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Table of Contents FOHBC Officer Listing 2012-14 . 2 FOHBC Club Contest Announcement.................................... 15 President’s Message .................... 3 The Big Dig of 2012 (part 2) FOHBC News .............................. 4 by Bill Baab.......................................... 17
Manchester 2013 “Collect Free or Die” by Michael George ...................... 52 Maloney’s Process - Researching the Sources by Mark Wiseman......................... 55
Shards of Wisdom .......................8 Privy Digathon, the Reality of Privy Digging. by Rick Weiner ..................................... 22 Classified Ads & Ad Rate Info ..63 How I got Started in Bottle Collecting by Mark Legare ...........................10 Arthur McGinnis and the Great Membership Directory ..............65 Whiskey Heist Who do I contact at the FOHBC. 11 by Jack Sullivan ................................... 32 FOHBC Show-Biz Show Calendar Listings .............67 Legends of the Jar - Bo Trimble Nevada, on the Surface by Bruce Schank ........................................38 by Jon Aurich. ............................. 12 Membership Application ................72 Antique Bottle Collecting Histories by Harvey S. Teal ................................. 43
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President’s Message Antique Club and thenew many ideas from drive ing. WeBottle will &beCollectibles announcing a major membership the membership about how to make a club stronger. Federation later this month that uses a 2,000-member target. We are Jeff Burkhardt, from Cedarburg, Wisconsin, even Ferdinand Meyer V member nearing 1,200 members now. So if you are a member, stay with rejoined the Wisconsin club after a 30-year absence! New us, ifclub youÕre are undecided, pleasenewsletters join! There so many bottle web sites, facebook pages, andare multiexciting things planned. Our magazine, Bottles and Extras, dimensional events like scavenger hunts, museum trips, bottle is undergoing a major face lift, we and haveglass a new web site, the digs, tavern hops and creative bottle displays seemby to be FMG Design, Inc. you trend read that this,could we will be 1,000 members on our antime exciting help turn the tide and boostplus individual 101 Crawford Street FOHBC facebook page,andthelocal FOHBC Virtual Museum is club membership, meetings show attendance. Studio 1A I am reminded that when first joined the hobby soon) and and we moving forward (look for aImajor announcement Houston, Texas 77002 Federation that I,our along with our Houston Bottle Show chair and of have just sent first digital newsletter to a large audience ferdinand@peachridgeglass.com Fed member Barbara Puckett, tried to get a Houston club meeting people. The new Federation, your FOHBC. As we put away holiday displays in January and say good-bye scheduled and was disappointed with only a handful of attendees We need new blood and persons to carry the torch. I will be It is early Sunday morning and I sit here reflecting at to football in February, most of us are thinking that Father Time in 2003. theofTexas and Houston area is rich inof your reaching outThough to some our membership for pictures TimoleonÕs Diner in quaint Keene, New Hampshire while back goes by so fast. Soon the seasons will change again and it will be collecting history, time has marched on. The economy, even back bottles, assistance on the web site, articles and stories for drinking some coffee to warm mebig upbottle (it is 45 outside, time to focus more intensely on the anddegrees glass shows and then, immense distances, business and personal commitments and Bottles and Extras, the web site, the newsletter and help on the chilly for a Texan). The Yankee of Bottle ShowRight starts events planned for the remainder this year. offhere the shortly bat in other factors certainly contribute to the logistics of having regular Virtual Museum. you would show like togrowing volunteer, in any area,isit and will be a fun conclusion to a long weekend of bottle events 2013, we saw exciting bottle shows in a number of cities across meetings. We do seeIfour Houston again, and that would be very much welcomed and appreciated. that started out with a gathering at Federation members Mark United States and now many of us are focusing on the great and encouraging. You will a newand section in the Bottles and and Annie VuonoÕs in Stamford, Connecticut Friday and popular annual Baltimore Bottle Show and Sale onon March 3. This One of thealso bestnotice comments, we heard thisfront often,ofwas that we Extrasinvolve calledand Letters toour theyouth, Editor. am not sure why this was show in many rights, has grown from to a regional to Woodan East should included the Heckler Columbus Daya city Hayfield event in engage theI next generation of antique Coast a national event, drawing many bottle fromthis bottle not there in some form We or another before but‘discount’ we reallybottle want to stock to Valley, Connecticut yesterday. I am enthusiasts thinking that and glass collectors. especially liked the across the country. This club its act together is a the model for idea to your spark stories the interest a young worked with mybetter. hear andofideas andcollector. how weIt can do things was the exact spot, two has years ago today,andthat great other clubs story to follow. course, I may be aof bitBottles biased as I am from granddaughter, Adriana, who is now a member thecall Antique You can send an e-mail, write a letterofor anyPoison board Feldmann that Of I retell in this issue and Extras, Baltimore, I am a club member and the Ravens won the Superbowl! Bottle Collectors Association (thank you, club members Tom and member, including myself at any time. Our contact information got its wings. I hope you enjoy the article and pictures. John By the way, you can get a comprehensive list of all the is in Booth). this magazine and on the web site. and Sheila are wonderful people that represent the foundation Alicia shows in the United States and many of the big ones overseas In the a world of digital and instant onlineofcommunication, we we In January/February 2013 issue Bottles and Extras, and cornerstone of our great hobby. on the FOHBC.org website. You also can see the latest must not forget the value of our people, what they know and our will be starting a two-page Regional Overview section where What a whirlwind of FOHBC events since our Antique great EXPO information regarding the National Bottlein late history. Get creative. Think outside of the box. The collectors we will highlight incoming information from the four regions July ininReno, Nevada. Every time I on think this event, Show Manchester, New Hampshire Julyof20-21. It’s theI am are out there. Let us give them options to stimulate membership. that make up the Federation midwest and reminded of how grateful I am, and we all should be, of Marty first Federation national show ever held in New England! The Speaking of the digital world, did(northeast, you know southern, that the FOHBC western). If you have material please forward to your Hall, Richard Siri, the Reno Bottle Club and the legions of Manchester information on the web site is updated often and facebook page is now up to 1,550 plus likes and followers?Regional Director.This If you visit thelike weba club site or received newsletter, helpers pulled off latest this mega Marty even reported you can that always get the news event. on table procurement (there a Amazing. is somewhat itself, isn’t it?our With you willand seevisitors that Regional is now appearing in aitdifferent are not financial many left),success hotel reservations, show times, the auction, strong that demonstrates yet again, that our members from allNews over the would, I would say is. seminars, banquet, bottle stronger battle andand so much more. forward. This is going and please more refreshing formatfor in an these venues too. organization is getting marching The Also, be on the lookout updated plan of action that is to be aFOHBC super one, folks. Interest has been so highHampshire since FOHBC compiled byas a prominent Federation are only strong as our weakestmember link. I on useideas this and expres2013 National in Manchester, New next beingWe Conventions Director Tom Phillips announced this locale with tips on how to start and maintain a bottle club. sion often in business and in my general conversations with year is progressing smoothly with a majority of the tables chairs Michael George and Maureen Crawford heading up the In another direction, your FOHBC is also now taking a people. Keep an open mind, be positive, and try to help, give already being sold. Lexington, Kentucky will be our location effort. Finalize your show and travel plans now as July will be advancedcriticism and far-reaching roleforward. in education andand historical constructive and move Smile someone for the 2014 National, so make your plans here, too. You can more here before you know it. I would specifically like to suggest, archiving. We plan on contacting the many glass museums to Step will smile back to you. Listen and you will hear a story. get information for both events by visiting our website, if you haven’t already, that you make your hotel reservations, try to foster a relationship that will be mutually beneficial for all forward and tell a story. Look at your collection and find that FOHBC.org. Tom (legendary Phillips, our Conventions Director, banquet reservation historical flask authority Markwas involved. Just this past week or so, we have made plans to send bottle or link. This is what it is all about. Our best asset even inwill the be southeast week venues for theif2015 allmissing Vuono giving athis talk), planlooking for earlyatbird admission past issues of Bottles and Extras to the New Bedford Museum is all of our great National. It was not too long ago that we were much more it applies and consider consigning bottles to Jim Hagenbuch of Glass and we havemembers. forwarded bottle images to the Smithsonian I am also looking to is theexciting! great 49er Bottle Show in short-sighted. Now with this advance planning and public and Glass Works Auctions for the auction planned on Saturday National Postal Museum.forward Now that Old Town Auburn, California in December. usually go to announcements, we can stake our claim on a take date much that will help evening. For the most part, all of these events advance We also wonder what our readers think of theWe various reality the Festival of Lights parade our eachcollector year after theand show. We love planning andchairmen it helps usdecide better when forecast crowd plan As for an the show other show to our hold theirand events. outfits that are contacting base asking specific event. it because dogs,ongoats, people all are aside, did you know that there were nine bottle shows this about putting the theirhorses, collections television. Youand can trucks also read We areincluding also thankful all of our and hobby collectors this further on ourfor Federation webRemember, site and within this issue adorned with lights Christmas. a show is so weekend, onetoacross themembers pond? Our is so about submitting constructive comments and suggestions regarding the in the FOHBC News section. This is really a hot topic that has much better if you make it an experience. While you are at a strong. I see the glimmer of change even with our shows. LetÕs era of the dwindling bottle club and what we all can do to turn really generating some interesting comments. show, visit a collection, go to a museum, have dinner with a promote more and grow our hobby. Bring people to the shows. the tables. A few of the communications have been highlighted everyone speak all talk andmany communicate. bottleSo friend, go on a digout, etc.let’s There are so things youWe can Bottles, glass and positive change are contagious. in the FOHBC News section on page 4 of this issue. We are are all in this together and are bound by our love of old do to stay connected with our great hobby. Make itbottles a multialso especially pleased to see the resurrection of the Wisconsin and glass. Stay warm, too; spring will be here soon.
Federation membership is also drastically up which is excit-
dimensional experience. Happy autumn and winter.
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Just some thoughts from a strategist. . . Just some thoughts from a strategist. . .
As promised, some more thoughts on the January/February "Presidents Asthoughts I said in on mythe December note, As promised,Message." some more January/February well done, indeed. "Presidents Message." As I said in my December note, well done, indeed. My thoughts are on the "aging-out" of the collector base. Remember I asked at Heckler's you thought My thoughtswhen are on the "aging-out" ofwhat the collector base.the average bottle price was at all the tables at you all the showsthe Remember when I asked Heckler's what thought across the U.S.? Wewas guessed $30, at which I thought average bottle price at allabout the tables all the shows was about right ifWe you throw about out the$30, oddwhich $6K bottle and across the U.S.? guessed I thought the junk Sure,out thatthe means therebottle are a and lot of was about50-cent right ifboxes. you throw odd $6K under $30 bottles, but how many wellthere under and the junk 50-cent boxes. Sure, that are means are$30 a lot of attractive enough to collect? under $30 bottles, but how many are well under $30 and attractive enough to collect? Your message mentioned everything but money. More oftenmessage than not,mentioned that is a key barrier tobut young collectors Your everything money. More (we're not talking about the 20-something demographic often than not, that is a key barrier to young collectors -more the heard Charlie Gardner had said (we're not9-12-year-olds). talking about theI 20-something demographic -"always the most expensive you can afford." more the buy 9-12-year-olds). I heardbottle Charlie Gardner had said The key buy word "afford." Today's average doesn't "always theis most expensive bottle you family can afford." havekey a lot of discretionary spending money,family and the The word is "afford." Today's average doesn't average is where the largest base of potential have a lotfamily of discretionary spending money, and the collectors are. In often have make a average family is addition, where thekids largest base of to potential choice on are. whatInthey can have; latest version of a game, collectors addition, kids the often have to make or money for bottles. Most willthe choose game,ofprobably, choice on what they can have; latestthe version a game, butmoney for those choose let's find a way to make or for who bottles. Mostbottles, will choose the game, probably, them affordable. Without that incentive (for parents also) but for those who choose bottles, let's find a way to make it's tough to overcome even $15 price (for tag for kid funding them affordable. Without thata incentive parents also) his tough own way, or looking to Mom Dad, it's to overcome even a $15and price tag or forUncle kid funding Dudley. his own way, or looking to Mom and Dad, or Uncle Dudley. My suggestion is this: dealers at shows and club meetings needsuggestion to bring good bottles (notatjunk thatand even themeetings beginMy is this: dealers shows club ners quickly is not a(not rewarding forthe thebeginmost need to bring realize good bottles junk thatroad even part)quickly and putrealize honestisprices them, BUT a "young ners not a on rewarding roadhave for the most collector" price in mind. if theyBUT break even on the part) and put honest pricesEven on them, have a "young bottle, or lose a few bucks, so what? I've done this collector" price in mind. Even if they break even onwith the some of but it issoanwhat? investment in the bottle, ormy losebottles, a few bucks, I've done thishobby. with If collectors dealers theinvestment country start to pick up If on some of myand bottles, butacross it is an in the hobby. this, it just may gain momentum. Another thing to recogcollectors and dealers across the country start to pick up on nize itisjust thatmay while youmomentum. are trying toAnother drive membership, this, gain thing to recogstimulating new and collectors not result in nize is that while youyounger are trying to drive may membership, them joining, but the odds increase. If bottle-collecting stimulating new and younger collectors may not result in them joining, but the odds increase. If bottle-collecting
websites (personal, clubs, non-FOHBC related) all starting talking about making beginner level bottles websites (personal, clubs, non-FOHBC related) all affordable; well,about who making knows whether starting talking beginnerclub levelmemberships bottles might grow? So, who you want younger make affordable; well, knowsnew, whether clubcollectors, memberships it affordable to participate. might grow? for So, them you want new, younger collectors, make it affordable for them to participate. Just some thoughts from a strategist. . .Take care Just some thoughts from a strategist. . .Take care Ken Previtali Ken Previtali Danbury, CT
More on Tom's plea for ideas to help More on Tom's plea for ideas to help save their dwindling club save their dwindling club
I read with interest your message to the membership and plea interest for ideasyour to help save their club. As ITom's read with message to thedwindling membership and a teenager early mytheir interest in antique Tom's plea in forthe ideas to 1970s, help save dwindling club. As developed after1970s, findingmy shards of old glass in the abottles teenager in the early interest in antique mountains where I lived. During those years, bottles could bottles developed after finding shards of old glass in the still be found in the gullies behind old farm mountains where I lived. During those years,houses. bottles For could two be reasons children ofbehind today'sold generation are unlikely still foundthe in the gullies farm houses. For to bereasons found wading through the poison oak looking for old two the children of today's generation are unlikely bottles. First, they would have success at finding to be found wading through thelittle poison oak looking for old anythingFirst, and they second, times have changed todayﾃ不 bottles. would have little successand at finding technology to have their attention. anything andseems second, timescaptured have changed and todayﾃ不 technology seems to have captured their attention. Bottle shows in the 70s were far better than today. I have vivid memories of bottles thatfarwere exhibited in member Bottle shows in the 70s were better than today. I have displays. Collectors, myself included, spent hours or even vivid memories of bottles that were exhibited in member days creating elaborate displays of their favorite displays. Collectors, myself included, spent hoursbottles or even and these displays lineddisplays the entire of the showdays creating elaborate of perimeter their favorite bottles room. Most of the bottles offered at the early shows were and these displays lined the entire perimeter of the showrecently dugofand inexpensive. Newly dug were room. Most therelatively bottles offered at the early shows bottles are rarityrelatively today and what one now finds at the recently duga and inexpensive. Newly dug shows has usually been carted from one show to the next. bottles are a rarity today and what one now finds at the If a good is found today,from it rarely onto shows hasbottle usually been carted one finds showits to way the next. a sales table; instead, it istoday, pre-sold, oftenfinds fetching tensonto of If a good bottle is found it rarely its way of instead, dollars. it I still go to shows in general athousands sales table; is pre-sold, oftenbut fetching tens they of are a disappointment. fabulous collection now be thousands of dollars. I A still go to shows but incan general they amassed in a relatively period of time can if one hasbethe are a disappointment. A short fabulous collection now financialin means to buy short entireperiod collections that ourthe amassed a relatively of time if took one has generation decades to put together. financial means to buy entire collections that took our generation decades to put together. So how are we going to keep the bottle collecting hobby from going down the to same othercollecting hobbies like coin So how are we going keeppath theas bottle hobby from going down the same path as other hobbies like coin
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or stamp collecting? I don't think it is possible, simply because, like in those hobbies, old stuff is rarely found in today's circulation. That is the evolution of collecting. There are avenues that exist today that do make the hobby more accessible to the masses and these include eBay, the many bottle auction sites, and use of the internet to obtain information. To keep up my interest in the hobby, I have turned to research. The history behind these bottles can be fascinating and I would encourage all collectors to spend the time researching what they collect. I have written articles for publication in Bottles and Extras and put together displays for major shows (most recently at the 2012 Expo show). Our children and grandchildren need to be encouraged to collect. As an organization we need to promote our hobby at shows, on the media, through the internet and if possible in the schools. Designing a curriculum that could be used by teachers to stimulate the studentsÕ interest in history would be a great idea for our organization. As a student, I found most history classes to be quite boring until I found a teacher who could present information in a fun and interesting way.
