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VOLUME 38, #4 • August 2021 FRONT COVER:

Great weather, great bottles and friends could all be found at this year's Little Rhody Antique Bottle Club Show & Sale held in Upton, Mass., on June 20. Club member Ron Rainka of Warren, Mass., is pictured behind his table of always fine glass. Read more about it beginning on page 34. Also, don't miss the Little Rhody Club's upcoming tailgate swap meet.

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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 Stocking a Glass Collecting Library................................................... 7 The Multifaceted Alan Blakeman..................................................... 13 Fruit Jar Rambles: Four-Shoulder Mason Jars................................. 17 Classified Advertisements................................................................. 22 Show Calendar.................................................................................. 26 Deciphering A.M. Bininger.............................................................. 29 The Little Rhody Show Comes Roaring Back.................................. 34 Snake Eyes!........................................................................................ 38 Medicine Chest: What Does It Do?.................................................. 40

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Coming in September: The COVID Bottles of 2020, by John Savastio Potlids Loaded with History, by Ralph Finch Title Contender Packs a Punch, by Mike Beardsley Fruit Jar Rambles: Upcycled Pots, by Tom Caniff Medicine Chest, by John Panella and Joe Widman And other very cool stuff! August 2021

LETTERS

to the Editor

Macy’s Bay Rum Bottle Hi, John, Some years back I saw a circa 1890s to early 1900s embossed “MACY’S BAY RUM” bottle in emerald green, but was not able to purchase it. I was left wondering what the long-gone backside label may have read. I recently acquired this mint condition, fully labeled, Macy’s Bay Rum bottle in emerald green. It measures 7.5/8” tall, or 8.5/8” tall to tip of sprinkle stopper. Though not of the glassembossed type, and a bit later than the aforementioned, it is a scarce gem, and a neat window to a past product.

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The metallic stopper is fitted in the center of a cork secured in bottle’s neck. The metallic sprinkler is easily removed from the time-weathered cork, with the bottom of the stopper being embossed: “I. M MFG. Co” (Note: The final letter of ‘o’, which is not capitalized, has a dash or short line just below.) Beginning with Photo 1, the small label wrapping bottle’s neck reads: THIS IS A SPRINKLER TOP. Remove stopper with a twisting motion, then use as a sprinkler. Photo 2 shows the bottle with full label. Note, top of label reads, in red: FOR EXTERNAL USE ONLY. Photo 3 shows the base, which is embossed: M. B. W. / U.S.A. Note: I’m assuming the first set of initials stands for MILLVILLE BOTTLING WORKS. Photo 4 highlights the handwritten refilled date of 5-16-28, at bottom right of the label. Just imagine bringing a cosmetics or perfume bottle to Macy’s today and asking them to refill it! Happy hunting to all. Dan Desmarais Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey

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LETTERS

to the Editor

Hires Bottle Closure

Read the Small Print

Hi, John,

Recently I was looking at an auction house’s listing and noted the “small print,” which stated (word for word):

I am writing seeking information about the type of closure present in a bottle I recently purchased. The bottle (at left) is a “BIMAL” type with crown top that is embossed “Hires/Carbonated/Beverages.” The closure (below) is metal with a rubber stopper. The closure has a wingnut that is turned, thereby drawing the rubber stopper upward and sealing the bottle. The closure is embossed “Hires / Household / Root Beer / Extract.” My brother and I have a combined hundred year history of bottle collecting and attending bottle shows. Neither he, nor I, have seen such a bottle closure before. I would appreciate any information you can provide about this bottle stopper. Thank you. Mike Connolly Bel Air, Maryland

“All descriptions are visual opinions based on the Auction house's experience and do not warrant as a guarantee. Condition is appropriate to age of the item. The absence of a condition report does not imply that the lot is free from damage and wear. Please review all pictures posted on this listing. We encourage all buyers to request a condition report and/or additional photos prior to bidding on any lot as ALL ITEMS ARE SOLD AS-IS, WHERE IS.” In other words, a lawyer has apparently freed the auction house from ANY responsibility for anything it is selling. Have you ever read anything like that with any of the glass sold by the major glass auction houses? Nope. And that is one of their great strengths. (Of course, that is one of the reasons that all of the heads of the glass auction houses are going gray — or have no hair at all.) Dealing with bottle collectors is a hassle. Many glass collectors want, no, demand, that the glass they buy is as perfect as when it was made 150 years ago. Ask how many of these auction chiefs have had to accept the return of a piece of glass from someone who has taken a 100X microscope to a piece of 200-yearold glass and found an unlisted grain of sand in the bottle. We are fortunate to be doing business with Pastor, Hagenbuch, Heckler and others who give us faith in who we are dealing with and what we are purchasing. Ralph Finch Farmington Hills, Michigan August 2021

Heard it through the

Grapevine Building Renovations Uncover Early Dr. Kilmer Advertising Renovation work being done on an old building in downtown Battle Creek, Michigan, uncovered some unexpected history. When the plaster was removed from one of the walls, a large advertisement for Dr. Kilmer came to light. The ad, painted on the old brick walls reads, “SAMPLE BOTTLE MAILED FREE / DR. KILMER CO. BINGHAMTON, NY.” The building is located at 97 W. Michigan Ave. Image 1 is what the building looked like in 1940. Image 2 is what it looks like now. The other ad that can be seen in the photo is for Phil Hook’s Tavern and Budweiser. The building is believed to have been constructed in the early 20th century. Submitted by AB&GC reader Jim Lockmiller of Battle Creek, Michigan.

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Got Corn? Get This Ralph Finch’s rebuttal For reasons I don’t fathom, my normally sweet wife, Janet, saw this item and commented that with the amount of corn I harvest, I should consider owning this sign. (It turned out, she was being sarcastic. Wives do that once in a while.) This colorful item was offered by Chupp Auctions of Shipshewana, Indiana. I was surely tempted. Lot 751 was described as “18 by13 inches, a flanged Dickelman Metal Corn Cribs sign, RARE!” (And note that it is a double-sided sign.) And I could save my jokes here, kept “Rat Proof ” in this corn crib (This is no Mickey Mouse outfit.)

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However, one day before it closed on Jan. 15, the colorful item garnered 26 bids, pushing the price to $1,700. WOW! My corn isn’t worth that. (It’s worth nothing, someone whispered.)

OK, the auction is over, and I didn’t get it. Well, that’s corn over the dam. Darn. The final price? $8,000, plus a 20 percent buyer’s premium (plus tax?)! Still, it’s a nice, two-sided sign.

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Grapevine Update on the New Bedford Museum of Glass In the May issue of AB&GC, on page 5 we made mention of the New Bedford Museum of Glass opening (Sunday, April 18, 2021). Since then, the museum has been very busy expanding their collections, welcoming visitors, and adding an online educational series. For those of you who may not be familiar with the museum, Wikipedia provides this description and background: “Located in New Bedford, Massachusetts, it is home to a wide collection of glass, ranging from ancient Mediterranean unguent bottles to designs by contemporary artists such as Dale Chihuly. It was first established in 1993 as the Glass Art Center at the former Bradford College in Haverhill, Massachusetts. After the college closed, the Museum relocated to New Bedford in part due to the city’s rich heritage of glassmaking. As a result, Mount Washington glass and

Dust to Dust Ralph Finch again is a pain in the side of sellers of crap On February 2, a questionable auction house called Apple Tree Auction in Newark, Ohio, sold a lemon. “Lot 1552: Wooden crate of antique bottles including many with metal and rubber corks.” Oooooh, with corks? If you missed this, well, maybe it’s your lucky day. What is the point of spending the time and effort to photograph, catalog and sell what, to most people, is stuff that should be disposed of at the nearest recycling center. On the plus side (if there is any) the auction’s home town, Newark,

Pairpoint glass compose a large part of the Museum’s collection. The Museum’s collections now number more than 7,000 items.” New Bedford, Massachusetts, became an important glassmaking center during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and first quarter of the twentieth century. The Mount Washington Glass Company relocated from Boston to New Bedford in 1870. In 1880, the Pairpoint Manufacturing Company opened, absorbing Mount Washington in 1894. Pairpoint remained in operation as a glass manufacturer until 1938 when it went out of business. To learn more about the museum, including their collections, hours of operation, and online educational series, visit their website: www.nbmog.org TOP: This little kitty serves as The New Bedford Museum of Glass unofficial greeter. He is seen here taking a well-deserved nap after a day of greeting museum visitors. RIGHT: A display case in one of the many galleries housed in the James Arnold Mansion, home of the New Bedford Museum of Glass.

brings back memories of a yearly bottle show held near Newark, at the Ehove Center, a mere 45(?) years ago. Older collectors, can you “update” my memories of those shows? Please e-mail rfinch@twmi.rr.com. Also (edited): In Newark, “the mission of the National Heisey Glass Museum is to preserve, collect, and interpret Heisey glass, related materials, and information. Heisey Collectors of America, Inc. established the National Heisey Glass Museum (NHGM) in Newark in 1972 to display and promote the study of the products of the A.H. Heisey & Co. (1896-1957). HCA has maintained the museum and has enabled the organization to continue to build its collection, main-

tain archives, add a 6,000 square foot addition to the original King House. For photos and its history, visit their website at https://heiseymuseum.org.

