Antique Bottle & Glass Collector by Ferdinand Meyer V

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The Elephant in the Room is a Liquor Bottle Page 33

IN THIS ISSUE:

Baroque Music and Bottles w PAGE 7

The Tibby Brothers Glassworks w PAGE 29

Bottling Up History w PAGE 38

T h e Ma g a z i n e T h at Ke eps Yo u I n fo r m e d!

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VOLUME 37, #3 • July 2020 FRONT COVER:

The father and son team, Frank and Frank Wicker Jr., of Kendallville, Indiana, are long time collectors of many interesting bottles. One of their specialties are the incredible variety of bottles put out by the Carl Mampe Co., of Germany, whose famous trademark was the Mampe Elephant. Read all about it beginning on page 33.

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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 Design, Layout & Production Jake Pluta

Heard it through the Grapevine......................................................... 4 Baroque Music and Bottles................................................................ 7 What Did You Do on July 4?............................................................ 13 Fruit Jar Rambles: Rockwood's Acorn Jar....................................... 17 More Than Just a Container............................................................. 19 Classified Advertisements................................................................. 22 Show Calendar.................................................................................. 26 The Tibby Brothers Glassworks....................................................... 29 The Carl Mampe Liquor Empire...................................................... 33 Bottling Up History......................................................................... 38 Making the Case for L.P. Evans Cascara Bitters............................... 40 Medicine Chest: A Rare U.S.N. Bottle............................................. 43

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Coming in August: The Wisdom of Solomon, by Bob Strickhart A Potter's Privy, by Peter Jablonski The Guilford Mineral Springs, by Richard Cofrancesco Fruit Jar Rambles: Bade Duplex Jars, by Tom Caniff Medicine Chest: Medicine Bottles and Color, by John Panella and Joe Widman And other very cool stuff! July 2020

LETTERS

to the Editor

Tributes for Mark Vuono Continue

Humorous Advertisements

Hostetter’s Advertisement 2:

Hi, John,

Dear John,

Bob Strickhart’s wonderful article “Dr. Langley’s Root and Herb Bitters” (from the February 2020 issue of AB&GC) quoted several humorous advertisements for Dr. Langley’s Root and Herb Bitters. That reminded me of some of the humorous (intentional or not) advertisements that I ran across in the course of researching my collection of colored pontiled medicines.

“The principal offenders are irresponsible, unprincipled, retail liquor sellers, and their mode of operation is this: They buy a few bottles of the genuine Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, sell the contents, replace them with poisonous alcohol, and then retail that as the real article. The customers who ask them for the elixir vitae, they serve with a potion thick with the elements of disease and death. Such a mode of ‘turning a penny’ is worthy of the arch fiend himself.”

It is with great sadness that I learned of the death of Mark Vuono. I did not know Mark well, but I knew him well enough to recognize the many attributes so well described by his friends and fellow collectors in the April issue of AB&GC. I considered sharing my own interactions with Mark and the flasks in my collection that I associate with him, but they felt meager in comparison. It seemed that everything that could be said had been. But as I reread each touching tribute, I realized that there was one word that I felt needed to be included, and that word is “inspiration.” Mark Vuono was not only an inspiration as a collector and human encyclopedia of historical flasks, he was an inspiration in how he lived his life and chose to relate to other people, no matter who they were. As someone recently given the opportunity to take stock in my own life, I recognize the many traits that Mark possessed that can be aspired to: the unassuming kindness, the unnecessary generosity, the unselfish warmth and the uncommon humility, to name but a few. So, I write to suggest that, with a little self-reflection, we might all find even a small way to be a little more like Mark Vuono in our everyday interactions. I can’t think of a better way to honor his memory. Thank you John, Ralph and everyone else for sharing your moving tributes. Mark Hoeltzel Ann Arbor, Michigan

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Appearing below are three chuckleinducing (at least, to me!) excerpts from 1860s-era advertisements for Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. If you think they would be of interest to your readers, feel free to include any or all of them in a future Letters to the Editor. I really do love the way people wrote “back in the day.” Regards, Chris Bubash Dayton, Ohio P.S. Attached, as a bonus, is a notice I discovered next to a Hostetter’s advertisement, concerning some salacious activities that occurred on the South Lawn of the White House back in 1863. Enjoy!

Hostetter’s Advertisement 3: “Imitations and counterfeits of Hostetter’s Celebrated Stomach Bitters, the great remedy for dyspepsia, have been put into the market. Beware of them. Taste them not. There is death in the cup! But the most difficult fraud to guard against, is one practiced by unprincipled ‘publicans’, who fill the genuine bottles of the firm with their own deleterious fire-water, which they retail as Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. The penalties of the law will be invoked on these cheats.”

Hostetter’s Advertisement 1: “Success is the ‘prevalent cradle’ of innumerable humbugs. No sooner had Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters made their mark in the world, than up sprung a host of imitations, and as the fame of the great restorative grew and spread, the pestiferous crop of poisonous mockeries thickened. But the true medicine has lived them down. When the bellows of puffery which kept alive the feeble fire of their borrowed reputation ceased to blow, they ceased to live, and thus they continue to come and go.”

Bonus notice from Chris Bubash, with complete text shown below.

From The Evening Star (9/2/1863): Improper Conduct. — Yesterday afternoon, Officer Bruil found a male and female couple using the grounds south of the President's House as a sort of free love establishment, and went after them. The man skedaddled, but the woman, who gave her name as Frances Smith, from Virginia, was arrested, and Justice Drury sent her to the workhouse.

LETTERS

to the Editor

TOP: Dick Sheaff's mystery bottle. BELOW: An embossed Genuine Chinese Green Drops bottle. Is there a connection?

Chinese Bottle is Greek to Us

Anybody know just what this may be?

To AB&GC Readers,

Dick Sheaff Bethel, Vermont

I wonder if the readership might help me identify a bottle in my collection. It is 4 1/2 inches tall, heavily embossed with a pig-tailed Chinese apothecary working at a counter or stove in his laboratory. The base is embossed HIENFONG / ESSENS.

Editor’s note: For what it’s worth, we found on the internet a “Knorr’s Genuine Hien Fong Essence Detroit Mich. Quack Medicine. This is a bottle from an estate collection that has been in storage since 1966.”

“Essens” means “essence” in Norwegian and other languages. I suspect this may be a German, Polish or Czech bottle.

“It was produced by a Dr. Shopfer, who was reported to call on the earth to stand still and for the sun to revolve around it!”

I have found little information, except that it is known to also exist in colorless glass with additional embossing reading GENUINE CHINESE / GREEN DROPS, and the name of some firm in Milwaukee.

Also: A1926 Knorr Medical Co. ad stated: “Knorr’s Hien Fong Essence or Green Drops is a highly esteemed, carefully prepared family medicine which has been successfully used in thousands of homes for a generation or more.”

ATTENTION READERS: Due to COVID-19 precautions, a number of upcoming bottle shows have been postponed or cancelled. Please check with show chairmen to see if your favorite shows are affected. We will have further updates in future issues. LATE DELIVERY: Unfortunately, some readers are experiencing late delivery of their magazines. Both the May and June issues were delivered to the post office on schedule. Both periodical as well as first class mail appear to be impacted. We appreciate your patience during the current interruption.

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Heard it through the

Grapevine A Bird’s-eye View of Early Glass As viewed by Ralph Finch, another bird This would have looked good on the Finch Funhouse walls, except … there is no space on our walls! Still, I considered it, when a few months ago the Jeffrey Evans auction house of Mt. Crawford, Va., sold “Lot 1057, ILLINOIS GLASS COMPANY PRINT, hand-colored lithograph on paper, comprising two vignettes featuring a bird’s-eye view of the exterior of the factory and the surrounding landscape above an interior view with workers in various stages of glassblowing/making process, all encompassed in a fancy frame border with rosettes to the corner and ‘Illinois Glass Company, Wm Eliot Smith Prest’ written along the bottom edge. Housed under glass in a wooden frame.” The image measured 13 by 16 inches, and dates to the fourth quarter 19th/early 20th century, and said to be in “very good visual condition with light toning, three visible tears along the lower left side with one near center going 1 inch into the image, frame with some wear and scratches.” It was valued at $80-$120, and sold for $234, which includes the buyer’s premium. For more information, go to http:// www.jeffreysevans.com.