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in 1902 and showed me how the bottles were made. By 1956, we were in Woodland Hills, California and I filled the roof of my dadÕs new workshop with bottle racks full of bottles. All were cataloged with copper tags with copper wire around the necks. DadÕs shop was 20 ft. by 20 ft. By 1954, a museum director in San Diego said I should catalog all my bottles, insulators etc, so I did and the catalog goes back to 1951. Still have it. I can write you a story with photos. Rurik Kallis (San Andreas, CA)
Sincerely, Ken Morrill (Carralitos, CA)
My Earliest Experience at Bottle Collecting My earliest experience at bottle collecting and digging bottles was in Phoenix, Arizona in first grade, my 19431944 school year. Our house was built on the site of a former dump in 1943. By digging trenches in the back yard, I ran into old bottles. My dad bought me a small shovel. I have a photo of me digging in 1944. My first grade teacher gave me a token for Green River Whiskey, which I still have. She got it as a child around 1910. I still have a plain pumpkin seed flask I got at the time. While in Phoenix, the great grandmother of the children next door gave me a perfume bottle she got in 1880. She being born in 1860, told us kids about seeing Abraham Lincoln in his second inaugural parade in 1864 at age four. Her father held her above his head and she saw Lincoln go by in an open carriage. By November 1944, we were in Denver, Colorado. I dug one whiskey flask there. Then no more bottle collecting till 1951 in Jr. High in San Diego, California. I and another kid used to go out on our bikes with shovels, small hatchet, clippers and dig old dumps. By 1952, I built racks with wood dowels to put bottles on to turn them purple on the roof of my parentsÕ back yard shed. The only book I found on bottles was McKearins. A neighbor, born 1890, spent time as a boy in a glass works
Michael Dolcini Dear FOHBC Board of Directors: Thank you so much for the beautiful bouquet sent in Mike's honor (pictured above). We really appreciate your kind thoughts. Mike would be proud that so many bottle guys were there and said such great things about him there and online. All these kind words will get us through this difficult time. Thanks again, Jane, Kelly and Alison
My Lucky Friday Thank you for your welcoming email. I believe that I will now view yesterday when I joined the FOHBC as "my lucky Friday." I have visited your FOHBC, Peachridge Glass and FMG Design site and I am so impressed. I see I will have a lot of reading to do on all of the sites. I am retired from higher education and live in the "so-called Kenney Bottom" between Bellville and Brenham (Texas). I am an antique dealer of sorts.....have been since the early 90s. I have carried old bottles off and on in my space at Northing Ordinary in Bellville, but have decided in the last few months to do them justice. So I
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have been buying on Ebsy and Ebay......nothing that expensive as the business has been slow in the last few years. I am also a genealogist and have traveled to the Netherlands, Germany, and Hungary doing research.....am also one of three main authors of the Wharton County Pictorial History - 1846-1946. It was a very long labor of love and devotion. I am also an artist of sorts. My husband died last year in May as the result of a tree cutting accident. He was a knife maker and wood carver. We have 18 acres and a beautiful two-story Texas home and two-story red barn. I am staying on and will continue to do what we did here for over 12 years. Our daughter Kira graduated from Texas A&M in 1993 with a Bachelor of Environmental Design degree and she and her husband Chris live in Houston. I realize you did not ask for my life history, but I do want to know more about the "world of old bottles" and this may give you an insight about me and my interests. I look forward to receiving the Bottles and Extras magazine. Thank you again for your email. Best regards, Jan (Bellville, TX)
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meeting to elect officers like he wasnÕt most meetings. I agreed as long as I was allowed to improve the club. ALL change was resisted and I was resisted with aggression. Now four years later, change has won. Sadly, it literally took a couple of very negative people falling away and even a couple passing away, BUT we are moving forward. The club is putting on two club hunts and a pickersÕ event where members buy at a flea market and resell on eBayÉLargest profit wins a cash prize. We are adding a second club show AND for the first time we are welcoming new members. Some collectors didnÕt want competition, some wanted control and some just didnÕt want change. We are at the dawn of a renaissance, my friend. I look forward to getting to know what the Federation is about and in participating as I can. The steps we are taking right now are revitalizing collecting in Wisconsin. Pretty soon, there will be a very connected community in Wisconsin who actually know and care who others are. Steve Libby (Milwaukee Antique Bottle & Collectibles Club President) [EditorÕs Note: Visit the FOHBC website for more information on the Wisconsin club and Steve Libby. Thank you to Jeff Burkhardt for bringing this to our attention and rejoining his club after a 30-year absence!]
Resurrection of the Milwaukee Antique Bottle & Collectibles Club Imagine having a local club where Jeff (Burkhardt) lives and not having Jeff want to be a member or really even see any value in being a member. Sad and sadly not understood by the people who used to lead our club. A lot of great people are stepping out of the shadows to contribute. I will be joining FOHBC. I will propose the club joining at our next club meeting. I am in money battles right now and our show is FebruaryÉBank empty on first full on 28th. Or maybe in March. One of the things that held our club back for the last ten years was the absolute unwillingness to consider change, much less participate in it. I joined our club maybe eight years ago and really saw no value in it other than the ability to see member collections and thereby the objects I would never see any other way. That we have many collectors of JeffÕs magnitude who have been sitting on the sidelines for decades is demonstrative of how bad it has been. I have slowly pushed to improve the club and was nominated for president under the pretence that it was my turn three years ago when the sitting president wasnÕt at the
The New Bedford Museum of Glass I was speaking with our mutual friend Ken Previtali at a recent glass lecture in Connecticut (Thomas Haunton's talk on Clevenger glass), and he suggested that I get in touch with you relative to a library development project currently underway at the New Bedford Museum of Glass. Our museum was opened to the public two years ago (www.nbmog.org), and among our various projects we are working to expand our glass research library. Currently it numbers some 9,500 publications, but we are missing many back issues of newsletters, etc., published by glass collecting organizations. Several months ago we were
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contacted by the Early American Pattern Glass Society, which wanted to add us to their newsletter mailing list as a way to publicize their organization. I asked them about back issues, and a query published in their most recent issue allowed us to assemble a full set received from their generous members. Inspired by this success, we are approaching other organizations, including the Greentown Glass Assoc., the Vaseline Glass Collectors, the Antique Glass Salt and Sugar Shaker Club, the Paperweight Collectors Association, and the National Toothpick Holder Collectors' Society. Oh yes, and also the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors. Do you think the Federation would be willing to add our museum to its mailing list and help us to assemble a set of the Bottles & Extras publication? Whether or not this is possible, we would be happy to add a link to your organization on our website. I look forward to hearing from you, and hope you might be able to stop in to see the new glass museum, should your travels bring you out this way. Sincerely, Kirk J. Nelson President and Executive Director New Bedford Museum of Glass 61 Wamsutta St. New Bedford, MA 02740 508-984-1666 www.nbmog.org
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able to include a poison bottle collection in the show. HereÕs some info about the show: In each of 14 half-hour episodes, weÕll visit a different city/region to meet four different collectors. Our pilot episode took place in Los Angeles and featured collectors of die cast toys, antique hats and hat boxes, Wonder Woman memorabilia, and several hundred snow globes amassed by actor Corben Bernsen of ÒL.A. Law.Ó We are based in Toronto and the show will initially be shown on the Slice Network across Canada. (ÒSliceÓ is like Òslice of life.Ó) Most Canadian series are eventually sold and shown all over the world and we expect that to be the case for ÒCollectors.Ó ÒCollectorsÓ is hosted by a highly knowledgeable collector-appraiser with over 30 years of experience including multiple years as an expert on ÒAntiques Roadshow.Ó Participants who appear on the show are compensated financially for their time ($750 U.S.) and are furnished with a video record of their collection in the form of a DVD of their episode. WeÕre seeking people with extensive home-based collections (as opposed to people with private museums or retail outlets). All of the collections weÕve filmed have been very nicely displayed whether the collector lived in a modest apartment or grand home. While itÕs not the focus on the show, the collector should be comfortable with having our host estimate its total value. Given that the collections we showcase are highly valuable (so far they range from $20K to $10 million) collectorsÕ privacy is maintained by referring to them on the program by first name only, and providing viewers with only the most general information about where in the country they live. The cities we will be travelling to first are Dallas, Miami and Las Vegas, but I would happy to hear from any collector in the U.S. or Canada who thinks they might be a good fit for the series. Thanks very much and best regards, Catherine May, Architect Films ((Toronto)
Keep those Communications Coming! Thanks for the nice chat this afternoon. HereÕs the info for your members. My name is Catherine May and I work for a television series called ÒCollectorsÓ that celebrates collectors and collections all over North America. I would love to be
We also encourage your letters and e-mails on any subject. Our strength is in our membership and the great ideas and thoughts that keep us moving forward. Please visit FOHBC.org for more information and material on these posts and others as the site is constantly updated.]
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Crusader Against Glassware Trickery As the original publishers of Bottles and Extras, Scott Grandstaff and Kitty Roach got everything from hate mail to folks trying to make fast and illegal bucks. “One of the most fun times was when a guy started selling fake salt jars,” Scott recalled. “These looked like genuine whimsey salt jars made from cornucopia and eagle historical flasks. In fact, they were genuine bottles that had been re-heated and expanded into whimseys 20 more times valuable than the flasks. “They spread out fast and wide, going through shows and auctions like lightning, at $4,000 to $6,000 a pop. We started hearing about them in drips and drabs, and there were just too many of them showing up to be real. “So I got hot, turned my hat around and got on the phone, calling fast and far. I tracked back each transaction I could find out about like ‘Scoop McGrue,’ until I tracked it all back to one guy from L.A. “Turns out he had taken authentic flasks down to Mexico to an old-fashioned, hand-blown glass shop and they were able to re-heat and re-tool the bottles and anneal them properly without breaking them. (that process was at
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the time thought impossible to do). “Got the confession, got the apology, wrote the story. “In a few days’ time, every transaction was reversed and all the money and all the bottles were back where they started. It was one of the few times I actually knew I had been of value to the community of bottle collectors.” — BILL BAAB
Pottery Repair While attending Norm Heckler’s Fall Bottle Fest, I visited an antique shop in Putnam, Conn., where I found a 3 gal. A.K. Ballard Bennington Vt., Jug with beautiful cobalt grapes. It was busted in a dozen pieces. I purchased it for $12.00 and sent it to a pottery repairer in N.Y.. He masterfully repaired the jug to its beautiful original condition. I want to pass this info on to my fellow Federation members. I highly recommend Jim. He is reasonable with his price also. Here is Jim’s contact information. Jim Healy, P.O. Box 312, Tribes Hill, NY 12177 Best Regards to all. Gary Beatty, FOHBC Treasurer
Bottle expert extraordinaire Matthew Levanti will assist the Editor with Shards of Wisdom, so send in your news or bottle updates to: Matthew T. Levanti, 700 Skyline Ct. Placerville, Ca, 95667 m.tigue-levanti@hotmail.com
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Saturday, September 28th, 2013 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Collectors from 25 States Early Admission Available
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from this) In the early 1970s, he sold me a F. Brown Boston/ Sarsaparilla & Tomato Bitters for $32. I still have it. I also dug four of the Cuticura for Constitutional Humors bottles. Soon, there was a whole gang digging there. Some of them were retired and had more time to dig. I started digging under the roots of a huge maple tree. I was able to tunnel under it. Later, I went back and found the tree had tipped over. There were eight or nine trees and all of them eventually fell. I dug my first GreeleyÕs Bourbon Bitters barrel in the dump, which covers a quarter of an acre and is eight or nine feet deep. One time, I was digging a hole and standing on a pile of glass. I started scraping away and found a four-log DrakeÕs Plantation Bitters. I thought it was an ashtray! It was broken, but I found a whole one later. A Success to the Railroad historical flask came out. It was a great dump!
How I got started in Bottle Collecting
I had an awful scare once. There was a pile of coal above the hole and it started sliding into the hole. I couldnÕt move. I took my hands and carefully dug myself out. It took an hour or more. I left my shovel buried under that stuff. As soon as I got out, I went home. I was so scared!
It all started when I was going down to Merrimac
Owner of the property was a lunchroom lady at the grammar school. Her daughter came by on a bike, saw the toppled trees and told her mother. She got mad and called the police. I was a minor (16) and they couldnÕt do anything.
River to dig mud worms for fish bait. I didnÕt realize I was on a dump that had closed in 1904. As soon as I started to dig, I found an aqua bottle with a ring around the neck. Another one popped up and I picked up worms at the same time. I found a wine bottle with a kick-up. I kept digging, going down 1-1/2 feet. I couldnÕt believe what was there Ð ink wells, inks. I took them all home and started to wash them off in our kitchen sink. Later, I dug a case gin and then a WarnerÕs Safe Cure came up. Holy cripe! What the (expletive deleted) am I doing here? The hole got bigger and I started to run into pontiled stuff. I kept going and going. I had the hole bigger than a manhole cover. This was taking place more than 40 years ago. I was a teenager and still in school. I am 61 now and retired on a disability. I told a few people and they all started getting into the hole. I learned a bottle show was going to be held in Laconia, N.H., and I met Dr. Burton Spiller at the show. (Dr. Spiller is a member of the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors Hall of Fame). I had taken a few bottles and remember selling him a Dr. SpillerÕs Golden Hair Balsam, a common bottle, for 7 or 8 bucks. (Those who know what Burt looks like today will get a chuckle
I had gotten three yearsÕ worth of digging out of it. I used to put my bottles in a basket on my English bike and carry them home. Later, I started going to bottle shows and buying for my collection. I bought another barrel, a Dr. RobackÕs Stomach Bitters and later I found a Dr. Stephen JewettÕs Celebrated Health Restoring Bitters from Rindge, N.H. I wound up selling it for $1,500 and later wished I still had it. So I called (dealer) Norman Heckler and he came up with one in olive green. I was disappointed because it was not in the ÒStoddard color.Ó (Note: The Carlyn Ring Ð W.C. (Bill) Ham Bitters Bottles book lists olive green as Òextremely rare.Ó) Bill Ham owns that bottle today. (Ham also is a member of the FOHBC Hall of Fame). The dump is still there, but now itÕs been planted with grass and looks like a golf course. IÕve been talking to a son of the property owner, urging him to get a backhoe backhoe and and letÕs dig out whatÕs left of the dump.
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“NEVADA, “ON THE SURFACE”
“We drove to a ghost town called Oriental (1870-1895) which is very desolate, the type of area you would like to find that has not been looked over for artifacts. There are no traces of any structures, just mine tailings.” Surface Finds
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The first place to visit was Goldfield, a semi ghost town filled with its share of mining history. We spent the first day in and around Goldfield to find not much of anything of interest. We stayed the night at the Florence mine which I own. There is a house on the mine property that was built in 1905 and is furnished with antiques and mining memorabilia from over a hundred years ago. It has all the comforts of a city home – electricity, gas, heat, water and sewer. The mine sits on a hill overlooking the city. The next day we drove to a ghost town called Oriental (1870-1895) which is very desolate, the type of area you would like to find that has not been looked over for artifacts. There are no traces of any structures, just mine tailings. We spent about three hours there, looking around the tailing piles of some of the old mines and did not find anything of interest so we looked outside of the camp and stumbled upon what looked like a single prospector’s
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camp. It consisted of a few rusty cans and four bottles, two unembossed sun-colored medicines, a deep purple pumpkinseed half-pint flask and a crown top quart beer, all just laying on the surface! It was getting late, around 4 p.m., so we drove about 130 miles to Caliente, an old railroad town, and stayed the night. The next morning we had breakfast and started out to another fairly desolite place called Delamar. The area around the mining district is very rocky and I can see why embossed medicines from this town are so rare. There was not many places to toss them without breaking them! Just outside of the town, which is very picturesque and still has a lot of its old stone buildings, we had to put the jeep in 4-wheel drive low and headed to a mountain gorge where the old grown-over road was like a mountain goat trail! We drove as far as we could and had to stop because the trail was washed out with large rocks exposed. As we were walking a few hundred feet past the washout, I noticed a small tailing pile from a mine that was down a small gorge and looked around. I came across some pinion pine trees and noticed under one of them there was a sun-colored jelly jar half buried in the pinion pine needles. I also found sticking out of the needles the neck of a whiskey bottle which was broken when I pulled it out. I noticed some cans that were also half buried
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in the needles and found a dried out tree branch which I used to move around the deep needles of the tree. As I was combing the area under the tree, up popped out a John Shier fiveinch-long medicine that was whole and undamaged! Finding that bottle was like finding a $20 gold piece. The bottle is embossed John Shier / Pharmacy/ mortar & pestle symbol / Delamar / Nevada. It’s light lavender in color and rectangular in shape. It’s also very rare and worth an estimated $1,000 to $1,500, about the value of the gold piece. So, my three-day jaunt with my 5-year-old son in the great desolite mining districts of Nevada was a treasure in itself, but finding the treasures of Nevada still on the surface is priceless! x EDITOR’S NOTE: Thanks to Nevada bottle authority Bob Ferraro for James and Jon holding their favorite find of the day! describing the Shier bottle.
