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On the Cover: Bust of Columbia, Liberty Cap Eagle Historical Flask - Vuono Collection

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FOHBC Officers | 2018 - 2020 ................................................................................ 2

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FOHBC President’s Message ................................................................................ 3 Shards of Wisdom ................................................................................................ 4 History’s Corner ................................................................................................... 5 FOHBC News - From & For Our Members ................................................................ 6 Washington-Taylor Flasks from River Bridge ....................................................... 10

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Holey Holey Holey ............................................................................................ 12 When a Digging Permission becomes a Golf Outing by Jeff Mihalik .................. 16 No Fizz Less Bizz! by Ken Previtali ................................................................... 22 W.C. Peacock: The Whiskey Man who made Waikiki by Jack Sullivan ................. 28 Walter Smith was bitten early by the collecting bug by Bill Baab ......................... 32

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Prized Midwestern Flasks by Mark Vuono ......................................................... 38 Ebner Brothers by Steve Abbott ........................................................................ 50 Lost & Found ....................................................................................................... 60 Virtual Museum News ......................................................................... 63 FOHBC Member Photo Gallery .............................................................. 64 Classified Ads .................................................................................. 66

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FOHBC Membership Additions & Changes ................................................ 67

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

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FOHBC Sho-Biz - Calendar of Shows ........................................................ 68 Membership Benefits, Ad Rates, Donations to the FOHBC ............................... 71 Membership Application & Advertising ..................................................... 72 Page 38

Coming next issue or down the road: FOHBC 2018 Cleveland National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo coverage • Warner Labels • Michael Cronan: A Lad from the Old Sod • On the Trail of Indian Medicine Bottles • American Scent Bottles • Ground-Penetrating Radar System • The Color Aqua • Rushton’s Cod Liver Oil • Unexpected find: Another Coke museum • Old Bourbon Whiskey put up by Wilson, Fairbank & Co. and so much more!

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Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors Business & News

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

FOHBC Officers 2018 - 2020

President: Matt Lacy, 3836 State Route 307, Austinburg Ohio 44010, phone: 440.228.1873; email: info@antiquebottlesales.com

Conventions Director: Lindsey Fifer, 604 Topaz, Brunswick, Ohio 44212; phone: 440.552.2454; email: lindsey_stoneman@yahoo.com

First Vice-President: Louis Fifer, 604 Topaz, Brunswick, Ohio 44212; phone: 330.635.1964; email: fiferlouis@yahoo.com

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

Second Vice-President: John O’Neill, 1805 Ralston Ave. Belmont, California 94002; phone: 650.631.7495; email: Joneill@risk-strategies.com Secretary: Andrew Rapoza, 28240 Nancy Lane, Conroe, Texas 77385; phone: 832.928.7472; email: rapoza.2025@gmail.com Treasurer: James Berry, 200 Fort Plain Watershed Rd, St. Johnsville, NY 13452; phone: 518.568.5683; email: jhberry10@yahoo.com Historian: Jim Bender, PO Box 162, Sprakers, NY 12166; phone: 518.673.8833; email: jim1@frontiernet.net Editor: Martin Van Zant, 41 E. Washington St., Mooresville, IN 46168; phone: 812.841.9495; email: mdvanzant@yahoo.com Merchandising Director: Val Berry, 200 Fort Plain Watershed Rd, St. Johnsville, NY 13452; phone: 518.568.5683; email: vgberry10@yahoo.com Membership Director: Linda Sheppard, P.O. Box 162, Sprakers, NY 12166; phone: 518.673.8833; email: jim1@frontiernet.net

Director-at-Large: Ferdinand Meyer V, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; phone: 713.222.7979 x115; email: fmeyer@fohbc.org Director-at-Large: Richard Siri, PO Box 3818, Santa Rosa, California 95402, phone: 707.542.6438; email: rtsiri@sbcglobal.net Director-at-Large: John Pastor, PO Box 227, New Hudson, MI 48165, phone: 248.486.0530; email: jpastor@americanglassgallery.com Midwest Region Director: John Fifer, 5830 Enfield Circle, Medina, Ohio 44256, phone: 330.461.0069; email: coinop58@gmail.com Northeast Region Director: Jeff Ullman, P.O. Box 121, Warnerville, New York 12187, phone: 518.234.1288; email: jullman@nycop.rr.com Southern Region Director: Brad Seigler, P.O. Box 27 Roanoke, Texas 76262, phone: 940.395.2409; email: drgonzo818@gmail.com Western Region Director: Eric McGuire, 1732 Inverness Drive, Petaluma, California 94954, phone: 707.778.2255; email: etmcguire@comcast.net Public Relations Director: Elizabeth Lacy, 3836 State Route 307, Austinburg Ohio 44010, phone: 440.994.9028; email: elizabeth.lacy@hotmail.com

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President’s Message support from regions that are hosting conventions? What can the Matt Lacy FOHBC do to better serve clubs and membership? How do we grow Ferdinand Meyer V

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3836 State Inc. Route 307 FMG Design, Ohio 44010 101Austinburg Crawford Street 440.228.1873 Studio 1A info@antiquebottlesales.com Houston, Texas 77002 713.222.7979 x115 t is hard to believe how time has flown by!

We are only a few fmeyer@fohbc.org weeks out from the Cleveland National Convention as this is being

written, and closing out over two years of planning and execution. down at my on this back-to-work Monday after New Weitting are humbled anddesk, thankful for first all the great individuals that pulled Years, I conjure up a vision of a stove with lots of pots-a-cooking. together. This has been one of the most challenging yet rewarding The kettle labeled antique bottle events has us all looking forward to the experiences imaginable in the bottle hobby. It has allowed me to stretch leading up to the FOHBC 2016 Sacramento National Antique Botreflect on our past events and admire all those that worked so hard to tle Convention & Expo this August. We have a coordination conference make them possible. We are truly blessed with amazing leadership call later in the week and plan to step it up a notch or two. We are also and character in this hobby. pleased that we locked in Springfield, Massachusetts for our 2017 Nation Antique Bottle Convention, and by the time you read this message, the al With new roles and responsibilities, must also take the FOHBC 2018 National Antique Bottle one Convention & Expo willtime haveto been look back and acknowledge the We great people and that and announced for Cleveland, Ohio. really have ourleadership teams in place havewheels guidedinthe Federation of Historical Collectors. our motion.

I suppose we shouldBottle start thinking aboutEarlier the 2019 this week, I in was through a draft of the souvenir program Convention theflipping Southern Region.

Planning ahead has many benefits. and stopped at the Hall of Fame and Honor Roll sections. Two hours later,FOHBC I lookedisup andproud realized how engrossed I was in the amazThe also to say that this March | April 2016 issue of BOTTLES EXTRAS is the first tothis be hobby. printed Iinwould full color, which ing lives ofand those have revolutionized encouronly costs usthat an additional $184, anmore issue.

This change prompted age anyone wants to become connected to the hobby ata afew design which wepages. hope you will notice, as the deeper revisions, level to read those There were manysuch names thatTable wereof Contents and aand few of thethat section headers.

We receive quiteallahad fewarevery familiar others I knew little about; however, ally nice impact compliments how the magazine looks and have come profound on the on hobby. so far in a relative short number of years. Oh, and look for a new section in the back oftothe magazine called “Member Gallery”.

We are fortunate have had a remarkable board Photo of directors overThis new section is dedicated to the fine photography of antique bottles and the past few years. Many on the board have dumped their heart and glass. Please feel free to submit your images for consideration. We soul into continuing our great hobby. Any board with passionate and have already started work on the May | June issue and hope that you motivated members goes through its fair share of turmoil, which is will consider authoring an article for the magazine. We are here to help!

not bred out of a place of discord, but rather a true desire to grow their hobby.

These perspectives provide theread bond will Within this issue of differing BOTTLES and EXTRAS, please thethat proposed make a board stronger as a whole. bylaw updates and revisions that have been marked in red. All revisions

have been approved by the FOHBC Board of Directors. These bylaws As President, Ferdinand Meyer broughtbythe the age have been amended and need to behas reviewed theFOHBC FOHBCinto membership of technology.

Thegeneral website, social media presence, museum, prior to the annual membership meeting at the virtual FOHBC 2016 Namodern magazine, much more beinattributed to his leader- by tional Antique Bottleand Convention & can Expo Sacramento, California an affirmative vote of for a majority of all cast by thetheeligible voters ship, drive, and heart the hobby.

Hevotes has enhanced convenin attendance, provided that copy ofsouvenir the proposed changes made tions with updated logos, anaupdated program, and are signage. available to each memberofinthe advance, either directly mail or to byintimely In addition, the format conventions has beenbyupdated notice in the Federation’s official or aontrue the annual Federation website. clude many additional events toperiodical make them expo.

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doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of all the contributions he

In news, we are moving ahead with the Virtual hasother made.

I greatly admire what he has andphotography continues tofor accomplish Museum and hope have regional photography labs set up in regions for the FOHBC andtothe hobby. to start photographing bottles both in a standard format and 3-dimensionally. This effort is being spearheaded by Museum Director, Alan DeI am very excited about the current slate of officers. We have a Maison. You may have met Alan at the Virtual Museum table during the number of tenured members and some new members that will bring FOHBC 2015 Chattanooga National Antique Bottle Show last August.

fresh new perspectives to the table. I am looking forward to discussing a number of topics we Booth, will be is assessing. donomination we reach a new Federation member Alicia heading How up the progeneration collectors effectively? can we make conventions cess for theofelection of all FederationHow officers including the President, morePresident(s), inclusive of Secretary, all collectors and dealers?

How can we Membership earn more Vice Treasurer, Business Manager,

a hobby that is experiencing natural attrition?

All of these questions Director, Public Relations Director, Conventions Director, Historian, are important toDirector, the future of the bottle collecting community.

Merchandising Directors-at-Large (3), and Region Directors (4). These elections occur every two years. Any officer may run for successive terms.surprised This committee has prepared a slate of nominations for I am always when many of the new collectors I talk to have each is listed below.Almost It is important to note thatmy anyfirst member neveroffice even and attended a show! without exception, obdesiring to runlearning for anythis office the Federation may file a nomination jective when is toininvite them to a local show.

I would form with the Election Committee accordance procedures encourage all of us to do the same!(in Let’s get themwith plugged in. Con-approved membership and instituted by to thea Election Committee) necting by to athe local club is also very important good foundation indicating the Many office collectors they desirewant to run for. The deadline for filing in the hobby. to have a sense of purpose andthis is April 1st 2016.

We have seen successful campaigns by our membera place to belong to make a positive impact. Bottle shows and club ship beforeacross so if the youcountry want to have run for a position, please let Alicia know. meetings such a profound impact on colYou and reach her at this email address, alicia@cis-houston.org.

You lectors. These events not only provide a means of learning, but also will be receiving a ballot for voting so please take the time to vote. extend a view of the opportunities collecting allows. There is also a great deal of satisfaction toPresident: be found in the thrillMeyer of theVhunt. Sure, Ferdinand we FOHBC can buy Candidates great glass online or at auction, but there is nothing like Houston, Texas going show Hereto is the slate ofafter FOHBC show, meeting great friends and mentors, and Firstthat Vice President: Baugh recommended candidates procuring that treasured piece was nowhereSheldon to be found online.

Russellville, Kentucky put forth by the nominating committee (Alicia Booth, Vice President: Bradberry Technology is a great tool,Second but in many ways it hasGene stripped us of the Chairperson) for 2014 - 2016.

Bartlett, Tennessee simple joys that the hobby once allowed us.

The excitement that once The slate is being put forth for echoed the walls a showSecretary: or convention has been replaced with the your consideration and of anyone James Berry glare of screens and cell phones. desiring to run for office maynoise of Johnsville, NewThere York is simply no equivaby goingatoFOHBC the lentbetonominated attending annual event. The events have improved Treasurer: Gary Beatty websitebut and printing out a identified greatly, we have some refinement areas that I would North Port, Florida form. Then, mail or likenomination to address in the next couple of years. Rising expenses have left email to Alicia Booth, 11502 Historian: Jim Bender many feeling excluded Burgoyne Drive, Houston, Texas and deterred. Extensive event schedules have Sprakers,ItNew York put 77077. strainalicia@cis-houston.org on personal obligations. is time to come full circle and make conventions affordable and fun for all I am looking Closing date for nominations Editor: Martin Vancollectors.

Zant is April 1,to2016 at midnight.with our forward working new board to generate ideas congruDanville, Indiana ent Additional to thisnominations path forwill2021 and beyond. I am also very excited to work Merchandising Director: Val Berry be printed alongside the slate alongside our new Conventions Director and the amazing teams asJohnsville, New York proposed by the nominating sembled for the 2019 event in Augusta and the 2020 event in Reno. committee and will be listed Membership Director: Linda Sheppard in the May-June 2016 issue Sprakers, New York to get back to the My ofobjective is to along rally a grassroots movement BOTTLES and EXTRAS with a short fun, bio of each simplicity, and excitement that allowed this hobby to flourish.

Conventions Director: Louis Fifer Thiscandidate. can be accomplished through a servant leadership mindset.

Brunswick, Ohio

How can we, as the FOHBC, best serve you? How can we serve your Business Manager: club? How can we serve your region?

How canElizabeth we serveMeyer this hobby Houston, Texas and promote it to those who may not be aware of the greatest treasure hunt on earth? How can we share the beauty artistic value in Director-at-Large: Boband Ferraro the craftsmanship of early Boulder glass? The answer is simple. We share our City, Nevada hobby with others by serving them and inviting themKetcham to get plugged Director-at-Large: Steve into an organization that acts as a launching pad to make a difference Edina, Minnesota in the hobby.

Director-at-Large: John Pastor

New Hudson, Over the years, I have personally sharedMichigan our hobby with dozens of people who didn’t knowMidwest bottle collecting was evenMatt “a thing.”

Region Director: Lacy Austinburg, It always amazes me how many peopleOhio have close ties to antique bottles in some way. It wasNortheast only last week that a co-worker brought Region Director: Andrew Vuono in bottles to show me that he found wading in the Virgin Islands. I Stamford, Connecticut followed his sharing immediately with an invitation to our national Southern Director: Hands event. Will every invite turn into the Region next Hall of FameRon inductee?

Wilson, North Carolina No, but it might.

Western Region Director: Eric McGuire

Petaluma, California I want to conclude by saying that I am thankful for the support network we have in our hobby.

Thanks to all those who help hobby Public Relations Director: Rickthe DeMarsh grow and continue on. I look forward to serving you.

Ballston Spa, New York

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Bottles and Extras A spokeswoman for the museum told FoxNews.com that a total of 82,000 artifacts were discovered during the excavation, most of them from a well and privy shafts that were sealed beneath 19th century buildings. These buildings were taken down in the 1970s when the first Visitor’s Center for Independence Park was built on the site.

Many of the artifacts, will be on display in the museum, appear to come from a mid 18th-century tavern on the site, such as red earthenware pottery.

Archaeologists unearth historical treasure trove from 300-year-old Philadelphia toilets

by James Rogers

The carefully reassembled pieces of an English delftware punch bowl are particularly notable.

The bowl features a picture of the English brigantine ship Tryphena, which sailed between Liverpool, U.K. and Philadelphia. In 1765 the ship carried a petition from the merchants of Philadelphia to their counterparts in Great Britain to reconsider the controversial Stamp Act, the first direct tax imposed on the American colonists by the British Government.

Print type, which likely came from late 18th and early 19th-century print shops, was also recovered, along with hundreds of shell fragments, probably from a button factory located on the site between 1913 and World War II. The massive granite foundations of the Jayne Building, Philadelphia’s first skyscraper, were also found on Chestnut Street.

Punch bowl made out of tin glazed earthenware that has the message,“Success to the Tryphena” inscribed on the inside. (Commonwealth Heritage Group)

“The site is really a microcosm of Philadelphia history – tracing the evolution of the site from primarily residential in Colonial Times through tavern culture of the Revolution to the site of Philadelphia’s first ‘skyscraper,’ then to a button factory until the end of

Construction of the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia has led to the discovery of a trove of historical artifacts that offers a fascinating glimpse into the city’s history.

Before construction began in Philadelphia’s historic district in 2014, archaeologists from John Miller Associates (now Commonwealth Heritage Group) excavated the site for four months, returning briefly in April 2015 and May 2016. A well and 12 brick-lined privies (which are outhouse vaults that also stored garbage) dating back to the 17th century were found to contain a wealth of artifacts.

The museum on the corner of Philadelphia’s 3rd and Chestnut Streets opened on April 19, 2017.