But what the image doesn’t show is this, found on the internet (edited): “Under the lead of Edward Levis and William Eliot Smith in 1873, the Illinois Glass Co. of Alton, Ill., became a fixture to the Alton economy and employed over 3,000 workers within thirty years. This company, however, also developed into the largest employer of children within the state of Illinois. Kelley re-

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ported on the very conditions the young boys employed by the company endured: exhausting speed, heat, dust with lack of ventilation, night shifts, burns to limbs, and illiteracy. Kelley’s reports on the factory detailed the constant speed at which the young boys ran around the factory in sweltering heat, working till as late as 3 a.m. Many of the boys’ hands were wrapped in bandages from burns caused by melting glass.” Think of that the next time you pick up a pretty piece of glass.

Heard it through the

Grapevine Outhouse Art is In More crappy notes by Ralph Finch* Selling June 10 was a bit of art that honored the world-famous and muchadmired outhouse, from which some of our best glass has been recovered. It was sold by Historia Auktionshaus of Berlin, Germany. It was a bit of, um, work, described as Lot 2571, “probably Johann Jacob Lay, Darmstadt, Hessen, 1798-1802, funny group of figures with a figure sitting on the toilet while a boy opens the door, white bisque, h. 6 cm.” It required an opening bid of €80 ($91 U.S.) and sold for €120 ($135 U.S.)

plus a butt-load of money to ship it, I’m sure. And I tried to find out more about Historia Auktionshaus, which seems to be strong on china and art pottery, but most of the information was in German, so for me might as well have been in Greek. Outhouses have been featured in a million postcards and cartoons, but deserve more classy art like this, right? (I’d show you what I just bought for our indoor outhouse (our bathroom), but Janet is barely talking to me. *Publisher’s note: Ralph’s personal motto seems to be: “No bad pun is beneath me.” What can you expect from someone who collects antique toilet paper?

Have a Drinking Problem? Here is an artistic way to cover it up By Ralph Finch Selling June 5 at an auction house in Stewartsville, N.J., was Lot 1193, a “carved & painted figural wooden bottle holder,” 16 inches high. It was estimated at $50-$100, and sold for a bargain $20 (WOW!) plus a 25 percent buyer’s premium. This item would be good to keep your spouse from learning about your bottle problem or if you had, maybe, an extra Indian Queen bottle you wanted to hide. The Finch family didn’t get this one, we weren’t even underbitters … I mean under bidders. I don’t have a drinking problem, but I do have a problem with memory. I forgot to bid! See, sitting in my bathrobe every day at home and checking progress at a hundred auction houses every day, I can shop for anything. (As long as Janet isn’t around.) FYI: The community of Stewartsville was named after Thomas Stewart, a secretary to George Washington, who purchased 360 acres in the area in 1793. It now has a population of about 349 people. And double WOW: The original Stewart home still stands along with many other farmhouses and mills. (I want to visit!) And the Kennedy House and Mill, located on Route 173, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Front view (LEFT) and a look at the opened bottle holder.

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Baroque Music and Bottles? If you want to know the score, take an excursion to Holland

Wassenaer Twickel (WT) bottle from Castle Twickel.

By Johan Soeten Rotterdam, Netherlands

or more than 150 years, lovers of ancient music have been wondering who could have been the composer of the six Concerti Grossi in Italian style, published in 1745 by violinist Carlo Reciotti under the title Sei Concerti Armonici.

Because of the high quality of the works, music analysts attributed them to famous Italian composers such as Pergolesi or Locatelli. In 1980, however, a Dutch historian, Albert Dunning, was studying the 180 running meters of archives in the Castle of Twickel, a more than six hundred year old stronghold in the east of Holland. Twickel was named after the first inhabitants, and in the late 1600s, was transmitted to the noble family of van Wassenaer Obdam.

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A portrait of the composer of Sei Concerti Armonici, Baron Unico Willem van Wassenaer.

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Multiple views of the Wassenaer Obdam (WO) bottle.

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To his surprise, Dunning found an early edition of the Sei Concerti with a handwritten introduction by the composer, Baron Unico Willem van Wassenaer (1714-66). Although known in private circles as a gifted musician, his position as member of one of the most prominent noble families did not allow him to present himself to the world as a “simple” composer. But now, with that restraint gone, his name as one of Holland’s most gifted Baroque composers is well established. That undoubtedly caused among bottle collectors, creating a special interest in the 18th-century sealed wine bottles that were found in the wine cellar under the south tower, one of the oldest structures of the castle and, in the Middle Ages, in use as a dungeon. The seals carry the initials of Wassenaer Obdam (WO), Wassenaer Twickel (WT) and Graaf (count) Wassenaer Twickel (GWT). An example of the latter can be found in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.

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In the late 1970s, the last Baroness van Wassenaer gave a number of bottles to her gardener as a present. Those, as well as some stray bottles from one of the former cellar cleanings, gradually made their way into collectors’ hands. Nowadays the cellar of the Twickel Castle is designated as a National Heritage site, so the chance that more bottles will come onto the market is quite remote. But the story they can tell is music to your ears: Baroque music.

r Editor’s note: Twickel Castle is one of the largest private estates in Holland, covering more than 4,000 hectares. The oldest parts of the current castle date from the 16th century. And Ralph Finch couldn’t help but add, “With bottles, as with music, if it ain’t baroque, don’t fix it. So fix the bottle with the chip?

ABOVE: An engraving of the composer Baron Unico Willem van Wassenaer. BELOW: Aerial view of Twickel Castle, a 16th-century castle and private residence with elaborate landscaped gardens open to visitors.

Multiple views of the Graaf (Count) Wassenaer Twickel (GWT) bottle.

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What Did You

Do on July 4?

(I thought about target balls. Doesn’t everyone?) By Ralph Finch

What a blast! There was nothing more American on the Fourth of July than shooting at target balls

ottle collecting is important and exciting every month of the year, but some glass has specific ties to specific seasons. The Summer/ Summer and Summer/Winter flasks are two seasonal examples, but I’m looking for specific month references. For July, the most famous flask, perhaps, is the so-called “firecracker” flask. The bottle is referred to so because the names of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson are embossed on the medial ridge of the flask, along with the date of 1776. Adams

and Jefferson both died on the Fourth of July, 1826. This flask, a GI-14, is in commemoration of that event. A blue example went out with a bang when it was auctioned in 2010 for $100,620. But I’d like to talk about target balls. (I know, surprise!) Let’s go blasting some target balls, and I’ll tell you why so many others did. Since its introduction, target ball shooting quickly became as American as apple pie and the Fourth of July.

