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SEEKING WESTERN BITTERS SHOT GLASSES MINI-JUGS FLASKS 5ths

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STRONG PRICES PAID FOR THESE & OTHER FLASKS CONTACT RALPH VAN BROCKLIN 1021 W OAKLAND AVE #109 JOHNSON CITY, TN 37604 PHONE: 423-913-1378 E-MAIL: thegenuine@comcast.net

OFFERING Up to $20,000 for a MINT CALIFORNIA WINE DEPOT

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Table of Contents Bottle Buzz...................................................2

Let’s Talk About Ink Ed & Lucy Faulkner.....................31

Names in the Glass Don Denzin.................................64

Cities of the Golden Dawn Fred Kille.......................................34

Bottles in Mimetic Architecture Cecil Munsey..............................67

Colonial Drinks 1640-1860 Donald Yates..................................39

Collector Logic Steve Ketcham............................70

Patent Medicines from the Green Mountain State Don Fritschel..................................42

Arizona - Grand Canyon Glass Arizona’s Best - Part One Michael Miller...........................72

The Fredricksburg Brewery Dave Scafani..................................49

Evolution of a Ceramic Jug Jack Sullivan.............................74

Collecting Bottles by State, The Ioway Part 2 - Medicine Bottles Mike Burggraaf.............................50

Magical Manhatten Beach.......................76

Recent Finds................................................3 Show Reports Baltimore, Maryland...................4 Columbia, South Carolina..........7 Deland, Florida............................8 Portland, Maine.........................10 Minneapolis, Minnesota.........11 Federation Business President’s Message................13 Regional Reports......................................14 ...And Extras...

Lydia Pinkham’s Early Use of Wireless Technology Cecil Munsey.............................22 Random Shots Howard Currier........................24 Veterinary Collectibles Roundtable Dr. Michael Smith....................26 Poisonland Mike Dickman..........................28

Bottle Collecting! Since When?

Cecil Munsey..................................52 South Carolina - The Top 25 Bottles Bill Baab.........................................58 Huntington Pottery - The Brown Brother Years Mark R. Smith................................62

Membership Display and Advertising Rates............................................78 Membership Benefits................................79 Classified Ads “For Sale”....................................80 “Wanted”....................................82 FOHBC Show-Biz Show Calendar Listings...............83

Collecting Owl Drug Store Stuff Jim Bilyeu...................................30

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Inside the rectangle, also in blue stencil and in two lines, are the words, "The Owl Drug Co., San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles." This uncommon piece (I know of only one or two others) was acquired several years ago in a small-town parking lot flea market sale.

Bottle Buzz Notes, Letters, etc.

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

Re: Fulper’s of Flemington: In regards to the article in last month’s B&E by Jack Sullivan about Fulper's of Flemington, I would like to point out a few differences I noticed in the article to information that I have.

First, in the list of "Fancy Jugs," it is I. A. Nickels, not J. A. Nichols, of Bristol, Tennessee.

Second, in regards to the dates quoted for the fancy jugs, Isaac A. Nichels died in the early 1890s and his bar was demolished in 1898. Thus, the dates of manufacture for the Fulper jugs of 19021920 would be off for this reason. Further, Frank Collman, one of the names on one of the jugs, was appointed to the Board of Trustees of Bristol, Virginia High School in 1890. I have no information on Jenkins.

Third, another I. A. Nickels "Fancy Jug" has turned up, and is in the possession of Bob Leonard of Bristol, Virginia. Bob says it has no names but Nickels' and Bristol, Tenn. with some floral decorations.

Charlie Barnette, Bristol, Tennessee.

E-mail: brisbotls@chartertn.net Re: Jack Daniels article: Don, I just read your article on Jack Daniels in the latest Bottles & Extras. I am curious, did you get any of your material from JACK DANIEL'S LEGACY, a book written by Ben A. Green (of Shelbyville, Tennessee)? If so or no, did you use any other sources. I ask because of a longtime interest in the subject and there was no list of references in the article.

Cecil Munsey cecilmunsey@cox.net Reply re: Jack Daniels references: Cecil, we used a combination of information from several sources. Yes, one of them was indeed JACK DANIEL’S LEGACY (by Ben A. Green, 1967).

Others included: the little black book of OLD BOTTLES & JUGS from Jack Daniel’s Distillery; BARRELS & BOTTLES & TENNESSEE JUGS, David Fulmer; A TENNESSEE LEGEND with a Pictorial of Old Bottles & Jugs, Pat

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Mitchamore, 1992, Jack Daniel’s Distillery. Also used were magazine and newspaper articles, such as: In Dixieland, August 1971; New York Times, February 1991, Antique Trader, January 11, 1984 and True Magazine, November, 1954. We used letterheads, receipts and invoices to obtain the dates of the different places that Jack Daniel used for their offices: St. Louis, Birmingham, etc., as well as paper advertisements. We also used the stories and folklore that the old-timers in Lynchburg have been telling since our first visit in 1979.

Used was a little bit of information from wherever we could find it. Several sources had a little of this and a little of that and some information was contradictory to other information, so we took a little from several sources. But most of these references have the same information, which seemed to validate each other as far as places, names, history and the stories that each one told.

I hope this helps.

The second item literally walked in the front door at a Bottle Show. The owner entered casually, carrying the item in his hand. We talked a bit and I was able to buy it on the spot. I've never seen, nor heard, of another. I believe the item to be a "presentation" cigarette box. The box itself is 8" x 4" x 1 1/2", with a hinged lid that slightly overlaps the base. The metal is silver-plate.

The interior is cedar lined, and divided into three equal sections. But it is the cover that sets this item apart. "Owl Drug Company" is engraved in the upper center of the lid, and below that, large initials, "J.B." are boldly engraved between two applied "Owl" figures.

Don and Diane Cauwels E-mail: colblackjack@msn.com Re: Collecting Owl Drug Store Stuff After reading Jim Bilyeu's "Collecting Owl Drug Store Stuff" in the Winter 2003 Issue of Bottles & Extras, I thought it might be interesting to collectors in this field to comment on two seldom seen items from this category.

The first one is a one-gallon straight-sided jug with applied handle and overall cream glaze.

Across the face, opposite the handle, is a stenciled blue rectangle about 5" x 2 3/8".

Owl Drug collecting offers a collector a large and varied field. Items like these just keep expanding expectations, while proving that new exciting finds just keep turning up.

John L. Ronald 1512 McGregor Ave Petaluma, CA 94954 Send letters, comments, etc., to: Buzz Notes Kathy Hopson, Editor 1966 King Springs Road Johnson City, TN 37601 or E-mail: kathy@thesodafizz.com

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Recent Finds Here is information on a new Montana flask found recently near Butte, Montana on the surface near some old mining cabins.

K. S. BATTEIGER / EAST PARK ST / BUTTE , MONT is embossed in a tombstone-shaped slug plate on one side of a pint shoofly-style flask. This clear (light amethyst) bottle as converging ribs on the lower half of each side that connect centrally to form stacked triangles. There is a narrow break in the ribbing on the seam sides of the flask. The neck is ringed with a screw-top and ground finish. The base is flat and has no markings. The flask design is unique to Montana flasks in at least three aspects. 1) the base ribbing; 2) the slugplate panel; and 3) a shoofly with a screwtop and ground finish.

3 The Butte Liquor Co. is listed in the Butte City Directories for one year, 1893. This business with Mr. Barreiger's involvement was apparently short-lived, but Hugo Arnhold continued at 39 E. Park Street until at least 1899. There is no mention of his business in 1900.

By 1895, Mr. Batteiger was bartending for Mr. James D. McPhee at 9 E. Broadway.

He continued in this capacity until 1900, when he and Mr. McPhee became partners in the McPhee & Batteiger Saloon at 9 E. Broadway. This arrangement continued until Mr. Batteiger's death on July 20, 1902. In 1903 and 1904, Mr. McPhee operated the J. D. McPhee Saloon at 6 E. Broadway.

The flask is damaged but intact. It displays well, in spite of the cracks across the lower front and right side, shoulder to base edge.

The mold lines are generally crude and the bottle has a "bulky" appearace. It measures: 7 1/8" tall, base 3" x 1 9/16".

Widest point on the shoulder is 4". Neck is 9/16" outside and 1/2" inside.

Actual dates for the shown flask's use are not known. Sometime between 1889 and 1893 is likely, since both business ventures were located on East Park Street. The flask carried a pint of his wine or liquor.

Competition in the retail liquor business had to be steep. In 1885, there were 100 saloons advertising in the Butte area, and in 1900, there were 202. There were just over 20 that were still in business after 15 years. Of those still in business, only two had known embossed bottles. These are King & Lowry, with 1/2 pint and pint amber strap-sided flasks, and Silver Bow Brewery, with a crown-top amber beer. If there are others out there, such as the Batteiger flask, they are very rare.

My second bottle photo is of a quart coffin flask dug last fall near Helena. It is an out-house find and was nearly full of ?? - you guessed it! That was not enough either. A MERRIT & CO / HELENA / MONTANA blob lying next to it in the bowels of the privy was lightly corked and also full of ?? It must have been too cold to venture out.

Mr. K. S. Batteiger has an interesting name, which with additional research, may provide some biographical information as to his nationality and trek to Montana Territory. His full name is Kind Sylvester Batteiger. Mr. Batteiger entered the Butte business scene in 1889, when he first advertised his Wholesale and Retail Dealerhip in Groceries, Fruits, Wines and Liquors at 101 E. Park Street in Butte, Montana. He resided at this address and operated his business until 1893 when he and Mr. Hugh Arnhold became proprietors of the Butte Liquor Co., 39 E. Park in Butte.

Ray Thompson PO Box 9003 Missoula MT 59807

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SHOW REPORTS

Baltimore, Maryland - March 2, 2003 The Baltimore Antique Bottle Club’s 23rd Show and Sale on March 2 lived up to its reputation for being the largest one-day bottle show in the world and one of the finest anywhere. It attracted many of the top bottle collectors and dealers in the country as well as dealers from the UK, Germany and Canada. For the 19th consecutive year the show sold out with a lengthy waiting list of dealers anxious to get in. Unfortunately, the facility cannot accommodate more than 310 tables and some dealers will have to perhaps wait until next year to participate.

As part of the club’s mission to educate the public about bottle collecting, we offered a free bottle appraisal service at the show. Approximately 75 participated.

Two of the highest valued bottles appraised were the smallest sized cobalt skull poison and an early 1850s puce whiskey flask. The club traditionally provides complimentary tables to the FOHBC and the National Bottle Museum so that these worthy organizations can publicize their many ongoing activities and initiatives.

Kudos to show chairman, Bob Ford, who once again did a terrific job in seeing that all the logistics in running such a large bottle show as this came together smoothly.

Also to be commended are the many club members who volunteered and worked hard to help in the myriad areas needed to execute an efficiently operating show.

As always we had a huge turnout for a oneday show—1,268 paid admissions—and the crowd was constant throughout the entire day. The Baltimore show has a tradition of attracting legions of bottle enthusiasts from all over, with some attending from as far away as California and New Mexico. Many from the south ventured to the snowy north to attend this major bottle event. And this crowd came to buy! You can see that in the unbelievable amount of packages carried about and the broad smiles on the dealers’ faces. The atmosphere was electric.

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Bottles and Extras Our show was enhanced by some excellent displays featuring high quality items: American Stoneware by Arthur Dell, Rensselaer, NY (1st Place Ribbon and People's Choice Ribbon) [Fig. 1]; Insulators by Charles Irons, Milford, DE (Most Educational Ribbon and 2nd Place Ribbon) [Fig. 2]; Baltimore Corn For the World Flasks by Tom Lines, Birmingham, AL [Fig. 3]; Jug Poisons by Stan Hallett, Baltimore, MD [Fig. 4]; and Medicines into the Modern Age by Marge McGee, Baltimore, MD [Fig.6]. We are grateful to our display judges this year: Ken Previtali, Danbury, CT and FOHBC President Ralph Van Brocklin, Johnson City, TN. Not only was our show a big hit, but it was the venue for an outstanding display of honesty. A dealer had inadvertently left two boxes containing historical flasks and other bottles as well as reference books outside the loading area in the snow during Saturday's set-up. The total value was estimated to be several thousand dollars.

It was found by another dealer, Jess Westfall of Rushford, NY, and he turned them in to the BABC Club Table.

Following Bob Ford's announcement on Sunday that some books were found, the dealer who misplaced the boxes came forward that afternoon to claim his property (after describing the contents fully). He had thought that he had

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forgotten to bring them in the first place.

Bottles and books were happily re-united with the owner. The honesty of Jess Westfall was refreshing, to say the least, and should be recognized.

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We appreciate the support from all who participated in and attended our show, and we look forward to another great show in Bottletown, USA on March 7, 2004.

Steve Charing President, Baltimore Antique Bottle Club

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Fig. 4 [Fig. 5] Tom Lines and Reggie Lynch having a conversation in front of a table full of bottles and a room full of buyers.

[Fig. 7] More of the crowd and tables full of items to offer.

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More Baltimore, Maryland - March 2, 2003 from Fred Arwood Despite the record breaking snows of late February and early March, the show went on. Some dealers were slow in setting up their merchandise, but the sell-out event went as planned. Buyers were lined up on Sunday morning in a line that reached the front street as the well advertised show opened at 8am. This was the 23rd annual bottle show and sale by the Baltimore Antique Bottle Club and it was held at the Essex Community College athletic center, which had plenty of parking space for dealers and buyers.

Roy "Skip" Wakefield, Winston-Salem, N.C., tending his table.

A blue and white Spatz is shown

by Alex Caiola of Emerson, N.J.

A good selection of ACL sodas on the table of Dan Pauley from Middletown, N.Y.

Brian Wade of Huntington Station, N.Y. slipped in a few good ACLs with his embossed sodas, which are his favorite item.

If you are having an upcoming show don’t forget to send your SHOW REPORT!!!

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Columbia, South Carolina. - February 21-22, 2003 from Fred Arwood The South Carolina Antique Bottle Club's 29th Annual Show and Sale was held on February 21st - 22nd at the Meadowlake Park in North Carolina. The show opened on Friday at 12-noon and closed Saturday at 2pm. The Park is just off I-20 at Exit 71, and is located in an area that has plenty of free parking and food, gas and motels nearby.

The show was a sell-out of all 145 tables and buyers were plentiful throughout the event. There was a wide selection of bottles, advertising and small antiques that would make any collecting heart happy. Bottle fellowship was seen everywhere.

Jimmie Wood of Denver, N.C. was set up and had at least 400 ACLs for sale. Jimmie has a fantastic collection of North Carolina ACL sodas and he showed me his album of bottles, totalling approximately 350. When asked about his favorite bottle, Jimmie replied, without hesitation, that it was his "Queen Quality" bottle from Charlotte, N.C., and it is indeed a beautiful bottle. He also mentioned that he was partial to the Vanderbilt Special bottles.

Set up over on the south side of the building was Truett Vaigneur of Pineland, S.C. Truett attends many of the

southern bottle shows and always has a great tale to spin to anyone who will listen. He likes to collect South Carolina dispensary bottles and also deals in Charleston colored sodas, bittlers, inks, medicines, milks and 1923 and older Coca-Cola bottles. In the past, he has had several ACL sodas for sale, including a 3-colored Smile, "21", Like Me and Cleo Cola.

Upon first entering the building, I saw W. Lindsay Castles of Greenville, S.C., who has been on the bottle scene for many years. When I first started collecting ACLs, Castles was one of the first sellers from which I began buying. He had bottles and contacts all over the United States. During our conversation, he mentioned he is now 81-years-old.

On his talbes were ACLs, blob tops, bitters, straight-sided Pepsi-Colas and Cokes, inks, milks and advertising - and he has not slowed down a bit during the past 30 years.

Randy Kiger with his favorite hot dog.

Randy is from Rural Hall, N.C. and is a reliable authority on bottles.

The Dean of Carolina Glassdom W. Lindsay Castles of Greenville, S.C.

Jimmie Wood, of Denver, N.C., and his table of ACLs.

Truett Vaigneur with his table of prehistoric shark's teeth, Indian artifacts, bottles and jars.

Truett is from Pineland, S.C.

Fred Arwood 229 Hillcrest Drive Gate City, VA 24251-3900 E-mail: fjarwood@mounet.com

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Deland, Florida. - March 14-15, 2003 from Bill Marks, M-T Bottle Collectors Assoc., Inc. and Mike Elling, Sharon, Tennessee The 33rd DeLand M-T Bottle Collectors Annual Antique Bottle, Insulator and Collectibles Show and Sale was held at the Volusia County fairgrounds on March 14 & 15, 2003. The March lion wind was calm, the birds chirped, the weather cooperated and under the duress of the upcoming war and all time high gas prices, we had a most welcome surprise in the form of another successful show, with 88 sales tables, 5 Fig. 1 exhibit tables and an estimated attendance of 250 people taking advantage of the free admission and free parking.

The successful annual show and sale preparations began months before its March 14-15 days of the show. Chairwoman Maureen Pallasch started with the printing of flyers, mailing dealer contracts, numerous telephone contacts and meetings with city and county officials.

Members met early on Friday March 14, to distribute show signs at points around the city while others started the set up of 88 sales tables, chairs and 5 exhibit tables in preparation for the dealers to set up their wares at 1 P.M..

The club offered free bottle appraisals at the show. Free handouts on bottle identification and club information were quickly taken by the attending public. The net result was the addition of two new families of bottle collectors uniting with our club.

As usual, there were dealers from around the East, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, New York, Texas, California and Nova Scotia, Canada. The building was filled with many bottles, insulators and varied collectibles.

The dealers were given a computerized pin type plastic encased nametag showing their name, town and state with attached Silver ribbon for easy identification.

Friday afternoon the dealers were busy visiting old friends and making new ones as they bought, sold and traded. There were tales of bottle digs and finds as they unloaded and set up their sales tables.

Friday evening club members served the dealers and spouses a complimentary dinner with a choice of pulled bar-b-que pork or chicken on a bun, delicious baked beans, potato salad, ice tea, coffee and

lemonade. The dessert was cake-a-plenty baked by the club’s ladies.

There were five excellent exhibition displays for the enjoyment and education by all who attended the show: Exhibit 1: Avon, Whiskey and Artifact Display: Lester & Frances Stoll of Pierson, Florida.[Fig. 1]

Exhibit 2: Volusia County Auto Tags Display: Oscar Brock of Lake Helen, Florida displayed a nearly complete array of Florida Automobile license plates from 1915 to 1975.[Fig. 2]

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Exhibit 3: Coca Cola, Soda Display: James Hurley of New Smyrna Beach, Florida provided his Coca-Cola Family Packaging for Convenience Carrier display, from 1940 to 1976. [Fig. 3] Exhibit 4: Chero Cola Soda Display: Mike Elling of Sharon, Tennessee was awarded the M-T Bottle Club’s Highest Quality Plaque for his display of Florida Chero-Cola Bottles, 1912 to 1947.

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Exhibit 5: Fruit Jar Display: Mike and Betty Jordan of Ocala, Florida were awarded the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors Ribbon for the most Educational Display of Ball Fruit Jars from 1909 to 1962. [Fig. 5] Judges chose the display awards on the basis of educational importance and it was the Jordan's Ball Fruit Jars that took the trophy. The exhibit features a strong selection of transitional jars when the Ball Company moved from their original Buffalo, New York location to their Muncie, Indiana location prior to World War 1. The runner up was a new display of Chero-Cola soda bottles issued by Florida bottlers from the years 1912 to 1947. Mike Elling [Fig. 6], of Sharon, Tennessee, brought the display down as the guest of club member Pascal Pancratz of Altamonte Springs. The bottlers included were: Bradentown (sic), Chipley, Jacksonville, Jasper, Lakeland, Live Oak, Mariana, Newberry, Ocala, Orlando, Palatka, Panama City, Pensacola, Sanford, Tallahassee, and Tampa. Known bottlers absent from Elling's display are Defuniak Springs, Malone, Miami, Perry, and St. Petersburg.

Chris Wiede of Jacksonville, FL [Fig. 6], was one of the notable painted label soda bottle collectors present. He found a scarce Dietetic Squeeze in yellow/ red 10 oz clear glass. This early cyclamate bottle is mould dated by Glenshaw Glass as 1963, and is from Adams, Mass. He also found a scarce 7 oz Jockey Club in red/ white label, clear glass from the Hammonton, New Jersey bottler. The label features a proud jockey atop horse and is mould dated by Owens-Illinois at 1953. Chris went on to say that he saw a very early prewar Salutaris Scotch Nip in just 4 oz green glass. It has embossed lettering at the base and a white label name at the middle and was dated 1940!

Several early Coca-Cola bottles were offered and prices for very early amber glass examples were tagged at just $50.00!

The dealer that had these explained that the demand for early cokes seems dormant for now.

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Fig. 6 James Hurley and son, with their special display of Coca-Cola family convenience packages.

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Mike Jordan displays top Ball jars during the Deland Bottle Show, March 15th, 2003.

Two soda reference books were available at the show. There was Georgia Crown Top Soda Bottles by Carl Barnett and Ken Nease. [Fig. 7] The book is spiral bound paperback with a stunning 260 pages of over 1400 bottles pictured from various Georgia bottlers. These include 263 different Coca-Cola straight sided (pre-1915) bottles and an unprecedented 236 different Chero-Cola bottles. This is the first such reference to ever compile a listing of these bottlers. In addition, some 15 other Georgia brands are included. This is a must have reference of the most prolific soda bottler state in history! This work is privately published and is $43.90 postpaid in the US from: Georgia Soda Book, 1211 St. Andrews Dr., Douglas, GA 31533.

The second book offered at the show is Embossed Soda Bottles of Florida, by David A. Collins who was present at the show gathering information for a second revision of his book which is a work in progress. Currently, his first edition is available in paperback, 16 pages, for $8.00 plus postage from David Collins, P.O. Box 250, Hawthorne, FL 32640. It is a listing by bottler/ brand name; bottle style; color; height; and rarity. David requests that collectors of Florida Soda check in with him to aid in expanding this much needed reference work.

Florida collectors seem to have much interest in commemorative Coca-Cola bottles of all series as several tables included many selections. The bargain of the day was a half-table full of quart and half-quart milk bottles tagged at $2.50 each.

Mike Elling and Chris Wiede (L), soda collectors re-united after ten years. Chris sees most Eastern shows, while Mike sees most mid-South shows.

Fig. 7 New authors, Carl Barnett (L) and Ken Nease display published "work in progress" books on all Georgia embossed soda bottles.

[Fig. 8] Maureen Pallasch, Show Chair, catches her breath during Deland Florida bottle show.

[Fig. 9] Commemorative Soda Specialist Pascal Pancratz and daughter Stephanie offered a table full of special issues for sale.

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Portland, Maine. - April, 2003 from Dave Hilton, York, Maine We had a very good attendance at this year’s show and sales were reported to be good from most of the dealers. There were at least 25 additional early buyers over last year and with a nice sunny day, the general crowd seemed more numerous.

Dealer, and Bininger collector, JACK PELLETIER of Gorham Maine reported a strong day of sales, as did DAVE & DIANE HILTON of www.dnhcollectibles.com in York, Maine. Local collectors Rick Carney, Gerry Sirois, Jerry Dorval, Joel Bucci and Rodney Huff also had a successfull day of sales. It was nice to see JEFF & HOLLY NOORDSY from Cornwall, Vermont, JOHN HATHAWAY from Bryant Pond, Maine, HAROLD BLAKE of Montpelier, Vermont, FRED SCHWEIKERWITZ (spelling?) of Randolph, Massachusetts and JIM ROGERS of Manchester, New Hampshire, all selling their wares!

It is always a pleasure to attend the Maine bottle show each year. There is a wealth of knowledge among the Maine collectors and if you get to know them, they offer a wide range of great bottle collections to visit!

Digging reports from York Maine: April and May have proved to be productive for about six local diggers! A cellar hole along Rt.1 in the Cape Neddick section of York yealded a hord of great pontiled bottles! A Stoddard Amber "N.WOODS PORTLAND ME" Iron Pontiled Medicine was excavated intact. Also a number of pontiled meds such as RRR RADWAY, JOHNSONS LINIMENT, assorted Hair Bottles, a rare SHAW & CLARK / Dr. BURLEIGH SMART'S COUGH MEDICINE from BIDDEFORD MAINE, a nice Quart Lyndeboro seam sided flask, a Yellow Olive pontiled UMBRELLA INK, a pontiled C.W.Atwell Portland, ME medicine and much much more!

A second area of at least 8 different dumps located by Dave Hilton & Alan Kristoff behind the colonial homes in York Village has provided them with several eary bottles including an 1820's pontiled Black Glass rum bottle. Broken Harrison's Columbian Inks, Shaker Syrup from Canterbury NH, Purple Sandwich colognes, cobalt corsetted colognes and numerous other pontiled medicines were found in several dumps. It looks as though this area was used by several area homes who took their trash and dumped it in random piles throughout an acre of pine forest. More to come out of these dumps!

Article & Photos by: Dave Hilton 8 Camden Ave York, ME 03909 E-mail: flookout@maine.rr.com Web site: www.dnhcollectibles.com

Minneapolis, Minnesota - April, 2003 from Steve Ketcham A big April weekend for bottle collectors The Dig It was bottle, advertising, and stoneware show weekend.

Friday night, April 11. The call came around 4:00 P.M. Another club member had received permission to dig on some property near his office, a few blocks from downtown Minneapolis. Older homes had been removed, and the top few feet of soil had been scraped away from several lots, exposing privy holes and cisterns.

The caller had already uncovered several circa 1890 blob-top beers and a nice Red Wing crock. Shards of a cobalt blue Indian Medical Spring Water from Minneapolis, complete with embossed Indian head, were found as well. Bulldozers would

make short work of the area Monday, and the bottles would be crushed. Another collector, my son and I were invited to join the fun of saving some history before it disappeared forever.

I don’t get in much digging anymore. When we started our family, I put aside my shovels. Now, my teen-aged son is just the right size for some serious dirt removal. We readily accepted the invitation.

By sunset we had only a little to show for our efforts. Good portions of both a privy and a cistern were dug, but few intact pieces were found. We uncovered some tantalizing pieces of Bennington-type pottery and several shards of Red Wing saltglazed stoneware. At the end of the dig we went home with a few nice bottles, some great father-son time, and a fun beginning

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The Dinner There was much more to Minnesota’s 32nd annual Antique Bottle, Advertising, and Stoneware Show and Sale than just selling old bottles, jugs, and beer trays. On April 12, dealers old and new were greeted as old friends at the Saturday night pot luck. Over plates piled high, show participants from across the Midwest swapped stories of the past year’s finds. Stories of memorable digs and remarkable purchases were told and retold, priming the already-high levels of enthusiasm among the diners.

Especially exciting pieces served as spontaneous centerpieces, gracing the large, round dining tables for all to admire. The talk and socializing continued long past dinner, as tomorrow would afford little time to chat. But dealers didn’t linger too late. Set up was looming at 6:30 A.M. The Show As dealers set up on Sunday morning, there were many questions on their minds. Would the economy matter? So many folks have watched their investments dwindle and their jobs disappear. Would they come and buy? And what about the war?

Would people even feel like going to a show with the concerns of the Middle East looming? Then there was the weather. In the previous 31 years of this show, the best turn-outs came on cool, drizzle-soaked days. With high temps in the sunny 70 degree range, show dealers imagined even the die-hard customers at home, rakes in hand.

As the 9:30 opening approached, a very long line formed.

The public was out there, anxious for a look at what the 95 sales tables held. Once the doors opened, business was brisk. Happy customers were seen buying bitters bottles, historical flasks, and figural bottles. Glass insulators were sought. Quack medicines were sold. Red Wing stoneware was requested and a Red Wing Nokomis vase found a new home. Several pieces of early breweriana, as well as beer bottles, changed hands.

More than one bag or box of bottles came into the show with a patron seeking advice, information, a trade, or an outright sale.

A nice cobalt Norwegian flask was traded for a trio of old glass pieces consisting of a perfume, an apothecary jar, and a glass hat whimsy.

It wasn’t all old bottles and glass, though. A dealer from South Dakota offered early photography. A Minnetonka dealer featured a huge assortment of colorful spice, coffee, and tobacco tins. Both booths were busy. Ephemera in the form of

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advertising posters, calendars, pamphlets, almanacs, and trade cards lay beside the bottles and jugs on many tables.

An 1866 St. Paul city directory was a part of a swap for a historical flask. Its pages were filled with advertising, and several anxious collectors took turns scanning the volume for ads which might relate to local bottles of the period. Early St. Paul liquor dealer George Benz was represented in an ad. Two of his popular bitters bottles were for sale at the show. At least one of them sold. Finck and Theobald were listed as rectifiers of whiskey and importers of Rheinish wines. M. Dorinden, located at Jackson between fifth and sixth, advertised himself as a wholesale dealer in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and St. Paul Ale and Porter. In sharp contrast, S. B Childs placed an ad for the Temperance House, apparently a dry hotel , on Jackson and Fourth - only a block from Dorinden’s ale and porter establishment. Paul Reiger promoted his drug business in the directory, emphasizing patent medicines and bitters of all kinds.

Bottle collectors love this kind of resource.

One Minnesota dealer brought early bottle openers featuring beer advertising. Some were for sale, others were enclosed in cases as an educational display. Another long-time collector laid out two educational displays: one of milk glass figural bottles and another of early marbles. Fire grenades, a big amber Hazelton keg and a turquoise Harden Star, were offered.

This large variety of goods makes this a show which draws collectors with a wide variety of interests. Collectors know that, despite what the show’s name suggests, this event can surprise and delight with what its dealers bring. And the dealers come from many states to sell here. In addition to many Minnesota dealers, North and South Dakota were represented. Iowa and Wisconsin dealers were there. Folks from Missouri and Nebraska also set up. The show was important enough to one Wisconsin dealer that, after selling at a show in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on Saturday, he packed up and drove to Minnesota Saturday night.

Sunday morning he was ready to set up at 6:30 A.M. Were dealer concerns about attendance warranted? That depended on who was asked. One long-time show patron commented that he had never seen a longer line prior to the 9:30 A.M. opening. The crowd seemed to linger a bit longer than usual, too. This was done despite the beautiful, sunny weather which belied the April 13 show date.

Next year’s show date has yet to be decided. An early Easter may push the show into late March. Whenever it occurs, folks from across the Midwest will again gather for a collector weekend like no other in Minnesota.

A wonderful pre-Prohibition beer tray picturing the Park Brewing Comnpany, Winona, Minnesota, was offered

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Federation of Historic 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 2002-2004 President : Ralph VanBrocklin, 1021W. Oakland Ave., Suite 109, Johnson City, TN 37604 Home (423) 913-1378 Office: (432) 282-8393; E-mail: thegenuine@aol.com First Vice-President : John Pastor, 7288 Thorncrest Dr. SE, Ada, MI 49301; Phone: (616) 285-7604 E-mail: JPastor2000@msn.com Second Vice-President : Jack Hewitt, 1765 Potomac Ct., Lawrenceville, GA 30043; Phone: (770) 963-0220 Secretary : Ed Provine, 401 Fawn Lake Drive, Millington, TN 38053; Phone: (901) 876-3296 Treasurer : Alan DeMaison, 6583 Berkshire Dr., Mentor, OH 44060; Phone: (440) 255-3880 E-mail: violinbottle@aol.com Historian : Richard Watson, 10 S.Wendover Rd., Medford, NJ 08055; Phone: (856) 983-1364 E-mail : rewatson@bellatlantic.net Editor : Kathy Hopson, 1966 King Springs Rd., Johnson City, TN 37601; Phone: (423) 926-7160 E-mail : kathy@thesodafizz.com Merchandising Director : Margie Williams, 1835 Oak Terr., Newcastle, CA 95658; Phone: (926) 663-1510 E-mail : margie@altarfire.com; Fax : (926) 663-2030 Membership Director : Fred Holabird, 701 Gold Run Ct., Reno, NV 89511; Phone: (775) 851-0837 Convention Director : Adam Koch, 10512 Northfield Rd., Northfield, OH 44067; Phone: (330) 467-1551

Business Manager / Subscriptions : June Lowry, 401 Johnston Ct., Raymore, MO 64083 Phone: (816) 318-0160; E-mail : osubuckeyes71@aol.com Director-At-Large : Sheldon Baugh, 252 W. Valley, Russelville, KY 42276; Phone: (270) 726-2712 Fax : (270) 726-7618; E-mail: sheldonb@logantele.com Director-At-Large : Norman Barnett, P.O. Box 38, Flat Rock, IN 47234; Phone: (812) 587-5560 Director-At-Large : Carl Sturm, 88 Sweetbriar Branch, Longwood, FL 32750-2783; Phone: (407) 332-7689 E-mail : glassmancarl@sprintmail.com Midwest Region Director : Rick Baldwin, 1931 Thorpe Cir., Brunswick, OH 44212-4261; Phone: (330) 225-3576 E-mail : rsbaldwin@worldnet.att.net Northeast Region Director : Larry Fox, 5478 Route 21, Canandaiqua, NY 14424; Phone: (716) 394-8958 Southern Region Director : Tom Lines, PO Box 382831, Birmingham, AL 35238; Phone: (205) 987-0650 Western Region Director : Kent Williams, 1835 Oak Terr., Newcastle, CA 95658; Phone: (916) 663-2030 Public Relations Director : Mike Polak, PO Box 30328, Long Beach, CA 90853; Phone: (562) 438-9209 E-mail : bottleking@earthlink.net Remember!

The information is always up-to-date on the Website: www.fohbc.com

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President’s Message Spring 2003

Most of you will receive this issue just after the close of the Louisville National Show. I hope that many of you were able to attend and that those of you who sold had a profitable show, while those of you seeking additions to the collection found the item you have always dreamed of owning at a bargain of a price! The collectors in the Louisville area, Show Chairs June and Wayne Lowry and your Board have enjoyed the opportunity to bring you this show and we look forward to providing you with a superb EXPO in Memphis, August 13-15, 2004.

I am at the one-year point of my two year tenure as President of this fine organization. This seems an appropriate juncture to comment on the changes which have occurred in the organization over the past 12 months.

