Vol. 20 No. 4
July - August 2009
The official publication of the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors
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Vol. 20 No 4
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July - August 2009
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Table of Contents FOHBC Officer Listing 2008 - 2010 ......... 2 Southern California History Jim Sinsley ...................................... 29 President’s Message .................................. 3 Australian Bush Devastation Recent Finds .............................................. 4 Travis Dunn .................................... 35
Australian Connection, Part II Rex Barber ..................................... 53
At Auction ................................................. 5 Nevada Bottle Collecting Bob Ferraro.................................... 38 Shards of Wisdom ..................................... 6 Pretender or Actual Example Paper Trail ................................................. 8 Barry Bernas .................................. 41
Classified Ads & Ad Rate Information ... 62
Bantam Bottles Appealing Space Savers Chuck Norris .................................. 55
Show Biz Show Calendar ............................... 66 Membership Additions and Changes....... 69
A Book in Review ................................... 10 Hutchinsons of Sydney Zang Wood ..................................... 43 Regional Reports ..................................... 12 “Southern California Digs Don’t Exist” Legends of the Jar David Garcia .................................. 49 Bruce Schank .................................. 25
Membership Application ......................... 71 Membership Benefits .............................. 72
Don’t miss an issue - Please check your label for expiration information. Fair use notice: Some material above has been submitted for publication in this magazine and/or was originally published by the authors and is copyrighted. We, as a non-profit organization, offer it here as an educational tool to increase further understanding and discussion of bottle collecting and related history. We believe this constitutes “fair use” of the copyrighted material as provided for in Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this material for purposes of your own that go beyond “fair use”, you must obtain permission from the copyrighted owner(s).
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Business & News The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors is a non-profit organization for collectors of historical bottles and related collectible items. Our primary goal is educational as it relates to the history and manufacture of historical bottles and related artifacts.
FOHBC Officers 2008-2010 President: Richard Siri, PO Box 3818, Santa Rosa, CA 95402; phone: (707) 542-6438; e-mail: rtsiri@sbcglobal.net First Vice-President: Bob Ferraro, 515 Northridge Dr, Boulder City, NV 89005; phone: (701) 293-3114; e-mail: mayorferraro@aol.com Second Vice-President: John Pastor, PO Box 227, New Hudson, MI 48165; phone: (248) 486-0530; e-mail: jpastor@americanglassgallery.com Secretary: Ed Herrold, 65 Laurel Loop, Maggie Valley, NC 28751; phone: (828) 926-2513; e-mail: drbitters@mindspring.com Treasurer: Alan DeMaison, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077; phone: (440) 358-1223; e-mail: a.demaison@sbcglobal.net Historian: Richard Watson, 10 S Wendover Rd, Medford, NJ 08055; phone: (856) 983-1364; e-mail: crwatsonnj@verizon.net Editor (acting): June Lowry, 401 Johnston Ct, Raymore, MO 64083; phone: (816) 318-0161; e-mail: OSUBuckeyes71@aol.com Merchandising Director: Kent Williams, 1835 Oak Ter, Newcastle, CA 95658; phone: (916) 663-1265; e-mail: KentW@ppoa.org Membership Director: Gene Bradberry, PO Box 341062, Memphis, TN 38184; phone: (901) 372-8428; e-mail: Genebsa@comcast.net Convention 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: Cecil Munsey, 13541 Willow Run Rd, Poway, CA 92064; phone: (858) 487-7036; e-mail: cecilmunsey@cox.net Midwest Region Director: Jamie Houdeshell, PO Box 57, Haskins, OH 43525; phone: (419) 722-3184; e-mail: JHBottle@hotmail.com Northeast Region Director: James Bender, PO Box 162, Sprakers, NY 12166; phone: (518) 673-8833; e-mail: Jim1@frontiernet.net Southern Region Director: Ron Hands, 913 Parkside Dr, Wilson, NC 27896; phone: (252) 265-6644; e-mail: rshands225@yahoo.com Western Region Director: Bill Ham, 4237 Hendricks Rd, Lakeport, CA 95453; phone: (707) 263-6563; e-mail: Billham@sbcglobal.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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President’s Message Writing the President's message well ahead of the time it actually gets into print and into your hands is somewhat of a chore .I don’t know if I should write about future happenings because they may not happen. This has been the case with the magazine. I had stated in the Sept.-Oct. issue and in the Nov.-Dec. issue that all was OK and we would be on track to deliver the magazine on time. Many of you are probably scratching your heads, wondering what tree I fell out of. Some have accused me of not doing my job. Well, I hope you're reading this message in July or maybe early August. If so, that means we are really back on track. The postal service will have a play in the timely delivery of the magazine. Sometimes there is a couple of weeks' difference as to when a member receives his issue when in fact all are mailed about the same time. The FOHBC has absorbed four postal increases in the last four years and may have to increase membership dues in the future. I can hear it now: haven’t been getting the magazine and now this guy is talking increased dues.