Two privies during the excavation. “The Success to the Tryphena” punch bowl came from the one on the right. (Commonwealth Heritage Group)

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WWII and finally into the National Park Service’s Visitor Center in the 1970s,” explained the museum spokeswoman, in an email Commonwealth Heritage Group has detailed its findings in an extensive report on the excavation.

“Cities are constantly rebuilding themselves, and the construction of this new museum – right in the heart of the oldest part of Philadelphia – provided us with a rare opportunity to examine the things left behind by the people who lived and worked there, in order to learn about how the city began and how it changed,” said lead archaeologist Rebecca Yamin, in a press release. “This buried record of the past touches on many significant changes in the city’s development, essentially creating a microcosm of Philadelphia from its very beginning to the present.”

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

What is the oldest figural bitters?

This is a question I have been asked a few times. Most people believe it is one of the pontiled barrel bitters.

However that is because they are not aware of the extremely rare Constitution Bitters which is shaped like a gazebo some say.

Put out by B.M. & E.A.W. (Whitlock) in New York City, The bottle is aqua in color and has an open pontil base.

Reasearch shows the bottle was made in the early half of 1800s. There are currently only four known examples of this bottle. It is believed to be much older than all the pontiled barrel bitters and is most likely the oldest figural bitters.

The Museum of the American Revolution recently confirmed that it purchased a rare Bible from the battle of Bunker Hill that will be exhibited when it opens in 2017. The King James Bible is inscribed by American soldier Francis Merrifield, who thanks God for sparing his life in the bloody 1775 battle.

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

Layout of artifacts in Commonwealth Heritage Group laboratory in West Chester, Pennsylvania (Commonwealth Heritage Group).

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FOHBC News From & For Our Members Letter to the Editor Hi Ferd, thank you for the splendid magazine that you and your crew consistently put out. I had a good laugh when I saw the picture of Eric McGuire in the July, August issue. It was a photo of him as a 3-year old boy drinking out of a painted label Pepsi bottle. I also had a picture taken of me at that age drinking milk out of a RC Cola bottle with a store bought nipple on it. Unfortunately, we had a fire in 2003 and the picture was lost along with some very nice bottles. I am confident Eric and I must be close to the same age? I was born in January of 1941. Doing the math from the article I figure Eric must have been also.

contributor for more than two decades. He was born in 1884 and died in Shelbyville, Ind., at the age of 60 in April 1944. He was buried in Cleveland, Ohio.

While we are talking about Gary Beatty This is Ferdinand again. Speaking for the FOHBC board and from my heart, I want to thank Gary Beatty for being our Federation Treasurer these past years under my tenure. He is simply the finest man I have ever met. He is also a bitters collector. We were fortunate to have his experience and temperament over these years. Gary will pass the torch to Jim Berry in New York.

Gary Beatty North Port, Florida

Regarding another matter, I spoke to Gary yesterday and confirmed that he will conduct a brief 30 minute or so non-denominational chapel service on Sunday, August 4th at 7:00 am at the 2019 FOHBC National in Augusta. Gary is a graduate with a Bachelors degree from Midwestern Baptist College, Michigan, Trinity Baptist University Toledo, and has a Doctorate of Divinity from Heritage Baptist College, Hopewell, Indiana.

Mrs. Harry Hall White

Dr Cronk in Auburn, N.Y.

A big Kudos to Larry Childers on his article featuring his Saloon Jug collection. I dug Ohio for years and went to hundreds of auctions and I can’t even remember ever seeing a Ohio Saloon Jug. The July August issue was full of great articles. Best regards, your friend,

[FM5] Recently during a phone conversation, Gary Beatty said that he enjoys going back and reading old bottle magazines. Looking at the people, the bottles, simple phone numbers and addresses from a time long ago. During one of his recent memory lane trips, Gary said he found this ad from Mrs. Harry Hall White from the April 1940 issue of Antiques Magazine.

Hi Ferdinand, the Dr. Cronk sarsaparilla bottle in the July - August 2018 Bottles and Extras dug by Abel Da Silva is a spectacular find!

I have been focused on collecting Auburn, New York bottles for over 45 years and no sign of this bottle has surfaced, even in rumors.

Warren Cronk was the original Dr. Cronk, who franchised his “celebrated compound sarsaparilla”. In the1850 Auburn, N.Y. New York State census, Warren Cronk is listed as a manufacturer of medicines.

This time period aligns very well with Abel Da Silva’s OP find.

For very specific information on Dr. Cronk, see my attached article from the November - December 2010, Bottles and Extras titled Dr. Cronk In Central New York (and Beyond). Very best regards, Tom Kanalley Cortland, New York

[FOHBC] So, some of you may ask? Why is this significant? Well, Harry Hall White is truly one of the greats in our hobby. Here is his 1985 FOHBC Hall of Fame write-up.

1985 – Harry Hall White A great bottle archaeologist, his excavations of glass houses and research of public libraries produced sound data that was used by authors such as Kenneth Wilson and George McKearin in writing books that enriched the knowledge of glass collectors. “Harry Hall White is the outstanding pioneer in this field of research and investigation,” McKearin wrote in American Glass, published in 1941.

In November of 1926, his story on Early Pittsburgh Glass-Houses was featured in The Magazine Antiques to which he was a frequent

Editor note: Members can visit the Members portal at FOHBC.org to read article.

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Detroit Ink Co. Hello Ferdinand, Jim Wolff here, a couple years back you did a nice write up on my C.T. Hughes & Co. pepper sauce. Well here is another one I dug that is obviously an ink. It is marked Detroit Ink Co. with no base embossing. I can’t locate a thing about this one anywhere. I would assume it may be from The Keller Inks out of Detroit circa 1883-1899. I dug it in a privy in Indiana with mostly items dating to that era. Any clues to the origins of this really crudely made ink would be great. On a side note, your Peachridge Glass site is just incredible. Love it. Thanks.

James Wolff

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fully appreciate the support you gave to making this happen. It’s too bad that there are still many collectors working towards the good of the hobby who will never receive their due, but this was a good choice. Fruit jar collecting would never have become as popular as it has without the supporting work that Dick did over the years Thanks...

Tom Caniff Steubenville, Ohio [FOHBC] The FOHBC airwaves and in boxes were full with gratitude with this induction.

Richard T. Siri admitted to the FOHBC Hall of Fame 01 July 2018 - The FOHBC Board of Directors announces that Richard T. Siri was voted into the FOHBC Hall of Fame with 14 of 17 votes constituting a 2/3 majority. The award with be presented at the 2018 Cleveland National banquet on Friday, 03 August 2018.

[FM5] Nice! Looks like this might be from Henry H. Holt (Detroit Ink Company) circa 1878. Can I do a write-up?

Richard Allen ”Dick” Roller admitted to FOHBC Hall of Fame 01 July 2018 - The FOHBC Board of Directors announces that Richard Allen ”Dick” Roller was voted into the FOHBC Hall of Fame with 14 of 17 votes constituting a 2/3 majority. The award with be presented at the 2018 Cleveland National banquet on Friday, 03 August 2018.

Fruit jar enthusiast Richard Allen “Dick” Roller’s legacy continues to stay alive and well 20 years after his untimely death at age 67 in 1998. Historical material on fruit jars and their makers that Roller netted by years of tough research before the Internet Age is still being used by collectors and writers such as FOHBC Hall of Famer Tom Caniff, who continues to give Roller credit for facts outlined in Caniff’s monthly Fruit Jar Rambles in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector magazine. Like many others in the hobby, Dick was glad to share his newfound information, most of which corrected and/or eliminated erroneous stories that had been around for years. “When Dick started collecting and studying fruit jars, he was appalled by the conjecture, hearsay and inaccurate material in the fruit jar books that had been published,” said the late Vivian “Granny” Kath. “He decided then and there to do some serious research into the history of glasshouses and the jars they made.” Roller’s contributions are still to be found in the Fruit Jar Newsletter, Fruit Jar Clearing House and New Fruit Jar Newsletter, but collectors really benefited from The Standard Fruit Jar Reference he published in 1983. Its information remains valid today.

Dick Roller Dear Ferd, glad to see that Dick Roller has been accepted into the Hall of Fame. I’m sure the vast majority of jar and bottle collectors

For someone whose brother lit the fuse that sparked an interest in collecting historical bottles, Richard Siri has come a long way. The first chapter in his story notes that his brother, Ted, was working on a road construction project in Willits, California in the mid 1960s and an 1890-1900 dump containing a pile of early Western whiskey bottles was uncovered. Fast forward to the present day, supported by his wife, Beverley, Richard, 77, is known for his extensive Western bottle collections having amassed one of the most complete Western bitters bottle collections, as well as extensive collections of whiskeys, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters and USA Hospital bottles, among other things. He is always willing to share his knowledge on his favorite subjects and that knowledge has found a public place inside many books, articles and exhibitions about antique bottles. He has held several offices within the federation, most notably that as president in 2008. Richard co-chaired the FOHBC 2012 Reno National Antique Bottle Expo and the most recent, FOHBC 2016 Sacramento National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo. He is also a major supporter and an active member of the Northwestern Bottle Collectors Association. In 2009, Richard Siri first brought forth the concept of developing the FOHBC Virtual Museum. He now serves on the museum Board of Directors and he, along with his wife Beverley, is a major financial contributor to the museum.

The Hall of Fame is intended to recognize outstanding and significant contributions to the bottle collecting hobby that have made a lasting and enduring impact upon the hobby at the national or international level*. Such individuals should be generally known throughout the bottle collecting community for their collections, contributions and impact upon the hobby. Such contributions include but are not limited to research and publications that furthered a greater understanding of the history and production of bottles and glass, or major contributions that significantly encouraged people to participate in the hobby. Such contributions include creation and organization of significant activities or events that fostered growth, understanding, and cooperation in the hobby.

[FOHBC] A few of the Facebook congratulations to Richard Siri. It’s about time. Congratulations, Richard! - Steve Abbott, Great guy and well deserved! Congrats Richard! -Matthew Tigue Levanti, Congrats Richard; well deserved long before now! - Jeff Burkhardt, He handed me a $8,000 bitters bottle years ago at a show and said here look at this one. I thought to myself. I like this guy. - Aldo Torre, A much deserved distinction. Cheers Richard! - David Storey, Long over due !!! - Robert Franconi, Congrats! Great to see. A hard worker for our hobby. - James Campiglia

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Cleveland 2018 Souvenir Program ad revenue shatters previous records!

Ahhhh, finally. Souvenir Program was just sent to the printer. 241.9 mb, 140 pages plus cover. $17,515 of advertising sales. A new record. Way to go everyone involved! Additional copies are available upon request.

A special thanks to Adam & Phyllis Koch for heading up the program advertising effort and to all of our advertisers listed below:

Steve Ketcham, FOHBC Virtual Museum, Phil Smith, American Digger Magazine, Sheldon Baugh, Joan Cabaniss, Heckler & Co. Auctions, McMurray Antiques & Auctions, American Glass Gallery, Jim Hagenbuch, North American Glass, David Olson, Rick & Berny Baldwin, Tom Lines, Mike Seeliger, John Joiner, Jerry & Helen Forbes, Peachridge Glass, FMG Design, Houston Bottle Show, Buffalo Bottle Collectors Assoc., American Bottle Auctions, Holabird Western Americana Collections, State of Franklin Bottle Show, Sandor P. Fuss, Larry Childers, Jim Hall, Mark Vuono, Jim Bender, Columbus Bottle Club, Ralph & Janet Finch, Circle City Indianapolis Bottle Club & Show, Red Book Fruit Jars, Zang Wood, Findlay Bottle Show, John Wolf, John Fifer, Fruit Jar Annual, BottleTree Antiques, Matt Lacy, Ohio Bottle Club, Mansfield Bottle Show, Alan DeMaison, Louis Fifer, 1st Chicago Bottle Club, Grayslake Illinois Bottle Show, Bill Taylor, FOHBC 2019 Augusta National, Bill Ham, Richard Siri, Tom Phillips, Jeff Ullman, Adam & Phyllis Koch, Forks of the Delaware Bottle Show, Ted Krist, Wanted: Cleveland Ohio, Glass International LLC, Richard Carney, North American Soda and Beer Bottles, Antique Bottle Club of San Diego, NIA 2019 Orlando Convention, Gary Beatty, Mike Dickman, Daniel Luciano, Southwest Bottle & Jar Spa, Jeffrey S. Evans & Assoc., Collectibles Insurance Services, Antiques & Collectibles Insurance Group, Dario Dimare, Rich & Kathy Tucker, I-76 Antique Mall, Collectors Decanter & Stein Museum, Silver Eagle Antiques, Metropolitan Detroit Bottle Show, Ron Hands, Wisconsin Antique Advertising Club - Mr Bottles, Unique Bitters, Jim & Val Berry, National Bottle Museum, Join the NIA Today, Michael George, Genesee Valley Show, Theo Adams. Rick Eplion, Alicia Booth, Terry Kovel, Jelly Jammers, National Association of Milk Bottle Collectors, Frank Wicker, Dana Charlton-Zarro, Chip Cable, Jesse Sailer, Johnnie Fletcher, Michael Mackintosh, Eric McGuire, Rick Ciralli, Historical Bottle Diggers of Virginia, Cleveland Conventions, Marriott Key Center Hotel, Dale Santos, Joe Jacobs, John O’Neill, Chagrin Valley Archaeology, Mobile Bottle Collectors Club, Rod Vining, Bob Daly & Troy Scafuro.

2019 FOHBC 50th Anniversary National Antique Bottle Convention News Information and Contract Packet is now online and available to all requesting.

The Southern Region of the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors (FOHBC) would like to invite you to the 2019 FOHBC National Antique Bottle Convention in Augusta, Georgia. We will be celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the FOHBC. On October 15, 1959, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Tibbits (wife Edith)

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called the first meeting of what became The Antique Bottle Collectors Club of California at their home in Sacramento, California. Tibbits was elected the first president. It was believed to be the first such club. This attracted the attention of antique bottle clubs across the country and many joined what eventually evolved into the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors (FOHBC).

Augusta, officially Augusta–Richmond County, is a consolidated city-county on the central eastern border of the U.S. state of Georgia. The city lies across the Savannah River from South Carolina at the head of its navigable portion. Georgia’s second-largest city after Atlanta, Augusta is located in the Piedmont section of the state. Augusta was established in 1736 and is named for Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719–1772), the bride of Frederick, Prince of Wales and the mother of the British monarch George III. During the American Civil War, Augusta housed the principal Confederate powder works.

Augusta’s warm climate made it a major resort town of the Eastern United States in the early and mid-20th century. Internationally, Augusta is best known for hosting The Masters golf tournament each spring. The Masters brings over 200,000 visitors from across the world to the Augusta National Golf Club. Membership at Augusta National is widely considered to be the most exclusive in the sport of golf across the world.

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The 2019 FOHBC National will be a four-day event commencing on Thursday-August 1st with an early afternoon Mike Newman Open House, followed by a late afternoon Augusta Museum of History Reception followed by the Sweet Georgia Peaches bottle competition at the Augusta Marriott in the evening. On Friday, August 2nd, there is the FOHBC Membership Meeting Breakfast, Educational Seminars, Ribbon Cutting Ceremony, Early Admissions, FOHBC Cocktail Hour and Banquet and on Saturday, August 3rd we will be have General Admission to the bottle show followed by a Live Bottle Auction in the evening. Sunday, August FOHBC 4th will be for General Admission and Display Awards. The convention will end at 1:00 pm on Sunday.

Bottle collecting is the finest hobby going. We want you to have the most enjoyable experience at the FOHBC National Convention.

Your Consortium Co-Chairmen for this event are Bill Baab, Ferdinand Meyer V, Mike Newman, Walter Smith, Marty Vollmer and Eric Warren. As co-chairs, they will attempt to make your time in Augusta enjoyable, comfortable and an antique bottle experience you will never forget!

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Ferdinand: Good to hear from you! Our 41st Annual Antique Advertising & Bottle Show went quite well and we had over 200 tables and booths. We were about 15 tables smaller than last year, due in part to the death of a couple of our regular dealers during the last year. We had several new dealers (from New York to California) and the crowd was probably the largest we have ever had, numbering in the thousands. The flea market was also its normal size, adding about 1,000 tables to the show. Many of the dealers sold well (I sold REALLY well) and some not so much, which is typical of any show.

The dealers also enjoyed the pizza lunch on Saturday.

I had a few collectors come over to my house on Friday night to see my mess and they enjoyed that also. The four months of preparation together with the show weekend is exhausting, and I slept about 18 hours on Sunday. I will be retiring from the bank very soon, with my last day being Friday the 13th of July, and will be getting more serious about my drug store museum project. Hope to see you sometime soon.