Many early newspaper accounts from across the country painted this standard scene. Out at the county fairgrounds or over at the town’s park, the mayor and other officials would give long-winded speeches. There might be a dance, certainly games for the kids, lots of old-fashioned picnic food, and then the contests: target ball shooting, maybe a three-legged race, and a baseball game. Here’s a sampling of some small town newspaper reports around the country: July 2020

The Weekly Fitchburg (Mass.) Sentinel Friday, July 6, 1877: It is the design of the club to hold its first public shooting tournaments at the fair grounds on the 4th of July, the public generally being invited to participate and compete for the prizes offered on equal terms with members of the club. The glass ball shooting is a novelty in this city and furnishes fine practice for wing-shooting. Stationary targets will also be provided for those who wish to test the accuracy and power of their guns at long range. From the Journal, Willimantic, Conn. Tuesday, May 14, 1878: Tuesday, July 2, 1878. Pleasant Valley Driving Park offers an extensive and varied programme for the Fourth of July. The grove adjoining the track has been fitted up with seats, tables, etc., for the occasion, and refreshments will be served, consisting of ice cream, lemonade, soda water, tonic beer, sarsaparilla, etc., will be sold, but no intoxicating drinks will be allowed on the grounds. A clam chowder will be served at 1 o’clock and a clam bake at 3. At 1 o’clock a game of base ball for $25, between the Willimantics and Mansfields of Middletown, will be played, to be followed by a glass ball shooting tournament for a silver badge by the Willimantic game club. FYI: Also on the same date, a notice in the paper said: “The sexton of the M.E. Church particularly requests that tobacco chewers leave their quids outside the church and avoid spewing on the floor. The ladies, no doubt, second the motion.” Winfield (Kansas) Courier June 26, 1879: Plans for the Fourth of July: The order of exercises at the grounds will be: First, Reading of the Declaration of Independence by Mr. D.C. Beach, orations by Hon. J.H. Richey of Lawrence, and of J. Wade McDonald of Winfield. Match game of baseball; glass ball shooting tournament.

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Fourth of July was a Target Ball Blast Winfield (Kansas) Courier June 7, 1883. The citizen committees on 4th of July celebration have most all reported and the program is being made up. A large amount of money has been raised to defray the expenses of music, fireworks, speakers, etc. Special trains will be run from as far east as Cherryvale, and every indication is that Winfield will see the largest crowd on that day ever congregated within her limits. The speaking and celebration will be held in Riverside Park, and the races and games on the new Fair Grounds adjoining. A committee is now in the Territory arranging for an Indian war dance in which several noted chiefs will participate. One of the features will be a glass ball shoot for a purse of $100. Program of the Day’s Doings. At sunrise on the morning of the Fourth, the artillery will inaugurate the festivities of the day by a salute. The procession will form on Main Street, right resting on 10th Avenue, at 10 o’clock a.m., in the following order.

1st. Mixed pacing and trotting race, free for all county horses, best two in three mile heats — 10 percent entrance. Four to enter, three to start. 1st, $45; 2nd, $22.50; 3rd, $7. 2nd. Running race, free for all, half mile dash — 10 percent entrance. 1st, $15; 2nd, $10.50. 3rd. Slow mule race, free for all, half mile dash, change riders, last mule out gets $5. 4th. Tub race, winner takes $3. 5th. Sack race, $2.50 to boss runner. 6th. Base ball Tournament for a premium ball and bat, $5. 7th. Potato race, 1st, $3; 2nd, $2. 8th. Apple string; the one who bites the apple gets $1. 9th. Wheelbarrow race, blindfolded; one who wheels closest to stake gets $1. 10th. Greased pole; he who climbs it gets the $5 gold piece on top. 11th. Glass ball shoot, $5. Premium. $1 entrance fee. Best shot takes 50 percent of premium and entrance money; second best, 25 percent; third 15 percent; fourth, 10 percent. At 4 o’clock the sham battle will take place on the fair grounds under the direction of Col. Whiting, marshal of the day, participated in by the 1st Kansas light artillery and several posts of the G.A R. The Courier Band will furnish music during the day.

Mayor and City officers; Courier Cornet Band; Posts of Grand Army of the Republic; St. John’s Battery; Societies in Regalia; Citizens in wagons and on horseback.

In the evening there will be a grand flambeaux procession of 200 men, bearing Roman candles and accompanied by illuminated balloon ascensions.

The procession will enter Riverside Park at the east gate, drive to the center, unload, and then drive on to the open ground in the west of the Park, where they can be quartered. Such as desire can drive on through the west Park gate, across the road into the Fair Ground Park, where teams may be placed. Persons must carefully avoid damages to trees in either park.

A week later, the paper reported: “It is estimated that ten thousand people were in attendance.”

There will be addresses and a basket picnic dinner at the park, which will be followed by trotting, pacing, and running races, games, etc., on the fair grounds, as follows.

Egyptian Press, (Marion, Illinois) July 6, 1882 The Fourth at Marion — Independence day was celebrated at Marion under the auspices of the Old Settlers’ Association of Williamson county. The number present, considering the gloomy looking morning, and the fact that celebrations were held in various other places adjacent to Marion, was large. In the early morning and forenoon many guns were fired, the church

Target balls were a big part of Fourth of July celebrations in years past.

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bells were rung, and there was a general glee and hilarious, patriotic aspect on the part of the people. The exercises were held at the fair grounds. Order was called at 11 a.m. by Eld. A.T. Benson, president of the association. Rev. Ambrose Seay offered prayer. The Declaration of Independence was read. Rev. G.W. Lamaster made a short address, after which an adjournment for dinner was made. In the afternoon Eld. Benson made a well worded address of about 20 minutes, when glass ball shooting was engaged in by the Marion Gun Club. Lowell (Mass.) Weekly Sun, July 8, 1882 The festivities on the fourth in Lowell were impressive, extensive, and day long, ending with an estimated 20,000 people watching that Tuesday evening. Throughout the day were parades, speeches, bands, tableaus featuring Washington, sporting events, and a balloon ascension with aeronaut “Mr. Allen” (it lifted off at 5 p.m. and landed three hours later in Gardner, Mass., about 40 miles away). The highlight of the day — well, for some of us — was the (edited): GLASS BALL SHOOT This feature of the day’s programme afforded its share of pleasure both to participants and spectators. The shoot came off on the grounds of the Lowell Gun Club, on Swan’s farm at 2 o’clock.

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Thirty contestants, mainly composed of members of the club, appeared upon the grounds with breech-loaders and cartridges. Twenty shots in five rounds were given to each marksman. The scores, as may be seen from the subjoined summary, were decidedly mean. A Holden trap, set at 18 yards rise, was used to send the balls “straight away.” The balls were thick as an ordinary beer bottle. With 18 yards rise and a fast driving trap, this ball of almost solid glass had got away at least 45 yards before the most “snappish” marksman could “get on to it.”

Few guns loaded with No. 8 shot could break the glass ball used at that range, and as the summary shows, the hard driving guns were not many. The prizes were $25, $22, $18, $15, $12, $10, $8, $7, $5 and $2, and the score stood as follows ... (deleted; the top shooter was Mr. Smith, with 13 balls). From the Fairfield (Iowa) Weekly Journal Late June, 1884 The glass ball shooting match on the Fourth of July is for any team of eight members against the same number selected from the Fairfield Gun Club, Each gun or team to pay for all balls broken, giving 10 shots to each man. Entries must be made by July 1st. Price for the winning team $15. See M.A. Repass.”

