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TA B L E O F CO N T E N T S FOHBC President’s Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 04 Show Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 05 Conventions Director Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 08 Co-Chair Welcome to Chattanooga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 07 Meet Your Federation Officers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Area Attractions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Banquet Speaker - Tom Hicks “Adventures in our Hobby”. . . . . . 16 FOHBC Banquet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 FOHBC Seminars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Battle of Chattanooga Bottle Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 The Cooneys of Nashville and the Doom of a Texas Town . . . . . . 34 Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Choo-Choo Hat Contest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 FOHBC Hall of Fame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Dealers & Assistants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

54 FOHBC National Shows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 FOHBC Honor Roll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Ribbon Cutting Ceremony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Tennessee’s Top 25 Rarest Bottles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Delicious and Dopeless in Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Official Show Photographer - Mallory Boyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Histories Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Plan of Showroom Floor | Dealer List

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PR E S I D E N T ’ S M E SS AG E Ferdinand Meyer V FOHBC President 101 Crawford Street Studio 1A Houston, Texas 77002 fmeyer@fohbc.org

It gives me great pleasure to welcome our Federation members and guests to the FOHBC 2015 National Antique Bottle Show in the great city of Chattanooga, Tennessee. This is our Southern Regions time to toot. Choo-Choo to Chattanooga is our theme with the landmark roof-top train sign in downtown Chattanooga used to inspire our logo for the show.

I would like to give a thank you to all of the folks that have worked hard to make this event happen and wanted to start off with show co-chairs, John Joiner and Jack Hewitt for all their hard work. These guys have been working tirelessly for some time now. I also wanted to specifically thank Bill Johnson for being our advertising coordinator. We sold a record number of advertisements in our souvenir program thanks to Bill and a few others.

I also wanted to thank Jim and Pattey Daniel for conducting our “Rolling Thunder” auction, Mike Newman for coordinating our “Battle of Chattanooga” bottle competition, Tom Lines for coordinating our displays, Jack Hewitt for organizing our six fine seminars that will occur on Saturday morning after the Membership Breakfast and Tom Hicks our Banquet speaker. Also a big thanks to Alicia Booth for donating the “Success to the Railroad” flask for our hat competition prize, in honor of her late husband, Tom Booth.

Yes, I did say breakfast. For the first time, we will be having a FOHBC General Membership Meeting Breakfast. You will notice a graphic on this page to remind and welcome members to a buffet breakfast hosted by the FOHBC. We are hoping for a larger turnout of people at this time opposed to having the meeting on Friday afternoon when the meeting is traditionally held. We have some important information to convey and votes to take so please make plans to come. There is no cost to Federation members.

We also have a new official FOHBC photographer for the Chattanooga National and her name is Mallory Boyle. She has a full page advertisement in the souvenir program. If you see Mallory during our show, please take a moment to thank her for her time and effort, which is volunteered. Also a big thanks to Jeff Wichmann for stepping up an making a donation to our hourly prize drawings and giving three bottles for our auction. The proceeds will go directy to the show. Have fun at the National. Buy some bottles and spend time with your bottle friends.

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SH O W SC H E D U L E

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8:00 am–noon 11:00 am–4:00 pm 4:00 pm–6:30 pm 5:30 pm–6:30 pm 6:30 pm–8:00 pm 8:00 pm–11:00 pm*

FOHBC Board Meeting Chattanooga Bus Tour (tentative) Dealer Registration Cocktail Reception & Hat Contest The FOHBC Banquet & Awards Battle of Chattanooga Bottle Competition

Marriott East Rm Marriott Lobby Marriott Mezzanine Marriott Mezzanine Marriott Plaza A & B Chattanooga CC Ballroom H

Sat u r da y - 1 Au g us t 2 015 7:00 am–8:30 am 7:00 am–5:00 pm 8:00 am–Noon 9:00 am–Noon Noon–1:00 pm 12:50 pm 1:00 pm–5:00 pm 5:00 pm 5:30 pm–7:00 pm 7:00 pm–10:00 pm*

FOHBC General Membership Breakfast Dealer Registration Dealer Unloading/Display Setup Seminars Showroom Closed Show Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Dealer and Early Buyer Admittance Show Closed for the Day Auction Preview Rolling Thunder Auction

Marriott Plaza C Chattanooga CC Hall A Chattanooga CC Hall A Marriott Plaza A & B Chattanooga CC Hall A Chattanooga CC Hall A Chattanooga CC Hall A Marriott Plaza A & B Marriott Plaza A & B

Sun d a y - 2 Au g u s t 2 015 7:00 am 8:00 am–9:00 am 9:00 am–3:00 pm 2:00 pm 3:00 pm

Ticket Sales Chattanooga CC Hall A Dealer and Early Admission Chattanooga CC Hall A Show General Admission Chattanooga CC Hall A Display Awards Chattanooga CC Hall A Show Shutdown

Drawing Times: Sunday - $100 twice Every Hour from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm. There will also be a $100 prize (show gift certificate) announced at the Banquet. Pack-up and help clean the Exhibit Hall. We have to leave it with no trash. No Dealer Early Departure. Access to the Showroom is by name tag badge only. Everyone must wear a name tag badge to be admitted.

NO EXCEPTIONS. *Estimated completion time.

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CONV E N T I O N S D I R E C T O R W E LCOME

Louis Fifer

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Louis Fifer - FOHBC Conventions Director Welcome to the 2015 Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors National Antique Bottle Show in Chattanooga Tennessee! Chattanooga, originally known as Rossville Landing, was founded by John Ross in 1815. By 1837 it was designated the end of the railroad and by 1838 it was officially renamed Chattanooga, meaning Lookout Mountain in the Creek Indian language.

During the Civil War, Chattanooga was bombarded by the Union army during the Chickamauga Campaign, which the Union army then occupied it on September 9th, 1863. When the Battle of Chattanooga started on November 9th, 1863 the Union forces were led by Major General Ulysses S. Grant which advanced to Orchard Knob. The battle of Lookout Mountain was fought and drove the Confederate army off the mountain. Two days later Grant’s army defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Missionary Bridge.

Two years after the end of the Civil War, Chattanooga was hit with the largest flood in its history. On March 7th, 1867, the heavy rains started and they lasted until March 11th, 1867. The river crested at 58 feet above its normal level, devastating the town of Chattanooga. As a result of the flood, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was formed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Congress in 1933. Chattanooga was first priority in the formation of TVA. In 1936, the first dam was completed and named the Norris Dam. In commemoration of the TVA and the completion of the Norris Dam, Dr. James Hall had the 816 Commemorative Calabashes made depicting President Roosevelt, the United States Coat of Arms, the letters TVA with a fist holding a lightning bolt and the Norris Dam with the year 1936 on them. Chattanooga was also known as the “Dynamo of the Dixie” due to the influx of foundries and factories. This then became the inspiration behind the 1941 Glenn Miller’s golden record hit song “Chattanooga Choo Choo”.

Even though Coca-Cola was born in Atlanta, Chattanooga became home to the world’s first Coca-Cola factory in 1899. In the summer of 1899, Ben Thomas and Joseph White8

CO -CHA I R W E LCO M E T O C H AT TA N OOGA head ventured down to Atlanta to meet the owner Asa Candler about purchasing CocaCola from him. After much persuading and him believing they’d fail and lose everything, Candler sold them bottling rights for $1.00, which he never bothered to collect.

There are many attractions in Chattanooga for everyone to enjoy. The Tennessee Aquarium, Lookout Mountain, The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, Raccoon Mountain Caverns and the Chattanooga Zoo are just to name a few!

I hope everyone has a great show and look forward to seeing you there!

John Joiner - Chattanooga National Show Co-Chair WELCOME TO CHATTANOOGA!!!

Our great team of bottle collectors have worked hard to bring you the best show possible.

We have a full weekend of events planned for your enjoyment. We also hope you made plans to arrive early or stay over a few extra days to explore all that Chattanooga has waiting for you. Wonderful restaurants, historical sites, museums and recreational areas are just some of the things you can experience in Chattanooga. Thank you for coming.

Jack Hewitt - Chattanooga National Show Co-Chair On behalf of John Joiner and myself, welcome to Chattanooga for the 2015 FOHBC National Antique Bottle Show. After all the e-mails, phone calls, text messages, etc. it’s finally here. I would like to thank everyone who contributed and had a share in this undertaking, we couldn’t have done this without you. To name a few, Jim Daniel, thanks for the hard work and effort you and Pattey have done putting together the Rolling Thunder auction. Tom Lines for heading up the displays, Mike Newman for handling the Battle of Chattanooga bottle battle. Bill Johnson for heading up the advertising sales for this beautiful program, Tom Hicks as our guest banquet speaker, Jeff Wichmann for his generosity, Tom Phillips for the work he did leading up to the show securing this beautiful venue, my daughter Mallory Boyle for arranging her schedule so she could be our official FOHBC show photographer, Chip Cable’s videography, and Ferd Meyer for all his contributions and efforts. I am sure I left off many who helped and I apologize for this but thanks to all of those who worked behind the scenes. It couldn’t have happened without you.

I would like to thank my wife Kim and John’s wife Wanda for being so supportive and helpful leading up to the show. A special thanks to my co-show chairman John Joiner, he carried the brunt of the load and without him this could not have been possible.

Lastly to you the dealers, exhibitors, and the attendees who came from all over the United States and the world, thank you for coming and I hope you enjoy the show and take advantage of all there is to do in the beautiful city of Chattanooga.

P.S. If you have any complaints, please see John Joiner, that is his department.

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ME E T YO U R F E D E R AT I O N O FF ICERS

Please visit the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors table to meet your club officers, purchase or renew membership or purchase merchandise.

FOHBC Officers President: Ferdinand Meyer V Houston, Texas First Vice President: Sheldon Baugh Russellville, Kentucky Second Vice President: Gene Bradberry Bartlett, Tennessee Secretary: James Berry Johnsville, New York Treasurer: Gary Beatty North Port, Florida Historian: Jim Bender Sprakers, New York Editor: Martin Van Zant Danville, Indiana Merchandising Director: Val Berry Johnsville, New York Membeship Director: Linda Sheppard Sprakers, New York 10

Conventions Director: Louis Fifer Brunswick, Ohio Business Manager: Elizabeth Meyer Houston, Texas Director-at-Large: Bob Ferraro Boulder City, Nevada Director-at-Large: Steve Ketcham Edina, Minnesota Director-at-Large: John Pastor New Hudson, Michigan Midwest Director: Matt Lacy Austinburg, Ohio Northeast Director: Andrew Vuono Stamford, Connecticut Southern Director: Ron Hands Wilson, North Carolina Western Director: Eric McGuire Petaluma, California Public Relations: Rick DeMarsh Ballston Spa, New York

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A R E A AT T R AC T I O N S Area Attractions If you are flying in or out of the Atlanta Hartsfield Airport, here are some suggestions. If you are interested in aviation, visit the newly renovated Delta Flight Museum. It houses one of Delta’s first DC-3’S, the Boeing 767 purchased by Delta employees and given to Delta, and a Boeing 737 simulator that you may want to try your hand at flying. The museum is housed in the original hangar built in 1941 and holds lots of interesting aviation history.

For the Civil War buffs, the Atlanta Cyclorama is a must. It depicts the Battle of Atlanta in the world’s largest oil painting circa 1885. The next stop is the Atlanta History Center with an excellent display of Civil War items from the Battle of Atlanta. As you head out of town you should stop by Kennesaw Mountain Battle Field and see the historic Locomotive “the General” at the Southern Museum.

A visit to Downtown Atlanta should include the Georgia Aquarium; the World of Coca Cola and the just opened College Football Hall of Fame, all within walking distance of each other.

I-75 North….next stop Chattanooga…again for Civil War buffs, you will want to check out the battle fields around Chattanooga especially the Chickamauga Battlefield which has one of the best gun collections. Be sure to make time to visit Lookout Mountain which includes Ruby Falls, Rock City, the Incline Railway and more. Down by the Tennessee River you will find the Tennessee Aquarium which is one of the best aquariums in the country. Lovers of early glass, ceramics, steins, toby jugs, majolica, Tiffany glass early furniture and more will enjoy the Houston Museum (see next article).

Across the street within walking distance is the Hunter Museum of American Art. The museum is perched on an 80 foot bluff overlooking the Tennessee River. These two museums are located in the “arts district” area which has some unique dining and shopping.

Downtown you can visit the Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel and Restaurant. The Terminal Station has been converted into a fun and beautiful hotel with rooms in Victorian train cars, hotel suites, or standard rooms. Our show logo has been modeled after the historic roof-top sign. To accommodate your downtown sightseeing there is the “ Free Downtown Electric Shuttle” to restaurants, bars, shops and sightseeing areas, 7 days a week.

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Some of you will definitely enjoy the distillery tasting tours in Tennessee such the Jack Daniel’s, George Dickel, Old Forge and others.

We hope that while you are making plans to attend the FOHBC 2015 Chattanooga National Antique Bottle Show you will visit some of these sights to make your vacation even better. Have fun,

Want to Check Out More Old Bottles?

The Houston Museum the Place for You Visitors to this city during the 2015 Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors National Show will find many local options of interest during their stay. One is the Houston Museum of Decorative Art, 210 High Street. It’s exhibiting Bottles, Baskets and Bowls from its extensive collection during the show. Admission is $9.

Anna Safley Houston came to Chattanooga in 1904 and proceeded to make a name for herself (besides “Antique Annie,” as she was known locally). Her collection of antique glass, furniture and other items is considered to be one of the world’s finest in existence today. Mrs. Houston became well known for her eccentricity. During the last 15 years of her life, she lived in virtual poverty because she refused to sell her treasures so that she could purchase food, medicine and other necessities of life. She left all her possessions in trust to the people of Chattanooga, but the museum did not become a reality until a decade after her death in 1951. Volunteers then dedicated themselves to building the museum that now houses the multi-million-dollar collection. It has since become one of Chattanooga’s many visitor attractions.

Mrs. Houston’s remarkable life story is documented in a biography, “Always Paddle Your Own Canoe.” It was published in 1995 and is available in the Houston Museum Gift Shop visitors can enter for free.

Among the 12,000 pieces still extant from her collection is a ceramic brew jar, typical of the pottery from Belcher’s Gap in northern Alabama. An antique Pennsylvania cherry cupboard (circa 1850) holds just some of the museum’s collection of majolica, including a fish set with six matching plates.

Dazzling the visitors’ eyes are fine early examples of antique Staffordshire, at least 600 patterns of pressed glass, art glass from Tiffany, Steuben, Loetz and Durand create a “WOW!” factor, with pieces of cranberry glass, cameo glass, Rookwood tiles and pattern glass making up the remainder.

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HO S T H O T E L & CO N V E N T I O N CENT E R Chattanooga Convention Center (adjacent to Marriott Hotel)

The Chattanooga Convention Center combines incomparable service, modern amenities and a prime location that make meetings, conventions and events unforgettable. With 100,000 square feet of column-free exhibit space, 21 meeting rooms and 19,000 square feet of divisible on one level, the Convention Center can accommodate functions of any size. It is one of the nation’s top 10 green convention centers and features in-house catering service headed by an award-winning chef. It was the first convention center in the country to incorporate a Farm to Table program. Chattanooga is located within a day’s drive of more than half the population of the United States, and visitors will love the walkability of downtown. A free, electric shuttle connects the Convention Center to more than 50 restaurants and 2,000 hotel rooms, and an additional 8,000 hotel rooms and 150 restaurants are within 15 miles.