Henry Tankersley Tulsa, Oklahoma

RENO announced for the 2020 National Antique Bottle Show & Expo After an extensive search, negotiations, presentations and FOHBC board approval, Reno has been selected as the location for the FOHBC 2020 National Antique Bottle Show & Expo. The event will be held at the Grand Sierra Resort & Casino. Richard Siri will act as Show Chair. Team Reno at this point will also include Warren Friedrich, Eric McGuire and Ferdinand Meyer V. Essentially the same team as the very successful 2016 Sacramento National. We certainly are looking for more Team Reno members so contact the folks noted above. Set your sights and stay tuned for more information! Rumor is that a Top 25 Western whiskey bottles display is in the formation.

I ran into a skull poison Hello Ferdinand, I ran into a skull poison and was wondering if you could tell me what sizes they come in and are there any counterfeits?

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Michael Miller Arizona

Mike Polak contemplating a new book for the 2020 Reno National Ferdinand, I attended the Reno Bottle Club’s show this weekend which was an excellent show for bottles and glass. It’s about a 9-hour drive from Long Beach, California, but well worth it.

In talking with Marty Hall, Chairman for the show, he was saying that he understood the 2020 Expo was going to be held in Reno, Nevada, but not hosted by his club. He wasn’t sure about what month.

I know it’s a ways out, but I’m in the process of doing some forward planning, and wanted to confirm with you if there are plans for the show to be in Reno? Also, I’m working on the 9th Edition of my Antique Trader Bottles book and the timing might be right to kick off the new edition with the show. And, I’m sorry to say that I won’t be able to make this year’s show in Cleveland since I have to go to a wedding, and there’s no getting out it! What a bummer.

I also want to say Thank You for the great job you did while President of the Federation. I think you’ve been one of the very best Presidents we’ve ever had bringing nothing but great improvements to the Federation on every level. I understand that it’s probably time, maybe way past time, to hand off the baton to someone else, but you and your enthusiasm and efforts will be missed by everyone.

Mike Polak Long Beach, California

[FM5] There are three sizes of skulls which were patented in Boston on June 26, 1894 by C.H. Lee & Co., Manufacturers of Skull & Cross Bones.

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“Washington-Taylor” Flasks from River Bridge

By Paul Vincent Collections Assistant, Museum of the Albemarle

Traveling from the Harbor of Hospitality north up the Pasquotank River, one would be hard pressed to spot the whereabouts of the old River Bridge site. The visible remnants of this one-time Colonial era inspection port are little more than an old abutment at the river’s bank. Hardly a trace remains to suggest this overgrown turf was once a thriving center of trade and commerce. However, the site’s real significance lies just beneath the water’s surface where the refuse of two or three by-gone eras has prompted several years’ worth of archaeological excavation and research.

Among the myriad of artifacts recovered at River Bridge, a modest assortment of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century glassware includes some of the most delicate yet intricate treasures found there: two portrait flasks, bearing the likenesses of Presidents George Washington and Zachary Taylor. These two objects are of special interest for their highly-revered status among collectors of early American, illustrated glass. An estimated 37 variations of the “Washington-Taylor” flask alone are known to exist and a few, at least, exhibit such minute contrasts they can be easily misidentified. However, through the diligent efforts of father and daughter experts George and Helen McKearin, these two recovered flasks, along with other examples of mold-blown glass from the Colonial and Federalist periods, were catalogued with a unique letter/number designation.

The two “Washington-Taylor” flasks on display in the museum’s River Bridge: Sunken Secrets exhibit were both blown at the Baltimore Glass Works, in Baltimore’s Federal Hill, sometime during the second quarter of the nineteenth century and are rare

examples of the GI-17 and GI-22 variants. Apart from their coloration, the former blown of an aqua-tinted glass and the latter of an amber tint, nothing initially stands out as markedly different between them. Nevertheless, a couple of small yet exceptional attributes confirm these flasks as distinct from one another. They concern the manufacturer’s label, “Baltimore Glass Works.” The GI-22 variant exhibits a miniature “x” in-between the first two words of the maker’s name whereas the other does not. Secondly, the GI-22 variant shows all three S’s in this label in reverse, unlike those of its GI-17 counterpart.

Portrait flasks featuring patriotic motifs including the shield and eagle, George Washington, and other notable political figures such as Secretary of State Henry Clay remained popular in America throughout the nineteenth-century. Production of the “Washington-Taylor” flasks likely peaked around the late 1840s, when Zachary Taylor’s victory over Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana at the Battle of Buena Vista played no small part in his ascendancy to the Presidential office. Apart from the glass works in Baltimore, the Dyottville Glass Works in Philadelphia produced the bulk of the several different variants of the “Washington-Taylor” flask.

While an untold number of these flasks were shipped out across the country and overseas during mid-nineteenth century, at least two we know of found their way to River Bridge.

River Bridge: Sunken Secrets will remain on display at the Museum of the Albemarle through March 2021.

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Holey! Holey! Holey! Privy dig comes up empty!

By Bill Baab I got this brainy friend, see, and he’s put together a gizmo that’s got a lot of wires and circuit boards and other stuff I don’t understand, and he claims it will find the holes, the only things left from those backyard bathrooms he calls privies.

those trails?” I asked. “Worms?” he asked. “Sure, or maybe moles.” He shook his head. “Those ‘trails,’ as you call them, indicate electronically there’s a disturbance in the ground, what we call an anomaly because it’s different from the rest of the yard.”

“OK, so once you find one, what will you do with it?” I asked politely. “Dig it,” he says. “Why?” I wondered. Then he explains: “Just think of your grandpa and he wants a shot of something alcoholic while he’s sitting on a board with a hole in it over that privy hole. So what does he do with that fifth after he empties it?

He throws it down the hole.”

“Anonymously?” “No, anomaly, in this case a pit and probably a privy hole.” “Probably?” “Sure, there’s no written guarantee so the only way to be sure is to dig it,”

I protest. “Grandpa didn’t drink. He was a tea totaler. The only thing he’d drink besides water was tea.”

“Just pretend he did,” said my friend, “or maybe it was your uncle. The point is privies were used for trash pits and that’s good for us since we collect those antique whiskey and the other bottles and stuff that wound up down there.”

He further explained that the privies he looked for weren’t yesterday’s because “they’d be too new, too unsanitary” and “too smelly,” I chimed in. He agreed. “The ones we’re looking for were in use 100, 150 or more years ago.”

So he’s got this gizmo which sits on something that looks like a lawnmower and a metal box containing all that wiring and circuitry is pushed over the backyard in an old section of town.

When a privy or trash pit is reached, the electronics send a signal to the screen of a laptop computer attached to the four-wheeled cart.

“There’s one!” my friend exclaimed. “I didn’t hear nothin’,” I said. “It didn’t say privy. In fact, it didn’t say anything.” My friend looked exasperated. “We haven’t reached the point where it talks, but look-a-here, see what’s on the screen?”

I looked at a bunch of colored squiggly lines. “Did worms make

Well, I’m not as smart as my friend, but I wanted to know if his gizmo identified what might be in the hole. “Does it say Bottle or Jug?” “Of course not and that’s why we dig it,” he said. “Besides it’s great exercise. This one looks to be eight feet deep.” “That’s a lot of exercise,” I said. “Why don’t you grab that spade and I’ll just look on and supervise.”

Turns out that privy hole was lined with bricks and not all of them had stayed put as a wall, as my friend learned, the tip of his spade clunking against the loose ones, forcing him to make a few comments.

“Be nice,” I said.

Well, he eventually dug his way to the bottom and the first treasure he unearthed was an aluminum soft drink can.

“Is that an antique?” I asked. “I didn’t think they had aluminum cans back then.”

Cursing, he explained this particular privy had been dug by someone else. “That so-and-so didn’t have permission, but I have it in writing from the landowner, little good it did me.”

“But you got a lot of exercise!” I reminded him, running away quickly as he came after me swinging the spade.

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By Jeff Mihalik

When a Digging Permission Becomes a Golf Outing I’m not a golfer but it hit me one day how similar a past dig was to playing golf. In this article, I plan on focusing on the bottles dug, a little bit of their history, and use golfing analogies to keep it interesting. I did have to elaborate some but all the bottles shown are from these digs.

The permission was on a large open area in midtown about three quarters of a block long. No houses remain in this area but there were foundations, concrete, and lawn. So how did this relate to golfing? First off, there were 18 holes dug, the site had hazards, bunkers, maintained greens, and roughs. We made pars, bogeys, and eagles! Our group consisted of three evenly matched players with similar handicaps (half-crazy and a sucker for a good bottle) and we do keep score!

The Front Nine: After the first three holes there was not much to write about. But with two bogeys (empty holes), one par (some decent bottles but nothing exciting) and with my handicap (something to do with my brain I suppose), I was over par by a couple strokes. The fourth hole featured a dog leg (actually a horse bone but close enough) to the left and a sand trap (about a foot or so of sand just under the surface). However, it was the hazard that got me (5-inch-thick concrete that needed broken up and moved). [Photo 1]

Photo 1: General Location of Holes 1 through 11 and Holes 16 through 18.

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This was a huge hole mostly filled with ash. In the ash layer, we found one medicine bottle embossed Laughlins & Bushfield, Wheeling, Va. and since it was in the ash, other than some internal grime, it was in near mint condition. [Photo 2]

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What was really exciting, was that this ale [Photo 3] was in an olive-green color (as opposed to the known black glass – dark amber ones). In addition, the other known bottles all have extensive lip damage, this bottle had just an inner flake and one small lip ding.

Given the age of the other shards in the hole and they being similar to the other hole with this ale, we believe that this ale variant is most likely from the 1840s to 50s period. Nice birdie hole!

Photo 2: Laughlins & Bushfield, Wheeling Va (pre-1863)

West Virginia was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863 and was a key border state during the war. West Virginia was the only state to form by separating from a Confederate state, the first to separate from any state since Maine separated from Massachusetts, and was one of two states admitted to the Union during the American Civil War (the other being Nevada).

A quick search for this partnership will turn up many examples of the products they sold. This druggist is probably one of the most common named Wheeling, Virginia bottles having many medicine bottle variants, had long lasting success (comes in open pontil and smooth base) and they even produced inks.

Holes five and six (par 3 holes, that is they both took about 3 hours to dig) were woodies and produced various local druggists and sodas from the 1860s through 1880s period. The best find at the bottom of hole six was an early ale bottle embossed J. Butterfield across the shoulder, but this example came with a severely damaged lip. A similar ale (but generally thought to be a newer variant) is embossed JB and Co., so we knew this ale was local (and a very rare mold). So we called it a par for these holes.

Probing into the side walls, we found holes seven through nine, so we didn’t need our cart to get to the next couple hole locations.

Photo 3: J. Buttefield Ale in olive green.

After a couple bogeys, hole nine seemed to be suited to my preferred swing (left fade, which is probably due to my bum right knee and we were digging in a westerly direction). This hole was open to play when we started, but we were soon caught up in a bunker 8-foot-deep by 3-foot-wide under the concrete. We could tell it was getting old by the shards we were finding but that was all we found… until a large ale bottle was recovered. This ale was also embossed J. Butterfield on the shoulder.

Photo 4: : Early John Butterfield newspaper advertisement. The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, Saturday, August 1, 1863

Back Nine: I’m three over par so need to start hitting some good shots. Again probing into the walls of hole nine we were able to locate the next two holes (10 and 11) through the rough (bunch of debris consisting of old broken bricks, disconnected old pipes, and rocks).

Hole 10 was another bogey as it was either dug and or heavily disturbed from past site activities. Hole 11 was smashed right up onto hole 10. At hole 11 we finally scored an eagle!

Near the bottom of the hole was a large piece of glass. It appeared to be broken as it moved to the touch but as it was uncovered, we could see it was a flask and looked to be a quart in size with ribs!

Pulling it out of the hole it looked to be complete and featured an eagle on one side with Masterson arching over it.

[Photo 5 above] On the other side of the flask was a funky looking dude with Rough and Ready, must be Zachary Taylor.

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Digging into the other end of the hole, the only other bottle of note was a killer crude foamy yellow and open pontil Butler’s Ink, Cincinnati! [Photo 6] A very common ink in aqua, but almost unheard of in this color.

Photo 6: Butler Cincinnati open pontil ink in a gorgeous pale yellow.

The weather turned bad, so a weather delay was called. Off to the club house (actually a local establishment called Generations) for some reflection on our success over some brews and grub.

We were set to tee off and head down the south fairway (maintained lawn between the southern and northern portions of the course) to where holes 12 through 15 were located. Hole 12 was designed very differently than the other holes as this one was rocked lined and circular. The age was great (circa 1870-80s for finding good glass and scoring a par we did find several good bottles including a couple local smooth based sodas, medicines, and a nice blue green Pine Tree Cordial [Photo 7].

Photo 7: Pine Tree Cordial (always love digging these!)

At hole 13 we failed to find the green and scored a double bogey (hit a hole with loads of bricks and debris and no whole bottles).

Hole 14 was another bogey, as it had been played out by another team sometime in the past.

Hole 15 was right next to 14 but from the start we had a good feeling we would hit at least a par if not a birdie. I had been caddy for most of the rounds (bucket puller on top), but for 15, I was the hacker. This hole was only about five feet deep but was loaded with bottles of pontil age or near pontil age. Two very outstanding pieces of glass came out of this hole (giving us a birdie score for sure), including an undamaged Old Rye, Wheeling Va. [Photo 8 - opposite page) and a J.D Vowell, Washington, Pa. bottle. [Photos: 9 & 10] The only advertisement [Photo 11] I can find is from a family member in Wheeling (note: J.B. instead of J.D.). In the History

Photo 9: J.D. Vowell, Washington Druggist, extremely rare, open pontil, aqua

Photo 10: J.B. Vowell, Wholesale and Retail Druggist advertisement, The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, Thursday, July 17,1856

Of Canonsburg I found this: Dr. John Vowell of Pigeon Creek, was a well-read physician, who came to this town about 1835, and remained some years, then moved to Washington, Pa. In 1849, Dr. John J.D. Vowell opened a store in Washington and he was succeeded in 1876 by his son, L. S. Vowell. With Robert S. Winters as a partner, the latter Mr. Vowell carried on the drug store business (this business later became the Taylor’s drug store in the George Washington Hotel).

Believe it or not, this bottle is the only known pontil bottle embossed with Washington (Pa.)! There were several other rare pontil and early smooth base medicines in this hole too. Just goes to show that often the shallow easy digging holes can be the best.

Teeing off and heading back north, we used the bump and run technique on hole 16 (dug a test pit and got out quick when it didn’t look good) so bogey here.

We had a Fat shot at 17 (tore up a bunch of grass) and scored another double bogey (deep pit full of trash with newer stuff).

We ended up needing a birdie or better on 18 to keep pace with the field. After scouting out the hole, we teed off (put up the tripod and got down to business). Getting down to the juicy layer, we found many better items. First up was an early 3-striped crock

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Photo 8: Freshly Dug Old Rye, Wheeling Va. and a super rare pontil J.D. Vowell druggist/medicine from Washington, Pa.

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and then down deeper we found a very rare, Varney Wheeling IP soda. [Photo 12] It had a small crack in back, but first one we ever saw! The crew keeps laughing at me as I always say Barney instead of Varney, I’ll get it straight. Nice birdie score on this hole!

Photo 12: Early Varney Wheeling IP Soda and Striper Crock

There were many other good bottles found during these rounds of digs, but those already mentioned were the highlights. Considering my handicap (I really never played a round of golf before) shooting a 77 didn’t seem so bad. [below] Well, I am off looking for the next course to play and even if its just a putting green, I’ll be happy with one good hole! I think this permission and the number of holes found so jammed up together in a few spots, may be a once in a lifetime opportunity to dig as a golf outing...let’s hope not!

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From 2013 FOHBC Manchester National Show ginger ale display: Left to right, (patent holder, date, and bottler): A. Christin - 1875, Christin, Chicago, C. de Quillfeldt - 1875, S.B. Winn, Salem, MA, H. Codd - 1873, Wilcox Bros, Lilydale, Dandenong & Frankston, Australia, A. Rich - 1882, G.D. Dow, Boston, F. Riley - 1885, Grattan, Belfast, IR, C. Hutchinson- 1879, Geo. Schmuck, Cleveland, OH, F. Thatcher- 1885, Cincinnati Sodawater & Ginger Ale, OH.

No fizz?

Less bizz!

When just a cork and wire were the predominant method to seal a bottle, bottles were sometimes embossed with directions to “keep lying down.” The objective was to keep the liquid contents in contact with the cork to prevent shrinking. A dry cork allowed the zing to slip away unnoticed until an eager customer was disappointed by the stillness. And flat ginger ale is never very appealing; back then, or today.

