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Featuring: The Color Amber - Not Brown - A “chocolate” Brown’s Celebrated Indian Herb Bitters Also in this issue... Visit With Charles Gardner - Highlight of a Collector’s Life • Springfield Info Packet & Contract • Mrs. Bush’s Specific Cure for Burns and Scalds: Did this cure actually work? • John Wedderburn Peddled False Hopes and Whiskey • A Silver Lining in the Storm - Brown’s Aromatic Bitters and so much more...

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On the Cover: Brown’s Indian Queen Hotel & Indian Herb Bitters

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

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Shards of Wisdom ................................................................................................ 4 History’s Corner ................................................................................................... 5 FOHBC News - From & For Our Members ................................................................ 6

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How many remember T. Gunn? by Bill Baab .................................................................................................... 12

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Visit with Charles Gardner - Highlight of a Collector’s Life

by Bill Baab .................................................................................................... 14

John Wedderburn Peddled False Hopes and Whiskey

by Jack Sullivan ............................................................................................. 20

The Color Amber - Not Brown - A “chocolate” Brown’s Celebrated Indian Herb Bitters by Ferdinand Meyer V ................................................................................... 24 Springfield Bound

by Jim Bender ................................................................................................. 32 Page 32

A Silver Lining in the Storm - Brown’s Aromatic Bitters by Jack Klotz ................................................................................................... 56 Classified Ads .................................................................................. 66 FOHBC Membership Additions & Changes ................................................ 67 Membership Benefits ......................................................................... 71

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

Coming Next Issue or down the road: The Color Aqua • Rochester, N.Y. Medicine Men • Ground-Penetrating Radar System • The Richard Siri Collection • FOHBC Club Bottles and Bottle Club Anniversary Bottles • Maddox Park: Diggers’ Delight Down in Dixie • The Beginnings of the Antique Bottle Collectors’ Association (ABCA) • California Favorite and so much more!

BOTTLES and EXTRAS © (ISSN 1050-5598) is published bi-monthly (6 issues per year) by the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, Inc. (a non-profit IRS C3 educational organization) at 101 Crawford Street, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; phone: 713.222.7979 x103; Website: FOHBC.org, Non-profit periodicals postage paid at Raymore, Missouri 64083 and additional mailing office, Pub. #005062. Postmaster: Send address changes to Elizabeth Meyer, FOHBC Business Manager, 101 Crawford Street, Studio 1A, Houston, Texas 77002; 713.222.7979 x103, email: emeyer @ FOHBC.org

FOHBC Member Photo Gallery .............................................................. 64

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

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).

Mrs. Bush’s Specific Cure for Burns and Scalds: Did this cure actually work? by Bill Baab .................................................................................................... 16

2017 Springfield National Info Packet & Contract ................................................. 38

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

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Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors Business & News

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

FOHBC Officers 2016-2018

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

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

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

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

Second Vice-President: Gene Bradberry, 3706 Deerfield Cove, Bartlett, TN 38135; phone: 901.372.8428; email: genebsa@gmail.com Secretary: James Berry, 200 Fort Plain Watershed Rd, St. Johnsville, NY 13452; phone: 518.568.5683; email: jhberry10@yahoo.com Treasurer: Gary Beatty, 3068 Jolivette Rd., North Port, FL 34288; phone: 941.276.1546; email: tropicalbreezes@verizon.net Historian: Jim Bender, PO Box 162, Sprakers, NY 12166; phone: 518.673.8833; email: jim1@frontiernet.net Editor: Martin Van Zant, 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: Ron Hands, 913 Parkside Drive, Wilson, North Carolina 27896, phone: 330.338.3455; email: rshands225@yahoo.com Director-at-Large: Steve Ketcham, PO Box 24114, Edina, Minnesota 55424, phone: 952.920.4205; email: steve@antiquebottledepot.com Director-at-Large: John Pastor, PO Box 227, New Hudson, MI 48165, phone: 248.486.0530; email: jpastor@americanglassgallery.com Midwest Region Director: Matt Lacy, 3836 State Route 307, Austinburg Ohio 44010, phone: 440.228.1873; email: info@antiquebottlesales.com Northeast Region Director: Bob Strickhart, 3 Harvest Drive, Pennington, New Jersey 08534, phone: 609.818.1981; email: strickhartbob@aol.com Southern Region Director: Brad Seigler, P.O. Box 27 Roanoke, Texas 76262, phone: 940.395.2409; email: drgonzo818@gmail.com Western Region Director: Eric McGuire, 1732 Inverness Drive, Petaluma, California 94954, phone: 707.778.2255; email: etmcguire@comcast.net Public Relations Director: Alicia Booth, 11502 Burgoyne Drive, Houston, Texas 77077, phone: 281.589.1882; email: alicia@cis-houston.org

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President’s Message Ferdinand Meyer V

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his isdown an interesting issueon of this Bottles Extras because the word or New feelitting at my desk, firstand back-to-work Monday after ings associated with the color brown and amber are evident throughout. Years, I conjure up a vision of a stove with lots of pots-a-cooking. First,kettle I write this message Thanksgiving The labeled antiqueafter bottle events has on us 30 allNovember. looking forward to the stretch leading up to the FOHBC 2016 Sacramento National Antique BotNovember is a brown month as many We of the leaves have changed from tle Convention & Expo this August. have a coordination conference the gorgeous yellow and red ambers to a darker amber or they have fallen call later in the week and plan to step it up a notch or two. We are also altogether, you areMassachusetts from. Thanksgiving a brown pleased thatdepending we lockedon in where Springfield, for ouris2017 Nationholiday forBottle me because of the ceremonial andread his amber feathers,the al Antique Convention, and by the turkey time you this message, the pilgrims of course, Indians. FOHBC 2018and, National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo will have been announced for Cleveland, Ohio. We really have our teams in place and Brown is also represented on thiswe issues cover with a Brown’s our wheels in motion. I suppose should start thinking aboutCelthe 2019 ebrated Indian HerbSouthern Bitters inRegion. chocolate brown ahead coloration superimposed Convention in the Planning has many benefits. over an image of the Brown’s Indian Queen Hotel in Washington, D.C. Wow, that’s pretty cool, isn’ttoit?say Inside find| on page 24 my next The FOHBC is also proud that you this will March April 2016 issue of installment and on antique bottle colors called “The Amber BOTTLES EXTRAS is and the glass first to be printed in fullColor color, which– Not Brown.” we are not$184 finished yet asThis therechange is also prompted a killer digging only costs us Hey, an additional an issue. a few design which“A weSilver hope Lining you will notice, such as the Table story onrevisions, page 56 called in that Storm – Brown’s Aro- of Contents and a afew of rare the section headers. We receive quite a few rematic Bitters,” super bitters from Hannibal, Missouri. You know, ally nice compliments on how the magazine and have come where Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)looks is from. so far in a relative short number of years. Oh, and look for a new section in the back of the called Photo Gallery.” This Jim Bender has also hit magazine another home run“Member with his “Springfield Bound” new section is dedicated finecompliments photographyabout of antique bottles and article on page 32. We gettosothe many Jim and his writglass. Please feel freehas to asubmit your images for ing style. He certainly knack for connecting withconsideration. the core groupWe of have already started work on theto May-June issue with and that hopeguy. thatThe you collectors in our hobby. So proud be able to work will authoring an Co-Chairs article for (Jim the magazine. here to help! 2017consider Springfield National Bender &We Bobare Strickhart) asked if we would also put the Springfield National contract within this Within this issue of BOTTLES andWell, EXTRAS, pleasewhat readathe proposed issue for folks without a computer. we thought, great idea! bylaw updates and revisions that have been marked in red. All Why not just put the whole “Information Packet and Contracts” revisions within have been FOHBC Board offor Directors. These mega bylaws because theapproved documentbyis the so full of information our upcoming have be reviewed by thetoFOHBC membership event.been We amended sure hopeand youneed will to make every attempt come. We are far prior annual membership the to FOHBC aheadtoofthe table sale general projections and reallymeeting plan foratthis be our 2016 best National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo in Sacramento, California by convention yet. an affirmative vote of a majority of all votes cast by the eligible voters in attendance, provided a copyoff of my thechest proposed Next, I would like to get that something so to changes speak as are it is made a available to each member in advance, either directly by mail or by timely concern I have with our membership and our future. The catalyst for my notice in thewere Federation’s periodical or onathe Federation comments a series ofofficial communications and long talk with website. fellow collector Chris Hartz from Arroyo Grande, California. You can see his In othercalled news, we are moving with9 of photography for the Virtual words “Some Good Ideas”ahead on Page Member News. Some Museum and hope to have regional photography labs set up in regions may have attended the fine seminar that Chris gave at the 2016 Sacrato start photographing bottles both in a standard format and 3-dimenmento National on American Scent Bottles as he is certainly an authority sionally. This effort is being spearheaded by Museum Director, Alan Dein this area. He is also writing what he calls the “best ever” scent bottle Maison. You may have met Alan at the Virtual Museum table during the article in a future issue of Bottles and Extras. FOHBC 2015 Chattanooga National Antique Bottle Show last August. When I first read Chris’s wonderful ideas in an email, I though to myself Federation member Alicia Booth is heading up the nomination process that some of the ideas have already taken roots and are part of the new for the election of all Federation officers including the President, Vice FOHBC. When I asked Chris and noted specific examples in Bottles and President(s), Secretary, Treasurer, Business Manager, Membership Di-

Extras and referenced ourDirector, robust web site, he replied that Historian, he was notMera rector, Public Relations Conventions Director, member of the FOHBC. I scratched my head mulled it over and chandising Director, Directors-at-Large (3), on andthat, Region Directors (4). realizedelections it was theoccur crux every of my concern as many collectors kind feelsucThese two years. Any officer may runoffor they are terms. either already members has by default with their association with for cessive This committee prepared a slate of nominations our hobby or worse feel that need to be each officeand andorganization is listed below. It is yet, important to they note do thatnotany member a member. desiring to run for any office in the Federation may file a nomination form with the Election Committee (in accordance with procedures approved by the membership and instituted by independent. the ElectionJust Committee) As an American, we are inherently and proudly look indicating the office they toAmerica run for. was Thebuilt deadline for filing this at our celebration on the 4thdesire of July. by independent is April 1st 2016. We haveOur seen successful campaigns bycertainly our memberthought, ideas and actions. recent presidential elections ship sowith if you to run foraacollector position,isplease letindepenAlicia know. provebefore that. As ourwant country, being all about You at we thiscollect, email how address, alicia@cis-houston.org. You dence.and Wereach chooseher what we collect and whom we associwill be receiving a ballot and for love voting so please take We thelike time to vote. ate with. We are passionate to share by nature. to learn too as every bottle has a story.

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Here is the paradox. With this independence we still need unity. That is Here is the slate of FOHBC why there are political parties, religious institutions, community efforts recommended candidates and family at all levels. We make decisions as a group as every vote and put forth by the nominating thought counts. committee headed by Alicia Booth, Chairperson, for the With that said, we are only as strong as ourselves in this hobby, but 2016 - 2018 term. proportionally stronger with the FOHBC. While collecting alone may be enough to some, we must realize that the sum of all of us working Anyone desiring to run together is much greater than one. The FOHBC cannot continue to put for a position may choose together our fine have our great national events with semito run against one magazine, of the nars,candidates displays, auctions, by going to the banquets, meetings, tours etc., build our Virtual Museum or provide outreach and assistance to collectors on a unit basis. FOHBC website and printing Ourout power is in our numbers. You can certainly be yourself, but you a nomination form. mustThen, realize that we need you to move forward with our hobby. Times mail or email to Alicia are changing you can do so much alone on your computer. That is Booth, 11502and Burgoyne fineDrive, but antique bottle collecting is about people. We always hear that. Houston, Texas Get 77077. your collecting friends to join the FOHBC, spread the gospel and we can alicia@cis-houston.org all tackle the many challenges ahead as a team. We The areclosing fortunate have so many great board members and others wantdate fortonomiing nations to donate time is Apriltheir 1, 2016 at and experience to the betterment of our hobby. Themidnight. FOHBC is all-inclusive. It doesn’t matter what you collect or how you collect. The value of your collection is meaningless as long as you haveAdditional the passion andwill fire to be an antique bottle collector. nominations be printed alongside the Oh, slate Chris is now a proud proposed by the nom- member of the FOHBC and will be working withinating us moving committeeforward. and will be listed in the May-June With2016 theissue success of our of BOTTLES and Member Photos section (page 64) we are contemplating adding new department within Bottles and Extras dealing EXTRAS along with a ashort withbiography recent offinds. each You know the bottles we dig, find in the basement or barncandidate. or just plain fall in our laps that seem to be exceptions. Please send your images to the FOHBC and a brief description of what you found willwill vote consider the entry. We need to always get better and FOHBC wheremembers and we a form provided by mail. and byevolve as we go. Let’s give it a try next issue. The new board members will be announced after Merry Christmas andahave a super New Year. I look forward to seeing voteofcount theBaltimore annual many youat in or Morro Bay in March and continue to work withMembership various Meeting teams on the multitude of things that the FOHBC is doing. at individual the FOHBC clubs, it’s time to put together your entries for Oh, Breakfast and you 2016 Sacramento the Club Contests.National A full-page notice is on page 60. Antique Bottle Convention & Expo. let’s all row together and play from the same sheet of music. In closing,

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Bottles and Extras time capsule. It’s super cool to dig up, and you never know what you’re going to find. It’s like Christmas.” Advertising and art Collectors love antique bottles because they were hand-made, mouth-blown and crafted in beautiful shapes and vivid colors. “Back then it was the same thing as today — draw your attention to my bottle and not his,” said Chuck Parker, the 76-year-old president of the Kalamazoo Antique Bottle Club. “So they would do something like — instead of a plain blue or aqua bottle — they’d make a cobalt blue bottle or they’d change the shape. I call them window bottles. You put them up there, you let the sun come in in the morning, and they look fantastic.”

Treasure hunters privy to an outhouse’s buried secrets John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press

They’re also fascinating artifacts from an era when snake-oil salesmen traveled the country, selling fraudulent concoctions they claimed would cure the maladies of the day, including rheumatism, catarrh, alcoholism or consumption.

HICKORY CORNERS, Mich. — Scott Hendrichsen kept sticking a steel rod in the ground until he found what he was looking for. It was 150-yearold poop.

Like Dr. Colwell’s Magic Egyptian Oil, which claimed it would cure diphtheria. It didn’t. And Dr. Keeley’s Cure for Alcoholism, which prescribed a blend of alcohol and morphine to fix your drinking problem. Or Dr. James’ Soothing Syrup, which was so soothing because it was loaded with heroin.

Hendrichsen’s hobby is collecting antique glass bottles — the kind made by hand before machines were invented to crank them out by the dozens. He can look at an old bottle and tell you when and where it was made, what was once inside and whether it might be worth a fortune. And the best place to find them, he said, is inside the pit underneath an outhouse.

They were successful for a time because people who consumed them swore they felt better after, largely because they were high as they could be from the stuff. Hendrichsen once even found a bottle that still had a gram or so of dried cocaine at the bottom.

“They didn’t have garbage removal in the 1800s, so typically they would take their household refuse — empty bottles and stuff like that — and they would pitch that in the outhouse,” he explained.

Scott Hendrichsen, 55, of Texas Township shows the difference between a bottle after it was dug out of the ground that has an iridescent look from chemicals in the ground leeching in the bottle and one that has been tumbled clean. (Photo: Ryan Garza, Detroit Free Press)

Hendrichsen, 55, is among a handful of bottle collectors known as privy diggers, the polite name for those who dig for antique bottles buried in century-old feces. Whether motivated by a chance to add a unique find to their collection, or by opportunity — some of the old bottles can be worth thousands of dollars — these collectors go places few others would have the stomach to dive into. He stood outside in a cold spring wind, pelted by the sideways rain, behind an old farmhouse in Barry County, just north of Kalamazoo. He’s a UPS truck driver, and when he spots a house on a route whose architecture suggests it’s old enough to have had an outhouse once, he’ll go to the door and ask permission to come back and search the yard for the privy. Rural history collector keeps outhouse memories alive Most of the time, like on this rain-whipped day, the bewildered homeowner agrees. Almost all the old outhouses are long gone, and the pits of human waste they left behind have no smell anymore. So diggers have to find the long-buried pits by poking a steel rod deep into the ground, pulling it out and examining the color of the dirt on the rounded tip. Most soil comes in varying shades of brown. But the historical poop has a dark black color to it. And after poking innumerable holes in the yard, Hendrichsen had finally hit pay dirt. He and Dan Hill, another digger from southwest Michigan, grabbed their shovels, shaved off the sod, dug a narrow hole and were once again knee deep in someone’s old crap. And they were thrilled. “When you open it up and start digging, that stuff has been in there for over 100 years, not touched,” Hendrichsen said excitedly. “So it’s like a

It’s on display in his basement collection, along with a thousand other old bottles — thoroughly cleaned — that glint and shine under the overhead lights. They’re lined up on shelves and arranged on countertops in arrays of colors — rich olives, twilight pinks, umbers and ochers, and blues that almost glow. The shapes are just as creative and varied — sleek and narrow, short and wide, ovals and triangles. Most of them are notched and bumped with the imperfections of their maker’s efforts that day. And many of them are embossed with words making wild claims. “Older bottles are like a work of art, ‘cause they were handmade or handfinished,” Hendrichsen said, standing in a sea of colored glass in his basement. “They pulled it out of the mold and hand-tooled it, and put a glass lip on top. You didn’t just make of bunch of them in a day. They were an art form, so to speak. And the stuff they say on them is really, really cool.” Archaeologists object Their hobby isn’t without controversy, though. Some archaeologists have complained that they’re tearing up and plundering buried historical records. “It’s like any archaeological site — when you dig it, you destroy it,” said John O’Shea, curator of Great Lakes archaeology in the U-M museum of anthropology. “And any potential scientific evidence or info that may be there, if it’s uncovered in an unsystematic manner, is lost.” The contents of the pits reveal a lot about who used them. The kinds of bones dug up reveal what animals they raised and ate, while the pollen indicates the plants that grew nearby. The medicine bottles they bought and discarded show the diseases they caught and tried to cure. Glass inkwells in the pits indicate their owners could read and write. A large number of liquor

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bottles strongly suggest they drank to excess, while a stash of certain medicine bottles hint that their owners developed an unhealthy taste for opiates. And sometimes, people accidentally dropped something very valuable beneath them as they used the outhouse, and figured it wasn’t worth trying to fish it out of the stinky muck.

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

“The privy is actually a pretty good source of data,” O’Shea said. “There’s potentially an amazing amount of information you can get out of there.” The diggers dispute the criticisms “My goodness, there’s hundreds of thousands of houses that have no historical significance other than the age that they are,” Hendrichsen said. “If we were going to a fort and disrupting something I could see why they’d be concerned, but what we’re digging is stuff that’s already been discovered and logged a million times. They’re never going to get to all these houses.” Most bottles they dig up are barely worth more than a dollar or two. The best ones, however — the pristine and the rare among their finds — can bring hundreds or even thousands of dollars online or at auction. But most privy diggers just keep them for their collections. They say they’re really in it for the thrill of the hunt, the fun of collecting and the excitement of finding something so fragile and valuable buried in something so foul and disgusting. “It’s a wonderful hobby,” Parker said. “You don’t realize how much fun it is until you’re down in the hole and you say, ‘I’ve got a Dr. Mixer’s Cancer Syrup!’ and everyone there knows what you’re talking about.” Seeds show the spot John Rastoskey stood outside in the cold drizzle, watching quizzically as three men dug up his yard looking for a pit full of historic manure.

