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Table of Contents FOHBC Officer Listing 2010-2012..........2 Legends of the Jar President’s Message................................3

California Collecting Roger Hill..................................55 Bruce Shank ..................................... 30

Chattanooga Medicine Co. Auto Vases Charles David Head .............. 58 Tina Kaasman-Dunn. .....................

34 Recent Finds..........................................4 Pigeon Ball Takes Wing Classified Ads & Ad Rate Info.....6 2 At Auction.............................................5 Ralph Finch ................................... 35 FOHBC Show-Biz Shards of Wisdom..............................6 John G. Oldner - The Miners Protector Show Calendar Listings ........6 6 Eric McGuire........................................38 Paper Trail.........................................8 Bromo Seltzer - A Subtle Poison Book in Review....................................10

Cecil Munsey .......................................44 MembershipAdditions and Changes.....70

Regional Reports.................................12

Mike O’Malley 1940 - 2010 MembershipApplication......................71 Ralph Finch ..........................................51

Norman Barnett Tribute .......................27

Membership Benefits..........................72 Oregon Embossed Flasks Garth Ziegenhagen. .......................... 54

Connecticut Bottle History Bill Babb ............................... 29

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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: Randy Driskill, PO Box 2146, Vista, CA 92085; phone: (760) 415-6549, Treasurer: Tom Lines, PO Box 382831, Birmingham, AL 35238; phone (205) 987-0650, e-mail: bluecrab1949@hotmail.com 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: Kent Williams, 1835 Oak Ter, Newcastle, CA 95658; phone: (916) 663-1265; e-mail: KentW@ppoa.org Membership Director: Ed Herrold, 65 Laurel Loop, Maggie Valley, NC 28751; phone: (828) 926-2513; e-mail: drbitters@mindspring.com Conventions Director: R Wayne Lowry, 401 Johnston Ct, Raymore, MO 64083; phone: (816) 318-0161; e-mail: JarDoctor@aol.com

Business Manager: June Lowry, 401 Johnston Ct, Raymore, MO 64083; phone: (816) 318-0160; e-mail: OSUBuckeyes71@aol.com 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: Joe Hardin, 594 Layman Rd, New Vienna, OH 45159; phone: (937) 728-9930; e-mail: jkcollectables@gmail.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: dmary@verizon.net Public Relations Director: James Berry, 200 Fort Plain Watershed Rd, St. Johnsville, NY 13452; phone: (518) 568-5683; e-mail: jhberry10@yahoo.com

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Fohbcs President’s Message gene bradberry

(901) 372-8428 Genebsa@comcast.net I would first like to apologize to the members for the lateness of the last issue of the magazine. We are going to get this magazine out on time if it is the last thing I do, (and that may be the case the way things are going). I am the President and I take full responsibility for it being late. This magazine should be in your hands on or before January 1st, 2011 or I will let some others do the explaining. It is kind of like if you are going to take a trip and it takes you three days to make the trip. You leave early enough to arrive on time or don’t go. You don’t leave one day out and expect to make it on time. We are backing all of our dates up with the expectation that this will solve the chronic problem of lateness.

We are currently trying to get our website updated and hopefully by the time you read this it will be done. Ferd Meyer has been working on a NEW LOOK for the website and it should be in place pretty soon.

One of my goals as Federation President is to increase our membership several times over. I am currently working on a several pronged plan to get our name out to the public and let people know what we are all about. This is going to take cooperation from many of our members and an ongoing effort to accomplish this goal. I will be setting out specifics in the coming months and anyway any of you can plug in and help it will be greatly appreciated. I will be discussing these with our Board of Directors and enlisting their support.

I appreciate the effort our new magazine Editor has put forth and I will be working with him on content over the next year to improve it even more. Any comments or suggestions any of you might have to improve out magazine please feel free to email me at genebsa@ comcast.net or give me a phone call. I am open to all suggestions. We think we have a great magazine and hope to make it even greater. We can only do this with your support and imput.

As most of you know by now, Norman

Barnett passed away Monday, October 25, 2010. He and his wife Junne were long time collectors in our hobby and both had served as officers in the Federation, Norm having served as President. They have been long time friends of mine and were very supportive the years I previously served as President of the Federation. They came to all Federation events and were very active in the Federation for many years. Norm would always rise to the occasion when called on and I recall back in 1993 I was just starting to make our annual meeting not only a convention meeting but an annual show. I asked him to be the show chairman and take reservations for our National Show (we had help the first one in Memphis in 1991) which we held in Richmond, VA. Norman stepped up and did a fine job even though he was from Indiana. He and Junne made a trip to Richmond and met me and several other officers to make plans for the show. That was just one of many things he did for the Federation unselfishly. I recall some humorous things as well. As most know Norm would always have a joke or two to tell you. I recall that back in 1978 we hosted the National Convention in Memphis and he was staying at a local hotel

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near the show and he related this to me the next day. It seems that Norman was riding the elevator and a certain young “LADY OF THE EVENING” approached him and asked him if he would like some company.

And Norman, being the gracious person he was, replied, “NO THANKS “ and with a smile on his face continued on his elevator trip. We joked about that trip for years. I have always wondered if that encounter wasn’t also just a little ego boost for Norman as well. It probably would have been for me. I could go on for hours recounting the many fun times we spent together but space doesn’t allow. Our condolences go out to Junne and family. NORM, YOU WILL BE SORELY MISSED, THE HOBBY HAS LOST A TRUE FRIEND !

Some clubs are sending me newsletters and I really appreciate it. I read them all and this gives me a little idea of where we need to tweak certain things we are doing to better serve the hobby. You can send them to me at Gene Bradberry, P.O. Box 341062, Memphis, TN 38184.

As always, “LET’S KEEP THE FUN IN 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, 401 Johnston Ct, Raymore, MO 64083, 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

I recall you had a short “new finds” column. I recently found a pile of Rivertowns beer bottles behind a boulder in a local woodland, well preserved in a peat bog. The Rivertowns are in the Lower Hudson Valley, and this bunch represents numerous varieties from Hastings-OnHudson, where I live; Dobbs Ferry; Ardsley; and Tarrytown. This was not a landfill per se; there were mostly just the bottles, no ashes. Some specimens boasted few scratches and some with the stoppers still in them. Because many had mud caking their necks, the inside of the bottles are glassy.

I had been searching for an intact Charles Bevers from Hastings for seven years, and now I have a twelve pack, with several varieties. I had never seen the amber ones, nor the “Hastings On The Hudson” name which avoids confusion with the other Hastings, NY, way upstate. The Dobbs bottles help me date the site, because the Anchor Brewing Company changed its name to Manilla-Anchor in 1900. Those in the pile have the newer name but nearby there was an older Anchor with a more

rounded lip. Also nearby were several crown caps putting us close to 1905.

Also from Dobbs, Ferdinand Haas.

Ardsley bottles are quite rare, and there is a single, wonderful aqua “L. DeNicholas Hotel, Saw Mill River Road.” I’m looking for the old site of this establishment. The greatest variety come from Tarrytown, NY, including varieties by Fred Boock, D. Cohn, and S. Blumner, including various addresses on Orchard Street.

I am donating a few to local historical societies and the rest stay under my pillow at night. I welcome any information about these breweries, and would like to collaborate with local collectors in (or of) the Rivertowns, though there seem to be few.

Best Regards, Marc Rosner NEW YORK (REUTERS) -- A black-and-white Coke bottle on canvas by Andy Warhol sold for $35.36 million last October 29 at Sotheby’s robust contemporary and post-war art auction.

The sale of 54 works, an impressive 91 percent of which found buyers, totaled $222.4 million including commissions, beating the high pre-sale estimate of $214 million. Five artists set auction records as collectors continued vying for works in the post-war art sector, an increasingly sought after sector of the art world.

“In this new market, it was a huge success,” said Tobias Meyer, Sotheby’s worldwide head of contemporary art, who also served as auctioneer. It was the fourth successful sale in two weeks for Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips de Pury & Co.

After a precipitous decline following the 2008 financial crisis, the art market has made a solid recovery in 2010, driven in part by a huge infusion of new collectors abroad with fortunes newly forged in oil, gas and gold.

Led by Warhol’s “Coca-Cola (4) (Large Coca-Cola),” which far surpassed the high estimate of $25 million, the sale was more evidence of the growing appetite for post-war works.

The market for such works, along with contemporary art, has in recent years challenged and sometimes eclipsed the demand for earlier Impressionist and “modern” auction categories.

“What’s happening is that people have been moving into this market from the Impressionist market. ... It’s become one market,” said Meyer.

Prices commanded by top Warhols had put the pop artist in the same league as Matisse and Picasso, he added.

On Monday, Warhol’s “Men in Her Life,” a multi-image depiction of favored subject Elizabeth Taylor, soared to $63.4 million at Phillips.

“It’s a global, 20th-century iconic market,” Meyer said.

Other highlights included a pair of works by Gerhard Richter that fetched $13.23 million and $11.3 million, and Francis Bacon’s “Figure in Movement,” which sold for $14 million. Each more than doubled the low estimate. In all, six works sold for more than $10 million, including an untitled Rothko which went for $22.5 million.

By: Christopher Michaud

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SOLD at auction SOLD

Insulators like the ones found on the top of old telephone poles are often overlooked by those who have not been introduced to them. But insulators, fire grenades, target balls, lightning rod balls and other glass made for industry in past years are now collected. A fall Glass Discoveries & Pole Top Discoveries auction by Ray Klingensmith brought amazing prices--especially amazing for those who are unfamiliar with the hobby. A CD 726 red insulator sold for $24,640 (“CD” stands for “Consolidated Design”). A CD 726 cornflower blue example was $8,400. And a bright aqua CD 736 E.R.W. (Erie Railway) insulator with a threadless bracket brought $10,080. #1 ....CD 726 ....Unmarked..... Cranberry red. .... Considered by the majority of threadless collectors to be the most desirable threadless known, due to the unique and attractive color.

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 1860s and possibly the early 1870s.

They have been found in a rainbow of exotic colors, ranging from the more readily available aquas, various blues, a couple green shades, purple and this cranberry red.

Blackglass purple and a couple variations of blackglass #3 .... CD 726 .... Unmarked. olive and olive amber have also been reported. .... Cornflower blue.

The Canada Glass Works, in what is now Hudson, Quebec, is known to have produced threadless insulators including some CD 726s. The company manufactured various types of glassware including ornamental wares such as #1 ....CD 726 ....Unmarked..... lamps, thus utilizing a wide Cranberry red. range of glass colors. Pioneer insulator collector Jack Hayes, of Pakenham, Ontario excavated the old factory site decades ago, finding fragments of various threadless styles, including the CD 726. Fire brick with cranberry glass attached was also discovered at the site.

Minor shallow flakes and an annealing stress fracture in the skirt, continuing upward, primarily on the surface. What a fabulous and colorful rarity!!! Ex Jack Hayes, ex John Dorge.

Dale Evoy collection. #3 .... CD 726 .... Unmarked. .... Cornflower blue. .... One of only three or four known examples in this attractive and exotic blue color.

One was discovered in New Brunswick and another surfaced in Michigan many years ago.

Milky strings and bubbles in the glass, and a nicely textured surface add extra character. The tapered, M.T. Co. style base has shallow flakes. Overall, excellent condition. A great, highly desirable item! Dale Evoy collection. #12 .... CD 736 .... E.R.W. .... Bright aqua. .... Complete with original gable-back threadless side bracket.

One of four examples which were found in a railroad station in Garrettsville, Ohio approximately 40 years ago (see map in hardcopy Catalogue for exact location). The insulators and brackets were mounted upside down in the rafters of the building’s attic. They were discovered by a person doing electrical work in the attic. The building was used by the A&GW and Erie Railways during the 1800s.

An incredible, historical relic in fabulous condition! 100 years of dirt and grime are still present on the skirt interior and an abundance of burlap is present around the pin, protruding outward beneath the pinhole. Such features add great character! Looking at and holding an example with all the hardware still intact makes it easier for us to use our imagination, going back in time and relating to the way of life 140 years ago.

Excellent overall condition with one non-distracting flat base chip on the reverse. Finding #12 .... CD 736 .... E.R.W. .... a threadless E.R.W. for purchase is quite a challenge. Obtaining an example complete with an Bright aqua original bracket is nearly impossible!

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Dear Editor, I want to correct an error that was made in the article that focused on Louis Lacour in the May/June 2010 issue of Bottles & Extras. A caption under the photograph of the castle of SaintFargeau, France noted it was once owned by the father of Louis Lacour.

This is not true. This error was brought to my attention by Florence Frigola who provided me with information about the Lacour family in France and I misinterpreted her data. She wrote me requesting that I set the record straight on this point. In her own words I quote from her letter: .....I feel very much obliged to inform you that there is a huge error in the legend concerning the castle of Saint-Fargeau . .

My ancestor was not the owner of the castle. I may have wrongly explained his social statute (or standing). Louis Lacour just was born in Saint-Fargeau.

His grand-father had just been during the French Revolution a domestic (or a servant) at the castle and had retired in 1821. And when Louis was born that same year, the family had moved since

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many years to an old house not very far from the castle. And some years later, the family built the one-story house of which photo I sent it to you, with a courtyard where it is inscribed on the ground the year 1841.

I would be very grateful to you if you could correct this legend about the castle. You could just notify that Louis Lacour had lived in the neighborhood of the castle for example. I think it is a very necessary correction as the former owner of the castle of the present days was the family d’Ormesson, a very much well known noble family in France, and all the more as Jean d’Ormesson a very well known writer member of the French Academy has very much written about his property. I am truly fearing the family d’Ormesson could react as to me and this deformed allegation of property.

Thank you for attending to my request.

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CREATIVE BOTTLE COLLECTORS

I think all bottle collectors should see this. Just set up your bottles, invite over some friends and start your own bottle band. Just imagine David Tingen playing the “BEER BARREL POLKA” on an array of colorful beer bottles, or Stan Dismukes playing “GOOD OLD MOUNTAIN DEW” on his wall of Mountain Dew bottles, or Donnie Medlin banging out “PEPSI COLA HITS THE SPOT” on a couple of rows of amber Pepsi bottles. You see, there is a lot more to collecting bottles than you ever imagined.

When I saw this St. Luke’s Lutheran Church bottle band from Park Ridge, Ill., I thought, “maybe we need to be a little more creative in what we do as bottle collectors to promote our hobby.” Look for new and unusual places to display some I hope this clarifies the issue of of your nice bottles. I have a display castle ownership and I apologize for at Parrott’s Automotive in Durham of about 20 bottles. I constantly the error. get comments and leads from that display. As you travel about doing Sincerely, whatever you do during the day look Eric McGuire for places to display your bottles.

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Most hospitals and office buildings have glass display cabinets and they are constantly trying to fill them with something interesting.

Makeitknowntocivicorganizations, libraries and church groups that you are willing to do a program on antique and collectible bottles. All of you know a school teacher. Ask them to invite you to speak to their class about early soda bottles. Give the teacher an outline of your presentation so he/she can review it ahead of time. Presentations to the younger generation will pay big dividends for our hobby. Unless we can generate some interest in the younger generation, our hobby will slowly fade away and the value of our collections will fade away with it.

People are always interested in a free speaker and the contacts you make can only be a plus for you. As for me... I’m going to do better next year promoting the hobby of bottle collecting. I hope you will do the same. You could even start a bottle band and take your show on the road. I’ll play the jug. -- Marshall Clements, Editor of Bottle Talk, Raleigh (N.C.) Bottle Club The following website is the St. Luke’s Bottle Band from St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in Park Ridge, Illinois. http://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=k26nt3Y4cmg&feature=related

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Who Painted This Pose?

All Cheroites; Well, getting an original copy of this famous mid1920s “Chero Girl at the Beach” has not revealed exactly who the artist is. Google in all its glory fails to turn up any reasonable facsimile of such person. Close examination shows the cryptic name to be either “Peinert” or “Pemble.”

Neither one seems to show light on any artist of this period, which with the famous Chero Twist bottle must be after 1923.

One thing is for sure: Guy Hoff, Rolf Armstrong or Norman Rockwell it isn’t! -- “Chero Mike” Elling

A recent eBay auction allowed Mike Elling to win this scarce Chero-Cola thin cardboard poster art, but its artist remains a mystery.

At least one other companion piece is by the same artist; it shows a flapper girl in an open roadster sharing a Chero moment with an active baseball player.

Bottles and Extras regrets the following errors: November/December, Issue: Page 24 and 25 in Batteries Not Included: McGraw Battery Jar was inadvertently in this article and was not associated with it in any way.

Pictures with Correct Captions:

Peter’s first patent, for an improved battery.

Remembering...

Jim Chamberlain Tribute James Leslie Chamberlain, 88, born March 14, 1919, died March 4, 2008.

“If you were going to a bottle show in any proximity to Binghamton, New York, Jim Chamberlain would be there,” said Ralph Finch. “He was a mainstay of the Indianapolis-Midwest Fruit Jar and Bottle Club shows.

“We have fruit jar sales lists from him with the first one dated January 1980. When he quit coming to shows, he was sorely missed. No one knew what had happened to him until I researched it and found his obituary.” (June Lowry)

Peter Cooper Burns Circa 1912 Patent #415845 for Burn’s Second battery.

Insurance Map - Findlay Bottle Company showing Findley Glass and Carbon Company

The glass casing for the Burns Microphone Cell. Aqua glass, BIM, ground top. From the collection of Joe Ferry

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We have just endured what may be the dirtiest political campaign is American history. The mud flew everywhere and few politicians were missed. Enough, already!

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in the 1840s as a letterpress printer before adding lithography to his operations. By the 1870s, the firm, renamed Geo. S. Harris & Sons, had built a seven-story, “iron front” factory for their mass production of lithographic trade cards, can and cigar-box labels, circulars, calendars, and stamped envelopes.

In 1889, Harris & Sons bought T. Sinclair & Son and became the largest lithographic firm in the city with about 600 employees.”

The aqua halfbarrel pint flask Cigar Box: From the 1892 American reads, OUR CHOICE presidential race, a cigar box carrying an endorsement of Grover Cleveland and Adlai (IMAGES OF THE TWO Aqua flask: A pint flask with CANDIDATES) CLEVE Stevenson. the embossed images of Grover & STEVE NOVEMBER Cleveland and Adlai Stevenson.

8, 1892 MARCH 3, Also found in amber.

Let’s return to a simpler time 1893. This flask is also found in when politics were practiced amber. The reverse is embossed quietly in smoky back rooms with with a rooster, a symbol a little flask of hootch to settle often associated with the the dust. Pictured here are three Democratic Party during pieces of memorabilia from the the 19th Century. presidential campaigns of Grover The clear half-pint Cleveland. He served as America’s flask with threaded cap president twice, first from 1885- closure and ground lip is 1889 and again from 1893-1897. etched with the words, The cigar box was produced PUBLIC OFFICE IS A for the second campaign, when PUBLIC TRUST above an Cleveland won the election with image of the candidate.

Adlai Stevenson as his running Below Grover Cleveland mate. The lithographer was an etched image of an George. S. Harris & Sons of eagle is found. The cap Philadelphia. On the web site on this flask is embossed, Clear flask: A clear, half-pint flask acid etched with the image of Grover Cleveland, an eagle, and the www.librarycompany.org, we “GEO. BENZ & SONS words, found the following information ST. PAUL.” Benz is best PUBLIC OFFICE IS A PUBLIC TRUST. about Harris & Sons under a page known for his Appetine George Benz was a St. Paul liquor dealer whose titled Philadelphia on Stone: Bitters. Submitted by amber Appetine Bitters came in quarts, pints, a two “George S. Harris (1823-1891) Steve Ketcham sample sizes. A black glass (deep amethyst) quart initially worked in Philadelphia version also exists.

Bottles and Extras While brewers and bottlers large and small were once fond of publishing images of the exteriors of their establishments, often exaggerating their size in the process, the interiors of those buildings were less accessible to the public eye. This image was found in Saugerties, New York, last fall. It depicts a bottling operation which may be that of J. B. Lambert of Woonsocket, Rhode Island. We offer as evidence two marked wooden bottle cases, one at lower right and another behind the lanky chap in the middle of the room. Whether the photo depicts the Lambert facility or not, it is a nice glimpse of just what a bottling operation might have looked like before automation took over the process of cleaning and filling the bottles with product.

The fellow at left is operating a filling machine. Most likely, the product is beer, which is flowing from the keg behind him. As suggested by the two pieces of advertising on the wall behind the filler, the brew may have been either Pabst beer or Hanley’s ale.

We are not too familiar with the Hanley’s advertising sign, but the Pabst sign is a framed, convex, multi-colored, reverse-on-glass piece that would inspire great

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The three gents at right are working around the soaking tub and bottle washer. The wooden tub is filled to the brim with bottles being soaked to remove old labels. (The pile of refuse behind the middle fellow may be the remains of the soakedoff labels.) The bottles are then placed on a device where they are washed, rinsed, and allowed to dry. It appears the bottles are crown tops, and it seems there are numerous crown caps scattered about on the floor beneath the tub. That the crew members are standing on pallets suggests the room was often damp. In fact, the water on the floor next to the tub is sufficient to reflect portions of the room.

We checked with Hutchinson soda expert and FOHBC Hall of Famer Ron Fowler to be sure there were no rare Rhode Island Hutch sodas hiding in the photo.

Ron told us, “We have 12 different Hutchinsons catalogued for Rhode Island bottlers. All 12 are classified as Rare (1-10 known).

This total includes one each for East Providence, Narragansett, Nasonville, and Newport, six for Providence, and two from W e s t e r l y .

We have no

knowledge of any Hutchinsons from Woonsocket, or of any RI bottlers by the name of Lambert.”

Our thanks to Ron for this information and for helping us identify the bottling apparatus and its uses.

Submitted by Steve Ketcham

Notice

Jan Rutland Obituary

Janet A. (Jan) Rutland, 74, executive director of the National Bottle Museum in Ballston Spa, N.Y., died Oct. 26.

She was born July 16, 1936 in Watervliet, N.Y.She is survived by her husband of 56 years, Lawrence H. (Larry) Rutland Jr., and their four children, Linda K. Ryder, of Troy, N.Y.; Scott L. Rutland and wife Jan, of Virginia Beach, Va.; Mark S. Rutland and wife Tammy, of Maine; Eric J. Rutland and wife, Donna, of Greenfield Center, N.Y.; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

“Paper Trail” is a regular feature which showcases the wide world of bottle-related ephemera, from trade cards and post cards to letterheads and blotters. Readers are encouraged to submit items for publication. Simply scan or photograph your item (JPG please), add a short paragraph or two about the item, and include a photo of the bottle to which it relates.

Employees of the J. B. Lambert Bottling Co. of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, take a break to pose for a photo circa 1900-1910.

E-mail your contribution to: s.ketcham@unique-software.com or Ph: (952) 920-4205 or mail it to: Steve Ketcham, PO Box 24114,Edina, MN 55424

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Glasshouses and Glass Manufacturers of the Pittsburgh Region, 1795-1910

By Jay W. Hawkins

By Bill Baab Southern Region Editor America was still flexing its collective muscles when the fledgling industry of glass manufacturing began in the Pittsburgh Region of Pennsylvania toward the end of the 18th century.

The War of 1812 with England still had to be fought and won to send the nation on its way to eventual prosperity.

Author Jay W. Hawkins also had to win many “battles” in the field of research before publishing what is sure to become a work indispensable to collectors and researchers of antique glass from that region.

In his introduction to Glasshouses

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& Glass Manufacturers of the Pittsburgh Region, 1795-1910, he admits that “assembling the histories of the earliest Pittsburgh glassworks and manufacturers was extremely challenging due to the scarcity of information, and what information did exist was often contradictory.

“Piecing together the histories of individual glass manufacturers was often fascinating, frustrating and challenging at the same time.”

Early researchers had to work with a paucity of material and did not have the tools of modern research, such as the Internet.

The main reason for the book, Hawkins emphasizes, was his personal need for “a single reference that could be used to identify and date bottles, flasks, jars and other glassware from the Pittsburgh region.” Such information gleaned by previous authors often was lacking in completion, or had other flaws. In many cases, the author was able to correct preconceived notions through his methodical research.

However, Hawkins is quick to credit such authors of earlier works, many of whom have been recognized by the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors though election to its Hall of Fame or Honor Roll.

“This book could not have been completed without the foundational work of numerous great authors and researchers ahead of me,” Hawkins pens in his introduction. “You will see references to these people throughout the book. There were places where I have corrected

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some of their errors and places where I disagreed with their conclusions, but make no mistake – this book is a testament to their epic works.”

A bibliography of books and other publications consulted by the author wrap up the 584-page, well-illustrated book.

The book is available in hardcover and softbound versions. Hardbacks are $64 and softbounds are $54 postpaid from the author at 1280 Mt. Pleasant Road, West Newton, PA 15089. If you would like to have the author personally sign books ordered, just let him know.

The author also includes a glossary of terms used in the industry. There also is that section of great value to researchers called an index through which the reader can gain quick and easy access to specific glasshouses and/ or manufacturers. Maps, charts and illustrations help complement the text.

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Bottles and Extras Mostly Whiskey: Bottles, Jugs and Whathaveyou

By Jack Sullivan (With a photo of the author)

A Review

By Bill Baab Southern Region Editor Twenty years ago, Jack Sullivan published his first article on ceramics.

It appeared in the November 1990 issue of Antique Bottle & Glass Collector and its subject was KT & K whiskey jugs made in East Liverpool, Ohio.

“I had started collecting jugs in

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1978 and decided to start writing,” Sullivan recalled in an e-mail to this writer. “My first article for Bottles and Extras (then published by Kitty Roach and Scott Grandstaff) was titled, “Who Made America’s Whiskey Ceramics?”

By training, Sullivan is a journalist who worked for daily newspapers for several years before moving to a full time job as a consultant in the international development field about 1969. When first contacted about his latest book, Mostly Whiskey: Bottles, Jugs and Whathaveyou, he was in Armenia.

The 167-page book contains a fascinating collection of stories beginning with George Washington’s distillery operations at Mount Vernon and touching on such characters as Christian Moerlein, of Cincinnati; Levi Price, of Maryland, and S.Y. Suit, of Kentucky, not to mention famous whiskey brands such as Old Crow, Old Drum, Old Granddad and the not so famous Chicken Cock Distillery.

Many of the articles were written for bottle club newsletters like The Ohio Swirl (The Ohio Bottle Club) and Potomac Pontil (Potomac Bottle Club), and magazines like Bottles and Extras and Antique Bottle & Glass Collector. Each story is well researched and well illustrated.

Here’s a sampling chapter by chapter: Chapter 1, Whiskey and Hist’ry (details the relationships of major American historical figures and strong drink.

Chapter 2, Prohibition, provides vignettes of our nation’s flirtation with a total ban on alcoholic beverages and the aftermath. Chapter

11 3, Dealing in Whiskey, describes the lives and times of distillers and distributors who left a legacy of jugs, bottles and go-withs. Chapter 4, The Ceramic Challenge updates and adds information about the organizations that manufactured and decorated containers for alcoholic drinks. Chapter 5, Odds and Ends contains articles that do not fit easily under earlier chapters.

Here’s a book bottle and pottery collectors will enjoy reading on a rainy day when it’s too wet to dig, or on a cold winter’s day when it’s too frigid or snowy to dig, or even on a bright and sunny day when it’s too darned hot to dig.

Sullivan also authored The American Whiskey Jug and The Whiskey Ceramics of Scotland, Ireland and England, both in 2002.

The current book is $17 plus $5 for shipping and can be ordered from the author at 4300 Ivanhoe Place, Alexandria, VA 22304.

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January - February 2011 northeast bottle factories.

The shards he unearthed have proven very important in identifying what glass and bottles were blown where.

Included were Mt. Vernon of Vernon, N.Y., and Mt. Pleasant, near Saratoga, N.Y. The title of the article, recently discovered by member Mark Yates, was titled “New York State Glasshouses.”

