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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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On the Cover: Lindsey Blood Searcher variants
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FOHBC Officers | 2018 - 2020 .............................................................................................2
To Submit a Story, send a Letter to the Editor or have Comments and Concerns, contact:
FOHBC President’s Message .................................................................................................3 Shards of Wisdom ...............................................................................................................4 History’s Corner ..................................................................................................................5 FOHBC News - From & For Our Members ..............................................................................6 The Swengel Dairy Company, Seymour Indiana by Cody Wayt .................................... 10
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The R.M. Rose Co. Distillers Yesterday and Today by Bill Johnson ............................... 16 Nevada's Desert Shrine to the Lowly Beer Bottle by Jack Sullivan............................... 22 Virtual Museum by Richard Siri.................................................................................. 28 Killer Bottles - Several Georgia Sodas from Augusta, Savannah Fit the Bill by David Kyle Rakes................................................. 32
J.M. Lindsey and his World Renown Blood Searcher by Zach Baer ............................... 38 FOHBC Reno Show Cancelation Announcement........................................................51
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Preserving the Past by Jenn Hurley ............................................................................ 52
Lost & Found .................................................................................................................... 62 FOHBC Member Photo Gallery .......................................................................................... 64
FOHBC Sho-Biz - Calendar of Shows .................................................................................. 68
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FOHBC Membership Additions & Changes ......................................................................... 70 Membership Benefits, Ad Rates, Donations to the FOHBC ................................................... 71
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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
Martin Van Zant BOTTLES and EXTRAS Editor 41 E. Washington Street Mooresville, Indiana 46158 812.841.9495 email: mdvanzant@yahoo.com
BOTTLES and EXTRAS © (ISSN 1050-5598) is published bi-monthly (6 issues per year) by the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, Inc. (a non-profit IRS C3 educational organization) at 101 Crawford Street, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; phone: 713.222.7979 x103; Website: FOHBC.org, Non-profit periodicals postage paid at Raymore, Missouri 64083 and additional mailing office, Pub. #005062.
Jimmy the Pup and I Go Digging by Mark C. Wiseman ............................................ 56
Classified Ads ................................................................................................................... 66
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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: 713.504.0628; email: fohbcmembers@gmail.com
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 Matt Lacy 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 lot has developed in the past several weeks within the bottle fmeyer@fohbc.org world. Many more shows have cancelled or have been itting downAs at my desk, on back-to-work Monday aftertoNew rescheduled. a board, wethis hadfirst to make the tough decision Years, I conjure up a vision of a stove with lots of pots-a-cooking. cancel the FOHBC Reno 2020 National Antique Bottle ConvenThe kettle labeled antique bottle events has us all looking forward to the tion and Expo. There are many facets to this decision that we stretch leading up to the FOHBC 2016 Sacramento National Antique BothadConvention to consider. is have the safety of our members, tle & First Expo and this foremost August. We a coordination conference dealers, Theorvarious levels call later displayers, in the week speakers, and plan toand stepattendees. it up a notch two. We are also pleased that we locked in Springfield, Massachusetts for our 2017 have Nationof restrictions nationally and locally, and unknown factors al Antique Bottle Convention, and by the time you read this message, made planning an event of this scale challenging. The postpone-the FOHBC 2018 National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo will have been ment of planning while waiting for stay-at-home orders to lift announced for Cleveland, Ohio. We really have our teams in place and has wheels delayed months of preparation to successfully our in the motion. I suppose we shouldrequired start thinking about the 2019 execute a convention of this size. IPlanning know my family verybenefits. disapConvention in the Southern Region. ahead has is many pointed as we were planning a small vacation out West around the The FOHBCas is we alsotry proud say that | April 2016 issue of convention to dotoeach year.this WeMarch do have some hopeful BOTTLES and EXTRAS is the first to be printed in full color, which news from this though! The Reno venue, The Grand Sierra Resort only costs us an additional $184, an issue. This change prompted a few and Casino, has which agreedwe to hope allowyou us to move thesuch eventastothe2022. design revisions, will notice, TableSo, of start making know the RenoWe team is excited, Contents and aplans few now. of theI section headers. receive quite aand fewwe really nice compliments how the magazine looks and have come can be sure it will be aon time to remember.
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so far in a relative short number of years. Oh, and look for a new section in the back of the magazine called “Member Photo Gallery”. This I know I amisalways looking to attending a greatbottles show,and new section dedicated to theforward fine photography of antique and am very excited about the upcoming 2021 FOHBC show glass. Please feel free to submit your images for consideration.inWe have already started work theVal May | June issue andJim hope that you Syracuse, New York. Jimon and Berry along with Bender will consider authoring an article for the magazine. We are here to help! have done an excellent job in securing a venue and host hotel. I
am personally very excited about the location, and looking for-
Within this issue of BOTTLES and EXTRAS, please read the proposed ward to attending. I anticipate therebeen will marked be a press release with bylaw updates and revisions that have in red. All revisions more details on the event shortly. It will give us all something to have been approved by the FOHBC Board of Directors. These bylaws have amended look been forward too. and need to be reviewed by the FOHBC membership prior to the annual general membership meeting at the FOHBC 2016 National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo in Sacramento, California by The cancellation of the Reno Convention has left some gaps that an affirmative vote of a majority of all votes cast by the eligible voters will need to beprovided discussed, as of ourthegeneral membership in attendance, that such a copy proposed changes aremeetmade ing so I am using this letter as a platform to communicate with available to each member in advance, either directly by mail or by timely notice in the Federation’s official serving periodical or on theterm Federation website. our membership. The current officer’s ends after the
biannual board meeting typically held at the national convention
In other news, we are moving ahead with photography for the Virtual this year. Officers that are currently serving and will not be servMuseum and hope to have regional photography labs set up in regions ingstart an additional termbottles will beboth stepping down from theand board at to photographing in a standard format 3-dimenthe conclusion of the biannual board meeting being held virtually sionally. This effort is being spearheaded by Museum Director, Alan DeMaison. You Some may have metcurrent Alan at officers the Virtual Museum table during in late July. of the wish to continue on thethe FOHBC 2015 National Antique Show August. board until theChattanooga elections are officially held Bottle in 2021. Thislast will be
a great time to fulfill discussions around and strategize a possible
Federation member Alicia Booth, is heading up the nomination prorestructure board of positions. Timesofficers have changed cess for the of election all Federation includingand thepositions President, have President(s), evolved. Technology has become a centric component of Vice Secretary, Treasurer, Business Manager, Membership
Director, Public Relations Director, Conventions Director, Historian, Merchandising Director, Directors-at-Large (3), and Region Directors (4). These elections occur every two years. Any officer may run for successive terms. This committee has prepared a slate of nominations for each office and is listed below. It is important to note that any member desiring to run for any office in the Federation may file a nomination form with the Election Committee (in accordance with procedures approved by the membership and instituted by the Election Committee) indicating the office they desire to run for. The deadline for filing this is April 1ston 2016. have seen successful ourway memberexecuting our We mission. These changescampaigns require a by new of ship before so if you want to run for a position, please let Alicia know. thinking and a new approach to the organization and the board to You and reach her at this email address, alicia@cis-houston.org. You better serve the hobby. John O’Neill will be moving into the role will be receiving a ballot for voting so please take the time to vote.
of President after the biannual meeting this upcoming summer to seeFOHBC the organization into the future. Ferdinand I am moreMeyer than V confident that President: Candidates Houston, Texas John will do an excellent job.
Here is the slate of FOHBC First Vice President: Sheldon Baugh recommended candidates Russellville, Kentucky Thisputhas been an interesting time to be on the FOHBC board forth by the nominating committee (Aliciaunprecedented Booth, during these timesVice of the COVID-19 Second President: Genepandemic. Bradberry Chairperson) for 2014 - 2016. Bartlett, Tennessee I would The slatelike is beingtoputtake forth fora moment to pause and express my condoyour consideration anyonehave Secretary: lences to thoseandwho lost friendsJames and family Berry over the past few desiring toItrunhas for office may a difficult Johnsville, NewusYork months. been time for all as we reflect on the be nominated by going to the lives of some really peopleGary that contributed a great deal Treasurer: Beatty website and printing out a amazing North Port, Florida nomination form. Then, mail or to this hobby. I am sure many of us share these same sentiments. email to Alicia Booth, 11502 Historian: Jim Bender Burgoyne Drive, Houston, Texas Sprakers,has Newbeen Yorka great time to reflect The77077. writing of this final message alicia@cis-houston.org Closing nominations and challenges back ondate theforgrowth overVan the Zant last few years as Editor: Martin is April 1, 2016 at midnight. Danville, Indiana serving as the FOHBC president. I can’t help but think of all the Additional nominations will countless people have had an opportunity to meet. am thankful Merchandising Director: ValI Berry be printed alongside the Islate Johnsville, York their thoughts and by thewho nominating for proposed all those have reach out andNew expressed committee and will be listed wisdom, and thankful forMembership the friendships that have formed. Director: Linda Sheppard in the May-June 2016 issue Sprakers, New York of BOTTLES and EXTRAS along a shortincredibly bio of each I amwithalso grateful for my wife who has served Conventions Director: Louis Fifer beside candidate.
me on the board this term.Brunswick, She is really Ohiothe driving force behind many successful initiatives. In fact, many ofElizabeth our boardMeyer member’s Business Manager: spouses have stepped in to fill open positions on the board out of Houston, Texas love and support for theirDirector-at-Large: partners in life. InBob addition to that, I am Ferraro also thankful for those who have agreed to serve or continue to Boulder City, Nevada serve for their support during these past few years Director-at-Large: Steve Ketcham . Edina, Minnesota The past couple of years have presented a fair share of challengDirector-at-Large: John Pastor es, both personally and professionally. I am very excited to simNew Hudson, Michigan plify life again by being able to spend more time with my family, Midwest Region Director: Matt Lacy focus on my career goals,Austinburg, and get back to basics of collecting. I Ohio am particularly excited about revisiting theDirector: core elements ofVuono this Northeast Region Andrew great hobby: visiting withStamford, friends, going to bottle shows, and getConnecticut ting out for a dig. My hope for those reading this is to remember Southern Region Director: Ron Hands to embrace the simple joys that make hobby fun and exciting, Wilson, Norththis Carolina and to enjoy the aspects that make collecting great Eric for you. Stay Western Region Director: McGuire safe, be well, and I will see you at the next show! Petaluma, California Public Relations Director: Rick DeMarsh
It has been a pleasure serving you! Ballston Spa, New York
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Bottles and Extras several prize winning horses including Goldenrod, Teddy Nutwood & Mattie Bidgeford. Henry and Martha traveled to Louisville and Chicago for horse shows regularly. Martha passed away in 1951.
H.C. Knode & Company By Steve Lang
H.C. Knode was a prominent businessman in Indianapolis for many years. He was a liquor salesman, wholesale liquor dealer and hotel entrepreneur. H.C. married Martha Francis Petty and they had a son, Ralph, who would work with H.C. in the liquor and hotel business until H.C’s death in 1931. Martha Francis Knode was an accomplished equestrian and won the 1900 Indiana State Fair “Best Saddle Stallion”. She rode
Here is a Old Sherwood Whiskey bottle from H.C.Knode
Henry Clay Knode was born in the town of Hagerstown (west of New Castle), Indiana in 1860. He moved to Indianapolis in 1888 taking a job as a traveling agent (salesman) with James R. Ross & Company who was a Wholesale Liquor Dealer located at 129 South Meridian Street. In 1894 Knode was made a partner in the business with Ross and Henry Thompson. In 1898, armed with his 10 years of experience with Ross, Henry started his own business. H.C. Knode & Company was founded in 1898 and was located at 118 S. Illinois St in downtown Indianapolis. Knode featured several brands of liquors for sale including Old Sherwood Rye, Duff-Gordon Sherry, Fordhook Whiskey & Old Martell Cognac. Knode moved his business to 34 S. Meridian just a half block south of Washington St and in the heart of the Wholesale district in 1904. In 1905 H.C. welcomed his son Ralph to the business after graduating from Shortridge High School in 1901 and Purdue University in 1904. He hires his son to be a traveling agent to learn the trade like he did under James Ross. In 1915 he moved
Advertising cheap prices from H.C.Knode
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HISTORY’S CORNER In Memory of Dick Watson longtime FOHBC Historian
Charles G Hutchinson invented and patented the Hutchinson Patent stopper in 1879 as a replacement for a cork bottle stopper which was commonly being used as stoppers on soda and pop bottles.
Lady Knode showing off one of her prize horses
He used a wire bale and rubber seal to close the bottle. Production of these stoppers ended about 1912
his business to 32 S. Meridian. In 1916 the Prohibition movement was starting to gain steam and Henry could see the writing on the wall. H.C. and Ralph
Watch each issue for a new installment of History’s Corner.
3 different advertising shot glasses from the Knode Company
Ralph was also the director of the Livestock Exchange Bank at the same location.
Knode worked for another wholesale whiskey outfit, Jas R. Ross, before starting on his own
formed the Knode Hotel Company and became the proprietors of the Exchange Hotel located in the Union Stockyards at 1501 Kentucky Avenue on the southwest edge of downtown. In 1917 Henry retired from the wholesale liquor business and he and Ralph became full-time hotel entrepreneurs. H.C. would pass away in 1931. Ralph would continue to run the hotel for 43 years.
Henry’s son Ralph married New York City born Miss Edna Isabell Mclellan on October 16, 1909. He filed for divorce from Edna on March 27th, 1912 after less than 3 years citing “abandonment”. He would later marry Miss Neva Mae Jackson on February 13, 1919. They were married until her death in 1962. Ralph passed away 4 years later. Henry Knode’s obituary is interesting in how it describes his death. In early March 1931 while visiting New Orleans Knode suffered a heart attack. He returned to Indianapolis and was under nurse and doctor care. On March 16th after realizing his heart attack was going to be fatal, he plunged from his sick bed while the nurse was out of the room. His resulting injuries caused him to pass away an hour later.
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FOHBC News Bottle Collage
Need help with Identification
Hi, I’ve been a member since July 2018. Due to late winter cabin fever & spring lockup I made a collage of bottles from all the magazines I have received. I am thinking of making posters, maybe for the Reno show? I was raised in California less than a 100 miles from Reno. I have bottles from my mothers collection & had planned attending the Reno show. Would appreciate your comments.
Hello Martin, My name is Eduardo Barison and I write from Argentina. Is it possible that the FOHBC will help me identify this bottle? (no price).