How much would you pay to NOT give you this … (fill in your own word). As bad as it is, Janet says this is how our glass looks since she hasn’t had the desire to dust, since the virus began and no one visits.

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Stocking a Glass Collecting Library By Kevin A. Sives

know, we’re in a digital age. No one writes letters. No one reads books (unless they’re eBooks). My two daily papers appear magically each morning on my tablet. I get dozens of texts and emails a day on my phone, but rarely a telephone call. So, what am I talking about when I write an article (yes, for a printed publication) about stocking a library with “old fashioned” books? Because I have shelves and shelves of books, and I still buy them frequently. Collecting bottles and early glass requires a library of actual, printed-on-paper, books. Before you brand me as a Luddite, please read on. Certainly, there is plenty of information about bottles and early glass available on-line. And some of it is actually accurate! But we collect things that have been collected for over a hundred years and documented in books for just about as long. So, to ignore these books is to ignore the contributions of an entire generation or two of researchers. And even now, new glass and bottle books are being printed all the time — research continues to move forward. Now I’m not saying that all the books on my shelves are 100% accurate, especially

the older ones, because surely new discoveries and scholarship has added so much to our knowledge. However, some of these early books picture collections of glass that could never be assembled today, even in some of the finest museum collections in the world. So where to begin? I had an extensive look at my library and have categorized my books into four Groups. Each Group is more specific than the one above. My book collection (yes, more than three books are a collection) is organized as: Group I - General glass books (books about all different categories of glass in the same volume). Group II - Books about specific categories of glass (e.g., bottles, cut glass, etc.). Group III - Books about a specific subcategory of glass (e.g., bitters bottles) or manufacturers or manufacturing centers (e.g., Hawkes cut glass, or glass made in Pittsburgh). Group IV - Books illustrating one museum or private collection. I’ll discuss each Group in some detail below and give a few examples of some of the key books I have in each.

Group I - General Glass Books As the name implies, these books cover many categories of glass in one book. They don’t go into too much depth about any one category. One example of Group I books would be price guides; short on detail, but long on areas covered. But having a few of these books on your shelf is a good idea, especially if you encounter something you’ve not seen before, either on-line or out in the collecting world. Perhaps the best example in this Group is American Glass by George & Helen McKearin. As the title says, it covers American glass from Jamestown to Sandwich. Free-blown, mold-blown, pressed. Bottles, flasks, tableware, vases. You name it, it’s discussed and illustrated with thousands of images. And for flask and blownthree-mold collectors, the charts and numbering schemes are indispensable. Of course, it was written in 1941, so the pictures are certainly not up to our Ultra High-Definition standards of today. And some of the assertions in the book have not survived later scholarship. But it’s a book that needs to be on your shelf. Especially when you see the phrase “pictured in McKearin” in auction listings. August 2021

I was a docent at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, for several years, and that truly expanded my appreciation for glass beyond what I already collected. So now my shelves probably have more of these types of books than the average bottle collector. But here are some books in this Group that would appeal to everyone reading this article: •

American Historical Glass, by Stephanie M. Lindsey.

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Victorian Glass, by Ruth Webb Lee.

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The Illustrated Guide to American Glass, by Emma Papert and William Fons.

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An Illustrated Dictionary of Glass, by Harold Newman.

And these are just a few of the dozens of books in this category that line my bookshelves.

Group II - Books about Specific Categories of Glass The books I have in Group II are more specific than Group I. So instead of discussing all “glass,” books in this Group only address a specific type of glass, such as bottles or cut glass. But they still fall far short of the level of detail that many of us want, because most of us don’t collect all types of bottles. But having a few of these books to fill your shelves is a good idea. There are many collectors, me included, that first saw something in a book like this that sparked our interest and developed into an area that we started collecting ourselves. I dare anyone to pick up a copy of American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry by Helen McKearin and Kenneth Wilson or 200 Years of American Blown Glass by Helen and George McKearin and not find something that they suddenly want to add to their display case!

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THIS PAGE: The classic American Glass by George S. and Helen McKearin and a row of books on a shelf in Kevin's library. FOLLOWING PAGE: Four celebrated works from various Groups.

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Over the years, I have accumulated books about cut glass (Cut and Engraved Glass 1771 – 1905 by Dorothy Daniel), paperweights (The Dictionary of Glass Paperweights by Paul J. Dunlop), cup plates (American Glass Cup Plates by Ruth Webb Lee and James H. Rose), and British and European glass (English Glass for the Collector, 1660 – 1860 by G. Bernard Hughes). I’d be willing to bet that you can’t think of a specific category of glass that doesn’t have at least a few books dedicated to it. When I purchase books in this category, I typically read them from cover to cover, I study the pictures, and for some of them, I even take notes. When I’m out at shows, shops, and auctions, everything I’ve learned from these books is stored away somewhere in the back of my brain, just in case I encounter something that’s way underpriced. Heck, I even keep a few of these books in a box in the trunk of my car, just in case! You never know when that little bit of extra knowledge might come in handy.

Group III - Books about a Specific Sub-category or Manufacturer or Manufacturing Areas Drilling down even further, we go from books about glass, to books about categories of glass (such as bottles), to books about specific sub-category of glass (such as bitters bottles) or manufacturers or manufacturing centers (Sandwich or “South Jersey”). My guess is that your library will probably be mostly composed of these types of books. I know mine is. It’s great to read about glass in general, or even a book about all categories of bottles, but if I’m researching something, I go to this section of my books. Do you collect bitters? Then you’ll probably have Bitters Bottles (and Supplements) by Carlyn Ring and Bill Ham on your shelves. Are fruit jars your thing? Then you’ll probably have The Fruit Jar Works (Vol 1 & 2) by Alice Creswick, and several of the Red Book series by Creswick or Douglas M.

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THIS PAGE: Three more indispensible books on glass.

Leybourne, Jr. Inks? Having a copy of Ink Bottles and Inkwells, by William E. Covill, Jr. is a good place to start. Or perhaps are you interested in glass by a particular manufacturer or from a certain manufacturing center? Are you interested in Stiegel (Stiegel Glass by F. W. Hunter), Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh Glass 1797 – 1891 by Lowell Innes), or New Jersey (The Glass Gaffers of New Jersey by Arlene Pepper). How about Sandwich? The Glass Industry in Sandwich (all five volumes) by Raymond E. Barlow and Joan E. Kaiser is a set of books you need on your shelves. There are books for anything you collect. And if not, then why don’t you write one?

Group IV - Books Highlighting Museum or Private Collections. This final Group of books highlights a specific museum or private collection (yes, including auction catalogs). We started with “glass,” next we went to “bottles,” then we went to “flasks,” and now we’re at “Edmund and Jayne Blaske’s Flasks.” Books in this Group are the about as close to coffee table books as we glass and bottle collectors can have!

THIS PAGE: Bottle and glass collecting books come in every imaginable category.

You can see the Toledo Museum of Art’s collection in American Glass 1760 – 1930, by Kenneth Wilson. Or the Glass Paperweights of the New York Historical Society by Paul Hollister. Or Glass in Early America: Selections from the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum by Arlene Palmer. How about those Blaske’s flasks? There’s Blaske Collection: The Edmund & Jayne Blaske Collection of American Historical Flasks by Norman C. Heckler. Would you like to see what Charlie Gardner owned? Then check out American Bottles in the Charles B. Gardner Collection by Norman C. Heckler. Or even the incredible McKearin collection? Take a peek at Early American Glass: The Private Collection of August 2021

George S. McKearin, sale catalog by American Art Association, Part One (April 22 and 23, 1931) and Part Two (January 6 and 7, 1932). For me, books in this Group are the eye candy. If you want to hook a new collector, loan them a few of these types of books, and you’ve got a collector for life.

