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No. 202

Table of Contents FOHBC Officer Listing 2010-12.... 2 Watch Your Step in Tampa and St. South Carolina’s Bottle Collecting History Adventures on Hilton Head Petersburg President’s Message....................... 3 By Bill Baab.......................................... 18 Island, S.C.

By Bobby Hinely...................................41 At Auction...................................... 5 In Search of hidden treasures in Key West, Fla.

By Pam Selenak..................................... 22 Legends of the Jar

By Bruce W. Schank............................46 Shards of Wisdom.......................... 6 Add Mansfield to your bucket list!

Who do I contact at the FOHBC?.. 7 by Alan DeMaison................................. 25 Classified Ads & Ad Rate Info......64 Meet your FOHBC Candidates........ 10 Horse Creek Bottle Club’s 4th annual Show and Sale Dating and Identifying Early Coca- By Bill Baab.......................................... 27 Cola Bottles

By Bill Porter............................... 14 “Winter Privy Digging for Old Glass”

by Rick Weiner ...........................................30

FOHBC Show-Biz Show Calendar Listings.........66 Membership Directory..................70 Membership Application....................72

FOHBC code of ethics................... 17 Theodore Roosevelt Bottled

By Jack Sullivan.................................... 38

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To SUBMIT A STORY, send a LETTER TO THE EDITOR or have COMMENTS and concerns, Contact: Martin Van Zant, Bottles and Extras Editor, 208 Urban St., Danville, IN 46122 Phone: (812) 841-9495 or E-mail: mdvanzant@yahoo.com BOTTLES AND EXTRAS © (ISSN 1050-5598) is published bi-monthly (6 Issues per year) by the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, Inc. (a non-profit IRS C3 educational organization) at 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077; phone: (H) 440-358-1223; Website: http://www.fohbc.org Non-profit periodicals postage paid at Raymore, MO 64083 and additional mailing office, Pub. #005062.

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Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors

Business & News

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

FOHBC Officers 2010-2012

President: Gene Bradberry, PO Box 341062,

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

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

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

e-mail: mayorferraro@aol.com.

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

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

e-mail: fmeyer@fmgdesign.com.

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

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

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

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

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

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

e-mail: mdvanzant@yahoo.com.

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

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

e-mail: jim1@frontiernet.net Conventions Director: Tom Phillips, P.O. Box 240296, Memphis, TN 38119; phone: (901) 277-4225; e-mail: tomlisa.phillips@gmail.com

Business Manager: Alan DeMaison, 1605 Clipper Cove,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

e-mail: bottlewizard@comcast.net.

Southern Region Director: Jack Hewitt, 1765 Potomac Ct,

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

e-mail: hewittja@bellsouth.net.

Western Region Director: Dave Maryo,

12634 Westway Ln, Victorville, CA 92392;

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

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Fohbc President’s Message Gene Bradberry

(901) 372-8428 Genebsa@comcast.net

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ell, folks, this is it: my last message as President of the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors.

I will be stepping down after the national convention in Reno, Nevada in July. Ferd Meyer, our current 2nd Vice President, will be taking the reins as your new President.

I anticipate great things from Ferd’s leadership and I hope that all of you give him the great cooperation that you have given me.

I really appreciate all of the current officers’ input and cooperation and willingness to step in and go that extra mile in making YOUR Federation a great organization.

Without their support, we could not have accomplished all that we have done. We still have a way to go, but over the last two years, we have made things run a lot smoother and I feel that we have accomplished much during that period of time.

We have gotten the magazine running smoothly (we are still working on getting it out in a more timely fashion) and we have worked through several production issues (still working on them, too). Many thanks to our Editor, Martin Van Zant, who has worked tirelessly in improving the magazine each month. A special thanks to Bill Baab (a non Federation officer) who has been there not only to proof the spelling on each issue, but to assist as well in the layout and content of each issue. Many thanks to you both.

We have had the website completely revamped, thanks to the able assistance of Ferd Meyer and Bill Meier. They really got the website updated and turned into one that we truly point to with great pride. You guys did a superb job and many thanks to both of you. We have placed the Region Reports on the website so as to have more room for more bottle articles in the magazine. All member clubs get their SHOW as well as their SHOW FLYER and CONTRACTS for FREE! WHAT A WAY TO ADVERTISE! I could go on and on about the benefits of a functional website, but I will let it speak for itself. I also would like to thank Ferd for his leadership in the development of a VIRTUAL MUSEUM about which you will hear more in the coming two years.

We have made great strides in future planning for our National Shows, EXPOS and Bottle Auctions at these events. We already have the 2013 National Show set for Manchester, New Hampshire and have already selected the auction company that will hold the auction for that event.

PO Box 341062 Memphis, TN 38184

We are fervently working on the 2014 and 2015 show sites as I write this piece and should have the 2014 show site confirmed by Reno. We have established written National Show and EXPO guidelines with lots of questions answered and clarified for clubs interested in bidding for these events.

We also have established guidelines for auction companies who desire to bid and be the host auction company for each of these events for years to come. Our goal is to go out four to five years ahead and have sites selected so that all can make plans accordingly. My hat is off to Tom Phillips, our Conventions Director, for spending the tremendous amount of time that it has taken to set all of these in motion.

Thanks, Tom. I think that you will see great results from these efforts in years to come.

Jim Bender, our Membership Director, has spent hours promoting the Federation membership by trying many different venues for increasing membership. Jim, I really appreciate all of your efforts in this area. He is also handling the mailing out and collection of our ballots for this year’s election of Federation officers. Again, thanks, Jim. Our Secretary, Jim Berry, has done a superb job in taking minutes of all of our conference calls and submitting a detailed account of the results of those meetings in a very timely manner. No organization can function in a proper way without a definitive way of recording action taken by its officers (board of directors). Jim has done a very fine job of doing this without the injection of personal opinions in any of our minutes. A GREAT JOB, Jim. This is as it should be done. Jim also handles the Federation ribbons as well as the slide programs.

We have been without the benefit of a functioning Public Relations Director for some time and Pam Selenak has stepped up and really made a great effort in making this job a very integral part of our officer structure. Thanks, Pam, for all your efforts in this direction. She stays on top of things. We really appreciate her.

Our Merchandising Director’s slot has been vacant for some time. Sheldon Baugh, currently a director-at-large, will be filling this position for the next two years. We anticipate great things from him. Sheldon is responsible for getting our club insurance program going and he has really been a valuable asset to the Federation for many years. We look forward to him continuing to serve the Federation, but just in a different capacity. Sheldon has always been

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there for me, giving wise counsel over the past two years.

Thanks, Buddy.

Carl Sturm is one of the outgoing officers, having served many years as Editor, President and Director at Large. For several years, he has handled our Federation contests. Thanks, Carl, for all the years you have faithfully served the Federation and the hobby. You made my life much easier in the early years when I served six straight years as President.

Thanks to John Pastor, Director at Large, for his wise counsel given concerning our Federation auctions, especially last year. John also is a past President of the Federation.

Many thanks to all of the Region Directors – Randee Kaiser, Ed Kuskie, Jack Hewitt and Dave Maryo – for their continued service and participation in all of the decisionmaking conference calls we have had over the past two years. You all are really appreciated.

Thanks to Bob Ferraro, our First Vice President, who will continue in this position (he also is a past President) and for all of his continued participation on the various committees on which he has served over time.

Many thanks to Gary Beatty for stepping up and taking the job as Treasurer in a time of need. He will continue to serve in this capacity for the next two years and I look forward to continued service with him. Thanks, Gary.

Our Historian, Dick Watson, took the job at my insistence during my term as President in 1988-90, and he has continued to serve the hobby and on the Board of Directors since that time without interruption. I really appreciate his wise counsel as well and appreciate him as a true and longtime friend.

Last, but certainly not least, is Alan DeMaison, our Business Manager. Alan previously served as Treasurer and did a superb job there. At my request, he stepped in and took the job as Business Manager last year. Alan has been a great person to work with and truly has the best interests of the Federation first and foremost in his mind. Previously a paid position on the Board, Alan continues to serve at NO COST to the Federation and is certainly a great asset.

Thanks, Alan, for all you do. It would take me two pages to list all the things that Alan does for the Federation and the hobby. Many, Many, Many Thanks, Alan!

Well, I have given you a brief synopsis of what most

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of the jobs with the Federation entail and my hat is off to those who continue to serve the hobby. I was first involved with the Federation back in 1971 when I became 2nd Vice President. John Martinelli, then President (called Chairman) asked if I would draw up a new set of bylaws for the fledgling organization, having just begun officially in February of 1969. John had the concept of the Regional structure and I spent the following year drafting the new bylaws which would be adopted at the National Convention in Sacramento, Calif., in June 1972. We established the first two-year terms for officer and I was elected to serve the first two-year term as President (then called Chairman). We also set into motion the rotation of National Conventions

by Regions, with the 1976 event going to St. Louis for our very first EXPO. I continued to serve in various capacities off and on and in 1988 came back on as President (still called Chairman).

In 1989, I proposed a name change be implemented and a new set of bylaws be drawn up with the expansion of the Board of Directors and in 1990 we became the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors. With the adoption of the new bylaws (with very few changes along the way), we now have a great magazine, website, National Conventions every year, EXPOS every four years and we continue to lead the hobby.

I have truly enjoyed being involved in this great hobby over the years and have made many, many friends all over the country who I would not have had it not been for this great hobby. I hope that I have served you well and I look forward to continued service on the Board as a Director at Large. I do a lot of reading and love to quote from notable people in history.

For my last message in this capacity, I have chosen Mark Twain. He said: “ALWAYS DO RIGHT. THIS WILL GRATIFY SOME PEOPLE AND ASTONISH THE REST!” IT HAS BEEN A PLEASURE TO SERVE YOU THESE PAST TWO YEARS! As always, LET’S KEEP THE FUN IN BOTTLE COLLECTING! Gene Bradberry, President, FOHBC

Have something to share, tell us about it? Have you been out finding some treasures? Keep us informed, write to: mdvanzant@yahoo.com or Martin Van Zant,208 Urban St., Danville Ind. 46122

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SOLD at auction SOLD

“I.X.L. / Valley / Whiskey / E & B. Bevan / Pittston / PA.” Figural Whiskey Bottle, America, 1840-1860. Small cylindrical base with a larger octagonal paneled body tapering at the shoulders into a long neck, brilliant reddish amber, applied double collared mouth - pontil scar, ht. 7 inches; (some minor exterior high point wear). H#1121 Beautiful, unique form. A wonderful, early, Eastern whiskey bottle.

This one is nicely whittled and in good condition. $2,691.00 Join the

Large Thirteen Star Flag - “New Granite Glass Works / Stoddard/ N.H.” Historical Flask, New Granite Glass Works, Stoddard, New Hampshire, 1846-1860. Brilliant, medium yellow olive, sheared mouth tubular pontil scar, pint; (some light exterior scratches on the lettered side). GX-27 Beautiful color, fine condition, strong embossing. The famous and desirable Stoddard Flag flask. $14,040.00

- “Pat. Appl’d For” Figural FOHBC and Norman “Poison” C. Heckler & Company Bottle, America, 1880-1900. In the form of foraaskull, medium cobalt blue, tooled flared “Old Home / Bitters / Laughlin / Smith &

Drakes, Whiskey & Umbrella Ink ShootOut

Co / Wheeling. W. VA.” Figural Bitters Bottle, America, 1860-1870. Modified cabin form with all panels indented even the tapering roof panels, olive yellow, applied sloping collared mouth with ring - smooth base, ht. 9 3/4 inches; (professionally cleaned to original luster with some minor wear remaining).

R/H #O36 Beautiful rare color, lots of bold embossing, fine condition. $9,360.00

mouth - smooth base with crossbones and “Pat June 26th 1894”, ht. 3 1/2 inches. K #KU-10 Great condition, beautiful color, strong embossing. $2,340.00

“John Clarke” - “New - York” Mineral Water Jar Whimsey, probably Mount Vernon Glass Works, Vernon, New York, 1833-1846. Cylindrical, olive green, applied short wide sloping collared Eagle “Dyottville Glass mouth - pontil scar, high shouldered quart.

Works / Philada” Historical Flask, T#C4A2 Rare early mineral water with a WHERE: The FOHBC 2012 EXPO Dyottville Glass Works, Philadelphia, mouth formed into a jar. Beautiful color, Pennsylvania, 1860-1870.

Brilliant light in Reno, Nevada strong embossing, exceptional. Ex Louise pink puce, sheared mouth - smooth base, Clarke, Charlton, New York collection, ex WHEN: Saturday, July pint. GII-38 Different form than most28th at 5:45 P.M. David Harrington, ex William Emberley, American flasks.

Brilliant, beautiful,who’s packin’ Gerry Strubel collection. $9,360.00 WHO: Any collector extremely rare color and in wonderful WHAT: Your Best Drakes, JH Cutter Whiskey condition. $12,870.00 “Milton J. Hardy / Pure / Old / Rye / (Thomas #43) and/or Umbrella Trade Ink. Mark / (Eagle) / Wellington A. Hardy “Old Cabin / Bitters” Figural Bottle, / Manufacturer / Louisville / KY.” Whiskey We’ll line ’em up and decide a America, 1860-1880. In the form of a Bottle, America, 1874-1879. Cylindrical, rectangular twowinner. story log cabin, red amber, Think you got the best? light amber, applied mouth - smooth base, applied sloping collared mouth - smooth base, fifth. JT #34.5 Variant of Thomas 34. “Milton Bring it to Reno! ht. 9 1/8 inches. R/H #O19 Great looking J. Hardy” at the bottom of the bottle slugged bottle, strongly embossed, beautiful brilliant out and replaced withd’oeuvres “Wellington A. Hardy”.

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pint, clear, embossing says HENRY KOCH COR. WASHINGTON & MAIN STS. LOS ANGELES, CAL. Paper label says EXTRA FINE STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY GUARANTEED UNDER THE NATIONAL PURE FOOD AND DRUGS ACT JUNE 30, 1906 has a cork. I am not a collector, any info or interest would be appreciated. Thanks Eric Myles, exceledm54@yahoo.com

Bottle Exhibit at Legacy Museum on Main in LaGrange, Georgia LAGRANGE, GA. – An exhibit of antique bottles, including early 20th century LaGrange Bottling Works crown tops, is now in progress until Oct. 1 at the Legacy Museum on Main.

The bottles are from the collections of Matt Browning and Chris Cleaveland of LaGrange.

Bottles include reproductions of the first hobbleskirt Coca-Cola bottle produced by the Root Glass Company of Terre Haute, Indiana in 1915, as well as a “straight-sided” Coke bottle in use from 1902 through 1915.

A number of locally bottled soft drink bottles identified by the applied color label process (1930 to the present) also are on display.

Admission to the museum at 136 Main Street is free, but donations will be accepted. – BILL BAAB. Dear Readers: I have this lid to an old jar and CANNOT find anything on it, I’ve researched for days. It says made in U.S.A / Trade mark/ A large cross in center with the letters ABCA in each of the corners. I think it may have the letters LTD in the center but not sure. Anything Info on this would be greatly appreciated.

I did my best with the picture. If you have time to take look and get back to

Front Embossing me I would appreciate it. John Hotrum, johnnyhotrum@yahoo.com

I found this flask and metal cup hidden in my chimney about 25 years ago. Pumpkinseed style. ½

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

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Who do I contact at the FOHBC? Membership:

Business Manager - Alan DeMaison

Start a new club:

Membership Director - Jim Bender Attention Clubs! As a member club you are not only entitled to club insurance but you may place your entire show package for your show on the website as well‌ FOR FREE!

Federation Ribbons:

Secretary - Jim Berry

Club Membership:

Business Manager - Alan DeMaison or Membership Director - Jim Bender

Club Insurance:

Business Manager - Alan DeMaison

Website:

(show information, news for posting, updates): 2nd Vice President - Ferdinand Meyer V

Show Ads For Magazine:

(Bottles and Extras): Business Manager - Alan DeMaison

Hosting National Conventions:

Conventions Director - Tom Phillips

Slide Shows (Visual Material for Projection): Secretary - Jim Berry Writing Articles for Magazine:

(Bottles and Extras assistance): Bill Baab, 706.736.8097 or riverswamper@comcast.net, Martin Van Zant or mdvanzant@yahoo.com

Advertising in Magazine:

(Bottles and Extras): Business Manager - Alan DeMaison

Federation Contests:

Secretary - Jim Berry

Suggestions For Improving The FOHBC: President - Gene Bradberry

All of the above names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses can be found on the officers page in Bottles and Extras or on the FOHBC web site at FOHBC.org.

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In Rememberence...

Don Smith SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Don Smith, longtime personal friend to many in the antique bottle collecting community, died March 27, 2012.

He was one of the important leaders in the hobby’s first national organization, the Antique Bottle Collectors Association of California. It eventually had a national membership of more than 250 persons representing 23 states.

Don was among the giants of the early bottle collector associations, along with Sacramentons John Tibbitts, John Fountain and Peck Markota (all FOHBC Hall of Famers) and Elmer Lester. Don was revered as president of the ABCA in 1967-68 and succeeded Tibbitts as editor of its newsletter, The Pontil, from 1968 until the club disbanded in 1971.

The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors was formed from the ABCA. Don and his wife, Charlotte, not only were important as leaders in the collecting community, but also made social ties among collectors stronger by hosting many memorable parties in their home. The Smiths recognized early on that “go-withs” were of equal or superior importance to the bottles they advertised because they were truly ephemeral while the bottles could last indefinitely.

The Smiths worked together as a team and put together one of the the largest collections of trays, signs and advertising of the local Buffalo and Ruhstaller preProhibition breweries. This outstanding collection was sold through Witherell’s three years ago and the remains of their various other collections have been sold to other collectors.

Don will long be remembered by 49er Historical Bottle Collectors Association members because the club was allowed to buy most of Don’s and Charlotte’s Buffalo and Ruhstaller bottles plus some great window bottles. Bottle collectors from around the country will have the opportunity to acquire a bottle or two from the Smith collection in both the next American Bottle Auctions event and at the raffle at the 49er Historical Bottle Association show in Auburn, Calif., next December.

Don and Charlotte had permanent claim on the same two tables at the Auburn show for 34 years. Each time a longtime collector passes the “Smith” section, Don and Charlotte will be remembered. (s) George Wagoner, Bill Gaylord, Steve Abbott

Ralph Riovo Milk Bottle and Bottle colleagues, Early this morning, May 4th, Ralph Riovo of Pennsylvania passed away, after a courageous 7 month battle with leukemia.

Our sympathies go to Patty, and Ralph’s family.

Peter and Trish Manfredi National Association of Milk Bottle Collectors

Jeff Harper Dear Hobby Friends, Our fellow collector, Jeff Harper, has lost his battle with advanced kidney cancer.

Updated news from his wife Mary is below (this information was recently posted on the CaringBridge website, https://www. caringbridge.org/visit/jeffreyharper/). You can send your condolences to Mary. Her email address is: marypharper@ gmail.com HOUSTON, Texas - Jeffrey (Jeff) Frederick Harper, 60, passed peacefully in the early morning of May 18, 2012 from complications of kidney cancer.

Jeff was born and raised in Muncie, Ind., graduating from Burris High School in 1969. Jeff attended The Culver Academies Summer School from 1960 to 1968, first as a Woodcraft camper and then as a member of the Naval Academy. He was also a Culver Summer Camps counselor for the summers of 1969-1970. During his years at Burris he met his wife of thirty-eight years, Mary Pieroni Harper.

They married in 1973.

Jeff was one of the leading collectors of fruit jars and other memorabilia made by the Ball Corporation, a company founded by Jeff’s great grandfather and great uncles. At his passing, Jeff possessed over 2,400 different Ball fruit jars, 100 different Ball soda bottles, and numerous other items related to the company.

Jeff is survived by his beloved wife, Mary; two wonderful adult children, Katherine Anne and Andrew Mario; two loving siblings, brother, Charles (wife, Kathy) and children, and sister, Ellen (husband, Jim) and children.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Marjorie and Henry Harper and his in-laws, Jane and Mario Pieroni, formerly of Muncie.

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Who they are, meet the FOHBC candidates President: Ferdinand Meyer V, FOHBC Second Vice President, is a native of Baltimore, Md and has a BFA in Fine Art and Graphic Design from the Kansas City Art Institute and School of Design.

Ferdinand is also a principal of FMG Design (nationally recognized design firm). Ferdinand is a passionate collector of American Historical Glass specializing in Bitters bottles, color runs and related classic figural bottles. Ferdinand is married to Elizabeth Jane Meyer and lives in Houston, Texas with their daughter and three wonderful grandchildren. The Meyer’s are also very involved in Quarter Horses, Antiques and early United States Postage Stamps.

