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VOLUME 37, #4 • August 2020 FRONT COVER:

The beautiful, colorful, and highly graphic label from "KING SOLOMON'S BITTERS" of Seattle, Washington (R/H #K49), provides the backdrop of this month's cover. In the foreground is "SOLOMONS' STRENGTHING & INVIGORATING BITTERS" from Savannah, Georgia (R/H #S140). Read all about it beginning on page 37.

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In This Issue:

Editors: Ralph Finch Bill Baab Jodi Hall

Letters to the Editor........................................................................... 2

Managing Editor Libby Smith The Medicine Chest John Panella Joe Widman American Historical Flasks Mark Vuono New England Review Mike George Bitters Columnist Bob Strickhart Spouting off on Mineral Waters Donald Tucker Contributing Writers: Ralph Finch Kevin Sives

Heard it through the Grapevine......................................................... 4 Guilford Mineral Springs................................................................... 6 A Potter's Privy................................................................................... 8 Who is John Ault?............................................................................. 14 Fruit Jar Rambles: Bade Duplex Jars............................................... 17 Classified Advertisements................................................................. 22 Show Calendar.................................................................................. 26 The Story of L.L. Bultman................................................................ 31 The R.M. Rose Distillery.................................................................. 32

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The Wisdom of Solomon.................................................................. 37

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The Ellenville Glass Works, by Phil Bernnard Mobile Bottler Twelves, by David Kyle Rakes The Stoneware Doctor, by John Savastio Fruit Jar Rambles: A Solid-Pour Safety Lid, by Tom Caniff Medicine Chest: Some Killer Finds, by John Panella and Joe Widman And other very cool stuff! August 2020

LETTERS

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A Clairvoyant Discovery Editor’s note: The letter below was received by AB&GC Medicine Chest columnist Joe Widman. Hello, Joe, I enjoyed your article in the recent issue of the magazine. I, too, like odd names in medicines, but I have not really collected them. The two that I have are rather odd, as they both deal with clairvoyance. One is a square, aqua 5 1/2 inches tall bottle embossed on three sides: DR. FITZGERALD’S / CLAIRVOYANT DISCOVERY / DEXTER MAINE. It’s early, maybe about 1880. I haven’t researched it much, so I can’t give you any info about it. This one I’ll sell. I just bought it a few years ago because of the word Clairvoyant on it. The second I am much more familiar with because I researched the woman heavily and even put together a Powerpoint program about her. Her clear bottles are usually embossed: MRS. J. H. R. MATTESON CLAIRVOYANT REMEDIES / BUFFALO, N.Y. There are variant embossings. Some say PSYCHIC REMEDIES on the side, also with her daughter’s name, NELLIE WHITCOMB, who sold the meds after her mother died. These are usually bimal bottles, later ABM ones. Mrs. M sold the meds at Lily Dale, N.Y., the “World’s Center for the Study of Spiritualism.” Lily Dale is about twelve miles from my home in Chautauqua Co., N.Y. She would go into trance and commune with her Indian spirit guides who would help her with the proper ingredients. The woman was brilliant and awarded for helping the homeless and destitute in Buffalo. She was a very giving person, and a published author, too.

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I have about twelve different Clairvoyant Remedies bottles, four with labels showing Mrs. M’s photograph. The bottles are kind of scarce and highly collectible. I gave three different duplicates I had to the Lily Dale Museum. I think I have two or three more duplicates. I look for them everywhere I go to see how many variants there are. I also have her business card. I’ll attach a picture of the bottles (at right and below). I didn’t take a pic of the Fitzgerald bottle yet, but I can send you one if you’d like to see it. Mainly I collect New York State redware and stoneware. If you get the bottle mag, you’ll see me on the cover of the January, 2017 issue with the second half of that article in the February issue. Look at those and you’ll see what I have collected for fifty years. I was on the cover of the November, 2019 issue with my son, and I was holding a Pike’s Peak flask on top of Pike’s Peak. That was FUN! Vince Martonis Gerry, New York

LETTERS

to the Editor

Seeking Info on a Rare Bottle

A Potasafras Bottle

Interesting Folk Art Bottle

Hello Again, John Pastor,

To Medicine Chest columnists John Panella and Joe Widman:

Hi, John,

Not too long ago I sent a letter and a photo of Dr. Taft's Asthmalene of New York. I just want to thank you and the staff for your research and info on the bottle. I greatly appreciate it. The other part of my letter pertains to another medicine bottle in its box called Grove's Chill Tonic. I was looking at the bottle recently and saw that the medicine treated malaria. Today we have a serious virus being treated with a medicine that was used for malaria years ago. Sometimes old remedies work better than the new stuff. Maybe they should make Grove's Chill Tonic again — just a thought, John. Wish that you and the staff stay safe, keep the faith and keep well. Since I'm homebound, I'll see if I can dig up another story for you. Take care for now.

I read with interest the article on the Potasafras bottle from Columbus, Ohio, in the June issue of AB&GC. I remembered I have had one for probably thirty years, and it has a label. These are the differences I noted: No date on mine. No ounces embossed on this one. My bottle is shown (below). The label is almost mint. Both sides read “For the blood / Potasafras Columbus Ohio.”

I thought you might enjoy this bottle (below). I found this at an antique store a while back. The artist gave it a 3-D effect by putting the trees in the center of the bottle on the back of the bottle. The artist also took advantage of the milky stains to resemble fog. Jeff Drennan Virginia Beach, Virginia

Any thoughts, John or Joe? Thought this might be of interest. Love the magazine! Bob McMichael Wooster, Ohio

Sincerely, Old dump digger, Roy Henry Uxbridge, Massachusetts

A Punny Letter from a Reader Hi, John, Thank you for providing yet another information-filled issue in the July edition. Seeing Ralph Finch’s penchant for puns, I share this one with you. The article “Bottling Up History,” about buildings constructed of bottles, brought to mind a friend who was once collecting wine bottles to build a makeshift greenhouse. When chatting about it, he asked had I ever heard of the Wailing Wall? Of course, I responded. Well, he said, this will be the Wining Wall. D’oh! Susanna Shepard-Karbowski Hudsonville, Michigan August 2020

Heard it through the

Grapevine Hidden Treasure? The Trail Just Got a Lot Less Rocky Edited from articles in the Associated Press and The Guardian, with smart comments added by Ralph Finch In mid-June, various newspapers reported: “A 13th-century bronze chest filled with gold, jewels, and other valuables worth more than $1 million and hidden a decade ago somewhere in the Rocky Mountain wilderness has been found.” The chest had been tucked away by art and antiquities collector Forrest Fenn, an Air Force veteran turned art dealer, who hid his treasure somewhere in the Rocky Mountains in 2010. Hundreds of thousands have hunted for the chest, many quit their jobs to search for it, and at least five people died looking for it. The clues to the treasure’s whereabouts were hidden in a 24-line poem that was published in his 2010 autobiography, The Thrill of the Chase. Fenn said: “It was under a canopy of stars in the lush, forested vegetation of the Rocky Mountains and had not moved from the spot where I hid it more than ten years ago. The poem in my book led him to the precise spot.” Fenn said he hid the treasure as a way to tempt people to get into the wilderness and give them a chance to launch an oldfashioned adventure and expedition for riches. He said the chest weighs twenty pounds and its contents another twenty. "I give a heartfelt thank you to Forrest for his wild and wonderful adventure that gave me new places to explore, peacefulness, joy, wonder, and a challenge like no other," one searcher commented. TOP: The treasure map and poem with clues. BELOW: The chest of riches and Forrest Fenn.

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Heard it through the

Grapevine

A $10 Lunch Sold for $750,000! By art critic Ralph Finch Is this art? Well, it shows a bottle of orange pop (oooooh) and a bottle of ketchup (another oooooh) and a hamburger. That, no doubt, IS art. But, it was offered at auction last June with a minimum bid of $600,000! Why? Because Heritage, the auction house, estimated its worth at $1,200,000$1,800,000. And it didn’t even include a frame! This oil on canvas from 1961, by Wayne Thiebaud (1920-present), is called “Orange Drink.”* Lot 77021 sold on June 18 for a bargain(?) $750,000 plus a buyer’s premium. (But remember, if you turn the bottle in you get a 10-cents deposit back!) *This may fall in the TMI category, but at about age twelve I was introduced to Orange Crush. While those amber bottles didn’t provide a lot of pop, they held an incredible taste! At that time, not knowing better, I thought this yummy experience had to be among the best in the world.

Editor’s note: About the artist, Wikipedia notes that Thiebaud is “an American painter known for his colorful works depicting commonplace objects — pies, lipsticks, paint cans, ice cream cones, pastries and hot dogs. He is associated with the pop art movement because of his interest in objects of mass culture, although his early works, executed during the ’50s and ’60s, slightly predate the works of the classic pop artists.” “For centuries, artists painted tabletop arrangements of fruits, flowers and vegetables,” Heritage director of modern and contemporary art Holly Sherratt added. “With an overflowing basket of fries, full bottle of orange soda, Thiebaud adopted a playful visual language more fitting for American tastes in the age of mass consumption.” Heritage was the Dallas auction house that offered the Thiebaud painting. Art is strange, I’ve known that for decades. Many years ago the Detroit News art critic retired and, as a parting gift and knowing I was a glass collector, gave me a piece of glass. And after all these years I still don’t know what it is.

TOP LEFT: This prized painting by a legendary artist known for his portrayals of everyday items ranging from lipsticks to paint cans to his most famous subject, colorful still life portraits of assorted desserts, was projected to bring well over $1 million in Modern & Contemporary Art Auction June 18 in Dallas, Texas. Wayne Thiebaud's "Orange Drink," 1961, is a classic work by the renowned American artist who will celebrate his 100th birthday in November. TOP RIGHT: Here is a bottle of the old-time, delicious Orange Crush, still enjoyed today! BOTTOM RIGHT: This photo, dated 1925, was found on the internet. When I was twelve, I think I could have finished off all this sweet juice in about an hour … maybe an hour and ten minutes if you add in all the potty breaks.

