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TABLE OF CONTENTS
On the Cover: Augusta collage. Peaches destined for the FOHBC banquet, G. Harral Best of Georgia bottle and peachy smile from Cecelia Toussaint. FOHBC Officers | 2018 - 2020 ................................................................................ 2 Shards of Wisdom ................................................................................................ 4 History’s Corner ................................................................................................... 5 Virtual Museum News by Richard Siri ............................................................ 12
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G. Harral - Best of Georgia by Eric McGuire ................................................... 16
From Russia With Love by Felix & Marina Segal ............................................. 20 The Man from Down Under by Bill Baab ............................................................ 22 Everything was just Peaches & Cream in Augusta by Ferdinand Meyer V ........... 26 Lost & Found ....................................................................................................... 60
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FOHBC Member Photo Gallery .............................................................. 64 Classified Ads .................................................................................. 66 FOHBC Membership Additions & Changes ................................................ 67 FOHBC Sho-Biz - Calendar of Shows ........................................................ 68 Membership Benefits, Ad Rates, Donations to the FOHBC ............................... 71 Membership Application & Advertising ..................................................... 72
To Advertise, Subscribe or Renew a subscription, see pages 66 and 72 for details. To Submit a Story, send a Letter to the Editor or have Comments and Concerns, contact:
FOHBC President’s Message ................................................................................ 3
FOHBC News - From & For Our Members ................................................................ 6
Elizabeth Meyer FOHBC Business Manger 101 Crawford Street, Studio 1A Houston, Texas 77002 phone: 713.222.7979 x103 email: emeyer@fohbc.org
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Martin Van Zant BOTTLES and EXTRAS Editor 41 E. Washington Street Mooresville, Indiana 46158 812.841.9495 email: mdvanzant@yahoo.com Fair use notice: Some material in BOTTLES and EXTRAS has been submitted for publication in this magazine and/or was originally published by the authors and is copyrighted. We, as a non-profit organization, offer it here as an educational tool to increase further understanding and discussion of bottle collecting and related history. We believe this constitutes “fair use” of the copyrighted material as provided for in Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this material for purposes of your own that go beyond “fair use”, you must obtain permission from the copyrighted owner(s). BOTTLES and EXTRAS © (ISSN 1050-5598) is published bi-monthly (6 issues per year) by the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, Inc. (a non-profit IRS C3 educational organization) at 101 Crawford Street, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; phone: 713.222.7979 x103; Website: FOHBC.org, Non-profit periodicals postage paid at Raymore, Missouri 64083 and additional mailing office, Pub. #005062. Postmaster: Send address changes to Elizabeth Meyer, FOHBC Business Manager, 101 Crawford Street, Studio 1A, Houston, Texas 77002; 713.222.7979 x103, email: emeyer @ FOHBC.org Annual subscription rate is: $40 for standard mail or $55 for First Class, $60 Canada and other foreign, $85, Digital Membership $25 in U.S. funds. Life Membership: Level 1: $1,000, Level 2: $500, The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, Inc. assumes no responsibility for products and services advertised in this publication. See page 72 for more details.
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Coming next issue or down the road: Nu-Grape • Abraham Klauber, an early San Diego Pioneer • Dr. Lovegoods Bitters • How Bleeding Kansas wound up on a Peppersauce Bottle • Julius Goldbaum: Arizona’s Pioneer Whiskey Man • Mystery Solved, Who or What is HETRA? • Chemical Safety Awareness When Cleaning Glass • Precious Vessels Fit For A Queen and so much more!
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Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors Business & News
The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors is a non-profit organization for collectors of historical bottles and related collectible items. Our primary goal is educational as it relates to the history and manufacture of historical bottles and related artifacts.
FOHBC Officers 2018 - 2020
President: Matt Lacy, 3836 State Route 307, Austinburg Ohio 44010, phone: 440.228.1873; email: mlacy28@yahoo.com
Conventions Director: Lindsey Fifer, 604 Topaz, Brunswick, Ohio 44212; phone: 440.552.2454; email: lindsey_stoneman@yahoo.com
First Vice-President: Louis Fifer, 604 Topaz, Brunswick, Ohio 44212; phone: 330.635.1964; email: fiferlouis@yahoo.com
Business Manager: Elizabeth Meyer, 101 Crawford Street, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; phone: 713.222.7979 x103; email: emeyer@fohbc.org
Second Vice-President: John O’Neill, 1805 Ralston Ave. Belmont, California 94002; phone: 650.631.7495; email: Joneill@risk-strategies.com Secretary: Andrew Rapoza, 28240 Nancy Lane, Conroe, Texas 77385; phone: 832.928.7472; email: rapoza.2025@gmail.com Treasurer: James Berry, 200 Fort Plain Watershed Rd, St. Johnsville, NY 13452; phone: 518.568.5683; email: jhberry10@yahoo.com Historian: Jim Bender, PO Box 162, Sprakers, NY 12166; phone: 518.673.8833; email: jim1@frontiernet.net Editor: Martin Van Zant, 41 E. Washington St., Mooresville, IN 46168; phone: 812.841.9495; email: mdvanzant@yahoo.com Merchandising Director: Val Berry, 200 Fort Plain Watershed Rd, St. Johnsville, NY 13452; phone: 518.568.5683; email: vgberry10@yahoo.com Membership Director: Linda Sheppard, P.O. Box 162, Sprakers, NY 12166; phone: 518.673.8833; email: jim1@frontiernet.net
Director-at-Large: Ferdinand Meyer V, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; phone: 713.222.7979 x115; email: fmeyer@fohbc.org Director-at-Large: Richard Siri, PO Box 3818, Santa Rosa, California 95402, phone: 707.542.6438; email: rtsiri@sbcglobal.net Director-at-Large: John Pastor, PO Box 227, New Hudson, MI 48165, phone: 248.486.0530; email: jpastor@americanglassgallery.com Midwest Region Director: John Fifer, 5830 Enfield Circle, Medina, Ohio 44256, phone: 330.461.0069; email: coinop1958@gmail.com Northeast Region Director: Jeff Ullman, P.O. Box 121, Warnerville, New York 12187, phone: 518.925.9787; email: jullman@nycap.rr.com Southern Region Director: Brad Seigler, P.O. Box 27 Roanoke, Texas 76262, phone: 940.395.2409; email: drgonzo818@gmail.com Western Region Director: Eric McGuire, 1732 Inverness Drive, Petaluma, California 94954, phone: 707.778.2255; email: etmcguire@comcast.net Public Relations Director: Elizabeth Lacy, 3836 State Route 307, Austinburg Ohio 44010, phone: 440.994.9028; email: elacy@fohbc.org
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President’s Message Matt Lacy the Bottle and Extras magazine loses money with each issue Ferdinand Meyer V
3836 State Inc. Route 307 FMG Design, Ohio 44010 101Austinburg Crawford Street 440.228.1873 Studio 1A mlacy28@yahoo.com Houston, Texas 77002 713.222.7979 x115 utumn always seems fmeyer@fohbc.org to be the busiest time of year for me. This is true in all aspects of life, including the bottle hobby, my desk, on this first back-to-work Monday after New as itting manydown clubsathost a fall bottle show. Thankfully, I have been Years, I conjure up a vision of a stove with lots of pots-a-cooking. able to attend several local shows the past few weeks. Road trips The kettle labeled antique bottle events has us all looking forward to the to local bottle shows bring much for National me, leading to an stretch leading up to the FOHBC 2016nostalgia Sacramento Antique Botodd sense of familiarity and comfort from growing up within the tle Convention & Expo this August. We have a coordination conference call laterand in the week and planfrequently to step it upwith a notch or two. are also hobby attending shows family and We friends pleased that we locked in Springfield, Massachusetts for our 2017 Nationthroughout my life.
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al Antique Bottle Convention, and by the time you read this message, the FOHBC 2018 National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo will have been There is something special about the feel of a smaller, local bottle announced for Cleveland, Ohio. We really have our teams in place and show. The in mechanics of the show are overshadowed by thethesense our wheels motion. I suppose we should start thinking about 2019 of community as soon as you walk through the door. Whilebenefits. these Convention in the Southern Region. Planning ahead has many
shows tend to have a scheduled start time, the mornings are more
The is also proudthrough to say that this March | April 2016 of laid FOHBC back which carries a relaxed day. Dealers oftenissue value BOTTLES and EXTRAS is the first to be printed in full color, which their time catching up with friends over a donut or cup of coffee, only costs us an additional $184, an issue. This change prompted a few instead of the rush to lay bottles out immediately on their table. design revisions, which we hope you will notice, such as the Table of Friendly and greetings hollered of tables, a reContents a few are of the sectionbetween headers. rows We receive quiteand a few dealer’s attention can be grabbed by a wave over one’s head. ally nice compliments on how the magazine looks and have come so far in a relative short number of years. Oh, and look for a new section in the of the magazine called in “Member Photo Gallery”. This Shows likeback the Buffalo Bottle Show New York know the way new section isheart dedicated to thetheir fine stomach, photography of antique to anyone’s is through feeding theirbottles dealersand glass. to submit for gentlemen consideration. donuts,Please pizzafeel and free chicken wings.your The images ladies and of We have already started work on the May | June issue and hope that you Ohio Bottle Club hosted a full potluck dinner on the eve of their will consider authoring an article for the magazine. We are here to help!
fall show in Strongsville this year. Hospitality and kinship like this create friendships that transpose from show show Within this issue of BOTTLES and EXTRAS, pleasetoread theeach proposed bylaw updates revisions reminded that have been in red. All are revisions year, and I amand constantly that marked these friendships the have been approved FOHBCtoBoard of Directors. fundamental reasonby forthe traveling regional shows. These bylaws
have been amended and need to be reviewed by the FOHBC membership prior to the annual general membership meeting at the FOHBC 2016 NaThis is the issue that many of you have asked for. The magazine tional Antique Bottle Convention & Expo in Sacramento, California by is full of featured of the FOHBC 50thbyAnniversary an affirmative vote coverage of a majority of all votes cast the eligible voters National Antique Bottle Convention in Augusta, As made in attendance, provided that a copy of the proposed Georgia. changes are mentioned before, the events scheduled for the weekend available to each member in advance, either directly by mail or kicked by timely notice in the official periodical or onboard the Federation website. off with theFederation’s bi-annual, face-to-face, 4-hour meeting on
Thursday morning. The meeting was well attended by board offi-
In other news, we are moving ahead with photography for the Virtual cers, and a lot of very positive outcomes were recognized through Museum and hope to have regional photography labs set up in regions discussion at the meeting. to start photographing bottles both in a standard format and 3-dimensionally. This effort is being spearheaded by Museum Director, Alan DeAfter much about subject of Museum the FOHBC Maison. You discussion may have met Alanthe at the Virtual tablepubliduring the FOHBC 2015 Chattanooga National Antique Bottle Show last August. cation that day, a subcommittee was born from a collaborative
effort by the board members present in the meeting. This commitFederation member Alicia Booth, is heading up the nomination protee was formed to continue to take on the challenge of discussion cess for the election of all Federation officers including the President, for the future of our Bottles and Extras publication. Bottom-line, Vice President(s), Secretary, Treasurer, Business Manager, Membership
Director, Relations Director, Historian, produced.Public Production, printing and Conventions mailing costsDirector, have given us Merchandising Director, Directors-at-Large (3), and Region Directors insight into the plausible sustainability of the publication. There (4). These elections occur every two years. Any officer may run for suchave been regular and communications within the formed for cessive terms. This calls committee has prepared a slate of nominations committee up to this writing, discussing all aspects of each office and is listed below. It is important to note that the any process member desiring to run any office in the of Federation mayisfile a nomination to produce eachforissue. This group individuals currently form with thea full Election accordance procedures apconducting cost Committee analysis to (in understand thewith current financial proved by the membership and instituted by the Election Committee) benchmarks. This will help us better understand the next steps in indicating the office they desire to run for. The deadline for filing this moving forward. is April 1st 2016. We have seen successful campaigns by our membership before so if you want to run for a position, please let Alicia know. A topic was to email be discussed the board meeting You and that reach herslated at this address, during alicia@cis-houston.org. You in Augusta, but was tabled due totake timethe constraints, will be receiving a ballot fortemporarily voting so please time to vote.
was the future of the FOHBC National Conventions and Expos. President: Ferdinand Meyer V FOHBC RFPs were Candidates sent to the Northeast Region and the Midwest Region Houston, Texas withHerevery little interest from a host club or individual chairs. We is the slate of FOHBC First Vice President: Sheldon Baugh recommended candidates have had a number of people reach out with ideas for host cities.
Russellville, Kentucky put forth by the nominating committee (Alicia Booth, Second Vice President: Gene Bradberry There is noforshortage Chairperson) 2014 - 2016.of great venues in great regions; in fact Bartlett, Tennessee we The have slate found is being putmany. forth for The area of impediment with selecting a your consideration and anyone James location is lack of willingSecretary: local talent suchBerry as a host club or small desiring to run for office may Johnsville, New York group of collectors that desires to put on a national level event. be nominated by going to the Treasurer: Gary Beatty An website effortandisprinting currently underway to stand up a subcommittee out a North Port, nomination Then, mail or which willform. evaluate the situation forFlorida near and long-term future, email to Alicia Booth, 11502 generate ideas and report Historian: recommendations back to the FOHBC Jim Bender Burgoyne Drive, Houston, Texas Sprakers, New York board. 77077. alicia@cis-houston.org Closing date for nominations Editor: Martin Van Zant April 1, 2016 at midnight. Theis Federation of Historic Bottle Collectors officer elections are Danville, Indiana Additional nominations will set be toprinted takealongside placetheinslateAugustMerchandising of 2020 at theDirector: FOHBCVal Reno National Berry Antique Bottle Convention. We formed an elections committee Johnsville, New York proposed by the nominating committee and will be listed in Augusta to determine who would be conat the board meeting Membership Director: Linda Sheppard in the May-June 2016 issue tinuing to serve the organization, the positions Sprakers,thus Newdetermining York of BOTTLES and EXTRAS along thatwith will bebioopen. a short of each This effort is currently underway by the subConventions Director: Louis Fiferor comcandidate. of current officers. committee Please reach out to myself Brunswick, Ohio
mittee Chairperson Val Berry if you have any interest in serving Business Manager: Elizabeth as a 2 year FOHBC officer term starting in 2020. We Meyer are seeking Houston, Texas passionate collectors and individuals with fresh, innovative ideas Director-at-Large: Bob Ferraro to continue to move the organization forward within the hobby. Boulder City, Nevada
Director-at-Large: As you can surmise, bottle collecting is onlySteve one Ketcham aspect of this Edina, Minnesota great hobby we enjoy. From regional bottle shows to national conventions and everything in between, there arePastor individuals Director-at-Large: John New aHudson, working diligently to provide future Michigan path for the hobby while preserving all the things we know Region and love around Matt the bottle Midwest Director: Lacy colAustinburg, hospitality, Ohio lecting community: the friendships, knowledge and resources. You are a part of that. I invite you to connect and Vuono make Northeast Region Director: Andrew an impact. Stamford, Connecticut Southern Region Director: Ron Hands
As always, I look forwardWilson, to serving Northyou! Carolina
Western Region Director: Eric McGuire
Matt Lacy - FOHBC President Petaluma, California
Public Relations Director: Rick DeMarsh Ballston Spa, New York
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Bottles and Extras Those of you who have close friends or fellow club members will likely have someone in mind to receive a certain item or group of items. This would probably be your choice of who might be first in line. This would be something to handle early on as final wishes and directives often do not meet legal requirement. An inclusion in your will may be an alternate route to take.
What Will Happen to Your Collection When You Are Gone? By David Tingen
As an older collector, I often think of the future of my collection when I am gone. My family knows about my collecting but few details or value. The effort here is to share thoughts on the subject. Some things to consider include how to dispose of the collection, true value and who you would charge with the task. I am confident that I am not the only collector who has given this subject some thought.
If donation is an option you wish to pursue, a need to establish value is imperative. Also, consider the fact that many donated collections never get seen outside the museum warehouse. I have seen this happen on several occasions with those close to the collector in wonder as to the outcome of the items donated. It is very difficult to determine who controls the donated items. If a traditional auction is your preference, there is planning to be done here as well. The items must be catalogued, prepared for transport and given some level of insurance. The scheduling of the auction and competition may determine final value. This is something that can’t be controlled by the collector or the person agreeing to the auction terms. Net proceeds are also in consideration due to fees and cost of transport to the auction company or buyer. This can offer a large audience but may not fit your long-term plans. If an on-line auction such as eBay is the preferred route, this may the most complex and time-consuming route of all. In addition, there are sales tax and security issues with this type auction. Those of you who use eBay are familiar with the routine. Each part of the transaction may require a fee of some sort. Bottle shows may the best fit for your treasures as the cost is relatively low and transport is up to you or your representative. This option also allows for direct interface with a potential buyer or buyers. Arrangements can also be made for presell and delivery. The show route also allows the potential buyer to examine items being offered. Now, for the part that may require the most work. Some level of documentation for the collection is a must. A spread sheet or list will be needed for anyone to do a good job of disposing of your collection. As a minimum, the list must contain a complete description, value and any references such as auction results and reference books. This serves two purposes: identification and provenance for future owners. This information can also be used for insurance as most home owner policies limit claims for artwork and collectibles. This is a brief look into the subject and hopefully will serve as food for thought as to the best way to prepare. Of the options show above my preference has been club members, bottle shows, traditional auctions and lastly on-line auctions.
A Collection of Ales
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HISTORY’S CORNER In Memory of Dick Watson longtime FOHBC Historian
A Snapshot of History It could be said that Historical Flasks are the most desirable of all the bottles, just ask any flask collector. However, new or old flasks clearly capture snapshots of history better than any other bottles. Many flasks produced over the years have famous people on them.
You can’t grow bottles by planting a bottle tree By Bill Baab
When you plant a tree, you look forward to enjoying the fruits of your labors. Plant a pecan tree and you’ll get a crop of pecan. Plant a pine tree and you’ll get pine cones and pine straw. Lots of pine straw. Cherry trees, wild and otherwise, yield cherries. But if you plant a bottle tree, you won’t be able to harvest a crop of bottles. Mrs. Geneva Greene, of Langley, S.C., can attest to that. The Horse Creek Antique Bottle and Pottery Club President planted her bottle tree several months ago and nothing in the way of a “crop” has happened. Darn. And I was hoping to raise a few River Swamp Chill & Fever Cures, or maybe some John Ryan sodas, or. . . . Bottle trees have become novel ways to display antique or new bottles outside one’s home. Sparkling in the sunlight, bottles are attractions for sure. But birds and squirrels hate them because their flashing multi-colors spook the winged and four-footed critters. Where did bottle trees originate? Bea, my wife of 53 years, enjoys reading the history of foods. One of her acquisitions is a book about North Carolina’s “Old Salem Cookery,” and while reading it she came to a chapter called “Bottle Trees.” It reads: “Here and there outside the back door of a farm house, you will occasionally see a bottle tree. A bottle tree does not grow bottles (darn again), it is used to dry them. “The trunk of tree with several low branches is cut down to a height of about six or seven feet. The branches are cut off to a length of about a foot or so. These branches make spikes for holding bottles and jars to dry. “The old folks liked the idea of drying their bottles and jars in the fresh air and sun.” And then there’s Bottle Tree Antiques in Donald, South Carolina, owned and operated by collector John Bray. But that’s another story.
The flask pictured here was made in 1959 in honor of John C. Tibbitts, founder and first president of the Antique Bottle Collectors Association (ABCA) the predecessor of the FOHBC. The back of the bottle is marked “Bottle Collectors Are Nice People.” Watch each issue for a new installment of History’s Corner.
