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Vol. 23 No. 2

The Big Dig of 2011

March - April • 2012

Collector Jonah Mertz

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Table of Contents FOHBC Officer Listing 2010-2012 Soda Bottling in the Black Range Legends of the Jar

By Bill Lockhart and Zang Wood... 20 By Bruce W. Schank...................44 2 President’s Message....................... 3 The Big Dig of 2011 Thar’s Still Gold in Them Thar Hills

By Bill Baab.................................... 25 By Ken Morrill ......................56 Recent Finds................................... 4 The Hunt and the Heady Rush of a Find 2012-14 FOHBC Elections..........60 Turns on 18-Year-Old At Auction...................................... 5 By Bill Baab.................................... 30 Shards of Wisdom.......................... 6 Jackson, Miss., Bottle & Advertising Show The Coca-Cola X Bottle

By Gene Bradberry......................... 31

By Doug McCoy © 2011.......... 7 Insulator Collecting Metropolitan Detroit Antique Bottle Club By Bill Haley........................................34

By Ralph Finch...................... 10 Outstanding Glass Collection at Getty Villa near Los Angeles Digging In The New Year

By Dave Maryo............................... 38

By Jeff Mihalik....................... 16

Classified Ads & Ad Rate Info......62 FOHBC Show-Biz Show Calendar Listings.........65 Membership Directory..................71 Membership Application....................72

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Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors

Business & News

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

FOHBC Officers 2010-2012

President: Gene Bradberry, PO Box 341062,

Memphis, TN 38184; phone: (901) 372-8428;

e-mail: Genebsa@comcast.net First Vice-President: Bob Ferraro, 515 Northridge Dr,

Boulder City, NV 89005; phone: (702) 293-3114;

e-mail: mayorferraro@aol.com.

Second Vice-President: Ferdinand Meyer V, 101 Crawford,

Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; phone: (713) 222-7979;

e-mail: fmeyer@fmgdesign.com.

Secretary: James Berry, 200 Fort Plain Watershed Rd, St. johnsonville, NY 13452; phone: (518) 568-5683; e-mail: jhberry10@yahoo.com Treasurer: Gary Beatty, 3068 Jolivette Rd.,

North Port, FL 34288; phone: (941) 276-1546;

e-mail: tropicalbreezes@verizon.net Historian: Richard Watson, 10 S Wendover Rd,

Medford, NJ 08055; phone: (856) 983-1364;

e-mail: crwatsonnj@verizon.net Editor: Martin Van Zant, 208 Urban St,

Danville, IN 46122; phone: (812) 841-9495;

e-mail: mdvanzant@yahoo.com.

Merchandising Director: office vacant Membership Director: Jim Bender, PO Box 162,

Sprakers, NY 12166; phone: (518)-673-8833;

e-mail: jim1@frontiernet.net Conventions Director: Tom Phillips, 6645 Green Shadows

Ln., Memphis, TN 38119; phone: (901)-277-4225; e-mail: tomlisa.phillips@gmail.com

Business Manager: Alan DeMaison, 1605 Clipper Cove,

Painesville, OH 44077; phone: (H) (440) 358-1223,

(C) (440) 796-7539; e-mail: a.demaison@sbcglobal.net Director-at-Large: Carl Sturm, 88 Sweetbriar Branch,

Longwood, FL 32750; phone: (407) 332-7689;

e-mail: glassmancarl@sprintmail.com Director-at-Large: Sheldon Baugh, 252 W Valley Dr,

Russellville, KY 42276; phone: (270) 726-2712;

e-mail: shel6943@bellsouth.net Director-at-Large: John Pastor, PO Box 227,

New Hudson, MI 48165; phone: (248) 486-0530;

e-mail: jpastor@americanglassgallery.com Midwest Region Director: Randee Kaiser, 2400 CR 4030,

Holts Summit, MO 65043; phone: (573) 896-9052;

e-mail: pollypop47@yahoo.com Northeast Region Director: Ed Kuskie, 352 Pineview Dr,

Elizabeth, PA 15037; phone: (412) 405-9061;

e-mail: bottlewizard@comcast.net.

Southern Region Director: Jack Hewitt, 1765 Potomac Ct,

Lawrenceville, GA 30043; phone: (770) 856-6062,

e-mail: hewittja@bellsouth.net.

Western Region Director: Dave Maryo,

12634 Westway Ln, Victorville, CA 92392;

phone: (760) 617-5788; e-mail: dmaryo@verizon.net Public Relations Director: Pam Selenak, 156 S. Pepper St., Orange, CA 92868; phone: (714) 633-5775; e-mail: pselenak@yahoo.com

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Fohbc President’s Message Gene Bradberry

(901) 372-8428 Genebsa@comcast.net

PO Box 341062 Memphis, TN 38184

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ell, we are into a new year like gang busters with many shows doing well and growing all the time.

I just returned from the Jackson, Miss., show held Jan. 21. It was a really great show. I have written a show report elsewhere in this issue. There were lots of choices of what to buy and if you couldn’t find something to add to your collection, you were asleep at the wheel.

I would like to address the upcoming Federation election for just a moment and make a correction in the ballot that was published in the January-February issue. Martin Van Zant was listed as running for the office of editor and that should have not been in there. The editor serves at the behest of the president and is appointed with approval of the board of directors. He does not run for office. He has a vote on the board only as allowed by each individual board for that term of office.

Expo 2012 in Reno, Nev., is selling out quickly and looks as if it will be a resounding success. Get your reservations in quickly so as not to miss out on this great event. See the ad in this issue, or go to the website of fohbc.org for more information and a contract.

I would like to encourage all collectors to support their local bottle clubs and their shows whenever possible. Having been a show chairman for many years, I know how much work goes into putting on a good show. The clubs and show chairmen deserve your report.

I will close this with a thought for you from Benjamin Franklin: “DO NOT squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”And speaking of time, he further says: “Since thou art sure of a minute, throw away not an hour.”

Where there’s a will there’s a way to leave Donations to the FOHBC Did you know the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors is a 501C(3) charitable organization? How does that affect you? It allows tax deductions for any and all donations to the FOHBC. You might also consider a bequest in your will to the FOHBC. This could be a certain amount of money or part or all of your bottle collection. The appraised value of your collection would be able to be deducted from your taxes.

(This is not legal advice, please consult an attorney) I give and bequeath to the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, 401 Johnston Ct, Raymore, MO 64083, the sum of $____________ to be used as its Board of Directors determines.

The same type wording could be used for bequeathing your collection or part of it, however, before donating your collection (or part of it), you would need the collection appraised by a professional appraiser with knowledge of bottles and their market values. This is the amount that would be tax deductible.

Thank you for considering us in your donation plans.

Gene Bradberry, President Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors

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Recent Finds PITTSBURGH, Pa. – An amber W.H.H. Porter and another with olive overtones were dug from a 35-foot-deep, brick-lined privy late in December, 2011, according to Jeff Mihalik The bottles are the only ones known. In more than 20 years of digging in this city, not even a shard of these bottles has been found, he said.

Perhaps five or six smoothbased cobalt W.H.H. (William H. Hutchinson) Pittsburgh bottles are known. Also known are W.H.H. Chicago cobalt bottles.

More than 100 other bottles were found during the dig, Mihalik said. (see page 16)

Hello bottle collectors, I’m trying to identify the item in the attached image, I don’t know if it’s really considered a bottle or not but I don’t know what else to call it. Can tell me what it was for?

Thanks for taking a look. Rob

rhvp65@gmail.com

Ever say to yourself, “I think my collection or bottle story is special and I sure would like to share it with other collectors?”

Well, here’s your chance. The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors is looking for people just like yourself. “But I’m not a writer,” you say. Writing is easy, just like writing a letter to a good friend or family member. Don’t worry about spelling, grammar, punctuation. Federation editors will take care of those. Just be sure to get your facts right.

Writers are needed now to share current news in our Shards of Wisdom, Recent Finds and other categories in future issues of Bottles and Extras magazine..

Interested? Questions? Contact me at mdvanzant@yahoo.com Thank you.

Martin D Van Zant, Editor

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SOLD at auction SOLD

DRAPERY INK. 3 7/8” high and 2 ¾” diameter. Applied double rolled collar with pontil. Covill Figure 28.

Here is another incredible and early drapery cone ink, made probably between 1840-50. An example of this ink is on display at the Alamo. It is thought that this may have come from the White collection, as an almost identical example sold, however this does have a Heckler mark along with a couple other sticker pointing out the Covill number. This is the same form as shown in Covill, however it is quite a bit taller. As Charles Moore pointed out, it is an unlisted size.

Once in a while the very special comes along and this certainly qualifies. There is a small area, which we will examine extremely closely on the video. However the inkwell all in all appeared to be perfect with possibly a tiny open bubble. Beautiful cobalt, crude, whittled a true treasure. $4600.00

WONSER’S USA INDIAN ROOT BITTERS. Applied top and smooth base. 11” It’s been a while since we’ve had one of these popular western bitters and this is a good one.

There is a lot of character to the glass with some neat bubbles and overall unevenness and other characteristics you’d expect on a bottle this old. We believe these were made from 1871-73, although with the number of examples out there, it was either a very, very popular brand for a few years, or it sold for longer than is reported. At any rate, this is another just About Mint example with just a few scratches but nothing more than what would be created during regular use. Most people would just simply call it Mint. Never cleaned, if you are looking for a Wonser’s in amber you cannot go wrong with this beautiful example. Great strike, nice overall crudity and in about perfect condition.

C. BRINCKERHOFFS HEALTH RESTORATIVE PRICE $1.00 NEW YORK. Applied top graphite pontil. Lightly cleaned by Lou Lambert.

These New York medicines are highly desired for their great crudity and overall appeal. Tons of bubbles and character along with a brilliant green coloration and condition make this one a keeper.

For some reason we originally called this a pontiled version, then a smooth base and now pontiled. The truth is that it’s a graphite pontil and the base is very hard to discern. Experienced bottle collectors most likely know what we mean. An overall top specimen of a very desirable New York medicine. Really no signs of it ever being professionally cleaned. $1400.00

OLD CABIN/BITTERS PATENTED 1863 on roof sides. O-19 with applied top and smooth base. Here’s a bottle that was meant to look and compete with the Kelly’s Company, as they are almost identical. The difference may be that these are quite a bit rarer and you have to wonder if there was some type of lawsuit or legal action over the use of the name and shape. We will say that we see about ten Kelly’s for every one of these examples, Kelly’s being considered a scarce bottle while this is considered rare. If you collect bitters, despite the similarity in design, picking up this example may be kind of important. A truly Mint bottle, the winner of this immaculate piece will certainly be glad they bid.

DR LAMOT’S BOTANIC BITTERS. Applied top, L-9. 8 ½” Here’s a scarce little bitters with the inset panels and crudely applied lip. This is another Mint example, one of many in this sale. This is quite a rare bottle, as we see only three or four that have sold at auction in the last fifteen years. Another nice and hard to find bitters.$210 Thanks for the auction info: American Bottle Auctions, Jeff Wichmann 2523 J Street Suite 203, Sacramento, CA 95816 800-806-7722 Email: info@americanbottle.com

DR LOVEGOODS FAMILY BITTERS. Applied top and smooth base, L-124. Semi-cabin. Here is a fairly rare bottle and possibly the first example we’ve sold (so many bottles). A fine example it is, like most of the bitters bottles in this sale, it is a Mint 9 condition. A rather large bottle, this would certainly hold enough for the entire family. It is medium amber and has lots of various inset label areas and windows. Just a couple scratches but overall this one is about perfect.

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“There are a lot of gun aficionados here and the bottles are a collector’s item,” he said. The ones at his store in Harlingen, Texas sell for $48.99 to $59.99 (Editor’s Note: The preceding is an excerpt from a story written by Emma Perez-Trevino in the Valley Morning Star in Harlingen, Texas)

Slave potter’s jar found on Savannah River Site (EDITOR’S NOTE: The following are excerpts from a story written by Rob Pavey, a writer on the staff of The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle. It was published in the newspaper on Jan. 11) AIKEN, S.C. – Savannah River Site historian George Wingard’s fascination with the slave potter called “Dave” began with a phone call in 2006 and led to an upcoming film honoring one of the South’s most mysterious artisans.

“We had people looking around in an area where some monitoring wells were planned,” said Wingard, administrative manager for the Savannah River Archaeological Research Program, whose workers are required to evaluate areas to be disturbed by construction.

A part of the routine has random test holes dug to determine if any important artifacts might lie beneath the soil. In this case, the technician discovered the proverbial needle in a haystack – a large, greenish-glazed shard of stoneware pottery.

“When he pulled it out, it had “Dave” inscribed on it,” Wingard said. “He called me right away, on his cell phone.”

Both knew it was an important find.

Dave was a slave who worked among the dozens of potteries that operated during the 19th century throughout South Carolina’s “Edgefield District” near Augusta. The region’s alkaline-glazed pottery is widely sought by collectors, but works of the mysterious potter known as Dave are

the most prized examples of all. Further excavation at the remote hillside within the Savannah River Site yielded more pieces of Dave’s handiwork.

“We were digging in what turned out to be a mid-20th century trash pile,” Wingard said. “We found about 95 percent of the jar.” The jar was carefully reassembled and also carried the date of manufacture – April 16, 1862. Soon, it became a popular item in the research program’s outreach activities, which include educational programs to acquaint others with the region’s cultural past.

Wingard’s interest expanded. He soon teamed with Augusta filmmaker Mark Albertin of Scrapbook Video Productions and the two began work on a documentary.

Their movie, “Discovering Dave – Spirit Captured in Clay,” is expected to be completed and released later this year for selected local showings and educational television.

Weapon-Shaped Tequila Bottles Popular with Many Collectors. Taking shots of tequila has taken on new meaning.

Elaborate glass bottles in red, white and blue – shaped like pistols, AK-47s, rifles, machetes and bullets – have been surfacing in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley in the past year or so.

The bottles have been around for years in Mexico where they are made.

David Hernandez, founder of Holiday Wine and Liqour Stores in the

Pottery Repair While attending Norm Heckler’s Fall Bottle Fest I visited an antique shop in Putnam Conn. where I found a 3 gal.

A.K. Ballard Bennington Vt. Jug with beautiful cobalt grapes. It was busted in a dozen pieces. I purchased it for $12.00 and sent it to a pottery repairer in N.Y..

He masterfully repaired the jug to its beautiful original condition. I want to pass this info on to my fellow Federation members. I highly recommend Jim. He is reasonable with his price also. Here is Jim’s contact information. Jim Healy PO Box 312, Tribes Hill, NY. 12177 (West of Albany) Ph. 518/829/7032 Best Regards to All Gary Beatty FOHBC Treasurer

Have something to share? Send in your shards to: Martin Van Zant

mdvanzant@yahoo.com

or 208 urban St. Danville, IN 46122

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The Coca-Cola X Bottle

By Doug McCoy © 2011

In 1942, the Coca-Cola Company conducted an experiment on Coca-Cola bottles. The goal was to prolong the life of individual bottles. A bottle had a normal life expectancy of 35 trips from the bottler to the consumer and back to the bottler. It was also hoped to eliminate scratches, scuffs, chips and cracks as well as keeping the case wear down to a minimum on the Coca-Cola trademark embossed on the bottle.

There were 5,000 cases of bottles made to be tested.

The Emhart Corporation made the machinery to produce the bottles and the Laurens (S.C.) Glass Company used the machinery to make the bottles. Two thousand cases of the 5,000 went through a special process to make the bottles of tempered glass, sometimes referred to as toughened glass.

Tempered glass is a type of safety glass widely used on passenger windows, shower doors, etc. It goes through a controlled thermal process which increases the strength, It also causes the glass, when broken, to crumble into small granular chunks instead of jagged shards.

There are drawbacks to this type of glass. Tempered glass is not as hard as annealed glass (such as a normal soft drink bottle) and is more susceptible to scratching. Even after the tempering process, a scratch can cause a bottle to fracture.

Bottles that were given the tempered process could be distinguished from the non-treated bottles by posing them in front of a polarized light. This would reveal the high stress marks in the bottle. The bottles show an “X” embossed on the neck above the liquid level. The hope was to create a Coca-Cola bottle that would be safe as well as durable. The bottle could be dropped onto a concrete floor and the bottle remained intact. But, if the neck was pinched, the bottle would shatter into pieces.

The bottle proved ineffective and the Coca-Cola Company dropped the tempered experiment with packaging.

The bottle is marked BALTIMORE, MD. on the base.

That was the location of the bottling plant where the tests were conducted. The skirt area has 4 L 42, the maker’s mark and date code. The bottle mold as No. 4, the “L” is Laurens Glass Company and the 42 is the year the bottles were made.

Few, if any, ever made it into the public realm. But if any did, the writer would love to add one to his collection.

The distinctive “X” embossed on necks of experimental Coca-Cola bottles.

Here’s the Laurens (S.C.) Glass Works “signature” “L” and the year (1942) the “X” bottle was made.

All of the “X” bottles’ bases were embossed BALTIMORE, MD. (Photos by Doug McCoy)

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27th Annual

ANTIQUE BOTTLE & ADVERTISING SHOW Memphis, Tennessee Agricenter International 7777 Walnut Grove Road Memphis, Tennessee 38120

Saturday, September 29, 2012 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Collectors from 25 States Early Admission Available

Quality Displays of Antique Bottles & Advertising Admission $5.00

Show Chairman

Gene Bradberry, P.O. Box 341062, Memphis, TN 38184 (901)372-8428

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Metropolitan Detroit Antique Bottle Club Raised the Bar for Clubs Nationwide One of a series

By Ralph Finch

(EDITOR’S NOTE: Michael Brodzik, the newsletter editor for the strugglingto-get-back-on-its-feet Detroit bottle club, recently raised questions regarding the club’s early days. Ralph Finch, who was there almost from Day One, replied with . . .

Dear Michael: While I am no longer active in the Detroit club due to issues of mismanagement by certain club members 20-21 years ago, I appreciated reading your excellent January newsletter, and your review of the first few years of meetings and the images of early newsletters brought back great memories.

Here’s how all those life-changing events happened to me: In 1970, I was chatted up by a few people at an antique show held in an eastside shopping mall – the wonderful Inez and George Ward, and their daughter, Linda. When I picked up a fruit jar. I was asked of my (then fledgling) interest in glass, and was told that a small group of collectors met in homes each month around the metropolitan area. I was invited to attend.

That was a period of great growth, visiting different people and seeing their diverse collections of . . . stuff. Hey, back then,, few of us really knew much about what was out there, or what things were worth.

Finally, in March of 1971, I volunteered my flat (and its several hundred aqua Mason’s Patent 1858 jars, all almost identical) as a place to hold a meeting at which we would vote to organize a real club. (Amazingly, the March 2011 meeting marked the club’s 40th anniversary. That makes me feel . . . older.)

Despite the city still recovering from the ‘67 riots, and the fact that my apartment

(Two men with shovels) In 1973, Nat Champlin (left) and Rod Wing dig at the site of what was to become the 20-story Blue Cross / Blue Shield building. Nat is now 92, Rod 86. Photo was taken by club member Jerry Hostetler, then a Detroit News photographer. was near Detroit’s Fisher Building and not far from where the riots began, the turnout of suburban white people was pleasing. And surprising.

Bininger collector Joe Gourd, now of Illinois and still a major bitters trade card collector, was elected our first president. (Joe was also one of Michigan’s early bottle diggers). I was also elected the club’s first secretary, even though I later admitted that “I took notes that even I couldn’t read.”

For the occasion, and since I was a budding journalist at The Detroit News, I produced the club’s first unofficial, 18-page newsletter, using mostly clippings I’d found in other papers. (The first article I wrote for The News, published May 3, 1972, was a full-page story on bottle collecting, and that resulted in the addition to the club of Nat and Mildred Champlin and – the hard way – Barb and Jerry Hostetler. I’ll get back to Jerry in a minute.)

The current Detroit club newsletter editor and computer whiz Michael Brodzik later commented on that debut newsletter: “The first copy of the newsletter is quite an eclectic tome. I like the first page since it is made up of

Bottles and Extras cut-out words from other publications and reminds me of a ransom letter.”

I remind Mike that in those days, long before we ever heard the word “computer,” when I printed the newsletter with an old spirit duplicator, we would set the clunky machine on a table next to a vent on the furnace. We’d then push the thermostat up, and as the heat poured out, we’d crank the pages directly into the air flow to help them dry and not stick togther. Doing this in the winter was fine; not so fine in the summer.

In 1973, the club allotted money for a new (but still used) duplicator and a new (but still used) typewriter – remember typewriters? The club and the newsletter, which cost 8 cents to mail, continued to grow.

We were *Lower Michigan’s first bottle club and, later, other clubs were formed, in part by Detroit members who had to drive too many miles to make a meeting. By 1975, the Chief Pontiac club, the Huron Valley club, plus one in Flint and one up north in Petoskey, were up and running, and soon after, another spin-off in Essex County,

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Jerry and Barb Hostetler, all dressed up in observance of the nation’s Bicentennial, admire the FOHBC award for best newsletter. They played a big part on the club’s newsletter committee.

Representing the Detroit Club at the Jan. 11, 1976 Richmond, Indiana show were members (from left) Richard Davis, John Wolf and Barb Hostetler debating one purchase, while the late Dan Bell admires a bottle held by George Loik as Ralph (thumbs down) Finch offers his opinion.

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outside Windsor, Ontario, Canada, across the Detroit River. markets. (*A tiny club was formed at about the same time as ours in Earlier, I mentioned Jerry Hostetler. His introduction Iron River, in the Upper Peninsula.) to bottles is the basis for a great story, told around the At first, we met in what became a long series of rooms in collecting campfires for years. My first bottle story for The bank buildings, community meeting rooms, neighborhood News required a photo so the newspaper sent a photographer recreation centers – any place we could find cheap. And (Jerry) over to the home of Warren and Alice Stephens. there were so many great and interesting people back then to Bottles were set up in the window and while they were being pack those rooms. The whole Champlin family, Bob a n d rearranged, one fell from the top shelf, cleared off the Phylliss Wood, Loy and Betty Barker, Rod “No ball bottom shelf and all toppled onto the bottles sitting is worth a fall” Wing, Dick Davis, Dave and Ruthie on a desk below. The crash, I was told later, was Stagner, Inez and George Ward, Richard Davis, Alice heart-stopping (a loaf-of-bread demijohn one of and Warren Stephens, Lyn Meo, Darryl and Cathy the casualties).