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President: Richard Siri PO Box 3818 Santa Rosa, CA 95402 (707) 542-6438 rtsiri@sbcglobal.net
pushed for advertising as the magazine wasn’t on time; now, I think we can. We don’t want to downsize the magazine. Everyone likes it the way it is. We get lots of compliments about the look and content of Bottles and Extras. The research articles are alone worth the price and where would the archaeologist go to get the information about what they dig up? We still need and always will need a ready supply of articles on hand. Share your knowledge with fellow collectors and write a research article or a digging adventure and send it to us. The bottle hobby itself is doing fine. Prices are holding steady if not going up. Some good bottles are still being dug here in the West and elsewhere. Interest in general is good. It does always amaze me that thousands of contemporary bottles are sold for décor when you can get the same effect with antique bottles that are not expensive and may increase in value. Hope to see you at Pomona.
If we can increase membership and get more paid advertising, we may be able to keep dues at present levels. If not, we may have no choice but to raise them. We have not
Richard Siri, President, FOHBC
Where there’s a will there’s a way to leave collections to 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. An example of a bequest would be: (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. Richard Siri, President Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors
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RECENT FINDS monks. Since the jugs served only decorative purposes, however, it is not clear who ultimately was responsible for their merchandising. It is, however, possible to date all the items as more than 100 years old and thus eligible for status as antiques.
Clues to Two Monk Jugs Provided by Jack Sullivan Sometimes traditions merge to form an artifact whose province and purpose can be hard to understand. Among such items is a whiskey jug that is decorated from top to bottom usually dominated by shades of brown and featuring a monk quaffing a beer. The motif has a distinctly German look. Indeed, similar items are found in antique stores and auction sites with German pottery marks. Recently, however, two such jugs have come to light that bear the mark of the Knowles, Taylor and Knowles pottery that flourished in East Liverpool, Ohio, during the late 1800s and early 1900s. They produced a distinctive style of porcelain jug, used by a number of distillers for their whiskey. It features a snake handle and a “KT&K� mark on the base. In decorating its own whiskey jugs, the KT&K firm used a relatively simple overglaze printing process. In addition, KT&K frequently sold its jugs completely blank. Between 1870 and 1920, thousands of American women took up the art of decorating porcelain tablewares and
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Figure 2 other household objects with handpainted overglaze. An entire industry sprang up to support this trend. KT&K obliged with its snake handled china jugs and hundreds of hand-painted examples are known. The two monk jugs shown here (Fig. 1 and 2), however, are not hand painted and appear to have been decorated by a transfer process. In addition, the images are identical to those on beer steins made for the Paul Wuestoff Co., a brewery operating in Pittsburgh from about 1901 until 1916. (Fig. 3 and 4). Those steins bear the mark of the Theumler Co., a Pittsburgh and Rochester, Pennsylvania, firm run by Hugo Theumler, a immigrant who had learned his craft in Germany. His firm specialized in mass producing decorations on glass and ceramic items up until 1908 when he died. Theumler-marked beer mugs and steins are found throughout the East and Midwest. Theumler Mfg. Co. was not a pottery and is known to have bought all its blanks from regional potteries. We are thus led to the conclusion that Theumler created the monk jugs using stock bought from KT&K and applying its own transfers of imbibing
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Notes: Thanks to John DeGrafft for his photos of the two newlyacquired jugs in his collection. http://bottlesboozeandbackstories. blogspot.com
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Old glass, in its wonderful and widely varying array of colors, captured the interest of John and Kay Moore which was illustrated in their superb collection of more than 40 years. Included here are just a few samples of the 144 lots that were sold recently by John Pastor and American Glass Gallery for the Moores who make their home in Wichita, KS.