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Guilford D Mineral Springs A collector takes a stroll into Vermont’s history By Richard Cofrancesco

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own a country road in Guilford, Vermont, lies an old carriage road leading to the site where people once gathered to take the waters of the Guilford Mineral Springs. Even though locals had known of the curative powers of this water, it wasn’t until 1868 that “a company of gentlemen of a scientific and business character purchased the estate within which the Spring is situated, for the purpose of bringing the water, with all its health-imparting influences, more directly before the public.” [1] As a bottle collector, I was interested to see the site where my Guilford Mineral Springs bottle had been filled. I picked up a trail map at the head of the four-tenths mile Weeks Forest Carriage Trail, named and improved by the Guilford Conservation Commission. We strolled along Broad Brook, where carriages once passed, alongside rock ledges and the “Guilfords” constructed by local sixth graders as part of their forest study. We came to the moss-covered stone foundation that was once part of the bottling plant. I set my bottle on the wall and photographed it next to remnants

of long ago bottles (which of course the visitor would never disturb or take). Quart bottles of the mineral water once sold for $6 per case of 24 bottles and the water was also sold in 20 and 40 gallon barrels. [2] The waters contained minerals dissolved by the acids in the water when it flowed very slowly through the bedrock and up through the wetlands over thousands of years. According to the 1869 Weeks and Potter booklet, Guilford Mineral Spring Water, “The taste is slightly ironized, with a taste of magnesia, and when drank cold is an agreeable beverage.”[3] When I found out the Guilford Historical Society did not have a bottle from the mineral springs, I tracked another one down to donate to them. Many thanks to Linda and Steve Lembke, who introduced me to this unique natural and historic site and who worked with others to make it such an inviting place to enjoy both history and nature. REFERENCES: 1-3 Guilford Mineral Spring Water, booklet, Weeks and Potter, 1869.

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Pieces and people help put together a picture of the past By Peter Jablonski

he first weekend of May for the past three years my wife, Heather, and I have attended a stoneware collectors’ group biannual get together. It starts with a lecture on a specific type of pottery presented by one of its members at the New York State Museum in Albany. Following the lecture, members are given a behind-the-scenes tour of the Adam Weitsman stoneware collection. Members then proceed to Bennington, Vermont, for camaraderie and dinner at the Madison Brewing Co. Pub & Restaurant. The next morning is an outdoor stoneware flea market. Three years ago the lecture was on Rochester (N.Y.) area potteries presented by Dr. John Sladek. In his presentation he showed a slide of the house of Thompson Harrington, who ran the stoneware pottery in Lyons, N.Y. Fast forward three years to the Covid crisis and now I have nothing but time on my hands. I obtained permission to dig the privy of Thompson Harrington. Digger Dave Potter, who collects Buffalo stoneware and belongs to the stoneware group, joined me. The day started off by digging a trash pit in the yard next to Harrington’s home. Dave found a Pennsylvania Keystone pint mason jar, and I unearthed a brass dragon. In Harrington’s yard we did two

test holes, each being a well. Four weeks later the Privy Meisters were prepared to dig at a new permission. Unfortunately, things didn’t go as planned, because the tenant complained to the landlord even though we had not even started digging. We decided on Plan B and probed the heck out of Harrington’s yard. The soil is a sandy loam and the probe sinks everywhere. Luckily we had our six-foot probe. Right behind the backdoor Dave plunged it and pulled out ash on the tip. As we started removing dirt we could see it was a brick-lined privy. In all my years of digging I have never seen a brick lined privy in western New York state. As we took turns clearing the vault of ash and debris we could see there was no end in sight. Coming out with the ash were typical shards of salt-glazed stoneware, ironstone china, clam shells and bones. Brandon St. John, aka Brando (his branded digging name), pulled out the first bottle, a stoneware master ink impressed Bourne England, followed by a beautiful ornately colored Pratt-ware jar depicting a detailed scene with ladies picnicking above a mansion with water and clipper ships below. Dave pulled out an unembossed cylindrical olive jar and a broken ovoid jar marked Lyons. The hole was getting too deep to throw the dirt out so we began to use a rope and a bucket.

Anything can appear during a dig.

Peter Jablonski unearths another treasure.

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Sam found a most unusual item, a canine bear tooth whistle along with a Miliken’s Parlor Pride Stove enamel bottle. Digger Don was next. When he found a bottle I eagerly asked, “Is there anything on it?” “Yes,” Don replied. “What is it ?” “Dirt,” Don retorted. “Ha, ha,” the Privy Meisters chimed in. Donning a hard hat I went back in, carefully climbing down the ladder into the abyss. Hurray, I found two large shards marked T. Harrington Lyons, NY with cobalt flower decoration. It’s always fun to dig a privy, but now when you know whose home it was it takes on new meaning. Thompson Harrington was born in Brookfield, Mass., in 1803. He worked at a pottery in Hartford, Conn. before arriving in Lyons, N.Y., in 1826. In 1832 Nathan Clark & Co hired him to manage the pottery. He produced finely decorated stoneware depicting lions, horses and starbursts that sometimes incorporated a human face in the center. According to Dr. Sladek, he was probably influenced by his time working at the Clark Pottery in Rochester, N.Y., that was run by John Burger. He owned shares of the pottery with Burger between 1851-54, when the pottery was known as Harrington & Burger, which made some of the finest stoneware of the nineteenth century. PREVIOUS PAGE PHOTO 1: Thompson Harrington photograph. PHOTO 2: An old map showing Harrington properties along the Erie Canal. PHOTO 3: The Harrington home in Lyons, N.Y. PHOTO 4: Thompson Harrington grave marker with Latin inscription. PHOTO 5: A product and price list for T. Harrington stoneware. THIS PAGE TOP: Two examples of Harrington stoneware. BOTTOM: A beautiful, ornately colored Pratt-ware jar depicting a detailed scene with ladies picnicking by a mansion, with water and clipper ships behind.

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The finds are piling up quickly.

A collection of kiln furniture.

Peter flexes his digging muscles.

You never know what might come up.

An unusual canine bear tooth whistle.

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Peter pulls a shard out of the pit.

The pottery equipment inventory for July 1836 valued it at $20,651.57, which included tools, horses and a canal boat named the Water Witch. The Lyons pottery was located along the Erie canal, which gave them access to superior clays from Long Island and New Jersey needed to make stoneware. Harrington was a very astute businessman who advertised throughout New York state. One ad boldly read: “Warranted superior to any manufactured in the state, purchasers themselves being the judges.” Clearly, Harrington was successful and was well thought of in the community. Local history depicts him and his brother, Amos, riding at the head of parades and given positions of honor at public meetings. In the 1870s Harrington was aged and suffered from dementia. He leased the works in 1872 to Jacob Fisher. Harrington passed away in 1874. (From Potters and Potteries of New York State, 1650-1900, by William C. Ketchum Jr.)

stoneware squares along with an odd-fist squeezed clay that was clearly fired in the kiln. These pieces are kiln furniture. When firing stoneware in a kiln for 2,300 degrees for three days potters had to stack the kiln with as much pottery as they could. The kiln furniture was placed on top of each crock so they wouldn’t stick together in the kiln. Along with the kiln furniture we dug two broken stoneware lambs and a stoneware base showing legs of a human. Although we don’t know who resided in this home in the 1840s clearly they had worked at the pottery, and perhaps they were good friends with Thompson.

Unearthing privies for tangible pieces of the past can be disheartening when most bottles and stoneware are in pieces. However, when using these shards to give us a glimpse into life in the past and helping us view the potters skills and tools they used in their trade, finding shards is priceless in teaching others about the past. Most important is sharing the moments and history with good friends with a common goal. Special thanks to Dr. John Sladek for use of pictures and research information and, especially, for inspiring me to write this article.

Harrington’s tomb is engraved with this epitaph in Latin: Justum et tenacem propositi virum ... Which translates to “The just man, firm of purpose, cannot be shaken in his rocklike soul, by the heat of fellow citizens clamouring for what is wrong, nor by the presence of a threatening tyrant.” Next, I unearthed a Hoffland’s German Bitters. Brando pulled out a Burdock Blood Bitters Buffalo, and Dave a quartsized stoneware pot lid. Sam discovered a house ink embossed Fred Aillings Rochester N.Y. along with an aqua cone ink. Brando found a broken Warner’s Safe Cure. I pulled out a tear-jerker, a stoneware stand for a water jug with lots of cobalt decoration. In a different privy at a different house I dug with digger Brian Gage — a talented artist who draws comical cartoons of our privial pursuits — and Digger Don, metal detectorist extraordinaire. Besides pontiled shards, we unearthed round and rectangular

The privy meisters celebrate another successful dig.

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Who is John Ault? Get to know this United Kingdom collector thanks to this interview with Ralph Finch, and learn about a great flask as well

et’s let John start it off wih some history. “Here’s the bio of how I got into the hobby. I’m 68 years old, Gravesend, Kent, U.K. born and bred. Back in 1984 I was into customized cars, no interest in bottle collecting at all. As it approached my mother’s seventieth birthday I started to research my maternal great-grandfather, Charles Henry Perry, whose mineral water company was based in Manor Road, Gravesend. “Then one night, while having a few beers with my brother in a local pub, he said there was a housing estate being built on adjoining land, which was a former Victorian rubbish dump. So we wandered over, and there were bottles everywhere. While digging we met some pioneers of the bottle scene, including Jim Bell, who told about the Hollingbourne auctions, Invicta Kent club, and various shows. “I did a swap with Brian Thatcher for a unique brown Haig Brothers Gravesend Codd. He showed me his amazing bottle room. Eventually the car went, and the rest is history. After a while my brother and his wife dropped out of the hobby, but only after amassing a great inks collection, the best of which I purchased. “I enjoy composing articles for the two bottle collecting magazines and social networks. I’ve been on TV several times, and met loads of wonderful people (and a tiny minority of not-so-wonderful

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The old Queen’s Head in Islington, a district of London, as shown in a drawing from around 1800. Ralph Finch says: “So many old pubs look similar. Has your editor been here? Oh, no, it was the King’s Head in Islington, where — on a stage about the size of my kitchen — I watched author Eve Ensler perform the London premier of her Vagina Monologues.

people). I have made friends and traded with everyone from former armed bank robbers (at least I hope they are reformed!) to multi-millionaires. What a great hobby!” A great flask from the Mother Land by way of Bismark, North Dakota? Ralph Finch continues: Those of us Yanks who have been fortunate enough to have returned to the mother country will ap-

preciate the following story. I somehow have made the visit to England twenty times, sometimes to the West End theaters, sometimes to visit English friends, and often to wander through the many incredible antiques markets. Also, many of us owe lots to Jim Hagenbuch for his great trips, taking us to England, France, and the Netherlands (home of many 1700s bottles and a few billion tulip bulbs).

