenix manufactured a broad line of products including tableware, pitcher sets, cruets, fairy lamps, rose bowls, vases and novelty products. Their Mother of Pearl glass included almost every type of Mother of Pearl, including rainbow, diamond, dot oval, zig zag, moiré, swirl glass and ribbed panel optic. Their standard optics included spot, oval spot, opal spot, diamond, lattice, opal lattice, opal lattice reversed, opal diamond, Phoenix drape, swirl honeycomb, and window optic patterns. They also manufactured ribbed panel optic and Venetian thread. As to the glass itself, Phoenix made peach blow, also known as mandarin. Phoenix was producing peach glass before Mt. Washington. Phoenix’s (i.e. Joseph Webb’s) patent for MOP (Patent # 345,265) was submitted prior to that of Mt. Washington; unfortunately Mt. Washington’s patent was granted first, which later caused Phoenix legal problems. Joseph Webb produced other Patents on MOP glass while at Phoenix, at least two that we have found: one in 1887 (Patent # 363,190) and a second in 1888 (Patent #379,089). Phoenix made acid-etched cameo glass and cased glass. Below is a summary table prepared from trade journals, which recorded a multitude of colors and effects made by Phoenix. This table ignores those items used in lighting wares. The table was compiled by Leland Marple in his book, Phoenix Art Glass.

Year, Color, and Effect: 1883 “Crackled glass in blue, green, amber, canary, lemon, citron.” 1884 “Caarnelian, Amberine, Gopazine, Asurine, spotted blue, crystal, canary, pink; rose, blue, and ruby, amber, gold, Coralene. 1885 “Mottled wine, opal, mottled amber, blue, white rose. Colored cut glass with color on exterior, threaded colored glass wound spirally around a different colored body. Ivory, Aurina, ruby cased cameo with figures cut on the exterior, amethyst, flint opalescent, canary, citron and rose in coralene mold pattern. Topaz and rose, Venetian Art (color combination), Etruscan, threaded ware (patented), peach (combination of colors identified as Mandarine), blue and marine opalescent.” 1886 “Ivory with applied crystal ornamentation in relief and crystal twisted feet. Rose du Barry (in diamond pattern, full tableware line), Bronze (bronze shading to steel grey), Chinese Mandarin (body of pale yellow with smoke-colored tops). Tinted Ivory, fairy lamp bases and shades in striped pink and blue. Blue, ruby, canary and flint shades in Coraline mold pattern. Verde Pearl, carved ivory glass, Rose du Barry with satin finish and diamond pattern, satin finished ivory satin cased inside with colors and with crystal edges. Gold and silver enameling on vases, pitchers, water sets, tankards with enameling in Japanese and other oriental designs. Peach (new line) with decoration, opalescent spot in all colors, opalescent diamond in all colors, etcged enamel cameo glass.” 1887 “Heliotrope, Harlequin, Pearl, ivory, pleated Snowstorm, etched, cut crystal, ivory and gold fairy lamps; Bridal Pearl; Verde de Satin Onde (green zig-zag airtrap); gold clouded crystal.” 1888 “Impasto Cameo in four colors.” It is also interesting to note that Phoenix Glass Works was out of the art glass pro-

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duction within a year after Joseph Webb’s leaving Phoenix Glass. On the 1861 map the home on Dig Site 1 was listed as being lived in by the Merriman family. Later research showed that during the 1890s in Phillipsburg, four out of the five Merrymans (notice spelling) living in town were glass blowers! So the shards found at this location can with almost certainly be attributed as Phoenix Glass. Although ownership of the other dig sites were not shown on my maps, it doesn’t take much to surmise that most (if not all) of the colorful or etched or air trapped or cut or MOP glass shards being found in the privies were coming from Phoenix Glass workers. I counted at least ninety glasshouse workers on the 1892 Phillipsburg directory. All the dug privies are within a few blocks of the glasshouse and were likely occupied by glasshouse workers. Take a look at the pictures of the items found and see if you can correlate to the Year, Color, and Effect table above. I strongly urge anyone with further interest to read Leland Marple’s book, Phoenix Art Glass.