FOHBC Augusta Banquet Awards Sweep
The International Perfume Bottle Association (IPBA) visited the stage five times at the recent FOHBC Banquet in Augusta. Frank and Elizabeth Creech, representing the IPBA, accepted awards for 1st Place, Best Club Newsletter, Perfume Bottle Quarterly, 1st Place, Susan Arthur, author, Best Research/Information article, “Who or What is HETRA?” published in the Perfume Bottle Quarterly, 2nd Place, Felix and Marina Segal, authors Best Research/Information article “From Russia with Love” published in the Perfume Bottle Quarterly, 1st Place, Laurie Stern, author Best True Story, “Message in a Bottle: How Antiques Guided a Natural Perfumer’s Life & Aesthetic“ published in the Perfume Bottle Quarterly and 2nd Place, Gayle Syers, Frank and Elizabeth Creech, authors Best True Story “Precious Vessels fit for a Queen” published in Perfume Bottle Quarterly. In honor of this accomplishment, we have received permission to rerun their articles. The first, From Russia with Love, appears in this issue.
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FOHBC News From & For Our Members Year of the comet bottle 1811
Dr. Woodruff’s Dysentery Cordial - Columbus, Ga.
Hello! My name is Mark Eastman. I am a young (26) antique collector and glass/precious metal artist out of the Philadelphia area. I have had this bottle in my collection for a few years now and am starting to get interested in vintage time pieces. My birthday is coming up on the 22nd and I would like to be able to get myself a piece from the 70s that I can hand down to future generations. I am contacting you to see if you have any interest in my bottle to fund this and because I believe it would be in the best hands. I found this bottle lamped believe it or not, thus the hole in the base. Thank you very much for your time and consideration.
Hi Ferd, Jack Klotz here in Missouri. I dug a bottle a while back and recently noticed it may be an unlisted variant. It is listed in Digger Odell’s pontiled medicine book but the embossing on mine doesn’t exactly match up. I have a pontiled, aqua, “Dr. Woodruff’s/Dysentery/Cordial” all embossed on a front flat panel in three lines and no other embossing. Odell has one listed as embossed with “Dysentery/ Cordial” on one side and “Columbus, Ga.” on opposite side. Also, the size of Odell’s listing is 9” whereas mine is 7 1/4” tall. I have had a running search on eBay since digging it and never got one hit. I did notice it came up on a search on the list of 25 Top Georgia bottles as #18 compiled by Bill Baab. It was unclear how the embossing was on Bill’s list for the bottle but it seems the known ones all have the city embossing, unlike my bottle. I figured I’d check with him if he had seen this particular variant or not, however I could find no contact info for him, so tag, you’re it! Any help appreciated.
[FOHBC] This is a cool bottle but unfortunately, the hole in the bottom negates any real value. The Great Comet of 1811 was a comet that was visible to the naked eye for around 260 days, a record it held until the appearance of Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997. The comet was discovered March 25, 1811 by Honoré Flaugergues at 2.7 AU from the sun in the now-defunct constellation of Argo Navis. After being obscured for several days by moonlight, it was also found by Jean-Louis Pons on April 11, while Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach was able to confirm Flaugergues’ discovery the same night. The comet of 1811 was thought to be responsible for the long, hot summer and dry autumn and the following abundant harvest that year. As it turned out, the year 1811 turned out to be particularly fine for wine production, and merchants marketed ‘Comet Wine’ at high prices for many years afterwards.
Question about a Cleveland O. Bottle
[Bill Baab] Jack: Ferdinand forwarded your email. That bottle is extremely rare in Georgia and elsewhere. The very first example I became aware of came from a privy in Old Williamsburg, Va., and was in a report from the archaeologist, now deceased. I think that collector Tom Hicks in Eatonton, Ga., had an example, but am not certain. I will call Tom (his computer is down) and see what he has to say. It is quite possible yours is a variant. Bottles from Columbus, Ga., also are scarce. The only other one I know of is a John Ryan cobalt soda (Ryan had branches in Augusta, Atlanta and Columbus during the late 1860s). I can’t recall who had the bottle I used in my Top 25 listing. After I talk to Tom, I’ll get back to you.
A couple of bottles from the Charles Gardner collection Hi Ferd, I recently picked up a couple of bottles from the Charles Gardner collection. Seeking any more info and possibly the catalog description of these bottles. One is lot #116, looks like a globular pontiled “swirl” bottle, the other is lot # 1131, a light olive green ribbed swirled flask. Thanks for any help! David Bethman Hamilton, Montana
Bininger’s Regulator flask Dear FOHBC, I noticed some time ago, a Bininger’s Regulator flask sold at auction. What was the selling price?
Hello! I am doing repairs on my 1868 home in Brecksville, Ohio and found a small medicine bottle under the porch marked “E.A. Palmer & Bro, Cleveland, O.” Google hasn’t given me much to work with as far as information. I was wondering whether you would have any idea on its history or worth? Thank you! Katherine Ramsey
Sincerely, Alex Prizgintas [Jim Bender] To answer the question about the Bininger flask, as he calls it, this is the clock bottle. Like any bottle, condition and quality of glass is everything. The amber clocks bring $400 to $800 and the aqua bottles bring $1,400 to $2,500.00 depending on the example. There have been a few wild card bottles that bring more than that in auctions prompting the thought, “who paid that!” The clock bottles seem to be a bottle everyone likes.
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Hi Ferdinand - I think I have a great bottle. The bottle is in perfect condition. It has no chips, cracks, or fractures. It has been on a shelf in my husbands 200+ year old home for his 55 years and most likely longer. The house and its contents have been in his family for at least five generations. We’ve recently begun selling off some of the antiques that don’t have sentimental value. While researching the bottle, I came across the Peachridge Glass website...what a wonderful resource! Is this something you’d be interested in purchasing? If not, we will most likely put it on an auction site like eBay. If there are additional pictures that you’d like to see in a certain light, or a certain angle please let me know and I will send them along. Thank you for sharing your bottle knowledge & all the best, Karen Potts North Truro, Massachusetts [Ferdinand] Oh, you’re right. This is a super bottle. Typically found in stunning colors, the Old Sachem’s Bitters and Wigwam Tonic is a classic figural barrel. The aqua version actually comes in two sizes and some examples are pontiled. Here are my examples in aqua.
Frank’s Laxative Tonic Bitters Mr. Ferdinand: My name is Teresa Paulson. My husband Roy Paulson, passed away the end of July. He had an extensive bottle collection and sold a lot of stuff to his friends before his death. He had this bitters bottle at a bottle show on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and one of his friends took a picture and put it online. He told me that he had a person from Houston that was interested but he never left me a name. I looked it up online and ran across your article. Are you the same person interested in buying the bottle? If so, I am interested in selling it, please let me know.
Hotaling Sign Good morning all; I spotted the inquiry regarding the Hotaling sign within this month’s Bottles and Extras, from Maurice Chevalier IV. Attached are two photos, one of Mike Dolcini’s framed sign, the other of the actual building taken on or about April 20th, 1906, subsequent to the firestorm passing through the commercial district.
Mid-19th century bottles unearthed during the demolition and subsequent excavation of Chicago’s ‘S’ curve Elizabeth Meyer, our Business Manager, subscribes to Urban Remains Chicago and suggests we visit their website at UrbanRemains Chicago.com to read a wonderful historical digging post with found bottles.
Based on a careful examination of the photo of the actual building / buildings using Photoshop, it would appear that the artist who created the sign picturing the structures took some liberties, as there is nothing painted on them in the photo. Bruce Silva WesternWhiskeyToolTopGazette.com
For over 10 years, Urban Remains has dealt exclusively in the reclamation of American architectural artifacts, antiques, and other oddities found among industrial buildings, and commercial or residential structures. The website displays well over 25,000 recovered artifacts, dating from the mid-19th century to the late 1960s. They do not deal in any new or reproduction materials, and the majority of pieces are directly salvaged at demolition sites within Chicago. New items are added to the website daily, reflecting everything that is available to the public in their West Town warehouse.
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November - December 2019 Dealing with “Snow-Snuffers” on the side This next new listing for Bitters Bottles Supplement 2 reminds us of the thousands of lawsuits against opioid companies. Seems like our druggist friend, U. M. Weaver had quite a few side rackets. Here are two. Running a Gambling Den in the back of his drug store and selling heroin, cocaine, and morphine to addicts on the side… “Snow-Snuffers.” These cool trade cards are from Joe Gourd.
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Trade card W 57.5 WEAVER’S STOMACH BITTERS, Handsome card set, ie. Illustrations of juggler, pushing baby carriage, fancy ladies. Every time you purchase drugs of U. M. Weaver, you get a Handsome Card. We will send the Full Set to any address, upon Receipt of 6 Cts. U. M. Weaver, Harrisburg, Pa. Reverse: Weaver’s Remedies. Toothache Drops. Liniment. Baby Drops. Cough Mixture. Ague Cure. Stomach Bitters. Peruvian Ointment.
Dope Peddlers Held for Court: Altoona Tribune, Tuesday, March 17, 1914 Charge Weaver With Running a Gambling Den: Altoona Times, Wednesday, April 5, 1916
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Two Good Projects that the FOHBC should consider... Matt and Louis, I’ve been meaning to write you for a while and now is as good of time as any I guess. I have two projects that I feel the FOHBC should undertake, neither are terribly resource intensive, and would attract new members, I believe. Project #1: BOTTLE PRICE GUIDE COMPUTERIZED DATABASE As both of you know, many collectors love price guides. Over the years, there have been many including Brown’s, John Odell, Jim Mitchell and D&C Auction Price Results. All of these are gone to my knowledge, but they did have valuable information. As such, the FOHBC should develop a database similar in content to Jim Mitchell’s book. All of the information is in the public domain so copyright laws are not an issue. The database should contain a description, condition, price, McKearin and or Ring/Ham number (as applicable),
date of sale etc. In my opinion, the data should go back to the Gardner Sale, and should only include auctions (e.g., Heckler, Skinner’s, Glass Works, eBay, etc.) and not private sales. Once developed, the database would be assigned to a person to update on a yearly basis. The database should have a cutoff on prices meaning bottles below certain price point (e.g., 100 dollars) would be excluded. Also, common bottles such as amber Drakes would not need to be recorded every time one sold, perhaps only the latest. Once developed, the database would be a great tool for collectors and dealers to use. It would be on the FOHBC web site and available to members. Perhaps a yearly user fee of $10 could be charged if desired. This exact tool is used extensively by the Art/Painting market. Also, it could be developed in phases, Flasks, Bitters, Medicines, etc. Eventually, it could be linked to the Virtual Bottle Museum. Project #2: REVISED/UPDATED MCKEARIN FLASK CHARTS As historical flask collectors, I’m sure both of you would agree that
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the backbone of the bottle hobby are flasks, and the support structure for flasks are the McKearin charts. The last time the charts were updated was in 1978, when Helen McKearin and Ken Wilson published “American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry.” I believe the FOHBC should take over the flask charts and develop and maintain them on a searchable database. First, the charts as published in 1948 and 1978 were focused on molds first and color second. This can be very confusing to new collectors, especially in deterring desirability. Also, many new molds and colors have come to light. If I’m not mistaken, Mark Vuono has developed an updated list of new molds and colors. I believe this project is vital to collectors, dealers, and researchers.
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Looking at a Moffat Billhead Medicine ephemera authority and collector, Ben Swanson, submitted this important illustrated billhead in the form of a stampless folded letter dated 1846 to Dr. William Washington Fritts of Carlisle, Kentucky from Dr. William Brinckerhoff Moffat proprietor of Phoenix Bitters. Hand written and signed.
I plan on attending the Ohio Bottle Show in September where we could discuss both projects. Thanks Chris Hartz Arroyo Grande, California
The Story of Drake’s Plantation Bitters A 19th Century Cure-All
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Be on the lookoput for one of the greatest bottle books ever! This book leaves no stone unturned, has so much information not available in any other single text, and will become an important source of information for collectors not only for Drakes Plantation Bitters but for patent medicines in the mid to late 18th century in America.
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The Story of DRAKEʼS PLANTATION BITTERS A 19th Century Cure-All by Q. David Bowers In cooperation with the Token and Medal Society and the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors
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Ferdinand Meyer V tells us that he worked as a research and image consultant on the new Drake’s Plantation Bitters book by FOHBC life member, Q. David Bowers. Ferdinand also wrote the foreword and prepared the fullpage advertisement for David that appeared in the Augusta souvenir program. Stay tuned for more information. This book has a lot of information and images that have not been seen before or presented in a way that tells the story of the most famous bitters bottle of all.
Mishler’s Herb Bitters article Dear Mr. Meyer, I wanted to thank you for your informative article on Mishler’s Herb Bitters from October 2015. My name is Dale Mishler and I am a descendant of the family that founded the company. Having a BA in history, I enjoyed the article, however, when comparing information that I have with your article, I noted a few minor inconsistencies in the early history of Mishler’s in Pennsylvania. I have a family history written by John Milton Mishler, dated, July 1, 1921, which indicates that Joseph Mishler (the first Mishler of this family line) was born in 1757 in Switzerland. Joseph was the father of John and the grandfather of Benjamin. Joseph and John are buried in Denver Union (Denver Mennonite) Cemetery, Lancaster County, Pa. Benjamin’s brother Issac went on to establish the Mishler Theater in Altoona, Pa. Another one of Benjamin’s brother, Lyman, was a West Point grad and Union Officer. He was one of three Union Officers killed at the Battle of Valverde, during the Civil War. If you would be willing to share an alternate information on the subject, I would love to see it. If you would like to discuss the subject or want a copy of the history please let me know. Respectfully; Dale P. Mishler, DHSc, ARNP, Captain, USPHS
Moffat Billhead Hi, Ferd, I loved your post on “Looking at a Moffat Billhead!” I adore Moffat’s Phoenix Bitters, and found the document fascinating. The street lamp in front of the building on the billhead (first attachment) is identical to the street lamp in front of the nearby New York Hospital (second attachment), thus helping to confirm the (probable) accuracy of the graphic. Of additional related interest is A.M. Bininger & Co. (338 Broadway, in green in the attached map) was located across the street from Moffat’s Phoenix Bitters (335 Broadway, in blue in the attached map). This locational relationship lasted for a short time only, however, as A.M. Bininger & Co. relocated to 19 Broad Street after spending only one year at 338 Broadway. Thanks for the great posting! Regards, Chris Bubash Dayton, Ohio The street lamp in front of the building on the billhead is identical to the street lamp in front of the nearby New York Hospital.
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[Gina Pellegrini - 02 October] Hey Alan, thanks for the update. I am hoping to be set up and doing some test shots, trial runs when my dad returns from his Idaho hunting trip in the middle of October, around 20th. I have been clearing a place for set up so I don’t have to break it down again until I know what I’m doing. Will let you know how it goes! [Alan DeMaison to Miguel - 19 August] Very impressive introduction to the VM Homepage. Lots done, much to do on the actual individual pages.
Virtual Museum Ne ws By Richard Siri
The FOHBC Virtual Museum has been established to display, inform, educate, and enhance the enjoyment of historical bottle and glass collecting by providing an online virtual museum experience for significant historical bottles and other items related to early glass.
**************** [Richard Siri] This issue of Virtual Museum News includes bits and pieces of email communications from our work of late. It may be hard to follow but should give you an update. On 17 September, had a Webex webinar where the team reviewed to museum page by page, room by room. Present were Alan DeMaison, Ferdinand Meyer V, Miguel Ruiz (FMG Design) and myself. [Alan DeMaison to VM Team - 24 July] We are back home and after 5,000+ miles and 10 days of driving, I’m glad to be home. I want to touch base on where we are with the VM and ask for updates from you. Ferdinand is manning the VM display in Augusta. I will send the banner and pins with John Fifer. Gina has the light box, the turntable and Iconasys software. Last time I knew, Gina was working on getting a working laptop. Miguel has the Iconasys 360 spin software and was working on problems. The Federal Income Tax information has been provided to Jim Berry. I still need to send Miguel Ruiz a W-9 form to fill out and will need to complete a 1099-Misc Income to be sent to Jim Berry in early January since he has received over $600. Where do we stand with the write-ups? [Alan DeMaison - 30 September] I will soon be moving forward again. Our family issues have been resolved. To update everyone: I will be working on 28 fruit jars and I will be working on 20+ target balls. I am in the process of getting set for a Charlie Betts photo session with fire grenades. I think they should be in the same gallery as the target balls. I am arranging a session with Dave Merker, a Saratoga mineral water collector with lots of history. Also working with Dennis Huey, Ohio soda collector with some history and Doug Shutler for Cincinnati sodas. On a second note, I can send out pictures of the completed fruit jars for reference numbers in Jerry’s book to Greg Spurgeon, Phil Smith, Joe Merkel, etc. P.S. Gina, how are you doing with getting set up? FYI, It took almost a year for me to get up and going. Note: Gina Pellegrini is our west coast imager.
I was thinking about a $5 or $10 day pass? Annual pass for FOHBC members to VM with unlimited visits $25? Annual membership which includes FOHBC digital membership and VM with unlimited visits $50? Annual membership to the VM with unlimited visits and Bottles and Extras $95? Food for thought. We have enough spins for about 220 items. I believe all spins should be available with “under construction” in the information data box or possibly “Add your information by contacting.” Seems to me we should have the Bitters Gallery ready to open with Ferds information. Historical Flasks Gallery opening with plenty of “Need Information” for historical data. Fruit Jars with same. (Refer to Fruit Jar Annuals to get information). The Spirits Gallery is near ready to open with Eric McGuire and Richard Siri descriptions. Orbs and Target Balls ready to open with descriptions from John Pastors auction catalogs. Miguel, send me some pictures of merchandise. I’ll get some prices. Val Berry would be a great asset for Merchandising. [Alan to Miguel - 30 September] More I see it, the more I love it. Few things don’t work, going to full screen, but wonderful work. [Miguel Ruiz on how team reviews web site] In regards to feedback. Since you will be needing to revise the website, I implemented a “Feedback” function which you can use to send me notes pointing to anything on the website. Once logged in, there will be a green FEEDBACK button at the bottom left corner of every page. Once you click on it, you can write notes on any part of the screen, and those notes will be sent directly to me, alongside automated screenshots from your screen. See the screenshots I attached, which have step-by-step instructions on how it works. The bold text in Red are the notes that show you where you need to click. [Dale J. Santos - 29 July] Hi Ferd, just wanted to touch base about the Virtual Bottle Museum, I realize it is a daunting endeavor to put this together but was wondering where demijohns, utility bottles, non embossed ink, snuffs, pitkins and chestnut flasks fit into the picture of the museum, I can’t say I see anything mentioned about these relics in glass? Will they be left out due to the fact they aren’t embossed? Okay my friend, have fun in Georgia at the National, hope you are on the mend, kind regards, [Ferdinand Meyer V] Dale, we would love to image your wonderful demijohns and certainly see a place in the museum for the items you note. The sky is the limit as long as it is old historical glass.
