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On the Cover: Examples from feature on Proprietary Stamps that saved the United States from Bankruptcy

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

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

Shards of Wisdom ................................................................................................ 4 History’s Corner ................................................................................................... 5 FOHBC News - From & For Our Members ................................................................ 6 Rufus Webb Was Master of Louisiana ‘Gators and Whiskey

by Jack Sullivan ............................................................................................. 14

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Monumental Mistake due to a Grave Error

by Jack Klotz ................................................................................................... 22

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

The Bottles and Advertising of George Benz

by Steve Ketcham ........................................................................................... 28

The Revenue Stamps that saved the United States from Bankruptcy

by Allan T. Pollard ......................................................................................... 38 Lost & Found ....................................................................................................... 60 Virtual Museum News ......................................................................... 63 FOHBC Member Photo Gallery .............................................................. 64 Classified Ads .................................................................................. 66 FOHBC Membership Additions & Changes ................................................ 67

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

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Membership Benefits, Ad Rates, Donations to the FOHBC ............................... 71

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.

Postmaster: Send address changes to Elizabeth Meyer, FOHBC Business Manager, 101 Crawford Street, Studio 1A, Houston, Texas 77002; 713.222.7979 x103, email: emeyer @ FOHBC.org Annual subscription rate is: $40 for standard mail or $55 for First Class, $60 Canada and other foreign, $85, Digital Membership $25 in U.S. funds. Life Membership: Level 1: $1,000, Level 2: $500, The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, Inc. assumes no responsibility for products and services advertised in this publication. See page 72 for more details.

Membership Application & Advertising ..................................................... 72

Coming next issue or down the road: No Fizz? Less Bizz! • The South Pittsburg Bottling Company • Warner Labels • On the Trail of Indian Medicine Bottles • Jacob’s Cabin Tonic Bitters • American Scent Bottles • Ground-Penetrating Radar System • A Long Gap in Time • The Arcade Hotel Shoofly • The Color Aqua • Rushton’s Cod Liver Oil • Old Bourbon Whiskey put up by Wilson, Fairbank & Co. for Medicinal Purposes • Those Lovely Locals” or “Regional Collectors Corner • Alphons Dryfoos’ Wald Koenig Bitters • Ebner Brothers • The Five F’s of Privy Digging and why Digging Teams Sometimes Fail • By the numbers: Nearly 20,000 Hutchinson bottles recorded • Soyer Perfect Sauce • George W. Meredith: Orphan Boy to Whiskey Millionaire and so much more!

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

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Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors Business & News

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

FOHBC Officers 2016-2018

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

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

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

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

Second Vice-President:

Director-at-Large: Ron Hands, 1102 Kingswood Rd. NW, Wilson, North Carolina 27896, phone: 330.338.3455; email: rshands225@yahoo.com

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

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

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I feel like I TheYears, kettle labeled antique bottle events hasorwith usSnoopy alllots looking forward to the conjure upLucy a vision of a stove of pots-a-cooking. am on topIof the day, (or Elizabeth) (one of my many stretch up to the FOHBC 2016 Sacramento National Antique The kettle labeled antique bottle events has us looking forward the dogs) orleading something entirely unrelated, does orall says something thattoBottle Convention & Expo this August.

We have a coordination conference stretch leading up to the FOHBC 2016 Sacramento National Antique Botmakes me scratch my head and mimic old Charles. There are many callConvention later insmiles the&week and plan to and step up grimaces. a anotch or two. We are also tle Expo this August.

We have coordination conference pauses and along the way, aitfew pleased we locked in Springfield, our 2017 Nationcall laterthat in the week and plan to stepMassachusetts it up a notch for or two.

We are also al Antique Bottle Convention, and by the time you read this message, the pleased that we locked in Springfield, Massachusetts for our 2017 NationToday, it is 18 January and Elizabeth and I made it in to Houston from FOHBC 2018 National Antiqueand Bottle Convention & Expo will have been al Antique Bottle Convention, by the time you read this message, the Peach Ridge. The last two days, Houston and the entire southeast announced forNational Cleveland, Ohio.Bottle We really have our teamswill in have placebeen and FOHBC 2018 Antique Expo Texas, has been shut down with an iceConvention storm and & temperatures in the our wheels for in motion.

I suppose we should start thinking about the 2019 announced Cleveland, Ohio.

We really have our teams in place and mid-teens. No school, no businesses open, stores closed yada-yada. I Convention the Southern Region.

Planning ahead has about many the benefits. our wheels ininmotion.

I suppose we should 2019 know it is winter, but “good grief!”

I knowstart you thinking ‘Northerners’ are probConvention in the Southern Region. Planning ahead has many benefits. ably smiling as this is just a mild winter’s day for you. And this is after The FOHBC is also proud to say that this March | April 2016 issue of itBOTTLES snowed onand Christmas.

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We be receive quiteby anot few releaving their home.

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Within of BOTTLES and EXTRAS, please read the proposed bylaw updates andofrevisions thatand have been marked red. the All proposed revisions Within this issue BOTTLES EXTRAS, pleaseinread The is now out more and communicathaveFederation been approved byreaching the that FOHBC Board of ever Directors.

These bylaws bylaw updates and revisions have beenthan marked in red.

All revisions ing similar such as Board the National Museum, havewith beenother amended and need to be reviewed

by Directors. the Bottle FOHBC membership have approved bygroups the FOHBC of These bylaws prior been to the annual Association general membership meeting at the FOHBC 2016 NaNational Insulator International Perfume Bottle have amended and need to (NIA), be reviewed by the FOHBC membership tionaltoAntique Bottle Convention & Expo Sacramento, California by Collectors National Association ofinMilk Collectors prior the (IPBC), annual general membership meeting atBottle the FOHBC 2016 Naan affirmative vote of a majority all votes cast by the eligible (NAMBC), Antique Poison Bottleof Association, British voters Bottional Antique Bottle Convention &Collectors Expo in Sacramento, California by in affirmative attendance, provided thatBottle a copy of votes theCollector, proposed changes arevoters made an vote of a majority of cast by the eligible tle Review (BBR), Antique & all Glass auction houses, available to each memberthat inand advance, directly bychanges mailevents or are by timely in attendance, provided a copy ofeither the Let’s proposed made digging groups, historians local clubs. share our and notice learn in the Federation’s official periodical on the Federation website. available to each member in advance, either directly mail the or by timely goals, from each other and figure out aor way toby bridge many notice in the Federation’s official periodical or on the Federation website. challenges that face us. Time is happening faster that we can react. We In other we arerather moving withpositive photography Virtual need to benews, pro-active thanahead reactive, rather for thanthe negative, Museum and hope to have regional labs setfor upthe in regions In otherrather news, we followers. are moving aheadphotography with photography Virtual leaders than to start photographing bottles both in a standardlabs format andin3-dimenMuseum and hope to have regional photography set up regions sionally.

This effort is being spearheaded by Museum Director, Alan to start photographing bottles both in a standard format and 3-dimenI am asking that all Federation clubs, if you have not already, add theDeMaison.

You may have met Alan at the Virtual Museum table during the sionally.

This effort is being spearheaded by Museum Director, Alan DeFOHBC logo and our 2018 Cleveland National show art to your newsFOHBC 2015 Chattanooga National Antique Show last August.

Maison. may met Alan at the Virtual Bottle Museum table during the letter.

WeYou have hadhave a couple of 2018 Cleveland National conference FOHBC 2015and Chattanooga National Antique Bottleled Show last August. calls recently while we have a super core team

by Louis Fifer Federation member Alicia Booth, is heading up the nomination proand Matt Lacy, we need assistance in many areas. All you procrastinacess for themember electionAlicia of all Booth, Federation officersupincluding the President, Federation is heading the nomination protors need to send in your table contracts, purchase early admission, Vice President(s), Secretary, Treasurer, officers Business Manager,the Membership cess thehotel election of all Federation makefor your reservations and reserve a spotincluding at our banquetPresident, where Vice President(s), Secretary, Treasurer, Business Manager, Membership

Terry Kovel will be our keynote speaker.

We will also be opening the Director, Public Relations Director, Conventions Director, Historian, Virtual Museum’s first gallery during the banquet.

Merchandising Director, Directors-at-Large (3), and Region Directors Director, Public Relations Director, Conventions Director, Historian,

(4). These elections occurDirectors-at-Large every two years. Any may runDirectors for sucMerchandising Director, (3),officer and Region Most of terms. all,elections weThis needoccur you to come toprepared our event. anominations vacation. cessive committee has a Make slate ofitmay for (4).

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WeElection are taking fulland advantage ofby thisthe dynamic cityCommittee) by hav-approved by the the membership instituted Election form with Committee (in accordance with procedures ing our by event the heart downtown the Marriott Keyfor Center. indicating the they of desire to run at for. filing this proved theinoffice membership and instituted byThe thedeadline Election Committee) Located directly next tohave the Key to Tower, the The pinnacle of by thefor Cleveland is April 1st 2016.

Wethey seen successful campaigns our memberindicating the office desire run for. deadline filing this skyline, the 2016.

Huntington Convention offers a vastby and modern ship before so if you to runsuccessful forCenter a position, please let Alicia know. is April 1st We want have seen campaigns our memberheadquarters the bottle thea year!

We please warmlyletwelcome you You before and reach this event address, alicia@cis-houston.org.

You ship sofor ifher youat want toemail runof for position, Alicia know. to share once aballot lifetime experience with us!take the time to vote. will be this receiving a at voting so please You and reach herin this for email address, alicia@cis-houston.org.

You will be receiving a ballot for voting so please take the time to vote.

President: Ferdinand V Expo back ThisFOHBC is the first time the FOHBC has brought the Meyer National Candidates Houston, Texas President: Ferdinand Meyer V to the shores of Lake Erie since the 1992 Toledo Expo, successfully FOHBC Candidates Here is the slate of FOHBC chaired by Adam Koch. WeHouston, are excited to share allSheldon Cleveland has to First ViceTexas President: Baugh recommended is athecentral slatecandidates of FOHBC offerHere as meeting ground, as 60% of the US population Russellville, Kentucky First Vice President: Sheldon Baughlives put forth by thecandidates nominating recommended within 600 miles of this energetic, picturesque city. Cleveland’s rich committee (Alicia Booth, Russellville, put forth by the nominating Second ViceKentucky President: Gene Bradberry history from settlement to thriving port town to industrial meChairperson) forcountry 2014 committee (Alicia Booth,- 2016.

Bartlett, Tennessee Second Vice President: Gene Bradberry The slate being put forth for tropolis isisdisplayed among the beautiful architecture and vivid culture Chairperson) for 2014 - 2016.

Bartlett, Tennessee your consideration and anyone Secretary: James Berry The slate is being the put forth for found all over city. desiring to run for and officeanyone may your consideration Johnsville, James New York Secretary: Berry be nominated by going tomay the desiring to run for office Johnsville, New York Once checked into the lavish host hotel in the heart of downtown, all Treasurer: Gary Beatty website and printing be nominated by goingouttoathe amenities and attractions areTreasurer: within reach.

ABeatty short walk will lead you North Port, Florida nomination form.

Then, mail or Gary website and printing out a to an array ofBooth, museums sites, Port, such Florida as the Rock and Roll Hall of email to Alicia nomination form.

Then,11502 mail or andNorth Historian: Jim Bender Burgoyne Drive,Booth, Houston, Fame (where we areTexas having our opening reception), the Great Lakes email to Alicia 11502 Sprakers, New Historian: Jim York Bender 77077.Center, alicia@cis-houston.org Science Public Burgoyne Drive, Houston, TexasSquare and the JACK Casino, just to name a Sprakers, New York Closing date for nominations Editor: Martin Van dispersed Zant alicia@cis-houston.org few.77077.

Locally owned restaurants are generously throughout is April 1, at midnight. date2016 for nominations Danville, Indiana Editor: Martin Zant the Closing neighborhood, from gourmet burgers toVan plush steakhouses and nominations will isAdditional April 1, 2016 at midnight.

Danville, Indiana everything in between.

Living up to the titleDirector: of being “The City of Merchandising Val Berry be printednominations alongside thewillslate Additional Rock,” East 4th Street and The Flats are near-by neighborhoods Johnsville, New York proposed the nominating Merchandising Director: Val Berry thrivbe printed by alongside the slate ing proposed with entertainment and music of allNew genres. committee and will be listed Johnsville, York by the nominating Membership Director: Linda Sheppard in the May-June 2016 issue committee and will be listed Sprakers, New York Membership Director: Linda Sheppard ofthe BOTTLES andto EXTRAS along We inneed you buy an advertisement in our Cleveland National SouMay-June 2016 issue with a short bio of each Sprakers, New York of BOTTLES and EXTRAS venir Program, andalong considering offering to help in the many ways such Conventions Director: Louis Fifer candidate. with a short bio of eachsecurity, and other hospitality areas. It’s also not too as the front desk, Brunswick, Ohio Conventions Director: Louis Fifer latecandidate. to display at the convention.

We will make space for you.

Brunswick, Ohio Business Manager: Elizabeth Meyer Houston, Manager: Texas Business Elizabeth Meyer We continue to get a lot of praise on the continued development of Bottles Houston, Texas Director-at-Large: Ferraro and Extras. We hope you enjoy this issue as muchBob as we have had fun Boulder City, Nevada putting it together. We are getting a growing backlog fine articles and Director-at-Large: BobofFerraro have many plans including aBoulder section on club news.Steve Not the old way that City, Nevada Director-at-Large: Ketcham was page after page of minutiae but pertinent club news that is interesting Edina, Minnesota Steve Ketcham Director-at-Large: and fundamentally importantEdina, as we Minnesota grow our hobby. There are some great Director-at-Large: people and ideas out there and we must connect asJohn I saidPastor before.

