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Vol. 27

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In this Issue...

Captain Siddons - Saloon Keeper and Medicine Maker Baltimore’s Eugene Belt: “Shame and Scandal in the Family” What Does it Really Cost to Collect Antique Bottles?

William T. Cutter, Jr. Whiskey or When is a “Go-With” not a “Go-With?”

The Color Orange in Antique Bottles and Glass Two Early Visits with Legendary Collectors of Antique Bottles and so much more...

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On the Cover: Captain Siddons collage

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FOHBC Officers | 2014 - 2016 ................................................................ 2 FOHBC President’s Message ................................................................ 3 Shards of Wisdom ............................................................................... 4

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History’s Corner ............................................................................... 5 FOHBC News - From & For Our Members ................................................... 6 Book Reviews (Koca Nola and North Carolina Brewers) ......................................... 10 A New Find - The Sharkey Label by Jack Sullivan .......................................... 15

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What does it Really Cost to Collect Antique Bottles? by Jim Bender .................... 16 Captain Siddons - Saloon Keeper and Medicine Maker by Eric McGuire............ 24 Two Early Visits With Legendary Bottle Collectors by Bill Baab ......................... 32 The Color Orange in Antique Bottles and Glass by Ferdinand Meyer V .............. 38 More on the Color Orange in Antique Glass by Ken Previtali ........................... 43 Baltimore’s Eugene Belt - Shame and Scandal in the Family by Jack Sullivan...... 48 Meet Your FOHBC Candidates for 2016 - 2018 .................................................... 52 William T. Cutter Whiskey or When is a Go With not a Go With? ............................ 54 Page 32

The Mysterious Tippecanoe by Jim Berry ...................................................... 60 Classified Ads .................................................................................. 66 FOHBC Membership Additions & Changes ................................................ 67 FOHBC Sho-Biz - Calendar of Shows ........................................................ 68 Page 38

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

Coming Next Issue: Sacramento Whiskiana • Betty Zumwalt: She Was There, At the 1976 St. Louis Expo • McDonald and Levy’s Compound Extract of Manzanita • Monterey - An Enigma Bottle Update • Burk’s Lightning Liniment • OK Plantation Bitters - The Big Boys • Ulrich Alting - Hawaii’s First Soda Water Bottler • Where in the World is H. H. Warner?

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FOHBC Member Photo Gallery .............................................................. 62

Membership Benefits ......................................................................... 71

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Back to our Roots. What Does That Really Mean? by Eric McGuire .................. 22

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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 2014-2016

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

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

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

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

Second Vice-President: Gene Bradberry, 3706 Deerfield Cove, Bartlett, TN 38135; phone: 901.372.8428; email: genebsa@gmail.com Secretary: James Berry, 200 Fort Plain Watershed Rd, St. Johnsville, NY 13452; phone: 518.568.5683; email: jhberry10@yahoo.com Treasurer: Gary Beatty, 3068 Jolivette Rd., North Port, FL 34288; phone: 941.276.1546; email: tropicalbreezes@verizon.net Historian: Jim Bender, PO Box 162, Sprakers, NY 12166; phone: 518.673.8833; email: jim1@frontiernet.net Editor: Martin Van Zant, 208 Urban St, Danville, IN 46122; 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: Bob Ferraro, 515 Northridge Dr, Boulder City, NV 89005; phone: 702.293.3114; email: mayorferraro@aol.com Director-at-Large: Steve Ketcham, PO Box 24114, Edina, Minnesota 55424, phone: 952.920.4205; email: steve@antiquebottledepot.com Director-at-Large: John Pastor, PO Box 227, New Hudson, MI 48165; phone: 248.486.0530; email: jpastor@americanglassgallery.com Midwest Region Director: Matt Lacy, 3836 State Route 307, Austinburg Ohio 44010, phone: 440.228.1873; email: info@antiquebottlesales.com Northeast Region Director: Andrew Vuono, 34 Ridgeway St, Stamford, Connecticut 06907, phone: 203.975.9055; email: amvuono@gmail.com Southern Region Director: Ron Hands, 913 Parkside Drive, Wilson, North Carolina 27896, phone: 330.338.3455; email: rshands225@yahoo.com Western Region Director: Eric McGuire, 1732 Inverness Drive, Petaluma, California 94954, phone: 707.778.2255; email: etmcguire@comcast.net Public Relations Director: Rick DeMarsh, 159 Malta Pointe, Mechanicville, New York 12118, phone: 518.225.3467; email: ricksbottleroom@gmail.com

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President’s Message Ferdinand Meyer V

FMG Design, Inc. 101 Crawford Street Studio 1A Houston, Texas 77002 713.222.7979 x115 fmeyer@fohbc.org

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ednesday, feel like I Monday should mention itting down at30 myMarch desk, 2016. on thisI typically first back-to-work after New the date when up I write theseofPresident’s Messages we are Years, I conjure a vision a stove with lots ofsince pots-a-cooking. preparing and EXTRAS in a has much timelyforward manner to so the The kettle BOTTLES labeled antique bottle events us more all looking that an leading issue arrives week or so 2016 beforeSacramento the publication date.Antique ThoughBotI stretch up to athe FOHBC National work full time, it spend aWe good portion of my second part of tle Convention &seems Expo that this IAugust. have a coordination conference the day business.

Good thing I always have andalso call lateroninFOHBC the week and plan to step it up a notch or my two.laptop We are smartphone withlocked me with access to allMassachusetts the board members, pleased that we in Springfield, for ourconvention 2017 Nationteams, bottle collectors and myand bottle filestime in digital andthis cloud storage.the al Antique Bottle Convention, by the you read message, This way2018 I canNational work (orAntique bottle play) airports, hotels, Starbucks andbeen my FOHBC BottleinConvention & Expo will have house etc.

I also love what I do and I am addicted to antique bottles and announced for Cleveland, Ohio. We really have our teams in place and glass.

That helps keep me on schedule and gets throughabout the rough our wheels in motion.

I suppose we should startme thinking the 2019 spots and bumps the road. Region. Planning ahead has many benefits.

Convention in theinSouthern We’ve received lot of praise and EXTRAS so farissue this of The FOHBC is aalso proud to for sayBOTTLES that this March | April 2016 year. We’veand beenEXTRAS focusing on the design, to fullin color willwhich be BOTTLES is the first to gone be printed fulland color, adding some areas like the “Member we added last issue. only costs usnew an additional $184 an issue.Photos” This change prompted a few Lots of revisions, compliments there. will beyou referencing thissuch issueas a number of of design which weI hope will notice, the Table times in this bearsection with me.

Contents andmessage a few ofsothe headers. We receive quite a few really nice compliments on how the magazine looks and have come Thefar Western Region’s FOHBC 2016 National Bottle so in a relative short number of Sacramento years. Oh, and lookAntique for a new secConvention & Expo seems to be front and “Member center more and more of late, tion in the back of the magazine called Photo Gallery.”

This with our “Back to our Roots” event-of-the-year scheduled this August new section is dedicated to the fine photography of antique bottles and 4 - 7. We announced this past Monday that images we will kick things off on We glass.

Please feel free to submit your for consideration.

Thursday, August 4th, with House” at American have already started workanon“Open the May-June issue andBottle hope Auctions that you where you willauthoring be able toanmeet withfor Jeff super will consider article theWichmann magazine.and Wetour are Jeff’s here to help! studio and see some wonderful displays of antique bottles and western memorabilia.

Moreofinformation on the FOHBCplease web site.

Within this issue BOTTLESisand EXTRAS, read the proposed bylaw updates and revisions that have been marked in red. All revisions The “Generals Houseby Reception” happens later the day from 5:30 have been approved the FOHBC Board of in Directors.

These bylaws 7:30 p.m., at the historic Lions Gate Hotel Generals House.

This event have been amended and need to be reviewed by the FOHBC membership is sponsored

by American Auctions and Peachridge Glass.2016 The Naprior to the annual general Bottle membership meeting at the FOHBC reception is for Bottle dealersConvention who have bought tables, their assistants, displaytional Antique & Expo in Sacramento, California by ers,affirmative seminar givers with of early pagevoters 46]. an vote and of athose majority all admission votes cast passes. by the [see eligible Also on page 46, you willthat seeaa copy noticeofforthe theproposed FOHBC changes General Memberin attendance, provided are made ship Meeting Breakfast oninFriday, August 5th, on theby Lions available to each member advance, either directly mailGate or byHotel timely patio. Please join us for the latest periodical Federationornews!

The new board memnotice in the Federation’s official on the Federation website. bers for 2016-2018 will also be announced. What a dream team! You can read about each we candidate on page 52. with photography for the Virtual In other news, are moving ahead Museum and hope to have regional photography labs set up in regions If that enough for the first day, Shootout” bottle to startisn’t photographing bottles both our in a“Sacramento standard format and 3-dimencompetition occur at the spearheaded Lions Gate Hotel club ballroom that opensionally.

Thiswill effort is being

by Museum Director, Alan Deing day evening, - 11Alan p.m. at There will be Museum three categories.

Each the Maison.

You mayfrom have8met the Virtual table during category 2015 will have three judges.

Awards will beBottle given for 1st,last 2ndAugust. and FOHBC Chattanooga National Antique Show 3rd place for the categories of Jesse Moore Sole Agent (cylinder fifths), U.S.A. Hosp.

Dept. quarts Hostetter’s Bitters. [see page 14]. The Federation member Alicia and Booth is heading up the nomination process western guys seem off theseofficers types ofincluding competitions so well! Vice for the election of to allpull Federation the President, President(s), Secretary, Treasurer, Business Manager, Membership Di-

The Holabird Western Americana Collections “49er Bottle Jamboree” auction is really shaping up, too, according to renowned auctioneer Fred Holabird.

The Relations auction will be live on Saturday night and will be using rector, Public Director, Conventions Director, Historian, Merfour different live Internet bidding platforms.

Fred already has some (4). chandising Director, Directors-at-Large (3), and Region Directors super bottle-related advertising andAny whiskey tokens.

Thesebottles, elections occur every two years. officer may We run ask for sucfor moreterms. consignments to make this auctionatoslate remember!

His latestfor cessive This committee has an prepared of nominations advertisement page below.

12. each office andis isonlisted It is important to note that any member desiring to run for any office in the Federation may file a nomination The “Souvenir Program”(in is deep in design andprocedures is up to 134apformSacramento with the Election Committee accordance with pages so.the Wemembership are actively taking advertising and have included provedorby and instituted by orders the Election Committee) aindicating section called “Best of the West” that insures that this program will this the office they desire to run for. The deadline for filing become collectors item.

There so much more, I couldby goour on and on is April a1st 2016. We have seenissuccessful campaigns memberfor here.

Just visit ourtoFOHBC.org Sacramento National page, shippages before so if you want run for a position, please let Alicia know. which seems to be with new information like last You You and reach herupdated at this every emailday address, alicia@cis-houston.org. week when we did aa press on Betty Zumwalt who be to guest will be receiving ballotrelease for voting so please take thewill time vote. speaker at our banquet on Friday night discussing our “50 year celebration of achievement.” During this exciting evening, we will also be FOHBC Candidates elevating Jeff Wichmann from FOHBC Honor Roll into the prestigious Here is Hall the slate FOHBCand presenting Jeff with his award along with FOHBC ofofFame recommended candidates Tommy Mitchiner (deceased), who will be receiving the FOHBC Honor forth byAwards the nominating Rollputaward. will also be given to our member clubs (see page headed

by Alicia look at that super advertisement on page 47 for 59).committee Speaking of awards, Booth,Angeles Chairperson,Historical for the the Los Bottle Club!

2016 - 2018 term.

Switching to the other side of the country and 2017, I will be joining Jim Anyone desiring run Bender and BobtoStrickhart in Springfield, Massachusetts on April 28, for They a position 2016. aremay thechoose co-chairs for FOHBC’s 2017 National Antique Bottle to run against of theWe will tour the Mass Mutual Convention Center Convention & one Expo. going to thePlace Hotel with tighter focus on the event spaces. and candidates SheratonbyMonarch website and been printingup there many times already and are bursting with Jim FOHBC and Bob have out a nomination form. for their event. This is in preparation for having the excitement and ideas Then, mail“General or email to Alicia Springfield Information and Dealer Contract” packets ready by Booth,2017 11502when Burgoyne 28 July sales will commence. Jim will also have a table totally Drive, Houston, Texas dedicated to Springfield at the Sacramento Convention.

77077.

As aalicia@cis-houston.org teaser, Jim and Bob state that they are excited to announce that their “Judging Trio” for the wide open category of “Best Massachusetts The closing for nomi-of Springfield” bottle competition will include Bottle” in thedate “Battle is April 1, 2016 at threenations of the most knowledgeable and experienced individuals in the midnight. realm of collecting antique bottles and glass. For the first time together, three bottle powerhouses will take on the judging duties and will include Additional nominations will and auctioneers James Hagenbuch (Glass antique bottle authorities be printed alongsideNorman the Works Auctions), C. Heckler Sr. (Heckler Auctions) and John slate(American proposed by theGlass nom- Gallery). Now there’s a photo opportunity! Let’s Pastor inating and will see if youcommittee have something that can pass muster with these three judges! be listed the May-June Wow, I getinfired up just writing this stuff!

2016 issue of BOTTLES and along with Did EXTRAS you know thata short the Hartford-Springfield region is known as the biography of Corridor” each “Knowledge because it hosts over 160,000 university students and candidate. over 32 universities and liberal arts colleges - the second-highest concentration of higher-learning institutions in the United States. Springwill votenicknames - “The City of Firsts” -- because of its fieldFOHBC also members has several by ainnovations: form provided by“The mail. City of Homes,” due to its Victorian residential many The new board members architecture, and “Hoop City,” as basketball, one of the world’s most will besports, announced afterinvented a popular was in Springfield by James Naismith. Speaking vote count at the of basketball, theannual NCAA Final Four starts here in downtown Houston this Membership weekend.Meeting Boy, is this place wild with excitement.

Breakfast at the FOHBC 2016 Sacramento Well, I think I needNational to stop here as I am running out of digital space. Our Antiqueweb Bottlesite Convention FOHBC has become our workhorse so visit the site often for & Expo.history, news, membership, bottle show listings and bottle show FOHBC reports, along with so much more. Take care and I hope to see y’all soon!

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Bottles and Extras ging. I feel a kinship with you and other bottle collectors. I’d like to see your collection. Thank you very much! Jimmy Carter.”

So long after he was elected President of the United States, I mailed him a signed copy of my book, “Augusta on Glass,” and the March-April, 2008 BOTTLES and EXTRAS. I can’t recall what was in it, unless it was a note about him being an FOHBC member.

I received another note:

I Gave Jimmy Carter an Augusta Bottle

By Bill Baab

It’s generally known throughout our hobby that former President Jimmy Carter was once a member of the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors.

He also was Georgia’s governor during the early 1970s. I recall reading a newspaper story about his hobbies, one of which was collecting antique bottles. One of my collector-friends, Drew Whitaker, headed the state’s Wildlife Resources Department’s law enforcement section and knew the governor.

So I decided to send Gov. Carter an antique Augusta blob top soda with my compliments via Col. Whitaker. It was an aqua Clinton Bottling Works, circa 1880s.

An envelope dated Dec. 10, 1974 from the Office of the Governor, State Capitol, Atlanta 30334 arrived in my home mailbox.

Inside was this note to “Honorable Bill Baab.”

“To Bill Baab: I am very excited and pleased with the beautiful Clinton soda bottle from Augusta. I have spent a lot of time digExamples of Sunburst flasks in a number of colors and shapes

“To Bill Baab: Thank you for sending me the inscribed copy of Augusta on Glass and the March-April issue of BOTTLES and EXTRAS. I appreciate you remembering me in such a thoughtful way, and Rosalynn joins me in sending you our warm best wishes. Sincerely, Jimmy Carter (written signature) Now that the Bill and Bea Baab Collection is at the Augusta Museum of History, I am going to send him a note inviting he and his wife to come see it 42 years after he wanted to see it.

Alleged Theft Foiled At Popular Antique Bottle Show

by Annie Gentile (reprinted from the March 7th edition of the Courant Community)

A rare Keene 1830s sunburst flask, valued at $800, went missing from a dealer’s table at the 46th annual Somers Antique Bottle Show at St. Bernard’s School in Enfield on Feb. 28, casting a shadow on an otherwise successful show.

Fortunately, the alleged thief didn’t get far. Long time Somers Bottle Club member Dave Sokol, who was making a mid-morning announcement of winning raffle ticket numbers, used the opportunity to make a general announcement and warning about the reported missing bottle.

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“We have a thief in our midst,” Sokol said.

Scott St. Laurent of Warren, Mass, one of 34 dealers at the popular show said he had the flask out on his display table when a man came along, picked it up, and chatted with him about it. The man eventually put the flask back and moved on. A woman following right behind purchased an inexpensive bottle from his collection. St. Laurent said he looked away only momentarily when he bent down to get a piece of newspaper to wrap her purchase, and immediately after their transaction, noticed the Keene bottle was missing. As no other visitor had passed his table, St. Laurent said he stopped the woman and confronted her.

HISTORY’S CORNER In Memory of Dick Watson long time FOHBC Historian

“She kept saying, [the bottle she purchased] was all she had,” said St. Laurent, adding that she invited him to follow her out of the school auditorium where the show was being held to check her bag in the school entryway.

St. Laurent said he followed her out where she again said he could check her bag, but that she had to leave to use the bathroom. “The bottle wasn’t in her bag, and when she came back I apologized, but she was acting very strange and nervous,” said St. Laurent

The term ABM refers to the way a bottle was produced. Fully Automatic Bottling Machines (ABM) were first used in 1905 after a patent was issued in 1904 to Michael Owens. Semi automatic machines were used as early as 1882 but those machines still requried a skilled glass blower to finish off the top of each bottle.

Suspicious, he went into the women’s bathroom and picked up and shook the wastebasket, which was full of paper. He heard a rattle and found the missing bottle buried underneath. Organizers detained the woman and called police.

