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VOLUME 38, #5 • September 2021 FRONT COVER:

John Savastio, AB&GC subscriber, avid bottle collector and digger from upstate New York, hits pay dirt and shares the thrills of a great American pastime — digging for bottles — that was not affected by the pandemic. Read all about it beginning on page 7.

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Heard it through the Grapevine......................................................... 4 The COVID Bottles of 2020............................................................... 7 Fruit Jar Rambles: Upcycled Pots..................................................... 17 Classified Advertisements................................................................. 22 Show Calendar.................................................................................. 25 Deciphering A.M. Bininger, Part 2.................................................. 28 Potlids Loaded with History............................................................ 34 Title Contender Packs a Punch........................................................ 36 A Blast Heard Across the Pond......................................................... 38 Medicine Chest: Neat Bottles........................................................... 40

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Coming in October: Aviary Bitters?, by Bob Strickhart JPF Remembered, by David Graci The COVID Bottles of 2020, Part 2, by John Savastio Fruit Jar Rambles: Lutted's Cough Drops, by Tom Caniff Medicine Chest: Gladstone's Celery & Pepsin, by John Panella and Joe Widman And other very cool stuff! September 2021

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Montana Harry Bottle Hi, John, I hope you are doing well. As coincidence would have it, this past week I was in New Hampshire and stumbled across the attached bottle (below). I had noticed the Montana Harry bottle you had in your most recent auction. Obviously this one appears somewhat newer. I attached a little article I found on Montana Harry as well. Sounds like a load of B.S. put together to promote someone/ something, but you never know. The other interesting thing about the bottle is that the label is slapped over a label for a liquor dealer in Nashua, New Hampshire. Makes me wonder a bit if “Montana Harry” was really dealing medicine in the East under false pretenses. Note that the bottle label is partly in French, which makes sense for New Hampshire in the late 1800s/early 1900s

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but doesn’t make much sense for Montana during that time period. Anyways, I thought I would share. Best Regards, Brandon DeWolfe, P.E. Spring, Texas P.S. I picked it up at an antique shop in Meredith, New Hampshire. Editor’s note: Brandon’s discovery is very timely and certainly helps to validate the authenticity of the mysterious “Montana Harry” labeled medicine. Some folks, rightly so, thought the label was “too good to be true.” Perhaps a fake or forgery. For a quack medicine collector, it has so many great bells and whistles. It references the Apache Indians (who were not in Montana), a cure for syphilis, as well as female complaints. It references a reservation and a great eye-catching town name, Big Timber, Montana. It may just be the ultimate labeled quack medicine!

Lot 206, American Glass Gallery Auction 29, July 27.

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Here’s Looking At You! Hi, John, Meet “The Bottle People.” This image (shown at right) is of an original watercolor painting by my wife, artist Mary Blackman. It will be on display very soon at the Key West Art Center. The idea came to us when we were talking about bottle people and laughed about the thought of a bottle with a personality and a face. The image is really eye-catching and would be a conversation piece when friends come to visit. Giclee reproductions have been made and will be on display at some of the Florida bottle shows at the table of our dear friend and bottle dealer, Larry Smith. The original painting image is 22 by 30 inches, but the giclees can be produced in any size of the same proportions. For more information or to order by phone, call (305) 295-9187, or online from me at islandalex@comcast.net Alex Okinczyc Key West, Florida

Hires Bottle Closure Inquiry Hi, John, The August 2021 issue of AB&GC includes Mike Connolly’s inquiry about a Hires bottle closure. Information detailing the introduction of the “Hires Expansion Bottle Stopper,” including magazine advertisements explaining and illustrating exactly how the stopper functioned and close-up images of different versions of this stopper, are posted at HiresBook.com starting with the 1916 chapter. FYI: HiresBook. com now includes over 2,700 images. Ron Fowler Rochester, Washington HiresBook@yahoo.com

Do You Want the Really Good Bottle Book(s)? Hi, John, Great articles this month (August issue of AB&GC). We liked the one about stocking a glass collecting library. I’d like to add a comment to that. Here at the National Bottle Museum in Ballston Spa, N.Y., we have been going through our library and pulling out duplicate books. We have many that were mentioned in this article for sale. All one needs to do is contact the National Bottle Museum at (518) 885-7589 between Wednesday and Sunday from 10-4, and they will be able to read you the list of available titles. Thanks, Phil Bernnard Vice President, National Bottle Museum, Wynantskill, New York

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Grapevine Picture Perfect!

Lot 66: 1-3/8 by 12-1/8 inches in diameter. “Outstanding, scarce, early tin litho serving tray for Deacon Brown Co.’s (Montgomery, Alabama) phosphate sodas, w/ stunning multicolor graphics. Clean, bright and exceptionally nice appearance (display side like new), w/ exception of a couple non-detracting minor small speckle spots.” It sold for $8,200.

There are lots of good stuff to view in the auction world; here are a few Found by Ralph Finch Among antique advertising recently offered July 31 by Morford’s, of Cazenovia, N.Y., were a few items that caught my eye, or my odd (and fertile) interests: Lot 1: 20.75 by 14.75 inches. “Outstanding, very early museum quality tin litho sign for Dr. Crook’s Compound Syrup of Poke Root patent medicine, w/ beautiful lithography by Tuchfarber & Moellmann (research shows lithographer no longer used this wording in their name after 1872). Clean, bright and exceptionally nice. Framed.” It sold for $4,700. (Prices do not include the 18 percent buyer’s fee.)

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Dr. Crook products could cure all pain and all “blood issues.” Even pimples. (Where was this when I was 14?) With a little research I found an ad in the Dodgeville (Wis.) Chronicle dated Sept. 27, 1872, for the well-named Dr. Crook: (Some parts were unreadable): “lO YEARS —OF A— Public Test Has proved DR. CROOK’S SYRUP OF POKE ROOT. It has the medicinal property of Poke combined with a preparation of Iron which goes at once into the blood, performing the most rapid and wonderful cures. Ask your Druggist for Dr. Crook’s Compound Syrup of Poke Root. Take it and be healed.” Lot 38: Size: 6-1/8 by 8-5/8 by 2.5 inches. “Scarce, blue variation die-cut tin litho advertising toy featuring man in Moxie plaid jacket and hat driving Co.’s Moxiemobile vehicle. Clean, bright and displays very nicely, w/ minor faint waving and some light oxidizing on wheels. It sold for $2,600.

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Lot 94: 7.5 by 2-5/8 inches (diameter.) “Unusual, early advertising bottle for Eau De Cologne, w/ beautiful looking curved multicolor glass label. Bottle and stopper both have a gnarly, deeply embossed faux tree trunk composition bark like material over the glass. Excellent overall.” It sold for $350! (That stinks! It sounds like I missed out on a bargain.) Lot 135: 17 x 14.5 x 9 inches. “Neat and unusual, early figural papier-mache advertising display for “Corn Fix” brand corn treatment product, featuring great trademark happy feet characters. Front display side is very nice overall w/ attractive original paint surface (C. 8+/-), w/ some light staining on backside. Has very early, primitive light bulb electrical fixture inside w/ attached cloth cord that is for making its large, great looking glass eyes light up.” It sold for $1,550. Lot 139: Here is something I need for my collection of fertilizer signs (honest): Measuring 10-1/8 by 36 inches, a “Nice, early, wooden painted sign for White’s Barren Island Fertilizers. All original, w/ a nicely weathered, lightly soiled untouched dry paint surface, giving it a nice primitive country look.” Holy crap! Selling for a mere $450, I should have bid on it.

Newspaper ad for Dr. Crook's Wine of Tar. "It is rich in the medicinal qualities of tar" and cures many ills.

A little research revealed (edited) the stinky truth: “New York City’s sanitary reforms of the 1890s were significant because for the first time every street was cleaned and all neighborhoods had regular trash collection. Since the 1850s, com-

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Grapevine panies on Brooklyn’s Barren Island, in the western portion of Jamaica Bay, converted offal and animal carcasses into grease and fertilizer. This system was expanded to accommodate the waste flows created by the city-wide sanitation reforms. The industry was established when Barren Island was unpopulated and isolated but the eastward growth of the city made the waste industry increasingly unwelcome even as the city depended on it for financing trash collection.

trolled the dead animal and offal contracts for both New York and Brooklyn. In addition to the fertilizer sold under the name ‘Farmers’ Pride,’ the company manufactured a number of specialty fertilizers including sulphate of ammonia, dried blood, and dried fish scrap. P. White’s Sons also sold horsehair, hides, glue stock, tallow and grease.”

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“Although there were other rendering plants elsewhere in New York City, Barren Island was clearly the center of the industry. Dead Horse Bay on the west side of the island was named for the many carcasses unloaded there. “Shortly before the 1870s, the firm of P. White’s Sons won a contract with the Board of Health for removing dead animals from the city’s streets. The primary product of the company was the material recovered from the rendering process. In one five-day period in August of 1896 the company removed 1,256 dead horses from the streets of New York. The company had its own pier on the Hudson River and two steamboats to carry carcasses to Barren Island. By 1909 the facilities on Barren Island annually disposed of 19,000 horses, 380,000 dogs and cats, 1,000,000 pounds of condemned meat, 80,000 pounds of poultry, 3,500,000 pounds of fish, and 5,000,000 pounds of offal. “In 1885, P. White’s Sons, managed by Thomas F. and Andrew J. White, were described as ‘manufacturers of Barren Island Fertilizers, Superphosphate of Lime; Dried Blood, Bone and Meat, &c.’ It maintained an office on Peck Slip in Manhattan and a small plant near New Brunswick, N.J., but had its main plant on Barren Island. They had no shortage of raw materials in the form of blood, bones, and meat, as their company con-

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Bottles of 2020 By John Savastio

s we’re all too aware, the COVID pandemic had a terrible impact on the world in 2020 and continues to do so into 2021. Many of us began to feel its effects in March 2020, when suddenly everyone was required to wear masks in public places. Some people lost their jobs while others were required to telecommute. Many activities were banned, and social events were cancelled. Worst of all, many people succumbed to illness and death.