Northeast Regional News Chris Davis 522 Woodhill Newark, NY 14513 (315) 331-4078 cdavis016@rochester.rr.com Bottles Along the Mohawk Mohawk Valley Antique Bottle Club, Utica, N.Y. Important business was addressed and discussed at the October meeting. It included the location of the 2011 show, what to do with bottles left to the club by a clubmember, and the possibility of raising the dues in 2011. It was decided to raise the dues, and raffle the bottles at future meetings to members. The executive board is looking at show location possibilities, including staying at the current site, the Utica Curling Club.

Programs have included a members’ show and tell, and “Color as it Relates to Antique Bottles,” presented by member Ron Weir. It was stated that “Color is one of the important distinctive properties of an antique bottle. A bottle specimen in a rare color can greatly increase its value.” In September, the very popular “Huge Bottle Sale” was held, with good participation.

The newsletter noted the ceiling had collapsed in the main room of the Oneida County Historical Society.

Some artifacts were lost, but luckily, no one was in the area of the collapse.

The club had a bottle display in the room, but fortunately nothing was damaged. The OCHS and the MVABC have worked together with educational bottle displays over the years.

The newsletter also included the 2010 Membership List. Ninety memberships are listed, including contact information and collecting specialties. Sure looks like the club has a very strong membership.

Several important articles by the late bottle collecting pioneer Harry Hall White that had appeared in 1929 “Antiques Magazine” were reprinted in their original form in the newsletter.

White had dug at the sites of many

Baltimore Bottle Digger Baltimore Antique Bottle Club, Baltimore, Md. The October newsletter opened with two 1908 photographs of boys who worked at the Indianapolis, Ind. glass factory. You have to wonder what the child labor laws were like then.

Working in a glass factory, without air conditioning, had to be very difficult.

The program for October was “Shattered Dreams.” Members were asked to bring in shards of glass and pottery for display, identification, study, and discussion. The club is meeting temporarily at the Towson Hotel Conference Room while the executive board investigates a permanent site.

Fifty-five attended the September meeting. The Showcase Display was presented by Mike Farley on Target Balls. Mike also brought with him an issue of Ralph Finch’s “On Target,” a magazine dedicated to the history and collecting of target balls. October’s Showcase featured Marc Turner’s Pontilled Medicines.

A club field trip will be conducted to Homewood Museum on the campus of John’s Hopkins University. The exhibit there of special interest to bottle collectors is “Cheers! The Culture of Drink in Early Maryland”. Items on display include wine bottles, decanters and glasses, and many other items.

The column “e-digger”, compiled

by Greg Franklin, was highlighted by an olive green, small flask-shaped bottle embossed “McCormick, Baltimore” with a bee. It brought $395. Whiskies were highlighted by a Hunter Baltimore rye advertising match safe, which sold for $158. November’s program was

Bottles and Extras “Baltimore Redware, Stoneware and Restoration,” by Jeff Ingram.

The Applied Lip Finger Lakes Bottle Collectors Association, Ithaca, N.Y. Jay Travis, first vice president and the new show chair, presented a program called “Date This Dump.” It included several what’s-its, interesting shards, and both unembossed and embossed bottles from a dump site in Lansing, N.Y. Membership in FLBCA stands at 44. For comparison purposes, there were 104 memberships in 1973. I’m sure most clubs share this same statistic. The clubs were new, and digging was extremely popular and widespread. The website address is www.fingerlakescollecting. org. Twenty-two members attended the September meeting after the usual summer hiatus. The club hosts three shows annually -- a bottle show in October and two flea markets in March and November, all at the same location the Dryden Fire Hall, Dryden, N.Y. The bottle show was successful, with a good crowd of both dealers and buyers, and bottles! The “First Frost” flea market was highly successful, with a soldout show, and a large crowd of eager buyers. More tables were sold than ever before. No admission is charged and the crowd loves these shows.

Bottles were prevalent, from dealers such as Jim Soukup, John Spellman, Ellen Kent and others. It was George Blaasch’s last year as show chair. He was duly thanked for all his work on the three shows each year that he has managed for many years. He couldn’t have gone out on a higher note!

The Jersey Shore Shards The Jersey Shore Bottle Club, Toms River, N.J. The club’s website is www.

BottleClub.org . November’s show & tell theme was “Thanksgiving in Glass.”

A mini auction was also conducted.

The newsletter included a glossary on bottles, including lip styles, colors, and types. As noted, “The glossary section strives to educate novices and

Bottles and Extras experts alike in the strange terminology of the bottle digger and collector....”

Terminologies like “applied string lip,” “burst top,” “aqua glass” and others were defined and illustrated.

This regular column, originally from a website (Antique Bottles. co.za), is appreciated by many.

The Digger The Richmond Area Bottle Collectors Association, Richmond, Va. “The Digger” has a new editor Phil Townsend. The September meeting drew 22, with a presentation by Tony Townsend on “Black Glass.” Examples were shown, including some found in the James River and other area rivers.

The evolution of black glass bottles was included. Talk about historical bottles!

Some of these must have been used by the very earliest of Americans.

The club conducts a monthly raffle, with nice items each time, which are taken home by a lucky club member.

This is certainly one of the best benefits.

The November meeting’s theme “Bring Your Entries for the Annual Best of...”, including best dug, acquired, and Richmond bottle.

The annual show and sale occurred on October 2nd for the second year at the new show site, the Chesterfield County Fairgrounds. It was a strong show in many areas, with paid admissions of 151 (including 18 early buyers), and 80 sales tables. Many dealers reported strong sales. Club members put on a display of Richmond soda bottles. There were also three members who displayed, including Tom Jennings’ Candy Containers. This one swept all the awards -- Most Educational, Peoples’ Choice, and Best of Show.

Phil Townsend’s well-written and nicely illustrated “Saunders Hotel Dig - 12 December 2009” told of the 1853 “cement house” dig, in Spring Valley, Ohio.

Bits and Pieces Empire State Bottle Collectors Association, Syracuse, N.Y. The club’s annual fall show, held in Scriba, N.Y., near Lake Ontario and just east of Oswego, was a great success. Show chair Barry Haynes was

January - February 2011 thanked. Everything was very good -the displays, the sales items, and the food! The ladies of the Scriba Fire Hall put on a fine lunch, at reasonable prices.

Good sales were reported by many dealers, who participated from across New York State and one from N.H. The appraisal table was very busy, mostly with lower end bottles. However, there was a nice emerald green “Geyser Spring” bottle.

Speakers/programs have included Tom Kanalley on “Dr. Cronk in Central New York and Beyond,” and Chris Davis, on “Glasshouse Whimsies.”

There was a beautiful display of whimsies, both from the presenter’s collection and that of Bill Schwarting.

An interesting article entitled “Darrow Pottery, Baldwinsville, N.Y.,” written by Dorothy Mann, told of the local Syracuse area pottery, founded in 1845. An original price list included a four-gallon churn with cover for 92 cents.

Pieces from this pottery often had cobalt decorated tulips and lotus blossoms.

Traveler’s Companion Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association, Buffalo, N.Y. A very special show edition of “Traveler’s Companion” was made avaailable to show attendees and dealers, as a way of promoting the bottle hobby and the club itself.

At 21 pages, the issue included an outtstanding article written by John Eiss in 2010, “Tonawanda, New York, Soda and Beer Bottles, 1867 - 1947.”

The article was first class in every way.

There were many nice illustrations, including Sanborn insurance maps, many examples of bottles, and photos of buildings used by the bottlers. It shows what great research projects lie behind collecting bottles from your own backyard.

The club plans to tour Fort Niagara. Only 10 people are needed for the special gyuided tour. The club regularly tours places of interest in the Buffalo area. The September meeting featured yet another productive and well-participated show and tell session, with everything from bricks

13 to bottles! Historian, collector and club member Vince Martonis was the speaker in November, on “Chautaugua County Curiosities.” This program “highlighted historical items that have a unique, weird, fascinating, or very interesting story connected to them.”

Several of the items included the Great Black Walnut Tree of Silver Creek, a Lily Dale (Spiritualist community) redware ink, Mrs. J.H.R. Matteson’s Clairvoyant Remedies from Evans, a red catlinite Indian mastodon pipe, and 1841 ghost letter, and the Amos Sottle Horse Skull Fiddle. All items were on display. Sounds fantastic!

Applied Seals Genesee Valley Bottle Collectors Association, Rochester, N.Y. The fall programs at GVBCA have been outstanding. Prominent bottle collector Don Keating presented “Aqua Pontilled Medicine” in September. This is a relatively new collecting interest for Don. He brought many examples.

Don is a regular exhibitor at the annual shows as well.

In October, Valerie O’Hara, owner and director of Rochester’s Pike Stained Glass Studios, presented a fascinating powerpoint lecture on “The History of Stained Glass.” Valerie comes from a family of stained glass artists. Her great uncle, William Pike, worked for the famous Louis Comfort Tiffany in New York City. He moved to Rochester to start his own company. In 1948, Pike’s nephew, James O’Hara, began working for the company and eventually purchased it. At age 12, Valerie began her work at the company after school and summers. She graduated from Rochester Institure of Technology with a Fine Arts degree in 1976, and purchased the company in 1987. Today, it’s the oldest stained glass studio in the country, and among the leading designers and manufacturers of one-ofa-kind stained glass windows.

Club member Jerry Laverty passed away in Sept. Jerry was a nationally known collector and authority on apple parers. He belonged to and was an officer in the International Society of

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Chris Davis wrote about three bottle shows in three atates, including the FOHBC National in Wilmington (simply put - outstanding and a first rate facility!), the Prairie State Antique Bottle & Advertising Show in Davenport, Iowa, and the Kirtland, Ohio show. The Davenport show was held the same weekend as the River Roots Live Music Fest and Ribfest, held on the banks of the Mississippi River. This very much enhanced the show experience. The show had been

brought back after a few year’s hiatus by show chair Jim Skinner. There was breweriana, advertising, souvenir china, and the usual many categories of bottles, fruit jars and insulators. Dealers came from a number of states. The Ohio Bottle Club show also drew from a number of states. A free dealer dinner is held the evening before, in advance of setup. Two fine exhibits included Ted Krist’s “Ohio Bitters Bottles” and Dave Merker’s “Satatoga-type Bottles.”

GVBCA held its 20th Annual Charity Auction in November. Members

donate antique and collectible items which are auctioned off. This year’s set an all-time record with sales of $2,350.

Members generaously donated many quality items including bottles, wine, gift certifictaes, and cash. Club member Doug Nicot serves as auctioneer each year, assisted by Joanne Washington, the longtime auction clerk, and Kel Kelsey, cashier. The charities were Bethany House (a home for battered women and their children), and Mercy Flight Central.

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on the shore at one time (1859 – 1889), and discarded broken glass in the lake. Wisconsin divers had already dived this site, so we were there to see if they missed something.

SPLASH; Me, Bob and Steve drop in. I find lots of broken glass and piles of 1870s gravitating bottles scattered over a quarter mile stretch. I like old glass, even broken, so I started to systematically load up my goody bag with cracked, chipped and broken bottles.

The pile I was working on had at least 18 bottles; they were lying on a tree branch. I kept carefully scraping, hoping to find the glass stoppers, but I found none. (As it would turn out, a year later Bob Libbey would find a couple of piles of just glass stoppers numbering more than one hundred. He dropped a goody bag full of them, and it’s still there). I finished the pile and pulled out the branch and put my hand in the depression, scratching around, and I finger tipped an embossed glass… as I walked my hand down the bottle I knew right away it was different, and the size felt larger. Then I gently touched the blob, and I knew instinctively it was a spiral stopper bottle!

Now for the excavation part - nice and slow. I tunneled the sides away and put my hand under the bottle and very slowly worked it out of its grave. I used my other hand to make sure the blob top stayed with me, and then I felt the missing part of the blob, half of it, and as I explored it some more I discovered the spring was still in it!

I make it a priority not to lose the spring as it felt loose, and so I fill up my BC and head up. If you were on shore you would have heard my yell of YES as the sunlight brought out the aqua blue back to its gem status. Bob and Steve recovered examples of the same bottle, most with the blob top missing, or just shards. On shore, I carefully removed the rubber washer and slipped the brass spiral spring out (in two parts as it was broken). I handed the spring over to Steve and told him he now has a spring for his Zwietusch. (He did get it professionally welded, and it works great).

At home now lays a pile of broken Madison Matthew gravitating stopper bottles in my outside bottle garden. As for the J.A. Lindestrom spiral spring stopper, it resides next to my office desk with a nice photo of Bob and me that I’ll treasure forever.

For information on joining the ABCNI, you may contact: Dorothy Furman, 26287 W. Marie Ave., Antioch, IL 60002.

Midwest Regional News Joe Coulson 10515 Collingswood Lane Fishers, IN 46038 (317) 915 - 0665 jcoulson@leaderjar.com Hello, bottle collectors! Welcome to another installment of the Midwest region news report. The Fall weather is in full swing, and bottle shows and activities are going strong! We love to hear from the Midwest bottle clubs – so keep sending in those news items… please, please, please and thank you!

Antique Bottle Club of Northern Illinois Dorothy Furman is newsletter editor of the ABCNI, and Jeff Dahlberg is president. The club has been holding its meetings at the Antioch Senior Center, 817 Holbeck, Antioch, Ill..

At the September club meeting, Jim Koutsoures, alias the “King of Shards,” gave a talk on “Bottle Diving for Wisconsin Sodas.” Here is a copy of his account of the event that occurred in November 2005: A day was finally agreed on. It was no secret that Lake Mendota had given up Matthews gravitating stopper bottles in the past. Steve Libbey already owned the Milwaukee Spiral spring stopper, an Otto Zwietusch, but it was missing the spring. The J.A. Lindestrom bottling works was also a source for the spiral spring stopper as well. The bottling works was located

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Circle City Antique Bottle Club Martin Van Zant is the newsletter editor. The October newsletter had a meeting report from him: Another WOW to Dan Russell for hosting the last bottle meeting at the Hooks Museum and Drugstore located on the state fairgrounds. If you’ve never been in this historical bottle museum then you’re missing out on a great opportunity. Ninety percent of the bottles still had perfect labels and contents.

Bottles came from all over, including Terre Haute, Vincennes, Indianapolis,

Bottles and Extras Evansville, as well as many other states.

A bottle that I was impressed to see was an amber Kelly’s Cabin, a highly desirable and rare bottle. Also at the museum was a Cloud’s Cordial with a unique label still on the bottle. I can’t say enough how neat this place is to visit. Additionally, I have had several comments made about the visit from members who enjoyed it as much as I did. Without a doubt, the club definitely wants to return for a second visit.

During the visit, the club had a small business meeting followed by a few show and tell items. Bill Granger brought in some very cool Thorntown medicine bottles.

Bill Gonterman brought in a double eagle flask, an early example. Dennis Walls brought in a few items for sale and trade. There were so many things to look at during the museum tour, it was impossible to absorb it all. It was almost too much to look at in the short amount of time we had. We didn’t leave until around 8:30 p.m., and we still could have spent hours more there. A great time, and a must see for any collector. I will definitely be telling all my bottle friends!

Martin Van Zant is drumming up support for this new bottle club in Indianapolis, Indiana. The club meets the last Thursday of the month at Ben Davis High School, 1200 N. Girl School Rd. (Door 17, Room U102). You may contact Martin by email at mdvanzant@yahoo. com or by telephone at 812-841-9495.

Iowa Antique Bottleers Mark Wiseman is the newsletter editor, and he does a great job each month. Mike Magee does the minutes quarterly, and supplies Mark with articles that Mark selects for the newsletter. Tom Southard was elected president for 2011.

The theme for the October meeting was Indian bottles. Kevin Williams, our host, had brought a collection of label under glass Apothecary bottles rescued from the basement of the flooded drugstore in Colfax. Kevin brought many other items, including an “Indian Sagwa” bottle. Jim Menzel brought a “National” stoneware pie

January - February 2011 plate with an Indian on it, two Indianmade stone tools, and “Stomach & Liver Cure” (a 1995 IAB Indian crock club bottle). Bill and Linda Brown brought an “Arrowhead Spring Water” (with an Indian) bottle. Jerry LaBaume brought a painted label soda with a white painted Indian “Big Chief” from Mason City; a painted label “Big Chief Beverages, from Butler, Missouri,” and an aqua soda “Big Chief Pawhuska Coca-Cola Bott Co.” with an Indian on it. Percy Poulin brought a “Pain Destroyer, Seminole Indian Medicine Co., Boone Iowa,” a “Healy & Bigelow’s Kickapoo Indian Cough Cure” and a “Healy & Bigelow’s Indian Sagwa.” Tom Southard brought a variety of items including a wonderful pontiled aqua medicine he dug years ago in Des Moines, a “Brants Indian Pulmonery Balsam, M.T. Wallace Proprietor.”

Tom also brought a drugstore bottle embossed “Barnens & Castle, Wholesale Druggists, Waco, Texas” – that was the drugstore where Dr. Pepper later originated. Jim Weeks arrived with a neat selection of paper label bottles including a “O.W. Indian Liver and Kidney Tonic, A New Lease on Life, Cherokee Medicine Co. Inc., Atlanta, Georgia,” a “Dr. Wrightsman’s Sovereign, Balm of Life, (Indian woman’s picture), D.B. Sanger & Co., Franklin Grove, Ill.,” and a box for a “Kickapoo Sagwa, Kickapoo Indian Med. Co. Inc.” Mark Wiseman brought a selection of items dug this fall and two Indian Water bottles from his collection. These two half-gallon bottles are embossed “MINNEHAHA Natural Spring Water (Indian princess) Registered,” and “COLD INDIAN SPRING WATER CO., (Indian chief), This bottle loaned not sold, five pints.”

Also displayed from a pre-meeting dig down the block were two items found

by Kevin and Mark: an amber quart Mason’s 1858 with top Hero cross, and a “Begg’s Dandelion Bitters.”

The IAB newsletters always contain wonderful digging stories by Mark Wiseman. He has a regular column, “The Digger’s Scoop,” that tells of his local digging adventures with his

15 dog, the old truck, and various digging friends that join him. You can find out more about IAB membership ($15/ yr.) from: The Iowa Antique Bottleers, c/o Mark C. Wiseman, 3505 Sheridan Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50310.

St. Louis Bottle Collecting Association George Casnar is club president, and he sends out the newsletter as an email.

Here is what his club has been up to: The September meeting was opened

by President George Casnar with 19 members and one guest present. Ken Brown presented a program on the once popular game of bottle caps. This game required two players a side, a broom stick and a lot of bottle caps.The bottle caps were supplied by the nearest tavern, or mom and pop store if you preferred soda bottle caps. The pitcher threw the bottle cap, the hitter tried to hit it. It wasn’t easy to hit or catch the bottle cap as it seldom came in straight. A corkball cage was the best place to play because it contained the numerous bottle caps that escaped the hitter’s bat and the catcher’s hands. There were no extra base hits, only singles. The games were low scoring. Most lasted less than a hour and the tavern was a short walk from the cage. Thanks for the program, Ken. Show and tell was opened by John Hinkel with a Stafford’s Universal Ink advertising print, approximately 2 feet x 3 feet. John acquired this beautiful piece at the federation show. Ron Sterzik showed a recent find, a nice cobalt blue St. Louis Smith & Foteringham Soda Water. George Casnar came up with a clear embossed Ironton, Mo., “Drink Honey Moon” soda and Harold Cradic showed a Vess Dietetic ACL soda. Our guest, Denny Crawford, brought in a nice CRANDALL-PETTEE Co Perfection Fruit Juices Jar, N.Y., HG, aqua.

The October meeting featured a wonderful program by Ray Stenseth on his eye cup collection. A Wedgewood blue and white porcelain eye cup dated 1865 was included in a Wedgewood display at the Daughters of the American Revolution museum in Washington, D.C., celebrating the company’s 250th anniversary. Two examples of

16 British ivory eye cups from the 1800s were shown. American advertising covers a wide range from common to very scarce. Most of the best ones are embossed with a druggist name and/ or a city and many were made by the Whitall-Tatum Glass Co. One example shown was a FRANK E. MORGAN & SONS PHILA. blue eye cup embossed on the base. Two extremely rare blue eye cups with different wording on each base from JOHN WANAMAKER department store, Philadelphia, concluded this wonderful program.

Last Oct. 23, eight members enjoyed an outing to see Bob Chapman’s brewamania collection.

Bob and his wife Jane were the perfect hosts, making us feel right at home.

Bob’s collection goes back many years and he told us many wonderful stories how he acquired his collection. His basement is a museum of Missouri beer history. He has an extensive collection of Goetz Brewery, Kansas City- StJoseph, Missouri. We saw a great album showing St. Louis beer labels with Anheuser-Busch having the most by far. He has many test bottles and cans that were never put in production.

His basement bar would be the envy of any in St. Louis.

Twenty members were present for the November meeting. Matters taken up were the annual Cristmas party and getting the contracts ready for mailing for the 40th Bottle & Jar Show, March 20, 2011. Contact Pat Jett, 71 Lookout Drive, Hillsboro, Mo., 63050, (636) 9483029, E-mail: patsy_jett@yahoo.com for information or questions about the bottle show. Show and tell saw an Owensville, Mo., clear Smile, 7 oz. soda from Roger Wattler. Ron Sterzik presented an all white ACL Seven-up, Portland, Oregon.

Pat Jett showed several wine bottles from Canada. Bert Henke came up with a ACL Diet Pepsi with the Pepsi logo on one side of the shoulder and Diet Pepsi on the other side.

You can find out more about the St. Louis Bottle Collecting Association by contact George Casnar (watt2727@ sbcglobal.net).

January - February 2011 North Star Historical Bottle News Doug Shilson is newsletter editor for the North Star Historical Bottle News. Steve Ketcham is the club president. Doug and Steve do a great job each month reporting the club’s latest happenings. Doug puts a lot of effort into recording all the details that take place.

The following excerpt comes from the column “Doug’s Bottle Cracks” in the November newsletter: By now, most Minnesota bottle collectors know that a “horde” (at least 90) of old bottles and many stoneware jugs were found in a “Knee Wall” in a house once owned by one of the Gluek Brewery family in the Lowery Hill area. Most of the jugs had the original “Geo Benz, Gluek” name on blue tags only. The jugs were made by Western Stoneware and shipped to Kelly & Steinmetz. Our own bottle book says they were in business to 1912. The labels with wire were attached to the handle of each jug with the dates of 1916 on them. Turn the label over and it said “Geo Benz.” Now onto the bottles, and that’s the reason to have a wine tasting get together – at the museum, no less.

There were over 100 people and most were in the first room on the first floor.

We were packed in there like sardines.

I took the front position to see what it was like to bid on what I came there for in the first place: The Geo Benz Bitters bottle. (The only one found, I was told).

It was the rare size (6 ½ inches). When I first examined this beauty several weeks before the auction, it was in notso-good condition, meaning the paper label was darkened with black haze from having sat in a knee wall for close to 94 years. Same for the full liquor bottles, along with many jugs to keep company. All the jugs were in the same dark dusty condition. Before the auction, the Benz was expertly cleaned, including the label, which showed the darkened label was now a “mint” label which showed the bright red and dark blue printing (this particular size was never embossed). The cork was tight to the bottle, which wasn’t the case when I first examined it. It was loose

Bottles and Extras and the metal seal of the top you could take off, and I noticed if I tipped it over it would have leaked. As were all the bottle corks! Sure wish I know who did the work on all these bottles and jugs, but it seems to be a secret? Note, all the bottle corks were loose, and the liquid did evaporate some. This rare size 1919 Bitters hammered down at $1,025. Others: 1907 Johnie Walker Special Old Highland Whiskey sold for $1,100. A 1906 James Buchanan Black & White Scotch Whiskey brought $775. Several others went for over a grand each. Our own ex-member, Dean Phillips, won the Walker. Dean says “they are likely the only ones being full and with full labels in the world,” plus Dean won one other. One or two were opened to “test” the taste of the liquid.

Because of their honesty, several of the jugs were given to the workers who found the “stash.” Several of the still full bottles were given to the museum.

For more information on joining the NSHBA, please contact Doug Shilson: 3308 32 Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN 55406-2015.

1st Chicago Bottle Club Ray and Peggy Komorowksi are the newsletter editors. Carl Malik is club president. The following info comes from their November newsletter: Meeting Program – Amber Milks Junior Gibson brought in five amber milks for Carl Malik – all quarts: Lake Zurich Dairy Co/Chicago, Natoma Huntley/Oak Park, Wanzer Kazol/Chicago, Wieland Kazol/ Chicago, Sidney Wanzer/Chicago.

Ray Komorowski brought in an amber quart from his hometown of Oak Park: Natoma Huntley/Oak Park. John Panek brought in two amber, 6-ounce.

“Kazols” from Chicago: Wanzer Kazol and Huntley Dairy Kazol. Lou Metzinger brought in a half-pint South East Dairy Co., Hammond, Ind., in an unusual amber with greenish tint.

A Dangerous Hobby The story of a dedicated bottle collector - One of our dedicated bottle collectors was invited to a tour of a southside police station – the tour

Bottles and Extras included a view from both sides of the bars for digging in unauthorized area – How was he to know??? There were no “NO TRESPASSING” signs posted.

The visit was only for a short time. It came to a good ending. No charges were filed, just a nasty tongue lashing by the officers in charge. The next time you go to a post office, look at the list of wanted criminals. “Bottle Digger wanted by the FBI.” For more information on the 1St Chicago Bottle Club you may contact Ray and Peggy Komorowski by phone: 708-848-7947, or email: midwestbottlednews@gmail.com Kalamazoo Bottle Club Al Holden is the newsletter editor.

Here is an excerpt about the club’s October meeting: Dee Cole was the one to leave us all with our jaws dropping! Our diggers have been searching for that special un-dug privy loaded with preCivil War bottles. Sometimes we have a tendency to forget our roots as old fashioned dump diggers! The way that I was told the history of the bottle club, privy searching came of age only after it had become so hard to find un-dug dumps. Well, Dee seems to have found a spot that is a good old-fashioned farm dump, until now un-dug!

Dee found a very interesting halfgallon GEM fruit jar, which at first glance looks cracked. But, if you look closer, you can see that what looks like a crack, is a seam-like line, which starts near the base and then winds its way around and up the bottle, going almost to the top! This is an example of crudeness that I have never seen before!

It had to make the workers at the glass factory do a double take!

That Gem fruit jar was a gem of a find indeed! But that wasn’t the only good find that Dee had to show! Dee also dug a 1-gallon brown and cream top whiskey jug that is picture perfect!

It is the classic little brown jug! How many times have diggers uncovered the neck and handle of one of these, only to be disappointed to learn that was all there was left. Very nice stuff, Dee!

January - February 2011 Better keep looking over your shoulder, Dee! I think it was Chuck who asked if you needed any help digging this site!

Wayne Marvin purchased a large collection of old bottles somewhere, and he has been bringing in a few to show each month. This month, it wasn’t his bottles that had everyone scratching their heads in wonder, it was a twopound blob of glass that he bought for a buck or less! I really don’t know what to call it, but it is mostly pink glass with striated lines of white glass in the center. It is certainly worth a buck as a conversation piece!

Chuck and Scott went on their annual pilgrimage to Alabama to for some Civil War relic hunting. They always do much better at this than I would expect. I have been in the metal detecting hobby for over 40 years, and I know what the odds are of a couple Yankees wandering south and finding anything other than trouble!

This time the guys found a real good place to run their detectors, and they found some very neat relics! The best relic was dug by Scott. It is the unexploded shell from a Parrott cannon! The Parrott was invented by Robert Parker Parrott, a West Point graduate. He resigned from the service in 1836 and became the superintendent of the West Point Foundry in Cold Spring, New York. He created the first Parrott rifle in 1860 and patented it in 1861. Parrotts were manufactured with a combination of cast and wrought iron.

The cast iron made for an accurate gun, but the iron was brittle and would suffer fractures. Parrott’s idea was to add a large wrought iron reinforcing band around the breech area where the shell was loaded to give it additional strength. This wasn’t entirely a new idea, (some earlier cannons were designed this way) but the method of securing this band was the idea that allowed the Parrott to overcome the weakness of these earlier models.

So what are the dangers of handling one of these unexploded Parrott shells?

