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Featuring Wheeling, Worms, and The History of Laughlins & Bushfield Included in this issue...

Tom Joyce, Indianapolis and His 7 Up Empire The Wisdom of Solomon and Naming “Old Fitzgerald” Hotel Soda Bottle in the Deep South Crystal Spring Water & C.R. Brown ... and so much more

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On the Cover: Laughlins & Bushfield's Chemical Writing Fluid bottle collage

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FOHBC Officers | 2020 - 2021 ............................................................................................2 FOHBC President’s Message .................................................................................................3 Charles Robinson Brown was born in Unadilla Forks, New York in 1827 and married Mary Ursula Skidmore on August 4, 1854.

He listed and advertised in the Saratoga Springs directories as a jeweler and optician until 1871 where we see he was also stating that he was now the proprietor of Park Place Hotel and Crystal Spring which is the name on his bottle. See ad below.

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and hotel. A second fire started at Hamilton alley just east of Broadway. A thick cluster of wooden buildings, one dwelling, half a dozen barns, and one tannery were destroyed. There was a suspicion as to both fire’s origins as they both seemed to start at approximately the same time.

FOHBC News - From & For Our Members ..............................................................................6 Tom Joyce Indianapolis and his 7up Empire by Steve Lang........................................... 10

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The Wisdom of Soloman and Naming "Old Fitzgerald" by Jack Sullivan..................... 16 Hotel Soda Bottler In the Deep South by David Kyle Rakes........................................ 22 Virtual Museum News by Richard Siri......................................................................... 29 Crystal Spring & C.R. Brown by Ferdinand Meyer V.................................................. 32 Undaunted by the previous fire that destroyed his hotel, Charles

R. Brown went into partnership with Dr. Robert Hamilton, one of the village’s most-respected medical men, to build a new hotel

approximately the same location left bare by the immense A Tale of Two Batchelors by Fred DeCarlo.................................................................. 38 atconflagration which consumed the Crescent, Park Place and other Above: Charles R. Brown was advertising that he was a Jeweler and Optician. He was also the

hotels the previous September. They would build The Grand Central Hotel in record time. It could handle up to 1,000 guests

proprietor of Park Place Hotel and Crystal Spring. Located at Park Place and Broadway, Opposite PageSpring.

16 Charles, of at a time and have access to the same Crystal Wheeling, Worms, and the History of Laughlins & Bushfield Congress Park, Saratoga Spa N.Y. – 1871 Boyd’s Saratoga Springs Directory course, would set up his jewelry shop within the hotel.

Bottom Right: C.R. Brown, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Optician and Dealer in Fine Jewelry, Swiss and 44

by Zack Baer...............................................................................................................

American Watches, etc. Grand Central Hotel – 1872 Boyd’s Saratoga Springs Directory

C. R. Brown was located at Park Place and Broadway which

Diary of the Des Moines Privy Digger by Mark Wiseman. ............................................ was opposite Congress Park. His hotel guests overlooked the 54 the crystalline appearance of the water, which did not rise to the

surface but was pumped up from a depth of several feet. It was FOHBC Member Photo Gallery ..........................................................................................

64 discovered in 1870 by experimental excavation.

You can almost picture his jewelry shop prominently facing the

street on the ground floor of the hotel. It would have had a second Classified Ads ...................................................................................................................

66 interior entrance facing the lobby of the hotel. A grand display of Crystal Spring Water bottles would have been set up on covered a glass case with a few bottles of his spring water.

Unfortunately, on September 14, 1871, two very disastrous fires70 FOHBC Membership Additions & Changes .........................................................................

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occurred early in the morning, around 2:00 am, destroying the Park Place Hotel, the Columbian Hotel and a large part of the Crescent. All but two buildings were left standing on the block.

Charles R. Brown suffered major losses to his jewelry business

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Coming next issue or down the road: Cerini's Bottle Warehouse • Don and Mary Kelley • Newby's Dairy, Columbus Indiana • Frank Wright's Indianapolis Ales • Digging in Indiana • Phelan's Hair Tonic • Abraham Klauber: An Early San Diego Merchant's Wooden Crate • Summer Digging with Mark Wiseman

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picturesque Congress Spring with the Park set against a scenic backdrop of Saratoga. An elegant colonnade on the first floor of

the hotel led guests to the health-giving and therapeutic waters 62 Lost & Found .................................................................................................................... of Crystal Spring. The proprietors named it Crystal Spring from

tables in the hotel lobby and gift shop. Maybe even a retail disFOHBC Sho-Biz - Calendar of Shows ..................................................................................

68 play of his jewels and pocket watches would have been set up in

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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 2020 - 2021

President: John O’Neill, 1805 Ralston Ave. Belmont, California 94002; phone: 650.619.8209; email: Joneill@risk-strategies.com

Merchandise Director: Val Berry, 200 Fort Plain Watershed Rd, St. Johnsville, NY 13452; phone: 518.568.5683; email: vgberry10@yahoo.com

First Vice-President: Jeff Wichmann, 915 28th Street, Sacramento, California 95816; phone: 800.806.7722 email: info@americanbottle.com

Business Manager: Elizabeth Meyer, 101 Crawford Street, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; phone: 713.504.0628; email: fohbcmembers@gmail.com

Second Vice-President: Michael Seeliger, N8211 Smith Road, Brooklyn, Wisconson 53521; phone: 608.575.2922 email: mwseeliger@gmail.com

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

Secretary: Val Berry, 200 Fort Plain Watershed Rd, St. Johnsville, NY 13452; phone: 518.568.5683; email: vgberry10@yahoo.com Treasurer: James Berry, 200 Fort Plain Watershed Rd, St. Johnsville, NY 13452; phone: 518.568.5683; email: jhberry10@yahoo.com Historian: Jim Bender, PO Box 162, Sprakers, NY 12166; phone: 518.673.8833; email: jim1@frontiernet.net Editor: Martin Van Zant, 41 E. Washington St., Mooresville, IN 46168; phone: 812.841.9495; email: mdvanzant@yahoo.com

Director-at-Large: Open Director-at-Large: Richard Siri, PO Box 3818, Santa Rosa, California 95402, phone: 707.542.6438; email: rtsiri@sbcglobal.net Midwest Region Director: Steve Lang, 13173 N. Paddock Rd., Camby, Indiana 46113, phone: 317.734.5113 email: slang14@yahoo.com Northeast Region Director: Fred DeCarlo, 11 Sheely Place, Utica, New York 13502, phone: 315.725.7577; email: fdecarlo117@gmail.com Southern Region Director: Jake Smith, 29 Water Tank Drive, Talladega Alabama 35160, phone:256.267.0446 email: syl_bottleguy@yahoo.com

Membership Director: Linda Sheppard, P.O. Box 162, Sprakers, NY 12166; phone: 518.673.8833; email: jim1@frontiernet.net

Western Region Director: Eric McGuire, 1732 Inverness Drive, Petaluma, California 94954, phone: 707.778.2255; email: etmcguire@comcast.net

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President’s Message Ferdinand Meyer V

John O’Neill FMG Design, Inc. 101 Crawford Street Studio 1A Houston, Texas 77002 713.222.7979 x115 Avenue, 1805 Ralston fmeyer@fohbc.org Belmont, California 94002

650.619.8209 itting down at my desk, on this firstJoneill@risk-strategies.com back-to-work Monday after New Years, I conjure up a vision of a stove with lots of pots-a-cooking. hat a great hobby we have and how lucky are we to be part of The kettle labeled antique bottle events has us all looking forward to the this wonderful community of collectors who are so passionstretch leading up to the FOHBC 2016 Sacramento National Antique Botate about their collections and the history associated with the bottles tle Convention & Expo this August. We have a coordination conference and glass? Maybe I am truly stoked coming off our FOHBC Board of call later in the week and plan to step it up a notch or two. We are also Directors bi-annual Zoom conference call board meeting this morning pleased that we locked in Springfield, Massachusetts for our 2017 Nationthat normally would have taken place to coincide with the March 2021 al Antique Bottle Convention, and by the time you read this message, the Baltimore Antique Bottle Show.

FOHBC 2018 National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo will have been announced for Cleveland, Ohio. We really have our teams in place and We had excellent attendance by both the board fellow about collectors who our wheels in motion.

I suppose we should startand thinking the 2019 were offered and accepted an invitation to listen-in from an observaConvention in the Southern Region. Planning ahead has many benefits. tional perspective. Your understanding and participation achieve positive things in that itisexposes the board you,this andMarch it allows you 2016 to get issue to of The FOHBC also proud to saytothat | April know us a little better.

Certainly, no pressure, but if you have a desire BOTTLES and EXTRAS is the first to be printed in full color, which to participate a great group people, would loveprompted to get youa few only costs us with an additional $184,ofan issue.we This change involved.

We needwhich and appreciate with anysuch assistance canof design revisions, we hope your you help will notice, as the you Table provide. Itand does to take on a big Contents a not fewrequire of the you section headers.

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Oh, Museum and lookorfor a new secing our regional in outreach to our bottle clubs. emailThis tion in the back directors of the magazine called “Member PhotoPlease Gallery”. me ifsection you would like to gettoinvolved I will respond to you.bottles I find itand new is dedicated the fine and photography of antique uplifting and inspirational be contributing to thisfor great organization.We glass.

Please feel free totosubmit your images consideration. have already started work on the May | June issue and hope that you Howconsider we communicate changed a result of Covid-19.

A year ago, will authoring has an article forasthe magazine.

We are here to help! many of us had never heard of a Zoom or Microsoft Teams conference call and nowofthat is the FOHBC’s main means communication.

Within this issue BOTTLES and EXTRAS, pleaseofread the proposed We certainly the in-person events our club meetings, our bylaw updatesmiss and all revisions that have beenlike marked in red.

All revisions have approved by the Board Directors.

These bottlebeen shows, and picnics andFOHBC there will be a of time soon where webylaws will have amended need to bealways reviewed the FOHBC membership gatherbeen again.

Humanand contact will be by relevant and cherished. prior to theis,annual general membership meeting at theand FOHBC 2016 NaMy point communication will continue to evolve the FOHBC’s tional Antique Bottle Convention & ExpoWe in accomplished Sacramento, California by communication will also need to evolve. a lot during an vote of aand majority votes cast the evolution eligible voters thisaffirmative morning meeting, we are of at all a precipice of by a new of in a copy of the proposed made ourattendance, hobby. Theprovided FOHBC that Board is asking questions andchanges setting are a path to available in advance, either make thistoa each bettermember organization to serve yourdirectly needs. by mail or by timely notice in the Federation’s official periodical or on the Federation website.

During our bi-annual board meeting, we covered a lot of new ground In news, we are moving dozen ahead step withpresentation photography for the Virtual thatother centered around a 19-page, called “The New Museum to have regional photography labs set up inV.regions FOHBC”and that hope was presented by past president Ferdinand Meyer This to start photographing bottles bothofinthe a FOHBC standard and format and 3-dimenpresentation addressed the strength our hobby, our sionally.

Thisand effort is being spearheaded by resources Museum Director, Alan Deweaknesses, where we should apply our to grow memMaison.

Youadapt may to have metworld.

Alan at thecan Virtual Museum table during bership and a new You see this presentation on ourthe FOHBC 2015 Chattanooga National Antique Bottle Show last August. website FOHBC.org and a copy will be emailed to the membership.

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Federation member Booth, is involved heading up the nomination The first step of “TheAlicia New FOHBC” studying the feasibil-process for the election of all Federation officers including the President, ity of merging the two bottle magazines as a method to create a better Vice President(s), Secretary, Treasurer, Business Manager, Membership product and grow our hobby. The second step involved opening the

Virtual Museum from its construction mode and taking it national and international.

TheRelations third step Director, was revamping how andDirector, when weHistorian, have Director, Public Conventions our national events.

We are hoping to have our 2021 Syracuse Antique Merchandising Director, Directors-at-Large (3), and Region Directors Bottle Show.

If we do not every have enough reservations by may mid-June, (4).

These elections occur two years.

Any officer run forwe sucmay need to cancel and move to 2023.

You can always get a refund iffor cessive terms. This committee has prepared a slate of nominations we do.

Of course, discussed Reno 2022, a year off in 2023, a each office and is we listed below. It is important to note that any and member mega event in Houston 2024.inMore on that later! desiring to run for any in office the Federation may file a nomination

form with the Election Committee (in accordance with procedures apThe fourth was research and and historical and archiving.

We proved by step the membership instituted indexing by the Election Committee) have started to index many past legacy auction catalogs, reference books, indicating the office they desire to run for. The deadline for filing this and old bottle and glass images member access.

We also are in disis April 1st 2016.

We have seenforsuccessful campaigns by our membercussions to resurrect auction price project that I’m sure many ship before so if youthe want to run for report a position, please let Alicia know. of you arereach familiar Theemail last time one was done was 2012. As most You and herwith. at this address, alicia@cis-houston.org.

You of you just about all past Extras articles will beknow, receiving a ballot for issues votingofsoBottles pleaseand take the time to have vote. been indexed and stored online within the members portal of the FOHBC Ferdinand V website.

We Candidates hope to do this President: with Antique Bottle & Meyer Glass Collector too.

FOHBC Houston, Texas is the slatewas of FOHBC TheHere fifth step communication and social medial.

For instance, First Vice President: Sheldon Baugh we recommended candidates will be resurrecting our digital newsletter to members and sending out Russellville, Kentucky put forth by the nominating more emails.

We already have a strong Facebook and Instagram presence committee (Alicia Booth, Second Vice President: Gene Bradberry withChairperson) a new consultant for 2014 - 2016.we engaged. The sixth step was financial security Bartlett, and The developing new streams,Tennessee the seventh step was education. It slate is being put forthincome for yourlike consideration and anyone looks we might be conducting monthly seminars Secretary: James Berry online. This video desiring to runinclude for office may event might a virtualJohnsville, visit to a collector’s New Yorkhome or a seminar on be nominated by going to the a topic such as the History ofTreasurer: the PacificGary GlassBeatty Works. The eighth step website and printing out a was conducting online bottleNorth showsPort, eachFlorida quarter, the ninth step was fun nomination form. Then, mail or projects as organizing regional in-person tours and gatherings. The email tosuch Alicia Booth, 11502 Historian: Jimboard Bender tenthBurgoyne step Drive, was Houston, restructuring the Federation to be more relevant to Texas New York our 77077. future.alicia@cis-houston.org It certainly wouldSprakers, be great to have associate directors such as a youth or point persons from all theVan other great niches of our Closingdirector date for nominations Editor: Martin Zant is Aprilsuch 1, 2016 midnight. hobby as atinsulators, perfume bottles, fruit jars, etc.

Danville, Indiana Additional nominations will

Merchandising Director: Val Berry printed alongside the slate Thebeeleventh step dealt with new tiers of membership. We will be Johnsville, New York proposed by the nominating revisiting levels committeeour and will be listedof membership with various options and a different Membership Director: Linda Sheppard set of to each level of financial commitment.

Certain levels in thedeliverables May-June 2016 issue New York of membership mayalong includeSprakers, free educational events, while other levels of BOTTLES and EXTRAS a shortan bioadditional of each maywith have cost. We need to continue to strive to raise Conventions Director: Louis Fifer the candidate. interest level and engage both our existing and new membership.

Brunswick, Ohio The goal here is to reach more members with a choice of membership Manager: Elizabeth Meyer levels to serve their needs asBusiness well as the organizations.

Houston, Texas The twelfth step was restructuring our regions. We’re considering Director-at-Large: Bob Ferraro creating a few additional regions with new directors to address the Boulder City, Nevada clubs and members in those areas. We need to be relevant to our Director-at-Large: Steve Ketcham members with better outreach, assistance, and participation.

Are four Edina, Minnesota regions currently too large for a single director to oversee and can they Pastor effectively remain in contactDirector-at-Large: with each club andJohn every member in a Hudson, Michigan multi-state region? Take theNew Southern Region, for example, it includes Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas,Midwest Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, TennesRegion Director: Matt Lacy see, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Austinburg, Ohio and Florida. That is a huge region, so maybe it’s time to consider more regions broken up Northeast Director: Andrew into smaller regions of geography and Region more regional directors or Vuono even Stamford, Connecticut associate directors.

Southern Region Director: Ron Hands As Ferdinand Meyer stated Wilson, after theNorth presentation, Carolinawe have been debating and writing about someWestern of these items forDirector: years. It’sEric time to act.

Region McGuire Petaluma, California Again, I thank you for taking the time to engage us and the commuPublic Relations Director: Rick nity at large in reinforcing our primary mission statement of DeMarsh education Ballston Spa, New York around antique bottles and glass and our hobby.

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Bottles and Extras found a used straight-sided script Coke from Savannah, Ga. “I thought that bottle was the neatest thing I’d ever seen, decided I wanted to collect more of them and then I went nuts!” he told this writer back in 2003.

Weinberg’s great bottle collecting adventures were told in the writer’s story in the July issue of Antique Bottle & Glass Collector for that year. He and his bottles were featured on the publication’s cover.

By Bill Baab

So the Athens, Georgia resident went all out in pursuit of Peach State script Cokes, many of them common and easy to come by, others not so much. He found a listing of Georgia’s Coca-Cola bottlers who marketed the drink during the so-called “straight-sided bottle era” and when his chase ended, 72 of the bottles were displayed on his shelves.

The magic moment for Jeff Weinberg actually took place long before he was born when the Coca-Cola Company in the early 20th century approved the transition of sales of its soda fountain drink to sales to the public in glass bottles.

There were many variants among the “normal’ bottles and he documented all of them, ranging from 29 Athens variants,.15 from Macon and 10 each from Atlanta and Savannah. Many bottlers had just one variant.

Book details collector’s love for early Georgia script Cokes

It wasn’t long before Weinberg had become an authority on straight-sided script Georgia Cokes, thanks to the willingness of many other collectors to share their knowledge. There really was nothing left for him to do except write a book. And what a book!

“George Straight Side Script Coca-Cola Bottles, The Complete 72 City Collection by Jeff Weinberg.” Subtitled “A Pictorial Identification Guide,” is now on the me market. Each of the eye-popping photos in the 14-inch by 11-inch “coffee table-sized book” was taken by the author.

“I took the pictures with a Nikon D700 and a pro light box,” he said. “It took four tries per photo and there are over 750 full-color, high resolution photos. I am a bit of a perfectionist,” admits the University of Georgia graduate.

The 152-page book also contains copies of original Coca-Cola advertisements from the pages of various publications, historical notes and other Coke-related material. Books may be ordered from Jeff Weinberg, 156 Boulevard, Athens, GA 30601. Cost is $49.95 plus $6 shipping. He accepts PayPal (oldhouse156@ yahoo.com) which also is his email address.

Those early straight-sided bottles, embossed on shoulders and sides with the soon-to-be-familiar Coca-Cola in script and the bottlers’ city names embossed on their heels, lasted from 1902 to 1914.

Nearly every major city (and many smaller towns) in nearly all of the Lower 48 states boasted of a Coca-Cola bottling works.

