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Bottles and Extras The official publication of the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors Vol. 15 No. 3

Summer 2004

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(pronounced “Sars-a-pear-a-fear”) Cylindrical fifth. 1866-75. Applied top.

Louis Lacour became partners with Jean Castera in 1859, becoming one of the larg est wholesale liquor dealers in San Francisco. In 1866, Lacour became the sole owner and decided to create a special bottle for a new, special product. San Francisco Glass Works would design this funny container meant to look like a lighthouse. The bottle and the product were very successful. By 1869, however, Lacour, in failing health, sold the business. Louis Lacour ended up moving to San Rafael, a well-do-do area near San Francisco, and became a member of the California Stock Exchange. Lacour died of a heart attack in 1873. A succes in his own time, a unanimous vote of the Stock Exchange agreed to close business for a day in memory of this well known and well liked San Francisco businessman. Offices at the Stock Exchange were draped in black.

The Lacour’s Bitters, although not considered rare, are one of the most highly prized western bitters known. Their greatest claim to fame is not only their richly detailed design and unusual top, but the many beautiful colors these bottles are found in. Most often amber, the Lacour’s are also found in greens and various shades of aqua, the latter being the rarest color. There are three variants of the Lacour’s Bitters with minor differences separating them. Apparently, enough bottles were sold that it warranted two new molds. The main variance is that the examples made from 1870-73 are a little shorter than the original mold, and the examples made from 1874-75 are even a little shorter. They also have no dot on the base and generally display a little longer neck. Whatever the variant, the Lacour’s bottles are all highly collectible and desireable. Interesting to note, the top is the same as the Cassin’s Grape Brandy Bitters, which was also made in San Francisco.

Rarity: Scarce, however, with the Lacour’s bottles, rarity is defined in color variance rather than overall rarity. Amber is the most common, greens next and aqua the rarest. Usually, the aqua variant is the later and third variant, while the greens are usually original and the second variant.

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Bottles And Extras Vol. 15 No. 3

Summer 2004

No. 159

Table of Contents Bottle Buzz................................................2 Recent Finds Duffy’s Crescent Saloon Pig and Marsden’s Mountain City Cough Cure................................4 The Port Arthur Coca-Cola Bottles Bryan Grapentine........................5 Officer Listing...................................6 President’s Message Ralph Van Brocklin......................7 Regional Reports.......................................8 “Yukon Jack” Part 1 Cecil Munsey.............................14 The William B. Fenn Patented Water Bottle, Made for Perfection Barry L. Bernas.........................17

The Dating Game: Owens-Illinois Glass Co. Bill Lockhart.............................24 Dr. Michael Smith’s Veterinary Collectibles Roundtable - Dr. E. J. Smith Dr. Michael Smith......................28

Western Whiskey: The Wholesale Merchants Bret Heinemann........................53 Wonderful Rubber Charles S. Harris.....................58

Fair Oaks Fruit Company - The Trianglar Bottle Steve Abbott..................................30

A Proprietary Baptism - The Life of I.L. St. John Joe Terry.................................60

Collector owns the cream of the crop of Georgia milks - Paul Irby Bill Baab.....................................32

Jenny Lind - World Reknowned Singer Donald Yates...........................64

Random Shots - The Ed Sipos Collection Howard Currier.......................34 Beginnings of a Flask Collector Mark R. Smith................................38 Let’s Talk About Ink - 1st Annual Ink Symposium Ed & Lucy Faulkner.......................42

Sir Henry & Doulton: Ceramic Royalty of England Jack Sullivan........................20

Collecting the Western Swirled Whiskies Bill Reeves.....................................44

Coca-Cola Guaranteed Under What?

Cecil Munsey.............................23

The Riter Brothers Drug Company - The Pioneer Drug Store Stan Sanders & Mickey Roach........47

Wyoming Whiskies Warren Borton...........................68 Grand Canyon Glass - Arizona’s Best Part III - Hutchinsons Michael Miller........................70 Membership Info...

Display and Advertising Rates...72 Classified Ads.........................................73 Membership Benefits, Fed 4 Sale.............79 FOHBC Show-Biz Show Calendar Listings............80

WHO DO I CONTACT ABOUT THE MAGAZINE? To ADVERTISE, SUBSCRIBE or RENEW a subscription, see PAGE 72 for DETAILS. To SUBMIT A STORY, send a letter to the Editor or have comments and concerns, Contact: Kathy Hopson, B&E Editor, 1966 King Springs Road, Johnson City, TN 37601 Phone: (423) 926-7160 or E-mail: kathy@thesodafizz.com BOTTLES AND EXTRAS (ISSN 1050-5598) is published quarterly (4 Issues per year) by the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, Inc. (a nonprofit IRS C3 educational organization) at 1021 W. Oakland Avenue, #109, Johnson City, TN 37604, (423) 282-5533; Website: http://www.fohbc.com. Periodicals Postage Paid at Johnson City, TN 37601. Pub #005062.

POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Bottles & Extras, FOHBC, 1021 W. Oakland Ave, #109, Johnson City, TN 37601. Phone: 423-913-1378.

The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, Inc. assumes no responsibility for products and services advertised in this publication.

The names: Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, Inc., and Bottles and Extras, are registered ® names of the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, Inc., and no use of either, other than as references, may be used without expressed written consent from the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, Inc. Certain material contained in this publication is copyrighted by, and remains the sole property of, the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, Inc., while others remain property of the submitting authors. Detailed information concerning a particular article may be obtained from the Editor. Printed by Central Plains Book Mfg., Winfield, KS 67156.

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Bottle Buzz

News, Notes, Letters, etc.

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

April 5, 2004 Dear Mr. Van Brocklin: I am writing at this time to send to the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors an estate gift from Isabel H. Sherwood, my mother, in the amount of $2,000 to be allocated as the organization sees fit. My parents, Stan and Isabel Sherwood, were both members of the Jersey Shore Bottle Club for many years and members of the FOHBC. My mother passed away November 18, 2003, after a long illness. She took great joy in her life with her passion for glass, in almost any form, but in particular became fascinated with all the variations in pickle bottles, jam and jelly jars. My father was a long time collector of fruit jars and glass target balls.

We hope this gift will be put to good use to further the organization’s purpose.

Sincerely, Peggy Birkemeier Dear Mrs. Birkemeier: I am saddened to hear of your mothers passing. Although I had never met her personally, I was aware that she had been involved with the Federation, assisting in judging some of our contests and other matters. We are less from her loss and many in the hobby have lost a good friend.

With Kind Regards, Ralph Jay Van Brocklin

From Roger@antique-bottles.net: I just wanted to say after the note in the winter issue’s Bottle Buzz on Antique-Bottles.Net which says “There are currently 545 members and over four and a half thousand indexed pages of information”: Thanks to Bottle Buzz readers, www.antique-bottles.net is now officially the largest Bottle site on the web with 1,000+ active members and 15,000+ pages indexed by Google.

Thank you Buzz notes readers!

Correction: Missing third paragraph in Dave Scafani’s “Rainier Beer 1883-1916” article, Spring 2004 Bottles and Extras, page 55: In 1892, a major merger with Albert Braun Brewing Association and Claussen & Sweeny Brewing Company created The Seattle Brewing and Malting Company.

Rainier Beer, which was the original label brand of Bayview Brewing, became one of the most widely distributed beers on the Pacific coast. In 1897 the North Pacific Brewery in Washington joined, followed in 1901 by Standard Brewing Company.

From Bryan Grapentine: When I suggested some time back that a year-end index of articles for the year would be of benefit to the members, it was thought to be a good idea and would be implemented. However, I did not see a 2003 article index in the Winter edition.

Has the idea been scraped, or what? If there is no room in the magazine, could it be obtained on-line ?

Bryan Hi Bryan, Yes, with so many great articles of interest to the bottle collecting community, space for the index of articles you mention has not presented itself. But yes, it is online, and has been since the first issue I did, Winter (January - March), 2003.

It can be found here: www.fohbc.com/ BandE_ArticleIndex.html.

Here is not only a listing of all articles, but each issue’s title links to a Table of Contents, which includes links to sample articles.

We are fortunate enough to receive an average of over 10,000 visitors a month to the fohbc.com website and I would love to see more members utilizing it as well.

Kathy

Bottles and Extras Hi Mike [Elling], I just received a new RC bottle from El Paso. On both the front and rear shoulders are debossed trapezoids surrounding RC with a debossed star above. The front label is the one with pyramids, no copyright 1936, and the star is yellow. On the back is the Good Houskeeping seal, but no ingredients list.

In my records, I saw a similar bottle (about 8 years ago) with an embossed trapezoid on the shoulders. The front label has pyramids, has the copyright, and the star is stenciled in the red sky to let the brown color of the soda show through.

The back also has the Good Housekeeping seal plus a list of ingredients.

In [Paul] Bates’ book on painted label sodas, he shows a similar bottle with RC enclosed in a triangle.

Since I recorded the first trapezoid bottle so long ago, and I am not sure how accurate I was in those days (I look at much more detail now), I wonder if the first bottle was really embossed rather than debossed, and I cannot tell from my photo. Were some of the trapezoid bottles embossed? Since I have a debossed one sitting in front of me, I know those exist.

Second, how many variations of these early bottles are there? Even if the first bottle I saw was debossed, it is still quite different from the one I now have. With the triangle bottle, I now know of three styles.

Finally, what is the approximate date range for these pre-ACL shoulder logo bottles? I figure if anyone knows these answers, it will be you.

You should consider writing a dating article for one of the magazines for RC and Nehi variations. More people are becoming interested in dating (and more archaeologists are reading the collectors magazines — three of us appeared in the letters section of Bottles and Extras two issues ago).

Hope things are going well with you.

Bill Lockhart 1313 14th St., Apt. 21 Alamogordo, NM 88310 (505) 439-8158 bottlebill@zianet.com Hi Bill [Lockhart], First of all, congratulations on your fine descriptions of the Knox Glass Works mould marks in your recent article in Bottle and Extras, Vol. 15, No. 1. The

Bottles and Extras Knox facility in Jackson, Mississippi actually produced the majority of the embossed "Royal Crown Beverages," and "Royal Crown Root Beer" introductory 12-ounce bottles in 1934 and 1935. What few bottles were made, these proprietary "Crown in Carbonation" bottles are very distinctive and very desirable.

You are correct in thinking there are both debossed (incuse) and embossed (raised letters) neck variations. There seems to be no express pattern of the early painted labels (which include the customer-adopted terminology "RC" by 1935. Some are, and some are not, debossed.

However, it seems that the paper label bottles were equally leaders in popularizing the use of 12-ounce bottles at this time.

The first ceramic colors were rather weak (yellow especially) and were not fully perfected until about 1938. The same can be said in glass tumbler and decorated dishware of the era.

Most collectors ignore the term "trapezoid" in talking about the embossed neck pyramid labels. They prefer "RC-Triangle" (or embossed RC-Pyramid) for the early, and "RC-Star" for the later.

The final RC-Stars were made in 1938.

By 1939, the process was perfected well enough for all the neck labels to be ACL. These include a small RC-Star emblem beneath the logo. This is confirmed by collector/scholar Dennis Miller in a previous issue of Soda Fizz, Vol. 2, No. 1, that Kathy Hopson also edits. In 1940, only the logo "Royal Crown" remains on the neck and this continued throughout the issue to 1956.

The use of the Good Housekeeping Seal seems to be universal until 1941. After which, each bottler was supposedly told (I have not seen the NEHI service order) to independently apply for the seal (which included much expense and a license fee); so everybody (except Columbus) of course dropped it. You are right in that we need to get an article out about this. I now have a cheap digital camera which takes rather low quality pictures. I will try a few to illustrate the article and send them across to you and Kathy [Hopson].

Michael E. Elling 4042 Sidonia Road Sharon, Tennessee 731-973-4995 cheromike@citlink.net

Summer 2004 From: Vernon Grant: Hi Ralph, a friend of mine saw your article in Bottles and Extras, and since I have compiled two books on Richmond bottles, he thought I might like to respond to your request for information. Before sitting down to do this, I spent a couple of days doing some further research. The result is that there were no Coddins of any discription living in Richmond in this time period. However there were maybe a dozen Goddins residing here at that time. One was a Dr. Norman A. H. Goddin who was a physician and ran a drug store.

I think the crude embossing is causing the confusion on the name and initials. Below is information taken from my book.

Thanks, Vernon jovern@comcast.net DR. GODDINS COMPOUND GENTIAN BITTERS: Dr. Norman A. H. Goddin, physician and druggist at 1873 - 1888 735 Brook Ave. There are two different aqua bottles known to me. They are square, aqua colored bottles, ten inches in height, with beveled corners, recessed panels and a tapered collar. One is embossed in four lines as follows: DR. GODDIN¹S/ C O M P O U N D / G E N T I A N BITTERS/RICHMOND, VA. (See picture on page 23.) There is another version(at right) that doesn’t have Richmond embossed. There is now a new find, see opposing page. It is a beautiful amber bottle even though the neck is missing.

According to the embossing on the back side it is a product of N.A.H. Goddin, M. D.. The owner thought it was M.A.M. Coddin, but after I did additional research I have concluded that it has to be N.A.H. Goddin.

From Tom Moulton, Plant City, Fla.: I have been hoping that someone would take the initiative about putting an article in the magazine requesting information on Harry Hall White. He is the only one of our Hall of Fame members without a picture. When I was VP for those many years, I worked on this project for several years but did not have the ability to reach the hobby as a whole. I wrote a lot of letters but never got anywhere. How about you and Ralph putting something together about this.

Send information to the Editor at;

3 kathy@thesodafizz.com re: Mr. White for inclusion in a future issue.

From Cecil Munsey, Poway, Calif.: In September of 1997 I wrote an article about a Coke-shaped bottle embossed FOSFO-COLA (Bottles & Extras, Vol. 8, No. 9, pages 3-7). The bottle was made in Mexico.

Pictured below is another Coke-shaped bottle that is unrelated to the one I wrote about in 1997.

I am wondering if anyone out there in bottle-collecting-land knows anything about this newly found Coke-type bottle?

Somewhere in these bottles, that look like the traditional hobble-skirt Coke bottles, is a story I’d like to pursue and write. Ayuda me por favor.

Cecil Munsey cecilmunsey@cox.net

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Recent Finds

Bottles and Extras

An Indiana collector was the happy purchaser of a spectacular bottle at an auction in central Indiana, recently. Acquired was a Duffy’s Crescent Saloon pig — in cobalt blue!!! [See cover.]

This bottle was previously only known in aqua, amber and clear— all scarce and all desirable to collectors of whiskeys, Louisville items and “saloon” embossed items. Equally astonishing as the brilliant cobalt coloration is the price the bottle was acquired for — the princely sum of $90.00! And who says a deal can’t be found at auctions these days???!

This bottle was a late entry to the auction, having been walked in by the consignor just prior to the start of the auction. The purchaser was not arguing that it had not been advertised in advance and neither is the proud current owner. A dream come true!

Marsdenʼs Mountain City Cure - Marsden the Druggist

by Marc Lutsko I came up with some information about a very rare Montana "cure" bottle. It is about a virtually unknown cure, from the small town of Kalispell, Montana. The bottle is a clear rectangular paneled tooledlip bottle, embossed all on the front panel, "MARSDEN'S / MOUNTAIN CITY COUGH CURE / KALISPELL, MONT." Here is a little background history of the man who was known as, "Marsden the Druggist".

Carlisle B. Marsden had a Drug Store in Kalispell, Montana, located at 19 East 2nd Street in 1901. His home residence was at 228 - 5th Avenue East.

In the Fall of that year, November 1, 1901, he moved his business to 112 Main Street and he went on a vigorous advertising campaign. The Daily Inter-Lake newspaper from that time and into 1902 are full of his ads. During that time he advertised these products: Marsden's Cold Cure Marsden's White Pine Cough Cure Marsden's Mountain City Cough Cure Marsden's Mountain City Catarrh Cure Marsden's Instant Cold Cure Marsden's Liquid Corn Cure Marsden's Cold Cure Tablets Marsden's Headache Tablets Marsden's Magnetic Liniment Marsden's Magic Liniment Out of all of these products, I have only seen two of them on an embossed bottle, in three different sizes. One is embossed, as mentioned, "MARSDEN'S / MOUNTAIN CITY COUGH CURE / KALISPELL, MONT." and the other embossed bottle reads, "MARSDEN'S /

MAGIC LINIMENT / KALISPELL, MONT." They come in a 6 1/2-, 7 1/2-, and 9-inch size.

Don't rush out to purchase one, I could count the number of each of these bottles in existence right off the top of my head!

There are also his drug store bottles, "C.B. MARSDEN / DRUGGIST / KALISPELL, MONT." embossed in script. These come in ten sizes, from 1/2ounce to 32-ounce, and are about the most common of the Kalispell drug store bottles, showing how rare the patent medicine bottles really are.

He advertised himself as "Marsden the Druggist" while he was in Kalispell, from 1901-1911. The 1911 directory tells us that he moved to Ocean Park, California.

Interesting side note, Johnnie Fletcher of Oklahoma, wrote to me about an advertising teapot he has which reads, "MARSDEN THE DRUGGIST / MISSOULA, MONT." So, either Carlisle was in Missoula before coming to Kalispell, or had a drug store both in Missoula and in Kalispell. Missoula is about 120 miles from Kalispell. His venture there may have been short as there are no embossed Marsden bottles from Missoula to date.

As of this writing, I have four of the six different sizes of the two types of Marsden's bottles. We have dug six of the Marsden's bottles, three of them coming from one back yard. We've dug about 200 privys in Kalispell and only came up with a total of three of the cures; two in different sizes and one damaged. I've even dug at his residence, probing two pits but never dug a single Marsden bottle there.

In my estimation, the Mountain City

Cough Cure is the finest patent medicine from the State of Montana. The cobalt Bennet's Magic Cure is rumored to be from Montana, but in rarity and title, (Mountain City) the Marsden's takes the cake.

Marsden titled his cure accurately, for Kalispell is in the Flathead Valley, surrounded by incredible mountain ranges, including the mountains of Glacier National Park. So, as you drive over the Continental Divide on the Going to the Sun Highway in Glacier Park, make sure you glance out west to Kalispell, home of the Mountain City Cough Cure.

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The Port Arthur Coca-Cola Bottles

by Bryan Grapentine

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T&M?

Photo by Larry Grapentine

Before the Coca-Cola Company required bottlers to use the hobbleskirt design, patented in 1915 and still in use today, each franchisee used bottles of their own design. The bottles of most interest to collectors today are embossed with the Coca-Cola logo in script and with the city and or state. Collectors refer to these as straight-sided Coke bottles.

The straight-sided coke bottles are rather common from hundreds of different

bottlers in the United States. Less than a dozen are known from Canadian cities most of them are from the province of Ontario. Most of these were made in a standard design similar to U.S. bottles.

Port Arthur, Ontario, bottles are in a unique attractive design, as can be seen in the photo below. Many American collectors mistakenly thought the bottles were from Port Arthur, Texas. There is no question that they are from Ontario.

This little slightly rectangular bottle, about 2.5” tall, pontiled, embossed T & M on two sides is often listed as an ink bottle in auctions and on eBay. It is actually a "Bear Grease Pomade" bottle used by the Taylor and Moore Company of New York City.

Alfred Taylor and James Moore were drug importers and distributors of a few medicinals, but their main line was perfumery products, including bear grease pomade. They were in business from 1837 until both retired in about 1857.

Reference: 19th Century Medicine in Glass Bill and Betty Wilson 1971

Good for One Quart . . .

The left most bottle in the photo is 8” tall aqua and ABM. The middle bottle is 9” tall, light sun-colored amethyst and has a tooled top. The other bottle is also a tooled top, sun-colored, and is 8 1/8” tall. All of the bottles have RETURN WHEN EMPTY around the base.

The bottles are quite scarce and few complete sets of the three bottles are in collector’s hands. I rate them as Canada’s best Coca-Cola bottles.

Bryan Grapentine 1439 W. Waltann Lane Houston, TX 77094 (281) 646-1116

. . .of Milk

Front and back of a token found in Spokane, Wash: “Good for *1* Quart Milk” from Lakewood Dairy, E.J. Young, Spirit Lake, Idaho.

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Federation of Historicial 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: (423) 282-8393 E-mail: thegenuine@comcast.net 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 E-mail: hewittja@bellsouth.net Secretary : Ed Provine, 401 Fawn Lake Dr., Millington, TN 38053; Phone: (901) 876-3296 E-mail: ed.provine@thyssenkruppelevator.com Treasurer : Alan DeMaison, 6583 Berkshire Dr., Mentor, OH 44060; Phone: (440) 255-3880 E-mail: violinbottle@aol.com Historian : Richard Watson, 10 S.Wendover Rd., Medford, NJ 08055; Phone: (856) 983-1364 E-mail : rewatson@bellatlantic.net Editor : Kathy Hopson, 1966 King Springs Rd., Johnson City, TN 37601; Phone: (423) 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 E-mail: fred@holabird.com

Business Manager / Subscriptions: June Lowry, 401 Johnston Ct., Raymore, MO 64083 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: shel6943@bellsouth.net Director-At-Large : Norman Barnett, P.O. Box 38, Flat Rock, IN 47234; Phone: (812) 587-5560 E-mail: thebarnetts@lightbound.com 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 E-mail: brerfox@frontiernet.net Southern Region Director : Tom Lines, PO Box 382831, Birmingham, AL 35238; Phone: (205) 987-0650 E-mail: tlines@resourcemgt.com Western Region Director : Kent Williams, 1835 Oak Terr., Newcastle, CA 95658; Phone: (916) 663-2030 E-mail: kent@altarfire.com Public Relations Director : Mike Polak, PO Box 30328, Long Beach, CA 90853; Phone: (562) 438-9209 E-mail : bottleking@earthlink.net

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Federation of Historic Bottle Collectors

President’s Message Summer 2004 As I reach the conclusion of my twoyear stint as President of the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors I reflect with pride upon the advances the organization has made and look forward, with anticipation, to the progress we will make in the next two years with John Pastor at the helm and a Board that will include new individuals and the new ideas they will foster!

The improvements we have seen in the Federation are wholly due to the volunteers whose talents we have had the honor of drawing upon. My thanks go out to our current Board who made the difficult decisions to alter publication frequency while setting in motion the framework for a superior magazine and newsletter format.

Provision of free advertising of sale items and reduced charges for display ads to our Affiliated Clubs are tangible benefits that this Board has promoted.

The complimentary individual membership provided to each club is an effective way for them to thank someone for the work they have done on behalf of the club and brings an additional industrious collector to the Federations’ rolls.

Our authors are the backbone of our periodicals and they deserve our greatest laudatory comments. I am thankful for those friends who have written consistent columns for us over my tenure and, equally, for those who have shared with us their knowledge on a single issue basis. I admit to shamelessly imposing on a large number of my friends to help us by sharing their knowledge and enthusiasm

for what they collect and to all of you who have answered the call (and who yet will!), please know that I sincerely appreciate what you have done for us!

A very special thanks goes out to our Regional Correspondents, who summarize the newsletters from their region six times yearly, often with a wonderful interjection of wit and personality. Joe Terry (Midwestern), Larry Fox (Northeastern), Bill Baab (Southern) and Scott Grandstaff (Western) perform one of the most important tasks that we ask of our members, imparting cohesiveness to the group and lending us one of the truly unique features that exists in our publications when compared to others.

Keeping all of the functions of the periodicals and the website coordinated and the materials appropriately presented requires a tremendous outlay of time and energy and the Federation owes it’s greatest dose of gratitude to Kathy Hopson, our Editor. I can honestly say that without her my task would have been impossible and that there could be no finer advocate for the hobby or steward of Bottles and Extras and our other periodicals.

One of the largest expenditures of effort by Federation representatives— and one of the areas in which we consistently provide a quality service to the bottle collecting community—is the yearly National Show. I sincerely appreciate the endeavors of all who have been involved in these shows over my tenure, including seminars, displays and set-up/coordination. A particularly heartfelt thanks to show chairmen Barb

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

Schwarting and Larry Fox for the 2002 Syracuse National, June and Wayne Lowry for the 2003 Louisville National and Gene Bradberry for the upcoming EXPO 2004 to be held in Memphis, Tennessee, this August.

Finally, as I consider all who have assisted the Federation over the past two years, I would like to express my gratitude to those Life Members who have continued to make donations to the Federation, despite no obligation to do so. These additional monies have made it possible to keep the organization viable and have paved the way for a more responsive and improved Federation. Particularly generous donations were made by Mr. Robert Hagge, Jr. and Mrs. Isabel Sherwood who left the Federation a donation in her estate.

I look forward to continuing to work on your behalf in my role as Immediate Past President.

Thank you, one and all, for being members of this wonderful organization!

Ralph Jay Van Brocklin, DMD

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Summer 2004 Babcock, Howard and Lillian Dean, Robert Dicker and Tom and Evelyn Dudarchik.

An Exemplar Service Award for extraordinary dedication and service to the hobby of collecting antiques and antique bottles was given to Barbara Crane. For 24 years she has written a weekly column [“Collector’s Corner”] for the Mid-York Weekly and Pennysaver.

The event was a huge success and very well attended. My estimate would be between 60 to 70 guests.

This from Steve Charing: The Baltimore Antique Bottle Club was excited over the results of their March show in which a record 1,400 attended this major bottle event. Feedback to the club from many dealers confirmed that the show was successful by any standard of measurement. The club has begun preparations for its 25th anniversary show next March 6 th . Some interesting programs have highlighted the club’s meetings. There was a presentation by club members on cleaning bottles and crock repair; a videotape prepared by members called “Door Knock Diggers,” which chronicled the everyday buying and digging rituals by some members; and a slide presentation of the historic great Baltimore Fire, which is commemorating its 100th anniversary this year.

From The Glory Hole Newsletter of The Long Island Antique Bottle

Association: Long time collector of poisons, Jim Scaturro [like that name will not draw attention from spell check], will be guest speaker at the May meeting.

Many years ago at the Rochester show I was set up next to Jim. He is a delightful person who willingly shares information with everyone. I witnessed my first sale of a poison bottle. I remember thinking nice bottle. Ought to bring 30 to 40 dollars. Almost needed to be helped to my chair after he accepted $4500.00 for it.

Ever since that experience I have a hard time pricing my bottles - always tempted to add a couple zeros to the price [just in case].

In April, Mike Katsar gave a program on milk bottles. Did you know Bowery means farm? It was taken from the early Dutch settlers on Manhattan Island. I always associated it with the white ghetto like the ‘Bowery Boys’ lived in. Before the first milk bottles [about 1880], milk was delivered in a large container and hand-dipped into your container. The first commercial patented milk bottle was by Thatcher in 1884. Tin tops were the first closure on a milk bottle and were used from 1890 to WWI. First patented paper cap was in 1899. Wax paper cartons were patented in 1915 and pyroglazing started in the 1930s. Hey Mike, you are a tough act for Jim to follow.

Wish you guys were closer; I would like to set in on one of your meetings.

“E. Ammon and Co. Wholesale Wine and Liquors, Chicago” to Andy Stewart’s pontiled aqua “Dr Baker’s Pain Panacea”.

Minnesota 1st Antique Bottle Club The show was a huge success! The potluck the night before was well attended by a crowd of hungry dealers and club members, despite the torrential rains.

Everyone ate their fill, and much discussion was held after the meal. The show was wonderful, with a great variety of offerings, such a pottery, fruit jars, local collectables and more. The ‘after-show” get together was smaller then in previous years, due largely to people wanting to get back home.

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

GVBCA Show & Sale, Rochester, N.Y., held April 18th in its new location at ESL Sports Center, was fairly successful. There were some minor glitches that will be worked out for next years show. Quality of merchandise offered for sale was the best it has been in years.

The show committee was unaware that the lighting for the exhibits was not in working order. This will definitely be rectified before the next show. Reported dealer sales were strong and that is a very positive sign. Congrats to the show committee.

Mohawk Valley Antique Bottle Club, Whitesboro, N.Y., celebrated its 10 th anniversary May 10th with a dinner at Symeon’s Greek Restaurant in Yorkville.

N.Y. Exemplar Service Awards for extraordinary dedication and service to the hobby of bottle collecting at both the local and national level were given. For supporting and fostering bottle clubs, the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors and the National Bottle Museum were given to the following: Bruce and Verna

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Joe Terry

P.O. Box 243 Bowling Green, Ohio 43402 (419) 686-0032 jiterry@wcnet.org Antique Bottle Club of Northern Illinois April’s meeting was attended by fifteen members and one guest. The main focus was the upcoming May Tabletop Antiques and Collectables Show. All members are asked to be in attendance. A talk was given

by Dennis Klinkhammer on Ozomulsion.

Dennis recovered some bottles during a privy dig, and presented them with his talk. Other members brought in an assortment of newly acquired bottles, ranging from Dan Puzzo’s I.P. demijohn Centennial whiskey jug embossed

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Findlay Antique Bottle Club Warm weather has brought with it rain, which has slowed down digging. The bright rift in the rain clouds was the recent bottle show in Mansfield, Ohio on May 8 th. Many FABC members could be found perusing the offerings at the show. Our meeting was a week later, and was attended by eight members. Show acquisitions included Dick Coppler’s Negro waiter bottle (with head –rare!) made at Dalzell, Gilmore and Leighton in Findlay. Fred Curtis added a couple of hutch sodas to his growing Ohio collection, including a nice one from the Brecheisen Bottling Works, Bowling Green, Ohio.

North Star Antique Bottle Club Congratulations to Dennis Nygaard and Steve Showers. Both men decided to give the old Red Wing pottery dump another try. The result was two nearly identical jugs, one embossed Glenwood Spring and the other, Inglewood Springs.

These two companies eventually merged

Bottles and Extras in the Glenwood Inglewood Company, making these two jugs extremely rare. The club was also part of the recent show as reported above under Minnesota First.

Ohio Bottle Club On May 7-8th, hundreds of enthusiastic bottle, insulator and antique advertising collectors from around the country converged on Mansfield, Ohio for the Ohio Bottle Club’s annual Spring show.

One of the largest ongoing bottle shows in the country with 300+ sales tables, this ”grassroots” show has always been a favorite among dealers and collectors alike. The Friday afternoon setup and early buying period was hampered by rain for awhile, but the skies cleared before the chow line formed for the Ohio club’s famous home style buffet feast, which is

Summer 2004 served to the 500+ attendees in less than one-half hour. This year’s show was attended by many Federation officers and members, and a well-attended FOHBC Midwest Regional Meeting was held prior to the dinner. Following the dinner, an auction of over 100 lots of quality collectible bottles and go-withs was held for interested attendees as an aid to digestion. The weather cooperated on Saturday, and a day of active buying, selling and camaraderie among attendees prevailed. A few “sleepers” were found during the day, including some of the club’s building security specialists who were up all night performing their guard duties. As in the past few years, show participants included a significant number of dealers specializing in collectible insulators, as well as members of the snout. I did and was immediately tee-teed on by the pig. The figural didn’t squeal, but I did!

Johnnie Fletcher, president of the Oklahoma Territory Bottle & Relic Club and editor of Oklahoma Territory News, used his May issue to describe digs with friends in Minneapolis, Kan. Fletcher, Kenny Burbrink, Ed Stewart and Tom Kost didn’t find much during their digging adventures, but what they did find was worth reporting.

“Who The Heck Was Charley Ross?” was the title of one of the stories, stemming from “a strange-looking flask that showed a really ugly kid and CHARLEY ROSS embossed above the picture,” Fletcher related.

He’d remembered hearing about Charley Ross, but Tom did Internet research and came up with the following: “The first American kidnaping for ransom took place on July 1, 1874 in Philadelphia. Charley Ross, the four-yearold son of a merchant of comfortable means, as walking with his older brother Walter when they were enticed into a buggy by two men who offered them candy. Walter was released many blocks away, but not Charley.

“His father soon received an unsigned letter advising that his son was being held for ransom and that ‘no powers on earth’ could free him. It was the beginning of 23 letters from the abductors.

“A few days later, Ross received a

Southern Regional News

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

The Horse Creek Antique Bottle Club’s April meeting was highlighted by the appearance of David Hopkins of Augusta, Ga., a blower of “research glass” at the Department of Energy Savannah River Site.

Hopkins, who retired in 1993 after 40 years of service, spoke to the GeorgiaCarolina Bottle Club of Augusta in 1972.

In checking that now-defunct club’s newsletter, this regional editor found a summary of Hopkins’ program and wondered if he was still alive.

Not only is he alive, he also gives entertaining programs on glassblowing to school groups and science clubs, and so 32 years later, he addressed yet another group of antique bottle collectors.

“Lightning made the first glass,” Hopkins said. “Glass is something that enriches our lives every day, and we don’t think about it.”

Using a mixture of propane and oxygen, Hopkins demonstrated his skills by blowing a figural swan and wine glass.

He also brought a figural pig he’d blown at home. It was filled with a green-colored solution and this editor was invited to sniff it by pulling out the cork in the pig’s

9 Western Reserve Insulator Club. Many thanks from those in the hobby to Bill Koster, Ron Hands, Don & Betsy Yates and all of the other Ohio Bottle Club members who volunteer to consistently make the Mansfield Show one of the most eagerly anticipated annual bottle events in the country!

West Michigan Bottle Club The club has sent along the roster for the year, which includes sixty members.

There was a reprint article from WM Bottle Club News on Christoph Kusterer, a German immigrant who settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan and started a brewery. The club added a bottle sketch and an advertisement from Kusterer to highlight the article.

second letter, which set the ransom at the then enormous sum of $20,000 and threatened the life of the boy if detectives were put on the case.

“The police advised Ross against paying any ransom lest further abductions be encouraged. More correspondence was received from the kidnapers who grew more insistent, but never left any clues as to their whereabouts. The Pinkerton Detective Agency was called in. Flyers were issued with the only known photograph of Charley Ross at the age of two and a half.”

Then the case took a bizarre twist.

“In December, a night alarm signaled a break-in at the summer home of a Long Island resident. Neighbors surprised two intruders and mortally wounded them when gunfire erupted between the two groups.

“One of the burglars, as he lay dying, said: ‘It’s no use lying now. My partner and I stole Charley Ross.’ Asked where the boy was, he replied that only his partner knew, but his partner lay dead.

Just before he expired, he said the child would be returned safe and sound in a few days. However, Charley Ross was never seen again.”

The flask was a part of the publicity effort by the family to locate the missing boy.

“Imagine!” Fletcher said. “We had found connection to a 130-year-old kidnaping in a trash pit in the middle of Kansas!”

Digging continued with five

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Minneapolis drug store bottles among the best finds. They were embossed E. & L.E. Crosby/Druggist/Minneapolis, Kan. (One of the two had a mortar and pestle); Palace Drug Store/E.L. Chapin & Son/ Minneapolis, Kan.; W.E. Dunn/Druggist/ Minneapolis, Kan., and Red Cross Pharmacy/Jacob Heberly & Co., Props/ Minneapolis, Kan. “That made a total of 13 different drugstore bottles from that small town,” Fletcher observed.