Thanks for the input Loretta Hildre
Height 25cm Embossed: "In hoc signo vinces" + "DP" (or "OP") and palmer Thank you very much. Eduardo - edubarison@gmail.com
A descendant of the Baltimore Baker family
[see 2 pieces of possible art]
My name is Jean Baker Hielscher, a descendant of the Baltimore Baker family. My father was Richard Jones Baker, who was born in 1921 and passed away almost five years ago in Naples, Florida. He was named for his grandfather, also Richard Jones Baker. Although he was born in Charleston because his mother, Anne Neyle, a true Charlestonian, wanted all her children born there, he was raised in Baltimore and went to Forest Park High School. I’m an only child and just recently have been going through boxes of family memorabilia and I’ve come across references to
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the Baker Glass Works as well as the family homes, Friendsbury and Athol. My husband Bob and I have six grandchildren and I’d like to find out as much about our family history as I can to pass along to them. If you have any information or pictures of Baker glass as well as suggested reference materials, I would be so grateful. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide. Response: [FOHBC] Will do Jean. This rare Baltimore Washington Monument figural bottle closed recently in the Glass Works Auction #140. Construction of the Washington Monument in Baltimore began in 1815 and was completed in 1829, almost 20-years before the more famous one in Washington, D.C. was built. Baltimore Glass Works, probably for the Sesquicentennial celebration in 1880 celebrating the 150th anniversary of the founding of Baltimore in 1730.
Friends of the Texas Historical Commission Ferdinand, I enjoyed previewing the FOHBC Virtual Museum. Very well done. Excellent design to the site. (but I guess that is what you do for your day job). The San Felipe hotel/tavern that we are building as part of our sample of one block of the town had a brick-lined cellar filled with 72 barrels and kegs - primarily baking supplies but included 10 barrels of liquor. In 1832, he had the supplies to bottle the liquor up and served it by the glass, flask and bottle, including “2 boxes of bottles” and 26 “flask bottles” as well as 1,200 corks. So, I’m searching for new-made flasks and bottles to depict these. Recall that the Scroll Flask fragment you helped me with last year post-dates this tavern’s operation. Looking at the origin of the tavern keeper and trade patterns through New Orleans I thought a Midwestern mold-blown flask would be a common item. As I got deeper in learning about glassware, I bought a copy of McKearin’s American Bottles & Flasks, which has been very helpful. A living history site in Ohio makes a couple of these Midwestern styles. So, to your expert eye, would either of these be good representations of flasks in that tradition? They cost about $20 each, which is in my budget range. They offer them in amber, blue and green. If the illustrations in McKearin are an indicator, the amber and blue were more common. I bought a copy of the GII-76 Concentric Ring-Eagle made by the Historical Bottle Collectors Guild, but they arescarce and somewhat expensive (and they don’t stand up very well). I realize it might be a bit insulting to ask a connoisseur to help
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me find good yet inexpensive reproductions and copies of bottles, but I appreciate your help. Michael R. Moore Moore Consulting & Contracting, Inc. Construction Manager-Adviser Friends of the Texas Historical Commission
The N. F. B. Distillery Co. I am most interested in a Kentucky whiskey bottle that would have been made from approximately 1891-1900, made by Nathan Block (The N. F. B. Distillery Co.) called Corn Flower. I have attached a picture of a letter so you can see some of the names. I have not seen the Virtual Museum Spirits Gallery, that sounds great! Where can I find it on the FOHBC website? Thank you very much for your help! Best, Will Barry Response: [Jack Sullivan] Will: Ferdinand Meyer V has sent your request to me and for a time I thought I might be helpful. I have a file on H.D. Block of Louisville and once owned one of his jugs. I have seen Nathan Block items here and there but not the Corn Flower label. No file on Nathan. The Blocks appear to be related, however. In the Jewish Cemetery in Louisville their grave sites are adjacent. I cannot, however, find anything that directly links them. Sorry not to be of more help. Suggest you go on the eBay “Wish List” and if something comes up there be notified. If I see something down the line will let you know. Jack Sullivan
Chunk of Glass Good afternoon, I found this chunk of glass over 20 years ago on a beach on the north end of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington. We found four chunks on the beach. A large one had a bubble inside filled with water and is about four times the size of the one in the attached photo. I found your site and just wanted to share this photo with you. These chunks have been a burning mystery in my life, it was a weird thing to find and many years ago my research was fruitless. I am thrilled to read more about them on your website. I can take and send more photos if you are Interested. Have a great day, Maggie Morehouse
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150+ Antique Miniature Bottles
tion of inks ~ a Pitkin ink would be a grand addition!
Hello,
If I may introduce myself, I've been collecting and studying Pitkin flasks and inks for over 30 years. I have displayed my Pitkin glass at the Museum of Connecticut Glass in Coventry, CT, and at the Pitkin Glass Works Ruins in Manchester, CT. Several years ago, I was on a dig at the Ruins. In 2017, the FOHBC published an article in Bottles and Extras about my visit to the Philadelphia Museum of Art to compare a Pitkin flask in my collection with one in a Museum display. On Facebook, I have a page devoted to Pitkin glass called "Pitkin Page" where collectors at all ranges of Pitkin interest are welcome.
I have a collection of 150+ antique miniature bottles that I want to sell. The bottles are from the 1800s and 1900s including perfume, medicines, milk, salts, pills, alcohol, cologne, etc. None are over 4"high. In the photo they are shown in an old cigar store wooden display case, with two removable glass shelves, and also on a custom made wooden bottle-shaped shelf. I collected these from the 1960s to the 1990s only for their appearance and I have no idea of their value.
At last, to reply to your question about available Pitkin inks, I'm aware of two currently being offered in auctions online: (1) Norman Heckler Auctions, Lot 40. Bidding opens May 18 and closes May 27. (2) Historical Glass, Lot 60. Bidding has begun; the auction closes June 2. They are both beautiful and I believe worthy of consideration. As you may know, Pitkin inks were made in different forms ~ round, square, even rectangular. They were made with different patterns ~ swirled only, swirled and ribbed, and even swirls going left and right. You can also find them in different shades of green and yellow. Welcome to the wonderful world of Pitkin glass! If you are interested in the collection, I trust you to offer a fair price. If you do auctions and see a possibility to consign the collection, I would consider that as well. I am in the Philadelphia area. I can send more photos if you like, but I do not have a picture of each individual bottle. Please e-mail me with any questions and thank you for your consideration. I found your contact information on the FOHBC website. Jane Willig
Book on Warner and Dr. Craig Is there some way that my book on Warner and Dr. Craig can be available at the FOHBC Virtual Museum for all collectors to look at? I would gladly donate it to the museum to add to their information. Michael Seeliger Brooklyn, Wisconsin Response: [FOHBC] Michaels fine book will be the first fully readable book in our Virtual Museum Research Library.
Inquiry about Pitkin inkwells Good morning Robert, Ferdinand Meyer referred your inquiry to me about Pitkin inkwells. I am delighted to reply. You must have a wonderful collec-
Best regards, Dana Charlton-Zarro Bronx, New York
To FOHBC member Bill Ham I am a student and also teach at Middlesex Community College, Lowell. I am collecting bottles from Lowell. My heart leapt when I saw the Dr. Atherton's Dew Drop Bitters bottle in the supplement of you Bitters Bottles Supplement! It is a thing of beauty! Do you of anyone in possession of such a bottle who is interested in selling it? It is exquisite! If you do know of anyone, please let me know. If you do not, thank you for your time and for writing such a lovely book! All the best, Jennifer Bruce-Stone Response: [FOHBC] Please visit the FOHBC Virtual Museum Bitters Gallery to see a great example of this bottle which if found in good condition might sell for five figures. The bottle is also represented in my upcoming new book Bitters Bottles Supplement 2.
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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
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The Swengel Dairy Company, Seymour Indiana By: Cody Wayt The Swengel Dairy Company in Seymour Indiana was owned by Claude Swengel and was founded in 1912 by the purchase of the Newby Dairy, owned by Arthur Newby, on Second St. Road. During the first year of operation the Swengel Dairy was only distributing 70 gallons of milk a day throughout Seymour and they only had a few employees.
Three Employees at Swengel Dairy 1923
Swengel Dairy Building 1923
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Over the years, Swengel Dairy began to gain popularity throughout the city and began to grow rapidly. By the year 1925, they were distributing more than 400 gallons of milk per day from the farm on West Second St. Road, and about 3,000 pounds of Dairy Maid butter were sold each week. By that time, they had hired nine employees, and more than 125 local dairy farmers sold milk and cream to the dairy for distribution. On September 14, 1925 Arthur Newby, who had been a silent
Swengel Dairy Ad from the Seymour Tribune Feb.. 08, 1919
Swengel Dairy Ad asking for the milk bottles back
Set of Swengel Dairy Milk Bottles
Swengel Dairy Advertising as Natures Tonic
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Set of Newby Dairy Milk Bottles, These bottles are from Arthur Newby’s Dairy
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Half Pint Newby Dairy Bottle From Roy Newby’s Dairy
Up close of Newby Dairy Barn Scene, This has the year that Roy started the dairy, 1928
Quart and Pint Newby’s Dairy Bottle From Roy’s Dairy (Front)
Quart and Pint Newby’s Dairy Bottle From Roy’s Dairy (Back)
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business partner with Claude Swengel since 1912, purchased the dairy back for $15,000 and with this purchase had full ownership of the dairy. Mr. Newby continued to operate the business with his sons, Roy and Samuel Newby, while Claude moved to Franklin Indiana and purchased the Franklin Pure Milk Co. Roy Newby left his father and started his own dairy in 1928. The Swengel Dairy is one of many family owned dairies that started small but continued to grow and be very successful and prominent in their city. On a personal note, the bottles mentioned above are fairly rare. One of my very first pyro Newby bottles came from a friend of ours that owned the old flour mill in Vernon Indiana. I was just a about 14 or 15 at the time. He had a high price on the bottle, or at least what I thought was a high price. I finally talked him down to take $25 for it. Square Quart Newby’s Dairy Bottle (front)
Square Quart Newby’s Dairy Bottle (back)
He has since passed, but I will always think of him when I see anything from the Newby Dairy. These bottles make me also think of another family friend that has passed away recently. Funny story, he went to the Newby Ice cream parlor in Crothersville as a kid and got polio there. He would never sell any of the containers or bottles for that reason. I did manage to buy some at his estate sale. I will probably never sell the items due to the sentimental attachment. I have added other bottles and go-withs as time has went on and I'm always looking for something I don't have. Please feel free to contact me.
Front and Back of Newby’s Dairy Ice Cream Container, The picture on the container is their store front in Downtown Seymour
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Indianapolis Circle City Antique Bottle, Advertising and Antiques Show Saturday, September 19, 2020
50th Annual
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September 11 & 12, 2020
Table Top Antiques
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Southern Pottery, Antique Bottles, Fruit Jars, Advertising, Post Cards, Milk Bottles and other Table Top Antiques
Set Up: 7:30am - 9am Show Hours: 9am - 2pm
Dealer Setup & Early Admission Friday, Sept. 11th., 3:00 pm - 8:00 pm & Saturday, Sept. 12th., 7:00 am to 9:00 am
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The R. M. Rose Co. Distillers Yesterday and Today By Bill Johnson
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t isn’t often that a bottle show has a sponsor, but this year we do! The Atlanta Antique Bottle & Pottery Show is pleased to announce that the R. M. Rose Co. Distillery has agreed to lend its name, and honorable tradition, to our show, which will be held at the Smyrna Community Center on September 11th & 12th, 2020. Rufus M. Rose was born May 19, 1836 in New London, Connecticut where he was educated. In his early adult years he moved to New York City, where he practiced phar-
macy and possibly attended medical school. After a while he took a job in Sailor’s Hospital on Long Island, NY. Before the Civil War, he had studied medicine (history is not sure whether he received a diploma) and then moved to Hawkinsville, Georgia. In 1858 he began working in his Uncle Darius Randolph Mathewson’s pharmacy, Mathewson Drug Store (Dr. Rose’s middle name was Mathewson). While he was living there the war broke out in 1861, so this “Connecticut Yankee” enlisted and
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Early Advertising Postcard from the R.M. Distillery, Chattanooga, Tenn.
joined Co. G of the 10th Georgia Regiment, Confederate Army, as an infantry foot soldier. However, he was soon moved into the army’s medical department and was transferred to Williamsburg, Virginia, where he spent some time as an apothecary at William & Mary College’s old hospital. Even though discharged from the Confederate army in December, 1861 – due to a personal injury – he was later mustered back in & joined Capt. Mitchell’s company of Georgia Cavalry (for home defense), continued making medicines for the army until very near the end of the war (probably while working at a hospital in Macon). His first wife, Susan Bowman (Bowen?), died in 1864, and he later married Katherine (Katie) Fleming on April 4, 1865.
Atlanta. He sold his “corn and rye whiskeys to the public from retail outlets he owned and operated in Atlanta.” In his advertising, he claimed his liquors were “the safest, purest drink you can buy.” Other sources say that the Mountain Spring Distillery was actually opened in 1889 in Gilmore, Georgia. Upon Rufus’ retirement in either 1905 or1907, his son Randolph became President of the company, although Rufus retained a financial interest in the business until his death on July 21, 1910
After the war, he saw a great business opportunity in Atlanta, despite the despair and ruin caused by that war. Dr. Rose started the business that would later be called R. M. ROSE Company Distillery in Atlanta in 1867, and it operated continuously until it was shut down by the Prohibition Act (it was about this time that one of Rose’s catch phrases became popular – “Ask the Revenue Officer”). Some sources say Dr. Rose actually began his business under the name Mountain Spring Distillery, and set up his operation in Vinings, Georgia – then a small community about 12 miles North of downtown
Two different stencil jugs, 1st image is Chattanooga and the second images is from the Atlanta Branch
Bottles and Extras (both are buried in Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery). Soon after taking over, Randolph was forced to move the company’s whiskey and distillery to Chattanooga, Tennessee, after the Georgia Legislature voted the state “dry” effective January 1, 1908. An advertisement from the Chattanooga era clearly pictures their “main office at 819-812 Chestnut St.” and their “Pine St. warehouse and shipping department”. That same advertisement also reveals the company had “branches in Jacksonville, Fla., Girard, Ala. Newport, Ky. & Somerset, Ky.” Some sources claim that when Atlanta went “dry” in the mid1880s Dr. Rose moved their wholesale operation to Chattanooga at that time.
