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Table of Contents FOHBC Officer Listing 2010-2012 ..... 2 Collecting Hobbleskirt Coca-Cola Bottles

By Bill Porter ...................................... 20 President’s Message ............................. 3 Richmond Virginia Club was Organized Recent Finds ......................................... 4 in 1969

By Dick Wilcox .......................................22 At Auction............................................. 5 The Largest Fruit Jar Collection in the World Shards of Wisdom ................................ 6

By Rick Natynski ....................................25 A Book in Review .............................. 10 The Buffalo Girls

By Jim “Slim” Wiberger .......................29 Letters ................................................11 The Golden Hills: Ohio’s Whisky Franchise Ancient Glass at the Getty Villa

By Jack Sullivan ............................... 38

By Dave Maryo ............................13 Dixie Jewels Insulator Club’s Swap Meet a The Chase Big Success

By Teresa Harris........................... 14

By Bill Baab ......................................47 A Bottle Collector’s Adventures in Legends of the Jar!: Darrell Plank Guam

By Bruce W. Schank ........................... 44

By Jennings Bunn .........................16 Teething Pains Haviland & Co. known for porcelain,

By Joe Terry....................................... 49 but how about those drugstore bottles?

By Bill Baab ............................... 18 Am I a Collector or Investor

By Jim Bender .............................52

The Wrath of Scurvy

By Donald Yates ..........................55 Classic Coca-Cola Sign Points to Refreshment in Quito, Ecuador

By Monica Elling .........................58 Gambrinus Brewery Named after Mythical German King Gambrinus, Inventor of Brewing and the Toast

By Garth Ziegenhagen .................59 LAHBC Club Member’s Visit to the Robert Frank Museum

By Dave Maryo............................61 Patti’s Privy

By Martin Van Zant .....................63 Classified Ads & Ad Rate Info ...........65 FOHBC Show-Biz Show Calendar Listings ..............67 Membership Additions and Changes ....69 Membership Application.....................71 Membership Benefits.................................72

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

FOHBC Officers 2010-2012 President: Gene Bradberry, PO Box 341062, Memphis, TN 38184; phone: 901-372-8428; e-mail: Genebsa@comcast.net First Vice-President: Bob Ferraro, 515 Northridge Dr, Boulder City, NV 89005; phone: 702-293-3114; e-mail: mayorferraro@aol.com.

Second Vice-President: Ferdinand Meyer V, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; phone: 713-222-7979; e-mail: fmeyer@fmgdesign.com.

Secretary: James Berry, 200 Fort Plain Watershed Rd, St. Johnsville, NY 13452; phone: 518-568-5683; e-mail: jhberry10@yahoo.com Treasurer: Gary Beatty, 3068 Jolivette Rd., North Port, FL 34288; phone: 941-276-1546; e-mail: tropicalbreezes@verizon.net Historian: Richard Watson, 10 S Wendover Rd, Medford, NJ 08055; phone: 856-983-1364; e-mail: crwatsonnj@verizon.net Editor: Martin Van Zant, 208 Urban St, Danville, IN 46122; phone: 812-841-9495; e-mail: mdvanzant@yahoo.com.

Merchandising Director: office vacant Membership Director: Jim Bender, PO Box 162, Sprakers, NY 12166; phone: 518-673-8833; e-mail: jim1@frontiernet.net Conventions Director: Tom Phillips, 6645 Green Shadows Ln., Memphis, TN 38119; phone: 901-277-4225; e-mail: tomlisa.phillips@gmail.com

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 Director-at-Large: Carl Sturm, 88 Sweetbriar Branch, Longwood, FL 32750; phone:407-332-7689; e-mail: glassmancarl@sprintmail.com Director-at-Large: Sheldon Baugh, 252 W Valley Dr, Russellville, KY 42276; phone: 270-726-2712; e-mail: shel6943@bellsouth.net Director-at-Large: John Pastor, PO Box 227, New Hudson, MI 48165; phone: 248-486-0530; e-mail: jpastor@americanglassgallery.com Midwest Region Director: Randee Kaiser, 2400 CR 4030, Holts Summit, MO 65043; phone: 573-896-9052; e-mail: pollypop47@yahoo.com Northeast Region Director: Ed Kuskie, 352 Pineview Dr, Elizabeth, PA 15037; phone: 412-405-9061; e-mail: bottlewizard@comcast.net.

Southern Region Director: Jack Hewitt, 1765 Potomac Ct, Lawrenceville, GA 30043; phone: 770-856-6062, e-mail: hewittja@bellsouth.net.

Western Region Director: Dave Maryo, 12634 Westway Ln, Victorville, CA 92392; phone: 760-617-5788; e-mail: dmaryo@verizon.net Public Relations Director: Pam Salenak, 156 S. Pepper St., Orange, CA 92868; phone: 714-633-5775; e-mail: pselenak@yahoo.com

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FOHBC’s President’s Message gene BradBerry

901-372-8428 genebsa@comcast.net I start this month’s message on a sad note as the hobby has lost one of its fine and dedicated members, Barbara Harms of Riverdale, Illinois. Barbara served the Federation for many years as treasurer as well as her local club in Chicago. She, along with her husband Bob, could be seen at shows all around the country supporting the hobby and the Federation. Our thoughts and prayers go out to her immediate family as she will be sorely missed.

As I have mentioned previously, we are looking at a set of Code of Ethics and we will be discussing them in the months to come. More on this later.

Our website is looking great and getting better all of the time. I encourage each of you to be contributors to it. You may do so by contacting Ferd Meyer at fmeyer@fmgdesign. com and making your contribution and/or suggestions on how to improve it. We are always open to suggestions.

Remember, member clubs, we will be glad to post your show flyer as well as your contracts and information sheets on our website. What a great way to promote your show.

Also remember that FREE liability insurance is available to ALL MEMBER CLUBS. If each club were to purchase this coverage individually it would cost the club $400 to $600 and you get it from the Federation for an annual dues of only $75. IS THE FEDERATION WORKING FOR YOU? YOU BET WE ARE !

Again, just a reminder to all members. Why not start a club in your area? They are great fun and what better way to promote the hobby. Through our local club I met Tom

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Phillips, the Federation Conventions Director, when he was just 13 years old. He is now over 50 and has been a consistent collector all of these years. That also goes the same for Ed Provine, the former secretary for the Federation. I met Ed in 1969 and I would be hard-pressed to count the number of shows Ed and I have travelled to together. I could go on and on about the number of lasting friendships that I have developed over the years from this hobby. Fun and fellowship is what the hobby is all about. Oh, by the way, it doesn’t hurt to pick up a rare bottle now and then either.

HA! I am looking forward to a great new year in 2012 and I encourage you to get your reservations in for EXPO 2012 in Reno, Nevada. I am looking forward to a great time there. The nominating committee, chaired by Tom Lines, of Birmingham, Alabama, is busily at work getting a slate of officers for 2012-2014. If you have an interest in being an officer you may contact him at Bluecrab1949@hotmail. com. The nominating committee’s slate will be printed in the January-February issue of Bottles & Extras and you will have until April 1 to nominate someone if you so desire. A nomination form will be available on the website.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish each of you a Happy Thanksgiving, and a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

As always, LET’S KEEP THE FUN IN BOTTLE COLLECTING! Gene Bradberry, President

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

(This is not legal advice, please consult an attorney) I give and bequeath to the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, PO Box 341062, Memphis, TN 38184, the sum of $______________ to be used as its Board of Directors determines.

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

Thank you for considering us in your donation plans.

Gene Bradberry, President Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors

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Recent Finds Antique Water Bottles I have two antique water bottles that I have been trying for years to learn more information about and maybe their worth. I was directed your way by another bottle collector, hoping that maybe you could help me. I’ll try to describe the bottles that I have hoping that maybe you know of them.

The bottles have on the top of the porcelain cap (surrounding the outer ring) “W.T. Wagner’s Sons Cincinnati,O.” In the middle of the cap it says “absolutely pure distilled water.” The cap is held down by wire. On the underneath side of the cap it ( the writing is very worn and very faint) has a patent date of Feb.,18??..(can’t read last 2 figures of the year).

The bottles stand approximately 14 inches tall and are about 4 1/2 inches wide at base. About 8 inches from the bottom is the neck as it goes to top of bottles. The bottles are clear glass and have no inscribed or paper labels or writing on their sides. Hopefully, you may know or could find info about the bottles. I’d be very grateful if you could help me in research of these bottles. Thank you very much.

Sincerely, Paul Comer comerp50@yahoo.com Bubbles in the glass My dishwasher broke recently and I had to wash my dishes by hand this morning. I noticed that one of my canning jars had bubbles in the glass. I thought that that was kind of strange and probably very old.

On the side it said, “ATLAS [newline] STRONG SHOULDER [newline] MASON”. So, I looked that phrase up and www.about.com” said that having seams

meant that it was younger than 1915. On the bottom can barely be seen the number “5.” There are no other identifying marks.

What do you think and is this jar worth anything?

Attached is a photograph of my new found treasure.

Sincerely, Roger Bird Colorado Springs, Colorado rogerbird@msn.com Recent Bottle Dig Hello, its nice to see the weather finally clearing up. We have had several good bottle meetings already and I can’t wait till the next one. I have been out and about looking for those goodies. The goodies seem to be fewer and fewer, and almost always in someone else’s hand. That’s the way it goes, as my dad would always say, “snooze you lose”.

I was out with my friend the other day and we were looking for a future digging spot. I told Richard, maybe we should put the tools in the truck. Thank goodness we did, as sure enough there was a little construction going on. We parked the truck to examine our curiosities. I noticed a privy was sticking right out of this great big excavated spot. I told Richard that perhaps as privyologist we should check it out.

The privy had the top 6 feet cut off for us. This is my type of diggin right here. The first 3 or 4 feet usually isn’t all that great anyway. They filled this crapper with well, some crappy bottles for sure.

However, there were a lot of them so this made it kind of fun. Also this was on the side of a hill almost so there was no fill in or anything, scope it out. There were mustards and ketchups and Indianapolis brewing and more ketchups, perfumes and more ketchups. Oh, and for you milk guys there were 2, half pint milks from polks (aqua). This was still a fun dig.

The weird thing is that usually at the bottom, you can sometimes find older and better stuff. Not on this pit, because the bottom was black and thick mucky nasty dirty dirt. It was so black and mucky and empty, that I couldn’t believe it. There were hardly even any shards in this thing.

It seems like they cleaned it out, used it (for about however long it took to build afoot layer) and then filled it in. We enjoyed it, and took home three buckets of bottles. Most of them dated to around the 1900’s. They were all bi-mold and pre-machine made.

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CD 726 ...Unmarked. ... Bright purple. ... The CD 726 has been found in widespread areas along Canadian railways, ranging from Ontario to the Maritime Provinces.

Some have surfaced on railways which were completed in 1869 and 1870, indicating this style was likely produced into the late 1860’s and possibly the early 1870’s.

They have been found in a rainbow of exotic colours, ranging from the more readily available aquas, various blues, a couple green shades, purple, and cranberry red. Blackglass purple and a couple variations of blackglass olive and olive amber have also been reported.

The Canada Glass Works, in what is now Hudson, Quebec, is known to have produced threadless insulators including some CD 726’s. The company manufactured various types of glassware including bottles and ornamental wares such as lamps, thus utilizing a wide range of glass colours.

A couple internal stress fractures and a couple surface fish-eyes. This purple example is in better condition than any offered for sale in the past several years! The small number of known purple examples are currently locked solidly into collections. Dale Evoy collection.

places it as one of the most desirable Canadian threadless in existence.

Extremely crude, textured surface adds wonderful character. Flat dome chip and a flat base chip. An item for the collector seeking the ultimate coloured threadless collection! Dale Evoy collection.

CD 158.6 . new CD Number ...

Skirt embossed: . J. SLATER LEWIS. BIRKENHEAD ENG. .PATENT. ..

Base embossed: (GRAY) & HAM PATENT .NO. 8532 . 1884 ... Rich blue aqua. ... Two segmented interior threading, consistent with some early New England glass production.

A United States patent was issued on May 1, 1883 to J. Slater Lewis for an insulator with a spiral top and accompanying metal clip for attachment to a line wire. The base embossing is in reference to a patent issued to Lawrence Gray and Joseph Ham of Boston, Massachusetts for a method of forming threads in glass insulators using a contractible threaded plunger.

Approximately 10 of these insulators were found in 2010 at the site of the Lyndeborough Glass factory in CD 718 ... Unmarked.... Dark smoke. ... Circa 1860’s. A unique and highly unusual colour! Various Lyndeborough, New Hampshire. Most were specimens with heavy damage. This insulator was the best example colour tones are recovered. Only a couple other units were in respectable evident, including condition. A great and historical rarity, which should be smoke, amethyst of special interest to CD collectors and those seeking and ginger ale. unique rarities. One of the most exciting insulator Insulator discoveries in recent years! Repair to a portion of the collector Morgan reverse skirt area.

Davis reports Thanks to Pole Top Discoveries digging this item Ray Klingensmith along a railway in P.O. Box 628 Nova Scotia many Parkman, OH 44080 years ago. To date, it 440.548.5408 is the only example ray@glassdiscoveries.com known. The highly ray@poletop.com unusual colouration

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The Dr. Pepper Wars Corporate headquarters sues and is sued by tiny Texas bottler: DUBLIN, Texas – Small-town Dublin Dr. Pepper claims its big corporate parent is trying to drive it out of business, according to a story by NBC Dallas-Fort Worth.

Residents in the Texas town located about 120 miles outside Dallas are rallying behind the Dublin brand with a music video and the Facebook page, “I support Dublin Dr. Pepper.”

Earlier this summer, Plano, Texasbased Dr. Pepper Snapple Group Inc., sued the Dublin-based distributor for unauthorized use of its logo and for selling the sugar-based soda outside an agreed-upon territory.

Dublin Dr. Pepper, the smallest and oldest distributor of the soft drink, fired back on Aug. 10 in a lawsuit, saying in part, “Dr. Pepper-Snapple has turned its back on Dublin and the goodwill among the thousands of people who love this true Texas treasure that comes in an 8-ounce bottle.”

The lawsuit cites several Dr. Pepper executives who have praised Dublin for its recipe, which uses pure cane sugar rather than high fructose corn syrup.

Larry Young, president of Dr. Pepper Snapple, said in a 2009 interview with KERA-TV that, “The amazing thing with Dublin is they still have the pure cane sugar. It’s the original formula with imperial sugar, and their following is unbelievable. Nothing tastes better when it’s ice-cold.”

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claims it is not trying to put Dublin out of business.

With more than 4,000 Facebook fans and its own music video, it seems family owned Dublin is not going down without a fight.

Public comments were running about 10-1 in favor of Dublin Dr. Pepper in mid August.

The Third Annual North Alabama Antique Bottle and Advertising Collectors Show was a success in Florence, Alabama.

It was held in brilliant October sunlight and mild temperatures, on Saturday, last October 8. Dealers had

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The third time is a charm, they say, and this show is well on its way to becoming a tradition. Organizers Robert and Timberly Sledge were somewhat disappointed at a lower turnout by the general public, who still enjoy free admission to the event. “But perhaps it is the economy, or perhaps people are doing outside things to make up for the long hot summer we have recently gone through,” Timberly lamented.

Thirty dealers filled up 43 tables with remarkably nice examples of advertising items, 17th through 20th century sodas and apothecary items, fruit jars, Civil War relics and coins. I was able to find a very elusive Chero Soda Water pyramid points bottle from Decatur, Alabama. It is a dug bottle, circa 1924, but very hard to find and tagged at $30. The bargain of the day was a Meadville, Pennsylvania NEHI embossed stocking bottle tagged at only $2!

Because traffic was light, I got to enjoy an impromptu seminar by Ed Provine, of Memphis, who discussed the time when Elvis first began recording with RCA Victor, and sang a song LOVE ME in 1956. Ed found a piano rendition of it in near mint condition which he

The show Chairman exhibited an extensive variety of 20th century porcelain and enameled tin signs in near-mint to mint condition.

bottles aND extras proudly revealed. – Mike Elling Dave (the Slave) Jug Brings Big Bucks A unique, decorated 5-gallon, double-handled jug signed LM April 5: 1849 Dave in script on one shoulder brought $173,000 in a Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society auction last summer.

The LM stands for Lewis Miles, who was the owner of Dave, the slave potter. The shoulder decorations in iron slip bordering and highlights with light kaolin slip in decorative motifs never seen on any Edgefield District, South Carolina jug before this example.

Dave’s name first came to light in 1818 when he was listed as a slave belonging to Harvey Drake in Pottersville near present day Edgefield. Later, he was owned by Abner Landrum, publisher of The Edgefield Hive newspaper, and it is

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By the early 1840s, Dave was working for Lewis Miles and stayed there until after the Civil War Dave was known for his mammoth storage crocks and jars, some estimated at 40 gallons, and is even better known today for his original poems and verses he inscribed on some of his pots.

Readers wishing to learn more about Dave are encouraged to purchase “Carolina Clay – The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave,” by Leonard Todd. The 320-page book was published

by W.W. Norton and is available at bookstores and on the Internet at Amazon.com and other sites.

The Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society, 220 Washington St., Bennett, NC 27208 (e-mail sfpcs@rtmc. net) publishes several absentee auction catalogs each year. It also has a number of pottery-related books for sale.

IN REMEMBERENCE The Nebraska Antique Bottle and Collectors Club lost a valuable member in Lynn Koehler of Niobrara, Nebraska July 18,; he was 72. He was laid to rest in his childhood and young adult hometown Geneva, Nebraska. Lynn started his bottle collecting in Wyoming and stayed actice until we lost him. Lynn was also a member of the Iowa Club. Despite his many health problems he set up at many bottle shows in the Midwest and was an active seller on Ebay. If anyone had a question about a bottle, he could help you out. His out going personality and friendship will be greatly missed.

Vince Bramer Omaha, Neb.

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A Book in Review THE STANDARD FRUIT JAR REFERENCE 2011 A Review

By Tom Caniff In 1983, fruit jar columnist and researcher Dick Roller finally was able to offer his 394-page STANDARD FRUIT JAR REFERENCE to the collectors who had waited patiently for its publication. The S.F.J.R. was the largest, most-up-to-date fruit jar information source available, and its abundance of jar information had been painstakingly accumulated through years of research. It was the Holy Grail to information-hungry fruit jar collectors.

A couple of years before his death in 1998, Dick Roller arranged with Jerry McCann, of Chicago, for an update of the STANDARD FRUIT JAR REFERENCE, setting guidelines as to what could be added or reformatted.

Jerry, with the help of glass researcher and writer Barry Bernas, of Gettysburg, Pa., spent immeasurable hours compiling jar data new since the 1983 publishing, finding some replacement photos, and generally rearranging the S.F.J.R. into a tome of 854 attractive, easy-to-read pages, over twice as long as the original, a veritable encyclopedia of fruit jars and their history.

Aside from chapters on Canning History, Patents & Trademarks, Fruit Jar Pioneers, Company Histories, a Comprehensive Fruit Jar History, and a comprehensive jar listing, as included in the original, volume new Appendices have been added on Atlas Mini-Banks, Go-Withs, Oversize Jars, Solid Pour Jars, Fruit Tin Cans, Cohansey Packer and/ or Proprietor Jars, and much more. There are also many more photos and graphics than in the original S.F.J.R. The well-bound, hard-cover STANDARD FRUIT JAR REFERENCE 2011 is considerably more expensive than the original, at $275, but this doesn’t seen unreasonable, considering the volume of photos, graphic, and text. In proportion, the price of the new fruit jar bible has probably risen less than the price of gasoline. In November 2006, five bidders on eBay kicked a 1983 copy of the S.F.J.R. up to an impressive $575 winning bid, showing the value that some collectors placed even on the then 23-year-old S.F.J.R. There are admittedly some typographical and other errors that the gremlins managed to squeeze into the book, but with a work of this size this is almost inevitable, especially considering that only two people, however dedicated, did almost all of the work. Updates done on computer copies are a relative breeze any more, but the original S.F.J.R. wasn’t compiled on a computer, and transcribing the original to computer, just to begin the update, was a Herculean task in itself.

Whether your budget restricts you to jars in the $5 to $10 range or you are able to pursue the more expensive rarities, if you seriously enjoy fruit jar collecting, this book is a must.

Maybe it could be your Christmas present to yourself; aren’t you worth it? Knowledge is power, whether in making an informed decision on buying a coveted jar, figuring out if your newly found jar variation is known and recorded, or just in discussing jars –– from Ball Perfect Masons to cobaltblue 1858s –– with other collectors.

I think collectors owe a debt of gratitude to Dick Roller, Jerry McCann, and Barry Bernas for making this stupendous fruit jar work available.

Published by the Fruit Jar Annual/Phoenix Press, the STANDARD FRUIT JAR REFERENCE 2011 may be ordered from Jerry McCann, 5003 West Berwyn Ave., Chicago, IL 60630. Email: fjar@aol.com. Phone: 1-773777-0443. Price is $275, plus $10 shipping.

Champagne Collectibles A Review

By Bill Baab

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“Ugggggghhhhhh!”

That was me hoisting the 5.8-pound Champagne Collectibles book onto my lap. It would be more comfortable on a coffee table, but I don’t have a coffee table.

The 336-page book likely will become a collector’s item in its own right. Co-authors Don Bull and Joseph C. Paradi have gone all out in developing and producing the volume, which contains more than 1,200 photos of Champagne-related items in full color.