1st Vice President: Bob Ferraro, FOHBC First Vice President, is a life time member of the FOHBC and has collected figural bitters and whiskeys and Nevada memorabilia for more than 45 years. He and his wife Connie have amassed the most complete collection of embossed and paper labeled bottles that has been assembled from Nevada. Bob is serving his second year as the first Vice President of the Federation. He was President of FOHBC from 1977 to 1979 and has been actively involved in many shows and activities relating to the Federation for the past forty years.

2nd Vice President: Jaime Houdeshell I am 48 years old and a native of Findlay Ohio and have lived in various locations in Northwest Ohio for most of my life. When I was a child I got interested in collecting through my parents who were avid pressed glass collectors. I have a general collection with an emphasis on eastern whiskeys, figural or fancy bitters, historical or figured flasks, and some select pieces of midwestern pattern molded glass. I am married to Cheri who is a Certified Public Accountant.

I have two children named Ethan and Zoe who are ages 17 and 14 respectively. I look forward to serving the FOHBC. We are truly blessed to have the FOHBC as a bottle collecting resource.

Secretary: Jim Berry, FOHBC Secretary, is a collector of colored inks, historical flasks, mineral waters and local history. Jim was born and raised in upstate New York. Jim has been married to Valeri for 38 years and have five children, three of whom are in the Air Force and ten grandchildren

Treasurer: Gary Beatty, FOHBC Treasurer, is a former FOHBC Treasurer under Dick Stockton and past FOHBC 2nd Vice President under Carl Sturm, He is a past Midwest Regional Directory and three time Ohio Bottle Club President. Gary has been collecting since 1966. He collects beers, gins and square bitters.

Historian: Richard Watson, FOHBC Historian for the past 20 years, is a Federation Life Member and was elected to the FOHBC Hall Of Fame in 1968. Dick has been collecting since 1959 was was fortunate to know a number of the early collectors. He collects bottles of many types plus three mould decanters, patent models, fruit jars etc. He is also a longtime board member of Wheaton Arts, formerly Wheaton Village and he is a Board rep for the Museum Of American Glass where he is the Museum coordinator for annual FOHBC displays. He is the author of Bitters Bottles, 1965 and Bitters Bottle Supplement, 1968.

Merchandising Director: Sheldon Baugh, FOHBC Director-at-Large, has collected bottles since 1968. Like a lot of collectors, he loves all categories of bottles but his collection is primarily focused on Bitters and Shaker bottles. He has been married to his wife Brenda for 48 years and has 2 children and 2 granddaughters. Sheldon had an insurance agency that he owned and operated for 43 years and also served for 14 years as state representative and retired at the end of 2008. He is a life member of the federation and has also served as midwest director, vice president and president for two terms.

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Membership Director: Jim Bender, FOHBC Membership Director, started collecting and digging bottles back in 1972 as a kid in school. Over the years he has collected groups of bitters, inks and Saratoga type mineral waters, which he has sold off. The past 15 years he has been collecting Union Clasping Hands Flasks as his main grouping along with many miscellaneous other bottles. He hopes to be the first person to complete a set of Group XII bottles and is only a few bottles away! Best memory to date is the Gardner Sale. ‘’Even as a kid I knew GOOD when I saw it.”

Conventions Director: Tom Phillips, FOHBC Conventions Director, is a collector of all categories of antique bottles, antique advertising, pottery, and general store items. Tom and his wife Lisa live in Memphis, Tennessee and have two children; Barbara and Kendall. Tom enjoys local area history as well. He has been an active collector and digger for nearly 40 years.

Business Manager: Alan DeMaison, FOHBC Business Manager, is a retired math teacher and currently working as a math consultant. He is a collector of historical flasks, violin bottles and Meadville Rye whiskey Items. He is a member of the Ohio Bottle Club serving as past President and past Show chairman.

Public Relations Director: Pam Selenak, FOHBC Public Relations Director, is a native of Bartlett, Illinois and lives in Orange, California. Pam is married to Randy Selenak and is a registered nurse for 28 years specializing in surgery. She has been the President and Vice President of the Los Angelas Historical Bottle Club, Show Chairman for the 2009 FOHBC National in Pomona. She is interested in quack medicines, civil war medical memorabilia, western glass. Her other interests are traveling, scuba diving, camping in the desert, hiking, and mostly enjoying the company of close friends. She loves meeting new people and hearing their stories.

Director At Large (automatically filled): Gene Bradberry, FOHBC Board President, is a retired Memphis policeman, and has a BS degree in Police Administration from Memphis State University.

Gene was one of the founding members of the Memphis Bottle Collectors Club. He joined the ABCA in 1968 and was past president. He has run many bottle shows including being FOHBC Expo Chairman in 2004 in Memphis and has been collecting bottles since 1966. He is also Life Member #212 of the FOHBC. Gene has been married for 51 years to his high school sweetheart, has two sons and five grandchildren. He has also been involved in Scouting for 64 years.

Director At Large: John R. Pastor, FOHBC Director-at-Large, has been a collector, dealer, auctioneer and appraiser of antique bottles, flasks, and related glass for more than 35 years and is a widely recognized authority of antique bottles, historical flasks and related glass. This experience has brought a broad knowledge of the field and the valued trust of his colleagues and customers alike.

Director At Large: John E. Panek, a native of Deerfield, Il., is a lifetime member of the FOHBC and the National Bottle Museum. He has served the FOHBC as Vice President, Secretary and was Co-Chairman of the 1995 Chicago National Show. After receiving his political science degree from Loyola University he served as a Federal Court Administrator in the United States Bankruptcy Court, District Court and Court of Appeals in Chicago for 37 years. He is an active member of the Antique Bottle Club of Northern Illinois and the 1st Chicago Bottle Club, having been president of both clubs, and has been the longtime Show Chairman of the Chicago Club. He has been digging, collecting and researching bottles and stoneware since 1971 and specializes in Chicago bottles and ephemera as well as historical flasks and ACL sodas. He is married to his wife Claudia for 50 years and has 4 children and 5 grandchildren.

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Midwest Region Director: Randee Kaiser, FOHBC Midwest Region Director, is a retired healthcare professional and along with his wife Susan, is a long-time collector of applied color-label sodas. Other areas of interest include art deco embossed sodas, army medical chinaware and civil war history.

Randee and his wife attend six to eight bottle shows a year throughout the midwest region and always enjoy meeting collectors, talking bottles and promoting the bottle collecting hobby.

Northeast Region Director: Ed Kuskie, I started collecting old bottles when I was 12 years of age.

It all began with a ‘spark’ when my Dad took me to an old ravine farm dump not too far from where I live now. I then went to my first bottle show in the late 1970s in Anaheim, California off Crescent Street. My Mom took me and gave me $30 to spend on bottles. I got there late in the last hour of the show, whew! Then the rest was history, since this is the way I began my passion for bottle collecting as a boy. And I have not stopped since!

Southern Region Director: Jack A. Hewitt, FOHBC Southern Region Director, is a second generation antique bottle collector and dealer. Jack has been collecting bottles and early American glass for over 40 years. He has been show chairman for the Atlanta Antique Bottle Show for over twenty years. He is also a dealer in general antiques and a USPAP (Uniform Standard for Professional Appraisal Practice) qualified personal property appraiser specializing in bottles, glass, and other antiques. Jack and his wife Kim live in the Atlanta area.

Western Region Director: Dave Maryo, FOHBC Western Region Director, has a passion for Early historic glass. Dave specializes in American free blown glass from the colonial period to the mid 19th century. Dave started collecting bottles as a child in the 1960s. Dave is married to Cynthia Joan Maryo, both originally from Cleveland Ohio. The Maryos live in Victorville California and also enjoy antiques, works of art, and fine wines.

Carlie C. Coley 1939-2012

By Bill Porter I don’t know why good people die young. I know Carlie Coley was a good person. At his funeral service, in his small church in his small town of Alma, Ga., he was described by a high school classmate and lifelong friend as a “small town country boy” with two notable qualities, among others. The first was his honesty.

He was always a man of his word. The second was steadfastness. He just would not budge when he was on firm ground.

And he made sure he was always on firm ground. Carlie was a big man in every way. (His ebay handle was “Big C.”) He truly was a “man’s man.”

Carlie had many lifelong friends. Even some of us who came to know him late in life became lifelong friends. He was impossible not to like, to admire, to emulate. And if Carlie returned the friendship you knew you were a special person. All his friends knew they were special, because their friend Carlie was special.

Most of us collectors know the importance of being honest, and some of us can be pretty stubborn, but Carlie had another quality that really set him apart. He was a “small

town country boy” who competed but didn’t brag, succeeded but didn’t show off, enjoyed his “stuff” but didn’t worship it. Most of all he loved his family and his friends, and the business he had built from scratch, Coley Electric. The rest of it, his old cars and his Coke bottles were important, too, but a much smaller part of his life. He loved the “process” of his life and he was always satisfied with what he was achieving.

Bottle collecting bit him late in life, and reflected his love of his home town, Alma. He had always noticed city names on Coke bottles. But for a long time the Alma Coke eluded him. He began collecting Georgia cities, and eventually the whole country. Along the way he found his Alma, and a true collecting love.

As his life came to a close, he never imposed on his family or friends, never “called in any debts.” He died like he lived: honestly, stubbornly, and without fanfare or pretense.

He leaves behind a truly amazing family, a terrific wife, several “Young-uns,” and several more “Grand-young-uns.”

They will carry on the Coley name and they will remember, and be inspired by the memory, as will all of us who knew him.

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27th Annual

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

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

Collectors from 25 States Early Admission Available

Quality Displays of Antique Bottles & Advertising Admission $5.00

Show Chairman

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

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Dating and Identifying Early Coca-Cola Bottles: Focusing (Mainly) on Georgia and Florida Bottles

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By Bill Porter with contributions from Bill Lockhart

n attempting to identify the may appear in several versions and Company of Terre Haute, Ind. makers and dates of manufacture abbreviation styles, including the Coke bottles can be very confusing, of early “straight-side” Coke bottles, amounts in ounces. Other details such but some are easier than others to every possible variable must be as the style of the letters, the shape identify. I prefer to begin with the considered. The most obvious and and color of the bottle, and the type of “easiest” and try to work backward and important variable is the location of the mold used to manufacture the bottle all forward from those. Remember, this script (“cursive”) Coca-Cola trademark need to be considered. Many bottles is an introductory study. It is not “the (or “logo”) on the bottle. Coke bottle have a manufacturer’s mark on the last word.” In fact, very little has been collectors divide straight-sided Coca- base or on the heel – but rarely both. written at all on these bottles. I only Cola bottles into categories according But even if the bottle has such a mark, hope this will be a jumping off point to the location of the Coca-Cola logo. it may be difficult see or to attribute. for better research.

Thus, a “shoulder-script” bottle has Bottles may have numbers which also As far as I know, there are no the logo embossed at the shoulder; must be interpreted. Many later bottles company records, no memories of “old “middle-script” bottles have the logo are dated, and this is especially true of timers,” and almost no contemporary in the center area of the bottle, and bottles manufactured by the Root Glass histories to help put this story together. “heel-script” bottles have the mark at We have only a small sample of old the heel (sometimes confusingly called Coke bottles, and those must speak for the “base”). themselves. To a large extent, they will Some later bottles have an additional tell us their story, if we listen closely. trademark on the base (sometimes called the “bottom”). The logo also appears The “Easiest” Coke bottles on paper labels and on caps, but few The easiest Coke bottles to attribute Figure 1 – 3-digit heelcode (315) of these have survived. Many earlier and date are those made by the Root used by Root Glass Co. bottles apparently were Glass Company. Root designed for use without began operations in paper labels, although of November, 1901 – but course it is possible that its earliest Coke bottles they had them. Finally, come along much later, collectors use a shortcut in 1905. There are to describe multiple several lines of evidence locations. For example, that support this date. a shoulder / shoulder / The first line comes from Figure 2 – “1845 ROOT 15” heelmark (composite photo) base (or “S//S//B”) bottle the bottles themselves. has the logo (Coca-Cola Almost all Root trademark) on front and bottles have small back shoulders as well as 3- or 4-digit numbers the base of the bottle. embossed on the heel Many early (Figure 1).

These Coke bottles have no numbers appear to manufacturer’s mark. In represent the bottle those cases, one must design type or model. carefully observe such Unlike most glass details as the style of houses, Root appears the Coca-Cola tradeto have assigned a new mark, other inscriptions number for each bottle that may appear, such as type it produced. The “warnings” (e.g., “THIS heel numbers probably BOTTLE LOANED, begin with “1” (but NOT SOLD”) and not on Coke bottles!) “contents” which and increase to several Figure 3 – Root ad (Glass Packer 1926:34)

Bottles and Extras thousand by 1932 when Root went out of business. On Coke bottles, the heel numbers only begin in the low 300s.

This is important, as we shall soon see!

Bottles made in 1909 are dated on the heel with “9” – separate from the model or type number. From then on, all Root bottles are marked a twodigit date code – as well as a four-digit numerical code – on the heel (Figure 2). On the first (still undated) Root Coke bottles, the company mark was “R.G.CO.” Root . continued to use the R.G.CO. initials in advertisements at least as late as 1926 (Glass Packer 1926:34 – Figure 3).

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Figure 5 – R.G.Co. with large number underneath Coca-Cola bottles made by Root. These first R.G.CO. and ROOT Coke bottles – with the large base numbers – have a distinctive Coca-Cola trademark, with a very thick, “flat-footed” tail of the

Figure 7 – Birmingham bottle Figure 4 – ROOT basemark (Figure 4).All of these early Root (or R.G.CO.) bottles bear the “TRADE MARK REGISTERED” wording.

Because of that, and because the model numbers (when present on the heel) are all over 300, they can be dated to 1905 (or later) as I will show.

When the R.G.CO. mark was used on those first Root Coke bottles, a large size number was placed below the mark, on the base of the bottles (Figure 5). A different large number was used on the bottle base (below “R.G.CO.”) for each city that ordered a Root Coke bottle. At first, there was only one bottle type for each city. Soon the mark was changed to ROOT, but the bottles still carried a large (now two-digit) number on the base. These bottles almost always lack the Root model numbers that appear on the heels of almost all other Root bottles.This applies to later Coca-Cola bottles as well as all non-

Figure 6 – Flat-footed tail of “C” in “Coca” “C” in “Coca” (Figure 6).

This style of the Coca-Cola trade mark is almost a trade mark in itself – for the Root Glass Co. The few of these first Root bottles that do carry heel “model” numbers (in addition to base numbers from 1 to about 20) have numbers in the low 300s. Later, perhaps as early as 1906, when the Root “404” Birmingham crown-top and the Root 405 Birmingham Hutchinson style Coke bottles appear, the trade mark stye is modified to a less exaggerated form (Figures 7-9).

From these low 400 numbers and onward, every Root Coke bottle finally gets a heel number, and the large 2-digit base numbers are discontinued.

The heel numbers increase rapidly

Figure 8 – Logo on Birmingham bottle

Figure 9 – ROOT 405 heelmark Continued on Page 54

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The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors CODE OF ETHICS As a FOHBC member/collector, I pledge to: * Share my knowledge of historical bottles and the hobby whenever asked * Practice fair, honest and considerate business ethics in all bottle-related transactions * Refuse to buy or sell bottles that have been obtained illegally * Refrain from altering bottles for sale in any way except cleaning * Represent all bottles for sale or display accurately and completely * Accept my responsibility to be aware of all State, Federal and local laws regarding private property and archaeology and agree to adhere to them * Always strive to obtain written or verbal permission to search or dig on any property not my own * Refrain from digging on State or Federal property without consent from proper authority * Refrain from digging in burial grounds or specified archaeological sites * Respect both public and private property rights, property improvements, and signs, and refrain from damaging them * Restore digging sites-including vegetation-to the satisfaction of the owner, taking time to properly fill all holes and re-root plants if possible * Practice safety in all digging and collecting activities * Report to State Department of Natural Resources any potentially historic or prehistoric site I locate * Keep in mind that I am an ambassador for the hobby and the FOHBC and maintain appropriate behavior at all times “The Federation strives to promote, foster and encourage all activities toward the betterment of bottle collecting as an educational hobby of historical significance�

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Watch Your Step in Tampa and St. Petersburg; You May Put Your Foot on Augusta Georgia Vitrified Brick & Clay Company’s AUGUSTA and AUGUSTA BLOCK bricks paved the streets of more than 30 Southeastern cities.

By Bill Baab

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f you live in the Augusta area and plan to visit friends on Florida’s west coast, drive down West Barcelona Street in Tampa, or Central Avenue in neighboring St. Petersburg.

You’ll be riding on, or stepping on, pieces of history that originated in Columbia County, Georgia, in 1902. The Georgia Vitrified Brick & Clay Company was founded that year by the late Dock F. Jack and Frank R. Clark..

Large beds of shale had been discovered near the community of Bel-Air on the Columbia-Richmond county border and huge clay deposits were found near Campania, just down Highway 78 from Harlem, Ga. The company’s manufacturing processes provided the right mix and a paving brick called AUGUSTA BLOCK was born. To vitrify a brick, it has to be fired at much higher temperatures than, say, building brick, to reduce its moisture absorption rate. The company’s administration headquarters were located in the city of Augusta, while the factory was in Campania in Columbia County.

The timing was right, since Augusta Mayor Jacob Phinizy in 1902 had been discussing his options with City Council’s streets and drains committeemen toward paving several city streets.

During the 1890s, Broadway (a.k.a. Broad Street) had been given an asphalt overcoat, but it didn’t hold up well, according to various newspaper accounts. The city did not own an asphalt plant and soon the surface became pitted

with potholes and there was no means to repair them.

So the city’s main thoroughfare soon gathered dust and trash from traffic coming from unpaved side streets.

Daily efforts to keep it clean with a rotary broom resulted in dust storms that coated passers-by as well as adjacent storefronts.

Seasonal temperature changes also affected the asphalt, turning it sticky during hot summer days. When frosty weather arrived in late fall, contractions in the surface caused cracks and holes to develop and those got worse, taking a beating from heavy, iron-rimmed dray wagon wheels.

By December of 1902, the city had reached the end of its patience with crumbling asphalt, and Mayor Phinizy had decided to resurface Broad with vitrified brick. Costs of repairing the asphalt had escalated many times more than had been estimated.

In late February 1903, The Augusta Chronicle conducted a straw poll among Broad Street merchants and residents, asking the question: Asphalt or brick? The result: Brick won by a 2-to-1 margin.

The Georgia Vitrified Brick & Clay Company notified city officials in October 2003 that it had just 50,000 paving bricks available, not enough for the Broad Street job, which would require more than an estimated 100,000. As it turned out, more than 3 million bricks would be needed.

Nisbet Wingfield, the city’s public works commissioner,

Georgia Vitrified Brick & Clay Co., a rare brick from Augusta, Ga. (Photos courtesy of Bill Baab)

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“The paving of the entire distance from the Richmond admitted that nothing would likely be done until 1904.

Strength tests were conducted on the company’s brick county line to Thomson, a total of 18 miles, is now and that of another firm. The latter broke in two under a 12- beginning with the Davis Construction company of Atlanta ton pressure, but the Georgia brick did not yield until placed having the contract for 16-1/2 miles. This paving will be of under 25 tons’ pressure. The first brick crumbled into dust concrete, while the laying of a six-inch concrete base for the under 45 tons’ pressure, but it took 50 tons to shatter the brick paving has been sub-let by the Georgia Engineering company to the Davis Construction company.”

Georgia brick, according to newspaper accounts.

The Georgia Engineering Company was a wholly Mayor Richard E. Allen succeeded Phinizy and took owned subsidiary of the Georgia Vitrified Brick & Clay office in January 1904, promising that the resurfacing of Company.

Broad Street would begin soon.

Cost of the project was $436,000. A post card published The Georgia Vitrified Brick & Clay Co., won the contract and notified the press that work would begin June by the brick company shows a “view of State Highway #12 15 after the city had signed the necessary contracts. Local in Columbia County between Augusta and Atlanta showing contractor William Fairbanks Bowe’s company did the part of more than 1,500,000 Augusta Block” used during the paving project. preparation on the street for the reception of the bricks.

D.F. Jack, co-founder of An anti-brick man named the brick and clay company, Fisher filed for an injunction died Sept. 28, 1917 at the to prevent the work from age of 78. His partner, Frank starting, but Judge Henry R. Clark, its president since C. Hammond dissolved the 1904, died March 18, 1936. injunction and work finally A newspaper editorial dated began in early August.