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finds dominated our first day back (May 20) after our picks on the Big Dig of 2012, while bottle finds were sparse. Our friend Walter Smith joined Mike Newman, Pat Oliver, Bob Riddick, Jerry Newton and I on a day when strong winds kept the 85-degree day comfortable. The first jug to emerge was a blue-stenciled Allaire, Woodward & Co. / Pharmaceutical Chemists / Peoria, Ill. Walter collects pharmacy jugs and was drooling over this one-gallon beauty. Two “buggy jugs” followed. These gallon jugs have wide bases and were designed to not tip over on the buggy seat, similar to so-called “captain’s bottles” (onion bottles) used aboard early sailing ships. The jugs were attributed to the Miles Mills Pottery in Aiken County, S.C. A one-gallon William F. Hahn stacker jug with a beautiful alkaline glaze was found. It was not signed, but the glaze and style identified it for what it is. Hahn’s pottery was near present day Trenton, S.C., in Edgefield County. Eight one-gallon stackers attributed to W.F. Hahn’s son, Thomas, whose pottery was located on the banks of the Savannah River near present day North Augusta, S.C., were dug. A wax sealer storage jar was spotted at the top of the dirt pile by Mike and a deft touch of the backhoe bucket by Jerry caused it to roll into Mike’s waiting hands. Also found was an intact cup with a design showing it came from the Albion Hotel in Augusta, managed by Bryan Lawrence. The hotel burned in 1921 in the second of two fires that devastated downtown Augusta. Sodas found included two Augusta CheroColas, one embossed with the early old English-style script, the other in block lettering; 11 straightsided Augusta Cokes; a scarce clear E. Sheehan / Bottler / Augusta, Ga., crown top; two straightsided Augusta Pepsis; an aqua E. Sheehan / 1880 / Augusta, Ga., blobtop with a chipped top; three Dixie Carbonating Co., Augusta crown tops and a Baldowski Bottling Works crown top, also from Augusta. Just five drug store bottles emerged, all clear: Cabaniss, LAND, C.T., Goetchius & Bro. (2) and Gardelle. A tall amber (and rare) Augusta Brewing Co., in a slug plate blobtop was followed by an Augusta Brewing Co., pint crown, an Augusta Brewing Co., Hutchinson and a Savannah
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Brewing Co., crown top. Miscellaneous finds included a Top Flite golf ball (after all, Augusta is known for its golf, thanks to the Masters Tournament), a cobalt quart Stafford’s master ink and two AUGUSTA BLOCK paver bricks. The golf ball was orange, probably coming from a Putt-Putt course somewhere. Golfers who live in the snow zone sometimes use such things. While we do occasionally have snow, it usually doesn’t fall during golf season. May 27, 2012: Finds are beginning to get sparse as our great adventure starts winding down. We may have another month or three of digging before it’s over. Six straight-sided Augusta Cokes were joined by three Dixie Carbonating Co., crowns, two Chero-Colas and two Hires Root Beers. A straight-sided Augusta Pepsi, a Baldowski Bottling Works crown top, an E. Sheehan crown top and a 1915 Coke followed. Only other things worth mentioning were seven stacker jugs attributed to Thomas Hahn, of North Augusta, S.C., and another signed in small block lettering, HAHN. May 28, 2012: Our Memorial Day half-day dig was a washout, with an Athens, Ga., vertically embossed Bludwine the lone bottle of note. One good Hahn stacker and a couple of damaged others made up the finds. June 10, 2012: Eight straight-sided Cokes, a straight-sided Pepsi and two Bludwines, all from Augusta, were the sodas found on a day of hit or miss
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Top: Pitcher decorated with barn swallows emerged from deep in the dump Bottom: Rebecca at the well teapot missing its spout, top. It was manufactured locally at the S.C. Pottery Co. Works (Photos by Bea Baab)
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showers. Five local drug store bottles (Gardelle (2), Matheny, Tessier’s, Goetchius & Bro., and a LAND came out of the ground. An amber crown top from Orange (N.J.?) Brewery was the lone beer, unless you count a lone ceramic ginger beer stenciled with a capital A and “Double Brewed.” The Robinson Pottery stamp on the bottle looks like Akron, Ohio, making it the first of its kind to be dug by us. I contacted my friend, Bill Williams, an authority on ginger beer, and he indicated it was from the Salt City Bottling Works in Syracuse, N.Y. Rest of the pottery finds included a plain brown and white one-gallon, machine-made jug; three Thomas Hahn stackers, a round-shouldered jug of undetermined origin and another attributed to Miles Mill in Aiken County, S.C. Two unmarked master inks were joined by another Albion Hotel creamer, sans handle. Also uncovered were a number of bricks stamped STEVENS. The Stevens Pottery Co., operated outside Milledgeville, Georgia from just after the Civil War until the 1960s. They made utilitarian pottery like churns, whiskey jugs and even mini jugs, but that ended about 1900. Then they made fire bricks (I have one stamped STEVENS VOLCANO), tiles, sewer and water pipes and jardinieres for garden use. June 17, 2012: Three straight-sided Cokes and a CheroCola from Moultrie, Ga., made up the list of sodas found on a hot day with air temperatures in the upper 80s. Just three drug store bottles (Cabaniss, LAND and Matheny) emerged from a section of the dump in which finds have been rather sparse. A whole Frog Pond Chill & Fever Cure joined two broken examples with a Globe Medicine Co., bottle from Spartanburg, S.C. Miscellaneous bottles included an olive green example with an applied top embossed A & F Pears / London. Where did that come from? Remains of a Pepsi-Cola crate stencil were found (only the Cola and 5 (cents) remained. A shattered Augusta & Savannah John Ryan cobalt blobtop was found among a pile of broken straight-sided Cokes. We’ve dug a number of porcelain creamers marked Genesta Hotel. A large fragment of a storage jar with the Genesta name also was found. I guess one could make a decent collection of hotel ware from early Augusta businesses. . Five stackers including one stamped HAHN and another stamped R.B. joined the crowd stowed in a locked warehouse room. According to the Index of Southern Potters, Robert Boyles potted in Union County, S.C., during the late teens and early 20s. We’ve found at least one other of his Albany slip-glazed stackers on this dig. The HAHN was turned by Thomas Hahn of what is now North Augusta, S.C., during the 1890s No digging was scheduled for June 24 because Mike was out of town. July 1, 2012: Today’s weather forecast calls for temperatures to soar above 100 degrees (Fahrenheit). So
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we’re meeting at 7 a.m., for a half-day dig, after which we’ll head to our air-conditioned homes. We dug in an area that hasn’t been too productive as far as numbers go. Four stacker jugs made by Thomas Hahn quickly came out and then things slowed. Toward the end of the dig, an unmarked Hahn Pottery Works wax sealer emerged and then Bob Riddick spotted a Bristol-glazed merchant’s jug. The one-gallon jug was stamped in blue, M.J. DOWNEY & CO. / WHOLESALE AND RETAIL / WINES AND LIQUORS / 916 BROADWAY / AUGUSTA, GA. Broadway was a high-falutin’ name for Broad Street adopted by City Council in the late 1890s. It eventually reverted to its original name during the early 1900s. Jugs from a halfgallon to 5 gallons exist. Keeper bottles were again sparse and included a straight-sided Augusta Pepsi, five straight-sided Augusta Cokes, an Augusta Bludwine and an E. (For Eugene) A. Fagan clear crown top. Three LANDs, a Gardelle and a T.G. Howard were the lone drug store bottles. A cobalt Wyeth dose bottle was the only miscellaneous article found before the dig wound up about12:30 p.m. July 8, 2012: The Mother Lode of “As You Like It” horse radish jars – 39 in all – emerged from just a few feet down at the start of the dig. Nine ceramic tops for the Weir jars also were found. None of the jars were stenciled with that motto, leading us to believe they were later models that sported paper labels. A double-collared ovoid jug dating to perhaps the 1850s-60s and probably manufactured by one of the Pottersville (present day Edgefield, S.C.) potters popped up when least expected. A ceramic master ink and a porcelain Albion Hotel creamer also were found. Ceramic finds also included two sizes of jugs stenciled “The Greybeard Heather Dew” whiskey from the United Kingdom. Each had some damage. Ten straight-sided Cokes from Augusta and another in clear glass with no city name were joined by drug store bottles from T.G. Howard, LAND and Goetchius & Bro. A fancy Royal Pepsin Stomach Bitters – first of its kind to be dug here – joined Augusta Brewing Company quart crown and blob tops and an Augusta Brewing Co. Bottling Dept., bottle that probably contained some kind of soda. An emerald Palmer perfume was the lone miscellaneous keeper. July 15, 2012: Mike Newman was very persuasive. “Let’s dig here. It’s shallower and we’ll find a bunch more stuff.” I’d wanted to dig where it was deeper, but I went along. So Jerry Newton cranked up his backhoe and we started to dig Mike’s Honey Hole. Well, the hole developed, but the “honey” was scarce. Still, it wasn’t a bad day. Fifteen straight-sided Cokes from Augusta, a pair of aqua Sheehan Hutchinsons, two Dixie Carbonating Co., crown tops and a like number of Augusta Chero-Colas were the sodas found.
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Two LANDS (those names are always in capital letters), a C.T. Goetchius & Bro., and a scarce Videtto made up the pharmacy finds. Two aqua Augusta Brewing Company Hutchinsons and an aqua crown top from the company emerged.. Mineral waters were represented by the aqua ten pin-shaped bottle embossed with Schultz’s Central Park Mineral Springs (C-P M-S) 1868 and New York. Inks were a small cobalt Stafford’s and an aqua Carter’s without the pour spout. A beautiful alkaline-glazed Miles Mill (present day Aiken County, S.C.) round-shouldered jug rolled out of the bank. It was in near-perfect condition. Two Thomas Hahn stackers and a broken creamer stenciled “The Savoy” were found. July 22, 2012: Sixteen straight-sided Augusta Coca-Cola bottles – one made at the Dixie Glass Co,., in Tallapoosa, Ga. – and a Nov. 16, 1915 hobbleskirt embossed VIENNA, GA on the base came out of the ground. They were joined by an aqua Augusta Bludwine, aqua Augusta Chero-Cola and a clear Dixie Carbonating Co., from Augusta. Lone drug store bottle was embossed Perrin & Land. Lone patent medicine was a scarce Frog Pond Chill & Fever Tonic, a machine-made bottle produced after the Pure Food & Drug Act was
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passed by Congress in 1906. Unfortunately, it was cracked. Beers found were a clear Augusta Brewing Co., Hutchinson and an aqua Robert Portner Brewing Co., blobtop. Miscellaneous bottles included a clear Garretson’s Manufacturer of Pharmacy from Flushing, Long Island and a small, pontiled puff. A lone Thomas Hahn stacker jug and a quart unmarked ink were the lone ceramic items found. Crier was the embossed panel of a River Swamp Chill & Fever Cure (alligator), but the rest of the bottle was nowhere to be found. Aug. 5, 2012: Highlight of a slow dig was a brown-topped, white-sided gallon jug stenciled in black J.C. Slater / Liquors / Savannah, Ga. Three straight-sided Augusta Cokes were joined by two Augusta Ice & Beverage Co., aqua crown tops. That was the Augusta Brewing Co., name changed in 1916 after Prohibition. The former brewers tried to survive by selling soft drinks, ice, ice cream, near beer and half-pints of Imperial chocolate milk, but it was no go. The company filed for bankruptcy on March 5, 1921. Jerry Newton’s backhoe did not want to work. Mike Newman tried to help him get it restarted, but burned an ear, seconds later an arm and within a minute a hand on the scorching-hot parts of the machine. He was not pleased, but he earned the coveted first annual Backhoe Bites Back Award, a special plaque on which a container of burn salve was mounted with appropriate wording. Aug. 26, 2012: Backhoe owner-operator Jerry Newton was called away by business, so Keith Deas came aboard for this dig, bringing his own machine. The Big Dig is winding down and we’re hitting parts of the dump in which finds have been sparse. Today’s dig was no exception. When all was said and done, five unmarked stacker jugs (attributed to various Augusta area potters) were excavated. Straightsided Cokes from Macon, Ga., and Augusta, an amber quart Wright & Taylor pre-Prohibition whiskey from Louisville, Ky., and a Williamston, S.C. Hutchinson were the only keepers found. Unfortunately, the rare Hutch turned out to be cracked, as has been the case of many of the out-of-town bottles. Sept. 23, 2012: It’s been amazing to us the wide variety of non Augusta bottles that this dump has produced. An example is the aqua blobtop embossed C.T. BROWN / DANVILLE, VA., unearthed on this day. It joined four straight-sided Augusta Cokes and an Augusta Chero-Cola during the dig, which resulted in rather sparse finds. One LAND drug store bottle (small, clear) joined a Bobbitt-Wynne Drug Co., bottle from Raleigh, N.C., and a Wyeth dose bottle (sans top). A canteen-shaped bottle decorated with a basket weave and a one-gallon, alkalineglazed jug attributed to the Landrum family of South Carolina potters, were among
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ceramic objects unearthed. Sept. 30, 2012: When digging for antique bottles you should expect the unexpected. Like an 8-1/2-foot alligator! We unlocked the main gate and drove into the parking area. Stretched out on the warm asphalt was a surly saurian. Turns out he (it was a male) was there all night. Property owner Mark Branum had been called to the business about 12:30 a.m. He called the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, but the professional gator getters didn’t get there until 11 a.m. the next day. John Gillis, of Dearing, Ga., about 30 miles from Augusta, is a nuisance alligator trapper licensed by the state. He and his wife, Denise, who sported a pink cell phone shaped like a bunny (cotton tail and ears, too), arrived on the scene. It didn’t take him long to snag the gator with a noose and haul him out into the open from a bunch of bushes where he had been hiding. The Gillises wrapped the Gator’s jaws shut with Georgia Bulldog tape, hogtied both sets of legs, taped a towel over its eyes (to help calm him) and, with the help of bottle digger Bob Riddick, of Lexington, S.C., loaded the critter into their pickup truck. Gillis said the gator was destined for a nearby private pond whose owner wanted to lower the turtle population. A gator’s diet includes turtles and anything else that comes its way. Meanwhile, back in the dump, four Augusta straight-sided Cokes were joined by an amber example from Nashville, Tenn. Four C.T. Gotchius & Bro., drug store bottles from Augusta and a pair of Augusta Brewing Company mug-base Hutches – one clear, one aqua – were found. A black glass Four Roses whiskey embossed NEW PROTECTIVE BOTTLE ADOPTED JULY 1914 / PAUL JONES CO. / LOUISVILLE, KY., joined another dug back on March 25. It’s a great-looking bottle. A Harris Lithia Springs, Harris Springs, S.C., bottle (in Laurens County about 60 miles from Augusta) was joined by an Abbott’s Bitters from Baltimore. Pottery finds included two Thomas Hahn stacker jugs and an alkaline-glazed, round-shouldered jug, the latter a beautiful sight for sore eyes. So our dig of a lifetime ended with this one. Next, we’ve restored a part of the land by bringing in several tons of dirt which will be spread over the area. Before that, we picked up broken bricks, broken bottles and bottle parts and any other solid material. Not only did property owner Mark Branum get an 8x10 color photo (as did the other dig members) of the alligator, the group presented Branum with a “thank you” plaque as a memento marking the occasion. x
Georgia DNR Agent Trapper John Gillis has 8-1/2-foot gator under control (photo by Bill Baab)
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Privy Digathon The reality of Privy Digging
It was mid July and a heat wave was upon us. My
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Bottles and extras interested in our hobby? Do I have all of my bottle pictures and bottle info books to show the home owner? Will they think I am crazy for wanting to dig out an old outhouse on their property? Probably, but I never let that stop me before. It does take a little thought and mind preparation to ask for permission to dig in someone's back yard, but it can be done. When I see a building that is old enough and has potential, I try and find out the people’s names who own the home through a local website. Next, I must decide if I should knock or do I wait? We will knock on doors if we have to but it is best to talk to the people outside of their homes. It feels more comfortable and less threatening than some stranger knocking on their door asking to dig out the old outhouse in their yard. This privy Digathon was a little different. All of the homes we got permission to dig were empty. The city took over the properties due to the landlord’s neglect. To find these eyesores, we would drive around town looking for the big orange stickers on the front doors that read,” unfit for human habitation”. To us, all that meant was a possible privy to dig. I would check the year the homes were built to see if the house was old enough for a decent aged privy. Once that was determined, it was time to get written permission from City Hall to dig the privies. I had a few connections there to make this happen. The only stipulation was we had to finish all of the privies in twelve days. When it was all said and done, we had seven places in the city to dig. These homes were not located in the best part of town if you catch my drift. Some would even say it was a little dangerous, but we didn’t care. All we had to do was put on a yellow hard hat and a vest and no one even gave us a second glance. We were just a couple of construction workers doing their job, digging for bottles! We took twelve days off of work to dig these privies. It turned into a real
March - april 2013 Digathon. We dug every day including weekends. It was a fun adventure but digging back to back days is rough stuff, especially when you are getting up in age like me. My buddy Paul is thirteen years younger so I can rest a little longer in between bucket pulls if need be. The first few pits we dug were behind an 1850s building that was once a bakery. It was also an apartment building at one time. The city had taken over the lease due to structure failure and it was set to be demolished within the week because
“At the start of this Digathon we didn’t have a clue what to expect, but that is why I love this hobby, digging up the un-known.” it was a hazard to the public. Pieces of the building were literally falling onto the sidewalk. We had to act fast. We got our gear together and started the next day. That would be the start of the twelve day privy Digathon. It wasn’t too hard to find the privies in this inner-city yard. The
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23 depressions were clearly visible and practically a foot deep. Now all we had to do was pick the oldest pit first but it usually never works that way. The first privy was a 1930s milk bottle hole. There were more milks than any other type of bottle. I started my bottle digging career on milks at the age of fifteen but now days they do nothing for me. We will take them home if they have a different town name embossed on the slug plate. There is always someone who collects milk bottles. They also make great gifts. I prefer the older bottles myself. 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s and 1890s is the cut off point for keeper bottles for us. It was time to dig down into the other depression on the lot and see what kind of luck we would have. Paul took a few shovels of dirt off the top which revealed an aluminum pull tab and an adult toy. Nothing shocks us digging inner-city lots. We always say “it don’t mean nothing”. There is always new junk at the start of a privy. Over the years, the privy holes sink and the people who lived in the house tried to fill the depressions in, thus adding junk and dirt to fill the gap and level out their yard. We have found things like no parking signs, old snow tire chains and dog bowls. Some of the privies that had this stuff on the top turned
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out to be good pits at the bottom. The moral to this story is “never judge a privy by its cover”. As we dug past the top layer of ground, I started to see a change. Old rusted square nails, a little ash, a shard or two of aqua glass and darker looking fill were apparent. The shape of this privy was beginning to look like an old oval stonelined hole. Stone lined privies can be tricky. The privies that are lined with stone or brick can be reused and dipped many times over the years un-like the wood lined privies that rot and let the contents
March - april 2013 seep into the ground and contaminate the soil around the living area. An 1850s stone or brick lined pit can be used into the early 1900s or longer. It all depends when indoor plumbing came into the area. Most wood liners were filled in and new holes were re-dug every ten to fifteen years. That is why wood liners are the better bet to find old glass in. The big shovel was starting to crunch glass now so we had to put it aside and start using our small hand tools. Paul was putting shards into a bucket so we could examine what year we were at with the bottles. When I dumped the five gallon bucket out on the ground, I determined them to be 1850s or earlier pieces of glass. Very cool black and white plates and bowls. These things are vary rarely whole. They also gave us a clue to the age of the items in the privy. So far it was looking good. We had that gut feeling that this pit was not dug by other diggers. Yes, there are other crazy outhouse diggers like us. We
Getting the gear set up is always half the fun
Bottles and extras always hate it when we open up a privy and it was dug by someone else. This pit was looking like a virgin outhouse. We dug down a little deeper to make sure. It was my turn to jump in the hole. I only took out two heaping shovels when I heard a crunch. I looked down and said “Crap! I busted an aqua cathedral pickle”! Oh well, these things happen. I just wish they didn’t happen to me. I was more careful from then on, scratching slowly, and feeling for tell-tale signs of whole bottles. Sometimes when a dig tool is run over a bottle, you can just tell it is whole before you even dig it out. I call that talent " bottle ESP". The first whole bottle out was a “Vegetable Cure” from New Brunswick, New Jersey. I like when we dig those out-of-state bottles. I often daydream about how they made it all the way to our town and what the journey was like getting here back in those days. The reputation for this vegetable cure must have been really good for the buyers to travel so far to acquire it or someone could have brought it here. Either way, it is a long way to travel for a cure that most likely never cured a thing. All of the glass in this pit was looking old (1840s-50s).Sometimes in older privies, the bottles are 90% broken as they were in this one. The only other whole bottle was a dark
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green “Schiedam Schnapps.” It is always worth it when the pit is old and untouched. I would rather dig an old privy with a few whole bottles, versus a newer pit with one hundred bottles in it. As I grow into this hobby, I am leaning more towards quality rather than quantity. I remember when I first started bottle digging, a Listerine cork top got me really excited. Now it takes a little more to fire me up but I still have that same spark as I did when I was a young digger. At the start of this Digathon, we didn’t have a clue what to expect but that is why I love this hobby..... digging up the unknown. Our next stop was in the heart of the city, “The Gateway”, the main artery into town. At one point in time, all of the homes that lined this street were pristine and owned by well- todo people. Now, it is an inner-city jungle with trashed yards and rundown houses. To the privy digger, that is an awesome sight. The more trashed the better. We have dug some really manicured and pristine yards, but the “trashed yards” are still much easier to score permission. Sometimes we even offer to clean the junk up in return for permission to dig. “Anything for a privy”. The homes we were digging on this Digathon had no one living in them. We didn’t have to worry about anything. No owners peering out the windows, no flowers to be careful around. All we had to do was move the
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junk around so we could probe the area for the privies. To gain access to the back yard of the next house on the list we had to walk through a long brick breeze way. I always loved walking through these narrow tunnels. It was like going from the modern streets of today back to the past to the time of the outhouse. I often think about the kids back in the 1800s running and playing tag or a fun game of marbles in these clapboard and bricklined breezeways. Now it was our time to play. As soon as we saw this yard, we knew we had a little work to do before we could start to probe. A huge blue shag rug was lying across the yard. It was covered in mold and had plants and weeds growing through it. There were weight lifting items scattered about and a rusted treadmill in the back corner. I guess the guy who lived here liked working out in the great outdoors. We find some strange things lying around the yards of these abandon homes but today our main focus is what is under the yard...... not on it. We got all of the stuff moved and piled it up on one side so we could probe the key spots in the yard. The property line, the back lot line, and the corners were the first places we checked. If we can not find the privies in those locations, we will probe the middle and front of the yard. There has to be an outhouse hole somewhere. We had a little trouble in this lot because there were two big bricklined flower beds loaded with top soil on both sides of the yard. It took a little time but we finely probed out a privy. The probe sunk with ease and felt really good. Now all we needed were a few bottles to save the day. As I started to open up the pit and fill the barrels, Paul decided to do
Long brick breezeway a little metal detecting. He brought the detector along on this Digathon because all of the homes we had permission for were of good age and might hold some decent relics. In no time, I heard the “beep beep beep” of the detector going off. I wasn’t sure if it was “junk” as Paul says, or if it was a good coin or piece of jewelry. My main interest was bottles but it was cool to see the finds that Paul uncovers. The first item that Paul popped out of the ground was a medal or pin of some sort. It was a saint or religious figure. Soon, the coins were setting off the detector. An 1876 dime, a few 1880s Indian heads and a two cent piece came to the surface. He also dug out a U.S civil war buckle and a number of other cool metal buttons, some pins, and knick knacks. One that caught my eye was a little metal rabbit, maybe a child’s toy. We thought maybe someone that was in the civil war lived here because of all of the patriotic buttons and buckles. The privy was slow going because there were a lot of large roots to cut out, so I just took my time and let Paul work his magic with the detector. A few minutes went by and I heard him yell out “I got an eagle!” Usually when we are bottle digging and I hear the word eagle it might mean a flask or some sort of liquor bottle. In the detecting world, it could mean a number of things, coins, buckle, and buttons etc. The bald eagle has always been a very popular symbol.