Mazur, Jim Haehnle (who collected Haehnle Beer)), The News was billed, Jerry kept his job and Jim and Mary Iley, Vick and Vada Steele, Craig and became interested in whole bottles, and he and Sharon Bunch, the always faithful Dan Bell, Duane Barb were soon key members of our club.

Braidwood and so many, many more. The late Ron The Hostetlers are still around (in Arizona) and Binek, he of the 10,000 printed bottle tee shirts, I won’t even attempt to list the collectors who have came along in the 1980s and the incredible *Carol gone on to that great digging dump in the sky, but we Richardson who, 25 years after she dropped out have fond memories of them all and the mark they of bottles, is still spoken of with awe around the left on the hobby. Smiling Jim Hey died in 1975; Midwest. My apologies to the many others who he had named himself the “Chipped Lip King,” deserved to be recognized here..(*Everyone which told you a lot about his bottles! In 1976, loved Carol, including the legendary George the club even created a “Chipped Lip King”: McConnell, of New Jersey, who gave Carol plaque which was given yearly to the person flasks and jars for our monthly raffles.) who best represented Jim’s enthusiastic In 1973, Pat and Bob Kursawa brought spirit, unselfish dedication, congeniality young son, Mike, to meetings. That lasted and friendliness. The Hostetlers took it the a few years until Mike discovered girls. first year and remained club spark plugs And even before that, there was Rich for years. Jerry also was an early digger.

Roosen: “My first memory of the bottle Starting around 1971, the Champlins club is reading your answer to a question dug from Michigan to Massachusetts that someone wrote to the ‘Contact (and into the bay off Cape Cod) and the 10’ column of The Detroit News,” aforementioned Inez and George Ward Rich recently explained. “That was in almost 50 years ago were camped on November 1969 when I was 13 years old. federal property where they could not dig.

I asked my mother to drive me to the club So they set up their tent over a dump site meetings in the Community Room of a and spent the night digging a hole inside Manufacturer’s National Bank” located their tent! on the east side of town. And Rich lived And whenever I see photos of on the west side (as I did.) Soon, “you Detroit’s 73-story RenCen, I think of all and your wife and your former neighbor the cobalt Teller sodas/mineral waters that and his wife (Joe and Larka Gourd) were were pulled out of there (at night) when kind enough to drive me to meetings until it was just a big hole in the ground, Vic I could get my driver’s license when Steele later amassed the most complete The Tellers Mineral Water / Detroit collection of Tellers known. (Loy Barker I turned 16.”

A few more comments on people was coveted by by many Michigan once said that “Vic could smell glass.”) collectors listed earlier: A drawing of the Champlins’ There was a story in a 1982 newsletter, little boy was for years a part of the Detroit club’s show perhaps apocraphyl, that once after a dig, Vic came home, advertising (he’s now 42), and their beautiful little girl, Maia, shook the dirt out of his trouser cuffs and found a pontiled grew up to become president of the Little Rhody Bottle Club medicine! And ‘82 was the first year for the club’s “Diggers some 20-or-so years ago (she is now 51). Loy and Betty, Hall of Fame” award, which Vic won. now in Florida, still have a major Coke collection. Vick John Brookner, a bottle collector who actually (and Steele and Rod Wing (Rod was famous for coming home legally) worked at the RenCen site, after hours found a mint with truckloads of stuff) can still be found setting up at area cobalt “Teller’s Mineral Water / Detroit.” Brookner had a

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second Teller’s Mineral Water, an aqua open-pontiled example that was missing the whole top. He sent it to Don Spangler, the world’s greatest bottle repairer.

However, George Loik took Don aside and asked for “a little favor.” When the bottle came back, instead of an old tapered top, it had a new crown top! (We had so much fun back then. A 1977 newsletter pictures Rod Wing’s newborn granddaughter, Tiffany, with her milk bottle – an amber Indian Queen with a nipple attached!)

When the now 20-story Blue Cross / Blue Shield building was just an empty lot, on May 27, 1973, Rod Wing, the Champlins and others were there looking for so many great bottles – Cronk and Norris sodas, Kling and Stroh beers, or Fisher Electric Railway insulators.

And Dr. Owens European Life Bitters were coming up in the early ‘70s. Many rare cures and bitters came from the city, too. A building didn’t go up or down without one of our members scouting it out.

Let me add this about the three-day Memorial Day Weekend Blue Cross dig. It was my one and only bottle dig. The clay was so hard that IF you could get a shovel in and pry out a glob of clayu, you could have carved it into a bowl and never have to bother firing it! Others dug eight hours each day. I dug one hour, one day and then retired my shovel.

But the Champins were a different story. They kept hard hats in their car trunk, in different colors. They’d drive up top a construction site, check out the hard hat color du jour, suit up and. . .go to work.

Almost four decades later, Mildred Champlin recalls the hard hat selection..”They were required in the excavations where we had permission to dig. We usually made friends with the superintendents, who gave us permission, and dug above board, so to speak.

On other occasions, we did have Nat walk through the site with the hard hat on and a clipboard, which another digger had suggested, just to scope out the possibilities.

Once he overheard a worker ask another who that was.

The worker said he thought it had to be ‘one of those damn supervisors.’ Other times, we just showed up after the work day,” In 1977, John Brookner reported that “there were 58 soda manufacturers and various partnerships between 1840 and 1900 in Detroit,” and he was trying to dig an example from each one!

And while shovels were going into the ground, divers were (and still are, occasionally) going into the Detroit River, both downtown and all the way up to Port Huron.

Let me return to the Champlins. Almost 40 years after I first met them, this e-mail from Mildred: “I’ll send you the story of our first dig, which is what propelled us to find a place where we could learn about the bottles we got from an old farmhouse, leading me to recall an article about bottle collecting that I had cut out earlier,

Excavated area for Detroit’s 73-story RenCen

The Renaissance Center, at right, was supposed to represent Detroit’s future, and to a degree — for better or worse — it has.

Most definitely for many of us, the RenCen represents a giant glass and steel tombstone, marking the former site (above) of so much of Detroit’s bottle history, including such names as Teller, Cronk, Norris, Owens ...

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Thanks for writing it. And it was nice to meet Ralph Finch at our first (club) meeting. And to hear from him again so many years later.”

And Mildred also sent this note regarding the Blue Cross building dig.

“What I remember the most involves a four-leaf clover Andrea found on our lawn when she came home from school, generously allowing me to make a wish on it. Nat and I were just packing our car on the way to the dig so I closed my eyes and wished for a really good blue Detroit soda. It was a nice sunny day and when we arrived downtown we parked, hauled our digging tools from the car trunk and, Nat leading the way, headed our heavy boots toward the muck. I no sooner took a couple of steps when In saw a beautiful blue soda sitting right on the surface. I just had to lean down to pick it up and turning it around, read on the pristine blue surface, ‘Norris Bottling Works, Detroit, Mich.’ That bottle was the best of the whole dig because of how we got it and Andrea was ecstatic when she learned how magical her four-leaf clover really was.

After almost 40 years, memories sometimes need correcting. Later Mildred added: “I just talked with Andrea and it was a 7-leaf clover! She thought that with so many extra leaves, there’s be that many extra wishes and she could afford to pass them around.”

Mike, in your last newsletter, you pondered the reason behind the change in the club’s name, from Metropolitan Detroit Bottle Club to Metropolitan Detroit Antique Bottle Club. I remember the reason well.

I don’t think we had a real problem with Jim Beam or Avon bottles. After all, our first bottle show held in 1971 at the Dearborn Ice Arena on Ford Road and organized by early show promoter Neil Wood of Indiana, was half new bottles (commemorative whiskeys and such) and half old bottles. Here is the real reason for the change: We were meeting in the community room of the Bank of Commerce in

March - April 2012 Center Line in late 1973. As usual, we had advertised in area papers that we were having a “Bottle Meeting.”

Shortly after the evening began, two men, rather. . .seedy, walked in and sat in the front row. After the minutes of the last meeting were read, president Warren Stephens announced upcoming antique bottle events; the two men looked at each other, quietly got up and left, never having said a word and never to be seen again. Later, we figured they thought the meeting was for Alcoholics Anonymous, so we added Antique to the club name.

I continued for almost two years to produce the newsletter and each month I whined and pestered club members for items to use in it. One day, George Loik countered, “How hard can being the newsletter editor be?” I immediately resigned and handed off the position to George, and he then whined and pestered club members each month for newsletter items.

But George was very enthusiastic about the job – he held it for three years – and we created a newsletter committee. Barb and Jerry Hostetler, now of Arizona, were a big part of it and each month a group worked on the newsletter, stapling, cutting and pasting, hand-coloring the covers, making hold-to-light covers, fold-outs, or mechanical covers with movable parts. By April 1973, we were mailing out more than 100 newsletters a month.

One cover (for July 1976) was a “connect the numbered dots” challenge to reveal an exploding firecracker! We went crazy with the newsletter, and we loved it. We had people join the Detroit club from all across the country, even from Hawaii and Canada, who just enjoyed receiving the newsletter.

About the same time, the Federation of Historical Bottle Clubs (now Collectors) was formed and planned its first Expo in St. Louis in 1976. Our club was well-represented there. At the Expo banquet, in front of 625 people, the announcement for :Best Newsletter” was made, the award going to the Metropolitan Detroit Antique

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We cheered, the audience applauded, and our group sprang into action. We had high hopes of winning and had printed up a few hundred extra copies of that month’s newsletter. We then disrupted the banquet proceedings by fanning out through the huge room, handing out the copies to everyone present!

We rented buses for trips to other bottle shows, we had club digs, club picnics, incredible Christmas parties and each meeting was chockful of activities.

Each month, the meeting was themed.

For March and St. Patrick’s Day, it was green bottles, green lightning balls, green seltzers, a green target ball!

October, for Halloween, it was spooky bottles. Members brought in ghost town bottles, witch balls, skull and crossbones poisons, embossed “blood” bottles, glass with ghost lettering. November was our annual Turkey Bottle night, of course, showing off. . .well, things we wished we didn’t have.

What great meetings we had. In late 1976, we hosted the Federation’s Midwest meeting and the late Bill Dudley flew up with Jim Spencer in Jim’s small plane. Jim was the publisher of one of the hobby’s early bottle magazines, Antique Bottle World. After the meeting, the late Norman Barnett, then Federation coordinator (and president to be), wrote a thank you to the club, saying in part, “I wish every club in the Federation could have heard the newsletter presentation of the MDABC. They certainly are an enthusiastic team and I know they can instill that same enthusiasm in anyone who had the opportunity to listen to them.”

Ar one of those club meetings, cure collector and club member John Wolf (now of Dayton, Ohio) mentioned he is looking forward to writing his book on cures. Hmmmm, John, that was 35 years ago!

Bottle collecting has given me a world of experiences – great glass, great travel, great friends.

Sincerely, Ralph Finch

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Digging In The New Year Or the best dig of the Old Year.

2011 was mostly an uneventful digging year for me and the digging crews I hang with. That’s not to say we did not dig any good bottles but for the amount of digging and the amount of effort put into these digs, the rewards were generally not what we hoped for and not what previous year digs produced. Many bottles were dug but not that many really good to great ones.

When we did uncover a “good one,” it was just that, one good bottle with three to four diggers involved.

For the last 10 plus years, I’ve been digging in western Pennsylvania in the counties west of Pittsburgh and into eastern Ohio. This year I was fortunate to have been asked to be the third or fourth person in some of the weekly Pittsburgh digging that’s been going strong for many a year. Being a member of the Pittsburgh Bottle Club, I’ve become friends with the primary diggers in Pittsburgh, but between living in Ohio for several years (before moving back to Pennsylania recently), digging with my regular partner Rick in other areas, and competing with all the other people who have come and gone as the 3rd and 4th person, I have never dug in the Pittsburgh area.

Fortunately, that all changed a few months ago. I’ve always wanted to dig in “Da Burg.” However, unless you are part of those who know what has and has not been dug; you could easily end up wasting your time digging something that was dug sometime in the past.

I mean, if you read the recent letter

by Luke Yoas in the December issue of Antique Bottle & Glass Collector, he speaks of the extreme nature of the digging that has been going on in Pittsburgh for many years. For example, since I have been digging with the Pittsburgh crew these last few months, we have dug several 30-plus footers in one day, dug a humongous 20-plus

By Jeff Mihalik

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footer, then dug another privy the same day. Most recently, I dug a 40 footer in a day and a half and before splitting up the finds, dug another 14-footer the next day. These diggers have also dug many more privies where I was not involved; one recently reaching over 55 feet!.

Digging two, three, maybe six privies a week is not uncommon. You have to be in shape, focused, and ready to give your all no matter how the dig is going or what you are or are not finding.

It was the last week of 2011 and Tim Tokosh had a privy lined up for digging in the north side of Pittsburgh. This was an area where the privies usually produce many interesting finds. Tim owns a business, sets his own schedule and previously worked on the property next door. Luke and I had taken the week off from work and Jim Ignatz was working the midnight shift (don’t ask me how he was able to dig from 8 till 7 each day) so we first planned to dig Tuesday the 27th of December.

However, it rained heavily that day so we pushed the dig back a day.

On Wednesday, we met at our regular local diner for breakfast and jokes then headed off to the site. The temperature never reached above freezing that first day, but we were all excited, dressed warmly, and were in a decent location where most of the wind was blocked. We knew it was going to be at least a 30-40-footer. All of the other bricklined privies in this area reached that depth or greater. The tenant was very gracious and interested in what we were doing so we felt welcome and in a very relaxed mode.

Fortunately, the digging went fairly easy the first day as this privy was filled in with mostly soil, sand and clay with a lot of bricks, large rocks, or big pieces of wood that can greatly slow down the dig. The first five feet was all mulch as over the years this privy keep sinking while the tenants kept trying to fill in the hole. Then we hit the top of an octopus flusher at 13 feet, including cast iron pipes, traps, etc. Near the base of the flusher was our first true find, a 1940 silver quarter and a broken Tom Tucker soda!

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Soda Bottling in the Black Range Bill Lockhart and Zang Wood with contributions by Ron Fowler, Virginia Bergey, Pat Brown, and Lynn Loomis

[Originally published in Guajalotes, Zopilotes, y Paisanos, the newsletter of the Hillsboro Historical Society, August 2011] While trying to reach an understanding of a mysterious soda bottle, noted New Mexico bottle collector and author Zang Wood delved into the history and workings of the towns of the Black Range in central New Mexico. Wood discovered references to bottlers in old issues of the New Mexico Business Directory and Gazetteer, a few ads in the Black Range newspapers, and an intriguing set of promissory notes and mortgage records.

This research remained in Wood’s files until Virginia Bergey visited New Mexico in 2010 in search of her relative, Theodore L. Reber.

Bergey knew that Reber had been a soda bottler, with plants at several locations within New Mexico Territory during the late 19th century. Her search brought her to Pat Brown’s Trading Post & Mining Museum in Cerrillos.

Brown was intrigued. She sent e-mail messages to collectors and others whom she thought might be interested, including Bill Lockhart, a professor at the Alamogordo campus of New Mexico State University.

Lockhart, a sociologist and historical archaeologist, was just as captivated as Brown. As part of Lockhart’s ongoing investigation into the bottle-related industries of Southern New Mexico, El Paso, Texas, and Juárez, Mexico, Reber’s experience in the Black Hills fit perfectly. The group began sharing information . . .

The Black Range -- The Black Range is located in the southwestern quadrant of New Mexico and extends between the historic towns of Hot Springs (now Truth or Consequences)

of course, and both Kingston and Hillsboro have survived to the present. However, the silver panic of 1893 (also called a depression then, unlike the current term – recession), effectively destroyed the mining industry in the Black Range.

Soda Bottling in the West -- Like the saloons and liquor dealers, soda bottlers followed the mines and the towns. By the time the Black Range was being settled, Hutchinson soda bottles, named after the inventor of their internal stoppers, dominated the industry. Patented on April 8, 1879,

by Charles G. Hutchinson, these stoppers sealed the bottle by being pulled upward against the base of the neck from the inside. A figure-8 wire arrangement held the stopper in place Figure 1 – Map of Black Range towns and protruded through the opening and 21st century highways at the top (Figure 2). To drink, a on its eastern extreme and Silver City at customer had to force the wire down, its western terminus. The major mining breaking the seal and creating a space towns of the region were the ghost between the shoulder of the bottle and towns of Robinson and Chloride to the upper surface of the stopper.The bottle north, Lake Valley to the south, and the could be easily resealed by pulling current (and historic) communities of the wire back up (Paul & Parmalee Kingston and Hillsboro more toward 1973:12-13). the center of the range (Figure 1).

Small-town soda bottling actually Miners arrived at the Black Range required very little equipment and in the mid- to late 1870s and established could be done with a minimum of towns and strikes over the next few initial outlay. Soft drinks consist of years. The example of Lake Valley three major ingredients: syrup, water, pretty much sets the tone for the region.Miners hit the Bridal Chamber strike in 1878, and a town quickly grew around the mine. By 1883, the Bridal Chamber was pretty much worked out.Even though the railroad arrived in 1884, the mines struggled to stay open after that. The last resident left in 1894.

Other towns remained active for a longer period, Figure 2 – Hutchinson stopper

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operated valve. The stopper 1958:83-85). Tables could be found or was then applied, using a hand built anywhere. press that was part of the same Theodore L. Reber -- The story of Theodore L. Reber and his wife, apparatus (Figure 4).

Although this entire Rebecca, will be told elsewhere, but this process seems cumbersome, it remarkable couple wended their way could be very compact. Small across New Mexico, leaving a legacy carbonators were probably of soda bottlers behind them. Indeed, the most bulky item of Reber could be called the Johnny hardware – aside from bottles Appleseed of soda bottling. Although and cases. Syrup could be probably an apocryphal remark, Reber mixed in vats or in stoneware himself claimed to have started more (ceramic) crocks that took up than 50 soda bottling businesses, mostly little space. Each flavor could within the borders of New Mexico be mixed in the same crock (Santa Fe New Mexican 9/16/1898). (hopefully, after cleaning).

Reber was in the business of selling Fillers were made as part of a soda bottling outfits, and his unique table, where bottles could be method was to build a plant, develop Figure 3 – Carbonator with hand crank – Tufts transferred from one side of the business, then sell out and move on.

Iron Generator (Courtesy of Ron Fowler) the actual filler to the other, Once called “the perambulating soda or a filler could be a stand- water manufacturer,” Reber’s bottling and carbonation – and, of course, a container to bottle the finished product. alone apparatus that took up little career began by at least 1879 and The syrup could be created in almost space (Figure 5). For a highly mobile continued into the first few years of the any type of vessel where sugar and operation (like the ones probably used 20th century (Santa Fe New Mexican flavoring could be mixed. The quality in the Black Range), a stand-alone filler 9/16/1898). Fairly early, the couple and flavor of the finished drink depended was a good answer (Fowler 2011; Riley perambulated into the Black Range. on the exact mixture that made up the syrup. Water could be poured into the mixture and stirred with a paddle. The uncarbonated mixture could then be placed on a second floor or as high as possible above the filler to allow gravity to do most of the work.

By 1880, various carbonators were on the market, using sodium bicarbonate to create the “fizz.” Aside from bottles, the carbonator was probably the most expensive single hardware investment that a bottler faced. Because of the expense and remote conditions where small-town Western bottlers were usually located, the carbonator was almost certainly a hand-operated model (Figure 3). These used a wheel with a handle as a crank. As carbon dioxide was created, it was stored in a tank (Riley 1958:75).

The water source and carbonator mixed the syrup with the carbonated water and transferred the final product to a filler via a rubber hose. This filling apparatus deposited a measured amount of final liquid (often measured only by eye) into each bottle, almost always controlled by either a foot- or kneeFigure 4 – Filling table (Courtesy of Ron Fowler)

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from 1879 to 1883. This 18811882 “space” is very likely when the couple operated their first Socorro business.

That also puts the Rebers in a perfect position for their Black Range entry.[1] Although we have not discovered the exact timing, Reber had certainly moved to the Black Range by July 27, 1882, when an article in the Las Vegas Daily Gazette reported the arrival of Mrs. Reber from Robinson. At that point, Robinson was a new town in the northern part of the Black Range, possibly settled a year or so earlier. It was the perfect setting for Reber – a fresh territory with thirsty miners.

A February 12, 1883, ad in the Black Range stated that “Reber & Co. Soda Water Manufactory makes Figure 5 – Small filling apparatus Figure 6 – Theodore L. an Rebecca Reber sarsaparilla, ginger ale, (Courtesy of Ron Fowler) (Courtesy of Cynthia Smith) and plain pop. Uses new be glad to welcome their friends and patent stopper bottle and Reber at Robinson and Hillsboro -- Our knowledge about T.L. Reber and former patrons.” Since Houck & Dieter pure syrups, Robinson, N.M.” (Figure his wife, Rebecca, is limited and comes began soda bottling in April 1881, the 7) The ads ran from at least January almost entirely from brief newspaper firm almost certainly took over Reber’s 12 to August 31, and all had the same blurbs and occasional ads (Figure original location (see Lockhart 2010; content.

Despite the ads, the Black Range 6). After moving to New Mexico in 2011 for more on Reber).

Reber apparently sold a second 1879, Reber had been in business at Silver City in 1880 but had moved on bottling outfit to Coffin & Co. about that to Mesilla by mid-year. We have not time, and subsequent newspaper reports (yet) ascertained how long he remained failed to mention sodas in connection at Mesilla, although Reber claimed with Reber’s store. On September 28, in 1899 that he had sold the first soda 1881, the El Paso Herald informed the bottling outfit in El Paso, Texas, to public that Reber needed to sell his Houck & Dieter, a liquor wholesaler entire supply of paper goods within 30 (Sacramento Chief 4/22/1899). Houck days. Reber was almost certainly on & Dieter bottled sodas from 1881 until the move again by the end of October.