New Hudson, Michigan Director-at-Large: John Pastor New Hudson, Michigan Midwest Region Director: Lacy AnThere will be a 2019 FOHBC 50th Anniversary AugustaMatt National

Austinburg, Ohio tique Bottle Convention conference call in the coming weeks.

We have Midwest Region Director: Matt Lacy a great team and super plansAustinburg, to commemorate our 50th anniversary.

Ohio Northeast Region Director: Andrew Vuono We are also looking to haveNortheast our national eventDirector: in 2020 inAndrew the Western Stamford, Connecticut Region Vuono Region. The Request for Proposal is out with the local clubs. Richard Stamford, Connecticut Southern Region Director: Ron Hands Siri is already working on Las Vegas or Reno as an option.

Wilson, North Carolina Southern Region Director: Ron Hands Wilson, North Carolina Western Region Director: Eric McGuire As I complete this president’s message on the 3rd February, I remind Petaluma, California you to stay warm in body and heart as the groundhog Western Region Director:hath Eric spoken!

McGuire Welcome to six more weeksPetaluma, of winter.

This past Friday morning, California Public Relations Director: Rick DeMarsh Punxsutawney Phil scurriedBallston out of his little marmot and saw his Spa, New York hole Public Relations Director: Rick DeMarsh shadow. This omen indicates a long winter. Good grief!

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Bottles and Extras bottle. He said that when they changed the glass batch color from Root green to amber the glass would mix together and form these crazy swirled glass bottles ranging from dark to light. I had to have one!

Root Glass Co and some of their bottles

by Martin Van Zant

If you’ve ever been digging or picked up a hobbleskirt Coca-Cola you have probably handled a Root bottle. The root green color Coca-Cola was a distinctive color for the Root Coke bottle used for so many years.

I lived locally for many years before ever even knowing about the Root Glass Co. It wasn’t until I started collecting bottles that the historical plaque, where the Root plant once stood, even made sense to me.

During my college years in Terre Haute I was digging a lot and collecting Terre Haute bottles. I didn’t dig a lot of Coke bottles, but I did dig a lot of Root-made Bottles, mostly turn of the century. I must have dug 100 if not a 1,000 Terre Haute brewing bottles, mostly made by Root.

Every time I would dig a Terre Haute bottle I would take it to my buddy Ed Newman. He knew all the local bottles. It would be in his collection that I noticed a swirled colored crown top Terre Haute Brewing

In all my digging days I never dug one. I think they were just to neat to ever throw away, or maybe they just didnt make it past quality control? I looked and looked and finally got one. Then at a Terre Haute show I got another and so on. In the last couple years I had one sent to me as a Christmas gift. In the message he said I sent you a Terre Haute Brewing bottle. When I opened the package to my surprise it was a green-yellow amber swirled beer bottle. WOW! (4th bottle in the image from L to R) The bottles are not extremely valuable or super old, but they look really neat. Just a cool beer bottle, and if you were going to have a Terre Haute Brewing bottle this is the kind you would want. Here are the six that I have picked up over the years. I also found a little history about Chapman Root from the Chapman Root Museum website.

Chapman Jay Root was born in Wayne County, Pa. He was educated in the public schools of Ravenna, Ohio. His first steady business employment was with the Doig Foundry in Ravenna during 1886-1889. Chapman Root worked for a few glass companies before he established Root Glass Co. in 1901, in which he became president.

This original bottling plant was exclusively dedicated to the manufacture of glass bottles and other glass containers that were required to withstand high internal pressure. In 1905, the Root Glass Co. purchased, rebuilt and re-equipped a second glass plant in Terre Haute, Indiana. The production of this new plant was devoted mainly to the manufacture of fruit jars.

Three years later, this plant was sold to Ball Bros Co. of Muncie, Indiana.

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In 1915, the Root Company developed a bottle that the Coca-Cola Company accepted for use. A few months later, the patent was assigned. In 1932, the Root Glass Co. expanded from employing 200 people to having over 1,000 personnel, making it the largest plant in the United States.

The Root Glass Co. then merged its’ physical resources with Owens Illinois Glass Company, making it an investment for Chapman Root.

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

Hangman’s Tree Bar: Historical bottles found in mud

Have you ever wondered about sending a message in a bottle?

by Wendy Schultz

Scaffolding and workers have been all around the Herrick and Hangman’s Tree building, 301 and 305 Main Street, for months, but the owners, Tim and Sue Taylor, are taking their time and paying as they go.

The restoration of the historic buildings is the goal of the couple who purchased them in April of 2012.

The first focus has been to restore the structural integrity of the buildings. “We have been doing a lot of work, but it doesn’t really show,” said Sue Taylor. “We did the footings on the Herrick building and now we’re working on the Hangman’s Tree building. We pulled off the plaster and have been cleaning. We’re doing the footings on the front and back of the building now.”

Another project that is underway is excavating the crawl space under the Hangman’s Tree building and that has turned out to be unexpectedly

According to Guinness World Reconds, the oldest bottle found with a message is 108 years old.

1,000 bottles with post cards where tossed in the North Sea by Marine Biologist George Parker Bidder between 1904 and November 30th 1906 to test sea currents. The last of these bottles was found on July 2015 on a beach in Amrum, Germany after a journey of 108 years, 4 months and 18 days. The post card inside the bottle was sent back and the reward of 1 shilling was sent as promised for return.

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

The Taylors are also having metal shutters and a metal door constructed for the building and are planning to reuse the exterior siding from the Hangman’s building. “It’s in great shape. The brick we restored on the Herrick building turned out really nice. They (brick masons) did a great job,” she said.

The shared roof of the buildings was also restored, another accomplishment of last year. “It’s in great shape now, but it was a lot more work than we planned,” Taylor said. Once the footings of the Hangman’s Tree are done, Taylor said they will frame around them. “How long this all takes depends on how long it will take to dig the crawl space out. We aren’t putting any timelines to this.” interesting.

“We’re going very slowly because the mud underneath is full of old bottles,” said Taylor. “We want to go about 3 feet down to where we can see wooden planks, maybe from when it was a hay barn, but with all the bottles we’re finding, we’re being very painstaking.”

A bottle collector looked at some of the bottles the Taylors have found. “He told us that there were two major floods in Placerville. In the layer of mud you can see where the rainwater washed over it and about a foot above it, there is another waterline. There are a lot of bottles embedded in the mud with such a variety of styles,” said Taylor.

The antique bottles are stored off-site for safe-keeping, but Taylor said they found a Coke bottle with “Placerville” stamped on it.

“It’s not really exciting yet,” said Taylor, “but once we start on the store fronts, that will be fun.”

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FOHBC News From & For Our Members Report from Mr. Bottles and the Wisconsin Antique Advertising & Bottle Club Hello everyone. For those of you who missed the club Christmas party it was a lot of fun. There were TWENTY people there! People brought fantastic food to pass, the conversations and laughter were joyful. The white elephant gift-give was full of surprises like a tiny wolf weasel marmot opossum raccoon with a flattened head and hole in the ear wrapped in plastic ivy eating a road kill red squirrel was picked away from someone. Honestly, it was pretty crazy. The Kupferschmit’s have the Glaziers to thank for that wonder. Draga WON a series of 1950s and 60s men-only magazines. Other than suggestive titles they are innocent BUT hilarious. John, she LOVES them! There was a strategic battle for the lit neon sign also from the Glaziers. There was honey from our yard combined with an arrowhead necklace from up the river. The Wiese’s love arrowhead hunting and honey. Mr. Jim K. won a box of stuff with an ice tool (he collects them) and then gave the dragon fly door knock to someone else who liked it. Mila won an electric eraser that Patrick brought. Likely from the fifties or sixties and it works and is very interesting. The Kuperschmit’s also won darts and a Packer Super Bowl coin. Debbie won enough tequila to last her a decade (she doesn’t drink tequila) and so much more. Mark your calendar for the second Sunday of December in 2018. There was so much food and such good food, just everything was great!

A step back to the show. Everyone considered it a success. Feedback from long-time collector and all around great guy Jeff Burkhardt was spectacular and sums up the common impression very well. Jeff said it was a great event and that he sold more at our first-year show than he has in many years at the February show. We had three $200 gift certificate give away drawings that had people hanging around. I saw things flying off of tables. I personally brought an odd lot mix and was rewarded with great sales. First year with little time to market and we had a great event. Next year should be amazing. Consider reserving tables now. For those who missed it, Jon Steiner did a beautiful job putting it together, making it look fantastic and getting the word out. He made a first year event a seamless success.

There is a chance Draga and I will host the January meeting too.

Only so that everyone can see the basement completed. It will depend on how much snow there is because too much will make it difficult to park in our yard. Update will come in early to mid-December and we might have to change locations on short notice if we get a lot of snow in that week. This time of year, we hope people truly consider what they are thankful for. I am for all of you! Great people making up a GREAT CLUB! Thanks for everything!

Steve R. Libbey Delafield, Wisconsin

This “Tom” is not so fiendish looking Dear Mr. Meyer, Van Zant and staff, Waianae, hi and hello. This is a reproduction of a label I bought at

the Morro Bay, California show this past March. I think this Gin was mentioned in a recent article in Bottles and Extras. I think it is copyright free, so you can reproduce it at will. I am not sure that Cordial Gin is a flavored gin, like the present flood of flavored alcohol. During my brief stint as a drinker, only a few overtly flavored liqueurs were around, other than Schnapps, Kahlua, Cointreau...etc.

Feel free to use or share this image as you see fit.

1889/1890 Weis Brothers Catawba Bottle...Help?

Hello Ferdinand! I came across your site from a historic ad from the Weis Brothers, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in research of a special bottle I have in hand. I am in, and from Milwaukee, and came across this treasure, built into the wall of the house that I am currently remodeling. I’m hoping maybe you can help in regard? I can’t seem to find anything like it, especially, with this particular label, historically, so I’m wondering also what it would be worth, considering it was in such a well-kept condition! I am not an expert, but have much knowledge of many vintage and antique items, that have crossed my path over the past 20 years. I sell on eBay, and help many others as well, with home clean outs and such, on the side.

But this piece, this bottle in particular, really kind of “wowed” me I have to say! I will attach a few photos for you, and if you could really help at all, I would really appreciate it! Thanks for your time, Heather M. Smith [FM5] A nice large Hock Wine bottle example for sure. It is not embossed so value down. Super label for a wine bottle. What color glass? Any bottle issues? Maybe $250 on a good day. The current Heckler Auction 158 has a number of these type bottles listed.

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Fat Man Bitters Ferdinand, I’m hoping you can help me. My father recently passed away, and he was a collector of many things, including antique bottles, many of which he dug from the French Quarter area of New Orleans. I’ve sold a few to a local collector, but I have many others I’d like to sell. In addition to the ones he dug, he accumulated others which he did not dig and seem to be from other areas of the country.

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from some small city out in the middle of nowhere either but from Philadelphia! This bottle is more than extremely rare. It is unique since no one was even looking or missing it. The top and form reminds me of your label-only Kryder’s Celebrated German Bitters from Philadelphia. Been about three years since I found the rare Smith’s Druid Bitters in yellow olive, but the wait and searching paid off. Hope you and your readers enjoy the pictures and can find more info on this never before seen bottle. Thanks, Lou Holis Lake Alfred, Florida

I’m sending you a few pics in a few different email messages. The first is a Fat Man Bitters and the second is a Price’s Patent Candle Company. Please let me know if you can take a look them and tell me what you think. Thank You, Chris Nogues [FM5] Chris, this is a Big Bill Best Bitters. See link. http://www. peachridgeglass.com/2013/01/big-bill-best-bitters/. The Price’s is a beautiful bottle. Price’s Candles, founded in 1830, is an importer and retailer of candles. Its full name is Price’s Patent Candles Ltd. The firm is headquartered in Bedford, England and holds the Royal Warrant for the supply of candles. It is now the largest candle supplier in the UK. It holds an important place in the technological history of candle making. [Wikipedia]

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General bottle question on Salt Lake City, Utah (Utah Liquor Company) Glass Jugs Good afternoon, I was hoping that someone could point me in the right direction on this question? I am looking for another collector who may be a ‘Subject Matter Expert’ (SME) on Utah Bottles, specifically those bottles which were from the Utah Liquor Company forrmally located at 223 South Main, Salt Lake City, Utah. Specifically a clear glass jug embossed, megaphone shaped cylinder, ½ gallon? With a wooden carrying handle w/wire attached to bottle.

Have such a bottle and wanted to obtain any information on this bottle if possible, along with pertinent company history? I do know that Jacob Bergerman was the owner/proprietor starting approximately 1898 till the time of Prohibition? Prior to the 223 address they were at 167 South Main Street. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

William Gates Nampa, Idaho [Editor] William, please find attached a PDF of Utah Liquor Company by Stan Sanders from the Winter 2003 issue of Bottles and Extras.

Press Release - American Bottle Auctions (Post-Sale, Oct. 1322, Auction #64)

Hi Ferd, got a great bitters bottle on the 18th of November that I dug from the depths of the world wide web once again surrounded by common bottles. I looked everywhere but came up with zilch on this one. Embossed “Adams’ Antidyspeptic Bitters, Philadelphia PA”.

It is blue aqua, 9 1/2 inches high, square with a smooth base and no damage.

