FOHBC Bottles and Extras May June 2017

Vol. 28

No. 3

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My visit to the Philadelphia Museum of Art to examine its cross-swirled Pitkin flask

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A Historical Look at Springfield Maddox Park: Diggers’ Delight Down in Dixie Collecting Club Bottles: Glimpses into the Past of Our Great Hobby Jack Ryan, His Flask, and “The Wild Bunch” Warner’s Safe Cure “No City” and so much more...

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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On the Cover: Examples of cross-swirled Pitkin flasks.

To Advertise, Subscribe or Renew a subscription, see pages 66 and 72 for details.

FOHBC Officers | 2016 - 2018 ................................................................................ 2 FOHBC President’s Message ................................................................................ 3

To Submit a Story, send a Letter to the Editor or have Comments and Concerns, contact:

Shards of Wisdom ................................................................................................ 4 History’s Corner ................................................................................................... 5 FOHBC News - From & For Our Members ................................................................ 6

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Historical Look at Springfield

by Jim Bender ................................................................................................. 14 Maddox Park: Diggers’ Delight Down in Dixie

by Bill Baab .................................................................................................... 22

He dug in the park for 51 weekends

by Dave Swetmon .......................................................................................... 25 Jack Ryan, His Flask, and “The Wild Bunch”

by Jack Sullivan ............................................................................................. 28

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Warner’s Safe Cure “No City”

by Michael Seeliger ....................................................................................... 34 Collecting Club Bottles: Glimpses into the Past of Our Great Hobby

by Bill Baab .................................................................................................... 38

My Visit to the Philadelphia Museum of Art to see its cross-swirled Pitkin

by Dana Charlton-Zarro ............................................................................... 52

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FOHBC Member Photo Gallery .............................................................. 64 Classified Ads .................................................................................. 66 FOHBC Membership Additions & Changes ................................................ 67 Page 38

Membership Benefits ......................................................................... 71 Membership Application & Advertising ..................................................... 72

Coming next issue or down the road: Hidden Church Treasures, or So Near Yet So Far • American Scent Bottles • Ground-Penetrating Radar System • A Long Gap in Time • Pale Orange Bitters and PJ Murray’s Ghost • Rushton’s Cod Liver Oil • A Serendipitious Dig • For This Collector, History’s Messages are in the Bottles and so much more!

Martin Van Zant BOTTLES and EXTRAS Editor 41 E. Washington Street Mooresville, Indiana 46158 812.841.9495 email: mdvanzant@yahoo.com Fair use notice: Some material in BOTTLES and EXTRAS has been submitted for publication in this magazine and/or was originally published by the authors and is copyrighted. We, as a non-profit organization, offer it here as an educational tool to increase further understanding and discussion of bottle collecting and related history. We believe this constitutes “fair use” of the copyrighted material as provided for in Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this material for purposes of your own that go beyond “fair use”, you must obtain permission from the copyrighted owner(s).

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Lost & Found ....................................................................................................... 60

FOHBC Sho-Biz - Calendar of Shows ........................................................ 68

Elizabeth Meyer FOHBC Business Manger 101 Crawford Street, Studio 1A Houston, Texas 77002 phone: 713.222.7979 x103 email: emeyer@fohbc.org

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Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors Business & News

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

FOHBC Officers 2016-2018

President: Ferdinand Meyer V, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; phone: 713.222.7979 x115; email: fmeyer@fohbc.org

Conventions Director: Louis Fifer, 604 Topaz, Brunswick, Ohio 44212; phone: 330.635.1964; email: fiferlouis@yahoo.com

First Vice-President: Sheldon Baugh, 252 W Valley Dr, Russellville, KY 42276; phone: 270.726.2712; email: sbi_inc@bellsouth.net

Business Manager: Elizabeth Meyer, 101 Crawford Street, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; phone: 713.222.7979 x103; email: emeyer@fohbc.org

Second Vice-President: Gene Bradberry, 3706 Deerfield Cove, Bartlett, TN 38135; phone: 901.372.8428; email: genebsa@gmail.com Secretary: James Berry, 200 Fort Plain Watershed Rd, St. Johnsville, NY 13452; phone: 518.568.5683; email: jhberry10@yahoo.com Treasurer: Gary Beatty, 3068 Jolivette Rd., North Port, FL 34288; phone: 941.276.1546; email: tropicalbreezes@verizon.net Historian: Jim Bender, PO Box 162, Sprakers, NY 12166; phone: 518.673.8833; email: jim1@frontiernet.net Editor: Martin Van Zant, 41 E. Washington St., Mooresville, IN 46168; phone: 812.841.9495; email: mdvanzant@yahoo.com Merchandising Director: Val Berry, 200 Fort Plain Watershed Rd, St. Johnsville, NY 13452; phone: 518.568.5683; email: vgberry10@yahoo.com Membership Director: Linda Sheppard, P.O. Box 162, Sprakers, NY 12166; phone: 518.673.8833; email: jim1@frontiernet.net

Director-at-Large: Ron Hands, 913 Parkside Drive, Wilson, North Carolina 27896, phone: 330.338.3455; email: rshands225@yahoo.com Director-at-Large: Steve Ketcham, PO Box 24114, Edina, Minnesota 55424, phone: 952.920.4205; email: steve@antiquebottledepot.com Director-at-Large: John Pastor, PO Box 227, New Hudson, MI 48165, phone: 248.486.0530; email: jpastor@americanglassgallery.com Midwest Region Director: Matt Lacy, 3836 State Route 307, Austinburg Ohio 44010, phone: 440.228.1873; email: info@antiquebottlesales.com Northeast Region Director: Bob Strickhart, 3 Harvest Drive, Pennington, New Jersey 08534, phone: 609.818.1981; email: strickhartbob@aol.com Southern Region Director: Brad Seigler, P.O. Box 27 Roanoke, Texas 76262, phone: 940.395.2409; email: drgonzo818@gmail.com Western Region Director: Eric McGuire, 1732 Inverness Drive, Petaluma, California 94954, phone: 707.778.2255; email: etmcguire@comcast.net Public Relations Director: Alicia Booth, 11502 Burgoyne Drive, Houston, Texas 77077, phone: 281.589.1882; email: alicia@cis-houston.org

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President’s Message Ferdinand Meyer V

President | Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors c/o FMG Design, Inc. 101 Crawford Street Studio 1A Houston, Texas 77002 fmeyer@fmgdesign.com

thought I would use some space this time around and title it “Did You Know?” There is so much happening in the antique bottle and glass world that can just plain slip by. Here are just a few things off the top of my head.

With space at a premium in Bottles and Extras, we decided some five or so years ago to move the club news section to the FOHBC.org web site. Did you know that there are seventy (70) plus member clubs in the FOHBC? This doesn’t count the twenty (20) or so clubs that sometimes get yellow-marked because they have not renewed their dues in a timely manner. So, you see, this is a big bottle world. Please stay on top of your club memberships! We can all make a difference.

Speaking of clubs and bottle shows, did you know that our web site is constantly updated with reports from bottle shows? Just taking a peek this morning, in late March, I see recent reports on the Baltimore Antique Bottle Show, San Luis Obispo Bottle Society’s 49th Annual Antique Bottle Show and Sale, the Somer’s Enfield Connecticut Bottle Show, the Oregon Bottle Collectors Association Show, the Emerald Coast Bottle Collectors Report, the Manville New Jersey Show, the Little Rhody Show, the Muncie Fruit Jar Show, the Bethlehem Bottle Show, the Capital Region Antique Bottle and Insulator Club Show, the Long Island Antique Bottle Association Show Report, the First Waco Texas Antique Bottle Show, the Yankee Bottle Club 49th Show and the Finger Lakes Bottle Collectors Association Show. Hey, and that’s just on the home page! We keep the reports fresh. You just need to submit your show information with a few good images and captions and we will take it from there. Oh, and please make sure you spell any person’s name you use correctly.

Regarding the shows, did you know that the FOHBC website has the most complete and up-to-date show listing on earth? Yep, it is updated almost daily and in many cases, combines the show listing and the flyer.

You can submit your show information electronically on the website, via email or regular mail. Send your flyer, too! If you need help with your flyer layout, you can also ask for assistance. Nothing catches an eye better than a well-designed color flyer. With design, “less is more,” meaning try not to put too much copy on your flyer. For those clubs with websites, you can always direct readers back to your site for more information.

Did you know that the FOHBC has a very big presence on Facebook? If you are wondering where all the rest of the bottle collectors are, they are here. As of today, the FOHBC page has 2,506 likes and reaches a huge and new audience all the time as bottle questions are asked and reports are posted daily. Just do a search if you are on Facebook.

There are many other Facebook pages dedicated to bottle collecting groups. I can think of fifty or so at least that deal with special areas of bottles collecting. Some of my favorites are Antique Bottle Collectors (4,500+ members!), Early American Glass Collectors, Antique Poison Bottles, 19th Century Bottle Diggers, Shards, Ball Jar Collectors, Antique Bottle Auctions, Antique & Vintage Marble Collectors, Antique Drug Store Bottle Collectors, Antique Bitters Bottles, Bottle Diggers Around the World, Historical and Colonial Glass, Coca-Cola Bottles Pre-1965, Lightning Rod Collectors, Antique Ink Bottles, Antique Soda Bottles, Collecting Insulators, Antique Fruit Jars and so many more.

There are bottle club Facebook pages, show pages and many foreign bottle collector Facebook pages, too. I get asked all the time, where have all the younger collectors gone? Well, my friends, here is my primary answer.

Did you know that every issue of Bottles and Extras, from 2003 on, is digitally archived? Both by issue and by article and topic type. Of course, our fastest growing membership segment, digital members, receive their issue in this format. All issues of Bottles and Extras can be read page-to-page (76-pages including covers) or article-by-article in PDF format on our web site. You need to be a member with a password to access. Please contact us if you do not have one. Like anything online now days, security is important and you must enter your user name and password to access the Members Portal. Additionally, we are now scanning the 1998 – 2002 Bottles and Extras issues and articles for inclusion. Previously, we added all issues of The Pontil (predecessor to Bottles and Extras) from 1963-1970. Oh, and any members wishing to be listed online can also be found in the Members Portal Directory.

Curious about how the FOHBC operates? I know I was when I first joined. You can find copies of all our bi-annual board meeting and conference call notes at FOHBC.org. Just go to the home page and pull down the “FOHBC” menu in the horizontal green band and you will find not only our Notes of Record but Who We Are, President’s Message, Officer List, Meet Your Officers (bios), Federation Bylaws, Code of Ethics and Contact Information. Take a moment and read about our board members. I think you will find the best group of individuals we have had in many years.

Under the adjacent “History” pull-down menu, you can find a growing segment called FOHBC History and other complete sections for the Hall of Fame, Honor Roll, Past Presidents and National Show and Convention records. I’m not kidding when I say this web site is loaded. Did you know there are 30,000-plus images on the site?

Did you know that the Virtual Museum is progressing on a couple of fronts? Alan DeMaison is filming bottles with 3-D imaging equipment and software that the FOHBC and Alan purchased. Alan will be filming in different locations around the country while visiting special collections. He is due in Houston next weekend and we are both due in Denver in late April. We, the Virtual Museum board (VM elects DeMaison, Fuss, Libbey, Meyer, Siri), hope to have a sneak preview of the first gallery work at the FOHBC banquet at the Springfield National.

Wow, did you know that I am out of word space already! I really have so much more to report. Let’s close this message by saying “Onwards to Springfield.” The FOHBC and show chairs Jim Bender and Bob Strickhart are planning an event for the ages. Please visit our website or pages 10 and 11 in this issue for more information.

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Bottles and Extras He wrote more than 25 books from 1953 until his death. He contributed regularly to the annual journal Ceramics in America published

by Chipstone from 2001 through 2017. His autobiography, A Passion for the Past, was published in 2010.

He is survived by his wife, Carol; his brother, David, and his children and grandchildren. A celebration of life was held Feb. 12.

Mountaineers Find History in Bottles!

By Maricar Cinco.

Ivor Noel Hume (NOTE: The following excerpts were taken from the obituary published in the Virginia Gazette on Feb. 8, 2017) WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – Ivor Noel Hume, internationally known archeologist and author, died Feb. 4 at his home in Williamsburg after a short illness. He was 89.

Those old beer bottles and jars are for keeps.

The National Museum of the Philippines has certified as cultural properties the five vintage beer bottles and jars, believed to be provisions during World War II, that mountaineers recovered from a cliff in Rizal town, Laguna province.

Municipal officials received the National Museum certification only on Aug. 1 although it was issued on July 7.

According to the document, the items belonged to Batang Rizal Organization (BRO), a local civic group, whose two members discovered the bottles while on a hike on Mt. San Cristobal in May. The National Museum said the two beer bottles, both colored amber, were manufactured between 1929 and 1960, while the Pepsi bottle was made between 1933 and 1980. The glass pickle jar and the medicine bottle could have been manufactured in the 1940s.

The five items were inspected by museum researchers and the certification was signed by National Museum director Jeremy Robert Barns.

Ivor Noel Hume working on a Bomb site in London.

He was born in the Chelsea borough of London in 1927 and received his schooling and early archaeological experience in Great Britain. His first professional job began in the summer of 1949 with London’s Guildhall Museum. He undertook archaeological excavations, working in advance of the reconstructions in the blitzed ruins of the city of London after World War II. Noel Hume developed an expertise in the Roman-period artifacts found in these excavations, along with the cosmopolitan remnants of 17th and 18th century London. Mostly self-taught as there were no experts back in that day, Noel Hume became an international authority on many categories of material culture, particularly the history of English pottery and glass wine bottles.

In 1950, J.C. Harrington, the National Park Service’s distinguished archaeologist, went to London seeking an expert on 17th century glass.

Noel’s name was mentioned and contact was made. Subsequently, he was asked to consult on artifacts found in Colonial Williamsburg’s 18th century sites. In 1957, he became director of archaeology at Williamsburg and stayed in that position for 31 years, retiring in 1988.

In 1993, Queen Elizabeth recognized his accomplishments by making him an Officer of the British Empire (O.B.E.).

Cultural properties “refer to products of human creativity by which people and a nation reveal their identity,” said Rizal Vice Mayor Ferdinand Sumague, quoting Republic Act No. 10066 or the implementing rules of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.

“This justifies our historical claim,” said Sumague, also the founder of BRO, in a phone interview.

The municipality of Rizal claims that Tayak Hill, a 560-meter plateau now being developed into an outdoor recreational site in Barangay (village) Tala, once served as a war command post of the Filipino-American Irregular Troops.

It based its claim on a book titled “Guerilla Interview” and authored by an American Vietnam War veteran, David Dwiggins, who mentioned that Rizal town used to be a “drop point” of war supplies for the Filipino soldiers.

About 2.5 kilometers from Tayak Hill is an unknown ravine, 70 feet deep, where the mountaineers stumbled upon the artifacts during an

THE NATIONAL Museum has certified these old bottles as cultural properties, strengthening historical claims that Rizal town in Laguna was once a “drop point” of military supplies for Filipino soldiers during World War II. (Photo Coutesy of Rizal Vice Mayor Ferdinand Sumague)

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exploration hike.

With the certification from the National Museum, Sumague said the local government would formalize, through a resolution, the naming of that ravine as the “Antik Bote” (antique bottle) cliff.

Sumague said while it was BRO, a nongovernment group, that would keep the artifacts, the bottles would be available for public viewing in an exhibit.

“It’s not only a historical claim for (BRO) but for the whole town,” he said.

HISTORY’S CORNER In Memory of Dick Watson longtime FOHBC Historian

Deming Jarvis started the Boston & Sandwich glass factory in 1825. Sandwich is a small town in Cape Cod, Mass. Today these colorful bottles are very collectible and have become favorites of many collectors.

Is it Always Worth the Work?

By Martin Van Zant

When I’m digging, and I’m near the bottom of a pit, I sometimes ask the question, “Was all this work worth it?”

I just moved into a new home built in 1866. The yard is spacious but overgrown. There is a garage on one side of the lot and a fence going through the middle. I’ve had a gut feeling that the pits were where the garage now stands.

That said, of course I decided to probe everywhere...just in case. I probed around the garage and the middle of the lot and had no luck. The half of land that doesn’t have a garage on it has the gas and sewer lines running through it, so I knew those were not ideal spots for digging.

I then moved towards the back of the yard and finally hit a pit. I probed and hit a wall of brick. I dug down and exposed the brick liner on one side. I had enough room to work. I could tell by the probe that it was not full of glass, but you never know. I was in the thick and mucky clay dirt when a piece of broken stoneware popped up.

Photo: Michael George

To learn more about Sandwich Glass come join us at the 2017 Springfield National. First of all, Sandwich Glass is a category in the Springfield Bottle Battle and then the next morning there will be a seminar by Wes Seaman on the history of Sandwich Glass.

Watch each issue for a new installment of History’s Corner.

Then at about the four foot level, I noticed privy seeds. I poked and scratched around there and then about another foot and found the bottom. WHAT? I have a 4 1/2 inch diameter pit that was five foot deep. I found another broken shard and three slick bottles in the next few minutes. I then continued to dig and move dirt for about an hour before finally, a clay pipe and a broken button embossed with two kittens in a basket appeared. I also found about 15 loose bricks that I had to dig through. That was about it. I filled the hole and cleaned up my mess.