It’s a bit costly at $79.50 plus $10.95 shipping charges, but the value you get for your bucks is inestimable. Most of the identification captions include the prices one would expect to pay for the knives, nippers, corkscrews, easers and grippers, not to mention corks, decanter labels, fans and sheet music.

And speaking of music, I said to myself, “Betcha it doesn’t mention Lawrence Welk and his ‘Champagne Music’.” Wrong! He’s mentioned on Page 75 and the text reveals how his kind of music was named.

There’s even a chapter about early physicians recommending doses of Champagne for their patients.

Champagne is named after the district of the same name in France and the co-authors use the capitalized version throughout the book.

Readers also will receive an education in the various terms used to describe the collectibles. Included is a chapter on Champagne-related smoking materials, including cigar cutters and other implements.

So, pop open a bottle of the bubbly, pour yourself a glass and settle back, book on knees, to enjoy a new adventure in collecting.

Bull’s name may be familiar to many readers because he is well known for his collection and articles on corkscrews.

He also is the author of The Ultimate Corkscrew Book, Figural Corkscrews, Bull’s Pocket Guide to Corkscrews, Boxes Full of Corkscrews, Corkscrew Stories, Vols. 1-4, Corkscrew Ephemera Vos. 1-4, Corkscrew Patents of Japan, Cork Ejectors, World’s Fair and Exposition Corkscrews & Openers, Just for Openers and Soda Advertising Openers (with John Stanley), Anri Woodcarvings (with Philly Rains), and more.

Champagne Collectibles was published by Schiffer Publishing, well known for its many books on collectibles.

Books autographed by both authors are available direct from The Bullworks, P.,O. Box 596, Wirtz, VA 24184, U.S.A. If using PayPal, use corkscrew@bullworks. net for recipient’s e-mail, or request a PayPal invoice.

Checks or postal money orders are the preferred methods of payment.

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GLASS IN NORTHWEST OHIO,

by Quentin R. Skrabec Jr., Ph.D. A Review

By Bill Baab Quentin Skrabec doesn’t collect antique bottles, but does collect facts about the glass industrial revolution that took place in Ohio after deposits of natural gas were discovered near Findlay in 1880.

His current book is one of a trilogy that focuses on not only the glass factories that emerged following that discovery, but on two giants of the industry – Edward Libbey and Michael J. Owens. His book on Libbey book was published by McFarland in May of this year. The Owens book (Michael Owens and the Glass Industry) has been available for some time. All are must reads for the serious collector and historian.

Both Libbey and Owens, who invented the automatic bottling machine, also are prominently mentioned in the Northwest Ohio book, a softbound 128 pages published by Arcadia Publishing.

In his introduction, Skrabec erred in making this statement: “Prior to the automated glass machine, things like baby bottles, glass jars, soda bottles, milk bottles and beer bottles did not exist.” To the contrary, all did exist; in fact, soda water bottles produced during the 1840s-60s era are highly prized by many collectors.

That is the only misstatement I could find in reading this book, which is filled with a treasure trove of images commonly seen during the early glass making years. Child labor laws were extant, but usually ignored and unenforced, and many of the images bear this out.

Follow the book’s time line of what eventually became the well-known companies of Libbey-Owens, LibbeyOwens-Ford and Owens-Corning. Skrabec traces the beginnings, the company mergers and eventually the deaths of key figures in glass-making history.

He points out that Owens’ automatic bottle making equipment, first developed during the late 1890s, was the first change in making glass containers in 3,000 years. In 1902, Owens’ machine could produce eight beer bottles per minute, Skrabec said. First customers of the bottle machine were Toledo’s Findlay Beer and Pittsburgh’s Iron City Brewery.

Another version of the machine could produce 150 gross of pint beer bottles per day. Yet another model could make 24 ketchup bottles (for H.J. Heinz) per minute. That was incredible back then, but technology advances created machines that could produce many thousands of various types of glass containers in literally the wink of an eye.

The book costs $19.99 and is available from most book stores, or on the Internet through www.arcadiapublishing. com

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LETTERS Mr. Jon Simpson P.O. Box 637, Oxford, FL 34484 Dear Jon: I saw the photo of your Keys bottle in the current issue of Bottles and Extras.

I believe it was a French perfume, having seen a similar example with most of its labels some years ago at a bottle show.

I also have four of them, all aqua and all pontiled, that came in a collection I purchased back in the 1970s. Yours is much more attractive.

Yours truly, Bill Baab

Also, the Coastal Empire History Hunters Association, to which I belong, sponsors an annual Civil War Relic and Bottle Show in Savannah, Georgia every year. This year’s show is September 24-25. I would like to distribute the article to the dealers and all persons that attend the show. Please let me know if this use is permissible.

Thank you for your time and all you do for the Federation.

Keith McIntyre 1611 Stanford Drive Statesboro, GA 30461 912-690-4404 ogeechee_mac@yahoo.com

The Sept./Oct. FOHBC Magazine contained an opinion article by Boyd Beccue entitled “Who Owns the Past?”

I am seeking permission to share this article with others to promote resistance to efforts at restricting our hobby.

Specifically, I would like to post the article for an internet metal detecting site I belong to called the NewTreasure Depot. I want to encourage my friends across the country to read the article and use Mr. Beccue’s ideas as speaking points with their local legislators, as well as with members of the general public. It is essential that we get this message out to the lawmakers and the public.

Keith, I have no objection to using my opinion piece in that way. Actually, I expected that it might be of some interest to others, especially folks in the metal detecting hobby, who face the same threat of attacks by the academic crowd. I hope the fight can be held on a level field from now on, rather than just allowing the degree holding archaeologists to frame the debate. They have had their way with seemingly innocent “feel good” legislation for far too long already.

As I think more about this topic, I strongly feel that legislators should be confronted with the constitutional

issue when considering restrictions on private property. Maybe that is just because I am an attorney, but I believe it is our strongest argument next to the simple ones of fairness and common sense.

Good luck and please keep me posted on further developments or use of the piece. I would be happy to talk to anyone wanting to explore the matter further.

Boyd Beccue 320-235-4235 AUTHOR’S NOTE: I thought I would check on the progress of the Oregon legislation, Senate Bill 870, which is intended to correct the worst effects of the current anti-digging law in that state. I was not surprised to learn that the Oregon Legislature adjourned the 2011 session on June 30 with the bill still mired in the Judiciary Committee, where it had been since February 28. I do not know how the Oregon legislature functions and do not know if the bill is now dead, requiring it to be reintroduced in the 2012 session, or whether it might still be alive and possibly considered next year. Either way, I think this is a good example of why all diggers should be vigilant about any efforts to destroy their right to pursue a worthwhile and educational avocation. — Boyd Beccue

Want to share a digging story or share information about something you have researched?

Have you been out finding some treasures?

Keep us informed, the people want to know! write to: Martin Van Zant Bottles and Extras Editor 208 Urban St. Danville, IN 46122 or mdvanzant@yahoo.com

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IN REMEMBERENCE

FOHBC Hall OF Famer Doc Ford, 86, is Dead AKRON, Ohio – Bottle collector and historian Doc Dawson Ford, 86, died Sept. 19, 2011.

Born in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Feb. 7, 1925, he was raised in Cherry Valley, Ohio and lived his adult life in Tallmadge and Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.

He was a U.S. Navy veteran, serving as a boatswain’s mate during World War II. He retired from Parker-Hannifin after 45 years of service. He served as a member of Tallmadge City Council.

He also served as president of the Ohio Bottle Club and was inducted into the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors Hall of Fame.

“Doc Ford of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio enjoys writing about facets of his hobby almost as he does collecting,” said the Hall of Fame background story. “That much is evident by reading articles penned for the Ohio Bottle Club newsletter – the Ohio Swirl – by Ford, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1997.

“When I hold a bottle that I have acquired, a bottle handmade at a time when railroads were just opening America, or from the time when Lincoln was president, or when my great-great-grandparents first came to this country, it give me a feeling of my roots in America,” he wrote.

“This same feeling must be felt by other collectors as well.

The bottle collecting hobby is made up of people from all lifestyles. Whether they drive a truck, teach college or sell shoes, practice law, or sit on a judge’s bench, they have one thing in common – the enjoyment of collecting antique bottles and the friendship of the people in the hobby.”

Doc was preceded in death by his wife of 64 years, Lois, who died in 2008; his parents, Clarence and Nellie Henderson Ford; a brother, Keith Ford; four sons, Terry (Carol) and Mel (Pat) Ford, Kyle (Curt) Doles and Curt (Kathy) Ford; four grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were conducted on Sept. 23 and interment followed in the Ohio Western Reserve Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be made to Wounded Warriors, 4899 Belfort Road, No. 300, Jacksonville, FL 32256.

AKRON, Ohio – Bottle collector and historian Doc Dawson Ford, 86, died Sept. 19, 2011.

Born in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Feb. 7, 1925, he was raised in Cherry Valley, Ohio and lived his adult life in Tallmadge and Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.

He was a U.S. Navy veteran, serving as a boatswain’s mate during World War II. He retired from Parker-Hannifin after 45 years of service. He served as a member of Tallmadge City Council.

He also served as president of the Ohio Bottle Club

and was inducted into the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors Hall of Fame.

“Doc Ford of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio enjoys writing about facets of his hobby almost as he does collecting,” said the Hall of Fame background story. “That much is evident by reading articles penned for the Ohio Bottle Club newsletter – the Ohio Swirl – by Ford, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1997.

“When I hold a bottle that I have acquired, a bottle handmade at a time when railroads were just opening America, or from the time when Lincoln was president, or when my great-great-grandparents first came to this country, it give me a feeling of my roots in America,” he wrote.

“This same feeling must be felt by other collectors as well.

The bottle collecting hobby is made up of people from all lifestyles. Whether they drive a truck, teach college or sell shoes, practice law, or sit on a judge’s bench, they have one thing in common – the enjoyment of collecting antique bottles and the friendship of the people in the hobby.”

Doc was preceded in death by his wife of 64 years, Lois, who died in 2008; his parents, Clarence and Nellie Henderson Ford; a brother, Keith Ford; four sons, Terry (Carol) and Mel (Pat) Ford, Kyle (Curt) Doles and Curt (Kathy) Ford; four grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were conducted on Sept. 23 and interment followed in the Ohio Western Reserve Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be made to Wounded Warriors, 4899 Belfort Road, No. 300, Jacksonville, FL 32256.

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Ancient Glass at the Getty Villa

By Dave Maryo

Most bottle collectors highly prize glass bottles from the late 1880s that are mouth-blown and hand-finished.

Mold-blown bottles are thought by most collectors to be a manufacturing improvement that was developed over the last 100 years. The fact is, the mold-blown process was developed more than 2,000 years ago. Examples of those bottles are found buried in areas surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. Museums are your best option if you are interested in seeing ancient glass. I’d highly recommend any bottle or glass collector visit th Getty Villa located north of Los Angeles to see one of the finest collections of ancient glass available for public viewing.

The collection is impressive, not only in the rarity of the items, but the quality of this glass is as fine as many examples of art glass produced today. The Getty Villa display was acquired from the private collection of Erwin Oppenlander, It contains many of the finest glass examples existing from 2,500 B.C. to 1100 A.D. Do you think your bottle collection is a significant collection of glass? Can your glass collection even compare with one that contains hundreds of examples that span a period of 3-1/2 thousand years? I doubt many glass collections in the world can compare to what is available for public viewing at the Getty Villa.

As to my earlier reference to mold-blown glass being a fairly recent development, in a way that’s correct as the mold-blown technique was developed 2-1/2 thousand years after the earliest form of glass production. But that recent development is still thousands of years before anyone in America produced glass.

The Oppenlander collection’s earliest pieces are coreformed examples. Core forming was a process that used a ceramic core that was coated with molten glass. When the glass cooled, the core was removed, resulting in a glass container. The collection also has many objects formed by casting glass into molds. Cast glass also was a very early process. It often was cut and polished to further enhance the objects produced.

It was not until the last century B.C. when free-blown glass techniques were3 developed. The free-blown glass pieces in the collection are my favorites as they show a glass blower’s artiostic skill in working with gathers of molten glass.

Shortly after that technique was developed, artisans started using molds in the first century A.D. Some of these Roman glass objects would be highly prized if they were created by today’s craftsmen. The quality is startling when you think about the time when it was produced.

You would think that glass produced thousands of years ago would be very crude in form and material, but many of the more common ancient glass objects are not nearly as crude as most pieces produced just 200 years ago.

I hope you have an opportunity to visit the Getty Villa in the near future. You will not be disappointed by this amazing glass collection. During your visit you should plan to spend time looking at the other ancient art in this wonderful museum. Just to see the building and gardens modeled after the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, Italy is well worth your time.

For more information, visit the Getty Museum Web page at www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/molten_color/

bottles aND extras We were headed to the big Nashville Civil War Show that was coming up and I was anticipating what good finds I might come across, as this is the show that piqued my interest to start with. Since 1987, I had attended this show with my husband and looked for certain items of interest to him, as I was instructed. Perhaps a gun part that he needed to complete a gun he had purchased, or a side knife he was doing research on. Just whatever he mentioned that he particularly needed information on.

That was fine until about 1995 when the first grandbaby came into our lives.

Then I started noticing baby bottles.

Those beautiful ceramic feeders from England, or those hard to find Colonial feeders from the New England states.

High priced and breakable, I thought “No,” I don’t really need to collect glass, as I’m a klutz, and I knew Charlie also was one for sure. We had both intentionally stayed away from the glass.

That same year we had made friends with a couple from Jackson, Tenn., the Pomeroys, and they told us about the

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The Chase

By Teresa Harris

National Bottle Show that was coming up in Nashville and we decided that would be a great spot to get together again. The show was huge and so many beautiful antique bottles, wow! This piqued my interest for sure, but since I knew that I did not really know just what I was seeing or the real value or age of any of these bottles, I calmed down, took a deep breath and only let myself buy a copy of the American Collectors of Infant Feeders Guide. I met some of the club members who were tending the booth and was encouraged to join.

The Pomeroys introduced us to one of the founders of the club, Don LaFont, but I still wasn’t sure I really wanted to collect glass. I actually tried to talk myself out of the idea. Well, the next year another grandbaby came along.

More bottles surfaced, and somewhere along the way I gave in and by 1997 I finally caved in and started to enjoy the chase of spotting another bottle at the many antiques places we would

13 find. The shows became so exciting, except I was not necessarily looking for Charlie’s toys anymore. I had my very own hobby now.

Zooming forward to this year’s show, we arrived early with the dealers at the set time of 1 to 5 p.m. We got the table cover on, and off I go exploring to hunt and find old friends. I’d rambled around a couple of hours in the Vaughn building and then headed over to the Creative Arts building, collecting hugs and smiles along the way. I looked at this one table and the person behind the table said to me, I don’t know what table I saw it on but I just spotted a very nice small feeder in the center of this building somewhere. It was in this building, but I can’t remember just where, but I know it was in this building. Now I don’t even know this fellow, but he knows me and what I collect. Funny. So off I went for the chase. Got to find it before someone else does, right? I looked for another hour or so and I was asking a friend of mine if perhaps he had bought “my”

From top left clockwise: A tin Invalid Feeder that we found about 5 years ago in an antique shop in Nashville after the Civil War show. A tin Feeding Vessel like the one that I thought I was chasing all over the show. The U.S. Army Hospital 1800s Invalid Cup that I did locate at this year’s Civil War show in Nashville. An unusual small Child’s Tin Baby Cup from somewhere year’s past. The Child’s Tea Pot that I chased most of the weekend. What a Chase!

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feeder. He said, “No.” I found the dealer and he said that he had sold a small feeder to, he thought, another dealer, because he too had a badge on. “Oh, no,” I thought, “It has already gone to a happy home.” Then I thought about the fact that it was just the beginning of the show and maybe it was just too good a buy and the next dealer would have it on his table tomorrow for the public to look at and perhaps buy. About that time the security was running everyone out, time to close up for the night. ”Oh well,” I thought, some other dealer has it, I’ll look again tomorrow.

The show opened to the dealers at 8 that Saturday morning so I took off on my search. I looked and even went back to my own building, thinking that maybe a dealer in our building had bought “my” feeder and brought it back into our building. I’d been training my friends for several years now and thought perhaps one of them was just waiting on me to come to our own table and some good friend would bring it over to either tease me or sell it to me for a profit, which I really did not mind since they discovered the feeder first.

The dealer who had brought the feeder to the show was Wayne Fritts from St. Louis. I even checked with him again to see if he by chance remembered who he sold it to. “No,” he said, so I just had to keep looking. I found more friends and we discussed the feeder as we stood in line together for lunch and

I admitted I’d had no luck in my quest for this now elusive feeder. Well, I had not yet found it and certainly wasn’t about to give up. So I rambled around in some of the smaller halls and by now

bottles aND extras feeder. Well, I asked if I could at least see the feeder that I’d finally located and at least obtain a photo of it. He laughed again and said he’d have to bring it back to the show on Sunday.

The pewter Revolutionary War-era Pap Boat from Mike & Carol’s table it was almost 4:30. I was meeting new people and just enjoying myself, when I spotted a Revolutionary War-era pap boat. Priced at $80, I wondered if the dealer could do a little better on the price, so I asked his wife, Carol, who was minding the tables if she could do any better and she said, “my husband is talking to a friend over there,” pointing and said for me to ask him. I thanked her and took the pap boat to him and we were discussing the price when he said “you know, I just picked up a nice small feeder last night, here at the show.” I put my hands around his neck and pretended to choke him and we laughed. His friend now laughed with us and said he was witness to an assault and the price surely had now gone up on the

Needless to say, I was very soon at the tables of Mike and Carol Welter from Illinois Sunday morning. I have to admit I had worried on and off all night at just what he might ask for the little feeder. However, he also knew that I knew what he had paid for the feeder.

Mike brings it out from under the table and wow, how tiny. Yes, it was a feeder, but not a human feeder. I looked at it closely and suddenly realized that even though the spout was soldered to the front of the feeder, there was no hole in its side that would allow the liquid to enter the spout. It was a child’s tin feeder from the 1840-50 era! A little disappointed, I was still considering the purchase simply because I’d put so much time in the chase that I just did not want to go away without it. When Mike graciously said I could have it for what he paid, it was a sure deal. He also gave me a great price on the pap boat as well.

Feeling like we’d made more friends at this year’s show, I proceeded to search the hall, just in case any more feeders were lurking that I’d missed. I checked in with Charlie (Harris) The little Child’s Tin Tea Pot with the rusted lid removed. There is no way to pour from it.

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bottles aND extras and Butch (Holcombe), showing them my find and since I wasn’t really needed at our table, I took off again. This time I thought I’d start at the back of the Creative Arts building and head toward the front.

I hadn’t gotten to the middle of the last row when I looked up and saw something tin. Was that a real hospital feeder? Oh my, it was marked “U.S. Army Hospital 1800s Invalid Cup.” It sure was, after all weekend of hunting for a certain feeder that turned out not to be the real thing. There it was, a genuine feeder, by now late on Sunday afternoon, I was going home with a pewter pap boat, a tin toy feeder and a real Army hospital tin feeder. It had been a great show. I could go home happy now, and only dream of how next year’s show will compare.

The good find of the U.S. Army Hospital 1800s Feeder. Another dealer told me it was worth about four times what I paid for it.

Teresa holding the pewter Pap Boat & Mike Welter Holding the Child’s Tin Tea Pot. Both of us are happy.

The Chase is half the fun!

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A Bottle Collector’s Adventures in Guam

By Jennings Bunn

In January of 1991, I signed on with an archaeological contracting company in Guam for a six-month contract. I stayed almost 14 years, surviving 12 typhoons..

In 2004, I was hired as the first archaeologist, cultural resources manager and historic preservation officer ever hired on Guam by the U.S. Navy. I also A closeup of seals on the early managed a small World War II A. Houtman case gins museum in the village of Sumay on Guam as a collateral duty.

Sumay was most important With the purchase in Guam’s history. It was a prehistoric of many thousands of Chamorro village and is listed on very acres on the island by early Spanish maps. It was a port-of- the Japanese in the early call during the whaling days of the 1990s, hotels and golf This pair of A. Houtman case gins came from 1850s and ‘60s. It became important courses were rapidly the old Sumay dump. in U.S. history when the island was being built. Fortunately, taken from Spain during the Spanish- Guam has one of the more primarily the men, in much the same American War. In 1903, the Trans- strict systems of preservation law, manner as the Spanish did in Florida, or Pacific communications cable as laid heading off the Japanese preference wherever they sailed in search of gold from Hawaii to Manila, Philippine for cultural destruction when not on and slaves. For the next 370 years, the Islands and the cable station was Spanish controlled the Marianna located in Sumay.

Islands until 1898 when the In 1934, the Pan American United States took control as a Airways Station was located in militarily significant area.

Sumay and China Clipper service On December 10, 1941, the started from Alameda, Calif., to Japanese took control of Guam Manilla via Guam. The Skyways for the next 2-1/2 years. The Hotel was built and provided Japanese and Chinese had been comfortable accommodations to traveling to Guam for many Clipper passengers. .. years before World War II. On In 1921, the U.S. Marine July 21, 1944, U.S. forces landed Corps barracks was located in on Guam and declared the island Sumay until it was bombed by “secure” within two weeks. the Japanese Dec. 8-10, 1941.