Chattanooga Marriott Downtown (adjacent to Convention Center) Located just moments from the scenic riverfront, in the heart of Chattanooga, TN’s business district, the Chattanooga Marriott Hotel offers 343 impeccably appointed rooms and suites, designed to cater to the needs of today’s busy traveler. Luxurious amenities include plush Marriott Revive Bedding and their exclusive Plug-In panel technology, as well as ergonomic work spaces including 10,000 square feet of modern, versatile meeting and event space. The hotel is also connected to the Chattanooga Convention Center, offering unparalleled access to events and exhibitions. Other famous attractions, including Tennessee Aquarium and Bluff View Art District, are within a five-minute drive from the hotel. For a brilliant travel experience, look no further than the Chattanooga Marriott Downtown.

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F O H B C B A N Q U E T SPE A K E R

Adventures in our Hobby - Tom Hicks James Thomas “Tom” Hicks was born Nov. 7, 1940 in Autauga County, Alabama. He attended Auburn University and graduated in 1965 with a degree in wildlife biology. He was hired as a wildlife biologist by the Georgia Game and Fish Commission (now Georgia Wildlife Resources Department) in 1966 and was stationed in Darien, a small southeast Georgia coastal town. While there, he read a story about Savannah bottle digging in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sunday Magazine and decided to check it out. “I didn’t have much money back then, but I thought it was a neat hobby and decided to get involved,” he said during a 2005 interview.

In 1969, he was among 14 Georgians who joined the Antique Bottle Collectors Association of Sacramento, Calif., the predecessor to the Federation of Historical Bottle Clubs (later Collectors). He later joined the Federation as a life member, serving as Southern Region editor in 1989 and Southern Region chairman in 1990.

Meanwhile, in 1975, he met Mabel Resseau in Eatonton, Georgia. She became Tom’s June bride that same year and the two have been together ever since. See one at a bottle show and the other isn’t far behind. They attended the Charles Gardner Collection auction that same year and Mabel had the catalogue signed by a Who’s Who of prominent people in the hobby, including auctioneer Robert W. Skinner, Norm Heckler (who authored the catalogue) and Gardner himself. (En route back to Georgia, the Hickses discovered they’d accidentally left the catalogue behind, but someone found and mailed it to them.)

The Hickses live in a restored and expanded 1820s home near Eatonton that houses their immense collections of Georgia pottery, Georgia and Alabama colored sodas, pontiled or rare bottles from those two states, glass target balls, Christmas lights, gun oil bottles and Joel Chandler Harris memorabilia like Bre’r Fox and Bre’r Rabbit figurines and antique Georgia-made furniture. Harris lived in nearby Eatonton.

The Hickses were featured in a story, “The Collecting Adventures of Tom and Mabel Hicks,” by Bill Baab, published in the April 2005 issue of Antique Bottle & Glass Collector. More of their adventures were documented in another story

by Baab in the November-December 2014 issue of Bottles and Extras. Mabel is a collector, too. Her interests range from pottery pigs, original Hummel figurines, barber bottles, face jugs and ceramic chickens.

Tom has emerged as a widely respected expert on southern bottles and pottery and he and Mabel have become fixtures at Federation-sanctioned shows, missing only one Expo (because of health issues) since attending the 1976 St. Louis show.

Tom’s talk will be mostly anecdotal about his adventures in our hobby.

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THE FOHBC BANQUET The FOHBC Banquet will be held at the Marriott on Friday, July 31st. You do not have to be an FOHBC member to attend. A cash bar will be available for sodas and/or alcoholic beverages. The cost of the banquet will be $35 per person. Reservations will be available on a first come basis. Tom Hicks, renowned Southern Bottle Story Teller, will be our guest speaker. Awards will be presented to our annual winners who have earned special recognition in the past year. A special Hall of Fame award will be given to Ralph Finch. The club awards will be announced for Newsletters, Show Posters & Flyers, Writer’s Contest and Club Website.

There will be a special prize drawing for a $100 gift certificate to be spent at the show.

The Battle of Chattanooga bottle competition will begin immediately following the Banquet.

FOHBC SEMINARS Six outstanding seminars will be presented by prominent collectors on various collecting topics in the Marriott Hotel in Plaza Rooms A & B. They will take place on Saturday morning, August 1st from 9:00 am until 12:00 noon. The seminars will be: Charleston, South Carolina Colored Sodas by Tommy Schimpf, Every Bottle Has a Story by Jack Sullivan and Ferdinand Meyer V, The History of Jack Daniel Whiskey by Mike Northcutt, Alkaline Glazed Stoneware of the Edgefield District, South Carolina, “Warranted Good” by Jim Witkowski, Charleston, The Evolution of the Coca-Cola Bottle by Doug McCoy and Bottle and Relic Digging by Rick Phillips and Paul Sampson.

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Charleston, South Carolina Colored Sodas Tommy Schimpf Tommy Schimpf lives in Charleston, South Carolina after he and his wife graduated from Clemson University in 1982. He majored in Architecture and is currently one of four partners in an architectural firm. Tommy says that he first started collecting bottles one summer between semesters. He came across a few old bottles under an old house while conducting a termite inspection for Orkin. That’s when he “caught the bug” for collecting old bottles. The broken ACL bottle from under that house caught his attention so he focused his collection on drink bottles. It wasn’t too long before he learned from collectors that you could find older (embossed) bottles in privies.

The ACL collection was eventually sold and embossed ones took their place.

Tommy and his long time digging partner Chip Brewer, dug many privies and unearthed bottles from the 80’s and 90’s. Not to say they haven’t dug since then but those were the focused years digging on as many weekends as possible without interfering with raising a family and working. They both have great collections as you will see in the slide show.

Tommy’s main bottle collection is on embossed South Carolina bottles. Since there is very limited books on S.C. bottles (exception S.C. dispensaries) he has taken on the task of traveling to see collections, research libraries, etc. so he can let us know what exists. He is hand drawing each one to show in detail and also describe what is embossed on these bottles as well as provide a rarity scale. South Carolina collectors have been patiently waiting these publications and Tommy released the first book last year to satisfy their hunger. This was a book on Coca-Cola “hobbleskirt” bottles from South Carolina.

The upcoming books will be focused on blob tops, hutchinsons, crown caps, medicines, whiskeys and colored sodas from South Carolina and he promises they will be released very very soon.

The seminar that he is preparing for this year’s National Bottle Show will focus only on South Carolina colored sodas. There will be a slide show showing the vast color range of Charleston colored sodas, top variations and also include two other South Carolina cities that have a colored soda. This should be a very colorful and informative seminar.

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Every Bottle has a Story Jack Sullivan and Ferdinand Meyer V A lifelong collector (stamps and books), Jack Sullivan began collecting bottles in the mid-1970s, beginning with whiskey jugs. He amassed some two hundred over three decades and then assembled a group of 1930-1960 hillbilly souvenirs. The majority of both collections he since has donated to museums, including the Getz Whiskey Museum in Bardstown, Kentucky. Other items have been sold in an additional effort to “downsize.”

Today he specializes in glass paperweights, principally from pre-Prohibition distillers and whiskey dealers. Jack’s experience with glass includes a brief period working for Owens-Illinois Glass Company in Toledo and as a volunteer for two years co-curating and cataloguing the entire bottle and other inventory of the Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum in Alexandria, Virginia.

Beginning about 1990, he has written more than 500 articles for collector magazines, including Bottles and Extras and The Antique Bottle & Glass Collector. He also contributes regularly to the Ohio Bottle Club’s Swirl and the Potomac Bottle Club’s Pontil. A longtime member of both clubs, in 2012 Jack was inducted into the FOHBC Hall of Fame. He currently conducts two blogs, “Bottles, Booze & Back Stories,” and “Pre-Prohibition Whiskey Men.” Both are posted through blogspot.com.

Holding two degrees in journalism and a doctorate in political science, Jack has by turns been a newspaper reporter, staff member in the U.S. House of Representatives, head of U.S. foreign aid programs to Asia and the Pacific, and an executive of two international consulting firms. Along the way he also has served as an adjunct faculty member at three universities. Having reached the age of 80 this year, Jack has retired to concentrate on volunteer and writing activities. A resident of Alexandria for the past 48 years, he is a civic and political activist who frequently speaks and writes on local issues. Jack and his wife, Paula, celebrated their 52nd wedding anniversary in June. They have two sons, both PhD biologists, and one granddaughter.

Ferdinand Meyer V, President, Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, is a native of Baltimore, Maryland and has a BFA in Fine Art and Graphic Design from the Kansas City Art Institute and School of Design. Ferdinand is a passionate collector of American Historical Glass specializing in bitters bottles, color runs and related classic figural bottles and is the administrator of Peachridge Glass. Ferdinand will play “Second Fiddle” to the master and discuss his fascination with bottle stories and history.

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FOHBC SEMINARS

The History of Jack Daniel Whiskey Mike Northcutt Mike Northcutt became interested in the history of Jack Daniel whiskey when he married his wife Beth in 1973. Beth’s mother was Mary Evelyn Daniel, Jack Daniel’s 3rd cousin. Over the past 42 years, Mike and Beth have acquired a large collection of Jack Daniel bottles, jugs, paperwork, and historical items. Also included in the collection are items from the Lem Motlow family (Lem was Jack Daniel’s nephew).

Mike has been employed at Arnold Air Force Base in Tullahoma, Tennessee since 1981.

Beth is a homemaker. Their hobbies include collecting antiques and spending time near the water. Mike is currently a TSSAA high school football and basketball official.

Mike and Beth are both members of the Lynchburg, Moore County, Tennessee Historical Society, where Mike has made several presentations. They live in the Lynchburg, Tennessee Historical District.

Mike will present a seminar on the history of the Jack Daniel Distillery and the Daniel and Motlow families. Rare bottles, jugs, letters, pictures, and artifacts owned by Mr. Jack Daniel himself will be displayed. Mike will also speak on the historical significance of the Chattanooga area to the Jack Daniel Distillery and the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, where Jack Daniel won a Gold Medal for the world’s best whiskey. The seminar will include a question and answer time, and an opportunity to view the historical items.

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The Evolution of the Coca-Cola Bottle Doug McCoy Doug McCoy was born in Norfolk, Virginia into a military family. He has lived on the East Coast, West Coast and a few places in between and currently resides in Marietta, Georgia. Doug began collecting bottles at the age of 8, encouraged by his grandfather. He discovered his first Coca-Cola bottle at the age of 10 in a creek, which his father helped him retrieve. That Patent D bottle began his interest in Coca-Cola bottles and is still in his collection today.

Doug has been a member of FOHBC for many years. He is also a member of The Coca-Cola Collectors Club and has served as the Vice President of the Atlanta Chapter and was the Co-Chairman of the Atlanta Chapters 2014 ‘Springtime in Atlanta’ Convention. Doug has done numerous presentations at The Coca-Cola Collectors Club National Conventions and at Chapter meetings.

He has written numerous articles for various collecting publications and newsletters.

Wanting to create a detailed and comprehensive history of the returnable Coca-Cola bottle he gathered information on Coca-Cola bottles from fellow collectors and from publications, news releases and employees of The Coca-Cola Company, Coca-Cola Bottling plants, glass manufacturing companies as well as court transcripts, U.S. Patent Office records and The Coca-Cola Company Archives. In 2009, his book ‘The Coca-Cola Bottle’ was published. His book ended up being popular with archeologists as a reference guide.

His book can be found on the shelves in the Corning Museum of Glass library, Root family museum and was available at the Schmidt Coca-Cola Museum. The book has sold copies around the world and across the U.S. He is currently working on a second edition with updated information. In 2010, he was interviewed by the website Collectorsweekly. com. The interview ended up being one of the top 10 interviews of 2010 based on number of hits.

Doug’s FOHBC presentation is called ‘The Evolution of the Coca-Cola Bottle’.

The presentation will cover the type of bottles that were used to bottle CocaCola, from the Hutchinson bottle, embossed style bottles used in the 1960s to the ACL bottles used into the 1980s. His presentation will include some unusual and obscure bottles.

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Alkaline Glazed Stoneware of the Edgefield District, South Carolina… “Waranted Good” Jim Witkowski Jim Witkowski has been collecting and researching alkaline glazed nineteenth century Edgefield District stoneware for over 30 years. He co-authored a paper on the dated vessels of the slave potter “Dave” (David Drake) which was published in the 2006 edition of Ceramics in America. He has also actively supported exhibitions and research on nineteenth century Edgefield District face vessels.

Jim has served on the McKissick Museum Advisory Council, chairing that organization and the Collections Committee.

Jim recently retired from Union Camp/ International Paper where he held various engineering and technical positions. He currently works for ARCADIS, a global environmental consulting firm.

Jim’s presentation will discuss alkaline glazed stoneware made in the Edgefield District of South Carolina during the nineteenth century. This type of stoneware is generally accepted as being a unique tradition of the American South, with its origins in this region of South Carolina. The presentation will provide information on the potteries (and potters) with many photographs of attributed wares. Emphasis will be placed on specific topics inseparable from “Edgefield pottery”….clay slip decoration, the enslaved potter Dave, and face vessels.

Bottle and Relic Digging Rick Phillips and Paul Sampson Rick Phillips is a 60-year-old medical technologist who lives in Richmond Hill, Georgia with his wife Carol. He borrowed a metal detector for a vacation to the Florida Keys back in 1990, so he could look for coins to add to his coins that he had been collecting since high school. Though he never pulled it out, he did get a cheap detector upon his return home. After finding a 1904 Barber dime and Carol finding a Civil War Minie ball, an interest was sparked in the search for history.

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an infatuation with the Civil War led him to Civil War reenacting. It gave him a chance to bring history alive and he has been the captain of the 8th Georgia Infantry for about 15 years. The hobby has taken the Phillipses to England four times on metal detecting vacations where his finds date back to 100 B.C. including finding a Celtic Potin (a bronze coin). By the way, his wife had him beat with a 1400 BC Bronze Age axe for oldest relics.

Besides the relics that he has rescued and preserved, Rick takes pride in the book that the Coastal Empire History Hunters published documenting the finds from club members into historical context that took over 10 years to refine. The book, Relics of the Coastal Empire, The Civil War Years, has been acclaimed as THE “new standard” for reference books.

Paul Sampson lives in Tallahassee Florida and is married with two grown children. He owns, with his brother-in-law, Capital Coin & Diamond Inc., a coin and jewelry store. He found his first bottle, an Underwood ink, when he was 10 years old and it set the collecting hook. He still has it. He started with fossils and when his family moved from Canada to Florida in 1968, he added Indian artifacts.