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THE BEST OF GEORGIA
Sweet Georgia Peaches Bottle Competition 1st Place – Jack Hewitt, Big Canoe, Georgia Dr. G. Harral Druggist, Savannah, Georgia, Embossed in Applied Seal, Black Glass
In the last decade or so it has become increasingly popular for collectors of antique bottles to rate or compare them in various categories. These categories are many and varied with parameters that are rather conjectural but somewhat understandable by the collecting community. The task of rating is often given to a group of individuals at bottle shows who are familiar with the attributes of certain bottles. Included in this game of top spot for a certain category is the best bottle for a regional area, eg. Western or Southern. Also included may be a sub-category as in best Southern soda bottle or bitters bottle. At the recent FOHBC National Convention in Augusta, Georgia, was just such a competition. As is usually the case the judging parameters were somewhat subjective and left up to the individual judge’s experience to make a determination. They usually confer and either come to a mutual decision or vote, with the bottle entered into the competition garnering the most votes declared the winner. One of the three categories judged at Augusta was best Georgia bottle. As flawed as the subjective mutual decision may be, it is all in fun with the owner of the winning bottle walking away with bragging rights – at least until next time. Interestingly, the winning item of the best Georgia bottle was also a previous winner of Top 25 Georgia bottles back in 2003. Possibly the only example known, the G. HARRAL / DRUGGIST / SAVANNAH / GA bottle is so heavy with ‘historicity’, that it is hard to beat. The fabric of the bottle is similar to many that were produced during the late 18th and early 19th century, but its applied glass seal speaks volumes for its deserved top Georgia bottle spot. This is a case where history beats aesthetics – and rarity helps too. What is known about George Harral has not been well investigated with regard to his business activities; however, his genealogical record has been fairly well documented. His German-born father, George Harral, Sr., immigrated to Charleston, South Carolina about 1765 and married the English-born Barbara Ann Muilin there on February 24, 1778. He was the second child of George and Barbara Harral. He was born in Charleston on October 1, 1780, and raised there until he moved to Savannah, Georgia. His education has not been well documented; however one source notes that he was trained in the field of medicine. It is certainly possible that he was either trained or indentured to someone with experience in the medical field for he often addressed himself as a doctor. It should be clarified that this title was often used loosely at this period in time and did not require any formal training as a physician. It should also be noted that when he opened his drug store in Savannah, in 1797, George Harral was only seventeen years of age. His young age and apparent business acumen implies that he had some tutelage from a more experienced and funded individual – perhaps even his father. The year of 1799 was important to young Harral. He was married April 14, 1799, in Savannah, to Charlotte Wright, born in London, England, June 4, 1779, daughter of Edward and Ann Wright. Then, his father died in Charleston on December 20, 1799.
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Beginning as early as July 1797, Harral advertised a large selection of drugs, medicines and also fitted up medical chests for use by ships, plantations and doctors. By September of the same year, Harral added a mortar and pestle to the design of his advertisements. His later advertisements noted his store was located, “at the sign of the Man and Mortar, (perpetual motion,) Market Square, Savannah.” The perfection of perpetual motion still has yet to be achieved so it may be assumed that his sign was, somehow, actuated by wind energy. He consistently advertised the sale of patent medicines and chemicals generally used in the pharmacy trade as well as perfumery, confectionery, surgical instruments, paints and shop furThe earliest advertisement located for George Harral, in the niture. A considerable Columbian Museum & Savannah Advertiser, of July 28, amount of his stock 1797, wherein he states, “New Medicine Store, The subwas being imported scriber most respectfully informs his Friends and the Public, directly from England. that he has taken the Store next to Mr. Cleland’s in Duke Much of his early street, Market-Square, where he is just opening a complete advertisements focused assortment of fresh and genuine Drugs, Medicines, &c.” on the sale of patent medicines of the day, such as Cordial Balm of Gilead, Anti-Impetigines, or the Charleston produced, Dr. Dalton’s Concentrated Tincture of Yellow Bark. Not unusual for this period in time, Harral embodied strong religious beliefs and became involved with the Presbyterian Church of Savannah, where he was one of its trustees.(1) He was also an early treasurer to the church which included the task of collecting subscriptions from pew holders.(2) Reserving a particular pew was a common practice of the time. During this time, Harral was also one of the first managers of the Georgia Bible Society, whose charge was Christian philanthropy, disseminating bibles and other religious tracts. His likely early success in his business also afforded him status in the city of Savannah. As the incorporated city expanded its boundaries Harral was appointed as one of five individuals to oversee the process of public sale of eleven newly created lots of property assigned to the Franklin Ward, on the bay, and bounded on the NW by
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West Broad Street and to the East by property owned by Telfair and Clay, two prominent citizens.(3) In March 1804, Harral left Savannah for three months, presumably for business purposes, either in England or New York. With regard to this absence, it is also noted that two undeliverable letters were sent to Harral in Washington, DC, which may be an indication that he had resided in that city for some period of time prior to 1806.(4) Not unusual for the gentry of the South, Harral was a slave holder. While we would like to think that he was benevolent to his human property, he still had issues with this now unthinkable practice. Prior to his temporary absence from Savannah in 1804 one slave, named Rachel, decided to leave her master which motivated Harral to advertise for her return. Not to be the last time this happened, he offered a reward of fifty dollars for her capture. (5) No further notice was forthcoming about the fate of Rachel. By the beginning of 1807, Harral found it necessary to deal with the many delinquent accounts on his books by placing a rather lengthy advertisement in the Georgia Republican, calling for payment or suffer the consequences of legal action. “The subscriber earnestly requests all persons indebted to him, by notes and open accounts, to settle their respective dues early in the present year so as to enable him to meet his own engagements at that time – from the repeated delinquency of many whose accounts have been standing open for several years, he is now obliged to insist on a The notice for the capture and reward for George Harral’s settlement; therefore slave, Rachel. (Columbian Museum [Savannah, Georgia] all of this description, February 29, 1804) not paid by the first of March next, will be placed in the hands of an attorney for collection, as no longer indulgence can possibly be given.”(6) True to his word, for the next several years, the local newspapers often contained notices of legal action whereby the courts awarded Harral the proceeds of sheriff’s sales, as well as property, including slaves, as payment for debts owed him. Business for Harral appears to have been good for the next few years and in 1807 he advertised for additional help at his store for, “Two smart lads, of respectable connections, are wanted to the Drug Business; great care and attention will be paid to their morals and improvement”. (7)
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As well as his usual importation of drugs and sundries, Harral also imported glassware in 1807, including: “50 boxes Crown Window Glass, 8 by 10 and 10 by 12 1 hhd. (hogshead) 2 quart specie bottles, with lacquered tin top. 7 crates assorted phials 20 casks assorted glass ware, put up for country stores, containing in each – 4 dozen quart decanters, tops fitted 4 ditto pint ditto 4 ditto ½ pint ditto 12 ½ dozen ½ pint tumblers 2 ditto ½ pint goblets 6 ditto welted (?) wine glasses 2 ditto salt cellars”(8) It is also evident that Harral had amassed enough funds to engage in the real estate market. By the end of 1808, he advertised for rent “a small two story dwelling house, with convenient out buildings, situated in the upper end of Broughton Street.”(9) This property would also be near to his own residence. Later in that year, Harral and 82 additional subscribing members, banded together and formed the Savannah Poor-House and Hospital Society.(10) Toward the end of 1809, Harral repeated his call for the return of a slave, named Judy, who chose to leave her “master.” He apparently thought more of herat least her economic value to his service - than his slave, Rachel, as his reward for Judy’s return was $100. Again, no further information on this situation was noted. It appears that by 1810, Harral had determined to rent out his own dwelling, including the smaller house that he rented a few years earlier. His advertisement notes, . . . “To be rented, and possession given immediately, The subscribers large and pleasantly situated dwelling house, on the An undeniable evil of the time, this practice should not be pushed aside but noted well, for it should never be repeated. corner of Broughton and West-Broad streets, (Augusta Chronicle, December 2, 1809) containing twelve well finished rooms, with eight fire places, kitchen, wash-room, wood house, and apartments for servants. In the yard, are an excellent
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stable, carriage-house, etc.”(11) For those familiar with the City of Savannah, this property would be in the Franklin Ward. George Harral served as an alderman for the City of Savannah from September 10, 1810 to September 6, 1811. Harral was present in Savannah at least until 1811 when he appointed William Lloyd to act as agent during his absence. (12) Harral landed in New York, along with his family, on the Schooner, Edmund, as noted in the New York Gazette & General Advertiser, on July 11, 1811. He would have had six of his twelve children at this date. By early 1812, Harral was back in Savannah and on January 2 of that year, announced a new partnership with Edward Coppee.(13) In May 1812, Harral advertised for sale, “his carriage and horses, which are inferior to none in the city. To save unnecessary trouble, the lowest price will be fifteen hundred dollars.”(14) In a notice dated September 1812, Harral gave his first confirmation that he would soon be leaving Savannah “to the northward.” In consequence of his decision, he also terminated his short lived partnership with Edward Coppee. (15) But not idle in his business activities, he became a founding stockholder in a new business titled The Insurance Company of City of Savannah, on December 10, 1812.(16) There is some indication that Harral first went to Washington, DC, since there are notices of undelivered mail for him in 1813; however, by 1815 he was acting more like an unspecialized commission merchant when he advertised the sale of turtle shell and pearl handled lancets in Philadelphia on April of 1815, at 134 Market Street.(17) By July of the same year, and still operating in Philadelphia at the same address, Harral was up and operating as he did in Savannah, advertising his usual stock of drugs, medicine, painters colors and surgical instruments – a formula that served him well in Savannah. He also Notice of the auction sale of Harral’s Savannah residence and included a somewhat its contents, which occurred on April 20, 1813 (Savannah larger stock of glassRepublican and Savannah Evening Ledger, March 13, 1813). ware as noted in the following ad. (18) Having fully established himself in Philadelphia, Harral then looked back home and partnered with Robert Worrell who would take charge of their new store in Savannah under the name of
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Harral also ventured into the sale of mineral water as this advertisement attests. (Poulson’s American Daily Advertiser [Philadelphia, PA] August 13, 1816)
Perhaps short of capital by this time, Harral then entered into a partnership with Wm. A. Dunham at 161 Pearl Street in New York City, selling drugs, chemicals, etc.(22)
George Harral became a member of the South Dutch Reformed Church of New York City on June 8, 1820, per church records. This short – lived partNotice of George Harral opening his second store in the city nership with Dunham of Savannah in partnership with Robert Worrell, first printed ended about 1822 and in the City Gazette of Charleston, on January 4, 1817. Harral likely moved to Albany, New York, for a short time prior to settling in Rochester, New York. The years between 1823 and 1825 are not well documented for the whereabouts of Harral, but he was known to be residing in Rochester in 1826 where he was listed as a physician in the city directory. His penchant for patent medicines persuaded him into selling his own concoction when he claimed to have invented a cure for drunkenness. One advertisement noted, “The doctor will insure a voluntary abstinence from liquor for one year, to all patients who will faithfully take the medicine, as prescribed, for one week.”(23) The medicine was apparently a failure. In 1828, Marshall & Dean of Rochester were selling, “Japan Paste Blacking, For Boots and shoes, made by Dr. George Harral, druggist and chymist, Rochester, N.Y.” George Harral was in Rochester on August 18, 1829, when his son, H. W. Harral became associated with his father at Apothecary Hall, corner of Exchange and Buffalo Streets.
Bottles and Extras His last documented stay in Rochester was a marriage notice for his daughter, Lucy Ann Harral, who married Alanson Penfield of Cleveland, Ohio, on October 27, 1831. George Harral was noted as living in Rochester. No later records could be found.
Some genealogical records for Harral have noted that he retired about 1849 and enjoyed a life of living with his many children some of whom were quite successful in a variety of businesses. His wife, Charlotte Wright Harral, died in New York City on February 13, 1847. George Harral died Advertisement for George Harral’s ill-fated cure December 17, 1856, in for drunkenness. Rochester Album (Rochester, Tarrytown, New York. New York) June 1827 They are buried together at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. With available research revealing no positive clues about when Harral commissioned his sealed black glass bottles, or to what use they may have had, we can still make at least one conclusion. His business tenure in Savannah occurred between 1797 and 1813. The bottle should have been made between those two dates, but a more specific time line would have to rely on speculation. Due to the extreme rarity of the bottles, they were likely produced in small numbers and for a short period of time. It could be that they were produced at the inception of his business as a marketing strategy. Of course, this same strategy could have been employed at any time within his residence in Savannah. With that same idea in mind, Harral may have made the bottles for a special run of alcoholic beverage that he either sold or gifted to his clients. The bottle is an unusual form for a druggist to use in his practice, and I would expect the story behind the manufacture of his bottles to be unusual as well. Not likely to happen, a labeled example would go a long way to helping to solve the mystery of why this ‘Best of Georgia’ bottle exists. NOTES: 1. 2. 3. 4.
Columbian Museum [Savannah, Georgia] March 4, 1803 Ibid, December 3, 1803 Ibid, December 21, 1803 National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser [Washington, DC] October 13, 1806 5. Ibid, February 25, 1804 6. Georgia Republican (Savannah, Georgia), February 17, 1807 7. Savannah Republican, July 9, 1807 8. Columbian Museum [Savannah, Georgia] Oct 23, 1807 9. Ibid, December 16, 1808 10.Savannah Republican, December 28, 1808 11.Ibid, February 8, 1810 12.Ibid, July 2, 1811
13.Ibid, February 29, 1812 14.Ibid, May 12, 1812 15.Ibid, October 10, 1812 16.Ibid, December 24, 1812 17.Poulson’s American Daily Advertiser [Philadelphia, PA] April 4, 1815 18.Ibid, December 12, 1816 19.City Gazette [Charleston, South Carolina] January 4, 1817 20.Savannah Daily Republican, December 22, 1818 21.Philadelphia Gazette, June 17, 1819 22.Evening Post [New York, New York] October 23, 1820 23.Pawtucket Chronicle and Manufacturers’ and Artizans’ Advocate [Pawtucket, RI] June 30, 1827
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Felix & Marina Segal, authors SECOND PLACE 2019 Best Research/Information Article “From Russia with Love” Published in the Perfume Bottle Quarterly International Perfume Bottle Association Announced at FOHBC Augusta Banquet
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How a single polar bear conquered the scent industry for nearly a century — the artistic brilliance of Kazimir Malevich Adapted from the article BOTTLING A DREAM. A COLOGNE BOTTLE BY MALEVICH written by Dr. Aleksandra Shatskikh for ARTCHRONIKA; and from 43info.com published on March 18, 2015. Submitted by Felix & Marina Segal
KAZIMIR MALEVICH (February 23, 1879-May 15, 1935) was a Russian avant-garde artist and art theorist, whose pioneering work and writing had a profound influence on the development of non-objective, or abstract art, in the 20th century. His concept of Suprematism sought to develop a form of expression that moved as far as possible from the world of natural forms (objectivity) and subject matter in order to access “the supremacy of pure feeling” and spirituality. Malevich studied and worked in a variety of styles, including Impressionism, Symbolism, Fauvism, and Cubism. Gradually simplifying his style, he developed an approach with key works consisting of pure geometric forms and their relationships to one another, set against minimal grounds. His Black Square (1915), a black square on white, represented the most radically abstract painting known to have been created so far and drew “an uncrossable line (…) between old and new art.”1 Malevich also laid down his theories in writing with such works as, ”From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism” (1915) and “The NonObjective World: the Manifesto of Suprematism” (1926).
Founded in 1900, Brocard and Co. was the largest perfumery in Europe, and Alexander Brocard supported Malevich with commissions. Brocard's commercial instincts helped him harness the public imagination after it was ignited by new geographical discoveries. The North Pole, the long-coveted goal of great explorers, was conquered by the American Robert Peary on April 6. 1909. Since the vogue for everything polar meant guaranteed financial success for an Arctic-themed scent evocative of masculine virtue, Brocard commissioned a bottle design to hold a cologne called Severny, or Northern. Malevich's design dates from 1910 and depicts a polar bear that has ascended a translucent iceberg and stopped at the edge of a precipice. It is essentially sculpture on a tabletop scale. Unlike the rounded symmetry, typical of elegant perfume vessels at the time, the design is heavy, angular and asymmetrical. Wide, uneven planes line the main vessel and the removable peak like a true iceberg. Like its natural counterpart, the glass iceberg is covered with cracks, and their silvery web hovers in the bottle's matte depths. This is yet another unique characteristic of the project, because even today, it is impossible to find perfume vials made from traditional crackle glass. The glistening play of lines in the icy, translucent vial changes with the light and is especially impressive when sunlight falls directly on its surface.
A provincial from Kursk obsessed with painting, Malevich settled in Moscow in 1907 and brought his wife and two children there shortly after. After he turned thirty, he decided he could no longer serve as a government functionary, because, he complained, state service left him without any time "for work in art." For a long time after his resignation, Malevich had no money at all, and sometimes went hungry for days. At the time, artists' earnings would come from random sources: sketches for patterns and ornaments; illustrations for magazines; and the perfume industry, where labels, vials, and boxes all had to arouse shoppers' appetites. Malevich's descendants have preserved not only his early artwork, but also the drawings he made to earn his daily bread. Without these reliable sources, it would never have occurred to anyone that so many cloying headpieces, pretentious vignettes, and effete ornaments were created by the future Suprematist. He survived thanks to commissions.
The image of the bear that crowns the glass iceberg is at once static and dynamic. His front paws stand firmly at the edge of the precipice, while his two hind paws are still in motion. Subtle detail distinguishes the miniature: textured tufts of fur; distinct paws; a tail; and a face that is monumental even at that small scale. The bear on the tip of the iceberg is actually a removable cap that hides a ground-glass stopper in the bottle's neck. Made of the same material, the stopper’s invisibility helps maintain the matte translucency of the vial as a whole. Severny is one of the first known playful designs for perfume glassware with a nonfunctional lid. Malevich's innovation, while entirely conditioned by the vial's imagery, was developed further in other projects, as Brocard and other perfumers would use three-part vials, with a decorative cap masking the stopper, after 1910.
1 Tolstaya, Tatiana. "The Square," New Yorker, June 12, 2015. Retrieved March 21, 2018. WINTER 2019 | Perfume Bottle Quarterly
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Only one complete Severny vial as produced by Brocard and Co. has survived to this day. This realization of Malevich's original project, issued in 1922, is in a private collection in the United States.
The vials for Severny were manufactured at a glass factory near Penza, founded in 1764 by the noble Bakhmetyev family. A little more than a century later, the last heir to the Bakhmetyevs bequeathed the factory to his great-nephew, Prince Dmitry Obolensky. The factory was in turn inherited by Alexander Obolensky who displayed a knack for entrepreneurship and a desire to keep up with the times. At the turn of the century he hired Adel Yakobson as his factory's artistic director. Yakobson, responsible for technical design, prepared the Brocard commission for realization. People at the factory knew she was the one who had sent the "bear on the cliff" to production, so naturally she was ascribed authorship of the glass iceberg. It should be emphasized that right up to her departure for Moscow in 1921, Yakobson designed almost all of the Penza factory's new models. In Soviet times the experienced designer became artistic director of the All-Russia Glass Manufacture. As an engineer she created patterns for glass products, and as an artist she made individual works that were acquired by museums. But in all of Yakobson's varied output, there is not a single work that abandons the specifics of utilitarian glassware for the sake of "pure art."
For years, many refused to believe that Malevich's authorship of the vial had been proven beyond a doubt. The recollections of family members seemed unreliable since there were no supporting documents. But there was a sketch of an advertisement that Malevich drew for Severny, which makes it certain that the popular glass iceberg that beat all records for design longevity in the twentieth century was the work of the charismatic creator of Black Square. This advertisement appeared in major newspapers in early autumn of 1911. In the first runs, the initials K and M, couched opposite one another in the bottom corners of the drawing, are visible as clearly as the other features of the composition. It is worth nothing that Malevich's text compositions were usually "concrete" in that they had narrative content, and here, too, the idea behind the lettering was embedded in the advertisement's visuals - the dripping words seem to be made of melting icicles. Another signature characteristic of Malevich's art casts a shadow from the future — the drawing of the white bear against the black Arctic sky with the blinding sun is made in white and black, like the famous primordial shapes of his Black Square, Black Circle and Black Cross.