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Sign of the Times However, I don’t imagine anyone was surprised when bottle digging was not included on the lists of forbidden recreations. (Dang, let’s face it, most people don’t even know bottle digging is a thing!) Late March 2020 also happened to be a bit on the warm side for upstate New York, thus the ground was sufficiently thawed for the initial dig of the year. The season’s fun started with a visit to one of my favorite old ash mounds on March 22, with my soon-to-be 19-yearold son Noah joining me. It was a productive day with a cobalt poison, an amber H. Clay Glover veterinary bottle, and a gallon-size Albany slip stoneware jug unearthed. Unfortunately, being early in the season, darkness hit upon us before we could finish the hole, and we had to make plans to return the next weekend. And thus, the following Saturday, March 28, Noah and I returned to finish September 2021

off the excavation. While it was a cloudy day, it was bit warmer than the week before, with a high around 50, perfect for bottle digging. This dig, too, was going well with a few lady’s leg whiskies, fruit jars and several soda bottles coming out of the ground, but nothing to get terribly excited about. All that changed mid-afternoon when my shovel pried up something very unusual, at least for this digger. It was so out of the ordinary, in fact, that it took a moment for me to process just what the heck this small, disk-shaped, concave metallic object lying there seven feet down in the bottom of my pit could be. Was it, by chance, an enameled sign? That would be almost too good to be true, as in fifty years of digging, I had disentombed only one other (a very lovely LENOX SOAP sign, dug in the early 1990s and still hanging on the wall in my bottle room). Excitedly I bent over to pick up the object, and upon doing so, and flipping it over, was thrilled to see that it was a gorgeous Bell Telephone sign! (See Figure 1). Measuring eight inches in diameter, the artifact is inscribed in the top arch, “NEW YORK TELEPHONE COMPANY,” and “AMERICAN TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO.” in the bottom arch, with the iconic Bell Telephone logo emblazoned in the center. Wow, what a masterpiece of design! My digging year was off to a phenomenal start! The sign cleaned up well, with an acceptable, and somewhat appealing, touch of rust along the edge that adds character and age — or so I tell myself. (See Figure 2) After the excitement of digging up a great piece like this, researching the history was the next best thing. Following are snippets from the Collectors Weekly Telephone Signs website, with some history and background on these fascinating objects: “Unlike porcelain and tin signs designed to sell a particular brand of gasoline, bread, soda pop, paint, or farm equipment, vintage telephone signs are

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location-oriented, directing people to payphones in an era when the idea of a telephone in one’s pocket was the stuff of science fiction.” The need to identify the locations of telephones goes almost all the way back to the founding of the Bell Telephone Company in 1877 by inventor Alexander Graham Bell, who patented his device in the United States the year before. By 1898, the first payphone as we think of it today — in which coins are inserted into a phone before dialing can begin — had appeared.

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A lot of signs were needed to guide people to all those payphones. Some of them were designed to be hung on the outsides of buildings, to alert would-be callers that a payphone could be found within. Typically, these signs were made by companies like Lafayette Steel & Enamel Co. of Ohio and Ingram-Richardson of Pennsylvania, just two of many manufacturers of durable, weather-resistant porcelain signs, in which colorful enamel was baked onto sheets of iron. As a rule, telephone signs usually featured only a handful of elements, the most prominent of which was the outline of a blue bell. In fact, some of the earliest telephone signs from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries were coated in blue

enamel and shaped like bells. The words “Local & Long-Distance Telephone” are often found on these early telephone signs, as are the words “Bell System” and the name of a regional Bell System company, such as the “New England Telephone & Telegraph Company.” Or, as in my case, the “New York Telephone Company.” Another website, Classic Rotary Phones Forum, provided more details about my sign, including the age: “The first Bell System sign was introduced in 1889. Because there was no enamel sign production in the United States at the time, it was manufactured in England. The American Bell Telephone Company was re-organized and became a subsidiary of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company in 1908. Around that time “Bell System” was added and American Telephone and Telegraph Co. and Associated Companies” appeared in a circle around the bell. Most had a white border along the outer edge. The 1921 re-design saw a smaller, slightly more stylized bell. “Local and Long Distance” was eliminated and replaced with “Bell System.” American Telephone & Telegraph Company was added to the circle around the bell, either at the top or the bottom.“ OK, so now we know my sign dates to 1921 — not quite as old as I thought it might be, but still an absolutely captivating and highly collectible addition to my bottle room.

A Little Whiskey Anyone? Late April found me at another local ash midden. This one is older but also harder hit. Fortunately, my nephew Michael had discovered a shallow, undug vein nestled in a patch of briar bushes that he shared with me. Michael was already having a very good day after pulling out an early double applied collar Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, and I, too, was doing OK with a local Hutchinson and drug store to my credit. However, the find of the day by far was a very petite barrel

whiskey that I scooped up at the bottom of the hole where dump ash met the clay bottom. I eagerly brushed the ash from the glass and was very pleasantly surprised to find that it was embossed: I.W. HARPER / NELSON, CO. KY. / WHISKEY (See Figure 3). The same embossing, in different order is found on the base. There are seven rings both above and below the embossed middle of the bottle. The bottle stands at 4 and ¼ inches in height, and the glass is colorless. Following is some background on I.W. Harper from Wikipedia: “Isaac Wolfe Bernheim was born in 1848 in Schmieheim, Germany. His early education was as a bookkeeper and he worked as one for a while before meeting some cousins who had returned to Germany from America. These cousins had come home for a visit and Bernheim was impressed with the opportunities they had in America — opportunities that he would never have if he stayed in Germany. In 1867 he decided to emigrate to America and earn his fortune. He was 19 years old and with very little cash in pocket and stayed with relatives when he first arrived. “Bernheim was fond of telling the story of his first employment as a peddler of “Yankee notions,” small items that he carried on horseback to the small towns of Pennsylvania. He met with moderate success but when he wintered his horse after that first year, it died. He could not afford a new horse, so he bought a ticket on a steamboat to Paducah, Kentucky, where he had relatives and planned to start over as a bookkeeper for a whiskey company. When his brother Bernard arrived in Paducah in 1872, they decided that with the help of a silent partner, Elbridge Palmer, they would create Bernheim Bros. and enter the spirits industry. They sourced barrels of whiskey and created their own brands. The business quickly grew. “In 1879 Bernheim Bros. introduced the I.W. Harper brand. They wanted a brand that sounded American. They knew that the name “Bernheim” was too

German and Jewish to be popular with many Americans, and Bernheim saw an article in the newspaper about the famous racehorse, Ten Broek, which was owned by John Harper. He combined the horse owner’s name with his own initials to create “I.W. Harper.” It soon became their flagship brand. They had both a bourbon and a rye using whiskey sourced from Nelson County, Kentucky.

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“The brand I.W. Harper quickly began to win awards in spirit competitions. In 1885 the brand won a gold medal in New Orleans. In 1893 it won gold at the Chicago World’s Fair. In 1900 I.W. Harper won gold at the Exposition Universal in Paris France. In 1904 it won gold at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis and in 1907 it won gold at the Greater Louisville Exposition in their hometown. The brand became known as the “Gold Medal Whiskey.” “Bernheim retired in 1915 and the company was sold. It was a huge business by that time. In 1909, Mida’s Financial Index listed Bernheim Bros as AAAA, valued at over $1,000,000. Isaac Wolfe Bernheim died in 1945 while summering in California.”

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I.W. Harper Whiskey was sold in fancily stenciled quart handled stoneware jugs, ID # B39 in Alan Blakeman’s Whiskey Galore book. From what I could find online, it was also bottled in a wickercovered ovoid 10” bottle, at least four different miniature stoneware whiskey jugs, and my miniature barrel. I could not find a full-size version of the barrel bottle. Too bad, a quart-sized I. W. Harper barrel in amber would be a beautiful bottle! Incidentally, a summer and fall on the deck has initiated a photochemical electron exchange between the manganese and iron ions in the glass that has resulted in this once colorless bottle beginning a transformation to a lovely shade of amethyst (see Figure 4). Yes, it’s back outside for another season of “tanning” now that the snow and ice have melted! September 2021

King of Dyspepsia In June of 2020 I was digging in yet another of our area’s venerable ash tips and was encouraged to find a fair-sized undug area. I was digging through the very top humus layer that caps the ash and was quite surprised when a complete blown-in-the-mold rectangular bottle popped out, just inches from the surface. And not just any bottle, it was a very attractive turn of the century S. Grover Graham’s Dyspepsia Cure! This may be a common bottle, but in my five decades of digging this was my first, and as I do love cure bottles, this was definitely a keeper. As far as cure bottles go, claiming to cure dyspepsia (aka heartburn) seems like a relatively mundane assertion when comparted to other nostrum peddlers of the day, who professed to cure life-threatening diseases such as diabetes, rheumatism, heart failure, and even cancer. Judging by the number of Graham’s Dyspepsia Cure, Remedy and Mixture bottles that are out there, it was a very successful product for at least a few decades, so it seems quite possible that it truly was an effective elixir for indigestion.

with this simple tidbit: “Graham S Grover Co The (Dyspepsia Remedy) 75 2d.” This would mean at least thirty years in business with his Dyspepsia Cure / Remedy / Mixture. A definite indication that S. Grover Graham may have been the equivalent of the Rolaids and Tums king of his day!

From a pamphlet titled Symptoms of Disorder of the Digestive System, by S. Grover Graham, published in 1899, I was able to find out more about our dyspepsia hero, S. Grover Graham and his remedy: “You never need suffer one moment from pain due to dyspepsia or any stomach disorder. We give you our most solemn assurance that if you will try a bottle of our Dyspepsia Remedy, you will be entirely free from physical discomfort from the time you take the first dose, and that by continuing for a short time to take the Remedy you will be permanently cured.”