Who is the nation’s oldest bottle collector still actively digging?

Eighty-seven-year-old Art Smock, an active member of the M-T Bottle Collectors Association of DeLand, Fla., may wear that crown, according to Bill and Sally Marks, co-editors of the Diggers Dispatch, in their May issue.

(If anyone knows differently, this regional editor would like to hear).

The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors once again offered a free year’s membership including a subscription to Bottles & Extras to one of the DeLand club’s members. A drawing for it was to be held during the club’s May meeting.

Bill Marks displayed a pontiled pharmaceutical beaker with a glass top during the show and tell session. The beaker was mounted onto a wooden base embossed “The Cushion Base Graduate

Co. Phil. Pa. USA Charles B. Rider Pat.” Charles Benton showed a pre-machine squat amber 7-Up embossed on each side of the neck. Its base was embossed SevenUp Dallas Co., Inc. Dallas, Texas.

The Markses featured a story about an early pharmacist in St. Augustine, Fla. – T.W. Speissegger & Sons. The senior member of the firm and his sons had bought out an earlier drug store. The Speisseggers firm dates to 1875.

The drug store in 1887 was moved to The Authentic Old Drug Store from descendants of the original owner, who had built the building in 1739. The store still stands and is maintained by sales from an adjacent souvenir shop. Bill Marks said it’s one of his favorite places to visit.

Roberta Knight, editor of The Bottling Works of the Tennessee Valley Traders and Collectors, featured line drawings of bottle shapes in the April issue. She obtained the information off the internet.

She also noted: Frostie Root Beer was once bottled in an abandoned Cantonsville, Md., jailhouse. Frostie owner George Rackensperger decided to open his on plant in 1939 so he rented the jailhouse.

Consumer demand and sales volume rapidly arose and the owner built a modern plant. Frostie later became a

franchised beverage.

The South Carolina Bottle Club newsletter, co-edited by this region editor and Marty Vollmer of Lexington, S.C., featured a pair of rare bottles from Edgefield, S.C., in the April issue.

Edgefield is better known for its pottery, but two firms also produced a couple of good bottles, examples of which are known.

One is an amber bottle standing 8-3/4 inches tall and 2-1/4 inches square. It’s embossed Dr. W.D. Jenning’s Hepactic or Liver Medicine on one panel and W.E. Lynch/Druggist/Edgefield C.H. S.C., on the other. The “C.H.” stands for Court House which is where most mail was directed to be distributed in those late 19th century days. Several bottles exist including one in this editor’s collection.

The second bottle is a Penn’s Bitters for the Liver and also is amber. It is 6-1/4 inches high and 2-1/4 inches square, according to Bitters Bottles by W.C. Ham and Carlyn Ring. An example listed in the book was reportedly dug in Pittsburgh, Pa. The liver medicine dates to 1877, while G.L. Penn & Son druggists date to 1879.

The S.C. Bottle Club’s show raised $3,500 for the Boys and Girls Club.

Eventually, things got more organized and a supply company began packing in stuff by a string of pack horses and mules. At that time they would only bring in two brands of whiskey: The usual brand in barrels and such, which would be poured into any handy container, and a small amount of premium stuff. The early western distillers hadn’t come around to bottling the stuff they were cranking out in embossed bottles, so when they did sell by-the-bottle spirits, it came in any old plain black bottle they could get. The incase-you-struck-some-gold premium name brand hooch was shipped around the horn.

It was the first commercial premium whiskey brand in an embossed bottle ever brought to this valley.

Plus, one of my ancestors on my mother’s side figured in the firm. See the little “F” in the bottom of the cross? That’s for Fellows and my crazy uncle swears anytime you see that name by any spelling, it’s a relative because the name is just too rare. They were getting last billing in the

distillery, I guess.

I walked a million miles and dug a million holes looking for one. Never found more than a tantalizing broken piece of one, either. Two days ago my friend, Rick’s son, Kyle, waltzed into the auto parts store with an old bottle.

But, I need to back up just a little, for context.

It all started when Rick, local auto parts purveyor extraordinaire, was forced, kicking and screaming, to clean out his garage. Among the junk, he came across his old slot car set. Knowing I like to play with toy cars he brought them in and gave them to me. They were early 60s cars, which for slot cars are early indeed.

I did a little research, took some pictures and put them up on eBay. A couple weeks later I met him out back of the shop after he’d filled someone’s propane bottle. “Say the magic woid and divide a hundred dollars?” I grinned at him. He thinks a minute and actually came up with...Ebay!! Actually the lot brought $200 so I divvied it up. If he hadn’t filed out the rear wheel opening to get bigger tires on they’d have been worth

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

Hello Friends!

I’ve got a story! And a picture and a new old bottle to share!! This doesn’t happen to me everyday, let me tell ya.

Here is my new old bottle.

In the days of the gold rush, it was real helter-skelter with rude tents and lots of mud around here. Niceties were for later.

With the discovery of gold the tiny town swelled to several thousand almost overnight. And gold they did find. They say it was a million dollars a mile of river.

The county courthouse out in Yreka has a small display in about a 10-foot-long display case stuffed with gold nuggets the size of goose eggs and bigger, plus buckets of finds.

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Bottles and Extras five times that, but it was better’n nuthin’ and that’s a fact.

Apparently the story got around the shop and his son was complaining that he wanted something to sell for extra cash and didn’t have anything like that. Then he remembered an old bottle he’d found out back of his house, just laying there, and brought up onto the porch where it had laid around nearly a year.

Rick calls me, “Hey, if you get time swing by and see this bottle my boy found.”

“Is it broken?” I ask cynically since I get this a lot. “No,” he says. “Is it clear?”

I asked, wincing . “No, it’s brown,” he says. “Is there anything at all embossed on the front of it?” expecting the usual.

Don’t all your friends and relatives ask you if their screw-topped clear catsup bottle is worth a million dollars? Well, don’t they? “Oh, yeah, it says AAA Old Valley Whiskey and a lot of stuff and a cross and and........” I’m hyperventilating along about this time. Sweat pouring in buckets. My knees are done gone to jelly.

I croaked something into the phone and hung up shaking like a leaf.

A couple minutes later I was on my bicycle streaking over to see if it was true.

It was! Rick is wearing blue rubber gloves becase he doen’t want to touch it. I grabbed it unceremoniously from his hands and ran to the window gazing up through the glass. I ran my fingers all over it. He’s looking at me like I’m an escaped lunatic.

There have been four others found in this area. Four others, that’s it!! One of them was broken by accident. I saw the rest pass one way or another into other hands and eventually drift away into other collections.

I could only give him $125. All the available family ready cash, so I also just decided to try and change his life.

Especially when I found out he liked tools.

I loaded him up with about a decent yard sale table’s worth of real collector stuff. Maybe 35 pounds on a scale. Car tools, plumbing tools, planes, chisels, drills, bits, sharp files, more, more, more.

I put a couple of decent knives in his pocket and a good deer skinner on his belt (one I made); a bunch of tools he’d never knew existed that I gave him a quick lesson in; tools I didn’t even know what they were for, for fun, wrapped the drawknife, and spokes in an old cutoff Levi’s leg for the ride home. There was a little fold-over top tool box I’d owned for many years, and it was ancient before that, and bought new in this town at the old auto parts his old man worked for before he started his own. He might have sold it

Summer 2004 while sporting pimples! It was run over and pounded out many times, had burn holes and weld spatter. It’d been painted 21 times. A true local veteran.

Tossed in a half-dozen decent embossed pre-1900 bottles, too, just so he’d have some. I made him one of my radiator/heater hose removal persuaders.

A little hook that really does work.

None of it was stuff that would have brought a lot of money by the each, but all stuff I’d hung onto for some reason, some of it forever. My intention was to plant some seeds. He’s a good kid and now owns a micrometer and a sharp cabinet scraper and knows how to use them.

I know I probably could have had the bottle for 20 bucks and a half-pint if I was getting it at all, but I figure I’ve waited decades, always just missing getting one.

It isn’t the rarest bottle in the world, either, plenty of them on the national market because it really is a New York bottle after all, but just the rarest bottle you’re gonna find from this particular valley and it was changing my life, kinda, so I decided to try and do the same for him. He was numb driving away, in total complete shock. But he was smilin’. In fact, every time I see him since, he still grins. http://www.lovemyoldhome.com/ upload/valley1.jpg Yours, Scott Allllllllllright, grab your socks and hang on! We’re going in!

Dottie, you’re going first up this time!

Step into the spotlight, girl.

The Punkin Seed, Las Vegas AB&CC “The 2004 show is now 2½ months over and it’s time to get started on the preparations for the 2005 show.”

That’s a 9½ month lead time to put on a show as major and successful as the Las Vegas show, folks! Wow. They play for keeps out there in the desert, gang.

Inspirational, in a word.

She goes on to say: “To my way of thinking, it is an honor to be asked to be a show chairman. When all is said and done, when the chairman sees to all the aspects of a successful, well-run show, it is one of the greatest accomplishments a club member can do for his club.”

Somebody get me a chisel and let’s carve that in Corinthian Marble!!! Can you see me standing straight up solid on my feet applauding? Dottie, you da man!

Do you wonder how the ads get out so far and wide? Listen to this: Playing like Seabiscuit, Coming in down the home stretch.

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With only 21 days left till showtime, we planned one last big splurge of posting show fliers across Arizona. The Los Angeles traffic had us scared and we figured the wide open spaces suited us better. The leather shop was closed so we just thumbtacked a flier to the front door.

Stores and bulletin boards and everywhere imaginable got a flier. When the big antique mall didn’t encourage us to leave a stack of fliers, we just went on foot and passed one to every person on the floor.

More than one way to skin a cat, ladies and gentlemen. You can slip a flier between the salt and pepper shakers on the table wherever you eat! There are many cagey ways to get the word out.

Dick and Dottie You know readers, all this came from the first three pages of the Punkin Seed and I’m already running over my polite quota of print to go out in the summer B&E. I’ve said it before and here it is again. You really ought to join the Las Vegas club just to get this newsletter. A class by itself.

You know, I hate to complain about anything if if can be avoided. And naming names is a terrible thing and never at the top of my list. So it is with great humility that I politely say.......................

Hey you, Kent and Margie Williams of Auburn, California, USA............Yeah, you! Am I going to have to get on my bicycle with a backpack on and pedal

12 down to your place to get a newsletter??

(Who could afford gasoline?)

Helloooooooo, yoooo hooooooo. This your squeaky wheel hollering for grease here! We still got us an Auburn club or no? Helllllp, toss me a lifering, anything.

No news better be good news!

And while I’m at it,....... Hey you SLOBS (this is the San Louis Obispo club name, kids; I didn’t make this up, honest!). I know you’re there, tell me something. A postcard is fine, scratch something on the back of an envelope. We don’t stand on ceremony here!

I’m communicating with three clubs in Hawaii strictly by rumor.

Fresno? Get me a rope!

Ahem, sorry about that, folks. Back to our regular program of the good clubs who actually share news with us and no more hollering about being left completely out in the freezing lonely cold like this. (sniff, sniff) OK, comin at ya, The Stumptown Reporter, Oregon BCA Cool thing happened at the show ’n tell portion of the meeting. Bill brought a cornflower blue strapside flask back that a lot of people had missed because he brought it the first time in the middle of the ice storm. So, it was passed around hand to hand for everyone to enjoy. Then, he said goodbye to it and swapped it for an indented panel Pfunders on the spot.

Naturally, the Pfunders was also passed around. How you gonna top that? A good look is always good, but nothing like a fondle to go with it.

There’s a report on an archaelogical dig in Vancouver on some gubmint land.

Not much coming up except some vaguely interesting pottery shards. There was a store nearby the site, and an orphanage, and they’re trying to guess who made the trash pit. But it sounds like they’re having a good time of it anyway.

Eye bottles and eyewaters and eye cups were the general stars of the show, with lots of different ones and variants galore.

A program on insulators was given and a warning about the incredible flood of fake-colored and nuked insulators on the market now. This is a a serious and tragic blow to the insulator community. The serious collector is never fooled, not more than once anyway, but it’s the poor newbies that all of us strive so hard to protect, and our future mates, that always get burned. Isn’t there a way we can get to Congress or the Courts to get the laws against fraud actually enforced? I’d think a few debilitating lawsuits or stiff jail sentences would slow these quick buck artists down some when the word gets

Summer 2004 around. The laws are already on the books, we just need enforcement with a will!

The Dump Diggers Gazette, Colorado ABC In the March issue we see a nice detailed story of “The Brewing Industry in Denver Region, 1859-1987,” which is continued into April too. Quite a time spread! I couldn’t tell where it came from to give credit to the author, though.

Then, the eBay report on Colorado stuff turned up some interesting facts.

Looks like good hutches are holding up fine, thank you. There were several in the $100 range reported sold. But the real local killers are of course, the fabled early Colorado jugs. These always have strong interest. An Old Kentucky Liquor, Cripple Creek, fetched a tiny, even thousand dollars.

Our editor, Rebecca Harris, is retiring from duty. Thank you, Rebecca for good and true service! You’ll be missed, and oh, hope you had a great time in Germany!

Looking forward to the report.

Let’s head on over to Reno, see what’s up.

The Digger’s Dirt, Reno ABC Fred Holabird, author of The Nevada Bottle Book, presented a program of early whiskey bottles. On top of the book, Fred also holds auctions through his Americana company as well as being your Membership Director for the Federation.

I’ll just bet it was a great presentation.

In keeping with the theme, the raffle bottles were a Spruance and Stanley as well as CP Moorman Cutter whiskey and a copy of Bob Barnett’s whiskey book, too.

Willie Young and Marty Hall have tossed their hat into the ring for consideration of hosting the 2006 Nat’l show in Reno.

This is a great and generous gesture representing untold labor even if it doesn’t pan out. But if it does, oh, if it does, what a splendid show it will be. There isn’t enough that can be said of Willie. The man has class, in a word. I don’t personally know Marty, but I betcha he does too.

Hope this one works out.

Rick Raush selected a beatiful A. Van Hoboken’s gin in the raffle and Ed Scarborough won a Whitney Mason jar.

Both these were donated by Marty, so there you have more proof of this team’s sincerity. Get ‘em, guys! I’m pulling for you.

The Bottleologist, Sequoia AB&CS Barbara Hill at the wheel, editor and secretary both, brings us inside.

If your name is not on this list, your

Bottles and Extras dues are not paid! Cute way to do it, must say.

Among the show ’n tell items brought, Ron Burris brought a green double eagle and Barbara fetched in a sunburst and double eagle of her own. Nice to see interest in historical flasks. A lot of folks, especially here in the west, are kind of scared to get interested in these most American of bottles. These are the most faked, of course. But with a little study and some hands-on examination, it’s actually pretty easy to tell. And the often widely told astronomical prices these can bring aren’t universal by any means. Still plenty of genuine, beautiful examples available quite reasonably. I think every collector should indulge themselves to at least a few. I certainly do, and every chance I get. Heh heh.

There is a tale told of a classic 1926 Ford owned by local resident George Simon. The car has been in his family since new. George got it when he was 18 and has had it all his life since. After partially restoring it along the way, the day came when his missus slammed down the ultimatum every old junk-loving guy is terrified of hearing in his heart of hearts: “Either finish the car or it’s going away!”

Simon smiles and still thanks her for that everytime he looks at a splendidly restored and perfectly running car. I just hope nobody tells Kitty what I just wrote, shhhh, will ya?? I’ve got too many projects that could fall under that category myself.

The Bottleneck, San Diego AB&CC First up, I was treated to a membership directory printed on bright green St. Pat’sinspired paper. Thank you!

A membership directory is a most thoughful undertaking for keeping everybody in touch.

I see editor Rick Hall has slipped in a reprint of an older article on violin figural bottles. I must admit a certain amount of weakness for these as well. It was one of the first kinds of bottles Kitty and I collected. We’ve had many over the years, but most are gone now, passed over to other collectors. Still have a few, though.

I even went so far as to hand-carve a stopper for one once and built a little stand to hold the bottle up in a not-likely-totip-over manner. These are pretty skinny bottles, front to back, and with a small foot they aren’t real secure standing. Want a peek? Look to the right.

Something to be said for do-it-yourself go-withs once in a while.

I see a modest ad for The Fountain of

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her and lowers a bedsheet knotted rope like from a cheezy prison movie down to her. Well, she climbs just like Rapunzel, up about half way, then gets stuck. The equally drugged-up husband now climbs down to her and tries to pull her up. Of course he gets stuck, too, and the both of them screaming and cussing at the top of their lungs and our poor trying-to-dig heros at the ground just know the cops must be rip-roaring toward their, rather not broadcast it, location.

Eventually the couple both gave out and unceremoniously hit the ground with a meaty thud. No movement for a minute and then up they struggle and proceed to wander off in the haze they came in on.

Digging like mad the whole time, bottles were still found amid the insanity.

From the 1880s on top right down to pontil age on the bottom. Commitment, folks, that’s commitment. And nobody went to jail.

Youth - Isham’s California Waters of Life!

A natural mineral water, bottled at Isham Springs 12 miles east of San Diego.

This true soylent absolutely cures rheumatism of every character, Bright’s after every hope is gone. Diabetes in the last stages. Stomach troubles of every nature. Cancers. Tumors. Excema. Stops hair from falling. Eliminates and dissolves old age matter. Actually readorns the baldest of heads with a new and luxuriant growth of hair the callow of youth!

Ah yes, nothing like humility in advertising.

Liquid Lunch sent in by Jon Larson.

Seems about three years ago a plumber knocked a hole in a wall to get under a house, and what did he find? It was secret room! Right in the center of the floor sat three petrified apple cores and three halfpint whiskey flasks, labeled and all from San Diego. No explanation of the secret room was obvious, but sometime around 1900 there was clearly a small impromptu party held there.

HHH Horsemans Hope Horse Medicine. This popular and often seen western medicine goes back to 1868 and continued right into the 20s. A very popular liniment and enough variants around to start a whole collection over.

The Whittlark, LAHBC - our award winning newsletter Prez Val and Don Whippert hit the Vegas show and Don snagged a Jamaica ginger he’d been after for ten years. Hot Cha! Way to go, Don! Annual auction time is here. You guys are killing me!

What I wouldn’t give to be in on this.

Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas, Show that is, 2004, by Ken and Dar. Our travellers went over on Thursday to be well rested and ready to go on the Friday setup. (This is the mark of experienced show goers. The setup is where about everything really juicy trades hands. If I can’t make setup, it’s like I’ve missed the show, to my feeble way of thinking.)

Well, spotting an old water tower off a side road on an earlier excursion, a short look-see was made out to it. Bad men with guns had shot up everything in sight but only 50s baby food jars and such were to be seen anyway. Hit the setup a little late, complete with dusty clothes (we’re talking veterans here, folks) and made a run for inks and poisons for the collection. Dar met up with Dottie Daugherty and the two of them had their heads together for some time. Nothing but good can come from these two swapping notes. Important ladies to us all.

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Poisons seemd to be in short supply, but some good inks were sacked! Great show, as always. Lots of L.A. folks in attendance both buying and set up selling.

Val was spotted with her grandson in tow.

Beautiful long range planning there!

Set that hook early. Heh heh.

The Corker, Golden Gate HBS Now that was a great night! A digging story by Ned Clarke.

A lot under construction in the tenderloin district (the name is very self explanatory if you think a moment) was noticed and four feet of dirt had already been removed. Our hero and several other cohorts decended on the lot and went right to work. Ned finds a cobalt Wakelees citrate bottle and heads off to stash it in the car when a crazed woman runs right up and grabs him! Wiggling and running and trying to protect the bottle in his pocket (it really was a bottle, not glad to see her at all!), he finally gets away. By the time he gets back the woman has wandered into the lot and making a general nuisance of herself. This goes on until out the upper window of the adjoining building her husband calls to

The AtoZ Collector, Pheonix ABCC Is with great sadness that we must report the passing of John Hallinan, longtime club member and two-term president of the PABCC. You could see John’s passion for his collections written all over him. He was a wealth of knowledge of many things. John enjoyed every aspect of the hobby and freely shared his stories but was also intensely interested in the escapades of others. May you rest in peace.

Meet your Members - Jerry and Patty George: This is a nice idea whereby the established members of the club write a short tale of their lives for the benefit of the newer members. Good to do and good to keep around, too. Not being able to get out to Phoenix much (ahem), I do feel closer to you guys now. Thanks and thanks again for the idea.

I see in the regional internet sales report that AzTerritory items are doing well, as expected. But some of the younger things are more surprising. How about a 1934 Arizona license plate in copper and turquoise (I’m assuming paint) hammered down for $416. Or Mission Ranch, Cop the Cream, Phoenix milk bottle at $449?

Of course, I guess with the turning of the century and my own advancing years, stuff is getting older than it seems to the likes of me. (I’m wearing a 35-year-old belt, for heaven’s sake!)

Well, better get this off. Have fun, dig hard, keep a sharp eye out for that sparkle of glass.

Yours, Scott

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“YUKON JACK” Part I

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by Cecil Munsey Copyright © 2003

• He was a Pioneering Gold Prospector Who Innovatively Used Perry Davis’ Painkiller; • He inspired the Creation of the Classic Milk-Glass Figural, “Klondike” Pocket-Flask; • He had “The Black Sheep of Canadian Liquors” Named After Him; • He was Among the First Americans to Marry a Koyukon Athabascan Indian Woman PROLOGUE A genealogical search is always an interesting journey filled with many twists, turns and surprises. While doing genealogical research on William Munsey, who was the first Munsey to come to America (1698), I discovered the completely unrelated name of William McQuesten. The McQuesten name appears in America as early as 1720. Both Williams originated in the British Isles and came to New England and both made historic contributions to America’s early development.

The Munsey group’s most famous member was Frank Andrew Munsey (1854-1925), the great magazine and newspaper publisher. The McQuesten’s most famous group member was [Figure 1] Leroy Napoleon (“Jack”) McQuesten (1836-1909), a well known explorer, trader, prospector and pioneer of the Yukon Territory and the man for whom Yukon Jack, the 100 proof Canadian whiskey and honey-based liqueur, was named. Both historic figures became famous multi-millionaires as a result of their very different pioneering efforts. This is the brief history of: “Yukon” Jack McQuesten In his late teens, Jack left his home in the State of Maine to try his luck in the famous 1849 California gold rush. Not striking it rich, within a few years he moved to Oregon. There he fought in the “Oregon War” against the Walla Walla Indians who were on the warpath at that time. In 1858 he went north to British

Columbia in the gold rush to the Fraser River gold fields. He lived in the northern country, trapping and trading with Indian tribes near the Mackenzie River.

Eventually, while prospecting on the Mackenzie River, he crossed the Rocky Mountains (in 1873) and worked a gold claim on the Porcupine River all the way to the outposts of the Alaska Commercial Co. on the Yukon River. In 1874 Jack established Fort Reliance, a trading post, about six miles below present-day city of Dawson (Northwest Territory). In 1879 the Hudson Bay Co. employed him to run their trading post and later he did the same for the Alaska Commercial Co. He used Fort Reliance as his trading

post for about a dozen years. While at the Fort he made the first weather record of the Yukon – that was in 1880-81. It was during the same period that Jack became widely known as the inventor of the “Sourdough Thermometer.”

Perry Davis Painkiller Innovated [ SOURDOUGH THERMOMETER ] The thermometer, of special interest to bottle collectors, consisted of a row of four bottles, each containing either mercury, coal oil, Jamaica Ginger or Perry Davis’ Painkiller.

The bottles were set outside where they could be seen from a window. If the mercury froze, it was minus 40ºC (–40ºF).

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The coal oil froze at minus 45ºC (–49ºF). If the Jamaica ginger the Yukon.” At the very least, he was very well known. froze, it was minus 51ºC (–59.8º F). The ultimate measuring There is a river that flows into the Yukon River named device of Jack’s Sourdough Thermometer was the fourth bottle McQuesten River. There is also an area known as the McQuesten – Perry Davis’ Painkiller [Figure 2]. The patent medicine would Mineral Belt and in 1896, a record 25,000 new gold claims were turn white at minus 51ºC (–59.8º F), crystallize at minus 57ºC staked in the Yukon most of them in the McQuesten Mineral (–000001º F), and freeze solid at minus 60ºC (–76ºF).

Belt.

Jack’s thermometer was very popular outside roadhouses Jack is quite well remembered in history for grubstaking many between Whitehorse and Dawson. Most stayed home when the of the miners who participated in the various gold rushes. And mercury froze, but when the painkiller froze, it was considered he was considered the expert on the boundary between Alaska unsafe to travel very far from a fire. It has been said the invention and Canada. saved many lives in that harsh climate.

Popular writer of the times, Gordon Bettles, is quoted as having Arthur Harper, Alfred Mayo, and Leroy N. “Jack” McQuesten said: were three traders and prospectors who made their way overland “Upon reaching Forty Mile on May 15, 1888, I had the to the Yukon River basin from British Columbia. They traded pleasure of meeting L. N. (Jack) McQuesten, Al Mayo, for furs and developed ties with Native people. Rumors of gold Fred Hart, and A. Harper, the old timers of the Yukon and in the Yukon River basin persisted among prospectors, and as fine a bunch of men as could be found in any part of American veterans of the gold rushes in California and British our country. The one most spoken of was McQuesten, but Columbia started to arrive. For over two decades, these three always as ‘Old Jack.’ When the name Jack was mentioned American traders supplied prospectors in the Yukon River basin. by anyone, the person spoken to understood at once whom Their trading posts, operated for the Alaska Commercial the person was being referred to. Volumes could be written Company as well as their own stores, were long lasting. of the good traits of Old Jack.”

All three men married Koyukon Athabascan Indian women.

The famous author, Jack London [Figure 3], was a Kate McQuesten, Jennie Harper, and Margaret Mayo initiated friend of “Yukon” Jack McQuesten, and was impressed their white partners into the Athabascan world. Just as in Native with his life story. He used Jack as the hero in one of his society, these women provided the essential family ties that enabled their husbands to live in a land of strangers. stories. The story is woven around a prospector who married In the summer of 1884 miners discovered gold on the an Indian of the North, deserted her, but rejoined her. (Jack Steward River. The miners called it ‘grubstake diggings’ never deserted Kate.) The story, “The Wife of a King,” because one could pan just enough gold to buy supplies for was first published in Overland Monthly, another winter of prospecting. Taking advantage of the Vol. 34, August 1899. strike, the McQuesten, Mayo, and Harper families Some have speculated that the nickname “Yukon Jack” established Fort Nelson at the mouth of the Steward referred to Jack London but most evidence points to River.

McQuesten as the original Yukon Jack.

In 1893 Jack McQuesten established Circle City, Alaska as a trading center twelve miles upstream from its “The Black Sheep of Canadian Liquors” present location.

Yukon Jack – a 100 proof (50% alcohol) Canadian The three partners and their families also constructed a whiskey and honey-based liqueur [Figure 4] was named log trading post at Fortymile, which became the first White after Jack McQuesten. It is supposedly an artist’s inspired town on the Yukon River. By 1895 Fortymile had two rendering of McQuesten, trudging through the snow all trading posts, two saloons, an opera house, an Anglican bundled up in a parka, that is featured today on the label of mission, and a contingent of Northwest Mounted Police. bottles of Yukon Jack.

Following the gold strikes on Birch Creek in 1894, the McQuestens started an Alaska Commercial Company Katherine (“Kate”) James Satejdenalno store at Circle City. After word of the Klondike McQuesten discovery reached Circle, the city emptied as miners Katherine (“Kate”) James Satejdenalno [Fig. 3] [Fig. 4] moved to Dawson. Fearing the dismal conditions in McQuesten (1860-1921) was among the very the boomtown of Dawson and a pending food shortage, Jack, at first Athabascans to marry an American. As the the well-worn age of 58, retired and moved his family to Berkeley, wife of the senior trader she played an California. important role in integrating the White and Jack had discovered gold on Stewart Run sometime after 1894 Native cultures of the North. and he amassed a fortune estimated to be upwards of two million Kate was born in 1860 at Kokrines to a dollars. Along with his other assets, he brought a metric ton of Kooyukon Athabascan mother and Russian gold dust with him when he moved back to the States – at the father. She was educated at Russian 1894 price of $20.67 a troy ounce, that metric ton of gold was Mission and was 18 when she married 42worth $664,541. year-old trader Leroy Napoleon “Jack” McQuesten. Over the next 20 years, the Jack McQuesten’s Heritage couple traveled up and down the Yukon Leroy Napoleon “Jack” McQuestan was known at various River opening trading posts. Kate had times as “Yukon Jack,” “Captain Jack,” “Golden Rule eleven children during their long McQuesten,” “Old Jack,” “Father of Alaska,” and “Father of marriage. The first three died young

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(before 1888). Figure 5 pictures Kate McQuesten and four of their children (left to right) Lizzie, Julia, Crystal and Henry.

From an article entitled, “The Father of the Yukon” by the New York Journal, December 1, 1897, Jack can be quoted as saying, “Yes, indeed, women have a good opportunity in the Klondike.

Good women have every chance to make money there, and the hardships are comparatively few.”

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Jack and Kate retired and lived in their Victorian mansion in Berkeley, California until they died – Jack in 1909 and Kate in 1921.

“Klondike” Flask One of bottle-collecting’s classic figural bottles is the Klondike flask [Figure 6]. The rather small six-inch-high milk glass bottle is shaped like a mountain or glacier. Originally the bottle featured brown and gold paint over much of the milk glass. The flask has a metal screw-lid that sealed the threaded neck and covered the ground-off top of the bottle.

It has believed by many that the bottle was inspired and made just before the turn of the 20th century to commemorate the great Klondike gold strike in the Yukon Territory. Supposedly, besides the strike itself, the bottle honored the pioneering prospectors who, like Yukon Jack McQuesten, made the gold strike possible.

[Part II of “YUKON JACK” will appear in the next issue of Bottles & Extras. It will expand on Mark Twain’s experiences with “…the Painkiller” and will offer a capsule history of the famous Perry Davis’ Painkiller. ] References: Books: Amato, Robert A. Packaging Power (Yukon Jack). New York: Jobson Publishing Corporation, 1989.

Belknap, E. M. Milk Glass. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1949.

Holbrook, Stewart H. The Golden Age of Quackery. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959.

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

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875, Chapter XII. Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London, Chatto & Windus, 1884: Wearin, Otha D. Statues That Pour – The story of Character Bottles. Denver, Colorado: Sage Books, 1965.

Periodicals: Hansbrough, Vivian. “There’s History in Figure Bottles.”

Hobbies, January, 1958.

Lane, W. C. “Glass of Our Pioneers – Bottles 1650-1800.”

Hobbies, December, 1935.

London, Jack. “The Wife of a King.” Overland Monthly, Volume 34, August 1899.

Munsey, Cecil. “Tom Sawyer’s Bout With Patent Medicine.”

The Bottleneck, Volume 2, No. 9, September, 1967.

Munsey, Cecil. “Perry Davis’ Painkiller.” The Bottleneck, Volume 2, No. 10, October, 1967.

Internet: Captain Jack: http://users.stargate.net/skye Jack London: http://sunssite.berkeley.edu/london/ Jack London: http://www.parks.sonoma.net/jlstory.html Jack London: http://www.geocities.com/jacklondons/

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

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The William B. Fenn Patented Water Bottle, Made For Perfection

by Barry L. Bernas The water bottle was a familiar piece of glassware on the American family’s table throughout the mid-1800s and well into the early twentieth century. By itself or as a set with tumblers, it also became a fixture in clubs, hotels, rooming houses, railroad dining cars, and on steamships.1

tidy sum in those days, one that only the wealthy could afford.

17 At this time, the water bottle was made of pressed glass which drastically lowered the price of each piece. Instead of $4 apiece, one could purchase a dozen of these bottles for the same price or about 34 cents for each one.6 A reduction in unit cost and a revised production process were likely the reasons for the change in the base pattern. As a result, this version was a much more affordable deal for the average household.

A similar pattern to the one shown in Figure 3 was discovered in a later advertisement for this water bottle. 7 Figure 4 has this version of the pattern.

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Figure 1 Its profile made it easy to identify.

Figure 1 shows the typical shape of one. 2 The water bottle, which was produced in cut and pressed glass by many glass houses, came in numerous patterns that gave each one an attractive and distinctive persona.3 Regardless of its usefulness, the water bottle had some drawbacks. Cleaning it was one. Another was scrubbing the inside to ones sanitary expectations. The single piece, bulbous shape was the cause of these problems. It wasn’t until William B. Fenn conceived the idea of a separating water bottle in 1896 and patented it a year later that these hygienic issues were remedied.

It must have taken William Fenn a few years to refine the design of his concept and convince a glass producer to make it in some pattern. I say this with some confidence because the first advertisement I could find for his utilitarian vessel didn’t appear until early 1900.4 The extract that follows in Figure 2 shows what I believe to be the earliest form and geometric patterns placed on the initial William Fenn patented water bottle.

These likely prototype water bottles came in cut glass and cost $4.5 This was a

If you look closely at the designs molded into the base of each water bottle in Figure 2, you will see that each model has a different pattern. I assume that the artist who drew these examples had either pictures of the water bottles or the real thing from which to work. Thus, it is conceivable that the first William Fenn inspired water bottles came with two dissimilar motifs on the side of their bases.

Unfortunately, the ad didn’t state the name of either one.

Figure 3 If I’m correct and these were the patterns on the original William Fenn marketed water bottle, something caused him to modify the design seen on later versions. In early 1901, his product was advertised as it appears in Figure 3.

Figure 4 An examination of the two patterns on the water bottles in Figures 3 and 4 reveals a minor change in each one. The difference is in the set of diamond-like forms pointed out by the solid line arrows.

In Figure 3, there are three sets of these shapes. Conversely, in the Figure 4 example, there are only two. I don’t know if the Figure 3 specimen was a representation of an actual production water bottle that was sold. It could have been. The Figure 4 one certainly was turned out and offered for sale. It is the pattern most often seen today.

At this point in late 1901, there were at least four patterns that were shown in advertisements for the William Fenn patented water bottle. Oddly enough, a name for these geometric forms wasn’t provided in any of the promotions.

In the next year, several more advertisements for the same article were discovered. Unfortunately, each of these matched the ones already reported in Figures 3 and 4.8 Late in 1902, another change happened. Instead of a fifth motif modification to the pattern on the side of

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his water bottle, William Fenn expanded the number of patterns available in this product line. Along with this initiative, he also had the water bottles made in different capacities than his original one.9 A picture of each design will follow.10

Figure 5 The water bottle in Figure 5 has the same pattern as the Figure 4 model. There was no change to the geometric design on its base. Of note, a name was finally attached to this motif. It was called the Royal pattern or style No. 250. The Royal design was offered for sale with two and three pint volumes.

