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Table of Contents FOHBC Officer Listing Jim Healy - A Man Saving History 2014-16.................................................. 2 One Piece at aTime

by Jim Bender..............................................22 President’s Message...........................3 The Federation Show - An Adventure Shards of Wisdom..............................4 by Steven Libbey..........................................28

There’s Gold in Them Thar Hills

by Ferdinand Meyer V........................58 Jacob Hoehn - Continued

by Eric McGuire..................................62

FOHBC News Sometimes it Pays to Peek into Windows Federation of Historical Bottle From & For Our Members.................. 6 by Bill Baab..................................................33 Collectors - Letter ............................................................64 Goofus Glass - What is it?

George C. Thompson - A Pioneer Gold

by Bill Baab........................................12 Rush Soda Bottler Classified Ads &

by Eric McGuire...........................................38 Ad Rate Info..................................... 65 Collecting Bottles Out Oregan Way The Water of New Almaden Spring, Membership Directory.................... 67

by Mike Valent.................................... 14 California

by Eric McGuire...........................................44 FOHBC Show-Biz Pottery Museum of Red Wing Show Calendar Listings................... 68 Now Open!

Nearing The End of your Life: What’s a

by Steve Ketcham...............................16 Collector going to do?

Membership Application................. 72

by Bill Baab..................................................56

History of Antique Bottle Collecting in Georgia Next Issue •• The Post Civil War Bottlers of Des Moines • Scuba diving for bottles

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

FOHBC Officers 2014-2016

President: Ferdinand Meyer V, 101 Crawford,

Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; phone: (713) 222-7979;

e-mail: fmeyer@fohbc.org First Vice-President: Sheldon Baugh, 252 W Valley Dr,

Russellville, KY 42276; phone: (270) 726-2712;

e-mail: sbi_inc@bellsouth.net Second Vice-President: Gene Bradberry, 3706 Deerfield Cove,

Bartlett, TN 38135; phone: (901) 372-8428;

e-mail: Genebsa@comcast.net Secretary: James Berry, 200 Fort Plain Watershed Rd, St. Johnsville, NY 13452; phone: (518) 568-5683; e-mail: jhberry10@yahoo.com Treasurer: Gary Beatty, 3068 Jolivette Rd.,

North Port, FL 34288; phone: (941) 276-1546;

e-mail: tropicalbreezes@verizon.net Historian: Richard Watson, 10 S Wendover Rd,

Medford, NJ 08055; phone: (856) 983-1364;

e-mail: crwatsonnj@verizon.net Editor: Martin Van Zant, 208 Urban St,

Danville, IN 46122; phone: (812) 841-9495;

e-mail: mdvanzant@yahoo.com.

Merchandising Director: Val Berry, 200 Fort Plain Watershed Rd, St. Johnsville, NY 13452; phone: (518) 568-5683; e-mail: vgberry10@yahoo.com Membership Director: Jim Bender, PO Box 162,

Sprakers, NY 12166; phone: (518) 673-8833;

e-mail: jim1@frontiernet.net

Conventions Director: Position Open Business Manager: Elizabeth Meyer, 101 Crawford,

Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; phone: (713) 222-7979;

e-mail: emeyer@fohbc.org Director-at-Large: Bob Ferraro, 515 Northridge Dr,

Boulder City, NV 89005; phone: (702) 293-3114;

e-mail: mayorferraro@aol.com.

Director-at-Large: Steve Ketcham, PO Box 24114, Edina, Minnesota 55424, phone: (952) 920-4205;

email: steve@antiquebottledepot.com Director-at-Large: John Pastor, PO Box 227,

New Hudson, MI 48165; phone: (248) 486-0530;

e-mail: jpastor@americanglassgallery.com Midwest Region Director: Matt Lacy, 3836 State Route 307, Austinburg Ohio 44010, phone: (440) 228-1873, e-mail: info@antiquebottlesales.com Northeast Region Director: Andrew Vuono, 34 Ridgeway Street, Stamford, Connecticut 06907, phone: (203) 9759055, e-mail: amvuono@gmail.com Southern Region Director: Ron Hands, 913 Parkside Drive, Wilson, North Carolina 27896, phone: (330) 338-3455, e-mail: rshands225@yahoo.com Western Region Director: Eric McGuire, 1732 Inverness Drive, Petaluma, California 94954, phone: (707) 778-2255, e-mail: etmcguire@comcast.net Public Relations Director: Rick DeMarsh, 3049 Galway Road, Ballston Spa, New York 12020, phone: (518) 225-3467, e-mail: ricksbottleroom@gmail.com

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President’s Message With a new slate of Region Directors on the Federation board,

ing. we Wehad will a major newcall membership ourbe firstannouncing sub-committee conference last month. drive the call, besides myself was Gene Bradberry laterParticipating this monthon that uses a 2,000-member target.

We are Ferdinand Meyer V nearing (FOHBC Second Vice President), Andrew Vuono (Northeast 1,200 members now. So if you are a member, stay with Region Director), Ron Hands (Southern Region Director), us, if youÕre are undecided, please join! There are so many Matt Lacy (Midwest Region Director) and Eric McGuire exciting things planned.

Our magazine, Bottles and Extras, (Western Regional Director).

We talked about many things but is undergoing a major face lift, we have a new web site, by the I think this e-mail from Ron Hands really covers it: FMG Design, Inc. time you read this, we will be 1,000 members plus on our 101 Crawford Street Ron Hands: “I havepage, already been working Virtual on connecting with is FOHBC facebook the FOHBC Museum Studio 1A Southern Region clubs for about a month.

I tried the e-mail moving forward (look for a major announcement soon) and we Houston, Texas 77002 only one response fromtothea State Franklin of havepath justand sent ourreceived first digital newsletter largeofaudience fmeyer@fohbc.org ferdinand@peachridgeglass.com Club. I then went to direct contact by phone with about six people.

The new Federation, your FOHBC. clubs and have connected with all but one with very good We need new blood and Sharp persons tothe carry the torch.

I will be It isthis early Sunday and inI early sit here reflecting at As I write message to themorning membership October, we are finally results. I talked with John with Mississippi Bottle having our firstDiner seasonal in temperature in Houston.

It’s always reaching out toVollmer some of ourthemembership forClub, pictures your with TimoleonÕs in drop quaint Keene, New Hampshire whilea Club, Marty with South Carolina John of Patterson welcome this antique bottleme collector. me, Autumnoutside, means nice bottles, the Piedmont Bottle Reggiesite, Lynch with The Southern assistance on Club, the web articles and storiesBottle for Club, drinkingrelief sometocoffee to warm up (it isTo45 degrees and more comfortable runs with my dogs, raking leaves, watching and Sterling with Raleigh Club and and Melisa Milner with the Bottles and Mann Extras, thethe web site, Bottle the newsletter help on the chilly for a Texan). The Yankee Bottle Show starts here shortly playing football with my grandson and for some reason, a warmer and State of Franklin Club.

My common them was: Virtual Museum.

If you would like to volunteer, in any area, it and will be a fun to conclusion to a long weekend bottle events closer relationship my bottle collecting.

There are of numerous greats shows would be very much welcomed and appreciated. that started out a gathering Federation Mark all throughout the with country and bottle at chatter on all ofmembers the web sites seems to 1. Connection for the Region to the FOHBC You willinalso notice a new section in the front of Bottles and and Annie VuonoÕs in Stamford, Connecticut on Friday and increase.

What is your favorite bottle season?

2. Help anyway I can, membership 3. Awareness of theto 2015 Antique Bottle Show Extras called Letters theChattanooga Editor. I amNational not sure why this was included the Heckler Columbus Day Hayfield event in Wood4. Clubinexposure Last week I foundConnecticut myself near Chattanooga, and wasthat able this to not there some form or another before but we really want to stock Valley, yesterday. Tennessee I am thinking 5. Advertising their show in Bottles and Extras stay and tour our host Convention hear6.your stories and ideas and how we can do things better. wasat the exact spot,Marriott two years ago Center today,Hotel. thatI also the toured great Show and Club activities possible covered in Bottles and Extras the Chattanooga Convention Center. What a great location! We are deep in You7.can send an e-mail, write a letter or call any board Feldmann story that I retell in this issue of Bottles and Extras, FOHBC Website awareness planning for 2015 National Antique Bottle Show. Tables are for sale now. You member, including myself at any time.

Our contact information 8.

Contracts and advertising in the National Show Program got its wings.

I hope you enjoy the article and pictures.

John can also make your hotel and banquet reservations. Please visit FOHBC.org for is in this magazine and on the web site. and Sheila are wonderful people that represent the foundation all information, show news and the dealer contract. A full page advertisement is working on many2013 moreissue clubsof and think itand is having an we impact. After In“I’m the still January/February Bottles Extras, andwithin cornerstone great also this issueofofour Bottles andhobby.

Extras. Choo-Choo to Chattanooga! talking with the Raleigh Club, I asked to speak at the next club meeting on will be starting a two-page Regional Overview section where What a whirlwind of events since our great EXPO in late October 7.

The only one negative I received was from John Sharp with the Earlier September, I hadEvery the opportunity to visit Gate Hotel we will highlight incoming information from the four regions July ininReno, Nevada. time I think ofthe thisLion’s event, I am club, is that the National Show falls on Sunday. Some areas of the and McClellan Conference Center in Sacramento, California with a group that Mississippi makeare upstrong the Federation (northeast, midwest reminded of how grateful I am, and we all should be, of Marty south Bible Belt areas.

He wassouthern, real polite but the lackand of a Saturday of west coast FOHBC representatives in preparation for our 2016 National western).

If you have material please forward to your Regional Hall, Richard Siri, the Reno Bottle Club and the legions of National Show was a concern to him and the others in that area.”

Antique Bottle Convention. I must say, I was really impressed with the Director. If you visit the web site or received our newsletter, helpers that pulled offthethis mega event.

Marty even reported a hospitality of our hosts, McClellan grounds and our venues.

Did you on the Virtual Museum planning of a will see thatFOHBC Regional News is nowprogresses appearingwith in athe different strong financial success that demonstrates yet again, that our know that McClellan Air Force Base (1935–2001) is a former United Statesyou Work Board of format Directorsinand the venues production Air Force base located in the North Highlands area of Sacramento County, and Museum more refreshing these too.of a 3-minute video of the organization is getting stronger and marching forward. The museum that we might use to solicit larger funds from big companies. All 72013 milesFOHBC northeastNational of Sacramento, California? This really goingnext to be one We are only as strong as our weakest link. I use this expresin Manchester, NewisHampshire the work on this museum to date has been volunteered by individuals show the books, so to speak. Very unique, lush and of exciting.

You also sionofoften in business and in and mySteven general conversations with We are year for is progressing smoothly with a majority the tables such as myself, my company Libbey and his company. can visit FOHBC.org for more information. I honestly think that once table people.

Keep an more openofmind, be positive, andways try to help, give already being sold.

Lexington, Kentucky will be our location going to need you to step up in many with ideas, volunteer sales are opened up, that they will sell like Rolling Stones tickets. Please constructive criticism and move forward.

Smile and someone time and contributions.

Again, the Virtual Museum is a once-in-a-life-time, for the 2014 National, so make your plans here, too.

You can stay tuned. So excited here. willgenerational smile backgame-changer. to you. Listen and you will hear a story. Step get information for both events by visiting our website, If that isn’t enough news, our to Northeast bottle clubs FOHBC.org.

Tomshow Phillips, ourrequest Conventions Director, wasfor forward and tell a story. Look at your collection and find that I hope you like this issue of Bottles and Extras. We need more of our holding National Antique Convention in early missing bottle or link. This is what it is all about. Our best asset even inthe the2017 southeast this week Bottle looking at venueswas forsent the out 2015 members to submit short stories, club news and bottle articles. Be creative.

August.

TheItletter reprinted within thisthat issue Bottlesmuch and Extras. is allWe ofwill ourhelp greatyou. members.

National. wasisnot too long ago weof were more I Do you also think it would be a good idea to get back to am hearing that some potential proposal submittals might be coming from I am also looking forward the as great Bottle Show inspirits, short-sighted. Now with this advance planning and public “department” writers for areastosuch fruit49er jars, historical flasks, locales in Virginia, Maryland and New York. Please let us know if you have Old Town Auburn, California in December.

We usually go to announcements, wearecan on acommittees date that will help sodas, bitters, insulators etc.? We need to have a broader range of articles. any questions if you on stake one ofour the claim club show considering We especially need more digging If you at our the Festival of Lights parade each stories. year after thelook show.

Wetitle, love“Bottles other show decide when to hold their events. As an this great andchairmen historic opportunity. and Extras,” pay attention to the word “Extras.”

This opens up so many it because the horses, dogs, goats, people and trucks all are aside, didwhat? you Two know that there were nine bottlemaking showsa proposal this And guess potential groups are considering great possibilities.

PLEASE help us out! for the 2018including Midwest National Antique Conventions as they have adorned with lights for Christmas. Remember, a show is so weekend, one across theBottle pond?

Our hobby is so contacted us. This comes from greateven stateswith of Wisconsin andLetÕs Ohio. much betteralso if you make an experience.

While at a who strong. I see the glimmer of the change our shows.

I would like to give it a special “shout-out” to ouryou latestare member Obviously, some collectors are realizing a great opportunity to showcase show, visit a collection, go to a museum, have dinner with a promote more and grow our hobby. Bring people to the shows. submitted a digital application that came in around 1 this morning. Why their city and regional bottle collectors. bottle go on a digfrom etc. Austria!

There are things you can thisfriend, morning?

It came Letso usmany welcome Thomas Melan from Bottles, glass and positive change are contagious.

Weikersdorf am Steinfelde, Austria.

Boy, are we growing.

It’s truly a global do to stay connected with our great hobby.

Make it a multiWe will certainly keep you, our members, posted. As our shows get bigger hobby and we are your glue to hold it together. You will see mention of membership is also drastically up which is here excitandFederation better, we must plan out further ahead.

Chattanooga will be before dimensional experience. Happy autumn and winter. we know it. With Jack Hewitt and John Joiner, both veteran Southern show organizers, there is promise to make this a true Southern event. A southern auctioneer, a super southern keynote banquet speaker (Tom Hicks) and the Battle of Chattanooga bottle competition come to mind first.

other foreign collectors and web sites in the Member News of this issue.

So happy Autumn and Winter, too, I guess. I hear that is around the corner, too. Hard to think of the holidays just yet, but they will be here sooner than you think.

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By the numbers during the Big Digs Some Bottles and Extras readers have been curious to know just how many jugs were found during the Big Digs of 2011-2012 in Augusta, Georgia.

The digs were conducted using a backhoe on property previously known as the Augusta Mill Supply Company. The business sat atop a late 19th-early 20th century landfill.

By Bill Baab

The total number of jugs found from March 26, 2011 to Sept. 30, 2012 was 301. The most found during a one-day dig was 38, the least 11. Jugs ranged from whiskey jugs manufactured at the Hahn Pottery Works in North Augusta, South Carolina (1898-1906) to jugs from the midwest and northeast containing drugs and other stuff.

BARNWELL, S.C. – Hugh “Tater” Still, of Barnwell, was a game warden with the S.C. Wildlife and Marine Resources Department (now S.C. Department of Natural Resources) and became a pottery collector on the job.

The total number of sodas, mostly crown tops, but some Hutchinsons and blobtops, was 1,406. Chero-Colas from different cities and towns joined small town crown tops as well as a host of others from Augusta.

He was chasing a suspect through the Savannah River swamps in the lower part of his state when his foot encountered a round, hard object as he crossed a dry stream bed. He returned to where he had stumbled and discovered a ceramic whiskey jug halfburied in the soil.

It was the dig of a lifetime for collectors Mike Newman, Bob Riddick, Pat Oliver, Jerry Newton and yours truly – BILL BAAB

Southern Pottery is Where You Find it

He picked up the jug, continued the chase and eventually caught his man.

FOHBC Club Changes Its Name

by Bill Baab

“Tater,” who got his nickname as a child because someone said “he’s just a little tater,” told the story to me after I purchased the jug. The jug is attributed to the W.F. Hahn Pottery of Trenton, S.C. The jug is great, but the story was a bonus.

AIKEN, S.C. – The 10-year-old Horse Creek Bottle Club has changed its name to Horse Creek Bottle and Pottery Club. It remains affiliated with the FOHBC.

Hugh, who was close to 6 feet tall and weighed more than 200 pounds during his prime (he had become a big “Tater”), died a couple of years ago.

“Many of our members either collect pottery or have an interest in it,” explained Mrs. Geneva Greene, the club founder and its longtime president.

We had met while I was an outdoor writer. He took me fishing for jacks (chain pickerel) deep in the swamp where small ponds had been left when the river changed its course more than 100 years ago.

In fact, the speaker at the August meeting was master potter Justin Guy, who operates the Old Edgefield Pottery in nearby Edgefield, S.C. The club meets the third Monday of each month (except December) at 7 p.m., at the Aiken County Historical Museum, 433 Newberry Street, S.W., Aiken, SC 29801.

Bottle extraordinaire Matthew Levanti will assist the Editor with Shards of Wisdom, so send in your news or bottle updates to: Matthew T. Levanti, 5930 Juarez Road. Placerville, California, 95667 m.tigue-levanti@hotmail.com

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T. Sables & Company

by Mark C. Wiseman I was recently at an auction in Eastern Iowa and bought my very first water cooler stoneware piece. It was a long way from where I sat to where the auction items were being held up. We had arrived just as the auction had started, and I had not had an opportunity to look over the items closely. So I took a chance and obtained the salt glazed water cooler at a very reasonable price. The water cooler is stamped “6”, and “T. Sables & Co., Medford”. There is some cobalt applied to the lettering and around the spigot hole. I noticed a sticker on the water cooler after I had bought it that said it was from Massachusetts. I had a list at home of eastern pottery makers that listed: “Sables, T & Co., Medford, MA, 1838-c.1845” I was certainly shocked that it was that old. Later this week I found a book on line entitled “New England Potters and their Wares” by Lura Woodside Watkins, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1950. In chapter eleven, “Stoneware Potting in Eastern Massachusetts” I learned that Medford was very near Boston. On page 86 I found the following information.

“There was little other competition with the Edmands pottery in the Boston area. For a brief period T. Sables & Company made pottery in Medford in connection with the Lawrence rum distillery. I have seen only one piece of stoneware bearing their firm mark—a nicely shaped low jar. A poorly potted jug marked simply Medford gives evidence that their wares were not always of the same quality.

Sables & Company was composed of two brothers, Thomas and John, and Job Clapp, all of Medford, and all potters.

October 24, 1838, they acquired a large plot of land east of Medford Square, between Mystic Avenue (then Ship Street) and the Mystic River. A dwelling house and other buildings were standing on the lot, and these they probably converted to pottery uses. They shared the dock with Fitch & Lawrence, last of Medford’s many distillers to remain in business.

Oakman Joyce of Medford held a mortgage on the premises.

It is a measure of their lack of success that he foreclosed it in 1844. Haskel & Smith’s Gazetteer (1843) mentions one pottery in the town in 1840. This was undoubtedly the “Sables company, which seems to have been the only one to operate in Medford after colonial days.”

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FOHBC News From & For Our Members This Years FOHBC Contest Winners

FOHBC 2014 Club Contest Awards ,

Hi Bill (Baab), Do you remember seeing the list of the FOHBC contest winners this year? I can go back and look, but I just wonder if you remember seeing the list? Somehow I think you are probably still involved in the process. It used to be that four of us would do the voting and you would get us into a consensus mode.

I had told Ed Kuskie that I could not do the judging this year because I wouldn’t have time because I attended my 60th high school reunion. He had e-mailed me at that time saying that there are other judges involved and that my not judging would not impact anything.

I was asked if The San Diego Club folks had won anything. I had said that I did not even look for the listing. I know San Diego used to enter every year and send in multiple entries. I guess they still did this year, but didn’t win.

Anyhow, when you get a chance. Meanwhile I’ll play lazy and not go look at this point. Right now I’ve got other fish to fry as the old saying goes.

Good meeting you and your wife in person at last.

FOHBC: The files were sent to Dar Furda Dar F (as in Ferdinand), Thanks for your time and effort. I didn’t realize my question to Bill would end in you having to get involved. I will send an e-mail to Bill and thank him for his efforts, as well.

I really enjoyed the Lexington experience. It felt good to get out to admire the latest and the greatest offerings of those dealers.

I also sensed a continuity among those deeply involved in making the show happen as it did.

I’m doing GREAT in staying very active with the Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club. I’m the secretary and contributing editor of same.

,

Thanks to your on-going commitment and the commitment of others, our hobby is certainly a historical experience and it seems that it is GROWING! Take care, Ferdinand and I shall do the same, D (as in Dar)

Gary Beatty (right), First Place, 2014 Best Fictional Story.

Show Flyer/Poster 49er Historical Bottle Association FIRST PLACE 2014 Show Flyer/Poster Contest Mike McKillop, Designer Wisconsin Antique & Advertising Club SECOND PLACE 2014 Show Flyer/Poster Contest Steven R. Libbey & iNET, Designers Ohio Bottle Club THIRD PLACE 2014 Show Flyer/Poster Contest Adam Koch, Designer Newsletter Greater Buffalo Bottle Collector’s Association FIRST PLACE 2014 Newsletter Contest “Travel’s Companion” Craig R. Maefs, Editor 1st Chicago Bottle Club SECOND PLACE 2014 Newsletter Contest “Midwest Bottled News” Ray & Peg Komorowski, Editors Midwest Antique Fruit Jar & Bottle Club

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Mike Polak, Author True Story FIRST PLACE 2014 True Story Mike Best Polak, Author “Wyatt Earp’s Northern Saloon and Tonopah, Nevada” FIRST PLACE published in the “Bottles 2014 Best True Story & Extras” “Wyatt Earp’s Northern Saloon and Tonopah, Nevada” Alan DeMaison, Author & Extras” published in the “Bottles SECOND PLACE 2014 Best True Story Alan DeMaison, Author “Rescuing a Piece of History” SECOND PLACE Published the Story “Swirl” and “Bottles And Extras” 2014 BestinTrue Ohio Bottle Club “Rescuing a Piece of History” Published in the “Swirl” and “Bottles And Extras” Steven R. Libbey, Ohio Bottle Club Author THIRD PLACE 2014 True Story StevenBest R. Libbey, Author “WA & AC First Privy Dig 4/5/2014” THIRD PLACE Published the Story “Badger Collector’s Journal” 2014 BestinTrue Wisconsin Antique & Advertising Club “WA & AC First Privy Dig 4/5/2014” Published in the “Badger Collector’s Journal” Research WisconsinStory Antique & Advertising Club Jack Sullivan, Research StoryAuthor FIRST PLACE 2014 Best Research Story Jack Sullivan, Author “What a Diehl for Beer in Defiance!”

FIRST PLACE Published in the “Swirl” 2014 Best Research Story Ohio Club “WhatBottle a Diehl for Beer in Defiance!”