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Several Whiskey bottles with original labels, notice some of the bottles are embossed too
A Victorian mansion, the R. M. Rose house was built in the early 1900’s at 481 (later changed to 537) Peachtree St., near the intersection of Linden Avenue and Peachtree St. Among the original items of note were “beautifully carved front steps…and the tiny front yard shaded by a large Elm tree.” Until about 2017, the second floor was home to the Atlanta Museum. I parked near the house recently, and discovered there is now a fence around it with a “For Sale” sign visible. What a pity that this house, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has been allowed to deteriorate so badly! Today, the wonderful R. M. Rose distillery business has re-opened and is located at 890 Franklin St., Dillard, GA 30537, a tiny little town in the extreme northeast corner of the state. Their web site "www.rmroseco.com" assures us that their whiskeys are “copper pot distilled and made with Blue Ridge mountain water.” Down the street a bit is located their storage and shipping building, which contains their “Classic Cypress wood Fermentation vats.” Their phone number, (706) 982-8115, will put you in touch with both their office and tasting room. Tours may be arranged in advance, if desired. The company’s General Manager, Andy Sudderth has perhaps the finest and most complete collection of R. M. Rose bottles, pottery and go withs; some of which are on display in the company’s tasting room. Both Jack Hewitt and John Joiner (Co-Chairs of the 2105 FOHBC National Show) have promised to evaluate and appraise Andy’s collection – WOW! That will be some job. Andy says he will have some of the nicer pieces in his collection on display during our September 2020 show. It is the 50th Anniversary of our show, so make a concerted effort to come be with us!
New R.M.Rose's Distillery on display in Georgia
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
R. M. Rose Company web site Findagrave.com web site Wikipedia article, 11-19-2017 City of Atlanta, Historic Preservation Dept. Interview with Andy Sudderth, April 2020
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The dwelling was the handiwork of a saloonkeeper named Tom Kelly in Rhyolite, Nevada, a gold rush boomtown of the early 1900s. Kelly’s choice of building materials was driven by a lack of good local timber. He chose bottles, he said because “it's very difficult to build a house with lumber from a Joshua tree." Beer bottles were particularly common in Rhyolite, a town that boasted dozens of saloons. Kelly collected and used an estimated 51,000 bottles to construct his structure of glass. The saloon-
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Fig. 5: Ad with cowboy Fig. 4: Augustus Busch
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Fig. 6: Pavilion to glass factory
keeper laid the bottles on their sides, with the bottoms facing out, and mortared them together with adobe mud (Fig 3). For his building materials, Kelly could thank Adolphus Busch, the founder and moving force behind the Anheuser Busch brewery in St. Louis, Missouri. Perhaps wiser than other brewers of his time, Adolphus (Fig. 4) understood that the small and often isolated mining camps and towns of the Old West represented the wealth and future growth of the United States. He literally flooded the mountains, deserts and plains with his golden liquid. Busch ads emphasized bringing the bottled brews by mule train over the hills and through the valleys, led by cowboys in ten gallon hats and riding white horses (Fig. 5). Actually, by the 1900s railroads reached many Western locations, including Rhyolite, and brought cases of beer. The St. Louis “Beer Baron” was fixated on bottles. In order to keep up with his brewery production Busch had an ever-increasing need for glass containers and once was forced to import them from Germany. To be assured of a supply he formed a series of
companies to manufacture bottles. In 1886 Busch bought a glass works in Belleville, Illinois, changing its name to his own. Subsequently he incorporated the Adolphus Busch Glass Manufacturing Co. in St. Louis, buying the Belgian Pavilion at the New Orleans Louisiana Purchase Exposition and moving it to Missouri to be fitted out as his factory (Fig. 6). As a result, the principal base marks found on the bottles Kelly used in his walls are the “AB” of Anheuser Busch (Fig. 7). Almost as numerous in the house are beers with a “R&CO” mark and a number (Fig. 8). Those were from the Reed & Company’s Massillon, Ohio, Glass Works, founded in 1881. That company specialized in supplying beer bottles to western breweries and Adolphus was a major customer. All the bottles used in Kelly’s house would now be well more than 100 years old. Estimates differ widely on how long it took the saloonkeeper to build the three room, L-shaped dwelling. Some accounts say five months, others more than a year. He is believed to have spent about $2,500 on the building with most the money going for wood trim and fixtures. Whatever Kelly’s original intention,
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by the time the house was finished he had a new idea. Whether it was his advancing age, the foresight to see a dim future for Rhyolite, or another reason, upon completion Kelly decided to capitalize on the widespread attention the house had attracted and raffle it off. The lottery was won by a local family named Bennett (Fig. 9). They lived in the bottle house from 1906 until 1914. Subsequently Rhyolite regressed to a ghost town. Through it all, however, Kelly’s shrine to beer bottles survived. In 1925 Paramount Pictures chose the house for the filming of two movies called “Airmail” and “Wanderers of the Wasteland.” The studio repaired the roof and after filming was completed Paramount donated the proper- Fig. 9: Family living in house ty to a Nevada historical preservation group. That organization operated the site as a museum until 1953 when the house was sold to a couple who ran it for a few years as an antique store. In recent years the building has remained standing, although empty, and a tourist attraction for those willing to drive off Nevada State Route 374 to what remains of Rhyolite for a look at the world’s largest collection of century-old beer bottles (Fig. 10). Kelly’s building in the desert has become a shrine to those most neglected of glass containers, the “dead soldiers.”
Fig. 10: Tourist examining house
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being canceled and bottle club meetings postponed, this museum opportunity gives collectors a chance to view the great work that has made the Virtual Museum. Alan, Ferdinand and Miguel have been working on a daily basis putting new images into galleries and I must say, they are exceptional. It’s hard not to like antique bottles and jars when you visit the museum. I’m sure that the Virtual Museum will bring new people into the hobby of antique bottle collecting and related glass objects.
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. **************** If you haven’t yet visited the FOHBC Virtual Museum, your interest in antique bottles and glass may be just a passing fancy. The museum has been open for visits without charges, or free, for a few months now due to the Covid-19 pandemic but we will need to increase funding through membership, donations etc. We are exploring the options. There has been approximately $18,500 spent building the museum to date as I write this in early June. We have a lot of plans ahead that will need financing, so we will be starting a new fundraising campaign. People that are familiar with computer program development and web sites are amazed at the quality and scope of the Virtual Museum. It is and will be the go-to site for antique bottles and other glass objects. Alan DeMaison’s imaging and Ferdinand’s support imagery and research makes for a viewing experience unmatched anywhere online. Right now bitters, historical flasks, jars, spirits, spring & mineral water and target balls have numerous examples in their respective galleries and we are starting to populate the inks, medicines, poisons, fire extinguishers and other galleries with the first examples. It all takes time and effort. Gina Pellegrini will be imaging her father Lou Pellegrini’s food bottle collection for our Foods & Sauces Gallery and if you were at the FOHBC 2012 Reno National Antique Bottle Convention and saw his display, then you should be looking forward to the gallery. The only piece in this gallery at the moment is a really nice cathedral pickle from the Rick Ciralli collection. Alan estimates that by September, he will have 70 target ball images ready for development and up to 90 jars along with lots more bitters, spirits, tableware etc. Keep watching the ever-growing Virtual Museum and for those that haven’t looked yet, what’s up with that? With bottle shows
**************** Specimens in Open Galleries: As of 08 June 2020, we have 280 specimens on shelves Bitters Gallery: 62 (+8) meaning we have added 67 Historical Flasks Gallery: 70 pieces since our last report in Spirits Gallery: 56 (+22) the May-June issue of Bottles and Extras. All with 3-dimenJar Gallery: 50 (+15) sional imaging, superb support Target Ball Gallery: 23 (+7) imagery and facts and informaInks Gallery: 3 tion provided by top specialists Foods & Sauces Gallery: 1 in the collecting area. We are Spring & Mineral Water: 12 currently working on bottles (New Gallery) previously imaged and on shelf displays for each gallery. Also, Medicines: 2 (New Gallery) menu navigation vs. floorplan Fire Extinguishers: 1 navigation is in the works. (New Gallery) ****************
Miguel Ruiz, our web specialist for the museum, is still working from his wifes family home in Almaty, Kazakhstan in central Asia. He corresponds via email and WhatsApp on a daily basis with team members. We wish Miguel the best in these trying times.
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With an abundance of safety, Alan Demaison had canceled his plans a few months back to set up live Virtual Museum imaging at the Reno 2020 National. Our museum team certainly understood this and now look at where we are with no convention this year. Alan, like many of us, has used self isolation to catch up on work that does not involve travel and interaction with others. So basically, Alan is not planning long-distance imaging trips anytime soon. He is contemplating meeting collectors halfway from regional areas near Ohio and possibly renting a clean room at a hotel to meet the collector and image a collection. More news on that as things develop. Alan reports that as of 03 June, his editing schedule includes six unique Steven Hubbell bottles, and six duplicates that are different colors from those already done. We are actually using this duplicate imagery by using hyperlinks within the page. For example, you might see an exceptional J. D. Willoughby jar in our museum and on that same page you will see an image of a second example of a possible J. D. Willoughby with an iron pontil and rolled lip. Click the prompt and it will rotate just like the initial example. Alan has one Kelly’s Old Cabin Bitters from the Cleveland National which is a duplicate but different color and about 40 Finch target balls. He also has about 40 more McCann fruit jars and says that it looks to be two to three months of editing, working 2 to 4 hours a day. Alan is very busy indeed.
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The FOHBC and the Virtual Museum team thank our many donors who have helped us raise almost $35,000 to date. We have close to $15,000 in available funds to continue development to build our galleries, exhibition hall, research library and gift shop. Donations are tax deductible. All donors are listed on our Virtual Museum Recognition wall. With one salaried web technician averaging $1,000 a month, we need help. Plus, we will be planning new trips soon where costs will be incurred. All other time is donated by the Virtual Museum team out of our love and passion for the hobby and the FOHBC. Thank you.
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Killer Bottles Several Georgia sodas from Augusta, Savannah fit the bill
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ave you ever heard collectors at antique bottle shows refer to a “Killer Bottle?” The expression is commonly used by participants in our hobby and by definition has a number of meanings: One of a kind, super rare, attic-mint condition, superb coloration, or all of the above. And you can expect to pay a premium price for such an example. However, the term took on another more literal meaning during my research into the backgrounds of pioneer Georgia soda manufacturers E.D. Meyer and John F. Meyer of Augusta. I sought to learn whether the two were related and stumbled across another Meyer – August W. Meyer, a Savannah, Georgia bottler, who had something else in common with E.D. Meyer besides their products: Both were tragically killed.
Here is an early newspaper ad for E. D. Meyer advertising Soda Water
For an unknown reason, he left Augusta in the late 1850s or early 1860s, settling in the city of Savannah 130 miles to the south. Census records list his occupation in the port city as “Bar Room Keeper,” but did not pursue the soda water business since no Savannah bottles bearing his name are known. The census also revealed he was married to Hanover native Katrina and they had a son, Augustus. A daughter was born later, probably in Savannah. On Aug. 26, 1861, Meyer enlisted as a corporal in the German Volunteers of the Confederate Army after the outbreak of the Civil War. He served in the 1st Georgia Infantry Regiment until he was captured by northern forces at nearby Fort Pulaski in 1862. He was held as a prisoner of war until his release during an exchange of prisoners in July. He was captured a second time in June of 1864 at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain near Golgotha, Georgia. He was sent to the Union’s Rock Island Prison on the Mississippi River between Davenport, Iowa and Rock Island, Illinois. It was one of the largest
Historical records reveal Ehlers Dietrich Meyer was born in Hanover, Germany in 1825, He was of fair complexion, had blue eyes and blond hair and stood 5-feet, 3-1/2 inches tall. He would have been in his late teens or early 20s when he emigrated to Augusta in the late 1840s or early 1850s. The records show that he became a naturalized American citizen in the city’s Court of Common Pleas on Dec. 8, 1853. He may have become the city’s first soda water manufacturer and bottler when he placed an advertisement in the Daily Chronicle and Sentinel in 1851. Readers learned Meyer was “manufacturing the best article of SODA WATER” and could “deliver it daily and in any quantity and in any part of the city.” He operated his soda water business throughout the 1850s, packaging his beverages in cobalt blue blobtopped bottles with graphite (iron) pontiled bases. They were embossed E.D. MEYER / AUGUSTA, GA. In large block lettering. There may be less than two dozen in existence.
Killer Cobalt for soda water bottles from the E D Meyer Soda Water Co.. (Photos courtesy of Mike Newman)
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and most notorious of Union prisons, with food severely rationed, leading to malnutrition and death among its inmates. But Meyer survived and took the oath of allegiance to the United States on January 26, 1865. He was released about three months before the end of the war. He returned to Savannah and may have started a grocery business adjacent to his liquor store at the corner of East Brandy and Jackson streets. The business prospered, but Meyer soon found himself in a lot of trouble. He became a drunkard and an adulterer and physically abused his wife, according to accounts in the Savannah Morning News. On May 28, 1873, the Meyers’ son, August, returned home to find his drunken father inside the grocery beating his mother. The young man grabbed his rifle and shot his father to death. Newspaper accounts revealed Catrina had discovered her husband having sex with a neighboring woman inside an outhouse and the discovery resulted in her being severely beaten by her husband. August was arrested and indicted for murder, but the jury ruled the homicide was justified and found him innocent. August took over operation of the store and the 1870 census shows the son, his mother and sister Catherine living in Savannah. But August later moved to Atlanta where he was employed by the George W. Woodside Realty Company. Exit this August and another Here is a pair of soda bottles from A.W. Meyer, Savannah, Ga. enters. During the early 1880s, August W. Meyer emigrated to Savannah from Germany and started a soda water business at Duffy and West Broad streets. Only two bottles from this firm are extant: ginger ales in aquamarine and teal green embossed A.W. Meyer / 1885 / Savannah, Ga., and a super rare aqua soda embossed A.W. Meyer / Savannah, Ga., in a tombstone-shaped slug plate. Not much about his personal life is known, but his business burned in 1891 and was quickly rebuilt. Here is an early newspaper ad for John F. Meyer advertising Soda Water in Augusta, Ga.
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KIller colors for soda water bottles from the John E Meyer Sada Water Co. (Photos Coutesy of Mike Newman)
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Tragically on January 24, 1892, the 32-year-old Meyer was attacked and murdered by robbers who broke his skull and cut his throat, leaving him “lying in a pool of blood in his soda water factory,” according to a newspaper story. It was reported the robbers stole his money, a watch, diamond ring and diamond scarf pin. One of his murderers was a Negro, Gus Williams, who while awaiting his fate in jail reportedly sold his head to phrenologist Benjamin Cole for $15. Another of those charged was Joe Blois, reportedly a former employee of Meyer. Williams was hanged on July 22, 1892. Exit another August, enter John Frederick Meyer. He was born in 1833 in Hanover, Germany, emigrating to New York City in 1849. He and his brother, Herman, were living together, according to the city census of 1850. Herman was listed as a grocer and John a clerk. My research led me to Trow’s New York City Directory which listed John and a partner named Rottman operating a soda water business at 94 Thompson Street in 1856. John was 23 years old. Only one aquamarine bottle is known and the iron-pontiled example is embossed Meyer & Rottman / New York. Four years later, for unknown reasons John had moved to Augusta. Surely it is just a coincidence that he and E.D. were both Hanover natives and that E.D. had moved to Savannah, opening a business door for John. It’s one of those stories that likely will never be known.