“It’s a shame. This never happens here,” said one of the regular vendors. Others said the woman in question was a bottle dealer herself. “I’d like her to be permanently banned from this show,” said St. Laurent. “But I’m happy. I got my bottle back.”

Despite the incident, the show presented an excellent opportunity for dealers, collectors, and the just plain curious to buy, sell, and learn about popular vintage glass.

“The condition of a bottle is paramount to its value,” said Pete Manfredi, of South Glastonbury, who with his wife Trish, buys and sells dairy bottles from local farms. “If a bottle is chipped or cracked or if some of the paint has worn away, it’s less valuable.”

Manfredi added, “For the most part, round dairy bottles are worth more than square ones, and milk bottles with a babyface top are worth more than those without. Many times, people come along that are just looking for bottles from one particular dairy. It’s hard to put a fixed price on anything, because the price you can get is always going to be what someone is willing to pay for it.”

Besides milk bottles, the show also featured dealers of vintage glass, railroad insulators, 19th century “bitters” bottles advertising cure-alls for a wide variety of digestive and circulatory disorders – as well as baldness – and displays related to early glass manufacturing.

“Connecticut had a lot of glass houses in the early days – in Coventry, Willington, Westford, and the Pitkin Glass Works in Manchester,” said longtime club member Wayne Bickley of the vintage bottles on display. “There’s a lot of glass that has come out of this area.”

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

The Haviland Co./ New York, Charleston & Augusta

by Bill Baab

Collectors of Southern bottles are familiar with the several variations from the pontil to the smooth base eras embossed Haviland & Co. / New York, Charleston & Augusta.

The Haviland Company, which manufactured quality porcelain products in Limoges, France, established a drug division in the late 1820s, with branches in the aforementioned cities.

The drugs also were sold in Mobile, Alabama, but as far as is presently known, bottles embossed with that city’s name have not yet surfaced. But there is proof that they may exist.

An 1854 Mobile city directory contained a page devoted to cards from many of the city’s businesses. One is Haviland, Clark & George, Importers and Wholesale Dealers in Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Glass &c (et cetera), Corner (of) Water and Exchange sts.

The writer is interested in hearing from collectors who may own bottles embossed or labeled with the Haviland name.

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FOHBC News From & For Our Members Arcade Saloon – Houston, Texas Ferdinand, I hope all is well with you. Thought you might like to see this recent (dug yesterday) local find.

There are records of an Arcade Saloon in Houston all the way back to the 1830s…this bottle is probably from 1900-1910 or so. Best Regards, Brandon DeWolfe, P.E. Houston, Texas [FM] When questioned, Brandon said he had been digging at an old church in Galveston, Texas which is 45 minutes south of Houston on the Gulf.

Collecting Fire Grenades I have begun collecting the pre-1910 fire grenades. I have found most of them on eBay. I was wondering if you know of other ways to acquire these magnificent bottles, preferably still full of their contents? I live in Colorado, am disabled, and 59 years old.

My purpose is to enjoy their elegance inside my home and then pass them on to my two children for them to enjoy. Any suggestions that you may have would be very welcome. Sincerely Yours, Ron Haack P.S. I have paper-clipped a picture of the fire grenades that I own now. Thank You!!

Unique Lighting Rod Ball?

Hello from Canada. My name is Tony Graham and I found your contact looking on the web for lightning rod ball collectors. I collect kerosene lighting and came across a unique, I think, lightning rod and ball on a old house built in the 1860s in rural Ontario near where I live. Any info would be appreciated. In sunlight it has a lot of iridescence. My poor photography doesn’t do it justice.

[FM] Well, it certainly did not look like any lightning rod ball that I had seen before. Checking with LRB authority Debbie Hartwig Overfield, she replied “To me this looks more like a beautiful lamp part. It is not a recognized lightning rod ball that I am aware of. Many times the hardware stores did sell them as replacements for broken lightning rod balls. Thus, many lamp parts have been found on buildings.”

Do You Google?

Hi, Ferdinand: I was discussing with another collector the idea of posting photos of antique bottles so they could be found by someone searching images on Google. If you use Google images to search for a picture of a specific bottle - and find it, my guess is that the picture was pulled from a published article, an eBay listing or some other source found on the internet. Photos used in my articles, which were printed in the Federation publication, are found in Google images (along with hundreds of unrelated images and how these are included I have no idea). Will pictures of bottles to be included in the FOHBC Virtual Museum be picked up by Google images? This would be great way to introduce tens of thousands of bottles to anyone searching the internet for a specific bottle. The view page feature will lead them to the source of the picture (in this case the FOHBC)!

Ken Morrill Corralitos, California [FM] Ken: Yes. Google or other search engines like Yahoo or Chrome will find any image online if it is labeled correctly. We will do this for the Virtual Museum. My Peachridge Glass website has 33,000 such bottle-related images. All can be searched on Google or more efficiently on the Peachridge website itself; that way, you do not get all the other stuff. The same applies to the FOHBC web site and will apply to the Virtual Museum website.

[KM] Ferdinand, is 33,000 the total number of images (bottles, labels, etc.) you have posted on your website? Today, I tried searching the Peachridge Glass website for a couple of western beer bottles but didn¹t get a match. Out of curiosity, I picked a bottle I saw on your site: “Dr. DOTY’S CELEBRATED MANDRAKE BITTERS,” and searched for it in Google images.

Your photos were there - but it was interesting that following those pictures were scores of other unrelated images from the Peachridge site. It seems they are posting images a step removed from the actual search. It also seems that Google images has only recently been adding images from eBay. I searched for a number of western beers that have been listed on eBay in the past, but only fairly recent listings were found. So much to learn and not enough time!

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How to Find Bottles Online that have Sold at Auction

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Hi, Ferdinand: I sent you an email last May about a bitters/medicine I dug in New Orleans, A. Schriener, which you were kind enough to research and feature on your webpage and Facebook.

Thanks by the way! I brought the bottle to the Jackson, Miss., bottle show this past weekend and it generated an offer of $2,500 as is or a top offer of $4,750 if it was polished. The offer came from Chester Bodine of Ocean Springs, Miss. He said he found the same bottle had sold for that larger amount at auction. Can you give me tips on how to find bottles online that have sold at auction? Thanks!

http://www.peachridgeglass.com/2012/02/edward-wilder-and-hisbuilding-bottles/

Inv Sgt Mike Burkett Pass Christian, Mississippi

Belle of Nevada Whiskey (Reno) I picked up this encased cent yesterday and have Googled the info found on it and have come up with nothing. It would seem that the ‘Belle of Nevada’ whiskey would come in an embossed bottle but perhaps not. Quite the name, calling it The Louvre. The Indian Head cent is dated 1901 and I couldn’t find info on the encased cent either.

Thought you might find this on interest. Regards Sam Fuller

[FM] Mike: I would try here (bottleauctionprices.com) or Jim & Lynn Mitchell (Tampa area) who have taken the reins from the Brown’s Auction Report and produced an updated (2008 Edition) Antique Bottle Auction Price Results report. This is 20 or so years of prices and history of bottles sold at auction. You can usually find on eBay. One can only hope that someone will continue this every year or so.

Match & Medicine Stamps Ferd - I was bidding on this group, don’t know if you were but I wasn’t paying attention and missed out.

Pretty cool stuff. I got some other neat pieces.

Jeff Wichmann Sacramento, California [FM] Jeff: They call these Match & Medicines for obvious reasons.

Notice those two Edward Wilders (Ovals in the middle). Those are for his bitters.

You know, the bottle with the building embossed on front. Same

[Jack Sullivan] Ferd and Sam: This is a very interesting bar token since it contains so much information, e.g., the name of the whiskey, the name of the saloon, and the names of the proprietors. I would assume that the other side of the coin has a date to identify its approximate issuance.

There is another Louvre bar token from Nevada, but was identified, perhaps mistakenly, as from Goldfield, Nevada. I also have found a photo of the interior of the Reno “Louvre Saloon.”

Apparently it was a big deal in early Reno, it had wide open gambling and the owners were credited with bringing major prizefights to Reno. I am sure, with more research, it would be possible to find more about the saloon. As for the whiskey brand, “Belle of Nevada,” it was never trademarked. My guess is that it was the house brand of the saloon, poured out of a barrel or big jug bought from a wholesaler. For your interest and use I am sending below the images of the other Louvre token and a photo of the interior of the Louvre. Use them as you see fit. .

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Gunfight Breaks Bottles Hi, Ferd: As I have told you in the past, whenever I watch a movie or something on TV, I always keep my eye on the bottles used as props. Most of the time the bottles are fakes or way out of place. I will never forget watching a show on Christopher Columbus and they had bottles with screw tops. Well, the other night I got a chance to watch the show The Blacklist and there it was, in the window of a cabin they were held up in, a Pittsburgh Double Eagle historical flask. I paused the DVR and took a good look frame by frame and I am sure it is an old flask setting with some reproductions. Now for the bad news. During the gunfight, the bottles were broken as if they were shot up. I sat there and could not believe it. I have always watched movies where an old car is blown up or wrecked and never really thought about it. When they start breaking antique flasks that hurts!

Jim Bender Sprakers, New York

Baltimore Milk Bottles that Exhibit the Permit or Plant Numbers Ferdinand: thanks for calling today. It was a pleasure talking with you about our experiences related to bottle collecting and its publications, as well as the challenges that our various hobby organizations face. I’m attaching a PDF copy of the half-page ad that the Mohawk Valley Antique Bottle Club would like to place in the March-April issue of BOTTLES and EXTRAS. I’ll mail a check for $62.50, “under separate cover,” as we used to say.

I’m also attaching pictures of a few Baltimore milk bottles that exhibit the permit or plant numbers that I mentioned in our conversation. The second, Biemiller Dairy photo, is a little hard to read, but it shows a close-up of the embossing on the shoulder, which says “HEALTH DEPT PERMIT 2915.” The third Biemiller picture, which I found online, shows the same number on a squat pyro bottle. The Biemiller Dairy was bought by Cloverland Farms in the early 1940s. The markings on the Cloverland and Green Spring bottles are much easier to see. Take care, Peter Bleiberg New Hartford, New York

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Jeff (Wichmann) took the pictures yesterday for the future Sacramento Whiskiana bottle article in BOTTLES and EXTRAS and will forward them shortly. While he was here, he took a photo of a hand-carved grizzly bear, California’s official state mammal.

The bear has a blanket on its back and sides. One side is carved California. The other is carved Sacramento. If this image can be of any use for the Sacramento EXPO, the FOHBC is welcome to use it. We can also take other, perhaps better angles.

Steve Abbott Gold River, California

Our Show, or snow really......

Everything was set for our club’s return to the show circuit. The floor plan was filed with the hall, ads were placed in the local newspapers, and all the online sites we could find and think of.

Refreshments were arranged for. Tables were sold out, almost, there was room for one more. Everyone was quite excited to have a show back on Long Island. We were feeling good, anxious, but good, too.

However, then things started to happen. On Monday, the weather forecast for the end of the week was for some showers, perhaps a bit of snow, no big deal. On Tuesday, a few inches were possible for the weekend. Same for Wednesday, showers with perhaps an inch or two of snow. Then on Thursday, they started to talk about perhaps half a foot, or more, and there was a Blizzard Watch for Long Island. On Friday in the morning it was 18 inches and Long Island was now under a Blizzard Warning, by Friday night it was up to 30 inches, with higher amounts possible in some areas for Saturday and Sunday. So come Friday night, I felt that I had no other choice but to cancel the show. We were going to get it, big time.

We did. On Sunday morning, about 6 a.m., I looked out my front window, what I could see outside was snow, lots of snow. The local airport, about 3 miles away, reported around 26 inches on the ground. Oh, then the phone started to ring. Seems the Blizzard Warning was lifted at 7 a.m., on Sunday, and the travel ban also was lifted at 7 a.m. Everyone calling to find out if the show was still on. Had to tell them no, the hall was not plowed out, our street was not plowed out. Had close to 100 calls.

Now, for some good news. We have selected another date, not in January, but in October. Our new date is Sunday, October 23,

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2016. Now we only have to worry about hurricanes. Let the good times roll.

ourselves. Also digital settings that would be best for shooting, printing or submitting to a publication.

Mark & Laura Smith Long Island Antique Bottle Association Sayville, New York

If anyone wants to know where to buy anything photo-related, “B & H PHOTO VIDEO.com” has all the things needed, are reasonably priced and a pleasure to deal with. That’s where I buy all of my camera equipment.

Help With Identification

Another suggestion would be an article on how to clean the outside of a bottle that has a paper label on it, without damaging the label. Or maybe something on how to clean up the label itself, without ruining it, if that is possible.

I see that the Virtual Museum’s “Phase 1” account is growing slowly. How many phases will you need to get it up and running?

I hope you don’t get disappointed and cancel it. I think that I’ll send Alan another $100 check to help out.

I hope you are enjoying an early spring like we are in Maine.

Paul Dubay Poland, Maine

Gentlemen: I am a member of FOHBC and a collector of straightside, script Coca-Cola bottles. As you probably know, these bottles are collected principally by state/town name, then by bottle style. Attached are pictures of a bottle I recently acquired. It does not have the normal town/state name, but instead simply has the name “ANITA” in the slug plate. I do not know if this is the name of a town, the name of a bottling works, or something else. My initial research has not turned up an obvious town that this would have come from. The bottle is BIMAL and dates to the period 1906-1910. It is a style that other Coca-Cola bottles from this time period used. There are no glassmaker marks to help. Maybe you have some identification for it. If not, perhaps you could print my note and pictures in the Member News section of BOTTLES and EXTRAS. Somebody out there may know the town & bottler that it came from.

If you need any other info just let me know. Thanks for your help.

Roger Koch Yorba Linda, California

Greetings from the Northeast Hello, Ferdinand, greetings from the Northeast. I’m delighted to see that our magazine can now take advantage of full color on all of its pages. Whoever is printing the magazine is doing a great job.

Now that we can use more color, I have a suggestion for a future article or two. Could you find someone to write an article about photographing our bottles, to help the members that can’t afford to have it done professionally, so that our efforts look more like photographs than snapshots? For instance; lenses, focus points, type of bulbs for lighting and light boxes that we could build

[FM] Paul, it is always so nice to hear from you. We will make sure that we address your two requests in an upcoming issue of BOTTLES and EXTRAS. I sure hope that by year’s end, we can have the first gallery open for the Virtual Museum. We are photographing bottles, putting together our governing board and laying out the framework design. Thank you so much for your support.

J. J. McBride, King of Pain Hello Mr. Van Zant: With regards to your recent article on “J. J. McBride, King of Pain” in the recent issue, this bottle is not a Nevada sourced bottle. It is a classic San Francisco product. The error in attribution by the author is a simple, and frequent misunderstanding of research.

Mr. McBride was a physician in San Francisco. He came up with a slick slogan “King of Pain” for this “cure” remedy. McBride was a champion marketer, with his advertisements placed in major newspapers throughout the western United States during the approximate 1870 period. These newspapers included those in San Francisco, Sacramento, Portland, and Elko. In February of 1870, his ads boasted of selling 45,000 bottles in four months in San Francisco, and “1 million bottles sold over the last two years.”

McBride’s office and headquarters for “the King of Pain” was 121 Post Street, San Francisco, the same location as his physician’s office. He is listed in several San Francisco directories of the period. He was never listed as a resident of Nevada.

Fred Holabird Reno, Nevada Author Nevada Bottle Book (2 volumes). The second volume, “Ghost Towns and Medicines” is at the printer now.

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1/4 Page Ad Latest Koca Nola Book Chock Full of Information A Book Review by Bill Baab Following the bottling of Coca-Cola in the late 1890s, the Atlanta-based company found itself under siege. Everyone and his uncle thought their beverages were superior to Coke and started mom and pop bottling operations during the first two decades of the 20th century.

That was fine, but problems began when they named their products: Wiseola, this cola and that cola, and Koca Nola. The latter gave Coca-Cola fits for its first few years following its organization about 1905. Not only did the tangy drink became popular, but its attractions included premiums like thermometers, match cases, watch fobs, powder boxes and similar stuff, just like Coca-Cola offered its customers.

In 1934, Coca-Cola had sued Royal Crown Cola, the Columbus, Georgia-based soft drink, saying that Coke had exclusive right to the word “cola.” The U.S. Supreme Court in 1942 ruled that “cola” was a generic name and that RC had the right to use it.

That probably was a relief for the Pepsi-Cola Company to hear.

Coca-Cola may have been planning to sue Koca Nola over the similarity of brand names, but then the federal government stepped into the picture.

Follow the fascinating federal court case in the second edition of Charles David Head’s “A Head’s Up on Koca Nola.” New information has expanded the book to 175 pages from 162 in the original edition.

Each of the many franchises are listed, with color photos of some of the bottles accompanying the descriptions. Collectors of Koca Nola and similar bottles will enjoy this book.

The well illustrated book can be purchased at www.kocanolabook.com, or by sending a money order, cashier’s check or personal check payable to Charles David Head at 106 6th Street, Bridgeport, AL 35740. Shipping is free.

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tyre (1898-1900) as “Agent and bottler of Augusta Brewing Company Beer” in Asheville. Whoa! I’d never seen mention of that during research on the Augusta brewery.

On Page 10, there is a listing of Augusta Brewing Company (1893-1900), with B.L. Weddenfeller, Manager. “The bottling works opened shortly after the purchase of Mecklenburg Bottling (Works) which allowed Augusta instant access to bottling and the local (Charlotte) market.”

On Page 60, the Augusta Brewing Company (1895-1907) is listed in Salisbury, with J.C. Black as manager. “Bottler of Augusta Brewing Belle of Carolina Export beer.” John F. Ludwick was in 1904 appointed sole agent and bottler for the Augusta firm.

The Augusta brewery wasn’t the only one to establish branches.