The original Severny vial was manufactured until 1922. In 1925 Yakobson, who had already moved to Moscow, was managing the restoration of the full line of glassware at KrasnyGigant, the factory where she got her start. There Malevich's vial underwent its first "technical improvement" (read: simplification). The first victim was the initial design's luminosity. The silvery crackle glass rays that played within the vial’s walls were replaced by lines of pressed glass. In subsequent decades other changes occurred: the Arctic bear merged with the cliffs apex and stood as though frozen on two, trunk-like legs, which melted into the ground; a mechanical dotted line formed the ripple of the bear's coat; his rounded rear lost even a hint of a tail; and the bear looked odd from the front, since the right and left sides of his face did not meet up at the nose. The ground-glass stopper was also replaced with a screw-on brass cap which shone through the matte top. With minor modifications, such as replacing the brass cap with plastic, the vial was manufactured in this form until the late twentieth century. In the 1990s the company decided to radically correct the antifunctional top by adding a polymer insert that allowed the entire cap to be screwed on the vessel's neck. This "improvement," however, did not last long. The company soon rejected this “improvement” since the peak no longer touched the body of the iceberg, but hovered awkwardly above it.
While the original vial for Severny, with its sparkling play of cracks and expressive sculptural form, is truly a museum piece, Brocard saw it as a product for the masses. And that is what it became. Social structures changed. Tsars, leaders, presidents came and went. The people of an enormous empire moved along with its borders. But through it all the glass iceberg remained a fixture in every interior. It found a place for itself alongside furniture of all styles and in the midst of a total absence of style — on commodes, bathroom tables, vanities, shelves of medicine cabinets . . . The greatest achievement for any creative person is to create a work for the people, something so popular that the fact that it has an author becomes an insignificant detail. When asked what his greatest wish was, Yves St. Laurent replied: “I’d like to be the inventor of jeans." Alas, though his career hit all the highest peaks, creating a model with even a fraction of the popularity and universal appeal of jeans remained an unattainable fantasy for the great couturier. Malevich, on the other hand, conquered just such a peak without even noticing it. The bear on the cliff survived the twentieth century — all by itself.
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Advertisement for Severny cologne, 1911.
The original Malevich-designed glass perfume bottle with craquelures for Severny was produced from 1911 until approximately 1921-1922 (1925?) and never exhibited outside Russia. It is an extremely rare Art Object. LEFT: Original Malevich's version, 1911-1917 during the Russian Empire. BELOW: Elements of the label preserved to the present after the Russian Revolutions (1917), Russian Civil War (1918-1921), and two World Wars in 20th Century.
The evolution of Malevich's perfume bottle: (LEFT) by Novaya Zarya in the 1930s and (RIGHT) those produced in the 1990s. WINTER 2019 | Perfume Bottle Quarterly
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web spiders. One bite can easily kill you. “One day we dug three beautiful Lamont bottles and 12 to 15 deadly funnel webs,” Bell said. Happily, “they are obvious as when you uncover one, it immediately rears back ready to strike. We are rather casual with them as they are so common.” No shotgun needed here. Just a whack with the spade or a heavy foot. Bell, 70, once spent a winter in Australia and was pleasantly surprised by the absence of snow which was always plentiful in his hometown of Chicago during that season. So he moved to the island nation in the early 1960s. He has been involved in the antique bottle collecting hobby for 48 years. His first hobby was coin collecting. He said an uncle was responsible “for my starting the (collecting) disease at age 10.” His other collectibles include postage stamps, Australian banknotes and Australian paintings. He said his favorite thing about being involved in bottle collecting “is the people and not the bottles. I love ‘em because you can hear lots of stories.” One of his favorite stories concerns “a guy who had three dogs. So he built a metal cage with a dirt floor and one of the first things the dogs did was to dig. And they dug up some very good bottles!”
THE MAN FROM DOWN UNDER By Bill Baab
It’s amazing the facts that float to the top during an interview with a bottle collector from Down Under, a.k.a. New South Wales, Australia, during the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors 50th Anniversary National Show and Convention in Augusta, Georgia last August. Most American bottle diggers carry a probe, a pitchfork, a spade and a trowel, but conditions in his adopted country of residence cause James F. Bell to include some firepower in the form of a 16-gauge shotgun to accompany his shovel and pick. No, it is not used to warn away other diggers from his area of bottle discoveries. When he is deep in a hole in pursuit of antique bottles, he may find himself in the presence of a deadly tiger snake, hissingly angry at being disturbed by the destruction of its habitat among the rubbish. Enter the shotgun. Exit the snake. Not only does he and fellow diggers have to be concerned by poisonous serpents. There also are spiders, specifically “funnel
Landfills in Australia (and the U.K.) are called “tips” and one of 10 acres and 25 feet in depth in the huge mining area called Broken Hill was targeted by Bell and others. It is located in “the far west of outback New South Wales near the border with South Australia. It was established in 1883,” according to Wikipedia, “and is among the world’s largest silver-lead-zinc mineral deposits.” Mine management charged each collector $25 a year for the privilege of digging for their brands of buried treasure. Among the finds, Bell said, were 15,000 Maugham’s rolling pin bottles used in the soft drink industry. Australia became a penal colony in the early 19th century and some of its inmates volunteered when there was a call for potters. Utilitarian pottery was rare until certain convicts came along. “Many had few skills, but volunteered to get away from the other hard work,” Bell said. So like South Carolina’s slave potters, in Australia there became a number of skilled captive workers in clay who turned out what is loosely called “Convict-Made” gray clay salt-glazed containers utilized by early settlers and their families. They also are much prized by today’s collectors. “Some are even stamped with the makers’ names, including Jonathan Leak and John Moreton, and dated 1819,” Bell said.. There is a rare beer made in Adelaide and valued at $8,000, “but for some reason is found only in Darwin. Another prize is the slab seal clay Lion Brewery.”
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(Sunday) TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS
THE LITTLE RHODY BOTTLE CLUB SHOW
Holiday Inn, Taunton, Massachusetts Early Admission, $15, 8:00 am, General Admission $3, 9:30 am
Contact Bill or Linda Rose sierramadre@comcast.net 508.880.4929,
Directions: Take Exit #9, off Route #495 for 700, Myles Standish Blvd.
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Cream in Augusta 2019 FOHBC 50th Anniversary National Antique Bottle Convention | Augusta, Georgia By Ferdinand Meyer V
Photographs by Elizabeth Lacy
More pictures and coverage at FOHBC.org
It is no secret that in recent years
Fast forward to April 2017, Ferdinand and Louis Fifer (then FOHBC Conventions Director), announced to the FOHBC board that Augusta, Georgia and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina were on the short list of candidates to host the 2019 Anniversary “Southern Region” Convention. They had initially looked at many locales including Houston, Fort Worth and Galveston, Texas; Savannah, Georgia; Shreveport, Louisiana; Jackson, Mississippi and Orlando, Florida, among others.
it has become ever so difficult to find individuals that will step up and co-chair a national FOHBC convention. The workload is immense, and the challenges seem unsurmountable when you look at the big picture including site selection, events, workload, budget and operations, to name a few.
With this in mind, a group of extraordinary southern gentlemen banded together to take on the task and make the FOHBC 50th Anniversary Southern Region Antique Bottle Convention one to remember. Each member was dedicated to their assigned tasks while maintaining constant communication with the team and FOHBC board. This group called themselves the Augusta Consortium. The genesis of this team concept came from Ferdinand Meyer V, then President of the FOHBC (2012 – 2018). Wanting something special for the anniversary convention, he first ran into Marty Vollmer at the March 2015 Baltimore Antique Bottle Show and then again, a week later on the west coast, at the 2015 Morro Bay Antique Bottle Show. This coincidence inspired the first discussions about the 2019 Southern National Convention. Both slept on the discussions and from there, over a number of months, a prospective concept and team was seeded and grew. We should mention here that the FOHBC had no responses to the standard ‘Request for Proposal’ that was sent to all southern club contacts asking if they had a desire to host a FOHBC convention. The word on the street was that there was fear and apprehension, as noted above.
Ferdinand at that time was a consultant with Augusta University and Augusta University Medical Center, and traveled to the city often. While staying at the downtown Augusta Marriott one trip (his regular hotel, The Partridge Inn, was being renovated), he noticed that it was connected to a convention center, set in a historic area and on the Savannah River. He quickly scheduled a meeting that day with the hotel and had some informal investigative talks. Needless to say, the meeting went well. A month or so later, the proposed Augusta team met at the Marriott. It was a great meeting. In attendance was Bill and Bea Baab from the Horse Creek Bottle Club, Louis Fifer, FOHBC Conventions Director, Nancy Glaser, Executive Director, Jim Hall from Gurnee, Illinois and Bobby Hinely, Newnan, Georgia
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Thursday morning, 01 August 2019 8:00 am to Noon Augusta Marriott Hamilton Room
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FOHBC President Matt Lacy leads the meeting. Director at Large, Ferdinand Meyer V
Midwest Director John Fifer (left) and Jim Berry, Treasurer.
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Augusta Museum of History, Sharon Koon, Augusta Marriott at the Convention Center, Ferdinand Meyer V, FOHBC President, Mike Newman, Horse Creek Bottle Club, Walter Smith, Horse Creek Bottle Club, Marty Vollmer, South Carolina Bottle Club, Eric Warren, South Carolina Bottle Club and representatives from the Augusta Convention & Visitors Bureau. The meeting was spectacular. The Consortium was official. We each started delegating responsibilities. Shortly thereafter, Ferdinand announced to the FOHBC and antique bottle world: Here is a surprise, folks. Though we don’t yet have board final approval, I’m going to gamble here and announce that our Southern Region 2019 FOHBC 50th Anniversary National Antique Bottle Convention will be in Augusta, Georgia. A group of us visited Augusta on 19 April, our short-list finalist, for meetings and tours that were productive and positive. Some of the great things we saw were strong regional and local leadership support from antique bottle collectors such as, but not limited to Bill & Bea Baab, Mike Newman, Walter Smith, Marty Vollmer and Eric Warren. If you don’t already know, Augusta is a southern charm city located within reasonable driving distance to strong bottle-collecting cities such as Atlanta, Birmingham, Charleston, Charlotte, Columbia, Columbus, Greenville, Jackson, Macon, Raleigh, Savannah and Tallahassee, among others. Our strategically positioned Marriott Convention Center host hotel complex will house all amenities. With two hotels, this provides us our primary and secondary hotels. The convention center is also connected to both hotels along with parking. I’m super excited as I love Augusta. I spend a lot of time there for business and just love that city. Also, our opening reception will be hosted by Bill and Bea Baab at the Augusta Museum of History where we can see their outstanding bottle collection. Shortly thereafter, Augusta was approved by the board and the Augusta Consortium set out for business.
FOHBC Board Meeting | Thursday morning, 01 August 2019 8:00 am to Noon | Augusta Marriott Hamilton Room The first event for any FOHBC national antique bottle show is actually the board meeting. The nineteen FOHBC board members are requested to attend, preferably in person, although we have a conference line for officers who cannot make the show. You [continued on page 30]
This was an outstanding show for collectors. I thought it would have a lot of southern bottles and I was not disappointed. Augusta was also a city to be enjoyed as so much history has occurred there. [Archie Huffstetler]
Representative Augusta Comments Many of you attended the 2019 FOHBC 50th Anniversary National Antique Bottle Convention in Augusta, Georgia. Would you PLEASE take a moment to reflect (in a paragraph or two, not a sentence) on the event and show? Your words could be used in the magazine and web coverage of the event. Thank you so much. Need by the end of day, Sunday 11 August, if you can swing it. Remember, we had many events, so speak up and be candid. Thanks! Ferdinand Team Augusta, FOHBC Director at Large [Archie Huffstetler - Mt. Holly, North Carolina] This was an outstanding show for collectors. I thought it would have a lot of southern bottles and I was not disappointed. Augusta was also a city to be enjoyed as so much history has occurred there. I got to meet Mr. Baab and he is a southern gentleman and welcomed questions from everyone. Thanks for this experience. [Jeff & Joseph Scharnowske - Owosso, Michigan] THURSDAY: The kickoff reception at Mike Newman’s house was just awesome. Great meeting Mike and his wife for the first time and seeing other friends in the bottle hobby. And what can I say about the collection - outstanding! The afternoon visit to the Augusta Museum of History was wonderful. First, being able to pick up our dealer packets the day before the show should be a standard of all national shows. Viewing the Bill Baab collection at the museum was a treat, and having Bill there and meeting him for the first time is something Joseph and I will always remember. We particularly wanted to see the large size alligator cure from Augusta, as we had never viewed one personally before. We then spent the next two hours viewing everything else the museum had to offer. With both of us being sports fans, the two full rooms on the history of golf was a treat. The hotel was great, parking was very easy and close, the staff was friendly and helpful, and the room was very good. The Sweet Georgia Peaches bottle competition on Thursday evening was fun and educational. FRIDAY: Joseph and I unloaded our boxes and were greeted by a friendly staff of the hotel convention center who helped us load everything onto a cart they provided and take it to our table. We then at[continued on page 30]
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can read about the 2018 – 2020 officers at FOHBC.org. FOHBC members, as guests, are welcome to attend in a non-performing capacity. The FOHBC president, Matt Lacy, is responsible for running the four-hour meeting which covers just about every important issue facing our organization and hobby. We discuss among other things, our national events, our magazine, web site, social media, virtual museum, finances and the state and future of the hobby of bottle collecting. The time goes by fast when you have such an agenda with an exciting group of dedicated and passionate directors. Once our meeting notes are posted, you can read them also at FOHBC.org. Ferdinand Meyer V passed out the Augusta Souvenir Programs which were hot off the press. There were 113 advertisers. The program netted $16,320 in sales and cost under $5,000 to print and ship. The FOHBC comped the National Bottle Museum, Jelly Jammers and the International Perfume Bottle Association with free ads and traded ads with the National Association of Milk Bottle Collectors and British Bottle Review magazine. We finished on time although we will continue some meeting agenda items on a future conference call. Next stop: The Newman’s.
Newman Open House | Thursday early afternoon, 01 August 2019, Noon to 3:00 pm | Mike & Julie Newman Residence The widely and wildly anticipated Mike & Julie Newman Open House occurred after the FOHBC Board Meeting. This was our lead-off event and boy was it a success! Guests were given directions to car pool or they could be shuttled by two contracted vans that ran between our host Marriott Augusta Hotel and the Newman residence. A pair of the Newmans’ retired friends, Tom McLaughlin and Roger Wexler, agreed to operate two 15-passenger vans. The entire event was sponsored or donated by the Newmans and their friends which is quite amazing. Julie & Mike Newman Mike at some times was concerned that too few would come, then too many, and by the end of the day, when all was said and done, we estimated that over 200 antique bottle and glass collectors were able to make the event. We had guess-timated 75 to 100 attendees! The reception was outstanding, and the comments that we heard prove that the event was a smash hit. An event that will certainly be remembered for many years to come.
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tended a couple of the seminars, in particular enjoying the Kola Wars by Dennis Smith. The LED “light towers” made it very easy to find the rooms in which the seminars were being conducted. Lunch was easy and cheap as the hotel has a Quizno’s sub shop in it. The first day of the show was from 1:00 to 5:00 pm and was a fun time. Then, after changing in our room, we attended the banquet. The food was very good, and the speaker, Justin Guy, was out of this world, very entertaining. SATURDAY: Show day from 7:00 am to 5:00 pm. Sales were outstanding, the best I have ever had at a national show. Joseph, who collects Mountain Dew bottles and advertising, found numerous items for his collection. While not many Michigan bottles were evident, I was able to pick up a pair of nice Parke Davis die-cut advertising signs for my collection. We were busy with customers most of the day as buyers were out in force. The displays, all 14 of them, were great. Overall impression: A great show, we were glad we attended. Great job by the committee on putting on a successful show. SPECIFIC LIKES: We very much liked the 2-day format, vs. the 3-day format. The reception kickoff and the museum were very good. Great seminars. Wonderful banquet speaker. SPECIFIC DISLIKES: The second day being a 10-hour day was too long. Make it an eight-hour day from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm instead of 7:00 am to 5:00 pm in the future. Our sales after 3:00 pm dropped off to almost nothing. Voting on the displays: This turned out to be a local popularity contest with the local Augusta bottle display taking all three awards - People’s Choice, Best of Show, and Most Educational. While it was a great display, it did not deserve all three awards. The Most Educational display was clearly the Fruit Jar Closure display with the detailed research and documentation of fruit jar closures. This “popularity contest” result is what stopped me from displaying at the Kalamazoo bottle show in the last ten years. Suggestion: the dealers/public should only get to vote for one award - call it the People’s Choice award. Then the show committee should be tasked to select the “Best of Show” and “Most Educational”. Lastly, regarding the Battle Competition - there were lots of entries for the stoneware and soda categories. It was very disappointing to see only five entries (by only three people) in the “Best Georgia Bottle” competition. There were many wonderful Georgia bottles that I saw at the show and in the displays over the next two days, that were not represented at this competition. Where were either size of the Swamp River & Fever “alligator” Cure from Augusta? Where was the cobalt Solomon’s Bitters from Savannah? There were no colored beers represented. This is not “Team Augusta’s” fault, this rests on the shoulders of the Georgia collectors. Our congrats to “Team Augusta” on a wonderful show. Thank you for your southern hospitality shown to this pair of “Yankees.”
The kickoff reception at Mike Newman’s house was just awesome. Great meeting Mike and his wife for the first time and seeing other friends in the bottle hobby. And what can I say about the collection outstanding! [Jeff & Joseph Scharnowske]
With the open house occurring near meal time, Mike and Julie wanted to make sure that guests were treated to some good southern hospitality. They provided the entire crowd with Southern bar-b-que pulled pork sliders, Charleston shrimp, peeled with cocktail sauce, pimento cheese spread with crackers, master style spinach dip with Fritos and mini cream-puffs and éclairs. The [continued on page 32]
[Herb & Carol Weaver - Savannah, Georgia] We thoroughly enjoyed the 50th anniversary show! The events were wonderful and very well planned. The variety of bottles was awesome, not to mention the fantastic displays. A big thanks to the Newman’s for their hospitality in sharing Mike’s colorful collection at their home. Bill Baab was a true Southern gentleman hosting the Augusta Museum of History Reception and sharing his knowledge of Augusta bottles along with his collection. Our sincere appreciation to all who helped make this show a success! [continued on page 34]
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Thursday early afternoon, 01 August 2019 Noon to 3:00 pm Mike & Julie Newman Residence
Mike & Julie Newman Welcome You to their Open House
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600 Medinah Drive, Augusta, Ga 30907 (706) 829-8060 thenewm@aol.com
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drink menu consisted of iced tea, Augusta “sunshine tea” (half tea, half lemonade), sodas, bottled water, bourbon, beer, wine etc. Mike’s sister, Nancy Ginn, actually prepared the legendary “Green Jacket” salad and helped with serving. Mike’s nephew Parker Ginn, served as the bartender. Three of Julie’s retired teacher friends assisted with serving. Jamie Westendorff, from Charleston, South Carolina, brought the Charleston shrimp and pimento cheese spread. This was one solid operation spearheaded by the Newmans. We are ever so grateful. Each room in the Newman house was treated like a museum where you could see the Newman collection which consists of regional bottles, sodas, historical flasks, bitters, inks, poisons, stoneware and just about anything you can imagine.
All kinds of great food set out for visitors at the Newman Open House.
Mike and Julie further supplemented the event with crude black glass bottles from the late Tommy Mitchener collection. Most were excavated by Tommy during the 1970s and 1980s in Savannah, Georgia from privies and outhouses. The Newman dining room was set up with killer Edgefield, South Carolina stoneware from the Philip and Corbett Toussaint collection. Another room was set up with Mike’s collection of pottery soda crocks from Georgia and South Carolina, another with black seal bottles. On and on, every room and flat surface had something historically great to look at. Remember! Many more pictures at FOHBC.org
Augusta Museum of History Reception | Thursday late afternoon, 01 August 2019, 3:30 - 6:30 pm | Augusta Museum of History
You could always tell when another shuttle bus dropped off collectors.
Original David Drake or “Dave the Slave” pottery on display.
