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Featuring Julius Goldbaum: Arizona’s Pioneer Whiskey Man Included in this issue... Collectors to Mount Drive for John Ryan Memorial Shards of Glory - Part III Wholesale Liquor Business - Harald Schmidt Open House at the Fletchers ... and so much more $7.00
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as out. I and where NuGrape originated, or who when it then became available in bottles. Details about NuMint’s origins are just set out came up with the formula, or why the 31 No. 1 bottles that January February 2020 No.is247 as elusive as NuGrape’s, but there no earliest ads show none of -my bblegum, Vol. doubt he cooler collector friends have ever seen. There is that the Kelley Brothers first introOn the Cover: Mike Newman's collection of OFarticle CONTENTS a Wikipedia claiming that “In est place TABLE duced to the public. It seems logical rare John Ryan both soda bottles 1906, John James Mangham and a fellow that a drink called NuMint would be mint pharmacist the formula for flavored, but there was no mention of its pie and FOHBC Officers | 2018concocted - 2020 .............................................................................................2 rink too: NuGrape in Bremen, Georgia.” But flavor in any of the ads I’ve seen. President’s .................................................................................................3 a Moon FOHBC NuMint was a rising star in the when a Message Bremen historian asked Bierley’s, Shards Mangham’s grandchildren about it at my Atlanta soft drink market, but its fame of Wisdom ...............................................................................................................4 oot Beer, request, they had no knowledge of it. I was short-lived. The last mention of History’s Corner ..................................................................................................................5 sold it, I do know that NuGrape was first sold in NuMint (the beverage) that I could find News - From For OurNuMint Members ..............................................................................6 Atlanta by & the Bottling Co. was in the Atlanta Constitution on s, which FOHBC September 28, 1919. The NuMint comat 168/170 Peters Street. ars. But Openlocated House at the Fletchers' by Bill Baab. .................................................................. 12 Page 12 Kelley Brothers, a wholesale grocer in pany was still around, but the drink had oday, it’s the 11th Hour1887, - John Vanstarted Buskirk &the Davidbottling Henry by Rayended Komoroski 16 Atlanta since ways find Celbrating just as......... mysteriously as it began. company called NuMint. The earliest ad The first ad for NuGrape appeared on Virtual Museum News ....................................................................................................... 22 t reason I could find for NuMint appeared in the May 1, 1921. The ad said: “Bottled by National Constitution Reno Shootout Information ..................................................................... 24 an, there FOHBC Company” and Atlanta on April 20, 1919 The NuMint Bottling ally cool Shards featured an illustration of what might (Dad’s fourth birthday) and just in that of Glory - Part III by Jeff Mihalik...................................................................... 28 doodads. one issue. Depicting a drinking glass but have been the first NuGrape bottle. It in a bottle ever discovered by Rob Green............................................ 34 nomessage bottle, it encouraged readers: “Don’t looked exactly like a NuMint bottle interest- Oldest except for the name. For just five cents, Wait until July Pioneer the Whiskey 1st—get glassSullivan. Julius Goldbaum - Arizona's Man bya Jack ........................... 38 Page 22 ry begin- today.” It’s possible that NuMint was only a bottle of NuGrape was guaranteed “to Mystery Solved! Who or What is Hetra? by Susan R. Arthur ...................................... 44 tly when a fountain drink prior to that July 1st, make the driest throat happy on a hot Collectors to Mount Drive for John Ryan Memorial by Paul Chance ............................ 48
ads but no physical examples are known to exist.
Bottle design in 1923
Wholesale Liquor Business - Harald Schmidt by Steve Lang.......................................... patent application. 52
Actual NuGrape bottle.
Preserving the Past by Jenn Hurley............................................................................. 54 NuGrape - A flavor you can't forget by Mike H. Brown............................................... 56 Lost & Found .................................................................................................................... 62 FOHBC Member Photo Gallery .......................................................................................... 64
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Coming next issue or down the road: Abraham Klauber, an early San Diego Pioneer•The Color Aqua•Rushton’s Cod Liver Oil•American Scent Bottles•On the Trail of Indian Medicine Bottles•Dr. Lovegood's Bitters•How Bleeding Kansas wound up on a Peppersauce Bottle
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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 2018 - 2020
President: Matt Lacy, 3836 State Route 307, Austinburg Ohio 44010, phone: 440.228.1873; email: mlacy28@yahoo.com
Conventions Director: Lindsey Fifer, 604 Topaz, Brunswick, Ohio 44212; phone: 440.552.2454; email: lindsey_stoneman@yahoo.com
First Vice-President: Louis Fifer, 604 Topaz, Brunswick, Ohio 44212; phone: 330.635.1964; email: fiferlouis@yahoo.com
Business Manager: Elizabeth Meyer, 101 Crawford Street, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; phone: 713.222.7979 x103; email: emeyer@fohbc.org
Second Vice-President: John O’Neill, 1805 Ralston Ave. Belmont, California 94002; phone: 650.631.7495; email: Joneill@risk-strategies.com Secretary: Andrew Rapoza, 28240 Nancy Lane, Conroe, Texas 77385; phone: 832.928.7472; email: rapoza.2025@gmail.com Treasurer: James Berry, 200 Fort Plain Watershed Rd, St. Johnsville, NY 13452; phone: 518.568.5683; email: jhberry10@yahoo.com 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: Ferdinand Meyer V, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; phone: 713.222.7979 x115; email: fmeyer@fohbc.org Director-at-Large: Richard Siri, PO Box 3818, Santa Rosa, California 95402, phone: 707.542.6438; email: rtsiri@sbcglobal.net Director-at-Large: John Pastor, PO Box 227, New Hudson, MI 48165, phone: 248.486.0530; email: jpastor@americanglassgallery.com Midwest Region Director: John Fifer, 5830 Enfield Circle, Medina, Ohio 44256, phone: 330.461.0069; email: coinop1958@gmail.com Northeast Region Director: Jeff Ullman, P.O. Box 121, Warnerville, New York 12187, phone: 518.925.9787; email: jullman@nycap.rr.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: Elizabeth Lacy, 3836 State Route 307, Austinburg Ohio 44010, phone: 440.994.9028; email: elacy@fohbc.org
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President’s Message the time this letter makes it to publication. I am very excited to Matt Lacy say that a number of Northeast clubs have agreed to volunteer to Ferdinand Meyer V
3836 State Inc. Route 307 FMG Design, Austinburg Ohio 44010 101 Crawford Street 440.228.1873 Studio 1A mlacy28@yahoo.com Houston, Texas 77002 713.222.7979 x115 t is hard to believe another year has come and gone. The end fmeyer@fohbc.org of the year is often a time to reflect back on the year, assess itting down and at myset desk, onfor thisthe firstnext. back-to-work Monday afterthat New progress, goals I am happy to report Years, I conjure uphasn’t a vision a stove withtime lots to of spend pots-a-cooking. your FOHBC board hadofmuch down thinkThe kettle labeled antique has towards us all looking forwardI have to the ing about the past, but isbottle ratherevents looking the future. stretch leading up to the FOHBC 2016 Sacramento National Antique Bota lot of exciting news to share. Here I will the wrap up old busitle Convention & Expo this August. We have a coordination conference nesslater followed some exciting call in the by week and new plan and to step it up aefforts. notch or two. We are also
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pleased that we locked in Springfield, Massachusetts for our 2017 NationThe 2019 Bottle FOHBC 50th Anniversary Antique Bottle the al Antique Convention, and by theNational time you read this message, FOHBC 2018details National Antique Convention Expo will been Convention have beenBottle finalized and the&books arehave closed. announced We really have by ourFOHBC teams in memplace and In additionfor to Cleveland, the fun andOhio. excitement shared our wheels in motion. I suppose we should start thinking about the 2019 bers, collectors and the local public, the show also made a Convention in the Southern Region. Planning ahead has many benefits.
handsome profit. The team effort really contributed to the overall
success of the and to wesay couldn’t beMarch more pleased withissue the of The FOHBC is event, also proud that this | April 2016 outcome. Thank you to all of the donors, support BOTTLES and EXTRAS is the firstindividuals, to be printed in full and color, which only an event additional $184, It anwill issue. This change a few who costs madeusthis possible. always hold a prompted special place design revisions, which we hope you will notice, such as the Table of in my memories. Contents and a few of the section headers. We receive quite a few really nice compliments on how the magazine looks and have come While 2019 has passed, we look towards this next year with so far in a relative short number of years. Oh, and look for a new sec“2020 This for called the Reno 2020 National Antique tion in Vision.” the back of theslogan magazine “Member Photo Gallery”. This Bottle Convention was to coined by photography our very own new section is dedicated the fine of Director-at-large antique bottles and glass. Please free has to submit your images fortoconsideration. Richard Siri. feel Richard really taken the reins set the tone We have alreadyamazing started work the convention May | June will issuebeand that you for another year.onThis farhope differwill consider authoring an article for the magazine. We are here to help! ent than past years with a few new original ideas and a lot of
fun! Ferdinand Meyer V has drafted up a lot of great marketing Within this issue of BOTTLES and EXTRAS, please read the proposed material that many of you that havehave likely seen circulating. Therevisions Reno bylaw updates and revisions been marked in red. All team derived the idea of a silent auction incorporating a differhave been approved by the FOHBC Board of Directors. These bylaws ent auction formatand thatneed bothtoconsignors buyers canmembership enjoy. In have been amended be reviewedand by the FOHBC prior to the annual general membership meeting at the FOHBC 2016 Naaddition to the silent auction event, enter into a whirl of fun with tional Antique Bottle Convention & Expo in Sacramento, California the Reno 2020 Team Bowling Event on Saturday night. This is by an affirmative vote of a majority of all votes cast by the eligible voters sure to be a successful affair with a very strong response from in attendance, provided that a copy of the proposed changes are made our membership already. Table sales have been very strong right available to each member in advance, either directly by mail or by timely since contracts started circulating. I could talktheabout this show for notice in the Federation’s official periodical or on Federation website. hours with all the exciting developments. In other news, we are moving ahead with photography for the Virtual Museum to have regional photography labsisset up in regions Another and veryhope exciting development in the works a potento start photographing bottles both in a standard format and tial location for the 2021 FOHBC National Convention in3-dimenthe sionally. This effort is being spearheaded by Museum Director, Alan DeNortheast. A few of our board members who have been major Maison. You may have met Alan at the Virtual Museum table during the contributors many years decided to takeBottle on the tasklast of findFOHBC 2015for Chattanooga National Antique Show August.
ing a location and earning support of the clubs in the Northeast
region. Wemember are not Alicia yet ready to announce locationproat Federation Booth, is headingthe up potential the nomination cess for the election of officers the President, the time of writing, butalltheFederation location may be including public knowledge by Vice President(s), Secretary, Treasurer, Business Manager, Membership
Director, Relations Director, Conventions Director, help makePublic this event possible. I would encourage clubs toHistorian, always Merchandising Director, Directors-at-Large (3), and Region events Directors consider lending a helping hand if the FOHBC National (4). These elections occur every two years. Any officer may run for succome to your region. We don’t host these tremendous events for cessive terms. This committee has prepared a slate of nominations for ourselves; theseis shows are forItyou! Use it asto an opportunity to each office and listed below. is important note that any member serve thetohobby turn,ingrow your club. may file a nomination desiring run forand, anyinoffice the Federation form with the Election Committee (in accordance with procedures approved the membership and instituted by the Election Committee) A muchbyanticipated and thrilling announcement is the soft openindicating office Virtual they desire to run on for.January The deadline filing this ing of the the FOHBC Museum 1st of for 2020. This is April 1st 2016. We have seen successful campaigns by our memberhas been a work in progress for many years with literally hunship before so if you want to run for a position, please let Alicia know. dredsand of man-hours intoaddress, its development. Alan DeMaison You reach her atpoured this email alicia@cis-houston.org. You has travelled all over the for country picture finest will be receiving a ballot votingto so pleasesome take of thethe time to vote.
glass from each collecting category and region. Ferdinand Meyer President: Ferdinand Meyer V V has coordinated the development of the Virtual Museum itself, FOHBC Candidates Houston, Texas andHere hasis the spent countless hours on its design. The FOHBC has an slate of FOHBC First Vice President: Sheldon Baugh entire subcommittee dedicated to this effort, and dozens of colrecommended candidates Russellville, put forth by the contributed nominating lectors have to the effort.Kentucky There is more information committee (Alicia Booth, Second Vice President: Gene regarding details of the opening day in this issue. We Bradberry are looking Chairperson) for 2014 - 2016. Bartlett, Tennessee forward support from the FOHBC membership to share this The slateto is being put forth for your consideration and anyone interactive amazing revolutionary with the colSecretary:bottle Jamesexperience Berry desiringcommunity. to run for office may Johnsville, New York lecting
be nominated by going to the Treasurer: Gary Beatty website and printing out a At the board 2019 Augusta North Port, Floridaconvention, a subcomnomination form.meeting Then, mail or at the email was to Aliciaformed Booth, 11502to understand the future of the publication mittee Historian: Jim Bender Burgoyne Drive, Houston, Texas and how to continue to provide a quality conduit of information Sprakers, New York 77077. alicia@cis-houston.org to collectors. Since then, Editor: the members theZant subcommittee have Closing date for nominations Martinof Van is April 1, 2016 at midnight.between been busy working emailsIndiana and conference calls. Some of Danville, nominationshave will led to broader conversations about bringing the Additional discussions Merchandising Director: Val Berry be printed alongside the slate the proposed FOHBC standards of business. Many of Johnsville, New York by the in-line nominating with modern the committee principles the original organization have shifted with the and willof be listed Director: Linda Sheppard in the May-June 2016 causing issue changing times, aMembership need to review the organization as a Sprakers, New York of BOTTLES and EXTRAS along whole and adapt to take the FOHBC into the future. We are all with a short bio of each Conventions Director: Louis Fifer looking forward to having discussions on how to better the orgacandidate.
Brunswick, Ohio nization and hobby for our membership.
Business Manager: Elizabeth Meyer Texas It really is a very excitingHouston, time to be involved with the FOHBC
and the efforts to advanceDirector-at-Large: our great hobby. This upcoming year is Bob Ferraro Boulder board. City, Nevada an election year for the FOHBC If you have any interest in becoming an officer and serving on the board, please contact Val Director-at-Large: Steve Ketcham Edina,for Minnesota Berry. We are always looking new and fresh prospective to continue to keep the FOHBC going strong. IJohn believe the new balDirector-at-Large: Pastor lot for the election of officers be published New will Hudson, Michigan in the next issue of Bottles and Extras. I hope to seeRegion many Director: new names onLacy there to Midwest Matt really help shape the future. Austinburg, Ohio
Northeast Region Director: Andrew Vuono
I hope everyone is excitedStamford, for the numerous Connecticutactivities and announcements to come in 2020. Each and every one of us conSouthern Region Director: Ron Hands tinues to fuel the passion Wilson, around North this hobby. I anticipate fruitful Carolina digs, successful shows and quality time with friends. I look Western Region Director: Eric McGuire forward to seeing what 2020 has in store. Petaluma, California
Public Relations Director: Rick DeMarsh Ballston Spa, New York
As always, I look forward to serving you!
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Bottles and Extras or value. The members of the groups have been gracious and generous. Over the past few years I have attempted to serve as historian for the bottle club and the club Facebook group. Much enthusiasm and appreciation as been shown from the information added to a single image of something rare or common. If you do not have such a function on your club Facebook page, it is something to consider. Another function of the Facebook groups is to offer items for sale without requirements for commissions or fees. While
Facebook – A Resource That Can Be By David Tingen
On a regular basis I hear or read about the evils of Facebook, but I have a different point of view. For me, it is a valuable resource and means to share with others in the collecting world. The acronym TMI comes to mind when asked about how I manage my information and sharing with friends. Sometimes less is far better than more, and many frequent users have found that to be true. Among the groups where I participate, the atmosphere is casual, helpful and informative. It would be difficult to name all the groups that were formed for bottle collectors alone. The interest groups range from individuals to large organizations such as FOHBC. Most have rules for posting with a variety of guidelines and a promise that users will be terminated if the privilege is abused. Shown below is a list of shortcuts for those I use most frequently. One such, The Raleigh Bottle Club, allows more than just bottles but does draw the line when users overstay their welcome. There are several administrators who monitor the site. Also shown is a sample of the of the guidelines for the Bottle Collectors group which has been administered for some time by Taylor McBurney and Jim Eifler. When I mention Facebook as a resource, this is done from recent experiences and speaking with others who use the media on a regular basis. Several years ago, I started collecting data to document brewers and bottlers in North Carolina. A task that took quite a while and lots of research. Since publishing the four collector’s guides, I have seen several undocumented or clandestine items pictured on Facebook. Of course, this would have been great to have had ten years ago when I started. These items were generally posted for two reasons: to inform and to gather history
there are limited protections using this method of commerce, buying from a recommended or known source probably offers little risk and far less cost than eBay or like sites. Under most circumstances, there are no copyrights associated with posting and images can be saved and stored for future reference. If you watch these groups on a regular basis, you will know the importance of saving something of interest as soon as it appears. The next time you look the item may be ten pages down. One such site that has enormous activity is Brewery Collectibles. Facebook will never take the place of permanent informational sites such as Peachridge Glass, but it will allow a look at what people consider interesting on a minute to minute basis. If you don’t participate, give it a try. You may enjoy the interaction. Just remember, for most groups you need not be a Facebook member to view postings. Questions and comments are welcome via email: tingen1@ mindspring.com
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Afternoon ride discovers 1840s apothecary museum By Bill Baab
HISTORY’S CORNER In Memory of Dick Watson longtime FOHBC Historian
Have you ever wondered why someone would make a soda bottle that would not stand up? I have been asked countless times why some soda bottles have a round base or are torpedo shaped. When I first started collecting, I asked the same question and heard one answer that they were ship ballast and when not being used they were dumped overboard and that’s why so many are found by divers. There is no proof that I ever found that this is true.