John Ault wrote to us recently about this item: “A very rare flask supplied to customers by Charles Browne, landlord of The Old Queen Elizabeth’s Head, 44 Essex Road, Islington. Made by the elusive Lambeth potter F. Wetherill on 17th July 1836, which is indistinctly inscribed under the base. It was acquired from a deceased’s estate sale of antiques in Bismarck, North Dakota!

The original imposing Tudor-style building was constructed in the 17th century and demolished in 1829, when the existing Grade II listed Old Queen’s Head was built. The Queen’s Head still retains some of the imposing features from the interior of the original building, including an early moulded plaster ceiling decorated with ornamental bands, panels and various emblems. There is also an intricate

wood and stone chimneypiece featuring carved scenes and figures on either side of the hearth. The pub is said to be connected with Sir Walter Raleigh, and it has been claimed that he once owned the pub. Walter Thornbury, writing in 1878, mentions this possible link: “Tradition had long connected this house with the name of Sir Walter Raleigh, though with no sufficient reason. In the thirtieth year of Elizabeth, Sir Walter obtained a patent ‘to make licences for keeping of taverns and retailing of wines throughout England’.” This house may be one of those to which Raleigh granted licences, and the sign then marked the reign in which it was granted. Another story is that Queen Elizabeth’s saddler resided here, while others assert that it was the summer residence of the Earl of Essex and the resort of Elizabeth. It’s also said to be haunted by the figures of a woman and child dressed in Tudor clothing, but not sure what they would make of the pub now that it’s a wellknown hip-hop and R&B music venue.”

Editor’s note: Regarding John Ault’s home town, Wikipedia reveals that Gravesend is an ancient town in northwest Kent, England, situated 21 miles east-southeast of Charing Cross (central London) on the south bank of the Thames Estuary. Extensive Roman remains have been found nearby, and Gravesend lies immediately to the north of the Roman road connecting London with the Kent coast. The Domesday Book recorded mills, small ports and fisheries here. The Milton Chantry is Gravesend’s oldest surviving building and dates from the early 14th century. It was refounded as a chapel in the years 1320 and 1321 on the original site of a former leper hospital founded in 1189. TOP: The Queen’s Head, Essex Road, Islington, as it appeared around 1680. BOTTOM: John Ault, left, enjoys talking bottles with other collectors.

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On March 21, 1617, John Rolfe and his Native American wife Rebecca (Pocahontas), with their two-year-old son, Thomas, boarded a ship in London bound for the Commonwealth of Virginia. The ship had only sailed as far as Gravesend before Rebecca fell ill, and she died shortly after she was taken ashore. The site of her grave was underneath the church’s chancel, though since the previous church was destroyed by fire in 1727 her exact resting place is unknown. ABOVE: The rare flask supplied to customers by Charles Browne, landlord of The Old Queen’s Head. It was acquired from an estate sale in Bismark, North Dakota! TOP RIGHT: The Old Queen’s Head as it looked in 2019. BOTTOM RIGHT: Base of the flask, inscribed by Lambeth potter F. Wetherill on July 17, 1836.

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So, how does that compare with your American town’s history? Do you live near the oldest known Wendy’s? Editor’s note: John Ault can be emailed at maryault59@hotmail.com. ALSO: In a future issue of AB&GC we will have more photos from John’s collections, including Victorian inhalers.

Fruit Jar Rambles Extra By Tom Caniff — Photos by Deena Caniff

BADE DUPLEX Most unembossed fruit jars are worth little as collectibles beyond their canning value, and even collectible base-embossed fruit jars are in less demand generally than side-embossed jars.

PHOTO 1: ORIGINAL BADE DUPLEX jar and lid.

The 7 1/2 inches tall, clear (light aqua tint) jar in Photo 1 is in yet another category, having its lettering acid-etched on the side of the jar. Exactly what prompted this German company to opt for the acid etching rather than the standard side embossing is unknown, as is much of the information on the company itself. The jar bears acid-etched lettering on its side in a diagonal, reading ORIGINAL BADE DUPLEX 1 LTR. Its lid is embossed on the underside ORIGINAL BADE DUPLEX with 100 m/m in the center, all to be read through the top. The jar’s base is embossed simply 1L. The jar has a neck bead, the top of which is ground, as is the jar’s lip. The bottom edge of the straddle-lip top-seal lid is also ground. A slight, one-inch depression in the center of the lid suggests that the jar may have utilized a flat metal clamp, at least for processing.

FIGURE A (below): ORIGINAL BADE DUPLEX jars from canning booklet.

Interestingly, the jar appears to be a turnmold style, with no vertical seam lines. This would explain the etched lettering, as turn-molding wouldn’t work for a side-embossed jar, whereas a jar made in a turn mold could have the etched lettering added later. Figure A depicts five of the ORIGINAL BADE DUPLEX jars from an undated German jar pamphlet, ranging in size from 1/2 to 2 Litres. “Bade Duplex Sturzglaser mit hochsehenden Randern” at the top translates to “Bath Duplex Cover Glass with high edge.” “Fur Fleisch, Wurst, Kuchen, Gemiise usw. 120 MilAugust 2020

Fruit Jar Rambles Extra By Tom Caniff — Photos by Deena Caniff

limeter” translates to “for meat, sausage, cakes, vegetables etc. 120 millimeters,” and “Mundgeblasen” tells us that the jars are “Mouth-blown.” Page 6 of this undated pamphlet shows a canner with its lid marked “D.R.G.M. Original Bade Duplex.” D.R.G.M. stands for “Deutsches Reichs-Gebrauchmuster” or “German Empire Use Patterns,” which, according to the late Dick Roller, fruit jar researcher and FRUIT JAR NEWSLETTER editor, dates it to the pre-1918 era. Chicken or the egg? Don’t know which came first, the acid-etched ORIGINAL BADE DUPLEX jar above or the acidetched BADE DUPLEX 2L in Photo 2. The lid on this one is embossed BADE DUPLEX 360 120 m/m, and it has a bowed-metal and wire clamp (Photo 3).

PHOTO 2: BADE DUPLEX 2L in acid etching. PHOTO 3: Bowed-metal and wire clamp from BADE DUPLEX 2L jar. FIGURE B: Six BADE DUPLEX jars with clamps.

Six of the BADE DUPLEX jars from the same undated pamphlet are depicted in Figure B with basic flat metal clamps, rather than the bowed-metal and wire clamp on the etched BADE BUPLEX jar above. These are shown in 1/4 up to 2 Ltr. sizes. The heading for these jars translates to “Cheap (or “Inexpensive”) Bath Duplex Glasses.” Information on “Bade Duplex” is almost impossible to come by, but one internet source claims that “Hermann Bade GmbH was founded in 1868,” and that in an undated advertisement the company advertised as a “Wholesaler in enamel, aluminum, household... haberdashery, leather and toys ...” Under the private Bade Duplex label, various household items were reportedly produced and distributed through the retail trade. Internet research suggests that Hermann Bade GmbH & Co. KG of Bad Bevensen, Germany, is still in business, but almost all mention of the company is in German. I have enough trouble with English. Since “Bade” appears to have been the name of the company’s founder, as noted above, it should be retained unchanged as “Bade” in the translations above rather than as “Bath.” The noted pamphlet also shows four cone-shaped, glass-stoppered ORIGINAL BADE DUPLEX jars, or bottles, in sizes from 1/4 to 1 Ltr., for “Milk or Juice” (Figure C). Figure D, from the pamphlet, shows two additional containers, one marked as 1 1/2L on the left, listed as “Kruge,” or “Mugs,” with a different style metal clamp, and the 2 Liter example on the right listed as “Blechdosen,” or “Tin Cans,” with a flat metal clamp. And sparse as it is, that’s all I can find out about the BADE DUPLEX jars. I assume

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that the jars depicted in the pamphlet are embossed rather than etched, but who knows? The pamphlet doesn‘t really stipulate. The etched BADE DUPLEX jars that we’ve shown are confirmed, as is an embossed BADE DUPLEX 1L jar seen in a photo, but there just aren’t a lot of these jars around (in this country at least) and there’s obviously still a lot to learn about them.

Maggi’s products soon found markets beyond Europe, and in February 1888, “Bouillon Maggi,” an Extract of Beef, was being sold by W.M. Miller & Co., a grocer in faraway Wilkes-Barre, Penn., in 5- and 35-ounce sizes. And the above-mentioned “Cross Star” trademark (Figure E) was displayed prominently on a July 1892 billhead from the “Establissements Maggi” in Kemptthal.

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Figure F shows a bottle of “Maggi’s Bouillon James P. Smith & Co., Agents” featured in a December 10, 1896 ad by Charles H. Slack, grocer, that appeared in the CHICAGO TRIBUNE. The square, tapered, long-necked, amber bottle depicted became identified with Maggi, often, but not always, embossed with MAGGI on the four shoulders, and with the trademark “Cross Star” in the center of each side and on the base. This depiction shows no MAGGI shoulder embossing, but the Cross Star trademark appears in the lower center of the “Liquid extract of beef ” label. Bottles with the same basic shape, embossed on the shoulders, are still used today for “Maggi Würze,” translated as “Maggi Seasoning” (Photo 6).