Even if the odds are a million-to-one that this thing would go off, it is a frightening thought! Thankfully, Scott did not bring this item to the meeting! It gives me shivers to think that Scott and Chuck

17 drove all the way home with this thing in their truck! Can you imagine the Indiana police finding a smoking truck frame alongside the highway one night? Wow! Chuck is the club president, and you can contact him for more information about their club at: 607 Crocket Ave., Portage, MI 49024 (ph: 616-329-0853). The club meets regularly at the Kalamazoo Public Library, located at 315 S. Rose Street.

The club has a website: http://www. kalamazoobottleclub.org/ Wabash Valley Antique Bottle & Pottery Club Martin Van Zant is newsletter editor for The Wabash Cannonball, the WVABPC’s monthly newsletter. Doug Porter was recently elected as president; Scott Stepp as vice president; Tony Stringfellow, treasurer; and Ed Newman, secretary for 2011.

Ed Newman reported that the September meeting of the bottle club was a humdinger! A rare bitters bottle showed up, “Dr. Ecltydes Southern Bitters New Orleans” in mint condition.

Also making an appearance, a rare clear glass 1923 coke bottle from Richmond, Va., and an unlisted Root jar. Doug Porter had some real nice bottles from Terre Haute and West Terre Haute.

Gary Zimmer had some nice labeled medicines from Terre Haute. The club members were preparing for their annual bottle show in November.

The WVABPC holds their monthly meeting at Shadows Auction Barn, 1517 Maple Ave., Terre Haute, IN. Club dues are $10/yr. For more information, please contact Gary Zimmer (treasurer), 10655 Atherton Rd., Rosedale, IN 47874.

Huron Valley Bottle & Insulator Club (HVBIC) Michele and Shaun Kotlarsky are newsletter editors for The Embossing, newsletter of the Huron Valley Bottle & Insulator Club. Bob Powell is president.

A new edition of the newsletter has not been available for a while.

The HVBIC meetings are held at the First National Bank, 8080 Challis Rd., Brighton, MI. You can find out

18 much more about the HVBIC online at their website: http://web.mac.com/ macz/HVBIC. Their old newsletters can be viewed there also.

Findlay Antique Bottle Club Tom Brown (newsletter editor) of the FABC submits their newsletter (Whittle Marks). Tom typically reprints several articles for club members in their newsletter. Marianne Dow maintains the club’s website, which has news items posted regularly as well as pictures from the club’s past shows.

Marianne had the following to say about the club’s recent bottle show: The Findlay Bottle Club holds its annual bottle show every October. The 2010 show was a smashing success!

Many new dealers who had not set up at our show and some dealers took advantage of the gorgeous weather to set up outside. The show is really about the people. It’s all about visiting with longtime friends, meeting new people who turn into friends, and sharing stories with fellow collectors who share your collecting passion and enjoyment.

Shopping online can be a great way to find some super stuff for your collection, but there’s nothing like being there in person, at a show, in a big room with fellow collectors. This is the real “social networking” scene. I know there were several treasures bought and sold by dealers, who brought items for certain people, and many, many items that were sold at “friendly” prices. I’m not telling you this to make you think you missed a deal. I am saying it to encourage everyone reading, especially those who haven’t ever been to a bottle show, or maybe it’s been a long time, to get out there and go to bottle shows, join a local club, and make friends and enjoy the social aspect of the hobby. Because along the way, you will get some special deals, which are all the more special because you are dealing with friends.

You should check out the club’s website: http://finbotclub.blogspot. com/. Richard Elwood is the club President. Monthly club meetings are held at the University of Findlay.

January - February 2011 Flint Antique Bottle Club Tim and Angie Buda are newsletter editors, and produce a colorful newsletter. Here is the message from the club president, Bill Heatley, in the September newsletter: Hi everyone, welcome back. It’s been a long, hot summer, in more ways than one. Tom and I found some pretty good bottles since our last meeting. We dug and sold an amethyst straight-sided Detroit Coke on eBay for $695. That Coke is the toughest Michigan Coke to find, especially in an undamaged condition. We hit a good 1870s – 1880s wet pit that held a halfpint double eagle flask in a phenomenal color. It is attributed to a Pittsburgh glass house, and the Pittsburgh guys say they have “heard” of only one other in this coloration. The same pit yielded an amber quart mineral water from Mt. Clemens. It has an embossed shield and is embossed both inside and outside the shield with “MT CLEMENS MINERAL SPRING CO LIMITED.” The closure and lip are unusual, quite a bit like the Schultz from New York. The maker’s mark is T.W. & Co. We are aware of only one other example of this bottle.

An aqua “WM. ZADDACK” mineral water from Wyandotte was dug, and I also found an iron pontiled “CALNON & CRONK MINERAL WATER DETROIT, MICH.” On July 16th, my place caught on fire and was deemed a total loss. In addition to the loss of two of my beloved pets, I lost an easy $10,000 in destroyed bottles. I was lucky that most of the fire damage was contained to the kitchen and dining area. Every one of my highend food bottles was shattered, along with 29 Upper Peninsula blob beers, nine Bay City Hutchinson sodas and one blob. Not one of the Bay City druggist bottles was damaged. The majority of my Hutches were in my office and were undamaged, along with all of my boxed druggists bottles.

The forensic electrical engineer and two fire investigators determined that the fire was caused by the plug/transformer for my cordless phone (not cell). I lost power on Thursday and when the power

Bottles and Extras came back on Friday, it surged and the Panasonic jack couldn’t handle it. They stated that these type of “power outage” fires are very common. I took away three valuable lessons from my fire and by reading this, I hope you do too.

1. Make sure that you get a certified appraisal of your collection. If you rely only on a written description and photos, it won’t fly. You also need to be sure you purchase actual collectibles insurance from a company like those in the bottles magazines, as homeowners insurance will not cover antiques or collectibles like bottles.

2. Make sure that you have at least one fully charged Class 3 fire extinguisher in your place and know how to use it. I had used mine on a neighbor’s fire and had neglected to recharge it.

3. The two investigators and the engineer all recommend that in the case of a power outage (not a brownout) you flip off your main circuit breaker and not reset it until after power is restored. My insurance company is now suing Panasonic.

The club meets regularly at the Grand Blanc Heritage Museum, 203 Grand Blanc Road, Grand Blanc, Michigan on the second Thursday of the month from 7 – 9 pm. You can find out more about the club by contacting Bill Heatley (810-922-3248) or Tim & Angie Buda (989-271-9193).

Ohio Bottle Club Phyllis Koch (editor) and Dennis Peine (secretary) are doing a very nice job with The Ohio Swirl, the OBC’s newsletter. Terry Crislip is president.

In the October newsletter, Adam Koch reported on “Another Good Findlay Bottle Show:” Having missed three bottle shows that I usually attend due to vacations, I was really looking forward to the Findlay show. Being only a little over two hours away was a real treat.

Saturday morning turned out to be a beautiful sunny fall day. The leaves changing colors were at their peak.

I don’t particularly like the noon set-up on Saturday. I am not sure how many tables they had, but I would

Bottles and Extras guess between 65 and 75. If you want to be there during all set-ups you have to be there at noon. That leaves a lot of standing around until the 6 p.m. clubprovided dinner. I would love to see a 3 or 4 to 6 p.m. set-up time. That would give dealers from farther away plenty of time to set up and look around the 60% or so tables that were set up.

The show room was packed with tables, with a good variety of quality and lower end items. Ohio club members set up were Don Dzuro, Mary Ballentine, John and Margie Bartley, Terry Crislip, Jerry Haymond, Jamie Houdeshell, Bill McKim, John Pastor, Mary Jane Theaker and myself. Attending were Rick and Bernie Baldwin, and Lou and Sue McFadden. Attendance on Sunday was very good as usual.

P.S:. From Marianne Dow’s report there were 75 tables. This show is always a sell-out. It was very good to see Jamie Houdeshell back in action. He is recovering from the illness that kept him away from the national show last August.

For more information on joining the OBC, please contact Berny Baldwin (treasurer), 1931 Thorpe Circle, Brunswick, OH 44212. The club also has a new website which can be found at: http://www.ohiobottleclub.com.

Details about their milk bottle book can be found there also.

Minnesota’s First Antique Bottle Club Barb Robertus is editor of the MFABC newsletter, The Bottle Digger’s Dope. Linda Sandell takes care of the printing and mailing.

Halloween was the theme for the October newsletter. There were pictures of poison bottles, a black cat whiskey shot glass, a Humphrey’s Marvel Witch Hazel bottle, and an Art Deco post card.

There was also a short article on “Witch Balls.” Since the 18th century, legend has it that witch balls have been hung in homes and barns to protect us against evil spirits! Supposedly witches would fly close to get a better look, and become trapped inside. It is felt that witch balls were first made in England, and brought to this country by

January - February 2011 immigrants. These immigrants found their way to the Pennsylvania area.

Many of these immigrants brought their skills with them and glass-blowing was one of those. By the 19th century, glass works were in Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio and throughout New England.

Witch balls have an open pontil and left open so the balls could be hung on chains or strong string (these holes were also meant to be the witch’s entry point).

Wildly popular in the 19th century, witch balls were made by glass factories, typically in the same colors as bottles and vases. (Witch balls continued to be made from bottle glass into the 20th century). Balls were mostly one color, although in the Victorian period some were made with overlaid strands of colored glass. Many end-of-day specimens have been made, as workers often set aside time on breaks, or at day’s end to create their own unusual witch balls.

Membership in the MFABC is $10/ yr. For more information, please contact Linda Sandell, 7735 Silver Lake Road #208, Moundsview, MN 55112.

Metropolitan Detroit Antique Bottle Club The Metropolitan Detroit Antique Bottle Club which was founded in March 1971 has been actively meeting again since January 2010.

Mike Brodzik is the newsletter editor as well as club president.

The topic of the September meeting was pharmacy bottles. Attendees were given an opportunity to talk about their bottles. Bob McEvoy had an interesting patent medicine bottle he had found while diving. The bottle is iron-pontiled and embossed Hubbard’s Cherry Syrup. Femia Alberts talked about her recent find of a paneled pottery bottle. She still claims to have never found a pharmacy bottle. Tom Schictel also showed off his recent cobalt Hutchinson embossed “G. Andrae, Port Huron, Mich.” Pharmacy bottles come in all sizes and colors, but clear is the predominant color for the embossed variants. Almost every small town had a druggist, pharmacist, pharmaceutist or

19 apothecary to fill prescriptions made by doctors or based on old family recipes.

The early bottles had paper labels and then the era of the embossed pharmacy bottle started in the 1880s. It continued through to about 1910. At that point, the pharmacy bottles are again mostly paper label only. There were well over 100 bottles to be seen. An arrangement of the pharmacy bottles through time was displayed by Mike Brodzik.

The October newsletter contained a Muskegon Bottle Show report by Don Simons: The Muskegon Bottle Club Show was held last Sept. 18th. Show chairman was Elmer Ogg. The majority of sellers and buyers were, as expected, from the west Michigan area with a focus on the Muskegon and Grand Rapids area.

Attendance was on the light side but from the customer’s side there were sellers who offered bargain prices to encourage their sales. While bottles, jars and related items were easily the largest group, the antiques and collectibles were abundant, and the many low priced unique items made this inventory a much better one than many antique shops offerings. I sold several blob beers and also bought a number of items. My first purchase was a pair of antique blue salt and pepper shakers for my wife, Phyllis. Then I bought a nice “Zindel Union Pop Works” squat soda. It is from Grand Rapids as is the really fine cobalt “SPA Bottling Works” hutch soda, acquired by Chicago collector/dealer Jim Hall. Hall, John Pastor and Jeff Scharno offered many fine bottles from the wider Great Lakes and beyond regions.

Mike Brodzik reported on a “Northern Michigan Bottle Surprise” in the October newsletter: Over the recent weekend my wife and I made a trip with the Grafs to a cabin in the Traverse City area. We visited the sand dunes and took part in some of the local treats which included wine and apples. One of the stops made was at a general store that was indicated to be the oldest operating general store in Michigan (circa 1830s). It was interesting and there were some antiques to be seen and lots of stuff filled into a very small area.

20 They actually had some bottles for sale, but nothing to pique my interests.

Another of our stops brought a very unusual and welcomed surprise. It was at Kilcherman’s Christmas Cove Farm. John and Phyllis Kilcherman and family operate a farm where they have an interest in many varieties of antique apples. Some of the varieties date back to the 1600s. It was indicated that they have around 240 varieties.

We stopped at the farm and went into the pole barn where they sell their fruits. Much to my surprise the pole barn was absolutely filled on the walls with thousands of bottles. There were also hundreds of signs and tins. It was a wonder to see and a real treat to speak with John Kilcherman about his vast collection of bottles and related items.

The Kilcherman Christmas Cove Farm is located at 11573 North Kilcherman Road, Northport, Michigan, and I encourage if anyone gets up that way to stop and check it out. He had over 10,000 bottles with his main focus being ACL soda pop bottles. Wow, what color and variety from around the U.S. and the world.

You can find out more about the MDABC and its monthly meeting schedule by contacting Mike Brodzik (586-219-9980).

Midwest Antique Fruit Jar & Bottle Club The MAFJBC has members nationwide and is heavily fruit jarfocused. Their meetings are generally held the first Sunday of the month at 1:30 p.m. in the Cantina at Minnetrista, which is located in Muncie, Indiana.

Dave Rittenhouse is president. Joe Coulson (yes, that’s me!) is the newsletter editor.

In the October newsletter it was reported that Norman Barnett, club founder and long-time club president, has died. More details appear elsewhere in this issue of Bottles & Extras.

Club members were asked to bring wax sealer jars for show and tell at the October meeting. Howard Rothgeb made the trip from Fort Wayne to attend the Muncie meeting.

January - February 2011 Howard said that he started collecting in 1967. He displayed the following wonderful fruit jars: a quart yellowware pottery wax sealer; an amethyst Rau’s Groove Ring; an amber quart FCGCo (base embossed); a cobalt blue FCGCo (base embossed); an aqua Yeoman’s Fruit Bottle; and a deep blue aqua quart unembossed jar with a strong iron pontil. Lou Ebert shared a deep amber quart M.F.J.Co. (base embossed); and a light aqua M.F.J.Co. (base embossed, and wonderful glass character with many seed bubbles).

Joe Coulson showed a green aqua quart with a large Hemingray-style 4 on the base; and a blue aqua quart H&R (base embossed). Joe also shared a recent purchase. It was a wooden shipping box from “The Charles Boldt Glass Company, Muncie, Indiana.” It had the design of a Boldt Mason Jar on the box. This is the first reported example of a box from this fruit jar company.

Dave Rittenhouse displayed a light cobalt quart Cunningham & Ihmsen, Pittsburgh, Pa. Jeff Denney brought an olive green with amber swirls quart Ball Standard. Dick Cole displayed a green aqua quart Dillon G. Co. Fairmount, Ind (base embossed).

The MAFJBC has a website: http:// www.fruitjar.org.

Future meeting details as well as lots and lots of pictures from their semi-annual shows can be found there.

The Heart of Ohio Bottle Club New Washington, Ohio: After saying quits…. The Heart of Ohio Bottle Club in north central Ohio is returning. The club closed shop in 1986; however, it was noted that most members are now retired and have less obligations and more time. So the club came back from the “dead” on last Sept. 7th. Reorgnization is now the main concern… finding a new, cheap location to meet, dusting off those bottles from the attic, and changing a few 1980s prices! Now there is hope to bring back a few other deceased clubs.

– Joseph Blum (email: jblum@woh. rr.com)

Bottles and Extras Jelly Jammers Journal Tom Caniff is the journal issue editor.

Margaret Shaw is the journal publisher.

Pat Van Dyke is the president.

The following news item concerning “New – Old Stock Jelly Labels” comes from the Fall edition of the journal: These two pre-zipcode jelly labels represent the many labels on the market, offered on eBay as “New, Old Stock.” This means simply that someone has found a cache of old labels in a warehouse, plant or other location. Unfortunately, after someone buys these labels (these were sold in lots of 30 – 35 labels), they then often affix them to old glasses, jars, or crocks bearing no relationship to the labels.

These labels are for “1 Lb. Net Oregon Fruit Products” Pear & Gooseberry Jam and Peach Preserves, packed by the Oregon Fruit Products Co., of Salem, Oregon. The Oregon Fruit Products Company, a family owned business, reportedly had roots back into the 1920s, and they’re still in business today.

If you want authentic old jelly labels on their original glasses or jars, you need to watch out for these and others like them. Very often, if the labels on glasses or jars look too good, it’s because they’ve recently been added to the container; sometimes. a little wear indicates that the labels and jars have been together for a while. If you just want representative labels, whether on an original container or not, then that’s fine. But try to be aware of what you’re buying.

To see an example of an English P.C. Flett & Co. jam label on a T-shirt, check out http://www.zazzle.com/pc_ flett_cos_apple_jam_kirkwall_tshirt235955191880888295 on the Internet.

The P.C. Flett “New, Old Stock” paper labels have been widely sold and are commonly found on any number of glass and stoneware containers. –Tom Caniff You can find out more about the Jelly Jammers by contacting Pat Van Dyke (jwvpkv@verizon.net) or Jean Harbron (jharbron@comcast.net)

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organization of the Tennessee Cola Co., in Knoxville. The firm filed to register its drink’s name as a trade mark, but the Coca-Cola Company objected.

By the time a hearing was scheduled in August 1917, the Tennessee Cola Company was bordering on insolvency, having lost considerable money in the fluctuating sugar market during WW I. It could not afford an attorney and was not represented at the hearing.

The patent office examiner put an end to Tenn-Cola by denying its application, noting that the hyphenated words TennCola were written in script of the same style employed by Coca-Cola and “is so similar to the opposer’s mark as to be apt to cause confusion therewith.”

Southern Regional News Bill Baab 2352 Devere Street Augusta, GA 30904 (706) 736 - 8097 riverswamper@comcast.net Collectors have found eBay a wonderful place to shop, but they’d better be on their collective toes.

Reproductions and out and out fakes lurk in every collecting category.

Melissa Milner, editor of The Groundhog Gazette, newsletter of The State of Franklin (Tenn.) Antique Bottle and Collectibles Association, reports on eBay scams in her November issue.

“A simple search for “artifacts” on eBay returns over 25,000 items, from Native American arrowheads at around $20 to Neolithic tooth pendants for almost $200. Discerning what is genuine and fake from the words and images of a strange seller is extremely difficult.

Archaeology experts are experiencing the same problems.

“Archaeologists say that up to 95 percent of antiquities for sale on eBay are fake. Fake artifacts and scams are so advanced on eBay that even the experts cannot determine what is genuine.”

What can you do to avoid being ripped off?

Learn as much as possible about the seller and the product being sold.

Check return and refund policies.

Reputable sellers are not afraid to offer guarantees.

Research the seller’s past sales. Pay particular attention to similar items sold.

Antiquities do not come in bulk.

Be as knowledgeable as the seller, take nothing at face value and air any fears. If there is one doubt, then walk away from the transaction.

The article was written by Elizabeth Batt (suite101.com) New member Robert Stanley has been offering Mountain Dew drawings to club members for $5 each. His son, Clayton, now has been infected by the “bottle bug.” He and his friends dug up a tall blue bottle while playing.

In her September issue, she featured “Tenn-Cola,” born in 1915 with the

Marshall Clements, editor of Bottle Talk, newsletter of the Raleigh (N.C.) Bottle Club, is a super photographer.

His images of glass bottles are superb and he features them regularly in his newsletters.

His September-October issue sports member Joe Williams’ Kinston Bottling Works Hutchinson on the cover. Inside the 12-page issue is a photo of six slug plate crown tops from Goldsboro, N.C., ranging from light aqua to sun-colored amethyst to blue-aqua.

Member Whitt Stallings also owns a rare new-in-the-box set of baby bottles from Pine State Creamery Co. Dean Haley’s contribution to show and tell was a Jos. Salomonsky blobtop from Elizabeth City, N.C. Marshall also featured “the most expensive bottle on eBay,” an early CocaCola syrup bottle. You can buy it now for only $5,000! Or you could have.

Twenty-three years ago, Johnnie Fletcher began editing his first issue of Oklahoma Territory News, newsletter of the Oklahoma Territory Bottle and Relic Club. After he finishes the December 2010 issue, he will have (do the math) edited 276 issues. This regional editor doesn’t know of any other bottle club newsletter editor with such an impressive record in longevity.

He also writes stories, one of which was good enough to earn the FOHBC Hall of Famer a first-place plaque for an original

21 true story. Congratulations, Johnnie!

In his November issue, Fletcher tells of a Labor Day dig in which he and friends dug some rare Atchison, Kan., bottles. One was an amber MoHawk Dan-Ko with embossed hawk.

Another was a Burkhart & Pretzel squat ale and yet another was a John Kaffer whiskey.

In the same issue is The 2010 Memorial Day Dig by his good friend, Ed Stewart, one of several regular contributors to the newsletter. Stewart, who lives in Paola, Kan., won a second place award for his story, “Case of the Masquerading Privy,” published in the December 2009 issue of the newsletter.

What is obvious to readers is (1) that Fletcher and his friends have little trouble obtaining permission to dig and (2) they don’t have much trouble in locating privies and trash pits. The total number of bottles Fletcher & Co. have found over the years would prove to be an astonishing number.

Another of Fletcher’s friends and prolific writer is Mark Wiseman, a member of the Iowa Antique Bottleers.

His Iowa Digging (with Elsie the Pup) filled the October issue of the newsletter.

The October issue of The Glass Bubble, newsletter of the Suncoast Antique Bottle Collectors Association of the Tampa-St. Petersburg area of Florida and edited by Linda Buttstead, featured show and tell at its September meeting.

Dave and Rosemary Cornell displayed “loot” from their summer vacation, including a Radams Microbe Killer jug, a Mystic, Conn., soda, and a White’s pitcher from Utica, N.,Y., with a hunting scene.

Charlie Livingston showed a Valdez Druggist, Tampa bottle; a watermelonshaped slug plate Pepsi from Jacksonville, among others, and Linda (whose maiden name was Fox) brought a clear little bottle embossed with that name, an emerald green Kern’s Beer from Trenton, N.J., embossed with a stag’s head and an embossed Golden Tree Pure Syrup bottle.

George Dueben brought Cola Bubbles. a straight-sided Coke and a green Wentworth, all from St. Pete. Dave Morton brought a Buck Cola from Thomasville, Ga., and a Palmetto Bottling Works.

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The December issue of Probe & Plunder, newsletter edited by Brenda Baratto for the Horse Creek Bottle Club of Warrenville, S.C., noted that Mike Newman, of Augusta, presented the September program. Mike showed tapes of digs and collections taken over the last two decades, including a fabulous dig in Charleston, S.C. It was

fantastic to see all those iron-pontiled sodas coming out of the ground.

Club member Walter Smith, of Augusta, conducted October’s program.

He collects (among other things) pharmacy-related jugs since his wife is a pharmacist. He also showed some of his fabulous Augusta memorabilia and a huge collection of spark plugs

purchased at the Hershey (Pa.) Antique Car Show.

Veteran coin collector and dealer Wayne Damron, of Clein’s Rare Coins in Augusta, was the featured speaker during the November meeting. He spoke on “The 12 Caesars.” .

not a restriction in my mind, only a challenge. Rick said that “A freshly dug unknown amber Denver cylinder whiskey was unveiled at the show to many a member’s delight. Most of us couldn’t believe our eyes.”

of same. She describes the bottle as a gloppy-topped, fairly common figural bitters bottle. She said the crudeness of the log cabin bottle appeals to many collectors. Favorite colors are citron, puce, green and black. There is a four log and six log version and an occasional five log specimen. Jeanne explains that the Drakes Plantation Bitters first appeared in 1860 and records a patent in 1862.

Further she explains that “P.H. Drake was a colonel in the civil war” and had plenty of reasons for the miscellaneous dots and marks including an x on the base of these bottles.” They were marks of identification for the various glass houses that molded them. Included in the article was the colonel’s recipe for making a batch.

Another article of interest was “The History of Antique School Tables (from Love to Know antiques).” The article reads like this: The very first school desk was patented on April 2, 1889

by Anna Breadin. U.S. Patent number 400,738 features excellent illustrations of this beautiful desk. With a wooden seat supported by flowing and graceful metal legs, Breadin’s design featured an additional pair of metal supports that held a writing surface as well as a storage shelf underneath. Created out of cast iron and wood, like most furniture of the time period, the design introduced a new concept in school furniture. This invention provided an answer to the problem most schoolhouses faced in the early 1800s.

Students normally sat on benches and had to hold slates and slate pencils in their hands. Since most schoolwork also involved the need to read from books, students had to struggle with balancing writing, reading and also raising their hands to answer questions. The school table provided students with a place to store tablets, books and supplies.”

Western Regional News Ken Lawler & “Dar” 6677 Oak Forest Drive Oak Park, CA 91377 (818) 889 - 5451 kenlawler@roadrunner.com Dump Digger’s Gazette Antique Bottle Collectors of Colorado As usual this club’s newsletter is full of colorful pictures of such collectibles as advertisements and jugs. In one newsletter there was a colorful accounting of the club picnic that is annually held at Rick’s cabin in Gold Hill. One picture shows a large grassy area where club members were seated outside of Rick’s cabin, probably swapping stories. Another picture shows club members in front of the Gold Hill Historical Museum. Rick said that luckily Gold Hill was not burned in the Boulder fire this year. Rick had been up to check on his place and his favorite Gold Hill Inn. He said there was going to be a community dinner at the Inn so that neighbors can meet with neighbors and draw upon each other’s strength to get through their current situation. He also mentioned that it is a sobering trip to see all the darkened devastation of the area on the way up to Gold Hill.

Ken and I made it to the Leadville Show this year. We had not been there in a couple of years. All the tables were sold out according to Rick. We have to agree with Rick that it was a very successful show. We can prove it by the fact that we couldn’t get a parking spot first time through the parking lot and once inside, we had to “squeeze” past folks to get through the crowded isles.

We certainly are not complaining, we are just describing the scene. Ken had to remind me that we had only so much room in his truck per show as we toured the “show route” this summer. This was

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The setting for this year’s picnic was at Kent and Margie Williams’ home.

About thirty members and guests sat outside under shade trees while member Mike McKillop took barbeque requests.

“The view was spectacular as Kent and Margie’s home is on top of a hill that overlooks the valley with Folsom Lake in the distance. A pool if you wanted to cool off and a house packed full of bottles and collectibles was not far away. The first thing that catches your eye when you walk into the house is Margie’sTransferware.”

She is the person to contact if you have questions on English Pink. Margie has a web page that you might want to check out: www.englishpink.net Vice-President Mike Henness brought several bottles that were given out as door prizes. From the picture in their newsletter, it looks like the club had a real treat. There were 10 or 11 prizes sitting on a table with the caption “DOOR PRIZES.” The four bottles I could see appeared to be generously embossed.

Also among the items were a couple of nice fruit jars and a purple insulator.

Las Vegas Antique Bottles and Collectibles Club An article on Plantation Bitters – The Rum Way to Health – “Taken from OBX 1970” by Jeanne R. Shiell appeared in this club’s newsletter. Most every collector is familiar with, and fascinated by, the design of the plantation bitters bottle.

The author gave some early history

Bottles and Extras The Whittlemark Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club Our club’s annual show was described as having a great turn out and a crowded hall for most of the morning.

Money exchanged hands and people were carrying out heavy-looking bags full of unknowns to Ken and I, but treasurers to them. The three men responsible for managing the show were Chairman Don Wippert, Assistant Dick Homme and Display Chairman Bob Manthorne. There were dealers from different California areas, Arizona, Utah and even one from Albion, New York. Several San Diego club members showed up as buyers and we believe at least one had signed on as a dealer, maybe more. The president of the San Diego club remarked that there were more San Diego bottles at our show this year than in the past. The four displays were: John Swearingen’s jelly servers and cups. Val Wippert won the People’s Choice award with a back-lit display of her finest, most colorful perfumes.

President Dave Maryo showed off his “American Antique Bottles South of US.” Dave won Best Educational. There was a brilliant display of Dave Kyle’s 16 barrel bitters. Dave won the Best Historical Award. In addition, each winner received a $50 redeemable voucher to be spent at the show.