As noted previously, we started off in the morning with the FOHBC Board Meeting followed by the early afternoon Mike & Julie Newman Open House. As this ended at 3:00 pm, our group next headed to the Augusta Museum of History for our VIP Reception and convention pre-registration. VIP is defined as dealers, assistants, displayers, early admission, seminar givers and approved volunteers. These people need to be thanked. This event was financed entirely by donations from Sandor P. Fuss and Walter Smith. Their generosity covered the museum rotunda rental, catering and table rentals. We are very grateful.
Ferdinand Meyer V (Team Augusta) being interviewed by a local television crew.
The primary rite of passage at any convention is getting your pre-registration packet. This packet from the FOHBC contains the persons identification and lanyard, early admission confirmation, banquet tickets, souvenir program, City of Augusta handouts and other information. This year we decided to hold our pre-registration event at the Augusta Museum of History, just four blocks from our host Augusta Marriott Convention Center Hotels. Founded in 1937, the
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Looks like Doug Simm’s enjoying the upstairs bottle room.
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Thursday late afternoon, 01 August 2019 3:30 to 6:30 pm
Federation guests at the Bill & Bea Baab Augusta Bottle Display.
FOHBC Augusta Museum of History Reception Thursday, August 1, 2019
The museum event was catered in the rotunda.
VIP Reception 3:30 – 6:30 pm Augusta Museum of History 560 Reynolds Street, Augusta, Georgia 30901
Dave the Slave Pottery
You will also be able to see the spectacular Bill and Bea Baab Bottle Collection housed at the museum. Many examples of a collection of 531 bottles from a brewery, patent medicine men, mineral water and soda water bottlers, mostly from Augusta, are placed in public view.
Note for attendees: VIP is defined as dealers, assistants, displayers, early admission, seminar givers and approved volunteers. Please send in your contract today and add this to your Convention agenda!
Dar Furda from the Los Angeles Antique Bottle Club.
Baab Display
Augusta Museum of History event advertisement.
Admiring local Augusta druggist and medicine bottles.
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Augusta Museum of History is Augusta’s oldest historical agency devoted to the preservation and presentation of local and regional history. The museum curates the largest and most significant historical collection in the CSRA and functions as a historical research and resource center for professional and amateur historians, media, organizations, and individuals, and is home to the permanent exhibition, Augusta’s Story, a 12,000 year journey through the region’s past. Since the FOHBC is all about history, what a great place to pick up your convention packets, catch up with your friends, have some tea, a late afternoon snack and then tour the museum, which was open to Federation guests. A big bonus to having pre-registration at the museum was being able to see the spectacular Bill and Bea Baab Bottle Collection housed on the second floor. Many examples of a collection of 531 bottles from a brewery, patent medicine men, mineral water and soda water bottlers, mostly from Augusta, are placed in public view. They joined 81 Augusta pharmacy bottles dating from 1830 through the early 20th century, plus merchants’ whiskey jugs manufactured by master potters in nearby North Augusta (across the Savannah River) and Trenton, South Carolina. The massive collection was donated to the museum by Bill and Bea Baab, who wanted to leave a legacy to their adopted home-town that future generations could enjoy. Bill was born in Glenside, Pennsylvania, Bea in Bangor, Maine. The collection was started in 1969. Of course Bill and Bea Baab were on hand and were stationed at their exhibit and were glad to discuss the collection and the history of Augusta. It doesn’t get much better than this! Bea & Bill Baab
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[John & Mary Bray - Donalds, South Carolina] My wife and I were impressed by how well the convention was run. We did not arrive until Friday because of prior commitments. What we heard of the Newman Open House and Augusta Museum of History Reception, makes us regret we missed it. As far as the show went, we were pleased with our sales, and even bought a few things for our collections. The exhibits took a lot of work and it definitely showed. All-in-all, it is too bad conventions happen just once a year.
Bill Baab was a true Southern gentleman hosting the Augusta Museum of History Reception and sharing his knowledge of Augusta bottles along with his collection.
[Herb and Carol Weaver]
[Jay Shelley - Columbia, South Carolina] Congratulations to all for an outstanding show! At the encouragement of my good friend Marty Vollmer, my wife and I set up as a dealer so we could experience the show in its entirety. From top to bottom, the show and all the events were an obvious success. Seeing how hard Marty and the team worked to pull it off was impressive. Individually speaking, one can’t help but point out the contribution of Mike and Julie Newman. The FOHBC is fortunate to have them as active members. [Bill Brugmann - Covington, Louisiana] Augusta was a wonderful bottle show! The venue was great. All the activities were close and easily accessible. I thoroughly enjoyed the seminars! The dealer set up was so easy that I was able to attend three seminars. It was fun seeing so many great bottles and socializing with friends who share my passion for bottles. I only wish that the show had ran through Sunday. Kudos to all those who made this show possible! [Larry Smith - Jupiter Florida] Matt, thank you and the Federation very much for a great bottle show in Augusta. I also want to thank Mike and Julie Newman for inviting me over the day after the show on Sunday to show me his fantastic collection. That was a real treat! In my 15 years of setting-up and attending shows, this show was the most outstanding of them all. After the set-up on Friday morning, I decided to get a quick lunch at the hotel restaurant Augustino’s. I was there seated for five minutes when Mike Newman walked by and we ended up having lunch together. It has been 10+ years since I last saw him, and we had plenty to catch up on. I apologized to him for not getting enough time to attend his open house on Thursday the day before the set-up. I bought Mike lunch and after he talked with the top brass of the hotel they paid for the tab! How cool was that! Little did I realize things would only get better.
In my 15 years of setting-up and attending shows, this show was the most outstanding of them all. [Larry Smith]
Sweet Georgia Peaches Bottle Competition | Thursday, 01 August 2019, 7:00 - 10:00 pm | Augusta Marriott Lamar Ballroom Our power opening day already started out with the 8:00 amnoon FOHBC Board Meeting followed by the early afternoon Mike & Julie Newman Open House. We spent our late afternoon at the Augusta Museum of History Reception. This left the evening for our next event. Whew!
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It was the best National I have been to! [John Joiner]
I sold well enough on Saturday to think about getting one of the two bottles from my want list. One of them was a Kelly’s Log Cabin Bitters. Behind my table, Tom Lines had one on his table and I saw it was an 1872 variant that was just out of my price range. Next to it was an original cabin whiskey, E.G. Booz GVII-4 bottle that was beautifully whittled. It was a bottle that Tom had in his collection for [continued on page 38]
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Close-up of Best Southern Soda submissions. Look at all those shapes and colors!
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Above inset photo: 1st Place – Jamie Westendorff from Charleston, South Carolina with his Finley & Phin (Charleston, South Carolina), Teardrop Shape, Deep Olive Green
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It seems like bottle competitions, also known in some circles as ‘shootouts,’ originated out west. Maybe it is because of the stereotype western. I heard some say it started in the northeast where competitions at shows revolved around individuals trying to top each other with a better bottle, on and on, one at a time, like playing a card game like War. It really doesn’t matter because we decided to hold another competition in Augusta. We didn’t like any reference to violence associated with guns so we decided to call our event the Sweet Georgia Peaches Bottle Competition. This event was held on Thursday evening, August 1st, 2019 from 7:00 to 10:00 pm in the Augusta Marriott Lamar Ballroom. The entrant registration was at 6:00 pm in the same room. You were asked to bring your contestant entry (maximum five) with the application form filled out for each. There were preselected, paneled judges for each category. We were extremely pleased to have Mike Newman as our host and coordinator for this epic event. Helping Mike was John Fifer who hails from Medina, Ohio. He is also our Midwestern Region Director. The event consisted of three categories, with the competitions taking place in the following order: Best Southern Pottery (11 entries), Best Georgia Bottle (5 entries), and Best Southern Soda (22 entries). Each category was judged by three experienced and knowledgeable collectors. The resulting winners are shown in photographs on our web site and in some cases, within this article. Chip Cable and Tom Masiarik, down from Pennsylvania, filmed and projected each contestant entry, so the entire audience could see. They have done this before and we thank the pair. John Pastor of Antique Bottle & Glass Collector and American Glass Gallery donated the awards. We also thank John. So here are the awards: BEST SOUTHERN POTTERY [Judges: John Joiner, Vern Huffstetler and John LaFoy] 1st Place – John LaFoy from Greenville, South Carolina. Three Gallon Storage Jar, Silhouette of Buggy Driver on Obverse, Two Color Flower on Reverse, Attributed to Collin Rhodes, Edgefield, South Carolina District. 2nd Place – Jay and Heli Shelley from Ridgeway, South Carolina. Four Gallon Jug, Exceptionally Drippy Glaze, Attributed to Stork/Landrum of Columbia, South Carolina Vicinity. 3rd Place – Marty Vollmer from Lexington, South Carolina. One Gallon Decorated Jug, Attributed to Collin Rhodes, Edgefield, South Carolina District. BEST GEORGIA BOTTLE
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almost 40 years. I was blown away and shyed away, as they were always too expensive. I thought I would never get to own one. About the same time, I made three quick bottle sales. I couldn’t believe my good fortune. After 42 years, I was gripped with emotion as I now own that bottle. When I first started digging in 1977, I handled one and always wanted to own this special bottle. Little did I know it would still get better for me. The next morning at 8:00 am, Larry Marshall and I were getting ready for the long drive back to Florida when the phone rang, and it was Mike Newman. He invited us to come over and preview his personal collection. To handle one of his red John Ryan’s was special. How cool was that! Sometimes in life you just never know what will happen. [Bobby & Pam Conner - Palatka, Florida] The first thing that needs to be said is a heartfelt thank you to everyone that made the 50th anniversary FOHBC national bottle show in Augusta possible. Without your hard work, none of this would be possible. I would also like to thank Mike and Julie Newman for extending some good old southern hospitality, opening their home and sharing their spectacular bottle collection. The part of the show that we enjoyed the most was reconnecting with some old friends and meeting many more. It was good to share a handshake and a smile with so many people that we had only known through the Internet or social media. We picked up a few odds and ends, I found a bitters, Pam got a nice flask, and we both had a good time. [Jim and Jodi Hall – Gurnee, Illinois] Jodi and I had a great time at the show. The show room was great with natural lighting at each end to look at the glass in good light, and the table layout was awesome. The convention center was awesome, and the people were great! I was pleasantly surprised, as many folks were saying the show would not be good. There was quality and a good selection of bottles of all types. We bought well and sold well. So, hats off to the folks who ran the show as they did a great job. Hope we have another show in Augusta!!!
Anyone attending the Southeastern Soda and Georgia Bottle competitions on Thursday night might have left with a new appreciation for our bottles.
[Steve Holland]
[Ed & Anita Holden - Sherman, Connecticut] We had a very nice time at the Augusta Convention. This is our third Convention in a row and it was again very well planned and conducted. The facility was excellent, even better than Cleveland although we found Cleveland to be a more interesting city with more activities. The hotel staff was also excellent. The seminars were of interest to us and we enjoyed the three we attended. We think the seminars are an important aspect of the convention. The reception at the museum was also very nice. Our primary interest is the show itself and we had another good one but not as successful as Cleveland. This I think, is the result of differing geographical collecting interests. However, we did sell three of our best items and many more lesser offerings. Regarding the Saturday start time, it was too early, should be 8:00 or 8:30. The schedule change to end Saturday this year was an excellent decision, no reason to go on to Sunday. This worked particularly well for us as we had to be in Manchester, New Hampshire the next Tuesday morning to set up for a major antiques show. This was a non-bottle show, so the travel and schedule were tight, but we made it and had a very successful show in Manchester. We will not be able to attend next year in Reno, too far and likely too different of interests. However, if you move back East, we would like to participate. Once again, you and the convention committee did a great job. And, we love the souvenir book, interesting and useful.
1st Place – Jack Hewitt from Big Canoe, Georgia. Dr. G. Harral Druggist, Savannah, Georgia, Embossed in Applied Seal, Blackglass. [See special article this issue of Bottles and Extras]
[Vaughn Jones – Statesboro, Georgia] It really paid off going to the FOHBC bottle show in Augusta. Me and my bottle collecting cousin Melissa Gwinnett, had the pleasure of touring Mike Newman’s home and viewing his collection. Afterwards, while visiting the Augusta Museum of History, I met a gentleman that was able to repair a tiny hole in the bottom of the River Swamp Chill and Fever Cure bottle out of Augusta, Georgia for me! I also found the yellow 1852 John Ryan ginger ale bottle I’ve been looking for many years and several other great items. (Technically a great dig…. because I had to keep digging into my pockets. LOL)
2nd Place – Paul Chance from Savannah, Georgia. Charles Axt
Then I hit the jackpot and won the canal jug detailed by Jim Healy on top of that! This three-day
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John Joiner, Vern Huffstetler and John LaFoy judging pottery.
The ‘long’ room layout makes for best bottle viewing. Chip Cable videotaping a super-rare Georgia bottle.
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A breakfast agenda and bylaws to review.
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Friday, August 2, 2019 Marriott Adriana AlucemaOglethorpe (seated), Youth EFGH Event Coordinator, helping at the gate. 7:30 am to 8:30 am Early Birds can arrive at 7:00 am for Buffet
What a nice way to start the morning with your bottle friends.
FOHBC President, Matt Lacy speaks during the breakfast.
The audience polled with various questions. Seasonal fruit and berries, scrambled eggs, sausage links and local grits with cheese on the side at the buffet line.
General Membership Meeting Breakfast Friday morning, 02 August 2019, 7:00 to 8:30 am Augusta Marriott Oglethorpe Ballroom Lindsey Fifer, FOHBC Conventions Director.
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Catawba (Wine), Base Embossed Hock Wine. 3rd Place – Mike Newman from Martinez, Georgia. Straight Sided Coca-Cola Crown Top, Savannah, Georgia, Unique in true yellow color. BEST SOUTHERN SODA [Judges: Bobby Hinely, Jamie Westendorf and Tom Lines] 1st Place – Jamie Westendorff from Charleston, South Carolina. Finley & Phin (Charleston, South Carolina), Teardrop shape, Deep olive green. 2nd Place – Mike Newman from Martinez, Georgia. John Ryan, XX Porter & Ale (Savannah, Georgia), Collared Top, Iron pontil, Rich rose pink. 3rd Place – Steve Holland from Springfield, Alabama. The Star Bottling Works, Montgomery, Alabama, Lime green Hutchinson.
FOHBC General Membership Meeting Breakfast | Friday, 02 August 2019, 7:00 - 8:30 am | Augusta Marriott Oglethorpe Ballroom The FOHBC bylaws require that an annual meeting be held with our members during our national convention. In past years, we had the meeting on the first day of the convention, directly after the FOHBC board meeting and after a quick lunch break. The problem was that only a handful of members would show up, as many had not arrived in town yet or they weren’t inclined to start off their bottle trip with a meeting. Anyway, back in 2015, at the Chattanooga National, we decided to have a membership meeting breakfast. You know the old adage, have food and they will come. This free buffet breakfast meeting for FOHBC members has proven to be very successful though expenses have increased and may prohibit this format in future years. This year for example, for $18 per person plus tax and service charge, the buffet consisted of orange juice and house blend coffee, seasonal fruit and berries, scrambled eggs, sausage links and local grits with cheese on the side. We are presently looking at options such as downsizing to a Continental breakfast, charging for breakfast, getting the breakfast sponsored or taking donations at the door. At any event, when a person’s FOHBC membership cost barely covers the magazine Bottles and Extras production cost, we cannot afford to pay for a breakfast too, out of our limited operational funds. Stay tuned here, as we want you to attend the meetings in the future. Your voice needs to be heard. This year, FOHBC president Matt Lacy was responsible for holding court. His agenda included a recap of the previous day’s Augusta convention events, what was coming, discussion about the upcoming Reno 2020 convention, bylaw changes, and a recap of the previous day’s Board of Directors meeting. You can read the meeting notes, or any Federation meeting notes at FOHBC. org. The breakfast meeting was again a success. What a nice way to lead into our Educational Seminars.
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event highlighted the glorious history that has been unearthed by friends, family and all the have taken the time to ensure the art of collecting and the preservation of history will live on. It was educational talking to all the wonderful people there and I can’t wait to go to another show of this caliber. Thanks to everyone that made the show what it was. See you next time. [Harvey Teal – Columbia, South Carolina] In 1959, I began collecting bottles. At that time, I could count on one hand, all the people I knew who collected bottles. After participating in establishing the South Carolina bottle club and being the chairman of our first show, the number of collectors I knew increased exponentially. Now I just attended the national show at Augusta, Georgia. After 60 years, the number of collectors I now know are in the hundreds if not over a thousand. Isn’t life great! At Augusta, I renewed friendships, made new friends, heard about digging in Australia and the snakes encountered, saw a great variety of terrific bottles and learned much more about them. On Sunday morning after the show, while eating breakfast back in Columbia, South Carolina. I overheard a stranger talking to a couple of friends, “Boys, I had a new experience this weekend. I went to a bottle show with a friend in Augusta, Georgia. I didn’t collect bottles before, but I’m a collector now. Let me tell you about it.” For several minutes he regaled them about the show That’s one of the best testimonials I have heard for a bottle show. It recruited a new member to the hobby!
Friday we started off with the Membership Breakfast and it was great to sit and meet other members and also hear the latest updates from Matt and the board. [Tom Pettit]
[Jim Bender - Sprakers, New York] I attend between 10 to 15 bottle shows a year and have never been down south to a show. I was thinking of skipping the Augusta show but being the FOHBC Historian and it being the 50th year of serving the hobby, I felt I should attend and set up the FOHBC history display. It was a long 15-hour drive but turned out to be well worth it. Linda and I started off attending the Mike Newman open house. This was a real treat for all who attended. I learned later that over 200 people had been there. Mike and his wife have a beautiful home and killer bottle collection. Southern hospitality was in full swing. The food was fantastic and viewing the collection was unbelievable to all the collectors. I knew Mike had great sodas and flasks but was amazed at all the other great bottles he has. His upstairs bottle room is second to none. We thank the Newmans for starting our trip off right. Sadly, by the time we left the Newmans, we did not have time to make the museum reception, which I was told was very nice. We did attend the bottle competition and enjoyed it, but the past few years this event has not had the flair it once had years ago. I can understand people not wanting to bring bottles worth big money and having a risk of something happening to them. Still it was fun and Mike talking about bottle stories helped the night move along. The banquet was very good in both food and speaker. The talk that Justin Guy gave on Edgefield County pottery was not long and drawn out. He added many facts and had an entertaining way of speaking. Everyone there seemed to really enjoy it. I was also very happy to see the FOHBC give Sheldon Baugh a special award for service to the hobby. Sheldon is a great friend and a true gentlemen. The hobby is lucky to have him. This was the first time in years I have been able to attend any seminars. I was able to attend two this year and the Kola Wars seminar was my favorite, teaching so many things about Cola I never knew. The presentation was great, and the speaker, Dennis Smith, knew his Cola history. I was very happy to see a huge interest in the raffle jugs made and donated by Jim Healy. Jim is a good friend of mine and he enjoys making people happy and sharing his talents with the hobby. On a side note, I almost passed out when I learned that I had forgot to bring the jugs. Lucky enough, one of my guys at work was able to go to my house and get them expressed shipped down to me and all turned out well. [continued on page 43]
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Harvey signing his South Carolina Dispensary book.
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FOHBC Educational Seminars | Friday, 02 August 2019, 9:00 am - Noon | Augusta Marriott Lamar A-C and Cumming Rooms After our FOHBC Membership Breakfast, we were truly fortunate to be able to present a variety of fascinating educational seminars this year at our convention. We had a distinguished group of seminar presenters organized by seminar coordinator Bill Baab from Team Augusta. Bill did a wonderful job and made sure we all would have something to look forward to. The seminars took place on Friday, August 2nd, 2019 from 9:00 am to noon at the Augusta Marriott Lamar A – C and Cumming Rooms. Listed below are the seminar topics, the presenters and the location/time where the seminars took place.