By Ken Previtali

Recently the publishing of a new book on bottle closures titled Saving the Fizz by David Jones of Sydney, Australia came to my attention. A number of things came to mind. Keeping carbon dioxide (CO2) bubbles sealed in a bottle until they were set free to tickle the senses was indeed a challenge to the burgeoning 19th century bottling industry. Why was fizz so important? Mainly because the sensation is what attracted their customers: No fizz?

Less bizz!

In a snapshot of his book, Mr. Jones describes the challenge that drove inventors, glasshouses, and bottlers to try just about every way imaginable to make a reliable seal. In David Graci’s own groundbreaking 2003 book Soda and Beer Closures- 1850-1910, he notes that “Many of these bottle closure ideas appeared in a short period of time, competing fiercely for patronage of bottlers and customers alike. Those making it to a successful acceptance might be quickly bypassed by another, seemingly better idea. Patented bottle closures filed and recorded within the Patent Records seemed to herald a quickening impatience to discover this holy grail.” (David told me that he “had the pleasure of working with David (Jones) on Saving the Fizz.”)

For every one thing we think we know, there are ten more we don’t, and that is especially true with history.

Let’s go on another historical ramble on fizz with a “slight” slant towards ginger ale.

Attributed to Josiah Russell, a successful London bottler who set up a factory in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1887. While this example is embossed London, it is not known if this bottle was used in Rotterdam, but it is reported that Russell did make ginger ale at that location.

Regardless which side of the channel it was, Russell wanted everyone to keep that cork moist.

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Found more often, labels provided similar instructions.

This Mt. Vernon, Indiana bottler’s label, ca. 1881, was very specific with instructions to customers. Even taking steps to retain the fizz after opening was important.

The instructions on this bottle, ca. 1890, also recommend storing in a cool place. Relative to fizz, this was a good idea for two reasons. First, lower temperatures kept the CO2 from expanding, which prevented added pressure on the cork; lessening the chance of inadvertent “escape.” Also, CO2 is more soluble in liquid when kept cool, which helps retain fizz for a longer period of time.

Even though this is a machine-made crown top bottle from the1920s, the label still recommends storing lying down.

These instructions probably were just a precaution left over from the days of leaky closure contraptions, as William Painter’s simple crown cork seal was indeed the “holy grail” bottlers were chasing all those years. When the metal crown cap was crimped on, the thin wafer of cork made the seal, and it just didn’t leak, unless it was applied improperly by the bottler, which did happen.)

The importance of a safe, hygienic bottle seal was not lost on the soda consumer. Competition among bottlers was intense, especially during the prohibition era. It appears this Troy, NY bottler chose to attract customers by naming the entire company after the closure: “Crown Seal Ginger Ale, Inc.” Whether or not the name on this art deco ca. 1930 bottle was an infringement on Crown, Cork & Seal’s copyrights is undetermined, but it seems a savvy marketing idea.

In the very early 1900s, the invention of automatic bottle making machines ensured the crown cap seal would become the best, cheapest, and easiest closure for soda and beer bottles. David Graci describes the dramatic change aptly: “The Owens machine process combined with Painter’s crown cork lip, which had been applied to bottles through hand finishing, was the catalyst that most bottle patentees saw as an end to their efforts at producing any other acceptable bottle closures. It meant that Painter’s single use stoppers, accepted by more and more members of the bottling trade, could be offered to them at such low prices as to render the competition a knockout blow.”

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But not all bottlers joined the crown cap seal revolution right away. Here’s a machine-made crown top bottle from Granite Springs, N.Y. that uses a closure patented in 1875 by Charles de Quillfeldt. The Granite Spring trademark was registered in 1909.

Looks like the seal worked pretty well for 108 years for the soda, but certainly the fizz eventually found its way out.

The widespread success of the crown cap spawned a new “holy grail” pursuit. Once removed, the crown cap had done its job, and was useless. The inventors’ new challenge was to develop a version of the cap that could be resealed, thus saving the fizz after opening. This pursuit began as early as 1906, and continued for decades with patent after patent promising to be the best solution; just as all the closure patents did prior to the crown cap. Much to my surprise, while sorting an archive of family papers my cousin discovered that our Swiss grandfather Carl Klaiber was the design engineer in 1936 for just such a reusable closure patent!

Based on the patent description, this version (engineered and drafted by my grandfather) supposedly provided better hygiene than other examples of reusable crown caps. The patent owner noted that “Many manufacturers of mineral water or soft drinks, even breweries will be interested to supply the caps separately in appropriate number with the delivery of the bottles, which may be closed originally with Crown Cork, to enable customers (consumers) to close the bottle again if not empty, so that it can be set aside or laid into the refrigerator.” Save the fizz.

Let’s revisit a few of the earlier closure types.

We learned from Mr. Jones that the inside screw stopper had been around for a while with Henry Barrett generally accepted as the inventor (1878) with a nod to several earlier others including the little-known Amasa Stone (1861). But then along came Frederick Riley of England in 1885 with his own twist on the screw stopper.

In the closures section (http://www.sodasandbeers.com/SABBottleClosuresSoda.htm) of Sodas & Beer Bottles of North America, Tod von Mechow tells us that “Riley improved the inside screw stopper by adding a protrusion to the top of the stopper that allowed for easier opening.”

Grattan & Co. Belfast, Ireland, claimed to be the original makers of ginger ale, but no one as yet has come forward with any solid proof to dislodge Cantrell, also of Belfast, as the chemist who started it all in 1852. (Then again, who lets facts get in the way of a good story?)

This 1906 design was just one of many patents that used a lever to clamp a reusable cap to a crown top bottle.

There are a lot of bottles with patent information embossed, but few can compare with Grattan’s declaration that in all of county Ulster Ireland only they can use Riley’s patent extended stopper. That claim is probably easier to prove than their one about ginger ale.

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Given Mr. Jones hails from down under, we need to take a closer look at the Wilcox Bros. Codd bottle. The Wilcoxes operated in three locations: Lilydale, Dandenong and Frankston, each 30-40 km from Melbourne. Today those towns are the “suburbs” of Melbourne, but in the 1900s they were in the “country”, but not too far away by Australian standards. The tree fern “trademark” and “Truly Australian” reflects national pride, as the tree fern Cyathea cooperi, is native to Australia. This sun-colored ginger ale example is a fairly rare bottle.

Grattan put so many words on their bottle you can’t take them all in without rotating the bottle all the way around, or taking three pictures. The last line of embossing on the heel of the bottle was too small and run together to get a legible rubbing. It reads: “Riley Manfg. Co. London, S.W.”

While Grattan had cornered the market for Riley’s closure in their patch, others were using it elsewhere.

Hay & Son, Aberdeen, Scotland, ca.1900s. This firm was established in 1844 and lasted until 2001. The Hays politely asked for the return of the stopper with the bottle. One account of the business relates that “all sorts of strange fluids were often stored in bottles before they were returned for their deposit money, hence the need to sniff the black moulded screw tops.”

This stoneware screw top from Burslem, England is stenciled “ginger ale”, but may well have been a ginger beer. Ginger beer, a three- or four-times removed cousin of ginger ale, did not have a high volume of carbonation, and could be bottled in stoneware. Most stoneware bottles couldn’t take the pressure of the “forced air” in soda water; particularly ginger ale which traditionally had to have a strong zing of bubbles. Perhaps some of our U.K. friends can tell us if this one is really a ginger beer and should be given the “boot” from my list of ginger ales.

Oddly enough, the only known Codd bottles embossed “ginger ale” are all from Australia.

This ad from 1878 touts the benefits of the Codd bottle as perhaps the finally-found “holy grail” of closures.

“The bottle may fairly be called the greatest invention of the age in connection with Aerated Waters, as it combines all those qualities so long sought for in a Soda Water Bottle; and we challenge any one, however biassed his opinion, to name one fault.”

Of course, we have the benefit of hindsight to observe that while they believed that at the time, it was not to become the ultimate solution as advertised.

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Ever wonder how customers were expected to push down the marble to open the bottle? Now you know.

To complete the Australian connection, here’s a nod to Mr. Jones who perhaps deserves to earn a blue ribbon for his Saving the Fizz -- my only Sydney ginger ale bottle.

If you didn’t have one of these, was using your thumb the alternative? The Home Brewery, established in 1875, became a massive company owning 100s of pubs around the Nottingham, England region, where they sold vast amounts of beer and ale. Apparently they did make ginger ale, but this wooden Codd bottle “opener” is the only reference to that activity, so far.

We began this ramble talking about how early bottlers fervently sought the best way to contain that tickling zing of bubbles. No matter what; bright, sharp carbonation continued to be what the customers wanted: Soda water ain’t got a thing without that zing!

One of best descriptions of the fugitive fizz is by bottler Tom Moore of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Blue Bow Ginger Ale, Tooth & Company, Ltd. Sydney. Ca. 1940s.

This 1930s prohibition-era cast iron countertop display says it quite lyrically, and of course it is for ginger ale, which certainly has a zing of its own.

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13 JANUARY 2019

(Sunday) TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS

THE LITTLE RHODY BOTTLE CLUB SHOW

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Directions: Take Exit #9, off Route #495 for 700, Myles Standish Blvd.

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W.C. Peacock: The Whiskey Man Who Made Waikiki

By Jack Sullivan

Today Waikiki Beach on the Hawaiian Island of Oahu is one of the most popular recreation areas in the world. A British-born Honolulu saloonkeeper and liquor dealer named Walter Chamberlain (abbreviated to W.C.) Peacock more than a century ago saw the promise in a barren strip of land along the Pacific Ocean. He built the Moana Hotel at Waikiki, still a landmark (Fig. 1), and began a history of development that continues to this day.

The Royal Hawaiian and Moana hotels dominated Waikiki Beach throughout the 1930s and ‘40s. - University of Hawaii Library

Fig.1: The Moana Hotel opened on March 11, 1901 as Waikiki’s first hotel. Affectionately called “The First Lady of Waikiki.”

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Born in1858 in Lancaster, England, Peacock arrived in the Territory of Hawaii from Australia about 1881, apparently accompanied by his mother, Margaret, and other family members. Not long after arriving, Peacock started a wholesale liquor business with a local named George Freeth. By 1890, Freeth had departed and the firm known as W.C. Peacock & Co. Ltd emerged, as shown on a porcelain bottle cap (Fig. 2).

Fig.2: Porcelain bottle cap for W.C. Peacock & Co. Ltd., Honolulu,T.H.(Territory of Hawaii)

In addition to selling liquor at wholesale, Peacock also ran a string of saloons in Honolulu. A trade token names the Royal, Pacific and Cosmopolitan, (Fig. 3). For the Royal Saloon in 1890, he designed and constructed a brick building at the corner of Merchant and Nuuanu Streets in Honolulu’s Chinatown. The building (Fig. 4) was relatively modest by current standards, featuring white stucco pilasters, cornice and balustrade, and another spot of stucco over the bricks of the upper walls. Peacock gave it windows and door bays along the street creating a feeling of spaciousness. Still a Honolulu landmark, the Royal Building currently is occupied by an Irish pub.

About 1896, Peacock incorporated and opened a expanded liquor house on Merchant street near Fort. Street, shown here on a postal cover (Fig. 5). His liquor empire continued to expand although his customer base was confined to the islands. He packaged his wines and liquors in glass bottles, both amber and clear (Figs 6, 7). He also sold gin in the characteristic “case” shape (Fig. 8).

The owner’s nephew remembered working at the company filling those bottles: “Peacock sold 3 grades of gin increasing in price.

Many bought the most expensive kind. However, in the back room all the gin came out of the same barrel.” Peacock’s bottles are avidly collected in Hawaii today.

Fig.5: In 1896 or so, Peacock incorporated and opened a expanded liquor house on Merchant street near Fort. Street, shown here on a postal cover.

Fig.3: A trade token names

three of Peacocks establishments: Royal, Pacific and Cosmopolitan Saloons.

Fig.4: Still a Honolulu landmark, the Royal Building (Royal 1890) is currently occupied by an Irish pub. Located corner of Merchant and Nuuanu Streets in Honolulu’s Chinatown

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Figs.6&7: Peacock packaged his wines and liquors in glass bottles, both amber and clear.

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Fig.8: Peacock

also sold gin in the characteristic “case” shape bottles.

For a short time, W.C. and a brother, Corbert, ventured into the farm implement business in Australia. Directories in Melbourne from 1899 to 1901 record the existence of the W.C. Peacock & Bro. firm, making and selling rotary disc plows in a design that one of the brothers likely invented. Peacock returned frequently from Australia to supervise his Honolulu businesses and returned for good in 1901.

Meanwhile he was piling up riches from sales of liquor, both from his store and saloons. Like many liquor dealers of that time he provided bar tokens to retail consumers and gave shot glasses, some with fancy gold rims, to favored saloon owners and barkeepers (Fig. 10). One glass had the seal of Hawaii lithographed in the base (Fig. 11).

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As a result, Peacock created a new company, capitalized at $100,000, later increased to $150,000. He called it the Moana Hotel Company Ltd. and planned a new hotel on oceanfront land not far from his home. A photograph exists of the newly finished hotel with a tramway in front taking visitors to nearby Diamond Head (Fig. 12). Nothing else had yet been built on Waikiki.

A hotel history tells the story: “The Moana Hotel officially opened on March 11, 1901 ushering a new era of tourism for the islands. Designed in the old colonial style architecture of the period, it had 75 rooms and was the costliest, most elaborate hotel building in the Hawaiian Islands at the time. Each room on the three upper floors had a bathroom and a telephone - innovations for hotels of the times. The hotel also had its own ice plant and electric generators. The first floor had a billiard parlor, saloon, main parlor, library, office and reception area.” Patrons paid a hefty $1.50 per night for their rooms.

Peacock took a strong interest in many aspects of the Moana.

According to family lore he personally is reputed to have planted the giant banyan tree that still spreads over the grounds (Fig. 13). Because of the remoteness of Hawaii in those pre-airplane days, the Moana may not have been the immediate profit center Peacock anticipated. Or he may not have liked the hotel business.

In any case, he sold the property in 1905 to Alexander Young, a prominent Honolulu businessman with other Hawaiian hotel interests.

Although W. C. Peacock is gone from the Honolulu scene, this far-sighted entrepreneur is still celebrated for his pioneer work for the Hawaii tourist industry and the development of Waikiki.

Subsequently the Moana, with a number of additions over the years, became known as the “Grand Queen” of Honolulu hostelries. It also was the pivotal building that led to the massive development of Waikiki. My parents stayed at the Moana in the 1950s and I have overnighted there in more recent years. Peacock’s hotel remains a marvelous destination after more than a century.

In 1909 Peacock, still young at 50, died. He had been in bad health for several years and the cause of death was said to have been disease of the liver. He seems never to have married, possibly because of devotion to his mother. He was buried in the Oahu Cemetery in a section known as the “Peacock Plot.” His mother, Margaret, age 82, soon would join him in the grave. Mother and son are memorialized on a joint headstone (Fig. 14).

Figs.10&11: Peacock provided bar tokens to retail consumers and gave shot glasses, some with fancy gold rims, to favored saloon owners and barkeepers. One glass had the seal of Hawaii lithographed in the base.

In the late 1800s, Peacock built a mansion for himself on a spit of land on the eastern side of Oahu that looked out on the gently rolling surf of the Pacific. As the 19th Century drew to a close, he also noted that more or more steamships were docking at Honolulu and the influx of tourists was increasing rapidly. Moreover, there was a dearth of hotel accommodations at the beach.

After W.C.’s death other family members took over the management of the Peacock liquor interests. Their time would be limited by the 1915 passage of territory-wide Prohibition in Hawaii.

Although W. C. Peacock is gone from the Honolulu scene, this far-sighted entrepreneur is still celebrated for his pioneer work for the Hawaii tourist industry and the development of Waikiki.

On a contemporary view of Waikiki (Fig. 15) the Moana Hotel is the first building with beach frontage, dwarfed by surrounding high-rise hotels and condos. Find it on the postcard and remember W.C. Peacock, Hawaii’s whiskey man who got it all started.

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Fig.12: The newly finished Moana Hotel with a tramway in front taking visitors to nearby Diamond Head.

Fig.13: According to family lore, Peacock personally is reputed to have

planted the giant banyan tree that still spreads over the Moana Hotel grounds.

Fig.15: A contemporary view of Waikiki. The Moana Hotel is the first building with beach frontage, dwarfed by surrounding high-rise hotels and condos.

Find it on the postcard.