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Paul popped out a nice Civil War eagle button. This yard was producing some cool detecting finds and I hoped the bottles would follow that lead. I was happy for Paul. He did find some neat things but now I was ready for some bottle action! All of the roots were cut and now it was time to start pulling some buckets. We had a little work to do before we hit that prime use layer. If you are the type of person who is afraid of a little hard work, this hobby is definitely not for you. I don’t look at is as work. I look at it as uncovering a history, something that was buried for over one hundred years and untouched by modern 21st century life. Civil War belt buckle and eagle button As we dug and talked about before dark. what we might find in this privy, Half way into the dig, shards of old the old wooden fence beside us busted glass were beginning to appear. That in half and fell into the yard with a was a sign that this privy had not been loud crash!! Then a man burst though dug by other diggers. Not saying it the opening and jumped the fence in the next yard! We both looked at each wasn’t dipped by the dreaded “Honey Dipper” of the 19th century, but if it other in amazement. Someone must had been dipped, I hoped they had left have been chasing him but we never us a few whole bottles. saw the other person. There is never The first whole item spotted was a dull moment when you are digging not a bottle. It was a white “clay face inner city privies. pipe”. When Paul dug it out, I thought We had to keep our minds on it was just your typical smooth bowl digging. It was getting late in the clay pipe, but when he tossed it day and we wanted to be out of here over to me I saw President Franklin A Turkish man, an Indian and the Pierce looking back at me! It was Franklin Pierce a presidential face pipe. We would bowl. go on to dig two more face bowls, a Turkish man, an Indian, and the Franklin Pierce bowl. So far, the whole bottles
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were non-existent in this pit. All of the shards were old and they were from the 1860s. There was nothing in one piece. Sometimes when digging privies, other items besides bottles make the dig more memorable. In this case, it turned out to be the metal detecting finds and the three cool face pipes we found. When we are finished with a dig, we would mark it off of the list. For each house we did, we had a separate signed permission paper that said we had full run of the back yard. It was a good feeling to have that paper. It gave us piece of mind and a little bit of power. For instance, if a cop came up to us and asked what we were doing, I could just hand him the paper and keep on digging! Not that I would do that, but just knowing I
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could, made me feel more at ease even in this concrete jungle. Next on the list was a big three story brick tenement building built in 1880. It was also located in the heart of a rough neighborhood, but this one had a high white stockade fence around the whole back yard which made it like a sanctuary of sorts. The house was empty and the yard was all ours. We knew that the privy would be easy to find at this location because the yard was very small and narrow. Knowing that the house was built in 1880 and stood three stories tall gave us day dreams of a deep privy layered with tons of old bottles on the bottom. The building was big and it probably housed a lot of people, which meant a lot of trash. There was only one place to go with the garbage and that was down the outhouse hole. I will cut to the chase on this privy since it only yielded a few turn of the century slicks (plain bottles) and a marble. The pit was a deep one, 22 feet deep. It was constructed in 1880 when the house was built. When the plumbing came to this area, they ran a terra cotta pipe from the house into the privy. Some people call these water closets. I call them a pain in the neck. When the pipe showed up, we should have stopped digging but our minds kept saying “what if” there is a use layer full of bottles down there that they didn’t touch when the privy was cleaned out for use with the pipe. Once in a while this does happen but not this time. The best thing we got from this dig is a lot of awesome pictures from the bottom of this huge converted brick liner. A picture is worth a thousand words they always say. How many people will get a chance to take a picture like that? Once it is filled in, there are no more pictures. I only get one chance to take these shots of these cool looking time capsules from the past. Sometimes in this hobby of privy digging, we get a little discouraged. If we take the bad digs too seriously, then we would end up quitting all together. You have to take the good digs with the so- so digs along with the bad digs. Eventually a good one will happen. You have to believe. The next one we had to tackle was a two story brick dwelling. It was all boarded up like Fort Knox. The yard was a tough one to probe. It had 20 X 15 foot train track ties built into a square and filled with crusher stone in the middle of the yard. It was probably the base of an out building at one time. I tried to probe around the center of it but there was no way I could get the probe through. It was loaded with modified stone below the crusher stone. We prayed the privy was not under that. As I started to walk to the far end of the yard, Paul hollered “I got one”. He stuck his probe through a few big chunks of concrete and it buried to the handle. It almost felt like pure air! As we removed the junk around the probe hole, a pocket of space appeared then more and more space.” Holy Crap! It is an open brick liner!” It must be twenty five feet deep! I knew it wasn’t a privy. It looked more like an early 1900s cesspool. Paul still wanted to get a ladder and go down to check it out. Sometimes we just do crazy things. While Paul was fiddling around with the deep monster cesspool pit, I continued to probe the small yard. I suddenly heard a woman’s voice from behind the back fence say “what yaw digging for pipes?” I replied “no, we are digging crappers”. That must have thrown her
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Early Stoneware in solid ash
Early rootbeer mug
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off a bit because she didn’t say a word and went back in the house. I was glad since I had to get back to the task at hand anyway. I decided to work the probe closer to the house since that was the only spot left that I was able to penetrate. The rest of the yard was full of stone. I pushed the privy rod in slow and prayed. Amen! It was a good reading. What was a privy doing so close to the house? It didn’t look like there were any new additions built onto the back of this one, so I started to do a test hole. When I broke ground, all I saw was white ash. “There is nothing like white ash in the morning”. That is a saying of mine. What does it mean? Hell if I know. I just like saying it. Soon, Paul came over to investigate and we took turns digging. We saw nothing but pure fluffy white ash! A little ash is good but a ton of ash may mean they used this hole as an ash dump back in the day. It was the only thing we had going so we kept digging. Soon, a wall appeared. It looked like white washed stone. Our guess was it could be a cistern since it was up against the house. We never had luck with cisterns because they filled them in either with ash from the coal and wood stoves or just filled them in all at once when they lost their usefulness. Either way, I didn’t have a good feeling about this one. Just when I was running more negative thoughts through my head and thinking of filling this one in, Paul popped out an 1858 ground top mason jar! It was a common jar but it was a good sign. Soon, some shards were showing up. Without a doubt, this was a cistern for water, but someone in the 1870s decided to toss a load of trash in at the last minute when they were filling it in. It was strange digging in pure white ash but if old bottles are coming out who cares. Bring it on! I jumped into the hole and started to move the ash like it was sawdust. Ash was a lot easier digging than privy fill. The white pile was growing top side. Soon, I spotted the bottom of a large jug, but will it be whole? A question we often ponder when we dig privies. I tugged on it with a little extra force then normal because the ash was soft. Pop! Out it came, a beautiful tan salt glazed liquor jug. As I held the jug up to show Paul my awesome find, I felt something hit my leg. When I looked down, I saw a two tone ginger beer bottle lying beside me! It must have been hiding behind the jug. I changed my mind quickly. I was feeling good about this dig! This was definitely not the average dig. We rarely get anything good from cisterns. They always seem to end in depression. This one was different. We didn’t get a ton of bottles from this one but we did get a few quality bottles for the shelf. Paul got a nice cobalt blue J. Wise beer from Allentown and whole mini beer mug. We also got a small Holloway’s Ointment. The Jar reads “For the cure of inveterate ulcers, bad legs, sore breasts, sore hands, gout, and rheumatism”. It is interesting things like this that keep us digging privies. This cistern was very wide but it wasn’t too deep. We were almost near the bottom when we decided to probe around. The rod hit clay and we knew that was the end there but when we stuck it into the side towards the neighbors, it buried to the handle. Everything was going good so far but there was a slight problem. The other half of this ash filled hole
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went into the next yard. It must have been a shared cistern. The guy that lived there was not a sociable kind of guy. We heard stories that he knocked a guy down his steps for asking to metal detect his back yard. He claimed the guy was trespassing so that permission was out of the question. We thought of tunneling into his yard but the ash was so light and fluffy we would definetly have a cave in. I am sure we would get more then a ride down the steps for caving his yard and fence in. It was time to pack up and move to the next ARZ..... “Artifact Recovery Zone” We decided to back track and head to center city. There was no order to do these privies. We just went day by day and did what we felt like doing. As long as we made good time and got all of the places done before our time limit was up with the city, everything was great. The property we were about to dig had no house on it. It was just an open lot between a row of homes. From what we learned, the house was burned down in the 1970s and never rebuilt. We didn’t mind that the Holloway’s Ointment Container house was gone The only thing that bugged us was that people could look up from the street and see us digging. As you recall, we had a guy bust through the fence and run like death was chasing him just a few houses up from where we were. It is just that kind of neighborhood. That is why the hard hats and vest are needed, so we look like hard working construction workers. Just another day at the glass mines. This yard was laid out no different from the rest of the ones we did in this area. We knew we should start probing at the back lot line in the corner. The idea to put the outhouse as far away from the main house as possible seemed to be the norm for the 19th century thunder shack user. When trying to find these 1800s toilets, we have to think like the users of the past, put ourselves in their shoes per say. It kind of takes some of the guess work out. The probing in the corner was a little more work than anticipated. On the first few stabs, we hit concrete. You can’t give up right away when this happens. Something “in our time” could have been built over or near the privy hole. That was just the case in this yard. It seemed an old concrete side walk from the 1930s was just below the surface. It lead back to the overgrown inaccessible alley. It was time to bring in the heavy hitters, the twenty pound sledge hammer and the pry bar. We don’t need these tools very often, but they are a life saver to have handy. With a few swings and a little sweat, the slab cracked in half. Paul inserted the probe through the crack and “Boom Baby!” down it went. We had a privy. Now the test. Will it be the old pit, a dug pit, an empty pit or a loaded old pit? We prefer the latter. It is always a gamble when we start a privy. We wouldn’t have it any other way. That is part of the fun. As we dug down we didn’t like what we were seeing right off the bat. The fill was loose and too easy to dig out. That is often a sign of a “dug privy” but we can not go by the first negative sign. Anything can happen in the privy J. Wise Cobalt Blue Bottle
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digging world. Soon, we were down to the three foot mark and the fill was still not looking right. There were no layers of trash and lime mix so we knew for sure that this one had been dug by someone in the past. By the past, I mean the 1970s & 80s. The next item to pop out confirmed this. A “Chuck Taylor” Converse sneaker! I remember wearing “Chucks” back in the late 1970s. We decided to dig a little deeper even though we knew other diggers were here before us. Soon, I was pulling out charcoal grill parts and screw top Schlitz quart beer bottles with the labels still intact. They must have been drinking while digging this one. Just as I was ready to give up and start to probe for other pits in the yard, I saw a small clear jar at my feet. Something was inside of it. I picked it up and held it to the sky for light. Nestled in the jar was an 1870s twelve sided aqua umbrella ink! With this stroke of luck, we kept on digging. I had a feeling they missed more goodies. The privy pirates could have been digging hastily for one reason or another and missed more items. Even back in the 1970s and 80s, there were snakes in the privy digging hobby. We heard of a guy named “Ronnie J Deo” who would find out when people went on vacation and then proceed to dig their privies late at night! That is just horrible! This could just be an “urban privy legend” but like I said, anything can happen. Permission is a must for us. Without it, we do not dig privies. Ink Bottle
This pit was looking more and more like a “pirated privy". We were just picking through the broken glass when Paul spotted the next find. It was a dark green 1870s local blob top. We went from a 1970s sneaker to a 1870s soda. A sure sign to keep digging. They sure did miss a few! Before it was all said and done, we ended up getting another soda, an aqua J.W Wise, a few embossed local medicines and a turtle ink. Not bad for a “pre-dug privy”. It is hard to keep digging a privy when you know 110% that someone was there before you. In some cases you have to block that out and dig on! This was one of those times. After that weird episode, we felt like leaving this yard and trying our luck on the next place on the list, but being the addicted privy diggers that we are, we decided to probe a little more in the yard. Paul fired a question at me. “Do you think the other pits were dug also”? That was a question we would soon answer. The probe sank to the handle just ten feet in front of the “pirated pit”. We had another one to crack open. This one felt different right away. It was packed and it was crunchy. The sample on the shovel was looking good. Paul was rooting around the yard for more metal goodies with the detector while I was playing in the hole. The thought of the pirated privy ran through my mind, but it wasn’t a total bust so maybe if this one was dug they missed some bottles also. I started to see colored shards of glass two feet down. With the three prong tool, I scraped out a few of the bigger pieces of glass. One of the
Bottles and extras chunks was the bottom of a green Iron pontiled spring water bottle. We had no idea what it was. There was only a top and the bottom to guess from. We often let our imaginations run wild and say, “what if it was a rare one?” It never is but it is fun to dream. The next few shards were just aqua, but they really gave us hope for this privy. We dug out many pieces to an open pontiled Jenny Lind Calabash flask! We didn’t want to jump the gun but this privy looked untouched by human hands; pirate hands that is. The more we dug, the more the shards piled up. These were good shards. A Union Clasp hands flask, a dark green Dr Townsend’s sarsaparilla, seaweed wear pottery, slip wear dishes, banded yellow wear bowls and cups. The pottery was the type of stuff they used until it broke and then tossed it in the privy. The whole bottles were not plentiful in this pit either but it didn’t discourage us. I loved to see the old stuff in privies a lot more than the newer “turn of the century”. There is something about 1850s 60s and 70s pottery and glass. It makes us feel like we just went back in time and shared the lives of the people who lived in the house in the 1800s. In a sense, we did. We were the first people in the 21st century to touch that stuff. I would love to have a time machine and see who the last person was that tossed those bottles down the privy. While Paul was down in the pit scratching away, I was busy playing with the neighbor’s cats. They seemed
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bar of soap that said “Boston” on it. I guess someone forgot to take it out of the wash bowl before they dumped it in the privy. It was one of those odd items that will make a good conversation piece. After the bar of soap, Dave determined that the privy was “clean”. Pun intended. What he really meant was, it was the end of the line, he hit bottom. I have dug many privies in my day and I always hate when I see that hard mother earth appear. It was nice to be off of work for twelve days but digging privies is more work than actually being at work. No one understands what privy digging entails except another privy digger. x
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“It was the kind of bold caper that Arthur McGinnis, founder of the distillery and 21years dead, might well have admired.”
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ARTHUR McGINNIS and the GREAT WHISKEY HEIST by Jack Sullivan
In early January 1926, as many as 50 men entered the government-held liquor warehouse of the McGinnis Distillery near Baltimore and hauled away 71 barrels and 32 cases of aged rye whiskey, with a present day value of more than a million dollars. It was the kind of bold caper that Arthur McGinnis, founder of the distillery and 21 21years dead, might well have admired.