Paul purchased his first metal detector in 1971 and has continued to this day. He would say that he is primarily a relic hunter. “Finding modern items just doesn’t do it for me anymore. I have been to England to hunt four times including just last fall and the thrill of possibly finding something 2,000 years old is amazing.” He is a member of the Coastal Empire History Hunters Association, out of Savannah, Georgia and he says, “It is a great club and I have made many life long friends there.” The club just published a book of its finds and it is a “must have” of the history from Charleston, SC to Darien, Georgia, up to the Civil War. He meet Rick and Carol Phillips through metal detecting and has been on many hunting trips together including to the UK. He collects all things from Tallahassee, Florida and has many of the known bottles for Tallahassee, but is still missing a few. He also collects Florida paper money and tokens.

Paul still digs, not primarily for bottles but in his quests, he does come across a few.

Come talk to us about relic hunting!

In this seminar, Rick and Paul will talk about using metal detectors to discover and preserve artifacts as well as their usefulness when digging for bottles. It is not uncommon to find bottles while searching for relics and in some cases, such as Civil War hut digging, you are looking for both! In privy digging, using a metal detector can net you some bonus finds…don’t miss them!!!

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The Battle of Chattanooga bottle competition will be held at the Chattanooga Convention Center - Ballroom H on Friday, July 31st after the Banquet at 8:00 pm. This room is closest to the Marriott. There will be three categories. Each category will have three judges. The categories are:

1. Colored Sodas 2. Sauces (peppersauce, ketchup, Durkee’s, oyster, etc.)

3. Best Bottle South of the Mason Dixon Line Awards will be presented to the top 3 entries of each category, (Win, Place and Show).

Competition is open to all! Security will be provided.

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Category 1: Sauces (peppersauce, ketchup, Durkee’s, oyster, etc.)

Category 3: Best Bottle South of the Mason-Dixon Line

Category 2: Colored Sodas For additional information contact: Mike Newman, phone: 706.829.8060, e-mail: theNewm@aol.com.

We will again be video taping the bottles via broadcast camera, projected on to a 144� screen using an Optima EH501 projector. All bottles will be illuminated by 3 LED Video lights with a white background. We thank Pennsylvania collector, Chip Cable for stepping up and volunteering to help us out in this area!

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The Cooneys of Nashville and the Doom of a Texas Town

By Jack Sullivan

Figures 1-6: J. Cooney & Co. Wholesale Liquors Nashville, - Tenn. jugs

While researching pre-Prohibition whiskey bottles, sometimes a “back story” emerges that is so compelling as to turn the account in that direction.

So it was with the Cooneys, wholesale grocers and liquor dealers of Nashville, Tennessee. Interested in the family because they produced many and varied whiskey jugs, I stumbled on a story of high-profile murder, an alleged curse, and the demise of a Texas boom town.

The Cooney family were native-born Irish Tennesseans. The father, John Cooney, was born in 1827 in Paris, Henry County. Early in his career he moved to Nashville and embraced the grocer’s trade. About 1855, John married a woman named Jennie Lougee, of French descent, who originally was from New York. They produced a family of four children.

The first three were boys - Charles, John L. and Stanley Torrence - and the youngest a girl, Jennie, named after her mother.

From the outset it would appear that Cooney’s grocery was selling a great amount of whiskey - likely his primary profit-maker, demonstrated by the proliferation of whiskey jugs bearing the Cooney name (Figs. 1-6). He likely was obtaining his ceramic containers from one or both major potteries in Middle Tennessee. Both the Nashville Pottery Company and the Cookeville Pottery Company in nearby Putnam County were considered leading industries of the region.

The 1880 census found the Cooneys living in Nashville in an extended family. John was listed as the head of the household, occupation “grocer.” His son John L. was there with his wife, Lula, and a one-year old child. Stanley and Charles were still single and also living at home. John and Stanley were working for their father in the grocery and liquor store.

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maid served the family.

Attention turns now from Tennessee to Texas. In Travis County in December 1867, Mary Isabelle Wheeler was born into a prominent Texas family as the daughter of Maggie H. and John Gill Wheeler. Wheeler was a pioneer storekeeper in Manor, a town about 12 miles from Austin. His brother would serve five years as lieutenant governor of Texas and be a candidate for governor. Early on, Mary showed talent as an artist and unusual for girls in those days, her parents decided to give her the best possible education. Accordingly as a teenager, she was sent to the Columbia Female Institute in Columbia, Tennessee, an Episcopalian “finishing school� only a short buggy ride from Nashville.

It was there that she met Stanley Cooney and they fell in love. In 1888 the couple married.

Mary was 21 and her husband 28. After a year of living with Stanley in Nashville, Mary became homesick for her family. She persuaded her spouse to relocate to the Lone Star State and open a business there. The town they selected was New Birmingham, a newly minted community in East Texas built around local iron ore operations. It was a boom town that quickly had grown to more than 3,000 residents boasting a business district of 15 blocks, with such amenities as a bottling works, an electric power plant, some 400 homes, and 32 mercantile houses. Beginning about 1888, one of those businesses belonged to Stanley Cooney. He and Mary settled down to make New Birmingham their home.

With its two furnaces capable of recovering 50 tons of ore daily, New Birmingham seemed destined to become a major Texas city, a community with seemingly unlimited potential. The Southern Hotel (Fig. 7) was the center of town social life. As one observer has written: Its first register, Figure 7: Southern Hotel beginning March 28, 1889, and closing Feb. 9, 1890, recorded guests from twenty-eight states, including Jay Gould of railroad fame and Grover Cleveland, recently come from the 35

Figures 1-6: J. Cooney & Co. Wholesale Liquors Nashville, - Tenn. jugs

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presidential chair… Financiers, who had risked their millions in the attempted development of Cherokee County’s iron ore were frequently registered.

No millionaire was more closely associated with “The Iron City,” as it was called, than General William Harrison Hamman (Fig. 8). A native of Virginia, Hamman was a lawyer and an entrepreneur. After attending the University of Virginia in the early 1850s, he had joined the Virginia militia, rising to captain by 1856. In 1858, he moved to Owensville, Roberts County, Texas to practice law. When the Civil War broke out he enlisted as a private in the famed Hood’s Texas Brigade, rising to the rank of brigadier general by the end of the conflict.

After the war, Hamman tried his hand at prospecting for oil, building railroads and developing transportation infrastructure. In 1871, he married Ella Virginia Laudermilk, whose sister was the wife of the man who owned the iron works.

By 1890, Hamman was a dominant figure in the New Birmingham Iron and Land Company, vigorously promoting the Figure 8: General William town, it industry, and its future.

Harrison Hamman

How the general and young Stanley Cooney chanced to be acquainted has gone unrecorded. In July 1890, an event occurred recorded by one newspaper as “Frightful Tragedy in New Birmingham, Tex.” Despite being described as usually “notably quiet and gentlemanly in his demeanor,” Cooney was neither when he encountered Hamman. Blinded by anger, he used both barrels to gun the former Confederate general down in the street. The Tennessean’s motive was said to be that Hamman had defamed the character of his wife. Some whispered, however, that it was Ella Virginia who had traduced Mary.

Caught with the smoking gun still in his hand, young Stanley waived a preliminary hearing, was arrested and sent to jail. When word of this killing reached Nashville, John Cooney and another family member immediately left for Tex- Figure 9: Hamman Grave as to help his boy. A Nashville paper opined: “The news of yesterday was a great shock to them and the universal opinion is that he must have been justifiable in what he did.” Those sentiments did not translate to Texas. Despite able legal assistance, young Cooney was 37

convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to prison. Meanwhile, Hamman was buried in the Owensville Cemetery in nearby Calvert, Texas (Fig. 9).

After the general’s murder, New Birmingham suffered its own death blows in quick succession. The panic of 1893 brought the building of railroads to a halt, iron prices dropped precipitously, the town’s major ore plant exploded without funds to rebuild it, and state laws prevented anyone outside from buying land there. According to local legend, the fatal blow occurred in 1892 with the news that Cooney - likely with help from Mary’s politically potent Wheeler family - had been pardoned and released from jail.

The news appears to have unhinged the Widow Hamman. “In a fit of outrage and grief,” as it is told, she ran through the streets screaming to the Heavens to “leave no stick or stone standing” in the town. As New Birmingham slowly died, many saw her diatribe as an omen or perhaps a curse.

With no guests, the Southern Hotel was occupied for years only by a custodian.

It burned to the ground in 1926. New Birmingham, the boom town had become a doomed town.

It eventually became a ghost town and vegetation swallowed up the site. Today the location is remembered only by a State of Texas roadside marker (Fig. 10).

After his pardon, Stanley spared no time in getting back to Tennessee. The 1910 census found him and Mary back Nashville with the rest of the Cooneys. He was working at the family grocery just as if nothing had happened. Mary was launched on her career as an Impressionist landscape artist. Even today, her paintings are sold by Southern art galleries for hundreds of dollars.

Figure 10: Texas Roadside Marker I believe there is a tale to be told behind every pre-Prohibition bottle or jug. Seldom, however, does the narrative turn out to be as dramatic as the one related here. When the name on the jug is “Cooney,” clearly the back story can be well worth pursuing.

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CHATTA N O O G A N AT I O N A L D RAWINGS

A $1 thousand dollar donation has been given to the FOHBC 2015 Chattanooga National Antique Bottle Show by American Bottle Auctions to support a series of drawings during the public portion of the show on Sunday. Vouchers will be given to the lucky winners to be spent at the show. Drawing Times: Sunday: Every hour from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm.

There will be two $100 drawings each hour noted.

There will also be a $100 prize (show gift certificate) announced at the Banquet.

FOHBC officers, show chairpersons, and their spouses/partners or children are not eligible for the drawings. Any consultants to the FOHBC are also not eligible. Only one win per person.

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CHATTA N O O G A N AT I O N A L D I S P L AY S Displays at the Chattanooga National A big thanks to Tom Lines for coordinating the ChattanoogaNational display.

Great Southern Bottles - Group Display Ed Provine - Tennessee Bottles Group Display Gene Bradberry - Tennessee Cola Mike Newman - Georgia and South Carolina Colored Sodas Dale Murschell - Paperweight Perfume Bottles Walter Smith - Augusta Sodas Mike Jordan - Hyacinth Vases Bill Haley - Glass Insulators Jim Bender - FOHBC History Amy Autenreith - Houston Museum Bottles Dennis Smith - Celery Cola Jim Berry - Inks Mike Northcutt - Jack Daniels

Please VOTE for your favorite display! “Best in Show” and “Most Educational” award plaques will be given. Announcement of winners on Sunday, August 2nd between 2:00 pm and 3:00 pm.

Group Display of “Great Midwest Bottles” from the 2014 Lexington, KY National

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2nd Annual Banquet Hat Contest!

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Wear or bring your most appropriate or whimisical Chattanooga “Choo-Choo” or bottle-and-train themed hat to the FOHBC Cocktail Reception and Banquet on Friday, July 31st, from 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm at the Marriott Plaza Rooms, A & B. Winner will be judged and selected by a Federation representative and announced at the banquet. A “Success to the Railroad” historical flask will be awarded to the winner compliments of Alicia Booth in memory of her late husband, Tom Booth. Reservations required.

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F O H B C H A L L O F FA M E In 1980, the Federation of Historical Bottle Clubs, in conjunction with its subsidiary, the National Bottle Museum, created the bottle collector’s Hall of Fame.

Nomination and induction into the Hall of Fame is based on major contributions to the bottle collecting hobby, which had significant impact and enduring quality. Descriptions of activities and achievements are gathered by the nominator(s). Distinguished services to the hobby are noted and documented. Successful candidates are then officially inducted into the Hall of Fame. All documentation is bound and appropriately filed in the FOHBC’s archives. The following pages summarize the accomplishments of these honored collectors.

1981 - Helen McKearin In recognition for her outstanding literary achievements in the field if research and writing, resulting in the publication of comprehensive reference books and periodicals on the subject of American glass and bottles. She co-authored American Glass with her father, George S. McKearin.

1983 - Charles Gardner Known as the “Father of Modern Day Bottle Collecting,” he was the link between past greats in the hobby such as Stephen Van Rensselaer and George and Helen McKearin. He was a master collector for 45 years, stimulating the hobby’s growth to what it has become today - a vibrant collecting field filled with camaraderie and adventures.

1985 - Edmund R. & Jayne Blaske Dedicated collectors and researchers in the field of historical flasks. Teachers of many young and new collectors, the Blaskes were popular banquet speakers, as well as active supporters of many local clubs, the Federation of Historical Bottle Clubs (now Collectors) and the National Bottle Museum in Ballston Spa, N.Y. 1985 - John C. Tibbitts Founder and first president of the first U.S. bottle club, the Antique Bottle Collectors Association of California. It eventually had a national membership of more than 250 persons representing 23 states and was the model for the formation of many others. He was the first to edit a club newsletter. It was called The Pontil.

1985 - Harry Hall White A great bottle archaeologist, his excavations of glass houses and research of public libraries produced sound data that was used by authors such as Kenneth Wilson and George McKearin in writing books that enriched the knowledge of glass collectors.

“Harry Hall White is the outstanding pioneer in this field of research and investigation,” McKearin wrote in American Glass, published in 1941. In November of 1926, his story on Early Pittsburgh Glass-Houses was featured in the magazine Antiques to which he was a frequent contributor for more than two decades. He was born in 1884 and died in Shelbyville, Ind., at the age of 60 in April 1944. He was buried in Cleveland, Ohio.

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1987 - Paul L. Ballentine A collector who became an authority on Midwestern glass, he was a noted author, speaker, collector, club founder, educator and friend. He will be remembered by members of a hobby that he promoted, preserved, advanced and loved. He was ably and lovingly supported by his wife, Mary.

1987 - Dr. Cecil Munsey, Ph.D

A bottle collecting pioneer noted for significant contributions to the organized hobby, not the least of which was his 1970 book, An Illustrated Guide to Collecting Bottles. He also authored The Illustrated Guide to the Collecting of Coca-Cola. He is a skilled researcher, writer and editor.

1988 - Bernard C. Puckhaber He helped popularize the collecting of “Saratoga-type” mineral water bottles by writing and publishing a book, Saratogas in 1977. He helped further the educational aims of the Federation of Historical Bottle Clubs (now Collectors) and was instrumental in establishing the National Bottle Museum in Ballston Spa, N.Y. 1989 - George S. McKearin His commitment to bottle collecting resulted in extensive research and development of two major books with daughter Helen - American Glass and Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass. He spoke extensively throughout the United States and Europe and was consulted by major museums, collectors and auction houses. His unequaled early glass collection sold at auction in 1931-32, being dispersed in collections across the U.S. His figural (historical) flask identification chart remains the singular means of describing each specimen.

1990 - Jean Matthews Garrison She lived the FOHBC slogan: “The Federation of Historical Bottle Clubs (now Collectors) strive to promote, foster and encourage all activities toward the betterment of bottle collecting.” She became national chairman of the Federation in 1980 and served as public relations chairman for eight years. A life member of the Federation, Jean was active in no fewer than seven bottle clubs. Sam Fuss, in 1990 the Northeast Region chairman (now called director) said in nominating her to the FOHBC Hall of Fame, “She was like an auto sparkplug getting things started and finding proper people to finish the job. . .a vote for Jean is a vote for America, motherhood and apple pie!” She did not live to enjoy her hobby’s ultimate honor, passing away in her sleep at Walter Reed Army Hospital on March 16, 1990.