Fig.14: W.C. Peacock is buried in the Oahu Cemetery in a section known as the “Peacock Plot.�

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Walter Smith was bitten early by the collecting bug

By Bill Baab “I’ve won national awards displaying antique (auto) tags, antique cars and antique bottles,” said Augusta, Georgia native Walter Edward Smith, who became a collector long before he was out of his teenage years, with coins (pennies) paving the way. He developed an early passion for antique furniture and working on restoring it later became his livelihood (and remains so). His business is today called the “Furniture Doctor Inc.”

“Back then Model A’s didn’t cost much, perhaps $300 to $400,” said Smith, now 74. He was an employee at Augusta’s first fast food hamburger joint called Kelly’s, located on Walton Way near where his family lived.

He owns nine antique autos, including a recently purchased 1928 Franklin in running condition. In early February, he gave my wife and me a ride in the car, which is older than we are. He is also a member of the Shade Tree A’s and the Franklin club.

Later, he was employed at the Owens-Corning Fiberglass plant in Aiken, South Carolina before joining the new Kimberly-Clark plant as employee No. 48 in Beech Island, S.C., across the Savannah River from Augusta.

That early passion for wood took hold when he was 12 or 13 years of age and a member of the Boys Club of Augusta. Then he discovered the woodworking shop inside the club building and volunteered to sweep the floor just so he could come in the door.

After a few days of sweeping, Mr. Timms, the man in charge, invited him to come in.

“He was a shop teacher at Butler High School and he let me start to help him on a project. The Boys Club held an awards banquet and awarded special jackets to anyone who earned a certain number of points. I really wanted one of those jackets so I did everything I could to earn one and eventually won one. I built a coin display cabinet, the type where drawers had places for coins, and it won a wood shop award. Later, I cut down a cedar tree, reworked the stump and made a gavel out of it. All of this exposed me to working with wood and I developed wood shop skills.”

Antique automobiles soon attracted more of his interest and when he was 18 or 19 years old, he bought his first Model A Ford.

During the early 1970s, he joined antiques picker Charlie Nicholson, of Edgefield, South Carolina, working on restoration of pre-refrigerator wooden ice boxes, which then were all the rage as collectibles. Nicholson was a picker for Texan Georgeanna Greer, who became an expert on early American stoneware and authored a book on the subject.

“Charlie was a great mentor and we’d ride out into the countryside looking for stuff to buy. Once we stopped at a farmhouse and the farmer took us out to his barn. We saw a pedal car and Charlie asked how much the owner wanted. A fairly high price was quoted and Charlie bought it. He also bought a truckload of stuff.

“Wasn’t that pedal car priced too high?” I asked Charlie, who agreed, adding “that was my ticket to get the rest!” That was an important part of Walter’s learning experience.

While in his early 20s, he met Claire and Dick West. The latter was vice president of a longtime Augusta firm specializing in food products. She wanted to get into the antiques business and bought an antique weather vane from Walter with the understanding he would deliver it. He did so and spotted some caneback chairs, some of which needed repairs.

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I’ve won national awards displaying antique (auto) tags, antique cars and antique bottles...

Walter Smith with only a small portion of his local Augusta collection.

2019 FOHBC 50th Anniversary National Antique Bottle Convention 1-4August 2019

Augusta Georgia

Walter Smith is a consortium Co-Chair for the upcoming 2019 FOHBC 50th Anniversary Augusta National Antique Bottle Convention

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Detail shot from the Walter Johnson display of his collection of bottles used by soda water manufacturer Edward Sheehan, who established his Excelsior Bottling Works. Photo from the FOHBC 2015 Chattanooga National Antique Bottle Show.

He asked her what she planned to do with them and she said sell them. He bought and repaired them, then showed them to Claire, who bought them back.

“She called me a bit later and said she wanted me to start working for her. Not only that, she wanted to buy everything I worked on.

Five or six years later, the Wests moved to Houston, Texas and asked me to come with them. About four or five years later, they said they were moving to Martha’s Vineyard off the Massachusetts coast and I joined them.”

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At the time, the wealthy families who lived on Martha’s Vineyard had a liking for good Southern primitive furniture. “It sold like hot cakes and we made good money,” he said.

She called me a bit later and said she wanted me to start working for her...

Walter accompanied the Wests to Portugal on one visit long before tourists discovered the country. “We were riding in a rental car and passed an area where 200- and 300-year-old buildings were being demolished. I yelled ‘Stop! Stop!’ but Dick kept driving. Claire slapped him on the side of the head and said, ‘Walter said stop!’ He did and we turned around and went back. We picked up a lot of decorated tiles that had come off the buildings.

These were tiles that could be dated and so could be sold to the right people.

“On another trip, we stayed in a chalet on the side of a hill and met a man who invited us to his home to see some antiques.

When we got there, it turned out to be a huge building that had been the American Embassy and he was living in just a few of its rooms. I bought an early mortar and pestle and a statue of a saint.”

While he collects “anything Augusta,” Walter also likes early record players and owns a Victor 3 whose 78 r.p.m. music flows out of an oak horn. His musical interest was developed during his long friendship with Augustan Maxey Tarpley (now deceased), whose collection of early Swing and Blues records once was among the largest anywhere.

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along what is known as “Beaver Dam Ditch,” a drainage ditch.

He thought they were digging for bait and kept on for a bit.

“Wait!” I said to myself. “That many people can’t be digging for worms! I turned around and went back. I started talking to them and saw them pull old bottles out of the ground. That got me excited and a bit later I returned with Charles King, an old friend, and joined them.”

His hobby of collecting antique bottles had gotten off to a jump start. Later, he and King started going beneath buildings into dirt floor basements of many downtown Augusta businesses. He got permission and went beneath the old Georgia Railroad Freight Depot on Reynolds Street.

“You could stand upright beneath it and pick up 19th century John Ryan sodas off the top of the ground.” The cobalt sodas are among favorite bottles of local collectors.

He joined the Georgia-Carolina Empty Bottle Club the writer had founded in Augusta during the early 1970s and when that club shut down, he later became a member of the Horse Creek Antique Bottle and Pottery Club which meets in Aiken, South Carolina His other interests include pharmaceutical jugs with the stenciled names of drug companies and drug stores as well as beer barrels, one of which was used by the Augusta Brewing Company.

His collection of bottles used by soda water manufacturer Edward Sheehan, who established his Excelsior Bottling Works in Augusta in 1880, is the most complete anywhere and includes a Twitchell bottle manufactured by a Philadelphia company and employs a marble stopper arrangement similar to that used by English Codd bottles. The aqua bottle is embossed E. SHEEHAN / 1880 / AUGUSTA, GA. One of his many restored antique cars.

“Maxey was an aggressive collector and was one of the first antique bottle collectors in Augusta. He and a friend had excavated in the old landfill known as the “Mill Supply” dump. (Maxey told the author that he knew nothing about the bottles. “If I liked it, I kept it,” he said.)

Later, we dug in dirt floor basements below businesses in downtown Augusta where servants had emptied trash, including bottles. One of the best finds was when we climbed into the attic of former photographers Tucker & Perkins in a building that was to be demolished to make room for a new hotel. The photographers, who had produced stereophonic views, had gone out of business during the 1880s and we found a bunch of bottles, labels and other memorabilia that had not been touched since then.” For years, bottles embossed Tucker & Perkins, Augusta, Ga., were previously thought to have contained medicine or whiskey.

His collection features a number of rarities, including a Georgia Bitters manufactured by druggists W.H. Barrett and Land in the early 1870s and Dr. William H. Tutt’s Golden Eagle Bitters with Augusta, Ga., embossed on one of the side panels. It is unique since other variants are without the city name.

During one of his trips home after work at Kimberly-Clark, Walter was driving on Gwinnett Street Extension (now called Laney-Walker Boulevard) and saw a bunch of people digging

Walter is married to pharmacist Lisa and they have a daughter, Megan. An earlier marriage produced his son, Bruce, and a daughter, Kelly.

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Wanna buy a wooden Indian?

Walter Smith posing with some of his carved Indians made by Philippine Island carvers.

The late Pierce Farmer as a hobby in the 1970s operated an antiques store in old Hamburg, the former 19th century community near present day North Augusta, South Carolina. He sold an eclectic mix of items, including the then nearly unique River Swamp Chill & Fever Cure and a pair of cigar store Indians.

The writer purchased the honey amber, small size Augusta, Georgia cure featuring an embossed alligator for $35 and thought he was being held up. I mean $35 for an old bottle! Come on!

Augustan Walter Smith traded Farmer a cobalt John Ryan / 1866 / Augusta, Ga., soda coveted by the antiques dealer for the Indians, which had been carved in the Philippine Islands by skilled artisans.

During a Charlotte, North Carolina antiques show, Smith learned the location of the source of the wooden Indians and was able to acquire more than 3,000 over an 8-year period. He sold many of them to visitors to the annual Augusta Futurity Cutting Horse Championships as well as during antiques shows from Augusta to Charlotte.

He even spent 10 days visiting the Filipino carvers, cementing his association with them.

Indian figurines, many 6 feet in height and realistic in form, were not the only things. Carved pigs and rainbow trout and other figures, including a bear, eventually made their way to Smith.

The writer is the proud owner of a carved piglet, a small Indian (about 3 feet high) and a trout, thanks to his friend’s generosity.– Bill Baab

Along with Indians, carved pigs and rainbow trout and other figures, including a bear, eventually made their way to Smith.

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are extremely rare molds that have fortunately been found in a color.

I will also discuss molds that are rather common in aquamarine but prized in a certain color. Keep in mind, there are many other flasks that could have been chosen for this article but for brevity sake, I have chosen the following fifteen in random order.

1 The GX-20 American System flask in a clear color shading to pale violet. Bakewell Page and Bakewell was arguably the most important of the Midwestern glasshouses making some of the finest and most intricate flask molds of the day. This flask is not only one of the most historical flasks depicting Henry Clay’s “American System” movement but is unique as of today. The lone example is located in The Corning Museum of Glass and was found in the late 1930s near Cincinnati. Needless to say, the intricacy of the mold, the subject matter, and its uniqueness make it a true prize of Midwestern flasks.

PRIZED MIDWESTERN FLASKS

by Mark Vuono see images on following pages This past February, I was approached by Matt Lacy and Louis Fifer, co-chairmen of the 2018 Cleveland National Convention, to write the feature article for the souvenir program. Since my specialty is historical flasks, they inquired if I could write an article on Midwestern flasks. I gladly accepted and among us, we agreed upon the title of “Prized Midwestern Flasks”. I felt honored to be asked to write this article by both of them.

In beginning this article one must establish a location for the Midwestern flasks. I feel pretty confident that most all of us would consider the early Pittsburgh glass houses as being on the eastern edge of the Midwest as far as glasshouses are concerned.

So, for this article, I will try to encompass as many glasshouses as possible with Pittsburgh being the starting point and working my way west through the other Midwestern glass houses and their wares.

There are literally hundreds of flasks that can be considered “Prized” coming from the Midwest but for this article I have chosen a variety of examples that I feel will encompass “The Territory” as best as possible. Some of the flasks I will discuss are extremely rare molds that are found only in aquamarine, others

2 The GI-77 emerald green Taylor / Masterson eagle flask.

This flask is one that can be considered rather scarce in aquamarine but extremely rare in a color. The obverse of the flask depicts a “bald” General Taylor. Some even say an alien looking Taylor. The reverse, in my opinion, makes up for the obverse by displaying a gorgeous American eagle with thirteen stars above the eagle. Above the stars is the name Masterson. To date, no one really knows what Masterson stands for but in my humble opinion it probably represents a private liquor merchant having his own flasks blown for commerce. It is not definitely known where this flask was blown but consensus has it as being a Midwestern beauty. To date, there are two known emerald green examples and shards of a yellowish olive example.

3 The GIV-32 Shepard & Co , Zanesville / Masonic arch flask in yellow green. Here is an example of a rather common mold in an extremely rare color. No doubt where this flask was blown… Zanesville, Ohio at the White Glass Works. These flasks come in a myriad of colors but the yellow green example in my opinion represents the finest color available among the many. An interesting anomaly of this flask is the amber and orange amber examples are probably the most common colors found in this mold followed by the bluish aquamarine examples. The flask itself is fully loaded with designs on both sides and even displays a little folk art characteristic by having the “S” in Shepard reversed.

Quite an attractive flask and surely a prized Midwestern flask.

4 The GIX-6 olive yellowish amber quart sized Louisville Glass Works scroll flask. When one mentions Midwestern flasks, one cannot help think of The Louisville Glassworks.

During its production peak around 1855, many scroll flasks were blown. Those embossed with the glassworks name itself are the most appealing and most desired by collectors. All of the aquamarine examples can be considered comparatively scarce to locate but those in colors are even more special. I chose this olive yellowish amber quart for its shear beauty, form, and rarity.

Certainly a prized Midwestern flask.

5 The GXV-10 Indianapolis Glass Works flask. Although later in manufacture, about 1874, this flask along with its quartsized counterpart, GXV-9, remain very elusive to collectors. In

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American Flasks and Their Ancestry, Helen McKearin and Ken Wilson both list these flasks as rare. In all my years of collecting, I have seen less than five examples of each. I actually consider them extremely rare. The pint-sized emerald green one shown is unique in this color as far as I know and is truly a prized Midwestern flask.

The GII-37 Ravenna Glass Works Anchor / Eagle flask.

Here is another rather common mold in a desirable color. The Ravenna Glass Works played an important role in flask manufacturing as attested by this beautiful mold design. Personally, one of my favorite mold designs of all. I chose this deep blue green example for two reasons: First, the color is an outstanding color to obtain in this flask and secondly to show the “classic” rectangular iron pontil mark found on many of the Ravenna flasks. This GII-37 Ravenna Glass Works flask is truly a prize for Midwestern glass!

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The GI-70 Andrew Jackson / Masonic flask. This flask is surely a prized Midwestern flask. It was blown at The Mantua Ohio Glassworks and dates circa 1829. It was hitherto unknown until the excavation of the Mantua site by Harry Hall White in the 1920s. Mr. White at the time was only able to locate fragments of the flask but still considered it the single most important discovery of the Mantua excavation. Finally, in the late 1930s an intact specimen was found in a barn in The Western Reserve of Ohio.

To date only three examples are known. One in The Corning Museum of Glass, one at The Ohio Historical Center and one in a private collection. While visiting The Ohio Historical Center in Columbus about 10 years ago, I was discussing this flask with one of the curators and she mentioned to me that all the curators of the different departments got together and decided to pick the top twenty-five artifacts in the Museum’s collection. This flask was chosen among the twenty-five… quite an honor! Upon further research, I learned their example was purchased from Neil C. Gest in the mid fifties. Mr Gest was a prominent dealer of the time from Mechanicsburg, Ohio. In my opinion, the finest flask made in Ohio!

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The GI-63 Wm. Henry Harrison / Log Cabin flask. This early Pittsburgh flask is a sure bet for being a top Midwestern prize. It is the only flask depicting Wm. Henry Harrison on the obverse and a great looking log cabin on its reverse. This flask was first discovered by James H. Rose, of cup plate fame, in Ohio in the 1920s. To date, only four or five examples are known in aquamarine. A flask that is on many want lists and extremely difficult to obtain.

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The GI-66 General Jackson / American eagle flask in olive yellow. Well, folks, this is a flask that has it All! An early Pittsburgh beaded flask from the John Robinson Glass Factory, so noted by the initials J.R. in the oval frame below the eagle. An extremely rare mold in a color no less. The reverse is embossed with an American eagle. Below the eagle is the embossed name Laird SC. Joshua Laird (sculptor), a prominent mold maker of the day, designed and made the mold for the reverse of this flask.

He must have been so proud of his work that he “signed” his name on the reverse as a painter might have done to a painting on canvas. Historically, it is very significant by having General Jackson depicted on the obverse. It is interesting to note that the 9

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The GXII-39 sapphire blue Union / Cannon flask. In trying to encompass the many Midwestern glass houses, one cannot forget the William Frank and Sons Glassworks of Pittsburgh. I chose this flask because of its unique color for the GXII Union grouping of flasks. The mold itself comes in a variety of colors including aquamarine, various shades of ambers and yellow greens. There are probably about four or five known sapphire blue examples. For me, this sapphire blue example is a very special Midwestern gem!