Arthur himself was a bold man. An immigrant from Ireland he began his American career during the 1870s as a wagoner, like the one shown here (Fig. 1), working out of the east side of Baltimore. It was a difficult life, usually requiring hard work and heavy lifting. McGinnis knew he was meant for better things. His intelligence and Ògo getterÓ attitude brought him to the attention John B. Brown, the owner of a successful liquor outfit Brown had founded in 1869. The company flagship brand was BrownÕs Malt Whiskey that the owner merchandised as a medicinal beverage. An 1891 ad asserted: "Brown's Malt Whiskey is a cure for Indigestion, Brown's Malt Whiskey is a Tonic and Invigorant, Brown's Malt Whiskey is a Healthful Beverage, Brown's Malt Whiskey is a Genuine Distillation, Brown's
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Brown hired McGinnis in the mid-1880s and taught him the liquor business. One of Brown’s sons, J. Badger Brown, was involved with the company but appears to have died early. In 1895, the name of the firm became Brown, McGinnis & Company. McGinnis’s three sons -- John, James and Patrick -- all became involved in the business. This firm appears to have bottled and sold wine as well as whiskey. By 1905, Brown’s name had disappeared entirely and the A. McGinnis Company of Baltimore emerged.
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Fig. 3: American Building, Baltimore
The Distillery at McGinnis Siding McGinnis reorganized the firm, incorporated it and personally invested an additional $5,000. Other incorporators and investors included sons John and James along with two of Arthur’s Irish compatriots, Martin O’Connor and Patrick McGrath. With the infusion of new money, McGinnis built a distillery adjacent to the Western Maryland Railroad at a place that came to be called McGinnis Siding. It was located four miles from Westminster, Maryland, but Arthur chose to name the site “Carrollton.” This identified the location with John Carroll, the state’s signer of the Declaration of Independence. The place existed only in Arthur’s rich Irish imagination. McGinnis Company offices remained in Baltimore, first at 208 Lexington Ave., and then in the American Building downtown (Fig. 3). Almost from the beginning, the whiskey business was successful and McGinnis Rye enjoyed strong regional sales. In 1905, the state tax commissioner set the taxable value of distilled spirits for the McGinnis Co. at $13,368. By 1907, that figure had grown to $21,496, and by 1909 had jumped to $62,760. Even with this growth the McGinnis distillery was among Maryland’s smaller operations, able to process only a relatively modest 250 barrels of mash per day. The whiskey was bottled in a range of readily identified containers. McGinnis labeled square quart bottles could be found in both clear (Fig. 4) and amber (Fig. 5). All were embossed with the name of the distillery (Fig. 6). McGinnis Pure Rye also came in a pint flask (Fig. 7) and an embossed miniature bottle (Fig. 8). The firm issued merchandising giveaway items to saloons and selected customers including back of the bar bottles and shot glasses (Figs. 9-11) .
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Fig. 2: J.B. Brown ad, 1891
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Arthur’s Recklessness Is Revealed In November 1905, Arthur was injured in an accident and after lingering for a few weeks, died. His death triggered not only tumult at the A.McGinnis Co. but a legal dispute that fractured his family. The attempt to settle his estate required investigation of the balance sheets of the distillery. Except there weren’t any. As his son James told the court, Arthur “carried a bank book and a little stub. He carrried the bank book in his pocket and the cashbook in his head. That is how he ran the business.” As the court determination subsequently stated, McGinnis’s company had been a success but “the financial part of the concern was managed in a most loose and careless fashion.” Arthur’s recklessness engendered legal actions that pitted Mary McGinnis (likely his widow) and son James against son John and other investors. After the case reached the Maryland Supreme Court, a settlement was made among the McGinnises. What happened then is not entirely clear even to their descendants. Apparently James and John mended their differences. Brother Patrick entered the picture as a whiskey executive. A Baltimore company called McGinnis Brothers was created in 1905 and existed alongside the A. McGinnis & Company until Prohibition shut both of them down in 1920. At the time the McGinnis distillery was still operating and its warehouses were full of aging
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whiskey. The facility was put under U.S. Government control and the product was slated to be extracted in small amounts and sold for allowable “medicinal purposes.” The lure of so much whiskey in one place proved very tempting to bootleggers. In 1922, the head of a Baltimore ring named Charles Scandalis was caught trying to secure liquor from the McGinnis Distillery using false permits. Convicted, Scandalis later converted to being a Prohibition enforcement officer and was murdered on the job. The site drew other violence. The Baltimore Sun of March 30, 1923, recounted that a second attempt had been made in two weeks to rob the McGinnis warehouse of its whiskey. The would-be robbers shot at the guard on duty who used a shotgun to wound several of the miscreants and put them to flight. They were never caught.
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Above Fig. 8: McGinnis clear miniature Right Fig 9: McGinnis back of the bar bottle
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Fig. 12: A bootlegger’s truckbottle
The Great Whiskey Heist These incidents all were a prelude to the events of January 8, 1926. On that fateful winter afternoon, according to witnesses, three men, earlier seen ice skating on a nearby pond, suddenly confronted a government guard named Charlie Thompson. They drew pistols and tied him up. The next to be trundled was an 80-year-old man who had wandered by the scene looking for his lost cat. In time, some seven guards and watchmen were shackled and a gang, estimated at from 40 to 50 men, made themselves at home in the distillery for a full 15 hours. The robbers not only were professionals, they knew something about whiskey. Sampling on each floor as they went, a time-consuming process, they passed up the newer barrels on lower levels of the warehouse to get the well seasoned booze on the seventh and eighth floors. Taking all night, by dawn they had loaded five trucks with 71 barrels of the oldest whiskey and 32 cases of bottled stock. The total value of the liquor at the time was estimated at $100,000 --- more than a million dollars today. Federal officials later traced the trucks, now accompanied by mobsters in automobiles, south to Mexico. Crossing the border, the trucks may well have been disguised as this clever bootlegger “lumber” wagon (Fig. 11). A subsequent hearing into the robbery by a federal grand jury in March 1926 deteriorated into a finger-pointing exercise. The stolen whiskey and the men responsible for the robbery seemingly had evaporated into thin air. Suspecting an inside job, the guards and nearby residents had been grilled relentlessly by the U.S. District Attorney but to no avail. The head of the Maryland Anti-Saloon League launched a bitter attack on federal officials, blaming “too much temporizing and too much politics” for the looting. In April of that year, a Baltimore man named James Geisey of Baltimore and six accomplices were charged with the crime after being caught transporting carloads of beer into Baltimore via railroad. The record does not reveal if they ultimately were tried or found guilty. Nevertheless, taking no more chances, federal officials moved the remaining whiskey to another location and in October 1926, brick by brick, tore down the distillery that Arthur McGinnis had built and sent the building materials to New York. x Fig. 10: McGinnis shot glass #1 Fig. 11: McGinnis shot glass #2
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met Bo quite by accident only a few years ago at the Shupp’s Grove, Adamstown, Pa show. He seemed like a nice enough guy who was definitely interested in fruit jars, yet I was never totally sure what he really specialized in. What I found out during my visit is that Bo is a classic example of an “under the radar” collector. He is just a quiet, nonchalant and ego-less guy aynepeople and June Lowry seemingly in all a category that most don’t evenare know what he’s about, all oflettheir own when it comes collecting fruit jarsfruit because alone know what’s in histosmall but dynamite jar they collect fruit jars and related items as a couple. Both of collection. themItlove jars and both seek and Show add tothat a I wasfruit while attending theactively 2009 Baltimore collection that represents their combined love and interest finally managed to talk with Bo for any real length of time. for the hobby. June told me that when Wayne became
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We just happened to share a hotel room the night before the interested in fruit she figured show and both of usjars stayed up very she late would talkingtoo jarsbecause on the she wasnÕt going to sit home alone while he ran around balcony of the 2nd floor. It was then that I realized there looking andwhat the rest hadalso to think long was morefor tothem Bo than met is myhistory. eye. ItIwas at that and hard it but I really he donÕt anycandidate other time that Iabout became convinced was know a veryof good Òcollector couplesÓ for one of my articles.that exist. The fruit jar hobby is basically a guy with the spouses being either the I Bo was bornthing in Shreveport, La., in 1952 and according donÕt to know thing about type and to him, want he grew up as a military brat.them Bo’s father wasitÕs a waste of time, money and energy, the accepting but stationed in places disinterested partners or the enthusiastic cheer leader such as Louisiana, partners even liking or enjoying the jars outright but Michigan, California, themselves not active Puerto Rico and North collectors. Carolina before moving to Virginia. Bo attended graduate school at Charlottesville in 1982 and has remained in the area since then. Bo is a contractor and has done a major part of the renovation work himself on his soon-to-be new home. Bo’s interest in fruit jars came about in the late 80s when he was renting a house and happened to have his own garden in the back yard. When it came time for the harvest, his next Beautiful Olive Green CFJ quart door neighbor (a Ms. McCormick who was 103 at the time) just happened to leave for him a bag of mayonnaise and old canning jars to put up the beans and tomatoes. In that bag he found a couple of blue Ball Perfect Mason jars, but thought to himself they were too pretty to can in so he put them to the side. A couple of weeks later he went to a flea market and found a guy there who had more blue colored jars mixed in with other jars. There were approximately 40 different jars in three boxes and Bo bought them all for $25. Only later did he notice there were about 20 different embossing styles of 1858s and assorted Ball jars. It was at that time Bo realized he had an instant collection of fruit jars.
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When Bo was first starting out, $10 or $20 was a lot for him to spend on a jar.
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From there, Bo went to an antique store where a guy sold bottles and jars and it was then that he found out there were so many different weird jars with closures and strange lids. That same dealer told him about the Red Book and so he subsequently ordered one. After getting the Red Book, he found out to his amazement there were 3,000 or whatever different kinds of fruit jars. Not knowing anything, of course he went through the Red Book thinking how this jar, that jar or this other jar would be cool to have so he actually started looking for them. When Bo was first starting out, $10 or $20 was a lot for him to spend on a jar. He happened to go into a store in the valley one time where he found a reproduction amber midget and mentioned to the dealer how it was too bad it wasn’t real. So the dealer asked him if he would
be interested in real ones and of course he said sure, not knowing what they would cost. So they went to a room above the store where the dealer had eight real amber midgets, four of which were damaged. He ended up talking the dealer into selling him two of the amber midgets even though he really couldn’t afford them. Fortunately, he ended up selling one of the amber midgets to John Hathaway at a York bottle show which happened to be the very first show he ever went to as well. Back in the early 90s Bo met Dan Corker and bought a couple of midgets from him. They have remained friends ever since and Dan has been a great source of good jars for him through the years. Soon after Bo had managed to get his jars displayed, Dan came over to Bo’s home one day to take a look and spied a Franklin fruit jar midget in the
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collection. Well, Bo had an extremely nice original lid on the jar that Dan wanted really badly. Bo didn’t really want to sell it but Dan was persistent over time and finally about a year ago he gave in to a trade. They exchanged Franklin lids, Bo gave Dan cash and Dan gave Bo an original closure for his H & S jar. And best of all, both were happy with the trade arrangements. Bo also remembered the year not so long ago when the Muncie show was iced out and canceled, but he went there anyway. Before the cancellation of the actual show he was room hopping as usual and was in Greg Spurgeon’s room. Not really paying too much attention, he noticed an amber quart 1858 on the table. So he picked it up and took the lid off and noticed it had an immerser lid on the jar. Well, he turned the jar around and quickly realized the jar was a Tudor Rose in amber. That jar stayed in his hands and he never put it back down after that point. So although the show was cancelled he was still thrilled to pick up a super jar, making the treacherous trip more than worthwhile. Bo mentioned to me that when he goes to shows he doesn’t necessarily go to them with any expectations of buying or selling. He’s more interested in socializing with all of the people he has met and known for years and considers that to be more important. Buying and selling is an added bonus as far as Bo’s concerned. Bo also remembers going into another antique store once and seeing a straight-sided Potter & Bodine’s Air Tight Fruit Jar, Philada., for $1,200 -- too much money for him. Every time he
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went, the jar was still there unsold so after four or five years, one day Bo said to the dealer: “Look, that jar been sitting on the shelf without selling for a long time, so what’s the best you can do on it?” So the guy hemmed and hawed but finally said $400 so Bo immediately asked if he’d take $300 and the guy said how about $350? So Bo got a really nice jar fairly cheap and the guy told him since he only had $275 into the jar he was happy, too.
Bo’s thoughts to newer collectors include thinking newer collectors should buy what they like, but try not to go straight to the high end jars right away. Worry more about collecting the best jar(s) you can at the level of financial resources you have. “Having started out buying $8 and $10 jars and now having gone up to probably top notch level examples, the best thing about the $8 and $10 jars when you’re starting out is you can always find
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something,” he said. “The spirit of adventure and the hunt is always exciting and most often tended to make you want more and better jars anyway. And once you’ve progressed to the choice was between one good jar or say 10 lesser jars, then getting the one good jar is the best option. Having the better jar in the collection will make the collection better overall in the long run.” One caveat to my visit with Bo is a pretty interesting side story of its own. While talking to him and looking over his jars, I noticed he actually had some Ball jars. I immediately spied an absolutely beautifully colored 3L Balll Mason quart sitting on one of his shelves. I just had to look at that jar up close and personal in light of the fact I am currently into that genre of Ball jar and obviously seriously into great colored examples, too. Well, I was a bit weak-kneed over the jar and began going off on a tangent talking to him about how great it was and out of the blue Bo says to me, “Bruce, remember that green CFJ we were looking at yesterday in Shupp’s?” I said yes, of course I remember it. “Well,” he says, “I’ll trade you this Ball jar for that CFJ.” At first I denied to myself that what I heard him say was what I had actually heard. I was in shock and my mind was scrambling to get back to the surface for air. As soon as I regained my composure I said it’s a deal and we shook hands and I immediately called the owner of the CFJ. Obviously, Bo’s happy with the trade but truthfully I’m nothing short of elated! In doing this article I happened to be at another collector’s home in order to do yet another future article and that collector graciously drove over to Bo’s with me so I could see what kind of a collection he actually had and get his story. The drive was about 1½ hours into the middle Bo’s Country home and Property
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of central Virginia with just absolutely spectacular scenic vistas and rolling mountains. I was impressed, to say the least. Upon our arrival, we saw that Bo was in the middle of putting up a brand new home adjacent to and against his older smaller home. From what we could tell by looking it over, the new digs are going to be really nice when it’s finally done. Bo owns 17 ½ acres and if you enjoy rural and being out there in the country, he is in the right spot for sure. I came away from Bo’s realizing what an incredible good guy he really is and how when you least expect it fortune can smile upon you via an old time trade. Smile Be prepared for the unexpected, is all I can say. Bo has some truly outstanding jars and an overall great collection. I was honored that he allowed me for even a short time to see his collection and get his story. Bo, I’m raising a cold one to you! x
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One of a series... Part 1 of 4 The Beginning My interest in collecting bottles began in the late 1950s. At that time, I taught Social Studies in grades 7-9 in the public schools of Columbia, South Carolina. While completing undergraduate and graduate work at the University of South Carolina to earn my teaching credentials, I worked part time or full time at the South Caroliniana Library from 1948 to 1953. Growing out of being immersed in the libraryÍs South Carolina history environment, I acquired a lifelong interest in old documents and materials pertaining to the stateÍs history.
A Reminiscience of 53 Years of Bottle Collecting in South Carolina
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About this time (the late 1950s), I learned that Bill Cloer, a local Methodist minister, had purchased an 1803 Thomas Jefferson letter. Judging from the letterÍs contents, John Milledge of Georgia had written to the president, seeking directions from Washington, D.C., to John RandolphÍs home in Virginia. Jefferson sat down and wrote a three-page letter, including a hand-drawn map, giving Milledge these directions. That was a time when ñthe affairs of stateî moved at a much more leisurely pace. Of course, a president of today would not personally have the time to do something like that. I went to the ministerÍs home and attempted to purchase the letter, but he declined to sell. While there, I noticed he had some bottles, among which were several South Carolina Dispensary bottles. If I could ñscrounge upî some of these bottles, I suspected I might be able to trade him out of the letter.
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Above: Edgefield District potter Colin Rhodes made storage jar held by Teal. He also holds the fragment of a super-rare cobalt C. Alfs soda bottle from Charleston, S.C. Below: Trio of local flasks, L-R: D.H. Goble (embossed Elephant), Columbia, S.C.; honey amber quart embossed F.M. Simmons, Greenville, S.C., Hdquarts (Headquarters) for Pure Old Corn Whiskey; and a dark amber half-pint flask, N.B. Freeman, Greenville, S.C.
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A couple of antique dealer friends in Camden, South Carolina, who sold dispensary bottles, were told of my plan. One gave me two bottles since they were very, very cheap at that time. Another gave me one and I think I got one from someone else. I went back to see the minister, but we still could not come to terms on the letter. This episode led me to speculate that there must be plenty of these bottles around. If people were interested in them, certainly an enterprising person should be able to find some. One Saturday afternoon I left my boyhood home in Kershaw County, South Carolina, in the community of Cassatt, and journeyed four or five miles away to an abandoned old homestead. The people who formerly lived there for generations had been prone to imbibe in spiritous liquors. I suspected some dispensary bottles were there. After looking in the stables, barns and outbuildings for an hour or more without success, I had just about given up hope of finding any bottles. While coming through a pasture behind one last remaining small building, I spotted lying in front of me a quart clear and perfect South Carolina Dispensary bottle with an embossed palmetto tree. While excitingly scratching in the leaves and grass, four or five more were unearthed. The next day, with my antique dealer friend Norman Fohl, of Camden, South Carolina, in tow, we found seven more dispensary bottles, bringing the total to 12 from my first venture in search of bottles. Let me digress for a moment and relate some things about Norman Fohl. He had come from Connecticut during the Great Depression and had settled in Camden where he started a furniture refinishing and antiques business, He collected nothing except preVictorian furniture. With Camden a town dating to the 1760s, he soon developed quite a market there for his refinished furniture and antiques. Many of his pieces today still grace the antebellum homes of the town. Norman was a dear friend who helped me acquire bottles and advised me about a number of antique items. As a matter of fact, he gave me my first bottle book, a 1941 edition of George S. and Helen McKearin’s American Glass. Although not containing information on South Carolina Dispensary bottles, in time as I became more sophisticated in bottle collecting, it was of great help on many other items such as historical flasks. This initial success in searching for bottles hooked me on the hobby, so to speak. I concluded it would be fun to search for these artifacts which were just lying around waiting for me to pick them up. That’s the story of my beginning collecting bottles in the late 1950s. As a postscript, I eventually did purchase the Jefferson letter and all of the Rev. Cloer’s bottles.