South Carolina Local Flasks, Harvey S. Teal, 9:00 am: Augusta Marriott Lamar A Ground-Penetrating Radar, Karl Harrar, 9:00 am: Augusta Marriott Lamar C
My Great Grandfathers’ Bottles, Doug Herman, 10:00 am: Augusta Marriott Cumming
Kola Wars, Dennis Smith, 10:00 am: Augusta Marriott Lamar B
Charleston Colored Sodas, Tommy Schimpf, 11:00 am: Augusta Marriott Lamar A Bludwine and Budwine Soft Drinks, Mark Williams, 11:00 am: Augusta Marriott Lamar C
To offset the usual high cost of renting audio visual equipment, we again this year provided as much equipment as we could and actually came in well under budget. Elizabeth Meyer brought two projectors and laptops from her office in Houston, Walter Smith went out and purchased and donated a medium size projection screen and the FOHBC pitched in and bought a large portable screen. This left us with paying the cost for wiring and sound. Not bad at all! We do want to thank Rick Cook with Encore for providing the LED wayfinding lights and being ever-present to offset potential problems, as do sometimes occur. We also want to thank Elizabeth Meyer for solving all the laptop connectivity issues.
Tommy Schimpf and Jamie Westendorf.
The host hotel was very nice but like a maze to get around in. Once there a day or two, we were able to find our way around, but bigger is not always better. The bottle show itself was much better than I had planned on. I was able to buy seven bottles for my collection. Of the 170 plus tables, 90% were old glass which I mainly collect. Prices were very fair and there was plenty to choose from. The displays were very nice, and I saw many people checking them out. Overall the show was great.
All the activities were close and easily accessible. I thoroughly enjoyed the seminars! The dealer set up was so easy that I was able to attend three seminars. [Bill Brugmann]
[Ray & Peg Komorowski - Oak Park , Illinois] We will always remember this show because our 6-year-old granddaughter purchased her first bottle. Her favorite color is blue, so we had to search the show for a blue bottle in her price range. We finally found a blue ink and the dealer kindly discounted its price for her. It now resides in her private collection (one bottle). On another note, we were very sad to hear that the kid’s scavenger hunt winners were not able to pick a bottle from Ferd’s table (his reaction was priceless when we mentioned this to him on Saturday - wish I had my camera ready). [Bill Johnson - Snellville, Georgia] My wife and I attended most of the events and felt they were all done VERY well! Our compliments to the staff and everyone who helped this major show and convention come off so well. The only thing I would suggest for next time is that there should be a rule that an exhibitor/displayer be limited to one award. Some of them went to a lot of trouble to be there, and to have one person win all three awards, seems way too self-serving. [Ed & Kathy Gray - DeBois, Pennsylvania] We really enjoyed seeing Mike and Julie Newman’s bottle collection. It was very generous of them to open their home to the mob of us collectors. We appreciated the show committee dropping the Sunday show hours entirely and felt they could have closed the Saturday show at 3:00 pm (eight hours on Saturday is long enough!) We believe by Sunday all the buying and selling is over and we all want to get on the road to home. We liked the expanse of windows in the show room; you could see the real colors of the bottles without trotting outside.
The Seminars were of interest to us and we enjoyed the three we attended. We think the Seminars are an important aspect of the Convention. [Ed & Anita Holden]
[Steve Holland - Springville, Alabama] Thank you Ferdinand, for the opportunity to share with you my appreciation for you and FOHBC for bravely choosing the Southeastern venue of Augusta, Georgia for the 2019 National Convention. Actually, there are now two within four years counting Chattanooga. The show was everything it should have been and more. We in the South sometimes feel that we are looked upon as not having the quality of bottles found in other areas of the United States, and that may be true. However, anyone attending the Southeastern Soda and Georgia Bottle competitions on Thursday night might have left with a new appreciation for our bottles. For those traveling a long distance, I hope you found the Southern hospitality to your liking and I hope we can repeat a Southern show soon. Thank you for a memorable experience. [Bob & Shari Jochums - Berkeley Lake, Georgia] We’ve attended numerous FOHBC shows over [continued on page 45]
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the years, but this is our first time as dealers at any bottle show. My wife and I are happy to report that we had a successful show with more sales than had been anticipated … and more than a longtime collector-dealer friend suggested we were likely to experience. We sold 50 bottles - 17 cures, 12 poisons, 13 medicines, and 10 sodas. I enjoyed speaking with other collectors about the cure guys we’ve lost over the years, primarily J. Carl Sturm (Hall of Fame, 2008), and Larry Hicks. Carl served three terms as FOHBC President and was a Board member for 19 straight years. Larry enjoyed collecting so much that he was nearly as happy when a friend acquired a new bottle as he would have been if he’d been the one to acquire something new. Special guys. Special friends.
Augusta Seminar poster schedule.
I’ve already sent emails to four folks (President Matt Lacy, Western Region Director Eric McGuire, Conventions Director Lindsey Fifer, and Director-at-Large Richard Siri) who will have input and could have an impact on the display competition next year in Reno. I was troubled that one particular display/ displayer (I believe) got all three awards in Augusta and I think that needs to be prevented in the future. I don’t understand the difference between Best in Show and People’s Choice, and I’d bet that no one else does either. Best in Show sounds like an award that should go to the display that does the best job of adhering to display criteria, but are there any except for being “educational?” And since all the displays are to be “educational”, why does a display that earns the Best in Show award need a second award that says it’s the most educational? Maybe the Most Educational award should be eliminated with voters selecting only Best in Show and People’s Choice … awards that can’t be won by the same displayer. Or maybe there should be a single ballot per attendee (not three) with instructions that they must vote for different displays for each award so that each voter is applying his/her own criteria. I think a change or two is in order. Thanks to the organizing committee and the attendees for an excellent show.
The show-and-tell format really engaged the audience in the Harvey Teal seminar.
A nice room was set up and available for Karl Harrar and his guests.
This was the first time in years I have been able to attend any seminars. I was able to attend two this year and the Kola Wars seminar was my favorite, teaching so many things about Cola I never knew. The presentation was great, and the speaker, Dennis Smith, knew his Cola history. [Jim Bender]
Image projection with Doug Herman in his seminar.
Tommy Schimpf at the podium and Jamie Westendorf on fiddle.
[Andy Rapoza – Conroe, Texas] You can find good bottles in the ground and on the Internet, but to find the combination of great bottles, great friendships, and great knowledge, you just have to go to the FOHBC National. I know that first hand because I have been hidden away in my isolated south Texas home for the past 25 years and during that time have had virtually no contact with anyone sharing any of my collecting interests and love for this hobby. The FOHBC bottle show had a wide variety of merchandise, lots of rarity, and top-notch quality. I enjoyed talking to dealers and collectors from across the country and even beyond (England and Australia). I think the most personally satisfying part for me, though, was finding a few individuals that really connected to me, having very similar interests in location-specific bottles, even though the communities they were interested in were thousands of miles from the one I collect. We had similar passion, curiosity, and collecting goals; it had never dawned on me that I could have so much in common with someone whose collection has absolutely nothing to do with mine, and there’s no way I would have found that out if I hadn’t attended the National. I now have friends to keep in touch with and with whom to share information and experiences. I felt privileged (and even a little nervous) holding one-of-a-kind bottles worth more than my car and also felt the same as I shook hands with some of the pioneers in bottle collecting who were at this event. The receptions, seminars, and banquet keynote speaker were all really excellent; I don’t collect pottery or Georgia bottles, but I don’t have to in order to be able to thoroughly enjoy looking, [continued on page 47]
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12:50 pm. Here the Augusta Consortium, along with FOHBC President Matt Lacy, and FOHBC Conventions Director Lindsey Fifer, gathering to cut the ribbon to signify the start of the show. Absent is Walter Smith from Team Augusta.
Remember! Many more pictures at FOHBC.org
One of the honors of putting on a bottle show is cutting the ribbon to signify the start of the bottle show on the convention floor. Here the consortium, along with FOHBC president Matt Lacy, and FOHBC Conventions Director Lindsey Fifer, cut the ribbon to signify the start of the show. Bill Baab was selected within the team to make the actual cut. We understand Bill kept the cut ribbon and it was added to his room of great achievements for the FOHBC. Absent is Walter Smith, who undoubtedly was getting the displays in final order for the start of the show. [continued on page 48]
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Plenty of interest at this dealers table. Looks like John Pastor, Louis Fifer and Matt Lacy.
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listening, and learning about them. It was all a blast, except the 19-hour drive back home, thanks to ridiculous traffic jams in southern Mississippi; next year I’m going to fly for sure! [Chuck Norris - Mayetta, Kansas] A lot of good things about the show! The show facility and lighting were excellent. The security people were great. Sales were not as good as they could have been. I feel like if we would not have had three major bottle auctions ending right before the show, sales would have been much better. Also, I think the dealers should have had 30 minutes access before the early admission to at least get their stuff unpacked and set up before the early buyers came in. Parking lots for the dealers and customers was not great. On a positive note, I think the one and a half days of sales was great. But the second day made for an awful long day.
Tim Pearson and Chris Cleaveland doing quick looks at Early Admission.
Left to right: Liz Maxbauer, Kathy Tucker and Jodi Hall.
Terry Jones from Lebanon, Ohio behind some pretty nice bitters.
[John Joiner - Newnan, Georgia] It was the best National I have been to and I had more fun at this convention than any other that I have been too. Talked to many old friends, saw some GREAT bottles at Mike and Julie Newman’s home. Table sales were really good and purchased or traded for several items to take home. The food at all the restaurants was the best. The Convention Center at the Marriott was clean and well lighted. There were many neat displays. Looking forward to Reno! [Charlie Martin Jr. - West Newbury, Massachusetts] Sorry to have missed our annual national bottle show. However, I deeply appreciate the huge amount of coordination, cooperation and personal commitment it took to stage such a massive event. I personally want to thank the show directors, their volunteers and FOHBC staff for their tireless work in preparing for Augusta 2019. As this is being written, I’m certain there is little time to reflect on 2019 and much attention already being focused on the next national show scheduled for Reno, Nevada. Certainly, feedback from show participants and visitors will provide meaningful and helpful suggestions that will support and enhance our 2020 bottle show. I’m positive that the feedback from attendees will support and serve to strengthen the resolve of the national committee as it now focuses on Reno. Again, thank you to ALL whose contributions, large and small, made 2019 a show year to emulate!!
Most extraordinary Experience: Selling an original E.G. Booz cabin to a new but now dear friend, Larry Smith of Florida. It’s always comforting to know the collector buying a piece will cherish it as much as I had for the past 39 years! [Tom Lines]
[Tom Lines - Indian Springs, Alabama] Location: Excellent, easy to find, plenty of parking, easy loading/unloading.
Tom Lines (right), dealer from Indian Springs, Alabama, closing a deal with Jordan Ott.
Show: Great security, well lighted plus natural light too, probably could have used more show staff during dealer setup (I took it upon myself to keep everyone’s sales stock below table top prior to 1:00 pm). Fantastic displays in terms of quantity and quality items, good public attendance throughout day, sales brisk all day. Most extraordinary experience: Selling an original E.G. Booz cabin to a new but now dear friend, Larry Smith of Florida. It’s always comforting to know the collector buying a piece will cherish it as much as I had for the past 39 years! Seminars: Didn’t attend (I helped put out table cloths on sales tables instead.) Bottle competition: Excellent stoneware! Great Georgia bottles! Wide selection of entries for the Southern Soda contest. I felt privileged to be asked to judge with the likes of two icons like Bobby Hinely and Jamie Westendorff for the soda contest.
Cant miss Joseph Scharnowske from Owosso, Michigan looking for Mountain Dew items.
Membership Breakfast: Forgot all about it! (The older I get, the more I forget!) [continued on page 48]
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Mike Newman Open House: Unbelievably beautiful collection in a magnificent home, GREAT food, lots of fellowship with old friends and new. Augusta Museum of History Reception: Rain prevented me from walking several blocks from the hotel to get there. Augusta: Good restaurants close to hotel. Lounge at hotel: Invasion of bottle people provided for great fellowship...good beer too! Overall experience: Good to meet in person many of my southern Facebook friends.
FOHBC President, Matt Lacy gets things rolling.
FOHBC Augusta Banquet | Friday, 02 August 2019, 5:30 - 8:30+ pm | Marriott Oglethorpe Ballroom Each FOHBC national event has a banquet that is preceded by a cocktail hour. What is so nice about these dinners is that it is a chance to unwind after a long day that typically includes the Membership Breakfast, Educational Seminars, Ribbon Cutting and Early Admission. The previous day consisted of the FOHBC Board Meeting, Mike & Julie Newman Open House, Augusta Museum of History Reception and Sweet Georgia Peaches Bottle Competition. Whew, did this already happen! So yes, a cocktail party and dinner to unwind with your bottle friends as the General Admission and last convention day would start early the next morning. The evenings lineup certainly did not disappoint.
[Perry & Pat Driver - Live Oak, Florida] Pat and I had a good show, sold well and agree the facility was superb. Easy unloading and loading. Plenty of room in the aisles for customers and for the dealers between sales tables. Ample chairs to share with visitors as well. Lighting was great which is not always satisfactory at some venues. Best physical security we have ever observed; security folks visible at all times. Each display was very interesting and professionally presented. We felt the crowd throughout Saturday should have been better being a 50th Anniversary National show. Enjoyed the drawing at the top of each hour. Would be happy to attend at this location again. In addition, as always, enjoyed seeing and talking to so many of the giants in the jar and bottle collecting industry. Overall, a superb effort by all involved and our many thanks to each.
The receptions, seminars, and banquet keynote speaker were all really excellent; I don’t collect pottery or Georgia bottles, but I don’t have to in order to be able to thoroughly enjoy looking, listening, and learning about them. It was all a blast. [Andy Rapoza]
Tonya Guy and Justin Guy with their Edgefield Pottery talk.
Organizing the cocktail party and banquet dinner usually resides with the Conventions Director and local team, in this case Team Augusta. Ferdinand Meyer V was responsible for room layout, operations and acted as the Marriott liaison. Marty Vollmer and Eric Warren were responsible for meals and tickets, Elizabeth Meyer was responsible for the dinner theme and table centerpieces, Bill Baab for the keynote banquet speaker, Val Berry was responsible for club awards, and Matt and Elizabeth Lacy were responsible for the agenda and running the banquet. Matt as President, would emcee the dinner. His wife, Elizabeth would run the audio visual presentation and photo document the dinner. Isabella Alucema would act as the stage hostess. That’s quite a group effort. Of course there were others that helped out too. The meal this year consisted of a Caprese salad and main course options such as smoked beef brisket, herb roasted chicken breast or for vegetarians, polenta corn cake with grilled vegetables. All served with mashed potatoes and chef’s choice of vegetables. A cheesecake dessert was preset on the table. Of course there was
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[Tom Pettit – Safety Harbor, Florida] It’s been a few days now, the crates have been unpacked, the bottles are back in their homes and the dust has settled, so I thought it was a good time to give my afterthoughts of the FOHBC 50th National Convention that was hosted in Augusta, Georgia this past week. First of all, I would like to thank the entire Augusta committee for all the hard work and effort into the making of this convention. Coming up from an 8-hour drive from central Florida, my wife and I really enjoyed seeing both the backroads of Georgia and also the charming little downtown of Augusta. The van was loaded with both my Vintage Soda Brandology display and also a great number of crates of soda bottles and display items. The road to Augusta has been almost a year in the making, so the excitement grew as we finally made it up to Augusta. Please see my summary below on the eventful days. THURSDAY EVENTS: Thursday morning we started off with the display setup and meeting the great kindness of Walter Smith. He was very accommodating with letting me pick my display location and a few of his workers even helped us with the unloading from the van, so that was much appreciated. After a busy hour of setting up, I was next greeted by a reporter from The Augusta Chronicle and after a great conversation and a few photos, the next morning there I was in the Augusta Chronicle promoting the show. Very exciting. Around noon, my wife and I were able to catch the shuttle and rode over to the Newman Open house. We were amazed both by Mike’s massive collection and its presentation throughout his house and also by the great southern hospitality from both Mike and Julie with the huge selection of food and drinks. Great pork sandwiches and shrimp cocktail. Thanks again Mike and Julie for doing this! Next, my wife and I got lucky with our afternoon walk and made it over to the Augusta Museum of History Reception just before it started to rain. We got to meet and have a great discussion with Bill [continued on page 53]
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Remember! Many more pictures at FOHBC.org
The first of many FOHBC banquets for Logan Fifer. Banquet speaker Justin Guy promotional piece.
Mike Newman with Owen Lacy.
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tea, coffee, water, rolls etc. A cash bar was set up in the prefunction area where the cocktail party occurred from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm. Tickets were $33+, meaning around $45 by the time all the service charges are added in. You’re paying for the meal of course, but you also have the ballroom, the service, which was excellent, and amenities, such as audio visual, stage set-up, etc. Elizabeth Meyer, prior to arriving in Augusta, visited an antique shop or two and bought a mix-and-match assortment of antique bowls for the centerpieces. Once they arrived in town, she and Ferdinand went to the rather well-known Sara’s Fresh Market peach stand in South Carolina and bought thirteen baskets of large handpicked fresh peaches. Yes, we said South Carolina and not Georgia peaches. A sticker pre-hidden beneath each banquet table, on one chair only, allowed the winner, which was announced at the end of the banquet, to take home the bowl and basket of peaches. Just a little something extra.
A good crowd at the FOHBC banquet.
Sheldon & Brenda Baugh. Sheldon with his FOHBC lifetime achievement award.
Bev & Richard Siri, Lisa & Eric McGuire, Lou & Bonnie Pellegrini, Jordan Ott & Gini Pellegrini.
Bill Baab suggested that master potter Justin Guy be our keynote speaker. Justin was born and reared in Edgefield County, South Carolina in the Trenton area and has worked in clay for over twenty years. He grew up living only a short distance from where David Drake and other potters made their wares for over a century. His talk was great as we received many favorable comments. His wife Tonya joined him on stage as she works in decorating his pots. She also ran the slide show. A very impressive couple.
Steve Ketcham, Bill Mitchell, Chris Sadar and Kathie Mitchell. The Wisconsin table.
Along with the typical club awards, Bill Baab received the President’s Award and Sheldon Baugh received the first ever Lifetime Achievement Award from the FOHBC. That moment was really special. Sheldon also gave the invocation prayer to start the banquet. You can see this year’s complete awards list, along with every year at FOHBC.org under the ‘Members’ menu bar. Please make sure you attend our banquet at Reno 2020 as Eric McGuire, researcher extraordinairre, will be our keynote speaker.
Brenda & Sheldon Baugh, Louis, Lindsey & Logan Fifer, Linda & John Fifer, Julie & Mike Newman.
Bill Baab from Team Augusta receiving the President’s Award from Matt Lacy. Bill hates it when his fans rush the stage! Bill will add this new award to his ‘award’ room which we assume he added to his house. [continued on page 51]
Owen Lacy, Linda Sheppard, Jim Bender, Mark & Andrew Vuono, Jim & Val Berry and Matt Lacy.
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FOHBC Educational Displays | Saturday, 03 August 2019, Augusta Convention Center | Olmstead Hall You know, we’ve put out thirteen Augusta convention posts on the FOHBC web site and related social media. This includes all the special events from Thursday, 01 August, like the FOHBC Board Meeting, Mike & Julie Newman Open House, Augusta Museum of History Reception and Sweet Georgia Peaches Bottle Competition. We also covered the Friday, 02 August events, such as the Membership Breakfast, Educational Seminars, Ribbon Cutting, Youth Corner, Banquet and Showroom Floor. Now we will focus on the displays. The Educational Displays are one of the most exciting components of a Federation national convention. The FOHBC encourages collectors to share their knowledge, enthusiasm and interests with other collectors by displaying their collections or related material. This year, Walter Smith from Team Augusta, was in charge of our displays. He did a great job! We thank Walter and all of the displayers who put so much time and effort in making our show a success. Education is the backbone of our organization. There is no charge for exhibitor displayers as the FOHBC rents the showroom floor, designates exhibition space, covers electrical and props such as tables, coverings and stanchions. Security is also provided. Those setting up a display were provided a free Early Admission pass, which allowed full convention privileges, their spouse, and minor children. They were also invited to the Augusta Museum of History Reception. There were fourteen displays this year. Each display is represented below. A Federation of Historical Bottles Collectors display was also set up by the FOHBC Historian, Jim Bender. This was a non-voting display. The displays were: 1.