Editor Blaine Greenman was awarded first place in the FOHBC Newsletter Contest this year. He had his picture taken at his club’s show with his award-winning plaque. This is the plaque that is annually awarded. There was stiff competition this year. Competition is what makes a good editor even better. Congratulations Blaine for your consistent good work.

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“The Outhouse Patrol” is what the digging team of James Campiglia and Reggie Shoeman is recognized as. These guys are known to dig day or night.

In your travels if you happen to spot Reggie’s Patrol camper along with his backhoe parked somewhere, it is a sure sign that the guys are probably digging somewhere nearby.

The Bozeman Daily Chronicle, Bozeman, MT. published a newspaper article regarding the “The Outhouse Patrol.” It appeared in a September 2010

January - February 2011 issue (Copyright 2010). I cannot legally quote anything from that article in this magazine without permission, but if some of you would like to read it, I think James Campiglia can help you with that.

James put an article in the Bottle Bits and Pieces section of their newsletter about the following dig. He said that they found an outhouse in downtown Bozeman. He also mentioned that permission had been granted for the dig.

The dig started about 7:00 p.m. when he noticed a new area that had been scraped by big equipment. James figured it was an outhouse right away, but Reggie used to “false alarms” (aren’t we all) just sauntered over from where he was to see what James had found. Reggie must have agreed with James because they started to “Dig In.” Their first clue it might be a good hole was that they saw a wood beam at the bottom. While James was using a lighter tool pushing dirt off the wall, he said that a drugstore bottle popped out!

It was a “light amber 5 inch embossed Roecher & Alward, Prescription Druggists, Bozeman, Mont.” In addition, three plain pumpkinseed flasks were found. James said the hole was difficult to work because it was mucky with lots of boots, shoes and clothes they had to pull out.

When another bottle was discovered, it turned out to be an embossed Bozeman Bottling Co. bottle. As James flashed light down into the hole he told Reggie that there was another bottle down there.

From looking down into the hole at the shoulder of the bottle James told Reggie the embossment would read “A. Landt, Livingston!” James was right! When James further examined the entire bottle, he said that it is “a real beauty in great shape, too!” Later, he said he realized “it’s not just a great bottle, as Livingston’s only Hutch-type soda, but it’s a M.T. – A Montana Territory bottle!”

While Reggie was finishing up the hole that was on the other side of the site, he found an “Oppenheimer & Asch, Sole Distributors, Helena, Mont.” liquor bottle. Though James was not familiar with the bottle, he thought it was a great find. Even though the dig had turned into a daylight-to-dark dig, the diggers seemed to be well satisfied. They actually found additional “good stuff” about 1:00 in the

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This year Ken and I decided to drive up to the Aurora, Oregon show. The first table we approached was the “Dennis” table. At that point Jim and Julie Dennis were actively engaged with potential buyers. Additionally, Jim’s dad was involved in both selling his items and sharing his humor.

After having seen the names Mark Junker, Bill Bogynska and Scott Slowter in the club’s newsletter, we finally had a chance to meet them. We also became acquainted with Garth Ziegenhagen who has authored some articles for the FOHBC magazine. What a great group of enthusiastic folks. The entire show had a “homey” atmosphere to it.

While Ken talked to some folks upstairs, I took off downstairs where I became acquainted with dealer, Chuck Rollins. I purchased a “coffee-table” sized book on American Indians from him.

Some folks were gathered at June and Wayne Lowry’s table. Wayne was explaining about his cleaning machine and items associated with it. As most of you are aware June is the Business Manager for the FOHBC and Wayne is the Convention Director. It appeared that their visit was totally a pleasure for those who took the opportunity to chat with them. Wayne said he experienced “good sales.”

Scott the club’s webmaster reported that “the club site has been getting lots of hits from all over the world.” Scott’s son has been helping maintain the website for the club. In case it hasn’t been mentioned before, their website is: www. obcaweb.org. Go click around on it. It is impressive.

Although there was a Don mentioned as having brought in some items for show and tell that he dug, I don’t have a last name. However, here are some of his items: There was a clear Own Drug, a cobalt W.H. Hooker & Co. and a cobalt flat panel Woodard, Clarke & Co. Chemists Portland drug bottle.

Additionally he showed a sunburst pumpkinseed, an amber indented panel Woodard, Clarke & Co. Pharmacists,

24 a small cobalt triangular Owl Drug Co. poison (Editor’s exclamation: Wow!) and a Dr. Vanderpool’s /S.B./ Cough & Consumption / Cure. “It was noteworthy how exceptionally clean these bottles were.”

It was pretty evident that Jim, Julie and others who participated put on a great show!

The A-Z Collector Phoenix Antiques Bottles & Collectibles Club At one club meeting Lisa Helm who is in charge of arranging programs, introduced Helen Holmes who captivated members with her “Americana” program. Helen, herself, wore a red and white striped hat, a red white and blue top and a navy blue skirt. Her shoes were probably navy blue, too. Her items included stuffed dolls on and below the table and maybe a teddy bear. Helen’s American collectibles were some wood carvings of dolls wearing patriotic colors, plates, pins, books, pictures and much more. She had even adorned the wall behind the two tables with various flags and I believe that Uncle Sam hung proudly on the wall. It was explained that “Helen got started collecting during her Girl Scout years after a tour of Washington, D.C. Her favorite president is McKinley. Although she included a little information on additional historic people such as Martha Washington, Dolly Madison, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and the fact the teddy bear was named after him.”

Here’s a collection in a category that caught my attention. It may catch yours, too. This is how it starts out: MY COLLECTION – Story by Marti Attoun, contributing editor – PHOTOS

BY JARED DORT Then it continues: “Stuck on Gum – Savoring a sweet hobby for six decades” by Joanne Brunet.

A picture in the article is of Joanne with three show cases behind her containing at least three deep shelves each. The caption reads: “Joanne Brunet, who has collected chewing gum since the 1940s, showcases her cherished collection in a backyard gallery at her home in Quartzite, Arizona.”’

She has collected 4,000 packs of gum over the last 68 years. Her family was poor when she was a child and

January - February 2011 gum was all they could afford. Joanne remembers, “We’d split the pack and save one stick for the collection.” Her husband has built 112 glass-covered cases in which to display the treasured collection. The inspiration for a display gallery and display cases originated with her husband having to move boxes around to get to other things (Can you relate to this?)

What’s the oldest gum in her collection? It is a stiff stick of 1932 Wrigley’s Doublemint. The age of the stick has been authenticated with Wrigleys. Joanne would love to have a package of John Curtis’ gum. She said it was about America’s first commercial chewing gum. Additionally, she shares her research with us as to the history of gum. “In 1848, Curtis made and sold ‘State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum,’ but his idea wasn’t original. People have chewed gum since ancient times, chomping sap and resin from spruce trees in Northern forests, mastic trees in the Mediterranean, and sapodilla trees in Central America to clean teeth and freshen breath.”

Helen also has a variety of other items included in her collection. For example, there are gumball machines, advertisements and gum packages from 30 countries. digger’s dirt Reno Antique Bottle Club Here is a quote from this club’s newsletter regarding this year’s show: “The displays at the show were few, but great. A big thank you goes to Marty Hall for spear-heading the Cutter Whiskey Display. There were really some gorgeous colors among the 42 whiskies. We also owe a big thank you to all those collectors that brought their prized Cutter Whiskies to show. Ben Kutzkey from Bishop, California won the Grand award for his display of beers.

Marty got first place for his swirled bottles and editor, Helene Walker got second place for her ink display along with the Federation ribbon.” There was another outstanding display this year. It was a Miners Clothing Display.

Changing rooms were provided years ago so that miners could change clothes at shift end. The requirement was to prevent high-grading gold or silver

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When determined, the used clothing was thrown into these pits.

Then some one hundred years or more after that club member Ron Bommarito’s friend decided to dig one of these pits. He dug through dirt and dealt with boulders for about ten feet before he started finding old clothes. Even dirty and dusty, the clothes were like they had just been discarded. It was stated that that this was probably due to the depth and the lack of moisture in the hole.

“The age of the garments ranges from the 1870s up to the 1920s.” Considered one of the best finds was an intact Levi jacket. Additionally, there were Levi pants, shirts, buckle back jeans, canvas work pants and old caps. “Scattered among the clothes, and in pockets, were old papers that related to the age of the clothes.” Ron Bommarito’s friend set up the display. Although his friend did not find any bottles, he did find some carbide miners’ lamps. In doing some research the digger discovered that any labor disputes were the result of having to use the changing rooms.

There were several dealers from Northern and Southern, California as well as other states. There were a couple of highlights from the show that impressed Ken and I. The first was Jeff Wichmann from American Bottle Auctions who had a couple of tables.

He and Tom Fox had hauled boxes of bottles to the show. Hordes of people at least five-people thick were huddled tightly about the tables to take advantage of the great prices on Jeff’s bottles. One man was clutching bottles in both hands, had them under his armpits and still was indicating he wanted to purchase more. I strode behind one of the two tables and got Tom Fox’s attention. At that moment I forked over the bucks necessary to satisfy Jeff’s asking price for two brilliant-colored Bixby shoe polish bottles for Ken’s collection.

Another highlight was during the raffle. Marty Hall won the barrel bitters.

Most of us had submitted raffle tickets for that beauty and a lot of shoulders dropped out of disappointment when they didn’t win. However, a moment after Marty won it I heard a low mumble from Marty that he was donating it back

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to the auction. Another ticket was drawn and a smiling Jim Dennis, Vice President of the Oregon club, took wide strides to retrieve the bitters bottle. Marty, I don’t remember if many others were aware of your generosity or not, but I thought I’d mention it just in case.

At that time I had a whole box full of goodies I purchased at the show. Ken had become more space conscious as we “bottle-grazed” our way across the U.S. because the truck was starting to show a “cramping” situation. I was ready to toss out or mail a suitcase to our final destination, if necessary. We still had the Leadville and Ohio shows to attend!

The Bottleneck San Diego Antique Bottle and Collectibles Club The San Diego Club held their annual show and sell. This year Wayne and June Lowry, from Raymore, Missouri sold at their show. Show Chairman Jim Walker reported that he had sold 76 tables. They were pleased with their early bird count and general admissions. There were two winners out of the displayers at the show. Mike Bryant won the “Most Educational” award for his rare San Diego bottles. Mike explained that most of them were one of only two known, or less than 5. Lance Westfall won “People’s Choice” for his valuable collection of Cutter whiskeys.

The parking lot was full and I think from what Ken and I noticed there were a lot of shoppers searching tables for their favorite collectibles. On our way out to load up Ken’s truck (with my purchases) we noticed a lot of truck and car doors open with people stuffing their purchases into their

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Kansas, not realizing everything that goes on before the actual show. Norm took the time to let us know about all The death of Norman Barnett, a Federation of Historical the activities in which we participated from that time on.

Bottle Collectors Hall of Famer from Flat Rock, Indiana, has After moving to Lebanon, Indiana in 1986, we volunteered left a void in the world of fruit jar collectors, a segment of to assist Norm and Junne with the Indianapolis shows and took over the contract piece and hotel reservations. He much the antique bottle collecting hobby in which he excelled.

Norm, as he was known, and his wife, Junne, were early appreciated that.

We became very good Federation members. In friends.

Norm kept us 1972, he helped found the informed about FOHBC Midwest Antique Fruit Jar goings on (the National and Bottle Club, serving as Bottle Museum at the president for all but 10 years Verbeck house in Ballston of its existence, and was Spa, N.Y., the magazine, etc.) show chairman at the same since he was on the board. time.

Norm and Junne, who also Norm was probably best is a Hall of Fame member, known in the hobby for his were constantly traveling to collection of rare early fruit Ballston Spa to assist with jars, particularly those with the museum operations. unique closures.

He was always talking up Here are a few words the FOHBC, encouraging from some of his many people to join. friends: One year, I believe it GARY BEATTY: I was 1988, we had a cake first met Norm when the baked for Norm’s birthday.

Ohio Bottle Club held its It was called a “boob Norman And june Barnett York, PA show in 2008 September show at the cake” because it featured a Brown Derby. That was woman’s torso and very large boobs and he really enjoyed several years before the show was held at Mansfield. In those that.

He was also good about telling jokes, but could be blunt days, we’d check into the Brown Derby and everyone would open the doors to their rooms. I remember sitting on the about his political views. You knew where you stood with bed as Norm showed me a Buckeye No. 1 fruit jar, I never Norm.

Without Norm, there would be no Midwest club, no knew they existed. From that first meeting, Norm and Junne were my friends. Over the years that I served as Ohio club Indy shows (now held in Muncie). Without him, some of president, they supported our every endeavor. I also served the FOHBC shows would not have happened, and without the Federation with Norm and I always looked for them at Norm, the fruit jar hobby will just not be the same. He had the Mansfield show just inside the door. He will be greatly certainly risen to the level of super fruit jar collectors Alex Kerr and George McConnell. missed. Junne, I love you!

He was forever pulling our daughter Stephanie’s BARRY & SALLY BERNAS: A smiling face, joke and ponytail just to aggravate her and he always remembered a different story always met us whenever we first encountered Norm at a show. We learned so much about the history of her sleeping beneath our table at shows when she was small. the Federation and his passion for collecting odd closure He also never forgot that she roller skated down the hall at fruit jars. We also met the personalities that composed and the Holiday Inn. The last FOHBC show he and Junne attended was the continue to populate our hobby by just sitting with him and York (Pa.) Expo in 2008. passing time behind his table. We will miss him at coming JOE COULSON: I met Norman Barnett a little over events, but he will always be with us in spirit. seven years ago. This was when I first developed an interest JON VANDER SCHOUW: Norm will always be remembered for his enduring love of the jar hobby and his in collecting fruit jars. I learned about the Midwest Antique never tiring labors toward the Midwest club and the famous Fruit Jar and Bottle Club while searching for information about fruit jars on the Internet. I discovered the club’s “Indy” show. All jar collectors are forever in his debt.

WAYNE AND JUNE LOWRY: Wayne and I first met meeting place was within an hour’s driving distance from Norm in July 1984 at the Midwest Antique Fruit Jar and where I lived. The warm reception I got from Norm (club Bottle Club show at the Holiday Inn in Indianapolis. We had president at that time), his wife, Junne, and all the other club driven all night with Gerry Phifer to get there from Topeka, members is the reason I am so involved with the hobby today.

(Joe is secretary and newsletter editor of the Midwest club and

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FOHBC Midwest Region editor). They are my extended family. now have pieces of history sitting on their shelves and a reminder I can tell you from personal experience that Norm was of Norm for many years to come. very dedicated to the hobby and enjoyed every aspect of it.

JERRY IKEDA: I met Norm for the first time at the Santa To my generation of collectors, he was like a grandfather. Rosa show in the ‘80s. I was a new collector and was excited I learned many things about early fruit jars, rare original to meet someone from the Midwest. I will always remember closures and hobby history from him. It seemed like at very Norm’s great smile and great sense of humor. The hobby has club meeting he had another story to tell and I was eager to lost one of its great ambassadors. listen and soak it all in. I re-lived some of the early days of STEVE KETCHAM: “I’m glad you were able to enjoy the hobby through his stories. the pleasure of my company.” It was jests like this which, If you met Norm, you would when he spoke them, that endeared probably not forget him. He would Norm Barnett to so many of us. Norm strike up a conversation with just and I first met in the early 1970s when about anyone. Maybe that is why we both became active in the FOHBC, he was such a good ambassador for Norm was elected Midwest Regional the hobby. He liked to tell jokes chairman and I was his assistant chair. (sometimes he was like Archie We attended many of the same shows Bunker from “All in the Family;” then, particularly the Federation shows other times, he was like Henny and Expos. When Norm was elected Youngman with one-liners).

Federation president, I approached him I don’t know if it would have been with the idea of a writers’ award contest possible for Norm to accomplish all and he agreed to give it a try. Norm was of his hobby achievements without always in favor of ideas which he felt his most important “Go-With,” his might improve the hobby. wife, Junne. I can’t think of a time We were never able to get together when I ever saw the two of them without Norm asking to hear a few Ole apart. I am sure it is tough on Junne and Lena jokes. He laughed at them now that Norm has passed on. I hope all, but his favorite involved a goose, I can give back to the hobby in a way two chickens, a rock and a bucket (see that accomplishes at least a fraction below). I can never tell that one without of what Norm did in his lifetime. Caricature of Norman was drawn by Bob thinking of Norm. I cherish the memories Villamagua in 1981.

Those are some big shoes to fill. We of the Midwest Fruit Jar Club shows I’ve will all miss him. attended and I know the club will miss ALICE MOULTON: Norm was always willing to Norm’s enthusiasm, leadership and friendship. share his knowledge of jars with me. I enjoyed our times at Norm, we are all glad we were able to enjoy the pleasure various bottle shows for many years. The hobby has lost a of your company. wonderful friend.

Here is Norm’s favorite Ole and Lena joke: BRUCE W. SCHANK: Norm started collecting fruit jars Ole vas valking home from town. He vas very tired. He in 1967 and before he knew it, his jars had grown by leaps vas carryin’ a load. He had wit him a bucket, a rock (for da and bounds. He was hooked and there was no stopping him. rock garden, donch ya know), a goose and two chickens.

I remember meeting Norm at the 1988 Indianapolis show and Ven he got to da gate of his neighbor, Lar Larson, Ole seeing his display of unusual closured jars and I was simply taut he vould take da short-cut tru Lars’s land to his. amazed. His enthusiasm and determination helped shape and Der at da gate stood Lena, Lars’s beootiful dotter. influence many collectors in the hobby.

Ole says, “Lena, vould ya open da gate and let me tru?”

For those in the hobby who knew Norm, they know his Lena says, “No, Ole. I vouldn’t do dat.” name was always synonymous with nothing but the finest and “Vhy not?” asks Ole. rarest fruit jars available. He literally had the Best of the Best.

“Becuss, Ole, you vould try to make luff to me,” Lena He also was considered by many a true pioneer of fruit jar tells him. collecting. He led an incredibly industrious and productive life Ole vas vexed. “Yust how vould I do that, Lena? Can’t you dedicated to the creation, continued expansion and perpetual see I got dis bucket, dis rock, dis goose and two schickens! existence of the fruit jar hobby in general so that second-, third- My arms isn’t even free.” and fourth-generation collectors and beyond could enjoy the Lena replied, “I vill tell you, Ole. You vould put da goose fruits of his labors. on da ground. Den you vould put the bucket on the goose.

Norm will be sorely missed by many people inside and Den you vould put the rock on da bucket. . .and I’ll hold da outside of the hobby. Who can forget his dry wit and humor? two schickens!”

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collectors but did have bottles. One of those people was Charles B. Gardner of New London, Connecticut who was already a well established collector of bottles and firearms.

Bob Warren and I began to set up at small antique shows to sell some of our now massive amounts of bottles. We met a man, Leon Yaun, at one of those shows and he and other antique dealers would buy these “pretty” things. We had no idea of value, so we would

By Bill Baab guess. Leon would buy from us, go out and sell his purchases and return to buy more. We were making money! Digging!

As told by Norman C. Heckler Sr. As it became more difficult to find dumps, and during the [Editor’s note – due to some errors in the story that was winter months, Bob and I would tour the New England states to printed in the November/December issue, we have elected find bottles. At this point, we had begun to buy to resell and maybe to run an updated/corrected version. Thank you and enjoy.] keep something for ourselves. We would spread the bottles out on the living room rug and take turns picking from our daily finds.

WOODSTOCK VALLEY, CONNECTICUT - I don’t Bob was a farmer and I, a schoolteacher, so our bottle traveling was recall the year but I started collecting and digging for antique bottles pretty well limited to the weekends. sometime in the late 1950’s. I didn’t know about privies at that One of the first bottles I time and I sought out surface dumps. bought was a huge kidney Actually, there are very few privies in demijohn from a logger, this part of the country. I dug for over Robert Eastman, of Conway, five years and hit some wonderful New Hampshire. It had a dump sites in this local area. huge pontil scar that had a I don’t remember the first projection like a small knife. bottle I dug, but I do remember the We put that big bottle in first important bottle I found. I was Bob Warren’s Corvette and digging with a young friend, Donald brought it home. I admire Froehlich, when we came across a it still today. During our small surface dump on an abandoned wanderings, Bob and I went stagecoach road deep in the woods. to an antique shop in Bolton, We quickly found a Westford, Massachusetts that we had Connecticut Sheaf of Wheat flask heard about. It was the shop of in the half-pint size. It was different Robert Skinner, an engineer from anything we had dug before Norm Heckler examines an artfully decorated National who worked at Raytheon and I remember telling Donald that during the day, but loved and Ear of Corn Bitters. (Photo by Janet Finch) I would like to have that flask. I still bought antiques during the own it. evenings and weekends. This was during the mid to late 1960s. We In those days we had no way of pricing bottles. There were visited him and bought from him on a weekly basis. We became no useful auction records, few books and no one that we knew to good friends. At some point, Skinner decided to go into the auction guide us as to value. business to sell some of his fast-growing inventory. He asked me Soon after our early episodes of digging, I teamed up with a to catalog the bottles and glass for his auctions. Bottle auctions local young farmer, Bob Warren, (now an attorney in Springfield, became popular at Skinner’s and I went to work for him full time in Massachusetts) who had an interest in bottles. He had looked at 1973. The Gardner and Blaske sales followed in quick succession McKearin’s 1941 edition of American Glass and wanted to collect and put Skinner on the bottle map.

Masonic bottles.

Bob Skinner died unexpectedly in 1984 and I left to start my We found a dump in a cellar hole in North Ashford, Connecticut own business in 1987. My entire family works as part of Norman C. with a large assortment of bottles. I had a severe headache that day Heckler & Company to include my wife, Liz, oldest son, Norman, and remember sitting on the edge of the rock cellar hole wall and Jr, and twins, Jason and Matthew. watching Bob pulling out bottle after bottle. I inadvertently put Our personal collection consists of Connecticut flasks, colored my right hand down on the wall where I was sitting and touched blown-three-mold decanters, pattern molded bottles and flasks a bottle. We were both surprised when it turned out to be the best particularly of the Midwestern variety, freeblown tableware and bottle of the day, an Old Sachem Bitters and Wigwam Tonic barrel. more. Liz collects witch balls, applied face bears and other glass.

Some time after I traded it for some aqua pontiled medicines.

We also like period furniture and accessories for our circa 1757 Bob and I eventually encountered other diggers and dealers historic home. including Art Henderson, Gordon Davison, Carroll Hussey, Bob It has been a great ride! I’m still passionate about glass and Heath and Audrey Coniff. They were all more knowledgeable have made hundreds of friends and acquaintances all over the than we were and guided us to lots of other people who weren’t country in our wonderful hobby.

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By Bruce Schank [Editor’s Note: This article is a result of longtime collector and author Bruce W. Schank reaching out to longtime collector “Mr. Hemingray,” Bill Dudley] I have wanted to get over to Bill Dudley’s home for quite some time now. It’s obvious to anyone who has been in the hobby for any substantial amount of time that Bill of all people is a True Jar Legend! I don’t know of anyone alive or gone now who started collecting fruit jars as long ago as Bill did, because he put his first jars on shelves way back in 1956, and that is simply amazing, to say the least. Let’s see, what was I doing in 1956? Oh, yes, I was running around in diapers, and believe me when I tell you I don’t even remember anything from when I was a terrible 2. There are so many people in the hobby who have a fantastic jar or jars in their collection right now due to Bill. He always found, sold and traded the best jars imaginable.

“Mr. Hemingray”, Bill Dudley

Base until retiring in 1974. Bill and Wanda will be married 55 years next March 2012, which is an amazing statistic, if I do say so myself.

When I arrived I was greeted

by Wanda as if she has known me for a very long time, only this was the first time I had ever met her.

Bill and Wanda’s hospitality was simply wonderful. Wanda even went through the trouble of making delicious homemade potato soup.

So, being hungry, it was an easy decision to enjoy hot soup and a sandwich. As I sat there eating and talking with Bill and Wanda, the conversation naturally was about jars, and the people whom Bill has known through his many years in the hobby. It was obvious to me listening to Bill that he missed the old days, and who can blame him after all. He had so many good friends and so many good times, and he misses all of those friends who over the many years helped make the hobby a worthwhile venture for him.

Just about every famous big name

Portland. Bill was in the thick of the battle at Guadalcanal, and his ship took two 14” projectiles on one side and a torpedo to the rear. He luckily happened to be directly on the other side of the ship from where it was hit. The ship was only able to turn in a circle after that, and after a lot of work they managed to get it to steer normally and went to Australia for repairs. The next time you see Rare Gray, Hemingray water bottle. Bill, remember to thank him for your freedom.

After Bill was born on June 9, 1923 in leaving the Navy, Dayton, Ohio. He served our great Bill served as fire country for seven years in the U.S. Navy chief at Wright Bill explaining a gorgeous black glass wax and during World War II on the USS Paterson Air Force seal Fruit Jar.

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Fabulous lineup of Rare black glass Hemingray Fruit Jars. came up in our conversation, and I fortunately either knew many of them, too, to a much lesser degree of course, or I knew something about them. It was such a pleasure talking with Bill and my mind wandered to a time that, simply put, seemed a heck of a lot more simple, genuine and real. As I listened intently to everything he had to say and all of the greats he personally knew, I felt honored that he would invite me -of all people -- into his home and share with this humble author some of his escapades and a view of his fabulous

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jars. Out of all of those hallowed jar collectors, it came out that Bill’s best friend all of these years has been Bob Rhinberger.

From what I was told, Bill at one time had a gigantic fruit jar collection, and he was even known as “Mr. Wax Sealer.” Bill claims he wanted every fruit jar made (sound familiar?), but realized that wasn’t going to be a reality, so he decided to specialize and color was that specialty. I have been told that Bill had the best and the most fabulous colored wax sealers that could be found and money could buy. Sadly, he sold them all as well as many other fantastic jars simply because he didn’t have the room and his interests changed. Bill for the longest time now has specialized in Hemingray-made glass, and his collection is simply incredible, to say

the least. Anything and everything Hemingray is on the shelves in his Jar Room. I, being a mere mortal in the realm of fruit jar collecting, was in awe as he showed me many of his favorite jars sitting on the shelves in that hallowed room.

I was fascinated by the sheer raw beauty of all of the wonderful glass, and being a Ball jar collector I soon realized Hemingray glass is just so much different in color and character.

The black glass jars were astonishing, and to see a lineup of them, let alone one, was beyond my fruit jar cognitive reasoning capabilities. I believe Bill has an example of every known Hemingray jar that exists, and it was only recently that he finally put in the collection that one jar that had eluded him for so many long years. Surprisingly, it came from a neighbor who lived just down the street. Imagine that!

Bill has a lot more than Hemingray on the shelves in the Jar Room. He has fabulous examples of very rare and extremely scarce jars, tins, wax sealers, stoneware and box ends. Wanda told me about the fantastic Ravenna wax sealer she bought for Bill way back in 1974 from Arleta Rodriguez. The jar is without a doubt a rare and fabulously colored example, and when Wanda told me she paid $1,000 for it, I was floored. This was the first time I can

Nice Wall Display of very Rare and scarce Fruit Jars.

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Pair of extremely rare fruit jars.

Bottles and Extras ground, and it had a really rustic country feel about it that will never be recreated, I’m afraid, now that it’s gone. He told me a hilarious story about how one year when Wanda didn’t come with him, he was there with his friend Larry Hensen, and how one night when they went to sleep their pants were taken from them. Bill and Larry had the foresight to put their wallets inside their pillow cases before retiring on their cots for the night. They hung their pants over the rail next to them, and when they woke up their pants were nowhere to be found. Bill and Larry were a bit confused and embarrassed by it all, and luckily they found their britches only a few stalls down. Someone took them and removed the change and other assorted articles they had left in the pockets, and then threw the pants to the side. Bill called Wanda and told her about the incident, and Wanda remembers only being able to laugh out loud about it, because it struck her so funny. Bill was not amused though at all, and was glad he came out of it unscathed and with

fruit jar closures; well, Mr. Dudley took over where Frank left off, after Frank gave it up. During the mid to late 80s and the early 90s, before Rev. Phil Robinson, Bill was the premier fruit jar closure maker. Bill’s closures were fantastic and as true to original detail as humanly possible. Many people prized his closures, because they were so well done. Bill knew a guy who worked in a foundry not far from where he lived. That person, with Bill’s help, was able to make sand moulds of many closures, and from those moulds make almost exact perfect replicas. When he died, Bill lost a valuable asset and gave up the closure business, but what Bill gave back to the hobby over that time span was nothing short of phenomenal.