The next city directory entry I could find relating to Graham was from 1909. “Graham Co, G Grover (the) incorporated 1898, capital $100,000 319-321 Broadway, Henry Wilson M.D.” Ah, so this confirms the company was founded in 1898. The $100,000 in capital in 1909 ($2,934,659.34 in today’s dollars) indicated that business was good! I tried without success to establish the nature of Graham’s relationship to Dr Henry Wilson.

“Symptoms - The attack possibly commences with a sour condition of the stomach, with heartburn, followed, as the disease advances, by that indescribable sensation of the stomach, a gaunt, gnawing ache; distension and weight, accompanied by a belching of the wind, with acids, eructations and nausea. The breath is foul and the tongue coated. There is constipation and, in some cases, intervals of diarrhea with intestinal colic and cramps. The sufferer has headache, with attacks of dizziness, and becomes peevish. There is an entire lack of ambition and inability to remember. Frequently palpitation of the heart and shortness of breath is present, followed by fainting or weak spells. In a short time, the patient has become emaciated, the face assumes a yellowish tint, and there is frequently a drowsy feeling, followed by fever and sweats. After the inflammation in the stomach becomes chronic, the sufferer is unable to partake of food without being subjected to terrible pain.

The next and last directory I found with a reference to Graham was from 1928,

“Causes of Dyspepsia - America is the most dyspeptic country in the world. It is

I was able to find entries for Graham in three Newburgh, N.Y., city directories. The first is from 1898, indicating this was likely the first year Graham was in the dyspepsia cure business. Oddly, this directory lists Graham’s spouse as “Dyspepsia Remedy Graham.” Was this an error, a joke or did Graham actually marry his product?

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estimated that 65 per cent of the population of the United States suffers from some form of stomach trouble. There are innumerable causes to which this condition can be attributed. Among the most pronounced may be named: Insufficiency of the gastric juices, hastily eaten and irregular meals; sedentary habits or too close application to business; dissipation, viz., excessive indulgence in stimulating drinks or tobacco, late hours, constipation, partaking of improper kinds of foods without regard to their compatibility; and last but not least, rapid eating. “The History of the S. Grover Graham Cure - The Proprietors do not claim that their preparation is a compound of herbs and roots, the wonderful properties of which were accidentally discovered by Indians, Gypsies, or other strange people. The original formula was in use a great many years ago by an eminent physician and surgeon in Ireland. Its production was the result of a vast amount of study and clinical experience. After the mixture had been perfected, it was used in private practice for nearly twenty years. The remarkable cures it effected gained such acclaim that the physician to whom it belonged made a specialty in treating stomach disorders. “The preparation was first introduced into America about 15 years ago, not as a proprietary medicine, but merely in private practice. Mr. S. Grover Graham, one of the leading members of the firm, had suffered from a most severe form of dyspepsia for many years. He had consulted physicians innumerable in his search for relief. Night and day, he experienced the most agonizing pain. In his anxiety he tried every remedy that he read of, or that his friends recommended, but without benefit. About this time, he was fortunate enough to secure a couple of bottles of the prescription through the kindness of a friend. “The result is best related in his own words: “It was at this time, I say, that my friend, who merely came over from

England for the summer months, and had frequently heard of my dyspeptic condition, produced the bottles that were to prove of such wonderful benefit to me. They were two ordinary medicine vials, having a small piece of paper pasted upon them, bearing the words in writing, ‘a tablespoonful three times a day, or when in pain, ‘and under that the request to ‘shake the bottle.’ “That day, nine years ago, I was an emaciated wreck, weighing 105 lbs., and never having been free from pains for years. My affidavit, taken three months after the time when I commenced to take the Dyspepsia Remedy, states that I received immediate relief. The burning irritation, ever present in my stomach was allayed; the nausea subsided, the gas, with which I was distended, was belched up; the gnawing and weighty sensation passed away, followed by a most soothing and grateful feeling. The next day I could eat a little, and at the end of the week I was indulged in articles of diet to which I had been a stranger for years. After a short time, I could eat anything I desired without experiencing any inconvenience. “It is owing to this experience that I undertook to introduce the wonderful prescription throughout the United States.” “The S. Grover Graham Remedy for Dyspepsia is prepared after the McDermott formula, known throughout Europe as specific for stomach disorders. We guarantee it to be identical with the prescription as used for many years by Dr. McDermott, a specialist in diseases of the digestive organs. We have purchased the sole right for its sale throughout the United Stated and Canada. Beware of imitations.”

I hope you find Graham’s detailed descriptions of dyspepsia symptoms and history of his miraculous restoration to health as entertaining as I did. Is it possible that his statement: “America is the most dyspeptic country in the world” is

still true today? I for one consume many over the counter heartburn products, but I sure as heck wish I had a bottle of Graham’s next time I suffer from an attack of dyspepsia! The Graham Dyspepsia Cure bottles come in aqua, but mine is colorless, and like my I.W. Harper, it spent the summer and fall sunning on my deck, and it too underwent an ultraviolet light induced metamorphosis into a lovely amethyst (see Figure 5). It’s going back out there this summer. I never found out what the “S.” stands for.

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A Place Called Dyottville July of 2020 found me back at the tip where I had found the I.W. Harper. I was working a major excavation that included removing a large overburden to get to the fresh ash. This multi-day project was going well with my having had already found scarce local blob beers, Hutchinsons, and drug store bottles, as well as a pair of cobalt beauties: an exquisite cone ink and an Acker’s English Remedy. I was in the middle of my massive pit, at about four to five feet down when my spade popped out a very light yellow amber three-piece mold cylinder whiskey. I liked the bottle a lot for its color, but this one was most likely going to go in the “for sale” box. However, I had just seen my friend Gary’s antique bottle collection and for the first time saw his recently gathered assemblage of cylinder whiskies just like this one. What made them stand out was that many were base embossed with the glasshouse. Until that moment, I had not realized that base embossed cylinder whiskies were even a “thing,” but I was impressed and thought to myself that yeah, I’d like to dig one of those! With this recollection in mind as I held the freshly dug bottle, I thought what the heck, check the base, there’s always a miniscule chance it might have a glasshouse embossed there (even though I’d never found one in five decades of digging!). So, with the lowest of expectations, I flipped the bottle over, and was thunderstruck with joy to see “DYOTTVILLE GLASSWORKS PHILA A” elegantly embossed in a circle on the base (see Figures 6 & 7)! In an instant, this bottle’s destiny had gone from the “for sale” box to a coveted spot on the backlit shelves. Communicating online with the experts at the Facebook forum, Antique Whiskey Bottles, the consensus seems to be these glassworks base-embossed cylinders were made in between 1860 and 1880. Fort Trumbull Glass Co. and Whitney Glass Works are examples of other glasshouses September 2021

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that made these bottles. They come in a wide variety of molds and colors, and some have the word “PATENT” embossed on the shoulder. There are also at least two Dyottville cylinders with seals on the shoulders, but these are exceptionally rare and very valuable. This summary of Dyott and his glassworks comes from The Society for Historical Archeology: “Born in England in 1777, Thomas W. Dyott began his working life as an apprentice to an English pharmacist.” He came to Philadelphia ca. 1805, making and selling boot black (shoe polish). Dyott eventually adopted the soubrette of “Doctor,” although he did not attend medical school. He claimed that his grandfather was a Dr. Roberson and compounded remedies using that name. From these somewhat humble beginnings, Dyott built a large commercial sales force and set up his own practice where he gave free advice but recommended his own products. His business spread until he was selling medical concoctions at least as far south as South Carolina and west to St. Louis. He partnered with John G.O’Brien in 1815 to form O’Brien and Dyott and became concerned about finding enough bottles and vials to support his business. Thus, Dyott was soon involved in the glass trade.

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The Kensington Glass Works was built in 1816, by Hewson, Connell & Co. “on the lot adjoining the Old Glass Works in Kensington.” By 1819, the firm’s name had changed to Hewson & Connell, and, in October of that year, they (along with the Olive Glass Works and the Gloucester Glass Works, both in New Jersey) advertised that Dr. T.W. Dyott was their sole agent. Despite his absence from the firm name, it seems that Dr. Dyott, the first of America’s patent medicine kings, invested in the factory in 1818 or 1819. He evidently had the controlling, if not sole, interest by 1821, while Hewson was noted merely as the superintendent of the works. By 1828, there were three factories and four a year later, while the firm built a fifth factory in 1833. In 1831, these

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factories formed the most extensive bottle works in the country, melting 4 tons of glass per day and producing 120 tons of product per year. The plants produced such wares as vials, bottles, demijohns and window glass. The firms first advertised figural flasks in 1822, although they had undoubtedly been made earlier by this and other factories. In 1833, with his glass enterprises enjoying great success, Dyott decided to incorporate them as part of a planned community which he named Dyottville. Because of Dyott’s demands that his workers limit their drinking, the plant became known as “Temperanceville.” Dyott noted at that time that “the articles now manufactured in the United States are superior in quality, workmanship, and regularity of sizes to any that can be imported.” Dyott opened the Manual Labor Bank on February 2, 1836, and even issued bank notes, at least one of which had a drawing of a glass furnace and Dyott’s picture on the right. However, the firm ran into trouble in November 1837, when a rumor caused a run on the bank. By the fall of 1838, Dyott declared bankruptcy. On June 1, 1839, he went to trial for charges related to the bank failure and was convicted. Interesting that while this was the end of Dr. Dyott’s involvement with the glass making industry, the Dyottville Glassworks name was used by succeeding glassworks on the same site through roughly 1897. After Dyott’s departure, the glass factory was again up and running in 1841, when a trusteeship was set up for Dyott’s estate, and Henry Seybert acquired one (or perhaps two) of the old Dyott factories and began to make mineral water bottles. I can personally attest that bottles made at this site during this era were marked with the traditional moniker because I dug a beautiful cobalt blue soda from an Albany, N.Y. privy in the early 1990s embossed: “DYOTTVILLE GLASS WORKS / PHILAD.A / A. W. RAPP / NEW YORK // MIN-

ERAL WATERS / R / THIS BOTTLE / IS NEVER SOLD.” This bottle dates to 1840-I860, and there are of course many other sodas and historical flasks from this era also embossed with the DYOTTVILLE signature. Seybert sold out to Benners, Smith & Campbell in 1844, with Henry Benners eventually becoming the sole proprietor. The last contemporary listings for the Dyottville Glass Works are found in trade literature from 1897. (There are some reports that Dyottville remained in business until the 1930s, but directories do not support this). I was very happy to have had the fortune to dig this wonderful DYOTTVILLE GLASS WORKS jewel just for the sake of its beautiful form and color. But now, with a better understanding of the extraordinary history of the long-lived and prolific factory from whence it was produced, it makes for me a tenuous connection to Dr. Dyott and those who worked in the glass factories bearing his name. That enhances the bottle’s appeal to another level.