1992 - Dr. George Herron

He became a member of the original bottle club (in Sacramento, Calif.) in 1965 and two years later, “Doc” and his wife, Ruth, were among the original charter members of the Iowa Antique Bottleers established in 1967. He retained membership and leadership in that group and the hobby until his death. He began a regular column in Old Bottle Magazine called “Herron’s Hunches” in July of 1989.

1993 - Stephen “Peck” Markota The Federation’s first honorary director, Peck and his wife, Audie, dug, cleaned and col47

lected bottles and researched, wrote and taught others about them. He helped found the Federation and later the Markotas published a book called Western Blobtop Sodas.

1993 - Verna L. Wagner Her tireless efforts in organizing the first national bottle show - the 1976 EXPO in St. Louis - set a standard of excellence. She was an officer and ambassador, in person and in print, for her local club and Federation and guided its growth, made lots of friends, and loved every minute of it.

1994 - Harold G. “Hal” Wagner His vision and chairmanship of the first national show gave lasting strength to the Federation and hobby. The Federation was not financially able to follow through on his suggestion to hold a national show in St. Louis during the nation’s Bicentennial Celebration in 1976. He volunteered to use his own money, to be reimbursed after show profits were collected. It was the crowning achievement in his three decades of local and national leadership.

1995 - Alice Creswick She took up the formidable task of documenting fruit jars and authoring The Red Book of Fruit Jars, among other publications, for a quarter of a century. She authored six editions of the Collector’s Guide to Old Fruit Jars, more commonly known as the Red Book, bringing to light more than 3,000 varieties of fruit jars.

1995 - John C. Fountain A bottle collecting pioneer, he operated the first bottle shop (in Sacramento, Calif.), was the first bottle wholesaler, wrote articles and co-authored three books about bottles. He also published the National Bottle Gazette, one of the first publications geared to the hobby. He always saw to it that a full page was available for Federation use - free of charge.

1996 - Carlyn Ring Early collector and historian who amassed what was believed to be the most complete bitters collection, she wrote For Bitters Only, which became the primary reference of bitters bottle collecting. She later collaborated with California collector Bill Ham in publishing the massive Bitters Bottles book.

1997 - Doc Ford Considered one of the chief ambassadors of the bottle hobby, for 30 years he traveled the country supporting shows and displaying his collections, making many friends in and for the hobby.

1997 - Richard “Dick” Watson Author of the first major book on bitters collecting, Bitters Bottles (1965), setting a standard for all the bottle books that followed, and later published a supplement to the book (1968). His service to the Federation came at a time when leadership was greatly needed.

He and his wife, Elma, amassed outstanding collections of bitters and Saratoga waters.

He later served as the Federation historian and was a member of the board of directors.

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he has tirelessly worked to promote our hobby.

1999 - Howard Dean His literary contributions and work with the Federation, the National Bottle Museum and bottle clubs have made a lasting and enduring impact on the hobby. His activities continued even into his 90s.

2002 - John Eatwell

One of the giants of the hobby, he was the Federation’s first chairman (now called president), designed the organization’s first logo, and was the first to suggest the possibility of holding a national show. He was an active member of the Antique Bottle Collectors of Colorado since 1967, serving as its president. He was famous for his collection of Pike’s Peak flasks and co-authored (with David K. Clint III) the comprehensive and beautifully illustrated landmark book, Pike’s Peak Gold, in 2000.

2002 - Bob Ferraro President of the Federation from 1977-79, he has been a collector since the mid-1950s.

He built outstanding collections of figural bitters, eastern whiskeys and Nevada bottles.

He co-authored (with first wife Pat) The Past in Glass (1963) and A Bottle Collector’s Book (1964). He continues to serve the Federation (first vice president 2008-14) and director-at-large (2015).

2002 - Elma Watson The perfect helpmate to husband and Hall of Famer Dick, she was an important leader in the Federation, serving as treasurer for many years. Co-chair of the 1994 National Show in Cherry Hill, N.J., she helped establish and arrange bottle exhibits at the Wheaton Museum and assisted with the establishment of the National Bottle Museum in Ballston Spa, N.Y. She was an important contributor to her husband’s books - Bitters Bottles (1965) and Supplement to Bitters Bottles (1968).

2003 - Norm & Junne Barnett Early Federation members, the Barnetts specialized in fruit jars. In 1972, Norm joined Roger Emory of Hagerstown, Ind., to organize the Midwest Antique Fruit Jar and Bottle Club. Norm served as president for all but 10 years of its existence and was show chairman at the same time. Junne served as club newsletter editor for 30 years, retiring in 2006. She did the program books for the FOHBC 25th anniversary show in Cherry Hill, N.J. (1994) and Nashville, Tenn., Expo (1996).

2007 - Bill Ham Avid bottle collector and author of numerous articles on historical glass, he collaborated with Carlyn Ring to produce the massive Bitters Bottles, as well as the Bitters Bottles Supplement. He also contributed to the revised Whiskey Bottles of the Old West. He is always willing to share his vast knowledge and has given many talks on his favorite subject to various organizations.

2008 - Betty Zumwalt

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D E A L E R S & A SS I S TA N T S Dealers & Assistant Location Table Dealers are listed in alphabetical order by the primary dealer’s last name. List may not be complete due to late table assignments after the printing of this program.

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She was an active member of the first bottle club - the ABCA of California. She was instrumental, with Bill and Dick Hansen, in drawing up the first draft of the Federation bylaws. After parting with Bill, she researched and published Ketchup-Pickles-Sauces, 19th Century Food in Glass (1980). It is sure to become the standard for this division of bottle collecting.

2008 - Tom Caniff

Since 1995, he has authored The Label Space (complemented by the photographic skills of wife Deena) in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector. From 1999, he’s authored Fruit Jar Rambles in the same magazine. He entered the bottle collecting world in 1975, became active in Midwest collecting circles and served a term as president of the Jefferson County Antique Bottle Club in Steubenville, Ohio. He served a two-year term as co-editor of the Federation newsletter (1978-80), was the Northeast Region newsletter editor from 1981-83 and served as editor of the Federation’s annual newsletter contest in 1995. He was vice president and president of the national Jelly Jammers between 1990-93. He is the recognized authority on the various Flaccus family companies and their food-packing competitors along the Ohio River.

2008 - Junior Carl Sturm Completing his 19th straight year as a member of the FOHBC board of directors and his third term as president of the organization, Carl freely gave his time and himself for the betterment of the hobby and fellow collectors on a local and national scale. He became editor of The Federation Glassworks newsletter in 1988 and played a key role in the acquisition of Bottles and Extras, the magazine having been privately published by Scott Grandstaff and Kitty Roach, who gave it to the FOHBC as a gift. Carl’s favorites among his own collections are cures, half-pint pictorial flasks, black glass and tobacco tags.

2008 - Jim Hagenbuch

After an accidental start (through marble collecting) landed him into the bottle collecting hobby in the early 1970s, Jim Hagenbuch has become an authority on such diverse collectibles as pottery pigs and historical flasks. After the Firestone Tire and Rubber Plant at which he worked 14 years closed its doors, he became a full-time bottle dealer to earn a living for himself, his wife, Janice, and daughter Jessica. After Old Bottle Magazine and another publication went out of business in 1983, he decided to publish Antique Bottle & Glass Collector and the first issue came out in May 1984. It was an instant hit with collectors, and has become a forum for topics relating to bottles around the world. In 1986, he started Glass Works Auctions, selling reasonably priced, high-quality, full-color catalogues so potential buyers could see what they were bidding on, at the same time giving collectors options to obtain bottles not often seen. His catalogues have become collectors’ items.

2009 - Johnnie Fletcher A founder and several times president of the Oklahoma Territory Bottle & Relic Club, Johnnie has served as editor of Oklahoma Territory News since the club was founded in 1987. In 1991, he published Oklahoma Drug Stores; in1994, he published the first edition of his Kansas Bottles 1854-1915; in 2006, he published the second edition of Oklahoma Bottles, and is working on a St. Joseph, Mo., bottle reference book. He won FOHBC awards for best newsletter and best story in 2003. He was nominated for inclusion on the Federation Honor Roll, but board members voted him Hall of Fame status instead 56

because of his important contributions to the hobby.

2011 - Bill Baab A collector of antique bottles since 1969, Bill joined the Federation in 1996 and a few years later volunteered to become Southern Region editor when Mary Jane Ferguson was forced to resign because of illness. His goal was to improve the quality of FOHBC club newsletters by urging more historical research. His regional reports were designed to contain news of interest to all bottle collectors, leaving out items of interest only to member clubs. He updated the FOHBC Hall of Fame and Honor Roll lists. He also collected information to be used in sketches of the FOHBC presidents. His suggestion that errors of fact in stories published in Bottles and Extras be corrected in the following issue, thus raising the Federation’s credibility with members, was adopted. He also designed a stylebook for regional editors, following guidelines in The Associated Press Stylebook. Bill proof-reads all stories and President’s Messages carried in Bottles and Extras. He also proof-reads copy in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector, the National Fishing Lure Collectors Club Gazette, and Ralph Finch’s target ball newsletter On Target! In 2009, he inaugurated a series of state-by-state bottle collecting histories which continue today. He resigned as Southern Region editor in mid 2011. Bill was given President’s Awards from Ralph Van Brocklin (2004) and John Pastor (2006). Bill and his wife, Bea, self-published four books on Augusta bottles. He retired as outdoor editor and sports writer from The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle in 2000 after 36 years. He still edits the newspaper’s Friday fishing page each week.

2012 - Jack Sullivan Author of an incredible number of bottle-and pottery-related stories, Jack Sullivan’s name has been a familiar one to collectors for many years. He has written extensively for collector publications in the U.S., England, Australia and Canada. A resident of Alexandria, Va., since 1965, he writes frequently for Bottles and Extras, the Ohio Bottle Club’s Ohio Swirl newsletter and the Potomac Pontil, the online publication of the Potomac Bottle Club. He is a member of both clubs. He also has written three self-published books on whiskey containers and other collectibles. Jack also maintains two online blogs devoted to aspects of collecting and history - “Bottles, Booze and Back Stories,” and “Those Pre-Prohibition Whiskey Men.” His collecting interests include glass and ceramic whiskey containers, whiskey collectibles, breweriana, hillbilly items and paperweights. Jack holds B.A. (1957) and M.A. (1960) degrees in journalism from Marquette and a PhD in international relations from American University (1969). He is married (for 51 years in 2014) to Paula Boyer Sullivan and is the father of two sons, John, an icthyologist at Cornell University, and Brian, an entomologist with the U.S. Forest Service in Louisiana.

2012 - Warren Friedrich

He was born in Southern California in 1954, the son of a World War II barnstormer and his University of Southern California-educated wife. Seeking a better environment for their only child, they set their sights on Nevada City, a tiny rural community in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and put down roots. While his parents worked, young Warren began to explore the area, spending his days miles from home, digging up artifacts. While his friends were spending hot summer afternoons in the coolness of a movie theater, Warren was picking his way through dark tunnels of long-abandoned mines. As he grew into adulthood, Warren continued to seriously collect bottles, amassing a modest collection of western bitters. He began traveling to bottle shows, meeting many like-minded people. He joined the local Mother Lode Antique Bottle Club, then the Federation, and in 1993 co-founded the Downieville Antique Bottle Show. He has 57

authored articles for Antique Bottle & Glass Collector as well as Bottles and Extras. He has helped put on local shows and has a keen interest in encouraging a younger generation to get active in the hobby. Years of research led to the 2010 publication of the book, “Early Glasshouses of California,” with revisions made in 2011.

2013 - Gene Bradberry In 2010, the FOHBC was in trouble. Internal squabbling was pushing the organization away from being the paternal parent of the hobby. Its future was bleak. In stepped Gene Bradberry as president, a job to which he was no stranger. He’d also served previously.

But this time it was different. A retired Memphis, Tenn., policeman, he quickly laid down his brand of law and, as a result, the FOHBC arose, like the phoenix, and headed in the right direction. Ed Provine, Gene’s longtime good friend and fellow collector, in his letter of nomination pointed out that many collectors know of Bradberry’s dedication and hard work for the Federation. He joined the FOHBC in 1969 and quickly became active behind the scenes. He served as 2nd vice chairman (1971-72), chairman (1972-74), President (as chairmen became) (1988-94), Membership Director (1994-2000), Expo 2004 show chairman, 1st vice president (2004-06), Membership Director (2006-10), President (2010-2012) and Director at Large (2012-Present). He also found time to serve his Memphis Bottle Collectors Club and is presently show chairman.

2013 - Alan Blakeman

Worldwide fame, at least in the antique bottle collecting hobby, long preceded the publisher of British Bottle Review magazine. Through that medium, Blakeman has become the European spokesman and watchdog for the hobby. His magazine editor, Guy Burch, felt it was high time his boss received recognition from his peers. His peers unanimously agreed. The fact that Blakeman is a Brit did not matter. Other non-Americans have been honored by the FOHBC. “Anyone who knows Alan well will realise that money does not motivate him,” Burch said in his nomination. “He is simply in love with bottles and the related fields of pot lids and salt glaze stoneware (he was once a potter).” Based at Elsecar Heritage Centre in South Yorkshire, in addition to publishing the magazine, Blakeman organizes four auctions and four bottle and related packaging antique fairs per years. He is author of 11 books on the subject and publisher of three others.

2015 - Ralph Finch FOHBC Board members didn’t have to ask Ralph what he had been doing to promote the hobby of antique bottle collecting since he became involved nearly 50 years ago. His articles featuring bottles and well known collectors in the field number more than 500 and have appeared in many of the hobby-related journals. In 1969, following his discovery of more bottle bug-bitten people in his native Detroit, he played host in his apartment to a meeting that resulted in the organization of the Metropolitan Detroit Antique Bottle Club.

In 1994, he founded and published On Target! It is a newsletter geared to those who love and collect the glass spheres and it also led to Ralph building a collection that’s become “the largest and most important collection ever amassed.” Highly respected, Ralph, 75, and his expertise moved into the ketchup bottle world. He and his collection of some 1,800 have been featured in at least two TV documentaries. That he has a sense of humor can be found in many of his stories. Ralph has earned numerous awards, including a Distinguished Service Award (1969-1977) from his home club, a Journalism of Excellence Award from the Ohio Bottle Club as well as the 1981 Best of Show Award from the Genessee Valley Bottle Collectors Association for his target ball display. In 1979, he became a charter member of the National Bottle Museum Society and is a supporter of the museum in Ballston Spa, N.Y. 58

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What’s the Attraction for You at National Federation Shows?

By Bill Baab Why are you here? That’s an easy question, but the answer may not be. You might be here because of a chance to buy quality bottles for your collection. Or you might be here to visit with friends. Or it may be a combination of both answers, with a few personal reasons thrown in. Whatever the reason, the facts remain that you are happy to be here, and you plan to make the most of it.