Dear Editor or Journalist - Attached is a press release with accompanying images for the Internet and catalog Auction #64, held Oct. 13-22 by American Bottle Auctions, based in Sacramento, Calif. In all, 250 rare and vintage bottles sold for a total of $380,000, which averages out to nearly 50 percent more per bottle than in past American Bottle Auction sales. Western and eastern soda bottles did especially well, thanks to a few outstanding collections. Also sold were scarce bitter bottles from both sides of the country, a large inkwell collection, whiskeys and other rare western bottles. If you need additional information about this auction, you may call Jeff Wichmann at (800) 806-7722; or, you can e-mail him at info@americanbottle.com.

Thanks, and best regards,

I know it is 2017 but things still turn up out of the blue. Crazy, not

Ken Hall

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[Editor] Please visit FOHBC.org “Editor’s Picks” for the full press release for American Bottle Auctions (Post-Sale, Oct. 13-22, Auction #64.

Dr. Flint’s Quaker Bitters Hello! “Dr. H. S. Flint” was my great, great grandfather Henry Sanborn Flint! I have never read about or seen any of these bottles but stumbled across your information while searching his records. I have recently turned over some of his maritime writings and personal belongings to a private collection in Salem, Massachusetts. I wanted to thank you for posting this information, it was a delight to read and share with my family!

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Fonseca article. It is a picture of Jamaica that Ferd added. The flat white surface is a puzzle to me as well. Definitely not a tennis court!

Since Jamaica was settled as an agricultural opportunity I am assuming it has something to do with crops. I doubt it is sugar cane under a canopy. Possibly tobacco but that seems unlikely. I have to assume that it would be some non-native crop that was really susceptible to local bugs. As an agriculturalist, what is your guess? I haven’t Googled it yet but the Internet probably holds the answer.

Eric [Ferdinand Meyer V] Shade grown tobacco? See picture below.

Ann Potter Flint [Read: Dr. Flint’s Rhode Island Bitters Products]

Western Brewer Journals Online Access Ferdinand, don’t know if you were a member of the American Breweriana Association, but I am and received this the other day.

Thought it might be of interest to you and the members. I can’t wait to look at these judging from the fast moving preview. Who knows what gems we can mine from this?

Richard Kramerich Pensacola, Florida [Editor] Please visit FOHBC.org “Editor’s Picks” for link.

Jamaica Champagne Beer

[Ken] Ferd’s picture of the tobacco covered field is likely what is depicted in the Bottles and Extras photo. I was thinking more along the lines of cold protection which wouldn’t be necessary in Jamaica.

It seems the quality of the tobacco plants is protected by blocking some of the suns harmful rays. Wish I could have covered our avocado crop over the Memorial day weekend, as the 105-110 degree days were too much for the trees and at least a quarter of the fruit was lost. Thank you both, Eric and Ferd for solving my question. It is interesting to go off on tangents from these articles. Here is a link I found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WwoiQ7Z0lU Ken

Milk Glass Medicinal Turpentine Bottle

Hi Eric (McGuire), great article on Fonseca and his Champagne beer (Jan Feb 2018 issue of Bottles and Extras). If this bottle had contained beer I would want one in my beer bottle collection. The photo of Hattie, the dug bottles, and finding the remains of D.L. still in the city, completed a very interesting story. I always look forward to reading your research on the Western bottles. A couple of questions.

On the first page, what is the picture of, and what is the white flat surface in the center of the picture? As more and more documents are digitized, do you find it easier to gather enough information to write your articles? I’m always hopeful that a photo of L.J. Ewell will surface, to complete my picture of the man I wrote about. Happy Holidays, Ken Morrill Carralitos, California [Eric McGuire] Ken, got the Bottles and Extras magazine today and now I can respond to your question about the cover picture for the

Dear Mr Meyer: I was delighted to come upon your website with the excellent article about Hartwig Kantorowicz milk glass and distilled products. Might I ask for your opinion about a medicinal turpentine bottle I came across recently please?

The background is this. I live in regional New South Wales in Australia where we are retired on a small fine wool producing sheep farm. My wife Rosemary and I are, among other things, involved in our local historical society and I am writing a series of history blogs.

In researching local history I have spent time with several long term locals in their late 80’s and 90’s. Sid Hillier, who lived on the property we now own from 1938 to the early 1970s, is one of these people and during our first interview he proudly trotted out a bottle of medicinal turpentine that has been in his family since he was very young. His mother treated him for a serious wound that kept him bed ridden for a fortnight in the late 1930s or early 1940s with this same bottle of medicine. It still has some very aromatic turpentine in it today.

I am in the throes of doing a blog post which will feature this bottle and the uses late colonial and early federation Australians made of this product. I have attached a preliminary and incomplete draft of

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this post, done before I came upon your site, which shows you Sid and his wife Maree and their bottle.

From reading your article, I think I can only say with certainty that the bottle was produced between 1823 when the 17 year old Hartwig started the business and 1920 when it was sold. But I am hoping that you may be able to make a better estimate after having a quick squizz at the photos. So, any suggestions or general observations you might be able to make would be very welcome.

Also, I would like to show in the article I write that the bottle would have had a colourful label when sold so, if you do not mind, would like to include a picture of the aromatic bitters bottle from your site as an example - duly acknowledged of course.

I have a bit more work to do on this item before publishing it - eg turpentine was used as a vermifuge for kiddies and stock. If you feel the story would be of interest to readers of your site I will happily provide it to you, either as done for the history page https://gunninghistory.blogspot.com.au or adapted specifically for you [leaving out the non Hillier stuff]. Thank you. Yours sincerely, Bob and Rosemary Spiller Gunning NSW

Hartwig Kantorowicz Antique Milk Glass Bottle Still in Use in Australia Article contributed by Bob Spiller of Gunning and District Historical Society https://gunninghistory.blogspot.com.au

Ferdinand and Elizabeth Meyer’s Peachridge Glass website specializes in Early American Antique Bottles and Glass. However, readers may well be interested in a Hartwig Kantorowicz milk glass bottle which recently came to light in Australia – still with a good portion of its contents still intact after close to 80 years since it was opened.

Mr. and Mrs. Hillier have lived in the Gunning district all their lives.

In recent weeks they have been helping me learn more about their lives and times in the area. At our first meeting, the couple brought out their very old bottle for me to see.

Well over 70 years ago a young Sid was bed ridden for a fortnight with a very serious gash to the leg suffered when he was impaled by a cut sapling stem while riding his bike home from school. He owes his return to full health and mobility to this very efficacious and versatile product. The bottle they are displaying in the adjacent picture is the same one used by Sid’s mother to treat his injury at the time.

Sid’s oil of turpentine was distilled and decanted into bottles made of a material called milk glass. It was produced by the Hartwig Kantorowicz company, famous in Poland (where it began in 1823) and Europe for its liqueurs, spirits and fruit juices. Hartwig Kantorowicz was also well known in the wider world. Sid’s bottle most probably comes from the company’s Hamburg factory which operated under the same name from the late 1870s to December 1920. Ferdinand has provided a very good history of this company which you can see here. Read: History of Kantorowicz Family and their Factory

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Sid and Maree’s Oil of Turpentine - Seriously Good Stuff Turpentine and petroleum distillates similar to kerosene have been used medicinally since ancient times and are still trusted as folk remedies today. They were used in ancient Babylon to treat stomach problems, inflammations and ulcers. Sid, of course, is living proof of the efficacy of oil of turpentine for treating wounds. The following advertorial, taken from the from the “Bundaberg Mail and Burnett Advertiser” of June 1916 but also seen in lots of other papers around this time, tells you just how good this stuff is.

OIL OF TURPENTINE

One of the most useful drugs you can keep in the house is oil of turpentine— the oil distilled by the aid of steam from the resinous material which exudes from certain species of fir-tree. Resin left after the distillation forms the basis of an official ointment, recommended for broken chilblains, ulcerated legs, and the like. It is interesting to remember that the precious amber, dear to smokers, and often seen around fair ladies’ necks is the fossil resin of extinct species of firs.

The oil of turpentine forms the best local application for lumbago, rheumatism, stiff or sprained joints, and forms the chief constituent of many well known patent embrocations or liniments; You may add it to olive oil in the proportion of one part turpentine to five parts of olive oil, and rub it in well at bed time. It acts best if you warm the mixture before use. Or you may add one part of turpentine to five or six methylated spirit, and use as a liniment, well shaking up beforehand. If you want a counter irritant to your chest or elsewhere — doing the work, of the familiar mustard plaster—you heat a piece of flannel, pour a little turpentine on it, and hold it firmly against the skin for ten minutes.

But Wait - There’s More Oil of turpentine was also recommended as a vermifuge (an intestinal worm killer) for both sheep and children. In October 1871 a correspondent signing himself “Paterfamilias”, knowing how good this product was for ridding sheep of worms, wrote to the editor of “The Queenslander” asking if “rectified spirits of turpentine would also be of service in the case of children.” This father of four children, all of whom suffered from worms, had tried several supposed remedies without success and was anxious to learn what dosage would work in children.

An expert adviser contacted by the paper said: “I use oil of turpentine in the following proportions: - for children, from a quarter to half an ounce; for adults from half to one ounce, repeated once a fortnight. If the effect is not satisfactory after two doses, see a medical man.”

Sid is blessed with an excellent memory and, so far as he can recollect, his mother used oil of turpentine as a wound dressing and disinfectant only. He was never dosed with it internally so cannot vouch for its value as a vermifuge.

Warning Sid is a living testimonial to the effectiveness of medicinal oil of turpentine and the reports of its benefits by late colonial and early federation newspaper correspondents in Australia are compelling.

But please do not attempt self treatment at home - particularly with mineral turps purchased from your local hardware or grocery store. They are entirely different products.

[Editor] Please visit FOHBC.org “Editor’s Picks” for link to Bobs post.

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Rufus Webb was Master of Louisiana ‘Gators and Whiskey’

By Jack Sullivan

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Fig.1 Drinking whiskey and shooting alligators on the Ouachita River.

Riding down Ouachita River in mid-state Louisiana on a riverboat about 1900, a group of friends stood in the bow, as illustrated here (Fig. 1), drinking whiskey and shooting alligators as they went downstream toward the town of Monroe. Among them was Rufus Webb, a man who knew a lot about both liquor and alligators.

Webb was born in Louisiana, the son of Robert and Harriet Webb, both natives of Alabama. Robert was a farmer with four sons, of whom Rufus was the third. The family apparently had some means because they were able to afford a live-in domestic servant. By 1900, Rufus had moved off the farm into nearby Monroe. The census that year found him married to Effie and the father of four daughters.

His occupation was listed as saloon-keeper. A passport photograph of him in maturity indicates a man of forceful character (Fig. 2).

Several years later, Webb had become a wholesale liquor dealer with an address at 105 DeSiard Street. It apparently was a successful activity with a sizable regional customer base. Rufus was known for packaging his goods in crock jugs with a considerable variety in their sizes, shapes and labels. Shown here are seven from a larger array (Figs. 3 - 9). They ranged from shouldered jugs in a single yellow glaze to ones with a brown Albany slip tops. They also included bailed stoneware containers with black under-glazed labels. I find one label particularly interesting in which Webb identified his firm as “limited,� a British term that described corporate liability seldom used in the United States.

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Fig.2 1900 Passport Application for Rufus Webb.The photograph of him in maturity indicates a man of forceful character.

Fig.3-9 Rufus Webb was known for packaging his goods in crock jugs with a considerable variety in their sizes, shapes and labels. Shown here on these two pages are seven from a larger array.

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Webb also packaged his whiskey in glass bottles. Shown here is a flask and detail of a logo embossed “R.P. Webb, Wholesale Liquors, Monroe, La.” (Fig. 10). Interestingly, the base of the bottle is embossed, “design patented, Pat. Aug. 9, 1898 (Fig. 11).

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Webb’s flagship brand was “Red Bud Whiskey,” as shown here on a giveaway shot glass (Fig. 12). He does not seem to have bothered to trademark the name.

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Another of Webb’s brands was “Post Office,” a label that incurred the special wrath of prohibitionist forces. About 1910, Rufus issued an advertising circular featuring a large picture of a whiskey bottle that read “Post Office.” At one side was a picture of a post office with Uncle Sam smiling and pointing toward a bottle. The circular read: “We all have confidence in our great government. We honor Old Glory, the flag of our country, and when we find Uncle Sam’s O.K. and stamp on everything we have confidence in it.” The circular went on to imply that the government green tax stamp on the bottle was a guarantee of its quality.

A temperance journal, in a critique of whiskey advertising, roundly condemned Webb’s ad as the very worst it had seen in all of the United States. The anti-alcohol publication objected to the patriotic message Webb had sent, the implication of government approval, the misleading reference to the tax stamp as a guarantee of quality, and the official sounding brand name. Webb countered: “We have been permitted to use this name “Post Office,” and the brand is fully protected by law.”

Webb clearly was making good use of the Monroe Post Office and Southern Railway Express to bring his liquor to customers throughout Louisiana. Although the state generally was hostile to any prohibition of alcohol, some central and northern parishes (counties) and towns had voted “dry” through local option. Among them was Shreveport. One pro-liquor publication, asserting the futility of such local bans, pointed out that any individual in such a place could have a gallon a week of whiskey shipped to him: “Such a farce is the law in this State that Monroe, La., alone, shipped 3,000,000 drinks into Shreveport last Christmas, according to L. I. Kahn, Commissioner of Public Utilities of Shreveport.” Many of those drinks came through the courtesy of Rufus Webb.

Shipping into “dry” areas, however, could be tricky, In 1902, Webb sent his “drummer,” a salesman named George Shields, into Winn Parish where a local alcohol ban prevailed. While Shields was taking orders for liquor in the town of Winnfield, he was arrested for violating local ordinances. Webb likewise was named as a defendant. Both men were convicted but because Webb never showed up for the trial, only the salesman faced a penalty. With the obvious backing of his boss, Shields appealed to the Louisiana Supreme Court. By a decision to which one judge dissented, the Court determined that because: 1) Webb was a lawful liquor dealer in a “wet” county, 2) the transaction had taken place through the mail, and 3) no money had changed hands in Winn Parish, the law had not been broken. Shields was declared “not guilty” and let go.