When I was done, I thought to myself, “that was worth it. I just found a pit, with a pipe and three bottles in it that probably belonged to the people that lived here at one time.”

First picture is of the brick liner. Second Picture is me in the hole. Third picture is of the finds, ALL of them. PS. I have found more stuff on the side of a creek bed, but this was fun. Oh and I found a second pit.

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FOHBC News From & For Our Members The Magazine!

Dear Elizabeth (I have a cousin and daughter-in-law also named Elizabeth): Today I received my copy of Bottles and Extras. I am saving it for an exciting and relaxing time this evening. I also just received today, via Inter-library loan (from Arkansas), a worn copy of For Bitters Only (1980) and will finally get to indulge myself with that classic. I ordered the recent version, Bitters Bottles plus the Bitters Bottles Supplement directly from Bill Ham via telephone and had a great conversation with him regarding my DR M. PERL / PERUVIAN (backward “N”) / NEW ORLEANS, LA and advised him that I will be in NOLA (Algiers) for a “return dig “ in April and will be searching for any additional information that may be lurking in the shadows of “south of south” bayou country.

I am so glad to have made an acquaintance with Ferdinand and you in the great world of historic bottles. Thanks for your efforts on my behalf.

Steve Hickman Green Valley, Arizona

Where are all the young people?

Hey Ferd: Just read the article (Muncie, a fruit jar collectors dream come true - FOHBC.org) by Alan DeMaison regarding the Muncie show. Enjoyed reading about the show but the photos taken at the show made me wonder…. where are all the young people? It looked like a waiting room for heaven with all the 60+ year old folks. The show that Brian Hoblick and I co-chair (Lake City, Florida) is starting to look like that also. We have free bottles for the young folks and try our best to induce the under 40 crowd to get interested in collecting bottles. Where will our hobby be in 10 or 20 years down the road?

I look back at all the “pillars” of our hobby like Gardner, Watson, and yourself and just wonder where we’re headed. Sure have seen some really great collections broken up in the past few years. Anyway, I’m going on 43 years in the hobby and I don’t plan on slowing down any time soon. Be safe and I hope to see you and Elizabeth soon.

Ed LeTard Daphne, Alabama

The Hilburns and Charlie Gardner (by Bill Baab) Hello Bill, Thank you for taking the time to interview the Hilburns and write the story about Charlie Gardner. You did a great job and brought out some information for bottle historians that is very important. Both about the Gardners and the Hilburns. Although I never met Charlie or Nina, I did not think of Nina as a bottle collector. Evidently I was wrong. Nina must have enjoyed those bottles that she cleaned and arranged to create wonderful displays. It will be interesting to talk with some of the other bottle collectors that knew Nina.

On a different subject, I plan to start working on a write up and pic-

tures of the LAHBC commemorative bottles. Dozens of individually created commemoratives were given away. It may take me weeks to get it done with a busy month, but I will start soon. Regards, Dave (Maryo) Victorville, California

Identification of Sea Glass?

Hello there, I was wondering if you could help me identify this rock?

I found it on a beach in Cornwall last year. It has been varnished lightly and was unshiny before.

Thanks, Demi Hale FM5: This looks very much like a really dark, pontiled Hostetters Stomach Bitters (small letter variant) mixed in with one of those “Running Dear” mineral waters. Jeff Wichmann, would you please confirm this?

Eight amazing late Persian “saddle flasks” Thought I would share these here...eight amazing late Persian “saddle flasks” that showed up in 2016. I thought you might enjoy seeing some of the things I’ve found since my article was published in Bottles and Extras. And this is just the saddles - lots of new forms, colours and finishes in the broader late Persian collection as well.

Fascinating.

1. Only late Persian saddle I’ve ever seen with a matching glass stopper that was clearly made for this bottle. Came from the USA. Thought I bought it the first time; auctioneer hadn’t processed my bid. Bought it off ebay a month later - for less! Thank you Jim Eifler!!!

2. First half 17th century. Came from Paris with an amber rosewater bottle.

3. Blue! Need I say more? There is a reference of dark cobalt bottles with sacred waters being sold in the religious city of Qomm, end of 19th century. This might be one of those. It’s so delightful. Out of a 50-year US collection.

4. Calligraphy - late 18th? Likely hydrofluoric acid; not proven but likely a Persian poet, with money being on Omar Khayyam. Bought by an Algerian in London over 40 years ago, and passed from his hands to mine for caretaking for the next while.

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Eight amazing late Persian “saddle flasks”

5. Found this one in a lot of four being auctioned in Spain. Go figure.

Fascinating to see the common saddle flask sitting underneath all that extra glass.

I was wondering if you have come across anything like this or had any suggestions of where I might be able to find one. Thanks for your help!

6. As 2., first half 17th century. All the stringing has been stripped off the neck at some point in its life, likely for good reason at the time.

Mark Nightingale was the one to notice the stripped glass was likely done for a reason, and I thank him for it. One of those bottles that someone emailed me and said “I think this belongs in your collection.” Previous home was stateside.

Debbie Coulson

7. Teeniest one I own, I think. Came from a restorer of precious architecture who had done work in Iran in the early 1970s, most recently living in Italy.

8. One of only six sealed late Persians I’m aware of; one of the two sealed late Persian saddles. It’s cracked. Thank god for that. Cost me about 15 quid because of the crack. Colour me delighted. Came from the southern USA in an auction with another “junker” - I’m sure the seller was delighted just to get rid of them for his minimum bid.

Amazes me, simply AMAZES me, what’s out there.

Rev. J.W. Lawson’s Indian Blood Syrup Good morning, A few years back, I happened to dig up an intact bottle (save for a small chip at the top from my shovel) that read “Rev. J.W. Lawson’s Indian Blood Syrup.” I noticed that your website is filled with interesting pictures of bottles and lots of useful information. Do you have any knowledge or information regarding Rev. J.W. Lawton? I live in Central New York, and am a 4th grade teacher, and was curious to it’s history. My students love to see it each year, I just wish I had more information regarding it. Any information you have would be appreciated. I have also included a picture of the bottle for you to refer to. Thanks so much!

Rob Matson Skaneateles, N.Y.

Phil Culhane, Ottawa, Ontario Editor Note: Read Late Persian Bottles – the Black Glass of the Middle East in the May | June 2015 issue of Bottles and Extras.

Tobacco Fly Trap Hello. I’m trying to track down an example of a pressed glass tobacco fly trap manufactured by Bryce Walker & Co. of Pittsburgh in the early 1880s. Here is a description of this piece published in June, 1881 in the Crockery & Glass Journal: Bryce, Walker & Co. are now making for a Southern tobacco grower large numbers of a white glass imitation of a flower which is to be used as a trap to catch the tobacco fly. It looks very much like a miniature smoke bell, and the bottom having been covered with a poisonous mixture it is suspended among the tobacco plants. The unsuspecting fly, supposing it to be the real flower, crawls in and imbibes some of the artificial honey, which is the means of its final destruction. The firm expects to make this blossom in large quantities.

Rev. J.W. Lawson’s Indian Blood Syrup

Editor: Lawton was located in Manning, N.Y. (from Matthew Knapp) Thanks, Matthew. Clue helped. From Landmarks of Orleans County, N.Y.: John Millard had a whip factory here at one time, and Harry D. Stewart conducted a nursery some years. Josiah Lawton is now a blacksmith here, having succeeded his father, Elias. Besides this, there is a manufactory of proprietary medicines conducted by Rev. J. W. Lawton. In 1887 a post-office was established at this place. It was

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named Manning, partly in honor of Daniel Manning, then a member of the national cabinet, and partly from Manning Packard, an old resident here. He has a store here, as has also R. E. Lawton. The present postmaster is Simon P. Freer....

Jackson, Mississippi Show Hey…Attended another great Jackson, Mississippi show this past weekend. Over 200+ tables of all types of collectibles and bottles for sale. John Sharp once again outdid himself with a tasty BBQ meal on Friday night for all dealers and early buyers. I brought around 50 “lower end” but mint bottles for all the young folks in attendance.

Gave all of them out. Looking forward to the Lake City, Florida show that Brian Hoblick and I cosponsor each May the weekend after Mother’s Day. I’m also planning on attending the DeFuniak Springs, Florida show in February, the Daphne, Alabama. show in March (5 min. from my house), and the (returning) Tallahassee, Florida show in June --- Stay safe, Ed LeTard (Daphne, Alabama)

Empire of Glass You might find a copy of the March/April 2017 magazine “Archaeology” a long article about digging up the Dyottville Glass Works – John Cooper Editor Note: Empire of GlassAn unusual industrial history emerges from some of the city’s hippest neighborhoods,

by Margaret Shakespear]

Clemen’s Indian Tonic bottle & Hannibal Missouri Hello Ferd: I have a simple old bottle question that I am hoping you can publish in the bottle magazine, as one of the many readers will probably know the answer. It is about an early American, open pontiled bottle embossed, “CLEMEN’S INDIAN TONIC PREPARED BY GEO W. HOUSE”. It also has an embossed picture of an Indian on it. It is a 5 3/4” tall oval shaped, aqua colored bottle, with a distinct open pontil on the base. Many of the ones you see still retain the original label on them, which leads to my question.

Years ago, I think it was in one of the old bottle magazines, but maybe even in one of Hagenbuch’s early Glass Works Auctions, I read that a small cache of these bottles were found in an old building in Hannibal, Missouri. Even though they were labeled and this

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find upped the quantity of them previously known, they still remain a very desirable bottle. I have one in my collection. (As a matter of fact, kind of like a Warner’s Safe Cure, I think that every rightly-constructed bottle collector should have one in their collection if they can afford to, as they are kind of the ‘poster child’ of American patent medicine bottles). Anyway, I would very much like to find the source of this claim and try to verify that it is a fact, that they were found in old Hannibal, Missouri.

Many of us, like myself, found our very first old bottles while fishing a creek, hunting in the hollows, exploring the deep woods, very much in the style as Mark Twain (Samuel CLEMENS; how ironic?) depicted Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn doing as kids. Being an avid reader of Mark Twain, it would certainly enhance the desirability of these bottles to know that this exact labeled bottle was also in Hannibal, on that same Saturday morning, that Tom Sawyer was stuck white washing the fence while all his buddies were roaming free!

Can anybody lend any credence to this?

Marc Lutsko Clancy, Montana [Response from Jack Klotz up Hannibal way] I had not heard of this one before and as I can tell from Digger Odell’s and Knapp’s books on early medicines, there are two variants of this bottle, both purportedly from Nashville, Tennessee according to both references. The other variant seems much more rare as it is valued at $2,000-$2,500 and instead of Clemens is embossed “House’s” and otherwise appears the same bottle.

In addition, there are no records of anyone in Hannibal with the last name of Clemens in “the business,” though there seems to have been a few “backyard” entrepreneurs. The Clemens bottle is noted as commonly found with original labels as previously mentioned and seem to be scarce rather than the more rare House versions. Oddly enough, the advertising for both seem to indicate the Clemens is older than the House’s and House’s is listed in Odell as being 6 1/2” tall, open pontil, but with a tapered collar rather than the (earlier?) rolled lip.

They were listed as having been advertised in 1846 (Clemens) and 1847 (House’s) respectively.

That all said, there have been reports, documented and otherwise, of old stock being recovered from old buildings in Hannibal. Documented and on display are old labeled pontil era bottles from the old J. B. Brown’s drugstore at the old Grant’s Drug Store in the Mark Twain historic district downtown. The store is under recent renovation and all display items are temporarily stored while the building is being restored. I had the privilege to help inventory the collection and value estimates about 3 months ago. Sadly there were no Clemens or House’s bottles in the collection but there were some surprises.

The bottles were originally stored in the third story of the Brown Drug Store for many years and discovered by a current owner back in the 1960s and donated to the museum for display at the Grant’s Store. Interestingly enough, a young J. B. Brown clerked for Grant before clerking for another pioneer druggist in Hannibal and eventually opening up his own concern a block away. There is another documented report in the McKearin flask book concerning a finding in 1944 of a number of GX11-34 flasks in an old Hannibal drug store, as well as other “stories” told in bottle circles. I suspect there may be more credence to the story of a cache found in Hannibal than not, simply based on the history of it happening before, but again, this is one I haven’t heard of before. The labels, if original would also support this theory. I believe the Clemens connection may just

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be coincidence, but then why the two identical bottles from the basic same time period with different names? Clemens was certainly not a well known name during the 1840s as in Mark Twain famous. I will investigate further with more longtime local collectors as I have only lived in the area a decade. Hope this helps.

Jack PS- I hope they are around as I would LOVE to dig one of those up. They are a classic looking bottle for sure, high on my list now, thank you very much!

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Found at the site of the former Buffalo Brewing Company

I read with great interest your article about Dr. C. G. Garrison. I am a researcher for the Pasadena Museum of History and I am currently working on the George Gill Green collection. You are probably familiar with Col. Green’s bottles for Dr. Boschee’s German Syrup and Green’s August Flower. I’m interested in finding proof that Green first had a factory in Baltimore that burned. So far, I’ve found him listed as a wholesaler for Dr. Garrison’s products. The same ad indicated that Garrison was educated at the University of Pennsylvania- where Green also attended.

I will have to research the school history to see if they were there at the same time.

I’m not sure if this Garrison is the one that lived in Gloucester County, N.J. but that is the same county where Green eventually opened his factory (Woodbury, N.J.).

Connecting these two might explain why Green went into the business. I have yet to confirm that Green bought his own father’s patents but suppose it is probably true.

I look forward to receiving your response.

Susan Beeler Anderson San Gabriel, CA Editor: Dr. C. G. Garrison’s Bitters for Dyspepsia – Philadelphia on Peachridge Glass.

Site of the former Buffalo Brewing Company While searching around for some history about the Buffalo Brewing Company I came across your blog post, Buffalo Bayou, Buffalo Beer Tour & Buffalo Brewing Company on Peachridge Glass.

I work in Sacramento, California at the Sacramento Bee, which is built on the site of the former Buffalo Brewing Company.

There are only a few things left over from the original building and they are tucked

back into a 3rd story stair well. I took a few pictures to send you, thought you might enjoy them. One is a glass wall panel, not sure of any history behind it. The other is a hanging lamp. It’s about 3 feet tall, made out of steel and glass, I imagine it is fairly heavy.

We usually show these to the new employees during their building tour, adds a bit of history to the job.

Kevin Rolf The Sacramento Bee

Hat Contest at Springfield National?

Hello Gentlemen, Can you tell me if there will be a hat contest and if so what will it be?

I have enjoyed the contest as it can involve the spouse who is not a collector and there to support their partner. Again I am having problems finding info on this component.

Thank you for your time - Patricia Sprang Editor: Patricia: We had not planned on a hat contest as that seemed more ideal at the Lexington National but we have a few other contests planned for the banquet. Of course we will have the Springfield Bottle Battle contest on Thursday evening and a Scavenger Hunt for children on Saturday and Sunday. You can find all Springfield National information on our website FOHBC.org.

Click the info packet for pages of info.

Oregon Bottle Collectors Association (OBCA) Show and Sale Amidst the frequent winter storms that have plagued the West Coast, the Oregon Bottle Collectors Association held its show and sale on February 17th and 18th in the town of Aurora, about 20 miles south of Portland. As fate would have it, opening day was greeted with a virtually cloudless sky that everyone knew was but a short respite from the storms that have drenched the Webfoot State. The show was small but well attended, and held in the Aurora American Legion Hall. It generally attracts collectors from Oregon and Washington.

My wife, Lisa, and I were already visiting a son in Eugene, Oregon, so the additional 120 miles was well worth the time to expend for the cause of a bottle show. Most attendees seemed keenly interested in bottles from the Northwest and weren’t hesitant to pick up items that suited their interest.

Eric McGuire, FOHBC Western Region Director Editor: Please note that accompanying pictures for the Oregon show can be seen at FOHBC.org along with many other antique bottle show reports.

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August 3 -6, 2017 • Thursday-August 3: Springfield Armory Reception, Battle of Springfield bottle competition • Friday-August 4: FOHBC Membership Meeting Breakfast, Educational Seminars, Ribbon Cutting Ceremony, Early Admissions, FOHBC Cocktail Hour & Banquet • Saturday-August 5: Watson One Bottle Auction, General Admission, Youth Corner, Hotel Room Hopping • Sunday-August 6: General Admission,Youth Corner & Display Awards

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By Jim Bender FOHBC Historian

The Springfield Armory, opened by George Washington in 1777, was controversially closed in 1968.

Main Street in The City of Progress, circa 1910.

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Back almost three years ago when Bob Strickhart and I started

looking for a location to hold the 2017 National Antique Bottle Convention and Expo, I first looked at the city of Springfield, Massachusetts. Part of searching for FOHBC convention locations for me is the history of the area. After all, as bottle collectors, we also like history. Once I started to look into Springfield’s history, I found a lot of very interesting facts about the area. So I’ll share some of them with you.

Springfield was founded in 1636 and named Agawam at the time.

Four years later, the town was renamed Springfield in honor of William Pynchon’s home town in England. He was Springfield’s founder. Pynchon’s portrait is represented above.

Springfield flourished for years. Its location on the Connecticut River and the three tributaries that join there made it a perfect location for trade. It was a great crossroads for trade from Boston to Albany as well as New York City to Montreal.