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bottles have been mentioned a number of times. To the uninitiated, an explanation of what they are and how they came to be is in order. In the late fall of 1892, the State of South Carolina voted to go dry. Benjamin R. Tillman, governor of the time, personally drank very little, but thought if one wanted to take a drink, he should be able to do so. As an alternative to prohibition, he came up with a plan whereby the state would take over all of the alcoholic beverage business, sell these beverages and use the profits to pay for public education. Five of the Seven Dwarfs flank Snow White; figurines were dug by Teal. He was following the age-old principle of using “sin taxes,” so created in an effort to remove marginal land from to speak, to fund education. row crop planting and to reforest the land with pine On Christmas morning 1892, after much debate and trees. Certain number of dollars per acre were given to arm-twisting by Tillman, the South Carolina General participating landowners and a large percentage of them Assembly passed this plan and Tillman signed it into law; did. Consequently, vast areas of land changed use under what a Christmas present for the state! The legislation this program in the late ‘50s and ‘60s. created a state agency called the South Carolina Most tenant farming and sharecropping stopped in Dispensary. Through this agency, the state became the South Carolina. A migration by many former African wholesaler and the retailer of alcoholic beverages in Americans and some white sharecroppers and tenant South Carolina as of July 1, 1893. farmers began to the Northeast and Midwest from the Between December 25, 1892 and July 1, 1893, the South. This resulted in old farmsteads and homes being state set up the South Carolina Dispensary system. It abandoned all over rural South Carolina. Landowners contracted with distilleries for whiskey, with breweries often just left the old houses, barns and other buildings for beer and with glass houses to produce bottles and sitting in the middle of a former cotton field where they ship them into South Carolina. Dispensary workers at a had set up pine trees around them. Sometimes, timber bottling plant filled these bottles with booze, corked and companies also bought up land and set out pines. sealed them, glued on labels, and shipped them out to Almost none of the land was posted and it was easy retail stores in the counties. to get permission to look for bottles. A farmer would The bottles had the wording “S.C. Dispensary” and think you were a little peculiar, but if you just wanted the state symbol, a palmetto tree, embossed on them. to look for bottles, you must be harmless. I kind of had They came in shades of amber, clear glass, light blue free run of the area where I grew up because I knew the and light green, with varying shades of the green and farmers and the landowners there. blue. The light blue or the blue actually was sort of like When I went to an old homestead to look for bottles, the color of fruit jars of that era. I call it “fruit jar blue” I would look underneath the houses as well as in barns or aqua. I was to learn as I went along that they came and other buildings. I soon learned to look in the old in various sizes and shapes, too. As this reminiscence outhouses. Sometimes, the man of the house might have unfolds, the Dispensary and its bottles will be discussed been a sneak drinker and didn’t want the wife to know many more times. Eventually, I would author a book on it. If he had a bottle hid, when he emptied it, he might the topic. discard it in the outhouse.
Where Bottles Were Found In the late 1950s, the use of land was changing quite a bit in South Carolina, especially in the rural areas. A federal program called the “Soil Bank” was
I also looked where a family could have thrown away their junk. If there was a ravine behind the house, that was a good place, or perhaps a ditch. I knew the habits of people in the rural areas and knew most of them didn’t throw away a whole lot. More bottles turned up in the barns or the
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Trio of tall amber S.C. Dispensary quarts with embossed palmetto trees stand behind shot glasses.
Above: A pair of rare S.C.Dispensary whiskey jugs. Below: A fragment of a U.S.A. hospital bottle (like this whole example) was found at the bottom of a 60foot deep well dug by Teal and Friends
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smokehouses since rural folks frequently used bottles from times past for other purposes. This was especially true of jugs. A whiskey jug when emptied of whiskey could be refilled with molasses or even refilled with whiskey. It also would hold grape juice. Not only bottles, but ceramics, including Edgefield, South Carolina jugs, churns, jars, etc., turned up in the process of searching for bottles. My knowledge on that topic at the time was limited, but I knew these items were worth picking up. Since I was born in 1928, in my very early days in the 1930s some of the straight-sided Coca-Cola bottles were still in use. I drank out of them as well as the later 1915 and 1923 (Christmas Cokes) hobble skirt-designed Coke bottles. To me, these bottles were not very old and I didn’t consider them collectible. I didn’t bother picking them up. The Mason jars and fruit jars I saw around I didn’t bother with, either, since we still had them at home full of canned items. Those were items, though, that others then and later on were collecting. There were times when I went back to places where I had left these items and retrieved them on the second trip. On many occasions, I discovered I had been preceded by others. An older brother, J.R. Teal, was a rural mail carrier in the community where we grew up. He saw what I was doing and we’d talk about it. He began to ask some people on his mail route about old bottles. One day, he opened a mailbox on his route and there sat a South Carolina Dispensary bottle, with a note attached saying he could have the bottle. The mailbox owner was a very poor African American lady. Consequently, J.R. stopped, discussed the matter with her, gave her some money for the bottle and told her he would pay her for any others she could find. We wound up getting 25 or 30 bottles from her. We reached an agreement for her to show us where she was finding these bottles and we would still pay her for the bottles. We went down and dug (not really dug), but scratched out a dozen or more bottles from the debris of a rotted-down cabin. At the time, we were not digging for bottles. We thought that was crazy. If you could find them beneath a building or in a building, they weren’t going to be that dirty. Digging for bottles was yet to become one of our approaches to bottle collecting. My brother became interested and due to our interest, a younger brother, Curtis Teal, who lived nearby, also became interested. The three of us became a kind of team in looking for bottles in that area of Kershaw County. It wasn’t long before we branched out into other areas. At the time, I was living in Lexington County. Instead of returning to my old home territory, I began to look around that county with a friend, Lee R. Gandee. He was a fellow member of the Lexington County Historical Society and lived in an antebellum home in a rural area not far from
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University of South Carolina grad harvey Teal chuckles as his “pet” gamecock crows. the town of Lexington. Lee had found a dispensary bottle in his home and became interested in acquiring others. We visited many places in the area and found quite a number of bottles. My brothers joined me as we began to look in Lexington County where the state capital is located and in an area to the north known as Dutch Fork. We still approached bottle searching from the standpoint of old farmsteads and abandoned buildings and were being quite successful. If we didn’t find four or five dispensary bottles when we went out, we thought we had a bad day, This was taking place in the early ‘60s. There were other people now who got interested, not so much from what we were doing, but word gets out when people are finding bottles. There were one or two people in the Columbia area who had been out West and had been looking in abandoned ghost towns and gold mining towns. There were places out West where practically nobody had been around in 75 or 100 years. They picked up many bottles in and around those ghost towns. Interest in bottle collecting in the state was now beginning to blossom. It became somewhat of a national movement after World War II. There had been people who had collected what I term fine glass for a long time, but not just the more common everyday containers and the bottles we were finding. As time passed while we were collecting these bottles, we began to learn more about bottles in general. We were finding many other kinds of bottles besides South Carolina Dispensary bottles. If I could find artifacts like drug store bottles from
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Three Columbia Habenichts - bottle on right has Habernicht spelled with an “R,” an error. little towns with the names of the druggists embossed on the glass, and maybe a slogan like “He Puts Up Fine Prescriptions,” that’s a useful thing to have. This is a documentation of what’s going on or what had gone on in that community and such artifacts are worth saving. I began to reshape my collection into one of South Carolina bottles and jugs. As I collected, I learned there were topical categories of bottles such as inks, bitters, milks, sodas, spring waters, whiskies, beers and medicines. I learned there were national groups collecting in each of these categories and there were publications on them. This knowledge opened up and expanded my bottle collecting exponentially. My search now narrowed to finding and collecting South Carolina bottles from those categories. We began to hear stories about people in Charleston digging in privies and decided to investigate. We went down to Charleston, but didn’t have any tools. We knew nothing of digging privies or how you find them. We had no probes and you can’t find many bottles in Charleston without one. By using our usual approach of searching beneath buildings, we did find a few bottles that day. As time passed, we did learn how to find and dig privies in Charleston. However, local collectors were more successful than outsiders due to their more detailed knowledge of people and places to dig and their advantage from these factors in getting permission to dig in someone’s back yard or elsewhere. Later, I will discuss Charleston digging in more detail. Since I taught South Carolina history and had acquired knowledge about where old roads ran, where people of note lived, when and where wars were fought,
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where Revolutionary and Civil War campgrounds were, where historic bridges, taverns and homes were located or had been located, maintained membership in many historical groups, I had a leg up on most collectors. We branched out to some of these potential sites to search for bottles. We primarily looked for bottles where one was apt to discard them. We tried to put ourselves into the place of people living in a certain area in a certain time and imagined where they would have discarded bottles. Then we looked there. Being from the country and rural areas, I could spot old home sites quite easily. We were now using probes. If we went into the smokehouse, six inches under the ground we often would find bottles that had gotten covered with dirt and dust over time. We still were not digging much or very deep. My older brother mostly used a pitchfork to start with. He mined that area over where his rural mail carrier route was located and got lots and lots of bottles with that simple tool. He made contacts profitable to all of us. My brothers likewise profited from my contacts where I lived.
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Teal checks out a part of his massive bottle and eclectic collections.
Bottle Literature Just to possess the artifact was never satisfactory to me. I wanted to know as much as I could about it. I had already been given American Glass by Mr. Fohl and had begun to amass a library of bottle books. I soon began investigating the kinds of organizations which might have been around or if any existed where people of like interests could get together, discuss, read about and study bottles. Others who felt similarly led to the formation of bottle clubs and it also led to the development of bottle literature. Due to my experience in the hobby of collecting old documents, South Carolina postmarks and philatelic items, I knew if you seriously pursued any hobby you had to develop a library in that field. The more you knew about your field of collecting, the more advantage you had over other collectors who were primarily interested in possessing the artifacts. As the years passed, I spent many hours researching bottles and began studying the South Carolina Dispensary bottles very seriously. By 1967, I had moved from teaching in public schools to teaching South Carolina history over the state ETV network. I did that for a couple of years, then went to the S.C. Department of Education in 1969 where I was placed in charge of certain aspects of instructional television programming for the state’s public schools. My office was in Columbia across the street from the State Archives. This state agency had the S.C. Dispensary files in its collections. On my lunch hour, I started studying those files, looking toward identifying the glass companies that manufactured dispensary bottles. I was seriously studying that agency, looking toward publishing a book on the subject, which I eventually did. However, it would be 36 years before I did so. To develop a library on bottles as well as research them, I was constantly
Closeup of dispensary rum bottle with a whiskey top.
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on the lookout for books I did not have. I learned Dubose Heyward had written and published a book entitled The Half-Pint Flask in 1929. The plot of this story involved someone who stole a dispensary bottle off an African American grave and what happened to him as a result. At that time, much of the African American community in South Carolina was quite superstitious. That caused them to have burial practices somewhat different from their white counterparts. They frequently would place items like a piece of carnival glass, bottles and that sort of thing on a grave of the departed. Maybe it was the last bottle he took his medicine out of before his death – things like that. The dispensary bottle in the book had been placed on the grave by someone. Maybe a flower was in it originally. I don’t know. Heyward developed his story about all the bad things that began to happen to the bottle thief. That individual finally began to understand why he was having all these problems and returned the bottle. I concluded the book would be a good addition to my library and bought a copy. John Evans Eubanks had authored a history of the S.C. Dispensary in 1950 which was entitled Ben Tillman’s Baby. I went to Eubanks’ home in Augusta, Georgia and purchased a copy. It didn’t contain much about dispensary bottles, but it was a decent history of that state agency and helped me to understand its history. Several collectors began to develop little pamphlets on S.C. Dispensary bottles and other South Carolina bottles. As they were produced, I added a copy of most of them to my library. Bob Frazier produced a little dispensary bottle pamphlet of eight pages in 1969. Bobby Dawkins and a friend whose last name was Smith published a little pamphlet on bottles. In 1970, Leon Robinson and Joe Holcombe did a short book of some 20 pages on Charleston sodas. J.L. Jones developed an illustrated book on S.C. soft drink bottles and that sort of thing. During the 1960s, Dr. Kenneth Huggins, a local psychiatrist, had been buying dispensary bottles from collectors and dealers over the state and had amassed a very large collection. He decided to publish a book on the subject. He obtained permission from John Evans Eubanks to republish his 1950 book, along with a catalog of the collection Huggins had developed., He also included a price guide. During 1969-70, the state of South Carolina was celebrating its Tri-Centennial and it was my honor to be one of the commissioners who planned the celebration. Dr. Huggins appeared before our commission and proposed we endorse his effort to reproduce S.C. Dispensary bottles. Since the dispensary had started in 1893 and that date had nothing to do with our 300th birthday, we declined to endorse his effort. But he had the right to issue those reproductions if he wished to do so and he did. He created a set of the dispensary bottles embossed on their backs as souvenir bottles. These bottles had palm trees embossed on them There were a few clear ones and a few hundred amber, green and blue ones. This occurred before his book came off the press in 1971. Although a very good and useful book, I knew it was missing much other very useful information. It was missing much of the history of the glass houses, how many bottles they produced, what kinds of bottles they manufactured, where they were located, who the dispensers were, which counties had dispensaries, etc. There was just a whole host of information I sought to discover and had planned to put into my book that his did not contain. I stopped plans to publish at that time since the “market” likely would not support two books on the same subject. However, I kept all my notes and continued to research and collect information. All of that would lay fallow for many years. (To be continued) x
Teal shows off a clabber bowl decorated by Edgefield District potter Thomas Chandler. Bowl was found in pieces in a privy and restored by John Davis, of Savannah, Ga.
Here’s a closeup of the puce historical flask embossed Zachary Taylor/Old Rough & Ready on the front and Corn for the World (embossed stalk of corn) on the reverse. Teal refers to it in his history.
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Glass Works Auctions
The Official Auction Company of the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors is proud to present
The “MADNESS IN MANCHESTER’ Auction! Saturday evening, July 20th 2013 at the
Radisson of New Hampshire Expo Center, Manchester, New Hampshire. Over 100 select bottles, flasks and related items will be offered at public auction. This is the first Federation Convention ever, to be held in the New England States! And we expect it to be a real old-fashioned ‘Barn Burner’!
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The Official Auction Company of the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors Hear ye - Hear ye, Look for us and many more quality bottles and flasks at the big “MADNESS IN MANCHESTER’ Auction! Saturday evening, July 20th 2013 at the Radisson of New Hampshire Expo Center, Manchester, New Hampshire. General Jim and his ‘J’ team are scouring the country in search of quality pieces to join us in the auction. But why wait for the ‘J’ team to show up at your door. Give them a call and talk to the General himself or a member of the team about consigning to this important event!
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MALONEY’S PROCE S S Researching the Sources by Mark Wiseman
This bottle was a mystery for many years. This early blob soda with an unusually wide mouth has been found in Des Moines on a couple of instances in the past. It was believed to be from the 1860Õs or 1870Õs based upon items it had been found with the previous research I had done was based only on the he previous research done was basedThe1866-1867 only on the early Des Moines CityI had Directory listings. earlyMoines Des Moines City Directory listings. The1866-1867 Des City Directory listings are: ÒThos. Maloney Des Moines Cityand Directory listings97 are: “Thos.Frank Maloney Bakery Bakery confectionary Second, Maloney and Confectionary, 97 Second, Frank Maloney boards 97 Second”. boards 97 SecondÓ. The 1869 Des Moines City DirecThe 1869 Deslists: Moines City Directory tory ÒThomas Maloney, lists: dealer“Thomas in fruits Maloney, and confecdealer intionary, fruits and east side bet Walnut and Court eastconfectionary, side 2d bet Walnut and2d Court AvenueÓ, Avenue”,ÒMaloney “Maloney&&Shannon Shannon(Frank (FrankMaloney, Maloney,H.H.Shannon) Shannon) bakery and confectionary south side Locust 4th and bakery and confectionary south sidebet Locust bet 5th 4th east and side river, Maloney & Shannon) res with Thomas 5thFrank east side river,(Maloney Frank Maloney (Maloney & ShanMaloney”. Thomas Maloney also listed in the Maloney 1871 andwas 1873 non) res with Thomaswas MaloneyÓ. Thomas Des Moines a confectioner on Second also City listedDirectories in the 1871asand 1873 Des Moines City Street betweenDirectories Court Avenue Walnut Streets. The 1871 as aand confectioner on Second Streetdirectory betweenalso lists Maloney West confectionary on theThe east1871 side of the river on Court & Avenue and Walnut Streets. directory 5th Street between Walnut and Locust. also lists Maloney & West confectionary on the east side of the r iver Top on 5th S tree t be tweeProcess n Wal n uBottle t an d Image: Maloney’s Soda/Hutchison Bottle Locus t .
