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The History of Brewing in Tonawanda, New York begins on Page 12

Winter 2005

The official publication of the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors

Bottles and Extras Vol. 16 No. 1

The Best Bottle Collection in the WEST!!!

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Farley始s Ink Page 53 British Royalty Pot Lids Page 51

Wanted: Colored Hutchinsons Buy or Trade Highest Prices Paid

California • Eastern Cider Co. (Amber) • Paul Jeenicke, San Jose (Emerald Green) Colorado • C.A. Montag, Buena Vista (Amber & Green) Connecticut • Perkins Root Beer, Bristol (Amber) • W.H. McEnroe, New Britain (Amber) • Moriarity & Carbross, Waterbury (Amber) Georgia • Augusta Brewing Co., Augusta (Amber) Illinois • Independent Bottling Works, Chicago (Green) • Miller & Kluetsch, Chicago (Amber) • Chicago Consolidation Bottling Co., Chicago (Amber) • Peoria Seltzer Water (Cobalt) • Chas. Singer, Peoria (Amber) • Lohrberg Bros, Red Bud (Green) Indiana • K&C (Cobalt) • C.W. Arnold, South Bend (Cobalt) • Wyeth & Wyeth, Terre Haute (Amber) Kansas • H.E. Dean, Great Bend (Amber) Kentucky • The City Bottling Works, Louisville (Cobalt) • Geo. Stang, Louisville (Cobalt) Michigan • M Jos De Guise, Detroit (Amber) • Michigan Bottling Works J.W. Koch, Detroit (Amber) • Quackenbush Bros., Grand Rapids (Green) • C.O.D. Bottling Works, Jackson (Cobalt) • Property of Sprudel Water Co., Mt. Clements (Amber) • The Twin City Bottling Works, Chas. Klein, Prop. (Cobalt) Minnesota • Spa Bottling Co., St. Paul (Cobalt) Nebraska • Pomy & Segelke, Omaha (Amber) New Jersey • N. Masington, Camden (Amber)

New York • F.H. Berghoefer, Binghamton (Amber) • F.A. Jennings, Hudson (Cobalt) • Manor Bottling Works, New York (Lime Yellow) • Sand Altamont, NY (Cobalt) • Thompson & Stebbins, Rochester (Amber) • D.J. Whelan, Troy (Cobalt) Ohio • A. Dalin Ashtabula, Harbor (Amber & Cobalt) • Sandusky Bottling Works (Blue) • J.I. Marsh, Portsmouth (Amber) • Jos X Laube, Akron (Amber & Cobalt) • M.J. Tyrer, Newark (Apple Green) • The Consolidated Bottling Co., Lima (Cobalt) • Lake Erie Bottling Works, Toledo (Amber & Cobalt) • Miller Becker & Co., Cleveland (Olive Green) • Voelker Bros., Cleveland (Cornflower & Cobalt) Oklahoma • O.K. City Bottling Works, C.G. Frost (Amber) Pennsylvania • Jno. J. Bahl., Allentown (Green) • Goudie Mol & Co., Allentown (Green) • P.H. Reasbeck, Braddock (E. Green) • Johnson & Bros., Delta (Green) • J.C. Buffum & Co. City Bottling House, Pittsburgh (Cobalt) • Royal Bottling House, J Ungler, Pittsburgh (Amber) • J.W. Reis Ginger Ale, Laurel Street, Pottsville (Cobalt) • Ridgeway Bottling Works, R. Power (Cobalt) • F.J. Brennan, Shenandoah (Yellow) • Ashland Bottling Works, Ashland (Amber) • Johnson & Bros., Delta (Amber) • Phil Fisher, Pittsburgh (Citron) • Eagle Bottling Works, York (Amber) • Seeters Vighy & Carbonated Beverages, L. Cohen & Sons Pittsburgh (Amber & Citron) • Laffey & Harrigan, Johnstown (Cobalt) • Turchi Bros., Philadelphia (Citron) • J.F. Deegan, Pottsville (Various colors) South Carolina • Claussen Bottling Works, Charleston (Amber) Texas • Kennedy Bottling Works, Kennedy (Amber) Wisconsin • Lemon Beer, Noonan & Irmiger, Manitowoc (Amber) • Jos. Wolf, Milwaukee (Amber & Cobalt)

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Table of Contents Bottle Buzz................................................2 Recent Finds............................................3 FOHBC Officer Listing 2004-2006...........4 President’s Message...................................5 Regional News Reports..............................6 The History of Brewing in Tonawanda, New York (1867-1948) John P. Eiss.............................12 Patent Medicine Sculptures Cecil Munsey.............................18 The King Lives - in Memphis Andy Rapoza.............................23 Photographing Glass Bottles Charles S. Harris.......................24 “The Knockout Business” John Eatwell..............................26

Veterinary Collectibles Roundtable: Humphrey’s Veterinary Homeopathic Specifics Dr. Michael Smith..........................37 The Bad News and the Good News Dr. Dewey Heetderks......................40 Random Shots Robin Preston................................42 Medicines of the Holy Roamin’ Empire The Remediies of Reverend William S. Lunt Joe Terry........................................46

Two Corners in Time Barry L. Bernas.........................66 Spelling Counts - on eBay Cecil and Dolores Munsey.........72 Display and Advertising Rates.................73 Classified Ads.........................................74 Fed 4 Sale............................................79 FOHBC Show-Biz Show Calendar Listings............80

Collecting Owl Drug Store Stuff: Part III Jim Bilyeu......................................49 British Royalty Pot Lids Ben Swanson and Bruce Pynn.......51 Let’s Talk About Ink - Farley’s Ink Ed & Lucy Faulkner.......................53

Dr. Jayne’s Root Beer Alternative Donald Yates.............................28

The Dating Game: The Illinois Glass Company Bill Lockhart, Bill Lindsey, Dsvid Whitten and Carol Serr........54

The Best Bottle Collection in the West!

Charles E. Blake........................32

Picturing Those Pre-Pro Whiskey Men Jack Sullivan..................................61

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News, Notes, Letters, etc.

Send Buzz Notes to: Kathy Hopson, E-mail: kathy@thesodafizz.com or write: Buzz Notes, 1966 King Springs Road, Johnson City TN 37601

From Charles Harris, additional information answering a question from this editor regarding his “Photographing Bottles” article on page XX: For a source of a light table, mention the catalog from LIGHT IMPRESSIONS, P.O. Box 22708, Rochester, NY 146922708. They do carry light boxes (tables).

They also carry all kinds of photo supplies, archival supplies, etc. Also, some of the old printers and such businesses might have some used ones they’d be willing to let go of inexpensively.

Most of the light boxes do use florescent lights behind a frosted glass (and it may be possible to devise your own light box).

As for the base on which to set the bottles, I used a 4x6 block of wood that is covered with white Formica, which works fine. Your suggestion of a piece of glass on top of a box with a light underneath also works well - in fact, the photo of the Nursery Rhyme baby bottle may have been enhanced by that method.

For bottles that have to sit on the side to photograph, like those in the first photos, I used some “tacky goo” that I bought at Office Max that teachers stick pictures, drawings,etc. to the wall with. It is sticky and works really well. But, for extra safety, lay something soft around the support block - just in case.

From CatBecca.com Auctions: We are looking for individuals with access to databases / spreadsheets on all areas of collectibles, antiques, pottery and glass. We are also looking for individuals with specialized knowledge in all areas of collecting and antiques. This relates to a new project by CatBecca.com / CB Technologies. We need advisors, consultants and data input people Opportunities range from full-time employment to part-time board advisory seats. Some positions can include stock or royalties. www.CatBecca.com (260) 418-6576

Follow-up: Cecil - Just reading the latest Bottle and Extras, and your comments on the 1907 Coca-Cola Ad. I thought you might be interested in some additional details regarding the guaranty Although the guaranty statement was especially misleading when included in periodical advertising, the government required it to appear on product labeling.

The intent was to display Coke’s federally registered guaranty that their beverage was not adulterated or misbranded. It also implied that any dealer functioning merely as a sales agent would be provided immunity from charges filed against the manufacturer for adulteration or misbranding. A guaranty statement of this style (“Guaranteed under..”) was required on labels for processed food and drugs sold in the United States from January 1907 through December 1908. Because of the implication of government endorsement, however, the style was changed to “Guaranteed by (name of firm) under the Food and Drugs Act...” in January 1909. Complete removal of the guaranty statement from product labeling, shifting it to the bill of sale, did not occur until May 1916. The “guaranty” regulations had thus worked to Dr. Harvey W. Wiley’s disadvantage and great frustration for more than nine years.

Frank Sternad, R.Ph. Fulton, California

Bottles and Extras Dear Mr. Van Brocklin, I saw pictures of your very impressive display at the Louisville show on Reggie Lynch’s website. I am a member of the Potomac Bottle Collectors club in the Washington D.C. area, but originally from the west coast, and am trying to chase down information and/or bottles related to a couple of western establishments.

My great-grandfather owned and operated the brewery in Del Norte, Colorado, from approximately 18981913, after which I believe it was closed due to the impending onset of Prohibition.

Immediately prior to and during his tenure, it had several names: 1) 1893-1897 Del Norte Brewing Company 2) 1897-1899 San Luis Brewing Company 3) 1899-1913 San Luis Brewery According to Glen Preble, the only documented bottles from the brewery are from prior to his ownership. I am told these bottles are extremely rare and difficult to find, but I am still potentially interested in acquiring one.

I am most interested in finding a bottle or other memorabilia from the timeframe of my great-grandfather (Adolph Bielser)’s ownership of the brewery (1898-1913). During this time, the brewery specialized in Ulmer bottled beer, but also produced soda of all kinds and was a leading malt manufacturer for breweries in the region (Trinidad, Durango, and Silverton).

The only item I have seen is a glass from the brewery which exists in a private collection in Colorado (only two are known to exist). I have worked extensively with local historical societies and museums in the Del Norte area, and have obtained some photos, but no luck on other items so far.

After Prohibition, my greatgrandfather moved to the west coast, and worked for at least some time (1926 in the San Francisco city directory) at the Independent Soda Company. I would also be interested in acquiring a bottle, advertising, or other information/ memorabilia from the Independent Soda Company.

Any assistance you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Al Miller, Centreville, Va. E-mail: al.miller@gd-ais.com

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Recent Finds In the Fall issue of Bottles and Extras we reported that Delores Brawley had been the fortunate purchaser of a probable salesman’s sample from the Winkle Terra Cotta Company of St. Louis, Missouri. Just how fortunate a purchase was not established until after the show, when in the process of researching the find we contacted Bob Corbett, a St. Louis Historical Society member who has interest in the company. He reported that the Historical Society does not have a single marked sample in it’s collection.

The piece of terra cotta is marked "THE WINKLE TERRA COTTA CO / ST. LOUIS, MO. / CENTURY BUILDING " and appears to be a sample of one of the building crowns for which the company was famous.

The following information comes from a pamphlet written by Mimi Stiritz for an exhibit held by the Sheldon Art Gallery in St. Louis from February to May, 2000. This exhibit, entitled "The Winkle Terra Cotta Co. (St. Louis) Architectural Art From The Ambassador and Comet Theatres From The Skyscraper To The Movie Palace", provided a detailed look at the history and work of the company: "The American architectural terra cotta industry was still in its formative state in 1882 when the Winkle Terra Cotta Co., St. Louis’ first major manufacturer, began operation. Compared to brick, the manufacture of architectural terra cotta was far more complex and demanding. The industry required the expert talent of sculptors as well as moldmakers, draftsmen and ceramic chemists. Technicians experienced in the precision of drying and firing were also essential to the process. Efficient management was critical for meeting delivery schedules. In the past, many architects had been reluctant to use terra cotta because they believed it was inferior to stone. Some also held prejudice against a "dishonest" material which could imitate stone.

"Joseph Winkle (1837-1914), entered the industry armed with a

background few of the day could match. Trained as a potter in his native Staffordshire, England (a leading center of clay manufacturing), Winkle emigrated in 1857. He settled first in Ohio, then Pittsburgh where he opened a queensware pottery. St. Louis’ booming fire-brick industry drew Winkle to the city by 1874. He began work at the Laclede Fire Brick Co. Headed by James Green, the Laclede Co. was located along Manchester Road in Cheltenham, the hub of the city’s brick industry.

The Cheltenham area boasted rich deposits of fine clay and offered convenient railroad service for shipping.

"Winkle was joined in the new company by partners Alexander Hewitt and Andrew A. Hewitt, his English-born brotherin-law and nephew. The familymanaged firm was located in Cheltenham at 5739 Manchester Road. Early work consisted largely in filling orders for house trimming along with panels, cornices, and capitals for St. Louis’ moderatesize commercial building of the late 1880s. The company’s output expanded dramatically with the appearance of the tall office building. The display of Winkle’s work on Louis Sullivan’s Wainwright Building (1890-92) proved to be the catalyst for a new understanding of terra cotta’s potential. Between 1890-1897, the business quadrupled..... Products were shipped to points throughout the Midwest and as far west as Texas and Colorado. Winkle terra cotta embellished most of St. Louis’ tall brick office buildings as well as a variety of other building types."

Additional information regarding the Winkle Terra Cotta Company may be found at: http://www.webster.edu/ ~corbetre/dogtown/history/winklebrick.html.

Reference: The Winkle Terra Cotta Co. (St. Louis) Architectural Art From The Ambassador & Comet Theatres From The Skyscraper To The Movie Palace, Mimi Stiritz.

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Business & News The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors is a non-profit organization for collectors of historical bottles and related collectible items. Our primary goal is educational as it relates to the history and manufacture of historical bottles and related artifacts.

FOHBC Officers 2004-2006 President : John Pastor, 7288 Thorncrest Dr. SE, Ada, MI 49301; Phone: (616) 285-7604; E-mail: JPastor2000@msn.com First Vice-President : Gene Bradberry, P.O. Box 341062, Memphis, TN 38184; Phone: (901) 372-8428; E-mail: genebsa@midsouth.rr.com Second Vice-President : Cecil Munsey, 13541 Willow Run Road, Poway, CA 92064-1733; Phone: (858) 487-7036; E-mail: cecilmunsey@cox.net Secretary : Ed Provine, 401 Fawn Lake Dr., Millington, TN 38053; Phone: (901) 876-3296; E-mail: ed.provine@thyssenkruppelevator.com Treasurer : Alan DeMaison, 6583 Berkshire Dr., Mentor, OH 44060; Phone: (440) 255-3880; E-mail: violinbottle@aol.com Historian : Richard Watson, 10 S.Wendover Rd., Medford, NJ 08055; Phone: (856) 983-1364; E-mail: rewatson@bellatlantic.net Editor : Kathy Hopson, 1966 King Springs Rd., Johnson City, TN 37601; Phone: (423) 737-6710; E-mail: kathy@thesodafizz.com Merchandising Director : Kent Williams, 1835 Oak Terr., Newcastle, CA 95658; Phone: (916) 663-1265; E-mail: kent@altarfire.com Membership Director : Fred Holabird, 701 Gold Run Ct., Reno, NV 89511; Phone: (775) 851-0837; E-mail: fred@holabird.com Conventions Director : Wayne Lowry, 401 Johnston Ct., Raymore, MO 64083; Phone: (816) 318-0161; E-mail: JarDoctor@aol.com

Business Manager / Subscriptions: June Lowry, 401 Johnston Ct., Raymore, MO 64083; Phone: (816) 318-0160; E-mail: osubuckeyes71@aol.com Director-At-Large : Ralph VanBrocklin, 1021W. Oakland Ave., Suite 109, Johnson City, TN 37604; Home (423) 913-1378; Office: (423) 282-5533; E-mail: thegenuine@comcast.net Director-At-Large : Sheldon Baugh, 252 W. Valley Dr., Russelville, KY 42276; Phone: (270) 726-2712; Fax: (270) 726-7618; E-mail: shel6943@bellsouth.net Director-At-Large: Carl Sturm, 88 Sweetbriar Branch, Longwood, FL 32750-2783; Phone: (407) 332-7689; E-mail: glassmancarl@sprintmail.com Midwest Region Director : Rick Baldwin, 1931 Thorpe Cir., Brunswick, OH 44212-4261; Phone: (330) 225-3576; E-mail: rsbaldwin@worldnet.att.net Northeast Region Director : Larry Fox, 5478 Route 21, Canandaigua, NY 14424; Phone: (585) 394-8958; E-mail: brerfox@frontiernet.net Southern Region Director : Reggie Lynch, P.O. Box 13736, Durham, NC 27709; Phone: (919) 789-4545; E-mail: rlynch@antiquebottles.com Western Region Director : Bob Ferraro, 515 Northridge Dr., Boulder City, NV 89005; Phone: (702) 293-3114; E-mail: mayorferraro@aol.com Public Relations Director : Mike Polak, PO Box 303258, Long Beach, CA 90853; Phone: (562) 438-9209; E-mail: bottleking@earthlink.net

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President’s Message Winter 2005 Service and volunteerism: Two key elements that are crucial for a healthy and vibrant organization.

There is no greater example of exemplary service than that given to the Federation by Ralph VanBrocklin. I would to take this opportunity to thank Ralph for all of his hard work and dedication while serving as President of the Federation over these past two years. During Ralph’s tenure, the Federation faced and solved some significant challenges: • • •

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Selection of Kathy Hopson, our dedicated and hard working editor, to replace Dave Cheadle Stemming the fiscal tide of red ink and putting the organization back on more solid financial footing Spearheading the transition of our publication, Bottles and Extras to the beautiful, comprehensive and high quality magazine that it has become Reversing the stagnation or attrition of our membership base.

Under his leadership the Federation has enjoyed a rejuvenation of its membership roles (with a significant increase of more than two hundred new members!)

Ralph, on behalf of the Federation, I thank you for all that you have done and for the contributions that you continue to make for this organization.

I would also like to thank Norm and Junne Barnett for their tireless efforts and long-standing service to the Federation and to this hobby. Together, they have worked on countless projects and combined, their service has spanned several decades. Norm and Junne retired from the board effective this past August, but remain active in their local club (continuing to serve as Show Chairman and coordinators of the Midwest Antique Fruit Jar & Bottle Show).

Other dedicated members who have recently retired from the board, effective with the annual meeting this past August include Margie Williams, Jack Hewitt, and Tom Lines, all great supporters of this hobby. Thank you all for your valuable contributions and for your time that you have so selflessly given.

Without “new blood”, an organization becomes stagnant and ceases to evolve. As mentioned above, I am most pleased to report that over the past several years, membership in the Federation has increased significantly. If you are a new member to the Federation, I would like to thank you for your interest in the organization and welcome you to the group! I would especially like to encourage you to take part and enjoy the many benefits that membership has to offer including the subscription to Bottles and Extras, free “For Sale” advertising and “Wanted” ads, discounted pricing for “Early Bird” admission to the Federation sponsored National and EXPO Shows, assistance for publishing your book or manuscript and a forum for your research and articles, as well as many other benefits.

While we are on the subject of benefits, I would like to briefly mention a few projects that the Federation is currently working on for your benefit. The Board is in the process of exploring the feasibility, cost, and interest of providing liability insurance at reduced group rates to the Federation Affiliated Member Clubs. This insurance would primarily provide liability insurance for local club shows as well as other miscellaneous club functions that may arise during the course of a typical year (such as club meetings, picnics, etc.). We will have more on this to report following the January 2005, mid-year board meeting.

The 2005 National Show Committee is working diligently, laying the groundwork and making preparations for what promises to be an enthusiastic and exciting – well organized, and very full weekend of great bottles and activities. Please make your

President : John R. Pastor 7288 Thorncrest Dr. SE Ada, MI 49301 Phone: (616) 285-7604 E-mail: jpastor2000@msn.com

plans early to be a part of this fun-filled and exciting weekend. Plans for the souvenir program, a very special banquet (you will not want to miss), educational exhibits, seminars and specialty group meetings, are well under way. Watch for details and additional information in the months ahead.

The host hotel, the Amway Grand Plaza, and the new, state of the art Exhibition Hall at DeVos Place, are second to none. August in Michigan is a beautiful time of year and numerous activities abound. The picturesque Lake Michigan shoreline is an easy 30 minutes away with beautiful sandy beaches, boating, fishing, quaint coastal towns, and antique shops. Within just a few blocks of the Amway Grand Plaza and DeVos Place are several wonderful museums (including the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum), botanical gardens, the zoo and many great restaurants.

Connecting all of the elements of this message is the original theme: Service and volunteerism. At the EXPO in Memphis last August, I had a great conversation with a fellow collector. As the dust was settling and the curtain was lowering in the waning hours of another great EXPO, Liz and I were beginning to take down the Hall of Fame and Honor Roll Exhibits. A gentleman stopped by and simply thanked us for our part as volunteers involved in the hosting of the EXPO. He said, “We all like to go to the party, but someone has to throw it.”

It takes a lot of work to make these events happen - for you, our members! If you are willing to contribute your time and talent to your FOHBC, and specifically for the August 2005 National Show, please let us know. We could use your help to throw the party!

For additional information, dealer contracts or questions regarding hosting a specialty meeting for your group, please contact myself, John Pastor, by phone 616-285-7604, or E-mail: jpastor2000@msn.com. We will look forward to seeing everyone at the 2005 National, August 13 & 14, 2005!

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Northeast Regional News Larry Fox 5478 Route 21 Canandaigua, NY 14424 (585) 394-8958 brerfox@frontiernet.net

The Baltimore Antique Bottle Club The Baltimore ABC just enjoyed their annual Holiday Party on December 10th, whereby holiday music, a buffet dinner, “Bottle Bingo,” the presentation of the club’s annual Distinguished Service Award, prizes, presents and a performance by the club’s famous “Shattered Glass Chorus” highlighted the festive atmosphere.

The club’s 25th annual show and sale on March 6th will feature an all-Baltimore bottle display to commemorate the landmark event. See their website at www.baltimorebottleclub.org for more information about the club and show.

GVBCA Rochester, N.Y. The Board has decided to once again hold the Sow and Sale at ESL Sports Center on Brighton Henrietta Town Line Road. Last year was the first time this facility had been used. The facility came with some unexpected challenges, which will definitely be resolved for this year’s show. Ground level entrance and handicap access will be guaranteed. Yours truly has volunteered his services as dealer Chairman.

GBBC Buffalo, N.Y. The members of the Buffalo Club would like to thank all of those who supported this year’s show and sale. This means both those who displayed, manned tables and the general public who attended.

ESBCA Syracuse, N.Y. The 2005 Show will be at the same location as it has been for many-a-year.

In 2006, it will be at the Cicero American Legion, where there will be more space available for set up.

A comment about bottle shows and how they are scheduled: in October 2004 there were three shows held in Western N.Y. Two of them were held a day apart on the same weekend. All three were good shows but attendance was marginal.

Recently the Ohio Bottle Club was alerted that NASCAR was holding a major race the same weekend as the scheduled date for the Mansfield Show.

Consequently there were no rooms available that weekend for bottle enthusiasts. Hence, there was no choice but to change the show date. It was moved to April 29th and April 30th. This happens to be the weekend of the Mohawk Show at Herkimer County Fairgrounds near Utica, N.Y. - their show being Sunday on May 1. Mohawk usually has in the neighborhood of 50 dealers displaying on about 75 tables. Many of these dealers also do Mansfield. I am one of these dealers.

It is going to be extremely difficult in deciding which show I sacrifice.

Bottom line is this will have an adverse effect on one or both shows. I have asked Mohawk to see if they can schedule another date to help alleviate the complexity of this problem so many of us will be caught up in. Currently they are

Midwest Regional News

Joe Terry

P.O. Box 243 Bowling Green, Ohio 43402 (419) 686-0032 jiterry@wcnet.org To the Midwest Regional Federation Clubs: I cannot stress enough how I need

FLBCA Ithaca, N.Y. Show Chairman George Blaasch was very pleased with this year’s show.

The vendors brought some terrific merchandise. The gate was less than expected, but sales were still strong.

a separate report from each and every one of you. I have recently freed up a little of my time by dropping the president’s and web master’s position in my local group, the Findlay Antique Bottle Club. Still, I ask that you do your best to send in these reports.

Antique Bottle Club of Northern Illinois

Bottles and Extras weighing their options to see what, if anything, can be done. My thanks to the folks at Mohawk.

These are just two examples of scheduling dilemmas that come to mind because they have happened recently and I became involved in because they are shows I do. In the 60s, when the bottle frenzy seemed to take much of America by storm, it was a much different stage than the one before us today. There were numerous dumps and privies to be relieved of their treasures. Most of the merchandise on a sales table was dug, found in a barn, scavenged from a mom and pop antique shop [coops were thought to be something to help a farmer get a better market price for his products] or the merchandise was found in Grandpa’s cellar. Today table merchandise may very well have been through a specialty auction or bought at another show. The expense of hosting a show was more realistic and affordable. There were fewer clubs, collectors, bottle magazines, and shows.

Few people entertained the thought of making a living by being involved in anything bottle related.

I guess I am trying to say things have changed. I know most of us feel that we have adapted to all the changes. [Who does not own a computer, have Internet access, or buy and sell on Ebay?]

Would it be helpful if someone established a national database with show information, for example schedule dates, name, location, show chairman etc. I welcome any and all comments you have on this matter. I am sure you will hear more from me about show schedules in the near future. I know for some, this has been a dreadful thing to see in print. You have my apologies and I still have my integrity.

Sincerely, Larry Dorothy Furman has dedicatedly been sending along the club newsletter.

Bringing readers up to speed with club happenings, September’s meeting had 11 members present, Dan Puzzo presiding.

There was a nice show and tell, with Ron Neumann Sr. giving a talk on his preHutchinson soda collection of Chicago, aqua and cobalt beers. He brought a number of pontiled specimens, including a C. Sundell and Co., a G. Lomax, a Hedland and Co. and others. October’s

Bottles and Extras meeting was the sixth, with ten members present. This was acquisition night, where members could bring in the best finds of the past year. Winners included Dan Puzzo for the following categories: barbers and perfumes, bitters, liquors, medicines; Ron Neumann Sr. for beer, food, household, liquor (a tie with Dan), pottery, misc. non-glass, Dog of the Year, and Best overall; Ron Neumann Jr. for: pottery (a tie with Ron, Sr.); Pete Peterson for sodas and misc. glass related; and John Rowland for misc. non-glass (a tie with Ron, Sr.) Findlay Antique Bottle Club Findlay had their much anticipated show and sale in October. The crowd, while slightly less than last year, seemed more inclined to buy, and sales were reportedly brisk. Joe Terry reports finding more purchasable items at this show than in years past, and came away with a nice selection of Ohio medicines. Dealers were happy with the turnout and we received praise from many of the visitors to the show. The club has already voted to continue the show next year.

A few changes have been made in the club ranks. The website has been turned over to the willing and capable hands of member Marianne Dow, who is in the process of revamping the entire thing.

Give it a visit! New officers were elected in November, and we will report on that in the next issue of Bottles and Extras.

Until then, happy collecting!

First Chicago Bottle Club The Midwest Bottle News for September reported that the club had “Dug” and “Acquired” awards. John Panek won in the following categories: beers, foods, and medicines; Carl Malik in liquor and pottery (Best Overall Winner); Paul Welko in soda.

Summer acquisitions program in October had pieces brought in by John Panek, Craig Wright, Keith Leeders and Bob Harms. The issue also had several articles on honey, as September was National Honey Month.

Midwest Antique Fruit Jar and Bottle Club The Glass Chatter for September tells that the club has set the show dates for the next five years. The show and tell was of jars with embossing starting with the letter “J”. October’s show and tell was

Winter 2005 centered on embossing starting with the letter “K” making for a large showing of Kerr jars. There was also a story by Joe Coulson on “Go-with’s from The International Canning Contest 19311933”.

Kalamazoo Antique Bottle Club Tim Hayes is expanding his collection from flasks to the round-bottomed pill or purse bottles. He showed one of the BP Company bottles in an unusual honey amber. Most of those bottles are cobalt.

He’s hoping to have enough of the little bottles in different sizes and colors to display at next year’s national FOHBC show in Grand Rapids.

Scott Hendrickson and Chuck Parker found no less than five Drake’s Plantation Bitters in one pit. The showed a Canadian medicine embossed Northrop & Lyman / Toronto, Ont., a Dr. S.N. Thomas Electric Oil, a Saint Jakob’s Oel and a Reverend N.H. Down’s Vegetable Elixir.

Bill Johnson showed a light purplecolored milk glass bottle embossed MME. Robinnaire / Atlanta, Ga., and a nice bee hive pepper sauce bottle.

Featured in the newsletter was the story of Charlie Ross, a little boy who was kidnaped in 1874 and was never found.

The crime was not repeated until the 1920s with the Lindbergh child. The two crimes were almost a perfect parallel in their similarities.

Minnesota’s First Antique Bottle Club The Antique’s Roadshow made a visit to the St Paul area, giving a thrill to many residents, including several members of the club. September’s The Bottle Digger Dope featured a follow up article on the March 2003 story on O.M. Laraway. Two crocks are known, an unusual and rare eight-gallon and a more modest threegallon. October’s issue had a number of articles and letters, including a short article on Blossom’s Badger Ale from Milwaukee. There is only one known, in black glass, and believed to date from the 1840s.

Ohio Bottle Club In October, the Ohio Bottle Club meeting program featured a seminar given by Brian Jordan, who is a high school senior from Tallmadge, Ohio.

Brian is a phenomenal young scholar and authority on American politics, and he has even published a book about President

7 Franklin Pierce. He has achieved national recognition with his knowledge and research in politics, and his aspiration is to become a college professor after completing his college education with a major in American History. We envision that we will hear more about Brian and his accomplishments in the future.

Here is an important “heads-up” about the Ohio Bottle Club’s 2005 Spring Show in Mansfield. Ohio! Due to conflicts in the Mansfield area during the show’s usual May time frame, the 2005 show will be held on April 29-30, 2005. Please mark your calendars and get your contracts in, as the OBC looks forward to hosting another great show and dinner on Friday evening following setup.

The Ohio Bottle Club extends its warmest wishes to Bob Gilbert, who has been a pioneer in the bottle hobby in Ohio for many years. Bob and his family operated a bottle shop in Waynesville, Ohio for many years, and he was an avid supporter of the OBC’s shows, as well as others throughout the region. Bob “retired” as the shop owner in the fall of 2004 and moved to an assisted-living facility near Dayton. We hope that we will see Bob at area shows, and that bottle friends will keep in touch with him!

West Michigan Bottle Club Catching up on news from Jenison, the WMABC had their show and sale on September 18th in Muskegon. There is presently no report on the condition of that show. Any thoughts or comments anyone?

The Bottle Club News had some interesting articles, one on a Belleville, Illinois collector and one on OTC curealls.

Addendum – Gossip from all clubs shows a positive response to the National Show in Memphis. Many are looking forward to next years show.

A note from Rick Baldwin, the director for the Mid-west region: Federation-affiliated clubs in the Midwest Region are reminded to please compose and submit their desired inclusions for the Midwest Regional News column in a timely manner to the regional editor and/or to Kathy.

The deadlines for the editor’s needs are listed on the www.FOHBC.com website, so please time your inputs sufficiently in advance to appear in the publication.

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Winter 2005 square, 14-foot-deep pit that they’d started on a previous dig and run out of time, just when they were beginning to find older bottles. The property owner had granted them permission to continue.

By dark, they had yet to reach the bottom, but had buckets of bottles sitting behind the hole.

They covered the dirt extracted from the hole with tarps because the weather forecast called for rain. It was correct. The next morning, the two attacked the pit and figured to be done by noon.

“But we didn’t take into account how much work it took to pull out the fivegallon buckets filled with dirt, rocks, bricks, broken glass, etc. Our digging became slower and slower as the day wore on as we were forced to take longer and longer breaks to rest our weary bodies,” Fletcher said.

They finished the pit about dark. Their finds included 20 different Boonville drug store bottles, various patent medicines, food bottles, fruit jars including two wax sealers and a William Jennings Bryan shot glass from his 1896 run for office.

After refilling the hole, using bags of garbage to make up the deficit, they returned the next morning to replace the sod, only to learn it had rained again and the hole had again sunk. They remedied the situation by digging out some of the dirt, throwing in some more garbage bags, and then refilling it. (“I bet the garbage men were puzzled that week,” Fletcher added).

Color photos were downloaded to accompany each article.

Roberta Knight, editor for the Tennessee Valley Traders & Collectors newsletter, reports in the October issue that the new club’s first show was successful. She credited show chairman Bill Henderson for his “above the call of duty” work.

Her husband, Randall, penned a history of the Knoxville, Tenn., Coca-Cola Co. Here are a few excerpts: “In 1899, the first contract to bottle Coca-Cola was signed. Benjamin F. Thomas and Joseph B. Whitehead, both of Chattanooga, bought the bottling rights from Asa Chandler for the exclusive territorial contract. This covered most of the United States.

“The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Chattanooga opened in 1899 and shipped

Southern Regional News

Bill Baab 2352 Devere Street Augusta, GA 30904 (706) 736-8097 riverswamper@comcast.net

Johnnie Fletcher, editor of the Oklahoma Territory News and president of the Oklahoma Territory Bottle & Relic Club, hadn’t had much digging success since his Montana trip netted one marble. He brought home zero keepers after digging in southeast Kansas.

Things went from worst to first after a trip to St. Joseph, Mo., with Dan Moser and Kenny Burbrink. After digging into an 1890s brick-lined privy nine feet across and 18 feet deep, Moser discovered an older privy that had been cut through by the brick-liner.

That pit dated to the 1870s and yielded two previously unknown St. Joseph whiskey flasks, one a pint and the other a half-pint (REEME, STEWART & CAHM /WHOLESALE LIQUORS / ST. JOSEPH, MO.) “That got our bottle juices flowing and reminded us why we like our hobby so much,” Fletcher writes in his November 2004 newsletter.

That issue featured digging stories by Richard Carr (with Fletcher, Burbrink, Rick Carte and Jerry Callison) in Blue Rapids, Kan., complete with Memorial Day weekend tornadoes, and another by Fletcher (with Ed Tardy) in Boonville, Mo. The Blue Rapids dig netted the quintet a Union Clasped Hands historical flask and an amber Double Eagle historical flask, both in perfect condition. Actually, Jerry was able to keep his Clasped Hands and Kenny his Double Eagle, each paying the other diggers a reasonable amount of money for their share.

The diggers next moved to Waterville, with finds including an emerald green Hotchkiss & Sons Congress Water from Saratoga Springs, N.Y., an eight-sided Dr. Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry, a crock cone ink and a great swirl marble. Two rare drug stores — a Wm. Coulter / Druggist / Blue Rapids, Kan., and a W.J. Rommel / Druggist / Waterville, Kan., neither of which Johnnie had in his extensive collection. Now he owns both!

Fletcher and Tardy attacked a six-foot-

Bottles and Extras the first bottles to Knoxville by rail. In 1900, Whitehead and Thomas divided the territory. While Thomas stayed in Chattanooga, Whitehead moved to Atlanta and formed the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Atlanta. Because these two companies owned the rights to bottle Coke, they were known as parent bottlers. Contracts to bottle Coke were made with the parent bottlers and not with the Coca-Cola Company.”