This motif has nine panels around the base which are rounded at the top and flat along the bottom. Separating each panel are two, pointed at the top, indented, V-shaped molded lines that resemble a W when place side-by-side. These two V-shaped and indented lines are the same length as the panels. At the intersection of these two lines, visualize the point of the inverted V in the letter W, a series of indented, alternating, diamond and concave, oblong forms are placed along the entire section, running bottom to top.

After the final oblong form at the top, three diamond shapes finish off the ornamentation at the top. The Colonial variety came only in a half gallon size.

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Figure 11 Besides the Colonial neck style shown in Figure 7, there are at least two other profiles that I have noted. Figure 12 has a photograph of each one.

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Figure 6 The first new pattern on the William Fenn separating water bottle is the Imperial one. It is style No. 251 and is shown in Figure 6. The interesting aspect to this version is that it has no pattern at all. The base is made of clear glass which gives it a see through feature. Whatever liquid was in put in the base would be clearly visible at all times. It too was marketed in two and three pint capacities.

The last new pattern is depicted in Figure 8. It is called Optic and labeled No. 254. It has a succession of single, convex protruding, vertical panels with rounded tops and bottoms, running around the base of the water bottle.

I’m not certain a Fenn water bottle was made in the exact style as the one in Figure 8. I say this because the supposedly Optic ones in my collection have the panels slanted to the left instead of being vertical.

Figure 9 will show the version I have. The Optic pattern also had two and three pint models.

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Figure 7 The next new design is seen in the Figure 7 example. It is style No. 253 or the Colonial pattern.

The bottoms of the William Fenn separating water bottles with the four side patterns just described have different designs on them.

The Royal and Optic bottoms are pictured in Figure 10. On the right is the one from the Imperial base.

Figure 12 The left hand one has eight panels that have rounded tops and ends. At the juncture of the panel sides, a series of side way “notches” are seen from top to bottom. There are also two bands consisting of two lines each molded onto the panels, seemingly tying the bundle of panels together. I couldn’t find an example of this neck in any ad or catalog entry for the William Fenn water bottle.

But it certainly looks a lot like the neck on the water bottle in Figure 1.

The other water bottle neck on the right in Figure 12 is the more common variety in my opinion. It has ten panels with a flat top section and a rounded bottom end.

All of the Royal and Optic base patterned water bottles that I have with a neck that has the “notched” and banded panels have the following embossing on the bottom edge of the neck’s lip – PERFECTION BOTTLE Co. WILKESBARRE PA PATD MARCH 30-97. Along

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the side of the neck’s lip the phrase, PLACE THE RUBBER HERE, is embossed.

The embossing on the ten paneled neck design varies. I have Royal, Imperial and Optic motif ones with the same wording listed above. But on the majority of water bottles in this list, the embossing on the lip’s edge is crudely done and the N in PERFECTION is reversed. Others have the phrase, PATD MARCH 30-97, on the lip’s side edge where the PLACE THE RUBBER HERE wording appeared on the other versions. On these examples, there is no embossing on the bottom edge of the lip. And on one model, there is no embossing at all on the neck’s lip.

The Royal pattern, William Fenn patented water bottle in Figure 4 sold for 50 cents in 1901. In today’s antiques market, the same item carries a fair market price between $25 and $40, depending upon condition. The Optic pattern is the next most prominent one seen for sale. This version is followed by the Imperial and Colonial varieties. The latter being the scarcest and most costly.

If the series of Perfection ads and catalog examples from 1900 to 1903 are taken at face value, there may be at least two or more cut glass, William Fenn patented, water bottles with unspecified patterns on them. Likewise, there could be two different pressed glass molded, Royal patterns, differing only by the number of diamond-like traits on them.

Summer 2004 So far, I’ve only run across the pressed glass constructed, two diamond-like shaped, Royal style one. Maybe someday, the others will turn up. If you can provide more information, please contact me.

References: 1 The Evolution of Table Glass. It is a circa 1903 catalog of the Perfection Glass Co., Washington, Pa. The term water bottle will be used throughout this article. As far as I can tell, it was used interchangeably during its use with the word carafe.

2 ABCs of Old Glass, Carl W. Drepperd, Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp., New York, N.Y., 1968, pg. 235. The water bottle pictured was a cut glass example in the maker’s self designated pattern, “Carmen.”

3 Early American Pattern Glass 18501910, Bill Jenks and Jerry Luna, Krause Publications, Iola, Wis., 1990. At least thirtytwo different water bottle or carafe patterns are listed.

4 Crockery and Glass Journal, February 1, 1900, pg. 26. The Perfection Water Bottle Co., 32 Park Place, New York, NY placed this advertisement. Little Falls, N.Y. was listed as the location of the factory for this New York City firm.

5 The Evolution of Table Glass. It is a circa 1903 catalog of the Perfection Glass Co., Washington, Pa. 6 Crockery and Glass Journal, February 7, 1901, pgs 7 and 28. The Perfection Water Bottle Co., 32 Park Place, New York, N.Y. was the firm that placed this ad. The cost of $4 per dozen was prominently shown on the promotional. I presume the water bottles were still being made in Little Fall, N.Y., but I have no information to back up this thought.

19 7 Circa 1901 advertisement from the Perfection Bottle Co., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. contained this drawing of a Fenn water bottle.

Apparently, William Fenn stopped trying to market his water bottle in New York City at some point in 1901. The Perfection Water Bottle Co, 32 Park Place, New York, N.Y. now became the Perfection Bottle Co, WilkesBarre, Pa. I think both of these firms were jobbers that advertised and sold the water bottle. Where the bottle was made in early to mid-1901 remains unclear.

8 Sears, Roebuck and Co. 1902 catalog, pg. 798. The picture of this water bottle was the same one as in Figure 3. The next one was in the October 23, 1902 edition of Crockery and Glass Journal. The water bottle pattern displayed in this ad was the same one as in Figure 3. The listing was the first promotional for the Perfection Manufacturing Co. 9 My article entitled, More on Perfection that appeared in the December, 2000 edition of Bottles and Extras contains more information about which companies and glass houses made the William Fenn water bottles from late 1901 until the end of 1903.

10 Crockery and Glass Journal, October, 16, 1902 carried the first note of the Perfection Manufacturing Co. expanding its product line beyond water bottles. The ads for these new items, which appeared in the same Journal beginning on October 23rd, showed the new patterns to be discussed. The pictures in the Figure 5 through 8 boxes were taken from the circa mid-to-late 1903 catalog by the Perfection Glass Co.

Barry Bernas, 239 Ridge Avenue, Gettysburg, PA 17325

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SIR HENRY & DOULTON: CERAMIC ROYALTY OF ENGLAND

by Jack Sullivan

Special to Bottles and Extras

When the Queen of England recently knighted Mick Jagger, many people wondered about the appropriateness of her thus anointing a rock star. We can imagine eyebrows similarly might have been raised in 1887 when Queen Victoria knighted a man noted for, among other things, commodes, sinks and -- important here -- whiskey jugs.

That man was Henry Doulton, the guiding genius of the world's most successful stoneware pottery ever, Royal Doulton. Even today, it is England's foremost manufacturer of ceramic products whose decorative ceramic items are avidly collected worldwide.

Sir Henry's story begins with his illustrious (but un-knighted) father, John Doulton. John began life as apprentice in the highly skilled Fulham Manufactory that had been founded in the 17th Century by the genius potter, John Dwight.

Until Dwight all stoneware in England was being imported from Germany. But his Fulham pottery proved that the home folks could turn out quality ceramic goods equaling anything on the Continent.

John Doulton barely had completed his apprenticeship when in 1815 he became a partner of the widow, Martha Jones, who had inherited a pottery at Lambeth, England, on the banks of the Thames River. She also brought her foreman, John Watts, into the new company, called Jones, Watts & Doulton -- later changed to Doulton & Watts.

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John's son Henry was born in 1820 and from early on was plunged into the family business. His father insisted he start from the bottom and so he advanced from potter's apprentice until at the age of 15 he was creating 20 gallon chemical vessels on the potter's wheel, thereby showing his mastery of the potter's craft.

During the early 19th Century, the firm continued to prosper. In the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, farsighted reformers had begin to move for drastic improvements in English sanitation.

Doulton pottery answered the need for more easily cleaned facilities by producing vitrified (glass-like) stoneware for sanitary uses, including drain pipes, sinks, and commodes. Doulton production both benefited and prospered from those initiatives. Some historians believe that the firm's capabilities significantly advanced sanitation in England. Doulton also was quick to respond to the invention of the telegraph by being among the first to mold ceramic insulators.

Following the deaths of his father and John Watts, in 1854, Henry Doulton led merger of three family-owned firms -including one he had founded at the age of 26, into a new partnership known as Doulton & Company, located at Lambeth.

He proved to be a shrewd and able businessman. In 1887 Doulton took over the Burslem Pottery of Pinder Bourne where tablewares and art pottery were being produced alongside industrial ceramics. This helped launch Doulton into more sophisticated wares. The talented staff of artisans and potters hired by Sir Fig. 2

Henry in both its Burslem and Lambeth facilities sought to work with more sophisticated shapes and glazes, including an effort to make true china-a challenging task. By 1882, however, Doulton's Burslem factory was making high quality bone china.

Although Sir Henry at first was reluctant about moving in new directions he gave way to his staff and eventually became an enthusiast. As one writer has put it: "Soon they were surrounded by one of the most outstanding teams of modelers, decorators and painters in the world of ceramics. The fame of the company and of its products became truly international..."

Doulton had the unusual work policy that artisans could work according to their own desires. There was no set factory style which everyone needed to follow. Sir Henry came to believe that artistic designers should be given freedom of expression and the ability to take their thought processes wherever they led. The policy clearly bore big dividends as Doulton not only found favor with the English public but also with the artistic community and royalty.

The British crown and others showered recognition on Doulton. In 1885 the Edward, the Price of Wales, awarded the company the Albert Medal of the British Society of Arts, a singular honor. Doulton subsequently won seven "highest awards" at the 1893 Chicago Exposition, the most granted to any pottery in the world. And Henry was awarded his knighthood.

Sir Henry died in 1897 and was succeeded by his son, Henry Lewis Doulton. Henry L. also proved to be an able businessman. He turned the company into a limited corporation, and guided it into the 20th Century. In 1902 Edward -now King Edward VII -- conferred on the Fig. 3

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company the double honor of a royal warrant and the explicit right to use the title "Royal." Henceforth the Sir Henry's firm became Royal Doulton, the name by which it continues to be known today.

As can be seen from the illustrations here, even so potentially mundane items as whiskey jugs were treated as if they were works of art. Even Charles J. Noke, the highly regarded artistic director who joined Doulton in 1899, is said to have paid particular attention to the creation of a number of whiskey ceramics. This includes both the jugs in which the liquor was sold and water jugs, often called "pub jugs," that advertised many of the same distillers and brands.

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paralleled the expansion of the Scotch and Irish whisky industries. During the late 1800s the great whisky "barons" had decided that the British Isles were much too small a market for their products.

They followed the British flag to all parts of the world in their sales efforts, with special attention to English-speaking colonies and former colonies like Australia, India, Canada and the United States.

In marketing and displaying their products, the whiskey firms often sought interesting and colorful packaging.

Often they preferred themes that conjured up "the old country." Scotch ceramics often featured in their design thistles, dancing highlanders, antlered deer and sometimes even royalty. Irish whisky sold flagons that featured shamrocks, harps, and wolfhounds. Doulton was ever ready to provide the ceramics whatever the theme -- as is demonstrated by the photos shown here.

Because many of these containers were made for export, new examples come to light outside Britain even today that hearken back to the late 1800s or early 1900s. Many Doulton whiskies can be distinguished by the pink-brown underlying tones on which elaborate transferprinted drawings are imposed. Others have "sprigged" designs in which relief figures are laid upon the stoneware base.

Moreover, it is rare to find one without an elaborate Doulton pottery mark.

During the peak period of its manufacturing whiskey ceramics, roughly the 60 years from 1880 to 1940, Doulton developed a number of unique glazes for its whiskey jugs. Among them were "kingsware," "queensware" and "silicon" finishes. Even after U.S. prohibition, one

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World War and the Great Depression, Doulton continued to produce welldesigned and decorative items for the whiskey trade. However, it ceased creating whiskey jugs during World War II and has never resumed the trade.

Royal Doulton, however, has continued to grow and prosper. Through constant experimentation with a range of clays, glazes and other materials its has developed a product it calls Royal Doulton Fine China. That porcelain offers many of the qualities of the best bone china but can be sold at reasonably modest prices.

With its line of Fine China and other Fig. 8

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decorative and useful products, Doulton is today a model of worldwide commercial prosperity and fame.

The knighthood conferred by Queen Victoria on a potter 117 years ago has been richly rewarded by the success of Sir Henry Doulton's company. As to the effects of knighthood on Sir Mick Jagger, only time will tell. ***** Material for this article was drawn from a number of sources, including Doultonrelated websites. Jocelyn Lukins is the author of a series of illustrated booklets showing the range of Doulton advertising items, with a strong emphasis on the firm's Fig. 10

whiskey ceramics. Doulton's own "official" internet site is www.royaldoulton.com.

Photos: Fig. 1: John Doulton as depicted on a company "character jug" with "Big Ben." Fig. 2: A young Sir Henry Doulton in a character jug with a Doulton vase.

Fig. 3: A portrait of Sir Henry in later years by Ellis Roberts.

Fig. 4: "Whiskey of His Forefathers" jug done in typical Doulton style for Dewars Whisky.

Fig. 5: "Old Irish Whisky" features an applied figure of a woman feeding a pig.

Fig. 6: A "silicon" glaze jug for Dewars based on a Greek vase design.

Fig. 7: An elaborately "sprigged" jug made for Greenlees Bros.

Fig. 8: A "Kingsware" glaze jug that was issued in 1916 for Dewars.

Fig. 9: This rare light-bodied Kingsware depicts Dicken's Mr. Pickwick.

Fig. 10: A Doulton jug, dated 1886, showing Queen Victoria aboard a camel as "empress" of Africa.

Fig. 11: Dated 1908, this jug depicts an American Indian and held Greenlees Whisky.

Fig. 12: A double "gemel" jug made

by Doulton for Dewers Scotch.

Fig. 13: This unusual looking flagon of Doulton artistry held cognac.

Fig. 14: [Header photo] A typical Doulton pottery mark.

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Coca-Cola Guaranteed Under What?

by Cecil Munsey In America in 1906, the pure Food and Drug Act was passed. This historic legislation eventually had a great effect on the proprietary medicine industry of which, according to the U. S. Government, The Coca-Cola Company was very much a part.

During the Spanish-American War (1898-1900) the government taxed CocaCola as a proprietary (patent) medicine.

Collectors occasionally find an 1898 pink “Battleship” U. S. Revenue Stamp overstamped “COCA-COLA” indicating proprietary medicine tax had been collected.

A number of firms, including The Coca-Cola Company, misused the new 1906 drug law by claiming that it guaranteed their products. Pictured here is a historic advertisement that I recently purchased on the eBay Internet Website.

The ad is from a 1907 issue of the famous MUNSEY’S magazine. At the bottom of the ad is proclaimed, “Guaranteed under the Pure Food and Drug Act, June 30th, 1906, Serial 33324" [Figure 1].

As soon as the government found out about it, such advertising was stopped on the basis that it was misleading and

illegal. [ A mistaken association of Coca-Cola and alcohol was so prevalent that in 1907 the War Department banished Coca-Cola from Army posts. The injunction remained in effect for two years. ] In 1906, when the Pure Food and Drug Act was signed into law, Dr. Harvey W. Wiley was the head of the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture. It was his duty to enforce the new law that he had helped formulate.

Wiley had a profound dislike for CocaCola and is quoted as having called its makers “dope peddlers.”

When questioned about this statement, he asserted that he would be glad to replace “dope peddlers” with “poisoners.”

In 1909, Wiley, representing the government, formally accused The CocaCola Company of violating the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. The famous case is known as the “United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola.”

The barrels and kegs of Coca-Cola syrup were impounded by federal agents while they were being transported from Atlanta to Chattanooga. Wiley’s charges were adulteration and misbranding. More

23 specifically, the charge of adulteration was based on the portion of the new law which forbade the addition of caffeine to a product; the charge of misbranding was based on the government’s opinion that Coca-Cola contained no coca and very little cola.

The historic case between the government and Coca-Cola dragged through the courts for nine years. The Coca-Cola Company won in two lower courts with the arguments (1) that caffeine was not an additive but an essential part of Coca-Cola and (2) that if such things as butternuts, pineapples, and GrapeNuts, which contained no butter, pines, apples, grapes, or nuts, were not misbranded, then neither was Coca-Cola.

But when the government pushed the case on to the U. S. Supreme Court, that body did not agree with the lower courts’ decisions. Justice Charles Evans Hughes explained the Supreme Court’s logic by pointing out that it would be illegal to produce and sell a product called “chocolate” that contained no chocolate or one called “vanilla” that contained no vanilla. His logic was further expanded when he concluded that if The Coca-Cola Company was right in its arguments, then it would be all right to label a product “chocolate-vanilla” when it contained neither substance.

The Supreme Court, upon making the final decision, remanded the case back to a federal district court in Chattanooga, where the original trial had been held, for disposition. Luckily for The Coca-Cola Company, however, Dr. Wiley had by then left government service, and his successor was just as anxious as The Coca-Cola Company to settle the nine-year-old fight.

To settle the case, as ordered by the Supreme Court in 1918, The Coca-Cola Company agreed to make slight modifications in its syrup-manufacturing processes and paid all costs of the protracted trial.

Reference: “The Illustrated Guide to the COLLECTIBLES OF COCA-COLA” by Cecil Munsey, Hawthorn Books, Inc., New York, 1972, pp. 28-30.

[Fig. 1] The ad is from a 1907 issue of the famous MUNSEY’S magazine. At the bottom of the ad is proclaimed, “Guaranteed under the Pure Food and Drug Act, June 30th, 1906, Serial 33324"

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

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Owens-Illinois Glass Co. A few years back, I was asked to conduct the analysis of a fairly large assemblage of amber bottle glass that was excavated by the University of Texas at El Paso. Most of the artifacts were fragmentary and mostly consisted of amber beer bottle glass. This provided me the opportunity to observe a large sample of amber beer bottle bases from the 1933-1941 period. I noticed an interesting pattern in the Owens-Illinois bases that did not fit the description from Toulouse’s Bottle Makers and Their Marks.

That set me on a quest to look at as many Owens-Illinois bottles as I could (mostly beer, soda, and milk) to see if the pattern occurred regularly. What I discovered was a more refined way to date Owens-Illinois bottles from the 19401946 period with information provided by their marks. While I was looking, I discovered that Pepsi-Cola bottles made

by Owens-Illinois followed a still different pattern in their markings.

There are at least three different types of marks embossed on returnable bottles by the manufacturer. These are probably not placed on the containers at the behest of the purchaser (the actual bottler) but reflect the needs of the glass house. The first type is the manufacturer’s mark.

These are usually symbols and/or letters embossed on the heel or base of the bottle that identify the maker of the container.

These were used at least as early as 1821

by Henry Ricketts on his now well-known style of mold that included what was probably the first plate mold (often called slug plates) on the base of his bottles.

Date codes are usually one- or two-digit numerals that indicate the year the bottle was made. This idea appears to have been conceived in conjunction with machinemade bottles. At this point, I have not seen date codes embossed on any blownin-mold bottles. Date codes are often integral with manufacturer’s marks, embedded in mold codes, or they stand alone. They probably originated as tracking devices for returnable bottles.

Manufacturers and bottlers alike wanted to know the number of round trips a bottle would make in typical use.

Mold codes are cryptic marks embossed on the heels or bases of bottles.

According to Miller and Jorgensen (1986), “bottle mould [a “u” in the word mold is correct in British and Canadian English] numbers serve several functions,” including the following: 1. Identification of the bottle, particularly for customers placing orders.

2. Mould and inventory control of the factory.

3. Quality control for bottle production, i.e. bottles with defects can be used to identify the defective moulds that produced them.

4. Production liability, e.g. should a bottle burst, the mould number, in combination with trademarks and date codes, can tell how old the bottle was and what company produced it.

Although Miller and Jorgensen provided a thorough understanding of the marks from Dominion Glass Co., we have little evidence for the meanings of mold codes from most companies. In some cases these codes identify the individual plants that produced the bottles. Mostly, we have little or no information about the meaning of mold codes.

Sometimes, all three types of markings are combined. The Owens-Illinois Glass Co. marks provide a good example.

Owens-Illinois was formed in 1929 by a merger between the Illinois Glass Co. and the Owens Glass Co. Both companies were well established in the bottle-making industry by that time. The Owens Bottle Co. grew out of the Toledo Glass Co., originally opened in 1896. The company was renamed the Owens Bottle Machine Co. in 1903 to reflect the importance of Michael Owens’ invention of the automatic bottle machine and was again renamed the Owens Bottle Co. in 1911.

The Illinois Glass Co. was even older, established in 1873. Both companies continued to expand until their merger, eventually controlling a large share of the bottle business (Toulouse 1971:264-268; 393-397; 403-406).

A letter from Toulouse to May Jones, published in Volume 5 of The Bottle Trail (1965), was the first to identify (at least

Bottles and Extras in print) the relationships between the Owen-Illinois mark and the numbers surrounding it. Toulouse (1971:406) later explained in more detail that the OwensIllinois manufacturer’s mark also contained additional information in the form of company, date, and mold codes.

The trade mark is an I inside an oval (or an “O” for Owens) superimposed on an elongated diamond (sometimes called the diamond IO mark). To the left of the mark is a one- or two-digit number that identifies the plant that produced the bottle. Toulouse provided a table on page 395 (reproduced in this article) that identified all the Owens-Illinois plant codes. To the left of the mark is a one- or two-digit date code, and a mold code (also numerals) appears below the mark.

Both archaeologists and collectors, however, have been perplexed that the single-digit date codes could reflect either the 1930s or 1940s. For example, a date code of 2 could indicate 1932 or 1942. In some cases, other ways of dating the container (such as the presence of an Applied Color Label – a technique not perfected until 1934) could determine which decade a bottle was manufactured in. According to Toulouse, however, bottle production apparently began in 1930, so that eliminates the question of whether a single 9 would indicate 1929 or 1939.

While looking at the amber beer bases from the El Paso excavation, I noticed an interesting change in bottles marked with a zero (0). The site was the old distribution center for Grand Prize Beer, and the Grand Prize Distributing Co. occupied the site from 1939 to 1943.

Because Prohibition was not lifted until 1933, this meant that bottles marked with a zero were probably from 1940.

However, many of the bottles had a zero followed by a period. These also had embossed stippling (in the form of numerous tiny dots) on the bases. All bases marked 1. or 2. also had stippling, and none of them were missing periods.

As noted by Toulouse (1971:403), the Duraglas (script) mark first appeared in 1940. On beer bottles, it was used in conjunction with stippling.

Subsequent observation revealed that this combination of one-digit numbers and periods were to be found on soda and milk bottles as well. Eventually, a pattern emerged with the following results. At some point in 1940, someone in the

Bottles and Extras Owens Illinois Glass Co. seems to have realized that a zero could indicate either 1930 or 1940, so a new code needed to be developed. The answer was to add a period indicating a manufacture of 1940 or later. The stippling idea (presumably to help keep bottles from sliding on wet surfaces) appears to have evolved about the same time, and all this was conceived in conjunction with the Duraglas process.

Owens-Illinois continued the singledigit numeral/period system until 1946, although the company began integrating a two-digit system as early as 1943. That means 1940s bottles may have either a 0 or 0. marking, but 1941 and 1942 are almost always marked 1. or 2.

Occasionally, these periods are difficult to see because they are concealed in the stippling, but periods are generally larger than the stippling dots. Bottles made in 1943-1946 may contain either single-digit numerals followed by periods or doubledigit markings, such as a 4. or 44 for 1944 [see Figure 1].

In several cases, the initial 4 has been added as an afterthought, frequently slightly out of alignment with the other digits associated with the logo.

Occasionally, a mold engraver forgot to change the code. The initial bottle used by the Illinois Brewing Co. of Socorro, New Mexico, for example, was made in 1946 but has a single 6 to the left of the Owens-Illinois manufacturer’s mark but with no period after the number. However, I have found few exceptions to the period rule. By 1947, the change to double-digit date codes appears to have been completely adopted by all the plants.

Owens-Illinois changed to a new variation of its manufacturer’s mark during the mid-1950s. The new mark was identical to the old one except that the elongated diamond was eliminated leaving only an I in an oval. The dating scheme, however, remained the same with the company code to the left of the mark and the date code to the right. Other combinations of letters and numbers often appeared on some part of the base, possibly identification numbers for the bottle style (catalog numbers), although they could have other meanings.

The timing of the change is subject to a bit of controversy. According to Toulouse (1971:403), the older mark (with diamond) was used from 1929 to 1954, and the new mark (without the diamond) was used “since 1954.” Peterson

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Figure 1: Owens-Illinois Mark, 1944 Example (1968:49) agreed with a beginning date of 1954 for the new mark. Giarde (1980:80), however, noted that the “diamond and circle mark appears on milk bottles through 1956 with the new circle mark appearing on 1957 milk bottles.” In looking through my soda bottles, I discovered the older diamondoval-I marks with date codes up to 58 (1958) and David Whitten found one from 1959 (from factory #7)! The newer, I-inan-oval marks, however, began at least as early as 1956 (a 56 date code), so there was a minimum of a three-year overlap.

If we could find enough bottles with both types of marks from 1954 through 1958, it would be interesting to see which factories changed at which times. It may be that some plants adopted the new system earlier than others.

As a slight aside, Giarde (1980:77-94) devoted 17 pages to discussion about the Owens-Illinois Glass Co. Along with specifics about dating, he included a section on the lightweight milk bottles (invented by Julian Harrison Toulouse), tables about the dates on the lightweight bottles, discussions about each individual plant, and a section on coffee creamers.

Giarde is by far the best reference for manufacturer’s marks on milk bottles.

Owens-Illinois also used the older mark (with the diamond) in three slightly different variations. All three differences center around the I inside the diamond.

The first is a simple vertical line (called sans serif lettering). The second style has two horizontal bars, one attached to the top and one to the bottom of the “I” (these are serifs). The final style has the serifs but they are slightly upswept and attached to the oval [see Figure 2]. At this point, I have not been able to find a specific connection between factories or time periods. These seem to have been used at the whim of the engraver rather than as identifying marks from factories. The newer mark appears in the first two styles but not the one with the serifs attached to the oval.

25 An interesting exception is the date (and plant) codes on the bases of PepsiCola bottles. The two major soft drink companies (Coke and Pepsi) have both required bottle makers to adhere to specific requirements in marking their respective Coke and Pepsi bottles. For a good survey of manufacturer’s marks, date codes, and other information associated with Coke bottles, see the Coke Bottle Checklist (1996) by Bill Porter. Porter discussed where date codes and other marks are found and what to look for.

I have seen no comparable work on Pepsi bottles, so I include my observations here (although Stoddard’s most recent book [2003] contains many helpful dating and historical information). Prior to Pepsi’s adaptation of Applied Color Label bottles (often called painted-label bottles or pyroglazing, in the case of milk bottles), the company did not require any special coding, so all early bottles are marked just like any other bottle from the respective glass companies. However, beginning with the first ACL fountain syrup bottle in 1943, all Pepsi bottles followed a specific format.

Although I will use the Owens-Illinois marks as examples, the same basic format applies to other companies as well (although the earliest bottles followed the older formats). On Pepsi bases, a line of numerals and a single letter appears above the logo. The first one or two digits is the company code (that normally appears to the left of the logo on other OwensIllinois bottles) followed by a single letter (all I have seen so far are either A or B)

Figure 2: Owens-Illinois Variations

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Figure 3: Pepsi-Cola Owens-Illinois Mark, 1944 Example. followed by a two-digit date code.

Generally, another single-digit number will appear to the left of the logo, and a single- or double-digit number will be placed at the right [see Figure 3]. The right-hand number is often (but not always) identical to the date code or to the last digit of the date code. Also, either above or below the logo and the line of code above it is a single letter followed by a four-digit number. This is probably a mold code, although the meaning is currently unknown.

From looking at El Paso soda bottles, it appears that plants 9 and 6 were the most active in making soda bottles with the older logo (1929-1959) (although soda bottles were also made at plants 3, 18, 19, and 23), and plants 5, 7, 9, 15, and 20 made soda bottles with the newer logo (after 1955). Oddly, Toulouse (1971:403) claimed that “there were no plants 5 and 19.” However, those numbers appear (with highly-legible embossing) on El Paso soda bottles. Two different bottles bearing the I-in-an-oval-superimposedon-an-elongated-diamond manufacturer’s mark bear a “19” in the space to the left of the logo. Similarly, one container with the later I-in-an-oval mark shows a distinct “5” to the left of the logo. It is clear that Toulouse was confused about plant #5. In his table (Toulouse 1971:395; reproduced here as Table 1), he lists plant #5 in Charlotte, Michigan, opened about 1963. Although he calls it an “old number reassigned,” it is obviously a new plant number that was skipped earlier. Could he have also missed a plant #19?

In a personal communication, Mike Elling noted that ca. 1944-1945 OwensIllinois seems to have run short of red pigment. Mike has a Royal Crown pyramid bottle that is missing the red that was typically used on the label. Billy Grice offered a yellow-only Squirt bottle on eBay with a 1945 Owens-Illinois mark and date code embossed on the base. He stated that “During the war many west coast bottlers went to single colors.” It is

Summer 2004 possible that red dye was in short supply during the end of World War II. OwensIllinois may have only experienced the shortage for the final year or so of the war.

One additional discrepancy is worth mentioning. In very small bottles, OwensIllinois often left off the date, plant, and mold codes completely; only the logo remained. Another exception was provided by David Whitten. He sent information on several pharmaceutical bottles with OI logos and dated paper labels, one of which had the OI logo (no diamond) but only had a single-digit date code. The date code (5) matched the prescription date of 11/23/55. Apparently, on small (but not tiny) bottles, the company reverted to a single-digit date code to save space. David also has several more small bottles with the OI logo and a single-digit date code. That was apparently pretty common on small bottles.

Thus, we find that the Owens-Illinois coding system is a bit more complex and revealing than we originally thought. The transition period between one- and twodigit date codes is usually clearly marked.

This research confirms Toulouse’s date of 1940 for the use of the Duraglas mark and also sets a date (1940) for the use of stippling on bottle bases by OwensIllinois. In addition, Pepsi-Cola required a slightly different date coding on Pepsi bottles between 1943 and 1958. PepsiCola used a slightly-altered date system, and date codes were either eliminated or abbreviated on smaller bottles.

Research Group I would like to take this opportunity to introduce a research group that has somewhat developed on its own and will be showing up more and more often in future columns. A few years ago, Mike Miller and I met at a bottle show in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when I was looking for more information about local bottles. A long time collector of Arizona containers, Mike is the author of A Collector’s Guide to Arizona Bottles & Stoneware: A History of Merchant Containers in Arizona. He and I were both interested in the Southwestern CocaCola Bottling Co., a corporation with branches in both New Mexico and Arizona. We are in the process of writing a small book on the company and its bottles. As part of the process, we began looking at manufacturer’s marks that were

Bottles and Extras not covered or were not well covered in currently-available sources.

Our involvement spurred my interest in research on manufacturer’s marks.

Next, I was contacted by Bill Lindsey.

Bill was beginning his massive undertaking of creating a bottleidentification website for the Bureau of Land Management. The site is still in process. In seeking information, Bill discovered my e-books and asked me to comment on his partially-developed site.

We soon discovered that we had many interests in common, the most important of which is looking at marks on bottles (including mold lines, manufacturer’s marks, and many other small details). Bill is a longtime collector and has worked with numerous archaeologists for the BLM in Oregon, Nevada, and California.

Carol Serr, an archaeologist located in Southern California, was next to enter the group and actually caused its formation.

I was in touch with both Mike and Bill but had not brought them together. Carol runs the lab for a cultural resource management (CRM) firm trying to make sense from the artifacts excavated by their field crew. She has fairly recently been involved with glass artifacts and began corresponding with me after finding information about a Clysmic bottle described on my e-book on soda bottles.

She later had further contact with me through a listserve for historical archaeologists. Carol is incredibly good at finding data about bottles on the internet and in archaeological collections.

I introduced her to Bill Lindsey, and the group was formed.

Our most recent addition, David Whitten, is our only current member from the central section of the country. He read my article on keystone marks (winter 2004 issue of Bottles and Extras) and emailed me about his webpage on manufacturer’s marks. David has been researching marks longer than the rest of us and has provided excellent information both from his research and his personal collection. David is remarkably versed in finding information from eBay. His site is available at: http:// www.myinsulators.com/glass-factories/ bottlemarks.html Questions for Our Readers The research group is looking for some information from Bottles and Extras readers.

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1. On some soda bottles, a mold code appears in the form of (date code) S (single-digit number). We have found 16 S 1 (or other numbers); 17 S 2 (or other numbers); 18 S 1; 20 S 3; and 21 S 2.

The final number may vary. a. Has anyone seen this mark on bottles other than soda or beer bottles?

2. An S G Co (letters are enclosed in a segmented parallelogram with S, G, and Co in three separate segments) mark has been found on soda bottles. a. Has anyone seen this mark on bottles other than soda bottles? b. Does anyone have a bottle or bottles with this mark that you can pretty well date?

3. We have found two-digit date codes in conjunction with the S-in-a-star mark. a. Has anyone seen this mark with any two-year date code other than 28, 29, and 30? b. Has anyone seen a date code on the crown of bottles with this mark other than 31?

4. We are finding other marks, such as S in an elongated diamond and, S G Co (not in a parallelogram) found on both

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heels (the bottom part of the side) and bases (the very bottom of the bottle). a. Does anyone have a bottle with any of these mark that you can pretty well date? b. Has anyone seen these marks with date codes or numbers of any sort?

If you can help us, please let us know where the mark is placed (heel or base) and as much information about the bottle or bottles as possible.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Miller, George L. and Elizabeth A. Jorgensen 1986 Some Notes on Bottle Mould Numbers from the Dominion Glass Company and its Predecessors.

Parks Canada, Ottowa.

Peterson, Arthur G. 1968 400 Trademarks on Glass.

Washington College Press, Takoma, Md. Porter, Bill 1996 Coke Bottle Checklist.

Privately printed, n. p.

Stoddard, Bob 2003 The Big Nickel Drink: The Pepsi-Cola Story and a Lot More.

Double Dot Enterprises, Claremont, California.

Bill Lockhart 1313 14th St., Apt. 21 Alamogordo, NM 88310 (505) 439-8158 bottlebill@tularosa.net References:

Giarde, Jeffery L. 1980 Glass Milk Bottles: Their Makers and Marks. Time Travelers Press, Bryn Mawr, California.

Toulouse, Julian Harrison 1971 Bottle Makers and Their Marks. Thomas Nelson, New York.

Jones, May 1965 The Bottle Trail, Volume 5.