Amber product jars don’t receive the same attention as amber fruit jars, but in Greg Spurgeon’s North American Glass Fall 2019 auction there was an extremely attractive little packer jar of some scarcity and worthy of note. The amber, 3/4 pint, ground-lip jar (Photo 4) stands about 5 inches tall, with a roughly 3 inches body diameter. It is embossed between two bands of fancy-diamond-work just below the shoulder, MAGGI’S GEKORNTE FLEISCHBRUHE, which translates, more or less, to “Maggi’s Granulated Beef Broth.” There’s also a band of fancy work just above the jar’s heel, with two of the same vertical bands connecting the middle and heel band. The metal screw cap (Photo 5), which has a cork liner, is embossed KREUZSTERN, meaning “Cross Star,” above a fourpointed star overlaid in the center with a cross within a square. In 1884, 38-year-old Julius Michael Johannes Maggi took over the flour mill that his father, Michael, an Italian immigrant, had established in Switzerland, in the village of Kemptthal, near Zurich. Julius seemed to excel in commercial food production, introducing ready-made soups in 1886 and then bouillon concentrates in capsules and cubes.

In 1897, Maggi founded Maggi GmbH in Singen, Germany. Then, in September 1921, THE SPICE MILL trade magazine reported that trademark 146,975 had been registered in the United States by The Maggi Co. for the words “CrossStar,” covering “Seasonings in Solid and Liquid Form.” In January 1937, THE SWISS OBSERVER, the journal of the Federation of Swiss Societies in the U.K., commented on “Maggi’s Seasoning, easily recognised by its specially shaped FIGURE C: BADE DUPLEX milk or juice bottles. FIGURE D: BADE DUPLEX Mug and Tin Can. PHOTO 4: MAGGI'S amber seasoning jar.

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bottle with drop stopper attachment. The addition of a few drops of this product, according to palate, will instantly improve in an amazing way the natural flavour not only of soups, but of a great variety of other dishes.” Then in 1947, after a long, successful run, Alimentana S.A., by then the manufacturer of Maggi seasonings and soups, merged with the Nestlé Co., today known as Nestlé-Alimentana S.A. And while product jars may come in second to fruit jars with many collectors, this attractive little MAGGI’s jar brought in a respectable price of $155 when the last auction bell rang.

r PHOTO 5: Cross-Star trademark on MAGGI'S jar cap. FIGURE E: MAGGI'S Cross-Star trademark from1886 Maggi billhead. PHOTO 6: Contemporary bottle of Maggi Wurze in traditional bottle. FIGURE F: 1896 ad for Maggi's bouillon in traditional bottle.

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WANTED: U.S.A. Hospital Dept. and any pre-1866 embossed food bottles, mustards, early Baltimore, Wheeling, D.C., Alexandria sodas, beers (stoneware or glass) damage free. BRUCE, cwaddic@yahoo.com Phone: 703307-7792. 12/20 WANTED: GEORGE OHR CABINS. Or Cabin Inks. BOB TERRY, 303-569-2502. llterryualusa@yahoo.com 9/20 WANTED: EMBOSSED CURES WANTED: Including these pontils: Avery's, Benson's, Bernard's, Brown's, Bull's, Burt's, Cannon's, Flander's, Frambe's Geoghegan's, Hamilton's, Jacob's, Lay's, McAdoo's, McElroy's, Parham's, Rhodes' Prov. R.I., Rohrer's, Rudolph's, Star-in's, Stone's, Toledo, Woodman's. ALSO BIMALS: Anchor, Bavarian Bitters, Beesting, Bixler's, Bliss, Boot's Indigestion, Bowanee, Bower's, Bradford's, Bromo Mineral, Bronson's, Bull's (Baltimore), Carey's CholiCura, Clement's Certain (green), Collins' Opium (aqua), Cook's Turpentine, Cowan's Certain, Davis Indian, Detchon's Infallible, Edelweiss, Electrofluid, Ewer's Arcanum, Forest Pine (unpontiled), Francisco's, Frog Pond 8", Green's King's Cure, Large Handyside's (chocolate amber), Helmer's, Hilleman's, Hinderman's, Holden's (green), Hungarian, Indian Mixture, JBF, Kauffman Phthisis, Keeley's (opium, neurotine, solution), Large Kellum's, Kid-Nee-Kure, Lenape's, Lindley's, Long's Malaria, Loryea (green), Marsden, McConnon Cough, Amber McLean's (8"), Miniotti's (clear), Morning Glory, Murphy K & L. Pageapfel's, Park's (clear), Peck's, Pennock's, Peterman's (green), Rattail, large River Swamp, Riverview, Scott's (bird), Streetman's, Struble's (aqua), Tremaine's, Universal, Vosburgh, Wadsworth (goat), Warner's K & L Rochester (green, aqua, clear), Wildwest, Wilkinson's, Wilson Footrot, Winan's (no Indian), York Corn Cure. Looking for many others, especially embossed with label, contents, box. Also would like data on unlisted cures for future Cure Book. JOHN WOLF, 937-275-1617. ohcures@yahoo.com 1186 Latchwood Ave., Dayton, OH 45405. 12/20

WANTED: Hobbleskirt embossed Coca-Cola bottles: 1915's, 1923's, D-Patent's 6oz's and 6 1/2 oz's. Collector will buy or trade. JIM GEORGES, georges77@twcny.rr.com or 315-662-7729. 7/21 WANTED: Harley bottles of West Chester, Pa. and Philadelphia, Pa. The West Chester bottles display either J. Harley or James Harley. The Phila. Bottles display Edwd Harley, Schul (Schuylkill) 4th & Market St., Philada (Philadelphia) or E. Harley, 802 Market St or E. Harley, West Market St. These two bottling businesses operated in the 1840s through the early 1880s. BOB HARLEY, Phone: 215-721-1107. Email: rwh220@yahoo.com 12/20 WANTED: Buffalo, NY & Lockport, NY stoneware and bottles. Also, Buffalo beer trays and advertising signs. PETER JABLONSKI, 12489 Hunts Corners Rd, Akron, NY, 14001. Ph: 716-440-7985. 12/20 WANTED: Rare and unusual Dr. Kilmer bottles and advertising! Especially examples with original labels and boxes. Always looking for embossed lung cough cure and consumption oil bottles. Top prices paid. Call me first! TERRY McMURRAY, Phone: 607-775-5972. mcmurrayauctions@aol.com PO Box 939, Kirkwood, NY 13795. 8/20 WANTED: Avid Collector of anything from my area of WV, Jefferson CountyHarpers Ferry-Charles Town-Shepherdstown. Milks-Beers-Soda-Meds-Postcards-PhotosAdvertising-B&O RR-will pay good $ for good Collectibles. MIKE, 304-725-8995. michaelstoneberger@comcast.net 8/20 WANTED: Bottles or Stoneware Embossed Simonds. RAY SIMONDS, tsimo123@ comcast.net 8/20 WANTED: Looking for a dispensary flask from Louisburg, North Carolina. Interested in any size. Also want any embossed bottles from Youngsville, Franklinton and Louisburg, N.C. EDDIE, edway2@gmail.com 8/20

WANTED: Canadian Beer Bottle for my Advertising Piece "Grizzly Beer." Thank you! BOB McMICHAEL, 330-264-7414. Wooster, Ohio. 8/20 WANTED: DAVID ANDREWS VEGETABLE JAUNDICE BITTERS Looking for a slightly damaged example, Priced accordingly. DON, 978-994-2629. 9/20 WANTED: PHILADELPHIA STRAPSIDED or Seamed Whiskey Flasks. I collect and catalog these and also have an interest in Thomas H. Dillon (TD) Philadelphia mineral water bottles. Please contact me if you have any in your collection or wish to sell. ART MIRON, 215-248-4612. jestar484@verizon.net 4/21 WANTED: SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA -- Bottles and Go-Withs. Especially flasks, drugstores, Citrate of Magnesia and blob sodas. Also mineral waters. JEFF KINSELL, 925-872-5555. jkinsell@hotmail.com 8/20 WANTED: Cholera cure collectors? I would like to hear from you. I collect anything with the word Cholera on it. CALEB HUFFORD, 410 Needle Eye Lane, Delano, TN 37325. 9/20 WANTED: Buy, sell, trade Mississippi Gulf Coast bottles. ONDIE LADNER, Phone: 228-669-9850. 8/20 WANTED: Always searching for preProhibition Baltimore Beer Bottles and any other pre-1900 Balto. Bottles. CHUCK MEYER, Phone: 443-463-4088. Email: ckmeyer77@gmail.com 8/20 WANTED: Milk Bottles from the following CT towns: Shelton, Huntington, Ansonia, Derby, White Hills & Seymour. MARK PEDRO, Phone: 203-650-9190. mdpedro1979@gmail.com 72 N. Prospect St., Ext. Ansonia, CT 06401. 8/20 WANTED: Bethel Vermont bottles. Contact me with what you have. stoddardglassman@ aol.com 8/20 August 2020

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WANTED: Arizona Items, Western dose glasses & pharmacy bottles - Anything old Arizona: Bottles, stoneware, advertising, calendar plates. signs, etc.: Dose glasses & small pharmacy bottles (under 4") from throughout the west. Also dose glasses from South Carolina, Alaska & Hawaii. Small colored pharmacy bottles from South Carolina, North Carolina, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Delaware, Montana & West Virginia. MICHAEL MILLER, 623-3633626. helgramike@cox.net 8/20

WANTED: Early Perfumes and Colognes, cased 2 and 3 layer glass, cut and polished. Also rare Florida Waters. JIM MAYFIELD, 760-377-3245. hyhcoll@outlook.com 8/20

WANTED: Embossed UTAH Pharmacy, Druggist, Hutchinson, Crown Top, Food, Milk, Etc. and Sealfast Sold by Utah fruit jars. Also wire bails for glass lid fruit jars. Have extra fruit jar lids and misc. bottles for trade or sale. Any size - condition considered BuySell-Trade. SHERARD HARDMAN, 801735-3045. srhardman1@gmail.com 289 N. 300E Spanish Fork, Utah 84660-1827. 8/20

WANTED: Baltimore Oyster Katsup, O.P. ROBERT LUTHI, 408-892-3530. 8/20

WANTED: DURAND, ROUSSEL, and other O.P. Philadelphia soda bottles. Also, IP Soda and Beer bottles from Philadelphia that I need. And Bucks, Montgomery colored bottles ANY Phoenixville bottle! www. sodasandbeers.com TOD von MECHOW 610-935-0619 todvon@verizon.net 8/20