Editor’s note: Also, R.S. Prussia: The Formative Years by Leland and Carol Marple is available on the internet. The Marples have been collectors, researchers and writers of porcelain wares marked R. S. Prussia for many years. They have produced four books on the topic. April 2021

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HOUSE OF FAHRNEY Part 1: From the rise to the demise of an empire There has been a renewed abundance of interest in the bottle collecting and historical artifact community as expressed by various individuals over the years. Special attention was given to the Fahrney clan, who were associated with patent medicinesamong other businesses. There is just not enough information out there about a family that can be linked to so many bottles. Quite a few artifacts were left behind, especially embossed medicine bottles, and were strewn across our area as well as our country. These bottles became our connections to the past.

The Beginning More than a century after his great grandfather, Jacob Fahrney, arrived in America, Peter Fahrney of Chicago became one of the most successful businessmen of the Toadstool Fahrneys. He commissioned a genealogist/historian to write an account of the family’s history, as family members became curious. Upon doing some early research, this historian recovered some remarkable records of 18th-century immigration from Germany into America that were readily available for genealogical research and examination. These records were preserved from meticulous ship’s roll documents detailing the passengers traveling to America. Public records today reveal much about German immigration to America. Historians then used these records to narrow down Jacob’s arrival through handwritten listings for two time periods, dictating strong possibilities of travel both in the 1740s as well as 1780s. These candidates were progenitors of the Anglicized Fahrney name.

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Diagram showing the Maryland Fahrney's lineage or family tree.

To present a plausible understanding of the family’s beginning, it should be understood that Peter Fahrney’s grandfather, Jacob, was Old Peter’s father. Old Peter was an orphan who was separated from his parents at a very young age. Any prior knowledge of them was passed down to him from his adopted parents. A text of medical recipes which is made reference of throughout his career was supposedly passed to Peter via his adopted parents. These were medicinal preparations mostly composed of Old World recipes passed from father to son. Since the Fahrneys were of Mennonite descent, it may have played a role in young Peter’s memory of them. The people were settled in traditional Mennonite communities usually close together in various regions, especially in Pennsylvania.

The Early Years The story starts in 1756 when a medical hygenist named Jacob Fahrney, Peter’s

grandfather, migrates to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, from Frankfort Germany. He lives there thirteen or so years with a wife and three children. Facts are not clear whether he established himself as a prominent physician, but family records indicate that he did. Both Jacob Sr. and his wife both died in 1769. Peter, the youngest of the three children, was two years old at the time. Not much is known about his brother and sister. Being orphans, they were all placed into good Christian homes. Peter was indentured into a tanner’s family there. He worked until he fulfilled his indenture in learning the tanning trade. Once he learned the business, Peter moved west to near Chambersberg, Pennsylvania, and established his own business. In 1791, he married Eve Durnbaugh and they started a family together. Their union produced four children. Eve died in 1803, leaving Peter to care for them.

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PHOTOS (clockwise from upper left): A later example of a Dr. Fahrney's bottle embossed PREPARED BY / DR. PETER FAHRNEY & SONS CO. / CHICAGO ILL U.S.A Reverse of Chicago bottle, embossed: THE RELIABLE / OLD-TIME PREPARATION / FOR HOME USE History of the House of Fahrney, 112th Anniversary, 1780 - 1892, booklet cover. Dr. Peter Fahrney crate with bottles.

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This event influenced him to move south, to where Eve’s family resided in Washington County, Maryland. They owned a large parcel of land there in a town called San Mar near Boonsboro, where Eve’s parents could assist in raising the children. Peter purchased 42 acres of land from them on June 20, 1803. It contained a spring, which he intended to use to establish another tannery. Shortly afterward, he was affected by another event that changed his life. He was thrown from his horse, which resulted in a crippling injury that led to extreme curvature of the spine, restricting his physical abilities and leaving him unable to perform the rigorous duties of running a tannery. Being a short man, he took on the appearance of a hunchback. It is assumed that during his rehabilitation he began preparing for a career in medicine. Like his father, Peter also became a physician. He developed a successful medical practice and concocted a blood medicine which became popular. Peter was not as revolutionary a bottle man as Thomas Dyott, but did start practicing medicine around the same time that Dyott introduced his famous line of Dr. Robertson’s Patent Medicines. The doctors of Peter’s day primarily had riding practices. They traveled from village to village, patient to patient, by horseback on footpaths. Peter’s injury severely affected his back so that he couldn’t ride. He walked beside his horse, which carried all his medicines and equipment. His practice took him into three states: Maryland, Virginia and what is now West Virginia. Sometimes his wife or a servant would accompany him to help administer the various medicines and ointments he produced in his lab from the wild herbs he collected. Peter had re-married in 1805 to Ann Sartorius. He had seven more children

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with her. Two of his sons followed in his footsteps and practiced medicine with him.