For nearly 500 years, The bombing did little damage Asians and Europeans have and the Japanese took over the A group of seven crudely made Japanese medicines, been depositing “stuff” on the village, housing soldiers in the circa 1940.

Marianas, Palaus and surrounding barracks and other buildings in islands. This had led to my having the cable station. American personnel, Japanese territory. As such, many recovered many bottles, most dating including 157 Marines and a couple of areas were stripped bare, revealing the from the 1890s through the 1940s. hundred civilians, were taken prisoner treasures buried beneath the surface.

The only thing left after being and ultimately shipped to Japan as Historically, the explorer Magellan bombed by the Japanese in 1941 and laborers where they stayed until the “found” Guam, which led to the the Americans during June and July end of the war. . decimation of the Chamorro people, of 1944, was the old Sumay cemetery,

bottles aND extras 1941. A wall surrounding the cemetery had been built of mamposteria (a type of mortar used by the Spaniards) in 1937 by the men of Sumay and over the years, a part of it had collapsed into the cemetery, covering several old graves.

In 1996, I applied for and received funds to do 100 percent restoration

Japanese characters or labels near the bottle’s base.

A trio of Japanese whiskeys with crude tops, circa 1940.

A pair of gin bottles, probably dating to when Dutch were on the island.

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More bottles came from the old city of Agana dump. circa 18801940. During my time on Guam, I also visited Tinian many 30 times. On Tinian, I found hundreds of Japanese bottles in the jungles. On Peleliu, caves still contain Japanese bones, as well as ordnance that must be carefully avoided. In the “1,000-man cave” on Peleliu, one of 10 tunnels has so many bottles that it is impossible to walk without stepping on them. On some of the other islands, the people still use the large beer and saki bottles to store coconut oil. I have believed for years that World War II archaeology will be the next major focus.

I think my greatest adventure during my stay on Guam was greeting many American and Japanese veterans and being able to take them for a tour of the island, with the Navy’s approval.

I gave tours for six years for Military Historical Tours based in Alexandria, Va., when World War II veterans and their families were brought to Guam and several other islands. It was my honor to accompany World War II veterans to Iwo Jima four times, an honor I will soon not forget.

I also gave tours for the “All Japan War Comrade’s Association,” which came to Guam every other year. As such, I had the honor to meet several hundred “old warriors” and was able to learn many stories as all veterans have.

I lived in Guam for most of 14 years and will always remember with heart-rending fondness all the folks I met there.

A trio of Japanese beers, circa 1940.

A trio of Japanese whiskeys with crude tops, circa 1940

Three San Miguel (note monogram SM) beers

A quartet of Japanese beers, or could they have contained saki?

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Haviland & Co. known for porcelain, but how ‘bout those drug store bottles?”

By Bill Baab Collectors living along the east coast and in the South are familiar with drug store bottles embossed Haviland & Co., New York, Charleston and Augusta. Some are pontiled, some are smooth-based.

What many don’t realize is that the company is connected to the same family who established a porcelain manufactory in Limoges, France.

That fact was brought to light by Robert Doares, of the Department of Training and Historical Research of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

In his story in the American Ceramic Circle Journal, Volume XVI, he notes that Daniel Griffen Haviland (17991864) “had gone south to establish branches of the family wholesale drug company in Augusta, Georgia by 1822 and in Charleston (S.C.) by 1825; a third subsidiary would open in Mobile, Alabama in 1844.”

I’ve never seen a Haviland bottle from Mobile.

Daniel was one of seven sons of William Haviland and his wife, Anna Griffen, of Purchase, New York. David, the eldest (1814-1879), established the great porcelain family in Limoges, France in the mid-19th century.

The four bottles in my collection include two small (6 inches high and 5-3/8 inches high) pontiled examples in light aquamarine, a small (5-1/2 inches) dark aqua, smooth-based example and a large (10-1/2 inches high) dark aqua, smoothbased bottle. It is embossed Haviland & Co. / Druggists (embossed mortar & pestle) / New York / Charleston & Augusta.

The 6-inch-high pontiled

example is embossed Haviland & Co. / New York / Charleston / & / Agusta (sic).

Doares said the bottles were not manufactured in the South, but came from glass manufacturers in the North, most likely New York. It is a fact that there were no glass factories in the South until well after the Civil War. A few years ago, Doares visited my home and took photos of my Haviland bottles. I also own an 1850s postally used cover containing a broadside advertising Haviland, Risley & Co., of Augusta. The broadside reads, in part: Haviland, Risley & Co., 274 Broad Street, near Globe Hotel, Augusta. Wholesale dealers in drugs, medicines, paints, oils, window glass, dye stuffs, Rosendale hydraulic cement and calcined plaster of paris. Agents for all the popular patent medicines of the day. Also agents for the celebrated Pekin Tea Company.

Being connected with Haviland, Harral & Risley, importers and jobbers of drugs, New York, and Haviland, Harral & Co., wholesale druggists, Charleston, S.C., we are able to offer inducements unequalled by any House in the South, Orders executed with neatness and dispatch.

(Signed) J.C. Haviland, James Harral, H.W. Risley, T.W. Chichester.

A mortar and pestle design in green on the back of the business envelope reads: Haviland, Risley & Co., Medicines, The pontiled Haviland & co. Bottle Chemicals, Paints, Oils,

bottles aND extras &c., Augusta, Ga. The author was able to date the broadside to the 1850s through the imperforate stamp on the cover. Scott’s Specialized Catalogue of U.S. Stamps and Covers lists it as the 1851 orange brown No. 10 3-cent featuring George Washington, with an outer frame around all four sides of the stamp. Its blue postmark includes 3 paid, which was the rate for circulars.

It was mailed in Augusta to Mr. Jared Olmstead in Redding, Fairfield County, Connecticut.

The pontiled Haviland Spelling Error Bottle

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Collecting Hobbleskirt Coca-Cola Bottles

(EDITOR’S NOTE: Bill Porter, of Rockville, Maryland, is an enthusiastic collector of so-called hobbleskirt CocaCola bottles. He also published a Coke Bottle Checklist covering Coca-Cola bottles manufactured from 1915 on.

Here he tells how he got started)

When I was in high school - in the late 50’s - I drank a lot of Coke. I bought Coke bottles in 6 packs at the store. I soon noticed that most of the bottles - but not all - had city names and state abbreviations embossed on the bottoms. Some were written with large letters, some with small letters. I noticed numbers and symbols on the sides of the bottles, and sometimes, various symbols on the bottom. I knew some numbers were dates, and others some kind of series mark.

I knew I had found an fascinating collectible here, but after collecting 431 different bottles, and with no reference to tell me how many more there were or whether anyone cared about them besides me, I gave up on my collecting and sold them all back to the store, for 3 cents each. I couldn’t believe no one else had discovered this “secret hobby” I guessed I was the only one in the world who had, the only one who even cared.

Over the next many years, I kept thinking about that collection. How many were there? How many small towns had Coca-Cola bottlers. How far back did they go?

I thought I was alone. but of course I wasn’t. During the same years I was in high-school collecting from the grocery store and running out of space, old David Lyon was at Michigan State, trying to collect them, too. At first, he had no room to keep them either, but collected them anyway - in the form of base-plate rubbings - each noting the side information, including the major type, the maker’s mark, the date, and the mould number.

Of course, I didn’t know that. It was not until 1992, when I met a “dealer / collector” Bob Flippen that I finally I

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discovered I was not alone. He knew of several other collectors: Bill Seifert, Richard Selleh, Bill Kendall, David Lyon and Greg Grimes and Arlin Cargill.

Once I realized I was not alone, I dove into collecting. I sold a nice collection of gold coins to finance the purchase of some large collections.

People said I had the “reverse” Midas touch. I could turn gold into glass.

But in fact, in spite of many detractors, I knew I had discovered a true philosopher’s stone. I knew this collection would bring me wealth. Of course, I cheat on this in a way - I don’t measure my wealth in ounces of gold or piles of dollars. I measure my wealth in the enjoyment I get out of life! I had rediscovered my passion. And I set out to enjoy it to the fullest extent possible!

At the time, speaking of wealth, I also collected coins. I began that hobby before I discovered Coke bottles, but it never had the personal connection for me. After all, a great many people collected coins. They were even willing to pay for them! But nobody collected Coke bottles, except me!

As an aside, it is interesting to note that 20 billion Lincoln cents were minted (at 3 mints) from 1909 to 1958.

Some are now VERY valuable. And if

copper can be turned into gold, why not glass?

6.58 billion Coke bottles were made between 1916 and 1958. Many are now unique. New ones - previously ignored and unrecorded - are still turning up every few months. And instead of 3 mints, those 6.5 billion are divided into about 1,500 cities, and many different manufacturers, types, and colors!

Indeed, this is more than a gold mine, it is a regular treasure house full of rare gems! Then, In 1993, I discovered a new city - a Mercersburg, Pa. I bought it from a knowledgeable collector. His price: $1.00. There are now (in 2011) 3 Mercersburgs known to me, in 3 different big collections. Even more amazing than that, my friend Greg Grimes bought an unknown at a grocery store in Kentucky and drank it.

Many old time bottle collectors do not value hobbleskirts. I no longer try to educate them! (It doesn’t work anyway!)

But this is our philosopher’s stone. Use this knowledge and you can turn glass into gold. The more you know, the better it will work, and the more fun it will be!

But please - don’t be foolish like me and share this knowledge with other people. Keep it to yourselves!

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Richmond, Virginia Club was Organized in 1969 One of a series

By Dick Wilcox Mechanicsville, Va.

One of Virginia’s pioneer collectors of antique bottles was Bonnie Greene who, in 1971, published Old Richmond Bottles, 1850-1941. The cover shows a mug base Hutchinson soda from J.W. McAdam / Bunch of Grapes trade mark / Richmond, Va. The 28-page book was a checklist of bottlers, distillers, glass works, dairies, druggists, wine and liquor dealers, mineral water sellers, pickle bottlers, patent medicine men and brewers, starting with the earliest year in business and ending with the last.

Most of her listings came from city directories.

In 1989, collector Vernon Grant published a more comprehensive book titled Bottled in Richmond, 18191920. The 254-page book also was well illustrated with black and white photos and copies of advertisements.

The Richmond Area Bottle Collectors Association began publishing its newsletter, The Bottle Digger, in June 1970. Volume I, No. 1 did not have a title and club president Bob Greene asked members to choose one. Reporters were Bonnie Greene and Pami Duarte.

Volume I, No. 2 revealed its new name. Vernon Grant won a three-piece mold bottle for coming up with the title. Dick Wilcox of Mechanicsville came aboard as editor-publisher (he was in the printing business) and the newsletter not only is “newsy,” but it’s professionally done as well. Dick had gotten into the hobby in 1967.

The club heard a talk from Fred Rawlinson. founder of the Milkbottles Only Organization (MOO), at its August 1970 meeting. He was the author of Make Mine Milk and Old Bottles on the Virginia Peninsula and spoke on the “History of Glass and Bottles.”

The club had its first dig on private property in October, but rain nearly washed out the whole deal. Only 10

members braved the elements. Just pieces of black glass bottles, clay pipes and pottery were found by the diggers.

Wilcox and a friend plied their metal detectors and came up with an Eagle button and the butt plate from a musket.

In February 1971, the Richmond club voted to have a display in a show put on jointly by the Norfolk (Old Dominion) and Hampton clubs. The Richmond club’s first show and sale was held June 4-5, 1971 at Eastgate Mall. It drew 11 dealers and also had 11 displays. Club president Bob Greene said an estimated 1,500 people visited the show.

In July, Bonnie Greene and Ricki Stringer dug bottles from a pig sty at a 100-year-old home in Morratico, Va. They netted about 40 milks from the basement level, including a Fairfield Dairy (Maryland), Farmers Creamery and Zellars Tappahannock. Two halfgallon Mason jars also were found as the pigs followed the collectors.

The Historical Bottle Collectors of Virginia club was founded in 1969 and Richmond Area members attended their show at the Shenandoah Caverns near New Market, Va., on July 31.

The Richmond club’s second annual show at Eastgate Mall May 19-20 attracted 40 dealers and had 10 displays. Newsletter editor Wilcox ran four black-and-white photos, three showing the top three prize winners’ displays and the fourth the club display. Mike Post won first prize with his bitters, Bob and Bonnie Greene were runners-up with an all-green bottle display, and Tommy Goodrich placed third and won the Old Bottle Magazine Showmanship Ribbon. His display featured backlit bottles in a simulated attic window surrounded by boards with real ivy growing up them.

Felix Woods penned an article called Digging the Kanawha Canal in the August 1972 issue. Flood waters undermined the bank in part of the

canal and, after the water drained out, diggers were having a ball. The canal was completed in 1840.

Among goodies found included a Silver Leaf Rye and a Peter Stumpf beer, a cobalt Francis Dusch and a PenMar Hotel flask, a Terry Bros. flask and a F. Dusch XXX Porter, an ice blue M. McCormack with iron pontil and an emerald green Mason & Burns.

The club was experiencing growing pains and Bob Greene took the membership to task for not being more supportive. Attendance at meetings improved after that. Editor Wilcox issued a plea for news in the October 1972 issue for the umpteenth time.

The November 1972 issue announced that the club’s first bottle had arrived, but with little description.

A club decal was designed for free by Bob Fisher and numbers were made available to members at 50 cents each, according to the April 1973 issue.

Carlo Sellari, publisher of Eastern Bottles Price Guide, was a judge at the club’s third annual show in April 1973.

Doug Lee and John Mullen, both from Charleston, S.C., were the others.

A club dig was set on Berkeley Plantation on July 21, 1973. The Northern army camped there during the Civil War and you’d think some bottles would be found. None were.

The club became incorporated in November 1973. Bob Greene was reelected president for the sixth time.

Felix Woods was vice president, Violet Wilcox secretary and Tommy Goodrich treasurer.

Club members had been digging in a dump outside the penitentiary walls and finding some good stuff. Enter editor Wilcox: “It is expected most any time that some of our people digging at the Penitentiary will come up for air and find themselves inside the walls.

Then what are you going to do?”

Some or the prized bottles being dug

bottles aND extras there include two Saratoga Congress & Empire Spring Waters, one green with contents and one dark olive; two Peter Stumpf bottles; two Anheuser Busch “A” bottles and a Dr. Petzold’s Genuine German Bitters.

The Kanawha Canal was still producing good bottles in 1974, especially for editor Wilcox who found a rare Peter Stumpf and a turtle ink. Ten exhibits and 56 sales tables highlighted the club’s fourth annual show, but crowds were thin.

November 23, 1974 was a bad day for the club when Bob Greene, who had been its only president, died unexpectedly while working in his yard at home. He was just 66 years of age. Vice president Felix Woods succeeded him as president.

The club’s fifth annual show held at the fairgrounds attracted 36 dealers on 65 tables and eight displays. Felix Woods was reelected club president to serve during 1976. Tom Cox was vice president, Bob Alphin secretary and Jimmy Johnson treasurer. The club has patches made showing the club logo.

The sixth annual show had 15 displays and 35 sales tables and most buyers left happy.

Richard Wilcox was elected club president for 1977, Mike Bailey vice president, Phyllis Johnson secretary and Jimmy Johnson treasurer. Shirley Giddings became editor of The Bottle Digger.

Forty-six tables were sold and eight displays were put up for the seventh annual show in October of 1977. Jimmy Johnson was elected president for 1978, Steve Jackson vice president, Phyllis Johnson secretary and corresponding secretary and

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Karl Carr treasurer. Shirley Wilcox (she married Dick in July of 1977) continued as editor and Dick returned to his column, “Digging with Dick.”

Tom Cox was elected president to serve through 1979. Lloyd Harnish was vice president, Judy Corker secretary and Karl Carr treasurer. Shirley Wilcox continued as editor.

Dick Wilcox’s last column ran in the June 1979 issue. The club was continuing to have membership problems, with fewer folks turning out for club projects.

P.S.: In 2000, Dick and his digging buddy, Archie Moore, were getting cabin fever and decided they would go bottle digging in searching for a privy, dump or well in the farming area.

After spending sometime in the woods, they decided they would dig next to a very large tree. To be fair, one would dig on one side and the other would dig on the other side. The two started finding bits and pieces of glass which was great, because in the early days, farmers would take their trash into the woods and set the bags by trees so they’d be out of the way.

After a while of digging, Dick yelled, “Archie! I think I just dug a Bowling Pin Pepsi Bottle!”

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Archie yelled back, “You got to be lying!”

Dick yelled, “No! I think it is a Bowling Pin Pepsi!”

Well, Archie would not take his word for it. So he got out of his hole on the opposite side of the tree and went around and said, “Damn! You did dig a Bowling Pin Pepsi!” Without another word he went back to his hole, feeling really let down because he had dug nothing.

Time marched on when, suddenly, Archie let out a yell: “Dick! I just dug a Bowling Pin Pepsi!”

Dick yelled back: “Now I know you are just fooling around!”

But to make sure, he got out of his hole and went around the tree. Sure enough, Archie had dug one, too. So Dick returned to his hole and the two really went through some dirt. In fact, they nearly dug up the tree, but found no more elusive Bowling Pin Pepsis, so they filled in their holes and went home.

Relating the story to their wives, they both wore broad grins on their faces, very proud since Bowling Pin Pepsis are scarce. – Related by Shirley Wilcox.

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The Largest Fruit Jar Collection in the World (At least that we’re aware of)

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Story by Rick Natynski, Red Wing Collectors Society Newsletter Editor

n 1969, a glass fruit jar with an odd closure system caught the eye of Red Wing Collectors Society Member Larry Munson.

That simple, innocent act of buying an old fruit jar for four bucks unknowingly started what has become a 40-year quest to procure an example of each and every different fruit jar he can find.

Today Larry owns more than 6,300 fruit jars and related items. If you lined up all his jars, they would circle the Earth … twice! OK, maybe not. But you get the picture.

Larry’s response when asked if if his collection of fruit jars is the largest in the world?

“Probably,” he says, casually. “I’ve never heard of anybody with a larger collection. If one does exist, they’d have to be a closet collector or else I would have heard about it.”

The only thing more impressive than the sheer size of Larry’s collection is the way he has gone about building it. One would assume that most pieces in a collection of this magnitude would have to be bought locally, in person. But Larry and his wife, Hazel, live about an hour from Glacier National Park in northern Montana, where fruit jars are hard to come by. Many of the pieces in the collection have been purchased on the couple’s travels to antique shows across the country. Even more have been acquired from collectors in fruit

jar-populous areas who either listed them for sale in the classified sections of antique and collectible publications or answered classified ads that Larry himself placed.

“Where does one go about storing and displaying more than 6,000 pieces?”

“Fruit jars weren’t very expensive in the 1970s,” he explains. “There weren’t many people collecting them, so I’d often be able to get eight or 10 different jars for only a dollar.”

It took about five years for Larry to accumulate his first 100 fruit jars. After that, “there was no turning back,” he says. He researched as much as he could on the topic, and soon he was able to distinguish between the common and rare jars and identify the general age of a piece by looking at its characteristics.

The first question that

comes to mind is “Where does one go about storing and displaying more than 6,000 pieces?” Well, Larry started off in his basement, which holds about 3,300 jars. About 25 years passed before he ran out of space down there, but fortunately the couple owned a 700-square-foot house down the road that wasn’t being used, so they jacked it up and moved it adjacent to their home. He remodeled and added on to the “Jar House” in the mid-1990s and today it looks like a museum in itself, holding another 3,000+ pieces.

Although stoneware jars make up a small percentage of Larry’s fruit jar collection overall, he still has more than 250 different examples made by manufacturers like Red Wing, Macomb, Western, Weir, Peoria Pottery and others that range in size from ½ pint up to 4 gal. He joined the RWCS several years ago.

“I have a set of the common Stone Mason Jars that Red Wing made, but I never went for the domed fruit jars,” Larry says. “They’re neat pieces, but I haven’t been able to justify paying what it would cost to get one. I do have two Hoosier cabinets that were made in the early 1900s by the Red Wing Furniture Co. though; I use them to

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display my RWCS Commemoratives.”

One of the most fascinating aspects of Larry’s collection is how far it reaches outside the United States.

Larry owns antique fruit jars that were made in Canada, Russia, China, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Germany, France, the British Isles and Norway, among other countries.

“Most of my favorite jars are from Australia,” he says. “I have 600 to 700 jars from there; the most ornate ones have unicorns, dingos and birds embossed on the sides. I’ve been told that about a half-dozen of my Australian jars are only one of a few examples known.”

Although he’s never been to The Land Down Under, Larry has bought most of his Australian jars privately from Australian collectors. He’s also acquired some via eBay. He says he was “buying the Australian jars like crazy” when the U.S. dollar was strong. Although it’s leveled out, at one point the U.S. dollar was worth two AUS dollars.

Now that he has so many jars, Larry often passes up on the more common examples. Although fruit jars were mainly hand-blown until they became mass-produced around 1910, his search includes jars that were made up to the 1920s, as rare examples still exist from that period.

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“Even if you have room for it all, you can’t have everything,” Larry says.

“Most of my best jars are from the 1860s to early 1900s, but my oldest predate 1850 and the newest were made as late as 2000 by Ball and Kerr as commemoratives or presentation jars for longtime employees,” Larry

bottles aND extras explains. “I really like the Civil Warera jars. They did a lot of experimenting with odd closures back then and they were crudely made. Plus there was no quality control. The seals often failed; I don’t know how they kept the food from spoiling. Once the Mason jar received a patent, jar closures became much more standard.”