Before 1976 when the Federation of Historical Bottle Clubs (as it was then known) held its first national show in St. Louis, antique bottle shows were strictly local or regional, attended mostly by collectors and members of the curious public who resided within those locales.

The National Antique Bottle-Jar Exposition held August 14-15, 1976 during our nation’s Bicentennial celebration changed all of that, especially from a collector’s perspective.

“I wasn’t exactly a stranger at bottle shows when the St. Louis show was scheduled, but I’d never traveled so far,” said FOHBC member Tom Hicks, of Eatonton, Ga. “LeRoy Smith (a collector from Union Point, Ga.) and I got so excited because the show was going to be s-o-o-o big. We got to calculating just how many minutes we could spend at each table so we could see everything.” Hicks has attended every national federation show since except Nashville, Tenn. “We had our van all packed and pointed out at the road, ready to go to Nashville, when I came down with a case of kidney stones. I later told my wife, Mabel, that missing that show was worse than the stones and ranked right up there with the other major disappointment of my life — not seeing Boston Red Sox slugger Ted Williams play an exhibition game in Montgomery, Alabama.” Presumably Hicks and his friend found the time to visit all 280 sales tables in St. Louis. Let’s go back in time and check out all the shows leading up to this one. It’s made possible thanks to pages of past issues of Old Bottle Magazine, Bottle News, Antique Bottle World, Antique Bottle & Glass Collector and Bottles and Extras.

1976 National Antique Bottle & Jar Exposition - St. Louis, Missouri There is no doubt this show set the standards for those to follow. There were 140 outstanding displays of bottles and fruit jars, many of which had never been in the public view; 280 sales tables, and 4,000 collectors. Hal Wagner was chairman and Jerry Jones co-chairman of the event. The program featured articles by some of the legends of the hobby, including Helen McKearin, Alice Creswick, George Herron, William E. Covill Jr., Dr. Cecil Munsey, Dick Roller, John Wolf and Paul Ballentine. Ken and Shirley Asher, Old Bottle Magazine publishers, devoted 17 pages to photos of the displays, unfortunately, all in black and white, because color was expensive to print back in those days. There was a surprise awaiting visitors - a commemorative Expo bottle in the shape of a scroll flask with the federation’s distinctive eagle on one side and crossed flags on the other.

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1980 National Antique Bottle-Jar Exposition - Rosemont, Illinois The St. Louis extravaganza was a tough act to follow, but show chairman Ken Sosnowski and co-chairman Jim Hall did their darndest and, in the opinions of those who were there, succeeded. There were 330 sales tables and 70 displays, the latter including a Hutchinson bottling display by Bob Harms and Sean Mullikin. Demonstrations on how Hutchinson bottles were actually filled were held every two hours. The 96-page program included articles by Betty Zumwalt, Bob Ferraro and Clevenger Glass Works’ Jim Travis, among others. Souvenirs included a commemorative paperweight to display owners, a miniature stoneware jug to those attending the banquet and suitably inscribed log cabin bottles in cobalt and amethyst made at the Clevenger factory and sold for $20 apiece.

1984 Antique Bottle, Jar & Insulator Exposition - Montgomery, Alabama

After the two previous shows were held in the Midwest, the Sunny South finally got a chance to shine and highlighted insulators on the cover of its 78-page program. Chairman James Robbins called the show “my dream come true.” Feature articles were written by Bernie Puckhaber (Saratogas), Dick Bowman (Insulators) and Dennis Smith (Pioneer Glass Works), among others. The latter also found time to put together an outstanding exhibit on Celery Cola (on which he is still THE authority). There were 32 exhibitors and 204 dealers listed in the program. There also was a heat wave as one might expect in the Deep South during the August show dates so visitors and hosts alike built up lots of sweat equity. One specially made quilt was raffled (and brought $3,400) and the other was auctioned (for $1,600). Profits from the two plus auction of a one-of-a-kind Federation bottle ($325) were donated to the Verbeck House/National Bottle Museum in Ballston Spa, N.Y. 1988 Antique Bottle & Jar Exposition - Las Vegas, Nevada Show chairman Lou Pellegrini and his crew of volunteers “hit the jackpot,” according to comments from many of those who attended the Federation’s fourth Expo. There were 285 dealers set up on 365 tables and there were 53 displays. Show-goers likened the atmosphere as comparable to that of the St. Louis Expo and, while there were a few glitches, bulk of the comments was positive. Bob Harms had his traveling Hutchinson bottling machine there, while other displays ranged from Alex Kerr’s target balls and gowiths to a display of historical flasks. There was something to please just about everyone.

There was no mention of Expo souvenirs.

1991 Bottle & Advertising Show - Memphis, Tennessee Display of a pair of $40,000 bottles owned by Frank Brockman was one of the highlights of the show at the Memphis Cook Convention Center. One was the Northbend-Tippecanoe Cabin and the other the sapphire blue Columbia-Eagle Flask. “He brought them in from California at my request and we used them in our pre-show publicity,” said show chairman Gene Bradberry. “I borrowed the artwork for the full-color, slick paper flyer from Norm Heckler and used it with his permission. We had 200 sales tables and (Atlanta collector) Bob Simmons handled some great displays. Heckler, Jim Hagenbuch and Dick and Elma Watson were among well-known collectors in attendance.” Bradberry’s idea at the time was to create a national show every year. “There were still those who wanted an Expo every four years so we compromised and had the national shows every year between the Expos.”

1992 Antique Bottle & Jar Exposition - Toledo, Ohio Show chairman Adam Koch and his Ohio Bottle Club volunteers had to get used to hearing exclamations of “Holy Toledo!” from excited visitors at the show at the Seagate 60

Centre. Bulk of the comments from show-goers was highly positive. The program was the thickest ever, 110 pages counting the covers, with features by Ralph Finch, Bill Agee and Stanley and Isabel Sherwood. There were a bunch of specialty group meetings taking place, too - the Jelly Jammers and those who liked fruit jars, Saratoga Waters, painted label sodas, poisons, whimsies, glass knives, milk bottles and infant feeders. There was a chance for early buyers to get into the show in advance of the rest of the crowd and this did not sit well with many. But as one dealer among those manning a record 550 sales tables put it: “those people were there to buy and they did.” There were 60 displays, all outstanding.

1993 National Advertising & Bottle Show - Richmond, Virginia Somewhere in the Federation board of directors records, there is mention of someone who probably was suffering from bottle show withdrawal pains suggesting that instead of waiting another four years for an Expo to roll around, why not hold annual national shows. This Virginia show was the first of many and it was a good one. “The show was great and went off without a hitch,” said Federation Chairman Gene Bradberry. There were 17 displays, including a genuine wagon showing off hundreds of medicine bottles and go-withs. Post-show stories never gave a dealer count, but comments given to reporter Ralph Finch were mostly on the positive side.

The 25th Anniversary National Bottle & Advertising Show & National Convention – Cherry Hill, New Jersey - June 22-26, 1994 The Federation was “born” in 1968 so the Silver Anniversary show was a special one, thanks to Dick and Elma Watson of New Jersey and Jerry McCann of Chicago. The Watsons had come up with the idea of a bus trip to Wheaton Village in Millville, N.J., and McCann got the ball (and the bus) rolling, according to a post-show article. The Federation rented the bus for $500 and each one who made the trip paid $10 that included the trip, admission to the museum and a box lunch. The next day, the Watsons arranged for a Wheaton glassblowing display to set up in the hotel parking lot. Collectors from Canada, England, Scotland, Germany, Grenada and the United States came to the show. Some of the visitors made it to the Watsons’ “bottle house.” Jon Panek of Deerfield, Ill., said his visit there “was like dying and going to heaven!”

1995 National Bottle Show - Chicago, Illinois Dealers set up on 210 tables and there were 11 outstanding displays. Many visitors were able to take a Friday night cruise on the Chicago River and out into Lake Michigan. Jon Panek of Deerfield, Jerry McCann of Chicago and Barb and Bob Harms of Riverdale, Ill., came up with lots of neat extras not normally found at such shows. At previous shows, visitors lamented that two days were just too short. The complaints at this one were that the show was too long. Perhaps the 90-degree heat had something to do with that.

One of the most unusual items sold during Jim Hagenbuch’s Glassworks Auction was a salt-glazed jug imprinted with Lancaster Tonic Bitters / C.A. Wood & Co. / 37 Haverhill St. / Boston. It sold for $400. Hagenbuch’s 3-day-old van was stolen, and that was bad enough, but happily there were no bottles inside.

1996 National Antique Bottle Exposition - Nashville, Tennessee “Music City, USA,” attracted 665 sales tables staffed by 461 dealers and many of those in attendance came in a vacation mode. There were 45 displays. Bitters maven Carlyn Ring was named to the Federation Hall of Fame. Many visitors, among them non-smokers, enjoyed a trip to the Museum of Tobacco Art & History. Show chairman Claude 61

Bellar and his staff of volunteers were lauded for their efforts. Norm Heckler conducted the auction and among noteworthy items were an 1820-30 Concentric Ring Flask that netted $20,000 and a cobalt Columbia Eagle Portrait Flask that garnered $21,000. There were no awards given for the displays, but each entrant received a commemorative bottle of Jack Daniel’s best stuff. Ken Anderson’s trailer, which held all of his Indian cures, gowiths and the great medicine wagon he displayed them in, escaped being damaged when the trailer broke loose from the hitch and wound up in a ditch. “It must have been Indian magic,” commented one observer.

1997 National Antique Bottle Show - Jacksonville, Florida The show was smaller than usual, with 120 dealers manning 160 tables, but enthusiasm was high for the first show held in the South since the 1993 affair in Richmond, Va. Dick Watson and Doc Ford were inducted into the FOHBC Hall of Fame. Carl Sturm celebrated his birthday and a slice of key lime pie with one candle was delivered to him. There were several outstanding displays, ranging from Wayne Boynton’s Celery=Cola display to Ron Rasnake’s pictorial case gins to Joe Brock’s Jacksonville’s Past in Glass, among others. Another highlight was a dinner cruise up the St. Johns River.

1998 National Antique Bottle Show - Cincinnati, Ohio Burton Spiller gave a nostalgic talk about the early days of bottle collecting as he remembered them and that was one of the highlights at the Cincinnati Convention Center.

Another event was more personal for Spiller, who was inducted into the FOHBC Hall of Fame. Fifteen terrific displays attracted lots of attention. There were 160 dealers’ tables and at one of them, a dealer was going to put out some Beanie Babies. But show chairman Adam Koch was adamant that Beanie Babies had no place at an antique bottle show and sale. Good for him!

1999 National Antique Bottle Show - Cincinnati, Ohio No one made a bid to play host to this year’s show, so Adam Koch & Co., agreed to do a 2-peat. Howard Dean, longtime collector of Saratoga Springs bottles and author of many stories relating to the bottle hobby, was elected to the FOHBC Hall of Fame during this meeting. Kevin Sives, an FOHBC member and early user of the Internet, gave a user-friendly talk about using that medium to one’s advantage. There were two programs on inks and labeled inks by Keith Leeders and John Hinkle, respectively.

2000 National Antique Bottle Exposition - Denver, Colorado Dave Cheadle succeeded Dave Hinson as editor of Bottles and Extras and found time to give an educational talk on trade cards and bottles, one of the Rocky Mountain highs during the show. Sheryl Anderson was show chairman and did a remarkable job. There were new books galore from Pike’s Peak Gold by John Eatwell and David Clint III, Antique Glass Bottles by Willy Van den Bossche of Holland, and Bitters Bottles by Bill Ham and Carlyn Ring. Seven countries and 33 states were represented at the event and the federation picked up 60 new members, according to post-show reports. It was noted that the first FOHBC convention was held in Denver back in 1969, presided over by John Eatwell.

2001 National Antique Bottle Show & Sale - Muncie, Indiana Thirteen exhibits featuring fruit jars, water bottles, poisons and show globes, among others, and 140 sales tables highlighted the show in “Fruit Jar Country, USA.” Future federation president Ralph Van Brocklin gave a slide presentation on Western Whiskey 62

Flasks. The show was chaired by Norman Barnett, with lots of help from his wife, Junne.

The federation made a nice profit via an auction conducted by Norm Heckler with lots ranging from inks to barber bottles. Collectors came from California, Colorado and Georgia. The Minnestrista Cultural Center housed a collection of patent models of fruit jars plus other exhibits relating to Muncie history and the Ball Brothers Fruit Jar Co. Visitors literally had a ball!

2002 National Antique Bottle Show & Sale - Syracuse, New York The 72-page program features 16 pages of “Pride of New York” bottles in full color and is definitely a coveted collector’s item. Ralph Van Brocklin, who was elected FOHBC president, gave a seminar on Western Flasks, and George Waddy, a featured columnist in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector, gave one on Saratoga Bottles. There was more on Saratogas inside the program written by authority Howard Dean, while Kevin A. Sives wrote about New York glass houses of the 17th through 19th centuries. Elma Watson, John Eatwell and Mayor Bob Ferraro were inducted into the FOHBC Hall of Fame. Phyllis and Adam Koch wrote a touching tribute to Elma Watson in the September Bottles & Extras. Mrs. Watson died of cancer on Aug. 26, 2002. There were 252 sales tables and 29 exhibits and the show’s auction conducted by Norm Heckler grossed $25,000.

2003 National Antique Bottle Show & Sale - Louisville, Kentucky

More than 200 tables awaited early buyers at this show co-hosted by Wayne and June Lowry of Raymore, Mo., after two years of planning. Longtime collectors Norm and Junne Barnett were inducted into the Federation Hall of Fame. They set up their famous collection of unusual fruit jar closures as one of 16 educational exhibits. Orville Seals of North Jackson, Ohio displayed more than 100 Louisville mini jugs (mostly from the Bauer Pottery). Norm Heckler called the auction which grossed more than $30,000.

2004 National Antique Bottle Exposition - Memphis, Tennessee

Ralph Van Brocklin closed out his last term as FOHBC president with the triumph that was this Expo. Chaired by his friend and longtime federation member Gene Bradberry in the latter’s home town, the show featured 371 sales tables and 23 displays. Seminars included such topics as baby bottles, locating sites and digging them, black glass dating, fruit jars and bitters. Twelve authors got a chance to sign and sell their books. Jimmie Wood of Denver, N.C., was awarded the FOHBC People’s Choice ribbon for his stunning display of applied color label sodas from North and South Carolina. There also was a forum describing the trials and tribulations of becoming a book author, with Jack Sullivan, Dewey Heetderks, Jerry McCann, John Eatwell and Bill Ham chiming in.

2005 National Antique Bottle Show - Grand Rapids, Michigan Thirty-one outstanding displays awaited visitors’ attention at the show where chairman John Pastor and his crew of volunteers did a marvelous job. Seminars were plentiful and first class, with Red Book author Doug Leybourne discoursing on fruit jar closures, Carl Sturm speaking about identification and dating of black glass bottles, Dann Louis talking about cures, Dan Simons on Michigan bottles, Wayne (Jar Doctor) Lowry about cleaning old bottles, Dr. Darell Erickson on infant feeders, Rick Cirali about Connecticut glass and Mark Vuono on historical flasks. Norm Heckler again loaned his auctioneering talents to the Federation. One of the outstanding bottles sold was a green Drake’s Plantation Bitters for $10,500.