Several members of the Horse Creek Bottle Club attended the Savannah, Ga., show which seemed smaller this year.

There were some ugly incidents when a person, or persons, unknown stole bottles from several dealers.

One victim said if he ever caught the thief, he’d “make him eat the bottle he stole!”

For the most part, bottle dealers are collectors, too, and like to circulate from table to table, not only looking for items for their collections, but to greet old friends and catch up on the news. Unless they’re accompanied by a wife or other relative, they leave their own tables unguarded and, until this show, thought nothing of it.

Sadly, that’s going to change because of the action of some lowlife sneak thief.

Old friend Tom Hicks of Eatonton, Ga., and his wife, Mabel, were among the victims, losing a pint Washington-Taylor historical flask. Hicks, who is successfully recuperating from open heart surgery, said that six dealers had reported thefts.

This editor gave the Horse Creek club program in October with a discourse on Dr. William H. Tutt, a native of Augusta who was graduated from the Medical College of Georgia at the age of 21 in 1843.

Dr. Tutt started his medical life as a physician, but later became a pharmacist, manufacturing a number of patent medicines ranging from Golden Eagle Bitters to Sarsaparilla & Queen’s Delight.

Aqua examples of the latter embossed NEW YORK as well as AUGUSTA, GA., are known, since he established a factory in New York City prior to the Civil War. Eric Warren of Lexington, S.C., who is a member of our club as well as the South Carolina Bottle Club, visited during the meeting. He could hardly wait to show off finds he’d made under the eaves of an old building: Eleven South Carolina Dispensary bottles including seven with original labels. Five had single

Bottles and Extras X designations and two had double X. One of his bottles was manufactured by the California Glass Co. The South Carolina Bottle Club’s 32nd annual show in Columbia will be held Feb. 18-19, 2005.

Member Donald Christopoulo of New Ellenton, S.C., brought in a mini jug on which was scratched Compliments of / Jones Bros. & Carr / Manfrs. of / High Grade / Cider & Vinegar / Louisville, Ky. It had lip chips and was missing the handle. Mini jug authority Bill Wrenn of Watkinsville, Ga., said the mini jug was a common variety (maybe in Louisville, but not Augusta!). It was worth perhaps $20 in that condition, he said.

Historian Harvey Teal of Columbia, S.C., spoke on local South Carolina flasks at the club’s November meeting and this writer will wrap up the year with a talk about Augusta soda water manufacturer E. (for Edward) Sheehan at the December meeting.

Teal, who is working on a book about the glass and stoneware containers used during the South Carolina Dispensary system (1893-1915) and will include a chapter on local flasks known in his state, has been collecting bottles since 1959.

“I started collecting dispensary bottles and my brother found a D.H. Goble / Columbia, S.C., flask with an embossed elephant. I thought that was neat so I traded him a pint S.C. Dispensary flask with palmetto tree and he was tickled to death,” Teal said.

He now has 49 local flasks in his collection “and there are less than two dozen others known. One recently surfaced from Bamberg, S.C., that wasn’t on my ‘radar screen.’ It was dug by a member of my family, but when I tried to buy it, he said it was going to be sold on eBay. I was the only bidder and got it for $1,500!”

Teal said local S.C. flasks date from the 1870s to July 1, 1893 when the state started the dispensary system, effectively putting other whiskey dealers out of business. “All of the flasks are from the post-Civil War era and through my research I’ve been able to verify only one date — 1878.

“I soon discovered which towns had local or merchants’ flasks and which did not. The seaport town of Charleston did not have a local flask although other types of bottles abound. I haven’t figured out why. Flasks exist from Greenville,

Winter 2005 Spartanburg, Chester, Winnsboro and Columbia, among others. Most are unique or perhaps just two are known. There are more from Columbia — six — than from anyplace else.

“Glass houses sent drummers to the merchants and also had catalogues showing their wares. They’d perhaps offer the merchant a deal if he’d buy a gross of them, pointing out it was a good way to advertise himself and his business. I’ve found that if a quart flask exists, there also will be pints and half-pints.”

Just who made the flasks? Teal said he’s not been able to identify any of the glass houses whose initials are to be found on some, but not all, of the bottles.

“There’s an A.C. Co., a C.G.M., company and a B.B. & Co. These have got to be from the midwest or east since there were no glass houses south of Richmond, Va., during that era,” he said.

Many of the flasks have anchors embossed on their backs, “perhaps a continuation of historical flask motifs.

Most of the flasks are strap-sided and all have slug plates bearing the merchant’s name and any message.”

Club president Geneva Greene was contacted by an elderly Augusta woman who said she had some bottles for sale.

Among others, Geneva bought a teal Henry Kuck soda, a light blue Ebberwein soda and a cobalt John Ryan 1866, all from Savannah; a mint olive case gin; an aqua Augusta Ice & Beverage Co. (Augusta Brewing Company’s name after statewide prohibition in the 19-teens); a 3-Centa from Augusta with Lime Cola embossed on the base; straight-sided Augusta Cokes; a Murray Hill milk bottle from Augusta, and mint Augusta drug stor bottles from C.T. Goetchius & Co., and Summerville Drug Co., “The Hill.” There were more than 100 bottles in the collection, she said.

Janie Raper draws double duty as the Raleigh (N.C.) Bottle Club secretary and editor of its newsletter, Bottle Talk.

In her November issue, club president Sterling Mann gave members a printout of a neat 2004 Best Awards categories, including Best Bottle purchased under $50, Best Bottle purchased over $50, Best Item purchased under $50 and Best Item purchased over $50.

She continued the club spotlight on members, with Whitt Stallings this time.

He is known as “The Master of the One Dollar Bottle.” A glossary of terms in the

9 hobby was continued. Example: ROOT. Root Glass Works in Terre Haute, Ind. Was later bought out by Owens Illinois in 1930. A bottle with ROOT on it dates 1909-1932.

The club also raffles off bottles and bottle collecting-related items during the meeting. Janie downloads color photos and at the end features a Photo Gallery of club members.

In the December issue, she picked up a news item from the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer that told of the Cott Corporation expanding its Wilson, N.C., plant. Cott, world’s largest maker of store-brand soft drinks (tomorrow’s future collectibles?), is adding a 200,000-square foot addition to its 128,000-square foot facility. Cott makes and distributes retailer-brand soft drinks for Wal-Mart, Safeway and others.

She downloaded four color photos showing December guest Karen Bethane, a J.D. Aaron bottle from Mt. Olive, N.C., a framed classic 7UP sign and a group of club members talking about everything except politics. She also added a color shot of Pepsi-Cola guru Donnie Medlin holding that sign. He also owns the Mt. Olive bottle. Medlin was the subject of the Member Spotlight.

Roger Radeck was elected president of the M-T Bottle Collectors Association Inc., of DeLand, Fla., for the coming year, according to the Diggers Dispatch newsletter edited by Bill and Sally Marks.

Other officers: Charles Benton, vice president; Sally Marks, secretary; Bill Marks, treasurer. Directors are H. Grady Rowell, George C. Scott, William J. Dreggors and alternate director Whitey McMillan. Historian is Irene Dreggors, program chairman is Douglas Melvin, publicity chairwoman is Sally Marks, raffle chairman is Wade Driggers, digging chairman is Scott and 2005 M-T Bottle Show chairwoman is Maureen Pallasch.

Longtime club member Mrs. Carl (Sara) Benson died of cancer Oct. 31, 2004. She and Carl, pioneer Florida bottle collectors who helped organize the Orlando and DeLand clubs, were married 55 years.

Much of the Markses’ bottle collection is packed away and so it was with a great and happy surprise that Bill found a Tampa Brewing Company Hutchinson with embossed alligator inside a box marked $8. He proudly displayed the bottle at the club’s show and tell session in October. The bottle brings the mid-

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three figures if sold. He also showed a 6-ounce green bottle with a “7” embossed on the neck and Jacksonville on the base.

Member Less Stoll displayed a six-sided, 7-inch clear Pepto-Mangan (Gude), later selling it at auction to June Bower.

Bill also downloaded 18 photos, six from the Savannah bottle show of Oct. 23, and the rest from his club’s picnic and election of officers on Oct. 9.

Ever busy Reggie Lynch of Durham, N.C., is gradually catching up on his outstanding Southeast Bottle Club newsletters. The latest is dated August/ September 2004.

Reggie does a wonderful job and the newsletter’s layout makes everything easy to read.

Fred Cook’s neat little book, Brunswick, Ga., Blob Top Bottle Book, is featured in this issue’s Book Corner. Each bottle is illustrated with measurements,

rarity, color and stopper information.

Books can be ordered from the author at 126 Sutherland Dr., Brunswick, GA 31515 for $7 and that includes postage.

We hope Fred will expand the book to include other Brunswick bottles like crown tops and applied color labels.

Reggie and his digital camera were busy during the FOHBC Expo in Memphis. Fourteen of the more than 60 color photos are featured in the newsletter.

Then Reggie added six more color shots (including a dog wearing a pink tutu!) in his coverage of the Southeast Bottle Club Fall Festival at the N.C. State Fairgrounds. Twenty-four recent finds from eBay were next, followed by four shots made at the Raleigh Bottle Club meeting. That’s nearly 100 color shots in all and readers can go to www.antiquebottles.com/southeast/ aug04.html and enjoy it as much as this

regional editor did.

One of the eBay finds was a bluestenciled South Carolina Dispensary stoneware jug that brought $3,601.

Mary Quesada Harden, who edits the newsletter for the Antique Bottle Club of North Florida, confesses she’s been bitten by the paper weight collecting bug.

So she included a brief history on the objects in her November/December issue.

Her sources included the book, Glass Paperweights, by James MacKay, and other source material.

She also quoted prices from the sale of nearly 3,000 paper weights offered online through eBay. The highest price paid was $2,037 for a Paul Ysart Magnum millefiori weight. The ten highest prices garnered during the sale were all more than $400, she reports.

days clean bottles and jars were worth their weight in gold!

Everybody had stained bottles on their shelves and yearned for clean ones. The earliest were the buffers who would buff the outsides of bottles but it was a rough treatment and much glass and embossing was lost. Then the tumbler with copper chips was finally invented. Who invented it, anyway?

Anybody know?

Well, I only heard about it. Then I heard about a machine that was built and a little how it was done. So, I started to experiment.

The first thing I did was read a book about mining, if you can believe it. The tumbling of stones against one another is how big rocks get reduced to little rocks. Then the little rocks are put in a big tube with huge ball bearings and the balls finish the grinding. In the book it said how the balls were most efficient and that’s the speed I set my bottle cleaning machine up to turn.

Been doing it ever since.

Oh, say, Ned, I was always totally aware you were only kidding in your last piece. I loved it to death and laughed out loud several times over it. I hope nobody else was really taking you seriously. I know I wasn’t. I thought it was delightful. Of course, your partners are welcome to come back and give you a good what-for. Why, you might even deserve it, heh heh, and we’ll welcome it and laugh at that too. All in good fun.

Let’s dig into the mailbag and see what

everybody has been doing, what say??

Western Regional News

Scott Grandstaff Box 409 Happy Camp, CA 96039 (530) 493-2032 scottg@snowcrest.net

There comes a time in every reporter’s life when it’s time to buckle down and get your column going. I’m determined not to be the last one in, again! (Kathy says Hooray!) Why if you all were to pop on over to my place I’d be tempted to get out a straw hat and a cane!

Hey, what you been up to lately? Finding anything cool? I wish I could regale you of finds large and small but it’s been pretty dry here of late as far as new shelf aquisitions.

Who is hiding the groovy miniatures?

I’ve been cleaning some nice stuff. Got more to go in, too. If you haven’t ever cleaned bottles you ought to put yourself together a single station setup and try it. It’s like opening presents. You pull out the patient and are greeted with fresh brilliant sparkle. Of course, not always. Lots of times you’ll need to put it back on for another run but still, it’s fun. It doesn’t cost much of anything if you build your own machine and scrounge for parts. I’ll be glad to help anyone get started with my best advice and experience.

You know, my memory goes back to before bottle cleaning was invented. In those

Bottles and Extras

Tulare.....dit, dit, ditt da dit.... Sequoia AB&CC, The Bottleologist.

First off, I see it’s Wilma Beutler sent in the newsletter. Hi Wilma, didn’t think I looked that close at these things, did ya?

Then, oh no! Barbara Hill on the sick list with a broken hip? Barbara, yuck, hope to hear you’re up and at ‘em soon!

As of the printing, 65 tables had already been sold. By the time I’m writing this the show has come and gone. Seems kind of odd knowing that somehow. Hope it was a great time and I’m sure it was and we’ll hear about it soon.

San Francisco... Golden Gate HBS, The Corker.

Pres Gary Antone sez, “Hey, there’s a San Jose bottle club!” No kidding, Gary?

Hmmmm. and they’re leaving us out of the what for? Hold it! I want to see. There’s talk of a newsletter and everything. Further, plans for the upcoming show next spring are heating up. I see a reprint of an old article on H.J. Heinz by Russ and Kitty Umbraco.

Ahh, Russ and Kitty, one of a kind, times two.

Comin’ right at ya, Colorado and the Dump Diggers Gazette.

Say, folks. There must be the Fort Knox of newsletters here this time, Rebecca! Must have 9 pieces of tape holding it together.

Hey, did I do something last time, hmmmm??

The club is considering projects, like

Bottles and Extras setting up displays around the area where traffic is high. A nice travelling educational display of local and national interest.

Libraries and other public buildings being the target areas.

Best of luck, guys! This is a noble and worthwhile endeavor it seems to me.

Luck and Pluck Figural collector Kaye Baxter brought a Joan of Arc figural to share and two lobster figurals, one of which was sun-colored amethyst. I can’t remember seeing a lobster figural. I’ve got an oyster and seen clams.

Wonder what other seafood figurals are out there?

OBCA, The Stumptown Reporter, Oregon.

Holy Mackerel, Ben went digging in blackberries. If you aren’t familiar with our blackberry vines in the Pacific NW, let me elucidate you. These things can go over an inch thick at the base, ten feet tall and with long, razor-sharp thorns that have a tendency to stab you deep and then break off the fragile tip where you can’t hardly dig it out with a flashlight and a chainsaw! This is one dedicated digger!

Rod tells of going to the Antiques Roadshow when it visited Portland. The $10 oil lamp he’d picked up in a shop was certified to be an 1840s Sandwich Glass example and in the neighborhood of 1,000 bucks.

Bill (our editor Bill Bogynska; say, how do you pronounce that, Bill?) and family were at a church parking lot sale and three 25-cent bottles appeared under a table.

Two were Portland Hutches and the third didn’t even attract attention. Until on the way home when the 11-year-old son was trying to read the embossing which turned out to be Dr. Vanderpool’s SB Cough and Consumption Cure!! Whaaahoo!

One of our local town characters for many years was a fellow named Ozzie.

Ozzie was a short cheery man who slowly chewed big, long cigars, never lighting them and walked extremely bowlegged so much you could spot him from a mile away. When asked, “Hey Ozzie, what ya up to?” he only had one answer and it was always the same.

I’m goin’ to.................

Reno, Reno ABC, The Digger’s Dirt.

There was a slide program The Bitter Past, with Bonnie Mclane’s expert commentary of the Elvin Moody collection.

I’d have loved to seen that!

Eight members brought fine displays to share, too.

Marty Hall was involved in fighting the

Winter 2005 forest fire near his home and was actually blown off his feet when a propane tank exploded. No serious injuries though.

Whew, close one! He had his bottles all packed and ready to go in case evacuation was ordered.

The Antiques Roadshow came to Reno, too, on its circuit and several club members brought stuff. We’ll all have to be on the lookout to see familiar faces and I hope we do, cause usually it’s the big bucks finds that make airtime.

Loren Love and a partner did some digging in Virginia City. It seems Loren was having lunch at the senior center and happened to sit next to a gentleman who owned three lots in the old town. How cool is that? About 100 keepers found their way to the surface, but many great and beautiful bottles had been broken when the holes were originally filled in with big rocks.

Las Vegas AB&CC, The Punkinseed.

Say, dig this! I’m looking at a small envelope already self-addressed tucked into the newsletter. Under the flap is a short form for vital statistics, below that the annual membership rate. Just fill out, add dues and mail. How easy is that? Nice idea, Dottie.

Gold, clipper ships and whiskey.

Here we have a nice recounting of those round-the-horn clipper ships, the newly invented greyhounds of the seas when the gold rush was boiling hot. And of the “miner’s medicine” and the great bottles transported to our hungry and desperately in need of lubrication miners and others here in the early days of the west. And what a time it was.

Conversations on the front porch.

Did you know Dick and Dottie have a nickname? It’s the “Itchy Feet Daughertys!”

Remembrance of fine company on great travels and old friends remembered in the soft light of sunset on the porch are shared in this story. It’s lovely, soft and warmed my heart to read it, Dottie. Thank you.

Phoenix! AB&CC, The AtoZ Collector.

Hey Patty, I see the club has started letting club members list spare bottles and things they have for sale on the club website.

Sounds like a cool idea and will generate more traffic to the site. Except I can’t find the web address. But watch for it, gang.

Colored Bottles, by Bryan Grapentine.

Bryan tells us of collecting colored bottles. No complaint from me! Y’all know I love color. The usual price times ten and higher is common for many rare bottles in color, he tells us true enough. The most popular color being cobalt, and other shades

11 of blue including a beautiful sapphire.In his collection is a Sandwich cologne that appears green with back light and blue from the front! [See article about Bryan’s collection beginning on page 30.]

In my own collection is a tiny Chinese snuff bottle that is mostly blue. I’m saying mostly because the color of this particular one is such that if you just set it out, as the day passes every hour it appears to be a slightly different color.

Speaking again for myself, not to be overlooked are many other bottles, dirt common in aqua, that let the poor collector (meaning me) be had for a price even I can live with. I have always looked for interesting specimens of common bottles.

Say, does anybody have a Scott’s Emulsion or Hood’s Sarsapirilla in color they’d let go?? I’ve still got a hole in my house waiting for either of these but especially an early applied top, long neck Scott’s in any other color but aqua.

Internet Auction Results.

Wickenburg Dairy Qt., $295. Wheelock Roosevelt Dam souvenir plate, $129.

Norton Dairy 1/3 pt., Phoenix, $8.

Something for everyone!

1914 motorcycle tag, $262...gulp!

November Program. Antique tools. Bill Jordan and Bob Killbarger will present the club’s first foray into the world of antique tools. I love it. You guys do good now, hear?

We need to spread the word that old tools aren’t just rust ‘n dust! As you might be able to guess, I like tools, too. Drop me a line and let’s talk.

The Whittlemark, LAHBC. Signpost in the newsletter...Programs?

We don’t need no Stinking Programs! But, uh, we could use some good ones. Contact Val or Robert. Cool!

Memphis, Expo 2004, by Rich Tucker.

Hey Rich, nice to meet you through this report. It was very lively and you certainly were making the rounds, new buddy. A waltz down Beale street and a trip through Graceland started it off. Rich had heard of a great collection of flasks being dispersed by that well-known drool merchant, Jim Hall, and went to see for himself, snagging a tasty puce Washington-Taylor. He sat in on Richard Watson’s bitters talk and spent some time with Dick after the presentation.

Got a couple goodies at the auction, too. The simple ending of this tale says so much in so few words.

This sure is a great hobby.

Amen, Rich

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The History Of Brewing In Tonawanda, New York (1867-1948) 533 Niagara Street, Tonawanda, New York

by John P. Eiss Looking at a slice of history across time can give us a glimpse into history as a whole.

The Cities of Tonawanda and North Tonawanda are located just north of Buffalo, New York, where the Erie Canal meets the Niagara River. Because of their location and large deep-water port, the Tonawandas began to emerge as a lumber and shipping center in the 1840s. Lumber came from Michigan, Wisconsin and Ontario, Canada. The lumber was then transferred from great lakes cargo ships to canal boats and shipped to the nation’s eastern coastal cities. A large and growing labor pool was needed to work on the lumber docks and in the lumber mills.

German, Prussian and Alsatian immigrants flocked to the Tonawandas, by way of the Erie Canal, to fill the many available jobs on the docks. A large saloon and red light district grew up on the Erie Canal along North and South Canal Streets, catering to the needs and wants of these immigrant workers, lake sailors and canal boatmen. In the late 1890s the Village Fathers made a mostly failed attempt to clean up the area including changing the name of South Canal Street to South Niagara Street.

Nearby Buffalo was a large brewing center, with over 35 breweries operating in 1872 alone. The Tonawandas had only one brewery, operated over an 81-year span, under several different names and owners.

Author’s Note: The story of brewing in the Tonawanda’s can only be told because of Prosper Peuquet, the brewery’s longest serving brew master, and his grandson Leon Peuquet. Prosper kept extensive notes on the brewery’s activities during the many years he worked there, and Leon was the brewery’s unofficial historian.

Much of the information gathered for this article came from these two men.

Lithograph of The Tonawanda Brewery, Circa 1900 (HST)

Prosper Peuquet was born in Belfort, Alsace, France in 1845. At the age of 12 he came to America with his family.

Prosper’s father died soon after and when his mother remarried, he went to live with the George Zent family. It is believed that George Zent operated a brewery on Main Street near Ellicott Creek in Williamsville, N.Y. during the 1860s.

George Zent moved with his family and Prosper Peuquet to the city of Tonawanda in1867. Several factors must have appealed to the businessman in George Zent. Shipping costs were relatively inexpensive on the Erie Canal.

There was an unlimited supply of fresh water from the Niagara River. In winter, ice was available from the canal and nearby Two Mile Creek. Last and most important, beer was the staple daily drink of the new and growing immigrant work force. Providing that beer locally rather than shipping it from Buffalo and elsewhere was looked on as a good business opportunity by George Zent.

George Zent Brewery, 1867-1883 George Zent built his brewery at the northeast corner of Hinds and South Canal Streets, across from the Erie Canal and Niagara River, in the Town of Tonawanda. The brewery he built was a large wooden barn-like structure with two arched stone cellars for ice storage.

Prosper Peuquet learned the brewing craft from George Zent and became the brewery’s longest serving brew master.

Ice was harvested from nearby Two Mile Creek and the Erie Canal. The water supply came from the Niagara River, pumped through a pipe built over the Erie Canal. The brewery had a capacity of 6,000 barrels per year.

“Dock gangs” unloaded ships along the

miles of docks on the Niagara River in the Tonawandas. The gangs would receive two breaks a day to eat. The beer wagon from the brewery delivered a barrel of beer to each gang to drink during their breaks.

One gang refused to drink beer and was called the “Temperance Gang.” Drinking

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beer during work breaks was a normal practice of the times. In Buffalo, boys would bring growlers (small metal pails) of beer to the factory workers to drink during their breaks.

Soda pop was probably produced and sold at the brewery during the hot summers when lager brewing operations were not possible. Evidence for this is the existence of eight-ounce blob top bottles bearing the name “G. Zent, Tonawanda N.Y.” The bottles were probably made by the nearby Lancaster Glass Co. Niagara River Brewing Co., 1883-1893 In 1883 George Zent sold his brewery and moved back to Williamsville, N.Y. The brewery was purchased by an investment group, including Chris Schwinger as president, Dr. H. B. Murray as vice-president and Martin Riesterer as treasurer. Mr. Riesterer was also president of the German American Savings Bank in town. Prosper Peuquet remained as brew master and Lucius Zent was hired as bookkeeper. Prosper now lived at 274 S. Canal Street, a couple of blocks from the brewery.

The new owners remodeled and modernized the brewery over the next couple of years. The brewery employed twelve to fifteen men in the early 1880s.

This included drivers for their three beer delivery wagons. The bottling of beer was started at the C. & H. Rech Niagara Bottling Works, nearby on Wheeler Street.

Before 1890, Federal law required bottling operations be housed separately from brewing operations. Most breweries did not bottle their own beer at this time.

The bottling works on Wheeler burned down on October 13th 1888. The legally required separation from the brewery saved the wooden brewery from burning down along with the bottling works. It was common for the old wooden breweries containing plenty of flammables, like barley dust, to burn down. The first telephone was installed at the brewery on October 16th of that same year.

A new 125-barrel capacity copper brewing kettle was installed in 1889. The kettle had to be cleaned after each brewing operation by a man wearing wooden shoes in order to prevent damage to the kettle.

A new malt mill was purchased from the Ziegle Brewing Co. in Buffalo. The work crew was comprised of fifteen men and the brew master.

Niagara River Brewing Company, 1893 (HST)

The brewery produced 6,000 barrels of beer annually; requiring 12,000 bushels of barley malt, 15,000 Lbs. of hops and four carloads of a flaked corn product called “cerealine”.

The lumber shipping business continued to grow, and in 1890, Tonawanda was the busiest lumber port in the nation, even surpassing Chicago.

In addition, there were numerous lumber mills and canal boat and ship building facilities.

Two twenty-ton “Krausch” ice machines were installed at a cost of $20,000. Two 60-horse power boilers were also installed with automatic pumps to circulate ammonia for beer cooling and refrigeration. This allowed for the year round production of lager beer and eliminated dependence on natural ice and the weather.

Then the pipe bridge over the Erie Canal carrying water to the brewery form the Niagara River collapsed.

In 1890, a new brewery worker, August Glanz, was hired at $45.00 per month.

He typically would work ten hours a day, six days a week.

An example of the notes kept by brew master Prosper Peuquet follows: March 22, 1890 – Raised smoke stack.

April 7, 1890 – Started engine No. 2.

April 9, 1890 – Prosper Peuquet and Philip Welch started fire in new boiler.

April 18, 1890 – Kumro and Geltz (movers) brought in ice machines.

April 25, 1890 – Started ice machines.

Natural gas was piped into the brewery and lit for the first time on March 20th 1891. The pipe bridge over the Erie Canal was replaced. Charles Fleischauer was hired at a wage of $50.00 per month.

Clam bakes and other parties were held at the brewery from time to time for the brewery workers and special friends.

Fisherman would provide fish from the Niagara River in return for beer. Farmers in the area would feed their livestock with the breweries spent malt, and in return, provide meat for the cookouts and parties at the brewery. Sometimes these parties would be held down the street at Ringler’s Woods (now Veteran’s Park) or across the Niagara River on Grand Island. I’m sure these parties were an excellent way for the brewery to promote their product.

Beginning on September 23rd 1892, water was brought into the brewery through wooden pipes from the new village water system, eliminating the need for the pipe bridge over the Canal and the pump house at the Niagara River.

The last clam bake of the 1892 season was held for the “Brewery Boys” on October 9th.

Busch Brewing Co. 1893-1898 Besides the canal, the railroad also carried freight through the Tonawandas, and in the 1890s, 16 different railroad companies were in operation. On any given day, 100 trains passed the

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Bottled Beer was first delivered to private homes at this time, usually on Saturdays. It came in wooden cases of 12 or 24 bottles, and cost 50- cents a dozen.

The Brewery brewed lager beer. Porter and cream ale.

In 1903, Anthony Golembieski died unexpectedly of acute appendicitis at the age of 39. His wife put the brewery up for sale that same year.

The Busch Brewing Co. on the Erie Canal, circa 1885. (HST)

Tonawanda train station.

The Niagara River Brewing Co. was acquired on June 19th 1883 by Jacob Busch and renamed the Busch Brewing Company. The new officers were; Jacob Busch, president, who continued to live in Buffalo on Delaware Avenue near Kenmore, James Hertle, vice-president and Fred Busch, secretary. Of the new officers only John Busch, the manager, lived in Tonawanda. Chris Schwinger stayed on as a director, and Prosper Peuquet stayed on as the brew master.

Before purchasing the Tonawanda Brewery, the Busch’s operated the Busch Brewing Co. at 817-825 Main Street in Buffalo, from 1891 until it closed in 1893.

The new owners spent $10,000 on improvements. The brewing capacity was tripled to 18,000 barrels and there were now five cellars for storing beer.

Beer was being delivered to Buffalo, Lockport, Akron, Williamsville and other towns. Beer continued to be delivered to the lumber “dock gangs” for their two daily breaks.

On August 16th 1894, at 12 PM, the icehouses burned. Disaster was avoided and brewing continued because of the new ice making machines that had been installed in 1890. A new brewery worker Lenhard Schmidt, was hired at $12.00 per week.

In 1895, Prosper Peuquet, the brew master, left over a disagreement concerning the quality of the brewing ingredients and E. A. Krampetz became the new brew master. Prosper’s twenty year old son, George, who was working for the brewery, also left. Prosper became the village Streets Commissioner for a year. He also ran the St. Louis Hall, a

dance hall and saloon on South Canal Street, for two years. Busch hired Prosper back, as brew master, sometime in 1897 or 1898.

The Tonawanda City directory of 1898 lists Fred Busch as the new president and F. A. Busch as the new Secretary. Other records also indicate there was an unusual amount of staff turnover at the brewery, including the brew master.

Niagara River Brewing Co., 1898 -1900 Anthony Golembieski bought the brewery in 1898. The brewery directors were Julia Golembieski and Simon Usienski. Again, Prosper Peuquet stayed on as the brew master. Mr. Golembieski may also have had a part interest in the Susquehanna Brewing Co. of Nanticoke Pa., controlled by the Stegmeyer Brewing

Author’s note: Records at the Erie County Clerk’s Office indicate the Tonawanda Brewing Co. was incorporated in 1900 and was still owned by Anthony Golembieski. Other local evidence indicates the brewery operated under the ownership of Anthony Golembieski until 1903. The 1900-1 Tonawanda City Directory lists the Tonawanda Brewing Co., Anthony Golembieski, proprietor.

An ad in a local area atlas also shows the Tonawanda Brewery with Anthony Golembieski as proprietor. The name of the brewery changed in 1900, but the brewery wasn’t actually sold until 1903.

Tonawanda Brewing Co. 1900-1924 Peter Buerger, whose family owned a large malt house in Mayville, Wisconsin, did business with the Niagara River Brewery. He approached Bernardt Voelcker, a friend of his family and a hotel owner in Rochester N.Y., about buying the brewery.

Bernardt Voelcker bought the brewery in 1903 with Peter Buerger and his brother, Anton, investing an additional

The Busch Brewing Co.’s Bottling Works, 1897 (HST)

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Prosper Peuquet again stayed on as the Brew Master.

The brewery was now selling between 10,000 and 11,000 barrels of beer annually. The beer was called “Rheingold,” and was quite popular locally. Ale and porter were also being produced. A motorized truck was first used at this time to deliver beer to Buffalo.

After spending most of 41 years working at the brewery, Prosper Peuquet died in 1908 at the age of 63. His brewing techniques and style were carried on after his death and the beer remained unchanged.

In 1909, Anton Buerger wrote a letter to his relatives in Germany, “The location here is so marvelous that probably there is no place that surpasses this view. Just opposite the brewery is Grand Island, 48 miles square” and “the river is ¾ of a mile wide… The river is full of freight and pleasure steamers. Life everywhere.

Good, warm weather increases the sale of beer.”

The brewery produced between 18,000 and 20,000 barrels of beer per year. The going price for a barrel of beer was between $6.00 and $6.40. The brewery had six team horses, two carriage horses, and one delivery truck.

Tonawanda continued to be a great market for beer as one of the largest lumber ports of its time. 600 dockworkers, divided into dock gangs, loaded and unloaded lumber on steam ships and canal barges during the seven-month shipping season. The gangs were made up of European immigrants, who brought their love of beer with them from the old country. The dock gangs drank beer delivered from the brewery during their two allotted breaks. The old North and South Canal Streets, next to the canal, were now called North and South Niagara Streets, and continued to be a saloon and red light district for the dockworkers, steam ship sailors and canal boatmen.

In 1913, construction was started on a new brick brew house. On August 5th at 10 AM, a fire started in the roof of the hops room and destroyed most of the old wooden brewery. Several horse powered fire companies from Tonawanda and North Tonawanda responded to the fire, but only the bottling house, stable, wagon shed and machine shop were saved. The cost of the fire was estimated at $100.000.

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Sanborn Insurance Map of Tonawanda, N.Y., 1893-1910 (HST)

Fire was always a major threat to wooden breweries filled with highly flammable substances such as malt.

Bernardt Voelcker contracted with the Gerhard Lang Brewery of Buffalo to supply the brewery with beer for their customers until they could rebuild. Lang’s Brewing and Pabst Brewing of Milwaukee already had distribution centers in Tonawanda.

The sight was cleaned up and the brewery was rebuilt with brick and concrete, including storage and fermentation cellars at a cost of $50,000.

The new brewery was operational in six months.

It appears the brewery still delivered most of their beer by horse drawn wagon and a keg of beer was still on tap at the brewery for the workers.

During weekdays the brewery wagons would rumble along Adams Street, loaded with beer kegs for delivery to local saloons and the lumber docks. On Saturdays, bottled beer was delivered to area homes.

In 1917 the brewery sold bottled beer at 45-cents per dozen bottles.

Some of the neighbors would gather hayseed from the brewery horse barns to plant in their yards as inexpensive grass.

The brewery also provided brewers yeast to the neighborhood for baking fastnachts, a kind of German donut, on holidays and special occasions.

In 1918, because of wartime restrictions limiting the use of grain for

brewing purposes, and the approach of prohibition, brewing operations ended.

Legal brewing would not resume until prohibition ended in 1933. The brewery was now used to manufacture and sell ice.

It also served as a depot for the sale of coal. Bernhard Voelcker died in 1921, and the brewery property was sold in 1924, probably by the Voelcker family and Peter Buerger.

River Beverage Co., Tonawanda Beverage Co. 1924 – 1928 The record is not clear as to who purchased the former brewery in 1924.

Leon Peuquet thought it was a group of investors from Albany, New York. The brewery was started up again, and

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produced a less than one percent alcohol cereal beverage and soda pop. Jacob Barger was the brew master during this time.

Leon Peuquet also believed the brewery was used to produce illegal full-alcohol beer during this time period. He remembered red vans coming from the brewery late at night, traveling down Adam Street, and ending up in boxcars at a Clay Street railroad siding, on Goose Island. A raid by Federal Dry Agents took place at the railroad siding on Clay Street, followed by court appearances in Buffalo.

After that, illegal brewing operations stopped and the brewery buildings laid vacant until 1931.

Schwab’s Liquid Malt, 1931-1933 Francis X. Schwab, the former mayor of Buffalo, along with some associates purchased the brewery in 1931, and formed a stock company in anticipation of the end of prohibition. They started producing and selling the ingredients to make beer at home. The product was a hop-flavored liquid malt extract sold in five-gallon containers. All that was needed was the addition of yeast, which may have also been supplied upon request.

Tonawanda Brewing Corp., 1933-1935 Prohibition ended on December 5th, 1933 and Mr. Schwab and his associates began selling beer again under the name Tonawanda Brewing Corp.

After prohibition ended, the Federal Government required all brewers to operate with a federal permit at a cost of $1000 and they placed a $5.00 tax on every barrel of beer produced. Before prohibition, a permit was not required, and each barrel of beer was taxed at $1.00.

The Tonawanda Brewing Corp. operated under Permit Number U-270. A New York State license, D-86, was also issued at an additional fee.

Frontier Brewery, Inc. 1935-1948 In 1935, Klocke and DeKob took over operation of the brewery and changed the name to the Frontier Brewery, Inc. They operated under federal Permit Number U-291 and named their beer and ale “Frontier Gold Label”.