With the election of 2016 behind us, I thought it would be nice to share two beautiful bottles we now can enjoy because of the presidential election of 1840. The two Tippecanoe cabin bottles shown above are from the William Henry Harrison campaign. Harrison was our 9th president and only served 32 days and died from pneumonia. These beautiful bottles were blown at Mt. Vernon Glassworks in New York.

Please join the FOHBC in help preserving the Mt Vernon site. Go to FOHBC.org to donate. Watch each issue for a new installment of History’s Corner.

His house in Hickory Corners is 140 years old. It was once a meat market next to a machine shop and a blacksmith on a strip called Mechanics Alley — a commercial strip remembered only in old county maps. It must’ve had a dozen outhouses behind it over the years, they figured.

who’ve eaten them and float intact atop the outhouse muck, forming a thin layer in the ground after they’re filled in. If those seeds are there, chances are they’re about to hit a thick layer of old poop. After years of doing this, the thought of plunging their hands into buried human waste doesn’t faze them.

Once a house’s pit got full, it’d be topped off with dirt and forgotten as the grass overtook it, and the outhouse itself would be moved over another hole somewhere else in the yard. Some pits lasted five or 10 years; others not so long, based on how quickly they filled up and how deep they were dug. “Depends if it was a two-seater or three-seater,” Hendrichsen noted. Rastoskey looked on as a digger gradually disappeared into a quickly deepening hole. “It’s all right,” the 35-year-old homeowner said as his yard was being excavated. “It’s kind of interesting.” Like most homeowners they approach, he didn’t want anything in return, other than maybe a cool bottle from the haul.

“I got gloves,” the 51-year-old Hill said, laughing. “And I’ve been in enough privies that I don’t even think twice about it. I’m just thankful to see it, ‘cause that’s usually where the bottles are at.” They started finding things that show there was a human presence, like a pork bone, and chunks of red bricks and ceramic shards from an old crock-pot.

The diggers work efficiently and methodically. First the sod is sectioned into squares, removed and set aside. Then a plastic tarp is laid down, and the dirt from the hole they dig is piled on top of it. They cut through one layer after another. Topsoil. Sand or clay. Wood and coal ash thrown into the outhouse to keep down the smell of the pit. Bottle collectors plunge into pits of 100-year-old poop Dan Hill, finds a crockpot he found while taking his turn to dig for items left behind from a pit underneath where an outhouse once was located on the property of John Rastoskey (right), 35 as Bill Riley, 65 of Kalamazoo, looks on Monday April 20, 2015 in Hickory Corners, MI. Hill and group of other local men look for properties where homes once stood in the 1800’s to dig for rare bottles and other items owners discarded into the outhouses before filling them with dirt to start new ones. Ryan Garza, Detroit Free Press But then, if they’re in the right spot, they hit a layer of small seeds, a dead giveaway they’re in an outhouse pit since seeds pass right through people

Over the years they’ve found all sorts of odd things in outhouse pits — clay pipes, coins, toothbrushes, jewelry, bedpans and, now and then, intimate objects people used on themselves. But then, deep in the hole, digger Bill Riley, 65, reached down and found what they came for: An antique bottle. Then another. And another still. The guys passed them around, looking them over. They were old as could be, but they had no embossing, no color, no value other than perhaps in the eyes of a bottle nerd. The guys began to refill the hole. It was a discouraging day. The diggers looked frustrated. But they can’t all be jackpots, they said. Besides, the thrill of their hobby isn’t just what they find. It’s also what they learn. “There’s valuable stuff, but it’s also the secret history of people,” Hill said. “People threw stuff in there that they never thought anybody would find. There’s a huge treasure of historical connection, and to be able to start digging and find these things, it’s exciting. It’s like being a treasure hunter.”

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FOHBC News From & For Our Members California Open Pontil Bottles Marc (Lutsko): Just a quick response to your compilation of pontiled California bottles printed in the November-December 2016 issue of Bottles and Extras. First, a comment on your criterion of only listing “open pontil” bottles. I am not sure how specific you are with this definition, and for what purpose. For instance, the W. T. Coleman flask does not have a blowpipe pontil but rather is marked by the use of a punty rod. This is typical of bottles of French manufacture and, indeed, has all the characteristics of being made abroad. Regardless, it is an exceptional bottle and deserves to be on a list of early California bottles. This also holds true with the Torrence & Parker, Bank Exchange bottle which exhibits what is generally considered a “sand pontil.” Back to the strictly open pontil list, there are a few more bottles that should be represented. Don’t forget the quart size Crowell, Crane & Brigham Sarsaparilla, found with and without a blowpipe pontil. Another is an aqua oval bottle, 5.5 inches in height, lettered in an arch, WM. H. KEITH & Co., above a reverse arch SAN FRANCISCO. Back in the sixties I found a privy with several of these bottles with all but one being broken. It is smooth based but one of the broken examples sported an open pontil. I didn’t keep that broken bottle, but back then who would have expected it would turn out to be so rare.

Legendary Georgia Collector Inducted onto FOHBC Honor Roll SAVANNAH, Ga. – Thomas William “Tommy” Mitchiner, of Gordon, Georgia, was honored October 22 by the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors. Mitchiner, now deceased, was inducted onto the organization’s Honor Roll, joining more than 40 others who made valuable contributions over the years to the antique bottle-collecting hobby. Ceremonies took place at Keller’s Flea Market in Savannah where many of Mitchiner’s collector-friends joined his widow, Mrs. Sherry Mitchiner, and his son, Ryan. Making the presentation of framed certificates were Bill Baab, of Augusta, Ga., and Mike Newman, of Martinez, Ga., longtime friends of the Mitchiners as well as Federation members and collectors. Mitchiner, a chemist by trade, devoted nearly 50 years of his life to the hobby of digging and collecting antique bottles and other artifacts. He especially was an authority on the bottles of famed Savannah bottler John Ryan, whose colorful 19th century sodas are known to collectors throughout the United States. Mitchiner, who died in 2013, shared his research with others seeking more knowledge about Ryan and other soda water and patent medicine manufacturers. The Mitchiners named their only son after the Savannah bottler.

Another super rare open pontil aqua medicine is the WM. H. KEITH & CO. / GLUCOLEIN / SAN FRANCISCO, which is shaped just like its eastern competitor, Quero’s Cod Liver Oil Jelly. This bottle is also known in a slightly later mold but made from California glass in deep aqua and smooth based. I only have pieces of that amazing specimen. It came from a San Francisco privy that I dug in the seventies. There is also a clear battery jar marked on the base, CAL. ELEC. WORKS / S.F., with an unmistakable solid rod pontil mark. Obviously, this company began its operations in 1877, which is outside the period of most pontil marked commercial bottles, but yet it does exist. When I found it many years ago it still had its internal apparatus but it was so corroded that I tossed that part. Well, nobody is perfect. I hope this information will go toward a more complete list of pontiled California bottles and maybe motivate others to contribute more examples that are most likely out there. Regards, Eric McGuire Petaluma, California

Oh, please, Mr. Mailman! Elizabeth Meyer (FOHBC Business Manager) reports that she recently received a stack of FOHBC mail mainly consisting of

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membership renewals and applications with postmarks from 2015! She reminds us how easy it is to renew and pay online if you choose at FOHBC.org.

Where in the World is H. H. Warner? Ferd: Just a note of congratulations to Bottles and Extras and to Steve Jackson for that excellent article and marvelous illustrations on H. H. Warner [Nov. – Dec 2016]. It is flat out terrific. Not only is it chock full of information about a fascinating character and his iconic remedies, but excellently written. Great that the magazine was able to give the article the space and attractive layout it deserves. Bottles and Extras plays several roles in the life of the FOHBC but printing definitive pieces such as Steve¹s surely is one of the most valuable. - Jack (Sullivan)

C. Brinckerhoffs - Health Restorative Baby Shoes?

Ferdinand, I have a pair of antique doll or baby shoes that once belonged to Sofia Cornelia Brinckerhoff. I too am looking for connections to the Brinckerhoff family. I have had these shoes in my possession for about 25 years and always wondered if there were any living Brinckerhoff relatives who might want these keepsakes.

After receiving the information from the library, I researched the name on Ancestry.com. I found that the library information may have been incorrect and that Sophia’s father was more likely Isaac Derrick Brinckerhoff and her mother Sophia Quackenboss. I became obsessed with Sophia and her story, so given the address at her death as listed on the obituary, I went to Troy, N.Y., to see where she lived. As I drove down River Street, looking for her address, I came to the end and found that her block had been demolished and an overpass built in its place. It was a sad day for me. I had to return home and did not know where she was buried, so my story ended there and I stored the shoes away until now. I am a screenwriter and have just written a short, sweet little script with the story about these little shoes. In my script, my character finds the tombstone and gets an answer to why the shoes were so important to her. I would, however, like to know if there are any living Brinckerhoff relatives. If you know of any, please let me know. Anita

Wanted: Augauer Bitters Items Ferdinand: My name is Char Gauer and my husband’s family owned Augauer Bitters. I am looking for bottles and other things (related to the brand). I just learned there are trade cards. These are a few of the things my father-in-law owns. He also has an Augauer Bitters shot glass, a deck of cards and some stationary. Do you know where I can find bottles? You have a fine sign of August Gauer and a perfect Augauer Bitters bottle. Do you have any for sale?

I came across these little shoes at a yard sale in Westchester County, New York. I asked the lady selling them where she found them and she couldn’t remember. The handwritten name on the bottom intrigued me, so I bought them. My research began in 1992, before the Internet was as expansive as it is now, at the Troy, N.Y. Library. I received the attached documents and my obsession with Sofia Cornelia Brinckerhoff began. I hope you find some of the information useful, if not interesting, given your interest in Brinckerhoff glass bottles.

On Becoming a 50 Year Old Club in 2016 - (The Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club) To All Dedicated to Hobby Longevity, Thanks to the pioneers of our hobby and the continuous dedication of “like-minded” folks, bottle clubs still exist today. We collectively realize that the first years of any club is when it is the strongest because of multiple members and those willing to take on club responsibilities. This club’s birth was in 1966. The president, Don Mullally, began

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his official role in 1967. Our first club show was also held in 1967. Don and Byron Martin were the “two guys” who started the discussion of forming a club, thus some meetings were informally held during 1966. Jack Slattery, a radio announcer, became our next president in 1968. Another name many people recognize is Alex Kerr of fruit jar fame. A couple of current club members knew and remembered Alex and his wife. The oldest former member of our club who remembers talking with Alex is 95 year old Helen Sherwood who attended our 50th show.

partial labels and two without. Sincerely, Edward DeBlock [FM5] Ed, Some quick research… Apollinaris spring was discovered by chance in 1852 in Georg Kreuzberg’s vineyard, in Bad Neuenahr, Germany. He named it after St Apollinaris of Ravenna, a patron saint of wine. The red triangle symbol and the slogan “The Queen of Table Waters” were adopted as trademarks in 1895. By 1913, the company was producing 40 million bottles a year, 90% of which were exported worldwide. Today the source and the brand of Apollinaris belong to Coca-Cola, which acquired it from the multinational Cadbury-Schweppes in 2006.

During our 2016 show, attendees stopped by our collective History Table. There was such memorabilia as four signed club guest books starting with 1967 and covering most of the 1970s. There were several old black and white photo albums covering club meetings, bottle shows and digging adventures. There were black and white newsletters typed on manual typewriters and a colored copy of our more current digitally created club newsletter that showed an article and picture of a club dig. Another big success was the dedication of our club president, Dave Maryo, who created multiple different designed labels that he applied to old bottles to be presented to show attendees as raffle prizes. This was a year-round effort and some members also donated bottles to help Dave achieve that success. Our First Lady, Cindy Maryo, donated the 50th Anniversary sheet cake that was enjoyed by those who attended the show. While our club was certainly not the only club celebrating its 50th year, this was the year that made me think that we have to recognize the fact that what keeps our clubs up and running are MEMBERS. Our club is the Fifth Charter Member of the FOHBC. We appreciate our membership as a club and the many benefits we receive from same. I hope this message gets read and appreciated by those who want the same thing for this hobby. WE WANT CONTINUANCE. The first 50 years were during the successful years of the building interest in this hobby when digging spots were abundant and the hobby was new and exciting. These days we have to alter our thinking and plan new ideas of how to present this hobby to attract interest. We have to find new ways to create and sustain the appetite this hobby has created and maintained so far. I think most of us can sense that clubs are aware of the challenges ahead and certainly the FOHBC is on top of it. I say: SUPPORT YOUR CLUBS, ENCOURAGE OTHERS AND PARTICIPATE IN SHOWS. GET OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE AND TRY TRAVELING TO OTHER SHOWS. Thanks for reading, Darlene “Dar” Furda Secretary & Contributing Editor of, “The Whittlemark”, LAHBC

Apollinaris Mineral Water I know these aren’t terribly old but I figured that I would share these bottle images. I found them in a mid to late 1800s house in the basement. They are Apollinaris Mineral Water bottles dated from the1920s to 1930s. The mold looks to be a four-part crown top. The seams run up the neck, then split like a three-piece mold and making the crown top look like two separate pieces. Any information would be greatly appreciated! There are three with

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Looking for a Bottle from my Grandfather’s Drug Store Hello, Ms. Meyer: I found your name on the FOHBC web site, which I found trying to track down bottles from a business my late grandfather owned in the early 20th century. The business was Sartain Drug Company in South Pittsburgh, Tennessee. They used bottles manufactured specially for them, with “Sartain Drug Company” engraved on the side. My grandfather was Luther Benton Sartain, Sr. My father, Joseph Martin “Pete” Sartain, was also a pharmacist and worked alongside his father until the business closed when my grandfather died in 1929. Our family had no idea that bottles from the store might still exist until we saw photos of one on a bottle collector’s web site. I contacted the gentleman featured in that article and he told me he did not have any for sale, but would be on the lookout for one. That was about a year ago. Is it possible to circulate this request through your membership? I would like to purchase one for my brother, who is actively working to put a family archive together. If you have any suggestion as to how best to circulate this request, I would love to hear from you! Very truly yours, Sally (Sartain) Hermsdorfer PO Box 300166 Memphis, TN 38130-0166

Ed Letard – Up and About Hey, Elizabeth, Ed LeTard here. I finally was cleared this morning (2 hours ago) to take Bama for a relatively slow and short ride. He was very frisky with our 50-degree weather and it was all I could do to hold him back. Felt real good to be out with him. He acted like a one-year-old colt. Hope y’all are finally recovering from all the floodwater. Thanks again for all your support

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and kind thoughts. I have a daughter (and son-in-law) who have a GMC dealership in Lake Charles, Louisiana. We’ll be heading over for a visit after the first of the year. It’ll be my first long ride (5 hours) in the car. Wish I could thank y’all in person, or maybe at a bottle show in your area. Thanks again and be safe. - Ed

a PhD degree in American History. The services of a graduate student familiar with this process could be used probably for very little money. Also, members themselves could be used as well as bottle clubs. The results of the project would be contained on the Federation website.

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Item 2 (near term) - Over the years, many price guides have been used, all of which are out of date. The Federation should consolidate all of this information dating back to the Gardner sale (or before) and publish the database on the Federation website. The database should be searchable and would be great for members to use. This database would be updated after every sale.

In response to Jeff Burkhardt’s “Letter to the Editor” in the Nov. - Dec issue of Bottles and Extras, I stand amazed at his concept of how the “Watson collection” should be handled! I think Jim Bender should be applauded for reaching out to the Watson family with such a wonderful idea. Dick loved all bottles and bottle collectors. I attended several auctions at Garth’s where Dick was present. He loved auctions. I think he would be thrilled to know his sons are going to allow some of his bottles to be auctioned at Springfield. I wonder if Jeff realizes that Dick Watson was a mentor to Jim Bender and a dear friend. Jim inherited the “FOHBC Historian” board position from his pal Dick. The Watsons are not stupid or uninformed! They know these bottles will take several years to sell and to parade them out one auction after the other would devalue them. So I want to go on record to say congratulations Jim Bender for approaching the Watson children on sharing a small amount with all of us now. So I say lighten up, Jeff… none of us have a promise of tomorrow. Best Regards, Gary Beatty, North Port, Florida

Bottle from the Florida Keys Hello, Ferdinand. My friend is an avid bottle collector. I plan on buying her a subscription of Bottles and Extras for Christmas. She collects her bottles from the Florida Keys. I was hoping that if you like any one the pictures attached to consider using as your magazine cover, photos credited to Brenda Sellers. I can supply an article to coincide with the photo. Thank you, Cyndi [Editor Note] Please visit Member Photos in this issue of Bottles and Extras for images referenced by Cyndi.

Some Good Ideas Ferdinand, I’ve been thinking about ideas for future projects and ideas for the FOHBC, here they are: Item 1 (near-near term) - The two most important things in the bottle hobby are the bottles and the people; in the case of the former, the Federation is developing the Virtual Bottle Museum, a worthwhile project that really does not address people. I believe an oral history (OH) project should be undertaken by the Federation. OH’s are usually conducted by historians of specific groups of people, maybe the most famous are the ones conducted by Studs Terkel about life during WW II. The idea would be to document a certain amount of information about bottle collectors that when complete, the information would be available to outside groups including bottle collectors, curators, and historians. If you Google Studs Terkel you’ll get the idea. To do this the Federations could contact a university that offers

Item 3 ( long term) - I strongly believe that the Federation should buy the bottle magazine (Antique Bottle & Glass Collector) from John Pastor and combine it with the Federation magazine. Various methods could be used to facilitate the sale including the use of the 501c provisions of the tax code. Item 4 (near term) - The Federation should develop and publish an exhaustive list of museums having bottles and glass collections whether public or private. Many people have no idea these collections exist. Even those with collections not on display (Henry Ford), provisions can be made to see the collections many of which are fabulous. Item 5 (near term) - The Federation should also publish a detailed biography of all the first bottle collectors. These people (e.g., Richard Wood, Sam Laidlacker, Jack Whistance, Charlie Gardner, Earl Dambach, James Rose) are the scions of our hobby, but most people know nothing about these people. People like Norm Heckler and Mark Vuono would be invaluable in this effort. Not just a paragraph, but a little research would go along way. Another idea is for the Federation to add an area to the website to allow members to list bottles for sale. By this, I don’t mean just a classified ad, rather something like Ed Gray’s home page, which would include pictures. For example, members would be allowed to list five bottles a month for free, listings would be for 30 days; more bottles would entail a fee as would longer time periods. Another way of doing this would entail a small fee based on bottle price. This would only be direct sale and not for auction. Yet another idea would entail an online bottle show, say once a year. This idea offers all types of opportunities for both collectors as well as the FOHBC. Please think about these ideas, and let me know if you would like to discuss them, including implementation of cost-effective measures, Chris Hartz Arroyo Grande, California

Fresh from a very early Dresser Drawer Good morning, Ferdinand sir. Fresh from a very early dresser drawer in Western New York, fire polished all over, pontiled, nice wear on the bottom, some high point wear, 6 1/2 by 4 1/2, great top. Probably a poison ? Take a look.