Unfortunately during the King Philip War in 1675, Springfield was burned to the ground by a coalition of Indian tribes. The city just hung on for the next 100 years until 1777 when during the Revolutionary War, George Washington and Henry Knox recognized its advantages as a site for a national armory. For 201 years until 1968, Springfield Arms produced small weapons. The first muskets were produced in 1794, followed by the famous Springfield rifles. Springfield attracted many of the most talented people

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As of 2011, St. John’s Congregational Church remains one of the largest black congregations and proudly displays John Brown’s Bible.

In 1805, the first American English Dictionary was written by Noah Webster. Today the term Webster’s Dictionary is a house hold term.

In 1819, inventor Thomas Blanchard and his lathe created the first interchangeable parts and assembly line which went on to influence work as we know it today. Blanchard also built the first horseless carriage which was powered by steam. This is believed to be the first modern car. So you see, Henry Ford was not the first to think of these things.

In 1844, Charles Goodyear perfected and patented vulcanized rubber at his factory in Springfield. He was making stamps, (the automobile had not been mass produced yet).

In 1853, the first horse show was held in Springfield.

In 1856, the first adjustable wrench was invented in Springfield.

In 1873, the first post cards were invented by the Morgan Envelope Company.

In 1875, the first dog show was held in Springfield.

Portrait of King Philip, by Paul Revere. In 1675, Springfield became one of two major settlements burned to the ground during the New World’s first major Indian War, King Philip’s War. (The other major settlement burned was Providence, Rhode Island). King Philip’s War permanently ended the harmonious relations that had existed between the Natives and Springfield’s settlers. Thousands of New England settlers and Native Americans died in King Philip’s War, which to this day remains the most violent war per capita in American history. The carnage resulted in the clearing of the Native populations from southern New England and the unopposed expansion of the New England colonies. It also became the ruthless model on which the United States based its dealings with its native peoples.

The first mayor of Springfield was Caleb Rice, who was also the first president of the MassMutual Life Insurance Company which is still headquartered in Springfield. It is the second largest company in Massachusetts.

from all over the world. It could have been compared to today’s Silicon Valley.

In 1787, the armory was nearly captured during Shay’s Rebellion. This was the major event that prompted the U.S. Constitutional Convention in 1788.

Springfield has been nicknamed The City of Firsts or The City of Progress. Many things have come out of Springfield.

Springfield was the first city to free another state’s slave. In 1808, a man from New York City traveled to Springfield and demanded a woman named Jenny return with him as his slave.

Jenny had been living in Springfield for many years. The citizens of Springfield banded together in support of abolitionism and raised the money to buy Jenny and set her free. She lived the rest of her life in Springfield.

John Brown, the famous abolitionist and hero of the raid on Harper’s Ferry, was living in Springfield at the time. It must be noted that after 1850 and the forming of the League of Gileadites, never again was a black slave removed from Springfield.

A historic postcard of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company building in Springfield, Massachusetts. Pub. by The Springfield News Co. Tichnor Bros. Inc., Boston, Mass. - Boston Public Library

In 1855, the Republican Party was formed in Springfield by Samuel Bowles III, the publisher of the Springfield daily newspaper, The Republican. In 1860, Bowles’ friend, Springfield lawyer George Ashmun, was elected chairman of the Republican Convention and nominated Abraham Lincoln for president.

In 1856, Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson formed the Smith & Wesson Manufacturing Company. It has become the most famous revolver manufacturer in the world today. The company’s headquarters is still in Springfield and employs over 1,200 people.

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A vintage postcard of the Smith & Wesson Factory, Springfield, Mass. where the famed Smith & Wesson guns were made. The building still exists but has been re-purposed.

On Sept. 20,1893 Charles and Frank Duryea of Springfield built and tested the first gasoline-powered car in America. It was tested at the Howard Bemis farm.

In 1895, the Duryea Motor Wagon won America’s first ever road race. It was a 54-mile race from Chicago to Evanston, Ill. A year later, the Duryea Motor Wagon Company became the first company to manufacture and sell gasoline-powered automobiles. Its motto was, “There is no better motorcar.”

Later that year, someone hit a man on a bicycle and called the police. This was the first reported car accident.

James Naismith holding a basketball.

The most famous thing today the city is known for is basketball.

In 1891, theology graduate James Naismith invented the sport at the YMCA International Training School, known today as Springfield College. He was looking for a sport that could be played between the football and baseball seasons. The first game played ended with a score of 1-0.

In 1912, the first specifically crafted basketball was made by Victory Sporting Goods Company of Springfield.

In 1936, basketball became an Olympic sport and since then has become the second most popular sport in the world after soccer.

In 1968, The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame was

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$200,000,000 in damage. Most all of the mansions standing at the north and south ends of Springfield were lost and even today that part of the city has never been rebuilt. Springfield never really fully rebounded from that sad part of its history.

In 1968, the Springfield Armory was controversially closed during the Vietnam war. From that point going forward many manufacturing companies left Springfield due to rising taxes.

What had made Springfield a strong city was leaving.

In 1905, the Knox Motor Car Company produced the first motorized fire engines for the Springfield Fire Department, making Springfield the first modern fire department in the world.

In 1901, the Indian Motorcycle Company was formed and became the first successful motorcycle company in the United States. Today, the Scout and Chief models are very collectible.

The Hendee Manufacturing Company, Indian’s parent company, also manufactured other products such as aircraft engines, bicycles, boat motors and even air conditioners.

At the same time in the late 1960s, Interstate 91 was constructed and separated Springfield from the river front. This basically blocked Springfield’s use of the river. Construction of the interstate also took valuable land once used to create jobs. Overall, the interstate hurt the city. Springfield has very few high rise buildings compared to other cities.

Today, Springfield is trying to refind itself. Tourist attractions have become very popular. There are several museums and parks to visit. There is a Six Flags amusement park just outside of town. Scheduled to open in 2018 is a new MGM Casino which is being built near the riverfront. The Hartford-Springfield region is also known as the “Knowledge Corridor” because it hosts over 160,000 university students and over 32 universities and liberal arts colleges - the second-highest concentration of higher-learning institutions in the United States. The city of Springfield itself is home to Springfield College, Western New England University, American International College, and Springfield Technical Community College, among other higher educational institutions.

Springfield is a very friendly city rich in history. We hope you all get to enjoy some of what it has to offer during your visit.

Top 10 attractions in Springfield: Springfield Museums: 1 stop 4 museums. 1 ticket grants entry to a science museum, history museum & 2 art museums around a grassy quad. 21 Edwards St, Springfield, MA 01103-1548, 413263-6800 Indian is an American brand of motorcycles originally produced from1901 to 1953 in Springfield, Massachusetts

In 1920, the Rolls Royce company located its only manufacturing plant outside of England in Springfield. They believed Springfield was the only place that had the craftsmen and workmanship they needed. Cars were produced there until 1931 -- nearly 3,000 Silver Ghosts and Phantoms until production halted due to The Great Depression. The factory was located next door to the Indian motorcycle factory.

From 1929 until 1934, the Granville Brothers manufactured speed record-holding airplanes called GeeBees.

In 1921, the first commercial radio station was founded in Springfield. WBZ aired from the Hotel Kimball. In 1953, the first UHF television station WWLP aired. Today, it’s called Springfield’s 22 News.

The Great Floods of Springfield in 1936 and 1938 caused

Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden: 21 Edwards St, Springfield, MA 01103-1548, 413.263.6800 Basketball Hall of Fame, 1000 West Columbus Ave., Springfield, MA 01105, 413.781.6500 Springfield Armory National Historic Site: One Armory Square, Springfield, MA 01105, 413.734.8551 Springfield Central Library: State St, Springfield, MA 01105, 413.263.6828 Forest Park & Forest Park Historic District: Sumner Avenue, Springfield, MA, 413.787.6434 North Riverfront Park: West Street, Springfield, MA 01104 Symphony Hall, 34 Court St, Springfield, MA 01103-1645, 413.788.7033 City Stage: 1 Columbus Ctr, Springfield, MA 01103-1444, 413-788-7646 Springfield College: 263 Alden St, Springfield, MA 01109-3788, 413-748-3000

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lanta Hutchinson and the dig started. The depth of the slope was never reached. The fill consisted mostly of cinders from fireplaces and furnaces and the bottles and jugs would run thick and thin.

You could reach the bottom where the landfill leveled off onto a terrace.”

The park, about 1.5 miles west of Georgia Tech, first opened to the public in 1931. It was named in honor of Robert Maddox (1870-1965), Atlanta’s 41st mayor (1909-1911).

In addition to Basford’s recollections, there were a number of other stories about how the landfill was discovered. Take your pick:

Koch’s 1892 map shows the CP&B’s route in today’s Maddox Park area. MARTA’s Bankhead station is now at this location. - Courtesy Streetcars in Georgia

Maddox Park:

Diggers’ Delight Down in Dixie

The dump was reported to have been discovered by unnamed metal detectorists who found a Civil War-era bayonet in the bed of Proctor Creek, which flowed adjacent to the park, according to Basford. “They noticed a lot of antique glass in the hillside and got in touch with Bobby Hinely, a Newnan, Georgia collector, who contacted his friend, John Joiner, who lived in the same city,” Basford recalled.

Another version comes from Ed Gray, of Marietta, Ga.: “A friend of mine (Jimmy Albech), who was employed by the telephone company, was working on a routing station located behind the park. He saw a bunch of broken glass and called me. So I joined him to check it out. Then I phoned the Fulton County commissioner of parks and he gave me permission over the phone for our bottle club to dig. I had to promise that we’d get a bulldozer and clean up the park after our dig ended.

By Bill Baab

I had been collecting antique bottles for less than three years when I heard about the diggings in Atlanta’s Maddox Park in the early 1970s.

Actually, Augusta collector friends Lonnie and Hilda Mitchell first heard about it and invited my wife, Bea, and I to ride with them to the park one Sunday morning. After we arrived at the 51.5-acre park off the Bankhead Highway, we were told (1) there was a small fee and (2) we had to join the Southeastern Bottle Club in Atlanta.

No problem.

When we saw the bottles and jugs that were coming out of that dump, we didn’t hesitate and spent a number of enjoyable Sundays among the other “gophers” burrowing into the earth.

A CP&B streetcar passes through a wooded stream corridor near Maddox Park.

(From: Street Railway Journal, March 1894, p. 188.)

The park was listed in the “City of Atlanta Expenditures” for 1889 that indicated the land three miles west of Atlanta between the old Mayson and Turners Ferry roads was to be used as a landfill. Veteran Georgia bottle collector Bob Basford was doing research on old Atlanta dumps and found out about it.

“We had one controversial incident when a reporter from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution came to the park. We charged everyone a fee to help pay for the bulldozer and we asked her to pay.

She thought we were charging a fee for digging on city property and wrote a story about it. Of course, she was mistaken, but it caused a bit of trouble.”

“Then we got permission for the club to dig it on weekends,” Basford said. “It was about 1971 that John Joiner and I dug a test pit at the dump, a landfill that ran down a hill. He found an At-

Gray was president of the Southeastern Bottle Club at the time and dug at the park just a few times. Mostly Hutchinson bottles were being dug there and Gray had a better place to dig: theUnion

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Drawing of the extremely rare LIFE EVERLASTING BITTERS from Atlanta, Georgia. Courtesy Bitters Bottles.

Army’s Fort Mitchel dump in the marshes on Hilton Head Island where iron pontiled sodas and other Civil War era bottles were being found. It was one of four forts on the island during that war.

Joiner succeeded Gray as president of the bottle club at the time and he and his wife joined Hinely and his wife on an exploratory dig at the park.

“We wanted to be sure it was worth getting Hop Kidd (the late attorney Hopkins Kidd) to apply for a one-year permit (from the Atlanta Parks Department) for the club to dig,” Joiner recalled.

“You could see some bottles in the dirt when we got there. We filled several buckets with bottles in just a few hours of digging.

“We dug as a club for one year with truckloads of bottles and pottery jugs coming out of the ground. The club’s contract (with the city) was about to end at about the same time our club was hosting its annual bottle show at Callanwode, home of Asa G. Candler, who had established the Coca-Cola Company.

“The club did not renew the contract, but some other individuals did get another contract and bottles were dug there for several more years. I dug my first Crawford County pottery jug that first day. We dug Hutches, inks, common medicines and miscellaneous items.”

The really best times came after the club rented a backhoe/front end loader. The backhoe dug through a few feet of fill to reach the trash layers and the front end loader refilled the holes after each dig was over, saving all of us backbreaking work.

Suffice to say that all those mentioned were among the earliest to enjoy their digs in the park.

Some really incredible bottles, Crawford County, Georgia jugs (most signed by the potters’ initials on their handles) and saltglazed jugs were found.

“One of the first Wilson & Company whiskeys from Atlanta – a rare one – joined a pair of 1867 John Ryans, one with a chipped lip, and a likewise rare amber Jones & Company Atlanta beer (later purchased by Newton Crouch, a Griffin, Georgia collector),” Basford remembered. The Ryans were joined by perhaps six more, which carried an 1867 date, were probably late throws since the bulk of the dump dated 1890-1900, generally known as the Hutchinson bottle era.

Crouch said he’d dug at the park just once “and didn’t have much

luck. My luck came later when I was able to buy some really nice bottles” others had dug in the park.

The Mitchells and I dug many Jacobs Pharmacy drug store bottles, including an amber skull and crossbones poison and a cobalt “generic” eagle sitting on the rim of a mortar (pestle absent) drug store bottle. At least a dozen Hutchinson sodas from as many Atlanta bottlers joined at least one (perhaps more unreported) Fischer’s N.E. Cough Bitters, a small, rectangular aquamarine bottle. At least one (perhaps more unreported) Life Everlasting Bitters from Atlanta surfaced.

I remember seeing a few Congress Waters from Saratoga Springs, N.Y., as well as a cobalt Hutchinson from Detroit. Inks, common medicines and miscellaneous items also were dug.

Veteran Georgia collector Tom Hicks, of Eatonton, Ga., also dug Maddox after learning about the park by accident. He and Gray were attending the 1972 Georgia-Carolina Empty Bottle Club Show and Sale at Julian Smith Casino in Augusta. Hicks accidentally heard Gray tell another man, “They’re digging a lot of stuff, but it’s mostly Hutchinsons.”

Hicks said he wasn’t intentionally listening in. “I was just passing by and heard Ed’s conversation. I filed that bit of information in the back of my mind because back then, I valued Hutchinsons very highly,“ said Hicks, then employed as a game biologist with the Georgia Game and Fish Department.. But he didn’t go to the park at that time.

“The week after the Augusta show, the department was holding a regional meeting and I rode with (fellow game biologist) Dan Marshall and (wildlife ranger) Drew Whitaker. We headed out to the meeting in Drew’s car and our topic was bottle collecting. I said, ‘I heard about this place,’ and told them all about Maddox Park.’ A month goes by and I hadn’t gone and then we had another regional meeting and again I rode with Dan and Drew. I asked, ‘Y’all go to Maddox Park?’ Drew said he’d gone a few times and was digging lots of bottles.

“Nut head!” I said, meaning myself.

“Well, off I went and there must have been 100 people digging, from creaky little old ladies in huge straw hats to tiny children with little toy shovels,” he said. “The whole thing appeared to have been dug, but in reality, it was dug only a few inches deep as bottles could be found from the surface down.

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Whitaker, now deceased, was the chief wildlife ranger with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement Division. He maintained a home in Dearing, Ga., but worked out of the Atlanta office. Later, he joined this writer and his wife as a dear friend and digging buddy.

Hicks remembers some of the better bottles coming out of that dump as including a rare amber Atlanta City Brewing Company, and an olive-amber John Ryan Ginger Ale, Savannah, another late throw.

Among varieties dug in the park were (from left) Ross/Belfast round-bottomed ginger ale, J.J. Sprenger and Southern Bottling Works Hutchinsons and R.P. Culley Co./Belfast round-bottomed ginger ale. (Mike Newman photo)

an eight-footer that had already been dug. I looked around, saw nobody I knew, looked into a deep hole and was greeted with the friendly, smiling face of Dave Swetmon, from whom I learned that you had to be a club member to dig. He could handle that since he was the club treasurer.

“He had just dug a master pottery ink debossed Levinson’s Ink / St. Louis and he said it was the 21st different one he had dug, or something like that.

“Then I tried to dig and quickly learned why you needed to probe as I got into a few already dug deep ones. (At the end of each dig, all holes had to be filled). I do not remember what I dug that day, but I am sure there were a few Southern Bottling Works, Atlanta Consolidated and Standard Bottling Works Hutches. Many thousands were dug there long with thousands of other Hutches and a few blob top sodas and beers.

“The digging persisted for more than 20 years and I am sure as many as a half-million bottles and jugs must have been dug there.

I dug there only a few times as it was a 160-mile round trip (from his Eatonton home) and the drive back seemed much longer due to dirt, fatigue and no one to talk to.

“One day, the ground was frozen several inches deep, becoming safe to tunnel when you finally got to where you could. I remember digging a few jugs that day. Another time, the weather was very cold and the city had bulldozed a huge hole down to a layer of decomposing hay from the stables. Lots of air was condensing as the warm air rose and collided with the cold air.

“Suddenly, an apparition with a bald head appeared in the mist. It

“There were no crown tops, no straight-sided Cokes,” Hicks recalled, but Joiner said a lot of the latter were found close to the edge of the access road.