When I agreed to allow having my name placed in nomination for the position of President, I had no inkling what lay in store for me. Within a month of that decision, I was advised by our previous Editor, David Cheadle, that he would be leaving his position and entering into the ministry. Our Business Manager, Wendy Smith, had given notice several months prior that she would step down in August, 2002, but no candidate had been identified to replace her. We’d had no Advertising Manager for at least a year, plus we had a publications budget that was wildly out of control surpassing our income from all sources by several thousand dollars each of the prior three years.

Before these matters came to the fore, my primary goal for the organization was fairly straight-forward—to establish a budget that did not require dipping into the investment funds we hold, so that those investment funds remained available for future programs to be developed by the Federation. That goal has remained the centerpiece for what we have tried to accomplish over the past year and we have come very close to reaching that goal. No

monies have been withdrawn from the investment funds in the past twelve months. Although we continue to spend slightly over what dues, alone, will support, other Federation functions have helped make up that difference— income from the National Shows, income from the Federation sponsored auction, advertising income, as well as donations from our Life members, Board members and others.

My sleepless nights about what to do about a new Editor were, happily, answered by a suggestion made by Bill Baab (our Southern Region Correspondent), that I contact Kathy Hopson, who was publishing an online periodical The Soda Fizz. Kathy has made my job as President a pleasant one. I commend her for the improvements she has made in the magazine, for her efforts with the newsletter and her willingness to take on many additional duties. The improvements to the website (www.fohbc.com) have been due primarily because of her resolve and industry. Kathy’s job could be simplified, and the Federation put in a more comfortable position for the future, if individuals interested in serving as an Associate Editor could be identified. If you have interest— please contact her!

I am pleased to have June Lowry on board as our new Business Manager. After three months of serving in that capacity I was thrilled to have my work load cut considerably, allowing me to begin to answer other matters requiring attention.

Still, it was probably good for me to perform this function for a period of time, as it identified certain procedural matters that were interfering with membership renewals and pointed out certain problems members were having. I hope that many of these matters have now been addressed and that we will function more smoothly as an organization. If you have concerns, please do not hesitate to contact your Regional Representative or myself.

President : Ralph VanBrocklin 1021 W Oakland Ave., Suite 109 Johnson City, TN 37604 (423) 913-1378 thegenuine@comcast.net

Alan De Maison has recently joined the Board as Treasurer, following the passing of Elma Watson. I am impressed and encouraged by his thoroughness. Bill Wrenn has offered to take the Advertising Manager position and I am looking forward to working with him as we try to improve that section of the magazine.

We have tried very hard over the past twelve months to make this organization more responsive to its members and I will continue to strive in that direction over the remainder of my term. You, as members, can help us in a number of areas— please consider taking advantage of the free “For Sale” ads we have offered you and consider placing block ads and “Wanted” ads (these will be very appealing to those seeking additions to their collections or wanting to sell items and it makes generating additional members through the magazine much easier). Attend or sell at the National Shows. Consign a nice piece or two to the Federation auction, buy a catalogue (even if only for reference), and bid on the items we offer. Offer your assistance to your Regional Directors. Let us know of your likes, dislikes and suggestions for improvement. Lend your enthusiasm to our members by writing about the items you collect, auctions, digs, shows and new finds. And, finally, please consider running for the Board in some capacity. New ideas will move this organization ahead in this new century!

The hobby is changing – the approach of the Federation will, as well, with new and insightful members and leaders!

Ralph Jay Van Brocklin, DMD

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Summer 2003 It was agreed that all would be better served if each member club would designate one individual to be their FOHBC Representative. In turn the clubs would provide me this persons name and best method of contact.

The ideal situation would be that any and all representatives would have an email address. I would then contact each representative individually and provide them with a schedule that would let them know when I needed nformation from them in order to get it in the Northeast report. This would allow us to get the most current and important information from each member club and keep all members well informed.

Larry will be contacting all member clubs about this in the month of May. Not only will this give us better continuity, but will also lower Larry’s stress level. Thanks to every one who attended the Northeast Regional Meeting. A special thanks to all our member clubs in for their support.

May 4, 2003 Herkimer County Fairgrounds was the site of the annual MVABC Show and sale. It was another beautiful day. The show was very well attended and there were many good buys. This is always a special show. I have tried for years to figure out why this club is so special and believe I finally have it figured. It is home base for Hall Of Famer, Howard Dean.

Howard is the kind of person who brings out the very best in all of us. He shares not only his vast knowledge of life, but also shows us how good it feels when we share with others. He is the kind of person who makes a room feel more comfortable just by being in it. For those who know Howard, I need say no more.

For those do not know Howard, be at

the next annual show May 2004 and find out why this is such a special show. I will personally introduce you to Howard Dean.

April 6, 2003 Rochester, N.Y. was the site of the 34th annual GVBCA show and sale. This show exemplified the true grit of those idiots who collect old bottles. The Rochester area was without electric power in many areas as well as phone service. The county of Monroe was under a state of emergency. The show facility was under emergency power provided by a stationary generator housed in the center of the complex. Nearly all the dealers showed up, and almost 600 people came through the gate. Pretty darn good for such adverse conditions. Says magnitudes about the GVBCA and the people they attract.

My hat is off to the show committee and all those who attended.

It was announced at the regular May meeting that the 35th annual GVBCA Show would be held at a different location. It is a short distance from where the show has been held for so many years.

It is a modern sports facility with easy access, better lighting and a much nicer paved parking lot. The members of the GVBCA are taking out all the stops to make the 35th show and sale one for the record books. It will be the third weekend of April 2004. This club’s show committee expended a great deal of individual effort to ensure that the Rochester Show remains one of the best in the Northeast. All past dealers and exhibitors will receive written notification of the changes. For more on this punch GVBCA.org in your browser.

Feel free to contact me with any suggestions or questions regarding this report Larry

Display at the national show. Bob Harms reported on the St.Louis show. “I didn’t set up; didn’t get a contract. I don’t know why after all these years, but let me tell you, that’s the way to do a show, no fuss - no muss”. “Bought a few nice bottles for the 50 state collection.” I am assuming these are hutches.

few blocks from downtown Minneapolis.

Old homes had been removed and the top few feet of soil had been scrapped off, exposing privy holes and cisterns. Several blob top 1890 beers and a nice Red Wing crock was uncovered along with shards of a cobalt blue INDIAN MEDICAL SPRING WATER from Minneapolis On April 12, 2003 the doors opened on the 32nd annual Minneapolis Antique Bottle show. There were many questions.

Would the economy matter? So may folks have watched their investment shrink.

What about Iraq? Would there be a

Northeast Regional News Larry Fox 5478 Route 21 Canandaigua, NY 14424 (718) 394-8958 brer-fox@msn.com On May 3, 2003 the Northeast regional meeting of the FOHBC was held in Rome, NY at the Beeches Restaurant. It was hosted by the Mohawk Valley Bottle Collectors Association and well attended.

It was a gorgeous sunny day. After a wonderful meal, we held [as Larry promised] a short but very productive meeting.

All agreed that the Federation was in very capable hands under the guidance of President Ralph Van Brocklin. Every one is very pleased with the improved Bottles And Extras. Kathy Hopson is to be commended for the fine job she is doing.

Larry suggested that we needed to improve the communiqué between he and the member clubs of the Northeast District.

We now publish a second to none magazine and need to keep our District Reports current, productive and interesting.

There are currently 24 FOHBC member clubs in the Northeast. This means that Larry has to keep up with all who furnish him a newsletter and decide what should appear in the Northeast report. All too often I receive a newsletter a day or so after the report has been submitted for publication. This means any pertinent news that should have been made available is delayed for a month.

Midwest Regional News Ron Hands 386 Spring Grove Drive Tallmadge, Ohio 44278 (330) 634-1977 rshands225@yahoo.com The 1st Chicago Bottle Club Chicago, Illinois At last meeting, Vice-President Bill Vander Veen suggested a 1st Chicago Club

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Minnesota’s First Antique Bottle Club “The Diggers Dope” A club member had received permission to dig on some property near his office a

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Once the doors opened business was brisk.

Happy customers were buying bitters bottles, historical flasks, and figural bottles. Glass insulators were being sought. More than one bag, or box, of bottles came into the show with a patron seeking advice, information, a trade, or an outright sale.

The Metropolitan Detroit Antique Bottle Club Detroit, Michigan “The Slug Plate” Their monthly meeting had an excellent and nostalgic presentation by Don Simons.

Don was courteous enough to put on a slide presentation from his days and experiences during the Flint River bottle digs of the 1970s. During the show-and-tell there were two examples of the M. REUTTER pint beer bottles from Detroit.

Bruce Heckman brought in a most interesting find from trip to the antique shop. It was a tool for manufacturing the lip of a blob top bottle. On April 12, an open pontiled medicine that was embossed DR.FERRI/ INDIAN TONIC / DETROIT was found at the Kalamazoo show.

The Western Michigan Bottle Club The spring show for this club is over, and it was a success. The gate had 190 people with 49 tables sold. The fall show at Muskegon is tentatively set for September 20th, 2003. Steve Deboode brought several Michigan beers (pint and quart) that were greenish in varying shades.

John Pastor spoke about the Baltimore show which he attended. John also sold some of the National Show auction catalogs and brought some of the items from the auction so we could see them first hand.

The Findlay Antique Bottle Club Findlay, Ohio “The Whittle Mark” Joe Terry reports that hits on the club’s website have reached 1600. Several communications have been received via the site, including one concerning cathedral pickles. Shirlee MacDonald also has a new list of slide show material available from the Federation. These are bottle / glass related slides, which are for rent. These slides would be great material for meeting programs.

Summer 2003 SHOW AND TELL: Tom Brown brought an aqua KEYSTONE MASON PATENT NOV 30TH 1858 with a ground lip and a 12 oz container embossed HAVENSHIRE FARMS 5c DEPOSIT, FREMONT, OHIO. Joe Frey brought a scarce JOHN KARST, FINDLAY, OHIO amber quart blob top with a stopper. Shirlee MacDonald brought in items from the FAIRMONT CREAMERY COMPANY, an aluminum ice cream spoon embossed GEM CITY ICE CREAM DAYTON, OHIO, ISLAY’S DAIRY CO cap and a bottle opener embossed on both sides with PAT 1-26-12, THE ISLAY’S DAIRY CO, MILK, BULTER, ICE CREAM. The Iowa Antique Bottleers Fairfield, Iowa This another fantastic digging story by a Hawkeye. This report is by Melissa Yanku, of the Iowa Club, when she was moving into her very early house. While Melissa was working on her new home, her dog “Roscoe” had excavated a dogsize hole underneath a lilac in the back yard. After Roscoe had climbed out of the hole, broken jewels of aqua, amber, and green glass glittered in the sunlight.

“A crude twisted neck, applied lip, an embossed partial panel, seed bubbles, hinge molds, and what is this, an iron pontiled base? I leaned over and hugged the dog as he lapped up water. I ran screaming to my husband, Troy, ‘Roscoe found a dump.’” Troy looked at her like she had lost her mind. She grabbed some tools and raced back to the hole, barely scratching the surface when bottles began to emerge.

At first there were smooth bases, and then hinged molds bottles, but mostly slicks. Then an early DOYLE’S HOP BITTERS, EUREKA HAIR RESTORATIVE, an ink STUART’S INK / STUART & HARRISON / TOLEDO, IOWA, TRASKS MAGNETIC OINTMENT, and a SHILOH’S SYSTEM INVIGORATOR were found.

The further she dug - the older the bottles. Then came an amber LEO GARRET / WHOSALE GROCER / BURLINGTON, IOWA, with an iron pontil, and a cobalt blue MCGRUGER, KEOKUK blob top soda, also iron pontiled. Next was the first open pontiled piece, a BURHAMS & CO BLACK INK, BURLINGTON, IOWA. Melissa’s heartbeats are now through the roof. She was able to lift pontil bottles out of their

15 over 100 years of rest, without so much as the aid of a shovel.

The next two bottles that became hers were a THADDEUS BRONSON / DAVEBPORT iron pontiled ale and an iron pontiled DR T. V. SAWMULLER’S CONCEPTION COMPOUND, MUSCATINE, IOWA. Altogether, she excavated 47 embossed bottles that afternoon, 21 of which were iron pontiled or open pontiled.

The Antique Bottle Club of Northern Illinois “Pick and Probe” It was announced that the show contracts for the Louisville show are available and the 1st Chicago Club in planning a bus trip to Louisville. Any one interested can contact John Panek. At the last show-and-tell, Pete Peterson brought two one-pint milks from Wheeling Ill., a BUFFALO CREEK FARM, and an amber DEWITT’S STOMACH BITTERS, as well as a PAUL POHL CHICAGO pottery beer. Dan Puzzo brought a FLAGG’S INSTANTANOEUS RELEIF, CHICAGO hinged mold and a free-blown dish.

The Ohio Bottle Club Barberton, Ohio “The Swirl” Alan DeMasion called the last meeting to order with 92 members in attendance.

Bill Koster talked about the Mansfield Show and added that everything was on schedule. Adam Koch will be making new colored nametags for the club. Adam also purchased a new book for the club “GLASSWORKS AUCTIONS” “A COLLECTION OF CLASS”.

Next the award of $25 for winning the most “BEST AQUIRED BOTTLE IN 2002” was Darl Fifer. Ted Krist and Adam Koch tied for most time, winning the “BEST AQUIRED STONEWARE IN 2002”, and split the $25 prize. Hope they don’t spend it all in one place. The club is still working on changing their traditional swirl bottle to stoneware or a different type of bottle. The BEST AQUIRED BOTTLE OF THE MONTH went to Doug Shutler with a fantastic pontiled cobalt 6-paneled root beer from Cincinnati. BEST AQUIRED OTHER THAN BOTTLES went to Jim Cady with a milk glass match striker. BEST DUG OTHER THAN BOTTLES went to Bill Koster with a tin doll’s head.

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mistress at one of the springs, and two pretty bull terriers in the park near their master. Why is there not a pool for dogs?"

Mary also reprinted another New York Times article published in 1899 on Dr. Ray V. Pierce and his Golden Medical Discovery. She also discovered a web site from which you can still purchase the medicine for $8.50.

"Ironically, you can purchase an empty antique bottle of the same remedy for the same price," she said.

The page could not be displayed when this regional editor tried it.

Somebody once said, "There’s nothing new under the sun."

Don’t tell that to Charlie Barnette, president of The State of Franklin (Tenn.) Antique Bottle and Collectibles Association, and editor of its newsletter, The Groundhog Gazette.

Barnette’s feature story enhanced by photos was about a previously unknown St. Andrew’s Sarsaparilla manufactured by the Andrews Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Va.-Tenn.

Actually, the bottle was dug by Herbert McClelland, vice president of the club.

Barnette had found the site and dug the hole in which he found a watch fob stamped "Parker Davis 1904 Washington."

"I placed Herbert in the hole and scouted the lots some more," Barnette related.

"Herbert would let out a yell when he found something." Herbert actually let out two yells when he found an 1899 "O" (New Orleans Mint) dime.

A few minutes later, Herbert called to Charlie and held up a large clear bottle with its neck missing. "St. Andrew’s Sarsaparilla," he said. Barnette, who knew the sarsaparilla came only in amber bottles, was convinced his friend was joking and asked, "What is it really, a Hood’s or an Ayer’s?"

He finally went over to look and IT WAS a St. Andrew’s in clear glass. The two searched for and found the bottle’s neck.

Not only did they find an unlisted sarsaparilla, "we established a pretty close time period for when it was used with an 1898 dime and 1904 watch fob. This sure doesn’t occur often," Barnette said.

The editor also listed bottles from the Brown Manufacturing Company in Greeneville, Tenn., which should be of

Southern Regional News Bill Baab 2352 Devere Street Augusta, GA 30914 (706) 736-8097 I heard my Top 25 Georgia bottle feature (Winter 2003 Bottles & Extras) was a hot topic of conversation at the South Carolina Bottle Club Show in Columbia.

That’s good. I intended for it to be.

Not everyone agreed with how the balloting went, but that’s OK, too. It was strictly a fun thing to get involved in and the rankings aren’t something to be set in stone. However, I can’t see the Dr. G. Harral applied seal bottle from Savannah in any place except No. 1.

Just wait until readers check out the Top 25 South Carolina bottles in this edition of Bottles & Extras. There will be some surprises.

I’m hoping these polls will stimulate knowledgeable collectors in other states to do the same. In fact, Reggie Lynch is considering doing it in North Carolina.

Tom Lines needs to do it for Alabama and Ralph Van Brocklin should do it for Tennessee. Johnnie Fletcher needs to do it for Oklahoma and perhaps Kansas.

Now, on to the regional report: Mary Quesada, editor of the Antique Bottle Collectors of North Florida newsletter, published this region editor’s Top 25 Georgia bottles feature in her March issue.

Eight members attended the club’s February meeting at the Museum of Southern History. A show and tell session featured bottles from England, assorted porcelains, teapots and a Rexall nurser with original box.

Plans for the club’s annual show at the Fraternal Order of Police Building in Jacksonville on Sept. 27 were discussed.

In the March issue, Mary reprinted an 1897 article from the New York Times on "Drinking at Saratoga." Among the celebrated springs’ benefits is this gem: "The dogs take their matutinal constitutionals with their masters and mistresses in the spring. It is a common sight to see a plump pug in harness wandering around by the side of his

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value to those who specialize in collecting Ramon’s products. Other Greeneville bottles also are listed.

In his April edition, Barnette reported on a Morristown, Tenn., auction he and Federation President Ralph Van Brocklin of Johnson City, Tenn., attended. The sale largely consisted of items that once graced the interior of the City Bar of Morristown in the late 1890s, including an Anna Pottery "Railroad Pig" which brought $3,100.

Van Brocklin bid on a box lot of a pair of engraved silverplated teapots, even though he wasn’t able to read the engraving. After he paid his $75 winning bid, he was pleasantly surprised to learn the pots were presentation pieces advertising Silver King Rye Sold Only by J.W. Russell, a former City Bar proprietor.

Barnette won a Keeley’s Cure for Drunkeness and a cropped lithograph from G.J. Ashe Whiskey in Knoxville, Tenn. The latter’s backing was a tin sign advertising cigars which Barnette hoped no one else had noticed. They didn’t. An open-pontiled Haviland Drugs embossed Augusta (Ga.) and Charleston (S.C.) also sold for $475.

The editor also illustrated the newsletter with a neat Spencer & Brown billhead and postally used 1883 advertising envelope from Greeneville, Tenn.

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM TERRIFIC: Tom Hicks of Eatonton, Ga., is a longtime bottle collector whose adventures are worth chronicling. During a recent telephone conversation, he recounted a pair of them.

Hicks maintains a booth at The Peach Antique Mall off I-75 below Macon. While talking to another collector, he noticed a man with a glass barrel bitters tucked under his arm walk past.

"I broke off in mid-conversation and took off after the man. I finally caught up with him and asked him what kind of bottle he was carrying. He said he didn’t know much about bottles, that he’d bought it in an estate sale and was going to put it in a case in his booth for sale. The bottle had a $99 price tag affixed to it. I said, ‘I supposed you’ll have to have $99 for that bottle.’ He said, ‘Oh, no. I didn’t pay that much for it. I’d sell it for $75.’ I said, ‘SOLD!’ "Turned out it was a mint amber Dr. C.W. Roback’s Stomach Bitters."

On another occasion, Hicks attended a Scott’s Antique Show in Atlanta.

Bottles and Extras "Usually, Bob Simmons or Jack and Jim Hewitt would have preceded me to these things and gobbled up everything good in sight. I was ambling down an aisle when I spotted a big jug with a cobalt slip floral decoration. I went over to look at it closely, not thinking about it too much because most cobalt slip jugs are from New England or New York.

"However, this one had Finn, Smith & Co., Thomasville, Ga., impressed on the shoulder and the name was highlighted by cobalt slip. There was no price tag on it so I approached the woman in the booth and asked her how much she wanted.

‘Three-fifty,’ she said. I didn’t know if she meant $3.50 or three-hundred and fifty, so I said, ‘Excuse me, ma’am, I don’t hear too well. What was that you said?’ She said, ‘That jug cost me $250 so surely it’s fair to let me make $100 on it.’ I said, ‘Yes, ma’am,’ and had trouble getting the money out of my wallet, my fingers were shaking so badly.

"Even a blind hog can find an acorn now and then."

Cataract surgery prevented Johnnie Fletcher, president of the Oklahoma Territory Bottle & Relic Club and editor of Oklahoma Territory News, from getting out and about. Bad weather also played a role in keeping him from manning probe and spade.

However, that’s all past and he was able to get out with Kenny Burbrink and go digging in Burrton, Kan., and again in St. Joseph, Mo., with Burbrink and Ed Tardy.

Their adventures are featured in the April issue of his newsletter.

Fletcher and Burbrink probed a pit in Burrton that turned out to be full of water, but that didn’t dampen their spirits, especially when Burbrink pulled out (1) fragments of a Tippecanoe Bitters and (2) a whole example. A Prickly Ash Bitters (with an unfortunate corner missing) was next and Fletcher got into the hole to relieve his friend. He found an embossed pint coffin whiskey flask stuck in the north wall of the pit and was downcast when he found the CHAS. H. RICHTER/ KENTUCKY/LIQUOR STORE/ TRINIDAD/COLO. flask had suffered damage.

Other bottles emerged, including a JETT & WOOD/WICHITA, KAN./ THISTLE BRAND EXTRACTS, an N.K. BROWN’S/AROMATIC ESSENCE/ JAMAICA GINGER and a DR. MCLEAN’S/STRENGTHENING/

Summer 2003 CORDIAL/&/BLOOD PURIFIER. Burbrink discovered another pit from which the pair recovered a few bottles, but water again plagued them. They decided to leave the big pit — 10 feet long, 6 feet wide and 5 feet deep — for dryer days.

That pair, plus Ed Tardy, received permission to probe and dig a St. Joseph area where several hotels had stood. They found a rock-lined privy from which they recovered an ADRIANO/BOTTLING CO./ST. JOSEPH, MO., Hutchinson, a half-gallon rock, two COLLINS BROS. DRUG CO./ST. LOUIS bottles, and a half-gallon MASON’S PATENT NOV. 15TH, 1858 fruit jar.

Other pits yielded another ADRIANO Hutchinson and a crown top and a LOUIS FUELING/ST. JOSEPH, MO. Hutchinson.

The M-T Bottle Club of DeLand, Fla., is celebrating another successful show and sale, according to the April Diggers Dispatch co-edited by Bill and Sally Marks. The March 14-15 event featured 88 sales tables and five exhibits.

Mike and Betty Jordan of Ocala, Fla., won the FOHBC Collectors’ Ribbon for the Most Educational Display of fruit jars.

Mike (Cheromike) Elling of Sharon, Tenn., won the club’s highest quality plaque for his Chero-Cola display.

Other displays included Avons, whiskeys and artifacts by Lester and Frances Stoll of Pierson, Fla.; Volusia County pre-1920 auto tags by Oscar Brock of Lake Helen, Fla., and Coca-Cola sodas by James Hurley of New Smyrna, Fla. Reggie Lynch’s April Southeast Bottle Club newsletter features 74 full-color photos over its 20-page spread. Wow! Well done, Reggie! (Check it out at www.antiquebottles.com/southeast/).

In his newly established Book Corner, Lynch features David Graci, author of American Stoneware Bottles, (More) American Stoneware Bottles and Eastern Massachusetts Embossed Milk Bottles.

These are super books and can be purchased direct from Graci, who can be contacted at stonebotle@aol.com.

There’s now a bottle and stoneware chat room on eBay started by Charlie Barnette, Judy Tomlin and others, providing an online place for collectors to ask (and answer) questions about their hobbies.

Check out the newsletter for location.

Lynch also touches on recent cases of eBay fraud and tips on how to avoid getting involved. This is a great service to

17 all who deal on eBay. The Raleigh Bottle Club Show on March 22 attracted three displays and 51 dealer tables, according to show chairman David Tingen. Sterling Mann displayed an outstanding collection of Pepsi-Cola jugs and dispensers, Lynch had a selection of North Carolina whiskeys and sodas, and Tingen a beautiful showing of colored North Carolina and assorted blobtop beers.

High tech doings also have entered the bottle collecting picture as a collector had someone make an epoxy slug plate soda — Rowland / Bottling Works/Rowland, N.C., from the actual slug plate of a broken example — the only one known.

To determine such a fake, Lynch said, the epoxy embossing can be scratched with a knife blade, while regular glass won’t.

Remember fake epoxy bottles were found recently in New Mexico. Caveat emptor!

Check out the recent eBay sales in the newsletter, too.

BOOK REVIEW: In the beginning, soda water bottle collectors focused on blobtop sodas dating from the 1840s to the 1890s. The Hutchinson soda — once downgraded as "the poor relation" of the blobtops — came into the mainstream collecting picture during the 1990s.

Today, as values of the once-lowly Hutchinson have risen rapidly, many collectors with shallow pockets and slim wallets have again turned their interests toward a different container — the crown top soda bottle.

Not only does this category include popular brands such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola, but flavored soda waters from small town bottlers who had the desire, but not the wherewithal, to compete against the big timers. Sometimes a bottling company would be in business for just a few months, or even a few days, as their organizers fell into the bottomless pitfalls of business.

Collectors in this region editor’s home state of Georgia take pride in obtaining as many small town bottles as they know exist. Problem is, there have been few listings available to see just what is out there. Until now.

Peach State collectors Carl Barnett of Douglas and Ken Nease of Claxton have teamed to produce Georgia Early Embossed Crown Top Soda Bottles, Abbeville to Wrightsville.

Nease contributed knowledge gained from many years of collecting small town

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Georgia bottles and Barnett traveled the state visiting other collectors and obtaining permission to take photos to use in the book. He toiled for two-and-a-half years on this labor of love, but the result was well worth it.

The book sports 264 pages with more than 1,400 bottles pictured in color.

Included within that figure are 263 script straight-sided Coca-Colas, 236 different Chero Colas and 54 Pepsis.

Also included are chapters on Bludwine (and Budwine), Orange Crush, NuGrape, Dr. Pepper, Flint Rock, Red Race, Koca Nola, Red Rock, Big Hit, Big Chief and embossed green-colored bottles.

Finding even half the bottles listed would mean having an outstanding historical collection. Some bottles exist only as fragments (and are so pictured), while the authors seek answers to questions about bottles rumored to exist.

They hope the book will help reveal existence of new (to them) Georgia crown tops as well as answer the questions they have posed, such as: "Does anyone have an Augusta Koca-Nola?" Early ads in The Augusta Chronicle indicate such bottles exist, although neither the co-authors nor this editor have ever seen an example.

"We’ve already had a couple of new bottles reported," Barnett said. "One was

a Chero Cola from Forsyth and the other was an amber North Georgia Bottling Works from Dalton."

Copies of 244 old newspaper ads extolling the virtues of the respective soft drinks, color photos of outdoor advertising and well-displayed private collections help complement the book.

Collectors may order the book online (from soda bottles under e-Bay) or from Barnett at 1211 St. Andrews Drive, Douglas, GA 31533. Cost per book is $39.95 plus $3.95 shipping (Georgia residents must add 7 percent sales tax).

Checks or money orders must be made out to Georgia Soda Bottle Book.

program centered around some of the changes to the flasks themselves.

Seems the prospectors head was considered too big for his body on the very first ones, so adjustments had to be made. I guess not too many of the big head ones got out into circulation and then there was a transitional slugged head version too.

Then we have the tale of Yosemite Nabona, an endearing quack.

Claimed to be Navaho and to have studied in Berlin and Calcutta and opened up a log sanitorium. Naturally, cures from baldness to insanity were claimed and he hawked his wares up until he applied for a medical license in ’29. (no shortage of nerve?) Man, he got away with it late being as the PF&DA was much earlier. I guess enforcement was rather lax in the neighborhood. Of course his credentials were total fiction.

In March, they got clobbered, pummeled, bludgeoned with a huge snowstorm and no meeting of course. (My friend Randy was snowed in for many days until they brought in Cats and cut the road back open.) But our tireless newsletter editor, Rebecca Harris fell right into a great story talking to a co-worker.

Marie Leason is the granddaughter of Tom Orecchio.

Never heard of him? Me either. But, oh ho, this guy was a major mover and shaker in early Colorado. Mining, milling, the wholesale grocery business. He even had a pasta factory at one point. Besides distributing beer and whiskey. Active dude. And good lookin too. Kinda like me 8^) heh heh

Oregon BCA The Stumptown Report A Bit of Luck, by Kim Junker It started off with one of those lowenergy, “What do you want to do?”

“I don’t care” days. It was nice enough outside. It wasn’t raining and the sun was out. (KJ) So...it sounds like Mark and Kim went off walking just to feel the spring as much as anything else. Found some innocent looking shards poking out and kept picking while they passed the time gently.

Next thing you know, out popps a little brown neck. A minute later a union oval ½ pt Fleckstein and Mayer flask! And mint!! Ouy vey, what a score. (SG) Back to Kims real story instead of my brief clumsy synopsis (sorry Kim) Needless to say, we were smiling all afternoon, The sun felt a little warmer and a lot brighter. The birds were singing and so were we.

Beautifully said, partner.

I noticed among the yummy show-andtell stuff that Ben brought a Psychene from the good old Slocum Manf Chemists.

Long ago I saw an old ad from them that promised a sample of each of their four top products for a dollar. I’ve seen miniatures of Phychene and they’re embossed. I always wanted a complete unopend sample pack from them sooooo much. But you all know I’m crazy for miniatures.

Rod brought a selection of goodies including a jade bottle. It was reported as a perfume bottle but many jade bottles are actually Asian snuff bottles. I’d like to see it myself. I’d love it if it was a jade perfume too of course. Maybe more. A jade perfume. Think of it.

Western Regional News Scott Grandstaff Box 409 Happy Creek, CA 96039 scottg@snowcrest.net Whoa Ho! I got good stuff here ladies and gentlemen! Spring must be getting around or something and our Western Region is coming through like gang busters. You ought to see this stack. Getting thicker and juicier too. You guys planning to kill me, or what? ;^) Now that’d be a demise worth experiencing. Bring it!

Oh, we’re kind of starving for pictures.

Printing requirements being what they are (Let’s shoot all the printers first off) it’d probably be best to send along a few of the originals once in a while if you can.

Then I can get them off to Kathy in time to make the ink. (Oh yeah, like you can be sure I’m always the first to get my reports in everytime, huh Kath?? 8^) Ok, ok, but I’ll do my best if ‘ya send me something to get my teeth wrapped around. So please……..

Without further ado, Aaaawayyy we go (as always, no particular order) Colorado ABCC Dump Diggers Gazette John Eatwell (recently inducted into the Hall of Fame and well deserved) brought some rare Pike’s Peak flasks for the assemblage to ogle most satisfyingly. The

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Bottles and Extras I saw in the list of Oregon stuff recently sold over the Bayside an 8" Mugge the Druggist bottle. This is the big one. It brought a decent price. When the unpleasant clerk in the junk shop wouldn’t come down from the 20 bucks she had on mine I very nearly left it there. Guess I’m glad I didn’t ;-) Sure wish I could share the picture of the Black Cat back bar bottle I’m looking at right now. Hot! Cool Lloyd.

Don’t forget the June show! Check the calendar.

Reno ABC The Digger’s Dirt The raffle bottle….. dig this! 4 sodas.

IP Henry Winkle- Sac City, lt blue E.L. Billings – Sac City, scarce College Point-NY, and a Norton Bros – Newark NJ soda.

Wow!! Go Reno.

It sounded like a nice program on beer cans was presided over by Jim Dermody.

I would have liked to be in on that. Jim says if you have any old cans with the beer still intact, you need to punch a hole in the bottom and drain the contents so the beer doesn’t eat the can.

A report on the archaeological digging of the Old Boston Saloon of Virginia City was shared. Seems the Old Boston was primarily an African American saloon.

And it was a pretty nice place. The same general kind of stuff turned up as any other saloon on the street so roughly the same as any.

And it sounds like Fred Holibird is just about to wrap up a book on Nevada bottles. Atta boy Fred! Can’t wait to see it.

49ers HBA, Auburn Bottle Bug Briefs Hey looky here! My old friend Randy Taylor went and gave a program on fruit jars. You ought to see all the stuff he brought too. You really got to take your hat off when someone is willing to load up so much of thier precious hard gained collection and haul it down the road like that to share. I could swear I’m seeing his unbelievable teal cathederal pickle out of the house and in attendance. That monster just kills me. What a beautiful thing it is.

You da man Randy!

Kent Williams penned a lively and convincing pitch for joining and supporting our Federation. Since you are most likely already a member if you’re

Summer 2003 reading this, I won’t repeat too much here.

Except just to agree with him that this is an extraordinarily fine organization.

Collectors volunteering to help other collectors to enjoy thier collecting even more. How you going to top that? If you know other like-minded individuals, drag them on in here. Kicking and screaming is fine with me if that’s what it takes. Once we get them in, most figure out what’s what pretty quick and want to stick around, so just get ‘em in however you can.

Sequioa ABCS The Bottleologist I’m really sad to report most of the newsletter was lost in the mail. I only got the cover. Really cute cover though.

Patriotic decorations on summer stuff galore. Stick horse, baby buggy, wheelbarrow and ice cream wagon just to name a few. Looks like someone went out and got nicely printed paper to dress up the opening page. I have to say someone because there isn’t a newsletter editor listed in the club officers section.

We’ll be back with a more detailed report next time Sequioa. Sorry about this.

I didn’t notice until I got out the newsletters to report on. Hey, I’m new, bruises are ok, but don’t kill me.

San Diego AB&CC The Bottleneck Egad! Some schmuck name of ScottG is selling pharmacy and whiskey bottles with fake epoxy embossing applied to slick bottles! This is -not- me. Let me repeat, yikes.

I was in there on ebay pretty early and my handle is scottg, but this guys moniker is bottle-man. Talk about slander. How about somebody go meet up with him toting a Louisville Slugger and persuade him to change his name for me? 8^) Patty McCormac gave us Water Log, the story of Carlsbad mineral water. Beginning in the early 1880’s both artesian and mineral water were found where everyone had about given up hope of any water at all. The mineral water quickly became a popular item with the train passengers travelling by and the word spread of miraculous cures. They bottled the stuff and sent it to New York and St Louis too.