North Carolina Brewers and Bottlers, 1774-1908

By David Tingen, Raleigh, North Carolina A Book Review by Bill Baab Why would a book documenting the brewery industry in North Carolina be of interest to collectors from Georgia and Virginia and perhaps elsewhere? Well, I’ll tell you:

The Robert Portner Brewing Company, of Alexandria, Virginia, also had established “beer depots” throughout North Carolina as well as in Charleston, South Carolina and Augusta.

Tingen’s book makes numerous references to branches affiliated with Portner until the latter’s death in 1907. After his passing, and with the advent of Prohibition, Portner products disappeared from the marketplace.

The highly recommended book and its accompanying CD sell for $30 and can be ordered from the author postpaid at 9412 Greenfield Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina 27615.

The Augusta Brewing Company was established in Augusta, Georgia in 1888, selling its Belle of Georgia flagship lager and its Belle of Carolina Export Beer.

I had researched the Augusta brewery in depth, speaking to surviving members of the founding Herman and Schweers families, delving into back issues of The Augusta Chronicle and learning that the company had sold beer in Havana, Cuba just after the Spanish-American War. The brewery had even sold its Export Beer to branches of the state-run South Carolina Dispensary during the latter’s 18931907 operation.

What I didn’t know was that the Augusta Brewing Company had established branches of its own throughout North Carolina.

I had never seen mention of it in family memoirs or newspaper accounts.

Longtime Raleigh Bottle Club member and collector David Tingen has written and published “North Carolina Brewers and Bottlers, 1774-1908,” covering most of that history until Prohibition appeared on the scene and forced the beer industry to become extinct.

His 87-page, spiral-bound book includes more than 60 colored bottle images and includes a companion CD with more than 400 images of additional bottles, ads and articles.

So I was reading and on Page 9 there is a reference to Pat McIn-

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FOHBC S A C R A M E N T O National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo

4 - 7 August 2016 Presented by the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors at the McClellan Conference Center & Lions Gate Hotel, Sacramento, California General Admission on Saturday and Sunday, August 6th and 7th: $5 Early Admission on August 5th, at 1:00 pm, $60 ($45 for FOHBC members) Thursday-August 4: FOHBC Generals House Reception for registered Dealers and Early Admission followed by the Sacramento Shoot-out bottle competition at the Lions Gate Hotel • Friday-August 5: FOHBC Membership Meeting Breakfast, Educational Seminars, Ribbon Cutting Ceremony, Early Admissions, FOHBC Cocktail Hour & Banquet • Saturday-August 6: General Admission, Live Bottle Auction • Sunday-August 7: General Admission & Display Awards

Info: Richard & Beverley Siri, Show Chairman & Co-Chair, 707.542.6438, rtsiri@sbcglobal.net or Louis Fifer, FOHBC Conventions Director, fiferlouis@yahoo.com or Eric McGuire, Western Region Director, etmcguire@comcast.net our Roots

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Wanted SACRAMENTO SHOOTOUT

Jesse Moore Sole Agent (cylinder fifths), U.S.A. Hosp. Dept. quarts and Hostetter’s Bitters

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Sacramento Shootout at the Lions Gate Hotel Club Ballroom, Thursday evening, August 4th, 2016, 8:00 - 11:00 pm The Sacramento Shootout bottle competition will be held at the FOHBC 2016 National Antique Bottle

Show & Expo in Sacramento, California after the Generals House Reception. There will be three (3) categories.

Each category will have three (3) judges. Awards will be given for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. The categories are Jesse Moore Sole Agent (cylinder fifths), U.S.A. Hosp. Dept. quarts and Hostetter’s Bitters (limit 4 entries per category per competitor).

Security will be provided. For additional information contact Richard Siri, Sacramento Convention Chair, PO Box 3818, Santa Rosa, California, 707.542.6438, rtsiri@sbcglobal.net or visit FOHBC.org

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My take on this unusual label is that American Distilling was hoping to take advantage of the fame that Jack Sharkey enjoyed in the 1930s, but used only the Sharkey name and an image of the earlier Sailor Tom, who had been out of the public limelight for three decades. A demand for royalties by Tom Sharkey likely would have been more modest than Jack’s. An obscure brand, this whiskey may never have found an audience. Although it cannot be compared to baseball’s Honus Wagner cigarette card, the Sharkey label appears to be a rarity.

A New Find:

by Jack Sullivan

The “Sharkey” Label

While “new finds” usually are related to glass or ceramic containers, sometimes a bottle label comes along that has a story. So it is with the label for “Sharkey Straight Whiskey” [Fig. 1]. The image was sent to me by Karen Ehrman of Wapello, Iowa, as the result of an earlier article I had written on The American Distilling Co. of Pekin, Illinois. She found the label between the pages of an old book in her father’s antique store.

[Fig. 2] Jack Sharkey

I had never seen the label before, but recognized that it was issued after the repeal of National Prohibition when alcoholic content, expressed as “proof,” was required on all whiskey. The illustration shows a boxer named “Sharkey” and I immediately identified the figure as Jack Sharkey, a former heavyweight champion, whose boxing career lasted into the late 1930s, when the label likely was issued. He was a Navy veteran so the tattoo seemed to fit. More research, however, disclosed that Sharkey’s chest [Fig. 2] bore no tattoo.

The figure illustrated was an earlier boxer named Tom Sharkey whose American professional ring career spanned from 1893 to 1904. Listed by Ring Magazine as one of the 100 greatest punchers of all time, this Sharkey was born in Ireland and joined the U.S. Navy in 1892. Known as “Sailor Tom,” he sported a ship’s tattoo, but one quite different from the label [Fig. 3]. Jack Sharkey, it turns out, was Lithuanian, originally named Joseph Paul Zukauskas. He idolized Sailor Tom and appropriated his last name.

[Fig. 3] “Sailor Tom” Sharkey

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What Does it Really Cost to Collect Old Bottles?

By Jim Bender, FOHBC Historian As I attend more and more shows, I have what seems to be more and more people tell me they can’t afford to collect anymore.

This is something that I myself have spent many hours thinking about over the past few years.

Collecting for me started 40 plus years ago as a kid. Over the years, there have been many changes in the hobby. Prices surely are one of them. I remember back in the 1970s when a North Bend Tippecanoe bottle sold for $10,000, the whole hobby was floored. I was at that sale and remember thinking as a young guy that I could never buy bottles at those prices. It was a bit depressing at the time, but I soon realized the $10,000 bottles were not for but a few people who in their lives had worked hard and had gotten themselves in a position that they could buy stuff like that.

OK, hold on, I know what you’re thinking. I realize there are also people born with golden spoons in their mouths as well. They normally don’t last long in any hobby from what I can see.

For me, a few years ago I decided to sell off my Union Clasping Hands bottles. I had collected them for years and had hit a level where I could not buy anything I wanted without spending as much money as some of my cars had cost me. My dear friend Dick Watson, who I miss daily, warned me about this for many years. He had told me when you collect just one thing you will hit a dead end and get discouraged or give up. I guess that is why Dick and Elma collected so many things. I never went to a flea market or show with Dick that he did not find something to bring home. Now you have to understand what he found may only have cost a few dollars but as he would say, “it’s neat.”

North Bend Tippecanoe

So I finally decided to sell my Union Flasks and called Dick to tell him. At first he said I would not do it. Then I told him the past few I bought on credit cards and he agreed collecting that way was no fun. You see what had happened to me was the fun was leaving the hobby for me. I could feel it when I walked around

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shows. I knew what had to be done. I needed to go back to what I call grass roots collecting.

You see, I have many other bottles in my collection that are not the best or rare, but they are neat! So I sold my collection to another good friend, Mark Vuono. I wanted Mark to have the bottles for a few reasons. First, he is my friend. Second, Mark would appreciate them for what they are. Third, I knew Mark would keep nearly half in his collection and I could see them any time I wanted. But mostly to me was the fact that Mark is a true collector. You hear stories about the big purchases he makes, but what you don’t hear about is the small ones he makes.

We were at one of Norm Heckler’s barn sales one day and I spotted an aqua 1/2-pint double eagle flask I knew Mark needed for the collection. Mark bought it that day for less than $100 and was smiling from ear to ear. Not because it was a steal, but because it was a mold number to add to the collection. That is what a real collector does.

So now let’s get back to the basics of the article. What does it cost to collect old bottles? At the Manville, New Jersey bottle show, I spent some time taking photos of neat bottles that can be collected for less than $100 and really are nice bottles. If you are trying to collect as an investment, I would say the stock market may be better suited for you. The days of buying bottles for $25 and sitting on them for 30 years and getting $10,000 for them are long gone. If you want to collect some neat bottles with great looks and some interesting history, they are out there and can be bought at very fair prices.

Photo 1 - Milk Bottles

Photo 2 - Aqua Scroll Flask

I have continued to collect bottles since I sold my flasks. This time around if I like it and think it’s neat, I buy it. I will say I see some higher priced bottles I still love but just can’t afford. I believe that everyone who collects for any amount of time tends to draw to higher priced bottles. That doesn’t mean that you can’t collect cheaper bottles and still have a great time doing it.

Photo 3 - Mineral Water Bottles

Union Clasped Hand Flasks Ex: Jim Bender

So the next time you think you can’t afford to collect, do some soul searching and don’t be afraid to buy that aqua blob top soda with the cool name on it. I have included many photos of bottles that are fun to collect, look great and have history to them.

Remember to always keep it fun and you will be in the hobby forever.

Photo 4 - Carter’s Cathedral Ink Bottles

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PHOTO CAPTIONS Photo 1 - Milk bottles are great collectibles with some great scenes on them. Try collecting your hometown dairies. Some great milk bottles can be found for well less than $50.

Photo 2 - Scroll Flasks are early blown glass. Aqua 1/2 pints, pints and quarts can be had for less than $100 at most every show Photo 3 - Mineral water bottles are a category, which has dropped off a bit and now is the time to buy. There are some great bottles around for less than $100.

Photo 4 - Quart Carters Cathedral Inks are big, blue and very pretty. If you look around you can find one for less than $100.

Photo 5 - Nursing bottles make a great collectible and can be found well below $50.

Photo 6 - Hair bottles come in some great colors and can be found at fair prices of less than $100.

Photo 5 - Nursing Bottle

Photo 7 - Poison bottles and dairy creamers make great small collectibles. Many to pick from at less than $50.

Photo 8 - Colored cone inks have become popular but still available in some nice colors for far less than $100.

Photo 9 - Schnapps bottles come in great colors and sizes. Many to pick from at less than $100.

Photo 10 - Warner’s Tippecanoe. What a great bottle for sure. With some time one can still be had for $100.

Photo 11 - Doyles Hop Bitters. A classic bottle that every collection should have. Easy to find for less than $50.

Photo 12 - Square bitters bottles are at every show and many are well below $100.

Photo 6 - Hair Bottles

Photo 13 - Aqua beers and sodas come from all over the country and have some great embossing.

Find one with your name. Easy to buy at less than $20.

Photo 14 - Ringed pepper sauce bottles come in great colors and can still be found for less than $50.

Photo 15 - Here is a great selection of colored bottles on one dealer’s table. Most all of these bottles were less than $100.

Photo 16 - Strap sided flasks come in many colors and look fantastic in a window. Many of these flasks can be bought for less than $50.

Photo 17 - Many bottle collectors also collect Christmas lights in fantastic colors for less than $50.

Photo 18 - Insulators are also a great collectible and come in some great colors. Found many times for less than $50.

Photo 7 - Poison Bottles

Photo 19 - There are many nice milk glass bottles for less than $50.

Photo 20 - Label under glass druggist bottles make a nice display set. Can be found for less than $50.

Photo 21 - Big embalming fluid bottles are around for less than $50.

Photo 22 - Lockport Gargling Oil bottles come in different sizes and some great colors. Still around for less than $50.

Photo 23 - If you look around you can still find an amber Drake’s Plantation Bitters for less than $100 from time to time.

Photo 24 - Aqua Pike’s Peak flasks are a great part of history and come in some great molds. Many of these flasks can be found for less than $100.

Photo 8 - Colored Cone Inks

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Photo 9 - Schnapp’s Bottles

Photo 13 - Colored Beer and Soda Bottles

Photo 10 - Warner’s Tippecanoe Bottles

Photo 14 - Ringed Pepper Sauce Bottles

Photo 11 - Doyle’s Hop Bitters

Photo 15 - Regular Colored Bottles

Photo 12 - Square Bitters Bottles

Photo 16 - Strap Sided Flasks

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Photo 17 - Christmas Lights

Photo 21 - Big Embalming Fluid Bottles

Photo 18 - Insulators

Photo 22 - Lockport Gargling Oil Bottles

Photo 19 - Milk Glass Bottles

Photo 23 - Amber Drake’s Plantation Bitters

Photo 20 - Label Under Glass Druggist Bottles

Photo 24 - Aqua Pike’s Peak Flasks

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that had been confined to their earthly grave for over a hundred years.

While the idea of saving historically significant portions of cities was a controversial proposal, there was enough local support in Sacramento to save some of the old structures which, in retrospect, has been one of the most successful elements of the urban renewal process with respect to tourism. What is now known as Old Sacramento State Historic Park has become one of the most important architectural and historical gems of any city in California, and was even looked upon as a model for other cities.

BACK TO OUR ROOTS WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

by Eric McGuire The upcoming FOHBC 2016 National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo to be held in Sacramento, California on August 4 - 7, 2016, is considered to be a “back to our roots” celebration of the beginnings or organized bottle collecting which later developed into the FOHBC. In order to help understand how this interest in bottle collecting came about, I am directing you to an Internet link for a 13 minute video that I found on the Internet at sacramentohistory.tumblr. com. The underlying significance of this video is important, not only from the standpoint of bottle collecting in Sacramento but its greater implications to the hobby across the entire United States.

The video documents a typical example of the beginnings of the urban renewal of an American city in decline. Its aging infrastructure was so outdated that it was considered more economical to tear it down and start over than try to retrofit it. It was precisely this renewal process that allowed easy access to bottles and other artifacts which were essentially byproducts of the rebuilding process, and which had minimal value to the mainstream socio-cultural and political system of the day. Even the archaeological community had either little interest or resources to take on a salvage project to preserve all that was being destroyed in the urban renewal process during its early years.

A core group of individuals in and around Sacramento, spearheaded by John Tibbitts, took note of this new access to old bottles that were coming to light and decided to form a common interest club in order to share in the knowledge surrounding their interest. Thus was born the first bottle collecting club.

As noted earlier, this concept of urban renewal impacted a multitude of cities across the United States, and the Sacramento club quickly gained members from coast to coast. The federal government was quick to see the economic value in removing urban blight in major urban centers throughout the country, which, as an unintended byproduct resulted in relatively easy access to bottles

Not long after the formation of the Sacramento bottle club (ABCA), other similar organizations sprang up all across the country. Seeing the value in forming a club and sharing information of a common interest, the Sacramento club proposed to form a larger organization that was initially designed to include all the various local clubs, as well as individuals. This, of course, was the beginnings of the FOHBC, an acronym that originally represented the Federation of Historical Bottle Clubs. The FOHBC then decided to change its name to the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, which still stands today.

It wasn’t my original intention to ramble on about the history of the FOHBC, but to introduce this fascinating video that never once mentions bottles but, in fact, describes the major impetus for the beginnings of organized bottle collecting. The video also gives some perspective as to why bottle collecting has changed over the years. Gone are the days of easy access to incredibly historical artifacts that, in the past were worth a small fraction of their value compared to today’s market. But then, a dollar value was not the real reason why people had an interest in bottles, however, it was an element that cannot be denied – especially as the hobby matured. With the relative lack of access to newer finds, the interest has shifted more to a buying and selling market, which is also witness to a rapid increase in the price of some bottles that have evolved to become more desirable. The increase can generally be attributed to a number of factors such as scarcity, aesthetic qualities such as color, or historical interest. Those factors had not become clearly defined during the formative years of collecting.

I seriously doubt that we will ever see the return of those earlier days of the 1960s and 1970s. We must rely on the diminishing numbers of hardy souls who still use a shovel in order to replenish a declining stock of supply. Furthermore, when I attend recent bottle shows, I see a lot of grey hair – not good candidates for heavy shovel work. I doubt that bottle digging will ever completely go away as the economic rewards of finding certain desirable bottles are far greater than they were in the past.

While this video will be somewhat boring to some, one must keep in mind the significance to bottle collecting as we know it today. The urban renewal program gave a huge jump-start to a hobby that many of us enjoy today.

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[Fig: 2] This Currier & Ives print of the battleship Ohio depicts the vessel that carried William Siddons into the Mexican War and eventually around the Horn to San Francisco.

Captain Siddons Saloon Keeper and Medicine Maker

by Eric McGuire

William Melbourne Siddons [Fig: 1] was born August 25, 1825, in Charleston, South Carolina. Some sources note that Siddons had joined the Merchant Marines as early as 1838 and the U.S. Navy by 1841, but no records could be found to document those actions. However, driven by strong patriotic convictions it can be documented that Siddons enlisted in the U.S. Navy, in Boston on October 5, 1846. He left Boston, aboard the battleship U.S.S. Ohio [Fig: 2] on January 4, 1847, and sailed for Vera Cruz, Mexico, to participate in the war between Mexico and the United States.

Siddons arrived in Veracruz on March 22, 1847, and participated in the siege of the city on March 27, which soon surrendered.

Later that year the Ohio was sent to the west coast of Mexico to

blockade its ports. The war was soon over and with other ships from the Pacific Squadron, the Ohio headed for Monterey and San Francisco Bays in California to transport naval personnel, mostly from the famed Stephenson’s Regiment of New York, who had joined the war with the knowledge and commitment of staying in California with hopes of settling this new American soil.

Aboard the Ohio Siddons was engaged in taking depth soundings of San Francisco Bay for several months and by 1849 he accompanied an expedition headed by Thomas Butler King to explore the interior of California. 1 Later that same year, Siddons returned to civilian life and opened a saloon in Benicia, California, where he stayed until 1851. Benicia is strategically located at the mouth of the Strait of Carquinez within the San Francisco Bay, which is

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mining. Siddons then moved to Sacramento in 1856 and opened a saloon in the St. George Building. He then bought out a saloon on the corner of Front and I Streets named “Our Corner”, where he remained until 1862. In that year he purchased his Occidental Exchange saloon at 204 J Street where he remained until his death on January 6, 1906.