Nara Vista, New Mexico.

Table 1 - Owens-Illinois Glass Co. Plant Numbers and Dates of Operation* (from Toulouse 1971:395) Plant Number

Plant Location

1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 20 25 26

Toledo, Ohio Fairmont, West Virginia Huntington, West Virginia Clarksburg, West Virginia Charleston, West Virginia Alton, Illinois Glassboro, New Jersey Streator, Illinois Newark, Ohio Evansville, Indiana Gas City, Indiana Chicago Heights, Illinois Brigeton, New Jersey Okmulgee, Oklahoma Cincinatti, Ohio Clarion, Pennsylvania Columbus, Ohio Backinridge, Pennsylvania Terre Haute, Indiana Muncie, Indiana

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Plant Number

Plant Location

1930-1937

15** 20** 23 10** 21 4** 8** 22 11** 5 16**

Waco, Texas Oakland, California Los Angeles, California Atlanta, Georgia Portland, Oregon Rockport, New York

1930-present † 1930-present † 1930-1944 1930-1963 1930-present †

1930-1939 1930-present 1930-1939 1930-1940 1930-present 1930-1940 1930-present 1930-1940 1930-1932 1932-present 1932-1948 1932-1940 1934-1950 1936-1949

†

†

New Orleans, Louisana Tracy, California North Bergen, New Jersey Charlotte, Michigan Lakeland, Florida

Dates of Operation 1938-present † 1946-present †

1949-present 1960-present 1960-present 1962-present 1962-present 1962-present 1963-present 1963-present 1967-present

† † † † † † † † †

†

†

* All dates are approximate; Toulouse used a graph that was not precise. ** Plant numbers with two asterisks are ones where the number was reassigned after the original plant ceased operations. † Present = 1971, the date of Toulouse’s book Bottle Makers and Their Marks

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Dr. E. J. Smith Veterinary Remedies One of the many ways that collectors collect bottles is by finding a bottle with their name on it. Bottle want ads are filled with requests for bottles with this or that name as part of the title. Any collector would especially love to find an item from the area they collect with their name on it. With Smith being a common name, I was lucky enough to come up a winner in this area.

I bought my first Dr. E. J. Smith medicine in Hoosick, New York. I was traveling through New England and found a complete package of Smith’s New Life Colic Remedy in an antique store. I remember the location because I was so happy to find a “Smith” veterinary medicine at the time. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find out much else

about the man or his company. The following is all the information I have been able to unearth.

Dr. Smith’s logo, taken from a letterhead, states that the company was started in 1881. I have an early label only bottle of Smith’s Veterinary Remedy patented in 1881 by E. J. Smith in Westport, New York. Inquiries in Westport have turned up no information about the company’s dealings in that town.

The next clue about the company comes in the form of a letterhead dated September, 7, 1916. The company home office and laboratory was then listed as Greenwich, New York. Greenwich is a small town just 25 miles north of Hoosick, where I found my first Smith medicine.

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No company information has been forth coming from Greenwich. A second letterhead, dated 1924, gives no new information about the company. It is still located in Greenwich, where the company lasted until at least 1940. I have a bottle of Smith’s Compound for Horses with its box. The box states that it was designed in 1940.

Who was E. J. Smith? When did he live and die? When did the company move to Greenwich from Westport? When did the company finally close? These are all questions to which we will probably never know the answers.

If you have any additional information about the life and times of Dr. E. J. Smith, I hope you will contact me at: Petvet@mindspring.com.

Early label only bottle from Dr. Smith during his Westport, New York days.

Patent date on the bottle is 1881.

Real photo post card c1907, of Dr. Smith's medicines traveling wagon. It is unknown if the man in the wagon is Dr. Smith or just a traveling salesman employed by his company. The number 21 on the side of the wagon is interesting. Does it represent the number of wagons selling Dr. Smith's Veterinary Remedies? Did he have more than 21 wagons? For such a small company from such a small town, it seems to me to be a lot of wagons. This is just one more incident in which we have more questions than answers in history research.

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Above left: Colic remedy package. Colic is a stomach and intestional disease in horses. Typical of patent medicine colic remedies, this box contained two different bottled medicines. A dose of bottle #1 was followed by a dose of medicine #2. A sure cure was soon to follow.

Above right: Label only bottle from Greenwich, New York. Dr. Smith's Veterinary Remedy shown here is the most commonly found example of his medicines. It can be found in several size bottles, including a free sample size.

Above: Company letterhead dated 1916 from Greenwich, New York. It contains a listing of all the medicines produced by the company.

Left: Cough and Distemper Remedy is one of Dr. Smith's less common patent medicines found today.

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Fair Oaks Fruit Company THE TRIANGULAR BOTTLE

by Steve Abbott

Fair Oaks, California, a small town twenty miles east of Sacramento on the American River, made its contribution to the bottle world with the Fair Oaks Fruit Company triangular olive oil bottle just after the turn of the Twentieth Century.

Developed as a speculative realty enterprise by the HowardWilson Publishing Company of Chicago, Fair Oaks was the fourth of its Sunset Colonies, the second in California, and one highly touted for its agricultural promise.

Early brochures described the location as a demi-paradise with ideal soil, water, and temperature for growing all manner of fruits, especially the citrus fruits.

In fact, while the soil is fertile and the climate mild, there are anomalies of temperature, which can range from below twenty to over one hundred and fifteen degrees Fahrenheit. And it may not rain for nearly six months.

Needless to say, while the citrus industry had a nice run from around 1898 to 1932, below freezing temperatures for two weeks in 1932 took a devastating toll on the oranges, lemons, and pomelos (grapefruits).

Fortunately none of these adverse climatic events registered any effect on the growth of the olives, which had become a major crop during the first quarter century of Fair Oaks' economy.

The Fair Oaks Fruit Association, a purely cooperative, mutual, and amateurish association with no capital stock, was incorporated April 25, 1901, but failed in its first year.

Its successor, the Fair Oaks Fruit Company, a stock company capitalized at $25,000 with fifty shares worth $50 each, had a much longer run, lasting from 1902 until at least the depression, eventually becoming the Fair Oaks Olive Growers Association, which lasted until about 1960.

The Fair Oaks Fruit Company had leadership from men who had been successful in other fields of business. They, in turn, hired a manager, Walter W. Hinsey, who already had success in helping to manage agricultural products for George Kellog in Newcastle, California.

The Fair Oaks Fruit Company produced canned whole olives and olive oil under the brand name SAN JUAN BRAND OLIVES and SAN JUAN BRAND OLIVE OIL. SAN JUAN BRAND also appeared on box end labels for oranges and lemons, at least. The olives were preserved in jars and solder top tin cans while the olive oil appeared in the triangular bottles and tins.

The most memorable of these containers were the tooled top triangular bottles, which came in four sizes: 11 1/4", 9", 6 3/4", and 4 1/4". The three larger bottles were embossed on the bottoms: FAIR OAKS FRUIT COMPANY. The smallest bottle was probably not embossed on the bottom (at least I have never seen one embossed).

According to one local source, this olive oil was used for a period of time on the Pullman railroad cars, a fact, if true, is not surprising given the fact that Washington Midler, an executive with the Pullman Company in Chicago, and a member of the Fair Oaks-Chicago Association, was also a gentleman orchardist in Fair Oaks.

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surprising that the bottles are not found around the country, especially along the route between Chicago and Sacramento, California. In fact, I advertised in both BOTTLES AND EXTRAS and THE ANTIQUE BOTTLE AND GLASS COLLECTOR at various times, but never received any reply as to the availability of a Fair Oaks Fruit Company bottle for sale.

In twenty years of attending bottle shows, mostly in the West, but also all the bottle "EXPOs" from Las Vegas to Denver, I have only had one bottle offered to me for sale, and this one was dug south of Sacramento.

Actually another was offered a year or so ago at the 49er Bottle Show in Auburn, California.

A young man found a Fair Oaks Fruit Company bottle along the railroad tracks near Colfax, California around twenty years ago. He brought it to the show and was directed to me because of my interest in Fair Oaks, my home for thirty-five years.

The young man was deeply disappointed to learn that the sale of the bottle would not upwardly change his style of living, and thus carried the bottle home. The point is that although the bottles are relatively rare, beyond my own collection, I think there is little market for them.

There are several unknowns about the triangular bottle. Some time in the past, I read that the bottle was patented. Whether it was or not is unknown to me, but since it is just a triangular bottle, what feature of it that would be patentable is mysterious.

The distribution is also unknown. Beyond the story about the Pullman car use, it is unknown whether it was marketed in the eastern United States or in Europe, or even if it was marketed much locally.

And lastly, the manufacturer of the bottle is unknown. I would appreciate additional information on any of these points.

The olive oil was also produced in tins, and there is at least one example in a 9 1/2" size. Probably larger and smaller examples were used also.

Whole olives were sold in both jars and solder top tins of at least two sizes. No labeled jars are known to exist, and I know of only two paper-labeled, solder top tin cans. Interestingly enough, these two cans were found deep in a gold mine near Reno, Nevada.

An opportunity to have first chance to buy a large number of tins and other material from this gold mine find was offered to me. But, as often happens, I got distracted. Another party bought a large number of the tin cans, then sold some of them to a mutual friend and I was invited to go along with my friend to pick out the best Sacramento tin cans.

While sorting through the cans, I found the two Fair Oaks Fruit Company olive cans - cans I never knew existed and which I would never have found without all the circumstances of fate intersecting at the right time.

The moral of this story? When opportunity knocks, at least peek out the door!

Fair Oaks olives and olive oil were highly esteemed, winning awards at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific in 1909, and at several of the California State Fairs. Photographs of the awards exist, but there is no information about the actual whereabouts of the nice medals.

For those visitors who are planning a trip to the Sacramento area, the old site of the Fair Oaks Fruit Company is located in Fair Oaks at the southwest corner of Sunrise and Fair Oaks Boulevards, the present location of the Post Office.

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The Fair Oaks Historical Society maintains a small museum in the administration building of the Fair Oaks Cemetery at the corner of Olive Street and New York Avenue. The museum is open on the second Sunday of the month between 1:00 and 4:00 p.m., or by appointment.

Contact Steve Abbott by phone: (916) 961-7174 or by E-mail: foabbott@attbi.com.

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Collector owns the cream of the crop of Georgia milks

by Bill Baab

The cream of the crop of Paul Irby’s collection of hundreds of milk bottles are round, colorful Pyroglazed quarts dating to the 1930s and ‘40s.

The basement of his Flowery Branch, Georgia home is filled to overflowing with milks, other bottles and insulators which marked earlier interests in collecting.

Pyroglazing, or more simply applied color labeling, was developed in the United States during the early 1920s and a decade or so later had replaced the more expensive embossing process in use since the early 19th century.

"I love the Pyroglazed round quarts with their vibrant graphics," Irby said as he gave visitors a tour of his home. "They are easily displayed and the graphics especially stand out when you fill the bottles with Styrofoam beads.

"There are so many categories that help make collecting milks so appealing: World War II patriotic; rhymes and poems extolling the virtues of drinking milk; Deep South plantation bottles; containers from institutions like hospitals, colleges and universities and military installations, not to mention bottles of various sizes."

Among Irby’s favorites is a Pyroglazed bottle saying "Let’s Go U.S.A.!" and featuring caricatures of Axis enemies Tojo, Hitler and Mussolini. The bottle also is inscribed "Harms’ Dairy/Oakhurst Farm/ Milk with that Extra Care/Savannah, Ga." Stroll into the kitchen of the Irby home that houses himself, wife Tracie, daughter Caroline, 11, and son Christopher, 9, and standing atop the cabinets is a collection of embossed slug plate quarts from Georgia towns and cities.

"I told my daughter that I named her after a milk bottle from Caroline Dairy in Comer, Ga.," he said. "Truth is, she arrived before I acquired the bottle!

"When I was between jobs, I bought a milk bottle from Tom Hicks of Eatonton, Ga., and paid $75 for it. When my wife found out, she gave me a fit, but that bottle is worth $300 to $400 today. Suddenly she claims it’s HER bottle and warns me not to sell it!"

Irby’s collecting roots go deep, probably from genes inherited from his

father, J.C. Irby, an enthusiastic collector of stamps and coins.

When he was a child living in Cornelia in northeast Georgia, he picked up bottles along the roadside and put them on display. "Mom later made me throw them away, but I think they were just junk. I started collecting insulators in 1988, having formed a liking for their different colors, but at a local flea market a year or so later, I found three milk bottles.

"All were Pyroglazed round quarts: Miss Georgia (Atlanta), Adderholdt Brothers featuring Uncle Sam (from nearby Gainesville) and an Athens Cooperative Cream with a World War II slogan. I thought they were cool and decided to collect milks."

He soon learned it was a nearimpossible task to collect ALL the milks, so he’s specialized in gathering just the ones from his home state. Be that as it may, Irby will buy non-Georgia milks if they pique his interest.

"Collect what you like because that’s where you get the most enjoyment," he said.

Before pasteurization of milk became mandatory during the 1940s, the lighter cream in a bottle of milk rose to the top after the ingredients had settled. Many dairies in the northeastern and midwestern sections of the country introduced "baby tops," bottles with embossed babies’ faces in the neck into which the cream rose.

They proved popular with the public.

"The only dairy in Georgia that used a round baby-faced top was the Georgia Milk and Cream Company of Waycross.

There is a square baby-faced bottle from Springfield Plantation Dairy whose plant was in Savannah, but whose cows were at the plantation in nearby Effingham County."

He owns a Georgia State College of Agriculture Dairy bottle from the 19-teens which a few years later became the University (of Georgia) Dairy. He also owns a half-pint milk embossed State Tuberculosis Sanitarium in Alto, inside a slug plate.

"I buy a lot of milk bottles off eBay, plus there is network of collectors who know I collect Georgia milks. If they find

one I’m interested in, then I’ve got to find something they’re interested in so we can trade."

Irby has contributed photos of his milks for use in John Tutton’s "Udderly Beautiful" and "Udderly Splendid" milk bottle books. He also is a member of the National Association of Milk Bottle Collectors.

Other parts of his milk-related collection include bottle caps, milk tokens, dairy calendars, dairy billheads and letterheads, post cards, ice cream "tip" trays and milk crates.

Irby also has collections of Georgia pottery, colorful Georgia peach crate labels, William C. Fisher "real photo" post cards from Demorest, Ga., colored blobtop sodas, applied color labeled sodas and embossed Georgia medicines and whiskeys.

He also has a "mystery" milk bottle about which he knows nothing. He bought it in Flowery Branch. It’s a round pint embossed "First Prize Dairy/Mrs. M.C. Gooding/Grand Score 9595" in a 1920s30s slug plate.

"I’d appreciate it if anyone knowing anything about the bottle, particularly its location, would contact me," he said. His address is 5981 River Oaks Drive, Flowery Branch, GA 30542.

His e-mail is irbybottles@juno.com.

For more information on milk bottle collecting, write National Association of Milk Bottle Collectors, 18 Pond Place, Cos Cob, Conn., 06807. Yearly membership is $20 in the U.S., $22 in Canada and $25 International.

Tutton, who said the association has about 1,600 members, can be reached at www.earlyamericanworkshop.com. While his "Udder Delight," "Udderly Delightful," "Udderly Fantastic"and "Udderly Beautiful" milk bottle books are out of print, his "Udderly Splendid" book is available at $28.

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

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Paul Irby of Flowery Branch, Ga., with a small part of his milk bottle collection after only 15 years of seriously collecting.

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Ice cream trays share space with Georgia pottery; the Sancken’s tray at lower right is from Augusta, Ga.

Multicolored milks hail from places outside Georgia.

The bottle with the cow is from Torrington, Conn.

Irby shows one of his milks with a golf motif and a Bobby Jones-like figure reading “The Swing is to Sun Shine Dairy”

World War II patriotic slogans adorm milks on top shelf; lower shelf contains rhyme bottles from Vallotton Dairy in Valdosta, Ga.

The collector with two 1940s cardboard cone “bottles” from Augusta’s Bryson Dairy and the Butler Island Plantation between Brunswick and Savannah.

The lone Georgia baby tops mentioned in the story are third and fourth from the left.

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with Howard Currier Continuing with my series of regional shot glass collections, this column deals with the collection of Ed Sipos from Scottsdale, Arizona. Shot glasses are actually only the tip of the Sipos iceberg.

Ed is primarily an Arizona collector...a member of ABA and has been editor of the A-1 Chapter club newsletter of the BCCA since 1997. So, while this column is a slight departure from the “shot glass only format” of previous ones, you’ll find a couple of pre-pro etched Tucson and Phoenix glasses mixed in among some spectacular mini-mugs, match strikers and other smalls.

For the second issue in a row, we’re featuring a foreign born collector. Ed is originally from Brazil but has lived in Scottsdale most of his life, where he works in his family’s jewelry shop and brings a goldsmith’s eye to the art of display of both jewelry and collectibles. You’ll find him lurking in the eBay shadows under “azsaloon” Q: Ed, what first got you interested in collecting pre-pro shot glasses?

antique store in Phoenix. The first was an Erminie Rye from Traitel & Rice and the second was a Puritan Grape Juice glass from Paw Paw, Michigan. I think they cost a couple of dollars each. I still have both in my collection.

A: I’m not sure exactly. I’ve collected breweriana for some time so I guess it stemmed from that. I had a few pre pro etched beer glasses in my collection when I first took notice of the pre pro whiskeys.

The etched whiskeys were very similar and some had very nice graphics. Plus at the time, they were cheaper and took up less space on the shelf.

Q: Do you recall what the first glass you actually purchased was?

A: I purchased two glasses from a little

Q: How large is your collection overall?

A: I have approximately 65 glasses right now. I’ve limited my collection to one display case to keep improving on quality. As I get better glasses, I may let go of one. I’ve reached the point, however, that the ones I own right now, I’m not sure I want to let go of yet, so I’ll need to add another display case. I like to display my shot glasses in old hotel key cabinets that have been converted into display cases. I’ve been lucky and found two with the original glass doors. I have three right now. One for shot glasses, one for advertising openers, and one for my mini mug collection.

Q: So, you do collect other whiskey “smalls” aside from glasses?

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A: Yes. I have a very broad range of interests. I found that there are a lot of really neat advertising items beyond just shot glasses. I look for match safes, pocket mirrors, celluloid items, mini advertising dice holder tins, and anything old and unusual. I also collect early Arizona advertising items. Mini mugs however have been a big focus of mine lately. I have approximately 60 of those in my collection right now.

Q: One of the aspects of your collecting that’s always fascinated me is your focus on “display.” Where do you find all these authentic old western cases and cabinets?

A: I find them mostly in antique stores or antique shows. I have picked up a

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couple small ones through eBay. That’s pretty rare, however, since prices tend to be much higher, especially those with etched advertising on them. I’ve always been fascinated with the early display cases. They can add a whole new dimension to a display.

Q: Another thing that sets you apart from many other collectors is the amount of participation and depth of knowledge that your wife, Alice, shows. Quite a few of us have to battle a spouse for space, time, resources, etc. Has this cooperative effort been there from the start?

A: Yes. Although she doesn’t specifically collect anything in particular, Alice has always shown interest and

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wanted to participate in my hobby. The best part is that she loves to travel and hunt for antiques and collectibles. She’s found some real good items in stores or shows more than once. She also has a knack to keep me in balance when I want to dig deeper in my pockets for a good item.

Q: Without revealing any secrets, what are your chief sources?

A: I don’t think I have any real secrets.

When lucky, I find shot glasses at antique stores and antique shows. In the beginning, I used to resell glasses more than I do today, but now I’m also pickier in what I acquire. eBay has been the biggest factor in building my collection

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Bottles and Extras overall. Believe it or not, my shot glass collection consisted of less than eight glasses prior to my joining eBay in 1998.

Only after I joined did I truly expand my collection and knowledge about glasses.

Arizona is not a hotbed for finding pre prohibition shot glasses so I mainly depend on the internet to find those good glasses. As a matter of fact, I have yet to meet another collector in Arizona specializing in pre pro shots. I know many collectors who believe eBay has been a bad thing for this hobby. But in many respects, it has made available many unknown glasses to collectors.

Q: What references do you use to check the availability and value of glasses?

A: My first two sources, and what sparked my early interest in whiskey shots, were Barbara Edmonson’s two books: Old Advertising Spirit Glasses and Historic Shot Glasses. Both books are highly recommended to the novice and advanced collector. eBay is also a great source to learn about glasses. The more time you spend searching for glasses, the more you learn which are common and which are more scarce or desirable. What has become, in my opinion, one of the best sources to learn about shot glasses however, is Robin Preston’s pre-pro.com

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shot glass website. He has done a tremendous service to this hobby by building that web site. Then again Howard, your efforts should also be recognized in aiding his website. The neat thing about Robin’s website, is that he encourages everyone to participate. The database section of the website is an excellent source to get familiar with what’s out there.

Q: In your collection, what are your three favorite glasses?

A: I’m not sure if I have a specific favorite, but if I had to pick the top three shot glasses, I would say the enameled Pacific Club from Washington, the L. Fuldner & Co. of Milwaukee, and the Adam Mickiewicz of Chicago.

I just picked up the enameled Jed Clayton and an etched G.A.R./Metzger glass a while back. Those will probably get bumped up to my favorites. My two all time favorite glasses in my collection however, happen to be two glasses from Arizona. One is an A.F.C. Kirchoff from Phoenix, and the other a Bail-Heinemann from Tucson. They are actually etched beer glasses and not shot glasses due to their size.

The Kirchoff and Heinemann are the only two Pre Prohibition etched glasses known from Arizona at this time. I say it that way because you never know when a new unknown glass may pop up. It makes me wonder if the Melczer Brothers in Phoenix ever put out an etched glass. If they did, I’d love to see it.

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Q: Tell us about your biggest coup in picking up a special shot glass.

A: Regarding shot glasses, I’m not sure I have a real good story to tell yet. I like to think that my big find is still to come. When I find that trunk full of label under glass shots, I’ll let you know.

Q: How about “the one that got away”?

A: Could I say...most of the good ones I get outbid from on eBay? But then again, that would be much more than just one. I’ve let some real good ones get away from me on eBay because I wasn’t willing to step up to the plate and pay the big bucks some of these glasses command.

I guess we all have to draw a line somewhere.

Q: What’s that one special glass you’ve been hunting for?

A: No particular glass. I search for glasses mainly from the western half of the United States, but if they look good and the graphics are nice, I won’t discriminate.

Q: To wrap it up, what advice would you offer to young collectors just starting out?

A: I think young collectors should focus on acquiring good condition glasses with nice graphics and few flaws. One day we’ll all have to let go of our collections, so if you stick with more desirable glasses in clean condition, you’ll make it much easier on yourself later on.

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appeals to you, or type of glass you like, that can be a good start also.

It is very important to get informed before spending too much money on any glass. There’s a number of different reference guides (most of which I’ve already mentioned) that can help a novice learn what glasses are common and which are harder to find. Patience and common sense are key elements when buying glasses especially on eBay. One of the most rewarding things to remember however is making friends.

That will always pay you dividends in the end.

Howard Currier is an avid collector of shot glasses and breweriana from Boston, Denver and San Francisco. He can be reached by E-mail: hecurrier@attbi.com.

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Beginnings Of A Flask Collector

by Mark R. Smith

(with editorial comments by his other half, Laura J. Rock-Smith) I am sure many of our readers have at some time “backed” into collecting some area of bottles. You dig one or two, get lucky at a shop and pick up a couple for a song, buy a box lot or two and another turns up. Then it strikes you, you have ten or a dozen of them, and a collection has begun! (Ugh! Excuse me, Laura here, but you have always said a collection consisted of two or more, so we have lots of collections you have “backed” into around here.) Well, this is how I became involved with flasks from my area of the U.S., in particular New York (City), Brooklyn and Long Island.

Like many, I came into bottles as a digger, and my collection contained what I dug. Since in my area blob tops and hutches are popular, I began to focus on them. Digging, attending shows, club meetings, friends and plenty of trades resulted in a fine, and large, collection. Then it happened. Guess I was about 16, and a friend had given me a lift to an antique show in Huntington. There it was, on a table, all alone, and just ten dollars. It was the only old bottle at the show of any interest, so I purchased it. It was a strap flask “S. Lefkowitz Wines & Liquors Huntington LI” in the slug plate. I had never seen one from Long Island before, and seeing how many blobs and hutches there were, it seemed like a nice price.

Perhaps a year went by, and picked up one from Patchogue, a shoo fly, sun-colored amethyst. Then at a shop, two different ones from Greenport came home. Now there were four. No one in the club really seemed to collect them, and the blob top/hutch

Here are three of the quart strap flasks I have from N.Y. Left to Right: JOHN F. HEINBOCKEL/COR HICKS/& FULTON/STS/BROOKLYN, amber quart strap. JOHN HAY/152 & 154/WASHINGTON ST./COR. LIBERTY ST./NEW YORK/amber quart strap. ALBRO & BRO’S/ 156/BOWERY/N.Y., amber quart strap. The “John Heinbockel” came to me via Australia! Both the “John Heinbockel” and the “Albro & Bros” have applied tops. The “Albro Bros” may be the easiest of the amber quarts to find. I have seen a number of them over the years.

Think of the good time you could have with one of these filled with a little “86”!

market was very tight, every new bottle had four or five folks after it. So I started to give these interesting flasks a home, since to me they seemed to be overlooked. What fun! The blob tops and hutches continued to pack my shelves, and the Huntington stoneware filled every spot on the floor, but, I would now pick up a flask or two at a show, if I could not get a new blob top or piece of stoneware to add. The little flasks started to trickle in now. The door had been opened.

Then, something happened. No, not that! I met my future wife. (Who by the way did not mind going to bottle shows and even looked for an area I could get into so we could share.) It took a while, but she convinced me that those boring, look alike blob tops and hutches were not nearly as interesting as those cute little flasks (Excuse me, I never said cute. They are just much more interesting to me than the blob tops, more color, shapes and sizes. Plus the added benefit of not being so many at the bottle shows, which makes for an easier hunt. Especially with a child in tow. ). And how the cute (Remember I never called them cute, cool yes, cute no, well except maybe for the 1/4-pint.) little flasks went so well with my collection of stoneware, while the blob tops and hutches seemed to clash.

Well, it took awhile, but in the end the boring hutches and blob tops were sold, to make room for more stoneware, and more strap flasks.

Now, at just about the same time, a long time friend, and mentor in the bottle hobby, was in the process of selling off his collections in preparation for his retirement, and moving from the area. He very kindly offered me his entire collection of strap flasks from Brooklyn and Long Island. He felt that since I was the only one he knew who had any interest in them, that I would provide a good home for them. (And I agreed whole heartily.) Guess I had about 40 or 50 strap flasks by now. I was now a bonifide strap flask collector!

Now, at about this time, we (remember my wife with the cute [I did not say cute!] flasks) noticed many different N.Y.C. flasks were at the bottle shows, as we searched for Brooklyn and Long Island flasks. We noticed that the flasks did not seem to sell, as we began to see the same one at show after show. So, we started to give them a home too! Now we could go to a show and bring home 15 strap flasks at a clip. What a great time we were having! The shelves filled faster than I could build them. We did this for years. What a great thing it is to have a wife who also loves the bottles you collect. (Thanks!) She would gladly attend a show without me to search for flasks! And she would bring them home too! (Remember what I said about how they where easier to look for, well one of my first solo trips was when I was seven-months pregnant and went to Toms River in ’96 and came home with 14. One of our friends is a dealer and he let me drop off my purchases as I went round. It must have been a sight to see this short very pregnant woman loaded with bags, hehe. I’ve since not done as well on my own but still occasionally show up sans the other half but with our daughter in tow, who by the way has a collection of miniature bottles and marbles and knows the difference between a blob top and a

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it was now economically feasible for even a small shop owner to have custom made flasks. The orders began to roll in!

At about the same time as the development of the slug plate, the air vented mold was also patented in 1875. With the use of the vented molds, clear, clean, crisp embossing was achieved.

By the 1890s, the air vented mold was in wide spread use. To check your flask for air vents, look very carefully at the back of the flask, in the shoulder area for a series of small dots. Tends to be three, but I have seen more and less on some examples.

Along with the introduction of the air vented mold, and the slug plate, there also came a change in the finishing of the mouth of the flask. The earlier flasks featured applied tops. Now, while we collectors can wax poetic about a nice drippy glob top (I still don’t get what’s so exciting about a glob top, must be a guy thing.), the fact is they required labor and time to produce.

To increase production the glass houses switched to refiring and tooling the lip of the flask. To check your flask for a tooled, or applied top, look carefully at the area where the neck meets the lip or top of the flask. The applied top will show a seam right up to the base of the top, some times with a glob of glass stuck to the neck of the flask. You may also, if your finger is Here is a sampling of the different colors and some of the different styles our flask collection holds. There are aqua strap flasks, an amber pocket flask, two different pumpkin seeds, and a citron strap.

Top Row: ½ PINT/JOHN SCHNEIDER/627/ AMSTERDAM AVE/ BET 90 & 91ST ST/NEW YORK, strap in aqua; A VAL WOODRUFF/1201 FULTON ST/BROOKLYN/N.Y. (on angle in script), strap in citron; WARRANTED/FLASK/S. SUMBERG/576 9TH AVE./BET./41ST & 42ND ST./NEW YORK/CONTENTS 6 OZ., strap in aqua. Bottom Row: SPIEGEL BROS/No. 421. 7TH AVE/N. E Cor 33RD ST./NEW YORK, pumpkin seed in SCA; PARK & TILFORD/NEW YORK, pocket flask in amber; EDWARD FREUND & CO./NEW YORK/ (mono on rev.) “EF & CO.,” clear pumpkin seed. The pocket and citron flasks are favorites for both of us.

flask, she’s six.) I will tell you what is amazing to us. After years of collecting strap flasks from N.Y.C., it is rare to see a double. As I write this, our collection is very close to 400 different N.Y.C. strap flasks, 100 Brooklyn examples, and about 30 from Long Island. They range from private mold examples in shades of amber, citron, aqua and clear to the slug plate examples in the same colors. Then their are the coffin and shoo fly flasks…

Now, about the flasks.

The strap flask, as we know them did not come into being overnight. Their roots go all the way back to the famous historical flasks. By the 1860s, plain oval flasks were being produced. These flasks resemble strap flasks, but are missing the straps. These were produced in two forms. One a plain example, on which the merchant could place their own paper label. Or, if the merchant had the means, they could have a mold custom made, a private mold. The private mold was a costly undertaking, as the bottles were only of use to the owner of the mold. Due to this reason, few private molds were produced.

By the 1870s, straps begin to appear on the flasks. Then came the big doggie in 1875. Gustavus Storm, who with his brother Francis, operated the Philadelphia Flint Glass Works, received a patent for a slug plate. Now things began to happen with the flasks. With the only the cost of a slug plate to consider,

Top left to right: H. FERRIGAN & BRO/LATE/DAVID PATTULLO/80 DUANE St/N.Y. Pint; amber; early oval w/ applied top; private mold; PARK & TILFORD/NEW YORK/Pint in light golden amber, applied top, private mold. Bottom left to right: CENTRAL.R.R. HOUSE/H. RAUBE/PROP/N.Y. Half pint; amber; strap side; letter plate; JOHN H. PEPER/1201 3d AV./COLUMBUS AV./& 99th ST./N.Y. ONE PINT/FULL MEASURE, Base: L. & M.G./182 FULTON ST./N.Y., amber; strap sided; letter plate (double circles); JOHN. C. BOYLE/797/SIXTH AVE./N.W. COR. 45TH ST/NEW YORK half pint; amber; strap side; letter plate. Here we have an example of a plain oval flask, prior to the introduction of the strap side flask, in the “H. Ferrigan & Bro” specimen. The “Park & Tilford” flask is an applied top, private mold in beautiful golden amber. The “John H. Peper” shows the base markings of one of the jobbers of flasks in NYC in the 1880’s period.

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small, try your pinky; feel the seam where the top is applied on the inside of the mouth. The tooled top will show a wiping away of the mold seam below the top, and the top and the neck will appear to be made of the same gather of glass. The inside of the mouth will be smooth. You may also see the horizontal marks on the flask from the lipping tool. Some of the tooled tops can be very crude and poorly made. You are far more likely to encounter a tooled top on a strap flask than an applied top. I have seen applied tops on slug plate flasks, but they are rarer than applied tops on private mold examples. Perhaps the most available N.Y.C. flask with an applied top on a private mold are the Park & Tilford examples. Just two applied top slug plate examples come to mind, one, “Albro & Bros 156 Bowery NY” in an amber quart, and the other, an amber quart, “John F Heinbockel Cor Hicks & Fulton STS Brooklyn.”

The strap flasks were produced in many colors and sizes. I have had the chance to see displays of colored strap flasks. The shades of green, blue (even cobalt!) amber along with shades of citron make for quite a rainbow of glass. As for the embossed flasks, which I enjoy, colors that I am aware of include citron, shades of amber, aqua and clear. I have a rule of thumb on the colors, which I have learned through research of the merchants who used the flasks in their business years ago. The ambers

The hotel flasks make a very interesting sub collection and we show two different types – leather wrapped and glass. Back, left to right: HOTEL GLENWOOD A.E. HAWKINS, PROP. MATTITUCK, L.I.; THE LONG ISLAND HOUSE FRANK J. CORWIN, Prop. RIVERHEAD, L.I.; O’KEEFE’S COTTAGE INN EASTHAMPTON, L.I. N.Y.; PARAGON HOTEL GREENPORT, N.Y. D.J. CASSIDY, PROP. All wrapped with leather, printed in gold. Front, left to right: HOTEL/BOROUGH/JULIUS SIMON/ 98 LEXINGTON AVE./ S.W.COR. 27th ST./N.Y. CITY half pint; amber; strap side; letter plate; CENTRAL R.R. HOUSE/COR. LIBERTY & WEST STS./HERMAN RAUB/NEW YORK pint; amber; strap side; letter plate; MANSION HOUSE/478 FOURTH AVENUE/NEW YORK/ Wm BRANDES PROPRIETOR pint; amber; strap side; letter plate; CENTRAL HOTEL/272 & 273/ WEST. ST. N.Y./HERM. WILKING, PROP. Half pint; amber; strap side with threaded neck finish and ground lip. Some of them are “cross over” items, which means they are sought after by collectors in other fields, for example, railroad collectors might look for “Central R. R. House”, or collectors of Niagara Falls items might want the “The Niagara Hotel” flask. These hotels flasks are some of my favorites.