Weinberg’s passion was reserved for Georgia’s script Cokes and began in 1985. During a chance visit to an Atlanta flea market he

To Bottles and Extras from Jack Sullivan: A New Find of a KT&K Whiskey Jug Tim Kearns, author of the 1997 book “Knowles, Taylor & Knowles: American Bone China,” has come up with a previously unknown KT&K jug shown here. It is a special edition of a Meredith Diamond Club jug, decorated with flowers and rendered almost entirely in gold. It bears the name of H. C. Frizzell, apparently specially made for him in limited quantities as

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presentation gifts to his friends. Definitely more than 100 years old, the overglaze label is in remarkably good shape.

A longtime member of the Ohio Bottle Club from a Cleveland suburb, Tim has spent decades chasing down KT&K whiskeys, often with considerable success. Alerted that this jug was being offered at auction in Florida, he was able to make the purchase and have it safely delivered.

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

By Jim Bender Back in 1984, missing children were put on milk cartons in hopes they would be found. Long before that in 1878 a missing boy named Charley Ross was put on a perfume bottle in hopes he too would be found. Charley was kidknapped on July 1, 1874 by two men in a horse and buggy. His brother Walter was with Charley but not taken that day.

Charley who was 4 years old at the time was never found. After 4 years with no leads the idea of keeping his name remembered is why the boy was put on the bottle. The kidknappers were gunned down in 1924, before they could say what had happened to Charley. This is believed to be the first time a lost child was ever put on a product container. It truly works because even today when ever I see one of these bottles I think of Charley Ross.

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

amond Club.” He advertised it widely and used the jugs extensively. The whiskey proved very popular and made Meredith, a poor Irish immigrant boy, a very wealthy man. Knowles, Taylor & Knowles also profited from his idea.

Tim confesses to being “blown away” by the quality of the gilding on his purchase after so much time has elapsed. His book, richly endowed with color photos, is still available both new and used from Amazon Books. It remains an excellent guide to KT&K jugs and other ceramic products from the company.

Note: The photos here were taken by Roger Hardesty, another longtime member of the Ohio Bottle Club, and collector of Cleveland advertising jugs and crocks.

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The item is particularly interesting because George Meredith, whose name it bears, once was an employee of the East Liverpool pottery who convinced the owners that they should turn their capacity for making china into creating a line of liquor containers. The owners agreed and designed a special jug immediately recognizable by its “snake head” handle.

By this time Meredith had left the company and was mixing up whiskey in an East Liverpool garage. He called it “Meredith’s Di-

Please send in your small tidbits of info, stories, facts etc. to help fill in the Shards section. We depend on people like you to help fill the pages of Bottles and Extras each issue. If you're not a writer that is OK, we have editors who will help!

A special thanks to those of you who have in the past sent in items for Bottles and Extras. The staff really appreciates all your contributions and efforts!

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FOHBC News Ostrich Skin Bottle

antique toilet paper, pretty pathetic, lol. Again, if I wore a hat, I would take it off in honor of that display. Best, Ralph Finch Farmington Hills, Michigan Can you help with these four types of bitters bottles?

Yesterday I found this unusual bottle. I think it may be from Ireland and has something to do with Guinness Brewing? It’s nicely embossed and says the following, “Ross’s Great Auks Head Trade Mark Brand.” Have you ever seen this one? Thank you, Patrick FOHBC: Well, how cool is that? We never thought we would see an ostrich skin bottle! Certainly a good go-with with ostrich skin boots!

SHRIVER’S OYSTER KETCHUP SHRIVER’S BALTIMORE BALTIMORE Awed by the Photo of so Many Great Oyster Ketchups Ferdinand Meyer V

Photography by Gina Pellegrini

Every Bottle has a Story | FOHBC Virtual Museum | Food & Sauces Gallery

Hi, do you recognize these? They appear to be miniature bitters jugs...stoneware maybe? They aren't scratch ware, these are named with an applied slip which I think puts them late 1800s to no later than 1920. I don't know if the dashers are original. They are for four types of bitters bottles, Abbott’s, Orange, Boonekamp, and Peychaud’s.

Have you seen these before? Thanks, Patti Hauseman FOHBC: Morning Patti, these are really neat. We agree with what you say but hard to confirm without seeing and handling them. They are probably backbar or countertop pieces.

We have seen similar generic versions in glass. Thank you for sharing.

Wisconsin Show was Fantastic

Color run of Shriver’s Baltimore Oyster Ketchup bottles from the Lou Pellegrini collection.

Oyster bars were popular establishments starting in the early to mid-1800s and could be found in eastern cities such as Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore that were close to the Atlantic oyster beds. The Dorlon & Shaffer oyster house at Fulton Market in New York City was famous nationally and even internationally to travelers to the big city. I wrote about that concern and their pickled oysters in the last issue of Bottles and Extras.

The Union Oyster House in Boston touts that they are the oldest continuously open restaurant in the United States as it opened in 1826. Baltimore, you see, was the epicenter of seafood at that time with its proximity to the Chesapeake Bay.

Thomas Herbert, Benjamin F., William Tell, Christopher Columbus, Mark O., and Albert K. Shriver. He also had five sisters: Elizabeth, Sarah, Mary, Emma, and Margarite. The eldest, Elizabeth, was married to Thomas J. Myer (Thos. J. Myer & Co.) who was one of the pioneers in the oyster and fruit packing business in Baltimore. The Shrivers and Myers were connected in many ways. You can see the museum example of the Thomas J. Myer pint jar from Baltimore, Maryland in our Jar Gallery.

Shriver & Co. having purchased the entire interest of Joseph Fink, Jr. are alone authorized to use the name of the late firm in settlement.

I’ve been meaning to write ... except each day I am tasked to do one thing or another, and rarely get to it, despite being at the computer many hours a day. Anyway, regarding ketchup. Along with many things that I know a little bit about, ketchup falls into that category.

James Shriver, whose name is represented on the museum’s Shriver’s Oyster Ketchup bottle, was born on November 15, 1827. He was the eldest son of William Shriver and Mary Margaret Josephine Owens of Union Mills (Myers District), Carroll Coun-ty, Maryland. Union Mills is northwest of both Baltimore and Westminster, Maryland.

The Shriver family was quite large as James had six brothers:

On January 21, 1852, James Shriver married Elizabeth Jane Myer who was a sister of Thomas J. Myer. In the 1850 United States Federal Census, James was counted as a member of the Myer household. Two of the Shriver brothers were also partners with Thomas J. Myer, that being Mark O., and Albert K. Shriver.

James Shriver started out in the pickle and preserve business in 1856 located at 307 W. Pratt in Baltimore. In 1858, he formed a partnership with Joseph Fink, Jr. which ended with a Notice of Dissolution of Partnership on August 31st, 1860, “The firm of Shriver & Fink is this day dissolved by mutual consent. James

The product was made of the finest and highest-flavored Baltimore Oysters, containing all of their flavor, and is pronounced the best Ketchup, or Sauce, now in use. It is intended for use on all meats, hot or cold, and is particularly good on poultry.

An adjacent Notice of Co-partnership read “The undersigned have this day formed a Co-partnership under the name and style of James Shriver & Co., for the purpose of continuing the Oyster, Pickling and Preserving Business lately carried on by Shriver & Fink, 307 West Pratt Street, Baltimore.”

At this same time in 1860, Shriver’s Oyster Ketchup bottles must have been in production at Baltimore Glass Works because we start seeing advertisements nationally in 1861. One said, “The product was made of the finest and highest-flavored Baltimore Oysters, containing all of their flavor, and is pronounced the best Ketchup, or Sauce, now in use. It is intended for use on all meats, hot or cold, and is particularly good on poultry. For seasoning soups and gravies it has no equal and is a delightful addition to chicken salad, or wherever a ketchup or sauce is desirable. Originated and prepared only by Jas. Shriver & Co., Baltimore, Md.”

For 40 years I’ve collected ketchup. Our house is FILLED with ketchup-related stuff, and I have been mentioned in Andrew Smith’s Pure Ketchup, have been featured in three U.S. documentaries (two serious, one for fun), plus another documentary created by a TV show in Moscow.

Despite that, I was awed by the photo of so many great Baltimore Shriver’s Oyster Ketchup bottles in the FOHBC January-February 2021 issue of Bottles and Extras. In all the research I’ve done, all the shows I have attended, I have come across a handful (at most) of oyster ketchups. And despite that, I have spent money foolishly … $30,000 for a target ball. The maybe three Oyster Ketchup bottle examples came at a time when I couldn’t pull the trigger and pay the amount asked, and the three were all about the same color. I never knew they came in so many colors! I think that grouping is truly stunning. An amazing accomplishment.

Man, it sure makes my collecting of 50 different examples of

The February Wisconsin antique bottle show was fantastic. It's always great to see fellow aficionados, as a family. We had twentysome dealers and 110 attendees. With the lockdown and lack of travel making collectors feel cooped up, people were selling like crazy. Every dealer was beaming as they talked about great sales.

Every show is a treasure hunting adventure. We do six, one hundred dollar shopping spree give-away drawings, an hour apart.

With nothing else to do, people were waiting around for the next drawing, win or lose they were buying more.

The flask I picked up is one of two and super crude. The other has a big-money standing offer from a person who owns the house that was the distillery. I'm not selling it, but do love it when people drive prices up. All my best, Steven R. Libbey Delafield, Wisconsin P.S. I should write another article for Bottles and Extras.

Indian Queen bottles I came across an old carved chalk and a pottery bottle that look like the Indian Queen bottles. I don't know if these were made prior to the bottles or were later reproductions. The chalk has a date 1866 on it, which, from what I understand was prior to the patent of the Indian Queen bottle but it may be a bogus date

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anyway. The pottery bottle says, OBCA or PBCA Show Award '75.

hundred dollars for it but wished no money for it. Just a place in the hands of who really should own it.

Please see the image. Do you have any information about these? Thank you!

Fred DeCarlo, Utica New York

Mindy Nemon, Centerville, OH FOHBC: Mindy, Yes, later pieces to replicate the original but still really cool. The green piece was probably ordered by the Ohio and Pittsburgh bottle clubs in 1975.

Design Patents issued between 1843 and 1900 I’ve completed my review of Design Patents issued between 1843 and 1900, and have some good news and some bad news. The bad news: I was unable to locate any Design Patents for McKeever’s Army Bitters or Cannon Bitters. The good news: I was able to locate 45-50 Design Patents, for bottles of significance and/or potential interest to the bottle collecting community. Some of them, of course, already appear on Peachridge Glass. My next avenue of investigation will be to review Utility Patents, however I’m not sure how practical a patent-by-patent review will be for that category: In any given year, Utility Patents = Design Patents x 20! I think I’ll give my brain a rest before beginning – it’s currently saturated with “design for carpet” patents…

Regards, Chris Bubash, Chicago Illinois P.S. I find it interesting that the attached patent from 1878 is still in use today for Louis XIII Cognac (www.louisxiii-cognac.com/ en-us). Talk about standing the test of time!

Giving Back Sometimes in this hobby you are able to find things that mean much more to people than money. This milk bottle had only one known example owned by the descendants of this dairy Reeders. The owner accidentally broke it and I was given a request to try to find another example which we all know is a needle in a giant haystack. Well luck has it, I did recover one digging and we returned it to the family. I was offered a couple

Buffum bottles from Pittsburg The attached information is not a pretty sight, but is definitely an amazing amount of information for people collecting Buffum bottles from Pittsburg. Apparently, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania passed a law in 1889 that was similar to a trade mark protection for bottlers. In 1890, J. C. Buffum published a complete inventory of all the bottles he was actively using at that time, which included a complete description of the embossing on the bottles. Of course, many of the bottles listed could be much older than the 1890 publishing date, and it doesn’t give a date range, but the amount of information in amazing.

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Midwest Region Steve Lang slang14@yahoo.com

As we move forward in 2021, I feel optimism within the region that things are getting better. It is about 50/50 with clubs meeting in person/virtual meetings and not meeting at all. New officers are being elected and 2020 paid dues are being put towards 2021 dues because of the lack of meetings the past year.

The possibility of attending shows in the Midwest has definitely taken a turn for the better since the last issue of Bottles & Extras with shows in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Indiana and Ohio all still a go as of mid-March. The Kalamazoo show has been postponed until this fall.

As you may know I am always researching some sort of bottle, and they are usually from the Western Region. J. C. Buffum actually had a soda water business in San Francisco, California, in the early 1850’s, but returned back to his native Pittsburg about 1852. In the process of researching this prolific bottler, I happened upon this wonderful piece of information that should be made available for bottles collectors nationwide.

Eric McGuire Petaluma, California Pictures from the St. Louis Show

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Speaking of shows, March 21st was the 51st Annual St. Louis Antique Bottle and Jar show. I want to give a shout out to Pat Jett for putting on a great show with 113 tables sold – a sell out with the Covid-19 friendly layout. There were vendors from all over the country selling bottles, jars, stoneware, go-withs and soda/ brewery advertising. A strong turnout of buyers packed the show floor with strong sales reported by all the vendors I spoke to. Phil Smith had a Kerr bell wood mold on his sales table with a couple of examples of the glass bell produced by the mold. Among the great assortment of jars and bottles for sale was a green color Putnam Lightning fruit jar. Overall, I would say the show was a big success. Thank you to Waylon Stephens, Bruce Wayne and my wife Dawn for the photos. I was so busy looking I forgot to take any myself.

Be safe out there and happy collecting.

Northeast Region Fred DeCarlo fdecarlo117@gmail.com

Well, we are starting to hear whispers and talk of some clubs begging to have their monthly meetings again. I hope this is the start of a return to regular meetings and shows. Many of the spring shows have been pushed off to summer or fall. In May the show presented by the Washington County Antique Bottle Club is still on as of this writing. It will be held on May 16th so look for the advertisement of the FOHBC website. On Sunday, June 7th, the 41st Annual Saratoga Bottle Show is on also.

This fall the Mid-Maine Antique Bottle Club will hold their 1st annual bottle show. It was cancelled last year so keep your eyes peeled for this one so we can show support. The National Show is in Syracuse but we need everyone to get those tables reserved!!!!

If anyone in club's in the Northeast need to renew memberships, update their contact information, or just want to send me a message on local happenings with their clubs please do so. I would love to hear from you.

Western Region Eric McGuire etmcguire@comcast.net

While we are still impaired by our current state of the health crisis, a feeling of relief is beginning to overtake us. Bottle shows are still on the back burner in the far West, I believe it is about to change. Some digging for the elusive desirable bottles is happen-

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ing; however, I have not heard of anything to write home about.

More collectors are participating in virtual (i.e. Internet) activities which may become a regular routine in the future, despite greater freedom to communicate, and congregate, in traditional ways.

These times have given me a chance to reflect upon some historical methods of communication we relied upon in the past. This got me to dig out various newsletters from collecting clubs and even the FOHBC. I have attached a newsletter cover from a monthly publication circulated by the Federation in the 1980s and 90s. It was a 12 to 15 page ‘newsy’ document about current events and with occasional bottle related articles. Much of this same information is now available on the Internet and is far cheaper to disseminate. Regardless, the Federation Journal is still the Holy Grail and I know we all look forward to the next edition. Hopefully, the loosening of current social restrictions will allow me to report on many more exciting events in the Western Region.

Southern Region Jake Smith syl_bottleguy@yahoo.com

Here in the south, we have no shows that have been reported. We have a lot of upcoming shows in April and May around all parts of the south.

I have heard that the Mobile Show that is in April has sold out all 125 tables they have as of March 23 and now has a waiting list. I have also seen and heard from collectors that they are getting out and about more, to hunt bottles. The warm wet weather is good enough that the finds have been often.

“George Straight Side Script Coca-Cola Bottles, The Complete 72 City Collection by Jeff Weinberg. of Athens, Georgia. It covers 72 cities in Georgia that used the straight side script bottles and their variations and is for sell now. I was able to get mine by contacting him through Facebook. There ia also a new Alabama Coca-Cola book that was written by Dennis Smith. The book is said to be available some time in April of this year. Dennis said he would have copies for sell at the Lincoln Bottle Show in June.

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Tom Joyce

Indianapolis and his 7up Empire

By Steve Lang

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om Joyce epitomizes the rags to riches tale that so many want to duplicate. He turned pennies into a statewide soda empire and spun off several other business ventures. Thomas C. Joyce was born in 1898 in Columbus, Ohio. He graduated from Aquinas College in Columbus before serving in the Army as a first sergeant during WW1. Sometime after returning home from the war he moved to Indianapolis where Myra Joyce, Ralph B. Gregg and he incorporated Tom Joyce, Inc. to manufacture and sell wholesale and retail non-alcoholic beverages with $300 in capital, one truck and a small building located at 1532 Carrollton Avenue. He took a chance with the new soft drink Seven-Up and never looked back.

A short history of Seven-Up before I go on - Charles Leiper Grigg, who while working for Vess Jones in 1919 developed an orange flavored drink he called Whistle. After a dispute with management he started working for Warner Jenkinson Company where he invented his second soft drink called Howdy, another Orange flavored drink. He moved on and started the Howdy Corporation in 1920 and came up with the formula for a lemon-

lime soft drink in 1929 so he didn’t have to compete with Orange Crush anymore. It was originally named “Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda.” Imagine trying to come up with a sales campaign for that name! The drink contained Lithium Citrate which was a mood-stabilizing drug until 1948. The name was shortened to “7 Up Lithiated Lemon Soda” and then “7 Up” by 1936. 7 Up was used in non-alcoholic punches and as a mixer for highball alcoholic cocktails. Nobody knows for sure why Grigg named his Lemon-Lime soda 7 Up. There are many theories including Lithium has the atomic number of 7, Seven-up has 7 letters, it was originally sold in 7oz bottles and many more.

The first mention of 7 Up I could find in the Indianapolis newspapers and city directories appeared in the Indianapolis Star on December 30, 1933 in an advertisement for the local bottler Klee & Coleman. The Indianapolis Star reported the incorporation of Tom Joyce, Inc on March 29, 1935 and his first advertisement appeared in the local newspaper on August 12, 1935 asking the question:

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Who is the owner of the company at 1532 Carrollton that makes “7 Up” the FRESH UP drink that sells for 5c a split and has ALKALINE REACTION, Tom Joyce, Inc. In the beginning Tom had one bottling machine and was the salesman, delivery boy as well as manufacturer of the soft drink. By July 1936 Joyce’s operation at 1532 Carrollton was producing 40,320 individual split (7oz) bottles per day and distributing 7 Up throughout the state of Indiana in 60 trucks. This is an amazing feat in just over a year.

In September 1936, Joyce announced he was leasing a two-story building at 104-108 Locust St in Evansville, Indiana. The expansion was needed to keep up with the increasing business in southeastern Indiana and Kentucky. The Evansville Plant had a capacity of 2,000 cases a day or 48,000 7 oz bottles daily. By 1937, Tom Joyce was showing a sales increase of 750% over 1936 and had already added another plant at 427-429 Kinsmoor Avenue in Fort Wayne, Indiana to service the northeastern part of the state. He was also getting ready to move out of the original bottling plant on Carrolton Ave to 20th and College in the old Indianapolis Railways Street Car Barn. He moved into the new location on January 1st, 1938 and it featured 20,000 square feet of production space with completely modern equipment. The new bottle fillers installed were capable of filling 260 bottles of 7 Up a minute. Joyce was now operating 22 delivery trucks in Marion County (Indianapolis) alone and 105 total in the State of Indiana through 45 distributors.