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Unfortunately, little is in the public record about Rufus Webb’s personal life. He was married and in 1894 local papers carried the story that his wife was lying “dangerously ill” from pneumonia at the Webb home. “Though the best medical skill and nursing is employed yet her relatives and friends entertain grave doubts as to her recovery.” Several weeks later the same newspaper was “glad to state” Mrs. Webb had recovered.

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a great deal of his life selling whiskey and shooting alligators.

Note: As might be expected, today shooting alligators for sport is regulated in Louisiana. Hunters can harvest the large reptiles only while being guided by an individual possessing a state-issued license.

The story about Webb’s fondness for shooting alligators from a riverboat came from the descendant of one of his sporting companions. A great-grandson told of how his ancestor would join Capt. R. P. Webb on a Sunday afternoon excursion on a riverboat moving from the town of Sterlington down the Ouachita River to Monroe (Fig. 13). Some believe that “Ouachita, pronounced “Washita,” means “good hunting grounds.” Webb and other gunners would stand in the bow of the boat and shoot the ‘gators, then tether them to the craft, and take them along home. “Trouble was they stunk up the town of Monroe downstream a few days later with dead alligator carcasses.” Asked to quit hauling them into town, Webb and his companions obliged.

With the coming of National Prohibition and nationwide federal control of alcohol sales, R. P. Webb Co. Ltd. was forced to shut down. That business setback did not send the now quite elderly Rufus into retirement. A 1922 publication noted that Capt. R. P. Webb was now working for the Louisiana State Conservation Department in Monroe, monitoring natural gas wells. Still, it must have been relatively dull employment for a man who had devoted

Fig.13 The Ouachita River (WAH-shi-tah) is a 605-mile-long river that runs south and east through the U.S. states of Arkansas and Louisiana, joining the Tensas River to form the Black River near Jonesville, Louisiana. It is the 25th longest river in the United States (by main stem).

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Fig 1 (inset): “The Mansion” aka The Benjamin House or Vesper Place in Shelbina, Missouri.

Fig 2 (full spread): Here is a picture of the birthplace and childhood home of “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” where my story begins.

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By Jack Klotz

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Fig 3: Margaret “Maggie” Brown referred to her as the “Unsinkable Mrs. Brown”. She is best remembered for exhorting the crew in Lifeboat No. 6 to return to the debris field of the 1912 sinking of RMS Titanic to look for survivors. The reference was further reinforced by a 1960 Broadway musical based on her life and its 1964 film adaptation which were both entitled The Unsinkable Molly Brown.

Many folks are unaware “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” was born and raised in Hannibal, Missouri. Her birthplace home still exists, if only in original geometric shape, as it has been restored numerous times over the decades since its original days from the mid 1800s. It was during one of these restoration episodes in 2013 when I had the good fortune to meet one of my fellow volunteer helpers who goes by Mansion Mike.

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After some talk about our shared passion for restoring old homes, I learned he and his wife Marilyn were deep into a major, longterm project. Though they were living in Hannibal, they had purchased an historic home in Shelbina, a small town some 40-plus miles west.

Knowing my local reputation for finding artifacts in privies, he discussed his disappointment of having to dig out a portion of his basement during a part of replacing an old sump pump system.

His disappointment was due to the fact he had found nothing dating from when the home was built, circa 1872. I suggested perhaps a search for the old outhouse pit would cure his disappointment. He was fully on board with the idea and I agreed to meet him at the Mansion the following weekend, since weekends were his only spare time to work on it. Shortly after our talk, I noticed he was driving off when I hollered at him, “Hey, Mike!

You didn’t tell me your address!” His reply was a simple, “Just ask anyone in town where the Mansion is.” “Okay,” I thought to myself, as I watched him disappear down the hill.

Fig 4: The good, the bad and the ugly--- you decide which is which! Ha!

Later at home I figured, if it’s that easy to find I’ll just Google it.

Sure as Hell, it popped up immediately as the “Benjamin House” or “Vesper Place.” (Fig: 1) I was, to say in the least, totally blown away. It was massive looking in the photos and his website showed various stages of restoration, along with descriptions of how many miles of wiring and tons of plaster have been replaced.

Apparently, the home had sat vacant for a number of years, which took their inevitable toll. Different levels of restoration have been taking place since at least the 1960s.

I sat back in my chair and pondered the potential. Along with the more current improvements to the property were old photos and 1956 newspaper articles describing the original owners, as well as the outbuildings. Apparently, there were five outbuildings; a barn, a smokehouse, a greenhouse, a hen house and, of course, a privy. In a vain decision, the original owners built all of the outbuildings with a cupola on their roof tops to mimic the Mansion, an obvious show of excessive affluence. The outhouse was described as a brick four-seater with one child-size seat to alleviate childhood fears of falling through to the poop monster!

When I arrived on the next Saturday morning, I was all worked up and raring to go! That was, until I saw the size of the yard!

It had to be nearly two acres in the backyard, not to mention the over-sized front and side yards! One photo from the 1800s had shown a grainy, out-of-focus portion of the barn behind and north of the house. Other than that, there was a very indistinct view of the privy with no clue as to location, either from the picture or written accounts.

Fig 5: Once a wall is discovered, the dig begins in earnest…….

Fig 6: Underneath the Scott’s Emulsion is the busted spitter the lip of the Hawthorn sticking out.

Beginning my hunt, I noticed an obvious depression about 30 feet back from the rear of the house. I stuck my four-foot probe in and it came out with what looked to be lime, white and ashy clinging to the tip. Mike just happened to be nearby and suggested it was probably plaster due to a deep rut some heavy equipment left after a good rain. He said they dumped a huge amount of plaster over it as filler. So I took it on face value and moved over to where the barn had stood. Moving from the northernmost point back towards the house, I probed in a fairly sparse grid pattern about 3 feet apart, due to the size of the yard, coupled with Fig 7: Picture of the shard pile…..and there were plenty of shards!

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assuming a four-seater privy should be at least 6 feet long, unless they enjoyed sitting cheek-to-cheek, so to speak. Several hours later I was worn out and also empty-handed. I returned Sunday with much the same result. I left my friend disappointed, while I left disgusted with my inability to find such a large privy. I began to wonder, since they were wealthy enough to have servants, and likely had on staff a chambermaid, the privy could have been much farther from the house than I had originally thought. After all, it would be a routine duty for the chambermaid to empty the chamber pot and any trash into the privy, regardless of how far she had to travel. This was my first mistake in my calculations.

At this time, I failed to take into consideration the reality of how poor their diets were in those days for many reasons, but spoilage was one of them. So where I failed was not considering this, along with the question of just how far was the average person willing to “trot” to the outhouse with a bad case of the “green apple quick-step?” And especially a woman in a hoop skirt! It could be a messy situation if it were nearly a football field distance to run! My second mistake was not taking time to think it through until about a year later! I was returning from a trip out west that following year and decided to detour over to my friend’s Mansion to test out my theory. I walked into the backyard directly behind where the nearest door had been bricked over and pondered just how far would I be comfortable trotting to? I swung my probe in an imagined arc from my left to my right from where I stood and felt this was a comfortable distance. I suddenly realized I was standing where I had first probed the plaster-filled rut. With a mental shrug, I stuck my probe in again, but with the same results, though it felt unusually shallow. Being late in the day, I flagged it out and headed home to prepare for an early start the next morning.

We, the bottle hounds and I, arrived about 8 a.m., since it was the late part of June and it had been getting more than toasty by midday that week. After the hounds had sniffed at my flag and concurred it was the spot, I tethered them nearby to supervise the dig. Before I knew it, they were both sound asleep and drooling on each other in wherever doggie dreams take them. I began probing for the walls and in quick order I found the four brick sides and it seemed to be excessively long, even for a four seater.

After digging about a foot into the fill, I uncovered a tiny 1 oz. unembossed slick pharmacy bottle about late 1890s. “Well, it’s a start,” I thought to myself. Shortly after came a Saint Louis whiskey I didn’t have, a “Hellman Dist. Co.” From there, about a half foot deeper, my shovel came up full of light, seedy night soil, minus any glass. “Well, at least it’s a use layer,” I mused with growing anticipation. By now I decided to open it up to the four corners, since I am now 100% convinced it is the legendary privy.

(We’ll get to the legend later in the story.)

It was taking on a size and length of what looks more like a latrine than a privy. The homebuilder had been a colonel and eventually a brigadier general for the Union during the Civil War, which could explain the latrine-like dimensions. Out came a few more slicks, all about 1880s-90s age until I got a couple more feet deeper. Now I began to uncover tons of broken dishes, window pane glass and pottery of whiskey jugs. Everything was smashed and looked to have been broken before being tossed, since there was absent any of the usual rocks and bricks one normally fines as culprits.

Fig 8: Sadly, an unembossed “slick” shoo-fly flask.

Fig 9: The Wyeth strap-sided medicine, hoping it was a “USA Hospital Dept.” bottle, but nooooooo!

Fig 10: Finally out and in hand. Starting to look better in the daylight.

Fig 11: The “supervisors,” doing what supervisors do best…….

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Just under all this layer of breakage about a foot-and-a-half deeper sat the privy floor, at only 5 feet deep! Really!? Well, the good news was, this would be the only time the bottle goddess messed with me, on this dig! No major criers, but also no major killer finds. Only two really decent bottles to mention and knowing the original homeowners Union Army connection, I had blurry cross-eyed visions of a “USA Hospital Dept.” bottle as I began to uncover a cobalt blue, slug plate panel. I took in situ (situation) pictures from the start, but was disappointed when I pulled up a strap-sided “John Wyeth and Bro / Philada” medicine. Looking at the unembossed smooth base and overall crudity, I realized this one looked older than any of the other numerous Wyeths I have dug, and the only one in a rich deep cobalt color. I’ve known they come in cobalt, as I saw one years ago in the largest Wyeth collection I’ve ever seen, but never had seen another. Until now, that is.

I later tried hunting down another one on the Internet with dismal results. Have you ever tried to Google “cobalt blue Wyeth” or any other variation? Good luck! Must have made 10 million cobalt dose bottles over the years. The other good bottle stayed well-hidden until I yanked out a busted spittoon. After I tossed the damaged spitter on to the bank, I turned around back to the dig and there lying on the pile was a sweet pint-size black glass “Hawthorn Spring/ Saratoga N.Y.” mineral water. Later when I checked my in situ picture of a common Scott’s Emulsion, I found the top of the lip and neck of the Hawthorn barely visible, hiding next to the spittoon remains. The dig ended much too soon for my liking, with only a small handful of slicks and commoners.

While filling in the 10-foot-long by 4-foot-wide by 5-foot-deep hole, it occurred to me this was a normal sized privy, just turned onto its side! It made perfect sense, especially for cleaning out purposes, though it didn’t look to have ever been dipped. There was an early aqua sewing machine oil bottle badly damaged on the privy bottom with an early shiny smooth base and embossed on the front panel, “Pure Sperm Oil”/ Put Up/ Expressly For” and on the backside “Willcox and Gibbs/ Sewing Machine.” On one side panel was embossed “Broadway” and “New York” on the opposite side. Most of its flared lip was missing, along with a long splinter of glass from an edge, giving it the distinct look of an early 1860s bottle. Also on the floor was a large base with an open pontil scar to an apothecary type bottle and shards to a couple of other 1860s looking bottles. They likely were brought from their earlier home about 10 miles away when they first moved into their new home, and I would presume they were an early “late throw,” if you will.

The current homeowners were happy to finally get something tangible to the original occupants and along with a box load of pottery shards, I asked them if they had any stock in super-glue since they might need to cash it in if they did.

Now, about the story title, which ties into the privy legend.

According to the 1956 newspaper series of articles about the Mansion, one was titled, “Outdoor Toilet Is Mistaken For Monument To Dead.” According to the news story, coupled with some local lore, after Colonel Benjamin passed away in the late 1870s, it was common practice to bury family members on their home

Fig 12: Lastly, the “big haul” of keepers, the Wyeth, a “Keasby & Mattison”, a “Hellman Dist. Co/ St. Louis” whiskey, a small “Jno H. Blood/ Proprietors/ St. Louis” med and lastly the pint black glass “Hawthorn Spring/ Saratoga NY.” Not much to talk about, but leave it to me to make a story out of it.

property. It was no secret then to the town folk that the colonel was interned in the Mansion yard. Shortly after his passing, the widow felt the need to hire an additional servant.

In a well-meaning attempt to get in good with the new boss, the latest hire remarked to the widow about what a fine looking monument the locals had erected for the good Colonel’s grave.

Confused as to what the new help was referring to, the widow asked her what exactly was she talking about. The servant then pointed to the brick edifice with the fancy cupola and said, “Why, thar lies the good colonel over thar.” The widow, now realizing

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Fig 13: A common Scott’s Emulsion of Cod Liver, with broken spittoon directly underneath. Nearly invisible in lower right is shadowy glimpse of the pint sized Hawthorn Spring mineral water bottle.

the new help had mistaken the fancy privy for a monument to her recently deceased husband, stiffened and replied, “Let me assure you, the good colonel has never been, nor ever will be buried there!” In later history, the colonel was re-interned into a local cemetery.