Julius C. Belzer purchased the brewery in 1939. Mr. Belzer was from Buffalo and had no previous brewing experience. The beer and ale he produced was called

“Malz-Brau”. By all accounts the beer was quite good and the splits were quite popular locally.

In the summer of 1943, all local deliveries of beer were abruptly canceled and the brewery began producing beer for the troops overseas under a government contract. The beer, called “Frontier Premium,” had a bad reputation among the servicemen. The ingredients and production methods were probably cheapened to increase profits.

After the war ended, the brewery returned to producing beer for local consumption. They continued to call their beer and ale “Frontier Premium”, and also sold the “Falcon” beer brand.

The quality of the beer never returned to pre-war levels, and production fell off, as customers were lost to competitors.

In 1946, business temporally picked up because of an artificial grain shortage, and the brewery did well for a while using artificial ingredients. After the shortage ended, business continued to decline, and the brewery finally closed in 1948. When the brewery closed, the beer on hand was dumped into the sewer.

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The Tonawanda Brewery saw much of this great country’s growth, situated on the Erie Canal and Niagara River. Most of what traveled East or West in the country, for over 100 years, traveled on the Erie Canal and the Great Lakes.

Brewing Companies located at 533 Niagara Street (South Canal Street), Tonawanda, N.Y. 1867-1883 George Zent Brewery 1883-1893 Niagara River Brewing Co. 1893-1898 Busch Brewing Co. 1898-1900 Niagara River Brewing Co. 1900-1918 Tonawanda Brewing Co. 1924-1928 (Prohibition ) Tonawanda Beverage Co., River Beverage Co. 1931-1933 (Prohibition) Schwab’s Liquid Malt 1933-1935 Tonawanda Brewing Co. 1935-1948 Frontier Brewing Co. Brew Masters at 533 Niagara Street 1867-1883 George Zent 1883-1895 Prosper Peuquet 1895-1898 Mr. Krampetz 1898-1908 Prosper Peuquet 1908-1920 unknown 1924-1930 Jacob Barger (brewed nonalcoholic beer and possible full strength beer) 1933Walter Heuer Mr. Baum Otto Adler -1947 Wes Schneider

Winter 2005 Newspaper and Magazine Articles: Jeffery Hardy. “Tonawanda brewer now only a ‘beerful’ memory” Tonawanda News. June 16, 1994.

Dave Mik. “The Breweries of Williamsville, New York” Travelers Companion. 2003.

Leon Peuquet. “Tonawanda Brewery” Try To Remember, Historical Society of the Tonawandas and the Tonawanda News. June 1978.

“Brewery Research” The Breweriana Collector, National Association Breweriana Advertising. Fall 2003.

17 Other Sources: Beer labels, Frontier Brewery Inc. Incorporation of “Tonawanda Brewing Company” Erie County Clerk. 1900.

Letters from Anton Buerger translated by Charles Ruedebusch. April 14, 1904 and May 24, 1909.

Letterhead, Frontier Brewery Inc. December 10, 1946.

Tonawanda Map. 1909.

Tonawanda Brewery letterhead receipt. May 1, 1917.

“Coming Down” The Buffalo News. March 6, 1993

Tonawanda, Sanborn Insurance map. 18931910.

“History of the Tonawandas” Tonawanda Evening News. December 17, 1941.

Tonawanda, Sanborn Insurance map. 19101953.

“Industrial Edition” The Tonawanda Herald.

1897.

Author’s Note: Thanks to the Historical Society of The Tonawandas (HST) for all their assistance (and illustrations) and especially Ned Shimminger.

“Loss not More Than $100,000” Tonawanda Evening News. August 5, 1913.

“Old brewery in its Earlier Days” Tonawanda News. October 9, 1965.

Tonawanda Herald weekly. March 1,1883, May 17,1884, October 18,1888.

John P. Eiss 54 Mary Vista Court Tonawanda, NY 14150 (716) 694-0126

This article won first place in the Best Researched category and an award was presented to the author at the Awards Banquet last August in Memphis, Tenn, in conjunction with the EXPO..

References:

Books: New Century Atlas Niagara Co., N.Y. 1908.

Steven Powell, Rushing The Growler, Buffalo, New York, Digicon Imaging, Inc. 1996-1999.

Telephone Directory, Buffalo/Rochester District. June 1904.

Tonawanda Directories. 1890 to 1951.

Dale P. Van Wieren, American Breweries II, West Point, Pa. Eastern Coast Brewiana Association. 1995.

Drawing by Brian Gage from the Traveler’s Companion, newsletter for the Greater Buffalo Bottle Collector’s Association, Vol. VI, Issue 10, Oct. 2004. [Used with permission.]

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PATENT MEDICINE SCULPTURES

by Cecil Munsey Copyright © 2004

Tragically typical, there lies buried in the “stacks” of the University of Southern California library, among hundreds of others, a work of significant value to those interested in patent medicine history and ceramics. The document to which I refer is a master’s degree thesis slightly more than 100 pages in length and unpretentiously bound in simulated red leather.

Beneath the irreverent accumulation of dust, in gold-stamped lettering, the vague title Stoneware Forms Derived from Influences of the Early Twentieth Century can be read.

The title page, according to tradition, explains that Rurik Leif Kallis [Figure 1] submitted the effort in 1965 – four decades ago – to the faculty of the graduate school as part of the requirements for a Master of Fine Arts degree in ceramics.

I cannot claim credit for rediscovering this intensive and scholarly paper because “Rick” Kallis is a personal friend and, through this relationship, I have long known the existence of his work. I can and do, however, share the guilt for allowing this information to remain so long unnoticed.

The purpose of the Kallis effort was to create new stoneware ceramic forms based on the endeavors of early 20th century architects and patent (or proprietary) medicine vendors. The portion of the study devoted to architecture is well done and important but regional in interest; therefore, it will not be considered in this article. The stoneware forms inspired by the activities of those involved in the patent medicine industry, on the other hand, are national in interest and, as will be shown, are quite unique.

Kallis was among the first of the thousands of Americans who have taken an active interest in the history and bottles of a turn-of-the-century America. Rick has spent literally over 50 years researching – mostly at the primary-source level – bottles and their creators. (He started digging bottles from old dumps at age 14, several years before we graduated from Helix High School in La Mesa, California.) He feels that, “Perhaps the most common of the utilitarian objects of the early 20 th century to be almost totally thrown away

and forgotten are bottles and, in particular, patent medicine bottles.” We share this opinion and I would submit, in addition, that it is primarily because of this that thousands of Americans today spend so much of their spare energy treasure hunting for bottles.

It is well known that self-doctoring was a necessity in early America because of the severe lack of physicians and the poor state of medical knowledge. Because people needed remedies to apply to the sick, they readily accepted the claims of those people marketing proprietary medicines and purchased what amounted to liquid, powdered, and pilled hope. The late 19th and early 20th centuries were truly times of extravagant advertising, extolling the medicines and cure-alls by posters,

trade cards, and medicine shows which traveled to all parts of the country.

In Kallis’s own words, the “. . . sculptured forms inspired by these [patent medicine] bottles are humorous, authentic, and historical images of the patent medicine and the old ‘Wunderdoktor’ himself. In some cases it was a trustworthy and sadly sweet woman who concocted the remedies guaranteed to cure whatever ailed one.”

Dr. J. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters Dr. J. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters originated in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Dr. Jacob Hostetter invented the concoction and used it in his practice until his retirement in 1853. Upon retiring he gave his son, David, the formula. David, after an unsuccessful business venture in San Francisco, returned to Pennsylvania and went into a patent medicine partnership with longtime friend, George W. Smith. Smith provided the $4,000 needed to produce the

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first batches of Dr. J. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, and otherwise get the business started.

The firm was successful and advertised widely – or most likely it was the other way around. The Civil War further ensured success for the product when the Union army began to order the bitters by boxcar load. The army, no doubt, found the product useful in encouraging soldiers before a battle – Hostetter’s Bitters was 47 per cent (94-proof) alcohol.

The ceramic sculpture inspired by the historic product is basically in the shape of a traditional Hostetter bottle [Figure 2].

The basic shape of the square bottle was recreated with clay slab construction [Figure 3 and 4]. A thrown sphere was added to form the head which is very much a likeness of David Hostetter, as determined from an early private-die proprietary medicine revenue stamp portrait.

The embossed portions of the sculpture were achieved by adding thin slabs of clay and then cutting away the negative areas.

It is interesting to note that cutting a section from a thrown bowl and attaching it to the head formed the beard. On the reverse [Figure 4] is a partial facsimile of a label complete with slogan and the Hostetter trademark, which was St. George

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slaying a dragon.

Summarizing this effort, Kallis explained that “from an aesthetic standpoint, the waxy brown glaze gave the appearance or feeling of the earthy brown

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roots and herbs supposedly used to concoct the bitters.” He also maintained that the base gave the effect of Victorian elegance and that the soft stony orange unglazed finish of the head realistically contrasted the shiny waxy glaze.

Munyon’s Homeopathic Home Remedy Munyon’s Homeopathic Home Remedy is another firm that has been immortalized in a Kallis sculpture [Figures 5 and 6]. Ex-editor, book agent, musician, song writer, teacher, lawyer and preacher, James M. Munyon, a man who finally found his calling in the manufacture and promotion of patent medicines, ironically sold his nostrums by the extensive use of slogans such as “No punishment is too severe for him [sic] who deceives the sick.” History recalls Munyon as a man always dressed in black, sporting a pompadour, and wearing a stern countenance. The less formal side of the man can, perhaps, be seen somewhat in the fact that he had four wives.

Even though Munyon was found guilty of fraud and fined several times by the government, because his remedies consisted chiefly of sugar and alcohol, he continued in business and was worth several million dollars at the time of his death.

20 A bottle embossed “Dr. Munyon’s Cure for Asthma, Catarrh, Colds, and all Throat and Lung Diseases inspired the sculpture” and the image of Munyon put forth in his advertising. The sculpture shows not only the black clothing and stern face but also Munyon pointing upward. The latter idea was drawn from the many slogans. The slogan in particular is: “If the Sign of the Cross were to be Destroyed, the Next Best Sign Would be the Index Finger Pointing Heavenward.” Probably, however, the most famous of the Munyon slogans is the one found on the obverse of the Kallis sculpture, “There is Hope! There’s a Munyon Pill for Every Ill.” In addition to the bottle-shaped body, the sculpture features the head of “Dr.” Munyon as pictured in his many advertisements.

Rick points out for his professors that the piece was made in two parts – the legs and feet were attached separately after the initial firing. He further explains that “. . . the black glaze gave the overall piece a warm, lifelike quality.” He goes on in summary that, “The Gesture of the upraised arm, the facial expression, and Dr. Munyon’s sayings . . . gave to this sculpture further implications of the fraud he lived and sold.”

Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, Kidney, Liver and Bladder Cure Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, Kidney, Liver and Bladder Cure is another of the classics of the patent medicine industry to be treated in sculpture by bottle collecting ceramist Rick Kallis. S. Andral Kilmer, M.D., and his salesman-brother, Jonas M. Kilmer, originated the product in 1879.

The combined talents of doctor and business acumen made their firm an immediate and lasting success – some of their products are still sold today.

While the brothers were successful in business, they could not tolerate each other personally. In 1890 Jonas bought out S. Andral and took in as a partner his son, Willis Sharpe Kilmer. Together they developed the business at a fantastic rate.

In 1902, an eight-story building of cast concrete, in Binghamton, New York, was constructed to house the giant firm.

Again, the resulting sculpture [Figures 7 and 8] was inspired by bottles and advertising literature. The body is made in replication of a Swamp-Root bottle. The head is a realistic rendering of Dr. Kilmer as he was pictured on labels and so forth.

The folded arms represent small vials used

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Bottles and Extras by the firm to contain Parilla Liver Pills and samples of Swamp-Root. The base is quite symbolic in that it represents mangrove roots growing in the water of a swamp.

Dr. Miles’ Restorative Nervine The Dr. Miles’ Laboratories of Elkhart, Indiana, made Dr. Miles’ Restorative Nervine. This historic firm began in the 1870s and still sells proprietary products today. Some of the firm’s most popular products include New Heart Cure, Anti Pain Pill, Little Pills, and, of course, Restorative Nervine, their most popular item.

The Kallis sculpture inspired by Dr. Miles and his products is illustrated in Figures 9 and 10. This particular piece, as will be noted, is two-faced. One face [Figure 9], in pain, displays exposed nerves and is obviously symbolic of a person before taking Dr. Miles’ Restorative Nervine. The other face [Figure 10] symbolizes a person who has gained relief through the use of Nervine. The postures portrayed are also significant: Figure 9 features the beseeching outstretched arms of a man in pain; and Figure 10 shows the folded arms of contentment and/or relief.

As in the other sculptures discussed, the body is a replica of the firm’s most popular bottle and the head is a lifelike rendering of Dr. Miles. Also, the arms in Figure 10 represent vials sold by Dr. Miles’ Laboratories. This sculpture is also of two-piece construction.

The Mother’s Friend Bradfield Regulator Company of Atlanta, Georgia, was also one of the giant patent medicine firms of turn-of-thecentury America. Their main product was The Mother’s Friend; and like the others selected by Kallis, it was a truly national item.

From the advertising slogans one can easily imagine the purpose of this particular medicine. One slogan was, “Shortens the duration of labor:” another was, “Causes an unusually easy and quick delivery.” One wonders about the effectiveness of this nostrum; government chemists found that the medicine consisted of oil, soap, and 20 percent alcohol (40 proof).

Here again the bottle provided Kallis with the basic inspiration for the Sculpture [Figures 11 and 12]. The head,

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instead of resembling any one specific person, was designed mostly to show a woman’s hairstyle of the period. Possibly the most striking feature of this piece is the hole in the front [Figure 11]; it provides a peek into this very symbolic orifice revealing the figure of a baby.

Kallis’s own conclusions about the results of this creation are well taken: “This particular sculpture struck a note of pathos, of tenderness, and sorrow, and even worry to the observer. It appealed to, and stirred the emotions with, apprehension, and yet, with the fervent hope that some of the claims for the remedy as advertised could be true.”

Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, perhaps the most famous of all patent medicines, is the subject of the last of the Kallis sculptures to be shown

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and discussed here. Although Lydia Pinkham was born in 1819, it was not until 1875 that the family began to commercially produce and promote Lydia’s vegetable compound. They went into business as a last attempt to rebuild the family fortune.

Though the first few years were a struggle, they finally began to profit from their efforts. Advertising, as is most always the case, was the chief reason for success. Lydia herself died in 1883, but the Pinkham Company kept her alive in the consumer’s eyes by urging women to write to Lydia concerning their personal female problems and by wording their literature to make it appear that Lydia was still active in the business. Literally millions of dollars have been spent ( 40 or so) over the years to keep Lydia’s face before the public. Such practices made Lydia the most famous and familiar female face of the 19th century.

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The oval bottle easily dominates the sculpture inspired by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound [Figure 13]; this is especially true since there are no arms on this piece. The head is a rather abstract and again a symbolic reproduction of Lydia as she was so often pictured.

While Rurik Kallis has produced more of the stoneware ceramic forms than were presented here, the ones shown are truly representative of his skill, not only as a ceramist but also as a student of history. With the exception of the Lydia E. Pinkham sculpture, which is about 18 inches in height and weighs about 10 pounds, the other pieces are about two feet tall and weigh from 20 to 25 pounds.

I think the appreciative reader can now better understand more my opening remarks and share my concern about allowing Mr. Kallis’s artistic and scholarly work to continue to remain buried in the archives of the University of Southern California.

His study and the resulting sculptures are truly worthy of notice and praise by those of us interested in ceramics as an art form.

BIBLIOGRAPHY Books: Munsey, Cecil. The Illustrated Guide to COLLECTING BOTTLES: Hawthorn Books, Inc. New York, © 1970.

Nostrums and Quackery: American Medical Assn., Press, Chicago, Illinois, ©1912.

Periodicals: Munsey, Cecil. “[Bottle Collectors’] Discovery of Coins and Stamps”: Western Collector, Vol. VI, No. 5, May 1968 – Western World Publishers, San Francisco, California.

Munsey, Cecil. “Patent Medicine Ceramics”: The Antiques Journal, Vol. 27, No. 2, March 1972 – Babka Publishing Co., Dubuque, Iowa.

Munsey, Cecil. “Private-Die Proprietary Stamps”: Bottles and Extras, Issue No. 76, pp. 3-5. August 1996 – Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors.

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The King Lives – in Memphis

by Andy Rapoza

I couldn’t wait to meet Dick Watson. We had corresponded a few times over the past twelve years, but had never had met face-to-face. I was anxious to meet him in Memphis in order to accomplish several goals: I wanted to attend his talk on bitters, thank him for an old favor, get him to autograph my books, and ask him for one more favor.

I collect medicines from Lynn, Massachusetts and his two books on bitters describe several Lynn bitters bottles. One of these in particular – Thurston’s Old Continental Tonic Bitters (L226) – had caught my attention and imagination. Back in his 1968 Supplement to Bitters Botles, Dick described the labeledonly bitters along with a small 12-sided sample bottle and a full-sized printed box. Several years ago Dick had graciously allowed me to acquire that incredible box. It’s absolutely beautiful and a gem in my collection. Because it is so fragile, I enlisted my father-in-law’s help to construct a display unit to protect it. I was anxious to show Dick how carefully I have protected this precious addition to my collection so that he would know how much his gift has meant to me.

The first event at the FOHBC weekend that my wife and I attended was the talk by Dick Watson. He shared his great knowledge, insights, and colorful stories about bitters and was enjoyed by a packed room. Afterwards I introduced myself and showed him pictures of the great bitters box in its display. He said it clearly was in the right home (that meant a lot to me coming from this great bitters collector). He graciously signed my copies of his books. There was just one more goal burning deep in this collector’s heart: to ask him if he would send me a photograph of the two Thurston’s bitters bottles he described in his book. (I am writing a book about the patent medicines of Lynn, Mass., so if I can’t own a certain bottle or package, having a photograph is the next best thing for its research value.)

“Oh, but I can’t – I don’t have them!” he said. My heart sank. He went on to explain that they and the box were originally in the collection of a bitters collector from Massachusetts forty years ago. When that collector and her husband visited Dick and his wife back in the 1960s, she gave him the box as a thankyou gift for having them over as guests. She also provided Dick with descriptions of the two Thurston’s bottles she had in her collection for use in his upcoming book, but he had never seen the bottles. Dick told me her name, but then explained that she was much older than him and probably deceased by now. Last he knew she had retired to Florida, but that was many years ago.

Crunch! It was all over. I had hit a brick wall. It’s tough enough trying to find certain bottles that are embossed, but labeled-only bottles are even tougher. The only thing more fragile and ephemeral than glass has got to be paper. They don’t come out of the ground with labels (not good ones, anyway). So, while colored figural bitters are worth more to most collectors, labeledonly medicines from the one town I am researching and writing about are like precious jewels to me. This bling-bling, however, had just slipped through my fingers.

A few hours after meeting Dick Watson, I was walking the floor of the fabulous Bottle Expo. I was having a great time looking at each and every beautiful bottle, always keeping an

eye out for something from Lynn, Mass. After a few hours, feeling a little achy and tired, I was just beginning to think that I should call it a day and come back tomorrow. Then there it was! Right there in front of me! I couldn’t believe it – I was staring at a dream. After searching for decades, my hand shook as it held the labeled Thurston’s Old Continental Tonic Bitters. I told the dealer the story of how I had decided just hours earlier that my search for this bottle had hit a brick wall. But here it was – no photograph needed – I was holding the real thing! Several others came over to the table and listened to me recount my story.

Someone commented that it had found the right home – it had.

Then it dawned on me – I had never turned the bottle over to see the price! Good grief! I shuttered to think of the possibility that it was priced way beyond my reach. It was worth a king’s ransom to me, but I’m no king. Turns out it was very reasonably priced and the dealer, Ed Herrold, even discounted it some because he was happy to see how much the bottle meant to me.

By the way, he is from Florida, so it is my guess that the bottle and box that were separated in the 1960s have been reunited after forty years!

Lightning hit a second time in the show when I found a labeled-only Thurston’s XXX Death to Pain at Bill Agee’s table.

For me, half the fun of collecting is the memory of hunting for and finding a treasured addition to my collection. The unforgettable finds I made at this year’s Expo are exceeded only by the friendships and memories I made in the process. Lots and lots to be treasured; maybe I am a king after all.

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Photographing Glass Bottles

by Charles Harris

I have been writing magazine articles about the American Civil War artifacts for over 30 years and have published two books. One of my great downfalls has been trying to obtain good photographs of glass bottles. They just wouldn’t come out decent. Oh, yes, I could sometimes get great photos of some of the bottles, usually by accident when the reflections happened to be just right, but that was the exception, not the rule. My one big disappointment was when I photographed the Roy Blick collection in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Roy had dug over 100 different varieties of Civil War glass bottles and jars and I spent an entire evening photographing his superior collection.

Almost all of them had been dug out of the Civil War 1862-1863 campfire and garbage pits around Murfreesboro. Sadly, Roy Blick is now gone on to the Happy Bottle Hunting Grounds and his collection has been disbursed all over the United States.

It was only 2-3 years ago that I finally figured out the secret of how to photograph glass bottles and how to obtain a decent rendition of what I was photographing. The laughable answer to my problem is so simple that I had just overlooked it all of these years. Maybe the advent of the digital camera also helped some, for I could now instantly see the results of my futile efforts, where I previously used a strobe for lighting and had to wait until I got the prints back from the camera store.

Here is the secret of how to photograph bottles or jars. Take hold of your precious possession, walk over to the window and hold it up to the sky. What do you see?

Surprising isn’t it — you are seeing all of the details of the lettering, designs and

old bubbles just jumping out at you. Wow! The only problem with this was that you also have tree limbs, clouds, other houses, fences, etc. in your view messing up that beautiful image. Also if you place the bottle on the window sill, you also have the edges of the windows, the lower edge of the window frame and dirty window glass also degrading that image that your mind’s eye is seeing without all of the distractions — the camera sees it all.

Now that I had the vision of what was possible imbedded in the interior of my cranium, I could begin experimenting with my setups until I could actually create what my mind was expecting to see as a final image.

First I needed an uncluttered sky, night or day. Hmmm! Ah, a doctor’s X-ray viewer, but none of my doctors would let me into their office on my whim without wanting to do at least a full physical on me first. None of my doctor friends had any extra light boxes that they would let me have or buy. Hmmm! What next? In the publishing industry they used to use light tables to lay out the pages of books and magazines. They would take negatives of the text and splice into them the negatives of the photos to make up a page. Everything had to be perfect and square and it was done on a light table.

Well, I became a little more lucky here and managed to acquire an old surplus light table that I am still using. I would like a bigger one, but this one does the trick as long as the bottle isn’t too large.

Because my light table has a large rim around it, I needed a base to set the bottle on in order to center it more in front of the light. I first put the bottle close to the light table (box) and “Yukkkkk, it looked terrible and was all washed out. There

was no detail like I saw when holding it up to the sky.” What was wrong? Umm, the sky is millions of miles out beyond and I’m in the inside of the darkened house. Ding, ding, the sky is not lighting up the bottle; it is just a light source behind the bottle, kind of like a backlight.

Ah, ha, I just moved the bottle and base out from the light box about two feet and Wallalla! I couldn’t believe it. Every bit of detail, design and lettering just automatically outlined itself. It was miraculous! All I had to do now was to take a photo of what I was seeing.

That is just what I did. In the resulting photo I had the frame of the light box encroaching tightly upon the bottle that was only six inches high and the white plastic of the light box was 9 inches by 17 inches. If I moved the bottle much closer it would wash out. There’s got to be a solution. Well, duh! I do know a little about photography and my digital camera has a 10-power zoom lens.

Instead of setting up close to the bottle with the camera and using wide angle, I just backed up a few feet and used some of the telephoto and there was a beautiful image. Here an illustration might do better than words in telling the story, but I’ll try both ways.

With a wide angle lens you are getting close to the object being photographed which fills the frame of the camera, but the back ground is also wide angled making the small light box very small in relation to the size of the bottle. When I backed up and used the telephoto (narrow angle) mode, the item still filled the frame, but the small light box was now relatively large in relation to the size of the bottle.

Does that make sense? No, well, maybe the attached illustration will help.

Both photos are of the same “Good Luck Nursing Bottle.” The left photo had the bottle only about three inches in front of the light table. For the taking of the right hand photo, I just moved the bottle about eighteen inches out in front of the light table. All other factors were exactly the same.

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My photographic set-up on my wife’s dining room table. I’m shooting the camera from in between the work lights with the bottle about 18-inches in front of the light source.

Now I had one other small, and to me insignificant, problem since most of my illustration are to be black and white for magazine and book illustrations. The digital camera keeps looking for a true white background and while I am focusing the camera the background cycles from a blue cast through the brown and tan range to a pukkky green color and back again.

If I were going to use color I would probably settle on the bluish or tannish backgrounds. For colored glass such as aqua-green or amber I just take the exposure when the right background color cycles through.

For my photo editing I use “Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7”. I know that there is at least an “8” and a “9” version out but I am familiar with the “7”. I accidentally found

a little button under the “Colors” button labeled “Colorize”. When I click on it, the program turns the color image to a beautiful black and white image. Simple!

There is also a Grayscale button on most programs that does the same thing. Then I usually have to click on the “Colors” button again and then click on the “Adjust” button and add some contrast and maybe lighten or darken the image some to make it really look good. I then save the completed image on a floppy disc or CD for later use in an article or inventory of bottles.

This system works wonderfully for clear glass bottles and also for the colored ones. Some of the real dense or dark bottles can also be wonderfully photographed this way. Just because they

In the illustration, notice how when the photo is taken with the wide angle lens and up close the area around the light source is behind the image of the bottle. With the telephoto lens the bottle is completely in front of the light source.

25 are very dark, the camera’s automatic exposure just has to work a little harder and if you crop tight on the bottle the light easily comes through that dark glass bottle.

In some cases where a bottle has colored painting or pryoglazing on it I need to front light the bottle at the same time as I backlight it. If I don’t front light the painted surface, it will be silhouetted and become black, whatever color it is. I was afraid that a strong front light would cancel the effects of the backlighting, but luckily that is not normally the case. I went down to Home Depot or Lowe’s and purchased a set of their 1000 watt halogen work lights for about $35.00 and set them up on the dining room table, much to the objections of my wife. You can shoot from between the light housings and have plenty of light on the front surface of the bottle. You can then use the lights in your workshop or where ever you need some extra light, so they can actually do double duty for you. You can even light the front of your house at Christmas time with them. That just helps justify their cost to your wife and family.

After you have saved all of your images of those wonderful bottles, you can now go into self-publication by using the “Insert” button on Microsoft Word and write about those wonderful experiences that you have had collecting the bottles before your pet cat jumps up on the display shelf and knocks all of them off onto that hard floor in your display room.

Charles S. Harris 6808 Benwood Drive Ooltewah, Tennessee 37363 E-mail: relicnut@bellsouth.net

The left pyroglazed Nursery Rhyme baby bottle is photographed with only the backlight, which outlined the bottle well, but also silhouetted the orange pyroglazing.

The bottle on the right is also frontlit as well as back-lit, presenting the best of both systems combined. In color the differences are much more obvious.

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“The Knockout Business”

by John Eatwell

Tom Holland, saloonkeeper, was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of five to ten years at hard labor by Judge Malone this morning. 1 “The crime of which the jury have found you guilty and for which you now stand convicted before the bar of justice, is one which, while altogether too common in this community, is unmanly and not at all to your credit. You open your place of business in invite the public to patronize you, and then, taking advantage of your neighbors and patrons, you proceed to drug and rob them, then throw them out in the streets or alleys, perhaps to die.” 2 Judge Booth Malone delivered his sentence, saying: “This crime is not only a treacherous one, but one full of danger to human life and that brings disrepute to the fair name of your city and community.

It reflects not only most seriously upon the reputation of the city, but upon the administrators of the law when a crime like this cannot only occur again and again, but when upon one of the principal thoroughfares of the city, in the very heart of the business center. It is time this ‘knockout drop’ business was stopped.”

“It is extremely fortunate for you that your are not today standing before the court to be sentenced for murder instead of larceny from the person. I do not understand why you permitted yourself to stoop to so mean and dangerous a crime. You were not hungry, nor were you braving danger and defying the law to feed a starving family.

You were reported to be a m an of means and of some influence, not only among men of your own calling, but also in certain political and other walks of life. You may have presumed upon that influence, or you may have been encouraged by the unbridled or the unpunished spirit of lawlessness that has already too long been riding roughshod and rampant in the community.”

“The judgement of the court is that you, Thomas Holland, are guilty of the crime of larceny from the person, as found by the verdict of the jury, and the sentence of the court is that you be confined in the state penitentiary of the state of Colorado, at hard labor, for a period of not less than five, nor more than ten years.” 3 Holland’s face was pale as he listened to the scathing words of the court. The sentence of five years at hard labor in the penitentiary almost unnerved the man. As he sat down with the walls of the prison staring at him, a slight moisture gathered about his eyes, but he said nothing.

Resuming the “Knockout Business” One year ago, Judge Booth M. Malone of the district court, announced from the bench that it was time for the “knockout business” in Denver to cease operations, and he proceeded to administer a dose of drops strong enough to put a notorious knockout offender out of commission for a period of ten years.

Judge Malone’s actions was taken after a careful examination of the case under consideration, having heard all the testimony and arguments on both sides. After an ex-parte examination, the state board of pardons has prescribed an antidote for Judge Malone’s medicine. The verdict of a jury, the sentence of the district court and the ruling of the supreme court are mullified by the decision of the board of pardons, and the knockout venders may resume business at the old stand.

Governor Orman will probably pardon Thomas Holland, who is

serving time at Canon City for a despicable crime. As a member of the board of pardons, James B. Orman has recommended to Governor Orman that Holland be released from the penitentiary. In his executive capacity, the governor cannot consistently ignore the request made by himself to his advisory capacity. With characteristic evasion of responsibility, the governor will say: “Really, I haven’t had the time to examine the case, but I assume that the board has given it careful consideration, and I suppose I must accept the board’s finding. Honestly, could you expect me to do otherwise?”

“Tom Holland conducted a disreputable saloon in a most respectable portion of the city - in the heart of the business center of Denver. His place was a rendezvous for well-dressed rascals and was headquarters for ‘repeaters’ on election day. He was a power in ward politics, and his pull afforded him protection. One day he was overreached himself and committed a crime so flagrant that it could not be passed without notice. He was given a fair trial, and, in spite of all influences and legal ability used in his behalf, he was convicted. Arguments were submitted for a new trial, which was denied, and the supreme court refused to interfere. He was given every opportunity to establish his innocence. His was not the case of a poor and friendless man rushed to prison because he lacked means for defense.

Escape from Prison Through the Political Avenue The release of the notorious Tom Holland, mixer of knockout cocktails and fixer of elections, in generally condemned to this community, for his guilt was thoroughly established at his trial, and no new evidence has been presented to show his innocence.

Holland’s pardon was due to political influences, and was not an act of justice to an innocent man, or of clemency to a deserving one.

Holland was a power in ward politics before his conviction, and so many politicians were under obligations to him that his pull was

Bottles and Extras not broken when the doors of the state’s prison closed behind him. A new campaign is about to open and the governor needs assistance. Holland has proved himself to be a valuable political worker, but as Convict No. 5204, his services would have been unavailable.

The evil of such pardons is not so much in the release of an individual criminal as in its effect upon the wrongdoers. It is possible that Tom Holland will hereinafter be careful not to get tangled up in the meshes of the law. He will probably confine his bartending to serving straight drinks, without a dash of knockout bitters in them. But the object of the law is not simply to punish the individual offender or to reform him. It is also to furnish an example to others of his class. When the law is nullified, its exemplary effect is destroyed.

In the Holland pardon, the governor has notified the divekeepers that they have licence to resume their disreputable methods, providing they render sufficient political service. Their freedom depends not upon their good conduct, but upon their political efficiency. 4 Notorious Convict Released Thomas Holland was recommended for executive clemency by the board of pardons at the request of numerous democratic politicians. Holland’s place has for years been one of the most notorious resorts in the city for the repeaters and ballot box stuffers.

It was from his place that repeaters went out in droves at the last city election to cast illegal ballots and corrupt the elections. A large number of ward politicians appeared before the governor to plead for Holland’s pardon. 5 Judge Booth Malone sent a letter, which,

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while not declaring it in behalf in the man’s innocence, left it discretionary with the board to judge if Holland ought to be set at liberty.

Another election is approaching and the outlook is not very bright for the party, which always depends on Holland’s saloon to do its share in electing a ticket and his services were again needed, hence the pardon.

Those Responsible There is great public interest in the names of the persons who have been instrumental in setting Holland at liberty. Among those petitioned for Holland’s release were five from district court, two assessors, one county clerk and recorder, five county commissioners, one sheriff and a number of business men. Besides these were about 100 signatures of private individuals unknown to the general public.

A second petition came from the democratic office holders at the police station, including the chief of police, captain of detectives, under sheriff, state oil inspector and many others along with about 50 names of persons not well known.

Then there were a large number of men who went to the trouble of writing or signing personal letters to the governor, or the board of pardons. Among them were Holland’s family physician, a manufacturer, a cigarmaker, a doctor, a paper dealer, an auctioneer, a bank cashier, a liquor dealer (Ed Lewin), the Zang Brewery Co., the warden of the penitentiary and finally came a communication signed by the ten jurors who could be reached. Many of the personal letters were identical in their contents, showing they had been prepared by one person and signatures secured to them. 6 Don’t forget to visit your personal library and look up information on the saloon

owners that produced whiskey flasks in your collection. You might be surprised at what turns up.

1 2 3 4 5 6

Denver Times, July 15, 1901.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Denver Times, July 8, 1902.

Denver Times, July 9, 1902.

Ibid.

Header photo from Denver Times, July 10, 1902. Original caption for illustration reads: “Signs of approaching campaign - the Democratic politician receives his pardon, discards his flannels for citizen’s attire, and starts out to work for the cause of his political masters.”

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DR JAYNE’S ROOT BEER & ALTERATIVE

by Donald Yates From Dr. Jayne’s almanac of 1916: “Dr. David Jayne, the proprietor of the House of Dr. David D. Jayne and Son, was born in Stroudsburg, Pa., in 1799. David Jayne took up the study of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, at the age of nineteen. After receiving his medical degree, Dr. Jayne set up his practice in Salem, New Jersey.”

At this juncture, I would like to like to introduce a disclaimer. Antique bottle historians do not like to be fooled or cheated by reproductions of artifacts.

China is currently exporting beautiful Mason Fruit Jars in unbelievable colors.

China has a long history of counterfeiting 75% of their exports. India and Mexico are also known counterfeiting Countries.

The Chinese Government has outlawed Chinese pipe flanges that allowed industrial boilers to explode. Yes, these time bombs were exported to the U.S.A.!

As usual, they ground off the word CHINA and re-stamped these flanges: LUKENS – USA. As novice antique bottle collectors, one of the first things we are taught is to turn the bottle over and examine the bottom!!!