Bill told me his favorite all time bottle show happened to be the now defunct York, Pa., show. I must agree that as a New Jersey boy, I truly enjoyed the York show myself. It was Extremely difficult complete set of Hemingray outside, and people jelly jars with beautiful original lids. camped on the Cabinet of rare Hemingray fruit jars.

remember being told about an old timer getting a trophy jar, but not getting it for a song. The price paid for that time had to be just about the top amount anyone had ever paid for a fruit jar, bar none, and if you take inflation into consideration and what the dollar was worth then versus now it might even top any jar sold in recent memory, too.

After seeing Bill’s collection, I realized once again it really isn’t about the amount of jars you can fill the room with, but about what jars you fill the room with, if you get my drift. Every jar in Bill’s Jar Room was top notch, and many with beautiful original closures.

It was kind of a reassurance to me that you don’t have to have thousands of jars to have a great collection, because it’s quality over quantity.

If anyone can remember Frank Thrine, and how he pioneered rare repro

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wallets intact.

Bill and Wanda can remember how one time many years ago, early on in Bill’s collecting career, how they went to an auction out in the country not far from where they lived in Ohio. The auction was in an old barn, and there were some odd jars as well as some nice amber jars, and Bill decided he was going to take them all home. He paid $5 and $10 a piece for the jars, and when he got into the car, all Wanda could say was “what were you thinking about?” It’s all relative, and was so even back then.

Rare clear Dalbey’s qt Rare Dudley food Because of Bill’s work fruit jar with complete bottle schedule having three original closure days off between work weeks, both he and Wanda traveled quite a lot. There was hardly a bottle show that they would miss, and Bill still tries to go to the major shows now if he can.

Bill says to each their own, because everyone has their own peculiar tastes in fruit jars, and that’s what makes the hobby so good. Money doesn’t matter as far as Bill is concerned when it comes to good jars, because he feels either you’re Photo of rare Globe wooden box going to pay and get it, or someone else will pay and get it. It’s a matter of first come, first serve, especially when it comes to rare one-of-a-kind jars. Bill always has felt that the friendships he has made over the years are far more important than money.

Bill told me he really enjoyed Jim Chamberlain’s company, and they got along Extremely difficult to find rare Xenia baby very well. stoneware jars bottle They were

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Rare Wax Strings Advertisment both Navy veterans, and although Jim was a former commander and Bill a boatswain’s mate, both shared the fruit jar passion. Bill told me that just like Jim, if he heard about a good jar, he would drive 500 miles without stopping to go get it. Man, those were definitely the good old days.

I found Bill to be a down to earth, incredibly sincere, warm, engaging and a truly knowledgeable collector. He has without a doubt helped shape the hobby as we know it today. Folks, it’s people like Bill that younger collectors should befriend. Ask questions, listen and learn. The day is soon coming when these giants of the hobby will be gone, and who will replace them?

Mr. Hemingray and your humble author right

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Auto Vases

Glass Bud vases added a touch of elegance to early motor cars; however, they were not meant just for decoration. They served a special purpose. Upholstery in vehicles dating back to the 1920s was made with horse hair or mohair. When these seats got wet (often the driver and/or passengers got caught in the rain), they emitted an odor not unlike that of a wet dog!!

This was a time before car heaters, air conditioning or even those little pine tree air fresheners. Bud vases, with fresh flowers in them, were attached to the sides of luxury cars to provide some relief from the damp smell. Later, Henry Ford even offered them in some of his Model Ts. Today these little six- to eight-inch glass vases are relatively unknown to many people, but, highly sought by those in the know.

The vases were manufactured by many different companies and were made of crystal, pressed glass and even cut glass. Even Steuben, a very prestigious glass house, made them.

A variety of colors were offered including clear glass, vaseline

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(green/yellow), blue, green, teal, and even cobalt blue.

The dark colored vase in the photo with three vases is a deep teal (green/blue) color and quite rare.

The vases were sold in pairs – one for each side of the car. Designs varied and included molded and etched flowers as well as abstract designs in the art deco style.

They were attached to the frame of the automobile by means of a chrome, stainless steel, brass or even a sterling silver bracket that the vase then slid into. Often when a car was sold or scrapped, the owners lifted out the vase, but left behind the bracket. Finding a vase with its original bracket attached is a big plus and adds to its value. These little vases cannot stand by themselves as their bottoms are pointed, so, without a bracket to hold them upright, they cannot be used for their original purpose.

Even so, they are beautiful when lit by the sunlight.

Many examples have tops that are slightly curved inward to keep water from spilling out.

I found my first auto vase at a bottle show years ago and have looked for them ever since, Prices vary, but, you can usually find examples in the $50 - $100 range – or even less as most people have no idea what they are! Odd colors, like cobalt and teal, or matched pairs with original brackets, will fetch higher prices.

Next time you are at a car show with 1920 luxury automobiles, check out the inside for these little gems.

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Pigeon Ball Takes Wing Medium-priced balls head South, but the top-of-the-line Items remain high flyers

By Ralph Finch

A major, two-part sale of target balls, held by Jeff Wichmann’s American Bottle Auctions last July, was both a winner AND a loser at the same time. The two auctions sold off 63 target balls from the collection of Pittsburgh businessman Peter Frobouck who — from about 2006 to 2008, attempted to amass a major collection.

He had the drive, determination — and money — to be a major player in the eight 2006-08 auctions that saw the distribution of the collection of the late Alex Kerr of California. Then came the collapse of the Bush economy and the hard times that have caused major shock waves across America, and that has resulted in many collectors taking a hard look of what they can — and can’t — afford to purchase.

In the Kerr sale, the record-setting lot was an amber ball, weakly embossed “AGNEW&BROWNCORNEROF27TH & SMALLMAN STS. PITTSBURGH PA.” There are five Pittsburgh balls known, and all are rare, so that alone would garner its share of attention, but it was the other side of the ball that created all the excitement: an intricately embossed pigeon in flight!

In May of 2007, the then Kerr ball — one of two known — set a record, flying to $25,000 — with buyer’s premium, that’s $28,000!

At the time, Frobouck, whose business was located at 25th and Smallman, said firmly: “This ball was going to be mine and I had no limit to what I would bid.”

Then came the business downturn.

In early 2009, Peter lamented: “With the economy, my business stinks, and so does my cash flow” — with the resulting twopart Frobouck target ball sale, held this past April 5 and July 22.

“Peter bought at the peak, and he is selling in a valley; I’m worried for him,” said one concerned collector. “But this could be a great opportunity for new collectors.”

There was reason to worry: Most of Frobouck’s balls that could be traced back to the Kerr sales sold for 10 percent to 30 percent less than what Peter paid for them.

In fact, it appears that he made money on only two lots.

One example on the not-so-great lots was the deep purple ball embossed FROM J.H. JOHNSTON GREAT

WESTERN GUNWORKS 169 SMITHFIELD STREET PITTSBURGH PA RIFLES SHOT GUNS REVOLVERS AMMUNITION FISHING TACKLE CHOKE BORING REPAIRING & C. WRITE FOR PRICE LIST. Rare in any color, but collectors with purple passion ran the Kerr ball to $17,000 plus a 12 percent buyer’s premium, pushing it to $19,040; Peter Frobouck was high bidder. However, in Peter’s July, 2010 sale, it garnered only $13,000 (plus a $1,560 premium).

But while the Johnston ball got a lot of attention, the pigeon ball ruffled the most feathers in the Frobouck sale, and once again proved what many say: Top-of-theline glass will bring the top money. The pigeon ball was described by Wichmann as “maybe the best ball I’d ever seen. Once again, when you take into account the provenance and condition, not to mention having an embossed bird on it, price is really a secondary issue. That’s easy to say, I guess, if you have the money.”

In the July sale, the pigeon flew even higher than it did in the Kerr sale, soaring to $26,000 (with buyer’s premium, $29,120), setting a new record.

Wichmann also said of the ball, “this one gives the advanced collectors just about everything they are looking for. With the embossed name and address, an embossed pigeon and overall about perfect condition ... a nice medium amber, here’s a chance to own one of the rarest and most desirable balls ever made.” (The rarest ball is the one known “Louisville ball,” which sold in March of 2009 for $21,850.)

And who bought that ball? Some crazed, financially irresponsible collector in Michigan — the same one who bought the Louisville ball! (Actually, it was his new wife, who firmly told him: “If you don’t bid higher, I AM going to buy the pigeon ball!”

Boy, is she mean!)

What is interesting about the ball — downright curious, in fact — is the mold.

The side with the embossed words is rather weak, indicating a worn mold, the result of producing untold thousands of balls.

However, about six Agnew & Brown balls are known to exist (and only two with pigeons).

But the other side of the ball only deepens the mystery: The pigeon is one of the finest examples of a mold-maker’s skill that I have seen. With a sharp eye you can count hundreds of tiny feathers on the bird’s body. The pristine bird half of the ball had to have been done at a later time — and by a different mold maker — than the address side. But why? And why remake only half a ball?

WHAT’S OLD: eBayer idiots (perhaps I’m being too subtle). One recently sold a ball “in good shape,” but with a “slight imperfection.” The imperfection? A hole in the side! Another eBayer sold a badly cracked amber Bogardus; despite the huge crack, it went for an astounding $545, with 10 bids from five bidders, who themselves have to be cracked!

WHAT’S NEW: A few minor variants such as an English shooter ball in blue, with a slightly different image (fatter) of the shooter, and in an unusual two-piece mold.

Most exciting on eBay are great examples of balls from the collection of the late Mike O’Malley.

IN THE NEXT ISSUE: Auction news, eBay reports, even a bit of gossip!

Drop a note if you have a ball question: 34007 Hillside Ct., Farmington Hills, MI 48335-2513, or give me a call (8 a.m.-11 p.m.) at 248-476-4893. Better yet, e-mail rfinch@twmi.rr.com. For an indepth look at ’em, go to www.targetballs. com. For a subscription to On Target!, the 68-page, three-times-a-year journal for collectors of glass balls, send $40 to the above address.

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JOHN G. OLDNER - THE MINER’S PROTECTOR

By Eric McGuire

Personal Life John George Oldner was born about 1818 in Virginia – probably Petersburg, and he married Octavia Spark there on March 16, 1842. The young couple had their first child on December 6, 1842, but the event was marked by tragedy, Octavia dying while giving birth. The infant survived and was named Philip Octavius Oldner, thus honoring the mother he would never know. His first name was in honor of Octavia’s father.

The bereaved John Oldner buried his young wife in the family plot at Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg, Virginia. John had a fine obelisk stone erected which marks the final resting place of Octavia, but the warm, moist Virginia summers have been harsh on the soft marble and the inscription has nearly melted away. One side notes, “This monument is erected as a tribute of respect by her devoted husband.”

The grave stone of young Octavia Spark Oldner at Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg, Virginia. (1) Philip Octavius Oldner served the Confederacy in the Civil War, enlisting May 26, 1862, was wounded at Fredericksburg, Va., and again at Gettysburg where he was captured in early July 1863. He died from

his injuries on July 20, 1863.(2) John G. Oldner soon married for a second time. His new wife was Anne Smith, daughter of John H. Smith. The couple was married April 15, 1843, in Richmond, Virginia. Their first child, a son, John G. Oldner, was born in Dinwiddie County, Va., about 1848 and died January 27, 1850. He is buried in the family plot at Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg.

Their second child was Anna Elizabeth Oldner, born about 1850 in Virginia, and married James Melvin Stuart in Manhattan, New York, on April 26, 1875. Stuart was a railroad conductor in New York City.

The Oldners gave birth to yet another son who was given the distinction of being named after his father. Their second John G. Oldner was born about 1851 in Virginia, and died May 22, 1891, in Queens, New York.

This son married Hellene Murray in New York and distinguished himself as a successful cotton broker and member of the New York Cotton Exchange.

Living as a widower he died after being thrown from his carriage on Grand Street in Brooklyn, New York, leaving three children, Peter Murray Oldner, Helen Oldner and John G. Oldner.

The executor of his will was directed to erect a sarcophagus and a granite monument 25 feet tall over his remains.

(3) The cotton broker’s youngest child was the third John G. Oldner in direct succession. He was born in New York City on August 19, 1879 and died there on April 6, 1909 – just 30 years old.

This John married Mollie Mullin on June 20, 1901, in New York, and also produced a son named John G. Oldner, who was born in New York on April 2, 1901, but died June 15, 1902.

The fourth child of John and Anna Oldner was Hibernia Teresa Magdalin Mary Oldner, born about 1852 in New York. She married Louis P. Pabon, a resident of Bordeaux, France, on March 10, 1869, in New York City. Pabon partnered with his father-in-law in the

liquor business in 1870, but after that date he apparently returned to France with his new bride.

Their fifth child, and the youngest, was Octavia Marie Oldner, born about 1856, in Virginia. She married Aurelian Bauny in the Church of Saint Eulalia, in Bordeaux, France, on October 16, 1890.(4) She was likely living in Bordeaux with her sister and brotherin-law, Louis and Hibernia Pabon, prior to her marriage there.

Business Life John G. Oldner first appeared in the record in a partnership with John Digges in Petersburg, Virginia. The 23-year old budding entrepreneur exhibited the business pluck and energy that was to drive him for a number of years to come. He seemed willing to sell anything for a profit – even slaves – as his early advertisement attests. His general business model was to purchase goods, probably at bargain prices, and stock them for sale.

Whatever didn’t sell in a reasonable period of time was auctioned off. From his early beginnings, Oldner noted that liquor was a profitable commodity and it consistently became a major component of his inventory. Oldner also preferred to work with a partner, which likely gave him a higher degree of freedom and trust than working solely with employees.

John Oldner established his first business in his home town of Petersburg, Virginia, but advertised as far away as Boston, Massachusetts. (5)

Bottles and Extras Following his partnership with John Digges, he formed another with James Gallagher, styled as Gallagher & Oldner, in Richmond, Va., selling general merchandise, with a focus on liquor.

In September of 1845, Oldner and Gallagher formed a separate and distinct partnership with William H. Cardozo, styled as Cardozo, Oldner & Co., at Powhatan Court House, Virginia, for the purpose of dealing in general merchandise. By contract, the partnership was to last for three years, but was terminated in August 1846 due to partnership disagreements. Again, the merchandise sold was heavy on liquor as a copy of the daily sales ledger for October 27, 1845, attests.(6)

A typical page from the daily sales ledger of Cardozo, Oldner & Co. showing the heavy reliance of liquor sales in the business.

John G. Oldner and family moved to New York about 1851 and he was first listed in the 1852 New York City directory as a clerk, probably working for the commission merchants Thomas and John Benton at 105 Water St. By 1854, he was listed as the junior partner in Carr, Burnett & Oldner at 109 Water St. in New York. Prior to his partnership, John F. Carr and Mitford

January - February 2011 Burnett were already successful commission merchants in New York with considerable business in liquor importing and sales. John F. Carr retired in 1856, thus leaving the partnership of Burnett & Oldner.

Known Business Timeline for John G. Oldner 1854 – 1856: Carr, Burnett & Oldner, 109 Water St., New York, Commission Merchants.

1856 - 1857: Burnett & Oldner, 109 Water St., New York, Commission Merchants.

1857 --------: Burnett, Oldner & VanZandt, 109 Water St., N.Y., Commission Merchants.

1858---------: Oldner & Conklin, 109 Water St., New York, Brokers 1859---------: Yerky & Oldner, 130 Broadway, New York, Auctioneers 1860 –-------: Unknown but likely in New York until May 1861 1861---------: In San Francisco from June 1861 1862---------: Abbott & Oldner, 406 Front St., S.F., liquors (from March to July) 1862---------: Abbot, John G., res. 144 E. 27th, N.Y., liquors (from August) 1863 – 1865: Oldner & Collins, 10 Cedar, N.Y., liquors 1866 – 1869: Unknown 1870---------: Oldner & Pabon, 27 Beaver, N.Y., importers 1870---------: Oldner, John G., res.

101 Lev. Ave., N.Y. liquors There were no more directory listings for John G. Oldner in New York, and in fact, the U.S. census record for 1870 lists Oldner as a “Ret. Merchant.”

This abbreviation could mean “Retail” but more likely refers to “Retired.” It is most likely that Oldner went back to his home in Virginia shortly after 1870 and died there, before 1880.

It is not clear when John G. Oldner first came to San Francisco, however, in 1860, in partnership with Robert Haley, he petitioned the 11th Legislature of the State of California in the form of Assembly Bill No. 142 for the right to construct a wharf at the foot of Third Street in San Francisco. The bill passed, but Governor Downey did not approve it, noting that the authority for granting

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franchises along the waterfront of San Francisco belonged to the city. Haley was a well known ship’s captain and undoubtedly held some sway in pushing the bill as far as it got. Immediately after their loss, Haley was appointed port warden, but Oldner remained quiet in the record.

Oldner’s name was present in San Francisco during 1860 but only in the form of advertising for his alcoholic beverages. He had arranged with liquor merchant John Flanagan to sell OLDNER’S DELTA EYE OPENER, HOLLAND GIN TONIC, MINER’S PROTECTOR RYE WHISKY and OLDNER’S SCHIEDAM AROMATIC SCHNAPPS in San Francisco. Several different advertisements were inserted into San Francisco newspapers from May 1860 to May 1861 by Flanagan.

Regarding the rye whisky, one advertisement published from April 27, 1861, to May 27, 1861, states, Made exclusively with the view of sending a genuine article to our market.” It is not completely clear what this statement is intended to convey, but it definitely infers the product was marketed to the miners of the West Coast.

This ad ran in the San Francisco Bulletin and Daily Alta California from April 27, 1861 to May 27, 1861.

To further reinforce Oldner’s interest in the Western market, he sailed from New York on May 21, 1861, aboard the North Star(7) and arrived in San Francisco in June 1861 on the steamship Sonora(8). Oldner soon entered into partnership with a local commission

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merchant named Oscar Abbott.

The partnership notice between John G. Oldner and Oscar Abbott appeared in the San Francisco Bulletin, March 1, 1862.

This partnership appeared to function solely for the sale of Oldner’s products.

Flanagan was no longer agent and Abbott & Oldner advertised the liquors directly. A few products were no longer present and some were added, which highlights the persistent marketing efforts employed, however, the mainstay items were likely the DELTA EYE OPENER, MINER’S PROTECTOR WHISKY and OLDNER’S SCHIEDAM SCHNAPPS.

Abbott & Oldner’s advertisement for Oldner’s liquor products as it appeared in the Daily Alta California, (San Francisco, CA) April 2, 1862) Prior to the establishment of the partnership, Osborn Abbott was listed as a commission merchant in the 1859 San Francisco directory. In 1861, he was a bookeeper with Sullivan & Cashman (commission merchants). After the end of the partnership in1863, he was listed as a Stock and Exchange Broker, along with Sanford C. Gardner. Abbott continued in the business of stock brokerage until he retired in May, and died June 17, 1884.

Somewhat confusing, and also of interest and importance in the sale of Oldner’s products was yet another partnership – Sanford C. Gardner & Isaac Davis, who advertised as agents for Oldner in the 1862 San Francisco Directory.

It is likely that Gardner & Davis were agents for Oldner, succeeding John Flanagan, from the end of 1861 to the formation of the partnership of Abbott & Oldner in March 1862.(9) The 1862 San Francisco directory advertisement for Gardner & Davis was probably purchased prior to the formation of the Abbott & Oldner partnership, thus creating the appearance of two concurrent businesses being sole agents for Oldner’s products.(10) It should be noted that both partnerships were located at the same address, No. 406 Front Street, further confirming a probable transition from one partnership to the other.

Regardless, it was not long before the partnership of Abbott & Oldner was dissolved and Oldner soon faced the challenge of returning to New York. In July 1862, he advertised his impending departure from San Francisco and offered for sale the Pacific Coast agency

Beginning with this advertisement that appeared in the San Francisco Bulletin, July 26, 1862, John G. Oldner advertised to the public of San Francisco that he would soon be leaving the West.

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Conspicuously missing from his offer was his Old Miner’s Protector Rye Whisky. It may be concluded that Oldner wanted to keep total control of that product for himself; however, no more advertisements could be found for any of his products on either the West or East Coast. One may also deduce that it was not a popular product and he removed it from his active list of marketed items. In fact, he ceased to advertise all of his brands, which leads one to conclude that Oldner probably gave up the idea of selling his own brands in his business activities.

The Bottles The first embossed bottle, with which John G. Oldner was associated, was VOLDNER’S AROMATIC SCHIEDAM SCHNAPPS. If this product is reminiscent of UDOLPHO WOLFE’S AROMATIC SCHEIDAM SCHNAPPS, it is no coincidence.

Conceived under the partnership of Burnett & Oldner, it was one of many brands of gin that copied the immensely successful Udolpho Wolfe.

The similarity between “Oldner” and “Voldner” is too great to go unnoticed.

Since no one named Voldner could be found to be connected with the firm, it is most likely that the “V” was added to Oldner’s name to give the gin a stronger connection with Holland – just as Francis Cassin tried with his obvious knock-off gin called VonWolfe’s Scheidam Schnapps. That brand landed Cassin in immediate hot water with the legal system when Udolpho Wolfe took him to court. With the suspension of Burnett & Oldner in September 1857, as a result of the “Panic of 1857,” the brand was sold to Emile Goulard, a wealthy French liquor dealer living in New York. Udolfo Wolfe succeeded in obtaining an injunction against the sale of Voldner’s Schnapps for awhile, but it was overturned in October of 1859.(11) From its beginning a huge amount of Voldner’s Schnapps was shipped to San Francisco to quench the insatiable thirst of the hard drinking West. Shipments

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began as early as May 1857. S.C. Shaw was the first sole agent for the Pacific Coast and in June 1862, French-born San Francisco commission merchant and liquor dealer Bernard Eugene Auger became agent.

The last agent for the Pacific Coast for Voldner’s Aromatic Schiedam Schnapps was Bernard Eugene Auger. (12) By the end of 1864, the Voldner brand was no longer the powerhouse that it previously was and except for warehoused cases, few were still selling on the market. Although no proof has been found to date, it is assumed that the brand was extinguished about this time.

Voldner’s Schnapps bottles are

found with both improved pontil and smooth bases, further supporting that the bottles were made during that transition period in glasshouse technology.

The gin was always shipped in cases, suggesting it was already bottled in New York and then shipped to market, especially the Pacific Coast, where it enjoyed its greatest popularity. To be sure, it found itself in other markets but the largest numbers of excavated bottles appear to be found in California.

With Voldner’s Schnapp’s no longer within his control, and pursuing business as a single proprietor, Oldner wasted little time in creating yet another brand copied directly after his own name. Oldner’s Aromatic Scheidam Schnapps never achieved the success of Voldner’s Schnapps, and appears to have disappeared from the market shortly after Oldner returned home from his stay in San Francisco.

The most fantastically embossed bottle known to have been associated with John G. Oldner, and the real motivation behind this article, is “Superior Old Rye.” A handled jug containing one-half gallon of liquid, its amazing embossing contains a central figure of two miners and notes that the contents of the bottle “IS THE MINERS PROTECTOR.” This rare bottle has been the center of much speculation over the years. Specimens have reportedly been found on both the East and West coasts, which has made it difficult to trace its intentional market. Certainly miners were active in the coal fields of the East, in the region of Pike’s Peak, in the gold mines of

42 California, in the predominantly silver rich mines of Nevada, and in the goldbearing region of the Fraser River Area of British Columbia during the period this bottle would have been produced.

The bottle could not have been blown on the West Coast since it predates the successful production of glass there.

Perhaps the most significant printed reference to the intended market for this product came with the advertisement of John Flanagan in San Francisco (see above). In reference to Oldner’s Rye, the advertisement in the San Francisco newspapers states it was intended for “our market.” This is a common reference to the isolation that the West Coast experienced during its early years, especially prior to the unifying effect of the establishment of the

transcontinental railroad in 1869.

Unless evidence to the contrary is uncovered in the future, it must be conceded that Oldner’s Rye was conceived and bottled in New York and primarily shipped to San Francisco for the Pacific Coast market.

The specimens that may have been found on the East Coast could well have been the result of Oldner liquidating his remaining

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No advertisements for the product were found for either coast after Oldner’s sojourn to San Francisco.

(13) (Note: The bottle was included as Item No. 2189 in the Charles Gardner collection auction catalog.)

The most heavily advertised

product belonging to Oldner during the period of 1857 – 1862 was OLDNER’S DELTA EYE OPENER. Many printed sources were consulted and Oldner was the only proprietor identified who was selling a product by the name of Eye Opener during this time. It was first advertised throughout the

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Although purely speculative at this point in time, the only bottle with this name affixed that could be attributed to Oldner is the example shown below.

Other later Eye Opener bottles are known but appear to be too late for Oldner’s product.

Until a labeled example is found, this bottle is only attributed to Oldner with guarded optimism. Known examples of the bottle appear to have a western European origin – perhaps Scandinavia or Belgium, and very similar in appearance to the P.F. Herring ribbon seal bottles – but made for the English speaking market. If any reader knows of a labeled example, please let the world know.

END NOTES: 1. Photo and cemetery documentation courtesy of Mandy G. at www.findagrave. com.

2. Philip is buried at Loudon Park National Cemetery at Baltimore, Maryland, where his grave stone is erroneously inscribed PHILIP E. OLDNER on a new stone that was transcribed from the original nearly unreadable marker.

3. The Sun (New York, N.Y)., June 2, 1891. Oldner is buried in Calvary Cemetery, Queens, N.Y. 4. New York Herald (New York, NY), October 26, 1890 5. The Atlas (Boston, MA) August 4, 1841.

6. The Library of Virginia, Chancery Records, Index No. 1854-016. http:// www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/ 7. Sacramento Daily Union, June 6, 1861 8. San Francisco Bulletin June 14, 1861 9. Flanagan eventually retired from the liquor business. He experienced a bizarre death in San Francisco on July 30, 1880. He told his wife he had taken a large amount of morphine and would die.

She thought he was kidding but when Flanagan began to fail she called for two doctors who pumped his stomach, but it was too late. Daily Alta California (San Francisco, Calif.) July 31, 1880.

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BROMO SELTZER, A SUBTLE POISON

Researched and presented by Cecil Munsey, PhD Was Bromo-Seltzer covered under the historic Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906?

The Food and Drug Act of 1906 made no provision for warning on the labels of drugs that may be dangerous when taken according to directions.

While the law required that the presence of certain habit-forming drugs be declared on the label, it did not require enough additional information to make the statement mean anything to the average person. How many people who saw the declaration of acetanilide on Bromo-Seltzer knew that it might kill them? That it depressed the heart and destroyed the oxygen-carrying power of the blood? That it might make them slaves to the drug habit?

Note: [An average dose of Bromo-Seltzer–a teaspoonful–contains Potassium bromid (7 gains); Acetanilide (3 grains); and Caffeine (0.8 grains).]

The October 7, 1905 article, “The Great American Fraud” by Samuel Hopkins Adams, was the first in a series of 12 articles that appeared in Collier’s National Weekly magazine.

James Harvey Young recounts in his book “The Toadstool Millionaires,” that the editor of Colliers, Norman Hapgood, became so affronted by the fraud and effrontery of the patent medicine business, that he decided on a major campaign to expose them. He sought out a reporter capable of digging out the facts and writing a hard-hitting, full-scale exposure of medical quackery.

The man was Samuel Hopkins Adams (Fig. 1). Young believed his choice was one of the shrewdest in the annals of journalism.