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10. Koca Nola & 50 Gallon Stoneware Crock • Charles Head, South Pittsburg, Tenn. 11. 19th Century Druggist’s Glass • Henry Tankersley - Tulsa, Okla. 12. Bludwine Soft Drinks • Mark Williams - Athens, Ga. 13. Charles Axt Catawba Wine Bottles • Paul Chance - Savannah, Ga. 14. DIVCO 1956 Milk Truck and rare local milk bottles • Charles A. Hilton - Graniteville, S.C. [continued on page 55]
Baab and learned a lot about the museum and history of Augusta. It was great to see Bill’s amazing collection on display in the museum. He is a true Augusta historian for both collecting and most importantly, writing about the history of Augusta. As we made it back to the hotel after dinner at another Augusta landmark Luigi’s, we made our way down to the Sweet Georgia Peaches Bottle Competition with a few entries. I heard a lot of remarks and watched videos of previous conventions and was excited to experience the bottle competition for my first time. Unfortunately, this event did not live up to my expectations and I have noted some future improvements that I can see listed in the below section. FRIDAY EVENTS: Friday we started off with the Membership Breakfast and it was great to sit and meet other members and also hear the latest updates from Matt and the board. Next up were the seminars which again I was greatly looking forward to. For the first seminar, I attended Harvey Teal’s presentation on South Carolina Flasks and again, much like Bill Baab, Harvey is a true asset to South Carolina history. I really enjoyed listening to his great stories and knowledge of the cities that produced flasks. For the second seminar, I attended Dennis Smith’s Kola Wars as I had already read a few of his books and was looking forward to his presentation. Dennis has a great wealth of knowledge of the soda history in the United States and he did not let us down. Great job, Dennis. Last, I attended Mark Williams’ seminar on Bludwine and Budwine. Mark presented a great history of the Bludwine founder and companies. It was neat to hear his story of when he purchased his last Budwine and found it to be flat and turning it in for a Dr. Pepper. SHOW ACTIVITIES: Midday Friday started with the ribbon-cutting and the dash to put all my bottles out on my vendor tables. It was neat to have folks waiting to see what I was pulling out next. Got to meet a great number of folks and also hear their collecting interests and stories. Saturday morning provided a peaceful interval, so I was able to walk around and visit most of the vendor tables and also spend some time with presenting my display to others. The raffles and jug auctions were great and gave something to look forward to each hour during the events. I had the pleasure of meeting some fine young kids doing the scavenger hunt and taught them the different types of bottles. Sales were good for me and the attendance seemed to be pretty good, but remember this was my first convention, so others might have a different take on this note. At the end of the day, the winner was announced for the displays and the show ended with fast and efficient clean-up. We ended the evening with a great dinner at the Boll Weevil restaurant right next to the convention center. Please see some of my suggested improvements below.
Each display was very interesting and professionally presented. [Perry & Pat Driver]
SUGGESTED IMPROVEMENTS: As noted earlier in this article, overall this was a great convention and again, many thanks to Augusta team with all the efforts they put in the making. Noted below are some of the items in which I think could be improved for the next convention. Bottle Competition: I was really disappointed on this event and thought it was very biased. Here is my reasoning. First of all, there was no criteria stated for the competition, so what were they judging on? Let’s put something down on paper, and have real judging. Suggestions being: Condition, Color, Rarity. Maybe a scale of 1-5 for each. Second, you actually had judges that were judging on categories in which they had bottles entered in (and won of course). Really? Also, I do not think the emcee of event should have bottles entered in addition as it allowed the advantage for him to talk and present his bottles more than any others. In addition, I think he went way over the maximum number of bottles allowed. If you want to have a legitimate competition, nobody judging or running the event should know the owner of the bottle being judged. It needs to be based on what they rate the bottle against the criteria to best of their knowledge and not who knows who and can talk up the best story. Display Competition: After reviewing the many educational videos on the FOHBC website, there are some great videos of exhibitors presenting their display and the history and education behind it. This is a great way to share to the many other members that could not make it to the show in person. I always had the pleasure of viewing these in the past. I was very disappointed when I saw no effort of recording short demos for each display and each exhibitor explaining their display. Like myself, I know many others went through great effort, detail and cost to build and setup their display but to little [continued on page 55]
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2 Vintage Soda Brandology Tom Pettit Safety Harbor, Florida
3 Lubricating Oil Bottles Vern Huffstetler Graniteville, South Carolina
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4 Augusta Historical Bottles Walter Smith Augusta, Georgia
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1 Celery Cola Dennis Smith
5 Sandwich Commercial Colognes Tom Lines
7 Fruit Jar Patents before 1859 Tom Sproat
9 Augusta Merchant Pottery Philip Haley
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Buffalo, New York
Ryland Heights, Kentucky
Carnesville, Georgia
10 Koca Nola Charles Head
11 19th Century Druggist’s Glass Henry Tankersley
13 Charles Axt Catawba Wine Paul Chance
14 The Milk Route Charles A. Hilton
South Pittsburg, Tennessee
Savannah, Georgia
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Graniteville, Georgia
15. Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors • Jim Bender, FOHBC Historian - Sprakers, N.Y.
Jim Bender brought down the Federation’s wonderful historical display featuring artifacts, flasks and Bottles and Extras from the last 50 years. On the plan below, you can see that the displays were designated to the 9th Street wall, upper right wall and lower right wall of Olmstead Hall. A DIVCO Milk Truck display was set up on the 10th Street wall.
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reward. It also would have been nice maybe to do a introduction of each display and its owner during the event and maybe let them give a brief description to the audience to spur interest. I saw little to no attention to the displays during the show. Last but most important, only one person received awards of the nearly 15 entries, this too was another let down. For display voting, I would suggest a: 3rd, 2nd and Best of Show based on number of votes. Have folks vote for their one favorite. This guarantees that three exhibitors will walk away with some appreciation for their efforts and not just one, like this show.
How do we involve the younger generations in the hobby? This is a great question that Matt has wrote about in the past and also brought up during the membership breakfast. First of all, we have to look at the interests in our younger crowd to better understand. For sure, we are in a digital age, so I think wherever we can bring technology into the hobby is a plus. Great example being the virtual museum effort. Maybe thinking of a display or competition for let’s say people < 20 years of age that could be promoted through the many social media channels. Maybe a best bottle photograph or painting in the same age group? Maybe a competition on how to best managed (database or app) your collection? Just thinking outside of the bottle.
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There were two Federation ribbons given. One for Most Educational Display and the second for Best in Show Display. John Pastor with American Glass Gallery and Antique Bottle & Glass Collector provided a Peoples Choice ribbon.
Tonya just reminded me of the greatest compliment we could possibly receive, which was that several collectors mentioned that we converted them from being exclusively glass collectors before the show to enjoying and collecting southern pottery afterwards. I can assure you that was music to my ears! [Justin & Tonya Guy]
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Youth Corner | Saturday, 03 August 2019, Augusta Convention Center | Olmstead Hall
Matt Lacy Walter Smith astounded everyone with winning all three ribbons. ribbons!
We struggle every year to bring younger people into our hobby. Usually we are unsuccessful as there are just so many competing interests facing the next generation. Where once a parent or grandparent would spend precious weekend time working with a child on a postage stamp album or looking through old coins for that elusive Indian Head penny, now video games seem to be the norm. Interaction with elders has been minimized as a virtual world is boundless. Of course there are many other reasons and we should not give up.
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[Justin & Tonya Guy - Edgefield, South, Carolina] Tonya and I both agree that your group really knows how to put together a show! Truly, we enjoyed the entire experience and all of the wonderful people who made it happen. Your group not only took great care of us, but took great care of each other. I was really excited to see some good-hearted people get together to exchange news and ideas about their collective-collecting passions! It seemed like all of the vendors and participants were there to contribute and that seemed to make everybody a winner. The audience at the dinner was the creme-De-la-creme and we enjoyed it from soup-to-nuts or in this case, cocktails-to-peaches! Tonya just reminded me of the greatest compliment we could possibly receive, which was that several collectors mentioned that we converted them from being exclusively glass collectors before the show to enjoying and collecting southern pottery afterwards. I can assure you that was music to my ears! Bill Baab and Ferdinand (and their wives) were a great joy to be around and could not have made us feel more at home. Thank you all for the memories, friendships, and the treasures that we got to bring home with us! [Baab’s Augusta Notebook, Some personal notes about the 50th Anniversary show - Augusta, Georgia] This show has been one for the memory books. Here are some of mine: Ferdinand Meyer presented me with the FOHBC ribbon (from the ribbon-cutting). I was able to cut on [continued on page 57]
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The Marriott Hotel staff could not have been more cooperative and show security was superb… a Richmond County Sheriff’s Department lieutenant nicely misidentified my wife as “your daughter,” much to her gratification.
What we sorely need is a youth liaison to the Federation board, as us dinosaurs trod the same path to the watering hole, day after day…until, we all know what happens next. One young girl that has been on Team Sacramento (2016), Team Springfield (2017), Team Cleveland (2018) and Team Augusta this year is, Isabella Alucema. Many have met her and know she is the granddaughter of Elizabeth & Ferdinand Meyer. Bella loves her horses and is a serious competitor in Barrel Racing. She typically looks ahead each year and marks her calendar so she can attend the Federation national and not miss a horse event. This year, she even flew back directly after the show for an event while her grandparents drove back to Houston. Bella seems to be everywhere at our national conventions: on stage helping at banquets, running errands, gate checking members at breakfast meetings, at board meetings, at the front federation tables and of course, helping out with the kids. This year she was officially our Youth Corner coordinator. We are grateful for her help and friendly disposition. Children warm and open up to her. She seems comfortable with adults. We need more of this. Thank you, Bella. This year, we had two primary points to connect with our youth. We had Children’s Bottle Grab Bags and for the second time, a Scavenger Hunt. Team Augusta provided approximately thirty-five bottle grab bags for children ten and under during the General Admission hours of the show on Saturday. Each bag had an antique bottle that was hand blown, in good condition and embossed. The FOHBC also encouraged children from ages 8 on up to participate in an organized scavenger hunt at the on the showroom floor. The FOHBC scavenger hunt organizers prepared a list defining specific items, which the participants would seek to gather or complete all items on the list, obviously without purchasing them. Participants could work in small teams, although the rules encouraged individuals to participate. The goal was to complete all or most of the items on the list. A small prize was given when the child turned in their card at the from desk. [continued on page 58]
My wife, Bea, was told by a collector: “Your husband is a happy man.” (Very happy since our Jan. 8, 1966 wedding). . another collector said: “Your husband is a nut!” (Yes, but a happy nut!). [Bill Baab]
All six seminars on Friday morning went off without a hitch and each attracted nice gatherings of collectors. My friend, Doug Herman, pulled a fast one during his dissertation on his great-grandfathers’ bottles by showing a slide of 17-year-old me in drag during the 1952 Boys’ Catholic High School minstrels. Show camera bug Elizabeth Lacy forced me to stand next to the slide on the screen for a photo. . .Grrrr. . . {Editor note: You can see this picture at FOHBC.org in the Augusta Seminars post} My wife, Bea, was told by a collector: “Your husband is a happy man.” (Very happy since our Jan. 8, 1966 wedding). . . another collector said: “Your husband is a nut!” (Yes, but a happy nut!). Darlene (Dar) Furda and friend Don Wippert, members of the Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club, made the long trip by auto. . .Mike and Dixie Bryant from the San Diego club flew over and to their chagrin were not able to carry back a basket of South Carolina peaches. . . however, Mike carried back a number of well-deserved FOHBC awards. Johnnie and Linda Fletcher, of Mustang, Oklahoma, also drove to the show. He is the lifetime editor of Oklahoma Territory News and author of several wonderful books on Midwestern bottles. Michael Seeliger, the world’s living authority on H.H. Warner and his medicinal products, kindly gave me a copy of his online book. Michael was wearing a top hat and I thought he might be a magician so I asked him if there was a rabbit underneath...I got a strange look. Chicago native James F. Bell, a world traveler now living in Australia, gave my wife and I miniature koala bears (press the bodies and their arms spread wide, release and get mini bear hugs on one’s finger) and huge Australian pennies featuring iconic kangaroos… He also presented one of the koalas to a delighted little girl. {Editor note: Read The Man from Down Under this issue} The Augusta Museum of History reception highlighted the Bill & Bea Baab antique bottle collection, a small part of the 531 bottles was on display. Executive Director Nancy Glaser went all out to make the event a success. I talked so much from 3:30 to 5:30, my vocal chords were strained, but after arriving home a throat lozenge, an aspirin and an ice-cold can of Yuengling Lager helped restore them, sort of… Justin Guy, the master potter from the Old Edgefield (S.C.) Pottery, did a stellar job as guest speaker at the banquet. I was introduced to a number of collector-characters during the show, including John “hINKel”, whose last name sparked his interest in collecting labeled master inks, he says. He hails from Pacific just south of St. Louis. I also learned the community of Whitmire, South Carolina is home to a South Carolina Bottle Museum. Chris Prince says it’s located inside the community center so Bea and I will go there later this year. I purchased just one bottle, an amber fish body-shaped vessel like the Fish Bitters, except mine doesn’t have that name. It cost $18, a far cry from the fishy bitters value. A glass factory mark of a tiny D inside a diamond on the base and the numeral 3 were the only embossing on the base. . .still love it! [conclusion of comments]
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Both events were very success. We had many dealers tell us that they enjoyed interacting with the children when they approached their table looking for a specific bottle.
Prizes and Drawings | Saturday, 03 August 2019, Augusta Convention Center | Olmstead Hall
A smiling Mark Williams from Athens, Georgia. With Marty Vollmer and Isabella Alucema.
Steve Ketcham from Edina, Minnesota, a certificate winner.
As a bonus to show-goers and dealers, the FOHBC raffled a Jim Healy 2019 Augusta Canal commemorative stoneware jug. Tickets were $2 each or three for $5. You were encouraged to “Play to win!” The winner was announced around 4:30 pm on Saturday. Vaughn Jones from Statesboro, Georgia won this jug. Thanks to Mike Newman for making sure Vaughn received his jug, as you did not have to be present to win. There was also a Silent Auction for second Jim Healy 2019 Augusta commemorative “Peaches” stoneware jug that was auctioned at the front FOHBC Tables. This jug was won by Elizabeth Meyer from Houston, Texas. She is an admirer and collector of Jim Healy FOHBC jugs.
A smiling Barb Bower wins a $100 certificate. Barb is from Aiken, South Carolina.
Each hour on Saturday there were Certificate Drawings. A $1,100 donation had been given to the FOHBC 2019 Augusta Convention by American Bottle Auctions to support a series of drawings during the public portion of the show on Saturday. Vouchers were given to the lucky winners to be spent at the show. The prize was a coupon to give a dealer towards the purchase of a bottle. The dealer then turned the coupon in to the front FOHBC desks for redemption for cash. We sincerely thank Jeff Wichmann with American Bottle Auctions. Poison bottle collector Tim Adams from N. Wilksboro, North Carolina, a winner.
We thought we would share a few pictures taken by our event photographer, Elizabeth Lacy who is also our Public Relations officer. She was ever-present at every event and took all the pictures on our web site and for this Sweet Georgia Peaches feature article. She also volunteered to do this immense job and took a couple thousand photographs!
Stephen Deal, a winner.
We think she did an outstanding job covering our 50th anniversary convention.
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Val Berry, Elizabeth Meyer and Linda Sheppard
Art & Ella Gose Board Members Linda Sheppard, Val & Jim Berry
Ian Robb, Ronnie Gaskins and Doug Howard
Bella Alucema with two scavenger hunt girls.
Matt Lacy, Louis Fifer and Jim Berry.
Yes, smiles were everywhere and everything surely was Peaches & Cream in Augusta. We thank all our members and guests and hope that we will see you next year at our FOHBC Reno 2020 Convention.
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Left: Read “Mid-19th century bottles unearthed during the demolition and subsequent excavation of Chicago’s “S” curve.” Pictured embossed Lancaster Glass Works soda. UrbanRemainsChicago.com-
Above: The hobo nickel is a sculptural art form involving the creative modification of small-denomination coins, essentially resulting in miniature bas reliefs. The US Buffalo nickel coin was favored because of its size, thickness and relative softness. However, the term hobo nickel is generic, as carvings have been made from many different denominations. The original nickel is pictured below.
Left: Spotted in Jeff Wichmann’s office with American Bottle Auctions in Sacramento. This recently found aqua Cassin’s Grape Brandy Bitters will break $100k clams. Thanks to Dale Mlasko for tip.
Right bottom: The Great Wave off Kanagawa, also known as The Great Wave or simply The Wave, is a woodblock print by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai. It was published sometime between 1829 and 1833 in the late Edo period as the first print in Hokusai’s series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. It is Hokusai’s most famous work, and one of the most recognizable works of Japanese art in the world. The image depicts an enormous wave threatening three boats off the coast of the town of Kanagawa (the present-day city of Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture) while Mount Fuji rises in the background. While sometimes assumed to be a tsunami, the wave is more likely to be a large rogue wave. As in many of the prints in the series, it depicts the area around Mount Fuji under particular conditions, and the mountain itself appears in the background. Throughout the series are dramatic uses of Berlin blue pigment.
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recent Left: Try finding a Barber coin. The Barber coinage consists of a dime, quarter, and half dollar designed by United States Bureau of the Mint Chief Engraver Charles E. Barber. They were minted between 1892 and 1916, though no half dollars were struck in the final year of the series. By the late 1880s, there were increasing calls for the replacement of the Seated Liberty design, used since the 1830s on most denominations of silver coins. In 1891, Mint Director Edward O. Leech, having been authorized by Congress to approve coin redesigns, ordered a competition, seeking a new look for the silver coins. As only the winner would receive a cash prize, invited artists refused to participate and no entry from the public proved suitable. Leech instructed Barber to prepare new designs for the dime, quarter, and half dollar, and after the chief engraver made changes to secure Leech’s endorsement, they were approved by President Benjamin Harrison in November 1891. Striking of the new coins began the following January.
Above: Stamp collectors remember finding places for Special Delivery stamps in their postage stamp albums. In 1885, Congress enacted the use of a special stamp of the face valuation of ten cents that when attached to a letter, in addition to the lawful postage thereon, shall be regarded as entitling such letter to immediate delivery. The first Special delivery stamp was printed by the American Bank Note Company and issued on October 1, 1885. It could not be used to prepay postage or any other service. The stamp bears the words “Secures immediate delivery at a special delivery office.”
Above: From National Geographic August 2019. Glass bottles in the officers’ mess remain intact. The vessel appears to have settled gently to the bottom. The wreck of H.M.S. Terror, one of the long lost ships from Sir John Franklin’s 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage, is astonishingly well preserved, say Parks Canada archaeologists, who recently used small remotely-operated vehicles (ROVs) to peer deep inside the historic vessel’s interior.
Right: “After 42 years, I was gripped with emotion as I now own that bottle.” Larry Smith from Jupiter, Florida as he finally adds an E.G. Booz’s Old Cabin Whiskey to his collection at the recent Augusta National Convention.
Original impressions of the print are in many Western collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, and in Claude Monet’s home in Giverny, France, among many other collections.