To look for a pontil mark from the glass blower, right? No!, To look for “Wheaton, N.J.” which indicates that these historic flasks were made in 1990, in the U.S. by the Wheaton Glass Works.

The medical community throughout the U.S. had its primitive and dangerous beginnings. Many early medicines were often toxic and caused more damage than the disease.

Dr. Jayne followed the example of other prominent and fraudulent medical doctors who did not hold medical degrees.

Henry Holcomb did a thorough research into the history of Dr. Jayne and published his findings in the Weekly Philatelic Gossip Newspaper in 1930: “Dr. David Jayne founded his company in 1822, in Salem, New Jersey. In 1850, he moved the Company to Philadelphia where he built the tallest office building in America. The most popular of Dr. Jayne’s products were Jayne’s Alterative and Jayne’s expectorant. Both of these questionable narcotics were made of tartar emetic, spirits of camphor, ipecac, opium, lobelia, tolu balsam, digitalis and squill (onion family). I wouldn’t want to put any of those questionable drugs in my mouth today. Emetic induces vomiting, today camphor is used for external use only, it is quite poisonous. Another name for digitalis is Deadmen’s Bells. It is a very deadly poison that could stop your heart from beating ever again.

“Dr. Jayne’s practice was that of a country doctor, involving long hours and many hardships. It gave him an opportunity to study a wide variety of diseases. Many of his patients had to travel a long distance by horse and wagon.

Drug stores were scarce, and it was necessary that his diagnosis be sound and accurate. This would help his patients from making unnecessary trips.

Dr. David Jayne was an intense student of the causes of disease and their treatment, and of the action of drugs in

relief of human ailments. The family medicines bearing his name are the result of this wide and diversified experience until today, almost one hundred years later, his medicines are used in nearly every town and hamlet in America, as well

Tradecard for Dr. Jayne’s Expectorant.

“The Latest Fashion” - Jayne’s Carminative

“The Finding of Moses” - Jaynes’s Expectorant

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“My Mamma” - Jayne’s Expectorant

“Puppy Time” - Dr. Jayne’s Tonic

as in many foreign countries. Dr. Jayne’s reputation has thus been perpetrated through his family medicines beyond his most sanguine expectations.

“During the past century, science has presented to civilization, many beneficial discoveries in the field of medicine, chemistry, and physics. Therefore, it is with pride to state that while the formulas of Dr. Jayne’s Family Medicines are essentially the same as the originals, the methods of blending have been improved in accordance with the most efficient methods.

“The drugs used in Dr. Jayne’s medicines are today recognized in major test books in the medical schools in our country.

“What could be better proof of the effectiveness of the principles of the original formulas, a century old, than to have modern doctors claiming the same therapeutic relief for the ingredients involved as claimed by Dr. Jayne? He made no claim that any of his medicines were perfect or that they were the best suited for every patient, but he has confidence in the belief that they would prove beneficial in the majority of cases.

“The management of Dr. Jayne and Son has never left the control of the immediate family, who have endeavored, while retaining the basic principles of his remedies, to keep them abreast with the best thought of modern medical science and thus maintain for their products, a standard of quality and purity.”

for family use, and in accordance with my original prescriptions, using a long practice, without the most distant idea of extending them beyond those limits. In consequence, however, of the remarkable success attending their use in the treatment of diseases, they became very popular and were re-ordered many times, so that I find it necessary to prepare them in much larger quantities in order to meet the constant demand.

“This demand has been continually increasing until there is now hardly a town or hamlet on this continent in which they are not used to a greater or less extent.

“I would remark that I was a student in one of the premier medical institutions in the United States – the University of Pennsylvania, and have over thirty-seven years experience in an extensive and diversified practice, by which many

opportunities were afforded me of acquiring a knowledge of diseases and remedies best calculated for their treatment.

“The public have, therefore, a guarantee that the formulas of these medicines are based upon strictly scientific principles, by one thoroughly acquainted with the medicinal qualities and effects of each ingredient separately, and of their combined influence when chemically united; by one also having a knowledge of the structure of the human system, and of the functions of each organ, both in its healthy and diseased condition.

“I can therefore recommend these preparations with the greatest confidence, being fully persuaded from past experience that they will give very general if not universal satisfaction; but at the same time I do not pretend to assert that they are ‘cure alls.’

Nor that they are in all cases and under all circumstances, absolutely infallible.

Yet, I can truly say I am unacquainted with any combination of medicines, which have been so uniformly successful as these in the treatment of the various diseases for which I have recommended them.

“The use of these family medicines is not confined to the illiterate and credulous, for innumerable persons of intelligence and character, occupying the most prominent stations in society, too honest to them in the highest terms of praise for the consistency of their success in subduing diseases. But discarding all other considerations, I, in conclusion, earnestly desire all to carefully read, examine and determine for themselves the value of my assertions.”

David Jayne – MD 1865

“The Morning Prayer” - Jayne’s Vermifuge

“The Talking Well” - Dr. Jayne’s Tonic

A Word to all Readers: From David Jayne – M.D. 242 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, Pa. – December, 1865: “Dr. David Jayne’s Family Medicines are compounded with great care, expressly

30 DR. DAVID JAYNE & HIS LIFE WORK From Dr. Jayne’s 1916 Almanac: “There is a broad distinction between remedies: one class is made and then forced upon the market in the expectation that it will find a demand. The other class is made for limited use and finds a broader market, through a natural spontaneous demand.

“To this latter class belongs the remedies that were given to the world by Dr. Jayne. These remedies were not compounded with the idea that they should find a market. Used at first in Dr. Jayne’s practice for many years, their broader preparation was forced because of a market resulting from their own fame.

“Dr. David Jayne usually was a practitioner of the old school. He was the son of a minister and throughout his life was living the faith of his fathers. After completing medical training, Dr. Jayne established his practice in Salem County, New Jersey. In this quaint region, he took care of a growing number of patients and farmers, giving them the same attention that has made the old school physician the first friend of the home.

“It was for use in this practice that Dr. Jayne developed his well known formulas.

In those days it was necessary that the physician in remote towns should be his own druggist. Drug stores were not common, and if in a difficult case a life was to be saved, the physician must not only be equal to the emergency as a physician, but besides diagnosing and prescribing, he must have himself mix the medicine at the bedside.

“It was in this crucible of experience in his night vigils at the bedside of sickness, in his comings and goings over lonely roads and in bitter weather, that Dr. Jayne ripened his experience in the practice of medicine. And it was so that

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NOTE: Lets make a quick observation here with Dr. Jayne, who made house calls in the winter, riding a horse drawn carriage. Today’s modern physician is guaranteed never to have to make a house call to visit a sick patient, even though he/she can travel at 50 miles per hour, in lieu of four miles per hour via a tired horse.

“It has truly been said by Ralph Waldo Emerson, that if a man can do something better than other men, even though it be the making of a mouse trap ‘Though he builds his house in the forest, the world will make a beaten path to his door.’ The truth of this saying of the great philosopher was illustrated in the case of Dr. Jayne. His fame spread beyond Salem County and soon came demands for the remedy that had done so much good in so many cases.”

So Dr. Jayne began to make up small quantities to fill this new demand, though still continuing his arduous daily practice in Salem County. The demand however continued to increase until Dr. Jayne, in order to obtain the facilities for manufacturer which were not available in Salem, was compelled to move to Philadelphia, then as now one of the world’s leading markets in drugs and chemicals.

In 1855, he formed a partnership with his son and two other relatives under the firm name of Dr. D. Jayne and Son, for the manufacture of Dr. D. Jayne’s Family Medicines in large quantities and on a commercial basis.

“Then came the first great development of the business – the request by druggists and general store keepers for the medicines in quantity. As a result of

Bottles and Extras this demand, Dr. Jayne began the system of selling his prescriptions on the consignment plan. It started out small, but the number of agencies grew rapidly and, several years ago, exceeded the ten thousand mark.

“It is a surprising fact that in every world development since the day of Dr. Jayne, these medicines have kept step with the march of progress and civilization.

Dr. Jayne’s preparations have been on the medicine shelves of pioneers in all parts of the world. They have gone with missionaries into the far east, have crossed plains with the Western emigrants, have been the standby of the gold hunters in Alaska, and today it may be safely said that every Hamlet from coast to coast might be searched and that scarcely one could be found in which the Jayne medicines are not procurable. It has been the gratifying conviction of the House of Dr. Jayne and Son that the medicines have won this enviable place because they have accomplished that which was claimed for them.

“It is precisely the same with medicines as with other articles – an untrue claim is a boomerang. And with the surest proof that the belief as to the efficacy of these medicines has never been overstated, is their steady growth in popularity throughout the world.

“The plan of issuing a medical almanac, giving accurate compilations and observations, was conceived by Dr. Jayne in 1843. It was his purpose to make this a reference book, valuable alike to the farmer in the broad west, to the seafarer on the wastes of ocean and to the city dweller. Small at first, this almanac rapidly expanded until it became a household reference book in literally millions of homes, offices, ship cabins, lumberman’s shacks, miners’ cabins and in all corners of the world. It is translated

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“Words of Comfort” - Jayne’s Vermifuge

“Saturday Night Bath” - Jayne’s Carminative

“The Ghost Story” - Jayne’s Expectorant

into many different languages. Mariners use it to determine the tides at any time or place. The farmer bases upon it his conjectures for the weather, and its tabulations have been referenced to in courts of law.

“Concerning the House of Dr. Jayne and Son as it is today, it may be remarked that it differs from many establishments which still retain the name of the founder.

Many of these, while retaining prestige because of the fame of a great founder, have gradually changed ownership, new persons coming in, in no way interested in the traditions of the house, but regarding them solely from a business standpoint.

“Dr. D. Jayne and Son on the other hand, has remained throughout its long history under the control and management of Dr. Jayne and his family. Today a son and grandson are the responsible heads of this large enterprise. They have more than a mere business interest in holding it to its original standards; and it is the policy of this house to hold steadfastly in the future, as in the past, to those standards.”

suffering from worms, thinking that this infection can only be present in neglected children. This belief is not well founded, as all children are more or less exposed at times to worm infection. Certain members of the medical profession fail to recognize the existence of worms as an established fact, or to identify the symptoms that they cause. Children are frequently subjected to long continued and drastic treatment for nervous conditions of obscure origin, colicky pains and diarrhea, when the little patient is suffering from Round or Thread Worms.

“The Round Worm is the most common parasite of children, the infection taking place through food or drink, or by the fingers, in the case of children who have been playing where soil pollution exists.

“There are two species of Tape Worm, which are commonly found in man, the Beef Tape Worm and the Pork Tape Worm.

One of these species, the Beef Tape Worm is by far the most common in the United States, while the Pork Tape Worm is quite frequently found in some parts of Europe.

“During the last century, people cooked their meat, not realizing that they were killing all of the harmful bacteria and worms and parasites. The cooking was performed to ad flavor to the meat and was a bonus in disease prevention.”

in the stomach or bowels due to undigested food, it is well to thoroughly evacuate the bowels with some quick acting saline laxative, to be followed in a few minutes with the Carminative.

“Dr. Jayne’s Carminative, as the name implies, is a valuable preparation for giving relief to the above simple conditions.”

Dr Jayne’s Root Beer We certainly don’t know much about Dr. Jayne’s Root Beer. The mug looks like to be of approximately 1935 vintage.

This mug is another enigma.

Dr. Jayne’s Vermifuge “This valuable medicine has the power to expel Round Worms from the intestinal tract. It is also of value as an antacid, relieving sourness of the stomach.

“The two common species of round worms infecting the intestinal tract are familiarly known as Round or Stomach Worms, often found in adults as well as children, and Pin, Seat, or Thread Worms, very commonly found in children.

“The presence of these two types of Worms is frequently the unsuspected cause of many baffling and alarming symptoms for which there seems to be no obvious cause. Parents are frequently deluded into the belief that their carefully nurtured child cannot possibly be

Dr. Jayne’s Carminative “For summer diarrhea, due to undigested food. The hot weather of late summer and early fall – harvest time for most of the crops, vacation time for the multitude, are a few of the conditions to blame for indiscretion of diet. Sour stomach, summer diarrhea of indigestion, cramps in the stomach and bowls, due to undigested food, and irritation of the intestinal tract due to gases, are some of the common ailments.

“Chilling the intestinal tract with ice water or iced beverage, eating unripe fruit, or partially cooked vegetables, or meat, often causes severe and sometimes fatal cramps in hot weather.

“When suffering from sour stomach, summer diarrhea of indigestion, cramps

Dr. Jayne’s Tonic “This medicine, a combination of an Alterative and a Tonic, will be found a valuable aid in restoring to a normal healthy state individuals in a general run down condition, due to improper nutrition, nervousness, or overwork.

“As a stomachic, this medicine when taken regularly improves the appetite and acts as a tonic to the stomach and intestines, thereby aiding these organs to function normally by stimulating a desire for more food. A person in general run down condition will soon show an improvement, as indicated by a healthy appetite, gain in weight and a feeling of energy and vigor.

“As an Alterative Tonic this medicine will be found of marked value for impoverished condition of the blood, due to improper nutrition.

“With some individuals, and in certain districts where a deficiency in iodine occurs, the Alterative Tonic taken for a period of ten days each year, especially in the spring and fall, will be found to be beneficial as an alterative.”

Donald Yates 8300 River Corners Road Homerville, OH 44235 (330) 625-1025 donaldbetsyyates@earthlink.net

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The Best Bottle Collection in the WEST!!!

by Charles E. Blake Every once in awhile, an extraordinary individual emerges from the general population and sets the standard for all others in the arena. One remarkable individual that I have had the pleasure to know is Bryan Grapentine.

Bryan exemplifies the epitome of what all collectors should strive for: obtainment of the most desirable pieces for ones collection while displaying a higher standard of behavior in the bottle collecting community.

I chose to write this article about Bryan to shine some light on this person and his bottle collecting prowess, amassing what I am certain is The Best Bottle Collection in the WEST!!!

Bryan first developed his interest in bottle collecting while working at Honeywell. There, Bryan was involved with the organization’s Rockhound Club, The Pebble Pickin’ Posse, and during one of their meetings was entertained with a program on relic hunting and collecting.

The speaker for the program presented a Prescott, A. T. Hutchison soda bottle, which lit Bryan’s bottle collecting fever.

Bryan’s initial bottle collection sounds very familiar, consisting of examples from every category. His collecting interests evolved, specializing in soda bottles and all types of Arizona bottles.

Later, Bryan’s collection again

broadened but focused on glue, magic, Palmer perfume, Royal Ruby Red, Florida Water, Coca-Cola, and Canadian bottles, always adding advertising/’go-withs’ of all types. More recently, Bryan has mainly added ink, bitters, and scent bottles to his collection, as well as Sandwich glass.

When asked about the size of his collection, Bryan, at last count, had acquired 2,503 exceptional bottles but quickly added, “I put quality and interest above mere numbers.”

Bryan has been a member of the Phoenix Antiques, Bottles, and Collectibles Club for over 20 years. The club in the early years was named Pick & Shovel Bottle Club because many of the club members were active bottle diggers, something Bryan continues to try to do.

Bryan has functioned in every aspect of the club’s operations, performing every elected official duty, except Treasurer, holding appointed positions, and acting as a member of the club’s board of directors for many years.

Bryan also was the Chairman of the first bottle show, held at the Arizona Fairgrounds. Bryan recalled, “We rented one half of the Youth Building for that show,” emphasizing the small size of the early bottle collecting community in Arizona. This makes Bryan one of the important founders for organized bottle

A view of the fifty-state collection of Hutchison soda bottles.

Two of Bryan’s favorite bottles. collecting in Arizona.

Bryan is still active in the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors (FOHBC) and has held several positions within this organization in the past. He also has written approximately 22 articles for the FOHBC magazine, winning a Writer’s Award twice.

Bryan derives much pleasure from the hobby and likes to contribute to the FOHBC and his local club.

There is never a dull moment when speaking to Bryan about his collection. I asked Bryan about his favorite bottles in the collection and he came up with seven: “(1) JULES BOURBON JULIUS GOLDBAUM TUCSON, A. T., back bar bottle. This is a beautiful amber bottle with white enameled lettering including six stars and gold gilding. “(2) HARRISON’S COLUMBIAN INK, my first very expensive bottle. This is the gallon size which has a nice pontil mark and is cobalt blue; a very attractive bottle. “(3) BRYANT’S STOMACH BITTERS, a rare western bitters, cone shaped, with 8 panels, and 14 ¼-inches tall. “(4) KELLY’S OLD CABIN

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Left: J. Boardman soda in pink. Right: Another display case of bottles.

Above and below: Sodas.

Another wall of bottles.

Small scent bottles.

Bryan and Pearl Grapentine.

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Above left: Display case of bitters bottles.

Above right: A variety of colors to wow the observer.

Below right: A display of grenades along with some ‘go-withs.’

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BITTERS, recently purchased from American Bottle Auction. The bottle is one of the classic bitters in a very unusual light teal green color, gorgeous! “(5) R. L. HIGGINS VIRGINIA CITY. I have one of the two known complete sets of the three ink bottles, a small aqua cone, amber master, and a aqua master ink. The master inks are rather small in size. “(6) Cobalt skull POISON. These figural skull poisons come in three sizes and I have managed to acquire them all, difficult bottles to find in undamaged condition. “(7) OLD DR. TOWNSEND’S CELEBRATED STOMACH BITTERS, an amber, pontilled bottle. This is unusual flask shape with an applied handle. Few bitters bottles have a handle.”

I then asked Bryan, which five bottles he most desired for his collection. He replied: “(1) CASSIN’S BITTERS, with the recessed or indented panels; “(2) DR. WONSER’S BITTERS, in green color; “(3) An embossed fruit jar in cobalt or sapphire blue; “(4) STEINFELD’S FRENCH COGNAC BITTERS FIRST PRIZE PARIS EXHIBITION 1867; and

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Another display, this one is toiletries.

“(5) HARRISON-TIPPECANOE early pontilled ink in any color.”

Bryan related that bottle collecting has been more than just a hobby; it has been a way of life. Bottle collecting has made his life more interesting and often more exciting. He stated, “Some people get their excitement from gambling, I get it from acquiring another bottle for the collection.”

Bryan related several more interesting and important landmarks in his bottle collecting history such as recalling the many digging/camping trips with the club; purchasing a 32-ounce EAGLE DRUG CO. PHOENIX, ARIZ., after many years of negotiating; finding six mint historical flasks at a yard sale for little money and selling two for $25,000; his first antique bottle show in Las Vegas, he was amazed at the number of bottles for sale; finding a scarce ARIZONA SODA WORKS PRESCOTT ARIZ. hutch in a small antique shop; completing his 50-state hutchison soda bottle collection; completing his eleven territory hutchison soda bottle collection with the acquisition of Idaho (I.T.); buying several collections which had many intriguing bottles; attending his first really big quality show, The EXPO, in Montgomery, Ala. in 1984; buying many Assorted colors, shapes and sizes of bottles cover the east wall.

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great bottles from a collection dug in Colorado; and the list goes on and on.

Bryan always is willing to give others advice on their bottles and collections.

Bryan’s advice to the beginning collector, “Start out as a general collector and later specialize on one or two categories. Buy items in good condition and from an investment standpoint, it is important to understand that one $100 bottle is better than ten $10 bottles. Buy all the good bottle books you can find, not price guides, and subscribe to the FOHBC’s Bottles and Extras magazine to enhance, keep up to date on the hobby and general bottle collecting information you have obtained.”

Bryan’s principles and classy attitude are what helped form my bottle collecting hobby and hopefully yours too. Bryan truly is a special person with an unbelievable collection. See the pictures included with this article and you be the judge of what I know is The Best Bottle Collection in the WEST!!!

Rotating display of ink bottles.

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Canadian bottle display.

The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors Membership Benefits Individual Membership Open to any individual that has an interest in bottles, flasks, jars or related items, some of the benefits of membership are: • A full year subscription to our quarterly 84-page publication Bottles and Extras, which contains specialty articles, regular columns, classified advertising, show reports, reports pertaining to our clubs and a listing of bottle shows nationwide.

• Quarterly newsletters detailing news of the Federation and the hobby.

• Free advertising of “For Sale” items in Bottles and Extras (a trial period of 1 year duration, beginning with the Summer (July) 2003 issue. Restrictions apply - ads may be up to 100 words, items must be of $25.00 or greater value, and free advertisements are limited to the first 100 received, based upon date mailed.)

• One free ad of 60 words each year for use for items “Wanted”, trade offers, etc.

• Advice on publishing your book / manuscript, and a forum for your articles.

• The opportunity to obtain “Early Admission” to the annual Federation shows.

• Access to the informational FOHBC Slide Show Presentations.

• Individuals holding full membership may additionally request Associate membership for their spouses and children up to age 18. The costs for this is $5 per individual.

Affiliated Club Membership Available to any club, association or organization which has ten or more members and has an interest in bottles, flasks, jars, or related items, some of the benefits of affiliated membership are: • A full-year subscription to the quarterly magazines and newsletters, plus...

• A 50% reduction in the cost of display advertising in the magazine and the newsletter.

- In addition to this, there is a free ¼-page advertisement in the newsletter and free posting of the ad on the Federation website, www.fohbc.com, as a part of the advertising package when you advertise your show in the magazine.

• One complimentary individual membership per year is provided to Affiliated Clubs for their use as an honorarium, raffle item, door prize, etc.

• The Federation will post links from our website into your clubs website free of charge and will assist with creation of a web page for you, as our webmaster’s time allows. You supply the photos and general text and we will do our best to get you up and running!

• A show ribbon for Most Educational Display at your show.

• Access to the informational FOHBC Slide Show Presentations.

• Each year, the Federation elects members to the Honor Roll and Hall of Fame to recognize their individual contribution to the hobby of bottle collecting. Our clubs are encouraged to sponsor individuals for these honors.

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Humphreys’ Veterinary Homeopathic Specifics Frederick Humphreys founded the Humphreys’ Homeopathic Medicine Company in New York city in 1853.

Frederick descended from a very distinguished family. He could trace his ancestors back to William the Conqueror of England. His family’s American history started with the arrival of Michael Humphrey who settled in Windsor, Connecticut in 1640.

Frederick was born in Marcellus, New York on March 11, 1816. He was the son of Dr. Erastus Humphreys. His youth was spent in Auburn, New York where he attended Auburn Academy. At the age of sixteen, he joined his uncle and brother in the clock business. In 1835 he returned home to manage his father’s farm. In 1837, at the age of 21, he married Cornelia Palmer. The couple moved to Chillicothe, Ohio soon after the marriage to be near Cornelia’s farther. It is in Chillicothe that Frederick entered the Methodist Episcopal ministry. Sadly, his wife died in 1840 and Fredrick returned to Auburn to the life of an itinerant preacher.

In 1843, Frederick married his second wife, Frances Jefferson of Ludlowville, New York. By 1844, the 28 year old

Frederick had given up the ministry and moved to Utica, New York to join his father ’s medical practice. The Pennsylvania Homeopathic Medical College in Philadelphia was the next stop for Frederick Humphreys. He entered the College in 1848 and graduated with the degree of Doctor of Homeopathic Medicine in 1850. Three years later, Dr. Humphreys and his family moved to New York City where Frederick became quite a sensation within the Homeopathic community. He established a large and successful medical practice, helped form the New York State Homeopathic Medical Society, and became an important member of the American Homeopathic Institute.

In 1854 his professional life took a major change as he started the production and sale of medication of his own invention. Dr. Humphreys called his medicines Homeopathic Specifics. Very simply, homeopathy is a medical treatment of disease giving the patient very tiny doses of drugs which produce symptoms similar to the disease being treated. The drugs then stimulate the body to “cure” the disease. Professionally, Dr. Humphreys then had to fight against such name calling as “fraud” and “quack”.

Figure 1 (L) and 2 (R): Two examples of middle size veterinary bottles. The early bottle has the word "Specifics" above the horse and in the company name at the bottom. The later example has had the bottle mold altered to remove the word "Specifics" from both locations. Note that while the size of the bottles is identical, the early example has a much taller neck.

The ten medicines commonly included in the stable case and the problems each cured were: A.A.: Fevers, Congestion, Inflammation B.B.: Strains, Lameness C.C.: Distemper, Strangles, Influenza D.D.: Worms, Bots, Grubs E.E.: Coughs, Heaves, Broken Wind [Fig. 5] F.F.: Colic, Belly-ache, Diarrhea G.G.: Miscarriage, Retained After-birth H.H.: Kidney, Urinary Diseases, Dropsy I.I.: Eruptions, Mange, Grease, Thrush J.K.: Indigestion, Constipation, Paralysis (originally labeled J.J.) [Fig. 6] The “Special” medicines produced, but not included in the stable case: L.L.: Masturbation or Self-Abuse in Colts or Stallions M.M.: Sterility or Failure to Breed in Cows N.N.: Sexual Weakness, or Impotence in Stallions T.T.: Lock-Jaw, Tetanus, Convulsions

Figure 3: Wide mouth Cure Oil jar. One jar was included in every Humphreys' stable case. Labeled examples are very uncommon and can sell for several hundred dollars.

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Figure 4: Advertising trade card c.1890 for Humphreys' Cure Oil. This wonderful horse image has made this card one of the most sought veterinary trade cards.

His company prospered and made Dr. Humphreys a very wealthy man indeed.

The Humphreys Homeopathic Medicine Company entered the production of veterinary medicines around 1860. While his human remedies were numbered, his veterinary cures were lettered. Ten medicines were commonly produced for animals. Four other “Special” medicines were made, but were not commonly available without special order. Humphreys’ veterinary remedies could be purchased individually or in a stable case. The stable case was designed to be an emergency case, held ready to treat any horse ailment that arose in the stable. The stable case was a locking, wooden box which held one each of the Humphreys’ remedies, a jar of Cure Oil, a Humphreys’ manual of diagnosis of diseases and treatment, and a glass medicator for counting out the drops of medicine necessary to treat the animal.

The Humphreys’ manual also contained a folded stable chart which was often nailed to the wall of the stable for quick reference. [See table on previous page.]

Stable cases were produced in three sizes, to hold the three sizes of Humphreys’ Veterinary Remedies produced. The largest veterinary bottles are 2"x 2" x 6 1/2". They are embossed with the horse head design, commonly seen on the small Humphreys’ bottles.

Early examples have the word “Specific”

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The very first veterinary bottles Humphreys produced were simple embossed: HUMPHREYS’ / VETERINARY / SPECIFICS. At that time, there was no horse head embossing on the bottle. The design of the horse embossed on the back of the small bottles varied greatly with time. Ten different horse designs have been identified by collectors. Some of the changes are very minute, while others are quite extreme.

The rarest variation and most different, is the left facing horse with the wild and woolly mane.

The Veterinary Cure Oil came in a square glass jar, 2 3/4" x 2 3/4" x 4 3/4", which had a large mouth [Figure 3]. This Oil was advertised as “Surpasses every

Bottles and Extras other application for allaying pain, arresting bleeding, arresting inflammation and promoting healing.”

Cure Oil jars are uncommon and missing from most collectors stable cases. The glass medicator, being the most fragile item in the stable case is also the rarest.

Over the years of medicine production, the labels on the cork top bottles changed.

These changes were principally caused by government regulation. The following list of label changes, I believe, follows the years of production from earliest to latest.

To my knowledge, dating these label changes with any degree of accuracy has not been done. As with any list, this one is most likely incomplete. Please contact me if you have any additional information about Humphreys veterinary bottles, their embossing, or their labels.

1) “Specific” on label with no alcohol percentage.

2) “Specific” used and 52% alcohol.

3) Without “Specific” but keeps 52% alcohol.

4) 52% blacked out and 15% overprinted.

5) 15% alcohol.

6) 15% and block letters used for name.

Dr. Frederick Humphreys, M. D. died in 1900 and was buried in Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn, New York. The company he founded survived and

Figure 5 (L) : Early labeled small bottle of E.E. Used to treat Coughs, Heaves, and Broken Wind in horses. This example has the word "Specific" and no alcohol percentage designation.

This would be a c. 1900 example.

Figure 6 (R) : Later small bottle for J.K. The word "Specifics" has been removed and the alcohol designation has been reduced to 15%. Most veterinary collectors today only collect labeled examples of the Humphreys' Veterinary Remedies. While many variations of the bottle embossing exist, collecting by embossing variation is currently neglected.

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Frederick Erastus Humphreys was named after both his grandfather and his great-grandfather. He was born on September 16, 1883 in Summit, New Jersey. His father, Jay Humphreys was the son of Frederick Humphreys, the founder of the Humphreys’ Homeopathic Medicine Company. Frederick E. attended the United States Military Academy at West Point. He graduated eighth in the Class of 1906. He entered the Corp of Engineers and was detailed to the Signal Corp.

In 1907, the Signal Corp established an Aeronautical Division and let bids for the construction and operation of flying machines. The Wright Brothers were the only bidders to successfully build a plane.

Aeroplane #1 was accepted on August 2, 1909. It weighed 800 pounds, was driven by a 30 horsepower motor and cost the Army $30,000. The Wright Brothers were also required to teach two officers to fly their plane. One of those officers was Frederick Erastus Humphreys.

Wilbur Wright gave Lieutenant Humphreys a little over 3 hours of flight instruction . He then sent him on his first solo flight that lasted all of three minutes.

Two flights later, Lt. Humphreys was the Army’s first “certified” military pilot. The date was October 29, 1909.

Frederick E. Humphreys resigned his commission in 1910 and joined the family business. He was a part of the business until his death in 1939. The last twelve years of his life he was President of the Humphreys Homeopathic Medicine

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In 1940 the company name was changed to the Humphreys’ Medicine Company. It is not clear who was running the company at this time but an unconfirmed reference indicates that it was probably being run by Frederick’s brother. In 1952 another famous Humphreys flyer entered the company and became President and CEO in 1954.

Suzanne Humphreys-Ford-de Florez was born in Far Hill, New York in 1915.

She was the great-grand daughter of Dr. Frederick Humphreys. Suzanne was bitten by the flying bug at age ten. At the age of 16, she started her flying lessons and by eighteen she was racing planes and doing stunts. When World War II came to America women were not allowed into the Air Corp. Suzanne applied to the United Kingdom Air Transport Auxiliary.

At the time, she was a flight instructor on Long Island. In 1942, she entered the Royal Air Force and was a ferry pilot until 1945 when she returned to the United States.

Suzanne took over the family company from her father in 1954 and and continued in it’s leadership until sometime after 1985. In 1968, the company changed it’s name again, becoming Humphreys’ Pharmacal Inc. Suzanne passed away in July, 2001.

According to a Google search in the internet, Humphreys’ Pharmacal Inc. is still doing business and is located in Rutherford, New Jersey. They are described on one site as being the second largest manufacturer of homeopathic products in America. I could not,

Figure 7 (L) : Tin front display cabinet commonly refered to as the "Barnyard Scene". Two variations exist in which the line of print just below the scene differs.

Figure 8 (R) : This is the display cabinet refered to as the "composite horse". This is a compressed paper material that gives the horse a raised, 3-D effect. Three variations of this cabinet exist in which the placement of the lettering around the central horse differs. This was also produced in an original frame for hanging on the wall.

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Figure 9: Tin front cabinet that I call the "Porthole Horse". This is considered to be the last display cabinet produced by Humphreys c. 1920. This is by far the rarest of the Humphreys' tin front cabinets.

however, locate a web site for the company. After 150 years of production, the company that was founded by Dr. Frederick Humphreys’ is still active in the homeopathic medicine industry.

References: “The Medicine Chest,” Dr. Richard Cannon; Antique Bottle & Glass Collector Magazine.

Air Transport Auxiliary Org. New York State Military Museum.

Fort Hill Cemetery, Auburn , New York.

America’s Successful Men of Affairs.

Website: www.Homeoint.org.

Humphreys’ Homeopathic Medicine Company booklets.

Figure 10: Dr. Frederick Humphreys (1816-1900), the founder.

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by Dr. Dewey Heetderks

For the past thirty years I have been collecting urologically related bottles and ephemera. Yes, I am a urologist. My collection includes medicines for kidney and bladder disease, lithontriptics (stone dissolvers), aphrodisiacs and venereal disease nostrums.

A specific area of interest has been urological medicines that existed during the pontiled bottle era, i.e. around 1850 and before. Vaughn’s Vegetable Lithontriptic Mixture - Buffalo and Cowan’s Lithontriptic are the two known pontiled stone dissolvers that did exist. Dr. Magnin’s Lucina Cordial or The Elixir of Love-Paris is the known pontiled aphrodisiac and a bottle that is labeled only, 4-11-44, is the pontiled nostrum for venereal disease. Although these bottles are scarce, there are several varieties of each.

However, when it comes to the kidneybladder disease, there is only a single pontiled medicine that is known. It is a cure, Dr. J.R. Flander’s Specific For Cure Of Disease Of The Kidneys and Stone In Bladder – New York (Figure 1-2). Today, only two such bottles are known to exist.

But, why only one known pontiled kidneybladder nostrum? Although kidney disease

was not infrequent, bladder and voiding complaints should have been a common problem. Prior to 1850 for comparison, there were approximately 100 different pontiled cures and over 1000 pontiled medicines for a wide variety of human complaints and illnesses. Also, significant is the fact, that after 1850 there were several hundred different smooth based medicines for kidney-bladder disease. So why is there one, and only one, pontiled nostrum for this problem?

A basic and primary cause for urologic complaint is partial urinary obstruction.

Also, it is important to remember that such a disease problem usually worsens with age. The classic example is prostate enlargement, either benign or malignant.

An additional consideration is the frequent presence of prostatic cancer, being the most common cancer in man. Again, such problems only worsen with aging of the patient, so that longevity of life becomes significant.

Today life expectancy is carefully followed among the nations of the world, and data have been collected for many years 1 (Figure 3). If a man was born in the United States in 2001, he has a life expectancy of approximately 75.2 years.

Figure 1: Dr. J. R. Flander’s Specific for Cure Of Disease Of The Kidneys and Stone In Bladder. The only kidney related nostrum sold prior to 1850.

In 1950 the life expectancy averaged 66 years and, in 1900, it averaged 48 years.

It is significant that in 1850 the life expectancy was only 38.3 years for males (Caucasian). In summing up, there was a marked decrease in the length of man’s life 2 (Figure 4-5).

Prior to 1850, man’s very short life span was certainly a major contributing factor for the low incidence of kidney-bladder disease. The result was that urological pontiled medicines were rarely needed.

Of course some people were long lived, but, in general, life was physically strenuous, hazardous and relatively brief.

The bad news was that life was brief, but the good news was you missed most of the urological problems.

Figure 2: Label reads: Mrs. Wood’s Medicina The Greatest Remedy of the Day Prepared by Mrs. Sophia H. Woods Assisted by Mr. A M. Woods, Gen’l Agent, 518 Grand St., New York City

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Fig. 3: Life Expectancy of Males and Females

WHO 1996. World health statistics annual, 1995. Geneva: World Health Organization.

2 Department of Health and Human Services, National Center of Health Statistics; web: www.dhhs.gov.

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Dr. Dewey Heetderks 4907 N. Quail Crest Drive Grand Rapids, MI 49546 Phone: (616) 949-0713 E-mail: DHeetderks@aol.com

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Figure 4: Life Expectancy by Age, 1850-2000

The expectation of life at a specified age is the average number of years that member of a hypothetical group of people of the same age would continue to live if they were subject throughout the remainder of their lives to the same mortality rate.