Up boomed the town and it was going great until the wells started to dry up near the end of the 1880’s. Kerflop went the local economy again as fast as it’d jumped up.

But it was Cal coastal land and eventually

19 of course they piped in water from someplace else and land value in Cal never falls.

Well, unless you’re in the deep dark woods where I am.

The Figural Bitters Story by Dick and Calla Spevacek is an interesting story on figural bitters, of course. But it starts out with a very interesting fact. Did you know bitters were probably an English invention? Seems the king, George, slapped a heavy tax on booze. In order to get around the tax, herbs were added to the regular hooch and passed of as medicinal. I never knew that.

In early America there was no tax on whiskey so no market for bitters. But in 1851 the Maine Law was born and Maine went dry. Then N.Y., Vt., Conn., and several others followed.

Bitters had an audience. When the Internal Revenue Act of 1862 went in, alcohol was taxed brutally but once again, bitters slipped the noose and the bitters boom took off in earnest.

The Spevacek’s report that the Whitney Glass works made many of the figural bitters. I didn’t know this either. Way cool article!

I’m perpetually irritated that the Seaworth Bitters co and Kelly’s Old Cabin companies weren’t more successful. I’d love to have several colors of each!

Next up is a great article on marbles.

No byline though. And then, an old reprint of Stoneware for the birds, by Chuck Sharp. Photos by Betty Zumwalt, from the collection of Dorothy Sharp.

These are dear names to me, very dear.

Chuck and Dorothy are about as solid and good as they come. Kind to a fault.

Then it’s On The Road To Austin, by Mike Bryant Halfway between nowhere and no place, is the historic mining town of Austin, Nev., it starts. Mike goes on to tell of the bottle shop of James Graham and follows up with another establishment, Chapel Antiques of Carson City, Nev., near the capital. Thanks Mike.

Phoenix AB&CC Arizona The AtoZ Collector In a previous column I had wondered just what the title of Grunt meant. Our editor Patty George filled me in. Ron Hartnett and his lovely wife Betty (official Gruntette) open the clubhouse, police the rest rooms, make sure there is plenty of coffee and punch and stay to clean up and haul out the trash at the end,

20 too. Grunt nothing, I’m voting for the title saints! Wow. Searching for Gold In California, by Patty’s husband, I’m guessing. Patty, you forgot the byline 8^) This was a whirlwind tour of southern California spread out over three days by our intrepid couple. A wide ranging list of stops crammed into the time available that’d kill a determined eagle in flight. You two must have been wrecked. Neither rain, nor traffic, nor the absence of IHOP could slow these two down. Antique shows, shops, swap meets and more. What a splendid trip but you must have needed a vacation after your vacation!

May program on Clocks, presented by Leonard Ciacco.

Leonard’s father started collecting clocks 30 years ago. So this is second generation here. Leonard bought his first clock 10 years ago, which was guaranteed to work, but of course didn’t. So, he learned to fix it. He went on to open a clock repair business and of course, his favorites found their way into the collection. I’m jealous. I love clocks too and have a couple that need expert help.

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The easy ones I’ve already fixed but that big, supposed-to-chime reliably, grandmother clock…….Leonard, do you make house calls??

The club trip to Bisbee has come and gone as of this writing, and I bet we get a report on it next time.

Antique Pepsi bottles. Did you know Pepsi started as Brad’s Drink in 1898?

Took until 1903 to change the name. There are some reproduction 10-pin shaped amber Pepsi bottles out there. They are company-made 75th anniversary bottles.

They are light amber and the originals were all dark. Also, regular crown caps won’t fit the repop. I like that shape of that bottle though. Wonder how many originals are left out there?

LA HBC Los Angeles The Whittlemark Interesting reading of the presidential messages over a couple of issues. Ken Lawler, Pres., first has to manage some obvious worries over the club’s annual fund raising auction and does a fine job of it. Then, in the next issue, hah! Tim Blair and Don Wippert step in as lively and

humorous auctioneers. The auction goes off smooth as buttah. Goodies to snack on whilst the auction was underway was a brilliant stroke. Everyone has a great time, good stuff changes hands and funds are raised to the delight and relief of everyone concerned. Just goes to show you how planning and foresight really pay off.

Congratulations one and all.

Morro Bar Show Report by Ken N Dar Hey, you guys are globetrotters!

Well, Dar and Ken headed up of Fri. Always good thinking, getting the jump.

Going in with the sellers is smart strategy if you can manage it. Those bargains evaporate fast!

And goodies were retrieved too. A cabin ink, and one made from soapstone too.

Then there was a hex poison with the skulland-crossbones on every panel. Yow! Several L.A. club members attended too, but not as many as they were expecting. It sounded like a splendid time and a generous haul was made though.

Guess that’s it from here. Again, congratulations Western Region! A bumper crop!

Yours, Scott

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by Cecil Munsey Copyright © 2003 The only thing worse than a hangover is that throbbing in your head after studying all the various plans and equipment options from today’s wireless carriers. From time to time, friends ask me what wireless service they should choose. As one, who has a cell phone and lives in a community where 30,000 people are employed in the wireless sector, I feel obliged to reply, but always wind up feeling not up to the task. More than once I have been tempted, with a sarcastic tongue in my cheek to suggest they consult “The Mystic Oracle” – a “wireless” device used in 1924 by the famous Lydia Pinkham Medicine Company.

Indeed, it’s true! Lydia Pinkham was an early user of “wireless” technology.

Well actually Lydia herself was 41-yearsdead in 1924 when “The Mystic Oracle” was used to promote Lydia’s medicines.

It was the succeeding company that employed the recently re-discovered “wireless” promotional piece that is the feature of this article. The item proclaims to offer “ANSWERS [to] QUESTIONS BY WIRELESS.” (Interestingly and coincidentally the “Oracle” was patented and copyrighted, by J. B. Carroll Co., Carroll & Albany Avenues, Chicago, on the very same day in 1924 that Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died.)

Wireless Communications History At this point in the discussion, it seems that some history and clarification might be helpful. Communication without wires and electricity is probably as old as Man himself – wireless communications in other words.

Early communications development included a variety of semaphore [an apparatus for visual signaling] where spotters used visual signals to relay messages from one elevated location to the next. By the early 1800s, these mechanically operated visual telegraph lines were fairly common in Europe; less common in the United States except for smoke signals utilized by the native Americans. Visual telegraph methods were slow, covered limited distances and were only usable during good visibility.

During the early 1800s numerous inventors worked on ways to send signals by electrical currents along wires. Samuel B. Morse of the United States developed a system that imprinted dots and dashes on a paper tape. The dots and dashes on paper were replaced with the skill of listening to the same dots and dashes coming through the clicking receiver.

Eventually Morse’s dot-and-dash approach became the worldwide standard.

Radio – signaling and audio communication using electromagnetic radiation – was first employed as a “wireless telegraph,” for point-to-point links where regular telegraph lines were unreliable or impractical.

What is the difference between wireless and radio? “There ain’t none – both refer to the exact same thing” – explained Edward C. Hubert in “Radio vs. Wireless,” from January 1925 issue of Radio News.

Today, of course, “wireless” mostly refers to cellular telephones that bounce a variety of signals to and from satellites. In 1924 the Lydia Pinkham Medicine Company’s use of the word “wireless” was to be taken literally. It really just meant a method of communicating (answering questions) without wires.

The Mystic Oracle Theme: Before an examination of how the Mystic Oracle game works mechanically, it is not only interesting to study the reason (theme) for its use as a promotional tool, but why it was selected to promote Lydia Pinkham medicines. The theme is clearly highlighted in the opening question [–on the second page of folder], “Are You On The Sunlit Road to Better Health?”

“Every road leads somewhere. We can reach any destination we choose–if we find the right road. Some folks never do. Yet

Bottles and Extras before them over the green hills, stretches straight and true the ‘Sunlit Road to Better Health.’ Along that broad highway marches a joyous company. These are the folks who get things done.

“Which road are you traveling? Why do you loiter in the shadows when you crave the sunshine? Have you strayed into little bypaths of worry and illness? Turn around. March on with the crowd, head up and shoulders back.

ALONG THE SUNLIT ROAD ARE SEVEN GUIDEPOSTS: 1.

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Fresh Air and Sunshine.

Pure Water.

Balanced Meals.

Be Clean Inside and Out. Work Hard and Play Hard.

Rest.

Be Cheerful

“Thousands of women tell us that each bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound they took was a milestone on the Sunlit Road to Better Health.”

The reasons the Mystic Oracle was selected to promote Lydia’s medicine are obvious. Besides the popular theme of good health [popular then and still popular today] the device is cleverly done, fun to manipulate and it dispenses very sound advice.

How it works: According to the directions, “turn the disc [on the third page of folder] until the question you want answered is directly under the pointer (printed arrow). Then close the folder and the hand will find the answer” [–on the front page of folder]. The game works with the aid of a magnet

Bottles and Extras affixed in a permanent position to the back of the disc on the third page of the folder.

When the question to be answered is rotated until it “is directly under the pointer” the hand (metal arrow) on the front page of the folder follows the internal magnet and always points to the correct answer.

The questions: There are twelve questions that are asked and answered by The Mystic Oracle. The game is touted [–on the front page of folder] as being “MYSTERIOUS; AMUSING; MYSTIFYING; BAFFLING.” And the game, “answers questions by wireless.”

Lydia E. Pinkham’s Four Medicines: On the fourth page of the folder, along with the traditional picture of Lydia E. Pinkham, is a listing and explanation of the four medicines being marketed by the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company in 1924.

Vegetable Compound – “A popular medicine in use for over fifty years.”

Herb Medicine – “Formerly called Lydia E. Pinkham’s Blood medicine. A Spring tonic for run down condition.”

Pills for Constipation – “An improved, coated laxative pill equally good for men and women, boys and girls. Keep them in your medicine chest.”

Sanative Wash – Put up in two forms.

Liquid–ready to use. Dry–to steep.”

Finale Which wireless service should you choose? Please don’t ask me. With 134.6 million wireless subscribers who have selected services, it’s probably a moot question. The wireless industry is a $71.2 billion industry that employs 186,956 people. The average monthly cell phone bill is $50. That is about one-fifth of the price I paid to own the only-known example of “The Mystic Oracle” that has been the real focus of this article.

The elderly game collector from QUESTIONS 1. How long should I sleep at night?

2. What is called the Foe of Germs?

3. How much fruit and green vegetables should I eat?

4. What is the first law of health?

5. What is the cheapest exercise?

6. How may we help to prevent disease?

7. How should I stand, sit and walk?

8. How may constipation be relieved?

9. What is the most nearly perfect food?

10. How much water should I drink daily?

11. How may I improve my health?

12. How much milk should I use each day?

Summer 2003 Denver, who relinquished, by way of an eBay auction, the 1924 Lydia Pinkham relic to my care had enjoyed it for forty years. She was happy to learn that the “Oracle” would receive a good home and become a part of a select collection of historic Pinkham items. We both found it interesting that such an item found its way from a collection of games to a collection of Lydia Pinkham artifacts. And we are both self-satisfied to know that at an appropriate time the “Oracle” will be passed on to another appreciative collector – of games, or bottles or….

Authors’ Note: January 18, 2003 (Associated Press) – “One hundred years ago today, Guglielmo Marconi stood on a sandy bluff on Cape Cod and sent a 54-word greeting from President Theorore Roosevelt across the ocean to England’s King Edward VII. A few hours later, the king responded, completing a dialogue that at the time seemed like pure magic.

Marconi had launched the era of global wireless communications. The events of 100 hears ago paved the way for today’s other wireless tools, including cell phones and pagers.”

Coming soon: The author of this article has recently completed and submitted another article based on previously undisclosed facts about the famous Lydia Pinkham medicines “…then and now.”

That effort will appear in a future issue. It will discuss the family feud over control of the famous proprietary medicine company and what happened to the historic vegetable compound itself.

References: Books: Burton, Jean. Lydia Pinkham is Her Name.

New York: Farrar, Straus and company, 1949.

Stage, Sara. Female Complaints – Lydia Pinkham and the Business of Women’s Medicine. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1979 Washburn, Robert Collyer. The Life and Times of Lydia E. Pinkham. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1931.

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

Periodicals: Burrill, Gary. “Lydia’s Last Laugh – The Case of the Confounding Compound.” Journal of the Unitarian Universalist Association, March/ April 1989, Vol III, No. 2 and [same author; same title], The World, March/April 1989.

Ketcham, Steve. “Some Early Medicines Endured the Test of Time.” Bottles & Extras, Vol. 11, No. 1, January 2000.

Ehrilch, Daphne. “Lydia Pinkham Medicine Company.” Radcliffe Quarterly, Vol 61, No. 4, December 1975.

Hubert, Edward C. “Radio vs. Wireless.”

Radio News, January 1925.

Munsey, Cecil. “The Real Lydia Pinkham (Truth? or Spin?). Bottles & Extras, Vol. 12, No. 4, April 2001.

Munsey, Cecil. “Lydia Pinkham, Larkin Soap and Fate – A Strange and Fascinating Sage of Coincidence.” Trade Card Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 1, Spring 2001.

Rapoza, Andrew V. “A Baby in Every Bottle: The Curative Powers of Lydia E. Pinkham Advertising.” The Ephemera Journal – The Ephemera Society of America, Inc., Volume 4, 1991.

Tyler, Varro E. “The Honest Herbalist – the bright side of black Cohosh. Prevention, April 1997.

Waterfield, Marge. “Yes, There really was a Lydia Pinkham.” The Antique Trader, Dubuque, Iowa, April 24, 1973.

Cecil Munsey, Ph.D. 13541 Willow Run Road Poway, CA 92064-1733 858-487-7036 cecilmunsey@cox.net

ANSWERS 1. At least eight hours 2. Sunshine 3. One each daily 4. Fresh air and sunshine 5. Walking 6. Keep clean inside and out 7. Erect 8. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Pills for Constipation 9. Milk 10. Six to eight glasses 11. Try Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound 12. Children 1 qt.; adults 1 pt.

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Random Shots with Howard Currier

The Mida Touch William Mida was a prolific writer and editor of a semi-monthly journal for the whiskey trade called The Mida Criterion published out of Chicago back in the late 1800's. A whiskey rectifier himself, (Mida's "Relish", "Confidential" and "Private and Confidential"), he saw a need for some sort of record of trademarks as a legal protection against infringement.

Thus was born the sonorously titled Mida's National Register of Trade Marks - Spirituous and Malt Liquors and Wines.

No copyright date is given in the book and research shows that even the Library of Congress doesn't possess a copy.

However, based on the usage dates given for brands in the register, volume 1 was issued in 1894 and a combined edition of volumes 1 and 2 in 1899.

A bit of background about trademark protection here might be helpful. The first federal trademark law was passed in 1870 but met with a luke-warm reception and was struck down by the courts in 1879 on the basis that it meddled with intrastate commerce, a fiercely guarded state's right.

Gerald Carson, in his "The Social History

of Bourbon" indicates that back in 1870, the same year that Old Forester made its debut, only 121 trademarks of any kind were registered.

It wasn't until April 1, 1905 that a generally accepted trademark law was passed and quickly gained acceptance among distillers and brewers. Based on the principle of prior ownership and use, and supervised by the U. S. Patent Office,

it became the clearing house for trademark protection. In a recent edition of Paper Pile Quarterly, (Vol. 22, No..3; November, 2001), Ada Fitzsimmons reproduced a solicitation letter from the Washington D.C. law firm of Mason, Fenwick & Lawrence dated June 9, 1906 that included a list of over 850 brands that had already been registered in the brief year since the law's passage, with hundreds of applications still pending processing.

Mida's register deals with that gray area from the failure of the first law up until the turn of the century. The 1899 combined edition runs about 300 pages and sold for $10, but Mida presumably recouped much of his expense by selling half and full page ads to Freiberg & Workum, Star Distillery, Early Times, etc.

The total number of Trademarks covered

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in the book is over two thousand - 1,600 in whiskey and the remainder in gins, sundries, wines and malts. There's even one for the Bauer Cooperage Co. of Lawrenceburg, Indiana.

The format throughout volume 1 is uniform - eight trademarks to a page and the layout is simple: Brand Owner, City, State, Logo and the date of first usage.

Interestingly, the Lanham Act of 1946, on which our current trademark law is based, outlines pretty much the same information, along with a certification of continued usage.

In volume 2, larger, more elaborate labels, photos of bottles, etc. are listed. A few of these are reproduced here.

Some examples of the earliest dates of continuous usage: A. Overholt's Rye, Pittsburgh -1810, Cook's Ale, Boston 1820 and Henry Bohlen's Gin, Philadelphia -1828. Mida had promised a third volume which would have taken him into the golden age of whiskey brand proliferation - the 1900's-1910's. I've never come across any references to it other than in his preface to volume 2, so I assume that the Trademark Law of 1905 put an end any future installments. And also, with prohibition looming on the horizon, he played it safe by publishing a Register of

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Confectioner's Trade Marks in 1903.

The Mida register is extremely hard to come by. I bought my copy on eBay about three years ago and have found it extremely valuable in identifying brands on shot glasses and bottles. A true "don't miss it" if it ever comes up again. Meanwhile, I'm making my copy available in a searchable on-line format which can be accessed sporadically through Robin Preston's webpage, pre-pro.com. A much more easily available source for trademark identification is Bob Snyder's "Whiskey Brands" which, with his latest supplement, contains well over 7,000 different brands - a steal at about $25 or so. By the way, the web site pre-pro.com with its three different databases is quickly becoming a remarkably efficient way to research information on shot glasses. Give it a look.

In addition to federal registration of trademarks, many states had their own systems. One book I'm familiar with is Steve Abbott's "California Whiskey Trademarks 1864-1916" published in 1995. In two separate sections, Brand Names and Trademark Owners are listed alphabetically for easy reference. It also contains an interesting dissertation on what constitutes a "western" brand. This may

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Drop me an email at hecurrier@attbi.com and I'll be glad to give you whatever information I can on any of the publications I've referenced here.

Happy hunting, Howard Currier

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Dr. C. N. Barber Veterinary Remedies The Barber clan had resided in Barre, Vermont since 1810. Cyrus Barber, born in 1784, moved from Warwick, Massachusetts in 1810 and established a family farm in Barre. Two years later he was off to New York to fight in the War of 1812. On his return, he married his wife Caroline, and proceeded to have 8 children. He lived a long and productive life, dying in 1867 at the age of 83.

Cyrus’ third child, Cyrus Whitney Barber was born on the family homestead in 1823. He was a dairy farmer and spent his entire life in Barre. On February 26, 1846 he married Elvira Willey, then 24 years old. This union produced three children, Charles Newell, Edwin C., and a daughter Ella. Cyrus W. Barber died on January 27th, 1892 in the same house in which he had been born 69 years before.

Our interest lies with Charles Newell or C. N. Barber as he was known.

C. N. was born on the same family farm on April 13, 1852.

He had his early education in the Barre, Vermont public schools and worked on the family dairy farm. Like most veterinarians to be, this formative time established a desire to further his education in the animal sciences. The 1892 “Vermont Historical Gazetteer” states that when Charles “came of age”, he traveled to Manchester, New Hampshire. Here he held a

preceptorship under Dr. Alexander, a noted Veterinary Surgeon of the area. At some point, he returned to Barre and established his own veterinary practice.

On February 27, 1881 C. N. married Ella Granger. They would have three children before her untimely death in 1894. Charles remarried in 1897 to Bessie May Morrill and had three more children with her. The last child being born in 1903 when C. N. was 51, and his wife 28.

C. N. led an active life within the Barre, Vermont township. The 1894 “Historical Souvenir of Barre” lists him as a dairy farmer, auctioneer, and practicing Veterinary Surgeon. The 1903 “Genealogical and Family History of

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Vermont” states that as a result of his training under Dr. Alexander and his fine library on veterinary science, he had a large practice in both Vermont and New Hampshire. This same book also tells us that he was a Justice of the Peace, town auditor, grand juror, and finally, elected to the state legislature in 1900.

The 1903 listing does not make mention of the Dr. Barber Medicine Company, but we must be assured that he established the company soon after the turn of the century. Dr. Barber’s own published advertising booklet, “Counsel Book for Horsemen and Stockmen” stated that “After over thirty years of painstaking study and practice, marked with singular success, Dr. Barber presents his remedies to the public.” Factoring in his 1852 birth,

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this leaves a window of 1900-1905. No doubt he was selling veterinary remedies to his clients and neighbors long before he started his veterinary remedy company.

Like most early veterinary patent medicine companies, Dr. Barber ’s medicines were originally listed as “Cures.” This would seem to predate the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act. One company booklet I have seen is dated 1911 and the product names have been changed to “Remedies”.

I was unable to discover the date of Dr. Barber’s death or of the demise of his Veterinary Medicine Company. The

Summer 2003 scarcity of Dr. Barber remedies to today’s collectors, however, makes two points seem clear. Production of Barber remedies was limited and short lived. The company never expanded very far out of the Vermont / New Hampshire area.

Dr. Barber did produce a surprising number of medicines for a small company.

Nineteen remedies for horses and six for cows were manufactured. Along with the relative standard Spavin, Colic, and Heave Cures, he produced several very unusual remedies. Lymphangitis Cure was used for treatment of diseases of the lymph nodes. Ophthalmia Remedy was a general cure for all diseases of the eye. He offered several medicines for cows, which to my knowledge, are rare if not unique to the field of veterinary patent medicines. His cow remedies included: Cure for Barrenness, Remedy to Remove Placenta, and Remedy to Relieve Stoppage and Bloat in Cows. Certainly these are some very interesting cures, which I am sure, can be traced back to Dr. Barber’s lifelong work with dairy cows.

From the collector point of view, Dr. Barber medicines are considered very uncommon. Dr. Barber bottles were never embossed. His medicines were identified only by their label and because of this, a relatively few have survived. Barber medicines were produced in only one size for each remedy, but the size of the bottle varied greatly. The majority of the bottles were either 3 1/4" tall or 6 1/2" tall, quite a difference in volume when you consider the dose for a horse or cow. Keep an eye out for these bottles with distinctive green labels. They make a nice addition to any collection.

I look forward to hearing from any collector with information or seeking information concerning the history of veterinary patent medicines.

I can be reached by mail at: 7431 Covington Hwy., Lithonia, GA 30058 or by phone at: 770-979-3239.

[Fig. 5] Photo Captions [Fig. 1] Clear, label only bottle for Dr. Barber's Abortion Preventive and Remedy for Barrenness in Cows. 6 1/2" x 2 1/2" x 2". Label claims to "Build up the generative organs", "insures a herd against contagion", and "makes a barren cow fertile."

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[Fig. 3] Label claims to be an "Antiseptic wash for cleansing sores, cuts, kicks, calks and diseased skin, especially good for mange, eczema and lice on dogs."

[Fig. 4] Advertising ink blotter listing all of Dr. Barber's medicines.

[Fig. 5] Country store metal display cabinet for the storage and sale of Dr. Barber Remedies. Front is hinged at bottom and opens down to reveal the interior.

[Fig. 6] Image of Dr. C. N. Barber c. 1911.

[Fig. 7, below] Unopened cardboard box with original contents. 4" x 4" x 2 1/2".

Remedy to Remove Placenta or Afterbirth From Cows. Probably a unique category of remedy for veterinary patent medicines.

Many of Dr. Barber's remedies were geared toward the reproductive health of cows.

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by Mike Dickman Photographs by John Gregory and Mary Riggin small New Mexico town who told me that as a pharmacist working prior to WW II, he had amassed a substantial collection of poison bottles which, unfortunately, he had lost track of decades ago. (Darn!) He had accumulated them from his own stock of goods and from pharmaceutical salesmen, and for the same reason most of us do: the bottles were interesting, colorful and a bit macabre. (Author Roy Morgan's term is "weird and wonderful.") Significantly, the retired pharmacist said that during the years he had collected poison bottles, he had not met a single other person who also collected them. And, of course, there were no reference books on the subject. In the year 2003, we can only imagine how much less enjoyable the hobby would be without books and magazines about bottles, bottle shows, clubs, etc.

Reference books in particular are the lifeblood of the modern hobby. The McKearins categorized historic flasks in the early 1950s and other persons categorized bitters and other types of bottles soon thereafter, but the first attempt to organize poison bottles in a comprehensive, methodical fashion did not occur until fairly recently.

Some early efforts Diamond-Shaped were by Roger Durflinger in 1975 and Roy Morgan in 1978, the latter focusing on British poison bottles. It's truly a daunting task: there are literally hundreds of basic types of poison bottles (some extremely rare) and many, many hundreds of variations in size, shape and/or embossing. But in This is a sample from the index of the late 1991, culminating a Rudy Kuhn's "Poison Bottle Workbook" (privately true labor of love, published), which organizes and categorizes over 500 the late Rudy Kuhn different poison bottle types. published what

In our first article, we surveyed briefly the history and use of poisonous substances, and their spread from pharmacies into the households of ordinary folks to be used as medicines, disinfectants and poisons for killing vermin. We saw how, during a time when most consumers were illiterate and interior lighting was dim, distinctively-shaped poison bottles began to be manufactured as a way to warn people about lethal contents. Thus was born the era of the "classic" poison bottle: bottles whose shape, color and embossing constituted an intrinsic warning of unusualness, and danger. We saw how the era began in the 1860s and continued through the 1930s, when external safety closures came into widespread use. By then, too, authorities suspected that these bottles might be doing more harm than good, by attracting curious children. For these reasons, the last new distinctivelyshaped poison bottle apparently was patented in the United States in 1936.

Although we are unaware of any proof, we suspect there were collectors of these unique, colorful bottles right from the start.

I once met an elderly gentleman from a

Bottles and Extras remains as the "bible" of poison bottles: his "Poison Bottle Workbook" (Volume I) which he followed in 1993 with Volume II. Interestingly, Rudy's second volume was based primarily on the huge mass of additional information sent to him by fellow collectors after he had published, and they had read, his first volume. In a sense, we as a fraternity of poison\'a9bottle collectors have moved 180-degrees from the days of the retired New Mexico pharmacist, who collected alone in complete hobby isolation.

In his privately-published, spiral-bound tomes, Rudy Kuhn divided all poison bottles into one of fifteen categories based on general shape, and then assigned a unique number to every "type" of bottle within these categories. (A "type" is a particular kind of bottle, as opposed to "variety," which is some discernible difference within the same type such as size or color.) Thus, there are categories such as KD (translation = "Kuhn System, "Diamond-shaped"), KH ("Hexagonalshaped"), etc. For every type of bottle within each category (i.e., KD-1, KD-2, KD-3, etc.), Rudy provided a detailed line drawing. He was an engineer by trade and his drawings are very accurate. He also provided for each type a written description, a list of the known colors and sizes, his estimate of rarity and the approximate range of retail prices at the time. In Volumes I and II, Rudy Kuhn listed over 500 different types of poison bottles. (By contrast, Roger Durflinger listed 81 different types.) Rudy's untimely death a few years ago halted work on his third volume, but his reference books (including partially-completed Volume III) remain available for sale at a modest cost.

Please see the footnotes for details.

Rudy Kuhn made the following comment in his Introduction to Volume I: "The great thing about collecting poison bottles is not only their beauty and unique characteristics, but that there is no known end. Continually there are new finds which have not been seen, or even known of, before. That is the excitement of collecting this category of bottle."

Rudy's statement certainly has proven true. In recent years, as the fraternity of poison bottle collectors has grown and shared more and more information with each other and the world at large, previously unknown bottles have continued to come to light. Most of the new discoveries are simply different sizes

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This is the ultra-rare KR-79 poison bottle, of which only two specimens are known to exist, although there are rumors of the existence of several others. or colors of previously categorized types, but some have been brand-new types. Let's end this article by looking at two such bottles: KC-114 and KR-79. Knowing Rudy Kuhn's classification system, by the way, instantly tells us that the former is cylinder-shaped and the latter is rectangular-shaped.

Both KC-114 and KR-79 are spectacular, interesting poison bottles which were not widely known. In fact, Rudy Kuhn did not assign "K" Numbers to either of these two bottles until his unpublished third volume.

The photographs accompanying this article really speak a thousand words about these rare types. There are two known varieties of KC-114 , both of which are BIM and blown in clear glass: 5 1/4" high (which Rudy mistakenly listed as 7" high, apparently counting the ground-glass stopper) and 4 1/8" high. There is only one specimen of the taller bottle known to exist but there are at least four known specimens of the smaller version. Two of the known KC-114 were purchased at a

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(Lucky, lucky collector!) All of the KC114s bear a base embossing, "Patd June 8, 1875" and all have the ground stopper.

The KR-79 also is BIM and blown in clear glass, with a tooled lip and a height of 4 inches, and there are only two known examples of this bottle (although there are unconfirmed rumors in the poison-bottle world of several other specimens). The bottle is illustrated without comment in William C. Ketchum's lovely 1975 book entitled "A Treasury of American Bottles" but that photograph, for some reason, flew under the radar of most poison-bottle collectors. The example used in Ketchum's book was owned by the late bottle dealer Jim Wetzel, who resided in Ardsley, New York. Wetzel apparently purchased the bottle at an auction in the early to mid 1970s, paying in the range of $700 and later complaining to Jim Hagenbuch about having overpaid. (Does that sound familiar to anyone else out there?)

Apparently, the bottle stayed in Wetzel's personal bottle collection and passed with his estate after he died in 1980, and its current ownership is unknown (at least to me). The respective country of origin and

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I sometimes dream about what unique treasures might be in the retired New Mexico pharmacist's long-lost poison bottle collection!

Mike Dickman can reached at: 120 Solana Dr., Santa Fe, NM 87501.

References: Durflinger, Roger L., "Poison Bottles, A Collectors Guide" (Maverick Publications 1975).

Ketchum, William C., Jr., "A Treasury of American Bottles" (Bob Merrill Co. 1975) p. 187.

Kuhn, Rudy, "Poison Bottle Workbook" Volumes I and II (privately published) and unpublished Volume III. The first two volumes are available from Rudy's widow, Terry Kuhn, 3954 Perie Lane, San Jose, CA 95132; (408) 259-7564; cost is $20 per volume plus $5 shipping. The 60 or so pages from unpublished Volume III are available for the cost of copying plus postage from the Antique Poison Bottle Collectors Association, which publishes the quarterly Poison Bottle Newsletter. Contact Joan Cabaniss, Secretary/ Editor, 312 Summer Lane, Huddleston, VA 24104.

Morgan, Roy, "The Benign Blue Coffin" (Kollectarama, England 1978).

Shown is the close-up side view and front view of another ultra-rare poison bottle (KC-114), which was patented in 1875, according to its base embossing.

It comes in two different sizes. All of the half-dozen or so known specimens have ground-glass stoppers.

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Collecting DRUG STORE Stuff

By: Jim Bilyeu bilyeu@qnet.com

Part II There is one group of the Owl Drug bottles that has a real appeal for the eyes both by their color and shape. This group is referred to as the Owl Soda bottles.

I mentioned earlier finding my first at a store in Goldfield, Nevada over twenty years ago. I think there are at least nine different colors or shades. The early ones have a tooled, blob top; later ones are found in both a crown top and/or a pryoff version. Some ads listing them for sale have romantically stated they were filled over and over again as soft drink vessels.

Not so.

Actually they were filled with citrate of magnesia, a product which is still

available today for the relief of occasional constipation or irregularity. It is also used by some medical doctors in the preparation of patients for colorectal examinations; otherwise to cleanse the bowels. The 1869 Physiomedical Dispensatory by William Cook, M.D., has the following paragraph: “Citrate of magnesia is a fashionable laxative at the present time. It is prepared by dissolving 450 grains of citric acid in four ounces of distilled water, and into this disolving 120 grains of calcined magnesia.

“This solution is filtered and poured into a strong twelve ounce bottle with two fluid ounces of the sirup of citric acid. The bottle is nearly filled with water, forty grains of bicarbonate of potassa added, and the bottle quickly corked and the cork

tied down. It forms an effervesing solution of citrate magnesia and potassa, the excess of free carbonic acid remaining in the water.

“From half to the whole of the contents of this bottle are needed as a dose; the cathartic action is brisk and often griping; it is too much like epson salts to be a commendable purge, and has nothing but its pleasantness to recommend it.”

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with Ed & Lucy Faulkner Keep It Interesting When we tell another bottle collector that we collect inks, it often seems that they picture the little round or square 2-ounce bottles from the early 1900’s. Those bottles are part of most ink collections, surely, but they are not often what the collector likes best about his inks. Ink came in many interesting shapes and colors of bottles, sometimes in containers that would hardly be recognized as an ink. In this issue we thought that we would offer pictures of what we consider some of the more interesting inks from our collection. Some of these bottles are relatively inexpensive and sometimes not even pretty, but we find them interesting!

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Summer 2003 ideas as to what makes an ink item interesting, so if a master ink is the topic, I (Ed) am probably writing, and if it is a small ink or an inkwell, then Lucy is likely the author. She likes small pontiled inks and colored inks of various shapes.

In the first half of the 19th century ink was still fairly scarce, so even the master inks were small, typically about 5” tall and an inch in diameter. In Fig. 1 is a typical master ink of that period, open pontiled and an olive green. This one is fairly crude and has a nice list to the side. I find them interesting because they are so old and many have survived with their label intact as well.

The Morgan’s Patent dome bottle is a common bottle worth very little for the most part. The one in Fig. 2 is a version that has nearly all the embossing backward.

It is the only one I have seen like this and the mold was probably remade as soon as the error was discovered. Morgan had several versions of this “bottle” and I am sure they didn't want to sell versions with such mixed up letters.

Odd containers have always been interesting to me because of the inventiveness of the ink maker or bottler. A lot of merchants bought ink in bulk and rebottled it for sale. This sometimes meant that nonstandard bottles were the only thing available and had to be used. Fig. 3 shows a bottle I found at the end of the Baltimore show which is certainly atypical. It is for the Penene Corporation of New York and is what would normally be thought of as a quart vinegar cruet. I suspect that Penene sold ink in bulk with labels and that some local retailer actually came up with this neat container. Another example of this is in Fig. 4, where the National Ink Company of N.Y. used what appears to be a standard beer bottle to hold their product. Pint and quart medicine bottles were sometimes used as well.