March 22 said, in part, Bowe said that after “Always a manufacturer, paving the 700 block of a creator, a builder, he Broad, he would continue the (Clark) had spent the past work on down to Centre (5th) thirty years in making the Street and on up the north side Georgia Vitrified Brick & to McIntosh (7th) Street. He Clay Company one of the expected the entire project to great businesses of Augusta be finished by Nov. 1, weather Here’s an example of AUGUSTA brick and the Southeast.” The son permitting, according to of Clark’s friend and partner, newspaper stories. However, once work was completed, it took the city several months John Clark Jack, died in May of 1967 at age 86. “Mr. Jack to pay the bill, according to news accounts. The city finally was founder and owner of WRDW Radio in Augusta and settled its past due account with the brick and clay company was the developer and supplier of all bricks in Forest Hills streets,” said a newspaper account. “He was president of when it sent a check for $24,000 on May 20, 1905.

Many other Augusta streets were paved with vitrified the Georgia Vitrified Brick and Clay Co., at the time of his brick from the Campania plant, including streets around death,” it continued.

In 1941, the U.S. government condemned more than the Forrest Hills-Ricker Hotel on The Hill starting in 1927.

Those include Buena Vista Road, Walton Place, Park 8,000 acres of land in Richmond and Columbia counties Avenue, Comfort Road and parts of Bransford Road, Pine to be included in its new Camp (now Fort) Gordon. The Needle Road and Cardinal Drive. Drive over them today. Georgia Vitrified Brick & Clay Company lost a total of The streets have 2-1/2-inch-thick brick laid on a sand 108.42 acres and was paid $5,050, according to news foundation with an asphalt filler and have held up for more stories.

The company renewed its charter of incorporation in than 80 years.

In 1931, the company was awarded a contract for 2-1/2 1942 and in 1945, moved its principal office from Augusta miles of brick paving on Highways 10 and 12 (now Highway to Campania.

In a 1916 newspaper advertisement, the company 78) between Augusta and Thomson. “. . .brick paving will be laid from the intersection in the town of Harlem of the touted the long-lasting effects of paving with vitrified brick old Milledgeville Road (routes 10 and 12) with the Harlem- and noted that 25 cities in the South had been beneficiaries Appling-Lincolnton highway running east and by the plant of such paving. In a 1927 newspaper advertisement, the company boasted that “our annual output of 12,000,000 of the vitrified brick company,” a newspaper story said.

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Augusta Block brick paved many streets throughout the Southeastern U.S. during first 50 years of 20th century Standard Paving Brick has been laid in thirty cities of the South Atlantic States without a failure.”

Here are state-by-state cities in which the author’s research indicated roads were paved with AUGUSTA BLOCK: FLORIDA: Clearwater, Gainesville, Jacksonville, Lake City, Orange County (Orlando area), St. Augustine, St. Petersburg, Sanford, Sarasota, Tampa. (10) GEORGIA: Albany, Augusta, Harlem, Washington. (4) NORTH CAROLINA: New Bern, Wilmington. (2) SOUTH CAROLINA: Aiken, Anderson, Charleston, Columbia, Greenwood, Kingstree, Newberry, Orangeburg, St. George. (9) Total number of cities located are 25.

A resident of one Florida west coast city was proud..

“We feel like Augusta is almost a part of St. Petersburg,” said an excerpt of a letter written by a Florida Rotarian to Augusta Rotarian W.J. Hollingsworth on April 30, 1922.

“We cannot take a step without the words ‘AUGUSTA BLOCK’ staring us in the face. I think it is due St. Petersburg that when the time comes for the 1923 convention, every Rotarian in your good city should come down here and see the city which has more paved streets than any other town in Florida, all paved with ‘AUGUSTA BLOCK!’” “There were 110 miles of brick streets and alleys constructed from 1904 to 1935,” said Jerry Fortney, supervisor of Paving, Signage and Striping for the city of

St. Petersburg. He listed Central Avenue as among the first streets in his city to get the brick paving, the contract being awarded Oct. 12, 1904.

“There are 430 bricks to the square yard and, according to my figures, 48,682,000 Augusta bricks are still in existence. Probably five times that amount have been paved over. We have to replace some of the bricks every now and then for various reasons and we have a large stockpile of duplicate Augusta bricks.”

He’s told city employees that if they wanted to get fired, to go ahead and steal one or more of those bricks!

More than 730 Tampa streets were paved with the brick, according to the city’s 2001 brick street survey provided by Melanie Calloway, an engineer with the city.

N.L. Willet, an Augusta druggist, wrote a regular column called “Talking It Over” in The Chronicle for years until his death. Here’s the lead paragraph of his Feb. 16, 1922 column: “Speaking about the 40,000,000 brick which (each showing the word ‘AUGUSTA’) have been worked into fine streets at St. Petersburg, Fla., and the other tens upon tens of million brick which the Georgia Vitrified Brick and Clay Co., has distributed throughout this section – would it not be grand if we could have ‘Augusta’ imprinted into all Augusta products?!”

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In Search of hidden treasures in Key West, Fla.

By Pam Selenak

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ast year, Randy and I decided to venture out to Key West, Florida for a history lesson on hidden treasures. We planned on visiting Mel Fisher’s gold museum and traveling to Fort Jefferson, an island 70 miles from Key West built by the Union army during the Civil War. We did this and also were able to do some antiquing along the way. We were surprised to find how our plans were about to take a turn. While out on our bicycles and checking out antique stores, we went into a small shop that had some bottles in the window. You never know what you can find.

Along one wall were many bottles such as onion bottles, flasks and Florida pharmacies.We asked the store owner where these bottles came from and she told us that if we go outside the store and go around the building we would find a man selling bottles from a couple of tables.

It was quite warm and humid outside and the sun was beating down on us. Not comfortable. Here we found Bob with a few tables full of bottles. We struck up a conversation with him as to where he acquired all these bottles. He started to tell us of his many years of diving and snorkeling the waters of Key West and the bounty of glass treasures that are buried beneath the waters surrounding the nearby islands. He then invited us to his home to see more of his acquisitions. We thought about this for about three seconds and jumped on his invitation. He offered to pick us up and take us to his home.

Once we arrived at Bob’s home, we saw a vast collection of many types of bottles he had retrieved and are now on display. So now comes the best part. He said if we come down again to call him and he would take us out on his boat and look for bottles. When we got home, I made reservations for a trip to Key West in 2012.

We informed Bob of our dates and we kept in touch with him throughout the year.

Sometime in January 2012, Bob told us of a friend of his named “Island Alex.” Alex is well known in Key West as a singer and song writer that plays regularly at one of the many bars in town. He has also has been diving for bottles for about forty years in the keys. He was recently interviewed by the local TV station in Miami about his hobby in bottle collecting. To see this interview check out http://www.youtube. com/watch?v=O_G_QOrxsWU&feature=youtube_gdata.

On April 7 2012, we took off to Key West for our treasure hunt and to meet up with some amazing bottle collectors.

The forecast was clear, sunny, and in the 80’s all week.

Just a brief history of Key West. Captains have been navigating their ships around the treacherous coral reefs of the Florida Keys since at least the 1500s. For the sailing ships, the Straits became the favored passage for shipping traffic between ports in the western Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico and ports along the Atlantic east coast and in

Europe. Because the swift flowing Gulf Stream current, unpredictable counter currents, calms in summer, hurricanes in the fall, gales in winter, and inaccurate charts, the passage through the Straits was considered one of the most dangerous of any along the American coast. As traffic increased so did the shipwrecks. By the 1850s, ships were piling up the reef at a rate of one per week.

The first lighthouse in Key West was built in 1825 and destroyed in 1846 by a tremendous hurricane. The present lighthouse was completed in 1849 although there have been upgrades to its construction since then. I was told by the curator of the lighthouse museum that the first year of the new lighthouse there were over five hundred shipwrecks.

By the 1850’s Key West was the richest city per capita in the southern United States.

You have heard of the famous shipwreck named “Atocha”. The Mel Fisher explorers are still bringing artifacts up from that site as well as others.

After hurricanes come through, the currents bring coins and other artifacts closer to the shores. These waters are literally littered with “old stuff.” Due to some recent storms and heavy winds, the water was extremely cloudy and full of floating seagrass. We were unable to get in any diving due to heavy currents.

Bob picked us up and took us to Alex’s home. Upon driving up his street, I noticed a HUGE anchor resting on the outside of his property along with the chain attached.

As we walked up to the front door, I noticed old bottles sticking out of the exterior of the home. The steps leading up to the door were obviously old. There was definitely a nautical theme to the architecture. When Alex came to the door I was pleasantly surprised by the reception we received from Alex and Mary (his wife). As we entered the home, we walked into an open room with cathedral ceilings. There were bottles of all kinds everywhere.

While speaking to Alex, he told me that he has been diving for bottles in the Keys since the 1970s. He was a lieutenant for fire rescue in Deerfield Beach, Fla., for 27 years. He retired in 1998 and moved to Key West. Mary is also an avid diver as well as a very talented local artist. You can see her paintings throughout the house.

I also saw a huge anchor as well inside with an old cannon laying by the front door. As you look up toward the upstairs you can see an old wooden statue of a pirate in full costume.

Alex told me that he and Mary built this home by themselves and it took them seven years to complete. I asked about the bricks and he told me that they all came from the salvaging of wrecks and from old dumps from the 1800s and early 1900s. They also incorporated old coral they had found in the dumps into the exterior stucco.

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Continued from page 22 On the outside by the front door, I saw a piece of art that was made into a fish from wire and wood that was filled with old bottles. A boat sitting on the property also was filled with old bottles as a decoration.

Alex and Mary are avid ecologists and use everything they find, incorporating it into their lifestyle in some way or another.

Alex is a local musician and writes music about his environment and life in the Keys. He also was in a play that was ending at the time we were there, but we did not have time to see it. Alex invited us to join him and Mary at an Audubon Society meeting where there was going to be a speaker about the local wildlife sanctuary where they continue to be activists. Afterwards, we went to dinner where I picked their brains for a couple of more hours.

Although we were not able to do any diving or snorkeling for bottles this time, we did not come away from Key West empty handed.

We were able to purchase a Dr. Planett’s Bitters bottle from Bob. He found this bottle in the harbor in 2002 while diving.

This will be another story that Ferdinand Meyer wants to write about. We have already planned next year’s adventure to Key West and have been invited to dive with Alex and Mary and hopefully Bob as well. So maybe there will be a part two to this story next year.

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Add Mansfield to your bucket list!

by Alan DeMaison

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Outside setup between Fairhaven and the Arts & Crafts buildings

he 2012 edition of the Mansfield Antique Bottle Show and Sale is history. A beautiful Mother’s Day weekend greeted the many bottle collectors on Friday, May 11th, and Saturday, May 12th. Friday was dealer setup and early admission, followed by the famous Ohio Bottle Club dinner at 6:20.

After running the two buildings containing 270 tables of bottles with 11 dealers (maybe 40 tables) set up outdoors between the buildings looking for that special item, everyone’s appetite was ready for good food. Ham, fried chicken, and beef tips & noodles with homemade favorites baked beans, broccoli & rice, peas & peanuts and sweet potato casserole awaited a hungry crowd of 300.

Homemade carrot cake along with a nice selection of pies made for a complete dinner.

This was a great time to renew friendships with conversation over dinner. I was finally able to relax.

“Looking at the line of 300 which seems like it stretches for a mile, I am always in a panic. But it always works out Nice selection of cathedral pickles and Warners Safe Cures

Sheldon Baugh and Jamie Houdeshell

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Line for dinner, seemed to go on for a mile

with everyone having plenty to eat.”

Friday saw a lot of bottles exchange hands with 335 dealer tags and another 77 early admissions all looking to add a quality piece to their collections. There was a great variety of bottles and go-withs. FOHBC life member Berny Baldwin was happy with the “Fantastic show.”

Saturday saw almost 300 regular admissions with plenty of action.

Adam Koch commented, “The show was very good for me, good sales and good purchases, highlighted by a half-pint GXX-11 in apple green that walked in the door.” Adam also added, “ Mansfield was a special time for us. Dick Watson, as he usually does, came to our house a couple of days early. Phyllis and I always enjoy visiting with Dick.”

Bill Koster was thankful for all the help, “As show chairman, it was a smooth show, thanks to all the volunteers. We had dealers from 20 states and Canada .” Mary Ballentine in a note she sent me states, “You OBC members know how to put on a great show, one of my favorites. Your ladies (some gentlemen also) are also the best of Cobalt blue American cooks!”

Eagle Tobacco Works

Jason & Norm Heckler

Janet & Ralph Finch

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Great food greeted the hungry crowd!

Greg Spurgeon and Dick Watson

Jeanine & Jeff Burkhart Cedarburg, Wis.

Marianne Dow, Findlay Bottle Club

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Horse Creek Bottle Club’s 4th annual Show and Sale

By Bill Baab AIKEN, S.C. – No surprise bottles “walked in” during the 4th annual Horse Creek Bottle Show held April 28 at the H. Odell Weeks Activities Center on Whiskey Road.

Last year, John Joiner, of Newnan, Georgia, found himself in a surprise possession of a near mint cobalt Solomon’s Strengthening and Invigorating Bitters from Savannah, Georgia. This year, he called the woman who sold it to him and inquired if she had any more. Her answer was in the negative.

Another Solomon’s appeared at this year’s show in the possession of Paul Chance, of Savannah. It was gorgeously iridescent from being buried in a privy for more than 100 years and new owner Marty Vollmer, of Columbia, South Carolina, plans to leave it that way.

Bill Baab’s Koca Nola display featured red ribbons from All in all, most of the 42 dealers reported satisfying sales pins affixed to cities where franchises existed leading to during the 9 a.m., to 3 p.m., show held in the gymnasium of bottles from those cities. Amber bottle on right is from the center named for a former Aiken mayor.

Elizabeth, New Jersey.

Topless sodas, fragmented pottery and other “criers” featured in “Heartbreak Hotel” display by Bob Riddick, of Lexington, S.C.

Dealer Jimmy Timms, of Central, S.C., is a regular supporter of the Aiken club. (Photos by Bea Baab)

Marty Vollmer (left), of Columbia, S.C., shows off Solomon’s Bitters purchased from Paul Chance, of Savannah, Ga.

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There were three exhibits set up by club members Bob Riddick, Gary and Kathy Swanson and this writer.

Riddick won the first–place blue People’s Choice ribbon for his “Heartbreak Hotel” exhibit. It consisted of “criers” in the forms of cracked and broken pieces of bottles, insulators and pottery he’s been accumulating for more than a year.

The second-place red People’s Choice ribbon was awarded to the Swansons for their local milk bottle display.

The writer’s display consisted of 18 different Koca Nola bottles set in front of a map of the United States with red ribbons held in place by push pins leading from the cities and towns of origin to each bottle.

The exhibit, which included rarities from La Follette, Tennessee and Elberton, Donalsonville and Hartwell, Georgia won the FOHBC “Most Educational” ribbon and the third place white ribbon for People’s Choice. The Donalsonville bottle sported spelling errors of “Kaco Nola” and Donaldsonville.

Show chairman was the club’s president, Geneva Greene, of Langley, South Carolina..

Vollmer plans to leave bitters bottle in its beautiful iridescence.

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Gary and Kathy Swanson, of Aiken, featured local milks in their display.

Horse Creek Bottle Club vice president Larry Calhoun and a customer intent on reading a publication.

Black glass and a Calabash among bottles on table of Tom Hicks, of Eatonton, Ga.

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“Winter Privy Digging for Old Glass”

By Rick Weiner

Digging in the Winter

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hen the weather gets cold and nasty, some people curl up by the fire with a good book, others watch TV while wrapped in a toasty blanket, but not the “Privy Diggers.” We dig out old outhouse pits in search for old bottles. It may sound a little crazy, but when you love the hobby as much as we do, weather is not an issue.

Sometimes the ground is frozen solid, it takes a little more effort to get into the privy, but once we get through the frozen layers, the fill inside a privy is soft and easy to remove, as if we were digging in the Dog Days of summer.

When digging in very cold temperatures the best place to be is “in the hole.” It stays warm from body heat and is well insulated. Many times we have shed our heavy clothing down to our T-shirts in below freezing temperatures.

I remember we did a dig when the temperatures bottomed out at 12 degrees above zero. The ground was frozen solid. We had no idea how frozen it really was until I tried to stick a shovel into it. The after shock was similar to a tuning fork being hit on the side of a piano bench. If you plan to dig privies in the dead of winter when the

ground in frozen, it is a must to probe out (locate) the privies before hand when the ground is soft. The fall is an ideal time for this. That way there is no guess work involved, you will know 100% there is an outhouse hole ready to be dug out even if the ground is “almost” impenetrable. Remember to mark the privy location just in case it snows and covers the spot.

Tools needed for this type of dig are similar to what you need for masonry construction: sledge hammer, pick ax, pry bar and some wood chisels. A bowl of Wheaties wouldn’t hurt, either.

I have known people to use blow torches to soften up the earth, but we like the old fashioned method better.

We have been digging privies for many years in a small town in the Lehigh Valley. In this one particular neighborhood, we might have dug 10 homes in a row. Some yards had up to four privies in them. The rule of thumb is if the house was built in 1850 there “should” be three to four privies used on the property since it was built. Every 15 to 20 years or so the property owner would have a new hole dug because the old one out lived its usefulness and became unsanitary.

If they got plumbing late, that changes the whole thing. Then there will probably be newer privies in the yard and they might have re-used the old ones. Just another obstacle a digger has to deal with.

There is one more rule of privy digging I forgot to mention and that rule is,”There are no rules.” People did what they felt like doing back then concerning privy construction. They dug the privies in different areas, reused them and never dug new ones, and sometimes never tossed any trash down the outhouse hole. We will never know “for sure” what people did when it comes to privy construction and use.

The best thing for the 21st century privy digger to remember is “dig them all” and weed out the new privies so you can dig the old ones and get the oldest bottles in the yard. That is our main concern.

In the hobby of privy digging you have to make your own destiny. Some years are good, some great and some duds. But no matter what the outcome, privy digging for old bottles from the past is a just plain awesome! It involves a lot of hard work and sometimes it could be back-breaking. There are times when

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A Cobalt Blue Soda

Hutches, Blobs and Flask Indian Sagwa Cure

Cone Ink With Swirls

Green Seitz & Bro Beers

Amber Carter’s Master Ink

Elep Zone – a Certain Cure for Fits & Epilepsy New York

Gin Bottle

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we g e t nothing or maybe a marble or two after digging out a 10-foot or even a 20-foot privy, but that is all part of the game.

Sooner or later a good hole will reveal itself and the non productive ones would have been forgotten.

The privy digging cycle goes on and on, but only if you have permissions to search for all the old untouched glass buried in people’s backyards. Talking to homeowners is a must to stay “productive” in this hobby.

In February of 2009, we were getting a touch of cabin fever, We had just gotten five inches of snow and the ground was as hard as a rock, but we felt like “digging something.” We knew it would feel uncomfortable to knock on a stranger’s door and ask if we could dig in their yard in the dead of winter. It is strange enough to ask when the weather is nice. So we came up with a brainstorm. “Let’s go back to a yard we had already dug.” That way the home owner wouldn’t be a stranger.

We knew just the place. We dug two privies in this yard, but at the time we had so much going on we left in kind of a hurry.

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Lots of Cryers checked or probed this area.

One weekend at the spur of the moment we got our winter digging tools ready, packed them on my Chevy S-10 and started to drive over to Mr. Radman’s house. It had been at least four years since we were at this location.

At the time; we dug some great bottles from the two privies we opened up. So if we did miss a privy, the chances are we would be coming home with some bottles, if we get permission again.

There was never a shortage of glass in the privies in this town. A lot of these

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homes w e r e built to house workers from the local iron works. The people who occupied these dwellings lived rent-free as long as they worked in the local iron mill. That meant more money to spend on booze, medicines (quack cures) and other luxuries, the stuff the modern day privy diggers love to find in outhouse holes.

When we arrived at the house we were a bit nervous to knock despite our talk on how it would be easier to ask a person whose yard we had already dug up. There was five inches of snow on the ground and it was a bone-chilling 12 degrees that made the whole situation a lot more uncomfortable. As I pushed the door bell, I remembered one of my sayings, “take the noes with the yesses and move on” and that calmed my mind some.Suddenly the door swung open and the owner greeted us with “Hey, it’s the outhouse guys!” In any other situation that would be insult, but to the privy digger, that is a warm welcome!