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FOHBC Sho - Biz is published in the interest of the hobby. Federation affiliated clubs are connotated with FOHBC logo. Information on up-coming collecting events is welcome, but space is limited. Please send at least three months in advance, including telephone number to: FOHBC Sho-Biz, C/O Business Manager: Elizabeth Meyer, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; phone: (713) 222-7979; e-mail: emeyer@fohbc.org, Show schedules are subject to change. Please call before traveling long distances. All listings published here will also be published on the website: FOHBC.org
November 1 & 2 Tulare, California 51st Annual Tulare Collectible Show & Sale, All Kinds of Bottles, Insulators, Antiques, Fishing Gear, Jewelry, Dishware, Jars, Old Tools, Marbles, Toys, and Lots of Table Top Collectibles. Friday November 1 and Saturday November 2. Tulare Veteran’s Building, 1771 East Tulare Avenue, Tulare, California 93274, Dealer set up on Friday at 7:00 am. No Fee for early lookers and they are welcome at 7:00 as well. Free Coffee! Show Hours: Friday 9:00 – 6:00 pm and Saturday 9 – 2:00 pm. Contact: David Brown, 559.936.7790, 1skychair@msn.com
November 22 - 23 Terre Haute Indiana Wabash Valley Antique Bottle and Pottery Club Presents. The 21st annual bottle, pottery and antiques show and sale. Friday Nov 22nd, 6pm bottle auction. Saturday Nov. 23rd Bottle show and sale. Free Admission - Free Parking. Vigo County Fairgrounds, 133 fairgrounds Dr., Terre Haute, IN 47807, Contact Doug Porter 812.870.0760, ertrop@aol.com
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm, $20, Fraternal Order of Police Building, 5530 Beach Boulevard, Jacksonville, Florida, Contact Info: Mike Skie, 3047 Julington Creek Road, Jacksonville Florida 32223, 904.710.0422 or Corey Stock, 904.607.3133, jaxbottleshow@yahoo.com
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November 9 Individual & Affiliated Belleville, Illinois Membership Benefits Eastside Spectacular #13 Combined Club Information Brewery Collectibles Show & Antique
November 24 Greensboro, North Carolina 18th Greensboro Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show at the Farmer’s Curb Market, 501 Yanceyville Street, Greensboro, North Carolina 27405, Sunday 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, No Early admission, Set up: Sunday 7:30 am – 9:00 am. Cost of admission $1, Southeast Bottle Club, www.antiquebottles.com/greensboro, Contact: Reggie Lynch, Show Chairman, PO Box 2286, Forest, Virginia 24551, 704.221.6489, rlynch@antiquebottles.com
Bottle and Jar Show, Saturday 9:00 am to 2:00 pm November 9 Royal Oak, Michigan The Metropolitan Detroit Antique Bottle Club’s 37th Annual Antique Bottle Show, 9:30 am to 3:00 pm Admission $2, Free Appraisals! Royal Oak Elks Lodge, 2401 E. Fourth Street, Royal Oak, Michigan, Contact: Mike Brodzik, 586.219.9980, bottlemike@outlook.com
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November 2 & 3 Roseville, California 49er Historic Bottle Assoc. 42nd Annual “Best of the West” 2019 Antique Bottle, Insulator & Western Collectibles Show, Placer County Fairgrounds, 800 All America City Blvd., Roseville, California 95678, Saturday, November 2nd: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm $10, Sunday, November 3rd: 9:00 am – 2:00 pm Free, $10 Parking Fee, Info: 916.367.1829
November 10 Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh Antique Bottle Club’s 50th Annual Show and Sale at the Ice Garden Rostraver, Twp., 101 Gallitin Road, Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania 15012, Directions Here, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, General Admission: $3, Early admission 7:00 am to 9:00 am $25, Contact: Bob DeCroo, 724.326.8741 or Jay Hawkins 724.872.6013, PittsburghAntiqueBottleClub.org
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November 3 Elton, Maryland 4th Annual Tri-State Bottle Collectors and Diggers Club Antique Bottle Show, Singerly Fire Hall, 300 Newark Avenue, Route 279 (I-95 exit 109A), Elkton, Maryland 21922, Sunday, November 3, 2019 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, No Early Admissions, Dealers only entry at 6:30 am, Set-up begins at 7:00 am, Admission: $3 per person, Children under age 12 free, TriState Bottle Collectors and Diggers Club, Inc, Contact: Dave Brown, Show Chair, 6 Martine Court, Newark, Delaware 19711, 302.388.9311, dbrown3942@comcast.net
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November 9 Jacksonville, Florida Antique Bottle Collectors of North Florida 52nd Annual Show & Sale, Saturday 8:00 am to 2:00 pm, Free Admission!, Early buyers, Friday 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm $30,
December 1 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Forks of the Delaware Bottle Collectors Association 46th Annual Show & Sale, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, early buyers 7:30 am, Bethlehem Catholic High School, 2133 Madison Avenue, (corner of Madison and Dewberry Avenues), Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Contact: Bill Hegedus, 20 Cambridge Place, Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, 610.264.3130
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November 10 Pompton Lakes, New Jersey Golden Anniversary – North Jersey Antique Bottle Collectors Assn. 50th Annual Show & Sale, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Early Buyers 8:00 am at the Pompton Lakes Elks Lodge No. 1895, 1 Perrin Ave, Pompton Lakes, New Jersey, Contact: Ken, 973.248.6406, froggy8@optonline.net
December 8 Enfield, Connecticut The Yankee Pole Cat Insulator Club’s fifth annual “Beat the Snow” Antique Insulator, Bottle & Collectibles Show, 8:00 am to 2:00 pm. Free Admission! American Legion Hall, 566 Enfield Street (US Route 5), Exit 49 off I-91, Enfield, Connecticut, Contact Info: John Rajpolt, 17 Pheasant Lane, Monroe CT 06468, 203.261.1190, rajpolt@earthlink.net
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(More) Sho-Biz More show-biz 2020 January 11 Muncie, Indiana The Midwest Antique Fruit Jar and Bottle Club Annual Show and Sale, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Horizon Convention Center, 401 S. High St., Muncie, Indiana 47305, Contact Info: Coleen & Jerry Dixon, 765.748.3117, ckdixon7618@att.net, Dave Rittenhouse, 1008 S. 900 W, Farmland Indiana 47340, 765.468.8091
June 6 Canyonville, Oregon 2020 Canyonville Oregon Jefferson State Antique Bottle & Insulator Expo, Saturday: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, Free Admission, $10 early admission 7:00 to 9:00 am. Seven Feathers Casino Resort, I-5, Exit 99. Info: Bruce Silva, P.O. Box 1565, Jacksonville, Oregon 97530, 541.821.8949, jsglass@q.com
Columbus, Ohio (I-270 & Rt. 23), Contact Info: Rojer Moody (general information), 740.703.4913, rtmoody@juno.com or Clark Wideman (contracts & info), 614.439.8005, clarkwideman@aol.com or Brad Funk (electronic registration) 614264-7846, bradfunk@yahoo.com
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February 14 & 15 Palmetto, Florida 51st Annual Suncoast Antique Bottle & Tabletop Collectible Show & Sale, Saturday, February 15th, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm $4, 16 and under, free with adult, Friday, Early Buyers, February 14th, 2:00 – 7:00 pm $25. Good for Saturday also. Dealer set up, Friday, 12 noon to 7:00 pm and Saturday, 7:00 am to 9:00 am. Manatee River Fair Association, 1402 14th Avenue West, Palmetto, Florida 34221 Antique Bottles, Artifacts, Fossils, Stoneware, Pottery, Coins, Insulators, Variety of Advertising, Insulators, Display cases full of too much to mention. Contact George Dueben 727.804.5957 or Linda Buttstead 941.565.0593
June 7 Ballston Spa, New York The 41st Annual Saratoga Bottle Show, Saratoga County Fairgrounds, 162 Prospect St, Ballston Spa, New York 12020. General Admission: Sunday, 9:00 am – 2:30 pm, $5; Early Admission: Sunday, 8:00 am, $15; Show Set-up Hours: Saturday, 7:00 – 9:00 pm and Sunday, 6:30 – 8:00 am. Host Club: National Bottle Museum, www.nationalbottlemuseum.org, 518.885.7589, NBM@nycap.rr.com; Show Chairs: Roy Topky and Phil Bernnard
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January 12 Taunton, Massachusetts The Little Rhody Bottle Club Show, Holiday Inn, Taunton, Massachusetts. Early Admission, $15, 8:00 am, General Admission $3, 9:30 am, Contact Info: William Rose, 508.880.4929, sierramadre@ comcast.net, Directions: Take Exit #9, off Route #495 for 700, Myles Standish Blvd
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January 26 Bayport, New York The Long Island Antique Bottle Association is pleased to announce their 4th show in more than 10 years! 10:00 am to 3:00 pm, Donation $3, Children 16 and under FREE, Girl Scouts of Suffolk County Juliette Low Friendship Center, Lakeview Avenue, Bayport, New York, Contact: Mark Smith, 10 Holmes Court, Sayville, New York 11782, 631.589.9027, libottle@ optonline.net
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February 2 Manville, New Jersey New Jersey Antique Bottle Club (NJABC), 24th Annual Show & Sale, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Admission $3, no early buyers. V.F.W. of Manville, New Jersey, 600 Washington Avenue, Manville, New Jersey, Contact: Kevin Kyle, 609.209.4034, bottlediggerkev@aol.com or John Lawrey, 908.813-.2334 February 9 Columbus, Ohio The Central Ohio Antique Bottle Club’s 50th Annual Show & Sale, Sunday, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm; Admission: $3, early buyers 7:00 am to 9:00 am, $20, Show Address: Doubletree Inn, 174 Hutchinson Ave.,
February 14 & 15 Las Vegas, Nevada Las Vegas Antique Bottles & Collectibles Club presents their 55th Annual 2020 Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show & Sale at the Eastside Cannery Casino and Hotel at 5255 Boulder Highway in Las Vegas, Nevada 89122, Friday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Early Bird admission $10 (Friday 9:00 am to noon). Regular admission noon to 5:00 pm. Saturday 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. $5 admission. Contact: John Fauli: 702.242.2792 or 702.373.7175 or jfuzzie@cox.net or Nicholas Valenti: 702.415.1568 or nv1948@cox.net Dealers Setup: Thursday 12:00 pm to 8:00 pm
July 30 – August 3 Reno, Nevada 2020 FOHBC National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo, Grand Sierra Resort & Casino, Information: Richard Siri (rtsiri@sbcglobal.net) or Ferdinand Meyer V (fmeyer@fmgdesign.com), FOHBC National Convention – Western Region
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March 8 Baltimore, Maryland The Baltimore Antique Bottle Club’s 40th Annual Show & Sale, 8:00 am to 3:00 pm, baltimorebottleclub.org, Physical Education Center, CCBC-Essex, 7201 Rossville Boulevard (I-695, Exit 34), Contact Info: Rick Lease, 410.458.9405, finksburg21@ comcast.net, Andy Agnew (contracts), 410.527.1707, medbotls@comcast.net
Don’t forget to send in your show information e-mail: emeyer@fohbc.org or mdvanzant@yahoo. com or fohbc.org/submit-your-show/
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More show-biz Individual & Affiliated Membership Benefits Club Information Individual & Affiliated Shards of Wisdom Club Information 8 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.
David Wilson Craig Cassetta Justin Guy P. O. Box 192 12 Marlin Court 230 Simkins Street Chico, CA 95973 Edgefield, SC 29824 Locust Grove, GA 30248 (770) 656-9599 (530) 680-5226 dw2422@aol.com craiglourdes@sbcglobal.net John A Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neal 2407 Hemlock Drive Museum of American Glass Michelle Clark Hueytown, AL 35023 West Virginia 8 Livrite Way (205) 396-5092 230 Main Avenue Windham, ME 04062 jostc@aol.com Weston, WV 26452 (207) 892-7155 (304) 269-5006 mclark7981@yahoo.com Jeff Smith glassmuse23@gmail.com 247 South 860 East Bruce D Enlow Orem, UT 84097 2713 Felix Saint Joseph, MO 64501 (816) 262-2776 bulldog_64501@yahoo.com
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Individual & Affiliated Membership Benefits Club Information The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors cordially invites you to join a dedicated group of individuals and clubs who collect, study and display the treasured glass and ceramic gems of yesteryear.
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The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors (FOHBC) is a non-profit organization supporting collectors of historical bottles, flasks, jars, and related items. The goal of the FOHBC is to promote the collection, study, preservation and display of historical bottles and related artifacts and to share this information with other collectors and individuals.
Federation membership is open to any individual or club interested in the enjoyment and study of antique bottles. The Federation publication, Bottles and Extras is well known throughout the hobby world as the leading publication for those interested in bottles and “go-withs”. The magazine includes articles of historical interest, stories chronicling the hobby and the history of bottle collecting, digging stories, regional news, show reports, advertisements, show listings, and an auction directory. Bottles and Extras is truly the place to go when information is needed about this popular and growing hobby.
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In addition to providing strength to a national/international organization devoted to the welfare of the hobby, your FOHBC Individual Membership benefits include:
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• A full year subscription to the bi-monthly (6 issues a year) 72-page publication Bottles and Extras. Various options are available including Digital Membership.
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• Free advertising of “For Sale” items in Bottles and Extras (restrictions apply ads may be up to 100 words, items must be of $25 or greater value, and free advertisements are limited to the first 100 received, based upon date mailed). One free ad of 60 words each year for use for items “Wanted”, trade offers, etc. • Follow the development of the FOHBC Virtual Museum. FOHBC members will be museum members. • The opportunity to obtain discounts to be used on “Early Admission” or table rental at the annual Federation National Shows and Conventions. • Access to the private FOHBC web site Member Portal and a wealth of historical information. • FOHBC digital newsletter and so much more. We encourage Affiliated Bottle Club memberships by offering these additional benefits to your group: • Display advertising in Bottles and Extras at an increased discount of 50%. • Insertion of your bottle club show ad on the Federation website to increase your show’s exposure. Links to your club website free of charge. Social Media (Facebook) exposure. • Free Federation ribbon for Most Educational display at your show. • Participation in the Federation sponsored insurance program for your club show and any other club sponsored activities. We need your support! Our continued existence is dependent upon your participation as well as expanding our membership. If you haven’t yet joined our organization, please do so and begin reaping the benefits. If you are already a member, please encourage your friends and fellow collectors to JOIN US!! For more information, questions, or to join the FOHBC, please contact: Linda Sheppard, PO Box 162, Sprakers, New York 12166; phone: 518.673.8833; email: jim1@frontiernet.net or visit our home page at FOHBC.org
Where there’s a will there’s a way to leave Donations to the FOHBC. Did you know the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors is a 501C(3) charitable organization? How does that affect you? It allows tax deductions for any and all donations to the FOHBC. You might also consider a bequest in your will to the FOHBC. This could be a certain amount of money or part or all of your bottle collection. The appraised value of your collection would be able to be deducted from your taxes. (This is not legal advice, please consult an attorney). The same type wording could be used for bequeathing your collection or part of it, however, before donating your collection (or part of it), you would need the collection appraised by a professional appraiser with knowledge of bottles and their market values. This is the amount that would be tax deductible. Thank you for considering the FOHBC in your donation plans.
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Individual & Affiliated Shards of Wisdom Club Information FOHBC Individual Membership Application For Membership, complete the following application or sign up at www.fohbc.org (Please Print) Do you wish to be listed in the printed membership directory? (name, address, phone number, email address and what you collect) { } Yes { } No
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Name_______________________________ Address_____________________________ City________________________State____ Zip _____________Country____________ Do you wish to be listed in the Telephone___________________________ online membership directory? E-mail Address_______________________ (name, address, phone number,
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Category: “WANTED” Maximum - 60 words Limit - One free ad per current membership year. Category: “FOR SALE” Maximum - 100 words Limit - 1 ad per issue. (Use extra paper if necessary.)
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Collecting Interests_ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Would you be interested in ___________________________________ serving as an officer? { } Yes { } No
Additional Comments___________________ Would you be interested ___________________________________ in contributing your bottle ___________________________________ knowledge by writing articles
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Membership/Subscription rates for one year (6 issues) (Circle One) United States - Standard Mail $40.00 - Standard Mail for three years $110.00 - First Class $55.00 - Digital Membership (electronic files only) $25.00
Canada - First Class $60.00 Other countries - First Class $80.00
- Life Membership: Level 1: $1,000, Includes all benefits of a regular First
Class membership. No promise of a printed magazine for life. - Level 2: $500, Includes all benefits of a regular membership but you will not receive a printed magazine, but rather a digital subscription. Add an Associate Membership* to any of the above at $5.00 for each associate for each year
Name(s) of Associate(s)______________________________________ *Associate Membership is available to members of the immediate family of any adult holding an Individual Membership. Children of ages 21 or older must have their own individual membership. Associate(s) Members enjoy all of the right and privledges of an Individual Membership
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Please make checks or money orders payable to FOHBC and mail to: FOHBC Membership, Elizabeth Meyer, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002 Effective 8/2015
Affiliated Club Membership for only $75.00 with liability insurance for all club sponsored events, 50% discount on advertising in the BOTTLES and EXTRAS, plus much more, Contact: Business Manager: Elizabeth Meyer, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; phone: (713) 222-7979; email: emeyer@fohbc.org
Clearly Print or Type Your Ad Send to: Business Manager: Elizabeth Meyer, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; ph: (713) 222-7979; or better yet, email Elizabeth at: emeyer@fohbc.org
Article Submission Requirements: All BOTTLES and EXTRAS articles or material need to be submitted on CD (preferable) or an email using a compressed (zipped) file. The file must be created by Microsoft Word, Publisher or Adobe N-Design so the editor does not have to retype the work. High-resolution digital images are our preferred format. Please submit digital images on a CD according to the instructions below. We will accept e-mail submissions only if the image resolution is acceptable. The e-mail or CDs must have only ONE subject per transmission to minimize confusion. Each image must be accompanied by a caption list or other identifying information. Professional-grade equipment is a must to achieve the size and quality image we require. The highest setting on the camera should be used for maximum resolution and file size. Only high quality images will be considered. Please do not send photographic prints or scans of images—the color and quality are generally not up to par compared with digital images or slides scanned by our imaging department. We will consider exceptions for photos that can’t be easily found, such as older historical images. We rarely use slides anymore and prefer not to receive submissions of slides due to the time and liability involved in handling them.
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Don’t miss our Auction #24 — opening November 6, 2019
American Glass Gallery
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Auction #24 will include a diverse selection of more than 300 lots featuring Historical Flasks, a fantastic selection of choice Bitters, Pontiled Medicines, rare Sodas and Mineral Water Bottles, Whiskeys and Spirits, Blown Glass, and much more! Also opening November 6 will be Part 6 of the Finch Collection of Target Balls, Traps and Shooting Ephemera. Full-color catalogs for this sale are only $15.00 (post-paid). Call, or visit our website to reserve your copy!
Watch for these fine items in our November 6, 2019 Auction #24.
American Glass Gallery • John R. Pastor • P.O. Box 227, New Hudson, Michigan 48165 phone: 248.486.0530 • www.americanglassgallery.com • email: jpastor@americanglassgallery.com
FOHBC C/O Elizabeth Meyer, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002
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Proudly offering the Best Bottles & glass in the World Pictured Left: Pattern Molded Vase, New England, 1840-1860. Twelve panels from base to mid body, bulbous form flaring to neck with dramatic outward tooled rim, brilliant amethyst, outward rolled rim - pontil scar, ht. 7 3/4 inches, greatest dia. 5 1/2 inches. Beautiful shading and exterior surface. Fine condition. One of the fine items offered in Norman C. Heckler & Companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Auction 184 November 11â&#x20AC;&#x201D;20, 2019 www.hecklerauction.com info@hecklerauction.com 860-974-1634 79 Bradford Corner Road, Woodstock Valley, CT 06282