Shape can make for an interesting item as well. In Fig. 5 the cubical shape with a side hole was a design that didn't get very far, as they are pretty scarce. The one shown is large, 3” square and 4” on the vertical side, and a small round version of the same concept can also be found. We hope to have more on this design in a later article on patents.

I am sure you are asking what is interesting about an aqua umbrella ink with partial label and a chip out of the lip (Fig. 6). This ink has always been interesting to us because it is the only label we

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have seen for Warren’s Congress Ink and identifies the company as being from Wheeling, Va. (Wheeling became part of West Virginia in 1863 when W.Va. became a separate state.) All other Warren’s inks we have seen were without labels.

Size can sometimes make an otherwise plain bottle interesting to me. The halfgallon unembossed bottle in Fig. 7 is of a similar shape to a couple of ink companies from that period. Its nice iron pontil is visible in the picture and the 10” tall bottle is quite delicate in appearance.

In the opposite direction is the small Diamond & Onyx in Fig. 8. It is probably

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a master ink, shaped like a miniature soda bottle, and only 5.5” tall. It held 3 ounces.

Diamond & Onyx was an ink company from Philadelphia. It has no connection to the Diamond Ink Company of Milwaukee.

I find it interesting when a company makes an unusual bottle in different sizes.

Such is the case in Fig. 9 with the three Dovell’s ink or glue bottles. Old labels show addresses for Dovell’s as New York and London. Size ranges from 2-ounces to a quart and the distinctive shape makes them stand out on a shelf. Errors interest me as well, and the middle size of the trio has a reversed “N” in the embossing.

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Another trio of different sizes is the group of Paul’s Writing Fluid from the Paul’s Safety Bottle & Ink Company, NY, in Fig. 10. Without the label they are often taken for something other than ink. These were advertised as being useful for many purposes such as water carafes and vases after contents were used. The bottles in the picture are the 4-ounce, pint and quart sizes.

I like mostly the earliest of masters, but sometimes a label can really be attractive to me. Such is the case in Fig. 11, the label on the U.S. Acid Proof Writing Fluid. It was Frost Proof, something that I hadn't thought of as a problem, but ink freezing in bottles really was a concern.

There are two nice eagles flanking the U.S. Shield. This impressive product was produced by the Anti-Fraud Ink Co of Washington, D.C. A sander (container for sand or pounce)

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was a necessary item for use with ink before blotters were common. Fine sand or pounce was spread over the written words to keep ink from smearing. The sander in the picture [Fig. 12] is unusual because it had a fitted metal top and handle to open. The bottom has handwritten on it what was probably the owner's initials and

the date 1837.

One of the most interesting items we have in our collection is an inkwell that apparently was a souvenir of the Gettysburg battlefield made not too many years after the end of the war. As seen in Fig. 13, it has a glass inkwell with a twopart brass screw top, probably circa the 1870’s. The thing that makes this so neat to me is the bullet embedded in the wood opposite the bottle. A small piece of paper on the back indicates that the bullet and wood came from the Round Top area of the battlefield. I expect that when tourists started visiting the battlefield and cemetery after 1865, someone started making these inkwells for people to take home as a momento.

Teakettle inks are not quite as popular as bottles with some collectors, but we like the amethyst one shown here in Fig. 14 because of the beautiful color and unusual top that could have held stamps or used as a pen ledge. It is thought to be an American inkwell, but it has no identifying marks.

The French snail inkwell in Fig. 15 is interesting for its delicate, hand painted beauty. This inkwell probably dates to 1860-1870.

Color is the theme of the group shot in Fig. 16. Inks come in a wide variety of colors and can be collected at a relatively low cost for some types. such as cones and plain masters.

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No matter what you find interesting about bottles, we think that you can find some area of ink collecting that will satisfy that interest. We certainly did.

NOTE: [Fig. 2] The Embossing reads: TNETAP SNAGROM / JULY 16 1867. The “J� is reversed left to right.

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Cities of the Golden Dawn

by Fred Kille All photos are from the Fred Kille Collection.

Photos courtesy of Jack Gibson.

We crested the hill, my father at the wheel of the huge 1948 Buick with the chrome portholes. The Dynaflow in low gear groaned the last few miles up the pinion-covered slope, but we knew we were nearly there. He stopped, and we looked down into a green yet arid canyon and saw for the first time the brick buildings with arched and spacious doorways that stared up at us from under an early morning sun. Neither of us had expected this miraculous view. We had forded creeks, climbed steep canyons of shale and fought narrow and nearly impossible wagon roads for some eighteen miles out of Bodie and, finally, arrived at this place that had vanished from road maps and mileage signs.

As we got out of the car a frightened jackrabbit ran into the high sage. From this height, the entire town seemed overgrown in brush as high as a person; a dirt street cut through town and the side streets radiated out of that deserted and ruined center. The air sparkled in a dry, early morning light and shadow--it was 1949 and I was ten years old. My father and I, a fat little urban kid, stood by the green fender and looked on Aurora, the best ghost town I have ever seen. We saw a long main street lined with brick and wood buildings in that incredibly silent place where we were the only people.

Even now in my imagination, it still shimmers before us as it did then in my childhood eyes.

I didn't realize it then, but that was my first encounter with an awareness of time and its disappointments. Children are impressed by the immediate emotion and the general scene and fail to see detail; my memory is cast in a series of childhood recollections that illustrate the exciting and eerie, the dangerous and sublime. My father impressed me with the fear of open pits and rattlesnakes: do not walk without looking where you're going, do not lift up boards or put your hands under things.

These do-nots of all worried parents, especially fathers, impressed on me the danger of this place. Yet I was entranced from the very first sight of this ruined, silent town.

Bottles and Extras That day proved an exhilarating series of explorations in the fantasy of a small boy. While my father set up the tripod and carefully took pictures of the place, I wandered through the buildings on the main street. The cool darkness of the dilapidated Esmeralda Hotel with its upper floors caved in and its scattered furniture and debris; the Last Chance Saloon slightly leaning with a rickety stairway to the second story where a woodburning stove stood in one corner with its rusty pipe slanting through a peaked and rotting ceiling. On the corner street, a brick building with huge arched doors and iron shutters stood roofless--a rectangular white sign SALOON painted on the crumbling exterior wall. I wandered through this street and through these buildings with awe and fear. But the town we saw from the hill was not the town I walked through.

Each perspective had its particular excitement, but the panoramic view we saw was that of another, more subtle place. Once surrounded by vacant buildings and dark windows and high sage, one feels differently. The unexpected is immediate and coiled at your feet; impressions become scattered and incoherent. One impression is cancelled by another, which, in turn, is again cancelled with a movement of the head or the looking around a corner.

After my father took his pictures and changed to a smaller camera, we began to explore. It took several hours to see the main street. We started from the hotel and walked to the other end of town where the livery stable with wagons and equipment stood. My imagination flared upon seeing the wagons and the two huge bellows, of wood and leather construction, which were connected to a dark furnace.

They were housed in a large barn-like building of weathered wood, slightly leaning. The blacksmith's shop and the livery stable were one. Tools were scattered on long benches attached to the walls.

Rotting leather harnesses and straps and wagon wheels seemed left where they were last used. I was fascinated. The wooden roof leaked sunlight and, in a semi-light, I saw the faint dust rising up and floating in bright streaks from where I had just walked on the powdery floor. It was eerie and fascinating, a placement of myself on a genuine Twentieth-Century Fox set somewhere in a desolate land. Fantasy and the actual mingled in ways I find difficult to explain.

That afternoon we set up camp on a flat tailing pile above the town and my father prepared lunch. It was warm, yet we could see snow on the higher peaks of a distant mountain range. My father was in no hurry to return to the town. He lingered over the view and, as I look back to this time, it

Summer 2003 was as if he were unable to believe what we saw before us. It was a fantasy, perhaps another set piece for a new western film like Yellow Sky. Only the green Buick with molded fenders sparkling among the old buildings gave us a fixed reality--it was the only obtrusive object in the panoramic landscape of town and surrounding hills.

I was suddenly aware of the entire place, the hills behind hills that offered untold exploration in the mind. The extensive mining and the scattered cabins, those roads that either switchbacked over a peak or went straight ahead as a thin shining ribbon and vanished into the shadow of a further canyon.

But we never walked into those canyons; instead we explored the cabins on the outer fringe of the town. The scattered furniture, the spidery hanging screen doors, the creaking of tin roofs and floorboards. The thin walls were covered with Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness, as a Chinese jar still Moves perpetually in its silence.

Burnt Norton

newspapers dating from the 1860s—advertisements with bearded gentlemen giving testimonials and somewhat plump ladies displaying the latest fashions; or reports of the latest mining explorations and profits; or national concerns such as the latest Civil War skirmishes and battles won and lost. My father read these papers as I scrambled around the cabins looking, forever and simply looking: the scattered debris, the hanging and torn lace curtains with layers of dust, the paper-thin walls separating the small rooms. I rambled through bedrooms with iron beds and wooden dressers, was intrigued by the discarded clothing in closets or piled on floors or hanging out of trunks. I have always been a natural snoop. We spent many hours wandering the back streets of Aurora and even then did not see enough. I wanted more, more and more. I wanted to see the houses on the surrounding hills and explore the mines. I wanted to walk the back roads to those other, more obscure places. I intently focused and lost my focus, one object superseded another as if I were watching an unfolding drama in which I was entirely captured and dazed. But finally, in a failing light, my father and I had to return to camp.

That evening a half moon hung over us and shined an intense light over the landscape. Dark outlines lighted the entire

35 townsite. The walls of the Esmeralda and the many other gaunt buildings shined against an immense range of darkness.

Aurora was a genuine ghost and haunted in the proper way. Yes, and still haunts.

As an adult looking in retrospect at this translucent night, I am haunted by memory alone, simple and complex and confusing memory. We ate a late dinner by campfire. Exhaustion had taken both of us suddenly and swiftly. My father, then fortytwo, told me about his trip to Rhyolite as a young man. It was the same fantasy--the deserted streets, the empty buildings, the excitement of seeing an abandoned town for the first time. "Perhaps," he suggested, "you know that feeling now. Of seeing something for the first time and feeling different in it presence."

He had given me several of the artifacts he had found many years ago at Rhyolite: old checks and papers from the open vaults in the bank, several purplized bottles, an old packsaddle. But I had seen Rhyolite the year before, and it wasn't deserted.

People still lived there, and it was too close to the main road. Most of the buildings were gone and those still standing were empty. "Aurora could never be like Rhyolite," I confided to my father.

We shared a large iron cot, and together looked up through the moonlight and tried to trace some of the more obvious constellations. Falling asleep under this bright sky was pleasant. The landscape swirled darkly in my imagination--those distant shining ribbons of road, those distant places that I would never see. I fought to keep awake. I wanted to look out over this place forever. The thought of leaving seemed too disappointing to be real. Something would happen. Maybe we could stay longer. I fell asleep with that reassuring hope. The next morning came early.

Breakfast and a few hours prowling around the town. Then the packing. We would return, my father promised. We would return to Aurora next year and stay longer.

We left with the excitement of an early return.

But the mind of a small boy easily forgets. We did many things and went many places over the following years: camping in the Redwoods, traveling in Canada, taking in a World's Fair. We went to these places as a family. My father and I, however, continued our special outings. But the child's mind did not ruminate on Aurora; his imagination was stirred by ghost towns and canyons beyond canyons. My father bought a 1939 La Salle that became our official camping car, and we prowled the ghost towns of Death Valley and the Panamints. I learned to drive on those narrow and dusty roads. We explored the

36 more distant ruins of Hamilton and Treasure Hill, but we never once returned to Aurora.

The years went by and I grew out of my fatness and learned to cope with rattlesnakes and open pits. I worked those inevitable first jobs and graduated from high school. I went to college, got married; the years passed quickly and I forgot about ghost towns and that place called Aurora.

Graduate school came after my degree and temporary jobs and the raising of a family--those inescapable years of survival where one keeps a narrow and constant focus. Then a permanent job settled in, and we saved some money. I then suddenly realized that my son, a leaner version of myself at ten, had never seen any environment outside of Los Angeles and the occasional trips to Santa Maria to visit relatives. Where had those years gone and why so quickly? And for reasons too subliminal to know, I thought again of the Goddess of Dawn and that she has haunted me unknowingly for all these years. It was time to return to that place under moonlight and again explore what I had seen and what I had not seen.

That first night my son and I camped at Bodie. Now a state park, Bodie seemed unchanged. The wood buildings leaned a little more perhaps and the rangers had shored up many of the structures that would have fallen under a heavy snow. It was early June and a cold wind blew through the town and through the small campground at the far end of the park. We were the only campers in this isolated area, and it felt good to sleep under a dark cloudy sky. I was excited. Yet the real thrill was ahead, that place of genuine ghostly attributes. Thinking back into my past did not let me sleep well that night. I thought of my father then and now. I thought of a father guiding his son as his father guided him and knew I had been lax. Not that my son and I were not close, but that I was always busy, somewhere out there. And somewhere out there I had lost a certain familial warmth.

There secretly nestles within each of us that illusive area without time or place that remains changeless and immutable, an uncharted region that dark nights and cold winds and intimate memories restores to a painful and forever vivid truth. And these thoughts haunted me during the night, these thoughts and the thought of that Aurora of my childhood. Excitement and fear reigned supreme in my mind as I tried to appraise my past and my present.

Humorously, I thought of my studies in college and how they had prepared me for this journey--the Deserted Village was Aurora in my fancy. The gothic novels in

Summer 2003 far and distant lands became my dark landscape of memory. Yet my fancy was overshadowed by a haunting realization that history betrays us. We live out a certain time, then die. History tries to recover us, make something of what never was. But it fails. Only the particular historian is saved from the rubble. It is that simple and bleak.

My father's father was a printer and, following his trade, lived in many places in the west, from Missouri to New Mexico to Colorado to Nebraska. His final job was in Glendale where he, a few years before his retirement, suddenly died. His passion was growing roses, and he seemed content with his garden and his small house.

At sixty he was secretly and quietly resigned to the fates and aware that everyday living hammers us into a finely tuned and malleable working machine. My father never said much about his father, and I have a clear but scant image of him--a short, slender man in a ballooning white shirt bending over his prized roses.

My son slept soundly beside me and was not concerned with these simple and ordinary truths among fathers. Adulthood broadens our childhood thoughts, yet still we remain miraculously childlike. We work and move around in the solemn duty of work, yet one person cultivates experience while another grows roses and still another, like my father, builds model trains.

All are trapped in the particular, but they have developed minds to transport them willingly from such prosaic matters to that other world--the intense moment where one is suddenly focused and alive. And I am hammered on that anvil with my father and my father's father. My son slept in unawareness, yet he too will be forged into that resigned silence and escape.

It was difficult to sleep that night. Finally, and with the gradual lessening of tension, my thoughts of sorrow and excitement passed into the darkness around me; and I was oblivious. Our thoughts so often escape unnoticed, as slight moments that roll and drift in a certain comfortableness, then vanish to await another silent entrance.

It was a clear morning with a slight cold breeze. The road out of Bodie had changed. I could see traces of the old road my father and I had taken on the other side of the creek. The road was graded and wider; they had built culverts where my son and I now crossed the creek. I had problems finding the turn off to Aurora.

Something was changed--they had put a new road through. We were not traveling the same roads, yet we were nearing the same canyon. As we drove higher into the pinion forest, I saw the first signs of mining. A ridge of tailings spilled from a dark

Bottles and Extras tunnel above us, a tumbled down rock cabin held precariously to a cliff where a narrow rock-lined road switchbacked above us. This was a country I vaguely remembered. The road smoothly lifted toward the top of the crest and a jackrabbit lay smashed on the beveled edge of the gravel road--it almost made it into the high brush.

My father simply crested the hill and there it was, but we were on a different hill and the town of Aurora eluded me. I came to the place where I thought it was: the valley below and the surrounding hills seemed familiar. But there was little that was the same. A pick-up was parked below us and two men, a few feet away from it, were digging beside a narrow and heavily eroded road. I decided to drive back and see if I could find where the old road came into the town. But it wasn't there. I returned to where we started and drove into the canyon and parked where three roads joined. Where had I made my mistake? My son was impatient.

The men looked up as we approached, and I asked the inevitable question. And their answer brought back the eerie forebodings and doubts of last night's sleeplessness. We were standing in the center of Aurora. Around us were the last remnants of that once fabulous place.

The hills surrounding us were bare of houses. Looking up the road where we stood, I saw the faint remnants of a couple of buildings and the shine from a downed roof of tin. Quickly surveying the terrain around me, I saw a few bundles of dry boards that were once cabins. But there was little to see of the old town--some gigantic holes that once were basements, a few scattered bricks and broken board. The Aurora of the past was gone forever. My son was clearly disappointed. Looking out over the nothing that for him never existed, I wondered how he felt on seeing this vast vacancy.

I felt a sudden sense of betrayal and loss. My son can never see what I saw or would like to see again. The frustration of his look I felt keenly, and it brought me back to that other early morning so many years ago when I was eager for discover.

The silence of that place was broken by voices, the scraping of shovels on rock, a distant sound of an engine. The vision I had kept tucked away all these years was broken, irredeemable.

The men had been camped at Aurora since yesterday and showed us some of the artifacts they had dug in the ruins. A few bottles, an iron grate, assorted pieces of iron. That was all that was left of Aurora.

They had dug into a dump some five feet into the ground and pulled out pieces of

Bottles and Extras bone and plate and rusted tin cans. Each stratum held a different Aurora. They tossed out pieces of melted glass from the oldest layer, the Aurora of the early 1860s.

Then dug higher into the bank that was caving in and scraped out pieces of a later Aurora during its last, short-lived boom at the turn of the century. They could date the shards of glass and the rusted artifacts, but even these discoveries of such wonders could not reclaim the town of my imagination.

The excavations and the unearthed remnants of the town fascinated my son.

We walked over the site, but it was difficult to piece together where the buildings stood. The Last Chance Saloon still partially remained, but the Cain house, which dead-ended the street, was gone, except for an occasional broken brick. I noticed for the first time the many flat places where buildings had once stood, but my memory of those buildings failed.

We walked what was once the main street and I tried to imagine where the major building had been.

My son was excited. He wanted to dig for artifacts and walk over the hills into the mountains.

He was ready to travel, to set up camp and start looking around.

How do you know where to dig? Let's walk over that hill and explore. So we spent a week in Aurora and walked the surrounding hills and farther back. We followed washed out roads the car couldn't take and searched old cabins in the mountains many miles from the town. We became fascinated by the country and the exploration. Yet the other Aurora always remained in the back of my mind. I saw my father walking the main street in silence with his large Graphlex. The squeezing of the bulb, the long exposure, and the loud metallic snap of the closing shutter. What became of that man and boy?

After the vacation my son and I returned home to discover more about that place.

The two fathers and the son dug out the old photographs. The two fathers tried to reconstruct what they saw twenty-one years ago--where each building had stood and how large the town actually was. The

Summer 2003 older father knew more about the place than did the younger father. His photographs revealed much detail that had been forgotten. Yet the photographs seemed of an alien place to the younger father who remembered the sagebrush and the overall deserted town shimmering from that height in an early morning light.

The older father had not taken any photographs of the entire town, but merely this particular building and that particular building. How can my son understand what the fathers had seen on that spectacular day? My son couldn't understand why the fathers had not returned to that place.

And why had not more photos been taken to show where buildings were? But the fathers were tenacious in their quest to piece together the town. They kept comparing the photographs that each had taken--the ones with buildings and the ones

without buildings. They were resolute in their quest, and the older father had some very early photographs of Aurora in a book.

Comparing the 1889 photographs to his and his son's photographs, the older father was suddenly amazed: "Here's where the saloon was, remember that cross street?

Here's where that hotel stood, the one on this end of town," he gestured.

"Remember, it was farther down the main street than the saloon. Look here," my father insisted. "Here's that fancy mansion and that shadow must be the bank."

My father was quite proud of himself.

He patched up time, took out the abstract and replaced it with real brick. He reorganized my photographs of empty sites or holes where buildings had once stood and matched them to an image of real buildings. Streets came alive for him as he squinted over this old photograph and

37 transcribed its arrangement onto these newer ones. He shifted the glass from one building to another, from one photograph to another, from darkness to light and from one rearrangement to another with perfect satisfaction. He saw again the town he photographed and was convinced of his rightness. "Look," he reaffirmed. "This was the large hotel on the other corner.

Here's that place with the fancy scrollwork.

Remember. What was that guy's name, Cane? Anyway, he must have built a garage on sometime after this photograph was taken." I watched him there, puzzling over his reconstruction. My son and I finally confirmed his findings, yet I wasn't positive.

That's the way our reconstruction went.

I made several trips to the library and found chapters of books on Aurora. I found more photographs taken of it, one a panoramic view taken at the turn of the century.

But this was a different town than I had remembered. The buildings seemed the same, but the landscape was different. The main street in the photograph seemed on higher ground than the actual main street I remembered. And the main street that my son and I had walked, filled with basement cavities and scattered bricks, was a deeper ravine yet.

What I saw in these earlier photographs was that there was not a single Aurora.

What had been has changed and again changed.

So the two fathers and son returned to this many-layered city with their varied points of view. We looked the place over and camped on a small knoll a short distance beyond the town site. In the evenings we made our plans, selected locations where an unsuspecting artifact might be unearthed. The two fathers drank coffee with brandy to keep the chill off.

The nights seemed colder to the fathers, but the son was ready for adventure. We felt good under the excitement of impending exploration. I had reaffirmed that valuable lesson of how fathers and sons endure and live out their time. We escaped into the desert to labor intensely under another hot sun; yet we were happy in that

38 wilderness. My father poked around the fallen buildings and caved in basements and, with the wisdom of the older, showed my son where to dig. And I, another slave to pattern, followed in their shadow, trenching and digging exploratory excavations in a town already desecrated under the prurient hands of the greedy.

And yet, years later, I reflect upon the illusiveness of experience, of place and time. My son, now a junior in college, struggles to find place in the social rung. I think back to my time in college and don't believe how time foreshortens. What is the distance, miles or light years? Place is illusive in and out of time. We make our reconstructions and live with them.

I sit by this window next to the patio and hold to the light a trade token my son found years ago when he and my father were walking in one of the farther canyons.

On its circular brass surface on one side reads AURORA, NEV. On the reverse side, GOOD IN TRADE 5 CENTS. I am curious. What was this token good for, and who traded it and for what? Was the exchange a fair one, I wonder? I hold this small token in my hand and turn it over. It sparkles in the light of the room and remains mute. But the Aurora of this token was not the real Aurora. The real Aurora was earlier. The man or woman who exchanged this token for a commodity was living in a defunct Aurora of the 1890s--an Aurora that had already drastically declined. Many empty houses must have dotted the valley and many of the cabins that I saw as a child must have been abandoned to the open air by that time.

Many of the buildings built by the city fathers in the early 1860s were already gone, either torn down for their sturdy beams or burned by accident. Perhaps the temporary owner of this token dragged wood off for mining beams or shoring timbers. But the fathers of this city had long vanished by then. They had erected a city of brick to rival San Francisco and knew that Aurora, such a queen among goddesses, would remain forever constant.

They would erect no temporary buildings to celebrate her fame. She ruled Nevada and California with a dual county seat, her silver was plentiful and pure, and her people would give eternal promise to the continuing frontier. The city fathers had envisioned this city of brick and golden streets to stretch for miles and miles into an inviolate kingdom of rising stocks and bonds. Did Midas exchange his gold for silver and whisper to them his best-kept secrets? But even as they built their city, it was vanishing into the surrounding desert wilderness. The city prospered but the fathers left within ten years, leaving it to

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the hordes of speculators and the unprosperous. The vision of the Golden Dawn failed them, and they, too, must have felt betrayed by this unpredictable and maddening queen.

History is fraught with the unpredictable and the least expected. A few weeks ago my wife and I happened to be in the vicinity of Rhyolite and decided to pay that old haunt of my father's a short visit. The town had a few residents and tourists were driving down the main street taking photographs of the ruins of the Cook Bank, the crumbling walls of the hotel, and the remaining iron front of the L. T. Porter store. Although it is not the same town my father knew, nor the same town I saw as a child, he would be happy to know that his town is lasting. Its crumbling concrete walls seem to be holding firmly which would be to my father's liking. If luck holds firm, his town may still be standing well into the Twenty-First Century.

With Rhyolite behind us, I saw through the mirror a tourist scrambling a crumbling wall of the bank and another walking backwards down the main street, each holding a camera to the ruins. They seemed to be looking for the appropriate shadow or the suitable point of view that would extricate the modern from the vision of focus. As we turned off the main street and headed east to Beatty Junction, I thought again of that illusive place of Aurora and how I would like to see it again under that early morning light. And I suddenly remembered my father's ironic pun when he for the first time saw the rubble that once was Aurora and couldn't believe what he saw before him. “Mutability, my dear son, Mutability. That's what killed the queen-Long live the Queen."

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Colonial Drinks 1640-1860

by Donald Yates 1640 – The early taverns were called ordinaries and were often located near the ferries. Early ordinaries were established for the pleasure of the town folks. They were social meeting places for conveying news and selling beer and liquor.

There was a popular ordinary in Lynn, Massachusetts, that was a half-way house between Salem and Boston. The magistrates stopped in frequently, on their various trips from court to court. Games were prohibited by the Puritan Magistrates.

The town drunks were publicly punished by being thrown into the bilboes, (an iron bar with shackles to confine the feet), locked in the stocks, and beaten with a whip.

1650 – Many New England taverns also served as meeting houses. Church councils had great influence on the activities of the ordinaries. Frequently the ordinary was also used for religious services.

Rum was produced in Barbados and in New England from imported molasses. It was also universally known as Kill-Devil.

Early mixed rum drinks included toddy, sling, and grog. Calibogus was a blend of rum and beer. Mimbo was made from rum, water, and loaf sugar.

1660 – Many early ordinaries were owned by women. Life was rugged, and many men died young, leaving their widows to carry on their business. Women were very competent and reliable in business affairs.

1680 - Boston Judge Sewall enjoyed his home life. He was very kind to his fourteen children and his three wives. His mother-in-law was the richest lady in Boston.

1693 – Clarks Inn was built in 1693 in Philadelphia. It was located near the State House, whose members often visited.

William Penn often stayed for dinner and smoked his pipe on the porch. Clark’s signboard painting was of a coach and horses. A negative attribute was that he used a turnspit dog for roasting their meat.

A very common but cruel practice.

1700 – Boston’s population was nearing 10,000 by this time. It had 34 ordinaries; four regular victaullers, 41 liquor retailers and a few sellers of cider. A young man was fined for throwing a beer pot at the maid. Being drunk was common.

Flip was an American concoction. It was dearly loved in Colonial days. Flip was made in a large pewter pitcher, filled two-thirds full of strong beer, sweetened with molasses, and flavored with a gill of New England Rum. A red hot iron was taken from the fire and thrust into the flip, which gave it a burnt, bitter taste so dearly cherished.

1710 – In Virginia there was no charge to any traveler for their hospitality and overnight stay. Tobacco was a commodity and used as a means of exchange.

The Virginia magistrates limited the number of ordinaries to one at the court house and one at the wharf of each county.

They were usually limited to selling beer and cider.

1720 – The Virginia ordinaries had abundant supplies of liquor. They also had imported Malaga, Canary , and Madera wines.

1725 – The Fountain Inn of Medford, Massachusetts had a unique charm all of its own. It was built in 1725 and had a perfect location. All of the carriage travel to and from Maine to Boston, Eastern New Hampshire, and Northern Massachusetts flowed along the main road through Medford. The Fountain Inn treated its

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customers with the best food and lodging.

The clients always remembered the Fountain Inn and planned to return in the near future.

1730 – Baltimore’s best tavern was the also called the Fountain Inn. It had an English Style courtyard, and its interior was well furnished. Many of the early taverns have vanished due to harsh weather and poor roofing material. This was a very sad situation, considering the thousands of hours of labor that went into building each one.

1740 – Each town elected its selectmen and they conducted town meetings within their taverns. Gloucester, Massachusetts had five selectmen in 1744 and their annual

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salary was five dollars.

1750 – Tea and coffee came into general use during the same period. Coffee houses were popping up everywhere. People loved the odor of roasting coffee beans.

One of the most notable establishments was the Boston Exchange Coffee House.

It was a frightening seven stories high.

They kept a register of marine news, ship arrivals, departures; and many prominent naval officers were registered there.

President Monroe stayed there in 1817.

The tavern of the Moravian settlement in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania was called

Summer 2003 “The Tavern Behind Nazareth.” It was a substantial brick structure. In 1754, under its first owner, Josiah Schaub, a cooper, and his wife, Mary, it carried a signboard with a large rose. It was afterwards known as The Rose.

William Penn owned the land and charged the owners one red rose each year as payment.

Abbott’s Tavern in Holden, Massachusetts was built in 1763, and was owned by three family generations of Abbotts. Their famous flip was known throughout the colonies, for its superior flavor and character. Most New England homes had their own loggerhead hung next to the fireplace ready for heating, and plunging into the next pitcher of flip.

Rum Punch was quite popular throughout New England and Virginia. It was made with oranges, lemons, limes, and pineapples, and a dash of rum.Sister Brandish of Harvard College baked homemade bread, and brewed her own beer.

Good stuff!!!!

Many colonial taverns had their own specialty small beers. The residents brewed sassafras, birch, and spruce beers.

They boiled roots and herbs with pumpkins and apple parings, and added sweeteners, such as maple syrup and molasses.

In England, the early Celts made and drank mead and cider. Wild honey and apple trees were plentiful.

Mead and Metheglin of fermented honey and herbs, has been made all over the world. They were both popular in England.

1770 – The town selectmen of Cambridge, Massachusetts met at the Blue Anchor Tavern, and enjoyed dinner and drink.

Drinks included Flip, Wine, and Punch.

Ordination of new ministers was an occasion of great celebration, and they took place in the local tavern. At one Hartford Ordination, 24 people had dinner plus four bowls of toddy, 20 bowls of punch; five mugs of flip; 12 quarts of wine; three bottles of bitters; and 5 segars.

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The Cromwell’s Head Tavern of Boston was owned by the Bracket Family.

It was a high class hotel and they served wine, punch, porter, and liquor. A Virginian, George Washington stayed at the Cromwell and conferred with Governor Shirley on military activities.

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1790 – One fourth of the buildings in New Amsterdam – New York – were taverns, for the sale of beer brandy and tobacco.

Early taverns had British sign boards.

1800 – The City Hotel on Broadway in New York City was one of the largest hotels. It was a warm, welcome place. The dining room was spacious and was occupied by well-trained waiters. It also boasted a lady’s dining room for concerts, dances, and lectures.

The New York Tavern – Black Horse, was famous for its Todd drinks, which were mainly made from West India rum.

1810 – Each tavern had a taproom, which was its largest room. They had a great fireplace, bare floors, chairs, and a writing desk for conducting business. The bar was of ornate wooden construction.

The lamp-lighter or night watchman went about his established rounds in many colonial towns, and called out the time and the weather. He carried a lantern and a staff, telling late comers that it is time to go home.

Englishman, John Melish, often praised the taverns of New York State. John noted that even in the backwoods at Little Falls, New York, breakfast tables included: tablecloth, tea tray, teapot, milk-pot, bowls, cups, sugar tongs, teaspoons, casters, plates, knives, forks, tea, sugar, cream, bread, butter, steak, eggs, cheese, potatoes, beets, salt, vinegar, and pepper, and all for twenty-five cents.

Turtle was also a prized meat. All of the ships that sailed to the Caribbean were expected to bring home sea turtles for a feast. Turtles were considered an elegant gift. A keg of limes was usually brought from the same trip.

At the Mendenhall Ferry Tavern, near Philadelphia, catfish and waffles were a very popular combination.

Metheglin was one of the favorite drinks of the American colonies. It was a favorite of Kentucky for over a hundred years. In Virginia, large plantations of honey locust trees were planted for the sweet beans. The beans were ground and mixed with honey, and fermented.

Cider became plentiful in New England and many folk switched from beer to apple cider. Cider was consumed by all ages; even though it contained alcohol.

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Summer 2003 consisted of crushing apples in wooden mortars. This pomace was pressed in baskets. Primitive cider mills with a spring board and heavy maul crushed the apples in a hollowed log. Cider presses were later developed to meet the demand. The horse press was used in 1749 in the Hudson Valley. Cider was often mixed with rum, forming many of the most intoxicating, yet popular colonial drinks. Cider Royal was made by boiling four barrels into one.

A summer drink called Beverage was made from water, ginger, and molasses.

Ebulum was made from the juice of elderberries, sweetened and spiced.

Sack was a sweet wine of the sherry family. Sack-Posset , the drink of brides, was made from wine, rum, eggs, milk, and nutmeg. Sober brides were hard to find.

Negus, a pleasant wine punch, invented in the 1800’s, by Colonel Negus, was improved by grating a fresh nutmeg.

Perry was made in the same manner as cider, only pears were used instead of apples.

English Ginger Beer was made from ginger, lemons, brown sugar or honey, and cream of tartar. It was brewed and fermented with yeast.

1819 - Hop Beer was identical to ginger beer, with the addition of hops.

1846 - Lemon Beer was very popular, and was identical to ginger beer, with the addition of a few more lemons.

1869 - Philadelphia Beer was identical to ginger beer just with a fancy name.

1869 - Spring Beer was brewed root beer made from sweet fern, sarsaparilla, wintergreen, sassafras, and prince’s pine.

This was made in 1846.

Spruce Beer, another root beer, was brewed with molasses, essence of spruce, sugar and yeast.

1850 - Ginger Pop - was identical to ginger beer, only the term Pop was used to To contact the author: Donald Yates 8300 River Corners Rd Homerville, OH 44235 Phone: 330) 625-1025

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Root Beer was brewed from natural ingredients – hops, burdock, yellow dock, sarsaparilla, dandelion, and spikenard, plus oils of spruce and sassafras. “What’s Updock?”

Other interesting early beverages included: Ratafia, Syllabus, Bishop, Cardinal, Tabourney, and Elixir.