Tom Joyce, 1940s

Tom Joyce with an ad for his friendly fresh up drink, late 1930s

By March 1938 Tom Joyce was sending 7 Up to all 92 Indiana Counties plus distributors in Owensboro, Ky., Henderson, Ky. and Paris, Ill. and was operating a fleet of GMC and International Delivery Trucks. He held a formal two day opening of his new Indianapolis plant and had 20,000 visitors tour the plant. A 22 foot neon bottle sign was added to the new building that could be seen for several blocks. 1938 also saw the introduction of the 7 Up slogan “I Like It it Likes Me” and “Fresh Up” to the Indianapolis consumers. Joyce made a heavy investment into his new plant with the purchase of a new bottling line that included bottle washer, filler and carbonator which would more than double the plants previous output to 18,000 bottles an hour. In September 1939 Tom Joyce purchased the McLean Place Street Car Barns from the Indianapolis Railways to build a new bottling plant. The remodel and bottling equipment cost Joyce $200,000 at the time. In today’s dollars, that would be an investment of almost $3.8 million dollars. May 1940 saw the opening of the Gary, Indiana plant to help serve the needs of Northern Indiana counties and to help take the pressure off of the Indianapolis plant. The Evansville plant was expanded in 1941 along with the addition of a new 3,500 square foot building adjacent to the Indianapolis College Avenue plant for storage to help keep up with the rising demand of 7 Up in Indiana.

During the World War II years, times were tough for bottlers with shortages of steel, cork and tin affecting the delivery of bottle caps, and there was a city wide shortage of soda bottles in the summer of 1943 due to glass being a vital war material. Joyce was still supportive of the troops locally despite these business hardships. His company was one of four Indianapolis businesses that gave a day’s pay to the Red Cross as a kick off to the National War Relief goal of $50,000,000, and also earned a “T” and a flag for their uniform shirts designating that all employees were putting 10% of their

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Tom Joyce with an ad for his new moderized Bottling Plant

wages into War Bonds. He also supported the local school which was collecting steel scrap for the war effort by donating a truck to haul the scrap to the local scrapyard.

In July 1944 Tom Joyce, speculating on a surge in 7 Up sales when sugar rationing ended, purchased three complete bottling plants in the state of Indiana. He purchased the Nehi Royal Bottling Corporation in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The 4 year old plant being considered a “show” plant in the soft drink industry with a capacity of 9,000 bottles an hour. He also purchased the Double Cola Bottling Company plant in Kokomo, Indiana which included all property, equipment and a fleet of 20 trucks. Finally Joyce purchased the Spring Valley Bottling Company of French Lick, Indiana including their new water treating system and 12 trucks. These acquisitions gave Tom Joyce bottling plants in 8 cities (Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Gary, French Lick, Evansville, New Castle, Greencastle & Kokomo) within the State. Joyce also began expanding his India-

Early 7 Up truck, showing the use of GM products

Early 7 Up bottle with paper label, and advertising card to go-with

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napolis plant with a new 12,000 square foot building and water treatment system. By the time the Indianapolis expansion was completed the two bottling units there could produce 144,000 bottles of seven-up in an 8 hour shift.

Tom Joyce touted 7 Up as the ideal mixer for the Holidays and its medicinal value in an article appearing in the Dec 28, 1937 Indianapolis Star stating “When using 7 Up remember to pour gently on the side of the glass. Most people stir, shake or fizz 7 Up and waste the Life Gas” and he went further “Because of its medicinal properties 7 Up is great help in the sick room. It helps to keep the stomach calm and in hospitals it is given after ether to prevent

Joyce showing off his new equipment purchased for the plant

nausea and retching. The drink will stay down when other liquids won’t and provides energy food in the small amount of sugar that is contained in the beverage.” 7 Up was similar to health spa waters with a heavy charge of carbon dioxide which helped to dilate the stomach aiding in absorption and digestion.

Tom Joyce over the years did a lot of advertising in the city newspapers. As early as 1938 he was sponsoring the Vince Barnett Calling All Stars at the Lyric Theater in town and hosting music shows on local radio WIRE 1430 AM and WISH 1310 AM. He employed local athletes in the summer like Chuck Broderick, quarterback from Butler University and Jack McMahon, halfback from Notre Dame showing them delivering 7 Up Two early bottles, including the famous rare eight bubbles, later versions had seven bubbles. Lighter and ashtray compliments of Tom Joyce.

Bottom image is a cup and saucer off the yacht of Mr. Joyce the Indiana 7 Up king

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in a newspaper ad. In 1941 his company sponsored Sam Hanks driving the Tom Joyce Special Kurtis Offenhauser race car in that years’ Indianapolis 500. Unfortunately the car broke a connecting rod on the Thursday before the race sending Hanks into a spin and suffering a brain concussion, back injuries and injuries to his left leg. He advertised over the years through youth and adult sports team sponsorship and local activities. He once sponsored a baseball games between Midwest clubs where all of Perry Stadium (cap. 8,000) was filled with employees from his statewide distributorship. He and his wife sponsored little league baseball, girls’ softball, bowling and many other teams throughout the years. Joyce’s sponsorship of Riverside Park 7 Up day was very popular with children and adults alike. The July 23, 1941 Seven Up day where rides were 3 cents with a 7 Up bottle cap had 20,000 people in attendance.

Tom Joyce enjoyed the Florida life after purchasing a magnificent estate in the Miami Beach area in 1940. He owned a yacht called the Seven-Up which was purchased in 1955 for $72,000.

Wallace O. Lee tells the story of his Miami Beach trip in 1947 when Tom took him on a tour of half a dozen of the best night clubs. As soon as Mr. Joyce walked in, the orchestra leaders stopped whatever their bands were playing and swung into “Back Home Again in Indiana.” Wallace asked how this had started and Tom told him he had thrown an afterhours party at his estate for club managers and orchestra leaders and ever since then his appearance has been the signal for the band to swing into the Hoosier song.

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Besides his great success with 7 Up, Tom Joyce was a busy man with other business ventures in Indianapolis and Florida. Tom added Tom Boy Soda to his sales line with the original tag line of “It’s Atomic!” on the bottles, and was President of the French Lick Valley Bottling Company. Tom partnered with John Helmer & Sons Contractors in offering the Indianapolis area home buyers a Lustron House. The Lustron House was a prefabricated home of colored porcelain enameled steel panels which sold for $7,500 -$8,000 dollars in 1948. He was also a partner in Joyce Appliances selling televisions and radio sets. Tom was an active Republican in both Indiana and Dade County, Florida politics and in Florida founded and was President of the Columbia Federal Savings and Loan Association as well as the director of two other banks.

When Tom Joyce passed away from a sudden heart attack at his Bal Harbour, Florida home on December 17, 1960 at the age of 62, his estate was worth $250,000 in personal property plus his real estate holdings in addition to his many business ventures.

He had come a long way from his $300 incorporation over his 25 years in business. Mrs. Georgette Joyce, Tom’s widow, was elected by the 7 Up Bottling Company and the Columbia Savings and Loan Association to succeed her husband as President for both ventures. In 1964 Mrs. Joyce started bottling “Like” soda which would go on to become Diet 7 Up. She sold Tom Joyce 7 Up Bottling to Westinghouse in May 1972.

Tom Joyce had several non-7 Up brands, including those pictured below, Tom Boy being a local favorite "It's Atomic"

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The Wisdom of Solomon and Naming

“Old Fitzgerald”

By Jack Sullivan

(Fig. 1) The name of the enterprise became S.C. Herbst Importing Company

“Old Fitzgerald” is one of the truly iconic names in the liquor trade. The legend is that this whiskey first was produced by a master whiskey-maker named John E. Fitzgerald at a distillery near Frankfort, Kentucky. Solomon C. Herbst, a Prussian-born wholesale wine and liquor dealer in Milwaukee, knew the tale well. In fact, with the wisdom of his Biblical namesake, Herbst wrote the script for the story when he bought the distillery.

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orn in 1842 in Ostrono, Prussia, and educated in local schools, Herbst left his homeland in 1859 at the age of 16 for the United States. Many German youth, including my own grandfather, emigrated at that age. It avoided the Prussian military draft with its high death rate for recruits in basic training.

Herbst seems to have headed directly to Milwaukee, a city with a large German population where the language was spoken widely.

The 1860 U.S. census found him, age 18, living Milwaukee’s Third Ward with a family named Nathan. He was working as a tinsmith.

Herbst soon understood that other employment opportunities offered greater reward. A canny youth, he rapidly absorbed the essentials of successful American merchandising. In 1868 at the age of 25 he emerged as a partner in wholesale Milwaukee liquor firm called Eggart & Herbst, located at 401-403 Chestnut Avenue, later to be renamed West Juneau Avenue. By 1870 Eggart had

departed the scene and left Solomon as the sole proprietor. The name of the enterprise became S.C. Herbst Importing Company (Fig. 1). According to Herbst’s obituary his liquor business had “a small beginning” but grew rapidly.

As he advanced in the liquor trade, Solomon married. He was described on a passport as standing 5 feet, 9 1/2 inches tall, with gray eyes and an oval face. His hair was prematurely gray. Solomon’s bride was Emma, a Wisconsin-born woman seven years his junior whose parents were immigrants from Bohemia, now a region in the Czech Republic. The 1880 census found the couple living on Milwaukee’s 14th Street, an area of large homes, with their three daughters, Carsie, 12; Della, 6, and Helen, 4. Indicative of Herbst’s growing wealth, the household boasted two servants.

Herbst began his career as a “rectifer,” that is, someone blending and mixing raw whiskeys in order to achieve a certain taste, smoothness and color. For his wholesale trade he packaged his products in ceramic jugs. These were then were stenciled in cobalt with his name and other information. Shown here are three stoneware containers that held his whiskey, the largest holding three gallons (Fig. 2-4). For his retail trade, Herbst used glass.

Shown here are an amber quart bottle embossed with his name and a distinctive round clear pint (Fig. 5,6). He also accommo-

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(Fig. 2-4) Shown here are three stoneware containers that held his whiskey, the largest holding three gallons

(Fig. 6) Shown here is a distinctive round clear pint with vertical embossing

dated his blended whiskeys in flasks, amber and clear.

(Fig. 7,8).

(Fig. 5) Shown here is an amber quart bottle embossed with his name

(Fig. 7,8) He also accommodated his blended whiskeys in flasks, amber and clear.

As Herbst’s liquor trade grew, he faced a problem in obtaining sufficient raw product for his rectifying activities. Competition for supplies from Kentucky and other distillery sources, as well as attempts to create supplier monopolies, were driving up prices and creating shortages of available whiskey. Like many wholesalers, Herbst looked for a guaranteed flow of supplies.

About 1900 he found and bought a small distillery outside Frankfort located on Benson Creek. In Federal parlance it was known as Registered Distillery #11 of

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the 7th Kentucky Revenue District. Herbst named it the “John E. Fitzgerald Distillery.”

re-registered that name in 1905, adding a second label as “Old Fitzgerald Bourbon, indicating it was “straight” (unblended) As the sole owner of the facility, whiskey. Herbst expanded the Herbst was fashioning a myth plant size and capacity until for his whiskey. He recognized it became one of the largest that giving his own name to the whiskey manufacturers in the distillery might not resonate far America. He renamed it the Old in Kentucky. Consequently, he Fitzgerald Distillery Company. spun a story, still perpetuated by (Fig. 9) He renamed it the Old Fitzgerald Distillery Company. An illustraAn illustration shows the name some authors, that the plant had tion shows the name on all the buildings and even on freight cars being on all the buildings and even on been built by an Irish master dis- transported past the site freight cars being transported tiller named John E. Fitzgerald past the site (Fig. 9). To run this who then sold the distillery to him. Fitzgerald major facility Herbst hired Jerry Bixler, a then had on moved to Hammond, Indiana, to member of a highly respected Kentucky run another distillery, or so Herbst’s story went. whiskey-making family, as manager and In reality, Fitzgerald was a U.S. Treasury agent master distiller. assigned to bonded warehouses who had a reputation as a heavy drinker with a taste for the best Despite the impressive size of his distillery, in whiskey. Using his post to good advantage, Herbst in his advertising featured workers he held the keys to the warehouses of his asusing an “old fashioned process,” preparsigned distilleries. While the owners discretely ing the mash in a wooden tub.(Fig. 10). His looked the other way, John E. frequently tapped proof for the validity of his claim, he asthe best barrels for his personal consumption. serted, was in a letter from Sam J. Roberts, As word spread in the trade about the revenue the collector of whiskey revenue for the man’s practices, prime whiskeys began to be 7th District. Herbst had asked the federal known as “Fitzgeralds.” official to confirm that in his Frankfort distillery “small tubs are exclusively used.”

Even before buying the Kentucky plant Herbst Without responding directly to Herbst, had recognized the attraction of an Irish name Roberts replied that the paperwork in his and in 1884 registered the brand of his flagship office indicated that the process “called for blend under the name “Jno. E. Fitzgerald.” Af- (Fig. 10) Herbst in his advertising featured the use of seventy-one mash tubs, of which ter his purchase of the Frankfort distillery he seventy are small and one large used as a workers using an “old fashioned process,” preparing the mash in a wooden tub

(Fig. 11,12) “Old Judge,” the last a brand purchased with the distillery

(Fig. 13,14) Herbst’s flagship, needless to say, was Old Fitzgerald, bottled as both bourbon and rye. It was sold over the counter in quart and flask sizes bearing a highly recognized label

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(Fig. 15) He and his family he moved from the downtown fringe of Milwaukee to a house at 3015 Shepard Street in the more fashionable Upper East Side, adjacent to Lake Michigan

cooler; the mode of mashing ‘by hand;’ the mode of fermenting ‘yeasting back, sour mash.” Period. Roberts signed off without really backing Herbst, who still found the official’s reply enough affirmation to use in his ads.

With his distillery running full out, the Milwaukee entrepreneur featured a number of brands, among them “Benson Creek,” “Old John,” “Clifton Springs,” and “Old Judge,” the last a brand purchased with the distillery (Fig. 11,12). Herbst’s flagship, needless to say, was Old Fitzgerald, bottled as both bourbon and rye. It was sold over the counter in quart and flask sizes bearing a highly recognized label (Fig. 13,14). Old Fitzgerald also found a ready market on steamships, trains, and high class “gentleman’s” clubs. To help distribute his whiskeys from a central location Herbst opened an office in Chicago in 1901 and maintained it for a dozen years. He also claimed overseas outlets in London, Paris and Genoa.

(Fig. 16) Herbst was given a funeral of the Masonic orders at his Shepard Street home and buried in Milwaukee’s Greenwood Cemetery

Fitzgerald brand name to W.L. Weller for “medicinal whiskey” during the “dry” years, thus keeping the label alive and recognized by the drinking public. After Repeal in 1934 Old Fitzgerald became the lead brand of the Stitzel-Weller company as the famed “Pappy” Van Winkle and his colleagues reorganized the Frankfort plant. When Stitzel-Weller was sold to Diego Ltd. in 1992, the Old Fitzgerald brand went to Heaven Hill distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky. The bourbon is still being produced there; its label bears the signature of “John E. Fitzgerald.” Herbst’s fable rolls on.

As his reputation for success in business grew in Milwaukee, Herbst expanded into other fields. In 1904 as S. Charles Herbst, he became an investor, incorporator and vice president of the Milwaukee Investment Company, a local financial institution. Later he helped establish the Citizens Trust Company with assets of more than $3 million. With his family he moved from the downtown fringe of Milwaukee to a house at 3015 Shepard Street in the more fashionable Upper East Side, adjacent to Lake Michigan (Fig. 15).

With no sons to succeed him, even as he aged Solomon continued to manage his major liquor distilling and distribution businesses. He was well into his seventies when National Prohibition forced him to shut down both his Kentucky distillery and his Milwaukee liquor deal- (Fig. 17) Post-Prohibition Old Fitzgerald milk ership. Herbst sold the rights to the Old glass decanter featuring a famous Irish castle

As he aged Herbst must have had many a quiet chuckle as he saw the fictitious origin story of Old Fitzgerald he had concocted being repeated again and again. Late in life he apparently admitted that naming his whiskey for the tippling Fitzgerald had been to him a wickedly funny insider joke. King Solomon died at 80.

This Solomon lived to be a ripe old 98, dying in February 1941. As his three daughters and their families looked on, Herbst was given a funeral of the Masonic orders at his Shepard Street home and buried in Milwaukee’s Greenwood Cemetery (Fig. 16).

Note: The story Solomon Herbst had concocted about John E. Fitzgerald as a famous distiller has persisted for decades. I own several books on bourbon that repeat the myth. In 2011 whiskey authority Chuck Cowdery, using evidence he says surfaced a decade earlier, wrote an expose’ of Herbst’s fabrication that now is generally accepted as the truth behind the Old Fitzgerald name. The last image here is of a post-Prohibition Old Fitzgerald milk glass decanter featuring a famous Irish castle (Fig. 17). The legend says, ”Shure’n it’s the Blarney.” “Blarney” aptly describes Herbst’s Old Fitzgerald

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The FOHBC, led by board member Michael Seeliger, has started a major new initiative to preserve our history.

We would like your assistance in locating potentially long-lost images before it is too late as they could potentially be forgotten forever.

We are looking for photographs, either in black and white or color of the great collections, collectors, bottle shows and displays of yesteryear.

Our goal is to gather, enhance and index this material digitally and make it available to our members and collectors for generations to come.

Send photos to: Michael Seeliger We prefer images in digital format, jpg or pdf format, or original photos that we will scan and archive, or return. Please specify. The highest resolution possible. Please caption each image. If you know of anyone who may have some of these images like club historians, or old collectors, please let them know or provide contact info for these people we may have lost track of. We are also looking for older bottles books to scan and archive on our web sites. Thank you.

N8211 Smith Road Brooklyn, Wisconsin 53521 mwseeliger@gmail.com 608.575.2922

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Articles for BOTTLES and EXTRAS Our editor, staff and designers eagerly await to help you in any possible way.

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

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Hotel Soda Bottler In the Deep South

By David Kyle Rakes

G

eorge Charles Gemenden was a native of Hesse Darnstadt, Germany.

Born on Nov. 11, 1811, he decided to emigrate to the United States in the early 1840s when he was about 31 years of age. He and his wife Catherine, and a possible son Henry also native to Germany, settled in Philadelphia.

The couple were for sure the parents of two children, a son George Alex and a daughter Cassie. Records show George became an American citizen while in Pennsylvania. He was in the shoe manufacturing business, but for unknown reasons, the family moved to Savannah, Georgia in 1851.

He started his Southern business as a soda water manufacturer, a business in which he had plenty of competition. Many of those bottlers already established in the port city were of German descent, including August Meyer, Thomas Maher, George Ebberwein, Frederick Meincke, Henry Kolshorn, Henry Kuck, Henry Lubs, Theodore and Henry Rober, L. Glinde (a.k.a L.G. Linde), J. Manke, Phillip Heller, Charles Umbach and Albert Von Harten.