WANTED: Early, (crude), damaged Dr. Townsends, Dr. Hostetters, etc. Am looking for embossed shards from the early "squares" & early medicines. Email: Pontil1903@ yahoo.com P.O. Box 104, Mendocino, California 95460. 8/20 WANTED: ST. LOUIS BOTTLE: H. Grone & Co, St. Louis MO. Note: with Markers Mark BFGCo (Beaver Falls Glass Co.). Reply with ST.LOUIS BOTTLE as subject. tmseagle@sbcglobal.net 8/20 WANTED: Free-blown bottles and other glass items from the Pittsburgh area, including New Geneva, Brownsville, Monongahela and other glasshouses. Aqua, amber and other colors are wanted. 724-8726013. Lhawkins63@msn.com 8/20 WANTED: Utah bottles. JACK PLAYER, 801-599-3606. 8/20 WANTED: Antique Bottles with embossed town names from southeast Washington State and northeast Oregon State. PHIL PEICK, 509-525-2036. 64 E. Tietan St., Walla Walla, WA 99362. 8/20

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WANTED: Premium paid for: Taylor's Indian Ointment (Both sizes), Lucas Bros. Weiss Beer, Auburn, NY, Labeled Auburn, NY Bottles & Go-Withs. TOM KANALLEY, 607-753-7250. 8/20 WANTED: I want to buy milk bottle collections from all over the U.S. I especially want milk bottles from N.Y.: Warsaw, Oneida, Avon, Perry and Metuchen N.J. Does anybody have stoneware from Warsaw NY? Have looked for a graphite pontilled Dr. Mitchells Sarsaparilla forever. See you at Bouckville! JIM, 315-527-3269. 8/20 WANTED: Palmetto Bottling Works, Campobello, SC; Gramling Dairy Quart, Gramling, SC; Four Columns Farm, Landrum, SC. CHRIS GREEN, Phone: 864-641-9044. 8/20 WANTED: Damiana Bitters. Odd color or crude. jhcutter55@yahoo.com 8/20 WANTED: BUYING Pre-Pro etched & amp; embossed beer brewery glasses; whiskey shot glasses; pre-pro brewery mugs, steins including souvenir steins mugs; souvenir china; old advertising material: signs, trays, mirrors, saloon material; back bar whiskey bottles; other early American bottles, flasks, bitters, especially from Kentucky. PAUL VanVACTOR, Phone: 502-429-7537, email: pvanvactor@aol.com P.O. Box 221171, Louisville, KY 40252-1171.

WANTED: Stoneware beers, yellow, brown, blue tops, root beer, birch, ginger, mead, Dr., script, initials, dated, sarsaparilla, lemon. Text photo. Forty years collecting stripes, rings and x's. GLENN, 201-707-2773. 8/20 WANTED: Old Marbles. Please call me! PAT DARNEILLE, 503-888-0665. 10/20

WANTED: IMPORTANT! Still looking for Houghton and Dalton Pottery and ALSO Have my book on this pottery for sale for $25. DR. JAMES D. HOUDESHELL, 419-352-7789. 918 Deer Ridge Run, Bowling Green, Ohio 43402. 8/20 WANTED: Vermont Bitters. Email: bruceamaheu@icloud.com 8/20 WANTED: Snuff Jar embossed "Temple" and "Norwich, Conn." TEMPLE WACHSMUTH, 615-712-1815. 8/20 WANTED: SCHENECTADY Old Paper, Checks, Advertisements (1840-1870's), Newspapers, Medicine Btl's (same dates), Schdy Strap Side Flasks, Deeds. Albany Bottles also. Call or email. 518-393-1814. ifishaway@msn.com 8/20 WANTED: A Holdrege Nebraska Hutch with the #20 on it. A Houck and Dieter El Paso, TX Hutch with the #20 on it. Always looking for Bottles and Advertising items for the Los Angeles Harbor Area. Cities of Long Beach, Wilmington, San Pedro, Torrance, Redondo Beach, Venice, Ocean Park and Sawtelle, CA. DAVID HALL, 310-710-8118. PO Box 761, Wilmington, CA 90748. 8/20

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50th Annual Atlanta Antique Bottle Show & Sale, (Sat. 9 AM to 3 PM; Dealer set-up and Early Adm. Friday, 3 PM to 8 PM, $20 Early adm. - includes BBQ dinner Friday evening), at the Smyrna Community Center, 200 Village Green Circle, Smyrna, GA 30080. Free adm. Sat! Info: JACK HEWITT, Box 12126 Big Canoe, Jasper, GA 30143. PH: 770.856.6062, or: BILL JOHNSON, 770.823.2626, email: bj3605@comcast.net. Sponsored by the R.M. Rose Co, Distillers.

Oregon Bottle Collectors Association Bottle, Antiques, & Collectibles Show & Sale, (Friday 12 - 5PM, dealer set-up & early bird admission $5; Sat. 9AM - 3PM general adm. by donation), at the American Legion Hall, 21510 Main St. N.E., Aurora, OR. Info: WAYNE HERRING, Ph: 503.864.2009; or: BILL BOGYNSKA, Ph: 503.657.1726, email: billbogy7@gmail.com

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The 5th Annual Lincoln Bottle Show, (doors open at 9 AM; Early buyers, 8 AM - $20), 123 Jones St, Lincoln, AL. Free adm. at 9 AM. Info: JAKE SMITH, PH: 256.267.0446; Email: syl_bottleguy@yahoo.com AUGUST 10 – 16

BOUCKVILLE, NEW YORK 49th Annual Madison-Bouckville Antique Show, outdoor antiques and collectibles including two huge bottle tents! Over 2,000 dealers and vendors located on scenic Route 20, Bouckville, NY. Info: JIM BURNS, 315.527.3269 or JIM BARTHOLOMEW, 585.705.8106.

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EDGEWOOD, KENTUCKY 3rd Annual Northern Kentucky Antique Bottle & Small Antiques Show, (9AM to 2PM; Early Bird, 8AM, $15) at the Milligan Hall - St. Pius X Church, 348 Dudley Pike, Edgewood, KY. Adm. $3. Info: ED MORRIS, PH: 859.414.4693; email: ed@morristreasures.com, or: RANDY DEATON, PH: 859.334.0512; email: nkyfinds@gmail.com

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HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA The Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club’s 54th Annual Antique Bottles, Fruit Jars, Insulators, Antiques & Collectibles Show & Sale, (9 AM to 3 PM; Early Birds $10 at 8 AM), at the Huntington Beach, Elks Lodge #1959, 7711 Talbert Ave., Huntington Beach, CA 92648. Free Adm! Info: DON WIPPERT, Ph. 818.346.9833, Email donwippert@yahoo.com, or DICK HOMME, Ph. 818.362.3368.

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SEPTEMBER 19 The Little Rhody Bottle Club tailgate swap meet, (9AM to 2PM) at the Jules Antique Center, 320 Kingstown, Richmond, Rhode Island (3 miles East of Route #95 on Route #138). Free set up for all! Free coffee, donuts and pizza for participants. Bring your own tables! Info: WILLIAM ROSE, 508.880.4929; email: sierramadre@comcast.net. SEPTEMBER 19 YOUNGSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA New Location! The Raleigh Antique Bottle Club Show and Sale, (9 AM to 2 PM), at the Hill Ridge Farms Event Center, 703 Tarboro Road, Youngsville, NC 27596. Info: DAVID TINGEN, 919.848.4387; Email: tingen1@ mindspring.com, website: www.raleighbottleclub.org. Inside and outside setup areas, lots of parking and open space. Sponsored by Hill Ridge Farms. SEPTEMBER 19

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The Indianapolis Circle City Antique Bottle Club is hosting their 8th Annual Antique Bottle Show & Sale, (9 AM to 2 PM, Early buyers 7:30 AM, $20), at the Boone County Fairgrounds, 1300 E. 100 S. Lebanon, IN 46052. Free appraisals, Free admission! Info: MARTIN VAN ZANT, 41 East Washington St., Mooresville, IN 46158. PH: 812.841.9495; email: mdvanzant@yahoo. com, or: "Balsam" BILL GRANGER, 6915 S. 280 E., Lebanon, IN 46052. PH: 812.517.5895; email: bgranger@iquest.net.

Pekin Bottle Collectors Assoc. 51st Annual Show & Sale (8:00 AM to 3:00 PM), at the Moose Lodge, 2605 Broadway Street, Pekin, IL. Admission $2, Free Appraisals. Info: DARYL WESELOH, PH: 309.264.9268.

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CHEEKTOWAGA, NEW YORK

WILLIAMS, CALIFORNIA

New Location! The Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association 22nd Annual Show and Sale, (9:00 AM to 2:00 PM), at the Pvt. Leonard Post, Jr. VFW, 2450 Walden Avenue, Cheektowaga, N.Y. Info: TOM KARAPANTSO, 716.487.9645, email: tomar@stny.rr.com, or: PETER JABLONSKI, 716.440.7985, email: peterjablonski@roadrunner.com; or JOE GUERRA, 716.207.9948, email: jguerra3@roadrunner. com

3rd Annual Antique Bottles & Collectibles Show, (Sat. 9 AM to 3 PM; Early Bird Friday, 10:00 AM, $10), in the old gym behind the Sacramento Valley Museum, 1491 E Street, Williams, CA. Free Adm. Saturday. Info: SLIM or CHRISTY EDWARDS, PH: 530.473.2502, email: closethegatefenceco@ yahoo.com

CHELSEA, MICHIGAN

SEPTEMBER 20 WESTFORD, MASSACHUSETTS

The Merrimack Valley Antique Bottle Club’s 46th annual bottle show, (9AM to 2PM, early buyers at 8AM), at the Westford Regency Inn, 219 Littleton Road, Westford, MA. Just five minutes off Exit 32 of I-495 follow the signs. Special Note: There will be a $20 door prize drawing just for early buyers at 8:45 AM. Info: CLIFF HOYT, PH. 978.458.6575; Email; choyt48@comcast.net Website: www.mvabc.org

SEPTEMBER 26 BATH, ONTARIO, CANADA 4th Annual Bath Antique Bottle and Insulator Show, (9 AM to 2:30 PM), at the Bath Masonic Lodge, 428 Main Street, Bath, Ontario, Canada. Info: RICHARD DOBING, email: loyalistcollectibles@gmail.com SEPTEMBER 27