Published in the “Swirl” Fred Capozzella Ohio T. Bottle Club SECOND PLACE (Tie) 2014 Best Research Story Fred T. Capozzella “The Sheehan Clan” SECOND PLACE (Tie) Published in the “Bottles Along the Mohawk” 2014 Best Research Story Mohawk Valley Antique Bottle Club “The Sheehan Clan” Published in the “Bottles Along the Mohawk” Phyllis Author MohawkKoch, Valley Antique Bottle Club SECOND PLACE (Tie) 2014 Research Story PhyllisBest Koch, Author “Smelling Salts” SECOND PLACE (Tie) Published the “Swirl” 2014 BestinResearch Story Ohio Bottle Club “Smelling Salts” Published in the “Swirl” Fictional Story Ohio Bottle Club Gary Beatty, Author Fictional Story FIRST PLACE Gary Beatty, Author FIRST PLACE

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2014 Newsletter Contest “Midwest Glass Chatter” THIRD PLACE (Tie) Joe Coulson, Editor 2014 Newsletter Contest “Midwest Glass Chatter” International Perfume Bottle Association-Young Collectors Joe Coulson, Editor THIRD PLACE (Tie) 2014 Newsletter ContestBottle Association-Young Collectors International Perfume “International Perfume THIRD PLACE (Tie) Bottle Association-Young Collectors” Joanne Begert, Editor 2014 Newsletter Contest “International Perfume Bottle Association-Young Collectors” True Story Joanne Begert, Editor

2014 Best Fictional Story “Case of the Missing Case” Published the “Swirl” 2014 BestinFictional Storyand “Bottles And Extras” Ohio “CaseBottle of theClub Missing Case” Published in the “Swirl” and “Bottles And Extras” Web Ohio Site Bottle Club Wisconsin Web Site Antique & Advertising Club FIRST PLACE 2014 Best Website Wisconsin Antique & Advertising Club Steven Libbey, Webmaster FIRST R PLACE wisantique.com 2014 Best Website Steven R Libbey, Webmaster 1st Chicago Bottle Club wisantique.com SECOND PLACE 2014 Best Website 1st Chicago Bottle Club Peg Komorowski, SECOND PLACEWebmaster 1stchicagobottleclub.com 2014 Best Website Peg Komorowski, Webmaster Gulf Coast Bottle Show 1stchicagobottleclub.com Ferdinand, Gulf Coast

Bottle Show

Just got through looking over the 2014 Gulf Coast show in HousFerdinand, ton. I was a member of this club from 1969 until I moved to the Beaumont area inlooking 1976. Iover can vouch forGulf Barbara Puckett’s Just got through the 2014 Coast show inearly Housyears with the club.

It was also great to see Alton Neatherlin’s ton. I was a member of this club from 1969 until I moved to the picture.

Wearea swapped many bottles in for those early years.

Alton Beaumont in 1976.

I can vouch Barbara Puckett’s early lived on the east side of the San Jacinto river in Highlands and I years with the club. It was also great to see Alton Neatherlin’s lived on the west side of the river in Channelview. picture. We swapped many bottles in those early years. Alton lived on the east side of the San Jacinto river in Highlands and I lived on the west side of the river in Channelview.

Alton Neatherlin at the 2014 Houston Antique Alton Neatherlin Bottle Show. at the 2014 Houston Antique Bottle Show.

Our first club show was in the Gulfgate Mall. We had, and let slip through our hands, some good bottles. We also did some digging in downtown 70’s when wasand excavaOur first club Houston show wasininthe theearly Gulfgate Mall.there We had, let slip tion work going on for the new police station.

(I think it the through our hands, some good bottles. We also did somewas digging police station?)

Have not seen Alton for many years and would in downtown Houston in the early 70’s when there was excavanot himthewithout you putting nameitbelow his tionhave workrecognized going on for new police station.his (I think was the picture.

I do not have a good reason for not making the shows police station?) Have not seen Alton for many years and would these pastrecognized many years.

Will have to getputting back on email not have him without you hisBarbara’s name below his list!

Thanks for doing this article on their 2014 show. picture. I do not have a good reason for not making the shows these past many years. Will have to get back on Barbara’s email Floyd Boyett,forLumberton, list! Thanks doing this Texas article on their 2014 show.

Floyd Boyett, Lumberton, Texas

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November - December 2014 P.S. - I wrote you a few months back about my Best Bitters in America bottle. I don’t have a lot of good bottles left. The main thing I have now is my Beaumont, Texas collection and some good memories. I was born in Beaumont in 1944 and moved to Houston after graduating from Lamar College. I remember standing in Dr. Sam Greer’s office, in the early seventies and he handed me two cobalt Wynkoops Sarsaparillas and he said “They are both mint bottles so Floyd take your pick and you can have it for $600.” I was in my mid twenties with a wife and two kids and I did not have the $600 to spare. That’s the way it was in those days!

Wisconsin Show Canceled Hey Steve (Libbey), I was just checking the national Federation website show listings, and noticed that our Club’s show for November 2nd was now marked as canceled. Is this true? Did we not have enough people buy tables? Was the space given to someone else? This is too bad.

I know I have been busy and not been to meetings lately, but I was actually looking forward to attending the show. Please let me know the status of this so I can re-think my scheduling. Hope you are well and looking forward to catching up again with you soon.

Best, Justin

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tingency. We voted at the last meeting to cancel for 2014 rather than risk damaging the reputation of the show going forward. We have too much interest to have a small foyer way show and we felt that moving the show somewhere else would be detrimental to the long term success of the club show. We have been holding back on recruiting dealers because we aren’t sure if there will be occupancy, (the county is totally noncommittal) and we have been holding off in paying for advertising too. Occupancy for the greenhouses came in May or June just not public occupancy for the last greenhouse. It has been month to month and the county won’t take complete occupancy because they don’t want to have to pay for some of the non-completed software engineering for the very complex climate control systems. Could be tens of thousands or more.

We would LOVE to have you back as a participating member my man. It takes participation as any level possible to make the club better and better. Just hitting the forum now and then and saying what’s up is cool.

Are you going to the auction this weekend? There is a bottle I am after.

GREAT to hear from you, Steven R. Libbey

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Peach Ridge Collection on Discovery and National Geographic Channels.

Hi Justin, The show is canceled. The reason has nothing to do with the space being taken away or not enough interest. We have a ton of interest.

What happened is that the seventh greenhouse does not have public occupancy. Without it there can be no show inside. Occupancy could happen any time but might not for six months and the county is disclosing nothing. We can’t plan with that con-

Hey - I just viewed your A*M*A*Z*I*N*G collection on the Discovery Channel’s Extreme Collectors. I have of course, seen photos of your collection on your website but it was a real pleasure to view it up close on my large-screen T.V. Personally, I think $$$ is a tad low for your collection, in my humble opinion.

I enjoyed all of the rooms that were shown but I especially liked the aqua window. I’ve collected all types of aqua pontiled bottles (as long as they are embossed) for a few years and really get “charged up” when I find something new. I know color is your real passion so...would you ever consider selling even one of your more modest valued aqua pontiled bottles (just so I could say I own one of your bottles) ? ? ? Again, I really enjoyed the segment on your wonderful collection - Ed LeTard, Daphne, Alabama.

FM5: Ferdinand Meyer Dork Alert!! Ed...Seriously, do not believe everything you see on TV! Though I had fun when the crew visited Peach Ridge for a few days, I wouldn’t recommend it for everyone. Elizabeth, my wife ditched me as she thought I was nuts. My 20 minutes of fame!

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Looking for Elixir of Life Hello, I was given your name by a bottle collector, and hope you can help. I would like to purchase: One bottle (full preferably or empty) of a product that was created by the father of Victoria Woodhull, and Tennessee Claflin. Victoria was born in Homer, Ohio in 1838. She and her sister, Tennessee Claffin, when they were around 8 and 10 years old, were taken on the road by their (alcoholic) father to sell a product he called “Elixir of Life.”

I believe he also made the patent medicine, but am not positive.

The patent medicine had a picture of Tennessee on the label.

They were both beautiful girls. The girls went on to make a very significant mark in history. Thank you for your help.

Larry Bornstein, San Diego, California

National Association of Milk Bottle Collectors Hi Ferd, Peter and I had a good time at the National Show in Kentucky although our sales weren’t what we’d hoped. We’ve done 3 FOHBC shows - York, Manchester and Lexington.

As treasurer of the National Association of Milk Bottle Collectors, I’m working on the details of our June 2014 Convention expenses in relation to number of attendees. I’m curious as to the number of attendees (not including dealers/helpers) for the days the FOHBC show was open - early buyers and those on Sunday, if you would share that.

Here in the Northeast, we are seeing regular antique shows close for lack of dealers and attendance at long-standing, popular shows dropping. We just did a 90 dealer Antique Show in Madison, Conn. (town on Long Island Sound) on Saturday, and attendance was way down. Bottle Shows continue – although the attendance is not what it used to be. Baltimore is the exception, although it is down from the 1,700 attendees I remember one year at Timonium.

The trade publications here in the Northeast consistently contain articles on how to reach young collectors.

The only suggestion I would make for FOHBC shows is to stress that Bottles and Antiques - bottle collectors will come to a Bottle Show, but the general public doesn’t have a clue what a bottle show is - they may have some idea about an antique show.

Thank you for all that you do for the hobby!

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to help out at Lexington. They helped distribute promotional and directional signs, put out sales table signs and were on hand to do what ever else needed doing.

Bob has been a bottle collector for more than forty years. Christian became interested at the age of ten when he asked if he could go with Bob to a bottle show in South Carolina. Bob warned him he would be at the show all day. Christian still wanted to go.

Upon arriving at the show, Christian spotted some old soda bottle caps that he liked. He immediately started negotiating with the dealer to make his best deal. He then discovered ACL Sodas. He was hooked! Since his first show he has expanded his collecting interests to embossed sodas and poisons. He added a poison to his collection at Lexington. I asked him to come by my table at the end of the show. We discussed his first FOHBC National Show experience. He said he really enjoyed it. I then showed him an amber “KOKE” bottle from the Bluff City Bottling Works of Memphis, TN. This circa 1912 drink was in direct competition with Coca-Cola in one of Coke’s largest markets. The Coca-Cola company sued Bluff City and forced them to stop selling the drink called Koke. He thought the bottle was neat and had a cool history. He really got excited when I told him I wanted him to have it.

I started collecting bottles when I was thirteen. A buddy of mine got me into collecting soda bottles to take back to the store for the deposit. We found many in ditches along country roads. Some of them were obsolete and not returnable. My friend and I decided to collect the old ones. Soon we discovered that even older ones could be found at flea markets and they even had BOTTLE SHOWS! I attended my first bottle show in 1972 in Memphis. I was participating in the March Of Dimes Walk-a-thon. The bottle show was being held along the way. I stopped off to check it out.

I learned about how to identify a hand blown bottle and that there was a Memphis Bottle Club. With a few exceptions, the club was made up of adult members. Many of those members reached out to help and encourage me. I hope we all will do the same to get our youth involved with our fascinating hobby! - Tom Phillips

Bottle Insurance Question Ferdinand I know you said my new bottle find was not in your scope of interest but I thought that you might be able to help direct me. I have a rare bottle that was made in 1887-1888 by the Colorado Glass Works bottling company. A museum in Colorado wants this bottle as they claim that they have only seen a few that belong to collectors. They would like to have this attic mint bottle for the museum.

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My question for you is, would it be better to donate the bottle and use the tax deduction, or sell it to the museum? I just threw a $500. price at them and then thought of the option of tax deduction as I slept on it. It might be more valuable to increase the value as a tax deduction. Thank you, Gary Penney

Bob Morgan, my old bottle running buddy from my youth, volunteered himself and his thirteen year old grandson Christian

FOHBC: Gary, I would check with your accountant.

It could really go both ways here.

Trish Manfredi Treasurer, NAMBC Co-owner, Domestic Cow Antiques and Events

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Foreign Bottle Collectors or Foreign Bottle Collector Sites Hello Ferdinand.

Very pretty name. I am David Adams and a current member. I just sent in my renewal form. I would like to ask you a question if I may. I would like to start to collect foreign antique glass bottles but when I look online, no matter what I type in, it never shows any real info on either foreign bottle collectors or foreign bottle collector sites. Would you know of any that I may contact to start this new part of my bottle hobby? I collect quality higher end antique bottles and love the hobby. Any leads would be helpful.

Thank you, take care Ferdinand. If I may ask, where are you originally from? My people are originally from the Hartz Mountain region of Northern Germany in the coal region. - David Adams, Schwenksville, Pennsylvania David: Thanks, I do not think that I have every heard anyone say that the name Ferdinand is pretty but I will take it as a nice compliment. It was murder in grade school as the teacher would read Ferdinand on the first day of class roll-call and stumble with “Ferd” which rhymes with a bathroom word. Not a good way to start off the year with your wiseacre classmates.

When I think of foreign collectors and web sites I think of Alan Blakeman and British Bottle Review (BBR) over in the United Kingdom. I also think of Travis Dunn down under in Australia.

You can Google his ABCR Auctions. Then there is Phil Culhane, the Canadian bottle and stoneware collector who also specializes in early Middle Eastern glass. Also Abel da Silva in Canada is good to connect with. Next I think of Hans-Jürgen Krackher from Germany who recently had that great article in Bottles and Extras on Schweppes. Then there is Willy Van den Bosch from Belgium. There are so many others. Just start with an online search. Also check out Martin Rodriguez from Argentina. His Bottle Collectors and Diggers facebook page has over 4,000 members! These people and their sites are out there. Let me know if you have any trouble connecting. Most of these fine folks are Federation members.

Hugo Thuemler “Hausmaler” to America FOHBC: This next exchange is interesting and refers to an article that Jack Sullivan wrote for Bottles and Extras some years back.

“I left a message on your phone to call me about The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors. I am CFO of Stein Collectors International and would like to reprint one of your articles.

Please call me or direct me to who could give permission for the article and author as well as discuss you reprinting ours from our magazine Prosit. Thank you” From Jack Sullivan: Unfortunately, the text you referenced was part of what was lost in my computer crash. But that was an early article on Thuemler and included both his whiskey canteens and root beer mugs. Some but not all of the photos were lost and I have saved a collection of others.

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I have a new proposition. I propose to do a entirely new article on Thuemler for your magazine. I still have hard copies of my older Thuemler articles, including a newer piece with additional info. Also photos of beer mugs and steins. I also have a picture of Hugo’s gravestone in Pennsylvania. If you pay for articles fine, if not also OK. Just send me a back copy of the magazine so I will have some idea of how to format my material to lessen the editing burden. I would send you via email an article by the end of September. Any instructions you might have on 1) number of illustrations and 2) preferred sizes, etc. would be helpful. Also if you have editorial “hints” for authors. Let me know if this is acceptable. All the best. Jack PS I have been keeping a list of all known Thuemler steins and mugs for about a decade. It is attached here in a Word document.

You are free to use all or part of it in your periodical.

Note Visit: steincollectors.org

Digitization Project Ferd, Just a heads up on a project that I started a couple of weeks ago. I have been in this “bottle world” for many years, which includes the organization that eventually became FOHBC. I joined the Antique Bottle Collectors Association (ABCA) in June 1963, and somehow managed to keep all the newsletters - called The Pontil - until October 1971 (see example opposite page). There is a lot of insignificant rambling in its pages, however, The Pontil also documents nearly every stage of the beginnings of bottle collecting at a national level, giving a fascinating insight into how it all began. I have put the newsletters in my “toss pile” many times over the years but somehow managed to hang on to them.

Now, I can actually see their value as an addition to the FOHBC Internet site, as a resource, much like the later FOHBC Journal and the later Bottles and Extras. As a result I am currently digitizing these newsletters with the suggestion that they may be added to our members portal. If the directors choose not to include this body of information, I will retain the digital file anyway, as it is time to follow through with my previous inclinations to no longer be a “hoarder”, and toss the paper copies. My earliest copies are as brittle as dried leaves and will soon be dust anyway. Dick Watson may have copies of The Pontil that cover the first few years, if they haven’t already turned to dust, and perhaps they could be digitized as well. As you well know, the availability of unique and pertinent information is a major element in maintaining a viable and successful organization such as FOHBC. I should be finished with this rather tedious task by December and will ship it to you if you like. Scanned as jpg images that contain about 300 to 500 Kb per sheet, they are all contained in one file with folders, labeled chronologically, each containing about eight pages, representing a single issue. Even though I am not reading each issue as I trudge along, I can’t help but notice a few things. The attached page is from the May 1966 issue that relates to the logo we use to this day.

Hope to see you in Downieville.

Eric McGuire (FOHBC Western Region Director)

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Goofus Glass –

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What Is It?

By Bill Baab

Here are just three examples of some common type Goofus Glass with it’s Gold and Red Paint

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any bottle collectors from time to time have come across large and small clear containers embossed with flowers and sometimes covered in gilt. The larger containers weigh very little despite their more than a foot high sizes.

Back in the 1970s, collectors Len and Margaret Womack, of Estill Springs, Tenn., did some research and shared it with this writer.

“Goofus glass can be defined as a jar that held pickles, is shaped like a vase and featured convex designs of flowers, birds, insects, fruits and other subjects,” they said. “Goofus glass jars generally held pickles, but they also contained other products such as relish and mustard.

“They were sealed with sealing wax, then covered with lead foil and the label placed on top of the ‘lid’,” their descriptions continued.

“Goofus pickle jars were made as early as 1880 in pre-machine molds. One rare jar features the Statue of Liberty with spreadwing eagle. It was made about 1887.”

Gilt was applied to some jars to prevent the pickles from turning white. Painted jars are common, usually with the paint flaking off, although one process allowed paint to be baked on and it was hardier.

Credited with making many of the jars was Harry Northwood, who bought his own glass company in West Virginia in the early 1900s where he produced Goofus products from about 1906.

Turn of the century housewives canned their own pickles, so manufacturers had to come up with a way to get them to buy pickles at the grocery store. They came up with the eye-catching Goofus jars, which also were made in milk glass. Pre-1908 jars sometimes turned amethyst from the sun’s rays because of manganese in the sand from which the glass was made.

Other glass colors include aqua-blue, light and dark green, amber, opal glass, carnival glass, camphor glass frosted and crystal glass.

The author owns a Goofus lamp bowl with all the electrical fittings, plus jars featuring flowers in baskets, the Statue of Liberty jar, a small milk glass jar and an even tinier jar covered in gilt.

The Womacks’ collection included plates, butter pats, cologne and powder jars. They preferred jars with the original paint.

Goofus glass objects are not expensive, except for the older, rarer pieces, and a representative collection can be formed rather easily. Some fruit jar collectors acquire Goofus glass jars as “go-withs.”

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Collecting Bottles out Oregon Way

By Mike Valent

Mike Valent in Mike Valent in his his bottle room bottle room holding holding one of his one prize of his prize Oregon Oregon bottles. bottles.

Settlement activity for Portland, Oregon started around 1843 on the west bank activity of the Willamette River.

It was an important ettlement for Portland, Oregon started around stopover1843 pointon forthe river and landoftraffic en route between west bank the Willamette River. ItOregon was an City and Fort Vancouver. important stopover point for river and land traffic en route between Oregon City and Fort Vancouver.

Oregon City started in 1843 and was incorporated in 1845.

Portland was started incorporated 1851.

Portland in was situated Oregon City in 1843inand wasEarly incorporated 1845. on a 20-foot of clean in clay atopEarly river Portland gravel and bedrock.

Portland waslayer incorporated 1851. was situated The layer thickens as itclay spreads from the and up on a clay 20-foot layer of clean atop away river gravel andriver bedrock. into This type soil condition provided an ideal The the clayfoothills. layer thickens as itofspreads away from the river and up environment for future bottleofdiggers: clean hard-packed into the foothills.

This type soil condition provided an clay ideal with excellentfor drainage. environment future bottle diggers: clean hard-packed clay with excellent drainage.

The clay preserved early glass in an unstained, mint-like condition.

Generally, privies and wells were dug through the clay layer The clay preserved early glass in an unstained, mint-like to bedrock Generally, averaging about feet in depth. have been condition. privies20and wells were But dug Ithrough the as deep as 45to feet on theaveraging clay foothills away frominthe river.But I clay layer bedrock about 20 feet depth. have been as deep as 45 feet on the clay foothills away from the Early river. Portland had no recycling to speak of, so most trash including bottles were either dumped into the river or tossed into privies and abandoned wells. explains why very Early Portland had no This recycling to speak of, sooften mostwells trashand privies arebottles packedwere full of old dumped bottles. Local scuba do quite including either into the riverdivers or tossed well in finding and desirable in the river. into privies andrare abandoned wells.bottles This explains why Abandoned very often wells privies were not dipped cleanedLocal out. scuba wells and and full privies are packed full of oldorbottles. divers do quite well in finding rare and desirable bottles in Usually, new hole was justand dugfull in privies the vicinity thedipped full one. the river.aAbandoned wells wereofnot or Often, cleanedprivies out. are found in chronological order in a row along the back property the just residence Usually, a newline holeofwas dug inorthebusiness. vicinity of the full one.

Often, privies are found in chronological order in a row along Early on,property Portlandline developed an extensive trading partnership the back of the residence or business.

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with California. The latter needed raw materials and supplies for its booming gold fields and, in turn, Portland received drugs, medicines, whiskeysdeveloped and other an provisions. helps explain Early on, Portland extensiveThis trading partnership why of the early bottles dug inraw Portland were manufactured withmany California.

The latter needed materials and supplies atfor theitsPacific Glass Works San Glassreceived Works. booming gold fieldsand and, in Francisco turn, Portland drugs, medicines, whiskeys and other provisions. This helps Urban redevelopment expansion Portland during explain why many ofand the freeway early bottles dug inin Portland were the 1960s-80s provided great Glass accessWorks to theand wells and privies. manufactured at the Pacific San Francisco Whole blocks at a time were cleared and large numbers of Glass city Works. bottle diggers would gather in the evenings after construction crews gone home. and freeway expansion in Portland during Urbanhad redevelopment the 1960s-80s provided great access to the wells and privies.

One particular lot boasted an were unbelievable 21 wells numerWhole city blocks at a time cleared and large and numbers of ous privies, most of them loaded with bottles after dating to the 1850s bottle diggers would gather in the evenings construction tocrews the 1880s.

At night, had gone home.the lot looked like a little city, alive withy glowing lanterns, industrious diggers tossing dirt and numerous spectators.

One particular lot boasted an unbelievable 21 wells and numerous privies, most of them loaded with bottles dating to I the can1850s recall to digging sevenAtnights week on weekends the 1880s. night,a the lotand looked like a littlewhen city, one of withy those lots would open up.

Looking back, I now wonder alive glowing lanterns, industrious diggers tossing dirt how day jobspectators. survived along with my health. Initially, the andmy numerous lots were not fenced or posted and most contractors were digger friendly.

Of course, changed time.