‘N’” The extravagant detail that surrounds the lettering includes: a crown, a coat of arms, flowers and vines. This style of two-tone, quart-sized transfer jugs were primarily produced in Britain between 1880 and 1920. In Whiskey Galore, by Alan Blakeman & Paul Bloomfield, the jug is ID# B426: “A very common jug, produced in such prolific number of variants, some of which are difficult to find. At least four different potteries made this jug with variations in the transfer. Sizes vary between 7 and 8 inches in height, with the larger sizes being one quart in capacity.”

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The jug is marked, in an oval on the base, “Port Dundas Glasgow Pottery.” Per Blakeman & Bloomfield on page 9: “The Port Dundas Pottery Glasgow was owned by James Miller from around 1845. On the 25th of January 1876, a patent was issued to James Miller for printing on unfired stoneware prior to glazing and single firing. The company became incorporated in 1905 and closed around 1930. They were by far the most prolific producer of transfer printed whisky jugs and were responsible for some of the classics: House of Commons, My Queen, Forty Second and Cluny whisky are a few for which they are noted. Port Dundee seems to have used only a single pottery mark throughout their history.” “The growth of popularity of blended whiskey coincided nicely for collectors with the perfecting of transfer printing on stoneware. A patent was granted to James Miller of Port Dundas pottery in January of 1876. This growth in the market, combined with the new transfer process, led to some superbly designed jugs. Throughout the 1880s, and most of the 1890s, the whisky industry was a boom market, and over thirty new distilleries built in the 1890s alone.”

That Good Ole Irish Whisky It was Saturday, one week later, and a hot and humid July day. Though in one sense oppressive, the bright side in digging in the heat is I will be nice and loose. Besides, I was in a shady spot in a deep hole and I had plenty of cold drinks. I was still working my massive pit excavation, and two nice Hutchinsons, a large doll head, and an 1858 Mason jar had already emerged, as I continued to work my way deeper. Once again, just like with the Dyottville whiskey cylinder from the week before, my shovel suddenly and unexpectedly pried up and popped out my next exciting find, an Irish whiskey jug! (See Figure 8) Instantly in my hands and in front of my eyes, I was enthralled with the elaborate design of the transfer, which read “CRUISKEEN LAWN / MITCHELL’S / OLD / IRISH WHISKY / TRADE MARK / BELFAST / GUARANTEED ONE IMP’R QUARTR GAL

which means ‘the full little jug’ but they also produced the “Shamrock” brand.

“Mitchell & Co (ltd) was formed in 1871 by William Charles Mitchell and David Mitchell becoming incorporated in 1883. They were partners in the Connswater Distillery (The Irish Distillery Ltd) along with Kirker, Greer & Co Ltd, and James Wilson & Son Distillers. The Distillery was built in 1886 and closed in 1929. Their famous brand was ‘Cruiskeen Lawn’

So how exactly did this transfer process work? How did they produce such exquisite, detailed designs on these jugs on such a massive scale? Per Wikipedia: “Transfer printing is a method of decorating pottery or other materials using an engraved copper or steel plate from which a monochrome print on paper is taken, which is then transferred by pressing onto the ceramic piece. Pottery decorated using the technique is known as transferware or transfer ware. “It was developed in England from the 1750s on, and in the 19th century became enormously popular in England, though relatively little used in other major pottery-producing countries. The bulk of September 2021

production was from the dominant Staffordshire pottery industry. America was a major market for English transfer-printed wares, whose imagery was adapted to the American market. “The process starts with an engraved metal printing plate similar to those used for making engravings or etchings on paper. The plate is used to print the pattern on tissue paper, using mixes of special pigments that stand up to firing as the “ink”. The transfer is then put pigmentside down onto the piece of pottery, so that the sticky ink transfers to the ceramic surface. The paper is either floated off by soaking the piece in water or left to burn off during the firing. This can be done over or under the ceramic glaze, but the underglaze (“underprinting”) method gives much more durable decoration. The ceramic is then glazed and fired in a kiln to fix the pattern.” Like most collectors of antique glass and pottery, I love rare, historical objects for my collection. However, an even more important quality towards my keeping and displaying an artifact is desirability. So, while the Mitchell’s Old Irish Whisky jug may be “very common,” I find its ovoid form, two-tone glaze, and elaborately designed and finely executed transfer extremely appealing (see Figure 9). Furthermore, while these Mitchell jugs may not be rare, it’s the first one I’ve ever dug! It looks very impressive on my stoneware shelf.

Yes, My Master It was Friday, September 11, 2020, a cool sunny day with a high of 64, and I had the audacity to take the day off work to dig for antique bottles in the middle of a deep Victorian rubbish tip. The day was going well. I had discovered a fair-sized undug section and had already found a Bixby barrel shoe polish in deep olive green along with two excellent local Hutchinson’s. It was just after 3 p.m. when at about seven feet down my shovel

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revealed a large, teal-colored cylindershaped bottle. This looks like a good one, I said aloud to myself, as I felt my heartbeat begin to elevate. At first, I thought it might be a Saratoga. However, as I slowly chipped away at the surrounding ash, the two ribs at the base had me thinking master ink. A few moments later, when I was finally able to safely wedge it out of its resting place, my supposition was validated. There, as I held it up to the sky, I saw the big, bold lettering: “STAFFORD’S INK!” Hell yes, this one was a keeper! (See Figure 10) Over the years, I have dug the set of three cobalt blue Stafford master inks, that have “MADE IN THE U.S.A.” embossed on them. They are very cool, but this one is older, and a little more dazzling with its teal color and bubbles. The following summary of Stafford’s was taken from Baybottles.com. “Samuel Spencer Stafford was a graduate of Union College, and Albany Medical College, but he never practiced medicine. After receiving his medical diploma, Dr. Stafford went to San Francisco in 1849, during the height of the gold-rush. He stayed there until 1854, when he returned to New York City. During this period, the NYC Directories list him as an accountant (1855-56) and an engineer (185657). In 1858 S. S. Stafford bought the trademark and stock of Conger & Field, who, while noted as the first company to manufacture writing fluid in the U.S., had suffered from declining sales.”

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UPCYCLED POTS I think that it goes without saying that jar collectors have to decide for themselves just what they want to collect. If that includes “reproduction” jars in unusual colors or blown with “fantasy” embossings, jars that have been altered by radiation to change their glass colors, or jars with old-style, vintage-looking labels that have designed on computers, so be it. Just as long as the pieces are identified as such, preferably with permanent markings, so that the new owners know just what they’re buying. Likewise, it’s hard to condemn an honest dealer who sells reproduction jars. But, unfortunately, not all dealers are honest. And while the first might identify the jars as irradiated, new, or label-added, some secondary dealers don’t identify the jars, letting the chips fall where they may. In May 2003, we reported an eBay auction buyer who paid $75 plus shipping for an amber pint BALL IDEAL PAT’D JULY 14, 1908 that was obviously irradiated, but not identified as such. Since the folks who irradiated these jars at that time generally tried to sell the irradiated amber jars for an inflated price of $20 to $30, at $75 someone had an even better markup on what would be about a $3 to $5 jar in its original clear color. I wonder how many new collectors we lose to the hobby after they’ve unknowingly blown good money on one of these jars. Subscriptions to bottle magazines, buying bottle and jar books, and traveling to bottle shows can cost a bit of money, but those who go into any collecting hobby without educating themselves are left wide open for these scams. A few months ago, we offered several English stoneware marmalade pots, or jars, from our collection for sale on eBay.

One of these, pictured in Photo 1, is a 3 3/4” tall, cream-colored, straight-sided stoneware pot, or jar, with indented neck, lettered in black JOHN GRAY & COS SCOTCH MARMALADE, GLASCOW., with the John Gray & Co. factory depicted above. The name COCHRAN is impressed lightly into the pot’s base. The indentation around the top was for holding the string that originally held on a paper cover, as illustrated in Photo 2. John Gray & Co., Ltd., was located in Glascow, Scotland. One circa 1904 ad described them as “Confectioners, Wholesale And Export. Makers Of Scotch Marmalade, Jams, Orange, Lemon & Citrus Peel.” The COCHRAN impressed into the jar’s base refers to the pottery that made this particular pot. Robert Cochran had taken over the Verreville Pottery Works, in Finnieston, Glasgow, Scotland, in the early 1840s, and the Cochran family ran the pottery until its eventual closure in 1918. While trying to find a new home for this JOHN GRAY pot, I discovered a company in England that is selling ware bound to complicate the collecting of these old marmalade pots and other pottery vessels. Mixed in with a number of their other genuine vintage marmalade pots on eBay were several pots that were “upcycled,” such as the example in Photo 3, from JOHN MOIR & SON. The eBay listing for this “upcycled” MOIR pot lists its “Condition” as “New: A brand-new, unused, unopened, undamaged item (including handmade items),” and describes it as an “Upcycled antique jar with a new print. The print is overglaze but very tough and hardwearing. The jar can be used and put in the dishwasher without any risk of damage... These are

PHOTO 1: JOHN GRAY & COS marmalade pot. PHOTO 2: Paper tie-over closure on a JOHN GRAY marmalade pot. PHOTO 3: Newly-added-transfer marmalade pot.