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

ROCKWOOD’S ACORN JAR We’ve had a picture of the jar in Photo 1 floating around here for years, just waiting to write it up, when an example showed up in Greg Spurgeon’s North American Glass auction in March of this year. This clear, fancily shaped, unlettered, ground-lip jar stands about 11” tall and sports a metal screw cap (Photo 2) that’s nicely embossed * ROCKWOOD & CO. * ACORN BRAND all around TRADE (acorn) MARK within a round roped frame. The jar has been described as an acorn-shaped jar, but you have to look at it upside down, and the similarity is still pretty vague to me. When we first saw one of these jars some years back, I had to do some looking to discover just who Rockwood & Co. was and what the relatively large product jar might have held. Well, then. In 1886, the firm of Rockwood & Co., chocolate and cocoa manufacturers, was formed, with a factory on Cherry Street, in Manhattan, New York City. William Rockwood and Wallace Thaxter Jones were equal partners. The business expanded and the firm moved its factory to Washington and Park Avenues, Brooklyn, in 1902, becoming incorporated at that time. Mr. Rockwood died in 1902 and Mr. Jones became president of the company, retaining that office until his death at age 72, all according to the April 8, 1922 BROOKLYN LIFE, of Brooklyn, N.Y., upon the occasion of Mr. Jones’ death. Rockwood & Co.’s Acorn Brand Chocolates were advertised as early as April 3, 1888, in the ALTON (Illinois) EVENING TELEGRAPH. “Rockwood & Co’s Acorn Brand (Absolutely Pure.) Each Chocolate

Cream is wrapped in wax paper bearing the trademark of the above concern –– a guarantee of fine quality and reliable goods. The quality is unsurpassed by any goods of the kind made, equaling those that are retailed at 80c to $1 a pound, while the popular price of these is 40c a pound...” Figure A shows a plug for the chocolates from THE MANSFIELD COOK BOOK that reads “Rockwood & Co’s Cocoas and Chocolates / We heartily recommend to our customers. W. H. Mansfield & Co. –– Try Acorn Brand Chocolate Creams.” And on December 4, 1897, ‘Acorn Brand Wrapped Chocolates’ were described in the SALINA (Kansas) DAILY REPUBLICAN JOURNAL, as being “absolutely pure, being made of the finest cocoa, sugar and fruit flavoring, with each piece separately wrapped and bearing the trademark of Rockwood & Co.” Is it possible that these Acorn chocolates might have been packed in our featured Acorn jar? Considering the apparent scarcity of the jars, a nine (or more) year run seems a long time. Aside from chocolates, Rockwood was also noted for its cocoa. The Dec. 10, 1909, HARTFORD (Connecticut) COURANT carried advertising stating that, “A cup of Rockwood’s Cocoa is as nourishing and strengthening as an average helping of meat - 10 Cups For 5 Cents. We now pack Rockwood’s Cocoa in convenient 5-cent cans. Note what this means to you: You get just as much for your money as you do in large-size cans. Each can makes ten cups.” Photo 3 shows Rockwood’s Rock-Co Brand Cocoa in a larger two-pound tin, of uncertain date. Rockwood & Co. was one of the most widely known candy and chocolate manufacturers in the United States.

PHOTO 1: Rockwood & Co. candy jar.

PHOTO 2: Rockwood metal screw cap.

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

When Wallace Jones died in 1922, the company was the third largest of its kind in the United States. It was said that later the company ranked number two, behind only Hershey.

the receipt free on receipt of 2¢ stamp to cover mailing. There will be more fruit than can be used. Now is the time to buy your Fruit Jars cheap. Write for prices. Hunnicutt & Bellingrath Co.”

In 1954, Rockwood & Company was sold to a Chicago industrialist, and by 1957 the company had become part of the Shelby Shoe Co. Then the Rockwood factory was sold to the Sweets Company, who produced Tootsie Rolls there until 1967, when the plant was closed.

In 1895, the Hunnicutt & Bellingrath Company was located on Peachtree Street, in Atlanta, Georgia. They had been described a few years earlier as a plumbing company, but circa-1900 Hunnicutt & Bellingrath ads were offering “the largest stock of hardwood mantels, tile and grates, odorless refrigerators, house furnishing goods, pumps, pipe and fittings.” Apparently fruit jars were one line of the many things they sold.

The Acorn Brand half-gallon jar in the North American Glass auction sold for a respectable $110.

MAYSON JARS One of the time-consuming things about doing internet research in old newspapers is that one keeps coming across tantalizing things that you just have to stop and read. The internet devours time voraciously anyway, and when you have to stumble your way through a forest of hundred-year-old news and advertising teasers, research just slows down to a crawl, even with the best of intentions. It was while looking for something entirely unrelated in the June 10, 1900 issue of the ATLANTA (Georgia) CONSTITION that I came across the ad in Figure B. “Free Fruit Jars,” it shouted, offering unheard of “Mayson Fruit Jars” at that! Turns out it was all a ruse, an eye-catcher to snare the unwary home canner. “Mayson Fruit Jars,” the ad seemed to proclaim, “Non-Corrosive Tops. Free! Free! Free!” Then, having set the hook, came the attempt to reel in the potential customer. “A well known receipt [recipe] for putting up Fruit. This receipt was sold at the Exposition for $5.00. We will send

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FIGURE A: An 1890 ad for Acorn Chocolate Creams.

It seems obvious that “Mayson” was a play on words for “Mason” fruit jars. Atlanta has had, over the years, a number of citizens named Mayson, as well as a Mayson Avenue, Mayson Street, and even a Mayson Park. And it’s not impossible that one of the Mayson locals could have patented an unheard-of new style fruit jar, although the odds of that are infinitesimal. In 1900, five dollars was a lot for the average home canner to have paid for a “receipt for putting up fruit,” whatever that means, but likely that was just the secondary hook to get folks to request the free receipt and to be lured into buying the company’s fruit jars, whatever brand they were. As to the Exposition where the receipt was reportedly sold for $5, the “Exposition Universelle,” held in Paris in 1900, known in this country as the 1900 Paris Exposition, seems the obvious one. I can find no other Exposition in Google or various newspaper files that would seem to qualify. But the ad was primarily smoke and mirrors anyway, so who knows?

PHOTO 3: Two pound tin of Rockwood's Rock-Co Brand Flavored Pure Cocoa.

FIGURE B: Mayson Fruit Jars ad from 1900.

The Carrie White Auction at Brockport, May 1974

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How many old bottles have you held in your hands? Have you ever wondered whose hands have also held it since the bottle was made? What was its journey? How was it used? Was it ever displayed as a keepsake on a windowsill, passed on to a friend to keep and admire, researched by someone interested in its history? In the poem at right, by William H. Heyen, a man goes to an auction where the belongings of a 90-year-old woman are being sold. One item he focuses on is an old bottle and how it now sort of “possesses” the woman’s identity. We, too, as collectors often remember the previous owners of the bottles we collect. We write their names on the base of the bottle or at least place their names in our brains, believing that the person’s identity is important because of the simple reality that the person held it, displayed it, studied it, cherished it, shared it with others, and protected it. We understand and honor that attachment. The poet, William Helmuth Heyen (born November 1, 1940), is an American poet, editor, and literary critic. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Suffolk County. He received a B.A. from the State University of New York at Brockport and earned a doctorate in English from Ohio University in 1967. He taught American literature and creative writing at SUNY–Brockport for over thirty years before retiring in 2000. His work has been published in numerous literary journals and periodicals, including The New Yorker, The Ontario Review, Harper’s, TriQuarterly, The Georgia Review, Poetry, American Poetry Review, and The Southern Review, as well as numerous online publications.