Another aspect of Larry’s collection is the accessories, souvenirs and advertising items issued by fruit jar manufacturers. He owns about 1,500 “go-withs” as he calls them, which include fruit jar ring boxes, rare posters and advertising signs, beater tops that screw onto glass jars so they can be used for mixing and a variety of items like medals, pins and jewelry given to fruit jar company employees to recognize their years of service.

As far as value goes, fruit jars typically range anywhere from a dime apiece for the super common examples up to $30,000 for the super rare. While there is a small amount of collectors who have both the means and the desire to afford pieces in the five-figure range, Larry says there are lot of good jars that range from $500 to $2,000.

Most fruit jar collectors are men, although a lot of women also collect, Larry says. He knows of many collectors who have anywhere between 1,000 and 3,000 jars in their collection. A close friend from Muncie, Ind. who passed away a few years ago owned more than 4,000 different examples. Despite having the

bottles aND extras largest collection known, Larry admits that a fruit jar collection doesn’t have to be big to be good.

“Even if you have room for it all, you can’t have everything,” Larry says. Therefore, a lot of the newer collectors decide to specialize in only a few fruit jar categories due to cost and display space.

“I didn’t need to limit myself when I started collecting because prices were lower back then,” he says.

“Since it’s always been hard to find fruit jars in my area, I’d buy whatever I didn’t have when I was on a trip to the eastern U.S. because I didn’t know how often I’d get back there. Plus, I live in the country, so I just kept pounding nails until I got what I wanted. But just as it is with Red Wing, you can have a nice collection with only 10 to 30 pieces, too.”

Larry says his acquisitions have slowed down in recent years since it’s harder to find jars he doesn’t already have. That being said, he estimates he’s still added about 500 to 600 jars to his collection in the past five years.

Only a small number of these come from fruit jar auctions, antique shows that he and Hazel attend around the country and eBay. He usually finds 60 to 80 jars at the Midwest Antique Fruit Jar and Bottle Club Show & Sale held in Muncie, Ind. every January; he and a friend fly there together and he has his new finds sent home.

It’s always awkward asking a collector what will happen to their collection when they’re gone, but Larry chuckled when presented with that question.

“I’m still having so much fun with it that I haven’t given it much thought,” he admits. “The decision of how to dispense of it will rest with my family, because I don’t intend to sell it in my time. Fortunately, my wife and two grown kids know there’s value in it and there will be a lot of interested buyers when the time comes.”

Larry concedes that the bottom thousand jars in his collection won’t be desired by most collectors, as

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they’re only worth about $25 in total.

Of course, he also has quite a few jars in higher dollar range, which are displayed right along side the common ones.

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money,” he concludes. “I’ve had more fun than any of it has cost, so why worry about it? The best part of it has been the friends I’ve made from across the country, and in some instances, around the globe.”

More About Fruit Jars and Larry Munson • Most U.S. fruit jar manufacturers were located in the “Gas Belt” – an area in the states of Indiana and Ohio where natural gas was prevalent and utilized as cheap fuel. A few manufacturers were also located on the West Coast.

• Larry has never found a jar for his collection in Montana that is worth more than $5.

• Larry has never sold a fruit jar. Once they find their way into his collection, they stay there.

• When it comes to glass fruit jars and value, color is king. Although there are less than 20 general colors, there are hundreds of different shades because the composition of sand and other ingredients was different depending on where it was made. For example, amber jars range from a light yellow to a rich gold to a dark, almost black color.

• Larry’s wife, Hazel, is very supportive of his collecting. In fact, she’s bought him some of his best jars as Christmas and birthday gifts.

• Larry estimates there were 300 to 400 different fruit jar manufacturers once in operation.

• Shards of glass that were a by-product of the fruit jar manufacturing process are called “slags”.

• Larry has never used a piece from his collection for its intended purpose of preserving fruits or vegetables.

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The Buffalo Girls of Mecklenburg County, Virginia

By Jim “Slim” Wilberger An introduction to Buffalo Lithia Water here are very few bottles as historically rich and varied as those of Buffalo Lithia Springs, later known as Buffalo Mineral Springs. It has been estimated that Buffalo Springs Lithia Water was sold in an estimated 20,000 stores comprising mainly of pharmacies and grocers throughout Europe, Canada, and the United States during its heyday. Even though most bottle collectors have seen dozens of them or even owned several, very little has been written about the Buffalo Girls.

Their rich and intriguing history began at an old southern summer resort reported to have served as a training school for Confederate spies during the American Civil War. This same resort once was a rival of the Greenbrier, as politically connected as a Washington insider, with social pages of all local major newspapers full of the “genteel” people and events at the Buffalo Lithia Springs Hotel. Not mentioned were the cottages reserved for bachelors known as “Rowdy Row” where more than just spring water was rumored to flow from the surrounding woods.

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Naming the springs In 1728, a group of surveyors led

by William Byrd II. who recorded in his diary after drinking water from the springs; “what Adam drank in Paradise … by the help of which we perceived

our appetites to mend, our slumbers to sweeten, the stream of life to run cool and peaceably in our veins, and if ever we dreamt of women, they were kind.”

The party, having noted many signs of buffalo near the springs, referred to it as Buffalo Springs. The tract of land was first recorded being purchased

by Ambrose Gregory in 1798. who later sold it to John Speed in 1817. It was John Speed who sowed the first seeds of development by building a tavern that catered to the local population and travelers by selling meals. The property changed ownership several times, until guided by various visionaries, it had become a small resort by 1839. The local fame of “medicinal benefits” derived from drinking the spring water was starting to spread to the surrounding regions.

1856 and served several terms in the Virginia House of Delegates. In 1861, he organized and was made captain of the Mecklenburg Cavalry Troop, which became Company A of the Third Virginia Cavalry Regiment. By May 1862, he had been promoted to colonel, serving under General J.E.B. Stuart in Yorktown with Stuart reporting, “Colonel Goode’s gallant conduct and the bravery of his men deserve the highest praise. He captured the enemy’s flag and withdrew, bringing his wounded in a very orderly manner.”

After the battle of Seven Pines, he was recommended for promotion to brigadier-general. Due to a lifelong condition of “delicate health,” he was compelled to resign from active service. He served a portion of 186364 in the legislature, but again due to poor health resigned. After the war he returned to his law practice until 1872 when he closed it because of health and bought Buffalo Springs.

Colonel Thomas Francis Goode, 1827-1905 Born in 1827 in Mecklenburg County, son of a local prominent family, he studied law under Judge Edward R. Chambers of Boydton and gained admission to the bar in 1848. Building a successful local law practice, he was elected commonwealth attorney in

The Beginning His son, Thomas Francis Goode Jr., recalled his earliest memories of the hotel: “The property then [1872] consisted of a few acres of land just across the road from what was later known as “No. 2 Spring,” on which was located “Spring No 1,” a few cottages and a dining room, and a ballroom. The building then standing consisted of a row of cottages running along the side of the grounds nearest the road, and a row of cottages which begins at what

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has since been known as the dining room. These two rows of cottages and the dining room and a one story building known as the ball room about compromised the outfit at that time.”

Col. Goode was later to make the acquaintance of “Aunt Dolly Shelton,” a former slave of William D. Shelton, who

The Bottling Operations expanded in 1909 sizes and sand. It was said that a decision was made to have the water “analyzed” and the results showed promise that the water could be valuable because of the lithia.

Aunt Dolly, January 19, 1889 once owned the land she was living on. “Aunt Dolly” was thought to be about 87 years of age and lived across the road from Buffalo Springs. She shared stories with Goode about water from a spring on the property that cured her rheumatism. He met with her on several occasions to talk and “after some investigation” purchased the acreage containing the spring for about $750 from a Mr. Averett. Having title to the land, a search was conducted to find “the magic spring.”

What they found was a spring filled with stones of various

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Bottling Starts s the spring water business was being developed and the water packaged for shipping, Goode secured agreements with a druggist and doctors across the Roanoke River in the nearby town of Scottsburg to give the waters a trial. Because a bottling operation had not yet been developed, the water had to be dipped by hand directly from the spring into demijohns.

Then once a week, a wagon was loaded with the demijohns and pulled (much to Mrs. Goode’s chagrin) by her best Another early version was a cobalt blue slug plate embossed BUFFALO LITHIA [monogram TFG] SPRINGS WATER, which can be found in two similar but different designs. Note the blue example reads Springs, not Spring as on the teals.

At left: As the demand grew, half-gallon bottles replaced the demijohns and while no date for this transition has been established, we do know some of the first half-gallon bottles were embossed BUFFALO LITHIA above a monogram of TFG with SPRING WATER Va beneath the monogram in medium teal color.

gray carriage horses some 12 miles to Scottsburg. This “desecration” was resolved as the water sales picked up and demand grew to the point where teams of mules were now required to deliver the bottles.

The water was now being shipped not only throughout America , but to foreign countries was well. Mr. Goode says he has drunk water from No. 2 Spring in Rome and in London while visiting those countries.

For many years, there was no railroad nearer to the springs than Scottsburg 12 miles away. So a large number of the guests came by private conveyance and kept their teams with them during their stay at the resort. Gradually with the erection of additional and more modern cottages and better

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transportation facilities, the place increased in patronage as a health resort, and in later years during the summer months, many guests had to be turned away for want of space to accommodate them.

Début of the Buffalo Girls Bottling operations at for Springs 1 and 2 is believed to have been started about 1876 with the introduction of the “Buffalo Girl” in 1878.

Once bottled, the half-gallon bottles were packaged 12 to a wooden case with a retail price of $5 per case. In 1886, the Virginia Buffalo Lithia Springs Company was operated by Charles H. Royce before becoming insolvent.

The original three springs that made up the Buffalo Lithia Water Company were known simply as Spring No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3. Water from Spring No. 1 was advertised as “A Boon to Suffering Women-Natures Great Specific for Diseases Peculiar to Women.” No.2 was the very successful Lithia Spring for a short while advertised as the Dolly Shelton Spring. It would be to sold the world in earnest as “Natures Great Specific for Dyspepsia and Gout” and for “Uric Acid Diathesis, Gout, Nephritic Colic, Calculi, Bright’s Disease, Rheumatic Gout, Rheumatism, a valuable adjunct to the physician in the treatment of fevers, alaria, typho-malaria, and typical typhoid” and “recommended by physicians”! Water from No. 3 was referred to as “the great chalybeate spring” and was available only at the resort. In 1901, it was announced that a new spring of “Chlorinated lithia water” was available only at the resort.

The Lithia Years A precise year cannot be assigned to when the familiar aqua lithia bottles first made their appearance. However, they can be broken down into stages of appearance due to characteristics associated with design.

While the majority of these bottles are not marked, a study of

comparison based on similarities to design, common traits, glass and color make a convincing case of these unmarked bottles as to the most likely glass house. The astute collector can also notice gradual changes leading from bottle to bottle to give some insight as to likely appearance, enabling a sense of a time line.

We know by referencing the trade mark paper what the design was meant to be.

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run of unsigned aqua examples, the manufacturer possibly being the Dominec O. Cunningham Glass Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa. Compare the skirt on the example to the right to the signed D.O.C. example below.

D.O.C (Circa 1882-1931) Lithia bottles Dominec O. Cunningham Glass Company used a known heel-signed example as a base for comparison. Note the similarities of stool legs, flat skirt and shoulder. These features are repeated on several unmarked examples with slight variations of the shoulder, but the color remains close. This generation offers an unknown variety of head designs; as a whole, they could be referred to as “flat skirts.” There is a plentiful supply offering a nice large variety of designs usually found in aquas and shades close to a pale green.

E.H.E.CO (Circa 1880-1904) Lithia bottles The mark of the Edward H. Everett Glass Company of Newwark, Ohio, these always appear to be signed on the heel and are found in the same shade of pale green. Our Buffalo

girl has totally changed while the stool remains almost identical. The commonality here is the color and again the skirt; however, the rest of her changes dramatically from bottle to bottle like those before them. There are an unknown number of variations, but 10 have been accounted for.

O.B.CO (Circa 1905-1905) Lithia bottles This mark of the Ohio Bottle Company (another Everett firm) is found on the same bottles as the Everett mark previously mentioned.

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The Transition to Mineral Years ol. Thomas F. Goode passed away in 1905, leaving his wife, Rosa C. Goode, to operate the business. In 1906, the passage of the Pure Food and Drugs Act was supporting the application of discoveries and new medical knowledge concerning the causes and treatments of disease and illness. The American Medical Association was of the opinion that the Buffalo Lithia Springs Water was falsely named as a “Lithia Spring” when the water flow did not contain lithium, based on a study by the government in 1907. Interestingly, a new trademark for the water was filed on Dec. 28, 1907 and several years would pass before federal officials could be persuaded to declare the water misbranded. On December 21, 1910, the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia filed in the Supreme Court of Washington D.C., U.S. v. 7 Cases of

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Buffalo Water charging misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, the following products; “Buffalo Lithia Water – Springs No. 2, Buffalo Lithia Springs Water – Natures Materia Medica, Buffalo Lithia Springs Water Company, Buffalo Lithia Springs, Va. ” On March 6, 1911, Rosa C. Goode and her investors demurred the libel, denying the label represented the contents of the bottle as a lithia water. The owners of Buffalo Lithia Springs countered they were simply selling water using the official company name. The label they pointed out stated the contents of the bottle to be “particular natural mineral water known both as Buffalo Lithia Water and Buffalo Lithia Springs Water, and was taken from the Buffalo Lithia Springs No. 2.” The demur was sustained on April 6, 1911.

The question that the court had to decide was what quantity of lithia in the water constituted the right to be called a lithia water. There were microscopic amounts and no precedence to refer to as guidance. This was the underlying issue which kept the case in legal limbo. While the case was being heard, the bottled water displayed on the label the 1906 act guaranteeing its purity and claim. During testimony of 1912, a Dr. Collins testified that “for a person to obtain a therapeutic dose of lithium by drinking Buffalo Lithia Water, he would have to drink from 150,000 to 225,000 gallons of water per day.” During this period, at least three different examples of the Lithia Springs bottle were produced. The legal wrangling between the two opposing parties lasted

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until September, 1917, when a judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered and the court declared Buffalo Lithia Water is“Lithia” water no longer; it is now “Buffalo Mineral Springs Water.”

In 1918, the Goodes sold their interest in the Buffalo Springs property, but continued for years to espouse the virtues of its water. It was during these turbulent times that the bottles started transitioning from Lithia to Mineral water, ushering in a whole new design of Buffalo girls as the golden years had come to an end. Compare to the new trademark to the following bottle design. Major design features to note: the skirt, legs of the stool. Interesting is how the almost Victorian lady in this design transformed to the sexy lady showing off the familiar bare leg. However, even this was done with caution as every transition example the author has seen the bare leg is textured and not smooth as on the mineral water examples that would follow.

F.G.W. (Circa 1898-1920) Fairmount Glass Works, Fairmount, Indiana.

F.G.W. (Circa 1906-1968) Fairmount Glass Works, Indianapolis, Indiana This signature is found on the bottom of Buffalo Mineral Water bottles. The Fairmount girls are the transition bottle from Lithia to Mineral, of which at least three different designs have been noted. The Fairmount girls when signed as many are, the signature is found in the center of the base FGW and appears to be the first Buffaloes totally machine finished.

When they first appeared, the color as seen is the familiar aqua and the figure continued to change, but less dramatically.

There are several variations of the skirt and as we’ve watched the stool legs have completed their transformation. However, no run of the girls since their beginning had a greater variety of extreme colors as did the Fairmount girls. Old ones can be found in several shades of aqua, light amber, green, yellow amber, topaz, ginger ale, emerald green and clear.

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The end for the Buffalo Girls came in the form of a clear screw top bottle with a simple paper label in the early 1950s.

The Corps of Engineers took possession of the property, built Kerr Dam, rebuilt the original spring house and flooded the remainder of the grounds creating Kerr Lake. For a while they kept the bottling works, soliciting for someone to reopen the water business, but failed. The bottled water business was a dinosaur whose time had passed.

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Still, the girls were reproduced and by all accounts I have read came from Italy during the 1970s and were sold as accents for home decorations. Today, they are causing confusion among both novice and experienced collectors as to how to tell the difference between the new and old with the price guides that list Buffaloes equally confusing. The reproduced examples I have personally seen have been limited to three different colors carrying the exact same embossed design and “Buffalo Mineral Springs Water / Natures Materia Medica/ Trade Mark.” This is the same design embossment used by the Fairmount Glass Works. In order to understand how to tell the differences between the old and new, let’s first consider the colors of known reproductions being pink, turquoise and light amber. Of these, pink and turquoise were never made.

They simply are not original colors, but I have seen pink offered as a “Depression Glass” bottle and the turquoise as teal. The reproduction turquoise is a dark color and measures approximately 10½ inches tall like its counterparts. The original teal designs have not been reproduced. Unlike the other colors, one was actually made close to it so a side by side comparison is helpful to discern the differences.

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The Return of the Buffalo Girls iccolo Machiavelli once said, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” Obviously, he was not a collector of old bottles! As collectors, we know reproductions follow supply and demand for popular pieces in every category. I always believed my “Buffalo Girls” were safe, as it’s hard to almost impossible not to find several for sale any given day of the week at very moderate prices. The same half-gallon size and condition varies as much as the girls, from poor to attic mint, from crude drawing to racy. The most common color found is various shades aquamarine and clear with the occasional shade of pale green to keep things interesting.

The bottle on the left is original, the one on the right is the reproduction. Both have machined finished cork tops and about the same in size. The first major difference is with the embossing between the two, the old is crisp and very well defined while on the reproduction it’s weak and lacks definition. Compare the difference in embossing. We are so used to seeing Buffaloes with poor embossing, we assume this is normal. Another major distinction is with color, the old is richer and more orange when compared to the lighter, more yellow, and dull washed out counterpart. The color of the new amber bottle on the right is dull and lacks the brilliance of the old. Another major difference I have noted between the two is with the molding. Overall, the design appears to be

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the “Es” in METERIA, “I” and part of the “A”. Interesting to note is the proximity of all of these letters to one another, helping to create an old look. The clear example is the one seen most often with weak molding and poor details, not uncommon in aquamarine either. There is a subtle difference in the feel of the glass. The new version is smoother.

slightly out of focus, but nowhere is this more obvious than the head which lacks the detail that is found on originals. The following letters are also very weak in these words: the “I” in SPRINGS, the first and third parts of “N” in NATURES,

Have we seen the last of the Buffalo Girls? Maybe not.

This trade mark was registered in 1990.

For more information, call 508-880-4929.

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The Thomas McCandless Collection Auction 96 - Session III

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THE GOLDEN HILL: OHIO’S WHISKEY FRANCHISE

By Jack Sullivan

Special to Bottles and Extras More than a half century before Starbucks was conceived, an enterprising Columbus whiskey merchant devised a franchise scheme to market his products throughout Ohio by establishing retail outlets in multiple cities. The merchant was Harry Bayer.

The network he created was linked by a single name -- The Golden Hill.

Harry Bayer Tries Franchising Bayer was eager to expand his market, both in Columbus and throughout Ohio. At the time many breweries were buying up saloons or securing exclusive rights to provide beer to selected drinking establishments.

Bayer saw an opportunity to do something similar for his whiskey trade. In 1905 he applied to the Federal Government to register “The Golden Hill” as a whiskey brand. This move was an attempt to discourage anyone else from appropriating the name.

The same year he opened two more liquor outlets named “The Golden Hill,” in Columbus, one at 76 W. Broad Street and a second at 1020 Mt. Vernon Avenue. Then Bayer went statewide.

He soon made arrangements with saloon owners in Cleveland, Toledo, Akron and Youngstown to change the name of their establishments to the Golden Hill and to provide his whiskey on an exclusive basis. A corkscrew advertising the brand was issued during this period (Fig. 3). It stated: “For sale wherever good whiskey is sold.”

How Bayer operated was suggested in evidence from an early 1900s lawsuit.

Fig. 2 Bayer, Schwartz shot glass An Ohio court decision described how the Columbus entrepreneur had loaned a Cleveland saloonkeeper named Hornstein a sum of money. In return Bayer controlled a chattel mortgage that covered all of Hornstein tangible assets and held an unsecured note for an additional $1,200. When Hornstein went bankrupt Bayer seized the property and caused the sheriff to sell

Fig. 1. Golden Hill Rye bottle Bayer began as a partner in Bayer, Schwartz & Co., a whiskey distributor first listed in Columbus business directories in 1903, located at the northwest corner of Town and Fourth Streets. The firm, probably whiskey rectifiers, advertised several brands, including Genesta, Grover Rye, and Red Lion. Its flagship was The Golden Hill Rye Whiskey (Fig. 1) Shown here is a highly decorated etched shot glass from those early days, advertising the brand by showing the sun rising over five hills (Fig. 2).

Fig. 3 Golden Hill cork screw

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the saloonkeeper’s liquor license.

From the proceeds Bayer collected the amount of the note. Although the settlement was challenged in court by Hornstein’s wife, Bayer’s actions were upheld. A Golden Hill Liquor Co. outlet subsequently opened in Cleveland at 619 Superior Avenue.

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Fig. 6 Harry Klein half pint Klein pictu red, postc ard

Bayer Adds Toledo, Akron and Youngstown Most of Harry Bayer’s business moves, however, do not appear to have been adversarial.