Top Row: VON GLAHN & WAJE/59th STREET/N.E. COR. OF COLUMBUS AVE/ NEW YORK/FULL MEASURE, shoo fly in clear; M. HAHN/”MH” (monogram)/WINES/&/LIQUORS/823/ COLUMBUS AVE./ 2191/EIGHTH AVE./NEW YORK, coffin in clear; CAPACITY/FULL ½ PINT/L. ZIEGEL/190-8TH AVE/ BETW./19TH & 20TH STS/NEW YORK, shoo fly in clear. Bottom Row: HENRY LAUSCHER/WINE/&/LIQUOR/MERCHANT/8162nd AVE./NEW YORK/CAPACITY 8 OZ, coffin in clear; MAX LURIA/IMPORTER & DEALER/IN/WINES LIQUORS/AND BRANDIES/485 SECOND AVE./613 FIRST AVE./645 FIRST AVE./NEW YORK, half pint, clear; coffin; letter plate; MAX LURIA/IMPORTER & DEALER/IN/WINES LIQUORS/AND BRANDIES/485 SECOND AVE./613 FIRST AVE./645 FIRST AVE./NEW YORK, coffin in clear; 3OZ./ISENBURGER’S/FINE/ WINES & LIQUORS/NEW YORK, coffin in clear. Coffin and shoo fly flasks are less commonly found than the strap side flasks, and a nice grouping is a bit of a challenge to get. One I like a great deal is the “Max Luria”, as he certainly has a lot of embossing on the bottle!

seem to date up to the 1890s, while the clear dominates the post 1900 period. Aqua is available, but not often seen. This rule of thumb also applies to the examples from Brooklyn. Size is very variable also. The half-pint and pint sizes are the most commonly seen. Quarter pints are very, very cute. (That word again!) Quarts are available, and the ambers are stunning in a window. Quart strap flasks are big! Must have had some big pockets years ago to slip those into. Perhaps that is where the term “deep pockets” comes from. (Groan!)

Now, strap flasks were very popular with the wine and liquor trade for about 40 years, but they were not the only flasks used.

Other flasks used in the trade were the pumpkin seed. (I really like pumpkin seeds.) Pumpkin seeds are very flat, very round flasks, with a small base. Which makes them very, very tipsy!

I use sticky wax, which some of you may know as Quake Hold to help keep mine upright and intact. You also have shoo fly and coffin style flasks. (Another two favorite shapes.) These

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are confusing to tell apart, here are some tips. Your coffin flask will have a flat front and back panel. The sides, or edges, when viewed from the base of the flask will also be flat, giving a total of six flat sides to the bottle. Some collectors will call the coffin a knife-edge. The shoo fly also has a flat front and back panel.

But when viewed from the bottom the edges are round or curved, not flat. Shoo fly flasks have only two flat sides, and two curved sides.

As did many bottlers of the period, wine and liquor merchants would charge a deposit to try and ensure the return of their bottles to keep down costs. Some merchants even embossed this right on the flask! (Okay, I do not remember this. Guess I have go down to the basement for another look.) Nonetheless, the flasks have a very high mortality rate. Lets me be honest.

Who is careful after even a half-pint of whiskey? Heck, if you and a buddy did in one of the quarts, you would not even know if you broke the thing. Breaking the bottle would also provide a safe and efficient way of “disposing of the evidence” so a

Top row, left to right: MONOGRAM/(picture of horse head w/ grain)/WHISKEY./A BLEND/GUARANTEED BY ELIAS & CLYNE, UNDER THE/FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, JUNE 30, 1906./ELIAS & CLYNE,/NEW YORK (all on paper label printed red, black and gold on white paper); REGISTERED/LAFAYETTE CLUB/TRADE/(Bust of Lafayette)/MARK/WHISKEY/A BLEND OF WHISKIES/GUARANTEED UNDER THE FOOD AND DRUGS/ACT, JUNE 30, 1906 BY/STEINHARDT BROS CO./ NEW YORK (All on paper label); MARYLAND/MONOGRAM RYE/TRADE/FG/MARK/WHISKEY/THE CONTENTS OF THIS BOTTLE IS/STRICTLY GUARANTEED FOR FAMILY/AND MEDICINAL PURPOSES./FR. GRUENEWALD/1275 3RD AVE. NEW YORK.(paper label printed gold and black on white). Bottom Row: RED ROBIN/bird on a branch/WHISKEY/HUMBER DISTRIBUTING CO./BROOKLYN, NEW YORK/7 OZ; THOS. OATES & CO./picture of 3 shamrocks/TRADE MARK/ IMPORTERS/ESTABLISHED 1865/NEW YORK/FULL MEASURE, clear coffin; 7 OZ./ASK FOR/CIVIC CLUB/TRADE “B&C”(monogram) MARK/WHISKEY/BALSAM & CO./ BROOKLYN. We wanted to show you some of the interesting paper labels and monograms in the collection. Laura is fond of the horse head on the top shelf, while I like the three shamrocks on the Thomas Oates example in the second row.

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Display of New York City amber strap flasks presented at the Long Island Antique Bottle Associations 2001 Show and Sale.

disapproving spouse (Which spouse? I am sure quite a few wives liked to drink too.) would not find it. The broad flat sides are easily broken since they do not roll very well in the dumps. Of course, the failure of a business, or change of address would result in obsolete bottles. As such they would either go back to the glass house as broken cullet, or resold for another use. Many from N.Y.C. and Brooklyn seem to have been used for laundry bluing, as over the years I have acquired a number of examples with paper labels for “Boyer’s Bengal Liquid Blue Manufactured

by Boyer & Co. Philadelphia.” (One of those sub collections he mentioned earlier, some still have the bluing in them.)

Now, residing near New York City, and collecting New York City and Brooklyn flasks, this naturally makes for fairly easy research. I am lucky to live just a few minutes from the Patchogue-Medford Public Library, which happens to have a large collection of N.Y.C. and Brooklyn Directories on microfilm. I thank my friend Gary Guest for letting me in on this fact. As I have been conducting the research, I have noticed that the research is as exciting as finding them. (Sorry no – I’d rather do the finding, I love the hunt part. Oh isn’t he lucky to have a wife who lets him wander off to the library for hours to do this research?) While it takes time, a lot of time, I do hope one day to share what I have learned about these flasks with others by publishing a book on the flasks of N.Y.C. and Brooklyn.

Hopefully these wonderful flasks from the East will one day have the chance to share the limelight with their big brothers from the West. (That’s okay with me as long as their prices do not get to where their big brothers from the West are at, as that would slow us down considerably on adding more flasks, and as any true collector will tell you, you never have too many.)

Bibliography: Cheney, John. “Eastern Strap Flasks,” Old Bottle Magazine, Feb., 1979.

This display of flasks was presented as part of a program I presented to the Rocky Point Historical Society in 2001.

Flasks shown are from NYC, Brooklyn and Long Island.

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Let’s Talk About Ink with Ed & Lucy Faulkner

Bill Wakelam (right) answers questions about inkwells after his talk.

1st Annual Ink Symposium For a number of years, John Hinkel of Pacific, Missouri and Keith Leeders of Chicago have had informal get-togethers with other local ink collectors in conjunction with the St. Louis Bottle Show. This year, with the help of Bill Wakelam of St. Louis, they organized a symposium with several collectors talking about their collecting interest. A lovely Bed and Breakfast was rented near John’s and several of us stayed there and the presentations were held there as well.

We started Saturday morning with breakfast at the Hinkels’ (with many thanks to Sue ) and viewing of John’s collections. John collects labeled inks, and has an extensive collection of inks, pottery jugs, and store display cases by various manufacturers. Labeled inks can tell so much history of an ink company and add interest and value as well. While we were there, we also looked at Sue’s beautiful kiln formed art glass that she makes herself and her collection of Crayola items.

Back at the B & B, the first presentation was by Curtis Finley of St. Louis, who has researched ink formulas for many years. He gave a demonstration on how iron gall ink is made mixing it up as he talked. Early gall ink was corrosive to

pens and it also spoiled quickly. If you look at labels on a lot of the early inks, they will say noncorrosive, and will not mold.

As the use of steel pens replaced the quill, ink formulas had to change.

Next up was Keith Leeders. Keith began collecting in 1971 after digging for bottles in the Chicago area. For his talk, he selected pottery inks. He noted that many early pottery inks came to this country from England and were a good item for ballast in sailing ships as they were heavy and inexpensive to produce.

These inks range in size from two-ounces to a gallon size. Small ones were often called penny inks as that was the cost when first produced in the 1800s. Pottery gallons were probably sold until around 1935. It is hard to date these inks as the bottles changed very little and unless the label remains with a date, there is no way of knowing exactly when produced. Some of the larger companies often debossed their bottles. Most American potteries that produced these bottles were in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

For our next presentation, Bill Wakelam displayed a number of different inkwells while talking about the history of inkwell production. Quite often, old inkwell desk sets often included a bell which was used to summon a servant to post the letter. Another fact he noted was

Bottles and Extras that the US Post Office used an inkwell with a dip pen until 1957 when they finally changed to ball point pens.

Quinton Wells, of Overland Park, Kansas, who collects fountain pens, was the next speaker. He talked about writing methods and the evolution of fountain pens all the while demonstrating various methods of filling the pens and design changes over the years. He also showed us a number of interesting pens from his collection.

After lunch, (thanks to Sue), we had an informal show and tell. Charlie Baldwin (and Joyce) of Swansea, Massachusetts, had a book with hundreds of wonderful pictures of his ink bottle collection. He collects not only labeled inks, but early colored and embossed inks as well. Ed and I brought along a lot of paper ephemera as well as an Omega watch promotional inkwell, an early Sanford ink pen filler and an example of an amber igloo ink made by the Clevenger Glass Works in the original mold (# 651 in Covill’s book ).

John talked about trying to find a method of standardizing bottle colors and wrapping the paper labels on inks. If you do wrap, make sure to use archival plastic. Keith briefly talked about repro inkwells, and what to look for. Buck (and Sandy) Van Tine talked about the Society of Inkwell Collectors. Buck is the director of the society and is always looking for new members interested in inkwells. He can be contacted through the society website: http:// www. soic.com if you are interested in joining.

After much talk and just enjoying being with other collectors, it was time to go to the home of Bill and Judy Wakelam for supper and viewing Bill’s collection.

Bill has a large collection of inkwells, labeled inks, crocks and other ink items.

They are beautifully displayed and everyone enjoyed looking.

I think everyone would agree, we had a fun and educational experience. It was a great day of talking with other ink collectors, laughing (especially at Keith), and hearing Charlie tell some of his hilarious life experiences. All of us who attended would like to thank John, Sue, Bill, Judy and Keith for the planning and effort they did in organizing this event. If you would like to know more, or be put on next year’s list for notification, send us an E-mail at faulkner@antiquebottles.com and we will forward it to John.

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Keith discusses pottery inks.

Curtis Finley showed the group how to make iron gall ink from scratch.

After pizza we admired Bill Wakelam’s nice ink displays.

Right: John Hinkel beside one of his many ink displays.

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Quinton Wells talks about pens while Sue Hinkel looks on.

At the end of each presentation there was lots of discussion.

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Collecting the Western Swirled Whiskies

by Bill Reeves

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It all started about eight years ago when I sold my back bar collection. Whiskies have always been my favorite category, but I really didn’t want to start this late in the game collecting all brands. I decided to specialize in one or two.

I had a nice Big Seven / The Whiskey That Sells Liquid Food. It had a fancy swirled shoulder and neck. I looked through several bottle books to see if it was feasible to collect just swirled whiskies. There wasn’t a whole lot, but enough for me to give it a try. Collecting them started out at a pretty good pace, but like anything else, the rarer ones were harder to come by.

I then decided to include Eastern swirls, but after a couple of years, I had to drop that venture, as things never panned out like I’d hoped.

Swirled Whiskey Styles John Thomas, author of several Western whiskey books, called the swirled cylinders “Minnesota Brandies.” These bottles had the swirl starting at the shoulder and ending part way up the neck of the bottle.

The square squats with the swirled bulbous neck come close to what Thomas called “Boston Square Brandy Style.” These swirls are on the bulbous neck only.

There is one other swirled style, and it is on two square squats made in Oakland, Calif. They are the W.M. Watson and the Winedale. These two are swirled like the cylinders, as their swirls start at the shoulder and end part way up the neck.

Figure 2 shows the different swirl patterns.

Eastern and Western swirl patterns are basically the same on cylinders and on bulbous square types.

There are a few Eastern cylinders that swirl in the opposite direction, as shown in Figure 2, second bottle from the left. Swirled bottles come in all sizes, like their unswirled counterparts.

They come in miniature, pints, fifths, quarts, and one-half gallons. The only embossed Western miniature I know of is the square, squat bulbous swirl neck Henry Campe & Co., San Francisco. It was made in the East and has “253” in a diamond on its base.

Swirled Production History Swirled whiskies basically started being produced in the very late 1890s, and ended with prohibition in 1919. Prohibition ended earlier than 1919 in other states. The first state in the West to go “dry” was Washington in 1915. These bottles were almost always tooled-tops, except for a couple of glass factories that started making automatic bottle machine (ABM) bottles before prohibition. Western and Eastern swirls are almost always two-molds, except for a small percentage that are made uncommonly as threeand four-mold types.

These are usually on unembossed paper-labeled bottles, but I have seen a very few on embossed examples. These have one complete mold base to the top of the shoulder, like a drinking glass, then split equally from the shoulder on up the neck as three pieces of mold. The same applies for four-piece mold, except that the shoulder up the neck is split three ways, into thirds. Some of these bottles were made in Eastern glass companies, and then sent to Western states where the distributors used their product’s labels on them.

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Colors Western states glass factory bottles, cylinders and square squats are all either amber, aqua, clear or amethyst. Eastern states cylinders are pretty much found in amber and clear. Eastern square squats come in a wide range of colors, such as: blue, green, red, yellow, amber, clear and amethyst.

Inside Threads Swirls There are only three Western whiskies that have inside screw tops. They are: 1. Big Seven / The Whiskey That Sells Liquid Food, fifth, amber, cylinder.

2. Roth & Co / Full Quart / San Francisco, Cal., amber, cylinder.

3. Kellogg’s Rye Whiskey, amber, square squat quart.

Swirled Bottle Makers Holt Glass Works in Berkeley, California made a couple of swirled embossed whiskey cylinders. A few, but not all of the Big Seven’s The Whiskey That Sells Liquid Food, were made by the Holt glass house. They are an amber fifth cylinder with “10 H” on the base.

Rosenblatt Co. of San Francisco was one of the distributors of Big 7 that I know of, and it could be the only one.

Silkwood Laventhal Bros. S.F. Cal. amber fifth cylinder was the only other one that I know of. It has “672 H” on its base. X Glass Works is one of several unknown glass houses. They made many swirled whiskies.

Following is a list of seven quart cylinders with “482 X” glass house base code on them: 1. Remington Liquor Co. / Distilled / Just Right / 101 - 3rd St / Portland, Ore., amber, slug plate. (Figure 4) 2. Remington Liquor Co. / Distilled / Just Right / 425 Washington St. / Portland, Ore., amber, slug plate. (Figure 4) 3. Remington Commercial Co. / Distilled / Just Right / 425 Washington St. / Portland, Ore., clear, slug plate.

(Figure 4) 4. Los Angeles Wine Co. / Telephone 373 / Spokane Wash., clear, slug plate.

5. Los Angeles Wine Co. / Full

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Measure / Telephone 373 / Spokane, Wash., clear, slug plate.

6. Full Quart / Silkwood Whiskey / Laventhal Bros. / San Francisco, amber, slug plate.

7. The Full Measure House / L. Dryfoos Co. / Seattle Wash., clear, no slug plate.

This bottle has a private mold.

There are two more swirled bottles that have the “X” glass house base code: 1. The Full Measure House / L. Drygoos / Seattle, Wash., clear, pint. This bottle is also a private mold with “445 X” on the base. (Figure 5) 2. Americus Club / Whiskey, clear, square, squat, fifth. There are very few of these that have the “288 X” on the base.

There are many unembossed paper label swirls that have the “X” base code.

It sure looks like there would be some information about the “X” glass house,

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as they produced so many of the swirled, and unswirled, bottles from 1900 to 1913.

I have not seen an “X” on any Eastern bottles, and have my own feeling that they might have been produced in Northern Oregon, or perhaps Washington state.

Plus, many swirls do not have any base codes.

It is extremely rare to have a whittled swirled bottle. I have one that is an unembossed amber cylinder fifth with a lead seal top. Its paper label is from Lorraine Club. It has the neck label, but the bottom label is missing.

The label in Figure 6 is a Lorraine Club Whiskey / Felix Coblentz & Co. / San Francisco. The whittled bottle is very heavy and its base is also made of very wavy glass. It is the old Western four-mold type and the only one that I have seen.

There are air vents in the swirls, as most

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of the swirl bottles have. I am still looking hard for a Lorraine Club embossed amber quart.

How many Western embossed swirled bottles exist? I know of thirty-two, but there are probably a few more. Below is a list of the embossed ones. If anyone knows of different ones than listed, please let me know. Of the unembossed paper-labeled

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Embossed List: 1. Americus Club / Pure / Whiskey, clear, square, squat, fifth.

2. Americus Club / Whiskey, clear, square, squat, fifth.

3. Big Seven / No. 7 / The Whiskey That Sells / Liquid / Food, amber, cylinder, fifth.

4. Cerrut / Mercantile Co. Inc. / Monogram / S.F. Cal., amber, cylinder, fifth.

5. Days of 49 Whiskey / Meyerfield & Mitchell / S.F., clear, cylinder, quart, back bar.

6. Dodson / Extra Special, horizontal embossing, clear, square, squat, quart.

7. Dodson / Extra Special, vertical embossing, unlisted, clear, square, squat, quart.

8. The Full Measure House / L. Dryfoos Co. / Seattle Wash., clear, cylinder, pint.

9. The Full Measure House / L. Dryfoos Co. / Seattle Wash., clear, cylinder, quart.

10. The Full Measure House / L. Dryfoos Co. / Seattle / Wash. / Return Bottle / & Get 10-cents, clear, cylinder, 1/2 gallon, unlisted.

11. Henry Campe and Co. / San Francisco, clear, square, squat, miniature.

12. Green Ribbon Whiskey / Denver / Chicago, clear, cylinder, quart.

13. Idaho Bar, back bar, amber, cylinder, fifth.

14. Imperial Liquor Co. / 305 7-9 Pike St. / Seattle, aqua, cylinder, 1/2 gallon.

15. Imperial Liquor Co. / 311 Pike St. / Seattle, Wash., aqua, cylinder, 1/2 gallon.

16. Jaffe & Co. / 115-117 Second Ave So. / Seattle Wash. / Wine Growers / Distillers, aqua, cylinder, 1/2 gallon.

17. Kellogg’s / Rye / Whiskey, on front.

On back: Wilmerding / Loewe Co. / San Francisco Cal., amber, square, squat, quart with inside threads.

18. Same as above, but without inside threads.

19. Los Angeles Wine Co. / Telephone 373 / Spokane Wash., clear, cylinder, quart.

20. Los Angeles Wine Co. / Full / Telephone 373 / Measure / Spokane Wash., clear, cylinder, quart.

21. Lemile & Co. / Monogram / Wholesale / Liquor / Dealers / San Francisco, clear, square, squat, fifth.

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22. Lorraine Club / Felix Co. Blentz & Co. / San Francisco, amber, cylinder, quart, unlisted.

23. Promotion Wine & Liquor Co. Inc. / Monogram / San Francisco Cal., amber, cylinder, fifth.

24. Remington Liquor Co. / Distilled / Just Right / Monogram / 101 - 3rd St. / Portland Ore., amber, cylinder, quart.

25. Remington Liquor Co. / Distilled / Just Right / Monogram / 425 Washington St. / Portland Ore., amber, cylinder, quart.

26. Remington Commercial Co. / Distilled / Just Right / Monogram / 125 Washington St. / Portland Ore., clear, cylinder, quart.

27. Roth & Co. / Full / Quart / San Francisco, Cal., amber, cylinder, quart.

28. Silkwood / Whiskey / Laventhal Bros. / San Francisco, Cal., amber, cylinder, fifth.

29. Full Quart / Silkwood Whiskey / Laventhal Bros. / San Francisco, amber, cylinder, quart.

30. Star Wine Co. / Wholesale & Family / Wine & Liquors / Los Angeles, Cal., clear, square, fifth.

31. The Wine Dale Co. / Monogram / Oakland, Cal., amber, square, squat, quart.

32. W. M. Watson Co. / Monogram / Oakland, Cal., amber, square, squat, quart.

33. M. Salzman Co. (in script) / Purity Above All (in banner). This bottle is Eastern, but was distributed all over the West. These rectangular swirled bulged neck came in a number of sizes: quarts, fifths, pints, and the extremely rare half-

pint; and colors: clear, amethyst, yellowish, olive, reddish and all shades of amber.

My favorite bottle is probably the halfgallon unlisted L. Dryfoos. (Figure 7).

References: 1. Barnett, R. E. Western Whiskey Bottles #4, Lakeview, Ore. 2. Thomas, John.. Whiskey Bottles & Liquor Containers from the States of Washington & Oregon, privately published, 1998.

3. Wilson, Bill and Betty. Spirit Bottles of the Old West, Henington Publishing Co., Wolfe City, Texas, 1968.

4. Toulouse, Julian Harrison. Bottle Makers & Their Marks, 1971.

About the Author: Bill Reeves has been a bottle digger and collector for forty-five years. He specializes in Western swirled whiskies and Hildebrandt & Posner bottles.

He can be reached at (530) 279-6304 or by mail: P.O. Box 252, Cedarville, CA 91604.

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The Ritter Brothers Drug Company The Pioneer Drug Store

by Stan Sanders and Mickey Roach According to Thomas J. Zedler “when the Mormon pioneers first came to the Salt Lake Valley, physicians still acted as their own pharmacist. They either obtained drugs from the East, mixing and dispensing them themselves, or else they prepared local plants for use as drugs. The influence of botanical and Thomsonian medicine was strong and many pioneers acted as their own physician-pharmacists by collecting plants and either drying them or making tea. Sometimes people made themselves sick by doing this either because they used the wrong plants or because they used too much of the right plant. There is an old saying, especially popular among physicians, that a person who acts as his own doctor has a fool for a patient. People learned through trial and error that this was good advice. Using wild plants for either food or medicine required knowledge and study. Without that knowledge, prescribing one’s own drugs can mean death, or at best, a sickening experience.”

Early Utah Drugstores It appears that Utah’s first drugstore opened in 1850. It was called Godbe, Pitts & Company (there is some speculation that “Godbe & Co.” may have preceded Godbe, Pitts & Company). That store was located on First South and Main Street in Salt Lake City.

Further north is the beautiful town of Logan, Utah, Dr. Oliver Cromwell Ormsby started the Pioneer Drug Store in 1867. It was located below his medical office. A few years later, Dr. Ormsby sold halfinterest in the establishment to Benjamin Franklin Riter. Zedler adds “possibly realizing that prescribing and selling drugs could create a conflict in interest, Dr. Ormsby sold his half of the drugstore to Riter’s brother in 1884.” For a time, the business was known as “Ormsby and Riter.” Dr. Ormsby’s half was later acquired by the Riter Brothers and the establishment became known now as “Riter Brothers Drug Co.” which continued to grow successfully and expanded stores throughout Utah and into Idaho.

One of the most interesting accounts of bottle collecting in the State of Utah is associated with the Riter Brothers Drug Co. By 1969, bottle collecting had begun to blossom in Utah. Many locally famous bottle diggers/collectors (Stan Sanders, Blacky Owen, Ken Fee, Dave Emett, Lawrence Roach, to name a few) were on the prowl for places to dig, or otherwise find bottles to add to their collections.

One day, Stan Sanders learned that a local antique dealer had located the intact contents of a very old drug store in Logan, Utah, about 80 miles north of Salt Lake City. The antique dealer had procured a portion of the inventory and had it on display in his home in Salt Lake.

The samples he had included unopened, full bottles with the original contents and in the original packages. In addition, there were entire cases of unopened product, unused bottles, etc. To bottle collectors, it was a sight to behold!

According to Stan Sanders, the antique dealer evidently didn’t have all the funds needed to purchase the stuff, so he solicited Stan to see if he wanted to put up “half” the amount to purchase the entire treasure trove. Needless to say, Stan, who was a successful businessman, readily agreed.

47 The antique dealer told Stan that “half the purchase price was $3500.00,” so Stan fronted the money and the two headed for Logan to purchase the remaining inventory. As Stan relates, “the antique dealer seemed a little nervous and shaky” as they chatted en route to Logan. In the conversation, Stan ascertained that he had been sold a bill of goods as the dealer had written a “bum check” for the first part of the inventory. In reality, the entire amount of the purchase price was $3500.00. The antique dealer soon found out that Stan Sanders is way to astute to be taken in such a scheme.

As a gesture of good faith, Stan gave the dealer a portion of the drug store contents and retained the remainder for his own collection. Stan says that the stuff was located on the second level of the old building, where it had been stored for many, many years, all covered in dust.

One can only imagine the incredible excitement of walking in to a dark and dusty room and finding literally hundreds of items, the remains of the long defunct drug store!

The items featured herein are representative samples of the remains of the Riter Brothers Drug Store. The circumstances of finding the old drug store stands out as one of the great examples of collecting in Utah!

The Riter Brothers Drug Store contents constitute a significant portion of Stan Sanders’ Bottle Museum today.

That all collectors might have such a wonder once-in-a-lifetime experience!

Front and back of original Hamlin’s Wizard Oil booklet (1890) showing Riter ad

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Pioneer Drug Store ad from early Utah Gazetteer

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Full case “White Rose Eye Water� from Riter Bros. Drug Co.

Derby Spavin Cure & Barbed Fence Liinament bottles, unopened.

Gonorrhea medicine, unopened, from O.C. Ormsby, Druggist

Unused bottle label from Riter Brothers Drug Co.

Riter Brothers Drug Company business card

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Oil of Myristica bottle, unopened, and close-up of seal for Riter Bros.

Drug Co. Photos: Above center: Early label over embossed bottle, Riter Bros. Wholesale & Retail Druggists.

Above right: Ormsby & Riter Wholesale Druggists bottle.

Below left: Unopened pill bottle with prescription on the label from Riter Brothers Drug Co. Below center: Sanguine bottle with pills, unopened from Riter Bros.

Top below right: Riter Bros. billhead from 1897 Bottom below right: Unusual trade card for “Blacklegoids� - Riter Bros. Drug Co.

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Photos: Above left: Early photo of the Pioneer Drug Store, where bottles were found upstairs.

Above right: Derby Spavin Cure bottle with contents from Riter Bros. Drug Co. Center left: Riter Bros,. Druggist and Pharmacists, business card.

Center right: Photo inside Pioneer Drug Store, Logan, Utah.

Left: Capsicum Pods container from Riter Brothers Drug Co. Far left: Barbed Fence Liniment bottle package from Riter Bros. Drug Co.

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Above and below: Unused bottle labels from Riter Brothers Drug. Co.

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Above: Advertising label, Riter Brothers Drug. Co.

Left: Catarh Snuff bottle, unopened, from Riter Bros. Drug Co.

Above: Paint Chip Sample Card from Riter Brothers Drug Co.

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The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors is proud to present a Live, Unreserved Public Auction of fine Early Bottles, Flasks, Jars and Stoneware to be held in conjunction with the 2004 EXPO Cook Convention Center Memphis, Tennessee Saturday, August 14, 2004

FULL-COLOR CATALOGS WILL BE AVAILABLE IN EARLY JULY FOR $12.00 POSTAGE PAID * Absentee bids will be accepted for this sale through Wednesday, August 11, 2004 To order catalogs, place bids or for more information, please contact: John R. Pastor, 1st Vice President – Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors 7288 Thorncrest Dr. SE, Ada, MI 49301 (616) 285-7604

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WESTERN WHISKEY: THE WHOLESALE MERCHANTS

by Bret Heinemann

Wholesale liquor merchants sold whiskey in quantities of not less than five gallons; which were subject to special taxes in the places where business was conducted. However, they would be exempt from having to purchase specific wholesale liquor licenses for every location that they conducted business in.

The places of business were defined as the place where the transfer of ownership of the product took place. This policy was reaffirmed by a Treasury Department decision on January 21,1898. A merchant was classified as a rectified if he attempted to purify or to refine the product in any way other than simply pouring it through a cloth to strain out impurities.1 Along with the arrival of larger quantities of good whiskey from the East on the railroad in 1869 came the increased use of authorized agents. These agents would, in addition to promoting sales, help guarantee quality and encourage brand loyalty. There would be, by the 1880s, fifteen distilleries operating in California.2 Buneman Henry Buneman was in business by 1871, along with Emilo Martinoni from 1881 to 1895, and then alone until his death in 1897.

N. Grange, Henry’s friend, managed the business until the 1906 earthquake destroyed it.

After the earthquake, the family opened a general mercantile store in the mission district, where the business operated from 1906 until 1914.3 Campe In 1862 Henry Campe began with a grocery and liquor store at the corner of Second and Tehama Streets. In 1883, he formed a partnership with George Siebe that lasted until 1886. After that, Henry operated on his own. Campe was a

wholesale liquor merchant from around 1888 through 1916. His son, Harry, joined the business at the same time George Harms became involved, by 1900. Henry Campe died in 1901 and Harry Campe operated the business until Prohibition. The business incorporated in 1907. The brands sold included Americus Club, Old Campe Rye, and Old Campe Gin.4 Carroll In 1859, John S. Carroll opened a wholesale liquor business at 50 First Street in San Francisco. In 1860, Richard T. Carroll began working for the business as a bookkeeper, and by 1869, was a full partner. One year later, Richard formed a partnership with a Richard Brainard to start his own wholesale liquor business. The partnership would last until 1874, when Brainard bought Carroll out.

In 1882, a new partnership was formed with George L. Carroll and John Abrahm. In 1887, Abrahms sold his share in the business to the Carrolls.

The Carrolls sold the business in 1898 to 1902 to their managers, McDonald and Cohn. The name of the business was not changed until 1903, and the business continued until 1911.5 Cartan & McCarthy In 1873, Frank M. Cartan and Timothy F. McCarthy opened a wholesale liquor dealership at 513 Sacramento Street in San Francisco. Frank owned most of the business by 1900, and by 1909, Frank’s son, Henry, was president. The vicepresident and secretary was a Mr. John B. Nevine, and the business operated until 1919.6

53 Cassin Around 1850, Francis Cassin was involved in the liquor business in San Francisco. In 1861, Francis began working for the Patrick Riley Company at 519 Front Street as a bookkeeper. Patrick and Riley had been dealing with the wholesale wines and liquors since before 1860, and by 1867, would move to 505 Front Street. Also, Riley closed in 1867.

Francis and Patrick Cassin opened a business at 523 Front Street that went well until 1885, when Francis Cassin became ill and had to enter St. Mary’s Hospital.

He sold his interest to Patrick, who operated the business until his death in 1891, and in 1892, the business shut down.

Patrick’s widow sold the property in 1893. The brands they sold included O. K. Plantation.7 Chesley Born in New Hampshire, George W. Chesley arrived in San Francisco in 1884 at the age of 22, where he would learn the wholesale business. He moved to Sacramento during at the start of the Gold Rush and opened an auction business with the help of the Stevens Company. In the 1851 election, he became high constable for Sacramento for only one term. In 1852, a fire destroyed his business, so he returned to San Francisco and went into real estate, where in time a street would be named after him.

After moving back to Sacramento in 1856, Chesley went to work for Bradley and Company as a salesman in their grocery and liquor business and had his own business by 1866, after which he soon opened a separate wholesale liquor business in Sacramento.

In 1872, an importing warehouse and office was opened in San Francisco on 51 Front Street that operated from 1866 through 1891. In 1877, his agent, Siebe Brothers, was placed in charge of the San Francisco business and made Sacramento his headquarters. Chesley lived in downtown Sacramento near the state capital and became involved with civic duties until he died in 1891. After 1891, E. A. Fargo handled the Jockey Club brand.8

54 Chevalier It was a 30-year-old Fortune Chevalier who arrived in San Francisco in 1851, eventually settled in Placerville and opened a store there in 1857. Afterwards, he worked for a wholesale liquor dealer in Sacramento.

In 1873, his brother Albert sold a vegetable business to become Fortune’s junior partner in a wholesale liquor business in San Francisco. The two also purchased an interest in the Castle Distillery of Kentucky, and by 1880, they owned the distillery completely.

The Chevalier brothers hired an expert staff to blend, rectify, and bottle whiskey at their San Francisco location, and eventually ‘dropped the “0, K,” from the bottle after it was no longer bottled in Kentucky. They eventually bought a vineyard in St. Helena. They sold whiskey, gin, and Crown Bitters.9 Claudius P. Claudius began his career in the liquor industry as a salesman for Crown Distilleries in 1895 to 1904 before he would operate a business of his own.

Clinch At the age of eight, Charles Clinch arrived in Nevada County, where in 1883, he opened a mercantile business in Grass Valley, and in 1893, he was elected as mayor. The brands he sold included M.P. Dyer and Company.10 Cockrill Theodore G. Cockrill got his start with E. Bradley in a San Francisco business in 1868. Seven years later, he became the San Francisco Chief of Police. H. E. Blocks and James L. Horner were also involved in his business as silent partners.

His advertisements circa 1876 included Peerless Whiskey.11 Dierssen In 1894, George E. Dierssen got his start in a retail liquor business in

Summer 2004 Sacramento at 719 J street which he expanded to include wholesale, instead of just retail, and also began selling wine and cigars. The business would last until 1909. The brands he sold included Old Private Stock Bourbon and Buffalo Bourbon.12 Fenkhausen About 1861, Amandus Fenkhausen got his start in the wholesale liquor business in San Francisco. In 1867, he conducted business at 327 Montgomery Street and also operated a saloon on Kearney Street. After about two years, he converted the Kearney Street Saloon to a wholesale business.

Amandus formed a partnership with C. P. Gerichten, which would last until 1874.

Their business was well established on California Street when they sold it to Wolters and Fecheiner in 1874. Two years later, Fenkhausen opened a wholesale business at the corner of Front and Sacramento Streets, which he operated alone until 1878, when he formed a new partnership with Herman Braunscheiger at 414 Front Street that would last until 1882 or 1883. After 1882, Amandus Fenkhausen ran the company by himself until his death in 1895. After 1895, Braunscheiger became the sole agent for William H. Spears’ Old Pioneer Whiskey. The distillery, which Jacob Spears founded in Bourbon County,

Bottles and Extras Kentucky, was one of the first ones to be established there. From about 1883 to 1885, Braunscheiger was in a partnership with Bumsted. Also, at this time, he become the agent for Bear Grass Whiskey.

In 1895 through 1913, he also sold Golden Rule Whiskey, and in 1905, the business moved to 5 and 7 Drumm Street.