I can recall diggingthis seven nightswith a week and on weekends when one of those lots would open up. Looking back, I now wonder From the present, I have very Initially, active in the my how the my 1960s day jobtosurvived along withstayed my health. serious digging quest for old glass. of the more were thrilling lots were not fenced or posted andSome most contractors digger Portland treasures that I dug orwith helped friendly.area Of course, this changed time.dig over years of intense digging included the cone-shaped Bryant’s Stomach Bitters, Dr. Boerhaave’s Bitters, Cassin’s Grape From the 1960s Stomach to the present, I have stayed very Brandy active inBitters my and Catawba Wine Bitters. serious digging quest for old glass. Some of the more thrilling

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Portland area treasures that I dug or helped dig over years of intense digging included the cone-shaped Bryant’s Stomach Bitters, Dr. Boerhaave’s Stomach Bitters, Cassin’s Grape Brandy Bitters and Catawba Wine Bitters.

The list continues with lots of Dr. Henley’s products, including “the Dew of the Alps.” Joining the “Dew” were Lacour’s Bitters, Oregon Unk Weed Rheumatic Cure, Dr. Wonser’s U.S.A. Indian Root Bitters, Dr. G.W. Brown’s Oregon Chittum Bitters, London Jockey Clubhouse Gin, E.G. Lyons square, Fishe’s Infallible Hair Restorative, Dr. H. Adolphus Anti-Rheumatic Cordial, W.H. Keith’s Glucolein (the San Francisco blown variant) and numerous western sodas, whiskey flasks and cylinders.

“My Oregon Chittum Bitters is the only known example,” he said. “There are no others in any condition. Mine is attic mint. I dug it 22 years ago near the bottom of a 22-footdeep, 1860-1870 oval well in Portland, The Oregon.

Chittum is of Dr. Henley’s products, including list continues with lots of thefor Alps.” a plant that grows mainly in Oregon and“the is Dew known its Joining the “Dew” were Lacour’s Bitters, Oregon Unk Weed Rheumatic medical properties. The bottle is a wonderful looking piece of Cure, Dr. Wonser’s U.S.A. Indian Root Bitters, Dr. G.W. Brown’s Oregon Chittum Bitters, London glass with heavy whittle, drippy appliedJockey top, Clubhouse very crude Gin,and E.G. Lyons square, Fishe’s Infallible Hair Restorative, Dr. H. Adolphus Anti-Rheumatic Cordial, W.H. Western-blown.”

Keith’s Glucolein (the San Francisco blown variant) and numerous western sodas, whiskey flasks and cylinders. “The Chittum Interest in the bottle collecting hobby exploded thenear Portland Bitters was in found the bottom of a deep well and is the prize of my at collection,” Valent said. “So far, it is one of a kind.” area and diggers and collectors would meet different homes

to talk bottles and buy, sell and trade oldInterest glass.in This setcollecting the hobby exploded in the Portland the bottle area club and diggers stage for creation of a Portland area bottle so inand thecollectors late would meet at different homes to talk bottles and buy, sell and trade old glass. This set the stage for 1960s, diggers, collectors and dealers from the Portland, creation of a Portland area bottle club so in the late 1960s, digsouthwest Washington state and Vancouver, Britishand Columbia gers, collectors dealers from the Portland, southwest Washington state and Vancouver, British Columbia formed the Lewis formed the Lewis & Clark Antique Bottle Club. & Clark Antique Bottle Club.

The core planning group included Phyllis Brandenburg, The core planning group Cal included Phyllis Brandenburg, Cal Wallis,Harold Dewy Tuttle, Vito and Ceil Mosso, Harold Hooper, Ron Wallis, Dewy Tuttle, Vito and Ceil Mosso, Hooper, and Lillian Miller, Dan and Judy Jefferies, Bill and Susie SimonRon and Lillian Miller, Dan and Judy Jefferies, Billfamily, and the Scott McLean family, Mike and Mary ton, the Lindsey Valent and McLean others.

Susie Simonton, the Lindsey family, the Scott family, Mike and Mary Valent and others.

The club was formed in late 1969 and held its first meeting in January 1970. Hooper was its first president, with Roberta Martin June secretaries, Judy Jefferies treasurer and Bill and The club was formed in late 1969 and and held itsLindsey first meeting Randy Lindsey newsletter editors. They published “The Outen in January 1970. Hooper was its first president, with Roberta Hausen.” The club’s first show was held in August 1970, with Martin and June Lindsey secretaries, Judy Jefferies big name collectorstreasurer including John Thomas, Bob Barnett Eric andThey Wallis Stier present. and Bill and Randy Lindsey newsletterMcGuire editors.

published “The Outen Hausen.” The club’s firstallshow wasmust come to an end, and so it did for Over time, good things the Lewis &including Clark Antique Bottle Club. Loss of members due to held in August 1970, with big name collectors John deaths, lack of interest and moves to other areas were among the Thomas, Bob Barnett Eric McGuire and Wallis Stier present. reasons. The club disbanded in June 1978. The Salem asrea Oregon Bottle Coillectors Association disbanded in 1986 for much the sameend, reasons. to an and so it did

Over time, all good things must come for the Lewis & Clark Antique Bottle Club.

Loss of members In 1992, a group of collectors including Hooper, Mark Junker, due to deaths, lack of interest and moves to Herring other areas were Wayne and Mike Valent reactivated the Oregon Bottle The new club holds regular meetings and among the reasons. The club disbandedCollectors in JuneAssociation.

1978. The keeps its members informed through “The Stump Town Report” Salem asrea Oregon Bottle Coillectorsnewsletter.

Association disbanded Two shows are held annually. in 1986 for much the same reasons.

In 1992, a group of collectors including Hooper, Mark Junker, Wayne Herring and Mike Valent reactivated the Oregon Bottle Collectors Association. The new club holds regular meetings and keeps its members informed through “The Stump Town Report” newsletter. Two shows are held annually.

Valent’s prized Oregon Chittum Bitters, an extremely rare bottle.

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RedPottery Wing Pottery Museum Red Wing Museum

NOW OPEN !

By Steve Ketcham Red Wing, Minnesota

“One day, we had volunteers from seven states here working on the project,” Peterson explained. “This whole thing has been a miracle. It was meant to be.”

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new, world-class museum has opened the A new, world-class museum has opened in the in Mississippi River town of Redborn Wing, Minnesota. town Mississippi of Red Wing,River Minnesota.

It was from the vision of a group volunteers who form the Wing It wasofborn from the vision of aRed group ofCollectors volunteersSociety Foundation.

TheRed museum created by more than 100 volunwho form the Wingwas Collectors Society Foundation. teers who donated nearly 10,000 hours of time and expertise The museum was created by more than 100 volunteers to the project.nearly Over 5,000 of hours the museum pieces were collected whovast donated 10,000 of time and expertise

by Jerry and Louise Schleich of Lincoln, Nebraska over a period to the vast project. Over 5,000 of the museum pieces of 35 years. were collected by Jerry and Louise Schleich of Lincoln, Nebraska period ofcollection 35 years.come to Red Wing? Larry How did theover hugea Schleich

Peterson, the museum project director explained, “Jerry wanted How didWing the huge Schleich collection to Red Wing? the Red to come home. That was hiscome dream.”

The entire Larry Peterson, the museum projectbydirector explained, collection was donated to the museum Louise Schleich after Jerry “Jerrydied. wanted the Red Wing to come home. That was his

dream.” The entire collection was donated to the museum

Peterson is no strangerafter to Red Wing pottery. He helped form the

by Louise Schleich Jerry died.

Red Wing Collectors Society nearly 40 years ago and has written three books on Red Wing stoneware.

Peterson is no stranger to Red Wing pottery. He helped form the Red Wing Collectors Society nearly 40 years ago Getting the collection from Lincoln to Red Wing was no small and has three books Redspent Wingpacking, stoneware. task.

Overwritten 1000 volunteer hoursonwere moving, Getting the collection from Lincoln Red Wing and unpacking roughly 800 boxes of thetofragile potterywas pieces. no small Overfrom 1000 volunteer hoursgot were spent even Red Wing task. collectors across the country involved, packing, moving, and unpacking roughly 800a boxes driving their personal vehicles to Lincoln to haul load toof thethe museum.

It took pieces. three months to plancollectors the move, from and it across was acfragile pottery Red Wing complished three weekends. the countryingot involved, even driving their personal vehicles to Lincoln to haul a load to the museum. It took Several chapters the the Redmove, Wing Collectors helped out, three months toofplan and it wasSociety accomplished in including the Gopher, Trails West, Nebraska, and Cannon Valley three weekends. chapters.

Once for thethisdemand for stoneware diminished, the Red Caption Picture Goes Wing Potteries survived by focusing on art pottery and “The Schleichs wanted to gather one example of everything dinnerware.

Red Wing made. They came close,” said Peterson. “While their friends were out golfing, Louise and Jerry were out looking for Red Wing, and it all started when Louise bought a three-pound Red Wing pantry jar. What Jerry and Louise accomplished would

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This 20 gallon wing crock is formed like its much smaller canning jar counterparts. It even features a “wax sealer� style closure.

It was likely a oneof-a-kind special order, but just what such a large jar was used for, especially with the spigot hole, is a mystery.

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Several chapters of the Red Wing Collectors Society helped out, including the Gopher, Trails West, Nebraska, and Cannon Valley chapters.

“One day, we had volunteers from seven states here working on the project,” Peterson explained.

“This whole thing has been a miracle. It was meant to be.”

“The Schleichs wanted to gather one example of everything Red Wing made. They came close,” said Peterson. “While their friends were out golfing, Louise and Jerry were out looking for Red Wing, and it all started when Louise bought a three-pound Red Wing pantry jar. What Jerry and Louise accomplished would be impossible today. Their gift is huge. It is an incredible gift to the city of Red Wing and to collectors.”

The new museum features exhibits of over 6,000 pieces of Red Wing pottery, from the earliest salt-glazed stoneware produced in the 1870s to the last pieces of dinnerware produced just prior to the factory closing in 1967. Many pieces are housed in over 70 oak display cabinets, also donated by the Schleich family.

Red Wing salt glazed crocks and jugs were often decorated with cobalt butterflies and flowers.

Early salt glazed items produced in Red Wing.

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Red Wing made bean pots stenciled with advertising for merchants throughout the Midwest.

Peterson noted that the Red Wing story is remarkable because the company was able to evolve with the needs and tastes of its customers. Once stoneware became less necessary for food production and storage, the company shifted its production to art pottery and eventually to dinnerware. Numerous examples of each type of pottery produced in Red Wing are now on exhibit at

Like many potteries, Red Wing used Albany Slip glaze on many of its products

Before turning to the ubiquitous red wing, the Red Wing Union Stoneware Company used a birch leaf decoration on many of its crocks.

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Additional exhibits will allow patrons to view a section of the old stoneware dump, the company mold room, warehouse, offices, and shipping department. The warehouse exhibit will include original crates of 1960s vintage dinnerware that remained at the factory when it closed.

This smokers set is seen as a real prize in the arena of folk art stoneware.

“Everyone has a Red Wing story,” concluded Peterson. “It might be a story about making sauerkraut in a Red Wing crock, a memory of a bowl in their family kitchen, or about a vase. That’s powerful. It seems Red Wing has been a part of everybody’s life.”

The new Pottery Museum of Red Wing grand opening was held during the annual Red Wing Collectors Society convention in July of 2014. Museum hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 9:00 – 5:00, and Sunday 11:00 -4:00. The museum is closed Mondays. It is located across the parking lot from the old pottery building at 240 Harrison Street, Red Wing, MN 55066. Visit www. potterymuseumredwing.org for more information.

Note: A version of this story first appeared in The Old Times newspaper.

Much like the whimsies produced by glass blowers, the potters of Red Wing sometimes used their lunch hours to create a variety of stoneware folk art.

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Nokomis Ware, with its variegated greens, is a collector favorite.

A vast array of dinnerware colors and forms attract Red Wing collectors to the pottery’s later work.

Beginning in the 1940s, Red Wing’s colorful, hand-painted luncheon plates did service at summer picnics and teas across the Midwest. Their colors still shine today.

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JIM HEALY

A man saving history one piece at a time

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with who is Jim As time I got visit with think of. All had Healy? before and after passed photos.and They aretobreathtaking.

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AsHe Jim Travis, Lee and Greenwood,Johnny others. told me, “None of them eversometimes hit it big.”and In my mind, if they would open shows for them write some songssing anything you write, it hit big.

By Jim Bender Presenting Jim Healy

Right: Jim Healy in his bottle room making repairs.

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When I asked Jim alreadyare made a few.”

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During that time, Jim also held a full time job with Sears as a they sang and still sing.stores As Jim ”None of them hitI design person for new astold wellme, as redesigning old ever stores. itguess big.”that’s In mywhere mind,the if they youdoing write,repairs it hit big. goodsing eye anything comes from well.

Jim cut two singles and one album on his own. Sears even sponDuring thatover time, Jimpromoting also held atheir full clothing time jobwear. with When Sears as a sored him time, I asked design person stores as well as redesigning old stores.

Jim how he didfor it, new he said, ”I had a wife and kids to take care of Isoguess that’shad where the agood eyepaycheck comes from doing I always to have steady coming in.”repairs well. Jim cut two singles and one album on his own. Sears even sponsored himyou over time,the promoting theircomes clothing wear.

This starts to show where good person from.

The When I asked Jim Jim’s how he did it, he said, ”I had a wifeup and first time I visited house, people started showing left kids to take care Iofasked so I always hadwas to have steady paycheck and right.

When him what goingaon, he said “We are coming having ain.” birthday party for my grandson.” I felt as if I was in the way and should not be there. That thought quickly passed when This starts family to showasked you where goodlike person comes from. the whole me if Ithe would to have some cake and The join first in. time I visited Jim’s house, people started showing up left and right. When I asked him what was going on, he said “We are having a birthday party forofmy felt as ifand I learned Jim has a wife Gertrude 52 grandson.” years, eightIchildren I18 was in the way and there. thought quickly grandchildren.

Asshould he toldnot me,be”We getThat together almost ever passed whole family asked me if I would like to have Sundaywhen after the church to do something together.”

This is something some and joinfrom. in. The Healy family is a close group who we allcake could learn enjoy each other’s company and live like families did years ago.

IThis learned Jim has a wife Gertrude of 52 years, is a great thing which is missing more andeight morechildren in today’s and 18 grandchildren. As he told me, ”We get together almost world. ever Sunday after church to do something together.” This is something wevisit all could learn from.

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So how did Jim get interested in old bottles? It was back in 1990 when he was out for a walk with his 5 year old son along the railroad tracks when he saw his son digging at something by a tree. He walked up and saw it was a bottle. He pulled it out and it was broken. He thought to himself, “Boy, that looks old and there can’t be many old bottles that never got broken over time.” So he dug around in the ashes a bit and out popped a whole bottle. The rest is history and Jim was hooked. He dug many bottles in old dumps and had no idea what if anything they were worth.

So he saw an ad for a bottle show being put on by the Capitol District Bottle Club. Off he went with some bottles in hand. He came to find out he had an E. Waters quart master ink and a J Lake cobalt blue iron pontiled soda in his group. Thank God there was a show close by. Let’s face it: we all know shows are still the backbone of our hobby and we all owe it to the hobby to support shows. Jim told me he has made some great friends in bottle collecting, something he and I both agree is the real reward of the hobby. Jim has shelves filled with bottles he has dug. Saratogas and Warner’s Safe bottles are among his favorites.

So how did repairing things start? Well, Jim told me he dug a jug with a bird on it out of the old Utica, N.Y., dump with a missing handle. He decided to send it out and have it fixed. He waited a long time to get it back and when he did it looked bad to him.

As he told me, ”The handle looked like an old rope glued on it.”

His wife told him he could do better than that. So he tried to fix a few pieces and over a short period of time he was turning out some quality work. Everything Jim repairs or totally restores is done cold with techniques he has developed himself over the past seven years. Yes, Jim has been doing this for only seven years and started when he was in his mid 60s. Looking at the photos in this article you can see the high level of skill he has. Talent on loan from God! The color matchings of the restored items are unbelievable. Jim feels that is the most important part of every job he does which numbers in the hundreds now. He has restored things for people in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, Connecticut and Maine. The repair or restoration work is as good as the piece was new. Almost everything he does has support wire in it so it can be detected with a metal detector. As Jim has told me more than once, what he does is save pieces and it’s not done to fool anyone.”

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The detail on this fox was amazing.

Beautifully repaired Pot Lid

During my first visit Jim showed me his gun collection which he has put together over the past 50 plus years. We could do a whole story about that alone. Let me just say it is a fantastic thing to see and Jim plans on passing it down in the family when the time comes.

So how did Jim get interested in old bottles? It was back in 1990 when he was out for a walk with his 5 year old son along the railroad tracks when he saw his son digging at something by a tree. He walked up and saw it was a bottle. He pulled it out and it was broken. He thought to himself, “Boy, that looks old and there can’t be many old bottles that never got broken over time.” So he dug around in the ashes a bit and out popped a whole bottle. The rest is history and Jim was hooked. He dug many bottles in old dumps and had no idea what if anything they were worth.

So he saw an ad for a bottle show being put on by the Capitol District Bottle Club. Off he went with some bottles in hand. He came to find out he had an E. Waters quart master ink and a J Lake cobalt blue iron pontiled soda in his group. Thank God there was a show close by. Let’s face it: we all know shows are still the backbone of our hobby and we all owe it to the hobby to support shows. Jim told me he has made some great friends Repaired dog. Stands about 12” tall

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in bottle collecting, something he and I both agree is the real reward of the hobby. Jim has shelves filled with bottles he has dug. Saratogas and Warner’s Safe bottles are among his favorites.

So how did repairing things start? Well, Jim told me he dug a jug with a bird on it out of the old Utica, N.Y., dump with a missing handle. He decided to send it out and have it fixed.

He waited a long time to get it back and when he did it looked bad to him. As he told me, �The handle looked like an old rope glued on it.� His wife told him he could do better than that. So he tried to fix a few pieces and over a short period of time he was turning out some quality work. Everything Jim repairs or totally restores is done cold with techniques he has developed himself over the past seven years. Yes, Jim has been doing this for only seven years and started when he was in his mid 60s. Looking at the photos in this article you can see the high level of skill he has. Talent on loan from God! The color matchings of the restored items are unbelievable.

Jim feels that is the most important part of every job he does which numbers in the hundreds now. He has restored things for people in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, Connecticut and Maine. The repair or restoration work is as good as the piece was new. Almost everything he does has support wire in it so it can be detected with a metal detector.

As Jim has told me more than once, what he does is save

Check this out, Jim rebuilt this from photos off the internet

I have been lucky enough to see pieces before and after. Jim truly is saving pieces of history one piece at a time.

Right from the dump.

Another jug saved from the grave.

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pieces and it’s not done to fool anyone.”

I have been lucky enough to see pieces before and after. Jim truly is saving pieces of history one piece at a time. I have included a photo of my fantasy jug as well as my 1780 black powder gun Jim saved for me. I have no before photos because I never thought to take one before I gave it to Jim. I was ashamed of how it looked – the barrel was held on by tape and the stock was all cracked up. The gun is very special to me as it is marked J BENDER on the barrel. I had found it in an antique shop two miles from my house and did not know how to save it. Then Jim entered my life and as they say, “the rest is history.”

Jim and his family truly are great people and Jim’s skill is out of this world. I will let the photos speak for them selves. I am proud to call Jim my friend.

Everything Jim repairs or totally restores is done cold with techniques he has developed himself over the past seven years.

This is my J Bender Black Powder gun that Jim restored for me Front of the jug he made me.

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The Federation Show An Adventure

Steven R. Libbey Caption goes here

I love

going treasure hunting I love going treasure hunting adventures with my chiladventures with my children. dren. We go up the river looking for arrowheads and We go upelse thewe river for arrowheads whatever can looking turn up. Driving to Lexington withwhatever two cameramen fromcan iNET made appreciate and else we turn up. me Driving to how truly gracious, responsible and mature my four, Lexington with two cameramen from iNET six and eight year old are. The trip reminded me how made me appreciate how truly gracious, much I really love and appreciate my new and old responsible mature my four, six and eight bottle friends and as well. year old are. The trip reminded me how much trip started 3am appreciate in the iNET parking lot. Weand hit the IThe really loveatand my new old freeway with the self-described, “Little Fat Man Child,” eating bottle friends well. a homemade, “carbas free” burrito and explaining how he can’t

seem to lose weight no matter what he does so he is on a carb The at 3am in the iNETwas parking the taco freetrip diet.started His, “carb free,” burrito madelot. of We threehitgiant freeway with the self-described, “Little Fat Man Child,” eating shells and inside that was four thousand calories of porridge-like astew homemade, “carb free” burrito explaining how he mixed with sour cream andand cheese.

Fortunately forcan’t his diet, seem to portion lose weight matter what does on“carb a carbfree” a good rollednodown over hishe chin as so hehe ateisthe free diet.because His, “carb free,” burrito made of“man three child” giant taco burrito it was wider than was his swollen mouth shells anda inside that was four thousand calories of porridge-like and like dog holding a broom in mouth, mid stick, trying to stew mixed with sour Fortunately his diet, get through a door, hecream could and not cheese. figure out how to getfor it through athe good portion rolled down his chin as Amusing, he ate the “carb gateway other than just over pushing harder.

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I digress, we made great time to Chicago. Suddenly, as we were driving, at seemingly the same speed as traffic, approximately 80MPH, red and blue lights flashed up behind. I got pulled tried toDAMNIT explain toIhim that with etiquette he over… thought, comeany on semblance God, pleaseofdon’t let this would bebeen a lot so more of a, “little man bottle child”adventure, so, in a way, trip I had anticipating as fat a great be he a really is on diet. I’m pretty didn’t ‘get bummer.

Thea officer came up sure to myhewindow andit’. asked me, “Do you know how fast you were going” and “Can I please see your I digress,Iwe great to Chicago. as weI really were license?” hadmade forgot my time license and said, Suddenly, “No I’m sorry driving, at seemingly speed as wasn’t paying attentionthe to same my speed.”

Hetraffic, rolled approximately his eyes and said, 80MPH, andof blue lights up behind. pulled “You havered a pile cash and flashed your credit card butI got no license?” over… thought, come as onIGod, please don’t let this (He sawDAMNIT everythingI in my pockets looked for my license) had been so anticipating great bottleshow adventure, be Itrip toldI him we were on our way as to afilm a bottle and I just a bummer.

Therush officer came my window andheasked forgot it in my to get outup thetodoor.

Disgusted went me, back “Do howgreat, fast you going” and “Can I pleasetosee to hisyou car. know I thought twowere or three tickets.

He returned the your license?”

I had forgot and said, “No I’m sorry I passenger side and gave me my a…license WARNING. I was like holy crap, really wasn’t paying attention to THANK my speed.”

He rolled thanks man! And THANK YOU, YOU, GOD!his Heeyes did andthe, said, “Youfat have a pile of cash your butwas no ask “Little man child” if he and threw up.credit I saidcard no, he license?”

(He free” saw everything inofficer my pockets I looked for mybut eating a “carb burrito. The said, Iassee.

(Not really license) told smile, him weright?) were on our way to film a bottle show and that madeI you I just forgot it in my rush to get out the door.