HAMMONTON, NEW JERSEY

The Fall Antique, Glass, & Bottle Show presented by the Batsto Citizens Committee, Inc. (9 AM to 3 PM, rain or shine!), in historic Batsto Village, Wharton State Forest, Rt. 542 Pleasant Mills Road, Hammonton, NJ. Free Admission! Info: JIM HAMMELL, 856.217.4945, email: hammelljm@gmail. com

OCTOBER 3 MANSFIELD, OHIO NEW DATE! (this year only). The Ohio Bottle Club’s 42nd Annual Mansfield Antique Bottle & Advertising Show & Sale, (9 AM to 2 PM, early buyers Friday 3 to 6 PM, $35), at the Richland County Fairgrounds, Mansfield, OH. Adm. $5. Info: MATT LACY, PH: 440.228.1873, Email: info@antiquebottlesales.com; or LOUIS FIFER, 330.635.1964, Email; fiferlouis@yahoo.com Website: www.ohiobottleclub.org OCTOBER 3

The Huron Valley Bottle and Insulator Club 44th Annual Show & Sale, (9AM to 2 PM), at the Comfort Inn Conference Center, 1645 Commerce Park Drive next to the Comfort Inn, Chelsea (Exit 159 off I-94). Adm $3 for adults, children 16 and under, free. Info: MIKE BRUNER, Email, abbott4girl@sbcglobal.net, or ROD KRUPKA, 248.627.6351; Email: rod.krupka@yahoo. com OCTOBER 10 COVENTRY, CONNECTICUT The Southern Connecticut Antique Bottle Collector Association's 49th Annual Show, (8 AM to 1 PM), outdoors on the grounds of the historic Coventry Glass Works, 289 North River Road, Coventry, CT 06238 (corner of Rt. 44 & North River Road). For more information or dealer contracts, please contact: BOB, 203.938.3879, email: rdsrla@ optonline.net

BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI

OCTOBER 10

4th Annual Mississippi Gulf Coast Bottle & Collectibles Show & Sale presented by The Old Guys Digging Club, (Sat. 9 AM to 4 PM; Dealer Setup, Friday, 12 to 5 PM, and Sat. morning 8 to 9 AM, Early buyers $20), at the Joppa Shrine Temple, 13280 Shriners Blvd, Biloxi, MS 39532 (Exit 41 - I-10). Sat. Free Adm. and Appraisals. Info: NORMAN BLEULER, 6446 Woolmarket Rd, Biloxi, MS 39532, Ph: 228.392.9148, Email: normanbleuler@gmail.com, or: PETER TAGGARD, 645 Village Lane South, Mandeville, LA 70471 Ph. 985.373.6487 Email: petertaggard@yahoo.com

JOHNSTON, IOWA

The Iowa Antique Bottleers 51st Annual Show and Sale, (8 AM to 2 PM), at the Johnston Lions Club, 64th Place and Merle Hay Road, Johnston, IA. Adm. $2, children free. Info: MARK C. WISEMAN, 3505 Sheridan Avenue, Des Moines, IA 503104557, email: markcwiseman@msn.com, PH: 515.344.8333, or: JOYCE JESSEN, 515.979.5216. OCTOBER 18 FINDLAY, OHIO Findlay Antique Bottle Club's 44th Annual Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show & Sale, (9 AM to 2 PM; early bird Sun. 7 AM - $10), at the Old Mill Stream Centre, Hancock Cty. Fairgrounds, 1017 E. Sandusky St., Findlay, OH. Adm. $2, Children under 12 Free! Info: Show Chairman FRED CURTIS, 419.424.0486; email: finbotclub@gmail.com, Website: http://finbotclub.blogspot.com August 2020

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NOVEMBER 8

SCRIBA, NEW YORK

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA

The Empire State Bottle Collectors Association’s 22nd Annual Show & Sale, (9 AM to 2:30 PM), at the Scriba Fire Hall, U.S. Route 104 East, Scriba (2 miles East of Oswego). Info: BARRY HAYNES, P.O. Box 900, Mexico, NY 13114. PH: 315.963.0922, or 315.963.3749, or Co-Chair CHRISTINA CHAMPION via Email: 110HarleyHorses@ gmail.com

New Location! The Pittsburgh Antique Bottle Club’s 51st Annual Show & Sale, (9 AM to 2 PM, early buyers 7 AM, $25), at the Elizabeth VFD Station 139, 107 Market Street, Elizabeth, PA 15037. Adm. $3. Info: BOB DeCROO, 694 Fayette City Rd., Fayette City, PA 15438. PH: 724.326.8741, or JAY HAWKINS, 1280 Mt. Pleasant Rd., West Newton, PA 15089, PH: 724.872.6013; web: www.PittsburghAntiqueBottleClub.org

OCTOBER 25 ALSIP, ILLINOIS

NOVEMBER 14

New Location! 1st Chicago Bottle Club's 51st Annual Show & Sale, (9 AM to 2 PM), at the Doubletree Inn by Hilton, 5000 W 127th St, Alsip, IL 60803. Adm. $3, Children under 16 free (No early adm). Info: RAY KOMOROWSKI, 127 S. Cuyler, Oak Park, IL 60302. PH: 708.848.7947. Email: 1stChicagoBottleClub@gmail.com

JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA

NOVEMBER 1 ELKTON, MARYLAND The Tri-State Bottle Collectors and Diggers Club 48th Annual Show & Sale (9 AM to 2 PM), at the Singerly Fire Hall, Routes 279 & 213, Elkton, MD. Info: PH: DAVE BROWN, PH: 302.388.9311, email: dbrown3942@comcast.net NOVEMBER 8 OAKLAND, NEW JERSEY North Jersey Antique Bottle Collectors Assn. 51st Annual Show & Sale, (9 AM to 2 PM, early buyers 8 AM), at the Pompton Lakes Elks Lodge No.1895, 1 Perrin Ave, Pompton Lakes, NJ. Info: KEN, PH: 973.248.6406, email froggy8@optonline.net

Antique Bottle Collectors of North Florida 52nd Annual Show & Sale, (Sat. 8 AM to 2 PM; early buyers Fri. 2 PM to 7 PM, $50, 3 - 7 PM, $40, 5 - 7 PM, $20), at the Fraternal Order of Police Bldg., 5530 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville, FL. Free adm. Saturday. Info: MIKE SKIE, 3047 Julington Creek Road, Jacksonville, FL 32223, PH: 904.710.0422, or COREY STOCK, 904.607.3133, or email: jaxbottleshow@yahoo.com MARCH 14, 2021 BALTIMORE, MARYLAND

The Baltimore Antique Bottle Club's 41st Annual Show & Sale, (8 AM to 3 PM), at the Physical Education Center, CCBC-Essex, 7201 Rossville Blvd. (I-695,Exit 34). Info: Show Chairman RICK LEASE, 410-458-9405 or e-mail: finksburg21@comcast.net For contracts, call: ANDY AGNEW, 410-527-1707 or e-mail: medbotls@comcast.net Website: baltimorebottleclub.org

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The Story of L.L. Bultman

Bottler, Columbia, South Carolina By Joe Brock

he 1903 Columbia city directory extolls the “enormous strides made by the city” when compared to the past year. The population had increased by nearly 9,000 to 34,786 within the same radius of the city limits. However, this paled when compared to the investments in new buildings and industries that were involved in city development. Columbia was described as not the sleepy place that it once was, but a full-fledged, aggressive, trade-seeking center of business. Columbia has many of the natural advantages enjoyed by very few cities in the South, and became a great railroad and jobbing center. Lucius L. Bultman first appears in the 1895 city directory as a grocer, with his residence located on 1701 Main St. He was married to Mamie, and maintained his home at the same address. Sant Adams, who lived at 1916 Lincoln St., was listed as an employee at this time. From 1897-98, Bultman was also the deputy of the Woodmen of the World organization. His occupation changed to agent for the Richmond Building and Loan Association in 1899. Lucius Bultman became a wholesale beer dispenser in 1902, with his business located on 1117 Blanding St. He changed his residency to 1703 Main St. in 1902, when he employed two workers, Benjamin Green, whose residence is not listed, and Samuel Waiters, who lived at the 1117 Blanding St. dispensary address. In 1903, the beer dispensary also became a bottling works and relocated to 1125 Blanding St.

During 1904 the dispensary experienced an increase in revenue. Benjamin Green is no longer listed as an employee, but Samuel Waiters continues to work at the bottling works. George Brown, who lived at 800 Main St., and Charles Lewis, who resided at the rear of 1703 Main St., were hired as workers at this time. In 1905, Bultman employed another worker, Henery Veal, who lived at 412 Taylor St. It seems the beer dispensary experienced a very short period of success. By 1906, Lucius Bultman is no longer listed as a dispenser or operator of the bottling works, although he continued to live at his original 1703 Main St. address. The 1906 city directory indicates H.E. Watts took over the dispensary and bottling works at the 1117 Blanding St. address and Lucius Bultman became the clerk at the County Board of Control from 1907-12. From 1913-16 he is listed as a bookkeeper, but the firm is not identified. He continued to live at 1703 Main St. (telephone 876J) but does not appear after 1916. Only one type of bottle has been found that can be attributed to Lucius Bultman as a bottler from 1902-05. The glass manufacturer is unknown. It is a typical beer bottle shape that is 9 ½ inches tall, and 2 ⅝ inches across the base. It is a clear, blown-in-mold, hand-tooled, crown-top style with L.L. BULTMAN / BOTTLER / COLUMBIA, S.C. embossed in a round slug plate. A very small number 30 is embossed on the bottom. Look for a follow up companion article soon on H.E. Watts, who took over the bottling works.