Here is an early H & J Meyer Soda bottle from New York (Picture from Ken Previtali)
John’s smooth-based bottles were produced in many colors including forest green, teal green, yellow-green and clear glass. They were embossed JOHN F. MEYER / AUGUSTA, GA. His business was located at 99 Centre Street, now called Fifth Street, located a short distance from the city’s main street called Broad Street. He later moved to 36 Centre just
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down the street from his original address and nearer to the Lower Market (later destroyed by a tornado) at the intersection of Broad and Centre streets. His products included bottled ale, porter, lemon syrup and Stoughton Bitters, with cream ale and champagne cider among new products sold at the later address. Perhaps his brother Herman had need of his brother because John moved back to NYC to become a partner in the soda water business from 1869 to 1876. Only two bottles are known – a squat or pony in aqua embossed H & J.F. MEYER / NEW YORK and an aqua ginger ale embossed H. & J.F. Meyer / BELFAST GINGER ALE / 139 S. 5th AVE. / N.Y. The firm moved once, winding up at 139 South Fifth Ave. John appears to have worked for himself in the soda and mineral water business from 1880 onward. The final record of his business was listed in the 1891 Manhattan City Directory as 528 Washington Street, Manhattan. The property consisted of 11 acres and was known to be in Spring Valley, Rockland County, New York. After his move from Augusta, John and his wife Wilhelmina became the parents of seven children: William and Ellen, born in Augusta; Mary George, Louisa, Matilda and Minnie in New York. On July 12, 1896, John F. Meyer died at home. He was buried n the Lutheran cemetery in NYC. Executive of his estate was his son, Dr. George Meyer, and his will identified his middle initial as standing for Frederick, the only known record to reveal that information. I was not able to learn if E.D. and John F. were related, but I was rewarded with many other facts in their life histories. Every “body” (in this case, “bottle”) has a story to tell and for me, the Meyers’ containers will always be remembered as “KILLER BOTTLES.” SOURCES: E.D. Meyer and John F. Meyer, Bottling Up History: Long before Coca Cola, what did Augustans drink? Bill Baab’s story in The Augusta Chronicle, June 3, 2019. E.D. Meyer, Daily Constitutionalist, 1846-51, advertisement, April 29, 1851, Image 3; Daily Chronicle & Sentinel, Augusta, 1837-1876, August 2, 1857, Image 1, Georgia Newspapers Digital Library. E.D. Meyer, 1860 City of Savannah Census, Chatham County, Ga., 4th District, Page 349; 1870 Census, Same. E.D. Meyer, Compiled Service Records if Confederate Soldiers who Served in the Organizations from the State of Georgia, Roll 139, First (Olmstead’s) Infantry, National Archives Microfilm Publications. E.D. Meyer, 1869 Registry List to Vote, Savannah Morning News 1868-1887, Feb. 3, 1869, Image 2. E.D. Meyer Obituary, Boy Kills Father in Savannah, Daily Columbus Enquirer, 1858-73, May 10, 1873, Image 1, Digital Library Georgia Newspapers. August W. Meyer, Savannah Sodas – An Illustrated List by Russ Butler, Havana, Fla., Page 16, 1998. August W. Meyer Obituary in Savannah Morning News, Jan,. 25, 1892, Page 9. John F. Meyer, 1860 Georgia Census, 1880 New York Census and 1890 Police Cen sus, NYC, Election District 10, Assembly 9, M248. John F. Meyer, soda ads, Daily Chronicle & Sentinel, Augusta, 1837-1876, Dec. 24, 1859, Image 2, Digital Library George Newspapers. John F. Meyer, State of New York, certificate and record of death. John F. Meyer, Manhattan probated will, Sept. 18, 1896, Liber 553, Page 394.
Here is an later version of the H & J.F. Meyer Soda bottle from New York(Picture from Ken Previtali)
John F. Meyer, 1891 Manhattan City Directory, Manufacturer of Mineral Water, 528 Washington Street.
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“J.M. Lindsey and his World Renown Blood Searcher” By: Zack Baer, with significant contributions by Bill Lindsey
How I Caught the Blood Bottle Bug
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aving been born and raised in western Pennsylvania, I have always had a fascination for early druggist bottles from the area. To me, one of the quintessential western PA druggist bottles has to be “Lindsey’s Blood Searcher.” It is a large, imposing rectangular bottle with sunken panels, and an applied top. My bottle collecting buddy Jeff Mahalik just so happens to have two Lindsey’s in his collection. He has a killer dark olive-green taper top variant embossed with the town name of Hollidaysburg, which he dug with Rick Ronczka, and Digger O’Dell behind the house of a river boat captain (the story of the dig was published in Antique Bottle and Glass Collector, October 2005; “A Rare Find”). The other variant Jeff owns is an aqua example with a double collar applied lip with the city of Pittsburgh embossed on it. This is a more common variant but still looks great sitting on his self. Since I found myself staring at these bottles every time I went over to visit Jeff, I soon realized I needed to add a Lindsey’s to my own collection. I didn’t have the funds required to purchase an olive-green Hollidaysburg example (even if I could find one for sale), so I decided I should settle for an aqua one instead. So, the hunt began. I was lucky enough to find a nice aqua Pittsburgh example at the Washington, PA bottle show on the table of fellow club members Bob and Edna DeCroo. We talked about the bottle for a while and eventually they agreed to trade me for it. Finally finding myself the owner of a Lind-
sey’s, I figured I had better find out a bit more about the bottle’s history. I read the short history excerpts in my bottle books and soon started scouring the internet for more information. Eventually, my search led me to Bill Lindsey [creator of the Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information Website (https:// sha.org/bottle/); as a side note, if you have never visited the website go check it out it is an invaluable resource!] and his extensive Lindsey’s collection. I sent Bill an e-mail and he informed me he has been a longtime Lindsey’s collector (because of the proprietors last name) and that he currently owns nine different mold variations of the bottle. I asked him if he knew of any articles or books that provide a more of an in-depth look at the history of Lindsey and his medicine and he said that he did not. This got my wheels turning. Using Bill’s knowledge of the Lindsey’s bottle variants, I thought I could pull together some history and write an article. Luckily Bill agreed to help in my endeavor, so off to the newspaper archives I went… The History
Figure 1. One of the first newspaper advertisements for Lindsey’s Blood Searcher, from The Lancaster Examiner, 7 April 1858.
Not a lot is known about Jesse M. Lindsey, the inventor of the blood searcher which bears his name. He was born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania in September 1822 to James and Rachel Lindsey. He was described as 5 foot 6 inches tall with a sandy complexion, blue eyes & sandy colored hair. Lindsey married Hannah Ann Townsend Aultz on 18 December 1846, together the couple went on to have nine children together. The 1850 census listed Lindsey’s oc-
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Mold 3 – “LINDSEY’S // BLOOD + / SEARCHER // HOLLIDAYSBURG”, Color: deep olive green
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Unfortunately, a fire entirely consumed Lemon’s laboratory near the Pennsylvania Railroad Depot in February 1861. After which it appears Lemon transferred the rights to the blood searcher to his Pittsburgh wholesale agent George Keyser. I could not find any documentation of when this transfer of rights officially took place but I believe it likely occurred soon after the fire. By January 1862 Keyser was advertising his proprietorship of Lindsey’s Blood Searcher from his office at 140 Wood Street, Pittsburgh, PA. Keyser went on to use newspaper advertisement testimonials to proclaim the superiority of Figure 2. Advertising cover for R.M. Lemon’s Lindsey’s Improved Blood Searcher, circa 1860, from the Schuy- “his” blood searcher formula: ler Rumsey Philatelic Auction, Sale 82: United States Advertising Covers, Lot 3588.
cupation as “Druggist” and it should be noted that Lindsey was likely producing his Lindsey’s Cholera & Diarrhea Medicine and Lindsey’s Cough Balsam around this time. According to an early newspaper advertisement, Lindsey first formulated his blood searcher in the fall of 1854 when his daughter fell victim of “Cancrum Oris (Canker of the mouth) … her mouth and cheeks were literally rotten… (and) everything (was) indicating a speedy and horrible death.” The advertisement continues on: “Mr. Lindsey prepared a compound for the purpose of alleviating, if possible, the pains of the little sufferer. She was made to use it freely, and in a short time, to his most delightful astonishment, there was a very perceptible change for the better… Hope was inspired, and the use of the compound was faithfully continued, the result of which, with the blessing of God, was her complete restoration. She is now perfectly healthy! From this circumstance, Mr. Lindsey was led to prepare, with greater care and exactness, what had so astonishingly cured his child, and continued his experimental efforts until he succeeded in bringing to perfection his Great Remedy for Blood Impurity” It seems that Lindsey began to sell his blood searcher in a commercial capacity by late 1856 as his first patient testimonials are dated 1857 (if the blood searcher was sold prior to that date there should be earlier testimonials). By July 1858, Lindsey had made a partnership with R. M. Lemon under the name of Lindsey & Lemon and together they shared the proprietorship of the blood searcher. Business prospered and Lindsey’s Blood Searcher was being sold at multiple drug stores all over Pennsylvania. As was customary at the time, an agent was appointed to assist with the distribution of the medicine. Dr. George H. Keyser was selected as the Pittsburgh wholesale and retail agent by May 1859. At the same time, it seems Lindsey decided to withdraw from the manufacture of the blood searcher. By June 1859, advertisements began to list the sole proprietor as Lemon. There were still a few lingering advertisements listing both Lindsey & Lemon as proprietors until around July 1860, but an October 1860 billhead does
“I would also state that I took the Blood Searcher which was made before Dr. Keyser commenced making it. Although it helped me some, I did not recover fast, until I got the kind made by Dr. Keyser himself. One bottle of his did more good than two of the old. I believe it is a great deal stronger and better” Lindsey however did not agree with Keyser’s ownership of the blood searcher and began to once again prepare his medicine in Hollidaysburg by early 1862. He enlisted Pittsburgh druggist Simon Johnston as a sole agent by March 1862 and went on to denounce the Keyser’s Lindsey’s Blood Searcher. So, both Lindsey and Keyser were selling their own Lindsey’s Blood Searcher and calling each other’s medicines counterfeiters.
Figure 3. One of the many outlandish newspaper testimonials provided to entice prospective clientele to try Lindsey’s Blood Searcher; from the Altoona Tribune, 10 March 1863.
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be prosecuted to the extent of the law.” Supposedly Fulton even employed Lindsey as a part time superintendent and even claimed that Lindsey himself “will be permanently located at Nos. 67 and 69 Fifth St., where he is now preparing blood searcher.” This was likely a marketing tactic however as there is no proof Lindsey ever moved to Pittsburgh from his Hollidaysburg home. It seems Keyser was not very concerned about Fulton’s threat of prosecution as he continued selling the blood searcher only adding his own name in front of the medicine’s title: “Dr. Keyser’s Lindsey’s Blood Searcher”. His own advertisements went on to state: “Look out for the name of Dr. Geo. H. Keyser on the cover of the bottle and pasted over the cork; also for his United States stamp on the top of the bottle, to prevent being imposed upon by a spurious article which is in the market.”
Figure 4. The beginning of an 1863 newspaper ad in which J.M. Lindsey announces to the world not to buy Keyser’s counterfeit Lindsey’s Blood Searcher; from the Raftsman’s Journal, 25 February 1863.
An interesting side note: Keyser enlisted Lindsey’s ex-agent Simon Johnston to help him sell his version of the blood searcher. This was the same blood searcher that just years earlier Johnston was advertising against. Clearly Johnston did not appreciate Lindsey pulling his contract with him and selling the medicine rights to Fulton. Johnston even went so far as to place an advertisement for “Dr. Keyser’s Lindsey’s Blood Searcher” denounc-
Wanting to once again get away from the manufacturing of medicine, Lindsey pulled the blood searcher rights from Johnston and instead sold them to J.M. Fulton (office being located at Nos. 67 and 69 Fifth Street, Pittsburgh, PA) on 21 November 1863. Fulton firmly placed his claim on the medicine stating in his inaugural newspaper advertisement “upon every bottle the name of J.M. Fulton should appear… every infraction of my trade-mark will
Figure 5. A newspaper ad placed by J.M. Fulton outlining his ownership to Lindsey’s Blood Searcher, from The Pittsburgh Gazette, 7 December 1864.
Figure 6. A newspaper ad showing the start of the transition from Dr. Keyser’s Lindsey’s Blood Searcher to Keyser’s Blood Searcher, from the Altoona Tribune, 4 May 1864.
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Bottle Mold Variants Bill has documented 10 individual Lindsey’s Blood Searcher bottle mold variants and there are at least two different Keyser’s Blood Searcher bottle mold variants. At first glance some of these variants can be difficult to distinguish since the embossing found on these bottles barely changed over the nearly 75 years of production. Notes on how to distinguish
each mold are provided with each mold listed. It is possible, and even likely, that the variant list below is incomplete. Hopefully, as more people take note of their particular bottle’s mold this list can be added to. Lindsey Variants
Mold 2 – “LINDSEY’S // BLOOD + / SEARCHER // PITTSBURGH PA.”, Color: aqua; Dimensions: 8 3/4”h, 3 11/16”w, 2 3/8”d; Base: hinge mold or red iron pontil (possibly unique); Finish: applied double ring; Embossing notes: This is the only Lindsey variant embossed with the state abbreviation after the city name. Notes: This is the only Pittsburgh variant that is found with an iron pontil. This bottle is very similar to the Dr. Keyser’s Blood Searcher bottle (description below) in appearance, and both bottles have the state abbreviation. It is possible that this is the first bottle used by Keyser after purchasing the medicine’s rights from Lemon. Estimated production date: 1862-1866.
Mold 1 – “LINDSEY’S // BLOOD + / SEARCHER // HOLLIDAYSBURG”, Color: aqua; Dimensions: 9”h, 3 15/16”w, 2 11/16”d; Base: hinge mold (relatively abundant) or red iron pontil (very rare); Finish: applied double ring; Embossing notes: serif font, the “G” at the end of Hollidaysburg looks like a sloppy “C”. Notes: This is the only Hollidaysburg variant that is found with an iron pontil. Estimated production date: 1856-1864.
Mold 3 – “LINDSEY’S // BLOOD + / SEARCHER // HOLLIDAYSBURG”, Color: deep olive green; Dimensions: 9 3/16”h, 3 15/16”w, 2 3/4”d; Base: hinge mold; Finish: applied one part oil finish (taper top); Embossing notes: The “G” in Hollidaysburg is of a gothic font distinctly different from Molds 1 & 4. Notes: While not found with a pontil base, these bottles are very crude and have been dug in privies along with early pontil bottles. Estimated production date: 1856-1864.