Pattern Molded Pocket Flask with 18 vertical ribs 1820 – 1840. Brilliant sapphire blue with sheared mouth and pontil scar. 6 3/4” tall. Beautiful flask sold for $1300.
Two English Pattern Molded Decanters, 1850 1880. Left example is a beautiful golden apricot with pontil scar—11 5/8” tall. Right example is a medium to deep emerald green with pontil scan measuring 11 1/4” tall. Each sold for $350.
“Chicken Cock” / motif of rooster / “Bourbon” whiskey bottle (see January/ February Bottles and Extras page 8 for article). 1880 - 1900 American with period “Chicken Cock Whiskey” stopper (not original to item). 7” tall with smooth base. Sold for $1100.
Bottle People: THANK YOU! Through the effort and skill of American Glass Gallery (John & Liz), most of our collection recently sold to you at auction. Kay and I are very pleased and very grateful. Again, thank you,
John and Kay Moore
Cornucopia - Urn Pictorial Flask from Lancaster Glass Works, Lancaster, New York, 1849 - 1860 in rich blue green with sheared mouth and pontil scar. Pint. Sold for $650.
Two miscellaneous handled items, “Ain’t What It Used To Be” / (motif of standing horse), handled bright apricotamber flask (6 5/8” tall) and a figural glazed pottery handled cabin bottle - both early 20th century. Pair sold for $50 Gilt Decorated Decanter, probably from Bristol, England (1790 - 1820). Translucent cobalt (“Bristol Blue”), club form, “RUM” lettering within fancy decorative hanging urn motif. Tooled flared mouth with correct stopper with polished pontil scar and 8 7/8” tall. Sold for $375
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Past President of the Milwaukee Antique Bottle Club, Gerald Bergeson passed away Saturday evening, May 2, 2009. Bergeson, Gerald A. The travels of Jerry changed course on Saturday May 2, 2009, due to a heart that he had used twice as much as most others. "Bergie" is survived by his love, Karen; his children, Tony (Rebecca) Bergeson, Christine Clifford and Matthew (Dana) Tollefsen; his grandchildren, Emily, William, Andrew and one on the way; and his sister, Jean Stahl. Also survived by nieces, nephews, other relatives, many friends, a parade of bizarre individuals and the laughter of anyone that came within earshot of one of his many stories. Memorial Gathering at Brown Deer Park Pavilion, 7835 N. Green Bay Rd., Thursday, May 7, 4-6:30 PM. Memorial Service 6:30 PM. In lieu of flowers memorials appreciated to The National Park Foundation. No ____, there I was Condolences to: www.krausefuneralhome.com Krause Funeral Homes and Cremation Service 9000 W. Capitol Dr. 414-4644640 ———————
May 11, 2009 Hi June It was real nice visiting with you! It was great to know that there are like minded people around. I tried to email a picture to you of the bottle. Hope you get it. It has: J.W. DORAN PHARMACIST JUNEAU, ALASKA It has 12 oz above the writing, a cork top, light amethyst to it, no chips. Mint condition. It was dug in Douglas, Alaska which is right across the channel from Juneau in the Tredwell Mine area. .. I have also enclosed a check for $45 for membership. Looking forward to being in touch again. Jenny in Alaska
The bottle is 8” tall. Looking for any information on this bottle. If anyone has any information, please contact: Jenny Johnson, PO Box 3281, Soldotna, AK 99669, ph: (907) 394-1244, email: izardgal@acsAlaska.net. ——————— June 22, 2009 Dear Mrs. Lowry Just a short note to express my appreciation to you for running my “free” ad for Koca Nola soda bottles and go-withs in the B&E for two consecutive issues in a row, thanks! You featured my article on HUEY P. LONG in the March-April issue of the magazine and did a fine job with it also, keep up the good work! As time allows I’ll send you additional articles for the Bottles and Extras, including