While Siddons was not part of Stephenson’s Regiment, he also elected to stay in California anyway. It was essentially a one-way ticket, where the Mexican War veterans were discharged in either Monterey or San Francisco. 2 The timing was fortuitous since Siddons’ arrival coincided with the discovery of gold in Coloma, California, which was probably the primary reason he chose to stay in California.

After the opening of the Occidental Saloon, Siddons wasted no time in expressing his dedication to the Union of American states.

His display of loyalty ran deep as noted by the Sacramento Daily Union of November 9, 1863;

[Fig: 1] A sketch of William Siddons as a young man, probably in his twenties, shown sporting his distinctive goatee that he kept for the rest of his life.

(Courtesy of the California State Library)

the maritime gateway to the interior of California. All shipping headed for the Gold Country had to pass Benicia, which became an important port town in its early years. Siddons then moved to Rattlesnake Bar on the north fork of the American River in Placer County, where he maintained another saloon and tried his hand at

“THE UNION GUN - W. M. SIDDONS, of the Occidental Saloon, on J street, arrived in the city from San Francisco on Saturday morning, with a new 12- pounder iron gun, of French manufacture, for the purpose of acknowledging the receipt of good news from the East whenever occasion requires. It was Siddons’ design to purchase a brass piece, but none of that description could be had in San Francisco. A carriage has been ordered for the gun, which will be rigged for hitching up horses to it if necessary.”

Affectionately named the “Union Boy” [Fig: 3], and captained

by Siddons, the cannon was even present to herald the very first train ride on the Pacific Railroad, which eventually became the first transcontinental railroad. On November 10, 1863, the Sacramento Daily Union described that first ride in some detail. The locomotive Governor Stanford had to be connected to the initial [Fig: 3] The “Union Boy” cannon in the Plaza at Sacramento with its contingent of personnel. The photo was probably taken in the 1860s as the gun’s carriage is much simpler than in later photos.

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Sacramento section of the rail line with temporary track.3 It was loaded with various dignitaries for the two mile trek through town - the only section of track laid at that time.

“As the locomotive started the event was heralded by the first report of a salute of thirty-five guns (shots). The gun, which is a twelve-pounder, spoke in more emphatic tones than any heretofore used in this city.”

Unfortunately, the locomotive got no more than about four blocks when the steam engine failed. Regardless, this was the first run on the transcontinental tracks. Later that day the train was put in working order and made two or three more runs with better success.

The Civil War was one for which William Siddons appeared to have deep convictions. Having already served in the Mexican-American War, his patriotism hadn’t waned. On November 30, 1863, The Daily Bee of Sacramento described his seminal tactic in supporting the Union cause; “ARTILLERY - In this city, yesterday morning, seven persons met and organized themselves into a military company, adopting the name ‘Union Artillery”. William M. Siddons was elected Captain. It is the intention of the company to use the twelve-pounder field piece recently purchased in San Francisco by Siddons, with money raised here by subscription. The gun is being cleaned and polished at the Sacramento Iron Works, and a carriage and caisson for the same are being made at the shop of J. A. Mason, on Third street, between I and J.”

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“William Siddons has put in order the well known cannon ‘Union Boy’, which was fired 875 times during the last campaign in honor of Grant, besides announcing victories during the rebellion. It has been put in the best condition -- the Railroad Company having demanded that it go to the front -- and from it will be reported the completion of the notable event of the age. A large transparency has been prepared, which on one side bears the following: ‘I announced its opening November 9, 1863. I proclaim its completion May, 1869’4 While the Union Boy was made ready for the celebration commemorating the completion of the transcontinental railroad, there is no evidence that it was present at Promontory, Utah. In fact, it never left Sacramento [Fig: 4]. The Sacramento Daily Union noted, “The ‘Union Boy’, under Captain Siddons’ command, was the means of first conveying to the thousands of people in the city the intelligence that the last rail had been laid and the last spike driven. This was done at the moment the hammer touched the head of the spike, the gun being connected with the hammer by telegraph”.

Siddons was also a member of the California State Militia, where he was commissioned as First Lieutenant of the Sacramento Light Artillery, Fourth Brigade, which created a double title of Captain and Lieutenant at the same time.5 That the Civil War wreaked havoc on the solitude of many families is well documented and Siddons’ was no different. William had a younger brother named Lawrence Siddons with which he

Thus was born Siddons’ title of Captain, by which all residents of Sacramento knew him. To be sure, they couldn’t help but know him, for at nearly every event of note, and even some that were only important to Siddons, the deafening report of his cannon could be heard, often arousing the curiosity of the uninformed.

Sacramentans were sure to discover what the noise was all about in the next issue of the newspaper which often covered the Captain’s latest salutary engagement. The Union Boy became as famous throughout the region as Siddons himself, as it was often fired for parades, political nominations, successful Union Army battles, election outcomes, arriving dignitaries and many other affairs too numerous [Fig: 4] A close view of the Union Boy on a street in Sacramento. This photo was taken in 1878. (Courtesy of California State Library) to mention. In fact, the artillery company became so efficient at firing the Union Boy in rapid suc- was close until the onset of the rebellion when Lawrence became a southern sympathizer, as he lived in South Carolina during cession that this alone was a topic of military pride. One summation of the use of Union Boy, in preparation for the completion of the war. The feud ran deep and when Lawrence died in Carson City, Nevada, in 1891, William Siddons could care less. The San the transcontinental railroad stated: Francisco Call noted;

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“When the Civil War broke out Lawrence turned to the South and William to the North. This action brought about a feud, and both frequently passed each other without speaking. William in anger stated that he had disowned Lawrence as a kin, and has ever since kept it up. His reply after his brother’s death caused general comment. William Siddons from the first was loud in abuse of his brother.”6 In concert with Siddons’ activities of his artillery company, he tended to business at his Occidental Exchange saloon. The Occidental became a favorite meeting place for many dignitaries and was a place to catch up on the latest gossip. Political rallies for the Union cause were often held there, which was good for business as well as a good venue for politicians. As with any respectable saloon keeper of the day, Siddons even purveyed his own brand of cigars from his establishment. Conveniently known as the “Occidentals”, Siddons went so far as preparing special labels for his cigar boxes [Fig: 5], upon which prominently featured an engraving of himself.

For reasons not entirely clear, Siddons decided to enter the arena of patent medicine by introducing a catarrh cure. Catarrh is a common 19th century term for what is now called a “cold”, generally referring to nasal congestion. The use of the words, “By Inhalation”, in the newspaper advertisement for the product, infers that the catarrh cure was strongly odorous and was likely used by dribbling a small amount on a handkerchief or small cloth which was then held to the nose. It probably gave a feeling of soothing relief, much as Vicks VapoRub does today, as opposed to being a vasoconstrictor.

Fewer of us are alive and of an age that experienced a crowded bar when most everyone was burning some form of tobacco, especially cigars. Memories are still vivid of layers of smoke thick enough to actually obscure visibility, depending upon the stillness of the air. Especially for non-smokers, this experience was sure to have some effect on the nose. My explanation for Siddons’ introduction of this medicine was precisely to give some relief to those affected by this assault on the nasal membrane. The actual reasons remain obscured by the passage of time, but one cannot deny that Siddons began pushing his Universal Catarrh Cure in 1883. [Fig 6] The bottle [Fig: 7], of which only one example was examined, is rectangular in shape and lettered on one face; CAPT. SIDDONS’ / UNIVERSAL / CATARRH CURE. The base is embossed W. T. & Co., with the number “6” centered and below. This is the bottle maker’s mark identifying it as made by Whitall, Tatum & Co. of Millville, New Jersey. It is composed of medium light amber glass with a tooled top finish and measures 3.3 inches in height.

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[Fig: 5] The label for Siddons’ Occidental cigars. He trade marked the name with the California Secretary of State on May 14, 1878.

Truly dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, Siddons hired an African American named Robert H. Small, Jr., about 1880, as a barkeeper. Small was the son of Robert H. Small, Sr., a well known and respected individual who was an outspoken advocate for civil rights in California. Robert Small, Jr. died of “croupous pneumonia” on January 9, 1882, just 19 1/2 years old. Siddons then hired Robert Small, Sr’s oldest son, Ernest A. Small, to fill the same position of barkeeper. Ernest became a long term employee of Siddons, and when Siddons died in 1906, his widow created a partnership with Ernest Small, making him an equal partner in the Occidental Saloon.

Ernest Small continued the operational activities of the saloon until about 1910 but died a few years later on September 24, 1913, at age 54 years. His terminal affliction was described as paresis, or paralytic dementia.

Siddons married Ellen B. Reid in Sacramento on June 28, 1860. The result of this union was two girls, Daisy, born July 21, 1865, and Nellie, born January 1, 1869, in Sacramento. [Fig: 10]

[Fig: 6] This advertisement ran from December 3, 1883 to March 3, 1884, in the Sacramento Union. Siddons used druggist Charles Bell, lately of the firm of Walther & Bell, as his agent for this product.

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[Fig: 7] CAPT. SIDDONS’ UNIVERSAL CATARRH CURE

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Daisy married Robert H. Hawley on November 12, 1890. Robert Hawley was a highly motivated individual who was a notary public - a well respected and important job at the time - and was later involved in local politics and became a lawyer in the late 1890s.

He was also a director of the California Olive and Fruit-Grower’s Association of Fair Oaks. This company focused on acquiring larger acreages, planting trees, etc., then reselling the property.

Essentially, they built and sold farms. Hawley died in Sacramento on February 16, 1925. They had no children and Daisy didn’t remarry.

Nellie moved to Seattle about 1909 where she became society editor for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. While there she met Walter Corwin Hall, assistant postmaster of Sacramento and a millionaire mining man who struck it rich in Alaska. They were married in Seattle in 1912, and moved to Fairbanks, Alaska.

Nellie and Walter moved back to Sacramento in 1915 and lived a life of luxury amidst the social circles of Sacramento and traveled extensively until Walter died in San Francisco on March 9, 1918.

They had no children and Nellie never remarried.

Daisy and Nellie were nurtured in a world of music and acting, with both eventually involved in amateur entertainment within

[Fig: 8] The top portion of the bottle label for Capt. Siddon’s Catarrh Cure which was deposited with the Secretary of State for California as a representation of Trade Mark No. 1333, dated October 12, 1885.

[Fig: 9] By the 1880s William Siddons’ signature goatee had lost its vibrant color and luster. Also, it would not be surprising if he had not lost much of his hearing from shooting off the Union Boy hundreds of times. (Photo courtesy of the California State Library)

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[Fig: 11] The Siddons family grave stone located in the Pioneer Cemetery of Sacramento.

[Fig: 10] Photograph of the Siddons girls, Nellie and Daisy, daughters of William and Ellen Reid Siddons, taken about 1874. (Courtesy of California State Library)

NOTES: 1. As special agent to California, King’s findings were presented to Washington, D.C. as House Executive Document No. 59, and dated March 26, 1850. It is one of the first somewhat comprehensive official report on the Territory of California. King later was appointed the tax collector for the Port of San Francisco under the presidency of Zachary Taylor, serving for two years. He then became a lobbyist for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. King died in Georgia in 1864.

2. Stephenson’s Regiment was re-named several times but was initially called “1st Regiment of New York Volunteers”.

3. The slightly modified but restored locomotive still exists and is currently on display at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento.

4. The Daily Bee (Sacramento, Calif.), November 30, 1863 5. Sacramento Daily Union, October 8, 1864 6. San Francisco Call, December 25, 1891 7. The Tuesday Club, during the 19th century, was usually devoted to literature, acting, music, current affairs and interesting lectures of the day, depending upon the interests of local members. They could be found throughout the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries.

8. Sacramento Bee, March 22, 1943

the social circles of Sacramento and beyond. In the mid-1890’s Nellie went to Paris to study French and music. Both Daisy and Nellie would perform at various charitable organizations. Their names are often associated with the Tuesday Club of Sacramento, which they co-founded.7 After their respective husbands died Daisy and Nellie were both living in Sacramento and decided to share their home together until tragedy befell them. While crossing a street in Sacramento, on March 20, 1943, the sisters were struck squarely by a car which was going at a high rate of speed. The impact was so strong they were knocked out of their shoes, which remained at the accident site, and thrown as much as 120 feet. Hospital attendants who examined the bodies said nearly every bone was broken.8 As neither women had children, the accident ended nearly one hundred years of presence of the Siddon’s family in Sacramento.

Epilogue: One of the joys of historic research in this emerging technological age is the uncovering of newsworthy but often insignificant newspaper items that can humanize the subject matter. Who could ever have found this little bit of history without the use of optical character recognition scanning? Who could ever have known that the Siddons lost their canary to a cunning and very smart hawk? Reported in the Sacramento Daily Union on February 10, 1862.

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Two Early Visits with Legendary Collectors of Antique Bottles

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By Bill Baab • Photos by Bill Baab & John C. Tibbitts During the winter of 1968, I made my “debut” into the hobby of

antique bottle collecting by taking home a pair of round-bottomed ginger ales from Cumberland Island off the Georgia coast.

I had joined more than a dozen other outdoor writers for a duck hunt in January of that year. Rick Ferguson, our host, had taken us on a jeep tour of the privately owned island and in a yard next to a burned-out replica of Dungeness, the Carnegie family’s Scottish ancestral home, dozens of the bottles reposed. “Take a couple as souvenirs of your visit,” he told us. I think I was the only one to do so.

The bottles’ shapes intrigued me. Why couldn’t the stupid bottles stand upright? After arriving home in Augusta, my research answered my question: the bottles were designed that way so their contents would keep the corks wet, preventing shrinkage and evaporation. Wow! Like others entering the hobby for the first time, I subscribed to Old Bottle Magazine published by the Ashers out of Bend, Oregon as well as Western Collector magazine, which included a section on bottles in every issue.

See Western Collector February 1967 issue to the left with an article titled “Bottle World”.

I believe it was the former which published a story featuring Charles

Gardner, of New London, Connecticut, with black-and-white photos of some of his immense collection.

On January 8, 1966, I was married to the former Beatrice Sudrabin, whose parents lived in an antique farmhouse in Grafton, New Hampshire. They were not able to make the trip to our Augusta wedding. So in 1967, we purchased a Dodge van with Turtle Top camping equipment and made the three-day trip to Grafton. It became an annual summer vacation event and in 1970, we decided to visit the Gardners.

After telephoning him to make sure he’d be at home, we made the trip intending to stay an hour at the most. It turned out to be the most entertaining and awesome four-hour visit of our lives. I learned a lot about historical flasks, Kummel bears, huge Harrison inks and bitters of all flavors. I shot up three rolls of slide film.

I had taken a strange-looking aqua bottle I had purchased for $8 at an antiques store. Its shape reminded me of one of those capsules the early U.S. astronauts had splashed down in after completing a space mission. I showed it to Gardner, who reached up onto a shelf and brought down a “twin.”

Doctor Travis’s Herb Bitters Water of Life - Western Bitters News

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The bottle was embossed “Doctor Travis’s Herb Bitters Water of Life. Guaranteed to Cure Guot (sic), Consumption, Dysentery, Ankylosis.” On the pontiled base: “Buckshutem, N.J.” “What is it?” I asked. His eyes twinkled. “It’s fairly new,” he replied.

This was many years before I learned that Gardner had been dealing with Clevenger Brothers Glass Works in Clayton, N.J. The word was that the glass works had made some bottles from some of the early molds Gardner had acquired while building his collection.

Jim Travis was the glass works’ last owner and the bottle obviously was a fantasy piece of his own design. I still own it.

Gardner had just a few blob-top sodas scattered among the black glass, huge demijohns (one of which had been made into a lamp), massive case gins, original bottle molds and glassmakers’ tools.

There was so much stuff, we became super-saturated mentally.

Charles and Nina Gardner pose for John C. Tibbitts during a visit from the founder of the nation’s first bottle club and his wife.

Before we left, I asked him what was going to happen to his collection when came the time to let it go. He told us that he had offered the collection to the city of New London with the proviso that it would be housed in a proper way, but was turned down.

At that time, the bottle hobby had not grown to its present day popularity so city officials really didn’t appreciate the collection or its historical value. So the Skinner auction house in Bolton, Massachusetts later auctioned the collection which brought more than $1 million (an estimated $10 million in today’s dollars).

Hard-cover catalogs were issued and are now prized by the collectors who were there.

“We attended the auction,” said Tom Hicks, of Eatonton, Georgia, the “we” including his new bride, Mabel. “We were married in June 1975 and decided to attend the first session (Sept. 25-27, 1975) of the auction. There was another session held Nov. 20-22, but we couldn’t go to that one. It was the first of many “expeditions” we have taken since then.

Edith Tibbitts reaching for a cobalt sarsaparilla while visiting Charles and Nina Gardner in the 1960s.

- John C. Tibbitts photo

“After arriving at the auction house, we were told seats cost $100 each, but would count as credit toward anything we’d buy.

Catalogues cost $20 and also were credited.

Left: Picture of the rear cover of the Charles Gardner Auction Catalog

We bought a Willington (Glass Works) flask, a Westford Sheaf of Wheat flask and a Buckley, Fisk & Co., hunting scene flask, a cracked green spi-

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raled peppersauce, an oval whiskey and an Arabian Bitters from Savannah, Ga. “I also bought an early reproduction E.G. Booz bottle. After returning home, my friend, Leroy Smith, saw it and his eyes popped out. He said, ‘if you ever get another, I’ll buy it.’ Well, one did and I did and he did. The same thing happened with Jerry Schmidt (he and his wife, Elaine, were early collectors and lived in Macon, Ga.).

“We were awed by the presence of the giants of the hobby. Every name I’d ever seen or had heard of was there. Jim Hagenbuch was present. He was almost a teenager and had not reached prominence. We also were awed by the prices realized. Some of the Jared Spencer bottles realized more than $20,000!