Mold 4 – “LINDSEY’S // BLOOD + / SEARCHER // HOLLIDAYSBURG”, Color: aqua; Dimensions: 9 1/8”h, 3 15/16”w, 2 11/16”d; Base: hinge mold; Finish: applied one part oil finish (taper top); Embossing notes: Serif font, The “G” in Hollidaysburg is a typical “G” not like those found on Mold 1 or 3. Notes: This bottle looks similar to Mold 3 but has steeper sloping shoulders. This bottle has been dug in privies along with early pontil bottles. Estimated production date: 1856-1864.
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Mold 5 – “LINDSEY’S // BLOOD + / SEARCHER // PITTSBURGH.”, Color: aqua; Dimensions: 9 1/8”h, 3 13/16”w, 2 3/4”d; Base: hinge mold; Finish: applied double ring; Embossing notes: The only variant that has a period after the “H” in Pittsburgh. The “S” in Pittsburgh resembles a “9”, likely resulting from the mold engraver forgetting to reverse the “S” and then trying to fix the mistake. Estimated production date: 1862-1866.
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Mold 7 – “LINDSEY’S // BLOOD + / SEARCHER // PITTSBURGH”, Color: aqua; Dimensions: 8 3/4”h, 3 3/4”w, 2 1/2”d; Base: post mold; Finish: applied double ring; Embossing notes: There is a significant amount of peening or mold repair beneath the “Lindsey’s” and “Pittsburgh” embossing on bottle’s side panels. Estimated production date: late 1860s/ early 1870s - mid/late 1870s.
Mold 8 – “PITTSBURGH // LINDSEY’S / BLOOD / SEARCHER // R.E. SELLERS & CO PROP’S”, Color: aqua; Dimensions: 8 7/8”h, 3 5/8”w, 2 1/4”d; Base: post mold; Finish: applied double ring; Embossing notes: serif “S”, “L”, “B” and some of the “E”s. This is the only R.E. Sellers & Co variant that does not have a period “Co”. Estimated production date: mid/late 1870s - mid 1880s.
Mold 6 – “LINDSEY’S // BLOOD + / SEARCHER // PITTSBURGH”, Color: aqua; Dimensions: 8 1/4”h, 3 3/4”w, 2 1/2”d; Base: hinge mold; Finish: applied double ring; Notes: This is the shortest of all of the Lindsey bottles and is also one of the most abundant variants. Estimated production date: 1862-1866. Mold 6 is on the right Mold 9 – “PITTSBURGH // LINDSEY’S / BLOOD / SEARCHER // R.E. SELLERS & CO. PROP’S”, Color: aqua; Dimensions: 8 13/16”h, 3 11/16”w, 2 1/4”d; Base: cup base mold; Finish: tooled sharp angled double ring; Embossing notes: sans serif embossing except the “T” and “E”s. Estimated production date: mid/late 1880s - early 1890s.
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Mold 10 – “PITTSBURGH // LINDSEY’S / BLOOD / SEARCHER // R.E. SELLERS & CO. PROP’S”, Color: clear (relatively common), pink amethyst (rare); Dimensions: 8 13/16”h, 3 5/8”w, 2 3/16”d; Base: cup base mold; Finish: tooled sharp angled double ring, some are found with the bottom ring almost non-existent; Embossing notes: sans serif embossing. Notes: This variant still has R.E. Sellers & Co. embossed on the bottle, however, there are labeled examples with the writing “McCullough Drug Co., Sole Distributors / Lawrenceburg, Indiana / Successors to W.J. Gilmore Drug Co., Pittsburg, Pa.”. Since McCullough did not own the rights to the blood searcher until 1917, it is likely this mold was originally cut for Sellers and was continually used by Gilmore and then McCullough. Why they would not remove the past proprietors name from the bottle is unknown. Estimated production date: late 1890s -late 1910s.
Mold 7 – “LINDSEY’S // BLOOD + / SEARCHER // PITTSBURGH”, Color: aqua; Dimensions: 8 3/4”h, 3 3/4”w, 2 1/2”d; Base: post mold; Finish: applied double ring; Embossing notes: There is a significant amount of peening or mold repair beneath the “Lindsey’s” and “Pittsburgh” embossing on bottle’s side panels. Estimated production date: late 1860s/ early 1870s - mid/late 1870s.
Mold 3 – “LINDSEY’S // BLOOD + / SEARCHER // HOLLIDAYSBURG”, Color: deep olive green; Dimensions: 9 3/16”h, 3 15/16”w, 2 3/4”d; Base: hinge mold; Finish: applied one part oil finish (taper top); Embossing notes: The “G” in Hollidaysburg is of a gothic font distinctly different from Molds 1 & 4. Notes: While not found with a pontil base, these bottles are very crude and have been dug in privies along with early pontil bottles. Estimated production date: 1856-1864.
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Mold 8 – “PITTSBURGH // LINDSEY’S / BLOOD / SEARCHER // R.E. SELLERS & CO PROP’S”, Color: aqua; Dimensions: 8 7/8”h, 3 5/8”w, 2 1/4”d; Base: post mold; Finish: applied double ring; Embossing notes: serif “S”, “L”, “B” and some of the “E”s. This is the only R.E. Sellers & Co variant that does not have a period “Co”. Estimated production date: mid/late 1870s - mid 1880s.
Mold 1 – “DRKEYSER’S // BLOOD + / SEARCHER // PITTSBURGH PA”, Color: aqua, green (rare); Dimensions: 9 1/4”h, 3 5/8”w, 2 3/16”d; Base: hinge mold; Finish: applied double ring; Embossing notes: serif “S” in searcher. When looking at the front panel horizontally the “B” in blood starts directly above the end of the letter “S” in searcher below; Estimated production date: 1866 - mid 1870s. Mold 2 – “DRKEYSER’S // BLOOD + / SEARCHER // PITTSBURGH PA”, Color: aqua; Dimensions: Unknown (likely similar to the Keyser mold 1); Base: Unknown (likely hinge mold); Finish: Applied double ring; Embossing notes: sans serif embossing. When looking at the front panel horizontally the “B” in blood is directly in line with the “E” in searcher below it; Notes: A single photo of this variant was found online but little information was provided. Estimated production date: 1866 - mid 1870s.
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sive sale meant that Lindsey would never again own the rights to his blood searcher. It is possible Lindsey made this permanent sale, instead of a temporary one, because he was planning on leaving to fight in the Civil War. He enlisted in March 1865 as a private in the Co. H Regiment 103 of the Pennsylvania infantry. Fulton and Sellers began heavily competing with one another for a stake in the blood searcher game and soon Sellers began to pull ahead. This did not sit well with Fulton. In 1865, he filed a $10,000 lawsuit alleging the loss of business caused by Sellers’ publications and statements denying Fulton the right to manufacture Lindsey’s Blood Searcher. However, Fulton’s tactic misfired, and the case was dismissed as a non-suit. Sellers struck back in May 1866 by filing an injunction against Fulton to stop him once and for all from producing the blood searcher. With the signed bill of sale from Lindsey in hand, Sellers prevailed and the court ordered Fulton to stop the sale of the blood searcher in July 1867. Fulton appealed but was unsuccessful and was ordered to stop all manufacturing and sales of the medicine in November 1867. It seems this court battle did not go unnoticed by Keyser or perhaps Sellers then went after Keyser as well. Whatever the case, by July 1866 Keyser dropped “Lindsey’s” from his medicine’s name and continued to sell it as Dr. Keyser’s Blood Searcher. Keyser moved his drug store to 167 Liberty Street in January 1869 in order to expand his drug business selling his blood searcher and his now popular Keyser’s Pectoral Syrup, and Keyser’s Lung Cure. Interestingly, around the same time Keyser began to distance himself from the drug business. He instead devoted himself to the practice of medicine (particularly focusing on the lungs). I was unable to find any advertisements for Keyser’s Blood Searcher after 1871 but there are advertisements
Figure 7. An early R.E. Sellers & Co. newspaper ad which includes a transfer of rights testimony written by J.M. Lindsey; from The Summit County Beacon, 16 March 1865.
ing Fulton’s claim of ownership and claiming that he held Lindsey’s “exclusive appointment” to sell the medicine. Lindsey’s sale of rights to Fulton did however come with a caveat; the rights for the blood searcher were only valid for the period of one year, meaning that Fulton’s rights to the blood searcher expired in November 1864. It seems Fulton either blatantly ignored this, or was unaware of the stipulation, as he continued to produce the medicine well past this date believing he was the rightful owner. Lindsey on the other hand was well aware of the expiration and had even found a new buyer. On 7 October 1864, Lindsey sold his “perpetual and exclusive” rights to his blood searcher to R.E. Sellers & Co. for the sum of $500. This exclu-
Figure 8. Lindsey’s Blood Searcher trade card produced by R.E. Sellers & Co., from the collection of Bill Lindsey.
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Figure 11. An ad proclaiming Lindsey’s return to the world of patent medicine with his Lindsey’s World-Renowned Panacea, from the book: History of the City of Altoona and Blair County. Including Sketches of the Shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. 1880.
Figure 9. A newspaper ad in which Fulton made it clear that they were not going to stop producing Lindsey’s Blood Searcher without a fight, from The Pittsburgh Daily Commercial, 6 August 1867.
for his other medicines up until 1889. It seems possible Keyser rebranded the blood searcher as his lung cure. This assumption is based off of an 1873 advertisement that heralds the dangers of “impure and faulty” blood and promotes Keyser’s Lung Cure’s ability to “restore the blood”. Meanwhile, Lindsey had survived the war after being discharged in June 1865 due to injury. He eventually settled in Altoona, PA and by 1880 was once again producing a line of patent medicines, this time under the partnership of Lindsey & Beckman at 11th Avenue. Conveniently, Lindsey had a “new and wonderful remedy for the blood” which he went on to name: Lindsey’s World-Renowned Panacea. This seems like a blatant attempt to ride his earlier medicine’s success after possibly regretting selling his rights to it. Later advertisements would go a step farther and call the medicine “the only genuine blood purifier”. Lindsey, however, did not receive the world-renowned fame he once had. By 1886, newspapers were referring to Lindsey as “a medical practitioner of doubtful reputation” and local boys made it a habit to call him “quack” when they saw him on the streets. The boys apparently harassed Lindsey so much so that newspapers report an instance where he “armed himself with an immense horse pistol 14 inches in length and then sallied forth with a determination to perforate the first urchin who should make game of him”. He shot into the crowd of hecklers and injured two innocent bystanders. No doubt this did little to improve his reputation. Lindsey’s name was further tarnished in June 1888 when he was arrested for attempting to conduct an abortion. This was a criminal offense at the time and the court took no pity on him. He was sentenced to two years in the western penitentiary and subsequently died in October 1890 (possibly while still in jail). The last advertisement I could find for Lindsey’s World-Renowned Panacea was placed in April 1891.
Figure 10. A newspaper ad for Dr. Keyser’s Blood Searcher with no mention to Lindsey; from the Pittsburgh Daily Post, 25 Jan 1868.
While Lindsey was trying to reclaim a stake in the patent medicine game, Sellers was capitalizing on their blood searcher investment.
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Figure 12. An original Lindsey’s World-Renowned Panacea advertising sign circa 1880 from the collection of Bill Lindsey.
They began heavily advertising Lindsey’s Blood Searcher in the mid-1870s and it quickly became one of Sellers most popular medicines. Sellers continued to advertise Lindsey’s Blood Searcher until May 1893, but by April 1898, Sellers had sold the rights to the medicine to the W.J. Gilmore Drug Company of Pittsburgh. Gilmore must have had some success selling the medicine as it went on to protect its investment by filing a trade mark for a stylized logo for the medicine on 11 November 1913. The trade mark was granted 10 March 1914. Even so, this time period was hard on the patent medicines of old as the world was realizing these preparations provided little to no medical benefit to the user. In June of 1906, the Food and Drugs Act was passed as the first Federal effort to regulate adulterated and misbranded food and drugs. The Act directed the U.S. Bureau of Chemistry to inspect products in question and refer offenders to prosecutors. In February 1916, the Bureau confiscated a shipment of Lindsey’s Blood Searcher for testing. Analyses showed that the medicine “consisted essentially of extracts of plant drugs, salicylic acid (0.1%), alcohol (10%), and water.” At the time, Gilmore was advertising the blood searcher as a harmless vegetable compound, however, the Bureau determined the medicine contained non-vegetable ingredients that could be potentially harmful. It was determined that Gilmore had misrepresented its medicine and a $50.00 fine was leveled against the company in June of 1918. However, before the Bureau’s ruling, Gilmore must have realized its blood searcher was being investigated and that it was in danger of losing its medicines credibility. In an effort to squeeze the last bit of revenue out of the soon to be denounced medicine, Gilmore sold the rights to Lindsey’s Blood Searcher to the McCullough Drug Company of Lawrenceburg, Indiana in Figure 13. The first W.J. Gilmore Co. Lindsey’s Improved Blood Searcher ad; February 1917 for $1,500.00. from the Butler Citizen, 14 April 1898. McCullough held the rights to Lindsey’s Blood Searcher for the remainder of the medicine’s life. It seems the blood searcher was still being advertised, all be it very infrequently, as late as 1925 but its days of being a well-respected remedy were over. The
blood searcher had come to be known as a nostrum. A newspaper article mentioning the blood searcher put it like this: “The medicine at one time had a world-wide reputation… but like all patent medicines, it ran its day and has passed out of existence”
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Figure 14. W.J. Gilmore Drug Co.’s Lindsey’s Improved Blood Searcher original box and labeled bottle, manufactured between 1906-1917, from the collection of Bill Lindsey.
Final Thoughts Due to this lack of embossing change on the blood searcher bottles, it is difficult to attribute a specific mold to a specific proprietor. Also adding to the confusion is the fact that multiple proprietors were producing the medicine simultaneously and when the medicine rights changed hands the new proprietors often used the previous proprietors’ bottles, and bottle molds. However, it is almost certain that all Hollidaysburg embossed bottles should date after 1856 when Lindsey began selling his medicine and before 1864 when Lindsey sold his rights to the medicine to Sellers. All Pittsburgh embossed bottles should date after 1861 or 1862 when the blood searcher rights were sold by Lemon to Keyser. Any bottle embossed with R.E. Sellers would date after the Sellers acquisition in fall of 1864.
bottle mold made with the city name of Pittsburgh embossed on it (mold 2). Then sometime around 1866 Keyser had a new mold made removing Lindsey’s name and replacing it with his own (Keyser molds 1 and 2). After Lindsey returned to manufacturing his medicine in 1862, he again would have had a Hollidaysburg embossed bottle (mold 1). This would have been the bottle sold in Pittsburgh by Johnston in 1862 and 1863. Whether Fulton had their own bottles made when they procured the rights to the blood searcher from Lindsey in November 1863 is unknown, but they would have had to have their own bottles made after Lindsey pulled the rights from them in the fall of 1864 as they continued to sell their medicine until the court injunction in July 1867 (mold 5 and 6). Sellers used multiple bottle molds over the years (possibly mold 7 and definitely molds 8 - 10).