The picturesque Durham Apothecary & Museum in Maxeys, Georgia, offers "Coffee, Tea and History." Note the clever pinwheel bicycle in the foreground. (Bill Baab photo)
My wife, Bea, and I sometimes like to make road trips to places close by our Augusta, Georgia, home so we can return home that same day. By doing so, we have learned the whereabouts of antique bottle-related places like the one described below. After our friend and history lover John Roy told us about a place in the tiny Oglethorpe County, Georgia community of Maxeys, we decided it was worth an hour’s drive. We were not mistaken. We learned Durham Place is on the National Register of Historic Places because of its connection to six doctors of that name who occupied the ornate building from 1844 to 1979. Historical architects say the apothecary/doctor’s office’s front view is a “narrow Banded Italianate, Greek Revival Exterior.” So reads a 60-page booklet authored by Nancy Bunker Bowen. There are seven additional pages of photos and it sells for $8 by Dennis and Faye Short, retired educators and current owners of the historic property. Mrs. Short compiled information on “The Doctors of Durham Place” and all of it is in the booklet.
The Torpedo type round bottom bottle was patented in 1809 by an English inventor William F Hamilton and the very simple truth is the bottom is round so the bottle can not stand up and have the cork dry out. This is much like wine being stored in a rack. As time passed many later bottles have a totally round bottom but serve the same purpose. Round bottom bottles were made both in the USA and out of country mainly by England. They are not rare but surely are interesting. Watch each issue for a new installment of History’s Corner.
The Shorts have been urged to excavate the privy and possibly find artifacts related directly to the place. The Shorta’ daughter, Mrs. Denise Weimer, is an accomplished author and many of her romantical historical novels are for sale in the museum. Interested parties can contact the author at deniseweimerbooks.webs.com. To reach the museum from Augusta, travel up Highway 78 to Union Point and turn right onto Highway 77. Maxeys is 20 miles up that road and the museum is on the left as you enter the community. Admission is free.
The building has been lovingly restored and as you enter through the front door off the porch, your eyes are greeted by shelves of memorabilia, books and gifts. Mr. Short said much of the vintage pharmaceutical equipment and bottles were purchased from Tom and Mabel Hicks, of Eatonton, Georgia. The Hickses had purchased the contents of another small Georgia town drug store a few years ago. There was a two-seater outhouse (now a fire pit) still standing in the late 1970s and when a member of the family who had previously owned the property opened the door and looked in, a large rattlesnake was on the seat. Maybe it just had to go! The outhouse was dismantled and the snake was no more.
Durham Museum owners/host Faye and Dennis Short surrounded by vintage drug and other antique bottles. (Bill Baab Photo)
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FOHBC News From & For Our Members 2019 Augusta National Financial News Good news to report as Team Augusta returned $8,580.09 to the FOHBC Treasurer, Jim Berry, as profit from the recent 2019 FOHBC 50th Anniversary National Antique Bottle Convention. Thanks to Team Augusta and an outstanding job by Mike Newman, who was our Augusta Show Treasurer. Team Augusta was also able to return all seed money to the FOHBC, and financially cover the costs for the Raffle Certificates, Newman Open House, Museum VIP Reception, Shuttle costs and many other items due to sponsors and in-kind donations. A much more detailed Profit+Loss statement was provided to the FOHBC Board which was approved. Thanks again to Team Augusta, all the volunteers and our big sponsors. Let’s do it again in Reno! Bitters Bottles Supplement 2 Update In from Ferdinand Meyer V: Bitters Bottles Supplement 2 (BBs2) is progressing daily with an author book signing event and sale scheduled for the Reno 2020 Antique Bottle Convention. Since my accident in March, I have been putting on average, 5 hours a day into the book. The Index is totally being redone. Every documented bitters ever produced, and their makers is being indexed. This is a great tool! Regarding content, I’m working through the alphabet and am on letter ‘P’ as of this note to Bottles and Extras. This constitutes a massive amount of work that has to be verified and cross-referenced with Bill Ham’s database and my database for Peachridge Glass. For instance, I have 38,000 images or so and hundreds of files on obscure bitters. Lots of new rare bottles and information since 2004 when Bitters Bottle Supplement was published. There will be color plate sections on extremely rare bitters, bitters facsimile currency and bitters almanacs. The great archives of Dan Cowman, Joe Gourd and Ben Swanson, among others, is being referenced. Thanks to Bill Ham, Joe Gourd, Ira Burney, Ben Swanson and Jeff Burkhardt for their contributions. Thanks to Bill Ham for allowing me to work on this monumental book. Every bottle has a story! Jackson’s Aromatic Bitters Hi, Ferd. The M.A. Micklejohn bottles in the current Glass Works Auction piqued my interest vis-à-vis our recent exchanges about
Jackson’s Aromatic Life Bitters. The reasons: 1. My research seems to indicate a St. Louis-based (or, more generally, a Mississippi-based) origin for the bottle and/or contents. 2. The M.A. Micklejohn bottles seem to indicate a New Orleans-based (or, more generally, a Mississippi-based) origin for the bottle and/or contents. 3. Both bottles have a very similar (at least, in my opinion) overall appearance, very similar serif embossing, and near-identical coloring (see the two side-by-side screenshots below). Could these two bottles have been manufactured by the same glassworks? I’d be very interested in hearing your opinion! Regards, Chris Bubash Dayton, Ohio
The Curious Career of T.W. Dyott, M.D. - The Kensington Glass Works and Manual Labor Bank We hear that Federation member Q. David Bower’s is working on another book to follow his Drake’s Plantation Bitters book we reported on last month. Looking at the draft, we pulled the following Introduction. Among my numismatic interests, paper money is in the front rank. Over a long period of years I have studied different banks, their officers, and methods of distribution. I have also collected various series, especially obsolete notes. As the years have slipped by, I have deaccessioned most of the notes, but have kept all of my research information and have added to it. In 2006, I completed the manuscript for Obsolete Paper Money Issued by Banks in the United States 1782 to 1866, which was issued by Whitman Publishing and had become a best seller and standard reference. In it is a section devoted to Dr. Thomas W. Dyott and his Manual Labor Bank, from research I had started years earlier. Located in the Kensington district of Philadelphia it and its founder have in parallel two of the most fascinating - sometimes almost unbelievable histories. In the meantime I have researched and collecting glass bottles, flasks, and related items from the 19th century. As an example, in 1984 Antique Bottle News published my study of bottles used by Drake’s Plantation Bitters. In the present study I share what I have learned about Dr. Thomas W.
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Dyott and his long career in glass manufacturing and his short career in banking. Much has been written about Dyott in past, most notably and magisterially by Helen McKearin in Bottles, Flasks and Dr. Dyott, 1970, which emphasized glass and was my main source for flask varieties. McKearin included a sketch of the Manual Labor Bank but was not aware of why it was formed and felt that contemporary as well as later historians’ negative comments about Dyott had no real foundation, probably based on her studies of the glass business and not of the Manual Labor Bank. Today in the Internet era with vast sources available to search, I have had access to much information of which she was not aware. There are many stories and essays about Dyott and his glassworks in the Kensington district of Philadelphia, but nearly all have incorrect information about his factory, which was newly constructed in the second decade of the 19th century and was not set up in an earlier and now defunct factory called the Kensington Glass Works. In the past, the bills of the Manual Labor Bank have been studied by various scholars as well, the most important being two pages devoted to varieties by Richard T. Hoober in Pennsylvania Obsolete Notes and Scrip, 1985. Again, these and other studies were mostly conducted before the Internet era of access to newspapers, books, and other publications. Research in modern times has greatly added to what I compiled years ago, resulting in the present text including much information not hitherto available in any single printed source. My only regret is that I never met Helen McKearin (1898-1988), the leading scholar on Dyott’s life. Although there are some elusive varieties, both the Dyott flasks and the bills of the Mutual Labor Bank are easily collected today, with most of the currency being moderately priced. Many enthusiasts belong to the Society of Paper Money Collectors or the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, but not many have joined both.
Just dug up this pint size flask Hey, Jack here in Missouri. Just dug up this pint size flask (along with half a dozen of his friends) this past weekend. After digging seven of them I figured they would be common but it doesn’t appear in any of my books. Only info I can get is the company of H K & F B Thurber as major jobbers. According to the article I found, the company reorganized in 1874 as Thurber, Whyland & Co. These flasks are all tooled with two air vents on the label side shoulders and would be surprised if dated earlier than late 1880s. Dug in late 70s to l ate 90s context. So far, nobody in my small circle has heard of one. Curious if anyone out there has? Thanks. Jack Klotz Louisiana, Missouri
Since you are a Bitters Guy Since you are a bitters guy, I thought you'd get a kick out of this picture illustrating how many undamaged Doyles Hop Bitters I pulled out of this hole! Too bad he wasn't fond of Indian Queens or Kelly’s Old Cabin Bitters! Jack Klotz Louisiana, Missouri
Reno 2020 Bowling Teams The Northwest Bottle Club will have a team for bowling. Richard Siri Santa Rosa, California Ok all you antique bottle people. It’s time to team up for the FOHBC Reno 2020 Bowling Event! Five per team whether it be bottle clubs, regions, collecting groups or just friends. Family welcome. $25 per person for lane cost. Reserve your team now. Prizes and fun! See advertisement this issue or visit FOHBC.org for more info.
Garden Shard Hello, I am trying to find the bottle this glass shard came from? My mother found this in her garden and I can’t find anything that resembles it. I think its an old medicine bottle but am not sure. There’s not any pictures of amber glass with such vivid white lettering anywhere on the web. Any help would be great. Thank you! William FOHBC: At first, it looked like a milk bottle shard though they rarely came in amber. Maybe a very late medicine. As it turns out, it is actually from a Tower Root Beer amber quart bottle, 1963, Charlestown, Mass. Of course!
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A funny thing happened to me! Dear Martin Van Zant November 7, 2019 A funny thing happened to me on October 8, 2019. I had a day off, from my part time employment. I decided to go across town, to my favorite antique/consignment shop. I went there, looking for antique bottles, fruit jars, and ceramics. What I found and bought, turned out to be USA National Treasure! In the, store front window, was an unframed, 18 by 24 inch canvas, oil portrait painting: of an artist, holding a paint brush and a brass metal paint pallet. Also the man, in the portrait, was wearing a single glass eye monocle. Written in pencil, on the back of this painting, were two key words : "Young Whistler." As in, the world famous painting: "Whistlers Mother" Fame (but the portrait is of a man, 38 to 48 years of age ) Possibly this painting was in one family for 3 generations on
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Cape Cod! As such, it never made it into the history books! It would then be called a certain heretofore unknown portrait of James Whistler! On October 17, 2019 New York Art Dealer/Gallery Owner Mr. Robert Simon told me: "my painting is a genuine portrait of James Whistler painted by another artist! It is not a self self portrait! I can read the signature, on the painting as : V I C O . . / . . . -> My research shows : Andrea De Vico - Male Artist Italian Fine Art, 1818 - 1887 James Whistler 1834 - 1903 This portrait is quite stunning! This purchase is the very best thing that ever happened to me! I hope to sell it someday at my price! Sincerely, Michael Shea
A Special Thanks! Matt and the Board of the FOHBC, I would like to thank all members of the Board for the Lifetime Achievement Award that was presented to me in Augusta. It was a total surprise and unexpected. I have been a collector since I was discharged from the USAF in 1966. A long time but I have loved every day when talking about bottles. I visited a farmer when I came home and saw two bottles in his barn and he gave them to me, which started a lifelong quest for old bottles. I have been to every Expo and National show that has been held starting with 1976. I have enjoyed all shows. The reason I got hooked was I found one book about bottle collecting and read that if you found a box of bitters you could retire with them, I did, I started with a Hostetters Bitters and a Burdock Blood Bitters for $5.00 each and was hooked. Now years later they both are still a $5.00 bottles and I started on a learning curve on Bitters. The FOHBC has been a love of mine since the 1976 Expo in St. Louis and have been involved in some way since. I consider more important than the bottles are the friends I have made in and out of the Federation. Thank you for thinking of me and I will treasure the award forever. Sheldon Baugh
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Bottles and Extras DeLand M-T Bottle Club no longer in existence
DELAND, Fla. – One of the stalwarts of the antique bottle collecting hobby in Central Florida has been forced to shut down for various reasons. “It is with great sadness in my heart that I have to inform all of your that the DeLand M-T Bottle Club has closed because of numerous losses of club members and lack of support in putting on the show every year,” said Dwight Pettit, the club president. The club observed its 50th anniversary earlier this year. “I have been associated with the show for more than 40 years and it’s now time for me to retire. I have been through too much personally to continue. I wish you all the best in traveling and going to other bottle shows. I will try to make them when I can see you all. “Another reason is my job is taking everything out of me physically and mentally, I am over 60 years old and still working 70 hours a week and traveling to my job 1,200 miles every week. I must continue to work to support my family. Well all know how that is. Family first above all.
Michael George] Good morning Ferd, I don’t know the answer to the question, but one of the largest packaging company for such bottles was the William Underwood Company. The time frame is consistent to the dates, as is the square semi-cathedral form. They actually produced well over a dozen bottle forms for packaging, and was located in Boston. I don’t know if they had these bottles made or not, but it is a good place to start. Lyndeborough NH made similar style bottles, but they were not in business in 1864, so maybe this was a New London or Willington CT product? Here is a Wells Miller Provost bottle, Civil War era, that is different, but in a similar style. Also, you see those neck rings on the pepper sauce bottles made for this company as well. So, a strong possibility... [Rick Ciralli] I can tell you it’s scarce to rare. Studied Zumwalt’s book for years. Could be an Eastern works like W.K. Lewis or one of the Boston merchants. This mold is not often seen. Many peppersauce type bottles had neck rings but not too many on the pickles plus flutes. Probably held gherkins.
Your Thoughts on This P. H. Drake Log Cabin Bottle Dear Mr. Meyer, I am most impressed with your extensive knowledge (and your website) on the subject matter at hand. I was hoping I could take advantage of your expertise with regard to the following Drake amber-colored, four-logged version bitters’ bottle complete with its most rare and original front and back labels. Please see images below. If you look at the back label, it reads as follows: “P. H. Drake & Co., Depot, 144 Duane Street, New York.” FYI: The NYC address (144 Duane Street) was originally built as a department store in 1862 and was recently sold for $50 million!
“During the last two weeks, I have lost my older brother, Anthony, my Mom, Marianne, and my younger brother, Dana, a few years ago. My lovely wife’s health is failing, too. “So I am over-stressed and in mourning and I shall be so for a while. I wish each and everyone of you the very best in life and your future endeavors. I hope you all were pleased with the shows I was able to put on for you. “Please give my family and I time to get through our mourning period. We would appreciate it very much, So if I do not respond to your e-mails or phone calls right away, please understand.”