Summary I’ve given you a quick overview of the types of books you might want to put on your bookshelves. There is no way to give a comprehensive list of the books you should include in your library, because just like your other collections, your book choices are a personal thing. And luckily, many of the older glass and bottle books are very inexpensive, so you don’t have to pass up a good bottle to start a bottle book collection. On the used books sites, right now, you can purchase American Glass by George and Helen McKearin for $3.00, and American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry by Helen McKearin and Kenneth Wilson for well under $20.00. By spending under $25.00, you could have over a thousand pages of information and several thousand photographs from some of the 20th century’s greatest collectors and researchers! Interesting to me is that even in our social media world, most glass and bottle sites are filled with queries like “does anyone know anything about this bottle or piece of glass?” And most times, the answer people post include a book title, book quotes, page numbers, and even photos of the book page itself. I’ll end with a quick anecdote. Whenever I’m asked for my opinion about a certain piece of glass or bottle, after I’ve given my answer, the second question is usually “How did you know that?” And my follow-up answer is always the same. “You should see my bookshelves at home.” RIGHT: There are never too many books on glass.

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This photo, taken in 2012 at one of Blakeman’s bottle show/auctions, reveals at least a half-dozen Yanks, including one who wears a silly T-shirt showing target balls.

The Multifaceted

Alan Blakeman

(And his incredible 50 years of collecting) By Ralph Finch

ow about a story on Alan Blakeman? ONE story? I can’t! Alan is not one person, but many people. A multifaceted person who has done more in the hobby than any ten normal people. In fact, if there is one word you can’t use to describe him, that word is “normal.”

First, why am I writing this? A major auction is coming. Let’s deal with that first, and our talk about Alan the man will follow. The collection: If we are lucky, we may live 80 years, and if we are really lucky, we can amass a world-class collection —

and the world of living that goes with it. But life and luck have limitations, and most serious collectors eventually must answer this question: Now what? We are only caretakers of this stuff, and at some point must pass it on. Some people avoid the problem by simply dumping it all on grown children who don’t want it, but … August 2021

Alan Blakeman, considered the No. 1 man behind collectibles in England, has decided to pass on his lifelong accumulation of great glass and museumquality ceramic treasures to old friends and new collectors. At an internet and an admission-only live sale on Sept. 12, Alan’s family jewels (if you pardon the expression) will be revealed. The catalog and detailed information can be found on Alan’s website: www.onlinebbr.com. But don’t worry that this is the end of Alan, the man who was inducted into the FOHBC Hall of Fame in 2013. The same man who has produced years of winter and summer UK national shows that attracted collectors from around the world, who publishes the British Bottle Review magazine, has authored at least eleven books on hobby-related topics (and published other books), has produced more bottle shows than he can count, deserves your attention. Alan also attended shows in the U.S. Alan’s auction, like his life, will be unique. And the man: Alan says he is Europe’s leading specialist provider of antique bottles, pot lids, ginger beers, enamel signs, breweriana, salt glaze pottery, cream pots, quack cures, clay pipes, old advertising, early glass (sealed and unsealed), baby feeders, Doulton Lambeth, Guinness, inks, pharmacy, poisons, eye baths, mineral waters, and so much more. As an enthusiastic fledgling collector, Alan started a small newsletter in 1979, and his magazine has since built a unique niche in the collecting world. The long-running, full-color magazine offers forty years of in-depth coverage.

off the M1, he has attracted thousands of visitors into the idyllic village and the Heritage Centre, housing a major antiques centre, craft shops and cafes, a full-size steam railway, the only Newcomen beam engine in the world still in its original housing (restored). Ask me what I have liked about the hobby over the last fifty years, and Alan is part of all of it. (Thirty(?) years ago, at a bottle show out east, we shared a hotel room, and at a couple of shows in England I was a guest at his historic home.) The history. The traveling. The camaraderie. And of course, the glass. But No. 1 is meeting all the interesting people around the world, and Alan is a big part of all the above reasons that are important to me. One of the nice things about my having reached 81 is having so much to remember. The problem is to put dates, or even correct decades, on these memories. How many years ago has it been since I first met Alan? In what country was it? Likely, in England. And when? Where? C’mon, he seems to have always been there, and always with the great smile, the great nonstop enthusiasm, the great personality that makes you want to be known by him. I would expect that if I ever climbed to the top of a mountain, and at the top I met a wizened wise man, he’d likely ask me: Do you know Alan Blakeman? But, at age 72 (in November), he really doesn’t climb mountains, just rocks. GIANT rocks, like “El Cap” in Yosemite, where he has visited five times (plus several trips to Utah and Colorado). So, the question: Does he have rocks in his head? No, just under his feet.

Alan also produces the UK’s four quarterly and biggest specialist shows. And of his many interests, he remains “small enough to care, big enough to cope.”

And talking about feet, Alan is five feet, seven and a half inches tall, but he is a giant in the hobby. And the shadow he casts can be seen from the UK and across the U.S.

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Fruit Jar Rambles Extra By Tom Caniff — Photos by Deena Caniff

FOUR-SHOULDER-MASON JARS In the 1990s there seemed to have been a surge of packer jars produced with the Mason name embossed on them in different forms by different glass companies. Debossed jars had become popular with the food packers because the debossed lettering doesn’t interfere with the placement of the label, as does raised lettering and design. The pint in Photo 1, a roundedsquare jar with a slightly bulged heel and shoulder. It takes a regular size, metal, rolled-edge, screw-threaded cap and is embossed on all four shoulders MASON (if you look closely, the lettering of MASON is staggered, with the center S being largest and the other letters descending away from it, as shown in Figure A). Two adjacent sides of the jar are additionally debossed with 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4 graduations, from bottom to top. Since the label is placed below the MASON embossing on the curved shoulder it doesn’t cause a problem. The trademark on the heel consists of an L boxed-in with four non-touching lines, and it stands for Leone Industries of Bridgetown, N.J. Leone Industries, Inc., located in Bridgeton, N.J., was a manufacturer of glass containers serving the American food and beverage markets. The glass company was founded by Joseph Leone in 1965, 1966, or 1967, depending upon your source. Leone Industries was acquired by the Ardagh Group, a Luxembourg company, in 2012. The jar has a 2 1/2”, full wrap-around label that reads in part, “The Taste of the South in a Big Wide Mouth Mason + Dixie ™ Backporch Brand ™ Beverages ‘The Recipe’ Iced Tea, O.J., Lemonade & Sugar 16 Fl. Oz... Distributed by The Mason Dixie Company, LLC P. O.

Box 681509 Cool Springs, TN 37068 w.w.w.mmasondixie.com This is a real Mason jar so save the jar for Mama!™...” The history of The Mason Dixie Company is practically unavailable. No advertising has been found, and dates given in various sources for the trademark’s application, first use, and registration appear contradictory. The first application for the “The Mason Dixie Company” trademark is reported to have been made on July 26, 1999, by Lanamy, Inc., Rye, N.Y., with the trademark’s use defined as being “For Tea-Based Beverages With Fruit Flavoring.” Our first report of the four-shoulderMASON jar was in THE FRUIT JAR NEWS, of November 2000, where a slightly different form was reported, having the two adjacent sides debossed with 1/4, HALF PINT, and 3/4 graduations, from bottom to top. This example’s label reads “Frog Ranch (frog reclining beneath a tree) Salsa…Frog Ranch Foods, Ltd. 43 Main St. Glouster, OH 45723.” The phone number for the company is 1-800-RIBBITT (Photo 2). Frog Ranch Foods can be found on the internet at frogranch.com. Their home page bears a copyright date of 2018, and they’re still displaying their Frog Ranch Salsa in the four-shoulder-MASON jars, as in Photo 3. The MASON shoulder embossing is evident. I don’t know who is currently making the jars. A larger version of the four-shoulderMASON is shown in Photo 4, a clear rounded-square 26 oz. jar with MASON embossed on all four shoulders in slightly PHOTO 1: Four-shoulder-MASON jar. FIGURE A: Staggered MASON lettering on the jar's shoulder. PHOTO 2: Frog Ranch label on four-shoulderMASON jar.

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differing size letters, with graduations below this on two adjacent sides. The graduations are debossed, from bottom to top, as HALF PINT, -3/4- and ONE PINT. Although they don’t show in the photos, the jar has very slight bulges around the shoulder and heel. There are no maker’s marks on the jar at all, just a mold number and code dots on the base.

them, and the searchers found the earth had recently been turned. They fear someone found the money. Glatt left an estate valued at $100,000.”

This pictured jar held “Handmade Filling For Cobblers & Pies 26 oz.,” from Jill Gebhart, of Hampstead, MD 21074, phone 410-239-7433. It was sealed with an unmarked, metal top-seal lid and screw band. There are a number of tiny vent holes in the upper part of the mold. Several fruit mixtures were offered in the jars that I saw; this one held peach filling.