The real twist of irony is the idea that the colonel had built the outbuildings as fancy examples of excessive prosperity derived from extracting, or rather extorting, money from the locals to allow substitutions to conscription into the Union Army, over which the colonel held ultimate sway. Also of note, most of the

area population favored the South, so the colonel was highly disliked by the community at large, to put it mildly.

So, it seems the ultimate irony would be to have been confused to have been buried in the crapper he once erected as part of a show of how rich and important he was! I know, it’s kind of a crappy ending to a crapper story, but the roll of paper (or basket of corn cobs) has to come to an end (literally), sometime!

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THE BOTTLES AND ADVERTISING OF GEORGE BENZ

By Steve Ketcham In their 1904 Articles of Incorporation, published in the Saint Paul Globe newspaper, George Benz and Sons of St. Paul, Minnesota, declared the nature of the corporation’s business “shall be to conduct a general mercantile and manufacturing business, and to manufacture, buy, sell, trade, and deal in and other wise acquire, hold and dispose of goods, wares, and merchandise of every kind and nature, particularly whiskies, brandies, gins, spirits, and liquors of all kinds….” The articles go on to discuss the structure of the corporation, naming Benz and his sons as officers and board members. Also discussed are the property holdings of the company, including distilleries.

By the time these articles were published, George Benz had been in the business of selling liquor for nearly 40 years. A German immigrant, Benz came to America in 1853 at the age of 15. At age 18 he moved to St. Paul and owned the United States Billiard Hall and Restaurant. Benz sold that business in 1865 and went into the liquor business with partner F. A. Renz who later sold his interest in the business to Major J. C. Becht. The firm of Benz and Becht continued until Becht’s death in 1878.

The business name was simply George Benz from 1878 until 1881. From 1881 to 1887 the firm was known as George Benz & Co. In 1887 Benz brought his sons into the business and the firm became George Benz & Sons.

The Benz company kept offices in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Louisville, Kentucky. It also owned a distillery in Eminence, Kentucky.

George Benz was very engaged in his community. He was a Mason and served several terms in the Minnesota Legislature. He also served on the St. Paul School Board.

While many pre-Prohibition liquor businesses across the United States produced numerous fine containers for their goods,

it is remarkable that the Benz firm, a simple Midwestern concern, left so many fine vessels behind for today’s collector to seek and enjoy. Many of the Benz bottles are either of distinctive design or they bear beautifully lithographed color labels.

Many liquor dealers produced their own bitters in that day. Foremost among the Benz bottles is the Appetine Bitters, a product marketed in both amber and black glass (deep amethyst) bottles. The intricate design, with its fancy, embossed edges and shoulders, was patented in 1897. The Appetine bottles are found in quart and pint sizes as well as in two sample sizes.

The Appetine label promises the product “is a reliable remedy for disorders of the Digestive Organs. It creates appetite and aids in the proper fulfillment of the digestive functions. It is especially effective and valuable for the relief of Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Malaria, Flatulency, Cholera Morbus, Nausea. Chills, Grippe, Diarrhea, and troubles of the Stomach and Digestive Tract.”

With Benz being a liquor dealer first, it is likely the bitters he made contained at least 20% alcohol. This amount of alcohol was typically the average for most bitters of the time. A May 1900 price list from the liquor dealership listed a case of 12 quarts as selling for $10 while a case of 12 pints cost $5.50.

Numerous advertising pieces in the form of signs and trays attest to the idea that the Benz men knew the power of good advertising as well as attractive packaging.

George Benz died in 1907, leaving behind a remarkable assembly of fine old bottles and advertising. Shared here are some examples from the treasure trove of Benz artifacts available to the collector willing to spend the time and dollars to put together a fine collection.

Some of the information for this article was taken from “The Book of Minnesotans”, Volume I, A. N. Marquis & Company, Chicago, 1907.

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Benz Old Blue Ribbon - Old Blue Ribbon may have taken first prize among the Benz best sellers. A nice assortment of containers may be found with this Benz brand emblazoned on them.

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text, the two smaller cylinders are decorated in applied sterling silver. The pottery urn is an unusual piece, and few other brands are known to have used this style of container. The Old Blue Ribbon tea pot was likely used at refined restaurant dining tables to discreetly serve “cold tea� to particular patrons who did not wish to be seen indulging in public. Such tea pots, marked with brand name whiskey advertising, are not unusual. Collectors also believe they may have served as water pitchers on the bar.

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Benz Pickwick Rye - It appears Pickwick Rye was another Benz brand that sold like the dickens. The two brass signs are especially attractive, framed in dark oak. Nifty slogans like “By many Summers Ripened. By many Winters Mellowed.� helped sell the product. Several back bar decanters also carry the Pickwick name, as does the leather-covered pocket flask shown here.

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Benz Oldays Rye -

Another Benz product that provides a nice selection of vessels and advertising for today’s collector is the Oldays Rye brand. Two back bar decanters are pictured here, suggesting the brand enjoyed some loyalty among saloon denizens. Also popular with today’s collector are the Oldays Rye stoneware jugs with inside-thread stoppers. The manufacture of these jugs, found in quart, pint, and half-pint sizes, is attributed to the Sherwood Brothers pottery of New Brighton, Pennsylvania. The large, gesso relief sign once hung in the bar of the New Prague Hotel in New Prague, Minnesota.

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Benz Uncle Sam - The Benz firm sold several popular brands of

liquor. Perhaps no brand had a nicer selection of memorabilia as Uncle Sam’s Monogram Whiskey. Before entering the liquor business, Benz operated the United States Billiard Hall and Restaurant. The choice of Uncle Sam as a symbol for this product is possibly a reflection of Benz’s

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affinity for his adopted country. Pictured here are a lithographed, self-framed tin advertising sign, a labeled pocket flask, a brass clock, two different back bar decanters with color enamel lettering, and a Benz letterhead promoting the Uncle Sam brand.

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Benz Appetine Bitters - The Benz Appetine Bitters is among the top Minnesota bitters bottles sought by local collectors. The variety of sizes and the fancy design mean its appeal extends to the national market as well. The label declared the product was made from medicinal roots and herbs. Shown here are quart Appetine bottles in black glass and amber as well an amber pint and three amber examples in sample sizes.

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Benz Appetine Bitters - The two Appetine Bitters back bar decanters and aperitif glass pictured here suggest the product enjoyed some popularity among bar and restaurant patrons.

Steve Ketcham, FOHBC Director-at-Large, began collecting bottles in 1967. He is a charter member of the North Star Historical Bottle Association and has served as club president, treasurer, and show chairman.

A life member of the Federation, he sat on the FOHBC board from 1982-1998 and was Federation President from 1982-1984.

Steve’s collecting interests include all types of early American bottles and flasks, antique advertising, and Red Wing stoneware. He currently serves on the Red Wing Collectors Society Foundation board, a group that

oversees the Red Wing Pottery Museum.

Steve and his wife Chris live in the Minneapolis area.

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The Revenue Stamps that saved the United States from Bankruptcy

By Allan T. Pollard

Used from 1863 to 1883 on various Ayer’s products & used friom 1867 to 1881 on “Ring’s Vegetable Ambrosia” (a hair restorative). These stamps show some of the unusual shapes that the manufacturers of some proprietary medicines were willing to pay for to differentiate their products from those of their competitors.

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When President Abraham Lincoln in April of 1861 ordered the Northern States to field an Army, that was the beginning of the US Civil War. Both President Lincoln and the United States Congress soon realized that in order to surmount the overall costs of the War that they would need to raise some money. So, on July 1, 1862, Congress enacted an extensive schedule of stamp taxes on documents, patent medicines, perfumery and cosmetics, along with playing cards, matches, and even photographs.

As a side note, the Act also created from the Treasury Department the position of “Commissioner of Internal Revenue” to oversee this act. Of course, the income tax as we know it today came into being in 1913 when Wyoming ratified the 16th Amendment to the Constitution making it the 36th and last State to ratify a three-quarter majority of States to do so. The Civil War tax was repealed on March 3, 1883. The tax was re-enacted in June of 1898 and repealed April 2, 1901 to cover the expenses of the Spanish-American War, but with much fewer stamps.

With the United States having to ramp up production of the Revenue stamps to be applied to each product to show that the tax had been paid, a Dr. L. R. Herrick, manufacturer of Herrick’s Pills and Plasters, was the first to recognize the potential advertising value that these stamps could have, and received the approval to print his own stamps for between a 5 to 10% discount on the taxes paid. This, also being a cost advantage, spurred many other companies to do the same. While those companies that chose not to take advantage of this option had to stamp or print their initials on government printed Proprietary stamps that were applied to each product that they produced.

When the first Civil War tax was repealed in 1883, it was estimated that some eight billion revenue stamps had been issued of which it is estimated that the medicine stamps alone numbered about 2.7 billion. Their scarcity today is due in a large measure to the fact that they were almost invariably torn when the packages were opened. In fact, as Michael E. Aldrich points out in his book “A Census of United States Match and Medicine Stamps”, of the 160 different medicine listed issues, 19 of them are unique (meaning only ONE known copy exists). This has resulted in many of these stamps being listed in Scott’s Specialized US Catalogue as being worth thousands of dollars. In fact, in Mr. Aldrich’s book, he documents how the prices have gone up over the years. The prefix number in the Scott’s Catalogue starts with an RS for the medicine stamps.

When affixing the revenue stamps to medicines, the amount of tax charged was based on the rate of 1 cent for each 25 cents of retail value or fraction thereof up to $1 and 2 cents for each 50 cents or fraction above that amount.

There were various types of paper used in the stamps’ manufacture during the years that they were made and these were identified by letters after the stamp number in the catalogue as follows: a. (1862-71) First issue. Hard and brittle paper varying from thick to thin. b. (1871-77) Second issue. Soft and porous Silk paper (with silk threads up to ¼ inch in length, mostly red, blue, and black. c. (1877-78) Third issue. Soft paper colored pink ranging from pale to deep shades. d. (1878-83) Forth issue. Soft porous Watermarked paper showing part of “USIR”. e. Experimental silk paper. Medium smooth paper, containing minute fragments of silk threads either blue alone or blue and red, widely scattered, sometimes but a single fiber on a stamp.

Companies that were in operation during all of these years had stamps issued in each of these varieties making the collecting of these stamps more interesting and of course more difficult. There was one collector, a Morton Dean Joyce, who had a collection that was so large, that when his collection was auctioned off in 1991, effectively doubled the number of known Private Die Proprietary Match & Medicine stamps that were available for collectors to collect. How one person was able to amass such a collection prior to the Internet being around to me is just short of amazing.

Since I had been collecting both medicine bottles (specifically with labels and contents) and US Stamps for over 50 years now, I was surprised to find out about these Private Die Revenue stamps about five years ago and have been pursuing them ever since. They are a perfect compliment that ties my two collections together.

I have attempted to show examples in my photos of both some of the stamps and also the bottles from the same companies (although some of the bottles are from a later time frame than when the stamps were used on them).

Scott’s Catalogue points out that the stamps issued between 1862 and 1883 at a grade of fine-very fine can sell for 50% to 300% more than the catalogue value and outstanding examples of these revenue stamps with a lower catalogue value can bring many multiples of catalogue value. I have been fortunate to be able to collect several of these stamps that have limited copies of between 78 down to only 20 known copies available to collectors.

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WARNERS: Photos 1, 2 & 3. The top left group of these Warner stamps were used between 1881 and 1883 while the lower stamps (3-1/8 cent) were used from 1898 to 1902. In between the two Warner bottles in photo #2 is an advertising poster whereas in photo #3 is the brochure that came wrapped around the full “Safe� Nervine bottle.

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[5] DR. JAYNE’S: Photos 4, 5 & 6. Used from 1862 to 1883, they were first cut rectangular imperforate, but soon were used as die cut stamps on whole variety of Dr D. Jayne’s products.

Photo #5 shows the literature that came wrapped around the bottle, whereas #6 shows a facsimile label used after the repeal of the tax, and is applied over the cork.

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DEMAS BARNES: Photo 7. The left three stamps above were used from 1863 to 1865 whereas the right three stamps (Demas Barnes) were used from 1865 to 1866. There also were a few printed in vermillion and are harder to find. Some of the familiar names on the stamps are “Mexican Mustang Liniment” along with “Drake’s Plantation & Catawba Bitters”.

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[10] DR. HARTER: Photos 9 & 10. Used from 1873 to 1883 on Dr. Harter’s products such as Dr. Harter’s Fever and Ague and Neuralgia Specific; Dr. Harter’s Lung Balsam; Dr. Harter’s Cherry Bitters; & Dr. Harter’s Iron Tonic among other Dr. Harter’s products.

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[14] HOME BITTERS: Photo 13. Used from 1875 to 1883 on “The Celebrated Home Stomach Bitters”. You may notice that the two bottom stamps on this page indicate that there are only 62 & 37 respective copies currently known with the current catalog value of this page of stamps being in excess of $1,200.00 due to their rarity.

[15] HOSTETTER: Photos 14 & 15. The 4 cent stamps of Hostetter & Smith were used from 1863 to 1883 whereas the block of five stamps of Hostetter Co. (2-1/2 cent) were used from 1899 to 1901 during the Spanish-American War. The center bottle reads “Star Bitters”, however, if you look closely you will see that the label is actually put over an embossed J. Hostetter’s Bitters bottle.

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[16] CURTIS & BROWN: Photos 16 & 17. Used from 1865 to 1877 (Curtis & Brown) and 1877 to 1883 (Curtis & Brown Mfg Co.) The 2 cent Black in both silk and watermarked are very rare with only 16 and 24 copies known respectively. There is only a slight variation in the stamp wording from the large stamp above, but they are priced at $2,450 and $1,200 each.