Gemenden’s soda water bottling business was soon producing a large number of beverages such as lager beer, porter ale, brown stout, cordials and, of course, soda water. The latter was sold in a variety of bottles in different shades of green and are iron-pontiled. Two of the bottles are called “Eagle Sodas,” each sporting an eagle and shield on their fronts and Geo. Gemenden / Savannah / Geo. on their backs. Another type is embossed George Ch / Gemeunden (sic) on the front and Brown/ Stout on the back. His misspelled name appears to be commonplace for many of his bottles.

Planters Hotel, George Gemenden, Savannah Georgia Soda bottle (Courtesy of Mike Newman)

In 1856, Gemenden sold half of his bottle business to bottler Phillip Heller for $1,400.85. The other half was sold to Fanny Silber, a wealthy entrepreneur. The seller had an inventory listing his assets included in the sales and also provides a closer look into his operation.

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Planters Hotel letterhead. (Image courtesy of Russ Butler)

The list verbatim: “One horse, two mules, one wagon, one two-horse wagon, ten vinegar barrels, four fountains, one bottling machine, one soda pump with gasometer, one copper soda water apparatus, four and a half barrels of Porter, two barrels of lager beer, three other barrels of lager beer, two barrels of Porter, seven cordial stands, one copper kettle, fourteen vinegar steamers, fixtures and shed, one lot of cooper tools, forty-three-dozen syrup bottles, two-hundred forty-nine dozen soda bottles, twenty-three dozen porter bottles, twenty-six and a half dozen lager beer bottles, nine-hundred and thirty-four assorted bottles, three-hundred thirty-six London porter bottles, one lot of tin patches, two kegs, two stoves, two and a half barrels of marble dust, twenty-five dozen cordial bottles, thirty-two dozen soda water with bottles, one-hundred seventy-four pounds of twine, thirty-eight gross of bottles, eight dozen London Porter, one-hundred thirty-nine gross of corks, twenty gallons of cordial, three-dozen bottles, two pounds of different kinds of oil, one barrel of sugar, one steam soda fount and thirty soda water boxes.”

There was a lot of duplication in the listing, but what was surprising was the total number of bottles – 11,272 with almost half sodas. Perhaps many were unembossed. The vinegar may have been used in the cider-making process, but could have been mixed with the marble dust to produce carbon dioxide inside the generator. Cooper tools were used in barrel-making.

Despite the sales, Gemenden stayed in the soda water manufacturing business for another two years with partner Charles A.H. Umbach. After a year elapsed, Heller was joined by the Robers, C. Clark and F.W. Headman in a sale of their firm to John Ryan.

Planters Hotel, George Gemenden, Savannah Georgia Soda back side of bottle (Courtesy of Mike Newman)

The city’s most famous soda water bottler was Irishman Ryan who, unlike his competitors, eventually estab-

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Bottles and Extras The place prospered and by 1862 he had added a restaurant, saloon and an oyster bar in the hotel basement. The saloon was reported to have “a capacious wine vault” in which was stored “innumerable casks, barrels, tierces, tuns, bottles.” Gemenden also “directly imported Rudesheimer, Aschmunhauser and other Rhine wines, together with liquors from all countries, lager beer and sweitizercase straight from where they know how to make it.”

In 1861, Gemenden had advertised his new saloon as “The New Oyster and Refreshment Saloon, under the Planters’ Hotel,” and boasted it was “well-provided with Oysters, Game, Fish, Etc.” Only one bottle, the Planters’ Hotel, was made at this time for Gemenden and it is rare, with less than 50 known. They are one of the few sodas in the U.S. featuring a hotel name in the embossing. According to some research only four other bottles were made for early hotels; Old White Bear (circa: 1844-1846), Regatto House (circa: 1846-1848), Kouli Kahn Hotel (circa: 18481851) and Hause Hotel (circa: 1850-1854).

Gemenden’s Planters’ Hotel is the most well-known of the hotel bottles.

During the 1860s, he made many trips to Europe to purchase the finest wines and liquors and often left soda bottler Phillip Young in charge in his absence.

In 1868, his daughter Cassie married Herman L. Schreiner, a well-known Germanborn concert solo pianist and “one of Savannah’s best known business men.” Herman was proprietor of Schreiner’s Music House with branches in Macon and Savannah, a book and music dealer that often performed at the Savannah Theater. In 1874, Cassie died of unknown causes at the age of 24. Schreiner married again and eventually returned to Germany. However, he got sick on the return voyage only to make it to his German home place to die.

Here is the fron and back version of the George Gemenden "Eagle Soda,", Savannah Georgia Soda bottle

lished branches in Atlanta, Augusta and Columbus, Georgia. His original Excelsior Bottling Works was established in Savannah in 1852 and pretty much dominated the city’s soda water scene.

That could have been the reason for Gemenden’s sell-out, although more probably he wanted to devote more time to the hotel he had purchased in 1857.

The Planters’ Hotel was built before 1840 on the corner of Barnard and Bryan. It was located next to Market Square and near the Savannah River with its ports full of sailing ships.

Image of George Charles Gemenden's signature from the Chatham Co. Liquor Dealers book, (image courtesy of Russ Butler)

After two owners, including William Wilson who operated the hotel from 1842-61, Gemenden began learning the hotel business, emerging as sole owner by 1862 and improving the place’s amenities. He placed an early ad: “New Bathing House at the Planters’ Hotel. Prices: Single Bath $.25, Six Tickets $1.00.”

Orange and St. Gaul Streets.

Interestingly, Henry Gemenden, the possible son of George, who showed up on the 1860 census of Savannah working as a barkeeper at Planters’ Hotel, was a clerk in 1871 for Herman L. Schreiner at

By 1870, the hotel was doing so well that Gemenden’s real estate was valued at $10,000 and personal estate at $2,500. The census taker that year listed George, his wife, Catherine, and son George

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Alex. The census also listed 57 others who lived in the hotel.

Planter's Hotel on a postage paid Planters Hotel envelope (Image courtesy of Russ Butler)

It is not known how many rooms were in the hotel, but an educated guess is between 30 and 60. Some years ago, a Planters’ Hotel copper skeleton door key with attached star-shaped copper plate with room No. 33 turned up. That’s a great go-with.

In 1874, Gemenden listed the hotel for sale, advertising it “with a three-year lease and privilege of five years. The hotel is in thorough order and enjoys an excellent run of customers.”

Gemenden seems to have sold the hotel by 1877 for he and his son George Alex are in the saloon business together as G. C. Gemenden & Son, selling lager beer and liquor at corner of St. Julian and Whitaker.

In 1880, George Charles is listed as a manager for the Savannah depot of one of the country’s largest breweries, Bergner & Engel Brewing Company of Philadelphia. Beer brewed in Philadelphia was being shipped in large barrels to out of state depots and offices in Washington D. C., Norfolk and Richmond, Va, Trenton, Sea Side City, Atlantic City, N.J., and Jacksonville, Fla. Gemenden at his same place on St. Julian and Whitaker was putting the beer into his own bottles to sell them.

In 1882, George Alex Gemenden shows up as a manager for Bergner & Engel Brewing Company at 89 West Bay, Jacksonville, Fla. It is not known how long George Alex was in Jacksonville, but a soda and beer bottle was made for him while he was selling beer for Bergner & Engel Brewing Company. By the year 1886, he is back in Savannah.

Here is a picture of the Planters Hotel key. (Photo by Russ Butler Havana)

On March 1, 1882, George Charles Gemenden resigned his position with Bergner & Engel Brewing Company. When he stepped down Charles Kolshorn, a former employee of Gemenden, took over with his brother. Bergner & Engel Brewing Company was in business for 41 years, opening in 1879 and closing in 1920.

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Here is an image of the Bergner & Engal Brewing Co., Gemuenden worked at for a while

There are six known Gemenden embossed bottles from this era, four were made for George Charles and two for George Alex. All are smooth-based and likely had blob tops sealed by Lightning-type stoppers.

The known examples: Aqua Geo. / Ch. / Gemunden (sic) / Lager Beer / Savannah Geo. on the fronts and This Bottle / Is Loaned / Only on the backs.

Another aqua embossed on the front G. Ch. Gemunden (sic) / Lager Beer / Savannah, Ga. and on the back This Bottle Is / Loaned Only.

His colored beer bottles came in “7-Up” green or a light gray green and are embossed on the front “Geo. Ch. Gemunden (sic) / Savannah, Ga., and on the back “Lager Beer.” The last known beer bottle also is Aqua and embossed G. Ch. Gemunden / Savannah Geo. with nothing on the back.

George Alex has an aqua blob top soda bottle with a round slug plate embossed “G. A. Gemuenden / Jacksonville / Fla.”, on front and “This / Bottle Not / to Be Sold,” on the back. The other bottle is a beer, it is tall, cylindrical and embossed in an oval plate “G. A. Gemuenden / Jacksonville Fla. / on the front, and “This Bottle / Not To / Be Sold.” Both these bottles seem to be fairly scarce.

Savannah directories show George Charles Gemenden continued operat(Left) These bottles are from George Alex Gemenden of Jacksonville, the son of George Charles Gemenden. The first is an aqua blob top soda, the second a beer. Pictures courtesy of Tod Von Mechow website sodaandbeers.com

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Gemuenden family burial lot

ing a beer bottling and saloon business from 1883-1886 on the corner of St. Julian and Whitaker and his residence was listed as 60 Broughton. He had been at this location for almost a decade.

However, Gemenden only lived a few more years. His son George Alex seemed to have run the saloon the last two years before it went out of business. George Charles, wife Catherine and George Alex last living residence was 60 Broughton Street.

nations about the bottles was provided by Russ Butler, Havana, Fla., during May 2020.

Gemenden passes away on May 26, 1888, and is buried in the Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah. He is buried along-side his wife Katherine Gemenden (1827-1890) and daughter Cassie Schreiner (1849-1874). He had been a prominent resident of Savannah for 37 years.

Planters’ Hotel owner William Wilson, Savannah Daily Republican Newspaper, Dec. 15, 1842, Digital Library of Georgia Newspapers.

SOURCES:

With special thanks to Russ Butler, Havana, Fla. and Corey Stock, Jacksonville, Fla. without their research and records this story could not have been told in its entirety.

Planters’ Hotel in newspaper files: “Bathing House,” Daily Morning News 1850-64, July 22, 1857, image 3, Digital Library of Georgia Newspapers; “Charles Umbach co-partner,” Daily Morning News, 185064, June 5, 1858m Image 2, Digital Library of Georgia Newspapers; “Phillip Young managing hotel” The Daily News and Herald, Savannah, 1866-68, April 27, 1866, image 2, Digital Library of Georgia Newspapers; “Importing liquor,” Savannah Daily Herald, 1865-66, image 3, Digital Library of Georgia Newspapers.

Planters’ Hotel owner J. Slater, Daily Republican Newspaper, Oct. 21, 1840, and April 27, 1841, Digital Library of Georgia Newspapers.

Planters’ Hotel Address: 1859 Savannah City Directory, per Worth Point Auction Site online 2020.

Herman L. Schreiner obituary, The Morning News (Savannah) 1887-1900, September 7, 1891, page 8, image 8.

Sale of Planters’ Hotel, Savannah Morning News, 1868-1887, Jan. 10m, 1874, image 2, Digital Library of Georgia Newspapers.

Savannah City Directory for Gemenden, 1866, 1867, 1870, 1871, 1874, 1877, 1879, 1881, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886 and 1888.

Georgia in 1860, New Georgia Encyclopedia, online at M.georgiaencyclopedia.org, original entry by John C. Inscoe, University of Georgia, 09/09/2010. Last edited by NGE staff on 06/96/2019, dated June 18, 2020.

Notice for George Charles Gemenden resigning in 1882 from Bergner & Engle Brewing Company, Savannah Morning News, March 8, 1882.

Savannah Sodas, An Illustrated List, by Russ Butler, Wrinkles Inc., 1998, P.O. Box 264, Havana, FL 32333.

Webb”s Jacksonville Directory, George A. Gemuden manager Berbner & Engel Brewing co, 1882, page 91.

Philadelphia Naturalization Records, William P. Philby, Detroit, Mich., 1982, Page 219; research at Wallace State Community College in Alabama, by Bob Davis, P.O. Box 687, Hinesville, AL 35077-0687.

Sextant’s Records, Page 279, Bonaventure historical Society, Savannah, 2000. Research at Wallace State Community College in Alabama by Bob Davis, P.O. Box 687, Hanceville, AL 35077-0687.

George Gemenden Head of Household, 1850 Census, Spring Garden, Ward 3, Philadelphia, PA 8445; 1860 Census, Savannah 2nd District, Chatham, Ga., page 169; 1870 Census, Savannah, Chatham County, Ga.; 1889 Census, Savannah, Chatham County, Ga., Sheet B, No. 375.

Aug. 1, 1856 Inventory Sale Abstract in Savannah, Lawrence Cornell present, Chatham County, Ga. between Phillip Heller, Fanny Silber and George Gemenden; the inventory and some expla-

Findagrave.com, George Charles and Catherine Gemenden and Cassie Schreiner buried at Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Ga. Soda & Beer Bottles of North America web site, Bottle ID 53825AA and 53825AB, Tod von Mechow, 2012.

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The jar category is also amazing with the variety of shapes, colors and closures making this a very interesting group especially when Ferdinand adds the story behind each jar. Remember, “Every Bottle Has A Story.”

Virtual Museum Ne ws The FOHBC Virtual Museum has been established to display, inform, educate, and enhance the enjoyment of historical bottle and glass collecting by providing an online virtual museum experience for significant historical bottles and other items related to early glass.

The many spirits bottles in our museum like bourbon and whiskey, also come with the history behind them and the folks that provide the research and information is always noted in the gallery when we give credits which are really important. Much of this in the Spirits Gallery is provided by Eric McGuire, Jack Sullivan, Jeff Wichmann and Ferdinand with support images from Jeff Wichmann and his broad range of images from American Bottle Auctions archives.

Spring is here and like the colors of spring, the glass colors in the Virtual Museum are also blooming. Since the last issue of Bottles and Extras, close to 60 new bottle additions have been placed in the museum galleries. Ferdinand has been busy either updating or placing a new item on a daily basis. Along with our historical flasks, bitters, target balls, jars and spirits, we have regularly been adding new food and sauce bottles and soda water bottles in their respective galleries.

If you like bottles, history or just like looking at colorful objects, the FOHBC Virtual Museum is the place to be. We’re still open for free because the Covid-19 virus still hasn’t been put under control yet and we may stay that way after the virus is controlled.

It just depends on how our funds hold out. We have been getting some donations and those folks are listed as donors on the museum site in the Donor Hall. We are very grateful to these people.

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We have been getting inquiries from collectors asking about imaging their collections and Alan does have some trips lined up when he feels it’s safe to travel. We’re about a year behind with the pandemic shutting us down in mid-March 2021. Also, Miguel keeps the system running with website tune-ups performed when needed. If you own a computer you know what I mean.

The process starts with Alan and Gina who are busy imaging new items for planned museum website insertion and then we do the research and secondary support imaging editing. Alan heads up our midwest imaging studio and Gina does the same in our west coast studio. The food and sauce bottles are primarily from Lou Pellegrini’s collection. Lou is Gina’s father. They are really something to behold, truly beautiful objects of glass like all three sizes of the amber Willington Cathedral Pickle jar on display above.

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With one salaried web technician averaging $1,000 a month, we need help. Plus, we will be planning new trips soon where costs will be incurred. All other time is donated by the Virtual Museum team out of our love and passion for the hobby and the FOHBC. Thank you.

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EVERY BOTTLE HAS A STORY FOHBC Virtual Museum Spring & Mineral Water Gallery

The pint emerald green Crystal Spring Water bottle in our

FOHBC Virtual Museum Spring & Mineral Water Gallery certainly has a story behind it. It was produced and sold in the early 1870s when C. R. Brown used the spring to attract guests to his two magnificent hotels.

The C. R. Brown bottle is blown in a two-piece hinge mold and has a cylindrical body and short tapered neck, a hand-tooled finish with rounded shoulders, and an applied tapered mouth and ring. An arch formed by embossed ‘CRYSTAL SPRING WATER’ typography sets over and captures straight line embossed copy in three lines reading ‘C. R. BROWN, SARATOGA SPRING’, and ‘N.Y.’. Quart examples also exist.

Charles R. Brown was a well-known and successful jeweler in Saratoga Springs, New York. No doubt his many affluent summer visitors afforded him a robust business selling Swiss and American watches, fine jewelry, clocks, diamonds, silverware, opera glasses, eyeglasses, and rings. He would go into the hotel business which was booming in this resort and therapeutic spa town which was only an hour and a half train ride from Albany.

He also had his name embossed on a pretty rare Saratoga Springs bottle.

Above: Strolling in the Park circa 1874.

Sketched by Albert Berghaus, Saratoga Room, Saratoga Springs Public Library

Right: Emerald green pint Crystal Spring Water - C. R. Brown Saratoga Spring N.Y. FOHBC Virtual Museum Spring & Mineral Water Gallery

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Charles Robinson Brown was born in Unadilla Forks, New York in 1827 and married Mary Ursula Skidmore on August 4, 1854.

He listed and advertised in the Saratoga Springs directories as a jeweler and optician until 1871 where we see he was also stating that he was now the proprietor of Park Place Hotel and Crystal Spring which is the name on his bottle. See ad below.

Above: Charles R. Brown was advertising that he was a Jeweler and Optician. He was also the proprietor of Park Place Hotel and Crystal Spring. Located at Park Place and Broadway, Opposite Congress Park, Saratoga Spa N.Y. – 1871 Boyd’s Saratoga Springs Directory Bottom Right: C.R. Brown, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Optician and Dealer in Fine Jewelry, Swiss and American Watches, etc. Grand Central Hotel – 1872 Boyd’s Saratoga Springs Directory

C. R. Brown was located at Park Place and Broadway which was opposite Congress Park. His hotel guests overlooked the picturesque Congress Spring with the Park set against a scenic backdrop of Saratoga. An elegant colonnade on the first floor of the hotel led guests to the health-giving and therapeutic waters of Crystal Spring. The proprietors named it Crystal Spring from the crystalline appearance of the water, which did not rise to the surface but was pumped up from a depth of several feet. It was discovered in 1870 by experimental excavation.

You can almost picture his jewelry shop prominently facing the street on the ground floor of the hotel. It would have had a second interior entrance facing the lobby of the hotel. A grand display of Crystal Spring Water bottles would have been set up on covered tables in the hotel lobby and gift shop. Maybe even a retail display of his jewels and pocket watches would have been set up in a glass case with a few bottles of his spring water.

Unfortunately, on September 14, 1871, two very disastrous fires occurred early in the morning, around 2:00 am, destroying the Park Place Hotel, the Columbian Hotel and a large part of the Crescent. All but two buildings were left standing on the block.