“Seventeen-year-old Clarence Hixon of Hopland was arrested here late Monday afternoon by Sheriff Allen at the instance of Sheriff Smith of Mendocino County. After his arrest the boy admitted that he had taken $3,200 in coin from a man named Craddick of Hopland. In some manner young Hixon discovered that Craddick, who is said to be an eccentric old bachelor, had a large sum of money buried in an old sheep barn about half a mile from his residence. Upon gaining this information young Hixon began a search for the buried treasure.

THERE’S MONEY IN THEM THERE JARS I’ve always appreciated old jars for their own individual merits and their appeal to me, regardless of their value to other collectors. But although I’ve never been much of a digger myself, I don’t recall hearing of any old bottle diggers actually coming up with a jarful of cash. Over the years, however, a number of people, for various reasons, have thought it a good idea to bury their money in old fruit jars, as follows: LUMBERMAN’S HEIRS DIG UP $1200 HIDDEN IN OLD FRUIT JAR “EUREKA, April 10. —Heirs of the late Bortlin Glatt, a pioneer lumberman, dug up $1,200 today which he buried in a fruit jar. The widow asserts that he buried $20,000, but despite furious digging the searchers were unable to find it. The widow says he buried it four years ago. and that he disinterred it six weeks before his death counted it, and reburied it. He left maps with the spots designated on

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–– from the RIVERSIDE DAILY PRESS, Riverside, Cal., Volume XXIX, Number 86, 10 April 1914. STRUCK IT RICH

“Finally, he found it. The money was in a sack, the sack was in a very large fruit jar and the fruit jar was stowed away in a corner of the barn. Young Hixon’s first haul was $1,100. A large portion of this sum was, it is said, was spent at Hopland, where he purchased a diamond ring at a cost of $250 and a few other such luxuries. When the first haul began to run out young Hixen paid a second visit to the Ridden treasure. This time he took $2,100, all that remained ‘in the sack in the jar in the barn.’” — Santa Rosa Republican. –– from the CHICO WEEKLY ENTERPRISE, Chico, Cal., Volume XXX, Number 4, 24 June 1898. PHOTO 3: Modern four-shoulder-MASON pint with Salsa label. PHOTO 4: 26 oz. size four-shoulder-MASON jar.

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FOR SALE: 50 years of collecting bottles. I dug, traded and purchased over the years and its time now to retire. The collection would make a good base for a new collector. I have over 500 bottles, all older than 100 years, all colors, ruby, cobalt, emerald, food, medicines, liquors, soda, water, inks, poisons, round bottoms, jugs, ugly blob tops, raised and embossed text, etc. 860-887-9510. 8/21 FOR SALE: Brown bleach bottles for sale $10 each plus postage. 1 Purex 1/2 gal, 3 Purex qt, 1 Fleecy White 1/2 gal, 1 Clorox qt, 2 Clorox pt, Fountaintown, IN conner-linda@att.net, 317-861-5319. 9/21 FOR SALE: I put out a quarterly list of 200 bottles and go withs. As I sell I add new. List goes across the country and covers the major

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2021 FALL ANTIQUE, GLASS AND BOTTLE SHOW AND CLASSIC CAR SHOW, BATSTO VILLAGE, WHARTON STATE FORREST, HAMMONTON, N.J. Several years ago the Batsto Citizens Committee, Inc. (BCCI) joined with the Cruisin’ Classic Car group for a spring antique, glass, and bottle show. It seemed that a show with antique and classic cars should have something else for visitors to enjoy. What better than antiques. Being held in the heart of Wharton Forest at Batsto Village where glass and bottles were produced after the iron industry financially could not survive also seemed appropriate. Because the spring show had to be cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions, the combined show will be held this fall. So iron is no longer produced at Batsto Village. The idea of British coming up the river to end the production of shot and cannon ball at the Village no longer exists. The history of such can be seen at the monument at Chestnut Neck and whispers of such at Batsto. September 19th will be a day to enjoy the quiet of a once noisy iron and glass producing town. A chance to walk around and remember some of American History. Not only the history of the Colonies before America was America can be enjoyed but some of the more recent history of toys without batteries, tin toys not plastic, records that were analog not digital sounds produced on your phone, bottles that were returned for 2 or 5 cents not throw away plastic. There will be food trucks to quench your thirst and satisfy your hunger. It is a rain or shine event, but let’s hope for sunshine. Hope to see you on September 19th at Historic Batsto Village from 9 to 3. 9/21 WEST VIRGINIA MEDICINE, BEER AND SODA COLLECTORS: Large, older collection (mostly dug) is in need of dispersal. Digger since the late 1960s has passed away. Looking for someone to assist in bringing his widow reasonable compensation. JIM, 317-512-1856. 10/21

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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: Jar Lid for Cohansey 2 1/2 Gallon R.B. #628. EDDIE DeHAVEN, 609-390-1898, 23 W. Golden Oak Lane Marmora, NJ 08223. 8/21 WANTED: Florida Strap-sided Flasks! I also collect Florida Drugstore Bottles. Also, wanted Florida Bottling Works that I don't have. RONNIE McCORMICK, oldflabottles@gmail.com, Phone: 352-2628672. 7/21

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WANTED: Clarke's Vegetable Sherry Wine Bitters, Sharon, MA & Rockland, ME. All sizes, variants, smooth/pontil base. Especially need labeled Clarke's any size. Also, any Clarke's ephemera - trade cards, almanacs, news ads, etc. CHARLIE MARTIN, cemartinjr@comcast.net, 781-248-8620. 8/21 WANTED: Looking for information for the book I'm writing on Michigan Patent Medicines and Saratoga-type Mineral Water Bottles from Michigan. Have a lot but need more. Michigan Cities and Medicines Phinny Howell and Powers Fremont. GORDON HUBENET, 616-826-4226. 8/21 WANTED: California Pontilled Sodas ROBERT LUTHI, 408-892-3530. 9/21 WANTED: Dr. LeRoy's Antidote to Malaria, Morris, Illinois. RUSS SINENI, bottlenut@ aol.com, 815-501-6820. 9/21 WANTED: Looking for Pittsburgh Double Eagles, in color. Please email. galenware70@ gmail.com 8/21 WANTED: Back Bar Bottles with white or colored enamel pictures or lettering; Etched pre pro whiskey shot glasses; Embossed / Etched beer glasses; Beer mugs; Souvenir Steins / Mugs. PAUL VAN VACTOR, 502-533-2693 call or text, PO Box 221171, Louisville, KY 40252-1171. 8/21 WANTED: MICHIGAN MICHIGAN Good Bottles Wanted from Michigan. Top Dollar Paid. Call me First, Call me Last, Just Call me. Mineral Waters, Colored Druggists, Animal Embossed Druggists, Cures, Seltzer & Dykema Poisons, Strap Side Flasks, Cobalt Beers & Hutches, Pearsall Beers Flint, Pontiled Sodas, Wolf embossed Beer Detroit. JEFF SCHARNOWSKE, jscharno@live. com, 989-494-3182, 1101 N. Shiawassee Owosso, MI 48867. 8/21 WANTED: Milk Bottle Collections from everywhere, but specifically from New York. Do you have stoneware from Warsaw, N.Y.? I am looking for a round pyro quart from Metuchen, N.J.? Does it exist? Also, pontils from Perry N.Y., Avon N.Y., Warsaw, N.Y. JIM, 315-527-3269. 8/21

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WANTED: Free blown and pattern molded bottles, jars and other glass items from the Pittsburgh area, including New Geneva, Brownsville, Monongahela and other eastern Ohio and northern West Virginia glasshouses. Aqua, amber and other colors are wanted. JAY, Lhawkins63@msn.com, Phone: 724872-6013. 8/21

WANTED: Still looking for Dalton or Houghton Pottery and am adding, looking for Greentown Glass items. Contact me about items for sale! JAMES D. HOUDESHELL, 419-352-7789, 918 Deer Ridge Run, Bowling Green OH 43402. 9/21

WANTED: Lancaster and Lockport Glass Works Bottles and Pontiled Sodas from Buffalo, N.Y. DAVE POTTER, potter815151@gmail.com 8/21

WANTED: Small town Micanopy FL Medicine/Druggist bottles. I also collect Alachua County bottles that I don't have. Will pay top reward! IRV STERLING, silver@gru.net, 352-514-7222. 9/21