Most of the rest of the drive was quiet other than “Little fat man Disgusted he went backwas to his I thought two oronthree child” snoring.

Indiana notcar. even slightly great, interesting the tickets. He returned the passenger gave me a… interstate other than atogiant wind mill side farmand I reached just as the WARNING. I was holyrolled crap,into thanks man! And THANK sun was coming up.like As we Kentucky the landscape YOU, THANK YOU, GOD!toHe did askrolling the, “Little manan upmorphed from flat farmland beautiful hills. fat Truly child”change if he threw said no, he eating a “carbisfree” lifting afterup. twoI hundred flatwas miles.

Kentucky beautiful said, see.

(Not bottle really adventure. but that made you Iburrito. thought,The thisofficer IS going toIbe a great smile, right?)

We stopped at Cracker Barrel for lunch. The, “Little fat man Most of the up resttoofcomplain the driveabout was quiet other able thanto “Little manI child” woke not being sleep fat at all. child” was not even slightly on theof told himsnoring. he is theIndiana only insomniac I know who interesting snores hundreds interstate other He thanwas a giant windtomill I reached just“Ra as the miles at a time. shocked hearfarm he was snoring. ra ra sun was coming up.think As we rolled into Kentucky landscape really, I didn’t even I fell asleep.”

We got inthe to eat and the morphed from farmland toshow beautiful hills.and Truly two camera menflat stepped up to howrolling important special an uplifting change afterantwo hundred miles. Kentucky is they are. They observed older groupflat of dinners praying before beautiful thought, this IS them. going Flash to be aforward… great bottle adventure. dinner andI stared mocking Neither of them are employed by my company any more.

We stopped at Cracker Barrel for lunch. The, “Little fat man child” woke up toincomplain not being sleepweathad We finally arrived beautifulabout Lexington.

Man,able do Itowish all. kind I toldofhim is the onlyininsomniac I know that oldhe architecture Milwaukee.

Why who do wesnores tear down hundreds of miles at a time.

He wasinshocked to hear was the those beautiful structures?

Checked at the hotel and he walked snoring.

“Rawhat ra rawas really, even thinktheI fell asleep.” venue to see up. II didn’t had just missed annual members’ We got inI started to eat and thepeople two camera men stepped upmagato show meeting. to see I recognized from the how important andbut special They older zines and websites who Ithey had are. never met.observed How coolanthis is, I group of dinners praying before dinner and stared mocking thought. them. Flash forward… Neither of them are employed by my company any more.

Friday evening was the banquette. I saw a member of the old Milwaukee Bottle Club who looked like he had just taken a bite

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We finally arrived in beautiful Lexington. Man, do I wish we had that kind of old architecture in Milwaukee. Why do we tear down those beautiful structures? Checked in at the hotel and walked the venue to see what was up. I had just missed the annual members’ meeting. I started to see people I recognized from the magazines and websites but who I had never met.

How cool this is, I thought.

Friday evening was the banquette. I saw a member of the old Milwaukee Bottle Club who looked like he had just taken a bite of a poop doughnut as he ran and hid when he saw me at the pre-banquette reception. He was one of the people who pushed me into supporting our new club. I would have thanked him if he wasn’t still angry. Quick aside: I recommend all bottle people love collecting, love fellow collectors and love life, because it all can end any time. Smile and have fun!

So then there was the banquette. We sat next to super cool people. The, “Little fat man child” could not wait for the amazing Ferdinand to get through the awards to start eating. Go figure. The two camera men were able to control their contempt for Christianity through the pre-meal prayer. Not sure they heard it through the chewing though. Leanne Peace, our table mate, won the Best Formal Bottle Hat contest. She truly was a gracious southern bell. A joy to meet. Such a nice happy lady and so excited to win a beautiful ribbed decanter/bottle. The WA&AC club won three more awards for our table including BEST website. With our goal of creating a resource, like none other for collectors, the best website award really is appreciated.

It has been a lot of work and participation from many club members to make it happen. Thank you all!

After the banquette was the bottle contest. The camera guys didn’t want to watch any more bottle stuff so we went for a walk in the neighborhood looking for a place to get a bourbon.

Before the banquet we watched a presentation on everything about the ‘incredibly delicious’ Kentucky beverage, we decided to try it. We ended up at the bar in the hotel. In spite of all of its ‘incredible properties and delicacies,’ bourbon is not for me.

I struggled retching to choke it down. We walked down to the downstairs bar to see if there was something going on. There was no one other than three bar tenders, including one pretty weird one. One of the camera guys hit it off with the weird dude.

Their conversation about cartoons and the weird bar tender scarring a young girl who thought he was going to abduct her made me want to pull a, “Little fat man child” and throw up burrito. I left to see if there were any of my new bottle friends in the main bar on my way back to the room. “Little fat man child” couldn’t handle the sexual tension laden conversation any more than I could and came upstairs too.

Sick and tired, literally, I bought the, “Little fat man child” and myself a drink intending to sedate myself toward sleep… Still feeling like crap and hoping for a likeminded friend I bought an older gentleman a drink too. I assumed he was there for the show because everyone in the lounge area seemed to be collectors or bottle people. He turned out to be Dennis Fox, one of the most exciting things that happened at the show. We started talking about bottle hunting. I told him I scuba dive for them and that started Dennis telling the most incredible and awesome

Whiskey and Bourbon bottle authorities Dennis Fox (left) from American Bottle Auctions and David Jackson from Greensboro, North Carolina.

stories anyone has ever told in relation to bottle hunting. Yes, we all have awesome stories BUT I could write his into a script that would make an incredible adventure movie. Going to South America, buying boats, finding gold AND Bryant’s ladies leg bitters bottles. Wrecked ships that had tried to get from the east coast to the west coast by going around South America in the 1850s. Everything from the people to the things they found…

Just awesome. Literally, five drinks later I went to bed truly glad that I came to the show. No matter what happened from there I had a fascinating time and enough fun to make the trip memorable and worthwhile.

The next morning was show setup and the presentations. I caught pieces of three different presentations. They were all awesome. I haven’t learned so much about bottles in a weekend since the first bottle show I attended.

I was presenting on the Virtual Museum project with Federation President Ferdinand Meyer. Having never met Ferdinand other than through email, and a couple of times on the phone it was pretty cool to realize the big dog is just one of us, a great collector who is truly excited about the hobby and a genuinely nice person. Ferdinand is the human push who will either make the Virtual Museum happen or it will not happen. Ferdinand planned to review the project and update the membership in his piece. I was to simply fill in and follow up. Ferdinand has a vision, is a great speaker and did a great job. Anyone not excited about the Virtual Museum after seeing his presentation is just not interested in seeing bottles or sharing information. It was awesome and an honor to be part of it as a member of our fledgling little club.

Next was setup. It was a major disappointment with all of that wonderful glass being set out to see virtually nothing from Wisconsin. Bill Mitchell was there with a bunch of the kind of glass that is high quality and beautiful but not super rare or in ideal condition. Nothing for me. Still, it was great to see Bill

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who I haven’t seen since he stopped running the Madison show. I was just getting into collecting back then.

I literally had the flu the week before the show. I still wasn’t feeling so great. I took the camera men to dinner and then for a drink at the martini bar across the street from the Hyatt. The little neighborhood restaurant had decent food but maybe one of the best deserts I have ever had. It was awesome. I had a soda at the martini bar because I just wasn’t feeling so great.

I left the two camera ‘men’ when two young ladies walked in and sat near us. They camera men said they were too afraid to talk to the girls. I don’t think it mattered.

The next day was show day! We were filming bottles. It was crazy. We filmed incredible rarities including a cobalt pontiled calabash flask, an incredible pontiled one of a kind teal quart ink from New York, a dozen incredible colored and rare bitters AND Ferdinand Meyer’s Bryant’s Cone Bitters.

Of all non-Wisconsin bottles I have seen on the web or in print the Bryant’s Cone Bitters is singularly the one bottle I found most fascinating. Ferdinand simply handed it to me and said take care of it or something like that. I could hardly hear him because the blood was pounding in my ears as he handed it over. I walked a good three hundred feet, (At Least) over the rock solid concrete from his table to the booth where we were filming just looking at the bottle in amazement. It truly is beautiful and so unusual. It is archived forever on our website www.wisantique.com. It will be in the virtual museum when it is done, of course. I have to say thank you Ferdinand

Ferdinand Meyer V holding an Old Sachems Bitters and Wigwam Tonic figural barrel and the iconic Bryant’s Stomach Bitters cone.

looking at a ladies leg bitters bottle… That came out from a box under a table… I heard him say four or five hundred, if you can find a collector who wants it in this condition…

While, I was right there and I wanted it, BAD… It is in far better condition than the other one I own of this mold variety of Knickerbocker Bitters Milwaukee. I asked to see it and asked if he wanted to sell. Of course he didn’t at that price. I said this is an important bottle to me. Can I show you something? He said sure. I got our club brochure and showed him my lithograph, a picture of a Weiss Brothers Ladies Leg on it and then pointed at my shirt and said see the W? I had this designed based on the lithograph I own from that company. We agreed on a price and I got one for the collection. THAT is always the bottom line on a show being great for me… Something for the collection. [See picture top of Post]

Ribbon cutting ceremony for the FOHBC 2014 National Antique Bottle Show

for letting me handle what could not be replaced and for graciously telling the story. Truly, it is singularly the highlight of my year in bottles.

Walking the show I found a shot glass from Weiss Brothers to go with my Knickerbocker Bitters lithograph at Steve Ketchum’s table so that was cool… Something to take home.

Walking back to my booth I saw Jeff, Froggy, Burkhardt

The show ended, we packed up said good bye to new friends and drove back home. The drive home was slow with horrible traffic and a sleepless yet snoring, “Little fat man child.” Still, I was hauling treasure.

It was a GREAT experience. The show was super well run.

Security was awesome. It was neat to be out of town on a bottle adventure and meeting so many incredible bottle people and seeing glass I have never and will never see again was awesome. I highly recommend collectors experience The Federation Show at least once and as often as you can.

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Tom and Mabel Hicks happy as can be with their new drug store stock.

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SOMETIMES IT PAYS TO PEEK INTO WINDOWS

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By Bill Baab

It’s funny funny how how little little things things can can lead lead to to It’s bigger things things when when you you least leastexpect expectit. it. bigger For instance, instance, if if Bill Bill and and Joyce Joyce Johnson, Johnson, of of Snellville, Snellville, Georgia, Georgia, For hadn’t attended the Vicksburg, Mississippi bottle show in July hadn’t attended the Vicksburg, Mississippi bottle show in July of 2013; if they hadn’t gone downtown to eat supper, of 2013; if they hadn’t gone downtown to eat supper, and if they and if they gone Tom for a and walk, Tom Hicks, and Mabel Hicks, ofGeorhadn’t gonehadn’t for a walk, Mabel of Eatonton, Eatonton, Georgia, would have been just as happy, maybe, gia, would have been just as happy, maybe, without all the drug without all crammed the drug store stock crammed every nookhome. and store stock into every nook and into cranny of their cranny of their home.

The Johnsons “were walking along the downtown sidewalk, peerTheinto Johnsons “were walking the downtown sidewalk, ing store windows, when along they spied a drug store window and peering into store windows, when they spied a drug looked in,” Hicks recalled. “They saw all this stuff instore the window, windowthe andstore looked in,” dark Hicksand recalled.

“They all So Bill noticed looked appeared to besaw closed. this stuff theofwindow, noticed the store looked darkonand pulled outinone his business cards, scribbled a note the back appeared to be closed.

So Bill pulled out one of his to the effect he was interested in buying some of thebusiness items, slid it cards, the scribbled a note under door and left.on the back to the effect he was interested in buying some of the items, slid it under the door and left.later, the Corner Drug Store’s owner called. Seems the “Weeks store owners tried to get the city of Vicksburg to take it all for “Weeks theitCorner Drug Store’s called. Seems the free and later, operate as a museum, but theowner city refused.

The drug store owners tried to get the city of Vicksburg to take it all for store’s origins dated to the 1880s and much of its old stock was free and operate it as agenerations museum, but the Gerache city refused.

Theand drug accumulated by three of the family store’s origins dated to the 1880s and much of its old stock never discarded. was accumulated by three generations of the Gerache family and never discarded.

“Bill Johnson reminds me of a dog chasing a car. When it finally

catches it, the dog doesn’t know what to do with it! We are really “Bill friends, Johnsonso reminds me of a dog chasing a car.

Whenwith it him good Bill called and talked me into driving finally catches it, the dog doesn’t know what to do with it! back to Vicksburg,” said Hicks, a longtime collector of antique We are really good friends, so Bill called and talked medecoys into bottles, early Georgia furniture, Southern pottery, duck driving with him back to Vicksburg,” said Hicks, a longtime and what have you. collector of antique bottles, early Georgia furniture, Southern pottery, duck decoys and what have you.

Johnson and members of the Gerache family worked together to

arrange a date suitable for the pair to view the entire collection Johnson and members of thepurchase Geracheagreement. family worked together and negotiate an acceptable to arrange a date suitable for the pair to view the entire collection andtonegotiate an acceptable purchase “Bill wanted cherry-pick, but I wanted to buy agreement. the whole thing,” Hicks said. “We bought $2,875 worth of stuff and Bill later sold “Bill wanted to cherry-pick, wanted We to buy the whole his share to just one person but for I$4,000! decided to gothing,” back a Hicks said.

“We bought $2,875 worth of stuff and Bill later sold second time, rented a U-Haul truck and loaded up again.” his share to just one person for $4,000! We decided to go back a

All that heavy lifting loading and unloading proved too much for Johnson, who “suffered from severe pains in my back and legs.

I decided not to return. I had advised Tom to make a third return second time,get rented a U-Haul truck and semi-rare loaded up items.” again.” trip to only the remaining rare and All that heavy lifting loading and unloading proved too much for Hicks Johnson, who “suffered from severe my left, backso and But decided that he wanted to buy pains all thatinwas he legs.

I decided not to return.

I had advised Tom to make a third made the owner an offer and was surprised when it was acceptreturn trip tosaid only getgiven the remaining rareproceeds and semi-rare items.” ed.

Johnson he’d Tom all the from sales he But Hicks decided that he wanted to buy all that was left, so to (Johnson) had made until Hicks got back the money he’d spent he made theofowner an offer andthat, was we surprised it was buy the rest the stock.

“After startedwhen splitting proceeds accepted.

Johnson said he’d given Tom all the proceeds from again,” Johnson said. sales he (Johnson) had made until Hicks got back the money he’d spent to buy his themoney rest of and the stock.

“Afterand that, we started my “Tom contributed knowledge I contributed splitting proceeds again,” Johnson said. knowledge and collector network,” said Johnson, whose expertise includes pharmaceutical antiques. “We were partners in the whole “Tom contributed his money and knowledge and I contributed deal.” my knowledge and collector network,” said Johnson, whose expertise includes antiques.

“Weenlisted were partners Tom and Mabel arepharmaceutical not spring chickens, so they the help in the whole deal.” of a younger (and stronger) Eatonton resident and friend, John Guthrie. “Thank the Lord for John!” Hicks said emphatically.

Tom and Mabel arevan noton spring chickens, so they enlisted Guthrie drove their the 8-hour, 400-mile-plus drive to the help of a younger (and stronger) Eatonton resident and Vicksburg where they rented a large U-Haul truck. friend, John Guthrie. “Thank the Lord for John!” Hicks said emphatically.

Guthrie their vaninonlate theFebruary, 8-hour, 400-mileWhen they arrived backdrove in Vicksburg they displus drive to Vicksburg where they rented a large U-Haul covered the store owners had sold the building so the Hickses had totruck. be out by a certain date in March. So they enlisted the help of three local men to help lift and transport all the goods out of the When they back in Vicksburg in late February, they store and intoarrived the truck. discovered the store owners had sold the building so the Hickses to beofout a certain date in March. So they Boxes andhad boxes all by sorts of pharmaceutical-related stuff, enlisted the help of three local men to help lift and transport including a Ferris & Smith Skin Grafting Knife, were placed on all theAnother goods out of was the store andcarboy into the truck.with used golf board. item a huge loaded

balls.

Boxes and boxes of all sorts of pharmaceutical-related stuff, a Ferris & Smith Skin were One of including the hired help returned to store to Grafting confess toKnife, the Hickplaced on board.

Another item was a huge carboy loaded ses that he’d had a little accident. He had dropped the slippery with used golf balls. and golf balls went rolling merrily down carboy, it had shattered

the street.

One of the hired help returned to store to confess to the Hickses that he’d had a little accident. had so dropped the and I “But he chased after and picked up all ofHethem all Mabel slippery carboy, it had shattered and golf balls went rolling

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merrily down the street.

“But he chased after and picked up all of them so all Mabel and I could do was laugh,” Hicks said.

Johnson noted that the Geraches had maintained an herb garden in the back of the store while still in business in their early years. “They would harvest the herbs, dry them in 10-gallon specimen jars (circa 1895), then use them in compounding certain medications. Four specimen jars are still in our possession.”

Mabel Hicks said that “it took us three days of loading up and traveling to bring everything home and it liked to have killed us. After getting back, Tom was aching all over and felt like he had a blood clot in his leg. Turned out he did, but that’s been taken care of.”

Meanwhile, Johnson sold many items to historically minded pharmacists, museums and individual collectors like Walter Smith, of Augusta, Georgia. Smith, whose wife is a pharmacist, bought an electrically lighted mortar-pestle sign.

The Hickses have been unpacking boxes and placing a lot of the goods into antique malls in nearby Madison, Georgia and are hopeful that somebody will come along “and buy a bunch of it.” They also took some of the items to the Federation of Historical Bottle Clubs National Show last August in Lexington, Kentucky, but it hardly made a dent in the stuff stored in just about every room in their home.

Their finds included mortars and pestles of different sizes and materials, scales geared to weigh pills and powders to one large enough

The old stock contained a number of miscellaneous items including boxed skin grafting knife. (Bill Baab photo)

The Hickses show off just a few of the many druggists’ scales.(Bea Baab photo)

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to weigh a newborn baby. Bottles containing their original contents, including a Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup bottle in its original wrapper, were joined by prescription files strung on a string and looking like an accordion.

Taking accordian lessons? No. Tom and Mabel Hicks holding a roll of prescription forms.

(Bea Baab photo)

Many of the bottles sported labels under glass and the Hickses worried about them en route back to Georgia along Interstate 20. “That section of the highway in Mississippi was pretty rough and I was afraid the labels – held onto the bottles by beeswax – would loosen.

We did find some loose in their boxes when we got back.”

Strangely, there were no paper archives such as letters of correspondence, catalogues, bill-heads or letterheads found while clearing out the store. The buyers felt that they had been discarded over the years.

“It was a really tough job, but we have no regrets,” Hicks said. “It’s not every day that you can buy an old drug store’s old stock.”

Tom and Mabel check out a table full of pharmaceutical bottles, some with original contents(Bill Baab photo)

Just how old? Cardboard fans either given away or sold were printed with this motto: “Your Grandfather Told Your Father About Our Drug Store.”

Tom Hicks checking drug store bottles for condition inside Corner Drug Store. Note all those labels under glass bottles.(Courtesy of Bill Johnson)

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GEORGE C. THOMPSON, A PIONEER GOLD RUSH SODA BOTTLER

by Eric McGuire

FIGURE 4. A wood cut of Thompson’s Soda Works as it appeared in FIGURE 4. A wood cut of Thompson’s Soda Works as it appeared in 1860. A worker 1860.

A worker in front of the building is loading the egg-shaped in front of the building is loading eggwater. shaped dispensing vessels that held soda water. dispensing vessels that held the soda

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between Panama and San Francisco. Arriving 19.5 days from Panama, via Acapulco, Mazatlan and Monterey (California), she docked in San Francisco on September 22, 1850. Thompson’s wife, Phoebe Purdy Thompson, remained in New York City along with their four children, George C., Harriet A., William D., and Sarah.

It is not clear whether Thompson first mirrored the actions of nearly every other Argonaut who arrived in California by experiencing first-hand the inevitable early symptom of the goldfever that drew would-be fortune seekers to the Mother Lode, only to be quickly disillusioned by the difficulty in finding the precious metal. Nevertheless, it is reported that he had begun his soda water operations in the early part of 1851.

There is little doubt that the cobalt blue half- pint soda water bottle embossed HOGAN & THOMPSON / SAN FRANCISCO is the product of our subject. His partner, Peter J. Hogan, was born in Ireland about 1817, but currently remains poorly documented. The 1854 San Francisco business directory reveals some evidence with the listing of both P.J. Hogan and H. Hogan as George Thompson’s partners, since all three men were listed as doing business at the Union Soda Works, corner of Union near Stockton Streets. The best evidence for the existence of this soda works is found in the Daily Placer Times of San Francisco beginning January 11, 1854, when a notice of dissolution of the partnership was first published.

A Mrs. P.J. Hogan arrived in San Francisco on the Steamer Columbus, leaving New York on February 12, 1850 and arriving in San Francisco on June 6, 1850. This implies that Mr. P.J. Hogan was already in California at that time. It is likely that Peter J. Hogan is the same person who died in San Francisco on April 2, 1862.(4) For now, at least, the Hogans remain a mystery, with the other known employee of the partnership of Hogan & Thompson - H. Hogan - continuing to be completely unidentified. It has been noted that Thompson shifted his business emphasis from soda water bottling to the sale of soda water equipment and supplies, including the generators that were so important in charging water with its gaseous bubbles. This business shift occurred in 1852. (5) FIGURE 2. The obverse of the Hogan & Thompson soda bottle, embossed in a slug plate, HOGAN & THOMPSON / SAN FRANCISCO / CAL.

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lthough George Christopher Thompson was born in London, England, on October 25, 1817, he was raised in New York City. He immigrated to New York with his father in 1821. (1) At an early age George demonstrated excellent mechanical abilities and by the time he was 18 years old, he was accepted as a life member of the New York Mechanic’s Institute.

He became a U.S. citizen in New York on May 2, 1844. George apprenticed as a cooper and worked at this occupation in New York City from 1835 until he left for California in 1850. (2) George Thompson was still living in New York City on August 21, 1850, as noted in the federal census. (3), but he was likely the G.C. Thompson who was recorded as arriving in San Francisco on board the Steamship Panama, that made the run

Peter Hogan was no longer a part of the Union Soda Works by 1854, but Thompson continued in the business. The 1856 through 1859 San Francisco directories list a brief partnership with Thompson and James McKewen (6) located on the North side of Union Street near Stockton Street. McKewen became the proprietor of the California Soda Works in 1860 after his separation from Thompson.

FIGURE 1. The dissolution notice documenting the termination of the partnership between Peter J. Hogan and George C. Thompson on January 1, 1854.

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FIGURE 3. The reverse of the Hogan & Thompson soda bottle, embossed UNION GLASS WORKS / PHILAD.

Further evidence that Thompson shifted away from bottling is the total lack of any bottles that may be attributed to him until 1860, except for the earlier HOGAN & THOMPSON bottles.