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antique jars and will have age-related wear and the odd manufacturing defect or very minor chips.” Simply put, this pot is a “used handmade antique jar with a new overglaze print” added to it. These fascinating little marmalade pots are produced with transfer printing, which is a method of decorating pottery using metal plates from which a monochrome print is taken on paper, and the paper with the inked design is then applied by pressing it onto the unfired pottery piece, thus transferring the design to the pot before glazing and firing. But in the case of these “upcycled” pots or jars the newly-made transfer-prints are applied over the original fired glaze. The resulting overglaze print would be somewhat less firmly fixed to the glaze below it than if the print had been applied to the unglazed pot and would lack the protection that a covering layer of glaze would provide. No less than sixteen variations of these little 4”-tall JOHN MOIR & SON pots were offered on eBay, each marked as LEMON or ORANGE MARMALADE; APRICOT, DAMSON, BLACKBERRY, GOOSEBERRY, AND BLACK CURRANT JAM; and BLUEBERRY JELLY. These designs are probably fashioned after old original marked pots, but whether John Moir & Son actually marketed all of these flavors, I have no way of knowing. And that’s just part of the confusion arising from this type of piece. When I offered my JOHN GRAY marmalade pot in Photo 1 up for auction on eBay, one savvy potential bidder emailed to ask, “Is the transfer new?” I was able to assure him that it was not a new transfer and that the pot had been in our collection for twenty years or better. And

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questions by potential buyers are becoming more frequent when these pots are advertised on the internet. While it’s good that the buyers are becoming more savvy about the existence of these “upcycled” pots, it’s too bad that such a suspicion has been cast over the entire line of these fascinating little stoneware jars. A good number of these “upcycled” new transfer pots are offered by the U.K. seller, including ones from John Gray & Co., Glascow & London, Scotch Marmalade; E. J. Foster & Co., Brighton, Potted Ham; Hartley & Jones, New York, Mushroom Soup; and Thompson & Hunt, Fulton Fish Market, New York, Turtle Soup. And while these “upcycled” transfer pots sold by an English firm may seem a small problem to American collectors who might be interested in this type of ware, there’s also at least one company here in the United State who’s also marketing these “new-transfer” pots. They state that, “Due to the near extinct status of English printed advertising, we have developed an historically correct over-glaze permanently, lovingly applied to creamers, antique jam and meat pots... Because the pots are one hundred plus years old, these are not considered reproductions, but rather re-loved antique English ironstone, not at all meant to devalue printed pots.” “Becoming harder to find and very collectible is this one pound marmalade. Turn of the century English advertising is full of charm and history. Abandoned and buried in the tips, these pieces are being revived and collected by enthusiasts today. “We have access to our own private diggers/excavators in the UK, with shipments arriving two-three times a month...” The concept of putting new over-glaze transfer prints on originally unmarked

stoneware pots of this type is imaginative, and we intend no disrespect to the companies who are producing the “upcycled” pots. Most of these newly decorated pots are probably being bought for decorative purposes, and that’s fine. In addition to the “upcycled” pots that have had transfer printing added over the original glaze, one seller honestly describes his TURTLE SOUP TRADE (Turtle Image) MARK NEW YORK pot as “Made in the U.K., Brand new hand made high fired pottery with underglaze decoration.” So, some of the pots are 100% reproduction –– pots, applied printing, and possible age marks. There’s no doubt that acquiring some examples of the various new-transfer pots this way is much easier than hunting down original under-glaze pots, just as buying an amber midget pint MASON’S PATENT NOV. 30th 1858 fruit jar was much easier and much cheaper back in the 1970s than buying such an original amber jar. And if that’s what you want for your collection or for decorative purposes, that’s fine, it’s your choice, but be sure you know what you’re buying. Once these pieces have been sold by the original scrupulous manufacturers or dealers, all bets are off. Most reproductions, it seems, are not permanently marked in any way. And seller’s stories about the piece coming out of grandma’s root cellar are unreliable at best. Collect what appeals to you, but study your subject and understand what you collect. Talk to established dealers and collectors, buy and read related books and printed material, and surf the internet for related items and information. Learn about and understand what you collect, then you can be the expert that new collectors come to for advice.

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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 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

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 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 WANTED: George Ohr Pottery Cabins. Or Cabin Inks. BOB TERRY, 303-5692502, llterryualusa@yahoo.com 9/21 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: 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: 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 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: 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: Looking for Anchor Strapside, any color/size. twaller@htfinc.com, Phone: 757-442-6099. 9/21 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: 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 September 2021

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WANTED: Detroit Area Old Bottles bottlemike@outlook.com, 586-219-9980. 9/21 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. 6/22 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: Strapside Flasks from NY Capital District and Utica. JOHN, ifishaway@msn. com, 518-393-1814. 10/21 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: Dr. Boyce's Tonic Bitters, Rutland VT. bruceamaheu@icloud.net 10/21 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: 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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WANTED: Albany & Troy, NY pre-1900 Beers, Sodas, Whiskeys, and Stoneware. Albany Paintings especially David Lithgow Paintings. STEWART C. WAGNER, SWagner@NorthernIndustrial.com, Phone: 518-698-7325. 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: Pictures of the following Great Falls Montana bottles: 1. Emporium Drug / Realty block / Great Falls, Mont. 2. Char. Gies clear seltzer acid 3. Green Quart Cabin acl - around base of bottle Property of Squirt Bottling Co. Great Falls, Mont or something similar 4. Labeled only bottles from either Montana Distilling Company, Manchester Montana or Manchester Distilling Company, Manchester Montana or Sun-River Distilling Company, Manchester Montana (from same distillery but different owners and years of operating). Will consider outright purchase also. For purposes of writing a book. 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: George Troyansky New York seltzer bottles and any bottles from Croton On- Hudson, NY. 845-381-3059 text. 11/21

WANTED: Celebrated Peninsular Bitters semi-cabin from Grand Rapids, Jerome National Bitters Detroit, Ancora Bitters from Menominee, Mich., Snake Bite Bitters, other bitters and mineral waters from Michigan and Mississippi. BRUCE SCHAD, brschad@ aol.com, 662-237-4365 or 662-299-7975, Carrollton, MS. 10/21 WANTED: Signet Ink, 1 gallon solid white stoneware jug with handle, pour spout blue lettering stating "Russia Cement Co., Sole mf'rs of Signet Ink and LePage Glue". Interested in any other Ink or Paste Stoneware that i do not already have. Call, email or text. DAVID CURTIS, dcu8845@thewavz.com, 567-208-1676. 10/21 WANTED: ACL's North and South Carolina BOTTLE BROTHER CHUCK, 704-7320373. BOTTLE BROTHER STAN, 704530-3941. 10/21 WANTED: WARNER Advertising, Bottles with Labels, Posters, Almanacs. Any WARNER or DR. CRAIG Bottles and Advertising. mwseeliger@gmail.com, Phone: 608-575-2922. 11/21 WANTED: Baltimore, D.C., Northern VA. Bottles. We buy collections. Call JEFF at 443-904-0566 or 410-335-1383. Call ROB at 443-417-0109. Leave message! J & R FINE JUNK AND COLLECTABLES 11/21 WANTED: Fitzgerald's Improved Invigorator with label; Arabian Elixter of Life, Dexter, ME. probably a label only bottle, any other Dexter, Maine medicines. RICK WHITNEY, history@dextermaine.info, 207-924-3443, 215 North Dexter Rd, Dexter, ME 04930. 10/21 WANTED: Ugly. Brown Bottles . . . with Eagles & Flags - open pontils - sheared lips. Whittled and Crude - embossed or with Labels ... Keene or Stoddard, N.H. origin the best. ALSO, Bisque & China doll heads from priveys or dump diggin'. withington@ conknet.com, 603-478-3232. 10/21

Show CALENDAR SEPTEMBER 11 & 12

SEPTEMBER 18

OCTOBER 1 & 2

ADAMSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA

LAWRENCE, KANSAS

WILLIAMS, CALIFORNIA

Special Shupp's Grove Fall Bottle Festival, (Sat. & Sun. 6 AM to dusk, early buyers Friday, 1 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: William03301956@ gmail.com

New Show! 1st Annual Border States Antique Mart Show & Sale, (9AM to 3PM), at the Douglas County Fairgrounds, 2120 Harper St., Bldg. 21, Lawrence, KS 66046 (SE corner of Lawrence, 23rd St. & Harper). Antique Bottles, Insulators, Jars, Postcards, Advertising and Table-top Antiques. Free Adm! Info: DARRYL WAGNER, 14615 Skyview Ave, Smithville, MO 64089. PH: 816.719.0801; Email: darryl@dwagnerkc.com; or: MARK LAW, 5129 NW Arroyo Dr., Topeka, KS 66618. Email: kansasbottles@gmail.com PH: 785.224.4836

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: closethegatefenceco@ yahoo.com

SEPTEMBER 12 PEKIN, ILLINOIS 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. 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

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WESTFORD, MASSACHUSETTS

YOUNGSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA

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

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

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 CHELSEA, MICHIGAN The Huron Valley Bottle and Insulator Club Annual Show, 9 am to 3 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: ROD KRUPKA at 248-627-6351 or rod.krupka@yahoo.com OCTOBER 9 COVENTRY, CONNECTICUT 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