“There were plenty of Charles Binder sodas from Philadelphia, Pa. Their big block lettering made them hard to miss. What were all those Philadelphia sodas doing in an Atlanta dump?” Hicks asked. I told Tom it was because of all those Yankees coming South and staying. I speak with experience. I was born in Pennsylvania.

Dan Marshall dug the park only once, riding with Bea and I early one Sunday. He remembers digging some Jacobs Pharmacy and common bottles plus a salt-glazed jug.

He still owns the jug. Other collectors who dug at the part included another state biologist – Jim Scharnagel, from Gainesville, Ga. Alas, his memories have faded with time.

Select exsamples from the Maddox Park dig. (John Joiner photo)

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Present day Maddox Park, Atlanta, Georgia

He dug in the park for 51 weekends

By Dave Swetmon Newnan, Georgia

In the spring of 1967, I took a trip to Key West, Florida to do some scuba diving. The weather turned sour after the first dive.

The family I was staying with did not want me to be bored while they were at work, so they suggested I go to the beach and dig some old bottles.

The nearby beach was a dump site during the late 1800s. So I bought a shovel and made the trip down to the beach. I dug all day and filled several boxes with old bottles, brought them back to Georgia and put them into storage where they were forgotten about.

Little did I know that this would be the beginning of a 40-plusyear love affair with a great new hobby.

A few years later, while looking over the bulletin board at work, I saw a flier telling about an upcoming antique bottle show in Decatur, Ga. This is when I met John Joiner, who became a longtime friend. He was already a member of the Southeastern Bottle Club and had been collecting for a while. John educated me on what I had found in Florida. I joined the club and started to get an education. The bottle bug bit harder.

Shortly after joining, I learned that several members had been working on permission to dig old bottles at a city dump that was a city park. Maddox Park was a dumping site for the city and surrounding areas during the 1890s. Permission was granted, a

contract was signed and digging began.

I dug at the park every weekend but one (when my family moved from Fulton County to DeKalb County) for an entire year. You didn’t have to know much about digging old bottles, just how to use a shovel. If you stuck the shovel into the ground, you were going to find something. On one particular dig, I hit glass on the first entry. I got out the scratching tools and found the prize about one inch under the grass. It was a small sized, honey amber Dr. Harter’s Bitters.

Most of the bottles found there dated around 1895 – the Hutchinson soda era. There was an occasional blob top soda found and fewer crown tops. Most of the pottery found was of the salt- and Albany slip-glazed type, with very little alkaline-glazed examples.

A typical day’s digging would produce several dozen embossed and unembossed medicines, around 10 or 12 sodas (mostly Hutches), lots of beers and whiskeys, five or six pieces of pottery, marbles, doll parts, souvenirs from the Cotton States Exposition (held in Atlanta in 1895). The dump must have been a major dumping area for all the saloons in the area as there as there was a major distribution of beers, whiskeys and Bromo Seltzers found.

Several of the older bottles I found included a Charles Brown blob top soda and several Atlanta City Brewing Co., blob tops.

One in particular was a squat amber blob top with a ring – Atlanta City Brewing. At the time, I had no interest in the bottle and sold it to a non-collector for $10. After awhile, I dug more Atlanta beers and started learning the history and my interest grew. I went back to the guy I’d sold the bottle to and offered to buy it back.

He eventually brought it back to me and said he had found it in the bottom of his son’s toy box. Ten dollars brought it back home.

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At the end of the year, we got permission from the city to put a bulldozer in the park for a one-time excavation The idea was to remove 10 feet of the heavily dug area to see what lay underneath, hoping for older artifacts. The results showed there were more bottles nearer the surface and there was not an age difference, but the lower stuff was more protected. I actually found an egg that wasn’t broken. We found some newspapers you could still read and some wood that was not rotten.

Personal finds over a year’s time included some of the following: Inks, small cones of varying colors and embossing, an occasional umbrella ink, crockery inks both small and master, many differently shaped inks and large crock and glass master inks, embossed and plain.

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Digging did end when the contract ran out and many diggers dug on for years, I am sure there are still old bottles in the ground there if you just knew where to stick a shovel.

It was said then and still stands true today: What if the dump had been 20 or 25 years older? And whatever became of that landfill?

Editor Note: Records reflect that the property which is now known as Maddox Park was acquired by the City of Atlanta in 1891, to be used as a sanitary dumping ground. In 1904, the City granted an easement to a local railroad company for the right-of-way through the dumping ground, and that easement was later assigned to CSX. In 1910, the dump site was declared a city park and has since that time been known as Maddox Park. Various improvements were made to the park over the next several decades, including a swimming pool, swing sets, and playing area.

Fruit jars of many colors and manufacturers.

Spirits, many beers made of glass and crockery, some stenciled, some plain. Whiskeys in many colors, embossed and plain. Hock wines in many colors. One personal find was a green Reed’s Spring lady’s leg. South Carolina Dispensary bottles of all shapes and sizes. I found one of the very rare rum bottles.

Sodas: There were probably more than 20 different Atlanta Hutchinson bottles found, many Hutches from other cities, hundreds of round bottoms and torpedoes, some embossed, but most not, and a few blob top sodas.

Snuffs in many sizes and varying shades of green and amber were found.

Poisons of all shapes, sizes, colors and embossing were found.

Probably the most famous from this era was the Jacob’s Pharmacy Bed Bug Killer.

Drug store bottles: There were thousands of drug store and pharmacy bottles dug from all over the southeast, with more than 50 different from Atlanta alone. I collected Jacob’s Pharmacy for a while and had probably 25 to 30 variants of this druggist alone.

Mineral waters from New York such as Congress and Empire Springs were in abundance. Local mineral waters such as Bowden’s Lithia Water and Lithia Springs were fairly common and came in many variants and sizes.

Bitters were also common items to dig, especially the more common ones such as Brown’s Iron Bitters, Dr. Harter’s and Bitterquille. Several local bitters such as Life Everlasting and Ponce DeLeon. These were quite rare and only a few were dug.

Pottery: It was not unusual to find five to 10 pieces a day. These were mostly plain syrup and whiskey jugs, but there were also many stenciled and stamped varieties. Among those were R.M. Rose (with stenciled rose), Potts & Thompson, Stewart, Brown, etc.

Other common items were marbles, doll parts, coins, toothbrushes, Cotton States Exposition items and advertising mini jugs.

Veteran Maddox Park digger Dave Swetmon, with Yorkie-poo Lacey. (Courtesy of Dave Swetmon)

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Fig 5: The Wild Bunch - Front row left to right: Harry A. Longabaugh, alias the Sundance Kid, Ben Kilpatrick, alias the Tall Texan, Robert Leroy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy; Standing: Will Carver & Harvey Logan, alias Kid Curry; Fort Worth, Texas, 1900.

Jack Ryan, His Flask, and “The Wild Bunch�

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Shown here (Fig. 1) is one of the rarest known Western whiskey flasks. The author of three editions of “Historical Bottles of Wyoming,” Warren Bolton, indicates that only four of these pint bottles are known. Behind the flask was a man named Jack Ryan, a wealthy and influential Wyoming saloonkeeper whose life would seem to come straight from a Western novel.

John Patrick Ryan, best known as Jack Ryan, was widely believed to be a confidant - and perhaps a co-conspirator - to the last of the famous outlaw bands of the West, the so-called “Wild Bunch,” a gang that included Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Suspected by railroad police of being complicit in two major Wyoming robberies of Union Pacific trains, Ryan ironically years later was killed while visiting a tunnel being constructed for that railroad line.

Fig 2: Jack Ryan

Ryan (Fig. 2) was born in 1862 in Leavenworth, Kansas, of Irish immigrant parents. He had at least two siblings, brothers Mike and Tom, who would play a role in his later life. As a youth Jack Ryan showed a propensity to go where the Wild West was still wild. He reportedly first headed for the panhandle of Texas, working as a ranch hand. Later he was recorded living in Dodge City, Kansas, long identified as one of the rowdiest of frontier towns.

In 1887, the Laramie Daily Boomerang reported that John Ryan had come to Wyoming and was staying at the Thornburgh Hotel, the finest hostelry in town. Ryan must have liked the locale because the same year he hired out as a trainman for the Union Pacific Railroad at Cheyenne. Meanwhile his brother Mike had bought a grocery store and its stock, including whiskey, in Rawlins, Wyoming. In 1890, Jack Ryan transferred to Rawlins (Fig. 3) as a brakeman and substitute freight conductor working between there and Green River, Wyoming.

Fig 3: Rawlins, Wyoming

Fig 4: Main Street Baggs, Wyoming

After a few years working on the railroad, Ryan apparently tired of a trainman’s life and resigned. By this time he likely was married. His wife’s name and origins are shrouded in history; she is known chiefly as “Mrs. Jack Ryan.” The marriage produced at least one daughter.

In July 1895, with a partner, James Kite, Ryan opened a saloon in Baggs, Wyoming (Fig. 4). This town was a frontier settlement 57 miles south of Rawlins as the crow flies, located close to the Colorado border. The third saloon to be opened in Baggs, the partners’ first location was in a tent. Nevertheless, the Carbon County Journal reported in October of 1895 that “Kite & Ryan, former Rawlins boys, are engaged in the liquor business at Baggs and are doing a rushing business.”

By November, the same newspaper reported that Ryan and Kite had moved into their new frame saloon building in Baggs. Shortly after, Kite sold out his interests to Doc Garner. The following year Garner sold out to Mid (aka Mit) Nichols. The new partners called their establishment the Home Ranch Saloon. In 1897, they advertised in the local newspaper: “Take something. Then go to Nichols & Ryan’s ‘Home Ranch Saloon.’ All kinds of liquors, keg beer always on tap.”

The success of Ryan’s watering hole also had its down side. In October 1897, the Rawlins newspaper reported that a petition was in circulation in Baggs asking that the saloon license of Nichols and Ryan be revoked for keeping a disorderly house. The town was notorious for being a haven for outlaws, including the notorious Cassidy (Fig. 5) and the loosely organized gang he headed known as the Wild Bunch.

After a stick-up in Utah in which Cassidy and his boys robbed the Castle Gate-Pleasant Valley Coal Company payroll of more than $8,000 in gold coins and currency, the outlaws ultimately reassembled at Baggs after celebrating by shooting up the nearby town of Dixon, the kind of antics had earned gang its name.

Most of Baggs was deserted in anticipation of the Wild Bunch arrival, but Jack Ryan stayed open and the gang obliged by getting drunk and shooting up his saloon.

As the story goes, Ryan stayed calm through the chaos and as a result he was rewarded by the outlaws with a silver dollar for every bullet hole found in his saloon, reported to be twenty-five.

Moreover, he was able to earn the confidence of Cassidy and the others as a reliable collaborator. Apparently tired of life in an

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isolated hamlet, Ryan took the outlaw money and bought a saloon in Rawlins.

In Rawlins he openly played host to Cassidy and other members of the Wild Bunch. A photo from about 1888 or 1889 shows the gang and Jack posed in front of Ryan’s place, probably one known as the Bouquet Saloon (Fig. 6). That is Cassidy with the bowler hat and stern look, standing fourth from the left. Jack Ryan is standing behind him, also wearing a bowler (Fig. 7).

Mischief would follow.

Fig 6: A photo from about 1888 or 1889 shows the gang and Jack posed in front of Ryan’s place

As one historian tells it: “Near dawn on June 2, 1899, an engineer from the westbound Union Pacific Overland Flyer No. 1 fired off a telegram from Medicine Bow, Wyoming: ‘First Section No. 1 held up a mile west of Wilcox. Express car blown open, mail car damaged. Safe blown open; contents gone.’ The robbers got away with $30,000 (equivalent to $750,000 today). As the photo shown here indicates (Figs. 8 & 9), the mail car was not just damaged but destroyed by the blast. The Wilcox holdup would become one of the West’s most infamous train robberies.

This hold-up was followed slightly more than a year later when a gang robbed the Union Pacific No. 3 train near Tipton, Wyoming, of $50,000 in gold. Suspicion fell on Ryan. Known to be a confidant of Cassidy and other gang members and as a former trainman on the Union Pacific, Jack was presumed to have inside knowledge of operations. This time a posse was early on the track of the robbers (Fig. 10) and the Union Pacific engaged the Pinkerton Detective Agency.

Fig 10: The Posse gathers.

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Ryan, given the code name “Basket,” was fingered by Pinkerton operatives as an accomplice and they opened a criminal history dossier on him. That record gave a physical description of the saloonkeeper: At age 40, Ryan was five feet, eight and a half inches tall, and weighed between 150 to 160 pounds. He had a light complexion, brown hair, a sandy mustache and spoke with a “heavy” voice. There was something wrong with his eyes and he was recorded as being “cockeyed.”

Specifically, Ryan was suspected of knowing when gold shipments via Union Pacific were likely and tipping off the outlaws. It seemed suspicious when on the same day as the Wilcox robbery, he sold the Bouquet Saloon in Rawlins and promptly invested in another in the newly constructed Cheatum Building, taking as a partner, Joseph Buckley. After the Tipton robbery, Ryan was rumored to have helped a gang leader bury some of the loot at a ranch owned by a friend twenty miles south of Rawlins. Later, Charles Siringo, the lead detective Fig 7: Jack Ryan and Butch Cassidy for Pinkerton, joined a wild horse hunt with Ryan. Siringo in his book, “Cowboy Detective,” claimed that during this hunt he discovered that Ryan had kept a hired man and a cache of food in a nearby mountain hideout to feed the Wild Bunch as they passed through.

Regardless of suspicions, Ryan stayed out of jail and continued to prosper. With his partner, he was running the Home Ranch Saloon in Rawlins. He and Buckley expanded their operations, opening a second drinking spot in Rawlins called the Club Saloon and in 1900 buying a saloon in a settlement not far from Rawlins, installing Tom Ryan as the manager. Ryan also owned a saloon back in Baggs for a time. In 1906, Buckley left the liquor business, selling his remaining interest to the Ryan brothers.

Ryan is most closely associated with the Home Ranch Saloon (Fig. 11). Although the interior photograph here is poor, it shows an elaborate bar with brass foot rails, indicating an attempt at elegance. Trade tokens (Fig. 12) have been attributed to the Home Ranch in Rawlins. The saloon closed about 1912.

With his increasing wealth, Jack Ryan was expanding his business interests. He was described in the local press as having large real estate holdings at a settlement near Rawlins called Walcott, including owning the townsite, valuable oil lands and “one of the best stone quarries in the country.” He maintained a horse ranch on the Platte River, ten miles north of Walcott. In his later years, he also was engaged in mining projects, particularly seeking gold in Colorado. Ryan also was active in civic affairs and a co-founder of the local lodge of the Fraternal Order of Elks. Of him a local newspaper editorialized: “A man with diversified interests is J. P. Ryan and since his advent in Rawlins no effort has been spared

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by him for the advancement of the town’s best interests.”

It is unclear why Ryan on a fateful day in May, 1924, was in a tunnel being dug by the Union Pacific Railroad through a mountain near Rawlins. At the age of 62 it is unlikely he was working for the railroad. Perhaps it was curiosity that brought him there.

The Rawlins Republican told the story: “Work upon the afternoon shift had just begun, and it was thought everyone was beyond the reach of danger. A charge of dynamite was set off, hurtling into the air a fragment of stone which fell on Mr. Ryan’s head, causing immediate unconsciousness and death within a quarter hour.”

Fig 11: Ryan is most closely associated with the Home Ranch Saloon. Although the interior photograph here is poor, it shows an elaborate bar with brass foot rails, indicating an attempt at elegance.

Ryan was buried in the Rawlins Cemetery with full honors from his Elks Lodge brothers. Among those at his gravesite were his brothers, Tom and Mike, and his married daughter, with whom he had been living since the death of his wife in 1920. His headstone is shown here (Fig. 13). The saloonkeeper went to his grave without revealing what, if any, involvement he had in the Wilcox and Tipton railroad heists. By the time of his death the Union Pacific Railroad with its Pinkerton detectives had tracked down most of the robbers. The Wild Bunch was history, its members, including Butch Cassidy, shot down or in prison.

We are fortunate that Jack Ryan, while selling liquor in Rawlins, determined to bottle whiskey in an embossed glass flask bearing his name. According to Warren Bolton, one was dug in an old Rawlins dump awhile back. Several years ago, bottle diggers working in a Rawlins privy, found three more for the total of four.

Warren is fortunate to be the owner of one and it is his photograph, most appreciated, used here.

Only Jack Ryan may have known the size of the original supply - and he is in no position to say.

Fig 12: Trade tokens have been attributed to the Home Ranch in Rawlins.

Fig 13: Ryan was buried in the Rawlins Cemetery with full honors from his Elks Lodge brothers. Among those at his gravesite were his brothers, Tom and Mike, and his married daughter, with whom he had been living since the death of his wife in 1920. His headstone is shown here.

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40th Annual

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at the Tulsa Flea Market, River Spirit Center, Tulsa Fairgrounds (21st & Yale) Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Free admission & parking Show is right behind the Golden Driller at 21st Street and Pittsburgh Avenue. For easiest access, attendees should park on the north side of the building.

200+ tables of advertising, signs, bottles, jars, paper items, relics, country store, drug store, saloon, oil & gas, veterinary, soda fountain, toys, etc.

Dealers from 15 states. One of America’s best shows for painted label sodas There will be low cost items as well as high quality for the serious collector. While not as big as Indy, Chicago, or the FOHBC national, we continue to grow! Thanks to you, Tulsa is now one of America's top ten antique advertising shows!