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Thank you. Sincerely, Herb Conklin [Editor Note] Please visit Member Photos in this issue of Bottles and Extras for image.

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auction. Now, for the first time since the 1880s, Bob’s amber barrel has been reunited with its brother, the CLEAR example of this bottle, which I was able to purchase in 1997 from the Dick and Ted Kinney collection. Both of these are one of a kind, as far as I know. You can see that they have different neck lengths and different types of applied lips, but it looks like they were made in the same mold, based on a detailed review of the embossing. In any case, I thought you might want to post this as an addendum to your Hull Brothers barrel posting. Keep up the good work Ferd. Jeff Scharnowske Owossa, Michigan

O.K. Plantation in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana? Dear Mr. Meyer: I saw your article online in Bottles and Extras about OK Plantation bitters bottles. I have long been curious about the origin of the name, and how Lediard came to name it that. Is it possible that the connection is with the O.K. Plantation in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana? My interest is that my family acquired the plantation in the mid-20th century and are interested in its history. I am not sure you answer questions on bottles, but I saw your website and thought I would take a chance. I have had a bitters bottle for many years and cannot find any information on the bottle. Often times that leads me to believe it is not real. It is Dr. Bridge’s Celebrated Indian Bitters with label showing an Indian woman and a woman kneeling in front of her. At the bottom of the label the initials ZBB appear over Chicago Ill. If you don’t know of the bottle I can email a picture. Thank you for your help. - Gregg Mazurek [FM5] I believe this bottle and label to be authentic. Norman Bridge was the 2nd of three children born to James Madison Bridge, b. Oct. 31, 1816 in Woodstock, Vt. and d. Feb. 20, 1879 in Scranton, Ia. And Nancy Ann Bagley, b. Feb. 20, 1818 in Vt. and d. Jun. 15, 1903 in Pasadena, L.A. Co., Ca. Dr. Bridge was a physician, author, and philanthropist primarily operating out of Chicago. Read more at PeachridgeGlass.com

Addendum to your posting on Peachridge Glass re: Hull Brothers Barrel whiskey bottle I read with much interest your posting on the Hull Brothers barrel from the Bob Ferraro collection. You always do such detailed and informative research on the merchants behind many of our bottles. Thank you for your efforts. I am proud to report that I was the winning bidder on this barrel, bringing it back to Michigan for the first time since at least 1986 when Bob bought it from a Skinner

Yours truly, Terry Brown [FM5] Terry: I doubt it. Was just reading about the plantation as your email noted. Very interesting. “O.K” many times was used in brand names, like today, to denote approval etc.

2016 Keene Bottle Show I wanted to add my thoughts to what Jim Bender wrote about the Yankee Bottle Club’s show in Keene, N.H., which is held every year on the Sunday before Columbus Day. The show is always outstanding, and every collector should, in my opinion, try to attend this show at least once! The 2016 show was the tenth that Marcy and I have attended during the past twenty years, despite the daunting distance from our home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The fact that there are “80 dealers” doesn’t really convey the quantity and quality of the glass that’s available every year, in every category. The table holders include many of the heavyweights of the bottle dealer and auction community who come every year and seem to save some of their special pieces to bring to this show. Throughout the day, the bourse floor buzzes with the buying, selling, examining, discussing and trading of antique bottles and glassware. And the venue in the charming, classic New England town of Keene, with its great restaurants, shops and scenery, makes the show particularly enjoyable. I’ve attached a picture (Drakes Plantation Bitters) of one of the bottles I bought at this year’s show, from Ed and Kathy Gray (Ed’s photograph). Editor note: Drake’s not pictured. Hope to see many of you at next year’s 50th annual Keene show! Best regards, Mike Dickman Santa Fe, New Mexico

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Unicorns and Rainbows - Nevada Backbar Bottle Bonanza This letter is in response to the “Unicorns and Rainbows” opinion that certain bottles mentioned in an article entitled “Nevada Backbar Bottle Bonanza” (FOHBC magazine “Bottles and Extras, September-October edition, page 33) are not genuine, legitimate Nevada bottles. I include my personal research on a select handful. [see FOHBC.org - Unicorns and Rainbows] Columbia Club Rye – C. Thomas: This bottle came from the Columbia Club in Pioneer, Nevada. That the Columbia Club existed is evidenced by a rare Columbia Club, Pioneer, Nevada, 12-½ cent trade token. Additionally, an article printed in the May 7, 1909 edition of the Reno Gazette-Journal mentions a “disastrous fire in Pioneer, Nevada” in which the Columbia Club was among businesses suffering loss. Charles Thomas is listed in the 1910 U.S. Federal Census living in Pioneer (Springdale district), Nevada as the manager of a department store, which makes sense because the fire in 1909 destroyed the saloon. The final, and most compelling evidence, is a photo (found in the UNLV digital library on line) from the Charles Thomas and Perry photo collection showing Charles Thomas standing in front of the Columbia Club in Pioneer with the handwritten notation “He is always the same.” This bottle has been examined thoroughly by many collectors and has been deemed to be genuine. Manhattan XXXX – J.E. Connor: The author left out one distinctive marking on this bottle that helps greatly in its identification. The name “J. E. Connor” is enameled below the “Manhattan XXXX” on this backbar. Joseph E. Connor was a hotel and saloon owner in Manhattan, Nevada, as evidenced by R.L. Polk’s Nevada State Gazetteer and Business Directory, First Edition (1907-1908) and further supported by the 1910 U.S. Federal Census. He continued to reside in Manhattan through 1920, as evidenced by the U.S. Federal Census, and is still in the hotel business in addition to being co-owner of the Manhattan Water Company (documented in the Appendix to Journals of Senate and Assembly of the State of Nevada and Report of the Railroad and Public Service Commissions of Nevada). This bottle has been examined thoroughly by many collectors and has been deemed to be genuine. International Hotel: This particular bottle was found in Austin, Nevada in the burned out ruins of the International Hotel. When the hotel burned, local resident Gail Williams, then a young girl, recovered it from the site and asked the owner if she could have it. He replied “Yes, if you promise never to bring it back.” Many years later a bottle show was being held in Austin and although the International was not on display, show goers heard of its existence there in town. Gail was subsequently pressured by so many collectors that she put the bottle in a closet in her home and refused to answer the door when they knocked. The bottle was however, ultimately sold. Her nephew is a close friend of mine and I was permitted to view the bottle several years before it was sold. The story of the bottle’s discovery was relayed to me directly by Gail Williams, the then-owner. Its provenance is impeccable and is well known among Nevada collectors. Belmont W.B.: There are actually two Belmont backbars: Belmont W.B. and Belmont W.B.&S. My research documents the

second bottle. W.B.&S. stands for (Thomas) Warburton, (Frank) Brotherton and (Carl) Schaefer. These merchants are well known to Nye County, Nevada researchers. Warburton was a hotel owner in Belmont as well as a deputy sheriff, the county assessor and treasurer, a school trustee, deputy postmaster, and a member of the IOOF Nevada grand lodge. Brotherton served as Belmont’s postmaster, was the county clerk, a clerk in the judicial district court, and was also a member of the IOOF Nevada grand lodge. Schaefer, Brotherton’s brother-in-law, was a general merchant in Belmont. There are many, many billheads, receipts and ephemera that document the trio’s partnerships. They were brother Masons and active in both the IOOF and Silver Party and Republican groups. At one time, Thomas Warburton owned a hotel. This bottle, however, is from the period when the trio dealt in general merchandise. In a shrewd business move, when Brotherton served as Belmont’s postmaster, he moved the post office into the general merchandise store. That they dealt in whiskey and bottled spirits is evidenced by a letter from a resident of Jefferson, Nevada requesting “a bottle of good whiskey be sent by stage.” Over-the-counter drink sales are proven by an extremely rare “Frank Brotherton, Belmont, Nevada 12 ½ cent drink or cigar” token. The W.B.&S. bottle was found in the 1950s in Belmont by a person who lived in both Belmont and Tonopah. It was subsequently purchased by Willie Manzini of Austin, Nevada. This Belmont, Nevada backbar bottle’s provenance is impeccable and certainly has not been faked. In conclusion, it is always good to chronicle the ownership, custody or location of any historical object, including bottles. Establishing that history, whenever possible, through contextual and circumstantial evidence helps authenticate the item. We’re fortunate that we have so many research aids at our fingertips through the Internet. I hope my comments above have alleviated any concerns about the authenticity of four important Nevada backbars. Dennis Eastley Tonopah, Nevada

First Waco, Texas Antique Bottle Show Federation board member Brad Seigler (Southern Region Director) reports that Jay Kasper was successful in holding the 1st Waco, Texas Antique Bottle Show this past weekend. [Read full post at FOHBC.org] Brad reports that this was the first year of the Waco show and that Jay and his wife Mary really put forth the effort to make it run smoothly. The turn out was good for show day, and sales were brisk amongst walk-ins and the dealers. Before the show had even opened there was a large group of dealers on site to help set up the tables as well as after to help break it all down. Willingness to help out, share stories and talk bottles permeates our small, but close knit bottle community here in Texas. We hope that this was just the first of many Waco shows to come. [Editor Note] The FOHBC.org web site has many show reports and is often updated. We encourage hearing from the Show Chairs and Show Reporters!

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How many remember T. Gunn?

Stenciled ginger beers, embossed Codd bottles, black glass ales, “quack” medicines, all from the United Kingdom and all for sale – cheap compared to today’s prices.

They were for sale by T. (For Thomas) Gunn (Rayleigh) Ltd., 206 London Road, Rayleigh, Essex, England. His advertisements appeared in Old Bottle Magazine during the early 1970s. So I sent him a letter asking him to provide photos, better descriptions and prices wanted. I received a letter from him dated 28th January 1970 and that included a price list and a full-color card showing some of the containers. “Dear Sir: Many thanks for your letter of the 23rd inst(ant) and I have pleasure in sending you herein a list and illustration,” his letter began. “I am most grateful to you for the copy of The Glass Eye. (I had sent him a copy of our Georgia-Carolina Empty Bottle Club newsletter). I like reading these American bottle sheets, they are so full of humour and help get British readers’ minds away from Mr. Wilson’s paradise for a few moments. (Wilson was Prime Minister). “I have never heard of a bottle collectors club in this country and only know of one collector. I fear that this is a hobby that has not taken on here yet. I believe people here and there are beginning to show just a little interest because they read of the popularity of it in the U.S.A.”

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T. Gunn’s British Bottles for Sale. Numbers corresponded with those on his price list. (Courtesy of Bill Baab)

Excerpts from his price list: “Kindly note that all the glass pop and beer bottles have hand-applied lips and all of the bottles are in perfect condition. . . Many of the bottles have interior screw lips and these will be easily identified by the screws shown in the illustration (the stoppers are not as old as the bottles). . . Some have no embossing, but do have attractive paper labels affixed. . . the Codd bottles have glass marble closures. . . some have pointed bottoms (Hamiltons or torpedoes), others have round bottoms (aerated waters and ginger ales) and at least one has a semi-round bottom and stands up with difficulty. . . All the pottery ginger beers are priced at $3 each. . . We also have some old wooden Codd openers (used for pushing the marble closure into the bottle) at $1 each.” None of Gunn’s prices exceeded $12 with some $2.50 and $2 in U.S. dollars. Gunn also paid the cost of packing and postage. He also gave a 10% discount on orders of six or more bottles. So, did I order a bunch? No. I decided I wasn’t interested in collecting British bottles when it was all I could do to keep up with what I was collecting in Georgia. I do sometimes wish I could have ordered a couple of those Codds, in particular the black glass example shown as No. 44 in the photo. Whatever happened to T. Gunn? Does anyone remember?

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“I was teaching in San Jose in 1968 when a fellow teacher one day asked if I wanted to go bottle digging,” he recalled. “San Jose was a good digging town back then, with lots of Victorian houses. I found a 3-lot dump; that is, three house lots 40- to 50feet wide. The dump was about 12 feet deep. I dug there by myself for three weeks and then a bottle club member happened to come by. Later, there was a newspaper story about our digging.” That led many collectors from all over to the site. He dug in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as the mud flats around Benicia, famous for their iridescent bottles. Hilburn later moved to the Washington, D.C., area and found good digging there as well as in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wilmington, Delaware. “We were digging wells that went down 45 to 50 feet. The only danger was falling bricks and we wore hard hats to protect our heads. These were located in the poorest parts of the towns and I stopped digging there 20 years ago when it got too dangerous (from the areas’ riff-raff),” he added.

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Photos courtesy of Glenn Hillburn

n accidental association with the antique bottle collecting hobby in 1968 sparked Glenn Hilburn’s collecting interests for the next three decades, and one of the 81-year-old’s foremost memories is a summertime visit with legendary collector Charles Gardner. Gardner, who lived in New London, Connecticut, had begun collecting antique bottles during the Great Depression, starting in 1929. Before that date, he had been collecting antique firearms for several years and then he met Stephen Van Rensselaer, author of Early American Bottles and Flasks.

Hilburn attended many bottle shows and met Gardner at some of them. Hearing of the latter’s fabulous collection, Hilburn phoned him one day and arranged a visit. Accompanied by his wife, Phyllis, and son Matthew, a bit more than 2 years of age, they arrived at the Gardners’ where they were greeted by Charlie and his wife, Nina. Matthew was on his best behavior (“he didn’t touch a single bottle,” said his father) and the Hilburns weren’t prepared for what they saw when the Gardners took them into the special bottle room (the windows were bullet-proof) attached to one side of the house.

Figural bitters, witch balls caught Hilburns’ eyes.

Gardner was shown many antique bottles from the author’s collection and made a deal in which he traded his guns for many bottles. Thus began the assemblage of what by the 1970s had become the No. 1 outstanding bottle collection of all time anywhere.

“It blew my mind, all those bottles and colors, bottles I’d never heard of,” he declared. “The best of the bunch was the room full of historical flasks of all colors.”

The antique bottle collecting hobby’s popularity spread throughout the United States into the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and New Zealand from the 1950s to the present day.

“He had hired a couple of boys to look for bottles for him. There were a lot of Indian mounds near his home and the boys dug into one. This was during the 1930s when few people cared about preservation. They came up with two seal bottles, accidentally breaking one and leaving it. They brought the other to Charlie, who told me it was the oldest known American-made bottle and

Hilburn, a Los Angeles native, got bitten by the bug after graduation from San Jose State.

He also remembers a story shared by Gardner.

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January - February 2017 his favorite of all those in his collection.” His wife has a different recollection. “While we were in the Gardners’ house looking at all those impressive bottles, I couldn’t believe how spotless everything looked,” she said. “There wasn’t a trace of dust anywhere. Every bottle was sparkling including the glass shelves. I remember turning to Nina and asking her who took care of all the cleaning. It was a massive chore. She said she did! I cannot imagine how many hours she spent carefully handling all those priceless bottles. It was very impressive.”

Glenn Hilburn poses proudly with his host in front off historical flasks.

After his 1970 marriage to Phyllis, the Hilburns moved to Gainesville, Georgia. Tales of digging in Maddox Park in Atlanta soon reached his ears and with digging buddy George Ogden, Hilburn spent many a day there. “I was digging with George in Maddox Park on Dec. 4, 1971 and there was snow on the ground. Before leaving home I asked Phyllis, who was nine months pregnant with Matthew, if she was OK about me going. She said she was fine and to go ahead. “So there I was, deep in a hole in the park, when I heard my name shouted through a bullhorn.” Matthew had decided not to delay his entrance into the world so Phyllis called police.

Demijohns, case gins among miscellaneous bottles.

“They came to the park and took me home,” he said. “The day he left and I went into labor, I had to call the local police department to search for Glenn. I had no other way to try to contact him,” she said in those days before cell phones. “The park was about an hour away from where we lived. “The police were happy to track him down, but I had to file a missing persons report over the phone before they would send a patrol car to the park. We had a good ending with Glenn being located and everyone united at the hospital in Gainesville with the birth of our first child.” “Phyllis is a special person and lets me do what I want to do. We have a window in our (Frederick, Maryland) home that we share. During the winter month, her orchid collection resides there and during the summer the orchids thrive outside,” he said.

Phyllis Hilburn relaxes in Gardners’ bottle room.

She said she puts Glenn’s colorful demijohns in the window during the summer. “I wish I could say that those bottles are always sparkling and without dust, but unfortunately I lack the dedication that Nina Gardner had,” she said. “You’ll even find some cat hair around where the cat sleeps between them as well as a few upside-down stink bugs that ventured too far down the bottles’ necks. But I still enjoy their beauty and Glenn’s passion for his bottle collection.” While bottles no longer occupy Hilburn’s interests, he hasn’t let his retirement years go to waste. “I have a shop and I buy and sell a general antiques line.”

Booz cabin bottles share mantel space with New England glass.

The author thanks Dave Maryo, president of the Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club, for his help with this story.

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Mrs. Bush’s Specific Cure for Burns and Scalds: Did this cure actually work? By Bill Baab During the 19th and early 20th centuries, doctors and druggists

(most of whom were really not) introduced thousands of panaceas that promised to put an end to health issues ranging from cancer to the common cold. These cures were introduced on a worldwide basis, not just in America, and all promised their users the moon, the stars and the universe for prices ranging from several dollars to 50 cents or less. Large bottles of the stuff generally sold for $1; small bottles for 50 cents. Author Stewart Holbrook, in his 1959 epic, “The Golden Age of Quackery,” noted that by 1906, when Congress passed (and President Theodore Roosevelt signed) the Pure Food and Drug Act (which took effect a year later), total volume from patent medicine sales had reached $80 million annually. In Barrow County, Georgia, there lived Mrs. Wiley Harrison Bush, who made her home in the quaintly named Jug Tavern Community formed where Jackson, Walton and Gwinnett counties met. Incorporated in 1884, fewer than 200 citizens lived there. Later, the Georgia Legislature created Barrow County from parts of those three. It was named for David C. Barrow (18521929), chancellor of the University of Georgia. Mrs. Bush’s husband was honored by being called “The Father of Jug Tavern” and later became prominent in the founding of Winder, named for John C. Winder, president of the Seaboard Airline Railroad. “It is only fair to say that Winder would probably never have been on the map if it had not been for the untiring efforts and unselfish generosity of Dr. Wiley H. Bush,” a testimonial read.