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NOVEMBER 7

NOVEMBER 13

KEENE, NEW HAMPSHIRE

TOPSHAM, MAINE

ROYAL OAK, MICHIGAN

New Location! The Yankee Bottle Club’s 53rd Annual Show & Sale, (9 AM to 2:00 PM, early buyers 8 AM), at the Keene Ice facility, 380 Marlboro Street, Keene, NH. Info: ALAN RUMRILL, PO Box 803, Keene, NH 03431. PH: 603.352.1895, Email: director@hsccnh.org. Website: www. yankeebottleclub.org

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

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

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NOVEMBER 7

POMPTON LAKES, NEW JERSEY

FINDLAY, OHIO

ELKTON, MARYLAND

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

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

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

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. NOVEMBER 5 & 6 JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA Antique Bottle Collectors of North Florida Show & Sale, (General adm. Sat. 8AM to 2PM; Early buyers Fri. 2PM - 7PM, $50; 3PM - 7PM, $40; 5PM - 7PM, $20), at the Fraternal Order of Police Bldg, 5530 Beach Blvd, Jacksonville. Sat. Free Adm! Info: MIKE SKIE, PH: 904.710.0422; or: CORY, email: jaxbottleshow@yahoo.com

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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 BELLEVILLE, ILLINOIS Eastside Antique Bottle, Jar & Brewery Collectibles Annual Show & Sale, (9AM to 2PM, early buyers 7AM, $20), at the Belleclair Fairgrounds, 200 S. Belt East, Belleville, IL (15 minutes from St. Louis). Adm. $2. Info: KEVIN KIOUS, PH. 618.346.2634, whoisthealeman@aol.com

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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. DECEMBER 4 TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA The Wabash Valley Antique Bottle & Pottery Club 23 Annual Show, (9AM to 2PM), at the Vigo County Fairgrounds, 133 Fairgrounds Drive, Terre Haute. Info: MARTY PLASCAK, 7210 E. Gross Dr., Terre Haute, IN 47802. Email: mplascak@ma.rr.com JANUARY 15, 2022 MUNCIE, INDIANA The Midwest Antique Fruit Jar and Bottle Club Annual Show & Sale (9 AM to 2 PM), at the Horizon Convention Center, 401 S. High St., Muncie, IN. 47305. Info: COLLEEN & JERRY DIXON, PH: 765.748.3117, Email: ckdixon7618@att. net, or: DAVE RITTENHOUSE, 1008 S. 900 W, Farmland, IN 47340. PH: 765.468.8091.

Show CALENDAR JANUARY 22 JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI The Mississippi Antique Bottle, Advertising & Collectibles Show, (Sat. 9AM to 4PM; Friday, early adm. 12PM to 7PM, $25), at the Fairgrounds Trade Mart Building, 1207 Mississippi St., Jackson, MS. Info: CHERYL COMANS, PH: 601.218.3505; Email: cherylcomans@gmail.com 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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Deciphering A.M. Bininger Part 2: Abram M. Bininger II and III The Continuation: Abram M. Bininger, Jr. By Chris Bubash

t this time, I thought it might be interesting to present to the reader some information concerning A.M. Bininger, Jr. that I uncovered during the course of my research. Available information is somewhat sparse compared to his father. However, I was able to piece together a rough timeline of his life for your (hopeful) enjoyment. I’d be interested in hearing from you if you have any information to confirm, deny, or otherwise supplement this information. So many threads to pull, so little time… Ten-year-old Abram, Jr. appears to have entered the Moravian Boarding School in Nazareth, Pennsylvania in 1857. The book Nazareth Hall, An Historical Sketch and Roster of Principals, Teachers and Pupils by H.H. Hacker lists Abraham M. Bininger of New York as a pupil at Nazareth Hall in both 1857 and 1860. It’s unclear whether he was continuously enrolled in the school between those three years. Interestingly, the school’s agent in New York was Messrs. A. Bininger & Co., Liberty Street, and references were provided by Messrs. Bininger & DeWitt, Warren Street, and by Messrs. A.M. Bininger & Co., Greenwich Street! In the 1864-1865 Sixteenth Annual Register of the Free Academy of the City of New York (located on Lexington Avenue between 22nd and 23rd Streets), we see, among other things, a listing of students by class, of which there were five: Introductory Class, Freshmen Class, Sophomore Class, Junior Class, and

Nazareth Hall, built in 1755.

Senior Class. Among the list of students admitted to the Introductory Class in July 1865 appears the name “Bininger, Ab’m Merritt, Jr.” Also included was his age at the time of admission (17 years 3 months) and his parent’s name, occupation and home address (A.M. Bininger, Merchant, 131 West 45th Street). In the 1865-1866 Seventeenth Annual Register of The Free Academy of the City of New York, we see listed among the students of the Introductory Class “Bininger, Abraham Merritt, Jr.” of 131 West 45th Street. In the 1866-1867 Eighteenth Annual Register of The College of the City of New York (renamed from The Free Academy to eliminate the perceived stigma associated with having graduated from a “free” school), we notice something unusual. The name Abraham Merritt Bininger, Jr. is conspicuously absent from the listing of the students of the Freshman Class.

Review of the Nineteenth and subsequent registers failed to detect any further traces of A.M. Bininger, Jr. My conclusion, pending further research, is that he either withdrew or was expelled from the college. Perhaps he did not see higher education in his future? In the 1870 U.S. Census, A.M. Bininger, Jr., 23, was listed as a bookkeeper, living with his parents. Later that year, his father passed away at the age of 70. In the years after his father’s death, Abram Jr.’s life saw a see-saw in fortunes. On the upside, he married Anna Mary Whitney of Albany, New York on January 9, 1872. Anna was the daughter of James A. Whitney of the firm Whitney & Strong, dry goods merchants for over half a century in Albany. After living in New York City for a year, Abram and Anna moved westward, eventually taking up residence in Buffalo in 1874 at 237 Prospect Avenue. During September 2021

this time, he became the proud father of Abram Merritt Bininger III (born 1873) and Alice Morrell Bininger (born 1874). In the 1875 N.Y. Census at Buffalo, A.M. Bininger, Jr., 27, was again listed as a bookkeeper, residing with his wife Anna (age 23) and his children Abram (age 2) and Alice (age 1). By June 1877, however, A.M. Bininger, Jr. was back in Brooklyn. It was at this time that he appears to have run afoul of the law. In a document containing so-called Restorations of Citizenship, we find the following entry: “Whereas, at a Court held in and for our County of Kings in the month of April 1877, Abraham M. Bininger was convicted of Grand Larceny and was thereupon sentenced to be imprisoned in the King’s County Penitentiary at hard labor, for one year and six months, which term he served subject to the legal deduction for good conduct and he being represented unto us as worthy of being restored to the rights of a citizen: Therefore, Know Ye, That we have pardoned, remised and released, and by these Presents do pardon, remise and release the said Abraham M. Bininger of and from the offence whereof in our said Court he stands convicted as aforesaid, and of and from all Sentences, Judgments and Executions thereon, and he is hereby restored to all the rights of a citizen.”

The document was signed by Lucius Robinson, Governor of New York, on April 8, 1879, and also by George Moss, Deputy Secretary of State, on April 9, 1879. Apparently, his offense and imprisonment did not sit well with his wife. During his incarceration, an article appeared in the February 6, 1878 edition of the Brooklyn Times Union in which “Mrs. Anna M. Bininger, a young lady of prepossessing appearance and modest demeanor, who is highly connected and resides on the Heights, has sued her husband, Abram M. Bininger, for absolute divorce. The case came on for trial to-day in the Special Term of the City Court before Judge McCue… His honor has decided in favor of the plaintiff, but has reserved the question of alimony for further consideration.” Abram Jr.’s mother, Maria Long Bininger, took immediate action. On February 14, 1878, she recorded the following codicils to her will: “First. I hereby revoke the Fifth clause of my last will and testament, in which I gave One Hundred dollars each to my grandchildren Abram M. and Alice Bininger. Second. I hereby revoke so much of the Sixth clause of said will as gives a part of my wearing apparel to my daughter-in-law Anna M. Bininger, and I direct that all of my wearing apparel be given to my daughter Helen B. Wattles. Third. I hereby revoke the last

section of the Eighth clause of my last will and testament, and I hereby give, devise and bequeath the principal directed to be invested in said Eighth clause for my son Abram M. Bininger to my daughter Helen B. Wattles and to her heirs at law upon the decease of my said son.” Abram Jr.’s misfortunes continued to mount. Soon thereafter, Abram and Anna’s daughter, Alice, contracted croup and passed away on November 29, 1878 in Brooklyn at the age of 4 years and 4 months. She was interred December 2, 1878 in the James A. Whitney plot in the Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands, Albany County, New York. Anna would later marry Ransom J. McKee, a former member of the New York 10th Heavy Artillery during the Civil War. She eventually passed away, after a nine year illness, in 1920. Her simple gravestone can be found in Hillside Cemetery, Scotch Plains, Union County, New Jersey. Abram Jr., upon his release, appears to have briefly moved-in with his sister, Helen, and brother-in-law, Alden Wattles, at their home at 488 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn (ironically, a stone’s throw from his former residence at the King’s County Penitentiary). Abram’s mother, Maria, passed away later that year on August 7, 1879 at the age of 63. She was interred in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York.

From the Register of the Free Academy of the City of New York (1864-1865 )

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To heap insult upon injury, the firm of A.M. Bininger & Co. was acquired at this time by Emanuel Eising of E. Eising & Co. and relocated from 15 Beaver Street to 47 Front Street, later 51 Water Street, thus ending the Bininger family’s involvement in the storied firm of A.M. Bininger & Co. A.M. Bininger & Co. remained in business up until the onset of prohibition, which ended the firm’s fortunes for good.