The old woman—we didn’t know her—her life is lined up across the grass. These things whisper. Waking early some mornings we hear the bells board by board, and dime by dime. Maybe heard as though from the other world. We know so much we never have to think of. A dozen miles north, just as it did when Carrie was a girl, the great lake laps shore. Storybook clouds sweep south, white against blue sky. The auctioneer holds up a mirror: we are together now; we see ourselves in poses only the light will always remember. The trees disappear in a burst of glare . . . . In the glass of her hand-blown bottle, another century’s air is caught in bubbles. The bottle casts a blue-white shadow, now, on our table, so perfect, so still. She was ninety years old, and lived here, only here, only here. Trees, grass, sun, the rushing sky, and an old woman we never knew. There has not yet been an ending to this, unless it is not true that some intention of her eyes is still held in the bottle’s blue (she must have looked at it so often), something of her touch in its wavy glass (she must have held it so often). July 2020

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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: Any signage or milk bottle go-withs; “lids”, tin cans, porcelain signage, etc, that has the name Maxbauer, having to do with the Maxbauer Meat Market and Maxbauer Dairy in Traverse City, Michigan. I have plenty of Milk bottles, but more interested in the other go-withs. Contact LIZ MAXBAUER at Liz@mcnamaraortho. com or call 734-645-5585. 12/21 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. 7/20 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 7/20

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: 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 7/20 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: 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 7/20 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. 7/20 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: Bottles or Stoneware Embossed Simonds. RAY SIMONDS, tsimo123@ comcast.net 7/20 July 2020

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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: 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. If you have or know of someone who has some, I would appreciate contacting me. Thank you. DAVID MEINZ, Phone: 407-854-8108. David@DavidMeinz.com 9/20 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. 7/20 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. 7/20 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 7/20

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. 7/20 WANTED: Vermont Bitters. Email: bruceamaheu@icloud.com 7/20 WANTED: Snuff Jar embossed "Temple" and "Norwich, Conn." TEMPLE WACHSMUTH, 615-712-1815. 7/20 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 7/20 WANTED: Baltimore Oyster Katsup, O.P. ROBERT LUTHI, 408-892-3530. 8/20 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. 7/20 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. 7/20

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 7/20

WANTED: Palmetto Bottling Works, Campobello, SC; Gramling Dairy Quart, Gramling, SC; Four Columns Farm, Landrum, SC. CHRIS GREEN, Phone: 864-641-9044. 7/20

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AUGUSTS 8

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LINCOLN, ALABAMA

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

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

JULY 18 DAPHNE, ALABAMA The Mobile Bottle Collectors Club's 47th Annual Show & Sale, (9 AM to 3 PM; Dealer set-up Friday, July 17th, 3 PM to 7 PM, and Sat. 7 AM to 9 AM), at the Daphne Civic Center, 2603 US Hwy 98, Daphne, AL 36525. Free Adm., Free Appraisals. Info: ROD VINING, 251.957.6725. Email: vinewood@mchsi.com, or, RICHARD, P.O. Box 241, Pensacola, FL 32591. PH: 850.435.5425. Email: shards@bellsouth.net JULY 18 & 19 ADAMSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA The 20th Annual Shupp’s Grove Bottle Festival, (Sat. & Sun. 6 AM to dusk, early buyers Fri. 3 PM), at the famous ‘Shupp’s Grove’, 607 Willow Street, Reinholds, PA 17569. Info: STEVE GUION, PH: 717.626.5557, or: 717.371.1259, Email: affinityinsurance1@windstream.net JULY 30 – AUGUST 2

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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. AUGUST 22

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. SEPTEMBER 12 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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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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AUGUST 23 POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK Hudson Valley Bottle Club 33rd Annual Mid Hudson Bottle Show & Sale, (9AM to 2:30PM, early buyers 8AM), at the Poughkeepsie Elks Lodge 275, 29 Overocker Rd., Poughkeepsie, NY. Info: MIKE STEPHANO, 27 Rogers Rd, Hyde Park, NY 12538, PH. 845.233.4340; Email: mjsantique@aol. coms SEPTEMBER 11 & 12 SMYRNA, GEORGIA 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

Antique Bottle Show, (Sat. 9 AM to 4 PM; Sun. 9 AM to 3 PM), at the Lake County Fairgrounds, 1060 E. Peterson Rd, Grayslake, IL 60030. Adm. $7, Children under 12 free. Info: TIM ZURKO, Zurko Promotions: 715.526.9769. SEPTEMBER 13 PEKIN, ILLINOIS 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. SEPTEMBER 18 & 19 AURORA, OREGON 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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SEPTEMBER 20

OCTOBER 3

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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

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

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OCTOBER 3

BATH, ONTARIO, CANADA

BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI

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

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

SEPTEMBER 19 LEBANON, INDIANA 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. SEPTEMBER 20 CHEEKTOWAGA, NEW YORK 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

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 2 & 3 WILLIAMS, CALIFORNIA 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

OCTOBER 4 CHELSEA, MICHIGAN 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

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OCTOBER 25

COVENTRY, CONNECTICUT

ALSIP, ILLINOIS

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

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 NOVEMBER 8

OCTOBER 10

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA

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.

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

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NOVEMBER 14

FINDLAY, OHIO

JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA

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

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

SCRIBA, NEW YORK

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OCTOBER 18 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

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1887 Tibby Brothers letterhead.

Tibby Brothers of Sharpsburg and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1866 to ca. 1914) by Jay W. Hawkins

ost bottle and glass collectors outside of the Pittsburgh region have little knowledge of the glass manufacturing firm of the Tibby Brothers. Except for the sheaf of wheat pint and half-pint flasks in clear (flint) glass (GXII-33 and GXII-33a) embossed “TIBBY BROS PITTS PA.” on the bottom, most collectors have never seen anything with their name or marks on it. That group includes me to some extent, a Pittsburgh glass collector, who until fairly recently had not seen other bottles with their name embossed on them. First a little history of the glass company, then we will see some new pieces that have come to light. James Jr., John, William and Mathew Tibby began operations as the Tibby Brothers on June 19, 1866, at their newly-constructed glassworks located at Twenty Second Street between Smallman and Mulberry Streets (Twelfth Ward) in Pittsburgh. One of the many famous William McCully glassworks was located

across Twenty Second Street from Tibby Brothers (Hawkins, 2009). At the time of the company’s start-up, the Tibby Brothers were already experienced glassmen. Both John and William had been listed as glassblowers in the 1857/58 Pittsburgh city directory. The name Tibby was also spelled Tibbey at various times. William Tibby would have been 35 years old at the start of glass manufacturing by the brothers. Initially, their offices were located at 90 Water Street but were moved to 84 Water Street by 1870. The glassworks consisted originally of a single six-pot furnace (Innes, 1976), but they expanded to ten pots a short time after the company started. By 1872, the glassworks comprised three mid-sized structures covering about two-thirds of a small city block. They specialized in flint prescription ware, mainly bottles and vials, but they are also known to have produced smaller amounts of catsup and beer bottles, milk bottles,

pickle jars and flasks. Their advertisement in the Atlas of Allegheny County of 1876 listed the manufacture of “all kinds of Flint Glass Prescription Vials, Panel, Cologne, and Pomade Bottles.” Other than the aforementioned flask and a couple of bottles that will be discussed later in this piece, I have never seen any other glass bottles or flasks with the Tibby Brothers mark. After operating the glassworks at Twenty Second and Smallman (near Penn) Streets for six years, the Tibby Brothers in 1872 constructed a new glassworks four miles up and across the Allegheny River on the western side at Sharpsburg. The new glassworks were a single ten-pot furnace, but the entire operation covered four acres and employed 180 hands. The Tibby Brothers operated both the Pittsburgh and Sharpsburg glassworks, a total of twenty pots, simultaneously for several years. The Tibby Brothers were not a small company by 1876. They were employing 175 men and boys at that July 2020

time (Durant, 1876). The Tibby Brothers subsequently built a new glasshouse in Sharpsburg, which was completed by June of 1879. The April 15, 1880, edition of the Crockery & Glass Journal noted that the company relocated their offices and management of the operations to Main Street in Sharpsburg, while all previous office addresses had been in Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh glassworks were abandoned when the company management moved to Sharpsburg. In 1881, they constructed a third ten-pot furnace in Sharpsburg. They were still using a P.O. Box 889, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, address as of 1882 (Polk & Co., 1882). In January 1883, they were working all three furnaces at the Sharpsburg location. They were still employing upwards of 180 men and boys by this time with an annual payroll nearing $58,000 and a yearly sales of $180,000 (Innes, 1976). The 1876 Atlas for Allegheny County showed the glassworks, which consisted of five buildings located beside the Allegheny River near Guyasuta Station of the Western Pennsylvania Railroad. Their 1882 Pennsylvania Gazetteer and Business Directories listing showed them as manufacturers of flint prescription ware, while their advertisement listed prescription vials, panel, cologne and pomade bottles in addition to “All Kinds of Flint Glass.” Their glassworks were briefly idled by a flood on the Allegheny River in February 1884 (Crockery & Glass Journal, February 21, 1884). Periodic flooding of the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers at that time was common because upstream flood-control structures and dams had not yet been built.