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In the 1860s and 1870s,some confectioners (candy makers) who also were bakers, would produce bottled flavored sweet drinks as a summer sideline or advertise for soda in their ice cream saloons. Early Des Moines drug stores were also producing and serving soda drinks their “in store” soda fountains. Fred Stehm, a noted mineral water, beer, and soda bottler in the Des Moines City Directory listings beginning in 1871, was listed as running a bakery and confectionary in the 1866 directory, and a bakery and fancy groceries store in the 1869 directory. It’s interesting to note Stehm’s business was at 68 and 70 Second street, just down the block from Thomas Maloney’s place of business. So for many years after the initial research was done for this bottle there was no proof or clear tie-in to put Thomas Maloney in the bottling buiness. I have been reading the 1860s and 1870s newspapers on Microfilm at the State Historical Library recently, researching the early Des Moines druggists. Reading these early newspapers is a tedious task, the ads are repetitive and were used sometimes for months at a time. The fine print local news is very spotty, but occasionally a good little nugget of information is found. I had found an east side business directory listing in The Des Moines Statesman dated November 30, 1869 for Maloney & West Confectionary Fifth Street between Court Avenue and Walnut East Des Moines. The Statesman microfilmed pages are “positive texts” (black on white) and reasonable to read. However, they are limited in years and I had to begin reading the Daily State Register and Iowa State Register newspapers for more dates and information and these are “negative texts” on the microfilm (white on black) and a little more difficult to read. I was bouncing around date-wise trying to find the druggists and ads, when in the May 30th, 1871 State Register I found the following advertisement. The same ad was running every day in the State Register from May 30th, 1871 to September 5th, 1871, in various columns of the daily paper, and then was never run again as far as I could read in the papers. Of important note in the ad is the first sentence which says, “We call attention to our process for bottling Soda.”There was the key word “process” on the bottle. Later in the ad, it says “We are now prepared to furnish the bottles, thimbles and preparations to dealers” There were the bottles for the “Process,” so how did it work? Thos. Maloney is listed as the “Patentee.” It was time to look for the patent. Unfortunately, multiple attempts on the U.S. Patent Office web site search pages were getting me nowhere without a patent date. I went back to reading more newspapers. I found the earliest ad from Mr. Maloney in the Daily State Register of Wednesday, June 7, 1865, for his “Ice Cream Saloon.” Then on
Top Image: May 30th, 1871 State Register Bottom Image: The “Daily State Register” of April 14, 1867
Friday, September 2, 1865, for his “Bakery and Confectionary” and on April 14, 1866, it sounded like he was just getting started in the confectionary business. Under “Something New,” I found a small type ad on September 19th,1867, “Maloney on Second Street, has just received 200 barrels of choice apples, which he will sell cheap.” So he was on Second Street. I found beginning on February 25th, 1868 a large ad for the “New England Mutual life Insurance Co. of Boston, Mass.” with a “Thos. Maloney Agt.” listed at the bottom, with no address given. This ad was running through most of 1868 in the Daily State Register. Maybe he was selling life insurance on the side. On the front page of the July 14th ,
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Top Image: Newspaper Ad, 1870’s for Confectionist Image to the right: Daily State Register, Wednesday, June 7, 1865
1868 Daily State Register I found the following small type editor’s article: “Maloney! Maloney!! Maloney!!!- That prince of eaterers whose headquarters on Second Street are so well known as to require no further finger-boarding in this article, yesterday, with characteristic liberality, invited the entire Register family from hold to hurricane deck, to a general cooking match, in his well-appointed ice cream saloons. In the language of John Chinaman now visiting the United States, the “American (Maloney) cooks very excellent ice cream.”” In the 1870 State Register, I found in the “Local Notices” column quite a few small type ads beginning on May 22nd, 1870. “Maloney’s ice cream has a reputation state wide. Remember that Maloney continues to furnish the best of ice cream, in quantities or by the dish. Maloney’s Ice Cream Parlors are as cool and inviting as ever, and his cream unexcelled.” On May 24th , I found: “Maloney will continue to furnish parties, evening gatherings & c, with the best Ice Cream at low rates, Hie to Maloney’s for the choicest kind of a dish of ice cream, his rooms are pleasant cool and comfortable.” On May 27th , I found: “Wholesale Confectionary dealers should not fail to examine the largest stock in the city at Maloney’s, second street. For the Trade Mr. Maloney has just received and has on hand one of the largest stocks of confectionary in the State, purchasers should take notice.” On July 19th , 1870, small ads in the Local Notices state: “Going to Maloney’s new rooms this evening?,
Elegant the new rooms Maloney has fitted up at the corner of Seventh and Walnut, to accommodate the lovers of Ice Cream. Maloney’s Opening this Evening! The excitement this evening will be at Maloney’s new ice cream rooms, corner of Seventh and Walnut Streets.” A longer small article from the editor followed: “Maloney’s Opening – A large proportion of our city readers are aware Maloney the popular Ice Cream man, has been fitting up a suit of rooms in the new Brick Block, at the corner of Walnut and Seventh streets, over Vincent & Co’s store. He will complete arrangements to-day, and this evening throw open to the public one of the most elegant suits of rooms in the West. His furniture, carpets, curtains, & c, are all new and tasty, the rooms are cool, airy and very pleasant, and his Cream is always conceded to be the best and never surpassed. Nothing will be overlooked that can add to the pleasure or comfort of his throngs of patrons, and our citizens cannot but feel under obligations to Mr. Maloney for this liberal manifestation of enterprise, and take a personal pride in it as one of the institutions of our city. Give him a crowded house this evening.” The July 22nd Local Notices contains: “Maloney is still dispensing his unexcelled Ice Cream at the old stand on Second Street, go there for nice fruit, confectionary, Ice Cream, & c.” It should be noted that Mr. Maloney had a lot of competition in the ice cream business. Other firms running small ads for their ice cream businesses’ over this time period included “Higgins & Carter, Pfau’s, Ewing &
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Top Image: March 19th , 1871 Iowa State Register Bottom Two Images: The Patent and Drawing Sketch
Walker, Shaffer, Will Cueler, and others. The 1870 Census was taken on the first day of August, and reveals Thomas Maloney age 37, MW, born in Ireland, a confectioner, with 5,000 dollars value in Real Estate. His wife Marina was 38 and from Pennsylvania. Living in the same dwelling was William F. Maloney age 22 (appears to be his brother) born in Wisconsin, also a confectioner and his wife Mary E. Maloney age 21. Two younger Maloneys are Julia, age 18, and Nettie, age 16. Also living in the same domicile are Ellen Thompson, age 23, from Norway; John Brown, age 17, from South Carolina, works in the confectionary, and Abram Miller, age 51, from Virginia also works in the confectionary. The Maloneys are not listed in the 1880 Des Moines Census. I had noticed now while reading all these newspapers that occasionally usually on Tuesday or Wednesday in the “Local Notices,” column there were short listings for “Western Patents” for the patents issued during the previous week, for the states of Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, and Wisconsin. This gave me a clue on how to find the patent date for the “Maloney’s Process.” But I would have to re-read a lot of newspapers in late 1870 and early 1871, and hope the patent was listed, because on some weeks there were no patents listed. I started in and finally found the listing in the Sunday March 19th , 1871 State Register, with the patent issued for the week ending March 14th , 1871. The patent was for Mineral Water, and after downloading some free software, I was able to search by the date March 14th , 1871. The search revealed 270 patents with that date. I could only go through them one at a time until I found the right one and it was on the184th patent I found Thomas Maloney’ s Letters Patent No. 112,610, “Improvements in the Manufacture of Bottled Mineral Water.” The patent describes the procedure of dropping the glass thimble of subcarbonate of soda or tartaric acid into the prepared liquid in the bottle (with the wide mouth) and then the bottle had to be quickly corked. The advertisement for Maloney’s Process had been run in the newspaper for just over three months in 1871 and apparently had not taken off as a business venture. We can only conjecture why this system did not catch on. Perhaps, it was the glass thimbles getting lost or broken, or interfering with pouring the fluid out of the bottle. Possibly the mixtures of either subcarbonate of soda, and tartaric acid were difficult to manipulate easily, or one of the constituent’s price may have risen enough to make it hard to compete with the locally established Fred Stehm’s bottling business. Whatever the reason, it does not appear Thomas Maloney pursued it very long, or at least gave up advertising it.
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In the “Local Notices” ads from June 12th to August 28th, 1872, in the Daily State Leader, Thomas Maloney has many small print ads including the following: June 12th: “Cool yourself at Maloney’s ice cream parlors;” June 15th: “Principe, New Capital and Captain Jinks cigars, soda water and ice cream at Maloney’s;” June 17th: “Try Maloney’s French and home-made candies;” June 18th: Try Maloney’s delicious ice cream this evening;”, June 22nd : “Nuts, fruits, and Cigars at Maloney’s;” June 26th: “Ice Cream, Soda, and Lemonade at Maloney’s;” “Home- made Chocolate drops at Maloney’s;” June 28th: “Tickle your taste with Maloney’s confectionary,” “Froze up last Night - Maloney’s fountain, but It’s running today strawberry, vanilla, lemon, or cream at Maloney’s;” July 3rd: “Ladies, a sour lip can be sweetened at Maloney’s,” Refreshing – The Soda at Maloney’s,” “Maloney’s parlor’s are the neatest and their cream the sweetest;” July 8th: “Fresh home made Candies at Maloney’s;” “Still they come, Everybody to Maloney’s for Ice Cream.” “The Thermometer is falling at Maloney’s Fountain;” July 12th: “Please return Maloney’s buckets.” “The best drink this hot weather is the Lemonade Maloney makes.” These small type one line ads in the “Local Notices” continue until August 28th,1872, and this type of advertising appears to be used by Maloney through the end of 1874, mostly in the warmer months of the year. Thomas Maloney is listed as a confectioner in the 1873-1874 Des Moines City Directory, with his brother W.F. Maloney listed as having a confectionary at 89 Walnut and both living at the same location on 2nd Street. The 1874-1875 City Directory lists W.F. Maloney as the proprietor of a confectionary and ice cream parlors with Thomas and W.F. living at 563 Seventh Street. The last listing for Thomas Maloney is in the 1877-1878 City Directory. His occupation is not listed and he is listed as residing at 514 Tenth Street, and W.F. Maloney is not listed after the 1874-1875 directory. At this time, I have not been able to determine the final facts concerning the Maloney’s exit from the Des Moines area. The ice cream saloon craze may have tapered off, or the competition was too strong, or maybe there were better opportunities elsewhere. The records do indicate that the Maloneys were very popular confectioners in the early 1870s and it appears even though Thomas Maloney received a patent for his “Maloney’s Process” for producing mineral water, he just was not able to make it a stand-alone business venture, and the few bottles that survived led me to his story. x
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Greg Dean 16 Gardenia Grove Burleigh Heads, Queensland 4220 61756682709 marlin10@deanantiques.com Pot lids
Raymond Stenseth 8941 S. Swan Cir St. Louis, MO 63144 314-843-1855 reugenes@aol.com Eye cups, eye wash bottles
Jerry Hemry PO Box 22486 Oklahoma City, OK 73123 405-602-2053 Jlhemry@aol.com Monmouth Pottery company & Dr Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New Discovery HE Bucklen Co.
Paul Vance 233 Longs Gap Rd. Carlisle, PA 17013 717-357-5667 Bottles and early glass
Bill Henness PO Box 574 Columbia, MO 65205 406-458-6548 bhenness@bresnan.net Montana bottles, Northern California gold country sodas, San Francisco & Sacramento colored sodas, colored cone inks
Notice to Members Please check your mailing label for correctness and your membership expiration date. This will insure you continue to receive Bottles and Extras without interruption. If moving, please send in a change of address, Contact: FOHBC Business Manager: Alan DeMaison, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077; phone: (H) (440) 358-1223, (C) (440) 796-7539 e-mail: a.demaison@sbcglobal.net
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Calendar of shows and related events FOHBC Sho-Biz is published in the interest of the hobby. Federation affiliated clubs are connotated with FOHBC logo. Insulator shows (courtesy of Crown Jewels) are indicated with an insulator. 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 Alan DeMaison, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077 or e-mail: a.demaison@sbcglobal.net Show schedules are subject to change. Please call before traveling long distances. All listings published here will also be published on the website: http://www.FOHBC.org
March 1 & 2 Deland, Florida 43rd Annual Deland Florida M-T Bottle Club Antique Bottle & Insulator Show and Sale, Bill Hestor Building, Volusia County Fairgrounds, 3150 E., New York Avenue, Deland, Florida 32738, Friday 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm, Saturday 8:00 am – 3:00 pm, Early admission: Friday, 4:00 – 7:00 pm and before 8:00 am Saturday $20. Regular Show hours: Saturday 8:00 am – 3:00 pm. Free Admission, Set up for dealers will be from 12:00 pm on Friday. Early Admission on Friday and before 8:00 am on Saturday is $20. Free Admission for everyone on Saturday during normal show hours. Deland Florida M-T Bottle Club, www.m-tbottleclub.com, Brian Hoblick, Club Vice President/Show Chairman, 11721 NW CR 236, Alachua, Florida 32615, 386.804.9635, hoblick@aol.com, Deland Florida M-T Bottle Club March 3 Baltimore, Maryland The club’s 33nd Annual Show and Sale will take place from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm at the Physical Education Center, Essex Campus of the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC-Essex), 7201 Rossville Boulevard, Rosedale, Maryland 21237. Admission $3.00. It is one of the most anticipated bottle shows by members of the bottle community nationwide. BaltimoreBottleClub.org. Information: Rick Lease – Show Chairman, 410.458.9405, finksburg21@comcast.net. March 8 & 9 Chico, California 47th Annual Antique Bottle, Insulator & Collectable Show and Sale, Friday 10:00 am – 7:00 pm, $5 admission, Saturday 9:00 – 4:00, Free admission, Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, Chico, California, Contact: Randy Taylor, PO Box 1065, Chico, California 95927, 530.518.7369, rtjarguy@aol.com
March 9 St. Joseph, Missouri 11th Annual NW Missouri Insulator/Bottle Show & Sale, American Legion Pony Express Post #359, 4826 Frederick Avenue, St. Joseph, Missouri 64506, Saturday 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Setup: Saturday 7:00 am, Free Admission, Missouri Valley Insulator Club, Contact: Darryl Wagner, 14615 NW Skyview Avenue, Smithville, Missouri 64089, 816.719.0801, kcinsulators@kcba.com March 17 Flint, Michigan The Flint Antique Bottle Collectibles Club will be hosting it’s 43rd Annual Show and Sale, on Sunday, 17 March from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. The show will be held at the Dom Polski Hall, 3415 N. Linden Road, Flint, Michigan, $2 admission, No early buyers. For Info: Tim Buda, 11353 Cook Road, Gaines, Michigan 48436, 989.271.9193, or e-mail tbuda@shianet.org March 17 St. Louis, Missouri 43rd St. Louis Antique Bottle Collectors Association Show, at a new location: Orlando’s, 4300 Hoffmeister Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63125, Sunday 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, No early admission, Set-up: Sunday 7:00 am – 9:00 am, Admission: $3 ($1 off with flyer/postcard/ad), St Louis Antique Bottle Collectors Assn., Contact: Patsy Jett, Show chair, 71 Outlook Drive, Hillsboro, Missouri 63050, 314.570.6917, patsy_jett@yahoo.com, March 22 & 23 Morro Bay, California The San Luis Obispo Bottle Society’s 45th Annual Show and Sale, Friday, March 22nd, 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm and Saturday, March 23rd, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm at the Morro Bay Veterans Hall, 209 Surf Street, Morro Bay California, Free admission and no charge to early birds. Info: Richard Tartaglia, Show Chairman,
Tele: 805.543.7484 or email Steve Mello dirtytiver53@gmail.com. March 23 Daphne, Alabama The Mobile Bottle Collectors Club’s 40th Annual Show & Sale, will be held on Saturday, 23 March 2013 from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. at the Daphne Civic Center, Whispering Pines Road and US Highway 98, Daphne, Alabama, Free Admission. Dealer Setup is Friday, 22 March from 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm and Saturday 7:00 am to 9:00 am. Contact: Rod Vining, 251.957.6725, Email: vinewood@ mchsi.com, or Richard Kramerich, PO Box 241, Pensacola, Florida 32591. 850.4355425. Email: daphnebottleshow@ gmail.com March 24 Bloomington, Minnesota 42nd Minnesota Antique Bottle, Advertising, and Stoneware Show & Sale, sponsored by Minnesota’s First ABC and North Star Historical Bottle Association. Located at the Crowne Plaza & Suites Airport, 34th Avenue South and American Boulevard, Bloomington, Minnesota 55425. Sunday, 24 March 2013, 9:30 am – 2:30 pm. No early admission. Set-up: Sunday 6:30 am – 9:30 am. Admission is $5.00. Info: Steve Ketcham, Box 24114, Edina, Minesota 55424, 952.221.0915 or steve@antiquebottledepot.com March 24 Enfield, Connecticut Yankee Polecat Insulator Club, Antique Insulator, Bottle & Collectibles Show, 8:00 am to 2:00 pm at the American Legion Hall, 566 Enfield Street (US Route 5), Enfield, Connecticit (Exit 49 off I-91). Insulators, Bottles, Railroadiana, Telephone & Telegraph Collectibles, Lightning Rod Equipment. Free Admission. Info: John Rajpolt, rajpolt@ earthink.net