Figure 1 - Samuel The publication Hopkins Adams of the entire series, (1871 - 1958) followed by others

in 1905 & 1906, so outraged the public that Congress was finally able to enact the first of several pure food and drug laws in 1906. The new law was called the ‘Wiley’ act after Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, chief chemist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, who had conducted tests for 20 years evaluating various foods & drugs and who helped Adams with his research. In the 1920s, the U. S. Food & Drug Administration was established to regulate the nation’s food and drug industry. The American Medical Association reprinted the entire Collier’s series in a book also entitled The Great American Fraud and sold 500,000 at 50 cents a copy.

In 1906 the AMA set up its own chemical laboratory to evaluate which products were worthy of being granted permission to advertise in the AMA Journal. Dr. Arthur J. Cramp was the director of this project. As his work grew, he created The Propaganda Department that not only prepared material alerting physicians to medical quackery but also broadened its audience to include laymen being fleeced by quacks. From exposes written in the Journal he began publishing a series of pamphlets on various quack themes such as “Mechanical Nostrums,” “Obesity Cures,” etc. The AMA expanded these pamphlets into a three-volume series of books with the first appearing in 1911, a second in 1921 and the final one in 1936.

(The first two were entitled Nostrums & Quackery and the third volume was entitled Nostrums & Quackery and Pseudo-Medicine.) They remain today an important source of information about medical quackery in America during the first part of the 20th century.

THE GREAT AMERICAN FRAUD is aptly subtitled “Articles on the Nostrum Evil and quacks, reprinted from Collier’s Weekly”.

The muckraking* series began with

the October 7, 1905 issue of the wellknown magazine (Fig. 2). [*Muckraking is the action of searching out and publishing scandalous

Figure 2 - The Great American Fraud. information. (The term was coined

by President Theodore Roosevelt in a speech in 1906, alluding to Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress” and the man with the muck rake.)]

The book included the earliest known list of people who had died of Acetanilid poisoning that was a major ingredient of Bromo-Seltzer, a bracer (patent medicine) taken to relieve headaches. The published list was entitled “An Acetanilid Death Record” (Fig. 3). The book also published a list of “remedies,” both “ethical and patent” that contained high levels of Acetanilid –– Bromo-Seltzer was prominent on the list (Fig. 4).

Since a half-ounce of this preparation was often taken as the standard dose and since many, especially women, were taking it daily,

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•The Hastings Tribune, which names and makes charges of the Hasting, Neb., reported the case of utmost seriousness – ‘that the ordinary the death of Mrs. Lena Shepland, commercial methods of big business are having a headache, took a dose essentially no different from the gangster of Bromo-Seltzer; this not giving methods of racketeering!’” By that the the desired relief, she also took authors were more specific with: a dose of Antikamnia, a similar “The acetanilide in ‘Bromo-Seltzer’ patent medicine. An hour later is a habit-forming drug and the product she was dead from heart failure is a dangerous one, the advertisements induced by these two heart- to the contrary notwithstanding.” depressing nostrums. – (From Death did not always follow the The Journal of the A.M.A., Dec. taking of acetanilide. “A human life may 29, 1906, p. 2158). be destroyed slowly and insidiously No action could be taken over a period of years through addiction against the product or its to the enslaving drug. Medical literature manufacturers, for it was abounds with the pitiful histories of truthfully labeled with the patent medicine victims. One such case quantity of acetanilide that was was brought to public notice when a indicated on the label exactly Bromo-Seltzer addict was committed Figure 3 - An Aceanili Death Record as the law required. To prevent for the fourth time to a State asylum not further tragedies of that kind, the far from Washington, D. C. A man of only thing the government could good family and cultural background, do was to issue a warning against he was a commercial artist and used to such preparations and urge the command a good income. Five doses public to read labels. It is not of Bromo-Seltzer every day–he had known how many newspapers been getting them at a soda fountain– published the warning. have helped to make him a physical Combating the spread of and mental wreck. He was habitually worthless nostrums: in such a doped, dazed condition, Largely for trade reasons with hallucinations and a persecution a few druggists began fighting complex so that he is no longer able against the nostrums, but without to earn a living or be at large, and his any considerable effect. Indeed, family ended up on the relief roll.” it is surprising to see that people Acetanilide alone may not have Figure 4 - Please do not ask us were so deeply impressed with been entirely responsible for the above it was anything but “harmless” – (The the advertising claims on the nostrums condition. Bromo-Seltzer contained yet Journal of the A.M.A., Feb. 10, 1906.) put forth daily as to be impervious to another dangerous and demoralizing Other case reports involving abuse warnings even from experts. ingredient–sodium bromide. Longof Bromo-Seltzer listed in the JAMA One cut-rate store, the Economical continued use of bromides, according (Journal of the American Medical Drug Company of Chicago, started on to Torald Sollmann, leads generally Association): a campaign and displayed a •Dr. D. T. Quigly, North Platte, sign in the window (Fig. 5).

Neb., reported a case of poisoning from Posting the sign was followed this preparation. – (From The Journal up by the salesmen informing of the A.M.A., Feb. 10, 1906, p. 454). all customers for prominent •Dr. W. J. Robinson, New York, nostrums like Bromo-Seltzer, reported a case of impotence following that they were wasting their the excessive use of this nostrum – money; yet with all that the (From The Journal of the A.M.A., Aug. store was unable to get rid of 18, 1906, p. 508). its patent medicine trade that •Dr. H. B. Hemenway, Evanston, was, by the way, one-third of its Ill., reported the death of a woman, aged entire business.

31, from acetanilide poisoning caused In 1935 Partners in by taking Bromo-Seltzer. – (From The Plunder was published and Journal of the A.M.A., July 16, 1910). touted as “…a startling book Figure 5 - Beware fo Acetanilid

46 to serious physical and psychic disturbances.

Not the least of these are sexual impotence and bromide intoxication.

Walter A. Bastedo, added that even in the treatment of epilepsy, for which bromides have long been used, “…is nowadays thought better, except in refractory cases, to take some risk of convulsions rather than to bring a patient into such a hopeless condition of uselessness.”

Bromide intoxication was a rather frequent occurrence, but was only then beginning to be generally recognized.

In some of its symptoms it was so much like sleeping sickness or delirium tremens that only determination of the blood bromide can make a diagnosis certain. The first effect of bromides is sedative – the individual becoming drowsy and apathetic. Later, however, the patient gets nervous, irritable, even violent, and takes more bromide to calm himself. As intoxication progresses, he becomes confused, his speech is thick and slurred; his legs are unmanageable; and he loses all sense of time and place, his memory fails him; he sees enormous animals and tiny people; he thinks he is being persecuted and tries to escape.

Eventually he falls into a coma.

Dr. George T. Harding of Columbus, Ohio, [brilliant young nephew of the late President Warren G. Harding] who probably knew more about bromide delirium and the proper treatment for it than anybody else, said it can occur under “therapeutic doses in susceptible individuals.” In one case that he treated, bromides had been given to control the pain following a leg amputation. Although the circumstances were unusual, the hallucinations seemed typical: “At times he saw gunmen at his window and tried to escape. Miniature dancing girls performed on the mantel.

Large animals crossed the room. His wife drowned in a large glass case in the corner of the room; his daughter was brought to see him in his coffin. Children played in his drinking glass. He welcomed guests with elaborate gestures. During a lucid interval while being told the nature of his confusion, he turned the sheet down

January - February 2011 and apologized, ‘I know there aren’t any fish there but I have to look to be sure I don’t see them.’”

Another case that Dr. Harding treated might very easily have been mistaken for delirium tremens, for the man, who was a heavy drinker, had taken bromide in an effort to sober up.

As the case record has it: “For ten days he was disoriented, saw mice run up his pants’ leg, a duck in the bed, and felt water poured on him by his tormentors. Refused to eat because he suspected he was being poisoned, became violent in his attempts to escape. On the tenth day he became lucid, wrote a letter to his mother, but after several hours snakes appeared in his bed.”

One cannot help wonder how many “luckless playboys” of the period had been falsely suspected of D.T.’s when they were guilty of only the effects of some bracer like Bromo-Seltzer.

Dr. Titus H. Harris and Dr. Abe Hauser of the Department of Neurology and Psychiatry in the University of Texas School of Medicine had also considerable experience with bromide intoxication. One case they treated was that of a man whose reeling gait and inability to give an account of himself had caused him to be picked up by the police and sent to the hospital. At first he was thought to be suffering from acute alcoholism. He was in a comatose state for three days; then, as he began to improve, he showed typical symptoms of delirium tremens. The blood test, however, disclosed that his trouble was bromide intoxication. Later it was learned that he had been in the habit of taking a bromide prescription as an antidote after his alcoholic sprees. His brother said that he had had several attacks of stupor before, but they had lasted only a day or two. In reporting the case in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the physicians commented: “We feel that this patient had probably been mildly intoxicated with bromide for months or even years. He was in the habit of taking large amounts of the prescription mentioned and was inefficient in his work, never being able to hold a job for any

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Bromide intoxication is due to the readiness with which bromides replace the body chloride when there is not enough salt in the diet. Anything that interferes with the normal absorption of salt predisposes to intoxication if bromides are taken. This seems to be the case particularly with chronic alcoholism; but saltless cooking or any other factor conducive to improper nutrition may also be guilty. Intoxication occurs when bromides have replaced 30 per cent of the chloride; replacement of 40 per cent is said to be fatal.

A curious aspect of bromide poisoning is the sequence of symptoms and the way this sequence may be reversed–like a motion picture–under salt therapy and the withdrawal of bromides, the coma giving way to hallucinations, extreme irritability, restlessness, and so on backward until the patient is cured. But care and caution are necessary in case the bromide was released from the tissues more rapidly than it could be expelled from the body, for the heightened nervous excitement could give rise to trouble. In a case Dr. Harding describes, a BromoSeltzer addict whose family took him home from the sanitarium – the man committed suicide.

“Most people,” according to the advertising, “have their first Bromo-Seltzer at the soda fountain.”

The druggist was provided with the dispensing apparatus free of charge (Figs. 6 & 7). One turn of the wheel was supposed to measure out exactly 3 3/5 grains of acetanilide, 7 ½ grains of sodium bromide, and enough caffeine, sodium bicarbonate and citric acid to make up the manufacture-prescribed dose for ordinary headache. “If the man behind the soda fountain is careful, he can get sixty doses out of the dispensing bottle–a profit of $4.75 for the druggist.”

But soda-jerks [-jerkers] sometimes were sloppy, as the Emerson Drug Company seemed to know, for with each dispenser went a display card urging the druggist to “…stop waste

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Figure 6 - Bromo-Seltzer soda fountain dispenser

Figure 7 - Bromo-Seltzer glass and soda fountain dispenser (close-up) at the soda fountain!” More than the regular dose will not dissolve easily, sticks to the side of the glass and is wasted. Besides, the customer ‘does not relish a mouthful of undissolved granules.’” Mixing a Bromo-Seltzer, from the instructions, is as much a fine art as mixing a pousse-café. But out of the abundance of the Emerson Drug Company’s anxiety to please its patrons there emerged no word of warning as to the consequences of over dosage other than the depleting effect on the druggist’s profit.

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January - February 2011 One dose of this insidious habitformer may call for another and in the course of a year the American people, so it was estimated, spend $20 million to dope themselves with Bromo-Seltzer. Of this vast sum “…two tithes a year [20%] were consecrated to advertising.”

The authors of 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs verifies that $20 million was spent annually on Bromo-Seltzer and stated that according to the “Committee on Costs of Medical Care,” the total cost of prescriptions filled annually in the United States was about $140,000,000.

And that fast-selling nostrums like Bromo-Seltzer would bring the druggists as much business as all of his prescription filling. The fault lies less with the druggist than with a drug and prescription system that mixes a “minor profession” with a major business.

What is left of the professional interest must inevitably suffer.

That reckless dispensing of harmful or habit-forming drugs at the soda fountain, in bars and in lunchrooms was certainly not in the public interest. What is equally certain is that it could not be stopped by federal statute any more than traffic in liquor could have been [reference to national Prohibition – the Volstead Act]. But people at least had a right to know what they are getting and whether or not it would imperil their health. Then, if they were willing to take a chance, the consequences were their own responsibility. Warnings at the soda fountain were a matter for the states to take care of. Warnings on packages sold over the counter can and should have been required of such products in interstate commerce as may have been dangerous when used according to directions.

Under the [1906] Pure Food and Drugs Act, the quantity or proportion of any alcohol, morphine, opium, cocaine, heroine, alpha or beta eucaine, chloroform, cannabis indica, chloral hydrate, or acetanilide [as in BromoSeltzer] or any derivative or preparation of these substances that the medicine contains, must be declared on the label.

This list by no means exhausts the dangerously potent drugs offered for

the home treatment of serious diseases.

There are plenty of others that are never hinted at in the labeling. Because they bring some pronounced reaction at appeals to the patient, making him think he is getting good results, their harmful effects may not be noticed until too late.

Bromo-Seltzer history: In 1888, behind the prescription counter of a modest drugstore on East Pratt Street near Charles Street in Baltimore, Isaac E. Emerson first conceived the idea of a headache remedy (Fig. 8). His background in chemistry and pharmacy led to the development of a granular effervescent salt he named “Bromo-Seltzer.” Dispensing it to friends and customers at his drugstore, it soon became so successful that he abandoned his retail business to devote his time to the manufacture and sale of his new product. Eventually, he organized the Emerson Drug Company, incorporating it in Maryland in 1891.

The company soon had factories in

Figure 8 - Bromo-Selter ad November 1890 Maryland and New Jersey. An early advertisement featured company headquarters, a bottle, and Camden Yards the famous baseball stadium in nearby Baltimore (Fig. 9).

Bromo-Seltzer Blue Glass: The Maryland Glass Corporation was one of the original manufacturers of the famous blue bottles (Fig. 10). By 1929, they had the capacity to manufacture 72 million bottles

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48 annually. Bromo-Seltzer was first sold in blue glass bottles that were manufactured by the Cumberland Glass Company (1880-1930), of Bridgeton, New Jersey. As the demand for BromoSeltzer grew, Cumberland was unable to meet the demand for the bottles.

Captain Emerson then asked Philip I. Heuisler, his vice-president in charge of manufacturing, to

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out approximately one million glass bottles and jars each day. The company became the leading producer of blue glassware in the world.

FIZZIES® (a tablet that when added to water, will create a soft drink) was also invented by Emerson Drug Company. The idea derived from scientists working with chemical formulas similar to “Bromo Seltzer” and wondering if a fun, fruit-flavored drink could be developed the same way.

“Wouldn’t it be grand if we could drop a tablet in a glass of water and have an instant soda pop?” After long hard work, they finally figured out how to combine the right combinations of fruit flavoring, sweetener, citric acid and sodium bicarbonate (a substance that is much like baking soda) into a magical tablet that when dropped into water, Figure 10 turned water into an instant sparkling, Figure 11 - Bromoeffervescent fruit drink!

Bromo-Seltzer Seltzer In 1956, Maryland Glass, together small famous blue with its parent company, Emerson bottle Drug, merged with Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Company, of Morris organize a glass factory to make the dark Plains, New Jersey. The Warnerblue glass bottles (Fig. 11) and “Acin” Lambert Pharmaceutical Company is light blue drinking glasses (Fig. 12). now part of Pfizer.

The glasses (acid-etched with “BromoCaptain Isaac E. Emerson, Founder Seltzer”) were given to drug stores as of Bromo-Seltzer premiums for ordering Bromo-Seltzer Captain Isaac Edward Emerson, the or were gifts to glass factory visitors son of farmer Robert J. Emerson, was who made a two-and-a-half hour tour born Chatham County, North Carolina of the plant for thirty cents. in 1859. He graduated from the By 1928, the Bromo-Seltzer University of North Carolina in 1879, business, although larger than ever later spending time as an instructor in before, represented only about twenty- chemistry there. five percent During the time he was establishing of the total his business, Captain Emerson also led manufacturing his own naval force during the Spanishcapacity of American War. In 1894, he formed the Maryland Glass.

Maryland Naval Reserves and, by 1898, In the decades provided the entire crew for the United following, States Ship Dixie. Commissioned a Maryland Glass Lieutenant, he received his rank as continued to Captain after the war. expand and, by Emerson was considered a pioneer 1964, the firm among America’s businessmen because employed some he realized the importance of advertising. seven hundred At the time of his death in 1937, he had people who accumulated an estate of $20 million, Figure 12 Bromoworked around owning the controlling stock in four Seltzer Glass the clock, turning corporations: Emerson’s Bromo-Seltzer,

Bottles and Extras Inc.; the Emerson Drug Corporation; the Maryland Glass Corporation and the Emerson Hotel (Figs. 13 & 14).

His home at Brooklandwood, the Green Spring Valley estate in Maryland, was considered a showplace. Among his other properties, he owned a summer villa at Narragansett Pier and thousands of acres of hunting preserves in South Carolina. He and his daughter Margaret (whose second husband, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt lost his life when the Lusitania was torpedoed) were interested in breeding horses. Captain

Figure 13 - Emerson Hotel (1910 view) Baltimore, Maryland Emerson also owned two yachts, which he used for long cruises and around-theworld trips. He and his second wife, Mrs. Anne Preston McCormack Emerson, were widely known in American and European society.

The Bromo-Seltzer Clock Tower Building Situated at the comer of South Eutaw and West Lombard streets, (near Camden Yards, the home of the Baltimore Orioles baseball team, and the famous Munsey Building at 7 N. Calvert Street), the Bromo-Seltzer Clock Tower Building, laboratories and home office of the Emerson Drug, Company, has been a landmark in

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Figure 14 - New Emrson Hotel (1936) in Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore since 1911 (Fig. 15).

Clock Tower Building statistics: Total height of tower, 357 feet. The bottle on top, a facsimile of the regular ten-cent Bromo-Seltzer bottle, about 10 million times larger, is 51 feet high, 20 ½ feet in diameter, weighs 17 tons (34,000 pounds), and revolves at the

Figure 15 - Bromo-Seltzer Towner Building (1911)

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rate of 107 feet per minute. There are 596 electric lights in bottle and crown surmounting it, which can be seen at a distance of 20 miles.

The Bromo-Seltzer clock is the largest four-dial gravity clock in the world. The dial is 24 feet in diameter.

The minute hand is 12 feet, 7 inches long, and weighs 175 pounds. The hour hand is 9 feet, 8 inches long and weighs 145 pounds. The pendulum is 15 feet long and weighs 475 pounds. The clock is automatically wound by an electric motor every six hours.

A former Maryland resident recalls hearing that Captain Emerson modeled the tower after one he had seen in Florence, Italy. Certainly, a comparison with the Palazzo Vecchio, by architect Arnolfo di Cambio, confirms the resemblance.

Although the tower is 14 stories high, the top story is numbered 15 because there is no floor numbered 13. Figure 16 - Bromo-Seltzer Clock Tower (According to a newspaper account of music, was distributed free to promote the time, the flashing light on the huge the headache powder. Fig. 17 is one of revolving Bromo-Seltzer bottle atop the most popular – “Orange Blossom the tower served as a guide to aviators Waltzes.” flying the night mail. It could be seen One of my favorites, as a kid from trains arriving in the city In 1935, during the days of early radio, was the bottle was taken down, after twenty- the advertisement that focused on and five years of dominating that part of the featured the repetitious oral rendering Baltimore scene. The base upon which of the name of the nostrum to imitate the it stood was disintegrating. The outer sound of a classic steam train starting covering was burned and its framework and gaining speed. It ran quietly at first sold as 20 tons of scrap metal. and gradually got louder as it picked The Baltimore Arts Tower Committee reopened the Tower Building in 1973 as an arts and crafts center (Fig. 16).

An adjoining part of the building is presently used as a firehouse. A decision was made only recently to preserve the landmark building, now dwarfed by larger office buildings in the area.

Bromo-Seltzer advertising: The most famous of the items the Emerson Drug Company used to promote its main product BromoSeltzer was their famous blue bottle as previously shown. While today the empty blue bottles retain their interest to collectors, so many were produced their value is one to several dollars.

Other collectibles from the historic firm, such as a wide variety of sheet Figure 17 - Advertising sheet music

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up steam and speed. The following is a visual rendering of that concept: Bromo-Seltzer, BromoSeltzer!

Broma-Seltzer, Bromo-Seltzer!

Bromo-Seltzer, Bromo-Seltzer!

Bromo-Seltzer, Bromo-Seltzer!

Bromo-Seltzer, Bromo-Seltzer!

Bromo-Seltzer, Bromo-Seltzer!

Bromo-Seltzer, Bromo-Seltzer!

Bromo-Seltzer, Bromo-Seltzer!

SELECTED REFERENCES BOOKS: Adams, Samuel Hopkins. The Great American Fraud, New York; P. F. Collier & Son, 1905 & 1906.

Bastedo, Walter A., Materica Medica: Pharmacology” Therapeutics: Prescription Writing, Philadelphia; W. B. Saunders Company, 1918.

Chase, Stuart and Schlink, F. J., Your Money’s Worth A Study in the Waste of the Consumer’s Dollar, The MacMillan Company, 1927.

Cramp, Arthur J., M.D., Nostrum and Quackery, Volume I, (page 499), American Medical Assn., Chicago; 1912.

Cramp, Arthur J., M.D., Nostrum and

Quackery, Volume II, American Medical Assn., Chicago; 1921.

Cramp, Arthur J., M.D., Nostrum and Quackery, Volume III. American Medical Assn., Chicago; 1936.

Holbrook, Stewart H., The Golden Age of Quackery, The MacMillan Company, 1959.

Kallet, Arthur and Schlink, F. J., 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs – Dangers in Everyday Foods, Drugs, and Cosmetics, (pp. 73 & 77), The Vanguard Press, New York, 1933.

Lamb, Ruth deforest., American Chamber of Horrors, (pp. 81-86), Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. Publishers, New York, 1936.

Matthews, J. B. and Shallcross, R. E., Partners in Plunder, (pp. 103 & 104), Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, New York 1935.

Munsey, Cecil. The Illustrated Guide to COLLECTING BOTTLES, New York; Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1970.

Sollmann, Torald. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Application to Therapeutics and Toxicology; Philadelphia’ W. B. Saunders Company, 1932.

Young, James Harvey. The Toadstool Millionaires – A Social History of Patent

Bottles and Extras Medicines in America before Federal Regulation, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1961.

Young, James Harvey. Pure Food – Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1989.

WEBSITE: http://www.CecilMunsey. com Munsey, Cecil.

“Bromo-Seltzer history.” Bottles & Extras magazine 1992: website, article #137.

Munsey, Cecil. “Bromo-Seltzer Blue Glass.” Bottles & Extras magazine 1992: website, Article #138.

Munsey, Cecil.

“Bromo-Seltzer Building Today.” 2010: website, Article #139 PERIODICALS: Auburn, Stephen. “The Bromo Rage.”

Spinning Wheel magazine, May 1973, pp.

16 & 17.

Escoe, David & Adrianne. “The Birth of the Little Blue Bottle,” The Whittlemark, November 1988, p. 3.

Munsey, Cecil. “Discovery of Coins and Stamps.” Western Collector magazine, May 1968, pp39-43.

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MIKE O’MALLEY 1940-2010

The Amazing Mr. O’Malley Every hobby should be so lucky as to have such a wonderful representative as Mike

By Ralph Finch I am way older than I ever expected to be ... but there is On July 30, Mike added: a price I pay for that “achievement:” I must say farewell to “... It is like I said, I sent it to only three people who friends and relatives not so fortunate. have been very kind to me helping me in the hobby of target The old bottle hobby has lost two major members: Norman ball collecting. John asked me what I had bid on in the last Barnett and Jan Rutland in late October. The target ball hobby Frobouck auction and mentioned we had not been keeping also has lost two important members: Tom McCandless in in touch much lately. I realized I needed to tell the people I August, and now: correspond with on a regular basis. It dawned on me I have been Mike O’Malley of Pleasant Hill, Missouri. a little reclusive and not making people crazy with my e-mails On Nov. 5, I like I normally did. I had received this note from a no desire for anyone to friend: “I didn’t know if think it came from any you had heard, but Mike type of animosity on my O’Malley lost his battle part or a lack of smartwith cancer yesterday ass things to say. — morning. ... He will be Regards, Mike O” missed.”

Mike had vast I knew it was coming, interests in life, but I but that doesn’t make it know him from only one any easier. area: Glass target balls.

On July 25, I had He literally lived — and received this terrible e-mail died — for target balls. from Mike himself: On Oct. 1 — with “Ralph: I am sending little more than a you basically the same month to live — Mike Mike O’Malley was full of life, especially when he could show off — purchased e-mail I just sent to John his last Hargreaves. I did not bid and talk about — target balls, as he did here at an antique gun show. target ball; he couldn’t on anything in part two resist the appeal of the of Peter’s auction. beautiful Paris ball.

“I have not said anything about it to anyone in the target ball On Nov. 5, Mike’s wife, Marijo, e-mailed: “Mike passed community. My target ball collecting is about over. I recently spent away yesterday morning here at the house. It was the end of six weeks in the hospital with a blood clot and internal bleeding. a long struggle for him ... when he was told he had cancer After running more tests than I can count, they have determined last March, he prayed that if God didn’t cure him that he I have cancer and are giving me six months to live. It has been a would at least see it through with dignity and grace — which great hobby and I have met many wonderful people through it. It of course, he did.” has been one of the highlights of my senior years. Do keep in touch, People responded to the news in an expected manner: I am going to be around for some time yet. — Regards, Mike O” shock, sadness, disappointment ... and anger.

And despite his bleak situation, Mike was thoughtful “I am mad as hell,” said a New England friend of enough to send this upbeat note the next day: Mike’s. “This is a (crappy) way to hear that a friend has died.

“Congratulations; Janet must indeed be a lovely lady. Any I learned of it on eBay, and that’s just wrong!” (One day after woman that would commit to your schedule and habits 24-7 Mike died, and five days before his funeral, Mike’s target may qualify for sainthood. balls began being offered on eBay.) “I know a lot of target ball collectors. Let’s be honest here, Jeff Hooper of Port Angeles, Washington: “He was a Ralph. Would you want your sister to marry one of us? My very passionate man when it came to target balls and life in best to the both of you. Janet, your husband once told me: general. I will miss his enthusiasm for the hobby. I met Mike ‘You have to be crazy to be a target ball collector.’ He is right, and (son) Sean back at the FOHBC national in Reno a few of course. You be careful out there. Ya hear? years back, and the sparkle in his eyes when he talked about “Regards and my wishes for a long and happy marriage. target balls was a true sign that he really enjoyed the hobby.

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he has done for the hobby in the few years he collected target balls is immeasurable. Whether talking to him on the phone or through e-mail, he was full of information, yet always yearning to find out more about this great hobby of ours.

“I will always remember him as Mr. Bogardus, as he was always looking for all the variants of the Bogardus balls and seemed to focus on them. I always wanted to stop in and see him on my travels across the country and now that will never happen; I truly regret not doing so in my previous travels. Our hobby has lost a great man and he will be greatly missed by all. It has been a pleasure and honor to have known Mike.”

Kitten Ferrell of Austin, Texas: “Mike was one of the most friendly, honest and straight-shooting collectors that I have known. He was quick to share his knowledge, his thoughts, and to show items from his collection to further the hobby of target balls. He was ‘Mister Target Ball.’

“I would always look for his distinctive table at the Kansas City Gun Show and looked forward to seeing him and what new items he may have acquired. He was always welcoming in a big way with a hearty hello and offering his wisdom to anyone who would show interest in the target balls he had on display. His enthusiasm was contagious and he brought so very much into the target ball collecting world with his willingness to share with others.

“I believe he ‘upped the ante’ on all things Bogardus because of his voracious pursuit and research of the Bogardus balls. The target ball collecting world is a small one and to lose someone of Mike’s wisdom is a mighty blow. My sympathies and prayers go out to his family.”

Peter Frobouck of Pittsburgh: “I think that I am the one who Mike first talked to concerning target balls. I considered him a good friend, I spent a weekend at his house duck hunting, had a great time. He will surely be missed as a friend and contributor to this hobby. My sympathies to his family.”