TOP: Tibby Bro's druggist bottle. BOTTOM: 1882 advertisement.

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It is interesting to note that flooding of the Tibby Brothers and other glass factories situated on the flood plain usually only shut down production for a short time following a flooding event, sometimes as little as a week. In fact, prior to the installation of the lock-and-dam

system on the rivers, many glass manufacturers would wait for the high water events during the spring to ship much of the inventory produced during the year downriver to markets, because the rivers were often too shallow otherwise. In January 1885, the Tibby Brothers began using natural gas as fuel at their Sharpsburg prescription glassworks, but had not yet converted all three factories to gas. They were still operating the three factories at the Sharpsburg glassworks with 230 employees in 1896. The Tibby Brothers were manufacturing glass for ten months a year and using 400 cars of coal, 100 cars of sand, 35 cars of soda ash, 15 cars of lime and 10 cars of nitrate during that period. Their annual output was valued at $225,000 ($7 million today). They listed a mailing address of P.O. Box 1022, Pittsburg, Pa., even though they were located completely in Sharpsburg by that time, including their offices. The Tibby Brothers had brought four of their sons into the business by that time, but only the brothers, John, William and Mathew, were listed on their advertisements and letterheads since 1882. As of March 24, 1896, the company letterhead stated that the office and glassworks were located at Guyasuta Station of the Western Pennsylvania Railroad, but the Pittsburg post office box address was still being used. A catalog of their wares dated 1893 showed them offering 53 styles of prescription bottles with a choice of five lip styles. They also offered Union (strapsided) and Shoo Fly (coffin-shaped) whiskey flasks (Innes, 1976). An 1896 advertisement had illustrations for citrate of magnesia, milk, beer and prescription bottles. The prescription bottles were made as plain label-only and embossed bottles. They additionally mentioned the manufacture of catsups, brandies and flasks. The Tibby Brothers were working thirty pots at their Sharpsburg operation in

1900. However, the final city directory listing for Tibby Brothers is in 1901. No mention of them in the city directories was found after that date. They were still listed in the National Glass Budget in September 1903. McKearin and Wilson (1978) indicate that they may have continued until at least 1904. Stephenson (1989) reported that they began operating the glassworks of the old Saltsburg Flint Bottle Co. in Saltsburg, Pennsylvania in 1907. All information indicates that they operated these glassworks for no more than a year. The Tibby Brothers Glass Co. was listed as operating only the Sharpsburg glass works as of 1912. However, the factory was listed as idled. The Sharpsburg factory had three furnaces firing thirty pots. They were shown as producing fruit jars, milk bottles, a general line of bottles and hollow ware at that time. However, the Thomas Registers listed them until 1914. There was a Tibby-Brawer Glass Co. in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania as of 1920 that may have been a successor to the Tibby Brothers Glass Co. (Thomas Publishing, 1920). Marks known or attributed to Tibby Brothers include: “Tibby Bros. Pitts. PA.” found on the bottom clear pint and halfpint flasks embossed with a sheaf of wheat on the side of the flask. Use of a “T” on the bottom of clear glass liquor and druggist’s bottles has been attributed to the Tibby Brothers as well. As mentioned in the beginning of this article, a couple of bottles that were clearly made by Tibbly Brothers have come to light recently. The first is an early-style, tin-top pint milk bottle embossed “MFG FOR A. H. REID 30TH & MARKET ST. PHILA.” in a slug plate with “TIBBY BROS. MAKER PITTSBURGH PA.” on the bottom of the bottle. The second bottle appears to be a salesman’s sample of a square druggist’s bottle embossed “TIBBY BRO’S MANUFACTURERS PITTS. PA.” with the double-lined initials ”T” and “B” intertwined on the front of a slug plate.

McCully map, circa 1872.

Given that the Tibby Brothers were in business for a considerable length of time and operated numerous furnaces with dozens of pots at several factories, it is interesting that they marked very few of their wares. Given the highly competitive nature of the glass industry during the period that they were in business, you would have thought that they would have wanted every advantage that they could get, including the advertising of their wares at essentially no cost.

r REFERENCES: Durant, S.W., 1876, History of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, L.H. Everts, Philadelphia, PA, 242 p.

Tibby Bros - Maker - Pittsburgh PA embosssed on base of milk bottle.

Hawkins, J.W., 2009, Glasshouses and Glass Manufacturers of the Pittsburgh Region – 1795 – 1910, IUniverse Inc., Bloomington, IN, 584 p. Innes, L. 1976, Pittsburgh Glass 1797-1891 A History and Guide for Collectors, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, p. 522. McKearin, H. and K. M. Wilson, 1978, American Bottles & Flasks and Their Ancestry, Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, NY, p. 779. Polk & Company, 1882, Pennsylvania State Gazetteer and Business Directories, R.L. Polk & Co., Ledger Building, Philadelphia, PA, 2772 p. Stephenson, C.D., 1989, Indiana County 175th Anniversary History, Volume II 1866 – 1888, The A.G. Halldin Publishing Co. Inc., Indiana, PA, 809 p. Thomas Register of American Manufacturers and First Hands in All Lines, various years, Thomas Publishing Co., New York.

Base of Tibby Bros Lettered Flask.

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The Carl Mampe Liquor Empire By Frank and Frank Jr. Wicker

n the early 1800s cholera was spreading rampantly through Germany. Dr. Carl Mampe was a medical practitioner and the Royal Prussian Privy Medical Councilor. He was brewing, with alcohol and healing herbs mixed together, his brandy Stomach Bitter Drop, which he sold in pharmacies. He started making his schnapps and herb medicine in the 1830s in the city of Stargard, Pomerania (Pomerania is a historical region on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in central Europe, split between Poland and Germany). It was said that his Bitter Drops may even have the power to bring the dead back to life. Dr. Carl Mampe would soon stop making his cholera agent and donate his original recipe to his two stepbrothers, Ferdinand Johnann and Carl Mampe Jr. The company opened in 1835, in Stargard, Germany. The mark Ur-Mampe was created in 1835 and became Stargader Mampe. Carl Mampe Jr., in 1852, would open a liquor factory in Koszalin, Pomeralin. Dr. Carl Mampe would die in 1857. Ferdinand Johnann and Carl Mampe Jr. ran the two companies and were using the same recipe to produce their product. The two brothers had a disagreement, which started an internal family competition. RIGHT: Lot of two Carl Mampe bottles. Elephant on base. Rare with label.

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In 1877 Carl Mampe Jr. moved his family business to Berlin, where he founded the Carl Mampe A. G. Co. with Walter Aleith. Berlin at the time was a booming capital of the early German Empire.His step brother, Ferdinand Johnann, ran the FJ Mampe Factory, still located in Stargard, which was rebuilt in Hamburg after World War II. The family competition lasted until the 1960s. In 1894, Carl Mampe Jr. developed the famous Mampe Half and Half Liqueur. This liqueur, due to its 130 herbs, was also known to give a stomachsoothing effect. Carl Mampe Jr., or in English Carl Gin, died on Feb.10, 1899. Robert Exner, who was an advertising representative, would become a partner in 1898 and in 1900 would become the sole owner. Unfortunately Carl Mampe Jr. would not see the largest moment of his firm’s history. In April 30, 1904 the World’s Exposition Fair was going on in St. Louis. On this occasion, liquor originating from Germany sought to attain worldwide reputation. The Orange Bitter Likor Mampe Half & Half won the grand prize. In 1896 the firm won the Royal Prussian State Medal in Berlin. The Berliner Mampe-Kummel also was a gold medal winner in Buenos Aires in 1910. The firm won the Grand Prize International Culinary Art exhibition in Frankfurt Am Main in 1937. Robert Exner would succeed in making his company one of the leading brands in the German liqueur industry. In 1922, he acquired the oldest German wine distillery, the Teicheimann and Swing, which was founded in 1784. By 1929, Exner had increased the production of the wine distillery to 78 liqueurs and brandies, which were exported all over the world. This company lasted into the 1980s, making just a few products at the end. The family business was sold and became Mampe Half and Half and Lufthansa cocktail under license by Berentzen Manufacture.