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Figure 2 If I had to give this edition of Random Shots a title, it would probably be along the lines of “All That Glisters is not Glass”.

Purists will probably not appreciate me torturing Shakespeare’s oft-quoted line from The Merchant of Venice in this way, but the city is synonymous with fine crystal glassware so it seems fitting for an article on the metal varieties of shot “glasses.”

My first introduction to metal shots was not a happy one. I was a long-time shot collector but newly-introduced to the bounties of eBay. I had yet to learn that the ability to commit e-funds with the click of the wrist short-circuits the normal deliberative process during which one weighs the object’s history and worth. I happily forked over the costs of the auction and shipping on two metal pre-pro shots which, upon arrival several days later, turned out to be bottle caps!

In retrospect, the presence of threads around the rims was a major clue as to their true origins [Figure 3], but they weren’t apparent as such in the auction photos. Not without good reason is “Caveat Emptor” the first rule of eBay! But there are a number of bona fide pre-pro metal shots and they provide an interesting means of breaking up the glittering regularity of a shot-glass display case.

is shown in Figure 4. The cap reads DRINK / LUCKY MYSTIC / 3 TIMES 3 / RYE WHISKEY. This shot’s origins remained unknown until a booklet featuring Lucky Mystic whiskey appeared at auction about a year ago. It showcased the wares of Mihalovitch, Fletcher & Co., a Cincinnati-based company that was first listed in city directories in 1875. The only other Fig. 4 telescoping “shots” I know of all stand around 3" tall when open and are made of aluminum. One advertises Victor Whiskey [Figure 5], the product of an old and revered Philadelphia concern. The company was established in 1832 by J. A. Daugherty and operated from ca. 1844 until Prohibition by two generations of Gills. The cup has a decidedly industrial or even WWII-era military feel to it and must have been the pre-pro equivalent of the modern Big Gulp promoted by 7-11 convenience stores.

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Figure 3 Metal shots come in three basic forms: telescoping [Figure 2], two-part sliders [Figure 1], and thimblefuls. The first of these is also the rarest and possibly oldest of the metal advertising shots. Telescoping shots consist of a wide base attached to the lower of 5 concentric chrome-plated bands that lock when pulled apart to form a 1-3/4" cup. Surprisingly, this simple form is both robust enough to drink from and completely liquor-tight.

Brand information was stamped on a detachable lid that clips over the base of the collapsed shot and allows it to be tucked neatly into a vest pocket. Although unbranded versions bearing only patent information or the word “Knox” appear for sale occasionally, the only version I’ve seen bearing liquor advertising

Another example of this type of aluminum cup is listed in Edmonson’s Old Advertising Spirits Glasses. It was distributed

by Peter Espenscheid of Mt Vernon Ind., and it is likely that there are several additional examples that are unlisted.

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atop a screw cap, providing a convenient alternative to taking a surreptitious swig when sampling the contents became necessary [Figure 10]. I obtained the pristine example shown here from Jay Hawkins and I’m most grateful to him for being willing to part with it.

The bottle label tells a clear and intriguing story. Prior to the bottle surfacing, it was generally assumed that the slider hailed Fig. 7a Fig. 7b from St Louis, because Bob Snyder had The second class of metal shots includes the one that most recorded the “Silver Dollar” brand as being used by Louis glass collectors are familiar with. These are two-part sliders Teuscher of Teuscher & Co. The company had a fairly spotty that stand around 2-1/4" tall when open but collapse down to 1-1/2" [Figure 1]. It was one of these that first got me started Figure 10 down the shiny path, a once-in-a-lifetime find at a local antique show. The find turned out to be folly, however, because it advertises “Silver Dollar Rye’, the most common of all metal shots that appears with vulgar regularity every two weeks or so on eBay. Worse was yet to come, but not before I had acquired several different varieties of slider. The brand information always appears embossed in the base of a slider so as be visible when viewed from the outside. This feature is a major clue as to its original use, although this did not become apparent until recently (see below). A second common slider features the trademark of the Geo Stagg Company of Franklin Co., Kentucky [Figure 6].

These can also be found relatively easily and at modest cost.

The remaining examples are considerably less common. One was produced by The Hayner Distilling Co., the giant mailorder business that saturated the market with the most common of all pre-pro glasses [Figures 7a, b]. My favorite slider representation in the city directories but they apparently operated (probably because I don’t own one) features a banjo-playing from at least 1892 until Prohibition. But the bottle label identifies African-American with an embossed label that reads “Old Man the contents as being Canadian, a product of Distillers River Pure Rye Whiskey”. The maker of this brand is unknown Corporation Limited. This was the company that marked the to me, but one might guess that it has southern roots. There is transition of the powerful Bronfman family from mail-order also one advertising Old Farm Whiskey, presumably from wholesalers and bootleggers to respected distillers. The name Abraham Overholt’s distillery in West Overton, Pa. [Figure 8]. was surely designed to ape the old and revered Distillers Finally, there’s the slider labeled “PERFECTION IDEAL Company Limited of Scotland, a company that the Canadian PROTECTION” [Figure 9]. The statement is sufficiently vague upstart hoped to emulate, and eventually partnered with, for a that it might advertise a whiskey, a medicinal, or even a time. The Bronfman enterprise incorporated in Montreal in household-cleaning product: there’s no way to know for sure.

1924, meaning that the Silver Dollar slider must date to that time or later. Interestingly there are at least two variants of this slider. The one that came with the bottle is relatively uncommon and crude [Figure 11a], whereas my antique-show purchase is much more common and the impression is crisper [Figure 11b].

Perhaps the latter is more modern, its prevalence a reflection of the gaining popularity and ascendancy of the new company during a time when official US production and sales of whiskey had been reduced to a medicinal trickle.

Finally, we have the thimblefuls. The origins of these oversized sewing accessories (they are typically shot-glass sized, Fig. 8 Fig. 9 Fig. 11a Fig. 11b Most collectors assume that these sliders originated in preProhibition times and the Hayner surely must since the company did not survive Carry Nation’s posthumous hatchet. I recently discovered that the Silver Dollar did not – indeed it’s probably not even of US origin - though a manufacturer’s stamp tells us it was made here. Sliders almost invariably surface in solitary fashion, but in very rare instances they appear married to a bottle.

One such pairing is shown in the photo below; the slider sat Fig. 6

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standing around 2" tall: Figure 13a) is obscure but they clearly existed long before they were used as an advertising medium.

The unbranded versions are novelty items, fashioned to closely resemble a sewing thimble and bearing the usual inscription “Just a Thimble Full”. They can be obtained in sterling silver but the advertising variants were made from a metal alloy or more typically aluminum.

Many different thimblefuls survive, although in relatively small numbers. Since they are not prone to breakage, one has to assume that they were a more expensive form of getting the message out than their crystal counterparts. Company information appears on the cap [Figure 12] and many include an additional advertising line running just below the rim. For example, the Betterton thimble has a rim line that reads “JUST A THIMBLE FULL OF OLD WHITE OAK”, whereas the Lancaster version assures us that “GOOD OLD QUALITY / WILL NEVER TARNISH” [Figure 13b].

Unfortunately most aluminum thimblefuls do tarnish over time and survive with an unappealing patina of oxidation and grime that’s difficult to remove even with vigorous scrubbing.

But a few were made of a more resilient alloy and they’re not only stronger but more pleasing to the eye. The Alex Young Co. Ltd.’s “Old Y.P.M.” thimble is a prime example and,

coincidentally, is a rare relic of one of Philadelphia’s finest distilling operations (see the end of the article for more information on this company) [Figure 14].

Finally, it would be remiss of me not to mention the metal shot cups produced by the M Wollstein Merchantile Company of Kansas City, MO. Their shape and form is identical to that of the thimblefuls but they make no pretense about their function as an advertising giveaway. I have two examples in my collection and both provide the name of the company in three simple stamped lines with the minimum of embellishment.[Figure 15] Glass collectors generally hold metal shots in great disdain.

I collect them largely for their historical value but, while I enjoy having them displayed alongside my finer glasses, it is difficult to get as emotional about them as I do about my etched, goldrimmed treasures. The lack of competition means that they can usually be purchased at modest cost, but they’re sufficiently scarce that putting together a significant collection requires diligence and patience (shot glasses outnumber metal shots by around 100:1) .

One notable exception to the “modest cost” rule is a thimble advertising The Casper Co., of Roanoke, Va. John Casper was a large mail-order wholesaler who established his business in Winston-Salem, but was chased out of the State into Virginia

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by the rising tide of Prohibition in 1906. Casper thimbles are rare, but coincidentally, one appeared at auction while I was writing this article. It sold for $196.49, a princely sum that matches some of the rare etched shots. “All that glisters is not glass” indeed, but some of these poor relations are certainly worth their weight in gold.

Many thanks to Howard Currier for divining the historical origins of the Silver Dollar and Lucky Mystic shots. For more

information on anything appearing in this article, please contact Robin Preston at 245 N 15th St., MS #488, Philadelphia, PA 19102, or by E-mail: robin.preston@drexel.edu.

Robin is an enthusiastic collector of pre-prohibition shot glasses in all their various forms and maintains the collector’s website, www.pre-pro.com.

The Alexander Young Distilling Co. Inc., ca. 1824-1921 Difficult though it may be to believe today, Philadelphia was once a distilling powerhouse with at least five major spirits manufacturers to its name. The history of John Gibson’s company and Gibsonton Mills, Pa., has been well documented, but the other four have slipped into near oblivion over the interceding years. Indeed, there’s precious little evidence in the way of collectibles to show that these manufacturers ever existed, making it difficult for anyone interested in pre-pro Philadelphia history to flesh out the details of their operations. The Alexander Young Co. mentioned in the preceding article has been the most opaque, or at least it was until recently.

Alexander Young was a native of County Derry, Ireland. He arrived on U.S. shores in 1821 at the age of 22. It was not long before he built a still and, somewhere around 1824, entered into partnership with John Maitland to begin commercial production of malt whiskey. Their distillery was located at 4th & South Streets, within a large structure that had once served as a theatre. Their product was clearly a great success because the operations were gradually expanded and improved in succeeding years. In 1837, Maitland’s son took his father’s place in the partnership but died ten years leaving Alexander Young in sole control.

McElroy’s Philadelphia City Directory first began publication in the 1850s and lists Alexander Young as “Grain Distiller and Rectifier.” By 1865, he is billed as “Distiller of Y.P.M. Whiskies.” Young seems to have established such a strong brand recognition that the three letters YPM were all that were

necessary to assure the quality of the product within.

Bottles surviving from pre-pro years have no identifier other than a diagonal embossed banner that reads “Y.P.M.” The acronym refers to “Young’s Pure Malt” whisky and appears on all surviving artifacts from the company — not that there are many artifacts.

The Y.P.M. thimbleful shown above is the only known example of a shot and I have yet to see a corkscrew, a trade card, or even a letterhead.

Alexander Young died 1884 but the business continued operations as the Alexander Young Co. Ltd., with five capable family members at the helm. They were responsible for the advertising reproduced here (ca. 1892). My collection also includes a minutes book detailing the company’s activities over a 10-year period from 18871897. It reveals that Lewis T. Young, Alexander’s youngest son, drew a President’s salary of $3,500 per annum. While that doesn’t sound excessive for 1890, he also received several times that figure in stock dividends, one-time shareholder payouts, and from sales of personal property to the company! Wilson Young, distiller, received an annual salary of $1,500.

Workers on the distillery floor and salesroom were drawing around $15 per week at this time.

The minutes record construction of a new 1,500 gallon still and worm tub on the South St. site, and erection of the bonded warehouse at 616-622 Charles St, as indicated in the company advertising.

The plans for the warehouse were drawn

up by Geo. W. and W. S. Hewitt, Architects, and were implemented by George P. Payne & Co. at a cost of $22,399. The thimbleful in the preceding article records an address on Passyunk Ave. This was the original residence of Alexander Young and it also housed the Company store. A sum not exceeding $1,500 was approved for renovation of the storefront during 1890.

As was usual for the times, The Alexander Young Co. Ltd. was truly a family business.

Several Youngs could be found on the distillery floor and John H. Young, a grandson, ran the “Up town” store at Ridge Ave & Spring Garden Sts. A shot glass from this establishment are shown to the left. John died sometime in the 1880s, leaving behind a wife and several young children, but the minutes showed that they were well provided for by the company.

The once thriving Alexander Young Distilling Co. Inc. died with Prohibition and slipped silently into the mists of time, like many proud old family businesses across the country. But should you run across a bottle with the letters “Y.P.M.” emblazoned across its face at a local show, at least you’ll now remember that it once contained a quart of Philly’s best (many thanks to David Young for providing details of early company history).

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Medicines of the Holy Roamin’ Empire The Remedies of Reverend William S. Lunt

by Joe Terry “All is bright Beyond” Those were the last words, uttered in the early morning hours of April 24, 1879 by a remarkable person. Death took from the world that day a man well-known and respected. He gained his popularity through honesty, true friendship, and a firm belief in that for which he stood. These qualities, passed from person to person by word of mouth, generated such publicity that he rarely found mention in print. This fact makes piecing his life together today a challenge.

What does come to light shows that during his life he was a Methodist Episcopal clergyman, a gentleman farmer, a politician and a proprietary medicine salesman.

This man was William S. Lunt. Much of his early life remains shrouded in mystery. He was born in New York State on May 26, 1817 to his seventeen-yearold mother, Mary. Little else can be determined from history, but a few deductions can be made. There was a Rev. Lunt in New York, possibly William’s grandfather, and this might have been the reason he eventually entered the ministry.

Sometime in the early 1840s William was a practicing preacher and was administering to the multitudes of his home state.

William married a girl named Phila, and the two took to traveling: he preaching the gospel and she the dutiful wife. They were not alone, for the couple was joined in 1839, not by a new bundle of joy, but by William’s mother. She would remain with them for the next four decades.

The first mention of him in Ohio was in 1847. He was assigned to the ME church in Defiance. In addition to his regular duties, William was promoting and selling the Guide to Holiness. Mr. Lunt wrote this letter to the author of the

work, Dexter S. King.

Defiance, Dec. 30, 1847 Dear Brother, I cannot better express my gratitude to you for your liberal offer, made in your epistle of the 3rd, nor the willingness and pleasure with which I accept your invitation to give my mite of influence in circulating the “Guide”, than by sending you the enclosed subscribers. May I say to you that there is no work in which I am more interested and delighted, than the spread of holiness – to increase which, may the “Guide: long live under the influence of the Holy Ghost, to bear its testimony against indwelling sin, and to direct those who sigh for purity to the power of faith and the fullness of Christ.

Its contributors have evidently been baptized with an unction from the Holy One, for their testimony comes with the freshness and power of living witnesses.

But you need no encouragement from me, far off and unknown. May the Deliverer from “all iniquity” incorporate His will as a part of your being until you are brought to ascribe to him glory and praise through eternity, when may we meet to say, as we do now, that “God is all in all.”

Yours in Christ W.S. Lunt These do not sound like the words of a typical patent medicine salesman. This is not surprising, as at the time he was not yet involved with the trade, nor would he be for another year or two. His time in Defiance was short, as was common to a circuit preacher. The Kalida (Ohio) Venture for September 5, 1848 listed the appointments for the next year’s circuit, with the Rev. W.S. Lunt having charge of Maumee City (present day Maumee) and

Bottles and Extras its area churches. Though based in Maumee, William’s travels took him as far north as Tremainsville and as far south as Waterville. Along the way were scattered settlements and isolated farms, all of which he visited on his travels. He quickly became a lifeline for many of these people; bringing with him news, supplies and the occasional letter, all mixed with a good dose of salvation.

Maumee was a busy little town, named for the river on which it was situated. It was home to all manner of businesses, including several drugstores. One of these was owned by John Stanford Gregory, a purveyor of pills, potions and poultices on the town’s main street. John knew his business well, maybe even too well. He had earned himself a bad reputation with one of his patent medicine suppliers, a New Englander named Perry Davis.

While Davis’ Pain Killer [Figure 6] was a good seller, Mr. Gregory found out that making and selling his own imitation, Gregory’s Cure of Pain, was more profitable than selling someone else’s.

It is not illogical to conclude that the two men, reverend and druggist, would have met. Somewhere down the line W.S. Lunt was talked into selling his own line of medicines, changing his title from reverend to “doctor”. It was perhaps because there was a need for extra cash.

God’s rewards might fill the soul, but they did little to fill an empty stomach. A preacher was not given an extravagant paycheck; neither did he have time to do extra work. Mr. Gregory likely found a few workable formulae, and perhaps even mixed up the first few batches of medicine. Bottles were purchased, filled, labeled, and in no time William was marketing Dr. Lunt’s Family Medicines.

His job as circuit preacher allowed him access to numerous people, many of who had little time to travel to the local store.

They willing bought his medicine, which he brought with him as he traversed his circuit.

His saddlebags were brimming with bottles of Dr. Lunt’s Ague Killer [Figure 1], American Pain Killer, Balsam of Horehound [Figure 2] and Great Western Liniment [Figure 3]. Sales of his medicine were by word of mouth, but it was enough. As sales increased, personalized bottles were ordered with “Dr. W.S. Lunt’s” on one side, “Family Medicine” on the front and “Maumee, Ohio.” on the other [Figure 4]. The

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popularity of the medicines grew, and it seems likely that a few local drugstores kept a stock of his remedies on hand. John Gregory likely did him the favor, as did Peck and Robertson across the river in Perrysburg.

The situation worked out well, but it developed a foreseeable flaw. William, now known as Dr. Lunt, was still a Methodist preacher, and as such was bound to go where he was told. After two years in Maumee he received a decree to move south to Findlay, Ohio. In his departure he left behind many friends, but he promised to send them news (and medicine) as he could. He was soon preaching to the populace at the new church; a small wooden affair located on Main Cross Street. Being of a good nature, and not overbearing in his views, he quickly made many new friends. As travel was still part of his duties, his voice resounded in church buildings at Risden (now Fostoria), Arcadia and Portage.

The move necessitated new molds for his bottles. Customers had no doubts about where the medicine came from, as Findlay now took the place of Maumee. The old familiars were there, the ague syrup, the liniment and the horehound balsam. The medicines found their greatest sales locally, but some found their way as far as Indiana. A bottle dug in the Hoosier state several years ago may have ridden the distance with some gold seeker en route to California.

Dr. Lunt sold the medicines for a few more years. It could be presumed that he retired from the patent medicine business in 1854, when he withdrew from preaching. He settled on a farm in Hancock County, between Fostoria and Findlay. It is even possible that he found the money for the farm from the sale of his business. He raised stock, and made a specialty of growing various types of potatoes. Life was fairly relaxed, without the hardships of riding horseback through swamp and thicket.

His comfort was short lived. In 1855, the local Republican caucus chose him to run with Salmon P. Chase in the Ohio election. Mr. Lunt had formerly been a Democrat, but had dropped from the party on account of their pro-slavery stand.

William’s popularity was evident; not only was he nominated for state senator, he was elected. He served only one two-year term, refusing another. He returned to religion in 1858-59 by accepting a position in Fremont. He remained there until the fall of 1861, when he returned to the Fostoria area to pursue his agrarian hobbies. He was happy once again tinkering with his

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crops.

In 1867, Mr. Lunt submitted the findings of some of his horticultural experiments to several societies. The Institute Club, of New York, received a copy of his successes in growing potatoes. His results were published in Moore’s Rural New Yorker, of Rochester, on November 16, 1867. This shows he was still practicing a career as a gentleman farmer. Little else drew his interest, and he spent his time as he pleased. His life continued as he wished, living in quiet obscurity with his wife and mother.

His death came about twelve years later.

According to one obituary, his health had seen a decline prior to 1855, which would correspond with the Toledo Blade’s assessment that year. “He was compelled to abandon his former calling on account of health, and is now engaged on a stock farm in Hancock County”. He was well remembered by many, and his obituary could be found in a variety of newspapers. The Clyde Enterprise had a touching article, and the Seneca Advertiser (Tiffin) mentioned his passing in their Fostoria section, more so, in fact, than did the Fostoria paper.

Many questions still remain unanswered.

For example, what did Mr. Lunt do with his medicine business when he retired? It seems probable that he sold the rights to his remedies, but if so, who bought them? There is one known bottle, non-pontiled, embossed “Dr. Lunt’s Balsam Horehound, A.J. Boyd prop.” [Figure 5] A search of the Northwest Ohio area did not turn up such a person.

There are several possibilities, including this prospect. There was a Methodist minister by the name of A.J. Boyd, who by the 1890s was serving in the Indian Territories. It could have been he that bought the medicines, and perhaps finding little time to devote to them, abandoned them to anonymity. There is a good chance we will never know for certain.

Additionally, one of the pictured liniment bottles is not pontiled, though it was blown in the same mold as earlier versions. This fact points to a continued use of the medicine into more modern times.

The bottles shown in this article are from the collection of Findlay Antique Bottle Club member Joe Frey. I would like to thank him for sharing his collection with the readers of Bottles and Extras. If any of the readers have any Lunt bottles, especially any not mentioned in this article, Joe would be interested in hearing from you. Please drop him a line at odants@bright.net.

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Joe Terry, P.O. Box 243, Bowling Green, OH 43402; Ph: (419) 686-0032; E-mail: jiterry@wcnet.org

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Collecting DRUG STORE Stuff By: Jim Bilyeu bilyeu@qnet.com

Part III The first British bottled registered for poison was in 1859 by Savory & Barker.

The first American patent for a poison bottle was granted to Joseph Harrison in 1871. Afterwards, poison bottles were manufactured in numerous colors, sizes and shapes. The skull and crossbones were embossed on many; some were shaped like coffins, skulls, others had ribs or raised ridges. Some had raised diamonds or dimples. The early perfume bottles are good examples of the raised diamonds or dimples. The color cobalt blue was used predominately in the United States, however some drug companies

used green and also amber. The “odd shape” or raised embossing was to convey to the user, whether in the middle of the night or during the day, that this bottle contained a dangerous substance. Who knows how many unfortunate individuals mistakenly consumed poisons in the middle of the night. Sometime after 1892, the Owl Drug Company chose dark cobalt blue bottles in a triangular shape.

In 1872, the Whitall-Tatum Company introduced a new line of deep, cobalt blue bottles for poisonous substances. The surface of the bottle was embossed with a quilted pattern and sharp diamond shaped points. “Thus the bottle would protect patients from the danger of mistake both

day and night - by the touch as well as sight.” In a 1924 Whitall-Tatum catalog there is no mention of blue glass bottles.

Many things may have led to the demise of the “special” poison bottle; others have speculated — better illumination in houses, education, unfortunate attraction by children and others, and possibly the

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high cost of producing “odd shape” or special embossing. Then again maybe automatic bottle making machines played a roll.

I don’t know for sure when The Owl Drug Stores started putting poison compounds into the cobalt blue threesided bottles. The following information was found in a 1909 Owl Drug Company Catalog for ordering products through the U.S. Mail: We Adopt Every Precaution We Can to Protect Our Patrons “We now put up all our poisons of all kinds in a special style bottle made for that purpose. All poisons are put up in dark blue three-sided bottles—you can’t miss them.

When you get a bottle of this kind from us, it means that it contains poison. Of course we have poison labels of all kinds, but sometimes labels get washed off or faded out.

However, you can never mistake one of our poison bottles. What is more, we want you to look over your stock of medicines and see if you have any dangerous ones among them. Mention the size and manner you want, and we will include some empty bottles with your first shipment. Then you can remove all your poisonous or dangerous medicines to this particular style bottle. Of course we will make no charge for them.”

One thing I know for sure is the Owl Poisons are beautiful when displayed in a window or light box. There may be argument over how many different sizes relative to height of the one-wing bottles

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and two-wing bottles were manufactured, however, the contents ranged from onequarter ounce to thirty-two ounces in the one-wing, but only up to eight ounces in the two-wing. There is also one set of one-wing bottles with a slug plate type embossing around the Owls and one lone bottle with an embossed Grandpappy Owl. You can find almost any of the “birds” embossed on the bottles, this makes it costly to collect a series of “birds” in cobalt.

Several other bottle collecting books have assigned identifying numbers to the different sizes in each series. The two hardest to find are the 7 ¼” one-wing and the Grandpappy.

Keep on looking for those birds!!

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Jim Bilyeu P.O. Box 101 Independence, CA 93526 (760) 878-2216

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British Royalty Pot Lids Ben Z. Swanson Jr. and Bruce R. Pynn Today, sport stars, movie actors and music idols are paid large sums to endorse various products in the market place.

Although it is unlikely that present-day royals, prime ministers or presidents would become involved in such a commercial venture, it has not always been so. Starting in the first half of the 19th century British manufacturing firms, both with and without royal patronage, took advantage of the tremendous popularity of the royal family to hawk their wares. In the United States, although they may have less appeal, presidents were similarly used.

Queen Victoria was the most popular person to be featured on pot lids in general including pomades, cold creams, shaving creams and regenerators. Looking at toothpaste alone, Princess Alexandra of Denmark, later Queen consort to Edward VII, was

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the most popular royal. She appears on 15 known varieties issued by five different toothpaste manufacturers: Victoria appears on ten from six companies.

Edward VII’s portrait appears on lids issued by three different companies manufacturing toothpaste.

Three of Victoria’s nine children and one grandchild appear on lids. In addition to Edward VII there was Princess Beatrice and Prince Arthur, the Duke of Connaught. Princess Patricia, daughter of the Duke, was not particularly attractive: one can only speculate on whether this factor or use of the more perishable (above the glaze) manufacturing process, account for the lid’s extreme rarity.

In all 17, different toothpaste firms risked the royal censure and sported a royal picture. The most common of these was produced by John Gosnell and Company. They were marketed all over the world for sixty years, and the brochure accompanying the toothpaste was printed in five languages.

Bruce R. Pynn is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon practicing in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada that has been collecting advertising pot lids for the past five years. Bruce can be reached

by E-mail: b.pynn@shaw.ca.

Ben Z. Swanson, Jr. is a retired dentist living in Baltimore, Maryland. Ben has been collecting dental and some medical items for almost 35 years and can be reached by E-mail: Ben@32TerrificTeeth.com.

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Let’s Talk About Ink with Ed & Lucy Faulkner Farley's Ink Farley ink bottles are very popular with both ink collectors and Stoddard glass collectors because the early amber embossed inks were made at glassworks in nearby Stoddard. Later aqua and clear Farley bottles were made elsewhere. These later bottles, some of which were label only, are actually much harder to obtain because so few labels survived.

Ebenezer Farley first settled in Marlow, New Hampshire in 1790. He started out as a farmer, settling on Road 26, one-half mile east of the village. He accumulated a lot of property which passed to his son, Bethuel. Bethuel started the Farley businesses in Marlow, along with his son Lucius, and later, grandson Frank. Bethuel’s house was built in 1833 and was one of the first in the village of Marlow. The Farleys probably had a number of small business offerings. There are references to the Farley Store, Farley Tanning Operations, and of course, Farley Ink. Bethuel Farley held many public positions in Marlow including town clerk, representative, deputy sheriff, census taker, land surveyor, and was admitted to the bar in 1856. Lucius continued the business after the death of his father in 1864.

We know Farley was manufacturing ink earlier than 1851 because at that time it won an award at the New Hampshire State Agricultural Society Fair. They manufactured ink until at least 1895.

A Farley billhead from this period lists a distribution store in Boston as well as Marlow. They also sold by mail and from peddler’s carts. Labels read “Extra fine Black Ink. This is a new chemical preparation, by one of the most celebrated chemists in the US and possesses the invaluable property of keeping free from mould or decomposition, corrodes metallic pens less than any other and is not injured by freezing.”

Besides inks, the Farleys later produced flavoring and extracts, oils, even sewing machine oil.

Frank continued the extract business until about 1910. The shard of an extract bottle is the only picture found that represented this phase of the business.

References: Web page of Historical Society of Cheshire County, NH., Alan F. Rumrill Gazetteer, Cheshire County, NH, 1736-1885, compiled and published by Hamilton Child, 1885.

Photos: Amber master by Ed Gray.

Labeled bottle pictures courtesy of Jim Mitchell (from Mebane notebooks).

Photo in heading: The Farley Ink and Flavoring Headquarters in Marlow (photo courtesy of the Cheshire County Historical Society).

Photo above left: Farley Select Flavoring Extracts letterhead dated Jan. 4, 1907.

A shard from an extract bottle.

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The Dating Game

by Bill Lockhart, Bill Lindsey, David Whitten and Carol Serr The Illinois Glass Company The Illinois Glass Co. incorporated in Alton, Illinois, in March, 1873. By at least 1908, the company had installed semi-automatic bottle machines, used to make wide-mouth bottles and jars.

Toulouse (1971:264) noted, “By 1909 there were 11 furnaces. At that date the whole plant had to be rebuilt to accommodate the Owens machines.”

Walbridge (1920:88) and the Illinois Glass Co. (1923) both confirmed that the Illinois Glass Co. installed an Owens machine in 1910. The following year, Walbridge (1920:88) noted that “the Illinois Glass Company . . . enlarged its installation to operate twenty-two machines” (Walbridge 1920:91). Scoville (1948:106) claimed that Owens machine “licenses were issued to Illinois Glass on June 11, 1910, January 18, 1911, and May 22, 1914.” Milller and McNichol (2002:7-8) clarified two of the dates somewhat by saying that the 1910 license was “perhaps for branded whiskies” and the 1914 license was for “5 to 13 gallon carboys.” On the 1911 license, however, the researchers stated that “it is not clear what this license was for.” In a personal communication, George L. Miller suggested that the 1911 license may have been for pharmaceutical bottles, a conclusion in line with our findings (see below).

In 1900, Illinois Glass began to expand, building a new plant at Gas City, Indiana that began making milk bottles in 1905, but transferred the milk bottle business to the Bell Bottle Corp., Fairmont, Indiana in 1912. After ceasing milk bottle production, Gas City converted to making “prescription and food bottles and jars.” Illinois Glass then expanded to the West Coast in 1902, merging with Abramson-Heunisch Glass Co. to form the Illinois Pacific Glass Co. Illinois Glass continued its expansion into New Jersey by buying the Cumberland Glass Co. at Bridgeton in 1920. By the time of its merger with the Owens Bottle Co. in 1929, it was operating factories in Chicago Heights, Alton, and Gas City, Illinois, and Bridgeton, New Jersey

(Toulouse 1971:266-269).

Several Illinois Glass Co. catalogs have survived and have been excellent references in our research. Among our group, we have Illinois Glass catalogs from 1903, 1906, 1908 (a reprint of 1906 with additions), 1911 and 1920. These provide cameo views of the company’s products, although a critical year (1912) is missing. It is instructive to note that some of the bottles in the 1911 catalog are made by semi-automatic bottle machines, but the large majority of bottles in the 1920 catalog are made by fullyautomatic bottle machines. Most of the exceptions are specialty-types of bottles that would probably only be ordered in small quantities. Virtually all of those were later made by machines. By 1920, the restrictive clauses that prohibited Illinois Glass Co. from using other machines were lifted. The company noted: In 1920–just ten years after our installation of the first machine [i.e., the Owens Automatic Bottle Machine]–in order to maintain our place of leadership in the bottle industry, we added another completely new type of Automatic Machine to overcome certain license restrictions which hampered us in the operation of the original . . . at the present time, on either one or the other of our two types of Automatic Bottle Machines, we can make any type of blown container, with the exception of milk bottles and fruit jars (Illinois Glass Co., 1923).

Figure 1: I G Co Basemark [Whitten]

Bottles and Extras We have looked at as many Illinois Glass Co. bottles as we could find, compared them against the catalogs, and added what has been published about the company to reach the following chronology of Illinois Glass Co. marks.

Our findings are somewhat at odds with those of Toulouse, and we have found a great deal of new information.

IG The I G mark was noted by Toulouse (1971:264) as “before 1890,” although we have never seen a bottle with the mark.

Toulouse offered no other explanation. It is possible that these were marks where the “Co” was very indistinct.

I G C (1872-1894) Herskovitz (1978:8) noted six examples of this mark on beer bottles from Fort Bowie. The fort was officially open from 1862 to 1894, although beer bottles were only transported for long distances from the factories after 1872. Thus, 1872 to 1894 are the only dates currently known for this mark. He reported accompanying letters/number of B, H, and 3+.

Herskovitz (1978:8) also recorded an I G O mark accompanied by the numeral 1. This is likely a misstrike by the engraver or a misidentification by Heskovitz. If it were an engraver’s error, it would fit into the same pattern as the I G C mark.

Neither of the two marks, however, fit into the same pattern as the ones known from the Illinois Glass Co. All known Illinois Glass I G Co marks either had nothing else embossed with the logo or had a two- to three-digit number beside the mark (see descriptions below). None had letters, single-digit numbers, or a plus sign (+)/cross. These marks may belong to the Ihmsen Glass Co. (see discussion of Ihmsen below).

I G Co (ca. 1880-ca. 1911) This mark was noted by Toulouse (1971:264) as “circa 1880 to 1900.”

Figure 2: I G Co Heelmark [eBay]

Bottles and Extras However, in his earlier book on fruit jar marks (Toulouse 1969:157), he dated the mark at “circa 1895-1905,” but, in his “Dating the Fruit Jar” section farther back in the book, he stated that the mark was used from “shortly after [the company’s] beginning in 1873 until about 1900" (Toulouse 1969:389). He explained (1969:157) that “this trade mark [was] used until about 1905, then placed in a diamond. Could not have been made before 1895 first semi-automatic machines.” It should be noted that he was only referring to fruit jars – not other bottles. He also stated that the I G Co mark was located on the bases of fruit jars in an arch (i.e., conforming to the edge of the circular base).

Herskovitz (1978:8) noted three examples of a slight variation of the mark (IG Co), although this variation has not been reported by any other source. Wilson (1981:117-118) reported eight examples from Fort Union (all with I G Co) both plain and accompanied by letters ranging from D to L. Ayres et al.

(1980:unnumbered page) also noted the mark with the small “o” in “Co.” An interesting variation of this mark is shown in Creswick (1995:87). The mark, I G ‘ Co is obviously an engraver’s error and is located in a circular plate mold on the base of a groove ring wax sealer. Creswick dated the jar “circa 1873” but gave no explanation for the timeframe. Creswick (1987:126) also noted the I G Co mark on the base of a fruit jar she dated ca. 1905.

We have solid evidence for use of the I. G. Co. mark by 1881 (probably the year earlier) on Hutchinson-finished soda bottles used in New Mexico. The mark was used until at least 1908, probably 1909 or later, again on a solidly-dated soft drink bottle from El Paso, Texas (see Lockhart 2000a, Chapter 8b). Dates up to 1906 are also known on soft drink bottles from Arizona (Miller 2000:38).

The mark only shows up on mouth-blown bottles and mostly appears on the heels of bottles. The occasional marks on bases may be from Ihmsen Glass Co. (see discussion below). The marks appear on heels with no punctuation, full punctuation, and sporadic punctuation (e.g., I G Co.), although the differences appear to be at the whim of the engraver and are not dateable by any means we have found [Figure 1].