Charles R. Brown suffered major losses to his jewelry business

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and hotel. A second fire started at Hamilton alley just east of Broadway. A thick cluster of wooden buildings, one dwelling, half a dozen barns, and one tannery were destroyed. There was a suspicion as to both fire’s origins as they both seemed to start at approximately the same time.

Undaunted by the previous fire that destroyed his hotel, Charles R. Brown went into partnership with Dr. Robert Hamilton, one of the village’s most-respected medical men, to build a new hotel at approximately the same location left bare by the immense conflagration which consumed the Crescent, Park Place and other hotels the previous September. They would build The Grand Central Hotel in record time. It could handle up to 1,000 guests at a time and have access to the same Crystal Spring. Charles, of course, would set up his jewelry shop within the hotel.

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Right: 1876 Painting of Broadway in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. - Library of Congress

Below: Grand Central Hotel, Saratoga, N.Y., from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views.

The Grand Central Hotel (1871-1874), with Broadway stretching into the distance. Image from the Saratoga Room collection at the Saratoga Springs Public Library.

Congress Spring Park, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. [between 1900 and 1910] Retrieved from the Library of Congress

Bottles and Extras Somehow the partners got the new hotel built and had it opened by the end of July 1872. Unfortunately, they had stretched their finances to the breaking point. It was reported that Brown and Hamilton ran into money trouble and the property was sold, taken by creditors, and sold again. Some of those owed money placed liens on the furniture and aspects of construction. Still, the Grand Central operated in the summers of 1873 and 1874, closing for what turned out to be the last time in early September 1874.

Above Advertisement: Grand Central Hotel, Opposite Congress Spring and Park.

Crystal Spring situated at the south end of the Hotel, Hamilton & Brown, Proprietors – 1872 Boyd’s Saratoga Springs Directory

1874 was the year that all four of the grand resort hotels on Broadway were open – Congress Hall, the Grand Central Hotel, the Grand Union Hotel, and the United States Hotel. In addition to the usual crowds in town for the springs, the races, and casino, that year thousands would be visiting to attend the first inter-collegiate regatta on Saratoga Lake. It was an exciting year in Saratoga Springs.

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The fire’s story was well-accounted for in local newspapers.

There were the alerts for more firefighting help telegraphed to Troy, Fort Edward and Glens Falls, only to be countermanded when it was thought the flames would be controlled. The countermand was premature, as it turned out since fire erupted again under the steep Mansard roof, and some observers thought it erupted in more than one place at once. There were strong wind gusts that day as the fire roared and spread. After the fire, furnishings from the Grand Central Hotel were hauled into the street and stacked up in the Park. The eventual owners’ loss was estimated at $400,000, or about 8 million of today’s dollars.

Blame for the blaze was put on “some malicious person,” and they may have had their motives. It was rumored that many people who worked on the building when it was built had not received their pay and that some unknown person may have burned the building for revenge, one account states.

It’s unclear whether anyone was ever arrested.

We don’t hear from C. R. Brown much after this second fire event though he became an agent for Bethesda Spring Water, which was located in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He had sold the Crystal Spring but apparently kept his bottle mold and had it peened out to make the Bethesda Spring Water bottle. He sold the water through a merchant in Troy, New York.

This aqua quart example pictured on the right was the late Howard Dean’s. It is rumored to be one of only two or three known examples.

C. R. Brown died on February 24, 1882, in Saratoga Springs.

Emerald green Crystal Spring Water quart, an older Crystal Spring Water photograph of both the pint and quart together.

Above: Image clipping depicts all four grand hotels - the Grand Central Hotel, Congress Hall, the Grand Union Hotel, and the United States Hotel.

From a July 25, 1874 bird’s eye view map featured in Harper’s Weekly.

- Library of Congress

On October 1st, 1874, disaster would strike again in the form of wood combustion, and by all accounts, it struck in broad daylight this time. “About 11 o’clock yesterday morning, a man on Hamilton Street, passing the Grand [Central] hotel, discovered smoke issuing from the roof of the south wing, containing the dining room.”

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A Tale of Two Batchelors

By Fred DeCarlo

This is an extremely rare pontil hair dye put up by Daniel Batchelor of Utica, NY. This photo was from a 2016 Glass Works Auctions sale.

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n the hobby of collecting bottles many are familiar with the name Batchelors which are associated with hair dyes and hair-related products. William Batchelor of New York City sold these products on a grand scale taking out advertisements nationwide, and bottle diggers far and wide have discovered remnants or intact examples all over. What many have not heard of was another Batchelor family who also was engaged in the sale of

hair products from the city of Utica, New York. Let us look at the Utica Batchelor Brothers, and William’s anger at the competition from this central New York family.

Daniel Batchelor emigrated from England in 1839 and took up residence in Utica, N.Y. after a short stay in Philadelphia. Soon after his brothers John F. and Peter also came to live in Utica.

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From everything I could read while researching the Utica Batchelor family, they were hairdressers by trade before coming to America. The first directory listing I could find in Utica was from 1842 and listed Daniel and his brother John F. as hairdressers with an established business address of 1 Genesee St. They continued in the directory for many years, but the focus of this article will be the 1840s – 1860s. Some listings changed a bit stating hairdressing saloon and hairdressers and dealers of wigs, human hair, fancy goods and perfumes.

In researching William Batchelor from NYC, I found several later advertisements which listed his son Charles, and these advertisements stated their business had been established in 1839. I could not find proof of this because my lack of access to New York City directories but most advertisements I could find started in around 1845. The odd part of the 1839 date was that it is the same year in which Daniel Batchelor from Utica immigrated to the United States. Like Daniel and John F. from Utica, William also sold wigs, hair products and “Fancy Goods.”

Now that we have a very briefly established the two families, I want to present my reason for the desire to research the Batchelor bottles. I had been always told Batchelor Hair Dyes were a product made in Utica, New York As a collector of only bottles from my hometown of Utica, I was interested in getting my hands on a few. When I began to ask around locally some collectors showed me examples. The examples presented were small hair dye bottles that were small square paneled and embossing of Batchelors, Liquid, Hair Dye, No. 1 each on one of the four side panels. A second example I was shown was practically the same bottle with the same embossing except with the name D. Batchelor on the panel where the name was embossed.

These bottles amazed me as the appearance was strikingly similar. Though some local collectors believed the Batchelors absent the first initial may have been from Utica, I now am certain that they are not and are from William and Charles Batchelor from New York City. The examples from Utica either have a D. or a J.F. before Batchelor for Daniel and John F. respectively.

Daniel Batchelor Tricogene bottle I excavated from a woodlined privy in Utica, N.Y. There are only a few known and this is the only example with a rounded double collar lip. Tricogene was advertised for the cleaning, restoring and regrowing of the hair.

So, who came first when it came to market their hair products? I could only guess at this point but one thing I can say for certain, William was very upset as seen in many of his local advertisements. William had angrily disputed his product being the first and genuine product and without directly naming Daniel or John’s products ran ads calling names to the imitators and belittling the existence of any knock offs as unsafe and an imitation.

Here is one such advertisement:

Example of a John F. Batchelor Liquid Hair Dye No. 1. Daniel and his brother John both put out hair dyes and all examples I have seen have their first initial before Batchelor.

“Monkeys, parrots, and dogs may be taught to imitate some of the outward forms and actions of humanity; and foxes manifest in aptness in stealing quite equal to the generality of mankindbut to man alone, is given the ability to originate, contrive and construct, and even the human animal seems to divide by his own acts his species into the different genre of men, or originators, contrivers or constructors – and monkeys, parrots, and foxes, or imitators pretenders and peculators. Mark the striking exemplification. Wm. A. Batchelor of 233 Broadway, New York, having by perseverance and years of toll and costly experiments, succeeded in producing a Hair Dye, for which he has received

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A possibly only known example of an open pontil Daniel Batchelor Antispassis from Utica, NY. Advertised as removing dandruff and restoring a natural glow to hair without a greasy appearance.

15 medals and diplomas – and by all, admitted to be perfect in all respects, a host of imitating monkeys and piratical pretenders, who always beset the paths of geniuses and toil, to take advantage of the wit they do not possess themselves, have sprung upon the trail laid out by “BATCHELOR.” With peculiar pertinacity they beset and worry with pretentious stories and bravado, every one who will listen to them, and they frequently succeed in gaining credit for themselves and trash. To guard the unsuspecting, the original and genuine Wm. A. Batchelor Hair Dye is now put up with a costly Steel Plate Engraving, and his signature thereon on four sides of the box, and the address, 233 Broadway, New York.”

Another advertisement called out the dealers of whom sold his competitors' products. This was an advertisement put up by an agent in Rome, N.Y., Kinney & Greene, Druggist and Apothecary, 38 Dominick St.: “Wm. A. Batchelor’s Hair Dye To Dealers – the original, To those whose consciences are confined in their breeches pockets, and their brains in a broader part of their pantaloons, I have but little to say, but shall let the consequences of dealing in imitations and trash work their own course. If by accident, the names of such leak out, I shall not take much trouble to stop the leak. But for the protection of honest and honorable

dealers and unsuspecting consumers, the original, genuine, and reputable Wm. A. Batchelor’s Hair Dye is put up with an elegant Steel Plate Engraving, with his signature and address up the four sides of the box.”

One last advertisement I wanted to showcase was also to discredit Daniel and John. This also listed Kinney & Greene of Rome, N.Y. as agents. Rome, N.Y. is a neighboring city to Utica.

It read: “With a tub of putty and a thimble full of soap for brains, any one in an hour, may for a tolerable semblance of a man, capable of receiving impressions, a man of weight, and susceptible of increasing in worth, as the raw materials advances on “charge” for putty sometimes rises, not withstanding its weight, But in course of nature, it takes years of time and study, and anxious toil and thought to prefect the acting, thinking agent of Divinity; Now mark the application of this precept. Wm. A. Batchelor’s Hair Dye. By its intrinsic worth, has won a reputation almost universal, and is acknowledged to be, beyond comparison, the most natural, and in fact, the only reliable known. Its very reputation has fertilized into existence, scores of imitating compounds, of the same relative worth to the genuine Wm. A. Batchelor’s as the putty man bears to the thinking flech and blood. As it is

Daniel Batchelors Liquid Hair Dye No 1. You can see the almost identical resemblance to William Batchelors hair dye products.

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Daniel Batchelor's store on Liberty St in Utica. This is after Daniel began selling agricultural seed but on the front the sign reads Dealers in Human Hair and other fancy goods.

In the photos presented with this article you can see that some of the Utica Batchelor bottles were interesting. Examples exist from the 1840s on through the 1860s and a few even later probably 1870s-80s. The dark green example shown is considered one of the top hair bottles known to exist. This photo was from a 2016 Glass Works auction, and is most likely circa Three examples of William Batchelor's, of New York City, Liquid Hair Dye No. 1, 1850. Another interesting bottle is a D. Batchelor's Williams bottles almost always had BATCHELOR'S with the 'S at the end of his name Tricogene which we dug in a Utica privy a while back with a rounded double-collared lip. This may be the presumed that dealers and consumers are not all putty men, they only known examples dug as two were found in one privy. A will be able to apply moral for themselves and obtain the genuine couple other Tricogene were found with a flat ring single applied and true, with Steel plate engravings signed on all four sides by lip. Also shown is a great example of a D. Batchelor's Antispassis William A. Batchelor, 233 Broadway, New York” open pontil bottle. This example is most likely the only known but this would be tough to confirm.

This ad went on and on and the reader can almost feel William's anger in the very writing of the ad. He often ran ads right above As time went on Daniel Batchelor slowly migrated into a new or below Daniel's ads in local newspapers proclaiming to beware business venture in that of selling agricultural seeds. This busiof imitators. On the flip side, I personally had never seen Danness thrived for well over a century and although not in business iel place any ads claiming he was the original or other products any longer there still is an old painted sign, albeit hardly visible being an imitation. Could it be Daniel really was an imitator not now days, on a brick structure at the corner of Hotel Street and only stealing the exact mold styles as William but also having Liberty Street in downtown Utica. I hope that you found this arthe same last name? It was easy to mistake one for the product ticle somewhat informative on the two separate families engaged for the competitor’s product. We may never truly know but what in the same business with the same name and similar lookwe do know is William's business was probably at least 100-fold ing products. It was confusing for me at first as with other Daniel's business. collectors I am sure. If anyone would like to discuss or share stories on the topic please reach out to me.

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Laughlins & Bushfield

By Zack Baer

A lineup of five Laughlins & Bushfield Druggists bottles (both pontil and smooth base), from the collection of John Leonard.

fter moving to Canonsburg, Pennsylvania in the spring of A 2016 with my wife, I was very excited to learn that the Washington County Antique Bottle and Glass Club held their

monthly meetings less than 10 minutes from our new home.

Though we were both new bottle collectors at the time, my wife and I attended our first meeting and became official club members shortly thereafter. Eventually, I was invited to my first privy dig and soon my collection, and bottle knowledge, started to grow.

Through happenstance, I started to focus my collection on early vermifuge bottles (for the uninitiated, a vermifuge is a medication used to kill and expel intestinal parasitic worms). I also started to gravitate toward early Wheeling, West Virginia bottles as our new home was now so close to this historic city. Slowly, through digging, and purchases from fellow collectors, I began to add these types of bottles to my collection. When our bottle club’s annual show approached in the spring of 2017, I had high hopes of finding another bottle or two to add to my shelf.

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THE FIND My wife and I arrived at the show early to help with set up and to carry in boxes for some of the venders. After the work was done, the doors were opened and the early buyers rushed into the building. My wife and I followed suit and quickly made our first trip around the tables. We completed this preliminary search as fast as we could to make sure we did not miss out on any “once in a lifetime” deals that would swiftly be gobbled up by other buyers.

We saw a number of great bottles, and I am sure there were a few good deals, but I didn’t see anything that jumped out at me as a “must buy”. We then commenced our second search. This time we walked around the tables slowly, taking our time to inspect each bottle to make sure we didn’t miss something on the first pass. But alas, we found nothing that fit into my niche collection.

By the end of the second lap the initial rush of adrenaline was starting to die off and I was beginning to lose hope. The general admission buyers started to filter into the building as I sulked my way over to the complementary refreshments table to drown my sorrows in free coffee and donuts.

Just as it seemed I would be returning home empty handed, I glanced over to a nearby table. There, on a series of shelves between beautiful cobalt sodas and apple green medicines, sat a small aqua bottle which caught my eye. Walking closer, I saw that the bottle was embossed “Worm Powder”. As I leaned in to pick the bottle up, I couldn’t help but feel like Indiana Jones when he reaches past the hundreds of golden chalices to pick out the wooden cup that he knew to be the Holy Grail.

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They offered to buy it from me on the spot, but having just found a variant of my holy grail bottle, I couldn’t even consider parting with it.

After the show, I brought the bottle home and placed it on my shelf. I was extremely excited to add this bottle to my collection, but something still bothered me: why was the bottle embossed Virginia and not West Virginia? I needed to know the history behind this bottle. Once again, I found myself going down the research rabbit hole, and though I didn’t find much about my bottle specifically, I did find a lot of information about the company that made it. So even though some of the history included below doesn’t pertain to my bottle, I included it in the off chance someone else will find it useful.

THE HISTORY Laughlins & Bushfield Laughlins & Bushfield was founded as a wholesale druggist by Samuel B. Bushfield and brothers Samuel and Alexander Laughlin in 1854 after purchasing the merchandise stock of the earlier firm of Bushfield & Robinson located at 25 Monroe Street. After moving into Monroe Street storefront, Laughlins & Bushfield initially offered general drugs, chemicals, paints, dyes, spices and other sundries. However, as they found their footing in the market, they also started developing their own line of proprietary products.

I rotated the bottle in my hand in order to read the next embossed panel: “Wheeling, VA” (West Virginia was not granted statehood until 20 June 1863). My heart leapt and my mind instantly flashed to Jim Holst’s The Pontiled Medicine Price Guide which includes a bottle embossed “Laughlins & Bushfield / Worm Powder / Wheeling VA”. When I first came across this bottle in Jim’s book, I decided this was to be my holy grail as it combines both of my collecting focuses. I never thought I would actually find it though, as there are less than ten known to exist.

I rotated the bottle again and was surprised to read “Laughlin & Smith Co.”, not “Laughlins & Bushfield.” This was intriguing. I knew that Laughlin & Smith Co. were the successors to Laughlins & Bushfield, but I was pretty certain all of their bottles were produced after West Virginia became its own state. Why then would this bottle be embossed Virginia?

A check of the bottle’s base revealed it to be a non-pontiled, hinge mold. Again, not what I was expecting. Unfortunately, closer inspection revealed a half inch crack running from the bottle’s lip down the neck, and an internal open bubble behind the embossed proprietors’ name. Not great, but I knew I would never find another one, so I decided I could overlook the damage. I purchased the bottle, and walked away from the table as high as a kite.

Curious about my new purchase, I showed the bottle to a few of the more experienced West Virginia collectors at the show. They confirmed my suspicions that this was indeed a rare bottle. They had seen the Laughlins & Bushfield worm powder bottle before but had only heard rumors of the Laughlin & Smith Co. variant.

One of Laughlins & Bushfield first newspaper advertisements, 1 October 1855; from, The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer.

Their Tasteless Worm Powder was one of their earliest proprietary products and is the hero of our story. This patent medicine was first advertised in “The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer” newspaper in April 1859. The advertisement boasts that over 6,000 bottles of the medicine were sold the previous year. While I am sure that is intended to sound like an impressive number, compare that to McLane’s American Worm Specific, another popular vermifuge of the day. An 1838 advertisement for McLane’s medicine proclaimed 1,750 bottles had sold over a 15-day time span. I think this illustrates why these Tasteless Worm Powder bottles are so rare.

Though the worm powder was quite regularly advertised in the Wheeling newspaper in 1859, I could find only one other newspaper advertisement for the medicine after that year. The ad, which

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Laughlins & Bushfield Tasteless Worm Powder advertisement, 26 July 1859; from, The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer.

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Samuel, Alexander, and William Laughlin (left to right), circa 1855; from the Glessner House archives.

was first advertised in March 1860. This proprietary ink would go on to become one of the company’s most popular products, being sold by a number of business not only throughout Wheeling, but in Pennsylvania, and Maryland as well. A number of other proprietary products were offered by Laughlins & Bushfield over the years as well. These include Laughlin's Diarrhea Cordial, Laughlin's Expectorant Syrup, Laughlin's Speedy Pain Cure, Oil of Grapevine, Cocoa Cream, and Boush's Worm Candy. Perhaps the most interesting product that Laughlins & Bushfield produced, at least to us modern-day bottle collectors, was their Laughlin’s Old Home Bitters. First advertised in July 1863, these bitters were put up in stylish semi-cabin bottles which are quite desirable today.

Out of all of the Laughlins & Bushfield bottles known to exist today, only their Tasteless Worm Powder and Laughlin’s Old Home Bitters bottles are known to be embossed with their specific contents. It seems all of the company’s other products were put up in generically embossed bottles and identified with paper labels. These generic bottles come in a variety of shapes and sizes, from cylinder bottles, to paneled druggist bottles with the majority embossed Laughlins & Bushfield Druggists Wheeling. V.A. (or something similar).