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A Carl Mampe wagon being pulled by an elephant.

Carl Mampe Berlin elephant-themed stamps from 1910 to 1915.

Lot of 4 bottles: Carl Mampe / Berlin // Schutz Marke / (motif of elephant) // Veteranen Str. No 24. These early eight–sided bottles are rare.

Lot of 2 bottles: Carl Mampe / Berlin // Elefanten / (motif of elephant) / Korn // S. W. Hallessche Strasse 17. Early eight-sided bottles, very rare. The second bottle is missing Elefanen and Korn. Lot of 2 bottles: (motif of elephant) Carl Mampe / Berlin – Danzig. Round-style bottle. Scarce to rare depending on color.

Six bottles: (motif of elephant) Carl Mampe / Berlin. Early square bottles Bitters - Bittere Tropfen - Bittere Drop. Salesman sample very rare. Large square rare. Other squares very scarce.

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Carl Mampe Jr.’s grave is to be found today in the so-called Musician Cemetery (the Sophiengemeinde Berlin), and represents the most important pilgrim place of the Mampejunger. Included in this article are photos of some of Carl Mampe’s bottles from the beginning. You can see the many different styles, shapes and colors of these bottles. There were even many variants of the embossed elephants and many different sizes that were offered. Most all of the embossed bottles had their famous trademark of the Mampe Elephant. The early Carl Mampe bottles that were embossed had the street address of S.W. Halleschestrasse 17. This was the main factory address in Berlin. They might have had other factory sites in Berlin as well. We have two other embossed bottles with the addresses of Schutzmarke Veteranenstrasse 25 and also Veteranenstrasse 24. This address was six miles away from the main factory site. The front label on the smaller green bottle at bottom right reads: “Mampes Medical Bitters M.M.B. / Elephant (monogram of elephant) Brand / Trade Mark Berlin / Founded in 1852 in Berlin, Germany. A preparation of Angostura bark and other herbs of medical value of agreeable flavor medical bitters are prescribed.”

TOP LEFT: Mampe stamp with Bittere Tropfen bottle. TOP RIGHT: Pocket flask with metal drinking cup.

The side label on the same bottle reads: “Aromatic & delicate flavor. These bitters are free from harmful drugs and are composed of herbs of medical character. Dose half table spoonful in equal amount of water before meals. Sugar may be added to increase palatability; they may also be advantageously used as a flavoring for plum puddings, mock turtle soup, souses, grape fruit, etc.” The other side is in German. There are bottles that are embossed with the words Berlin and Danzig in a Gothic script. The city of Danzig and East Prussia were separated from Germany just after World War I.

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Lot of 3 bottles, labeled squares. Very rare with labels.

Carl Mampe card from 1917 depicting an elephant moving logs.

Kummel Bear with label. Allasch Kummel Russische Berlin S.W. 11 Germany. Figural bear bottle. Rare with label.

Lot of 2 bottles: Carl / Mampe / (motif of elephant) Berlin. Second bottle embossed Carl Mampe Berlin // Schutz Marke / (motif of elephant) // Veteranen Strasse 25. These early six-sided bottles are very rare.

Lot of 2 bottles: Carl / Mampe / Berlin (around shoulder) / (motif of elephant). These early square bottles are rare.

From the early days until its closure, the Mampe Co. was big on marketing its products. They donated two dwarf elephants, one named Carl and the other named Mampe, to the Berlin Zoo. The business seemed to always flourish, having many new products on the market. In the 1930s over seventy different varieties of Mampe products were served on Zeppelin flights. In the 1960s and 1970s they were big sponsors of auto racing. The business also owned several restaurants, all called Mampes Gutu Stube (Mampe’s Living Rooms). The most famous of these was at Kurfurstendamm 14/15 Berlin, which opened in 1917. The restaurant closed in 1986. REFERENCES:

www.mampemuseum.com, owner Karin Erb, Berlin. Frank & Frank Jr. Wicker Bottle Collection

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This glass bottle house is located on Prince Edward Island.

Bottling Up History Old homes, and new, are filled with stories Compiled by Ralph Finch

ver the last hundred years plus, we have had many stories of homes built with old bottles. Perhaps the most famous ones are in Rhyolite, Nevada, a ghost town about 120 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Founded in 1905 as a mining camp after gold was discovered nearby, Rhyolite declined nearly as quickly as it rose, and by 1920 the town was well on its way to becoming a ghost town. During its heyday, local Tom Kelly constructed a bottle house that became the talk of the town. Since then, two other glass houses, and a number of smaller ones, sprang up in Rhyolite. They still stand today.

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But even now, much of our old glass history is being replaced with plastic. Take a look at the photo of the “Ecological Plastic Bottle House” of Puerto Iguazú, Argentina. Wikipedia reports it is “built from thousands of plastic bottles, it was designed and constructed by Alfredo Santa Cruz and his family in Puerto Iguazu, Argentina. Lit with outside light, softened by the clear plastic, it is a surprisingly beautiful (and waterproof!) “The Ecological Bottle House exemplifies the concept of self-sustainability and demonstrates how a bit of creative ingenuity can bring about positive change in the way humans interact with the environment.”

“In an era when sustainability seems more important than ever, one Argentine family has been a pioneer of renewable living since the 2000s. During a financial crisis, Alfredo Santa Cruz made money by collecting and selling bottles, cardboard and cans. Fast forward two decades, and the Casa Ecológica de Botella has become a place to live, generate an income, and contribute to the environment. “Walking around the house is quite the eye opener. The walls of the main house feature 1,200 plastic bottles, the roof is made from 1,300 tetra pak cartons, and the windows are created from CD cases. The bases of the armchairs, sofas and beds are all made from plastic bottles, too.”

ABOVE: People who live in Argentina plastic houses worry about what? Photo courtesy of Rodrigo Soldon BELOW: This glass bottle house is in Rhyolite, Nevada.

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Making the Case for L.P. Evans Cascara Bitters By Rick Whitney

ne of the great aspects of our hobby is the discovery of new bottles to collect and research. Local bottles are no less exciting than a new rare colored flask or a green Radam’s Microbe Killer!

Liston P. Evans was born Aug. 2, 1852, in Brownville, Maine. This town is a few miles north of Dover-Foxcroft, and also in Piscataquis County. His father, David Evans, was a doctor, which may have influenced his becoming a druggist.

Last September, I was able to acquire a previously unlisted and to my knowledge unknown label-only bitters from a town just north of Dexter, Maine, where I live. I had known about the bottle in a collection for about twenty years, and finally was able to acquire it. The bottle is a Cascara Bitters, put up by Liston P. Evans, a druggist of Dover, Maine.

The first evidence of Liston P. Evans as a druggist comes from the Maine Register in 1874, where he is listed as an apothecary in Garland, Maine. Garland is located just southeast of Dover in Penobscot County. The two towns border each other.