Dealers: 8 foot tables are $35 each or 11’ x 13’ booth for $80. Set up from 10 am to 6 pm Friday & 6 am to 8 am Saturday.

The 11 acre River Spirit Center is a modern, air conditioned facility. We will be in the upper level, right next to the flea market. Spaces available until June 18th. Dealers drive in and unload right at their booth. Attendance has been excellent, and many have sold well. Great pizza lunch for dealers on Saturday. The flea market will have an additional 800 tables of collectibles, etc., both old and new. The total show will have over 1,000 tables of all kinds of antiques & collectibles for sale! This show is huge!!! Don’t miss it!!!

Advertising & bottle shows are rare in our part of the country. Take advantage of this opportunity, and tell others about us.

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Warner’s “No City” Safe Cure

By Michael Seeliger

Another one of these has appeared, again from Switzerland.

It now belongs to Mike and Kathie Craig and is part of their nearly complete collection of Warner bottles and memorabilia.

When these bottles first appeared, I was quite skeptical. With today’s techniques, it is possible to fake almost any bottle, especially when large amounts of money are at stake. Also, like the green Animal Cures I found back in 1972, I didn’t know if these were real and if they were, how rare they are. As soon as everyone has one, the price will begin to drop on these. Like any rare bottle, if a case is found in a basement, then the price plummets.

So the price of these may change dramatically. Prices will go down as more come to light. The price will remain high or increase as time shows very few are found. Only time will tell on this one.

At first, I believed that someone could grind off the words Frankfurt or London on a bottle and polish it to make it smooth and pass it off as a “no city” bottle. I had to examine the bottle closely to accurately assess if this was an original or a fake, or possibly a reproduction?

When I purchased the bottle for Mike and Kathie, I took ownership of it for a brief time. I was able to look at it and see exactly what was going on here. First, the bottle is fairly new compared with older European Warner bottles. The early Warners from Europe are amber and fairly crude in manufacture.

As time passed from 1880 to 1890s and into the 1900s, bottle manufacture began to improve. Bottles were made in various shades of green, aqua and clear. The bottles had an almost machine-made quality bearing numbering on the base more like machine-made embossings.

“No City” Warner. Note the heavy hinge and no filigree in safe.

The mold seams ended just under the blob top which was often smaller, flatter and shorter than earlier blobs. The bottle contains the residue of a cork stuck to the inside neck. The “No City” bottles I have seen all have this quality. They have seams that go directly into the blob. The blob is shorter and the bottle embossing is crisp and clean. The safe on the bottle has little interior embossing. The safe just has the words Trade

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Kathie and Michael Craig are shown here with their fantastic Warner collection in Campbell, California. On the right are Alice and Michael Seeliger. Alice was instrumental in the first writing of “H.H. Warner; His Company and His Bottles,” typing and editing the 1974 publication by Michael. Many of the bottles pictured here came from the original collection of Michael and Alice that Jack Craig purchased in 1979 when Michael reluctantly parted with much of his collection.

Mark and heavy hinges. Some of the Pressburg bottles have this type of safe, especially in the labels.

A third thing to notice is the S in Warner’s and the word Safe.

The S is blocked, not curved at the top and bottom. This S is found only on the “No City” bottle. Also, the lines under the safe are the typical lines found on most bottles. The “No City” lines are exacting. They form a nice neat pyramid. Most Warner bottles have lines of varying length or no lines at all in some London examples. Some have three to five depending on how the engraver was describing the ground under the safe. The “No City” lines are exact. There are five lines between each leg of the safe and a set on the side of each of the outside legs.

The “No City” bottle safe is very low on the front and almost reaches the bottom of the bottle. It would have left very little room for an embossing of a city name. This was probably because they wanted to space out the embossing to center on the bottle.

All embossing on the bottle is in a thinner font than any other Warner bottle. Finally, there is a small number 2 embossed at the very bottom of the front panel. Does this mean there were at least two molds? The base has an indented bottom with a horseshoe-type maker’s mark and two dots under the U on the base.

No other Warner bottle sports this maker’s mark. I’m sure we could investigate other Swiss bottles and possibly find this mark on other bottles which would indicate who made the bottle.

So this bottle will be added definitely to the Warner world of bottles. It will be listed as a “No City” bottle possibly assigned to the Swiss, French or other European markets. Until a labeled bottle is found, we will not know definitely from where the bottle originated.

Odd Warner’s “S” with squared lines.

Base of bottle with embossed “2 “.

Read more: Jan/Feb 2014 issue of Bottles and Extras.

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Collecting Club Bottles: Glimpses into the Past of Our Great Hobby

by Bill Baab

The Antique Bottle Collectors of Colorado in Denver was the

first antique bottle club to order a commemorative bottle from the Clevenger Brothers Glass Factory in Clayton, N.J. A ceramic bottle is dated 1966, with an olive-green glass lady’s leg bottle dated 1968. There are three other examples.

Four years after the ‘66 Colorado bottle, the Iowa Antique Bottleers ordered a green glass ear of corn bottle, probably from the Clevengers. It was dated 1970. Club records don’t show the glass works that made it, according to newsletter editor Mark C. Wiseman, but the Clevenger factory had the skills necessary to produce it.

The Iowa club was founded on June 18, 1967, sparked by charter members Curly and Katie Foglesong; “Doc” George Herron and his wife, Ruth; Max and Viv Jones; Frank and Nita Welch, and Ralph and Helen Welch. In 1992, the club had the Clevengers make a log cabin bottle in observation of its 25th anniversary Herron became well-known in the hobby through his column, “Herron’s Hunches,” published in many issues of Old Bottle Magazine. Foglesong was the club’s longtime newsletter editor and also wrote an entertaining little book, “Trials and Trails of a Bottle Collector.” The club honored her with a bottle in 1990 and she was inducted onto the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors Honor Roll in 2008.

I asked Wiseman who it was responsible for the clever designs on his club bottles.

“I do not have an answer to your question, but (club member) Don Faas had a hand in designing every club bottle from 1986 to 2006. He made the mold for the 2006 ink. He must have told the glassblowers what he wanted on the 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 bottles.

“He also told the potter what he wanted on the stoneware in 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2001. (Master potter) Wyn Painter turned the 1999 jug by what Don told him. Wyn also made the 2007 and 2009 copies of existing mini jigs. (Potter) Kevin Anderson did the same with the 2008 and Russ Leckband’s 2010 creation was based on an original bottle. Russ came up with the 2011 piggy bank and 2012 bank jug, as well as the ceramic pieces in 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2001. I think all the Clevenger bottles were designed by their mold makers.”

I can remember when the Clevengers advertised their ability to manufacture club bottles through ads in the bottle magazines, but I showed little interest until three events took place. The first was a gift from friends June and Wayne Lowry a few years ago – a flask marking the 25th anniversary (1994) of the FOHBC. The second was another gift of a 1976 St. Louis FOHBC Expo scroll flask from target ball guru and friend Ralph Finch a year or two later.

May - June 2017 Bottles and Extras Left: FOHBC bottles are (back row, L-R), Antique Bottle Collectors Association (of Sacramento, Calif., 10th anniversary, 1959 to 1969); the Federation’s first flask, the Handled Chestlectors Association (of Sacramento, Calif., 10th anniversary, nut (1969); Reno, Nevada Show (1988) and 25th anniversary 1959 to 1969); the Federation’s first flask, the Handled Chest(1994 inside seal). Front row, the 1976 St. Louis Expo flask nut (1969); Reno, Nevada Show (1988) and 25th anniversary and a pair of flasks blown at Hale Farm and Village in 1981 (1994 inside seal). Front row, the 1976 St. Louis Expo flask (orange) and 1984 (olive green). (Mike Newman photo) and a pair of flasks blown at Hale Farm and Village in 1981 (orange) and 1984 (olive green). (Mike Newman photo) But what really turned me into a club/FOHBC bottle collector was the 2011 publication of Thomas C. Haunton’s wonderful But what really turned me into a club/FOHBC bottle collector book, 20th Century South Jersey Glass, Vol. I, Clevenger Brothwas the 2011 publication of Thomas C. Haunton’s wonderful ers. Once I read the treasure trove of information that book conbook, 20th Century South Jersey Glass, Vol. I, Clevenger Brothtains, I became hooked on collecting what I term “new historical ers. Once I read the treasure trove of information that book conflasks (& bottles & jugs & other ceramics).” tains, I became hooked on collecting what I term “new historical flasks (& bottles & jugs & other ceramics).”

During my stint as the FOHBC’s Southern Region editor, I became acquainted with Wiseman, who edits the Iowa Antique During my stint as the FOHBC’s Southern Region editor, I Bottleers newsletter. Occasionally, he would write something became acquainted with Wiseman, who edits the Iowa Antique detailing his club’s many bottles made by the Clevengers.

Bottleers newsletter. Occasionally, he would write something detailing his club’s many bottles made by the Clevengers.

He kindly gave me 13 of his club’s 43 bottles, including many ceramic pieces. Then club member and its longtime treasurer, Tom He kindly gave me 13 of his club’s 43 bottles, including many ceSouthard, sold me 20-odd more. Dean Faust, yet another club ramic pieces. Then club member and its longtime treasurer, Tom member, sold me five more. And club member Patricia Layton Southard, sold me 20-odd more. Dean Faust, yet another club sold me the elusive 1976 IAB Bicentennial bottle. member, sold me five more. And club member Patricia Layton sold me the elusive 1976 IAB Bicentennial bottle.

With all those, I am still missing nine others, but I am working on obtaining them. As far as I can tell, the Iowa club remains the With all those, I am still missing nine others, but I am working most active with annual glass bottles and ceramics still being on obtaining them. As far as I can tell, the Iowa club remains the produced. most active with annual glass bottles and ceramics still being produced.

The club contracted with Lawrenceville, Virginia glassblower Phil Gilson to produce a green scroll flask commemorating the The club contracted with Lawrenceville, Virginia glassblower club’s 50th anniversary. The slug plate was made by Jim SharPhil Gilson to produce a green scroll flask commemorating the pless. Gilson also produced two types of “sun-catchers,” green club’s 50th anniversary. The slug plate was made by Jim Sharand cobalt glass discs. The greens mark the 50th anniversary, pless. Gilson also produced two types of “sun-catchers,” green the blues show the club’s charter members. The flask and two and cobalt glass discs. The greens mark the 50th anniversary, sun-catchers are now in the Baab collection. the blues show the club’s charter members. The flask and two Below: Antique Bottle of San Diego and sun-catchers are now in the BaabClub collection.

Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club commemorative Below: Antique Bottle Club of San Diego and bottles.

Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club commemorative bottles.

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The Antique Bottle Club of San Diego marked its 50th anniversary with a “modern” cobalt blue bottle decorated with labels on the bottle neck and side. The neck label reads “50th Anniversary / 1965 - 2015. The label on the bottle’s side pictures the club logo designed by member Mike Bryant and his sister Peggy. Main feature of the label is the Mission de Alcala, the first Spanish mission in California founded in 1769 in San Diego. “It has been restored and is worth a visit,” said Bryant, who provided the information.

Also pictured on the label is a pre-Prohibition San Diego Brewing Company quart beer, a purple Hutchinson featuring a star from the San Diego Soda Works, an amber Stag Buffet flask, a Strahlmann-Mayer drug store medicine bottle and a Clover Leaf Dairy bottle.

Bryant, who gave me an anniversary bottle, said the Hutchinson and beer are scarce, the flask and milk rare and the medicine common. The cobalt bottle is of recent (2000s) manufacture from an unknown company.

By perusing Haunton’s Clevenger book, I discovered the 1st Chicago club had Clevengers make it some commemorative bottles. John Panek, the club president, told me about the five bottles – two made in 1973 (160 in lime green, 80 in amethyst), one in 1981 (120 in cobalt), another in 1989 (80 in amber) and the last in 1994 (100 in aqua).

All are Hutchinsons.

The lime green, cobalt blue and amber examples are in our collection.

Panek said his club owns the original mold and multi-talented member Bob Harms “personally machined the new dates in the mold whenever we decided to issue a new colored commemorative.” Sadly, Harms passed away in 2015.

“I distinctly remember that when some shipment of bottles arrived from the Clevengers, there were always a few broken ones. So the number in existence of all of them is lower than the counts I have given you,” Panek said.

In addition to club bottles, the Clevengers also made bottles honoring John C. Tibbitts and Charles Gardner.

Tibbitts was founder and first president of the Antique Bottle Collectors Association of California in 1959 in Sacramento. The flask is embossed “Bottle Collectors Are Nice People,” and he was one of them.

“He was a charming man,” said Jeff Wichmann, of American Bottle Auctions, in Sacramento. “I met him a couple of times and sold a few of his bottles because he didn’t think much of them at the time, but it turned out a railroad flask he had was worth a lot of money because of its color.”

Gardner, who lived in New London, Connecticut, will forever be known as “The Father of Modern Bottle Collecting.” He was a long distance member of Tibbitts’s club, among many others, but had never started one in the New

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Front row: Hawkeye Iowa Tonic (Mike Newman photo)

England area. Neither had George and Helen McKearin, whose research and writings had brought them into international prominence as among the very first authorities on early American glass, not just bottles.

New Jersey Antique Bottle Club. The foundry “cast many items for the equestrian trade and community,” he said. “I made that contact at the American Equestrian Trade Association show in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania in 2011.

The early Texas-based journal, Bottle News, had the Clevengers make a bottle honoring Gardner in 1977. I have been wanting to purchase both of those bottles ever since learning they existed.

Tibbitts wrote in one of his newsletters, The Pontil, that his club planned to honor him with a bottle showing his likeness. One of those bottles is pictured in Haunton’s book as Figure 782 on Page 350.

“It displays the club logo, created in 1996 when the club was founded by my longtime and childhood friend, Robert Piersanti, a Jersey City pop artist,” he said. “The device in the logo is the same as a Nova Caesarea cent from New Jersey (circa 1786-87) after we won our independence from Great Britain, but before we had regularly issued coinage from the United States Government’s mint. Of course, the horse’s head and plows became the official symbol of the New Jersey state seal. The logo is much more a reflection on the State of New Jersey as opposed to a logo focusing on bottle collecting.”

Meanwhile, in 1969, an olive-green flask in the shape of an early Success to the Railroad historical flask was produced to mark the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Antique Bottle Collectors Association of California in Sacramento by Tibbitts and his wife, Edith. It has the outline of an early steam engine on the back.

That same year, the ABCA evolved into the FOHBC. It is not known who made the flask, Haunton revealing that it wasn’t the Clevengers. An amber version was presented to FOHBC President Ferdinand Meyer V during the Sacramento National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo in 2016.

One of the most unusual club commemorative pieces isn’t made of glass. It’s a brass medallion made by Abbey Foundry in England, according to Joe Butewicz, at the time president of the

If that medallion could talk, it would have some interesting things to say about its trip through the mails since leaving New Jersey club member Bob Strickhart’s post office in Pennington. Somehow, it wound up in San Jose, California (“Probably got into the wrong pouch,” said Bob, a former postal employee), made its way back to Kearny, N.J., eventually arrived in Atlanta and (finally) onto my front porch in Augusta, Georgia.

While reading early copies of the FOHBC’s Federation Letter, Federation Glass Works and other early publications, I came across the following notes:

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March 1987 Federation Letter: Katie Foglesong announces the arrival of the 1986 Iowa club bottles. They depict the Statue of Liberty on one side. The cost to members is a very reasonable $10.

October 1987 Federation Letter: Katie Foglesong reports the 1987 Iowa Antique Bottleers bottle will depict artist Grant Wood’s famous painting, “American Gothic.” The reverse side will feature Independence Hall. The bottle is a scroll flask in medium green.

December 1987 Federation Letter: The Iowa Antique Bottleers listed their club bottles from 1970 to the present time. Some of them sound very interesting, especially the pig bottle (1972) and the ear of corn (1970).

January 1988 Federation Letter: The Iowa Antique Bottleers asked who started the club bottles. The Antique Bottle Collectors Club of Denver, Colo., admits to being the first. It produced five bottles from 1966-70.

July 1988 Federation Letter: The FOHBC sold a commemorative bottle at the 1988 Expo in Las Vegas. The front of the flask: A Celebration of American Glass / July 7-10, 1988 / Las Vegas, Nevada. A drawing of the flask was on the newsletter cover, but no details of how to obtain the flask were published.

September 1988 Federation Letter: The commemorative handblown bottles are beautiful and we’re amazed they didn’t sell out (Don and Lolly, editors). A summary of the Expo was carried in the November issue, but the commemorative bottle was not mentioned.

December 1988 Federation Letter: The 1988 Iowa Antique Bottleers club bottle will be in azure blue with a map of Iowa with a steamship in the center.

January 1990 Federation Glass Works: The Iowa Antique Bottleers report that Katie Foglesong is finally going to get what she deserves – after all these years as newsletter editor. The 1990 club bottle will be a salute to Katie with the design being an ink bottle with a feather quill. Katie got to choose the color and shape (azure blue and a quilted design). A very nice gesture by the club.

May 1990 Federation Glass Works: In the Bits & Pieces (newsletter) of the Empire State Bottle Collectors Association, we noted that this club and the San Diego club are hoping to share a 25th anniversary bottle as the two oldest clubs in the country.