The Bultman bottle

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R.M. Rose Distillery and the Atlanta Antique Bottle Show History and tradition join together By Andy Sudderth

he R.M. Rose Distillery of Atlanta encompasses a rich and storied history. Rufus Mathewson Rose was born May 17, 1836 in Williamantic, Conn., of an old and influential New England family. Receiving an academic education in his native city, he later went to New York City, entered the drug business, and filled an important appointment at the Sailors’ hospital on Long Island. Later he studied medicine, attending lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and received his diploma. While still a young man, he came to Hawkinsville, Ga., and entered the drug business with his uncle, Darius Randolph Mathewson, a prominent Georgian. When the War between the States came on, Dr. Rose was among the first to volunteer, joining the cause of the South and enlisting in the Tenth Georgia Regiment of the Confederate Army. Although at first engaged in the field, he was soon transferred to the medical department, serving in the old converted hospital of William and Mary College, and later in the laboratory at Macon. Returning south at the close of the war, he came to Atlanta and from the very first was prominently identified with the prog-

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ress, enterprise and push of this struggling city. In 1867, he organized the R.M. Rose & Co., shortly afterwards changed to R.M. Rose Co., and continued as the head of the firm until he retired in 1905. He was succeeded by his son, Randolph Rose. Such was the reputation of this house that the label on any goods was the same as his bond, and it received the highest recommendation ever given by the government and was one of only two houses in the country to receive such a distinction. Since his retirement, Dr. Rose had been a familiar figure on Atlanta streets, as he attended to his large real estate interests to the very last.

He was a Prominent Mason One of the most prominent Masons in the state, he was the oldest living charter member of Georgia Lodge, of which he was the chairman of the finance committee at the time of his death. He was also a past worshipful master of this lodge, having been presented with what has been acknowledged to be the handsomest Masonic jewel ever presented in the south. He was also honored many times by the grand lodge of the state and was a past grand junior warden of the Grand Commandery of Georgia.

An article about a raid on the former home of Randolph Rose from the Chattanooga Daily Times of Friday, January 27, 1933.

PHOTOS (from top left): R.M. Rose jug from the 'Atlanta era' which started in 1867 Rose Company 'Ask the Revenue Officer' sign. R.M. Rose Company trade card. Rose Distiller Chattanooga jug, circa 1910. Early labeled R.M. Rose Company bottles.

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Twice married, his first wife, Miss Sue F. Bowen, of Wilcox County, Georgia lived but a short time. His second wife, formerly Miss Kate Fleming, of Pulaski County, and one of the oldest families in the state, was one of the best known and most widely loved gentlewoman in Atlanta.

didn’t go well with his brother, as he was a heavy drinker, so they split in 1890.

Retiring and inconspicuous, none outside of those directly concerned knew of his very many charities. Dr. Rose was always among the very first and most generous in subscribing to any and every cause looking to the betterment and growth of Atlanta.

Randolph Rose, the son of Mr. Rose, became secretary of the R.M. Rose Co. in 1890 and incorporated it in 1894. Randolph advertised the whiskey in all the surrounding states. By opening Chattanooga and Jacksonville back up, business was booming.

Eminently successful both in his professional and business life, Dr. Rose will be longest remembered for those traits of perfect loyalty, hatred of all deception and sterling integrity that made his friendship the highest-prized privilege of the thousands. They will ever cherish his memory, together with his unfailing helpfulness in every time of trouble.

Mr. Rose and his son, Randolph, entered their famous corn whiskey in the 1904 St. Louis Exposition and won the Gold Medal for the finest Georgia Whiskey.

The timeline of Rufus Mathewson Rose In 1867 he organized the R.M. Rose & Co. as a wholesale dealer in Atlanta, at Granit Block and Broad St. In 1873 Mr. Rose changed the name to R.M. Rose Company. At the time all of the whiskey coming into Atlanta was being made at the Cox & Hill Distillery in Stone Mountain, Georgia. In 1877, Mr. Rose worked for Cox & Hill as their salesman and also had his wholesale dealership on Granit and Broad St. in Atlanta. Atlanta went dry around 1885/1886 forcing Mr. Rose to open wholesale operations in Chattanooga, Tennessee and Jacksonville, Florida. In 1887 Atlanta was losing revenue, so they voted to open liquor houses. In 1887, Mr. Rose opened at 40 Decatur St, in Atlanta and let his brother, O.A.V. Rose, be a partner in the company. Things

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Mr. Rose opened Mountain Spring Distillery in 1889 in Gilmore Georgia, Cobb County. The company was formed by Mr. Rose, G.B. Stewart, C.P. Johnson, and J.W. Birdsong.

In 1905, Mr. Rose saw the temperance movement and Prohibition going strong. Mr. Rose retired and sold the R.M. Rose Co. to his son Randolph. In 1908, Georgia was one of the first states to go dry. So Randolph loaded all of his Georgia Whiskey on eleven Western & Atlantic train cars and went to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Randolph purchased a half interest in the Wakeman Distillery in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Mr. Rufus M. Rose passed away July 21, 1910 at the age of 74 in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia and was buried in the Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta. Randolph later purchased a half interest in the Old 76 Distillery in Newport, Kentucky in 1912 and again moved operations. He also opened a wholesale store in Manhattan, New York. Randolph still had his wholesale stores in Jacksonville, Florida until it went dry in 1914. R.M. Rose Co. closed in 1917. Randolph Rose passed away July 2, 1933 at age 62 in Reno, Nevada. He was buried in Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia.

A new beginning Andy Sudderth and partners re-opened the R.M. Rose Co. in 2010. Andy’s dad, George Sudderth, made moonshine and that’s how Andy learned the trade. In 2011, the equipment was built, which included the still, fermenters and tanks. In 2016, George Sudderth was inducted into the National Moonshiners Hall of Fame in Dawsonville, Georgia. In the fall of 2016, The R.M. Rose Co. Distillery opened its doors to the public in Dillard, Georgia. This location was chosen based on the water being the best water in the state. When you have good water, a copper pot still and the finest corn, you can make some of the finest whiskey around. R.M. Rose has some of the finest brands on the market. R.M. Rose Co. products include Old Georgia Corn Whiskey, George Sudderth Corn Whiskey, Bourbon Whiskey, Fire on the Mountain Cinnamon Whiskey, Apple Whiskey, Blackberry Whiskey, Peach & Lemon Whiskey, and Fire on the Mountain Cinnamon Cherries. Come and visit the R.M. Rose Co. at 890 Franklin St, Dillard, Georgia 30537. Our phone number is 706.982.8115. We look forward to meeting you and serving you some fine whiskey!

Editor’s note: This year, the R.M. Rose Distillery is a proud sponsor of the Atlanta Antique Bottle Show. Show chairs Jack Hewitt and Bill Johnson are both thrilled to have the Rose company as a sponsor. The Rose Distillery currently has the largest collection of R.M. Rose bottles, stoneware, and ephemera ever assembled. Many of the items are currently on display at their tasting room. An impressive collection of their bottles and jugs will be on display at this year’s 2020 Atlanta Antique Bottle Show, Friday and Saturday, September 11 and 12. Come and enjoy the show.

PHOTOS (from top left): Copper still at the distillery. Andy Sudderth hard at work. The door to the Rose Co. Distillers. Bourbon and go-withs from Rose. A line-up of all the Rose products. Barrels of bourbon ready to go.

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PAINTED-LABEL (ACL) BOTTLES from Thatcher Glass in Elmira, NY. Looking for company sample bottles that had square painted label of one color on the front. Says Thatcher Glass, Elmira, N.Y. on the back. I have several different ones, looking for more! Also looking for pictured Lion's Club bottle from Pennsylvania, and Brockway bottle from Oklahoma, as well.

WANTED: Clarke’s Vegetable Sherry Wine Bitters, Sharon, Mass. All bottle sizes & variants…pontil/smooth base. Also, ANY ephemera..newspaper ads, invoices, letterhead, etc.

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If you have or know someone who has some, I would appreciate contacting me. Thank you. David Meinz 407-854-8108 David@DavidMeinz.com

BITTERS bottles By Robert Strickhart

The Wisdom

of Solomon

Oh, baby, you would be wise to have these on your shelf

ou’ve probably heard of King Solomon, son of David and the third king of Israel who ruled for forty years, from 970 to 930 B.C. You know, I’ve always wondered why forty was such an important and prevalent number in the Bible. You remember, it rained on Noah for forty days and forty nights, the Israelites wandered in the wilderness for forty years, and so on. I’ll have to ask my friend, Pastor Gary Beatty, that question some day, but for right now, back to our King Solomon. Solomon wrote much of the book of Proverbs in the Bible, the book of Ecclesiastes and of course, the Song of Solomon. King Solomon was considered one of the wisest men known and, in fact, we still today hear people describe smart moves as showing the wisdom of Solomon. Most of us know the story of the two women brought to Solomon for a judgement. Both women had recently given birth, and both lived in the same house. Sadly, one child died and then the problems began. The mother of the dead child tried to claim the living child was hers. Brought before Solomon, both women

claimed the living baby was theirs. Solomon ordered the baby to be cut in two and half given to each woman. The mother whose baby was alive begged Solomon not to do this and give the baby to the other woman, as she wanted no harm to come to her child. The other woman wanted the baby cut in two because she said that neither mother would therefore have the baby. Of course, wise King Solomon knew who the real mom was because she protected her child, even at the prospect of giving him up. Solomon then returned the baby to the true mother. What’s this leading to? If you are a bitters collector, you, too, can be wise by adding Solomon to your shelf. By now, you may be thinking I’m speaking of that great splash of blue you get when you add a Solomon’s Strengthening and Invigorating Bitters from Savannah to your shelf, and you are correct. But being wise in this case is not shown by cutting the bottle in half, but by multiplying the Solomons! So, let’s examine not one, but two Solomon’s, the blue square Solomon’s from Georgia, and the other, King Solomon’s Bitters from Seattle, Washington.

S - 140 Solomons’ Strengthening & Invigorating Bitters Savannah Georgia.

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TOP RIGHT: Solomon's Bitters ads in the Charleston Daily News, November 11, 1869. ABOVE: Reverse of the Solomons' Bitters bottle from Savannah. RIGHT: The two Solomons bottles side-by-side.