Although the possibility of the mark

Winter 2005 on the base being used by Ihmsen cannot be discounted, the placement likely has more to do with the other marks frequently being placed on the base. Hutchinsonstyle bottles were usually used for soft drinks, although, occasionally breweries used the containers for beer. In either case, the bottles were usually stored top down to keep the leather gasket moist – thus preventing leaks. Cases had holes drilled in the bottoms to accommodate the finishes and necks of the bottles, allowing the bases to point upward (Jones 1964:[22]). This created a perfect platform for embossing the bottlers’ names or logos on the bases. With the bottlers’ logos already on the bases, many manufacturers began placing their marks on the heels of bottles. Both practices continued into the late 1930s, and some glass houses continue to mark their bottles on heels into the 21st century. The practice of basal marking for bottlers was rarely used by breweries, so most glass houses embossed their marks on the bases of beer bottles. Thus, the placement of the mark probably had more to do with bottle type than with a difference in manufacturers.

At some point, after 1895, catalog numbers were added to the right of the I. G. Co. marks, possibly only on returnable beer and soft drink bottles or alcohol bottles [Figure 2]. This was certainly in place by 1903 when “mould numbers” (i.e., numbers in the catalog) are included in the catalog – only for returnable bottles and those containing alcohol. Thus far, all numbers associated with the I. G. Co. mark have matched those in the 1903 catalog.

I G CO in a Diamond (ca. 1900?-ca.

1911) Jones (1966:16) observed that “Illinois Glass Co. used those letters in

55 combination with [elongated diamond] 1880’s.” Noted by Toulouse (1971:264) as “circa 1900 to 1916,” this mark appears in the 1903, 1908, and 1911 catalogs but is absent from the 1920 catalog [Figure 3]. It appears on few bottles. The catalog dates suggest that Toulouse’s range is reasonably correct, although the use probably ceased in 1912. The only examples we can currently cite (courtesy of Bill Lindsey and David Whitten) are mouth blown. Based on the date range, it is likely that all bottles bearing this mark will be mouth blown. It is clear that these marks were used concurrently with the I. G. Co. mark rather than being used exclusively during the period as Toulouse stated.

Creswick (1987:126) showed a jar with a glass lid. The outside of the lid was embossed SUNSHINE in an elongated diamond. The inside was embossed I G Co inside a diamond. She dated the jar ca. 1905.

Diamond I (1915-1929) Jones (1966:16) estimated that use of the mark began about 1873. The mark was cited by Toulouse (1971:264), however, as dating from “1916 to 1929.”

This is the only date range he noted as being “solid” (i.e., not “circa” or “before”). In his fruit jar book (Toulouse 1969:389), he claimed that the mark began to be used “about 1914.” Peterson (1968:41) placed the mark at 1915. All examples of this mark appear on machinemade bottles. As noted in the introduction to this column, the converging evidence indicates that Illinois Glass Co. received a license to manufacture whiskey bottles on June 10, 1910 (Miller & McNichol 2002:7; Scoville 1948:106), and installed numerous Owens Automatic Bottle Machines in 1911. Illinois Glass received

Figure 3: I G Co in a Diamond [1908 Catalog (Lindsey)]

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Figure 4: Diamond I with Serifs [1920 Catalog (Lindsey)]

Figure 5: Diamond I Sans Serifs [Lockhart]

Figure 6: Diamond I (dot variation) [Whitten]

a second, unspecified license, on January 18, 1911, probably for the production of pharmaceutical bottles. This was apparently not an exclusive license (Miller & McNichol 2002:7; Scoville 1948:106).

Although the extant material does not specifically state which plant the machines went to, the machines licensed in 1911, probably for pharmaceutical bottles, were likely installed at the Gas City plant that actually began production in 1912 (Toulouse 1971:267). We originally thought that 1912 would be a probable beginning date, since all known Diamond I bottles (at least all we could find) are machine made. Evidence from Creswick (1987:154), however, showed that the Illinois Glass Co. registered the “I within diamond” trademark (#224,561) on March 1, 1927, and claimed the mark was first used on June 1, 1915. The mark continued in use until the merger with Owens Bottle Co. in 1929.

David Whitten pointed out that the discrepancy between the trademark date (1927) and the date of initial use (1915) totaled 12 years. The big question (that will probably remain unanswered) is: Did the company have the 1915 date from records, or were they guessing. Since the difference between the company’s noted date (1915) and our first estimate (1912) is small, the point is probably moot. The best date with current information, then, is supplied by the Illinois Glass Co. – 1915.

Numerals, such as 3, 5, 9, 11, 12, and 17 often (but not always) accompany the Diamond I mark. These cannot be date codes because most are too early. They cannot be catalog numbers because the number 9 appears on two different bottle styles (one a medicine bottle, one an ink bottle). Numbers were checked against the 1920 catalog. The numbers are sometimes accompanied by letters, and letters occasionally appear without numbers. Currently these codes remain

a mystery, although they could simply be related to identifying individual molds for quality control.

The “I” inside the diamond is used in both sans serif and serif forms and even appears as a dot on some small bottles. It is likely that this was done at the whim of the individual engraver and has no relevance to the individual factory in which the bottle was made or to any datable period [Figures 4-6].

has SANITIZED/LYRIC embossed on the base [Figure 8]. The S and D are surrounded by shields, and the T is larger than the remaining letters. The bottle does not bear the Diamond I mark. Since this is pre-machine, the bottle style was probably created and the bottle made in 1911, just before the advent of the machines and pharmaceutical production at Gas City. Lyric bottles were made until at least 1920 and probably until the merger with Owens in 1929. It is possible, however, that the initial, pre-machine bottle was a trial run, and the brand began use in 1914 or 1915.

Lyric (1911-1929) LYRIC accompanies Diamond I marks on some pharmaceutical bottles. Page 14 of the Illinois Glass Co. 1920 catalog described the “Lyric” bottles [Figure 7].

It stated that the Lyric bottle was patented (although they did not list the number) and was “a graduated oval.” Lyric bottles came in sizes ranging from ½ to 32 ounces, although the “5, 7, 10, 14, and 28 ounces are plain–not graduated.” They described the bottle as: A bottle of excellent design, correctly graduated in both the Metric and American scales, to be used by the druggist–who may desire to add a touch of refinement and good taste, coupled with practicability to his prescription department. . . . [The bottle] is offered in Washed, Corked and Sterilized, or the Regular Service. . . . The style, finish, corkage, capacity, packing and excellent labeling space has made this our most popular Prescription Bottle.

Page 15 of the catalog showed a drawing of the bottle style, front, back, and base. Every Lyric bottle we have examined has matched the drawings in the 1920 catalog. With a single exception, all Lyric bottles we have seen have been made on an Owens Automatic Bottle Machine and also had the Diamond I mark. The exception is mouth blown and

Intertwined IGCo Emblem (ca. 1906ca. 1914) According to Toulouse (1971:264), two similar marks, both intertwined logos, were used “circa 1914, fruit jars.”

However, in his earlier book, he claimed a range of “circa 1906-1914” (Toulouse 1969:157). Both intertwined monograms were found on the sides of fruit jars above MASON’S/PATENT/NOV 30 TH/1858.

He further stated that “the design of the monogram first appeared in their 1906 catalog and was used on fruit jars only until about 1914.”

Kath (1996:50) stated that “gobs of minor variations are found among the IGCo monograms,” and she illustrated three of them [Figure 9]. She further noted that all were “embossed above MASON’S PATENT NOV 30 TH 1858 on the front of the jars.” She suggested that the jars were made “during the 1890s.” The Illinois Glass Co. catalog for 1903 did not show any fruit jars. The 1908 catalog, however, on page 204 showed the Mason jar described by Kath.

All fruit jars had vanished again by 1920.

This suggests that the date range offered

by Toulouse (ca. 1906-1914) is probably correct or very close. Creswick (1995:143) also showed IGCo monograms on Mason fruit jars, although she noted

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57 belonging to the Illinois Glass Co. Roller dated the jar (and therefore the mark) as ca. 1880s.

Presto (1927-1929) Creswick (1987:154) noted that the Illinois Glass Co. was granted a trademark for the Presto logo on July 3, 1928. The company claimed it was first used in 1927.

Creswick (19878:106-108) showed numerous examples of jars with Presto on their sides, some of them embossed MANUFACTURED BY/ILLINOIS GLASS CO. on the lower back side. Jars with the Presto logo were also made by Illinois Pacific Glass Co., Illinois Pacific Glass Corp., Illinois Pacific Coast Co. (subsidiaries of Illinois Glass), and the company’s successor, the Owens-Illinois Glass Co. Those from Illinois Glass Co. could not have been made after 1929.

Figure 7: LYRIC with Diamond I [1920 Catalog (Lindsey)] fewer varieties than Kath. It is interesting that she did not identify the company as either Illinois Glass or Ihmsen.

Although the marks noted by Toulouse appeared in 1903, 1906, 1908, and 1911 catalogs (always in plate molds on soda or beer bottles), we have never seen them on an actual soda or beer bottle. The illustration was likely just to show what could be done on a plate mold rather than to indicate a mark used on the bottle.

Roller (1983:162) identified an IGCo monogram on the base of a shoulder-seal fruit jar with a continuous-thread finish.

The jar was patented October 24, 1882,

by Michael Ward, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Roller identified the maker as the Independent Glass Co. of Pittsburgh, a company in which Ward and Henry F. Voigt (the second assignee of the patent) were officers. This identification questions the identification of some or even all of the other marks on jars as

Figure 8: LYRIC (non-machine made) [Serr]

Figure 9: IGCo Monogram Variations [Kath 1996]

Numbers in a Diamond (1911-1929) We hypothesized that the diamond mark surrounding two-, three-, or fourdigit numbers was used by the Illinois Glass Co. and that the numbers were catalog numbers (called Stock Numbers

by King [1987:249]) similar to those used by the Dominion Glass Co. in Canada as researched by Miller and Jorgensen (1986). When we tried to match numbers inside 18 marks with the 1920 Illinois Glass Co. catalog, we found matches for most of the bottles that were not embossed on the sides with a specific company name or logo. With only three exceptions, all bottles with numbers in a diamond and no embossing on the sides, had exactly matched both the shapes and the numbers in the 1920 catalog. These exceptions might reflect later styles that were not in production by 1920. Eventually, we were able to match many other numbers between the marks and the catalog.

A good example is a bottle bearing the Diamond 817 mark that matches the Barrel Mustard shown on page 91 of the Illinois Glass Co. 1920 catalog. The drawing in the catalog is labeled mold number 817 [Figures 10-12]. These mustard bottles were made by one of the company’s semi-automatic bottle machines, and our example is solarized a light amethyst color. It becomes pretty clear that the Illinois Glass Co., in its earliest bottles, was using manganese as a decolorant.

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special orders from various companies.

Because these styles were “private,” the mold numbers would not be expected to appear in the catalogs. The numbers would only belong to Illinois Glass Company’s individual customers and a non-public list retained at the glasshouse.

A great example of a private label mark that was used consistently is 600 in a diamond. This mark was embossed on the bases of bottles containing Sloan’s Liniment. Bottles with the mark are

illustrated in both Colcleaser (1965:57) and Eastin (1965:7), and several examples have been verified by the authors [Figure 13].

The diamond mark with numbers inside was probably first used in connection with whiskey bottles. The Illinois Glass Co. was issued an Owens machine license on June 10, 1910, to make whiskey bottles. Prior to that time, Owens only issued exclusive licenses (e.g., American Bottle Co. was the only company allowed to use the Owens machine to make soda or beer bottles until the patents ran out in the early to mid1920s). However, Owens licensed both Illinois Glass and the Charles Boldt Glass Co. to make whiskey bottles in 1910 (Scoville 1948:103). Actual production of bottles, however, did not begin until the following year (1911). Therefore 1911 is the first year for the use of the diamond mark with internal numbers.

Figure 10: Mustard Jar (base – 817) [Lockhart]

BARREL MUSTARD Mould No. 817 Size: 3 oz.

Quantity per crate: 8 gro.

Weight per gro: 45 lbs.

American Metal Cap Finish unless otherwise specified.

This style can only be sold on and west of the Mississippi River.

Figure 11: Mustard Jar (side view) [Lockhart]

Figure 12: Mustard Jar (817) [1920 Catalog]

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Figure 13: Sloan’s Liniment (with 600 in Diamond) [Eastin 1965]

However, it seems that the Illinois Glass Co. did not mark its earliest whiskey bottles. Lockhart (2000b) analyzed 23 colorless, one-pint liquor bottles and seven half pints excavated in El Paso, Texas. All of the pints and six of the half pints were machine-made with distinctive Owens scars, marks only made by the Owens Automatic Bottle Machines. All were made between 1911 and 1919 (the inception of Prohibition) – none contained the FEDERAL LAW FORBIDS THE RESALE OR RE-USE OF THIS BOTTLE warning required from 1933 to 1964.

Ten pints and four half pints were embossed with the B (with extended serifs) mark used by Charles Boldt. The remaining 13 pints and two half pints had no manufacturer’s marks, although they had Owens scars. The only quart bottle in the assemblage was embossed with 315 inside an elongated diamond, a mark from the Illinois Glass Co. It is likely that the bottles with no manufacturer’s marks were made by the Illinois Glass Co. Lockhart has two whiskey bottles, both embossed on the base with CAPACITY ONE FULL QUART. Each has an Owens scar slicing through the lettering. One has no manufacturer’s mark; the other is marked with the Diamond I logo [Figures 14-15]. Also of interest, some of the unmarked bottles were solarized to an amethyst color, indicating the presence

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Figure 14: Whiskey base (Owens scar) [Lockhart]

Figure 15: Whiskey base (Owens scar and Diamond I) [Lockhart] of manganese dioxide in the glass mixture as a decolorant. The use of manganese was discontinued because it did not work well with machine manufacture.

Apparently, Illinois Glass Co. was one of the companies that pioneered the change.

Toulouse claimed a similar elongateddiamond mark was used by Diamond Glass and dated it “since 1924.” Although he did not give an explanation for the date, he stated, “From the beginning [of the company] until 1917 all bottles were hand blown. In that year semi-automatic machines replaced hand blowing in part, but not entirely until about 1924.” He did not mention numbers in the diamond (although he rarely noted numbers in connection with any marks).

Although we considered the Diamond Glass Co. as a possibility, the preponderance of evidence suggests otherwise. Because so many numbers match catalog numbers in the 1920 Illinois Glass Co. catalog, it is clear that the elongated diamond marks that contain numbers were used by Illinois Glass.

Ihmsen Glass Co. One mystery remains. Although most bottles with the I G Co mark wear the mark on the heel, a few have the mark embossed on the base. Toulouse (1971:261) maintained that I G Co was used by the Ihmsen Glass Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, “circa 1870 to 1895.” He continued, “The use of the ‘I G Co’ trademark is rare and found on some unmistakably Pittsburgh bottles” (Toulouse 1971:263). Unfortunately, he did not indicate what made the bottles “unmistakably Pittsburgh.”

Wilson (1981:117-118) showed eight slight variations of the I G Co mark on beer bottle bases, including the mark alone and with several different single letters (D through L). The letters were always placed below the mark. Wilson, too, suggested that mark belonged to Ihmsen Glass, but he did not discuss why. May Jones (1968:17) also noted the I G Co mark as belonging to Ihmsen. Because of the inclusion of letters and/or numbers and a cross, the I G C mark (discussed above) may also have been used by Ihmsen.

There is, however, no compelling evidence that the I G Co mark was used

by Ihmsen. As we will explore in the next issue of Bottles and Extras, Ihmsen certainly used the I G Co L mark on bottle bases. Although by no means certain, it is possible that Ihmsen also marked its bottles with the I G Co mark without the “L.” Wilson (1891:118) also showed four beer bottle bases with the I G Co L mark.

These were accompanied by either a numeral 6 or a Maltese cross above the mark and a letter (I, D, or K) or nothing below the mark. The lack of either letters on other known Illinois Glass Co. marks strengthens the argument that marks accompanied by the letters, single-digit numbers, or a Maltese cross were used by Ihmsen.

Other IG Marks Jones (1966:16), Peterson (1968:49) and Toulouse (1971:258-261) all listed other IG marks. Jones showed a monogram of G superimposed on an I from the Imperial Glass Co. that she noted was “est 1901 - still ‘in.’” Toulouse

59 noted two marks for the Imperial Glass Co. (and Corp.), Bellaire, Ohio: 1) I G, that he dates as “possibly circa 1930 to 1940” and 2) the same monogram already described, used “since circa 1940” (Toulouse 1971:258). Peterson (1968:49) also cited the monogram and noted that “the I has curved ends and a dot at the top” but dated the mark at 1951. The I G mark of Imperial cannot be confused with the I G mark of the Illinois Glass Co. because of the date discrepancy (before 1890 for Illinois; after 1930 for Imperial).

The Illinois mark would only appear on mouth-blown bottles, while all Imperial bottles would be machine made. Toulouse (1971:260) also informed us that “‘I G’ trademarks appeared chiefly on Imperial’s opal glassware” (also known as milk glass). Imperial also made flasks that were not exactly reproductions but were in the style of much older flasks (McKearin & Wilson 1978:695, 704-06, 707).

The National Imperial Glass Collectors Society strongly disputed the Toulouse dates. Their webpage (2001) included a timeline for changes in marks used by Imperial. The page showed a number of marks used by Imperial both before and after the IG monogram. The IG monogram was patented on March 17, 1953, and was initially used February 1, 1951. The mark became more complex with the addition of the letter “L” on December 26, 1977, marking the sale of the company to the Lenox Corp. On June 1, 1981, the company again sold to Arthur Lorch, and an “A” was added to the monogram. In 1983, a monogram of NI (New Imperial) was initiated, but it saw little use. Imperial Glass was liquidated in 1984.

A second company, Iroquois Glass Industries Ltd. (later Iroquois Glass Ltd.), Candaic, Quebec, Canada, used a similar monogram (without the curved ends of the I) from 1959 to 1967 (Peterson 1968:49; Toulouse 1971:260). Peterson did not include dates, and Toulouse did not explain his reasons for choosing his date range. Iroquois produced “soft drink and distillery bottles and both narrowmouth and wide-mouth food containers” (Toulouse 1971:261). King (1987) noted that the mark was adopted in 1958 “upon incorporation” and that it was “phased out after 1967, with the company’s takeover

by Consumers Glass.”

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Bottle Type

Location of Mark

Dates Usesd

Source

I. G. Co. *

Returnables, liquor, some food

heel or base **

ca. 1880-1911

Glass Group

I G Co” with catalog number to right

Returnable soda & beer, alcohol

heel

ca. 1895-1911

Glass Group

IGCO in a diamond †

General

base

ca. 1900-1911

Toulouse (1971:264) Glass Group

Diamond I

General but especially pharmacy

base

1915-1929

Toulouse (1971:264) Glass Group

Numbers in a diamond ††

Mostly pharmacy

base

1912-1929

Glass Group

Lyric

Pharmacy

base

1911-1929

Glass Group

Intertwined IGCo emblems

Fruit Jar

body

ca. 1906-1914

Toulouse (1969:157)

* This mark appears with punctuation, without punctuation, or with partial punctuation. ** Basemarks are unusual; there is a slight chance that basemarks are from Ihmsen Glass Co. † These marks are relatively scarce; we find no specific pattern for their use. †† The numbers are catalog numbers or numbers of private molds.

Independent Glass Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in business from 1881 to 1889.

The company made the INDEPENDENT JAR, patented October 24, 1882, by Michael Ward of Pittsburgh.

The jar was also identified by Roller (1983:162).

Conclusions The IGCo mark mostly appeared on the heels of bottles and was especially prevalent on soft drink bottles. It was in use by at least 1881 (probably 1880) and was used until at least 1908. The mark may have continued in use until the machine era at Illinois Glass about 1912.

It appears that the IGCO in a diamond was used concurrently with the IGCo mark, although the diamond mark may have been adopted somewhat later. It was also used much less often. If it had a specific purpose, the explanation for that has been lost.

Toulouse was somewhat correct with his dates for use of the Diamond I mark (1916-1929), although the mark very likely was first used in 1912. The mark was also used, often in conjunction with the term LYRIC, on the bases of pharmaceutical bottles beginning about 1912 (although LYRIC, alone, may have been used a year earlier), and its use

extended to the merger with Owens Glass Co. in 1929. The intertwined logo was apparently only used on fruit jars and then rarely.

The final mark, an elongated diamond containing numbers, was almost certainly used by Illinois Glass and probably dates from 1912 to 1929. I. G. Co. marks found on the bases of bottles (rather than the much more common position on heels) may have belonged to the Ihmsen Glass Co. (especially those with accompanying letters and/or numbers). A few other marks that used IG monograms were unconnected with Illinois Glass.

References: Ayres, James E., William Liesenbien, Lee Fratt, and Linda Eure 1980 “Beer Bottles from the Tucson Urban Renewal Project, Tucson, AZ.” Unpublished manuscript, Arizona State Museum Archives, RG5, Sg3, Series 2, Subseries 1, Folder 220.

Colcleaser, Donald E. 1965 Bottles of Bygone Days.

Privately Published, Napa, Cal. Creswick, Alice 1987 The Fruit Jar Works, Volume II, Listing Jars Made Circa 1900 to

Modern. Privately printed, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

1995 The Fruit Jar Works, Vol. I, Listing Jars Made Circa 1820 to 1920’s. Douglas M. Leybourne, N. Muskegon, Michigan.

Eastin, June 1965 Bottles West, Vol. I. Press-tige, Ontario, California.

Herskovitz, Robert M. 1978 Fort Bowie Material Culture.

University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Illinois Glass Company 1923 Fifty Years of Achievement in Building up a Service of Better Bottles. Illinois Glass Co. Jones, May 1964 The Bottle Trail, Volume 4.

Nara Vista, New Mexico.

1966 The Bottle Trail, Volume 6.

Nara Vista, New Mexico.

1968 The Bottle Trail, Volume 9.

Nara Vista, New Mexico.

Kath, Vivian S. 1996 “Granny Kath’s Kitchen.”

Antique Bottle & Glass Collector 13(6):48-53.

Continued to page 65.

Bottles and Extras King, Thomas B. 1987 Glass in Canada. Boston Mills Press, Ontario.

Lockhart, Bill 2000a Bottles on the Border: The History and Bottles of the Soft Drink Industry in El Paso, Texas, 18812000. Townsend Library, New Mexico State University at Alamogordo. http:/ /alamo.nmsu.edu/~lockhart/EPSodas/ 2000b “Cache or Trash? Glass Artifacts from the Senate Office Building Privy” in The State Office Building Archaeological Project: Testing Report. Anthropology Research Center, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso.

McKearin, Helen and Kenneth M. Wilson 1978 American Bottles & Flasks and Their Ancestry. Crown Publishers, New York.

Miller, George L. and Elizabeth A. Jorgensen 1986 Some Notes on Bottle Mould Numbers from the Dominion Glass Company and its Predecessors. Parks Canada, Ottowa.

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Miller, George L. and Tony McNichol 2002 “Dates for Suction Scarred Bottoms: Chronological Changes in Owens Machine-Made Bottles.”

Paper presented at the 2002 SHA meetings, Mobile, Alabama.

Scoville, Warren C. 1948 Revolution in Glassmaking: Entrepreneurship and Technological Change in the American Industry, 1880-1920. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachutts.

Miller, Michael R. 2000 A Collector’s Guide to Arizona Bottles & Stoneware: A History of Merchant Containers in Arizona.

Privately Printed, Peoria, Arizona.

Toulouse, Julian Harrison 1969 Fruit Jars. Thomas Nelson & Sons, Camden, New Jersey.

National Imperial Glass Collectors Society 2001 “National Imperial Glass Collectors Society: Dates of Importance for Imperial and Its Trademarks.” http:// www.imperialglass.org/dates.htm Peterson, Arthur G. 1968 400 Trademarks on Glass.

Washington College Press, Takoma, Md. Roller, Dick 1983 Standard Fruit Jar Reference.

Privately published.

1971 Bottle Makers and Their Marks.

Thomas Nelson, New York.

Walbridge, William S. 1920 American Bottles Old & New: A Story of the Industry in the United States. Owens Bottle Company, Toledo, Ohio.

Wilson, Rex 1981 Bottles on the Western Frontier.

University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Bill Lockhart 1313 14th St., Apt. 21 Alamogordo, NM 88310 (505) 439-8158 bottlebill@tularosa.net

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by Jack Sullivan Special to Bottles and Extras

Not long after the 20th Century dawned, eight prominent distillery owners and liquor distributors from the Cincinnati area were featured along with other barons of industry in a book of caricatures. The drawings were by well-known American cartoonists and depict their subjects in representative poses. Shown here with related artifacts, the caricatures provide a fascinating look at these pre-Prohibition whiskey men.

First, some information about the three cartoonists represented here -- Claude Shafer, E. A. Bushnell, and an artist who simply signed his drawings “McNeill.”

Shafer (1878-1962) was a well-known political cartoonist for the Cincinnati Post.

Even after his death a New York publisher printed “Claude Shafer’s Cartoon Guide to Ohio,” a compilation of his travel articles and cartoons. Bushnell was a longtime political cartoonist for the Philadelphia Evening Star and in 1925 illustrated a book entitled “Leading Men of Cleveland in Caricature.” Research fails to provide any information on McNeill but he clearly was an accomplished artist.

Shafer’s drawings shown here each have a hollow-eyed dog to accompany the caricature; Bushnell’s feature a mangy black cat. McNeill seemed to delight in showing his figures with bulging stomachs -- perhaps the result of sampling their own products. In alphabetical order, here are the whiskey men: GEORGE BIELER’S SONS Among Ohio’s many colorful distillers, the three sons of George Bieler seem to have stood out. Although they produced their own Bieler brand of corn whiskey and rye and T.W. Samuel’s Nelson County Sour Mash, their flagship brand was Brookfield Rye. In some of their ads, George’s sons declare themselves “The Brookfield Rye Men,” a slogan repeated in the caricature shown here [Figure 1].

It is not clear which of the sons is depicted.

But the other hands obviously belong to his two brothers.

Dating the firm by directory references, their father appears to have begun as a wholesale liquor dealer about 1887. His first location was 343 Main Street in Cincinnati. The following year the operation had enlarged to two adjoining addresses, 343 and 345 Main. By 1899 the company had become Geo. Bieler Sons and had moved to 813 Main Street. The name change suggests that George himself may have died in the interim. In 1903 the operation moved to 707 Main Street. In 1905 the name of the firm was changed to the Geo. Bieler Sons Company. In 1913 the firm moved from Main Street to 126 E. 7th Street in Cincinnati, its last known location before the onset of Prohibition.

The company’s flair was demonstrated in its decorative merchandising and advertising. Its liquor bottles featured embossed dragons; its shot glasses were elaborately embossed with designs in frosted glass. Just as important was Bieler’s use of decorative ceramics for its whiskey. This includes Brookfield Rye in a miniature canteen and a 13-inch high half-gallon [Figure 2], each with a rich brown glaze and a striking embossed surface. These jugs have been reliably identified as a pottery product of the Monmouth-Western Stoneware Company.

GEORGE DIEHL Although shown here [Figure 3] in a lordly pose, George Diehl was not the top gun of the Edgewood Distilling Company with which he is identified in this caricature. Cincinnati directories indicate that Diehl’s firm, A.G. Diehl Company, had merged with the Paxton Brothers Co. to create Edgewood Distilling. An 1889 listing cites T.W. Paxton as the president of the firm, J.F. Filler as its vice president, and Diehl as its secretary and treasurer.

The business relationships between Diehl and the Paxton Brothers began as early as 1874 when A.G. Diehl & Co., Wines and Liquors, occupied a location at 32 East Second Street. A separate listing for the same address lists Paxton & Diehl, Distillers. From 1875 to 1877 the firm

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name became Diehl & Paxton Brothers, to be changed to Paxton Bros. & Co., Distillers from 1878 to 1883. Finally in 1887 the business became Edgewood Distilling at the same East Second Street address. The company moved after 1891 to several locations on Main Street and finally, in 1906, to its last address at 417419 Elm Street. Its distillery was in Lincoln County, Kentucky. The firm disappears from Cincinnati directories after 1918.

Edgewood Distilling produced a number of whiskey brands, including Edgewood, Bullied, Coney Island Club, Cuvier Club, Island Queen Rye, Paxton’s Private Stock, Pearl XXX Rye, Purewater Rye, and Queen City Club. Shown here is a shot glass for Edgewood in old English script [Figure 4]. The firm also used Masonic symbols as part of its marketing, which may account for the fez on Diehl’s head, somewhat out of place with the tuxedo he is wearing.

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Fig. 4 MAX FLEISCHMANN Shown here at the helm of a sailing yacht [Figure 5], Max Fleischmann was a renowned businessman, sailor, world traveler and philanthropist. He had inherited leadership of the Fleischmann Company from his father, also named Max, and his uncle Charles. The elder Fleischmann had come from AustriaHungary in the 1860s and, with the help of a Cincinnati businessman, created the cake yeast business that overnight revolutionized baking in America. About the same time the three partners began whiskey-making operations. They founded two distilleries in nearby Riverside, Ohio, about 1872, three years before young Max’s birth. In time he inherited both businesses, becoming

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known as America’s “Yeast King.” A multi-millionaire, and at one time the CEO of the National Biscuit Company (Nabisco), he would own 22 yachts during his lifetime.

As a whiskey marketer, Max was among the first rank, establishing Fleischmann, particularly its gin, as a national brand name. A principal brand was Magnolia, shown here in a 1909 ad [Figure 6]. That brand had been bought from S.N. Pike and Company, which first

sold it in 1849. Fleischmann also marketed a range of liquors in fancy ceramic jugs, as shown here [Figure 7].

But Max, who died in 1951, soon ceased to control the distilling operation founded by his family. It was shut down

by Prohibition and subsequently Standard Brands bought the entire company in 1920. In 1940 its new owners bought out a distillery in Owensboro, Kentucky from which it produced alcoholic products under the Fleischmann name. Today some of those brands continue to be offered by the Barton Distilling Company of Bardstown, Kentucky.

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Bottles and Extras years. Julius Freiberg came to town in 1847 and, in 1855, with his brother-inlaw, Levi Workum, started the FreibergWorkum Company. After their deaths, Julius’ son, J.A. Freiberg took over and ran the firm until Prohibition. In 1899 brothers Sigmund and Solomon Freiberg -- their relationship to Julius is unclear -began operations in Cincinnati. The firm’s initial address was at 58 Main St. -- an address also occupied by J.A. Freiberg. By 1906 Sig and Sol Freiberg, Distillers, had moved to 424 West Fourth St. -- their last known address.

As depicted in the cartoon [Figure 8], the firm’s flagship brand was Gannymede “76” Rye. In Greek mythology, Ganymede (note the different spelling) was a young shepherd who caught the eye of the god, Zeus, who promptly sent down an eagle to carry him off to Mount Olympus. There he became “an immortal” and served as cupbearer to the gods. While there is no evidence that Ganymede served up rye to his clients, the fact that he was a bearer of spirituous drink probably made his name and image appropriate for the Freibergs’ whiskey.

Note that he and the eagle both show up in the caricature.

Sol and Sig were prolific in the number of their brand names: They included Manchester, Carnation, Fresno Club, Liederkranz, Louisiana Purchase, and a dozen others. The company aggressively marketed its products with a number of giveaways and particularly is known for its heavily ornamented shot glasses and whiskey glasses. Those for Gannymede “76” feature a two-headed eagle [Figure 9], perhaps another emblem of the eagle who kidnapped the original Ganymede.

SAM’L KLEIIN Among Ohio’s leading distillers was Samuel Klein. Known widely as “Sam’l,” this Buckeye was something special. His caricature shows him sitting atop a large barrel with the confident look of a whiskey baron on his face and a bottle of Harvard Rye in his hand [Figure 10]. On his head is an academic “mortar board,” symbolic of his Harvard brand. At his feet is a globe showing North and South America, indicating the wide area in which he marketed his whiskey.

With his brother, Sam’l founded his firm about 1875 at 340 Walnut Street.

Soon the volume of business caused the firm to move to larger quarters at 49 Vine

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Street. Further success forced a move to an even larger building at 17 Sycamore St. City directories indicate that about the same time Sam’l took Elias Hyman as a partner and the firm became Klein Bros. and Hyman. The partners did a vigorous business, eventually opening their own distillery in Kentucky. Their brands gained regional and even national attention, including Keystone Rye, Lynchburg Rye, and McBride and Independence whiskeys. The partnership lasted about 10 years. After Klein and Hyman dissolved it in 1897, Sam’l set up again as Klein Brothers, located at 121 Sycamore.

Sam’l’s business activities were marked by flamboyant marketing. Klein’s Harvard Rye advertising inevitably depicted young men in academic gowns and laid-back

63 attitudes partying with winsome ladies in low-cut gowns. A bottle of whiskey was prominent on the party table. Many Klein ads were in color, a pioneering uses of multi-hued lithography. Sam’l’s use of ceramic containers for his whisky was in this same tradition of flamboyance. He made use of the artistic genius of Liverpool, Ohio’s KT&T Pottery to produce attractive containers for his Spring Lake brand of whiskey [Figure 11].

Keystone Rye was marketed in Fulper Pottery jugs. Both are seen frequently in on-line auctions.

Klein died in 1914, widely mourned as a leading Ohio citizen and philanthropist.

He left the whiskey business to family members, his last testament envisioning that the firm he founded would exist well into the 20th Century. But it was not to be. Five years after Sam’l’s death, Klein Brothers suspended operations because of Prohibition and never reopened.

EMIL M. MAYER When Isaac Mayer began the family whiskey dynasty is not clear, but by 1883, he had brought his sons -- including Emil -- into the business and called the firm Isaac Mayer & Sons. It was located at 3034 Main Street in Cincinnati. By 1886, possibly with the death or retirement of the founding father, this whiskey distributor became Mayer Bros. & Co. Thereafter the firm moved to two addresses on Pearl St. and one on Walnut.

Its last location, in 1918, was at 7 Masonic Temple.

The flagship brand of Mayer Bros. was Hudson XXXX Rye, shown here in Emil’s hand [Figure 12]. Other brands were Hudson Whiskey (slogan: “Merit Sells It) [Figure 13], Oakwood Whiskey, and Old Oakwood. Like other Cincinnati distillers and distributors the company had a range of give-away items advertising their brands.

H.R. MYERS Showing Henry R. Myers sitting in a blizzard of letters [Figure 14], this caricature emphasizes the strong success at selling whiskey by mail that Myers & Co. enjoyed. Located in Covington, Kentucky, the company conducted vigorous advertising campaigns in popular magazines and newspapers of the day.

According to the firm’s 1902 Christmas card, the U.S. Post Office was forced to reclassify Covington from a second to a

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Fig. 16 > first class post office because of the volume of mail the company engendered.

Myers & Co.’s major brand, Fulton Whiskey [Figure 15-16], had been pioneered by a ScotchIrishman named Malcolm Fulton. The distillery he founded in 1817 had stayed in the Fulton family until 1887 when the entire operation was purchased by the Myers family, headed by Henry Myers. He continued to feature the Fulton Whiskey brand, which he registered in 1906, but cut off the jobbers through which it previously had been marketed in favor of distributing it directly to the consumer through the U.S. Mails.