CSS Alabama Mystery Hello Mr. Meyer, I discovered you on Peachridgeglass. com. I have been trying to identify the manufacturer and possibly pickle bottlers for a relatively plain pickle bottle. We recovered several pickle bottles from the wreck of the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama sunk off the Normandy coast in 1864. The bottles recovered from CSS Alabama are plain sided, with flutes from the shoulder to the base of the neck below three reinforcing or decorative rings. The mouth was reinforced by a flat lip. Research on the Internet identified only one virtually identical example. That bottle, advertised on Ebay (image attached), was recovered from a site in Ware, Massachusetts indicating that the CSS Alabama bottles were quite likely from one of the New England prize vessels. Could you point us in the direction of one or more authorities on pickle bottles that might be willing to help us find information. Thank you in advance for any information and or contacts that might be of assistance. Very much enjoyed the Peachridgeglass site. Gordon P. Watts, Jr., Ph.D, RPA Tidewater Atlantic Research, Inc. Washington, North Carolina
After reading the accompanying Drake timeline also on your website, I do not see any mention of this particular address for his company. As an advanced Civil War artifact collector, I am fully aware of how popular this “medicinal” elixir was to Civil War officers and soldiers, alike, and relic hunters can still find distinctive bottles or fragments in about every Union campsite! That said, I was wondering if based on the images and the all-important labeling: In your expert opinion is the bottle of Civil War era (1862 to 1865) or postwar? I know finding one in such amazing condition complete with its front and rear labels is quite a rare find in and of itself. Thanks so much for taking the time to weigh in on this bottle. I am most grateful to you, sir and look forward to hearing from you! Best regards, Dan Forte [FM5] Dan, this is a fairly late bottle for a Drake’s based on the address. It’s clean, looks good and would fit in any number of collections based on the desire of owning Civil War era artifacts.
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55th Annual 2020
Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show/Sale
Eastside Cannery Casino and Hotel 5255 Boulder Highway Las Vegas, Nevada 89122
February 14&15 2020 Early Bird Admission $10 • Friday 9:00 am to 12 pm Regular Admission $5 • Friday 12 pm to 5 pm & Saturday 9 am - 4 pm • $5 Admission contact: John Faulis - 702.242.2792 or 702.373.7175 or jfuzzie@cox.net Nicholas Valenti - 702.415.1568 or nv1948@cox.net Dealer Set-Up Thursday 2/13/20 from 3 pm to 7 pm
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Open House at the Fletchers’ By Bill Baab
MUSTANG, Okla. – FOHBC Hall of Famer Johnnie Fletcher and his wife, Linda, held open house last Oct. 19 and visitors “ooooed” and “awwwwed” their spectacular collection of antique bottles from four states.
Another collection of Missouri jugs was housed in its own display case.
Bottles from Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Idaho were joined by 50-state Hutchinson and territorial Hutchinson collections and most were on display throughout their home.
“I don’t really know,” said Fletcher, a member of the Oklahoma Territory Bottle & Relic Club. “One of these days I’m going to have to count them!”
Just how many bottles are in the collection?
Their friend Jerry Simmons took 80 photos of the collections and attendees Jack Mullen, Mike McJunkin, Bill Simon, Jerry Hemry, Wes and Dot Hedrick and, of course, the Fletchers.
Open house visitors check out a collection of Missouri jugs.
These eleven beauties from Atchison, Kansas beckoned to visitors. Several rare Ales, Beers and even a Whiskey
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Case of colorful Kansas sodas attracts Jack Mullen’s attention (Photos Courtesy of Jerry Simmons)
Jack Mullen learned he could handle two gems, but not take them home.
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Up and down hallways and around the corners, Fletchers’ collection on display.
Mike McJunkin with a pair of Hutchinson, Kansas drug store bottles.
Bill Simon with a Grasshopper drug store bottle from Wichita and a Topeka Citrate bottle.
From left, Jack Mullen, Linda Fletcher, Johnnie Fletcher, Mike McJunkin, Bill Simon, Jerry Hemry, Wes Hedrick, Dot Hedrick.
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47th Annual
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’m sure that most of our Chicago Club members are familiar with this rare Chicago bottle from the partnership of John Van Buskirk and David Henry. The shape of the bottle is common enough, but you have to admit that it has more than a few odd sounding features. First of all, what is a Universal Beverage or Tonic Schnapps? Secondly, why in the world would there be a clock face on one of the panels? This article will deal with the latter, the clock face. Before I give away the answer, a little background history is necessary. According to the Chicago CD’s, John Van Buskirk and David Henry began their partnership in the “wholesale wines and liquors” business at 20 State Street in 1864. They placed a large introductory ad for their business on the back cover of that year’s directory. Van Buskirk was the senior partner in the company for just three years: 1864-66, and the listed bottles were likely produced during this time. During 1867 and 1868, Van Buskirk became junior partner, and the company name was changed from Van Buskirk & Henry to David Henry & Co. In 1869, David Henry was listed alone in the CDs, with an office at the same address. In 1870, David Henry moved to 79 Wabash, where he was listed as a distiller. This was his final listing in the liquor business. In the early 1870’s, Van Buskirk was listed in partnership with Dugal Steward as storage and commission merchants at 131 Kinzie. (Source: Bottled in Illinois, by Ken Farnsworth and John Walthall. ) Possible explanation of the clock face: For as long as I can remember, people have wondered about the significance of the clock face set at 11:00. The clock face side obviously had room for a paper label and that label probably would have explained things. To my knowledge there are no known examples with labels so I’ll throw my idea on the wall and see if it sticks. I believe the key here is the 11th hour. It just so happens that the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks of the United States of America uses that reference in their logo. There is definitely a connection between the 11th hour and the Elks. The following is from the web site of The Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks of the United States: The Hour of Recollection: Deceased and otherwise absent lodge members are recalled each evening at 11 p.m. Chimes or sometimes a bell will be rung
VAN BUSKIRK & HENRY / CHICAGO ILL’S // clock-face image, hands set at 11:00 // UNIVERSAL BEVERAGE / OR TONIC SCHNAPPS. Colors: amber and olive green, 9-1/2 inches tall, square, short neck with tapered collar
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11 times and the Lodge Esquire intones, “It is the Hour of Recollection.” The Exalted Ruler or a member designated by him 11 o’clock toast, of which this version is the most common: You have heard the tolling of eleven strokes. This is to impress upon you that with us the hour of eleven has a tender significance. Wherever Elks may roam, whatever their lot in life may be, when this hour falls upon the dial of night, the great heart of Elkdom swells and throbs. It is the golden hour of recollection, the homecoming of those who wander, the mystic roll call of those who will come no more. Living or dead, Elks are never forgotten, never forsaken. Morning and noon may pass them by, the light of day sink heedlessly in the West, but ere the shadows of midnight shall fall, the chimes of memory will be pealing forth the friendly message: “To Our Absent Members.”Toast Origin of the Toast: In regard to the Elks’ 11 O’clock Toast and
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its origin, we have to go back long before the BPOE came into existence. One of the main contributions of Charles Richardson -- in stage name of Charles Algernon Sidney Vivian and founder of the American branch of the Jolly Corks -- was to deliver into the hands of newborn Elks the rituals and traditions of a fraternal organization started in England around 1010 A.D., the Royal and Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes, to which he belonged prior to coming to New York. The RAOB, or Buffaloes as we shall henceforth refer to them, also practiced an 11 o’clock toast in remembrance of the Battle of Hastings in October of 1066. Following his victory, William of Normandy imported a set of rules, both martial and civil in nature, to keep control of a seething Norman-Saxon population always on the edge of a revolution.
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Among those rules was a curfew law requiring all watch fires, bonfires (basically all lights controlled by private citizens that could serve as signals) to be extinguished at 11 each night. From strategically placed watchtowers that also served as early firealarm posts, the call would go out to douse or shutter all lights and bank all fires. This also served to discourage secret and treasonous meetings, as chimney sparks stood out against the black sky. A person away from his home and out on the darkened streets, when all doors were barred for the night, risked great peril from either evildoers or patrolling militia.
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datory that the pre-1900 Elks would be expected to compose a beautiful toast extemporaneously at will. Regardless of the form, however, the custom is as old as the Elks. Final thoughts: The Elk order in the United States was established in 1868; this is within the timeline of the business partnership of Van Buskirk & Henry: 1864 to 1868.
The hour of 11 quickly acquired a somber meaning, and in the centuries that followed, became the synonym throughout Europe for someone on his deathbed or about to go into battle: i.e. “His family gathered about his bed at the 11th hour,” or “The troops in the trenches hastily wrote notes to their families as the 11th hour approached when they must charge over the top."
It is very possible that John and David were paying tribute to their own Elk roots and/or honoring the memories of past Elks with the clock face. It could even be paying tribute to prior and much older beliefs as outlined in the “Origin of the Toast”. Also, this product was marketed as a “Universal Beverage”; meaning it should appeal to all walks of life (Elks and non-Elks). Toasts are usually given with a drink in hand and what better than this product?
Thus, when the 15 Jolly Corks (of whom seven were not nativeborn Americans) voted to start a more formal and official organization, they were already aware of an almost universally prevalent sentiment about the mystic and haunting aura connected with the nightly hour of 11, and it took no great eloquence by Vivian to establish a ritual toast similar to that of the Buffaloes at the next-to-last hour each day.
What set this whole thing in motion, was when I was watching an episode of Antiques Roadshow. An older gentleman came in with a presentation sword to be appraised. The sword was pulled from the scabbard and there in the center of the sword was the elk logo with 11th hour clock face as shown on the previous page. The lightbulb clicked and my research followed. If on a sword why not on a bottle!
The great variety of 11 O’clock Toasts, including the Jolly Corks Toast, makes it clear that there was no fixed and official version until 1906-10. Given our theatrical origins, it was almost man-
It’s an interesting way of marketing a product; anyone have a better explanation?
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FOHBC RENO NATIONAL ANTIQUE BOTTLE CONVENTION WESTERN REGION
Thursday, July 30 - Sunday, August 2, 2020 Antique Bottle Show & Sales, Bottle Competition, Early Admission, Seminars, Displays, Awards Banquet, Membership Breakfast, Bowling Competition, Silent Auction, Raffle, Children’s Events and more... $5 General Admission Saturday and Sunday half day
Go to FOHBC.org for hotel booking information, schedule and dealer contracts. Hotel rooms will go fast!
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SOFT OPENING 01 January 2020 Visit FOHBC.org for more information A digital expression of what one might find in a real ‘bricks and mortar’ museum. With galleries, exhibitions, research, resources and support functions to enhance the visitor experience.
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earned the prestigious FOHBC Hall of Fame award in 2008. She searched and co-wrote Spirits Bottles of the Old West with her first husband, Bill Wilson. They later published Western Bitters and 19th Century Medicine in Glass (1971). Betty also researched and published Ketchup-Pickles-Sauces, 19th Century Food in Glass (1980). It has become the standard for this division of bottle collecting. I think the next subject for Gina will be Gold Rush Sodas and 1860s and 1870s western sodas. The reason for that is there is history already done for them thanks to the late Peck Markota. We also have access to Jeff Wichmann and American Bottle Auctions. Jeff is a solid supporter of the FOHBC in many ways.
Virtual Museum Ne ws By Richard Siri
The FOHBC Virtual Museum has been established to display, inform, educate, and enhance the enjoyment of historical bottle and glass collecting by providing an online virtual museum experience for significant historical bottles and other items related to early glass.
**************** The museum doors will open soon, no kidding! The FOHBC Virtual Museum will have a soft opening to bring in the New Year. What a nice way for us antique bottle collectors, our membership and the FOHBC to start 2020. Alan DeMaison, Ferdinand Meyer V and Miguel Ruiz have been hard at work and the first two galleries, as stated before will be bitters bottles and historical flasks. Later in the quarter, spirit bottles such as whiskey and bourbon will be ready with fruit jars and target balls following shortly thereafter. Alan has been referencing Jerry McCann’s Fruit Jar Annuals. The 2019 edition contains 388 pages and is cross-referenced with Dick Roller’s, Standard Fruit Jar Reference. Listing information on availability, closures and history in the glass houses that manufactured or jobbed the jars is included. We will also reference Red Book Collectors Guide To Old Fruit Jars by Douglas Leybourne and tap into the vast knowledge of Greg Spurgeon and his Antique Fruit Jars web site and North American Glass auction house. The information is out there, we just need to go out there and get it! For target balls, we will reference John Pastor’s American Glass Gallery catalogs containing the Ralph Finch target ball collection. Ralph himself will provide the history on the target balls. The process of building the Museum is a very technical chore most of which I haven’t a clue as to how it’s done other than taking the photo images. Past that, Alan tunes up the images and he and Miguel populate the galleries. Ferdinand, Alan and Miguel are also developing the process that presents the Museum to FOHBC members and other collectors who will be able to access the Museum with a Day Pass or Construction Pass. You can get more information at FOHBC.org or look for our full-page Virtual Museum Soft Opening announcement this issue of Bottles and Extras. Out West, Gina Pellegrini will be sharpening her skills photographing and imaging her father’s great food bottle collection. Here we will work with Lou Pellegrini and reference Betty Zumwalt. Betty
One of the major reasons for the slow growth of the Museum is that besides the bottles themselves, we want to provide the history that goes with them and that seems to be where we get slowed down. Eye candy is great but the story behind it is what holds your interest and will hopefully draw more people in to the hobby. Going forward, we will focus on categories that have available history and that should speed up building more walls and galleries. So if you collect a category of bottles, insulators or other glass objects and want to see them in the Museum, research them so we don’t have to learn your collecting area. It usually takes forty items to build a wall but it could start with less and be added to. I asked Ferdinand to add a little copy below to explain our soft opening and why we are doing it. Obviously the full museum is not done so this is a way to open sooner. First of all, we need to build buzz. Imagine 30 people attend our soft launch and love it. These people will tell their friends, who tell their friends. Slowly but surely, 30 people who know about our Museum becomes sixty. Sixty becomes one hundred and twenty. One hundred and twenty becomes two hundred and forty. Buzz builds, and on the grand opening day we may have a queue of visitors at our digital doors! This is the power of a successful soft launch. Secondly, this will prepare our museum team with operational action that will test our skills, and we can assess what we need to do to improve. A soft opening gives us a chance to tweak the logistics and working mechanics of our Museum. We also want to get feedback early. A soft launch is an ideal time to obtain constructive feedback from our guests. We will ask them what they thought about our concept, galleries, and service. With timely adjustments, we can improve the experience before our Museum grand opening! This will also help boost FOHBC and Museum revenue. Many visitors who enjoyed the Museum experience may return later, and we’re also likely get several new visitors through word of mouth advertising – all of which leads to more revenue and profits. So, please visit our Museum. Take us for a test drive and get back to us with your comments and bottles you might like to see. Eventually, this will be a full Museum with Public Space, Galleries, Special Exhibitions, Hall of Recognition for donors, Gift Shop, Research Library and so much more. Thank you for your patience and we’ll see you soon!
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RENO 2020 TEAM BOWLING EVENT Saturday Evening, 01 August 2020, 7:00 to 9:00 pm
Ok all you antique bottle people. It’s time to team up for the FOHBC Reno 2020 Bowling Event! Five per team whether it be bottle clubs, regions, collecting groups or just friends. Family welcome. $25 per person for lane cost. Reserve your team now. Prizes and fun! Contact Richard Siri, rtsiri@sbcglobal.net or Ferdinand Meyer V, fmeyer@fmgdesign.com
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This friendly competition will compare and judge three particular types of bottles from anyone who would like to enter examples that they own. The three judging events will be for the ‘best’ J. F. Cutter star shield type whiskey fifth, Bay City Soda Water Co. bottle and for the Old Sachem’s Bitters and Wigwam Tonic. The merits of each bottle will be judged by a panel of veteran collectors experienced with each type. Each bottle entered into the competition will be given a unique code that represents the owner, so the judges will not know the identity of the owner until after final judging. Limit three bottles per category per person.
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GROUP 1: BAY CITY SODA WATER BOTTLES The Bay City Soda Water Company was formed under the laws of the State of California in December 1870, with stock amounting to $100,000. It was the first incorporated soda water company in California. On April 27, 1872, the company trademarked its unique styled bottles to deter imitators. The bottle described in the submitted registration papers is shown here and is a copy of the actual filing. Several mold and color variants are known so it will be very interesting to see what has been found in this family of Bay City soda bottles. With that in mind, this competition will truly be based solely on the aesthetic qualities embodied in each example. Color, condition and other characteristics of the glass will be the merits that will guide the judges to their decision of a first, second and third place winner. As is nearly always the case with antique bottles, some real surprises may emerge from the submitted entries, and this is what we are hoping to see. We urge anyone who has an example that they think is special, to share it in a grouping that may never be witnessed again.
GROUP 2: J. F. CUTTER FIFTH WHISKEY BOTTLES Just as with the Bay City Soda, the second ‘shootout’ will be with a decidedly western bottle with a similar historical beginning. The J. F. Cutter bourbon bottles were initially documented with a protective trade mark issued by the State of California on April 15, 1870, although the registrant, John F. Cutter, was actually a resident of Louisville, Kentucky when the trade mark was registered. Cutter worked closely with his San Francisco agent, Edward Martin, in attempting to corner the Cutter brand whiskey market. Much has been written about the brand and legal troubles that entangled it with the J. H. Cutter trade marks. It is safe to state that this whiskey was far more popular than soda water and many more examples and mold variants of the bottle were produced over the next three decades, but they all kept with the general theme of the registered trade mark. Some beautiful examples of this bottle have been found over the years and it will be exciting to see a representative grouping entered into this competition.