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These bottles are quite different in form and color but there is one similarity about both. Each is quite scarce and not easy to find. In fact, Ring/Ham describes both bottles as very scarce, indicating that there are fewer than 75 known examples. Both bottles do show up from time to time on the auction block and at shows, but good examples in excellent condition do not appear regularly. Let’s examine both. There are two almost identical Savannah Solomon’s Bitters and they are listed by Ring/Ham in Bitters Bottles as follows: S -139 SOLOMON’S / STRENGTHENING & / INVIGORATING BITTERS// sp // SAVANNAH / GEORGIA // f // 9 5/8 X 2 11/16 (7) 3/8 Square, Cobalt Blue, Applied mouth Very scarce And: S - 140 SOLOMONS’ / STRENGTHENING & / INVIGORATING BITTERS//sp // SAVANNAH / GEORGIA 9 5/8 X 2 11/16 (7) 3/8 Square, Cobalt Blue, Applied mouth, Very scarce If you aren’t paying attention closely, you might say they are the same. But close examination shows the difference in the two examples to be extremely minor and subtle; it is simply the position of the apostrophe. In the first case, the apostrophe is placed between the N and S at the end of the name Solomon’s. The second example places the apostrophe after the last S in Solomons’. Coincidentally, pay a bit of attention to the Ring number assigned to the second bottle. Yes, it is 140, but there’s that haunting “40” again! Coincidence for sure, but sort of strange, don’t you think? The Georgia Historical Society indicates that Abraham Alexander Solomon began

his business in Savannah in 1845. Apparently the company survived the Civil War and was quite successful right up until the 1980s. Ring/Ham makes note of a letter from Phillip Solomon dated Nov. 29, 1976 indicating that A. A. Solomon Drug Co., “knows no accurate date for the manufacture of these bitters. They were listed in a book of formulas and dated May 1880. It is estimated they were put up between 1850 and 1890.” I was able to locate in the Charleston Daily News of Saturday, Nov. 11, 1869, three advertisements for Solomon’s Bitters, so I’m thinking the information is quite accurate. This bottle is a perfect example of the “color is king” argument. My point is that if this sort of ordinary square bitters were found only in amber, it wouldn’t get the attention it gets from bitters collectors, even if it were the rarest of squares. If color is king then condition must be next in line to the throne. While there are not too many of these great bottles around, it is even more difficult to find one in excellent condition. Some of the examples that do come to market have been heavily cleaned, and some that were never sent to the tumbler are in really rough condition. Dug examples of this bottle frequently show a great deal of etching, as for some reason the soil in Georgia, where some dug examples are found, has a way of really making these great beauties “sick.” I am not sure, but I believe it has something to do with either the mineral content or the acidity of the soil. If you were to remove the etching by “cutting it” (using abrasive agents) in a bottle cleaning machine the result often produces a bottle that still retains some etching and has lost the crispness of the embossing. Then there is the question concerning which of the two Solomons is rarer. When I was tracking bitters bottles for Big Bob’s Best Bitters, the price guide I published for a dozen years, I listed approximately ten examples of the S-139

and over twenty S-140 specimens. Some of the paperwork suggests that Solomons was the correct spelling of the family name used by that drug company. It would make sense that an early mold was quickly corrected to more properly read with the apostrophe after the last “s”. So, possibly the S-139 is rarer, but this is just my hypothesis. So, what will it cost you to add an example of this bottle to your shelf and add that terrific splash of blue? As I’ve mentioned, condition is key. Back in 1993, I was fortunate enough to procure a very lightly cleaned example with very crisp embossing for $425. Of course, that was twenty-seven years ago and, at that time, I thought I paid just about the going rate for that bottle. Later, in 2009, an example from the Judge MacKenzie collection in mint condition realized $3,136 at auction, I believe a record price for that bottle. The Dr. Charles (King of Blue) April collection recently contained an unusually nice Solomons S-140 that had probably never been in the ground and was described as in fine condition. It realized $1,638. I believe you can still find a good example in the $1,250 to $1,750 range, reminding yourself all the time that it is all about condition. For a bitters with that amount of wonderful cobalt color, this is, in my mind, a great bang for your buck and worth every penny. If you can save up in your bottle war chest and obtain this blue beauty, I don’t think you’ll ever regret it. In the long run you’ll find that it was a great investment, as the value of this bottle has held strong for so long. What of the other Solomon bitters, this time King Solomon? Let us now examine this also scarce specimen. Once again, there are two King Solomon’s Bitters listed in Ring/Ham Bitters Bottles and again, the difference between the two is subtle. The bottles are listed as follows: August 2020

TOP: King Solomon Bitters Co. letterhead. LEFT: The K 49 King Solomon Bottle. A close inspection of the label shows King Solomon being presented with a bottle of bitters. ABOVE: A look at the rear label.

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K 49 f // KING SOLOMON’S BITTERS // f // SEATTLE, WASH. // L . . . King Solomon’s Stomach Bitters 8 3/8 x 4 1/4 x 2/1/2 (5 3/4) Rectangular, Amber, LTCR, tooled lip Very Scarce and: K 50 f // KING SOLOMON’S BITTERS // f // SEATTLE, WASH. // 7 1/2 x 3 3/4 x 2 (5) Rectangular, Amber LTCR, Tooled lip, Very scarce The difference is apparently the size, the K 50 example about an inch smaller in height and 1/2 inch smaller in width. Also, as no label is listed for the K 50 specimen, we can interpret that to mean that only the larger K 49 has been found with labels. I cannot remember, or perhaps I was not paying attention closely, ever seeing the K 50 smaller bottle. However, four of the K 50 specimens did sell at auction during the 1990s. By the looks of this bottle, it appears to be an early 20th century bitters, and my good friend Joe Gourd has once again provided us with great evidence. Joe most kindly shares with us a letterhead with the date of Nov. 2, 1908 for King Solomon Bitters. Research and Joe’s letterhead will also show that King Solomon Bitters got its name simply because the owner was Sol (short for Solomon) Levinson. While Solomon Levinson bottled his product in a somewhat unremarkable bottle, he didn’t hold back when it came time for labeling. Examining this label could take a bit of time as there’s a lot to see. Pictured is King Solomon, having a bit of music played while others fan him. Most importantly though, we see a servant presenting old wise Solomon with a bottle of, yes, you guessed it, Solomons Bitters on a platter.

You know, there’s a bit of irony here. Solomon was supposed to be one of the wisest men alive at his time. He wrote over 3,000 proverbs and over 1,000 songs, yet he had a reported 700 wives, as well as 300 concubines. Imagine what it must have been like for Solomon trying to keep a thousand women happy. Hmmm… wonder how that worked out. Maybe that’s why the old King has his hand up as the servant is presenting him the bottle of bitters. I can hear him now, “Yea though, truly I tell you, it must be five o’clock somewhere, let it be written, let it be done!”

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I don’t believe that there are many labeled examples. The one pictured here has about 95 percent front label, 85 percent rear label and contents. Usually, I don’t care too much for labels, but I think you’ll agree that this one is a killer and makes the bottle. I have seen labels offered by themselves on eBay, but I am skeptical in this world where things of this nature can, with some expertise, be replicated. Who knows, maybe a stack of them showed up in an old warehouse somewhere? I’ll let you be the judge. By itself without a label, this is a scarce bottle but one worth adding to the shelf. Recently, a nice example in good condition in a light amber tone sold for around $200 on eBay, a reasonable price in my mind. You’ll have to come up with almost three times that much for a labeled example, but like the splash of blue examined in the first part of this article, I think it is a great investment and a terrific bang for your buck. So, my wise friends, I think I can hear old King Solomon. He’s saying, “Seek ye therefore, oh members of the bottle community, these great bitters to add to thine shelves, and you, too, will possess the wisdom of Solomon.” As for me, any comments or questions are always welcome. I can always be reached at strickhartbob@aol.com. Good hunting! August 2020

By John Panella and Joe Widman

COLOR There are various riches at the melting pot at the end of this glass rainbow Color can be a very important consideration in collecting old bottles. Color can make thousands of dollars of difference in the price of the same bottle. Colors range from clear to black. Black glass is actually a color so dark that it appears black in ordinary light. I was looking at my bottle shelf trying to decide on writing an article for John’s magazine. It suddenly occurred to me that I had a number of bottles that weren’t very special on their own, but they were special because they were different than their “usual” color. Old Sachem Bitters are highly collectible. They come in a wide variety of colors. A plain amber example is probably the most common, and costs about $500. Green, yellow and aqua examples can cost thousands of dollars. I have the only black glass example that I have ever seen. It is actually a deep red, but that can only be seen in extreme sunlight looking through the inside of the bottle. When looking at the outside of the bottle it is black, even in sunlight. I own the seven bottles pictured in this article. I usually don’t mention bottles that I don’t own but I will include one this time. I tried to buy it. It was Item No. 124168454018 in a recent eBay auction. It is a perfect example of the kinds of bottles this article is about. It was a clear Lash’s Kidney and Liver Bitters. Amber Lash’s exactly like this clear one are available for sale all the time. It would be easy to buy one any day. I had sniped this bottle for $400. It sold for $620. There were 33 bids, with 13 bids over $400. I wasn’t even close.

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I’m sure that there are many other unusual colored bottles. You can help finish writing this article by sending this magazine information about your example or examples. John would be happy to add them to future issues. It would be interesting for all collectors. I’ll finish with the other six bottles that are in my collection. Hyatt’s Infallible Life Balsam. The usual color is a variation of aqua. There are some lighter blue green examples, I have never seen a dark one like mine. Lindsey’s Blood Searcher. Aqua is the standard color. There are a few green, blue green and olive ambers listed. I have a deep pure green example. Lydia Pinkham’s. There are thousands of these in aqua and a few newer 14 1/2 ounce in light green. I have the only known example of an early, applied top, green example. Townsend’s Sarsaparilla. These are found in all colors. They are finally being recognized as important bottles. A number of examples are listed as amber, but they are actually olive amber. I have the best pure example of amber that I have ever found. United States Syrup. These bottles are very rare in any color. Most of the known examples are blue green. I have a pure aqua example. John Keating of New York has a second aqua. These are the only two aqua examples known. Moxie Nerve Food. The usual color is aqua. There are a few amber and light green examples, but I have never seen a yellow green example as pretty as mine. I hope you enjoyed this article. I also hope you will contribute with your examples.

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TOP LEFT: Townsend’s Sarsaparilla. ABOVE: United States Syrup. LEFT: Moxie Nerve Food.

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