Business Development and Expansion Peter Sr.’s oldest son, Jacob, was the first to follow his father in the medical field in 1822, starting another practice near Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. He became a popular physician because the public knew he had access to his father’s medicinal preparations, and is also given credit for developing a liquid form of the Blood Medicine. The original Blood Medicine was a herbal mixture that was brewed into a tea after purchase. Jacob formulated it (adding alcohol as a “preservative”) to develop a new, more modern version, with a longer shelf life. The patients did not complain that this herbal tea was converted into a herbal alcoholic preparation at all. The nostrum had a new awakening and increased clientele, as the alcohol only added to the favorability and instant acceptability of this new “more therapeutic” nostrum. Boozy was better during this era, and the public rejoiced. Jacob’s older sister, Ann, married practicing physician Ullrich Burkholder in Franklin County and two of their offspring, John and David, became part of the Waynesboro practice. When Peter died in 1837 his youngest son, Daniel, who had been working with him in the original Boonsboro practice, succeeded him there. It was John Burkholder who went to Boonsboro to help the 18-year-old son transition into the new responsibilities of a practicing physician, teaching him the ins and outs of the Fahrney pharmacopeia of famous medicines with great curative properties. Jacob Sr. died in 1848.

During that time, his oldest son, Jacob Jr., had expanded the practice to Philadelphia. John Burkholder, who was working with Jacob Sr. and was knowledgeable of the operation and many other aspects of the business, assisted. It’s not clear what David was doing at this time. The patent medicine enterprise was growing in leaps and bounds, and production capacity needed to grow with it. Expansion was imminent. The pontiled bottle era produced no embossed specimens. The patent medicine was put up in label-only containers. In 1856, Peter began in Waynesboro. Medicine production continued to expand at a good rate. The earliest embossed specimens show up right around 1870. Daniel decided to groom his son Daniel to practice in Boonsboro. As you can see at this point in the history, names are a source of confusion to us researchers. The name Peter, as well as Daniel, repeats so much that research becomes garbled here. We are trying our best to straighten this out. At about the same time Daniel went to his brother Peter, who was otherwise uninvolved in medicine business, to ask that his son, Peter, come practice medicine with him and his son Daniel. Peter was thirteen and Daniel was eight. It seems the “Old Dr. Peter connection” is something that both practices desired to substantiate to demonstrate a long line of family medicine practice. John Burkholder, a longer living contemporary of Daniel Sr., was mentioned as being instrumental in the success of the whole operation during these transitional times. After Daniel died his brother in law, John Burkholder, helped his sister-inlaw Amy transition the loose ends created by her husband Daniel’s death.

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Dr. Fahrney's original office / laboratory, near Boonsboro, Maryland.

An early wooden PREPARED BY DR. PETER FAHRNEY CHICAGO, ILL'S crate.

John was interested in teaching the cousins the various aspects of the two practices. It is likely that Jacob Jr. returned to Waynesboro sometime before Daniel’s Sr.’s death in 1867. The family name and Fahrney patent medicines were cruising to wide acceptability on a grand scale, and the business was really taking off. Both Peter and Daniel, the next generation of cousins, went on to receive eclectic degrees in medicine from the same college in Philadelphia. Peter, from Waynesboro, also received a degree from there.

Scarce DRS. D. FAHRNEY & SON / PREPARATION FOR / CLEANSING THE BLOOD / BOONSBORO, M.D. bottle.

From here we move on from this installment of Medicine Chest, anxious to pick up next month with Part 2 of the House of Fahrney article. We will further explore the spin-off business venture, Victor’s Remedy Company, and things will sure get interesting. Editor’s note: We would like to extend a special recognition to Phil Edmonds and his forty-plus years of research in assisting with the writing of this article. April 2021

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