GROUP 3: OLD SACHEM’S BITTERS AND WIGWAM TONIC This figural bitters barrel is a favorite among collectors. With a great name, the bottles come in a stunning array of colors. The label stated that it was “From an old Indian recipe in possession of the family of the proprietor for upwards of a century is now offered to the public as one of the most healthy and wholesale beverages extant and as a tonic is unsurpassed. Sold by principal grocers, druggists and hotels throughout the union. Endorsed by a professor at Yale College.” George Goodwin began manufacturing patent medicines in the 1840s at 76 Union in Boston. Around 1850, he and Dr. John O. Langley of Langley’s Bitters became partners and in 1854, moved to 99 Union. By 1857, the firm was named Geo. C. Goodwin & Co., and had taken in William B. Hibbard as a junior partner. Goodwin retired in 1859 and his son Charles C. Langley, and Hibbard ran the business. In 1863, they moved to 38 Hanover. Eventually the company became on of Boston’s largest wholesale drug firms. We will see some great examples in this category.
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SHARDS OF GLORY – Part III (Plus some digging stories and criers) by Jeff Mihalik
You dig, then dig some more; it will happen!
Rare yellow green anchor scroll flask
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Ed Kuskie, after a full day's dig with barrels of bottles
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started writing this article just to focus on some great new shards that I have acquired digging this last year or so, but it morphed into shards and more. So here is how it goes. Heck, it seems like I have been hammering all the lots that I have permission on, working hard to get new permissions, and digging with anyone crazy enough to spend a whole weekend hoping for a miracle. Bottom line is that I have found and dug many rock, brick, and wood lined pits over the last couple months. I hesitated to write a
digging story as I was hoping to find at least 1 or more outstanding pieces of history to showcase. But as most diggers know, you’re in this “sport� for the long run, and it can take much longer than you hope to discover great glass. That said, at least I have been finding a lot of bottles with ages ranging from 1930 to 1830! What a diverse range of finds! I tried digging in several of the local older towns that dot the landscape here in Western Pennsylvania. Ed Kuskie came out on several of these digs and on several others, I dug solo. I had permission on the log home that was a hotel in the 1870 onward
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This is the back of the hotel, that was once a log home. Can you guess which part is the log cabin part?
(as mentioned in my previous article) and several other lots that had houses show up on the 1876 map. Bottles were found, but mostly in the 1880 to 1900 range (which is no surprise as during that time frame privies were numerous and well fed). I started to expand my digging range and went to some towns that were over a 1-hour drive for me. What I tell people is that I can
get permissions, find privies, but I can’t put the bottles in the privy to dig. So once again, we ended up in an ancient old town many miles away, had several good permissions, found the privies, and dug bottles, but nothing of much interest, except an 1890 Arkansas Hot Springs Pharmacy!! What the heck was that doing up here?? I went back to digging in some local cities and larger towns since there are more ancient privies still buried and waiting to be found. We hit a couple very old privies (circa 1830) but in most cases, this age produces mainly broken pottery and bottle shards. Good thing is that I asked Luke Yoas (of the Pittsburgh Extreme Digging Crew) to come out with me. His sidekick Kim Burrows (which is actually his relative- cousin so he says) also came out to help out. We tested out a pit I previously attempted to dig, but it was filled with water at the 3 foot level and took the whole 7 foot probe (we knew that it would be too much for us to tackle at this time being a 6x6x10 pit and nowhere to put all that water!!). We did find an adjacent pit that turned out to be circa 1830’s and started to find shards of ancient glass. Shown is a cup plate shard showing a steamer passing by a bridge (which is most likely a commemSteamship under bridge, an early cup plate shard
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Then wham, bam, thank you, ma'am, we uncover a large green looking bottle with a funky top.
Fairview Glass Works flask shard, a fantastic bottle to dig
Jeff Mihalik, the author, holding a freshly dug Vaughns Vegetable Lithontripic Mixture in emerald green.
orative of the Steubenville Bridge given the location of where the shard was found). Unfortunately, that may have been the best piece of glass from this pit. Not sure how we do it, but I never get discouraged and neither did Luke. We regrouped and went at it again the next weekend. The owner of this property told us he is planning on covering up the whole backyard with fill to put in a parking space, so have at it. I actually dug this lot with Thaddeus, my usual partner, some months ago in the winter, but never really spent a lot of time on this property. Luke quickly probed out a likely spot. I started to dig a test pit down some 3 feet or so. After probing, it didn’t seem to be a privy but I felt a rock lined wall to one side of the test pit. We opened up another test pit on the other side of this wall, and
wham.. we were in a privy. In the first shovel full, Luke spotted a bottle which turned out to be a Peppermint Essence open pontil. Hmm…so was this privy dug and they missed that bottle? We kept going and at the 5-foot level found a Borhaves Holland Bitter from Pittsburgh (complete) along the wall. Ok, so things are looking good now as that is a great age for finding great glass and maybe the pit wasn’t dug. Well, we didn’t find any other glass for several feet. When we got down to the 7-foot level, I uncovered a lime layer that went across the whole bottom of the pit (so no way anyone dug this). Under the lime, we stared to find ancient shards of ale bottles (forest green) and crazy wormy mocha and redware chamber pot shards. But no whole bottles. We were very disappointed but figured we best take down the side walls. I was just about to call it quits when a bottle finally appeared. I could
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Gorgeous find, but badly cracked emerald green, open pontil Vaughns Vegetable Lithontripic Mixture.
tell it was a scroll flask, as I slowly pulled it out of the wall.. but then saw that one side had a blowout. Shoot! But is was an Anchor Flask similar to the deep green one we dug a couple years ago but this one looked like a plain aqua flask. After we got it out and cleaned it up some, it did have a greenish look. Back home I started to wash it up. It turned out to be yellow green! What a great piece of glass and so close to getting a nice complete example of this super scare bottle. During the next week, I was able to secure another excellent permission at a historical mansion. Luke was in to dig again and came down to my place the following Saturday. As we headed out, we talked about how its been really fun digging old pits, but also how difficult it is to get good bottles out of those ancient pits. We were hoping to find some “newer” privies, like ones from the civil war era (never thought I would actually be wishing for newer pits!). I already had 2 pits probed out so when we arrived at the site, we got right at it. It was raining and forecasted to rain for several hours, so we quickly set up the digging tent and started to dig into pit 1. The rain stopped after about 15 minutes (and never did rain again) but the humidity really went up! Long story short, the first whole bottle was an open pontil Lyons hair bottle (we found 3 more) but all the really good early local pontil meds were broken. Having dug about 2/3 of the pit, we were still hopeful something more would be found. Then wham bam thank you mam, we uncover a large green looking bottle with a funky top. It turns out to be an ancient pontil Vaughns Vegetable Lithontripic Mixture in emerald green!!! Behind that we find a J. Ogden porter top. The last bottle (shard) out of the hole is about 1/3 or a tad more of a Fairview Glass Works ribbed flask (long hair variant).
I’ll spare you all the details of pit 2, but it was also pontil and once again, most all the good bottles were broken by the many bricks and stones that were thrown down into the pit. We did get a green Dyottville Glass Works soda, several puffs and other unembossed bottles, as all the embossed pontil meds were broken once again. So two pits, both 1830 – 1840 era. Where are the newer pits!! I think it was Willie Nelson that said, “ At 2 I went home with a 10, at 10 I woke up with a 2”. Well, Luke and I were really pumped up about digging the Vaughns, thinking finally we dug a great piece of glass (and whole!!).. but as it turns out, at 7 I went home with a 10, and by 8 I cleaned up a 2 (badly cracked emerald green, pontil Vaughns).. just shows how really difficult and often once-in-a-lifetime it is to find intact great glass. On one hand, it was a downer that the flask(s) and medicine were damaged, but on the other hand, it was great to be digging such early pits, spend time with a digging friend, and have the opportunity/potential to find such great bottles! You dig then dig some more; it will happen! I will never give up hope or my enthusiasm for digging!
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(Sunday) TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS
THE LITTLE RHODY BOTTLE CLUB SHOW
Holiday Inn, Taunton, Massachusetts Early Admission, $15, 8:00 am, General Admission $3, 9:30 am
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Directions: Take Exit #9, off Route #495 for 700, Myles Standish Blvd.
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Oldest message in a bottle ever discovered by Rob Green
Note Found inside bottle written in German
About the author: Rob Green runs MetalDetectorPlanet.com. He is interested in collecting antiques using his metal detector. He also enjoys reading, camping, and hiking.
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n Australian family found the oldest message in a bottle ever discovered. It was jettisoned around 132 years ago by a German sailor. The story goes back to the 12 June 1882. The German ship Paula was sailing from Australia to Indonesia. One of the sailors wrote a note that contained his coordinates, the date, other details about the ship and its captain, and the departure and the arrival port. He rolled the piece of paper and wrapped it with a string. Then he placed it inside a bottle and sealed it tightly. Finally, he threw it into the sea. This wasn’t the only bottle. There should be hundreds if not thousands of bottles thrown into the ocean over the years. The purpose of this practice is to study the ocean’s currents which is important for the shipping routes. They hoped that if someone finds the bottle he will contact the nearest German consulate telling them where he found it. This bottle’s fate was unique. Nobody discovered it for nearly 132 years. On 21 January 2018, the Illman family’s car got stuck on a beach in Australia. So they decided to take a walk. After a while, they found a bottle. Tonya Illman picked it up thinking that it would be great to decorate her bookshelf. However, when other members of the family examined it, they noticed the presence of something inside it.
When they got back home, they put it inside the oven to get rid of the moisture. They pulled out the paper, unrolled it and read it. The ink was faint; however, they were able to read the note. To their surprise, they found that the date was the 12 June 1882. They thought that this is too good to be true. Experts at the Australian museum examined the bottle and the message. They confirmed, with the help of experts from Germany and the Netherlands, that this message is authentic. They even found the ship’s meteorological journal that recorded that a bottle was thrown overboard on the same date with the same coordinates (32.49 South, 105.25 East). Experts think that it didn’t stay all of these years in the sea. It was probably hidden inside the sand and exposed from time to time to the sunrays. The bottle’s narrow opening and the thick glass helped preserve the paper from the elements. The practice of sending messages in bottles is very common. People do it for various reasons. Some use this communication mean asking to be rescued if their ships crashed into a remote island. Others are looking for pen pals. Others use it to say good-bye to their loved ones. And some send these messages as a joke. If you want to take a look at the bottle found by the Illman family, you can visit the Western Australian Museum. The minister for Culture and the Arts said that he is happy to have such thing displayed for the public in a local museum.
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Julius Goldbaum: Arizona’s Pioneer Whiskey Man By Jack Sullivan
(Figs. 13) . Shown here advertised as “Jule’s (Six Stars) Bourbon
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(Fig. 2 ) Advertised making his own carbonated beverages and running a restaurant serving meals “in private rooms, day or night,” suggesting libidinous activities
for Marcus. After a brief stay in Florence, in 1870 he moved his family again 130 miles north to Wickenburg, Arizona, where he subsequently was elected justice of the peace. Ever restless, by the early 1880s Marcus moved again, this time to Benson, Arizona, a rail terminal about 45 miles south of Tucson. Now he had expanded beyond butchering to dealing in beer and liquor. He also advertised making his own carbonated beverages and running a restaurant serving meals “in private rooms, day or night,” suggesting libidinous activities (Fig. 2). Still Marcus was not content. Catching gold fever, he turned over operating the businesses to his wife and set out prospecting alone in the nearby Whetstone Mountains. As one writer has observed: “It was a bad idea.” Geronimo’s Apaches were on the warpath. They raided Marcus’s mountain cabin, killed him, ransacked the place and took what they wanted.
(Fig. 1) Julius Goldbaum
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orn in Colorado 15 years before it became a state, his father murdered and scalped by Geronimo’s Indians, Julius Goldbaum (Fig. 1), was accounted a pioneer in Arizona with a reputation for providing strong drink to the denizens of Tucson in bottles and labels of exceptional design. Before Julius, there was Marcus Goldbaum, born in Prussia in 1835. With wife, Sara, in the mid-1850s, he emigrated to America, settling in Denver, Colorado. There, the second of seven children, Julius was born in 1861. Trained in the butcher’s trade, Marcus in 1869 moved his growing family to Tucson where he set up the Pioneer Butcher Shop. Tucson and all of what is now Arizona had been part of New Mexico Territory until 1863, when Congress created the new Arizona Territory. From 1867 to 1877, Tucson was the capital and the population was growing. In an ad Marcus, with fractured English, told townsfolk his shop was “ready to supply all customers with as good beef at as low rates as can be done elsewhere in town.” Tucson’s growth apparently was too slow for Marcus. With his wife, Julius, and other family members in tow he soon moved his butcher shop 80 miles north to Florence, Arizona, a newly created town on the banks of the Gila River. The fertile land there was expected to draw farmers to the area. Apparently not fast enough
(Fig. 3) A etching by the famous Western artist, Frederic Remington, in the book “On the Bloody Trail of Geronimo,” caught the scene
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(Fig. 4) Within eight months of opening Goldbaum relocated his establishment to busy Congress Street
A cavalry patrol found him days later but did not immediately recognize that the prospector was Marcus Goldbaum because he had been scalped. A etching by the famous Western artist, Frederic Remington, in the book “On the Bloody Trail of Geronimo,” caught the scene (Fig. 3). The dead man was only 51. Julius was 25 and living in Tucson when his father was killed. He had relocated there in 1877, working as a bartender at the Park Saloon and subsequently at the Gem Saloon, the latter owned by an uncle. Several years later Goldbaum moved to open his own establishment. The Arizona Daily Citizen reported that in 1885 he had purchased a saloon on Church Plaza. He called it “Jule’s Club Saloon” where he sold beer, liquor, cigars and other smoking materials. “On account of his thorough knowledge of the business, with courteous treatment of his patrons, such a business was established that he found his location too small to do justice to a steadily increasing trade,” the newspaper later reported. Within eight months Goldbaum relocated his establishment to busy Congress Street (Fig. 4). He called it Julius Goldbaum Company, shown here in 1888 (Fig. 5). Meanwhile Julius was having a personal life. In October 1889, he married Jennie A. Konigshofer at the home of her parents in Alameda, California. How the two met is not on the record. The daughter of a prominent Alameda businessman, she was 20 and Julius was 28. The couple would have three children, Martha, Harold and Sarah. In addition to being hailed as a mother, Jennie proved to have been an asset to Julius in running his businesses.
She actively assisted with the work and when Goldbaum formally incorporated in 1899, she was made a member of the board. A photograph here shows Julius and Jennie in their middle years (Fig. 6). In addition to his business acumen, Goldbaum had a sense of design that translated into the styling of his liquor bottles and labels (Figs. 7-11). He was not a distiller but a “rectifier,” that is, mixing and blending raw whiskeys obtained by rail from distillers in Kentucky and elsewhere in the East, and selling the results as his own proprietary brands. Among them were “Old Hoss Pony Whiskey,” “Three Star Bourbon,” “Jule’s Bourbon,” “Liberty Bell Bourbon, and “Jule’s Diamond Monogram.” Goldbaum also was responsible for an iconic “back-of-the-bar”
(Fig. 5) Julius Goldbaum Company, shown here in 1888
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(Fig. 6) Julius and Jennie in their middle years
bottle, a quart-sized container that is highly sought by collectors (Figs. 12,13) . Shown here it advertised “Jule’s (Six Stars) Bourbon. It is particularly notable for its rich amber color, with the enameled stars and lettering blending perfectly into the gold decor. One observer has called the bottle “a magnificent display of craftsmanship and art” adding: “Some back bar collectors will view this example as possibly the finest back bar bottle in existence.” One sold several years ago for $22,000 plus the 15% auction house premium. In Tucson Goldbaum’s gained a reputation for being highly literate. Not only was he able to write eloquently in English, he also was able to read and write in both Spanish and German, the latter likely taught him by his parents. He was well established in Tucson after two decades of residence there, having early joined the town’s volunteer fire department, an avocation that could be a means of upward social mobility. After (Figs. 7-11) Additionally to his business acumen, Goldbaum had a sense of design that translated into the styling of his liquor bottles and labels “Old Hoss Pony Whiskey,” “Three Star Bourbon,” “Jule’s Bourbon,” “Liberty Bell Bourbon, and “Jule’s Diamond Monogram.”
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Above - (Figs. 12) Shown here the famed Jule’s (Six Stars) Bourbon bottle Left - Three additional images of his labels
attaining memberships in several local fraternal groups and helping organize a building and loan organization, Goldbaum was elected to the Tucson City Council in 1890. The Arizona Daily Citizen wrote that “the clear-headedness which has always distinguished him renders him eminently fit to do justice to the progress of our city in the administration of its affairs.”