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[28] DR. J.H. McLEAN: Photos 27 & 28. Used 1867 to 1883 on many of the J.H. McLean’s medicines. The box of “Dr. J. H. McLean’s Universal Pills” contained not only the pictured instruction but also the pictured finger corkscrew which as small as it is had the name of the company stamped around the outside metal edge of it.

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RUMFORD CHEMICAL WORKS: Photos 29 & 30. Used from 1881 to 1883 on “Horsford’s Acid Phosphate” under the company name of “Rumford Chemical Works”.

Professor Horsford was one of the first to recognize the value of phosphates to the human nutrition.

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[20] [31] DR. SCHENCK: Photos 31, 32 & 33. Used from1865 to 1993 on “Schenck’s Mandrake Pills” (green 1 cent stamp) and “Schenck’s Pulmonic Syrup” (black 6 cent stamp).

This company was still an active company into the late 1930s and was using facsimile stamps as pictured.

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DR. ROBACK: Photo 34. Used from 1867 to 1874 under the name of “United States Proprietary Medicine Company” on “Dr. C. W. Roback’s Scandinavian Blood Pills”. The pills were contained in a wood veneer box and the stamp (which was the whole wrapper) enclosed the box and was sealed with wax. The company also produced “Dr. Roback’s Scandinavian Blood Purifier” for which there was another stamp.

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[20] EDWARD WILDER: Photo 35. Used from 1869 to 1882 on a variety of medicines under the company name of “Edward Wilder” that are listed on the stamp such as “Chill Tonic”, Stomach Bitters”, and “Sarsaparilla”. There is not much known about this company as it was out of business in the early 1880’s.

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Bigger - Brighter - Better

48TH ANNUAL SHOW & SALE EMPIRE STATE BOTTLE COLLECTORS ASSOCIATION

Sunday, March 25th, 2018 Time: 9:00 am - 2:30 pm • Dealer Setup: 7:00 am Bottles, Insulators, Early Glass, Milk Bottles, Tabletop Antiques, Postcards, Stoneware, Advertising, Local Collectibles And Much More!

Location: Cicero American Legion,

5575 Legionnaire Dr., Cicero, NY 13039

Three dollar donation and under 12 free

Free Parking - Handicap Accessible Show Contact & More Info: Keon Kellogg- Show Chairman

email: kkell32369@aol.com • phone: 315-963-8681

Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association 20TH ANNUAL SHOW & SALE

ANTIQUE BOTTLES, INSULATORS, ADVERTISING, ANTIQUES, BREWERIANA, POST CARDS, PAN-AM EXPOSITION AND BUFFALO, N Y COLLECTIBLES Sunday, September 16, 2018 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM

Polish Falcons Hall 445 Columbia Avenue Depew, NY Admission - $3.00 (Children under 12 free) Free Appraisals

Information/Contracts:

Dave Potter (716) 771-1581 - potter8151@roadrunner.com Peter Jablonski (716) 440-7985 - peterjablonski@roadrunner.com Joe Guerra (716) 674-5750 - jguerra3@roadrunner.com Tables $25/$15 for additional tables Set-up Sunday 7:00 to 9:00 AM

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53rd Annual 2018

Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show/Sale

Henderson Convention Center 200 South Water Street Henderson, Nevada 89015

March 2-3 • 2018 Early Bird Admission $10 • Friday 9:00 am to 12 pm Regular Admission $5 • Friday 12 pm - 5 pm & Saturday 9 am - 4 pm • $5 Admission Contact Nick Valenti - 702.415.1568 or nv1948@cox.net Dealer Set-Up Thursday 3/1/18 from 12 pm - 8 pm

Proudly presented by the Las Vegas Antique Bottles & Collectibles Club

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Below: Hi Ferdinand, just wanted to show you a bitters I dug in New Orleans this past Sunday. I was contacted by Lisa M., who is the great granddaughter of I. L. Lyons, when she saw the bottle on Ebay. Here are some pics. The bottle has no damage and gorgeous iridescence. Enjoy the pics! Mike Burkett (Long Beach, Mississippi) PRG Note: Ball Lyons & Co. was William Ball and Ezekial Lyons. They were druggists in New Orleans around 1873 and 1874. They were succeeded by I.L. Lyons & Co. (1875-1879). They were wholesale and retail druggists.

Above: November 2017. Rare photo shows Billy the Kid and the man who shot him, experts say. A flea market find could be one of the most historic photos of Wild West outlaw Billy the Kid, because of who is pictured with him. The photo, purchased for $10 in North Carolina, shows what historians believe is Billy the Kid and Patrick Garrett.

Garrett later became sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, and shot Kid in 1881.

North Carolina attorney Frank Abrams first came across the tintype photo in Asheville in 2011. Abrams bought the photo and hung it on his wall for several years until a 2015 TV program made him question if Garrett was in his photo.

Above: A sampling of the 29 patterns of calico buttons found on the sunken steamboat Arabia. The word calico refers to cotton fabrics printed with small, repeating patterns, originally imported to England from Calicutta, India. Buttons were printed to match. Cotton dresses from the Arabia had dissolved after spending 132 years underwater. Luckily, their porcelain buttons remained intact, showing us how many colorful, intricate patterns were available to women who could afford readymade clothing in 1856. The Arabia is a side wheeler steamboat which hit a snag and sank in the Missouri River near what today is Kansas City, Missouri, on September 5, 1856. It was rediscovered in 1988 by a team of researchers. Today, the artifacts, including many bottles, were recovered from the site are housed in the Arabia Steamboat Museum.

Right: In 2011, Julien’s Auctions in California, auctioned a 1915 Coca-Cola Prototype Contour Bottle and Concept Sketch. The contour Coca-Cola prototype bottle was designed by Earl R. Dean.

A pencil on paper concept sketch of the 1915 prototype bottle was made by Dean due to a looming deadline and was sketched just hours before Dean produced the first prototype bottles. This is the only concept sketch of the “contour” Coca-Cola bottle ever made. The Bottle sold for $240,000 and the concept sketch for $228,000.

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A cool sepia-tone photograph of the Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower which dominates the Baltimore skyline at dusk in the early 1930s. You can see the famous illuminated bottle atop the tower. The well-known Bromo-Seltzer bottle is pictured to the right. Lighting on the tower top made the bottle blue.

Emerson Tower often referenced as Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower is a 15-story, skyscraper erected in 1911 at the corner of Eutaw and Lombard Streets in Baltimore, Maryland, designed by Joseph Evans Sperry for Bromo-Seltzer inventor “Captain” Isaac E. Emerson.

Left: November 2017. Russ’ Stomach Bitters: This rare and beautiful “lady’s leg” bitters bottle was discovered just a couple of months ago, in an old barn north of Portland, along the coast of Maine. The barn and attached house were purchased recently and were undergoing renovations at the time. Workers were putting new roof boards on the barn when the bottle was discovered hiding under an eve.

The homeowners nearly gave the bottle to the roofer! John Pastor, American Glass Gallery

Right: Did you know that you can visit the web site ClassRing Finder. com to find missing class rings?

Shown, a vintage 1950 Pittsfield High School 10k Yellow Gold Class Ring in Art Deco.

Below: A $14,000 jumble sale scrap metal find turned out to be $33 million Fabergé golden egg. The 3.2-inch egg is on an elaborate gold stand supported by lion paw feet.

Three sapphires suspend golden garlands around it, and a diamond acts an opening mechanism to reveal the Vacheron Constantin watch inside.

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The Guide To Collecting Fruit Jars

Fruit Jar Annual 2018 Updated annually by Jerry McCann 22nd edition Comprehensive price guide for fruit jars and related packer jars Cross referenced with the Dick Roller’s Standard Fruit Jar Reference 2011, listing information on availability, closures and history on the glass houses that manufactured or jobbed the jars.

Researched articles by Barry Bernas, Richard Cole, Bill Lockhardt, Beau Schriever, Bill Lindsay and Carol Serr. Articles cover the glass firms of Greenfield, Indiana; Ball made Art Deco design patented jars; and Henry W. Putnam and his Trade Mark Lightning jars.

Softcover, spiral bound, 402 easy to read pages with photos, drawings and period ads

Fruit Jar Annual 2018 is $60 per copy plus $7 shipping by USPS. Send your order to: Jerry McCann, 5003 W. Berwyn Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60630-1501, Ph: 773.777.0443 e-mail: Fjar@aol.com

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I thought I would use the rest of my space in this column this issue to deal with a few questions we are sometimes asked.

Question: Is there a model you are following for the Museum development?

Answer: A good question that we ask ourselves every day or whenever we have a decision to make. We simply follow the structure of what any outstanding museum would do. Though it is virtual, it is still a museum where we want people to be excited to visit and to fulfill their quest for knowledge and inspiration.

Virtual Museum Ne ws

Mission Statement

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.

Virtual Museum News is a recently added section within each issue of Bottles and Extras authored by museum founder, Richard Siri, to give our membership an update on progress for this landmark project. **************** Work continues! As of 15 January 2018, Alan DeMaison has completed imaging for 150 bottles and is working on another grouping as I write. So far this includes bitters, historical flasks, spirits, a few medicines and even a fire grenade. Once completed, these images are embedded into the respective museum gallery where facts and other support information is added. One bottle at a time. Rome wasn’t built in a day.

Question: Can I have one of my bottles photographed for the museum?

Answer: When Alan sets up the Virtual Museum booth at a show, as he did recently at the 2017 Springfield National, he is able to do on-site imaging. If anyone would like to submit a bottle for museum consideration, they should contact Alan in advance to see if he has time or is working on a category where your bottle example might be needed. The plan is to have Alan set up at the 2018 Cleveland National. Alan has also been able to accept a few walk-ins too.

Question: When will the Virtual Museum open?

Answer: We plan to unveil the Virtual Museum formally at the FOHBC 2018 Cleveland National show banquet. This should really be exciting! As noted previously, the bitters gallery will open first. About sixty (60) bitters will be initially displayed. The Beta test version was revealed at the 2017 Springfield National to a lot of wows.

Question: Can anyone visit the Virtual Museum?

Answer: Our Virtual Museum board is planning to have a meeting in January to discuss museum access, membership, cost etc.

Our initial thinking is to allow access to FOHBC members and to sell day passes, just like a typical museum. Of course, we want to encourage membership with the FOHBC. Question: Can I make a donation to the Virtual Museum? I suspect this is a financially challenging project.

Answer: Donations to the Virtual Museum are welcomed as this landmark project does cost money and is separate from other FOHBC expenses. Donations are under the 501 3-C tax code so your donations are tax deductable. On page 11 of this issue, and each issue is a half page Virtual Museum ‘Giving’ advertisement showing our financial goals and contact information for giving.

Question: Are there different levels of giving?

Alan is also lining up other shoots, one being up Illinois-way to see Jerry McCann’s fruit jar collection. Lots of colors and closures I bet. It will be interesting to see what they decide to photograph. So far, if memory serves correct, Alan has been to Texas, Colorado, California, Massachusetts and Connecticut on filming expeditions. What a great opportunity to see some of the great collections and bottles and to hear some of the stories that go along with them. Now you too, will be able to visit the museum and share in this monumental experience.

Answer: There are five (5) levels of giving which include Friends, Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum levels. We’ve received many gifts from individuals from $10 or so up to $1,000 plus. Names are listed on the FOHBC web site under the respective headings to honor the donation. Please click the bottle on the right side of the home page. Bottle clubs are also one of our many contributors. There will eventually be a donor wall within the Virtual Museum just like most museums. We even have the opportunity to have a gallery either permanently or temporary named after an individual or entity. Of course we are talking more money here. Just like any museum.

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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.

Antique Bottle Collectors - Facebook

The colored pickles are lovely. - Charles Aprill

Some of my local soda bottles Jacob Voelker Cleveland, Ohio. - Scott Allen Bricker

Some of my favorite yellows here.Scott Allen Bricker (BC)

Different color for one of these. – Woody Douglas

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Double Eagle Historical Flasks – Matt Lacy

Photograph - Rick Ciralli

Sunny trio for you Dana Charlton-Zarro!

– Gary Costello

Puce is such a hard color to photograph. I was trying to capture the color in comparison to other colors. It is early, no sun. I think these are (L to R) honey amber, puce, pink amethyst, olive taupe?, reddish amber. – Michael George

Feeling a bit green with envy so I filtered it through a picture. Now I feel better. - Dave Kam

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DEALERS: Sell your bottles in the Bottles and Extras classified for free. Change the bottles and your ad is free month after month. Include your website in your ad to increase traffic to your site. Send your advertisement to FOHBC Business Manager, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002 or better yet, email “ emeyer@fohbc.org”

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WANTED: Borden’s Square Amber Pint Julian Gottlieb. Phone: (203) 869-8411, Email: gotttmilk18@gmail.com

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WANTED: Rare American Poisons. Joan Cabaniss, 312 Summer Lane, Huddleston, VA 24104. Email: jjcab@b2xonline.com

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FOR SALE: Books printed and bound, “A History of the Des Moines Potteries,” additional Events WANTED: Any state Medicines, Cathedral bottles, & with Related information on Boonesboro, etc. Cost $27, History Pepper Sauce bottles. Contact: Miss Jan Christianson of Eldora and Mingora Potteries, Cost $23 plus (425) 512-5871 or PO Box 549, Fruitland, ID 83619 shipping, Media Mail add $4.50, Priority $6.00. Mail to Mark C. Wiseman, 3505 Sheridan Avenue, Des WANTED: Florida water bottles and barber bottles.