WANTED: Embossed UTAH Pharmacy, Druggist, Hutchinson, Crown Top, Food, Milk, etc. and Sealfast Sold by Utah fruit jars. Also, wire bails for glass lid fruit jars. Have extra fruit jar lids and misc. bottles for trade or sale. Any size - condition considered. BUY - SELL - TRADE. SHERARD HARDMAN, srhardman1@gmail.com, 801-735-3045, 289 N. 300E., Spanish Fork, Utah 84660-1827. 8/21 WANTED: Bliss Bottles and go-withs and Speta milk bottles and go-withs from Cleveland Ohio. bdbliss@hotmail.com, 814765-5911 or 814-553-9701. 9/21 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, Email: jestar484@verizon.net, 215-248-4612. 9/21 WANTED: UTAH BOTTLES. JACK PLAYER, 801-599-3606. 9/21 WANTED: Milk,Soda or Beer Bottles from the following Connecticut towns - Ansonia, Derby, Shelton, Huntington, Seymour, Oxford, Monroe & Trumbull. MARK PEDRO, 203-650-9190. MDPedro1979@ gmail.com 9/21

WANTED: Dr. Boyce's Tonic Bitters, Rutland VT. bruceamaheu@icloud.net 10/21

WANTED: Pictures of the following Great Falls, Montana bottles and jugs for purposes of a future book: 1. Emporium Drug Store / Realty Block / Great Falls, Mont. 2. Seltzer Chas. Gies, Great Falls, age etched clear, not sure of exact lettering 3. Jug Hrvatski. dom / Great Falls / Montana 4. Quart green crown on bottom (not base) - squirt beverages / Rainbow Bottling Great Falls Montana or something similar. HENRY THIES, bottlerx@gmail.com, 406-873-2811 or 406-229-0356, PO Box 1363 Cut Bank, MT 59427. 9/21 WANTED: Looking for St. Alban's, Vermont and Swanton, Vermont Drug Store, Medicines, bitters bottles. 802-370-6139, call or text. 9/21 WANTED: Palmetto Bottling Works, Campobello, S.C. Soft Drink; Four Column Farm Dairy, Landrum, SC. 864-641-9044, chris@IndFabCon.com 9/21 WANTED: Emerald Green Christmas Salt made by Sandwich Glass Works. Also Ives Trains. JEFF IVES, 860-639-9881, 36 Geer Rd., Lebanon CT 06249. 9/21 WANTED: Bitters Ky, Tn and Southern States. Also Shaker Bottles. SHELDON BAUGH, sbi_inc@bellsouth.net, 270-7262712, 252 West Valley Dr., Russellville, KY 42276. 9/21

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YOUNGSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA

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.

The Annual Mississippi Valley Antique Bottle & Advertising Show, (9 AM to 2 PM), at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 1111 West 35th St., Davenport, IA. Info: MERLE VASTINE, Ph: 563.349.0816.

The Raleigh Bottle Club Antique Bottle and Collectibles Show, (9 AM to 2 PM), at the Hill Ridge Farms Events Center, 703 Tarboro Road, Youngsville, NC. Adm. $3, children under 12 Free. Info: DAVID TINGEN, Ph: 919.848.4387; Email: tingen1@mindspring. com; website: www.raleighbottleclub.org

AUGUST 15 POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK Hudson Valley Bottle Club 34th Annual Mid Hudson Bottle Show & Sale, (9AM to 2:30PM, early buyers 8AM), at the Poughkeepsie Elks Lodge 275, 29 Overocker Rd., Poughkeepsie, NY. Info: MIKE STEPHANO, 27 Rogers Rd, Hyde Park, NY 12538, PH. 845.233.4340; Email: mjsantique@aol.com

SEPTEMBER 11 & 12 ADAMSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA 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 12

AUGUST 16 – 22

PEKIN, ILLINOIS

BOUCKVILLE, NEW YORK

Pekin Bottle Collectors Assoc. 51st Annual Show & Sale (8:00 AM to 3:00 PM), at the Moose Lodge, 2605 Broadway Street, Pekin, IL. Admission $2, Free Appraisals. Info: DARYL WESELOH, PH: 309.264.9268.

50th Annual Madison-Bouckville Antique Show, outdoor antiques and collectibles including two huge bottle tents! Over 2,000 dealers and vendors located on scenic Route 20, Bouckville, NY. Info: JIM BURNS, 315.527.3269 or JIM BARTHOLOMEW, 585.705.8106. AUGUST 22 FLORENCE, KENTUCKY New Location! 3rd Annual Northern Kentucky Antique Bottle & Small Antiques Show, (9AM to 2PM; Early Bird, 8AM, $10) at the Florence Lions Club, 29 LaCresta Drive, Florence, KY. Adm. $3. Info: ED MORRIS, PH: 859.414.4693; email: ed@morristreasures. com, or: RANDY DEATON, email: nkyfinds@gmail.com 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

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SEPTEMBER 17 & 18 AURORA, OREGON Oregon Bottle Collectors Association Bottle, Antiques, & Collectibles Show & Sale, (Friday 12 - 5PM, dealer set-up & early admission $5; Sat. 9AM - 3PM general adm. by donation), at the American Legion Hall, 21510 Main St. N.E., Aurora, OR. Info: WAYNE HERRING, Ph: 503.864.2009; or: BILL BOGYNSKA, email: billbogy7@gmail.com, Phone: 503.657.1726. 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

SEPTEMBER 19 HAMMONTON, NEW JERSEY The Fall Antique Glass & Bottle Show in conjunction with Antique Car Show, presented by the Batsto Citizens Committee, Inc. (9 AM to 3 PM, rain or shine!), in historic Batsto Village, Wharton State Forest, Rt. 542 Pleasant Mills Road, Hammonton, NJ. Free Admission! Info: JIM HAMMELL, 856.217.4945, email: hammelljm@gmail.com 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 19 WESTFORD, MASSACHUSETTS The Merrimack Valley Antique Bottle Club’s 46th annual bottle show, (9AM to 2PM, early buyers at 8AM), at the Westford Regency Inn, 219 Littleton Road, Westford, MA. Just five minutes off Exit 32 of I-495 follow the signs. Adm. $4. Info: KEVIN CANTRELL, PH. 978.551.6397; Email; kmcantrell86@gmail. com Website: www.mvabc.org

Show CALENDAR SEPTEMBER 26

OCTOBER 9

NOVEMBER 7

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND

COVENTRY, CONNECTICUT

ELKTON, 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.

The Southern Connecticut Antique Bottle Collector Association and the Museum of Connecticut Glass, Bottle Show and Antiques Tailgate Event, (9 AM to 1 PM, Early Adm. 8 AM, $15), outdoors on the grounds of the historic Coventry Glass Works, 289 North River Road, Coventry, CT (at blinking light on Route 44). Adm. $4. Museum tours available during the show. For more info. or dealer contracts, please contact: BOB, PH: 914.241.9597; Email: rdsrla@ optonline.net

The Tri-State Bottle Collectors and Diggers Club 48th Annual Show & Sale (9 AM to 2 PM), at the Singerly Fire Hall, Routes 279 & 213, Elkton, MD. Info: DAVE BROWN, PH: 302.388.9311, email: dbrown3942@comcast.net

OCTOBER 1 & 2 WILLIAMS, CALIFORNIA 3rd Annual Antique Bottles & Collectibles Show, (Sat. 9 AM to 3 PM; Early Bird Friday, 10:00 AM, $10), in the old gym behind the Sacramento Valley Museum, 1491 E Street, Williams, CA. Free Adm. Saturday. Info: SLIM or CHRISTY EDWARDS, PH: 530.473.2502, Email: William03301956@ gmail.com OCTOBER 2 CHESTERFIELD, VIRGINIA The Richmond Area Bottle Collectors Assoc. presents the 49th Richmond Antique Bottle and Collectible Show and Sale, (9AM to 3PM; Early adm. $10 at 7:30 am), at the Chesterfield County Fairgrounds, 10300 Courthouse Rd, Chesterfield, VA 23832. Adm. $3. Info: MARVIN CROKER, PH. 804.275.1101 or ED FAULKNER, 804.739.2951; RichBottleClub@comcast.net OCTOBER 3

OCTOBER 17 FINDLAY, OHIO Findlay Antique Bottle Club's 44th Annual Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show & Sale, (9 AM to 2 PM; early bird Sun. 7 AM $10), at the Hancock County Fairgrounds, 1017 E. Sandusky St., Findlay, OH. Adm. $2, Children under 12 Free! Info: Show Chairman FRED CURTIS, 419.424.0486; Email: finbotclub@gmail.com, Website: http://finbotclub.blogspot.com OCTOBER 23 MACUNGIE, PENNSYLVANIA New Date - New Location! Forks of the Delaware Bottle Collectors Association 47th Annual Show & Sale (9AM to 2PM, early buyers 7:30 AM), at the Macungie Park Hall, Macungie, PA, Info: BILL HEGEDUS, PH: 610.264.3130; email: forksofthedelawarebottles@hotmail.com.