His son, William Delamater Thompson, sailed west to join his father about 1860, (7) and at the same time Thompson finally ordered more bottles, in fact, using the first soda water bottles blown in California from the short-lived San Francisco Glass Works which was, at that time operated by Adolphus Baker.

(8) None of the soda bottles from this factory are known to be embossed and it is likely that the glass works used only one generic mold. Thompson would be its first customer for a run of the bottles, ordering an unknown quantity and using only paper labels to identify the brand and contents. The glass factory began in March of 1860 and appears to have ceased operation

by September.(9) Regardless of attribution to Thompson, these early San Francisco Glass Works soda bottles are extremely rare, and often difficult to identify, under any circumstances.

The bottles could have been easily pirated by any bottler and probably did not stay in the possession of Thompson very long.

It was another decade before more bottles were purchased by

FIGURE 6. An 1871 advertisement for Thompson’s soda water.

Thompson that could be definitively attributed to him. Blown in two separate and slightly different molds, but both ten-pin shaped, they carry the registered trade mark of a soda water generator embossed in the glass. Having no reason to trade mark this identifying feature beyond the boundaries of the State of California, Thompson applied to the Secretary of State and received his desired protection on May 10, 1872. (10) The soda water generator, for which Thompson was so well known in San Francisco became visually linked with his name in the public eye. Advertisements, such as that in figure 6 prominently displayed his generator.

The Hamilton shaped bottle with an embossed “T”, displayed in Figure 6 is apparently fictional since none have been found.

Just as with his earlier bottles, the two later variants, which were the first to be embossed with the trademarked name of THOMPSON’S PREMIUM MINERAL WATER – are also quite scarce. Markota (11) speculated that the reason Thompson’s bottles are so rare is that his bottling operation was rather small, about 50 dozen per day, and his primary focus was

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on filling the soda fountains that he serviced throughout San Francisco.

In 1879, Thompson purchased lots at the corner of Filbert and Mason Streets in San Francisco and erected a new residence and a new factory for his soda works. In 1882, he partnered with others to form the Pacific Mineral Water Company but the company quickly failed as nothing more is documented of this concern. (12) Thompson continued his Union Soda Works with moderate success and was often the prevailing bidder in providing soda water at the various fairs and expositions held in San Francisco, with the centerpiece of these vending activities being his soda dispenser for which he gained much notoriety.

Thompson’s wife, Phoebe, and daughter, Sarah Thompson, relocated from New York to San Francisco about 1865. George’s first born son, George C. Thompson, Junior, had joined the 9th Regiment, New York Infantry, and was killed on December 13, 1862, at the terribly bloody Battle of Fredericksburg where 1,284 Union and 608 Confederate soldiers were lost.

William Delameter Thompson, the oldest surviving son, who joined his father about 1860, continued working for George Thompson his entire career and lived at the family home on Union Street and later at 800 Filbert Street in San Francisco. He died at the age of 48 years on September 7, 1890, and never married.

George and Phoebe Thompson’s daughter, Harriet Augusta Thompson, married Sydney Jones about 1862 in New York City. Their four children were born there, the last in 1871, but the family then moved to San Francisco and Sydney joined his father-in-law in running the soda works. Harriet and Sydney divorced but Sydney continued to work at the soda works. The couple’s oldest daughter, Sarah Jones, married Judson Edmund Colton on October 16, 1888. Judson became a wealthy business man in the town of Martinez, California, and once owned the largest independent winery in Contra Costa County.

(13) FIGURE 5. Shards of broken soda water bottles blown at the San Francisco Glass Works in 1860 and excavated from the glass works’ refuse pile. All are blown in the same mold, with no embossing, and may be rejects from the order placed by George C. Thompson in 1860.

The glass works production lasted no more than several months.

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FIGURE 8. The obverse of the first variant of Thompson’s bottle is embossed, UNION SODA WORKS / SAN FRANCISCO. It is not possible to declare with certainty which of the two variants were blown first.

FIGURE 9. The reverse of Thompson’s first variant soda bottle is embossed, THOMPSON’S / MINERAL WATERS, around a picture of Thompson’s soda water dispensing generator that has a “T” embossed on its side.

George and Phoebe Thompson’s youngest daughter also played a part in the largely family run soda works. Born in New York City in 1849, Sarah C. Thompson first married Joseph C. Hollis in 1869 in San Francisco. After their marriage, Joseph was promptly employed at the soda works but died an untimely death in 1879 at age 40. Their union produced three boys, George C. (b. 1870), Joseph A. (b. 1872) and William Harrington Hollis (b.

1874). The three boys literally grew up in the soda works, and it was probably hard to determine when play became work. George Hollis became the bookkeeper and office manager but succumbed to death in 1901. The remaining brothers, especially Joseph, became key employees to the works. William Hollis harbored other aspirations and graduated from the University of California in 1896. He soon became head of the Chemistry Department of the California School of Mechanical Arts. (14)

employee Charles Read, a 29 year old native of San Francisco, and plumber by trade, was killed when a tank at the soda works exploded on March 11, 1904. (15)

With the death of her husband, Sarah Hollis, remarried in San Francisco to Moses Moore in 1884. Moses also went to work for his father-in-law at the soda works.

By the turn of the century, advanced age found George Thompson working less at the soda works and asked his grandson, William Hollis, to return and manage the operation.

William obliged his grandfather and he took charge. George Thompson was probably not present when a soda works

The accident must have greatly deflated the old man and when George Thompson finally resolved to part from his life’s work he transferred the soda works to his grandsons, Joseph and William Hollis, on October 28, 1904, for a $10 bill.

Beginning with the end of the 19th century and through the first six years of the 20th, death completely changed the dynamics of the family soda water empire that George Thompson built.

Beginning in 1897, with the death of his beloved wife, Phoebe, who had been his life’s companion since their marriage in 1839, a number of family deaths were witnessed.(16) As noted earlier, Thompson’s grandson, George C. Hollis died on June 24, 1901.

This was followed by: William Harrington Hollis, the manager and the beneficiary of half of the soda works in 1904, died May 7, 1905.

Jeannette, the youngest child of William Harrington and Caroline White Hollis, died on August 21, 1905, just one year old.

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FIGURE 10. The obverse of the second variant of Thompson’s soda bottle, embossed, THOMPSON’S / PREMIUM / MINERAL WATERS.

daughter, Sarah, died on December 8, 1905.

Sydney Jones, the ex-husband of George Thompson’s daughter, Harriet, died in Martinez, Contra Costa County, Calf., on August 20, 1906.

While the remaining partner, Joseph Hollis, moved across the Bay to Alameda, after the 1906 earthquake, he was still listed as part owner of a soda works in the 1910 census. Joseph never married and he and his mother, Sarah Moore, moved back to San Francisco and lived out their remaining years together in retirement. Sarah died in 1927 and Joseph died in 1933. The patriarch, and owner of the longest operating soda works in San Francisco, George Christopher Thompson, apparently experienced the 1906 earthquake, but died in that year – 89 years old. His exact death date was not located. Perhaps he is one of the many unrecorded casualties of that great calamity.

Notes: 1. The Bay of San Francisco: The Metropolis of the Pacific Coast and its Suburban Cities. 1892. Lewis Publishing Co. 1892, pg. 620 2. ibid, pg. 620 3. U.S. Census for New York, 13th Ward of New York City 4. San Francisco Evening Bulletin, April 2, 1862

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FIGURE 11. The reverse of Thompson’s second variant bottle is embossed, UNION SODA WORKS / SAN FRANCISCO, surrounding the centrally embossed soda dispensing generator that has a “T” embossed on it.

5. Scientific Press (San Francisco, Calif.), Sep. 1, 1860, pg. 117 6. Harris, Bogardus & Labatt, San Francisco City Directory for the Year Commencing October 1856, pg. 106 and Henry G. Langley, The San Francisco Business Directory for the Year 1858, pg. 201 7. U.S. Census for San Francisco, 1860 8. Scientific Press, Sept. 1, 1860, pg. 117 9. Early Glass Works of California by Warren Friedrich. N.D. (2012) pg. 24 10. California Secretary of State, Trademark No. 223 11. Western Blob Top Sodas & Mineral Water Bottles By Peck & Audie Markota. 1972 12. Sacramento Daily Union, April 27, 1882) His partners were Frank L. Southack, Louis Lanszweert and J.W. Butler 13. The History of Contra Costa County, California. Elms Publishing Co., 1917, pg. 522 14. The San Francisco Call, May 9, 1905, pg. 16 15. ibid, April 22, 1904, pg. 11 16. Phoebe Thompson died on September 8, 1897, in San Francisco, Calif.

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THE WATER OF NEW ALMADEN SPRING,

CALIFORNIA

by Eric McGuire

The discovery of mercury in California preceded the more famous discovery by a number of years.

In fact the its ore, he gold discovery of mercury in California preceded more cinnabar (HgS), discovered many hundreds famous goldwas discovery by aprobably number of years.

In factof itsyears ago the native population, who used the brilliant ochre for ore,by cinnabar (HgS), was discovered probably manyred hundreds decorative purposes.

But it population, was under the watch Mexican of years ago by the native who used of thethe brilliant red government, who owned California the under time, the thatwatch the deposit ochre for decorative purposes.

But itatwas of the was determined to contain - often called quicksilver.

Mexican government, whomercury owned California at the time, that First mined by in 1824, Andres Castillero, a Mexican the deposit wasMexicans determined to contain mercury - often called military captain, the first to file a mining claim withCastillero, the quicksilver.

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by Mexicans in 1824, Andres Mexican government, in 1845.

Company pura Mexican military captain, wasBarron, the firstForbes to file&a mining claim chased theMexican mine thegovernment, following year and gave it the name& of New with the in 1845.

Barron, Forbes Almaden after the Mines Spain, CompanyMine, purchased the famous mine theAlmaden following year in and gave which it the are centrally between andfamous Seville. name of Newlocated Almaden Mine,Toledo after the Almaden Mines in Spain, which are centrally located between Toledo and Seville.

A simultaneous discovery at the same location was a mineral spring that was todiscovery play a significant rolelocation in the history of the A simultaneous at the same was a mineral West. evidencerole of its discovery located springThe thatfirst wasdocumented to play a significant in the historywas of the in the California Star, on Aprilevidence 1, 1848:of its discovery was located West.

The first documented in the California Star, on April 1, 1848: “It may also be stated that a mineral spring has been discovered near at hand the that mercury mine).spring The water hasdiscovered not yet “It may also (near be stated a mineral has been been but the gentlemen with those Ballston near analyzed, at hand (near mercuryacquainted mine). The water hasofnot yet been and Saratoga, pronounce acquainted its properties to those be very those analyzed, but gentlemen with of similar Ballstontoand of the celebrated Congress water.” to be very similar to those of Saratoga, pronounce its properties the celebrated Congress water.”

That discovery was the first of many springs soon to be located

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The first New Almaden bottle was used between 1854 and 1857. It is embossed on three panels: W & W / NEW ALMADEN / MINL WATER. Examples have been seen from light aqua to medium teal in color. All exhibit an iron pontil scar on the base.

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That discovery was the first of many springs soon to be located by the new occupants of California who would, naturally, make comparisons with mineral springs they knew from their homelands in the Eastern United States and Europe. For a number of years the spring was just a novelty, far overshadowed by its much more valuable quicksilver mine In that same issue of the Star, the rumors of a recent gold “strike”, doubted by many, was further confirmed in an article describing the potential riches of the upper Sacramento Valley: “It has a mine of gold and a probable estimate of its magnitude cannot be derived from any information we have received. It was discovered in December last, on the south branch of the American Fork, in a range of low hills forming the base of Sierra Nevada, distant 30 miles from New Helvetia. It is found at a depth of three feet below the surface, and in a strata of soft sand rock. Explorations made southward, the distance of twelve miles, and to the north five miles, report the continuance of this strata, and the mineral equally abundant. The vein is from twelve to eighteen feet in thickness.”

In fact, the location of the New Almaden Mine could not have been more fortuitous after the discovery of gold in the Sierra Nevada region, for without the quicksilver, gold extraction would have taken a completely different direction during those initial years of the “Rush”. Mercury was an essential element in extraction of the gold from its native environment.

NEW ALMADEN MINERAL WATER Water from the New Almaden Spring was first known to be bottled in 1854 when the partners of Daniel T. Winslow and brothers David and Thomas Williams had special bottles blown in the East and transported to San Francisco. This was the earliest known bottling of California spring water. The initial production was reported to be about 100 dozen per day. (1) The Sacramento Daily Union of August 11, 1854, reported: “Saratoga and Ballston will soon be eclipsed by the watering places of this State, and “California Congress” in neatly labelled bottles may ere long be shipped to the isles of the Pacific.”. . . “ We were shown yesterday some mineral spring water from New Almaden, about fifteen miles above San Jose. It was put up in bottles, and when mixed with syrup sparkled and effervesced like soda. The taste is fully as rich and pleasant as any soda water from a fountain.”

In the following year a hotel was constructed near the spring in order to welcome guests to the source of the water and to partake in the beautiful country, even though that tranquil spot was overshadowed by a quicksilver mine of huge proportions that belched its deadly vapors across the immediate landscape.

In discussing the mineral springs of the Santa Clara Valley, within which is located the City of San Jose, the Sacramento Daily Union of October 4, 1856, reported: “There are three mineral springs in the county, the largest of

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which is situate in the town of New Almaden, adjacent to the quicksilver mine. The valley is amply supplied with soda water, manufactured at this spring.”

By 1857 the bottling venture of Winslow and Williams was abandoned with the reason being blamed on lack of ability to retrieve the empty bottles. . . “as the bottles were expensive and were not returned.” (2) The partners then moved their bottling operations to the more easily definable market area of San Jose after purchasing the pioneer works of Gerricke & Leach, who decided to sell out and leave San Jose.

The first New Almaden bottle was used between 1854 and 1857.

It is embossed on three panels: W & W / NEW ALMADEN / MINL WATER. Examples have been seen from light aqua to medium teal in color. All exhibit an iron pontil scar on the base.

The following quote underscores the competing interest between the terrible conditions of a working mercury mine and that of a healthful resort atmosphere. Even though the mineral water continued to be bottled, one can understand why the mineral spring and associated hotel may not have been a desirable destination for the vacationing public. Needless to say, the hugely profitable mercury recovery operation was a major force to be reckoned with: Despite the lofty chimneys, and the close attention that has been devoted to the secret of effectually condensing the volatile matter, its escape from the chimneys withers all green things around.

Every tree on the mountain-side above the works is dead, and some of more sensitive natures farther removed exhibit the influence of the poison in their shrunken and blanched foliage....

Cattle feeding within half a mile of the hacienda sicken, and become salivated; and the use of waters of a spring rising near the works is guarded against... The workmen at the furnaces are particularly subjected to the poisonous fumes. These men are only able to work one week out of four, when they are changed to some other employment, and others take their place for a week.

Pale, cadaverous faces and leaden eyes are the consequences of even these short spells; and any length of time continued at this labor effectually shortens life and impregnates the system with mercury.... In such an atmosphere one would seem to inhale death with every respiration. (3) Winslow and Williams became the dominant soda water bottlers in San Jose throughout the 1860s. The bottle assumed to be used during most of this time period is simply embossed SAN JOSE SODA WORS / CAL. (note misspelling of WORKS) It would have been blown no earlier than 1863 with the establishment of the Pacific Glass Works in San Francisco.

Daniel Taber Winslow was born November 23, 1823, in Vassalboro, Kennebec County, Maine. He was the son of Robert Winslow and Sarah Taber. Daniel’s mother died when he was three years old and his widowed father married the younger sister of his first wife, Phebe Taber, on August 27, 1828. The family was further fragmented when Daniel’s father died in 1831. When Daniel was eight years old an additional tragedy occurred in 1833 when his step-mother/aunt died.

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directly to the Tuolumne County gold country in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.(5) After two years they made their way to Santa Clara County where they engaged in various occupations, including farming, cattle, mining, baker and, of course, the soda water business. Thomas was also a stage driver between San Jose and the New Almaden Mines.

The oldest brother was David, who was born in New York about 1820. He elected not to marry until about 1868 when, at 46 years old, he took a 22 year old bride. Of his three known children, Lucy, Anson and Mary, only the latter survived through childhood. Mary E. Williams was born in San Jose on July 11, 1874 and died there on May 9, 1943. She never married. David Williams died in San Jose on May 7, 1898.

The SAN JOSE / SODA WORKS / CAL bottle used by Winslow and Williams during much of the 1860s. New Almaden water was not bottled by the partners during this time, as they were established only within San Jose.

Daniel is undoubtedly the D.T. Winslow that was named as a passenger aboard the Brig Josephine from Boston, Mass., on January 22, 1849. He was counted among the citizens of Santa Clara County, California, as early as 1852, when he was listed as a merchant in the California census record. (4) Daniel never married but became closely allied in business with the Williams brothers at an early date.

He even shared the same 224-acre ranch property for a number of years. Daniel died on April 3, 1871, and is buried in Oak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose, California.

The base to his grave stone still exists, although the obelisk is missing.

The Williams Brothers have been more difficult to document. It is known that the brothers came to California in 1849 on a chartered vessel and headed Grave marker of Daniel T. Winslow at Oak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose, California.

Thomas Williams was born about 1826, also in New York, and like his brother, married late to a young woman. He married about 1870 to sixteen year old Mary E. Daunes, the daughter of Alfred D. and Margaret T. Brady Daunes. Three children were born to this union; (1) Alfred S. Williams, born in 1871, was a successful businessman and prune rancher in Morgan Hill, California. His life was cut short in an automobile accident in 1920. (2) Jane Rose Williams was born September 3, 1873. She became a school teacher but never married and remained with her mother and her mother’s parents, all in the same residence, until their deaths. Her father, Thomas Williams, had been divorced from Mary, his wife, since 1888, and he died in San Jose on October 5, 1899. Jane died in San Jose on September 19, 1958.

(3) The couples youngest child, Edwin H. Williams, was born in San Jose in July 1879. He was a graduate of Stanford University and practiced law in Idaho before returning closer to home where he was appointed Deputy City Attorney for the City of San Francisco. Edwin died in San Francisco on November 26, 1954.

NEW ALMADEN VICHY WATER Born in Saint-Dizier, Haute-Marne, France, on June 30, 1816, Francois Louis Alfred Pioche is said to have been schooled as a lawyer.

He reportedly inherited some money from an uncle and quickly proceeded to squander it. After learning an important life lesson, Pioche determined to take a different direction and emigrated to Chile in the 1840’s. He worked for the French Consulate in Santiago, Chile, but the word of gold discovery in California spread quickly along the Pacific Coast and being geographically positioned to quickly partake in the California Gold Rush, Pioche succumbed to the temptation. With several associates, including Aime Hugues, Jules Barthelemy Bayerque and J. Morineau, he arrived in San Francisco possibly as early as late 1848. To be sure, he was already in business in San Francisco for three months when the Ship Tasso arrived in March

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named Samuel Moss. He died in August 1855 and his brother, also employed by the firm, Joseph Moravia Moss, was elevated to silent partner status. Over the next 15 years other partners were admitted to the firm, generally due to vacancies caused by death.

Bayerque himself died January 21, 1865, in Mazatlan, Mexico, where he had gone to recover from ill health, and was replaced as a full partner by his brother, Romain Bayerque, thus preserving the name of the company as Pioche, Bayerque & Co.

By September of 1850, Pioche was to take his first of many trips abroad – notably France - in an effort to increase the firm’s liquid capital. (7) Throughout the 1850s Pioche was able to secure millions of dollars in French investment capital, that at times, rang a sour note with many Californians who interpreted Pioche’s primary loyalty with France and not to his newly chosen homeland.(8) Pioche petitioned for naturalization as a United States citizen on October 1, 1862. (9)

By December of 1850, based on taxes paid to the City of San Francisco, Pioche, Bayerque & Co., were already listed among One of the earliest advertisements that included the Frenchman, F.L.A. Pioche, who would have a marked impact on the shaping of early California business. (Weekly Alta California, March 8, 1849).

of 1849, with a cargo of goods for the partnership styled as A. Hugues, Pioche & Co., on Clay Street.(6) The partner of Jules B. Bayerque, was a fellow Frenchman from Oloron-Sainte-Marie, in southwestern France, who Pioche befriended while working in Santiago. The firm of A. Hugues, Pioche & Co. was highly successful as a commission merchant – that is, buying whatever it could that might turn a profit.

Evidently satisfied with his newly acquired wealth, Hugues decided to retire from the firm and from March 3, 1850, the partnership that was to become a major force in the development of California, and especially San Francisco, was born. The

Newspaper notice for the dissolution of the old firm of A. Hugues, Pioche & Co., and establishment of the partnership of Pioche & Bayerque. (Daily Alta California, March 5, 1850)

partner, J. Morineau, had already left by the end of 1849.

Pioche & Bayerque continued as commission merchants for a few more months and in June 1850 admitted another silent partner

Photograph of Francois Louis Albert Pioche, probably taken about 1870.

the wealthiest of the city’s residents.(10) As commission merchants, Pioche, Bayerque & Co. imported nearly anything including a huge amount of French wine and brandy. They secured the sole agency for Sazerac Brandy for the Pacific Coast as well as other brands. But the sale

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of merchandise began to take a back seat to other facets of their business as they purchased large acreages of California land. Most of the remaining undeveloped land in San Francisco County went through the hands of the partners, which was often subdivided and sold. A number of railways were purchased in a move to open new lands to further development. In San Francisco Pioche was a major financial contributor to the gas works and the water works. Numerous downtown properties were developed and owned by the partners. Pioche, Bayerque & Co., was one of the original subscribers of the early “telegraphic” system for which Telegraph Hill was named in San Francisco. (11) While Pioche, Bayerque & Co. continued to call themselves commission merchants, by 1853 the title of “bankers” began to supersede their initial calling. By virtue of real estate loans and rental income the ready flow of cash seemed a natural, almost necessary, progression into the banking world. Being the cosmopolitan city that San Francisco was, from the very beginning, Pioche, Bayerque & Co. also found profit in dealing in foreign currencies – primarily European. The English Pound was their first endeavor in this specialty. By the end of 1855 the partners had forgone the concept of being commission merchants and dealt primarily with land and money, with one exception.

Pioche considered himself a connoisseur of fine wine and liquors and continued importing large amounts, both for himself and for the trade.

As of August 21, 1856, J. Mora Moss was no longer a partner and the firm’s name became Pioche & Bayerque, but he remained a close business associate. (12) Pioche was known to be a confirmed bachelor, with a reputation of a “bon vivant”, and there is some allusion to the possibility he was among the first of San Francisco’s “gay” population. He was not known to have closely associated himself with women and his house “guests” were always men. In fact one of his closest associates, financier Lester L. Robinson, lived in Pioche’s house for many years. (13) While Jules Bayerque was Pioche’s business

The Casa Grande, once one of the residences of F.LA. Pioche during the time he developed his New Almaden Vichy Water.

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partner and close friend, it is known that he was married and did enjoy the company of women, as evidenced by at least one publicized affair in 1857 when he seduced young Fanny Schie, a member of the French Dramatic Company in San Francisco.