I started to explain our dilemma to Mr. Rad, but before I could finish my long, drawn-out attempt to gain access to his yard, he cut me off with “you guys are crazy, do what you gotta do” I remember him saying that same line four years ago. I guess that

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Large Salad Bowl Circa 1880

Author having a cup

J.W. Keister, Druggist, New York, Circa 1880

Paul in the Privy

Author handing up Amber Master Ink

Old Fancy Pitcher

Lots of broken Red Ware pots

Loaded 1870s privy pit

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Since this privy dig wasn’t planned, we did not mark the spot where the pit was, but it wasn’t a problem. All we had to do was walk six paces from the last privy we dug and use a snow shovel to clear the snow from the property line.

We have found that in row home yards the privy holes are dug within six feet of each other, not always but 90% of the time. The reason for that is so the existing outhouse building could be moved a short distance to the newly dug hole. They also wanted to keep the privies kind of close together so they wouldn’t contaminate the whole yard.

The slight dip in the ground was located and now it was time to hack into the frozen earth. We were 99 % sure this was a privy, but to be 100 % sure we use a large 12-inch spike.

It is hammered into the center of the depression until it clears the frozen ground. Then the probe is inserted in to the hole. A nice crunchy feel told us this was with out a doubt an outhouse pit from the past.

I went to the truck to get the tools we needed. The wood chisel and the mini sledge hammer were then put in to action. We started out with a one-foot by one-foot square in the middle of the depression and pounded away until the frozen earth was flying like wood chips from an ax. While digging winter privies you don’t stay cold long as long as you keep moving. It is a workout and a half.

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Pipe, Lamp and Bottles Once we got the frozen square cut a few inches deep, it was time for the pick ax to do its job. The object is to break enough of the frozen ground away so there is something to grab onto and pry up. Soon signs of white and gray ash appeared under the frozen chunk and we knew the fun was about to begin.

We removed all of the frozen earth and finely had a hole to get it. It was a tight fit; it reminded me of a hole cut through the ice of a frozen lake.

Paul was down about two feet in the packed ash and fill layer when he spotted the bottom of something. “It looks like a jar,” he said. He scratched around a bit and popped out a ground top 1858 Mason jar. That is always a good sign to start out a privy. With a few more signs of older glass coming out, we knew this pit had not been dug by another digger.

It was

probably filled in around the mid 1870s -1880 and untouched, until we showed up.

Soon it was tough to dig with a full sized shovel; the glass was over whelming at times. We had to switch over to our hand tools at three feet into the privy. Most of the time, bottles show up near the bottom at the use layer. With this much glass early in the dig, it told us that this privy had been used heavily and dipped poorly, the “Perfect Storm” for the 21st century outhouse digger.

It was my turn to start filling up buckets in the hole. Digging with that much glass popping out is such a slow process. We need to be careful not to break a good bottle. That said,slow movement in very cold temps makes it extra tough for the bucket man up t o p to stay warm. I started the truck a n d turned the heater on so Paul could have a place to retreat from the bite of old man winter.

Down in the hole, I started dragging the claw tool across the glass riddled surface, a top of an aqua cork top popped out, followed by the whole bottle. It was embossed with an Indian’s face and read Indian Sagwa on the side. I was starting to feel warm inside from the excitement! And

34 that was just the start of it; soon aqua and colored blob top sodas were being pulled out of this time capsule, along with some local embossed medicines, yellow and redware pots and a lot of slicks.

As I went to retrieve my dig tool that fell, I spotted the top of a bottle. I slowly twisted it out of the mixed ash layer; no digging involved. A nice 1870s amber master ink made an appearance into the 21st century after having been buried for all these years!

I was braving old man winter, but my feet were a bit numb. It is that old age thing called bad circulation. I decided to head for the S-10 with the heater going while Paul took his turn in the hole. To make sure I knew when the bucket was full, I tied the long bucket rope to my leg in the truck, so when Paul needed the bucket dumped he gave the rope a tug. I only did this when I knew he was going to be down in the hole for a longer period of time. There was no sense in standing over a warm privy hole freezing my blob tops off when I could be in a nice toasty truck listening to the radio.

Privy digging is rough stuff.

This dig was moving right along, the shards of old bottles and pottery were flowing as were the whole bottles.

It was a perfect day for a privy dig, despite the 12 degree heat wave.

As I started to scratch out a bottle I spotted in the wall of the privy, I felt something strange under my feet! It felt big and round. I knew right away it

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Redware Spittoon was not a bottle. I grabbed my “snake tongue” tool from the top and started to uncover it. When I got a portion of it uncovered my first thought was it’s a “bowling ball!” That’s what it looked like, a big black bowling ball.

As I uncovered it and pried it out of the gray wet layer, I realized what I was looking at was an old ovoid jug. The handle was gone, but other than that it was in good shape. Ovoid jugs were used as storage vassals. They could have been used for any types of liquids, but mostly beer, wine or whiskey.

This was a “late throw” Late throws are items that have been used over and over for many years and kept around

the house, then finally tossed down the privy hole when they have outlived their usefulness or got broken.

It is cool when an unexpected bottle or non bottle item appears on our digs.

Like the ovoid jug. These are the kinds of things that make the dig even more exciting. It keeps the juices flowing and makes us look forward to the next privy dig.The “unknown” is what it is all about.

Nowadays when we find a milk bottle, that definitely does not scream excitement, but the milk bottle we found in this privy got our attention.

The majority of the milks we find are from the 1920s and 1930s. This milk

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Whole Drinking Glass was dated to the 1880s -- one of the first local milks in the Lehigh Valley! Milk bottles, ovoid jugs and an Indian bottle -- what a strange assortment of glass.

The bottom of this privy was slowly approaching. That might mean more bottles. I learned to say “might” more often than not because there are no sure things in the hobby of privy digging. But it is always fun to dream what “might” lie ahead.

The pitch black use layer was just upon us when I heard Paul yell out “A sheered top!” That could have meant a number of things. I ran over to look in the hole and saw a broken sapphire blue Washington-Taylor historical flask in his hand! The bottom of this privy was looking like 1850s! We needed another sign to confirm this. It wouldn’t be long until that happened.

1890s Bean Dish

1880s Milk Bottle

Soon green and blue sodas were coming out; some were iron pontils and some smooth bases. We had so many we were running out of room on the top of the barrel. Some of the other neat things that we got were a broken Jenny Lind calabash flask and a “Celebrated Mineral Waters” torpedo from England.

Sadly the top was broken off.

We also got another whole ovoid jug; this one was brown, it had the handle and it was in perfect condition.

The ovoid jug would be the last item out of the privy. I am always a little sad when a dig is over, but all good things must come to an end. It was time to fill it in and keep the homeowner happy.

There is nothing like a sunny winter privy dig to get the spirits to soar. Just knowing that the bottles we are about to uncover haven’t been touched for

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100 plus years. The excitement of what kind of cool bottle will appear next, and the thoughts about why. Why were there so many of one kind of bottle and none of another type? Why were there so many shoes in this pit? Did a cobbler live here? Did many sick children live here? Were they alcoholics in the household? I could go on and on.

These are the kinds of the conversations we have while digging privies. It is fun to try and put together “a life style” of the people from the past by the items we find buried in these pits.

The talk of money is never part these conversations because it is never about money for us, it is all about digging up history, even in the dead of winter.

Rebecca at the Well

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THEODORE ROOSEVELT BOTTLED

by Jack Sullivan

[Special to Bottles and Extras]

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arrie Nation, the famed ax-wielding proponent of Prohibition, (Fig. 1) in 1904 invaded Washington, D.C. in an attempt to see President Theodore Roosevelt After being turned away at the White House, she invaded the U.S. Senate, raised a ruckus, got arrested and was fined $25.

Mrs. Nation, who sometimes spelled her name “Carry,” did not take her rebuff by the President lightly. (She said she had only wanted to warn him about the smoking habits of his daughter, Alice.) She took to the warpath against Teddy, attacking him savagely in her temperance lectures.

Returning to Washington, Carrie gave a speech brandishing a bottle that carried a likeness of the President. “Here is a whiskey flask with Theodore Roosevelt’s picture on it, the most appropriate place I have ever seen it in my life,” said she. Later she confessed that after her first use of the bottle she expected hisses, but got only nervous giggles.

That tepid reaction emboldened her to use the prop again and again in appearances all around the United States. Carrie’s flask piqued my interest intensely about what bottled Fig. 1: Carry Nation with likeness of Teddy she used. My research indicates that Roosevelt can be associated with ax and Bible a number of whiskey containers of his time.

For example, in the election of 1900 when William McKinley was running for President and Teddy for Vice President, the Republican Party issued a glass canteen with the pictures of the two and the U.S. Capitol (Fig. 2). I have rejected this bottle because by 1904 McKinley had been assassinated, and even Carrie -- who also hated McKinley -- would not have been that vindictive.

A figural bottle of Roosevelt as a Rough Rider exists from that era (Fig. 3). It is not, however, immediately recognizable as the man who galloped down San Juan Hill in Cuba and extended the ride right into the White House.

Shown here is the photo that Teddy chose for the dust jacket of his book on the Rough Riders

Fig. 2: McKinley-Roosevelt Canteen

Fig. 3: Rough Rider figural

Fig. 4: TR photo as Rough Rider

Fig. 5: Great Hunter figural

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Fig. 6 TR with elephant

Fig. 7: “The Big Stick” flask

(Fig. 4). Note that the head covering is very different and that the tunic on the bottle has two rows of buttons; Roosevelt’s uniform has only one.

Another figural that purports to be that of TR depicts him as a big game hunter (Fig. 5). This one is more true to life. Comparing it with a photo of Roosevelt after shooting an elephant, it recreates his brimmed hat and his rifle (Fig. 6). His eyeglasses seem to have been lost in translation to glass.

Both the Rough Rider and Great Hunter figural bottles appear to have contained strong spirits. Upon inspection, however, they would not meet the requirements of Carrie Nation’s bottle. Neither immediately looks like the President and both would have required some explanation to her audiences.

Another TR-identified flask that doesn’t fit is a ceramic bottle shaped like a club that bears the name “Big Stick” (Fig. 7). It is an allusion to the President’s famous statement on international diplomacy: “Walk softly but carry a big stick.”

A container shaped like a nursing bottle, one that probably held whiskey, is embossed “Teddy’s Pet.” It is shown here in several views (Fig. 8,9). There are conflicting views on its intent. One opinion is that it refers to the Panama Canal which TR vigorously was pushing through to completion A more logical explanation is that the bottle was given away by his opponents during his Presidential campaign in 1904. References to alimony and matrimony are embossed on the bottle. They appear directed at Roosevelt’s brother, Elliott, who had just gone through a messy and well reported divorce. With this interpretation, Teddy’s “Pet” was his black sheep sibling.

Clearly none of these bottles meet the criteria for the whiskey flask Carrie Nation waved around at her audiences. My choice is one of two that bear the same label-under-glass likeness of Roosevelt. Both were issued in 1904 as campaign giveaways when he ran for a full term as President. Both have his picture prominent on the front and were of a size to have held whiskey

Fig. 8: “Teddy’s Pet” bottle, view 1

Fig: 9

Teddy’s Pet” bottle., view 2

Fig. 10: TR Campaign flask 1

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Fig. 11: TR Campaign flask 2 (Fig. 10,11). Either bottle easily could have served Carrie as a prop.

A final note: Carrie herself eventually became the subject of a bottle (Fig. 12). It shows the ax-wielder with her trademark large handbag and an umbrella. The clear glass figural carries an Owens-Illinois mark that indicates manufacture sometime post-1929, years after Ms. Nation’s

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Digging in the New Year

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South Carolina’s Bottle Collecting History Adventures on Hilton Head Island, S.C.

By Bobby Hinely

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n mid 1964, my mother had a shop in Sea Pines when Hilton Head Island was being developed from the southern end.

She met a man who had found a Honesdale, Pennsylvania Glass Works (1849-61) soda at the northern end of the island and told me.

So I drove over to the island and read the historical marker. I was unaware of the role the island had played as a base for Union blockade ships during the Civil War. No fewer than 12,653 Yankee troops and sailors were stationed there.

So I was pumped as I headed toward the marsh, The first things I saw laying on the marsh in the tall grass was an amber Ellenville whiskey and an emerald green E.R. Squibb bottle. I walked into the marsh at low tide and found many broken bottles.

So that was the start of my years of digging before that end of the island was developed.

I once found a telegraph pole and recovered a threadless teakettle insulator.

Later, I found a map showing the placement of the telegraph line, but I was never able to locate the other poles. I dug by myself, or would take my family and have a picnic.

There was no rush. It was peaceful and there were miles of marsh. One day, I heard a shout, looked up and saw the sheriff. I told him I was hunting Civil War artifacts. “This is private property and you can’t do that,” but I continued to dig there for eight or nine years, being careful to avoid that sheriff.

Development came slowly in 1968 and there was the call of Indian Street in Savannah, with John Ryan and other bottles being found in privies and trash pits..

Bottles in the marsh were covered in saw grass and buried 12 to 20 inches deep. I’d cut a 24-inch by 24-inch square with a spade and take a potato rake, bury its tines in the center and pull the grass and roots out of the way.

Then I’d see the virgin mud layer from the 1860s and I’d use a hand tool to dig through it.

One of the best bottles I dug (and I’ve

A young Bobby Hinely shows off a double eagle flask manufactured by the Pittsburgh Glass Works. It came from the marsh adjacent to the Civil War-era Union Fort

Two John Knechtle Hilton Head Islands Sodas flank another embossed S.C. Dennis.

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An ecstatic Ed Gray, of Marietta, Georgia, shows off a colorful batch of Hilton Head Islands finds. (photos courtesy of Bobby Hinely)

Bobby Hinely holds a couple of cobalt Savannah, Georgia sodas in this 2009 Photo

Bottles and Extras never seen another) was a smooth-based T.J. Dunn / Rooster / Gin Cocktail / Boston in olive green. I also dug a teakettle ink and later traded for a green U.S.A. Hospital bottle. Along the beach at low tide, I found a green William Dean / Newark, N.J., soda shaped like a mineral water, a round, deep olive whiskey pint and a crude, light olive wine. I also found the first ginger beer ceramic bottles.

Later, I moved to Atlanta and met Tom Zachary. He and I would drive to Hilton Head on weekends (I couldn’t afford a motel room) and dig all day. I also met Ed Gray (of Marietta, Ga.).

Typical bottles included U.S.A. Hospital bottles, Dr. Townsend’s Bitters, Sharon Sulfur Springs Water, Udolpho Wolfe’s Schnapps, cathedral pickles, lots of northern sodas and perhaps the first S.C. Dennis Hilton Head sodas.

I even dug a Pittsburgh Glass Works Double Eagle flask.

In eight years of digging behind Robbers’ Row, I found only two cobalt John Knechtle and four S.C. Dennis Hilton Head sodas. Ninety-nine percent of all the sodas found were northern.

After a few run-ins with the local sheriff, I’d have a friend drop me off and I’d head into the marsh where I could not be seen. So that kind of digging wasn’t much fun as I could not be in the open and was always looking over my shoulder.

On one digging trip, I was baling water out of a hole and throwing it into the brush. I kept hearing a hissing sound. I kept thinking it was caused by my boots in the mud, but I got out of the hole and saw an alligator basking in the sun. I was throwing the water onto him. It was the first and last time I ever saw “Freddie,” as I named him, or any more of his family members.

Other artifacts found were Yankee shoes preserved by the mud and minie balls, including a .577 caliber Enfield from England, a rare .69 caliber Confederate Gardner, .58 caliber Williams Cleaners, a .58-caliber three-ring with a machine mark stamped in the hollow with five or six distinct lines, almost like a star, and a .58 caliber Union three-ringed minie made at Frankfurt, Ky., with a distinctive star stamp.

Today, Hilton Head has million-dollar homes and a security gate. All the saw grass is short and what artifacts are left are buried in the marsh and sand for many years to come..

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Is this project still viable? Can we get the project back on track?

It has been almost 2 1/2 years since the presentation to the FOHBC Board of Directors for the FOHBC Virtual Museum of American Historical Bottles and Glass project. The excitement and expectations were high after the meeting and we all hoped to move forward rapidly, though we all knew that there would be many challenges such as design, logistics and financing, as initial financial projections were in the $60,000 range. There is even material in the presentation suggesting that the museum would be open by now. The presentation material can been found and reviewed on FOHBC.org. The president of the Federation at that time was Richard Siri. Richard actually pulled me aside and asked if I would like to head up this landmark project, as it was his idea. I was not a Board Member at that time but was eager to get involved and do something positive for the hobby and the Federation.

Well Richard was not re-elected as President in July 2010 and the new President, Gene Bradberry, had higher priorities with the Federation such as turning around perceived negative FOHBC perceptions and declining membership. Gene is a veteran FOHBC’er and I have to say, was a great person to take over the helm this past 2 years. Membership is up dramatically, and as I have said before, the Federation Board is working together in harmony and many great things are planned for the future. Please read Gene’s President’s message in the front of this issue.

This period of time and inactivity was still frustrating for me as I wanted to get started on the project and plan ahead. I wanted to keep up the momentum. A real project or Museum is not build overnight. It takes many years to raise the money, find a location, develop the design and build the project. Just like the economy stalling and falling, this project stalled and became inactive.

I was able to occupy myself with a new project that was assigned to me and that was the development of a new FOHBC web site.

As most of you know, our old site was way out of date and visually unattractive. To be honest with you, this project concerned me at first. I know I can design and get things done but I am not a web site programmer. To solve this problem, I developed a personal project and that was the creation of Peachridge Glass (peachridgeglass.com). This personal web site gave me a lot of confidence and practice in web site development. PRG as I call it now, has well over 200,000 visits and seems to be growing daily. The added support of web wizard, Bill Meier, who is always in my corner, allowed me to tackle these sites and tap into Bill’s very technical mind. He has been invaluable. I now have the confidence and technical know-how to pull this off but I will need help and lots of it.

Conceptual image of opening web site page for the Virtual Museum Zoom ahead to now. It looks like there may be a new president of the Federation come late June at the Reno Expo. The ballot is listed in this issue. If this happens, I can assure you that the new president, will prioritize this project and get it back on track. The knowledge that I have garnered from the other web projects noted above has also lowered the cost projection to a much more realistic $20,000. I actually feel like it could be done for much less, as all my time is donated, but will still will need funds for outside consultants and marketing when it is needed.

The new Federation Board is very supportive of this project including our Business Manager, Alan DeMaison. He is also a champion for the project and has suggested a fund raising effort to raise the necessary capital. The new administration will take effect at the Reno Expo in late July.

I hope to have more information available soon and will be posting it on the Federation web site and within Bottles and Extras. I will also be contacting collectors with the hopes that they will volunteer to be on the Virtual Museum development committee and also on various advisory committees such as early American glass, inks, bitters, spirits, fruit and pickle jars, medicines, cures, recognition, research, merchandise, marketing etc.

So please step up and offer your assistance. This will be a museum that we will all be proud of and will be the nicest virtual museum in existence. High goals but achievable.

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All Antique Bottle and Glass Collector sights are set for...

The Biggest Bottle Show in the Biggest Little City in the World!

Reno EXPO 2012

Antique Bottle and Collectible Show

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Dealer Tables are Sold Out!

Folks this could be the biggest show ever with tables selling like pancakes.

Look for close to 350 tables filled to the brim with antique bottles, glass and related collectibles. There may not be a 3-day show like this for years to come!

Antique Bottle and Glass Judged Shoot-Out!

The event will be sponsored by Norman C. Heckler & Co. This will be a landmark chance and great opportunity to see many great examples together in one event which rarely happens. A cocktail event will occur simultaneously. Categories to be displayed and judged include Drakes Plantation Bitters (4 log , 6 log and Arabesque), J H Cutter Whiskey (Circle Cutter, #43 in Thomas Whiskey Book, Sole Agent, plain reverse) and Umbrella Inks (pontiled base, smooth base).

Exceptional Educational Seminars!

The FOHBC is pleased to host a wonderful selection of Educational Seminars that you will not want to miss. This includes “Values and Investing”, “The Label: A Wealth of Information”, ”Grace Bros. the Company and its Products”, “EC&M Insulators”, “Altered Glass Colors”, “San Francisco Beer and Western Sodas”, “Hutchinson Sodas” and “The World of Bitters Bottles”.

Fantastic Display Gazebo

Bring your two favorite bottles. The Northwestern Bottle Club is going to take to Reno their famous Gazebo and set up a feature for people that want to display bottles in a non-competitive setting. The Gazebo will hold all sizes of bottles from inks to tall bitters. The bottles will be signed in with the person’s name on the bottom and that person is the only one able to remove them. There will be hired security along with others watching this display.

The Banquet

It gives us great pleasure to announce that Warren Friedrich will be the guest speaker for the banquet at the FOHBC Reno Expo and will also be one of the two 2012 FOHBC Hall of Fame inductees at the event. We hope to see you for some good food, great company as well as an informative presentation on a brief history of the “Early Glassworks of California” from the first commercial bottle factory in 1859 to the demise of the largest factory in 1899.