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2006 National Antique Bottle Show - Reno, Nevada

This was the first national show held in a Western state since the 2000 Expo in Denver, Colorado, and it was a roaring success, thanks to the efforts of FOHBC conventions director Wayne Lowry, show chairman Marty Hall and Reno-Sparks club members. There were 287 in line for early admission and 315 more for general admission, making for standing room only around the 266 sales tables. A significant piece of federation business was the approval to publish Bottles and Extras bi-monthly instead of quarterly. California collector Richard Siri was the keynote speaker and his discourse on Hostetter’s Bitters was complemented by his 190 variants of those well-known bottles. The displays drew this rave from Ralph Van Brocklin: “Hands down, THE BEST group of displays I have ever seen at a show!” Wonderful seminar topics ranging from target balls to historical bottle research were highlights of the meeting. B&E editor Kathy Hopson-Sathe gave the show coverage more than 17 pages of the Fall issue and Van Brocklin did a masterful job of describing what went on.

2007 National Bottle Show - Collinsville, Illinois

“Back To Where It All Began” was the theme at Collinsville’s Gateway Center, pointing to the inaugural national show held in 1976 across the Mississippi River in St. Louis, Missouri. Special pins were presented to “Long Timers” who attended both shows. Wayne (Jar Doctor) Lowry was show chairman, with assists from Curt and Ellen Faulkenberry, Jim and Debbie Taylor and Pat Jett. Wayne’s wife, June, business manager for the federation, was stunned to receive the President’s Award from Carl Sturm. Seminars ranged from “Something for Everyone” by Jelly Jammer members Phyllis Pahlman and Margaret Shaw to “Chero-Cola – There’s None So Good” by Dennis Smith to “Using the Internet to Collect Bottles” by John “Digger” Odell to “Ink Symposium” by Keith Leeders, John Hinkel, Ed and Lucy Faulkner, Frank Starczek and Don Carroll. Longtime collectors and federation members Gene Bradberry and Ed Provine did a show and tell session on early glass-blowing methods and tools of that trade. Other highlights included 19 outstanding displays. Greg Hawley, one of a group of treasure hunters who found and excavated the Steamboat Arabia, was the banquet speaker.

2008 National Antique Bottle Exposition - York, Pennsylvania

Collectors from across the country and around the world (Australia, Germany, United Kingdom) made the trek to the ninth Federation Expo where they enjoyed seeing 32 terrific displays ranging from fruit jars to California perfumes. They also attended outstanding seminars on Saratoga waters, black glass, inks, the Lancaster, N.Y. Glass Works and the Kola Wars. Convention Director R. Wayne Lowry reported 415 sales tables had been sold. Perhaps the show’s only negative aspect came at the banquet where featured foods were in short supply and some of the 246 guests had to accept substitutes. The FOHBC Hall of Fame grew by four new inductees in Tom Caniff, Jim Hagenbuch, Carl Sturm and Betty Zumwalt. Steve Ketcham and the late Katie Foglesong were inducted onto the Honor Roll. Norm Heckler once again was the auctioneer for the Expo event, with an early, olive-green Wryghte’s Bitters / London the top lot with a $3,900 bid. Russ Smith of the United Kingdom and Rex and Joanna Barber of Australia penned views of the Expo from their perspectives in the November-December Bottles & Extras. Former FOHBC president John Pastor resigned as Midwest Region director and Jamie Houdeshell was named to take over the post. Mr. Pastor accepted the position of second vice president and remains on the board of directors. June Lowry became editor of Bottles and Extras after Kathy Hopson-Sathe was forced to step down because of illness.

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2009 National Antique Bottle Show - Pomona, California Highlight of this show, host of which was the Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club, was the awards banquet during which many collectors received their just dues. It was the first Federation National Show to be held on the West Coast. Onlookers included collectors and dealers from Australia and England, as well as from 18 states. Outstanding exhibits included Richard Tucker’s historical flasks (winning the People’s Choice ribbon) and Terry Monteith’s well-displayed collection of demijohns and carboys captured the FOHBC Most Educational ribbon. Alan DeMaison received the President’s Award for his outstanding contributions as Federation treasurer from Richard Siri. The FOHBC Hall of Fame gained another member in Johnnie Fletcher of the Oklahoma Territory Bottle & Relic Club. Johnnie was originally nominated by his friend, Ed Stewart, of Paola, Kansas, for inclusion on the FOHBC Honor Roll. but Johnnie’s dedication and contributions to the hobby led board members to vote him into the main shrine. Midwest Region Editor Joe Coulson’s Glass Chatter of the Midwest Antique Fruit Jar & Bottle Club was a firstclass winner in the newsletter category. The Ohio Swirl, edited by Phyllis Koch of The Ohio Bottle Club, was second. Huron Valley Antique Bottle Club’s show flyer was first and the Antique Bottle Club of San Diego placed second. Jack Sullivan, of Alexandria, Va., won for the best researched article for “The Night the Axe Fell on Cleveland.” Dave Maryo, the host club’s president, was second with his article, “Forsha’s Balm is Endorsed

by President Lincoln.” Mike Bryant won the best true story award for “The Snake in the Glass” and best fiction for “Ask Aunt Blabby.”

2010 National Antique Bottle Show - Wilmington, Ohio Best thing about this show, those who attended would agree, was the Roberts Centre showroom with its well-lighted, wide aisles, offering plenty of room for 297 sales tables, 20 wonderful displays and hordes of people. Show chairman Jamie Houdeshell became ill a few days before the show, but co-chairman Joe Hardin and chief coordinator Patty Elwood stepped up. They were assisted by Jamie’s parents/ Jim and Mira Houdeshell, as well as Richard Elwood and John and Margie Bailey. Jamie’s pet project was the auction and, thanks to his early efforts. the event grossed just shy of $20,000. A highlight of the show was the induction of Scott Grandstaff and Kitty Roach, of Happy Camp, Calif., onto the FOHBC Honor Roll. Joining them was another Californian, Jeff Wichmann.

Scott and Kitty founded the original Bottles and Extras magazine, eventually giving it to the Federation when it got too much for them. Sheldon Baugh gave an educational talk about Ohio’s Shaker communities and displayed Shaker bottles from his own collection.

2011 National Show - Memphis, Tennessee FOHBC President Gene Bradberry played the perfect host as the Federation returned to the Southland for the first time since 2004. That show also was held in Memphis, known for its downtown trolley cars and barbecue. Second Vice President Ferdinand Meyer V outlined his progress on the FOHBC web site (FOHBC.org) and Virtual Museum during the semi-annual board meeting held prior to the show and sale. Seminars were held dealing with inks (John Hinkel), bitters (Meyer, Don Keating and Sheldon Baugh), odd-closured fruit jars (Dick Watson), German colognes (Carl Sturm) and applied color label sodas (Randee Kaiser). Seven outstanding displays sparked interest, with Base-Embossed Cylinder Whiskeys by Steve Schingler winning the Most Educational Award and Patented Labeled Medicines by Henry Tankersley garnering the People’s Choice Award.

Ninety-one lots were offered during the FOHBC National Auction, with the highlight of the sale the Morning Call Bitters going for $5,460, which was $1,460 over the high estimate. The unique variant, light amber with a hint of olive in color, sports deeply indented panels and arched column corners. Another highlight was the induction of Bill Baab, of 65

Augusta, Georgia, into the FOHBC Hall of Fame. Former Federation Treasurer Mike Newman, of Martinez, Ga., nominated the 76-year-old Baab, who joined the Federation in 1996 and later became its Southern Region editor.

2012 National Antique Bottle Exposition - Reno, Nevada Those who were there at the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino included longtime collector and published author Mike Polak, of Long Beach, California. Let’s hear all about it from Mike: “Over the years, I’ve attended a large number of club bottle shows, national shows and Expos, and I need to say that the Reno 2012 Expo was absolutely fantastic and probably the best all around show I’ve ever attended!” If that comment didn’t make show co-chairmen Marty Hall and Richard Siri proud, who knows what will? This was a show of “firsts” in the hobby. Complementing the thousands of words written about the show were a series of great color photos from the lenses of the first professional show photographer, Scott Selenak. (“There was so much action, my camera couldn’t stop firing,” he said later). Norman C. Heckler & Co., conducted the first “Drakes, Whiskey & Umbrella Ink Shootout” where more than 200 people showed up. Competing in back-to-backto-back “duels” were Circle Cutter Whiskey cylinders, Drakes Plantation Bitters and umbrella inks. After all was said and done, Judges Bruce Silva, Dennis Bray and Ralph Hollibaugh awarded Steve Hubbell, of Gig Harbor, Washington, top billing in the Cutter category for his olive green-amber specimen. Drakes Judges Jeff Noordsy, Jeff Burchardt and Rick Simi picked a blue-green example owned by Ferdinand Meyer, of Houston, Texas as No. 1. Umbrella inks Judges Holly Noordsy, Bryan Grapentine and Jamie Houdeshell chose a mint and pontiled puce ink owned by Jim Jacobitz, of San Francisco.

“I learned how to have a shootout with killer glass bullets and still remain friends,” said veteran collector Lou Lambert. Two longtime contributors to the hobby, Warren Friedrich, of Grass Valley, Calif., and Jack Sullivan, of Alexandria, Va., were inducted into the FOHBC Hall of Fame. Fourteen scintillating displays ranging from David Hall’s fantastic assortment of E.G. Booz bottles to Dennis Bray’s outstanding EC&M insulators to eye candy Swirls, Whirls, Twists & Twirls from Dwayne Anthony, featuring bottles, fruit jars and insulators.

2013 National Antique Bottle Show - Manchester, New Hampshire

When collectors of antique bottles and early glass think of New England, early glass works come to mind. Like Keene, Stoddard, Temple, Lyndeboro. “I had never seen so much world class glass under one roof before,” said FOHBC Hall of Famer Bill Baab after having attended the Federation’s first National Show to be held in New England.

The “roof” belonged to the Radisson Expo Center and the place was Manchester, New Hampshire July 19-21.

Co-chairmen Michael George and Maureen Crawford and their Merrimack Bottle Clubbers pulled out all the stops to make this show one attendees will remember for the rest of their lives.

Nine seminars covering as many different areas of collecting got the crowd going in te right direction early on Friday, July 19. Presenters were Rick Ciralli, Connecticut Glasshouse Rarities; Tom Haunton, Last Links to the Past: 20th Century South Jersey Glass); Ian Simmonds, American Mold Blown Tableware 1816-35; A Fresh Look at “Blown Three-Mold”; Michael George, New Hampshire Glass Factories and Products; George Waddy, Mineral Waters from Yankee Country; Jim George, Early 20th Century Milk Marketing in New England; Brian P. Wolff, Mount Vernon Glass Co. - History, Products, People; David Hoover, Uncovering Demijohns, and Al Morin, Markings and Seals Em66

bossed on Milk Bottles.

In addition to the glass and pottery offered by the 168 dealers present, collectors were treated to 17 displays of outstanding glass and pottery. The People’s Choice Award was won by Michael George for his awesome display of Stoddard glass, including inks, a flask with embossed U.S. flag (featured on the souvenir program’s front cover), medicines and utilities.

Most Educational Award was won by Ken Previtali, of Glastonbury, Connecticut for his wonderful ginger ale bottle display, with many of the bottles displaying an astounding array of paper labels featuring great graphics.

Other exhibitors were Tom Marshall (New England Inkwells), Mark Newton (Lyndeborough Glass), Dale Murschell (Wistarburgh Glass), Jeff and Holly Noordsy (Utilitarian Vessels from New England and New York State), Bob Kennerknecht (Sunburst Flasks), Dave Olson (Bonney Ink Bottles), Dave Waris (Moxie Bottles), Rob Girouard (Striped Sandwich Glass), Kevin Kyle (Blue Sodas), Dennis Gionet (Manchester-produced Bottles), Paul Richards (New Hampshire glass shards), Jim and Karen Gray (Stoneware Jugs), Bobby Heton (cone inks) and Jim Bender (Reproductions). The high quality of the exhibits made judges wish there were more awards to present.

Next came the New England Bottle Battle, sponsored by Norman C. Heckler & Co., and directed by Michael George, dressed in full 19th century regalia. Categories were Whimsical Objects, Colored Medicines and Utility Bottles. And the winners were: (Whimsical Objects), Kevin Sives, Appalachin, N.Y., for his handled E. Waters Ink; (Colored Medicines), Dr. Charles and Jane Aprill, New Orleans, half-gallon cobalt Dr. Wynkoops Sarsaparilla; (Utility Bottles), Rick Ciralli, Bristol, Conn., multi-sided utility bottle.

Wrapping up the first night’s activities was the Madness in Manchester Auction put on

by Jim Hagenbuch of Glass Works Auctions, with John Pappas the auctioneer. One of the highlights was Lot No. 44, a wide-mouthed Sunburst flask/snuff jar in light greenish aqua. Pre-auction estimate was $40,000 to $60,000, but it sold for $24,000.

Inducted into the FOHBC Hall of Fame were Gene Bradberry, of Bartlett, Tenn., and Alan Blakeman, of the United Kingdom. Bradberry is a longtime Federation member, having served more than one term as its president, as well as in other capacities. Blakeman, published of British Bottle Review, is England’s “Mr. Bottle Man. 2014 National Antique Bottle Show - Lexington, Kentucky It was Tom Phillips’ last show as conventions director and he made the most of it, teaming with co-chairmen Randee Kaiser and Sheldon Baugh to make the FOHBC’s first visit to Lexington and Blue Grass horse country most enjoyable. One-hundred forty-seven dealers set up at 204 tables and offered a bounty of glass and ceramic treasures and most were ecstatic about their successful sales. “One said that within an hour of setting up, he made over $3,000,” said Randee’s wife, Sue. “Another said he made four times the profit as what he usually collects at shows.”

The numbers of early buyers (178) and general attendees (320) exceeded the numbers at past shows, said Phillips, whose good work was acknowledged when he received the President’s Award from FOHBC President Ferdinand Meyer V. The show was headquartered at the Hyatt Regency Hotel and held at the adjacent Lexington Center, a wonderful 67

venue with lots of space, great lighting and enthusiastic staff.

Events got under way on Friday, August 1, with a series of six seminars: Jerry McCann’s Mid 1800s, The Evolution of Bottles Through Fruit Jars; The History of ACL Soda Bottles in Kentucky and Beyond, by Randee Kaiser; Here’s to Beers, by Gary Beatty; FOHBC Virtual Museum Progress, by Ferdinand Meyer V and Steve Libbey; The History and Evolution of the Shaker Herb and Medicine Industries by Sheldon Baugh, and Ohio River Privy Digging by Jeff Mihalik. All were entertaining and educational.

This show was notable for a number of “firsts.” A ribbon cutting with Randee and Sheldon utilizing the oversized scissors (enough ribbon was left over for next year’s Chattanooga show and 2016’s Sacramento show) opened the showroom doors. There was an appraisal table in charge of Martin Van Zant (who became a Kentucky Colonel) and friends who saw a cool master ink, a Japanese balsam from Cincinnati, lots of Coca-Cola bottles, an aqua double eagle historical flask “and a ton of common stuff,” he said.