There had been two Civil War skirmishes, including a “Battle of Jug Tavern” fought during the conflict, but the community really wasn’t famous except in the minds of its residents. That was about to change. Six years after the end of the conflict (in 1871), after one of her small children had suffered a burn on her face, Mrs. Bush developed a patent medicine that found instant recognition and gratification not only in Jug Tavern households, but elsewhere across the South. She manufactured it in a little house in the back yard of the family home which stood on the site of the original courthouse. The machine she used to mix the ingredients that included castor oil, olive oil, mineral oil, aqua ammonia and red sassafras is among artifacts on display at the Barrow County Museum. Her formula carried the promise (embossed on glass bottles) that it would ease the pain suffered by housewives, children or anyone after being burned or scalded by hot grease or boiling water. Not only that, she promised the medicine was also good for croup, the itch, dandruff, hair restoration, inflammation both external or internal, sore eyes, healing cuts and wounds and easing pains and eliminating corns and piles. Question is, did Mrs. Bush’s Specific Cure for Burns and Scalds actually work? Let’s check out her directions on the box for using the medicine: “First, in case of burns, shake up the medicine well and apply to burn, then lay over it a fine cloth with mutton tallow to keep from sticking. In case of croup, child from one to six months old, half a teaspoonful. If not relieved in fifteen minutes, give another; in large children tablespoonful. In cases of itch, grease the affected

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January - February 2017 There was a disclaimer printed on the back of the box: “We guarantee that Bush Specific, manufactured, packed, distributed and sold by us, is not adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of the Food and Drug Act of June 30th 1906. CONTAINS NO ALCOHOL. But did it work? The Bushes published testimonials from satisfied users, among whom were not just your ordinary average citizens. Examples:

“Atlanta, Ga., Feb., 22, 1909. Dear Mrs. Bush: My father and mother considered your Specific for Burns as being the best in existence. I remember on one occasion mother was scalded by the bursting of a hot water bottle and suffered intense agony until your Specific was rubbed over her feet and inside of five minutes the pain had entirely left her. It is indeed a pleasure to give this testimonial. (Signed) Yours Very Truly, Joseph M. Brown, Governor of Georgia. “Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 6, 1909. Dear Madam: I have used your medicine in my family in two cases of severe burns and relief was afforded instantaneously. We always keep it in our home. It is a valuable remedy. (Signed) Philip Cook, Secretary of State of Georgia.” Others noted that not only did the application of the Specific result in cooling the affected areas, it also led to their healing. One of the medicine’s ingredients was probably aloe which today is still used in treatment of burns. My conclusion, based on the fact that she experimented on one (maybe more) of her own children, is that it did indeed work, especially on burns and scalds. Probably on the other ills, too. Mrs Bush’s Specific Cure packaging

parts two or three times a day. In case of Erysipelas, grease the affected parts well, two or three times a day, and for old sores, grease them well. To restore the hair or destroy dandruff, grease the scalp.” Erysipelas is a bacterial infection of the skin’s outer layers. In this day and time, antibiotics are used in treatment and the condition usually disappears within a few days, according to modern medical authorities. “This remedy is good for any inflammation both external or internal; no harm in it,” the directions continued. “Good for sore eyes. Best thing in the world for cuts or wounds. For pains, try it by rubbing well the parts affected and you will be sure to praise it. For Corns try it and for Piles it is most excellent. Be sure to mix the medicine well before using it.”

Dr. C.B. Skelton of Winder, 90 years old at the time of our telephone interview last August 16, recalled an amusing anecdote about the Bush Specific. “Dr. Bush became a traveling salesman and visited drug stores throughout the state, asking the pharmacists that they consider carrying the Specific. A pharmacist in Atlanta expressed an interest, but made his own proposal. ‘We’ve got a little company of our own going and we’re selling stocks. Why can’t we reach a deal in which some of our stocks will be swapped for some of yours?” Dr. Bush declined. “And that Atlanta company? It was called Coca-Cola.” And the drug store was Jacobs Pharmacy. On Dec. 24, 1894, the Georgia Legislature gave Jug Tavern a Christmas present by renaming the town Winder (pronounced like to wind up). Mrs. Bush’s Specific Cure was still being mar-

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Bottles and Extras Cure. Jug Tavern- and Winder-embossed bottles sit with original boxes on display areas and framed photos of Mrs. Bush and her husband hang on the walls. There also is a ceramic bowl in which the ingredients of the medicine was mixed by hand. Mrs. Bush’s eye glasses sit on a shelf and other articles she once owned are on display. Mrs. Bush, born May 4, 1842, died of a heart attack at age 69 in 1911, a month after the Bushes celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. No death date is given for Dr. Bush, born Jan. 10, 1841, in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. Their daughter, Miss Cleo Bush, continued the family enterprise until ill health caused her to retire. No other family members were able to continue manufacturing the Specific so all operation ceased after 1920. As far as members of the Barrow County Historical Society know, there are no surviving descendants of the Bush family living in Winder or Barrow County today. Since the Bushes were parents of four girls and three boys, other descendants may still be living elsewhere in America.

Top bottle: Mrs. Bush’s Specific Cure for Burns and Scalds - Jug Tavern, Georgia. Bottom bottle: Mrs. Bush’s Specific Cure for Burns and Scalds - Winder, Georgia

keted, the only difference being WINDER, GA., replacing JUG TAVERN embossed on one of the side panels of the smallish bottles containing the formula. Winder’s jail, which still features a “Hanging Tower,” was constructed in 1915 and, after being replaced by a more modern structure, has become the city’s museum. It houses, among other things, objects such as newspaper articles about the lives and times of Dr. and Mrs. Bush and her Specific

Bottle collectors who specialize in cures will enjoy a visit to the museum at 74 West Athens Street. It is open Monday through Friday from 1 p.m., to 4 p.m., and is staffed by members of the historical society. There is no charge, but donations will be appreciated. Sources: Bush’s Specific – A Burn Cure, pamphlet distributed to museum visitors free of charge. Barrow County, Georgia, and Winder, Georgia web sites. Various other internet sites. Beadland to Barrow, a history of Barrow County.

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John Wedderburn Peddled False Hopes and Whiskey By Jack Sullivan I

n the District of Columbia before prohibition, John Wedderburn, a self-ordained patent attorney and liquor dealer, created dreams of wealth for would-be inventors nationwide and sold booze to Washingtonians. His legal work got him disbarred; his whiskey made him rich. John was born in Washington, D.C., to George Chase and Virginia Mary Lawrence Wedderburn in 1869, not long after the Civil War. Of his early life and education, little is known other than by some means he obtained a license to practice law. When about 23 years old he married Beulah Fox, a woman only 17 at the time of their marriage, who had been born in Missouri. They had one daughter, Virginia, born about 1891. Wedderburn first emerged in the public record during the mid-1880s when barely out of his teens. Obviously a very canny lawyer and one “looking to make a fast buck,” he established John Wedderburn & Company with the apparent intent of using the U.S. Patent Office as his personal cash drawer. By virtue of conning newspapers all across the country into running his ads at discount prices in exchange for “stock” in his enterprise, he was able to tout his services to a nationwide audience (Fig. 1). The 1800s were the age of American invention and hundreds of Fig. 1: WANTED, AN IDEA notice - 1897

would-be Thomas Edisons responded to Wedderburn’s promise of wealth and the possibility of winning a “$1,800 prize,” one later revealed as never having been awarded. Federal authorities contended that far from helping his clients become wealthy, Wedderburn was milking them for all he could get. For an initial $5, he advertised that he would research whether an invention had already been recorded. Inevitably he would find it had not and advise: “There is no doubt that your invention is a very valuable one and that good money could be made out of the same if properly handled.” Handled, that is, by Wedderburn. After collecting an additional $20 to process the patent application, that in the vast majority of cases he never obtained, if the client seemed to be “a vein easily mined,” Wedderburn sent a letter informing the inventor as follows: “We take pleasure in informing you that the Board of Awards has selected your invention for special merit and your name will appear on our Roll of Honor for last month for the Wedderburn prize.” The letter was accompanied by a medal (Fig. 2) a pitch for more money, and a assurance that the invention “promises to be exceedingly profitable to you.” It did not take long for Patent Office authorities to react to Wedderburn’s scheme. In an exhaustive report, their investigator was unsparing in his opinion of this “Honor Roll” Letter: “There probably could not be a more

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unblushing fraud perpetrated by the use of the same number of words than crops out of this communication.” Found guilty of “gross misconduct” by the Commissioner of Patents in 1897, Wedderburn was disbarred from doing any further business with the Patent Office. Fig. 2: Wedderburn Reward of Genius badge

But patents were not the only scheme that Wedderburn had going. In 1891, William Randolph Hearst, one of America’s most powerful newspaper publishers, was reported establishing in Washington D.C. an office that would handle cases before the U.S. Court of Claims for a modest fee instead of the fifty percent of awards charged by many claims agents. To head this seemingly quasi-philanthropic effort, Hearst chose none other than John Wedderburn, hailed as a man who had ferreted out “gigantic contract frauds” at a California Naval Yard for the Secretary of the Navy. Before long, however, Hearst would regret his decision. In 1894, he went to court asking that his claims operation be declared bankrupt and that Wedderburn be restrained from further “intermeddling with its affairs.” In his bill of particulars against the Washingtonian, Hearst alleged that Wedderburn had mismanaged claims, created a large indebtedness, improperly used money for personal expenses, and -- most egregious -- bilked Hearst’s own mother out of $8,000, equivalent to $200,000 today. The 1900 census found Wedderburn living at 2208 Ruskin Avenue in Baltimore, with his wife, Beulah, and their daughter. No occupation was recorded for John, now 33 years old and apparently out of work. That would change within the next several years as Wedderburn, despite being disbarred and disgraced, decided to enter the D.C. liquor business, setting up John Wedderburn’s Pure Wines & Liquors on F Street N.W. Shown here are two labeled Wedderburn whiskeys, a clear pint and an amber quart (Figs. 3, 4). He embossed most of his bottles with his name and address (Figs. 5, 6). Wedderburn made no pretense that his whiskeys were straight bourbons, merchandising them as “a modern improved whiskey” made from “pure grain distillates.” It is clear he was operating as a “rectifier,” compounding and blending raw whiskeys with

Figs. 3, 4: two labeled Wedderburn whiskeys

Figs. 5, 6: Wedderburn embossed most of his bottles with his name and address

Figs 7 & 8: Wedderburn also featured a line of wines and cordials

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Figs. 9, 10, 11: Wedderburn also made use of ceramic jugs for his products, chiefly for wholesale. He also gave away pottery mini-jugs to favored customers, each holding several swallows of his whiskey.

For all his notoriety, Wedderburn apparently knew how to job the political system in the Nation’s Capitol. Probably because of his largess he was said to have many friends and acquaintances among congressmen and senators. They may have been a principal source of demand for his alcoholic products, easily shipped from F Street up to Capitol Hill. Political connections may be the reason that in 1915 Wedderburn’s ability to practice patent law was restored. Showing up in D.C. business directories as a liquor dealer first in 1906, Wedderburn apparently had just a little over a decade to operate and flourish before Congress in 1917 declared D.C. “dry.” During that period, however, he marketed a number of brands and left behind hundreds of bottles, jugs and giveaway items. The coming of Prohibition seems to have ended Wedderburn’s entrepreneurship. The 1920 census found him living in the District of Columbia at 810 North Carolina Avenue. Although still only 51 years old, no occupation was listed for him. He was already rich enough from his whiskey to retire.

Figs. 12,13: Wedderburn also furnished saloons carrying his brands with thin-walled etched shot glasses

Wedderburn died on March 15, 1932, at the age of 64. He was laid to rest in Plot B of Washington’s historic Rock Creek Cemetery. There he shares a gravestone with his wife, Beulah, and their daughter Virginia, while other Wedderburn relatives are buried nearby (Fig. 14). John Wedderburn may have more than earned the negative words heaped on him during his lifetime, including “fraud” and “charlatan” from the Commissioner of Patents, and “a man lacking in integrity and honesty” from William Randolph Hearst. Unfortunately, Wedderburn did not leave a memoir. My hunch is that he could have described a whole host of other rascally escapades. Note: The case for disbarment against Wedderburn was made in a lengthy document from the Commissioner of Patents that included a detailed report by an investigator of how Wedderburn operated to extract patent-related money from gullible inventors. The photographs of bottles and jugs shown here were provided by Richard Lilienthal, PhD, a leading collector of D.C. bottles.

Fig. 14: Wedderburn is laid to rest in Plot B of Washington’s historic Rock Creek Cemetery. There he shares a gravestone with his wife, Beulah, and their daughter Virginia.

grain alcohol to achieve more mellow flavor. In addition to his “Wedderburn” brands of whiskey and rye, he also featured other proprietary labels, including “Hallmark,” “Karlan Club,” “Over - Wood,” “The J. W.,” and “Three Points.” As a patent attorney (disbarred), he saw the benefit of trademarks, registering Wedderburn in 1904 and the others about a decade later. He also featured a line of wines and cordials (Figs. 7, 8).

Author of an incredible number of bottle-and pottery-related stories, Jack Sullivan’s name has been a familiar one to collectors for many years. A resident of Alexandria, Va., since 1965, he writes frequently for Bottles and Extras, the Ohio Bottle Club’s Ohio Swirl newsletter and the Potomac Pontil, the online publication of the Potomac Bottle Club. Jack also maintains two online blogs devoted to aspects of collecting and history - “Bottles, Booze and Back Stories,” and “Those Pre-Prohibition Whiskey Men.” Jack is also a member of the FOHBC Hall of Fame.

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The Color Amber Not Brown A “chocolate” Brown’s Celebrated Indian Herb Bitters Next installment on Bottle Colors by Ferdinand Meyer V This piece is the next installment in Bottles and Extras related to my fascination with antique bottle and glass colors and will join previous articles in the series titled The Color Purple or Amethyst in Antique Bottles and Glass (Jan-Feb 2016), What is Puce or “Pooce” as some call it? (Mar-Apr 2016) and The Color Orange in Antique Bottles and Glass (May-June 2016). When I first started collecting antique bottles, it was after a Delmarva Bottle Club show (my dad founded that club) in September 2002, where I purchased and admired ten or so nice bottles in amber and aqua that were mostly bitters. The grouping included a Caldwell’s Herb Bitters, Big Bill Best Bitters, Doyle’s Hop Bitters, Curtis & Perkins Wild Cherry Bitters, Fennor’s Capitol Bitters, Greeley’s Bourbon Bitters, Morning Star Bitters, Dr. Soules Hop Bitters, Bunker Hill Monument Cologne, Radams Microbe Killer and a BBB (Atlanta, Georgia) medicine. Bringing them to my fathers bayside house, I placed them on a glass table on his screen porch. Of course I arranged them to appeal to my eye and was amazed how this little group danced and caught my attention throughout the day. I also realized that the bottle colors and my perception of the color changed during the day and oddly, it also changed when the bottles were rearranged. [From Glass Passion and Color - Part I: Life Transformation in the Sep-Oct 2009 issue of Bottles and Extras]. As I said, these were mostly amber bottles and I still remember my emotional response that day. Not once did I think of other bottle colors as the range of coloration and reaction to light was startling enough to really get me rolling in this hobby. Color would come later, and of course it would cost a lot more money.

Chocolate amber Brown’s Celebrated Indian Herb Bitters from the great Bob Ferraro collection.

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minish the celebration and collection of brown bottles and glass. Many collectors search for the greens, yellows, blues and purple color ranges, which are, without a doubt, “prettier” and more pleasing to the eye. I know of some major collectors who are actually discouraging this color and yet others removing “brown” bottles from their collection. To each his own, I suppose. Bravo to the fellow up Minnesota way who has a stellar collection of brown figural bitters. Well, no wonder, you will notice I said brown a number of times in the paragraphs above! Brown is a word that conjures up few visions of splendor. Like beige, a color name not in vogue. Whenever I think of beige, I remember the old Southwest Airlines “Wanna Get Away” commercial where the body-builder cool-guy is working out in the gym and the PA system calls out, “Will the owner of a beige minivan please return to your vehicle because the lights are on.” Funny how colors recall memories. Don’t worry, some of you bottle dealers with beige vans. You don’t have to repaint or sell your vehicle, just call your paint scheme on your workhorse champagne or desert sand!

Amber Doyle’s Hop Bitters color run with different hop leaf embossings. - Meyer collection

Not long after that I purchased an amber Drake’s Plantation Bitters and a few other amber figurals such as a queen, pig and fish. My course was set! I even won an entire run of Doyle’s Hop Bitters in amber, with different hop leaf embossings, on eBay (pictured above). Coincidentally enough, these were also from the Bob Ferraro collection (as the queen on the previous page). Bob noticed them on my shelf at Peach Ridge and immediately recognized them as his, or at least they were once his. Seems like he gave them to a nephew or something, if I remember correctly, as an enticement to get them interested in bottle collecting. They in turn sold the bottles on eBay without telling Bob.

A refreshing glass of color with ice captures an amazing range of amber coloration

While you may be drinking a can or bottle of drab brown cola or root beer, just add some ice, put it in a clear glass and let the light, bubbles and transparencies make the most beautiful shades of amber possible. Just look at those incredible colors above. I don’t see any brown! Pretty much the same happens with brown bottles. Give it some light and it will talk to you with volumes. There is some undercurrent in antique bottle collecting to di-

OK, now try to name some pretty brown things? Bet you can’t. I know what some of you parents with little children or dog owners are thinking! Yup, that’s right, brown is down. I will not put an image here if you don’t mind. So as we now have uncounted numbers of color names for cars, paints, inks, fabrics and everything else, we bottle collectors hang our hat on the name “amber” as the general color identifier for a wide range of “brown” colors. I simply do not use the description “brown” in describing a color of a bottle. I use the word “amber” as a starting point and break it further down by using color adjectives to further embellish the usual yellow-orange-brown that is associated with the color. Actually, amber itself can range from a whitish color through a A brown room pale lemon yellow, to brown and almost black. Other uncommon colors include red amber (sometimes known as “cherry amber”), green amber, and even blue amber, which is rare and highly sought after. Most bottle collectors or auction houses might say dark amber, light amber, golden amber, yellow amber, honey amber, red amber, tobacco amber, old amber or throw in auburn, bronze, cedar, chestnut, chocolate, cinnamon, cocoa, copper, ginger, hazel, khaki, mahogany, oak, ocher, puce, reddish, root beer, russet, rust, saddle-brown, sandy, sepia, umber, wheat, earthen, caramel, sienna, muddy, topaz, bistre, almond, henna to describe and sell a bottle. Just look at the descriptive names from some of the leading paint companies for their brown colors. Their marketing folks wouldn’t

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be selling much paint if there were many, “Honey, I am headed down to the hardware store to get some brown paint for our dining room remodel”! So what is Amber and where did it come from? I don’t think it was that pretty girl in your history class. We also might think of Amber Alerts which began in 1996 when Dallas-Fort Worth broadcasters teamed with local police to develop an early warning system to help find abducted children. AMBER actually stands for “America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response” and was created as a legacy to 9-year-old Amber Hagerman, who was kidnapped while riding her bicycle in Arlington, Texas. A hugely important use of amber here.

Superb antique hand carved Negro figural meerschaum smokers pipe with amber mouthpiece

Actually amber has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since Neolithic times as it is a fossilized tree resin which is not to be confused with tree sap. Amber ornaments have been found in Mycenaean tombs and elsewhere across Europe. To this day Amber is used in the manufacture of smoking and glassblowing mouthpieces. Amber is also used in jewelry and as an ingredient in perfumes and was used as a healing agent in folk medicine for its purported healing properties. Historically, Amber and extracts were used from the time of Hippocrates in ancient Greece for a wide variety of treatments through the Middle Ages and up until the early twentieth century. In ancient China it was customary to burn amber during large festivities. If amber is heated under the right conditions, oil of amber is produced, and in past times this was combined carefully with nitric acid to create “artificial musk” – a resin with a peculiar musky odor. Although when burned, amber does give off a characteristic “pinewood” fragrance, modern products, such as perfume, do not normally use actual amber due to the fact that fossilized amber produces very little scent. In perfumery, scents referred to as “amber” are often created and patented to emulate the opulent golden warmth of the fossil. The modern name for amber is thought to have come from the Arabic word, ambar, meaning ambergris. Ambergris is the waxy aromatic substance created in the intestines of sperm whales and was used in making perfumes both in ancient times as well as modern. The scent of amber was originally derived from emulating the scent of ambergris and/or labdanum but due to the endangered species status of the sperm whale the scent of amber is now largely derived from labdanum.