Visit FOHBC.org for all related show information...see you soon!

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[Editor’s Note: This article is a result of longtime collector and author Bruce W. Schank reaching out to longtime collector Jerry McCann.] oes Fruit Jar Paradise exist in Chicago land?

Well, from what I could tell from my firsthand experience being there, indeed it does!

This humble author was extremely happy that indubitable Legend Jerry McCann was giving me access and I was ecstatic about the opportunity to visit with him and see his famous, fabulous and notable collection.

Jerry McCann’s collection is simply mindboggling and incredibly beyond the pale of what you normally would see in most people’s collections. I’ve personally seen a lot of collections in my lifetime, especially in the last three years plus doing the Legends series, and Jerry’s was simply breathtaking, awesome and arguably the best overall general collection bar none. Plus, I’ve been told by those who count, notably other well-known longtime seasoned collectors with super collections of their own, that Jerry has the best.

It’s not simply that Jerry has a lot of fruit jars because he does. Oodles of jars, numbering approximately 1,800+ examples, but what’s really striking about Jerry’s collection is that a huge portion of his fruit jars are prime examples, ultra rare and just downright impossible to find anywhere Jerry McCann else. And many of the so-called lesser jars populating his shelves from Atlas, Ball, Brockway, Boyd, Kerr and other companies also include ultra rare examples which in itself is truly extraordinary.

He has sets of early jars that span the entire life of the genre of the series and that simply is quite remarkable to be able to see something like that in one place.

I, a mere mortal in the realm of fruit jar collecting and a Ball jar collector who (by the way in recent years has sold off most of my better jars and practically all of the lesser jars) seemingly found myself in Fruit Jar Shangri-La Just downright fantastic colored and rare fruit jars with rare closures!

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sitting at the feet of The fruit jar Guru. I was immersed in the middle of fruit jar Nirvana that is usually only privy to the lesser gods. For a short time period I was in the magical kingdom of Jardom, the inner sanctum actually and simply put not accustomed to habitation in such a unique, wonderful and fascinating place. Many of you reading this are probably thinking this is getting a bit too rich for my taste, but I can say this candidly: if you are truly a fruit jar person, then Jerry’s place is THE fruit jar destination and only a true jar head could appreciate or understand its significance, relevance and historical importance.

For crying out loud, Jerry’s closures alone are absolutely pristine and valuable enough by themselves that they could buy my home in central Indiana and furnish it completely, too. The colors in the collection are absolutely breathtaking and simply fabulous eye candy of the greatest magnitude.

The inconceivable rarity of some jars and closures in Jerry’s collection is quite extraordinary and many can only be found residing at that location including his enormously superb oversize jars. As a matter of fact, Jerry has the most comprehensive oversize fruit jar collection period only short of two known jars at the most. He has just about every type of jar starting from the 1800s going all the way to modern times. His collection is so comprehensive that it’s nothing short of an actual museum. Experts and writers in the field call Jerry asking for pertinent info, characteristics and data on rare jars and obviously this could only be done by Jerry because he has the examples. Jerry just has to walk over to a shelf, pick up a jar and explain what’s what. Listen folks, it

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It’s really a dizzying experience for anyone trying to comprehend all that resides up on the second floor in Jerry’s Jardom inner sanctum. I was there for only a matter of hours in a two-day period and to digest something of that nature

Beautiful Ladies Favorite jars both with superb closures.

Part of the Inner Sanctum chock full of great fruit jars of incredible colors, rarities and downright phenomenal jars!

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takes an extended stay and daily visits, spending hours upon hours to carefully look over the items and study what it is you are actually looking at. What made the experience all the better for me is that Jerry is the quintessential curator who not only knows what he has and where everything is amongst 1,800+ fruit jars, he also knows most of the factual history concerning all of the varying and different jars he owns too.

He’s literally a walking fruit jar encyclopedia and in many cases he has historical info to back up what he is saying. Plus any assertions that he makes that might be considered conjecture regarding some jars as to why they exist or when they were made is usually spot on. Why? Simply because he has THE jars to visually see what is what to compare with others. Why a historic jar was altered or changed and from what mould variation to another and beyond. I can’t emphasize enough that Jerry has so many rare jars, some in multiple examples and many that just cannot be found anywhere else except in his Jar room and to me, that’s literally a staggering fact that can’t be ignored or disputed by anyone.

Jerry was born in 1946 and grew up in Chicago. He went to the Illinois Institute of Technology and then Chicago-Kent College of Law. Jerry truly has lived a rather unorthodox life.

It’s been sort of a patch work quilt because he has been a high school chemistry and biology teacher, a lawyer and an antiques dealer. Jerry also published Antique Bottle World and of course his now famous Fruit Jar Annual. Jerry started collecting fruit jars in 1968 and he was always curious about his grandmother’s fruit jars as a kid and was familiar with Ball Perfect Mason jars and other common jars. With his background in chemistry, biology and interest in history, he was a little curious about home preservation.

In 1968, he came across a few crown jars in Canada.

Once while he was teaching school, he was asked by school officials to clear out a bunch of stuff considered junk. In that so-called junk were a bunch of Hazel-Atlas and Calcutt jars.

He recognized them as being fruit jars but didn’t understand the ground tops on them. They appeared very old so he decided to keep them and in the process started to do a little research about them. He also started to go to flea markets and antique shops and he ran into a fellow by the name of Chuck Lorenz who had a fruit jar museum in Chicago. He read about it in the newspaper how this person (Lorenz) on the north side of the city had a fruit jar museum. He thought, “Wow! Now that would be interesting.” So he went to the address, knocked on the door and a strange hippy type person appeared looking at him. Jerry asked if there was a fruit jar museum there and he kind of hesitated and said, “Yes.” Jerry told him he would like to see it. Jerry noticed a sign stating admission of .50¢ and he remembers giving him two quarters. The guy just stood there and looked at the two quarters and it occurred to Jerry that he might not have seen two quarters before and that he may have been the only person to ever pay admission to the museum.

So Jerry walked into the place and discovered the guy had about 700 fruit jars on display and oddly enough all of the jars had the embossing painted black. Well, Jerry was just

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overwhelmed with all of the different varieties of fruit jars you could have.

So Jerry decided at that point he was going to really try and see how many different types of fruit jars that he could get. So he told his wife, (#1) that he didn’t think he would have to pay more than 75 cents for any given fruit jar and that amount probably would buy him all of the fruit jars that he would need or want. Of course, this was stated in relation to the times because when you went to a flea market back then you could find fruit jars and they were rarely over 10 cents each.

Jerry remembers going to his very first bottle show in Chicago and spending his first real money on fruit jars. He bought an aqua Millville quart for $25 and an aqua Globe quart for $15. That was his very first leap into spending what amounted to high dollars for jars. It was also a defining moment for Jerry and when he actually made a real commitment to seriously collect fruit jars. He told me he actually bought one other jar at the show for which he spent $35 and which he still owns. The jar just happens to be an 1858 quart in a gorgeous lighter amber shade. The seller had $50 on the jar but sold it to Jerry for $35, apologizing that it wasn’t really amber.

Considering his rent at the time was $80 a month, what he paid for the three jars at the show was about a month’s rent.

According to Jerry, those were far different times than now because about 700 people came out to that show. At that same Chicago show there were displays and Jerry remembers one display by a fellow named Don Holly. This is the gent who came across the amber Millvilles that had been discarded in Wisconsin. In his display was an amber Millville and Jerry thought to himself that if he was to ever get a jar like that he wouldn’t have to collect again. That would be it, his collecting would be over. It just so happens in 1974 when Don decided to stop collecting, Jerry was able to buy that amber Millville jar. Jerry says it never did satisfy his need to stop collecting jars because 43+ years later, he’s still at it. Buying the Millville, though, was a quantum leap for Jerry. Now if one considers the $1,000 that he paid for the amber Millville for all sakes and purposes that was truly astonishing. When Jerry put it on the shelf after buying it he remembers thinking it just didn’t look right. It just didn’t fit for some reason. It was at that point he thought to himself, “I think I need to add some color to my collection.” And let me tell you folks, Jerry has eye-catching color!

Then Jerry’s next huge leap was when he went to the 1976 Federation Expo in St. Louis and bought a black glass Royal for $600, which again was serious money then. Buying that jar opened up the door for yet another great jar. A fellow at the show named of Charlie Thompson, who wasn’t a collector but being a good capitalist and motivated by what he thought was good prices, upon seeing the sale recognized $600 in 1976 as a pretty

Incredible line-up of rare Millville jars!

Rare Sun lid and the only one I have ever seen.

Spectacular yellow amber Scranton jar pint with pristine original closure!

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good price for a fruit jar. He told Jerry that he had a black glass 1858 hg and asked if he would like it for $600. Charlie didn’t have the jar with him and after a brief discussion whether it was in good shape or not offered to send Jerry the jar. If Jerry liked it, then Charlie said just send a $600 check which upon getting the jar Jerry did immediately because the jar was super. Jerry mentioned that simple quick math tells you that he spent more on two jars then what he would spend the entire year on rent at $80 a month. So money talks and nobody walks.

Spending money opens doors. So at that juncture Jerry’s thoughts on collecting seemed to gravitate towards over-size jars and black Incredible array of gorgeous colored 1858 jars! glass and it was paying off. He sold the magazine in Montgomery in 1984 to Jim Hagenbuch mentioned that Ball jars were a given, too, because he could just find all kinds of Ball jars was probably the happiest day he’s ever experienced possibly and at that time there really were no Ball jar collectors per up to now.

Jerry has been collecting for 43 years. What he has se. That’s a fact that’s hard to believe, but true. But changes accomplished in that time period is nothing short of were in the wind shortly after 1976.

Something else happened at the 1976 Expo that Jerry amazing. Of course, Jerry says if you played cello for that says was kind of dumb on his part. In talking to a fellow long or painted, you’d expect to be good at it so he hopes named Jim Spencer, who had asked him to do some columns he’s done something right in all of that time. Listen, that’s an on fruit jars, which Jerry had agreed to do and in fact had understatement as far as I’m concerned. Jerry mentioned that finished some, too; well, Jim tells Jerry that the magazine “Collecting is a process and not a state.” He says, “The fact that just wasn’t working out for him and would he (Jerry) be you are actually pursuing something is what makes a person a interested? Jerry claims he’s made very few errors of such collector. You have to make some rational decisions, such as magnitude that they are absolutely burned into his brain what your budget is, how you want to educate yourself, how but in that particular case Jerry said, “Yes.” Unfortunately, much space you have and what interests you. There has to be Jerry had no background in journalism or anything to do some motivating factors such as they’re aesthetically pleasing, with publishing but he knew Ralph Finch and Ralph knew I like the history, I enjoy going to shows, I enjoy other nuts something about the publishing business so he thought, “this that collect jars, too. When everything else is said and done, sounds like a great idea.” So Jerry acquired Antique Bottle you have to collect jars for a reason other than money.”

I had a wonderful time at Jerry’s looking over his fabulous World and published it from 1977 until 1984. Jerry says collection and listening to all he had to say concerning it, the he’s had some very happy days in his life (and specifically mentioned that I better not mention them here), but the day he hobby and more. Jerry is truly a valuable wealth of information

Spectacular Globe color Lineup!

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Jerry’s top two favorite jars namely the olive green one-of-a-kind A. Stone and the amber Air Tight barrel. and his collection as it stands represents an accomplishment few people in the hobby can ever boast of. Although Jerry has what most people could only dream of, he takes pretty much all of it in stride.

His main focus is always on the next find and according to him he really doesn’t spend all that much time in his jar room admiring the jars.

Jerry is a legend, not just because of his fabulous collection of jars, but also because of all the hard work he has done his entire life promoting the hobby and educating other collectors. His contributions to the hobby have been substantial indeed and he has outdone himself once again with the brand new updated and massive Standard Fruit Jar Reference. There would be a terrible void without Jerry’s contributions and I wonder what the hobby would look like today had not Jerry been a part of and deeply immersed and ingrained in it as he has been for 43+ years.

It just never ends in the Inner Sanctum because color and rarity are everywhere.

Wonderful Hemingray jars including the fabulous black glass Royal and notice the olive green quart center.

Rare Boyd’s glass lid and band!

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Some fabulous Ball jars including the super desirable and rare amber Buffalo quart jar!

Rare Brockway grippers on a glass lid jar!

There are so many walls of jars that I could only fit four views of the “Inner Sanctum.” Jars include modern, 1858 hg’s, colored wax sealers, product jars, ball jars, Kerr jars, Atlas jars and so much more. The photos in this article are only a small sampling of Jerry’s incredible collection.

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*Addendum:* In December 2010, I took a twoday trip with my good friend Joe Coulson to Chicago to visit with Jerry McCann. Joe always claims he lives vicariously through me and my fruit jar exploits so I told him why not experience it with me this time first hand?

He hemmed and hawed at first but I eventually convinced him it was a trip he would never forget or regret taking.

I know he’s glad that he decided to go because we had a great time there.

It had snowed the night before we left and the roads were a bit treacherous as we made our way up I-65. Cars and trucks were off the road everywhere and it was a bit unnerving, to say the least. We even experienced a slight mishap ourselves that luckily didn’t turn out to be worse than what it was. As we traveled under an overpass in northern Indiana on I-65, a snow plow was pushing snow across the overpass and unbelievably up and over the side and back onto the interstate below. We just happened to be traveling under the overpass as it happened and my windshield was damaged by rocks and ice. It was as if we were driving through a waterfall of snow and in slow motion. And we had no choice because at 65 – 70 mph, with traffic behind us at the same speed and no shoulder to pull onto since it had not been plowed, we just kept on driving. Thank God it wasn’t a major issue and even though I wasn’t happy about it and actually pretty scared Your humble author holding one of THE Best Ball jars! as it was happening, we continued on in good spirits afterwards because we knew we were going to Fruit Jar Heaven.

A friend of ours had visited with Jerry a month earlier during Thanksgiving and his glowing reports only verified what I already suspected, that we had quite a time in store for us up in Chicago land.

Jerry was a very good host and put us up in his mother’s old home just a few miles from his home. He gave us basically all of the time we could want to see his fabulous jar collection and we took advantage of every minute we had. Jerry even took Joe and I to a “real” Chicago pizza-style restaurant (Lou Malnati’s that served up wonderful deep dish Chicago-style pizza).

We also visited with Pete Peterson while in Chicago land and that will be yet another story. Our trip home was thankfully uneventful but we went with an experience Joe and Jerry wrangling over the 5 gallon CFJCo jar! under our belts that will always be remembered.

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Continued from page 15 until 1909, when the numbers are in the 1100s, and the first bottles with a numerical date code (also on the heel) appear. This number is placed to the right of “ROOT” with the model number on the left. So the heel will read something like: “1145 ROOT 9.”

Sometimes, since these were “model” numbers and not mold numbers, a lower heel numbers appears on dated bottles of earlier types. These are bottle types that were re-issued by Root after date codes were used – in 1909 and later.

The first line of evidence for the 1905 date comes from those model numbers.The lowest model number I have seen so far on a Root Coke bottle from Georgia or Florida is 315 (see Figure 1). This is a fairly high number.

It is obvious that “a lot of water has gone under the bridge” by the time the number 315 was used. Root had been very busy making bottles for three years. An Atlanta Celery Cola crowntop is known with “R.G.CO. 262” on the heel, and Ron Fowler reports a great many Hutchinson style bottles, mostly with “R.G.CO.” (a few with “ROOT”) and numbers lower than 300 (Personal communication, Ron Fowler).

Clearly then, from late 1901 until at least late 1904, Root probably made just over 300 types of bottles, all of which were duly numbered on the heels.Once in a while, a number below 300 appears on a later ROOT Coke bottle, perhaps in error, or perhaps a low number had remained unused for some reason.

Nevertheless, there is strong evidence that the Root Glass Co. did not produce Coca-Cola bottles until about 1905.

The second line of evidence for this date comes from the use of “TRADE MARK REGISTERED” on all Root (and R.G.CO.) Coke bottles. The first U.S. Trademark law was passed in 1881. But the term “Trade Mark” apparently did not appear on early Coke bottles. Many early non-CocaCoal bottles used the terms “TRADE MARK” or“REGISTERED,” but the term “TRADE MARK REGISTERED” did not appear on early Coke bottles.

Then, in 1905, another trade mark law was passed, which required trade marks

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Another possible line of evidence may come from Harold Hirsch himself.

We know that early in that year, Hirsch became the patent and trade mark lawyer for Coca-Cola. And Hirsch must have had something to do with the change, because from then on, every Georgia (and Florida) Coke bottle was embossed with “TRADE MARK REGISTERED,” usually directly under the trade mark. Interestingly, however, this did not apply to many other states: Alabama, for example. It may be that Hirsch had a closer connection with the “parent bottler,” Joseph Whitehead (1864-1906), who supervised Georgia and Florida Coca-Cola bottlers, than he had with the other parent bottler, the “Thomas group” (under Benjamin Franklin Thomas, 1860-1914), who led Alabama bottlers, as well as those of many other states.

A third line of evidence comes from the special numbering system Root Glass Co. used for all of these early style Coke bottles. Apparently they were kept in a separate file by Root.Why else would these large-size base numbers be used?

Was someone tracking them to see how well they circulated or how many survived? These numbers have all the ear-marks of an experiment. The fact that they were later dropped, and Root began producing large numbers of bottles for the ever-increasing population of bottling plants, further supports that idea.

The “R.G.CO.” logo appears on Coke bottle bases from the cities with the following base numbers: Columbia, South Carolina “1”; Augusta, Georgia “2”; Macon, Georgia “4”; Savannah, Georgia “6”; Greenville, South Carolina “7”; Athens, Georgia “8”, and Raleigh, North Carolina “11.”

A Sumter, South Carolina Coke has “ROOT” and a large “14” on the base, and a St. Louis, Missouri, Coke has “ROOT” over a large “16X” on the base. All of these are middle script types with the characteristic “flat-foot” trademark style of early (ca. 1905) Root Glass Co. Coke bottles. Finally, with heel numbers in the low 400s, Root dropped the large experimental base numbers and

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Coke Bottles with “Warnings” During the period of “middlescript” bottles, various warnings begin to appear on many Coke bottles.

Those warnings occur earlier, on many bottle types, and at Kansas City on Coke bottles in 1902-1903, but in the Whitehead parent bottler territory, the warnings apparently begin only in1905, possibly at the instigation of Hirsch.

When “ROOT” replaced “R.G.CO. / 2” on Augusta bottles, probably later in 1905, the firm did not place the large number below the name on the base.

But the bottle did have the earliest side (heel) model number yet seen on a Coke bottle: “315.” On this bottle, too, the first “warning” (literally the “bottle” speaking for itself!) appeared: “NOT TO BE SOLD” (see Figure 1).

South Carolina Cokes seem to have a special warning. The Columbia “R.G.CO. / 1” and the Sumter ”Root / 14” bottles have “THIS BOTTLE NOT” (on front), with “SOLD AND MUST BE RETURNED” (on back). On later (non-Root) Augusta bottles, this warning was clarified in various ways: “THIS BOTTLE TO BE RETURNED” and “THIS BOTTLE LOANED AND MUST BE RETURNED” both appeared on middle script Coke bottles. These were attempts to explain that the bottle was not free; it was the property of the bottler, and it had better be returned. And soon the voice was not that of the bottle only, but of a “higher authority!”

The Chattanooga Glass Co., the first Coke Bottle Manufacturer There were many other similar warnings, but only later, (and not at Augusta) did that ultimate warning appear, explaining in no uncertain terms, and in huge letters in the middle of the bottle, that this bottle was “THE PROPERTY OF...” and, with this remarkable type, we are introduced to the glass house that claimed to be the

Bottles and Extras first manufacturer of Coke bottles – the Chattanooga Glass Co. (Figure 10).

July - August 2012 “PROPERTY OF” notice, and these are the earliest known Coke bottles from these cities (except Atlanta of course).

All other types known so far from these other cities are the much later (after 1912) shoulder / shoulder / base types).

Soon after 1909, the warning is made a little less loudly, with “PROPERTY OF” still in large letters, but no longer “huge,” and the Chattanooga Glass

Figure 10 – Large PROPERTY OF on center body This giant warning occurs the Coke bottles of five Georgia cities from about 1906 to at least 1909. We know this because some of the bottlers who ordered these bottles only started bottling during that period. These “PROPERTY OF” bottles are all products of the Chattanooga Glass Co. All five of these cities have the tall-thin

Figure 11 – Tall-thin Coca-Cola trademark Coca-Cola trademark style (Figure 11) of the earlier blue-aqua bottles (see below) and now, on their bases, they show the Chattanooga Glass Co. mark: “C in a diamond.”