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(Fig. 14) Goldbaum’s mercantile endeavors expanded to selling German gourmet foods and a variety of cheeses
Julius’ business activities also were singled out for praise in an 1891 book that focused on businessmen and firms “Who Have Made the Territory.” Of Goldbaum, it enthused: “He started his business in 1886, and by careful attention to his patrons and close application to his business, it has increased until now it ranks as the first of its particular kind in the city. Mr. Goldbaum is also very much interested in public affairs and, having a genial, courteous and affable manner, his friends are legion.” Over time, Goldbaum’s mercantile endeavors expanded to selling German gourmet foods and a variety of cheeses (Fig. 14). He also became the area distributor for Pabst beer from Milwaukee, Anheuser Busch beer of St. Louis, Mescal Baganora liquor and Los Dos Naciones All-Mexican Tobacco Cigars. In the late 1890’s, he bought the Café Richelieu, an upscale local restaurant. He also was selling products all across Southern Arizona, and even into northern Mexico, using a cadre of traveling salesmen, including several of his brothers. Customers included mining camps and individual merchants. Eventually this expansion brought down Julius Goldbaum & Co. The economy of many Arizona towns was dependent upon mining. As gold, silver and mineral strikes waxed and waned, local merchants either prospered or went broke. Known for his generous spirit, Julius provided many of his goods on credit. Beginning in 1902, his salesmen had trouble collecting outstanding debts as mining camps closed and settlements increasingly were becoming ghost towns. By 1903, Goldbaum was forced into bankruptcy, an event that clearly was highly painful to him. In his papers, now with the Arizona Historical Society, is an undated scrap on which Julius
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(Fig. 15)A photograph is shown here of the aging Goldbaums and a toddler who likely was their grandson
had written his innermost thoughts: “Will I be compelled to quit? I guess I will, but wait a while, have made a world of acquaintances during 20 years, would like to bid them good bye.” Although Julius Goldbaum, Inc. was defunct, the Arizona entrepreneur remained in Tucson for about five years selling real estate and operating the Cafe Richelieu. As a sign of the townspeople’s continued faith in him, he was offered and took an active role in running the Tucson Grocery Company. In 1908, after his “long goodbye,” Julius joined Jennie in retiring back to her home town and family members in California. The 1910 census found the couple residing at 2141 Santa Clara Avenue, Alameda, next door to the Konigshofer ancestral home in which lived her brother, a prominent local business man. Their unmarried daughter, Sarah, was with the couple. Asked about his occupation, Goldbaum told the census taker, “none.” He was, however, very active in the Alameda Elks Club and investing in California real estate. A photograph is shown here of the aging Goldbaums and a toddler who likely was their grandson (Fig. 15). In 1927 Julius Goldbaum at the age of 66 died at home after what the local paper said was a brief illness. His funeral services and interment were private, and I have been unable to find his final resting place. By that time all of his immediate family had left Arizona. Note: Much of the information and the illustrations provided here were through the website of the Arizona Historical Society’s History Museum in Tucson with its extensive amount of Goldbaum material available online. The collection is a valuable resource and its availability for this article most appreciated.
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Susan R. Arthur, First place for best original research article 2019 “Who or What is Hetra?" Published in the Perfume Bottle Quarterly International Perfume Bottle Association Announced at FOHBC Augusta Banquet
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ho or What is HETRA? How Flat-Foot Sleuthing + Social Media + Sherlockian Deduction Solved a Perfume Bottle & Glass Mystery by Susan R. Arthur
A hot topic on our IPBA Facebook (FB) Interactive site this year has been the glassmakers/glassblowers behind the very fragile, novelty type perfume bottles that are often seen in unique presentations offered by Rochambeau (often described as “by HETRA”), and seen during the Perfume Bottle Auctions at convention or appreciated individually in many members’ individual collections, including mine. I attempted to narrow down the likely artists along with Helen Farnsworth and Michael Rhoads in our Winter 2016 PBQ article, The Novelty of It All: Perfume Bottles as Christmas Ornaments. We narrowed down the region to Lauscha but not the specific artists. New information has come our way recently. Often historical and family documents, including those related to glassblowing and the manufacture of perfume bottles and vanity-related items, are seemingly lost forever due to internal conflicts and border disputes among states and countries, world wars, immigration and relocation, and the untimely deaths of people. But with the advent of the all-powerful Internet and social media, the possibility of connecting like-minded and curious thinkers is infinite, and the sharing of said information is quick and painless, often enticing discussions and various opinions. Case in point: through our interactive IPBA FB site and one of its ever-vigilant administrators, Judy Parker, and her love and quest for all things related to glass, I was introduced to Dominic Pennock from the UK.
Above: sampling of Dominic Pennock's collection of glass cocktail umbrellas or "drink markers" and the impetus behind his eBook, "Bumbershoots" (right).
MEET DOMINIC PENNOCK — “flat-foot” sleuth, UK glass collector and aficionado, researcher and author. Dominic collects glass cocktail umbrellas, also known as “drink markers,” that are very similar in technique and structure to the fragile perfume
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Whimsical animal-shaped perfumes by Traut Brothers and part of Judy Parker's collection. (Parkerhouse Photos)
bottles and Christmas ornaments that were described in the aforementioned PBQ article. Dominic has written an e-Book Bumbershoots that can be found on Amazon (Kindle ebook, published 17 October 2017). Dominic essentially conducted a walk-about in the German glassblowing areas of yesteryear with a translator, interviewing people whose families have been glassblowers for decades. This area is very close in geographic location to Lauscha, known as the glass Christmas ornament source of yesteryear and still today. His quest was to discover the creators of his favorite glass cocktail umbrellas. His 76-page book describes his hunt for and discovery of the glassblowers of the town of Neuhaus, the Traut family and others who have handed down the craft of glassblowing. We applaud the Geißlerhaus museum in Neuhaus am (and) Rennweg for their resources in support of his quest. MEET JUDY “ATOMIZER” PARKER — FB Interactive head administrator and moderator, cross-over queen of glass collectibles, a lady with a curious mind and a thirst for glass-related details. Judy asked Dominic to join the conversation on several occasions regarding his opinion on the glass artist of her perfume bottle treasures, specifically her elephants. AUTUMN 2018 | Perfume Bottle Quarterly
Because of Dominic’s research on his glass cocktail umbrellas and their similarity in fragility and structure, he suggested to Judy that her elephant was made by the Traut family, specifically Max Traut. Max used the logo MATRA in his advertising. Dominic's answer inspired me to read his book. Something about his journey and discovery tickled a few personal neurons (as well as my envy), and gave me think there could be a connection between this Max Traut and the name HETRA that pops up on many of the Rochambeau presentations we have seen at auction, in books, and on some of the catalog pages shared by Ken Leach. I started conversing with Dominic, and presented my theory. Could it be that Mr. Traut created his logo from the contraction of his Christian name, i.e. M-A from Max, and T-R-A from his surname Traut? If MATRA = Max Traut, why couldn’t HETRA be another family member with the first name starting H-E? At first Dominic didn’t buy into my theory; then, after pondering the idea, he agreed that I may be on to something. He found a related item on eBay of mouth blown glass figures dangling from
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a display (more glass drink markers). Its label said “ALTRA”!!! This was too coincidental not to be related to MATRA and HETRA. Recently, Dominic sent me a copy of a document that contained a detailed interview with Lieselotte Altermann, daughter of Albin Traut, that was published in 1998, and roughly titled The Life and Works of the Brothers Traut. Although this document does not specifically state that HETRA is Hermann Traut, I believe it will convince you that we have solved the mystery of “WHO or WHAT is HETRA”! This document also revealed the answers to a few other questions regarding these whimsical glass curiosities that once contained perfume and still tickle our collective fancies! The following information has been gathered from the translated interview of Lieselotte Altermann. The article contains family photos, newspaper articles and advertising regarding the Traut family and their respective glass operations. Neuhaus, Germany, is the home of the Brothers Traut. Parents Martin and Minna had 10 children. Martin had immigrated from Heubach in 1887, and was originally a lumberjack. It is unclear how a lumberjack’s family got involved in glassblowing, but most of the children
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were involved in this cottage industry. Subsequent generations are still at it today in some capacity. Listed below are each of the original Brothers Traut and a bit about their connection to glass. ARNO (1885-1980), the oldest, ran the glass bellows as a youth. His expertise was in glass fabrication and shipping. He worked with ampoules, test tubes, tablet glass and other chemical-pharmaceutical glass, and aquarium accessories. His niece referred to him as a “glassblower with body and soul” and that he worked for his brothers Max, Hermann, and Joseph. ERNST (1887-1984) produced work for Joseph’s company. ALBIN (1890-1963) also worked with producing chemical-pharmaceutical type glass, which he exported to the Erfurt area (was in the Eastern block of Germany after WWII). At one point, he had over 200 employees and some machinery. There is a photo of him in the publication in ~1960 with the caption “after he took over premises of brother Hermann.” Later in life, Albin created art glass, and distributed these pieces until his death in 1963. The ebay item that Dominic recently found has the ALTRA sticker on it, and we surmise that ALTRA = Albin Traut. OTTO (1894-1965) worked for Albin as a technical director. He had two sons:
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Otto, Jr., who died in WWII, and Paul, who worked with Joseph as an “art glassblower." HERMANN (1896-1984) is described as mostly working with medical glassware. It is my and Dominic’s opinion that he also distributed art glass under his logo, HETRA, on behalf of the two younger brothers Max and Joseph. MAX (1900- 1970) is apparently the glass artist of the whimsical and animal perfume bottles we collect. His niece describes his talent of hand blowing “blumenvased” (vases for blooms, i.e. flowers) and perfume bottles. Later, he produced pipettes and droppers (medical glass). An advertisement in the publication lists “MATRA Origurnal” Max Traut Handwerkshutte for Glaskunst. Then their catalog pages of the animal perfume bottles attributed to Max are listed on the following pages. These are the very same pages we have seen before but with HETRA stamped on them!! There is also a newspaper clipping presented discussing Max Traut’s animal figurines. IDA (1903-1991) helped out in the offices in support of several of her brothers’ shops. Brother Paul died in WWI, and brother Wilhem died during childhood. JOSEPH (1905-1988) apprenticed with brother Albin (3rd brother) in the making of “ampoules, test tubes, vials, aquarium
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items, cotton and perfume tubes” and is specifically said to be the blower of the bottle devil “Kartesiani Tauchers” and similar Woman and Man (shown right). An art glass workshop was opened in 1926-27 at Sonnenberger Str 21, with Max and Hermann as directors and where Joseph worked. Apparently in 1927, Joseph opened his own shop and hired his own glassblowers. Max did the trade shows in Cologne and Leipzig in the early 1930s. In a specific advertisement copied into the interview, Joseph’s logo is presented in the same triangle as the HETRA triangle. (Note: 2 photo inserts with JOSTRA and HETRA logos). Also there is a photo of Joseph Traut’s workshop with the caption “Four work tables with lamps and bellows. The women painted the hollow animals and bronzed the ping closure.” (Many of our perfume bottle collectibles have the bronzed ends where the cork was inserted.) In 1934, Arno moved the business to a larger shop where they produced “predominantly animal forms, e.g. Schnapps elephants for the company Mampe, Berline as well as glastiere and figures for export to Spain were manufactured before the lamp.” Further, in 1936, “hollow glass filled with perfume was in great demand. Joseph Traut bought the essences, prepared perfumes
Right: ALTRA cocktail glass marker set with 12 glass markers. Label reads “ALTRA,” the wooden and glass display is 4 ½” long. Thank you to eBayer fritzgragg29oq (Steve) for his expressed use of the photo. Below: JOSTRA triangular logo
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Perfume bottle similar to the Arno Traut “Kartesiani Tauchers” (shown front and back); BELOW: Woman and "Jocky Club" Man bottles. Owned and photographed by Earline Kopriva.
according to the recipe, filled them and stuck the hollow glass molded [i.e. he plugged the ends with corks].” We have often wondered if the bottles were sent elsewhere to be filled with perfume, now we know the family did it all. The family sold to companies in Hochstein Ernstthal (Hohenstein-Ernstthal) and to Erwin Muller-Bleck Lauscha (this family made glass Christmas ornaments). During the war, the glassblowers made electrodes for war purposes. The interview ends with an apropos finish:
“The common ground of the brothers Traut was also found in love and dedication to glass, ambition, diligence and perseverance, to further develop and bring to the benefit of the family, the children and the grandchildren, and the chemical-pharmaceutical glass, the use glass and the art glass for the hometown of Neuhaus.”
The glass blowing Traut family has come full circle in deserved recognition of their contributions to our perfume bottle collecting interests. We now know that the Trauts were the artists behind our whimsical and animal figure bottles, and that this little cottage industry produced them ... made the perfume ... filled them ... sealed them ... and sent them off to all parts of the world, and likely to distributors like Rochambeau.
Many thanks to the talent of Dominic Pennock and the curious mind of fellow perfume bottle collector Judy Parker.
REFERENCES: The life and work of the Brothers Traut ABS Neuhaus GmbH Sonneberger Str. 1 98724 Neuhaus/Rwg. Project "Research" 1997/98 Guda Frank. Translated to English by Dominic Pennock. AUTUMN 2018 | Perfume Bottle Quarterly
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Collectors to mount drive for JOHN RYAN memorial By Paul Chance Savannah, Georgia
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Here are three super rare colored John Ryan Sodas
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ne of the most famous 19th century Georgia soda water bottlers was John Ryan. Born in Ireland, Ryan came to the United States as a youth and eventually joined the Irish community in Savannah, Georgia, in 1852. He marked his Southern arrival by establishing his Excelsior Bottling Works that same year. Excelsior in Latin means “Ever Upward” and is the motto of New York State. Ryan was ever moving his business upward and it eventually became the port city’s largest manufacturer of soda waters, mineral waters and other beverages. But it wasn’t until well after his death March 25, 1885, that the glass containers in which his beverages were packaged became sought after by 20th century collectors of antique bottles not for their shapes, but their colors. While most of his sodas and mineral water bottles were in sparkling cobalt blue, there also are examples in a wide
Left: Longtime bottle collector Paul Chance has joined the campaign to erect a monument on the now unmarked grave of Savannah soda bottler John Ryan.
Two more examples of John Ryan bottles, cobalt blue bottle is dated 1859 and a yellow green example dated 1852
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variety of other colors including red, pink, emerald green and yellow. Most of the bottles were blown in northern glass works such as the Union Glass Works in Philadelphia, Pa., so during the Civil War Ryan’s business struggled to stay open. The Federal blockade of Southern ports made it difficult for him to obtain replacement bottles and cork stoppers. After the war, Ryan resumed operations and established branch
soda operations in Augusta (1866), Atlanta (1867) and Columbus (1883). While the famous bottler’s final resting place is in the old Catholic Cathedral Cemetery on Savannah’s Wheaton Street, his grave site is unmarked for unknown reasons. Cemetery records indicate the plot contains multiple graves, most likely family members.
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Many bottle collectors, including this writer, have become offended by the lack of a monument or memorial on the grave of one of America’s best known pioneers in the soda water manufacturing business. I am urging the establishment of a memorial fund to pay for a suitable marker and, once it is in place, to hold a graveside service in commemoration of his life and achievements. An address to which contributions can be mailed has been set up.
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Checks should be made out to the John Ryan Memorial Fund and sent to P.O. Box 9491, Savannah, GA 31412-9491. The goal is to raise $5,000. Once the marker has been chosen, everybody will be notified of a day and time when a memorial service will be conducted at the grave site.
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Wholesale Liquor Business Harald Schmidt By Steve Lang
Harald Schmidt closeup of the Label
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arald Schmidt was a long time business man in Indianapolis. He appears in the City Directories from 1867 to 1928. Almost his entire life he worked in the Wholesale Liquor business. Schmidt started as a clerk for Rudolph Schmidt who is listed in the 1867 directory as a dealer in Wines & Liquors and was located at 125 E. Washington St. In 1869 he became a bookkeeper
for John Mueller who was an importer and wholesale dealer in wines, liquors and cigars at 306 E. Washington St. From 1870-1873 Schmidt again worked with Rudolph Schmidt selling Tobacco and Cigars before becoming a traveling salesman for undisclosed business until 1876 where he is listed as a bookkeeper for Phillip M. Gapen who is listed as a Wholesale Dealer
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City Directory listing wholesale whiskies
Bottle with Label for the Schmidt Whiskey business
in Wines & Liquors at 54 S. Meridian. In 1877 he is listed in business with Henry Emmerich selling wines & liquors at that same 54 S. Meridian address. The next year he went into business with Casper Doenges and had two stores selling Groceries. He ended the 1870’s starting his own business, H. Schmidt & Co, selling Teas and Groceries at 97 E. Washington. From 1880 to 1898 Harald Schmidt is listed as a traveling agent or salesman but no companies are mentioned. He lived at 425 S. New Jersey. In 1899 after probably being very tired of being a traveling salesman, Schmidt went to work as the manager of the Louisville, KY based August Coldewey & Company (Indianapolis Branch) wholesale Liquors business. The store was located at 132 S. Delaware. Coldewey was only listed in the Indianapolis City Directory that year. Schmidt apparently purchased the business from the estate/lawyers of Coldewey that were liquidating assets after August’s death. Schmidt operated this business at the 132 S. Delaware location until Prohibition arrived in 1919. He advertised heavily in the Indiana Tribune, a German newspaper, during this time. His Wholesale Liquors business was successful and he moved into Woodruff Place at 1860 Cross Drive. He repped Wholesale Whiskies from Kentucky including Fairmont Whiskey, Rhine
Harald worked for Pettis Dry Goods after moving on from selling Whiskies
Wine, Diamond Lithia Waters, Concentrated Pluto and Natural Waters. During prohibition Schmidt worked for Pettis Dry Goods Company - a New York Store – located downtown Indianapolis. He worked in several clerk / stock keeper / stockman positions until 1928 when he retired. 61 years as a local businessman.