(14)). It is however, interesting to note that related to his burial, Pioche’s will expressly states, . . . “My place is set aside and marked out, next to J.B. Bayerque, deceased before me.”

From the time of the gold rush to well into the late 1870s, mining was one of the principal sources of California’s wealth.

Pioche and Bayerque invested heavily in mining during the California gold rush and when the great silver strikes of Nevada overwhelmed the waning gold recovery in 1859 neither partner let the opportunity evade them. The problem was gold and silver recovery at the Nevada mines was a much more complicated process necessary to extract the precious metals. As a result Pioche hired the French mining engineer and chemist, Andrew L. Nolf, to develop a better method for metal recovery. Pioche invested many thousands of dollars into Nolf’s research and development activities, and by 1869 Nolf and Pioche applied for a U.S. patent for an invention entitled “Improved Process of Treating Ores With Copper-Amalgam by Means of Electric Currents”, receiving U.S. Letters Patent No. 93,899 on August 17, 1869. This coincided with Pioche’s heavy investment into what was known as the Meadow Valley Mining District in southern Nevada, as well as mines in Sinaloa, Mexico.(15) Since the region was sparsely settled he had a town laid out to service his Nevada mines and the burgeoning population – appropriately named Pioche. It became the county seat for Lincoln County, Nevada, in 1871, which was formed in 1866. Pioche was also involved in the financing of the Temescal tin mines in Southern California and the Malakoff diggings at North Bloomfield in Northern California.

Pioche had five homes during his residency in San Francisco.

Three of these were located in the city and two were country homes. One of these homes, the Hermitage, was located on what is now Dolores Street, across from and south of the old Spanish Mission Dolores. Another was on the site of what has come to be

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The Pioche & Bayerque steel engraving panorama of San Francisco, dated 1856

called the Sullivan Block, on Mission Street between Sixth and Seventh streets. Here, during the rainy winter of 1862, Pioche’s gardens and house were flooded when the waters of San Souci Lake (at what is now Divisadero and Fulton Streets) flooded and rushed down to submerge the area around the Pioche estate. His losses were estimated to be about $50,000, which was directly related to his extensive art collection. This new body of water, where his estate was previously located, was appropriately termed “Pioche’s Lake”. His third City home was at 806 Stockton Street.

the individual partners, the project must have been something of a special project for Pioche. He acted alone in the endeavor except for his association with Onesime Chauvin who Pioche hired as agent for the product. As was most of his associates, Chauvin was a Frenchman. He arrived in San Francisco about July 1863, acting as agent for the French commission merchants “Union Maritime”, A. Profit & Co.(16) Chauvin was not a figure unknown to history, as he had already been personally successful with real estate and invested heavily in mining. By 1865 Chauvin had formed a working relationship with Pioche & Bayerque acting as a sales agent for their real estate, mostly located in Santa Clara County. Plans were laid and considerable funding was applied to the bottling of what was to become New Almaden Vichy Water, from the same well originally used by Winslow and Williams.

Pioche’s summer homes were located in San Mateo and near San Jose. The San Mateo estate was located on property between El Camino Real and the Alameda de las Pulgas. After his death, San Francisco banker Antoine Borel purchased the property and house, and his descendants continue to own the property.

Further south, Pioche leased property at the New Almaden Quicksilver Mine and he used the old house built for the managers of the mine, called Casa Grande, as his residence. The lease, which was executed in 1867, was to terminate in ten years and also included twenty acres of land which encompassed the New Almaden Spring. The large brick Casa Grande was built in 1854 and still exists. It was eventually purchased by the Santa Clara County Department of Parks and Recreation and renovated at a cost of $5 million. It is now used as a mining museum and was declared a National Historic Landmark in The cartouche for the Pioche & Bayerque engraving of San Francisco showing Pioche’s initials on the right side 1961. The New Almaden Mine as a calligraphic “A.P.” was the first workable mercury mine in the Northern Hemisphere.

It is often difficult to follow the financial interests of Pioche, Bayerque & Co. as well as the individual partners. Their activities are so intertwined that even the courts never successfully understood the differences when the partner’s estates were required to be settled at the time of their deaths.

The development of New Almaden Mineral Water is, however, a simple matter. Not in keeping with the huge scale of nearly every other investment made by Pioche, Bayerque & Co., or

Early in the development process of the spring was the designing and manufacturing of bottles for the product. The monogram and initials on the bottles are the unique mark of Pioche, the essential feature of his trade mark – which consists of a shield upon which is the letter “A” overlain by a pick. Below this visual device are the letters “A” and “P”. The full meaning behind the trade mark is easily explained, but first, the reason for the letters “A. P.” needs a little background explanation. While his full

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The bottles were almost certainly blown at the Pacific Glass Works in San Francisco. Its only local competition, the San Francisco Glass Works, had burned on July 23, 1868, and remained idle until it reopened in September 1870, which just missed the window of opportunity for blowing the New Almaden Vichy Water bottles. The bottles would have initially been blown in the Spring of 1869 which fell squarely within the two year hiatus experienced after that debilitating fire.

Therefore, the Pacific Glass Works was the only local source for bottles.

This label, which centrally depicts Pioche’s most embellished trade mark (No. 145), was placed upon the two largest of the three bottle styles that contained NEW ALMADEN VICHY WATER.

name was Francois Louis Albert Pioche there is precedent for him to use only “A. P.” as his initials. Perhaps the best example is the famous steel intaglio print that Pioche & Bayerque had commissioned by the French engraver, Charles Meryon.

Dated 1856, the partners had a series of photographs taken of San Francisco which were sent to Meryon in Paris. He then engraved a large and faithful representation of the City of San Francisco on a steel plate.(17) A generous central cartouche at the bottom center of the work includes busts of both Pioche and Bayerque, along with their initials – J.B.B. for Jules Barthelemy Bayerque and A.P. for Francois Louis Albert Pioche. (18) Thus we know that Pioche used this shortened version of his initials, which also corresponds with the initials embossed on his bottles.

In keeping with his French naming repertoire, Pioche filed for a trade mark for his New Almaden Vichy Water. Two trademarks were filed with the California Secretary of State.

Actually they consist of essentially the same mark but with two variations. The only difference is the addition on one of the Roman goddess, Minerva, seated with a grizzly bear - feeding on grapes - all nestled in a crown that sits atop the central shield on the label, and with more embellishment (Trademark No. 145).

The goddess, bear and grapes are, of course, a direct copy of the Great Seal of California, originally adopted in 1849.

The other variant (Trademark No 146) is absent the queen, shield and bear as well as the crown, which is simply replaced

to find.

The quart and pint bottles are rather unremarkable in overall shape but exhibit the greatest variety in color. Examples have been seen in green, amber and aqua. The half pint blob top is the most unusual – somewhat reminiscent of the hobbled style used by Coca-Cola some fifty years later, only more robust in profile. It has been seen only in aqua. All three variants are extremely difficult

Not the first time water from the New Almaden region of Santa Clara County, California, was bottled, it was the first use of emulating the famous Vichy Springs of France, a natural for Pioche, who loved all things French. Of course, the mining region of New Almaden had already been named when under the rule of Mexico, after the great mercury mines of Almaden, Spain. Highly productive, without its existence and proximity to the California gold fields, the success of the gold rush would have been different, as mercury was an essential ingredient in the older techniques of gold recovery.

Early placer miners relied on mercury to amalgamate with flour gold in their pan, later to be squeezed through the fabric of a chamois which left a residue of mostly gold. This process also reclaimed most of the mercury which could then be reused in the same process.

An impressive display was constructed at the Industrial Fair in San Francisco as described in the San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin:

Pioche’s trademark as it is embossed on his bottles, includes the simpler version (No. 146) along with the shield, which appears to simply be a palate to hold the primary elements - the letter “A”, which stood for “Almaden”, and the representation of a pick. The French word for the pick is pioche, thus, he developed a sort of heraldic pictogram as a trademark.

“The company recently formed to manufacture Vichy water from the mineral springs in Santa Clara county, have displayed considerable enterprise, and taste in the arrangement of their display. A small grotto, with a fresh, cool appearance, attracts the visitor toward the spot, and the piles of neatly labeled bottles catch the eye and tell the character of the article on exhibition.

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The advertisement in the Daily Evening Bulletin (San Francisco, California) that ran from July to October 1870 pronouncing a reduction in the cost of New Almaden Vichy Water.

for New Almaden Vichy Water in the San Francisco Business Directory until 1873, however, it is likely operations ceased by the end of 1870. In fact, testimony after Pioche’s death noted that the business lasted only two years. After a loss of between $30,000 and $40,000 the venture folded.(21) Advertisements for New Almaden Vichy Water (also called California Vichy Water) began to appear in San Francisco newspapers in May 1869 (19), and a full page advertisement was purchased for the 1869 San Francisco Business Directory (page 540).

All the usual health benefits were touted and, surprisingly the water was compared with the French Vichy water but claimed to be even better.

It is claimed that the California Vichy contains all the minerals of the French Vichy, and has the advantage of being at a low temperature. These qualities tend to render it more agreeable to the taste and easier to ship to distant ports without alteration; on that account the California Vichy is highly efficacious in many instances where other preparations of a similar character fail.� (20) Advertisements continued nearly daily in at least one of the major San Francisco newspapers from May 29, 1869, until July 14, 1870. Then, on July 24, 1870, an unusual advertisement appeared. It noted a reduction in the price of New Almaden Vichy Water due to the increased demand.

This appeared to be a reasonable marketing approach, and the ad continued for a period of about seven weeks, until mid-October of 1870, but after that date no more marketing can be found for the product. Apparently, the ad was just an effort to bolster sales of a failing venture. Chauvin continued to be listed as agent

It is also documented that by at least part of 1871 Chauvin had turned to supervising the manufacture of grape brandy for Pioche.

Just as Pioche lived a life larger than most, his death was one of significant note. As a man with unusual wealth and power he, no doubt, was accustomed to commensurate control over his affairs.

He chose the place and time of his death, his own bedroom at his mansion at 806 Stockton Street, San Francisco, on May 2, 1872, when he discharged a pistol bullet through his head. His death ended an amazing and little told chapter in the development of the West during its most formative years.

Pioche was a philanthropist, and there were many recipients of his generosity. Toward the end of his life, he and a number of other French expatriates living in San Francisco gave generously to their homeland after France’s loss in the Franco-Prussian War. Throughout his life in California Pioche was a strong advocate for the success of the University of California. He was one of two property owners who donated land to the idea of a university in the new state. His offer of a donation of fifteen acres in Berkeley, California, in 1857, along with other pledgers of land donations, convinced the newly formed Board of Trustees to pick the Berkeley site for its University of California. Only one other pledger, George M. Blake, honored his pledge of ten acres. (22) Pioche generously provided for the University in his will. The

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following extracted quote from Pioche’s last will and testament, gifts his collection of paintings, minerals, shells and books, said to number at least 1500.

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Pioche was a major financier for two private utilities based in San Francisco: the San Francisco Gas Works, a principal component of what is today the Pacific Gas & Electric Company, and the Spring Valley Water Company, which many years later the City and County of San Francisco purchased for its municipally-owned water system.

“I give and bequeath to the University of California, known by the name of “Board of Regents of University,” an establishment situate and about to be founded in the County of Contra Costa, State of California, all the paintings, sketches, engravings, drawings, and objects of art Pioche and his firm were also pioneers in western railroad belonging to me, and which at the time of my death will be found [at the time of my death] at my house in San Francisco, at The quart, pint and half pint bottles that once held New Almaden, or elsewhere in the State of Pioche’s New Almaden Mineral Water - a material California. I also give and bequeath to said legacy from a man who had a huge impact in the way University all the books and various works, that California’s early resources shaped the state as it is composing my library at San Francisco, and today. at New Almaden, as also everything that constitutes my mineralogical, geological, and conchological collection in San Francisco, State of California.” ”These collections are partially classed, and a catalogue is partially made. I desire that they should be placed in a special portion of the buildings erected or to be erected for the said University, and that the room or place reserved for them be open to the public freely, and at fixed and frequent periods, as is the case with the museums in Europe, so that students and patrons of the arts and sciences may there instruct themselves and increase the sphere of their studies and their knowledge of facts that may be of use to hasten the progress and development of this country. In order the better to facilitate the execution of this wish of mine, I make a donation of five thousand dollars, which will be paid by my testamentary executors to the Treasurer of the said University, in gold coin of the United States, and placed at the disposal of the Regents and Trustees, to cover the first cost for arranging and preserving them the objects composing the bequest and present made by me to the University of California”.

It was not only in real estate that Pioche employed his and his investors’ funds.

He financed the Jackson Street Wharf Company, one of the several private wharves that stretched into the bay. In 1860, Pioche & Bayerque were in the forefront of a group of San Francisco capitalists who sought to obtain the shore area of San Francisco for private use. Pursuing this objective, they succeeded in having the Bulkhead Bill passed by both Houses of the State Legislature. Their scheme was foiled when Governor Downey vetoed the bill.

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development. The Sacramento Valley Railroad, the first railroad in the West, was incorporated in 1852, and construction began in 1855. Pioche & Bayerque became the financiers of the venture and for a time held a controlling interest in the railroad. Along with Lester L. Robinson, the firm also managed the railroad.

The Sacramento Valley Railroad proved to be financially unsuccessful, and was sold to the Central Pacific (later called the Southern Pacific) in the mid-1860s.

Pioche also retained his interests in the field of general merchandise. He remained the California agentdistributor for the famous Sazerac brandy.

The failure of Pioche’s New Almaden Vichy Water was likely the opportunity that Winslow and Williams, in San Jose, had been looking for. Having been successful for a number of years, and with Pioche spending large sums in upgrading the New Almaden Spring facility, it was an excellent opportunity for Winslow and Williams to make another attempt at marketing the water. A lease was effected for the spring and the partners had bottles blown which advertised their NEW ALMADEN / MINL WATER, with the date of 1870 embossed on the shoulder, and W & W embossed on the reverse. A stroke of bad luck hit the partners when Daniel Winslow died on April 3, 1871, but the Williams Brothers continued on with the venture.

The front and back of the New Almaden mineral water bottle used during the 1870s. The block letters W & W initially represented Winslow and Williams, but after the death of Winslow it conveniently represented the brothers, David and Thomas Winslow.

While the bottling of New Almaden Mineral Water continued, however, at some point and for reasons unknown, the 1870 date milled into the bottle mold was removed. A second mold was eventually manufactured for the water. It produced bottles nearly identical to the original, but also without the 1870 date.

The most significant differences are a slight change in

Subtle differences occur between the two NEW ALMADEN MINL WATER variants. The most noticeable is the placement of the N in New, relative to the M in MINL. The first variant is on the right.

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the placement of the lettering and a pronounced dot in the center of the base, which was not present on the earliest mold.

The New Almaden Mines eventually developed into a massive maze of underground tunnels totaling about 45 miles in length with seven separate mines. In 1882, while extending the tunnels in an effort to take more of the valuable metal, and at a depth of 2,000 feet, the water that supplied the New Almaden Spring was intercepted, thus diverting the surface flow to a mere trickle. This act effectively put an end to the profitability of bottling the water.

While the water around the old spring is still stained with oxides of iron and still bubbles slightly in the creek bed, the location is hard to differentiate from the surrounding area. The old brick-lined well head is no longer exposed but rests directly under a bridge that crosses the Alamitos Creek near the Hacienda entrance of the Almaden Quicksilver County Park. The only indication that anything took place here is a brass plaque on a brick monument next to the creek that was placed by the organization E Clampus Vitus, interpreting what had occurred many years ago.

End Notes:

After the demise of New Almaden Mineral Water the Williams Brothers continued on with their San Jose Soda Works. The last newspaper account of the works, under the direction of the Williams Brothers, was found in the San Francisco Call, December 6, 1896: The brick monument on the right describes the site of the old New Almaden Spring which is located under the bridge on the left as it crosses Alamitos Creek.

1. History of Santa Clara County, California. J.P. Munro-Fraser.

1881, pg. 522.

2. Sacramento Daily Union, November 23, 1857 3. Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (New York), Harper & Brother. October 1865.

4. California County Clerk. California State Census, 1852 5. San Jose Evening News, October 5, 1899

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6. Weekly Alta California (San Francisco, California), March 8, 1849 7. Daily Alta California, September 18, 1850 8. This was ultimately borne out to be far from the truth, as when Pioche died he was indebted to his French investors by as much as 1.5 million dollars which was never fully repaid.

9. U.S. District Court, Northern District of California. Index to Declarations of Intent and Petitions for Naturalization, A-B. pg. 194)(and found in Book 3, pg. 128) 10. Daily Alta California, December 14, 1850 11. ibid, June 21, 1851 12. Joseph Moravia Moss was born in Philadelphia, PA, on March 1,1809, the son of Samuel and Eleanor Titterway Mercer Moss. He arrived in California about 1850.

J. Mora Moss, as he was usually known, was the first vicepresident and the third president of the San Francisco Gas Co. (later to become Pacific Gas & Electric Co.) and a trustee of the Sacramento Valley Railroad Co. in the early 1860s. In the late 1860s, his business interests also included the California State Telegraph Co., Market Street Railroad and the American Russian Commercial Co. He was a Regent for the University of California and one of the directors of the School for the Deaf and Blind.

In 1867, at age 58, he married his housekeeper, Julia Wood. On

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November 21, 1880, he died at his estate, Mosswood, in Oakland, California.

13. Robinson died May 5, 1892. His extensive obituary may be found in the San Francisco Chronicle, May 6, 1892 14. Stockton Daily Argus, January 14, 1857 15. Daily Alta California, (San Francisco, California) January 6, 1869 16. ibid, July 18, 1863 17. Note: the etching is 950 mm in length, and 185 mm in height.

18. For an in-depth article on the engraving please see: http:// libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/pulc/pulc_v_34_n_1. pdf) A photo of the Pioche & Bayerque lithograph may be seen online at: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf3g50099p/ See also The San Francisco Chronicle, August 23, 1903, for an article regarding Meryon and the etching.

19. Daily Evening Bulletin (San Francisco, California) May 29, 1869 20. ibid., October 20, 1869 21. ibid., March 22, 1876 22. Berkeley The First Seventy-Five Years . Works Progress Administration. 1941, pg 25

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I have devoted nearly 50 years of my life, thanks to the loving support of my wife, Bea, to building one of the great Augusta antique bottle collections. It has been rewarding and fun.

Together, we have self-published three books - Augusta on Glass, Augusta on Glass (the pharmacies) and Augusta on Glass (the dairies of Aiken, Columbia and Richmond counties). To this, we’ve added collections of pottery, name bricks and ephemera (Augusta and other cities’ letterheads, billheads, 1850-1960).

I turn 80 next January and I don’t expect to live forever, just long enough.

FOHBC Hall of Famer Bill Baab

Nearing the end of your life: What’s a collector going to do?

“All collectors ultimately face a decision about the disposition of their collections.

Traditionally, most collectors have followed one of three options: The first is to sell the articles in the collection; the second choice is to place the collection in an appropriate museum; the third course proves irresistible to many: delay the decision, keep the collection and leave the ultimate question of disposition to one’s estate.”

From the foreword to Sotheby’s 1999 auction of the Barry Halper Collection of Baseball Memorabilia.

By Bill Baab, Augusta, Georgia

Augusta on Glass by Bill Baab

So what’s going to happen to our collections? I don’t want to place the burden of disposal on the shoulders of my wife of 48 years. I also don’t want to sell off the best examples and break up a collection that’s one of the three best in existence in Augusta.

My three siblings, who live in Florida, and my wife’s relatives aren’t interested.

So I started thinking back to 1970 or ‘71 when we visited Charles Gardner in New London, Conn., intending to stay an hour or two to check out his marvelous collection of antique bottles. We ended up staying more than four hours.

During our conversations, Mr. Gardner told us he had offered the collection to the city of New London if the city would provide a suitable place for it to be displayed. The city turned him down, so a few years later Gardner placed it on auction. Sales netted more than $1 million.

Three years ago, I told Nancy Glaser, executive director of the Augusta Museum of History, of our interest in donating the entire collection to the museum. But I didn’t want it to be stuck in a

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back room out of the public eye.

Just this year, Ms. Glaser said a permanent space will be constructed inside the museum to house “The Bill & Bea Baab Collections.” Revolving exhibitions of glass, stoneware and historical papers will take place over the years.

“I consider this to be our legacy to the city of Augusta, our adopted home town (I having been born in Glenside, Pa., and Bea in Bangor, Maine),” I told her. So I started transferring the collection to the museum beginning in March of 2014. It was being done in phases so as to not overwhelm registrar Lauren Virgo, who must register each and every bottle, ephemera, brick and jug.

Most of it was moved before the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors national show in Lexington, Ky., in early August.

I decided to do it while Bea and I are still alive and more or less well so that we can enjoy seeing the exhibit. I didn’t realize there was so much “stuff” until I started boxing it up.

The “stuff” includes more than 80 Augusta drug store bottles (one ruby red, one amber), a group of Saratoga Springs and Southern spring water bottles, a pontiled, handled Bininger chestnut flask with a “Pioneer Bourbon” label, a miscellaneous collection of pre-Prohibition whiskies, Augusta dairy bottles, a free-blown English spirits bottle (1730s) found at a local pre-Revolutionary War fort site, a one-gallon, free-blown pontiled olive green jar dug locally, ceramic inks and imported mineral waters and the following Augusta rarities:

Four colors of Augusta, Georgia Beer Bottles

Georgia Bitters. Our dear friend, Walter Smith, has seen fit to place one of his cobalt Meyers from Augusta on a long-term loan and outright give me a Georgia Bitters, another Augusta rarity.

Both will be featured in future museum displays.

My personal feelings range from sort of sad to very positive.

Extremely rare Golden Eagle Bitters (top) and Georgia Bitters (bottom)

An attic-mint, iron-pontiled 1850s Georgia Sarsaparilla An attic-mint, iron-pontiled 1850s Georgia Sarsaparilla (it was found in an attic!), large and small sizes of the (1884) River Swamp Chill & Fever Cure (embossed alligator), amber Frog Pond Chill & Fever Cure (1887), amber and cobalt Frog Pond Chill & Fever Tonics (post 1906), amber Dr. William H. Tutt’s Golden Eagle Bitters (and other Tutt-related patent medicines), a color run from clear to black glass of Barry’s Malarial Antidotes, colored Augusta Brewing Co., lager beers, an amber Horsey’s Antidote for Malaria and E. Sheehan sodas dated 1880 in cobalt blue, teal green, two shades of amber and aquamarine.

During all those digging years, I never found an 1840s E.D. Meyer iron-pontiled soda or a smooth base Barrett, Land & Co.,

Since my wife and I are longtime museum members, we have visitation rights. And I haven’t stopped collecting, buying “stuff” that is of interest. The very best thing about the hobby isn’t the acquisition of bottles, but meeting like-minded individuals who have become good friends.

I continue to stay a member of the FOHBC and help proof-read articles for Bottles and Extras. I was so fortunate and honored to be inducted into its Hall of Fame in 2011.