The town of Dover is now DoverFoxcroft, combining with the town of Foxcroft in 1922, and the county seat of Piscataquis County in north central Maine. Liston Evans came out with his Cascara Bitters in the 1880s and probably marketed the bottle on a local basis. This is the only example I have seen or know to exist. Looking in Webster’s dictionary, cascara comes from the cascara buckthorn tree or shrub found in northwestern North America. The bark is the source of cascara sagrada, used medically as a stimulant, cathartic and laxative. Another interesting aspect of this bottle is the fact that Evans lists all the ingredients of the medication with the parts for each. It might be possible to re-create the bitters based on the label ingredients.

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Liston was only in Garland a couple years at most, and no bottles, labeled or embossed, are known to exist from his Garland years. In 1875, he settled in Dover, and in 1878 purchased the drugstore of John K. Chase, which he operated until 1895, when the business was consolidated with Elmer E. Cole & Co. Evans remained part of the company, despite the fact he had purchased the local newspaper, The Observer, in 1890 and became its sole proprietor. He went on to become much better known as a newspaperman than a druggist. Evans was president of the Maine Press Association in 1924, president of the Dover-Foxcroft Trust Co. and a Mason. Evans died in 1949, six years after his wife, Clara, and is buried in Dow Cemetery in Dover-Foxcroft. The town has a population today of about 4,300.

The posssibly unique Cascara Bitters put up by Liston P. Evans of Dover, Maine.

An early photograph of the L. P. Evans pharmacy.

An impressive collection of L.P. Evans druggist bottles.

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The bitters bottle carries two labels. The front label is printed Cascara Bitters put up by Liston P. Evans, Dover, Maine, on a standard square bottle with three indented panels, 9 1/2 inches tall, with an applied tapered-collar lip with ring and an indented smooth base. The bottle is in a deep, golden amber. The label goes on to state, “Useful as a tonic and restorer for invalids and females, imparting vigor to the system and promoting a healthy appetite.”

Liston P. Evans

It seems a pretty familiar sales pitch for a bitters marketed to invalids at a time following the Civil War, and to women, who were portrayed as the weaker of the species. The label goes on to list the ingredients, which some of you may find interesting: Cascara Sagrada – 4 parts, Dandelion Root – 2 parts, Gentian – 4 parts, Camomile flowers – 2 parts, Stillingia Root – (unreadable), Orange Peel – 1 part, Spirit of Cloves – 1 part, Spirit of Orange – 1 part, Spirits of _ ine – 32 parts, Simple Syrup – 8 parts, Water – 88 parts (by weight). It would appear the 32 parts ingredient might be wine, but part of the label is missing on that edge. The dose is: “Onehalf to one wineglassful, either immediately before or one hour after each meal. Invalids and children may take proportionately smaller doses.” The bottle also carries an interesting back label, which acts as a testimonial. It is dated March 20, 1881, which would indicate the earliest time at which the bitters could have been marketed. It is an “official decision” of Green B. Raum, United States Internal Revenue Commissioner concerning Cascara Bitters. He goes on to say that, after examining the formula, he states that it does not qualify as an alcoholic beverage, but as a medicine.

Newspaper ad for Evans' Drug Store

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I have not looked up Green B. Raum to see if he was a real person or not, but Evans seemed very concerned that people might think his bitters more of an alco-

holic drink and he was trying to dispel that thought. Given the local nature of the bottle and the limited market (Dover only had 1,687 inhabitants in 1880), and the fact that it is a label-only bottle, I feel that this is a very scarce bottle, and although I hate to use the term, unique. It would be nice to see another example or two show up. Also, based on the manufacture of the bottle, I would say the bottle dates sometime in the 1880s, starting in 1881. However, Evans did run the drugstore until 1895, which would indicate the latest date the bitters might have been sold. Also, no price is stated on the label. Liston P. Evans also had embossed drugstore bottles as well. His bottles carry a distinctive horseshoe design on the front slug plate panel, which comes in several sizes, and is also marked from Dover, Maine. I also have in my collection another drug bottle from Evans drugstore with an LPE monogram embossed on the front panel. In addition, an 1892 ad from the local paper advertised Evans’ Cholera Mixture for sale at 25 cents per bottle. My guess is that it is a label-only bottle. That pretty much concludes the story of Evan’s Cascara Bitters, an interesting and rare bitters. The number of local paperlabel-only bitters from around the country could number in the hundreds at least, which gives collectors something to look for in their collecting travels. In fact, I am still looking for a Robinson’s Jaundice Bitters from my hometown of Dexter, which I am sure was label only. I keep hoping one will show up, but for a label example to survive might be too much to ask.

r SOURCES Webster’s II New College Dictionary. Maine Register, 1880 and 1930. President Mary Annis and The Dover-Foxcroft Historical Society. The Early History of Dover-Foxcroft, Page 56 (1902) Dover-Foxcroft, Me. Moca-me.org >resources>documents>Piscataquis County.

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SALUTE THE NEW COMMODORE OF THE NAVY Throughout history important countries have had armies and navies. They still do today. In the 20th century they added air forces, but since this is an antique bottle magazine we won’t consider the 20th century. The two bottles in this article are both from the mid-19th century. The army bottle is the U.S.A. Hosp. Dept. It isn’t a common bottle, like a Warner’s or Kilmer’s, but it is a bottle that is probably known to most collectors. I’m going to call it an important bottle because of the Civil War history associated with it, and because of the desirability. Even though there are numerous examples, the value is relatively high. A mint example sells for hundreds to thousands of dollars. U.S.A. Hosp. Dept. bottles are well documented. There are numerous articles about them. As I said, they were introduced during the Civil War. Many contained “medicines” with some herbs and alcohol. Others contained pure alcohol. Alcohol has always been important to mankind, and it is especially important during wartime when there are injuries, pain and distress. The army accepted the fact that alcohol had both good and bad uses. The good obviously was to disinfect wounds, implements and to preserve medicines, and also to calm wounded soldiers before treatment. The bad was drinking for pleasure often resulting in drunkenness. Drinking for pleasure is common to all mankind. It has never been stopped. The navy had the same thoughts as the army, but it knew that it would cause TOP: U.S.A. Hosp. Dept. and U.S.N. Alcohol Med. Dept. bottles. BOTTOM: A view of the bases of each bottle.

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impossible problems on ships. The navy essentially outlawed alcohol on ships. I suspect that they produced the U.S.N. Alcohol Med. Dept. bottle to use it in a highly restricted way on a ship. It must not have worked because it wasn’t used for very long. I have collected bottles for more than fifty years and I never knew about a navy alcohol bottle until John Pastor’s recent auction. When I received American Glass Gallery Auction No. 25 I knew I had to own Lot 196, if possible. I also knew it might not be possible because it was from the Chebalo Collection. Chebalo’s bottles are highly desirable because Jim mostly collected the rarest of rarest and best of best pieces. Chebalo thought it was a valuable bottle, as reflected in John’s estimate: $6,000$12,000. My bid of $6,500 near the end

of the auction put me on top. I was ready to go higher during callbacks, but I won at that price. John said I was very lucky because ordinarily two of the other bidders would have gone higher, too. Special lucky circumstances got me this bottle. My U.S.A. Hosp. bottle is also from Jim Chebalo. I bought if shortly before he passed away in 2018. I will always cherish both of these bottles. The USN bottle was originally purchased by Chuck Moore in the 1980s from an unknown eastern collector. He later sold it to Jim Chebalo. To Chuck’s knowledge, it is the only example. He has heard that there is another one but he has never seen it and he thinks he would know if one existed. Please let me, or the magazine, know if you have the navy bottle, too. I doubt you will. Joe Widman, oldmedicines@yahoo.com

ABOVE: Lot 196 in the American Glass Gallery Auction No. 25. Joe was fortunate to snag this bottle with his bid of $6,500. TOP LEFT: A closer look at the embossing on the U.S.A. Hosp. Dept. bottle. BOTTOM LEFT: Close-up view of the U.S.N. bottle embossing.

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