California antique bottle auctioneer Jeff Wichmann donated a cool $5,000 to be raffled in smaller segments. Scott Selenak, who has become the Federation’s chief photographer, recorded everything on his trusty digital cameras. Friday night’s banquet featured Michael “Mr. Bourbon” Veach as the guest speaker. He later signed copies of his book, Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey. Veach’s friend and co-author, Chet Zoeller, signed copies of his book, Bourbon in Kentucky,” on the show’s final day.

Since Lexington is home to the Kentucky Derby, it was appropriate that the Federation hold its own Run for the Roses. Instead of Thoroughbreds, the contest featured wax sealer fruit jars, scroll flasks and Midwestern swirl decanters. FOHBC member Chip Cable videotaped the bottles and projected each onto a large screen. Sue Kaiser tracked down the finishers: WIN: Midwestern Swirl Decanter–John Pastor, New Hudson, Mich.; Historical Scroll Flask–Steve Schingler, Braselton, Ga.; Wax Sealer Fruit Jar–Jerry McCann, Chicago, Il., PLACE: Midwestern Swirl Decanter–Tom Lines, Birmingham, Ala.; Historical Scroll Flask–John Pastor, New Hudson, Mich.; Wax Sealer Fruit Jar–Ryne Henrich, Crystal Lake, Ill., SHOW: Midwestern Scroll Flask–Dave Maryo, Victorville, Calif.; Historical Scroll Flask–Mike Henrich, Crystal Lake, Ill.; Wax Sealer Fruit Jar–Perry Driver, Live Oak, Fla. There were 13 educational displays running the gamut of subjects, with Tom Sproat’s 19th century glass-making tools winning the Federation’s Most Educational Award. Jim Hubbard’s outstanding display of Kentucky pocket flasks won the FOHBC Best of Show Award. Worth mentioning was Federation historian Dick Watson’s display tracing the history of the organization that started in 1969. Unfortunately, Dick and David Olson, of Carver, Mass., were involved in an automobile accident just minutes away from Dick’s New Jersey home while heading to Lexington. Happily, both have since recovered. Another novel idea was the fancy hat contest, won with a bottle-and horse-themed example worn by Leanne Peace. Capping the night’s activities was the “Thoroughbred Auction” conducted by Jim Hagenbuch.

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F O H B C H O N O R RO LL On July 25, 1986, Dr. Cecil Munsey, of Poway, California, sent a memo to Marilyn Schmieding, FOHBC Western Region representative, that the FOHBC “seriously consider establishing an ‘HONOR ROLL’ of people who have contributed significantly to bottle collecting. The Honor Roll would not replace the Hall of Fame, the greatest honor the hobby can bestow, but only supplement it.” The FOHBC Board of Directors adopted the idea and it was put into place the following year.

1987 The following were nominated by The Ohio Bottle Club, Gary Beatty, President. Research was conducted by Paul Ballentine, Springfield, Ohio, and Gary Beatty, Galion, Ohio. “The Reward of True Excellence is to Obtain Honor.” The list was updated with capsule comments on each honoree (when available) by then Southern Region editor Bill Baab during 2008-2010, with help from Mary Ballentine, Sheldon Baugh, Ralph Finch, Norm Heckler, Cecil Munsey, Richard Siri, Dick Watson, Ralph Van Brocklin, Bruce Silva and Garth Ziegenhagen.

George S. McKearin, co-author (with daughter Helen) of American Glass, noted authority on early American glass in general, not just bottles.

Malcolm Watkins and Lura Woodside Watkins. He enjoyed an extensive career at the Smithsonian Institution, was curator of several collections including ceramics and glass.

He was a pioneer in the field of historic archaeology. Lura, his mother, was a pioneer in the study of American cultural history, and collected extensively at New England’s unexplored pottery kiln sites. She later donated her collection to the Smithsonian. She was the author of Cambridge Glass, 1818-1888, The Story of the New England Glass Company.

Stephen Van Rensselaer, one of the earliest individuals to collect and study early bottles (1920s). His Early American Bottles and Flasks was published in 1926. It was revised in 1929. His research for the time was nearly impeccable, since he was able to interview “former glassblowers, their wives, relatives and others who were familiar with local history and tradition.” The book was reprinted in 1969.

Otha Wearin was a congressman during the early Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration, and became an authority on figural bottles. He authored a book called Statues That Pour.

James Gabel, early collector.

Ezra Feinberg, early collector.

Edgar F. Hoffman, of Maplewood, N.J., was a collector in the 1930s-50s who specialized in historical flasks, although he collected others such as bitters, sodas and figurals, according to his early 1950s correspondence with prominent Alabama collector Doy McCall. Hoffman became an expert on early glass and sold some to prominent collectors such as Charles B. Gardner of New London, Conn.

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James H. Thompson was the author of Bitters Bottles (1947), the first specialty bottle book. He cited George McKearin, Sam Laidacker and Charles B. Gardner among the list of contributors to the book, which describes 500 bitters, as well as “amusing lore of the Bitters Era.” Neil C. Gest, Mechanicsberg, Ohio, was a flask collector, researcher, writer, contributor to The Magazine Antiques. He was well-known for collecting rare Midwestern glass. He co-wrote (with Parke G. Smith) a feature story on glassmakers Johann Baltazar Kramer and his son, George, in the March 1939 issue of The Magazine Antiques. The Kramers were associated with the Stiegel factory and those of Frederick County, Maryland, particularly Amelung, and with the New Geneva and Greensboro works. Gest also wrote the foreword to the Parke-Bernet auction catalog describing the early American glass collection of William W. Wood III of Piqua, Ohio, in 1942.

Frederick W. Hunter, collector and archaeologist of the Harry Hall White type.

Lowell Innes was one of the country’s foremost experts and museum consultants on 19th century American glassmaking. As the leading authority on Pittsburgh glass, he wrote many articles and lectured widely on the subject. He was responsible for the first public exhibitions of Pittsburgh glass in the early 1940s. Author of the book, Pittsburgh Glass 1797-1891. He died in 1985.

Rhea Mansfield Knittle was a prolific author and early authority (1920s) on glass, silver and pewter. She was one of the founders of and contributors to The Magazine Antiques from its inception in 1923. One of her books was Early American Glass.

Maude Wilkerson owned a “Mom and Pop” motel and operated a bottle museum in Camdenton, Mo., and was a contributor to Old Bottle Magazine for many years. Guests at her motel could enter the museum in an adjacent building for free. Bottles were displayed in cases around a room and many early bottle collectors went out of their way during the 1960s-70s to see what she had. She and Honor Roll honoree Otha Wearin were good friends and made many bottle trades over the years. After she died, some 1,900 items were moved to Skinner’s auction gallery in Bolton, Mass., and an auction was held there in 1976. Numerous glass candy containers were among the items sold.

Edwin Atlee Barber was an author who recognized the importance of early ceramics. Among his books was one about lead-glazed pottery written in the 1930s. He also authored one on early American bottles. He also authored American Glassware Old and New. It was published in 1900.

Ruth Webb Lee authored books on antique fakes and reproductions, Victorian glass patterns, Sandwich glass and early American Pressed Glass, most published in the 1930s-40s.

George Horace Lorimer was an early editor of The Saturday Evening Post. It was published weekly in Philadelphia and its origins dated to Benjamin Franklin’s day. The Post was the most prominent magazine in Philadelphia along with Collier’s. He did publish (on Oct. 16, 1929) Edwin Lefevre’s story, “Why I Collect Empty Bottles.” Lorimer started collecting during the early 1920s, mostly great historical flasks and diamond-daisy types. His collection was donated to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and is always partially on display. His philosophy on money was reflected in a quote published by investment firm Charles Schwab in the fall of 2009: “It’s good to have money and the things 71

money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.”

Charles Baugh, with his wife, Roxy, of Menton, Ohio, pieced together a collection of early American glass that ranked at the top in rarity, condition, perfection of form and workmanship. The Baughs also made a thorough study of the fields in which they were interested.

Crawford Wettlaufer became an authority on early American glass and never hesitated to share his knowledge and collection, which contained many rarities, with other collectors.

Dale Kuhn, of Ohio, was a pharmacist who had amassed a wonderful collection of glass that eventually was sold by Garth’s auction house near Delaware, Ohio. The sale gave modern collectors an opportunity to buy treasured items that previously had not been available. There were no bottle shows during his era and the only recourse collectors had was to buy from some of the many lists sent through the mails, or advertised in the antique journals.

Earl Seigfreid. Early collector.

Parke G. Smith was a collector and authority on early American flasks. He authored bottle-related stories in The Magazine Antiques (See Neil C. Gest) and other publications during the 1930s and 1940s.

Edwin LeFevre was an early collector of bottles. His main claim to fame came when he authored a story, “Why I Collect Empty Bottles,” in the Saturday Evening Post of Oct. 16, 1929.

Charles McMurray was a well-known antiques dealer in Dayton, Ohio. He wrote articles for local newspapers and in 1927 published a small black handbook on bottles, using items from his own collection for the photos. In 1970, a Connecticut bookseller sent out a list of bottle books for sale. On the list was a small black handbook the bookseller said was authored by Charles B. Gardner and himself. Turned out that Gardner had only priced the bottles in the book, which was nearly identical in every way to McMurray’s 1927 book.

Sam Laidacker was the author of two excellent books on blue China dishes. He also published a small magazine or paper on antiques in general. He operated an antiques shop in Bristol, Pa., and was considered an authority on antique bottles. He relocated to Bloomsburg, Pa., in the late 1960s and continued to deal from a large mansion and carriage house. His father was collecting flasks and Kentucky rifles in the early 1900s.

His brother, John, had 1,000 historical flasks to sell in the mid-1960s. Sam’s son, Jack, became an authority on guns and military medals and an author on the subject. Sam also did cataloguing for many of the prominent auction houses across the country. He helped FOHBC Hall of Famers Dick and Elma Watson develop an expertise in antique bottles and sold them many that became the foundation for their extensive collection.

1991 Dr. Julian Harrison Toulouse was a student of glass containers for more than 30 years.

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tion of the War Production Board during World War II. He was the author of Fruit Jars: A Collector’s Manual, in 1969 and Bottle Makers and Their Marks in 1971.

1992 Ron Fowler was born in 1947 and is retired from the SAFECO Insurance Co. He became interested in bottles and their histories while serving as manager of the Triple R Ranch in Olympia, Wash. He discovered the ranch’s dump and excavated it over a period of several years. The bottles he uncovered he did research on. He maintains a worldwide correspondence with fellow bottle collectors. He was a monthly columnist for Old Bottle Magazine from 1983 to 1986. The author of six books on bottle collecting, he received FOHBC awards for research and editing. He established the Hutchinson Bottle Collectors’ Association in 2007 and continues compiling data while documenting the existence of more than 15,000 Hutchinson bottles.

1993 Lew and Lois Roach were from the original group of pioneer western collectors from Sacramento, Calif. They put together a marvelous collection of label-under-glass back bar whiskeys and Lew became the authority on that variety. Lew designed, printed and hand-colored the first multi-colored show poster in 1968 for the Golden Gate Historical Bottle Society Inc. The show was held in Alameda, Calif., May 25-26. After the show, the poster was presented to FOHBC Hall of Famer Dr. Cecil Munsey, one of the poster’s admirers.

1995 Judge Edward S. MacKenzie began collecting by accident in 1959 during recuperation from a heart condition. His physician had ordered him to take walks and the judge found a few old bottles en route and became curious about them. Inspired by his wife, Romie, he and she eventually put together one of the finest general bottle collections in the world in their Brooksville, Fla., home. The collection had eventually grown to more than 7,000.

The first of a series of auctions was conducted by Norm Heckler Sr., on Oct. 7, 1994.

“This collection coming on the market carries the same weight, is similar in importance, as the glass collections of Charles Gardner, Edmund Blaske and even Paul Richards,” Heckler noted. MacKenzie died in 1994.

Kenneth M. Wilson was an early collector, book author and distinguished glass expert.

He was the director of collections and preservation at Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum. He teamed with the famous Helen McKearin to write American Bottles & Flasks and Their Ancestry (1978), an update of George S. and Helen McKearin’s 1941 classic American Glass. Wilson also authored New England Glass and Glassmaking on his own.

2000 Sam Taylor was a pharmacist and member of the St. Louis Bottle Club. He had one of the best collections of pharmaceutical items in the U.S. He transformed his basement into an early drug store atmosphere, displaying his great collection. Supported by his wife, Eloise, he shared his enthusiasm by inviting numerous collectors who happened to be in the area into their home and shared their hospitality and tremendous knowledge. It was like stepping into an early drug store of the past if you were lucky enough to be invited.

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2001 Robert Eugene (Bob) Barnett was born in Kootenai, Idaho on August 27, 1921 and was bitten by the bottle bug later in life than most, becoming active in the hobby about 1970. He specifically liked Western whiskies. He enjoyed what he called “a revolving collection,� buying and selling large numbers of bottles, most of which never stayed on his shelves more than a month or two. During the early 1970s, Bob and his wife, June, became permanent fixtures at just about every show west of the Rockies, He also began to mail monthly lists of western whiskies to an ever-growing number of collectors. His reputation for honesty, integrity and fairness was legendary. In 1979, Bob parlayed his vast knowledge into publishing his first book, Pacific Coast Whiskey Bottles. He published Western Liquor Bottles in 1987 and Western Whiskey Bottles in 1992 and 1997.

He died June 4, 2007 in Lakeview, Oregon.

John Thomas was a collector, researcher and historian whose efforts contributed very significantly to the understanding of Western whiskey bottles as well as bottle collecting in general. He is perhaps best known among collectors for his research and publishing of Whiskey Bottles of the Old West (1969). His next book was Picnics, Coffins, Shoo-Flies (1974). He also authored Whiskey Bottles and Liquor Containers from the State of Washington and Whiskey Bottles and Liquor Containers from the State of Oregon (1998). His longtime hobby was the collecting of Western whiskey bottles, shot glasses and related advertising. He was a significant factor in creating a broad interest in the history and collecting of these bottles through his contributions to the hobby. He died in 2000.

2003 Neal and Mary Jane Ferguson, of Nashville, Tenn., were early collectors who in 1965 founded the Middle Tennessee Antique Bottle Club in Nashville. They were life members of the Federation. Quiet and unassuming, Neal was a driving force in the antique bottle hobby in Tennessee and an acknowledged expert on Nashville bottles. His special interests included Nashville sodas and he conducted extensive research into the Diehl and Lord, Ottenville and McCormack companies. He wrote many articles for his club newsletter as well as for the Federation. Mary Jane was a constant help to her husband and was involved in all aspects of the Federation and the hobby with him. She was Southern Region editor of the Federation until ill health forced her to retire during the 1990s.

Willy Van den Bossche for more than 30 years has been a serious collector of European antique bottles (1500-1850). Since 1971, the native of Belgium worked as a patent examiner in the field of glass technology at the European Patent Office. He lives in Holland.