According to Coca-Cola records, Cartersville and Gainesville, Georgia, began bottling in 1906, Griffin in 1907, and Conyers in 1909 (Ricketts 1973).All of these cities, as well as Atlanta, issued bottles with this huge

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seen only three of these. Two are from cities that, according to Coca-Cola records, began bottling in 1912; the other is from Dawson, Georgia, where Coke bottling began in 1913 (Ricketts 1973). All of these, including the first, are clear (“flint”) glass. None are any shade of aqua, blue or green.

Apparently, all these warnings had some effect. The “PROPERTY OF,” now a gentle reminder (Figure

Figure 13 – PROPERTY OF – “gentle reminder”

Figure 12 – Smaller PROPERTY OF on center body marking disappears (Figure 12).

Bottles of this second “PROPERTY OF” type were issued for a few Florida and Georgia cities during the period of about 1909 to 1912 – including Vidalia, Georgia, which, according to Coca-Cola records, began bottling in 1909 (Ricketts 1973). Finally, the warning was again moved to the back of the (still middle script) bottles and was reduced to fairly small letters above a second trademark on the back heel. This appears on 1912-1913 issues from many cities – for example, Fort Valley, which, according to CocaCola records, began bottling in 1912 (Ricketts 1973).

None of these later “PROPERTY OF” types (after 1909) have maker’s marks, but they have most of the earmarks of other late Chattanooga Glass Co. bottles.The last of these types has a third (and surprisingly crude) “Coca-Cola” trade mark on the base.

These probably date to 1913. I have

13), continued in small letters even after 1913, until the hobble-skirt was introduced in or after 1917 (depending on the city). But, by 1913, a major change was ordered, a pre-hobble-skirt attempt at establishing a unique “CocaCola” identity.

An Attempt to Establish a CocaCola “Identity” in Glass Middle script bottles continue to be made for Georgia and Florida plants into 1913. But during that year, the new “shoulder / shoulder / base” trademark type was instituted (Figures 14 & 15).

Figure 14 – Coca-Cola trademark on both shoulders

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Figure 15 – Trademark on base of same bottle This type was ordered by Hirsch, the Coca-Cola attorney (a well documented historical fact, for a welcome change!).

The new type sported no less than five Coca-Cola trade marks (with the fourth and fifth trade marks on a paper label and the crown cap). The idea was that all those trade marks would make it unmistakably a Coca-Cola bottle.

Of course, it didn’t work!.Imitators simply created bottles with multiple examples of their own trademarks. The first of these new types did not show the contents. These may be dated to between 1913 and 1914.

Another change occurred soon after the new bottle type appeared. In 1913, the Gould Amendment to the 1906 Food and Drug act was passed, and it went into effect in late 1914. It required all containers to be marked with their volume, measured in fluid ounces (Figure 16). Apparently, the use of paper labels was not considered sufficient, since different bottles had different capacities, so the contents were embossed in the glass.Thus, bottles of the “shoulder / shoulder / base” trade mark type with embossed

“contents” may be dated from late in 1913 to 1917 (and rarely, later -- again, depending on the city). It should be noted that earlier bottle types often have contents. In many cases, these are later re-issues of early types, but some bottles may have been marked with contents earlier than 1913.

This style of Coke bottle became the standard at most plants after 1912, but there were still many holdouts.

This was especially the case in New England, where most bottling began as late as 1916, and straight-side Cokes – usually of clear glass and many with heel-script trademarks – were ordered well into the 1920s. New England followed NONE of the rules I have “set forth” here. That should explain why I am avoiding dealing with those bottles – for the time being!

A Word about Manufacturing Methods A major distinguishing characteristic of all Coke bottles is the type of mold used.

All Coke bottles have mold lines down the sides, where the front and the back mold fit together. On some, the side molds extend all the way to the base, which in this case is a circular plate inside the bottom. These are

Figure 17 – Post-bottom base

Figure 16 – Volume example (composite photo)

Bottles and Extras known as “post-bottom” molds (Figure 17), and the side mold lines end under the bottle.

This is a characteristic of all Root bottles, even hobble-skirt types. I call this mold type “Base A.” On other Coke bottles, the side molds end above the base, which is a wide plate on the bottom, visible from the side of the bottle. These are

Figure 18 – Cup-bottom base “cup-bottom” molds (Figure 18). I call this type “Base B.” This mold type is characteristic of all mouth-blown Chattanooga Glass Co. and Laurens (S.C.) Glass Works bottles. Machinemade bottles were produced with cupbottom molds and have a seam that is at or just above the heel. However, in the case of bottles made with the Owens machine, there is a machine scar, almost always off center that is usually completely on the base of the bottle.I call these “Base AB” because they look like a combination of the two

Figure 19 – Post-cup-bottom base (Figure 19) The Earliest Coke Bottles Gradually, the early Coke bottle “story” is yielding to research, especially in the later bottles. But the earlier bottles are more difficult to research, mainly because very few are marked, other than Root bottles, and those, as we have seen, only begin in

Bottles and Extras 1905. Now we need to look back even farther, to the very earliest Coke bottles.

In Augusta, and at many other plants, the earliest bottles were not designed for a paper label. Embossing on the side is in four lines that extend downward from shoulder to heel.

The embossed label begins with “THE” followed on the next line by the script Coca-Cola trademark, then “BOTTLING CO.,” and finally the city and abbreviated state names near the heel. There is no mention of “TRADE MARK REGISTERED” (Figure 20).

These bottles might have been made by at least two different manufacturers.

They occur with base A, at Tampa, and

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July - August 2012 with base B, at Augusta. The “style” of the side writing and the trademark “signature” appear to be the same.

No “slug plates” are used on either.

Presumably, these bottles date no later than 1902-1903. The Augusta bottle is very rare. Both are made of clear (flint) glass. I do not know the manufacturer of these bottles.

The next type from Augusta is anything but rare. It is a bit crude, clearly early, made of light blue-aqua glass, and designed to take a paper label. The Coca-Cola trade mark is on the front heel – at the bottom part of the

early Coke bottles are a very distinctive style, with “tall, thin” letters, and very long, narrow tail of the first “C” in Coca, very unlike the tail of the “C” of “Coca” seen in early Root & RGCO trade marks. This very distinctive CocaCola trade mark is another “trade mark” style, this time of the Chattanooga

Figure 22 – Tall, thin trademark

Figure 21 – Trademark only on front heel

Figure 20 – Bottle without TRADE MARK REGISTERED, from Augusta, Georgia

side – and only on one side (Figure 21).

The bottle has no other wording except the name of the city and “GA.” on the back. There is no “TRADE MARK REGISTERED” on this type of bottle from Augusta. These Augusta “heelscript” types use slug plates for the city and state, and they occur with several different (and surprisingly high) base numbers, which may be order numbers, since the bottles are basically identical.

At Augusta, the numbers include 1285, 1318, and 1463. Importantly, all of these Cokes have the “tall-thin” CocaCola trademarks, like the later “huge PROPERTY OF” types. Also, like the later containers, the Augusta bottles are “base B” mold types.

If the early (heel-script) numbered-base bottles are products of Chattanooga, the plant certainly made hundreds of bottles other than Coke. At the end of 1905, only about 320 Coke bottling plants were in operation. The Coca-Cola trade marks of these very

Glass Co. (Figure 22).

Later heel-script bottles with very similar-style Coca-Cola trade marks have the “TRADE MARK REGISTERED” wording, and have the “Diamond-C” mark of Chattanooga Glass Co. on the base. The similarity of these unique trademark styles is evidence that the earlier bottles are from the same source, even though the earlier bottles are a light-blue aqua color, while the later types, including the “huge PROPERTY OF” series, which I date from 1906 to 1909, are composed of clear “flint” glass, as are later Chattanooga Glass Co. Coke bottles, until about 1914.

The later bottles have more developed trade mark styles, but they are still recognizably those of the Chattanooga Glass Co. The last have “empty Ls” in the trade mark (Figure 23), “peg-leg Gs” in “GA.” (Figure 24), and “REGISTERED” – characteristics of all or most later Chattanooga Glass Co. Cokes even into the hobble-skirt period, after 1917. On all of these (both early and later) the lower end (or bottom tail) of the second “C” is neatly squared off, not pointed (Figure 25).

Clear or “flint” Glass In the days before 1914, better bottles were made from clear (“flint”) glass, which had to be treated (“decolored”) with manganese dioxide,

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Figure 23 – Empty “L” in “Cola”

Figure 24 – Peg-leg “G” in “GA”

Figure 25 – Squared-off “C” in “Cola”

Figure 26 – DIXIE logo (eBay)

Figure 27 – Pointed end of “C” in “Cola”

using a method invented in Venice around 1450 AD. By 1907, Chattanooga Glass started producing clear bottles.

These included the first “PROPERTY OF” bottles.

The advent of flint glass bottles may correspond to the addition of a second “continuous tank” at the Chattanooga plant “by 1907,” which Toulouse says resulted in a “gain. . . in [the] flexibility of colors.” Some very late Chattanooga Glass straight sides, (mostly with “contents”) and all hobble-skirts, are blue or bluish. This color choice may have been in response to the blue bottles made by the Laurens Glass Works, which appear in 1913.

Lockhart (2006) recorded that “crown top soda bottles were generally not decolorized with manganese [dioxode] after 1914, giving a good ending date for such ‘colorless’ bottles with an amethyst (manganese dioxide decolorized) cast to the glass as the beginning of World War I. Most of these amethyst crown soda bottles would be mouth-blown.” In addition to all that, Toulouse notes that a third tank was added at Chattanooga Glass, “by 1913.” That change, along with the disappearance of manganese dioxide from the mix, must have precipitated the end of “clear” Coke bottles and the re-introduction of the light aqua colors familiar on later straight-sides and so common on early Chattanooga hobble-skirts.

Thus, the earliest and the latest Chattanooga Glass Co. straight-side Coke bottles are aqua, while the “middle-period” bottles are clear! And all of these, including the clear Cokes of the “middle period,” have in common the “vertical” trade mark, and the blunt (or squared-bottom) “C” in Cola, both characteristics I attribute to Chattanooga Glass Cokes see (Figure 25).

Dixie Glass Works Another manufacturer, “DIXIE” (1898-ca. 1906), made clear bottles, including the early Key West oval slug plate type, and the early Tampa, Fla. bottle (although neither has “TRADE MARK REGISTERED” on the bottle).

Bottles and Extras It should be noted that Dixie, based in the west Georgia town of Tallapoosa, manufactured the early block-letter Hutchinson-patent bottles for the Chattanooga, Tennessee, plant. If these held Coke, they may well be the very first Coke bottles (Figure 26).

The Dixie Glass Works made soda, beer, patent medicine, and other bottles, along with liquor ware – especially for the South Carolina Dispensary – from 1898 to ca. 1907. The plant embossed “DIXIE” on the bases of most of its bottles throughout the entire time it was in business.

T here is a series of very attractive, oval-slug plate (clear) Coke bottles that do not quite fit the “Chattanooga style trade mark” I have discussed above. They occur at several plants in Florida and Georgia. These attractive bottles are unlikely to be products of Chattanooga Glass (wrong mold type), Dixie (too late; Dixie ended in 1907), or Wormser (but see below!) because they are clearly made from “post-bottom” molds (base A, not B). They are all from Florida and Georgia cities, and they are distinguished by sharp or pointed “Cs” in the Coca-Cola trade mark in addition to their characteristic oval slug plates. These include Brooksville, Ft. Meade, and Plant City, Florida, along with Jackson (Jewell Bottling), Thomasville, founded in 1910 (Ricketts 1973), and Villa Rica, also founded in 1910 (Ricketts 1973), Georgia.

They must date to 1910 or 11, and they all have the type “A” baseplate.

All have an exaggerated “C” in Cola, with a sharp bottom end (Figure 27).

However, on these bottles, the “C” in Cola ends in a point, exactly like those on later bottles I attribute to the Wormser Glass Co.Later Wormser bottles are further distinguished by lines drooping down to the left from each “o” in the Coca-Cola trade mark (see below), but the earlier slug plate types do not share that detail (Figure 28).

Possibly these southern slug plate types were made by a Chattanooga sub-plant, using a different type of mold. Or they could be early Wormser Glass products, again using a different

Bottles and Extras mold set. Some later bottles with the “WGCO” mark share letter forms with Chattanooga Glass Co.Coke bottles (although the implications of this are still unclear). None of these has a visible maker’s mark or any base number. The manufacturer, so far, remains uncertain.

Numbered Base Coke Bottles I have alluded to the early “vertical trade mark” Coke bottles, (without “Trade Mark Registered”), which I attribute to the Chattanooga Glass Co. These bottles are a nice blue-aqua color. I call them “nice” now, but these were the cheapest possible bottles in their day. Those blue-aqua Augusta heel scripts are numbered: 1285, 1318, and 1463 on their bases.These cannot be “model” number since the bottles are identical, except for slight variation caused by hand-cut molds.

There are several handsome, clear, center oval slug Cokes, in addition to those mentioned above. Those I have seen all have 3-digit mold numbers on the bases. The (clear) St. Petersburg, Florida, and the clear Bainbridge, Georgia, slug plate bottles share the same base mold number, 247. Since St. Petersburg began in 1909 (Ricketts 1973), these bottles can both be dated to about that year. These smaller numbers may belong to a different manufacturer, perhaps the successor to Dixie, but share the Chattanooga Glass Co. mold type, base B or cup-bottom molds.

Their maker remains a mystery.

Another group of clear bottles with a trade mark of nearly identical style, a type I have previously attributed to Wormser Glass Co., appears about 1912, with the “B” or “cup-bottom” molds characteristic of the Chattanooga Glass Co., and (later) the Laurens Glass Works. These have the “hooked” first “C” with pointed bottom end, an open “a” in “Cola,” lines dangling down from the left side of each “o,” and an unusually fat “C” extending through the “l” in “Cola” (Figure 29).

Many of these clear, mouth-blown, shoulder-script varieties also feature the diagnostic “peg-leg G” of Chattanooga

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July - August 2012 Glass. This presents us with a minor mystery. Did Wormser copy Chattanooga, or perhaps hire a mold cutter from there? Later, machine-made bottles with all of these characteristics, (but no “peg-leg G”) occur with the W.G.CO. base marking. Because of this, I have previously attributed all bottles with these characteristics to W.G.CO. The machine-made Coke bottles with the W.G.CO. mark are bluish aqua, no longer cleared with manganese, so likely from 1914 or later.)

This creates a strange sequence of events. The various characteristics seem to show a progression from the Dixie Glass Works to the Chattanooga Bottle & Glass Co. to the Wormser Glass Co. It is possible that the same mold maker worked for Dixie until 1907, then shifted to Chattanooga, when the Dixie plant closed. Tallapoosa is only about 100 miles almost due south of Chattanooga, and the Chattanooga Bottle & Glass Co. bought the Tallapoosa Glass Co. in late 1916 or early 1917. Establishing a connection with Wormser – at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – however, is more of a stretch. Of course, a good mold maker might have been lured to Pennsylvania, if the pay and conditions were right.

Two Chattanooga Glass Co. Marks: “CBGCO.” and “C” – Which Came First?

Coke bottles with the CBGCO. base marking (Figure 30) tend to have higher two-digit numbers, including 13, 15, 16, and 17, (and a very few 14s recently seen). The 16 and 17 are often followed by a large “J” (Figure 31) These numbers could well be dates.

Interestingly, “J” is the first letter of “Jahr,” German for “Year.” Were the mold cutters in Chattanooga German immigrants? Other lower numbers may occur on these Chattanooga-made Coke bottles, but I have only seen one, a “1” on an Atlanta bottle, marked “6 1/2 FL. OZ.” This anomaly may be a base mold number that was not continued. The other bottles, with the following numbers:13, (14), 15, 16J, 17 and 17J are all embossed with “7 OZ” on both sides (like Laurens Glass

Figure 28 – Drooping line on Coca-Cola “o”

Figure 29 – Open-A in “Cola”

Figure 30 – CBGCo logo

Figure 31 – CBGCo logo with 16J code

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Figure 32 – CBGCo bottle with “14” date code on back lower body

Figure 33 – Contents or volume designation

Figure 34 – “C” above Coca-Cola with “2 ” below

Figure 35 – Bent peg-leg “G”

Figure 36 –Half-empty “L”

Co. Coke bottles of 1914 to 1917). All “CBGCO.” Cokes are mouth-blown.

But the problem with calling these CBGCO bottles “dated” is that in 1914, Chattanooga Glass produced machinemade Coke bottles. These are “dated” with a “14” on the back (Figure 32), and all are marked on the base with a large “C” along with a single-digit number (5, 7 & 8 have been noted). Many of these have the contents marked as “6 1/2 FLUID OZS.,” although some are embossed “7 OZ.” The “contents” marking appears in fairly large letters high on the side (Figure 33). The number “14” on the back side is not large but is usually quite sharp.

There are other late Chattanooga Glass bottles which are clearly machine-made but do not have the “C” or base number, the side number “14”, or any other number. A good example is a Claxton, Georgia bottle, clearly made by Chattanooga Glass.Coca-Cola Co. records indicate that Claxton began bottling only in 1916 (Ricketts 1973).

Claxton Cokes are scarce, and all are a light aqua color, as would be expected.

Not all bottles with the large “C” over the trademark and a single digit number beneath it are machine-made – only those beginning with the base number 5. Earlier bottles with the “C” on the base are mouth blown. Examples of these include the Cartersville “tinyarrow” type and Rome, Georgia (both with “C” only on base, no number), Bainbridge (with “C /2” – Figure 34) and Marietta (with “C / 3”).

These have no mention of contents and do not exactly fit the Chattanooga markers. All the way into the hobbleskirt period, after 1917, Chattanooga Glass Co. bottles generally feature a distinct “peg-leg G,” and an empty “L” in Cola, without a trace of the tail of the “C” passing through it (see Figure 23).

On the three earliest “C-base” bottles, each “G” features a bent-pegleg, (long, but curved outward – Figure 35), and the “L” in “Cola” is only half-empty, in that only a part of the tail of the “C” in “Cola” passes through it (Figure 36). These four clearly resemble earlier bottles.

Since the later “C” base bottles

Bottles and Extras (with base numbers of 5 and higher) are machine-made, all of those with the “C” mark “should” follow those with the “CBGCO.” mark – all of which are mouth-blown, whatever their number and letter. In that case, these two-digit numbers would simply be base mold numbers, and this CBGCO type would precede the 1914 dated C-on-base issues and other machine made C-onbase examples. But each “CBGCO” type has the empty “L” and peg-leg “G” similar to the later Chattanooga Glass bottles (including hobble-skirts).

In addition, they carry base numbers which are hard to interpret as anything but dates.

If the “14” is indeed a date code, Chattanooga first produced machinemade Coke bottles in 1914. Later, Chattanooga again made undated bottles by machine for many cities and, perhaps in 1917, for Claxton. Hobbleskirts followed soon after that, but the company also (mostly?) produced mouth-blown Coca-Cola bottles from 1915 to 1917. Not all are marked with base numbers. A machine-made bottle from Senoia, Georgia, is embossed “61/2 FL. OZ” on the side but has no letter or number on the base. It is identifiable only by its “bent-peg-leg G” and “half-empty L!” What about that big J? Interestingly, a similar large “J” in a diamond is the mark on some early looking Chattanooga amber Cokes, and also, reportedly, on an early(?) Birmingham, Alabama, aqua Coke. Could these be related? And what about that “14” on the C-base types? Why only a “14?” Where are the higher numbers?

Were there problems with the machine? Problems were not unusual.

Machines were tricky and required training and practice to operate well.

Whatever the case may be, the evidence is strong for this unlikely seeming theory.I happen to have four “C” machine-made bottles with the 14; I have three “CBGCO” with 16, and three more with 17. Most of these 16s and 17s have a large “J” after the number. This sample should be fairly random. I have not sought out either type or any number

Bottles and Extras to exclude any other type or number.

The Return of the “Blues” After 1913, the blue-aqua color returned at most manufacturing plants, and remained until Root Glass turned its bottles green just before 1917.

Coca-Cola later endorsed the green color, (calling it “Georgia Green”). This action prodded the “blues” to add copper or other metals to make their bottles green. This change occurs gradually and sporadically. Some “CBGCO 17” bottles are still clearpink (notably Dublin, Ga.).

Most late straight sides and early hobble-skirts are a very light aqua color (often nearly, but not quite, clear), but, in 1925 and 1928, many Coke bottles made by the Laurens Glass Works are truly clear (although they often turn pink due to manganese in the glass formula), and, in 1929, some Chattanooga bottles still look more blue. Even as late as 1929, Graham is still using the very light aqua color.