In Toledo Harry H. Klein, pictured here on a postcard (Fig. 4), had opened a saloon and liquor store at 520 Monroe Street, doing business as Klein Bros.

Company. About 1905 he joined up with Bayer and changed the name of his establishment to Golden Hill Liquor.

Described in business directories as a

Fig. 7 The Golden Hill half pint #1

Fig. 5 Toledo Golden Hill location distributor of “wines & brandies & fine whiskies,” the firm initially occupied a building in downtown Toledo at the corner of Monroe and Adams Streets, then moved next door to 519-520 Adams Street (Fig. 5). Klein also opened an outlet at 520 Monroe St. Unlike Bayer’s parent organization and its souvenir shot glasses, Klein

Fig. 8 The Golden Hill half pint #2

specialized in giving away decorative half-pint ceramic jugs of whiskey. One was issued with his own name (Fig. 6) while other half-pints bore the Golden Hill logo (Figs. 7-9). He also gave away a Golden Hill mini-jug (Fig. 10) and a wooden tip tray with his Toledo Golden Hill addresses (Fig. 11).

Two other Golden Hill franchises opened in 1905, one in Akron at 13 Market Street and the other in Youngstown.

Business directories provide information about the Youngstown outlet. Under the name Golden Hill Liquor Company,

9. The Golden Hill half pint #3.

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linked. A labeled bottle of The Golden Hill Rye also bears Tronstein’s name and Lima address (Fig. 15). A 1909 ad in the Lima Citizen depicts a quart bottle of Golden Hill and an offer of a decanter and four glasses with the purchase of a case of the rye whiskey (Fig. 16).

Fig. 10 Golden No artifacts have Hill mini surfaced from the Golden Hill location in Fostoria, Ohio. It was housed in the downtown Foster Block building, shown here on a post card (Fig. 17). The building also housed a h a b e r d a s h e r y, shoe store, bank and grocery. The Fostoria Golden Hill was identified as both a saloon and Fig. 11 Toledo Golden Hill tray a liquor store. City records show the distilleries, mixed it in the back room, owner/operator to be L. J. Schild. filled bottles, and slapped their label on it. Court documents indicate that The Rapid Decline and Fall of The at Golden Hill Distilling. the hard- Golden Hill charging Bayer held the positions of Whatever dynamic was catapulting President, Treasurer, Chairman of The Golden Hill into prominence in the Board and Manager. The newly- the Ohio whiskey trade was shortchristened firm also added two new whiskey brands, American Beauty and Rob’s Rye. Bayer registered both with the government in 1907.

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saloons (or stores) were located at 308 W. Federal St. and 277 E. Federal St. In 1908, the latter outlet moved to 282 W. Federal.

In 1907 Bayer incorporated his firm under a new name, The Golden Hill Distilling Company, as shown on a shot glass (Fig. 12). It was common for such firms to claim to be distillers when, in fact, they bought their stock by the barrel from Kentucky

The Golden Hill Appears in Lima and Fostoria About the same time N. Trotstein opened a Golden Hill outlet in Lima, Ohio, likely as an adjunct to his saloon.

It was located at 34 Public Square, a prime location in downtown Lima, shown here in a period postcard (Fig. 13). Tronstein’s shot glass advertising Golden Hill Rye is virtually identical to the Columbus-issued versions (Fig. 14). The similarity solidifies the notion that the two organizations were closely

Fig. 12 Columbus Golden Hill shot glass lived and appears to have waned by 1908. That year the Akron Golden Hill disappeared from directories. By 1910 the franchise was in a severe decline.

A Gold Hill outlet opened that year in Cincinnati and closed within months.

The Toledo Golden Hill disappeared from directories as did one of the two locations in Youngstown.

At the parent organization in Columbus, the Broad St. and Mt. Vernon Av. units closed and the company moved to two High St. addresses. Bayer hired a new manager for his Columbus operations named Samuel Weinfeld. Weinfeld stayed two years, then left to found his own wholesale and retail liquor business.

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under local option in Ohio voted to ban alcohol. The Columbus Golden Hill Distilling Co. -- the linchpin of Bayer’s empire -- disappeared from business directories the following year, although it continued to be listed in a national directory of shippers as late as 1916.

Bucking the trend, a new Golden Hill Liquor Company was formed in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1914, operating at 228 Main Street. Although information about the outlet is scant, it continued to be listed in local business directories until 1919 and the advent of statewide Prohibition.

The Golden Hill proved to be a early experiment in franchising that FIg. 14 Lima Golden Hill shot glass fell far short of Starbucks. Today its legacy is represented by a few bottles, The Cleveland Golden Hill apparently jugs, shot glasses, corkscrews and a closed in 1913 and the remaining wooden tray -- not much to document Fig. 15 Lima Golden Hill Youngstown outlet terminated in 1914 Bayer’s grand but failed vision. whiskey bottle -- both gone from local business listings.

Notes: The material for this article From this distance was gleaned from a range of publications we can speculate about and Internet sites. The pre-pro.com website the causes for the rapid maintained by Robin Preston provided the fall of The Golden Hill photos of shot glasses. Thanks go to ePodunk Distilling Co. retailing for the postcard view of Youngstown. “empire”.

The Portions of this article previously appeared company may have in the Swirl, the monthly newsletter of the become financially Ohio Bottle Club. overextended during a period of economic downturn. Individual Fig. 16 Lima Golden Hill ad saloon owners may have found the arrangement less than profitable. Court records from 1914, however, may provide the best clue to the decline. That year Harry Bayer was hailed into court by a man named Bump for sending whiskey by express mail to Mayville, Ohio, a completely “dry” town. Bump was a undercover agent for Prohibition forces and had conducted a sting on Bayer. After a trial in Mayville, the whiskey dealer was found guilty and fined.

Bayer appealed on the grounds that he should have been tried in Columbus where the shipment originated. The Ohio Supreme Court agreed and threw out the earlier conviction. Bayer’s victory was hollow as town after town Fig. 17 Fostoria Block building postcard

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Dixie Jewels Insulator Club’s Swap Meet a Big Success

By Bill Baab

TOCCOA, Ga. – Nearly two dozen collector-dealers offered a wide array of “jewels of the wire,” some from Dixie, others from elsewhere, at the Dixie Jewels Insulator Club’s Swap Meet in Mitchell Allen Memorial Hall in the old Toccoa Railroad Depot on August 20.

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in service, offered a comfortable airconditioned venue and also houses the Currahee Military Museum. On display in the latter are many artifacts detailing the lives and experiences of the men who trained for combat missions at Camp Toccoa, made famous by the hit Steve Spielberg and Tom Hanks HBO miniseries “Band of Brothers.” .

Jim Colburn has been an insulator collector for many years, making the long haul from Greenacres in the West Palm Beach, Fla., area. (Photo by Bea Baab)

Dixie Jewels Insulator Club President Bill Haley, of Chattanooga, Tenn., sold egg baskets he makes, in addition to insulators. (Photos by Bea Babb)

Dealers like Jim Colburn, a longtime insulator collector, made the long trek to Toccoa from Green Acres near West Palm Beach, Fla. Bill Haley, president of the Dixie club, came down from Chattanooga, Tenn., along with John Henderson, while Dudley Ellis drove over from Stockbridge, Ga. This writer, a bottle collector, was intrigued by the sizes, shapes and colors of a wide variety of insulators. Colors ranged from aquamarine to emerald green to lime green to reds to cobalt to carnival glass.

The only insulator I have at home is a New England Telephone and Telegraph Co., example and one just like it at the show listed for $38. Wow! My personal philosophy in collecting antique glass is to learn as much as I can, so I joined the Dixie Jewels and the National Insulator Association so I can benefit from the information to be gleaned from their newsletters.

One of the more unusual items Veteran Insulator collector Keith Roloson, of Cumming, GA., shows off a threadless insulator manufactored by the Southern Porcelain Company of Kaolin, Near Bath, S.C. He is a past President of the National Insulator Association. (Photo by Bea Baab)

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display case in which were several near Bath, S.C., just across the Savannah threadless insulators costing in the four River from Augusta where I reside. figures. Ellis purchased some of them Haley said the club boasts of 75 to from an Augusta collector years ago.

80 active members. Anyone interested in A familiar shape caught my eye in the joining the group should send a check for display of Keith Roloson, of Cumming, Ga. $10 annual membership to club treasurer It was a Civil War era Southern Porcelain Co., Cal Baker, 230 Carriage Summit Way, insulator from Kaolin Hendersonville, NC 28791.

Larry (left) and Jeff Kraemer, Easley, S.C., check out a Dudley Ellis, of Stockbridge, Ga., shows off his back-lit “wishbone” brackets that contained three huge ceramic display case featuring threadless insulators, some of insulators made by the Thomas Company of Liverpool, which were dug in Augusta, Ga. The Laefferts (3rd Ohio. They hauled the bracket to the Dixie Jewels and 5th from the left, top shelf) were among those Insulator Club’s swap meet in Toccoa, Ga., Aug. 20. found in The Garden City. (Photo by Bea Baab) (Photo by Bea Baab)

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Darrell Plank Bruce W. Schank

[Editor’s Note: This article is a result of long time collector and author Bruce W. Schank reaching out to long time collector Darrell Plank.]

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first met Darrell at the January 2008 Muncie, IN show. We spoke briefly but he was busy room hoping so I didn’t get a chance to talk at length with him. Yet I already knew about him because his collection was Legendary to me and I’m sure many other people as well.

Normally when one hears Darrell’s name mentioned it’s always nothing short of synonymous with the Crème de le Crème of fruit jars.

Darrell was born on Nov 4, 1956 in Kansas City, MO and also spent his childhood there until attending college.

Darrell is a graduate of the University of Missouri and has a Masters degree from Purdue University. He worked at one time for Bell Labs in Chicago as a programmer and then made his way from there to Washington State working for Microsoft at Redmond in 1984 and has remained in Washington State since then. He mentioned that he lives in the “middle of nowhere” but wouldn’t change that for anything. In 1997 Darrell and three of his friends

started a successful video game company called Suckerpunch which he currently devotes a good portion of his time to.

Surprisingly, Darrell first became interested in fruit jars while in Junior High School. He had a friend who collected bottles and he was interested in them too but didn’t know where he would find bottles such as a Dr. Harter’s Wild Cherry Bitters. His Mom canned so he took her downstairs one day and pointed to all of her jars and told her he had just assimilated them all for his collection. Well, his mother basically

said to him that that’s not the way it was going to be but that he could pick out any 10 jars he wanted. After doing so he was then off to the races and what a race it has been for him. Indeed nothing short of stupendous!

Darrell’s first exciting jar as a young collector was a half gallon amber Globe with a big bruise on the heel. But the fact he had an amber jar of any kind at all was just about the most exciting thing he could imagine at that time. So there is hope for the rest of us. He mentioned how he went to the 1976 Show at St. Louis with all

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of the money he had saved up. It was close to $300 and incredibly with that little money he ended up with a teal 1858 quart and a few other nice jars which he still has in the collection to this day. His collecting kind of shut down for a brief time period while going to college because money was tight and he just didn’t have the free time due to his studies.

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Ladies Favorite which by the way just happened to be the very first jar he spent over 1k on. After that jar the next time he really started to get some “high end” examples was after he had worked for Microsoft for awhile.

Shortly after they went public and his stock options vested, it was at that time Alex Kerr’s collection became available. That pretty much was the incredible beginning to a never ending quest for rare and beautifully colored fruit jars.

Darrell mentioned that although he feels a Ball Jar collection of 500 jars would actually be an interesting collection, he only has enough space to accommodate a limited amount of jars. Actually the type of jars Darrell is after are ones in which a non-collector when looking at it would say, “Oh wow now that’s really interesting.”

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huge fan of odd closured jars.

Believe this or not he bought a green B.B. Wilcox jar at one time and according to him completely sight unseen. When he opened the box and took a look at the jar he claims his jaw dropped. The jar is a color of green exactly akin to the Petal jars and Darrell feels the green Petal jars are the only jars that come in that particular color green. He feels this jar was one of the craziest jars he has picked up over the years and a favorite.

Another great jar Darrell acquired was a wonderful milk-glass swirled 1858 quart that came from the Alex Kerr collection. He claims no one really knows what the actual stories behind these milk-glass jars are but the running theory is that someone after work hours decided to make a jar out of the cap liner material as an end of the day joke or whimsy. Nonetheless the jar is rare and fantastic all at the same time no matter what the reason might be.

Now there’s no doubt that Darrell pays nothing short of top dollar for his jars and that’s probably true about most of them but he was lucky one time from what he told me on an eBay auction. He won a wonderful cobalt jar with a super pontil and a laid on ring that was on eBay along with two plain aqua wax sealers. The photo wasn’t that good and the description too was a bit vague at best. Only at the end was it mentioned to be a cobalt blue wax sealer. So he took the chance and managed to snag that beauty for a paltry $600 bills and considering the jar that was a real steal for him, that’s for sure.

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before until seeing his photos, a cobalt blue Hartell jar. And according to him it’s the only example he’s ever seen or heard of in that color. The jar came from the Al Vignon collection and he claims a fair amount of the jar has been reconstructed. There are some big chunks that have been repaired but he takes that all in stride. He always reminds people “if you want the Venus de Milo with arms then you just don’t want the Venus de Milo because the only one known doesn’t have any arms. Be happy with what you get.”

Great advice since a one-of-a-kind jar after all, is what it is.

Darrell’s favorite jar in the entire collection surprisingly to me happens to be his amber quart Air Tight Fruit

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Jar. I asked him why and he told me there are a few reasons for this. The jar is not only beautiful and interesting but one of the most historic jars that exists. The jar just happens to be one of the earliest figural jars, one of the only amber figural jars, one of the only amber pontiled jars and from what he can figure probably the earliest amber side embossed jar as well.

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factors together and it takes top spot in his book and that’s saying a lot considering what he owns.

At one point Darrell looked at his collection and said to himself; “Oh My Gosh I have a rather large collection, kind of by accident, of cobalt jars.” With that said he doesn’t think it’s fair to say he has them all though. He freely admits that most likely he has probably an example of all of the well known cobalt jars out there but there are obscure cobalt product jars hardly anyone has heard of that he does not own. Still he never imagined he’d ever own the cobalt lightning or the Mason’s CFJCo. Improved, Clyde NY on reverse simply because the jars were owned by people he believed would never give them up. So after acquiring those jars he had basically most of what he wanted anyway.

November - December 2011 Darrell looks at his jars pretty much from a historical viewpoint and wonders often where was a certain jar he owns was during the Civil War or what kind of food did somebody put up in this jar. He claims there was a lot of really great looking fancy glass that people put on the table but that usually was in the back of the china closet and taken out once a year at Christmas or some other holiday. One of the things he loves about jars is that people actually handled them on a day to day basis and they were an integral part of their lives. He loves seeing jars that still have labels on them saying what was in them at one time too.

One of my favorite jars in Darrell’s collection happens to be his cobalt streaked (striations anyone) 1858 midget. He says that fantastic and stunning midget jar came from a family in Muncie, IN. The family’s story is quite remarkable at least to me anyway being a Ball jar collector.

Their grandfather made the jar at the Ball Corp. plant in Muncie, IN around 1900 as a lark. They kept it in the family all of those years until finally selling it to Darrell. Now, for all of those naysayers out there who don’t believe Ball made vanilla 1858 jars including midgets, this is one story if true (and there’s no reason to doubt what the family claims) tends to prove the opposite. This jar would also be the one and only Ball made jar that I know of with cobalt in it too. Hmmm, I wonder if I could ever find anything good enough to trade Darrell for this jar. I seriously rather doubt I could find anything but it’s a pleasant thought for me. :0)

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Darrell also has a tragic jar story too. He used to have a mirror that had some fixtures on it. He had some jars under the fixtures including a nice half gallon Bloeser jar. Somehow one of the fixtures came loose from either road vibration or whatever and one day bang, it fell hitting the Bloeser jar.

He still has the closure but the jar itself is unfortunately history now. Sadly for some strange reason he didn’t seem to learn his lesson. He put the fixture back on the mirror and as far as he was concerned it was nice and tight this time firmly believing everything was going to be okay. But sadly tragedy was to strike yet again. This time he put a nice set of three deep green colored Lightning’s back under the fixture and low and behold and out of the blue that same fixture came crashing down again one day and hit

the quart jar. The half gallon and pint thankfully survived but the quart was a $700 “hard pill to swallow” lesson for Darrell. Suffice it to say after tragedy number two he longer has any jars under that mirror.

To the rest of the fruit jar collecting world Darrell would say just enjoy what you collect at present.

He believes that there’s a thrill involved in every level of jars. There’s no reason for anybody to feel that their collection is any less exciting then his or anyone else’s collection. You’ve got to have the passion in you and not worry too much whether other people don’t share the same passion as you do. Everyone should enjoy and be proud of their collection. He’s thrilled that we have all of the collectors in the hobby and at all of the varying levels and everyone deserves praise.

In doing this interview with Darrell over the phone I came away actually quite impressed with the man. There is a whole lot more to him than meets the eye and rare fruit jars.

Darrell is very laid back and down to earth but also very articulate, outgoing and personable. He’s an incredibly intelligent person and extremely knowledgeable about his jars too. I would imagine he is an exceptional programmer since Math seems to be a

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serious and fun hobby for him as well.

He is also an accomplished musician and knows how to tickle the ivories with the best of them. Another avenue of interest for Darrell is photography and his skills are quite evident by the majority of the excellent photos accompanying this article.

In ending, I asked Darrell sort of facetiously whether there exists

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a jar that can actually make his jaw drop anymore. I mean come on now folks! This guy obviously owns some of the most overwhelmingly spectacular jars that most normal and even advanced collectors have ever seen or could imagine owning.

It just simply boggles this humble author’s tiny noggin thinking about them. I couldn’t help but wonder, isn’t it just a bit all too commonplace for him now? Can any jar actually be impressive or thrilling enough? To my sheer surprise he chuckled at all of my foolish tomfoolery and said, “Oh yes absolutely!” It’s obvious I’m having a hard time grasping or understanding what it’s like to own fruit jars of the caliber in his collection. I’m simply coming from an outside vantage point of complete and utter normalcy talking to one of the most prodigious and prominent fruit jar collectors in the country. I have an invite from Darrell so sometime hopefully in the not too distant future I will be visiting with him and seeing those incredible jars up close and personal. *Addendum: Photos 1, 11 & 19 courtesy of June Lowry.*

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TeeTHing Pains Anyone who has ever experienced the pain of a toothache knows that while other pains may be bad, none seems quite so excruciating as an affected molar. Dentistry has been practiced in one form or another for hundreds, if not thousands of years. The one thing the early practitioners lacked was a means of making the process comfortable. It was not until Westerners discovered that coca, and later isolated cocaine, did an effective local anesthetic come to the forefront.

The popularity and prominence of cocaine after it was first isolated in the mid 1880s was meteoric. It was touted as a hair dressing, a cure for the morphine habit, mixed with wine, and constituted one of the ingredients in Coca-Cola. Its use as an effective anesthetic was quickly established. On the heels of that were those men ready to turn that discovery into cold hard cash.

My interest was turned to this

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unlikely subject by a small bottle I happened across some 30 years ago.

At two inches tall and half again as wide, with a wide mouth and bold embossing, it struck me as a bit odd.

Embossed across the face of it was “Higgins Anaesthetic, Dr. F.A. Higgins, Bellevue, O., and in large letters on the base “FAH.” Now Bellevue is only about 20 miles from my hometown of Tiffin. Despite this, I could find no one who could shed any light on this bottle or its namesake. In fact, it was only fairly recently that I decided to delve into just who Higgins was. What I stumbled upon was only a small part of a much larger scenario.

Frank Amando Higgins was born in 1860. He graduated from the Philadelphia Dental College in 1882, soon afterward setting up an office in Bellevue. By all indications, he carried on a good practice. His office was at 126 E. Main Street, nestled between Wolf and Sons’ Clothing Store and the Gemberling Grocery.

Despite this seeming small town naivete, Frank actually carried on an extensive dental supply business.

It was named the Higgins Dental Manufacturing Company, and while

orders were addressed to Bellevue, there really wasn’t a company there. Orders were filled through a Toledo, Ohio firm.

The Ransom and Randolph Company was a well respected dental supply house, and through them Frank carried out his business.

50 In the grand scheme of things, Higgins Anesthetic was a late comer to the party, seeing as he didn’t develop it until around 1900. By then any number of similar articles had come and gone. It was really no different than most such compounds; a mixture that contained cocaine as its main active ingredient. Not only did he have his own anesthetic, he developed and patented a special syringe in 1904 (#781283). He was also a partner in several other inventions, but these have no direct connection to dentistry. He died in 1931, and the local paper said very little about his life. So much for fame.

As stated previously, cocaine had been around for 15 years before Higgins latched onto it. There were even patents on dental anesthetics to Ohioans. The earliest was to Eugene F. Jaques, of Burton. He was granted patent #418567 on December 31, 1889.

It contained cocaine, carbolic acid, oil of wintergreen, oil of mustard, alcohol, boric acid, water, and oil of cajeput.

It seems that there was some attempt to market the concoction, but on a limited scope and with questionable success.

The second patent was granted to Robert Graham et all, of Carrollton, Ohio. He was granted patent #420653, which was granted just a little over a month later (Feb 4, 1890). His formula unsurprisingly contained cocaine. It was a mixture of alcohol, glycerin, aconite, menthol, and cocaine.

No information was available on Mr. Graham, or any reports on his ability to market his formula.