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(hopefully) a two part article on the CHATTANOOGA MEDICINE COMPANY. Sincerely, Charles Head ——————— July 3, 2009 Hi June, Thanks for all the work you put into the Bottles & Extras publication. I know it can not be an easy, quick, job. You have done very well. I especially enjoy the variety. I am planning on attending Pomona. Will finally get to meet you. You are doing a great job! Good work, Garth Ziegenhagen ——————— June 14, 2009 Dear June, Here is my check for another year of Bottles and Extras. $30.00. Thanks for your help – Sincerely, John (Wolf) ——————— June 23, 2009 June: What a nice job you did on my article. Thank you. The pictures are wonderful. Someone in your art department does wonderful work. I always enjoy getting my issue. I always seem to learn something new and get to see old friends like Tom and Mabel Hicks. Take Care: Mike O’Malley ——————— June 24, 2009 Hi June It (Bottles and Extras) arrived today. Looks good! Haven’t had time to look it all over, but what I’ve seen so far is great! Steve (Ketcham) Please send letters, comments, questions, what-is-its, any type trivia, information, etc. for this column to: June Lowry, FOHBC 401 Johnston Ct Raymore, MO 64083 (816) 318-0160 OSUBuckeyes71@aol.com
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Bottles and Extras regrets the following errors: January/February, 2009 issue: Page 26 in The Australian Connection, 1880 brother in crocodile country in a photo caption should have been 1880 brothel in crocodile country March/April, 2009 issue: Page 31 in the Moncks Corner Bottle Show report, Tommy Schimpf, of Charleston, S.C., was misidentified as Jimmy Timms in a photo caption. Page 39 in the History of the MAFJ&BC, Pottery and Bodine in a photo caption should have been Potter and Bodine Page 43, column 1, paragraph 2 in Babb Coast to Coast by Eric McGuire: last sentence should read: “Rasmussen* also documents entry to the port of San Francisco by Babb in 1851 and 1852, implying that he sailed home at least twice prior to 1853 (7).”
Got enough food bottles and extras to get you through the pass Mr. Donner Courtesy Rex Barber from “Down Under”
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Dandelion Bitters Trade Card - Where's the bottle? According to Carlyn Ring and Bill Ham's "Bitters Bottles," there were ten different versions of dandelion bitters marketed at one time or another during the patent medicine era, and this number does not include those dandelion bitters which may have had another name attached to the front end of the product name such as Begg's Dandelion Bitters. Of the ten versions of dandelion bitters listed by Ring and Ham, seven carry descriptions of known bottles. Shown here is a trade card for a Dandelion Bitters produced by the Collins Brothers Drug Company of St. Louis, Missouri. When "Bitters Bottles" was printed, no bottle had been reported for this product. In their "Bitters Bottles Supplement," Ring and Ham picture the trade card shown here,
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but still no known bottle is listed. Should anyone know of the existence of the bottle to complement this great old trade card (it measures 3 1/2 by 6) we would love to hear of such a bottle and will gladly a photo of it in a future issue of "Bottles and Extras." Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company Trade Cards Last issue, we looked at a few of the die-cut trade cards issued by the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company. Presented here are examples of the firm’s more traditional trade cards. Each card features a colorful scene depicting some aspect of Native American life; many involve hunting. The reverse of each card carries either an ad for one particular Kickapoo remedy, or, as seen here, an ad promoting several of the company’s products. All of the cards shown measure roughly four inches by two-and-threequarters inches.