CHELSEA, MICHIGAN

NOVEMBER 7

The Huron Valley Bottle and Insulator Club Annual Show, 9 am to 2 pm at the Comfort Inn Conference Center, 1645 Commerce Park Drive, Chelsea, Michigan. North off I-94 at M-52 exit. For more information or table reservations, contact: MIKE BRUNER at abbott4girl@sbcglobal.net or ROD KRUPKA at 248-627-6351 or rod.krupka@ yahoo.com

TOPSHAM, MAINE New, 1st Annual Mid-Maine Antique Bottle Show, (9 AM to 2 PM; Early buyers 8 AM, $15), at the Topsham, Maine Fairgrounds Exhibit Hall, 54 Elm St., Topsham. Presented by the Mid-Maine Antique Bottle Club. Adm. $2. Info: PAUL McCLURE, Ph. 207.832.1503; email: oldbottles@outlook. com

NOVEMBER 12 & 13 JEFFERSON, GEORGIA 50th Annual Southeastern (formerly Atlanta), Antique Bottle Show & Sale, (Fri. 3PM to 8PM Dealer setup and Early adm. $10; Sat. 9AM to 2PM, General adm.), at the Jefferson Civic Center, 65 Kissam St., Jefferson, GA 30549. Free bottles for kids, appraisals, and prizes on Saturday. Info: JACK HEWITT, Box 12126 Big Canoe, Jasper, GA 30143. PH: 770.856.6062, or: BILL JOHNSON, 770.823.2626, Email: bj3605@ comcast.net. Sponsored by the R.M. Rose Co. Distillers, and Cagle Auction Co. NOVEMBER 13 ROYAL OAK, MICHIGAN The Metropolitan Detroit Antique Bottle Club's 38th Annual Antique Bottle Show, (9:30 AM to 3 PM), at the Royal Oak Elks Lodge, 2401 E. Fourth St., Royal Oak. Adm. $2, Free appraisals. Info: MIKE BRODZIK, 586.219.9980, Email: bottlemike@outlook.com NOVEMBER 14 POMPTON LAKES, NEW JERSEY North Jersey Antique Bottle Collectors Assn. 51st Annual Show & Sale, (9AM to 2 PM; Early buyers 8AM, $15), at the Pompton Lakes Elks Lodge No.1895, 1 Perrin Ave, Pompton Lakes, NJ. Adm. $3. Info: ED, PH: 201.493.7172, Email: Metropetro222@ gmail.com

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Show CALENDAR NOVEMBER 14 PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA New Location! The Pittsburgh Antique Bottle Club’s 51st Annual Show & Sale, (9 AM to 2 PM, early buyers 7 AM), at the Elizabeth VFD Event Center, 107 Market Street, Elizabeth, PA. Info: BOB DeCROO, 694 Fayette City Rd., Fayette City, PA 15438. PH: 724.326.8741, or, JAY HAWKINS, 1280 Mt. Pleasant Rd., West Newton, PA 15089, web: www.PittsburghAntiqueBottleClub.org PH: 724.872.6013. JULY 28 - AUGUST 1, 2022 RENO, NEVADA 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.

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ATTENTION READERS:

45th HVBIC BOTTLE & INSULATOR SHOW CHELSEA, MICH.

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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Deciphering A.M. Bininger Part 1: Abram M. Bininger By Chris Bubash

ack in December 2016, I noticed an interesting ad from FOHBC Historian Jim Bender in Bottles and Extras. Jim was seeking some assistance with his upcoming book and asked: Did anyone know what the M. stood for in A.M. Bininger? Loving historical mysteries, I began researching the question. Two months later, I finally discovered the answer: Merritt. In the course of that research, I accumulated an amazing amount of information on the entire family, and thought that now might be a good time to incorporate some of that information into an article on Abram M. Bininger, Abram M. Bininger, Jr., and Abram M. Bininger III. My goal will be to present new information, without unnecessarily covering much of what is already known and/or has already been published about these interesting individuals.

The Beginning: Abram M. Bininger One of the first mentions of A.M. Bininger that I was able to locate in print was in the 1838-1839 Longworth’s New York City Directory. Abram would have been 38 at the time, and the proud parent, with Maria Long Bininger, 23, of a new baby daughter, Helen, born December 29, 1836. He was listed as a grocer at 53 Cortlandt (home 110 ½ Chapel), in partnership with Thomas Darling (Bininger & Darling). He must have been disillusioned with this partnership, as the 1839-1840 Longworth’s New York City Directory lists him as a grocer, still at 53 Cortlandt (home 217 Varick), but now in partnership with Alexander Lane (Bininger & Lane). Though he remained

Announcement in the New York Herald on June 16, 1860 of the dissolution of the A.M. Bininger & Co.

at 53 Cortlandt until 1842, eventually moving to 100 Barclay from 1842 to 1850, there is no further mention of his business’ name in directories for a number of years. During this time, Abram Bininger’s name appeared in the March 20, 1845 issue of the New York Tribune. An advertisement for Folger’s Olosaonian reported that, “Other persons have experienced the curative properties of this medicine, and unhesitatingly pronounce it THE GREAT REMEDY. A.M. Bininger, 100 Barclay Street…and numerous other persons have been relieved from coughs of long standing, difficulty of breathing, &c. and have left their names as references at the office.”

Abram Bininger was not the only member of A.M. Bininger & Co. to dip his toes into the patent medicine pool. In the February 17, 1852 edition of the New York Herald, 32-year-old A.M. Bininger & Co. clerk Chester Goodsell stated, in part, “Dr. Kellinger – My Dear Sir – It is indeed a source of great satisfaction to inform you of the wonderful cure perfected by the use of your remedy… I have, on several occasions, tried it for severe colds and cough, and it has always acted like magic with me, breaking up every vestige of the cough and cold in two or three days. In corroboration of this I refer you to Mr. A.M. Bininger, wholesale merchant, No. 323 Greenwich Street, with whom I have been employed for a number of years.”

How nice to see Abram dipping his toes into the patent medicine pool, if only as a reference! Soon thereafter, he became the proud father of a new baby son, Abram Jr., born June 23, 1847. More on Abram, Jr. (and Abram III) later.

A.M. Bininger & Co. must have had a good relationship with Dr. Kellinger, as they continued to provide testimony in the ensuing years regarding the curative powers of Kellinger’s Liniment, or Magic Fluid. The January 15, 1856 issue of the August 2021

Brooklyn Times Union reported that, “Dr. Kellinger is honored with a reference to Mr. A.M. Bininger, so universally known throughout the United States and Canada, as an importing house. Hair gone 15 to 20 years was renewed by the fluid. The liniment cured his head clerk, Mr. Chester Goodsell, of a very alarming attack of Rheumatism, and also a deep-seated cold, with inflammation of the lungs, in less than three days. Call and see them. This is no milk and water evidence.” Abram Bininger’s business name, missing-in-action for a number of years, finally reappeared in the 1850-1851 New York City Directory, this time as A.M. Bininger & Co. at 323 Greenwich (home 323 Greenwich). The following year, he moved to 329 Greenwich (home 329 Greenwich), where he remained until 1857. In addition to his occupation as a wholesale merchant, it appears that Abram Bininger was employed as a director of several insurance companies, including, but not necessarily limited to, the Irving Fire Insurance Company, with offices at 285 Greenwich Street and 72 Wall Street, and the LaFarge Fire Insurance Company, with offices at the corner of Nassau and Cedar. It wasn’t clear from the newspaper notices the extent of his involvement in the day-to-day operation of those businesses. Around this time, A.M. Bininger formed a military company known as “The Bininger Guard,” composed of fifty muskets, with the company’s so-called “attaches” being principally comprised of merchants doing business on the west side of the city. Officers included several A.M. Bininger & Co. personnel, including John Bolton (his partner) as Second Lieutenant and Chester Goodsell (his head clerk) as Treasurer. In August 1853, the company made arrangements for a Grand Military Excursion to Niagara Falls. They departed from the company’s armory at the corner of Greenwich and Duane Streets, took the Erie Railroad Day-Express to Niagara via Canandaigua, and took apartments

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Photo of 338 Broadway taken in 1912.