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rowing up in the Coalfields of the Appalachian Mountains, we were screened from much of the problems of the world by our parents, the hollers, and the mountain itself. We gardened whatever the rocky, steep terrain was level enough to clear the debris from to plant. All of us each had our own mattock and hoe, with our names on them to prevent arguments among us. Dad made my hoe, which I still prefer to use to this day, out of a mat-
After drying the corn dad would use the gristmill in his workshop and grind it into cornmeal
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tock collar and a piece of sawmill blade metal. My Dad worked in the mines, Mom at home, but all of us worked gardening, canning and feeding the animals that were a large part of our daily meals. We raised chickens for eggs and meat, hogs and cows for milk and beef. Dad also hunted wild game. We foraged for mushrooms and ginseng in the spring and fall. Preserving the fruits of our labor was a family effort. We pickled, canned, dried and froze everything we grew and harvested. Dad also grew corn just for drying and would grind it into cornmeal on the gristmill in his workshop. He still does this even today. Oh the joy of feeling it vibrate the floors and the smells. Dad grew up in the Depression Era, he and his brothers quit in Middle School to work to help support the family, but it seemed like there was nothing my Daddy couldn’t do. He also went through the days of the ration books, so he could never tolerate anything going to waste. There were five kids in our family and we never went without a meal. I have the benefit of canning in much better jars and equipment than they had even 60 years ago. Our collectible jars, crocks, and bottles were the only means in that era to preserve food or it was stored in a cold cellar. I cannot envision the care and attention to details that utilizing those jars must have taken. The effort of canning by a fire or wood stove without the benefits of modern amenities.
Left: Our collectible jars, crocks, and bottles were the only means in that era to preserve food or it was stored in a cold cellar
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Pressure canners and better closures allowed for safer and easier means for preserving.
Given the price of the canning jars back then and comparing the wages of the time period, jars were so expensive for the working poor, that few could afford to do so. As such the jars were protected as much as possible. Dad tells of seeing his Mom cry when one of her jars broke because they were so hard to come by. The advent of the machines jars, or what some in the collection world call “common “ jars, paved the way for less expensive jars and more canning opportunities. Pressure canners and better closures allowed for safer and easier means for preserving. Jars and canning procedures from an era ago and holding one of these jars, one cannot help but reminisce how difficult it was in those days. The hot, labor intensive working conditions in the factories, combined with, in my opinion, talented tradesmen, are what makes these jars stand the test of time. The time from conception of an idea to the execution, to see the designs of their minds come to fruition is remarkable. Molds were crafted, not machine made, so each worker had a hand in making the characteristics we enjoy so much, unique to each jar. Even the conditions the jars were made under, materials, affected the final product we see today. With the internet’s powerful impact, information is readily available on any topic. EBAY, Facebook auction sites and collector sites have allowed jars that were once out of reach to collectors, the opportunity to expand their collections and new collectors to immerse. Some groups specialize in certain jars, “Atlas”, “TradeMark Lightning “, “Ball “ to name a few. Some specialize in lids and inserts, there is probably one out there for any collector. Until next time... I wish you Happy Collecting... and keep preserving the past.
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A youngster attending his first professional baseball game discovered a soft drink guaranteed to make the driest throat happy on a hot day.
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o you remember your first baseball game? How about your first bottle of NuGrape? I do, because they happened the same day. When I was seven or eight years old, my dad took me to my first Atlanta Crackers ballgame, where I enjoyed my first NuGrape. I was born in 1951, so I grew up with Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Sandy Koufax, Roger Maris...well, you know the names, if you’re from that era. Every red-blooded American kid that I knew, including me, loved baseball. We collected baseball cards. We played Little League. We played the game every chance we got, including afternoons after school and on Saturdays. We carried our baseball gloves with us everywhere. We even slept with them under our pillows. We played catch with our dads and our friends. Life revolved around baseball. My dad ran an old-fashioned Texaco gas station in west Atlanta. He worked there every Monday through Saturday, so the only day he had off was Sunday. One Sunday, when he wasn’t too tired, he took me to see my first “AA League” Atlanta Crackers baseball game at Ponce de Leon Park. I can’t remember the exact date or the name of the opposing team, but I remember the smells that only a baseball park had back then. It was a combination of hotdogs and roasted peanuts, freshly mowed grass, red Georgia clay, Neatsfoot oil, and probably a hundred other things. There was row after row of hard wooden seats, huge concrete columns holding up a massive roof, and thousands of people. I had never seen anything like it, and I took it all in. It was one of the happiest days of my childhood, my first “real” baseball game with my dad. I remember men walking up and down the aisles, selling all kinds of food and drinks. Dad called out to one of them, “Two bags of peanuts and a couple NUGRAPE—A FLAVOR YOU CAN’T FORGET HISTORY
MIKE H. BROWN of NuGrapes!” Dad passed the man the money. The man passed Dad the peanuts and NuGrapes. And that was it...my first ball game and my first bottle of NuGrape on one of the best days of my life. What more could a kid ask for? It was a slice of kid heaven.
That was about the same time Dad decided I was old enough to help out around the station, so over the next several years I spent a lot of time there. I worked mostly on Saturdays, when it was too cold to play baseball, and sometimes
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in the summer, when school was out. I swept up, put air in tires and set out stock, like candy bars and bubblegum, chips and crackers, and filled the cooler with soft drinks. It was the coolest place I ever saw. I tried every chip, cracker, pie and candy bar in the store; every drink too: Coke, Pepsi, R.C. Cola (with a Moon Pie), Dr. Pepper, Nehi and Bierley’s, Red Rock Ginger Ale, Frostie Root Beer, 7-Up, Orange Crush... if Dad sold it, I tried it. I had lots of favorites, which changed many times over the years. But I always loved NuGrape. And today, it’s the only soft-drink you can always find in my refrigerator. Now, if all of that wasn’t reason enough to be a huge NuGrape fan, there are all the incredible signs, really cool bottles, and tons of advertising doodads. On top of that, NuGrape has an interesting and colorful history. I wish I could start at the very beginning, but I still don’t know exactly when
and where NuGrape originated, or who came up with the formula, or why the earliest ads show bottles that none of my collector friends have ever seen. There is a Wikipedia article claiming that “In 1906, John James Mangham and a fellow pharmacist concocted the formula for NuGrape in Bremen, Georgia.” But when a Bremen historian asked Mangham’s grandchildren about it at my request, they had no knowledge of it. I do know that NuGrape was first sold in Atlanta by the NuMint Bottling Co. located at 168/170 Peters Street. Kelley Brothers, a wholesale grocer in Atlanta since 1887, started the bottling company called NuMint. The earliest ad I could find for NuMint appeared in the Atlanta Constitution on April 20, 1919 (Dad’s fourth birthday) and just in that one issue. Depicting a drinking glass but no bottle, it encouraged readers: “Don’t Wait until July the 1st—get a glass today.” It’s possible that NuMint was only a fountain drink prior to that July 1st,
These bottles appeared in NuGrape ads but no physical examples are known to exist.
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when it then became available in bottles. Details about NuMint’s origins are just as elusive as NuGrape’s, but there is no doubt that the Kelley Brothers first introduced both to the public. It seems logical that a drink called NuMint would be mint flavored, but there was no mention of its flavor in any of the ads I’ve seen. NuMint was a rising star in the Atlanta soft drink market, but its fame was short-lived. The last mention of NuMint (the beverage) that I could find was in the Atlanta Constitution on September 28, 1919. The NuMint company was still around, but the drink had ended just as mysteriously as it began. The first ad for NuGrape appeared on May 1, 1921. The ad said: “Bottled by The NuMint Bottling Company” and featured an illustration of what might have been the first NuGrape bottle. It looked exactly like a NuMint bottle except for the name. For just five cents, a bottle of NuGrape was guaranteed “to make the driest throat happy on a hot
Bottle design in 1923 patent application.
Actual NuGrape bottle.
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day or any other day.” I’ve never seen a bottle like the one depicted in the ad, so whether it ever existed is a mystery. A.E. Kelley, president of NuGrape at that time, submitted his own bottle design to the U. S. Patent Office on February 2, 1922, and received the patent on January 23, 1923. Numerous bottles based on Kelley’s design are collected today, all bearing the slogan: “A Flavor You Can’t Forget.” NuGrape advertised regularly and employed all sorts of gimmicks and public relations promotions to entice the public. NuGrape’s newspaper ads were some of the most creative and artistic in the industry. Gimmicks included sponsoring baseball and softball teams and giving away samples of NuGrape at grocery stores, movie theatres, and grand opening events. Two of their many promotions were unique to NuGrape: the Human Fly and the NuGrape Twins. I was about 15 when I heard about the daredevil Evel Knievel. He did all kinds of crazy stunts on motorcycles during the late 1960s and ‘70s and “broke every bone in his body,” or so it was said. But long before Evel was born, in 1938, there was the even more death-defying, and some say gravity-defying, Human Fly. His name was Harry H. Gardiner. An illusionist and acrobat, Gardiner was born in 1871 and is thought to have died in 1933. He started climbing the sides of buildings in 1905 and made more than 700 ascents during his career. He wore ordinary clothes and shoes and had no special equipment. He attracted lots of imitators but is still the undisputed king of the climbers. An unofficial count of 120 men who took up this hazardous profession would fall to their deaths. Dubbed the Human Fly after climbing the 159-foot flagstaff atop Grant’s Tomb in New York City, Gardiner was sponsored by NuGrape as early as March 1, 1923. The company covered his expenses so that the proceeds of his events could be donated to charity. The March 1, 1923, event took place in Orlando, Florida. For more than an hour, some 10,000 spectators watched NUGRAPE—A FLAVOR YOU CAN’T FORGET HISTORY
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spellbound as he scaled the 11-story high-rise, Angebilt. The proceeds were donated to the Elk’s Club to build a home for “the friendless girls of the city.” During his ascents, Gardiner would frequently yell to the crowd, “Don’t Forget;” to which the crowd yelled back, “NuGrape!” Gardiner always refreshed himself after a climb with a bottle of NuGrape. The last Human Fly climb I’ve been able to document was of the Cumberland Hotel in New Jersey in 1929. Soon thereafter, Gardiner was forced to abandon his profession in the United States. So many climbers had fallen that it became virtually impossible to acquire a climbing permit. He went to Europe and plied his trade there, never returning to America. In 1933 a severely beaten body was found near the Eifel Tower in Paris. It appeared to be a case of foul play. Though some believed the body to be that of Harry Gardiner, it was never proven. His fate remains a mystery to this day. The NuGrape Twins often accompanied the Human Fly. The Twins, Mark and Matthew Little, were born in Tennille, Georgia, in 1888. They worked for NuGrape for many years, though I haven’t been able to ascertain exactly how many. The NuGrape Twins were gifted singers who sometimes performed while the Human Fly was scaling a building. In one case, they performed atop the metal awning above the main entrance while Gardiner worked his way up the building’s face. The Twins, known for their unusual style of harmony, recorded several old-time gospel numbers and two NuGrape songs. Look on YouTube for “NuGrape: A Flavor You Can’t Forget” and “I Got Your Ice Cold NuGrape.” When NuGrape introduced its Nu Icy line of beverages at the open house for the new Atlanta plant on April 15, 1928, the Twins were there. That may have been when they were first called the Nu Icy Twins. The only photo I’ve been able to find of the Nu Icy Twins accompanied a short article in the Jackson (Miss.) Ledger on May 18, 1929. Even as the Twins were singing and
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the Human Fly climbing, NuGrape was beset with copy-cats. NuGrape was so successful that knockoffs seemed to slink out of every alley in Atlanta... and elsewhere. Three that I know of were GrapeDew, Mi-Grape and Tru-Grape. Hard-to-distinguish bottles were another challenge. NuGrape’s answer was to come up with a clever bottle design that would stand out from all the rest. The new design would be expensive and difficult to copy, and to do so would violate the trademark. NuGrape turned to
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Here is a cork opener and a trio of promotional Pens to the right
Chapman J. Root, of the famed Root Glass Company, who came up with a unique design. A patent was applied for on July 30, 1925, but wasn’t granted until April 12, 1932. Meanwhile, Root used the patent date from one of his earlier, similar designs on new bottles. The new bottle design was unique in its day and truly set NuGrape apart from its competitors. It sported the famous “three rings” raised around the bottle neck that had been a feature of every earlier version of the NuGrape bottle. The company spread the word through advertising that the “3 rings” distinguished its products from those of copycat competitors: “3 rings around the bottle is a genuine NuGrape,” one ad campaign emphasized. Anything else was an inferior imitation. With a new and distinctive bottle to eliminate brand confusion, the advertising campaign went into overdrive. NuGrape appeared at more events than ever before. This bottle, often called the “Mae West” or the “Double-Bubble” because of its “pinched waist” design, was featured on all manner of doo-dads that were given away at all manner of goins-on. You know, like: “What’s goin’-on downtown today?” “Why there’s a grand opening goin’ on at the new drug-store” or grocery store, hardware store, appliance store, furniture store, drive-in, gas station, bowling alley, roller rink, and pretty much anything that could draw a crowd. I don’t know whether it’s possible to compile a complete list of all the merchandise NuGrape gave away, but here are some of the items I’m aware of: rulers, pencils (the kind you sharpen, and mechanical ones too), ink pens, ice picks, wooden match holders made of copper, soda jerk hats, pocket knives, shaving razors, coasters, ink blotters and bottle openers. NuGrape also gave away free bottles, cartons (six packs), cases of the beverage, and, in Birmingham, Alabama, mail boxes. I
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A sampling of NuGrape promotional items.
would love to see one of those. NuGrape also sponsored contests, sporting events, teams and leagues (ten pins, bowling, softball and baseball) and even had a one-hour radio show in several cities. While the Kelley bottle lasted only about three years, the Double-Bubble was around a lot longer. It was finally replaced by a bottle similar in shape, but with a painted label and flatter sides, around 1941. So the Double-Bubble bottle had an impressive run of about 20 years. There was plenty of controversy about NuGrape’s formula. In 1925, the Federal Trade Commission ordered the company to remove images or depictions of grapes and grape vines from its ads and include “Imitation Grape—Not Grape Juice” on the bottle or label. Many of the Double-Bubble bottles have this disclaimer prominently embossed on the side, just below the name. This did not sit well with NuGrape, so the company altered its formula by adding “Fritsboro True Grape Aromatics,” a grape product of the Fritzsce Brothers Flavoring and Fragrance Co. Then the company removed the “Imitation Grape” disclaimer from its products. That, in turn, did not sit well with the Federal Trade Commission. In 1931, the FTC ordered NuGrape to resume the “Imitation Grape” disclaimer. In response, NuGrape teamed with Welch’s grape juice to find a solution. On January 19, 1932, a large ad in the Palm Beach Post announced “The New NuGrape—Made with Welch’s Grape Juice.” It was, the ad proclaimed, “The Triumph of Beverage Perfection.”
The ad featured a beautiful cluster of grapes with the sun rising over a vineyard. The grapes were back, and the pretty girls were once again standing under the arbors in their beautiful gowns, smiling and holding bottles of NuGrape. The sun was shining...the birds were singing...and NuGrape was leaping off the shelves. NuGrape had many more ups and downs and experienced myriad changes in later years. But unlike almost all of its competitors, NuGrape still survives. Today there are actually two types of NuGrape, the modern corn syrup version in cans and plastic bottles and the nostalgic “original recipe” (as they call it) version, sold only in glass bottles and made with pure cane sugar. I only drink the cane sugar version because it’s waaaay better. You can find it at Cracker Barrel restaurants, World Market stores, and many other places. The NuGrape Twins and the Human Fly are no more, but NuGrape is as tasty as ever. Well, as they say, all good things must come to end, and so it is with my story. There is much more to tell, enough for a book I think, but I must wrap this up. So, let me leave you with a request: Have yourself a bottle of “Ice Cold NuGrape” (with pure cane sugar) and a bag of hotroasted peanuts. Think about days gone by. Remember your first baseball game. And ENJOY! Mike Brown is a writer and retired design engineer in Mableton. Readers with additional NuGrape information, stories to tell, or memorabilia to sell may contact him at nugrapekid@gmail.com.