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(More) Sho-Biz March 24 Brewerton, New york Empire State Bottle Collectors Association 43rd Annual Show and Sale, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm at the Brewerton Fire Hall, 9625 Rt. 11, Brewerton, New York, Contact: Dave Tuxill, 315.4690629, dtuxill1@ twcny.rr.com March 30 Athens, Georgia The second annual Athens Bottle & Pottery Show will be held at Country Inn & Suites, 236 Old Epps Bridge Road, Athens, GA 30606. Tables cost $35. Adults admission $5. Children 14 and under $1. 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. More information: Sam Evans, (706) 613-0224. April 6 St. Clairsville, Ohio The Ohio Valley Bottle Club is having a Bottle & Table Tops Antique Show, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm at our NEW location at the J.B. Martin Recreation Center, 102 Fair Avenue, St. Clairsville, Ohio (exit 216 off I-70 and drive 1.2 miles to the show), Admission $2.00, Info: Tom Chickery, 740.695.2958, tchick52@netscape.net April 7 Hutchinson, Kansas Kansas Antique Bottle & Postcard Show, at the State Fairgrounds, Sunflower South Building, Hutchinson, Kansas, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Free Admission, Awards for Displays, Free Appraisals, Information: Mike McJunkin, 42 Sunflower, Hutchinson, Kansas 67502, 620.728.8304, scarleits@ cox.net, Jim Hovious, 6617 N. Kent Road, Buhler, Kansas 67622, 620.200.1783, jimhovious@yahoo.com, Russ Gehring, 306 Charles, Hutchinson, Kansas, 67501, 620.663.4326, aclfreak@cox.net April 7 Tylersport, Pennsylvania 19th Annual Bucks-Mont Bottle Show & Sale, 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, early buyers 8:00 am at the Tylersport Fire Company, 125 Ridge Road, Tylersport, Pennsylvania, Contact: David Buck, 215.206.5878 or Greg Gifford, 215.669.5216
April 7 Dover, New Hampshire New England Antique Bottle Club 47th Annual Show & Sale, 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, early buyers 8:00 am at the Elks Club, 282 Durham Road, (Rt. 108), Exit 7 off Spaulding Turnpike, Dover, New Hampshire, Contact: Gerry Sirois, 207.773.0148 or Jack Pelletier, 207.839.4389 April 12 & 13 Antioch, California 47th Annual Golden Gate Historical Bottle Society’s Antique Bottle and Collectibles Show and Sale. This 2-day event takes place at the Contra Costa County Fairgrounds (Sunset Hall) in Antioch, California on Friday 12 April from Noon to 6:00 pm ($10 early admission fee) and Saturday,13 April from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm (Free Admission). Free walk-in appraisals and buyers available both days. You will find bottles, plus a wide variety of collectibles and “go-withs”. For more info, contact Gary or Darla Antone at 925.373.6758 or packrat49er@netscape.net April 13 Kalamazoo, Michigan The Kalamazoo Antique Bottle Club’s 34th Annual Show & Sale, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm, early buyers 8:00 am, at the Kalamazoo County Fairgrounds, 2900 Lake Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Info: John Pastor, P.O. Box 227, New Hudson, Michigan 48165, 248.486.0530, jpastor@ americanglassgallery.com or Mark McNee, 269.343.8393 April 20 Salisbury, North Carolina 7th Piedmont Bottle & Pottery Club Show and Sale, Salisbury Civic Center, 315 S. Martin Luther King Avenue, Salisbury, North Carolina 28144, Saturday, 8:00 am to 2:00 pm, No Early Admission, Set-up: 6:30 am, Piedmont Bottle & Pottery Club, Contact: Jimmie Wood 704.692.7888 or Chuck Rash 704.732.0373, ncmilks@ carolina.rr.com
April 21 Harrisonburg, Virginia Historical Bottle Diggers of Virginia 42nd Annual Antique Bottle and Collectible Show & Sale, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm at the Rockingham County Fairgrounds, U.S. Rt 11 South, (Exit 243 off I-81), Harrisonburg, Virginia, Contact: Sonny Smiley, 540.434.1129, lithiaman1@yahoo.com April 21 Rochester, New york The Genesee Valley Bottle Collectors Association’s 44th Annual Bottle Show & Sale (Table Top Antiques, Paper & Postcards) at Roberts Wesleyan College – Voller Center, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Admission $4.00, www.gvbca.org Show and Dealer Chairs: Aaron Weber, gvbca@frontiernet.net and Pam Weber gvbca@frontiernet.net, 585.226.6345 April 27 Aiken, South Carolina The Horse Creek Bottle Club’s 5th annual Antique Bottle & Pottery Show and Sale, H. Odell Weeks Activities Center, 1700 Whiskey Road, Aiken, S.C. Free admission (no early birds), free parking, free appraisals. Small antiques and collectibles. Signings by book authors. Donations accepted to benefit Valley Outreach Interfaith Center Food Bank. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. More information: Geneva Greene at 1 (803) 593-2271. May 2 – 5 Las Vegas, Nevada International Perfume Bottle Association’s Convention, 25th Silver Anniversary!, Tropicana – Las Vegas, 3801 Las Vegas Boulevard South, Las Vegas, Nevada 89109; 702.739.5445, Thursday thru Sunday – Friday night auction is a public event – Saturday and Sunday are public events to the Exhibition/Vendor Hall, For all details please contact Deborah Washington, Convention is for members only International Perfume Bottle Association, www.perfumebottles.org, 773.324.7124, brasslady@comcast.net
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(More) Sho-Biz May 4 & 5 Caloundra, Queensland Australia, Sunshine Coast Antique and Collectables Club hosts the Australian National Bottle Show, Caloundra Indoor Sports Stadium, North Street, Caloundra, Queensland Australia. Public: Saturday 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, Sunday 9:00 am – 3:00 pm. Dealer set-up, Friday 2:00 pm – 8:00 pm. Contact Club Secretary Lyn Foster, Tele: + 61 7 5494 1106, email: coastalsigns@pacifictelco.com.au or Club President Peter Watts, Tele: + 61 7 5441 3692, email: joyce_watts@bigpond.com May 4 Gray, Tennessee The State of Franklin Antique Bottles & Collectibles Association’s 15th Annual Show & Sale, Appalachian Fairgrounds, 100 Lakeview Street, Gray, Tennessee 37615, Saturday, 04 May from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, No Early Admission, Set-up: Saturday, 04 May from 7:00 am – 9:00 am, Free Admission, Club: State of Franklin Antique Bottles & Collectibles Association, sfabca.com, Info: Melissa Milner, show chairman, 230 Rock House Road, Johnson City, Tennessee 37601, 423.928.4445, mmilner12@chartertn.net May 5 Antioch, Illinois Antique Bottle Club of Northern Illinois, 38th Annual Antiques, Bottles and Collectables Show and Sale at the Antioch Senior Center, 817 Holbeck, Antioch, Illinois 60002, Open to customers 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. No early admission and no early birds, Set-up: Sunday morning 7:00 am to 9:00 am, Free admission and free appraisals, Antique Bottle Club of Northern Illinois, Contact: John Puzzo, Show Chairman, 679 Dane Street, Woodstock, Illinois, 60098, 815.338.7582, johnpuzzo@sbcglobal.net, FOHBC Member Club May 5 Utica, New york 19th Annual Mohawk Valley Antique Bottle Club Show at the Italian Cultural
Center former Sons of Italy, 644 Bleecker Street, Utica, New York 13501, Sunday, 9:00 am – 2:30 pm, No early admission, Set up: Sunday 7:00 am, $3.00 Admission, Mohawk Valley Antique Bottle Club, mohawkvalleybottleclub.com, Peter Bleiberg, Show Chairman, 7 White Pine Road, New Hartford, New York 13413, 315.735.5430, PMBleiberg@aol.com May 11 Mansfield, Ohio The Ohio Bottle Club’s 35th Mansfield Antique Bottle & Advertising Show & Sale, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Early Buyers Friday 3:00 to 6:00 pm at the Richland County Fairgrounds, Mansfield, Ohio. Info: Bill Koster, 330.690.2794 or Ohio Bottle Club, P.O. Box 585, Barberton, Ohio 44203, www.ohiobottleclub.org May 18 Coventry, Connecticut Museum of Connecticut Glass 9th Annual Outdoor Bottle and Glass Show, Including Exhibits/Tours (200th anniversary of startup of Coventry Glass Factory. 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, early buyers: 8:00 am, www. glassmuseum.org, Museum of Connecticut Glass, Rt. 44 & North River Road, Coventry, Connecticut, Contact: Noel Tomas, 27 Plank Lane, Glastonbury, Connecticut 06033-2523, 860.633.2944, lsamot@cox.net May 19 Washington, Pennsylvania Washington County Antique Bottle Clubs 39th Annual Show & Sale, 9:00 am til 2:00 pm at the Alpine Star Lodge, 735 Jefferson Avenue (Exit 17 off I-70), Washington, Pennsylvania 15301, Admission $3.00, Info: Ed Kuskie, 352 Pineview Drive, Elizabeth, Pennsylvania 15037, 412.405.9061 May 30 - June 1 Grantville (Hershey), Pennsylvania 33rd National Association of Milk Bottle Collectors (NAMBC) Annual Convention at the Holiday Inn in Grantville at the junctions of Interstates 80 and 81. For more information visit www.
milkbottlecollectors.com or email Penny Gottlieb, PennyGottlieb18@gmail.com June 1 Ballston Spa, New york Annual Saratoga Bottle Show, Ballston Spa High School, 220 Ballston Avenue, Ballston Spa, New York 12020, Saturday, 9:30 am to 3:00 pm, No Early Admission, Set-up: Friday, 31 May, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm and Saturday, 01 June, 7:00 am to 9:00 am, Admission: $3.00 Adult, $1.00 Children under 12, National Bottle Museum, nationalbottlemuseum. org, Roy Topka, chairman, 4 Firestone Lane, Clifton Park, New York 12065, 518.779.1243, rmt556@yahoo.com June 8 Atlanta, Georgia 43rd Atlanta Antique Bottle Show & Sale, Smyrna Community Center, 200 Village Green Circle, Smyrna, Georgia, 30080, Saturday, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Early admission is 6:00 am to 9:00 am Saturday, Set-up: Saturday 6:00 am to 9:00 am, Admission: $3.00 regular and $10.00 for early admission, Contact: Jack Hewitt, Co-Chairman, 1765 Potomac Court, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30043, 770.963.0220, hewittja@bellsouth.net June 8 San Diego, California San Diego 2013 Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show & Sale, Al Bahr Shrine Temple, 5440 Kearny Mesa Road, San Diego, California 92111, Show time: 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Early Admission: 8:00 am to 9:00 am – $10.00, Set-up: Saturday, 7:30 am, Admission: 9:00 am to 12:00 pm $2.00; Noon to 3:00 pm free admission, Antique Bottle Club of San Diego, www.sdbottleclub.org, Jim Walker, 858.490.9019, jfw@internetter.com June 22 Tallahassee, Florida 7th Annual Tallahassee Antique Bottle Show & Sale, at the North Florida Fairgrounds, 441 Paul Russell Road, Tallahassee, Florida 32301, Saturday, June 22nd – show starts
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(More) Sho-Biz at 9:00 am and closes at 3:00 pm. Early Admission: Friday, June 21st – dealer set up beginning at 3:00 pm; early bird/buyer starts at 5:00 pm, Set up – Friday 3:00 pm; Saturday 8:00 am, $3 admission; early admission on Friday is $15 and includes a dinner, Visit Florida Bottles, www. floridabottles.com, Contact: Britt Keen, 1140 Renae Way, Tallahassee, Florida, 850.294.5537, britt_keen@hotmail.com June 28 & 29 Reno, Nevada 50th Annual Reno Antique Bottle Show at the Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 East Second Street, Reno, Nevada, 89595, Show Hours: Friday 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, Saturday 9:00 am – 4:00 pm, Friday Early Lookers 9:00 am for $10, Saturday General Admission 9:00 am $5, Grand Sierra Resort rooms $89 per night Promotion Code – Antq6, Tele: 800.501.2651, Reno Antique Bottle Club, Contact Helene Walker for Contracts, P.O. Box 1061, Verdi, Nevada 89439, 775.345.0171, Rosemuley@Att.net July 19 – 21 Nashville, Tennessee The National Insulator Association’s 44th Annual Show & Convention, at the Franklin Marriott Cool Springs, 700 Cool Springs Blvd., Franklin, Tennessee 37067, Capacity for 135+ dealer tables, 25+ Display tables, Raffles & Walk-in appraisals, Incentives for early sales table registration. July 20 & 21 Manchester, New Hampshire Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors presents the 2013 National Antique Bottle Show, at the Radisson New Hampshire Expo Center, 700 Elm Street, Manchester, New Hampshire 03101, 1.800.967.9033. Banquet is on Friday evening, 19 July 2012. Quality collectors from across the USA will be gathered for the first National Show to be offered in New England. Visit FOHBC.org for more information or contact Michael George, 603.765.8079, earlyglass@gmail.com
July 27 Birmingham, Alabama 10th Annual Birmingham Antique Bottle & Folk Pottery Show, Bessemer Civic Center, 1130 9th Ave SW, Bessemer, Alabama 35022, Saturday, 27 July from 8:00 am thru 3:00 pm, Early Buyers on Friday, 26 July from 4:00 pm thru 8:00 pm, Dealer Set up Friday, 26 July from 4:00 pm thru 8:00 pm, Saturday FREE Public Admission; Friday Early Buyers $10, Alabama Bottle Collectors, www.alabamabottlecollectors.com, Tom Lines, Show Chairman, PO Box 382831, Birmingham, Alabama 35238, 205.410.2191, albottlecollectors@hotmail.com August 10 Vicksburg, Mississippi 15th Annual Vicksburg Antique Bottle Collectors Annual Show & Sale, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm at the Battlefield Inn, 4137 I-20 N. Frontage Road, Exit 4-B, Vicksburg, Mississippi, Admission: $2.00, Info: Russell Schaffer, russll2@bellsouth.net August 17 Urbana, Ohio 4th Annual Urbana, Ohio Antique Bottle and Jar Show at the 4-H Building, Champaign County Fairgrounds, 384 Park Avenue, Urbana, Ohio 43078, Saturday, 9:30 am – 3:00 pm, No early admission. $1.00 Admission Benefits a Junior 4-H Council, Antique bottles, fruit jars, flasks, inks, stoneware, milks, insulators, bitters, advertising and more. Held in conjunction with the Urbana Paper and Advertising Show, Information: John Bartley, PO Box 53, North Hampton, Ohio 45349, 937.964.8080 or jbartley@woh.rr.com September 22 Indianapolis, Indiana The Indianapolis Circle City Antique Bottle Club will host their 1st Annual Show. There is limited space for about 60 tables. Setup 7:00 am to 9:00 am, Show hours: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm. Indianapolis Marriott East, 7202 East 21st Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46219. Club Sponsored event – Guaranteed to happen. Tables are already going fast. For
dealer/show information contact Martin Van Zant, 208 Urban Street, Danville, Indiana, 812.841.9495, mdvanzant@yahoo.com September 22 Buffalo, New york 15th Annual Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association Annual Show and Sale at the Polish Falcons Hall, 445 Columbia Avenue, Depew, New York 14043, Show Time: Sunday, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Set-up: from 7:00 am to 9:00 am, Admission: $2.00, children under 12 free, Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association, gbbca.org, Info: Joe Guerra, Secretary, 29 Nina Terrace, West Seneca, New York 14224, 716.674.5750, jguerra3@ roadrunner.com September 28 Memphis, Tennessee The Memphis Bottle Collectors Club presents their 28th Annual Antique Bottle & Advertising Show at Agricenter International, 7777 Walnut Grove Road, Memphis, Tennessee 38120, Collectors from 25 States, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm, Early Admission Available, Admission $5.00, www.memphisbottleclub.com, Show Chairman: Gene Bradberry, 3706 Deerfield Cove, Bartlett, Tennessee 38135, Tele: 901.372.8428 or 901.359.8428 August 1 – 3 2014 Lexington, Kentucky Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors presents the 2014 National Antique Bottle Show, at the Lexington Convention Center, 430 West Vine Street, Lexington, Kentucky 40507, 859.233.4567. Banquet is on Friday evening, 01 August 2014. Lexington is a historic city (founded 1775) located at the cross-section of Interstate 64 and 75. Louisville, KY and Cincinnati,OH are just an hour away. Lexington has many area attractions including: Ashland (Henry Clay’s Home), Mary Todd Lincoln’s House, Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill, and thoroughbred horse farms. Visit FOHBC. org. Sheldon Baugh and Randee Kaiser will be serving as co-show chairpersons. Stay tuned for more information.
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Membership Benefits The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors cordially invites you to join a dedicated group of individuals and clubs who collect, study and display the treasured glass and ceramic gems of yesteryear. The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors (FOHBC) is a non-profit organization supporting collectors of historical bottles, flasks, jars, and related items. The goal of the FOHBC is to promote the collection, study, preservation and display of historical bottles and related artifacts and to share this information with other collectors and individuals. Federation membership is open to any individual or club interested in the enjoyment and study of antique bottles. The Federation publication, Bottles and Extras, is well known throughout the hobby world as the leading publication for those interested in bottles and “go-withs”. The magazine includes articles of historical interest, stories chronicling the hobby and the history of bottle collecting, digging stories, regional news, show reports, advertisements, show listings, and an auction directory. Bottles and Extras is truly the place to go when information is needed about this popular and growing hobby. In addition to providing strength to a national/international organization devoted to the welfare of the hobby, your FOHBC membership benefits include: • A full year subscription the Federation’s official bi-monthly publication, Bottles and Extras • One free ad per yearly membership of 100 words for use for “wanted” items, trade offers, etc. • Eligibility for a discount at FOHBC sponsored shows (National or EXPOs) towards “early admission” or dealer table rent • Access to a knowledge of the world of antique bottle collecting unavailable elsewhere • Contact information for clubs devoted to the study of historical bottles • A forum for your writings, articles, and editorials regarding the hobby • Participation in the nomination and selection of Federation members for the Honor Roll and Hall of Fame • Federation-sponsored writing, show poster, and newsletter-design contests • Free publication assistance for your book or manuscript • And more... We encourage Affiliated Bottle Club memberships by offering these additional benefits to your group: • Display advertising in Bottles and Extras at an increased discount of 50% • Insertion of your bottle club show ad on the Federation website to increase your show’s exposure • Links to your club website free of charge, as well as assistance with the creation of your website • Free Federation ribbon for Most Educational Display at your show • Slide programs for use at your club meetings • Participation in Federation sponsored insurance program for your club show and any other club sponsored activities Finally… We need your support! Our continued existence is dependent upon your participation as well as expanding our membership. The Federation is the only national organization devoted to the enjoyment, study, preservation, collection, and display of historical bottles. The FOHBC welcomes individuals who would like to contribute by running for Board positions or by sharing their expertise and volunteering their talents in other areas of interest such as contributions to our publications, assistance with the Federation’s National and EXPO shows, or through membership promotion. If you haven’t yet joined our organization, please do so and begin reaping the benefits. If you are already a member, please encourage your friends and fellow collectors to JOIN US!! For more information, questions, or to join the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, please contact:
Alan DeMaison 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077 phone: (H) (440)-358-1223, (C) (440)-796-7539 e-mail: a.demaison@sbcglobal.net or visit our home page on the web at FOHBC.org
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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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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: Alan DeMaison, FOHBC Business Manager 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville OH 44077 (440)-358-1223 or a.demaison@sbcglobal.net
Clearly Print or Type your Ad Send to: Alan DeMaison FOHBC Business Manager 1605 Clipper Cove Painesville, OH 44077 or better yet, email Alan at: a.demaison@sbcglobal.net
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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Pictured Left: Washington - Classical Bust And “Baltimore X Glass. Works.” Portrait Flask in screaming yellow from Baltimore Glass Works, Baltimore, Maryland, 1840-1860.
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