Ant inclusion in Baltic amber

The term “amber” is loosely used to describe a scent that is warm, musky, rich and honey-like, and also somewhat oriental and earthy. It can be synthetically created or derived from natural resins. When derived from natural resins it is most often created out of labdanum. Benzoin is usually part of the recipe. Vanilla and cloves are sometimes used to enhance the aroma. “Amber” perfumes may be created using combinations of lab-

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danum, benzoin resin, copal (itself a type of tree resin used in incense manufacture), vanilla, Dammara resin and/or synthetic materials. There are five classes of amber, defined on the basis of their chemical constituents. Because it originates as a soft, sticky tree resin, amber sometimes contains animal and plant material as inclusions. You may recall those neat pieces of jewelry you have seen before with bugs preserved in the amber for eternity. I guess some people like wearing frozen-in-time bugs.

Ambergris found by a dog walker on an Anglesey beach (North Wales, UK) sold at auction for £11,000.

The English word amber derives from Arabic ‘anbar (cognate with Middle Persian ambar) via Middle Latin ambar and Middle French ambre. This comes from the dictionary. The word was adopted in Middle English in the 14th century as referring to what is now known as ambergris (ambre gris or “grey amber”), a solid waxy substance derived from the sperm whale. That’s weird, I think I just learned something here. Elizabeth and I once vacationed and dove on a remote island off of Belize in Central America called Ambergris Caye. Now I know where that island name came from. In the Romance languages, the sense of the word had come to be extended to Baltic amber from as early as the late 13th century. At first called white or yellow amber, this meaning was adopted in English by the early 15th century. As the use of ambergris waned, this became the main sense of the word. The two substances (“yellow amber” and “grey amber”) conceivably became associated or confused because they both were found washed up on beachPhaeton, Gustave Moreau , 1878, Louvre, France es. Ambergris is less dense than water and floats, whereas amber is too dense to float, though less dense than stone.

The classical names for amber, Latin electrum and Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ēlektron), are connected to a term ἠλέκτωρ (ēlektōr) meaning “beaming Sun”. According to myth, when Phaëton son of Helios (the Sun) was killed, his mourning sisters became poplar trees, and their tears became elektron, amber. Amber is heterogeneous in composition, but consists of several resinous bodies more or less soluble in alcohol, ether and chloroform, associated with an insoluble bituminous substance. Amber is a macromolecule by free radical polymerization of several precursors in the labdane family, e.g. communic acid, cummunol, and biformene. These labdanes are diterpenes (C20H32) and trienes, equipping the organic skeleton with three alkene groups for polymerization. As amber matures over the years, more polymerization takes place as well as isomerization reactions, cross linking and cyclization. Heated above 200 °C (392 °F), amber suffers decomposition, yielding an oil of amber, and leaving a black residue which is known as “amber colophony,” or “amber pitch,” when dissolved in oil of turpentine or in linseed oil this forms “amber varnish” or “amber lac.” For this to happen, the resin must be resistant to decay. Many trees produce resin, but in the majority of cases this deposit is broken down by physical and biological processes. Exposure to sunlight, rain, microorganisms (such as bacteria and fungi), and extreme temperatures tends to disintegrate resin. For resin to survive long enough to become amber, it must be resistant to such forces or be produced under conditions that exclude them.

Martin’s Amber-Lyte varnish tin with paper label

Fossil resins from Europe fall into two categories, the famous Baltic ambers and another that resembles the Agathis group. Fossil resins from the Americas and Africa are closely related to the modern genus Hymenaea, while Baltic ambers are thought to be fossil resins from Sciadopityaceae family plants that used to live in north Europe. The abnormal development of resin in living trees (succinosis) can result in the formation of amber. Impurities are quite often

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present, especially when the resin dropped onto the ground, so the material may be useless except for varnish-making. Such impure amber is called firniss. Such inclusion of other substances can cause amber to have an unexpected color. Pyrites may give a bluish color. Bony amber owes its cloudy opacity to numerous tiny bubbles inside the resin. However, so-called black amber is really only a kind of jet. In darkly clouded and even opaque amber, inclusions can be imaged using high-energy, high-contrast, high-resolution X-rays. Amber is globally distributed, mainly in rocks of Cretaceous age or younger. Historically, the Samland coast west of Königsberg in Prussia was the world’s leading source of amber. About 90% of the world’s extractable amber is still located in that area, which became the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia in 1946. Pieces of amber torn from the seafloor are cast up by the waves, and collected by hand, dredging, or diving. Elsewhere, amber is mined, both in open works and underground galleries. Then nodules of blue earth have to be removed and an opaque crust must be cleaned off, which can be done in revolving barrels containing sand and water. Erosion removes this crust from sea-worn amber. Caribbean amber, especially Dominican blue amber, is mined through bell pitting, which is dangerous due to the risk of tunnel collapse.

Brown’s Indian Queen Hotel, Washington City - Library of Congress

Now let’s circle back to chocolate brown Indian queen. What’s so cool about owning a chocolate queen, besides it being much harder to find in coloration than an amber example is the fact that the product is named “Brown’s Celebrated Indian Herb Bitters.” Kind of a double entendre. Did you know that there was actually a Brown’s Indian Queen Hotel? The hotel was located in Washington D.C. on the north side of Pennsylvania Avenue about midway between the Capitol and the President’s House, a few doors east of the Centre Market. The Indian Queen became Washington’s most prestigious hotel when it opened in 1820. Let’s close for now and salute our great hobby and bottle colors.

Mined Dominican blue amber

The Vienna amber factories, which use pale amber to manufacture pipes and other smoking tools, turn it on a lathe and polish it with whitening and water or with rotten stone and oil. The final luster is given by friction with flannel. When gradually heated in an oil-bath, amber becomes soft and flexible. Two pieces of amber may be united by smearing the surfaces with linseed oil, heating them, and then pressing them together while hot. Cloudy amber may be clarified in an oil-bath, as the oil fills the numerous pores to which the turbidity is due. Small fragments, formerly thrown away or used only for varnish, are now used on a large scale in the formation of “ambroid” or “pressed amber”. The pieces are carefully heated with exclusion of air and then compressed into a uniform mass by intense hydraulic pressure, the softened amber being forced through holes in a metal plate. The product is extensively used for the production of cheap jewelry and articles for smoking. This pressed amber yields brilliant interference colors in polarized light. Amber has often been imitated by other resins like copal and kauri gum, as well as by celluloid and even glass. Baltic amber is sometimes colored artificially, but also called “true amber.”

Straw Yellow

Yellow

Yellow Amber

Honey Amber

Orange Amber

Dark Brown Amber

Citron Yellow

Black Amber

Olive Yellow

Dark Red Amber

A wonderful illustration on Greg Spurgeon’s Hoosier Jar web site noting amber colors for GLOBE fruit jars

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Callahan’s Old Cabin Whiskey (figural cabin) in a yellow-gold amber

Corn for the World historical flask in a yellow amber

Harvey’s Prairie Bitters (figural bitters) in old amber

Grenfelder & Laupheimer, Baltimore Druggists in a tobacco amber

Radam’s Microbe Killer in red amber

Brown’s Celebrated Indian Queen in a very dark amber

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The Deland M-T Bottle Collectors Club Presents Their 47th Antique Bottle & Insulator Show Location is SR 44 & I-4 at the Volusia County Fairgrounds (Exit 118) Deland, Florida, March 24th & 25th, 2017. Dealer set up 1- 6 PM Friday. Fee for early buyers Friday 3-7 PM and before 8 AM Saturday is $20. Regular show Admission and parking for all buyers on Saturday 8 AM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 3 PM is FREE. (160 Sales Tables will be available for this show) For Information Please Contact our Asst. Bottle Show Chairman: Brian Hoblick, 11721 NW County Rd 236, Alachua, Florida 32615. EMAIL: hoblick@aol.com PHONE# 386-804-9635 Bottle Show Chairman: Dwight A. Pettit Jr. PHONE# 386-956-8033 EMAIL: pettit9119@bellsouth.net Show contract is available at our website: www.m-tbottleclub.com

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terested in the task at hand. What happens in this case is we skip the region up for rotation that year and go to the next region. This had happened in the Northeast before. So President Meyer had no other choice than to say, “well, I guess we will move on.” As soon as I heard that I spoke up and said, “I will do it.” Everyone looked at me and I said, “We are not skipping the Northeast.” So everyone agreed to let me do it. Jim and Val Berry, board members as well as good friends, offered to help. Being from the Northeast and having so many good friends here, I could not sit back and let them miss having a National Show. All I have heard is how much they loved the Manchester National in 2013. I have also had many people tell me they missed Manchester, but would not miss the next one. I felt I owed them their show. The next several minutes I sat there thinking, what have I done! I have never put on a show in my life, but I have attended hundreds over the 40-plus years I have collected. As I walked back to my hotel room, the production guy inside of me kicked in. You see, I run a lumber mill in upstate New York and my job is to do things as good as we can as fast and safe as we can. So the show would have to be run the same way: Top quality and very well laid out in advance just like our products at the plant. I knew one thing: Go big or go home.

Springfield Bound By Jim Bender As I travel around to bottle shows I have had people ask me why I slowed down writing articles in Bottles and Extras. I never realized how many people seem to enjoy them until I stopped for a while. I have never considered myself much of a writer and still don’t. If not for Bill Baab proof reading and fixing every article, they would be a mess. Thank you, Bill, for all you have done for me so far.

The next morning at the bottle show, Bob Strickhart ran into me and asked how we were doing with the Northeast Show for 2017. My reply was, “Good.” “Who did you find?” he asked. “Me,” I replied. Bob just stood there looking at me. I explained that I could not just sit there and let the Northeast be skipped. You see, I had asked Bob months earlier if he would do the national show. Bob had saved the Manville, New Jersey, show from death. No one wanted to handle it and it was about to be finished. So Bob not wanting to see a New Jersey show die stepped up and made it into a great show over the past few years. But Bob did not feel he wanted to take on a national show.

The main reason I took some time off from writing is because I have been very busy planning for the FOHBC 2017 Springfield National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo along with Co-Chairman Bob Strickhart and FOHBC President Ferdinand Meyer V. We are planning to hold the best bottle convention to ever hit the Northeast and maybe the world! Remember, always think big. So where I have been is Springfield-bound. My journey to Springfield started at the semi-annual FOHBC board meeting in Baltimore in 2015. Every year, the FOHBC board holds two meetings. One is in March at Baltimore the day before the famous Baltimore Bottle Club show and the other is at the annual FOHBC Convention. As I sat there at the meeting listening to other board members talk about the 2017 show set for Northeast, I was starting to hear some bad news. It seemed that no bottle club had submitted a proposal for the show. Normally, a club or two would put in a bid and we would choose which club seemed to have the most to offer. A number of clubs had been approached (some by me), but none seemed to be in-

Jim Bender & Bob Strickhart - Springfield National Chairs

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Bob looked at me, put his hand on my shoulder and said, “I guess we are putting on a national show, my friend.” This was music to my ears for sure. I have other friends willing to step up and help but none of us have the experience of doing a bottle show. Doing a prom, banquet, dance or party just is not the same as a bottle convention. I told Bob I had only one request and that was we are all in. I mean if I put on one show in my life, it has to be something people enjoy and will remember forever. The next person I needed some input from was Tom Phillips. Tom had served as the FOHBC Conventions Director for a few years with me on the board. Tom is one of the most knowledgeable people I have ever met when it comes to doing a show. One phone call to Tom and he said, “I will certainly help you all I can.” You see, the great thing about our hobby is the people. They are always there to help if you just ask. I spent several hours on phone calls with Tom taking notes and learning from his knowledge. Tom truly is a good friend and I owe him so much for getting me going in the right direction. Next step is to find a location. Bob took about half the Northeast and I took the other half. We both started calling locations we found on the Internet as well as places we were told about by other collectors. We called close to 30 locations. You can learn a lot about a place by the way they speak with you on the phone. Some are so willing to send you anything you ask and others just pass you off and say it on their web site. One thing Tom told me was if the folks on the phone don’t sound really interested, chances are that won’t change when you are working with them. Simple but a true statement, which I use at work all the time. No matter what, call people back and help them even if we can’t help them at the time. Some of the phone calls were even funny. I had a guy offer me a huge tent. Now that would be a show to remember. Bender and Strickhart hold the Northeast National in a tent. That’s not the kind of remembering I want. Many locations were nice, but we really wanted to be near the middle of the Northeast region. The one thing I had people complain about with Manchester was it was way too far north for some. If you live in New England that does not seem so far but if you are from Virginia, it seems way up north. So the goal was try to stay as close to the middle of the region as possible.

We narrowed the choices down to two locations: Lancaster, Pennsylvania and Springfield, Massachusetts. We spent time at both locations looking around the area, checking traffic patterns as well as what was there. Costs have to be an issue, too. Lancaster is a great area but the costs of the center were killers for us and the staff gave us a take it or leave it attitude.

Now let’s talk about Springfield a bit. When we first arrived we talked about the drive in. Mine was from New York and Bob’s was from New Jersey. I had no issues coming right off the Massachusetts Turnpike and driving right to the MassMutual Center. Bob felt his drive in was also direct with no issues. We had an appointment with Donna Ritchie, the sales rep for the MassMutual Center. You know how you get a feeling someone wants you there right off? I had that feeling with Donna from the beginning. She asked questions about the hobby and show. She asked what they could do for us. She even made appointments for us to meet with both major hotels right up the street. Walking around, Bob and I both felt very pleased about the way we were being treated. No rush, see anything you want to see and answer every question asked. Now here is something to always watch for when dealing with a sales person: The person that can answer every single question may not be for you. I like to hear once in a while: ”I don’t know, I will check and get back to you.”

MassMutual Center where the actual bottle show will occur.

This is a great customer service person who is really saying: I care enough to get you the right answer and I also want to spend time for you getting it. It was clear that Springfield was the place for us. After board approval, we spent a few weeks making a deal and signing a contract. Here again, we relied on a few friends and board members who had been through this before. Tom Phillips, Sheldon Baugh and Ferdinand Meyer were of great help. At that time, Donna was put to the test. We asked her so many questions it would have driven me nuts. I made three trips back to Springfield to look around before the contract was ever signed. Since then, I have made trips back with Linda Sheppard and Jim and Val Berry to show them what the MassMutual Center is like. All agree it is a great place to have a national show. Since signing on with the MassMutual Center, we have been assigned a point person. Pam Squeglia has taken on that role. Pam is made in the same mold as Donna, she answers every e-mail in a timely fashion and helps guide us to where we need to be. I cannot say enough for the customer service we are receiving so far. One day I got home and a package was on the porch. I opened it and it was an old brown and white jug with photos of the MassMutual Center pasted to it. It is really cool and was a gift from the staff welcoming us there. The time it took to make it and thoughtfulness of it just tells me we were right to choose the MassMutual Center.

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Picking a host hotel was next on the list. We really had two choices, the Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place Hotel and the Springfield Marriott. They are right across the street from each other. Both hotels are of high quality and the staffs are both very equal. The prices were the same with both matching things almost identical. When all was said and done we picked the Sheraton simply because the rooms were recently remodeled and they seemed just a bit better to us.

Our host hotel, the Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place seen across the Connecticut River

We went through a few people as our contacts at the Sheraton and now have been given Steve Vinelli who is a long term employee and knows the place like the back of his hand. Steve, much like Donna and Pam, is very customer-driven. He answers all e-mails fast and always gets us an answer. Bob and I, along with Jim and Val Berry, went to the Sheraton and spent a night to see what the rooms and hotel were like. We asked to be put in rooms that our members would be staying in on different floors. We went on Friday night to see what the city was like during the stay. The hotel staff members were all fantastic and we ate in one of the restaurants, which was very nice. I feel we made the right choice for sure. So at this point we have a hotel and a show room. What is next? I have to tell you right from the start of all this I kept thinking about one man.

The late Dick & Elma Watson

Dick Watson kept coming into my mind. Dick and I were good friends until his passing and we shared a common love of the hobby and the FOHBC. All I could think was Dick would have loved to be involved in this. He would have done anything to help us. So in my mind I knew somehow we had to have him be part of this. I told Bob I wanted to do a tribute to Dick and Elma at the banquet. Bob was all in as he too had been a good friend of

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Dick’s, but he also knew Elma as well. I had only spoken to Elma a few times and never got close to Dick until after her passing. Bob had been friends with them both and Elma is the one who talked Bob into becoming a life member of the FOHBC. So that was the plan for the banquet. We would share some stories and photos of their great collection. During the talks with Bob about Dick and Elma I had told Bob that Elma truly was a special person and Dick had shared so many stories with me about her I knew I had missed a very interesting and great lady. We also felt we needed someone to share a woman’s point of view about Elma. Bob knew it had to be Phyllis Koch. Phyllis and Elma were very close friends and who best to talk about a person but their friend? When we asked Phyllis to speak she never paused one minute and said yes. That’s what friends do for each other. I myself look forward to hearing her talk about a dearly missed friend. Once the word had come out we were having a northeast convention, friends starting asking if they could help or be involved. The one thing Bob and I love more than the bottles on our shelves is the friends we both have made over the years. They are priceless. We knew to do this right we would need a team of good people. So Team Springfield was formed as we went. Anyone who thinks they can handle an event like this without lots of help is crazy. As we looked over volunteers we knew certain people were made for certain tasks. Jim and Val Berry right from day one wanted to help and I knew they would be killers at handling all of the advertising in the souvenir program. They do a book every year for the highway association. They understand what needs to be done and how to get it done. They are both well organized and we feel very comfortable handing the task over to them. I am sure they will break all records with advertising sales. Fran Hughes asked if he could help and Fran understands bottle shows. He ran the Albany Bottle Club show for years. So Fran was asked to handle the displays. I am sure there will be some killer displays at Springfield. Mike George was a co-chair at the 2013 Manchester National Show which was loved by all. We asked Mike to handle the organization of the seminars. Mike has known most of the speakers for years and I am sure they will work the details out just fine. This also will be the first time that we will be taping seminars so we can offer a videos later. Many people have always complained that they have to choose between seminars and it is hard to pick. This will help remedy that problem. Rick Ciralli was Bob’s pick for the Springfield Bottle Battle and I could not have agreed more. Rick is a very energetic person and very entertaining. I look for Rick to keep things moving along all night and make the Bottle Battle a thing you don’t want to miss. Once again this year, Chip Cable will be on hand to use his video skills to put each bottle up on a big screen so all can see. Chip has also offered his time as one of the people to videotape our seminars. Guys like Chip seem to always be there when you need them. Alicia Booth will be handling the children’s events at the show.