Randy Davis of Kansas City, Missouri: “I would be happy and honored to tell a little about Mr. O’Malley. I have known of Mike O’Malley for some 15 or so years.

“For those years, he and his close trapshooting friends would always attend the Missouri State and Fall Handicap Trapshoots, although you could usually find him in the club house enjoying a good game of pitch.

“But it was only five years ago that I really got to know Mike. I received a call one afternoon from him; someone had told him I collected target balls. I remember saying, ‘No, I’m not a target ball collector, but I do like things related to the history of trapshooting.’ Then he asks, ‘Do you have any target balls?’ I said I do own a few balls, and he asks if they are for sale. They were not, yet it wasn’t long before I was trading an extra Bogardus for a seven-ring ball.

“You never forget the people you meet who are like Mike O’Malley. He was a big man with a big heart. He will be missed as a collector and a good friend of many. ... Mr. Mike O’Malley, thanks for the memories.”

Jeff Wichmann of American Bottle Auctions: “Mike O’Malley was that guy who would see you were uncomfortable

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at a party and come over and introduce you to his friends. He made sure that if you were making a deal, how important it was to him that it was fair. He understood life, understood what was important and treated other people like he wanted to be treated.

“He didn’t really care what people thought of him; of course, everyone liked him, but that was because he cared so much about others.

“I heard he could be a bit ornery, but I never saw that.

“Mike was an artist, and if you saw his website you could see the meticulous sense of color and aesthetics he had.

“I didn’t talk to Mike a lot, but I will still miss him. I am proud to say I called him my friend.”

Dave Monahan of South Carolina: “I was just informed that our good friend Mike O’Malley had passed away ... As it was put to me, ‘Well, I guess the Lord needed him worse than we did.’

“I got to somewhat know Mike when he was working with Kenny Ray Estes on the memorial for ‘Tobe’ Cohron.

What a very sincere and nice fellow Mike was.

“Would you please send my condolences to his family for me, as I don’t *know how to get in touch with any of them.”

Kenny Ray Estes, museum director for the Trapshooting Hall of Fame: “I was so fortunate to have met Mike; that would never have taken place if you hadn’t mentioned in On Target! that he was from Pleasant Hill, Missouri.

“Mike played a major part in my dream to recognize an old-time trap shooter by placing a headstone on his unmarked grave. I still remember how excited he was to have been asked to help. My immediate thought was that this guy is as crazy about our history as I am.

“After many e-mails and phone conversations I finally met Mike when he stopped at the Grand American Handicap on his way back home, a couple of years ago. While we discussed the Tobe Cohron Headstone Project, Mike’s attention was on the targets I brought from the Trapshooting Hall of Fame to display for those interested. He had never seen an American target with three vents on the topside and wanted a picture of it.

“We talked for about three hours that day and before Mike departed he sent his wife Marijo on an errand. She came back and handed me a small box with my name on it. I looked at Mike, and he said, ‘Well, open it.’ Inside the bubble-wrap was an amber Bogardus target ball. You see, I had mentioned to Mike that I was saving up for my first ball and that I only was interested in owning two, a Bogardus and a Paine. I said, wow, that’s nice, and he said he brought it for me. I thanked him and told him I didn’t have enough money to pay for it in total but I could give him $250 now and when I make the final payment, he could send the ball to me. He said if I was going to pay for it, he wouldn’t let me have it.

I told him that if he’s giving it to me, then I couldn’t accept it as I hadn’t done anything to deserve such a gift. Besides, we only just met and he really didn’t know much about me.

Mike reminded me that we just chatted for three hours and that

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we both knew enough of each other.

“He told me that he already knew that I was going to take that ball all around and show it off to others and generate interest in our history. That, to him, was well worth the investment he had in this Bogardus target ball. I recall the tears running down my face. I was truly touched by this man’s kindness.

“Mike was correct, because I don’t know how many people I’ve shown my Bogardus to, but it is many, I assure you.

“Mike and Marijo knew of the travel expenses I incurred when I flew into Kansas City for the headstone dedication, and they took me into their home so I didn’t have to pay for a motel room.

“When the Missouri Trap Shooters Association asked me to present Tobe Cohron for induction into their Hall of Fame, Mike and Marijo advised me that I was staying in the spare bedroom of the condo they rented for the Missouri State Shoot.

“I often referred to Mike as my Big Brother, because he was always looking out for me. I was saddened to learn of Mike’s passing, but thankful that he did not suffer. My sadness gave way to the thought of how fortunate I was to have been given the privilege of meeting this man. We’ve lost one of the best people you’ll ever meet. Rest in peace, Big Brother, I’ll never forget you.”

Bob, Alex and Austin Barbour of Shawnee, Kansas: The phone rang in the late afternoon. The voice on the other end was an individual my son Alex and I had met at the last bottle show: “Bob, this is Mike O’Malley. I’m ready to learn all you know about antique glass. How does your weekend look? I’ll bring a few of my target balls over for you to look at.”

I replied that Saturday worked for me and we set a time to meet.

I had never paid much attention to target balls. They had slipped under my radar for the 30 years I had been collecting glass. But like any collectible, the less you know about something, the less appealing that item is.

I wondered what I could teach a target ball collector about antique glass. Little did I know that Mike was very eager to learn anything and everything I knew about glass.

Mike arrived at the appointed time with his usual smile from ear to ear — and a briefcase full of target balls. I asked, “What’s in the briefcase?”

Mike replied: “Just a few of my Bogardus balls, but we will get to those later. First, I want to know everything you know about antique glass.”

We talked for about an hour about my collection. The usual questions about how I got started collecting, categories I collected past and present, my favorite pieces, English vs.

American glass and on and on. Mike was so hungry to add to his working knowledge of the hobby that his enthusiasm began to rub off on me. Here was a person I had just met and yet Mike made me feel as if we had been friends for years.

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Most collectors love to share their collections and knowledge with anyone who is willing to sit, listen and observe. The problem is finding people in your area who share those same interests.

Mike asked: “You have two sons, Alex and Austin?”

I replied, “Alex you met at the show and Austin is his younger brother.”

“And they both collect antique glass?” Mike asked. I answered: “Alex collects sample bottles and poisons and Austin collects bottles with lots of embossing.”

Mike then said: “I brought along something for the boys.”

He opened his briefcase and brought out two target balls.

“These are German balls, part of a small horde I ran across and I thought the boys might enjoy them.”

With stunned disbelief I said, “I can’t take these, Mike.”

And with his typical candor he explained, “Let the boys have them, who knows, maybe they will start collecting target balls.”

Jokingly, I said, “That’s all they need, another category to collect.”

I reluctantly accepted the balls and set them aside, and asked: “What else do you have in that briefcase of yours?”

Mike proceeded to take out ball after ball, explaining rarity, embossing and values of his Bogardus target balls. Mike was proud of his target ball collection, but he was especially fond of his Bogardus balls. After seeing just a small part of his Bogardus collection, I knew why Mike was such an avid collector. Unknowingly, Mike had planted the seed for three future target ball collectors. Myself and my two sons have now amassed three small target ball collections and, Mike O’Malley, you are solely responsible. Thanks so very much for everything you shared with the boys and me. I know you are looking down at us and smiling, knowing that you will always live on in our memories.

Mike touched many people with his knowledge, generosity and kindness. All of those he touched are better people for having known Mike. We will miss Mike O’Malley. God Bless you and your family.

Ralph, I could have written several more pages with some great stories, but maybe another time. I’m sure there are others who will share their stories.

— The author personally will miss Mike on so many levels: the wacky e-mails and phone calls, his great website, his many, many contributions to this newsletter, and his incredible enthusiasm for life in general, but especially for target balls.

“He often said he was disappointed that he found them too late,” said wife Marijo. “He wished he had started collecting earlier because he enjoyed them so much.”

Among Mike’s many credits is being the driving force to purchase and dedicate an impressive headstone for the previously unmarked grave of ca. 1900 black shooter Tobias Cohron.

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OREGON EMBOSSED FLASKS

By Garth Ziegenhagen My observations indicate that approximately 1% to 3% of all bottles at bottle shows or on eBay are embossed flasks from any state. There are, however, at least 105 embossed flasks known to exist in Oregon at the beginning of 2010 and only the Reception Saloon from Salem has the word saloon on the flask.

In 1913, there were at least 401 saloons in Portland and 31 of them were on First Street. These flasks are from different saloons and liquor establishments and the total number does not include various sizes of the same embossing. It does, however, include variants of the different flasks from different molds. Fleckenstein & Mayer had seven different flasks from Portland alone and many more from other states.

There are 17 common styles of flasks in Oregon with varying numbers of each style of flasks: (4) Olympias. (1) Alton. (1) Newman. (3) Tokens. (19) Baltimore Ovals. (11) Pumpkinseeds. (3) Knife Edges. (15) Dandys. (12) Washingtons. (16) Coffins. (1) Union oval. (2) Ceramics. (4) Leathers. (3) Defenders. (4) Basket Swirls. (3) Eagles. (3) Shooflies.

Example of every type Oregon flask Embossing usually includes the name of the proprietor and the address of the establishment. This information allows collectors to look up the history of the flask in bottle books or directories such as the R. L. Polk Oregon and Washington Gazetteers, the R.G. Dunn Mercantile Agency Reference book, or different R.L. Polk directories from various cities.

Most of the flasks are from Portland. Unlike whiskey cylinders that have only three Oregon towns represented

by The Dalles, Astoria, and Portland, embossed flasks are known to exist in Albany, Astoria, Baker City, Marshfield, Pendleton, Salem, The Dalles and Portland. If you come across an embossed flask from Oregon, your best source of information is the book “Whiskey Bottles and Liquor Containers From the State of Oregon,� by John Thomas in 1998. The book gives some indication of prices which can obviously change as more samples of the flasks may have

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been found or the flask may have been more rare than the author and the contributors originally knew. Prices may go up or down throughout the years. The book has been out of publication for many years, but a better Oregon book is not available anywhere.

At a recent bottle show at Aurora, Oregon, a picture of an unlisted flask from Oregon appeared. After inquiring about the picture, I was told that Ralph Van Brocklin had just acquired the pint flask. I received a picture from Ralph after returning from the show. Later, I found out Jay Marks from Washington had dug a half-pint many years ago near Marshfield. It is the first embossed whiskey from Marshfield and a beautiful one at that.

Apparently John Thomas did not hear about the flask. Bottles and Extras is now the way to keep this hobby exciting and up to date for everyone no matter what Newly found, previously they collect because new unknown Oregon flask items are being discovered all the time.

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

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

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

See page two for a list of Officers and Regional Directors in your area

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with beautiful glass bottles of different colors and sizes. I was instantly taken in

By Roger Hill with their beauty. He had found many EDITOR’S NOTE: Roger Hill, of our basement. I remember a wrought of those while walking in the hills in Menlo Park, Calif., has been collecting iron soda fountain ice cream table and and around his home.

Seeing my building excitement, he antique bottles for nearly 40 years. He chair set being delivered to our house was generous to invite me out on an is an authority on Art-Deco sodas and by Don Kreiss, a big time local bottle is treasurer of the San Jose Antique collector. He had learned about our exploration. Alongside a creek bank, Bottle Collectors Association, one of finds and negotiated the trade of that partly buried, I spied a Listerine bottle the first bottle clubs to be organized in table and chair set for the two bottle- from the 1920s – a common find – but it was the one that sank the hook into California. filled drums.

“C’mon, boys, today we’re going Today, as a sophisticated collector me. It was my first bottle and it was old, with a cork top! on a treasure hunt,” my dad told I also grew up in the hills us as we excitedly got into the of Redwood City near Emerald car. It was a sunny Saturday Lake where there were a number afternoon and before long, he of abandoned summer cottages stopped the family Packard at from the 1920s with contents still his job site down at the creek’s intact! Wealthy San Franciscans edge – actually, a 40-footof that era would ride a train briny slough that came off down to the temperate peninsula San Francisco Bay and wound and stay in their bungalows for behind some of the peninsula’s the weekend, hunting, fishing oldest buildings in downtown and basking in our renowned Redwood City. climate. Outside the cabins, It was 1959 and I was 4 years old, but I still vividly Varieties of Art Deco sodas are endless. (Courtesy beneath poison oak bushes, they tossed empty milk and soda pop remember that day. My father of Roger Hill) bottles of the day. was an associate engineer and I always kept those bottles inspector for the city on a construction who has acquired a thirst and a and went on to dig in the important project where a box culvert was being knowledge for local history, I can only built. This involved setting up a dragline imagine and wonder at the beauty and pre-construction site of the famous TransAmerica pyramid in downtown that spanned the creek so that a huge, rarity of the bottles he acquired. mechanically driven bucket could In fact, the dragline was set up San Francisco. That’s where the original excavate a trench through the mud. behind quaint little brick building that embarcadero (wharf in Spanish) of Gold I remember seeing what seemed was the Quong Lee Laundry dating to Rush San Francisco was uncovered.

In the middle of the night, while like mountains of mud stacked side-by- 1859. It is one of the oldest original the guard was still asleep, we scaled side on the nearby creek bank with old buildings still standing in San Mateo down giant wooden ladders into the bottles of every size and color sticking County. out like porcupine quills.

Redwood City was founded during “pit.” I will never forget that night. A My younger brother and I followed the 1850s with a small wharf and full moon lighted the area as did lights dad over to the piles and watched him community established on the banks of from surrounding skyscrapers. We had on hip-high rubber boots and carried pluck out of the bottles. He handed them this creek. to us, telling us to carefully take them While in high school in the early flashlights and probes.

When we got to the bottom, it over to our mother, who was waiting 1970s, a buddy (Jeff Rhoads) got me at the car to pack them neatly into the interested in collecting old bottles. We was like stepping back in time. There trunk. I remember what great fun it was grew up in scouting together. As Cub were ancient redwood pilings from this – each and every bottle treasure was Scouts, he got me interested in coin historic wharf sticking out of the mud unique and I also sadly remember that collecting. We both went on to become like old skeletons. It was unseasonably the trunk of our car filled up way too Eagle Scouts and have maintained a warm and musty – one could feel the quickly. . .I wanted to stay longer and lifelong friendship. He is an architect history. There was debris everywhere get more old bottles! living in Las Vegas and is a member – broken plates, bottles, metal,, bones When we got home, my dad of the Las Vegas bottle club. As a and wood. I remember sticking my carefully washed the bottles and high school freshman, I can vividly probe through what turned out to be a wrapped and packed them away in two remember walking into his bedroom case of champagne, hermetically sealed 50-gallon metal drums that were in one day and seeing his window filled in the mud from Gold Rush days, and

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the smell that wafted out was delicious! in the hills. There were many more held it up to the sun.

I only wish I had kept one of those unbelievable designs I’d never seen that He was born in Fresno in the bottles. were truly spectacular.

Central Valley of California and grew Jeff found a green Taylor & Co., About 11 years ago, I got serious up in a farming community. He served eight-sided, graphite-pontiled soda, about this area of bottle collecting. I in our armed forces and came to the Bay a Valparaiso, Chile variant (which visited a number of antiques stores and Area in search of a better job during the hearkened back to the early pioneers occasionally I’d pick up a new variant late 1940s. He became a carpenter and and clipper ships that sailed around for my collection. Then came eBay and expert installer of hardwood floors, a Cape Horn and up to San Francisco). suddenly I could visit “500 antiques profession into which his sons, Arnold Another high school buddy, Warren, stores” in just an hour or two.

Jr., Robert, Fino and Vince, soon found a flintlock pistol whose wooden Meanwhile, back to my days followed. handle dissolved as he pulled the as a teenager and what and who Arnold Sr., first started digging scrolled and embossed bottles in San Jose in 1958. In weapon from the mud. Our those days, bottles didn’t mean minds ran wild with fantasies much and it was simply a great – we speculated that perhaps hobby. “Digging was about having the pistol was a murder fun and he truly appreciated weapon that was tossed into finding these handmade works the bay way back when. I of art,” said Arnold Jr. He and his then found an example of brothers joined their soon-to-bethe city’s first soda bottle, a legendary father in the pursuit of graphite pontiled Lynde & old glass.

Putnam 1852 cobalt beauty.

The senior family member That find was the Holy Grail was also a pioneer in developing for me. digging techniques and tools, I was truly bitten by Jumbo the Elephant (left), Mammy (3rd from left) experimenting with different the bottle bug and started among pictorials to be found in an Art Deco collection types of steel for probes. He collecting early soda and devised one of the first “hammer (Courtesy of Roger Hill) mineral water bottles of San probes” for breaking through Francisco (and every other asphalt and hard-packed earth. type of bottle that I found). Peck and else influenced me in digging and He was blessed to have dug in all the Audie Markota’s Western Sodas book collecting. I stumbled across a bunch great spots in San Francisco, San Jose, became my bible. It introduced me of bottle diggers going at it alongside Oakland, Stockton, Sacramento and to the fascinating histories of the the 101 freeway in Redwood City near also in Nevada. early soda water companies and the the site of Frank’s Tannery, which had In 1971, the San Jose Bottle Club characters who founded them. stood since the 1880s until burning in nicknamed him “The Dumbarton Kid” I still have every bottle that I have the 1960s. It also was next to a broad because he scoured San Francisco Bay ever dug, bought, won or had given slough which transported flatboats near the Dumbarton Bridge at low tide, to me. My collection numbers in the loaded with freshly cut and milled finding all kinds of antique bottles. He thousands, in addition to the many U.S. redwood lumber from the peninsula to participated in the famous “Big Dig” and Canadian Art Deco sodas. I now build the exploding Gold Rush town of in San Francisco in 1998. You’d find specialize in that form, thanks to eBay. San Francisco.

Arnold Sr., there filling holes as fast as I was graduated from UCLA and Not knowing of this crazy hobby his sons dug them. with my brother started a company back then, I stood there in awe as people “I’ll never forget the smile on dad’s inventing consumer products. As part dug holes in the ground and pulled face at the sight of so many fantastic of our research, we frequently found out glass treasures one after the other. bottles,” the junior Arnold said. ourselves in the Sunnyvale Patent Library Suddenly, I heard one digger exclaim:” Rivaling that dig was the old dump on (one of only two on the West Coast). “There’s Arnold Sierra!” The handsome Virginia Street in San Jose during the One day, I walked past old volumes and energetic man hurried across the late 1960s. Many rare whiskeys and from the 1920s and was excited to find site and went to work, working his many Cassin’s Bitters came from there. renderings of patent designs issues for probe quickly. He dug his hole faster Arnold Sr., found the Russell City clothing, furniture and jewelry. I really and deeper than anyone else’s and dump in Hayward – gigantic boxed got excited by discovering page after before long, I saw him emerge with pits into which nearby hotels, saloons page of Art Deco-inspired soda pop a beautifully ornate amber bitters. He and brothels dumped their 1880s trash. bottle designs, a few of which I’d found wore a broad smile on his face as he He said 85% of the bottles found were

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gloppy (applied tops) western whiskeys, pontiled bloptop sodas, including the get out of bed to greet his sons returning earliest and rarest CC & B, colored from late night digs. “What did you the majority of them whole.

Arnold Sr., dug at the San Wonser’s Bitters, Gold Dust Whiskeys find?” was his inevitable question.

Arnold Sierra Sr., died at the Francisco wharf sites in the age of 79 on Wednesday, Feb. 1970s, punching through 13,. 2008. I remember him for his concrete floored basements personal warmth and friendliness of demolished buildings in toward me and everyone else. I what originally was the wharf owe a lot of thanks to his sons, area for clipper ships jamming who became the legendary the Gold Rush shoreline.

Sierra brothers; Jeff Rhoads, His rewards were boxes Peck and Audie Markota, Jeff full of stunning graphite“Human Steam Shovel” Watson, pontiled sodas. He dug many who I used to dig with before historic sites in and around he moved to Oregon; Grant Oakland after the Loma Pieta Bacon, fellow collector and my earthquake. Several buildings digging buddy who is always out were demolished, giving him searching for new sites; pioneer access to the “booty” that lay The appeal of Art Deco stems from colors and below. shapes like the Smile (2nd from left) and Whistle diggers and collectors Del and Vi Kenyon, who founded our San Some of his most (right) sodas. (Courtesy of Roger Hill) Jose Antique Bottle Collectors spectacular finds included a Association; Kathy Craig, our rare green Kreiss beer from the 1870s with an embossed goat from and early San Francisco beers that tireless club president and newsletter Redwood City, a Durham Whiskey, authority and auctioneer Jeff Wichmann editor, and John O’Neil and John Shroyer, who have inspired me to one Old Woodburn Whiskey, a Kentucky calls “as scarce as hen’s teeth.”

As he got older and his health would day build my own “man cave” or home Gem, many super bitters including the ultra rare amber Cassin’s Bitters, many not allow him to do much digging, he’d bottle museum.

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McElree, some of the seeds and the latter’s husband planted and raised some of the hattanooga ediCine o plants. It was he who marketed the Wine

By Charles David Head of Cardui before selling it to Patten.

Zeboim Patten not only Before the Civil War was successful at finding uprooted hundreds of thousands new products to sell, but of this country’s young men, and used creative promotional duty and honor sent them to fartechniques to market them. flung places they’d never heard He was one of the first to of, most had never traveled more put into practice massthan 10 or 15 miles from their market advertising.

To homes. overcome limitations of the Once war began, their lives transportation system of his changed forever as they found day,theChattanoogaMedicine themselves far away from home Company employed a huge and hearth. The Civil War was Chattanooga Medicine Co complex sprawls beneath force of traveling salesmen, fought mostly in the South and Lookout Mountain with Tennessee River in the also called drummers, to much to their astonishment, traverse rural America on background. Courtesy of Steve Ketcham young men dressed in blue foot, horseback, horse-andfrom Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, capital from 25 shares of stock costing buggy and, much later, in the Connecticut and other Northern states $1,000 each. The business was housed in new contraption called the automobile. found themselves marching through the a plain two-story brick building on muddy The company was one of the first to beautiful Shenandoah, Sequatchie and Market Street in the heart of the city. Its first recognize the value of outdoor advertising Tennessee valleys and hundreds of other president was Fred F. Wiehl, followed by and many of its salesmen also were fertile regions.

Adolph S. Ochs and Col. A.M. Johnson. painters, Numerous signs soon appeared It was in direct contrast to what they Patten became president of the company on storefronts, the sides and roofs of barns had been told about quicksand, swamps, in 1891. By then, the company had moved near well-traveled roads and crossroads. alligators and the mosquito- and malaria- onto one of the large commercial lots in the Quite often, the company made deals ridden country in the Deep South.

St. Elmo community founded in 1886 by with farmers to put a new roof on a barn After the war ended, many of the Col. Johnson. Patten’s nephews, John A. or shed in exchange for space on the sides Northern soldiers decided to return South and Zeboim Charles, who had joined the of the building on which would be painted for a variety of reasons. Some had met company in 1884, by 1895 had acquired BLACK DRAUGHT or WINE OF a Southern belle and had fallen in love. most of the company shares. What they CARDUI. A major tourist attraction near Others had seen business opportunities didn’t own, their uncle did.

Chattanooga copy-catted the medicine and liked the region and its people, so the The latter bought the formula rights Yankees moved South with the hopes of to Black Draught, a senna-based laxative, earning a good living. from the grandson of originator Dr. Q.A. Zeboim Cartter Patten was one of Simmons, of Snow Hill, Ga. Simmons those who liked the Chattanooga, Tenn., had developed it in 1840. It eventually area and, upon returning, became an became the Chattanooga company’s first entrepreneur. Born in Wilna, N.Y., in successful product, but not its last.

1840, Patten first saw Chattanooga while In 1882, he bought the rights to convalescing from wounds received in Dr, McElree’s Wine of Cardui, a tonic the Battle of Chickamauga, Serving in for women based on the sedative and the 115th Illinois Infantry during the war, antispasmodic properties of cricus he also served in the 149th New York benedictus. According to legend, its Infantry and attained the rank of captain. healing properties were brought to He and another veteran, Thomas H. the attention of Mr. Frances Smith in Payne, came to Chattanooga and opened Fayetteville, Tenn., by a Cherokee passing a book and stationery store called Patten through the town. She saw a young girl & Payne. A few years later, he sold his suffering from dysmenorrhea get relief interest and purchased the Chattanooga from a compound of dried leaves of cricus Times. He later was joined by prominent benedictus given to her by the Indian. The Front of a fan advertising businessmen from the area in forming the Indian also gave Mrs. Smith’s husband Cardui used by the Chattanooga Chattanooga Medicine Company. a supply of the plant’s leaves and seeds.

Medicine Company. Courtesy of The firm started with $25,000 in Mrs. Smith gave her granddaughter, Mrs. Steve Ketcham

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Advertising on the back of the fan issued by the Chattanooga Medicine Co. Courtesy of Steve Ketcham. company by starting in 1935 to paint SEE ROCK CITY atop and on the sides of barns, Many of those signs can be seen to this day.

Another project that confirmed Zeboim Patten as truly one of the marketing geniuses of his day was the development and distribution of the “Wine of Cardui” calendar and “Ladies’ Birthday Almanac.” The latter was published as early as 1891 and contained weather information, important dates in history and advertisements touting the effectiveness of all of the company’s medicines. Both calendars and almanacs were available from merchants who sold the company products, while millions more were distributed annually through the mail.

In 1902 alone, the company reported having sent out some 15 million almanacs and 12 million other books and pamphlets.

So great was the volume of mail that the firm soon found itself as the largest generator of mail in the entire Chattanooga area. So much mail was being sent and received, in fact, that the U.S. Post Office Department was forced to build a post office on the company premises.

Although most rural Americans were deeply religious and believed in the healing powers of the Almighty, they also understood that he would not mind if they handled the minor day-to-day

January - February 2011 discomforts of life with strong doses of Black Draught and Wine of Cardui, which were regularly advertised on the backs of church fans distributed without charge by the company.

Any successful enterprise is, of course, overseen by intelligent and competent management personnel and Zeboim hired some of the best young minds in the field.

They included John Thomas Lupton, a young and capable attorney. Born in 1862, Lupton served as legal counsel for the Chattanooga Medicine Company, eventually becoming vice president and treasurer from 1891-1906. He married Zeboim’s only daughter, Elizabeth Olive Patten, in a ceremony that became the major social event of 1889.

With business savvy akin to that of his father-in-law, in 1899 Lupton joined Benjamin F. Thomas and Joseph B. Whitehead in a partnership to bottle Coca-Cola in most of the United States.

In 1900, the partners split the bottling territory, with Lupton and Whitehead receiving most of the western United States and the South. In addition to the soft drink business, Lupton was active in other business endeavors, including several with his father-in-law.

In 1906, Zeboim Patten and Lupton sold their controlling interests in the Chattanooga Medicine Company to Patten’s nephew and capable assistant, John Patten. It was the latter who foresaw the vast and unexplored opportunities for product sales in Central and South America. By 1911, he had established a flourishing business in both areas. It was John who created the legendary salesmen force that included future Louisiana Gov. Huey P. Long in 1914. And it was John who enrolled the company as a charter member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Succeeding his brother, John, as president of the medicine company in 1916, Zeboim Charles Patten steered the company through turbulent times, including those of the Great Depression.

During that period, the company never failed to pay a dividend and in 1934 created the nation’s first pension and life insurance programs.

In 1935, a new product was introduced.

Menthacol, an analgesic balm created by Dr. Irvine W. Grote, met with only limited

59 success until its name was changed in 1946 to Soltice. In 1939, Zeboim Charles Patten retired and his nephew, Lupton Patten (a son of John A. Patten), took over as president. He established a nationally recognized research program and introduced diversification by entering into the fine chemical and prescription drug businesses. Lupton Patten also modernized the plant.

At the onset of World War II, the Chattanooga Medicine Company put its expertise to work and during the course of the war produced more than 34 million K-Rations of three meals each. The company also manufactured enough aromatic spirits of ammonia (first aid for shock victims) to float a battleship.

With their own sons and daughters on the front lines in numerous combat zones, as well as sons and daughters of a host of the company’s employees, the Patten family worked diligently to ensure all those young heroes would receive the very best in medicines and food the company could produce on 24-hour, seven-day shifts. The company earned the prestigious “E Award,” named in honor of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of allied forces in Europe, no fewer than five times.