Paper label bottles were used from 1885 to 1895.13 Goldberg & Bowen In 1871, Henry and Charles Bowen started a wholesale grocery store in San Francisco; and in 1874, the Louis Lebenbaum Company of New York sent Jacob Goldberg to San Francisco to establish the firm there. In 1882, the two merged, but in 1886 they split up, only to once again merge in the years 1892 to 1895. Both the San Francisco or Oakland outlets quit selling liquor after 1908.14 Hoelscher Willam Hoelscher started out in the liquor business with John Weilands in 1860. Later, he was a partner with Mausshardt and I. DeTurk from 1874 to 1877. After that he was a sole proprietor, and the business continued until Prohibition forced it to shut down. The location of the business, from 1898 until the 1906 earthquake, was at Turk and Taylor Street in San Francisco. Laural Crown was one of the brands he sold.15 Jevne There are two different ones, not to be confused.

H. Jevne arrived in the United States from Norway in 1866 and moved to Los Angeles in 1883. H. Jeyne was the director of two banks and the owner of a retail/ wholesale grocery business.

Bottles and Extras C. Jevne was in the tea business in Chicago, and probably sold either whiskey or bitters circa 1892 to 1900.16 Kolb E. A. Kolb started out as a salesman for Kohler and Van Bergen in the early as 1890s.17 Kirkpatrick In 1873, John Kirkpatrick started his San Francisco-based wholesale liquor business at 608 Front Street. Later, he moved to 313 Pine Street, and in 1874, formed a partnership with McCue, a Kentucky distiller. In 1875, Kirkpatrick formed a new partnership with William Cutter, and in 1876, formed another partnership with R. B. Gentry.

In 1877, Kirkpatrick left San Francisco and R. B. Gentry continued the business until 1878.18 Landregan T. C. Landregan started out as the owner of a brewery in Berkley, which operated until 1906. A year later in Oakland, he formed a partnership with Dennis A. White to sell wholesale liquors.

White had previously been the owner and operator of a saloon in Oakland.19 Lilienthal Ernest R. Lilienthal (born 1850 in Lockport, New York) got his start in the liquor industry after his uncle, Rabbi Max, persuaded a friend by the name of Freiberg, of Freiberg and Workum, to hire him. Ernest had some good credentials since he was a graduate from the Cincinnati Law School and had been admitted to the bar. He, however, would never practice law professionally.20 Freiberg and Workum was a distilling, rectifying, and wholesale liquor operation in Ohio and Kentucky. Ernest started work for the company in the blending department before becoming a successful salesman for the company in New York City. Through his uncle, Max Rabbi, he secured credit from Freiberg and Workum to open a wholesale liquor dealership in San Francisco. Arriving in San Francisco in the summer of

Summer 2004 1871, he opened the Lilienthal Company at 223 California Street. In the beginning, Lilienthal was a wholesale agent for the Freiberg and Workum Company. The Cyrus Noble brand would be named after the superintendent at the Lynchburg, Ohio operation. A friendship developed between Ernest Lilienthal and the Freiberg brothers, J. Walter and Maurice.24 Lilienthal prospered in a business where his personality made him an excellent salesman, his legal training gave him analytical and debating skills and his wisdom and good luck led him to make the right decisions at the right time. As the business grew, salesmen, like Hugo Arnold, were added. Arnold was a traveling salesman through much of California and Nevada.

One interesting incident occurred when Arnold arrived in Eureka, Nevada, shortly after the town had burnt down.

Arnold had an order for whiskey, which emptied the San Francisco warehouse.

Albert Lilienthal, Max’s youngest son, arrived in San Francisco to develop the hops and grain side of the business, and although he was successful, he did not care for California and returned to New York.

There, with his brother Theodore, Albert opened Lilienthal Brothers. The two would become successful agents, selling hops in the East purchased by agents of the San Francisco firm in Washington, Oregon, and California.

By 1890, Lilienthal was one of the largest wholesale liquor dealers in the West, selling in Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Utah - as well as in Mexico and Central America.

The Lilienthal Company would be divided

55 into two parts in 1896, but each part would remain under the same management. The liquor side of the company would become known as Crown Distilleries. The brands Lilienthal sold included Crown Distilleries, Cyrus Noble, the products of W. A. Gilbey and Robert of London, and W. A. Lacey Whiskey.24 McCleod-Hatje McCleod-Hatje conducted business from circa the 1890s until Prohibition. The company became McCleod O’Donnell shortly around 1915.

Naper, Alfs & Brune 1875 would find Henry D. Naper and Ernest Brand in business together.

Naper, in 1880, formed a partnership with Henry Brune and William Alfs, which lasted until Prohibition.

The San Francisco based business sold Phoenix Bourbon, which was a popular brand in the western states during the late 1800s and early 1900s.25 Nabob In 1877, George Simmonds arrived in San Francisco, but it was in Boston that he had gotten his start in the liquor business. He opened an office on Montgomery Street (not far from Market Street), where he sold medicated barley and whiskey products throughout the West. The product became quite popular and was well distributed.26

Oulahan Edward Oulahan began the Pioneer Wine House in 1890 and changed the name to the Pioneer Liquor House in

56 1896. Frank Dake became a proprietor in 1896 also .27 Parker George F. Parker was the owner of the Parker’s Bank Exchange in San Francisco from 1863 to 1873. He was the sole agent for J. H. Cutter and eventually moved to Chico.

several partners over the years, and in 1878, the name of the business changed to Roth and Company. The brands sold included Capitol Whiskey and Blue Ribbon Whiskey.32

Powers Operating out of Sacramento, the wholesale liquor business of L. Powers would grow to be one of the largest in the Central Valley of California.28 Rathjen Henry and Martin Rathjen operated the Rathjen Company, which later became known as the Rathjen Merchantile Company. Henry was president and Martin was secretary. The brands they sold included Val Blatz Beer, Caliente Mineral Water, Great Western Champagne, Old Quaker, and Old Government.29 Richter The Jacob Richter Bottling Works in Fresno, California began selling wholesale liquor and wine as well as bottling soda water circa 1901. Previously, in 1896, the Fresno business was an agent for Buffalo Brewing and Jackson Napa Soda, and they were also agents for Rainier Beer.30 Rose Selden

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F. Rose operated a wholesale and retail liquor store in 1912-1913 at 437 Georgia Street in V a l l e j o , California.

In 1918, it was transformed into a candy store.31 Roth In 1859, Joseph Roth started his wholesale liquor business in San Francisco. He had

Schweyer John Schweyer was owner of a saloon by 1877, and in 1882, became a wholesale merchant.

Schweyer then became a distiller from 1899 to 1900, when he returned to being a wholesale merchant until Prohibition.33 Shea James Shea got his start in the liquor business in Boston. In 1868, he moved to San Francisco and opened a wholesale liquor business at Front and Jackson Streets. In 1871, a partnership was formed with Robert Mckee (owner of Teakettle Whiskey) and Antoine Bocqueraz.

The Teakettle brand would be popular in Nevada, and in 1886, they became agents for the Teacup brand of whiskey.34 Siebe & Plagemann Around 1875, John S. Siebe worked for George W. Chesley as a salesman.

In 1877, after Chesley moved back to Sacramento, a partnership was formed with his brother, Frederick C. Siebe. One year later, J. F. Plagemann joined the partnership, with Frederick as president, Plagemann as the vicepresident and John as secretary.

J. F. Plagemann’s brother, Oscar, worked as an agent for the Illinois Pacific Glassworks.

The brands they sold included Jockey Club Whiskey and Rosedale Whiskey.35

Spruance & Stanley J and J Spruance got their start in San Francisco in 1868 and continued through 1872. In 1873, John Spruance and Samual Stanley joined in a wholesale liquor partnership that lasted until the earthquake of 1906 destroyed it.36 Stulz Joseph A. and Charles Stulz operated their wholesale grocery business in San Francisco. Jos. A. Stulz was also the president of the Consolidated Yeast and Vinegar Company in 1895, and president of the San Francisco Direct Line Phone Company in 1905.37 Taussig Louis Taussig arrived in California between 1849 and 1856. He would later say that he got his start in the wholesale liquor business in 1856 at 723 Sansome Street in San Francisco, but was probably working for someone else, since the earliest record of him being an owner of a liquor business in San Francisco is as a partner in the firm of Louis Altschul and Company.

Louis later took over the business in 1864, when he formed a partnership with David L. Lederer (formerly of the Fletcher and Lederer bakery), which would last about one year. Taussig also operated the Congress Hall Saloon at 318 Bush Street in San Francisco for a while in the 1860s. From 1869 to about 1871, Louis Altschul would again be the majority partner.

By 1873, Louis Taussig moved the business to the southwest corner of Battery and Sacramento Streets, where the business became known as Louis Taussig and Company. That same year,

Bottles and Extras Louis Taussig formed a partnership with Adolph Fried and Adolph Eisenbach.

After 1874 through Prohibition, Louis Taussig became one of the largest wholesale liquor merchants on the West Coast. Somewhere between the mid 1870s and 1900, Louis Taussig and Company opened distributing outlets in Cincinnati and New York City. The Taussig San Francisco addresses included 205-207 Battery Street and 26-28 Main Street.38 By 1877, Gabriel Taussig worked for the company, where he would eventually become president. Rudolph Taussig started working for the company as a traveling salesman in 1885; and in 1888, Edward and Hugo Taussig also started working for the company. 39 The estimated value of the company in 1883 was between $75,000 and $125,000; and in 1915, the company increased in value to between $300,000 and $500,000.

Louis Taussig became increasingly involved in real estate, working out of the 26 and 28 Main Street store. In the early 1890s, he and John J. Carroll became partners. Louis Taussig died around 1900 and the family continued to operate the business until Prohibition.40 The brands they sold over the years included P. Morvilles AAA whiskey and Carrol Rye.41 Treadwell Treadwell got started by 1868 in San Francisco in the hardware business, which later became a general mercantile.

Treadwell was in partnership with Miner in 1904-1905 at 111 Sacramento Street and was on his own until the 1906 earthquake shut his business down. The brands he sold included Old Phil Lacy Whiskey.42 Walter & Lieber Walter and Lieber operated a wholesale business in San Francisco in the late 1870s. M. Walter operated alone in 1881 and was not involved in the distilling business until 1901.

The 1906 earthquake destroyed his 811 Montgomery Street building and he then operated at 140 Clay Street from about 1909 to 1912.43 Weil The Weil Brothers (William, Leopold, David, and Joseph) started their wholesale liquor business in 1871. William and Leopold handled the San Francisco operations, while David and Joseph

Summer 2004 handled the distribution out of Shasta, California. They eventually would make their sons part of the business in 1887, which continued until 1915. The brands they distributed included Standard Old Bourbon.44 Westheimer & Epsteub As early as 1868, Westheimer and Epsteub were partners in a wholesale business selling grocery, liquor, and tobacco products in St. Joseph, Missouri. In 1871 through 1882, two brothers, Ferdinand and Samual Westheimer, were partners in a wholesale liquor business, and in 1882, they separated into different locations. Ferdinand’s sons would become partners in 1887 and continue until Prohibition.

Throughout the years, the business of Ferdinand and Sons operated out of Cincinnati, Ohio, and St. Joseph, Missouri.

The brands they distributed were Red Top Gin and Rye.45 Wheeland & Collins Salvin P. Collins started his San Francisco wholesale liquor business in 1869 at 329 Montgomery Street. A partnership was formed in 1884 with James Wheelands. A few years later, a branch opened on California Street and, in 1895, Salvin’s son Silas took over SaIvin’s half of the business. The business would continue until 1914.46 Wichman & Lutgen John Lutgen (born in Germany in 1847) arrived in the United States in 1868 where, in 1879, he formed a partnership with Henry P. Wichman that lasted until Prohibition. The brands they sold included Old Gilt Edge Whiskey.47 Wilmerding In 1853, Calvin W. Kellogg was in the grocery business at 25 Commercial Street, San Francisco. The same year, he was also a liquor salesman for Faigo and Company. By 1860, he and J. C. Wilmerding bought out Earl A. and Jerome B. Fargo’s company, but the name wouldn’t change to Wilmerding, Kellogg and Company until

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In 1877, Kellogg disassociated himself from the company and did not reenter the wholesale liquor business until around 1897. It was sometime in 1896 that Wilmerding and Louis H. Loewe formed a partnership that would last until Prohibition. The brands they sold included Hard to Beat, Kellogg’s Nelson County, McKennas, Superior Hand Made (S.H.M.), and United We Stand.48 Wolters

August and George Wolters were in the liquor business in the early 1870s. In 1872, Henry Wolters and Charles Fecheimer started a wholesale liquor business in San Francisco at the southeast corner of Third and Market Streets.

The business moved in 1874 to 221 California Street, and in 1878, Charles Fecheimer sold his share of the business to Henry’s brother, August. Hence, after 1880, the business became known as Wolters Brothers.

In 1880, Edward H. Bumsted became involved as a silent partner, and in 1885, the business moved to 115 and 117 Front Street and continued operating until 1896, A year later, the firm of Jones, Mundy, and Company took over their warehouse.

The brands they sold included Old Horshoe.49 Wormser Louis Wormser started his liquor business in San Francisco in 1850, and his brother Isaac joined the business in 1856. S. I. Wormser was the secretary.

In 1873, Braeg and Frank took over the business at the Front and California Street location while Isaac went into real estate sales in 1873.

In 1895, Issac was president of the Golden Gate D i s t i l l i n g Company.50

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Wonderful Rubber

by Charles S. Harris Ooltewah, Tennessee

Probably the second most important invention that concerns the convenient nursing of infants is the glass Feeding Bottle which we are all ultimately familiar with. If it weren’t for the Glass Baby Bottles, not very many of us would be very literate on the subject or even know about each other’s existence. Oh, maybe some of us would be collecting Soda or Whiskey bottles, but, well, I’d probably better keep mouth shut there — somebody might stick an oversized nipple in it (one of them Calf feeding ones).

Which brings up my topic for the moment — Rubber Nipples. I recently obtained a new Civil War book — no, not on Rubber Nipples, but titled, IndiaRubber and Gutta-Percha In the Civil War Era, ISBN 0-9670731-0-3, by Mike Woshner and published by O’Donnell Publications of Alexandria, Va. It is about 300 pages long, has a wonderful bibliography and even has an extensive section on all the related patents from 1813-1868 with Patent Number, Date, Patentee and Brief Description.

Rubber was first discovered by Columbus on his second voyage to the New World when he observed the natives of Hispaniola (now Haiti) playing a game with an elastic ball made from “goma de un arbol,” or “gum of the tree.” In 1615 Juan de Torquemada notes that waterproof capes and raincoats in Mexico made from the juice of the “….elastic milk tree … melted in the rays of the sun.” He also noted that they became brittle when subjected to the cold.

The name “rubber” was first noted in 1770 when a London instrument maker sold small pieces of this elastic substance to “rub out” marks made by a lead pencil and the substance became known as “India-rubber.” In 1791, Samuel Peal was granted the first English rubber patent for the waterproofing of leather, cloth, etc. by using a treatment of a turpentine solution, but it didn’t cure the instability problems of the India-rubber.

In 1834, Charles Goodyear began a ten year mission of trying to solve the problems of India-rubber and was obsessed with its improvements till his death. In 1834, he was visiting the

Roxbury India Rubber Company store, and while inspecting a life preserver, he noticed the valve, which he believed he could improve upon. He did and the manager was impressed with the design.

The manager advised Goodyear that the rubber industry was in its demise and downfall due to the instability of the Indiarubber. From that day until he died in 1860, Charles Goodyear had two goals — the use of improved rubber for every conceivable purpose and the improvement of life preservers so that no person would ever drown again. As a result of his research he often spent time in debtor’s prisons in the U.S. and abroad, and he and his family lived out the last of their lives in poverty.

In 1838, Nathaniel Hayward received Patent #1090 for the use of sulphur in the processing of India-rubber and sold it to Charles Goodyear. This was the first major step in the manufacture of what we now know as Rubber. In 1839, Charles Goodyear finally discovered the components for the cure of India-rubber’s deficiencies - sulphur, white lead, and heat. In 1844, Patent #3633 was issued to Goodyear which defines the process known as “vulcanization.” Some have implied, stated or written that his discovery was an accident - saying that he had carelessly dropped a glob of his material on a hot stove.

Bottles and Extras Whether this happening was an accident or not, the next nine years after 1839 were no accident.

The process of converting the unstable, crude substance into a stable, consistent product is described in Goodyear’s introductory description in the United States Patent #3633 dated June 15, 1844.

The Patent Description is below: “My principle improvement consists in the combining of sulphur and white lead with the India-rubber, and in the submitting of the compound thus formed to the action of heat at a regulated temperature, by which combination and exposure to heat it will be so far altered in its qualities as not to become softened by the action of the solar ray or of artificial heat at a temperature below that to which it was submitted in its preparation — say to a heat of 270° of Fahrenheit’s scale — nor will it be injuriously affected by exposure to cold.

It will also resist the action of expressed oils, and that likewise of spirit of turpentine, or other essential oils at common temperatures, which oils are in its usual solvents.”

In our readings we are constantly barraged by comments that the early nipples and nipple-shields had a bad taste and were quite often rejected by the infants that were supposed to be using them.

Think about it, have you ever drunk the water from Biloxi, Miss. or many locations in Fla.? It didn’t taste very good did it? Even the Coca-Cola plant in Biloxi imports its water - their water has a high sulphur content and is only palatable when very cold.

Here I wish to quote a paragraph from p.37 of Mike Woshner’s book: “At a time when the effects of lead poisoning were being confirmed, at least

Bottles and Extras one specific application of India-rubber raised a stir in the medical community.

A medical report issued in 1862 stated that teats, nipple-shields, and stoppers of feeding bottles made of vulcanized Indiarubber caused vomiting and disturbances of the digestive organs in infants.

According to the report, nothing but crude rubber and sulphur was necessary to produce vulcanized India-rubber but, since the processed rubber was sold by weight, manufacturers added compounds which included lead, zinc, antimony and arsenic, creating ‘adulterated rubber.’

The Royal Medical College of the Rhenish provinces denounced the use of vulcanized India-rubber containing oxides of lead as extremely dangerous.

At Dusseldorf and Berlin, authorities threatened anyone making or selling these articles with severe penalties. The report suggested using only ‘…teats made of pure caoutchouc’ [French for the Amazon native “cahuchu” or “tree that weeps”] (i.e. unvulcanized), further suggesting ways to identify these, the simpliest being that they were brownish, shiny and floated in water.”

Even though Charles Goodyear is given the American credit for the vulcanization of India-rubber, which enabled the world to live better, credit cannot be denied to his brother, Nelson Goodyear, who was an inventor in his own right. One of Nelson’s most notable inventions was the mixing of sand and rubber to make non-slip surfaces for steps and railcar tops. He also has the most visible patent in the rubber industry,

Summer 2004 “May 6, 1851” that will be seen on all “Hard-rubber” items made until about 1872, whether it be buttons, hair-combs, medical instruments or whatever. And these hard-rubber items do not deteriorate.

I have seen lice combs and hair combs dug out of Civil War campfire and garbage pits that show absolutely no deterioration.

In The Scientific American on September 17, 1859, they took a tour of the American Hard Rubber Company and listed the following items that they observed being produced and shown to them: “A vast assortment of druggist’s articles, syringes, caustic-holders, medicine bottles, ear-trumpets, stethoscopes. brooches, bracelets, necklaces, shirt-studs, earrings, tidy-needles, thimbles, thread and needle cases, photographic apparatus, … canes, combs, hairpins, bonnet-pins, napkin-rings, knife-handles, doormats, currycombs, rules and scales for the draughtsmen and surveyors, etc.”

Our lives are still heavily touched by the invention of hard-rubber. Being a close brother to the vulcanized rubber, there are differences in their manufacturing process. In Brannt’s, A Practical Treatise on Caoutchouc and

59 Gutta-Percha, pp.111-112, “Hard rubber is formed by using a larger amount of sulphur and heating at a higher temperature than vulcanized ‘soft’ rubber.

Its ultimate degree of hardness depends on modifications of these variables, from ’86 parts caoutchouc and 14 parts sulphur for elastic and pliable articles … well adapted for manufacturing combs’ to ’65 parts caoutchouc and 35 parts sulphur when great hardness and solidity are required, as in a material suitable for knife handles, buttons, door knobs, etc.”

Have you ever noticed the beautiful cases that enclose the fine photos of the families and children of the middle1800s? They are made out of either hardrubber or Gutta-Percha. Gutta-Percha comes from the latex of several Malaysian trees that quickly hardens when left untreated but resembles rubber or hardrubber when properly vulcanized (1842).

Genetically or botanically, guttapercha is not related to India-rubber, but they are chemically similar. Both are approximately seven-eighths carbon and one-eighth hydrogen, but the gutta-percha also contains oxygen, about 1 ½ percent, which is lacking in the India-rubber.

Unlike raw India-rubber, gutta-percha solidifies and remains hard soon after exposure to air. When it is heated or immersed in hot water it becomes soft and can be molded, retaining its shape when it cools off. This allowed it to be used for many of the applications attributed to hard rubber without being vulcanized. This state would not remain permanently without being vulcanized though, for it would eventually become brittle and turn to powder.

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A Proprietary Baptism The Life of I.L. St John

By Joe Terry and Mark Steinmetz For every story told, there are countless more to be explored and portrayed. With this, the first full telling of a truly remarkable man, there is now one more brought to light. It is of a life spanning nine decades, three wars, quite a few presidents, and somewhat close to thirty of his local fellows in the drug business.

To say that Isaac L. St John was a pioneer would in no way do justice to him.

Tiffin, Ohio was in its infant stages, and barely thirty years had passed since Fort Ball, the 1812 stronghold upon which the town was built, had arisen on the muddy banks of the Sandusky River. The 1840s were a busy time for the town, and every enterprising citizen was welcomed.

The first thing the young druggist discovered was that unlike back east, where he originated, there were few physicians here. Without doctors, there

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was little need for prescriptions. People still needed medicine, but without a guiding hand, they didn’t know what to buy. Instead of bringing in supplies of stock drugs and chemicals, an expensive and tedious chore, Mr. St John chose a different approach. As it was, Tiffin already had several drugstores to provide that service.

This situation did not deter the young man. He had a good grasp of his profession, and knew the profit potential for selling proprietary medicines. A fullblooded New Yorker, Isaac had served as apprentice to the great wholesale drug firm of Hoadley, Phelps and Company in New York City. Isaac started his apprenticeship at age sixteen, some time after his family had moved to Morristown, New Jersey. With them he learned all there was to know about drugs, compounding and clerking.

In 1837, at age nineteen and upon having fulfilled his commitments, he pulled up his roots and moved westward to Cleveland. The small but growing lakeside town was open to newcomers and entrepreneurs, and was likely a good place to be in business. Something must not have suited him, for an additional four years found him journeying a little further west. In a town named for Ohio’s first governor, he hung up his shingle, and settled in for good.

Isaac’s initial advertisements appeared in the local paper, The Tiffin Gazette, on April 21st, 1842. The first remedy sold under his name was St John’s Anti-Bilious Pills. He soon followed with more remedies, catering to the needs of the local

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Figure 1 citizens. For example, if a little more intense internal treatment was needed, he also had his Blood and Liver Pills.

Similarly, his Fluid Extract of Buchu was just the thing if the sufferer had the bloat.

In a malarial atmosphere such as existed in Northwest Ohio, St John’s Vegetable Ague Syrup was likely a popular item. The bottles were 7.5 inches tall, with mildly ornate indented panels.

On one side was embossed “Dr. I.L. St John’s”, the middle was “Vegetable” and the third was “Ague Syrup” [Figure 4, 5]. While among the first of Isaac’s remedies, the earliest of them may have been paper labeled, as none have been found with a pontil. The pictured bottles date from the early 1870s.

Isaac must have liked the bottle style,

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Figure 7 as identical to his Ague Syrup was one for his “Cough and Consumption Syrup.”

[Figure 6] The product was originally sold as just a “Cough Syrup” and came in two sizes, one 6.5 inches tall and the other an inch shorter. Many of these are pontiled, and all are eight-sided. The smaller bottles have a consistent spelling error, in which the “R” of “syrup” was left unfinished, leaving the word “sypup” [Figure 2 (larger), 3 (smaller)]. Later versions of the cough and consumption syrup were much smaller, and included a 4.5 inch tall aqua one [Figure 12] from the late 1870s which incorporated the word “magnetic” in the title [Figure 17], as well as a larger capacity one in clear [Figure 13] from the 1880s and 1890s.

Another popular article put up by Isaac was his Nerve and Bone Liniment [Figures 8, 9, 10] a must for those aching joints. The bottles were round, and were identical in appearance to many other

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liniments of the day. The earliest can be found with an open pontil [Figure 8].

Bottles were colored green/aqua for many years, finally being manufactured in clear during the latter years. Their shape changed only marginally over the years and bottles averaged about 3.5 inches in height.

A further medicine, a carminative balsam, also dates fairly early as a few pontiled versions are known, including one with a label [Figure 14]. Newer versions can be found, nearly identical to its predecessors [Figure 15]. All are embossed “Dr. I.L. St John’s” “Carminative” “Balsam” on three indented panels. The bottles are small, no taller than 4.5 inches.

Mr. St John’s reliance on proprietary medicines was evident from the beginning. Other remedies were brought in from back east, including, but by no means limited to, the following: Rev I. Covert’s Balm of Life, Dr. E. Humphrey’s Vegetable Ointment, Dr. Starkweather’s Hepatic Elixir, Dr. J. Newton’s Jaundice Bitters, Dr. Libby’s Bitters, Dr. Israel Delemeter’s Nerve and Bone Rheumatic Liniment, James Slaughter’s Sticking Salve and Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry. Proprietary medicines were to always play an important role in his business.

Isaac put himself wholly into his calling and began a long career; punctuated by his honesty and ultimately, by his eccentricity. He was apparently not a sentimental sort, as he never married.

Neither did he keep in close contact with family, who consisted of a sister and her

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61 descendants; nor with past friends. It seems likely that he evoked little emotion when, in 1849, his former employers were bought out. His one devotion was his business, and his business was making and selling medicines. He was so absorbed by his commitment that he never even bothered with a house, instead living at his store, regardless of its location.

The earliest Tiffin storefront he occupied was a wooden frame structure on Washington Street, down close to the river. By 1873, when the city directories started listing numeric addresses, his was 54 S. Washington, located between Market and Perry Street, on the west side.

Proof of this surfaced in 1980, when an earthen ramp at the rear of the building was removed. Buried within were numerous bottles, many broken, but almost all of them embossed with “I.L. St John”. It would appear that his business as a druggist took a back seat to medicines. Not a single embossed prescription bottle was found among the shards, and to this day, no known embossed druggist bottle has been found with St John’s name on it.

By 1878, he had removed to the corner of Washington and Madison streets, farther south of his previous location and on the opposite side. Here he continued the production of his preparations.

Perhaps the most famous and prolific remedy was “Doctor I.L. St John’s Magnetic Oil”. The cure, formulated in 1868, rode the wave of magnetism’s popularity. The bottles proclaimed “Cures Rheumatism, Neuralgia, and Headache” right in the glass and came in two sizes.

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It was probably around this time that the cough and consumption syrup became “magnetic”. The “magnetic” part was eventually dropped on that remedy, but was retained until the end on the bottles of oil.

As the years went on, the medicines retained a popular following, but only in a limited area. In 1877, Isaac hired Dr. Jacob Bridinger, a bona fide physician, as both promoter and traveling salesman.

Jacob traversed Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan touting Isaac’s line of preparations. This made them both good money, and gave Dr. Bridinger a steady line of work for over twenty years. In 1885, the good doctor’s son, Frank, was hired on as drug clerk for Isaac’s store.

As business grew, there were other avenues to explore for expanding the market share for St John remedies. An outlet on the east coast was sought out and found, in the name of McKesson and Robbins. So it was that packaging and advertising in the 1890s now had a Tiffin address, and a New York City address of 91 Fulton Street. In addition to the old standbys, there were other medicines to be sold. There was a Great Rejuvenator, a Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, an Eruptive Ointment, a Magnetic Salve, his Great American Pile Cure, Sweeney Mixture, Worm Syrup and St John’s Mixture (for skin ailments). There were also a few veterinary products; Poultry Powders [Figure 18], a Cough and Heave Cure, Cure for Foot Rot in Sheep, Condition Powders as well as a Bug Poison. He even manufactured and sold Eureka Hair Dye, for the vanity crowd.

By the time of this expansion, age was creeping up on ole Isaac. His body was failing and his eyesight was nearly gone.

He was in his eighth decade and with no family, there was no one to carry on the legacy he had created. His only confidants were the Bridingers, so it seemed natural to sell over to them. Frank found his now twenty years of service repaid by the offer of the drugstore, along with the line of preparations. He became owner of both store and remedies with one constraint.

Isaac would be allowed to continue living at the store, and the store would be promoted as the St John Drug Store. These conditions were willingly met.

Mr. St John continued life as he had been for many years. He daily walked to the Empire Hotel, where he took his meals. Every day he made his way to and from the drugstore, undoubtedly reflecting at times how the town had changed. His daylight hours were spent in the drugstore, which, while having passed from his possession, still retained his name. He had a comfortable, well worn chair in the back of the store which was his, and there he sat, watching the comings and goings of the customers, giving a wave or advice as need warranted, and occasionally regaling listeners with tales of days gone by.

Isaac L. St John passed away on April 7, 1908. He left no immediate family, just a few distant relatives. To them went an estate worth some $50,000. His exact age at the time of his death was unknown, as in his later years he refused to divulge that information, not even to the official census takers.

His death took from the town one of its oldest citizens; a man who had seen thirty other druggists pass through his beloved town, whose medicines found a place in many a home, and who had become an icon, albeit an eccentric one, of what it took to survive the years. Frank Bridinger found following in those footsteps very difficult. He tried, however, and kept the store going until 1927, when it was closed. He manufactured the St John remedies for his first few years of business, but it would seem that his attention was more closely focused on his local clientele, and the preparations fell to the wayside, likely before 1915.

One unusual item of note - there is at least one, albeit damaged, pontiled ink that is embossed “I.L. St John & Co”. It was recovered from the Detroit River many years ago, and suffers a crack and a small hole. Like the cough syrups, it is eight-sided. Little in the way of any others has surfaced, so if any readers know of any, I would appreciate hearing about it.

I would like to offer many thanks to Mark Steinmetz and Mike Wagner, both of Tiffin, Ohio, who graciously opened up their collections for this article. Both are old hometown friends of mine who collect local bottles and ephemera. The author has St John bottles, but not in the number and quality of their collections. Without their assistance, this article would have been lacking a great deal in the way of visual accompaniments.

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1. Mida, William. Mida’s Compendium of Information for the Liquor Interests: Chicago: Criterion Publishing, 1899, p. 203,213.

2. Wilson, Willam and Betty. Spirit Bottles of the Old West: Wolfe City, Texas: Henington Publishing Company, 1968, p. 139.

3.Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 35.

4. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 41.

Thomas, John L. Whiskey Bottles of the Old West: Maverick Publications, 1977, p. 3.

5. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 104.

Thomas, Whiskey Bottles of the Old West, p. 4.

6. Thomas, Whiskey Bottles of the Old West, p. 47. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 44.

Thomas, Whiskey Bottles of the Old West, 5.

8. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 45.

9. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 47.

10. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 49.

11. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 90.

12 .Thomas, Whiskey Bottles of the Old West, p. 19.

13. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 39, 65, 14. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 72.

15. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 84.

16. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 88.

17. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p,. 12.

18. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 133.

19. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 92.

20. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 95, 96, 98.

25. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 117.

26. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 108.

27. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 114.

28. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 119.

29. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 119.

30. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 121.

31. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 123.

32. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 123.

33. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 128.

34. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 131.

35. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 131.

36. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 135.

37. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 137.

38. Thomas, Whiskey Bottles of the Old West, p. 139.

39. Thomas, Whiskey Bottles of the Old West, p. 45-46.

40. Thomas, Whiskey Bottles of the Old West, p. 45-46.

41. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 139.

Thomas, Whiskey Bottles of the Old West, p. 45-46.

42. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 142.

Continued from Page 59 Another application being advanced in the early 1850’s was the use of vulcanized gutta-percha for gas and water pipes, for many of these were made out of lead for the smaller diameters. Gutta-percha was stronger, cheaper and more durable than the heavy metal, lead. Dr. Thomas Smith of Cheltenham, England stated: “Many serious and alarming disorders, such as mania, epilepsy, sudden death, nervous affection, paralysis, consumption hydrocephalus, heart disease, etc. owe their origin in some instances, their intractable character in others, to the gradual and continuous infinitesimal doses of lead, copper, etc., introduced into the system through the channel of our daily drink.”

While I have only just scratched the surface of Mike Woshner’s book here, I can only say that I have learned much more of reality of what I have only suspicioned from my many years of collecting Civil War artifacts and now of Baby Bottles. At first Teresa drug me into collecting Baby Bottles kicking and screaming, but since she had been so patient with me for about the first 15 years of our married life while I was out digging Civil War artifacts I finally decided that it was in my best interests to at least show

an interest. Well, to say the least — I am hooked on it??!! Also, don’t tell her, the Civil War relics are disappearing and/or getting too expensive to buy. Just the other day I even traded one of my prized Civil War belt buckles for a baby bottle for her.

You probably saw it at the Fort Meyers convention. Oh, well...

PS: Mike Woshner recommends treating any old, or just slightly old, rubber, soft or hard, with ArmorAll© Protectant like you use on the dashboard of your car. It keeps the ozone, which

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43. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 145.

44. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 147.

45. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 119.

46. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 149.

47. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 149.

48. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 151.

Thomas, Whiskey Bottles of the Old West, p. 54.

49 Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 153.

50. Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, p. 155.

causes a chemical change to rubber similar to rusting in metal, from getting to the rubber and deteriorating it. The ArmorAll does make it slick though, so be careful not to drop it, especially if it is attached to a valuable bottle. Also for curled up rubber that is supposed to be flexible he recommends setting it out in the warm sun for an hour. That will soften it enough to allow it to be uncurled and then laid in a cool place for it to take on its new or original shape. Sounds neat doesn’t it?

Charles S Harris, 6808 Benwood Drive, Ooltewah, TN 37363; E-mail: relicnut@earthlink.net

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Jenny Lind

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World Reknowned Singer

by Donald Yates It is a strange phenomenon, looking back in history 150 years. Today you can purchase a compact disc of singer, Brittany Spears, but when our story begins, there was no recorded music any where in the world.

The phonograph was invented much later by Thomas Edison, an Ohio inventor. Her pictures were hand drawn lithographs and hand painted by artisans.

Jenny Lind was born on October 6, 1820, in Stockholm, Sweden.

Jenny Lind’s full name was Johanna Marie Lind. She sang her first opera at age seventeen, in Stockholm, Sweden.

Her parents were entertainers and Jenny played the piano as a child.

She later performed in Swedish Operas.

All of Europe was enchanted by her beautiful, unique voice. As indicated, technology followed too late, and her voice was never recorded.

Jenny Lind Fever swept throughout Europe. Queen Victoria attended a Jenny Lind Performance on April 22, 1846 and stated that Jenny had the most exquisite, powerful, and unique voice.

Jenny made her American debut at the Castle Garden Theater in New York City on September 11, 1850.