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"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. E-mail your contribution to: Steve Ketcham s.ketcham@unique-software.com or mail it to: Steve Ketcham PO Box 24114 Edina, MN 55424 Ph: (952) 920-4205
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about the bottles of St. Joseph, Mo.
Mini Reviews of Books by Collectors
In 1988, Warren Borton of Midvale, Utah published Wyoming Bottles – Historical Bottles of Wyoming 18681910, and reprinted it in 2003.
Contributed by Bill Baab During the course of pursuing stories on the history of antique bottle collecting in the United States, I’ve come across a number of books published by collectors who have become authorities on their state’s or region’s glass and ceramic containers. Each book has been a labor of love, each author’s goal being to get historical information into the public eye. They pored years of research into making the books as complete as possible, although they all acknowledged that there is always the potential of something new popping out of privy or trash pit when least expected. I’ve either purchased the books outright, or arranged to swap copies of my own Augusta on Glass, gradually building up a collection to add to my ever-growing library. One of the most prolific of the local authors is Johnnie Fletcher of Mustang, Oklahoma. Somehow, during his duties as president of the Oklahoma Territory Bottle & Relic Club and editor of Oklahoma Territory News, Johnnie has found time to re-
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Members of the Yankee Bottle Club of Keene, New Hampshire published a hardcover book titled Yankee Glass, A History of Glassmaking in New Hampshire, 1790-1886, in 1990. Inside is a brief history of the club. David Scafani, of Medford, Oregon, in 2001 published The Bottles of Jackson County, 156 pages of Oregon history, and revised it in 2007. search and publish several bottle books. In 1991, Fletcher published Oklahoma Drug Store Bottles, tracing the years of operation of drug stores from Achille to Zena. In March of 1994, Fletcher followed with A Collector’s Guide to Kansas Bottles, 1854-1915, followed in 2006 by A Collector’s Guide to Oklahoma Bottles, 18891920. And he’s working on a book
Members of the Little Rhody Bottle Club published Antique Bottles of Rhode Island in 1996 and, I was told, the copy sent to me by member Wes Seemann was the last one available. In 1999, Michael Miller of Peoria, Arizona published A Collector’s Guide to Arizona Bottles & Stoneware, revising it as a second edition in 2008. I own the latter and found a wealth of information scattered among its 164 pages.
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Beer Labels Volume I, II, II by Bob Kay Contributed by Steve Ketcham Three new books picturing pre-1950 beer labels have been published by beer label guru Bob Kay of Illinois. Mr. Kay has done extensive label research and writes a regular column on beer labels for the National Association of Breweriana Advertising magazine. Volume 1 covers most states west of the Mississippi. Volume 2 covers Southern and Eastern states. Volume 3 covers Midwestern states. All known labels from each state are pictured in color. Volumes covering the beer labels of Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York are due to be published by year’s end. What, exactly, can a book picturing hundreds of beer labels contribute to the bottle collecting hobby? Aside from providing a fairly comprehensive listing of breweries in any given state between the mid-1870s and about 1950, such books offer the opportunity to gaze upon some of the finest products of the lithographer’s art. While the books all contain page after page of great eye candy, the Wisconsin book adds a thumbnail sketch of each brewery’s history, thereby giving collectors a useful guide for dating all manner of breweriana from a particular brewery, be it a label, tray, or bottle. In many cases, an image of the brewery is included as well. The two books in our collection, “Volume 3- Central States” and “Wisconsin Beer Labels, The First 75 Years” also provide background on topics closely related to the early brewing industry such as the history of Prohibition. Collectors with an affinity for beer bottles or other forms of breweriana are sure to find these books both useful and interesting. Visit www.bobkaybeerlabels.com for more information as well as a tutorial on dating pre-Prohibition beer la-
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bels. In producing the Wisconsin label book, Mr. Kay cooperated with several other collectors. Contact Tye Schwalbe at tyesan2@charter.net to order the Wisconsin book.