When the Rebers left the Black the firm merged with the Purity Bottling Range for Socorro by October 1883, & Mfg. Co. in 1912 to form the Empire the local paper noted that the family Bottling Works (see Lockhart 2010 for had returned to Socorro. Although we the history of Houck & Dieter).

A report in the El Paso Times on have found no other reference to this April 2, 1881 noted that “Reber & Co., occupation, there is an empty spot in our have removed their business to the records about Reber between October new store room on El Paso Street next 1881 and October 1882. We otherwise to Palace Drug Store, where they will have a fairly continuous record of Reber [1] There is also a “blank” space from the July 1880 report of Reber at Mesilla to his arrival at El Paso. Since Figure 7 – Ad for Reber & Co. at we know that Houck & Dieter opened its bottling works in April 1881, Reber had to have been there by at least Robinson (Black Range 2/12/1883) March. That leaves as much as a seven-month stretch. Reber had often been to a town, set up, sold out, and moved on in less time. However, the proximity of Mesilla and El Paso makes a move directly to El Paso more likely.

Bottles and Extras reported on March 3, 1883, that “Reber is pushing his residence and soda factory to completion, and when finished he will have things arranged in good shape for manufacturing soda.

A driven well under cover will make the supply of water convenient.”The availability of good water was a problem at the town, but the same newspaper reported on March 27 that Reber had “an abundance of water in his well at his ranch just east of Robinson,” and he apparently used that well water for the production of his drinks.There is an apparent contradiction between Reber’s January ads and the lack of completion of his “residence and soda factory,” but that may only mean that he was renting a space until he finished building – or that he was bottling at the ranch.

Reber opened a branch at Hillsboro about March 2, 1883 (Black Range 3/2/1883). On August 24, he described Hillsboro to the Black Range as “equally as dull as the town here [i.e., Robinson].” Reber apparently had become discouraged with business at Robinson and Hillsboro.By February 5, 1884, J.D. Perkins sold “the Reber Building” at Robinson to H.N. Castle.

Reber, however, was no longer interested. He had returned to Socorro by the first of October 1883.

Edward James Ryan, Successor to Reber -- Edward James Ryan (always called James or “Jas.” in the newspapers) was in the Black Range by at least early 1883. He leased seven acres at Cañada de Alamosa that year to grow potatoes and various truck products. On November 14, 1883, Ryan mortgaged a team of horses for $110 to T.L. and Rebecca Reber at Socorro – payable just over two weeks later on December 1. This deal was almost certainly a way for the Rebers to finance Ryan in the purchase of the soda business in the Black Range.

E.J. Ryan was next listed in the 1884 New Mexico Business Directory and Gazetteer (Polk 1984:323) as “soda mnfrs.” at Lake Valley. It is very likely that Ryan moved to Lake Valley to take advantage of the railroad. The New Mexico Railroad Co., a branch

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Ryan’s Notes of February 15, 1886 -- On February 15, 1886, E.J. Ryan wrote three notes (i.e., promises to pay) to Philipp Madlener of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for “Value Received.”[2] These notes describe “Soda-Water Apparatus” that includes: one 18-gallon generator one 18-gallon fountain one force pump one bottling table one syrup gauge 15 Grose [sic] Soda Bottles with Patent Stoppers (i.e. 2,160 bottles) These are clearly promissory notes, written to pay for the bottling apparatus – with one note due “three months after date” (i.e., the purchase date) and at three-month intervals thereafter until the equipment was paid in full nine months later (November 5, 1886). Ryan was still at Lake Valley. The listing for “Patent Stoppers” is a virtually certain reference to the patented Hutchinson stoppers.

Phillip Madlener -- In the spring of 1873, John Graf and Philip Madlener formed the partnership of Graf & Madlener “in the soda water business” at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The 1880 census noted the Madlener was born in Bavaria about 1843. He was 37 years old at the time and listed his profession as a “Soda Water Manufacturer.” Graf purchased Madlener’s interest in 1883. When Madlener left the business, he became a producer of soda bottling equipment, under the name of Philip Madlener. In 1888, he was listed as “Mfr. Soda Water Apparatus.” During the 1890s, Madlener ordered Hutchinson bottles from the Cream City Glass Co. for sale to those he supplied. These were embossed with a PHM monogram in a plate on the front of each bottle (Figure 8). Madlener remained in business until 1907 (Currey :450-453; Flower 1888:288).

Figure 8 – Madlener’s PHM Hutchinson bottle (eBay) Ryan’s New Equipment -- E.J. Ryan obviously purchased new bottling equipment from Philip Madlener on February 15, 1886.He remained at Lake Valley, presumably with the intent to continue bottling operations there. It is worth speculating a bit about why Ryan bought new equipment.

If our assumption that Ryan originally acquired his bottling apparatus from Reber is correct, then we can interpolate three probable conditions for the equipment. First, it was likely minimal. Reber was highly mobile and probably only used the smallest and most basic equipment available. His also had a minimal labor force, consisting only of his wife and

[2] The record of these notes and mortgages that follow are on file with the Sierra County Clerk, Truth or Consequences, New Mexico

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The Big Dig of 2011

By Bill Baab

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of a two-part story about the dig of a lifetime for five collectors living in the Augusta, Georgia area).

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or more than 40 years, the Augusta Mill Supply Company building and warehouse sat like fortresses atop an early Augusta, Georgia landfill, its management rejecting all efforts from bottle collectors seeking permission to dig within its chainlink fences.

The dump extended for nearly a quarter of a mile around the property and those areas looked like a war zone after excavations by bottle diggers. Members of Augusta’s first club – the Georgia-Carolina Empty Bottle Club – employed shovels during the early 1970s when they dug those areas by permission.

The club lost its digging rights during the 1980s when a group of out of town diggers followed a jug trail up to and beneath the chainlink fence, causing a part of it to collapse. Some club members were present, but did nothing to stop the visitors and their lack of action proved costly.

Jerry Newton is ready with the backhoe as Mike Newman (left) and Pat The mill supply company went Oliver explore the dump’s sides 10 feet down. out of business in 2005 or 2006 and the property was acquired by a firm March 26, 2011: that renovates vacuum cleaners.

Eleven jugs were unearthed, including the day’s best I was acquainted with Mark Branum, a co-owner of the find of a signed Edgefield District jug, W.F. Hahn, Trenton, property with Grant Sutton. I invited the two gentlemen to visit my home and check out my bottle collection and then S.C. Bottles included an E. Sheehan crown top (Augusta), made a proposal to where a limited number of collectors E. Sheehan aqua Hutchinson, aqua Augusta Brewing could dig. It was accepted. Later, Branum bought out Sutton’s Company mug base Hutchinson, an aqua Clinton Bottling Works (Augusta) blobtop and a rare teal E. Sheehan / 1880 / share of the company.

A backhoe was employed and the first dig was conducted Augusta, Ga., blobtop with some repairable lip damage.

Others included an Atwood’s Jaundice Bitters, three over the weekend of March 26-27. Participants were this aqua Augusta straight-sided Coca-Colas, an emerald green writer, Mike Newman, of Martinez, Ga.; Bob Riddick, of Lexington, S.C., Pat Oliver, of Martinez; and Jerry (the Saratoga-type tall bottle with none of the usual embossing on the base, a Carter’s master ink, a small amber poison, Backhoe Guy) Newton, of Augusta. a clear miniature whiskey (Crigher and Crigher Distillers, Louisville, Ky.), an amber Crab Orchard Genuine Salts, Here’s how we fared:

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Bottled by Crab Orchard Water Co., Louisville, Ky., and a “cow”-sized blue Bennington marble.

March 27, 2011: Pottery finds included a Miles Mill (Aiken County, S.C.) stacker jug, a J.O. Flynn (Augusta) mini jig with some damage, a stacker jug impressed Standard Syrup Co., and a 1-gallon cream and tan jug.

Bottles included an Edwards Bottling Works (Milledgeville, Ga.) crown top, a Dixie Carbonating Co. (Augusta) crown top, an Augusta Brewing Co., Pepsi-Cola (rare) crown top, an aqua Reynolds Brothers (Washington, Ga.) crown top and a Star Bottling Co., Nottingham, Pa. Hutchinson.

Augusta drug store bottles found included several LANDs, one J.H. Howard, two Mathenys, one Tischer’s, one Ed Sumerau and one C.T. Goetchius. Other finds included an amber Nashville, Tenn., straight-sided Coke, 21 Augusta mid script straight-sided Cokes and a quart Augusta Brewing Co., beer. A Wright & Taylor, Louisville, Ky., whiskey also was dug. along with an unmarked ceramic master ink, a ginger beer, a Rumford Chemical Works, a cobalt Keasbey and a cobalt Peptenzyme (both “Yankee” bottles).

Pat was scrutinizing the area during cleanup and picked up a rare Augusta crown top – Aqua Dist(ributing) & Bot(tling). Co. That company was in business just two years (1912-1914).

Bob Riddick shows an ovoid jug signed J.W.S. & Co., Pine House, S.C.

Here’s a closeup of the Pine House jug April 16, 2011: Bob Riddick, scratching in the “burnt layer” a few feet below the surface, came up with the find of the dig – a face bank of undetermined origin. Pottery experts later attributed the piece to (1) the Mark Baynham Pottery in North Augusta, S.C., or (2) one of the Brown family of potters in Georgia, perhaps Javan Brown.. It had some issues, but the face is intact. It sits on a base that resembles a clown’s collar. Another great find was a jug stamped J.W.S. & Co., Pine House, S.C. Pine House was located near present day Trenton in Edgefield County, S.C. The initials stand for John W. Siegler.

Thirty-four straight-sided Coca-Colas (all from Augusta), a Limeola from Tennille, Ga., three E(dward) Sheehan crown tops, a straight-sided Augusta PepsiCola, two Augusta Chero-Colas (early script), five Dixie Carbonating Company (Augusta) crown tops and Augusta Bludwines (aqua with block letter slug plate and clear usual version) were among the other finds.

One of the “criers” of the day was a Dixie Carbonating Company Pepsi-Cola missing its top and sporting a cracked body. Only one other is known – a broken one found years ago by Mike Newman and glued together – and is illustrated in the Ayers Pepsi book.

Towards the end of the day, Newman prevailed upon backhoe operator Jerry Newton to “dig just one more hole.”

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A half-pint South Carolina Dispensary flask (with small lip chip), a Wright & Taylor, Louisville, Ky., whiskey, a clear large unmarked pumpkinseed and a clear unmarked hip-pocket flask also were found.

Then there was a family affair: Your Wife’s Salad Dressing and Husband’s Calcined Magnesia! Ceramic master inks, including one from Denby Pottery in Great Britain, a Holbrooks’ condiment bottle featuring an embossed St. George slaying a dragon, and a three-sided cobalt, ribbed poison also were found.

Nearly a dozen stacker jugs, many without handles (which is why they were thrown out in the first place), were among the finds.

The author holds an alkaline-glazed stacker jug signed W.F. Hahn, Trenton, S.C. It was about 5 p.m. So this was done and about a dozen onegallon jugs dating from the late 1890s-early 1900s were excavated. The dig finished at 7 p.m., prompting Newton to say: “Hurry up before Newman turns on the lights!”

A Frog Pond Chill and Fever Cure from Augusta and local drug store bottles from Perrin & Land, Matheny’s Pharmacy, Greene & Horsey’s and C.T. Goetchius & Bro., were uncovered. A pint South Carolina Dispensary (SCD monogram) was joined by a base-embossed Congress Water, a Peychaud’s Bitters and a Paskola, an amber bottle embossed with a pineapple and “The Pre-Digested Food Co.” How gross is that one?

April 17, 2011: It was a sort of slow day as far as quality bottles go.

However, an intact spittoon probably made by Trenton, S.C., master potter Mark Baynham during the last quarter of the 19th century was recovered.

Fourteen more Augusta straight-sided Cokes were added to the ever-growing collection. Another E. (for Edward)

April 23, 2011: If anyone ever wondered where the Augusta Coca-Cola Bottling Company dumped its outdated straight-sided bottles, we can tell them. We excavated 71, including examples from Atlanta and Savannah, and now have a total of 144. We’ll have to be careful and not glut the marketplace. Another amber Nashville, Tenn., straight-sided Coke and three 1915 hobbleskirts joined the crowd.

Other finds included eight Dixie Carbonating Company crown tops, two aqua E. Sheehan Hutches, an Augusta Bludwine, two E. Sheehan crown tops, four Augusta CheroColas, one Lime Cola, an Augusta Ice & Beverage Company crown top (circa 1913), a Baldowski Bottling Works crown top (Augusta) and a Buffalo Lick Springs Company crown top from South Carolina.

A pottery master ink imprinted Levinson & Blythe, St. Louis, Mo., a half-pint Walton Dairy (circa 1900) milk from Augusta, and a Hubert’s Colic Drops bottle from nearby Warrenton, Ga., joined an ovoid jug with an “R” stamped near the bottom and attributed to the Landrum family of the

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Here’s a closeup of the Hahn-signed jug Edgefield (S.C.) District.

Bob Riddick’s head challenged the backhoe bucket and lost. Happily, there was no double vision, no concussion, just a large “goose egg” on his forehead. The incident was a wake-up call to all concerned to have fun, but stay alert.

In May, we lost our backhoe operator to various jobs, including being a part of the cleanup crew following the devastating tornado in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Jerry Newton is in the construction business which provides him with a living.

We understood his situation, but told him he would be treated fairly when came time to make the split. We hoped that he would be able to rejoin us later in the year.

Then Mike Newman and I decided to postpone the digging until temperatures cooled. It’s been hot and the weatherman predicted triple-digit temperatures long before official summer (as of June 24). Neither Mike nor I could stand the heat.

August 13, 2011: The long hot summer was still with us, but temperatures climbed “only” into the high 90s (as compared to several days of triple-digit heat). So plans were made to dig and early morning cloud cover made conditions bearable. Jerry Newton and his invaluable backhoe rejoined the crowd.

Then the sun came out, but the intrepid diggers kept digging (and sweating and imbibing large amounts of water). A late afternoon thunderstorm helped cool the torrid conditions and then the sun emerged once again.

Highlights of the dig were a dozen intact jugs, mostly

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from the William F. Hahn (Trenton, S.C.) and Thomas Hahn (North Augusta, S.C.) potteries from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Several sported colorful alkaline glazes.

Included was a one-gallon jug stenciled M.J. Downey, Augusta, Ga. A Chinese soy sauce pot, a mini jug scratched Compliments of / Joe Summerau and a mini jug stenciled Victoria Rye Whiskey, three Arnold inks with pour spouts from London, England, a ceramic bottle imprinted Vulcanizing Institute, M&M Mfg. Co., Akron, Ohio, and a Dundee, Scotland marmalade jar also emerged.

Sodas included nine Augusta CheroColas (one with old style embossing), Camilla Ice & Cold Storage Bottlers, Camilla, Ga., crown, four E.(Edward) Sheehan crown tops and an Augusta Brewing Company Pepsi (rare) with a lip chip.

Straight-sided Coca-Colas from Augusta included five shoulder scripts with no Trade Mark Registered and nine with Trade Mark Registered. The trade mark law came into effect in 1905. The Augusta Coca-Cola Bottling Company was chartered in 1902, so the early bottles date to 1903-04. Three 1915 Cokes and a Gastonia, N.C.. example also were dug.

There were just two spring water examples – amber bottles base-embossed Witter Medical Spring. My research revealed the spring, also known as the Deadshot Spring, was located 20 miles north of east from Ukiah, Lake County, California. The company was incorporated in the fall of 1900 and in 1910, bottles were filled direct from the spring, according to The Springs of California from the U.S. Geological Survey of 1915.

Other interesting bottles were an aqua Dr. O. Fahrney & Co., Hagerstown, Md., Teething Syrup for Babes and an aqua International Hair Regenerator from New York. A tenpin-shaped Virginia Fruit Juice Co., Norfolk, Va., and a small Warner’s Safe Cure also were dug.

Drug store bottles included those from Dr. Jas. P. Smith, Tischer’s, C.T. Goetchius, LAND’s, Cabaniss and a B.F. Matheny Druggists, 1862 Broad St., Augusta, Ga. They were joined by two Dr. Cheney’s Expectorants from Covington, Ga., a Simmons Liver Regulator from St. Louis and a baseembossed Abbott’s Bitters from Baltimore.

August 21, 2011: Boiling hot weather and high humidity greeted the intrepid diggers, Bob Riddick erected a tent-like apparatus and he and Mike Newman brought electric fans. Diggers took many breaks beneath the tent, quaffing large amounts of water.

One pleasant surprise was a cobalt Quinan & Studer

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/ 1888 / Savannah, Ga., soda. It was the second one to come out of the dump, the writer having dug one during the 1970s. Trying to date various sections of the dump is impossible. Trash from the 1930s is mixed in with trash from earlier times.

Three Augusta Bludwines, a Limeola from Milledgeville, Ga, two Aqua Distributing & Bottling Co., bottles, two E. Sheehan Hutches, two Dixie Carbonating Co., bottles and an Augusta Chero-Cola with old style script lettering were among the fines.

A Perry Davis Vegetable Pain Killer was joined by nine Augusta drug store bottles including a Cabaniss and a Hansberger’s Pharmacy. Straightsided Cokes from Greensboro, N.C., and eight amber examples from Nashville, Tenn., were joined by 37 aqua ones from Augusta.

An E.P. Caines’ Schnapps from Gaffney, S.C., and beers from Robert Portner, Alexandria, Va., and Augusta Brewing Company were found. A broken Portner ceramic mug also survived and is repairable. A quart Garrett wine heavily embossed with an eagle, a nursing bottle and a base-embossed Abbott’s Bitters were added to the pile.

A Chinese ginger jar and seven intact jugs were among ceramic items.

Mike Newman shows off a jug attributed to the Landrum Pottery August 28, 2011: Weather predictions were calling for a high in the old Edgefield District of South Carolina. of 99 degrees, so we opted to dig behind the were joined by a Harris Lithia Springs crown top from warehouse and in the shade of the overhanging roof.. The passageway was narrow and posed a problem Harris Springs (Laurens County), S.C. Quart, pint and for Jerry to limit where the dirt could be dumped, but he half-pint Stafford’s Inks in cobalt were found, a half-pint zig-zagged his backhoe, first to one side, filled it in and amber master ink embossed Design Patent Feb. 16, 1886, a then moved to the other. Jerry is so skillful. He handles the pottery ink from England and a Carter’s master ink joined the crowd. backhoe like it was a part of himself.

A milk glass Hagan’s Magnolia Balm, a McIlhenny Sodas found included an R & R, an Augusta Brewing & Co., Tabasco Sauce from Avery Island, La., a Durfee Company Pepsi-Cola (damaged lip, but rare), an aqua Clinton Bottling Works blobtop, Chero-Colas from Augusta Embalming Fluid from Grand Rapids, Mich., and a fruit jar, and Barnwell, S.C., and an unusual bottle from Columbia, base-embossed Lightning / Putnam, were dug.

Bob Riddick and Pat Oliver have eagle eyes when it S.C., embossed with a quarter moon. comes to spotting jugs. Six Hahn stacker jugs, one signed Criers included cracked bottles from Osteen Bottling Works, Denmark, S.C.; Davis Bottling Works, Allendale, HAHN on the shoulder, were joined by a mini jug stenciled S.C.., and a Baldowski Bottling Works, Augusta. A pair of Parker Rye, Louisville, Ky., three ginger beers, a small pot LANDs, Perrin & Land and C.T. Goetchius & Bros. made with both handles broken stenciled Moutard Parisienne, up the sparse drug store bottle findings. Another crier was a Prepared by Alexis Godillot Jr., (France), Bordeaux (Gironde), a Chinese ginger jar and an unmarked wax sealer broken Barry’s Malarial Antidote from Augusta.

Sixteen straight-sided Augusta Cokes, two without attributed to the Hahn Pottery Works were found.

Crier was an Augusta Brewing Co., Belle of Georgia TRADE MARK REGISTERED (1903-04) were added to the ever-growing collection. Two Augusta Brewing Company mug, most of which was shattered. An unusual piece was Hutchinsons, quarts in blobtop and crown top and an Augusta a Hahn stacker, its handle broken long ago, bound by a homemade wire harness carrier which had stayed intact.

Brewing Co., Bottling Dept., crown top were excavated.

(To be concluded in the May-June issue) Three South Carolina Dispensary flasks, all monograms,

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The Hunt and the Heady Rush of a Find Turns on 18-Year-Old

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By Bill Baab

hat’s the favorite part of collecting antique bottles and fruit jars for 18-year-old Jonah Mertz?

“Oh, it’s definitely the hunt and the emotional rush you get when you find something good from a time in the past,” said the budding freshman at Edinboro University in Erie, Pa. Jonah Mertz with coveted Ten years ago or so, at Mason’s Union fruit jar. Has age 8, Jonah joined his dad, anybody got a spare lid?

Steve, who was exploring an old foundation of a house that had burned. “A lady told us there were some really rare milks. He dug around the foundation and found eight of them.”

The Mertzes eventually got into collecting fruit jars and now have some 6,000. Do the math. Ten years of collecting.

That averages out to 600 a year. Wow! “We collect mainly numbered and lettered 1858 Masons and we have jars with every letter except ‘T’,” Jonah said.

During the Muncie (Ind.) Fruit Jar Show last January, “Dad found a jar with a reverse ‘S’ and another with a different style of No. 8.”

The psychology major can’t pick out a favorite jar from all those thousands, but mentioned the Commodore jar as one of the rarer ones in the collection.