Moines, Iowa 50310-4557 Email a picture or call. Email: jimm@qnet.com Call Jim Mayfield (760) 377-3245 FOR SALE: Numbers from “Western Whiskey Bottles #4, R.E. Barnett, Glop tops – 588 Nabob WANTED: DR KILMER’s U & O Ointment; $195; 569-Jesse Moore $145; 750-Spruance Stanley, Prompt Parilla Pills; Swamp Root Kidney Liver & kip flash, offer; 497-Lilienthal, base chip, offer; Tool Bladder; Cough Cure Consumption Oil (embossed tops – 57-Lovejoy T. H., $250; 400-Hoffschlaeger, Lungs) 8’-5/8”. Contact: John Whitney, Phone: Honolulu $295; 570-Jesse Moore, $45; 10-Americus (918) 835-8823 Club $55; 634-Peacock, Honolulu, $135; 406-Homer’s California Ginger Brandy $35; 227-J.F. cutter, WANTED: Findlay and McComb, OH bottles, jars $25; 202-Crown Distillers $2. Phone: Rick Littell and advertising – anything. Dandy jars in odd colors.

(928)649-9010 or Email: jazimodo@yahoo.com FB Co Wax Sealer in Amber ½ gal. Blob beers with FB Co on base from anywhere. Contact: Joe Frey, FOR SALE: The updated Rudy Kuhn Poison Bottle 1144 Twp. Road 136, McComb, OH 45858. Email: Workbook is available for $50 plus $5 postage media odants@bright.net mail USA. For Canada and overseas postage contact me. Joan Cabaniss, 312 Summer Lane, Huddleston, WANTED: THEO. BLAUTH/WHOLESALE WINE VA 24104. Email: jjcab@b2xonline.com AND LIQUOR DEALER whiskey fifth (Barnett 55). Shot glasses: C&K WHISKEY (not bourbon); FOR SALE: Six (6) J. Esposito Phila Koco-Nola, variSILVER SHEAF/BOURBON:H.WEINREICH CO.; ous shades of beautiful honey amber. Request photos GOLDEN GRAIN BOURBON/M.CRONAN (in and prices. Contact: R.J. Brown, 4114 W. Mullen black); CALIFORNIA WINERY (LUG); CALIAvenue, Tampa, Florida 33609. Phone: (813) 286-9686 FORNIA A FAVORITE (not FAVORITE A). Contact Steve Abbott at (916) 631-8019 or email to foabbott@comcast.net

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WANTED: Jar lid for Cohansey 2-1/2 gallon R.B. #628. Please call Ed DeHaven (609) 390-1898. 23 W. Golden Oak Lane, Marmora, NJ 08223

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

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WANTED: Interested in Saratoga bottles? Join the Saratoga Bottle Collectors Society. ($20 Annual Membership) Beautiful quarterly newsletter, great club! Send contact information and email address to Ron Rainka, PO Box 685, Warren, MA 01083-0685 WANTED: The following Bitters from St. Louis: Dr. Brown Berry Bitters, Calisaya Tonic California Grape Bitters, Bitters Celebrated Eagle, Crittenoens Dyspepsia, Celebrated Catawba, Dandelion Bitters, Dimmitt’s Socts Bitters, Emmets Fenian, Hellman’s Congress, Hoffman’s Ceylon, Dr. Hunters German, Jackson Stonewall, Jones Celebrated Stom-

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

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WANTED: Milk, dairy creamers and beers. Contact Audrey Belter at (520) 868-5704 WANTED: CHICAGO ADVERTISING STONEWARE. Contact Carl Malik, P.O. Box 367, Monee, Illinois 60449. (708) 534-5161 WANTED: Just love Bitters! Especially Ohio Bitters. Here are a few I am looking for. Star Anchor Bitters, Portsmouth, Ohio. Henry C. Weaver Mexican Bitters, Lancaster, Ohio. H.I. Weis Dayton, Ohio.

Stewart Bros. Swamp Root Bitters, Columbus, Ohio.

Greenhut’s Bitters, Cleve. Ohio, Cliff’s Aromatic Bitters, Clev. Ohio. Catawba Wine Bitters, Cleve. Ohio.

American Plant Bitters, Wooster, Ohio. Hofstettler Bitters, Galion, Ohio. B&L Invigorator Bitters, Cincinnati, OH. Dear Wahre Jacob Bitters Toledo, OH. Frazier’s Root Bitters. For The Blood, Clev. Ohio.

Hartley’s Peruvian Bark Bitters, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Night Cap Bitters Cincinnati, Ohio. Pale Orange Bitters, Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. M. Pinton’s Pure Stomach Bitters, Cincinnati, Ohio. Holtzernann’s Patent Stomach Bitters Piqua, O. this is an amber square.

Any other Ohio Bitters you might have; also Blue Jacket Bitters. Thank you for your consideration and Best Regards, Contact: Gary Beatty (941) 276-1546 or Email: tropicalbreezes@verizon.net WANTED: RARE FRUIT JARS with closures, colored 1858’s / pints, especially JJ Squire, Crowleytown ½ gal, Buckeye closure (top and clamp) Faulkner Werr Co. RB 983 Amber Midgel, NCL Co. Echo Farms ½ pt. jar only, Western Pride Pt. RB 2945. Contact Phil Smith (859) 912-2450 or email to phil.smith@zoomtown.com WANTED: Sacramento shot glasses: C&K/WHISKEY, Casey & Kavanaugh; California A Favorite; SILVER SHEAF/Bourbon/H. WEINREICH & CO. (double shot); GOLDEN GRAIN/BOURBON/M. CRONAN & CO. (in black); bar bottle, JAMES WOODBURN (white enamel). Contact Steve Abbott: 916-631-8019 or foabbott@comcast.net WANTED: Koca Nola soda bottles and go-withs from the U.S., Cuba and Mexico. Plus J Esposito soda and beer bottles from Philadelphia, PA. Contact Charles David Head, 106 6th Street, Bridgeport, AL 35740, Phone: (256)548-2771, email: kocanolabook@yahoo.com WANTED: Odd/scarce/rare: COD LIVER OIL bottles. I’ve 115 different examples...many more exist. BYRON DILLE’ 60325 Acme Rd, Coos Bay, OR 97420 or (541) 260-0499 or email: Byronincoosbay@msn.com WANTED: Amber quart cylinder whiskey shoulder embossed Garrick & Cather Chicago, IL plus embossed image of a palm tree. Contact Carl Malik, PO Box 367, Monee, IL 60449 (708) 534-5161 Join the ANTIQUE POISON BOTTLE COLLECTORS ASSOCIATION today! For details find us on Facebook or contact Joan Cabaniss at (540) 2974498 or by email: jjcab@b2xonline.com

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Individual & Affiliated Shards of Wisdom Club Information 9 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.

Melody Emerson 1511 Pinehurst Drive High Point, NC 27262-2044 Emerson Drug Company, Bromo Seltzer, Ginger Mint Julep, Brooklandwood Farms Dairy, Maryland Glass Company

Robert & Diane Puckhaber 2 Tahanto Street Concord, NH 03301 (603) 228-0595 Saratoga bottles bpuck@pucklaw.com

Jake Smith 29 Water Tank Drive Talladega, AL 35160 (256) 267-0446 Talladega County, Clay County, Tallapoosa County, Coosa County ALA bottles syl_bottleguy@yahoo.com

Russell R House 291 Artic Road Cosmopolis, WA 98537 (360) 401-9049 Western whiskeys, bitters & Warner Safe bottles rhouse759@hotmail.com

Jen Millett 59 High Street, Apt 2W Brattleboro, VT 05302 Medicine bottles jenmillett7@gmail.com

Peter Morrissey 6 Hillside Place Northport, NY 11768 (631) 334-7480 Bottles, mainly NY embossed, breweriana, old tools Electric interests pistolpetemo@gmail.com

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Jake Miller 1402 SE 15th Terrace Cape Coral, FL 33990 (239) 645-2804 Western Medicine & Poison Bottles, Santa Cruz California items, Owl Drug Store and Salt Lake City items curiousgoods6@aol.com

ForThomas Sale J. Underwood

4220 Westview Lane Oshkosh, WI 54904-6954 (920) 426-0349 thomasj335@sbcglobal.net fruit jars, insulators, marbles, interesting old glass Gary Lash 909 Sharnee Circle Modesto, CA 95357 (209) 480-6450 Western Whiskeys slasher95357@yahoo.com

The National

Bottle Museum Where history is the bottle!

Remember!

You can submit show calendar information and renew membership online at FOHBC.org ALSO, DON’T FORGET TO USE YOUR MEMBERS PORTAL

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

Exhibits inside of the National Bottle Museum allow visitors to view thousands of glass bottles.

National Bottle Museum 76 Milton Avenue Ballston Spa, NY 12020

NationalBottleMuseum.org

518.885.7589

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Calendar of Shows & Related Events

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

March 2 & 3 Henderson, Nevada Las Vegas Antique Bottles & Collectibles Club presents their 53rd Annual 2018 Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show & Sale at the Henderson Convention Center, 200 South Water Street, Henderson, Nevada 89015, Friday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Early Bird admission $10 (Friday 9:00 am to noon). Regular admission noon to 5:00 pm.

Saturday 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. $5 admission, Contact Nick Valenti 702.415.1568 or nv1948@cox.net

March 24 Daphne, Alabama The Mobile Bottle Collectors Club’s 45th Annual Show & Sale, will be held on Saturday, March 24, 2018 from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm at the Daphne Civic Center, 2603 US Hwy 98, Daphne, Alabama 36525. Free admission and bottle appraisals. Dealer setup is Friday from 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm and Saturday 7:00 am to 9:00 am. For more information contact: Rod Vining, 251.957.6725, Email: vinewood@mchsi.com, or Richard Kramerich, PO Box 241, Pensacola, Florida 32591. 850.435.5425. Email: shards@bellsouth.net

Center, 1200 Modena Street, Gastonia, North Carolina 28054, Saturday March 17, 2018, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm, Early Admission 8:30 am, Free Admission, $20 table fee setup, Info: Larry White, Secretary, lwhite003@carolina.rr.com, 1407 Lloyd White Road, Clover, South Carolina 29710, 803.222.4416

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March 18 Individual & Affiliated Flint, Michigan Membership Benefits 49th Annual Flint Antique Bottle & ColClub Information lectibles Show, Dom Polski Hall, 3415 N.

March 9 & 10 Chico, California 52nd Annual Antique Bottle, Jar, Insulator & Collectible Show & Sale, Friday, 10:00 am to 7:00 pm, $5 admission fee, Saturday, 9:00 am 4:00 pm, Contact Randy Taylor, P.O. Box 1065, 530,518.7369, rtjarguy@ aol.com

Linden Rd., Flint, Michigan 48504, Sunday 9:00 am to 2:30 pm, No early admission, Set up: Sunday 7:30 am, Cost of admission: $3, children 12 and under free accompanied by an adult, Flint Antique Bottle & Collectibles Club, Visit on Facebook, Contac: Tim Buda, Show Chairman, 11353 Cook Rd., Gaines, Michigan 48436, 989.271.9193, tbuda@shianet.org

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March 11 Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore Antique Bottle Club’s 38th Annual Show & Sale, 8:00 am to 3:00 pm, website: baltimorebottleclub.org, Show Address: Physical Education Center, CCBCEssex, 7201 Rossville Blvd (I-695, Exit 34), Contact Info: Rick Lease, 410.458.9405, finksburg21@comcast.net, For contracts, Andy Agnew, 410.527.1707, medbotls@ comcast.net

March 18 St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis ‘s 48th Annual Antique Bottle & Jar Show, Orlando Gardens 4300 Hoffmeister Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri, No Early Admission, 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, Adult Admission: $3, Child Admission: Free! Refreshments will be available, Hosted By The St. Louis Antique Bottle Collectors Association, Pat Jett (Showchair), 71 Outlook Drive Hillsboro, Missouri, 314.570.6917, patsy_jett@ yahoo.com

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March 16 & 17 Morro Bay, California The Antique Bottle Show & Sale in Morro Bay, hours will be Friday 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm and Saturday 9:00 am to 2:00 pm at the NEW LOCATION 1001 Kennedy Way, Morro Bay, California in the city of Morro Bay community room. The building is within two blocks of the old building but has twice the square footage. Admission is free. Contact information: sanluisobispobottlesociety@gmail.com, Info on Facebook at San Luis Obispo Bottle Society or 805.543.7484.

March 17 Gastonia, North Carolina Gastonia Spindle City Bottle Club 2nd Annual Spring Show, Bradley Community

March 25 Wilmington, Ohio The 4th Annual Wilmington, Ohio Antique Bottle Show & Sale (formerly at the Ohio State Fairgrounds, Columbus) 9:00 am to 3:00 pm at the Roberts Centre, 123 Gano Road, Wilmington (I-71 & US Rt. 68). Contact Joe Hardin, 594 Laymon Rad, New Vienna, Ohio 45159, tele: 937.728.9930, jkcollectables@gmail.com or Jamie Houdeshell, 419.722.3184, jhbottle@hotmail.com March 25 Cicero, New York Empire State Bottle Collectors Association 48th Annual Show & Sale, 9:00 am to 2:30 pm, Dealer set-up 7:00 am, Cicero American Legion, 5575 Legionairre Drive, Cicero, New York, contact Keon Kellogg, Show Chair, kkell32369@aol.com, 315.963.8681

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March 23 & 24 Deland, Florida Deland Florida 48th Annual Antique Botttle, Insulator & Table Top Collectable Show and Sale at the Bill Hestor Building, Volusia County Fairgrounds, Deland, Florida 3150, E. New York Avenue, Deland, Florida 32724, Friday 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm, Saturday 8:00 am – 3:00 pm, $20 for Early Buyers, 3:00 pm Friday and before 8:00 am Saturday. Dealer set up is 1:00 – 6:00 pm Friday Early Buyers $20 and Saturday at 8:00 am show is free to the public. Delamd Florida M-T Bottle Club, www.m-tbottleclub. com, Dwight Pettit, Club President, 719 Loretto Court, Deltona, Florida 32738, 386.956.8033 pettit9119@bellsouth.net

April 7 St. Clairsville, Ohio The Ohio Valley Bottle Club’s annual Bottle & Table-Top Antiques Show, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, early buyers 7:30 am, $10, Admission $2 at the J.B. Martin Recreation Center, 102 Fair Avenue, St. Clairsville, Ohio, Exit 216 off I-70. Contact Tom Chickery, 740.296.9430, tchick65@gmail.com April 7 Wheaton, Illinois Dupage Collectors Expo at the Dupage County Fairgrounds, 2015 Manchester Road, Wheaton, Illinois 60187, Saturday 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, $2 per person, Greater Chicago Insulator Club, Contact:

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(More) Sho-Biz More show-biz Bob Stahr, Show Host, 360 S. Kenilworth Avenue, Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137, Tele: 630.793.5345, bob@hemingray.com

May 12 Aiken, South Carolina Horse Creek Antique Bottle and Pottery Club’s annual show and sale will be held Saturday, May 12, at the H. Odell Weeks Activities Center, Whiskey Road, Aiken, South Carolina. Setup will be held from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m., and the show hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. More information: Mrs. Geneva Greene at (803) 593-2271.