New England taverns were famous for their sign boards. The signs were constructed of various materials such as: painted carved wood, hand-carved stone, molded from terra-cotta and plaster; also forged from brass and cast iron.

Some of the notable sign boards in Boston included: The Golden Ball of Goldsmith, Daniel Parker. A famous lemon trader, John Crosby, had his sign painted as a basket of lemons. A nautical instrument shop in Boston had a carved figure of a sailor with a cocked hat, blue coat, short breeches, holding a quadrant instrument in his hand.

Another favorite subject for sign boards was Indian Chiefs. Notable ones included the Stickney Tavern of Concord, New Hampshire; and the Wells Tavern of Concord.

Dedham, Massachusetts had a famous hostelry in 1700, which had a sigh-board: Lieutenant Joshua Fisher, Apothecary, Surveyor, and Innkeeper.

All of the planning and operations of the Revolutionary War were conducted in the taverns, away from the British. By 1768, the Sons of Liberty were organized and advocating Union.

Reference: STAGE COACH AND TAVERN DAYS; Alice Morse Earle; 1900; The Macmillan Co.; New York, New York.

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Patent Medicines from the Green Mountain State

by D Don F Fritschel

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The term “proprietary medicines” is generally used to describe preparations where the owner of the formula claimed sole manufacturing rights. The formula was usually highly secret and the preparation usually not patented. For simplicity, both terms, “patent medicines” and “proprietary medicines” will be used interchangeably here.

The first medical patent in this country was issued in 1796, and the term “patent

medicine”, in its purest sense, refers to medical compositions that have received patent protection. However, few of the early medicine producers applied for patents, since their ingredients would then have had to be made public, and their exclusive right to produce would eventually expire. The composition of these early medicines was a closely guarded secret, since secrecy afforded a degree of protection against imitation, and

In the mid-1800’s there were several dozen individual patent medicine producers scattered throughout Vermont, each with their own blend of roots, herbs, water, alcohol and even opiates. Some medicines worked, some didn’t. But the unsophisticated public kept buying, based on misleading advertising, outrageous claims and the “unsolicited” testimonials of famous people. Every conceivable means was used to promote these nostrums handbills, broadsides, colorful trade cards, calendars, annual almanacs, dose glasses and other giveaway items, and even traveling medicine shows.

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In 1876, when America held its Centennial celebration, there were 38 states in the Union. Of these, Vermont ranked in the bottom six in area, and in the bottom three in population. However, at the same time, this sparsely settled, rural state was the home to over 100 different patent medicines.

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One of these early medicines began in 1855, in Waterbury, Vermont, where an enterprising druggist, John M. Henry, began his career in proprietary medicines by offering “Henry’s Vermont Liniment”.

An early advertisement described it as “The Best Pain Killer in the World”, and warranted it to be unsurpassed for “Rheumatism, Inflammation, Cramps, Sprains, Bruises, Cuts, Burns, Flesh Wounds, Spasms, Toothache, Sudden Coughs, Colds, Bowel Complaints, Dysentery, etc.”

Soon afterward, Mr. Henry expanded his business to become the wholesale agent, and later the manufacturer of “Reverend N.H. Downs Vegetable Balsamic Elixir”, a 25-year old remedy for coughs, colds, and diseases of the throat and lungs.

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By 1867, the fledgling firm, now known as Henry & Company, had grown to recognized stature as the sole proprietor and manufacturer of several dozen medicines, ointments, dyes and flavoring extracts. In addition, the firm had taken over wholesale distribution of numerous other patent medicines from other manufacturers. Some of the more popular

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ones were “Professor Mott’s Magic Hair Invigorator”, from Highgate, Vermont, “Newton’s Panacea” and “Newton’s Jaundice Bitters”, from Norwich, Vermont, and “Dr. Boyce’s Tonic Bitters”, from Rutland, Vermont.

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In March of 1867, the firm moved from Waterbury to a small building on Church Street in Burlington and continued its dual role as wholesale druggist and manufacturer of patent medicines. Over the next five years, there were several splits, with Henry & Company eventually ending up as three businesses: John F. Henry & Co. of New York; Henry, Johnson & Lord of Burlington; and Wells, Richardson & Co. of Burlington. Wells, Richardson retained the wholesale drug business, which was run by relatively young men whose sole business experience had been in that field.

From that base, they began publicizing their products with great enthusiasm and in less than two years were supplying nearly all the druggist trade in New England and northern New York with patent medicines, chemicals, dyestuffs, paints and Wells Richardson flavoring extracts.

In 1874, they erected a large, commodious building on College Street in Burlington, containing a business office, factory, and warehouse. The 4-story

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An 1883 Wells, Richardson Almanac, full of ads, claims and testimonials for thier various patent medicines and other products.

An 1880 booklet, loaded with “unsolicited” testimonials, praising the miraculous curative powers of Paines Celery Compound.

building housed several manufacturing areas, two steam elevators, a chemical lab, and extensive advertising and printing operations. Over the next 25 years, their advertising budget grew from a modest $4,000 to over $500,000 a year. Every new product was heavily promoted, but none more so than “Paines Celery Compound”, a blood purifier and nerve tonic. They purchased sole rights to this product from M.K. Paine, a druggist in Windsor, Vermont. The amber, bitters-type bottle, with PAINES / CELERY COMPOUND on two of its recessed panels, was shipped nationwide and has been found in nearly every state in the country. The medicine was a huge money maker for them until the enactment of the Pure Food & Drug Act of 1906. The Celery Compound formula included 21% alcohol.

By contrast to the “big business” of Wells Richardson, another very successful patent medicine was being produced as a one-man operation, in a backyard shed, outside the

The new home of Wells, Richardson & Co., as it appeared in 1974, in Burlington, Vermont.

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rural town of East Georgia, Vermont.

Several times each week, Silas Smith would load a number of wooden cases, containing up to a dozen bottles each, onto his wagon and drive to the East Georgia railroad station, about ¼ mile from his house. From there, his “Green Mountain Renovator” would travel to destinations around the Northeast. Periodically, he would bring back crates of empty, embossed bottles, purchased from the Granite Glass Company, Stoddard, New Hampshire. The early bottles were very pretty, ranging in color from olive-green to deep red-amber, rectangular in shape with chamfered corners and a deep iron pontil mark on the base. This was in the 1850’s.

Spavin Cure” is one of the most common of the “veterinary medicine” bottles available today. Variations of this bottle, include “Kendall’s Spavin Treatment”, and “Kendall’s Spavin Cure For Human Flesh”. Also in Enosburgh Falls, was N.A. Gilbert & Co., proprietors of “Gilbert’s Sarsaparilla Bitters” and “Scotch Oil”, another animal medicine.

Over the next 50 years, the “Renovator” business prospered, first under Silas, and following his death in 1881, under his son, Ransom. During this period, several variants of aqua bottles were introduced.

In 1897, under the pressures of country living and advancing age, Ransom moved his family into St. Albans, Vermont. A year later, he sold the formula to the St. Albans Remedy Company, which began largescale production and publicity for the preparation. As a result of their efforts, examples of the rectangular, amber bottle, embossed SMITH’S – GREEN MOUNTAIN / RENOVATOR – ST. ALBANS, VT. can be found throughout the collector community today. There are both 8 ½” and 7 ½” sizes, as well as clear dose glasses. The doses are relatively common.

SMITH’S – GREEN MOUNTAIN – RENOVATOR SMITH’S – GREEN MOUNTAIN – RENOVATOR – EAST GEORGIA, VT. [Fig. 1] I. NEWTON’S – PANACEA – PURIFIER – OF THE – BLOOD – NORWICH, VT (Also a variant with misspelled NERWICH) [Fig. 2]

Not all of Vermont’s patent medicines were for humans. Dr. B.J. Kendall, of Enosburgh, Falls, Vermont, made a career of producing animal cures. His 12-sided, shoulder-embossed, amber “Kendall’s

Another patent medicine purveyor of note is Fred E. Smith, of Montpelier, Vermont and his successor, N.K. Brown. They produced “Smith’s Anodyne Cough Drops” with great success. Still another is C.C. Doty & Company, of Bradford,

Vermont, which produced “Mandrake Bitters”, “Cough Balsam”, “Pain Panacea”, as well as several other products. Their trademark bottle was amber, shaped like a Warner’s Safe, and simply embossed in an arch, C.C. DOTY & CO. Several Vermont bitters products have been mentioned in passing, but the intent of this article is to focus on patent medicine bottles. Vermont’s bitters and mineral waters will be left for a future article. The medicines list below is thorough but not exhaustive. I would welcome any additions that readers might have.

COLORED, PONTILED VERMONT MEDICINE BOTTLES

AQUA, PONTILED VERMONT MEDICINE BOTTLES Wm. A. BACON / LUDLOW, VT. REV. N.H. DOWNS – VEGETABLE – BALSAMIC – ELIXIR DUTCHERS – DEAD SHOT FOR BED BUGS – ST. ALBANS VT A.O. HOOD – EXCELSIOR / LINIMENT – WINOOSKI, VT. DR. H.A. INGHAM’S – NERVINE PAIN EXTR PROF. MOTT’S – MAGIC / HAIR INVIGORATOR – PRICE 25 CENTS A.J. GREEN HIGHGATE, VT PROF. MOTT’S – MAGIC / HAIR INVIGORATOR – PRICE FIFTY CENTS A.J. GREEN HIGHGATE VT SANDERSON’S / BLOOD RENOVATOR / MILTON, VT. [Fig. 3] SMITH’S – ANODYNE / COUGH DROPS – MONTPELIER. [Fig. 4] VERMONT / LINIMENT – J.M. HENRY& SONS – WATERBURY, VT [Fig. 5] VERMONT / LINIMENT – JOHN F. HENRY & CO – WATERBURY, VT T.H. TAYLOR-/ BRATTLEBORO / VT [Fig. 6] WEEK’S – MAGIC – COMPOUND – ST JOHNSBURY, VT DR. WOOD’S / AROMATIC SPIRIT – BELLOWS FALLS, V.T [Fig. 7] (Seen unembossed, with paper label: “Wilcox’s Pulmonary or Cough Balsam, H. Koon & Son, North Bennington, Vt.”)

Early Vermont medicine company billheads.

One for Dr. Ingham's Nervene Pain Extractor, and one from Henry, Johnson & Lord, a spinoff from Henry & Company.

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“M.K. Paine, Druggist & Pharmaceutist, Manufacturer the Celebrated Green-Mountain Balm of Gilead & Cedar Plaster..”

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“Compliments of N.A. Gilbert & Co., Scotch Oil, Cures Spavins, etc., without blister or blemish.”

TRADE CARDS FROM VERMONT PATENT MEDICINES

“Dr. Ingram’s Nervine Pain Extractor. Vegetable Liver Pills. Prepared by Dr. H. A. Ingram & Co., Vergennes, Vt.”

“Higgins T & C Compound, Higgins, Greene & Hyde, Rutland, Vermont.”

“Kendall’s Spavin Cure.” Card reads, “Golly! I nebber will let dat pickaninny ride dat yar hoss agin unless he stops usin’ Kendall’s Spavin Cure, ‘cause it limbers him up so. In all my ‘sperience in the hoss line I nebber seed such ‘provement in a animile afore. Facts am stranger dan friction.”

“Dr. G. S. Green’s Blood Purifier and Nerve Tonic. ‘Pure Blood Good Health’.”

“Lactated Food, 150 meals for $1.00. It makes them healthy, happy, hearty! That’s why they love it. Pamphlet free. Wells, Richardson & Co., Burlington, Vermont.”

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ARNICA & OIL – LINIMENT C.C. DOTY & CO. KENDALL’S SPAVIN CURE (Also, reversed “N”s variant of above) KENDALL’S SPAVIN TREATMENT (Embossed celery stalk) – CELERY / COMPOUND [Fig. 8] PAINES – CELERY / COMPOUND [Part of Fig. 9, front] SCOTCH – OIL SMITH’S – GREEN MOUNTAIN / RENOVATOR – ST. ALBANS, VT [Fig 10] THORN’S / HOP & BURDOCK / TONIC – BRATTLEBORO, VT. AQUA, SMOOTH BASE, VERMONT MEDICINE BOTTLES ANTI-APOPLECTINE / AND / PARALYSIS CURE – DR. G.S.GREEN – ENOSBURGH FALLS, VT. BANCROFT’S / INSTANT RELIEF – MARSHFIELD, VT. REV. N.H. DOWNS – VEGETABLE – BALSAMIC – ELIXIR HAMILTON’S – OLD ENGLISH – BLACK OIL HENRY’S /ARNICA /TINCTURE HENRY’S /ELECTRIC / OINTMENT HENRY’S / HIVE SYRUP HIGGINS T&C COMPOUND, RUTLAND, VT. A.O. HOOD – EXCELSIOR / LINIMENT – WINOOSKI, VT. DR. H.A. INGHAM’S – NERVENE PAINCURAL DR. H.A. INGHAM’S – NERVENE PAIN EXTR KENDALL’S – SPAVIN CURE – FOR HUMAN FLESH NEWTON’S - OPODELDOC PAINES – CELERY COMPOUND (yes, in aqua!) [Fig. 11] S. SMITH / GREEN MOUNTAIN RENOVATOR / EAST GEORGIA, VT. SMITH’S / GREEN MOUNTAIN / RENOVATOR – EAST GEORGIA, VT. WEEKS – MAGIC – COMPOUND – ST JOHNSBURY, VT In addition to the proprietary medicine bottles listed above, Walton’s Vermont Register, a business directory published annually during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, contained advertisements for the following patent medicines: Allard’s Black Oil, Enosburgh Falls N.K. Brown Teething Cordial, Montpelier Brown’s Bronchial Elixir, Burlington Brown’s Fluid Extract Buchu, Burlington Dr. Doty’s Pain Panacea, Bradford Dr. Doty’s Cough Balsam, Bradford Dr. G.S. Green’s Blood Purifier and Nerve Tonic, Enosburgh Falls Dr. B.J. Kendall’s Pectoral Elixir, Enosburgh Falls Maxham’s Magic Balm, Bethel C.F. Storrs Pulmonary Balsam, Winooski O.F. Woods Vegetable Dysentery Cordial, Westminster & Bellows Falls

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[Fig. 1] SMITH’S - GREEN MOUNTAIN - RENOVATOR, EAST GEORGIA, VT “Stoddard” amber, iron pontil mark, 6 3/4” tall.

[Fig. 2] I. NEWTON’S - PANCREA PURIFIER - OF THE - BLOOD NORWICH, VT., yellow-amber, “open” pontil scar, 7 1/2” tall.

[Fig. 3] SANDERSON’S / BLOOD RENOVATOR / MILTON, VT., aqua.

[Fig. 4] SMITH’S - ANODYNE / COUGH DROPS - MONTPELIER, aqua, “open” pontil, 5 1/4” tall.

[Fig.. 5] VERMONT LINIMENT, both the J. M. HENRY & SONS and the JOHN F. HENRY & CO. variants. Both are from WATERBURY, VT. [Fig. 6] T. H. TAYLOR - BRATTLEBORO / VT., aqua, “open” pontil, 8 1/2” tall.

[Fig. 7] DR. WOOD’S / AROMATIC SPIRIT - BELLOWS FALLS, V.T., aqua, iron pontil mark, 7 1/2” tall.

[Fig. 8] Earliest CELERY COMPOUND, cabin-shouldered, amber, with an embossed celery stalk on opposite panel.

[Fig. 9] Paines Celery Compound, Baxter’s Mandrake Bitters, and a sampling of Well’s, Richardson’s other early products.

[Fig. 10] A “St. Albans” Green Mountain Renovator and box, circa. 1898.

[Fig. 11] Later PAINE’S - CELERY COMPOUND, in scarce aqua color.

Most of these undoubtedly came in bottles, some probably embossed.

It is particularly interesting to note that the most successful patent medicine proprietors did not rely on the curative powers of their products but on the power of advertising. It was an age of promoters and salesman, entrepreneurs and free-wheeling vendors, businessmen and showmen. And somehow, the little state of Vermont, with its agricultural economy and rural lifestyle, managed to capture more than its fair share of the patent medicine industry. Among its populace, it seems that the Green Mountain State had an abundance of independent, no nonsense, sometimes shrewd individuals who had learned that “It doesn’t matter what it is…..if you promote it, they’ll buy it!”

Don Fritschel can be reached by mail: 1996 Hardscrabble Place, Boulder, CO 80305; or by E-mail: donfrits@aol.com.

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The Fredricksburg Brewery

Story & Photographs by Dave Scafani Among many western collectors, there is a popular familiarity with the beautiful whittled and colorful bottles of the Fredricksburg Brewery. They can be found in green, red, clear, yellow and red-amber, as well as other unusual and unique shades of amber.

As if that is not enough, add the temptations of nicely illustrated labels and gorgeous advertising pieces - and there is no questioning of enthusiasm.

The Company Behind the Bottles It all began in 1856, when Gotfred Krahenberg opened the Fredricksburg Brewery in San Jose, California, for the production of steam beer.

The San Jose Brewery supplied beer as far away as southern California and Washington. The demand for their lager and porter became so great that the brewery could not handle the volumne.

The San Francisco Bottling Works was purchased from Arnold and Rudolph Postel during 1888, to help supplement their output. The Company flourished.

In its prime, Fredricksburg was one of the largest and finest brewing companies on the Pacific Coast. Hogsheads containing 63 gallons of beer, which provided enough beer for 27 cases of 23-ounce bottles (fifths), were often delivered to bottlers, where the beer was put into the bottles for distribution

by August Lang, San Francisco; C. Schmeer, Sacremento; L. Cerf Ventura; C. E. Roos, Seattle; San Jose Bottling and Oakland Bottling.

Photos: Top: Where the beer was made - The San Jose Brewery, circa. 1875.

Middle: C. E. Roos Act, Seattle, Wash., 1895-1905, and paper-labeled Fredricksburg Premium Lager Beer bottles.

Bottom: Labeled in blue, white and gold, these bottles were sealed with ceramic stoppers.

Dave Scafani is a retired teacher and the author of “The Bottles of Jackson County.� He has been a bottle digger and collector since 1968. He can be reached at: 416 Greenbrae Drive, Medford, OR 97504, or by E-mail: Scafanind@cs.com.

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Mr. Welchman continued his medicine business until 1871, when it appears that he sold out to the then patent medicine giant of Iowa, the S. F. Baker & Part 2 - Medicine Bottles Company of Keokuk.

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By Mike Burggraaf Chamberlain medicine bottles from Des Moines, the Baker medicine bottles from Keokuk are perhaps one of the This is the second article in a series that most familiar medicine bottles associated will deal with collecting bottles by state. with Iowa. Dr. Samuel F. Baker In this instance, specific categories from established the company in 1868 as a the state of Iowa have been and will be manufacturer of patent medicines. By the presented. The last issue of the Bottles & middle of the 1880s, their company was Extras magazine discussed the various manufacturing no less than 15 individual Iowa drug store bottles available to medicinal products along with a full line collectors. I'll begin this issue with the of flavoring extracts and spices. The newer always popular grouping of medicine bottles used by S. F. Baker & Co. are side embossed only, but the earlier examples bottles.

The category of Iowa patent medicines prior to 1905 all used individual bottles for is one that seems to have some great each specific liniment. All examples are variety. We are fortunate to have examples aqua except for the Dr. Baker's Tonic from the 1850's to 1915, with the pontiled Laxative, which used an amber bottle. examples being extremely difficult to find. While the range of products that they made Lucky is the collector that has more than was extensive, there is no record of this one open pontiled medicine bottle from company ever producing a bitters product.

Other companies from Keokuk that used Iowa.

One example pictured is DR. embossed bottles include The Crawford YOUMAN'S AMERICAN AGUE Medicine Co.; Dr. Fisk, owner of the KILLER and has a pontil that extends past Keokuk Proprietary Medicine Co., and Dr. the base of the bottle, preventing it from Machin, proprietor of the Iowa Medicine standing level. This bottle is well Company, which eventually became the documented as being from Davenport, KKK Medicine Company.

The KKK bottles turn up frequently and Iowa. Personal history of Dr. Youman and usually spark some interesting ads in the Davenport city directories support this. Other Iowa medicine bottles conversation as to the name. While a KKK exist from the 1860s and ‘70s which are chapter was well established in Keokuk at also difficult to find while quite a number one time, there is no documentation of different examples from the 1880s and between the two groups. On some bottles, the K's in Keokuk are all capitalized which ‘90s are available.

During the 1850s through the 1880s, the leads to speculation as to where the name town of Keokuk hailed as the may have come from as there are three K's medicine capital of Iowa. Numerous in KeoKuK. As the state of Iowa grew and expanded, medicine companies sprang up in this town during the early 1850s, leaving us a few so did its various businesses and industries. examples of open pontil marked bottles to This included the patent medicine pursue. One of the earliest examples are business. In the spring of 1872, Lowell the bottles embossed Mamaluke Liniment. Chamberlain moved to Marion, Iowa to This particular liniment was produced and engage in the druggist trade. He formed a marketed by a number of different partnership with Dr. Norman Owen who proprietors with the original manufacturer had practiced in Marion since 1863. This being H. R. Gilmore, a druggist in Keokuk newly formed firm was established as during the 1850s.

Mr. Gilmore Owens & Chamberlain and began eventually sold the concoction to T. I. producing various patent medicines for McKenny and M. H. Runner. By the close sale on a local market. The success of the of the Civil War, McKenny & Runner sold products, which became known as O & C's out to J. L. Curtis, a former partner of Mr. Standard Remedies, invoked increased Gilmore in the drug business. Mr. Curtis production and in turn a larger sales area. later sold out to Edward Welchman in They marketed six major products

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Bottles and Extras including a bitters which will be discussed in a future article on Iowa bitters. Their bottles were very distinctive as all examples have hinge mold bases and very large embossed O & C initials. A local competitor, Benjamin Nott, produced a very rare cure using the same style of large embossing. The words PAIN CURE cover the entire front panel with 1" tall letters.

In 1882, David Chamberlain, a brother of Lowell, bought out Dr. Owen's share of the business and the two brothers moved the medicine business to Des Moines, establishing what would become the largest patent medicine business in Iowa, the Chamberlain & Company patent medicine firm. The number of products was expanded greatly and eventually sales would reach to an international scale.

During 1892, the firm name was changed to the Chamberlain Medicine Company and most of the Chamberlain bottles can be dated by this change. All bottles embossed Chamberlain & Co. date from 1882 to 1892 while those embossed Chamberlain Medicine Co. are post-1892.

Seeing the success of the Chamberlains in Des Moines, numerous competitors tried their hand in producing a medicinal product. Some were successful on a smaller scale while others failed in less than a year's time in business. By 1910, there were no less than 25 different medicine manufacturing companies operating in Des Moines. The result has been an interesting variety of some hard to find medicine bottles from the capital of Iowa.

Other major medicine companies in Iowa included W. F. Severa of Cedar Rapids; The Scarless Remedy Co. of Winterset; Dr. Master's Remedy Co. of Sheldon; Dr. Mrs. Keck of Davenport; Wrights Farmers Friend of Red Oak; the Fitch Ideal Dandruff Cure Co. of Boone; the Seminole Indian Medicine Co. of Boone; Olney & McDaid of Clinton; and Dr. Norton Remedies from the small town of Kent in Southwest Iowa.

The firm of Olney & McDaid from Clinton produced a varied assortment of medicinal products. Perhaps the most noteworthy example is Prof. Dean's King Cactus Oil which was touted as The Great Barbed Wire Remedy. The bottle is elaborately embossed, showing the fancy dispenser that was set up in the drug store.

This device was a fancy wire mesh stand which contained sponges. On top of the stand was a five-gallon can of the King Cactus Oil with a pump attached to the top of the can. The smaller individual bottles could then be filled from the five-gallon can in the drug store. This particular bottle has a lot of appeal because of the

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embossing and being a barbed wire remedy. It is available in three sizes with all three sizes made in amber or clear glass.

There are many examples of Iowa medicine bottles that are labeled only examples. While embossed bottles seem to be more desirable, there are many labeled medicines that have very attractive graphics and appealing claims. The photo shows a brief sampling of labeled Iowa medicines and cures.

Of specific interest to cure collectors are a number of interesting and somewhat hard to obtain cure bottles. For some unknown reason, a large number of embossed Iowa cure bottles have some connection to a dandruff problem. There are many attractive and interesting paper label cure bottles from Iowa but the the listing includes only embossed examples.

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[Fig. 2] Fitch's Ideal Dandruff Cure, Boone, aqua Seminole Indian Liver & Kidney Cure, Boone, aqua Henry's Skin Cure, Burlington, clear Keipps Dandruff Cure & Hair Restorer, Colfax, milk glass Cubeb Cough Cure, Des Moines, clear Hansen's Radical Cure, Des Moines, aqua Dr. Arntz Eye Cure, Des Moines, aqua Lichty's Cough Cure, Des Moines, aqua Globe Hair Restorative & Dandruff Cure, Des Moines, aqua Globe Hair Restorative & Dandruff Cure, Grinnell, aqua & clear Eureka Hair Restorative & Dandruff Cure, Grinnell, clear Moore's Tree of Life Catarrh Cure, Emerson, amber Dr. Norton's Chlorodine Consumption Cure, Kent, clear B. H. Nott's Pain Cure, Marion, aqua Caucasian Dandruff Cure, Sheldon, aqua Park's Pile Cure, Troy, clear

[Fig. 3]

[Fig. 1] A rare open pontiled medicine from Davenport, Iowa. DR. JAMES YOUMAN'S AMERICAN AGUE KILLER. [Fig. 2] A rare 1870's cure: B. H. NOTT'S / PAIN CURE / MARION, IOWA. [Fig. 3] An interesting name for an Iowa medicine: DR. MACHIN'S K.K.K REMEDIES / KEOKUK, IOWA. [Fig. 4] A rare cure: MOORE'S TREE OF LIFE CATARRH CURE / EMERSON, IOWA. Shaped exactly like the common Ely's Cream Balm bottle.

[Fig. 5] A labeled only example and an embossed example of LICHTY'S CELERY NERVE COMPOUND from Des Moines, Iowa.

[Fig. 6] A nice cobalt blue CITRATE OF MAGNESIA / SARGENT / TRUE DRUGGISTS / OTTUMWA. [Fig. 7] A popular medicine from Clinton, Iowa: PROF. DEAN'S KING CACTUS OIL / [Fig. 7] THE GREAT BARBED WIRE REMEDY. Mike Burggraaf 305 E. Burlington Avenue Fairfield, Iowa 52556

[Fig. 4]

[Fig. 6] [Fig. 5]

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Bottle Collecting!

Since When?

“He’s added another choice item to his collection!”

That’s the title of a wonderful advertisement for the famous whiskey, Calvert Reserve [Fig. 1], a Canadian whiskey bottled in the U.S. – “one of the best-selling Canadians. Made from the grains of four regions of Canada and named after Lord Cecil Calvert who founded the Maryland colony in 1632.”

The year the ad was part of Calvert Distillers Corporation’s advertising program was 1945 – the year

that World War II ended and the first year of the Cold War – 14 years before bottle collecting officially became an organized national hobby. It would be just another of the series of dog-related ads for Calvert whiskey, painted by the famous commercial artist Tom Covell, if it were not for the very valuable antique bottles pictured on the display shelf in the background.

Were bottles collected as early as 1945? Earlier? The answer to those simple questions is a conjoined, yes!

Bottles and Extras

by Cecil Munsey Copyright © 2003

1850s – 1920s Recalling my incomplete knowledge of bottle-collecting history, I was surprised when my wife discovered the Calvert advertisement, featured in this article, in a box of advertisements at a recent antiques show. I know from research that people saved bottles for hundreds of years and seriously collected old bottles categorically at least as far back as the 1880s. Those late 19th century collectors, in fact, focused on just such bottles as featured in the “collection”

[Fig. 1] “He’s added another choice item to his collection!”

Bottles and Extras shown in the Calvert advertisement – historical and pictorial flasks, free-blown bottles, violin flasks, hand-blown handled glass jugs, perfume bottles, figural bitters and whiskey bottles. The mid-20th century (1945) depiction of a bottle collection in a cabinet is reminiscent of the 1901“Cabinet of a Bottle Collector,” drawn by Charles Dana Gibson, of “Gibson Girl” fame, [Fig. 2].

Still another cabinet-display of bottles is one featured in a recently discovered photograph [Fig. 3].

Pictured is the bottle room in the huge three-story Tudor style house built by industrialist and glass pioneer William S. Walbridge. The photograph was taken just after his home [Fig. 4], in Toledo, Ohio, was completed in 1917. Walbridge descended from an old New England family and was born in Boston in 1854.

He began his work career in his family’s furniture business there but in 1898 sold his interest and joined the Toledo Glass Company as treasurer. Once in Toledo, he began to collect bottles. Over a period of nearly 40 years he led and was otherwise involved in businesses that were the f o r e r u n n e r s of Owens-Illinois and Libbey-Owens-Ford, working with people such as Michael J. Owens and Edmund Drummond Libbey (whose sister he married) when they were laying the foundations for the glass industry in Toledo. Bottle collectors may recognize him as the author of the 1920 book, American Bottles Old & New – 1607 to 1920. Walbridge lived in the house he built with the bottle room until his death in 1935 at the age of 81.

Some of the earliest bottle collectors we know because of the books and articles they wrote about glass and bottles. The “highlighted b i b l i o g r a p h y ” presented with this article gives a fairly complete [Fig. 2] reference listing of those

Summer 2003 early author-collectors: (1) Deming Jarves, 1854 and 1865 (2) S. Sauzay, 1871 (3) Edwin Atlee Barber, 1900 (4) Frederick Willia Hunter, 1914 (5) William S. Walbridge, 1920 (6) N. Hudson Moore, 1920 (7) Johnson O’Connor, 1923 (8) Stephen Van Rensselaer, 1926 (9) Mary Harrod Northend, 1926 (10) Harry Hall White, 1926 (11) Rhea Mansfield Knittle, 1927 (12) Lura Woodside Watkins, 1931 (13) Ruth Webb Lee, 1931 (14) Frances Rogers & Alice Beard, 1937 (15) Peter A. Brannon, 1937 (16) George S. & Helen McKearin, 1941 1920s – 1930s Most of the serious individual collectors of bottles, known to me, were a clique not

53 a club and they first operated in the early years of the 20th century. The first important collector, I met by way of reading his 1926 seminal work, Early American Bottles and Flasks. The author was, of course, Stephen Van Rensselaer.

The late Charles B. Gardner, a famous bottle collector I did know personally and who wrote the introduction to my 1970 basic text for the hobby of “…Bottle Collecting,” said the following about Stephen Van Rensselaer in 1969: “When I started to collect bottles in 1929 the first thing I did was to secure a copy of the 1929 revised edition [of the Rensselaer book] which is ‘The Bottle Collector’s Bible.’ Personal contact with Mr. Van Rensselaer increased my respect for his knowledge of the subject.

“I have to refer to the book almost daily and have found it invaluable in listing many of the bottles & flasks [I] accumulated over the past forty years.”

Other early bottle collecting luminaries include: Alfred B. Maclay, W. T. Howe, William Mitchell Van Winkle, Charles S. Boye, Edwin LeFevre, Henry F. du Pont, and yes, even Henry Ford. [Some of the people mentioned in this section, in recent years, have been inducted into the FOHBC Hall of Fame, under the category of “Pioneers”.]

1940s – 1950s Reproduced here, as [Fig. 5], is a 1940 advertisement from American Antiques Collector Magazine offering some “bottles and flasks” for sale. The bottles were from the W. T. Howe collection of “100 rare historical flasks...” Accompanying material indicates that Mr. Howe took 20 years to assemble the flask collection. Besides the seemingly fairy-tale prices being asked, the advertisement adds the knowledge that Mr. Howe began collecting circa 1920, qualifying him as an early bottle collector.

54 “He’s added another choice item to his collection!” Again, that is the title of an advertisement, for the famous Calvert Reserve whiskey, that is a highlight of this article. As already stated, the year was 1945 and the ad was part of Calvert Distillers Corporation’s (New York City) well-known dog-themed advertising campaign that ran for several years.

Perspective is certainly added to the above statement when it is recalled that 1945 was the first year of the Cold War. It was the year Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met in Crimea at the Yalta Conference (Feb. 4th) to plan the final defeat of Germany. It was the year that Pres. Roosevelt died and Harry S. Truman became President of the U. S. (April 12th).

May 8th of 1945 was the day victory in Europe was declared (V-E Day).

Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated. At a conference in San Francisco the United Nations was established (April-June). It was during the same year that Truman, Churchill, and Stalin met in Berlin at the Potsdam Conference (July 17th-August 2nd) to discuss the reconstruction of Germany. A “B-25” bomber accidentally flew into the Empire State Building, damaging the 78th and 79th floors and killing thirteen people (July 28th). To hasten the end of World War II, on Aug. 6th of 1945, the U. S. dropped a 20-kiloton uranium bomb on Hiroshima, Japan killing 80,000 people.

On Aug. 9th, the U. S. dropped a 22-kiloton plutonium bomb on Nagasaki, Japan and killed 70,000 people. On Aug. 15th, Japan surrendered (V-J Day).

World War II came to an end [Fig. 6].

The population of the United States in 1945 was 140 million [today 290 million]. Life expectancy was 65 years [today 77]. The Dow Jones reached a high of 195 and a low of 155.

The cost of a first class stamp was 3¢ [today 37¢]. Detroit defeated the Chicago Cubs (4-3) in the World Series.

The 1945 Pulitzer Prize in music was awarded to composer Aaron Copland for “Appalachian Spring.” The 1945 Oscar for Best Picture was awarded to “Going My Way.” Miss America was Bess Myerson of New York.

John Steinbeck’s, “Cannery Row” was published in 1945. And the American Cyanamid Corporation discovered the vitamin, folic acid.