Laughlins & Bushfield Chemical Writing Fluid advertisement, 27 April 1860; from, The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer.

was from 1861, stated Laughlins & Bushfield’s manufacturing of “ink, Tasteless Worm Powder & c., have commended them highly to the drug public”. It would seem the worm powder was at least being represented as a popular medicine, but if it was so popular why wouldn’t Laughlins & Bushfield regularly advertise it as they did their other products? The last mention of the worm powder was from “The Daily Fair Journal” published in July 1864, where it was listed as one of many products being sold by Laughlins & Bushfield (Or was it?

Keep reading to find out).

One of Laughlins & Bushfield’s more infamous products was their Chemical Writing Fluid, which

By May of 1860, Laughlins & Bushfield’s success had caused them to outgrow their Monroe Street building and a new larger building was selected at 72 Main Street. On 1 January 1865, the company admitted Samuel and Alexander’s nephew, John L. Smith as a partner. Though the name of the company did not change with this new partner, John would play an important role in this story later on.

Again in 1865, the Wheeling newspaper announced that Laughlins & Bushfield were planning to relocate to a new location. This time to a newly planned building located at 82 Main Street so that they could “enter more largely into the manufacture of their celebrated proprietary articles”. This building was to be three stories high, and divided into two separate warehouses, each 130 ft in depth, and 31 ft in width “with an iron front and all modern improvements”. It was anticipated that construction would be completed by June 1866, however, Laughlins & Bushfield never relocated to this new building. The company dissolved by mutual consent on 1 September 1866.

The new building would see use by one half of Laughlins & Bushfield though.

Upon the dissolution, John L. Smith, and Samuel and Alexander Laughlin moved to the newly completed building at 82 Main Street. Together the men

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“Laughlins and Bushfield // Whole Sale Druggist // Wheeling, VA” bottle (5¾ in. tall, 1 ½ in. wide, 1 in deep, open pontil), from the collection of Jeff Mihalik.

Laughlins and Bushfield Wheeling VA ink bottle, from the collection of Jeff Mihalik.

“Laughlins / and Bushfield / Wheeling West VA” bottle; from the collection of Rodney Funkhouser.

“Laughlins & / Bushfield / Druggists / Wheeling. VA” bottle with original label (9¼ in. tall, 3¼ in. diameter, iron pontil), from the collection of James Viguerie.

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Bushfield, Wallace & Co. advertisement, 29 September 1866; from, The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer.

“Laughlin’s / and / Bushfield / Wheeling / VA” bottle (on the left) beside a “Bushfield’s / Chemical / Writing / Fluid / Wheeling / W. VA” bottle (on the right); from the collection of Rodney Funkhouser.

started their own company taking with them the rights to the majority of Laughlins & Bushfield’s proprietary medicines. Bushfield on the other hand, stayed in their old store location at 72 Main Street and formed a new wholesale drug company while keeping the rights to Laughlins & Bushfield’s Chemical Writing Fluid, and Boush’s Worm Candy.

Bushfield After the dissolution of Laughlins & Bushfield, Bushfield stayed at the 72 Main Street building, and by 18 September 1866, had formed Bushfield, Wallace & Co. This was not a long-lasting partnership however, as the company dissolved on 1 November 1867. That same day, it was announced that Bushfield had joined the existing firm of McCabe, Kraft & Co. located at 50 Main Street. With this new partnership, the firm changed its name to McCabe, Bushfield & Kraft. Again, this partnership did not last, and on 2 November 1868 Bushfield announced that he had sold his interest in the firm. After Bushfield’s departure the company reverted its name back to McCabe, Kraft & Co. At this point, Bushfield becomes a harder man to track down. In 1871, there are a few mentions of a drug company by the name of Bushfield & Yarling, but I couldn’t find any other information on this firm. The next solid evidence I could find was from the Wheeling business directory of 1871-72 which lists a company by the name of Bushfield & Co. being located at 50 Water Street. This company was owned by Samuel B. Bushfield and Charles Day and was noted for selling chemical writing fluids and druggist sundries.

McCabe, Bushfield & Kraft advertisement, 2 November 1867; from, The Wheeling Daily Register.

The last mention of Bushfield I found was from a “trustee’s sale” newspaper advertisement published on 23 September 1872. The advertisement stated that there would be a public sale at the store room of S.B. Bushfield on Water Street in which “all of his stock in trade in a certain ink manufactory now owned by him including all fixtures, drugs, writing and chemical fluids, oils, acids and vessels for holding the same and all of the appurtenances belonging to this

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Though Bushfield changed companies multiple times over the years, he always managed to retain the rights to his Chemical Writing Fluid. In the years immediately following the dissolution of Laughlins & Bushfield, Bushfield continued to market his ink as Laughlin & Bushfield’s Chemical Writing Fluid. Eventually though, Bushfield did drop Laughlin’s name from his product’s advertisements. There are cylinder bottles embossed Bushfield’s Chemical Writing Fluid. To my knowledge, there are no bottles known to be embossed with the company names of Bushfield, Wallace & Co., McCabe, Bushfield & Kraft, Bushfield & Yarling, or Bushfield & Co. Laughlin Brothers

“Bushfields / Chemical / Writing Fluid / Wheeling, W. VA” bottle; from the collection of Rodney Funkhouser.

“Laughlins Smith & Co. // Druggists // Wheeling WV” bottle with original label; from the collection of Corey Markley.

Upon the dissolution of Laughlins & Bushfield, John L. Smith, and Samuel and Alexander Laughlin formed a new company at 82 Main Street under the name of Laughlin, Smith & Co. Another partner, Charles H. Odbert (who owned his own drug business before selling it in 1867) was added to the company in January of 1868. Laughlin, Smith & Co. extensively advertised their Laughlin’s Infant Cordial and, to a lesser degree, their Laughlin’s Old Home Bitters, Oil of Grapevine, and Laughlin’s Expectorant Syrup. Interestingly, I could not find a single mention of them selling Tasteless Worm Powder. Obviously, they continued to sell it or my bottle wouldn’t exist, but it must not have been popular enough to spend advertising money on. Again, it seems the only bottles used by Laughlin, Smith & Co. that were specifically embossed with the products names were their Old Home Bitters and the Tasteless Worm Powder. The rest

“Laughlin / Smith & Co. // Worm Powder // Wheeling V.A” (31/8 in. tall, 1¼ in wide, hinge mold), from the authors collection.

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Laughlin Brothers & Co. advertising cover (dating from between 1871 to 1886) which includes a lists of the company’s proprietary products. The second medicine on the list is their Tasteless Worm Powder.

Laughlin, Smith & Co. advertisement, 29 October 1866; from, The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer.

Laughlin Bros & Co. advertising booklet cover.

Laughlin Bros. & Co. advertisement, 24 April 1885; from, The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer.

of their products were packaged in generically embossed bottles.

On 2 January 1871, it was announced that John Smith was retiring and that the remaining partners (Charles Odbert, and Samuel and Alexander Laughlin) would carry on the wholesale drug business in the same location under the new name of Laughlin Bros. & Co. This

company continued to sell their existing proprietary medicines, while also introducing new ones such as their Laughlin’s Worm Syrup, and Odbert’s Cholera Antidote.

They continued to expand their product line by investing $25,000 to purchase the sole rights to manufacture and sell Dr. A.S. Todd’s Liver Pills (an already popular medicine at the time). These pills would go on to become one of the company’s flagship medicines. Laughlin Bros. & Co. almost exclusively used generically embossed bottles for their products. The exception to this again being their Old Home Bitters, of which only one example is known to exist today.

At this point I think it’s time to circle back around to the auspicious “Or was it?” (referring to the 1864 date as being the last time I found Tasteless Worm Powder advertised). The day I was planning to submit this article for publication I came across a Laughlin Brothers & Co. advertising cover which dates (because of the company’s name) from between 1871 to 1886. On the cover there is a list of Laughlin Bros. & Co. proprietary products and wouldn’t you know it, the second medicine listed was their Tasteless Worm Powder! This shows that the company was at least selling this medicine up until 1871. As far as I know, there are no worm powder bottles with Laughlin Brothers & Co embossed on them, but maybe there is one out there still waiting to be found?

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The last newspaper mention (albeit not a very favorable one) of Laughlin’s Old Home Bitters, 6 Augusts 1877; from, The Wheeling Daily Register.

“Laughlins Smith & Co. // Druggists // Wheeling. W.V” bottle (on the left) and “Laughlin Bro’s & Co. // Druggists // Wheeling. W.V” bottle (on the right; both 5½ in. tall, 1¾ in wide, 11/8 in. deep, hinge mold). The Laughlin Bro’s & Co. bottle was made from the reworked Laughlin Smith & Co. mold; from the authors collection.

Laughlin / Bro.’s & Co. // Old Home / Bitters // Wheeling W. VA.” bottle. Notice the apostrophe and the peened area where the “S” would have been after Laughlin, as well as the obviously reworked Bro.’s & Co. panel; from Glass Works Auctions Catalogue #137, Lot 119.

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THE MYSTERY SOLVED

Laughlin Bros. Drug Co. advertisement, 20 May 1887; from, Shepherdstown Register.

Now back to the history. Between 1874 to 1879 Laughlin Bros. & Co.’s address changed twice. As stated above, the company was originally advertised as being located at 82 Main Street.

However, starting in late-1874, newspapers were also simultaneously advertising their address as 1281 Main Street. By the latter half of 1875, the 82 Main Street address had been entirely replaced by 1281 Main Street. Again, the address changed in 1879 to 1208 Main Street. It is possible that at least one of these changes in address (if not both) were not the result of the company relocating, but rather the biproduct of a city-wide street renaming and renumbering initiative which was carried out by the city of Wheeling in the mid 1870’s.

In 1879, Laughlin Bros. & Co. was proclaimed to be the largest drug house in West Virginia. At the time, the company was said to employ 18 people, and “do a business of some $275,000 per year”. To put that in prospective, that is about $7,000,000 in today’s money. Though new partners would join (and leave) Laughlin Bros. & Co. over the next few years, business continued on successfully and without much change. Eventually though, a change did occur on 20 August 1883 when Samuel and Alexander Laughlin decided to step down from the company. The men sold their shares to the three remaining partners: C.H. Odbert, John L., and Frederick L. Laughlin, who continued to run the business as usual. Others were added to the company, and in January 1886 Laughlin Bros. & Co. was incorporated as Laughlin Brothers Drug Company by C.H. Odbert, and Samuel, John L., Frederick L., and George A. Laughlin.

I now knew the history behind Laughlin, Smith & Co., but I was no closer to solving the Virginia embossing mystery on my worm powder bottle. I was actually more confused than when I started. My research had confirmed that Laughlin, Smith & Co. didn’t form until three years after West Virginia became a state.

I brought this up to my friend and fellow collector Jeff Mihalik when he came over to visit one day. As he was looking the bottle over, I told him about the results of my research. During the conversation, I also pointed out the odd fact that after Laughlins & Bushfield dissolved, and the new company of Laughlin, Smith & Co. was formed, the “S” was dropped from Laughlin. Jeff took a closer look at the bottle, then turned to me and said “there is an S on the end of Laughlin on here”. He handed me the bottle and sure enough, when held in the right light, there did appear to be a faint peened-out S on the end of Laughlin. We both had a bit of an “aha!” moment. Looking even closer, I could faintly make out the ghosted letters of Bushfield underneath the Smith & Co. embossing. Such an obvious answer to the mystery but it had not occurred to me!

The puzzle pieces of history now fit into place. As was customary at the time, it seems Laughlin, Smith & Co. didn’t want to invest in new bottle molds when the company’s name changed in 1866. Instead, they simply had the bottle manufacturer “peen-out” Bushfield from the mold, and cut in the new name of Smith & Co. The new company must not have wanted to spend the additional money to update the state abbreviation, or the thought to update it never occurred to them.

“Laughlins / & / Bushfield // Worm / Powder // Wheeling V.A” bottle; from the collection of Rodney Funkhouser.

In a sad turn of events, both Samuel and Frederick Laughlin died later that year. Another blow to the company came in early 1887 when C.H. Odbert decided to retire. An attempt was made to continue the company in spite of these losses, but to no avail. It was decided in early 1888 to close the company for good. The rights to the Laughlin’s proprietary medicines were sold to the company of John G. McLain & Son at 1205 Market Street and the rest, as they say, is history.

Looking at other Laughlin bottles backs this reworked mold theory, as there are a number of their bottles that come from reworked molds. The best example of this can be seen in their Laughlin’s Old Home Bitters bottles.

This bottle’s mold was originally made for Laughlins & Bushfield, was reworked when the company’s name changed to Laughlin, Smith & Co., and was again reworked when the name changed to Laughlin Bros. & Co. So even though there are three separate variants of this bottle, they all came from the same mold!

I’m sure the Laughlins never expected anyone to think twice about these reworked molds. So, it’s funny to think that their reworked Laughlin, Smith & Co. Worm Powder bottle was the exact reason I spent countless hours researching their company’s history.

I want to thank all of the individuals who contributed information and photos for this article. I also want to thank my wife for her photography skills (I didn’t forget to credit you this time!). If anyone has questions, or would like to talk about early Wheeling druggists or vermifuge bottles, feel free to send me an email at zackbaer5014@gmail.com

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Privy Digger

By Mark Wiseman

Privy Seeds and broken dreams, tell-tell signs of a fun dig

Sunday, August 4th, 2019

The summer heat let up a little, and Jimmy and I drove around Des Moines to see what opportunities might have opened up, in actuality they had likely been missed. In an area along SW 7th Street storm sewers had been dug for a development of more downtown housing. This area had been a dump south of downtown, and I remembered when this area had a large number of buried tanks removed, and even a petroleum remediation system had been employed here. The only find was a crown top soda with a paneled base, slug plate embossed “F. Harbach, Des Moines, Ia.” with a damaged lip. I’ll bet the backhoe operator had seen better bottles as they dug the trenches for the storm sewers.

Saturday, August 10th, 2019

After another drive around downtown, Jimmy and I headed up to Don’s Farm by Woodward to see Reggie and the big dog Winston. Then we headed up to Moingona for a little dump digging in the north end of the “south” flats, it was too warm to do any deep digging in the sun today, and the forest covered shady digging at Moingona seemed like the best option. There is a layer to dig through full of “wads”, basically rocks and kiln furniture, with some broken pottery shards about a foot deep in these flats.

It is very slow digging with a spade, sitting on the ground. Not a bad hot weather pursuit if you can find enough cobalt decorated

Reggie and the big dog Winston, sitting in the shade

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of Main Street. I obtained permission to probe and dig in the rather open back yard. The ground again was hard in places, and I spent a long time probing all parts of the yard. Only one place felt much like a pit, and it did align out the back door almost to the alley. So after spreading out tarps all around the spot I started a test hole. The pit was four feet deep, four foot long and only two feet wide. It really was an ash pit with clinkers, not terribly old. I did find a nice milk glass piece not seen often embossed “Grace Medical Co. Des Moines, Iowa” some Detroit milk glass, and broken “Ball” shards, a horse shoe, and other glass shards.

Finished, I put it all back the way it had been, The owner said I could come back any time and try again, however more probing following this digging did not reveal any promising pits.

Two images of pottery shards with cobalt stenciling

shards to keep you interested. I found some nice shards, a hand drawn “3”, and stopped on the way back and saw Reggie and the big dog again. I took photos of what I had found and of Reggie and the dog in the shade.

Saturday, August 17th, 2019

I had gotten a lead at work about a house in Altoona that had a large barn or garage removed, and I knew the house, a very early one for that town on old main street. In the late morning Jimmy and I drove over there hoping to find a pit and possibly some Altoona drug store bottles. I knocked on the back door and easily obtained permission to try. However probing did not turn out so easy. You could probe ok, the ground was very hard in places, the pits were not cooperating. I did try a test hole into some fill about two and a half feet deep. All I found were rocks, that I had hoped were bottles. After thanking the lady I raked up the area and headed back to Moingona as the afternoon heated up. Digging in the same area produced some more interesting shards including a stenciled “5”. On the way back I stopped at Reggie’s and took a picture of my finds.

Sunday, August 18th, 2019

In the afternoon I headed back to Altoona with Jimmy. I knocked on the back door of another old house this one on the north side

I did find a nice milk glass piece not seen often embossed “Grace Medical Co. Des Moines, Iowa” some Detroit milk glass, and broken “Ball” shards, a horse shoe, and other glass shards

Saturday, August 25th, 2019

I dug in Moingona again with Jimmy the pup, found some more interesting shards digging in the heat. I took a photograph when I got home with what I had found the week before in Altoona.

Sunday, September 1st, 2019

I had a mission today to haul some display cases, that were formerly Jim Springer’s, from Marshalltown to Nashua, Iowa, and put them in Marv Juel’s house there. My timing was flexible. Jimmy and I had left Des Moines in the black truck in the morning and I thought I’d drive through Newton on the way. I had looked at an old house by the community college (formerly Maytag) over the years, and never found anyone to get permission from. Today when I got to this block I could see a carpenter working on the porch for this house. So I parked and walked up to the house and it turned out the owner was helping the man work on the porch. However, the owner absolutely refused my attempt to obtain permission, saying this yard had already been dug which I doubted. As an afterthought I drove over to a house in Newton, where I had previously dug one very productive pit, some years ago. The house had been in limbo owned by a bank back then, but now it was obviously occupied by a family with an above ground swimming pool in the backyard. I knocked on the back door and explained to the lady and then her husband about my search for bottles, and he gave me permission to try. The one

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Jimmy guarding the finds while I take a break

Some local Des Moines pharmacy bottles

Lockport Gargling Oil

Some other local Des Moines pharmacy bottles

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The load of bottles from that hole, some broken some whole still a fun dig!

pit I had dug on this house’s lot had been way at the back of the yard along the back fence line. I thought there might be another pit, there was a chance. I found the pit easily to the east of where I had dug before. I alerted the owner I was going to dig, and hauled tarps tools and led Jimmy into the far south end of the back yard. It probed like it had a lot of glass and it did. The pit turned out to be 4½ feet deep, and roughly 4’ X 4’ with no wall lining. I put tarps on three sides with the fence on the back side, and cut out the rough sod. I was finding glass in the first two feet.