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The GXI-45 amber Pike’s Peak / Eagle flask. When it comes to Midwestern glass, one cannot forget The Zanesville Glass Works. This flask is most likely a flask representing The Zanesville Glass Works and is charted in the Pike’s Peak grouping of flasks. The flask depicts a folky prospector holding a bottle to his lips taking a “nip” from it. It is commonly called “The Tippler” among flask collectors. The reverse depicts an eagle with a large olive branch rising from its beak. To date, I am only aware of three examples in amber. This depicted example is the only one with an iron pontil mark and in my opinion the finest impression among the three. It is interesting to note that there is an olive yellow example with an open pontil located in The Henry Ford Museum and I have heard of but not seen an emerald green example with an open pontil. The reason this flask is justified as coming from the Zanesville Glass Works is the fact that the extremely rare GII-129 eagle flask, which is embossed Zanesville Ohio, depicts the same eagle on the reverse; possibly an interchangeable mold usage. No matter how you slice it, these flasks are Midwestern prizes!

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GI-116. The Wheat Price and Co Unknown bust / Glass house flask. One cannot forget the Wheeling glass houses of the day. The Fair View Glass Works was located in Wheeling, Virginia. (West Virginia attained statehood on June 20, 1863 so we know this flask predates that). The GI-116 depicts a folksy bust with long hair on the obverse (possibly John Tyler). Embossed around the bust are the words Wheat Price & Co. Wheeling, Va. It is interesting to note that the letter “N’ in Wheeling is reversed.

Also, the “VA” abbreviation for Virginia is upside down when the flask is held upright. A classic example of American folk art in glass. The reverse of the flask depicts a crude looking glass house and the words embossed Fair View Works. There are two versions of this flask; one with a short haired bust (GI-115) and this one with the long haired bust. Although both are rare flasks, I chose the long haired bust for this article because it is the rarer of the two. The Fairview Glass Works was only in operation from July 1833 until January 1834 thus accounting for their rarity.

Certainly a prize in Midwestern glass.

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13 The GIV-31 Masonic emblems / Eagle and stars flask.

This flask is most likely an early Pittsburgh product and I chose it mainly because it is a often overlooked flask and deserves more attention than it receives. It has all the bells and whistles with Masonic emblems on the obverse and a beautiful heraldic eagle and stars on the reverse. With its beaded sides, it is really a very attractive flask and an extremely rare mold with 8-10 known.

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Of the few I have seen and handled, there is only one example I know of with a contracted base. It is pictured here for your enjoyment. Quite an unusual flask and worthy of being called a prized Midwestern flask.

14 The GII-27 Farley & Taylor Richmond Ky / Eagle flask.

This flask deserves to be called a Midwestern prize for it shear size and extreme rarity. Most likely a Kentucky Glass Works flask from Louisville, this two and a half quart gem has quite the eye appeal. It was most likely blown as a private mold for wine and liquor merchants Farley & Taylor. The shear size of this flask may account for its extreme rarity. If you consider the weight of this flask when filled with a liquid, one can easily see it broken when carelessly handled. On a side note, there is yet another flask with similar size and eagle having a blank reverse. It is charted as a GII-28 and is even rarer than the Farley & Taylor example.

15 The GI-12 early beaded Washington / Eagle flask in deep sapphire blue. This was an easy choice for me as a prized Midwestern flask. It has numerous attributes going for it to include in this article. First of all, it is an extremely rare mold with about five or six known examples. Secondly, and naturally, the color is

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Well that wraps up my list of fifteen “Prized Midwestern Flasks”.

Please enjoy the show as we all know Matt and Louis along with others have put countless hours into this wonderful event. And just remember, while perusing the aisles and tables full of bottles, maybe you can find a “Prized Midwestern Flask” of your own.

Note: Reprinted from the FOHBC 2018 Cleveland National Souvenir Program.

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Ebner Brothers

Fig.1: They came in boats, paddling with boards they found floating in the muddy waters where the occasional rooster bobbed atop a log near the hotel the brothers had built in 1857.

This image is from an 1862 lithographed letter sheet, depicting K Street in flood.

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Saloon owners of Sacramento’s Gold Rush period often made their ways to Ebner Brothers Wholesale Liquor Dealers in order to stock their bars with the latest spirituous products, which prevented malaria, cholera, typhoid fever, dispepsia, loneliness, and psychological desperation of all kinds. And there were many kinds of desperation lurking in every alley.

But at times, patrons didn’t come to Ebner Brothers wholesale liquor business by walking or riding horseback. They came in boats, paddling with boards they found floating in the muddy waters where the occasional rooster bobbed atop a log near the hotel the brothers had built in 1857 (Fig.1). This image is from an 1862 lithographed letter sheet, depicting K Street in flood. In the 1860s, Ebner Brothers liquor business was in the St. George Hotel on 4th Street a few blocks from the Ebner Hotel and the Sacramento River. In the winter of 1862, the river was closer, just a pebble drop from a second story window.

Francis and Charles Ebner had come to this watery misery from Baden Germany, across the fierce Atlantic, making interim stops in New York, Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans, San Francisco, arriving in Sacramento April 1,1853. By 1857, they were operating the Sierra Nevada Hotel and were proprietors of the Philadelphia Beer Saloon. In that same year, they somehow managed to construct a fine hotel at 116-118 K Street, near the waterfront. By 1866 they had established a liquor distributorship, which they operated out of the St. George Hotel until 1880, when the company moved into the Ebner Hotel.

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Fig.2: Photo of the Ebner business circa 1884 with two men

posing outside, cases of wine and whiskey on the floor and advertisements on the wall. Some telltale signs of the 1884 date are the loosely strung wires across the bottom of the sign and a drop wire to the Hotel globe.

about 12 feet. The American River, which flowed into the Sacramento River a short three blocks north of Ebner Brothers liquor business on 4th Street, had to be rechanneled a half mile north. In 1865, the St. George Hotel, which housed the Ebner’s business, along with other buildings in the vicinity, was raised 12’ by use of 250 jack screws. What had been the original first floor of the building became a basement and foundation for a raised building.

A complicated system of raising buildings, while leaving their original foundations, left the west end of town an underground mecca for 1970s bottle diggers, the most famous of which was “Joe, the Mole,” who could and would squeeze into places no one else dared.

There is a contemporary photo of the Ebner business circa 1884 with two men posing outside (Fig.2), cases of wine and whiskey on the floor and advertisements on the wall. Some telltale signs of the 1884 date are the loosely strung wires across the bottom of the sign and a drop wire to the Hotel globe. A power pole had been installed directly across the street at the Bank of D.O. Mills in 1884. Upon first viewing the photograph years ago, this author assumed happily that these were the Ebner brothers, Charles and Francis. But research showed that Charles had died of the Spanish flu sixteen years earlier in 1868, so one of the two was not Charles. Then a photograph of men belonging to the Turner

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Harmonie, an all-German singing group of Sacramento’s Turn Verein, surfaced. Each was identified in print, and the third from left, front row, was Adolph Heilbron, a successful businessman, a future president of Buffalo Brewery, a close friend of Francis Ebner (also an early investor in Buffalo Brewery), and upon Francis’ death, the appraiser of his probate. Adolph is the gent on the right side of the business photograph.

Additionally, a Turn Verein photo of Francis was found (Fig.3-left), and he is definitely neither of the men in the store front photograph. The other gent? Unknown at this time, possibly John Gruhler, an Ebner employee and at some point, a partner.

Francis Ebner died in 1901, and it has been difficult to determine exactly who ran the business after his death. John Gruhler, formerly of the Columbus Brewery family, was in the employ of Ebner Brothers as early as 1895, probably earlier, becoming a partner with Francis in 1898. His former saloon, Gruhler’s Saloon, under a different proprietor, was advertising Old Colonial Whiskey as early as 1885. John died in 1903, shortly after Francis. The widows Josephine Ebner and Pauline Gruhler then owned the business, Josephine buying Pauline out in 1903. Then the Ebner family incorporated the business at $100,000, employing forty-two-year-old son Joseph Ebner as manager of the liquor part of the business. Joseph stayed at the helm through and after Prohibition, living a long life, dying in 1958. His mother JoseFig.4: The most commonly found whiskey objects from Ebner Brothers are the 1/2 pint and pint coffin flasks.

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phine, one of the wealthiest widows in town, built one of the fine “craftsman” houses of East Sacramento in 1913.

Much of Sacramento’s west end had become a skid row by the 1960s and the Ebner Hotel a flop house. When a contract was offered by the city to strip the interior of some of these buildings prior to them being razed or rehabilitated, one of the contractors had employees rip out and carry out whatever was inside and remove it to other locations for resale. We’ll never know all of what survived the process, but we do know of some. And bottle diggers burrowed into every vacant lot in the area for months, finding glass treasures in foundations, privies, and wells.

The most commonly found whiskey objects from Ebner Brothers are the 1/2 pint and pint coffin flasks embossed EBNER BROTHERS / 116-118 K ST. / SACRAMENTO (Fig.4), probably dating from circa 1880s through the 1890s. There are variant molds, the only difference being the depth of the flask. To my knowledge, no embossed picnic flasks have been found, though an early collector told me once that he had had an amber picnic flask. No further evidence on this one.

Whiskey was one of Ebner Brothers main sellers, and Tea Kettle Whiskey, a brand of San Francisco’s Shea Bocqueraz & McKee between 1873-85 must have been a good seller for liquor distributors because many embossed whiskey fifths have been found throughout Northern California. While not noted on any Ebner Brothers billheads that I have seen (Figs. 5-8), Tea Kettle was advertised in a truly great reverse painted glass sign with the Ebner Brothers title, the sign probably manufactured in Philadelphia by Hope and Wells (Fig.9) and the seal states Awarded Prize 1884 New Orleans World’s Fair. This date appears early for such a sign. Bruce Silva, western whiskey expert, thinks that Tea Kettle was distributed out of San Francisco from 1871-87 in embossed bottles and was probably sold after that until supplies ran out, perhaps as late as 1891.

Ebner Brothers major house brand was Old Colonial Whiskey.

This product may have been in the coffin flasks, but also in paper labeled fifths (Fig.10) and embossed amber rectangular fifths and pints (Fig.11) though not marked Sacramento. At least two great calendars advertise Old Colonial Whiskey, one from 1906 and the other from about that date (Figs. 12&13 ). Best of all is a large (5’x3’) reverse painted glass sign with four Colonial Whiskey barrel heads: EBNER BROS., SACRAMENTO, CAL., OLD COLONIAL 1776 RYE, DISTILLED EXPRESSLY FOR EBNER BRO’S, SACRAMENTO, CAL., SOLE AGENTS FOR THE PACIFIC COAST, HENRY W. SMITH & CO., DISTILLERS, COVINGTON, KY, WM. THOMPSON & CO., CIN.O. (Fig.14). One wonders how many of these were made? Probably just one for the headquarters.

A stock tray in near mint condition from Tuscarora Advertising (1888-1901) advertising EBNER BROS. CO. OLD COLONIAL WHISKEY, WHOLESALE LIQUORS, SACRAMENTO, CAL. (Fig.15) showed up in an advertising auction a few years ago.

The depicted female image is certainly circa 1900, not late teens.

This writer has never seen this tray appear in a local collection.

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Charles & Frank Ebner, St. George Building, Fourth Street, between J and K, Sacramento, January ,1871.

Fig.6: Ebner Bros., Importers and Wholesale Dealers billhead.

Charles & Frank Ebner, St. George Building, Fourth Street, between J and K, Sacramento, November ,1873.

Fig.7: Ebner Bros., Importers & Wholesale Dealers billhead, John Gruhler & F.H. Ebner, 116 and 118 K Street, Between Front & Second, Sacramento, September, 1900.

Fig.8: Ebner Bros., Importers and Wholesale Dealers billhead, Distributors of the famous Old Jordon Bourbon Whiskey and Runnymede Pure Rye Whiskey, 116 and 118 K Street, Sacramento, 1910+.

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Fig.12: Ebner Bros. Co., calendar art advertising Old Colonial Whiskey.

Fig.14: Ebner Bro’s advertisement, Old Colonial 1776 Rye, Old Colonial 1776 Bourbon painted glass, Sacramento Cal. Henry W. Smith & Co., Distillers, Covington, KY.

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Fig.16: Ebner Brothers was advertised on some bar bottles, and its house brand Old Colonial was on at least one amber enameled bar bottle.

Figs.18-20: There were also three variant shot glasses advertising Ebner Bros. Co. Colonial Whgiskey, Old Colonial Whiskey and Fine Quality Goods.

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Fig.21: Like other distributors, the company sold several other brands like Blue Cross, Sunny Vale & Mellwood, Lair-Redmond Bourbon, and Buchu Gin.

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Fig.24: Ebner Brothers provided a wooden sleeve cork screw with every bottle

Fig.25: When crown top beers became common, Ebner Brothers provided crown top beer openers.

Fig.26: Ebner Brothers also provided an advertising half barrel

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on some bar bottles, and its house brand Old Colonial was on at least one amber enameled bar bottle. There is also one clear white enameled bar bottle (Fig.16) and two clear gilt bar bottles (Fig.17). There were also three variant shot glasses (Figs.

18 - 20). Like other distributors, the company sold several other brands, Blue Cross, Sunny Vale, Mellwood (Fig.21), Lair-Redmond Bourbon (Fig.22), and Buchu Gin (Fig.23).

Thirsty miners were often known to break the necks off bottles to get a drink in an emergency, but Ebner Brothers was far more refined and provided a wooden sleeve cork screw with every bottle (Fig.24). And when crown top beers became common, the company provided crown top beer openers (Fig.25).

Of course, every red-blooded male had to smoke cigars, hand rolled cigarettes, or a pipe, so Ebner Brothers provided an advertising half barrel match striker (Fig.26) for saloon customers GREETINGS OF EBNER BROS. CO., WHOLESALE WINES and LIQUORS, 116-118 K Street, Sacramento, Cal, 1904.

Fig.27: Ebner Brothers 1915 leather calendar pennant.

Fig.28: Ebner Brothers whisk broom.

At the turn of the century, fashion featuring native Americans was very popular, and not to be outdone, Ebner Brothers provided a 1915 leather calendar pennant (Fig.27) EBNER BROTHERS CO., Established Half Century / IMPORTERS and WHOLESALERS, 116 & 118 K STEET, SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA. Perhaps the most humble and rare of all the company’s advertising is a whisk broom (Fig.28) with a leather cover embossed in gold COMPLIMENTS OF EBNER BROS.CO., WHOLESALE LIQUOR DEALERS, 116 and 118 K STREET, SACRAMENTO, CAL., 1915.

But the most outstanding object of the Ebner Brother’s time in Sacramento is a truly fine sword, presented to Francis Ebner for his Civil War period organizing and leadership of the Sacramento Hussars, a private horse mounted unit formed in 1859, mustered into the California State Militia in 1863, and mustered out in 1874. This unit, costumed in spectacular gaudy red uniforms (Fig.29-below), was apparently prepared to fend off the Confederates during the Civil War if they ever attacked the city from the Sacramento River. Of course, they did not. But had Confederates attacked and the Hussars defeated them, Ebner Brothers was advantageously positioned a half block from Front Street to sell the rebels’ disconsolate quartermaster case lots of the West’s finest whiskey.

Thanks to the many people who contributed to this article: Bruce Silva, Center for Sacramento History, James Scott (Sacramento City Library), Richard Siri, Roger Baker, John Rauzy, Ulrich Pelz (Sacramento Turn Verein), Jane Dolcini, Brian Witherell, proof readers - B.J. Richardson and Eric McGuire. Steve Abbott is a collector of Sacramento whiskey and saloon memorabilia.

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Right: Brad Seigler submitted auction information on this cool, large antique turn-of-the-century bitters dispenser. 8ʺw × 9.5ʺd × 12ʺh - courtesy Chairish

Right: A forgotten painting by 16th-century Dutch master Otto van Veen recently turned up in a museum closet in Des Moines, Iowa, after being hidden for almost a century.

Left: Jeez, could there be a more pronounced embossing! A Success to the Railroad with Horse And Cart -Eagle with Stars historical flask. You could depress this flask into concrete and make a debossing! - eBay

Above: This past July, the original drawing of the map that appears inside the cover of A.A. Milne’s beloved book “Winnie-thePooh” sold at a Sotheby’s auction for nearly $600,000 - a record for any book illustration. The Hundred Acre Wood map is the work of E.H. Shepard, who was asked to illustrate the book in 1926.

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Left: The Big Question: The discovery of a secret tomb behind Tutankhamun’s is being hailed as unique by archaeologists around the world. It could be Egypt’s Queen Nefertiti.

Above: Most people tend to associate buried treasure with pirates and fairy tales which is why this New York couple was flabbergasted to find themselves in the possession of a rusty old safe containing roughly $52,000 in cash and valuables. Matthew and Maria Colonna-Emanuel of Staten Island had always known that there was a metal box hiding amongst the foliage in their backyard, but they had assumed that it was just an electrical box of some kind. Recently, the foliage had been chewed away by wildlife, so they hired a landscaper to replace the greenery. It was then that the landscaper found the box, hauled it onto the couple’s porch, and found that it was actually a 100-pound safe. Matthew and Maria pried the safe door open and were shocked to find that it was filled with cash and priceless gems.