Volume 1 - The Western States
Volume 3 - Midwestern States
In an attempt to continually improve the publication and educate our readers, we are adding this new column dedicated to books that we or our readers feel would be of interest to our readers. Please contact June Lowry, 401 Johnston Ct Raymore, MO 64083 OSUBuckeyes71@aol.com (816) 318-0160 with any book that you feel would be of interest and should be included. Thank you in advance for your contributions. The more participation, the better the magazine will become.
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tioned BABC show and abandoned house story. Twenty -fo ur persons attended the February meeting, with discussion on the December holiday party, and the upcoming June picnic and October show. April's program was on "Robert Portner, the Company & Bottles," by Tony Townsend. The May issue included a report and color photos of the Harrisonburg, Va., bottle show held April 26th. There were nine impressive displays at the show. Ed Faulkner wrote a report on the 2009 Mobile, Alabama Bottle Show. Ed is correct in stating, "it is always interesting to check out distant bottle shows to see how things are done in other parts of the country." The show is held in the Daphne, Ala., Community Center, a roomy facility with 90 tables. Ed commented that the southern shows seem more relaxed than the northern shows, in that there is no admission charge, and early arrivals were allowed into the show as dealers were setting up. Ed noticed a number of dealers who had not priced their items before the show opened, and found this to be more than an inconvenience. President Bruce Wadford reported the club will need to find a new club meeting site after many years at the Chesterfield Fire Station. There was no advance notice given. Meanwhile, the club has a place to meet for the rest of the year. Members were encouraged to attend the meetings at the new site, the Ruritan Club, fairly close to the old location. A tailgate bottle swap was held at Antique Village. Another fine selection of Virginia items sold on eBay and online was reported on.
Northeast Regional News Chris Davis 522 Woodhill Newark, NY 14513 (315) 331-4078 cdavis016@rochester.rr.com The Finger Lakes Bottle Collectors Association, Ithaca, N.Y., is excited about its new website, www.fingerlakescollecting.org . Member Ashley Puig-Herz, a grad student at Cornell who knows her way around a computer, created the new site and did a fantastic job. Pictures are being added and there are links and information about collecting bottles and antiques in upstate New York. There is also contact information and the show schedule. Please pay it a visit! The FLBCA is also making preparations for the 40th annual Bottle Show & Sale, scheduled for Sunday, October 4, in Dryden, midway between Cortland and Ithaca. Another superb newsletter, The Digger, from the Richmond Area Bottle Collectors Association. The April cover story was entertaining and wellwritten about looking for bottles and other items at an old abandoned house. The search even included under the porch, where a head (mannequin's) was found. A sign in the rear window, left by the former occupants, read "Nothing Left But Ghosts and Memories. Do Not Disturb." Several things were found, however, not including the surprises encountered by both. The Baltimore bottle show was "yet another great show with something for everyone." How true. Three color photos included the two fine exhibits, "Colored Drug Store Bottles" and "Shipping Crates." Color photos really look terrific in this newsletter, with pictures of show & tell, recently dug and acquired items, eBay and online auction items (32), the February program (Bob Flippen on mineral and soda waters from Southside, Virginia), the aformen-
Whittle Mark East, newsletter of the Merrimack Valley Bottle Club, of North Chelmsford, Mass., reports three new members were introduced at the April meeting: Gregory Blair, Maureen Crawford and Eric Kloss. Each brought impressive display items to their first meeting. The March