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Grab bags and the scavenger hunt should be a lot of fun for the kids. The day I met Alicia I knew she was a people person. I asked her one-day, “You really love people, don’t you?” “Yes, I do,” she answered. I am so pleased to not only have her part of Team Springfield but also as a new FOHBC board member as Public Relations Director. Along with Alicia will be our youngest Team Springfield member: 7-year-old Owen Lacy, son of Matt and Elizabeth Lacy, heard his mom and dad would be helping at the show so he wanted to do something, too. He will be helping with the kids’ activities. Who says there are no young folks are coming into the hobby?

fornia Wednesday night people started showing up at the hotel and by Thursday afternoon it was packed. We had not planned on anything at Springfield until Thursday night’s Bottle Battle. Ferdinand offered to help out with the planning of an event for Thursday afternoon. We were both glad to hear that. Bob and I both have a full plate as it is. Ferdinand came up with The Springfield Armory Reception, which will include a tour of the Springfield Armory Museum as well as a get-together brunch. Details are listed on the FOHBC.org web site.

Ferdinand Meyer may be the president of the FOHBC, but he very much is a part of Team Springfield. Ferdinand has done most of all the design work for us as well as having been a part of the decisions as we go. He goes way beyond what a normal president would do. His work ethics rival my own of which I am very proud. The FOHBC owes him a lot. Bill and Carol Petscavage will be handling the photography at the convention. They also will be doing videos of the seminars as well. We are lucky to have this great husband and wife team on board. They are friends of Bob’s and were quick to help us out. Matt and Elizabeth Lacy, Elizabeth Meyer, Marianne Strickhart, Kevin Kyle, Charlie Dascenzo, Dana Charlton-Zarro, John Lawrey, Bill Rose, Linda Sheppard, Jeff Ullman and Louis Fifer round out Team Springfield so far. But that’s not all of the people who will be helping. There are battle judges, ticket sellers, floor-walkers and so on. These volunteers always seem to go unnoticed at shows. Rarely do you see their names in print. Just look around, they are there doing whatever it takes to get things done. So now that you have a team, you have to create an event. The thing is this needs to an event for all time, at least in my mind. I always loved the movie The Field of Dreams. My favorite line is, “If you build it they will come” so that has been my approach to all of this. If we build it, they will come and I believe that will hold true. We plan on giving everyone something to do and enjoy.

Original illustration of the Springfield Armory

After seeing the huge turnout at the Generals House event at the FOHBC 2016 Sacramento National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo, it was clear we needed an event for Thursday. I had questioned at one time how many people would show up the day before the events would start. I quickly learned that in Cali-

Watson One advertising used in the Sacramento National souvenir program

Every convention holds about the same events each year and Bob and I knew we needed an event that would be something interesting no one would want to miss it. So we had an idea. Since the passing of Dick Watson, there has been much talking about what would happen to the Watson collection. I heard so many rumors my head spun. So Bob and I thought how great it would be to sell some of the bottles at Springfield. Better yet, what if we could be the first to sell any. What an event to honor a great friend and fellow board member. I don’t know any two people who loved and supported the FOHBC and the bottle hobby more than the Watsons. They were true collectors. They also were normal people like you and me. Every bottle in the collection was bought with hard earned money made by working every day. No golden spoon here, folks, just hard work for many years. I guess that’s why I respected Dick so much. We approached the family with an idea and gave them time to think about it. Now remember, we were asking them not to sell anything for two years. I want everyone also to remember we would have never asked for this if we truly did not believe Dick and Elma would not be cheering us on. They loved live sales and loved seeing collectors get great bottles for their collections. We

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also knew the auction had to be for everyone. We did not want a sale full of high priced bottles that only a few people could buy. It had to be a sale for everyone. Common bottles to a few more advanced bottles totaling around 125 pieces. This will be the first sale from the collection. The second sale will be when the family is ready. It could be months or years later. We are only concerned with Springfield right now. So the name Watson One was my idea. It does not imply anything other than it is the first time any bottle from a great collection will be sold. This will be a fun event for everyone. We will keep you all up to date as we go along. We do have to really pay thanks to the Watson family for helping us with this event. We realize how hard the loss of their parents has been, and they, in honor of them and the hobby, have let us create something that will always be remembered. I have to also mention that the auction will be held in the morning and not at night like it has been in the past. When Bob first asked why it was at night, I said because it always has been for years. Bob wanted to move it to the morning. At first I was speechless and unsure but once I heard him out it was easy to see the advantages of the morning. Let’s face it: after a long day at the show we are all tired out and hungry. Having only an hour to eat and run down to an auction that lasts to at least 10 p.m., is a long day. So the answer was easy: do the auction in the morning and open the show room at noon, very quickly!

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BATTLE OF SPRINGFIELD FOHBC 2017 Springfield National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo Thursday, August 3rd, 2017 from 7:00 to 10:00 pm in the Mahogany Room on the 2nd Floor of the Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place hotel. This year, we will entertain three categories in this competition including “Saratoga Type Spring Water Bottles”, “Sandwich Glass” and “Best Massachusetts Bottle”. We are also excited to announce that our “Judging Trio” for the wide open category of “Best Massachusetts Bottle” will include three of the most knowledgeable and experienced individuals in the realm of collecting antique bottles and glass. For the first time together, three bottle powerhouses will take on the judging duties and will include antique bottle authorities and auctioneers, James Hagenbuch, Norman C. Heckler Sr. and John Pastor. The Master of Ceremonies for this event will be none other than Rick Ciralli. SPRINGFIELD

2017 For additional information please go to FOHBC.org or contact your Battle of Springfield host Rick Ciralli at richardciralli@sbcglobal.net or 203.722.2901 or either of the Springfield co-chairs, Jim Bender or Bob Strickhart.

Ferdinand realized that we would need an event for Saturday night for those people who still wanted to do something. These are conventions now and not just weekend shows. Bob quickly came up with Room Hopping. For those who would like an old fashioned treat, this year at the Springfield National, we are bringing back a rendition of an old favorite. In the hotel lobby will be an easel on which you will be able to attach your bottle business card with your appropriate room number. If you put your card on the board, it means you are open for visitors starting at 7:30 pm and ending at 9:30 pm or later if you decide. You decide when your “closing time” is! You will be furnished with a special “I’m open, come on in!” announcement sign which you can affix to your door. Because our hotel features an atrium-like arrangement, you will be able to clearly see the “I’m open” announcements on participants’ doors. Invite your friends to stop by and visit, show them what you’ve been lucky enough to add to your collection and yes, maybe even offer for sale! “I’m Open” signs for your door will be available at registration, just ask for one and remember to post your card on the easel on Saturday night. HOP TO IT!!!!!! I can’t wait to see what happens. As I put this article together I realize I could fill the magazine talking about this history-making event as it unfolds. So I will end by saying we welcome all collectors of any category to the show. The Federation of Historical Bottles Collectors is a club for all collectors. Come enjoy the events which are mostly free. Be ready to shop until you drop at a 350-plus show room floor! Remember: “IF YOU BUILD IT THEY WILL COME.” We are building away every day. As I end this article we have sold 35% of the tables and over 30% of our booked hotel rooms. Please don’t wait and get your contracts in as soon as you can. Planning is everything. See you all there in August 2017.

Springfield National 7:30 to 9:30 pm

Room Hopping Saturday, August 5th 2017

For those who would like an old fashioned treat, this year at the Springfield National, we are bringing back a rendition of an old favorite. We’re going to have some old fashioned “Room Hopping” at the Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place hotel just like we did before cell phones and late night auctions. Make your plans now to have a rabbit den of bottles to show off or hop from room to room in the hotel.

For more information see Convention Info Packet or visit FOHBC.org

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Select Auction 145 Bidding Begins: January 2nd

Closes: January 11th

A Select Absentee Auction Of Early Glass, Bottles, Flasks, Bitters, Utilities, Black Glass, Whiskeys, Soda and Mineral Water Bottles, Oil Lamps, Medicines, Freeblown and Pressed Glass, Inkwells & More For more photos and information about this auction please visit www.hecklerauction.com

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2017 SPRINGFIELD M A S S AC HU S E T T S

FOHBC National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo

August 3 -6, 2017

General Information & Dealer Contracts

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2017 SPRINGFIELD MASSACHUSETTS

FOHBC National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors (FOHBC) is proud to announce that the FOHBC National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo for 2017 will take place in Springfield, Massachusetts at the MassMutual Center and Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place.

August 3 -6, 2017 • Thursday-August 3: Springfield Armory Reception, Battle of Springfield bottle competition • Friday-August 4: FOHBC Membership Meeting Breakfast, Educational Seminars, Ribbon Cutting Ceremony, Early Admissions, FOHBC Cocktail Hour & Banquet • Saturday-August 5: Watson One Bottle Auction, General Admission, Youth Corner, Hotel Room Hopping • Sunday-August 6: General Admission,Youth Corner & Display Awards

The Old Sandwich Glass Works by John H. Stone

Info: Jim Bender, Show Co-Chair, 518.673.8833, jim1@frontiernet.net or Bob Strickhart, Show Co-Chair & Northeast Region Director, 609.818.1981, strickhartbob@aol.com or Louis Fifer, FOHBC Conventions Director, fiferlouis@yahoo.com General Admission on Saturday and Sunday, August 5th and 6th: $5, Early Admission on August 4th, at 1:00 pm, $60 ($45 for FOHBC members)

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The Old Sandwich Glass Works by John H. Stone

August 3 - 6, 2017 The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors (FOHBC) is proud to announce that the FOHBC National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo for 2017 will take place in Springfield, Massachusetts at the MassMutual Center and Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place hotel. EVENTS

• Thursday, August 3rd: Springfield Armory

Reception, “Battle of Springfield” bottle competition • Friday, August 4th: FOHBC Membership Meeting Breakfast, Educational Seminars, Ribbon Cutting Ceremony, Early Admissions, FOHBC Cocktail Hour & Banquet • Saturday, August 5th: Watson One Bottle Auction, General Admission & Hotel Room Hopping • Sunday, August 6th: General Admission & Display Awards Springfield Co-Chairs: Jim Bender & Bob Strickhart FOHBC Conventions Director: Louis Fifer FOHBC Eastern Director: Bob Strickhart

CO N TE N TS Springfield National Promotional Flyer Table of Contents

Springfield Invitation

The Very First Rule

The Venues

Area Attractions

Scheduled Events

Springfield Armory Reception

Watson One Bottle Auction

Hotel Room Hopping

Youth Corner

Convention Schedule

General Information

Souvenir Program

Contract Terms

Contract

FOHBC Banquet

Early Admission

FOHBC Membership

Membership Breakfast

Display Application

Battle of Springfield

Dealer Loading & Unloading

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FOHBC 2017 National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo August 03 - August 06, 2017 • Springfield, Massachusetts SPRINGFIELD INVITATION

The Northeast Region of the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors (FOHBC) would like to extend you a warm welcome to our 2017 FOHBC National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo in Springfield, Massachusetts. An exhaustive search of over 40 convention centers and host hotels in the Northeastern United States brought us to Springfield. Don’t delay as reservations will be available on a firstcome, first-served basis. The Springfield Convention is open to all persons regardless if you are a Federation member or not. Memberships will be available throughout the event, which we strongly encourage. Springfield is a city in western New England, and the seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers: the western Westfield River, the eastern Chicopee River, and the eastern Mill River. Hartford, the capital of Connecticut, lies 23.9 miles south of Springfield, on the western bank of the Connecticut River. Bradley International Airport, which sits 12 miles south of Metro Center Springfield, is Hartford-Springfield’s airport. The Hartford-Springfield region is known as the “Knowledge Corridor” because it hosts over 160,000 university students and over 32 universities and liberal arts colleges - the second-highest concentration of higher-learning institutions in the United States. The city of Springfield itself is home to Springfield College, Western New England University, American International College, and Springfield Technical Community College, among other higher educational institutions. The 2017 Springfield National will be a four-day event commencing on Thursday-August 3rd, opening with the Battle of Springfield bottle competition at the Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place hotel. On Friday, August 4th, there is the FOHBC Membership Meeting Breakfast, Educational Seminars, Ribbon Cutting Ceremony, Early Admissions, FOHBC Cocktail Hour and Banquet and on Saturday, August 5th, we are proud to announce with the Watson family, the Watson One Bottle Auction in the morning followed by General Admission, and Hotel Room Hopping in the evening. Sunday, August 6th will be for General Admission and Display Awards. We hope to see you there!

The Very First Rule Bottle collecting is the finest hobby going. We want you to have the most enjoyable experience at the FOHBC Springfield National Convention. In short, have fun! Your Co-Chairmen for this event are Jim Bender and Bob Strickhart. As co-chairs, they will attempt to make your time in Springfield enjoyable, comfortable and an antique bottle experience you will never forget! If anything arises during this event that we can improve upon, please contact us at your earliest convenience. - Jim Bender and Bob Strickhart

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EVENTS & GENERAL INFORMATION

THE VENUES Convention Center • MassMutual Center Our event will be held at the MassMutual Convention Center in Springfield located at 1277 Main Street, Springfield, Massachusetts, 01103. This 100,000 sq. ft., 8,000 seat venue, is owned by the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority and managed by Spectra. Boasting comfortable and convenient areas for our banquet, seminars, and auction, the convention area will prove to be an exceptional site for our show and sale as it is spacious and well lit. A floor-to-ceiling window wall will provide us with the natural light that we all know is important for a viewing and inspecting historical bottles and glass.

Host Hotel • Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place We are pleased to introduce you to our host hotel. The Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place hotel is located in the heart of downtown at 1 Monarch Place, Springfield, Massachusetts, 01144. The hotel offers newly remodeled rooms and is only a short walk from the MassMutual Center. Rooms will be available at the convention rate of $119 per night and include, at no extra charge, free overnight parking. The Sheraton boasts several restaurants and many other comfort features. For the convenience of those who choose to stay at the Sheraton, an entire indoor shopping mall is conveniently attached to the hotel via an indoor walkway. The mall has numerous shops where you can find a variety of retail shops featuring fashionable clothing to drug stores. In addition, there are numerous alternative restaurants and eateries all within a short walking distance from your room and the MassMutual Center. A number of events will specifically occur at the hotel such as the Battle of Springfield bottle competition and Room Hopping. The hotel is pet friendly. You can’t leave a dog unattended, and the dog must be under 50 lbs. You will need to sign a waiver and there is no added fee. Guests can call 413.781.1010, 24 hours a day, to book a room. They simply need to state that they are with the ‘Bottle Collectors’ group to receive the discounted room rate and be placed in the room block. Guests can also book, any time, with the online reservation link noted on the FOHBC web site, FOHBC.org. PLEASE NOTE that as we are expecting heavier than usual attendance at the Springfield Convention due to the unique and special events planned. It is important that you secure your reservations in a timely fashion. While our host hotel has a sizable block of rooms reserved for our event, it is advisable to reserve your room early.

Area Attractions Springfield has several nicknames - “The City of Firsts”, because of its many innovations; “The City of Homes”, due to its Victorian residential architecture and “Hoop City”, as basketball - one of the world’s most popular sports was invented in Springfield by James Naismith. With our venues located in the heart of downtown Springfield, you will be in close proximity to exciting local destinations like the Basketball Hall of Fame, the Springfield Armory National Historic Site, the Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden, Springfield Museums, Forest Park, the Zoo in Forest Park, Symphony Hall, the Titanic Museum, Springfield College, Springfield Library, Yankee Candle Company and North Riverfront Park to name a few. Please visit FOHBC.org for more information.

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Scheduled Events

We have a full and exciting lineup of scheduled events planned for the FOHBC 2017 Springfield National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo. The following events are listed in chronological order with a brief description. FOHBC Board Meeting • Thursday, August 3rd The semi-annual FOHBC board meeting will occur on Thursday morning at the Boland Executive Board Room on the 3rd Floor of the Sheraton hotel. FOHBC members are welcome as non-participating guests. An agenda for the meeting will be posted on the FOHBC web site prior to the meeting.

FOHBC Springfield Armory Reception • Thursday, August 3rd The FOHBC will have a VIP Reception from 1:00 - 5:00 pm at the Springfield Armory Museum and adjacent Springfield Technical Community College which are historic buildings on the National Historic Site (National Park Service) grounds. The afternoon reception will occur on the 7th floor, “Top of the City” conference room at the Education Center which has large windows that overlook the historic grounds. Springfield Armory Tours would occur every 1/2 hour. The tour would start with a movie in the Museum theater, followed by a tour of the Armory museum and grounds. The event will be catered. The FOHBC will also arrange for shuttle bus service to and from the host hotel. VIP is defined as dealers, assistants, displayers, early admission, seminar givers and approved volunteers. Please add this to your agenda!

FOHBC “Battle of Springfield” Bottle Competition • Thursday, August 3rd The “Battle of Springfield” Bottle Competition will be held Thursday, August 3rd, 2017 from 7:00 to 10:00 pm in the Mahogany Room on the 2nd Floor of the Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place hotel. Bottle registration will be at 6:00 pm in the same room. We are extremely pleased to announce that Rick Ciralli will serve as our host and coordinator for this epic event. This year, we will entertain three categories in this competition including “Saratoga Type Spring Water Bottles”, “Sandwich Glass” and “Best Massachusetts Bottle”. We are also excited to announce that our “Judging Trio” for the wide open category of “Best Massachusetts Bottle” will include three of the most knowledgeable and experienced individuals in the realm of collecting antique bottles and glass. For the first time together, three bottle powerhouses will take on the judging duties and will include antique bottle authorities and auctioneers, James Hagenbuch, Norman C. Heckler Sr. and John Pastor. Now there is a photo opportunity! Let’s see if you have a bottle that can pass muster with these three judges! As with all Springfield National events, security will be provided. For additional information please contact your Battle of Springfield host Rick Ciralli at richardciralli@sbcglobal.net or 203.722.2901 or either of the Springfield co-chairs, Jim Bender or Bob Strickhart.

FOHBC General Membership Breakfast Meeting • Friday, August 4th The FOHBC General Membership Breakfast Meeting will take place on Friday, August 4th, 2017 from 7:00 to 8:30 am with the membership meeting starting at 7:30 am in the MassMutual Center, Meeting Rooms 4 & 5. Please join us for a full buffet breakfast and our annual membership meeting. This event is specifically for current and paid-up FOHBC members and will be at no cost to attendees. We encourage you to come and be part of the FOHBC by participating in this event, our once a year General Membership Meeting. Get the latest news on the Federation, the Virtual Museum and our hobby. You will be able to join the FOHBC, or renew membership prior to the breakfast.

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FOHBC Educational Seminars • Friday, August 4th We are truly fortunate to be able to present a variety of fascinating educational seminars at the 2017 Springfield National Bottle Convention and Expo. We have a distinguished group of seminar presenters organized by seminar coordinator, Michael George. In the past, because two seminars were presented simultaneously, you were forced to choose one and miss another. We have partially remedied this situation by arranging the videotaping of our seminars which will be made available to all on the FOHBC web site. Details concerning obtaining those videos will be announced at the time of the seminar presentations. The seminars will take place on Friday, August 4th, 2017 from 9:00 am to Noon at the MassMutual Center, Meeting Rooms 1 - 3. Listed below are the seminar topics, the presenters and the location where these educational seminars will take place. Any questions concerning the FOHBC Educational Seminars can be directed to Michael George at earlyglass@gmail.com or either of the Springfield Co-Chairs, Jim Bender or Bob Strickhart. Flask Classification 101

Mark Vuono

9:00 am: MassMutual Center, Meeting Room 1

Dr. Sweeting and the Flag Salt Remedy Co.