The Laurens Glass Works: A Much Simpler Study The Laurens Glass Works, Laurens, South Carolina, seems to be a much simpler study. Assuming it is correct that Laurens began producing bottles in 1913, and knowing early hobble-skirts are still mouth blown, a long series of single and double digit base numbers on attractive but somewhat crude shoulder / shoulder / base bottles may be attributed to the Laurens Glass Works.These have only a number on the base. These are clearly mold numbers, not dates, and not series or model numbers.

Later Laurens Cokes (from about 1914) have the contents embossed in the glass, but here the contents are sometimes added to the base. Some, with base molds that may have been hastily modified, were intended to read “7 OZ” but were cut with a backward Z, and actually read “7 OS.”

July - August 2012 Laurens bottles are usually a very attractive light blue color, and many have “BOTTLING Co.” and the city and state names in a single line in a heel slug plate.

Note that on many of these, the “o” in Co.” is lower case (Figure 37)! There are other varieties with a normal sized “o,”

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(Figure 38). The early, unmarked “tall thin” trade mark bottles also have that style of plate for city and state. “CocaCola” is in a plate on some bottles, too, but rarely, and, as far as I can tell, only on those of smaller manufacturers.

Rectangular, round and oval plates were used extensively from the mid 19th century as a way of saving money on molds.

Root used an attractive round slug plate from about 1906 onward. This type of bottle had the Coca-Cola trade mark on one shoulder and the city name and state abbreviation along with “BOTTLING CO.” or something similar in the plate. This mold type Figure 37 – Lower-case “o” in “Co” is numbered 505, and was used well into the teens on at least 15 different city-named bottles. Slug-plate bottles are especially difficult to date. If it were not for the fact that Root put numbered dates on its bottles after 1908, their slug plate types might be thought to be earlier than they are.

The dates were often changed, using one of three ways: 1) drilling out the old date and using a steel rod to refill the hole (then stamping the new date); 2) creating an “over-date” by stamping a new number on top of the old one; or 3) peening out the Figure 38 – Rectangular plate at heel old number with a hammer but all of them have a single- or double- and engraving a new one.In the case of digit base number with no other letter, Root, it must be remembered that the and, of course, all are mouth-blown. The three- or four-digit heel numbers are not machine did not arrive at Laurens until mold numbers, but “model” or “type” numbers. These model numbers can sometime in 1919. be “reused” at a much later date. For Slug plates: A Solution, and a example, many Root 505 types occur undated, and others are dated 9, 10, 12, Problem. . .

A word now on “slug plates,” and even 17 (1909, 1910, 1912, 1917 – properly called “plates.” I have possibly others). Model numbers often mentioned Laurens, but Chattanooga have a letter suffix, indicating a slight Glass Co. bottles (and those of many variation, or in the case of hobbleother manufacturers) often have the skirts, most of which are Model #1, two city name and state abbreviation in or more letters may be added as “mold a sharp-cornered rectangular plate letters.”

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Figure 39 – C 491 basemark

Figure 40 – C 1761 basemark

Figure 41 – C 1825 basemark

Figure 42 – 1187 / 2 base code

Figure 43 – American Bottle Co. Coca-Cola trademark

Those Early Type “Hutchinson Patent” Bottles: How Early?

In my discussion of the “PROPERTY OF” types, I have so far omitted the famous Hutchinson style Coke bottles that resemble that type. I believe the “PROPERTY OF” Hutchinson dates to the same year as the Bessemer and Jasper (Ala.) Hutchinson types, 1906-1907.

Indeed, it might have inspired the similar crown-top bottles (or visa-versa).

Recently, an “earlier” oval-plate style “PROPERTY OF” Hutchinson bottle has turned up. The dating of this bottle is even less certain, as is the date of the Birmingham “D.O.C. 13” (D.O. Cunningham) script Hutch, which may well be earlier than its companion “ROOT 405” version, although the trade mark style is late.

It might be worth noting here that the Bessemer Hutch Coke bottle has the Chattanooga “C in diamond” mark on the base, exactly the same as those Georgia Coke bottles with the huge “PROPERTY OF” mentioned above.

Many Important Questions Remain If the early bottles are more difficult than later bottles to understand, the middle period bottles are nearly impossible! Did Chattanooga Glass make bottles between 1905 and 1907?

There are many blue-aqua bottles with three and four digit numbers on the bases that would fit. Some even have “C” before the number. But the trade mark style varies, and I am not yet comfortable attributing these to Chattanooga or any other plant.

Consider the following: One bottle, a Norfolk, Virginia, heel-script type, seems to have the “right” tall-thin Coca-Cola trade mark. It is certainly early, and it has “C491” on the base (Figure 39). Other slug plate types with the pointed “C” trademark style, and “1741” on the bases are found from Mulberry, Florida, and Lake City, South Carolina. A New Bern, North Carolina bottle (with a different, very “crude” trade mark) has “C1761” on its base (Figure 40). Another North Carolina type with a much “later”

Bottles and Extras looking trade mark style that includes a thick tail and open “o” has the base number “C1825” (Figure 41).

Why would the “C” be used on a smaller number, dropped later, then re-used again on bottles with larger numbers and entirely different trade mark styles? This is still a mystery!

But a possible explanation is that these North Carolina and Virgina bottles (with the “C”) are from Thomas Territory cities. I have not delved into this territory, but I have noticed that no Whitehead territory bottles have base numbers preceded by a “C.” This is a major reason I am concentrating on Whitehead territory (Georgia and Florida) Coke bottles!

There are many other important manufacturers that need study. Among them are the Ohio Glass Co., of Newark, Ohio, whose heel mark was “O.B.CO.” On the base (bottom) of these is a fourdigit number with a single-digit number below it (I have seen numbers between 1173 and 1294 – Figure 42).The Ohio Bottle Co. was in business from 19041905 only. Its successor, the American Bottle Co., used a mark “A.B.CO.” on the heel and sometimes on the base, with a four-digit number and a singledigit number or letter below it (I have seen numbers from 1197 through 1586). These are probably four-digit series or model numbers with a smaller mold number or letter.

The American Bottle Co. operated factories at five locations from 19051916.Both firms used a unique “signature” Coca-Cola trademark, with a large “C” in “Coca” and a smaller, slanted “C” in “Cola” (Figure 43). In 1916, the Owens Bottle Co. purchased American Glass, and Coke bottle manufacturing continued at their Newark (Ohio) and Streator (Illinois) plants using marks of “N” and “S” on the heel, followed by a two digit date code. By this time, the Coca-Cola trade mark styles are pretty well standardized, although bottle molds are still hand-cut for many years.

Some earlier machine-made Coke bottles are dated “14” and “15” on the heel, followed by a “1,” “2,” or “3.”

Bottles and Extras Who made these? Other Coke bottles are undated and have only a rather large one-digit number on the heel.

These bear the tell-tale “Owens scar” on the base and must be other (later?)

Owens bottles.

A very important company that I have discussed elsewhere was the Wormser Glass Co., located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The firm operated under the Wormser Glass Co. name from about 1884 to about 1918 or later, although there may have been a break in production from 1888 to 1897.

The plant specialized in beer bottles during the early years of the 20th century, but it apparently made CocaCola bottles, too. Many later shoulder / shoulder / base type Coke bottles, some of them machine made, can be attributed to Wormser. Some machinemade bottles are marked with a tiny “W.G.CO.” on the base. I have noted that Wormser may have had some type of relationship with the Chattanooga Glass Co. – possibly through the migration of a single mold maker.This desperately needs further research.

Many middle-script, machinemade Coke bottles, and a few shoulder / shoulder types can be attributed to Southern Indiana Glass Works, the immediate predecessor of the Graham Glass Co. The Graham family purchased the Lythgoe Bottle Co. at Loogootee, Indiana, in 1904 and renamed it the Southern Indiana Glass Works. The Grahams brought in “Johnny Bull” (Ashley) machines in 1905 and began developing their own. The Graham machines were in service by at least 1906, and the firm became the Graham Glass Co. in 1912.

Southern Indiana Glass Works bottles usually have a faint four digit number on the heel, or a pellet, a number, or sometimes nothing on the base. These are the only middle-script, machine-made Coke bottles, and they date from 1906 to 1912. Many machine-made bottles of the shoulder / shoulder / base type (after 1912) were made by Southern Indiana Glass Works’ successor, the Graham Glass Co. at the

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Production at Okmulgee begins in 1910; Loogootee begins in 1912, and Evansville comes along in 1913.

Graham Glass Co. marks include a model number and the initial “L,” “E,” or “O” – followed by a letter “S” (secondary?) or “P” (primary?) and sometimes followed by a third letter date code. The date codes began with the 16th letter of the alphabet and continued until the 19th letter: P = 1916 Q = 1917 R = 1918 S = 1919 Beginning in 1920, Graham eliminated the letter date codes and began using two-digit number codes in their places. Until about 1925, those were frequently stamped to the right of older codes, so that some hobble-skirt Coke bottles were actually embossed with two date codes. For example, a Hobart, Oklahoma, hobble-skirt bottle is embossed “576 ESR G23” on the back heel. The “576” is the Evansville code for a Coke bottle; “E” equals Evansville; the meaning of “S” is uncertain; “R” is the older date code for 1918; “G” indicates Graham; and “23” is a date code for 1923.

Other makers exist, of course – including the North Baltimore Bottle and Glass Co., originally opened at North Baltimore, Ohio, later moving to North Albany, then to Terre Haute, both in Indiana. This was an early company that produced many bottles for southern cities, but only an occasional Coke bottle. Most later bottles are marked and present few problems with attribution. Others are not, and some are still complete mysteries! Hopefully, these companies will be explored and discussed in future articles.

The Message of This Essay These early Coke bottles present us with many questions, but they are trying to tell us about themselves! Hopefully, most of the questions we pose to them are not beyond their ability to answer. If we continue to listen carefully, we may be able to hear more of their stories.

So far, though, we have barely made a start.

Sources Glass Packer 1926 “Be Sure They’re Root Bottles – Then Go Ahead.” Glass Packer 5(3):34 Lockhart, Bill 2006 “The Color Purple: Dating Solarized Amethyst Glass Containers.”

Historical Archaeology 40(2):45-56.

Ricketts, Bill 1973 Bottlers of Coca-Cola. Privately published, Asheville, North Carolina.

Note: A great deal of the information about glass factories, logos, and date codes came from currently unpublished files, provided by the Bottle Research Group.

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Bottles and Extras known bottle, jug, etc. from Montana.

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MARC LUTSKO / 10 HIDDEN VALLEY DRIVE / CLANCY MT 59634-9728 or (406) 422- 4690 or letsgo@montanasky.net FOR SALE: These Whiskies will be for sale at the Reno Expo Show in July-Thomas & Burnett Numbers-- T167varA, OK OLD GILT EDGE—B355, THE MANHATTAN, OROVILLE—T73, B243, DAVY CROCKET—T168,B848, McKENNAS—T76C,B594, M. GRUENBERG OLD JUDGE— T117,B161, CLARKS, MOORE, REYNOLDS—T21,B132, OK OLD BOURBON CASTLE—T13,B111, CARTAN McCARTHY—unlisted, THE WINDSOR, DENVER—T255, B172, WILLIAM CLINE GROCER (2 known, I have both)—T88, B382, HILDEBRANDT POSNER, 1/5, (3 of these, various colors)—T122, B580, NABOR ALFS & BRUNNE—T88, B382, HILDEBRANDT POSNER, 1/6—T75, B435, KANE O’LEARY, SLUG PLATE—T52, B218, OPS OLD PRIVATE STOCK--T20, B129, CHESLEY”S JOCKY CLUB, clear— T31, B158 CHOICE OLD CABINET— unlisted, THE PEERLESS, MADERA CA. clear—T55, B212, A P HOTALING OF PORTLAND—T8, OLD BOURBON CASTLE WHISKEY, FLASK, green—T35, B598, NON PAREIL, HANDLED FLASK— KENSCHWARTZ@CHARTER.NET or (530) 365-5046 FOR SALE: Aqua Costar bug bottle with 95% original label, $200. Aqua whiskey, 3-piece mold, Patent on shoulder, Whitney Glass Works on base, $160. same in amber, $100.

Bluegreen Gargling Oil, N.Y. height 5 ½”, $23. Aqua Cottage ink Covill #684, $160. Satisfaction guarantee, 10 day return privileges. Ray Trottier, 52 Flaghole Rd., Franklin, NH 03235 or (603) 934-3839 FOR SALE/TRADE: Overmeyer Glass CO., sample bottle, showing 24

July - August 2012 different glass types. A Glass Museum Item! $115. Trade for Saratoga Bottles.

California blob & crown beers for trade.

“H. Grimstones Eye Snuff”, British Pot Lid with secondary bottom, $625 or wanted bottles above. Jerry Paxton, P.O. Box 9332, Bend, OR 97708 or (541) 318-0748 FOR SALE: Houghton & Dalton Book. Dr. Jim Houdeshell, 1610 South Main St., Findlay, OH 45840 or (419) 423-2895 or (419) 721-1434 or houdeshell@findlay.edu FOR SALE: (1) Suffolk Bitters-S217, light amber, repaired tail (reattached) displays well, $275. OBO (2) Snuff rectangular, 4” tall unembossed, crude with nice whittle, smooth base, rich amber $20. (3) Skull and Xbones POISON/TINCT/IODINE, cobalt blue, 3 ½” tall, rect. w/old cork, perfect $120. (4) Olive Oil, Elwood Cooper/ Pure Olive Oil/Santa Barbara, Cal. in an applied shoulder seal, 11” tall, in making flaw in the base, otherwise perfect, medium kick up, $21. (5) Still have quite a few old auction catalogs, some hard bound. Bill Herbolsheimer, 6 Beech Cluster, Doylestown, PA 18901 or (215)340-7156 or raeherb@ pinerunvillage.org

wanted WANTED: Lacour’s Sarsapariphere Bitters or Cassin’s Grape Brandy Bitters in aqua coloration. Also seeking other early Western bitters bottles such as G.A. Simon’s Medicated Aromatic Bitters, Alex Von Humboldts Stomach Bitters, Dr. Boerhaaves Stomach Bitters.

Warren Friedrich 16930 Charles Way, Grass Valley, CA 95949 (530) 2715757 or warrenls6@sbcglobal.net WANTED: Old locks and keys. L.A. bottles in colors (unusual). Have bottles to sell or trade. Bob Hirsch, 10541 Bluefield Ave., Whittier, CA 90604 or 562-941-6979

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Recently retired from job, now a bottle dealer, buying bottles for resale. I’ll travel the eastern US from Texas to Tennessee to Mass to Ohio. Sodas and medicines preferred. Will buy other bottles but all must be priced right for resale. See me at Houston Bottle Show, July 14. Jay’s Emporium, P.O. Box 3642, Victoria, TX 77903 or jamast@ suddenlink.net or 361-649-8221 WANTED: Minnesota early squat sodas and colored hutchinsons, also Minnesota strap side flasks, all colors. Looking for Old Townsends and Old Townsend Sarsaparilla’s pontiled, all colors. James Haase, 43 Adams Blvd., Silver Bay, MN 55614 or 218-226-3060 WANTED: Pre-Prohibition, Baltimore blob top beer bottles and go-withs. Also looking for crockery beers and cone-top cans. Chuck Meyer, 1602 Pinnade Rd., Towson, MD 21286 or 410-296-7991 or mdbldgpermits@comcast.net WANTED: (Various) from Bay City Soda Water CO. of S.F., Plus: from any source, embossed whole skull bottles.

Walter Thomas, 588 Sutter St., Apt #451, San Francisco, CA 94102 WANTED: Barber Bottles, Cape May NJ-Want old photos, post cards, souvenir items. Richard Gibbs. P.O. Box 126, Essex Fells, NJ 07021 or capemayone@aol.com WANTED: Saratoga Sprinmg Type Bottles. Old glass or porcelain telephone mouthpieces. Early telephones and parts. Jerry Paxton, P.O. Box 9332, Bend, OR 97708 or (541) 318-0748 WANTED: Houghton & Dalton pottery. Dr. Jim Houdeshell, 1610 South Main St., Findlay, OH 45840 or (419) 423-2895 or (419) 721-1434 or houdeshell@findlay.edu WANTED: Rare colored Pittsburgh sodas & Hostetters; McKeesport and Elizabeth PA stoneware. Tim Tokosh, (412) 401-1863 or BTLDIGR@aol.com

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FOHBC Sho-Biz

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

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

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

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July 7 Tulsa, Oklahoma The Tulsa Antiques and Bottle Club 35th Annual Bottle and 4th Annual Antique Advertising Show from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm at the Tulsa Flea Market in the Quik Trip Center at the Tulsa Fairgrounds, 21st Street and Yale Avenue, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Free admission, no early buyers. Dealer setup Friday, 06 July from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm and Saturday, 07 July from 6:00 am to 8:00 am. 150 show tables plus a 250 table flea market. Contact Richard Carr (a bottle guy) at 918.687.4150 or 918.478.6119 or Henry Tankersley (an advertising guy) at 918.481.3820 or 918.663.3218.

July 7 & 8 Elsecar, Yorkshire, England The 22nd UK Summer National Saturday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Sunday Show & Auction, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Auction 11:00 am. Elsecar Heritage Center, Nr Barnsley, S Yorks, S74 8HJ, England. Info: BBR 00441226 745156, email: sales@onlinebbr.com July 11 – 14 Muncie, Indiana Fruit Jar Show JAR-B-Q at the Signature Inn, 3400 N. Chadam Lane, Muncie Indiana. Free admission to roomhop-shopping, auction and seminars.

Open to the public. Hotel reservations: 765.284.4200, Show info: Jerry McCann, fjar@aol.com 773.777.0443 or Marianne Dow finbotclub@gmail. com 419.455.1112 Show website: finbotclub.blogspot.com July 14 Houston, Texas Houston Antique Bottles, Advertising and Collectibles Show and Sale

at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 12801 Northwest Freeway, Houston, Texas 77040, Saturday, 8:30 am to 3:00 pm, Early admission: Friday, 6:00 -10:30 pm, Admission: Saturday -$2.00, Early admission: Friday – $10.00, Contact: Barbara J. Puckett, 907 W. Temple, Houston, Texas 77009, Tele: 713.862.1690 (H) 713.409.9940 (C), E-mail: bpuckett77009@yahoo.com July 21 Leadville, Colorado Antique Bottle Collectors of Colorado’s 8th Annual Show & Sale (9:00 am – 4:00 pm with setup at 6:00 am). $3 admission, at the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum Convention Center, 117 W 10th St, Leadville, Colorado, Jim and Barb Sundquist, 2861 Olympia Lane, Evergreen, Colorsado 80439, 303.674.4658 July 21 and 22 Adamstown, Pennsylvania The 11th Annual Shupp’s Grove Bottle Festival, (Saturday & Sunday, 6:00 am to dusk, early buyers Friday 3:00 pm, at the famous “Shupp’s Grove’, 1686 Dry Tavern Road, Denver, Pennsylvania 17517, Info: Steve Guion, Tele: 717.626.5557, email: affinityinsurance@dejazzd.com July 27 – 29 Reno, Nevada (The Biggest Little City in the World) Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors presents EXPO 2012 Antique Bottle and Collectable Show at the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino, Reno, Nevada, Early Admission: Friday, 27 July 1:30 pm – 6:00 pm, Banquet: Friday, 27 July 7:00 pm, Dealer setup/Early admission: Saturday, 28 July, 7:00 am – 9:00 am, General Admission:

Saturday, 28 July, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm, General Admission: Sunday, 29 July 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Marty Hall, Show Chairman, tele: 775.852.6045 or cell: 775.772.6065, rosemuley@charter. net, Visitor Information: Reno-Tahoe Visitors Center, 800.FOR.RENO, www.VisitRenoTahoe.com, Host Hotel: Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 East Second Street, Reno, Nevada, 89595, 800.425.9074, www.grandsierraresort. com, Download contract FOHBC.org July 27 & 28 Birmingham, Alabama The Alabama Bottle Collectors annual Birmingham Antique Bottle & Folk Pottery Show, Bessemer Civic Center , Friday, 27 July 2012 for Dealer Set-Up and Early Buyers (Early Buyers $10 per person) 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm. Dealer tables will be available again for $35 per 8-foot table. We will again serve a COMPLIMENTARY pizza buffet dinner Friday evening for our Dealers and Early Buyers. Saturday 28 July 2012, 8:00 am thru 3:00 pm, FREE Admission, Special Group Displays: Alabama Whiskey Bottles & Flasks plus Alabama Pottery, Contact: Tom Lines ALBottleCollectors@Hotmail.com or call 205.410.2191 or visit our new website Alabama Bottle Collectors.