Jenny Lind had a natural aptitude for music, and attended the Royal Theater School in London. She studied piano, acting, singing, languages, and dancing. Jenny had a sweet, unique, soprano voice and she soon became the most popular singer throughout Europe. Jenny later gained a reputation as the Greatest Artistic Performer in the World.

Jenny Lind was known throughout Europe as “The Swedish Nightingale.” Jenny Lind was greeted by four thousand people who had been enticed to meet her, by Phineas T. Barnum’s press stories.

Interestingly, a New York Hudson River Steamer was named the “JENNY LIND” prior to her arrival. This ship was owned by the American Steamboat Company of New York. An artistic rendering of the “JENNY LIND” was painted in 1850 by the Bard Brothers, this ship may have been built in 1845.

Jenny Lind’s opening concert was to take place in New York’s Castle Garden.

Her manager, Phineas T. Barnum auctioned off the first ticket, which was purchased

by John Genin, a New York Hatter, for $225. The remaining tickets sold for an average price of $6.38.

Let’s take a further step back in time and ponder the ship on which Jenny Lind crossed the Atlantic Ocean. Jenny’s ship was casually named the “ATLANTIC”. She was the first ship built by the Collins Line.

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The Collins Line was founded by Edwin Knight Collins in 1836. Edwin was born in 1802 and died in 1878.

Collins early sailing type ships took the main Atlantic crossing from New York to London. Collins won the U.S. Postal Service contract to carry mail across the Atlantic, in March 1847.

The Collins Line ordered four ships to meet their Postal Service Contract. All four were launched in 1850. These were the ATLANTIC, ARCTIC, PACIFIC, and BALTIC. They pushed these ships very hard, at full speed and subsequently made frequent repairs.

At the end of her first year, in December of 1850, the main shaft of the ATLANTIC broke from fatigue and she foundered 900 miles from Halifax. This was only three months after Jenny Lind’s first crossing.

The ATLANTIC’S sister ship, the ARCTIC had a few good years and a good reputation for fast Atlantic Ocean crossings. She hit a few rocks, but was not seriously damaged.

In September 1854, the ARCTIC sailed from Liverpool to New York. Heavy

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She sailed up to Newfoundland to get out of the fog.

The ARCTIC crashed into the schooner, VESTA in September, 1854 and was totally destroyed. 365 people died including all of the women and children.

The men ran to the lifeboats first and many of them survived. That was the worst US maritime disaster at that time.

The PACIFIC also came to a horrible end when its boiler exploded in the middle of the ocean in 1856. 320 passengers died.

Another bad omen! The White Star Line had built a 420 foot long new ship in 1871, again named the ATLANTIC. In March, 1873, the ATLANTIC ran out of coal due to rough seas. She crashed into the rocks of Nova Scotia and 585 people lost their lives.

Jenny’s New York performance was exquisite. Her first concert in the U.S. included beautiful songs by Bellini and Rossini and “The Headsman’s Song,” also known as the “Echo Song,” for which Jenny was most famous throughout Sweden and Europe.

Jenny spent a year in the U.S. on tour.

Her upper class audience included President Millard Fillmore, Politician Henry Clay, General Winfield Scott and authors: Washington Irving, Daniel Webster and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Jenny was on tour of many cities including New York, Wilmington, Boston and Richmond. The crowds formed long lines to purchase tickets. P. T. Barnum was always the showman. Jenny and Mr. Barnum parted company because of Fig. 3

Summer 2004 different expectations and promises. This was in June, 1851 after her 93rd concert in their contract.

In less than a year, Barnum had made $535,000 and Jenny was paid $176,000.

She donated $10,000 of her first concert to charity.

Jenny continued to tour with her troupe and performed in Canada, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New York and Connecticut, including Hartford and New Haven.

Jenny Lind’s orchestra conductor, Julius Benedict, accepted a new position and sailed back home to London. Jenny wrote to her friend, Otto Goldschmidt, a gifted German pianist and asked him to join her orchestra in the U.S. and he accepted.

Jenny and Otto had long admired each other and were married in February, 1852, in Boston. They returned to Europe later that year, sailing home on the repaired ATLANTIC. I wonder if she knew about all of the safety risks of the Collins Steamship Line.

Jenny continued to perform through 1883. She died on November 2, 1887 and was buried in England. She was only 63 years old.

Phineas T. Barnum was always looking for promotional activities.

Barnum purchased a copper plate engraving of Jenny’s likeness from a Swedish artist and promoted Jenny Lind for six months prior to her arrival in New York..

At the time of Jenny’s arrival, there were Jenny Lind shawls, Jenny Lind bonnets, Jenny Lind gloves, riding habits, mantillas, robes, chairs, sofas, and pianos.

Jenny arrived to a splendid celebration of thousands of fans.

One of the popular Jenny Lind souvenirs was whiskey flasks. What a great way to celebrate! At least six glass houses created twelve styles of Jenny Lind flasks.

The Swedish copper plate image that P.T. Barnum had was probably used by the glass mold designers. Most of her portraits look similar.

Of the twelve styles of Jenny Lind flasks, one is a pint, two are quarts, and nine are calabashes. Calabash bottles were popular in the 1850s. They were basically spherical in shape at the bottom, attached to a very long and slender neck.

A calabash is a tropical fruit which hangs on a calabash tree, perhaps nine inches

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in diameter and could be dried and used as a dish.

The first Jenny Lind flask has her image on the front and also has a banner with her name on it. She is surrounded by a wreath of lotus leaves. On the back of the flask there is an image of a factory building. This is the Fislerville Glassworks. It was located in Fislerville, New Jersey, proprietor Jacob P. Fisler.

Their glassworks was started in 1850 and was shut down in 1856.

Thomas Stranger purchased a Jenny Lind flask mold in September of 1854 from Samuel Huffsey, who owned a store in Philadelphia and was a broker for local glass factories, supplying equipment, tools and materials. Thomas Stranger’s glass factory was called the Isabella Glass Factory and was located in New Brooklyn, New Jersey.

WHAT SINGER JENNY LIND TAUGHT US CENTURY MAGAZINE – May 1897 Jenny Lind left deep impressions upon her audience. She had four outstanding qualities in one person. A voice unique in power, musical beauty, as well as a dramatic quality. She had perfect musicianship; unusual intellectual culture; and spirit of generosity, kindness; and high moral values. Jenny had insight into a variety of emotions, especially in religious music, possessed by her alone.

Jenny reviewed each song from the perspective of a Master Musician. She developed its dramatic possibilities as a woman of ardent temperament, enhanced

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by high social culture. Her own sang with alternate tenderness inner spirit developed a group and fire of passionate intensity. of expressions of an outstanding Jenny was a close friend gracious character. The author of composer, Mendelssohn. He of this article was an artist, who himself taught Jenny the spirit was profoundly impressed with and expression of oratorio Jenny Lind. music. He quotes her as a Those people who have Member of that Church never heard Jenny, are prone to Invisible, and delighted in her think that the hold which she splendid enthusiasm.

Fig. 5 possesses upon the imagination She was only fulfilling and spirit of those who have heard her is his inspiration when she gave vent to the no proof of her greatness. She is still exaltation of artistic – religious feeling supreme in memory because she was the in such strains. “I Know That My first great artist that sang to everyone.

Redeemer Liveth”, she sang with such a Jenny Lind was different than all fever of religious passion that it caught other great artists. She could not be one up, as it seemed, into a heavenly compared with any other singer. Her art experience. was completely different in its Jenny’s presentation of music was presentation. The people were very grafted upon a religious nature so deep excited about Jenny. that practical Christianity was the master Wherever she sang, every window spring of her life. Jenny - a ballet dancer and roof for blocks from the concert hall, as a child, a comedy actress in her teens, was packed with people waiting to watch a highly passionate, and yet feminine in her pass by. In America were similar her tragic roles of opera - was in America scenes of London, where the frantic rush to be the daughter of a Lutheran Minister. of fans fighting their way toward her, in Jenny’s childlike sympathy of the concert hall had developed a new character came out so clearly in her ballad name: “The Jenny Lind Crush” singing. She reveled in the ventriloquial Jenny Lind united in her concerts displays of her bird song; she threw herself three fields of music usually quite distinct, with delight into the homely lieds of and was equally excellent in all. She sang Sweden. the greatest of the oratorio arias, as well No one ever heard her sing “Home as a variety of folk music. In all of her Sweet Home” without crying. The quality music their was a pathetic attribute in her of tone as she sang the words wrung your voice that vibrated in the feelings, often heart. She was perfectly original in all of to tears. her songs.

The author was a violinist, who performed with Jenny at Tripler Hall.

Jenny had light blue eyes, and her hair Fig. 6 was natural Swedish blond. She gave the impression of great dignity. Her manners were that of the nobility. Very simple, modest, and yet stately.

Jenny’s voice was a soprano, in richness more like singer Parepa’s than that of any other modern singer. Her voice had the timbre like a clarinet, penetrating and tearful and sweet.

When Jenny sang in Rochester, people paid for standing room in the arcade, across the hall from Corinthian Hall. She possessed two qualities of voice – one somber, the second of a clear sunny ring, brilliant and sparkling.

Jenny Lind was a perfect opera singer for Meyerbeer, whose strong friendship with her is well known. In her operatic singing she threw herself with absolute concentration into each character, and

Bottles and Extras The great power of her voice made it impossible for her to equal the coloratura of singers possessing a lighter timbre.

This great voice she had under very high cultivation. She sang clearly without a tremolo, and she could pass from the most tremendous crescendo to the most delicate pianissimo. Her climax in singing “Agatha” was the acme of passion.

“I was present at Jenny Lind’s last concert. The late Mr. Scharfenberg, one of New York’s pioneer musicians, sat beside me. ‘What do you think?’ I asked him. ‘She will never sing again,’ he answered. Glorious as her voice still was, there had come a veil over the upper tones, once so brilliant; the delicacy and sympathy were gone from the lower – they had become harsh and cold.

“I did not hear her voice in the future triumphs in oratorio of which her Biographers write so enthusiastically. To my mind, her fiery temperament, which she had thrown against her voice, had worn her and her voice out together. The American Tour had destroyed her.”

– Henri Appi WHAT JENNY LIND DID FOR AMERICA Jenny Lind’s extensive travel throughout America was quite successful.

Her charitable contributions developed a chain of many institutions where orphans and sick people were nurtured. The rapture of her music created a standard

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by which the success of every other artist revelation of music, will be most potent has been measured. to its temperament.

The tradition of her pure and noble Hans Christian Anderson stated that womanhood has remained to music a through her he had learned that one must bulwark against which the scandal and forget ones self in the service of the corruption of the operatic and musical Supreme. “No books, no men, have had world has broken in vain. a more ennobling influence on me as a In the memory of every person who poet than Jenny Lind.” In fact, she heard her, her singing has rung to the end revered her own art, not only as a of life as one perfect and sublime musician, but as a dramatic artist. revelation of the beauty and ecstasy of Jenny was clear in all of her music itself. interpretations. She maintained her America owes Jenny one other and dramatic power in reserve, with a greater debt that has never been reticence which none but the greatest recognized. She brought the musical artists are ever known to exercise. This temperament of America to an awakening. was at the predetermined situations in Her presence was the supreme moment which she felt that it could be successfully in our national heritage, when young exhibited with logical consistency and the America, ardent, enthusiastic, deepest reverence for dramatic truth. impressible, heard and knew its own Her art is of a very intellectual nature. capacity for musical feeling forever.

With this honesty, she brought Hans From that time it had received or Christian Anderson to tears, while on denied the world’s greatest artists, who stage. It would be an exaggeration to say traveled here, great in its own that no American audience has ever consciousness of its artistic needs and confused blind temperament with temperament. dramatic expertise: but it is certain that In the preceding article, Mr. Appy has America has never for very long mistaken summed up the musical attributes of Jenny temperamental excess for the ecstasy Lind, and if we apply his analysis to the developed by such spiritual art as Jenny effect of these gifts on ourselves, it will Lind’s. help us to see ourselves from the outside.

The depth and intensity of passionate Our nation left home to plant itself feeling that America recognized in her, in the woods for a religious idea; that became the criterion of its future favor, fought for a moral idea, a bloody and and precisely a criterion of our nation devastating Civil War. It builds its homes itself. Less fire than her climax, more on an ideal of love, and has taught its sons apathy than her silence has never since and daughters to believe that romance is convinced. From then until now, every a short word for the happy end of a true artist who lived among us has been forced affection. by his listeners into greater heights and This is the world to which Jenny depths in his effort to win his public. sang. And since then, whatever following Without temperament, no one wins musicians may have had for other gifts, it American listeners. is the idealist and the poet who have Jenny had her greatest success when gathered the consent of the whole nation. she captivated the musical world by No longer – America has idealized the expressing the greatest types and character of life and of every genius it revelations of character. Her artistic has loved from that day to this. displays were essentially normal, The second criterion of our healthy and direct. behavior follows from the original.

In “La Sonnambula”, her dignity While Jenny was the one perfect and innocence convinced her listeners singer for the composer of “Robert and brought them to tears. She Le Diable”, she was surely the appealed to the very feelings and greatest interpreter of such emotions that not only are most strains. natural, but are most It is a singer of religious sedulously cultivated, in music that America loves American Women.

Let most. She touched the master America sing her own song on chord of a profoundly the high themes where first she religious people, and this is found her voice. the highest cause and I have shown the choice Fig. 7

67 which Jenny made of the emotions, which she would impose on her listeners. It allows that she was sincere. If she worked up a climax, she did it within the intention of the composer. She could express sympathy in a true manner. It was the character of Jenny Lind behind her music that made her America’s Ideal.

Lastly – and this is the one true characteristic of the highest art, Jenny was full of sweetness and kindly light. Her message was optimistic.

The characteristics presented in this article are those of the very heart of American temperament, and that has determined the success of every visiting artist. Let them speak simply and directly and we will listen.

References: Smith, Fanny Morris. Century Magazine, May, 1897.

Photos: Figure 1: 1847 painting of Jenny Lind

by R. J. Lane, Esq. Figure 2: Steamship “Jenny Lind” painted by Bard Bros., 1850.

Figure 3: 1850 lithograph of Jenny Lind, Bard, N.Y..

Figure 4: 1850 daguerreotype by Root.

Figure 5: Queen Victoria (with the Prince of Wales) painting, 1846.

Figure 6: Kovel’s Antique Bottles Price Guide, Jenny Lind flasks, 1985.

Figure 7: Jenny Lind flask, Glass Works Auction.

Donald Yates 8300 River Corners Road Homerville, OH 44235 donaldbetsyyates@earthlink.net

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Wyoming Whiskies

by Warren Borton

As with most western states, the most popular Wyoming bottle with local collectors is the whiskey bottle. Certainly nothing gives a better vision of the old west then a cowboy or miner standing in the local saloon with a whiskey bottle in hand. The whiskey flask was only used in six Wyoming towns: Cheyenne, Laramie, Rawlins, Rock Springs, Kemmerer and Casper. Certainly other towns had whiskey bottles, but they remain either unreported or undiscovered.

All known Wyoming whiskeys are flasks. Whiskey was sold in the coffin, shoofly, Olympia, dandy and pumpkin seed flask. Both the dandy and pumpkin seed bottles are screw-top bottles. All the pumpkins are ground top, whereas the dandies come either tooled or ground.

Apparently these bottles were given to special customers who came in regularly with their personal flask to get a refill.

Since they were produced in small numbers and had a poor survival rate due to the inherent weakness of the flask, the urban digger recovers few intact. Overall the Wyoming whiskey flask is both the

rarest Wyoming bottle and as well the most valuable.

Phil Kerrigan began in the saloon business in 1877. He operated “The Arcade” for many years and left the collector three different flasks. The first was embossed: W. A. Gaines & Co./ Phil Kerrigan & Co. / The Arcade / Cheyenne, Wyo. / Old Crow Whiskey. Next came Kerrigan & Leslie / The Arcade / Cheyenne, Wyo. After this, Leslie seems to have become the sole owner of the Arcade with the last bottle: A.S. Leslie / The Arcade / Cheyenne, Wyo . / Old Crow Whiskey. All flasks are dandy style and only the first one is a ground top bottle.

The later two flasks are by far rarer then the earlier flask.

Harry P. Hynds arrived in Cheyenne in 1882 as a blacksmith. In 1886, he started in the liquor business and operated the “Capital Saloon” for nearly thirty years. During this time two different flasks were used. The early pumpkin seed came in half-pint and pint bottles and was embossed: H .P . Hynds / The Capitol / Cheyenne, Wyo. The dandy flask was

Bottles and Extras embossed: W. A. Gaines & Cos. / H . P .

Hynds / The Capitol / Old Crow Whiskey.

This bottle comes in both sizes and in tooled top and ground top variants. While the dandy flask is common, the Hynds pumpkin seeds are very rare. It is amazing that Cheyenne had only two saloons that produced embossed whiskey bottles, “The Arcade” and the “Capitol.” The city certainly had its share of saloons.

J.F.Johnson was the proprietor of the Johnson Hotel from 1901-1910. After his death, his widow continued the business until 1929. His flasks come in half-pint, pint and a mammoth-sized quart bottle.

This once extremely rare flask is now more obtainable due to a few more having been unearthed in the past decade. The pint and quart Johnson flasks remain extremely rare. The Johnson Hotel Bar is the only Wyoming business to have used the Olympia flask.

J. A. Fischer operated from 1875 to 1905. His bottles are found in both pumpkin seed and shoofly style. The shoofly is found in pints only whereas the pumpkin seed are half pints with screw top and ground mouth. All Fischer whiskey flasks are rare.

In 1886 John Huempfner is listed as the proprietor of a saloon. The last listing is of him is in 1906 as “Huempfner Bros.

Beer Hall” at 111 Grand Ave. His halfpint pumpkin is embossed; Jno.

Bottles and Extras Huempfner / Elkhead Saloon / Laramie, Wyo. This is the only known bottle from his saloon and is so far unique.

Years ago a bottle friend of mine dug up a broken shoofly flask embossed: Paul Jones / H . Small / Laramie, Wyo. A decade passed before I dug up the first perfect example. To my amazement, it was embossed: Paul Jones / J.H. Small / Laramie, Wyo. Since the previous bottle was from broken pieces, we had missed the little piece with the “ J “ on it. The flask remains the only known example.

I am sure there are more unknown whiskey bottles from Laramie. Only time and more digging will prove that theory.

The Hotel Kemerer Bar produced Kemmerer’s only embossed flask. The hotel was completed in 1898. Although the spelling is Kemmerer, the name was shortened just to fit the bottle. The flask is found both in half-pint and pint and is snap and ground. The pint flask is by far the rarer size of the two.

Rock Springs had more saloons than any two other towns combined, with one directory listing 37 different ones. Perhaps the city should have been named Whiskey Springs. After all, this was not a huge town at the turn of the century, but it was surely a cold windy place in the winter.

Apparently no one was likely to freeze!

So it is surprising that there is only one known flask. The shoofly is embossed;

Summer 2004 Hartney Bros. / Rock Springs / Wyo. With only one pint and one half-pint known, it is an extremely rare flask. John Hartney established the “Metropolitan Saloon” sometime in the late 1800s and was soon joined by his brother Tom. The saloon was last listed in 1902.

The oil town of Casper, Wyoming has two different snap and ground half pint pumpkin seed flasks. Both are extremely rare. The Grand Central Hotel was built in 1894. Theodore Pringle and Robert White were the proprietors of the Grand Central Bar during the late 1890s. Their flask is embossed: White & Pringle / Grand Central / Bar / Casper, Wyo. White later owned the Hotel in Kemmerer.

Pringle operated a liquor business in Douglas, which someday may produce a flask. The other pumpkin seed is embossed: Patton & McGrath / Stock / Exchange / Casper, Wyo. Hugh Patton was an early day Casper lawman and John McGrath was a close friend with the odd nickname of “Posthole McGrath.”

The Wyoming Bar of D. McKenize operated during the early 1900s and produced both half-pint and pint dandy flasks. The flasks are found both tooled top and ground top. They are embossed: “The Wyoming Bar / Caspar / Wyo.” or “The Wyoming Bar / Casper, Wyo.” The Casper bottle seems a bit rarer then the Caspar variant. But both bottles are

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John C. Gunning left his job with the railroad in 1888 and opened the Club Saloon in Rawlins. His saloon produced both coffin and shoofly flasks. The early coffin style bottles are extremely rare.

Both variants were embossed; John C. Gunning / Club / Saloon /Rawlins, Wyo. He owned the saloon until 1908.

Richard Magor arrived in Rawlins in 1880. He operated a grocery store for many years. As early as 1887, he advertised wholesale and retail liquors on South Front Street. His flask is embossed: R. C. Magor / Wholesale / Liquor Dealer / Rawlins, Wy.. The Magor flask is found both in pint and a unique quart shoofly.

Robert Freedman established the Wyoming Saloon in Green River in 1891 and had branch stores in Granger and Diamondville. Thus far there are no known bottles from these locations. He sold all his saloons to open The Wyoming Saloon in Rawlins in 1902 where he remained for several years. His flasks are found in both half-pint and pint and are snap and ground. The pint dandy flask being the rarer bottle, both flasks were embossed: Old Crow / Bourbon / Robt.

Freedman / Rawlins, Wyo. John Ryan and his partner Joseph Buckley operated the Club Saloon, the Bank Exchange, the Home Ranch and the Pioneer. Buckley left the partnership in 1907 while Ryan continued for several years. His rare flask is found only in a pint dandy. It is embossed: Jack Ryan / Rawlins / Wyo. Peter Johnson was advertising liquors and cigars in 1893 and continued in the business for several more years. His rare pumpkin seed flask is embossed: Pete Johnson / Corner / Saloon / Rawlins, Wyo. The bottle is only found in the half-pint size. I was lucky enough to have dug this bottle on the site of an early barbershop in Green River, Wyoming. However, in the late 1890s, this was next door to The Wyoming Saloon. So apparently it is a drink, a shave and then a haircut!

Over the past twenty years, I have found a number of Wyoming whiskey flasks. I admit I get a thrill out of all Wyoming bottles I find. But nothing is as exciting as finding that embossed Wyoming flask! As much as I love digging them up, I would be thrilled to hear from anyone having a Wyoming whiskey not in this article. . But until then, I’ll keep on digging, and I hope you will too!

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By Michael Miller

ARIZONA'S BEST - PART THREE

Several years ago at the annual Phoenix Bottles & Collectibles Show, collectors exhibited the first all-inclusive collection of Arizona Hutchinson sodas.

This display was the highlight of the show and all of the collectors present noted the importance of the moment. You see, though in many parts of the country, Hutchinson sodas are considered the poor stepchildren of other soda categories such as blob top or squats, but here in Arizona the Hutch's are the most desirable sodas to collectors. This is partially due to the almost total lack of these earlier soda types (we do have one blob top soda) and the rarity of many of the Hutch's from the territory.

This article will concentrate on these earliest of Arizona sodas, which were used in the Arizona Territory from 1880 to 1912. Since statehood didn't come until 1912, all Arizona Hutchinson bottles are

territorial of age.

One last thing before we get down to the fun. Remember these listings are only opinions and for every bottle that is listed, there is someone out there who thinks another bottle is more worthy. This was very apparent when we surveyed some of the top collectors on this category. It seems that region was a big issue with Southern and Central Arizona collectors having a different view on the subject. Anyway, these are the picks, it's my story and I'm sticking to it.

HUTCHINSON SODAS Without a doubt the Hutch is the most hotly collected area of Arizona bottles.

Containing some of the earliest bottles from the then territory, Hutchinson collectors strive to obtain some of the rarest of the rare. Included in this category

are four Territorial marked bottles, amber and light green sodas and several bottles from the Wild West town of Tombstone.

With these and others to select from, some of the top collectors from Arizona were asked to choose and here is the best of the best.

1.

CLIFTON SODA WORKS CLIFTON, ARIZ. - An aqua soda and the newest Hutch to be discovered. This bottle was picked by 50% of those collectors surveyed as the #1 hutch and was unanimous choice for the top ten.

Both rarity and the mining town connection add to the desirability of this bottle. J. N. McFate utilized this one of a kind bottle at his works from 1899 to 1901.

2.

BELL SODA WORKS YUMA, ARIZONA - Two examples are known of this aqua soda utilized by Thomas Bell in 1899. This works remained in operation until 1913 and was renamed

Bottles and Extras Yuma Soda Works. Though this bottle received no first place votes, it was named on all of the surveys and placed no lower than sixth.

3.

SAFFORD BOTTLING WORKS SAFFORD, ARIZONA - A clear to sun-colored bottle with only two known examples. Everett & Hillhouse, who were the first proprietors of this works, used this hutch just after the turn of the century. Another bottle listed on all of the surveys.

4.

GLOBE ICE & COLD STORAGE CO. GLOBE, ARIZONA - This aqua hutch, which gathered one first place vote and placed on all lists, was used by Alfred Kinney in 1903, and represents the last name change for his company. Seven years later he closed his works and entered state politics. In 1911 he became a state senator. There are four known examples of this bottle, which has an extremely attractive embossing pattern. An earlier hutch from Kinney's business just missed the top ten.

4.

WINSLOW BOTTLING WORKS WINSLOW ARIZONA - This bottle tied the Globe hutch for fourth and is another attractive aqua hutch with two

Summer 2004 documented examples. A works that opened in 1898 and closed less than a year later used this bottle.

A.T. Cornish ran this facility along with his primary company in Flagstaff. An interesting side note is the story that two of these bottles turned up at a trading post in the Winslow area during the 1960s. One of these sodas was purchased and has been documented, but the other remained to be sold to a lucky customer.

Whoever that was is not known but if you're out there then I'll pay a bundle for your bottle.

6.

FLAGSTAFF BOTTLING WORKS FLAGSTAFF ARIZ. - This clear bottle has a different embossing pattern than its later mentioned aqua counterpart and has two documented examples. A.T. Cornish used it at the turn of the century.

7.

UNION SODA WORKS B&B Though not a exceedingly rare soda, there are presently at least ten known examples, the amber 'B&B' has both color and historical significance going for it. Fred Blush and Charles Buddington, at the Union Soda Works of Tombstone, A. T., used this bottle in the early 1880s.

71 I can just imagine the Earps and the Clantons arguing in the saloon over a cold Union soda. Can't beat that for good story telling to those non-collectors! Another unanimous choice bottle.

7.

ARIZONA BOTTLING WORKS PHOENIX, A.T - Another tie, this very rare (four known) territorial marked aqua soda would have been higher on the list if it were not from Phoenix and if I had not just recently located the fourth example. The Arizona Bottling Works began as a Root Beer manufacturer in 1899. Fred Sharpe expanded his business the following year and ran a profitable works for many years. By the late twenties, competition from national brands had reduced Sharpe's share of the market and in 1934 he closed the doors for good.

9.

FLAGSTAFF BOTTLING WORKS - Only two examples of this aqua soda are known at this time. This soda was used earlier than its clear counterpart and its position was likely hurt by its lack of Arizona embossing.

10. PHOENIX BOTTLING WORKS PHOENIX, A.T. - This position is for the light green examples of this hutch, which also comes in shades of aqua. Used by the earliest owners of this works from 1884 to 1885 this is the only green hutch soda from Arizona and very few undamaged examples (less than ten) have surfaced in this color. In addition to color, the early green bottles have wonderful crudity and whittling usually absent from the later aqua bottles. This combination warranted a first place vote from one of our pollsters.

Other Hutchinson's that finished high in the poles included the clear BENSON BEER & ICE CO. BENSON, ARIZ.; TUCSON SODA WORKS B.H. KROEGER TUCSON, ARIZ.; PURITY BOTTLING WKS. NOGALES, ARIZ. M. BOHALL PROP.; ARIZONA SODA WORKS PRESCOTT, ARIZ. and ALFRED KINNEY GLOBE ARIZ. I hope this has enlightened some of you on the subject of great Arizona hutch sodas. Who knows, you might have one of these bottles sitting in the window right now. If so I'll be glad to talk to you about how you can get some down payment money for your next car.

Mike Miller, 9214 W. Gary Road, Peoria, AZ 85345; Ph: (623) 486-3123; E-mail: helgramike@earthlink.net.

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Greencrest Dr., Atlanta, GA 303462629; PH: (770) 270-1034; E-mail: a.Vegotsky@att.net.

FIRE GRENADE PRICE GUIDE - 122 grenade types priced from 400 auctions, 130 b/w illustions, 46 pages, $26.70 PP. Contact: RON FELDHAUS, 5117 W 92nd St, Minneapolis, MN 55437, or E-mail: vrfeldhaus@aol.com.

GINGER BEER & ROOT BEER HERITAGE, 400 pages, all Photos are in fullcolor. $30.00 + $4.00 S/H. Contact: DON YATES, 8300 River Corners Road, Homerville, OH 44235; Phone: (330) 625-1025.

Can you tell the “Real” from the “Repro”? Now you can with Tippecanoe & E. G. Booz Too! A book about cabin bottles, by Thomas C. Haunton. Detailed info on 57 different bottles, with new “McKearin” numbers, over 140 photos, and new information on E. G. Booz - the man! A price guide and free CD with 200 color photos are also included.

GEORGIA CROWN TOP BOTTLE BOOK

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by Carl Barnett and Ken Nease 260+ pages with over 1400 bottles pictured ALL in color Includes: Georgia Bottling Works 263 different Script straight-sided Coca-Cola bottles from Georgia 236 different Georgia Chero-Cola bottles Also includes sections on Georgia: Straight-sided Pepsi Bludwine Orange Crush NuGrape Dr. Pepper Flint Rock Lime Cola Red Race Koca Nola Red Rock Big Hit Big Chief Many color photos of early outdoor painted advertisements and copies of 244 great old newspaper ads.

Georgia Soda Bottle Book 1211 St. Andrews Drive Douglas, GA 31533 Book $39.95 Shipping & Handling 3.95 Total $43.90 Send orders to:

(Georgia residents must add 7% sales tax.)

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Send $32.95 postpaid to: TOM HAUNTON, 48 Hancock Ave. #1, Medford, MA 02155-5621. E-mail: tchaunton@comcast.net

GEORGIA CROWN TOP BOTTLE BOOK. 260 pages with over 1400 bottles.

Includes Georgia Bottling Works, 263 different Script straight-sided Coca-Cola bottles from Georgia, 236 different Georgia Chero-Cola bottles. Many others also listed. All Color! $39.95 + $3.95 Shipping. Send to: Georgia Soda Bottle Book, 1211 St. Andrews Drive, Douglas, GA 31533.

FOR SALE: Two books on whiskey jugs by Bottles and Extras writer Jack Sullivan. THE AMERICAN WHISKEY JUG features 200 richly illustrated pages with index. $20 plus $5 postage. THE WHISKEY CERAMICS OF SCOTLAND, IRELAND and ENGLAND features 100 pages with index. $10 plus $3 postage. Or buy both for $25 plus $5 postage.

Contact: JACK SULLIVAN, 4300 Ivanhoe Pl., Alexandria, VA 22304; PH: (703) 370-3039; E-mail: jack.sullivan9@verizon.net.

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.

COLLECTING APPLIED COLOR LABEL BOTTLES, Third Edition (2002). 1200 full-color photographs with over 1600 ACL soda bottles listed and over 1650 prices realized in an easy to read format. $45 includes postage Contact: KATHY HOPSON, 1966 King Springs Road, Johnson City, TN 37601; E-mail: kathy@thesodafizz.com.

FOR SALE: “BOTTLE IDENTIFICATION AND PRICE GUIDE – 4 TH EDITION” The “BOTTLE BIBLE” for everyone – comprehensive, updated pricing guide, (3) new chapters: Cobalt Blue Medicine Bottles, Violin Bottles and Museum & Research Resources.

Expanded & updated chapters: Determining Bottle Values, Trademark Identification, Dealer/Club Guide / Glossary / Auction Houses, Bibliography. 300 b/ w photos – 16 page color section - $21.00 (includes book/shipping/handling).

“AMERICAN PATRIOTIC MEMORABILIA” Comprehensive Pricing Guide – 17 chapters including Uncle Sam items, political, folk art, flags, World War I & II posters, stamps, sheet music, advertising - $20.00 (includes book/shipping/handling). Check or money order to: MIKE POLAK, P.O. Box 30328, Long Beach, CA 90853; PH: (562) 438-9209; E-mail: bottleking@earthlink.net.

A COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO ARIZONA BOTTLE & STONEWARE A HISTORY OF MERCHANT CONTAINERS IN ARIZONA 124 pages of very detailed sketches of bottles and stoneware from the state of Arizona (1999) Spiral bound, $25.00. Contact: MICHAEL MILLER, Miller Antiques, 9214 W. Gary Road, Peoria, AZ 85345, PH: (623) 486-3123 or by E-mail: gramike@earthlink.net.

FOR SALE: Now, finally available! BIG BOB BEST BITTERS is a comprehensive price guide for collectors of bitters bottles reporting auction prices realized for the last 17 years.

This printing contains nearly 4000 accurately described bitters in a convenient, easy to read

format. Listing bottle description and condition, Ring/Ham number, sale date and realized auction prices, this reference is a must-have for the collector or dealer of bitters bottles. To encourage your attendence at bottle shows, the price is an affordable $10. Price postage paid is $15. Send check or money order with your mailing instructions to: BOB STRICKHART, 3 Harvest Drive, Pennington, New Jersey 08534.

FOR SALE ads are a benefit of FOHBC membership.

Send YOUR free ad today!

MISCELLANEOUS $500.00 REWARD! for any information leading to the return of my stolen property, ie: WILLIAM GOEPPERT & SON, aqua, “champagne” top, quart beer from San Francisco, circa 1882. Please contact: DAVE ACORN, 11312 Cottontail Way, Penn Valley, CA 95946; PH: (530) 432-2111.

WANTED WANTED: Shipping boxes wanted advertising medicines, bitters, cures, hair tonics, cosmetics, etc. Only requirement is that the box must say “Dr” someone on it. Interested in any box that meets above criteria. Would love to find Dr. Pierces Golden Medical Discovery box, or just surprise me. Write or call: CHARLES WYTHE, 113 Henrietta St., Ravenswood, WV 26164; PH: (304) 273-3358.

WANTED: Montana sodas - ACL Cleo Cola/Billings; embossed Apex Springs/ Dillon; embossed Hamilton Bottling Works; embossed Wolf Point Bottling Works; Niagara Bottling Works/Great Falls; ACL Big Chief/Missoula; ACL 5HI/Plentywood. Contact: R.J. REID, 1102 East Babcock St., Bozeman, MT 59715; PH: (406) 587-9602; E-mail: reid@mcn.net

WANTED: St. Louis bottles. Top prices paid for the following: BEERS: 1) Cooper & Conger. 2) H. Volkmann.

3) F. Angelbeck. 4) E. Anheuser & Co. (aqua). 5) J. Uhrig & Co. (amber).

6) Grone Brewing Co. (amber). 7) Lemp Special Brew. SODAS: 1) Wake & Co. 2) H. Grone (gravitating stopper).