This, then, brings forth the interesting difficulty with obtaining a patent on such a thing. Once it was granted no one could legally market a product with your formulation.

However, proving it was based on your

November - December 2011 patent was close to impossible. This is what likely led to the demise of these anesthetics.

On the other hand, registering a trade mark was enforceable, and it enabled the owner greater protection from encroachment.

In doing trade mark research many years ago I ran across two unusual names from Ohio. The first was something called Odontunder. It was granted as the trade name for a dental anesthetic apparently formulated by the partnership of Merriam and Cobb of Oberlin. Investigation found that these two men were an unlikely pair.

Dr. Eurotus Driggs Merriam was a down to earth physician. He was born nearby at Lagrange, and when a young adult attended college at Oberlin.

He eventually became part of the teaching staff. Marvin W. Cobb was nothing of the sort. He was the typical patent medicine salesman. He was born in Fredonia, New York. By the late 1880s, he was running the Cobb Medicinal Company at 107 Ottawa

Street in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

That firm sold a “female remedy.” How the two men came in contact with one another is unknown. The formula was likely Merriam’s, but Cobb had the showmanship and know-how to market it.

Thus the Odontunder Manufacturing Company was born.

“Odon” is Latin for tooth, and the latter half of the name is derived from the Latin word “to numb,” obtundere.

Though the formula was never revealed, chemical analysis at the time showed that the primary active ingredient was

bottles aND extras cocaine. The trade mark was issued on February 18, 1890. Cobb wasted little time in promoting it. Instead of doing so in dental journals, as was common practice, he instead allowed local dentists to do the advertising for him.

Whatever deal the two men had came to an end in 1897, when Dr. Merriam died. Cobb carried on the business until his death on May 19, 1909. By 1910 the Odontunder Manufacturing Company was located at 32 E. Main Street in Philadelphia.

The other anesthetic that came to my attention was called Alvatunder.

I was completely unaware that there were bottles with that embossed on them, and even if I had, I would not have paid attention to them. You see, I collect only Ohio medicine bottles and this one is marked St. Louis. And yet, despite this, the man who compounded it was from Ohio. In fact he was born, raised, practiced dentistry, and died in Ohio.

His name was Charles K. Hisey.

Born in Columbiana County, he was the youngest of a large family.

His siblings ranged so much in age that when he was born, his oldest brother, Wilson Hisey, was already an adult. His first practice was in St Paris, Ohio.

He relocated within 8 miles of Oberlin in the 1890s.

On March 19, 1896, while engaged in practice there at Wellington, Ohio, he was granted the trade mark “Alvatunder.” His anesthetic was composed of 1 gram cocaine, 3 drops of phenol, 3 drops tincture of iodine, 10 grams of glycerin and sufficient water to make 100 grams. The compound may well have been based off of Merriam’s, seeing the proximity of the two towns and the similarity in names.

Charles was an inventive dentist, which may or may not have been to his patient’s benefit. In addition to his

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anesthetic, he developed a method using tin foil to help anchor the gold in fillings, as well as other methods of making and setting teeth. But the Hisey name survives today embossed in glass. These bottles are similar to Higgins’, but are about an inch taller.

They are embossed Alvatunder The Hisey Dental Mfg Co. St Louis. So the question then becomes, if Charles was in Wellington, Ohio, who was the Hisey in Missouri? The answer to that took a little investigating.

It would seem that Charles set up his older brother into the dental supply business. Wilson R. Hisey was the proprietor of the Hisey Dental Mfg. Company of St Louis. With him was his son, Homer.

They opened up first in 1899 at 816 Olive street as the Hisey and Son Dental Depot. They “became” the company in 1905 and relocated to 1110 Pine. After his father’s death, Homer took over, but he died in 1917. The widow Hisey ran it until around 1926 from 1528

November - December 2011 Chestnut Street. Alvatunder was heavily advertised in dental journals, and many other products were sold under the “ALVA” heading.

Another, but more obscure anesthetic was called Arophene. The Arophene Mfg Company was located in Kingsville, Ohio around 1892. They advertised that the name was trade marked, as opposed to the previous two, which never mentioned it in their ads. The fact is, it wasn’t. It was said to contain no cocaine; analysis showed it did. Later advertisements (1893) list the company at 29 W. Fifth Street, Cincinnati, some three hundred miles distant. No name has surfaced in connection with this firm.

Before I end this story, I will ask the reader to humor me for a moment as I stray slightly from the point. Bad teeth were caused by poor care and improper diet. Today, we know quite well that sugar is the leading cause of tooth decay. It is especially abundant in candy. While not as bad as some confections, chewing gum still ranks high on the dentist’s “avoid” list.

Some of you readers out there may already know that chewing gum, though around for centuries, was first

51 patented by an Ohioan.

That man was not William F. Semple of Mt Vernon, Ohio. He makes for good press because he himself was a dentist. His patent is #98304.

Look up #93141, and you will find it too is for chewing gum. It was granted to Amos H. Tyler of Toledo, Ohio. Tyler, a Michigan native, had only just moved to Toledo when he applied for the patent. It was granted in July 1869, six months before Semple’s.

It is questionable as to whether or not Semple ever marketed his gum, but it is a fact that Tyler did his. Tyler’s mixture of olive oil and rosin hardly seems to fit into our idea of what constitutes gum.

The firm of Morse (Samuel D.) and Tyler was located at 103 Adams Street. They listed themselves as manufacturers of the Celebrated Tolu and White Rose chewing gums, as well as Lorenz’s Excelsior Fruit Jar Wax. Its enough to make one wonder if a person could tell the gum from the wax!

This is especially so when you consider that outside of a flavoring, these early gums contained no sugar. It would seem that Tyler gave up on the gum and left Toledo after a few years, moving on to Adrian, Michigan.

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Am I a Collector or Investor?

By Jim Bender I have been a bottle collector for almost 40 years now. I Today’s collectors want most bottles to look better than they started like many of us digging in an old local dump looking did the day they where made. I guess tumbling bottles has for great treasures and almost every day we found them. Oh, pushed this to where it has gotten. I have seen great early those were the days, huh? Well, times change and so do we. bottles picked up at shows and heard people say,”oh, it’s got As a kid, any blown bottle with writing on a scratch, or look, a little nick.” Hello, it’s it was a treasure. If you dug a Warner’s over a 150 years old! This brings us back Safe Cure you were a bottle digging god.

I started like many of us to the question, collector or investor?

The past five to 10 years it seems bottle I find myself being influenced by all digging in an old local prices have gone sky high for good bottles, of this perfect high priced bottle stuff going sometimes higher than the prices reached dump looking for great on. So I ask myself, collector or investor? at the great Gardner or Blaske sales. I ask treasures and almost every Well I guess we all would like to think myself more and more, “Am I collector or what we buy is worth what we pay. But day we found them. investor?” It gets to a point it discourages in my case sometimes they are not. There me as I am sure it does many. Everything Oh, those were the days, are times I buy a bottle with a pot stone, today seems to be based on how much it is small chip or light stain. There are times huh? worth. There seems to be more and people I buy a bottle knowing nobody else will getting into the hobby who just want the ever really want it but I do. I look around best most valuable things they can get. They bid thousands the house and see many bottles I don’t even remember what of dollars in auctions and really don’t know anything about I paid for them. There is no record book or price ledger in what they’re bidding on other than it is one of the best. In my house. When I sit back and really think about it, I am a some cases, I have met people who don’t even remember collector! Yes, I buy and sell sometimes but when it comes what the embossing says on a bottle even after they own the right down to it I am a collector. I love cheap bottles as well bottle. as high priced bottles. My bottles don’t all look brand new As I look back at bottle prices and see some bottles that and some have issues. are just beautiful works of art, yet never went up much in A good friend of mine bought the record-setting Jaskson value, I wonder why? Let’s take the Warner’s Tippecanoe flask from the Heckler sale a few months back. Did he buy bottle. Have you ever really picked one up and looked at it? it as an investment? I can honestly tell you, no. He bought it They are one of the greatest old bottles ever made. The top for its rarity, color and he needed it for the collection. When is almost unique, the mold work is outstanding. Yes, they are people started telling him he set a world record, his reply common bottles for sure. Any general collector who does not was simple, “I did not want a world record – I wanted the have one is crazy. They still can be had for a just over a $100 great bottle.” Yes, he’s a collector! if you shop around. Twenty years ago, they were $75. Have A few weeks ago Dick Watson and I were sitting in they been a good investment? Maybe not like a flask of $75 my living room talking about bottles he had gotten at the 20 years ago. So that brings us back to the question, collector Ballston Spa bottle show. Dick said, “I may have paid a little or investor? too much, but I needed it for the collection.” I knew at that Let’s look at condition issues today and how people time there still were collectors like me out there. Now ask view them. Nobody has ever wanted a beaten up bottle. yourself, COLLECTOR OR INVESTOR?

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The Wrath of Scurvy Vitamin C – also known as Ascorbic Acid, is a vital nutrient and is water soluble. Humans cannot synthesize Vitamin C and must obtain it through our diet. It is required for the synthesis of collagen, a vital structural component of blood vessels, tendons, ligaments and bones.

Vitamin C also provides an important function in the synthesis of the neurotransmitter, norepinephrine.

These are critical to brain activity and our known moods. Vitamin C is also required for the synthesis of carnitine, a small molecule which is essential for the transport of fat to cellular organelles called mitochondria, for the conversion to energy.

Vitamin C is also a highly efficient antioxidant. Even in small amounts, it can protect vital molecules in the body, such as proteins, lipids and nucleic acids from damage by free radicals.

Scurvy Scurvy is a severe Vitamin C deficiency and is fatal if unattended. Unfortunately, many of the early treatments were not effective and death followed.

By the late 1700s the British Navy was aware that scurvy could be cured and prevented by eating oranges and lemons. Vitamin C was not identified and synthesized until 1932.

Naval warfare during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was conducive to specific diseases. Ship’s rations often resulted in starvation and dysentery from eating spoiled food. Any ship’s captain could not count on the good health of his crew. The officer’s rations were of high quality and often promoted good health.

If your ship sailed to tropical waters, many of the crew would become seriously ill, and young sailors would die without knowing why.

It is hard to visualize a time when a diet deficiency could change the outcome of a naval campaign or destroy a whole fleet without ever firing a cannon. Yet, scurvy, which is caused by the

By Donald Yates deficiency of Vitamin C, accomplished just that, and thousands of times over.

Many thousands of your seamen died; hundreds of ships never returned to their home ports; because their crews were severely weakened by this disease. Scurvy was called “The Scourge of the Sea.” The cure had been discovered then lost, then found, and lost again many years ago.

Most astonishing, the ignorance of real causes of scurvy persisted as recently as the beginning of the twentieth century. In 1900, a paper was read to the British Royal Society which stated that “Neither lime juice nor fresh vegetables could cure scurvy because it was caused by tainted food.”

Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins wrote a book on vitamins in 1912 that explained the effects of diet on diseases. The anti-scorbutic compound, Ascorbic Acid, was finally isolated in 1932.

The symptoms of scurvy are different, but, usually begin with a general weakness and depression. Others include a sallow complexion, swollen legs, aching muscles and tender swollen gums. The teeth may fall out in a few weeks. Flesh boils and swollen yellow flesh are common.

Often, those who escape death from scurvy fall easy victim to other diseases. Scurvy is correctly treated with a diet of fruit and fresh vegetables and can be completely cured.

Lemon juice could be concentrated and preserved and used to present scurvy. The art of canning and preserving meats and vegetables, and finally refrigeration, has eliminated scurvy from shipboard.

During the fifteenth century long sea voyages to the West Indies and the Americas resulted in major episodes of scurvy. Vasco de Gama had a crew of 160 men and lost over 100 sailors to scurvy alone. Almost all of Magellan’s sailors died of scurvy. He had five ships and only eighteen weakened sailors returned home.

Explorer Jacques Cartier landed in Canada in 1534 with a crew of 106 men. One hundred of them had scurvy.

Native Indians cured them with sassafras tea.

Sir Richard Hawkins stated in 1593 that in his twenty years at sea, ten thousand British sailors had died of this disease. It is estimated that scurvy has killed at least one million English sailors. Their officers were still reluctant to believe that oranges could prevent scurvy.

The first book on Naval Medicine, “The Surgeons Mate,” was published

by John Woodall in 1617. He highly recommended lemon juice to prevent scurvy. One hundred years later Commodore George Anson made a trip around the world, in 1740 and ending in 1744. He had a crew of 1,935 men and 1,051 died from scurvy. What a waste of human life.

In 1747, James Lind, a surgeon in the British Royal Navy, gave world proof that lemon juice was the best remedy for this terrible disease. While serving aboard his HMS Salisbury, he conducted a scientific experiment on crew members with similar scurvy symptoms.

He used twelve seamen and divided them into six groups. He gave those in the first group a quart of cider each day. In the second group, he gave them twenty-five drops of elixir of sulphuric acid (oil of vitriol), three times a day. The third group was given vinegar three times a day. The fourth group was given a quart of sea water each day.

Group five was given a pill containing garlic, mustard seed, radish, balsam of Peru and gum myrrh. The sixth group was given two oranges and one lemon a day.

In six days, the last group was cured. One man returned to duty and the second nursed the other victims. As usual, not all of the Royal Navy was convinced with Lind’s work. In 1789, a British fleet in the Channel Islands, after a ten week cruise, brought 2,400

54 scurvy cases to Portsmouth. Out of 12,000 men of the British Navy in the West Indies, 1,750 died of scurvy.

Lemonade was used extensively as an anti-scurvy compound by French and Italian physicians in the seventeenth century. Pharmacists were encouraged to supply it. A Florentine pharmacist in 1660 considered freezing the lemonade to make it more appealing. The frozen lemon ice water was called sherbet, and quickly became very popular.

Imagine a medicine that tasted good. In 1676 the Lemonadiers of France formed a company under government authority.

To Be At Sea Scurvy! Many history books mention that while being on a long voyage at sea, the sailors would suffer from scurvy. Did anyone understand what that meant? Their quarters were filthy, clothing and bedding were infested with lice, mice, and rats. There was no ventilation and a terrible stench. Salt beer and salt pork were thrown to the seamen in the galley for weeks and months until their stomachs heaved at the greasy slop. Their tongues were swollen and parched with the terrible thirst it created.

The use of stale drinking water developed nausea. Their contaminated food consisted of rancid fat and butter, stale beer, hard baking powder biscuits and cheese full of maggots. They had no fresh fruit or vegetables. Scurvy was simply caused by lack of green vegetables.

The sailors living on such poor food still had to perform their tasks at sea. They had to reef in the sails during a gale, hauling on ropes and hawsers until their hands were blistered and raw.

They also had to pull at the halyards and the braces and had to heave the old barrel windlass.

Other duties included caulking leaking seams with oakum and pitch and pulling on the pumps to clean the bilge. These seamen were usually bullied by their officers. Whipping was a common but brutal event. It was common for one third of the crew to per-

November - December 2011 ish on a voyage. And these were young men.

Scurvy was an unnecessary but deadly disease. It afflicted young, healthy sailors in a short time, say four weeks. In the second four weeks, they faced a rapid horrible death. As we know today, it could have been prevented with either fresh or canned vegetables or fruit juice. They did not have ice boxes or refrigerators. Captains later carried lime juice for their crews and the rewards were remarkable.

The insidious sea disease, scorbutus or scurvy, haunted mankind throughout his early history. It was traced to 500 BC and the prominent Arabian physician, Rhazes (850 – 932 AD) said that scurvy is a disease of the teeth and jaws, beginning in the mouth and ending in the intestines. It was a very serious disease.

It was not until the sixteenth century and the beginning of the Great Age of Exploration in Europe that scurvy first appeared out of control. It continued rudely as the principal nemesis of sailors until 1795, when Sir Gilbert Blane, consultant to the British Navy on the health of sailors, convinced the Government to pass an ordinance which required that lime juice be provided for all men of the Navy.

Scurvy then vanished from the British Navy almost immediately. Other nations quickly followed suite. The man responsible for providing Gilbert Blane with proof on the great value of lime juice was James Lind through his valuable book, “A Treatise on the Scurvy.”

James Lind’s book holds the unique distinction of being both a Dental and Medical classic because, in early times, both professions treated the disease. Both fields are concerned with conditions brought on by vitamin or diet deficiency.

James Lind was a serious scientist who carefully made observations on treating scurvy. He also tested other known methods to determine their effectiveness. James was born in Edinburgh and his family could be traced back to 1200. He was born in 1716,

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At age fifteen, he was an apprentice to George Langlands, a member of the Incorporation of Surgeons. He served his apprenticeship in Edinburgh.

In 1739, James Lind was twentythree, his medical training ended in the Royal Infirmary. He entered the Royal Navy as a Surgeon’s Mate. During the subsequent ten years, he sailed on various ships to the Mediterranean, to West Africa, and the West Indies, carefully observing and recording everything he saw.

By 1747, James had been promoted to Surgeon on the HMS Salisbury.

It was during her cruise in the English Channel that year that Lind conducted his classic experiments on scurvy.

In 1748, James Lind had retired from the Royal Navy and returned home to Edinburgh to obtain his Medical Degree. He obtained his license from the Royal College of Physicians.

In 1750, he was appointed a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. In 1757, he became Treasurer of the Royal College. James was also a member of the Philosophical and Medical Society of Edinburgh.

He published two papers in London in 1763 on Fevers and Infections.

During these years in Edinburgh, he researched all of the known works on scurvy and put together his own observations on the disease. In 1753, he published his famous Treatise in Edinburgh. His treatise was dedicated to George Anson.

In 1740, Commodore Anson had sailed from Portsmouth with six men of war and two victuallers (supply ships) to confront the Spanish Navy in the Pacific. Over two thousand men left home and only two hundred came back. The rest died from scurvy – 90% fatalities.

The survivors, of whom about thirty were just boys, lived in just one ship: HMS Centurion against the Spanish treasure ship, Cavadonga. This was one of the most prominent battles in the long history of the British Navy. The British Navy went around the world and returned after four years at sea.

bottles aND extras This voyage persuaded Lind to write his Treatise on Scurvy.

James Lind started a practice in Halsar Hospital in Portsmouth. In his first two years there, he saw 5,734 admissions including 1,146 cases of scurvy. The English Channel fleet could bring in 2,000 cases at one time. During the seven year war with Spain, he had as many as 1,000 cases at one time.

He was satisfied with his own intellectual efforts and he did more than any man before or since to point the way for making safe the life of the sailor at sea.

James died on July 13, 1794, and was buried at Porchester Church. He married Isobel Dickie and they lived in Edinburgh. She died on March 6, 1796, at the age of seventy-six. Their son, John, also became a physician.

James Lind was the first of the modern clinical researchers to have faith in his own observations, even though they usually did not agree with the established ideas of his time. He got nearer the truth about the nature of scurvy, malaria and typhus than anyone before him.

This is very shocking and sad. The Dutch experts believed that scurvy was a proteus like mischief, sneaking under various and unusual appearances and sent by divine permission as a punishment for the sins of the world.

Eugelenus described scurvy as a universal pathological process that would explain any clinical disorder under the most diverse conditions. The idea of a universal disease and a universal panacea to cure it, was quite common in the seventeenth century.

Lind had to destroy most of the previous theories, such as acid scurvy and alkaline scurvy; that sea scurvy was different than land scurvy; that scurvy was caused by breathing sea air; and that it was contagious from bacteria.

His Treatise holds the simple account of his classic experiment, which appears to have been the first intentionally planned controlled experiment ever conducted on human beings. His respect for the British sailor persuaded him to a precise experiment, conducted

November - December 2011 with the full cooperation of his patients and carried out in the manner that has later been observed in all proper trials of new drugs and new procedures of treatment.

His greatest accomplishment was that by one precise clinical experiment, he established for all time the clear superiority of citrus fruits above all other invalid anti-scorbutic remedies.

Having shown that scurvy could be cured with orange juice and having proposed an excellent method of concentrating and preserving the extract used at sea, Lind might well have been satisfied to conclude that scurvy was caused solely by some specific chemical substance contained in orange juice; he might even have used the name, Ascorbic Acid.

But Lind did not make this current mistake. He emphasized that the cause of scurvy at sea was related to the life of the sailor in which cold, damp, infection, alcohol and discontent were all part of the story. Today we call these factor “stress.” It was only recently that their action in depleting the suprarenal glands of ascorbic acid has been recognized.

In reviewing what has been demonstrated of the virtues of oranges and lemons in this disease, Lind states that in the most severe cases, the most rapid and sensible relief was obtained from lemon juice by which he treated hundreds of patients with severe pain.

He strongly recommended adding wine, which has positive attributes.

Other substances are invaluable antiscorbutics; scurvy grass, coconut tree sap, orange peel, chamomile flowers; fir or pine tree tips, and Peruvian bark.

An infusion of malt is also beneficial.

During the Irish Potato Famine of 1845, 30,000 people died of scurvy.

Hunger was a major complicating factor.

Malnutrition was serious among the armed forces in the Crimea; there was a shortage of food, which included no fruit or vegetables. When scurvy broke out, Lord Raglan asked for lime juice and received ten tons, but not enough. It remained at the base at Balaclava.

55 By the time that the Commission of Enquiry commented on the “unaccountable and still more unfortunate” occurrence, scurvy had claimed its 3,250 victims - imagine trying to bury 3,000 victims.