July 28 Altoona, Iowa The Iowa Antique Botleers 43rd Annual Antique Bottle & Colectibles Show & Sale (9:00 am to 2:00 pm), at the Meadows Events Center, Prarie Meadows Racetrack & Casino (I-80 Exit 142), Altoona, Iowa, Info: Tom Southard, 2815 Druid Hill Drive, Des Moines, Iowa 50315, Tele: 515.490.9590

Bottles and Extras 29 July 2012 (Sunday) Coventry, Connecticut Southern Connecticut Antique Bottle and Glass Collectors Association 41st Annual Show, (9:00 am to 1:00 pm, early buyers 8:00 am), to be held outdoors at the Museum of Connecticut Glass, corner of Route 44 & North River Road, Coventry, Connecticut, Info: Lfranz465@hotmail. com, Contact: Bruce Mitchell, tele: 203.799.2570 August 12 – 19 Bouckville, New York Madison-Bouckville Antique Show, outdoor antiques, collectibles including two huge bottle tents. Over 2,000 dealers and vendors located on scenic Route 20, Bouckville, New York (see Antique Bottle and Glass Collector article, November, 2011) Info: Larry Fox 585.354.8072 or Jim Mitchell 813.684.2834.

August 18 Urbana, Ohio Third Urbana, Ohio Antique Bottle and Jar Show (9:30 am to 3:00 pm; dealer set-up, 8:00 am. NO EARLY ADMISSION), at the Champaign County Fairgrounds, 384 Park Avenue, Urbana, Ohio 43078. Antique bottles, fruit jars, flasks, inks, stoneware, milks, insulators, bitters, advertising, tabletop antiques and more. The Urbana Paper and Advertising Show will be in an adjacent building. $1.00 Admission for both benefits a Junior 4-H Council.

Information: Steve Goddard, 5890 Valley Pike, Urbana, Ohio 43078, 937.788.2058, stevegoddard@woh. rr.com or John Bartley, PO Box 53, North Hampton, Ohio 45349, 937.964.8080, jbartley@woh.rr.com August 19 Poughkeepsie, New York 25th Annual Mid Hudson Bottle Show, Poughkeepsie, New York, Elks Lodge 275, 29 Overocker Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12603, Sunday 9:00 am – 2:30 pm for General Admission. Early Admission is 8:00 am – 9:00 am, $15.00.

Set-up: 6:00 am Sunday, $2.00 General Admission. Hudson Valley Bottle

July - August 2012 Club. Contact: Art Church, Treasurer, 411 Hillside Lake Road, Wappingers Falls, New York 12590, 845.221.4259, Email: art3622@aol.com September 15 Salt Lake City, Utah Utah Antique Bottle and Collectibles Show and Sale 9:00 am to 1:00 pm, early buyers 8:00 am, Redwood Multipurpose Center, 3100 South Redwood Road, Salt Lake City, Information: Bob Campbell 801.467.8636, 1123 E. 2100 S, Salt Lake City, Utah 84106 or Rick Holt: e-mail: rckholt@netscape.net September 23 Depew, New York 14th Annual Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Annual Show & Sale, Polish Falcons Hall, 445 Columbia Avenue, Depew, New York 14043, Sunday 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Set up: Sunday 7:00 am to 9:00 am, tables $20.00, additional tables $10.00, Admission: $2.00, children under 12 free, http://gbbca. org, Contact: Joe Guerra (Secretary), 29 Nina Terrace, West Seneca, New York 14224, 716.674.5750, e-mail: jguerra3@roadrunner.com, Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association September 29 Santa Ana, California New Date & New Location The Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club’s 46th Annual Antique Bottle, Fruit Jar, Antiques & Collectibles Show & Sale will be held at the Santa Ana Elks Lodge, 212 Elk Lane, Santa Ana, California 92701, Dealer setup: 7:00 am – 9:00 am; Early Buyers: $5.00 – 8:00 am – 4:00 pm; General Admission: $3.00 – 9:00 am – 4:00 pm. Info Contact: Don Wippert 818.346.9833 or Email: donwippert@yahoo.com Dick Homme 818.362.3368 September 30 Lowell, Massachusetts Merrimack Valley Antique Bottle Club’s 38th Annual Show and Sale, General Admission: 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Early Buyers 8:00 am, Location: Lowell Elks Club Hall, 40 Old Ferry Road, Lowell,

67 Massachusetts 01854 (take exit 32 off US Rt. 3 and follow the signs).

For information contact: Cliff Hoyt: 978.458.6575 or Maureen Crawford: 978.897.7327 Additional information, maps, dealer contracts, and discount coupons available at: http://choyt48. home.comcast.net/mvbc.htm October 05 & 06 Canyonville, Oregon Jefferson State Antique Bottle, Insulator & Collectible Show & Sale at the Seven Feathers Casino Resort, I-5 Exit 99, 146 Chief Miwaleta Lane, Canyonville, Oregon 97417, Saturday – October 6th, 2012 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Free Admission! Dealer setup 5 October from 12:00 noon to 7:00 pm and 6 October from 7:00 am to 9:00 am. Early lookers 12:00 noon to 7:00 pm Friday & 8:00 am – 9:00 am Saturday – $10.00. Jefferson State Antique Bottle Collectors www. ecandm.com/canyonville October 06 Richmond, Virginia Richmond 41st Antique Bottle Show and Sale, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Admission: $3.00, Early Admission: 7:30 am, $10.00, Chesterfield County Fairgrounds, 10300 Courthouse Road, Chesterfield, Virginia 23832, Info: RichBottleClub@comcast.net or Marvin Croker 804.275.1101 or Ed Faulkner 804.739.2951 October 06 & 07 Elsecar, Yorkshire, England Autumn Extravaganza Weekend Saturday, 500+ lot auction, Doors open 9:00 am, auction 11:00 am. Sunday show and auction – 8:30 am to 2:00 pm.

Auction 11:00 am, Elsecar Heritage Centre, Nr Barnsley, S. Yorks, S74 8HJ, England, Info: BBR 00441226 745156, email: sales@onlinebbr.com October 12 & 13 Santa Rosa, California Northwestern Bottle Collectors Association Annual Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show, Santa Rosa Veterans Building, 1351 Maple Avenue, Santa Rosa, California, Saturday, 13 October

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(More) Sho-Biz 2012, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Early admission, Friday 12 October 2012, 12:00 noon to 6:00 pm, Free admission, Early admission $10.00, Contact: Bev Siri, tele: 707.542.6438, email: rtsiri@ sbcglobal.net or John Burton, tele: 707.318.2469, email: johnburton@ msn.com October 21 Findlay, Ohio 36th Annual Findlay Antique Bottle Show (9:00 am – 2:00 pm, early buyers 7:00 am) at the Old Barn Auction House, 10040 St. Rt. 224 West, Findlay, Ohio. Directions: Go West on SR224 from I-75 (exit 159). Admission: $2.00, Early-Bird Admission: $10.00 (“Dealer-only” set-up & dinner on Saturday, 20 October) Info: Showchairman is Fred Curtis 419.424.0486 or Marianne Dow finbotclub@gmail. com, 419.455.1112 Club website: finbotclub.blogspot.com November 9 & 10 Jacksonville, Florida Antique Bottle Collectors of North Florida 45th Annual Show & Sale, (Saturday, 8:00 am to 3:00 pm; early buyers Friday, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm),

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Fraternal Order of Police Building, 5530 Beach Boulevard, Jacksonville, Florida, Free admission Saturday, Info: Mike Skie, 3047 Julington Creek Road, Jacksonville, Florida 32223, Tele: 904.710.0422 or Jackie McRae, 904.879.3696

at 7:00 am for $15.00. $4 admission, at St. Andrew Parish Center (2 minutes from I-275) 553 Main Street in Milford, Ohio, Information: Steve Singer, 1684 Autumn Oak Drive, Batavia, Ohio 45103, Tele: 513.732.2793, singersams@yahoo.com

November 11 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Annual Pittsburgh Antique Bottle Club’s Annual Show at The Ice Garden, Rostraver Twp., Gallitin Road and Route 51 North, Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania 15089, Sunday 11 November, General admission: $3.00, Show time: 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, Early admission: $25.00, 7:00 am – 9:00 am, Set up time: Hospitality dinner and boxes under table Saturday night 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Set up Sunday: 7:00 am – 9:00 am, 1st table $30.00, 2nd & 3rd tables: $25.00, Pittsburgh Antique Bottle Club, Contact: Bob DeCroo, 694 Fayette City Road, Fayette City, Pennsylvania 15438, 724.326.8741

December 1 Auburn, California 49er Historical Association 35th Annual “Best of the West” Bottle & Antique Show, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Free Admission! Set-up: Friday, 30 November 2012, Noon to 7:00 pm at the Gold Country Fairgrounds, 1275 High Street, Auburn, California, Contact: Mike McKillop, 916.367.1829, pville1871@yahoo.com

November 17 Milford, Ohio St. Andrew Antique Bottle Show (9:00 am – 1:00 pm) with Early Admission

July 20 & 21 Manchester, New Hampshire Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors presents the 2013 National Antique Bottle Show at the Radisson of New Hampshire Expo Center. Quality collectors from across the USA will be gathered for the first National Show to be offered in New England. Stay tuned for more information!

Where there’s a will there’s a way to leave Donations to the FOHBC Did you know the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors is a 501C(3) charitable organization? How does that affect you? It allows tax deductions for any and all donations to the FOHBC. You might also consider a bequest in your will to the FOHBC. This could be a certain amount of money or part or all of your bottle collection. The appraised value of your collection would be able to be deducted from your taxes. (This is not legal advice, please consult an attorney) I give and bequeath to the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077, the sum of $____________ to be used as its Board of Directors determines.

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

Thank you for considering us in your donation plans.

Gene Bradberry, President Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors

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Membership Benefits

The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors cordially invites you to join a dedicated group of individuals and clubs who collect, study and display the treasured glass and ceramic gems of yesteryear.

The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors (FOHBC) is a non-profit organization supporting collectors of historical bottles, flasks, jars, and related items. The goal of the FOHBC is to promote the collection, study, preservation and display of historical bottles and related artifacts and to share this information with other collectors and individuals.

Federation membership is open to any individual or club interested in the enjoyment and study of antique bottles. The Federation publication, Bottles and Extras, is well known throughout the hobby world as the leading publication for those interested in bottles and “go-withs”. The magazine includes articles of historical interest, stories chronicling the hobby and the history of bottle collecting, digging stories, regional news, show reports, advertisements, show listings, and an auction directory. Bottles and Extras is truly the place to go when information is needed about this popular and growing hobby.

In addition to providing strength to a national/international organization devoted to the welfare of the hobby, your FOHBC membership benefits include: • A full year subscription the Federation’s official bi-monthly publication, Bottles and Extras • One free ad per yearly membership of 60 words for use for “wanted” items, trade offers, etc.

• Eligibility for a discount at FOHBC sponsored shows (National or EXPOs) towards “early admission” or dealer table rent • Access to a knowledge of the world of antique bottle collecting unavailable elsewhere • Contact information for clubs devoted to the study of historical bottles • A forum for your writings, articles, and editorials regarding the hobby • Participation in the nomination and selection of Federation members for the Honor Roll and Hall of Fame • Federation-sponsored writing, show poster, and newsletter-design contests • Free publication assistance for your book or manuscript • And more...

We encourage Affiliated Bottle Club memberships by offering these additional benefits to your group: • Display advertising in Bottles and Extras at an increased discount of 50% • Insertion of your bottle club show ad on the Federation website to increase your show’s exposure • Links to your club website free of charge, as well as assistance with the creation of your website • Free Federation ribbon for Most Educational Display at your show • Slide programs for use at your club meetings • Participation in Federation sponsored insurance program for your club show and any other club sponsored activities Finally…

We need your support! Our continued existence is dependent upon your participation as well as expanding our membership. The Federation is the only national organization devoted to the enjoyment, study, preservation, collection, and display of historical bottles.

The FOHBC welcomes individuals who would like to contribute by running for Board positions or by sharing their expertise and volunteering their talents in other areas of interest such as contributions to our publications, assistance with the Federation’s National and EXPO shows, or through membership promotion.

If you haven’t yet joined our organization, please do so and begin reaping the benefits. If you are already a member, please encourage your friends and fellow collectors to JOIN US!!

For more information, questions, or to join the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, please contact:

Alan DeMaison 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077 phone: (H) 440-358-1223, (C) 440-796-7539 e-mail: a.demaison@sbcglobal.net

or visit our home page on the web at www.FOHBC.org

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FOHBC MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY New Club San Luis Obispo Bottle Society 124 - 21st Street Paso Robles, CA 93446 805-238-6864

New Members Bob Riddick 1450 Roscoe Rd. Lexington, SC 29073 803-957-4807 cbarid@aol.com Collects: Aiken, SC Jack W. Garrett 9357 County Lane 191 Carthage, Montana 64836 417-359-3326 jwg1951@fastfreedom.net Collects: Cure, beer, S.W. Missouri, pharmicies, Fort Scott Kansas bottles Barry Adams 4634 N. 57th Avenue Phoenix, AZ 85031-1613 623-846-2118 frogdog@gmaim.com Collects: Fruit jars, purple glass “Desert Glass�

Raymond Trottier 52 Flag Hole Road Franklin, NH 03235 603-934-3839 Collects: Bottles in general, odd sizes and colors in particular Teddy Parker 824 Hollingshead Rd. Leasburg, MD 65535 573-885-0752 Todd Anderson 749 Ivy Wood Drive Hartford, AL 36344 334-248-6115 toddanderson36340@yahoo.com Collects: Alabama bottles and tokens Kevin Ishikawa

3429 Capitol Dr. North Las Vegas, NV 89032 702-415-7347 choicecam00@hotmail.com Collects: Soda bottles Derek Espiritu 92-1246 Hookeha Street Kapolei, HI 96707 808-220-8512 bodekhawaii@aol.cm Collects: Bottles, wooden dry cleaning hangers from Hawaii Kent Roush 4142 Airport Road #3 Cincinnati, OH 45226 513-321-9242 roushcincinnati@aol.com Collects: Ohio pontils, flask Steven J Bates 41 Nichols Street Putman, CT 06360 860-428-2698 sjbates2001@aol.com Michael Campbell 190 Victory Lane Belton, SC 29627 864-338-2286 jjcampbell2@gmail.com Collects: SC bottles Alex Okinczyc 12 Emerald Dr. Key West, FL 33040 305-295-9187 Collects: Key West bottles and Maritime artifacts Bob Cerkleski 38 Key Haven Rd. Key West, FL 33040 305-587-6048 kwbob1@yahoo.com Collects: Key West bottles Walter Thomas 588 Sutter St., Apt 451 San Francisco, CA 94102

Dave Anderson 1976 Joseph Rd York, PA 17408 717-818-6632 danderson67cam@gmail.com Collects: Medicines, patent, pharmaceutical, apothecary, and related, advertisements and other bottles. Alson antique furniture Michelle M. Hartman 2910 Plum Creek Road Lewistown, MI 59457 406-538-7213 michelle.hartman1@gmail.com Collects: bottles, crocks Carl T Hotkowski 206 East St. Wolcott, CT 06716 203-592-8237 ctmh@megahits.com Matt McCaslin 223 Trevethan Ave Santa Cruz, CA 95062-1201 831-459-0406 matt.mccaslin@sbcglobal.net Collects: San Francisco Whiskey Flasks Ken Gaeta 101 W. McKnight Way B 127 Grass Valley, CA 95949 925-864-3300 Bill Bush 1628 Nash St. Garland, TX 75042 972-249-8184 Don Dwyer P.O. Box 250 Forbestown, CA 95941 530-589-2117 Tim Schweighart 1123 Santa Luisa Dr. Solana Beach, CA 92075 858-699-6623 kamargo@sbcglobal.net

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FOHBC MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY Max Bell 852 Holly Hills Dr. Auburn, CA 95603 blessedx5@sbcglobal.net

Welcome Back Jan Christianson PO Box 184 Marysville, WA 98270

Changes Lynne Harcharik & Bruce Gradwohl 629 3rd St. Helena, Montana 59601 bagradwohl@bresnan.net Collects: Helena, Montana bottles, Montana jugs, USA Hospital, Hostetters

Bob Hirsch 10541 Bluefield Ave. Whittier, CA 90604 562-941-6979 Bob.Hirsch@verizon.net Collects: Old padlocks, Los Angeles bottles, tokens

Larry Onyskow 305 East Minton Dr. Tempe, AZ 85282 480-831-1402 lponyskow@aol.com Collects: Fruit jars, advertsing jigsaw puzzles

Brent VanDeman 6528 N 186th Ave. Waddell, AZ 85355 602-818-6490 azokie99@cox.net Collects: Arizona Bottles, Indian & Territory Bottles

Patrick O. Darneille 16828 Mountain View Lane NE Woodburn, OR 97071 503-982-1044 crosbycreek.2@gmail.com Collects: Old medicines, dolls, and other early American artifacts

Betty Bowman 4931 Nettleton #4114 Medina, OH 44256 330-721-3014 Collects: barber bottles

All ads must be paid for in advance.

Make checks payable to FOHBC (Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors) Send payment to: Alan DeMasion, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077 Notice to Members Please check your mailing label for correctness and your membership expiration date. This will insure you continue to receive Bottles and Extras without interruption. If moving, please send in a change of address, Contact: FOHBC Business Manager: Alan DeMaison, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077; phone: (H) 440-358-1223, (C) 440-796-7539; e-mail: a.demaison@sbcglobal.net

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Bottles and Extras Individual and Affiliated Club Information

FOHBC Individual Membership Application

For Membership, complete the following application or signup at www.fohbc.org (Please Print)

Name ____________________________ Address ____________________________ City _____________ State___________ Zip _____________ Country________ Telephone____________________________ Email Address_________________________

Do you wish to be listed in the printed membership directory? (name, address, phone number, email address and what you collect) { } Yes { } No

Do you wish to be listed in the online membership directory? (name, address, phone number, email address and what you collect) { } Yes { } No

Bottles & Extras FREE ADS

Category: “WANTED” Maximum - 60 words Limit - One free ad per current membership year.

Category: “FOR SALE” Maximum - 100 words Limit - 1 ad per issue.

(Use extra paper if necessary.)

Collecting Interests_____________________

____________________________

____________________________ Would you be interested in

____________________________ serving as an officer? {

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Adtional Comments_ ___________________ Would you be interested

____________________________ in contributing your bottle knowledge by writing articles for the Bottles and Extras? { } Yes { } No

Membership/Subscription rates for one year (6 issues) (Circle One)

United States - second class $30.00 - second class for three years $75.00 - first class $45.00

Canada - first class $50.00 Other countries - first class $65.00

(all first class sent in appropriate mailer) Add an Associate Membership* to any of the above at $5.00 for each associate for each year

Name(s) of Associate(s)__________________________

Signature _ _________________________ Date______________

*Associate Membership is available to members of the immeadiate family of any adult holding an Individual Membership. Children of ages 21 or older must have their own individual membership.

Associate(s) Members enjoy all of the right and privledges of an Individual Membership

Please make checks or money orders payable to Fohbc and mail to: FOHBC Membership, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville OH 44077 Effective 9/2011

Affiliated Club Membership for only $75.00 with liability insurance for all club sponsered events, 50% discount on advertising in the B & E, plus much more, Contact: Alan DeMaison, FOHBC Business Manager 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville OH 44077 440-358-1223 or a.demaison@sbcglobal.net

Clearly Print or Type Your Ad Send to: Alan DeMaison FOHBC Business Manager 1605 Clipper Cove Painesville, OH 44077 0r better yet, email Alan at: a.demaison@sbcglobal.net

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Please Check your information and notify us of errors.

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Join the FOHBC and Norman C. Heckler & Company for a

Drakes, Whiskey & Umbrella Ink ShootOut WHERE: The FOHBC 2012 EXPO in Reno, Nevada WHEN: Saturday, July 28th at 5:45 P.M. WHO: Any collector who’s packin’ WHAT: Your Best Drakes, JH Cutter Whiskey (Thomas #43) and/or Umbrella Ink. We’ll line ’em up and decide a winner. Think you got the best?

Bring it to Reno!

A fun time for all! Come enjoy complimentary Hors d’oeuvres and available cocktails. Go to hecklerauction.com/shootout.html for more information.

Norman C. Heckler & Company Auctioneers & Appraisers of Antique Bottles and Glass, Period Decorative Arts, Singular Art Objects, and Estates 79 Bradford Corner Road, Woodstock Valley, CT 06282 | (860) 974-1634 | www.hecklerauction.com