I was finding a lot of glass, but few bottles at first, mostly lamp chimney’s, broken iron stone dishes, broken flower pots, and clear broken goblets. The owner came back to see and was really not very impressed. As I got a little deeper there were broken fruit jars, Mason 1858’s with ground tops, and some “Mason’s Improved” quarts, base embossed “Pat’d Jan 19, 1869” four or five of them, but I did not find any of the glass lids for them. I found an ironstone pitcher with a cluster of forks and spoons in it, half a toothbrush, and two glass buttons. Then I started to get some embossed drug store bottles starting with a clear “O.N. Wagley, Druggist, Newton, Iowa”. Deeper down as I began to approach the bottom I found two 5” tall clear “Kusel & Scribner, Druggists (Mortar & Pestle), Newton, Iowa”, later I found two 4” tall clear “Kusel & Scribner (sideways on the bottle) Druggists, Newton, Iowa”. I took a trip to the truck got some pop

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and tucked these bottles in some gloves for protection. I had reached the bottom and on the bottom was a surprise, a barrel bitters, but when I turned it over it had an oval shaped hole on the bottom side, whole otherwise. I searched the dirt but could not find that missing piece. The amber barrel was 10 inches tall, seam based and embossed “Roback’s Stomach Bitter’s Cincinnati, O.”. Next to this bottle I found the shards of an iron pontil blob soda in five pieces a gluer embossed “J.V. Dellicker, Richmond, Va.” Another crier were pieces of a yellow amber “Dr. J. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters”. Working my way across the bottom then up the wall I found two nice bottles, a teal green 7½” tall (a large size!) “Gargling Oil, Lockport, N.Y.” , and a whole, there had been a couple broken ones, aqua “Dr. Hoofland’s, German Bitters, Dyspepsia & Liver Complaint, C.M. Jackson, Philadelphia” with a seam base. Also on the bottom I found a strangely triangular shaped aqua ink embossed “Alling’s”, a seam based “Wakefield’s Blackberry Balsam”, a clear round bottle embossed “ETS & Co. N.Y.”, a “DR. A Boschee’s German Syrup, L.M. Green, Proprietor, a square aqua “Saratoga Dressing” with a star on the base, and a square aqua “Jettine, Orvel Holden & Co., Chicago”.

Some of the interesting shards included pieces of an early aqua flask, open pontil with an eagle on one side, and a walking man on the other, it just was not all there. There was another small pontiled bottle base, one embossed “L & W”, and seam bases.

With all the walls scraped down and the corners done I filled in carefully looking at all the shards. It did not take long, I hauled the finds, tools and tarps and led Jimmy back to the truck, then went back with the rake and tamper to do the final clean up. I had to stop and see Clyde Jones since I was in town and show him my finds. Clyde had some finds to show me also. Apparently he had been at a porch remodeling on an old house and had found some super condition labeled beer bottles from the 1960’s.

Then Jimmy and I drove on to Marshalltown, where Chris and I managed to load the two display cases. I left some tools in the driveway in order to protect the display cases. On to Nashua, Jimmy and I went, backed up to the porch, slid out the display cases and put them into the house, then started back. I stopped

Clyde had apparently been under a porch remodeling on an old house and had found some super condition labeled beer bottles from the 1960’s.

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Drug store bottle embossed “George Eyssell, Union Depot Drug Store" (with fleur-de-lis or bird tracks)

Shards of a salt glazed stoneware pitcher that had cobalt decoration on the handle and a stripe around the top

A clear glass fruit jar lid decorated with raspberries I knew went to a “Royal of 1876” fruit jar as I had dug them before

in Marshalltown retrieved my tools, and Jimmy and I got home about 10 p.m. The next morning I made a list and took some pictures of my finds.

Tuesday, September 10th, 2019

After work, I decided to check on a construction site that I'd heard of at work. They were putting in some basements on some now vacant lots down in Sherman Hill. The basements were being built ahead of three houses to be moved onto this site from over at Drake University. New construction along the south side of University Avenue had made these houses available. The houses lots on University were not that old but where they were being moved to was old. I had my map of the block and there had been dwellings on these lots on the 1901 map. The neighborhood went back to the 1880’s however the 1884 and 1891 map sets did not have coverage of these lots. An office type business building had been removed a year or so ago, and the paved parking lot had been

removed more recently. There were places to probe along the alley, only a plastic orange fence was present along the alley, and there was nobody on site now. Recent rains had made the site a little muddy, and I found some areas along the inside of the fence had packed gravel below the mud, former driveways I could not probe. The alley had been widened over the years and I found a pit right next to the paved alley edge in the small space between the alley edge and the plastic fence about a foot and a half to two feet of space available. I had left Jimmy at home so there were no distractions, and no room for a tarp. I went back to the truck and got a spade, a trowel, and my short shovel to start a test hole. The gravel at the surface was hard digging to start, I piled it farther down the alley along the plastic fence. I determined the pit was a brick liner about three feet long along the alley and was not more than two and a half feet wide, going partially back under the alley paving. My probe indicated there was some glass, and lime along the bottom about 4 ½ feet down. I started finding shards of a salt glazed stoneware pitcher that had cobalt decoration on the handle and a stripe around the top which I set off to the side. There were shards of lamp chimney’s and broken fruit shards. I found a clear glass fruit jar lid decorated with raspberries I knew went to a “Royal of 1876” fruit jar as I had dug them before. Then I pulled out a nice whole drug store bottle embossed “George Eyssell, Union Depot Drug Store, (with fleur-de-lis or bird tracks) Kansas City, Mo.” The base was embossed “W.T. & Co., Pat Jan. 18 81”, a strap sided bottle. But now it was dark, really dark, I dug a little while longer finding some more pitcher shards, then I had to fill back in there was no light. With such a narrow area to work my flashlight would have been too clumsy. I put it all back easily with the gravel back on top again nothing was visible. I took some photos of my finds when I got home.

Friday, September 13th, 2019

After work I went back down to the basement construction site, and again no one was around. I opened up my hole again, and removed the gravel to back along the fence line. I had good light now and the brick lining was visible on three sides as I dug toward the south end of the pit where I had not dug yet. Along the bottom of the south end I found more stoneware pitcher shards, a toothbrush and two more embossed drug store bottles. The first was embossed “George Eyssel (in an arch) Union Depot Drug Store (fancy mortar and pestle) Kansas City (in an arch) Mo”, and the base was embossed “W.T. & Co., Pat JAN 18 81”, another strap sided bottle from the same drug store with a different embossing! The second drug store bottle was embossed “Evans & Judson (in an arch) Pioneer Druggists (mortar and pestle embossed Pure Drugs), Hastings, Nebraska” with a smooth base. In the bottom corner I found a rusted iron ice skate, and that was it

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Embossed “George Eyssel (in an arch) Union Depot Drug Store (fancy mortar and pestle) Kansas City (in an arch) Mo”

Embossed “Evans & Judson (in an arch) Pioneer Druggists (mortar and pestle embossed Pure Drugs), Hastings, Nebraska”

for this pit. I pushed all the dirt I had placed along the alley into the pit, put the gravel back on top, raked up a little and it was invisible again. Here I was digging in Des Moines and I had found three out of state drug store bottles.

I called Johnnie Fletcher who determined the two George Eyssel bottles were new variants.

Sunday, September 15th, 2019

I went back to the basement site did some more probing without finding anything else to dig, I went up to Moingona and dug in the south flats pottery dump. Jimmy loves to run in the woods in Moingona.

Sunday, September 22nd, 2019

It had been very wet, and I again went probing in Des Moines including the basement site, no pits could I find so I headed back to Moingona and worked on my hole in the south flats, as Jimmy chased chipmunks.

Friday, October 4th, 2019

After work I checked out another construction site in Des Moines, I had been told about, this one was new, down along the river in downtown Des Moines. They were still working, so I just walked through it with my hard hat on, our company was doing some inspection work on this site, but I was just checking out the possibilities. During my quick walk through I picked up an aqua miniature wine bottle, and left a broken crown top “F. Harbach, Des Moines, Iowa” soda where it lay. The site had sandstone bedrock exposed along the excavation wall up by 2nd Avenue, which sloped to the south and became a filled ravine formerly draining toward the river. The ravine had been filled in the past with coal ashes and of course that was where the bottles were coming from.

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Sunday's finds from digging surface piles

They were still digging with a backhoe along the sandstone wall for footings for a new retaining wall, so I had to exit up the hill to the southwest. I was busy tomorrow and they would likely be working again, Sunday would be the time to come back.

Sunday, October 6th, 2019

In the late morning Jimmy and I loaded up and drove downtown.

I parked in the river and walking bridge small parking lot, and I had to leave Jimmy in the truck after a quick walk. I put on my hard hat and an orange vest and walked up the hill to the north with a bucket, a trowel and a spade. There was huge hole in the fence on the south side of the site which I walked right through, and there was nobody around. It was a rough walk across the site, but as I got closer I could see bottles in the piles of ash and dirt they had pushed down the hill. I walked each slope and steep pile slope, and put the bottles that were worth keeping in the bucket.

A little digging in the very steep excavation face revealed some more. I did not take the slicks, there were plenty left behind. After covering all the available territory I headed back to the truck.

I had brought back two crown top sodas embossed “American Bottling Works, Israly Bros. Prop. , Des Moines, Ia”, a clear eight sided bottle embossed “Mennig & Slater, Des Moines, Ia.”, a large aqua medicine embossed “Sulphume Co. Chicago, Ill.”, an extract bottle “Tone Brothers Flavoring Extracts, Des Moines, Iowa”, an ironstone butter pat dish, and two small dreaded Bromo’s. I figured they had a lot more digging to do in the future.

I stopped at the basement construction site and went back to probing. The site was still pretty muddy. I found a possible spot partially in a puddle. It was a difficult start but I was already muddy. The hole was a disappointment though containing only cinders and slag, it was not really old and I found no glass. It was time to head to Moingona I decided. After stopping to see Reggie

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Privy on the side of the lot, between the house and the alley

Jimmy protecting the nice shoulder jug

Mennig & Slater, Des Moines, IA. small sided bottle

and the big dog at Don’s Farm we continued on to Moingona.

Jimmy was ready to do some running, and I went back to my spot in the south flats. I found one nice cobalt drip on a shard before Jimmy and I headed for home.

Saturday, October 12th, 2019

I was in Marshalltown to attend the Iowa Red Wing Chapter Fall meeting, and so after the meeting was over It was time to try and

find a hole to dig. I drove around the tornado damaged downtown blocks, and stopped and probed at a construction site I had heard about. The lot had been dug out where a building had been removed and the other side had been re-compacted. All my probing was going nowhere on this site. I drove through the tornado damaged residential blocks and ended up at the lot where Johnnie Fletcher and I had dug some test holes last fall.

The huge lot full of blown down trees I had seen here before was cleared off and the little house was hanging on but not long for this world. I saw a neighbor working on the house next door and explained to the Hispanic man my intentions to look for old bottles on the lot, and he said there was no problem, go ahead. I parked the truck along the alley, got Jimmy out and began to probe up the east property line. This area had been covered with downed trees when I was here last. Sure enough I found a pit about halfway up the lot. I probed Jimmy’s leash down, and went back for a couple of tarps and some shovels. This pit was kind of irregular an ash pit, with some cinders, about 4’ X 3’ and four feet deep. There were some bottles, a machine made fancy pickle bottle, some green crown tops, and slick machine made medicines. I found a coldwater faucet handle, and on the bottom was a nice shoulder jug. I stopped and took a few photos after finishing the pit, then I filled in and raked up, it was time for Jimmy and I to head for home.

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Almost 200 images by one of history's first photographers, William Henry Fox Talbot, are going under the hammer in New York next month, offering collectors a rare glimpse at early Victorian Britain.

According to Sotheby's auction house, which is handling the sale, the collection is "arguably the most important lot of 19th century photographs to ever come to market."

The images depict indoor and outdoor scenes, spanning architecture, botany and daily life in the 1840s. Talbot, an English scientist and inventor, also produced various portraits of family members and friends as he experimented with his pioneering camera technology.

Rare 'locked' letter sealed 300 years ago is finally opened virtually Three hundred years ago, before envelopes, passwords and security codes, writers often struggled to keep thoughts, cares and dreams expressed in their letters private. One popular way was to use a technique called letter locking -- intricately folding a flat sheet of paper to become its own envelope.

The letters had never reached their final recipients, and conservators didn't want to open and damage them. Instead, a team has found a way to read one of the letters without breaking its seal or unfolding it in any way. Using a highly sensitive X-ray scanner and computer algorithms, researchers virtually unfolded the unopened letter. (Above) This is a computer-generated unfolding sequence of a sealed letter from 17th-century Europe. Virtual unfolding was used to read the letter's contents without physically opening it.

Crews were dredging the river. Instead of muck, they pulled up three cannons and a mystery. Three recovered cannons, one of which is seen here, are believe tobe from the 18th century.

The cannons appear to date to possibly the mid-1700s -- predating the Civil War by about a century -- which aligns closely with the HMS Rose's history. They are about 5 feet long. Further study and the removal of sediment on the cannons may provide information on when and where they were manufactured.

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An exceptionally rare 15th century porcelain bowl made in China that somehow turned up at a Connecticut yard sale and sold for just $35 was auctioned off Wednesday for nearly $722,000.

The small white bowl adorned with cobalt blue paintings of flowers and other designs — one of only seven such bowls known to exist in the world. The bowl dates back to the early 1400s during the reign of the Yongle Emperor, the third ruler of the Ming Dynasty, and was made for the Yongle court. The Yongle court was known to have ushered in a new style to the porcelain kilns in the city of Jingdezhen, and the bowl is a quintessential Yongle product.

McAteer said only six other such bowls are known to exist, and most of them are in museums. No others are in the United States.

There are two at the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan, two at museums in London and one in the National Museum of Iran in Tehran.

The hoard of 300-year-old silver coins is thought to have washed ashore from sunken Spanish shipwrecks close to Wabasso Beach in Indian River County.

Similar age to the coin pictured, and Martinez has estimated that the 22 pieces are worth around $7,000 (£5.5k) in total, although he doesn't plan on selling them.

American and Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed what could be the oldest known beer factory at one of the most prominent archaeological sites of ancient Egypt, a top antiquities official said on Saturday.

He said the factory apparently dates back to the region of King Narmer, who is widely known for his unification of ancient Egypt at the beginning of the first dynastic period (3150BC-2613BC).

Adams said the factory was apparently built in this area to provide royal rituals with beer, given that archaeologists found evidence showing the use of beer in sacrificial rites of ancient Egyptians.

(Left Image) London's skinniest house' is on the market for $1.3 million A house billed as "possibly the skinniest house in London" is up for sale for £950,000 ($1.3 million). A close up of a street in front of a building: The property sits between two shops in west London.

The property sits between two shops in west London.

Just six feet wide and covering 1,034 square feet, the fivestory property was once a hat shop, according to real estate agent Winkworth, which is marketing it.

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FOR SALE: Crown Top Sodas, Pottery, Advertising signs, Dispensary bottles. Contact John Bray at Bottletree Antiques Farm; (864) 379-3479 or bottletreeantiques.com

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Include your website in your ad to increase traffic to your site. Send your advertisement to FOHBC Business Manager, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002 or better yet, email: emeyer@fmgdesign.com

FOR SALE: New Mexico Hutchinson, Jugs andIndividual Mineral Water Bottles.

2nd Edition, 130 & Affiliated pages. Pictures not drawings, much new ClubonInformation information bottles, much history. Signed by authors. $30 includes mailing. Check or Money Order to: Zang Wood, 1612 Camino Rio, Farmington, NM 87401

WANTED: Ladies Leg Bitters. All sizes and colors. Contact: Bill Taylor - Phone: (503) 857-0292 or Email: wtaylor178@aol.com

FOR SALE: The 2018 updated POISON BOTTLE WORKBOOK by Rudy Kuhn.

Price $50 plus $5 media mail USA. Contact Joan for postage out of USA. Email: jjcab@b2xonline.com. Phone: (540) 2974498. Make check or money order out to Joan Cabaniss, 312 Summer Lane, Huddleston, VA 24104

WANTED: Looking to buy or trade Southeast Alaska medicine/druggist bottles.

Douglas Island, Wrangell, Petersburg, Sitka, Juneau, Ketchikan, etc. If you have anything from Southeast Alaska embossed, give me a call or text. Lindsay Wheeler.

Phone: (941) 720-5713 Email: Lindsay2020@gmail.com WANTED: U.S.A. HOSP. DEPT. bottles.

Shards Wisdom Longtime collector interested in all shapes, Calendar ofof Shows

FOR SALE: Glass and Bottles (Beer’s, American & Foreign. Medicals, Whiskey, Scent Bottles, Figurals – (Boats, Planes, House, Banks, Lamps, Buildings) Food Bottles Jars, Stoneware Pieces, Furniture.

Contact: Margaret Elmer (215) 692-4781 Evenings 7PM, Address: 341 Blaker Drive, East Greenville, P 18041

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WANTED: RARE OR UNUSUAL MEDICINAL TONICS. Contact Marty: (260) 3672400 or Email: roadrunner@centurylink.net

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WANTED: Vermont Bitters, Medicines and Cures (no pharmacies). Contact: David Mosher, 4 Green Mountain Drive, St. Albans, VT 04378; Email: dachano@ comcast.net

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FOR SALE: Nevada Bottles: Many drugstores from Virginia City, Carson City and Reno. Some crown top sodas. Contact: James Campiglia, Phone: (805) 689-0125, Email: chipsbottles@bresnan.net FOR SALE: Several hundred bottles in mint condition, most with labels and contents, circa 1910 plus advertising and pharmacy equipment from that era.

Contact: Neil Sandow at Telephone: (707) 373-8887 or Email: nsandow@gmail.com

WANTED: Pre 1920 Blob and Hutchinson style bottles embossed with ROOT BEER. Contact: Dave and Kathy Nader at (224) 622-3812 or Email: dknader@yahoo.com

WANTED: Illinois Bottles: Keeley & Individual & Affiliated Bro Alton ILL Ale. Buff & Kuhl Alton Membership Benefits ILL Gravitating Stopper. A & F.X. Joerger Club Information Alton ILL. L. Abegg’s Soda Manufactory

FOR SALE: Books “A History of the Des Moines Potteries,” with additional information on Boonesboro, Carlisle, Herford and Palmyra, Iowa. Cost $23 plus shipping, Media Mail add $4.50, Priority add $6.00.

Mail to Mark C. Wiseman, 3505 Sheridan Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50310 or call (515) 344-8333

Belleville, ILL. Jos. Fischer’s Selters Water Belleville, ILL. J.N. Clark Belleville, ILL. Beck & Bro. Highland ILL. Mueller & Beck Highland ILL. Weber & Miller Highland ILL. Danl Kaiser Quincy, ILL. Mr & Hw Lundblad Quincy, ILL. Contact: Theo Adams 3728 Fair Oaks Drive, Granite City, Ill. 62040. (618) 781-4806

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FOR SALE: Labeled Bitters Bottles, South Carolina Dispensary Bottles, Advertising Signs and Paper. Contact: John Bray at Bottle Tree Antiques, 1962 Mt Lebanon Road, Donalds, SC 29638 or visit our website at: bottletreeantiques.com

WANTED: Pre 1900 Macon, Georgia bottles, Georgia pottery, looking for a C.A. ELLS AND SONS MACON GA also Georgia Hutch bottles. Contact: Mike Gasaway (478) 986-9222 or Email: rustygold01@gmail.com

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sizes, colors. Thanks! Contact Brian Schilz at (308) 289-6230 or Email: bottlenut@charter.net

For jumbo Sale WANTED: Ornate – large, no damage art deco soda pop bottles for my personal collection. Contact/Text: Elizabeth Meyer Phone: (713) 504-0628 or Email: ejmeyer2131@gmail.com WANTED: American ACL, painted sodas.