One of the early treatments of both scurvy and syphilis was the use of mercury. This tragedy resulted in the mass murder of thousands of patients at a time. Physician Kramer was responsible for a great slaughter of mankind.

Young doctors in Physic being furnished with such a generic name as that of scurvy, comprehending almost all diseases, think of themselves at once acquainted with the whole art of medicine.

They own pharmacopeias of prescriptions, hence a variety of cases are every vulgarly deemed and erroneously treated as scorbutic. A combination of moisture with cold is often a major cause of this disease.

For drink, the British Government allowed good small beer, spruce or ginger beer. Beer has been shown to have an anti-scorbutic property.

In 1720, the Government troupes in Hungary acquired a severe outbreak of scurvy. It also afflicted land dwellers in the beginning of spring. Four hundred of the troupes in Belgrade were given mercury as a medicine. Every soldier died a terrible death. Mercury poisoning was prescribed by the best pharmacopeias endorsed by Hypocrites, Galen, Doctor Doleus and Doctor Helmont.

A copy of this disaster was given to the College of Physicians in Vienna: “The medicinal use of mercury should be called destroyers of the human race.”

It is quite sad that the first Northern colonies in American were extremely vulnerable to scurvy. Of the first colony sent over to New England, over onehalf perished from scurvy in the year 1621.

When the French first settled in Canada, they too suffered severe losses from scurvy. They contemplated sailing back home to France and abandoning their new homes. Even the native Indians were afflicted with this cruel disease.

56 As an early experiment, a group of sailors were left at Greenland and Spitzbergen in 1633. They were left there for two years and they all died of scurvy.

All of the medicines were detrimental and hastened their demise. Their food consisted of sea rations: Brandy, course hard biscuits and salted beef.

Our Civil War 1862 – 1865 The Civil War was a major unfortunate set of circumstances that got out of hand. How could we fight our own countrymen?

The Confederate prisoner of war camps were a disgrace. One of the early, prominent Confederate prisoner of war camps was at Cahaba, Alabama.

The prison was taken by the South and was formally a warehouse designed for agricultural produce. Alabama’s first capital was located at Cahaba. One of the major prisons was at Andersonville, Georgia. Inmates were treated like animals and were given ground corn cobs.

Any salted beer would often be rancid and many of the inmates that survived weighed only half of what they weighed on capture.

Many inmates got scurvy and the early prisoners died of scurvy. Scurvy is a preventable disease. More soldiers died in prison than on the battlefield.

American’s greatest maritime disaster was at the end of the Civil War, in 1865, when 1800 Union prisoners were on their way home on the Steamboat Sultana. She was overloaded with seven times her capacity with prisoners from Andersonville, The Sultana was fighting her way upstream near Memphis when three of her four boilers exploded. She was only two years old and her boilers were of the fire tube design, which are subjected to explosions. The Sultana caught fire after the explosion, and, to make matters worse, any survivors had to jump into the Mississippi River to avoid being burned to death.

Our political and military leaders during the Civil War should have prevented scurvy and the mass starvation in the prisoner of war camps. Scurvy is preventable and their diet should have

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Every prisoner had a home and a family and wanted to go back home after the war. Who was responsible for all of the terrible diseases and deaths in the camps?

Chronic Scurvy Today The Suppression of the Real Nature & Outright Cure of Heart Disease

by Owen Foronow – The Vitamin C Foundation – 2005.

Heart disease or occlusive cardiovascular disease is the top killer in the United States. It is actually a low grade form of scurvy. It will probably be recognized in the future by today’s medical doctors.

Heart disease is a wrong description. The disease is shown by scab-like accumulations that slowly build up on the interior of blood vessels. The progressive disease process diminishes the blood supply to the heart and other organs resulting in angina or heart cramp heart attack and stroke. The precise classification of this disease process is chronic scurvy, a sub-clinical form of the classic Vitamin C deficiency disease.

The real characteristics of this disease were identified in the early 1950s by a Canadian research team led by G. C. Willis, MD. This result was confirmed in the late 1980s by the world’s leading scientist, Linus Pauling, Ph.D. Doctor Pauling warned the world in lectures, in writing and in movies after he and his associates conducted experiments that proved the Willis findings. To date, this warning has never entered the mainstream media outlets.

Unfortunately, cardiologists are taught, and often tell their patients that there is no relationship between Vitamin C and heart disease, and there is no value in Vitamin C in amounts much higher than the small RDA amount.

It is interesting that the RDA value of 60 mg of Vitamin C was established 40 years ago and was based on the Ascorbic Acid in one orange – no scientific basis.

Following scientific protocol, if a medical doctor or research scientist

bottles aND extras tries to challenge the true nature of cardiovascular disease, they must be able to identify experiments that refute the Pauling – Willis Chronic Scurvy Hypothesis. Such experiments have never been published.

Doctor Pauling issued his warning over twelve years ago. Pharmacology Professors Steven Hickey and Hilary Roberts in their recent book, Ascorbate: The Science of Vitamin C” – 2004 document, shockingly, that there have been no independent experiments published that were designed to test the Dr. Pauling hypothesis.

Only one clinical study in humans was conducted to test the Pauling high dose hypothesis. This experiment was conducted in England with 200 men, over a period of three years, and the date confirmed Pauling’s theory and therapy. Yet, Dr. Kale Kenton’s research has not appeared in a medical journal.

Will the giant pharmaceutical factories facing these facts survive? The end of the suppression of Vitamin C will reveal the CODEX control for what they really are – a means to support an industry that has little reason to exist in its current form. The people are beginning to realize that the world’s most lucrative industry is really a tinder box. Its most profitable products are, at best, useless and, at worst, dangerous.

Prescription drugs beget more drugs.

Real doses of Vitamin C could be highly beneficial, while avoiding toxic prescription medications, as if your life depended on it.

The 700,000 people who die needlessly every year act on their cardiologist’s direction. The American Heart Association estimates that sixty-three million Americans suffer cardiovascular disease. More than one million undergo some form of heart operation, and over fifteen million are taking statin cholesterol lowering drugs on the advice of their doctor. These popular statin drugs are known to deplete ascorbic acid in the blood and probably cause heart failure.

bottles aND extras The Year 1932 Ascorbic Acid was identified and isolated in 1932. The pioneering research into the connection between Vitamin C and heart disease started in the late 1940s, not long after the structure of Vitamin C was determined. Canadian doctors proved that a Vitamin C deficiency caused the condition, commonly called atherosclerosis. These doctors found that the disease will arise in 100 percent of Vitamin C deprived animal test subjects that don’t make their own Vitamin C. Also, these Canadian scientists demonstrated that Vitamin C alone reverses atherosclerosis in laboratory animals.

This same research team performed similar studies in humans. The results showed reversals of atherosclerotic plaques in one-third of the human subjects. These studies were of low doses of no more than 1,500 mg per day.

The knowledge that heart disease is a form of scurvy has been suppressed from the period that the first series of Willis articles were published in the Canadian Medical Journal in the early 1950s. Inexplicably, since this experimentation, no articles favorable to Vitamin C and its connection with atherosclerosis have shown up in a reputable medical journal that is widely read by medical doctors.

Cardiologists in training are taught that there is no connection between Vitamin C intake and heart disease, and that it is quackery to suggest otherwise.

These assertions seem justified because reports of such studies are unheard of.

But, as Vitamin C expert and Pharmacological Professor Steven Hickey states, every cardiologist could have performed these studies on his own.

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Since Doctor Linus Pauling and other top scientists have promoted ascorbate as a cure for heart disease, it seems very sad that a potential cure for the worst killer in the developed nations, atherosclerosis has not been refuted. To a casual scientist from any other discipline, this lack of interest would be shocking.

It is a fact that the experiments have been done on animals and the results show that ascorbate protects against atherosclerosis and may reverse it. There is some additional significant evidence from human studies that is consistent with this evaluation. So why have the human studies not been performed? Or we may ask, if they have been performed, was the data withheld?

The enemies of Doctor Pauling, as well as the drug companies, would love to see the Pauling hypothesis discredited.

Why have the experiments not been reported? Doctor Steven Hickey, December 2004.

There is no doubt that the discovery of this cure has been suppressed, otherwise most of the public would have learned that twice Nobel Prize Winner, Doctor Linus Pauling, had suggested it.

Millions are dying needlessly for lack of disseminated knowledge of the Pauling discovery, which amounts to the suppression of it.

Dr. Pauling and his former research scientist, Dr. Matthias Rath, did their part by conducting the experiments and attempting to publicize these discoveries. Now it is up to other researchers in the medical community. If there is even the mere chance that Doctors Willis, Pauling and Rath are correct, it is truly criminal to fail to run experiments under fair conditions.

For the past ten years, a series of popular high protein diets have been responsible for modern scurvy. Even one of the main promoters had died fifteen years early, over weight.

One of the primary reasons for drinking mineral water was because many city wells had become contaminated with bacteria. This bacteria caused many diseases like diarrhea and intestinal diseases – Summer Complaint, etc. The mineral water was usually pure, but, did not do much good after the patient just ate some beef contaminated with cow manure and e-coli bacteria. Cholera was also caused by contaminated food and many people died in their thirties. If the mineral water was sparkling and had a high carbon dioxide concentration, that could kill some of the bacteria.

References: A Treatise on the Scurvy: James Lind: 1772; London Ships & Seamen of the Am Revolution: Jack Cog: 1969; Dover Pub: Mineola, NY Don Yates 8300 River Corners Rd Homerville, OH 44235 donaldbetsyyates@earthlink.net

Have something to share, tell us about it? Have you been out finding some treasures?

Keep us informed, write to: mdvanzant@yahoo.com Martin Van Zant, 208 Urban St. Danville IN 46122

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Classic Coca-Cola Sign Points to Refreshment in Quito, Ecuador Story and photos by Monica Elling

While on a recent trip to visit her niece, who is an exchange student there from Oral Roberts University, Monica Elling noted that though Pepsi-Cola has a presence in Ecuador, only Coca-Cola was evident wherever she travelled. Most of the plentiful market places had private shops selling nothing but Coca-Cola products.

Though family size containers are of plastic, most private size containers are still in reusable glass in both 6-1/2 oz. (192 ml.) and 10 oz. (300 ml.) sizes. Cost in US currency is 40 cents, plus a 10-cent deposit for the bottle if it is carried away. Monica noted that in formal family restaurants, leaving with a glass drink bottle from the premises was forbidden!

The glass is all clear and is manufactured in Ecuador by a plant of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, of Perrysburg, Ohio. One vendor had former classic glass bottles on display up on a shelf that was protected from breakage due to regular earth tremors in this mountainous region. Ecuador has several active volcanoes and dust from them settle on everything!

Monica was struck by the care people take in Ecuador to reuse many items like dining ware and glass, and saw very little trash discarded along the tourist paths and roadways.

A classic bottle collection shows bottles covered in another tradition there, volcanic dust!

Left: All Americans see a familiar product when visiting Ecuador in South America.

Below: Monica Elling, of Tennessee, opens a crown top bottle from wall mount opener.

Private refreshment shops provide Coke products in most market places.

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Gambrinus Brewery named after Mythical German King Gambrinus, Inventor of Brewing and the Toast

By Garth Ziegenhagen

Many immigrants began to move to the Oregon Territory in the late 1840’s. Next came one of the first brewers Henry Saxer to open an Oregon brewery in 1852 . The rest of the brewers could either be considered a great moment or a minor moment in Oregon history depending on whether you are interested in old bottles and the “Old West”. Surely everyone in Oregon has heard of Henry Weinhard, a fellow immigrant who opened an Oregon brewery in 1856. In fact, Henry Weinhard would become the real king of brewers in Oregon but Louis Feurer was a close second until a few years before prohibition arrived.

Louis Feurer entered the beer trade in 1870 as a bartender in the Germania Saloon on first street in Portland. In 1875, he purchased the New York Larger Bier Saloon in the German section of Portland which was a very lively area of all kinds of night life.

In 1879, Louis opened the Gambrinus Brewery outside of town next to a large spring with lots of acreage. Louis wasn’t satisfied with just brewing beer. He created a park for all kinds of activities including a beer garden, hot air balloon rides, dance hall, saloon, bowling lanes, and many other things. The area became one of the most popular retreat for

Portlanders and Louis expanded his holdings until 1901 when he was forced to sell. One of the reasons he was forced to sell was because the Henry Weinhard Brewery had become such a big success.

Henry Weinhard was a fierce competitor. In 1889 he even offered to send beer through fire hoses to a dedication of the Skidmore Fountain a dozen blocks away near the waterfront. The city decided their fire hoses were too valuable to run them close to Portland’s Skid Row, especially since the hoses would be full of beer. It was the promotions and growth of Henry Weinhard before prohibition and his

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ability to convert successfully to bottling soda pop until 1932 that drove the Gambrinus Brewery out of business.The Henry Weinhard Co. reentered the beer business after prohibition and became the real king of beers in Oregon until the relative recent explosion of microbreweries is even starting to force the company out of business.

Many other Oregon towns had breweries prior to prohibition in l915. Some of their embossed bottles are shown below.

IN REMEMBERENCE Barbara Harms Tribute

By John Panek The common thread at all (EDITOR’S NOTE: John Panek, of the 1st Chicago Bottle these shows she attended or Club, was a longtime friend of Barbara and Bob Harms. He participated in her life was that wrote this touching tribute following her death because of she made lifelong friends at all of cancer for The Midwest Bottled News, the club’s newsletter. them. She was a “people” person He shared his thoughts with Bottles and Extras readers.) with the innate ability to connect The 1st Chicago Bottle Club mourns the loss of longtime on a personal level with you. member Barbara Harms. She passed away on September Thus, in the mid 1970s, Barbara 27th after a long and valiant battle with cancer. Our thoughts became our close and dear friend. and prayers are with the Harms family.

She and Bob were our Caribbean Barbara was the backbone of our club. For more than 35 cruise ship companions, annual years, she served in numerous capacities as a club officer and Las Vegas and Reno bottle show member of our executive board. Perhaps her most important role was as the longtime editor of our club newsletter, The Barbara Harms chats attendees with us since 1988 and, Midwest Bottled News, She was supremely dedicated to our with Ed Herrold during of course, our legendary gambling club and was always concerned, even in the last week of her the 2008 FOHBC Expo casino buddies.

With all of the above said, life, about the condition and future of our club. in York, Pa. (Photo courtesy of June Lowry) Barbara found time to serve a few Barbara was also a dedicated collector who pursued her terms as the treasurer of the Federation of Historical Bottle specialties in a determined fashion. Among her specialized Collectors, the president of her church parish’s Women’s collections were Carter’s inks, Piso’s Cures, Clayton Dog Club and was an active participant in the local historical Remedies, Jumbo jars, ladies’ compacts, beaded handbags, society and library board. All this while being the devoted multi-view postcards, spice tins, miniature glass creamers wife of Bob and mother of eight children, four stepchildren, and others.

30 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

And, Barbara had many opportunities to start and add to We have tried to provide a brief glimpse into the life of these collections because she and Bob would attend or set up an extraordinary and remarkable woman who will be deeply at more than 20 bottle shows a year! They would be seen from missed, not only by her family and us, but by countless others Los Angeles to St. Petersburg to Ballston Spa and all points who she befriended during her life. Godspeed Barbara Ann. within the U.S. where there was a bottle show. Their overseas Love, John and Claudia Panek trips included attendance at bottle shows in Australia, New Zealand and England.

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LAHBC Club Member’s Visit to the Robert Frank Museum

By Dave Maryo

Last March, a group of Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club members took a trip to Lompoc, California to visit the Robert Frank Museum.

They learned that Mr. Frank was at a sale looking for more unusual items to add to the museum collection. They embarked on the self-guided tour of the place, with curator Brian Shull available to answer questions.

The back-lighted wall loaded with rare bitters and whiskeys grabbed everyone’s attention as we walked through the entrance. Although the rare bottles could support a museum on their own, there were many other interesting items to be seen.

We slowly moved on from the draw of antique bottles to find Native American baskets, pottery, dolls and some unusual arrowheads. I had never seen arrowheads like these in brilliant colors and such pristine condition.

I was surprised when Brian told me they were not old and he’d made them by chipping the flint and glass to produce perfectly shaped arrowheads and other tools. He said he had learned how to do it from his father and Native American tribal leaders. But the chipped stone items he produced are not just reproductions of early stone tools, but works of art.

Moving on, the next thing to catch my eyes was a huge, round fossilized shell. It was as large as a small dining room table and had a glistening opalescent surface that sparkled like a piece of carnival glass. Next to the shell was a group of crystals larger than any I have ever seen.

By now, I had almost forgotten about the bottles that had drawn me to the museum in the first place. Just beyond the fossilized shell were groups of fossils hanging from the wall. They looked like stone pictures. The flat stones showed the fossilized remains of fish, birds and other animals.

While distracted by the ancient art, I heard a commotion and turned around to see club members surrounding Mr. Frank who had returned from his buying excursion.

Everyone as gathered around to hear him talk about some of the items in the museum. Of course, our group was interested in bottles so he focused his attention on some of the items he had found interesting.

One group of bottles was not as old as most of the examples, but they were highlights of his collecting experience. The bottles had a curious design of painted beads around their insides. Each had a tag indicating the length of the string of beads. If you added up the lengths, I am sure it would be miles of beads filling the interesting art bottles.

Many years ago, when Mr. Frank was a member of the Santa Barbara bottle club, he met a man who brought large bottles in unusual shapes to fill with beads. Mr. Frank told

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us that this Mr. Bean was a club member, but did not have the same antique bottle collecting passion as did most of the members. Instead, Mr. Bean would buy the newer bottles other collectors did not want and filled them with strings of beads.

Mr. Frank often would find Mr. Bean at flea markets, buying old beaded bags and purses, only to remove the beads so he could paint eadch individual bead. He also wouild use strings from the bags and purses by tying the short lengths together. The artistic touch to Mr. Bean’s bottles was the way he placed the stringed beads into the

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bottles by carefully using a stick to guide the strings of beads and filling the inside with uniform spiral layers of beads.

Many years after Mr,. Frank had last seen Mr. Bean, he found the bottles filled with beads at an estate sale. He had tried to buy these works of art from Mr. Bean years ago, but they were not for sale. So he purchased them all to place in his museum with the other wonders to be seen and enjoyed by visitors.

If you ever have a chance to visit the museum, you will not be disappointed even if you are not a bottle collector.

Check out the new FOHBC Web site: FOHBC.org

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Patti’s Privy

By Martin Van Zant

It was a late November day, and Richard and I wanted to get out and do something. I said why don’t we dig a hole; sure, he said. He and I had been talking with this lady over in Forgetaboutit, about digging.

We had already dug her cousin’s privy, which turned out to be good, but that’s another story.

Patti was the ladie’s name and she was the nicest lady ever. She would wash out every bottle and piece of china that would come up. She was funny, had a lounge chair pulled over to the hole so she could watch.

It was a nice day out, one of those chilly in the morning but really nice by mid afternoon.

Patti lived in a row house that had a really small back yard.

We starting probing and right off the bat we found one, then two.

We opened the first one which had a gravel layer right on top, perfect. I start by laying the tarp out adjacent to the hole.

Richard was cutting the sod off and getting ready to plunge. We had a nice rectangle ready to dig. Well down we went, scoop after scoop. The thing only probed out to about 6 feet. We were at three feet with not very many shards. Oh, Patti thought we were crazy. Finally, a 1915 Coke bottle popped up – all that work for a COKE! Little did we know it would be the best find. Since neither of us collect Coke bottles we decided to sell it and split the dough. The “COKE” sold for $130 which was very surprising for us. Well turned out to be the only bottle in that hole. I couldn’t believe it and at the time was a little

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disappointed. Then I remembered we still had number 2.

The number two privy was about three feet down the line from the first one, about two feet from the alley. We started the same way by laying on tarps out.

Since we filled the last hole in and had a little hump, we laid the tarp right on top of the mound. The weight from the dirt of the next hill made the hump go down.

This hole had a few more items and was definitely older than the last. We got into a layer about three to four feet down, with all kinds of shards along the way. There was a blue sponge crock lid (broken), a green Piso’s and some local Pharmacy bottles. Then closer to the bottom, a couple local crown top pop bottles. Couldn’t have been too much

older than the Coke pit. We found a couple fruit jars, the best being a Mason 1858 from Tigner, Ind. or somewhere close to that. Oh, there were also a few ketchups and slicks (non-embossed bottles). I have included several pictures from the excavation. While we were packing up the goodies I grabbed a probe and thought I might try a couple more spots. BAM # 3. That’s what I’m talking about. It was too late in the day to start that one, as Patti was worn out. Patti’s holes turned out to be a lot of fun. We will return to finish, but that’s another story. Patti was a great host and I’d like to thank her for allowing us privyologists to do our job.

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Classified Ads FOR SALE FOR SALE: Western State Seltzer Bottles, many rare ones from the San Francisco Bay area and beyond.

Also Coca-Cola and Nevada Seltzers.

Colored fluted C.C.Co. Embossed monogram seltzers and others from various areas. Ed Kuskie, 352 Pineview Dr. Elizabeth, PA 15037 Ph: 412-4059061 or bottlewizard@comcast.net FOR SALE: I have many issues (years) of Bottle Magazines, Auction Catalogs, and a large library of Bottle and Glass books. I am winding down.

Prices are negotiable. I also have a few good bottles left. Contact: Bill Herbolsheimer, 6 Beech Cluster, Doylestown, PA 18901 Ph: 215-3407156 or raeherb@pinerunvillage.org

All ads must be paid for in advance.