Charles Gardner with huge case gin silhouetted in front of historical flasks. - John C. Tibbitts photo

“We had our catalogue autographed: Charlie & Nina Gardner, Norman C. Heckler and Bob Skinner (the auctioneer). We were driving home, but still in Massachusetts or Connecticut when I asked Mabel to open the catalogue to such and such a page. I wanted to look at something.

“Oh my goodness,” she exclaimed. “I left it at the auction! I stopped at a payphone, called the auction house and discovered someone had turned it in. It was sent to us via mail. I was relieved and Mabel’s life was spared!”

Meanwhile, early in 1965, John C. Tibbitts and his wife, Edith, drove from their Sacramento, California home not only to visit the Gardners, but to make side trips to Dick and Elma Watson’s home then in Taunton Lake, New Jersey and the Clevenger Brothers Glass Works in Clayton, New Jersey.

A color run of Fish Bitters landed by Gardner during his years of antique bottle collecting.

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Gardner had become their pen pal after the Antique Bottle Collectors Association of California had been organized by the Tibbittses in their home in 1959.

Right: Antique Bottle Collectors Association (ABCA) logo - 1966

Gardner had joined the group long distance. In 1962, the bottle club in appreciation had presented them with a GI-26 historical flask (depicting the image of George Washington’s head and an eagle) purchased from Gardner at half-price. “It will always be our favorite bottle,” John Tibbitts said.

The faces were applied on each of these bear figurals in the Charles B. Gardner collection.

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Their trip took place during the winter and there was two feet of snow on the ground. “We didn’t have snow tires on our car,” Tibbitts said later, but they made it. He also took lots of slides at the Watsons’ and in February at the Gardners’.

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“We arrived at the Gardners’ about three hours late as Elma had taken us to the Clevenger Glass Works before leaving for New London,” Tibbitts said in his notes describing his color slides’ contents. “When Charlie shook hands, he said, ‘Where the hell have you been?’ As he buzzed Edith, he said, ‘You have just as pretty legs as I thought you would!’ That first face-to-face meeting is a wonderful memory for us.”

One slide shows Edith reaching for a sarsaparilla bottle sharing a shelf with others.

“Edith was in rapture as she examined a cobalt blue sarsaparilla with iron pontil,” Tibbitts remarked. He used an old Argus C-3 to shoot two dozen slides in the Gardner home where he and his wife spent the night, sleeping on a feather bed.

Dick Watson relaxing in his bottle room, surrounded by mineral water bottles. Historical flasks at right.

Bill Baab photo.

At the end of January 2000, I retired after 36 Vintage Argus C-3 camera. years as outdoor editor and sports writer at The Augusta Chronicle and Bea, who was a consulting physical therapist in private practice, saw how much fun I was having and quit a few months later. Retirement has been mostly happy times for us.

I am a member of The Henty Society, a literary group devoted to the works of George Alfred Henty, an imaginative English author of juvenile books. The North American conference that year was to be held at a member’s Maine residence and we decided to attend.

I had decided to first visit Dick and Elma Watson, having read glowing remarks from various collectors in the bottle magazines.

Visiting their Medford, New Jersey home “was like going to bottle collectors’ heaven,” said one.

In those days before GPS in cars, we finally made it to their home by hit and miss. We knew we had arrived in Bottle Collectors Heaven after spying rank after rank of bottles behind the windows.

Just a few of the outstanding bitters in the collection of Dick and Elma Watson.

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Dick and Elma treated us like family, showing us not only wonderful collections of Saratoga Waters, bitters, historical flasks, but medicine advertising and other go-withs. It was wonderful!

They also gave us a tour of their home and while in the basement, I saw a cobalt blue Frog Pond Chill & Fever Tonic on a shelf. It is a machine-made Augusta bottle and much rarer than its blownin-the-mold amber Chill & Fever Cure predecessors. Dick didn’t want to sell it.

They also fed us and before leaving, I was able to record a lot of their stuff on slides, which I treasure along with my Gardner slides. I also own the slides taken by John Tibbitts, having purchased them and other stuff shortly before his death. His have snowy backgrounds, while my summertime slide backgrounds are green.

Elma Watson chats with Bea Baab (owner of graying head in foreground), during the Baabs’ visit in late summer 2000. Bill Baab photo

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The Color Orange in Antique Bottles and Glass

by Ferdinand Meyer V Part 3 of a Series

If you want to use the color orange in a design, you need to understand all of its nuances. Orange can range from a subtle offwhite peach to apricot, to bittersweet to brown. With fruit, the orange is as honest as it gets. We do not eat a red, yellow or purple, though we try to eat some ‘greens’ each day. An orange is orange.

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Orange is a color located in between red and yellow on the spectrum of light. It is a secondary color being created through the mixture of red and yellow. I bet some of you may know the fellow Mr. Roy G. Biv, an acronym that we use to remember the hues making up the rainbow colors (Red, orange, yellow, Green, Blue, indigo and violet). It is also centered between red and yellow in the traditional color wheel used by painters. Orange, whether it has an abundance of red in it or an abundance of yellow, is always a warm color. It also combines the energy and excitement of red and the happiness of yellow, making orange the true color of joy and playfulness.

Orange is so optimistic and uplifting that we should all find ways to use it in our everyday life, even if it is just using an orange colored pen or a flower we pick.

Incredible insulator image - source to be recognized

We sometimes make it easy on ourselves and call orange-tone

bottles amber. There are a zillion shades of amber and we will write about that later. In the bitters world, we have orange amber but never pure orange. Thank goodness, as the color orange only works best in small amounts.

If you want to use the color orange in a design, you need to understand all of its nuances. Orange can range from a subtle off-white peach to apricot, to bittersweet to brown.

With fruit, the orange is as honest as it gets. We do not eat a red, yellow or purple, though we try to eat some ‘greens’ each day. An orange is orange. My logo for my Peachridge Glass web site is orange with red tones though I used a peach. I suppose I could have used oranges but OrangeRidgeGlass.com doesn’t sound right. This image and coloration was selected for a reason. It is warm and inviting. Come in and have a look around.

Orange is named after the appearance of the ripe orange fruit.

The word comes from the Old French orenge, from the old term for the fruit, pomme d’orenge. That name comes from the Arabic naranj, through the Persian naranj, derived from the Sanskrit naranga. The first recorded use of orange as a color name in English was in 1512, a will now filed with the Public Record Office.

Before this word was introduced to the English-speaking world, saffron already existed in the English language. Crog also referred to the saffron color, so that orange was also referred to as ġeolurēad (yellow-red) for reddish orange, or ġeolucrog (yellow-saffron) for yellowish orange. Alternatively, orange things were sometimes described as red such as red deer, red hair, the Red Planet and robin redbreast. [Wikipedia] In ancient Egypt, artists used an orange mineral pigment called realgar for tomb paintings, as well as other uses. It was also used later by Medieval artists for the coloring of manuscripts. Pigments were also made in ancient times from a mineral known as orpiment. Orpiment was an important item of trade in the Roman Empire and was used as a medicine in China although it contains arsenic and is highly toxic. It was also used as a fly poison and to poison arrows. Because of its yellow-orange color, it was also a favorite with alchemists searching for a way to make gold, both in China and the West. Before the late 15th century, the color orange existed in Europe, but without the name; it was simply called yellow-red. Portuguese merchants brought the first orange trees to Europe from Asia in the late 15th and early 16th cen-

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tury, along with the Sanskrit naranga, which gradually became “orange” in English. In parts of Germany, the Netherlands, and Russia, the orange fruit was and is still called the Chinese apple.

As with anything I write, some spark (an orange one probably) came before my amber eyes to guide me to the relationship between the color orange and antique bottles.

In this case, it was adding a new “Baker’s Orange Grove Bitters” to my collection. No, it was not an orange bottle, but the Baker’s in Boston obviously wanted to capitalize on the orange fruit to sell their bitters product.

A labeled Mack’s Orange Tonic Bitters

Ree’s Orange Tonica trade card - Joe Gourd Collection

Baker’s Orange Grove Bitters - Meyer Collection

I actually developed a whole series on Peachridge Glass with bitters with ‘Orange’ in the name just like the Baker’s Orange Grove Bitters. We looked at the Fine Aromatic Orange Stomach Bitters, Rose’s Orange Bitters, Mack’s Orange Tonic Bitters, Bernard’s Orange Bitters, California Aromatic Orange Bitters, De Kuyper’s Orange Bitters, Grandfather’s Perfect Orange Bitters, Herdrich’s Orange Tonic Bitters, Pale Orange Bitters, Ree’s Orange Tonica, Julius Marcus Orange Bitters, Orange Bitters, Orange Blossom Bitters, Orange Wine Stomach Bitters, Orange Bitters Tonic, Palais Royal Orange Bitters etc. Many of these are unlisted in Bitters Bottles by Carlyn Ring and W.C. Ham. When I find a truly orange bitters bottle, I will let you know. I don’t think it will be anytime soon.

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Orange marble Morphy Auctions Orange amber Brown’s Celebrated Indian Herb Bitters

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Orange-amber blown molded cologne bottle with oval paneled frames and lily stopper. Boston and Sandwich Glass Company - American Perfume Bottle Collectors Association

The orange saucer is an example of carnival glass, most likely by the Fenton Art Glass Company.

Pyrex 233 insulator in orange Carnival glass Meyer Collection

Kickapoo Sagwa Indian Medicine

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Orange amber poison bottle

Rare Russian glass goblet “gold ruby “ The Whitney Mason Pat’d 1858 quart in orange-amber. - North American Glass

Detail of orange-amber 6-log Drakes Plantation Bitters - Meyer Collection

The Charles Wharton Chestnut flasks.

Whitney Glass - Eric Richter

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More on the Color Orange in Antique Glass

by Ken Previtali

What is interesting about the Canada Dry Sparkling Orangeade bottle (pictured to the right) is that the color is not in the glass. When you look up through the bottom of the bottle, it is clear. The color and iridescence are on the surface. That makes me think of stained glass. The term “stained glass” originated in the medieval period where a silver nitrate “stain” was applied to clear glass which, when fired at 1,200 degrees, produced a lemon or gold color as a background for outlined images. Later, in the Renaissance period, image colors were created using glazes made of mixtures of ground colored glass suspended in urine or wine.

When it comes to stained glass, orange is more of a modern color. There is not much use of true orange in either the glass or the color glazes that were painted on the glass and re-fired. It’s possible that the color was not easily made until the 19th century. It also may be that a chemical formula for true orange glass that did not fade in the sun was not known in the early days.

(We do know that the sun does affect the color of glass.) This was true of red glass until 1685 when glassmakers learned that adding gold to the formula solved the fading problem. Some Victorian windows used orange, but not many (see below).

Victorian Stained Glass. Circa: 1885-1890, Provenance: Chicago vicinity. Richly colored Sun motif made of a variety of cathedral glass, mouth blown muff glass, cast jewels, mouth blown jewels and flash glass. - Age of Elegance (www.theageofelegance.com)

Canada Dry Sparkling Orangeade Ken Previtali Collection

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Tiffany created his range of orange colors by adding silver nitrate and other metal salts to a batch of red glass (see below).

Chinese Dish Roemer Knife Loaf Of Bread And Fruit On A Table - Jan Jansz van de Velde III

Autumn Landscape, 1923-24, Leaded Favrile Glass (Photo By Gail). A tour de force of its medium, this window, executed late in Tiffany’s career, portrays the late afternoon sun filtered through a rich autumnal foliage. It was probably designed by Agnes Northrop (1857 – 1953), who was known especially for her landscapes and flowers. - Metropolitan Museum of Art

What was the fascination with oranges (and perhaps the color)?

According to John McPhee, in his marvelous book Oranges, the fruit started its journey a couple of millennia ago in southern China and then on to India and beyond. Regarding mixing oranges and wine McPhee says: “The modern use of lemon and orange peels in alcoholic drinks has ample precedents in many places and centuries, but the custom perhaps reached its highest point in Holland three hundred years ago. The drinking Dutch, in the 17th century, would peel a helical ribbon of skin from an orange, continuing round and round until the knife reached the fruit’s equator. Then, with the ribbon still attached, they would place the entire orange, like a huge Martini olive, in the bottom of what might have been described as an elegant bucket. Dutch fondness for the combination of oranges and wine eventually led to the invention of bitters– or at least the commercialization of bitters, for even the ancient Chinese had known the special excellence of Bitter Oranges with wine. Dutch bitters were a concentrated essence usually made by marinating dried Bitter Orange peels in gin. The still-lifes of Dutch and Flemish masters often show oranges beside bottles of wine.” - Oranges by John McPhee, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966.

Here’s an example of a Dutch painting (see above) by Jan Jansz van de Velde III (c. 1620-1662). I’m not sure what “elegant bucket” McPhee means, but in this painting the glass is a roemer. The British Museum describes a roemer as “a type of drinking glass used for wine, made from green waldglas (forest glass). This stem is decorated with raspberry prunts, applied blobs of glass stamped with fireproof clay or metal to form a pattern. The prunts served a functional use as well as a decorative purpose: during a meal they provided a grip for greasy hands, important at a time when forks were not commonly used.

The foot is made from a single thread of glass spun around a wooden conical form. Roemers were made in quantity in the many German forest glasshouses during the seventeenth century, and were exportEngraved glass (roemer) - The British Museum ed throughout Europe.

Roemers were also made in quantity in the Low Countries. Many can be seen in Dutch seventeenth-century still-life paintings.”

Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966) also appeared to love orange. Many of his paintings fairly dripped with glowing orange. Parrish is one of the most widely reproduced American artists. Could it be the “orange attraction?” By the way, the word orange is one of the few words in the English language for which there is no effective rhyme.

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Blood Orange Meyer Lemon Ginger Ale This last image of a contemporary product was not affiliated with either orange article but seemed appropriate for this space. Great graphics. A collectible for someone down the road.

The Lantern Bearers, 1908, oil on canvas on board. Created for Collier’s magazine, the painting shows Parrish’s use of glazes and saturated color in an evocative night scene - Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Night is Fled Lithograph, 1918 (14.63” x 9½”) Free Library of Philadelphia. Maxfield Parrish (July 25, 1870 - March 30, 1966). Parrish was known for his distinctive saturated hues and idealized neo-classical imagery.

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Baltimore’s Eugene Belt: “Shame and Scandal in the Family” Yes, Eugene N. Belt was a Baltimore liquor dealer, but his “blue ribbon” background makes him seem like an unlikely centerpiece in an 1880s scandal that commanded newspaper headlines from coast to coast for two years and involved beautiful women, two U.S. Congressmen, a messy divorce, perjured testimony and dramatic acts by a former Confederate general. You can’t make up stuff like this.

Belt was born in 1828 or 1830, depending on the census you read. His parents were Thomas Walter Belt and Louisa Ann (Steeper) Belt. Belt’s father was born in Baltimore and had a career as a merchant and banker and was accounted among the most prominent businessmen of his day. He died in 1840 while Eugene was still a young boy.

The son was educated by private tutors in Baltimore and at an institute in Louisville, Kentucky, even then a hub of the whiskey industry. After finishing his education, he went to New Orleans to work in a mercantile house but returned to Baltimore after several years. In 1859, he joined with a Baltimore local named P. C. Martin to found a liquor business they called Martin, Belt & Co. For reasons not fully explained, this enterprise was forced into

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liquidation two years later, at the outbreak of the Civil War. The war years are a blank in Belt’s biography, but in its aftermath, in 1868, he again entered the liquor business. This time his partner was Bernard Cahn of Baltimore, a German Jewish immigrant who had come to the U.S. as a boy of 15 and had found considerable business success. Like Belt, Cahn had invested in the wine and spirits trade before the war and lost all his capital, perhaps as part of Martin, Belt & Co. Both men were willing to try once more and created what would become one of the most successful Baltimore liquor enterprises called Cahn, Belt & Co. Cahn, Belt featured number of brand names, including “Belt,” “C B & C”, “Cartwrig,” “City of Baltimore Pure Rye,” “Crown of Baltimore,” “Jim Hackler,” “Little Straight,” “M C,” “Original Martin,” and “Roadster.” Another label was “Emery Grove.” The company flagship label was “Maryland Club.” It was advertised widely with the slogan, “It tastes old because it is old.” (Figs. 1 & 2). These products came in clear and aqua bottles embossed with the firm name and “Baltimore” (Figs. 3 & 4).

The partners featured a variety of giveaway items to favored saloon customers, particularly with attractive back-of-the-bar bottles, garnished with a shamrock (Figs. 5 & 6). They also provided a humor book (Fig. 7) and a match case (Fig. 8) to retail customers. Probably to insure a steady supply of whiskey for their blends, they purchased Baltimore’s Monticello Distillery and its

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Figs 1 & 2: The company flagship label was “Maryland Club.” It was advertised widely with the slogan, “It tastes old because it is old.”

“Monticello Rye” brand. Cahn became president of the distillery.

Both the 1860 and 1870 censuses found Eugene Belt living with his widowed mother, Louisa Ann, and his three unmarried sisters, Louisa, 35 years of age; Georgiana (“Nannie”), 32, and Emily, 27. Still a bachelor himself at age 42, he was surrounded by women, including a female servant.

Enter “shame and scandal.” In 1884, now 54 years old and very rich, Belt was vacationing at a seaside resort when he encountered a considerably younger and very attractive blonde widow.

Her name was Mrs. Mary Alice Godfrey. Later Belt told the press that he had met her “among people of character and respectability and never imagined that she was other than a pure and virtuous woman.” Moreover, he probably was impressed that she was the sister of Mrs. Benjamin Willis of New York City, the wife of a prominent U.S. congressmen. Both sisters were beauties.

One commentator claimed that they had become the “rage” of Washington society. Belt fell in love with Mary Alice, quickly proposed marriage and they were wed in October, 1884, in Morristown, Pennsylvania. They may have chosen a remote location because of apparent opposition to the nuptials from Eugene’s sisters and other female friends.