3) Maas & Schisler. 4) Metz & Co. 5) Eclipse (blob). 6) C. Damhorst (qt. blob). 7) Ed Fennerty (qt. blob).

BITTERS: 1) Stonewall Jackson’s.

2) Adler & Co., Lansbury. 3) Breman.

4) Eagle. 5) San Diego Wine. Contact: CURT FAULKENBERRY, 9459 Easy St., Hillsboro, MO 63050; PH: (636) 7975220; E-mail: stlbottlebabe@yahoo.com.

WANTED: Materials on “The Golden Hill” Saloon in Toledo, Ohio, including photos, ads, shot glasses, jugs and other whiskiana. Contact: JACK SULLIVAN, 4300 Ivanhoe Pl., Alexandria, VA 22304; PH: (703) 370-3039; E-mail: jack.sullivan9@verizon.net.

WANTED: Hutchs from Old Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Spain, Guatamala, Ecuador, Australia, El Dorado Bottling Co., Dawson Y.T. and any other foreign hutch not on my list that you know of. Last, but not least, I am still looking for New Mexico Hutchs.

Contact: ZANG WOOD, 1612 Camino Rio, Farmington, MN 87401; PH: (505) 327-1316.

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Attn: Pepsi and Mountain Dew Collectors

PEPSI : COLA BOTTLES COLLECTORS GUIDE

by James C. Ayers ISBN: 0-964-54430-X - $29.50

An in depth bottle guide listing over 530 bottles. Many rare and unusual styles.

Entire book (144 pages) all color with enlargements. Each bottle listed with ID#, complete description, date, rarity scale and price.

PEPSI : COLA BOTTLES & MORE

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Full Colour BBR

The world’s first full color bottle magazine simply got BETTER and BIGGER PACKED FULL of all the information you need on the UK & worldwide scene Well-researched articles & All the latest finds Upcoming sales & Full show calendar “the classified ads alone make a subscription worthwhile, but the color pictures make it absolutely ESSENTIAL. Heck, what

1 year Air Mail subscription still just $20 - 2 years $40 Personal Check, MasterCard/Visa, even $ bills!

BBR, Elsecar Heritage Centre, Barnsley, 2, Yorkshire, S74 8HJ, England Tel: 011-44-1226-745156; Fax: 011-44-1226-361561

COLLECTORS GUIDE, VOL. 2 ISBN: 0-964-5443-1-8 - $35.00

ALL NEW Vol. 2 contains over 1500 bottles - 168 pages - all color with enlargements - over 790 items pictured - includes Pepsi-Cola embossed, paper label, ACLs, Back Bar Bottles; also features Devil Shake, Diet Pepsi, Evervess, an extensive listing of Mountain Dew and competition bottles, Patio, Pepsi Free, Pepsi Light, Slice, Teem, Tropic, Surf and many others. Almost three times the number of bottles in Vol. 1. Truly a must for all Pepsi and Mountain Dew collectors.

A super bottle guide with prices!

NOTE: Vol. 2 Does Not contain bottles shown in Vol. 1

Mail to: RJM Enterprises 5186 Claudville Hwy., Claudville VA 24076

2001 EDITION ...

“The Fruit Jar Collectorʼs Bible”

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Reflects Recent Price Influences of Auctions and the Internet, as well as Current Price Trends Soft Cover, 432 Pages Over 10,000 Entries $35 US - $40 Non-US - Post Paid Order from Author : DOUGLAS M. LEYBOURNE, JR. P.0. BOX 5417 - NORTH MUSKEGAN, MI 49445

Canadian Bottle and Stoneware Collector

Canada’s quarterly bottle magazine now in its 7th Volume Year 1 year subscription costs $35 US Subscribe online!

CB and SC 102 Abbeyhill Drive Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2L 1H2 Check out our Web site: www.cbandsc.com

Bitters to ginger beers and everything in between!

E-mail: Info@cbandsc.com

WANTED: Moulton items! I collect bottles and related items with my name on them and am interested in purchasing anything which I do not have. TOM G. MOULTON, 1911 Preservation Dr., Plant City, FL 33566-0945; Phone: (813) 754-1396; or E-mail: corkscru1@aol.com.

WANTED: These Hildebrandt & Posner’s: 1/2-pint and pint amber pumpkinseeds; 1/2-pint and pint aqua pumpkinseeds; 1/2 clear pumpkinseed without air vents; 5th and 6th size cylinders; 4-mold tool-top and glob-tops with crude tops, whittle and odd coloration. Perferably mint, or near mint.

Contact: BILL REEVES, PO Box 252, Cedarville, CA 96104; or Phone: (530) 279-6304 (eve).

WANTED: Colored and picture blob beers, especially interested in mint examples with closures that have beer or brewing embossed. Contact: DAVID TINGEN: 9412 Greenfield Dr., Raleigh, NC 27615; PH: (919) 484-4387; E-mail: tingen1@mindspring.com.

WANTED: Delaware milk bottles. College and University milk bottles. Contact: ROWLAND HEARN, 10 Wordsworth Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808; PH: (302) 994-2036.

WANTED: Information on Radio-X Tablets and Radium Remedies Company of Pittsburgh. The tablets were sold in tins in the 1910s and 1920s. What did they contain? How were they advertised? Contact: ALLEN VEGOTSKY, 2215 Greencrest Dr., Atlanta, GA 30345-2629; PH: (770) 270-1034; E-mail: a.Vegotsky@att.net.

WANTED: GEORGIA MILK BOTTLES. BUY - SELL TRADE. Looking for round Southern and Georgia milk bottles.

Let me know what you have for sale or trade. Also, dairy items, trays, caps, calendars, go-withs. Let me know what you are looking for. Contact: PAUL IRBY, 5981 River Oaks Drive, Flowery Branch, GA 30542; E-mail: irbybottles@juno.com.

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WANTED: ARIZONA: Bottles, Souvenir & Advertising items. Sodas, pharmacy, whiskey, beer & go-withs, ice company, tokens, souvenir china, calendar plates, dose glasses, café glasses, Arizona national brand embossed sodas: 1915 & 1923 Cokes, Whistle, Whiz, Vess, Delaware Punch, Dr. Pepper, Big Chief, Nu-Grape, etc.

Contact: MICHAEL MILLER, 9214 W. Gary Rd., Peoria, AZ 85395; PH: (623) 486-3123; E-mail: helgramike@earthlink.net.

WANTED: Kansas City, Missouri, beer bottles and other breweriana items.

Contact: H. JAMES MAXWELL, 1050 West Blue Ridge Blvd., Kansas City, MO 64145-1216; PH: (816) 942-0291.

WANTED: Old pontil KENNEDY bottles, except Dr. Kennedy’s. Any rare poisons *KV-1 3.5" & 8". *KR-47 9.75", 8.5, 4.5. *Harrisburg, PA pontil bottles (any type). Amber straight-sided Cokes. Older perfumes and colognes in smaller sizes. Contact: AMY & CHARLIE KENNEDY, 2113 Chestnut

St., Camp Hill, PA PH: (717) 761-7786; kennedys@dejazzd.com.

WANTED: Barber bottles. Also, anything from Cape May, N.J., including bottles, post cards, photos and paper. Also, souvenir items from Cape May and Caldwell, N.J. Contact: DICK GIBBS, P.O. Box 126, East Hills, NJ 07021, E-mail: capemayone@aol.com.

WANTED: Modoc beers, Modoc bitters, Modoc Indian oils and any bottles embossed Modoc. Contact: BILL REEVES, P.O. Box 252, Cedarville, CA 96104; PH: (530) 279-6304.

WANTED: Western Whiskies – always wanted! Top prices paid for top examples.

Contact: DENNIS BRAY, 2211 Chardonnay Pl., Hanford, CA 93230; PH: (559) 582-7011.

WANTED: Minnesota Hutchinson sodas, Ka-Ton-Ka Indian Medicine from Correy, Penn., embossed black glass case bottles, Warner ’s Tippecanoe, milk glass

$ REWARD $ 30 Below Will Pay TOP DOLLAR for a

ACL Soda From San Diego, CA

Mike Bryant (858) 581-2787 sdmike@san.rr.com libottle@optonline.net

17011; E-mail:

(631) 589-9027

Mark Smith 10 Holmes Court Sayville, N.Y. 11782-2408

Litthauer Stomach Bitters, marked, dug, clay pipes and Chinese Opium pipe bowls. Need not be perfect. Embossed bottles from Duluth and northeastern Minnesota, baking powder cans, Canadian Hutchison sodas. Contact: ELDON PLATCEK, 327 3rd Avenue, Two Harbors, Minnesota 55616-1626; PH: (218) 834-6093; E-mail: furtrade@hotmail.com.

WANTED: Souvenir China wanted in fine condition made in Germany for the American market depicting scenes of American towns, resorts, World’s Fairs, etc. Items are in shapes of small vases, creamers, toothpick holders, etc. Scenes from northwestern states and states west of Mississippi River, especially sought.

Contact: BURTON SPILLER, 22 Tobey Brook, Pittsford, NY 14534; PH: (585) 264-8968; E-mail: bottlebug@aol.com.

WANTED: Mississippi and Louisiana postcards, postmarked envelopes, liquor jugs, Confederate money and trade tokens. I have the same for sale or trade.

Contact: H. L. “SONNY” HILL, JR.,

Veterinary Animal Medicine Advertising Wanted

Contact either:

Ken Opengart 1101 Simonton Dr. Watkinsville, GA 30677 chkenlps@yahoo.com 770-769-8438 (home)

Mike Smith 7431 Covington Hwy. Lithonia, GA 30058 PetVet@mindspring.com 770-482-5100 (work) 770-979-3239 (home) Finders Fee for tip leading to the purchase of either of the two Pratts Food posters shown.

WHISKEY FLASKS WANTED ALL SHAPES, SIZES AND COLORS FROM NEW YORK, BROOKLYN & LONG ISLAND

Quality Pratts poster with Indians

Buying quality antique veterinary advertising: * Posters by Pratts, Dr. A.C. Daniels, International Stock Food, etc. * Veterinary country store cabinets, both tin front and glass front. * Advertising go-withs: Celluloids, Bar Spinners, Watch Fobs, Chalk statues, Thermometers, anything odd and unusual * Labeled Veterinary medicine bottles, especially with boxes. * Boxed Veterinary Medicines with contents. * Veterinary tins.

Quality Pratts poster with Brownies

We will buy one item, or a whole collection.

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1036 Briarwood Drive, Jackson, MS 39211; PH: (601) 957-0254; E-mail: sonnyhill3@earthlink.net.

WANTED: SARATOGAS! Pints & quarts from all springs. Contact: GREG – NJ, PH: (973) 772-0436; E-mail: ggandspark@cs.com.

WANTED: The following bottles from upper Michigan: Blob Beers: L’Anse

Brewing Co., Clifton Bottling Works, Keweenaw Co., Mich.; Hoch & Heinemann, Marquette, Mich.; Root & Mackin, Soo, Mich. Blob Sodas: T.B. Rundle, Marquette, T. Smith Houghton Works, Mich.; S&S Houghton; J. Snell Hancock. Contact: BRAD CUYLER, 1140 Northland Dr., #17, Marquette, MI 49855; PH: (906) 250-2696; E-mail: upbottles@miuplink.com.

JARX DOCTOR YOUR COMPLETE SOURCE FOR JAR, BOTTLE AND INSULATOR

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CLEANING CANISTERS Designed to safely and professionally clean inside, outside and base - all at one time.

Available in White & Clear PVC (3” through 6” ID) Prices ranging from $65.00 to $125.00

CLEANING MACHINES Economy & commercial units available, starting at $125.00 OXIDES Aluminum, Cerium, Tin, Silicon Carbide TUMBLING COPPER New 12-gauge chisel point in 3 sizes Copper Wire: $3.75/lb.

Payment by Major Credit Card or PayPal

CUSTOM GLASS CLEANING

Including bottles, decanters, insulators, jars, lamps, pitchers, vases ...almost anything glass that needs cleaning.

Two pricing options: 1) Uninsured option $15.00 for polish $20.00 for cutting (etching and scratch removal) * customer assumes all risk for breakage 2) Insured option Cost is 5% of agreed upon value of the piece Minimum charge $30.00 Piece must pass inspection - no cracks, potstones or thin glass If breakage does occur; insured will be paid agreed upon value and piece will not be returned

Postage is paid by customer both ways, regardless of option FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:

R. Wayne Lowry 401 Johnston Ct., Raymore, MO 64083 E-mail: JarDoctor@aol.com Website: www.jardoctor.com (816) 318-0161 FAX: (816) 318-0162

SHOPS AND SERVICES CHAPEL ANTIQUES Specializing in antique furniture, bottles, Western Relics, Victorian glass collectibles, etc.

Contact: CHAPEL ANTIQUES, 112 N. Curry St., Carson City, NV 89703; PH: (775) 885-8511

SPRING STEEL PROBES Length 36” to 48” Diameter 1/4” to 5/16” “T” Handle 1” Dia. x 12” and Ring 4” above tip, both welded. $37.50 includes S/H $3 Extra for Rush Shipping Cashier Check or M.O. R. L. Wilcox 7422 Park Drive Mechanicsville, VA 23111 Phone: (804) 746-9854 or E-mail: Wilcox7422@aol.com

FOR SALE and WANTED ads are a benefit of FOHBC membership.

Send YOUR free ad today!

Churchillʼs Antique Bottle Cleaning Service Introductory Offer: Will clean one bottle at no charge ! (minus postage) Try me risk free!

Less than 10 bottles: $15 each.

10-14: $12.50 each.

More than 15: $10.00 each.

MARK CHURCHILL

PO Box 7023 Grand Rapids, MI 49510

(616) 248-3808 E-mail: mdiscoidalis@aol.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, jars or related items, some of the benefits of membership are: • A full year subscription to our quarterly 84-page publication Bottles and Extras, which contains specialty articles, regular columns, classified advertising, show reports, reports pertaining to our clubs and a listing of bottle shows nationwide.

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

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

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

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

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

• Access to the informational FOHBC Slide Show Presentations.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Access to the informational FOHBC Slide Show Presentations.

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

FED-4-SALE

Federation Goodies from the Past ~ Please Note: Prices include shipping. ~ Coffee Mugs (1992 EXPO) $7.50 each – ppd.

You’ll find coffee never tasted better. Only 43 available!

Commemorative Flasks - Fabulous Fakes! $8.50 each – ppd.

1969 ABCA 10th “Success to the RR” Green 1976 EXPO, St. Louis (Scroll) Blue, Amber, Olive, Aqua 1988 EXPO, Las Vegas “Celebration of Am. Glass” Blue 1994 FOHBC Nat’l, Cherry Hills, New Jersey FOHBC 25th (free-blown date seal) Olive EXPO & National Show Programs $5.30 each – ppd.

1984 EXPO Souvenir Program, Montgomery, Alabama 1988 EXPO Souvenir Program, Las Vegas, Nevada 1994 National Souvenir Program, Cherry Hill, New Jersey 2001 National Auction Catalogs $4.30 each – ppd.

1984 Update & Price Guide, C Ring & S Ray $3.30 each – ppd.

116-pg. update to For Bitters Only by Carlyn Ring FOHBC Decals $1.00 each – ppd.

Please specify INSIDE or OUTSIDE…

FOHBC Pins & Buttons $3.00 each – ppd.

The Original Emblem, from the 1976 EXPO, St. Louis, Mo. 1984 EXPO Button, Montgomery, Alabama (Very limited quantities) 1988 EXPO Pins, Las Vegas, Nevada T-Shirts, 1988 EXPO, Las Vegas 2 XL only! $10.50 each – ppd.

Back Issues: “Federation Journal” $13.30 per copy – ppd.

Spring 1974 (V2-1), Fall 1974 (V2-2) Spring 1975 (V3-1), Fall 1975 (V3-2) Back Issues: “Bottles & Extras” $5.30 per copy – ppd.

Only a few issues not available… ~ Please Note: Prices include shipping ~

Submit orders to: Federation Merchandise c/o Margie Williams 1835 Oak, Terr., Newcastle, CA 95658

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The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors Presents

EXPO 2004

ANTIQUE BOTTLE AND ADVERTISING SHOW AUGUST 13 - 15, 2004 MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE

Hosted by The Memphis Bottle Collectors Club Memphis Cook Convention Center, 255 N. Main St., Memphis, Tennessee

Schedule of Events Thursday, August 12, 2004 8:00 - 12:00 Federation Board Meeting 1:00 - 3:00 Membership Meeting Friday, August 13, 2004 8:00 - 1:00 Pre-Setup, Display Set-Up, Early Registration 9:00 - 1:00 Seminars 1:30 - 6:00 Dealer Full-Setup, Early Buyers 7:00 FOHBC Awards Banquet EXPO 2004 FOHBC Awards Banquet Friday, August 13, 2004 - 7:00 P.M. Memphis Marriott Downtown 250 N. Main St., Memphis, Tennessee MENU All-You-Can-Eat Buffet - $30.00 per person Reservations Available Make Check Payable To: EXPO 2004 Happy Hour - 6:00 PM

Saturday, August 14, 2004 7:00 - 9:00 Dealers Setup, Early Buyers 9:00 - 4:00 Show Open to Public 4:00 - 6:00 Meet the Authors Book Signing & Authors Forum (Tentative) 6:00 - 7:00 FOHBC Auction Preview 7:00 FOHBC Auction Sunday, August 15, 2004 9:00 - 3:00 Show Open to Public

All Information, including Show, Tables, Banquet Reservations, etc.

Contact: Show Chairman - Gene Bradberry P.O. Box 341062, Memphis, TN 38184 Phone: (901) 372-8428 E-mail: Expo2004@midsouth.rr.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 2004 JULY 3–4 - ELSECAR, ENGLAND UK Summer National 14th Annual Bottle & Advertising Show & Sale (Sat. 10 AM – 3 PM, early admission 8:30 AM, Sun. 10 AM – 2 PM) at the Elsecar Heritage Center, Building 21, just off the M1 junct. 36, Elsecar, England. INFO: BBR, Elsecar Heritage Center, Barnsley, S. Yorks., S74 8HJ, England, PH: 011-44-1226 745156, E-mail: sales@onlinebbr.com.

JULY 10 - GROVE, OKLAHOMA Prairie signals Insulator Club’s Insulator Show & Swap Meet (Sat. 9 AM – 3 PM) at the Middle School Student Center, Grove, Oklahoma. INFO: LARRY DORL, 25031 South 613 Lane, Grove, OK 74344, PH: (918) 786-9006, E-mail: gsbtir@grandfederal.com.

**Listing Courtesy of Crown Jewels of the Wire**

JULY 11 - MUNCIE, INDIANA Midwest Antique Fruit Jar & Bottle Club’s Summer Show & Sale (Sun. 9 AM - 3 PM) at the Horizon Convention Center, High Street, Muncie, Indiana. INFO: NORMAN BARNETT, P. O. Box 38, Flat Rock, IN 47234, PH: (812) 587-5560 or DICK COLE, PH: (800) 428-5887. ** FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB **

JULY 16 - 17 - RENO, NEVADA Reno Antique Bottle & Collectible’s Club’s 42nd Annual Show & Sale (Sat. 9 AM – 3 PM, early admission Fri. Noon – 6 PM) at the Reno/Sparks Convention Center, 4590 S. Virginia St. (north entrance), Reno, Nevada. INFO: WILLY YOUNG, PH: (775) 746-0922 or HELENE WALKER, PH: (775) 345-0171. ** FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB **

JULY 17-18 - MEDICINE HAT, ALBERTA, CANADA Western Canadian Insulator Collector’s 4th Annual Show & Sale (Sat. 10 AM - 5 PM; Sun. 10:30 AM - 4 PM) at the Viken Ranch, Highway 1, Redcliff, Alberta. INFO: DAVE SPENCER, PH: (403) 528-3252; or DARYL HERON, PH: (403) 529-6117. **Listing Courtesy of Crown Jewels of the Wire**

JULY 17–18 - ADAMSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA Shupp’s Grove 3rd Annual Bottle Festival (6 AM – dark Sat. & Sun.) at Shupp’s Grove in Adamstown, Pennsylvania.

INFO: STEVE GUION, PH: (717) 560-9480 or JERE HAMBLETON, PH: (717) 393-5175, E-mail: affinityinsurance@jazzd.com.

JULY 23-25 - PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA National Insulator Association’s 35th Annual Show & Convention (Fri. – Sun.) at the Clarion Hotel & Conference center, 300 Tarentum Bridge Rd., New Kensington, Pennsylvania. INFO: JOHN HOVANEC, PH:(440) 237-2242, E-mail: wric@clubs.insulators.com.

JULY 24 - VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI Vicksburg 7th Annual 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 Eastview Dr., Vicksburg, MS 39183, PH: (601) 638-1195.

AUGUST 2004 AUGUST 6-7 - AUBURN, CALIFORNIA 20th Annual Nor-Cal Insulator Show & Sale (Fri. 2 PM - 8 PM; Dealer Setup: Fri. 12 NOON - 2 PM; Sat. 9 AM. - 3 PM) at the Gold Country Fairgrounds, Auburn, California. INFO: PAT PATOCKA, PH: (916) 663-3681. **Listing Courtesy of Crown Jewels of the Wire**

AUGUST 14 - MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA Chesapeake Bay Insulator Club’s 5th Annual Shenandoah Valley Insulator 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)-263-6140, E-Mail: wvacampfire@cs.com. **Listing Courtesy of Crown Jewels of the Wire**

AUGUST 14 - PORTLAND, OREGON The 8th Annual Greater Portland Insulator Swap Meet (Sat. 1 PM - early evening) outdoors at 9999 SE Frenchacres Dr. (on Mt. Scott in southeast Portland), Portland, Oregon. INFO: DAN HOWARD, PH: (503) 761-7799, E-mail: strains@msn.com. **Listing Courtesy of Crown Jewels of the Wire**

AUGUST 13-15 - MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE The Federation of Historical Bottle Collector’s Expo 2004 (Sat. 9 AM – 4 PM, Sun. 9 AM – 3 PM, early admission Fri. 2 PM 6 PM & Sat. 7 AM – 9 AM) at the Memphis Cook Convention Center, 255 N. Main St., Memphis, Tennessee. INFO: GENE BRADBERRY, P. O. Box 341062, Memphis, TN 38184, PH: (901) 372-8428, E-mail: EXPO2004@midsouth.rr.com, Website: www.fohbc.com/FOHBC_ShowCalendar.html. ** FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB **

AUGUST 21 - HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA Dixie Jewels Insulator Club’s Summer Swap Meet (Sat. 9:30 AM - late afternoon) at the home of Ken & Lesa Roberts, Huntsville, Alabama. INFO: KEN & LESA ROBERTS, 1304 Huntsville Hills Dr., Huntsville, AL 35802, PH:(256) 880-1460, E-mail: kroberts@apprser.com. **Listing Courtesy of Crown Jewels of the Wire**

AUGUST 22 - MOOREFIELD, WEST VIRGINIA Potomac Highlands Antique Bottle & Glass Collectors Club’s 6th Annual Show & Sale (Sun. 9 AM – 3 PM) at the Moorefield Fire Co. Auxiliary Building, Jefferson St., Moorefield, West Virginia. INFO: RODNEY FUNKHOUSER, Rt. 1 Box 132,

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Midwest Antique Fruit Jar & Bottle Club Show & Sale Sunday, July 11, 2004 Muncie, Indiana

More than just a Sunday Show

Show Headquarters: Hotel Roberts Telephone 1-800-213-9323 At The Hotel Roberts - 420 S. High St. Room Hopping Fri. & Sat. Jelly Jammers Meeting: Sat. 10 am Fruit Jar Get Together: Sat: 1:30 pm Auction: Sat: 3 pm At The Horizon Convention Center Across the Street

Show & Sale: Sun. 9 am - 3 pm

Info: Norman Barnett P.O. Box 38 Flat Rock, IN (812) 587-5560

OR

Dick Cole Muncie, IN 1-800-428-5887

Join us for a weekend of Friendship, Fun and Lots of Pretty Jars & Bottles

Minnetrista Cultural Center & Oakhurst Gardens

7th Annual Vicksburg Antique Bottle Show and Sale!

Much more than just bottles!

Bottles, Tins, Stoneware, Jugs, Glassware, Marbles, Fruit Jars, Milk Bottles, Civil War Relics, Postcards, etc...

SATURDAY, JULY 24th, 2004 8 a.m. until 4 p.m.

Set-up Time: 7 a.m. to 8 a.m.

Battlefield Inn Vicksburg, Miss.

4137 I-20 N. Frontage Road, Exit 4-B Direct Reservations: 1-800-359-9363 INFORMATION, CONTACT: Cason Schaffer 107 Eastvuew Drive Vicksburg, MS 39183 (601) 638-1195

~ RENO ~

Antique Bottle & Collectibles Club 42nd Annual Show & Sale

Saturday July 17, 2004

Reno/Sparks Convention Center 4590 South Virginia Street North Entrance

Saturday Show: 9:00 A.M - 3:00 P.M. Admission $3.00 Friday Dealer Setup; 10:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Friday Early Bird: 12:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M. Show Info: Willy Young (775) 746-8922 Reservations: Helen Walker (775) 345-0171

Over 100 Tables !

BOTTLES - COINS - TOKENS ADVERTISING - INSULATORS ANTIQUES - AND MORE!

BOTTLE SHOW

August 28th and 29th, 2004 Saturday 8:30 am to 5:00 pm Sunday 9:00 am to 2:00 pm

Denver Marriott Southeast (I-25 and Hampden) 6363 E. Hampden Ave. Denver, CO 80222 303-758-7000 100 Dealers!

30 Displays!

Mention the show for $59 room rate!

Bottles, Insulators, Railroad Memorabilia, Depression Glass, Porcelain Signs, Telephone Collectibles and More...

For Information, Contact: Mike Green Galen Howard OR (303) 763-9924 (719) 592-9404 http://home.earthlink.net/~n2glass/NIA2004.htm

Bottles and Extras

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The Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club Proudly Presents its

ANTIQUE BOTTLE, FRUIT JAR, ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLE SHOW AND SALE ONE DAY SHOW The Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club was established in 1966. This club is the 5th Saturday Charter Member of the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors.

September 11th, 2004 at the Arcadia Masonic Temple 50 West Duarte Road, Arcadia, California 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM Early Bird starts at 8:00 AM Admission: $2.00 - Earlybird $5.00 Including INSULATORS, small antiques, advertising, fruit jars, bottles, glass, postcards, primitives, items GALORE with much, much more!

FREE PARKING!

For More Information: Don Wippert (818) 346-9833 Don Swearingen (805) 492-5036 Dick Homme (818) 362-3368 www.av.qnet.com/~glassman/lahbc.htm Baker, WV 26801, PH: (304) 897-6910, E-mail: rfmfg@hardynet.com.

AUGUST 27-29 - DENVER, COLORADO National Insulator Association’s Western Regional Show & Sale (Sat. 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM; Sun. 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM) at the Denver Marriott Southeast, 6363 E. Hampden Ave. (I-25 and Hampden), Denver, Colorado. Mention the show for $59 room rate: PH: (303) 758-7000. INFO: MIKE GREEN, PH: (303) 763-9924, Email: n2glass@earthlink.net or GALEN HOWARD, PH: (303) 592-9404, E-mail: ghconsulting@adelphia.net, Website at: http:// home.earthlink.net/~n2glass/NIA2004.htm.

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JERSEY SHORE BOTTLE CLUBʼS 32ND ANTIQUE BOTTLES & POSTCARDS

SHOW & SALE

SUNDAY, September 19, 2004 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM BRICK ELKS 2491 Hooper Ave., Brick, NJ 08723

TABLE CONTRACTS OR INFO, CONTACT: RICHARD PEAL, 720 EASTERN LN BRICK, NJ 08723 - PH: (732) 267-2528 E-MAIL: boxcar1@worldnet.att.net VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT:

www.geocities.com/dtripet2000/jsbc//jsbc.html

Donation $3.00

Children under 12 free when accompanied by an adult

Bottles - Glass - Toys - Antiques Something for everyone in the family!

The Richmond Area Bottle Collectors Assoc.’s

Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors Member

**Listing Courtesy of Crown Jewels of the Wire**

AUGUST 29 - ROSS, OHIO The Ninth annual Tri-State Glass & Porcelain Insulator Show (Sun. 8 AM - 7 PM) at 1476 Hine Road, Ross, Ohio 45013.

INFO: ALAN HOHNHORST, PH: (513) 892-3720 or (513) 478-7086 (cell); Email: porcinscol33@yahoo.com. **Listing Courtesy of Crown Jewels of the Wire**

SEPTEMBER 2004 SEPTEMBER 10-11 - JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA Antique Bottle Collectors of North Florida’s Show & Sale (Sat. 8 AM – 3 PM, early admission Fri, 6 PM – 8 PM &Sat. 7 AM – 8 AM) at the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge, 5530 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville, Florida. INFO: WAYNE HARDEN, 3867 Winter

Contacts: Ed Faulkner Marvin Croker 4718 Kyloe Lane (804) 275-1101 Moseley, VA 23120 marvincroker@comcast.net (804) 739-2951 faulkner@antiquebottles.com

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Berry Rd., Jacksonville, FL 32210, PH: (904) 781-2620 (evenings), E-mail: ABCNF@juno.com, Website: www.waynesbottles.com/ABCNF.html.

** FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB **

SEPTEMBER 11 - ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA The Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club’s Antique Bottle, Fruit Jar, Antiques & Collectible Show & Sale (Sat. 9 AM - 4 PM, Early Bird 8-9 AM; Admission $2; Early Bird $5). INFO: DON WHIPPERT, PH: (818) 346-9833; JOHN SWEARINGEN, PH: (805) 492-5036; DICK HOMME, PH: (818) 362-3368, Website: www.av.qnet.com/~glassman/lahbc.htm. ** FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB **

SEPTEMBER 12 - PEKIN, ILLINOIS Pekin Bottle Collectors Association’s 35th 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 61554, PH: (309) 364-7804 or JIM MORGAN, PH: (309) 649-1946.

SEPTEMBER 18 - MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN West Michigan Antique Bottle & Glass Club’s 5th Annual Summer Show & Sale, (Sat. 10 AM - 3 PM) at the Select Auditorium, 1445 E. Laketon (just West of US-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., Jension, MI 49428, PH: (616) 667-0214, E-mail: grbottleguy@aol.com.

SEPTEMBER 18-19 - KIRTLAND, OHIO Ohio Bottle Club’s 36th Annual Show & Sale (Sun. 9 AM – 2 PM, early admission Sat. 7 PM – 9 PM) at Lakeland Community College, Rt. 306 (1/4 mile south of I-90), Kirkland, 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 19 - BRICK, NEW JERSEY Jersey Shore Bottle Club’s 32nd Annual Show & Sale (Sun. 8 AM – 2 PM) at the Brick Elks Lodge, 2491 Hooper Ave., Brick, New Jersey. INFO: RICHARD PEAL, 720 Eastern Lane, Brick, NJ 08723, PH: (732) 267-2528, E-mail: boxcar1@worldnet.att.net, Website: http://www.geocities.com/ dtripet2000/jsbc/jsbc.html

SEPTEMBER 26 - LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS Merrimack Valley Antique Bottle Club’s 30th Annual Show & Sale (Sun. 9 AM - 2 PM, early admission 8 AM) at the Lowell Elks Club, 40 Old Ferry Rd., Lowell, Massachusetts. INFO: JOHN GALLO, PH: (978) 256-2738 or GARY KOLTOOKIAN, PH: (978) 256-9561,E-mail: bottlegary@comcast.net. ** FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB **

OCTOBER 2004 OCTOBER 2 - RICHMOND, VIRGINIA The Richmond Area Bottle Collectors’ 33rd Annual Show and Sale (Sat. 9 AM - 3 PM, Early buyers, 7:30 AM) at the Showplace Annex, 2003 Mechanicsville Turnpike, Richmond, Virginia.

INFO: ED FAULKNER, 4718 Kyloe Ln., Moseley, VA 23120, PH: (804) 739-2951; E-mail: faulkner@antiquebottles.com or MARVIN CROKER, PH: (804) 275-1101; E-mail: marvincroker@comcast.net.

OCTOBER 2 - BUFFALO, NEW YORK Greater Buffalo Bottle Club’s Annual Show & Sale (Sat. 9 AM – 3 PM) at the Erie County Fairgrounds Health Expo Building, South Park Ave., Hamburg, New York. INFO: PETER JABLONSKI, PH: (716) 440-7985, E-mail: Psjablon102@cs.com or ED POTTER, PH: (716) 674-8890. ** FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB **

OCTOBER 8-9 - SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA Northwestern Bottle Collectors Association’s 38th Annual Show & Sale (Sat. 9 AM – 3 PM, early admission Fri. 2 PM – 7 PM) at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds, Finley Hall, Santa Rosa, California. INFO: BEV SIRI, PH: (707) 542-6438 or N. B. C. A., P. O. Box 1121, Santa Rosa, CA 95402. ** FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB **

OCTOBER 9 - OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA The Prairie Signals Insulator Club’s Annual OK Swap Meet (Sat. 9:30 AM - 2 PM, set-up, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM) at Warwick Estates Club House, 6060 Woodbridge, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73162. Tables are free, but need to be reserved in advance. INFO: SANDY ELLISON, 11825 Lanceshire Circle, Oklahoma City, OK 73162; PH: (405) 721-6578; E-Mail: Diamonds4me@att.net. **Listing Courtesy of Crown Jewels of the Wire**

** FEDERATION MEMBER CLUB **

SEPTEMBER 24-25 - ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO Enchantment Insulator Club’s 17th Annual Show (Sat. 8:30 AM – 4 PM, dealer setup & trading Fri. 4 PM – 8 PM) at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 9500 Constitution Ave NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico. INFO: TOM KATONAK, 1024 Camino de Lucia, Corrales, NM 87048. PH: (505) 898-5592, E-mail: tkatonak@comcast.net or MIKE GAY, PH: (505) 8998755, E-mail: cdn102@comcast.net. **Listing Courtesy of Crown Jewels of the Wire**

The Show Calendar is always up-to-date on the website: www.fohbc.com/FOHBC_ShowCalendar.html

Wanted: Colored Hutchinsons Buy or Trade Highest Prices Paid

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

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

Minnesota • Spa Bottling Co., St. Paul (Cobalt)

Texas • Kennedy Bottling Works, Kennedy (Amber)

Nebraska • Pomy & Segelke, Omaha (Amber)

Wisconsin • Lemon Beer, Noonan & Irmiger, Manitowoc (Amber) • Jos. Wolf, Milwaukee (Amber & Cobalt) • M. Gondrezick, Tomah (Green)

New Jersey • N. Masington, Camden (Amber)

R.J. BROWN 901 SOUTH FOREST DRIVE TAMPA, FL 33609 (813) 870-2551 RBROWN4134@AOL.COM

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