November 1990 Federation Glass Works: FOR SALE: Federation of Historical Bottle Clubs, 1988 Expo, Commemorative Sunflower Flask, azure blue, $12.00 each, Barbara Harms, Federation Treasurer. (FOHBC Historian Jim Bender, Sprakers, N.Y., kindly sent one to me).

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December 1990 Federation Glass Works: The Iowa Antique Bottleers are already brainstorming ideas for their 1991 club bottles: Mississippi Belle (riverboat), a hot air balloon, a duck holding an umbrella, etc.

Iowa Antique Bottleers 2016 Ethanol Bitters.

April 1992 Federation Glass Works: The Iowa Antique Bottleers reports Clevenger Bros., is barely in business. The mold for their bottle has been cut, but the company was closed until February.

The owners refused to make it red so they settled for amber.

In early 2015, Wichmann found a pair of flasks, one made by the Clevengers, and gave them to me. The Clevengers made the flask that celebrated the nation’s 1976 Bicentennial and featured the likeness of Benjamin Franklin. The other marked the 10th anniversary of the ABCA of California (1959-1969) and featured an early steam engine similar to those found on historic Success to the Railroad flasks. Its maker is unknown.

Wichmann also found some early correspondence dealing with the California club and has sent it to FOHBC Historian Jim Bender for the federation archives. His donations are much appreciated by all concerned.

The Glass Eye, official publication of the Georgia-Carolina Empty Bottle Club, Augusta, Ga., Vol. 1, No. 3, February 1970, Bill Baab, Editor: “Since our club is a member of the Federation of Historical Bottle Clubs, our members can order a Federation bottle for their collection. It’s bright golden amber, with an applied handle, flattened chestnut in design with an eagle bordered by a circle bearing the Federation name. Cost is $12 per bottle and you can order it from John Eatwell, 2300 S. Lowell Blvd., Denver, Colo., 80219. One of those handled chestnut flasks is in the author’s collection.

FOHBC member Harvey S. Teal, Columbia, S.C., was a member of the South Carolina Dispensary Study Group, composed of about a dozen advanced collectors of bottles and jugs used during the dispensary system (1893-1907). During his association with the group that’s since been disbanded, he had master potter Otis Norris, Sandhills Pottery, McBee, S.C., make a ceramic bottle.

It was inscribed on the front Ben Tillman’s Baby (the dispensary system was established by S.C. Gov. Benjamin “Pitchfork Ben” Tillman). The state Palmetto Tree with S and C on either side of the trunk is below the inscription and Dispensary is inscribed beneath the tree. There is another variety on which the S and C have been left out. The potter’s signature is impressed on the base. The correct variety is in the Bill and Bea Baab Collection as a gift of Harvey S. Teal.

The Empire State Bottle Collectors Association of Syracuse, New York celebrated its 10th anniversary by obtaining an original mold that produced Poor Man’s Family Bitters in aqua during the 1870s and loaning it to the Clevenger Brothers Glass Works in Clayton, New Jersey. In 1975, that company made 1,000 of the bottles in cobalt blue. An ESBCA member, Barry Haynes, of Mexico, N.Y., sold his example to the Bill & Bea Baab Collection in early 2016. The club also put out a half-pint milk bottle Pyroglazed in green marking the 30th anniversary of the club’s show and sale (March 26, 2000). Club member Tom Dudarchik, North Syracuse, sold a copy of the bottle to the Baabs in late 2015.

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The Iowa Antique Bottleers contracted with Lawrenceville, Virginia glassblower Phil Gilson to produce two types of “sun-catchers,” green and cobalt glass discs.

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An original J. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters etched with a Civil War motif.

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The National Association of Milk Bottle Collectors (NAMBC) marked its 35th anniversary in 2015 by producing a Pyroglazed half-pint featuring an old-time, horse-drawn milk delivery wagon superimposed over the 35 on the front. On the back is a cow and Grantville, Pennsylvania, site of its show in May 2015. The organization had some of the bottles left over and I was able to buy one for the collection.

The FOHBC issued a pair of blown flasks during the early 1980s.

A fellow collector sold me a pair he had purchased from longtime collector and Federation member Tom Hicks, of Eatonton, Georgia. An olive green, vertically swirled 1-pint flask is etched on the base: FHBC / HF 84 / EP. An orange, vertically swirled 1-pint flask is etched on the base: FHBC / HV 81 / (indistinct letters) PR. Both are pontiled. The flasks were blown at historic Hale Farm & Village near Bath, Ohio.

The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors would like to celebrate and commemorate our upcoming 50th Anniversary with the design and production of a special bottle, flask, jar or other glass item embossed or inscribed to note the anniversary.

We would like to conduct a design contest among our members with the winner receiving a special award. The contest started in 2016 so as to allow time not only for the design, but for the glass works to make a limited number. The items will be sold to members with profits going to the Virtual Museum. Look for updates!

We are currently investigating possibilities with glass houses to produce our anniversary piece. Please let us know if you have any ideas. - Bill Baab

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2019 FOHBC 50th Anniversary Please join us in planning for and celebrating the FOHBC 50th Anniversary in 2019.

We need your anniversary ideas, magazine articles, web posts and assistance in planning for the 2019 FOHBC 50th Anniversary National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo in our Southern Region.

Look for a special commemorative bottle and many other special events to celebrate our past, present and future,

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The Mohawk Valley Antique Bottle Club will host its 23rd Annual

Utica Bottle Show & Sale Sunday May 7, 2017 at the Utica Maennerchor in Marcy, NY (map available at our web site) Show location

Show details

Directions from NY Thruway Exit 31

Utica Maennerchor 5535 Flanagan Road Marcy, NY 13403 (2 miles from Thruway)

Show hours: 9 am – 2:30 pm Admission: $3 Dealer tables (6 ft.): $20 Lunch available

From toll plaza, turn right onto N. Genesee Street. nd At 2 light, turn left onto Riverside Drive.

Go 0.1 mile and stay straight to go onto River Road.

Go 1.4 miles and turn right onto Flanagan Road.

Go 0.3 mile until 5535 Flanagan Road is on the left.

For information and dealer contracts: Call Peter Bleiberg at (315) 735-5430 or email pmbleiberg@aol.com or visit www.mohawkvalleybottleclub.com

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My visit to the Philadelphia Museum of Art to examine its cross-swirled Pitkin flask My favorite bottle topic, Pitkin flasks! This article will focus on the rare cross-swirled examples, but an understanding of Pitkins is important too.

Pitkin flasks were blown in several glasshouses in our young nation from the late 1700s to the early 1800s. In Connecticut, for example, they were produced at Mather, Glastonbury, Coventry, and Pitkin Glassworks. They were also blown at glass factories in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Thus, they are often referred to as “Pitkin-type” but for purposes of this article, I’ll use “Pitkin.”

That said, there are certain characteristics of the flasks blown specifically at the Pitkin Glass Works. The Pitkin family bought sand from the Maurice River in New Jersey rather than local East Hartford sand. They felt that this produced a clearer and cleaner glass. Although the glasshouse was in operation for some 50

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years, nearly all the bases unearthed at the site have a very similar and clean pontil scar, with barely any glass on the circumference, thus called the “Pitkin pontil.” Still, there is no positive way to attribute a “Pitkin” flask to the Pitkin Glass Works unless it has been handed down through the Pitkin family, because they are not “signed.”

No matter where it was made, the procedure was the same: the glassblower dipped his blowpipe into the furnace of molten glass, inflated it slightly, and then dipped it again for a second layer of glass ending just beneath the neck. The two layers were for strength. Now to get the rib impression, the double gather was put into a pattern mold and removed. For a swirled pattern, the bottle was slightly inflated and the glassblower twisted the bottle around on the blowpipe. If a double pattern was desired, the glassblower reheated the gather, slipped the still pliable bottle back into the pattern mold, got the rib impression again, removed it, and

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inflated it again for the vertical ribs. That is the pattern most often found on a Pitkin flask. Swirls are either to the left or the right, and a vertical rib pattern interrupts the swirls. It is called “broken rib” pattern. (See photo 1)

Pitkin Pattern Mold

If both swirls and vertical ribs were desired, the first dip into the pattern mold was always for the swirled pattern and the second for the vertical. Otherwise, the swirls would obliterate the vertical ribs.

Photo 1: New England Pitkin flask with swirled and vertical ribs, called “Broken Swirl Pattern” or “Broken Rib Pattern”.

Enter the “cross-swirled” Pitkin flask. Here the glassblower dipped the double gather into the pattern mold for the rib impression, removed it and swirled it quickly to either the left or the right. After the second dip into the pattern mold, he removed it and swirled it slowly in the opposite direction, with swirls now going in both directions, or “cross-swirled.” The way we know this is that Tom Duff of Manchester, Conn., the recognized authority in Pitkin Glass Works glass, went to Pairpoint Glassworks in Massachusetts, and asked them to attempt the method. After many tries, the master gaffer discovered how the glassblowers in the early 1800s accomplished it.

The pattern mold for a Pitkin flask (open view and closed).

This is one type of pattern mold used for Pitkin flasks. The glassblower would lower the parison into the mold, blow into the pipe to expand it and get the pattern, and the band would be removed, allowing him to remove it.

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We can surmise that the cross swirl was rarely attempted, because there are only a few examples known to exist. Three are in the collections of Norman Heckler, Michael George and myself. The Heckler and George examples have 36 ribs and are in a New England form. (See photos 2, 3 & 4) My example has 31 ribs (typically Midwestern), and the form is different from the other two.

I recently learned that a fourth example is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (“PMA”). I wanted to learn more and looked on the museum’s website: www.philamuseum.org. However, the photo of its example on the website perplexed me because of the form and lack of color. (See photo 5) In late October of 2016, I phoned the museum, introduced myself, explained to the assistant administrator of art about my 30year collection of Pitkin flasks, and my cross-swirl example, and asked for a better photograph of theirs to see both color and the

Photo 2: Cross-Swirled Pitkin - Norman Heckler

Photo 4: Cross-Swirled Pitkin - Dana Charlton Zarro

These are the examples of the Cross-Swirled Pitkin that I knew of before seeing the example in the Museum’s collection.

They belong to Norman Heckler, Michael George, and myself.

Photo 3: Cross-Swirled Pitkin - Michael George

flask’s profile. A profile view will usually reveal whether a Pitkin flask has New England form or not. To my surprised delight, I received a reply with a color photo of their flask, and with it, an invitation to come to the museum to see it in person! They would make an appointment with me for a Monday, when the museum was closed to the public and when they accommodated visiting researchers. Two staff members would be assigned to my visit.

“The cases in our glass gallery do require art handlers to open, so we will need to coordinate your visit with their availability.”

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I recently learned that a fourth example is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. I wanted to learn more and looked on the museum’s website. However, the photo of its example on the website perplexed me because of the form and lack of color.

Photo 5: Cross-Swirled Pitkin Philadelphia Museum of Art

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Photo 6: Photo of Cross-Swirl Pitkin Flasks, Museum of Philadelphia Art on the left, mine on the right. This flask is what started this adventure.

This second photo comparison shows the same two flasks’ profile view to show their similarity of form. The Philadelphia Museum of Art example is on the left, mine is on the right.

Seeing the Museum’s Pitkin from its profile side was important because such views often give an indication as to whether the flask was blown in the New England or Midwestern area.

This flask is what started this adventure.

An example from New England will be narrower at the shoulders and widen toward the base. Midwestern examples are the opposite, i.e., wide shoulders and a slimmer base, or, as in the cross-swirled examples, the same depth from top to bottom.

Sometimes it is nearly imperceptible, but that was the purpose of my requesting a photo of the profile view. As you can see from the photos, the Museum’s example and mine are straight from top to bottom, indicating Midwestern form.

This third photo comparison shows the bases of the two. Mine is on the right. This is to show the type of pontil scars which are the same on both.

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lection. They said I could bring my example for comparison and photograph it with theirs.

The visit was set for November 21st, and I carefully carried my cross-swirl by Amtrak train to Philadelphia. At the museum, I was met by Lisa (my contact person), and the two glass handlers assigned to accompany me to the glass exhibit. I was not prepared for the sight that greeted me as we reached the display area.

There were several cases from the collection of the late George H. Lorimer, including some 30 splendid Pitkin flasks and inks, and other early flasks and glass. There, in the right-side case, was their cross-swirled Pitkin.

I caught my breath and they wheeled in a table covered with a soft cloth, and with gloves removed the flask for me to see up close. It was so much like my own example that I was taken by surprise! We posed the two flasks side by side (but not too close) and discussed them, how Pitkins were made and the rarity of the two standing on the table before us. The resemblance between their example and mine was such that we agreed that one glassblower could have made them both. I hope you can see that in the attached photos. The museum’s Pitkin is on the left.

(See photo 6)

Pitkin Flask display - Philadelphia Museum of Art

To summarize, the two examples owned by Mike George and Norman Heckler were blown in New England, and the two owned by the museum and me were likely blown in the Midwest.

Why are there only two for each region? Are there more to be discovered? At this time, there is also one known cross-swirled Pitkin ink, blown in a Connecticut glasshouse, which is pictured here also. (See photo 7) Photo 7: There is also one known cross-swirled Pitkin ink, blown in a Connecticut glasshouse - Dana Charlton-Zarro Collection

In the case showing the Cross-swirled Pitkin - Philadelphia Museum of Art

The staff at the Philadelphia Museum of Art who invited and greeted me were hospitable, knowledgeable, and gracious during my visit. Having the opportunity as a researcher to see a Pitkin flask from the Museum’s collection “up close and personal” to compare with one of my own was a highlight of my 40 years of collecting antique bottles. I recommend a visit to the Museum to see their fine art and exhibit of antique bottles, and take a look at that cross-swirl while you are at it!

I am always happy to talk Pitkins with collectors and can be contacted on Facebook’s pages and via the Federation. Looking forward to swirling around with you!

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Example of Broken Swirl Pitkin. The swirls are going to the right.

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New England Pitkin. The glassblower expertly accomplished the ribbed and swirled pattern and also tooled the mouth, rare in any New England Pitkin. My birthday gift to myself last October.

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Our second appearance in Bottles and Extras of interesting finds from losses long ago. Please feel free to submit your images or ideas for consideration.

[Above] Dug a broken Youngblood’s Tonic Bitters in Galveston. Honestly didn’t have a clue what it was so only saved the front panel and the lip. When I go back to the site, I am going to re-excavate the pit (it is just a tiny trash pit) and see if I can find enough to glue together a good part of the bottle. Pit was full of broken Hostetters, Wolfe’s Schnapps, etc… looked to be late 1860s or maybe early 1870s. Brandon DeWolfe, P.E.

[Above] A dug “Washington Taylor” historical flask, I think best described as a sapphire blue or Prussian blue. “happy Presidents day.” - Steve Mello

[Above] Thought I got skunked yesterday while only pulling this BAYER out of my hole, but turns out it’s a decent little piece. – Mark Edie

Discovered in 1799 by a French soldier sifting through the Egyptian sand, the Rosetta Stone has been one of archaeology’s greatest discoveries to date and the primary source for modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs. The stone is a actually a fragment of a larger stone that contained a decree issued by King Ptolemy V around 200 BC with the decree inscribed in 3 languages – Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic script, and Ancient Greek.

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[Left] A rare 13th-century Islamic sprinkler bottle, made in the Middle East, once contained perfume or rose water and may have been brought to Britain in the pocket of a medieval traveler or trader. It was photographed in the new 737-foot-high Leadenhall Building (London) that rises near where it was found. - National Geographic

[Above] “Here’s how I display some of my pieces, in large clear glass jars. They really look great in the windows!” - Bill Bixby

[Above] Thousands of bottles, jars, and pots from the Victorian era were recently found during construction of a new train station in London. – Archaeology Magazine

California Herb Bitters

Thought you might be very interested in this bottle. We (Mike Yancosky, Ed Kuskie and me) were digging outside of the city (we love those small early towns). I was in the hole about four feet down and was carefully removing a nice yellow ware chamber pot with brown bands then found a couple smooth base slicks. We figured this privy was at least 1870s. I hit a clay plug that went for 1 1/2 feet then hit some glass right under the plug.

Carefully I exposed a Mellin type baby food then noticed an amber corner of another bottle right under that. Working slowly I could see what looked like a bevel corner. Mike looking down the hole says he sees embossing, I couldn’t really tell, guess I had sweat in my eyes. After getting the Mellin out I could see that it was most likely a bitters and could now see that it was embossed.

Cleaning it off some before I removed it, I could now see it was a California Herb Bitters! [Pictured at Left] I plucked it out of the dirt and looked it over and there was no damage. Whew that was a relief. Mike went to get his camera and as I inspected the bottle I noticed the name on one of the panels wasn’t familiar. It was from Pittsburgh but said Speck and Morrow (not Frazier!!). Then when we held it to the light it was a nice yellow Amber!!!! Just a killer. We also found several historical flasks, an open pontil pickle, several pontil meds, a really nice emerald green pontiled master ink and loads of other more common stuff. Beautiful day, great friends, and most excellent dig! - Jeff Mihalik -

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Tell us about your collection or someone else’s. Tell us your digging and picking story. Write a fictional bottle story. Tell us about an area of antique bottle and glass collecting. Every bottle has a story. Tell us about the medicine men, merchants, or proprietors who are related to our bottles or about a glass house. Write an auction or show report. Tell us about a club outing. Really, the sky is the limit. Don’t be shy. Young or old, new to the hobby or a veteran, please step forward.

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Announced at the FOHBC 2017 Springfield National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo!