In 2001, he authored Antique Glass Bottles, Their History and Evolution (1500-1850), capping 12 years of research and development. His library contains most of the significant American literature devoted to antique bottles.

2005 Frank Sternad is a graduate of the University of California School of Pharmacy. He has worked as a community pharmacist for 40 years. He is a historian who has studied and written about medicine for a number of publications, including those that specialize in collecting antique bottles. He has consulted with many collectors and is known for his vast knowledge of patent and proprietary medicine histories.

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2008 Katie Foglesong was a charter member and sparkplug of the Iowa Antique Bottleers. She also was an early secretary of the Federation of Historical Bottle Clubs (later Collectors) and privately published an entertaining little book, Trials and Trails of a Bottle Collector.

Steve Ketcham began collecting antique bottles, advertising and stoneware in 1967 while still in high school. While attending the University of Minnesota, he began digging for bottles along the Mississippi River banks near the campus. He became charter member No. 11 of the North Star Historical Bottle Association in 1970 and a couple of years later joined Minnesota’s First Antique Bottle Club. He began attending regional meetings of the FOHBC in 1973, later serving as assistant chairman and then chairman of the Midwest Region. He established the Federation’s writers’ contest and served as chairman for several years. He was Federation president from 1982-84 and served on the board from 1982-98. A prolific writer, Steve contributes articles to Bottles & Extras and Antique Bottle & Glass Collector.

2010 The contributions to the bottle collecting hobby by Scott Grandstaff and Kitty Roach commenced in 1988 when the magazine Bottles and Extras took form on the kitchen table of their home in Happy Camp, California. With the help and support of FOHBC Hall of Famer Dr. Cecil Munsey, of Poway, California, they published their first edition in 1989.

In 1995, when the publication had grown too big for both of them, they decided to turn over the magazine and subscribers list to the FOHBC at no charge. Bottles and Extras today has become the Federation’s most tangible asset.

Native Californian Jeff Wichmann has been a collector of antique bottles for more than 40 years. In 1990, he established Pacific Glass Auctions, changing the name in 2001 to American Bottle Auctions. His was the first bottle auction house to provide full-color glossy catalogs sent to collectors at no charge. Other innovations that benefitted collectors included launching the first online antique bottle auction. He published www.americanbottle.com, a website loaded with news and features of interest to collectors. His bottle photography is considered by many to be the best in the business. In 1999, he published The Best of the West – Antique Western Bitters Bottles, considered one of the top resources for researchers.

(EDITOR’S NOTE: There are a few nominees about whom little is known. Anyone knowing their backgrounds is encouraged to get in touch with Bill Baab at riverswamper@comcast.net).

FOHBC T-Shirts: Please make sure you visit the FOHBC merchandise table for a wide varity of FOHBC items. A fresh order of t-shirts is also available in a limited supply.

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Tennessee’s Top 25 Rarest Bottles This list was compiled with the help of Ed Provine, Tom Phillips, Terry Williams, Sheldon Baugh, Ronnie Pevahouse, Ronnie Adams, Ralph Van Brocklin and Don Ramsey.

Compiling Top 25 lists is a favorite with sports fans, but there’s no rule against doing the same for a state’s antique bottles. So we got together and the following lists are what we came up with. Not all of them are bottles.

Enjoy.

1. Amber whiskey barrel shaped bottle with smooth base. Embossed STILLMAN & BREEN / MEMPHIS, TENN. 7 3/4” tall.

2. Brown glazed Anna Pottery pig bottle Incised, TENNESSEE WAGONS / (Figure of Wagon) / MANUFACTURED BY / CHERRY MORROW & CO / NASHVILLE TENNESSEE / 1884 // COMPLIMENTS OF W. J. BASS AGENT / WITH A LITTLE PURE OLD PEACH IN ASS 3. Amber bitters bottle with sloped shoulders and smooth base. Embossed GENL / FRANK CHEATHAM’S / BITTERS // // NASHVILLE, TENN. Bottle is 10” high.

4. Square amber bitters bottle. Embossed M. C. COTTON / NASHVILLE TENN // // (Figure of Star) BITTERS. Smooth based bottle is 8 7/8” tall.

5. Open pontiled and green barrel bitters bottle. Embossed HIGHLAND BITTERS / AND / SCOTCH TONIC. Bottle is from S. Mansfield of Memphis and is 9 5/8” high.

6. Square amber bottle with shingled roof was probably a bitters. Embossed WIGGS BROS. & CO. // // MEMPHIS, TENN. Smooth based bottle has no logs on sides and is 10” tall.

7. Iron pontil square bitters bottle is embossed DR. WRIGHT’S TONIC BITTERS // AND // INVIGORATING CORDIAL. Dr. Wright of North Mississippi worked in Hughes Drug store in Memphis in the 1850’s.

The yellow bottle is 10 3/8” X 2 7/8” square.

8. Shoulder embossed three piece mold whiskey is black glass and embossed D. C. WILDER & CO. / DRUGGISTS // MEMPHIS. Bottle is 11 1/4” high.

9. An amber rectangular iron pontiled medicine bottle is embossed JOHN ANDERSON // THE INDIAN DOCTOR / BLOOD PURIFER // NASHVILLE TENN. 10. Embossed INDIAN / HOUSES TONIC / (Embossed Indian) / PREPARED BY / GEO. W. HOUSE. This 5 3/4” tall aqua pontiled medicine is like the more common Clemens Indian Tonic.

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11. This large deep aqua iron pontiled medicine bottle is embossed DR L. C. GLOVER & BRO. / LIVER MEDICINE // MEMPHIS TENN. It is 8 1/2” in height.

12. HOUCKS // VEGETABLE / PANACEA // GOODLETSVILLE / TENN is a light blue pontiled medicine bottle that is 7 1/8” tall.

13. This pontiled medicine has an unusal color, clear with a gray tint. Embossed McGOWN’S // GOLDEN / PECTORAL // PREPARED BY // H. S. HUGHES / MEMPHIS. 14. A large aqua pontiled rectangular medicine embossed DR SLEDGE’S // NERVOUS TONIC / FOR ALL FEVERS // MEMPHIS TENN. It is iron pontiled and 7 3/4” high.

15. A square bitters shaped mineral water in golden amber color embossed TATE EPSOM SPRING WATER / TATE SPRING TENN. Bottle is 9 1/2” X 3” X 3”.

16. This early wedge top pontiled soda bottle is usually deep aqua, but is known in teal. Embossed BUFFUM’S / MINERAL WATER / NASHVILLE. It is 7 3/4” tall.

17. Embossed KENZLERWAIBEL / & CO / MEMPHIS / TENN. This soda bottle is a bright green with a tapering wedge top. It is 7 3/4” high and has a smooth base.

18. Cobalt blue smooth base blob top soda is embossed OLSEN & CO / MEMPHIS / TENN. Height is 7 1/2”.

19. Lip is almost square on this aqua pontiled soda bottle. Embossed METCALFS / MINERAL WATER / MEMPHIS. Lettering of “METCALFS” in an arch is much rarer than “METCALFES”.

20. Amber Hutchinson soda bottle is 7 1/8” high. Embossed CHATTANOOGA / ICE & BEER Co / CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. // THIS BOTTLE / IS NEVER SOLD. 21. CHEATHAM / WOODS & CO. // NASHVILLE. TENN. // W. McCULLY & CO. PITTSBURGH (On Base). This amber shoulder embossed whiskey cylinder is Civil War age and is 11 1/4” high X 2 7/8” diameter.

22. Another Civil War age amber whiskey cylinder that is embossed GRAHAM, DEBOW & C / No. 38 FRONT ROW // MEMPHIS, TENN. It is shoulder embossed and is 11” high X 3” diameter.

23. An aqua eagle flask that comes half pint, pint and quart. Embossed D. KIRKPATRICK & Co / (figure of eagle) / CHATTANOOGA / TENN. McKearin / Wilson number GII-134 and 134a.

24. A light amber pint size ale bottle. Embossed P. TOWHIG / MEMPHIS / TENN. It is smooth base and 6 5/8” high. Twohig’s name is spelled incorrectly.

25. Amber quart ale bottle is embossed F.P. WORMLEY & CO. / MEMPHIS. 9” high with a smooth base.

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By Charles David Head

The history of Koca Nola in the Volunteer State can be traced to the early days of the company’s founding in Atlanta, Georgia in the spring of 1904. It was at that point that entrepreneur Thomas H. Austin, who had previously enjoyed success in the coal, timber and druggist trade, decided to get into the soft drink business.

The much-heralded success of the Coca-Cola Company had caught Austin’s eyes and he decided he wanted a piece of the pie. Using some of his extensive capital, he concocted a copy-cat cola drink that he named Koca Nola. The company’s headquarters were located at 1417 Empire Building, while the syrup manufacturing and bottling plant was situated at 108 Edgewood Avenue.

First promoted as a medicine in the March 15, 1904 issue of the Atlanta Constitution, Koca Nola became an overnight success. By July of that year, the company was incorporated with capital stock set at $50,000. Subscribers included Austin, G.W. Woodfin and J.T. Walker. Austin was named president, Woodfin general manager and C.L. Pettigrew secretary-treasurer.

Austin and his clerks began mailing circulars soliciting bottlers to become franchise holders. Touting Koca Nola as “Dopeless,” a tonic and as a temperance beverage really helped push the drink. But its best selling point was Austin’s promise to bottlers: “Take a trial shipment and if it does not prove a trade winner, a business increaser and entirely satisfactory in every respect, ship it back at our expense.”

The money-back guarantee worked as did providing free labels to bottlers as well as advertising, promotional give-aways and soft drink samples. Sales also increased after the company promoted the new drink nationally and in the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair brochure.

By January 1906, the Koca Nola Company was boasting that the drink was being bottled in 40 states and territories and being shipped into several foreign countries (notably Mexico and Cuba). My research has confirmed franchised bottlers in 21 states and the District of Columbia.

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Austin’s incursion into the Volunteer State and records confirm that there are eight Koca Nola franchises of the 67 known overall. By April 1905, the Rutledge Grocery Company located on the courthouse square in Gallatin had become a franchised bottler.

The company advertised Koca Nola as “The Great Tonic Drink, combines with the exhilarating and refreshing features of the Coca leaf and the Kola nut tonic properties of great value.

A nerve tonic and contains absolutely no cocain (sic).” It was sold in amber crown top bottles.

In addition to the new beverage, the Rutledge Grocery Company marketed Pepsol, Peach Mellow, Cincinnatus, Ginger Ale, Lemon Sour, Cream Soda, Strawberry, Champagne Cider and other popular drinks.

By the fall of 1905, Austin had convinced Paul J. DeBlieux, proprietor of the Oliver Springs Bottling Works, to carry Koca Nola. The drink became popular with thirsty miners in the coal mines at Windrock and Oliver Springs.

That bottling company also sold IronBrew, Keg Cider, Strawberry and other fruit-flavored soda waters. The company may have bottled Koca Nola in bottles from its own stock since no Koca Nolas embossed Oliver Springs are known at this time.

Next to nothing is known about the B & McK Bottling Works in LaFollette that was marketing Koca Nola in clear crown top bottles about 1905-06. Austin seems to have found success in getting small town bottlers of other drinks to add his drink, especially in areas where Coca-Cola franchises did not exist.

In April 1907, Clay Cunningham joined Lowery McCulley, Dr. Loyd Prater and Will Lawrence in purchasing the Wildwood Bottling Works in Maryville from founder Dr. John McConnell. They renamed it Maryville Bottling Works and began bottling Koca Nola, Cascade Ginger Ale and Orcherade, among other beverages, in stock Hutchinson and crown top bottles. No embossed bottles have been found, so the company probably used colorful Koca Nola labels.

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While the one-roomed wood-framed building had just enough room to house a carbonator, crown cork machine, a bottling machine and a booth for washing the bottles, the company proved quite successful to the delight of Austin.

Instead of disparaging the line of soft drinks marketed by small bottlers, Austin encouraged them to market his drink along with the house brands. Such was the case in 1908 when he successfully petitioned Paul E. Devine, president of the Johnson City Bottling Works, to market his Koca Nola alongside of the bottler’s Hire’s Root Beer. Such a joint ad was found in the 1908-09 city directory, noting they were “Two of The Best Drinks On Earth.”

No Johnson City embossed Koca Nola bottles have been found, so again Koca Nola labels may have been attached to stock bottles.

Austin pulled a major coup in March 1906 when he persuaded the newly opened Keen Bottling Company in South Pittsburg to carry his soft drink. The father-son duo of A.Y. and James Keen soon established bottling works at New River, Oneida and Oakdale, marketing Koca Nola from one end of the state to the other. The drink was sold in amber and clear crown tops with both New River and South Pittsburg embossed in a slug plate.

The Oneida bottles were clear crown tops.

The Keens operated for 25 years and bottled Koca Nola, Cascade Ginger Ale, Root Beer, Rye-Ola, Gay-Ola, Orange Whistle, Reif’s Special and Nehi, among others.

The period from the spring of 1906 to the summer of 1909 proved to be banner years for the Koca Nola Company. But storm clouds were beginning to appear on the horizon in the form of the Pure Food and Drug Act passed by Congress in 1906.

In August 1908, the Texas Dairy and Food Commission sent a representative to the Union Bottling Works in Tyler, Texas and took a sample of Koca Nola for testing. The lab results came back positive for cocaine. The bottling works stopped marketing Koca Nola.

That test led to an intensive investigation into the Koca Nola Company by Dr. Lyman F. Kebler, chief of the Division of Drugs, Bureau of Chemistry, working directly under the supervision of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, head of the Bureau of Chemistry of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. They were assigned the formidable task of enforcing the Pure Food and Drug Act. On Oct. 5, 1908, a one-gallon jug of Koca Nola syrup en route to Finlay, Dicks & Co., in New Orleans was seized by federal agents. On Nov. 16, 1908, federal agents grabbed another one-gallon jug of Koca Nola syrup destined to J.F. Earnshaw in the Anacostia section of the District of Columbia. Subsequent analyses of both jugs’ contents tested positive for 200ths of a grain of cocaine for each eight-ounce serving of Koca Nola.

So, Koca Nola was not as “dopeless” as the company’s advertising would have one to believe.

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The Koca Nola Company was taken to trial on Oct. 21, 1909 and was found guilty on four of seven counts for misbranding and adulteration. It was not the $25 fine (a total of $100) that crippled the company, but the tide of negative publicity following the trial.

Consumers stopped buying the drink en masse and one by one, bottlers stopped carrying the drink. The company faded from the soft drink marketplace and had disappeared by 1918.

But bottles, signs, labels, calendars, trade cards, post cards, toys, watch fobs, thermometers and other relics are still in existence as silent testimony to what once was a giant in the soft drink industry.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Charles David Head was born and raised in South Pittsburg, Tenn., some 25 miles west of Chattanooga. A collector of antique bottles since 1975, he dug his first Koca Nola bottle in 1982 at South Pittsburg. Since then, he has authored more than 20 magazine and newspaper articles about the drink. After a decade of research, he published a 176-page book in 2013. It’s “A Head’s Up on Koca Nola.” The author can be contacted at KocaNolaBook@yahoo.com.

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