at the International Hotel upon arrival. The excursion was successful, though little further detail was provided in newspaper accounts. A.M. Bininger was apparently not content with his already busy life as wholesale merchant, director of multiple fire insurance companies, and head of the Bininger Guard. Appearing in the September 16, 1854 edition of the New York Herald was this advertisement for the National Exchange Bank, A.M. Bininger, Director: “This bank will be opened for business on or about the 15th of October next, at the new building, corner of Greenwich and Duane Streets (which the reader may

remember as the location of the Bininger Guard’s armory). The subscription books will be opened at the bank, on the 25th inst., for such of the capital stock as at that time remains unsubscribed for. Prior to that date, subscriptions will be received at Messrs. A.M. Bininger & Co.’s, 329 Greenwich Street.” As A.M. Bininger was involved with multiple fire insurance companies, it should perhaps not be a surprise that he was also involved with multiple banks. Appearing in the December 11, 1854 edition of the New York Herald was this notice for the Empire City Bank, A.M. Bininger, President: “The office of this

bank having been rendered untenable by the fire of Saturday evening, the Directors give notice that they will procure another office for the bank in the same neighborhood, at as early an hour to-day as practicable, of which due notice will be given. All the valuable books and papers of the bank, and the entire contents of its vaults, are saved.” The Empire City Bank’s troubles apparently continued, as the February 9, 1857 edition of the New York Times carried an article concerning the Superior Court trial of “The United States Trust Company of New-York, Receiver of the Empire City Bank, vs. Abram M. Bininger and John M. Bolton.” It stated, in part, “This is another suit growing out of the suspension of the Empire City Bank. The suit was brought by the Trust Company as receiver, upon a note of $2,000, made by the defendant, Bininger (who was President of the Bank at the time of suspension), and indorsed by the firm of A.M. Bininger & Co., composed of both the defendants…” Fortunately, the jury found a verdict in accordance with the facts for both defendants. Perhaps due to these and/or other troubles, newspaper notices concerning A.M. Bininger seem to shift around this time (1857-1858) from banking and insurance to liquor production and supply, coincident with a change in address from 329 Greenwich to 17 Broad Street. In the July 10, 1858 edition of the Buffalo Daily Republic, an advertisement appeared promoting Bininger’s Old London Dock Gin, A.M. Bininger & Co., Importers, No. 17 Broad Street, New York, where the gin was, of course, marketed as a safe and reliable medicine for family use. The notice, translated from old English, states in part: “The Public are assured that our London Dock Gin is a superior article, possessing all the virtues ascribed to it as a Medicinal Beverage, and deserving of their patronage, in preference to the suspicious decoctions emanating from irresponsible sources, and sold

under various pretentious names… Put up in quart and pint bottles, in cases of one and two dozen each, with our name on the bottles, and a facsimile of our Signature on the wrappers.” For those interested in the origins of Old London Dock Gin (the name and the product), the answer was revealed in the February 28, 1861 edition of Berkshire County Eagle: “This reliable house, for more than thirty-five years, has imported for their regular trade the famous ‘Bininger’s Old London Dock Gin,’ so called from the fact of the first invoice having been purchased by them in England, in bond, in the London Docks (equivalent to our bonded warehouses), and now received direct from Holland (the original source of the superb gin) the entire product of one of the largest distilleries, which is made exclusively for them.” After a short stint at 17 Broad Street, A.M. Bininger & Co. relocated first to 338 Broadway, and then to 19 Broad Street, where the business remained for several years. An advertisement in the July 14, 1859 Green Mountain Freeman seems to imply that 19 Broad Street was A.M. Bininger & Co.’s retail establishment, and that 338 Broadway was their wholesale depot, however, I have not confirmed that to my satisfaction. Also appearing in the advertisement are the names of Abram Bininger’s current partners in A.M. Bininger & Co., 27-year-old Rufus Wattles (the brother of Abram’s son-in-law) and 23-year-old James W. Freeland. Discovered in the June 29, 1860 edition of the New York Herald was a quite interesting and, to me, somewhat shocking, announcement having interesting implications for the A.M. Bininger & Co. story. Under “Copartnership Notices” appeared the following announcement: “The firm of A.M. Bininger & Co. is this day dissolved by mutual consent - June 16, 1860. [Signed] A.M. Bininger, Rufus Wattles, James W. Freeland. The same business will be continued by Rufus Wattles and others, for the sale of the

Article in the April 20,1861 Burlington Times.

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same goods and merchandise, under the style and name of the old firm.” Could this have been the end of Abram Bininger’s involvement with A.M. Bininger & Co.? Could all of the firm’s interesting bottles be the brainchildren of Rufus Wattles and/or James W. Freeland rather than Abram Bininger? Perhaps. But, in my opinion, not probable. Review of New York City Directories leads me to believe that Abram Bininger was back at the helm circa 1862, when Rufus Wattles and Alexander Gordon (Wattles & Gordon) and Frank Bininger (Bininger & Co.) opened a combined store at 15 Beaver Street, leaving Abram Bininger and A.M. Bininger & Co. behind to continue business at 19 Broad Street.

Unfortunately, fate prematurely claimed the lives of all three male children. James Denison passed away on August 22, 1863 at the age of 4 months and 15 days. As reported in the August 23, 1863 edition of the New York Herald, the funeral was held at the residence of his parents, 174 Dean Street, in Brooklyn. Similarly, Alden, Jr. passed away on September 25, 1869 at the age of 11 months and 19 days. As reported in the September 27, 1869 edition of the New York Herald, the funeral was held “at the house of his grandfather, A.M. Bininger, No. 167 West Forty-Fifth Street.” Finally, Abram Merritt Wattles passed away on June 17, 1902 from burns received in the St. Luke’s Sanitarium fire in Chicago on June 9, 1902.

Over the next four years, the business address of Abram Bininger and the address of A.M. Bininger & Co. continued to move in lock-step from 19 Broad Street to 375 Broadway to 39 & 82 Walker Street. In 1866, A.M. Bininger & Co. joined Wattles & Gordon and Bininger & Co. at 15 Beaver Street, where all three businesses remained until 1870 when Frank Bininger (Bininger & Co.) exited the wine business and A.M. Bininger passed away. Except for a short-lived move to 10 Broadway circa 1876, Rufus Wattles and A.M. Bininger & Co. remained at 15 Beaver Street until the brand’s acquisition and removal to 47 Water Street in 1879 by Emanuel Eising of E. Eising & Co., distillers and wholesale liquor dealers.

Around this time, we again begin seeing notices mentioning Abram Bininger’s name in association with other enterprises. The July 11, 1864 edition of the New York Daily Tribune reported that the Exchange Fire Insurance Company, 170 Broadway, elected A.M. Bininger as one of its Directors. The November 10, 1865 edition of the New York Herald reported A.M. Bininger, Importer, 39 Walker Street, as one of the Trustees of the Newcastle Mutual Coal Company, 151 Broadway. The December 28, 1866 edition of the New York Tribune reported that the Irving Fire Insurance Company, 9 Wall Street, elected A.M. Bininger as Director. Regardless of any continued involvement in the liquor business, it’s clear he kept busy!

But, back to our co-partnership dissolution notice. Assuming, just for a moment, that Abram Bininger had no further involvement with A.M. Bininger & Co. after 1860, what could he have done with his time? Perhaps he spent his time doting on his grandchildren, five of which were born to his daughter, Helen, and her husband, Alden Wattles, between 1859 and 1868. Nellie Alden Wattles was born in 1859, Abram Merritt Wattles was born in 1861, James Denison Wattles was born in 1863, Grace Wattles was born in 1866, and Alden Wattles, Jr. was born in 1868.

Abram M. Bininger passed away on October 14, 1870. The October 16, 1870 edition of the New York Times reported that, “Mr. Abraham Bininger, the oldest liquor merchant in this city, died at his residence, No. 167 West Forty-Fifth Street, yesterday morning, of paralysis of the brain. He has been ill only about two weeks so as to be confined to his house, but has been in delicate health for the past twelve years, though he has not been prevented, until his last illness, from giving his attention to business. He leaves a

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From the April 7, 1875 Nashville Journal.

son of the same name and a daughter. The wealth of Mr. Bininger is estimated at not less than $250,000, the most of which has been accumulated in his business.” That is approximately $5,000,000 today! Washington D.C.’s New National Era was, however, not quite so kind in its assessment. It reported “A New York telegraphic dispatch announces the death of Mr. A.M. Bininger, ‘senior member of the oldest liquor house in America.’ What an epitaph! He may have been a rich man, and a perfect gentleman, a kind husband and father; but what mathematician can estimate the untold amount of unhappiness, sorrow, distress, wretchedness, woe, misery, and disaster that has been distributed to all parts of the land by that ‘oldest liquor house?’” I guess they weren’t thinking about the bottle collecting community when they wrote those words. If only they knew what a positive impact his bottles would make on the world! In next month’s article, we’ll discuss the interesting (to say the least) lives of A.M. Bininger, Jr. and A.M. Bininger III. Will A.M. Bininger, Jr. prove to be the apple of his father’s eye, or the black sheep of the family? What did Abram, Jr. and Abram III make of their lives? Where are they now? The answers await. PHOTOS (following page): Three colorful Bininger Old London Dock Gin bottles and a Bininger Old Dominion Wheat Tonic.