Jonah also collects squat sodas from Pittsburgh, which he purchases from a digger friend. He owns an amber soda embossed W.T., and two cobalt J.C. Buffum sodas, one with an iron pontil. He and friends Dylan Rhodes and Luke Yoos have been hitting the farm dumps near his home in Sandy Lake, Pa., about an hour’s drive from Pittsburgh, and also have been digging privies.

“We found an old Sandy Lake drug store bottle, but nothing really crazy,” he said. “We did find a merchant’s crock marked Strong, Cobb & Co., Wholesale Druggists, Cleveland, Ohio.

I once dug a Quaker State Motor Oil porcelain sign. It came from 20 feet down and was in near perfect condition.”

If Jonah and his dad have a heart’s desire, it’s to find a lid for the sky-blue Mason Union Jar which they purchased from a just opened local antiques store.

“It’s embossed with a union shield and has two vertical lugs sticking out of the top. This is one of those cases when the lid is harder to find than the jar.”

Jonah also loves the hobby because of “all the wonderful people I have gotten to meet.”

Here’s the Quaker State porcelain sign Jonah dug

The Mertzes’ basement loaded with fruit jars, stoneware, an insulator or two and blobtop sodas

Here’s Jonah with his precious pair of cobalt Pittsburgh, Pa., sodas. (Photos by Steve Mertz)

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Jackson, Miss., Bottle & Advertising Show-A GREAT SUCCESS

By Gene Bradberry

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Ralph Green of Tequesta, Fla, (right) shows Dan Griffis of New Orelans a bottle for sale on Green’s display table in the Mississippi Trade Mart during the Mississippi Antique Bottle Show in Jackson on Saturday. Aside from bottles, the show offered everything from antique signs to arrowheads and toys.

Shoppers look through a selection of beverage bottles.

Nice selection of bottles to choose from!

n a Friday morning last February, Ed Provine and I set out on a bottle show trip to Jackson, Miss., about a 200-mile, four-hour trip from Memphis, Tenn. Of course, we did the usual things one does on such an excursion and that is to make a few antique malls along the way, which we did rather hurriedly as we both wanted to get ot the show on time.

As always, Ed wanted to stop for an “ALL YOU CAN EAT” breakfast at Shoney’s and there we both pigged out. That was a good thing as we didn’t eat again until the big feast at the show that evening around 6:30.

When we arrived, around 2:30 p.m., dealers/collectors were already setting up. We discussed setting up and decided that we would make the rounds first. We found too many things that would not fit our budgets so we went ahead and did our due diligence in setting our bottles and stuff out.

As we were making our rounds, we saw many familiar faces of collectors we have known for years, such as Tom Lines from Alabama, Sheldon Baugh and wife from Kentucky, Tom and Mabel Hicks from Georgia, Randee & Susan Kaiser from Missouri, Alan Balliet from Mississippi, Dick and Pat Smith from Alabama, Bruce & Trisha

Schad from Mississippu, Ed and Connie Tardy from Arkansas, Paul VanVactor from Kentucky, Don Young from Mississippi and John Joiner from Georgia, to name just a few old acquaintances. Then in walks Jim Hagenbuch from Pennsylvania. He flew in and was scouting for merchandise for his collection and auction.

There was a free Bar-B-Q dinner Friday evening for all dealers and early admissions with all of the trimmings and it was superb. Great job, folks.

Saturday morning brought in a brisk crowd with lots of traffic which continued throughout the day. There was no admission charge and show chairman John Sharp estimated the crowd to be 600 to 750, which I would concur with.

John had 251 sales tables and 139 dealer/collectors.The show was held for the second straight year in the Trade Mart Building on the state fairgrounds. The facility was really good and the lighting was excellent. John Sharp, a collector and friend whom I have known for many years, and his crew did an excellent job in hosting the show. He and his folks are to be congratulated for their hospitality and putting on a show of which they can truly be proud. Great job, John !

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Embossing Variations Intrigue Collectors of Insulators Part II By: Bill Haley Insulators sometimes have many embossing variations within one CD style and the different markings can be of great interest to collectors. The Embossing Index Number system (EIN) was designed to add to the “shorthand” of the insulator world, and has become the standard across the hobby. Once one learns the shorthand, they can easily converse with other collectors and each knows exactly what piece is being discussed. Or, they can look up their insulator in a price guide. The following is a representative listing from the most current hobby price guide by Donald R. Briel, Price Guide for North American Glass Insulators.

The 2011 edition contains over 13,000 embossings and color combinations. I intentionally chose a listing for a somewhat common insulator. The listing is quite involved and contains a lot of information for someone in the know. Deciphering such a hieroglyphic listing may seem daunting, but it is a good way to introduce other insulator terms.

CD145 [210] (F-Crown) [Number] (Arc) W. BROOKFIELD / 45 CLIFF ST. / N.Y. (R-Crown) (Arc) PAT’D NOV. 13TH `883 / FEB. 12TH 1884 {MLOD} SB Here goes: 1. CD145 is a well-known Consolidated Design (CD) style within the hobby. It even has a nickname, the “beehive.”

2. [210] is the Embossing Index Number (EIN). There are 56 different EIN numbers for Brookfield-produced CD145s.

3. (F-Crown) tells you the embossing is on the upper front portion of the inmsulator above the wire groove – the crown.

4. [Number] is a shop or mold number.

5. (Arc) tells you the top line of embossing is not straight

CD145 insulators with a simple B marking on the skirt were manufactured by the Brookfield Glass Company in New York between 1900 and 1920. L-R: medium green, light sun colored amethyst, dark aqua, dark yellow green. The dark aqua example with drip points on the base is quite uncommon. This shape of insulator is nicknamed “beehive” in the insulator hobby

These CD145 “beehives” were produced by the Hemingray Glass Company, and come in a wide range of colors. L-R: Hemingray blue, jade milkglass, light cornflower. across, but in an arc.

6. W, BROOKFIELD is the manufacturer, the W. BROOKFIELD GLASS COMPANY. 7. Diagonal lines are used to denote different lines of embossing.

8. 45 CLIFF ST. / N.Y. is the location of the company. We know that W. Brookfield was located in New York City at this address from 1882-1890.

9. (R-Crown) denotes embossing on the rest of the crown.

10. PAT’D NOV. 13TH 1883 is a patent granted to Samuel Oakman for a double petticoat, meaning this insulator has both an outer skirt and an extended inner skirt. This was in essence an added obstacle meant to decrease electrical leakage by increasing the path it would have to take to reach the ground.

11. FEB. 12TH 1884 was a patent for an improved process of forming the insulator.

12. {MLOD} means the mold line extends over the dome.

13. SB stands for smooth base.

Under each EIN listing are suggested prices for insulators in very near mint condition or better. Ten different colors are listed for this EIN, ranging from $1 to $2 in aqua to $400 to $500 in yellow olive green.

Color, condition, rarity, popularity of that particular style and other variables, such as bubbles, milky or amber swirls, rocks or other objects in the glass, can add value to any insulator. It is interesting that a great many very early collectors deemed those latter variables as a detriment, thinking they decreased value. Today, many collectors avidly collect insulators with “junk” in them and will pay a premium for the best examples.

As with most collectibles, excellent condition commands the best prices. Weak or illegible embossing and damage to

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This crown-embossed “beehive” was manufactured between 1884 and 1890. This photo demonstrates how the tie wire was

used to attach the iron telegraph wire to the insulator.

the insulator can result in a drastic decrease in value. Some collectors don’t mind a bit of damage, as insulators were working glass and in all probability were often damaged in some way between the manufacturer and the job site, even before a lineman placed several in a pouch and climbed a pole to install them. For some, a damaged specimen is the only way they can own a rare and high-priced insulator, hoping one day to possibly have a chance to upgrade to one in better condition.

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the hobby. Gone are the days when you’d receive a Crown Jewels magazine, peruse the For Sale section, mail a selfaddressed, stamped envelope to a seller and wait patiently for a sales list to arrive. You would then make your selections and send a money order, hoping your first choices hadn’t already been sold. Finally, after two or three weeks, you’d receive a package and it was like Christmas morning. . .you never knew for sure what you’d get.

The Internet has made communications between collectors everywhere almost instantaneous. The NIA and Crown Jewels of the Wire both have an Internet presence and they have been joined by other sites. Insulators.info, the premier collector’s website, hosts a list-serve called Insulator Collectors on the Net (ICON), which is quite popular. Many popular auction sites have benefitted from the electronic media as well, and several offer both insulators and bottles.

The hobby has now gone worldwide, in part thanks to the Internet and the wide reach of marketing sites such as eBay. Foreign insulators are a rapidly growing segment of the hobby and it is a time of discovery as collectors bring new styles to the market from distant lands.

Many folks in the insulator world recognize that the interaction and fellowship with other enthusiasts is one of the best parts of the hobby. Interest in shows and swap meets is still very strong. I am president of the Dixie Jewels Insulator Club which serves the southeastern United States. Our popular swap meets are moved to different venues around the region on the third Saturday of February, May, August and November. Last year, our club has hosted swaps in Alabama, North Carolina and Georgia. The first two swaps of 2012 were held in Florida and North Carolina. Our members offer many tables of beautiful insulators for sale and we often host collectors from seven to 10 states. We’d love for you to join us in the future to learn more about insulators!

In future articles, we will delve into the history of some of the major manufacturers and discuss many other insulatorrelated topics.

THE INSULATOR HOBBY TODAY In 2011, the insulator hobby continued strong, with more than 20 regional insulator clubs. The latest Crown Jewels directory contains almost 2,000 listings. The National Insulator Association (NIA) plays host to annual national and regional shows and the different clubs around the country sponsor quite a number of shows and swap meets. It is not uncommon for enthusiasts to travel hundreds or thousands of miles to a show.

Compared to bottles, insulator collecting is still very new. Now after our first 50 years, many of the hobby’s pioneer collectors have reached an advanced age or passed on.

Many of the wonderful pieces they accumulated in the early years have again become available, allowing modern day collectors a chance to acquire real pieces of our hobby’s history. One of my most treasured insulators is a 130-year-old piece in as-found condition. It was dug

by Bob Roosevelt, a legend in the insulator world. It has a “book value” of less than $20, but the provenance Glass insulators come in a wide variety of colors. L-R: Hemingray No. 21 makes it priceless to me.

(Hemingray Glass Co., Muncie, Ind) in yellow green, W.G.M. Co. (Western Glass One factor that has had a huge Manufacturing Company, Denver, Colo) in medium sca, G.N.W. Co. (Great impact on the insulator world was Northwestern Telegraph Company, Canada) in royal purple, B (Brookfield not dreamed of in the early days of Glass Co., N.Y.) in dark yellow green.

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Outstanding Glass Collection at Getty Villa near Los Angeles

By Dave Maryo

(EDITOR’S NOTE: Gremlins got into the story published in the January-February issue of Bottles and Extras. To be fair to author and readers, it was decided to rerun the correct version of the story in this issue).

Most bottle collectors highly prize glass bottles that are mold-blown and finished by hand. Mold-blown bottles are thought to be a manufacturing improvement that was developed over the last couple of hundred years.

The fact is, the mold-blown process was developed over 2,000 years ago. Examples of the ancient bottles are regularly found buried in areas surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. Museums are your best option if you are interested in seeing ancient glass.

I would highly recommend any bottle or glass collector visit the Getty Villa north of Los Angeles to see one of the finest collections of ancient glass available for public viewing.

The collection is impressive not only in the rarity of the items, but the quality of this glass is as fine as many examples of art glass produced today.

The finest collection of ancient glass at Getty Villa was acquired from the private collection of Erwin Oppenlander, The more than 350 works of ancient glass compose one of the most important collections ever assembled. The collection contains many of the finest glass examples existing from the time period 2,500 B.C. to 1100 A.D. Do you think your bottle collection is a significant collection of glass? Can your glass collection even compare with one that contains hundreds of examples that span a period of 3.5 thousand years? I doubt many glass collections in the world can compare to what is available for public viewing at Getty Villa.

As to my earlier reference to bottle collectors believing mold-blown glass is a fairly recent development, in a way that is correct as the mold-blown technique was developed 2.5 thousand years after the earliest form of glass production.

But that is still thousands of years before anyone in America produced glass.

The Oppenlander collection’s earliest pieces are coreformed examples. Core forming was a process that used a ceramic core coated with molten glass. When the glass cooled, the core was removed, resulting in a glass container.

The collection also has many glass objects formed by casting glass into molds. Cast glass also was a very early process and the cast glass was often cut and polished to further enhance the objects being produced.

It was not until the last Century BC when free-blown glass techniques were developed. The free-blown examples in the collection are my favorites since they show the glass blowers’ artistic skills in working with gathers of molten glass.

Shortly after the free-blown technique was developed, artisans started using molds in the first century A.D. Some

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of these Roman examples would still be highly prized if they were created by craftsmen today. The quality of Roman glass is startling when you think about the time when it was produced. You’d think that glass produced thousands of years ago would be crude in form and material, but many of the more common examples are not nearly as crude as most pieces produced just 200 years ago.

I hope you have an opportunity to visit Getty Villa in the near future. You will not be disappointed by this amazing glass collection. But don’t limit your visit just to check out the glass. You should plan to spend some time looking at other ancient art in this wonderful museum, housed in the building and gardens modeled after the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, Italy. It is well worth your visit.

More information is available at the Getty Museum web page at http://www.getty.edu.

Getty Museum Acquires Treasure Trove In 2003, the J. Paul Getty Museum acquired more than 350 works of ancient glass from the private collection of Erwin Oppenlander (1901-1988).

A manufacturer who lived near Stuttgart, Germany, Oppenlander formed his collection in the mid-20th century.

He purchased the majority of his glass from auction houses and art dealers in Europe and many pieces were from private collections assembled during the 19th century.

A discerning collector, Oppenlander had a refined aesthetic sensibility. His taste and determination to form a comprehensive collection are evident in the quality of the objects and by the fact that there are

no duplicates – each piece stands on its own merits.

The Oppenlander collection is remarkable for its cultural and chronological breadth. It includes works made in Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Greek world and the Roman Empire. It spans the entire period of ancient glass production, from its origins in Mesopotamia about 2500 B.C. to Byzantine and Islamic glass of the 11th century A.D. Also notable is the variety of ancient glassmaking techniques, such as casting, core forming, mosaic, inflation, mold blowing, cameo carving, incising and cutting. All of these techniques are still used by today’s glass artists.

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After removing the octopus and drainage soil, we hit the clay plug at 15 feet. Then we hit the “use layer” after going through 7 feet of clay.

This layer yielded a few barely blown bottles, and some machine-made Vaseline jars. Not exactly exciting as getting to the middle layer of an ice cream cake. The use layer gave us two green castor oil bottles, a quart Allegheny Cow milk and a few local druggists’ bottles.

At this point, Jim had to leave to go to work. It was already dark and the only lights were from the outside patio lighting of the house and Tim’s headlight on his hardhat was now 20 plus feet down the hole. The wind was starting to pick up and the temperature was dropping, but Tim was still sweating down the hole and the vapor and steam off his back was misting up and obscuring our view of his efforts.

About 6:30, the three of us agreed to pull 10 more buckets. The first nine were uneventful. As Tim started to fill the 10th bucket, his shovel slid across something.

He yelled excitedly,

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Bottles and Extras “I hit the side of a crock!” As he continued to uncover it, Luke yelled to him “Wouldn’t’ it be nice to get a Weyman’s snuff crock with a tobacco leaf on it?” All we heard from Tim as he freed it was “Oh my gosh, dudes! It’s got blue, it’s beautiful, and it’s a Weyman’s with double embossed tobacco leaves on the reverse.”

As I was putting the crock away, we agreed to fill one last bucket.

Within one shovelful, out popped an extremely rare A.K. Clark, 41 Craig St, Allegheny, Pa. soda Many other medicines, common slicks (unembossed), food bottles, and doll heads were also unearthed. It was now about 7 at night and we covered the hole with a large iron sheet Jim had cut specially for covering this privy. This not only covers the privy when we were finished, but also stops the yearly sinking, as we promised the owner of the property.

The next day Tim had some personal issues to attend to and also received several emergency calls that needed his attention, so we did not get back together until 11:30 on Thursday. When we finally all arrived, Tim quickly climbed back down into the hole and we started removing more debris. Now at the 30-foot level Tim noticed a slight tapering of the hole which usually indicates the end is near. However, at about 31 feet, Tim again yells out GET THE CAMERA! He made some other noises that sounded like some farm animals, then said IT’S A BLOOD SEARCHER AND PONTIL! This is a great find for us Pittsburghers. About two minutes later, Tim’s yelling and laughing again, we get the camera out and video as TIM uncovered another rare bottle. It’s an olive amber bottle embossed W.H.H and PORTER. It has never been seen before (at least by us or anyone we know).

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After reaching the bottom of the privy, Tim still had to get out of the hole. We had to put two chain ladders together and barely reached him (estimated 40 feet to the bottom).

Somehow, Tim mustered up the energy (and courage) to ascend the chain ladder while it’s twisting, creaking and rocking (this is a feat of strength in itself). Once up, we quickly begin to “fill her in.” We had filled all our garbage cans (about 45 or so) and had to put a lot of dirt on tarps so we had to shovel this into a wheel barrow and then dump into the pit. Once that was completed (it took almost two hours), we emptied the cans using a dolly to wheel them close to the hole to dump out, then remove several rounds of the brick layer to insert the metal sheet cover, put the mulch and some dirt on top, then raked and swept the yard.

This was all done in the dark. It was late and Jim was already gone (still working the night shift), so we decided to meet the next day to split up the finds.

We met at the local diner again, then headed out to another site to dig an “easy” pit. Tim and Jim had test-pitted this site and determined it was a wood liner probably 12 to 14 feet deep, given the size of the other pits dug on this lot. So before we did the split, we would dig one more pit in hopes of adding to our split and since the old pit (1840s-50s) was not found yet, it was hoped this pit would yield some early artifacts.

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We finally got out all the bottles (some where around 200 plus) and placed them on a circular picnic table on the lot we had just dug. The pictures tell the story. It was a great three days of digging. I’m not sure if these digs were bringing in the New Year or just the best and last dig of the Old Year but regardless, it was a dig we will always remember. Plus, we have more to dig about two yards up!

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[Editor’s Note: This article is a result of long time collector and author Bruce W. Schank reaching out to longtime collector Chuck Erb, aka AmberJars4Erb.] Chuck was born in 1946 in rural Derby, Iowa and grew up in Garden Grove, Iowa. Mormons established Garden Grove in 1847 on the way to Salt Lake City, Utah. Eventually, a few smaller towns consolidated into one town called Mormon Trail. When Chuck was a young adult he wanted to be an art teacher, but he could never afford the schooling required.

So he started doing art work for a bindery company, doing little illustrations on kids’ rebound books meant for libraries.

This was part of the printing business (offset preparatory), art work and camera work, strip plate making and getting them ready for the printing press. He worked there and then went to another printing company 20 years later in pre-press and then retired in 2008.

In 1968, Chuck remembers vividly finding a Mason’s Patent Nov 30th 1858 jar in an old house and thinking to himself, “what an old thing.” Then the very next day in the Sunday paper he read about someone who collected fruit jars in the Des Moines, Iowa area. He thought to himself, “man, someone actually collects those things,” and then the writer talked about “amber” jars. Well, Chuck had never seen Chuck Erb anything like that so he said to himself, “there lies a quest.”

Afterwards on the weekends Chuck and his buddies would take off in his 1965 Mustang and look for caves and cellars to explore with their flash lights.

From the very beginning Chuck has always liked old bottles, but his first fascination with fruit jars and colors revolved around teen series Ball Perfect Mason jars. He just loved the beautiful olives, olive ambers and amber colors those jars come in. Not long after Chuck started finding old jars and bottles, he came across an old cave that someone had been in previously and there were shards of amber glass everywhere. He remembers thinking; “these must be those amber jars that article spoke about.” He and his friends went back with leather gloves and eventually unearthed two whole amber quart Globe jars plus a whole bunch of amber Globe lids. The metal was all gone from the jars but he was tickled Rare wooden Globe boxes full of amber pint globe jars. pink to find them. Then he went to a sale in Boone, Iowa that advertised amber fruit jars. There was a pint amber Globe there and he decided to buy it. He remembers paying $50 for it, which was an absolutely huge amount of money in those days, according to Chuck and to spend that much on a jar was well, kind of crazy. He remembers holding that jar so tight and from then on he was amber-addicted and is so to this day. Good for him!

Beautiful colored jars on a window sill in Chuck’s Man Cave.

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One year, a friend of his told him that if he really wanted to see some good fruit jars, then he should go to the Indianapolis show. So he and his wife Gladys flew out there and couldn’t believe their eyes. He thought that he was one of the very few people who were interested in fruit jars. He realized then that this was actually a real hobby, there are lots of people who collect and most importantly the jars are worth real money. Man, did his eyes open! He bought an amber pint Mason’s Keystone from a well known collector for $425 at the show and his wife, seeing the price tag on it, was literally shocked because she had no idea fruit jars could be worth that kind of money.

Once Chuck started visiting other collectors, he quickly made friends with Leon Shores, who helped him out a lot on what to look for and other info on jars in general. Leon also stressed to Chuck that if you come across a good jar you’d better get it because it most likely won’t be there when you come back. And Chuck admits that’s absolutely true. If it’s a good jar and you want it, you better get it right then and there and I couldn’t agree more wholeheartedly.

After 7 or 8 years into collecting, Chuck needed money so he sold out. The late John Christianson, from Des Moines, actually bought almost all of Chuck’s whole collection at that time. It didn’t take very long though before Chuck became interested in jars again. He became good friends with John and would go over to his home and they would look over the jars and talk about jars for hours. It just goes to show you folks that once a person has “Jar Fever,” they can never really get rid of it no matter what they try or do. I know…

Chuck had a sad jar story for me. He bought a beautiful amber hg Mason’s Keystone Patent at a show in Ames, Iowa back when the Iowa Antique Bottleers used to have their show there. One day he took it out of his display case in the basement to dust the jar off. He had it sitting there next to other jars and at one point he turned around and hit it with his elbow. That tipped it over against another jar putting a very large crack in the back side. Sadly, that’s not the only nice piece of glass he’s had the misfortune of breaking, but he says it isn’t worth crying over broken glass because it wouldn’t do you any good anyway. I happen to cry, unfortunately.