Fourteen years later on October 15, 1959, a group of seventeen people in

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[Fig. 3]

[Fig. 4] 1960s Sacramento, California gathered to form The interest in acquiring antique the first bottle-collecting club in history [Fig. 7]. The new group bottles grew. In just three short years christened themselves the Antique ABCA of California became a national Bottle Collectors Association club of 257 family memberships covering (ABCA) of California. twenty-three states. “Of ‘60s The members of California” was dropped During this decade, that first bottlefrom the name and the collecting club organized group became ABCA in Sacramento, themselves as a result (Antique Bottle Collectors the first bottle shows of their finding hundreds Association). were held. of old bottles in As organized bottle At those first shows Sacramento’s urban collecting approached its there were renewal area. Bottles of second decade, thousands no sales – only displays the California Gold Rush of bottle collectors Some sales took place belonged to over 100 clubs and the Civil War from the trunks of cars in the United States alone. abounded and those in the parking lot. first bottle club members Also, there were clubs in literally picked them Canada, Great Britain, off the ground after bulldozers rumbled Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and back and forth preparing the earth for the other places.

In 1969, just ten years after the rebuilding of the oldest portions of birth of ABCA, representatives from the original Sacramento.

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55 Village of Ballston Spa, New York, a ninetyyear-old Victorian-Gothic mansion was donated to the FOHBC to become its national headquarters and museum. James W. Verbeck, a well-known lawyer who developed a considerable reputation, built the Verbeck House in 1889. He also built a large bank account for successfully handling liability suits against the very powerful and rich railroad corporations. Verbeck and his wife raised five children in the mansion. The last of the children, Dr. George Verbeck, died in 1977. The property was willed to Abba and Katharine Newton, granddaughters of the original owners. It was the Newton sisters who donated the three and one-half story house to the FOHBC in memory of the Verbeck family.

[Fig. 5]

1980s During the 1980s FOHBC struggled with the operation and management of a national bottle museum. Local collectors in the Ballston Spa, New York area and others interested in the historic building, housing the National Bottle Museum, interested in the historic building, housing the National Bottle Museum, volunteered to operate the museum. The group named themselves “National Bottle Museum Society.”

By this decade, bottle-collecting events were still called “bottle shows and sales” but sales tables far exceeded show tables.

Eventually the Federation of Historical Bottle Clubs (FOHBC) was unable to maintain and control the operation in New York State. As a result it was decided to sell the donated mansion and postpone owning and operating a bottle museum until a more feasible plan was developed.

country’s bottle collecting clubs gathered in Sacramento, California and, with the help of ABCA, formed the Federation of Historical Bottle Clubs (FOHBC).

The tightly organized coalition of bottle clubs further organized the hobby that at the time was touted in several national magazines as “the third largest collecting hobby and the fastest growing one.”

1970s Just a short ten years passed before FOHBC realized its dream of what was to be a permanent home. On March 3, 1979 in the

‘70s By this decade bottle shows had become shows and sales.

Sales tables and display tables were abundant at every bottle show and sale.

1990s – 2000s The FOHBC went back to a geographically dispersed but national operation. In 1992 the “Federation of Historical Bottle Clubs” changed its name to “Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors” (still FOHBC).

In 1993 FOHBC sold the mansion in Ballston Spa and the National Bottle Museum Society moved to a building nearby. The society continued operating as the “National Bottle Museum®.” The group had registered the name and was given the relics that had been collected.

In March of 1995, FOHBC acquired Bottles & Extras, a national magazine devoted to the collecting of bottles.

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Summer 2003 ‘90s and ‘00s The last decade of the 20th century and the first years of the 21st century were the years that national auctions became the source of the most valuable and expensive bottles.

During this time-period the Internet became the place many collectors frequented to buy bottles – the predominant source was/is the Internet web site eBay.

Bottle Collecting! Since When?

To answer the question posed in the title of this article is probably not possible if a specific date is required. From the classic 1901 drawing of the cabinet of a bottle collector by the famous artist Charles Dana Gibson and the recently discovered 1917 photograph of William S. Walbridge’s bottle room and even the 1945 painting of a bottle collection by Tom Covell, all combine to make us secure in the guess that bottle collecting is over one hundred years old.

Cecil Munsey, Ph.D. 13541 Willow Run Road Poway, CA 92064-1733 858-487-7036 cecilmunsey@cox.net

Bottles and Extras Munsey, Ph.D., Cecil. The Illustrated Guide to COLLECTING BOTTLES. New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1970.

Northend, Mary Harrod. American Glass [“American Bottles” – page 69]. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc., 1926.

Rogers, Frances & Beard, Alice. 5000 Years of Glass [“Bottles, Old & New,” page 96].

Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1937.

[Fig. 6] References: Books: Barber, Ph.D., Edwin Atlee. OLD AMERICAN BOTTLES – A Sketch of the Glass Industry in the United States and Manual for Collectors of Historical Bottles [“Antique Flasks & Bottles” – page 19]. New York: David McKay Co., 1900.

Hunter, Frederick Willia. Stiegel Glass.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1914.

Jarves, Deming. Reminiscences of Glass Making. Boston, 1854 and New York, 1865.

Knittle, Rhea Mansfield. Early American Glass.

New York, 1927.

Lee, Ruth Webb. Early American Glass. New York, 1931.

McKearin, George S. and Helen. American Glass. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1941.

Moore, N. Hudson. Old Glass – European and American [“Bottles & Flasks” – page 283].

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1920.

[Fig. 7]

Sauzay, A. Wonders of Glass & Bottle Making in All Ages. New York: Charles Scribner & Company, 1871.

Van Rensselaer, Stephen. Early American Bottles and Flasks. New York: Privately Published, 1926.

Walbridge, William Sponner. American Bottles Old & New (1607 to 1920) – A story of the Industry in the United States [“History of Antique Flasks & Bottles,” page 19.] Toledo, Ohio: Privately Published, 1920.

Periodicals: Brannon, Peter A. “Indian Trade Bottles in the South,” The Magazine Antiques, January, 1937.

Munsey, Cecil. “Cabinet of a Bottle Collector,” Bottles & Extras, Vol. 13, Issue 152, pp.

6-7, May 2002.

Munsey, Cecil “The National Bottle Museum,” Collectors’ Showcase, Volume 6, Number 5, May/June 1987.

O’Connor, Johnson. “The Lowell Railroad Bottle,” The Magazine Antiques, February, 1923.

O’Connor, Johnson. “The Keene Masonic Bottle,” The Magazine Antiques, February, 1924.

Watkins, Lura Woodside. “Deming Jarves…,” The Magazine Antiques, October, 1931.

White, Harry Hall. “The Kentucky Glass Works,” The Magazine Antiques, February, 1926.

White, Harry Hall. “Glass Monuments to Zebulon Pike,” Part I, The Magazine Antiques, September, 1932.

White, Harry Hall. “Glass Monuments to Zebulon Pike,” Part II, The Magazine Antiques, October, 1932.

Photograph Credits: [Figure 1]: Covell, Tom. “He’s added another choice item to his collection!”, 1945.

[Figure 7]: Eisenstaedt, Alfred. “V’J Day at Times Square, New York City, 1945,” LIFE.

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Rounding out the top five is an eightsided black glass C. Alfs iron-pontiled soda, first cousin to the cobalt No. 1 bottle, with 113 points.

Joe Holcombe of Clinton, S.C., owner of the Oberhausser, said the bottle was excavated in 1972 by his father, Dr. Fred Holcombe, in a privy adjacent to South Carolina’s earliest documented standing structure — the Charleston Powder Magazine, circa 1710. The extremely thin-walled bottle was found embedded in the clay bottom.

“Charleston pharmacist John Oberhausser was an early advocate of using herbs to cure instead of the more radical, legally accepted practices such as bleeding,” Holcombe said when nominating his bottle.

South Carolina

The TOP 25

by Bill Baab

Bottles

2352 Devere Street Augusta, GA 30914 riverswamper@comcast.net A 165-year-old cobalt soda water bottle from 333-year-old Charleston heads South Carolina’s Top 25 antique bottle poll conducted by a baker’s dozen experts from two states.

Charleston bottles were expected to dominate and did, garnering 12 of the spots, including three of the top five.

Bottles from the state’s dispensary system (1893-1907) also were popular with voters.

All of the bottles voted into the Top 25 were made of glass except one — a flask made by master potter Thomas Chandler of the state’s Old Edgefield District in 1851.

The No. 1 bottle is embossed C. Alfs/ Charleston, S.C., and the eight-sided iron-pontiled bottle’s shape is an unusual pyramid or tepee. It dates to about 1838 and attracted 213 votes, including a pair of first-place ballots, to beat out a super-rare amber Motte’s Victoria Tonic Bitters from Newberry with 146 votes.

No one knows what the “C.” in C. Alfs stands for, although one collector hazarded a guess of “Christian.” The bottler was located on King Street, but city directories of the era don’t give an address. The bottle used as an illustration was sold by Reggie Lynch of Durham, N.C., last year. He kindly provided the image.

A light blue H. Deming & Co., Columbia, S.C., iron-pontiled soda gained 133 points, edging the fourth-place bottle embossed vertically on the front panel only: Chemical Vegetable Bitt’s/Prepared and Sold by J. Oberhausser/Charleston, S.C. The aqua pint flask-type bottle with beveled corners, simple rolled lip and deep open pontil chalked up 128 points, even though it’s the

Bottles and Extras “Oberhausser was one of four Charlestonians who believed that herbal medicine belonged as a part of South Carolina medical law. He and his colleagues successfully guided the practice of herbal medicine from quackery status in the early 1700s into a legal form of practice by 1838.”

Because of its fragile nature and light embossing, it wasn’t possible to get a photo of the bottle.

There was a two-way tie for sixth place between a smooth-based bluish-aqua bottle from a town no longer in existence and a round aqua quart slug plate South Carolina Dispensary bottle, each with 110 points.

The former is embossed Dr. Martin’s Cough Remedy/R.L. Gentry/Hamburg, S.C./Agent. It has a rope design around its embossed panels and is (so far) the only one known. It was dug in Charleston. A single damaged example of the round aqua quart dispensary bottle is known to exist.

Hamburg, once an important town located along the Savannah River in Aiken County opposite Augusta, Georgia, was founded in 1821 by Henry Schultz, a native of Hamburg, Germany. By 1823, Hamburg had a population of nearly 1,000 people and 176 structures including a newspaper and printing office, two physicians’ offices, a drug store, a silver smith’s shop and two blacksmiths’ shops, as well as a church, stores and dwellings.

But by the late 1870s, little was left of the once-thriving town. Most of the site is now occupied by a golf course and private homes.

The No. 8 bottle is an aqua pontiled Aimar‘s Sarracenia/Fly Trap Bitters/ Charleston, while a teal-green-colored P.M. (For P. Melvin) Cohen/Collier’s Remedy from Charleston is No. 9. That bottle, which sports an iron pontil, is owned by Jimmy Bray of Oglethorpe, Ga., and is seven inches high and 2.75 inches in diameter. A bit of glass that occurred when the medicine top was applied spilled below the top where it hardened, but was not removed. It’s known as the only colored pontiled South Carolina medicine and was found in Laurens, S.C., beneath a Main Street home.

Charleston’s Eagle sodas, featured in a wide array of colors, all fall into the No. 10 spot, while the rare amber round quart South Carolina Dispensary is No. 11. One of the voters said the bottle is similar in shape to tall, long-necked Western

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The other was South Carolina’s only miniature colored bitters, an amber Bischoff ’s Stomach Bitters from Charleston. Just five inches in length, it may have been a sample bottle.

Another aqua pontiled Charleston medicine embossed Compound Fluid

A vertically embossed, iron-pontiled H. Denning & Co. soda from Columbia is No. 3. whiskeys.

“It’s a large, beautiful piece of glass, with a big embossed palmetto tree and was made in the South by the Augusta (Ga.) Glass Works,” he said. “It may be the best overall bottle to represent South Carolina.”

There is nothing embossed on the bottle to indicate it came from the glass works, but company records still extant note that type was manufactured there.

Another one-of-a-kind bottle seen by only a few collectors is the No. 12 openpontiled aqua bottle from Darlington C.(ourt) H.(ouse). The 7-1/2-inch tall bottle, embossed Delorme’s Baume De Vie/Prepared by Charles C. Law/ Darlington C.H., is owned by a noncollector who doesn’t want to sell it, much to the dismay of at least two collectors who have been after it for many years. Baume De Vie translates into Balm of Life.

Thirteenth on the list is the amber Sumter Bitters/Dowie Moise & Davis/ Wholesale Druggists/Charleston, although this writer has seen a green example that’s even more scarce.

There was a three-way tie for 14th, each

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A chocolate-amber Chaffee’s Tonic Bitters from Charleston is No. 20, while the elephant-embossed D.H. Goble flask from Columbia is No. 21. A clear South Carolina Dispensary flask with a whiskey lip is No. 22, while a brilliant yellow strap-sided S.C. Dispensary flask is No. 23. Each dispensary flask is embossed with a palmetto tree.

P. Melvin Cohen appears once more in No. 24, a Cohen’s Medical Depot/P.M. Cohen, M.D./Charleston medicine embossed with mortar and pestle.

No. 25 is an 8-1/2-inch tall, smoothbased amber medicine embossed W.E. Lynch/Druggist/Edgefield C.H. S.C., on one panel and Dr. W.D. Jenning’s/Hepatic Or Liver Medicine on the other.

According to a plaque on a building on the square in Edgefield, William Edward Lynch founded the business in 1877. When he died in 1896, his widow continued the business until their son, Dr. William Charles Lynch, was able to take over the business early in the 20th century. He retired at the age of 87 and died in 1974.

The bluish-aqua Dr. Martin's Cough Remedy from a ghost town is No. 6.

Extract of Sarsaparilla & Queen’s Delight shares No. 17 with a red Charles Clark iron pontiled soda from the port city.

The alkaline-glazed pottery flask with an applied handle inscribed B. Wren/No. 6/1851 is No. 19 all by itself. The flask was reportedly sold by its former owner to a member of the Wren family and could not be photographed. However, a color photo of it can be found on Page 59 of Crossroads in Clay, The Southern AlkalineGlazed Stoneware Tradition, published in 1990 by the McKissick Museum at the University of South Carolina. It is out of

The whittled, teal green, iron-pontiled Collier's Remedy is No. 9.

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Charleston eagle sodas, all lumped into No. 10, come in a wide variety of colors.

The drug store continued operation until 1969. It isn’t known at this point just who Dr. Jennings was.

Only three or four examples of the bottles exist and so far is the only known embossed medicine from this well-known pottery town.

An incredible array of containers made the “also receiving votes” list, which can be found at the bottom of the Top 25 results, as well as a list of the voters.

12. Aqua Darlington C.(court) H.(ouse), open pontil. 63.

13. Amber Sumter Bitters, Dowie Moise & Davis, Wholesale Druggists, Charleston, 60.

14. Half-pint South Carolina Dispensary (tombstone embossing). 58.

14. Amber quart South Carolina Dispensary (inside screw thread). 58.

Here are South Carolina’s Top 25 antique bottles following voting of a panel of experts in Georgia and South Carolina.

First-place votes (listed in parentheses) are worth 25 points, second-place votes 24 points, etc.:

14. Amber Bischoff’s Stomach Bitters miniature (5” tall), Charleston. 58.

17. Aqua Compound Fluid Extract of Sarsaparilla & Queen’s Delight, open pontil, Charleston. 53.

17. Red Charles Clark soda water, iron pontil, Charleston. 53.

19. Alkaline-glazed pottery flask (Thomas Chandler), Edgefield. (2) 50.

20. Chocolate amber Chaffee’s Tonic Bitters, Charleston. 49.

21. Aqua D.H. Goble (embossed elephant) flask, Columbia, 47.

22. Clear South Carolina Dispensary Union flask, whiskey lip. 43.

23. Bright yellow strap-sided South Carolina Dispensary flask. 42.

24. Aqua P.M. Cohen Medical Depot, P.M. Cohen, M.D., open pontil, Charleston.

40.

25. Amber W.E. Lynch/Druggist/Edgefield C.H. S.C., smooth base (1). 39.

1. Cobalt 8-sided, pyramid-shaped C. Alfs soda, iron pontil, Charleston. (2) 213.

2. Amber Motte’s Victoria Tonic Bitters, Newberry. 146.

3. Blue H. Deming & Co., vertically embossed soda, iron pontil, Columbia.

133.

4. Aqua J. Oberhausser’s Chemical Vegetable Bitters, open pontil, Charleston. (2) 128.

5. Black glass 8-sided C. Alfs soda, iron pontil, Charleston. (1) 113.

6. Aqua Dr. Martin’s Cough Remedy, R.L. Gentry Agent, Hamburg. 110.

6. Aqua round quart South Carolina Dispensary (in slugplate) (1). 110.

8. Aqua Aimar’s Sarracenia or Fly Trap Bitters, open pontil, Charleston. 109.

9. Teal P.M. Cohen Collier’s Remedy, iron pontil, Charleston. 107.

10. Eagle soda (many color variants), iron pontil, Charleston. 89.

11. Amber quart round South Carolina Dispensary. 67.

Also receiving votes were: M.I. Krawcheck/Bottler/Newberry; stoneware canning jar attributed to Dave the Slave, Edgefield; Osteen Bottling Works, Denmark; Winnsboro Bottling Co.; H. Barry, Columbia pottery bottle; Clio Bottling Works; Star Bottling Works, Graniteville; McColl Bottling Works; Mathias Spring Bottling Plant, New Brookland; Acme Bottling Works, Bennettsville; Artesian Bottling Works, Warrenville; John Ashurst (Asher) Medicine, Southern Drug House, Charleston; W.R. Martin, Belton; Harris Lithia Soda Hutchinson, Harris Springs; Arndt Brothers Whiskey, Wines & Seegars, Spartanburg; Habernicht soda, Columbia; Walterboro Bottling Works; Buffalo Lick Ginger Ale (bottled by Charlotte PepsiCola Bottling Co.), Carlisle; Palmetto Chemical, Aiken; Stoneware bottle impressed Ulysses Roumilat, No. 16 Broad St., Charleston; Piedmont Bottling Works, Kings Creek; cobalt Smith’s Soda &

Final Poll South Carolina’s Top 25 Antique Bottles

Five-inch-long Bischoff's Stomach Bitters tied for 14th place in the balloting.

Bottles and Extras Mineral Water, Charleston; H.F. Scaife Hutchinson, Union. Staake’s Original Vital-Tone (Tonic) Bitters, Aiken; Stoneware bottle attributed to Abner Landrum Pottery, Columbia; M.D. Harmon, Lexington; Coca-Nova (Contains original Coca-Cola formula), Greenville.

Also, 5-gallon Chick Springs demijohn; Jefferson Bottling Works; Esterbrook Mineral Water, Charleston; Dr. Duke’s New Elixir, Orangeburg; half-gallon blobtop Crystal Carbon Springs, Spartanburg; Southern Bottling Works, Sumter; green Old Carolina Bitters, Charleston; S.C. Interstate & West Indian Exposition S.C. Dispensary Commemorative bottle; McBride’s Nerve Bone Liniment, open pontil, Charleston; J.T. McNeil & Co., Lynchburg; black glass Steinke & Kornahrens soda, iron pontil, Charleston; quart Stomp Springs, Renno; teal green Reaves soda, Charleston; O.C. Sturki Mineral Drink, New Brookland; 8-sided cobalt or green Fields soda, Charleston; A.P. Smith open-pontiled soda, Charleston; Nichols’ Diarrhoea & Dysentery Mixture, Greenville; Hames Bottlers & Wholesale Grocers, Union; green H. Knecktle, Hilton Head; quart amber Glenn Springs; Columbia Bottling Works Hutchinson.

Also, Wanzetta Indian New Discovery, Greenville; E.M. Seabrook (black glass seal), Charleston; blue and green Dennis sodas, Hilton Head; Dr. James’ Iron

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Each of these S.C. Dispensaries made it into the Top 25: From left, amber inside screw thread (14), clear Union Flask, whiskey lip (22), round amber quart (11), yellow strap-sided flask (23), aqua half-pint with tombstone embossing (14) and reddish-amber inside screw thread (14).

A circus parade of elephant flasks from Columbia's D.H. Goble; any one of them is No. 21.

Aaron (left) and Hank Currence of Windsor in Aiken County, South Carolina have been digging and selling old bottles for several years. They dug so many, they ran out of storage room, so they decided to erect a building and use bottles instead of bricks. Mixing the mortar themselves, they'd put a layer down and then a layer of bottles, then another mortar base and then another layer of bottles. It took them four months to finish the 50-foot-long, 30-foot-wide structure. It's a joy for them to inside the building during sunrises and sunsets, peak times for the sunlight to shine through the walls.

Blood & Liver Tonic, Columbia; Edgefield stoneware bottle attributed to Dave the Slave; Aiken Bottling Works slugplate crown top; amber J.Q. Little flask, Greenville; Henish Queen’s Delight, Columbia; Crescent Bottling Works, Lexington; honey amber quart J.W. Simmons, Hd. Quarters for Pure Old Corn Whiskey, Greenville; honey amber Simmons’ Hepatic Cure, Columbia; emerald H.C. Seedorf soda, iron pontil, Charleston; amber Monterey Medicine sample bottle in shape of a stomach, Florence; honey amber Simmons’ Hepatic Compound & Liver Cure, Charleston; St. Matthews flask; Eagle Bottling Works, Batesburg; amber Westmoreland’s Calisaya Tonic; A. Milne beer, Columbia; Aiken Vigor-Vim; Sun Flower Beverages, Clinton (applied color label); Hauser Bottling Works, Leesville; Lipscomb’s Silica Water, Gaffney; Harbor Apothecary, Aiken; black glass O. Chisolm soda/ mineral water, Charleston; Reedy Creek Springs, Bingham; Conway Bottling Works; Mosley’s Pine Elixir; Gonorrhea Cure, Greenville; numerous South Carolina Dispensary variants; numerous, unnamed local flasks.

Panel members were Bill Baab, Augusta; Singleton Bailey, Loris, S.C.; Chip Brewer, Charleston; Steve Brown, Spartanburg, S.C.; Joe Holcombe, Clinton, S.C.; Paul Jeter, Columbia, S.C.; Mike Newman, Augusta; Bob Riddick, Lexington, S.C.; Mike Sanders, Union, S.C.; Harvey Teal, Columbia; Marty Vollmer, Columbia; Eric Warren, Lexington; Robert Williams, Atlanta, Ga.

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HUNTINGTON POTTERY: THE BROWN BROTHER YEARS

By Mark R. Smith The Pottery at Huntington, Long Island has a very long and colorful history, spanning over one hundred years of stone and earthenware production. A span of time that few other potteries can come close to, let alone surpass.

The first known mention of the Pottery is from the year 1805, in a document titled “Timothy Williams: Deed for the Pottery” dated May 8th, l805. This document records the sale of a one-quarter share in the Pottery. This is at present the earliest date that can be assigned to the Pottery.

The Pottery changed hands many times over the years. By 1825, Moses Scudder controlled the Pottery, and sold it to Benjamin Keeler in l826. Mr. Keeler improved the property and in turn sold the Pottery to the partnership of Matthew H. Gardiner and Henry Lewis in 1827, for double what he paid Moses Scudder. In 1829, Mr. Gardiner left the firm, and full control passed to Mr. Lewis. The Pottery operated for 25 years under his hand, and was purchased by Isaac Scudder Ketcham and Francis S. Hoyt in 1854. Mr. Hoyt dropped out of the partnership, and in 1863, Mr. Ketcham sold the Pottery to three brothers, George, Stephen and

Left to Right: Epitaphs: “Mother Loves You”; “The Best We Have” (center, rear); “Let Us Goe”(center, front); “Bridget Old Girl” all are marked: BROWN BROTHER/ HUNTINGTON/ L.I. Perhaps the most sought after of all the stoneware produced at Huntington, are the few pieces that bear epitaphs. Currently we know of about 20 different epitaphs, all are unique. I have 6 in my collection. My favorite? Why, “Mother Loves You” of course!

Who doesn’t love their mother? The others are “I Will Stop Home”, and “Look Within”.

Thomas Brown, known to us as the Brown Brothers.

Hailing from the city of Poughkeepsie, a potting center in its own right, the brothers made the move to Huntington in 1863. However, family harmony did not prevail for very long. The first makers mark employed “Brown & Bros. / Huntington L.I.” quickly changed to “Brown Brothers / Huntington L.I.” which represents all brothers equally,

Left to Right: stenciled pitcher “BROWN BROTHER/HUNTINGTON/L.I.” Butter pot and crock: “BROWN BROTHERS/HUNTINGTON L.I. Here we have two rarely seen forms by any of the Huntington potteries, a butter, which is sometimes called a cake pot, and a pitcher. The butter pot is unique in that the hearts appear to have been done with a cookie cutter or similar device, dipped into the blue slip, and pressed onto the pot. The pitcher is also unique, bearing the distinctive stencil of a cluster of grapes used by the Brown Brothers in the 1870’s.

rather than one over the rest. Still, by 1868, Stephen temporarily left the firm.

He would return in 1873 however. At this point, 1868, a new mark is adopted reading “Brown Brother / Huntington L.I.” Note that there is no “s” but there is a space for one!

This brings us to the time period 1870-1879, when Stephen returned to the firm. This could be called Huntington’s finest hour. They experimented with stencils, and with slip trailing, producing some of their most unique pottery. Pots bearing sayings, or epitaphs such as “Look Within”, “I Will Stop Home”, “The Best We Have” and “Mother Loves You”.

However, it did not last. In 1879, Stephen quit, and began his own pottery. Located about one mile south, and on the west side of present New York Ave, he used the mark “S.C. Brown / Huntington L.I.” He closed in 1881, and left the potting trade.

At this time, c.1880-81, only one brother remained in the firm, George Brown. At this time, a new makers mark was developed which read “Brown Brothers / Huntington, L.I.”. It is interesting to note that although only one brother remains, the maker’s mark indicates two or more. At approximately this time, George brought his son into the company, and by 1898 had transferred full ownership to him. Things were not easy for him, as by now, mass production of glass jars for home canning, and the rising

Bottles and Extras availability of canned foods, coupled with advances in refrigeration, spelled doom for the entire potting industry. Stoneware had become obsolete. The year 1905 saw the fires put out forever at Huntington, and the Pottery closed. Over 100 years of industry had come to an end. One by one the structures fell to the wreckers ball, the last falling in 1918.

The potter’s products were indispensable in the early homestead.

Churns were required for the production of butter, and butter pots for its safe storage. Also available were batter pails and pitchers for quick breads, and the serving of drinks. Perhaps the most useful of the potter’s wares were the open pots.

They held eggs, fresh for the winter months in water glass, a preserving solution. Salted and pickled foods, safe from mice and other pests, were put away under the sturdy stone covers, as was lard, for soap making, cooking, greasing and candles, to name but a few uses. Jugs contained all manors of liquids, safe inside the heavy cool walls.

The potter’s wares were not inexpensive! You could earn perhaps 2 or 3 dollars a day, yet one dozen pots (it was not uncommon to have 20-30 in a homestead) would cost you between 4 and 10 dollars, without covers. Yes, covers cost extra then, some things never change.

In addition to household pottery, potters also supplied materials for stove linings, flue pipe for chimneys, drain tiles for both sewers and fields, roof tiles, fire

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Left to Right: Beehive jug and pitcher by BROWN BROTHERS/HUNTINGTON LI. Center is a crock by BROWN BROTHERS/HUNTINGTON/LI. The pitcher on the right is an unmarked BROWN BROTHERS. Perhaps the rarest of all the forms made at Huntington are the pitchers. I consider myself to be quite lucky to have three examples. While not known for fine decorations, the Browns could do a nice decoration, such as seen here on the jug and crock if the mood hit them.

brick for furnaces and stoves, and crucibles for the glass and metal working trades.

THE POTTERY AT HUNTINGTON, L.I.

By I.S. Sammis. Found in the April, 1923 issue of the magazine Antiques.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: USEFUL ART: LONG ISLAND POTTERY. Available from SPLIA, 93 North Country Rd., Setauket, N.Y., 11733

STONEWARE COLLECTORS JOURNAL VOL. 4, Issue 1. “Frederick J. Caire, Huntington, L.I.”

EARLY POTTERS AND POTTERIES OF NEW YORK STATE. By William C. Ketcham Jr. Found under 738.3 to 738.4. Very rewarding!

Left to Right: Eagle and Rose stencil by BROWN BROTHER/ HUNTINGTON/LI. Center front and rear: T.HEMPSTEAD/ GREENPORT LI The Browns used five different stencils in their operation. Here are two more, the Eagle and the Rose, both are from the 1870’s. The “T. Hempstead” examples are quite uncommon. While there was an active pottery in Greenport for many years, stoneware was only produced for less than two years in the early 1870’s, just prior to the closing of the kiln.

NEWSDAY. See the May 4th, 1981 issue for the closing of the last L.I. brickyard.

Left to Right: (front pair) BROWN BROTHER/ HUNTINGTON/ LI (book matched waves); (rear) BROWN BROTHERS/HUNTINGTON/LI (flower) One of the wave crocks has a great story. A friend told me he knew a dealer in PA, who knew a dealer in VA, who knew a picker, who knew a dealer, who had one in the back of their shop. So, I said, “OK”. It took about 6 weeks, for every one to pack and ship it to the next person in the chain, but it made it to me intact. Was buying it for resale, but when I saw they made a pair, I could not break them up. The flower is the strangest flower I have seen on a Huntington pot, no idea what kind it is trying to be, and I am in the flower business!

This article, among others, may be available online in full color.

Don’t forget to check it out at: www.fohbc.com !

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Names in the Glass

by Don Denzin From the Monongahela River to the World: John Gibson Sons & Co. “You men!” The dealer at the adjacent table peered over her glasses as I handed her a bottle. “You’re so visual!”

“Guilty,” I responded cheerfully. The Federation’s national show was in high gear in Toledo. I’d picked out the bottle from among hundreds of dealer tables. It was the color of Baltic amber and it sparkled like an oversize gem. Any more whittle, I thought, and it would have seemed faceted.

“Impressive,” she conceded after a moment. She held the bottle to the light.

“You getting visual too?” I asked.

“Maybe,” she offered. “I’ll admit you bought a good one. But after you’ve admired it, then what? Who are the guys

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embossed on its side? John Gibson Sons & Co? Never heard of them.”

“Me neither.”

“Put a price on it,” she urged. “Bet you can sell it for more than you paid.”

Maybe, I considered. But several years later, I’m glad I didn’t take her advice.

That bottle became one of my collection’s standouts. It’s still among my favorites.

One thing, however, has changed. Oh, I’m still a visual guy, all right. But now I know something about John Gibson.

Gibsonton Mills If the bottle with John Gibson’s name was impressive, so was the enterprise he built, literally, from the ground up. The year was 1856 when Gibson, an Irish immigrant and successful Philadelphia spirits merchant, purchased 40 acres of land on the Monongahela River south of Pittsburgh.

His goal was as straightforward as it was ambitious.

Gibson intended to become a major American distiller.

Unhappy with difficulties he encountered procuring significant quantities of whiskey from Pennsylvania producers, Gibson recognized that the growth of his Philadelphia business required a reliable source of product. If he couldn’t buy it, he concluded, he would make it.

He set to work on the land immediately.

Using stone from local quarries, timber from nearby woods, an army of contractors, and a single-minded determination to get the job done, Gibson began constructing a distillery far larger than any in Pennsylvania.

Certainly, he must have understood the risks. “When Mr. Gibson began building,” John Van Voorhis later recalled, “his neighbors strongly advised him against committing what they termed an act of the greatest folly.” In the early 1890’s, Van Voorhis documented his memory of Western Pennsylvania from decades before. “The idea was termed extravagant, and a speedy failure was predicted.” 1 But failure was not in Gibson’s future.

By spring of 1858, construction had finished. Gibsonton Mills, resplendent in

Bottles and Extras its freshly quarried limestone, shined on the eastern bank of the Monongahela River. The site included eight bonded warehouses, a four-story malt house, a distillery, mill house, drying kiln, cooperage, and even residences for workers.

John Gibson was ready. He began making wheat and malt whiskies and, especially important, he devoted much of his distillery’s capacity to the product for which his new region was already famous, Monongahela rye. In a short time, his distillery’s output equaled 65 barrels of whiskey a day. Over the next six years both production and sales grew. By the end of the Civil War, John Gibson filled 5,000 railroad cars a year.

He built it big and they came, or more accurately, he shipped. Alas – at least for today’s collectors of American glass – much of his output left the distillery in barrels, not bottles.

Henry Clay Gibson John Gibson died in 1865 and was succeeded by his son, Henry Clay Gibson.

With partners, Andrew M. Moore and Joseph F. Sinnott, the younger Gibson renamed the business John Gibson’s Son & Co. and led it for the next nineteen years.

That the son of the founder distilled quality whiskey and expanded the enterprise still further is indisputable.

“The products of the Gibsonton Mills were sought after in every state and territory in the United States,” wrote Van Voorhis. Adding that Gibson whiskey was also exported to many foreign countries, he offered a basic explanation for the firm’s success. “No article was turned out but pure whiskey.”

With growth came the reach of progress. A telegraph office was added in 1877. A U.S. Post Office opened in 1884.

The thriving community added a school.

Set backs occurred as well. In 1882, some 3,000 barrels of whiskey were lost to fire. Another 7,000 barrels were destroyed in another blaze the following year. No fatalities resulted from either tragedy but the business itself must have felt the effects of mishaps so large they might have put other firms out of business.

At Gibsonton, workers rallied, schedules adjusted, and whiskey making continued.

The workers were an important part of the equation. Although its product was whiskey, Gibsonton Mills was a classic mill town in every other respect.

Employees lived on land controlled by the company. They ate hogs and cattle raised on the premises - livestock fed, no doubt, from spent mash used in the distilling process. Discipline was important; even during off times, workers were obliged to follow company rules. Ironically, one of these was a modified prohibition against

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[Fig. 2] drinking. Workers could not obtain even a pint of a Gibson potable without permission.

A Second Whiskey Rebellion That the Gibson endeavor became significant is born out by more than just surviving commercial statistics. Henry Clay Gibson’s business was enough of a force to make it into the U.S. Congressional Record. In 1873, his firm challenged the imposition of fees for the purchase and installation of metering devices required by regulation – but little used in practice – for the calculation of federal taxes.

Invented by John Tice, the Tice Spirit Meter was intended as the standard for all whiskey makers when the fledgling Internal Revenue Service required distillers to install it in 1868. But the meters did not find universal acceptance.