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meeting's display theme was "Spring," and a a result, a number of "Spring" Water bottles and milks with Spring scenes were brought in. Members were invited to attend the NE Region meeting of the FOHBC, held the weekend of the Rochester show. Information was shared on the National Bottle Museum's Saratoga Show, in June. The MVABC newsletter also included a membership roster, including collecting interests and email addresses. The May newsletter revealed a successful meeting with great finds for Show & Tell, and yet another new member was introduced. A speaker series was initiated, with Al Morin to kick things off in May. The club has a good library of bottle collecting books, including titles by current and former MVABC members. An article on poison ivy was included for the benefit of all diggers everywhere! The Apple Valley Bottle Club, of Winchester, Va., in its newsletter, The Bottle Worm, May/June edition, indicated local items were featured at the April meeting. Meetings through July, held at the War Memorial Building at Jim Burnett Park, were announced. Five dealers from AVBCC set up at the Historical Bottle Diggers of Virginia Show in April, while another nine attended. The 35th Annual AVBCC Show & Sale will be held Sunday, Sept. 20th, at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, Winchester. There will be over 40 dealers, displays, and hourly raffles. In Bits and Pieces, newsletter of Syracuse's Empire State Bottle Collectors, president John Golley thanked John nand Carol Spellman for their hard work as chairmen for the ESBCA's show in Brewerton last March 29th. At the March meeting, member Mark Yates presented a program on G.W. Merchant Bottles & History. The newsletter included several pages of great G.W. Merchant advertising, including almanac covers, trade cards and stamps. These were in beautiful color if you subscribed to the e-mail
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edition. In April, new members Mark Forkhamer and Darryl & Rebecca Stivers were introduced. Member David Tuxill presented "Curb Finds" as the program. The show & sale in Brewerton was presented in more great photographs. It was noted by many that the show was a very good one, even better than last year's. The show was well organized and great fun, with exceptional food. The Spellmans were again thanked for their outstanding service to the club and the bottle collecting community. In the Jersey Shore Bottle Club's Jersey Shore Shards, of Tom's River, the spring programs have included a flea market, slides of the 1976 I-95 Philadelphia Bottle Dig" by Joe Butewicz (many early wells and outhouses were uncovered), and a program on "Early Drinking Glasses" by Rich Dalton. Bob Randolph had a display of eyeglasses with colored lenses in May. A great article on treasure hunting, archaeology, fossil hunting and digging in Freehold Township was included. The high point of the article was the discovery of a mastodon bone, found on the banks of the Big Brook in Marlboro. A very interesting, illustrated article, "Folk Art in Bottles", included examples with a saloon with a bartender and two patrons, four bakers in a bakery, and a shoe shop -- all of which were inside bottles! The 37th annual JSBC Show & Sale was held May 3rd in Brick. Attendance was up, dealers did well. Show Chair Richard Peal was thanked for a job well done. There were 15 photos of the show. In the Genesee Valley Bottle Collector's "Applied Seals" of Rochester, spring programs and speakers have included "Clyde Glass Works: Bottles from Beyond, the Michigan Connection," by Richard Kelley; "Why Would They Want THAT?!" by Christopher Bensch, vice president of collections at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, and "Depression Era Glass Animals," by new members Jerry & Lynn Mantione.