Should readers get a chance to visit Augusta during mid 2015 and are interested in seeing the exhibit, please contact me (riverswamper@comcast.net) so that I can personally give them a tour.

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We both bought little glass vials to hold our gold. Mine is on the left. Notice the different size pieces.

Jerry Forbes panning for gold.

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expedition of nine miners, seven of them African American men, expedition of nine miners, seven of them African American men, up the North Fork of the Yuba River in the Autumn of 1849. At up the North Fork of the Yuba River in the Autumn of 1849. the present site of the town they struck rich gold, built a log cabAt the present site of the town they struck rich gold, built a log in, and settled in to wait out the winter. He became the town’s cabin, and settled in to wait out the winter. He became the town’s first mayor. Major Downie’s travels are documented in his 1893 first mayor. Major Downie’s travels are documented in his 1893 autobiography, “Hunting for Gold.” By latter 1850 Downieville autobiography, “Hunting for Gold.” By latter 1850 Downieville already had 15 hotels, 4 bakeries, 4 butcher shops, and numerous already had 15 hotels, 4 bakeries, 4 butcher shops, and numerous saloons. It also has one GREAT bottle show each year. saloons. It also has one GREAT bottle show each year.

If you look closely, you can distinguish the gold on the left from the small rock debris. This was Jerry’s first pan.

II made up the “There’s gold in them thar made up the “There’s gold in them thar hills!” titleofofthis this piece to wonhills!” title piece andand got got to wondering dering where thecame phrase came from? where the phrase from?

Like thethe following with WikiLike anything, anything,aaquick quickGoogle Googlereveals reveals following with pedia: Wikipedia: Dahlonega Dahlonega is is aa city city in in and and the the county county seat seat of of Lumpkin Lumpkin County, County, Georgia.

Georgia. Dahlonega Dahlonega is is located located at at the the north north end end of of Georgia Georgia 400, 400, which which connects connects Atlanta Atlanta to to many many affluent affluent suburbs suburbs to to the the north. north. ItIt is is consistently consistently named named as as aa best best place place to to retire retire by by many many different different publications publications due due to to its its low low cost cost of of living, living, vibrant vibrant activities, activities, concontinuing tinuing education education for for seniors, seniors, festivals, festivals, and and beautiful beautiful setting. setting.

In In 1828 1828,Dahlonega Dahlonegawas wasthe thesite siteofofthe thefirst firstmajor majorgold goldrush rushinin the the United United States.

States. The The Dahlonega Dahlonega Gold Gold Museum Museum Historic Historic Site Site stands stands in in the the middle middle of of the the town town square, square, housed housed in in the the old old LumpLumpkin kin County County Courthouse Courthouse built built in in 1836.

1836. From From its its steps steps in in 1849, 1849, Dahlonega Dahlonega Mint Mint assayor assayor Dr. Dr. M. M. F. F. Stephenson Stephenson tried tried to to persuade persuade miners miners to to stay stay in in Dahlonega Dahlonega instead instead of of joining joining the the California California Gold Gold Rush, Rush, saying, saying, “There’s “There’s millions millions in in it,” it,” famously famously misquoted misquoted as as “There’s “There’s gold gold in in them them thar thar hills.” hills.” Corey Corey Smith Smith wrote wrote aa song song about about the the town town of of Dahlonega.

Dahlonega. ItIt is is the the first first track track on on his his second second album album In In the the Mood.

Mood. Dahlonega Dahlonega is is home home to to aa campus campus location location of of the the University University of of North North Georgia.

Georgia.

Well Well there there you you go. go. The The phrase, phrase, ifif itit really really was was aa phrase phrase is is not not asassociated directlywith withthe theCalifornia Californiaafter afterall. all. sociated directly “Bears” “Bears” and and “Gold” “Gold” can can sum sum up up this this year’s year’s annual annual jaunt jaunt out out to to the Downieville Antique Bottle Show.

BothBoth items or things I usually the Downieville Antique Bottle Show. items or things I do not come across Houston. usually do not comeinacross in Houston.

Downieville Downieville was was founded founded in in late late 1849 1849 during during the the California California Gold Gold Rush, Rush, in in the the Northern Northern Mines Mines area. area. ItIt was was first first known known as as “The “The Forks” Forks” for for its its geographical geographical location location at at the the confluence confluence of of the the Downie Downie River River and and North North Fork Fork of of the the Yuba Yuba River.

River.

ItIt was was soon soon renamed renamed after after Major Major William William Downie Downie (1820-1893), (1820-1893), the the town’s town’s founder. founder. Downie Downie was was aa Scotsman Scotsman who who had had led led an an

Downieville is the location of the first hanging of a woman in Downieville is the location of the first hanging of a woman in California. Josefa Segovia, a young and pregnant California California. Josefa Segovia, a young and pregnant California resident of the town, was lynched by a mob on 5 July 1851. The resident of the town, was lynched by a mob on 5 July 1851. The lynch mob held a mock trial, and accused her of killing an Amerlynch mob held a mock trial, and accused her of killing an American miner that had harassed and attempted to assault her for ican miner that had harassed and attempted to assault her for several days. The mock trial quickly led to hanging her from the several days. The mock trial quickly led to hanging her from the Jersey Bridge in town. Josefa Segovia remains the only pregnant Jersey Bridge in town. Josefa Segovia remains the only pregnant woman hanged in the history of California. woman hanged in the history of California.

In 1853 Downieville was vying to become the new state capital In 1853 Downieville was vying to become the new state capital of California, along with fifteen other California communities to of California, along with fifteen other California communities to replace Vallejo. However, the capital was moved to Benicia for a replace Vallejo. However, the capital was moved to Benicia for a year, and then in 1854 to Sacramento, its location ever since. year, and then in 1854 to Sacramento, its location ever since.

The Northern Mines area of the gold rush had a number of minThe Northern Mines area of the gold rush had a number of ing camps with colorful names, such as Brandy City (originally mining camps with colorful names, such as Brandy City (origiknown as Strychnine City), Whiskey Diggins, Poverty Hill, nally known as Strychnine City), Whiskey Diggins, Poverty Hill, Poker Flat, and Camptonville. Many of these camps disappeared Poker Flat, and Camptonville. Many of these camps disappeared after the gold rush, or are ghost towns. Downieville had reached after the gold rush, or are ghost towns. Downieville had reached a peak population of over 5,000 people in 1851, but by 1865 had a peak population of over 5,000 people in 1851, but by 1865 had significantly declined. It survived due to its status as the county significantly declined. It survived due to its status as the county seat of government in Sierra County, and from its geographic seat of government in Sierra County, and from its geographic location between Sacramento Valley and Tahoe region/Nevada location between Sacramento Valley and Tahoe region/Nevada destinations. {source Wikipedia} destinations. {source Wikipedia} This could be Coco and myself in an earlier time headed to Downieville.

Let Let us us start start with with the the bear, bear, as as in in growl. growl. As As some some of of you you may may already already know, know, II flew flew my my Weimeraner Weimeraner “Coco” “Coco” in in from from Houston Houston to to Sacramento.

After picking United Cargo with Sacramento.

After picking herher upup at at United cargo with thethe prompromise of a mountain run,headed we headed to Downieville we ise of a mountain run, we to Downieville wherewhere we had had a 3-bedroom cabin reserved a week my best bottle a 3-bedroom cabin reserved for afor week withwith my best bottle bud, bud, Forbes Big California.

Sur, California.

He supposed was supposed to JerryJerry Forbes fromfrom Big Sur, He was to bring bring his MinPin “Cutter” he chickened his MinPin “Cutter” but hebut chickened out. out.

My the am nextthe My first first experience experience with with the the bear bear happened happened around around 77:00 morning deep deep up one theofmountain trails.trails.

Coco,Coco, who always next morning upofone the mountain who runs ahead me, zoomed back to back me, skidded and in her always runsofahead of me, zoomed to me, skidded andown in her way She tore As I rounded the bend own and waysaid andALERT! said ALERT! Sheoff toreahead. off ahead.

As I rounded the Ibend saw Ithe bear! did not getnot a good as I was the saw the Ibear!

I did get a picture good picture as Irunning was running other direction.

So was the bear though.

Good Coco.

The The nextnext the other direction.

So was the bear though.

Good Coco. day day the the same same bear bear or or another another bear bear broke broke into into the the local local pizza Pizza joint. joint. was looking outsecond the second window It wasItlooking out the story story househouse window when when spotted

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spotted bottle and insulator who by bottlebyand insulator collector,collector, DwayneDwayne AnthonyAnthony who took a took a video.

The bear razed the place.

Anyway, I phoned my video. The bear razed the place. Anyway, I phoned my wife Elizwife Elizabeth very Ialarmed. sentpicture her theinpicture in abeth who was who very was alarmed. sent herIthe this article this article of a bear picture I found online plus a bear I found on of a bear picture I found online plus a bear I found on Main Street Main Street in town in front of a restaurant.

I told Elizabeth that in town in front of a restaurant. I told Elizabeth that must have must have been the because bear I saw hadcome not rereally beenreally the bear I saw thebecause sun hadthe notsun really up ally come up and I didn’t have my glasses on.

Didn’t really fly. and I didn’t have my glasses on. Didn’t really fly.

guess guess what? what? We We did did find find some some gold gold on on our our first first pans. pans. Eureka, Eureka, we we shouted!

Later after seeing the pictures I posted on Peachridge shouted! Later after seeing the pictures I posted on Peachridge Glass, Glass, my my wife wife said, said, “That’s “That’s Gold?”

Gold?” II responded, responded, “yes, “yes, we we will will need MULES to carry this all back, or maybe a mouse..” need MULES to carry this all back, or maybe a mouse..”

Well, Well, that that is is my my bear bear and and gold gold story. story. Gotta’ Gotta’ make make these these bottle bottle shows more multi-dimensional!

It doesn’d get much shows more multi-dimensional! It doesn’d get much better better than than this. this.

Coco keeos watch for bears while we were panning for gold.

Real bear-fake bear or fake bear - real bear?

Later in in the the week, week, Jerry Jerry Forbes Forbes and and II had had some some free free time time to to go go Later panning for gold after the fantastic Downieville Bottle Show. panning for gold after the fantastic Downieville Bottle Show.

With beautiful beautiful weather, weather, we we bought bought some some pans pans and and tools tools and and With headed down to the river.

The three of us (including Coco) had headed down to the river. The three of us (including Coco) had high hopes of striking it rich and buying lines of colored figural high hopes of striking it rich and buying lines of colored figural bitters and and stuffed stuffed squirrels squirrels for for Coco.

Coco. And And if if pigs pigs could could fly! fly! Hey, Hey, bitters

Some bottle gold. Three roped-corner Bakers Orange Grove Bitters from Ron Brock show up at our annual Show and Tell spaghetti dinner at our cabin overlooking the two rivers converging below.

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Apothecary Cabinet For Sale

This phenomenal piece is an exact replica of an 1880s Apothecary cabinet found in Zanesville, Ohio in the early 1970s.

I hate to part with it, but I’m selling my business, where it is displayed and do not have room for it at home. The cabinet has decorative finials and hand carved detail, all solid oak. There are five glass panels of quarter inch glass with one inch bevels and PRESCRIPTIONS, COMPOUNDED. Etched wording faithful to original, with the exception of center glass panel which has a Los Angeles Druggist name etched to enhance my LA bottle display. Cabinet is 94 inches long by 56 inches high and 28 inches deep with four drawers in back. Price is cabinet only: $7,500, but will negotiate. Bottles in photo are also available.

Contact: Bob Hirsch Tele: 562.619.8338, e-mail: bob.hirsch@verizon.net Pick-up in person encouraged

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County, California, at what is now Samuel P. Taylor State Park.

An 1860 advertisement for Samuel P. Taylor’s Pioneer Paper Mill.

But back to the story of Summit Mineral Water, Alan sent portraits of Jacob Hoehn, the proprietor of this short-lived Summit Mineral Water bottling operation, along with a portrait of his wife, Catherine Boss Hoehn. Alan is related to Jacob Hoehn via the name list below, in ancestral order.

Jacob Hoehn and Catherine Boss Emma Hoehn and John Geeslin

by Eric McGuire

Florence Geeslin and George Martin Taylor

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George Martin Taylor, Jr. and Martha G. King

It istmost gratifying to encounter descendantsliving of individuals when researching is most gratifying toliving encounter descendants bottles produced by theirwhen ancestors.

I recall one special occurrence many years of individuals researching bottles produced byago when the father of my dad’s had been a glass blowermany at the Owens theirI learned ancestors.

I recall onefriend special occurrence Illinois in San Francisco. Athe dinner was arranged Gus Hansen, yearsGlass agoWorks when I learned father of mywith dad’s friendthe elderly gentleman who once blew bottles by hand.

It was with great anticipation that had been a glass blower at the Owens Illinois Glass I could actually talk to someone who knew so many secrets that could unlock the Works in San Francisco. A dinner was arranged with Gus knowledge from the past. When the dinner finally became a reality I wasn’t the least Hansen, the elderly who bottles byrebit hungry and couldn’t wait togentleman inundate Gus with all once sorts of blew questions.

I remained hand.

It was with great anticipation that I could actually served as long as I could and finally broached the subject that completely engrossed talkif for to no someone so many secrets could me, other reasonwho than Iknew was talking to what seemed likethat a historical legend.

In the end, he really didn’t enlighten me that much, other than him recalling that his glass factory finally installed the Owens automatic bottle blowing machine about 1921, which had a devastating impact on the blowers working there. I never really thought of the human consequences that the automatic machinery had on people until then. Later encounters with other descendants of bottle related people weren’t quite as overwhelming for me but nevertheless very engrossing. At the least they would often own and share photos of their ancestors which gives a more human element to the material objects we have come to appreciate for historical and aesthetic reasons.

Last October I was tending to my sales table at the Northwestern Bottle Club show and sale in Santa Rosa, CA, when an individual introduced himself as Alan Taylor. He said he was looking for an example of a Summit Mineral Water bottle since it was his ancestor, Jacob Hoehn, who produced the product. Even though I didn’t have an example to sell him, I told him that I wrote an article on Summit Mineral Water in the October 2009 issue of Bottles & Extras, and I would gladly send him a copy, which I did a few days later. Alan later emailed me with a big “thank you”.

Alan also e-mailed Ferdinand Meyer with additional family information that helped bridge the gap between Jacob Hoehn and himself. Ferdinand forwarded the information to me and found it so interesting that it was deemed worthy of passing along the information to a broader audience. Most interesting to me was the connection to yet another historical figure in the development of California.

Alan’s surname - Taylor - was passed down through his great great grandfather Samuel Penfield Taylor. He was a Gold Rush immigrant to California, and in the summer of 1852, he panned out placer gold at Hawkins Bar in Tuolumne County, that made him $5,692. This was a substantial amount back then and he invested in the lumber business in San Francisco. It served him well but by 1855 Taylor set up shop as the first paper manufacturer in California. This venture was headquartered in San Francisco but the actual Pioneer Paper Mill, as it was called, was located in Marin

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Alan Lee Taylor Alan is a California native but by virtue of meeting and marrying an Iowa girl, he found himself a small town Iowan for a good chunk of his life, where he became a contributing member of the community and owner of the local newspaper. He and his family eventually moved back to California and currently reside in Placer County - not very far from where his GG grandfather tried his luck in the mineral water business.

Though not a bottle collector, Alan was finally able to acquire an example of Jacob Hoehn’s mineral water bottle.

Portrait of Jacob Hoehn (1832 - 1890)

unlock the knowledge from the past. When the dinner finally became a reality I wasn’t the least bit hungry and couldn’t wait to inundate Gus with all sorts of questions. I remained reserved as long as I could and finally broached the subject that completely engrossed me, if for no other reason than I was talking to what seemed like a historical legend. In the end, he really didn’t enlighten me that much, other than him recalling that his glass factory finally installed the Owens automatic bottle blowing machine about 1921, which had a devastating impact on the blowers working there. I never really thought of the human consequences that the automatic machinery had on people until then. Later encounters with other descendants of bottle related people weren’t quite as overwhelming for me but nevertheless very engrossing.

At the least they would often own and share photos of their ancestors which gives a more human element to the material objects we have come to appreciate for historical and aesthetic reasons.

Last October, I was tending to my sales table at the Northwestern Bottle Club show and sale in Santa Rosa, Calif, when an individual introduced himself as Alan Taylor. He said he was looking for an example of a Summit Mineral Water bottle since it was his ancestor, Jacob An 1860 advertisement for Samuel P. Taylor’s Pioneer Paper Mill.

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called, was located in Marin County, California, at what is now Samuel P. Taylor State Park.

But back to the story of Summit Mineral Water, Alan sent portraits of Jacob Hoehn, the proprietor of this short-lived Summit Mineral Water bottling operation, along with a portrait of his wife, Catherine Boss Hoehn. Alan is related to Jacob Hoehn via the name list below, in ancestral order.

Jacob Hoehn and Catherine Boss Emma Hoehn and John Geeslin Florence Geeslin and George Martin Taylor George Martin Taylor, Jr. and Martha G. King Alan Lee Taylor Alan is a California native but by virtue of meeting and marrying an Iowa girl, he found himself a small town Iowan for a good chunk of his life, where he became a contributing member of the community and owner of the local newspaper. He and his family eventually moved back to California and currently reside in Placer County - not very far from where his GG grandfather tried his luck in the mineral water business. Though not a bottle collector, Alan was finally able to acquire an example of Jacob Hoehn’s mineral water bottle.

Catherine Boss (1847 - 1910), wife of Jacob Hoehn.

Hoehn, who produced the product. Even though I didn’t have an example to sell him, I told him that I wrote an article on Summit Mineral Water in the October 2009 issue of Bottles & Extras, and I would gladly send him a copy, which I did a few days later. Alan later emailed me with a big “thank you”.

Alan also emailed Ferdinand Meyer with additional family information that helped bridge the gap between Jacob Hoehn and himself. Ferdinand forwarded the information to me and found it so interesting that it was deemed worthy of passing along the information to a broader audience. Most interesting to me was the connection to yet another historical figure in the development of California.

Alan’s surname - Taylor - was passed down through his great great grandfather Samuel Penfield Taylor. He was a Gold Rush immigrant to California, and in the summer of 1852, he panned out placer gold at Hawkins Bar in Tuolumne County, that made him $5,692. This was a substantial amount back then and he invested in the lumber business in San Francisco. It served him well but by 1855 Taylor set up shop as the first paper manufacturer in California. This venture was headquartered in San Francisco but the actual Pioneer Paper Mill, as it was

Alan Taylor, Great Great grandson of Jacob Hoen and now the proud owner of a Summit Mineral Water bottle.

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The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors Ferdinand Meyer V FOHBC President (Originally mailed by Pam Selenak) August 13, 2014 Dear Northeastern Region Member Club, The annual FOHBC National Show format, rotating among the four FOHBC regions with an Expo every fourth year, will be discontinued starting in 2016. The old format will be replaced with an annual FOHBC National Antique Bottle Convention with a four year rotation among the four FOHBC regions, (West, Northeast, Midwest, and South). The new Convention format will have a Friday set-up with Saturday and Sunday show days open to the public.

Activities will include the Board of Directors meeting, general membership meeting, banquet, bottle competition event, six seminars, show set-up day, auction, displays, and two show days.

This new convention format will begin with the Western region in 2016. This show is in process at this time. We are now sending out invitations for the 2017 show in the Northeastern region. This site selection will be a competitive bid process. Any member club or group of individuals in the region may submit a bid to host the Convention. Submitted bids will be reviewed by a show committee and presented to the FOHBC Board of Directors. If no acceptable bids are submitted, the selection process will move to the Midwestern region, (the next region in rotation).

The exhibit hall should be at least 30,000 sq. ft. with a host hotel adjacent or close by. The show chairpersons will receive 20% of the net show profit. The host club will receive 10% of the net show profit or $500, whichever is greater.

Please contact me by December 15 if your club or group plans to submit a bid. You may contact me at 713.222.7979 x115 or fmeyer@fohbc.org for more information.

The FOHBC Board of Directors and I are excited about the new direction we are taking our Nation Convention. We look forward to your participation in the selection process.

Sincerely,

Ferdinand Meyer V

FOHBC President

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*Consecutive issues with no changes FOR SALE: Book “19th CENTURY Digital Copy and or camera ready copy preferred but not required for display ads SAN JOSE IN A BOTTLE” provides a historical view of life ***** 50% Discount ***** and commerce in San Jose, CA in the 1800s, told through the prism For FOHBC member clubs of bottles from the area. It features amazing color photographs and All ads must be paid for in advance Make checks payable to FOHBC stories of the downtown druggists, (Federation of historical Bottle Collectors) local breweries, soda and mineral Send Payment to: waters, and much more. Discounted Elizabeth Meyer, 101 Crawford, FOHBC pricing: Softcover $35, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; Hardcover $50. To order, email Send AD copy and/or questions to: Tobin Gilman at “tobingilman@ Business Manager: Elizabeth Meyer, 101 Crawford, hotmail.com” or call (408)839-6979.

BOTTLE COLLECTORS: Due to retirement space constraints, I am offering my early European Bottle Collection for sale. All these bottles came from European forts in Latin America; many were dug out of rivers that served as dumping areas for the forts. I would like to sell the collection as a lot but willing to negotiate per piece. Need $2,000 for the whole collection. Contact

Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; phone: (713) 222-7979; e-mail: emeyer@fohbc.org

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Leo Waldrop, 1426 Windsor Ct., Alabaster, AL 35007 or (205) 3583540 or (360)609-8454 FOR SALE or TRADE: South Carolina bottles for sale or trade. www.bottletreeantiques.com or (864)379-3479 FOR SALE: A unique history about bottles used in Parkesburg, PA from 1852 to present. Includes milk, drug, soda, malt liquor, & mineral water.

Many interesting stories and photos about bottles that are integrated with the history of the village. Cost $25 includes shipping. Gerald L. Treadway, 410 Strasburg Ave., Parkesburg, PA. 19365 FOR SALE: Too many to list.

Email me your wants and if I don’t have any, I’ll add you to my Hunt & Search book. Contact Scott at “Sodapopkid27023@yahoo.com”

WANTED WANTED: Lancaster Ohio Beers, especially E. Becker Brewing. Also any Washington Brewery, Washington D. C. I don’t have. Also does anyone have a “B E MANN’SORIENTAL STOMACH BITTERS” for sale?

Contact Gary Beatty (941)276-1546 or “tropicalbreezes@verizon.net” WANTED: Any size drug store bottles with embossing “E. P. Anthony, Inc. / Pharmacists / Providence, R. I.” send list and/or photo to Gregg Wilson at “cemihunter@yahoo.com” WANTED: medium size skull poison bottle-slight damage OK. Contact David at (707) 256-9365 or “davidjenningsrelichunter@yahoo.com”

WANTED: Rare NC bottles; embossed NC drug stores & patent medicines; colored drug stores any state; Indian Rock Ginger Ales; rare Cokes, Orange Crush, Dr. Pepper & 7 ups; Drug store (slug plate) citrate of magnesias. Also interested in collections & large piles of bottles.