Soon enough, Belt came to regret his decision. By his own admission, he left his wife the following January and filed for divorce in May 1885. He had found out to his horror, he said, that Mary Alice had been connected with a Washington, D.C., scandal known as the Congressman Acklen Affair. Moreover, Belt told

the press, he had discovered additionally that she had lived “a life of infamy” and that he had been a victim of an abandoned woman. Newspapers from coast to coast had a field day. The New York Times made it front page. A California paper headlined: “Victim of a Wily Woman...A Prominent Merchant Insnared by a Sea-Side Demi-Monde.” (A demi-monde was a woman of dubious virtue.)

But the truth likely was something else. Joseph Hayes Acklen, a wealthy sugar plantation owner and a congressman from Louisiana, had taken Washington society by storm.

The young bachelor (Fig 9) was rich, eccentric and, perhaps signaled by his waxed mustache, a notorious womanizer. He had courted Mrs. Godfrey, who was living in Arlington with her sister and congressman husband.

One evening at Washington’s highly prestigious Welcker’s hotel, Acklen reputedly forced himself on her. The cries of Mary Alice were heard in the next room by a former Fig 9: Joseph Hayes Acklen

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highly decorated Confederate cavalry general named Thomas L. Rosser (Fig 10). Rosser rushed to the damsel’s rescue but when the story got out, the press, both local and national, had a field day of speculation. Acklen later apologized to Mrs. Godfrey and proposed marriage. She declined.

Fig 10: Confederate cavalry general Thomas L. Rosser

As for Belt’s other allegations that his wife had been a “loose woman” even before this incident, charges he made part of divorce proceedings, it subsequently was revealed that those giving damaging testimony had perjured themselves. Who was behind these lies, Belt himself, family members or others? That was never revealed. Once more General Rosser came to the rescue, proving in court of that one Benjamin Golly had falsely testified in the divorce suit brought by Belt. Golly was convicted and Mary Alice was exonerated. The verdict made national headlines.

When the dust cleared, Belt went back to running the liquor business. The 1900 census found him at age 70, still listed as a “liquor merchant.” His mother having died in 1881, he was living with two of his spinster sisters, Louisa and Georgiana, in a large Baltimore house with four live-in servants. I often wonder if Belt ever thought about those weeks of marriage to the beautiful Mary Alice -- and regretted what he had done.

In 1901, Eugene Belt died. The Cahn, Belt Co. continued on another 18 years. The firm moved to South Street about 1905 where it located until 1919. Bernard Cahn died in 1906, mourned by his wife and five children and hailed in the press as a highly successful businessman and philanthropist to Jewish and other charitable causes. No breath of scandal there. Members of the Cahn family managed the firm until its forced demise by National Prohibition.

Figs 7 & 8 (above & below): Cahn Belt & Co. also provided a humor book and a match case to retail customers.

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Meet your FOHBC Candidates for 2016 - 2018

Doctorate of Divinity from Heritage Baptist College, Hopewell, Indiana. Gary and Betty collect square bitters, gins, schnapps, beers and Ohio. Gary has been digging, collecting and writing about bottles for 45+ years.

FOHBC President: Ferdinand Meyer V is a native of Baltimore, Maryland and has a BFA in Fine Art and Graphic Design from the Kansas City Art Institute and School of Design. Ferdinand is also a principal of FMG Design (nationally recognized design firm). Ferdinand is a passionate collector of American historical glass specializing in bitters bottles, color runs and related classic figural bottles. Ferdinand maintains the design and brand standards for the FOHBC. He is married to Elizabeth Requejo Meyer and lives in Houston, TX with their daughter and three wonderful grandchildren. The Meyer family is also very involved in Quarter Horses, Antiques and early United States Postage Stamps. Ferdinand is currently serving his second 2-year term as President of the FOHBC.

FOHBC Historian: Jim Bender has collected bottles for over 40 years and was mentored by the late Ed Bartos who was a bottle dealer and collector in the 1970s. They remained friends until his death. Collecting to Jim has always been about the friends it has brought him. Jim has collected inks, bitters, mineral waters, reproduction bottles, and up to last year, Union Clasping Hands Flasks of which he has put together one of the nicest groups ever. Jim then went back to basic collecting of anything he likes and has always enjoyed collecting that way the best. Jim has served as Mohawk Valley Club President, Northeast Director for the FOHBC and recently served as Membership Director for FOHBC. He is also Co-Chair of the FOHBC 2017 Springfield National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo.

FOHBC First Vice President: Sheldon Baugh is a collector of bottles and go-withs for the many categories that he collects as well as anything that catches his eye. Sheldon particularly focuses on bitters, both figural and squares, from the southern states and national companies. He also specializes in Shaker bottles and paper goods from the Shaker communities.

He has been married to his wife Brenda for 52 years and has 2 children and 2 granddaughters. Sheldon had an insurance agency that he owned and operated for 43 years and also served for 14 years as state representative and retired at the end of 2008. He is a life member of the Federation and has also served as midwest director, vice president and president for two terms.

FOHBC BOTTLES and EXTRAS Editor: Martin Van Zant has been collecting bottles since he was 17, when his stepfather took him on a dig. Martin collects historical Masonic flasks, Indiana blob beers, Indiana pontiled medicines, Indiana bitters, Indiana sodas and also lightning rod balls on the side.

Martin is the editor for two bottles clubs, Wabash Valley Antique Bottle and Pottery Club out of Terre Haute and the Circle City Antique Bottle Club out of Indianapolis. Martin states that his door is always open to talk bottles, and to take your stories, so give him a call or send him a message.

FOHBC Second Vice President: Gene Bradberry, is a retired Memphis policeman, and has a BS degree in police administration from Memphis State University. Gene was one of the founding members of the Memphis Bottle Collectors Club.

He joined the ABCA in 1968 and was past president. He has run many bottle shows including the Memphis Expo in 2004 and the Memphis National in 2011. Gene has been collecting bottles since 1966 and is also a Life Member of the FOHBC along with being a Federation Hall of Fame member. Gene has been married for 55 years to his high school sweetheart and has two sons and five grandchildren. He has also been involved in Scouting for 68 years.

FOHBC Merchandising Director: Val Berry grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, moving to upstate New York in her teens. She has worked in the medical/home care field as a secretary for 27 years. Val is involved with several organizations in her hometown of Ephratah, New York, and gives many hours of volunteer work. She has held the position of secretary for the Mohawk Valley Antique Bottle Club, Utica, New York, for four years. Val met her husband Jim in high school and they have been married for 43 years. They have five children, eleven grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. Together they travel throughout the country attending bottle shows and adding to their collections (inks, historical flasks, mineral waters and local history). Val has been active in supporting the Federation for several years helping in any capacity that is needed.

FOHBC Secretary: Jim Berry was born and raised in upstate New York. He has served as Highway Superintendent in the Town of Ephratah for the past 20 years and has just recently retired from that position. Jim is a collector of colored inks, historical flasks, mineral waters and local history. Jim and his wife Val enjoy traveling, especially to bottle shows across the country.

Jim also spends a lot of time hunting and fishing. He has been married to Valeri for 43 years; they have five children, three of which are in the United States Air Force; eleven grandchildren and a great-granddaughter.

FOHBC Membership Director: Linda Sheppard works for Lexington Center, a home for mentally and physically challenged people as a Direct Care Coordinator. She was introduced to bottle collecting 13 years ago by Jim Bender, FOHBC Historian. Over these years, she has attended many bottle shows and attends the Bender/Sheppard table in support of Jim Bender. Linda collects small jugs and bottles from her home town of Dolgeville, New York. She is always learning something new about bottles and enjoys all the people she meets.

FOHBC Treasurer: Gary Beatty, Gary is the current and a former FOHBC treasurer, Midwest Regional Director and First Vice President. Gary also served three terms as Ohio Bottle Club President and was instrumental in getting Harry Hall White, Richard Watson, and Doc Ford inducted into the FOHBC Hall of Fame. Gary and wife Betty are Life Members of the FOHBC. Gary is a graduate with a Bachelors degree from Midwestern Baptist College, Michigan, Trinity Baptist University Toledo, and a

FOHBC Conventions Director: Louis Fifer is a third generation collector who got really interested in collecting historical flasks at age 22, but has been around the hobby his whole life.

Louis then became the youngest Ohio Bottle Club president at age 23. Louis and his father John, had the opportunity to dig the Ravenna glass works dump site and was able to make some interesting discoveries there. His grandfather, Darl Fifer, had amounted quite the collection of Midwestern historical flasks,

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free blown, and pattern molded bottles. Louis helps run a family business that his other grandfather started after WWII and lives in northeast Ohio. Louis is also Co-Chair of the FOHBC 2018 Cleveland National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo.

FOHBC Business Manager: Elizabeth Meyer is a native and proud Texan living in Houston. She has a love for antiques, collectibles and especially is passionate about her horses and enjoys spending time with her daughter and three grandchildren.

Elizabeth has worked professionally at FMG Design for the past 20+ years in various positions including Project Management, Information Technology, Accounting, Human Resources, Quality Control and now Sr. Vice President. She loves working with people, traveling with family and enjoys going to bottle shows and looking for unique small antiques and holy water bottles. She has taken on the FOHBC Business Manager position as a non-voting and compensated contractor.

FOHBC Director-at-Large: Ron Hands is a native of northeastern Ohio until 2006 when he and his wife Kim, moved to eastern North Carolina to the city of Wilson. Ron has a degree from Kent State University and has worked in the food/beverage manufacturing industry for the last 25 years as a Plant Director of Quality. He started collecting bottles back in 1973 by digging the old city dump with several friends. Ron focuses on early American fruit jars but also collects pontiled soda and blue decorated stoneware. He has also been president and vice-president of the Ohio Bottle Club for 6 years and was co-chairman of the Mansfield Bottle Show for 7 years. Ron also served as a past FOHBC Midwest and Southern Regional Director.

FOHBC Director-at-Large: Steve Ketcham 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.

FOHBC Director-at-Large: John R. Pastor has been a collector, dealer, auctioneer and appraiser of antique bottles, flasks, and related glass for more than 38 years and is a widely recognized authority of antique bottles, historical flasks and related glass. This experience has brought a broad knowledge of the field and the valued trust of his colleagues and customers alike. John is also the owner of Antique Bottle & Glass Collector magazine and American Glass Gallery. John has served on the FOHBC board for many years and is a past FOHBC President.

FOHBC Midwest Director: Matt Lacy is a second generation bottle collector who began digging at the age of six years old alongside his parents; and has been actively involved in digging, dealing, and collecting bottles for the past 25 years.

Matt specializes in historical flasks of the Midwest region, and also collects local bottles and stoneware from Ashtabula County.

Matt is currently working to author a guide on eagle flasks to share more information with the collecting community. He works at Progressive Insurance as an IT Systems Engineer, and lives in northeast Ohio with his wife, Elizabeth, and their five year old son, Owen, who collects “fish bottles.” Matt is also Co-Chair of the FOHBC 2018 Cleveland National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo.

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FOHBC Northeast Director: Bob Strickhart is a native of New Jersey and spent 36 years in public education teaching High School Science, coaching baseball and serving as Dean of Students before retiring. Father of three and “Pop Pop” to grandson Ryan, Bob is a life member of the FOHBC. Fortunately, his wife Marianne supports his addiction to collecting, writing bitters articles, acting as show chairman for the Manville, New Jersey Bottle show and traveling to the many bottle events to be with “the bottle family.” Bob is also Co-Chairing the FOHBC 2017 National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo in Springfield, Massachusetts.

FOHBC Southern Director: Brad Seigler is a native Texan, and a small business owner. He first began digging bottles around the age of six. His father Donnie had dug while growing up South Carolina in the 1960s, and did him the great favor of introducing him to this hobby he loves so much. In his twenties, Brad began to really dive into the hobby, and found his first Texas patent medicine bottle. From that point on, Texas patent medicine bottles have been his main focus. Now that his collection has become advanced, he has branched out to include Texas applied-top bottles, whiskey flasks and bitters. His wife Karri, fully supports his hobby, and frequently claims items that he has dug or bought for herself. Dylan and Chloe are their two lovely children.

His other interests are baseball, antique tin toys, signs and advertising.

FOHBC Western Region Director: Eric McGuire is a California native who has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area most of his life. He attended local schools and completed his formal education at San Francisco State University (MA 1973).

Eric entered the field of environmental planning and retired from a 30-year career in domestic water supply in 2008. He began his bottle collecting interest in 1960, and along with digging, and otherwise acquiring bottles, Eric has always been an avid student of all aspects of glass making as well as a researcher of the history of the people who produced the bottles. Beginning in the mid-1960s his name can be found on many articles relating to bottles and glass. Eric’s primary interest has been focused on the geographical area of the Western U.S. He is a life member of the FOHBC, and lives in Petaluma, California, with his wife, Lisa.

FOHBC PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTOR: Alicia Booth and her husband Tom, now deceased, moved from Tulsa, Oklahoma to Houston, Texas in October, 1988. Alicia has three children, and six grandchildren. Shortly after moving to Houston, they joined the Houston Bottle Collecting Club to learn more about bottle and glass collecting. Alicia served for several years as their club secretary and Tom wrote articles for the local club newsletter. Collecting soon grew from fruit jars, to colored inks, Anna Pottery pig whiskey bottles, Saratoga bottles, pickle jars and invested in many other collections too numerous to mention. Alicia works for a non-profit organization - Communities In Schools of Houston as Executive Assistant to the Executive Director. In her spare time, she also assists as staff coordinator for an event planner. She is a Life Member of the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo since 1991 and serves on the International Committee.

Alicia has been a member of the FOHBC since the early ‘90s. She and her husband attended national and state shows where they made long-lasting friends with other bottle collectors. She wants to remain active in the Federation allowing her to contribute her talents wherever needed.

Please remember to vote when your form arrives in the mail.

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ollectors of embossed glass containers and of the advertising for the products which went into them are luckily sometimes the same person, one who is especially happy with the marriage of a bottle and its advertisement. While the glass bottle may be quite old and still in pristine condition, most “go-withs” begin deteriorating the day they are made, whether the metal in a sign is oxidizing, the paint is fading from light exposure, the surface is cracking from changes in barometric pressure, or careless handling has inflicted scratches and dents. Then there is paper, subject to all of the known degradations: fungus, insects, high humidity, acidity, ultra-violet light, the oils from human skin or spilled coffee. So it comes as no shock to collectors when there are thousands of some types of embossed bottles, but few “go withs” which have survived the ravages of time. This brings us to the subject of this article, a “go-with” with nothing to “go with.”

WM. T. CUTTER, JR. / PURE OLD BOURBON/WHISKEY/ FOR SALE HERE (11” x 9 1/2”) is probably the oldest extant advertising sign for the sale of whiskey in the West. It also may be one of the oldest extant multi-colored piece of letter press printed advertisements from San Francisco. The key words in

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Searches of the San Francisco Historical Society, the California Historical Society, the Bancroft Library, and the Oakland/ California Museum have provided nothing to the contrary, though a trade card collector, George Fox, in San Francisco, has a multi-colored, letter press trade card from the 1850s. Gold Rush ephemera experts Ron Lerch and John McWilliams both concurred at a June 6, 2015 Gold Rush Paper Show that the sign is an authentic 1860s printing. When more than a century and half has expired for an historical event about which there is very little factual history, proving or disproving what little is known is a difficult feat. However, as in many legal cases, circumstantial evidence and a modicum of common sense can lead to strong conclusions.

This story begins at a flea market in Auburn, California around 2008. Greg Millar, an antique dealer from Nevada City, California, bought a picture frame and its contents from a fellow dealer.

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When is a “Go-with” not a “Go with?”

by Steve Abbott The contents of the frame were a turn of the Twentieth Century sentimental photograph of little girls playing with their dog, a Sarony and Majors 1850 lithograph of Washington’s tomb behind that, and the backing piece, a four-colored letter press printed sign on porcelainized paper utilizing six different fonts of type for WM. T. CUTTER, JR. / PURE OLD BOURBON / WHISKEY / FOR SALE HERE / AGNEW & DEFFEBACH, PRINT, CORNER OF SANSOME AND MERCHANT STS., S.F.

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Greg’s fellow dealer in the Gold Rush town of Auburn had acquired the piece as part of an estate, opened it up looking for a signed copy of the U.S. Constitution or the purloined original of the Mona Lisa, then finding only a Gold Rush advertisement for whiskey, sold the lot to Greg. Greg called the author to tell him of the find, but the author, narrowly focused on Sacramento, paid little heed to Greg’s find. So, Greg took the piece to the Forty-Niner Historical Bottle Association’s annual December show at the fairgrounds in Auburn and placed it for sale on his table at noon on Friday, early looker day.

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The author, at the time a dealer himself and the head of the show, was in another building from Greg and busy with his own problems. Around dinner time, when the piece had been for sale for nearly five hours, the author wandered into Greg’s building and took a look at all of the merchandise on the fifty tables, then approached Greg’s table and the Cutter sign. Red, blue, orange, and copper print on the sign leapt off the table. Question? What was this? Answer. He didn’t know, but thought someone should have bought it by now, but hadn’t, so he did.

And so the search began. First, there was some familiar ring to the Cutter name beyond the obvious, J. H. Cutter and J. F. Cutter.

A quick look at John Thomas’ book Whiskey Bottles of the Old West revealed a paragraph on William T. Cutter. According to John, William Tenny Cutter was the brother of John Hastings Cutter, and presumably the father of William T. Cutter, Jr. William T. Cutter, Sr. came to San Francisco in around 1863/64 and went into the whiskey business at 111 California Street. He advertised in the May 29, 1865, Daily Alta:

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The year before, 1864, the San Francisco City Directory (Langley) lists William T. Cutter (about sixty years old), Agent Cutter’s Whiskey, office 111 California, dwl 739 Market, and this is repeated in the 1865 directory. Then William T. Cutter’s name disappears from the directories. The next listing for a Cutter is in 1867 for Henry M. Cutter, agent for Cutter’s Old Bourbon Whiskey, 606 Front Street, dwl 607 Folsom, then in 1868 as Henry M. Cutter Co. 224 California. By 1871-74 this probably morphed into John F. Cutter, 408 Front. Presumably, Henry was another son of William.