My hope for this article is to shed some light on these great western Pennsylvania medicine bottles. Hopefully, this article To narrow each bottle variant further is based on manufacturing will help light the spark of interest in future medicine bottle coltechniques and supposition. While it will likely never be valilectors the same way Jeff’s bottles lit the spark for me. If anyone dated here is my theory: Lindsey himself and/or Lemon most has a comment, like to Collection report an unlisted mold, or would likely had an early bottle embossed Hollidaysburg (likely mold 3 painted A SUPER rare Yosemite Beer reverse Sign Fromwould TheSchwartz just like to discuss these bottles feel free to contact me at zackand 4, possibly mold 1). Upon receiving the rights to the medibaer5014@gmail.com. cine from Lemon (in 1861 or 1862), Keyser likely had his own
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Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors 17 May 2020 To our Dear Members, Dealers and Attendees of the 2020 Reno National Antique Bottle Convention, During this unprecedented time, our Board of Directors and Show Chairmen have been closely monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic. We have gathered information from many sources on local and national levels for several months. Our utmost concern has always been the safety of all our attendees while traveling to and attending our event. Because of this, in addition to the high degree of uncertainty the coming months will bring, the FOHBC Board of Directors has made the very difficult decision to cancel the 2020 Reno National Antique Bottle Convention. Show chairmen will contact dealers and attendees who have already submitted contracts in the progression of changing the course of planning the convention. Please be patient with these individuals who have volunteered their time to closing the planning of the convention. Members, look for any announcements regarding the annual membership meeting on the FOHBC website or within Bottle and Extras magazine. So much planning goes into an annual convention, and there is a team of people working tirelessly on a show that cannot go on this year. Our many thanks as an organization goes out to these men and women. As a National organization, we have a responsibility to all our members. We want to be able to gather with you all again soon! The friendships we collect alongside the bottles are more valuable than the glass. So, please, stay healthy; stay safe! We look forward to seeing you in 2021 at the FOHBC National Antique Bottle Convention in Syracuse, New York! Dutifully, Elizabeth Lacy FOHBC Public Relations Director cc: FOHBC – FOHBC Board of Directors, FOHBC Members File: Reno2020Canceled_ElizabethLacy_051720
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one there in the holler was kin to us in one way or another. We always dreaded garden season as kids, oh the work involved and those first blisters from the hoes and mattocks, but we survived. There was no roto tiller, Dad used and still uses at the age of 88, a turn plow. The same one he used when I was growing up 50 years ago, they sure don't make them like they used to.
nn Je By Hur ley The pandemic of 2020 has placed a larger burden than anyone ever imagined on this generation. Our older generations lived through the Great Depression and their own pandemics during their life. No other generation has been affected by this as much as this one. When I grew up in the mountains of Southwest Virginia, daily trips to the store for desired goods were nonexistent. The grocery shopping was reserved for payday, when men like my Dad were paid by the mines. Mom would get dressed up, hair done, make up on and lipstick and this let us know we were in for a treat that evening. Hamburgers or hot dogs, potato chips and most importantly a can of pop and Butter Pecan ice cream. We ate out of the freezers and canned goodies we had put up in the fall, or if it was gardening season, like it is now, fresh food from the garden. The quarantine of the recent months would have been a normal lifestyle back then, with the exception of us kids being out of school. But even at that time, however, schools, businesses, and life went on without any interruptions, and if you were sick, you stayed home. We grew up playing outside, working the gardens, helping with the canning, the animals and just regular household chores... and whatever you did, you never told Mom or Dad you were bored. They could always find something for you to do. As I start the garden here in Indiana today, it seems easy, the ground is level and not the scope of the gardens I grew up working. Mom and Dad had five kids and always planted a huge garden to share with family, neighbors or whoever wanted or needed it. Every-
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Growing up, we didn't go a lot of places, Granny Anna's every other Sunday over the mountain and on crooked roads. I always got to ride up front because I would get carsick. We would go to the monthly flea market in a nearby town. Dad collected knives, bottles and jars and it was a highlight for us because we got to ride the back of the truck. Back then there was no seat belt law. We rode on Mom's lap or in the back. Unheard of today, but we survived. Dad went to work, came home to supper and we all ate breakfast and supper at the table with our parents, with no TV in the background. Mom didn't drive at the time, so she was home with us, and probably enjoyed her break from us when we were in school. We walked in and out of the holler to the school at the mouth of the holler. We came in and changed out of our school clothes and put on our play clothes and when Dad got home, we ate supper and worked in the garden till it started getting dark. Planting corn was not my favorite task, it seemed the corn was never going to be gone. Until it was all planted, Dad found a spot to put a hill til it was used up. I started hiding corn seed in the rock piles, for some odd reason, and corn would grow in there later in the summer. Dad knew what I did, but never said a word. It makes me laugh now thinking about it. Dad always had a green thumb, and the gardens seemed to thrive under his and Mom's care. He was a firm believer in planting by the signs. He still calls to tell when it is a good day to plant
A typical coal and wood pile used to heat homes in Southwest Virginia.
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My Mom and Dad’s canned food from 2019.
certain vegetables and plant flowers. Whatever jars were left over from the year before were checked for seals and spoilage. If spoiled, they were dumped out and the jars washed and reused, which was the worst job ever! All the empty jars were gathered up and Dad would start a fire under a big tub and we would wash and sanitize all the empty jars to be reused for the garden coming in that year. We used every jar we could, chipped jars were used for kraut, pints and quarts were separated so when needed were readily found. A huge undertaking given the volume of canning they did and still do. Dad would graft trees and learned that skill at an early age. He could take a root stock and change it to whatever he wanted, apple, plum, etc. He considered himself a guardian to the woods surrounding us. Dead fall trees were worked up to provide kindling for the wood stoves and the coal furnace that heated our home. In the winter he would use the pot bellied stove in his workshop when drying green beans or apples and the smokehouse. He purchased coal from whatever mine he was working at that time, and would bring it home to unload into the coal chute into the coal chute in the basement. Mom used to go through the Sears and Roebuck and Montgomery Ward catalogs, the clothes we wore to school that Mom or my Aunt Faye didn't sew from those paper patterns came from these magazines. We waited impatiently for them to come in so Mom could pick them up for us to try on. There was no going to malls,
Walmart, or other stores for clothes shopping. We were so excited when the catalogs came and would dog ear the pages of the outfits, toys and other things that we wanted. Mom would order what we needed, not what we wanted, and the wait for the call that they had come in would begin. Things have changed now with next day delivery, online shopping, and in store pick up. We now peruse the internet or the stores to meet our needs. Instant access has become the norm, not the oddity. Even food can be ordered this way. Meats, produce, and your entire grocery list can be fulfilled with a few clicks of a button. Shopping on payday used to be a social occasion, the town was full of people dressed in their Sunday best, cars filled the streets, people visited and socialized. Now its impersonal in our hurried lifestyles. Flea markets were a huge social gathering, just like the jar shows of now. Specialized markets of like minded people enjoying the hobby, and with the groups and social platforms, people are able to connect online. Meeting these people at the jar shows, you seem like you know them because digitally you have become friends. With the quarantine effect of the pandemic, many shows were cancelled and no in person social gatherings were permitted. Now, in some states, those restrictions have lifted and great jar friends are ready to share their favorite hobbies, shopping for that elusive wish list jar and greeting their jar comrades. Personally, I cannot wait for the first jar show of the season in Cambridge City in June.
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It is said that history repeats itself, but this generation is more ill prepared for major shortages. The Great Depression was survived by a resilient, self-reliant people who are more prepared than we are today. They heated their homes with wood and coal, gardened, hunted and lived in abject poverty. The shortages of food stuffs will greatly affect families of today who depend on super markets and online shopping to fulfill their basic needs. For example, take the hoarding of toilet paper at the beginning of this pandemic, the hoarding of frozen meals, and canned goods, if people had just shopped the way they normally would, there would have been no shortages. The panic buying of the last couple months, shows how much this generation depends on the supply chain staying intact. The fear or greed of these individuals made it hard on the elderly to get their basic necessities. The same can be said of price gouging by merchants who were able to obtain those goods first. When stores announced there would be meat shortages, alternate sources of protein were hard to find, beans and legumes. The farmers are still putting their crops out, dairy farmer's cows are still producing milk, meat farms are still producing healthy poultry, pork and beef, but processing companies are the broken link, meanwhile the prices in stores have risen and products are still being limited. The government is in the process of investigating these issues and serious side effects of the pandemic. Protests are becoming more prevalent and looting and crime are on the rise, people are more wary and paranoid about what is happening in this new normalcy. Time lines for quarantine have changed numerous times and we have no idea when the end is in sight. As more of the states begin to reopen, and new precautions are put into place, people are uncertain, as I am, if things will ever be back to the "old" normal.
Two images of the garden this year.
The grand kids onion garden.
As we all wait to see what the future holds for us and our children and grandchildren, we need to keep in mind the periods of unrest, pandemics and shortages that the generations before us went through and apply those lessons to our own lives. We can only keep in mind that we can be self-reliant when needed and use the past generations as our examples. Until next time, stay safe and keep Preserving the Past..
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Jimmy the Pup and I Go Digging By Mark C Wiseman
Jimmy the pup at the test hole.
Sunday August 19th, 2018
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immy the pup and I loaded up in the old blue truck and headed north to look for a place to dig. I had heard about an apartment house in Ames that would be torn down soon. So I thought I’d give Ames a try. I probed the back yard of the apartment house thoroughly without finding anything to dig. I had some maps for Ames and drove some alleys, stopped and obtained some permissions and did some more probing, again without finding anything to dig. It was time to move on, so I drove west to Boone and decided to retrace some previous digging The large stoneware flower pot. locations. The first place I stopped was on a lot Reggie and Jim Menzel and I had dug several holes a couple years ago. At that time the house although empty was present on the large lot south stuck around as I spread out a tarp for a test hole. of a rail line. The previous house was now gone, which surprised me, and based on some utility work along the south street side of There had been a newer pit on the other side and I wondered the lot, the lot was for sale and likely soon to be developed with about the age of this pit. I started a small test hole about two feet a new house put on it. I parked on the grass off the alley on the square cutting out the sod and setting it aside. Jimmy was probed west, and began to probe along the east rear portion of the lot. We down nearby to watch, the weather was reasonably cool it had had not dug on this side of the yard previously, but it was a big sprinkled earlier and it was cool day for August. In the top of the lot and it seemed reasonable a pit could be on this side, and there hole was a big earthenware or unglazed piece which I worked on was one. I hit glass with the probe. I noticed the neighbor to the with the trowel for quite a while before I came out. It was a huge northeast across the tracks was coming over as I was figuring out flower pot, and there were the boundaries of the pit. other shards of it, and glass and ironstone shards. . He remembered me and told me he thought the lot I put the whole portion in the had changed hands, and that truck, spread out another tarp it was for sale which I had and looked for shards digging seen the sign. The neighbor with a bucket and a trowel. told me it would likely be Below I found a brown glaze ok, he knew the owner and jug. I cut out some more had seen how we had resod and soon began to find turned the grass previously whole slick bottles, and lots to its original condition. He of broken stoneware shards Jimmy looks down the small test hole.
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and broken dishes. I found an amber pint fruit jar, nicely whittled “Trade Mark, Lightening” no lid, but I put it away in the front seat of the truck. This was followed by a half gallon aqua jar “Whittall’s Patent, June 18th 1861, Millville Atmospheric Fruit Jar”, which I stopped and took a picture of in the grass. The pit was five feet long, 5½ feet deep, and 3 feet wide, and
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ing Syrup, Curtis & Perkins, Proprietors”, a “Dr. Thompson’s Eye Water, New London, Conn’t”, and a smaller aqua master ink with a pour spout embossed “Stafford’s Ink”. There were two “Dr. Pitcher’s Castoria” bottles, two “Gillets Double Flavoring Extracts, (shield), Gillet McCollough & Co., Chicago”, a broken Gillets bottle had the owl on it, three whole round aqua English type pickle bottles and some broken ones, many slick drug store bottles including large ones, broken large aqua square pickle bottles, a blond doll head, a whole green pressed glass saucer or small plate, a bird cage waterer, a spoon, a white marble, a large clear oil lamp, most of a white glass spittoon with blue flowers and gold paint around the rim., a caster bottle, two ironstone shaving mugs, and a whole iron stone saucer. I saved a number of interesting stoneware shards including broken flower pot piece with grape leaves around the rim. Another nearly whole stoneware flower pot had been previously painted green which was now coming off.
Whittall’s Patent, June 18th 1861, Millville Atmospheric Fruit Jar
there was no visible lining on the brown clay sidewalls. As I dug deeper I dug a large clear drug store bottle embossed “De Tar & Son, Druggists, Boone, Iowa”, and later a drug store bottle embossed “”J.W. McMecham, Druggist, Boone, Iowa”. There were other bottles deeper in the pit, a “Hoods Sar-SaParilla, Apothecaries, C.I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.”, a nice “Warner’s Safe Kidney & Liver Cure, Rochester, N.Y.” with a double collar lip, a whole and a broken “Mrs. Winslow’s Sooth-
Jimmy watching over the finds
I saved some broken items some fancy blue and white dish shards, and stoneware shards that were interesting. I had been looking for the large flower pot shards as I dug. After finishing the corners I began to fill back in. There were quite a few soft bricks to return to the hole, many broken fancy dishes, tureens, plates, bowls, some broken tea leaf pattern bowl pieces, a broken ironstone chamber pots, shattered fancy pitchers including an amber glass one. There was a broken Bennington spittoon, minus the top, a very rusty iron base for a lamp, pieces of a broken yellow ware bowl, pieces of a broken Bennington bowl, broken clear glass dishes in fancy patterns, catsup bottles, a broken half gallon Millville jar, a fancy small pitcher with a broken top, some corroded clock parts, and iron pieces of a pitch fork and a rake. A slick amber chemical bottle was returned to the hole with some foul smelling liquid still in it. I tamped the sod back and raked up carefully and the location of the pit was nearly invisible again. I thought maybe there was another pit close by and had left a message on the For Sale sign phone number answering machine.
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It was time for Jimmy and I to return to Des Moines, I laid out my finds in the garage for a list and more photographs.