TOP: Main Street, Buffalo, New York, circa 1900. BOTTOM: Buffalo Street R.R. Co. car.

Research leads me to believe that Abram, Jr. returned to Buffalo, where he found employment in various menial jobs. Review of 1879-1902 Buffalo City Directories revealed a sampling of his occupations during that period, all for the Buffalo Street Railroad Company: Streetcar Conductor (1879 and 1880), Starter (1884 and 1886), Conductor (1888 and 1890), and Clerk (1892-1902). Interestingly, the 1904-1912 Buffalo City Directories revealed a return to his former occupation of bookkeeper. Though his employer during that timeframe was not specifically mentioned, it was presumably the Buffalo Street Railroad Company. During his time in Buffalo, Abram, Jr. was an itinerant nomad, calling no fewer than fifteen different residences home. Several of them, built between 1860 and 1880, still exist today. He was still living in Buffalo at the time of his sister’s death on October 21, 1915, as announced in her obituary in the October 22, 1915 edition of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Though I was unable to discover much information about Abram, Jr. after that date, I did discover that an Abraham M. Bininger passed away on April 25, 1917. It’s unclear from the record whether or not this was A.M. Bininger, Jr. Chances are good, but not definitive.

Abram Bininger III Information on Abram III was, interestingly, even harder to locate than information on Abram, Jr. Other than mention of his birth in Titusville, Pennsylvania on April 3, 1873 in “The Whitney Family of Connecticut” and his appearance as the

child of Abram M. Bininger and Anna M. Whitney in the 1875 New York State Census, he seems to have made no further appearance in recorded history. Deepening the mystery: Anna M. McKee’s (formerly Anna M. Bininger’s) obituary stated that “She leaves one son, Irving W. Bininger, with whom she has always made her home.” Mysteriously, I could find no mention of the birth of a third child before her divorce from Abram, Jr. in 1878. What could explain this inconsistency? Research into the background of Irving W. Bininger provided what I believe to be a solution to this mystery. On his World War I Draft Registration Card, Irving W.

Bininger listed his birthdate as April 3, 1873. On the August 3, 1931 Arriving Passengers and Crew list for the SS Duchess of Atholl, Irving W. Bininger listed his birthdate as April 3, 1873 and his birthplace as Titusville, Pennsylvania — the exact same birthdate and birthplace as Abram M. Bininger III! My conclusion: At some point after Anna’s divorce from Abram, Jr. in 1878, Anna changed her son’s name from Abram Merritt Bininger to Irving Whitney Bininger, presumably to dissociate him from his father’s checkered past in the King’s County Penitentiary and, perhaps, his less than impressive ongoing employment as a nomadic streetcar conductor. September 2021

In which year the name change occurred isn’t clear. However, the first mention I was able to discover of the reinvented Abram M. Bininger III was in the 1893 Plainfield (New Jersey) City Directory, which contained a listing for Irving W. McKee, clerk, living with his mother at 311 Orange Place (Ransom McKee being his now-deceased stepfather). The 1897 Plainfield City Directory and all subsequent directories listed his name as Irving W. Bininger, living with his mother at (primarily) 70 Westervelt Avenue. On January 26, 1905, Irving married Sallie Mae Jeter, dressmaker, formerly of Lynchburg, Virginia. After a year on their own at 147 E Fifth Street, the couple moved in with Irving’s mother (Sallie’s mother-inlaw) at 70 Westervelt Avenue, where they would remain for the rest of their lives. The house still stands today. Over the next several decades, Irving Bininger appears to have focused on two primary occupations. Other than brief stints as Board of Health Inspector (circa 1905), baker (circa 1914-1915), and machinist for International Motor Company (circa 1916-1918), Irving spent much of his life working in the insurance and dry goods industries. Available records provide the following rough timeline of his employment: Before 1909, he worked as a clerk, agent, or assistant superintendent for the Prudential Insurance Company and the Colonial Life Insurance Company. From 1909-1913, he worked primarily as a window dresser, or window trimmer, for A.E. Force & Co. (“The White Store”). From 1918 onward, he appears to have worked as a floorwalker, floor manager, or salesman for Tepper Brothers Department Store. It was during his employment with Tepper Brothers that Irving Bininger experienced a brush with death. As reported in the July 23, 1924 edition of the Plainfield Courier-News, Dr. R.W. Emerson and Irving W. Bininger, returning from a fishing trip near Bangor, Maine, were among those who escaped

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Tepper Brothers, where Irving Bininger worked.

from the crash of the steamer Boston. “Returning in a condition of severe shock, after an experience at midnight, on a sinking steamer in Long Island Sound, Monday night, Dr. R.W. Emerson of 813 Webster Place, and Irving W. Bininger of 70 Westervelt Avenue, arrived home yesterday afternoon, glad to have escaped the fatality which came to five passengers, and the injuries which others incurred.” The article went on to describe how their ship, Boston, was struck amidship by an immense oil tanker in dense fog off Point Judith. Male survivors were taken aboard the oil tanker, and later transferred to a responding ship, Priscilla. Irving W. Bininger’s name appeared in print several more times over the years, once as a speaker at a Tepper Brothers banquet in 1925, once as a jury member in 1931, once as a jury member in 1934, and once as a Republican Election Officer for Plainfield’s 1st Ward, 1st District in the May 15, 1934 primaries. Irving W. Bininger passed away on December 3, 1939. Private funeral services were held at the Memorial Funeral Home on December 6, 1939, Rev. Henry L. Bell officiating, and burial was in Hillside Cemetery, Scotch Plains, New Jersey. Several years

later, Sallie Bininger passed away on September 23, 1945 in Muhlenburg Hospital after a lingering illness. Burial, like her husband, was in Hillside Cemetery. No children were mentioned in her obituary or in any of the census documentation that I was able to locate. So, there you have it. Some brief highlights from the lives of Abram M. Bininger, Abram M. Bininger, Jr., and Abram M. Bininger III (aka Irving W. Bininger). As this article and associated timelines were assembled from numerous disparate (and occasionally conflicting) sources, I leave open the possibility that their stories, as recounted above, may contain some amount of inaccuracy. I would very much appreciate hearing from any readers who possess complimentary or contradictory information that would help me, and others, form a more complete picture of the lives of these interesting individuals. Regardless, we can all be glad that A.M. Bininger & Co. left behind for us a wonderful myriad of bottles that can be enjoyed not only by current collectors, but by generations of collectors yet to come. Thanks, Abram!

Rare A M Bininger figural handled urn.

A. M. Bininger's handled cylinder bottle.

Bininger's 'Old Times' Family Rye bottle with label.

Bininger's Knickerbocker handled jug.

A. M. Bininger & Co. Old Kentucky Reserve, Distilled in 1848, figural barrel.

Bininger's Old Kentuckey Boubon, 1849 Reserve.

September 2021

Potlids Loaded with History By Ralph Finch

ith flowing hair and inviting smiles, and a few interesting tidbits selected by Ralph Finch, here’s something to enjoy. And the topic connects both sides of the pond. Rare and interesting goodies were offered in an impressive sale held by AA Auctions of Falmouth, Cornwall, England, that closed in early last June. The firm said that it was “one of several superb lids from various significant pot lid collections, all to be spread over successive auctions.” And I loved the first item! Lot 1: “BURGOYNE BURBIDGE, a fabulously impressive and small (3 inches) Cherry Tooth Paste pot lid from this well documented London supplier featuring a superbly detailed picture of a smiling girl. Great quality print. Beaded border. Very few recorded examples in this smaller size

“Superb overall condition with just a couple of totally insignificant small old brown flakes on the inside of the back rim (the biggest of which looks like it was caused in-manufacture anyway) and just a little wear also on the inside of the back rim (barely visible and hardly worth mentioning), nothing of course to detract at all on display and is otherwise mint. The tiny white mark on the side of her nose is just a reflection on the surface of the glaze where there is a minuscule in-manufacture dip on the surface of the glaze. Estimate: £1,200-1,500. It sold for £1,376, with 38 bids.” ($1,917 in U.S.) FYI: In Charles Moore’s Harmer Rooke Galleries in New York City auction (February 15, 1990, the two parts of the Ben Swanson pot lid collection), an identical pot lid, Lot 300, sold for $2,300, and was described as “extremely rare.”

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Lot 5: “DANIEL MELIA, another classic lid, this time featuring an attractive girl with long wavy hair and a nice smile (no doubt attributable to using this brand of toothpaste). Decent quality print. “Scarcely seen in mint condition (the tiny marks on the back rim are the usual in-manufacture stilt marks). Estimate: £300-400.” It sold for £710. And for someone who has lived two years in Japan was this item: Lot 6: LORIMER & CO, LONDON & NEW YORK, “An appealing ‘Sanoline’ tooth paste pot lid from this popular perfumer in London with a fabulous pictorial of three Geisha girls. Good strong print. Sadly, the pot lid has “had restoration work done to a very high standard indeed with what looks like a medium chip on the side wall repaired (and what looks like a hairline across the face or the whole lid has been in two halves, re-glued and touched up) and parts of the back have been over-sprayed too.” Estimate: £80100, selling for £147. And for someone who once enjoyed the music of Hair, was: Lot 8: A “preparation assisting to the condition of the hair according to the claim: ‘Giving it a beautiful & lively appearance and keeping it in curl in damp weather or during exercise.’ “Condition: Just has a smallish (4mm x 9mm) old chip mainly on the underside of the outer rim, and is otherwise mint (and because of the marbled design is mostly disguised from view). It was estimated at £400-500, but despite that, within an hour or two of the auc-

tion’s opening, the bid was at £610. It finally sold, days later, for £2,550 ($3,611), with 90 bids. Lot 9: A “J.E. STILING, NEWTON ABBOT,” fabulous building pictorial ‘Cherry & Areca Nut’ pot lid from this South Devon town featuring the 15thcentury ‘St. Leonard’s Tower’ in the centre. The ‘Clock Tower’ in Newton Abbot (as it’s referred to locally) was constructed in the 15th-century as part of a gothicstyle church and was the site of William III’s first proclamation in England. The adjoining nave was demolished in 1836 to improve traffic flows but the tower was saved by a local petition. “Condition: Has a large area of chips off the back rim in one area and a series of four smallish (3-5mm) chips in another area, also on the back rim, this time on the edge (with a very faint small (9mm) hairline from one of them on the side wall and is otherwise excellent (the two tiny black lines on the face edge are actual print). Estimate: £300-400. Sold for £850. Lot 10: “ST. PAUL’S,” a pleasing pictorial *areca nut tooth paste lid featuring this iconic London landmark. This being the scarcer smaller variant without the usual pronounced outer rim. Excellent quality print. (St Paul’s Cathedral on Ludgate Hill was designed by Sir Christopher Wren after the Great Fire of London (1666) fueled a major rebuilding program in London a few decades later.) “Condition: Just some patches of brown rust on the side wall edge (and some on the face), and an arched hairline bruise on the side wall. Estimate: £40-60, it sold for £135.