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The Little Rhody Show Roars Back By William Rose President, Little Rhody Bottle Club

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amn the torpedoes, full speed ahead,” were defiant words uttered during the American Civil War. Well, enough was enough for the The Little Rhody Bottle Club. On Sunday, June 20, 2021 it was damn the COVID, full speed ahead with an outdoor bottle show. Thanks to the suggestion of Jim Brochu, the son of long-time bottle collector James Brochu, an outside bottle show was conducted at The Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational High School in Upton, Massachusetts. Typical of the weather in New England, we were told to hold your breath and pray. The weather forecast predicted that it might or it might not rain that day in Upton, Massachusetts.

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As I departed my home at 4:00 a.m. under the darkness of the receding night, sunrise was starting off to the east, revealing a sky filled with ominous dark clouds. Come what may, the club was committed! When I arrived at the high school the clouds started to move out and the sun shone through on this hot and humid spring morning. At 6:00 a.m., the thirty dealers started to arrive and fill up the 54 tables with bottles of all types. Before the dealers could finish setting up, patrons were stopping in on their way to the Flea Market in Grafton, Massachusetts. People came from Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine and

Massachusetts. Throughout the day there was a steady flow of patrons, as bottles were whisked off tables to become part of another person’s collection. The turnout was so good that Little Rhody will make this the home of an annual, second bottle show for the club. For the year 2022 this same show will be held inside the high school. Admission to this show will remain free to the public. More than ample parking is available at the school. Photographs of this swap meet were provided by Tish and Mike Hewins, Trish and Peter Manfredi, and Arthur Pawlowski.

PREVIOUS PAGE: Little Rhody Bottle Club member Ron Tetrault from New Bedford, Massachusetts (far right corner, black T-shirt and white baseball hat) enjoys the festivities. THIS PAGE: TOP: All of these poisons came in one purchase by William Rose, brought down from Maine to Massachusetts by Richard Carney, rick@ seaglassofmaine.com BOTTOM: This photo features club members Taylor McBurney from Rhode Island (at left end of table), Bob Lanpher from North Attleboro, Massachusetts (in red baseball hat), Jim Livsey from Rochester, Massachusetts (in white baseball hat with back to camera), and Karsten Kydland from Taunton, Massachusetts (in blue baseball hat and gray T-shirt).

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BELOW: Club members Henry Hartley from Rochester, Massachusetts, Ron Rainka from Warren, Massachusetts (behind the table) and Klaus Jahnke from Richmond, New Hampshire (in the green baseball hat and green T-shirt) enjoy the perfect day. INSET: A collection of bottles from club member Leo Goudreau of Ware, Massachusetts.

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A potential customer checks out a bottle while club members Peter Manfredi from Glastonbury, Connecticut, (center) and Earl Bennett, a renowned dairy bottle collector from Holbrook, Massachusetts, chat.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2021

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Snake Eyes! If someone offers you these medical cure-alls, don’t bite Amazing. Ralph Finch rattles on …

ne day I went strolling through the internet, barefoot and dressed only with my blue fluffy bathrobe, and came across … snakes! Remember the great line from Indiana Jones, “Why did it have to be snakes?” I hate snakes (I’m a wimp), so, I searched out not just one snake-oil medicine, but several that Indy also could have used:

“Clark Stanley’s Snake Oil Liniment” of Providence, R.I., which claimed to cure about a dozen problems. “The Great Yaquis Snake-Oil Liniment,” San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, which cures rheumatism. And the generic name “Snake Oil,” (cures all aches), and could also help “if you are afflicted with deafness.” (Very helpful if you want to hear someone yell “WATCH OUT FOR THE RATTLESNAKE!”) Other sure-cure products included: “Old Fashioned Snake Oil,” produced by C.F. Sams of Durham, N.C., which contained mustard oil, pine oil, petroleum oil, paprika, camphor gum, and oil of wintergreen. “Chas. Stell’s (snake) Oil.” “Prof. Fenster’s Snake Oil.” “Dr. Phil McCoffer.” “Blackhawk’s Rattlesnake Oil” from Baltimore. I found this reference on the internet: “Among other liniments of this type was Blackhawk’s Liniment, sold by the Blackhawk Remedy Co. of Baltimore. Its label pictured a pistol-packing, snake-vest

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wearing cowboy and boasted, ‘Positively Contains Rattle Snake Oil.’ However, the label went on to state, ‘This product does not depend upon Rattle Snake Oil for its therapeutic effects.’” Miller’s Snake Oil: From Tennessee. Warning: Not just of snakes, but there is someone on eBay who takes old (but common) bottles and pastes on recreated labels of snake oil products. Do-It-Yourself: I found this on the internet and am not sure if it was serious. “The rattlesnake cures cancer. The rattles and the head of the snake are eliminated (these parts are useless); the skin can be taken off. The meat is then dried under the sun, or at low heat (in the kitchen); when the meat is dried, it should be crushed and ground to a fine powder.” (And a dollop of ketchup couldn’t hurt.) And this: “To cure eczema and boils: dry and powder the entire rattlesnake (some say just the skin, others say just the rattles) and sprinkle the powder on food; alternatively, use the powder to make a poultice and apply directly to the skin.”

In 1893, he and his rattlesnakes gained attention at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Later, he went on to establish production facilities in Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island.”

Thanks to Wikipedia (edited): Meet the Rattlesnake King. An advertisement for Clark Stanley's Snake Oil Liniment. claimed that, starting in 1879, after eleven years working as a cowboy, he studied for more than two years with a Hopi medicine man at Walpi, Arizona.

In 1916, subsequent to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906, Stanley's concoction was found to be of no value. It contained mineral oil, a fatty compound thought to be from beef, capsaicin from chili peppers, and turpentine. He was fined $20 (about $470 in 2019). The term “snake oil” would go on to become a popular euphemism for ineffective or fraudulent products, particularly those marketed as medicines or cures.

“This supposedly included learning the ‘secrets of snake oil.’ With the help of a Boston druggist he began marketing his product at Western medicine shows.

Reference: Hurley, Dan (2006). The Rattlesnake King. Natural Causes: Death, Lies and Politics in America's Vitamin and Herbal Supplement Industry.

PREVIOUS PAGE: . Miller's Oil Snake Oil was an “Agreeable Liniment” priced at 50 cents a bottle THIS PAGE (clockwise from top left): A photo of Dr. Phil McCoffer's wagon with prominent snake logo. Stell's Oil (formerly known as Snake Oil) bottle and packaging. This label of Snake-Oil Liniment claimed to cure about a dozen ailments. Exaggerating wasn’t one of them. This bottle of The Yaquis Medicine Company's Snake Oil was “Prepared From Pure Rattlesnake Oil.” The “Genuine Article,” for only 50 cents, is made for people who must hate to get ripped off buying “not pure” rattlesnake oil.

August 2021

By John Panella and Joe Widman

WHAT DOES IT DO? Some bottles spill the beans I guess all embossed medicines have a name, but only some are embossed with what they do. I picked out five that clearly tell you what they do or what you can expect. I looked at the medicines that I take regularly. Some tell me, but some don’t. You will see from these medicines that it is very desirable information to have. •

Dr. Hul Cee’s / Disease Eradicator / Louisville Ky

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Sammy’s Medicine Reaches Through The Entire System, Baltimore MD

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Preston’s Med - Ake Cures You “While You Wait”

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White’s Quick Healing Cure Norfolk, Va.

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For Coughs & Colds / Macomulsion Builds You Up

Without additional information, I would take any of these ahead of American Oil, Calthos, Kaskine, etc. I think you would agree with me. Prior to 1940, taking most medicines was likely a waste of time and money. Antibiotics were the first medicines that worked, except for a few that moved your bowels or lessened pain. It is still true today. Eighty percent of all disease is healed on its own without taking anything. Most of the time you don’t need to take anything. Editor’s note: As Joe Widman points out in this month’s edition of the Medicine Chest, most medicines tell you what they do, or what you can expect. We’ve added one medicine to the list that would seem to be the polar opposite. It is embossed, “MORRIS R. HASKINS / WHAT IS IT / BELVIDERE, ILL.” Perhaps it was prescribed if you don’t know what ails you!

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THIS PAGE: Dr. Hul Cee's Disease Eradicator. FOLLOWING PAGE: TOP ROW: Sammy's Medicine front and side panels; Preston's Med — Ake. BOTTOM ROW: White's Quick Healing Cure; Macomulsion Builds You Up; Morris R. Haskins What Is It.

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Deciphering A.M. Bininger

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The Multifaceted Alan Blakeman

Stocking a Glass Collecting Library

Show Calendar

Heard it through the Grapevine

The Little Rhody Show Comes Roaring Back

Letters to the Editor