John Spellman

9:00 am: MassMutual Center, Meeting Room 2

Sandwich Glass

Wes Seemann

10:00 am: MassMutual Center, Meeting Room 3

Pyro Milk Bottles

Peter Bleiberg

10:00 am: MassMutual Center, Meeting Room 2

New England Glasshouses

Michael George

11:00 am: MassMutual Center, Meeting Room 1

The MT Vernon Glass Site Dig

Richard Strunk & Mark Yates

11:00 am: MassMutual Center, Meeting Room 3

FOHBC Banquet and Cocktail Hour • Friday, August 4th Come and relax with the FOHBC and your bottle friends and enjoy a cocktail before our Banquet from 5:30 to 6:30 pm on Friday the 5th of August at the MassMutual Center, Meeting Rooms 4 & 5 Prefunction area. A cash bar will be available for your favorite beverage. Following the cocktail hour, we will proceed to our FOHBC Banquet which will start at 6:30 pm and conclude around 8:30 pm. You do not have to be a FOHBC member to attend! The cost for the FOHBC Banquet will be $35 per person. We encourage you to reserve your place early, as we expect heavier than usual attendance at this event. Phyllis Koch along with Jim Bender and Bob Strickhart will reminisce with you about a special duo in the history of our organization with a special tribute to “Dick & Elma Watson, Their Collections and Contributions.” A special virtual tour of their bottle room will be featured and if you have not had the opportunity to see the Watson collection before, you are in for a real treat. We will cap the night off by honoring our new inductees to the FOHBC Hall of Fame and Honor Roll and award presentations for our FOHBC Club Contests. Don’t miss this event! Any questions can be directed to either Bob Strickhart or Jim Bender.

FOHBC Watson One Auction • Saturday, August 5th We’re going to bring back the FOHBC auctions of the past and this will be an event you do not want to miss! For the first time in many years, we will conduct a live auction on Saturday Morning, August 5th, 2017. The FOHBC and the Watson family is extremely pleased to present to the public, for the first time ever, a wonderful selection of antique bottles and glass items from the famed collection of Dick & Elma Watson. We are very grateful to the Watson family, who in their parents’ footsteps, continue to support the efforts of the FOHBC. Clearly, this auction is a momentous occasion and will offer a wide variety of categories of glass items from the Watson collection. Dick and Elma always believed that these fine collectibles were intended to be in the hands of appreciative collectors. The Watson’s also believed strongly in this organization. And so, in typical Watson fashion, Dick and Elma continue in this way to support our hobby. A live preview of the Watson One Auction will take place in the Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place hotel Meeting Rooms 1-3 on Saturday August 5, 2017 starting at 7:00 am followed by the live auction starting at 9:00 am. Catalogue availability and bidding information will be released in a timely fashion. Check the 5 FOHBC website or contact Jim Bender or Bob Strickhart for more details. You don’t want to miss this historic and epic event!

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Hotel Room Hopping • Saturday, August 5th For those who would like an old fashioned treat, this year at the Springfield National, we are bringing back a rendition of an old favorite. We’re going to have some old fashioned “Room Hopping” at the Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place hotel just like we did before cell phones and late night auctions. In the main lobby will be an easel on which you will be able to attach your bottle business card with your appropriate room number. If you put your card on the board, it means you are open for visitors starting at 7:30 pm and ending at 9:30 pm or later if you decide. Remember, we’re here to have fun! You decide when your “closing time” is! You will be furnished with a special “I’m open, come on in!” announcement sign which you can affix to your door. This will signal those who want to visit that you are accepting visitors for antique bottle and glass talk, or show and tell or sell if you like! Because our hotel features an atrium-like arrangement, you will be able to clearly see the “I’m open” announcements on participants’ doors. Invite your friends to stop by and visit, show them what you’ve been lucky enough to add to your collection and yes, maybe even offer for sale! “I’m Open” signs for your door will be available at registration, just ask for one and remember to post your card on the easel on Saturday night. HOP TO IT!!!!!!

Non-Denominational Chapel Service • Sunday, August 6th Gary Beatty will conduct a brief 30 minute or so non-denominational chapel service on Sunday, August 6th at 7:00 am in the King Edward Suite, 3rd Floor, Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place hotel. 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. Gary is also currently the FOHBC Treasurer.

YOUTH CORNER Children’s Bottle Grab Bags • Saturday & Sunday, August 5th & 6th The FOHBC will provide fifty (50) bottle grab bags for children ten and under during the General Admission hours of the show on Saturday and Sunday. Each bag will have an antique bottle that was hand blown, in good condition and embossed. There will also be a ‘special’ grab bag with a better bottle each of the two days so bring your child to the front FOHBC registration desk area of the MassMutual Center and ask for a bottle grab bag. Limit one bottle bag grab per child. The FOHBC photographer, in some cases, if available, will take a photograph of the child opening the bag with permission from the parent or guardian. All children must be accompanied by an adult. Let’s support the next generation of bottle collectors!

Springfield Junior Scavenger Hunt • Saturday & Sunday, August 5th & 6th The FOHBC will encourage children from ages 8 on up to participate in an organized scavenger hunt at the MassMutual Center antique bottle showroom floor. The FOHBC scavenger hunt organizers will prepare a list defining specific items, which the participants will seek to gather or complete all items on the list, usually without purchasing them. Participants may work in small teams, although the rules will encourage individuals to participate. The goal is to complete all or most of the items on the list. Awards will be presented on Saturday between 4:30 and 5:00 pm for the Saturday Hunt and Sunday, August 6th between 2:30 and 3:00 pm for the Sunday hunt. Please register at the front FOHBC desk area.

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CONVENTION SCHEDULE TIME

EVENT

LOCATION

8:00 am - Noon

FOHBC Board Meeting

Boland Executive Board Room, 3rd Floor Sheraton

1:00 - 5:00 pm

Springfield Armory Reception

Springfield Technical Community College, 5th Floor

3:00 - 5:30 pm

Dealer Registration

MassMutual Center, Prefunction Area

6:00 pm

Battle of Springfield Bottle Check-In

Mahogany Room, 2nd Floor Sheraton

7:00 - 10:00 pm*

Battle of Springfield Bottle Competition

Mahogany Room, 2nd Floor Sheraton

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Dealer Registration & Ticket Sales

MassMutual Center, Prefunction Area

7:00 - 8:30 am

General Membership Mtg Breakfast

MassMutual Center, Meeting Rooms 4 & 5

7:00 am - Noon

Dealer Unloading & Display Setup

MassMutual Center

9:00 am - Noon

Educational Seminars

MassMutual Center, Meeting Rooms 1, 2 & 3

Noon - 1:00 pm

Showroom Closed

MassMutual Center

12:50 pm

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

MassMutual Center

1:00 - 5:00 pm

Dealer and Early Admission

MassMutual Center

5:00 pm

Show Closed for the Day

MassMutual Center

5:30 - 6:30 pm

Cocktail Hour

MassMutual Center, Meeting Rooms 4 & 5, Prefunction

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm*

The FOHBC Banquet

MassMutual Center, Meeting Rooms 4 & 5

Thursday - August 3rd, 2017

Friday - August 4th, 2017

Saturday - August 5th, 2017

7:00 am - 5:00 pm

Ticket Sales & Packet Pick-Up

MassMutual Center, Prefunction Area

7:00 - 9:00 am

Watson One Auction Preview

MassMutual Center, Meeting Rooms 1, 2 & 3

9:00 - 11:00 am

Watson One Live Auction

MassMutual Center, Meeting Rooms 1, 2 & 3

11:00 am - Noon

Auction Check-out

MassMutual Center, Meeting Rooms 1, 2 & 3

Noon - 1:00 pm

Dealer & Early Admission

MassMutual Center

1:00 - 5:00 pm

General Admissions

MassMutual Center

6:30 - 9:30 pm*

Hotel Room Hopping

Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place hotel

Sunday - August 6th, 2017

7:00 am

Non-Denominational Chapel Service

King Edward Suite, 3rd Floor, Sheraton

7:00 - 9:00 am

Dealers & Early Admissions

MassMutual Center

9:00 - 3:00 pm

General Admission

MassMutual Center

2:30 pm

Display Awards Announced

MassMutual Center

3:00 pm

Convention End

MassMutual Center

*Estimated completion time

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GENERAL INFORMATION

Contact Information The primary FOHBC 2017 Springfield National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo contacts are listed below: Springfield Co-Chair: Jim Bender, P.O. Box 162, Sprakers, NY 12166, 518.673.8833, jim1@frontiernet.net Springfield Co-Chair: Bob Strickhart, 3 Harvest Drive, Pennington, NJ 08534, 609.818.1981, strickhartbob@aol.com Conventions Director: Louis Fifer, 604 Topaz, Brunswick, OH 44212, 330.635.1964, fiferlouis@yahoo.com Seminars: Michael George, earlyglass@gmail.com Souvenir Program Advertising: Jim or Valeri Berry, 200 Fort Plain Watershed Road, St. Johnsville, NY 13452, 518.568.5683, jhberry10@yahoo. Battle of Springfield: Richard Ciralli, 137 Peacedale Street, Bristol, CT 06010, 203.722.2901, RCiralli@northmillef.com Educational Displays: Fran Hughes, 50 Pershing Drive, Scotia, NY 12302, 518.377.7134, fhughes3@nycap.rr.com

Table Reservations We expect a heavier than usual participation at the 2017 Springfield Convention. It is imperative that you reserve your sales table space as soon as possible. To encourage you to reserve your table in a timely fashion, TWO FREE NIGHTS STAY, AT OUR HOST HOTEL, WILL BE AWARDED to one individual chosen at random from the first fifty contract requests received. A second award of one free nights stay at our host hotel will be awarded to one individual chosen at random from the first one hundred contract requests received. A final award of two FOHBC Banquet tickets will be chosen at random from the first 200 received contracts. Post marks will determine eligibility and the winners will be notified as soon as the first 50, 100 and 200 contracts are received.

Registration & Ticket Sales You may obtain your Dealer or Early Admission packet at the MassMutual Center, Prefunction Area anytime on Thursday, August 3rd from 3:00 to 5:00 pm, or anytime on Friday, August 4th from 7:00 am to 5:00 pm. You may purchase tickets for the FOHBC Banquet based on availability at this time, if you have not done so already.

Dealer Unloading & Display Set-Up Dealers will be allowed to bring in sales merchandise on Friday, August 4th from 7:00 am to Noon and on Saturday, August 5th from Noon to 1:00 pm at the MassMutual Center. See Attachment A on Page 15. Set up of displays will also take place during these hours. The showroom will be closed to all participants except those involved with the completion of their displays from Noon to 1:00 pm on Friday before the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at 12:55 pm. A separate sheet of instructions will be included in your Dealer packet outlining the unloading procedure. Diagrams and maps will be included. There will be strict security at this time. We ask your cooperation during this important time so that the process can move swiftly and safely. Please check the Events Schedule for unloading times.

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Come watch the exciting ribbon cutting ceremony and start of the 2017 FOHBC Springfield National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo on Friday, August 4th at 12:50 pm. This event will start promptly 10 minutes before the doors open for dealers and early admission attendees on Friday, August 4th, at the MassMutual Center.

Dealer & Early Admission Dealers will be permitted to enter the showroom floor promptly at 1:00 pm on Friday, August 4th to allow them to arrive at their table spaces before the Early Admission group. Early Admission participants will be allowed in immediately behind the Dealers. You must wear your Dealer or Early Admission name tag badge visibly to gain access to the showroom floor. At 5:00 pm, all Dealers and Early Admission participants must leave the showroom floor and the showroom will be locked and secured until Noon on Saturday the 5th of August. On August 5th, Dealers and Early Admission participants will be allowed on the showroom floor from Noon to 1:00 pm. The general public will follow at 1:00 pm. Dealers and Early Admission participants will be allowed on the showroom floor from 7:30 to 9:00 am on Sunday, August 6th, followed by the general public at 9:00 am. The convention will conclude at 3:00 pm. All Dealers are required to remain set up until that time.

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Security Please note that we expect your cooperation with visibly wearing your name tag badge. We have increased our security efforts here in Springfield as we have arranged to have the showroom floor continuously monitored by surveillance equipment and taped. All areas of the display and showroom floor will be monitored continuously by surveillance cameras and we hope this will improve the security at our event. Furthermore, when the showroom is closed for the day on Friday and Saturday, no one under any circumstance, will be allowed back into the room. A full-time security guard will be stationed inside the showroom area during the hours that the show is closed. Again, no one will be admitted to this area during the times when the show floor is closed. Similar security measures will be in place for all the events scheduled by the FOHBC 2017 Springfield National security team. Security measures require that before you unload your sales materials, you must pick up your packets as they include your name tag identification badges. Your badges must be worn in the unloading area for obvious security reasons. Please remember that the time of highest vulnerability is during the set-up and break-down times. Even though we have made improvement to our security procedures, your common sense and diligence is your best defense against theft.

Dealer Table Information Reservations and table locations will be available on a first received - first served basis. Contract and Information Packets will be available at the FOHBC web site on July 28th, 2016 and in person at the FOHBC 2016 Sacramento California National Antique Bottle Convention and Expo. Tables are 8 feet long and 30 inches wide. Table covers will be provided. Every attempt will be made to honor table location requests. Tables will be assigned based upon the date the contract is received. The convention chairpersons will have final say on table assignments. The first 8 foot table will be $70. Additional tables will be available at a cost of $60 each. FOHBC members will receive a $10 discount per contract for the first table only. Up to two name-tag badges per contract will be provided (regardless of the number of tables per contract) with the exception of minor children (under 12 years of age). Please make arrangements for children’s name tags in advance. Subletting a table to another dealer or individual is prohibited. At least 75% of your sales table shall be antique bottles, jars, blown glass, insulators, stoneware, marbles, related advertising, and items to assist in the hobby. No flea market type items. All merchandise must be clearly priced. Reproductions, fake labels, repaired, coated, artificially colored, or irradiated glass must be clearly marked as such. Requests for refunds must be made by July 15, 2017. Refunds for circumstances outside your control, after that time, will be at the discretion of the convention chairpersons. Your contract for sales tables, display reservations, early admission, banquet reservations will be confirmed by email or USPS return mail following receipt of your contract and full payment. Full payment must be sent with your contract. There are no reservations without payment in full.

Early Admission Information Early Admission is available for non-Dealers that would like the privilege of buying early at the show with the dealers. The Early Admission fee will be $60 for individuals or a family couple (including minor children). This price includes a Souvenir Program as well as the appropriate name tag badges required for admission to the showroom floor. Discounted cost for Early Admission to National Conventions and Expos is another privilege of FOHBC membership. Early Admission is valid for all three days. The discounted rate for current and paid up FOHBC members is $45. If you are not a member of the FOHBC, why not join today?

Display Awards Display awards will be announced on Sunday August 6th. Please VOTE for your favorite display! “Best in Show” and “Most Educational” award ribbons will be given. Announcement of the winners will be on Sunday, August 6th at approximately 2:30 pm.

Prize Drawings There will be a series of prize drawings during the public portion of the show on Saturday and Sunday. Vouchers will be given to the

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lucky winners to be spent at the show. Drawing Times: Saturday every hour from 10:00 am until 4:00 pm. Sunday every hour from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm. There will be two $100 drawings each hour noted.

Massachusetts Sales Tax Information Fortunately, the sales tax policy and procedure in Massachusetts is simple and straightforward. It is important to be in compliance with the state tax laws. Unless you already possess a Massachusetts Sales Tax Certificate, each individual Dealer will be responsible for obtaining a temporary Massachusetts tax certificate. The process is quite simple and available at no cost. To apply for a Massachusetts Sales Tax Registration, please log on to www.mass.gov/dor and proceed to the Mass Connect Page. At the bottom of the page is a link â&#x20AC;&#x153;Register a New Business.â&#x20AC;? Follow the instructions at this link to register as a Seasonal Business and select the month of the show (August 2017) as your start date. Complete this procedure 3 to 4 weeks before the show in order to receive your certificate by mail from the State of Massachusetts. After the show, you simply create a user name and password to log on and file your sales tax. Of course, if you had no sales, you simply indicate this when you file. As it is a seasonal one time certificate, you will have no further contact with the tax bureau. You are required to display your tax registration certificate at the show and supply the FOHBC with your tax registration number before you attend the convention. The FOHBC is not responsible for your tax registration and it is your responsibility to complete this requirement. When you pick up your packet you will be required to present your tax number to those checking you in. A simple 3 x 5 card with your name and tax number will suffice. Please be sure to attend to your responsibility to obtain your tax number before the convention to avoid difficulties. Please note that tax certificates from other states are not acceptable in the state of Massachusetts.

General Policies Dealer, Early Admission, Show Official and General Attendee name tag badges must be worn and checked before entering the showroom floor. There will be no giving/sharing of name tag badges to individuals not listed on a sales table contract. Anyone found in the showroom floor area without a proper badge will not be allowed to remain. The FOHBC reserves the right to refuse anyone a sales table including Assistants, Early Admissions, or General Admissions to the convention at any time, for any reason. Any persons working and or helping with the convention will be given an official convention name tag badge. The FOHBC, its officers, or agents assume no liability or responsibility for any lost, stolen or damaged merchandise. Decisions concerning any circumstances not outlined in the FOHBC 2017 Springfield National Convention & Expo packet will be made by the show chairpersons or Federation president. Your contract for Sales Tables, Display reservations, Early Admission, Banquet reservations, and the Souvenir Program will be confirmed by email or USPS return mail following receipt of Contract, a signed Contract Terms Sheet, and full payment. Pack-up and help clean the MassMutual Center. We have to leave it with no trash. Access to the showroom floor is by name tag badge only. Everyone must wear a name tag badge to be admitted. NO EXCEPTIONS. *Estimated completion time. Please show courtesy to the public who have made plans to attend and may have come many miles to be at our show. Thank you everyone and hopefully we will see you in Cleveland, Ohio for the FOHBC 2018 National Antique Bottle Show & Expo. Full payment must be sent with your Contract. There are no reservations without payment.

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Advertise in the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors 2017 Springfield National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo SOUVENIR PROGRAM You can convey your message in a customized format or have your business card converted to a color advertisement for as low as $35! Assistance will be provided by the FOHBC on all ad designs. Free distribution to well over a thousand collectors and convention attendees and a much broader audience on line at FOHBC.org.

Our Souvenir Programs are retained by many for years and are referenced over and over to contact collectors specializing in specific items and categories. A significant number of Souvenir Programs end up in the hands of collectors who do not subscribe to any of the bottle magazines, allowing you to reach a whole new audience. The entire Souvenir Program will be posted on the FOHBC website prior to and after the convention. For information, or to reserve an advertisement in the program, please contact Jim or Valeri Berry, 200 Fort Plain Watershed Road, St. Johnsville, NY 13452, by tele at 518.568.5683 or by email at jhberry10@yahoo.com. *Make checks payable to FOHBC 2017 Springfield National Antique Bottle Convention Deadline for ad copy submission is June 10, 2017.