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St. Louis 50th Annual Antique Bottle & Jar Show Orlando Gardens 4300 Hoffmeister Ave. St. Louis, MO NO EARLY ADMISSONS March 15, 2020 9:00am - 2:00pm Adult Admission: $3.00 Child Admission: FREE $1 OFF With Flyer Refreshments Will Be Available
Old Bottles Fruit Jars Pottery Breweriana Insulators & Advertising There Will Be Over 115 Tables
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This past October, the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative and the U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command signed an agreement to bring back a version of the Monuments Men. This group of museum curators, art historians and archeologists was initiated during the 1940s as a safeguard for European masterpieces of art and history during World War II. The modern program will assist in training and supporting U.S. Army soldiers as to protect culturally significant areas and artifacts during military operations. (Source: Smithsonian Magazine; Smithsonianmag.com)
Found at the site of an 18th century house believed to have been inhabited by British military officers during the French and Indian War was a brass writing kit. This writing kit included an inkpot and German-made long quill holder. Many other antique items have been recovered from the military site of Rogers Island in the Hudson River in New York. (Source: Archaeology; Archaeological Institute of America; archaeology.org)
Examples of bottles found during the excavation of Fort Stanwix in New York by the National Parks Service: Cathedral pickle bottle and Phoenix Bitters bottle. There are informative articles written about the different artifacts found on the National Parks Service website. (Source: National Parks Service, www.nps.gov)
This incised mermaid decorated stoneware presentation cooler attributed to Cornwall, N.Y. potter Moses Clark Bell recently sold at auction for $70,800. It is inscribed: Charles S. Brown / Cornwall / August 15 / 1825. (Source: Crocker Farm Auction)
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Hanging in a San Francisco bar can be found a historical local collectible. 1878 promissory note created by a San Franciscan businessman, Joshua Norton, in the mid to late 1800s, who self-declared himself “Emperor of the United States” in 1859. Only a few promissory notes survived the San Francisco fire of 1906, making them highly collectible and valuable. (Source: kovels.com)
This “Frozen Charlotte” doll, which is a rare form of a popular Victorian-era European doll encased in a glass bottle, was dug out of a privy in the 1970s. The privy was found when National Park archeologists were excavating the site of the original Fort Stanwix. It is believed to be associated with a boarding stable owner named Patrick Martin’s home, circa 1870s. The doll is 4cm tall, while the clear glass bottle is 9 cm tall. (Source: National Parks Service, www.nps.gov) At a recent Heritage Photographs Auction in New York, a photograph of the famous image of the flag raising in Iwo Jima in 1945. The value of the photograph is increased with the signatures of three of the photographed Marines and the photographer. The photograph sold for $30,000 at the auction in October 2019. (Source: kovels.com)
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bottles to sell. Cures plus some medicines, WANTED: ARKANSAS BOTTLES: pharmacy bottles, a few poisons, reference Sodas, Hutches, Mineral Waters, Whiskey books, and old magazines. Calendar Write to me at ofFlasks, Drug Stores, Patent Medicines. Shows bobnshari@gmail.com (preferred) or at Bob ARKANSAS WHISKEY JUGS: Marked Related Jochums, 3440 Kingsland & Circle, Berkeley Events Stoneware, Shot Glasses, Cork Pulls and Lake, GA 30096 for a list or ask me about any Arkansas Advertising. Contact: James specific bottles Larry Childers, 801 N 18th Street, Ozark, or items you desire. AR 72949. (479) 264-4601 or Email: jamesl. childers@yahoo.com FOR SALE: AMBER & COBALT HUTCHINSONS: City Bottling Works, WANTED: Clarke's Vegetable Sherry Wine Detroit, MI $200; The Twin City Bottling Bitters, Sharon, Mass & Rockland, ME. Wks, Chas Klein Prop $250; E. Ottenville, All bottle sizes & variants. Contact: CHARNashville, TN $200; G. Norris & Co. City LIE MARTIN (781)248-8620 or Individual Bottling Works, Detroit, & MIAffiliated $175; J.A. Email: cemartinjr@comcast.net Lomax 14-16-18 Charles Place, Chicago, IL Club Information $125; W.W.W. Chicago, IL $125; F.A. JenWANTED: Bottles, Pottery, ephemera from ning, Hudson, NY $125; AMBER: Standard Oak Park, Illinois. Email: Ray at komo8@ Bottling Works, Minneapolis, MN $100; att.net Boonville Mineral Spring Co, Boonville, NYIndividual $100; Fords Pop, East O WANTED: Kimberley Green Top Ginger &Liverpool, Affiliated $100; Moriarty & Carroll, Waterbury, CN Beer, Browning & Co. Contact: Dennis Fox Club Information $100; J.S. Wilersbacher, Pittsburg, PA $100; Email: mummysisters@aol.com J.S. Clark, Pitts, PA $75; D.L. Clark & Co., Pitts, PA $75; A.K. Clark, Pitts, PA $75; WANTED: TEA KETTLE OLD BOURBuy all three (3) Clarks for $150. Postage BON SAN FRANCISCO, Contact: Russell and Insurance $7.50 per bottle. Contact: R. Dean, 228 Labelle Drive, Stuarts Draft, VA J. Brown 4114 W. Mullen Avenue, Tampa, Phone: (540) 255-3143; Email: 4649dean@ FL 33609 Phone: (813) 286-9686 Email: comcast.net rbrown4134@aol.com. WANTED: Always looking for rare and unique Applied ColorSale Label Soda bottles, Wanted For Chero colas, Straight-sided Cokes and Pepsi, Royal Palm, Florida soda bottles, Tampa WANTED: THEO.BLAUTH/WHOLEbottles, Buying collections, Vintage soda arSALE WINE/&/LIQUOR DEALERS/SACtifacts. Contact: Tom Pettit, Email: VintagRAMENTO CAL. (whiskey fifth Barnett eSodaCollector@yahoo.com, Website: http:// 55); C&K/WHISKEY/Casey & Kavanawww.vintagesodacollector.com ugh/SACRAMENTO, CAL. (shot glass); SHADOW BROOK (block letters on slant WANTED: Bottle Tree Antiques, Donalds, on side, label under glass on bottom) CALISouth Carolina. Bitters, SC Dispensaries, FORNIA WINERY/monogram/TRADECrownTop Soda, Folk Pottery, Primitives. MARK/SACRAMENTO, CAL. (shot glass). Website: bottletreeantiques.com or Contact: Contact: STEVE ABBOTT (916) 631-8019 John Bray at (864) 379-3479. or Email: foabbott@comcast.net. WANTED: Peoria and Pekin Illinois blob top sodas. Contact Jen Searle at 309-346WANTED: Paducah Kentucky items 7804 or Email: skyjames962@gmail.com especially Pre-pro Paper Label Whiskey and Medicine Bottles, Crocks, paper goods. WANTED: Lacour's Sarsapariphere Bitters Contact: BJ SIMMONS (270) 994-7762 or bottles in colors. All conditions considEmail: bjsummers65@gmail.com or by mail ered. Contact: 530-265-5204 or Email: at: 233 Darnell Road, Benton, KY 42025. warrenls6@sbcglobal.net WANTED: Pint Clear Phoenix PumpkinWANTED: Rare Dr. Kilmer examples (such seed Flask. Also, any coffin or pumpkinseed as sample bottles of Cough Cure or Female flasks from Los Angeles. Contact: Brian Remedy) or any examples w/ contents/ (805) 448-7516 or Email: taps60@cox.net boxes/circulars. Also, rare cobalt "Extract of Witch Hazel, 8" (see Adams' "Bottle ColWANTED: Whiskey and Saloon related lecting in New England", page 30). Contact: glass paperweights. Contact: Jack Sullivan MIKE, maleect@aol.com (preferred) or (703-370-3039) or Email: jack.sullivan9@ (623) 825-2791 verizon.net.
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FOR SALE: Books a “A History of the Des Moines Potteries,” with additional information on Boonesboro, Carlisle, Herford and Polmyra. 214 pages, 65 color. Cost $23 plus shipping, Media Mail add $4.50, Priority add $6.00. Mail to Mark C. Wiseman, 3505 Sheridan Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50310 or call (515)-344-8333.
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FOR SALE: 236 different Minnesota shot glasses. 22 different A M SMITH Mpls. $10,000. Contact: Pat Stambaugh at (651)564 0200 or Email minnbeer@gmail.com
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FOR SALE: Labelled Bitters Bottles, South Carolina Dispensary Bottles, Advertising Signs and Paper. Contact: John Bray at Bottle Tree Antiques, 1962 Mt Lebanon Road, Donalds, SC 29638 or visit our website at: bottletreeantiques.com
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FOR SALE: New Mexico Hutchinson, Jugs and Mineral Water Bottles. 2nd Edition, 130 pages. Pictures not drawings, much new information on bottles, much history. Signed by authors. $30 includes mailing. Check or Money Order to: Zang Wood, 1612 Camino Rio, Farmington, NM 87401
FOR SALE: Crown Top Sodas, Pottery, Advertising signs, Dispensary bottles. Contact John Bray at Bottletree Antiques Farm; (864) 379-3479 or bottletreeantiques.com
Individual & Affiliated Shards of Wisdom Club Information FOR SALE: The 2018 updated POISON BOTTLE WORKBOOK by Rudy Kuhn. Price $50 plus $5 media mail USA. Contact me for postage out of USA. Email: jjcab@ b2xonline.com. Phone: (540) 297-4498. Make check or money order out to Joan Cabaniss, 312 Summer Lane, Huddleston, VA 24104.
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FOR SALE: I’m trimming down a 950-bottle collection of cures and I’ve got about 500
Bottles and Extras WANTED: Old OWL DRUG Co. bottles, tins, boxes, paper, anything/everything from the Owl Drug Company. Paying TOP DOLLAR. Contact: MARC LUTSKO, PO BOX 97, LIBBY, MT 59923 – Email: letsgo@ montanasky.net.
depression glass. Contact: Timothy Hart, 20 Masten Road, Victory, VT 05858. WANTED: AT ANY PRICE! Corbin’s – Syracuse; Corbin’s Liverpool Summer Complaint Tincture Worm Destroyer Open Pontil. Contact: Ed Kantor (315) 706-5112.
WANTED: WL Brewery items, Advertising, etc. Contact: Audrey Belter, Phone: (520) 840-0111.
WANTED: Ed Henry Napa California Amber Cylinder 5th Whiskey (Barnett 55); Ed Henry Napa Cal Seltzer bottle; Migliavacca Co. Inc. Seattle Napa California amber cylinder quart (Bennett 557). Contact: John (707) 230-0967 Email: louder@sonic.net.
WANTED: Always looking for TONICS I do not have. Contact: Martin Neihardt (260) 367-2400. Email: roadrunner@centurylink.net WANTED: Clarke's Vegetable Sherry Wine Bitters, Sharon, Mass and Rockland, Maine. Also, E. R. Clarke's Sarsaparilla Bitters, Sharon, Mass. All sizes, smooth base, pontil. Especially, need Labeled bottle any size. Contact: Charlie Martin, W. Newbury, MA. Email: cemartinjr@comcast.net or Call: (781) 248-8620. WANTED: Swirled bottles! Any form of dramatic swirling or heavy impurities in any color combinations. Also seeking strongly contrasting two-tones or multi-tones. Contact: Dwayne Anthony (909) 862-9279. Email: insulators@open-wire.com WANTED: Vintage Crock or Jug with name: Morton. Contact: Darlene Furda 6677 Oak Forest Drive, Oak Park, CA 91377 or Call: (818) 889-5451. WANTED: New Members to join the Antique Bottle Club of Northern Illinois. Meet 1st Wednesday of each month at 7:30pm, Antioch Senior Center, Antioch, Illinois. WANTED: Jar lid for Cohansey 2-1/2 gallon R.B. #628. Contact: Ed DeHaven (609) 390-1898. 23 W. Golden Oak Lane, Marmora, NJ 08223. WANTED: C.H. EDDY BRATTLEBORO VT 5-1/2” Pumpkin Seed Flask, $10 Postage Paid. SASE for a large list of bottles and
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WANTED: HUTCHINSONS: G.H. Wilkison, Wallingson, CN (eagle with flags and powder horn); American Soda Works S.F. (flag green color); New Castle Bottling Co., New Castle, DE (crossed flags); J.E. McKinley, Frankford, PA (flag); McKinley & Schafer Frankford, PA (flag); American Flag Hutchinson, top price for any “flags” that I do not already have. Contact: R.J. Brown, 4114 W. Mullen Avenue, Tampa, FL 33609 Phone: (813) 286-9686. WANTED: Cash Paid for Knife Collections, Indian Artifacts, Baskets, Civil War Relics, Bottle Collections, Comic Book Collections, Old Toy Collections. Contact: KEVIN PIPES (865)-567-4925. WANTED: North American Log Cabin Commemorative: GVII- 25-I-Cool X-C; GVII-25-E-AllenTown; GVII-25-F-Christmas 1976; E.G. Booze Log Cabin Bottles; GVII-37; GVII-40; GVII-9 Cobalt Blue; GVII-7-Jacob’s Cabin Tonic Bitters. Contact: STEVE GRAY (440)-279-8381 or by mail at 7533 Clay Street, Thompson, OH 44086.