By the end of the war, the Chattanooga Medicine Company continued to prosper and added additional successful products including “Icy Hot” and “Blis-To-Sol.” In September 1978, the company changed its name to Chattem Inc., and it’s still known by that name today.

The company has been in business for more than 130 years and its sales and earnings continue to grow, a fact that founder Zeboim Patten would be proud of had he been alive today.

SOURCES: Bill Baab, Augusta, Georgia;RonFowler,Seattle,Washington; Ned L. Irwin, East Tennessee University.

Books: Huey Long, by T. Harry Williams.

Websites: www.chattem.com.

AUTHOR’S NOTE: I would like to hear from anyone who collects Chattanooga Medicine Company Memorabilia. Write to Charles D. Head, 23549-001, P.O. Box 150160, Atlanta, GA 30315. I can also be contacted through KocaNolabook@yahoo.com.

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The Phoenix Antiques, Bottles, & Collectibles Club (P.A.B.C.C.)

Joined by the AZ Antiques & Collectibles Club Presents:

Our 2011 Show & Sale! -- Celebrating our 28th Show!

Location: North Phoenix Baptist Church (Free Parking) 5757 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, AZ

Dealer set up – Feb. 25th – 12:00 – 3:00 pm Feb. 25th, 1:00 – 3:00 pm - Early Bird Admission - $10 General Admission - $3 from 3:00 to 8:00 pm on Feb. 25th General Admission - $3 – 8:00 am – 4:00 pm on Feb. 26th $1 off General Admission coupon below -- Kids with adults are FREE! Complete contract on back and for more information contact: Betty Hartnett at 602-317-4438 or bettchem@cox.net Visit us at: phoenixantiquesclub.org ~Collectibles at our show will include~ Bottles - Toys - Lanterns - Railroad - Indian Artifacts - Depression Glass Fred Harvey - Dolls - Tokens - Tools - China - Blakely Kitchenware - Newspapers - Coins - Signs - Mining - Linens Member of: F.O.H.B.C COME Join Us & HAVE FUN!!!

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Classified Ads For sale For Sale: Shot glasses: 1) Davie & Drake Boston etc 2 ½ “ tall, 98% gold rim perfect; 2) Gerstley/Philadelphia/ Rye/Rogskam Gerstley & Co, 1.2” tall, perfect; 3) Rosskam Gerstley & Co/ Philadelphia (keystone monogram) 2 ¼ “ tall, perfect; 4) O’ So Good/mono/ Riegers Whiskey etc Kansas City Mo, 2 ¼” tall, perfect except some gold rim missing. $26 each, postage and insurance extra. Contact: Bill Herbolsheimer, 6 Beech Cluster, Doylestown, PA 189001, ph: (215) 340-7156, email: raeherb@ pinerunvillage.org.

The Mobile Bottle Collectors Club’s 38th Annual Show & Sale will be held on Saturday, March 26 from 9am to 3pm at the Daphne Civic Center, Whispering Pines Rd and US Hwy 98, Daphne, AL. Free admission. Dealer setup is Friday, March 25 from 3pm to 7pm and Saturday 7am to 9am. Contact: Jim Simmons, ph: (251) 824-2697 or Rod Vining, ph: (251) 957-6725, email: vinewood@mchsi.com or Richard Kramerich, PO Box 241, Pensacola, FL 32591, ph: (850) 435-5425, email: shards@bellsouth.net

wanted Wanted: I. De Turk Vineyard Santa Rosa, Cal. Clear cylinder fifth. Also looking for San Francisco, CA pumpkinseed flasks.

Contact: Rich Lucchesi, 4746 Bradford Ct, Santa Rosa, CA 95405, ph: (707) 539-1289, email: richlu1949@att.net.

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: South Carolina soda bottles – slug plate, crown top or blob top. Also any South Crolina embossed medicines

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Bottles and Extras or go-withs. Contact: Eric Warren, 238 Farmdale Dr, Lexington, SC 29073, ph: (80.) 957-8860, email: SCbottles@ aol.com.

Wanted: Mrs. Brown Metaphysical University (large size, mint to VNM).

Contact: Joe Widman, 300 W Osterhout Ave, Portage, MI 49024, ph: (269) 3290524, email: oldmedicines@yahoo.com.

Wanted: Illinois shot glasses especially Pekin and Peoria. Contact: Jim Searle, ph: (309) 346-7804, email: sky@ gallatinriver.net Wanted: Washington Territory (WT) bottles and memorabilia. Contact: Mark Nelson, 6249 111th Ave NE, Kirkland, WA 98033, ph: (425) 822-9804, email: collinw@yahoo.com.

Wanted: Sunburst flasks. Condition is important. Also, Untica, NY advertising stoneware jugs.

Contact: Bob Kennerknecht, PO Box 101, Thendara, NY 13472, ph: (315) 369-2229, email:

January - February 2011 knecht@frontiernet.net Wanted: RAWSONVILLE, MICH Bottles or any bottles with RAWSON name. Contact: Michael, ph: (936) 3298838.

Wanted: Good condition aqua, bimal, 9 sided – 2 7/8” flat to point x 1 15/16” high, embossed “S M Bixby & CO NY” (also described as an antique “Garlic Clove” shape). Contact: Ken Lawler, 6677 Oak Forest Dr, Oak Park, CA 91377, ph: (818) 889-5451, email: kenlawler@roadrunner.com.

The Antique Bottle Collectors of North Florida and the show team extend sincere thanks to all dealers and attendees for your continued support of our annual show. We appreciate your participation!

See you in Jacksonville – NEW DATE – November 5, 2011 Wanted: Figural bitters – one or a collection. Contact: Bill Taylor, ph: (541) 479-5165, email: wtaylor178@aol.com.

When moving, send change of address to: June Lowry FOHBC Business Manager 401 Johnston Ct Raymore, MO 64083 OSUBuckeyes71@aol.com

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63 Wanted: Pre-pro Western whiskies, shot glasses, advertising, mini jugs, billheads and all other whiskey related items. When in Northern California, stop and see a great whiskey collection.

Contact: Ken Schwartz, PO Box 990956, Redding, CA 96099, ph: (530) 243-2521.

Wanted: Hostetters info.

Doing the history on such! Need 1861 with Hostetter face on front cover of almanac and any paper saying such about Hostetter in California. Same for G. W. Smith – Hostetter’s partner!

Contact: Doug Shilson, Bittersdug@ aol.com.

Wanted: Mrs. Snowball figural bottle Bob Fitzsimmons AKA Boxer figural bottle and clown decanter & German gentleman all made by Dalzell, Gilmore & Leighton Co, Findlay, Ohio. Made late 1890s. Contact: Jerry Pore, ph: (419) 365-5989, email: jgpore@gmail.com

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KETCHUP, PICKLES, SAUCES 19th Century Food in Glass Betty Zumwalt, author 498 pages of pictures & research of glass containers the early food industry utlilized Smyth Bound - $25 $10 Christmas Special Mark West Publishers PO Box 1914 Sandpoint, ID 86864

Have a Story to Tell? Know some good digging stories? Keep us informed and write to: mdvanzant@yahoo.com Martin Van Zant 208 Urban St. Danville Ind. 46122

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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 June Lowry, 401 Johnston Ct, Raymore, MO 64083 or E-mail: OSUBuckeyes71@aol.com. Show schedules are subject to change. Please call before traveling long distances.

January 7 - 8 Palmetto, Florida Suncoast Antique Bottle Collectors Association’s 42nd Annual Show & Sale, (Friday early buyers 4pm 7:45pm, $15; Saturday general admission 9am - 5pm, $4 - mention ad and receive $1 off general admission), at the Manatee Civic and Convention Center, One Haben Blvd & US Highway 41, Palmetto, FL. Info: George Dueban, ph: (727) 804-5957, email: Res08w341@verizon.net or Linda Buttstead, ph: (941) 722-7233, email: OriginalSABCA@aol.com.

January 9 Muncie, Indiana Midwest Antique Fruit Jar & Bottle Club’s Annual Show & Sale (9am 2pm) at the Horizon Convention Center, Muncie, IN. Info: Dave Rittenhouse, 1008 S 900 W, Farmland, IN 47340, ph: (765) 468-8091 or Jean Harbron, ph: (765) 644-4333.

January 16 South Attleboro, Massachusetts The Little Rhody Bottle Club’s Annual Shoe & Sale (10am - 2pm with early buyers 9am) at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 304 Highland Ave, South Attleboro, MA. Info: Bill or Linda Rose, ph: (508) 880-4929 January 22 Jackson, Mississippi 26th Annual Mississippi Antique Bottle and Collectables Show & Sale, (Early admission, $20, Friday 3pm 9pm, General admission, Saturday, 9am - 4pm), at the Mississippi Fair Grounds, Jackson, MS. Info: John Sharp, PO Box 601, Carthage, MS 39051, ph: (601) 507-0105, email: johnsharp49@aol.com.

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Anderson, California The Superior California Antique Bottle Club’s 35th Annual Show & Sale (9am - 4pm) at the Shasta County Fairgrounds, Anderson, CA. Info: Mel Hammer, ph: (530) 241-4878 or Phil McDonald, ph: (530) 243-6903.

New Jersey Antique Bottle Club’s 16th Annual Show & Sale (9am 2pm) at the Knight’s of Columbus Hall, 88 Jackson St. South River, NJ. Info: Joe Butewicz, 24 Charles St, South River, NJ 08882, ph: (732) 2369945, email: botlman@msn.com.

January 29 Sarasota, Florida The Sarasota-Manatee Antique Bottle Collectors Silver Anniversary (25th) Annual Bottle Show & Sale (9am 3pm) at the Florida National Guard Armory at the Sarasota Fairgrounds, 2890 Ringling Blvd. Dealer setup at 1pm Friday, January 28 with early buyers 4pm - 7pm. Info: Ed Herrold, PO Box 18928, Sarasota, FL 34276, ph: (941) 923-6550, cell ph: (941) 266 -6452.

February 18 - 19 Columbia, South Carolina The South Carolina Antique Bottle Club’s 38th Annual Show & Sale including small antiques (Friday 11am 6pm, Saturday 9am - 1pm) at the Meadowlake Park Center, 600 Beckman Rd, Columbia, SC. Dealer setup Friday 10am. No early admission fee.

Info: Marty Vollmer, ph: (803) 7559410, email: martyvollmer@aol.com or Eric Warren, ph: (803) 951-8860.

February 4 Rome, Georgia The Roma Bottle Club’s 40th Annual Show & Sale (Saturday 8am - 3pm) at the Rome Civic Center, Turner McCall Blvd, Rome, GA. Setup Friday 3pm - 8pm. Info Jerry Mitchell, PO Box 475, Bremen, GA 30110, ph: (770) 537-3725, email: mitjt@aol.com or Bob Jenkins, 285 Oak Grove Rd, Carrolton, GA 30177, ph: (770) 834-0736.

February 5 Yuma, Arizona The Grand Canyon State Insulator Club’s 12th Annual Insulator Show & Tailgator (9am - late afternoon) at the Riverside Park next to the Yuma Territorial Prison (Exit I-8 at the Giss Parkway Exit and follow the signs).

Info: Roger Nagel, ph: (623) 5660121 February 6 South River, New Jersey

February 19 Columbus, Ohio The Annual Columbus Ohio Antique Bottle Show & Sale (9am - 2pm) at the Ohio State Fairgrounds, 17th Avenue Exit off I-71. Info: Joe Hardin, 594 Lyman Rd, New Vienna, OH 45159, ph: (937) 728-9930, email: jkcollectables@gmail.com.

February 19 Aurora, Oregon The Oregon Bottle Collectors Association’s 2011 Winter Antique Bottle and Collectibles Show & Sale (9am 3pm, set up and early admission Friday 1pm - 6pm), at the American Legion Hall, 3rd and Main St, Aurora, OR. Info: Jim or Julie Dennis, ph: (541) 467-2760, email: jmdennis@hotmail.com.

February 25 - 26 Phoenix, Arizona The Phoenix Antiques, Bottles and Collectibles Club’s 27th Annual Show & Sale (general admission $3 Friday

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(More) Sho-Biz 3pm - 8pm and Saturday 8am - 4pm with early admission Friday noon 3pm for $10) at the North Phoenix Baptist Church, 5757 N Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ. Info: Betty Hartnett, 3030 E Ocotilla Ln, Phoenix, AZ 85208, ph: (602) 317-4438, email: bettchem@cox.net.

February 27 Enfield, Connecticut Somers Antique Bottle Club’s 41st Annual Show & Sale (9am - 2pm, early buyers at 8am) at the St. Bernard’s School West Campus, 232 Pearl St, Enfield, CT 06082. Info: Rose Sokol, 164 Elm St, Enfield, CT 06082, p h: (960) 745-7688, email: enfieldrose@aol.com March 5 Shrewsbury, Pennsylvania The Chesapeake Bay 23rd Annual Show & Sale (9am - 2pm) at the Shrewsbury Fire Hall, 21 West Forrest Ave, Shrewsbury, PA (Exit 4 off I-83) with dealer setup 7am - 9am.

Info: Charles Irons, ph: (302) 4225712, email: ironsjrc@verizon.net, www.insulators.info/clubs/cbic.

March 6 Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore Antique Bottle Club’s 31st Annual Show & Sale (8am - 3pm) at Essex Campus of the Community College of Baltimore County, 7201 Rossville Blvd, Baltimore, MD. Info: Eric Ewen, ph: (410) 265-5745, email: Teresaanderic@comcast.net March 12 Lebanon, Indiana Heartland Glass Collectors Insulator & Bottle Show (8am - 3pm) at the Boone County Fairgrounds, Lebanon, IN - I65, exit 138. Info: Kim Borgman, 1056 E US 136, Pittsboro, IN 46167, ph: (317) 698-9177, email: kborgman@nwscorp.com.

March 12 St. Joseph, Missouri

Missouri Valley Insulator Club’s 9th Annual St. Joseph Insulator and Bottle Show & Sale (9am - 3pm) at the American Legion Post 359, 4826 Frederick Ave, St. Joseph, MO. Info: Dennis Weber, 3609 Jackson St, St. Joseph, MO 64507, ph: (816) 3641312, email: stjoeshow2011@aol.com.

March 18 - 19 Deland, Florida The Deland M-T Bottle Collectors Club’s 41st Annual Bottle and Insulator Show & Sale (Early buyers Friday 3pm - 7pm $20 and public Saturday 9am - 3pm) at the Volusia County Fairgrounds, Deland, FL. Info: Brian Hoblick, PO Box 2015, DeLeon Springs, FL 32130, ph: (386) 8049635, email: hoblock@aol.com or Dwight Pettit Jr, ph: (386) 575-0293, email: pettit9119@bellsouth.net, www.m-tbottleclub.com.

March 20 St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis Antique Bottle Collectors’ Association’s 41st Annual Show & Sale (9am - 3pm) at the Two Hearts Banquet Center, 4532 S. Lindbergh, St. Louis, MO. Info: Pat Jett, 71 Outlook Dr, Hillsboro, MO 63050, ph: (636) 948-3029, email: patsy_jett@yahoo.com.

March 20 Flint, Michigan The Flint Antique Bottle and Collectibles Club’s 41st Annual Show & Sale (9am - 3pm) at the Dom Polski Hall, 3415 N Linden Rd, Flint, MI. Info: Tim Buda, 11353 Cook Rd, Gaines, MI 48436, ph: (989) 271-9193, email: tbuda@shianet.org.

March 25 - 26 Morro Bay, California The San Luis Obispo Bottle Society’s 43rd Annual Show & Sale (Friday 3pm - 7pm and Saturday 9am - 3pm) at the Morrow Bay Veterans Hall, 209 Surf St, Morro Bay, CA. Free admis-

sion and no charge to early buyers.

Info: Richard Tartaglia, ph: (805) 543-7484.0 March 26 Daphne, Alabama The Mobile Bottle Collects Club’s 38th Annual Show & Sale (9am 3pm) at the Daphne Civic Center, Whispering Pines Rd and US Hwy 98, Daphne, AL. Info: Jim Simmons, ph: (251) 824-2697 or Rod Vining, ph: (251) 957-6725, email: vinewood@mchsi.com or Richard Kramerich, PO Box 241, Pensacola, FL 32591, ph: (850) 435-5425, email: shards@bellsouth.net.

March 27 Bloomington, Minnesota North Star Historical Bottle Association and Minnesota’s First Antique Bottle Club’s 40th Annual Show & Sale (9:30am - 2:30pm) at the Holiday Inn & Suites, 3 Appletree Square, (I494 & 34th Avenue South) Bloomington, MN. Info: Steve Ketcham, ph: (952) 920-4205, email: Steve@antiquebottledepot.com.

March 27 Brewerton, New York 41st Annual Spring Show & Sale (9am - 3pm) at the Brewerton Fire Hall, 9625 Route 11, Brewerton, NY. Info: Dave Tuxill, ph: (315) 4690629, email: dtuxill1@twcny.rr.com.

March 27 Enfield, Connecticut Yankee Pole Cat Insulator Club’s Annual Spring Insulator, Bottle and Tabletop Collectibles Show & Sale at the American Legion Hall, 566 Enfield St, Enfield, CT. Info: John Rajpolt, ph: (203) 261-1190, email: rajpolt@earthlink.net April 2 - 3 Indianapolis, Indiana Greater Midwest Antique Bottle, Pottery, Advertising and Antique Show and Sale (9am - 5pm Saturday and

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(More) Sho-Biz 9am - 2pm Sunday. Early admission 5pm - 8pm Friday) at the Wyndham Indianapolis West (formerly Adams Mark). Info: Martin Van Zant, 208 Urban St. Danville, IN 46122, ph: (812) 841-9495, email: mdvanzant@yahoo.com or William Gonterman, ph: (317) 268-4612 April 9 Kalamazoo, Michigan Kalamazoo Antique Bottle Club’s 32nd Annaul Show & Sale (10am 3pm) at the Kalamazoo County Fairgrounds, 2900 Lake St, Kalamazoo, MI. Info: John Pastor, PO Box 227, New Hudson, MI 48165, ph: (616) 581-7005, email: jpastor@americanglassgallery.com or Mark McNee, ph: (269) 343-8393 April 16 Salisbury, North Carolina Piedmont Bottle and Pottery Club’s 5th Annual Show & Sale (8am - 2pm, 6:30am dealer setup at the Salisbury Civic Center, 315 S Martin Luther King Ave (formerly 315 S Boundary St), Salisbury, NC 28144. Info: John Patterson, ph: (704) 636-9510, email: ncmilks@carolina.rr.com.

April 16 Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania Western Reserve Insulator Club’s 11th Annual Allegheny Valley Insulator Show & Sale (9am - 3pm) at the VFS Post 894. Info: Ron Varth, ph: (724) 845-8439, email: rktbarth@windstream.net April 17 Rochester, New York Genesee Valley Bottle Collectors Association’s 42nd Annual Show & Sale (9am - 3pm) at the Monroe County Fair & Expo Center, Minett Hall, Route 15A & Calkins Rd, Henrietta, NY. Info: Aaron & Pam Weber, ph: (585) 226-6345, email: gvbca@frontiernet.net.

April 30 Aiken, South Carolina The Horse Creek Bottle Club’s 3rd Annual Show & Sale (9am - 3pm, no early buyer) at the H. Odell Weeks Activities Center, 1700 Whiskey Rd, Aiken, SC 28903. Info: Geneva Green, ph: (803) 593-2271 or Mike Newman, ph: (706) 829-8060.

May 1 Brick, New Jersey The Jersey Shore Bottle Club’s 38th Annual Antique Bottle, Post Card and Local Memorabilia Show & Sale (8:30am - 2pm) at the Brick Elks, 2491 Hooper Ave, Brick, NJ 08723.

Info: Rich Peal, ph: (732) 267-2528, email: manodirt@msn.com.

May 1 Whitesboro, New York Mohawk Valley Antique Bottle Club’s 17th Annual Antique Bottle Show & Sale (9am - 2:30pm) at the Utica Curling Club, 8300 Clark Mills Rd, Whitesboro, NY. Info: Peter Bleiberg, 7 White Pine Rd, New Hartford, NY, ph: (315) 735-5430, email: pmbleiberg@aol.com May 7 Gray, Tennessee The State of Franklin Antique Bottle and Collectibles Association’s 13th Annual Snow & Sale (8am - 2pm with free admission; dealer setup and early buyers ($10) - Friday, May 6 12 noon - 6pm). Info: Melissa Milner, ph: (423) 928-4445, email: mmilner12@charter.net, www.sfabca.com.

May 15 Millville, New Jersey New Jersey Antique Bottle Club’s Annual Millville Show & Sale (9am 3pm) at the Elks Lodge of Millville, 1815 E Broad St, Millville, NJ. Info: Joe Butewicz, 24 Charles St, South River, NJ 08882, ph: (732) 345-3653, email: botlman@msn.com.

June 11 San Diego, California Antique Bottle Club of San Diego’s Annual Antique Bottle and Collectibles Show & Sale (9am - 3pm) at the Al Bahr Shrine Tempe, 5440 Kearny Mesa Rd, San Diego, CA 92111. Info: Jim Walker, ph: (858) 490-9019, email: jfw@internetter.com, www.sdbottleclub.org.

June 25 - 26 Memphis, Tennessee Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors’ Annual National Show & Sale at the Cook Convention Center, Memphis, TN. Info: R. Wayne Lowry, FOHBC Conventions Director, ph: (816) 318-0161, email: JarDoctor@aol.com.

July 8 - 10 San Jose, California 42nd National Insulator Association Show & Sale at the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, CA. Info: Colin Jung, ph: (408) 732-8736.

July 9 Leadville, Colorado Antique Bottle Collectors of Colorado’s 7th 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. Contact: Jim and Barb Sundquist, 2861 Olympia Ln, Evergreen, CO 80439, ph: (303) 674-4658.

July 23 Tallahassee, Florida The 5th Annual Tallahassee Antique Bottle Show & Sale (9am - 3pm) at the North Florida Fairgrounds, Tallahassee, FL. Info: Britt Keen, 1144 Azalea Dr, Tallahassee, FL 32301, ph: (850) 877-44990, email: britt_keen@hotmail.com, www.floridabottles.com.

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(More) Sho-Biz rado’s 7th 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. Contact: Jim and Barb Sundquist, 2861 Olympia Ln, Evergreen, CO 80439, ph: (303) 674-4658.

July 23 Tallahassee, Florida The 5th Annual Tallahassee Antique Bottle Show & Sale (9am - 3pm) at the North Florida Fairgrounds, Tallahassee, FL. Info: Britt Keen, 1144 Azalea Dr, Tallahassee, FL 32301, ph: (850) 877-44990, email: britt_keen@hotmail.com, www.floridabottles.com.

August 12 - 13 Martinsburg, West Virginia The Chesapeake Bay Insulator Club is hosting the 2011 Eastern Regional at the Holiday Inn. Info: Charlie Irons, ph: (302) 422-5712, email: ironsjrc@verizon.net, www.insulators.info/clubs/cbic/

August 20 Urbana, Ohio The 2nd Annual Urbana, Ohio Antique Bottle and Jar Show & Sale (9:30am - 3pm) at the Champaign County Fairgrounds and Exhibition Center, Urbana, OH - just off 68 on the south side of Urbana. Info: John Bartley, PO Box 53, North Hampton, OH, 45349, ph: (937) 964-8080, emai: jbrtley@woh.rr.com.

August 23 - 13 Martinsburg, West Virginia The Chesapeake Bay Insulator Club’s 2011 Eastern Regional Show & Sale at the Holiday Inn, Martinsburg, WV. Info: Larry Novak, ph: (301) 6808 9 1 0 , e m a i l : cbic@clubs.insulators.info.

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.,

Notice of 2011 National Show & 2012 FOHBC Expo 2011 National Show, June 25 - 26 Cook Convention Center Memphis, Tennessee 2012 FOHBC Expo July 27 - 29 Grand Sierra Resort Reno, Nevada For more information, contact: R. Wayne Lowry FOHBC Conventions Director 401 Johnston Ct Raymore, MO 64083 816-318-0161 JarDoctor@aol.com Watch www.FOHBC.com and Bottles and Extras for more information.

Jacksonville, FL. Info: Mike Skie, 3047 Julington Creek Rd, Jacksonville, RL 32223, ph: (904) 710-0422 or Jackie McRae, ph: (904) 879-3696 July 21, 2012 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) 674-4658.

July 27 - 29, 2012 Reno, Nevada Federation of Historical Bottle Collector’s EXPO at the Grand Sierra Hotel and Resort, Reno, NV. Info: R. Wayne Lowry, FOHBC Conventions Director, ph: (816) 318-0161, email: JarDoctor@aol.com.

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FOHBC MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY Additions Stevie and Clark Colvin Jr 201 Hiway 160 Benton, LA 71006 clark0429@hotmail.com

124 W Main St Lancaster, OH 43130 740-687-0101 mburket@ohioglassmuseum.org

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Thomas Euper 3040 Trudi Ln Burbank, CA 91504 818-269-7598 Euperway@aol.com Southern California

David Adams 200 W Lewis St Lot #55 Willcox, AZ 85643 215-272-1609 botlman@yahoo.com Blob tops and medicines

William Gonterman Creative Promotions 10786 Emery Dr Indianapolis, IN 46231 812-876-7602 oldbottles1@hotmail.com Bitters

Junne Barnett C/O Gary Barnett 9840 S 375 W Edinburgh, IN 46124 812-587-5084 (Debbie) thebarnetts@mach1pc.com Odd closured fruit jars

Blaine Greenman 6121 Arrowhead Dr Huntington Beach, CA 92647 714-390-4649 blazane@yahoo.com Poisons

Dean Davidson 848 Vine St. El Centro, CA 92243 760-352-6067 ddavidsonbotts@roadrunner.com Antique bottles

David LaDuke 309 Millen Dr North Syracuse, NY 13212 315-458-6261 dladuke@twcny.rr.com New York state milk bottles, fruit jars, medicines, sodas, food

Doc Ford 120 Brookmont Rd Akron, OH 44333 Everything

William Porter 1329 Grandin Ave Rockville, MD 20851 301-309-0509 oldcokes@aol.com Coca-cola, 7-up other colas and sodas Mel Tanaka 3511 Pilikino St Honolulu, HI 96822 808-372-8356 melvin@pacificrimbank.com Vintage bottles from Hawaill. Prime beer labels and advertising trays.

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Ben & Miriam Glassman 4 Brookside Ln Harrison, NY 10528 914-698-0564 Mirkele@optonlin.net Poison bottles Bill Granger 6915 S 280 E Lebanon, IN 46052 317-769-6676 Bgranger@iquest.net Pontiled balsams Joe Hardin 594 Laymon Rd New Vienna, OH 45159 937-728-9930

jkcollectables@gmail.com Saratoga mineral waters Jim Lilley Dudley Lilley Properties 930 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd Chapel Hill, NC 27514 919-260-6778 Marc Lutsko 10 Hidden Valley Dr Clancy, MT 59634 406-422-4690 letsgo@montanasky.net Montana bottles, Owl drug, western bottles Bruce Schank 3041 Branch St Whiteland, IN 46184 973-214-5082 fruitjars@optonline.net Fruit jars Joseph Terry 262 Ohio Ave Tiffin, OH 44883 419-686-0032 joeterry@woh.rr.com Wabash Valley Antique Bottle & Pottery Club Attn: Ed Newman, Secretary 1522 Grand Ave Terre Haute, IN 47804 812-232-3774 bottleed@aol.com Terre Haute Bottles 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.

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Bottle and Extras Individual and Affiliated Club Membership Information Membership in the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors includes:

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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: June Lowry FOHBC Business Manager 401 Johnston Ct. Raymore, MO 64083 816-318-0160 OSUBuckeyes71@aol.com

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We are currently accepting additional quality consignments for our upcoming Spring, 2011 absentee auction.

Whether you’re thinking about consigning a single quality item or an entire collection, we look forward to hearing from you!

We wish to thank all of our clients, consignors and bidders alike, for a very successful 2010!

These choice pieces have already been consigned to our Spring, 2011 Auction.

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