Chuck considers fruit jar collecting a fascinating hobby, but he feels the friends you make are far more important than the value of any jar. Chuck, in my opinion, is an exceptionally generous person. He has given so many people things out of the blue such as T-shirts, business cards, graphic signs and jars for nothing over the years. He’ll just walk up to someone at a show and say, “Here, I think you should have this.” A few years ago Chuck felt the hobby was in a downturn, but now thinks there’s been some positive strides that make him feel the hobby is now on a rebound. He’s delighted to see young people at bottle shows displaying interest in the hobby. At Winter Muncie 2011, he gave a very young boy who helped out Mason Bright an amber pint Globe to show his appreciation.

It’s hard to fathom the depth of the generosity that runs deep within Chuck. That’s one of the things that makes Chuck such

Some of Chuck’s many jars in the Man Cave.

The fabulous Amber Acres Homestead.

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Super line-up of Globe pints.

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a special and unique person indeed.

I’ve known Chuck for a few years now and at the Muncie show, I kind of naturally gravitated to Chuck’s room because, in my opinion, Chuck is not only a very unique person, but it’s hard to find someone as bubbly and fun to be around. It was at that time I asked if I could visit with him in Iowa, do a story and see Iowa from an Iowan’s point of view. Of course, he said he’d be delighted if I came by anytime, but wasn’t sure he merited a “story” but I know he is a true “legend” more than worthy of a article.

I took him up on his generous offer in February, 2011. It would be a trip I was really looking forward to plus it would be my first time to actually be in Iowa. I called Chuck and we made plans since there was a nice break in the weather and I was going to take advantage of it. Besides, I usually have nothing else to do being unemployed, so exploring new frontiers and taking part in new experiences was logical to me and something exciting and fun to do.

When I arrived at his home in Carlisle, the first thing I mentioned was that I had a gift for him. I brought with me a very nicely framed print entitled “The Good Things” by C. Don Ensor.

Chuck was very appreciative and said he knew a perfect place to put it. Naturally, I asked Chuck if I could see his famous amber Globe jars and all he could say was he didn’t have any around. I looked at him kind of in disbelief and asked if I could walk downstairs because I didn’t see any upstairs. I figured he was just busting my chops. In the basement, there was a teaser amount of jars (two, to be exact) and that was it. I was really befuddled by it all and he explained to me that all of his jars, antiques and other items were now over at “Amber Acres.” I had no idea what “Amber Acres” was but I breathed a sigh of relief and focused on the food that was about to be served -- Chuck and Gladys’ famous Iowa sausage balls, shredded potatoes and cheese casserole and a vegetable medley. I was hungry, the food was delicious and the company excellent so I figured we could talk over supper about his jars and “Amber Acres.”

As Chuck described his new place, which happens to be located in the middle of nowhere in central southern Iowa 17 miles north of the Missouri border, I really got excited about going there. It sounded so pristine, wild and free. He showed me a DVD he made of the entire building process and I was amazed at how wonderful it looked. He showed photos of the animals that have come onto his property including wild turkey, gigantic whitetailed deer, birds of every kind and bobcats. He claims a mountain lion was also around, but couldn’t get a photo. The place was a regular national geographic destination and I couldn’t wait to get there the next morning.

He then played a DVD he took of the very first Muncie Bottle Show in January 1999. It was so fascinating watching it and seeing how young everyone looked. The prices fetched for jars and odd lots at the auction were kind of surprising to me, too. What a wonderful slice of history Chuck preserved

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A nice old Iron Bridge just down the road from Amber Acres

Back of the Amber Acres Homestead with 108’ deck.

A small taste of the other side of Amber Acres.

The Man Cave kitchen looking from the retro 1950’s Diner area.

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for posterity’s sake. I have to give him credit and lots of kudos for taking the time to do things like that because not everyone wants to be bothered with that sort of thing. Yet without it, those times would be only in people’s memories.

We went to bed because the morning would be coming early and there were plenty of things to do, see and experience.

Chuck and I left early for Amber Acres and I studied with fascination the landscape and how open it was and how many of the roads were only dirt roads. I especially liked the iron bridge that was on the dirt road just a short distant from Amber Acres. It was only a short minute or so over the iron bridge when we arrived at our destination and I was without a doubt overwhelmed by it all. What a place Chuck and Gladys have and out in the middle of such a wonderful rustic area of the state. I was a bit envious, to say the least, but I was really happy for them. I can’t remember the last time I had been anywhere as remote as we were in Iowa. Ah, peace and tranquility at last…

Amber Acres is pretty phenomenal, in my humble opinion. The detail that Gladys put into it all is clearly seen everywhere you look. Nothing was left to chance and I was definitely incredibly impressed. I can’t imagine anyone who has been there not coming away wowed. The smartly styled home nestled on the edge of 14½ acres of prime Iowa real estate is a huge 5,000 square foot ranch built on a massive concrete foundation with radiant heat built right into it. Every detail concerning the home to the smallest nook and cranny was well thought out by Gladys and a real sight to behold and enjoy. The back of the home has a 108-foot deck going the entire length of the home and all I can say is wow!.

There is a small hill falling off to a stream behind the home and every animal that one can imagine comes up the yard to feed on the copious amounts of corn Chuck throws out in the back yard. While there we saw wild turkeys and many beautiful birds. I was so enthralled by it all and enjoyed myself so much that life seemed for that far too short of a time period, a little slice of heaven. I was truly at peace there.

Chuck was very excited about showing me around the place and I was just as excited to see it all. I finally got to see Chuck’s jars and although he doesn’t have a large collection, what he does have is superb and extremely desirable. I must admit I’ve never seen as many amber Globes in one place at one time before. Of course, Chuck is a huge Globe fruit jar fan and amber is his thing. After all, his aka is “AmberJars4Erb.” So Amber Acres is the perfect name for that place. His “Man Cave” hide-away, a part of Amber Acres, is truly awesome.

I can only guess, but I figure it’s approximately 1,500 square feet. It comes complete with a beautiful fireplace living room area, fantastic kitchen with large built-in LCD screen TV, a middle island from which to watch it, a retro 1950s diner area and a scaled down but true to life movie theater that seats eight people extremely comfortably. I could have easily been happy for the rest of my life just staying in the Man Cave section and forgetting about the rest of the chaos in the world. And best of all; jars, bottles, glass and antiques

are everywhere.

As I looked over the place, I noticed and mentioned that there was empty shelf space and why no jars? He told me that area was reserved for Christmas and I said, “That’s way too far away, let’s put jars there now.” So he pulled out a plastic bucket full of amber pint Globes and I unwrapped all of them just like a bright-eyed little kid. I stacked them up one after another on a shelf with a mirror behind them and it looked so good I had to take an angled close-up of them all.

On the opposite side of the room I put Entrance to the remainder on a beautiful huge antique Movie Theater.

Chuck Relaxing in the Movie Theater.

The Man Cave is a truly cavernous fabulous place to hang out.

Fabulous cabinet displays of great colored bottles, glass and jars.

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desk. Incredibly, Chuck had yet another container with just as many amber pints in it packed away for another future resting place. That’s 64 amber pints in both buckets…once again, all I can say is Wow! In-between all of the fun we were having at Amber Acres, Chuck also took me to a friend’s home where I was able to buy some beautiful wooden fruit jar boxes and a few really nice Ball jars. Later that night, he grilled two fabulously tasty hand-cut filet mignons wrapped in bacon along with a baked potato and some hot pickles. Later, we watched a great movie in the theater and then a 50s du-wop concert DVD. I’m not sure what I did to deserve such fantastic treatment, but it was obvious to me, Chuck was one heck of a great host.

Chuck has many extremely nice old bottles, a nice cobalt Owl Drug Bottle collection, wonderful antiques and assorted nice odd old stuff too numerous to mention. Chuck is an extremely talented person. He can write poetry and his graphic artwork is fabulous. It seems many things come totally natural to Chuck and he enjoys life to the fullest.

Bravo for him!

Chuck doesn’t go to many shows anymore so his primary sources for jars are Muncie and online auctions.

Chuck’s thoughts to newer collectors are to get a Red Book and study it.

Buy what you like, but consider color a serious choice and Chuck ought to know. He says buy one decent jar instead of buying 20 cheap jars. I had nothing short of a great time visiting and spending time with Chuck and Amber Acres was a sweet bonus. So much so, I’ve been there twice since then. I also enjoyed talking with Gladys, a character indeed and a fabulous cook.

Home Sweet Home Amber Acres…

Chuck with his equally talented wife Gladys.

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The Globe pints looked great and I just loved how they appeared as a mirrored image.

Nice old desk that looks better with amber pint Globes.

You just have to love a run of colored fruit jars and what a fabulous green lightning pint.

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Continued from page 23 himself. Second, the equipment worked on Hutchinson-style bottles. The Black Range for February 12, 1883, reported that Reber “uses new patent stopper bottle” at Robinson. Thus, the tone for bottle type was already set.

Third, and probably most important, the equipment was getting old and probably quite worn from moving and use. The apparatus was probably no newer than Reber’s move to the Black Range in 1882 and may have been a couple of years older than that. It had also been moved at least once (Hillsboro or Robinson to Lake Valley) and maybe several more times.

Although this is all speculation, it is reasonable to assume that Ryan felt he needed new equipment.

A contributing factor may have been the bottles. Assuming Ryan purchased his equipment from Reber, he almost certainly also acquired Reber’s Hutchinson bottles. After at least four years, these were certainly almost gone.

In the days prior to the use of deposits, customers were very slow to return bottles and frequently discarded them.

The bottles were the property of the bottler – not the customer – but soda buyers were either unaware or uncaring.

Bottles were lost primarily in three ways: 1) breakage (at the bottling plant, the retail outlet, or by the customer); 2) wear (from transportation or cleaning); and/or 3) theft by the customer. One study (Lockhart 1999) found that most bottles had been lost by these processes by the end of five years. Since Ryan’s bottle supply was dwindling, he almost certainly needed to replenish. What better time to buy new equipment?

The Mary Ryan Mortgage -- On May 8, 1886, just three months after E.J. Ryan purchased the equipment from Madlener, and three days after the first payment was due, Ryan borrowed $300 from Mary Ryan, almost certainly to pay off the original notes to Madlener. The collateral for the mortgage is described recognizably as the same equipment and the same number of bottles (“c. fifteen gross” or about 2,160 bottles).

Of at least as much importance (possibly more), the “complete Soda

March - April 2012 Water Machine and Soda Water outfit” was “now located in the Town of Hillsborough and used by said party of the first part” (i.e. E.J. Ryan). This implies that Ryan had moved (back?) to Hillsboro and was using the equipment to manufacture sodas. The move was most likely inspired by the collapse of the mining industry at Lake Valley after 1884. The mortgage was due in a single payment a year later to the day (May 8, 1887), but Ryan satisfied the mortgage (almost certainly paid it in full) just less than a month later, on June 7, 1886.

Mary Ryan was almost certainly the wife or mother of James. She was listed as the proprietress of The Cosmopolitan (hotel) at Lake Valley, on April 7, 1888.

Since Mrs. D.G. Meredith managed the hotel in March of that year and was again in charge by the end of July, Mary Ryan was only there for a short time.

However, she was apparently moving with James, who had relocated to Lake Valley by at least February 1887.

The Cahill and Parker Mortgage -- On the same date that the mortgage to Mary Ryan was satisfied (June 7, 1886), Ryan took out a loan with Thomas Cahill and F.W. Parker for $300, almost certainly to pay the note to Mary Ryan. The entire sum was due in six months, on December 7, 1886.

Parker recorded on December 13, 1886, that the mortgage was “satisfied and discharged” – in other words, paid.

Even though the loan was recorded on December 13, that does not necessarily mean that Ryan was late in his payment.

The fact that Charles Lerr borrowed against the equipment on December 4 argues that Ryan had paid the mortgage by that time.

This was obviously the same “Soda Water Outfit,” it was still “situated in Hillsboro,” and Ryan continued as the user. However, there were some interesting changes. First, Cahill and Parker were a bit more demanding, and Ryan had to include a spring wagon in the collateral to get the loan. The other changes had to do with numbers. The amount of $300 leads to the obvious conclusion that the Cahill and Parker loan was made to pay off Mary Ryan.

Bottles and Extras However, recall that the first two mortgages counted 15 gross of bottles (or 2,160 bottles). This mortgage lists “one hundred & sixty boxes bottles” and one hundred & sixty boxes 25 gross stoppers. The term “boxes” almost certainly refers to cases of bottles, typically stocked 24 to a case. That adds up to 3,840 bottles. It is unfortunate that we do not have the original mortgage document. What we have is a recording of the document in the mortgage book by the County Clerk. The way many people wrote a “0” in handwritten script, especially during that time period, could easily be mistaken for a “6” – leading to “160” being recorded, when the actual document was for an even hundred. One hundred cases multiplied by 24 bottles equals 2,400 bottles, much closer to the original estimate and the same as estimates in the following mortgages.

This correction, however, still leaves an additional 240 bottles or ten extra cases. Assuming this is a correct count (rather than an error), something must have changed.Indeed, this record includes “one corking machine.” Assuming that this is not just a misunderstanding of a machine to install “patent” (i.e., Hutchinson) stoppers, why would Ryan have acquired a machine to install corks?

A simple explanation fits both the era and circumstances. First, ginger ale and various forms of specific waters (e.g., Apollinaris Water) were popular on the frontier by this point in history.

Decades earlier, ginger ale was bottled in tall, thin bottles with rounded or pointed bases. By the late 1880s, those had evolved into tall, thin bottles with rounded bases that had small concave centers (to create a stable bottom that would allow the bottle to stand upright).

These were generally sealed with corks as were the various types of specialty waters. If Ryan began bottling ginger ale and/or specialty waters, it explains both the corking machine and the additional bottles.

All of this borrowing to pay off other notes is an early form of check kiting (writing a check from one bank to

Bottles and Extras pay off another bank and repeating that until you have enough money to cover the original bad check) – currently illegal in every state. This suggests that Ryan was not doing well in the bottling business – at least not after he bought the new bottling equipment. Of course, mining in the Black Range was beginning to seriously decline about then, so sales must have fallen off pretty drastically.

Charles Lerr, The Charles Lerr Mortgage -- On December 4, 1886, Charles Lerr borrowed $425 from two sets of local Hillsboro merchants – Sowell & Brandon and Herrin, Keller & Miller. The loan was to be paid back in two payments on April 1 and June 1, 1887.The list of the property mortgaged was essentially the same equipment originally purchased from Madlener on February 15, 1886, “including the sodawater outfit formerly owned by E.J. Ryan.” The mortgage was cancelled just two months later, on February 1, 1887.

This brings up far more questions than it answers. Who was Lerr? How did he get involved? Did he, indeed, take up soda bottling? This mortgage and the term “soda-water outfit formerly owned by E.J. Ryan” certainly implies that the purpose of this loan was to allow Lerr to purchase the equipment.

Did the equipment stay at Hillsboro?

The entry does not say, although the mortgage was recorded as cancelled at Hillsboro. However, Hillsboro is where the mortgage was recorded – not the location of the equipment.

Herrin, Keller & Miller had locations at both Hillsboro and Lake Valley, so the locations of their businesses is no help. In the Remarks section, the entry states “Herrin Keller & Miller and Sowell & Brandon request this mortgage cancelled.” Why? Did Lerr cease operations, abandon the equipment and leave? Did he pay it off? So, why use the word “cancelled” instead of “satisfied?” The mortgage was cancelled on February 1, 1887, a date significant to the next mortgage.

E.J. Ryan – Again. The Perrault Mortgage -- It is highly probable that Lerr defaulted on the loan. Judging by

March - April 2012 the date, he defaulted without making a single payment. Although we will never be certain, it is very likely that the two firms (Herrin, Keller & Miller and Sowell & Brandon) got their money back from Ryan (if Ryan ever actually saw the money), and Ryan once more was in possession of the equipment.

On February 1, 1887, the same day that Lerr’s note was declared cancelled, Ryan once again floated a loan. This time, however, the loan was for a smaller sum: $127.85, and the mortgagee was George O. Perrault, whose family was in business at Hillsboro. A single payment was due on August 1, six months later. This time, for the lesser sum, Ryan only put part of the equipment up as collateral: 1 - 7 Gallon Generator 1 Bottling Table 100 Boxes 200 Doz Bottles with stoppers Note that the “100 Boxes” did not include the bottles. The total was 200 dozen bottles (2,400 bottles, the same number as in the last transaction). The record added that the “Complete Soda Water Outfit [was] now in Lake Valley.”

At Hillsboro, on June 7, 1887, Perault recorded “I hereby acknowledge Satisfaction in full on the within mortgage.” As noted above, this a date of recording, not necessarily the date that the mortgage was satisfied. The reason this is important is that Ryan probably repaid Perrault in mid-February, but Perrault, for whatever reason, did not get to Hillsboro to record the transaction until four months later.

The Holz and Cotton Mortgage -The final mortgage listed for Ryan was a $500 loan from Conrad Holz and William Cotton.The listing of the collateral this time was not very thorough: “One complete Soda Water Apparatus together with all necessary appurtenances thereunto [sic] belonging, also about 100 Soda Water Boxes together with the entire bottles corks &c.” The note was due in full on May 15, 1887, only three months from the date of the loan. The entry said nothing about the location of the equipment.

51 Even more inconvenient (for us), there was no record of the final disposition of the mortgage. Since this is the last mortgage entry we have found for Ryan, he may have defaulted on the loan and left town – in which case, Holz and Cotton probably repossessed the bottling equipment.

Summing up the Ryan Years -- There is no question that T.L. Reber moved to the Black Range by July 1882, settling at Robinson and opening a bottling works. He branched out to Hillsboro and may have moved his operation there in 1883. Reber sold out to Ryan in November. Ryan had moved the bottling works to Lake Valley by early 1884. He bought a new bottling outfit in February 1886 and moved (back?) to Hillsboro. Then, Ryan began a streak of borrowing money – repeatedly using the new equipment and the same number of bottles as collateral.

Aside from the initial notes to Philip Madlener, the manufacturer of the soda bottling outfit, Ryan took out two other loans, each to pay off the previous note.

He apparently sold the equipment to Charles Lerr in December 1886, but Lerr defaulted on the loan (probably without bottling a single soda), and Ryan again gained possession of the equipment in early 1887. At this point, Ryan may have quit bottling, although he floated two more loans, still using the bottling outfit for collateral. He may have defaulted on the final loan and left town.

Ryan seems to have also dropped out of the newspapers. He became news again in April 1888, when he was peripherally involved in a shooting at Hermosa (in the north of the Black Range).Ryan returned to Cañada de Alamosa and farming in August. Our last glimpse of Ryan was in Santa Fe on February 12, 1898, where he was described as “a traveling man” who had just come “up from Albuquerque” en route to Colorado, his bottling days almost certainly just a distant memory.

A strange loose end remains. Ryan apparently purchased 2,160 Hutchinson bottles in February 1886. By June, the number had increased to 2,400, possibly

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by the inclusion of ginger ale bottles.

By June 1887, the number remained the same. During this 16-month period, Ryan does not seem to have lost a single bottle. Since the deposit system did not yet exist to reclaim bottles, it seems incredible that no one seems to have kept or broken a single one! Either the people recording the mortgages were not counting, or Ryan was not bottling.

L.P. Johnson, Another Successor to Reber? -- On March 21, 1884, the Black Range printed a brief but intriguing blurb: “L.P. Johnson is fixing up a building adjoining his residence which he will occupy as a soda factory. He has his fountain and bottling apparatus on the way and will soon be ready for business.”[3] The newspaper was printed at Chloride, just a few miles west of Robinson, the location where T.L. Reber had operated his bottling works until at least August, possibly as late as October 1883.

Unfortunately, we have found no other information about the Johnson bottling plant. Johnson may have just been another short-term Western soda bottler, but the timing and location form a possible connection with Reber that is simply too compelling to ignore. Since Reber was bottling at two locations in the Black Range, he very likely had two sets of bottling apparatus. If Ryan had purchased the Hillsboro set up in November 1883, that still left the Robinson equipment – very conveniently located for Johnson.

Fleischman and Brandon. The Snyder and Johnson Mortgage -- On June 25, 1888, Leopold Fleishman and Archie C. Brandon borrowed $912.85 from R.W. Snyder and S.N. Johnson to buy a large inventory of bottling equipment.The inventory was so detailed that it included such items as “1 punch . . . 1 stove & pipe . . . 1 saw . . . 1 green coat . . . 1 Bay horse,” and numerous other items – a total of 63 entries! Of specific interest, the inventory listed: 3 cases ginger ale & bottles 65 dozen ale bottles 107 empty soda cases

36 ginger ale cases empty 6 doz quart soda bottles 80 cases sodas filled with soda bottles 21 full quart cases filled with bottles This came to 2,772 regular-sized bottles (about 8 ounces) and 576 quarts (3,348 bottles total). If this were the same soda bottling outfit ordered by Ryan two-and-a-half years earlier, it was a much more detailed inventory and/or had been greatly enhanced. Since the loan was for almost a thousand dollars, this may reflect a new set of bottling equipment. The bottling outfit was “situated in the Town of Kingston,” and the mortgage was to be paid in monthly installments that culminated in a final payment on May 25, 1889.

This inventory is very different from the earlier ones made by (or for) Ryan. If this is the same equipment, then there had been numerous additions.

Alternatively, the early inventories may simply have been less thorough. Such items as the bay horse and accompanying tack and livery, however, were almost certainly additions. In any event, the gap of at least a year in the record, and the difference in inventory, strongly suggests a break in the continuity that began with Reber in 1882.