Left: A new find, a never seen before example of an amber semi cabin form embossed C. LEDIARD NEW YORK & ST. LOUIS. Amber. Cleaned. - Jeff Burkhardt

Above: Another new find, LEDIARD & CO NEW YORK & LONDON applied top cylinder. - American Bottle Auctions

Above: Ancient settlements, long buried and forgotten throughout the Welsh countryside, are suddenly placing themselves back on the map and all thanks to the scorching heat wave gripping the Northern Hemisphere. According to the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, record-breaking temperatures that have scorched fields and farmland across the region have also produced a phenomenon called “crop marks.” These tell-tale signs of ancient monuments and settlements were once fortification ditches, long eroded or plowed over, but still capable of holding water and nutrients. As a result, plants growing in these hidden man-made oases remain green during periods of extreme drought even as the surrounding vegetation wilts and browns.

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Virtual Museum Ne ws

By Richard Siri

**************** Thinking back to Flip Book Animation, it might remind some of us of early attempts to make an object or thing come to life.

According to Wikipedia, a flip book or flick book is a book with a series of pictures that vary gradually from one page to the next, so that when the pages are turned rapidly, the pictures appear to animate by simulating motion or some other change. Flip books are often illustrated books for children, but may also be geared towards adults and employ a series of photographs rather than drawings. Flip books are not always separate books, but may appear as an added feature in ordinary books or magazines, often in the page corners. Software packages and websites are also available that convert digital video files into custom-made flip books.

Can you imagine finding a great bottle back then and really wanting to share it with your far away bottle friends?

I guess you could illustrate the bottle from every angle or take a lot of sequential pictures.

Then you just make your fan book. Easy, right? Well, we found a better way with 36 spectacular rotating images in high definition captured by Alan DeMaison, our Virtual Museum ace photographer. All this and more at the FOHBC Virtual Museum.

GII-114 Double Eagle Louisville flask - anonymous collection

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A collection of spectacular and inspiring photographs from around the world and around the web. Please feel free to submit your images for consideration.

Select advertising of a variety of glass and stoneware images from the 2018 Cleveland National Souvenir Program

The three pictured Brayton jars are graphite pontiled and unique. Possibly blown at the Baker and Cutting glass works or San Francisco glass works. Brayton pieces were excavated among Bowens, Adolpholus, and other cull from an early glass works in San Francisco. - The Mackintosh Family

Collector of Southwest Pennsylvania stoneware - Rick Eplion

Serving Chestnuts for the Table John & Wanda Joiner

Ron Hands - Collector of Early American Fruit Jars

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Ralph & Janet Finch

Bob Daly - Collector of Philadelphia pontiled bottles and related advertising & ephemera.

Pacific Soda Works, Classen & Co., San Francisco, 1858-1867 Eric McGuire

Pictured are some of the jellies that we collect.

Jelly Jammers

Rich & Kathy Tucker Collectors of Fine Historical Flasks

Ted Krist - Always Fishing for Good Bitters

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Advertise for free: Free “FOR SALE” advertising in each Bottles and Extras. One free “WANTED” ad in Bottles and Extras per year. Send your advertisement to FOHBC Business Manager, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002 or better yet, email “emeyer@fohbc.org”

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WANTED: Rare Nevada items: Bottles, Advertising, Railroad items: Hats, Badges, Locks For Sale & Keys, Hotel Key Tags. Contact: James D. Jacobitz, MD (415) 516-9146 or Email: jacobitz31 @hotmail.com

Wanted WANTED: Ed Henry Napa California Amber Cylinder 5th Whiskey (Barnett 55); Ed Henry Napa Cal Seltzer bottle; Migliavacca Co. Inc. Seattle Napa California amber cylinder quart (Bennett 557). Contact: John (707) 230-0967 Email: louder@sonic.net

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

WANTED: BREWERIANA Stoneware, BOTTLES, EPHEMERA, ADVERTISING from Western NY AREA, Jamestown, Dunkirk, Salamanca, Springville, Medina, Buffalo , Niagara Falls, Lockport , Rochester and surrounding towns. Peter Jablonski, 12489 Hunts Corners Rd, Akron NY 14001. Text pics to ( 716) 440-7985 or Email: peterjablonski@ roadrunner.com

WANTED: HUTCHINSONS: G.H. Wilkison, Wallingson, CN (eagle with flags and powder horn); American Soda Works S.F. (flag green color); New Castle Bottling Co., New Castle, DE (crossed flags); J.E. McKinley, Frankford, PA (flag); McKinley & Schafer Frankford, PA (flag); American Flag Hutchinson, top price for any “flags” that I do not already have. Contact: R.J. Brown, 4114 W. Mullen Avenue, Tampa, FL 33609 Phone: (813) 286-9686

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FOR SALE: AMBER & COBALT HUTCHINSONS: City Bottling Works, Detroit, MI $200; The Twin City Bottling Wks, Chas Klein Prop $250; E. Ottenville, Nashville, TN $200; G. Norris & Co. City Bottling Works, Detroit, MI $175; J.A. Lomax 14-16-18 Charles Place, Chicago, IL $125; W.W.W. Chicago, IL $125; F.A. Jenning, Hudson, NY $125; AMBER: Standard Bottling Works, Minneapolis, MN $100; Boonville Mineral Spring Co, Boonville, NY $100; Fords Pop, East Liverpool, O $100; Moriarty & Carroll, Waterbury, CN $100; J.S. Wilersbacher, Pittsburg, PA $100; J.S. Clark, Pitts, PA $75; D.L. Clark & Co., Pitts, PA $75; A.K. Clark, Pitts, PA $75; Buy all three (3) Clarks for $150. Postage and Insurance $7.50 per bottle. Contact: R.J. Brown 4114 W. Mullen Avenue, Tampa, FL 33609 Phone: (813) 2869686 Email: rbrown4134@aol.com

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WANTED: Dose glass fever. It’s nothin’ dangerous. I feel no pain. But the only cure is more shot glasses with druggists’ advertising embossed. Please help. Call or email your offerings or advice: Contact: Tracy Gerken.

Email: 1gerken@bellsouth.net

WANTED: Illinois Bottles: Keeley & Bro AlCalendar ofAlton Shows tonill Ale; Buff & Kuhl Gravitatingstopper; A & F.X. Joerger Alton Ill; L. Abegg’s Soda Manufactorybelleville, Ill; Jos. Fischer’s Selters & Related Events 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: Reproduction midget jar lids.

Handmade from standard zinc lids. Query ETSY “repro midget lids” or see Facebook “Wizard of Lids”. Contact: Rich Green, 1894 Ledgeview Rd, DePere, WI 54115

WANTED: Pittsburg, PA bottles, sodas, beers, Porters and ales. Broken or cracked Hastetter’s Stomach Bitters and Weyand bottles. Contact: Aaron Weyand (724) 455-2255 WANTED: Pittsburg Double Eagles in color.

Unions in color. Galen ware 125 N 11th SE, Connellsville, PA 16425. Contact: Galen Ware (724) 626-0715 or Email: galenware70@gmail.com

Individual & Affiliated WANTED: Bottle Tree Antiques, Donalds, FOR SALE: Oregon Medicine, Pioneer Drug Membership Benefits South Carolina. S.C. Dispensaries, N.C. DisCo., Goldfield, Nevada, Oregon Beers and Club Information pensaries, local and upstate bottles, pottery and Whiskeys. Coco-Colas pre1940’s. Contact: J. Paxton (541)318-0748

FOR SALE: Books printed and bound, “A History of the Des Moines Potteries,” with additional information on Boonesboro, etc. Cost $27, History of Eldora and Mingora Potteries, Cost $23 plus shipping, Media Mail add $4.50, Priority $6.00. Mail to Mark C. Wiseman, 3505 Sheridan Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50310-4557

advertising. Website: bottletreeantiques.com or Contact: John Bray at (864) 379-3479 WANTED: Enameled back bar bottles. Also etched, enameled and wheel cut shot glasses.

Contact: Jim Searle (309) 346-7804

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WANTED: Washington (State) Advertising Jugs and Mini Jugs from any state. Contact: Mike Parris (360) 697-2231 or Email: mnparris@comcast.net WANTED: Jar lid for Cohansey 2-1/2 gallon R.B. #628. Contact: Ed DeHaven (609) 390-1898. 23 W. Golden Oak Lane, Marmora, NJ 08223

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

circulars. Also, cobalt blue “Extract Of Witch Hazel”, 8”. Contact: Mike @ maleect@aol. com(preferred) or (623) 825-2791

WANTED: HUTCHINSON: Florida Brewing Co., Tampa, FL – Gator; Any “flag” Esposito, Philada, PA that I do not already have. Contact: R.J. Brown, 4114 W. Mullen Avenue, Tampa, FL 33609 Phone: (813) 286-9686. Email: rbrown4134@aol.com

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WANTED: Rare, unusual colored Los Angeles bottles i.e. WH Stoll/Los Angelos/Soda works.

Blob soda with Los Angeles misspelled. For Excelcior Soda work $700 OBO. Contact: Bob Hirsch (562)941-6979

WANTED: Interested in Saratoga bottles?

Join the Saratoga Bottle Collectors Society. ($20 Annual Membership) Beautiful quarterly newsletter, great club! Send contact information and email address to Ron Rainka, PO Box 685, Warren, MA 01083-0685

Individual & Affiliated WANTED: Rare Dr. Kilmer examples (such Shards of Wisdom as sample bottles of Female Remedy or Cough Club Information Cure) or any examples w/ contents/boxes/

FOR SALE: 42 Hutchinson’s from: Alabama, California, Florida, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Missouri, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma Terr., Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas Washington Terr., West Virginia, Wisconsin. $25 each. Includes postage. Send SASE and indicate which state you want. 20 Embossed Crown Tops. $15 each. Includes postage. Contact Zang Wood, 1612 Camino Rio, Farmington, NM 87401 (505) 327-1316

WANTED: Meadville Rye Whiskey bottles and go-withs. Soyer from Meadville, PA. Contact: Alan DeMaison (440)358-1223 or a.demaison@sbcglobal.net

WANTED: THEO. BLAUTH/WHOLESALE WINE AND LIQUOR DEALER whiskey fifth (Barnett 55). Shot glasses: C&K WHISKEY (not bourbon); SILVER SHEAF/ BOURBON:H.WEINREICH CO.; GOLDEN GRAIN BOURBON/M.CRONAN (in black); CALIFORNIA WINERY (LUG); CALIFORNIA A FAVORITE (not FAVORITE A). Contact Steve Abbott at (916) 631-8019 or email to foabbott@comcast.net

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

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WANTED: Just love Bitters! Especially Ohio Bitters. Here are a few I am looking for. Star Anchor Bitters, Portsmouth, Ohio. Henry C. Weaver Mexican Bitters, Lancaster, Ohio. H.I. Weis Dayton, Ohio. Stewart Bros. Swamp Root Bitters, Columbus, Ohio. Greenhut’s Bitters, Cleve. Ohio, Cliff’s Aromatic Bitters, Clev.

Ohio. Catawba Wine Bitters, Cleve. Ohio.

American Plant Bitters, Wooster, Ohio. Hofstettler Bitters, Galion, Ohio. B&L Invigorator Bitters, Cincinnati, OH. Dear Wahre Jacob Bitters Toledo, OH. Frazier’s Root Bitters. For The Blood, Clev. Ohio. Hartley’s Peruvian Bark Bitters, Cincinnati, Ohio. Night Cap Bitters Cincinnati, Ohio. Pale Orange Bitters, Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. M. Pinton’s Pure Stomach Bitters, Cincinnati, Ohio. Holtzernann’s Patent Stomach Bitters Piqua, O. this is an amber square. Any other Ohio Bitters you might have; also Blue Jacket Bitters. Thank you for your consideration and Best Regards, Contact: Gary Beatty (941) 276-1546 or Email: tropicalbreezes@verizon.net

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WANTED: **COCA WINE & SECONAL BOTTLES* Any Seconal & Coca wine & *COCA TONIC bottles* with label intact.

Preferably N-Mint to Mint Condition. Also TUINAL & PENTOBARBITAL bottles, vintage compounding bottles of *SECOBARBITAL & PENTOBARBITAL* ANY OLD PHARMACY FINDS, Medical artifacts & related advertising.

Please save this add & contact me with any of the above. TOP $$$ PAID! Contact: pharmatiques@gmail.com

More show-biz WANTED: CHICAGO ADVERTISING STONEWARE. Contact Carl Malik, P.O. Box 367, Monee, Illinois 60449. (708) 534-5161 WANTED: RARE FRUIT JARS with closures, colored 1858’s / pints, especially JJ Squire, Crowleytown ½ gal, Buckeye closure (top and clamp) Faulkner Werr Co. RB 983 Amber Midgel, NCL Co. Echo Farms ½ pt. jar only, Western Pride Pt. RB 2945. Contact: Phil Smith (859) 912-2450 or email to phil.smith@ zoomtown.com

WANTED: Koca Nola soda bottles and goIndividual & Affiliated withs from the U.S., Cuba and Mexico. Plus J Membership Benefits Esposito soda and beer bottles from PhiladelClub Information phia, PA. Contact Charles David Head, 106 6th

WANTED: Odd/scarce/rare: COD LIVER OIL bottles. I’ve 115 different examples...many more exist. BYRON DILLE’ 60325 Acme Rd, Coos Bay, OR 97420 or (541) 260-0499 or email: Byronincoosbay@msn.com WANTED: Amber quart cylinder whiskey shoulder embossed Garrick & Cather Chicago, IL plus embossed image of a palm tree. Contact Carl Malik, PO Box 367, Monee, IL 60449 (708) 534-5161 WANTED: Sacramento shot glasses: C&K/ WHISKEY, Casey & Kavanaugh; California A Favorite; SILVER SHEAF/Bourbon/H. WEINREICH & CO. (double shot); GOLDEN GRAIN/BOURBON/M. CRONAN & CO. (in black); bar bottle, JAMES WOODBURN (white enamel). Contact Steve Abbott: 916631-8019 or foabbott@comcast.net Join the ANTIQUE POISON BOTTLE COLLECTORS ASSOCIATION today! For details find us on Facebook or contact Bat (540) 2974498 or by email: jjcab@b2xonline.com

Street, Bridgeport, AL 35740, Phone: (256)5482771, email: kocanolabook@yahoo.com

Individual & Affiliated Shards of Wisdom Club Information 13 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.

Frank Carroll 11440 Music Street Newberry, OH 44065 440-247-6700

Dave Johnson P.O. Box 63 Woodland, WA 98674 360-989-5111 david@djfalls.com

Shards of Wisdom Matt Carroll 18546 Royalton Road, Apt 202 Strongsville, OH 44136 440-247-6700

John R. Fifer 5830 Enfield Circle Medina, OH 44256 330-461-0069 Bottles, flasks, tableware, Ravenna glass, Mantua glass, Kent glass coinop58@gmail.com

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Joe Leuty 14454 Watt Road Novelty, OH 44072 440-338-5101 jlleuty@roadrunner.com Mika Reynolds 2444 Executive Park Drive Cleveland, TN 37312 hcsoftball20@gmail.com

Turner O. Hailey P.O. Box 248 Spencer, TN 38585 931-110-4420 Poisons (blues or green) Pictorial Ginger Beers, Tennessee Medical Bottles

Fred Schlappich 1327 N. 5th Street Reading, PA 19601 610-375-7307 Beer & Soda Bottles from Reading, PA and Medicine Bottles from Reading PA fred.schlappich@yahoo.com

Joseph Jacobs 46 Shopping Plaza, #141 Chagrin Falls, OH 44022 440-247-6700 jtj2922@aol.com

Michael H. Schneider 15574 Oceana Avenue Allen Park, MI 48101-1940 313-386-7114 mhsap1949@gmail.com

Cathy Whiteman 140 Elsbree Circle Windsor, CA 95492 gcwhiteman@yahoo.com Alan Wesche 1977 1st Terrace Road Waterville, KS 66548 785-363-2718

wescheman@gmail.com

ForGary Sale Witcher 9701 Bridgeford Road

Ft. Smith, AR 72908 479-221-2747 marsha.witcher@gmail.com

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

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

September 8 Huntington Beach, California Los Angeles Antique Bottle Show (Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club’s 52nd Anniversary Show) at the Huntington Beach Elks Lodge, 7711 Talbert Avenue, Huntington Beach, California, Free Admission at 9:00 am, $10 Early admission at 8:00 am, For dealer information: Don Wippert, 818.346.9833, donwippert@yahoo.com or Dick Home, 818.362.3368

South Boston – Halifax Museum of Fine Arts and History, 1540 Wilborn Avenue, South Boston, Virginia 24592, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, Featuring guest speaker Anthony Townsend of the Richmond Area Bottle Collectors Association with a presentation on Virginia soda bottles, Admission $5 (Children under 12 free), 434.572-9200, info: info@sbhcmuseum.org

September 14 & 15 Williams Colusa County, California Sacramento Valley Museum presents the First Annual Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show, 1491 E. Street Williams, Colusa County, California, Friday Early Birds $3 door charge, Noon – 6:00 pm, Saturday – Free Admission, 8:00 am to 6:00 pm, For tables contact Slim or Christy Edwards, 530.473.2502, closethegatefenceco@yahoo.com

20th Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association Annual Show and Sale at the Polish Falcons Hall, 445 Columbia Avenue, Depew, New York 14043, Sunday 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Early admission: Sunday, September 16, 7:00 am to 9:00 am, Admission $3, Children under 12 free, Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association, gbbca.org, Info: Joe Guerra, Secretary, 29 Nina Terrace, West Seneca, New York 14224, 716 674-5750, jguerra3@roadrunner.com

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Individual & Affiliated September 16 Membership Benefits Depew, New York Club Information Individual & Affiliated Shards of Wisdom Club Information

September 15 Richmond, Rhode Island The Little Rhody Bottle Club Tailgate Swap Meet, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm. Free set-up for members and aspiring members.