Henry Myers and his company appear to have been ahead of their time in employee benefits.

Their materials boast of giving employees leave for all holidays, hot meals for every lunch, and profit-sharing. No matter their philanthropic attitudes, the passage of the Webb-Kenyon Act forbidding mail order sales of whisky into “dry” areas seriously damaged their business. The coming of Prohibition shut the firm down for good in 1919.

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Bottles and Extras SIDNEY PRITZ The symbolism of this caricature is puzzling. It depicts Sidney Pritz pulling the cork from a bottle marked “Old Rye” while two apparent empties and a peanut litter the floor, while more bottles wait on a shelf [Figure 17]. Pritz was an executive in a firm which began sometime before 1866 in Cincinnati as F. Strauss and Bro. In 1875, it became Strauss, Pritz & Co., and later Strauss-Pritz Co. Like other Cincinnati-based distillers and distributors, the firm advertised widely its principal brands of which Lewis “66” Whiskey --not “Old Rye” -- appears to

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have been its flagship [Figure 18]. The firm moved its offices frequently with its final listing in 1918 being 703 Union Trust Building.

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Take another look at them. Here are eight whiskey barons -- confident, prosperous, and seemingly masters of all they survey. We can imagine their pride at being depicted by well-known artists in a book devoted to leaders of industry. Yet, very soon they would experience a common disaster as their businesses were shut down, casualties of National Prohibition.

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Bob Snyder of Amarillo, Texas, who has labored over a lifetime to identify pre-Pro whiskey brands, distillers and distributors, sent these caricatures to me some years ago.

Photos of shot glasses are from Robin Preston’s collection.

Robin also helped me identify the locations of several

companies by researching Cincinnati and Covington directories.

Other information provided here was available from the Internet, newspaper archives, and a range of printed sources.

Continued from page 60.

King, Thomas B. 1987 Glass in Canada. Boston Mills Press, Ontario.

Lockhart, Bill 2000a Bottles on the Border: The History and Bottles of the Soft Drink Industry in El Paso, Texas, 18812000. Townsend Library, New Mexico State University at Alamogordo. http:/ /alamo.nmsu.edu/~lockhart/EPSodas/ 2000b “Cache or Trash? Glass Artifacts from the Senate Office Building Privy” in The State Office Building Archaeological Project: Testing Report. Anthropology Research Center, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso.

McKearin, Helen and Kenneth M. Wilson 1978 American Bottles & Flasks and Their Ancestry. Crown Publishers, New York.

Miller, George L. and Elizabeth A. Jorgensen 1986 Some Notes on Bottle Mould Numbers from the Dominion Glass Company and its Predecessors. Parks Canada, Ottowa.

Miller, George L. and Tony McNichol 2002 “Dates for Suction Scarred Bottoms: Chronological Changes in Owens Machine-Made Bottles.”

Paper presented at the 2002 SHA meetings, Mobile, Alabama.

Scoville, Warren C. 1948 Revolution in Glassmaking: Entrepreneurship and Technological Change in the American Industry, 1880-1920. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachutts.

Miller, Michael R. 2000 A Collector’s Guide to Arizona Bottles & Stoneware: A History of Merchant Containers in Arizona.

Privately Printed, Peoria, Arizona.

Toulouse, Julian Harrison 1969 Fruit Jars. Thomas Nelson & Sons, Camden, New Jersey.

National Imperial Glass Collectors Society 2001 “National Imperial Glass Collectors Society: Dates of Importance for Imperial and Its Trademarks.” http:// www.imperialglass.org/dates.htm Peterson, Arthur G. 1968 400 Trademarks on Glass.

Washington College Press, Takoma, Md. Roller, Dick 1983 Standard Fruit Jar Reference.

Privately published.

1971 Bottle Makers and Their Marks.

Thomas Nelson, New York.

Walbridge, William S. 1920 American Bottles Old & New: A Story of the Industry in the United States. Owens Bottle Company, Toledo, Ohio.

Wilson, Rex 1981 Bottles on the Western Frontier.

University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Bill Lockhart 1313 14th St., Apt. 21 Alamogordo, NM 88310 (505) 439-8158 bottlebill@tularosa.net

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Two Corners in Time

by Barry L. Bernas

The venerable adage “a picture is worth a thousand words” really applies to the set of images I will introduce to you. Taken from drawings completed between 1891 and 1914, these show the same intersections of West Strawberry Alley (then Avenue), South Franklin and West Maiden Streets in the Borough, and later City of Washington, Pennsylvania.

On these parcels of real estate, no less than four glass makers and associated jobbers made and sold glass products between 1893 and 1907.

First A Church Originally the site of a Presbyterian church, the first business to be situated on the plats of land between the above roadways was a carriage factory owned

by Sheldon B. Hayes.

Formed in 1841 as S. B. Hayes and Company, this firm was the first major industry in the Borough of Washington.

The Hayes concern made Conestoga wagons, farm wagons, carriages and square-bodied stage coaches to support freight hauling and passenger travel locally and on the National Pike.

Demand for the Hayes product increased, causing more expansion to their carriage making facilities over the next ten years. Unfortunately for them, their original carriage factory on West Cherry Alley burned on December 8 th, 1851. Two days later, the Hayes owners “…purchased the old Presbyterian Fig. 1

Church on the corner of South Franklin street. The next day the seats were removed, and all employees were as busy as if nothing had happened.” 1 Nineteen years later, the depiction in Figure 1 showed how the Company, then known as the S. B. & C. Hayes Carriage Works, appeared to Washington residents.2 The three-storied building on the top right was the renovated Presbyterian church. It sat at the juncture of West Strawberry Alley (along its right side) and South Franklin Street (in the foreground with wagons and carriages). Down to the left was the intersection of South Franklin and West Maiden Streets.

These same plots are presented twentyone years later in Figure 2.

By November, 1891, the Hayes business was not in operation; although, the idle buildings would soon house the sixth glass-making organization in the Borough of Washington.3 J. H. Blair & Company/Blair Glass Company James Holmes Blair was born in the hamlet of Jefferson, Allegheny County,

Pennsylvania in 1864. The oldest of three boys, his father, George W. Blair, was a leader in the flint glass industry of Pittsburgh.4 Identified as a “Pittsburgh capitalist,” Mr. Blair became a shareholder in the Buttler Art Glass Company of Fostoria, Ohio when it was incorporated on August 13th, 1887. After the firm’s factory burned on November 9th, 1889, he turned his attention toward forming a new glassmanufacturing facility in Washington, Pennsylvania.5 Partnering with Charles N. Brady in this enterprise, the Jefferson Glass Company was set-up in 1890 to make cathedral glass.6 Fig. 2

About two-years later, Mr. Brady bought out the interest of Mr. Blair in the Jefferson concern.7 After this, James H. Blair decided to form his own glass corporation in the Borough.

The first note of it came on March 25th, 1893. One of the town’s newspapers carried the following story.

“A NEW INDUSTRY - A Portion of the S. B. & C. Carriage Works to be Converted into a Glass Works.

Washington is to have another industry which promises to be a productive one in the near future.

From a reliable source it is learned that J. Holmes Blair has leased the blacksmith building of the S. B. & C. Hayes’ carriage factory, on South Franklin Street, and workmen are now engaged in remodeling it. The intention is to manufacture fancy colored glass ware, such as specimens, paper weights, etc. Pots will be erected and experienced men employed. It is the intention to have the works in operation in about three weeks. It is also probable that other portions of the carriage works will be leased by Mr. Blair.”8

Bottles and Extras May 1st saw the start-up of the factory of J. H. Blair & Company. Within six months of glass-making operations commencing, something occurred that caused Mr. Blair to take other partners into his organization. On September 22nd, he and four others filed to incorporate as the Blair Glass Company. The Commonwealth’s governor concurred on October 12th. By the end of 1893, Blair Glass employed one hundred hands.9 Perhaps due to the lingering effects of the Panic of 1893, problems forced the Blair Glass Company into the hands of receivers on March 31st, 1894. The major stockholder, T. A. Gillespie of Pittsburgh, along with others, filed as the aggrieved parties.

The receivers couldn’t correct the problems in this corporation. As a result, the firm was sold to Mr. Gillespie on November 17th. It was rumored the new owner would start-up glass-making in short order. That didn’t happen. Instead, he transferred ownership to J. B. R. Streator and Samuel Hazlett of Washington.10 These men completed that action.

Novelty Glass Company/Works On December 17th, 1894, the Novelty Glass Works opened.11 Aside from a small fire in May, 1895, glass production proceeded along in a routine fashion. By the end of August, a new four-pot tank was being installed. It would increase employment to one hundred twenty-five persons.12 Functioning without much reporting, the Novelty Glass Works was surveyed by the Sanborn-Perris concern in June, 1896.

As you can see in Figure 3, it occupied many more structures than the “blacksmith building” on the West Strawberry Alley, South Franklin and West Maiden Street intersections.

Drawn from a different perspective than Figure 2, Figure 3 picture tells us this facility had a separate box shop and warehouse (a former repository in Figure 2) astride South Franklin Street at the top left. In an adjoining building behind the warehouse on West Strawberry Alley was a room containing lehrs and one furnace with two glory holes. Connected to the right were other structures. In the order depicted, one was for mixing and packing.

The next ones housed engine equipment, a mold shop, and a polishing facility. A shed of some sort stood to the right of the

Winter 2005 rail spur that entered the works at the topcenter section. For orientation purposes, the black dot in Figure 3 was the place where South Franklin met West Maiden.

The plant operated on a day and night shift. Steam was generated to power the equipment in the works. Natural gas was used for lighting and plant fuel.13 A year after the sketch in Figure 3 was completed, the Novelty Works burned.

One Borough newspaper reported this event as follows.

“A Destructive Fire – Novelty Glass Works Go Up in Flames. Flames discovered after mid-night in packing rooms of Novelty glass works, on S. Franklin Sts. near Maiden, formerly the S. B. & C. Hayes carriage works.”

Two shops or 12 men were at work.

Packing room was in the second story of the building with the engine room and mold department underneath it on the first floor. The works consisted of three separate buildings. The first was the original carriage works on Franklin St. It was made of brick and was two stories high. The building where the fire started was in the back of this structure. North of the last building was a one story high frame structure built for the blowing and pressing department. Suspected cause of the fire was a gas jet igniting paper or some other flammable material…

The Works made novelties and tableware. Business was said to be increasing. Nearly 200 hands were

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67 employed there…”14 The owners had to decide whether to rebuild in Washington or relocate to another municipality in the area. As part of a deal which raised $3,000 from Washington residents, Novelty officials decided to stay in the Borough.

Reconstruction started in early August.

The first metal was melted in the new plant on September 20 th , 1897. One hundred men were reemployed.15 May of 1898 brought another change to Novelty. The former owners, Messrs.

Streator and Hazlett, were replaced by new leadership. Members of the Caldwell family took over a primary role in directing this firm when incorporation papers were submitted. On June 8th, their request was approved.16 The Novelty Glass Works was now a registered corporation in Pennsylvania.

In November, a reporter for Commoner and Glassworker described the enterprise in the following way.

“AT LITTLE WASHINGTON – All Her Factories Are Operating, With Good Time the Rule. Washington, Pa., Nov. 8. Every glass factory in this city is in operation at the present time and as a general thing the employees are faring pretty well, as far as making good time is concerned…The Novelty Glass Works in charge of Supt.

Charles Hobbs, formerly of the old Hobbs glass works at Wheeling, is giving employment to 12 shops and Mr. Hobbs reports orders enough to

68 keep them going all season. The men say they are doing better now than at any time this season, and intimate they are just getting down to their proper gait. Quite a number of new hands have been engaged at this place lately.

The two tanks, as well as the furnace, are being operated here right along now.” 17 Production continued on a fairly routine basis at Novelty through the turn of the century. Figure 4 shows the layout of the Corporation when representatives from the same map business that completed the drawings in Figures 2 and 3 came back to Washington to update their records.

Aligned as the sketch in Figure 3, you can see the improvements that were made to the factory’s physical structure as a result of the 1897 fire and subsequent enhancements.

The box shop at the top along South Franklin Street was enlarged. The factory building behind the top-left warehouse was somewhat larger than the pre-fire edifice. The right-hand side of the plant was enlarged to match the left on West Strawberry Alley. Some kind of “iron clad” material had been placed on the outer surface of the conjoined buildings.

The Works was undoubtedly a success.

According to verbiage appended to the map in Figure 4, one hundred twenty-five people were employed in the factory.18 In February, 1902, the management of the Novelty Glass Works had difficulty making ends meet. County Court action placed the firm into the hands of a receiver, William B. Fenn. At this time, trade paper reports indicated that the sole product output of the Company was a water bottle.19 A few months later in June, Mr. Fenn and the same Caldwells who had previously controlled Novelty since 1898 purchased the works at public sale. By late September, the new crop of officers decided to change the name of their operation to the Sterling Glass Company.

Instead of only one product, the Sterling works started to produce an expanded product line consisting of different pieces of glassware, mostly made to the designs of William B. Fenn. 20 Sterling Glass Company Over the next year or so, more people were hired. New lehrs were built. Better floors were laid. Approximately ninety

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per-cent of the machinery in the plant was changed out. It was reported by March, 1903: “…there has been spent almost enough to have built a new factory…

At the local factory are made each day from 10,000 to 12,000 complete pieces of separable table glassware, in oils, vinegars, etc., and also from 400 to 500 patented, scalloped and flanged tumblers. In the packing room and the storage room near the Petroleum Iron works is carried from $18,000 to $20,000 worth of stock.”21 The upgrades forced by increased product demand were costly. In an effort to raise more capital, another organization was formed in June, 1903. It was the Perfection Glass Company.22 Perfection Glass Company On June 18th, 1903, eight men from Washington, including William B. Fenn, applied to incorporate the Perfection Glass Company in the Commonwealth. Official concurrence was received on July 9th.23 This organization soon absorbed the Sterling Glass Company along with a satellite firm, the Perfection Manufacturing Company.

Plans for the accelerated expansion of Perfection’s over-all production capacity resulted in larger debts for the new operation. This situation only worsened

as the months passed. Eventually in October, 1903, the man who was the driving force behind the Perfection business, William B. Fenn, left town unexpectedly. Within a week, Company employees sued for back wages. By the middle of November, Perfection Glass folded. A newspaper reporter captured this event in the below account: “FIRES TO BE RE-KINDLED AT PERFECTION PLANT – Creditors Who Purchased the Fenn Interests May Resume Work at an Early Date.

At the sale of the interest of W. B. Fenn in the equipment and ware, finished and unfinished, of the Perfection Manufacturing company by Constable G. W. Clutter, $3,597.95 was realized.

The sale was made on labor claims filed by employees of the concern and the amount of the sale paid 78 per cent of the claims. The balance was made up by the purchasers of the Fenn interests, who are two of his largest creditors. The sale included part of the machinery of the plant, some of the lehrs, molds, office fixtures, finished and unfinished ware. Among the molds sold were those for making a fruit jar invented by Mr. Fenn for which a patent is pending. The jar is said by the trade to be one of the best ever got out. Mr. Fenn has been out of town for several weeks. It is

Bottles and Extras understood that the plant will be started in full in a few weeks under control of the persons who made the purchase.”

The new owners, the Caldwell family members of the former Sterling Glass Company, revamped the firm’s charter.

Next, they reopened the plant briefly in early December on the same pieces of land between West Strawberry Alley, South Franklin and West Maiden Streets. Full production resumed the first week of January, 1904 24 The Sanborn firm once again returned to Washington in July, 1904, to revalidate their maps. Figure 5 shows some of the improvements made to the plant when it was under Sterling management.

In addition to the structural and equipment upgrades, power for the factory was changed from steam to gas. A night watchman was employed at the works, so only day turns were scheduled at this time.25 Under Caldwell supervision, the Perfection Glass Company moved away from the Fenn-inspired line-of-ware to one modeled from it. Along with this product, an all-glass packer and fruit jar was made.26 The popularity of the later item caused another refitting of the plant to take place between August, 1904 and March, 1905. During this period, at least the SIMPLEX in a diamond-embossed, packer jar and closure making continued at the Republic Glass Manufacturing Company’s facility in Moosic, Pennsylvania.27 Change once more came to Perfection in November, 1905. A new plant manager was hired. With him came another vision from Company officers. The Caldwell owners now wanted to make a line of tableware in addition to their all-glass packer and fruit jars. Capacity at the works was limited. In order to accomplish this objective, the production of the packer container along with the cover for it and the fruit jar were probably shifted to the Hazel-Atlas Glass Company in early 1906.28 As far as I can determine, the owners of the Perfection Glass Company were never able to achieve the tableware part of their objective. Come August, 1906, repairs to the factory were in order. There was no indication the plant ever reopened for business. Even though the 1907 Glass Factory Directory and Thomas’ Register of American Manufacturers listed

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Perfection Glass as an active firm, I think these entries were based on old information. This was undoubtedly valid when it was submitted but became inaccurate when other events overtook it.

In my opinion, two more reliable and up-todate sources were the 1907 Directory for Washington and the Borough newspaper. The first carried no entry for this concern.

Fig. 5 Additionally, the second didn’t mention Perfection as a business that paid wages in the Borough during tableware, novelties and insulators. 1 1906.29 With no other credible data to furnace, 4 day tanks. (Later part of work with, it seems to me Perfection Glass Hazel-Atlas Glass Co.)”31 went out of business in late 1906.

In my opinion, the factualness of the By the time Sanborn surveyors came last statement, the one in parenthesis, is back to Washington in 1909, the debatable for several reasons.

Perfection Glass Company was a piece of In the first place, the Glass Trade history. The Figure 6 drawing aptly Directories for 1904, 1905, 1906 and shows this fact.

1907 carried a separate entry for the As you can see, the Hazel-Atlas Glass Perfection Glass Company. 32 This Company occupied the cooper shop. Since shouldn’t have happened if Perfection was the adjoining office or warehouse a part of the Hazel-Atlas conglomerate. contained paper, boxes and jars, it is Next, the Washington Directories for presumed Hazel-Atlas was either using 1907-08, 1909-1910, 1911, and 1912that building for storage or owned it 1913 didn’t have a listing for the outright. Gone from the Figure 6 drawing Perfection Glass Company. At the same is any trace of a glass-making plant. In time, the records in these documents for fact, it appears the building that housed the Hazel-Atlas Glass Company didn’t that facility was torn down.30 show a plant listed under the Perfection name or located within the “two corners H-A and Perfection of time” as one of their three production Did officers from the Hazel-Atlas Glass sites in the Borough.33 To me these facts Company buy the Perfection Glass show that in late 1906, Hazel-Atlas didn’t Company and incorporate its plant, situated between the now familiar “two corners in time,” into their production capability?

The 1934 reprint of the 1904 Glass Trade Directory suggested this was what happened. The entry which caused this thought is quoted below.

“Perfection Glass Co., Washington. C. S. Caldwell, president; B. Fig. 6 F. Roberts, secretary; George L. Caldwell, treasurer. General

70 own the Perfection Glass plant.

And finally, the annual review of industries in Washington for 1907 didn’t list the Perfection Glass Company. Also, its works wasn’t one of the three HazelAtlas production sites in the municipality.34 The three elements of evidence I’ve provided seems to substantiate my claim that neither Perfection Glass nor its factory was ever a part of the Hazel-Atlas Glass Company.

Since 1893, a glass works had been located between the corners of West Strawberry Alley, South Franklin and West Maiden Streets in Washington, Pennsylvania. The last one, Perfection Glass, went out of business before 1907.

As the final survey will show, no other company relocated to this spot in the intervening years.

The Figure 7 sketch was done in December 1914. It has no trace of HazelAtlas’ involvement, or interest from any other manufacturing concern, to occupy this piece of real estate. The wording on the depiction alludes to the buildings falling into disrepair from long term neglect.35 It was at least seven years, and perhaps longer, since any glass company did business at this location.

Overview As we’ve witnessed, glass-making firms occupied the land between the “two corners in time” for about thirteen years.

In that period, they competed against several other larger, more nationallyrecognized, local, glass-manufacturers for a piece of the product market about a century ago. While using Sanborn sketches as the main anchor for my story, other sources were employed to fill-in the history of those companies doing business inside the intersections of West Strawberry Alley/Avenue, South Franklin and West Maiden Streets in the Borough of Washington.

If you have any questions about the four concerns or care to share evidence about them, please contact me.

Barry L. Bernas 239 Ridge Avenue Gettysburg, PA 17325 References 1 History of Washington County From Its First Settlement to the Present Time, First Under Virginia as Yohogania, Ohio, or Augusta County Until 1871, and

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Subsequently Under Pennsylvania, Alfred Creigh, LL.D., B. Singerly, Printer, Harrisburg, Pa., 1871, pgs. 353-354 and The Washington Reporter, Sesquicentennial Edition, August 15, 1958, Section II, pg. 1 and Section VI, pg. 27. This company wasn’t the first to make Conestoga wagons in Washington, Pennsylvania. Alpheus Murphy and John Morrow had a well-known wagon making businesses in the Borough from 1820 until the middle of the 1850s. However, S.B. Hayes and Company and its successor S. B. & C. Hayes became the largest concern there to make these sturdy wagons.

2 The Washington Reporter, Sesquicentenial Edition, August 15, 1958, Section III, pg. 57. This was an 1870 sketch.

3 Sanborn-Perris Map Company, 117 Broadway, New York, NY, November 1891. In order of establishment, the other five glass-manufacturing concerns were: the Hazel Glass Company; the Washington Glass Company; the Jefferson Glass Company; the Crescent Glass Company; and George Duncan’s Sons & Company (later Duncan and Miller Glass Company).

4 www.familysearch.org, United States Census 1880 and Commoner and Glassworker, February 10, 1906.

5 Blowpipes Northwest Ohio Glassmaking in the Gas Boom of the 1880s, Jack K. Paquette, Xlibris Corporation, 2002, pgs.

184 and 187.

Commoner and Glassworker, March 15, 1890.

7 Commoner and Glassworker, April 6, 1892.

8 The Washington Reporter, March 25, 1893.

9 The Washington Observer, May 3, 1893 and January 1, 1894 and Washington County Recorder of Deeds, Deed Book 183, pgs 211-212.

10 The Washington Observer, April 2nd, 1894 and November 19, 1894 and The Washington Reporter, November 17, 1894 and December 18, 1894.

11 The firm was listed as either the Novelty Glass Company or Novelty Glass Works, depending on the reference. It wasn’t until after it was incorporated that the name consistently became the Novelty Glass Works.

12 The Washington Daily Reporter, May 9, 1895 and August 31, 1895.

13 Sanborn-Perris Map Company, Limited, 115 Broadway St., New York, NY, June 1896.

14 The Washington Daily Reporter, June 1, 1897.

15 National Glass Budget, June 5, 1897 and June 19, 1897; China, Glass and Lamps, June 23, 1897, July 14, 1897, August 11, 1897 and September 22, 1897; The Washington Daily Reporter, July 8, 1897 and September 28, 1897; and Commoner and Glassworker, August 7, 1897 and August 28, 1897.

16 Washington County Corporation Book, 6

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17 Commoner and Glassworker, November 12, 1898.

18 Sanborn-Perris Map Company, Limited, 115 Broadway St., New York, NY, May, 1900.

19 Commoner and Glassworker, December 7, 1901; National Glass Budget, March 1, 1902; China, Glass and Lamps, March 1, 1902; and Washington County Equity Book 7, pgs. 208-209 and 221.

20 Crockery and Glass Journal, May 30, 1902 and September 4, 1902; Washington County Equity Book 7, pg. 209; China, Glass and Lamps, September 13, 1902; and Commoner and Glassworker, September 20, 1902.

21 The Washington Reporter. March 26, 1903.

22 The Washington Reporter, March 26, 1903 and Washington County Corporation Book 2, pgs. 289-291.

23 Washington County Corporation Book 2, pg. 291.

24 National Glass Budget, September 26, 1903; Crockery and Glass Journal, October 8, 1903; The Washington Reporter, October 29, 1903 and January 6, 1904; The Washington Observer, October 29, 1903, November 19, 1903 and December 3, 1903; Commoner and Glassworker, December 12, 1903, December 19, 1903 and January 2, 1904; and Glass Trade Directory For 1904, Commoner Publishing Company, Box 555, Pittsburg, Pa, pg. 22.

25 Sanborn Map Company, 11 Broadway St., New York, NY, July, 1904.

26 The packer container was embossed SIMPLEX in a diamond with an all-glass, screw cap made to the May 3, 1904 patent granted to William B. Fenn. Of note, the rights to both were transferred to the Republic Glass Manufacturing Company (read the Honorable John P. Elkin) in a mid-1904 ruling that happened during the United States District Court trail against Mr. Fenn. The fruit jar was marked SIMPLEX MASON. It took the all-glass, screw cap made to the December 5, 1905 patent granted to Russell Uhl of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.

27 Commoner and Glassworker, April 9, 1904, May 7, 1904, August 13, 1904, September 24, 1904, November 19, 1904, February 25, 1905 and April 15, 1905; Crockery and Glass Journal, April 14, 1904, May 19, 1904, August 11, 1904, December 1, 1904, March 2, 1905 and

Winter 2005 April 13, 1905; The Washington Reporter, August 22, 1904 and September 17, 1904; and The Washington Observer, April 10, 1905.

28 Commoner and Glassworker, November 11, 1905; China, Glass and Lamps, November 11, 1905 and April 21, 1906; Crockery and Glass Journal, November 16, 1905 and November 23, 1905; and Fruit Jar Newsletter, Dick Roller, 607 Driskell, Paris, Illinois, June 1983, pg. 175.

29 Crockery and Glass Journal, August 9, 1906; Complete Directory Of Glass Factories in the United States and Canada 1907, Commoner and Glassworker, McKenna Building, Pittsburg, PA., pg. 22; Thomas’ Register of American Manufacturers Volume 3, 1907-08, Thomas Publishing Company, New York, NY, pgs. 664 and 799; R. L. Polk & Co.’s Washington Directory 190708, R. L. Polk & Co. Publishers, Pittsburg, Penna.; and The Washington Observer, January 28, 1907.

30 Sanborn Map Company, 11 Broadway St., New York, NY, December 1909.

71 Glass Trade Directory For 1904, Commoner Publishing Company, Box 555, Pittsburg, Pa., pg. 22. The 1934 reprint had this information on page 169.

32 Glass Trade Directory For 1904, Commoner Publishing Company, Box 555, Pittsburg, Pa., pg. 22, reprint pg.

169; Directory of the Glass Trade 1905, Commoner Publishing Company, Box 555, Pittsburg, Pa., pg. 22; Directory of the Glass Trade 1906, Commoner Publishing Company, Box 555, Pittsburg, Pa., pg. 21; and Complete Directory of Glass Factories in the United States and Canada 1907, Commoner & Glassworker, McKenna Building, Pittsburg, Pa., pg. 22.

33 R. L. Polk & Co.’s Washington Directory 1907-08, R. L. Polk & Co. Publishers, Pittsburg, Penna.; Ibid, 19091910, pg. 197; Ibid, 1911, pg. 169; and Ibid, 1912-1913, pg. 189.

34 The Washington Observer, January 27, 1908.

35 Sanborn Map Company, 11 Broadway St., New York, NY, December 1914.

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Drawing by Brian Gage from the Traveler’s Companion, newsletter for the Greater Buffalo Bottle Collector’s Association, Vol. VI, Issue 5, May 2004. [Used with permission.]

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SPELLING COUNTS – on eBAY

by Cecil & Dolores Munsey Copyright © 2004

When a bottle collector wanted to sell a marbled-stoppered soda water bottle, he listed it on eBay once, and got no takers.

He tried a second time, and still no interest.

Was it the price? The fuzzy picture?

Maybe the description: “. . . a beautiful cobalt blue cod bottel.”

Such is the eBay world of misspellers, where the clueless – and sometimes just careless bottle collectors – try to sell historicel flaskes, Tippercanoe, Lidia Pinkhem, barbara, and figeral bottles.

Sometimes they do get bidders, but rarely very many. Often the buyers are collectors who troll for spelling slip-ups, buying bottles ‘on the cheap’ and selling them all over again on eBay, but with the right spelling and for the right price. Bob Merada, a pharmacist in Central Florida, is one of them.

Mr. Merada bought a “barbara” bottle for $5. The amber and white candy stripe barber bottle was quite a find. He put it back on the auction block with the right spelling. It sold for $120. “I’ve bought and sold stuff on eBay that I bought for next to nothing because of poor spelling or vague descriptions,” he said.

“My best score,” he confided, “was a ground-stoppered ruby red apothecerey bottle with a label-under glass.” He further confided, “I bought it for $12 and sold the red ‘apothecary’ bottle a week later for $127.”

It’s not just bottle collectors who have figured out that great bargains can be had on eBay because of poor spelling or vague descriptions. Chris Richardson, who lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, also searches for misspellings. He now operates his entire business by laptop computers, having bought three Compaqs for a pittance simply by asking for Compacts instead.

No one knows how much misspelling is out there on eBay, where more than $23 billion worth of goods was sold last year.

The company does flag common misspellings, but wrong spellings can also turn up similar misspellings, so that buyers and sellers frequently read past the Web site’s slightly bashful line asking by any chance, “Did you mean . . . barber

bottle?”

An unofficial survey (a half-hour search for creative spellings) turned up dozens of items, including antiks, dimonds, telefones, and loads of old bottels.

When contacted, the sellers were often surprised to hear that they had misspelled their wares.

Lillian Dyal, who lives in Bradenton, Florida said she knew she was on shaky ground when she set out to spell PepsiCola. But instead of flipping through any of the reference books she had access to, she did an Internet search for Pepse Cola and came up with 26 listings.

She never guessed that results like that meant she was groping in the spelling wilderness. Pepsi Cola spelled correctly turned up 1,568 items.

Some experts say there is no evidence that people are spelling worse than they ever did. But with the growth of e-mail correspondence and instant messaging, language has grown more informal. And much as calculators did for arithmetic, spell checkers have made good spelling seem to many people an obsolete skill.

But that’s not true on eBay! Spelling does matter as has been shown. Spelling is important to both sellers and buyers.

Some sellers clearly bear in mind the potential for disaster when preparing their advertisements. Bob Jensen of Denver, From The Blackburn Press, Mary S. Donovan, P.O. Box 287, Caldwell, NJ 07006; Ph: (973) 228-7077; Fax: 973228-7276: Bottle Makers and Their Marks by Julian Harrison Toulouse (reprint, 1971 Edition) is again available on our website, www.blackburnpress.com/ archaeology.html, ready for immediate shipping in paperback (624 pages) and retails for $69.95.

Coming in January 2005 is his Fruit Jars: A Collectors’ Manual (reprint, 1969 Edition) also in paperback (542 pages) and will retail for $62.95.

Advance orders are now being taken at The Blackburn Press website,

who was selling hunting and fishing knives on eBay recently, covered all the bases: his listing advertised every sort of alphabetic butchery, including knife and knive. His strategy of listing multiple spellings, he said, is based on his experience as a buyer. “I’m a bad speller myself,” he said. So his mistakes in searching for items led him to realize that he could buy up bargains. “I’d go ahead and deliberately misspell it when I searched for items,” he said.

Even some that have made money off misspellings have felt the bite of bad spelling. When one fellow (who wishes to remain anonymous) was helping his parents sell off the contents of his father’s jewelry and watch repair store, he listed “a huge lot of earings,” it attracted only three bids, and sold for just $5.50.

And then there was the time he sold the family’s flatwear . . .

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GLOSSARY “cod bottel” = Codd bottle “historicel flaskes” = historical flasks “Tippercanoe” = Tippecanoe “Lidia Pinkhem” = Lydia Pinkham “barbara” bottle = barber bottle “figeral” = figural “Compacts” = Compaqs “anticks” = antiques “dimonds” = diamonds “telefones” = telephones “bottels” = bottles “Pepse” Cola = Pepsi Cola “knive” = knife “earings” = earrings “flatwear” = flatware

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Also available is Marks of American Potters by Edwin Atlee Barber (reprint, 1904 Edition), which includes the marks used by factories, patterns, workmen or decorators in America to the time of this book’s original printing as a paperback (182 pages) and retails for $32.95, w w w. b l a c k b u r n p r e s s . c o m / archaeology.html.

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pharmaceutical bottles, patent medicines, etc. – dating from late 19th to mid-20th century. Indexed by product and by manufacturer. Cost - $12. Available from Stewart County Historical Commission, P.O. Box 818, Lumpkin, GA 31515 or contact: ALLEN VEGOTSKY, 2215 Greencrest Dr., Atlanta, GA 30346-2629; PH: (770) 270-1034; E-mail: a.Vegotsky@att.net.

FIRE GRENADE PRICE GUIDE - 122 grenade types priced from 400 auctions, 130 b/w illustions, 46 pages, $26.70 PP. Contact: RON FELDHAUS, 5117 W 92nd St, Minneapolis, MN 55437, or E-mail: vrfeldhaus@aol.com.

PEPSI-COLA BOTTLES & MORE: COLLECTOR’S GUIDE, VOL. 2 with prices. All Color! $35.00 + $3.95 Shipping. All new! Over 1500 bottles 169 pages. Vol. 2 does not contain bottles shown in Vol. 1. Contact: James Ayers, RJM Enterprises, 5186 Claudville Hwy., Claudville, VA 24076.

2001 EDITION ...

“The Fruit Jar Collector’s Bible”

RedBook

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Reflects Recent Price Influences of Auctions and the Internet, as well as Current Price Trends Soft Cover, 432 Pages Over 10,000 Entries $35 US - $40 Non-US - Post Paid Order from Author : DOUGLAS M. LEYBOURNE, JR. P.0. BOX 5417 - NORTH MUSKEGAN, MI 49445

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Classified Ads Can you tell the “Real” from the “Repro”? Now you can with Tippecanoe & E. G. Booz Too! A book about cabin bottles, by Thomas C. Haunton. Detailed info on 57 different bottles, with new “McKearin” numbers, over 140 photos, and new information on E. G. Booz - the man! A price guide and free CD with 200 color photos are also included.

Send $32.95 postpaid to: TOM HAUNTON, 48 Hancock Ave. #1, Medford, MA 02155-5621. E-mail: tchaunton@comcast.net GEORGIA CROWN TOP BOTTLE BOOK. 260 pages with over 1400 bottles.

Includes Georgia Bottling Works, 263 different Script straight-sided Coca-Cola bottles from Georgia, 236 different Georgia Chero-Cola bottles. Many others also listed. All Color! $39.95 + $3.95 Shipping. Send to: Georgia Soda Bottle Book, 1211 St. Andrews Drive, Douglas, GA 31533.

FOR SALE: Two books on whiskey jugs by Bottles and Extras writer Jack Sullivan. THE AMERICAN WHISKEY JUG features 200 richly illustrated pages with index. $20 plus $5 postage. THE WHISKEY CERAMICS OF SCOTLAND, IRELAND and ENGLAND features 100 pages with index. $10 plus $3 postage. Or buy both for $25 plus $5 postage.

Contact: JACK SULLIVAN, 4300 Ivanhoe Pl., Alexandria, VA 22304; PH: (703) 370-3039; E-mail: jack.sullivan9@verizon.net.