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CONTRACT TERMS

As used herein, the SHOW or CONVENTION shall mean that certain annual event sponsored by the FOHBC in conjunction with the Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place and MassMutual Convention Center. Convention Date: August 3rd - August 6th, 2017. PARTIES: 1.) SUB-LESSOR: Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors (FOHBC) 2.) SUB-LESSEE: Name: ____________________________________ (Please Print) Address: _________________________________________________ City: __________________ State: ___________ Zip: _______ Phone: ____________________ Email: ________________________ TERMS:

1. General: The acceptance of this reservation by the FOHBC is conditional upon the acceptance of the DEALER to be bound by the terms of this agreement and the terms of the agreement that FOHBC has with the Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place and the MassMutual Center for SHOW space. 2. Definitions:

a) “Set-up”. Time period provided to DEALER to unload and display wares on leased tables in preparation for the SHOW.

b) “Pack-up”. Time period provided to DEALER to remove unsold wares from the SHOW premises. It is a specific condition that DEALER may not remove such wares prior to 3:00 pm on Sunday, August 6th.

c) “Early Admission”. For an additional fee of $60, the FOHBC will allow entry of buyers on Friday during SET-UP. This price includes a Family Couple (including minor children) and a Souvenir Program. For this reason DEALER is encouraged to take adequate measure to secure wares during SET-UP. 3. DEALER is solely responsible for insuring that his or her table(s) is attended AT ALL TIMES during show hours. Further, no property of DEALER shall at any time be deemed in the care, custody or control of FOHBC or any other party other than DEALER. DEALER MAY NOT SHARE OR FURTHER SUBLEASE ANY TABLE(S) without the Express written consent of the FOHBC. 4. DEALER will secure any necessary permit and licenses to sell at this SHOW and DEALER shall be solely responsible for the collection and remittance of any sales/use taxes to the proper authorities. 5. As a part of this agreement, DEALER hereby expressly assumes the responsibility for any lost, damaged, or stolen wares and DEALER expressly agrees to hold FOHBC harmless from any such claims, however styled, and DEALER shall pay all costs and expenses incurred in connection with such claims. DEALER is strongly advised to take extraordinary precautions to secure and/or protect any valuable items from the period of set-up to pack-up. DEALER also agrees that it will indemnify and save harmless FOHBC, any individual member, or volunteers from and against any and all claims, actions, damages, liability, and expenses in connection with the loss of life, personal injury and property damages arising from any act or omission of DEALER occurring during the period in which DEALER is preparing for, participating in or concluding the event. 6. DEALER understands that due to the nature of collectibles involved, all reproduction, repaired or otherwise altered wares, must be clearly labeled, offered and/or sold as such. 7. DEALER further understands that ANY violation of this agreement by DEALER or any action(s) by DEALER that would violate the FOHBC agreement with the Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place and MassMutual Convention Center shall be cause for DEALER to be ejected from this SHOW and same will be grounds for prohibiting DEALER from participating in future shows sponsored by the FOHBC. 8. DEALER agrees that FOHBC shall not be responsible for matters outside of its control and the liability of the FOHBC in any case shall be limited to the refund of any monies paid by DEALER to FOHBC for this SHOW. 9. The FOHBC reserves the right to refuse a sales table, any assistant at a sales table, early admission, or general attendance admission to the show for any reason at any time.

By execution of this agreement, the undersigned DEALER hereby certifies that they have read and agree to abide by the terms of this agreement and the OVERRIDING terms of agreement of FOHBC with Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place and the MassMutual Convention Center. DEALER Signature: ________________________ Temporary Massachusetts Sales Tax Certificate Number: ____________________ Printed Name: _____________________________ Date: _______________________ Return this agreement with contract on Page 12. See page 10 for Massachusetts Sales Tax Certificate information.

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CONTRACT

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CONTRACT (Please Print) Name: _____________________________________________________________ Address: ___________________________________________________________ City: _______________________________ State: ___________ Zip: __________ Phone: ___________________________ E-mail:___________________________ Name Tag 1 (name, city, state): ______________________ Name Tag 2 (name, city, state): _______________________ Only two (2) name tag badges will be provided per contract regardless of the number of tables per contract. Sales Table Application The tables are 2 ½’ wide by 8’. The first table is $70. Each additional table is $60. FOHBC members will receive a $10 discount per contract on their first table only. Table covering will be furnished at no extra cost. This is a non-smoking facility. ______ 8’ table (first) $70 ________

______ 8’ table (additional) $60 ________

______ FOHBC member discount $10 ________ off first table only. ______ Electricity $50 Sales Table Total $ _______________ *Make checks payable to FOHBC 2017 Springfield National Bottle Convention FOHBC Banquet Reservations The Banquet will be held on Friday, August 4th at 6:30 pm at the MassMutual Center, Meeting Rooms 4 & 5. Reservations are required. Tickets are $35 per person. Please provide the name, city and state for each ticket for name tag purposes. Reservations $35 x people ___ = Banquet Total $ __________ Please indicate choice of entrée(s) Chicken ________ Seafood___________ Vegetarian_____________ Early Admission

Early Admission is for non-dealers that would like to buy early at the show. The early admission fee will be $60 per individual or family couple (including minor children). FOHBC Members will receive a $15 discount on Early Admission. _____ Early Admission $60 ________ FOHBC Member Discount -$15 ________ Early Admission Total $ ___________ FOHBC Membership Enjoy all the benefits that membership has to offer, including the discounts for this convention. Membership also includes the FOHBC’s bi-monthly publication, BOTTLES and EXTRAS. A $40 membership gets you regular postage on magazines and a $55 membership gets you First Class postage. _____ Standard Mail Membership (USA) $40 ________ _____ First Class Mail Membership (USA) $55 ________ _____ 3 Year Standard Mail Membership $110 ________ Membership Total $ _________________ Please make a separate check for membership payable to Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors

Total $ _____________

FOHBC General Membership Meeting Breakfast I plan on attending the FOHBC Membership Breakfast on Friday, August 4th (no charge for FOHBC members) ____YES

____ NO

ALL CONTRACTS THAT INCLUDE SALES TABLES AND EARLY ADMISSION MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY A SIGNED COPY OF THE “CONTRACT TERMS” (THE PREVIOUS PAGE). Please return signed contracts to: Bob Strickhart, Springfield Co-Chair, 3 Harvest Drive, Pennington, New Jersey 08534 *Make checks payable to FOHBC 2017 Springfield National Antique Bottle Convention

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DISPLAY APPLICATION

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Exhibitor Displays The FOHBC encourages collectors to share their knowledge, enthusiasm and interests with other collectors by displaying their collections or related material. There will be no charge for exhibitor displays. Those setting up a display will be provided a free Early Admission pass, which will allow full convention privileges to them, their spouse, and minor children. Exhibitors may set up their displays from 7:00 am to Noon on Friday, August 5th. Tables with white cloth table covers are available at no charge. The displayer must supply their own extension cords and accent lighting as power will be provided if needed, at no charge. Name: ______________________________________ Address: ____________________________________ City: _________________________________ State: ___________ Zip: _____ Phone: ___________________ Email: _____________ I will need a table space: 2 1⁄2’ x 4’ ____ 2 1⁄2’ x 8’ ____ other _________ Electrical outlet needed: Yes _______ No

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(Displayer must furnish their own extension cords and lighting) Security will be provided. Other Requests: __________________________________________________________________________ Name tag badges. Two (2) allowed (name, city, state): _________________________________________________ Type of Display: __________________________________________________________________________ Terms:

1. General: The acceptance of this reservation by the FOHBC is conditional upon the acceptance of the DISPLAYER to be bound by the terms of this agreement and the terms of the agreement that FOHBC has with Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place and MassMutual Convention Center for SHOW space. 2. The FOHBC and event staff will strive to utilize reasonable care throughout the execution of the convention. Security will be provided during set-up and regular show hours. Security will also be provided during closed hours. 3. As a part of this agreement, DISPLAYER hereby expressly assumes the responsibility for any lost, damaged, or stolen wares and DISPLAYER expressly agrees to hold FOHBC harmless from any such claims, however styled, and DISPLAYER shall pay all costs and expenses incurred in connection with such claims. DISPLAYER also agrees that it will indemnify and save harmless FOHBC, any individual member, or volunteer from and against any and all claims, actions, damages, liability, and expenses in connection with the loss of life, personal injury and property damages arising from any act or omission of DISPLAYER occurring during the period in which DISPLAYER is preparing for, participating in or concluding the event. By execution of this agreement, the undersigned DISPLAYER hereby certifies that they have read and agree to abide by the terms of this agreement and the OVERRIDING terms of agreement of FOHBC with the Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place and MassMutual Convention Center. DISPLAYER Signature: __________________________________________________ Date: _____________ Send form to: Fran Hughes, 50 Pershing Drive, Scotia, New York 12302, 518.377.7134, fhughes3@nycap.rr.com

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BATTLE OF SPRINGFIELD Bottle Competition APPLICATION Please Print

Name: ______________________________________ Address: __________________________________City: _________________ State: _________ Zip: _______ Phone: ______________________ Email: _______________ Category: ____________________________________ Description: _________________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________________ Terms: 1. General: The acceptance of this reservation by the FOHBC is conditional upon the acceptance of the COMPETITION PARTICIPANT to be bound by the terms of this agreement and the terms of the agreement that FOHBC has with the Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place and the MassMutual Convention Center. 2. The FOHBC and event staff will strive to utilize reasonable care throughout the competition when handling all bottles and other collectibles entered into the competition. Security will be provided during the competition. 3. As a part of this agreement, COMPETITION PARTICIPANT hereby expressly assumes the responsibility for any lost, damaged, or stolen wares and COMPETITION PARTICIPANT expressly agrees to hold FOHBC harmless from any such claims, however styled, and COMPETITION PARTICIPANT shall pay all costs and expenses incurred in connection with such claims. COMPETITION PARTICIPANT also agrees that it will indemnify and save harmless FOHBC, any individual member, or volunteer from and against any and all claims, actions, damages, liability, and expenses in connection with the loss of life, personal injury and property damages arising from any act or omission of COMPETITION PARTICIPANT occurring during the period in which COMPETITION PARTICIPANT is preparing for, participating in or concluding the event. By execution of this agreement, the undersigned COMPETITION PARTICIPANT hereby certifies that they have read and agree to abide by the terms of this agreement and the OVERRIDING terms of agreement of FOHBC with the Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place and the MassMutual Convention Center. Signature: __________________________________________________ Date: __________________________ Printed Name: ________________________________ *Advance reservations are appreciated but not required. You may bring the filled out form to the competition or fill one out at the competition. Please bring your bottles 1 hour before the event for registration. Security will be provided. Send form to: Rick Ciralli, 137 Peacedale Street, Bristol, Connecticut, 06010 file: 2017SpringfieldContract_102916_Draft8

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Glass Works Auctions presents at absentee auction

The Bob Ferraro Collection

Part III closes January 9th, 2017 @ 10pm

Catalog Auction #114 Closing Winter 2017

Glass Works Auctions, P.O. Box 38, Lambertville, N.J. 08530

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A Silver Lining in that Storm? Brown’s Aromatic Bitters By Jack Klotz

I had hunted this property for over a year searching for the privy vault. The home dated to the late 1850s and was a mansion then as now. The yard is large by Hannibal standards. The earliest Sanborn map from 1885, as well as the 1890 map, showed a barn in the farthest corner of the yard butting up against the two property lines, leaving no extra room for a privy. To add to this unlikely area, there was a massive tree trunk about 5-6 feet in diameter that had been toppled over from a 100 mph wind storm a couple years ago very near where the barn stood. I checked the tree roots for clues first. Some newer 1940s junk and a few odd bricks were stuck in the tangle of roots in the base and it was obvious the tree literally fell over from its original spot.

1885 Hannibal, Missouri Sanborn Map

Here is the story of finding the elusive Brown’s Aromatic Bit-

ters bottle from Hannibal Missouri. I knew they were out there, just never expected to dig one. I discovered on the Peachridge Glass website the article written about the only other (amber) one known and the author had listed it as “extremely rare.” Only one known and it’s “extremely rare?” I call it unique! Well, there is at least one, possibly as many as two aqua ones, that appear to be a newer variant. Now there are two amber ones. Ferdinand Meyer V, president of FOHBC, owns the previously unique example and it is nicely pictured in his website article. So now back to mine.

Next I checked above from the tree a ground hog’s diggings for clues but found nothing. I used the maps to gauge about where the barn had stood and flagged out the four corners and proceeded to probe a tight grid near the borders. Nothing! I discovered well enough away from the barn at the end of an old walkway an overgrown swampy fish pond made from an old large steel barrel. I later drained this to discover there was nothing hiding underneath. I next continued my probing along the back property wall over the months. I couldn’t help but feel I was walking right over it but it continued to elude me. I pretty well had Swiss cheesed the back part of the yard and after winter set in, mild as it was, I was in no big hurry to return for another bout of frustration. By February, I had decided the unusual warm spell was reason enough to reprobe the property. I decided to make my way closer to the house, as many of these older homes had privies nearly in the middle of

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the yard. When I got to a certain area, I hit what felt like a wall. I angle probed and it was HUGE! Nearly 10 feet long by 5 feet wide! I was pretty excited. Finally, after long last! But it was not to be. Turned out it was a strange floor of sorts, going down at least 3-4 feet of solid limestone! Not rubble tossed into a pit but well placed like for a floor.

and mentioned I found the privy to the elusive yard. He said, “And you weren’t gonna tell me?” I told him he could thank me later since I had found not a shard, a scrap or piece of glass or porcelain in 8 feet of hard digging. I did realize if I were to get to the bottom in a reasonable period, I could use some help with the bucket, so I invited him to join the next day if he wanted.

But why four feet deep? I thought after digging out huge lumps of stone for a couple of feet with no end in sight that it would take a backhoe to remove this! Clearly not the privy but what the heck was it? The homeowners had made mention of the home rumored to have been a prison of sorts during the Civil War. Only thing I could come up with was a stockade. They didn’t want them tunneling out! I’m sure it would have worked! So that put me back to square one.

Day 3 started solo, but Sean arrived a couple hours after I did. I had just finished pulling up about 25 buckets from a moderate collapse of the far wall that was going to get knocked down anyway for safety sake. About an hour later I hit the first use layer with any glass in it and pulled out a clear glass un-embossed French square pharmacy type bottle typical of the 1860s. That was promising! Shortly after, Sean arrived and after setting the conditions, he started hauling buckets. In short order, I broke through an 1880s-1890s use layer. Brought up a Warner’s Wine & Tar Syrup, yummy! A couple pumpkinseed flasks with unusually thick glass came out along with a number of one local doctor’s pharmacy bottles that are only seen in the small one-ounce sizes. A couple of cone inks, including a cobalt Carters, popped up. Near the bottom of this layer was a Stafford’s master ink that allowed a photo op. Up to this point, everything kinda rolled out of the hole.

By now, I was beginning to think they just hung their rumps over a fallen log and called it good! “Privy? Privy? We don’ need no stinkin’ privy!” Well, that’s where my mind takes me when I am this frustrated. So this most recent attempt started middle of April of 2016! Seemed like I been here off and on for years! I stood for a while looking at the yard and kept thinking, “Where is the most logical place for the privy?” It took me back to that corner where the map showed the barn in 1885. I really had no expectations to find anything back there but I had no other viable options. I checked the ground hog’s motel again but nothing. There had always been a large pile of bricks strewn over the edge of the yard that I ignored until now, mainly because they had remnants of mortar and so far no privy lined with bricks has been mortared in my experience. But they could have been from the privy ABOVE ground. So I began scratching around to the side of the bricks and discovered what looked like a brick wall. then it expanded into two, three, four bricks thick. I’ve seen this on some early rectangular brick cisterns and thought with the barn on top of it, this might make some sense. Soon after, I discovered a stone wall under the bricks! As I uncovered this, I realized I was into a stone liner with a brick outhouse! The four bricks thick part was the foundation for stability for the bricks to be set on top of the stone liner. I had only seen this configuration a handful of times in the past, so now I was getting excited. My privy gauge was at 80% but I still had my doubts. Why was there a barn on top of an obviously old stone liner, and what about that tree that looked to be 150 years old sitting right on top of it? Only getting to the bottom of the pit would get me to the bottom of the mystery. After six grueling hours of hacking my way down to the 5-foot level did I quit that first day. I had found one soup bone and that was it! Otherwise it was filled with ash, coal clinkers from furnaces, clay rocks and bricks. Plenty of bricks! The next day I got there bright and early and got into slingin’ dirt. Soon I was pulling up two five gallon buckets of dirt at a time as there was little room for the dirt to go. By the end of day two, I had only reached the 8-foot level with one chicken bone to add to my collection. I gently probed down another four feet without hitting bottom, so I clung to some hope, but it was weak at best. I ran into my digging friend Sean later that evening by chance

At this point the pit still had at least four feet left so I kept digging. Under a layer of bricks was an older 1860s layer. I dug some old pieces here and there, and suddenly I flipped up an amber bottle that landed in my lap. “Oh! A Warner’s Safe Cure?” I thought to myself. I turned over the un-embossed side to reveal the embossed side. With one swipe of my glove to remove the clinging dirt, I quickly realized this was no Warner’s! As I read in disbelief, “Brown’s Aromatic Bitters / Hannibal Mo.,” I fell into a mild, warm shock!

Freshly dug Brown’s Aromatic Bitters

Sean was watching from above and knew I had found something good, but I had curled up and was cradling it like it was my newborn baby! I kept rocking back and forth and laughing quietly. Sean was concerned about me, I am sure. I had him drop my camera down for as close to an in situ picture as I could make of the bottle fresh out of the hole. The rest of the day was a blur with me wearing a huge smile. It is amazing what a mood elevator finding a great bottle can be! After I got my hard earned

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prize home safely, next was to clean and inspect for any flaws or damage and there were none! The only drawback was managing to tweak my back while on the ladder, and now it was really aggravated. I took all the remedies available with the hopes of finishing out the pit the next day, but could barely manage to get out of bed! Rain was forecast for the next three or four days so I needed to return to cover and tarp the pit if nothing else. I managed to hobble over and climb down for a short digging spell before realizing it wasn’t the best of ideas. After covering it up for the bad weather, I, along with my bad back, waited for about four days before we simultaneously were ready for my return. Sitting next to the bitters had been a cathedral pepper sauce in pieces. I was surprised it didn’t survive and break my cherished bitters bottle. That’s how it usually turns out. I dug a number of un-embossed French squares as well as some aqua bluing type bottles. I couldn’t help but wonder where the pontil era stuff was hiding. Just under the ‘60s stuff was a gooey glue-like clay that held my answer. I dug a couple pontil puff bases, and a broken Ayers Pectoral pontiled, then a second one. This clay layer was the final gasp of the pit, bottoming out at about a foot & a half to the stone floor. Sadly, nothing survived whole at this level, but there were no tears this time around. I think the mystery of the barn and tree hiding the pit was from an Trade card image - Meyer Collection

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inaccurate map, since there was clearly some 1890s stuff and the tree was likely not as old as I had figured. I am no tree expert so I guess it could have grown that large in 125 years. I just know if not for that storm that knocked the tree over, I never would have found it. There truly was a silver lining in that storm, or perhaps more correctly, a “Brown” lining! I think if I dig nothing else for the rest of the year, all I have to do is remember that bitters in my lap getting its face cleaned by my glove to lift me above any future letdowns. Three images of the dug Brown’s Aromatic Bitters looking good and standing proud - Jack Klotz

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FOHBC 2017 CLUB CONTEST ANNOUNCEMENT

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