Now, if you have a sharp eye (and a good imagination), picture yourself walking in St. Paul’s, going ahead maybe forty feet, and finding a wooden chair. That’s where, a decade ago, I led Janet to be seated and, while about six other bottle collecting friends witnessed, I proposed marriage to Janet. (Thank goodness she said yes, or I’d have to rewrite this story.) FYI1: AA Auctions added: Invaluable help and support has been provided to these pot lid listings by the authors of the fabulous book Historical Guide to Advertising Pot Lids by Houghton, Layden & Taylor (£70 softback).

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FYI2: The ability (and pleasure) to look through 40-year-old auction catalogs is the result of having an extensive library of important auction catalogs and a ton of books relating to antiques in general and glass in particular, and, of course, being a packrat. (And thankfully having a patient wife.) FYI3: Information you can sink your teeth into. The internet says: “William Addis designed the more modern toothbrush in England around 1780. The handle was carved from cattle bone, and the brush portion was made from pig’s hair as well. In 1844, the first three-row bristle brush was designed. And, privydug tooth brushes are very collectible in England. Usually, the bristles are gone, but the bone handles survive.”

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According to the Library of Congress, natural bristles made from animal hair were still used until Dupont de Nemours invented nylon. Nylon started the development of the modern toothbrush in 1938. FYI4: Betel nut, also called *areca nut, is actually the seed from the fruit of the areca palm. Betel nut has a stimulant effect, just like drugs such as khat, amphetamines, and cocaine. No wonder the women often shown who used areca tooth product had such happy smiles.

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September 2021

Big News about a Big Jar

Mike Beardsley poses with the monster fruit jar.

Weird and impressive stuff still turns up — here is the latest! Ralph Finch reports

ike Beardsley of New York State writes: “Last week I turned up what may be one of the largest fruit jars ever made. This colossalwax sealer really has to be seen to be believed. It weighs in at a little over 22 pounds and has a capacity in excess of five gallons. I don’t know if it was made for actual use or if it is a ‘one off’ made as a ‘show stopper’ for a booth at a fair or exhibition? No idea, but it sure is impressive. “I jotted down a quick little story to go along with the discovery. I shared the jar with Doug Leybourne. It has never been reported to him. “In the attached picture I set a quart wax sealer next to our new behemoth for comparison. “Sure wish I knew the manufacturer. We find very few wax sealers here in central New York. When we do they are usually this cylindrical style stoneware in a brown glaze. These are one or two quart. Nothing like this guy and no handles of course. “A new discovery, yes, but this jar ticks off a lot of heretofore ‘unprecedented’ boxes. As such, it may be somewhat important? “No, this jar isn’t an amber Lafayette or a cobalt Beaver BUT it has proven that it can elicit similar gasps from those who

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have seen the photos. I’m pretty sure that this jar will be ‘breaking news.’ No one I’ve talked to has ever seen anything close.” AB&GC jar expert Tom Caniff of Steubenville, Ohio, who has been researching preserving products since, well, probably a week after John Mason* introduced his preserving jar lid commented: “Nope, never seen one of this size before, but I don’t know what more to say about it, except that I think that it was probably intended more for a commercial product than for home canning. “There are a lot of strange pottery jars out there, some with unusual closures, but I’m not sure that collectors of glass fruit jars are as interested in them as one might expect. I’ve written about the stoneware jars over the years but I’ve gotten less feedback from either glass or pottery jar collectors than I expected. Still, a nice unusual piece.” And there is no truth to the rumor that Tom’s first column was an actual interview with Mr. Mason … and I apologize for starting that rumor.

*FYI1: John Landis Mason (1832-1902) Patent 22,186, dated Nov. 30, 1858, was primarily for the use of exterior threads in the jar and a corresponding metal cap. Later patents (such as 102,913) improved upon this in various ways such as the addition of rubber rings. FYI2: Mike’s late father, Leigh, was one of the early and most impressive fruit jar dealers some 40-plus years ago. And while he could come up with incredible jars, he never really collected them. Well, he said that, but he did amass a great display of Mason 1858s in an amazing array of colors. Also, Mike’s delightful mother, Mary, had a nice array of 1800s baking soda jars. And of his lovely mother Mike recently added: “Mom is planning a 17-day river cruise in Europe in September. She wants to “See castles.” She has such spunk and drive for being nearly 91. I have a hard time keeping up with her.” Does anyone have anything to say about this impressive wax sealer? Please email rfinch@twmi.rr.com

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The behemoth makes a quart wax sealer look puny by comparison.

September 2021

A Blast Heard Across the Pond A cannon that’s primed to catch your attention Comments by Ralph Finch

emember Laurence Cooper? I’ve mentioned him before. He’s the London dealer of, well, incredible stuff, and has been a dealer since 1983! Over the last several decades, any visit to London demanded a visit to Laurence’s impressive shop along the Bermondsey antiques row, or anywhere he was *found. You might not be able to afford his price tags, but you are guaranteed to be awed by the quality and variety of incredible wares he always has. Laurence is an interesting and impressive dealer. I have continued to follow Laurence’s career — and his life and family — and even consider him a friend, although some three-plus decades ago he got upset with me when I described him as “the punk Brit dealer.” At that time, he had the style that was waaaaay younger than the averaged English, or even American, antiques dealer. The man has style, and taste. And his choice of wares remains unique. His website states: “The Antique Dispensary Ltd. was formed in 1998 and is a specialist source of exceptional antiques for the dealer and collector alike, with new finds constantly being added on a weekly basis. “I was an active collector of old bottles in my youth and from there my knowledge grew by wheeling and dealing at all of

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Londons Antique markets like Bermondsey, Camden Lock, Covent Garden and Portobello Road. “Today, I have an eclectic knowledge of many antique collectable fields. This has helped me to form a wide range of private collections in the last 35 years.” Recently, at his internet shop found at “www.theantiquedispensary.co.uk” was this great … whatever. Here is how Laurence described it: “A very rare pottery beaker advertising Garantisept antiseptic liquid. The graphics on this rare beaker show 1st World War artillery soldiers standing in a line of cannon. The quality has the feel of a Royal Doulton-made piece, but there is no official mark apart from the number 2085. No chips, cracks or restoration. Less than a handful known to date, so incredibly rare. Height 4.25, width 3 inches. C1915,” and priced at £395. ($556 in U.S. currency)” A reminder. A visit to Laurence’s website is like a tour through an always interesting museum. *I once found him sitting on a park bench. I had just attended a bottle show in Knoxville, Tenn., some 15-plus years ago, and Laurence was sitting there wearing short pants and flip-flops with $40,000 in his pockets. He was asking people he knew to take money from him

Shoot, can you imagine an image more unusual than this?

… to take to London to return to him later! “But I won’t be going to England for six months,” I said. Still, he handed me $2,000. He had just returned from Iowa, I believe, having attended an antique marble show. He said he had sold every one of the rare marbles that he had brought. I still don’t know why he was in Knoxville. Has it every been on anyone’s route to London? In the meantime, I asked U.K. historian John Ault if he had any information of this “Garantisept,” and he replied: “No further info on the beaker; L.C. says it all. “And, yes, Laurence does find some amazing quality items, I’ve had a couple off him in the past; top dollar. “He digs deep in his pocket to acquire them and this can be reflected in his prices, but quality always comes at a premium.”

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By John Panella and Joe Widman

NEAT BOTTLES This will be my last article on “Neat Bottles” that I personally own. Over the last few years I have written several articles on neat, unusual, special bottles that are different and more interesting than others because of their embossing. I would have to acquire more bottles of this type to write another article. That is hard to do. I’m sure that some of these have been in previous magazines, but I believe that they are worthy of this one, too. 1. “It Works Like a Charm” I wonder if this claim would be FDA approved? 2. “Happy Medicine Co.” One wonders what they included in their ingredients! 3. “Life Medicine Company” Take this medicine to give you life? 4. “Common-Sense Colic Cure” Is it common sense to take the medicine, or is it supposed to give you common sense? 5. “World Worm Candy” Couldn’t they think of a more appetizing name? 6. “Magic Healing Remedy” Don’t ask questions, it just magically heals. It has taken years to collect these bottles and others, like them, that I have written about. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. If you have a neat, unusual, or weird quack medicine bottle, we would love to hear from you. I can be reached at oldmedicines@yahoo.com Happy collecting!

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Articles inside

A Blast Heard Across the Pond

Deciphering A.M. Bininger, Part 2

Potlids Loaded with History

Classified Advertisements

Title Contender Packs a Punch

Letters to the Editor

The COVID Bottles of 2020

Show Calendar

Heard it through the Grapevine