Make checks payable to FOHBC (Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors) Send payment to: Alan DeMaison, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077

FOR SALE: 2 gallon Red Wing Imperial Stamped jug with advertising for E.L. Drewery: Draught and Bottled Goods, A.B.C. St. Louis Beer, Rock Spring Table Water, Western Commercial Co. Ltd. Saskatoon, Sask.

Hairline bottom $950.00, 1 quart Honegger Bros. Liquer Merchants, Aberdeen, S.D. Âź inch hole in back $400.00 Contact Pat Stambaugh, 718 S. Lakeshore Drive, Lake City, MN 55041 or p.stam@mchsi.com

Send ad copy and/or questions to: Alan DeMaison, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077 phone: (H) 440-358-1223; (C) 440-796-7539; e-mail: a.demaison@sbcglobal.net

WANTED WANTED: Southern California Whiskey bottles such as cylinders, flasks, coffins, pumpkinseeds and other southern California bottles such as blob sodas, hutchinsons, dose glasses, mini jugs, medicines, & milk bottles.

Also: all bottles that are in the similar color as Palmer perfumes and labeled Palmer perfumes. Qt. Saratoga type mineral waters sought. Ed Kuskie, 352 Pineview Dr. Elizabeth, PA 15037

66 Ph: 412-405-9061 or bottlewizard@ comcast.net WANTED: Pre Pro San Francisco Picture Whiskey Bottles & Shot Glasses. Also pumpkinseed flasks.

Rich Lucchesi, Santa Rosa CA (707) 539-1289 or richlu1949@att.net WANTED: Oregon bottles especially Pre Pro embossed or labeled beers.

Pharmacy, milk, and soda bottles from southern Oregon. Contact Dave at (541) 773-6503 or Scafanind@ charter.net Wanted: Anti-fat, Weight loss, Obesity bottles / cures and related. Also any vitamin bottles and advertising. Contact: David Meinz, ph: (407) 854-8108, email: david@davidmeinz.com.

Wanted: RAWSONVILLE, MICH bottles or any bottles with RAWSON name. Also seeking bottles from the cities of Hell, Paradise, and/or Climax, Michigan. Contact: Michael, ph: (936) 329-8838.

Wanted: Sacramento whiskey: THEO. BLAUTH/WHOLESALE WINE/&/ LIQUOR DEALERS/SACRAMENTO, CAL. Barnett #55. Contact: Steve Abbott, ph: (916) 631-8019, email: foabbott@comcast.net.

WANTED: Beer advertising jugs, tokens, openers, corkscrews, etched glasses, glass or porcelain signs.

Redwing or crocks with merchant advertising. Vitrolite glass beer signs. Contact Pat Stambaugh, 718 S. Lakeshore Drive, Lake City, MN 55041 or p.stam@mchsi.com

All ads must be paid for in advance.

Make checks payable to FOHBC (Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors) Send payment to: Alan DeMaison, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077

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KETCHUP, PICKLES, SAUCES 19th Century Food in Glass Betty Zumwalt, author ––– 498 pages of pictures and research of glass containers the early food industry utlilized Smyth Bound - $25 ––– Mark West Publishers PO Box 1914 Sandpoint, ID 86864

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Get involved in your hobby, attend meetings and/or become a club officer!

Need assistance finding your local club, contact your FOHBC regional director.

They can supply with a list of local clubs in your area.

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FOHBC Sho-Biz

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

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, Painsville, 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

November 4 – 6 Springfield, Ohio The 41st Mid-Ohio Insulator Show (dealer set up at noon on 4th with collectors in at 3pm – 3pm on the 6th) at the Clark County Fairgrounds, Springfield, OH. Download information from www.insulators.info/ shows/springfield. Info: Steve Blair, ph: (740) 852-3148, email: CSB50@ sbcglobal.net or Glenn Drummond, ph: (334) 257-3100, email: glenn@ patent-1871.com.

November 5 Jacksonville, Florida Antique Bottle Collectors of North Florida’s 44th Annual Show & Sale (8am 3pm with early buyers Friday 5pm - 8pm) at the Fraternal Order of Police Building, 5530 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville, FL. Info: Mike Skie, 3047 Julington Creek Rd, Jacksonville, RL 32223, ph: (904) 710-0422 or Jackie McRae, ph: (904) 879-3696 November 6 Royal Oak, Michigan The Metropolitan Detroit Antique Bottle Club’s 29th Annual Antique Bottle Show & Sale (9:30am – 3pm $2 admission) at the Royal Oak Elks Lodge #1523, 2401 E Fourth St, Royal Oak, MI. Info: Michael Brodzik, ph: (586) 219-9980, email: bottlemike@wowway.com or Bruce Heckman, ph: (248) 760-1722, email: hisser@comcast.net.

November 6 Elkton, Maryland The Tri-State Bottle Collectors and Diggers Club 39th Annual Show & Sale (9:00 am to 2:00 pm) at the Singerly Fire Hall, Routes 279 & 213, Elkton, Maryland. Info: Dave Brown, 302.738.9960, dbrown3942@comcast. net

November 12 Belleville, Illinois Eastside Antique Bottle, Jar & Brewery Colectibles 5th Annual Show & Sale, (9:00 am to 3:00 pm, early buyers 7:00 am), at the Belleclair Fairgrounds, 200 South Belt East, Belleville, Illinois (15 minutes from St. Louis), Info: Kevin Kious, 618.346.2634, whoisthealeman@ aol.com or Curt Faulkenberry, 636.797.5220 November 13 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The Pittsburgh Antique Bottle Club’s Annual Show & Sale (9am – 2pm $3, early admission 7am $25) at The Ice Garden, Rostraver Twp, Exit 46B off I70 to Rt 51 North 4.1 miles. Info: Bob DeCroo, 694 Fayette City Rd, Fayette City, PA 15438, ph: (724) 326-8741 or Jay Hawkins, 1280 Pleasant Rd, West Newton, PA 15089, ph: (724) 872-6013.

November 18 & 19 Terre Haute, Indiana The Wabash Valley Antique Bottle and Pottery Club presents the 14th Annual Illiana Antique Bottle and Pottery Show and Sale Friday, 18 November: Historical Bottle Auction 7:00 pm at Shadow Auction Barn, 1517 Maple Avenue, Terre Haute, Indiana 47804, Saturday show hours: 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, 7:30 am early admission $15.00. Tables are $15.00 each.

Contact Ed Newman at bottleed@aol. com 1522 Grand Avenue, Terre Haute, Indiana 47804 See Show Flyer November 19 Milford, Ohio St. Andrew Church Antique Bottle Show St. Andrew Parish Center, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm, Early Admission $15 (7:00 am) 533 Main Street, Milford, Ohio. Information: Steve Singer, 513.732.2793,

singersams@yahoo.com St. Andrew is located at 553 Main St. in historic Milford, Ohio. Five minutes from I-275 (exit 57) and less than 2 miles from a Holiday Inn Express (513-831-7829) and Homewood Suites (513-248-4663) for those of you who would be joining from out of town.

View Flyer: StAndrewBottleShow November 20 Greensboro, NC. 10th annual Greensboro Antique Bottle, Pottery & Collectibles Show & Sale on Sunday Nov 20, 2011 indoors at the Farmer’s Curb Market on 501 Yanceyville St, Greensboro, NC. Public admission 9am-3pm for $1. Free appraisals. Dealer setup 7am-9am, No Early Buyers. Info: Reggie Lynch (704) 221-6489. Web: www.antiquebottles.com/greensboro December 3 Auburn, California 49er Antique Bottle & Antique Show “The Best in the West” (9am – 3pm, early admission Friday $10 noon – 7pm) at the Gold Country Fairgrounds, Auburn, CA. Info: Mike McKillop, 117 A Estates Ct, Roseville, CA 95678, ph: (916) 3671829, email: pville1871@yahoo.com November 27 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Forks of the Delaware Bottle Collectors Association 38th Show & Sale (9:00 am – 3:00 pm, early buyers 7:30 am) at the Bethlehem Catholic High School, Madison & Dewberry Avenues, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Info: Bill Hegedus, 20 Cambridge Place, Catasauqua, Pennsylvania 18032, 610.264.3130 January 6 & 7 Palmetto, Florida 43rd Annual Suncoast Antique Bottle

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(More) Sho-Biz Show & Sale Friday, 06 January (1:00 pm to 7:45 pm) & Saturday 07 January (9 am to 5 pm) at the Manatee Convention & Civic Center; 1 Haben Boulevard, Palmetto, Florida 34221. Info: George Dueben, 727.393.8189 or 727.804.5959.

E-mail:res08w341@verizon.net or Linda Buttstead 941.722.7233. E-mail: OriginalSABCA@aol.com

Friday, February 17th. Dealer drop-off is at 12 noon. Set-up & Early Birds 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm. Dealer Set-up 8:00 am – 9:00 am on Saturday, February 18th. Regular public admission is 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Saturday February 18th. For more info and/or table reservations contact: Jim or Julie Dennis (541) 467-2760 or e-mail: jmdennis@hotmail.com

January 21 Jackson, Mississippi Mississippi Antique Bottle Show (9:00 am to 4:00 pm), Dealer set-up (Friday 3:00 pm to 9:00 pm and Saturday 7:00 am to 9:00 am) at the Trade Mart Building, Mississippi Fairgrounds, Jackson, Mississippi, Info: John Sharp, P.O. Box 601, Carthage, Mississippi 39051, Cell: 601.507.0105. johnsharp49@aol.com

February 24 & 25 Phoenix, Arizona The Phoenix Antiques Bottles & Collectibles Club, Joined by the AZ Antiques & Collectibles Club Antique Show, Friday 24 February 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Early Bird at 2:00 pm., Saturday, 25 February 9:00 am – 4:00 pm. Info: bettchem@cox.net, phoenixantiquesclub.org

April 01 Bloomington, Minnesota 41st Minnesota Antique Bottle, Advertising and Stoneware Show & Sale at the Crowne Plaza & Suites Airport, 34th Avenue South and American Boulevard, Bloomington, Minnesota 55425, Sunday, 9:30 am – 2:30 pm. No early admission.

Set-up Sunday 6:30 am – 9:30 am.

Admission is $5.00, Steve Ketcham is Show Chairman, Box 24114, Edina, Minnesota 55424, 952.221.0915, steve@ antiquebottledepot.com.

Sponsoring Club: North Star Historical Bottle Club and Minnesota’s First ABC.

January 28 Anderson, California Superior California Antique Bottle Club’s 36th Annual Show and Sale. (9:00 am to 4:00 pm) at the Shasta County Fair grounds, Anderson County. Info: Mel Hammer 530.241.4878 or Phil McDonald 530.243.6903

February 26 Enfield, Connecticut Somers Antique Bottle Club 42nd Annual Show & Sale (9:00 am to 2:00 pm, early buyers 8:00 am) at the St. Bernard’s School West Campus, 232 Pearl Street (Exit 47-West from I-91), Enfield, Connecticut 06082. Info: Rose Sokol, 860.745.7688, enfieldrose@aol. com

May 6 Antioch, Illinois Antique Bottle Club of Northern Illinois 37th Annual Antiques, Bottles & Collectibles Show & Sale 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Antioch Senior Center, 817 Holbeck, Antioch, Illoinois 60002. Free Admission, Free Appraisals. For information call John Puzzo at 815.338.7582 or Greg Schueneman at 847.623.7572.

March 18 Flint, Michigan The Flint Antique Bottle and Collectibles Club will be hosting it’s 42nd Annual Show and Sale (9:00 am to 3:00 pm).

The show will be held at the Dom Polski Hall, 3415 N. Linden Road, Flint, Michigan, Info: Tim Buda 11353 Cook Road, Gaines, Michigan 48436. PH: 989.271.9193 or e-mail tbuda@shianet. org Admission fee $2:00 No early admissions.

July 21 Leadville, Colorado Antique Bottle Collectors of Colorado’s 8th Annual Show & Sale (9am - 4pm with setup at 6am). $3 admission, at the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum Convention Center, 117 W 10th St, Leadville, CO. Info: Jim and Barb Sundquist, 2861 Olympia Ln, Evergreen, CO 80439, ph: (303) 6744658.

February 17 & 18 Columbia, South Carolina The South Carolina Bottle Club presents the 39th Annual South Carolina Bottle Club Show and Sale, Friday 17 February (11:00 am – 6:00 pm) Saturday, 18 February (9:00 am – 1:00 pm), No Early Admission Fee, Meadowlake Park Center, 600 Beckman Road, Columbia, South, Carolina 29203, 803.754.4463 (exit 71 off I-20, Go 2 Blocks North to Corner.

Southcarolinabottleclub.com View Show Ad February 18 Aurora, Oregon The Oregon Bottle Collectors Association 2012 Winter Antique Bottle & Collectible Show & Sale will be held at the American Legion Hall in Aurora, Oregon. Set-up & Early Birds begin

March 23 & 24 Morro Bay, California The San Luis Obispo Bottle Society’s 44th Annual Show and Sale Friday 1:00 pm to 6: 00 pm and Saturday 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 805.543.7484.

July 27 – 29 Reno, Nevada Federation of Historical Bottle Collector’s EXPO at the Grand Sierra Hotel and Resort, Reno, Nevada, Marty Hall, Show Chairman, 775.852.6045, rosemuley@charter.net

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FOHBC MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY ADDITIONS Tom Knapik 4679 71 St. La Mesa, CA 91941 619-462-1805 Saratoga type, early sodas, pontiled Donald DuFresne 1100 No. Branch St. Bennington, VT 05201 802-442-5886 Dr. S. A. Kilmer bottles Dana Charlton-Zarro 6300 Riverdale Ave. Apt # 6E Bronx, NY 10471 718-578-7178 Early utilities, Pitkin-type flasks, dog license tags, West Point, NY, rabies tags Kirk Reller 7028 S 500W Huntingburg, IN 47542 812-683-5513 reller@fullnet.com Uhl pottery, advertising jugs Jim R. Jack 63 Dunderberg Rd. Central Valley, NY 10917 845-928-9144 jimbaggs@optonline.net Stoneware & Local Meds David Jackson 306 Kirk Rd. Greensboro, NC 27455 336-215-4142 casperwhiskey@yahoo.com Whiskeys - Casper, JH Cutter, Jesse Moore Matt Dempsey 11888 Holmes Rd. Colierville, TN 38017 615-294-9564 ACLMatt@gmail.com James Harter 6260 Island Forty Rd. Memphis, TN 38127 901-353-9275

A2CHart@att.net Advertising Beer Items Jeff Noordsy 18 Route 74 Cornwall, VT 05753 802-462-2901 jeffnhol@shoreham.net Early New England bottles and historical flasks Steve Schingler 5570 Ridgemoor Dr. Braselton, GA 30517 706-215-3633 sschingler@charter.net Historical flasks, Base embossed Whiskeys, Stockton, GA bottles Larry Shope 6010 S 201st West Ave Sand Springs, OK 74063 918-363-8481 larrycshope@aol.com Fruit jars Mark Benbow 7214 Roosevelt Ave. Falls Church, VA 22042 703-698-5714 Beer cans, beer bottles from DC & Dayton, OH Richard S. Kachnycz Marta L. Weiss P.O. Box 103 Durham, PA 18039 610-346-9272 Greg & Angela Spurgeon 10644 N US Highway 41 Rosedale, IN 47874 xx78@msn.com Early Glass, Jars Keith McIntyre 1611 Stanford Drive Statesboro, GA 30461 Yorkshire Farm Books 14038 Mercedes Redford, MI 48239

Garrett Morrison 5395 Blooming Grove Road Vernon, AL 35592 205-695-6130 garrett.morrison@akzonobel.com Poison bottles, small medicines, drink bottles, eyewash cups, glass fruit jar lids, ballon tire gauges, small brass compasses, radio strian insulators Matt Lacy 3836 St. Rt. 307 Austinburg, OH 44010 440-275-5017 info@antiquebottlesales.com Flasks, Ashtabula OH bottles Marty Hankins 74 Gibson Hwy Trenton, TN 38382 731-414-8298 MCMJ79@bellsouth.net soda pop bottles Todd Calvert 1020 W. Main St. Madison, IN 47250 812-701-2320 todd.cavert@yahoo.com Black Glass Embossed Ales from Ohio, Kentucky Bob Watson 17 1/2 Washington St. Cattaraugus, NY 14719 716-353-2301 bottlemanbob@yahoo.com Bitters, Fruit Jars Brandon Smith 2304 Maine St. Quincy, IL 62301 618-780-2830 blobsoda@gmail.com Udolpho Wolfe’s Keith Bennett 4038 Water Willow Lane Birmingham, AL 35244 205-253-0901 bossjkb@aol.com Soda Bottles

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FOHBC MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY Alan Wright P.O. Box 265 Huntsville, AL 35804 256-527-9978 Scott Berry 341 Gatewood Dr. Winstin Salem, NC 336-768-7794

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Eric Schweizer P.O. Box 7107 Wesley Chapel, FL 33545 718-751-5354 eschweizer@tampabay.RR.com Stoddard Glass, Bitters, Beers & Sodas, Sarsaparillas, Medicines Michael Carter 6288 Carter Rd. Mariposa, CA 95338 209-742-7383 mcarter@sti.net A little bit of everything, Cathedrals, Western Whiskeys, Sodas Lane Vernon 221 West Routt Ave. Pueblo, CO 81004 719-251-9712 Jim Schmidt 2026 Copperwood Park Lane Springfield, TX 77386 281-863-3385 schmidtjamesm@gmail.com cures-bottles, packages, and ephemera

Mike McKillop 117A Estates Ct. Roseville, CA 95678 916-367-1829 pville1871@yahoo.com Western curved R’s, California Gold Rush items Richard Davis 110 Ralph Jackson Rd. Coldwater, MS 38618 Thomas Oshea 213 Marta Street College Station, TX 77845 979-777-8809 bcstxo@yahoo.com Pontilled Medicines Robert Vaughn 3611 William Pnn San Antonio, TX 78230 210-455-7833 bearsite@satx.rr.com Bottles and Advertising, western McGrew Mike 2917 London Court Pearland, TX 77581 281-485-0846 mcgrewfam@sbcglobal.net Texas and Colorado Sodas John Hiscox P.O. Box 704 221 Drummond Street Nevada City, CA 95959 530-265-2012

johnhiscox@yahoo.com All Antique glass and bottles.

Kayla Douglas Sea Bridge Landing Antiques 912 Anastasia Blvd St. Augustine, FL 32080 904-824-3358 Sea_Bridge_Landing@yahoo.com Bottles, Fruit Jars Tom & Darlene Mendes 13 Cliff St. Attleboro, MA 02703 tjmfire80@yahoo.com Shoe Polish bottles & go-withs.

Leather repairer, cleaners, dyes etc.

ACL Soda Bottles, other bottles

NEW CLUB New Orleans Bottle Club Attn: Kirk J. Diez 2605 Winifred St. Metairie, LA 70003 504-887-8913

CHANGES Robert Wagner 601-906-1208 Henry Johnston hankj@johnstonfurnace.com Bill Lindsey PO Box 1015 Chiloquin, OR 97624 admin@historicbottles.com

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: Alan DeMaison, FOHBC Business Manager 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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Bottle and Extras Individual and Affiliated Club Membership Information Membership in the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors includes:

Bottles and Extras

Individual Subscription / Membership Rates for One Year 2nd Class $30.00 U.S. only

First Class $45.00 (inside U.S.) $50.00 (Canada) $65.00 (other foreign)

Name __________________________________________________________ Associate Member Name(s) ($5 additional each: ________________________ Street___________________________________ Apt.# __________________ City ___________________________________________________________ State ___________ Zip __________ Phone (_____) _____________________ Collecting Interests _______________________________________________ E-mail Address:__________________________________________________

Bottles and Extras FREE ADS

Send to : FOHBC c/o Alan DeMaison

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or Email : a.demaison@sbcglobal.net Category - “WANTED” Maximum - 60 words Limit - One free ad per current membership per year.

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

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Single Issues and Back Issues: $5.00 Membership information, forms and an online payment option are also available on the Website www.fohbc.org

Enclose the Appropriate Amount payable to FOHBC and mail to: FOHBC, c/o Alan DeMaison, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077 Make checks payable to: The Federation of Historicial Bottle Collectors (FOHBC) Please allow 6-8 weeks from the time you send in your payment for the arrival of your first issue of Bottles and Extras.

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Affiliated Club Membership Rates for One Year $75.00 (inside U.S.) $95.00 (Canada) $110.00 (other foreign)

Club Name ________________________________________________ Mailing Address ____________________________________________ City ______________________________________________________ State ___________ Zip ________ Telephone (_____) _______________ Club President ______________________________________________ Address__________________________ City _____________________ State ___________ Zip __________ Phone (_____) ________________ E-mail Address _____________________________________________ Meeting Location ___________________________________________ Day of Week__________________ Time ________________________ Club Website _______________________________________________ Newsletter Name____________________________________________ Newsletter Editor ___________________________________________ Club Show Date ____________________________________________ Club Show Location _________________________________________ Enclose the appropriate amount payable to FOHBC and mail to: FOHBC c/o Alan DeMaison

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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 60 words for use for “wanted” items, trade offers, etc.

• Eligibility for a discount at FOHBC sponsored shows (National or EXPOs) towards “early admission” or • 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...

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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 www.FOHBC.org

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