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The hole was a trash pit about four feet deep, with gray clay, and ash, about 3’ X4’, and had bottles from about 1915 with pottery shards, kiln furniture and spacers that were older. As I dug I put the pottery shards on the empty tarp and gave them a good look. A large cobalt decorated shard had a flower design, and I found a shard that would have said “Griffee Brothers Pottery, Boonesboro” with a single circle of stars. All but one of the bottles I gave to the lady owner, there was a “Ball” jar, a round food bottle, a machine made “Wakefield’s Blackberry Balsam”, a round “Sanford” ink, a small “Foley & Co., Chicago” bottle, two cylinder whiskies, clear and amber whisky flasks, and I kept only a “Doct. Marshall’s Catarrh Snuff” bottle. A crier was a broken Boone soda bottle embossed “Seely’s”. Beside’s a rusted metal bucket, and rusted cans, there were the pottery shards and kiln furniture pieces. I saved most of them, and a couple of old spoons, then having covered all the corners of this irregular hole, I filled it back in, tamped the dirt flat then tamped the sod back in place.
I glued together the large flower pot (with wood glue) I had dug the last weekend. It was likely made in Boone by Maxon Griffee.
( I received a call back later it was ok to try more digging, but the other pits did not appear). It was time for Jimmy and I to return to Des Moines, I laid out my finds in the garage for a list and more photographs. Sunday September 9th , 2018 The weather had begun to cool off and it had began to feel like fall! In the late morning Jimmy and I drove up to Boonesboro (and Boone) in the old blue truck. After probing the vacant lot some more with my new owners permission, I decided there really was not another pit close by as I had hoped. Jimmy and I drove back over to Boonesboro and stopped at the location of the former Block 3 Pottery, which was the location of the Griffee Bros. There was a lady outside in the yard and I stopped and obtained permission to probe in the hopes of finding shards from the old pottery. I found a pit next to the garage that probed like it had a lot of pottery shard type clunks in it, and showed this spot to the lady and her husband, who then gave me permission to dig. I spread out the tarps and cut out the sod to start a hole.
Their were pottery shards, kiln furniture and spacers.. As I dug I put the pottery shards on the empty tarp and gave them a good look.
I found a shard that would have said “Griffee Brothers Pottery, Boonesboro” with a single circle of stars.
When I got home I brought in the best shards and made a separate pile outside for the rougher pieces and kiln furniture, to let the rain wash them off in the future. Wednesday September 12th, 2018 Jimmy the Pup waiting his turn to get in the pit.
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Jimmy the Pup watering the really neat heart shaped tree
At work we were doing some drilling at a very old farmstead in Dallas County, that would soon be bulldozed into land for future streets and houses. In the abandoned shed and on the ground outside we found some glass items. The best find was a half gallon picnic beer with a stopper. The bottle was embossed “Des Moines Brewing Co., Des Moines, Iowa”. I also found a metal chicken watering attachment to screw on a fruit jar, two clear quart fruit jars, a “Drey Perfect Mason”, and an “Atlas Strong Shoulder Mason”, various early looking inside the car door handles, and a model “T” hub or grease cap, “Ford, Made in USA” in pretty good shape.
the State tree nursery, and wanted to go to Mc Hose Park and check on some trees. He told me there was an unusual heart shaped stump in the park. So we went there drove around checked on the trees and I took a picture of the heart tree and Jimmy. We went to the house at the Block 3 pottery where I had permission to dig. It was so hot I decided to try a test hole along the south garage where there was some shade. I put out some tarps near the center on the north side of the garage and cut out a 1 foot
Sunday September 16th, 2018 The heat had returned and it was very humid also. Jimmy the Pup and I drove out to Don’s farm near Madrid and Woodward where Reggie spends the winter, and stopped to talk to Don. I told him I was headed to Boonesboro and to try dig some more. He said he’d like to go along, and I asked him if he had a ladder. A Ladder? What is that for? He said. Well, I explained about the steep cliff at the Moingona dump and the cobalt shards I could see at the bottom along the river. The problem was getting back up if I managed to get down to the river level I explained. Don had an extension ladder and we put it in the back of the old blue truck and headed down the road. Don is a seed collector in the fall, he collects acorns and other seeds for
We found shards of pottery, wads, and kiln spacers, but a very limited amount of cobalt decorated shards.
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by 2 foot piece of sod. The shards went down to a depth of two tied up worrying about us. ( I ended up with a bad case of poison and a half feet. We found shards of pottery, wads, and kiln spacivy from the river bank, later on in the week).. Back at the truck I ers, but a very limited amount of cobalt decorated shards. After got a picture of Don with the shards and the ladder. filling this test hole and replacing the sod I tried another test hole in the sun, it had only bricks and it was just too hot to try again. After dropping off Don, Jimmy and I headed for home on this hot After raking up we headed back to stop at Moingona on the way day, I washed off the shards and took some photos of the finds. back. We parked at the normal location and I carried the ladder The� 2� tornado shard pretty well confirms this design on other the long walk back into the woods to the river bank at the Moinpieces being from Moingona. gona pottery dump. I could see the shards on the shoreline down below. The cliff bank has a lower ledge we climbed down to, Don lowered the ladder down to me on a rope, and then came down to hold the ladder as I clambered down to the river bank. I had brought a bucket on a rope and Don lowered the bucket down to me and I searched for shards on the river bank. I soon had filled a bucketful which he pulled up. The lower ledge looked much different from below. It looked like a wedge of soil glued onto the cliff face where all the other soil covered places had been eroded away during the flooding. There were some shards embedded in this wedge, but I was really afraid to dig at them much with the overhang present. I was pretty sure the next big flood should wash away this wedge also, it looked precarious now at best. Don held the ladder as I made my climb back up to the top, It was hard to get off the ladder there were roots to grab onto and I got back onto the lower ledge. The ladder came up with the rope we had tied on to it, and we Shards of Pottery and a common Medicine climbed back up to the top, where Jimmy was
Don showing off a couple shards, while resting on the back of the truck
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From the collections at the Corning Museum of Glass, this postcard from 1920 is a view of the glasshouse buildings in Salem, West Virginia. (Source: Corning Museum of Glass Library: https://cmog. primo.exlibrisgroup.com)
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A pair stumbled across the wreckage of a World War II RAF fighter plane while walking their dogs on a beach in Lincolnshire, England over a long holiday weekend. According to the article, the RAF confirmed the wreckage as a Bristol Beaufighter that crashed in 1944 from engine failure. The pilot and navigator survived the crash, and the wreckage had remained buried in the sand for 76 years. (Source: Joe Gamp, Yahoo News UK, https://sports.yahoo.com/ wwii-raf-plane-buried-beach-180226147.html)
A 106 year old, 45 foot diameter carousel has been purchased and place in its new home in Salisbury, Massachusetts after travelling from Florida where it has resided since 1984. Previous to that, it was a fixture of Hanson’s Amusement Park in Harvey’s Lake, Pennsylvania. It was owned by the Wintersteen family throughout most of the 1900s, and is one of 3 of its kind surviving today. It sold to the Salisbury Beach Partnership for $600,000, was transported to its new home in the resort town from Florida, and is currently being assembled and restored. (Source: Jack Smiles, The Citizen’s Voice, https://www.citizensvoice.com/arts-living)
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IMG005: Microbrew beer is a trending hobby today, and one brewer has taken an old twist on one of his recipes by using a traditional dry-hopping technique using hops grown at the Smithsonian’s Museum of American History. (Source: Charlie Papazian, The Smithsonian Magazine, https://www.smithsonianmag.com). Many recognize the name Paul Revere, Jr. from American history as a famous patriot. Did you know his trade was a silversmith? Examples of his work can still be found today, and as of recently in January 2020, a tablespoon crafted by Revere sold for $16,250 at auction. Kovel’s warns of reproductions made in the 1900s, with one obvious difference: an authentic Revere silver piece will have a plain, slightly turned-down handle. (Source: Kovels, https://www.kovels.com/ news-news-news)
This beautiful mosaic tile floor was unearthed near Verona, Italy, recently after excavations started back up amid the COVID-19 pandemic. It is believed to be part of a Roman villa dating from the third century A.D. The archeologist team from the Superintendent of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of Verona are excavating the known historical area that began last summer. (Source: Smithsonian Magazine, https://www.smithsonianmag.com)
Proof that treasures are everywhere: a Pennsylvania family unearthed a Civil War belt buckle while breaking ground for a larger garden this spring. (Source: Travis DeNeal, The Marion Republican, http://www.dailyrepublicannews. com).
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A collection of spectacular and inspiring photographs from around the world and around the web. Please feel free to submit your images for consideration. Big and small pair of New Orlean’s stomach bitters bottles shared by Brian Commerton.
A rare Plow’s Sherry Bitters from Chicago shared by Jeff Burkhardt.
A trio of colors of unembossed barrel bottles from Frank Wicker.
John Hiscox’s “Thin blue line: at the ready!”
A strongly impressed blown three-mold salt shared by Tim Pemrick. A rare American Rhumatic Balsam from the Balsam Bill Granger Collection
Early American Glass examples showing their great colors in the sunlight, curtesy of Michael George.
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A Colorado whiskey bottle shared by Tim Henson
An impressive grouping of Connecticut Glass from Todd Maynard Gerry Forbes shared this pair of Dr Wonser’s Indian Root Bitters bottles.
Wyat shared this great example of a pint broken swirl Pitkin flask in a bright yellow olive amber with strong rib and swirl impression from the St Laurent collection
A flock of GII-118 and GII-119 double eagle historical flasks from Matt Lacy’s collection.
Chris Bellizzi shares a run of GXIII-9 and GXIII-10 historical flasks in his window.
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pages. Pictures not drawings, much new WANTED: Early Wisconsin Bottles, Eartheninformation on bottles, much history. Signed ware P. Stoneware. Pontiled bottles from Milby authors. $30 includes mailing. Check or waukee. Photos and other ephemera for game. Money Order to: Zang Wood, 1612 Camino Contact Henry Hecker, Email: PhantomIndividual & Affiliatedhah@gmail.com, Telephone: (262)-844-5751 Rio, Farmington, NM 87401
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WANTED: New members to join the St Louis Advertising signs, Dispensary bottles. ConAntique Bottle Collectors Association. We meet tact John Bray at Bottletree Antiques Farm; every 1st Tuesday at 7pm (except July), First Individual & AffiliatedBaptist Church of Arnold, MO Family Life (864) 379-3479 or bottletreeantiques.com Center. Basement Rm 2. Always a lively disClub Information FOR SALE: The 2018 updated POISON cussion. Patsy Jett Show Chair (314) 570-6917 BOTTLE WORKBOOK by Rudy Kuhn. Price $50 plus $5 media mail USA. Contact WANTED: Jar lid for Cohansey 2-1/2-galJoan for postage out of USA. Email: jjcab@ lon R.B. #628. Contact: Ed DeHaven b2xonline.com. Phone: (540) 297-4498. Make (609) 390-1898. 23 W. Golden Oak Lane, check or money order out to Joan Cabaniss, Marmora, NJ 08223 312 Summer Lane, Huddleston, VA 24104 WANTED: NC and GA advertising jugs (any size & condition) and flasks – also want Wanted For Sale anything Saloon marked and error fruit jars WANTED: INSULATORS. Long time coland old 78 records (blues & country). Conlector. Interested in mixed color. If you have tact Bill Wrenn at ncjugs@gmail.com (706) any insulators that have been dug, please 372-3793. Facebook group: Advertising Jugs give me a call. Contact: James E. Meyer & Pre-Pro collectibles + group: Saloon Jugs (386) 679-6439 or Email: jemmy194268@ & Flasks + group: NC Jugs & Flasks. gmail.com WANTED: THEO.BLAUTH/WHOLEWANTED: Ladies Leg Bitters. Contact: SALE WINE/&/LIQUOR DEALERS/SACBill Taylor - Phone: (503) 857-0292 or RAMENTO CAL. (whiskey fifth Barnett Email: wtaylor178@aol.com 55); C&K/WHISKEY/Casey & Kavanaugh/SACRAMENTO, CAL. (shot glass); WANTED: Bottles or any items from E. SHADOW BROOK (block letters on slant Milde Bottling Works, Milde’s Soda, Milde’s on side, label under glass on bottom) CALICola. Also, any bottles from Jackson, MisFORNIA WINERY/monogram/TRADEsouri. Contact Steve Ford by text at (615) MARK/SACRAMENTO, CAL. (shot 714-6254 or e-mail at sford@garney.com glass). Contact: STEVE ABBOTT (916) 631-8019 or Email: foabbott@comcast.net WANTED: New Bottles Monthly. Contact: Carlasboy on Ebay. WANTED: Paducah Kentucky items especially Pre-pro Paper Label Whiskey WANTED: Green Top Kimberry, Southand Medicine Bottles, Crocks, paper goods. Africa, Ginger Beer Browing & Co. Contact: BJ SIMMONS (270) 994-7762 or Contact: Dennis Fox (530)295-0124, Email: Email: bjsummers65@gmail.com or by mail mummysisters@aol.com at: 233 Darnell Road, Benton, KY 42025
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FOR SALE: Apothecary Cabinet “Replica” Full page ad in December 2015 Bottles and Extras, also displayed at the 2016 National Show in Sacramento. $2,500 Bargin Basement Price. 8’Long, 2’Deep and 57” Tall. Delivery possible for extra fee. Contact: Bob Hirsch, Phone: (562) 941-6979, Email: Bob.Hirsch@verizon.net
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FOR SALE: Several hundred bottles in mint condition, most with labels and contents, circa 1910 plus advertising and pharmacy equipment from that era. Contact: Neil Sandow at Telephone: (707) 373-8887 or Email: nsandow@gmail.com FOR SALE: Books “A History of the Des Moines Potteries,” with additional information on Boonesboro, Carlisle, Herford and Palmyra. 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
Individual & Affiliated Shards of Wisdom WANTED: H. & J. F. Meyer New York, aqua Club Information soda bottle. Contact: David RakesBarakes123@
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
gmail.com or Call/Text: (352) 817-5136
WANTED: Redondo Beach/Redondo California bottles. Labeled or embossed. Elk bar Redondo flask most wanted. Also tokens and souvenir china. Contact: Dave Deto at P.O. Box 118, Yosemite, CA 95389 or (209) 626-9846
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WANTED: Pint Clear Phoenix Pumpkinseed Flask. Also, any coffin or pumpkinseed flasks from Los Angeles. Contact: Brian (805) 448-7516 or Email: taps60@cox.net WANTED: Whiskey and Saloon related glass paperweights. Contact: Jack Sullivan (703-370-3039) or Email: jack.sullivan9@ verizon.net
Bottles and Extras WANTED: ARKANSAS BOTTLES: Sodas, Hutches, Mineral Waters, Whiskey Flasks, Drug Stores, Patent Medicines. ARKANSAS WHISKEY JUGS: Marked Stoneware, Shot Glasses, Cork Pulls and any Arkansas Advertising. Contact: James Larry Childers, 801 N 18th Street, Ozark, AR 72949. (479) 264-4601 or Email: jamesl.childers@yahoo.com WANTED: Clarke's Vegetable Sherry Wine Bitters, Sharon, Mass & Rockland, ME. All bottle sizes & variants. Contact: CHARLIE MARTIN (781)248-8620 or Email: cemartinjr@comcast.net WANTED: Bottles, Pottery, ephemera from Oak Park, Illinois. Email: Ray at komo8@att.net WANTED: Kimberley Green Top Ginger Beer, Browning & Co. Contact: Dennis Fox Email: mummysisters@aol.com WANTED: TEA KETTLE OLD BOURBON SAN FRANCISCO, Contact: Russell Dean, 228 Labelle Drive, Stuarts Draft, VA, Phone: (540) 255-3143; Email: 4649dean@comcast.net WANTED: Always looking for rare and unique Applied Color Label Soda bottles, Chero colas, Straight-sided Cokes and Pepsi, Royal Palm, Florida soda bottles, Tampa bottles, Buying collections, Vintage soda artifacts. Contact: Tom Pettit, Email: VintageSodaCollector@yahoo.com, Website: http://www.vintagesodacollector.com WANTED: Bottle Tree Antiques, Donalds, South Carolina. Bitters, SC Dispensaries, CrownTop Soda, Folk Pottery, Primitives. Website: bottletreeantiques.com or Contact: John Bray at (864) 379-3479. WANTED: Peoria and Pekin Illinois blob top sodas. Contact Jim Searle at 309-3467804 or Email: skyjames962@gmail.com
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July - August 2020 WANTED: Lacour's Sarsapariphere Bitters bottles in colors. All conditions considered. Contact: 530-265-5204 or Email: warrenls6@sbcglobal.net WANTED: Rare Dr. Kilmer examples (such as sample bottles of Cough Cure or Female Remedy) or any examples w/ contents/boxes/ circulars. Also, rare cobalt "Extract of Witch Hazel, 8" (see Adams' "Bottle Collecting in New England", page 30). Contact: MIKE, maleect@ aol.com (preferred) or (623) 825-2791 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 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: 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: 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 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
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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
Please check the https://www.fohbc.org/ shows/ for the most up to date information. Shows listings are changing daily.