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- Newsletter Contest - Show Poster / Flyer Contest - Writer’s Contest - Club Website Contest

Please don’t delay, as our deadline is June 1, 2017 Get more information by contacting Val Berry 518.568.5683 or vgberry10@yahoo.com Download the applications by visiting FOHBC.org, scroll across the top to “Members”, scroll down to “FOHBC Club Contests” and left click.

All winners and awards will be announced during the banquet at the FOHBC National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo in Springfield, Massachusetts this coming August 4th, 2017.

Thanks and Good Luck!

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Old Sachems on a dreary day.

Meyer Collection When I grow up, I wanna be just like grandpa! Michael George

I share three barrel bottles of my collection.

Greetings from Argentina. - Pablo Metrebiรกn

A photo I came across from two winters ago when we had nine feet of snow.

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Three 19th century beer bottles I acquired in 2016.

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FOR SALE: Rare H.H.S. & Co. Imperial Gin Bottle.

L&W on Base. Orange-Amber, American. Some inside stain, outside shinny and clean with a few light scratches. $225 Free shipping. Call (616) 527-4313, ask for Scott.

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FOR SALE: Owl Drug Collection For Sale. 25 Year Collection 692 items. $25,000. Write or Call: Jim Bilyeu, PO Box 388, Independence, CA 93526, Phone: (760) 878-2216.

WANTED: RARE FRUIT JARS with closures, colored 1858’s / pints, especially JJ Squire, Crowleytown ½ gal, Buckeye closure (top and clamp) Faulkner Bottles andWerr extrasCo. RB 983 Amber Midgel, NCL Co. Echo Farms ½ pt. jar only, Western Pride Pt. RB 2945. Contact Phil Smith (859) 9122450 or email to phil.smith@zoomtown.com.

WANTED: Koca Nola soda bottles and go-withs from the U.S., Cuba and Mexico. Plus J Esposito soda and beer bottles from Philadelphia, PA. Contact Charles David Head, 106 6th Street, Bridgeport, AL 35740, Phone: (256)548-2771, email: kocanolabook@yahoo.com WANTED: Odd/scarce/rare: COD LIVER OIL bottles.

I’ve 115 different examples...many more exist. BYRON DILLE’ 60325 Acme Rd, Coos Bay, OR 97420 or (541) 260-0499 or email: Byronincoosbay@msn.com WANTED: Lung Bottle, Dr. Kilmers Binghamton, NY; Clyde Flasks; Criton, Yellow Wheat, Black or heavily whittled. Colored Clyde bottles and paper advertising from the Clyde Glassworks, Clyde, New York. Contact John Spellman, P.O. Box 61, Savannah, New York 13146. Phone: (315) 398-8240 or email: spellmanjc3156@gmail.com WANTED: Amber quart cylinder whiskey shoulder embossed Garrick & Cather Chicago, IL plus embossed image of a palm tree. Contact Carl Malik, PO Box 367, Monee, IL 60449 (708) 534-5161.

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FOR SALE: Rare 1940’s “MINT” Noel Cola Painted Label bottle 7 fluid oz.

Girl yellow & red Noel Bottling Works, Corinth, Miss.

Call for pictures: Larry McDaniel 1-662-415-5676

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FOR SALE: Very early and rare book; “Collector’s Guide of Flasks and Bottles” by: Charles McMurray; Dayton, Ohio. copyrighted 1927 This book is in good to very good condition and contains photos and descriptions of historical flasks and other early bottles. price; $100.00 + shipping, call Doug (775) 882-8956 PST

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WANTED: E.P. ANTHONY, INC. / PHARMACISTS / PROVIDENCE, R.I. Any size drug store bottle. Also, Base Embossed in circle: CLOUGH & SHACKLEY / BOSTON, MASS. Contract: Gregg Wilson @ Email: cemihunter@yahoo.com

WANTED: Clear pumpkin seed flask, embossed: THE NEW LOUVRE, 58 N. FIRST ST., SAN JOSE, WJ FERGUSON. Also interested in other San Jose bottles. Contact Tobin Gilman, 408-839-6979, tobingilman@hotmail.com

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FOR SALE: SC and NC dispensary bottles, painted label sodas, local milk bottles, etc. For more information contact: Bottletree Antiques, Donalds, South Carolina at www.bottletreeantiques.com

WANTED: Bottles, Stoneware and Ephemera from Oak Park and River Forest Illinois. Thank you, Ray Komorowski. Email: komo8@att.net WANTED: Antique Chinese Porcelin cermanics, rice

vases, tea cups and saucers etc. Contact Ron at: Shards of Wisdombowls, FOR SALE: Glass house sample bottle with 24 different (530) 798-6525 or email: bledsoeacres@aol.com texture squares. (B.M.) “Overmyer” Co., 12” tall, clear glass. J. Paxton (541) 318-0748. (Issue 225)

WANTED: Marietta, Georgia Items! • Pre WWII embossed bottles: ‘15 and ‘23 Cokes, SS Cokes, Crown Top Bottling Works, Hutchinsons, Drug Store, Pharmacy, Medicines, etc. • J.W. Franklin pottery • Advertising: Signs, Promos, etc. • Postcards: The older, the better!

• Also, looking for vintage Atlanta and North Georgia bottles and related items. So, Whadayahave?!? Email: steve@southernlawn30066.com or Voicemail/Text: (770) 578-4829

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WANTED: THEO. BLAUTH/WHOLESALE WINE AND LIQUOR DEALER whiskey fifth (Barnett 55).

Shot glasses: C&K WHISKEY (not bourbon); SILVER SHEAF/BOURBON:H.WEINREICH CO.; GOLDEN GRAIN BOURBON/M.CRONAN (in black); CALIFORNIA WINERY (LUG); CALIFORNIA A FAVORITE (not FAVORITE A). Contact Steve Abbott at (916) 631-8019 or email to foabbott@comcast.net

WANTED: Hutchinson’s: Electric City Wine Co. Buffalo, N.Y. - El Dorado Bottling Co. Dawson, Y.T. – Dieter & Sauer Ciudad Juarez, Mexico – H.A. Ralu Colon, R.P. – Any New Mexico – Zang Wood, 1612 Camino Rio, Farmington, NM 87401, (505) 327-1316 Email: zapa33051@ msn.com.

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WANTED: Milk, dairy creamers and beers. Contact Audrey Belter at (520) 868-5704.

WANTED: Original or facsimile of Edwin Lefevre story, “Why I Collect Empty Bottles,” in Oct. 19, 1929 Saturday Evening Post. Contact Bill Baab, 2352 Devere St., Augusta, GA 30904 (or riverswamper@comcast.net) with price.

WANTED: ONKAMA MICHIGAN Bottles, Stoneware and related Go-withs. Call Ryker Johnson (231) 889-5532.

WANTED: Sacramento shot glasses: C&K/WHISKEY, Casey & Kavanaugh; California A Favorite; SILVER SHEAF/Bourbon/H. WEINREICH & CO. (double shot); GOLDEN GRAIN/BOURBON/M. CRONAN & CO. (in black); bar bottle, JAMES WOODBURN (white enamel).

Contact Steve Abbott: 916-631-8019 or foabbott@ comcast.net

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WANTED: CHICAGO ADVERTISING STONEWARE. Contact Carl Malik, P.O. Box 367, Monee, Illinois 60449.

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Individual & Affiliated Shards of Wisdom Club Information 10 Members gained this period. The names below represent persons agreeing to be listed in the printed membership directory. Some of those listed agreed to be listed in the membership directory but not the online directory.

Steven Ashton 5 Trees Way Collegeville, PA 19426 919.306.8173 steveash02@hotmail.com All bottle types

Randy Liebermann 1309 Gatesmeadow Way Reston, VA 20194-1426 703.447.4223 apergy@aol.com Bottles, crates, etc.: De Yeller Kids High Ball Whiskeys made by Hanlen Brothers of Harrisburg, PA, other Hanlen Brothers bottles and crates. 19th and very early 20th stoneware whiskey bottles

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Robert Conner 118 Bridgeport Road Palatka, FL 32177 bconner32666@gmail.com

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Peter Jablonski 12489 Hunts Corners Road Akron, NY 14001 716.440.7985 pjablonski@onboces.org Marla K. Laney 304 Birchwood Drive Sandusky, OH 44870 419.357.2132 sanduskypottery@gmail.com Milk Bottles and Milk Advertising, Collectible Disney Glasses

Erin Meshell 520 Ball Run Road Bidwell, OH 45614 740.441.1236 peroe53@gmail.com Ohio Milk Bottles, Bitters, Marbles and Indian Arrowheads, metal detect Civil War Stuff and gold Randy Myers 5545 Fulcroft Avenue Harrisburg, PA 17111 psuphilly@aol.com

Ruth Nye 319 Parker Drive Folsom, CA 95630 916.985.8309 keepthings@softcom.net Janice Roark 163 wildwood Lane Linn Creek, MO 65052 573.346.6160 jan.roark@yahoo.com Fruit jars and old bottles

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Craig Wright 4332 Wolf Road Western Springs, IL 60558 708.246.5240 cwright1013@aol.com Chicago sodas

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SEND IN YOUR SHOW INFORMATION AND/OR SHOW FLYER TO: fohbc.org/submit-your-show/ Members Don’t forget to check out “Member’s Portal” for Special Access to past issues of BOTTLES and EXTRAS And to check out Featured Stories and keep current with all the bottle news!

Situated in the heart of Ballston Spa, New York is a museum whose mission is to preserve the history of our nation’s first major industry: Bottle making.

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FOHBC Sho - Biz is published in the interest of the hobby. Federation affiliated clubs are connotated with FOHBC logo.

Information on up-coming collecting events is welcome, but space is limited. Please send at least three months in advance, including telephone number to: FOHBC Sho-Biz, C/O Business Manager: Elizabeth Meyer, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; phone: (713) 222-7979; e-mail: emeyer@fohbc.org, Show schedules are subject to change. Please call before traveling long distances. All listings published here will also be published on the website: FOHBC.org

May 5 & 6 Central Point, Oregon 2017 Jefferson State Antique Bottle & Insulator Expo, $3 Admission (or 2 for $5), Friday 10:00 am – 7:00 pm, Saturday 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM, Dealer Set-up & $10 early admission on Friday 9-10 am at the Olsrud Pavilion, Jackson County Expo, I5 – Exit 33 In conjunction with the regional Rogue Valley Antique Show, Free Walk-in Appraisals!, Info: Bruce Silva, P. O. Box 1565 Jacksonville, Oregon 97530, 541.821.8949 jsglass@q.com, Website: www.ecandm. com/expo

hours: 9:00 am – 2:30 pm, Admission: $3, Dealer tables (6 ft.): $20, Lunch available, For information and dealer contracts: Call Peter Bleiberg at 315.735.5430 or email pmbleiberg@aol.com or visit www.mohawkvalleybottleclub.com

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May 13 Mansfield, Ohio The Ohio Bottle Club Presents the 39th Mansfield Antique Bottle Show at the Richland County Fairgrounds on Saturday, 13 May from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, General Admission is $5. Info Matt Lacy, 440.228.1873, info@antiquebottlesales.com or Louis Fifer, 330.635.1964, fiferlouis@yahoo.com, ohiobottleclub.org

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May 6 Gray, Tennessee The State of Franklin Antique Bottles & Collectible Assoc. 19th Annual Show & Sale, Saturday, May 6th (9:00 am – 3:00 pm), Free Admission and Door Prizes. Appalachian Fairgrounds. Info: sfabca.com or 423.928.2789

May 19 & 20 Lake City, Florida The Florida Antique Bottle Collector 4th Annual Antique Bottle & Collectable Show and Sale, Saturday, May 20th (8:00 am – 3:00 pm), Dealer set-up Friday, May 19 at Noon, Early Buyers Friday, May 19th (3:00 pm – 7:00 pm), Columbia County Fairgrounds, Exit 427 off I-75 South, Hwy 90 East, Lake City, Florida, Admission $3, Information: Brian Hoblick, 386.804.9635, Email: hoblick@aol.com or Ed LeTard 985.788.6163, Email: eandeletard@aol.com

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May 6 Antioch, Illinois Antique Bottle Club of Northern Illinois 42nd Antiques, Bottles and Collectiable Show and Sale, Saturday, May 6, 2017, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm at the Antioch Senior Center, 817 Holbeck, Antioch, Illinois 60002, Free admission, No early admission, Free appraisals, Food available, Info: John Puzzo, 815.338.7582, johnpuzzo@sbcglobal.net or Greg Schueneman, anteak_gramps@yahoo.com

May 19 & 20 Kent, Washington The Washington Bottle & Collectors Association Show at the Kent Commons, 525 4th Ave N, Kent, Washington 98032. Friday Early Bird 1 – 5:00 pm, $5 admission. Saturday FREE admission 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. For more information contact wbcaweb@ gmail.com or Show Chairs Pete Hendricks at 253.335.1732 or Niel Smith at 360.943.0518

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May 6 & 7 Santa Rosa, California 51st Annual Northwestern Bottle Collectors Antique Bottle Show at the Veterans Memorial Building, 1351 Maple Avenue, Santa Rosa, California 95404, Saturday: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, Sunday: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Early admission: Saturday 9:00 am – 10:00 am for $10. Set up: Saturday 8:00 am – 10:00 am, Cost of admission: Saturday, General admission $3, Sunday: Free, www.oldwestbottles. com, Contact: Lou Lambert, Show Chairman, PO Box 322, Graton, California 95444, 707.823.8845, nbca@comcast.net

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May 7 Harrisonburg, Virginia Historical Bottle-Diggers of Virginia 46th Annual Antique Bottle and Collectible Show & Sale, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Rockingham County Fairgrounds, U.S. Rt 11 South (Exit 243 off I-81), Harrisonburg, Virginia, Contact: Sonny Smiley, 540.434.1129, lithiaman1@yahoo.com May 7 Marcy, New York The Mohawk Valley Antique Bottle Club will host its 23rd Annual Utica Bottle Show & Sale, Sunday May 7, 2017 at the Utica Maennerchor in Marcy, New York (map available at our web site), Show location: Utica Maennerchor, 5535 Flanagan Road, Marcy, NY 13403, (2 miles from Thruway), Show

May 20 Coventry, Connecticut The Museum of Connecticut Glass 12th Annual Outdoor Bottle and Glass Show, Rain or shine, on the historic early 19th century glass factory grounds, including Exhibits/Tours (9:00 am to 1:00 pm, early buyers 8:00 am), website: www. glassmuseum.org, Museum of Connecticut Glass, Rt. 44 & North River Road, Coventry, Connecticut, Contact: Noel Tomas, 860.633.2944, Noel.Tomas@ glassmuseum.org

aspiring members. Free coffee, donuts, and pizza for participants. Bring your own tables! Show Address: Jules Antique Center, 320 Kingstown Road, Richmond, Rhode Island (3 miles East of Route #95 on Route #138), Contact Info: William Rose 508.880.4929 May 20 Cayucos, California 25th Annual Cayucos Show, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. at the Cayucos Vet’s Building at the Pier, under the big white tent!, Free admission, raffles. Info: Paulette Kotan, 619.985.9085, gypsyduo795@gmail.com or Bob Merzoian, 559,781.6319, bobmerzoian@mac.com May 21 Washington, Pennsylvania Washington PA Washington County Antique Bottle Club presents their 43rd Annual Show & Sale at the Alpine Star Lodge, 735 Jefferson Avenue, Washington, Pennsylvania 15301, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Admission $3, Info Ed Kuskie, 412.405.9061, 352 Pineview Drive, Elizabeth, Pennsylvania 15037, bottlewizzard@ comcast.net May 21 Batsto Village, New Jersey The Batsto Citizen Committee will be sponsoring their 2nd Annual Batso Village Glass & Antique Show at Historic Batsto Village, 31 Batsto Road, Hammonton, New Jersey, 08037. The event is rain or shine and opens to the public at 9:00 am. It raps up about 3:00 pm. In past years there have been 50 vendors selling and buying bottles. Free admission, Set-up 7:00 am, Early admission: $40, $50 day of show, Contact: Paul Delguercio and Harry Rheam, 856.252.7730 or 856.768.1532, paulhavoc@comcast.net May 21 Ellendale, Delaware Delmarva Antique Bottle Club Show and Sale on Sunday, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm; NEW LOCATION: Ellendale Fire Hall, 302 Main Street, Ellendale, Delaware, Dealer set-up: 7:00 am to 9:00 am, Admission $3, No early buyers. Large club display!