Revenue gaugers backed away from using them, and by the early 1870’s, the equipment sat idle. An addled Henry Clay Gibson wanted his money back.

“In the larger distilleries,” he complained to the Senate and House of Representatives, “the cost of meters alone was not less than $2,000, and in those requiring two sets double that amount.”2 Henry S. Hannis, J.A. Dougherty, and Alexander Young, whiskey makers from Pennsylvania and neighboring West Virginia whose names are recognized by bottle collectors today, joined Gibson in the dissent.

The protest was almost certainly accompanied by a sense of history because Western Pennsylvania had once before been the site of controversy about taxes and the distilled fruit of native grain. In the 1790’s George Washington had actually returned to Western Pennsylvania

Summer 2003 at the head of an army to enforce the Federal collection of excise taxes from the output of local stills. The “Whiskey Rebellion,” as the incident became known, was an early test of Federal constitutional powers. Few shots were fired, and the rebellion ended with Federal control intact. But many small distillers dismantled their stills. The tax on whiskey enforced then remains an institution today.

This time, the dispute was not about the tax itself. It was about costly, ineffective regulations. Yet as before, emotions ran high. “Without intending any imputation upon Mr. Tice,” the distillers declared with one voice, “we are free to say that we have had enough of him and too much of his meter.”

Their pleas recorded, the distillers lost their battle. The House of Representatives failed to act on the measure. Gibson’s outlay for the useless equipment likely stayed on the books as an irreversible expense.

Moore and Sinnott Henry Clay Gibson retired in 1884, leaving management of the business in the hands of Moore and Sinnott. They changed the name of the company to the Gibson Distilling Co. shortly thereafter, but ran things in much the same manner as their predecessors. Whiskey still left the bend of the Monongahela River with the Gibson name, and the company continued to expand. Notably, by the 1890’s Moore and Sinnott claimed branch offices in New York, Boston, New Orleans, San Francisco, Charleston, Savannah and Augusta, Georgia. The firm’s principal office was on South Front St. in Philadelphia.

A measure of the business’ continuing success is the taxes paid to the U.S. Treasury. In the year following Henry Clay Gibson’s retirement, and in nearly every year thereafter, the Gibsonton Distillery generated tax revenues in excess of $675,000. The firm also constructed a seven-story bonded warehouse in 1905. A time capsule in the cornerstone fittingly included an old and new bottle of Gibson Whiskey. Moore and Sinnott incorporated the effort in 1909. Business was as good as it had ever been.

It was legislation - not fires, commerce, nay-saying neighbors, or even excise taxes that finally ended the company’s existence. The 18th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the Volstead Act, made prohibition the law of the land. The enterprise ended as suddenly as it had begun. The great distillery emptied its stills and shut its doors forever as the 1920’s dawned.

A sheriff’s sale in 1923 disposed of the distillery’s effects. The Pittsburgh Steel Company acquired the property and,

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Limestone blocks that once stood proudly in the sun found new uses throughout the area. Perhaps fittingly, since they had once supported the region’s commercial vitality, they now became part of foundations, buildings, and walls for the larger community.

For some, the stones may even today serve as reminders of the great enterprise that once powered the economy of a region known for whiskey and initiative. For most, however, the stones yield no clue about their former purpose. Time has erased memory and the stones remain silent. Other tangible relics, of course, still exist. Scattered documents and an occasional written account provide proof that the business even existed at all.

And, fortunately, there are the bottles.

Am I a visual guy? Sure. But now when I hold a piece of glass with old John Gibson’s boldly embossed name I appreciate more than color and texture.

The light reflected is the glow of history.

“But after you’ve admired it, then what?” the dealer asked that day in Toldeo.

The only answer I can give now is the one I gave then. My answer is that I’m keeping this bottle.

JOHN GIBSON BOTTLES While others may exist, the following bottles are known with the John Gibson name:

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Old and New Monongahela, by John S. Van Voorhis, Pittsburg, P A: Nicholson, 1893.

2 Memorial to John Gibson’s Sons & Co. from the U.S. Congressional Record, 43rd Congress, December, 1873.

[Fig. 4] JOHN GIBSON SONS & CO. / PURE OLD / RYE WHISKEY / Embossing on three sides of an amber, square bottle with applied tapered collar, smooth base, c. 1858-1866.

Available in two sizes, 10" and 8" tall, examples of this bottle are scarce.

PATENT JOHN GIBSON PHILADELPHIA Classic whiskey cylinder, yellowgreen, IP base that also includes H. RICKETTS & CO. GLASSWORKS, BRISTOL, 11" tall, c. 1845-1860. This bottle likely pre-dates Gibsonton Mills.

When an example sold in a Glassworks auction some years ago, the catalog noted that despite its Ricketts embossing, it appeared very much like the product of a Dyottville glassblower.

GIBSONS in script / PURE RYE / CONTENTS / FULL PINT. With a tooled top, this is a clear, rectangular flask, 8" tall. It probably dates from the first two decades of the 1900’s.

JAMES KERR / 1709 & 1711 MARKET ST. / GIBSON’S OLD RYE A SPECIALTY / PHILADA. PA. Smooth-base, 7 ¾ inch flask made before the era of strapsides and slugplates, c. 1860-1870.

Labeled, unembossed, bottles have also survived, including some like the examples pictured in this article, as well as those from the Moore and Sinnott era.

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[Fig. 1] John Gibson Sons & Co, / Pure Old / Rye Whiskey, the bottle from Toledo.

“You men! You’re so visual!”

[Fig. 2] Henry Clay Gibson presided over the company from 1865 until 1883.

[Fig. 3] Gibson whiskey was so important to his business that Philadelphia distributor, James Kerr, commissioned flasks with the Gibson name.

Interestingly, a Mr. Kerr (no first name is given) is also mentioned in the Congressional Record. Unmistakably on the side of the distillers, he emphatically denounced regulations requiring the Tice spirit-meter as “arbitrary and without even a pretense of authority of law.”

[Fig. 4] Two Gibson bottles. The labeled example (left) bears the name John Gibson’s Son & Co., which dates from the era of Henry Clay Gibson (1865-1883). The bottle on the right, embossed John Gibson Sons & Co., is from the firm’s earlier period (1858-1866).

[Fig. 5] Detail from a 1914 Gibson invoice. The image remained unchanged on business stationary through the firm’s 60+ year history.

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Bottles in Mimetic Architecture

by Cecil Munsey Copyright © 2003 “Architecture for speed-reading” sums up the impact of automobile transportation on urban life and architecture in the twentieth century. The Main Street storefront, whether in a small town or metropolitan city, confronted the emergence of rapid forms of transportation. The result was larger and more eye-catching advertisements designed to attract eyeballs within a second or two – architecture of instant communication.

The automobile’s impact on architecture, however, was more pronounced away from Main Street, along

the newly laid roadways. Buildings did not simply display advertisements; they became them – they became mimetic!

Mimetic architecture (also popularly known as “Programmatic”) is simply the use of oversized objects or structures disguised as other objects.

Mimetic architecture, while fashionable in United States during the late 19th century, reached its heyday in the 1920s and 1930s. A great deal of this form of architecture of communication came out of California. Suddenly you could buy lemonade from a building shaped like a lemon – ice cream from an igloo – film from a shop shaped like a camera and, yes, you could buy a drink from a building shaped like a bottle!

Buildings also took forms without rhyme or reason – diners shaped like boxing gloves, zeppelins, dogs, and pumpkins. They were just a sure means of catching a driver’s eye. Architecture is supposed to be subtler than that. It should tell its function indirectly. But there is little time for subtlety at 60 miles an hour.

Mimetic architecture did what medieval business did 500 years ago but for a different reason. You didn’t find a tavern’s name, “Head of the Horse,” written over the door of a medieval inn. Too few people could read. Instead, you saw the carved head of the horse itself.

California in the 1930s moved all the way to mimetic daydreams where you entered a huge coffeepot to drink coffee.

[Fig. 1] – Moxie bottle (before). One of the most fascinating bottle-shaped structures ever built is the Moxie bottle that was constructed circa 1900 at Pine Island Amusement Park near Manchester, New Hampshire. On its concrete foundation its white, metal cap was some sixty feet in the air. It was erected next to the bridge that led to the mainland and was part of a free-sample beverage stand the Moxie Company had there.

[Fig. 2] – Moxie bottle (after). When the Moxie bottle-shaped building was abandoned, the bottle was taken apart, hauled across the pond one winter on the ice and re-assembled on a spot 1about a mile from its original [Fig. 1] location. The relocated building ended up being only thirty-five feet tall because its original elevating concrete foundation was left at the original site.

The Moxie bottle had a one-story house attached and became a small home. James A. Todd of Silver Spring, Maryland purchased the unusual building in 1922 as a summer cottage.

“We were looking for a place with good spring water in 1922,” said Mrs. Todd in 1981, “and that’s how we arrived in Manchester.

The bottle was made of teak wood and all bolted together. We had it finished off inside and it was in very good shape.” There were three bedrooms in the three-storied bottle, the upper ones reached by ladders. Each room has its own window.

[Fig. 3] – Nehi gas station, Opelika, Alabama 1924. The main building is mimetic of a Nehi soft drink bottle. The two supports in front are in the shape of two Nehi Company’s Chero-Cola bottles.

This building was called the “Twist Inns.” Tourists could climb up in the neck of the bottle, which served as an observation post.

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A favorite in 1936 Los Angeles was the Coca-Cola bottling company that built its plant as a giant ocean liner (Figure 8).

The defining characteristics of mimetic architecture that reached its heyday in the 1920s and 1930s included –romantic, eccentric –outward product of whimsy, rather than program or interior function, –bold, and lacking in pretense, and might be described as “the architecture of realistic fantasy.”

For bottle collectors there are many buildings that are significant and very representative of the containers they collect (Figures 1-21). Milk bottles, interestingly, seem to be the most popular of the bottle-shaped architectural designs (Figures 14-21).

The photographs offered here are not exhaustive and every reader probably is aware of at least one more example not included here. See for yourself some of the bottles represented in mimetic architecture.

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Fig. 4 – Ocean Spray Cranberry Cocktail bottle (1947) at Routes #6 and #28 at Onset, Massachusetts.

[Fig. 5] Fig. 5 – Brooks Tangy Catsup bottle is 70’ tall and sits on top of a 100’ water tower in Collinsville, Illinois on Route #159, about fifteen miles east of St. Louis. The bottle was constructed in 1949 by W. E. Caldwell Company for the G. S. Suppiger catsup bottling plant. The bottle could hold 640,000 average bottles of catsup or 100,000 gallons of water.

In 1995, community and bottle collector efforts raised $70,000 to save and restore the bottle. (See: “Bottle Landmark to be Restored” by Judy DeMoisy. Bottles & Extras magazine, January 1994, pp. 4-5.)

In 2002, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Fig. 6 – Vess bottle has 600’ of neon tubing and can be seen for miles when lighted as in this photograph.

Fig. 7 – Vess Bottle is in St. Louis, Missouri. Vess, a lemon-lime soft drink billed as the “Billion Bubble Beverage,” ceased production in 1974. The bottle is 25’ tall and was originally constructed in 1953 along with two others that have since been torn down.

The bottle was declared a landmark in the 1980s and renovated.

Fig. 8 – The Los Angeles Coca-Cola Bottling Company had this building designed by Robert [Fig. 17] [Fig. 6] Derrah in 1936. The bottling company actually built this streamlined “Moderne” plant in 1939. It resembles an ocean liner with portholes, catwalk and ship railings and even a nautical interior. Three giant Coke bottle sculptures were added to its exterior corner niches in 1941 (see Fig. 9).

Fig. 9 – Giant Coke bottle (one of three) outside the Los Angeles Coca-Cola Bottling Company.

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Fig. 10 – Champagne bottle in Bayville, New Jersey. It has been painted to advertise the “Champagne of Propane” for a nearby company. It is one of the many 24’ tall concrete champagne bottles built in 1939 by the Renault Winery.

Fig. 11 – Renault Winery bottle in Egg Harbor City, New Jersey. There are several others of these 24’ tall 1939 bottles in New Jersey (New Gretna, Cologne, Beechwood, and Bass River Township). There are eight others of this type in California, Connecticut, and Florida.

Fig. 12 – Giant six-pack representing City Brewery in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

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Fig. 13 – Corona Beer six-pack building in Baja California in Mexico.

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[Fig. 10] [Fig. 13] [Fig. 12] Fig. 14 – Benewah Milk Bottle in Spokane, Washington. It was designed in 1935 by the prestigious architectural firm of Whitehouse and Price. The body of the bottle is stucco from base to neck, then the neck and cap are covered with sheet metal over a wooden frame.

Dairy owner Paul E. Newport, to make milk appealing to children, built two of these bottles. The one remaining bottle, today serves as the Milk Bottle Diner.

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[Fig. 15] Fig. 15 – HP Hood Milk Bottle is in Boston, Massachusetts. It is 40’ tall and, if it were real, would hold 50,000 gallons of milk. It was built entirely of wood in 1930. It still serves as an ice cream stand and snack bar next to the Children’s Museum. When the Bottle was moved to the Museum Wharf in 1977, it was cut in half, transported by barge and re-assembled. Hood is the largest dairy in New England and was founded in 1846.

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Fig. 16 – Along with another Hood container at Boston’s Fenway Park baseball stadium there are two giant Coke bottles in the outfield.

B Fig. 17 – Giant milk bottles as part of buildings: (A) Asselin Creamery Bottle, Norway, Indiana, c. 1929.

(B) Polks Dairy Bottle, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1921.

(C) Freda Farms Bottle, Berlin, Connecticut, 1933.

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Fig. 18 – Richmond Dairy Building in Richmond, Virginia. The building was originally built in 1913 and has recently been converted into 113 rental apartments at a cost of nearly $8 Million.

There are three 16’ milk bottles at the corners of the building.

Fig. 19 – Quonquont Dairy Milk Bottle in Whately, Massachusetts was built c. 1926 and was used for selling sandwiches, pie and ice cream. In 1951, it was moved across the street. The 16’ bottle (shown here from the side with a door) was moved again and restored by the Whately Historical Society in the late 1990s.

Fig. 20 – Milk Bottle restaurant in Raynham, Massachusetts was erected by Frates Dairy. The bottle is 50’ tall and 20’ in diameter.

Fig. 21 – Frates Restaurant Milk Bottle, New Bedford, Massachusetts.

The bottle is 52’ tall and was built in 1930 by Frates Dairy.

[Fig. 19] Fig. 22 – The world’s largest Coca-Cola bottle is a four-story (110’ tall) part of the 28,000-square-foot World of Coca-Cola at 3785 Lave Vegas Blvd. (“The Strip”) in Las Vegas, Nevada. The bottleshaped building serves as a shaft for two glass elevators.

The Coke-bottle-shaped structure is the most recent addition to mimetic architecture. It was opened on July 8, 1997. For $3.50, a visitor could check out authentic CocaCola memorabilia and watch a reel of Coke Commercials.

Visitors would start with an elevator ride to the fourth floor of the building inside the mimetic Coke bottle. After viewing displays on the top floor, guests would wind their [Fig. 20] [Fig. 21] way downstairs, eventually emerging at the Everything Coca-Cola store, a souvenir outlet with about 2,000 items featuring the red and white Coke logo.

The attraction recorded over one- million visitors each year.

But two and one-half years later, on March 7, 2000, the World of Coca-Cola became a victim of corporate downsizing. When the Coke company fired twenty-one percent of its 29,000-person worldwide work force (including 130 who worked at the Las Vegas attraction) in an attempt to save $300 million a year, the Las Vegas World of Coca-Cola was closed. The top two levels of Coke’s holding were cleared out, but the 12,000-square-foot Everything Coca-Cola store stayed open on the first and second floors. The bottle-shaped building is still there and is illuminated nightly by neon and incandescent light that keeps the building as one of Las Vegas’ main visual attractions.

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References

Margolies, J. “The End of the Road.” New York: Viking Press, 1977.

Books: Heimann, J. & Georges, R. “California Crazy: Roadside Vernacular Architecture.” Tokyo: Dai Nippon, 1985.

Potter, Frank N. “The Moxie Mystique.” Donning Co. Publishers, Virginia Beach – Norfolk, Va.: 1981.

Jencks, Charles. “Bizzare Architecture.” New York: Rizzoli, 1979.

Venturi, R., Brown, D. S., & Izenour, S. “Learning from Las Vegas.” Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1972.

Liebs, C. H. “Main Street to Miracle Mile: American Roadside Architecture.” Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1985.

Periodicals: Humphrey, Edna Hills. “The Moxie Man.” Yankee (magazine), Dublin, N.H., August 1969, p. 36.

Lienhard, John., Ph.D. “Mimetic Architecture.”

The Engines of Our Ingenuity, University of Houston, N.D.

Cecil Munsey, Ph.D. 13541 Willow Run Road Poway, CA 92064-1733 858-487-7036 cecilmunsey@cox.net

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Collector Logic

by Steve Ketcham It isn’t very logical at first glimpse. These great accumulations of the stuff of the past seem whimsical and arbitrary to the outside world. Yet within the collecting realm, neat and orderly patterns are found. These patterns are sometimes easily seen and quickly understood by those who also collect. But even we collectors tend to too quickly classify others by what they collect. We pigeon-hole and even stereotype in order to make our view of other collectors somehow logical. This can limit our view and our understanding of our fellow collectors almost as much as if we were non-collectors.

The reality is, we collectors are not single-minded or monogamous in our collecting habits. Few of us collect just one item. If we look closely, though, a subtle, logical connection exists among the various types of items which ultimately form our collections.

If I could read the minds of most of my fellow collectors, I’m sure the words “bottle collector” would register with most of them when I come into view. (Other adjectives may also come to mind, but we needn’t dwell on those here.) But the fact is, my bottle collection is much more than a singular accumulation. It is the foundation of a half-dozen other collections which are equally interesting and historically important.

Each collection is an entity unto itself, but each is also logically related to the collecting of antique bottles. The logic which binds the collections together may not be obvious, but it is there.

Just about any beer bottle collector would be happy to place an early tray like this one into the collection.

Shown here are a glass pipe, mallet, and chain. Glass house whimsies, produced by the employees for fun, compliment any bottle collection.

I bought my first antique bottle in 1967. By 1968, because I was an impoverished college student, I was digging for old bottles in early dumps where the bottles were free for the taking.

When I could afford it, antique shows and shops, estate sales and garage sales, and even auctions were my haunts. These venues presented interesting, logical collection connections which caught my eye and launched new, related collections.

Digging provided all kinds of old bottles, from quack medicines to food, beer, and liquor bottles. In shopping the shows and shops, I discovered items directly related to my bottles. Hundreds of nostrum makers, for example, gave away almanacs and trade cards which advertised their bogus cures and remedies.

These colorful old cards and booklets carried fantastic claims and customer testimonials regarding the supposed curative powers of the products, and they also featured factual information about the companies. Before long, a trade card and almanac collection was born which provided me with a greater appreciation and understanding of the bottles I found.

A similar evolution took place in relation to the beer bottles I found. Early brewers also believed in the power of advertising. While a few used trade cards, many more gave away more useful items which were imprinted with ads. For example, etched glasses, cork screws, and pocket match safes were often available from the brewery.

Beautifully lithographed signs, serving trays, and tip trays featuring pretty girls, wild animals, and factory images were provided to saloons and individual customers. Once

these items came under my radar, a confirmed breweriana collector was born.

I have happily sent in my dues to the National Association of Breweriana Advertising since 1974.

Brewers weren’t the only ones placing ads on signs, trays, and etched glassware. A collection of etched, preProhibition shot glasses compliments a whiskey bottle collection nicely. I’m not averse to a nice whiskey advertising tray on the wall, either.

Distillers and liquor dealers didn’t just bottle their potables. They also filled stoneware jugs with their wet goods for those customers with larger-thanaverage thirsts. Happily, many such concerns throughout the Midwest ordered their jugs, complete with dealer advertising stencilled upon them, from the potteries of Red Wing. Once a whiskey bottle collector finds a jug stencilled with the same name found embossed on one of his early flasks, a stoneware collector is born. A few jugs on the floor below form a perfectly logical compliment to the whiskey bottles on the shelf above.

It is impossible to collect antique bottles without paying attention to the companies and the employees who made the bottles. While glass houses seldom advertised to the general public, it is still possible to locate their promotional materials. Early glass house catalogs are a real treat to find and provide a wealth of information to collectors of all types of glass.

As was true in the potteries, the employees of many glass factories were permitted to make lunch-hour pieces for friends and family. The glass blowers

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Letterheads from concerns such as glass companies and breweries add depth and context to collections of glass bottles.

formed glass chains, pipes, mallets, and decorative paper weights for personal use.

Glass canes, sometimes in red, white and blue, were made to be carried for special events such as Fourth of July parades.

These various pieces, known to collectors as glass house whimsies, form a unique and logical adjunct collection for many bottle collectors.

Yet another collectible which connects logically to bottles is early photographs. Many companies, from breweries to glass houses, proudly posed their employees outside the factory for a photo. Still other photos, taken inside saloons across the land, give insight to just how the bottles and advertising served their time on the walls and shelves of yesterday’s watering holes.

A listing of go-with collectibles would also have to include letterheads.

These fancy printed pieces were designed to convey the grand nature of the companies which used them. They featured fanciful logos and factory illustrations meant to impress all who viewed them. They also listed company

officers and brand names, information which is useful to collectors of all kinds of products.

Collectors, like onions, are many layers deep. We are far more complex than the labels we place on one another.

On more than one occasion, the local bottle clubs have dedicated a meeting to the theme of “Other Collections.”

The variety of items This etched glass from the Gluek Brewing Company which appear at such logically compliments the collection of early Minneapolis meetings, as well as beer bottles while providing a glimpse of a brewery the information building which has long since disappeared. which is shared there, leads to discussions lasting well past the evening meeting. I pigeon-hole a fellow collector, approach suspect many collecting clubs have held him or her instead and ask, “What else do similar meetings. you collect?” Then, listen to the logic The next time you are tempted to and learn.

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By Michael Miller ARIZONA'S BEST - PART ONE -

No matter the area of ones collecting, it is almost inevitable that one of the first things you hear from the non-collector is what is the best or most valuable item in your collection. Many would address this inquiry with a quick and direct answer.

Others, like myself, would probably bore the poor soul to death with the debate of monetary value versus, color, historical value or rarity. No matter the approach to answering this all-important question, it is always fun to categorize and rate the best.

Since my areas of so called expertise include soda, whiskey, drugstore and food

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bottles from Arizona I will restrict my best of lists to these categories. I will make no attempt to rate milk bottles or bottles of later origins such as ACL's. Also, since a single best of list would be totally dominated by the whiskey bottles and jugs, I felt it would be of greater interest to provide separate lists. These will include the different categories of sodas (Hutchinson, tooled top crowns & machine made crowns), drugstore and miscellaneous (to include food bottles, liquor bottles & stoneware). With the exception of milks, these include the major collecting areas of Arizona embossed bottles.

The first group of Arizona bottles I would like to address holds a lower position in the hierarchy of collectors' categories but occupies a soft spot in my heart as it was the first group of Arizona bottles in which I expanded.

Tooled top crown top sodas Though never destined to approach the value of Arizona whiskey or Hutchinson soda bottles, the crown top soda has carved out a niche as a category for the beginning to moderate spending collector. Examples of these sodas are still numerous enough to keep the new collectors interest, yet some of the tooled top varieties are as desirable to the advanced seeker as some hutches. These rarest of the rare include several CocaCola bottles and sodas from famous Arizona mining towns.

1. CLIFTON SODA WORKS CLIFTON ARIZ. - Two examples of this aqua soda have been documented at this time.

J.N. McFate operated this works in the mining town of Clifton and the bottle was used just after the turn of the century. Due to later mine expansions that engulfed the sister towns of Metcalf and Morenci and subsequent flooding of the town of Clifton itself, bottles from Clifton are very hard to acquire.

2. THE DEALERS ICE & COLD STORAGE CO. GLOBE, ARIZ. RETURN THIS BOTTLE - Another aqua soda with 2 known examples and a toss up with the before mentioned bottle for the top spot. This

bottling operation replaced the Globe Ice & Cold Storage Company in 1910. J. N. McDonough and E.F. Smith initially ran this works which operated in this Central Arizona mining town until 1939.

3. COCA COLA BOTTLING WORKS PHOENIX, ARIZ. - An amber soda with between 10 to 15 examples known. The Coca-Cola connection and color are key to the high placing of this soda. Used by Furguson J. Halterman & George N. Baker around 1905, this bottle probably held cider or flavored soda water. Later Sanborn maps of this business show that this company also sold vinegar. There are no script bottle variants from this company and this is the only amber tooled top soda from Arizona.

4. G.L. MERRITT SODA WORKS.

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PRESCOTT, ARIZ. - Four examples are known of Arizona's only quart sized aqua tool top soda. George L. Merritt purchased the Beavers & Heisler Soda Works in 1906 and operated it until 1920.

5. ZIEGLER'S SODA WORKS TUCSON, ARIZ. This position is for the clear variant of this bottle. Peter Ziegler originally operated his works as an extension of the family confectionery business and grew it into the largest soda bottling company in Tucson.

He sold the works in 1906 and became involved with many businesses including president of the Tucson Street Railway and owner of the Ziegler's Racetrack and Café.

At one point an entire block in the city of Tucson was called the Ziegler block. His

Summer 2003 spacious Victorian home is still standing at 126. N. 1st Avenue with his name spelled in German Gothic lettering on the steps to his front door. This one of a kind soda has further uniqueness in it's lack of a "Z" on the bottom of the bottle and block lettering on all words but "Ziegler's".

6. REGISTERED COCA-COLA BOTTLING WORKS PHOENIX, ARIZ. - A one of a kind aqua soda with the word "REGISTERED" on the shoulder "ROOT" on the bottom . Used at the same works as the before mentioned Coke bottle but at a later date. Earlier bottles from this works have no hyphen.

7. COCA COLA BOTTLING WORKS PHOENIX, ARIZ. - Another one of a kind aqua soda from the Phoenix plant, this bottle has the connected "AB" mark of the Adolphus Busch Glass Manufacturing Company on the reverse base and is from the first year of this works operation. The only example was found in a pit behind the works along with hundreds of broken examples of other Phoenix soda bottles.

8. THE ZIEGLER SODA WORKS L.L. BARRETT PROP. TUCSON, ARIZ. A rare aqua soda with 5 verified examples.

The embossing reflects the sale of Peter Ziegler's business to Lewis L. Barrett in 1906 and Barrett's continued use of the Ziegler name testifies to Ziegler's importance in Tucson. On March 30th, 1907 Barrett sold the works to the Martin family and Crystal Soda Works was formed.

9. JESSE YOAKUM CLIFTON, ARIZ. An aqua soda with 5 known examples from the mining town of Clifton. Jesse Yoakum operated the Clifton Bakery and Bottling Works along with Karl Schade from 1901 to 1903. In 1903 Yoakum moved to Bisbee where he sold real estate and later became a superintendent for the Warren & Bisbee Railroad.

Karl Schade continued to run the bottling works in Clifton along with his partner Richard Stephens. The S & S Bottling Works became the first bottlers of Coca-Cola in the territory and would later become Greenlee Coca-Cola Bottling Company.

73 10. TB - An aqua soda with 2 known examples accredited to Terry Burns of Tucson. Burns operated the Pioneer Soda Works from 1903 to 1909. This works had begun operation in 1894 and was originally owned by William Smith & Paul Smyly.

Smith is noted for his involvement in additional soda works in Clifton and Phoenix and Smyly would later surface in the mining town of Jerome running a bottling operation. Both examples of this bottle were dug in privy's in Tucson. The bottles lack of town or territorial embossing keep it form a much higher position in the top ten.

Well that’s my personal top ten and I'm sure that other collectors would have other bottles to add or subtract such as the W.E. Harrison bottle from Bisbee or the Houck & Dieter soda from Douglas. The point is that even though crown top sodas are considered as second rate or throwaways in some parts of the country, they are a desirable and sought after category to collect from Arizona.

Mike Miller is the author of “A Collector’s Guide to Arizona Bottle and Stonreware, A History of Merchant Containers in Arizona.”

Contact Mike at: 9214 W. Gary Road., Peoria, AZ 85345 Phone: (623) 486-3123. or by E-mail: Helgramike@msn.com

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by Jack Sullivan For more than a decade I have been collecting material on a Cleveland inventor named Henry Stiles and how his 1892 patent of a "spout for cans" resulted in a variety of ceramic jugs found throughout the United States and countries overseas. [See Fig. 1.] Missing information has stymied my efforts. There was no way to explain, for example, just how an invention meant for improving metal containers instead came to be married to stoneware. My recent discovery of a second Stiles patent on a pottery mark now has made it possible to understand "the rest of the story."

Henry Stiles and the Age of Invention The late 1800s represent the golden age of American invention. Ohioan Thomas Edison brought forth the phonograph and the electric light bulb, Dureya the gasoline-powered automobile, and Jenkins the motion picture machine. The country was awash in garage workshops, where thousands of inspired Americans worked diligently to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of countless processes and machines.

It is evident in reviewing patent applications of the time that a great deal of attention was being paid to improving [Fig. 1]

containers for liquids. Consumer trends were changing. In an earlier day customers brought their own cans, crocks, jugs or baskets to the merchant for filling.

Now products came in their own distinct packages. Improving those containers as well as the efficiency and speed of their manufacture occupied many an inventive mind. For Henry Stiles the challenge lay in how to pour liquids out of a can without sloshing and spilling. In other words Henry was trying to eliminate the "glug, glug, glug."

He appears to have succeeded. In a patent application, approved on May 10, 1892, Henry said he had invented "a canspout which unites in one and the same device or construction all the functions of theordinary discharging spout and of a free and sufficient vent therefore." Translating the "patent-speak" into plain English, this simply means that Stiles had found a way to let air flow through the spout of a container at the same time as the liquid contents.

Evolving from Cans to Jugs City directories list Henry Stiles as living at 160 Giddings Avenue in Cleveland when he applied for and received his patent. The Stiles name is famous in Cleveland history because Job Stiles and his wife, Tabitha, were its first settlers. The couple accompanied a surveying party to the site in 1796. Surveyors built them a cabin and made Job Stiles custodian of their supplies. In 1797, Their son, Charles Stiles, was the first non-Native American

Bottles and Extras born in the Cleveland area. It is not known whether Henry Stiles was directly related to these pioneers. We do know, however, that in the census of 1890, he listed his occupation as "foreman." In 1894 he was still at the same address but said he was a "treasurer." Neither entry indicated where he was working. That same year in November, he applied for his second patent -- one that clears up the missing link between cans and jugs.

In his 1894 statement to the U.S. Patent Office, Stiles emphasized the advantages of his pouring spout to a ceramic jug, adding that vessel “on account of its shape may be convenient for pouring, as it may be simply rolled over upon the rounded side beneath the spout until the contents flow out through the same." But its principal advantage, he contended, was that its flat sides permitted the jug to be stacked more easily and efficiently for "baking" during manufacture and later for packing and transportation. Here Stiles was joining other Ohio inventors, such as John McCloskie of Massillon and A. J. Weeks of Akron, both of whom had devised ways to eliminate empty areas within kilns during the firing process. With demand high for individual jugs, it was important to maximize every inch of space. Stiles' patent drawings emphasized this benefit.

[Fig. 1, bottom] The U.S. duly awarded him his second patent on March 9, 1987.

The "spout for cans" was now a spout for jugs.

The Advent of "Recherche Ware" Sometime during the period 1892-1898, Stiles’ invention found a home with the Cleveland Pottery Company whose offices were at Corlett Station on Miles Avenue.

According to a 1961 newspaper article, this firm, founder unknown, dated from the 1870s, producing both earthenware and stoneware products. Citing Stiles' first patent while adapting the spout, the firm marketed a ceramic jug in quart and halfgallon sizes that they called "Stiles Patent Recherche Ware" in a mark that appears low on the curved front of the jug. The use of the French word "recherche" (research) suggests to me that the Cleveland Pottery was implying that the design of this unusual stoneware container had roots in the "art nouveau" movement then sweeping Europe and America.

At that time, Cleveland could claim considerable repute as a site for innovation in the applied arts. In the 1870s,

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a group of artists and craftsmen working in Northeastern Ohio had organized the Cleveland Academy of Art. Over succeeding decades they worked in close proximity to share ideas and techniques.

Art nouveau was favored, particularly in ceramics. Later called the "Cleveland School,� the influence of these artists, we may assume, spread to the artisans of the Cleveland Pottery Company. Company designers also embellished Stiles' jug with a heavy glaze in green or white, a horseshoe design on its flat sides, and sometimes an overtly art nouveau handle. The company placed strong emphasis on this product. Its letterhead boasted of being a manufacturer of the "Stiles Patent Horseshoe Jug." [Fig. 3] The horseshoe model is the Stiles jug most frequently seen at bottle shows and auctions. Some have spongeware sides, others have painted flowers, and still others have fancy gold and lettering with inscriptions like "Greater Cleveland" or "Whiskey." Some may have been made to serve ice water; others held liquor. One Stiles jug actually has been found in Australia, a long way from Cleveland. That container advertises a New York City wine and liquor dealer. [Fig. 2] Judging from their many guises, the Stiles jugs proved popular and, one assumes, profitable.

Pictures of several variations are shown here. [Figs. 4, 5, 6] The End of the Story At some juncture, the Cleveland Pottery Company decided to move its mark to the bottom of the jug, put it in an oval, add its own name, and cite the second Stiles patent. This mark provided the ultimate and essential clue for me in discovering how Henry's concept evolved from cans to ceramics. [Fig. 7] These later jugs also vary from earlier models because the horseshoe accents are gone and the handles now attach to the spout rather than bridging it.

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[Fig. 6] directories about the turn of the century.

The Cleveland Pottery Company was bought in 1919 by Louis Friedl, having survived National Prohibition, the Great Depression and World War II, events that killed off many American pottery manufacturers. In 1960 the firm advertised itself as among the top three flower pot makers in America. Court records show that the firm was still operating in 1967, but that was its last public record.