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.
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July 11 Richmond, Rhode Island The Little Rhody Bottle Club Tailgate Swap Meet, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm. Free setup for all who wish to attend. Free coffee, donuts, and pizza for participants. Bring your own tables! Show Address: Jules Antique Center, 320 Kingstown Road, Richmond, Rhode Island (3 miles East of Route #95 on Route #138), Contact Info: William Rose 508.880.4929
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July 18 Daphne, Alabama The Mobile Bottle Collectors Club’s 47th Annual Show & Sale, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Daphne Civic Center, 2603 US Hwy 98, Daphne, Alabama 36525. Free Admission and Bottle Appraisals. Contact: Rod Vining, 251.957.6725, vinewood@mchsi. com, or Richard Bottleshows, PO Box 241, Pensacola, Florida 32591. Call or text: 850.435.5425, shards@bellsouth.net
September 11 & 12 Smyrna, Georgia 50th Annual Atlanta Antique Bottle Show & Sale, Sponsored by the R.M. Rose Company, Saturday, September 12th, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Dealer Setup & Early Admission, Friday, September 11th, 3:00 – p:00 pm and Saturday 7:00 am to 9:00 am, Smyrna Community Center, 200 Village Green Circle, Smyrna, Georgia 30080, Free Admission! Early Admission with Dealers: $20 includes barbecue dinner Friday night, For table reservations and show information contact: Jack Hewitt, Box 12126, Big Canoe, Jasper, Georgia 30143, 770.856.6062 or Bill Johnson, 770.823.2626, bj3605@comcast.net
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July 18 Concord, North Carolina 2nd Concord Antiques and Collectibles Show, 325 McGill Avenue, Concord North Carolina 28027, Saturday 8:00 am- 2:00 pm, No Early admission, Set up: 7:00 am to 8:00 am, FREE Cost of admission, Contact: Johnny McAulay, Show Chairman, 16412 Amber Field Drive, Huntersville, North Carolina 28078, 704.439.7634, mcaulaytime@aol.com
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CANCELLED July 30 – August 3 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), FOHBC National Convention – Western Region
September 12 Huntington Beach, California The Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club’s 53rd Annual Antique Bottle, Fruit Jar, Antiques & Collectibles Show & Sale 9:00 am to 3:00 pm; Early Bird $10 at 8:00 am, at the Huntington Beach Elks Lodge #1959, 7711 Talbert Avenue, Huntington Beach, California 92648. Free admission, Info: Don Wippert, 818.346.9833, donwippert@yahoo.com, or Dick Homme, 818.362.3368 September 12 & 13 Grayslake, Illinois Antique Bottle Show an accent of the Grayslake Antique & Vintage Market. Lake County Fairgrounds, 1060 E. Pe-
terson Rd., Grayslake, IL 60030. General Admission $7: Saturday 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, Sunday 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. For more information, please call Zurko Promotions at 715-526-976, windycitybottleshow.com September 19 Lebanon, Indiana Indianapolis Circle City Antique Bottle, Advertising and Antiques Show, Boone County Fairgrounds, 1300 E. 100 Street, Lebanon, Indiana 46052, Set-up: 7:30 am – 9:00 am, show hours: 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, Admission – Free, (Early Admission– $20), Free Appraisals on Antique Bottles and Glass, For Show Information contact: Martin Van Zant, 812.841.9495, 41 East Washington Street, Mooresville, Indiana 46158, mdvanzant@yahoo.com or “Balsam” Bill Granger 317.517.5895, 6915 S. 280 E. Lebanon, Indiana 46052 bgranger@iquest.net September 19 Richmond, Rhode Island The Little Rhody Bottle Club Tailgate Swap Meet, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm. Free setup for all who wish to attend. Free coffee, donuts, and pizza for participants. Bring your own tables! Show Address: Jules Antique Center, 320 Kingstown Road, Richmond, Rhode Island (3 miles East of Route #95 on Route #138), Contact Info: William Rose 508.880.4929
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September 19 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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(More) Sho-Biz More show-biz September 20 Cheektowaga, New York The Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association’s 22nd Annual Show & Sale. PPvt. Leonard Post Jr. VFW, 2450 Walden Avenue, Cheektowaga, New York 14225. General Admission $4: Sunday 9 am – 2 pm. Contact chairman Joe Guerra, 29 Nina Terrace, West Seneca, New York 14224, 716.207.9948 or jguerra3@roadrunner.com, or www.gbbca.org
October 2, 2020 from 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm and Saturday, October 3, 2020 from 8:00 am to 9:00 am. Free Admission on Saturday, October 3, 2020. Early Buyers $20. per person during dealer set up. For more information or table contracts contact: Peter Taggard, 645 Village Lane South, Mandeville, LA 70471, Phone 985.373.6487, Email: petertaggard@yahoo.com, or Norman Bleuler, 6446 Woolmarket Rd., Biloxi, MS 39532. Phone: 228.392.9148, Email: normanbleuler@gmail.com
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September 20 Westford, Massachusetts The Merrimack Valley Antique Bottle Club’s 46th Annual Bottle Show, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, early buyers at 8:00 am. Special note: There will be a $20 door prize drawing just for early buyers at 8:45 am. www.mvabc.org, Westford Regency Inn, 219 Littleton Road, Westford, Massachusetts. Just five minutes off Exit 32 of I-495 follow the signs.Contact: Cliff Hoyt, 978.458.6575, choyt48@comcast.net
soc. presents the 49th Richmond Antique Bottle and Collectibles Show and Sale, General Admission $3, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm; Early Admission $10 at 7:30 am, at the Chesterfield County Fairgrounds, 10300 Courthouse Road, Chesterfield, Virginia 23832. Info: Marvin Croker, 804.275.1101 or Ed Faulkner 804.739.2951; RichBottleClub@comcast.net
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September 26 Bath, Ontario, Canada 4thAnnual Bath Antique Bottle and Insulator Show, Bath Masonic Lodge, 428 Main Street, Bath, Ontario, Canada, K0H-1G0, Saturday 9:00 am till 14:30 pm, No early admission, Set up Saturday at 7:30 am. Free admission! Contact: Richard Dobing, 613.373.0268, loyalistcollectibles@gmail.com
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October 3 Mansfield, Ohio 42nd Mansfield Antique Bottle Show, Hosted by the Ohio Bottle Club, at the Richland County Fairgrounds, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Early admission, October 2, 3:00 to 6:00 pm. Info: Matt Lacy at 440.228.1873 or email info@ antiquebottlesales.com or Louis Fifer at 330.635.1964, fiferlouis@yahoo.com October 3 Biloxi, Mississippi Presented by the Olde Guys Digging Club of Biloxi, MS., the 4th Annual Mississippi Gulf Coast Bottle & Collectibles Show & Sale will be held from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm at the Joppa Shrine Temple, 13280 Shriners Blvd., Biloxi, Mississippi. 39532 (Exit 41- I-10). Dealer Set Up on Friday,
October 4 Chelsea, Michigan The Huron Valley Bottle and Insulator 44th Annual Show & Sale, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm. Admission $3 for adults, children 16 and under free, Comfort Inn Conference Center, 1645 Commerce Park Drive next to the Comfort Inn, Chelsea (Exit 159 off I-94), Contact Info: Mike Bruner, abbott4girl@sbcglobal.net or Rod Krupka, 248.627.6351, rod.krupka@yahoo.com,
and Merle Hay Road, Johnston, Iowa, Admission $2, Children Free, For info contact Mark Wiseman, 3505 Sheridan Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50301, 515.344.8333 or Joyce Jessen, 515.979.5216 November 1 Elkton, Maryland 48th Annual Tri-State Bottle Collectors and Diggers Club Antique Bottle Show, Singerly Fire Hall, 300 Newark Avenue, Route 279 & 213 (I-95 exit 109A), Elkton, Maryland 21922, Sunday, November 1, 2020 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, No Early Admission, Dealers Set-up from 7:00 am to 9:00 am, Admission: $3 per person, Children under age 12 free, Tri-State Bottle Collectors and Diggers Club, Inc, Contact: Dave Brown, Show Chair, 6 Martine Court, Newark, Delaware 19711, 302.388.9311, dbrown3942@comcast.net November 29 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Forks of the Delaware Bottle Collectors Association 47th Annual Show & Sale, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, $2 Admission, Early Shopper Admission at 7:30 am ($20 entrance fee), Bethlehem Catholic High School, 2133 Madison Avenue, (corner of Madison and Dewberry Avenues), Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Contact: Bill Hegedus, 20 Cambridge Place, Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, 610.264.3130
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October 10 Waukesha, Wisconsin Wisconsin Antique & Advertising Club 4th Annual Antique Bottle and Collectable Show/Sale, Waukesha Exposition Center East Hall, 1000 Northview Rd, Waukesha, Wisconsin, Saturday, October 10th, 2020, Dealers welcome application at www.wisantique.com, Contact show@ wisantique.com for more info. Six $100 shopping spree drawings for attendees October 10 Johnston, Iowa The Iowa Antique Bottleers 51stAnnual Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show and Sale at the Johnston Lions Club, 64th Place
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August 5– 7, 2021 (Thursday – Saturday) Syracuse, New York 2021 FOHBC National Antique Bottle Show, OnCenter Civic Center, Information: Jim & Val Berry (jhberry10@yahoo. com) or Jim Bender (jbender@millservicesinc.com) FOHBC National Show – Eastern Region
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July 28 – August 1 Reno, Nevada 2022 FOHBC National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo, Grand Sierra Resort & Casino, Information: Richard Siri (rtsiri@sbcglobal.net) or Ferdinand Meyer V (fmeyer@fmgdesign.com), FOHBC National Convention – Western Region
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Individual & Affiliated Shards of Wisdom Club Information 5 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.
Jonathan Beaty 542 Golfview Way Bowling Green, KY 42104 (270) 535-7581 jonathanbeaty3@gmail.com Soda bottles (ACL and Embossed)
Adam Munford 913 E Summit St Greenville, MI 48838 (616) 255-5416 Poisons, chemicals, love bitters, fruit jars, druggist, meds and any unique bottles. Hometown digs and local bottles James E. Meyer 1823 Ridgewood Bryan R. Scott Avenue APT #309 735 Broad Street, Suite 203B Holly Hill, FL 32117 Chattanooga, TN 37402 386-679-6439 (423) 991-7752 scottsearches@yahoo.com Medicine, whiskey, condiment, bitters, all his toric bottles, both buying, selling and digging
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Val Yandreski 622 Vanessa Cr Mississauga, ON L5H 2N3 valyan03@gmail.com Medicine Bottles
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Where there’s a will there’s a way to leave Donations to the FOHBC Did you know the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors is a 501C(3) charitable organization? How does that affect you? It allows tax deductions for any and all donations to the FOHBC . You might also consider a bequest in your will to the FOHBC. This could be a certain amount of money or part or all of your bottle collection. The appraised value of your collection would be able to be deducted from your taxes. (This is not legal advice, please consult an attorney) I give and bequeath to the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, Elizabeth Meyer, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002, the sum of $____________ to be used as its Board of Directors determines. The same type wording could be used for bequeathing your collection or part of it, however, before donating your collection (or part of it), you would need the collection appraised by a professional appraiser with knowledge of bottles and their market values. This is the amount that would be tax deductible. Thank you for considering us in your donation plans. Matt Lacy, President Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors
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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:
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• 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.
713.504.0628 fohbcmembers@gmail.com
• 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,
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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
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Membership/Subscription rates for one year (6 issues) (Circle One) (All First Class sent in a protected mailer)
United States
- Standard Mail - Standard Mail w/1 Associate* - Standard Mail 3 years - Standard Mail 3 years w/1 Associate* - Digital Membership (electronic files only)
$40.00 $45.00 $110.00 $125.00 $25.00
1st Class 1st Class w/1 Associate 1st Class 3 years 1st Class 3 years
$55.00 $60.00 $125.00 $145.00
Canada - First Class $60.00 Other countries - First Class $80.00
- Life Membership: Level 1: $1,000, includes all benefits of a Standard 1st
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
Associate Member Name(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 privileges 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
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: 713.504.0628; email: fohbcmembers@gmail.com
Clearly Print or Type Your Ad Send to: Business Manager: Elizabeth Meyer, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; ph: 713.504.0628; or better yet, email Elizabeth at: fohbcmembers@gmail.com
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
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