The Pegues Mortgage -- Taking a page from Ryan’s book, Fleischman and Brandon took out a new loan from Phil T. Pegues on December 31, 1888, to pay off the Snyder & Johnson loan early. Snyder & Johnson acknowledged “payment in full of this Mortgage” on December 31, 1888, the same day that Fleischman and Brandon mortgaged the soda outfit to Pegues for $900. This time, however, the clerk eliminated the details and called it simply “A complete Soda Water Manufacturing

Bottles and Extras Out-fit – located in Kingston.” Again, the payments were monthly, and they extended to December 31, 1889. As with Ryan’s final mortgage, there is no record of the disposition of the loan.

Fleischman & Brandon -Fleischman & Brandon are listed in the 1889 New Mexico Business Directory and Gazetteer as “Soda Mfgs” at Kingston – but were not enumerated in 1888. This, too, gives us an interesting hint. If Fleischman and Brandon entered the soda business when they mortgaged the equipment on June 25, 1888, it was almost certainly too late in the year to have been included in the 1888 Gazetteer. Thus, the pair probably opened their business sometime after the June 25, 1888, mortgage. It would certainly have taken awhile to set up such a plant.

Along with the 1889 directory listing, advertisements from the firm have also survived. The partners took out ads in the Kingston Weekly Shaft from at least May 1889 to July 8 of that year.

However, there was no ad in the July 13 issue nor any that followed. The ad was short but informative: “KINGSTON BOTTLING WORKS. FLEISHMAN & BRANDON, PROP’S. OFFICE ON WATER ST. Manufacturers of all kinds of Soft Drinks. Goods shipped to any town in Sierra County. Your Trade is solicited.

Give us a trial order” (Figure 9).

The abrupt cessation of ads in the middle of the prime soft drink sale season suggests that something was suddenly amiss. This abrupt termination, coupled with the unresolved payment record on the loan is ominous, indeed. The combination suggests that Fleishman & Brandon went out of business sometime in early July 1889.

Jake Reidlinger, The Last of the

Figure 9 – Fleishman & Brandon ad (Kingston Weekly Shaft 6/8/1889)

[3] The words “on the way” may be misleading.

The reader should be aware that newspaper reporters of the period were not known for pinpoint accuracy. Thus, “on the way” could mean shipped from Chicago – or being moved across town that day.

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water, mineral waters, and other waters and tonics.”

A long-established Silver City bottler, Reidlinger, along with his son, Jake, Jr., stated their intention to open two new bottling operations in September 1891 (Silver City Independent 9/18/1891). Jake, Jr., was to operate the Hillsboro works, while “an expert from St. Louis” was being imported to run the new plant at Clifton, Arizona.

Apparently, Jake, Sr., was to continue the Silver City business. The younger Figure 10 – Soda Works at Hillsboro (Sanborn Reidlinger may have bought the much newer Fire Insurance Map, 1893) bottling equipment used Black Range Soda Bottlers -- Jacob

by Fleischman & Brandon Reidlinger[4] advertised as J. Reidlinger – already available at nearby Kingston and Son in the Sierra County Advocate – since the senior Reidlinger remained from October 2, 1891, through April 28, in business at Silver City.

1893. His plant was called the Hillsboro The Hillsboro Bottling Works Bottling Works. He advertised an appears on the 1893 Sanborn map incredibly diverse choice of sodas that (shown as “Soda Wks.”). The plant was included: “lemon soda, sarsparilla soda, located behind the saloon and billiard cream soda, orange soda, crystal soda, hall in the center of Block 34 (Figure orange color [what that means is lost in 10). The saloon faced W. Main, and the recesses of time], ginger ale, birch the block was between 1st and 2nd beer, pear champagne, champagne Avenues. The street behind the bottling ciders, Cherrie Ferri Phosphate, iron works was noted as “not defined” on tonic, Standard Nerve Food, Standard the map.Although the small building Neur [?] Cure, Waukesha water, seltzer was still shown on the 1898 map, it was not labeled – suggesting that Reidlinger was not succeeded by another bottler.

Born in 1837, Reidlinger had

Figure 11 – Ad from Reidlinger in the Sierra County Advocate (8/23/1895)

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come to Silver City from Albuquerque ca. 1882 and advertised his bottling works in the Silver City Enterprise at least as early as April 20, 1883 (Wood 1998:[74]). Reidlinger operated his “Soda Water Factory” – shown on the 1886 Sanborn map – at the corner of Texas and San Vicente until at least August of 1896. He retained at least some connection with the Black Range. On August 23, 1895, Reidlinger advertised (with no sons included in the ad) in the Sierra Count Advocate that he was a “Dealer in all kinds of Soda Water” and that “Orders from Sierra County [were] solicited. (Figure 11) Jacob Reidlinger died in 1911.

As noted above, the Reidlinger ads continued in the Sierra County Advocate until late April of 1893.Since 1893 was the year of the Silver Panic and a major depression that especially affected mines, business at Hillsboro had probably dropped drastically. At that point, Jake, Jr., apparently closed the business and returned to Silver City to work with his father. The Enterprise (8/10/1897) reported in 1897 that Jake, Jr., was departing to “Torreon, Mexico, where he will work in a large bottling plant at good wages. He is experienced in this kind of work.” Jake, Sr., and his younger son, P.J., remained at Silver City. For a look at all the bottlers, see Table 1.

A Legacy in Glass -- The final chapter, however, was written long after all of the bottlers had died, much of the Black Range had become ghost towns, and all of the bottling plants had long since collapsed. At least one of these bottling firms left a legacy in glass –

Table 1 – Black Range Soda Bottlers Bottler Location Date Range T.L. Reber Robinson 1882-1883 T.L. Reber Hillsboro 1883 E.J. Ryan Hillsboro?

1883 L,P, Johnson Chloride 1884 E.J. Ryan Lake Valley 1884-1886 E.J. Ryan Hillsboro 1886 Charles Lerr Hillsboro 1886-1887 E.J. Ryan Lake Valley 1887 Unknown (no one?)

Hillsboro?(anywhere?) 1887-1888 Fleishman & Brandon Kingston 1888-1889 Jake Reidlinger Hillsboro 1891-1893

[4] Although the name is spelled both Riedlinger and Reidlinger, the later is the spelling used in his advertisements.

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Figure 12 – Two Hutchinson bottles used by Reber – one was almost certainly his bottle from the Black Range era (Lynn Loomis collection) Hutchinson soda bottles. Soda bottlers from the late 19th century identified their products in three ways. First, the cases or wooden boxes in which the bottles were carried usually had the bottlers’ names either stamped or burned into the wood – a clear identification.

The other two forms of designation were found on the bottles, themselves.

The cheapest method was to affix paper labels to the bottles with glue. This, of course, while relatively inexpensive, was messy and required an extra step in the preparation of the final product – the bottled soda. It also required labels.

To look professional, these had to be ordered from a label maker in the East and stored. Alternatively, they could be printed at the local newspaper office and cut into appropriate sizes with scissors.

Many New Mexico bottlers opted for the simpler but more expensive means of embossed labeling. Embossing is a process that began by at least 1812, whereby letters, numbers, and/or pictures are engraved into the metal of the glass mold to leave a protruding impression on the side or base of the bottle. These raised letters were seen (and felt) by anyone drinking or handling the bottle of soda. Unlike the paper label, embossing did not wash off with cleaning or cooling in ice and did not wear off with handling. Embossing, however, could only be done during the manufacturing process; it was permanent. Of course, a few bottlers used no identification on their bottles at all – but these were distinct exceptions.

This brings us to soda bottles in

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To date, local/regional archaeologists and collectors have discovered four separate Hutchinson-style bottles embossed with Reber’s name. One of these also had “SANTA FE” embossed on it, so it could not have been one of the Black Range bottles. Another used manufacturing techniques that also place its use at a later date.Of the two remaining bottles, one is embossed “REBER” in an arch with “N.M.” below it in a round plate on the front.The other is identical but lacks the “N.M.” designation. Although we have not been able to trace the exact provenience, tradition suggests that the bottle with “N.M.” was found in the Black Range.

This is likely the bottle used by Reber at Robinson and Hillsboro in 1882 and 1883 (Figure 12).

No one has yet discovered a bottle embossed with the name of E.J. Ryan.

The immediate reaction to this lack of bottles is to believe that Ryan only used generic Hutchinson bottles with paper labels. But the picture may be bigger than that. If Ryan bought out Reber, he may have inherited Reber’s bottles in the process – and undoubtedly used them until they all wore out. The containers formed the single greatest cost item in bottling. Bottles broke, wore out to the point where they would no longer seal, and were discarded by customers. In fact, Ryan may have only bought a new bottling outfit in 1886 because he was running out of bottles and decided to replace and replenish everything.

New Mexico Hutchinson bottles are almost all scarce or rare. Virtually all the bottlers used the containers until they completely wore out. Only one or two of each Reber bottle has been found, and only three of the ones described below.

The absence of a Ryan bottle may just mean that we have not found one yet.

On the other hand, we may actually have examples of the Ryan bottles.

“Black Range Lodge,” an article in New Mexico Magazine (Groves 2007:40-43) described what has become known to collectors as the “Black Range Hutch.”

Pete Fust, co-owner of the Black

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Figure 13 – Bottle from the Black Range Soda Co., known to collectors as the Black Range Hutch (Pat Brown collection) Range Lodge at Kingston at that time, discovered the bottle while digging a trench with his backhoe. Based on the article and photo, the New Mexico Historical Bottle Society rented the Lodge for its annual “bottle dig.”

The Hutchinson bottle found by Fust and two more that have been discovered since, are all embossed “BLACK, RANGE, SODA CO.” in an arch with “NEW MEXICO” in an inverted arch below it – all in a round plate on the front of the bottle. Two of the three known bottles were found at Kingston (Figure 13). The logical conclusion is that the Black Range Soda Co. was operated by Leopold Fleishman and Archie C. Brandon –

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This identification, however, may be what mystery fans call a “red herring” – evidence that is misleading.

Two other bits of information are important. First, bottlers in the Black Range, and even those as far away as Silver City, advertised their abilities to sell sodas throughout the Black Range.Thus, anyone’s bottle could be found anywhere in the area. Second, Fleishman & Brandon called their plant the Kingston Bottling Works, a name inconsistent with the Black Range Soda Co. on the bottles.

Although Reidlinger is a contender, he, too, is unlikely for two reasons. First, he advertised his plant as the Hillsboro Bottling Works, so the name “Black Range Soda Co.” would not make any sense. Second, the manufacturing technique used to make the bottle was rarely still used in the 1890s. Of the five known bottlers in the Black Range, E.J. Ryan therefore becomes by far the most likely candidate as the user of the Black Range Hutch – with the 2,400 “patent stopper” bottles in his inventory.

Of course, many mysteries remain in the Black Range. We still have blank spots in our knowledge, especially for the 1887-1888 and 1889-1891 periods – and we have not found a bottle made for Fleishman & Brandon. Reidlinger used a very rare embossed Hutchinson bottle at Silver City, but it is unlikely that his son would have continued to use the same bottle in the Black Range.

However, no Reidlinger bottle with Hillsboro embossing has been found – at least not yet.

As in Silver City, each bottler may only have placed a single, initial order for embossed bottles – then filled anything he could get his hands on. That behavior would explain the scarcity of bottles in the area. But, the search is never over. Just a short time ago, no one had heard of the Black Range Hutch. New discoveries will provide fresh answers. History is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle with most of the pieces missing – and we take great joy in discovering every piece!

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Currey, Josiah Seymour 1922 History of Milwaukee City and County, Vol. III. S.J. Clarke, Chicago.

Flower, Frank A. 1888 Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics. Wisconsin. 1887-1888.

Democrat Printing Co., Madison, Wisconsin.

Fowler, Ron 2011 “Hutchinson’s Patent Spring Stopper: Bottles.” Hutchbook.com. http://www. hutchbook.com/Bottling/default.htm Groves, Melody 2007 “Black Range Lodge.” New Mexico Magazine 85(4):40-43.

Lockhart, Bill 1999 “Deposition Lag in Returnable Soda Bottles and Bottling Trends in El Paso, Texas.”

In Archaeology of the Jornada Mogollon: Proceedings from the 10th Jornada Mogollon Conference, pp.157-170. Geo-Marine, El Paso.

2010 Bottles on the Border: The History and Bottles of the Soft Drink Industry in El Paso, Texas, 1881-2000. Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information Website: Reference Sources/Bibliography. http:// www.sha.org/bottle/References.htm 2011 Soda Bottles and Bottling atAlamogordo, New Mexico. (Previously titled (2001b): Just Who in the Heck is Lula, Anyway? The Alamogordo, New Mexico, Carbonated Beverage Industry and Its Bottles.). Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information Website: Reference Sources/Bibliography. http://www.sha.org/bottle/References.htm Lockhart, Bill and Zang Wood 2011 “Soda Bottling in the Black Range.”

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Polk, R.L. 1884 “R.L. Polk & Co.’s New Mexico Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1884.” In Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming and Arizona Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1884-5, Volume I., pp. 297-372. A.L. Polk & Co., Chicago, and A.C. Danger, Detroit.

Riley, John J. 1958 A History of the American Soft Drink Industry: Bottled Carbonated Beverages, 1807-1957.

American Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages, Washington, D. C. Wood, Zang 1998 New Mexico Blobs - Hutchs Mineral Waters. Privately printed, Flora Vista, New Mexico.

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Thar’s Still Gold in Them Thar Hills (Not to Mention Golden Gate Bottles)

By Ken Morrill

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rights, California, now a ghost town, was a small settlement centered around a depot located at the northern end of the Summit tunnel on the narrow gauge Southern Pacific Railroad.

In the 1890s, the company developed a park upstream from the depot, hoping to attract tourists from the Bay Area. Known as Sunset Park, it became wildly successful and on weekends attracted thousands of picnickers who left a staggering number of beer, whiskey and soda bottles scattered about in the woods.

In the late 1960s, a telephone company lineman was the first to gather the old bottles. Other collectors soon followed and dug the outhouses as well as surface dumps located behind the large redwood stumps. Few bottles remained when I discovered the park, but it still became one of my favorite haunts.

One day as I walked along the park’s

Depot at Wright’s Station Oct.7th 1898

Fault line in Summit Rd. in front of Blacksmith shop after1906 earthquake

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outskirts, I spotted the tops of two bottles among the clover-shaped leaves of redwood sorrel carpeting the ground. I pulled the first bottle out from the redwood needles and saw an embossed bear holding a beer mug, surrounded by the words, “GOLDEN GATE BOTTLING WORKS / TRADE MARK / MCGRATH AND MAHONEY / SAN FRANCISCO.”.

Condition of the bottle was flawless as was the wire bail, rubber gasket and porcelain stopped, printed with the bear and GOLDEN GATE BOTTLING WORKS, S.F.” The other bottle was a mint, beautiful green, whittled quart beer embossed FREDERICKSBURG BOTTLING CO. / THIS BOTTLE NEVER SOLD.” The bottle also retained in working condition its original wire bail and porcelain stopper.

For as long as I can remember, I spent most of my free time searching for beautiful and/or interesting objects. Throughout my childhood, I collected rocks and minerals, arrowheads, coins, stamps and insects. The instinct for hunting-gathering, first attributed to our prehistoric ancestors, lives on in today’s collectors and we are fascinated by the objects we find.

Early on, I roamed the fields and woods near my grandparents’ home in rural northern California in search of treasure. Often I came down with a bad case of poison oak, but could still enjoy hours inside the home, rummaging through closets and musty smelling steamer trunks filled with books, stereoscopic cards, fabrics, jar upon jar of odd colorful buttons and strange 19th and early 20th century American and foreign coins, letters and stamps. These experiences set the stage for a life of collecting.

In 1970, at the age of 15, I moved to the Santa Cruz Mountain and there I discovered colorful pieces of old bottles scattered about in the woods.

It was an unforgettable day when I found part of an aqua-colored bottle, with words blown into the glass that read, ‘DR. KILMER’S SWAMP ROOT, KIDNEY, LIVER AND BLADDER CURE.” Who would have believed such a claim and taken this concoction? What ailment did they really suffer from and did this “medicine” help or hurt them?

After school, I promptly caught the bus carrying us “mountain kids” 15 miles from Los Gatos to our homes in the hills. Located within 20 feet of my bus stop was a small creek containing many old broken bottles and pieces of rusted metal.(I later learned a blacksmith’s shop and grocery store stood at this location). As much as I wanted to explore the creek, first I had to walk home, drop off my books, change clothes and then I could head off to crawl and dig through poison oak in search of antique bottles. These bottles told stories about the lives of the first mountain settlers who came here to fulfill their dreams.

Prior to my move to the mountains, most of the ravines behind old farm houses had been scoured by earlier bottle collectors. With a little luck and a lot of persistent digging, I found bottles they overlooked and on a rare occasion I stumbled onto an undiscovered dump.

Throughout my high school years, I searched for bottles in the hills around my home, but by the time I graduated, few were left to discover. On a positive note, years of scratching the itchy, oozing patches of poison oak that covered my body ended – not because I had given up bottle digging, but because I had finally developed immunity to the irritating plant.

However, my passion to find treasure did not subside with the scarcity of bottles to dig. Needing more excitement, an article in the magazine “California Geology” prompted me to go gold hunting. Hunting for gold could be combined with fishing trips and for years, I had been fishing a gold-bearing stream – the middle fork of the Feather River.

My first prospecting/fishing trip to the river was made in the summer of 1973. Downstream from our campsite, below the old lumber mill

Golden Gate Bottling Works and Frederickburg Bottling Co. found at Sunset Park

Moving a boulder in the Feather River

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at Sloat, the river flowed around a large flat expanse of bedrock.

Near the bank, in shallow water, I found a crevice tightly packed with rocks and gravel. After prying out the rocks, I put on my face mask and with my hand began to fan the water to wash the finer gravel and silt downstream.

As the silt disappeared, the unmistakable color and shape of a tiny flake of placer gold revealed itself at the bottom of the crevice.

I picked it up with tweezers and carefully placed it inside a 35mm film vial. Later, I tried my hand at gold panning. In front of camp, at our dish-washing spot, I scooped up some gravel and placed it in my gold pan. I held the lip of the pan under water and swirled it in a circular motion until all the gravel washed away. The remaining black Golden Gate Medical Syrup bottle, Gold and gold coins all found at the Feather River pan .Watching gold emerge was as at the culminating point. Cunningham & sand was removed by repeated dipping of the pan’s lip in and out of thrilling as pulling a good bottle out Co.’s store now rose, swung gradually of the ground. Finding gold was never around and went gliding rapidly down the water, revealing many “colors.”

Each summer for more than 30 disappointing, unlike pulling out a the river for several hundred feet. It then turned into an eddy at the side of years, I made trips to the middle fork of bottle and finding it broken.

My labor was occasionally rewarded the stream, came back close to where it the Feather River. Everything needed for a four- to five-day trip, including with finds of a historical nature – coins had started from. The boys gave three wet suit, fishing and mining equipment, once used by Gold Rush miners. A great hearty cheers. The store then shot out food, utensils and clothes I packed flood that began on Friday, the 10th of into the middle of the river and was several miles into and out of the river January, 1862, destroyed many of the soon out of sight.

“A cheerful fire was burning in the canyon, which had a vertical drop of up mining camps and literally washed the town of Feather Point down the stove; the lights from the candles shown to 2,500 feet.

Following a hearty breakfast of Feather River. Here are excerpts from brightly out of the doors and windows, and a faithful watch-dog stood at the pancakes, bacon and eggs, I donned a newspaper report: “About 5 o’clock on Friday open door, looking out as composed my wetsuit and work began in the river. Overburden of rock and gravel morning last, the Feather River sent a as if nothing unusual had happened. In was removed by hand, while breath- huge log into the rear of Cunningham’s this manner, the store passed around hold diving to reach the gold lodged in store, carrying away a shed that was the bend in the river and was soon out crevices of the bedrock. Small pieces of attached to the main building with of sight. The saloon remained a few gold were sucked up in a device called such a crash as to awaken the sleeping minutes longer and then prepared to a “snifter” made from a short length of inmates of the store in double quick take its leave.”

Downstream from Nelson Creek, I Plexiglas tubing inserted into a rubber time. This was the first greeting of the found several silver and gold coins that bulb. The tubing extended halfway into freshet at Nelson.

“The day dawned on a crowd of predate the flood. My finds included the bulb so the gold will not fall back out. If I found a nugget too large to very busy men packing contents of the $2-1/2 and $5 gold pieces, likely washed suck through the tubing, I’d pick it up store to a place of safety. Meyers, the out of some miner’s camp during the proprietor of the saloon, now deemed flood of 1862 and re-deposited into a and put it inside the bulb.

After six or seven hours of mining it expedient to remove the wares from crack in the bedrock 150 years later.

One summer, I discovered a spot on an enjoyable float downstream to the exposed tenement, and a busy scene the river called “Hartman’s Bar.” This camp was topped off by pouring the struck up on that side of town also.

“At 4 o’clock on Saturday morning, river bar had been worked by hundreds contents of the snifter into the gold the waters of Feather and Nelson were of hopeful miners throughout the Gold

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Lady Bugs at Willow Creek Rush. The bar is located at the tail-out of a pool running for hundreds of yards over solid bedrock.

Evidence can be seen on the bank where a flume had been constructed to divert the river around the pool. Miners had cut a channel in the solid rock along one side of the river in which they’d built a wooden flume. Above the head of the pool, a temporary dam had been constructed to divert the river into the flume, allowing miners to reach gold on the river bottom.

After establishing my camp, I wandered down river to look for bedrock. While walking through the forest, I noticed the neck of an aqua bottle on the ground in front of me.

Reaching down, I pulled it from the leaves. The large medicine bottle was embossed “B.F. ROBERTS & CO. / GOLDEN GATE MEDICAL SYRUP / CALIFORNIA.” It was the first old bottle I had found in years, but my desire to find gold called me back to the river before thoroughly searching the area for additional bottles. Very little gold was found and 20 years would pass before I would return.