With the introduction of John F. Cutter, a son of J. H. Cutter, William T. Cutter’s history and whiskey line comes to a close, at least for this California writer. However, there are a few strands which an academic researcher might follow though the author finds no more listings for William T. Cutter. In Spirits Bottle of the Old West, Bill and Betty Wilson write, “In 1875 [Kirkpatrick & McCue] formed a new partnership with Wm. T. Cutter (Cutter was the supplier then….).” The author also has a distant, from memory of an on-line account, which he can no longer find, that in possibly 1868, a judge in a tax case in San Francisco assigned William T. Cutter to assess the value of a lot of whiskey in storage. And in that same year a William Cutter, though perhaps not the subject William T. Cutter, was killed in an accident in San Francisco. However, the subject William Cutter isn’t the listed in the directories after 1865.

According to the Wilsons, “The Cutter distillery was in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. As each member of the family matured in the liquor business, he evidently had the right to formulate a brand in his own name. It then became his property and after his death the brand name could be sold.” The Louisville directory of the period cites the business address as Louisville. This makes sense because Lawrenceburg is around thirty miles southeast of Louisville, and no whiskey of the early 1860s period could have been shipped from Lawrenceburg to San Francisco, The whiskey would have had to have been transported first to Louisville, then by paddle wheeler down the Ohio to the Mississippi, then by ship from New Orleans around the horn to San Francisco or to the East Coast.

If it be true that the whiskey was distilled for members of the Cutter family in Lawrenceburg, the question needs to be asked, “which members,” and “which brands?” Today, we know that one distillery can distill many brands under the same roof. The same was true in the 1860s, and several varieties of Cutter whiskey may have been distilled and shipped to various places. So, when we read a report in Thomas’ book that in 1880, A. P. Hotaling told a San Francisco reporter that that in 1862, “The House of Cutter made an arrangement with A. P. Hotaling to handle their goods for the Pacific coast,” we are not 100% assured that the whiskey was Old J. H. Cutter. It might have been any whiskey manufactured by the House of Cutter or any whiskey whose name the “House of Cutter” selected to burn its name into a barrelhead.

But this much we know for sure. William T. Cutter, Sr. opened a business no later than 1863 in San Francisco at 111 California Street, advertised the fact in the Daily Alta, was in business for at least two more years, had signs printed by the firm Agnew and Deffebach (1865-67), proclaiming that he was selling his whiskey

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in San Francisco and was the first whiskey merchant to register a brand with the state of California in 1864, OLD DANIEL BOONE PURE BOURBON WHISKEY. So, what was the earliest Cutter whiskey sold in California?

Hands down, from the evidence this author has seen, it had to be Old J. H. Cutter. But what was the earliest Cutter whiskey for which we have an extant whiskey advertisement? Until proven otherwise, it must be a William T. Cutter Pure Bourbon Whiskey sold by William T. Cutter, Sr., and had the paper label of either OLD DANIEL BOONE PURE BOURBON WHISKEY or WM. T. CUTTER, JR. PURE BOURBON WHISKEY. Asked to review this article, Eric McGuire, one of the preeminent bottle historians in the west, wrote back that during the 1970s, he went to the California Secretary of State and photographed, among many labels, the William T. Cutter, Jr. labels and sent copies to me. About the same time in the 1970s, the author had gone through the archive’s ledgers, copying all of the whiskey brands registered with the state, but only for the purpose of a booklet, California Whiskey Registrations, noting that OLD DANIEL BOONE PURE BOURBON WHISKEY was the first and oldest whiskey registered with the state, but never bothering to ask to actually see the label. But Eric, whose purpose was slightly different, made copies of two William T. Cutter, Jr. labels, which the archive recently digitally scanned for this article. [see labels below and to the right] Below: Pure Old Bourbon Whiskey, Wm. T. Cutter Jr. label, top right: Old Daniel Boone Bourbon Whiskey label and bottom right: Cutter’s Bourbon Bitters label

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So an important question is what does this “go-with” go with?

Very possibly one of those generic star bottomed unembossed San Francisco Glass Works amber glop top whiskey bottles, which had a Cutter label on it. If not, it is sad to contemplate that this William T. Cutter, Jr. sign is an orphan, and as an uneducated gent of the time might have said, “Hell, it don’t go with nothin!”

And still more important, what is the sign worth value wise in comparison to an embossed bottle with the same provenance to a San Francisco whiskey collector? There are many records of early San Francisco embossed whiskey sales, ranging from the early Barry and Patton to the later California Club House, Old Woodbury, Kentucky Gem, Laurel Palace, The Genuine, etc. The extant examples of these bottles have sold for huge amounts of money, and in some cases there are many copies of the bottles. The ones that exist survived because glass is a hardy substance, resists most minerals or organics in the soil or privies where the bottles were dumped, but are not impervious to fifteen pound rocks being dropped on them from twenty foot elevations nor titanium tipped probes operated by guys who have spent too much time in the gym lifting weights.

But paper? A single, nearly microscopic silver fish, a truly microscopic fungi, a tear from a forlorn miner’s eyes, all can seal the ruin of a piece of paper.

Then compare an amber bottle, with or without embossing, to a four-color advertisement. Admittedly there are many colors of amber from cider to tea to dead leaf to tobacco to mud to chocolate, and some collectors make thousand dollar differentials between these minutiae. Contrast that to red, orange, blue, copper ink printed on porcelainized white paper in six different print fonts. Then add to the mere visual the historical importance of one of the earliest multi-colored letter press printed advertisements from San Francisco and the earliest known western multi-colored letter press advertisement for whiskey.

Ultimately one is faced with that age old conundrum. What’s a “go-with” worth if it doesn’t have anything to “go-with?” Perhaps the FOHBC could open a philosophy department to answer these types of questions.

Thanks to the following for their contributions: Eric McGuire for historical information, Richard Siri for comments, Greg Millar for a “good eye,” and B. J. Richardson for a proof read.

List of references: Abbott, Steve. California Whiskey Registrations 1864-1916.

Fair Oaks, California: The Haunted C&P Press, 1995.

Daily Alta. San Francisco, May 29, 1865.

Langley, Henry G. The San Francisco Directory. San Francisco: Excelsior Steam Presses, Towne & Bacon Job Printers, 1864-74.

McGuire, Eric. Correspondance.

Thomas, John. Bottles of the Old West. Bend, Oregon: Maverick Publications, 1977.

Wilson, Bill and Betty. Spirits Bottles of the Old West. Wolf City, Texas: Henington Publishing Company, 1968.

Steve Abbott is a collector of Sacramento whiskey and saloon memorabilia.

Period bottle from San Francisco Glass Works (star on bottom) with copy of authentic label.

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The Mysterious Tippecanoe

by Jim Berry

have an old “ Ibottle home

under the cupboard; it has been there as long as I can remember, and my house has been in the family for three generations.�

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Many years ago while playing in a pitch tournament in upstate New York, I met this really nice old gentleman from Lassellsville, a small village within our township. His name was Harold Lane, or “Bub,” as he was known to his friends. We had struck up a conversation on what we both collected. Bub collected old firearms. I told him that I collected old firearms, too, and also old bottles.

Bub replied, “I have an old bottle home under the cupboard; it has been there as long as I can remember, and my house has been in the family for three generations.” I asked Bub what was the bottle? He said he believed it was a ‘Tippecanoe’ and it has a paper label on it and it is full with the original cork and wax seal.

I said okay, a Tippecanoe in amber with a paper label. Wow, I had never seen a Tippecanoe bottle with a paper label. Bub replied, “No, not amber – it’s clear.” Well now, Bub had my full attention.

Trying not to look too excited, I asked him if I could take a look at it someday. “Oh sure” he replied, “someday, but I don’t want to get rid of it, because I am going to open it and we will take a drink.”

Hmmm, I thought to myself, 130 year old whiskey! Is it still good? Bub laughed and said it must be good because it still has the original cork and wax seal. Bub said he would call me to come over some time to play pitch and take a look at the bottle.

Then we can take a drink! A couple of weeks later the phone rang

Amber TIPPECANOE Bottle H.H.Warner Rochester NY

and it was Bub. He asked me to come on over Saturday about one o’clock to play cards. Well, it seemed like Saturday would never come! All I could think about was I finally get a chance to see the clear Tippecanoe with a paper label.

In the meantime, I had called several bottle people I knew and

asked if they had ever seen a clear Tippecanoe with a paper label.

I did have two of the people say they had seen a clear one many years ago, but without the label. The others said they had never seen one or heard of one in clear, but had seen them in olive green, amber and yellow. Then they all asked the big question: IS IT FOR SALE? I showed up on Saturday along with four other people to play pitch. We played six games, which seemed like 20 since I was so anxious to see the Tippecanoe. I could barely concentrate on the card game in anticipation of seeing this bottle. After playing cards and shooting the breeze, the others left. Finally, I get to see the bottle! Bub said he kept me waiting long enough and went to get it. He reached way back into the kitchen cupboard and brought out a clear, three-piece mold quart bottle. I am saying to myself, this can’t be the bottle! There must be another! Bub turns around and hands me the bottle. Sure enough, it was a clear quart, three-piece mold bottle with a paper label reading Tippecanoe Bourbon Whiskey (left page).

After looking the bottle over for a few minutes, Bub reached over, took the bottle from me and put it back in the cupboard. As he put it back, I asked him, “Aren’t we going to open it?” Bub laughed and said he wasn’t ready yet.

Bub and I played cards just about every weekend after that for quite a few years. We became good friends and didn’t really talk about the Tippecanoe anymore. Unfortunately, one day I got a call telling me that Bub had passed away. He was 81 years old.

A couple of months later, the family decided to hold an auction to settle Bub’s estate. On the day of the auction, I couldn’t be there. I had scheduled a fishing trip to Canada that week. I really wanted to buy the Tippecanoe, so I told my wife she had to go to the auction to buy the bottle no matter how much it cost. She agreed. After the auction, she called me to give me some news - good and bad. She told me she did buy the Tippecanoe. Great!

But she also said the auctioneer didn’t have a NYS license to sell alcohol, so he pushed the cork into the bottle and dumped the whiskey on the ground in front of the crowd. What a shame.

This mysterious clear Tippecanoe now sits on the table in my living room where I can see it every day. Each time I look at it, I think about Harold “Bub” Lane and how we never got to open it and take a drink of the 130 year old whiskey together.

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Make checks payable to FOHBC (Federation of historical Bottle Collectors) Send Payment to: Elizabeth Meyer, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; Send AD copy and/or questions to: Business Manager: Elizabeth Meyer, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; phone: (713) 222-7979; e-mail: emeyer@fohbc.org

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Individual & Affiliated Shards of Wisdom Club Information 19 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.

Henry Cross 74 Moroz Street Howell, NJ 07731 postcardsleeves@aol.com

Rick Hall 121 Lakepoint Drive St. Peters, MO 63376-1815 rickhall4318@yahoo.com

Steve Bame P.O. Box 1226 Bisbee, AZ 85603 thesilverslipper@theriver.com

Lawrence E. Kimball 95-1008 Malielie Street Mililani, HI 96789-4422

Shards of Wisdom Medina Russell Wanted 2467 Pinesbrook Circle

Paul Hart 214 Center Hill Road Barlchamsted, CT 06063 paulhart411@charter.net Bitters, Medicines, Soda Water, Inks Frank Hall 130 Challain Drive Little Rock, AR72223 -5518 frankhall3@yahoo.com Diane Lazzaris 1043 Happy Hollow Road Elizabeth , PA 15037 diane.lazzaris@gmail.com

Medford, OR 97504 mfrjdh@gmail.com Bottles 1870 - 1910. Tins - Coffee & Spice, Medical Thomas G. Bostwick 3157 Eliot Drive Hood River, OR 97031 tommy@hrecn.net Labeled Patent Medicine’s Western Soda’s Roy E. Putze 11079 Great Meadows Drive

Rod Payne 220 Mkenzie Drive Hazel Green, AL 35750 payneram@aol.com

Mechanicsville, VA 23116 rputze@aol.com Lisa M. Harris 2031 McGregor Road Ypsilanti, MI 48198 lisamarie7094@comcast.net Antique Perfume Bottles

Martin Hayes 256 Horseshoe Bend Thomaston, GA 30286-2492 twiggmeister68@gmail.com

For Sale Raleigh Rumley

Doug Simms 51 Lake Forest Drive Montgomery, AL 36117 Pontiled Medicines, Old Utilities Joseph Ottaviano 73 S. Ward Avenue Rumson, NJ 07760 jottav73@msn.com Brian Shields 1321 Bushkill Street Easton, PA 18042 Easton PA, Cures, Bitters, Milks, New Jersey & PA

1842 Ashland Road Ruffin, NC 27326 rnrumley1@catamount.wcu.edu Mark Schrader 7178 Lynn Road Bellaire, MI 49615 mtschrader@charter.net Eric Nordstrom Urban Remains 1850 W Grand Avenue Chicago, IL 60622 staff@urbanremainschicago.com

Huddleston Farmhouse Early Summer Fruit Jar Get-Together at the

Huddleston Farmhouse Museum 838 National Road Cambridge City, IN 47327

Tables will be provided. $20 for one table or $30 for two.

Admission is Donation with all proceeds going to the Huddleston Farmhouse Show and Tell, Buy your own dinner at SEND IN YOUR SHOW INFORMATION AND/OR SHOW FLYER TO: fohbc.org/submit-your-show/ Members Don’t forget to check out “Member’s Portal” for Special Access to past issues of BOTTLES and EXTRAS And to check out Featured Stories and keep current with all the bottle news!

Lakeview Restaurant

1219 National Rd Cambridge City Saturday Eve 6:30pm

Saturday June 11th Dealer Set up 8am-9am Show 9am-3pm Can camp the night before on sight.

Co-Chair, Marty Troxell Contact. (765)-478-3800

Co-Chair,Richard Leece Contact. (574)-686-2618

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

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

May 1 Antioch, Illinois The Antique Bottle Club of Northern Illinois will be hosting their 41st Antiques, Bottles and Collectable Show & Sale, on Sunday May 1st, 2016, from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm at the Antioch Senior Center, 817 Holbeck, Antioch, Illinois, 60002. We will be offering free appraisals and free admission. For information or dealer packets, please contact John Puzzo, 815.338.7582, johnpuzzo@sbcglobal.net, or Greg Schueneman, 847.623.7572, anteak_gramps@yahoo.com

Fairgrounds, 9:00 am through 3:00 pm, Free Admission and Door Prizes, Info: sfabca.com or 423.928.2789

More show-biz

May 13 & 14 Lake City, Florida The Florida Antique Bottle Collector 3rd Annual Antique Bottle & Collectable Show and Sale, Saturday, May 14th (8:00 am – 3:00 pm), Dealer set-up Friday, May 13 at Noon, Early Buyers Friday, May 13th (3:00 pm – 7:00 pm), Columbia County Fairgrounds, Exit 427 off I-75 South, Hwy 90 East, Lake City, Florida, Admission $3, Information: Brian Hoblick, 386.804.9635, Email: hoblick@aol.com or Ed LeTard, 985 .788.6163, Email: eandeletard@ aol.com

Individual & Affiliated Membership Benefits Club Information

May 1 Marcy, New York The Mohawk Valley Antique Bottle Club will host its 22nd Annual Utica Bottle Show & Sale, on Sunday May 1st, 2016, from 9:00 am to 2:30 pm at the Utica Maennerchor, 5535 Flanagan Road, Marcy, New York 13403.

Admission: $3, Lunch Available. For information and dealer packets, Call Peter Bleiberg at 315.735.5430 or email pmbleiberg@aol.com or visit mohawkvalleybottleclub.com

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May 5, 6 & 7 Central Point, Oregon Jefferson State Antique Bottle and Insulator Expo at the Jackson County Expo Olsrud Pavilion, 1 Peninger Road , Central Point, Oregon 97502, Thursday, Friday & Saturday, Thursday dealer setup (no early admission). Friday morning 9:00 – 10:00 am dealer setup and $10 early admittance. Friday Regular Show Hours 10:00 am – 7:00 pm. Admit $3 or 2 for $5, Saturday Show hours are 10:00 am – 3:00 pm. Admit $3 or 2 for $5. Look for more information to be announced. Jefferson State Antique Bottle Collectors, Contact: Bruce Silva, Show Chairman, PO Box 1565, Jacksonville, Oregon 97530, 541.821.8949, jsglass@q.com

May 15 Washington, Pennsylvania 42nd Annual Show & Sale by the Washington County Antique Bottle Club at the Alpine Star Lodge, 735 Jefferson Avenue, Washington, Pennsylvania 15301, 9:00 am till 2:00 pm, Admission $3, Info: Ed Kuskie 412.405.9061, 352 Pineview Drive, Elizabeth, Pennsylvania 15037, bottlewizard@comcast.net May 15 Batsto, New Jersey – NEW SHOW!!

The Batsto Citizens Committee Spring Antique, Bottle & Glass Show. Celebrating Batsto’s 250th Anniversary with this show! 9:00 am to 3:00 pm at Historic Batsto Village, Wharton State Forest, Batsto, New Jersey, Contact: Harry Rheam, 856.768.1532, hcrheam@gmail.com

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May 7 Mansfield, Ohio Mansfield Antique Bottle Show, Mansfield, Ohio, Richland County Fairgrounds, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, General Admission: $5, Early Admission on Friday: $30, Info: Matt Lacy, 440.228.1873, info@antiquebottlesales.com or Louis Fifer, 330.635.1964, fiferlouis@yahoo. com, ohiobottleclub.org May 7 Gray, Tennessee The State of Franklin Antique Bottles & Collectible Assoc. Annual Show & Sale, Gray, Tennessee, off I-26, Exit 13, Appalachian

May 20 & 21 Kent, Washington The Washington Bottle and Collectors’ Association’s Annual Antique Bottle, & Collectibles Show. Friday 11:00 am – 5:00 pm, dealer setup, 1:00 – 5:00, early buyer admission $5. Saturday 9:00 am to 3:00 pm Admission: Free. Kent Commons, 525 4th Avenue N., Kent, Washington, Contact: Niel Smith, 206.