COLLECTING APPLIED COLOR LABEL BOTTLES, Third Edition (2002). 1200 full-color photographs with over 1600 ACL soda bottles listed and over 1650 prices realized in an easy to read format. $45 includes postage Contact: KATHY HOPSON, 1966 King Springs Road, Johnson City, TN 37601; E-mail: kathy@thesodafizz.com.

FOR SALE: “BOTTLE IDENTIFICATION AND PRICE GUIDE – 4 TH EDITION” The “BOTTLE BIBLE” for everyone – comprehensive, updated pricing guide, (3) new chapters: Cobalt Blue Medicine Bottles, Violin Bottles and Museum & Research Resources.

Expanded & updated chapters: Determining Bottle Values, Trademark Identification, Dealer/Club Guide / Glossary / Auction Houses, Bibliography. 300 b/ w photos – 16 page color section - $21.00 (includes book/shipping/handling).

“AMERICAN PATRIOTIC MEMORABILIA” Comprehensive Pricing Guide – 17 chapters including Uncle Sam items, political, folk art, flags, World War I & II posters, stamps, sheet music, advertising - $20.00 (includes book/shipping/handling). Check or money order to: MIKE POLAK, P.O. Box 30328, Long Beach, CA 90853; PH: (562) 438-9209; E-mail: bottleking@earthlink.net.

A COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO ARIZONA BOTTLE & STONEWARE A HISTORY OF MERCHANT CONTAINERS IN ARIZONA 124 pages of very detailed sketches of bottles and stoneware from the state of Arizona (1999) Spiral bound, $25.00. Contact: MICHAEL MILLER, Miller Antiques, 9214 W. Gary Road, Peoria, AZ 85345, PH: (623) 486-3123 or by E-mail: gramike@earthlink.net.

FOR SALE: Now, finally available! BIG BOB BEST BITTERS is a comprehensive price guide for collectors of bitters bottles reporting auction prices realized for the last 17 years.

This printing contains nearly 4000 accurately described bitters in a convenient, easy to read

format. Listing bottle description and condition, Ring/Ham number, sale date and realized auction prices, this reference is a must-have for the collector or dealer of bitters bottles. To encourage your attendence at bottle shows, the price is an affordable $10. Price postage paid is $15. Send check or money order with your mailing instructions to: BOB STRICKHART, 3 Harvest Drive, Pennington, New Jersey 08534.

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MISCELLANEOUS $500.00 REWARD! for any information leading to the return of my stolen property, ie: WILLIAM GOEPPERT & SON, aqua, “champagne” top, quart beer from San Francisco, circa 1882. Please contact: DAVE ACORN, 11312 Cottontail Way, Penn Valley, CA 95946; PH: (530) 432-2111.

WANTED WANTED: Montana sodas - ACL Cleo Cola/Billings; embossed Apex Springs/ Dillon; embossed Hamilton Bottling Works; embossed Wolf Point Bottling Works; Niagara Bottling Works/Great Falls; ACL Big Chief/Missoula; ACL 5HI/ Plentywood. Contact: R.J. REID, 1102 East Babcock St., Bozeman, MT 59715; Ph: (406) 587-9602; E-mail: reid@mcn.net WANTED: Moulton items! I collect bottles and related items with my name on them and am interested in purchasing anything which I do not have. Contact: TOM G. MOULTON, 1911 Preservation Dr., Plant City, FL 33566-0945; Ph: (813) 754-1396; or E-mail: corkscru1@aol.com.

WANTED: Amber La Lorraine French jar. Also want a Bevo non-alcoholic beverage bottle with label. Contact: CARROLL, Ph: (417) 678-4523 (after 7pm).

WANTED: Looking for clear of SCA “Quaker City Monogram Whiskey” bottle, quart or fifth in mint, or near mint, condition. Contact: JAMES COMPRATT, 800 N. 15th St., Canon City, CO 81212; Ph: (719) 269-1530; Website: www.strayhorsestudio.com.

WANTED: Blob tops from broken sodas. Diggers, I will buy colored soda tops from broken bottles. Want good condition with no cracks or large chips.

Quantity is ok. Also wish to purchase dated sodas 1860-1865 from New York.

Contact: ED GRAY, Harness Mill Rd., Marietta, GA 30068; Ph: (770) 578-1727 (before 9pm EST) or E-mail: cegray@trane.com.

WANTED: American poisons. I am trying to complete sets and after 25 years of collecting, there are still many sizes I need. Contact: JOAN CABANISS, 312 Summer Ln., Huddleston, VA 24104; Ph: (540) 297-4498; E-mail: jjcab@aol.com.

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WANTED: To buy or trade for any whiskey items from the Shore, N.C. distillers or from the “Old Nick,” Williams, N.C. distillery.

Thanks to my many friends who have helped in the past. Contact: CLARENCE “CORKY” SHORE, 6975 Shallowford Rd., Lewisville, N.C. 27023; Ph: (336) 945-5807; E-mail: shorejugs@yahoo.com

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PEPSI : COLA BOTTLES COLLECTORS GUIDE

by James C. Ayers ISBN: 0-964-54430-X - $29.50

An in depth bottle guide listing over 530 bottles. Many rare and unusual styles.

Entire book (144 pages) all color with enlargements. Each bottle listed with ID#, complete description, date, rarity scale and price.

WANTED: South Carolina items, especially mini-jugs, colored sodas, medicines, whiskies and any advertising material related to bottles or pottery. Contact: ROBERT WILLIAMS, 2800 Cravey Trail, Atlanta, GA 30345: Ph: (770) 621-0829; E-mail: Whitams@yahoo.com.

WANTED: Philadelphia and neighboring SE Pennsyllvania area embossed strap-sided and seamed whiskey flasks. Contact: ART MIRON, 132 W. Durham St., Philadelphia, PA 19119; Ph: (215) 248-4612; E-mail: jestar484@verizon.net.

WANTED: Maine milk bottles, doctor or cure advertising, like tins or wooden boxes. Maine drug store bottles and soda bottles.

Buy or trade. E-mail or call with what you have. Contact: RODNEY HUFF, 9 Sturtevent St., W-T-U-L, ME 04901; Ph: (207) 873-0199; E-mail: gav6789@yahoo.com.

WANTED: Koca Nola soda bottles, jugs, syrup dispensers, match safes, calendars, watch fobs, signs, letterheads, crates, ads, etc., plus historical information for book. Also, all bottles from these towns: Bridgeport, Stevenson and Scottsboro, Alabama; Jasper, Monteagle, New River, South Pittsburg, Tracy City and Whitwell, Tennessee. Contact: CHARLES HEAD, 23549-001 D2; Jesup FCI, 2680 Hwy. 301 South, Jesup, GA 31599.

WANTED: Any soda-related book or magazine for the Soda Fizz reference library. Specifically, old National Carbonaor and National Bottler Gazette, etc. Contact me with what you have!

Also, if you collect bottles from your area or region only, I would like the regional listings of your bottles for the webpage as a reference for beginner collectors, or as a check-off list for experienced collectors. Photos of rare or good examples for use in both magazines (The Soda Fizz and Bottles and Extras) are welcome! Please contact me with what you have - in all bottle categories. Contact: KATHY HOPSON, 1966 King Springs Road, Johnson City, TN 37601; Ph: (423) 737-6710; E-mail: sodagirl@earthlink.net.

PEPSI : COLA BOTTLES & MORE COLLECTORS GUIDE, VOL. 2 ISBN: 0-964-5443-1-8 - $35.00

ALL NEW Vol. 2 contains over 1500 bottles - 168 pages - all color with enlargements - over 790 items pictured - includes Pepsi-Cola embossed, paper label, ACLs, Back Bar Bottles; also features Devil Shake, Diet Pepsi, Evervess, an extensive listing of Mountain Dew and competition bottles, Patio, Pepsi Free, Pepsi Light, Slice, Teem, Tropic, Surf and many others. Almost three times the number of bottles in Vol. 1. Truly a must for all Pepsi and Mountain Dew collectors.

A super bottle guide with prices!

NOTE: Vol. 2 Does Not contain bottles shown in Vol. 1

Mail to: RJM Enterprises 5186 Claudville Hwy., Claudville VA 24076

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Full Colour BBR

The world’s first full color bottle magazine simply got BETTER and BIGGER PACKED FULL of all the information you need on the UK & worldwide scene Well-researched articles & All the latest finds Upcoming sales & Full show calendar “the classified ads alone make a subscription worthwhile, but the color pictures make it absolutely ESSENTIAL. Heck, what

1 year Air Mail subscription still just $20 - 2 years $40 Personal Check, MasterCard/Visa, even $ bills!

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(631) 589-9027

Mark Smith 10 Holmes Court Sayville, N.Y. 11782-2408

WHISKEY FLASKS WANTED ALL SHAPES, SIZES AND COLORS FROM NEW YORK, BROOKLYN & LONG ISLAND

Canadian Bottle and Stoneware Collector

Canada’s quarterly bottle magazine now in its 7th Volume Year 1 year subscription costs $40 US Subscribe online!

CB and SC 102 Abbeyhill Drive Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2L 1H2 Check out our Web site: www.cbandsc.com

Bitters to ginger beers and everything in between!

E-mail: Info@cbandsc.com

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Classified Ads

I am the cataloger of Tennessee trade tokens. My book TRADE TOKENS OF TENNESSEE is sold out. The book is constantly being updated. Any help with the historical undertaking, by sending me any information on tokens, will deeply be appreciated. I also collect tokens and would appreciate the opportunity to buy/trade for tokens that I need. Also, wanted are Tennessee Centennial items, Natiional Banknotes and obsolete banknotes, replies will be answered.

Feel free to write, call or E-mail me: JOE COPELAND, P.O. Box 4221, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 Ph: (865) 482-4215; E-mail: joecopeland@comcast.net

McMURRAY ANTIQUES & AUCTIONS Specializing in Drugstore, Apothecary and Country Store Antiques and Collectibles

A Leader in the Field - Conducting 3 Cataloged Auctions Annually Collector of Dr. Kilmer Swamp-Root and Patent Medicine Bottles & Advertising Always Buying One Piece or Entire Collections

TERRY MCMURRAY P.O. Box 393 - Kirkwood, NY 13795 Phone: (607) 775-5972 - Fax: (607) 775-2321

JARX DOCTOR YOUR COMPLETE SOURCE FOR JAR, BOTTLE AND INSULATOR

CLEANING EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES

CLEANING CANISTERS Designed to safely and professionally clean inside, outside and base - all at one time.

Available in White & Clear PVC (3” through 6” ID) Prices ranging from $85.00 to $125.00 CLEANING MACHINES Units available, starting at $160.00 OXIDES Aluminum, Cerium, Tin, Silicon Carbide TUMBLING COPPER New 12-gauge chisel point in 3 sizes Copper Wire: $3.75/lb.

Payment by Major Credit Card or PayPal

CUSTOM GLASS CLEANING

Including bottles, decanters, insulators, jars, lamps, pitchers, vases ...almost anything glass that needs cleaning.

Two pricing options: 1) Uninsured option: $15.00 for polish - $25.00 for cutting (etching and scratch removal) *customer assumes all risk for breakage and/or damage 2) Insured option: Round Items: Cost is 4% of agreed upon value of the piece in addition to the normal cleaning charge. Odd Shapes: (not limited to square, rectangle, etc.): Cost is 6% of the agreed upon value of the piece in addition to the normal cleaning charge.

Piece must pass inspection - no cracks, potstones or thin glass If breakage does occur during the cleaning process; insured will be paid agreed upon value and piece will not be returned or a negotiated amount will be paid in exchange for the item.

Postage is paid by customer both ways, regardless of option.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:

R. Wayne Lowry 401 Johnston Ct., Raymore, MO 64083 E-mail: JarDoctor@aol.com Website: www.jardoctor.com (816) 318-0161 FAX: (816) 318-0162

SHOPS AND SERVICES CHAPEL ANTIQUES Specializing in antique furniture, bottles, Western Relics, Victorian glass collectibles, etc.

Contact: CHAPEL ANTIQUES, 112 N. Curry St., Carson City, NV 89703; PH: (775) 885-8511

SPRING STEEL PROBES

Length 36” to 48” Diameter 1/4” to 5/16” “T” Handle 1” Dia. x 12” and Ring 4” above tip, both welded. $37.50 includes S/H $3 Extra for Rush Shipping Cashier Check or M.O. R. L. Wilcox 7422 Park Drive Mechanicsville, VA 23111 Phone: (804) 746-9854 or E-mail: Wilcox7422@aol.com

Churchill’s Antique Bottle Cleaning Service Introductory Offer: Will clean one bottle at no charge ! (minus postage) Try me risk free!

Less than 10 bottles: $15 each.

10-14: $12.50 each.

More than 15: $10.00 each.

MARK CHURCHILL

PO Box 7023 Grand Rapids, MI 49510

(616) 248-3808 E-mail: mdiscoidalis@netzero.com

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Classified Ads WANTED: BOTTLES (1) The River Swamp Chill and Fever Cure – Augusta, Ga., amber, 6-1/4" (2) Lewis Bear Drug Co. – Pensacola, Fla., clear, 4-1/8".

BOOK – Territorial Bottles of the United States (Buys, 1992). Contact: TOMMY E. LAMBERTH, 711 Black Creek Lodge Road, Freeport, FL 32439; Ph: (850) 835-4255; E-mail: t_wlam@cox.net.

WANTED: Top dollar paid for western whiskey items: cyclinders, flasks, shot glasses, jugs and any western whiskey advertising. Also collect inks, seltzer bottles, the Dalles, Oregon items, Dufur, Oregon items and Dr. Vanderpool’s medicines and trade cards. Contact: JIM & JULIE DENNIS, P.O. Box 185, Dufur, OR 97021; Ph: (541) 467-2760; E-mail: jmdennis@hotmail.com.

WANTED: Florida hutchinson and blob top sodas, mineral waters and beers. Any condition considered. New address and telephone number. Contact: CHRIS HODER, 4911 30 th Street Court E., Bradenton, FL 34203; Ph: (941) 7554701; E-mail: kzhoder@aol.com.

WANTED: These Hildebrandt & Posner’s: 1/2-pint and pint amber pumpkinseeds; 1/2-pint and pint aqua pumpkinseeds; 1/2 clear pumpkinseed without air vents; 5th and 6th size cylinders; 4-mold tool-top and glob-tops with crude tops, whittle and odd coloration. Perferably mint, or near mint. Contact: BILL REEVES, PO Box 252, Cedarville, CA 96104; or Phone: (530) 279-6304 (eve).

WANTED: Calfornia soda blob-tops, in cobalt, amber, and green, for the San Francisco area. Contact: GEORGE GUZMAN; 632 Derico Ct., Santa Rosa, CA 95401; Ph: (707) 542-1526.

Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors’ Slide Shows for Rent Educational - Fun Informative To rent one of these programs, or if you have questions about the specific contens please contact: Barbara Hill Box 601, Tulare, CA 93275 Phone: (559) 686-1873

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FED-4-SALE Federation Goodies from the Past ~ Please Note: Prices include shipping. ~ Coffee Mugs (1992 EXPO) $7.50 each – ppd.

You’ll find coffee never tasted better. Only 43 available!

Commemorative Flasks - Fabulous Fakes! $8.50 each – ppd.

1969 ABCA 10th “Success to the RR” Green 1976 EXPO, St. Louis (Scroll) Blue, Amber, Olive, Aqua 1988 EXPO, Las Vegas “Celebration of Am. Glass” Blue 1994 FOHBC Nat’l, Cherry Hills, New Jersey FOHBC 25th (free-blown date seal) Olive EXPO & National Show Programs $5.30 each – ppd.

1984 EXPO Souvenir Program, Montgomery, Alabama 1988 EXPO Souvenir Program, Las Vegas, Nevada 1994 National Souvenir Program, Cherry Hill, New Jersey 2001 National Auction Catalogs $4.30 each – ppd.

1984 Update & Price Guide, C Ring & S Ray $3.30 each – ppd.

116-pg. update to For Bitters Only by Carlyn Ring FOHBC Decals $1.00 each – ppd.

Please specify INSIDE or OUTSIDE…

FOHBC Pins & Buttons $3.00 each – ppd.

The Original Emblem, from the 1976 EXPO, St. Louis, Mo. 1984 EXPO Button, Montgomery, Alabama (Very limited quantities) 1988 EXPO Pins, Las Vegas, Nevada T-Shirts, 1988 EXPO, Las Vegas 2 XL only! $10.50 each – ppd.

Back Issues: “Federation Journal” $13.30 per copy – ppd.

Spring 1974 (V2-1), Fall 1974 (V2-2) Spring 1975 (V3-1), Fall 1975 (V3-2) Back Issues: “Bottles & Extras” $5.30 per copy – ppd.

Only a few issues not available… ~ Please Note: Prices include shipping ~

Submit orders to: Federation Merchandise c/o Kent Williams 1835 Oak, Terr., Newcastle, CA 95658

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FOHBC SHO-BIZ FOHBC Sho-Biz is published in the interest of the hobby. Federation affiliated clubs are noted. Information on up-coming collecting events is welcome, but space is limited.

Please send at least four months in advance, including telephone number, to: FOHBC Sho-Biz, c/o Ron Rasnake, 6301 Lilyan Parkway, Fort Pierce, FL 34951, or E-mail: RonOldGins@bellsouth.net. Show schedules are subject to change. Please call ahead before traveling long distances.

All listings published here will also be published on our web site at http://www.fohbc.com.

JANUARY 2005 JANUARY 9 - SOUTH ATTLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS Little Rhody Bottle Club’s Annual Show & Sale (Sun. 10 AM – 2 PM, early admission 9 AM) at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 304 Highland Ave., South Attleboro, MA. INFO: JULIE CAMARA, P. O. Box 15142, Riverside, RI 02915, E-mail: narcovich@aol.com.

JANUARY 15 - JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI Mississippi Antique Bottle Show (Sat. 9 AM - 4 PM; dealer set-up, Fri. 3 PM - 9 PM and Sat. 7 AM - 9 AM) at the Mississippi Fairgrounds, Jackson, Mississippi. INFO: JOHN SHARP, P.O. Box 601, Carthage, MS 39051, PH: (601) 267-7128, E-mail: johnsharp49@aol.com.

JANUARY 21-23 - ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA Suncoast Antique Bottle Collector’s Annual Show & Sale (Sat. 9 AM - % PM, Sun. 9 AM – 3 PM, early admission Fri. 4 PM) at the St. Petersburg National Guard Armory. 3601 38 th Ave. South, St. Petersburg, FL. INFO: GEORGE DUEBEN, P. O. Box 11001, St. Petersburg, FL 33733, PH: (727) 393-8189 or CHRIS CUBE, PH: (727) 541-5229. [FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB] JANUARY 22 - ANDERSON, CALIFORNIA Superior California Bottle Club’s 29th Annual Show & Sale (Sat. 9 AM – 4 PM) at the Shasta County Fairgrounds, Anderson, CA. INFO: MEL HAMMER, PH: (530) 241-4878 or PHIL McDONALD, PH: (530) 243-6903.

JANUARY 22 - ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA The 5th Annual Pennsylvania Antique Bottle, Breweriana & Advertising Show & Sale (Sat. 9:30 AM – 2:30 PM, early admission 8 AM) at the Merchants Square Antique Mall, 12th & Vultee St., Allentown, PA. INFO: MARK ZEPPENFELT, 4881 Cypress St., Wescosville, PA 18106, PH: (610) 391-0271, E-mail: uuubuy@rcn.com.

JANUARY 29 - ROME, GEORGIA The Rome Antique Bottle & Collectables Club Annual Show & Sale, at the Rome Civic Center, Rome, GA. INFO: JERRY MITCHELL, PO Box 475, Bremen, GA 30110, PH: (770) 537-3725, E-mail: mitjt@aol.com or BOB JENKINS, PH: (770) 834-0736.

FEBRUARY 2005 FEBRUARY 5 - YUMA, ARIZONA Grand Canyon State Insulator Club 6th Annual Insulator Show & Tailgater (Sat. 9 AM - mid afternoon) at the Riverside Park, which is located next to the Yuma Territorial Prison, Yuma, Arizona. Specific Directions: Exit I-8 at the Giss Parkway, exit #1 for Yuma Territorial Prisont). Follow the signs to the Yuma Territorial Prison. Just before you get to the Prison parking lot there is a turnoff to the right that goes down the hill into the park. There will be signs posted saying ‘GCSIC Picnic’. If selling insulators please bring tables or set up in the back of your truck, no reservations required. INFO: ROGER NAGEL, PH: (623) 566-0121. [Listing Courtesy of Crown Jewels of the Wire] FEBRUARY 6 - SOUTH RIVER, NEW JERSEY The New Jersey Antique Bottle Club’s (NJABC) 9th Annual Show and Sale (9 AM to 2 PM) at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 88 Jackson St., South River, New Jersey. INFO. NJABC, 24 Charles Street, South River, NJ. 08882-1603 PH: JOE BUTEWICZ, PH: (732)-238-3238, E-mail: botlman@msn.com. [FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB] FEBRUARY 11-12 - CHEHALIS, WASHINGTON The Oregon Bottle Collectors Association’s Winter Show & Sale (Sat. 8 AM - 3 PM, $1 Adm; early buyers & set-up, $5 Adm., Fri. 1 PM - 7 PM; Sat. 7 AM - 8 AM) at the Southwest Washington Fairgrounds, I5, Exit 79, Chehalis, Washington. INFO: JIM OR JULIE DENNIS,

PH: (541) 467-2760; E-mail: jmdennis@hotmail.com. [ FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB] FEBRUARY 12 - LAS VEGAS, NEVADA The Las Vegas Bottle Club’s 40th Annual Show & Sale (9 AM to 4 PM, early buyers Fri. noon to 5 PM) at the Plaza Hotel/Casino, Number One Main Street, Las Vegas, Nevada. INFO: MIKE PRESLEY, PH: (702) 364-9336, E-mail: mpres65@aol.com. [FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB] FEBRUARY 18-19 - COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA The South Carolina Antique Bottle Club’s 32nd Annual Show & Sale (Fri. 12 - 6 PM; Sat. 9 AM - 2 PM) at the Meadowlake Park Center, 600 Beckman Rd. (off I-20, exit 71 for North Main St., north to first light after intersection, right on Beckman Rd., center on right), Columbia, South Carolina. INFO: MARTY VOLLMER, 1091 Daralynn Dr., Lexington, SC 29073; PH: (803) 755-9410; E-mail: MartyVollmer@aol.com or ERIC WARREN, 238 Farmdale Dr., Lexington, SC 29073, E-mail: scbottles@aol.com; Website: www.antiquebottles.com/scbc/ FEBRUARY 19 - OZARK, ALABAMA The Dixie Jewels Insulator Club’s Winter Swap Meet (Sat. 9:30 AM late-afternoon) at the home of Jackie and Sarah Shaver, 806 Deerpath Farms Rd., Ozark, Alabama. [Plenty of space is available for sales tables on the wrap around porch of the Shaver’s country cabin in Lower Alabama.] INFO: JACKIE & SARAH SHAVER, 806 Deerpath Farms Road, Ozark, AL 36360; PH: (334) 774-0894. [Listing Courtesy of Crown Jewels of the Wire] FEBRUARY 27 - ENFIELD, CONNECTICUT Somers Antique Bottle Club’s 35th Annual Show & Sale (Sun. 9 AM – 2 PM) at the St. Bernard School West Campus, Pearl St. (I-91 exit 47 west), Enfield, CT. INFO: ROSE SOKOL, PH: (860) 745-7688.

MARCH 2005 MARCH 5 - MARYLAND LINE, MARYLAND Chesapeake Bay Insulator Club. 17th Annual Show & Sale (Sat. 9 AM - 2 PM) at the Maryland Fire Hall, Maryland Line, Maryland (just south of the PA border on I-83). INFO: LARRY NOVAK, PH: (301) 680-8910; E-mail: cbic@clubs.insulators.com. See our Website for directions and dealer contracts: www.insulators.com/clubs/cbic/ [Listing Courtesy of Crown Jewels of the Wire] MARCH 6 - BALTIMORE, MARYLAND Baltimore Antique Bottle Club 25th Annual Show & Sale (Sun. 8 AM to 3 PM) at the Physical Education Center, Essex Campus of the Community College of Baltimore County, 7201 Rossville Blvd., Baltimore, Maryland. INFO: BOB FORD, PH: (410) 531-9459, Email: bottles@comcast.net. [ FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB] MARCH 12 - ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI The Missouri Valley Insulator Club’s 3rd Annual St. Joseph Insulator/Bottle Show & Sale (Sat. 9 AM - 3 PM, dealer setup: 7 AM) at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 4520 Mitchell Ave., St. Joseph, Missouri. INFO: DENNIS R. WEBER, 3609 Jackson St., St. Joseph, MO 64507; PH: (816) 364-1312; E-mail: soexco@netscape.net. [Listing Courtesy of Crown Jewels of the Wire] MARCH 19 - DELAND, FLORIDA M-T Bottle Collectors Association’s 35th Annual Show & Sale (Sat. 9 AM – 3 PM) at the Volusia County Fairgrounds, State Route 44 (I-4 exit 118), Deland, FL. INFO: M. PALLASCH, 7 Monroe Ave., DeBary,

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Presents 39th ANNUAL

SATURDAY, APRIL 23rd 2005 9:00 am to 3:00 pm

SOLANO COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS (Across from Six Flags Marine World)

VALLEJO, CALIFORNIA Dealer Setup: Friday the 22nd - 11:00 am to 6:00 pm “Early Bird” - Friday 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm - $10 Adm. For Information, Contact: Gary or Darla Antone (925) 373-6758 E-mail: PACKRAT49ER@NETSCAPE.NET

BALTIMORE

ANTIQUE BOTTLE CLUB

THE STATE OF FRANKLIN ANTIQUE BOTTLE & COLLECTIBLES ASSOCIATION PRESENTS ITS 7th ANNUAL SHOW

MAY 6th & 7th, 2005 APPALACHIAN FAIRGROUNDS GRAY, TENNESSEE

25th ANNUAL SHOW AND SALE Sunday - March 6, 2005 8:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m.

Physical Education Center Essex Campus of the Community College of Baltimore County 7201 Rossville Blvd. - Exit 34, I-695 Baltimore, Maryland 21237 The largest one-day bottle show in the world.

Admission - $3 Information: Bob Ford - Show Chairman Phone: (410) 531-9459 E-mail: bottles@comcast.net www.baltimorebottleclub.org

Friday, May 6th 12 PM - 6 PM Setup Early Buyers: $10

Saturday, May 7th 8 AM - 2 PM Free Admission

Fellow Collectors and Dealers: Our show will be in the Farm & Home Buliding at the Appalachian Fairgrounds in Gray, TN. We have over 200 tables available, plus unlimited room at the fairgrounds to grow. We are centrally located, close to I-81 and I-26, with reasonably priced accomodations within a few minutes. When you purchase your first table at $25, you get a meal and all the fun you can stand! This is the perfect place for northern & southern dealers to get together to sell, trade or buy; but we need YOU - the dealers & collectors, to make this show great. On eBay, you can buy and sell, but you can’t see old friends, meet new people and get a wealth of information. Don’t miss the opportunity to be part of this show.

For more information, contact: Melissa Milner Phone: (423) 928-4445 or E-mail: mmilner12@chartertn.net

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RICHLAND COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS MANSFIELD, OHIO HOURS 8 A.M. to 2 P.M. DONATION $3.00 Dealer set-up Friday, April 29th, 2-6 P.M.

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CONTACT: Ron Hands (330) 634-1977 INFO: rshands225@yahoo.com FLASKS

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FL 32713, PH: (386) 668-4538. [FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB] MARCH 19 - RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA The Raleigh Bottle Club’s 5th Annual Antique Bottles & Collectibles Show & Sale (Sat. 9 AM - 3 PM; $2 Adm.; Dealer set-up, 6 - 7:30 AM, Earlybirds, $10, 7:30 - 9 AM) at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds, Holshouser Bldg., Raleigh, North Carolina. INFO: DAVID TINGEN, P.O. Box 18083, Raleigh, NC 27619-8083; E-mail: RBC@antiquebottles.com; Website: www.antiquebottles.com/raleigh.

[FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB] MARCH 20 - FLINT, MICHIGAN Flint Antique Bottle & Collectible Club’s 35th Annual Show & Sale (9 AM - 3 PM) at the Dom Polski Hall, 3415 N. Linden Rd., Flint, Michigan. INFO: TIM BUDA, 11353 W Cook Rd., Gaines, MI 48436; PH: (989) 271-9193; E-mail: tbuda@shianet.org. [FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB] MARCH 20 - ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI St. Louis Antique Bottle Collectors Assoc. 35th Annual Show & Sale (9 AM to 3 PM) at the Two Hearts Banquet Center, 4532 S. Lindbergh at Gravois, St. :Louis, Missouri. INFO: RON STERZIK, 2080 Sterzik Drive, Arnold, MO 63010, PH: (636) 296-3114, or GEORGE CASNAR, PH: (636) 337-2326 [FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB] APRIL 2005 APRIL 2 - KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN Kalamazoo Antique Bottle & Glass 26th Annual Show & Michigan’s largest bottle show (Sat. 10 AM - 3 PM) at the Kalamazoo County Fairgrounds, 2900 Lake Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan. INFO: JOHN PASTOR, 7288 Thorncrest Dr. SE, Ada, MI 49301; PH: (616) 2857604; E-mail: jpastor2000@msn.com or MARK MCNEE, PH: (269) 343-8393. [FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB] APRIL 3 - SYRACUSE, NEW YORK The Empire State Bottle Collectors Association’s 35th Annual Spring Show & Sale (Sun. 9 AM - 3 PM; $2 donation, children under 12 free) at the American Legion Valley Post # 1468, 110 Academy Street (1/2mile west of Rte., just off Seneca Turnpike), Syracuse, New York.

Featuring antique bottles, go-withs, table top collectibles. Free parking, no early admission, Appraisal Table - limit 3 items. INFO: JOHN & CAROL SPELLMAN, P.O. Box 61, Savannah, NY 13146; PH: (315) 365-3156; E-mail: spellmanjc@tds.net; Website: http://esbca.org.

APRIL 9 - RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA Southeast Bottle Club’s Annual Spring Bottle Festival (Sat. 8 AM – 3 PM) on the lawn at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds, Raleigh, NC. INFO: REGGIE LYNCH, P. O. Box 13736, Durham, NC 27709, PH: (919) 789-4545, E-mail: rlynch@antiquebottles.com.

[FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB] APRIL 10 - BLOOMINGTON, MINNESOTA North Star Historical Bottle Assn. & Minnesota’s First Antique Bottle Club’s 34th Annual Show & Sale (Sun, 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM) at the Days Inn, 1901 Killebrew Dr., Blommington, Minnesota. INFO: DOUG SHILSON, 3308 32nd Ave., So. Minneapolis, MN 55406, PH: (612) 721-4165 E-mail: bittersdug@aol.com or STEVE KETCHAM, Box 24114, Edina, MN. 55424, PH: (952) 920-4205, E-mail: s.ketcham@unique-software.com. [FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB] APRIL 10 - ENFIELD, CONNECTICUT The Yankee Pole Cat Insulator Club’s Insulator, Bottle & Tabletop Collectibles Show & Sale (Sun. 8 AM - 2 PM, Free Admission) at the American Legion Hall, 566 Enfield Street (US Route 5, Exit 49 off I91), Enfield, Connecticut. INFO: JOHN RAJPOLT, 17 Pheasant Lane, Monroe, CT 06468; PH: (203) 261-1190; E-mail: rajpolt@earthlink.net. [Listing Courtesy of Crown Jewels of the Wire] APRIL 17 - ROCHESTER, NEW YORK The Genesee Valley Bottle Collector’s 36th Annual Bottle, Antiques & Collectibles Show & Sale (Sun. 9 AM - 3 PM) at the ESL Sports Centre, Monroe Community College Campus, 2700 Brighton Henrietta

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Town Line Road, Rochester, New York. INFO: DON ANGELINI, PH: (585) 265-9516, E-mail: ange63@frontiernet.net; Chairman LARRY FOX, PH: (585) 394-8958, E-mail: brerfox@frontiernet.net; Website: www.gvbca.org. [FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB] APRIL 23 - PERTH, ONTARIO, CANADA Hosted by Ottawa Valley Insulator Club. INFO: ROBIN PLEWES, PH: (613) 256-7638; E-mail: robin.plewes@cmcelectronics.ca.

[Listing Courtesy of Crown Jewels of the Wire] APRIL 24 - WASHINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA The Washington County Antique Bottle Club’s 31st Antique Bottle Show (Sun. 9 AM - 3 PM, donation $3) at the Alpine Star Lodge, 735 Jefferson Ave., Washington, Pennsylvania. (From I-70, exit 17) INFO: NIGEL DUNMORE, 121 Highland Ave., Avella, PA 15312; PH: (724) 587-5217; E-mail: legin1247@msn.com.

APRIL 30 - MANSFIELD, OHIO ~ Note: DIFFERENT DATE ~ The Ohio Bottle Club’s 27th Antique Bottle & Advertising Show & Sale (Sat. 9 AM - 3 PM; early admission & dealer set-up, Fri. 2-6 PM) at the Richland County Fairgrounds, U.S. Route 30 (Trimble Road exit), Mansfield, Ohio. INFO: RON HANDS, PH: (330) 6341977, E-mail: rshands225@yahoo.com. [FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB] APRIL 30 - PANAMA CITY BEACH, FLORIDA The Emerald Coast Bottle Collector’s, Inc.’s 8th Annual Antique Bottle Show (Sat. 9 AM - 3 PM) at the Panama City Beach Recreational Complex, HWY 98, Panama Beach, Florida. INFO: BOBBY or DEANNE VAUGHN, PH: (334) 684-0518, E-mail: deanne_vaughn@yahoo.com or ALAN MCCARTHY, PH: (850) 7693984, E-mail: kajacanal@knology.ne.

MAY 2005 MAY 6-7 - GRAY, TENNESSEE The State of Franklin Antique Bottle & Collectibles Association’s 7th Annual Show & Sale (Fri. set-up & early buyers - $10 Adm. - 12 PM - 6 PM with dinner for dealers & early buyers at 6:15 PM; Sat. 8 AM - 2 PM, open to public, free admission) at the Appalachian Fairgrounds, Gray Tennessee. INFO: MELISSA MILNER, PH: (423) 928-4445; E-mail: mmilner@chartertn.net or PEGGY COX, PH: (423) 3494027; E-mail: chnhs@comcast.net. [FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB] MAY 7 - MANSFIELD, OHIO ~ See APRIL 30th ~

To get your show listed in the publication as well as on the website, send at least 4 months in advance, or as soon as you know the date so it can appear as soon as possible to: Show Biz / Ron Rasnake 6301 Lilyan Parkway Fort Pierce, FL 34951 E-mail: RonOldGins@bellsouth.net or Webmaster/Editor - Kathy Hopson 1966 King Springs Road Johnson City, TN 37601 E-mail: kathy@thesodafizz.com (423) 737-6710

The Show Calendar is always up-to-date on the website: www.fohbc.com/FOHBC_ShowCalendar.html

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