WANTED: **COCA WINE & SECONAL BOTTLES* Any Seconal & Coca wine & *COCA TONIC bottles* with label intact. Preferably N-Mint to Mint Condition. Also, TUINAL & PENTOBARBITAL bottles, vintage compounding bottles of *SECOBARBITAL & PENTOBARBITAL* ANY OLD PHARMACY FINDS, Medical artifacts & related advertising. Please save this add & contact me with any of the above. TOP $$$ PAID! Contact: pharmatiques@gmail.com WANTED: Just love Bitters! Especially Ohio Bitters. Here are a few I am looking for. Star Anchor Bitters, Portsmouth, Ohio. Henry C. Weaver Mexican Bitters, Lancaster, Ohio. H.I. Weis Dayton, Ohio. Stewart Bros. Swamp Root Bitters, Columbus, Ohio. Greenhut’s Bitters, Cleve. Ohio, Cliff’s Aromatic Bitters, Clev. Ohio. Catawba Wine Bitters, Cleve. Ohio. American Plant Bitters, Wooster, Ohio. Hofstettler Bitters, Galion, Ohio. B&L Invigorator Bitters, Cincinnati, OH. Dear Wahre Jacob Bitters Toledo, OH. Frazier’s Root Bitters. For The Blood, Clev. Ohio. Hartley’s Peruvian Bark Bitters, Cincinnati, Ohio. Night Cap Bitters Cincinnati, Ohio. Pale Orange Bitters, Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. M. Pinton’s Pure Stomach Bitters, Cincinnati, Ohio. Holtzernann’s Patent Stomach Bitters Piqua, O. this is an amber square. Any other Ohio Bitters you might have; also, Blue Jacket Bitters. Thank you for your consideration and Best Regards, Contact: Gary Beatty (941) 276-1546 or Email: tropicalbreezes@verizon.net
WANTED: Clarke's Vegetable Sherry Wine Bitters, Sharon, MA & Rockland, ME All sizes, variants, smooth/pontil base. Especially need labeled Clarke's any size. Also, any Clarke's ephemera...trade cards, Almanacs, news ads, etc. Contact: CHARLIE MARTIN (781) 248-8620 or Email: cemartinjr@comcast.net
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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
January 11 Muncie, Indiana The Midwest Antique Fruit Jar and Bottle Club Annual Show and Sale, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Horizon Convention Center, 401 S. High St., Muncie, Indiana 47305, Contact Info: Coleen & Jerry Dixon, 765.748.3117, ckdixon7618@att.net, Dave Rittenhouse, 1008 S. 900 W, Farmland Indiana 47340, 765.468.8091
Advertising Show, Sunday, February 2, 2020, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, $5 admission. Early admission at 8:00 a.m., $15. 140 sales tables of bottles, breweriana, and advertising. Waukesha County Expo Center, 1000 Northview Road, Waukesha, Wisconsin. Directions: I-94 exit 294 (Hwy J), then south to Northview Road. For further information: bottleshow@charter.net
The Little Rhody Bottle Club Show, Holiday Inn, Taunton, Massachusetts. Early Admission, $15, 8:00 am, General Admission $3, 9:30 am, Contact Info: William Rose, 508.880.4929, sierramadre@comcast.net, Directions: Take Exit #9, off Route #495 for 700, Myles Standish Blvd
pm; Admission: $3, early buyers 7:00 am to 9:00 am, $20, Show Address: Doubletree Inn, 174 Hutchinson Ave., Columbus, Ohio (I-270 & Rt. 23), Contact Info: Rojer Moody (general information), 740.703.4913, rtmoody@ juno.com or Clark Wideman (contracts & info), 614.439.8005, clarkwideman@aol.com or Brad Funk (electronic registration) 614-2647846, bradfunk@yahoo.com
February 14 & 15 Aurora, Oregon Oregon Bottle Collectors Association Bottle, Antiques, Collectibles Show & Sale, Friday 12 Noon – 5:00 pm dealer set-up and early bird admission $5, Saturday 9:00 am – 3:00 pm regular public admission by donation. American Legion Hall, 21510 Main St. N.E., Aurora, Oregon. Contact: Wayne Herring, 503.864.2009 or Mark Junker, 503.231.1235 or Bill Bogynska, 503.657.1726, billbogy7@gmail.com
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February 9 Individual & Affiliated Columbus, Ohio Membership Benefits January 12 The Central Ohio Antique Bottle Club’s 50th Club Information Taunton, Massachusetts Annual Show & Sale, Sunday, 9:00 am to 2:00
Individual & Affiliated Shards of Wisdom Club Information January 25 Anderson, California Superior California Antique Bottle Club’s 44th Annual Show and Sale. Open to the public from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Dealer setup Friday afternoon. Shasta County Fairgrounds, Anderson California. Contact Doug or Margie Hansen, PO Box 362, Palo Cedro, California 96073, 530.547.3152
February 14 & 15 Palmetto, Florida 51st Annual Suncoast Antique Bottle & Tabletop Collectible Show & Sale, Saturday, February 15th, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm $4, 16 and under, free with adult, Friday, Early Buyers, February 14th, 2:00 – 7:00 pm $25. Good for Saturday also. Dealer set up, Friday, 12 noon to 7:00 pm and Saturday, 7:00 am to 9:00 am. Manatee River Fair Association, 1402 14th Avenue West, Palmetto, Florida 34221 Antique Bottles, Artifacts, Fossils, Stoneware, Pottery, Coins, Insulators, Variety of Advertising, Insulators, Display cases full of too much to mention. Contact George Dueben 727.804.5957 or Linda Buttstead 941.565.0593
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January 26 Bayport, New York The Long Island Antique Bottle Association is pleased to announce their 4th show in more than 10 years! 10:00 am to 3:00 pm, Donation $3, Children 16 and under FREE, Girl Scouts of Suffolk County Juliette Low Friendship Center, Lakeview Avenue, Bayport, New York, Contact: Mark Smith, 10 Holmes Court, Sayville, New York 11782, 631.589.9027, libottle@optonline.net
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February 2 Manville, New Jersey New Jersey Antique Bottle Club (NJABC), 24th Annual Show & Sale, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Admission $3, no early buyers. V.F.W. of Manville, New Jersey, 600 Washington Avenue, Manville, New Jersey, Contact: Kevin Kyle, 609.209.4034, bottlediggerkev@aol.com or John Lawrey, 908.813-.2334 February 2 Waukesha, Wisconsin 48th Annual Milwaukee Antique Bottle and
February 14 & 15 Columbia, South Carolina 47th Annual South Carolina Show & Sale at Meadowlake Park Center, 600 Beckman Road, Columbia, South Carolina 29203. Friday 11:00 am to 6:00 pm, Saturday 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. No Early Admission Fee. Donation to Boys & Girls club suggested for general entry. For more info contact Marty Vollmer 803.629.8553, martyvollmer@aol.com or Art Gose 803.840.1539, Co-show Chairman or visit southcarolinabottleclub.com February 16 Enfield, Connecticut 50th Annual Somers Antique Bottle Club’s Antique Bottle Show and Sale, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm., Admission $3, Early buyers: 8:00 am- $10. At St. Bernard’s School West Campus, 232 Pearl Street, exit 47W off I-91, Enfield, Connecticut. Contact: Don Desjardins, 22 Anderson Road, Ware, Massachusetts 01082, 413.967.4431 or 413.687,4808, dondes@comcast.net
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February 14 & 15 Las Vegas, Nevada Las Vegas Antique Bottles & Collectibles Club presents their 55th Annual 2020 Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show & Sale at the Eastside Cannery Casino and Hotel at 5255 Boulder Highway in Las Vegas, Nevada 89122, Friday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Early Bird admission $10 (Friday 9:00 am to noon). Regular admission noon to 5:00 pm. Saturday 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. $5 admission. Contact: John Faulis – 702.242.2792 or 702.373.7175 or jfuzzie@cox.net or Nicholas Valenti – 702.415.1568 or nv1948@cox.net Dealers Setup: Thursday 12:00 pm to 8:00 pm
February 22 Round Rock, Texas 3rd Central Texas Bottle Jar Insulator Pottery Breweriana & Advertising Show at Old Settlers Park, 3300 E. Palm Valley Blvd. (US 79 E), Round Rock, Texas 78665, Saturday 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Set up: Friday 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm, Cost of admission $1, Cost of early admission: $10, Austin Bottle Club, Contact: John Reed, 8050 C R 110, Round Rock, Texas 78665, 512.468.5097, compliant.relo@gmail.com February 29 Grand Rapids, Michigan The West Michigan Antique Bottle Club’s 30th Annual Show, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm (Set-up 8:00 am to 10:00 am), Fonger American Legion Post, 2327 Wilson S.W., Grand Rapids, Michigan 49534, General Admis-
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March 29 Dover, New Hampshire New England Antique Bottle Club Presents their 54th Annual Show & Sale, The Elks Club, 282 Durham Road (Rt. 108, Exit 7 off Spaulding Turnpike), Dover, New Hampshire 03820, Sunday, March 29, 2020, 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, Antique Bottles, Insulators, Fruit Jars, Crocks, Pottery & Small Collectibles, 50 Plus Sales Tables, 50/50 Raffle, Food & Beverages, Admission: $2, Early Admission (8:00 am – 9:00 am): $15, For Information Contact: Gerry Sirois, 207.773.0148 or Jack Pelletier, 207.839.4389
May 17 Ellendale, Delaware DELMARVA Antique Bottle Club Show and Sale, Ellendale Fire Hall, 302 Main Street, Ellendale, Delaware, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Info: Keith Fleming, 302.684.8138, JohnKeithFleming@gmail.com
County Fairgrounds, featuring insulators, lighting rod items, weathervanes, telephone & telegraph items, bottles, jars, and related items. 2015 Manchester Road, Wheaton, Illinois 60187. Saturday 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Friday night set up. Cost of admission $2, Cost of early admission: $40. Greater Chicago Insulator Club, Contact: Bob Stahr, CoHost, 360 S. Kenilworth Avenue, Glen Ellyn, 630.793.5345, bob@hemingray.com
June 7 Ballston Spa, New York The 41st Annual Saratoga Bottle Show, Saratoga County Fairgrounds, 162 Prospect St, Ballston Spa, New York 12020. General Admission: Sunday, 9:00 am – 2:30 pm, $5; Early Admission: Sunday, 8:00 am, $15; Show Set-up Hours: Saturday, 7:00 – 9:00 pm and Sunday, 6:30 – 8:00 am. Host Club: National Bottle Museum, www.nationalbottlemuseum.org, 518.885.7589, NBM@nycap.rr.com; Show Chairs: Roy Topky and Phil Bernnard
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March 7 Wills Point, Texas Patriotic Guns LLC presents: 1st Annual North Texas Bottle and Collectible Show, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, 26843 Interstate 20, Wills Point, Texas 75169 (Maroon Building). Admission $3 per person. Dealer setup: Friday March 6th from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Early entry (during set-up) $10 per person. Info: Michael at 972.741.3206 or texasbottleshow@gmail.com
Individual & Affiliated April 4 Shards of Wisdom Wheaton, Illinois Club Information Dupage Collectors Expo at the Dupage March 8 Baltimore, Maryland The Baltimore Antique Bottle Club’s 40th Annual Show & Sale, 8:00 am to 3:00 pm, baltimorebottleclub.org, Physical Education Center, CCBC-Essex, 7201 Rossville Boulevard (I-695, Exit 34), Contact Info: Rick Lease, 410.458.9405, finksburg21@comcast. net, Andy Agnew (contracts), 410.527.1707, medbotls@comcast.net
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March 13 Chico, California 53rd Annual Antique Bottle, Jar, Insulator & Collectible Show & Sale, Friday, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, $10 admission fee, Saturday, 9:00 am 4:00 pm, Contact Randy Taylor, P.O. Box 1065, 530,518.7369, rtjarguy@aol.com
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March 15 Flint, Michigan The 51st Flint Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show; Dom Polski Hall, 3415 N. Linden Road, Flint, Michigan 48504. No early admission. General Admission $3, 9 am – 2:30 pm. Set up: 7:00 am to 9:00 am. Contact: Tim Buda, 11353 Cook Road, Gaines, Michigan 48436, 989.271.9193 or tbuda@shianet.org; or visit Flint Antique Bottle & Collectibles Club Facebook Page March 15 St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis’ 50th Annual Antique Bottle & Jar Show; Orlando Gardens, 4300 Hoffmeister Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 63125. General Admission $3 from 9 am – 2 pm; Set-up 7 am – 9 am. Adult admission $3. Children free. Contact: St Louis Antique Bottle Collectors Assn., Pat Jett, 71 Outlook Drive, Hillsboro, Missouri 63050, 314.570.6917, patsy_jett@ yahoo.com
April 5 Hutchinson, Kansas The 13th Annual Kansas Territory Bottle & Post Card Show & Sale, General Admission: 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. Kansas State Fairgrounds, Sunflower Building, 2000 N. Poplar Street, Hutchinson, Kansas, Info: Mike McJunkin, 620.728.8304, scarleits@cox.net or Mark Law, 785.224.4836, kansasbottles@gmail.com
June 6 Canyonville, Oregon 2020 Canyonville Oregon Jefferson State Antique Bottle & Insulator Expo, Saturday: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, Free Admission, $10 early admission 7:00 to 9:00 am. Seven Feathers Casino Resort, I-5, Exit 99. Info: Bruce Silva, P.O. Box 1565, Jacksonville, Oregon 97530, 541.821.8949, jsglass@q.com
For July 30 - Sale August 3
April 10 & 11 Antioch, California The Golden Gate Historical Bottle Society’s 54th Annual Show & Sale, Early Buyers: Friday 12 pm – 5 pm, $10 Admission; General Admission: Saturday 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Free. Contra Costa Event Park (Fairgrounds), 1201 West 10th Street, Antioch, California 94509. Info: Gary & Darla Antone, 752 Murdell Lane, Livermore, California 94550, 925.373.6758, packrat49er@netscape.net May 17 Washington County, Pennsylvania Washington Pennsylvania Washington County Antique Bottle Club 46th Annual Show and Sale, Alpine Star Lodge, 735 Jefferson Avenue, Washington, Pennsylvania 15301, Admission $3, 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, Info: Ed Kuskie, 412.405.9061, 352 Pineview Drive, Elizabeth, Pennsylvania 15037, bottlewizard@comcasat.net
Reno, Nevada 2020 FOHBC National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo, Grand Sierra Resort & Casino, Information: Richard Siri (rtsiri@sbcglobal.net) or Ferdinand Meyer V (fmeyer@ fmgdesign.com), Mini-Contract, FOHBC National Convention – Western Region August 8 Lincoln, Alabama 5th Annual Lincoln Bottle Show. Lincoln Civic Center, 123 Jones Street, Lincoln, Alabama 35096, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm. Vendor set up on Friday, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm and Saturday 7:00 am to 9:00 am. Contact chairman Jake Smith 256.267.0446, 29 Water Tank Drive, Talladega Alabama 35160, syl_bottleguy@yahoo.com. Free public admission, $20 early admission, free kids table free appraisals. This is our fifth year and like every year we honor a different soda. Info on Facebook. 10 & 11 April 2020 (Friday & Saturday) 10 &
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Individual & Affiliated Shards of Wisdom Club Information 7 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.
Lucille Collura 15757 Gault Street Van Nuys, CA 91406 (818) 601-5908 lhcollura@gmail.com
Jeffrey N. King P.O. Box 206 Igo, CA 96047 (530) 396-2926 lgojeff3@gmail.com Local beers, Pepper Sauce Bottles. Old artifacts.
Shards of Wisdom Ryan Green 515 Lyle Avenue Elgin, IL 60123 (224) 800-4917 rdgreen99@yahoo.com Medicine, Soda and Milk Bottles
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Scott Horner 1526 Grand Avenue Ojai, CA 93023 (805) 469-3096 scott.horner@salemmedia.com
Joe Morrison 442 Larkin Lane Kaysville, UT 84037 (801) 879-2869 jhcutter55@yahoo.com Whiskey's, Bitters, Medicines, Memorabilia, Digging
A Century of Cures
The history of medicine company J.C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass., U.S.A. (1841 – 1943)
Includes: Ayer’s Fantastic Advertising! Ayer Bottle Dating Guide. Product Evolution. What were Patent Medicines? Was Ayer a Quack? Hard bound book of 500 pages & 750 color images.
Order Online @
www.cliffhoyt.com
Price: $49.95 plus $6.50 media shipping. Massachusetts residents add $3.12 sales tax. Mail check to: Cliff Hoyt, 10 Kearney Sq. Apt. 408 Lowell, MA 01852
John Patterson 1215 Brandywine Drive Bear, DE 19701 (302) 653-6435 johnpathome2017@comcast.net Delaware bottles
For Sale Kevin G. Pipes
P.O. Box 1278 Dandridge, TN 37725 (865) 567-4925 kpipes@smkw.com Indian Artifacts, Bottles and Poisons, Mason Jars, Labeled Bottles, Knives
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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.
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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.
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In addition to providing strength to a national/international organization devoted to the welfare of the hobby, your FOHBC Individual Membership benefits include:
Wanted
• A full year subscription to the bi-monthly (6 issues a year) 72-page publication Bottles and Extras. Various options are available including Digital Membership.
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• Free advertising of “For Sale” items in Bottles and Extras (restrictions apply ads may be up to 100 words, items must be of $25 or greater value, and free advertisements are limited to the first 100 received, based upon date mailed). One free ad of 60 words each year for use for items “Wanted”, trade offers, etc. • Follow the development of the FOHBC Virtual Museum. FOHBC members will be museum members. • The opportunity to obtain discounts to be used on “Early Admission” or table rental at the annual Federation National Shows and Conventions. • Access to the private FOHBC web site Member Portal and a wealth of historical information. • FOHBC digital newsletter and so much more. We encourage Affiliated Bottle Club memberships by offering these additional benefits to your group: • Display advertising in Bottles and Extras at an increased discount of 50%. • Insertion of your bottle club show ad on the Federation website to increase your show’s exposure. Links to your club website free of charge. Social Media (Facebook) exposure. • Free Federation ribbon for Most Educational display at your show. • Participation in the Federation sponsored insurance program for your club show and any other club sponsored activities. We need your support! Our continued existence is dependent upon your participation as well as expanding our membership. 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 FOHBC, please contact: Linda Sheppard, PO Box 162, Sprakers, New York 12166; phone: 518.673.8833; email: jim1@frontiernet.net or visit our home page at FOHBC.org
Where there’s a will there’s a way to leave Donations to the FOHBC. Did you know the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors is a 501C(3) charitable organization? How does that affect you? It allows tax deductions for any and all donations to the FOHBC. You might also consider a bequest in your will to the FOHBC. This could be a certain amount of money or part or all of your bottle collection. The appraised value of your collection would be able to be deducted from your taxes. (This is not legal advice, please consult an attorney). The same type wording could be used for bequeathing your collection or part of it, however, before donating your collection (or part of it), you would need the collection appraised by a professional appraiser with knowledge of bottles and their market values. This is the amount that would be tax deductible. Thank you for considering the FOHBC in your donation plans.
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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____________ Do you wish to be listed in the Telephone___________________________ online membership directory? E-mail Address_______________________ (name, address, phone number,
Wanted
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.)
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Collecting Interests_ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Would you be interested in ___________________________________ serving as an officer? { } Yes { } No
Additional 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 2020 auction schedule!
American Glass Gallery
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As a consignor, consider these benefits to help ensure your valued items reach their highest potential: w Competitive consignor rates and low buyer premiums w Broad-based and extensive advertising w Experience, knowledge, honesty and integrity w Attention to detail and customer service
These items and many more, will be included in our upcoming 2020 Auction schedule.
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.
FOHBC.org
To our friends and clients All of us at Heckler Auction wish you peace and happiness this Holiday Season and throughout the New Year. x
Norm, Sr., Norm, Jr., Greg, Nicole, Ron, and Madeleine