(Free Admission). Free walk-in appraisals and buyers available both days. You’ll find bottles, plus a wide variety of collectibles and “go-withs”. For more info, contact Gary or Darla Antone at 925.373.6758 or packrat49er@netscape.net

April 8 Bloomington, Minnesota 47th Annual Minnesota Antique Bottle, Advertising, and Stoneware Show & Sale sponsored by North Star Historical Bottle Association. Located at the Knights of Columbus Bloomington Event Center, 1114 American Blvd., West, Bloomington, Minnesota 55420. Sunday, April 8, 2018, 9:30 am – 2:30 pm. No early admission. Set-up Sunday 6:30 am – 9:30 am. Admission: $2. Info: Jeff Springer: 651.500.0949 or springer_associates@yahoo.com

Kalamazoo, Michigan The Kalamazoo Antique Bottle Club’s 39th Annual Show & Sale, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm, early buyers 8:00 am, Kalamazoo County Fairgrounds, 2900 Lake Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan,Contact John Pastor, PO Box 227, New Hudson, Michigan 48165,248.486.0530, jpastor@americanglassgallery.com

April 8 Hutchinson, Kansas 11th Annual Kansas Antique Bottle & Postcard Show, State Fairgrounds, Hutchinson, Kansas, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Free Admission, Presented by the Kansas Territory Bottle & Postcard Club, Set-up Saturday at Noon to 9:00 pm, Sunday set-up 7:00 am.

Doors open 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. Call or text Stan Hendershot 620.728.8304 or Mike McJunkin at 620.388.0501

April 22 Rochester, New York 49th Genesee Valley Bottle Collectors Association’s Bottle, Paper, Postcard and Table Top Antiques Show & Sale, Roberts Wesleyen College, Voller Athletic Center, 2301 Westside Drive, Rochester, New York 14624, Admission $5. 17 and Under FREE, Show and Dealer Inquires: Aaron and Pamela Weber gvbca@frontiernet.net 585.226.6345

April 8 Dover, New Hampshire New England Antique Bottle Club Presents their 52nd Annual Show & Sale, The Elks Club, 282 Durham Road (Rt. 108, Exit 7 off Spaulding Turnpike), Dover, New Hampshire 03820, Sunday, April 8, 2018, 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, Antique Bottles, Insulators, Fruit Jars, Crocks, Pottery & Small Collectibles, 50 Plus Sales Tables, 50/50 Raffle, Food & Beverages, Admission: $2, Early Admission (8:00 am – 9:00 am): $15, For Information Contact: Rick Carney, 207.729.3140 or Jack Pelletier, 207.839.4389

May 5 Gray, Tennessee State of Franklin Antique Bottles & Collectibles Association 20th Annual Show – Sale, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Free admission & door prizes, Gray, Tennesseee, Exit 13 on I-216, Appalachian Fairground, sfabca.com

Individual & Affiliated Membership Benefits April 14 Club Information

May 18 & 19 Lake City, Florida Florida Antique Bottle Collectors 5th Annual Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show & Sale, Columbia County Fairgrounds, 438 SR 247, Lake City, Florida 32055, Saturday regular admission $3, 8:00 am – 3:00 pm, Early buyer fee on Friday of $20 from 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm, Info: Contact Brian Hoblick, hoblick@aol.com, 386.804.9635 or Ed LeTard, eandeletard@aol.com, 985.788.6163

Individual & Affiliated Shards of Wisdom Club Information

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April 14 Antioch, California Golden Gate Historical Bottle Society presents its 52nd Annual Antiques and Collectibles Show, Attention Collectors (or the curious!) Don’t miss the 52nd Annual Golden Gate Historical Bottle Society’s Antique Bottle and Collectibles Show.

This 2-day event takes place at the Contra Costa County Fairgrounds (Sunset Hall) in Antioch, CA on Friday 4/13 from Noon to 5:00 pm ($10 early admission fee) and Saturday 4/14 from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm

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May 6 Marcy, New York 24th Annual Utica Bottle Show & Sale, Hosted by the Mohawk Valley Antique Bottle Club, at the Utica Maennerchor, 5535 Flanagan Road, Marcy, New York 13403, Info: Peter Bleiberg at 315.735.5430 or email pmbleiberg@aol.com, www.mohawkvalleybottleclub.com May 12 Mansfield, Ohio 40th Mansfield Antique Bottle Show, Hosted by the Ohio Bottle Club, at the Richland County Fairgrounds, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Early admission, May 11. Info: Matt Lacy at 440.228.1873 or email info@ antiquebottlesales.com or Louis Fifer at 330.635.1964, fiferlouis@yahoo.com

May 20 Hammonton, New Jersey Historic Batso Village: The Spring Antiques & Bottle Show presented by Batsto Citizens Committee, Inc., Sunday, May 20, 2018, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Rain or Shine, Set-up 7:00 to 9:00 am, Admission Free, Batsto Village, Wharton State Forest, RT 542 Pleasant Mills Road, Hammonton, New Jersey 08037, Cost of 20′ by 20′ space: $50; For information, Paul DelGuercio, Show Chair, 856.252.7730, PaulHavoc@Comcast.net or Harry Rheam 856.768.1532, hcrheam@gmail.com May 20 Washington, Pennsylvania Washington Pennsylvania Washington County Antique Bottle Club 44th Annual Show and Sale, Alpine Star Lodge, 735 Jefferson Avenue, Washington, Pennsylvania 15301, Admission $3, 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, Info: Ed Kuskie, 412.405.9061, 352 Pineview Drive, Elizabeth, Pennsylvania 15037, bottlewizard@comcasat.net May 20 Ellendale, Delaware DELMARVA Antique Bottle Club Show and Sale, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Ellendale Fire Hall, 302 Main Street, Ellendale, Delaware, Contact Keith Fleming at 302.684.8138, johnkeithfleming@gmail.com

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June 3 Ballston Spa, New York National Bottle Museum’s Annual Saratoga Springs Show & Sale at the Saratoga County Fairgrounds, 162 Prospect Street, Ballston Spa, New York 12020, Sunday, 9:00 am to 2:30 pm, Early admission: Sunday 8:00 am to 9:00 am, Set up: Saturday, June 2nd, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm, and Sunday, June 3rd, 6:30 am to 9:00 am, Cost of admission for show & early admission: $4 general admission, $15 early buyer, National Bottle Museum, nationalbottlemuseum.org, Contact: Phil Bernnard & Roy Topka, Co-Chairmen, 76 Milton Avenue, Ballston Spa, NY 12020, 518.885.7589, nbm@nycap.rr.com July 28-29 East Ridge, Tennessee The 1st Annual Chattanooga Civil War & Artifact Show, Camp Jordan Arena, 323 Camp Jordan Parkway. Contact us now for vendor space! Civil War relics of all kinds, antique weapons and swords, photos, newspapers, antique jewelry, Americana, old bottles, arrowheads, metal detectors, door prizes, and more! Fun for collectors and history buffs of all ages. Bring the whole family! For information or dealer inquiries, email anita@americandigger.com or call 770.362.8671 or 716.574.0465

August 2 – 5 Cleveland, Ohio FOHBC 2018 National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo – Midwest Region at the Cleveland Convention Center, Host Hotel: Cleveland Marriott Downtown at Key Center, Show Information: Louis Fifer, Show Co-Chair and FOHBC Conventions Director, 330.635.1964, fiferlouis@yahoo.com or Matt Lacy, Show Co-Chair, FOHBC Midwest Region Director, 440.228.1873, info@antiquebottlesales.com, Visit Web Page, FOHBC National Convention – Midwest Region August 11 Lincoln, Alabama 3rd Annual Lincoln Bottle Show Doors open at 9:00 am on August 11th. Vendor set on August 10 and 11th. Contact chairman Jake Smith 256.267.0446 syl_bottleguy@ yahoo.com. Free public admission, free kids table free appraisals. This is our third year like every year we honor a different soda this year it is 7up.

September 16 Depew, New York 20th Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association Annual Show and Sale at the Polish Falcons Hall, 445 Columbia Avenue, Depew,

Historic Batso Village The Spring Antiques & Bottle Show Presented by Batsto Citizens Committee, Inc.

Sunday, May 20, 2018, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, rain or shine, Set-up 7:00 am to 9:00 am

No admission cost!

Batsto Village, Wharton State Forest, RT 542 Pleasant Mills Road, Hammonton, New Jersey 08037 For information, Paul DelGuercio, Show Chair, 856.252.7730, PaulHavoc@Comcast.net or Harry Rheam 856.768.1532, hcrheam@gmail.com

Bottles and Extras New York 14043, Sunday 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Early admission: Sunday, September 16, 7:00 am to 9:00 am, Admission $3, Children under 12 free, Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association, gbbca.org, Info: Joe Guerra, Secretary, 29 Nina Terrace, West Seneca, New York 14224, 716 674-5750, jguerra3@roadrunner.com September 21 & 22 Aurora, Oregon Oregon Bottle Collectors Association Bottle, Antiques, Collectibles Show & Sale, Friday 12 – 5:00 pm dealer set-up & 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 Info: Wayne Herring, 503.864.2009 or Mark Junker, 503.231.1235 or Bill Bogynska, 503.657.1726 billbogy7@ gmail.com, FOHBC Member Club 2019 August 1 – 4 Augusta, Georgia 2019 FOHBC 50th Anniversary National Antique Bottle Convention, FOHBC National Convention – Southern Region

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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.

Individual & Affiliated Shards of Wisdom Club Information

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

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

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

Wanted

• A full year subscription to the bi-monthly (6 issues a year) 72-page publication Bottles and Extras. Various options are available including Digital Membership.

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• Free advertising of “For Sale” items in Bottles and Extras (restrictions apply ads may be up to 100 words, items must be of $25 or greater value, and free advertisements are limited to the first 100 received, based upon date mailed). One free ad of 60 words each year for use for items “Wanted”, trade offers, etc.

• Follow the development of the FOHBC Virtual Museum. FOHBC members will be museum members.

• The opportunity to obtain discounts to be used on “Early Admission” or table rental at the annual Federation National Shows and Conventions.

• Access to the private FOHBC web site Member Portal and a wealth of historical information.

• FOHBC digital newsletter and so much more.

We encourage Affiliated Bottle Club memberships by offering these additional benefits to your group: • Display advertising in Bottles and Extras at an increased discount of 50%.

• Insertion of your bottle club show ad on the Federation website to increase your show’s exposure. Links to your club website free of charge. Social Media (Facebook) exposure.

• Free Federation ribbon for Most Educational display at your show.

• Participation in the Federation sponsored insurance program for your club show and any other club sponsored activities.

We need your support! Our continued existence is dependent upon your participation as well as expanding our membership. If you haven’t yet joined our organization, please do so and begin reaping the benefits. If you are already a member, please encourage your friends and fellow collectors to JOIN US!!

For more information, questions, or to join the FOHBC, please contact: Linda Sheppard, PO Box 162, Sprakers, New York 12166; phone: 518.673.8833; email: jim1@frontiernet.net or visit our home page at FOHBC.org

Where there’s a will there’s a way to leave Donations to the FOHBC. Did you know the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors is a 501C(3) charitable organization?

How does that affect you? It allows tax deductions for any and all donations to the FOHBC. You might also consider a bequest in your will to the FOHBC. This could be a certain amount of money or part or all of your bottle collection. The appraised value of your collection would be able to be deducted from your taxes. (This is not legal advice, please consult an attorney). The same type wording could be used for bequeathing your collection or part of it, however, before donating your collection (or part of it), you would need the collection appraised by a professional appraiser with knowledge of bottles and their market values. This is the amount that would be tax deductible.

Thank you for considering the FOHBC in your donation plans.

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

Shards of Wisdom

Name_______________________________ Address_____________________________ City________________________State____ Zip _ ____________Country____________ Do you wish to be listed in the Telephone_ __________________________ online membership directory?

E-mail Address_______________________ (name, address, phone number,

Wanted

email address and what you collect) { } Yes { } No

BOTTLES and EXTRAS FREE ADS

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

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

(Use extra paper if necessary.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Signature ______ Date___

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

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

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

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

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

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Seeking quality consignments for our 2018 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 fine bottles, and many more, will be included in our 2018 Auction schedule.

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

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

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

Please Check your information and notify us of errors.

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