Info: Peter Beaman, 28947 Lewes-Georgetown Highway, Lewes, Delaware 19958, 302.684.5055, oldngnu@comcast.net

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May 20 Lake City, Florida Florida Antique Bottle Collectors 4th Annual Bottle & Tabletop Collectibles Show & Sale, Columbia County Fairgrounds, Lake City, Florida, May 20th, 8:00 am – 3:00 pm, Dealer set-up Friday May 19th, For more info contact: Brian Hoblick, 386.804.9635, hoblick@aol.com May 20 Richmond, Rhode Island The Little Rhody Bottle Club Tailgate Swap Meet, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm. Free set-up for members and

May 27 Aiken, South Carolina The Horse Creek Antique Bottle and Pottery Club will hold its 9th annual show and sale on Saturday, May 27, at the H. Odell Weeks Activities Center, 1700 Whiskey Road. The show will run from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., and admission is free to the public. Anyone wanting to know the value of antique bottles and pottery can have their items checked for free by experts who will be on hand. Info: Geneva Greene, 803.593.2271

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(More) Sho-Biz More show-biz June 3 Smyrna, Georgia 47th Atlanta Antique Bottle Show & Sale at the Smyrna Community Center, 200 Village Green Circle, Smyrna, Georgia 30080, Saturday, 8:00 am to 2:00 pm, Early Admission: Friday, June 2nd, 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm and June 3rd, 7:00 – 8:00 am, Set Up: Friday: 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm and on Saturday 7:00 – 8:00 am, Cost of Admission for Show & Early Admission for the Public is Free. Atlanta Antique Bottle Club, Contact: Jack Hewitt, CoChairman, 1213 Quail Cove, Jasper, Georgia 30143, 770.856.6062, Hewittjs@Bellsouth.net

starts Saturday from 8:00 am – 3:00 pm, Early bird buyer is from 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm on Friday. Cost is $10 per person for early bird. Dealer set up is on Friday from 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Admission on Saturday is $3 per person. Kids under 18 are free. Early Bird fee is $10 per person and gets you in for free on Saturday. Organizer: Talquin Trading Company, www.talquintradingco.com, Contact: Gregg Pla, Show Chairman, 160 Salem Road, Havana, Florida 32333, 850.591.7736, Gregg@talquintradingco.com

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June 3 Raleigh, North Carolina Raleigh Bottle & Collectables Club presents their 2017 Bottle Show on Saturday, 03 June atbthe NC State Fairgrounds, James Martin Building, $3 Admission, Open to public at 9:00 am, For table reservations and show information, contact: Whitt Stallings, 919.781.6339, whittstall@yahoo.com or Travis Hardin, 919.601.2609, carolinamilkbottles@gmail.com, www.RaleighBottleClub.org

June 17 Reno, Nevada 53rd Annual Reno Bottles & Small Antiques Show & Sale put on by the Ren0 Antique Bottle & Collectibles Club, Pre-1940 Collectibles Advertising & Memorabilia at the Reno/Sparks Convention Center, 4590 South Virginia Street, North Entrance, Free Admission, Saturday Show: 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Friday Dealer Set-Up: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Friday Early Bird: 9:30 am to 5:00 pm $15 , Show Chairman: Marty Hall, Rosemuley@att.Net, 775.335.9467, Show Reservations & Information, Helene Walker, 775.345.0171

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June 4 Ballston Spa, New York Annual Saratoga Bottle Show at the Saratoga County Fairgrounds, 162 Prospect Street, Ballston Spa, New York 12020, Sunday 9:00 am to 2:30 pm, No early admission, Set up: Saturday, June 03, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm, Sunday, June 04, 7:00 am to 8:30 am, Cost of admission for show: $4 adult, $1 Children under 12, National Bottle Museum, nationalbottlemuseum.org, Contact: Phil Bernnard, Roy Topka, Title: Co-Chairman, National Bottle Museum, 76 Milton Avenue, Ballston Spa, New York 12020, Museum: 518.885.7589, Roy Topka: 518.779.1243, Phil Bernnard: 518.429.7641, E-mail: nbm@nycap.rr.com

June 24 Tulsa, Oklahoma The Tulsa Antiques And Bottle Club’s 40th Annual Bottle and Antique Advertising Show from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm at the Tulsa Flea Market in the River Spirit Center, Tulsa Fairgrounds, 21st Street and Pittsburgh Avenue, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Free admission, no early buyers. Dealer setup Friday from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm and Saturday from 6:00 am to 8:00 am. 200 show tables plus an 800 table flea market. Contact: Richard Carr 918.687.4150 or 918.478.6119 or Henry Tankersley 918.481.3820 or 918.663.3218 or henry@americanbanktulsa.com

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June 10 San Diego, California San Diego 2017 Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show & Sale at the Al Bahr Shrine Temple, 5440 Kearny Mesa Road, San Diego, California 92111, Dealer Set-up 7:00 am, Early Bird, 7:00 – 8:00 am, $10, Free Admission, 8:00 am – 3 pm, Kids under 12 free with adult, Mike Bryant Chairman, Info: Jim Walker, 858.490.9019, jfw@internetter.com, www.sdbottleclub.org June 10 Cambridge City, Indiana Huddleston Farmhouse Jar and Antique Market hosted at the Historic Huddleston Farmhouse, 838 National Road, Cambridge City, Indiana 47327, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Vendor set up 8:00 am, Info: Marty Troxell, 765.478.3800 or Richard Leece, 765.586.2798 June 16 & 17 Tallahassee, Florida Tallahassee Antique & Bottle Show at the North Florida Fairgrounds, 441 Paul Russell Road, Tallahassee, Florida 32301, Friday is dealer set-up and early bird buyer from 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Show

July 22 & 23 Adamstown, Pennsylvania 17th Annual Shupp’s Grove Bottle Festival, Saturday & Sunday, 6:00 am to dusk, early buyers Friday, 3:00 pm. At the famous ‘Shupp’s Grove’, 1686 Dry Tavern Road, Denver, Pennsylvania 17517, Contact: Steve Guion, 717.626.5557, affinityinsurance1@windstream.net July 23 Des Moines, Iowa The Iowa Antique Bottleers Antique Bottle & Collectables Show and Sale in conjunction with the Beer, Soda & Bottle Mega Show, 9:00 am to 2:00 p.m. at the FFA Enrichment Center, Des Moines Community College Campus. Free Parking, Admission $2. Early admission available. For information contact Tom Southard, 2815 Druid Hill Drive, Des Moines, Iowa 50315, 515.490.9590 August 3 – 6 Springfield, Massachusetts FOHBC 2017 National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo – Northeast Region at the MassMutual Center, Host Hotel: Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place hotel. Show Information: Jim Bender, Show Co-Chair, 518.673.8833, jim1@frontiernet.net or Bob Strickhart, Show Co-Chair, strickhartbob@ aol.comVisit Web Page, FOHBC National Convention – Northeast Region August 12 Lincoln, Alabama 2nd Annual Lincoln Bottle Show, 181 Magnolia Street, Lincoln, Alabama, Vender set-up August 11 and 12. Free to the public! Doors open at 9:00 am.

Contact: Jake Smith, Show Chairman, Syl_bottleguy@yahoo.com, 256.267.0466

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July 1 & 2 Elsecar, South Yorkshire, England Britain’s Biggest Show – The 27th Summer National, BBR, Elsecar Heritage Centre, Nr. Barnsey, S. Works., S74 8HJ, Tele: 01226 745156, email: sales@onlinebbr.com, www.onlinebbr.com July 8 Castle Rock, Colorado The Antique Bottle Collectors of Colorado 52nd Anniversary Show & Sale, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, Antique Bottle Collectors of Colorado, Douglas County Fairgrounds, Kirk Hall, 500 Fairgrounds Dr. Castle Rock, Colorado 80104, Contact: Eric Grace, 303.250.7498 July 15 Richmond, Rhode Island The Little Rhody Bottle Club Tailgate Swap Meet, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm. Free set-up for members and aspiring members. Free coffee, donuts, and pizza for participants. Bring your own tables! Show Address: Jules Antique Center, 320 Kingstown Road, Richmond, Rhode Island (3 miles East of Route #95 on Route #138), Contact Info: William Rose 508.880.4929

August 26 Biloxi, Mississippi The Old Guys Digging Club’s First Annual Show & Sale, will be held on Saturday, August 26, 2017 from 7:30 am to 4:00 pm at the Joppa Temple, 13280 Old Highway 67, Biloxi, MS 39532. Free Admission and Bottle Appraisals. Dealer Setup is Friday, August 25, 2017 from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm.

For more information contact: Norman Bleuler, 6446 Woolmarket Rd, Biloxi, MS 39532, Phone: 228.392.9148, Email: pollywog49@bellsouth. net or Peter Taggard, 645 Village Lane South, Mandeville, LA 70471 Phone 985.373.6487 Email: petertaggard@yahoo.com or Stafond Seago, 601.441.3715, stafond@aol.com September 8 Downieville, California Downieville Antique Bottles & Collectibles Show and Sale, Downieville School Gym, 120 School Street, Downieville, California 95936, Saturday 8:00 am – 3:00 pm, $10 Early Lookers, 8:00 am – 10:00 am, FREE Show Admission, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm, Saturday, at 7:00 am – $10 Early Lookers, Downieville Antique Bottle Group, www. westernbitters.com, Contact: Rick Simi, P.O. Box 115, Downieville, California 95936, 530.289.3659, ricksimi@att.net

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September 15 & 16 Aurora, Oregon Bottle, Antique & Collectibles Show & Sale, Bottles, Fruit Jars, Insulators, Crockery, Pottery, Glassware, Antiques, Advertising, Coins, Tokens, Jewelry, Pre-Pro Liquor & Brewery Items, Marbles, Paper, Souvenirs, Collectibles, Memorabilia and more! Free Appraisals! Friday, September 15, 2017, 12 noon – 5:00 pm Set-up, $5 Early Bird Admission, Dealer drop-off at 11:00 am, Saturday, September 16, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Admission by donation, American Legion Hall, 207 Main St. N.E., Aurora, Oregon, For more information and/or table reservations contact: Wayne Herring 503.864.2009 or Mark Junker 503.231.1235 or Bill Bogynska 503.657.1726 or email: billbogy7@gmail.com, Oregon Bottle Collectors Association September 16 Richmond, Rhode Island The Little Rhody Bottle Club Tailgate Swap Meet, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm. Free set-up for members and aspiring members. Free coffee, donuts, and pizza for participants. Bring your own tables! Show Address: Jules Antique Center, 320 Kingstown Road, Richmond, Rhode Island (3 miles East of Route #95 on Route #138), Contact Info: William Rose 508.880.4929 September 17 Depew, New York 19th Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association Annual Show and Sale at the Polish Falcons Hall, 445 Columbia Avenue, Depew, New York 14043, Sunday, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Set up 7:00 am to 9:00 am, Cost of admission: $3, children under 12

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free, Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association, gbbca.org, Contact: Joe Guerra, Secretary, 29 Nina Terrace, West Seneca, New York 14224, 716.674.5750, jguerra3@roadrunner.com, Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association

Fee admission: Saturday 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Early admission: Friday 1:00 pm – 6 pm, $10, Free appraisals. Info: Jay’s Emporium, 361.649.8221, jamast@att.net, Central Texas Bottle Collectors November 5 Elkton, Maryland The Tri-State Bottle Club’s 45th Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show (Tabletop Antiques) at the Singerly Fire Hall, Route 279 & 213 (I-95, Exit 109 A), Elkton, Maryland 21922, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, General Admission: $3, Children Under 12 Free, Contact: Dave Brown, 302.388-9311, email: dbrown3942@comcast.net

September 23 Santa Ana, California Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club’s 51st Annual Antique Bottle, Fruit Jar, Antiques & Collectibles Show & Sale, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm; Early Bird $10 at 8:00 am. Free admission. At the Santa Ana Elks Lodge, 212 Elk Lane, Santa Ana, California 92701, Contact: Don Wippert, 818.346.9833, donwippert@yahoo.com or Dick Home, 818.362.3368

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September 30 Albuquerque, New Mexico 30th EIC/NMHBS Annual Insulator, Bottle & Collectibles Show at the Elite Sports Academy, 501 Main Street, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87104, Friday Sep 29, Dealer setup & trading, 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm, Saturday Sep 30, Show hours 8:30 am 4:00 pm. $10 for non-dealers/displayers/helpers. Set up day(s) and time: Friday Sep 29, 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm, Saturday Sep 30, 7:30 am -8:30 am. Cost of admission: Free on show day, Enchantment Insulator Club & New Mexico Historical Bottle Society, Contact: Mike Gay, EIC President & Show Chairman, 5516 Kachina NW, Albuquerque, NM 87120, 505.480.0085, cdn102@centurylink.net

August 2 – 5 Cleveland, Ohio FOHBC 2018 National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo – Midwest Region at the Cleveland Convention Center, Host Hotel: Cleveland Marriott Downtown at Key Center, Show Information: Louis Fifer, Show Co-Chair and FOHBC Conventions Director, 330.635.1964, fiferlouis@yahoo.com or Matt Lacy, Show Co-Chair, FOHBC Midwest Region Director, 440.228.1873, info@antiquebottlesales.com, Visit Web Page, FOHBC National Convention – Midwest Region

October 13 & 14 Waco, Texas Central Texas Antique Bottle Show at the Red Men Hall, 4521 Speight Avenue, Waco, Texas 76711,

Need Your Help Do you have any interesting collectible pieces from the AM Bininger Company in your collection?

I am gathering any information I can find on the company AM Bininger & Co. for a new book I am working on. Anything is welcomed. A rare bottle, shipping crate, cardboard box, sign, advertisement, letterhead, cup or anything else you may want to share.

Does anyone know what the "M" in his name stands for?

It surely is his middle name but I just can't find out what it was.

My plan is to have this book ready by the FOHBC 2017 Springfield National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo in Springfield, Massachusetts Please contact Jim Bender, 518.673.8833 or jim1@frontiernet.net or by mail, PO Box 162, Sprakers, New York 12166

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Individual & Affiliated Membership Benefits Club Information

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

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

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

In addition to providing strength to a national/international organization devoted to the welfare of the hobby, your FOHBC membership benefits include:

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• A full year subscription the Federation’s official bi-monthly publication, BOTTLES and EXTRAS • One free ad per yearly membership of 100 words for use for “wanted” items, trade offers, etc.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Linda Sheppard, PO Box 162, Sprakers, NY 12166; phone: (518) 673-8833; email: jim1@frontiernet.net or visit our home page on the web at FOHBC.org

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Individual & Affiliated Shards of Wisdom Club Information FOHBC Individual Membership Application For Membership, complete the following application or sign up at www.fohbc.org (Please Print) Do you wish to be listed in the printed membership directory? (name, address, phone number, email address and what you collect) { } Yes { } No

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Name_______________________________ Address_____________________________ City________________________State____ Zip _ ____________Country____________ Telephone___________________________ E-mail Address_______________________

Wanted

Collecting Interests_ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________

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

BOTTLES and EXTRAS FREE ADS

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

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

(Use extra paper if necessary.)

For Sale

Would you be interested in serving as an officer? { } Yes { } No

Addtional Comments___________________ Would you be interested ___________________________________ in contributing your bottle ___________________________________ knowledge by writing articles

for the BOTTLES and EXTRAS? { } Yes { } No

Membership/Subscription rates for one year (6 issues) (Circle One) United States - Standard Mail $40.00 - Standard Mail for three years $110.00 - First Class $55.00 - Digital Membership (electronic files only) $25.00

Canada - First Class $60.00 Other countries - First Class $80.00

- Life Membership: Level 1: $1,000, Includes all benefits of a regular First

Class membership. No promise of a printed magazine for life.

- Level 2: $500, Includes all benefits of a regular membership but you will not receive a printed magazine, but rather a digital subscription.

Add an Associate Membership* to any of the above at $5.00 for each associate for each year

Name(s) of Associate(s)______________________________________ *Associate Membership is available to members of the immediate family of any adult holding an Individual Membership. Children of ages 21 or older must have their own individual membership. Associate(s) Members enjoy all of the right and privledges of an Individual Membership

Signature ______ Date___

Please make checks or money orders payable to FOHBC and mail to: FOHBC Membership, Elizabeth Meyer, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002 Effective 8/2015

Affiliated Club Membership for only $75.00 with liability insurance for all club sponsored events, 50% discount on advertising in the BOTTLES and EXTRAS, plus much more, Contact: Business Manager: Elizabeth Meyer, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; phone: (713) 222-7979; email: emeyer@fohbc.org

Clearly Print or Type Your Ad Send to: Business Manager: Elizabeth Meyer, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; ph: (713) 222-7979; or better yet, email Elizabeth at: emeyer@fohbc.org

Article Submission Requirements: All BOTTLES and EXTRAS articles or material need to be submitted on CD (preferable) or an email using a compressed (zipped) file. The file must be created by Microsoft Word, Publisher or Adobe N-Design so the editor does not have to retype the work.

High-resolution digital images are our preferred format. Please submit digital images on a CD according to the instructions below. We will accept e-mail submissions only if the image resolution is acceptable. The e-mail or CDs must have only ONE subject per transmission to minimize confusion. Each image must be accompanied by a caption list or other identifying information. Professional-grade equipment is a must to achieve the size and quality image we require. The highest setting on the camera should be used for maximum resolution and file size. Only high quality images will be considered. Please do not send photographic prints or scans of images—the color and quality are generally not up to par compared with digital images or slides scanned by our imaging department. We will consider exceptions for photos that can’t be easily found, such as older historical images. We rarely use slides anymore and prefer not to receive submissions of slides due to the time and liability involved in handling them.

Seeking quality consignments for our 2017 auction schedule!

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Competitive consignor rates and low buyer premiums

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These fine bottles will be included in our Spring, 2017 Auction.

For more information, please give us a call or visit our website.

American Glass Gallery • John R. Pastor • P.O. Box 227, New Hudson, Michigan 48165 phone: 248.486.0530 • www.americanglassgallery.com • email: jpastor@americanglassgallery.com

FOHBC C/O Elizabeth Meyer, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002

Please Check your information and notify us of errors.

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Heckler Proudly offering the Best Bottles & glass in the World

Accepting Consignments for Our 2017 Auction Schedule

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