783.0215 or Pete Hendricks 253.335.1732 wbcaweb@gmail.com, Washington Bottle and Collectors Association May 21 Aiken, South Carolina The Horse Creek Antique Bottle & Pottery Club will conduct its 8th annual show and sale on Saturday, May 21, from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, at the Odell Weeks Activities Center, 100 Whiskey Road, Aiken, South Carolina. Set-up

runs from 7:00 am to 9 am. No early buyers.

Free admission, plenty of parking, easy access.

For dealer contracts and more information: Mrs. Geneva Greene, 803.593.2271 May 21 Coventry, Connecticut The Museum of Connecticut Glass 12th Annual Outdoor Bottle and Glass Show, Rain or Shine, on the historic early 19th century glass factory grounds, including Exhibits/Tours (9:00 am to 1:00 pm, early buyers 8:00 am), website: www. glassmuseum.org. Show Address: Museum of Connecticut Glass, Rt 44 & North River Road, Coventry, Connecticut, Contact: Noel Tomas, 860.633.2944, Noel.Tomas@glassmuseum.org May 21 & 22 Santa Rosa, California Northwestern Bottle Collectors Association 50th Annual Antique Bottle Show at the Santa Rosa Veterans Building, 1351 Maple Avenue, Santa Rosa, California 95404, Saturday, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, Sunday, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Early admission: $10 – Saturday 9:00 – 10 am, Set up: Saturday, 8 – 10 am, Cost of admission: Saturday, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – $3, General Admission on Sunday Free, See Website, Contact: Lou Lambert, NBCA Show Chairman, PO box 322, Graton, California 95444, 707.823.8845, nbca@comcast.net May 22 Ellendale, Delaware Delmarva Antique Bottle Show & Sale at Ellendale Fire Hall, 302 Main Street, Ellendale, Delaware 19941, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, No Early Admission, Set-up: Sunday, 7:00 am – 9:00 am, $2 Admission, Contact: Peter Beaman, Show Chair and Club President, 28947 Lewes – Georgetown Hwy., Lewes, Delaware 19958, 302.684.5055, oldngnu@comcast.net

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June 2-4 Grantville, Pennsylvania The National Association of Milk Bottle Collectors will hold its 36th Annual Convention at the Holiday Inn in Grantville, Pennsylvania (7 miles from Hershey), Info: Tom Ferguson, 571.918.0272 or tnjferg@comcast.net, MilkCollectors.com June 4 Raleigh, North, Carolina Raleigh Bottle & Collectibles Club presents their 2016 Bottle Show on Saturday, June 4th at the NC State Fairgrounds – James Martin

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(More) Sho-Biz More show-biz Building, $3 admission, Open to the public at 9:00 am. For table reservations and show information contact: Whitt Stallings, 919.781.6339, whittstall@yahoo.com or Travis Hardin, 919.601.2609, carolinamilkbottles@gmail. com, RaleighBottleClub.org

July 16 Richmond, Rhode Island The Little Rhody Bottle Club Tailgate Swap Meet, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. Free setup for members and potential new members. Free coffee, donuts and pizza for participants. Bring your own tables! Show Address: Jules Antique Center, 320 Kingstown, Richmond, Rhode Island (3 miles East of Route #95 on Route #138), Contact Info: William Rose, 508.880.4929

Individual & Affiliated Membership Benefits June 5 Club Information Ballston Spa, New York The National Bottle Museum presents the Annual Saratoga Springs Show & Sale, A larger venue for 2016 will be held in two, welllighted buildings, plus the outdoor green space!

9:00 am to 2:30 pm at the Saratoga County Fairgrounds, 162 Prospect Street, Ballston Spa, New York, Info: NATIONAL BOTTLE MUSEUM, 76 Milton Avenue, Ballston Spa, New York 12020, 518.885.7589, nbm@nycap. rr.com, Phil Bernnard, 518.429.7641

July 16 & 17 Adamstown, Pennsylvania 16th Annual Shupps Grove Bottle Festival, Saturday & Sunday, 6:00 am to dusk, early buyers Friday 3:00 pm. At the famous “Shupp’s Grove”, 1686 Dry Tavern Road, Denver, Pennsylvania 17517, Contact: Steve Guion, 717.626.5557, affinityinsurance1@windstream.net

Individual & Affiliated Shards of Wisdom Club Information

June 11 San Diego, California San Diego 2016 Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show & Sale at the Al Bahr Shrine Temple, 5440 Kearny Mesa Road, San Diego, California 92111, Come For The Day, Spend The Weekend, Close To Hotels, Beaches, Sea World & The Zoo, Dealer Set-up: 7:00 am “Early Bird” 7:30 am, $10, General Admission: 9:00 am – 12:00 Noon, $2, Free Admission Noon – 3:00 pm, Kids under 12 free with adult, Mike Bryant, Chairman, Info: Jim Walker 858.490.9019, jfw@internetter.com, www. sdbottleclub.org

July 22 & 23 Houston, Texas Houston Antique Bottle, Advertising & CollectibleShow & Sale at the Crowne Plaza Hotel – 12801 Northwest Frwy. Houston, Texas 77040 (Hwy 290 – Tidwell/Hollister Exit) Hotel is on the west side of Hwy 290, Open to public on Saturday, July 23, 2016, 8:30 am to 3:00 pm, Admission: $4, Early Admission: Friday July 22nd – 4:00 to 10:00 pm, $10 per person, For show and table information contact: Barbara J. Puckett, 907 W. Temple, Houston, Texas 77009 713.862.1690 (home) or 713.409.9940 (cell) Bpuckett77009@ Yahoo.com

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June 11 Cambridge City, Indiana Huddleston Farmhouse, Early Summer Fruit Jar Get-Together. All Proceeds go to the Huddleston Farmhouse Museum, 838 National Road, Cambridge City, Indiana 47327. Dealer set-up 8:00 am – 9:00 am, Show 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, $20 for one table, $30 for 2 tables, Contact Marty Troxell 765.478.3800 or cochair Richard Leece, 574.686.2618 25 June 25 Tulsa, Oklahoma The Tulsa Antiques And Bottle Club’s 39th Annual Bottle and Antique Advertising Show from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm at the Tulsa Flea Market in the River Spirit Center, Tulsa Fairgrounds, 21st Street and Pittsburgh Avenue, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Free admission, no early buyers. Dealer setup Friday from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm and Saturday from 6:00 am to 8:00 am. 200 show tables plus a 700 table flea market. Information: Richard Carr, 918.687.4150 or 918.478.6119 or Henry Tankersley, 918.481.3820 or 918.663.3218 or henry@ americanbanktulsa.com

205.345.7821 or Bill Johnson – 770.823.2626. bj3605@comcast.net July 29 – 31 Muncie, Indiana 47th Annual National Insulator Association (NIA) Convention and Show (Friday Members only – you can join at the door) 135+ Dealer tables, 25 Displays. This year it will be held at the Horizon Convention Center, Muncie, Indiana 47305. For hotel reservations call the new Courtyard by Marriott adjacent to the Horizon Center and mention NIA for special rates: 765.287.8550. For more show information visit: www.nia.org/national Hosts: Bob Stahr, 630.793.5345 or email: bob@hemingray. com and Rick Soller: 847.782.8602, email: com574@clcillinois.edu July 31 Ankeny, Iowa 47th Annual Iowa Antique Bottleers Show and Sale, in conjunction with the “Beer, Soda & Bottle Collectibles Mega Show” at the FFA Enrichment Center, Des Moines Area Community College Campus, 2006 S. Ankeny Blvd., Ankeny, Iowa, Admission $2 (9:00 am to 2:00 pm) Contact: Mark C. Wiseman, 3505 Sheridan Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50310-4557, cell: 515.344. 8333, markcwiseman@msn.com

August 4 – 7 For Sale Sacramento, California

July 23 Castle Rock, Colorado 51st Anniversary Antique Bottle Collectors of Colorado Show at the Douglas County Fairgrounds at Kirk Hall. 500 Fairgrounds Drive, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104, $3 Admission, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, Dealer set-up 7:00 am – 9:00 am, Early Dealer set-up on 22 July 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Info contact: Jeff Johnson 303.681.3776. Antique Bottle Collectors of Colorado July 23 Tuscaloosa, Alabama – NEW SHOW Tuscaloosa Antique Bottle, Pottery & Advertising Show, Saturday, July 23, 2016, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, at the Forest Lake United Methodist Church gymnasium, 1711 Fourth Avenue, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401, (Corner of 17th Street & 4th Avenue), Dealer Set-Up & Early Buyers: Friday, July 22nd – 2:00 to 7:00 pm & Saturday, July 23rd – 7:00 to 9:00 am, Public admitted FREE, Saturday Lunch available on site, Information: Bob McGraw –

FOHBC 2016 National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo – Western Region at the McClellan Conference Center, Host Hotel: Lions Gate Hotel. Room Reservations – Show Information: Richard & Beverley Siri, Show Chairman & Co-Chair, 707.542.6438, rtsiri@sbcglobal.net or Eric McGuire, Western Region Director, etmcguire@comcast.net, Contracts: Warren Friedrich, 530.271.5757, warrenls6@ sbcglobal.net. More info at FOHBC.org, FOHBC National Convention – Western Region August 13 Lincoln, Alabama - NEW SHOW 1st Annual Lincoln Bottle Show at the Old Lincoln Gym, 181 Magnolia Street, Lincoln, Alabama 35096, Saturday 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, No Early admission, Set-up: Friday August 12th 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm and/or Saturday August 13th 7:00 am – 9:00 am, Free to Public, Vendors $20 a table, Lincoln Parks and Recreation, Contact: Jake Smith, 29 Water Tank Drive, Talladega Alabama 35160, 256.267.0446, syl_bottleguy@yahoo.com August 15 – 21 Bouckville, New York 45th Annual Madison-Bouckville Antique Show,

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More show-biz Outdoor antiques and collectibles including two huge bottle tents! Over 2,000 dealers and vendors located on scenic Route 20, Bouckville, New York, Contact: Jim Burns, 315.527.3269, Jim Bartholomew, 585.705.8106

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

Show at the Rostraver Ice Garden, 101 Gallitin Road, Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania 15012, Sunday, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Early admission: Sunday, 7:00 am to 9:00 am, Set-up: Sunday, 7:00 am, General admission: $3, Early admission: $25, Pittsburgh Antique Bottle Club, Contact: Bob DeCroo, Treasurer, 694 Fayette City Road, Fayette City, Pennsylvania 15438, 724.326.8741

September 24 Individual & Affiliated Richmond, Rhode Island Membership Benefits The Little Rhody Bottle Club tailgate swap Club Information meet, 9:00 am to 3:00pm. Free set up for mem-

September 4 Westford, Massachusetts The Merrimack Valley Antique Bottle Club’s 42nd Annual Show & Sale, Sunday, September 4, 2016, 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, early buyers 8:00 am, at the Westford Regency Inn, 219 Littleton Road (Route 110), Westford MA. Info: Cliff Hoyt: 978.458.6575, email choyt48@comcast. net or Maureen Crawford, 978.897. 7327.

2017

bers and potential new members. Free coffee, donuts and pizza for participants. Bring your own tables! Show Address: Jules Antique Center, 320 Kingstown, Richmond, Rhode Island (3 miles East of Route #95 on Route #138), Contact Info: William Rose, 508.880.4929

January 8 Taunton, Massachusetts The Little Rhody Bottle Club Annual Antique Bottle Show, Holiday Inn Hotel, 700 Myles Standish Blvd., Exit #9 off of Route #495, Early Admission: 8:30 am – 9:30 am, $15 per person, General Admission: 9:30 am – 2:00 pm, $3 per person. The Little Rhody Bottle Club

Individual & Affiliated October 1 Shards of Wisdom Richmond, Virginia Club Information Richmond VA 45th Antique Bottle Show and

September 10 Downieville, California Downieville Antique Bottles & Collectibles Show at the Downieville School Gym, Downieville, California 95936, One Day Show.

8:00 am – 10:00 am, Early Lookers for $10, FREE 10:00 am – 3:00 pm, Set up: Friday, 3:00 – 5:00 pm, Saturday 7:00 am, Downieville Antique Bottle Group, www.westernbitters.com, Contact: Rick & Cherry Simi, Organizers, PO Box 115, Downieville, California 95936, 530.289.3659, ricksimi@att.net

Sale, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, $3, Early Admission 7:30 am $10 at the Chesterfield County Fairgrounds, 10300 Courthouse Road, Chesterfield, Virginia 23832, Info: RichBottleClub@comcast. net or Marvin Croker, 804.275.1101 or Ed Faulkner 804.739.2951

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September 11 Richfield, Ohio 46th Annual Ohio Bottle Club Show & Sale at the Days Inn and Suites, 4742 Brecksville Road, Richfield, Ohio (Ohio Turnpike Exit 173), 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Set-up: 7:30 am to 9:00 am, Early Admission: 7:30 am to 9:00 am, Early Admission $20, Regular admission $3 (9:00 am to 2:00 pm). Info: Louis Fifer, 604 Topaz Lane Brunswick, Ohio 44212, 330,635.1964, fiferlouis@yahoo.com or Matt Lacy, 440.228.1873, info@antiquebottlesales.com website: ohiobottleclub.org

Wanted

September 17 Santa Ana, California Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club’s 50th Annual Antique Bottle, Fruit Jar, Antiques & Collectibles Show & Sale, 9:00 am to 3.00 pm, Early Bird $10 at 8:00 am, Free General Admission! Santa Ana Elks Lodge, 212 Elk Lane, Santa Ana, California 92701, Contact: Don Wippert 818.346.9833, donwippert@ yahoo.com or Dick Homme, 818.362.3368, Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club September 18 Depew, New York 18th Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association Annual Show and Sale at the Polish Falcons Hall, 445 Columbia Avenue, Depew, New York 14043, Sunday 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Set-up: 7:00 am to 9:00 am, Cost of admission: $2, Children under 12 free, Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors

November 6 Elkton, Maryland The Tri-State Bottle Clubs’ 14th Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show and Sale (Tabletop Antiques) at the Singerly Fire Hall, Route 279 & 213 (I-95, Exit 109 A), Elkton, Maryland 21922, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, General Admission: $3, Contact: Dave Brown, 302.738.9960, email: drown3942@comcast.net

May 19 & 20 Lake City, Florida The Florida Antique Bottle Collector 4th Annual Antique Bottle & Collectable Show and Sale, Saturday, May 20th (8:00 am – 3:00 pm), Dealer set-up Friday, May 19 at Noon, Early Buyers Friday, May 19th (3:00 pm – 7:00 pm), Columbia County Fairgrounds, Exit 427 off I-75 South, Hwy 90 East, Lake City, Florida, Admission $3, Information: Brian Hoblick, 386.804.9635, Email: hoblick@aol.com or Ed LeTard 985 .788.6163, Email: eandeletard@ aol.com

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November 12 Jacksonville, Florida 49th Antique Bottle Collectors of North Florida Show & Sale at the Fraternal Order of Police Building, 5530 Beach Boulevard, Jacksonville, Florida 32207-5161, 8:00 am to 3:00 pm, Early Admission is on Friday from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm, Set-up on Friday: 2:00 pm until 8:00 pm and Saturday starting at 7:00 am, Cost of admission: FREE on Saturday and $20 for Early admission of Friday, Contact: Corey Stock, Assistant to Show Chairman, 13533 Mandarin Road, Jacksonville, Florida 32223, 904.268.9316, stock1866@yahoo.com November 12 Belleville, Illinois Eastside Spectacular #10 Brewery Collectibles Show – Antique Bottle & Jar Show at the BelleClair Fairgrounds. Questions: Kevin Klous, 908 Daniel Drive, Collinsville, Illinois, 62234.

Questions: 618.346.2634, whoisthealeman@ aol.com November 13 Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh Antique Bottle Club 47th Annual

August 03 – 06 Springfield, Massachusetts FOHBC 2017 National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo – Northeast Region at the MassMutual Center, Host Hotel: Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place hotel. Show Information: Jim Bender, Show Co-Chair, 518.673.8833, jim1@ frontiernet.net or Bob Strickhart, Show CoChair, strickhartbob@aol.comVisit Web Page, FOHBC National Convention – Northeast Region

2018 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, FOHBC National Convention – Midwest 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.

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

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

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

Individual & Affiliated Shards of Wisdom Club Information

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

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

Wanted

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shards of Wisdom Name_________________ Address_______________ City__________________ Zip _ ____________Country Telephone_____________ E-mail Address_________

Wanted

Collecting Interests_ _ ____________ _ ____________ _ ____________ Addtional Comments_ ___ _ ____________

State_____

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

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

Clearly Print or Type Your Ad Send to: Business Manager: Elizabeth Meyer, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; ph: (713) 222-7979;

Canada - First Class $60.00

or better yet, email Elizabeth at: emeyer@fohbc.org

Other countries - First Class $80.00

Article Submission Requirements:

- 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

BOTTLES and EXTRAS

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

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.

American Glass Gallery TM

Seeking quality consignments for our 2016 auction schedule!

Please consider the following benefits to help ensure your consignments 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 will be included in our Auction #16

For more information, please feel free to contact us at your convenience.

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

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

Please Check your information and notify us of errors.

FOHBC.org

Heckler Proudly offering the Best Bottles & glass in the World

Pictured Left: Crossed Keys And Star - Masonic Emblem Historical Flask, light to medium olive yellow, probably Coventry Glass Works, Coventry, Connecticut, 1820-1830. Extremely rare. Fine condition. Ex Paul Richards collection #173, Dr. Gary and Arlette Johnson collection.

Price Realized: $56,160 on March 16, 2016

www.hecklerauction.com info@hecklerauction.com 860-974-1634 79 Bradford Corner Road, Woodstock Valley, CT 06282