Hard to find with pictures and multi colors from small town bottlers. Collections are of interest as well. Will travel to deal. Contact

by Text or Messenger: James Campiglia (805) 689-0125 or Email: chipsbottles@ bresnan.net WANTED: H. & J. F. Meyer / Belfast Ginger Ale / 139 S. 5th Ave. / NY. Contact: David Rakes Call/Text: (352) 817-5136 or Email: Barakes123@gmail.com WANTED: INSULATORS. Long time collector. Interested in mixed color. If you have any insulators that have been dug, please give me a call. Contact: James E. Meyer (386) 679-6439 or Email: jemmy194268@gmail.com WANTED: Bottles or any items from E. Milde Bottling Works, Milde’s Soda, Milde’s Cola. Also, any bottles from Jackson, Missouri. Contact Steve Ford by text at (615) 714-6254 or e-mail at sford@ garney.com

Bottles and Extras WANTED: New Bottles Monthly. Contact: Carlasboy on Ebay.

WANTED: Green Top Kimberry, SouthAfrica, Ginger Beer Browing & Co. Contact: Dennis Fox (530)295-0124, Email: mummysisters@aol.com.

WANTED: Redondo Beach/Redondo California bottles. Labeled or embossed. Elk bar Redondo flask most wanted. Also tokens and souvenir china. Contact: Dave Deto at P.O. Box 118, Yosemite, CA 95389 or (209) 626-9846 WANTED: Early Wisconsin Bottles, Earthenware P. Stoneware. Pontiled bottles from Milwaukee. Photos and other ephemera for game. Contact Henry Hecker, Email: Phantomhah@gmail.com, Telephone: (262)-844-5751 WANTED: New members to join the St Louis Antique Bottle Collectors Association. We meet every 1st Tuesday at 7pm (except July), First Baptist Church of Arnold, MO Family Life Center. Basement Rm 2. Always a lively discussion. Patsy Jett Show Chair (314) 570-6917 WANTED: Jar lid for Cohansey 2-1/2-gallon R.B. #628. Contact: Ed DeHaven (609) 390-1898. Address: 23 W. Golden Oak Lane, Marmora, NJ 08223 WANTED: NC and GA advertising jugs (any size & condition) and flasks – also want anything Saloon marked and error fruit jars and old 78 records (blues & country). Contact Bill Wrenn at ncjugs@gmail. com (706) 372-3793. Facebook group: Advertising Jugs & Pre-Pro collectibles + group: Saloon Jugs & Flasks + group: NC Jugs & Flasks WANTED: THEO.BLAUTH/WHOLESALE WINE/&/LIQUOR DEALERS/SACRAMENTO CAL. (whiskey fifth Barnett 55); C&K/WHISKEY/Casey & Kavanaugh/SACRAMENTO, CAL. (shot glass); SHADOW BROOK (block letters on slant on side, label under glass on bottom) CALIFORNIA WINERY/monogram/TRADEMARK/SACRAMENTO, CAL. (shot glass). Contact: STEVE ABBOTT (916) 631-8019 or Email: foabbott@comcast.net WANTED: Paducah Kentucky items especially Pre-pro Paper Label Whiskey and Medicine Bottles, Crocks, paper goods.

Contact: BJ SIMMONS (270) 994-7762 or Email: bjsummers65@gmail.com or by mail at: 233 Darnell Road, Benton, KY 42025

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WANTED: Pint Clear Phoenix Pumpkinseed Flask. Also, any coffin or pumpkinseed flasks from Los Angeles. Contact: Brian (805) 448-7516 or Email: taps60@cox.net

WANTED: New Members to join the Antique Bottle Club of Northern Illinois. Meet 1st Wednesday of each month at 7:30pm, Antioch Senior Center, Antioch, Illinois.

WANTED: Whiskey and Saloon related glass paperweights. Contact: Jack Sullivan (703-370-3039) or Email: jack.sullivan9@ verizon.net

WANTED: Cabin Bottles, E.G. Booz Bottles. GU11-4, All Colors, with Diagonal Base Seam. Any Ruby Red or Black, by Clevenger Taiwan Booz Bottle, Amber, GU11-16 Clevenger Commemorative 16A, 16-C, 16-E GU11-25 Clevenger Commemorative, 25-A, 25 I, Jacob’s Tonic Bitters GU11-7 any number. Contact: Steve Gray (440) 2798381 or Write to address: Steve Gray, 7533 Clay Street, Thomson, Ohio 44086

WANTED: ARKANSAS BOTTLES: Sodas, Hutches, Mineral Waters, Whiskey Flasks, Drug Stores, Patent Medicines.

ARKANSAS WHISKEY JUGS: Marked Stoneware, Shot Glasses, Cork Pulls and any Arkansas Advertising. Contact: James Larry Childers, 801 N 18th Street, Ozark, AR 72949. (479) 264-4601 or Email: jamesl.childers@yahoo.com WANTED: Clarke's Vegetable Sherry Wine Bitters, Sharon, Mass & Rockland, ME. All bottle sizes & variants. Contact: CHARLIE MARTIN (781)248-8620 or Email: cemartinjr@comcast.net WANTED: Bottles, Pottery, ephemera from Oak Park, Illinois. Email: Ray at komo8@att.net WANTED: Kimberley Green Top Ginger Beer, Browning & Co. Contact: Dennis Fox Email: mummysisters@aol.com WANTED: TEA KETTLE OLD BOURBON SAN FRANCISCO, Contact: Russell Dean, 228 Labelle Drive, Stuarts Draft, VA Phone: (540) 255-3143; Email: 4649dean@ comcast.net WANTED: Always looking for rare and unique Applied Color Label Soda bottles, Chero colas, Straight-sided Cokes and Pepsi, Royal Palm, Florida soda bottles, Tampa bottles, Buying collections, Vintage soda artifacts. Contact: Tom Pettit, Email: VintageSodaCollector@yahoo.com, Website: http://www.vintagesodacollector.com WANTED: Old OWL DRUG Co. bottles, tins, boxes, paper, anything/everything from the Owl Drug Company. Paying TOP DOLLAR. Contact: MARC LUTSKO, PO BOX 97, LIBBY, MT 59923 – Email: letsgo@montanasky.net WANTED: Vintage Crock or Jug with name: Morton. Contact: Darlene Furda 6677 Oak Forest Drive, Oak Park, CA 91377 or Call: (818) 889-5451

WANTED: North American Log Cabin Commemorative: GVII- 25-I-Cool X-C; GVII-25-E-AllenTown; GVII-25-F-Christmas 1976; E.G. Booze Log Cabin Bottles; GVII-37; sGVII-40; GVII-9 Cobalt Blue; GVII-7-Jacob’s Cabin Tonic Bitters. Contact: STEVE GRAY (440)-279-8381 or by mail at 7533 Clay Street, Thompson, OH 44086 WANTED: Clarke's Vegetable Sherry Wine Bitters, Sharon, MA & Rockland, ME All sizes, variants, smooth/pontil base.

Especially need labeled Clarke's any size.

Also, any Clarke's ephemera...trade cards, Almanacs, news ads, etc. Contact: CHARLIE MARTIN (781) 248-8620 or Email: cemartinjr@comcast.net WANTED: Just love Bitters! Especially Ohio Bitters. Here are a few I am looking for. Star Anchor Bitters, Portsmouth, Ohio.

Henry C. Weaver Mexican Bitters, Lancaster, Ohio. H.I. Weis Dayton, Ohio. Stewart Bros. Swamp Root Bitters, Columbus, Ohio.

Greenhut’s Bitters, Cleve. Ohio, Cliff’s Aromatic Bitters, Clev. Ohio. Catawba Wine Bitters, Cleve. Ohio. American Plant Bitters, Wooster, Ohio. Hofstettler Bitters, Galion, Ohio. B&L Invigorator Bitters, Cincinnati, OH. Dear Wahre Jacob Bitters Toledo, OH. Frazier’s Root Bitters. For The Blood, Clev. Ohio. Hartley’s Peruvian Bark Bitters, Cincinnati, Ohio. Night Cap Bitters Cincinnati, Ohio. Pale Orange Bitters, Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. M. Pinton’s Pure Stomach Bitters, Cincinnati, Ohio. Holtzernann’s Patent Stomach Bitters Piqua, O. this is an amber square. Any other Ohio Bitters you might have; also, Blue Jacket Bitters.

Thank you for your consideration and Best Regards, Contact: Gary Beatty (941) 2761546 or Email: tropicalbreezes@verizon.net

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

Information on up-coming collecting events is welcome, but space is limited. Please send at least three months in advance, including telephone number to: FOHBC Sho-Biz, C/O Business Manager: Elizabeth Meyer, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; phone: (713) 504-0628; e-mail: fohbcmembers@gmail.com, 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

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May 1 Gray, Tennessee State of Franklin Antique Bottles & Collectibles Association 23rd Annual Show & Sale, Saturday, May 1st, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Free admission and door prizes, Appalachian Fairground, 100 Lakeview Street, Gray, Tennessee 37615, Exit 13 on I-216, No Early Admission. Contact: Kenneth Depew. President, 423.477.3211, kenshell@chartertn.net, sfabca.com

June 19 Johnston, Iowa The Iowa Antique Bottleers 51stAnnual Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show and Sale at the Johnston Lions Club, 64th Place and Merle Hay Road, Johnston, Iowa, Admission $2, Children Free, For info contact Mark Wiseman, 3505 Sheridan Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50301, 515.344.8333 or Joyce Jessen, 515.979.5216

412.405.9061, 352 Pineview Drive, Elizabeth, Pennsylvania 15037, bottlewizard@ comcasat.net June 6 Ballston Spa, New York The 41st Annual Saratoga Bottle Show, Saratoga County Fairgrounds, 162 Prospect St, Ballston Spa, New York 12020.

General Admission: Sunday, 9:00 am – 2:30 pm, $5; Early Admission: Sunday, 8:00 am, $15; Show Set-up Hours: Saturday, 7:00 – 9:00 pm and Sunday, 6:30 – 8:00 am. Host Club: National Bottle Museum, www.nationalbottlemuseum. org, 518.885.7589, NBM@nycap.rr.com; Show Chairs: Roy Topka, 518.779.1243, rmt556@yahoo.com and Adam Stoddard acstoddard63@gmail.com

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CANCELLED May 1 Decatur, Mississippi 1st Annual East Central Mississippi Antique and Collectables Bottle Show, Newton County American Legion Post 89, Hwy 15, Decatur, Mississippi, 39327, approximately 2 miles south of Decatur, Mississippi, Saturday, May 1, 2021, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm, Early admission Friday, April 30, 2021, 12:00 pm -6:00 pm and Saturday, May 1, 2021, 7:00 am – 9:00 am. Set up same as above. Cost of admission for the show: Free. Cost of early admission $20. East Central Mississippi Antique and Collectables Bottle Club.

Contact: Cheryl Comans, Show Chair, 1211 South Fifth Ave. Cleveland, Mississippi 38732, Telephone: 601.218.3505, cherylcomans@gmail.com

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June 12 Lincoln, Alabama 6th Annual Lincoln Bottle Show. Lincoln Civic Center, 123 Jones Street, Lincoln, Alabama 35096, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm. Vendor set up on Friday, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm and Saturday, 7:00 am to 9:00 am. Contact chairman Jake Smith, 256.267.0446, 29 Water Tank Drive, Talladega Alabama 35160, syl_bottleguy@yahoo.com. Free public admission, $20 early admission, free kids table free appraisals. This is our sixth year and like every year we honor a different soda. Info on Facebook.

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CANCELLED May 8 Marcy, New York 27th Annual Utica Bottle Show & Sale, Hosted by the Mohawk Valley Antique Bottle Club, at the Utica Maennerchor, 5535 Flanagan Road, Marcy, New York 13403, Info: Peter Bleiberg at 315.735.5430 or email pmbleiberg@aol. com, www.mohawkvalleybottleclub.com May 16 Washington, Pennsylvania Washington County Antique Bottle Club 47th Annual Show and Sale, Alpine Star Lodge, 735 Jefferson Avenue, Washington, Pennsylvania 15301, Admission $3, 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, Info: Ed Kuskie,

June 20 Upton, Massachusetts The Little Rhody Bottle Club Show, Blackstone Valley Vocational Regional High School, 65 Pleasant Street, Upton, Mass. (Exit 21B off 495) Admission 8:00 am to 2:00 pm, Contact Info: Bill or Linda Rose, 508.880.4929, sierramadre@ comcast.net August 6 – 7 Syracuse, New York 2021 FOHBC National Antique Bottle Show, OnCenter Civic Center, See and Download Info Packet & Contract. Information: Jim & Val Berry (jhberry10@ yahoo.com) or Jim Bender (jbender@ millservicesinc.com) FOHBC National Show – Eastern Region

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June 12 Cambridge City, Indiana 7th Annual Cambridge City Jar & Antique Show formerly the Huddleston Farmhouse Jar Show, Creitz Park, 150 North Foote Street, Cambridge City, Indiana, Saturday, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Set-up 7:00 am.

Contact Marty Troxell, Chairman, 137 W. Main Street, Cambridge City, Indiana, 765.478.3800, doublehead@myfrontiermail.com, Also contact Marty on Facebook Ball Jar Collectors if you prefer.

Depew, New York The Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association’s 22nd Annual Show & Sale. Polish Falcons Hall, 445 Columbia Avenue, Depew, New York 14043.

General Admission $4: Sunday 9 am – 2 pm. Contact chairman Joe Guerra, 29 Nina Terrace, West Seneca, New York 14224, 716.207.9948 or jguerra3@roadrunner. com, or www.gbbca.org September 25 Aurora, Nebraska Outdoor Swap Meet, Hamilton County Fairgrounds 310 A Street Aurora, Nebraska, September 24th set-up 8:00 am to 6:00 pm. Show on September 25th, 6:00 am to 4:00 pm. Food vendors on the show

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RE-SCHEDULE DATE September 26 Baltimore, Maryland The Baltimore Antique Bottle Club’s 41st Annual Show & Sale, 8:00 am to 3:00 pm, baltimorebottleclub.org, Physical Education Center, CCBC-Essex, 7201 Rossville Blvd. (I-695, Exit 34), Contact: Rick Lease, 410.458.9405, finksburg21@ comcast.net or Andy Agnew (contracts), 410.527.1707, medbotls@comcast.net

from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm at the St. Martin Community Center, 15008 LeMoyne Blvd., Biloxi, Mississipi. 39532. Dealer Set Up on Friday, October 22, 2021, from 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm and Saturday, October 23, 2021, from 8:00 am to 9:00 am.

Free Admission on Saturday, October 23, 2021. Early Buyers $20. per person during dealer set up. For more information or table contracts contact: Peter Taggard, 645 Village Lane South, Mandeville, Louisiana 70471, Phone 985.373.6487 Email: petertaggard@yahoo.com, or Norman Bleuler, 6446 Woolmarket Rd., Biloxi, Mississippi 39532. Phone: 228.392.9148

NEW LOCATION – NEW DATE! October 23 Biloxi, Mississippi Presented by the Olde Guys Digging Club of The Mississippi Gulf Coast, the 4th Annual Mississippi Gulf Coast Bottle & Collectibles Show & Sale will be held

NEW DATE – NEW LOCATION! October 23 Macungie, Pennsylvania Forks of the Delaware Bottle Collectors Association 47th Annual Bottle and Antique Show & Sale, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, early buyers 7:30 am, ($20 admission fee)

grounds. For outdoor and indoor space rentals contact Ted 402.631.9760 or Justin 531.228.0472

Macungie Park Hall – Macungie, Pennsylvania 18062, For Info: Bill Hegedus, 610.264.3130, forksofthedelawarebottles@hotmail.com

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July 28– 31 Reno, Nevada 2022 FOHBC National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo, Grand Sierra Resort & Casino, Information: Richard Siri (rtsiri@sbcglobal.net) or Ferdinand Meyer V (fmeyer@fmgdesign.com), FOHBC National Convention – Western Region

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

Jesse Knutson 5110 Mckeon Ponderosa Way Forest Hill, CA 95631 (408) 314-4479 jesknut@gmail.com Little bit of everything, local bottles

Roger J. Peets 135 Peets Road Dolgeville, NY 13329 (315) 429-9952 rjpeets721@gmail.com Group 2 Eagle Flasks, Figural Bitters, Some Local

John P. Savastio 25 Belle Avenue Latham, NY 12110 (518) 424-6571 johnsavastio@yahoo.com Albany, Schenectady, Troy bottles, Warner's & Kilmer's, Cures, Saratogas

Toni Peterson 6005 E 143rd Street S Bixby, OK 74008 (918) 284-8001 tonipeterson1@yahoo.com Apothecary, Pharmaceutical bottles perfume bottles

Jim Spainhower 200 North Dale Road Pearce, AZ 85625 (520) 507-7102 cordilleran2001@gmail.com Bitters, sodas, cures, inks. Privy digging

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Dave & Kathy Nader 440 South Grove Road Fair Grove, MO 65648 (224) 622-3812 dknader@yahoo.com Hutchinson Bottles

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Note: 4 additional new member that do not want to be listed.

Where there’s a will there’s a way to leave Donations to the FOHBC Did you know the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors is a 501C(3) charitable organization? How does that affect you? It allows tax deductions for any and all donations to the FOHBC .

You might also consider a bequest in your will to the FOHBC. This could be a certain amount of money or part or all of your bottle collection. The appraised value of your collection would be able to be deducted from your taxes. (This is not legal advice, please consult an attorney) I give and bequeath to the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, Elizabeth Meyer, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002, the sum of $____________ to be used as its Board of Directors determines.

The same type wording could be used for bequeathing your collection or part of it, however, before donating your collection (or part of it), you would need the collection appraised by a professional appraiser with knowledge of bottles and their market values. This is the amount that would be tax deductible.

Thank you for considering us in your donation plans.

John O’Neill, President Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors

Remember!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

713.504.0628 fohbcmembers@gmail.com

• FOHBC digital newsletter and so much more.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you for considering the FOHBC in your donation plans.

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

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Name_______________________________ Address_____________________________ City________________________State____ Zip _____________Country____________ Do you wish to be listed in the Telephone___________________________ online membership directory?

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- Life Membership: Level 1: $1,000, includes all benefits of a Standard 1st

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

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

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

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

Affiliated Club Membership for only $75.00 with liability insurance for all club sponsored events, 50% discount on advertising in the BOTTLES and EXTRAS, plus much more, Contact: Business Manager: Elizabeth Meyer, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; phone: 713.504.0628; email: fohbcmembers@gmail.com

Clearly Print or Type Your Ad Send to: Business Manager: Elizabeth Meyer, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; ph: 713.504.0628; or better yet, email Elizabeth at: fohbcmembers@gmail.com

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

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

Seeking quality consignments for our 2021 auction schedule!

American Glass Gallery

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As a consignor, consider these benefits to help ensure your valued items reach their highest potential: w Competitive consignor rates and low buyer premiums w Broad-based and extensive advertising w Experience, knowledge, honesty and integrity w Attention to detail and customer service

These fine items, and many more, will be included in our 2021 Auction schedule.

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

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

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