I wanted to show my wife Hartman’s Bar so we made plans to

explore the area on a one-day trip. We made the four-mile hike, with our two dogs leading the way, making good time despite the misfortune of disturbing a yellow jacket nest along the side of the trail. When we reached the bottom of the trail, a quick swim in the river was first on the agenda. Then we crossed a new Pacific Crest trail bridge and headed upstream to explore a beautiful little stream known as Willow Creek. (I was surprised to see the bridge I used on my first trip had been torn down, replaced by the new one).

At the mouth of Willow Creek, the cold, moss-covered boulders were covered with thousands of lady bugs.

Continuing up the creek, we found a shallow pool surrounded by smooth flat bedrock, a perfect setting to enjoy our lunch. As sunlight crept further into the canyon and the air temperature rose, our lady bug friends began to stir. Soon the air was filled by a cloud of the red beetles flying as if they had nowhere to go.

After lunch, I decided to go downstream and search the area where I had found the medicine bottle years earlier. From the river’s edge, I worked my way uphill and soon found pieces of old glass on the surface of

59 the ground. There were several broken “WALKER’S VINEGAR BITTERS,” including a nice apple green example. The pieces appeared undisturbed so I was hopeful the site had been overlooked by other collectors. As I continued up the hillside, I entered a narrow ravine and began to find rusted tin cans. Further up the ravine, I found a large dump containing broken 19th and early 20th century bottles. Unfortunately, the dump had been dug from top to bottom recently, long after my first visit to the area.

I may never know what treasures were found in that ravine, but the medicine bottle and jar of gold, which I have accumulated over the years, will always bring back wonderful memories of the many trips made into the Feather River.

Finding shallow gold-bearing crevices in this river has grown harder and harder over the years and there have not been any floods to redeposit new gold. Losing enthusiasm for gold prospecting, I have resumed bottle collecting. Now, however, my hunting for bottles is usually done at bottle shows or through searches on the internet. Although purchasing a bottle on eBay cannot hold a candle to finding one in the woods, it does allow me to add bottles to my collection that I would never live to dig.

Who knows, maybe some day I will find a collector willing to trade the Holy Grail – a quart beer bottle with three standing bears on it (a Jacob Denzler) for California gold..

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2012-2014 FOHBC Elections Here is the slate of officers put forth by the nominating committee (Tom Lines, chairman) for 2012-2014. The slate is being put forth for your consideration and anyone desiring to run for office may be nominated by going to the website and printing out a nomination form. Then, mail it to Tom Lines, P.O. Box 382831, Birmingham, AL 35238. Closing date for nominations is April 1, 2012 at midnight. Additional nomination will be printed alongside the slate proposed by the nominating committee and will be listed in the May-June issue of Bottles and Extras, with a short bio of each candidate.

President Ferdinand Meyer V Houston, TX

Business Manager Alan DeMaison Painesville, OH

1st Vice President Bob Ferraro Boulder City, NV

Public Relations Director Pam Selenak Orange, CA

2nd Vice President Jamie Houdeshell Haskins, OH

Director At Large (automatically filled) Gene Bradberry Bartlett, TN

Secretary James Berry St. Johnsville, NY

Director At Large John Pastor New Hudson, MI

Treasurer Gary Beatty North Port, FL

Director At Large John Panek Deerfield, IL

Historian Dick Watson Medford, NJ

Midwest Region Director Randee Kaiser Holts Summit, MO

Merchandising Director Sheldon Baugh Russellville, KY

Northeast Region Director Ed Kuskie Elizabeth, PA

Membership Director Jim Bender Sprakers, NY

Southern Region Director Jack Hewitt Lawrenceville, GA

Conventions Director Tom Phillips Memphis, TN

Western Region Director Dave Maryo Victorville, CA

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Contact Alan DeMaison (440) 358-1223 or a.demaison@sbcglobal.net FOR SALE: Vintage Bottle: J.G.Fox & Co. Siphon Sparkling Water Bottle - Fresh out of Storage – unclean. Has some scratches due to age, but is in great condition. Bottle weighs 2 lbs., 11-1/4 in. high. Asking $30, plus $11.00 USPS priority shipping. Email Charles for picture. CTTE Corporation, 410 Brunswick Drive #11, Troy, NY 12180, Tel: 518-880-7531, Email: cp.casimir@cttecorp.us

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FOR SALE: For the beginner collector: Five(5) different embossed “Dr” bottles-no stain or damage $6.00; Six(6) embossed poison bottles, all different, no damage $10.00; three(3) hutches from different states $12.00.

All of the above for $22.00. Postage and insurance extra. Bill Herbolsheimer, 6 Beech Cluster, Doylestown, PA 18901 PH: (215)340-7156 Email: raeherb@ pinerunvillage.org

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FOR SALE: Key West Bottle Book; covers all embossed beverage bottles from Key West including hutches, crowntops, stoneware, cokes, and whiskey flasks. Also included is a pricelist of all from 2003-2011. Book contains color, rarity and full photos of all bottles. Price $25 + $3 for shipping

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Bottles and Extras and handling. Larry Smith, 122 Rosewood Circle, Jupiter, FL 33458.

PH: (561)628-6311 FOR SALE: 2009 DVD of Pomona, California FOHBC National displays.

Great for a club program or an evening’s entertainment. $10.00. All proceeds go to the FOHBC. Alan DeMaison (440) 358-1223 or a.demaison@sbcglobal.net

pinches and dramatic “bird swings”.

Dwayne Anthony 28390 Saffron Ave., Highland CA. 92346 Ph: 909-8629279 or insulators@open-wire.com WANTED: Figural Bitters, wanted single or a collection, particularly interested in odd colors. Top dollar!

Contact Bill Taylor, PH: (541)4795165. Email: wtaylor178@aol.com

ATTENTION COLLECTORS (or the curious!) DON’T MISS the 46th Annual Golden Gate Historical Bottle Society’s ANTIQUE BOTTLE AND COLLECTIBLE SHOW AND SALE. This 2-day event takes place at the Contra Costa County Fairgrounds (Sunset Hall) in Antioch, CA on Friday 4/20 from Noon to 6pm ($10 early admission fee) and Saturday 4/21 from 9am to 3pm (FREE ADMISSION).

Free walk-in appraisals and buyers available both days. You’ll find bottles, plus a wide variety of collectibles and “go-withs”. For more info, contact Gary or Darla Antone at 925-373-6758 or packrat49er@netscape.net

WANTED: Large Booth & Sedwick’s black or shades of yellow or puce. Shelly Hill, 13488 Belleview Dr., Nevada City, CA 95959 PH: (530)265-5090

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WANTED: Meadville Rye Whiskey back bar bottles. Looking for Meadville Soyer jugs I don’t have. Alan DeMaison PH: (440)358-1223, Email: a.demaison@sbcglobal.net

WANTED: Koca Nola bottles from: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, Canada, Cuba, and Mexico. Contact CHARLES HEAD - 23549-001, PO Box 150160, Atlanta, GA 30315.

WANTED: Hartley’s Peruvian Bark Bitters, W.D. Souders & Co. & Cabin Brand Pure Deep Well Beverages Property of Cabin Creek Land Co. Decota, W. Va. John Akers, PH (304) 343-8716 Email: mulecreekjohn@aol.com. Visit Old Bottle Page on facebook.

WANTED: Bottles & jars with wild amber or colored swirls and other oddities, such as nails in the glass, “leaf”

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WANTED: I need pictures of rare Indian Bitters and medicines for an online eBook at WeLoveOld Bottles. com. Mike Smith PH(918)256-6481 Email: mikesierra@telis.org WANTED: Sacramento Whiskey: THEO. BLAUTH/WHOLESALE WINE/&/LIQUER DEALERS/ SACRAMENTO,CAL. Barnett #55.

Contact: Steve Abbott PH: (916) 6318019 Email: foabbott@comcast.net

WANTED: SS 1909-1912 clear Miami cokes. These are needed for my next and upcoming book. Also need SS West Palm Beach, 7 oz shoulder script Coke (rare).

Thank you for your help. Photos welcome.

Larry Smith, 122 Rosewood Circle, Jupiter, FL 33458. PH: (561)628-6311 WANTED: THE FOLLOWING NEVADA DRUG STORE BOTTLES, UNDAMAGED: CHEATHAM’S PEARL ROSE CREAM--RENO, CHARLES M. FASSITT--RUBY HILL, G.P. MORRILL-VIRGINIA CITY. CONTACT: ANDY LOULIS, P.O. Box 16364, South Lake Tahoe, CA., 96151, PHONE:(530) 5422655, E-MAIL: aloulis@charter.net TRADE: Drugstore bottles from Michigan, Ohio, & Nebraska. I will trade two for one from my duplicates.

I hope they show city & state address.

Bill Herbolsheimer, 6 Beech Cluster,

Doylestown, PA 18901 PH: (215)3407156 Email: raeherb@pinerunvillage.org TRADE: Please, I will trade three “Drugstore” bottles from Philadelphia for one (1) “Drugstore” bottle from Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina. Multiple trades possible. Bill Herbolsheimer, 6 Beech Cluster, Doylestown, PA 18901 PH: (215)340-7156 Email: raeherb@ pinerunvillage.org WANTED: I need one embossed advertising medicine dose glass from Utah and South Carolina to complete my collection. I have dose glasses to offer as traders from many western states including ID, CA, OR, WA, AZ, and also other states including OK, TX, and SD. Contact: Tracy Gerken, 1131 Kings Cross, Brunswick, GA., 31525 ph: (912)269-2074 or email: 1gerken@bellsouth.net WANTED: Stockton, CA bottles and Base Embossed Cylinders, especially:John O’Brien Wholesale Liquors, Goldie Klenert Co., Evans & O’Brien (green), Kohlberg & Cavagnaro Wholesale Liquors , E.S. Holden peppersauce, Sherry & Iron Tonic (green), B. R. Lippincott & Co., Also, unusual base embossed cylinders in odd colors, blue green and aqua, applied seals, Maul Hebrew in amber.

Contact: Steve Schingler - sschingler@ charter.net or (706)215-3633

Have an Item to sell, searching for a particular bottle or go with. advertise here and contact: Alan DeMaison, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077 Ph:(h) 440-358-1223, (c) 440-796-7539 e-mail: a.demaison@sbcglobel.net

64 Wanted: Embossed advertising medicine dose glass from Utah or South Carolina. I have the following dose glasses and others to offer as traders…

SANTA RITA / DRUG STORE / C. SCHWARZWAELDER … (etched from Tucson, AZ) AUGUSTUS LANG / 12th & MAPLE / LOS ANGELES / DRUGGIST GODFREY & MOORE / PHARMACISTS / 108 S. SPRING ST. / LOS ANGELES J.B. SCOTT’S / PHARMACY / SALINAS, CAL. A.H. SMITH / (AHS MONOGRAM) / POLK & BUSH STS. (from San Francisco) E.B. JORGENSEN / PHARMACIST / 644 KEARNY STS. (from San Francisco) FLETCHER & CO. / DRUGGISTS / 1028 / MARKET ST., S.F. GOLDEN RULE PHARMACY / 1799 McALLISTER ST / SAN FRANCISCO, CAL SHUMATE’S / PRESCRIPTION PHARMACY / SAN FRANCISCO GOLDEN EAGLE / DRUG STORE / SANTA ROSA CLAYES’(logo)/NOPERCENTAGE / DRUG STORE (from Stockton, CA) Satisfaction or your money back on all our items. See pictures of these bottles and other fine bottles we have for sale on our website at www.greatantiquebottles.com Item BT255, Dr Jacob’s Bitters S. A. Spencer New Haven Ct, aqua, OP, VNM, $300.

Item BT296, National Bitters, figural ear of corn, yellow, pristine perfect condition, beautiful color, $2,500.

Item CL027, Figural Sailing Ship Cologne, clear, OP, thin flared lip, pristine perfect, $300.

Item FL294, GI-31, Washington – Jackson, yellow topaz with olive tone, OP, sheared lip, bold embossing, VNM, nice light color, $550.

Item FL381, GIV-5, Masonic Emblems – Eagle, light green, pontiled, very bold embossing, made

March - April 2012 K.E. WATSON CO. / DRUGGISTS / ORANGE, CAL. COMPLIMENTS OF / STEWARD BROS. / WALLACE. (from Idaho) SOMBART’S / DRUG STORE / EL RENO, OKLA. THE CORRY PHARMACY / ENID (conical from Oklahoma) GRACE & BODINSON DRUG CO. / BAKER (conical from Baker City, OR) N.A. MUEGGE / THE DRUGGIST / BAKER, ORE. F. NAU / PORTLAND / HOTEL PHARMACY (from Oregon) LAUE-DAVIS / DRUG CO. / RELIABLE / DRUGGISTS / PORTLAND, OR I.M. HELMEY & CO. / CORNER / DRUG / STORE / CANTON, SO. DAK. BLACK HAWK / MEDICINE CO. / PIERRE, S.D. RITTER’S DRUG STORE / SPOKANE WASH. THE QUAKER DRUG CO. / (INCORPORATED) / 1013-1015 / FIRST AVE / SEATTLE, WASH. Contact: Tracy Gerken, 1131 Kings Cross, Brunswick, GA 31525 1gerken@bellsouth.net 912-269-2074 of thick heavy glass and weighs 1 ½ pounds, sparkling perfect, super example, $1,400.

Item FJ025, Petal fruit jar, Red Book #3067, forest green, quart, IP, numerous bubbles, VNM, fine example, $2,200.

Item IK047, S. Fine Black Ink, deep brown, OP, loaded with bubbles, sparkling VNM, super example, $1,200.

Item IK096, Cov. 194, Harrison’s Columbian Ink, deep blue, deep open pontil, bold embossing, very whittled, sparkling perfect, finest example, $800.

Item MW042, S-25, Excelsior Spring Saratoga N. Y., pint, deep emerald green, bold embossing, mint, finest example, $250 Item PM164, S S Blodgett Ogdensburg N Y Persian Balm, aqua, OP, bold embossing,

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Item PM163, Zollickoffer’s Antirheumatic Cordial Philad, olive green, OP, excellent crudeness, VNM, a great example, rare, $3,900.

Item SM051, Log Cabin Sarsaparilla Rochester, N Y, deep brown, bold embossing, VNM, $200.

Item SW095, handled jug, A M Bininger & Co No. 19 Broad St New York, amber, bold embossing, whittled, mint, $650 Postage and insurance is extra. 10 day return privilege.

We are interested in buying quality antique bottles, flasks, jars and fire grenades. Let us know what you have for sale.

Ed and Kathy Gray, 1822 Treasure Lake, DuBois PA, 15801 Phone 814-375-0154 Email – bottleguy1@gmail.com

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FOHBC Sho-Biz

Calendar of shows and related events FOHBC Sho-Biz is published in the interest of the hobby. Federation affiliated clubs are connotated with FOHBC logo.

Insulator shows (courtesy of Crown Jewels) are indicated with an insulator. Information on up-coming collecting events is welcome, but space is limited.

Please send at least three months in advance, including telephone number to: FOHBC Sho-Biz, C/O Alan DeMaison, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077 or e-mail: a.demaison@sbcglobal.net Show schedules are subject to change. Please call before traveling long distances.

All listings published here will also be published on the website: http://www.FOHBC.org

March 2 & 3 Bullhead City, Arizona Western Regional Barbed Wire & Collectibles Show at the Bullhead City Chamber of Commerce Auditorium, 1251 Highway 95, Bullhead City, Arizona 86429, 02 March, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, 03 March, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Set-up: Thursday, 01March, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Friday 02 March, 8:00 am – 9:00 am, $25.00 per dealer table, No cost for admission, California Barbed Wire Collectors Association, Contact: Mark Nelson, 1475 Paseo Maravilla, San Dimas, California 91773, Tele: 909.996.1784, E-mail: califbarbedwire@aol.com March 3 Athens, Georgia, Athens Georgia Antique Bottle, Pottery and Collectibles Show and Sale, Location: Trumps, 2026 S. Milledge Avenue, Suite B, Athens, Georgia 30605, $3.00 General Admission: $35.00 Dealer/Exhibit Tables, Children under 6 Free, www. dixiesoda.com, Contact: Sam Evans, owner, Athens Pins and Apparel, Inc., P.O. Box 1086, Watkinsville, Georgia 30677, 706.613.0224, E-mail: sam@ teampins.com March 4 Baltimore, Maryland The Baltimore Antique Bottle Club presents its 32nd Annual Show and Sale, Sunday, 04 March 2012, Doors open: 8:00 am – 3:00 pm., Physical Education Center, Essex CampusCommunity College of Baltimore County, 7201 Rossville Blvd. (off exit 34, I-695), Baltimore, Maryland, Free Bottle Appraisals, The largest one-day bottle show in the world!-over 300 tables, Admission $3.00, Information

contact: Rick Lease (Show Chairman), 410.239.8918, baltojar@comcast. net, For contracts: Andy Agnew, 410.527.1707, medbotls@comcast.net, www.baltimorebottleclub.org, View Show Flyer March 4 Chico, California 46th Annual Antique Bottle, Jar, Insulator & Collectibles Show and Sale, Friday and Saturday, Silver Dollar Fairgrounds – Chico, Friday 10:00 am -7:00 pm ($5.00 admission), Saturday 9:00 am – 4:00 pm (free admission) Contact: Randy Taylor, PO Box 1065, Chico, California 95927, Tele: 530.518.7369, email: rtjarguy@aol.com March 10 St. Joseph, Missouri The Missouri Valley Insulator Club presents the 10th Annual St. Joseph Insulator/Bottle Show & Sale at the American Legion Post 359, 4826 Frederick Avenue, St. Joseph, Missouri 64506, Saturday 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, No early admission, Free Admission, Contact: Dennis R. Weber, 3609 Jackson Street, St. Joseph, Missouri 64507, Tele: 816.364.1312, stjoeshow2012@aol.com March 10 Badin, North Carolina Uwharrie Bottle Club’s 5th Annual Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show & Sale, 8:00 am at Badin Fire Department, Badin, North Carolina, Dealer set-up 6:00 am. Info: David Stiller, Tele: 704.984.2941, Email: dstiller08292002@yahoo.com, See Show Flyer

March 16 & 17 Deland, Florida The Deland Florida M-T Bottle Collectors Club presents the Annual Deland Florida M-T Antique Bottle & Insulator Show, Volusia County Fairgrounds, Bill Hestor Building, 3150 East New York Avenue, Deland, Florida 32724, Friday 4:00 pm -7:00 pm, Saturday 8:00 am – 3:00 pm, Early buyers 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm Friday and before 8:00 am on Saturday, $20.00, Dealer set up Friday 16 March from 1:00 pm – 7:00 pm. Early Admission $20:00, Saturday Show Free from 8:00 am – 3:00 pm. Deland Florida M-T Bottle Collectors Club www.mtbottleclub.com Brian Hoblick, Bottle Show Chairman, P.O. Box 2015, De Leon Springs, Florida 32130, 386.804.9635 hoblick@aol.com March 18 Flint, Michigan The Flint Antique Bottle and Collectibles Club will be hosting it’s 42nd Annual Show and Sale (9:00 am to 3:00 pm). The show will be held at the Dom Polski Hall, 3415 N. Linden Road, Flint, Michigan, Info: Tim Buda 11353 Cook Road, Gaines, Michigan 48436. PH: 989.271.9193 or e-mail tbuda@shianet.org Admission fee $2:00, No early admissions.

March 18 St. Louis, Missouri The St. Louis Antique Bottle Collectors Associations 42nd Annual Show & Sale, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm at the Two Hearts Banquet Center, 4532 S. Lindbergh at Gravois, St. Louis, Missouri, Info: Pat Jett, 71 Outlook Drive, Hillsboro, Missouri 63050, Tele: 314.570.6917, email: patsy_jett@yahoo.com

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(More) Sho-Biz March 23 & 24 Morro Bay, California The San Luis Obispo Bottle Society’s 44th Annual Show and Sale Friday 1:00 pm to 6: 00 pm and Saturday 9:00 am to 3:00 pm at the Morro Bay Veterans Hall, 209 Surf Street, Morro Bay, California. Free admission and no charge to early birds. Info: Richard Tartaglia 805.543.7484.

March 24 Mobile, Alabama The Mobile Bottle Collectors Club’s 39th Annual Show & Sale will be held on Saturday, 24 March 2012 from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm at the Daphne Civic Center, Whispering Pines Road and US Hwy. 98, Daphne, Alabama. Free Admission. Dealer Setup is Friday, 23 March from 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm and Saturday 7:00 am to 9:00 am. Contact: Rod Vining: Tele: 251.957.6725, Email: vinewood@mchsi.com, or Richard Kramerich, PO Box 241, Pensacola, Florida 32591. Tele: 850.435.5425.

Email: daphnebottleshow@gmail.com March 25 Brewerton, New York The Empire State Bottle Collectors Association 42nd Annual Show & Sale, (9:00 am – 3:00 pm) at the Brewerton Fire Hall, 9625 Route 11, Brewerton, New York, Info: Dave Tuxill Phone: 315.469.0629, email: dtuxill1@twcny.rr.com March 25 Enfield, Connecticut Yankee Polecat Insulator Club, Antique Insulator, Bottle & Collectibles Show, (8:00 am to 12:00 pm) at the American Legion Hall, 566 Enfield Street (US Route 5), Enfield, Connecticut (Exit 49 off I-91). Bottles, Railroadiana, Telephone & Telegraph Collectibles, Lightning Rod Equipment, Free Admission. Info: John Rajpolt, rajpolt@earthlink.net

April 1 Bloomington, Minnesota 41st Minnesota Antique Bottle, Advertising and Stoneware Show & Sale at the Crowne Plaza & Suites Airport, 34th Avenue South and American Boulevard, Bloomington, Minnesota 55425, Sunday, 9:30 am – 2:30 pm. No early admission.

Set-up Sunday 6:30 am – 9:30 am.

Admission is $5.00, Steve Ketcham is Show Chairman, Box 24114, Edina, Minnesota 55424, 952.221.0915, steve@ antiquebottledepot.com.