Contact Scott at “sodapopkid27023@ yahoo.com” WANTED: I am doing a second book about Houghton and Dalton Pottery.

I am seeking pieces to add to my collection and include in the book.

Contact Dr. James D. Houdeshell, 1610 S. Main St., Findlay, OH 45840 or (419) 721-1434 or (419) 423-2895 WANTED: 1 gal. brown and tan crock/jug, black stenciled, Shanghai Annex, Chas.Yue, Prop., Auburn, Cal. TOP!! Dollar Paid. Contact Herb Yue (530) 320-9419 WANTED: Deep Rock Springs, Saratoga type mineral water bottles from Oswego, NY. Rare molds and colors sought. Also, any go-withs from Deep Rock Springs. Please call Barry Haynes, Mexico, NY at (315) 963-3749 WANTED: Still buying rare square bitters, Michigan mineral waters, Michigan bitters – Lots of bottles for sale or trade. Contact Bruce Schad, 384 CR89, Carrollton, MS 38917, (662) 237-4365 or (662) 299-7975. Have any bottles from Carrollton, MS? WANTED: Minnesota colored sodas, any town. Looking for L.R. Comstock & Co., St. Paul, 8 sided, IP. Also Comstock & Steere, St. Paul, cyl. IP. Also Strap Side Whiskeys, flasks, ambers, aquas & greens, any town. Contact James Haase, 43 Adams Blvd., Silver Bay, MN 55614 (218) 226-3060.

WANTED: Amber quart cylinder whiskey shoulder embossed Garrick

Bottles and Extras & Cather Chicago, IL plus embossed image of a palm tree. Contact Carl Malik, PO Box 367, Monee, IL 60449 (708) 534-5161.

WANTED: Besides bottles, collecting advertising items from these California cities: Wilmington, Long Beach, San Pedro, Torrance, Redondo Beach, Lomita, Harbor City. Rulers, wooden hangers, ashtrays, giveaways, etc. DAVID HALL, PO Box 761, Wilmington, CA 90748. Phone: 310710-8118.

WANTED: Oregon embossed drug bottles wanted from following towns: Amity, Arlington, Brownsville, Cove, Drain, Gardiner, Gervais, Harrisburg, Ione, Jacksonville, Jordan Valley, Junction City, Lebanon, Linkville, Medford, Myrtle Point, Scio, Silverton, Stayton, Tillamook, Wallowa. CONTACT Garth Z. 541548-4776 or zigs@bendcable.com Top dollar paid.

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FOHBC Membership Directory 11 Members gained this period. The names below represent persons agreeing to be listed in the printed membership directory.

Some of those listed agreed to be listed in the membership directory but not the online directory.

New Members David Curenton P.O. Box 151 Barrington, RI 02806 334-590-0237 Alabama & Rhode Island Sodas

Greg Hubbert 1396 Wilkinson Road Fayette, AL 35555 205-412-7779 Advertising, Bottles, Southern Pottery

Joan Tyler 441 Swinyer Road Vermontville, NY12989-3806 518-891-4588 General Bottle Collector

Jeffrey Begley 2837 Ashley Street Kingsport, TN 37664 423-367-8080 Barber Bottles and Flasks

Roscoe Liston Googe Jr. 354 W Sandtown Road SW Marietta, GA 30064 770-335-4861 Painted label bottles, Royal Crown and HEHI Cola embossed bottles, bottle caps, Georgia bottles and bottle advertising.

John Antonez 1474 Vermont, Route A Manchester Center, VT 05255 Saratoga Mineral Water Bottles, Fruit Jars, Local Bottles

Lanier Meader PO Box 4208 Jachin, AL 36910 205-459-2822 Complete bottles with boxes, labels, country store, advertising

Andy Volkerts P.O. Box 513 Courtland, CA 95615 916-775-1729 Cure bottles of all types, San Francisco medicines

Jerry Stehlin PO Box 169 Shandon, OH 45063 513-738-0491 All Cincinnati item bottles, stoneware, signs, etc.

Stephen Acai 2634 Lakeview Drive Raleigh, NC 27609 919-616-4884 North Carolina Mineral Springs Bottles & Crates and McPherson Beverage Bottling Company

Joseph Elcano 1630 Crestside Court Sparks, NV 89436

Don’t forget - get your free AD in today Contact: FOHBC Business Manager: Elizabeth Meyer, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; phone: (713) 222-7979; e-mail: emeyer@fohbc.org

Notice to Members

Please check your mailing label for correctness and your membership expiration date. This will insure you continue to receive Bottles and Extras without interruption. If moving, please send in a change of address, Contact: FOHBC, Elizabeth Meyer, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; phone: (713) 222-7979; e-mail: emeyer@fohbc.org

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FOHBC Sho-Biz

Calendar of shows and related events FOHBC Sho - Biz is published in the interest of the hobby. Federation affiliated clubs are connotated with FOHBC logo.

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

November 2 Elkton, Maryland The Tri-State Bottle Collectors and Diggers Club, Inc., 42nd Annual Antique Bottle and Collectibles Show and Sale will be held on Sunday, November 2, 2014 from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm at the Singerly Fire Hall, Routes 279 & 213 (I95, exit 109A) Elkton, Maryland 21922.

Admission: $3 – children under 12 free.

Contact: Dave Brown, 302.738.9960 or E-mail dbrown3942@comcast.net November 7 & 8 Tulare, California Tulare Collectible Show & Sale, Friday, 07 November, 9:00 to 6:00 pm, Saturday 08 November, 8:00 am to 2:00 pm. Location: Veteran’s Hall, 1771 E. Tulare Avenue (Highway 137). Contact: Bob Merzoian, 559.781.6319 November 8 Jacksonville, Florida Antique Bottle Collectors of North Florida 47th Annual Show & Sale at the Fraternal Order of Police Building, 5530 Beach Boulevard, Jacksonville, Florida, Saturday, 8:00 am to 3:00 pm, Free Admission, Early buyers: Friday, November 7, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm $15, Set-up: Friday, 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm, Club: Antique Bottle Collectors of North Florida, Contact: Mike Skie, 3047 Julington Creek Road, Jacksonville, Florida 32223, 904.710.0422 or Jackie McRae 904.879.3696 November 8 Belleville, Illinois Eastside Spectacular #8 at the Belleclair Fairgrounds, 200 S. Belt East, Belleville, Illinois, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Early admission: 7:00 am, Early admission $20, Public admission $2, Contact Kevin Kious, 618.346.2634 whoisthealeman@aol.com or Curt Faulkenberry, 636.797.5220 November 9 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh Antique Bottle Club Annual Bottle Show at Rostraver Ice Garden, Gallitin Road and Route 51 North, Belle

Vernon, Pennsylvania 15012, Sunday 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Early admission: Sunday 7:00 am, Set up: Sunday 7:00 am. Cost of admission: $3 general admission, $25 early admission, Pittsburgh Antique Bottle Club, www.pittsburghantiquebottleclub. org Contact: Bob DeCroo, Treasurer, 694 Fayette City Road, Fayette City, Pennsylvania 15438, 724.326.8741, eb153@atlanticbb.net November 9 York, Pennsylvania NEW SHOW! Announcing a New Bottle Show!, 8:00 am to 3:00 pm at the famous York, Pennsylvania Fairgrounds, inside the main building, 334 Carlisle Avenue, York, Pennsylvania, Contact: Bill Thomas, 443.617.1760, holpromo@yahoo.com November 9 Oakland, New Jersey North Jersey Antique Bottle Collectors Assn. 45th Annual Show & Sale, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, early buyers 8:00 am, Oakland Elks Club, 33 Ramapo Valley Road, Oakland, New Jersey, Contact: Ken 973.907.7351 or Jim 516.454.8993 November 9 Greensboro, North Carolina 13th Annual Greensboro Bottle Show at Greensboro Farmer’s Curb Market, 501 Yanceyville Street, Greensboro, North Carolina 27405, Sunday 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Set-up: 7:00 am – 9:00 am, Cost of admission: $1, Southeast Bottle Club, www.antiquebottles.com/greensboro, Contact: Reggie Lynch, President, PO Box 2286, Forest, Virginia 24551, 704.221.6489, rlynch@antiquebottles.com November 15 Royal Oak, Michigan The Metropolitan Detroit Antique Bottle Club’s 32nd Annual Antique Bottle Show, 9:30 am – 3:00 pm, Show Address: Royal Oak Elks Lodge, 2401 E. Fourth Street, Royal Oak, Michigan, Contact Info: Mike Brodzik, 586.219.9980, bottlemike@ outlook.com or Bruce Heckman, 248.760.1722, hisser@comcast.net

November 215 Alto, Georgia Dixie Jewels Insulator Club Show & Swap Meet, at The Barn at Jaemor Farms, 5340 Cornelia Highway, Alto, Georgia 30510, Saturday, November 15th from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. FREE Admission, Dixie Jewels Insulator Club, See Facebook, Contact: Mike Herron, PO Box 1784, Toccoa, Georgia 30577, 706.599.4705, insulatorman74@windstream.net November 16 Albany, New York 18th Annual Capital Region Antique Bottle Show And Sale, Sunday, November 16, 2014, 9:00 am to 2:30 pm, Polish Community Center, 225 Washington Avenue. Albany, New York, Hot Food, Beverages, Exhibits & Displays, Early Admission: $15, 8:00 – 9:00 am. General Admission: $4 – 9:00 am -2:30 pm. For Dealer Contracts and General Show Information Contact: Jason Privler, 20 Marlborough Court, Albany, New York 12209, 518.506.2197, Nyscapitol@yahoo.com November 22 Milford, Ohio The St. Andrews Antique Bottle, Tabletop Antiques and Collectibles Show, 9:30 am – 1:30 pm, early buyers 8:00 – 9:30 am at the St. Andrews Parish Center, 552 Main Street, Milford, Ohio, Contact: Steve Singer, 1684 Autumn Oak Drive, Batavia, Ohio 45103, 513.732.2793, singersams@ yahoo.com November 30 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Forks of the Delaware Bottle Collectors Association 41st Annual Bottle and Antique Show & Sale at the Bethlehem Catholic High School, 2133 Madison Avenue, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18017, Sunday, 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, $2 Admission, Dealer set up 6:00 am – 9:00 am, Information, Bill Hegedus, 20 Cambridge Place, Catasauqua, Pennsylvania 18032, 610.264.3130

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(More) Sho-Biz December 6 Roseville, California 49er Historical Bottle Associations 37th Annual “Best of the West” Historic Bottle & Glass Show at the Placer County Fairgrounds, 800 All America City Boulevard, Roseville, California, Saturday, December 6th, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Free Admission, $10 Earlybird Admission on Friday, Set-up Friday, December 5th, noon – 6:00 pm, Contact: Mike McKillop, 916.367.1829, pville1871@yahoo.com December 7 Enfield, Connecticut Yankee Polecat Insulator Club’s 2nd Annual “Beat the Snow” Antique Insulator, Bottle & Collectibles Show 8:00 am – 2:00 pm. Insulators, Bottles, Railroadiana, Telephone & Telegraph Collectibles, Lightning Rod Equipment.

Free admission, American Legion Hall, 56 Enfield Street (US Route 5), Enfield, Connecticut (Exit 49 off I-91) Contact: John Rajpolt, rajpolt@earthlink.net January 9 & 10 Palmetto, Florida 46th Annual Suncoast Antique Bottle Show & Sale, Friday, January 9th (3:00 pm to 7:00 pm) and Saturday, January 10th (9:00 am to 3:00 pm), Manatee Convention & Civic Center, 1 Haben Blvd, Palmetto, Florida 34221, Contact: George Dueben, 727.393.8189 or 727.804.5957, res08w341@verizon.net or Linda Buttstead, 941.722.7233 January 11 South Attleboro, Massachusetts Little Rhody Bottle Club Annual Show at the Knights of Columbus Hall at 304 Highland Avenue, South Attleboro, Massachusetts 02703, Sunday, January 11, 2015. Early Buyer 9:00 am with $15 admission, Set-up is 7:00 am on Sunday, General admission at 10:00 for $3.

The Little Rhody Bottle Club Contact: William Rose, President, Show Chairman, Treasurer, 784 King Street, Raynham, Massachusetts 02767, 508.880.4929, E-mail: sierramadre@comcast.net

January 11 Muncie, Indiana The Midwest Antique Fruit Jar and Bottle Club Annual Show & Sale, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm at the Horizon Convention Center, Muncie, Indiana, Contact: Dave Rittenhouse, 1008 S. 900 W, Farmland, Indiana 47340, 765.468.8091 January 17 Jackson, Mississippi 29th Annual Mississippi Antique Bottle and Collectibles Show at the Trade Mart Building, Mississippi Fairgrounds, Jackson, Mississippi, High Street, Jackson, Mississippi, Saturday, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, Early admission $20, Friday 3:00 pm to 9:00 and Saturday, 7:00 am to 9:00 am. Dealer Set-up time: Friday 3:00 pm to 9:00 pm and Saturday 7:00 am to 9:00 am. Free Admission. Mississippi Antique Bottle Club, Contact: John Sharp, Show Chairman, PO Box 164, Sebastopol, Mississippi 39359, Phone: 601-507.0105, johnsharp49@aol.com January 24 Anderson, California Superior California Antique Bottle Club’s 39th Annual Show and Sale, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm; Set-up, Friday January 23rd, Shasta County Fairgrounds, 1890 Briggs St, Anderson, California 96007, Contact: Mel Hammer, 530.241.4878 or Phil McDonald, 530.243.6903 February 1 Manville, New Jersey 19th Annual New Jersey Antique Bottle Club 2015 Show and Sale at the Manville VFW, 600 Washington Avenue, Manville, New Jersey 08835, Sunday, February 1st, 2015 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, No Early Admission, Set-up at 7:00 am, Cost of admission: $3. New Jersey Antique Bottle Club, www.newjerseyantiquebottleclub. com, Contact: Bob Strickhart, Show Chairman, 3 Harvest Drive, Pennington, New Jersey 08534-3205, 609.818.1981, E-mail: strickhartbob@aol.com February 20 & 21 Columbia, South Carolina 42nd Annual South Carolina Antique Bottle Show & Sale at the Meadowlake

Park Center, 600 Beckman Road, Columbia, South Carolina 29073, Friday 11:00 am to 6:00 pm & Saturday 9:00 am to 1:00 pm, No early admission fee, Set-up Friday at 10:00 am, Cost of admission for show: Donation to The Boys & Girls Club of the Midlands requested, South Carolina Bottle Club, southcarolinabottleclub.com, Contact: Marty Vollmer, Club President, 1091 Daralynn Drive, Lexington, South Carolina 29073, 803.755.9410, martyvollmer@aol.com or Eric Warren, 803.951.8860, scbottles@aol.com February22 Enfield, Connecticut Somers Antique Bottle Club – 44th Annual Show and Sale at St. Bernard School, 232 Pearl Street, Enfield, Connecticut 06082, 9:00 am – 2:00 pm. Early buyers at 8:00 am. On site parking. Take exit 47-W from I-91 and follow show signs.

Five minutes to school. Admission: $2.

Ages 12 and under free. Info: Rose Sokol, 860.745.7688, enfieldrose@aol.com February 28 Grand Rapids, Michigan 25th West Michigan Antique Bottle Club Show at the Fonger American Legion Post, 2327 Wilson, S.W., Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49534, Saturday 10:00 am – 2:00 pm, No Early admission, Set-up: 8:00 am – 10:00 am, Cost of admission: $3, West Michigan Antique Bottle Club, Contact: Steve DeBoode, Show Chairman, 616.667.0214, thebottleguy@comcast.net March 8 Baltimore, Maryland The Baltimore Antique Bottle Club’s 35th Annual Show & Sale, 8:00 am to 3:00 pm., web: baltimorebottleclub.org, Physical Education Center, CCBC-Essex, 7201 Rossville Boulevard, (I-695, Exit 34), Contact: Rick Lease, 410.458.9405, finksburg21@comcast.net or Andy Agnew (for contracts), 410.527.1707, medbotls@ comcast.net March 15 Flint, Michigan 46th Flint Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show at the Dom Polski Hall, 3415 N. Linden Road, Flint, Michigan 48504,

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(More) Sho-Biz Sunday 9:00 am to 3:00 pm., No Early Admission, Cost of admission: $2, Flint Antique Bottle & Collectibles Club, Contact: Tim Buda, Show Chairman, 11353 Cook Road, Gaines, Michigan 48436, 989.271.9193 March 20 & 21 Morro Bay, California 47th Morro Bay Antique Bottle Show and Sale at the Morro Bay Veterans Hall, 209 Surf Street, Morro Bay, California 93442, Friday 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm, Saturday.

9:00 am to 3:00 pm, No Early admission, Set-up: Friday, 11:00 am to 1:00 pm, Free Admission, San Luis Obispo Bottle Society, San Luis Obispo Bottle Society on Facebook, Contact: Richard Tartaglia, Show Chairman, 1546 Hillcrest Place, San Luis Obispo, Caliornia 93401, 805.543.7484, dirtydiver53@gmail.com April 11 Kalamazoo, Michigan The Kalamazoo Antique Bottle Club’s 36th Annual Show & Sale, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm, early buyers 8:00 am at the Kalamazoo County Fairgrounds, 2900 Lake Stret, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Contact: John Pastor, PO Box 227, New Hudson, Michigan 48165, 248.486.0530, jpastor@americanglassgallery.com or Mark McNee, 269.343.8393

April 11 St. Clairsville, Ohio The Ohio Valley Bottle Club’s annual Bottle & Table-Top Antiques Show, 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, early buyers 8:00 am at the J.B. Martin Recreation Center, 102 Fair Avenue, St. Clairsville, Ohio Exit 216 off I-70, Contact: Tom Chickery, 740.695.2958, tchick65@gmail.com April 18 Salisbury, North Carolina 9th Annual Piedmont Bottle & Pottery Club Show at the Salisbury Civic Center, 315 S. Martin Luther King Avenue, Salisbury, North Carolina 28144, Saturday 8:00 am – 2:00 pm, No early admission, Set-up: Saturday 6:30 am, Free admission, Piedmont Bottle & Pottery Club, antiquebottles.com/piedmont, Contact: John Patterson, Show chairman, 704.636.9510, ncmilks@carolina.rr.com May 9 Mansfield, Ohio The Ohio Bottle Club’s 37th Mansfield Antique Bottle & Advertising Show & Sale at the Richland County Fairgrounds, Trimble Road exit off of U.S. Rt. 30, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Donation $3, Early Admission: $25 during dealer set-up Friday May 8, 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm. Information: Matt Lacy, Chair, 440.228.1873, info@antiquebottlesales. com or Louis Fifer, Co-Chair, 330.635.1964, fiferlouis@yahoo.com

August 31 July – 2 Chattanooga, Tennesse FOHBC 2015 National Antique Bottle Show at the Chattanooga Convention Center, Sunday August 2, with dealer set-up and early buyers on Saturday.

The Chattanooga Marriott Downtown will be the host hotel and is connected to the convention center. The banquet/ bottle competition, seminars, auction, and membership meetings will be held at the Marriott. Jack Hewitt and John Joiner are serving as show co-chairpersons.

Contracts and Information FOHBC National Show

August 2016 August 4 – 7 Sacramento, California FOHBC 2016 National Antique Bottle Convention at the McClellan Conference Center, Host Hotel: Lions Gate Hotel.

Room Reservations Information: Ferdinand Meyer V, FOHBC President, 713.222.7979 x 115 or e-mail: fmeyer@ fohbc.org More info at FOHBC.org FOHBC National Convention

Where there’s a will there’s a way to leave Donations to the FOHBC Did you know the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors is a 501C(3) charitable organization? How does that affect you? It allows tax deductions for any and all donations to the FOHBC. You might also consider a bequest in your will to the FOHBC. This could be a certain amount of money or part or all of your bottle collection.

The appraised value of your collection would be able to be deducted from your taxes. (This is not legal advice, please consult an attorney) I give and bequeath to the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077, the sum of $____________ to be used as its Board of Directors determines.

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

Thank you for considering us in your donation plans.

Ferdinand Meyer V, President Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors

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Membership Benefits

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

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

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

In addition to providing strength to a national/international organization devoted to the welfare of the hobby, your FOHBC membership benefits include: • A full year subscription the Federation’s official bi-monthly publication, Bottles and Extras • One free ad per yearly membership of 100 words for use for “wanted” items, trade offers, etc.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Bottles and Extras Individual and Affiliated Club Information

FOHBC Individual Membership Application For Membership, complete the following application or sign up at www.fohbc.org (Please Print)

Name ____________________________ Address ____________________________ City _____________ State___________ Zip _____________ Country________ Telephone____________________________ Email Address_________________________

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

online membership directory? (name, address, phone number,

Bottles and Extras FREE ADS

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

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

(Use extra paper if necessary.)

email address and what you collect)

Collecting Interests_____________________ { } Yes { } No

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____________________________ Would you be interested in

____________________________ serving as an officer? {

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Addtional Comments___________________ Would you be interested

____________________________ in contributing your bottle

knowledge by writing articles for the Bottles and Extras? { } Yes { } No

Membership/Subscription rates for one year (6 issues) (Circle One)

United States - second class $30.00 - second class for three years $75.00 - first class $45.00

Canada - first class $50.00 Other countries - first class $65.00

(all first class sent in appropriate mailer) Add an Associate Membership* to any of the above at $5.00 for each associate for each year

Name(s) of Associate(s)__________________________

Signature __________________________ Date________

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

Please make checks or money orders payable to FOHBC and mail to: FOHBC Membership, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002 Effective 9/2011

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

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

Article Submission Requirements: All Bottles and Extras articles or material need to be submitted on CD (preferable) or an email using a compressed (zipped) file. The file must be created by Microsoft Word, Publisher or Adobe N-Design so the editor does not have to retype the work. High-resolution digital images are our preferred format. Please submit digital images on a CD according to the instructions below. We will accept e-mail submissions only if the image resolution is acceptable. The e-mail or CDs must have only ONE subject per transmission to minimize confusion. Each image must be accompanied by a caption list or other identifying information. Professionalgrade equipment is a must to achieve the size and quality image we require. The highest setting on the camera should be used for maximum resolution and file size. Only high quality images will be considered. Please do not send photographic prints or scans of images—the color and quality are generally not up to par compared with digital images or slides scanned by our imaging department. We will consider exceptions for photos that can’t be easily found, such as older historical images.

We rarely use slides anymore and prefer not to receive submissions of slides due to the time and liability involved in handling them.

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July 31 August 2, 2015

The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors presents the 2015 National Antique Bottle Show 300 tables at the Chattanooga Convention Center Exhibit Hall Host Hotel: Marriott Chattanooga at the Convention Center, July 31: Banquet and the Battle of Chattanooga competition, August 1: Seminars, Dealer Setup/Early Admission, Live Auction, August 2: General Admission - $5

Contact: Jack Hewitt 770.963.0220 or John Joiner 404-538-6057

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