How long did the company produce the Stiles jug? My guess is that with the onset of Prohibition the market for such containers became very restricted. Moreover, new manufacturing processes had obviated the need for flat-sided jugs. Thus, production of the Stiles model may well have ended about 1920.

But in the meantime, what an evolution this son of Ohio had created! By innovating a new "spout for cans" that led to "recherche ware" and on to "horseshoe jugs,” Henry Stiles is one of only a few 19th Century amateur inventors who saw their ideas actually put into widespread production. Even though it was a lowly ceramic container, made to be used today and likely thrown away tomorrow, the special qualities of Henry Stiles' invention have insured that his name is forever perpetuated on jugs to be found in collections the world over.

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Apopka, Fl - The Society of Inkwell Collectors (SOIC) Convention Chairman, Gary Bahr, waved his wand in Manhattan Beach, California on February 14, 2003 and produced a magical show for all SOIC members who attended the 11th annual meeting.

Saturday morning, February 15th began with a seminar given by Judge John Kochenburger warning that bad magicians were everywhere changing cigarette lighters and perfume bottles, by adding tops of door knobs and glass balls then selling them as antique inkwells. He had examples of different types of fakes and reproductions, primarily from England and India. His best piece of advice was to “know what you are buying!” The second morning seminar was how to keep track of 50, 500 or 5,000 inkwells, where you bought them, what you paid for them, pictures of each, etc. Richard Dean spoke of “Inventory Programs for the Collector” by telling the basics of database management programs for a computer.

Once you set up the program and input the data, it can be managed with a flick of the finger, a great magic feat!

Saturday afternoon was AUCTION TIME!! 158 inkwells were assembled by magic pixies Marie McGraw, Michele McGraw and Sandy Van Tine for members and the public to outbid one another. An exciting afternoon it was, bargains were had and great inkwells were acquired by purchasers who were happy with their newest finds!

Saturday evening started with a Social Hour for more “inkwell” talk and then on to dinner, awards and speaker. The Stained Finger Writer’s Award is new, given to a SOIC member who contributes an article to the quarterly “Stained Finger” newsletter. A plaque was given to Aaron Hoffman who submitted two articles that were published last year. Congratulations Aaron!

The annual Vince McGraw Cobalt Award was given to Betty Rivera, author with her brother, Ted, of “Inkstands and Inkwells”, one of the foremost reference books of the inkwell collector.

Betty was unable to attend the convention but spoke with Buck Van Tine by telephone at some length about writing the book and was sorry that Ted was not still alive to share in this award. The speaker

at the dinner was Jim Marshall of Penrith, Cumbria, England, owner of the Pen & Pencil Gallery. He spoke of “Early Writing Equipment” and as one inkwell collector said, “made me aware of how much I did not know”.

Sunday morning, February 16th began with another magical presentation

by Franklin and Jean Hunting telling us “How the Book Was Put Together”. Frank and Jean are the authors of another of the inkwell collector’s great reference books “The Collector’s World of Inkwells”, the largest reference book published to date with wonderful photography and a comparative price guide. Members learned that Jean took over 4,000 pictures to end with the 1,000 that are in the book, while Frank did the typing. The majority of the collections shown in the book are located in California. The price guide for each inkwell was the most difficult part, completed with the help of many experts in the antique field.

Next, a roundtable was held with Buck Van Tine as the Moderator of the proposed History and Research project, designed to preserve written and visual inkwell materials that members of the SOIC have accumulated over the past thirty plus years. The project needs to be defined, funding generated and many other questions answered before materials can “come out of the basement”. During the roundtable discussion members with grant experience, project management experience and museum computer software experience magically voiced opinions and it is possible that this is a beginning in defining the project. To be continued!

The closing seminar was given

by Giovanni Cattaneo presenting the Inkwell Bibliography Report he has worked on for so many hours. This report will be most helpful in the research project.

The 11th Annual Convention of the SOIC was magical!! There will be forthcoming news about the 2004 convention. In the meantime, if you want to have more information about the SOIC or just have an inkwell question, E-mail : inkwellsociety@aol.com, or visit the Web site: www.soic.com; or call the Executive Director, Buck Van Tine, at (309) 579-3040.

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Saturday, October 4, 2003 9 am to 3 pm (Early Admissions 7:30 a.m. to 9 a. m.)

Showplace Annex - 3002 Mechanicsville Turnpike Richmond, Virginia 23223 (Next door to the Big Antique Extravaganza) Contact: July Foles, 12275 Cedar Lane Ashland, VA 23005; (804) 798-7502; judyfoles@mail.com

8th Annual

Kansas City Antique Bottle & Breweriana Show Buy - Sell - Trade Beer and Brewery Collectibles and all kinds of Bottles Sodas - Inks - Jars - Medicines - Poisons Insulators - Cures - Whiskeys - Hutches Flasks - Stoneware

Saturday - September 20th 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

American Legion Hall 499 SW Highway 7, Blue Springs, Mo. Take I-70 east from Kansas City to Hwy 7 (Exit 20) and go south on Hwy 7 for 1 1/4 miles, or go east from I-435 on Hwy 40 to Hwy 7 and then go north on Hwy 7 one block.

Free Admission - Free Parking - Food Available H. James Maxwell Phone: (816) 942-0291(eve) 1050 West Blue Ridge Blvd.

(816) 942-6300 (day) Kansas City, MO 64145-1216 E-mail: HJMesq@kc.rr.com

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The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors Membership Benefits Individual Membership Open to any individual that has an interest in bottles, flasks, jarks or related items, some of the benefits of membership are: • A full year subscription to the quarterly 68-page publication Bottles & Estras, which is continuously full of specialty articles, regular columns, classified advertising, show reports and a listing of bottle shows nationwide.

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

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

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

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

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

• Access to the informational FOHBC Slide Show Presentations.

• Associate membership is available to to spouses and children aged 19 to 21 with Individaul Membership for $5 per member per year.

• Plus more...

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Access to the informational FOHBC Slide Show Presentations.

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

• Participation in the Elmer Lester Contest for the most active club.

• The Federation sponsors annual writing contests for individuals belonging to member clubs as a means to recognize their outstanding contributions. There are also contests for club newsletter design and show flyer design.

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FOR SALE Homan's Natures Grand Restorative, aqua O.P., ex-rare 9" size.

Killer! $1100.00.

Binn-Inger Cannon, light amber, perfect lip: $995.00.

BX-19 Summer-Summer, pale emerald: $495.00.

GII-72 Eagle-Cornucopia in aqua, $400.00.

GI-53 1/2-pint, Washington-Taylor, light teal. Rare! $950.00.

GIX-49 McCarty & Torreyson, rare apple-green (Glassworks #140, 3-11-02), $5600.00.

Add $20.00 for registered mail.

Bitters wanted - What have you ?

Contact: JEFF BURKHARDT Phone: (262) 377-9611.

FOR SALE NURSER: "THE BEST / PAT SEP.1.91 / THE GOTHAM CO. N.Y.", 1891-1900, clear, turtle-type with elongated neck, BIM, some minor interior residue, otherwise mint: $60.00.

FLASK: "D.E. DEMPSEY / GENEVA, N.Y.", aqua, 1/2-pint, strap-sided flask, tooled dbl-collar mouth, smooth base, minor 1/4: flake off edge of band at side, otherwise sparkling mint: $50.00.

Contact: JOHN PASTOR 7288 Thorncrest SE Ada, MI 49301 Phone: (616) 285-7604 FOR SALE PHOENIX BOTTLING WORKS / PHOENIX A.T. Hutchinson soda, big horizontal embossing (not a slug plate), deep aqua/green, whittled glass, no staining or damage.

Great territorial bottle. $1600.00.

Contact: BRYAN GRAPENTINE Phone: (602) 993-9757 E-mail: bgrapentine@att.net FOR SALE Sol Frank's Pancrea Bitters, Figural Light House, amber, finest example of this rare bottle: $2450.00.

See photos on website: www.greatantiquebottles.com.

Contact: ED & KATHY GRAY 1049 8th Avenue Brockway, PA 15824 Phone: (814) 268-4503

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FOR SALE Duluth Brewing & Malting etched glass, shows moose and angel: $500.00.

Brainerd Brewing crown-top quart embossed bottles, Brainerd, Minn.: $40.00.

Silver Foam Grand Rapids Brewing Company, etched glass: $140.00.

Contact: PAT STAMBAUGH Phone: (651) 345-4446 E-mail: sailvi@onvoymail.com FOR SALE Indian bottles!

Bitters, figurals, sarsaparillas, medicines and cures.

All listed in a virtual bottle catalog at: http://www.WeLoveAoldbottles.com No need to drive hundreds of miles to the next bottle show when you can shop online.

All bottles are pictured and described.

We take PayPal. Always looking to improve our collection of Indian and New Orlean's bottles.

Please contact us if you have a rare of scarse one to sell: MIKE & LILARAE SMITH PO Box 2347 Yucca Valley, CA 92286-2347 E-mail: mikesierra@telis.org FOR SALE Stoddard NH glass!

Kimball's Jaundice Bitters, Troy, NH, amber, iron pontil base, minor high point on rounded portion of shoulders. $1400.00.

Visit our online bottle store at: www.dnhcollectibles.com.

Contact: DNH Collectibles, DAVE & DIANE HILTON 8 Camden Avenue, York, ME 03909 Phone: (207) 363-2908; E-mail: flookout@maine.rr.com.

Bottles and Extras FOR SALE All bottles have no damage and are in EX condition, unless noted.

Five-gallon amber demi-john, tapered blob, no cracks, chips, light wear and stain. $49.00.

Picnic amber blob beer bottles: #1`Independent Brewing & Malting Co., Davenport, IA: $30.00. #2 Pechstein & Nagel Co., Keokuk, IA: $35.00.

Western Hutchies: #1 Centralia Bottling Works, Centrailia, WA, rare WA-7: $165.00. #2 Peterson, Laramie, Wyo., $265.00.

Vintage 1923 Coke display bottle with original cap.

The cap is worn, but readable. $425.00.

Contact: CURT FAULKENBERRY 9459 Easy Street Hillsboro, MO 63050 Phone: (636) 797-5220 E-mail: stlbottlebabe@yahoo.com FOR SALE INKS no cracks or chips all B.M.A.L. 1) J. D. PARKER & SONS / CINCINNATI O., in slug plate, 10-sided, aqua, approx. 3" tall: $70.00.

2) JAMES P. SCOTTS INK, house-shape, light-green, approx. 2 3/8" tall: $45.00.

3) JOHN HOLLAND, CINCINNATI, square, aqua, 2 1/4" tall: $25.00.

4) B. FIRMIN & SONS INK, Pittsburgh, cone-shape, cry., approx. 2 1/2" tall: $50.00.

All prices include shipping.

Contact: BO R. BLACK 1741 Glenmar Drive Lancaster, Ohio 43130 Phone: (740) 654-5866 FOR SALE Pre-Pro Labeled decanter for Pure California Claret Wine Mendota Wine Co Fresno, Cal, mint $15.00.

Clinch & Co Grass Valley Cal clear sixth (?), spottiness, $85.00.

Silver appliquĂŠ Old Blue Ribbon (horse/jockey) Bourbon Pre-Pro decanter, mint 75.00.

Swirled neck amber cylinder Sam Baumgarten & Co Old Oliver Whiskey Memphis, Tenn., nm 125.00.

Contact: RALPH VAN BROCKLIN 1021 W. Oakland Ave., #109 Johnson City, TN 37601 Phone: (423) 913-1378 E-mail: thegenuine@comcast.net

Bottles and Extras FOR SALE Nevada embossed bottles for sale.

Write, Phone or E-mail for a current listing.

Contact: BOB FERRARO 515 Northridge Drive Boulder City, NV 89005 Phone: (702) 293-3114 E-mail: mayorferraro@aol.com FOR SALE AAA Old Valley Whiskey amber w/lighter tones, nice whittle, good top, mint $1100.00.

Old Bourbon Castle Whiskey F Chevalier Sole Agents, amber flask, very rare and mint $9500.00.

Crown Shoulder JH Cutter Old Bourbon E Martin & Co Sole Agents, very rare and mint, golden amber, ex-Torre collection $10,000.00.

CP Moorman flask, light yellow-amber, good top, a beauty!

Ex-Anderson collection $1150.00.

Banded Lilienthal & Co “Cognac”, beautiful yellow with olive overtones, mint, top example 2500.00.

There’s more!

Contact: RALPH VAN BROCKLIN 1021 W. Oakland Ave., #109 Johnson City, TN 37601 Phone: (423) 913-1378 E-mail: thegenuine@comcast.net

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RELATED ITEMS FOR SALE Spring Steel Probes Length 36" to 48" diameter 1/4" to 5/16" "T" handle 1" diameter and ring 4" above tip, both welded. $37.50 includes S/H. $3 extra for Rush Shipping.

Cashier's Check or Money Order to: R. L. WILCOX 7422 Park Drive Mechanicsville, VA 23111 Phone: (804) 746-9854 E-mail: Wilcox7422@aol.com

FRUIT JARS

PERIODICALS / BOOKS

FOR SALE Fruit jars - amber, THE DANDY 1/2-gallon: $275.00.

PET 1/2-gallon, no lid: $80.00.

PROTECTOR, 1/2-gallon, repro lid, $85.00.

THE DAISY JAR, 1/2-gallon, no lid: $90.00.

THE EMPIRE 1/2-gallon, no lid: $95.00.

BALL MASON BS, dark green, 1/2-gallon: $300.00.

MASON'S 1858, dark amber, 1/2-gallon, Hero lid: $450.00.

Contact: RON ASHBY 418 E. Blackwell Blackwell, OK 74631 Phone: (580) 363-5154

FOR SALE NEW BOOK! Ginger Beer & Root Beer Heritage 400 pages, all photos in full-color. $30.00 + $4.00 S/H. Contact: Don Yates, 8300 River Corners Road Homerville, OH 44235 Phone: (330) 625-1025

YOUR AD COULD HAVE BEEN HERE Send your FREE “FOR SALE” AD - UP TO 100 WORDS -

To: Kathy Hopson, Editor 1966 King Springs Road Johnson City, TN 37601 or E-mail: kathy@thesodafizz.com

FOR SALE THE AMERICAN WHISKEY JUG 192 pages, copiously illustrated, with an index of more than 300 references to whiskey brands, distillers, potters and personalities. $25.00, including postage.

Add $10 to receive a second volume, THE WHISKEY CERAMICS OF SCOTLAND, IRELAND AND ENGLAND, 95 pages, illustrated and indexed.

Send check or money order to: JACK SULLIVAN 4300 Ivanhoe Place Alexandria, VA 22304 Phone: (703) 370-3039 E-mail: jack.sullivan@verizon.com

81 FOR SALE NEW - 4th Edition Bottles: Identification & Price Guide The "Bottle Bible" for everyone.

Comprehensive updated Pricing & Reference Guide.

Three new chapters: violin bottles, cobalt blue medicine, museum and research resources.

300 B&W photos 16 page color section $21.00 (includes shipping) Contact: MIKE POLAK P.O. Box 30328 Long Beach, CA 90853 Phone: (562) 438-9209 E-mail: bottleking@earthlink.net Website: http://www.bottlebible.com FOR SALE New Book!

GEORGIA CROWN TOP BOTTLE BOOK 260 pages with over 1400 bottles Includes Georgia Bottling Works 263 different Script straight-sided Coca-Cola bottles from Georgia 236 different Georgia Chero-Cola Many others also listed.

All Color! $39.95 + $3.95 Shipping Send to: Georgia Soda Bottle Book 1211 St. Andrews Drive Douglas, GA 31533 FOR SALE PEPSI:COLA BOTTLES & MORE COLLECTOR’S GUIDE, VOL. 2 with prices.

All Color! $35.00 + $3.95 Shipping All New! Over 1500 bottles - 169 pages Vol. 2 does not contain bottles shown in Vol. 1!

Contact: JAMES AYERS RJM ENTERPRISES 5186 Claudville Hwy. Claudville, VA 24076 MISCELLANEOUS $500.00 REWARD! FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO THE RETURN OF MY STOLEN PROPERTY IE: WILLIAM GOEPPERT & SON, aqua, "champagne" top, quart beer from San Francisco, circa. 1882.

Please contact: DAVE ACORN 11312 Cottontail Way Penn Valley, CA 95946 Phone: (530) 432-2111

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Summer 2003 WANTED New Britain, Conn. embossed bottles.

Please contact: JAMES HOPKINS 30401 N.C. Highway 210 Currie, NC 28435-1336 E-mail: Jhop28435@aol.com

CLASSIFIED ADS

WANTED Old locks and keys for my collection.

Also want dug locks and related items for restoration purposes.

Contact: BOB HIRSCH 12300 Washington BL, Suite G, Whittier, CA 90606 Phone: 562-789-8870.

WANTED Nevada souvenir China and souvenir spoons, barber bottles, especially milk glass types, and occupational shaving mugs Contact: STEVE WILLIAMS 2580 Everett Drive, Reno, NV 89503 Phone: (775) 747-1166 E-mail: sewnev@msn.com WANTED Oregon beer and whiskey bottles Also wanted are milk, soda, pharmacy bottles from southern Oregon towns Medford, Jacksonville, Ashland DAVE SCAFANI Phone: (541) 773-6503 or E-mail: scafanind@cs.com WANTED Early 20th century scenic souvenir china & souvenir custard glass in excellent condition depicting scenes from American towns, villages, world's fairs, etc.

Items from states along east coast and west of Mississippi River especially sought Contact: BURTON SPILLER, 49 Palmerston Road, Rochester, NY 14618; Phone: (585) 244-2229 or E-mail: bottlebug@aol.com WANTED 3-mold blown plates, inks, hats, etc.; blown figural bottles; English brownstone ware figural bottles; historical flasks; iron pontiled bottles.

Contact: RICHARD KING 1002 San Remo Circle Homestead, FL 33035 Phone: (305) 248-3035 E-mail: kingrichard@adelphhia.net

WANTED Scarse or extremely rare Pepsi-Cola bottles.

Contact: JAMES AYERS 5186 Claudville Hwy Claudville, VA 24076 Phone: (276) 251-8015.

WANTED A.P. Hotaling Co items. J.H. Cutter, Old Kirk, Our Choice Whiskeys, bottles, advertising and related go-withs.

Also want unusually colored pontilled Lyons Powder bottles Contact: MIKE POLLIN 2716 17th Street Sacramento, CA 95818 E-mail: oldcutters@earthlink.net WANTED Unembossed bottles with heavy streaks, swirls, striations of other colors in them.

Also, unembossed bottles with millions of bubbles in the glass (frothy); and strange and bizarre colored unembossed bottles, puce's, two-tones, etc.

These bottles can be any type, as long as they are unembosseed.

Contact: MARTY HALL 15430 Sylvester Road Reno, NV 8952 Phone: (775) 852-6045 E-mail: rosemuley@aol.com WANTED Any bottles or related material of J. L. Polhemus of Sacramento, California.

Contact: JOHN SCHREINER 427 Westcharter Lane Valparaiso, IN 46385 Phone: (219) 465-1190.

Bottles and Extras WANTED Wooden shipping boxes advertising medicines, bitters, cosmetic, etc.

Only requirement - box must say "Dr." Someone on it.

Would love to find a "Dr. Bouvier's Bucha Gin" box.

Or surprise me.

Contact: CHARLES WHYTE 118 Henrietta Street Ravenswood, WV 26164 Phone: (304) 273-3358 WANTED New Mexico and Wyoming Hutchinsons and Blobs from any town.

One or a dozen.

Also, a Hutchinson embossed: "O. G." in slug plate.

Contact: ZANG WOOD 1612 Camino Rio Farmington, NM 87401 Phone: (505) 327-1316 WANTED Koca Nola crown-top and Hutch sodas and go-withs; watch fobs, calendars, powder boxes, match safes, labels, vintage ads and letterheads, and anything else I don't have.

Especially desiare an Atlanta Hutch and any crowntop or Hutch from South Pittsburg and New River, Tennessee.

Contact: CHARLES HEAD P.O. Box 907 Bridgeport, AL 35740.

WANTED All Louisville whiskeys, Pre-Pro labeled whiskeys, medicines, bitters, beers, sodas, go-withs, advertising, Louisville inks, Louisville hogs.

Contact: TONY HAYES Phone: (502) 262-4517 WANTED Your ad here.

Each of you, as a benefit of membership get a FREE ad, up to 60-words in length each year.

Have you used yours ?

If not - send it today, to: ADS c/o Editor, Kathy Hopson 1966 King Springs Road Johnson City, TN 37601 or E-mail: kathy@thesodafizz.com

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FOHBC SHO-BIZ FOHBC Sho-Biz is published in the interest of the hobby. Federation affiliated clubs are noted. Information on up-coming collecting events is welcome, but space is limited.

Please send at least four months in advance, including telephone number, to: FOHBC Sho-Biz, c/o Ron Rasnake, 6301 Lilyan Parkway, Fort Pierce, FL 34951, or E-mail: RonOldGins@bellsouth.net. Show schedules are subject to change. Please call ahead before traveling long distances.

All listings published here will also be published on our web site at http://www.fohbc.com.

JULY 2003 JULY 11-12 - RENO, NEVADA Reno Antique Bottle & Collectibles Club’s 41st Annual Show & Sale (Sat. 9 AM – 3 PM, early admission Fri. noon – 6 PM) at the Reno/Sparks Convention Center, 4590 S. Virginia St., Reno, Nevada. INFO: WILLY YOUNG, PH: (775) 746-0922 or HELEN WALKER, PH: (775) 746-8356.

AUGUST 2003 AUGUST 1-2 - AUBURN, CALIFORNIA Non-Cal Insulator Club’s Show & Sale (Fri. & Sat.) at the Auburn Fairgrounds, Auburn California. INFO: PAT PATOCKA, PH: (916) 663-3681. **Listing Courtesy of Crown Jewels of the Wire**

AUGUST 9 - VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI The 6th Annual Vicksburg Antique Bottle Show & Sale (Sat. 8 AM – 4 PM) at the Battlefield Inn, 4137 N. Frontage Rd. (I-20 exit 4B), Vicksburg, Mississippi.

INFO: CASON SCHAFFER, 107 East View Dr., Vicksburg, MS 39183, PH: (601) 638-1195.

AUGUST 9 - KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI Midwestern Bottle & Insulator Show & Sale (Sat. 9 AM – 2 PM) at the Holiday Inn Northeast, 7333 N. E. Parvin Rd., Kansas City, Missouri. INFO: GENE DE VAUX, 374 Jenna Ave., Belton, MO 64012-4536, PH: (816) 322-1862.

** FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB **

AUGUST 2 - OLD FORGE, NEW YORK Central Adirondack Bottle, Postcard & Paper Show & Sale (Sat. 10 AM - 4 PM) at the Municipal Building, 183 Park Ave., Old Forge, New York. INFO: GAIL MURRAY, Director Town of Webb Historical Association, PH: (315) 369-3838, E-mail: director@webbhistory.org or BOB KENNERKNECHT, PH: (315) 369-2229, E-mail: knecht@telenet.net.

JULY 18-19 - ADAMSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA Shupp’s Grove 2nd Annual Bottle Festival (Fri. & Sat. 6 AM – dusk) at Shupp’s Grove, Adamstown, Pennsylvania. INFO: STEVE GUION, PH: (717) 560-9480, Email: affinityinsurance@dejazzd.com or JERE HAMBLETON, PH: (717) 393— 5175, E-mail: jsdetector@webtv.net.

AUGUST 2 - MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA Chesapeake Bay Insulator Club’s 4th Annual Show (Sat. 9 AM – 2 PM) at Calvary United Methodist Church, 220 W. Burke St., Martinsburg, West Virginia. INFO: JEFF HOLLIS, 56 Corning Way, Martinsburg, WV 25401, PH: (304) 2636140, E-mail: wvacampfire@cs.com.

AUGUST 10 - BETHESDA, MARYLAND Potomac Bottle Collector’s Annual Show & Sale (Sun. 9 AM – 3 PM) at the Washington Waldorf School, 4800 Langamore Rd. (off Massachusetts Ave. inside the Washington Beltway), Bethesda, Maryland. INFO: JIM SEARS, PH: (703) 2432409, E-mail: searsjim@usa.net, Website: http://hometown.aol.com/potomacbtl/ bottle2.htm.

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JULY 13 - MUNCIE, INDIANA Midwest Antique Fruit Jar & Bottle Club’s Annual Summer Show & Sale (Sun. 9 AM - 3 PM) at the Horizon Convention Center, Muncie, Indiana. INFO: NORMAN BARNETT, P.O. Box 38, Flat Rock, IN 47234; PH: (812) 587-5560 or DICK COLE, PH: (800) 428-5887.

**Listing Courtesy of Crown Jewels of the Wire**

JULY 19 - MERLIN, OREGON Jefferson State Insulator Club’s Backyard Swap Meet (Sat.) at the home of Howard & Linda Banks, 1560 Hugo Rd., Merlin, Oregon. INFO: HOWARD & LINDA BANKS, PH: (541) 479-8348, E-Mail: hbanks@grantspass.com. **Listing Courtesy of Crown Jewels of the Wire**

JULY 26 - NORTH BLENHEIM, NEW YORK Capital Region Antique Bottle & Insulator Club’s Annual Swap Meet (Sat. 9 AM - 3 PM) at the New York State Power Authority Blenheim-Gilboa Visitors Center, Route 30, North Blenheim, New York.

INFO: KEVIN LAWLESS, 3363 Guilderland Ave., Apt. 3, Schenectady, NY 12306-1820, PH: (518) 357-2333 (evenings & weekends), E-mail: kflbostons@aol.com. ** FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB **

**Listing Courtesy of Crown Jewels of the Wire**

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AUGUST 9 - PORTLAND, OREGON Greater Portland 7th Annual Insulator Swap (Sat. 1 PM - early evening) at 9999 S.E. Frenchacres Dr., Portland, Oregon.

INFO: DAN HOWARD, PH: (503) 7617799, E-mail: strains@email.msn.com. **Listing Courtesy of Crown Jewels of the Wire**

AUGUST 8-10 - SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA National Insulator Association’s Western Regional Show & Sale (Fri. 12:30 PM – 3 PM, early admission 10 AM, Sat. 9 AM – 4 PM, Sun. 9 AM – 2 PM) at the Doubletree Hotel, 2050 Gateway Place (Highway 101 & First St. 1/2 mile from the airport), San Jose, California. INFO: BILL ROHDE, PH: (530) 473-2461, Email: mudman@colusanet.com, Website: http://www.peninsulators.org/2003.html. **Listing Courtesy of Crown Jewels of the Wire**

AUGUST 24* - ROSS, OHIO The 8th Annual Tristate Insulator Show (Sun. 8 AM – 7 PM) at the home of Alan Hornhorst. 1476 Hine Rd., Hamilton, Ohio 45013 (outside Cincinnati). INFO: ALAN HORNHORST, PH: (513) 892-3720, Email: porcinscol33@yahoo.com **Listing Courtesy of Crown Jewels of the Wire**

*(Show was previously listed for August 10 Please note the change of date.)

AUGUST 24 - TAUNTON, ENGLAND Somerset & Devon Bottle Collectors Club’s 5th Annual Show & Sale (Sun. 10 AM - 2 PM, early admission 9 AM) at the St. Augustine of Canterbury School, Lyngford Rd., Taunton, England. INFO: D. MARTIN, 171 Greenway Rd., Taunton TA2 6LQ, England.

84 SEPTEMBER 2003 SEPTEMBER 7 - LEWES, DELAWARE Delmarva Antique Bottle Club’s 11th Annual Show & Sale (Sun. 9 AM - 3 PM) at Cape Henlopen High School, Lewes, Delaware. INFO: FERD MEYER, 16 Cove View, Long Neck, DE 19966, PH: (302) 945-7072, E-mail: jfmeyer@ccc.com. ** FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB **

SEPTEMBER 7 - PEKIN, ILLINOIS Pekin Bottle Collectors Association’s 34th Annual Show & Sale (Sun. 8 AM – 3 PM) at the Knights of Columbus, 715 N. 11th St., Pekin, Illinois. INFO: JIM SEARLE, 1003 Illinois St., Pekin, IL, PH: (309) 3467804 or BEN OERTLE, PH: (309) 3474441.

SEPTEMBER 13 - ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club’s Annual Show & Sale (Sat. 9 AM – 4 PM, early admission 8 AM) at the Arcadia Masonic Temple, 50 W. Duarte Rd., Arcadia, California. INFO: JOHN SWEARINGER, PH: (805) 492-5036 or DON WIPPERT, PH: (818) 346-9833.

SEPTEMBER 13 - MILLERSBURG, OHIO Western Reserve Insulator Club’s Show (Sat. 9 AM - 3 PM) at the Holmes Co. Senior Center, 224 N. Clay St., Millersburg, Ohio. INFO: JOHN HOVANEC, PH: (440) 237-2242, E-mail: wric@clubs.insulators.com or TOM NELSON, PH: (330) 674-2391, E-mail: tnelson@hlbc.com. **Listing Courtesy of Crown Jewels of the Wire**

SEPTEMBER 13 - PORTERVILLE, CALIFORNIA Merzoian Brother’s 4th Annual Tailgater (Sat. 8:30 AM - ?) at the home of Mark Merzoian, 22593 Ave. 112, Porterville, California. INFO: BOB MERZOIAN, PH: (559) 781-6319, E mail: bobmerzoian@mac.com or MARK MERZOIAN, PH: (559) 783-8759, Email: memerzoian@ocsnet.net. **Listing Courtesy of Crown Jewels of the Wire**

SEPTEMBER 13-14 - KIRKLAND, OHIO Ohio Bottle Club’s 35th Annual Show & Sale (Sun. 9 AM – 2 PM, early admission Sat.7 PM – 9 PM) at Lakeland Community College, Route 306 (1/4 mile south of

Summer 2003 I-90), Kirtland, Ohio. INFO: ROBERT SMITH, PH: (440) 285-4184, E-mail: rts2ride@adelphia.net or TIM KEARNS, PH: (440) 285-7576, E-mail: tkearns4@aol.com. ** FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB **

SEPTEMBER 20 - MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN West Michigan Antique Bottle Club’s 4th Annual Summer Show & Sale (Sat. 9 AM – 2 PM) at the Select Auditorium, 1445 E. Laketon (just west of U. S. 31), Muskegon, Michigan. INFO: ELMER OGG, 1591 Hendrick Rd., Muskegon, MI 49441, PH: (231) 798-7335, E-mail: eogg@nortonshores.org or STEVE DeBOODE, 1166 Corvette Dr., Jenison, MI 49428, PH: (616) 667-0214, E-mail: grbottleguy@aol.com.

SEPTEMBER 30 - BLUE SPRINGS, MISSOURI 8th Annual Kansas City Antique Bottle and Breweriana Show (9AM - 2PM) at the American Legion Hall, 499 SW Highway 7, Blue Springs, Missour. INFO: H. JAMES MAXWELL, 1050 West Blue Ridge Blvd, Kansas City, MO 64145-1216, PH: (816-942-0291 (evenings); (816-9426300 (daytime); E-mail: HJMesq@kc.rr.com.

SEPTEMBER 21 - BRICK, NEW JERSEY Jersey Shore Bottle Club’s 31st Annual Show & Sale (Sun. 9 AM – 2 PM) at the Brick Township High School, 346 Chambers Bridge Rd., Brick, New Jersey.

INFO: RICHARD PEAL, 720 Eastern Ln., Brick, NJ 08723, PH: (732) 267-2528, E-mail: boxcar1@att.net, Website: http://www.geocities.com/dtripet2000/ jsbc/jsbc.html. ** FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB **

SEPTEMBER 26-27 - JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA Antique Bottle Collectors of North Florida’s Annual Show & Sale (Sat. 8 AM – 3 PM, early admission Fri. 6 PM – 9 PM & Sat. 7 AM) at the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge, 5530 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville, Florida. INFO: WAYNE HARDEN, 3867 Winter Berry Rd., Jacksonville, FL 32210, PH: (904) 781-2620, E-mail: abcnf@juno.com.

Bottles and Extras SEPTEMBER 28 - CHELMSFORD, MASSACHUSETTS Merrimack Valley Antique Bottle Club’s 29th Annual Show & Sale (Sun. 9 AM - 2 PM, early admission 7 AM) at the Elks’ Club Hall, Rt. 110 (I-495 exit 32), Chelmsford, Massachusetts. NFO: JOHN GALLO, PH: (978) 256-2738 or GARY KOLTOOKIAN, PH: (978) 256-9561, Email: bottlegary@attbi.com.

OCTOBER 2003 OCTOBER 4 - BUFFALO, NEW YORK Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association’s Annual Show & Sale (Sat. 9 AM – 3 PM) at the Erie County fairgrounds Health Expo Building, Hamburg, New York. INFO: PETER JABLONSKI, PH: (716) 834-2249, E-mail: psjablon102@cs.com or ED POTTER, PH: (716) 674-8890. ** FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB **

OCTOBER 4 - RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Richmond Area Bottle Collectors Association’s 32nd Annual Show & Sale (Sat. 9 AM – 3 PM, early admission 7:30 AM) at the Showplace Annex, 3002 Mechanicsville Trnpk., Richmond, Virginia. INFO: JUDY FOLES, 12275 Cedar Ln., Ashland, VA 23005, PH: (804) 798-7502, E-mail: judyfoles@mail.com. ** FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB **

OCTOBER 5 - ELSECAR, ENGLAND Autumn Extravaganza Antique Bottle Show & Sale (Sun. 10 AM – 3 PM, early admission 8:30 AM) at the Elsecar Heritage Center, Nr. Barnsley (M-1 Jct. 36), S. Yorkshire, England. INFO: ALAN BLAKEMAN, BBR, Elsecar Heritage Centre, Nr. Barnsley S74 8HJ, England, PH: 011 44 122 674 5156.

OCTOBER 5 - ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN Huron Valley Bottle & Insulator Club’s Annual Show & Sale (Sun. 9 AM – 2 PM) at the Washtenaw Community College Morris J. Lawrence Building, Ann Arbor, Michigan. INFO: EARNEST GRIFFIN, 1200 S. Harris, Ypsilanti, MI 48198-6513, PH: (734) 482-8029, E-mail: CLGriffinY@aol.com. ** FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB **

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