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

September 16 Westford, Massachusetts The Merrimack Valley Antique Bottle Club’s 44th Annual Bottle Show (9:00 am to 2:00 pm, early buyers at 8:00 am) is at the Westford Regency Inn, 219 Littleton Road, Westford, Massachusetts. Just five minutes off Exit 32 of I-495, follow the signs. Special Note: There will be a $20 door prize drawing just for early buyers at 8:45 am. Info: Cliff Hoyt, 978.458.6575, email choyt48@comcast.net, Website: www. mvabc.org

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September 15 Lebanon, Indiana Indianapolis Circle City Antique Bottle, Advertising and Antiques Show, Boone County Fairgrounds, 1300 E. 100 Street, Lebanon, Indiana 46052, Set-up: 7:30 am – 9:00 am, show hours: 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, Admission – $2, (Early Admission – $20), Free Appraisals on Antique Bottles and Glass, For Show Information contact: Martin Van Zant, 812.841.9495, 41 East Washington Street, Mooresville, Indiana 46158, mdvanzant@yahoo.com or “Balsam” Bill Granger 317.517.5895, 6915 S. 280 E. Lebanon, Indiana 46052 bgranger@ iquest.net September 15 South Boston, Virginia Southside Virginia Bottle Collector’s Fair,

Memorial Building, 1351 Maple Avenue, Santa Rosa, California 95404, Saturday 11:00 am – 4:00 pm & Sunday 9:00 am – 3:00 am, Early admission Saturday 10:00 – 11:00 am, $10, Set up Saturday 10:00 – 11:00 am, $3 General Admission Saturday, Free on Sunday, Northwestern Bottle Collectors Assoc., Follow us on Facebook or www.oldwestbottles.com for more show info, Lou Lambert, NBCA Show Chairman, PO Box 322, Graton, 707.823.8845, nbca@comcast.net September 29 Biloxi, Mississippi Presented by the Olde Guys Digging Club of Biloxi, MS., the 2nd Annual Mississippi Gulf Coast Bottle & Collectibles Show & Sale will be held from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm at the Joppa Shrine Temple, Biloxi, MS, 13280 Old Hwy. 67, Biloxi, MS. 39532 (Exit 41- I-10). Dealer Set Up on Friday, September 28, 2018 – 12:00 pm – 7:00 pm.

Free Admission on Saturday, September 29, 2018. Early Buyers $30. per person from 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm Friday, September 28, 2018. See Contract For more information or table contracts contact: Peter Taggard, 645 Village Lane South, Mandeville, LA 70471, Phone 985.373.6487 Email: petertaggard@yahoo.com, or Norman Bleuler, 6446 Woolmarket Rd., Biloxi, MS 39532.

Phone: 228.392.9148 Email: pollywog49@ bellsouth.net

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September 21 & 22 Aurora, Oregon Oregon Bottle Collectors Association Bottle, Antiques, Collectibles Show & Sale, Friday 12 – 5:00 pm dealer set-up & early bird admission $5, Saturday 9:00 am – 3:00 pm regular public admission by donation, American Legion Hall, 21510 Main St. N.E., Aurora, Oregon, Contact Info: Wayne Herring, 503.864.2009 or Mark Junker, 503.231.1235 or Bill Bogynska, 503.657.1726 billbogy7@gmail.com September 22 & 23 Santa Rosa, California 53rd Northwestern Bottle Collectors Association Antique Bottle Show, Veterans

September 29 Albuquerque, New Mexico Enchantment Insulator Club/New Mexico Historical Bottle Society 31st Annual Insulator, Bottle, Barbwire and Collectibles Show and Sale. Elite Sports Academy, 501 Main Street, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87104. The venue is in historic Old Town Albuquerque and last year’s dealers and attendees loved it! Show setup and dealer trading Friday afternoon & evening, September 28. Saturday September 29, public show hours 8:30 am to 4:00 pm, Info: Mike Gay, 505.480.0085, cdn102@ swcp.com or Tom Katonak, 1024 Camino de Lucia, Corrales, New Mexico 87048, 505.933.0297, tkatonak@swcp.com

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(More) Sho-Biz More show-biz September 30 Hammonton, New Jersey The Fall Antiques & Bottle Show Presented

by Batsto Citizens Committee, Inc., 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Rain or Shine event, Batsto Village, Wharton State Forrest, Hammonton, New Jersey 08037, For information, Harry Rheam 856.768.1532, hcrheam@gmail.com

October 26 & 27 Waco, Texas 3rd Central Texas Antique Bottle Show at Red Men Hall, 4521 Speight Avenue, Waco, Texas, Friday 1:00 – 6:00 pm, Saturday 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Early Admission: Friday 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm, Set Up: Friday 11:00 am – 1:00 pm, Saturday Free, Friday $10, Central Texas Bottle Collectors, Contact: Jay Kasper, 305 E 12th Street, Shiner, Texas 77984, 361.649.8221, jamast@att.net

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October 6 Richmond, Virginia The Richmond Area Bottle Collectors Assoc. Presents The 47th Richmond Antique Bottle and Collectibles Show and Sale at the Chesterfield County Fairgrounds, 10300 Courthouse Road, Chesterfield, Virginia 23832-6615, General admission: $3, Early entry at 7:30 am for $10. Show hours: 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. Contact: Marvin Croker at 804.275.1101 or Ed Faulkner, 804.739.2951, richbottleclub@comcast.net

October 28 Matteson, Illinois 1st Chicago Bottle Clubs 49th Annual Show and Sale, Holiday Inn Matteson Conference Center, 500 Holiday Inn Plaza Drive, Matteson, Illinois 60443, Sunday 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, No early admission.

Set up will be between 7:15 am to 9:00 am.

Admission is $3. Children under 16 free. www.1stchicagobottleclub.net. Contact: John Vlahovich, Show Chairman Address: 139 Concord Court, Dyer, Indiana 46311.

630.390.9679. Email: jvlahovich@att.net

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October 13 Waukesha, Wisconsin Second Annual Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show & Sale put on by the Wisconsin Antique Advertising Club at the Waukesha Expo Center, 1000 Northview Road, Waukesha Wisconsin 53188, Dealer set-up 6:00 am, Open to Public 8:00 am.

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October 13 Fayette, Alabama Fifth Annual Fayette, Alabama Collectible Bottles & Antiques Show and Sale at the Boy Scouts of America, 100 3rd Avenue, Fayette, Alabama, Saturday, 8:00 am until 3:00 pm. Info: Jeff Pendley, 205.275.2650, jfPendley@aol.com, $15 per table.

October 14 Findlay,Ohio 42nd Annual Findlay Antique Bottle Club Show & Sale, The Sterling Center, Route 12, Findlay, Ohio, 4570 Fostoria Building, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Dealer Info: Fred Curtis, 419.424.0486, website: finbotclub. blogspot.com, email: finbotclub@gmail.com October 21 Scriba, New York The Empire State Bottle Collectors Association’s 20th Annual Show & Sale, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Scriba Fire Hall, U.S. Route 104 East, Scriba (2 miles East of Oswego), Contact: Barry Haynes, PO Box 900, Mexico, New York 13114, 315.963.0922 or 315.963.3749 or Christina Champion, 110HarleyHorses@gmail.com

November 4 Elkton, Maryland 46thAnnual Antique Bottles & Collectibles Show & Sale, also table top antiques and advertising, 9:00 am – 2:00 pm., Singerly Fire Hall, Routes 279 & 213 (I-95, exit 109A), Elkton, Maryland 21922, Admission – $3 Children under 12 Free, Contact: Dave Brown, 302.388.9311, dbrown3942@comcast.net Tri-State Bottle Collectors And Diggers Club, Inc. November 10 Jacksonville, Florida Antique Bottle Collectors of North Florida 51st Annual Show & Sale, 8:00 am to 3:00 pm; Early buyers Friday, 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm, $25. Free admission Saturday, Fraternal Order of Police Bldg, 5530 Beach Blvd, Jacksonville, Florida, Contact: Mike Skie, 3047 Julington Creek Road, Jacksonville, Florida 32223, 904.710.0422, jaxbottleshow@yahoo.com or Corey Stock, 904.268.9316, jaxbottleshow@yahoo.com November 10 Royal Oak, Michigan The Metropolitan Detroit Antique Bottle Club’s 36th Annual Antique Bottle Show & Sale, Saturday, November 10th, 2018, Location: Royal Oak Elks Lodge #1523 2401 E. Fourth St., Royal Oak, Michigan, 9:30 am – 3 pm – Admission: $2, For

further information contact: Mike Brodzik, 586.219.9980, bottlemike@outlook.com November 10 Belleville, Illinois Eastside Antique Bottle, Jar & Brewery Collectibles Annual Show & Sale, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm; early buyers 7:00 am, $20, Belleclair Fairgrounds, 200 S. Belt East, Belleville, Illinois (15 minutes from St. Louis), Contact: Kevin Kious, 618.346.2634, whoisthealeman@aol.com November 10 & 11 Grayslake, Illinois Grayslake Illinois Antique and Vintage Market Presents an Accent on: Antique Bottles & Advertising, Saturday, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm and Sunday 9:00 am to 3:00 pm.

Lake County Fairgrounds, 1060 Peterson Road, Grayslake, Illinois 60030, $7 Admission. Free Parking. Info: Zurko’s Midwest Promotions, 115 E. Division Street, Shawn, Wisconsin 54166, 715.526.9769, www. zurkoproductions.com/antique-bottles-andadvertising November 25 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Forks of the Delaware Bottle Collectors Association 45th Annual Bottle and Antique Show and Sale, Sunday, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm. Bethlehem Catholic High School, 2133 Madison Avenue, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18017, Early Shopper Admission at 7:30 am (additional fee), Info: Bill Hegedus, 610.264.3130

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November 30 & December 1 Roseville, California Best of the West – 49er Historic Bottle Assn. 41st Antique Bottle, Insulator & Western Collectibles Show, Placer Grounds, 800 All America City Boulevard, Roseville, California, Nov. 30th, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm $10, Dec. 1st, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Free, Info: 916.367.1829

2019 January 13 Taunton, Massachusetts The Little Rhody Bottle Club Show, Holiday Inn, Taunton, Massachusetts, Early Admission, $15, 8:30 am, General Admission $3, 9:30 am, Contact Bill or Linda Rose, sierramadre@comcast.net, 508.880.4929, Directions: Take Exit #9, off Route #495 for 700, Myles Standish Blvd.

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April 14 Harrisonburg, Virginia The Historical Bottle-Diggers of Virginia 48th Annual Antique Bottle and Collectible Show & Sale, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Rockingham County Fairgrounds, U.S. Rt. 11 South, (Exit 243 off I-81), Harrisonburg, Virginia, Info: Sonny Smiley, 540.434.1129, lithiaman1@yahoo.com

May 11 Mansfield, Ohio 41st Mansfield Antique Bottle Show, Hosted by the Ohio Bottle Club, at the Richland County Fairgrounds, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Early admission, May 10. Info: Matt Lacy at 440.228.1873 or email info@ antiquebottlesales.comor Louis Fifer at 330.635.1964, fiferlouis@yahoo.com

April 28 Rochester, New York 50th Genesee Valley Bottle Collectors Association’s Bottle, Paper, Postcard and Table Top Antiques Show & Sale, Roberts Wesleyen College, Voller Athletic Center, 2301 Westside Drive, Rochester, New York 14624, Admission $5. 17 and Under FREE, Show and Dealer Inquires: Aaron and Pamela Weber gvbca@frontiernet.net 585.226.6345

June 14-16 Orlando, Florida 2019 National Insulator Association’s Annual Convention and Show, Oceans Convention Center at the DoubleTree by Hilton Orlando at Sea World, 10100 International Drive, Orlando, Florida 32821. 15,000+ sq. ft of Glass and Porcelain Insulators, Hardware, Signs, Lightning Rod Balls, Battery Jars and Rests, Lamps, Bottles, Jars, Telephone and related items and MUCH, MUCH more! 175+ Dealer and Display tables. Friday 9:00 am – 4:00 pm (NIA only). Open to the public Saturday 9:00 am – 4:00 pm. and Sunday 9:00 am – 1:30 pm.

WANTED: DEALERS!! Additional show info available now: Jacqueline LinscottBarnes (bluebellwt@aol.com).

May 4 Gray, Tennessee State of Franklin Antique Bottles & Collectibles Association 21st Annual Show – Sale, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Free admission & door prizes, Gray, Tennesseee, Exit 13 on I-216, Appalachian Fairground, sfabca.com

Good Luck Bottle Collecting!

August 01 – 04 Augusta, Georgia 2019 FOHBC 50th Anniversary National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo, SHOW PAGE LINK, Augusta Marriott at the Convention Center and Augusta Convention Center, Information: Augusta National Consortium Chairs: Bill Baab, riverswamper@ comcast.net, Ferdinand Meyer V, fmeyer@fmgdesign.com, Mike Newman, thenewm@aol.com, Walter Smith, supplies@furnituredoctor.net, Marty Vollmer, martyvollmer@aol.com, Eric Warren, scbottles@aol.com, FOHBC National Convention – Southern Region

2020 July 30 - August 3 Reno, Nevada 2020 FOHBC National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo, Grand Sierra Resort & Casino, Information: Richard Siri (rtsiri@ sbcglobal.net) or Ferdinand Meyer V (fmeyer@fmgdesign.com), FOHBC National Convention – Western Region

49th Annual

1st Chicago Bottle Club Show and Sale Antique Bottles, Jars, Pottery, Advertising and Collectibles

Sunday, October 28, 2018 9AM-2PM

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Free Appraisals

Free Parking

Admission $3-Children Under 16 Free Holiday Inn Matteson Conference Center 500 Holiday Plaza Dr. Matteson, IL 60443

Please keep your membership up to date.

From the North I-294S to Indiana to I-80W to Iowa, Exit 151A to Memphis, Exit 340 for US 30/Lincoln Hwy, Destination on the Right From the South I-57N ramp to Chicago, Exit 340 for US 30/Lincoln Hwy, Destination on the Right From the East I-80W/I-94W toward Chicago, Exit 151A to I-57S to Memphis, Exit 340 for US 30/Lincoln Hwy, Destination on the Right From the West I-80E towards Gary, IN, Exit 151A to I57S to Memphis, Exit 340 for US 30/Lincoln Hwy, Destination on the Right For Information: www.1stchicagobottleclub.com or; John Vlahovich 139 Concord Ct, Dyer, IN 46311 (630) 390-9679, jvlahovich@att.net

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

Individual & Affiliated Shards of Wisdom Club Information

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

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

Shards of Wisdom

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

Wanted

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

For Sale

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

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

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

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

• FOHBC digital newsletter and so much more.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you for considering the FOHBC in your donation plans.

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

Shards of Wisdom

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

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

Wanted

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

BOTTLES and EXTRAS FREE ADS

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

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

(Use extra paper if necessary.)

For Sale

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Signature ______ Date___

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

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

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

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

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

5:23 PM

Seeking quality consignments for our 2018 auction schedule!

American Glass Gallery

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

These fine items, and many more, will be included in our 2018 Auction schedule.

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

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

Please Check your information and notify us of errors.

FOHBC.org

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