Sponsoring Club: North Star Historical Bottle Club and Minnesota’s First ABC. April 1 Hutchinson, Kansas 5th Annual Kansas Territory Bottle and Postcard Show, Kansas State Fair Grounds, 20th Street & Poplar Street, Hutchinson, Kansas 67501, Saturday 4:00 pm till 9:00 pm, Set-up and Meal for vendors, Sunday set up 7:00 am till 9:00 am, Show open to public 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Next Door to Large Flea Market, Free Admission, Kansas Territory Bottle & Postcard Club, Contact: Mike McJunkin, Show Chairman, 42 Sunflower Avenue, Hutchinson, Kansas 67502, 620.728.8304, scarleits@cox.net April 1 Dover, New Hampshire New England Antique Bottle Club’s 46th Annual Show & Sale (9:00 am to 2:00 pm, early buyers 8:00 am) at the Elks Club, 282 Durham Road (Rt. 108), Exit 7 off Spaulding Turnpike, Dover, New Hampshire, Info: Gerry Sirois, Tele: 207.773.0148 or Jack Pelletier, Tele: 207.839.4389 April 1 St. Clairsville, Ohio The Ohio Valley Bottle Club’s Annual Bottle & Tabletop Antiques Show (9:00 am – 2:00 pm) at Sibs at the Ohio Valley Mall, St. Clairsville, Ohio, Exit 218 off I-70. Info: Tom Chickery,

Tele: 740.695.2958, email: tchick52@ netscape.net April 15 Rochester, New York The Genesee Valley Bottle Collectors Association’s 43rd Annual Bottle Show & Sale (Table Top Antiques Paper & Postcards) at the Monroe County Fair & Expo Center, Minett Hall, Route 15A & Calkins Road, Henrietta, New York, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Admission $4.00, www.gvbca, Show and Dealer Chairs: Aaron Weber and Pam Weber, 585.226.6345, gvbca@frontiernet.net, Show Flyer, FOHBC Club April 15 Tylersport, Pennsylvania The 18th Annual Bucks-Mont Bottle Show & Sale, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, early buyers at 8:00 am at the Tylersport Fire Company, 125 Ridge Road, Tylersport, Pennsylvania, Info: David Buck, Tele: 215.206.5878 or Greg Gifford, 215.699.5216 April 20 & 21 Antioch, California 46th Annual Golden Gate Historical Bottle Society’s Antique, Bottle and Collectible Show, Contra Costa County Fairgrounds (Sunset Hall) in Antioch, California, 1201 West 10th Street, Antioch, California 94509, Friday, 20 April, Noon to 6:00 pm, Saturday, 21 April, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Early admission: Friday: Noon to 6:00 pm, Set up Friday – Noon to 6:00 pm, Cost of admission for show & early admission: $10.00 Friday – Free on Saturday, Golden Gate Historical Bottle Society (GGHBS), Contact: Gary or Darla Antone, President, and Show Chairperson, 752 Murdell Lane, Livermore, California 94550, Tele: 925.373.6758, E-mail:packrat49er@ netscape.net, Club Name: Golden Gate Historical Bottle Society (GGHBS)

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(More) Sho-Biz April 21 Kalamazoo, Michigan The Kalamazoo Antique Bottle Club’s 33rd Annual Show & Sale (10:00 am – 3:00 pm) (early buyers 8:00 am) at the Kalamazoo County Fairgrounds, 2900 Lake Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Info: John Pastor, PO Box 227, New Hudson, Michigan 48165, Tele: 248.486.0530, email: jpastor@ americanglassgallery.com or Mark McNee, Tele: 269.343.8393.

April 21 Salisbury, North Carolina Piedmont Bottle & Pottery Club’s 6th Annual Show and Sale, Salisbury Civic Center, 315 S. Martin Luther King (Formerly 315 S. Boundary St.) Salisbury, North Carolina 28144, Saturday 8:00 am to 2:00 pm, No early admission, Set up 6:30 am, Free admission, John Patterson, Show chairman, Information: Jimmie Woods 704.692.7888 or Chuck Rash 704.732.0373, Contracts: John Patterson 704.636,9510, email: ncmilks@carolina.rr.com April 22 Harrisonburg, Virginia The 41st Historical Bottle Diggers of Virginia Bottle Show at the Rockingham County Fairgrounds, U.S. Route 11 South, Harrisonburg, Virginia, Sunday 22 April 2012, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, No early admission, Set up 22 April, 6:00 am to 9:00 am, Admission for show $3.00 with children under 12 free, Contact: Sonny Smiley, Show Chairman, 540.434.1129, email: lithiaman1@yahoo.com April 28 Aiken, South Carolina The Horse Creek Bottle Club presents its 4th Annual Show and Sale on Saturday, 28 April at the H. Odell Weeks Activities Center, 100 Whiskey Road, Aiken, South Carolina. Dealer

setup: 7:00 am to 9:00 am. Show open to public: 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. No early birds. Admission free, but donations will be accepted to benefit the Valley Outreach Interfaith Center Food Bank.

Info: Mike Newman, 706.829.8060 or Geneva Greene, 803.593.2271.

May 5 Gray, Tennessee The State of Franklin Antique Bottles & Collectibles Association announces the 14th Annual State of Franklin Antique Bottle & Collectibles Association Show & Sale, Farm and Home Building at the Appalachian Fairgrounds, Chapel Street, Gray, Tennessee 37615, NEW ONE DAY SHOW, Saturday 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, No Early Buyers, Set-up Saturday 7:00 am – 9:00 am, Free Admission, www.sfabca.com, Melissa Milner, Show Chairman, 230 Rock House Road, Johnson City, Tennessee 37601, Tele: 423.928.4445, mmilner12@chartertn.net May 6 Antioch, Illinois Antique Bottle Club of Northern Illinois 37th Annual Antiques, Bottles & Collectibles Show & Sale 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Antioch Senior Center, 817 Holbeck, Antioch, Illoinois 60002.

Free Admission, Free Appraisals.

For information call John Puzzo at 815.338.7582 or Greg Schueneman at 847.623.7572.

May 6 Brick, New Jersey Jersey Shore Bottle Club’s 40th Antique Bottles, Post Cards and Local Memorabilia Show and Sale, Brick Elks, 2491 Hooper Avenue, Brick, New Jersey 08723, Sunday, 06 May 2012, 8:30 am to 2:00 pm, No early admission, Set-up 7:00 am Sunday, Admission: $3.00, Contact: Monte Boshko, Show Chairman, 365 16th Avenue, Brick, New Jersey 08724, 732.887.2116, e-mail: mjb142@comcast.net

May 6 Utica, New York The Mohawk Valley Antique Bottle Club’s 18th Annual Antique Bottle Show and Sale, Sunday, 9:00 am – 2:30 pm at the Sons of Italy, 644 Bleecker Street, Utica, New York, Cost of admission: $3.00, Info & contracts: Peter Bleiberg, 7 White Pine Road, New Hartford, New York, Tele: 315.735.5430, Email: PMBleiberg@aol.com, website: mohawkvalleybottleclub.com May 11 & 12 Mansfield, Ohio The Ohio Bottle Club’s 34th Mansfield Antique Bottle & Advertising Show & Sale, (9:00 am – 2:00 pm), early buyers Friday 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm) at the Richland County Fairgrounds, Mansfield, Ohio, Info: Bill Koster, Tele: 330.690.2794 or Ohio Bottle Club, PO Box 585, Barberton, Ohio 44203, www.ohiobottleclub.com May 18 & 19 Columbia City, Indiana Columbia City, Indiana Insulator, Bottle & Antique Show at the Whitley County 4H Fairgrounds, 581 W. Squawbuck Road, Just off of US 30 in Columbia City, Indiana and one mile South on Lincoln Way, Friday, 18 May, Dealer Set-up from noon to 3:00 pm, Show from 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Seminar from 7:00 to 8:00, Saturday, 19 May, Dealer set-up from 6:00 am to 9:00 am, Show from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, First 8 foot table is $25.00, additional tables $20.00. Display tables available, first come, first served. Contact: Chuck Dittmar: 260.485.7669, 5209 Forest Grove Drive, Fort Wayne, Indiana 46835 or Gene Hawkins: gene. hawkins@mchsi.com, View Show Ad May 19 Coventry, Connecticut The Museum of Connecticut Glass, Bottle and Glass Show, Saturday, 9:00

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(More) Sho-Biz am to 1:00 pm, early buyers 8:00 am, at the Museum of Connecticut Glass, Route 44 and North River Road, Coventry, Connecticut, Info: www.glassmuseum. org, Jan Ratushny, P.O. 242, Eastford, Connecticut 06242, Tele: 860.428.4585, email: janratushny@aol.com May 20 Hammonton, New Jersey The New Jersey Antique Bottle Club presents the 2nd Annual New Jersey Bottle Show at the Hammonton Volunteer Fire Company #2, 51 N. White Horse Pike, Hammonton, New Jersey 08037, Sunday, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, No early admission, 7:00 am set up, $3.00 admission, www. newjerseyantiquebottleclub.com, Paul DelGuercio, Show Chairman, 548 Spring Road, Hammonton, New Jersey 08037, Tele: 856.252.7730, paulhavoc@comcast.net May 20 Washington, Pennsylvania The Washington County Antique Bottle Club presents the 38th Annual Washington County Antique Bottle Show & Sale at the Alpine Star Lodge, 735 Jefferson Avenue, Washington, Pennsylvania 15312, Sunday 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, Set-up Sunday at 7:00 am, $3.00 admission, Attn: Russ Crupe, President/Show Chairman, 52 Cherry Road, Avella, Pennsylvania 15312, 412.298.783, heidirus@gmail.com June 2 San Diego, California San Diego 2012 Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show and Sale at the Al Bahr Shrine Temple, 5440 Kearny Mesa Road, San Diego, California 92111, Saturday, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Early admission, 8:00 am, Set up 7:30 am. Early Bird Admission: $10.00, General Admission: $2.00, San Diego Antique Bottle and Collectibles Club, www.sdbottleclub.org, Contact: Jim Walker, Tele: 858.490.9019, E-mail: jfw@internetter.com

June 9 Atlanta, Georgia 42nd Annual Atlanta Antique Bottle Show and Sale, Smyrna Community Center, 200 Village Green, Smyrna, Georgia 30080, Saturday 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, Early Admission: Saturday 6:00 am to 9:00 am, Set-up: Saturday 6:00 am to 9:00 am, Admission for show & early admission: $3.00 and $10.00 for early birds, Atlanta Bottle Club, Contact Name: Jack Hewitt, Co-Chairman, 1765 Potomac Court, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30043, 770.963.0220, email: Hewittja@bellsouth.net July 2012 11 – 14 Muncie, Indiana Fruit Jar Show JAR-B-Q at the Signature Inn, 3400 N. Chadam Lane, Muncie Indiana. Free admission to roomhop-shopping, auction and seminars.

Open to the public. Hotel reservations: 765.284.4200, Show info: Jerry McCann, fjar@aol.com 773.777.0443 or Marianne Dow finbotclub@gmail. com 419.455.1112 Show website: finbotclub.blogspot.com July 21 Leadville, Colorado Antique Bottle Collectors of Colorado’s 8th Annual Show & Sale (9:00 am – 4:00 pm with setup at 6:00 am). $3 admission, at the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum Convention Center, 117 W 10th St, Leadville, Colorado, Jim and Barb Sundquist, 2861 Olympia Lane, Evergreen, Colorsado 80439, 303.674.4658, FOHBC Club July 27 – 29 Reno, Nevada (The Biggest Little City in the World) Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors presents EXPO 2012 Antique Bottle and Collectable Show at the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino, Reno, Nevada, Early Admission: Friday, 27 July 1:30 pm – 6:00 pm, Banquet:

Friday, 27 July 7:00 pm, Dealer setup/Early admission: Saturday, 28 July, 7:00 am – 9:00 am, General Admission: Saturday, 28 July, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm, General Admission: Sunday, 29 July 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Marty Hall, Show Chairman, tele: 775.852.6045 or cell: 775.772.6065, rosemuley@charter. net, Visitor Information: Reno-Tahoe Visitors Center, 800.FOR.RENO, www.

VisitRenoTahoe.com, Host Hotel: Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 East Second Street, Reno, Nevada, 89595, 800.425.9074, www.grandsierraresort.com July 27 & 28 Birmingham, Alabama The Alabama Bottle Collectors annual Birmingham Antique Bottle & Folk Pottery Show, Bessemer Civic Center , Friday, 27 July 2012 for Dealer Set-Up and Early Buyers (Early Buyers $10 per person) 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm. Dealer tables will be available again for $35 per 8-foot table. We will again serve a COMPLIMENTARY pizza buffet dinner Friday evening for our Dealers and Early Buyers. Saturday 28 July 2012, 8:00 am thru 3:00 pm, FREE Admission, Special Group Displays: Alabama Whiskey Bottles & Flasks plus Alabama Pottery, Contact: Tom Lines ALBottleCollectors@Hotmail.com or call 205.410.2191 or visit our new website Alabama Bottle Collectors.

August 12 – 19 Bouckville, New York Madison-Bouckville Antique Show, outdoor antiques, collectibles including two huge bottle tents. Over 2,000 dealers and vendors located on scenic Route 20, Bouckville, New York (see Antique Bottle and Glass Collector article, November, 2011) Info: Larry Fox 585.354.8072 or Jim Mitchell 813.684.2834.

August 18 Urbana, Ohio Third Urbana, Ohio Antique Bottle

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(More) Sho-Biz and Jar Show (9:30 am to 3:00 pm; dealer set-up, 8:00 am. NO EARLY ADMISSION), at the Champaign County Fairgrounds, 384 Park Avenue, Urbana, Ohio 43078. Antique bottles, fruit jars, flasks, inks, stoneware, milks, insulators, bitters, advertising, tabletop antiques and more. The Urbana Paper and Advertising Show will be in an adjacent building. $1.00 Admission for both benefits a Junior 4-H Council.

Information: Steve Goddard, 5890 Valley Pike, Urbana, Ohio 43078, 937.788.2058, stevegoddard@woh. rr.com or John Bartley, PO Box 53, North Hampton, Ohio 45349, 937.964.8080, jbartley@woh.rr.com | Show Flyer & Information September 23 Depew, New York 14th Annual Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Annual Show & Sale, Polish Falcons Hall, 445 Columbia Avenue, Depew, New York 14043, Sunday 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Set up: Sunday 7:00 am to 9:00 am, tables $20.00, additional tables $10.00, Admission: $2.00, children under 12 free, http://gbbca. org, Contact: Joe Guerra (Secretary), 29 Nina Terrace, West Seneca, New York 14224, 716.674.5750, e-mail: jguerra3@roadrunner.com, Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association September 30 Lowell, Massachusetts Merrimack Valley Antique Bottle Club’s 38th Annual Show and Sale, General Admission: 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Early Buyers 8:00 am, Location: Lowell Elks Club Hall, 40 Old Ferry Road, Lowell, Massachusetts 01854 (take exit 32

off US Rt. 3 and follow the signs).

For information contact: Cliff Hoyt: 978.458.6575 or Maureen Crawford: 978.897.7327 Additional information, maps, dealer contracts, and discount coupons available at: http://choyt48. home.comcast.net/mvbc.htm October 5 & 6 Canyonville, Oregon Jefferson State Antique Bottle, Insulator & Collectible Show & Sale at the Seven Feathers Casino Resort, I-5 Exit 99, 146 Chief Miwaleta Lane, Canyonville, Oregon 97417, Saturday – October 6th, 2012 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Free Admission! Dealer setup 05 October from 12:00 noon to 7:00 pm and 06 October from 7:00 am to 9:00 am. Early lookers 12:00 noon to 7:00 pm Friday & 8:00 am – 9:00 am Saturday – $10.00. Jefferson State Antique Bottle Collectors www. ecandm.com/canyonville/ October 6 Richmond, Virginia Richmond 41st Antique Bottle Show and Sale, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Admission: $3.00, Early Admission: 7:30 am, $10.00, Chesterfield County Fairgrounds, 10300 Courthouse Road, Chesterfield, Virginia 23832, Info: RichBottleClub@comcast.net or Marvin Croker 804.275.1101 or Ed Faulkner 804.739.2951 October 21 Findlay, Ohio 36th Annual Findlay Antique Bottle Show (9:00 am – 2:00 pm, early buyers 7:00 am) at the Old Barn Auction House, 10040 St. Rt. 224 West, Findlay,

Ohio. Directions: Go West on SR224 from I-75 (exit 159). Admission: $2.00, Early-Bird Admission: $10.00 (“Dealer-only” set-up & dinner on Saturday, 20 October) Info: Showchairman is Fred Curtis 419.424.0486 or Marianne Dow finbotclub@gmail. com, 419.455.1112 Club website: finbotclub.blogspot.com November 11 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Annual Pittsburgh Antique Bottle Club’s Annual Show at The Ice Garden, Rostraver Twp., Gallitin Road and Route 51 North, Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania 15089, Sunday 11 November, General admission: $3.00, Show time: 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, Early admission: $25.00, 7:00 am – 9:00 am, Set up time: Hospitality dinner and boxes under table Saturday night 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Set up Sunday: 7:00 am – 9:00 am, 1st table $30.00, 2nd & 3rd tables: $25.00, Pittsburgh Antique Bottle Club, Contact: Jay Hawkins, Secretary, 1280 Mt. Pleasant Road, West Newton, Pennsylvania 15089, Tele: 724.872.6013, E-mail: Lhawkins63@msn.com November 17 Milford, Ohio St. Andrew Antique Bottle Show (9:00 am – 1:00 pm) with Early Admission at 7:00 am for $15.00. $4 admission, at St. Andrew Parish Center (2 minutes from I-275) 553 Main Street in Milford, Ohio, Information: Steve Singer, 1684 Autumn Oak Drive, Batavia, Ohio 45103, Tele: 513.732.2793, singersams@yahoo.com

Send Your Show Info to: FOHBC Sho-Biz, C/O Alan DeMaison, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077 or e-mail: a.demaison@sbcglobal.net

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FOHBC MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY New Members Terry Monteith 11602 Via Casilina El Cajon, CA 92019 619-403-6760 terryandthepirates47@cox.net Western whiskeys, demijohns, San Diego bottles Kenneth Cromer 714 Cedar Creek Drive Tyler, TX 75703 903-714-7176 texwhiskeys@yahoo.com Texas pre pro whiskey bottles, shot glasses & corkscrews. Advertising Texas whiskey & saloon items Shawn McAlister 142 Gold Creek Circle Folsom, CA 95630 916-987-1296 shawn.mcalister@gmail.com Crude colorful glass, demijohns, western bottles, bitters, and Mineral/ Saratoga style waters Timothy & Judy Hayes 1430 102nd Avenue Plainwell, MI 49080 269-694-1555 Flasks Harney Mike 513 East Whitney Drive Jupiter, FL 33458 561-797-3446 meharney@mindspring.com Frank Muscat 2024 Fontana Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89106 702-525-0024 Withstandley Jeff 680 5th St. SW Naples, FL 34117 239-207-2902 Unique and diverse items learning through artifacts

David Flannery 10 Flannery Lane Wrentham, MA 02093 508-384-4499 dFlannery1@comcast.net Pontiled medicines, Mass. Bottles, general old bottles

Chuck Gildea 25342 Pike Rd. LaGuna Hills, CA 92653 949-583-7989 chuck1putt@yahoo.com Poisons, early glass, medicines

Bud Meyer 22016 Young Ave Castro Valley, CA 94546 510-582-8039

Joseph Lomeli 641 Shepard St. San Pedro, CA 90731 310-918-4379 California milk bottles; tintop milks, embossed milks, milk go-withs

Susan Mattia 3801 Dartmouth Rd. Oxford, MI 48371 248-572-4826 orders.bbgg@gmail.com perfume bottles Tom Quinn & James Quinn P.O. Box 5503 Vallejo, CA 94591 707-290-6677 aphotaling@yahoo.com Western whiskies, western bottles, London Jockey Gins John Brezko 400 S. Water St. Crawfordsville, IN 47933 317-557-3978 Dan Corker 8406 Knollwood Ct. Mechanicsville, VA 23116 804-730-2166 dcorker@comcast.net Fruit Jars Jim Healy P.O. Box 312 Tribes Hill, NY 12177 Jon Aurich 4261 Satinwood Dr. Las Vegas, NV 89147 702-622-1344 jaurichjr@aol.com Early Nevada

embossed

Chip Houske 1607 Cravens Ave. Torrance, CA 90501 310-779-6611 drchip4u@aol.com Bottles, insulators, old scientific

Welcome Back Stephen Wallace 2557 Rainbow Dr Casper, WY 82604 307-473-8458 mlkman427@bresnan.net Wyoming bottles Ralph VanBrocklin 3148 Highland Grove Ct Johnson City, TN 37615 423-282-5533 (wk) thegenuine@comcast.net Western and southernmini-jugs and shot glasses, western bitters, flasks, and whiskies, and better Tennessee bottles Margaret Shaw 6086 W Boggstown Rd Boggstown, IN 46110 317-835-7121 Jelly jars Rockland (Rocky) Becker 1119 Sea Cliff Drive NW Gig Harbor, WA 98332 253-273-1849 federalnoaa@aol.com General

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FOHBC MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY Richard T. Siri Jr 2079 Canover Ct. S Santa Rosa, CA 95403 707-526-9684 ricksiri@sonic.net California whiskeys, pickel & sauce jars David A. Hall P.O. Box 761 Wilmington, CA 90748 310-834-6368 dcorridor@sbcglobal.net Local bottles from S. California: Long Beach, San Pedro, Wilmington

Changes Norman H. Griffith Jr 149 Justus Dr. Saylorsburg, PA 18353 Lynne Harcharik & Bruce Gradwohl 700 E University Dr Mesa, AZ 85207 Ed & Juanne Herrold 2800 Yorktown Street Sarasota, FL 34231-6136

Brian Kelsey 9629 Maple Ave. Machias, NY 14101 Bernard Schriever 15 North 13th Street, Apt. 3 Colorado Springs, CO 80904 Billie Daffron 305 N. Gallatin St. Hamilton, MO 64644

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