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Free on-line classifieds were offered as a membership benefit by editor and website master Jim Bartholomew, who also serves as membership chair. Jim reported 65 memberships so far this year. Preliminary results are in for the GVBCA's 40th annual Show & Sale, held April 26th. The show was very successful, with over 200 sales tables sold to dealers from 12 states and Canada, 525 paid admissions, 15 educational exhibits, a 60/40 raffle (200 tickets at $10 ea., resulting in $800 profit), a well-attended Saturday night hospitality room, a show program with paid ads, and more. The displays at the show were the best in recent history, featuring some well known collectors: John Pastor (G.W. Merchant, Lockport, bottles), Don Keating (handled whiskies), Howard Dean (rare mineral waters), Jim Bender (union-clasped hands flasks), Tom Kanalley (central New York rarities), and John Wolf (cure bottles from western New York). Richard Kelley won best of show and peoples' choice for his "Clyde Glass Works: The Michigan Connection" exhibit. Other displays included "A Potpourri of Pottery" by Vince Martonis, "Avon, New York Bottles" by Jim Bartholomew, "Avon Copper & Roadside Craftsmen" by Don Angelini, "Bricks of New York State" by Frank Clement, "Perry, N.Y. Souvenirs" by show chair Aaron Weber, and "A Taste of Wayne & Ontario Counties" by Chris Davis. The Northeast Region meeting of the FOHBC was held during the show weekend, with Northeast Region director Jim Bender presiding. Much discussion took place on bottle collecting in the region. About 15 persons attended, including two FOHBC Hall of Famers - Howard Dean and Dr. Burton Spiller. Aaron Weber's popular "Crossed Collectibles" crossword puzzle made another appearance in the April newsletter. In Bottles Along the Mohawk, newsletter of the Mohawk Valley Antique Bottle Club, Utica, N.Y., the
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April meeting featured what was billed as a "Giant Show & Tell Session," and also a short program on Lestoil bottles by member Ron Weir. The club had displays of bottles at two local libraries to promote the May show and the club. The newsletter always includes interesting articles and local history. "The Milk Bottles That Were Never Used" by member Frank Tomaino, and "W. Dean Bottles of Newark, N.J." by Warren Rinda were featured in the April edition. Jon Landers is editor. Club member and FOHBC Hall of Famer Howard Dean collects the "Dean" soda bottles. Many bottle collectors are known to collect bottles which have their last names embossed. A colorful collection of Clevenger Glass belonging to club member and vice president Jim Bender was on display at the Dunham Library in Whitesboro. The club's 15th annual Show & Sale was held May 3rd at the Utica Curling Club in Whitesboro. This is a fine facility with plenty of room, great lighting, lots of parking, and more. President Jim Berry encouraged all members to help out with the show. A show report will follow in the next issue. Members Howard Dean (Scarce & Rare Saratoga-type N.Y. State Mineral Water Bottles) and Jim Bender (Union-Clasping Hands Flasks) were pictured with their displays at the Rochester show. Information about and a photo of one of Utica's rarest bottles, a bright yellow olive "VIDVARD & SHEEHAN" applied-handled whiskey flask (1868-1879), was recently purchased for $6,000. It was shown in the May newsletter and is said to be one of the most colorful and attractive handled whiskies. The flask was recently sold to a ew York state collector by Glass Works Auctions. The Baltimore Antique Bottle Club's newsletter, Baltimore Bottle Digger, announced the "Spring Tour" of the Hampton House in Towson, Md. It was completed in 1790, at the
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time the largest house in the U.S. A $3 million renovation by the National Park Service took place at the historic site, once the home of the Ridgely f a mi l y . Ap ri l 's p ro g r a m w a s "Collecting Labels from Canneries and Insight Into the Carroll County Canning Industry" by member Harry Conover. President and show chair Eric Ewen thanked everyone for making the show and sale a big success. A total of 53 members worked at the show, from setup to cleanup. Dealers were very pleased with sales. The attendance was 1,136. Many photos of the show are posted on the website (www.baltimorebottleclub.org). A plea for a new newsletter editor was successful. Club vice president Greg Franklin has accepted the responsibility, replacing Mary Collins, who ably had held the position since 1990. A nice selection of Baltimore bottles sold on eBay were listed in five categories. Top price was $535 for a
pontilled "Houck's Patent Panacea." An article by Peter Blum entitled "The Case of the Kosher Keg" was printed, from the "Breweriana Collector." May's program was "Collecting Milk Bottles and the History of the Milk Bottling Industry" by member Pete Whitesford. A notice of the National Association of Milk Bottle Collectors' 29th annual Convention (June 4-7) near Hershey, Pa., was included. There were educational displays, seminars, an ice cream social withthe Pennsylvaina dairy princess, an auction, and more. For information: www.milkbottlecollectors.com A membership roster was mailed to members with the April newsletter. BABC now has over 150 memberships, while the club's library has over 120 books on bottle collecting. In the Traveler's Companion, newsletter of the Greater Buffalo BottleCollectors Association, the May meeting was held at the Niagara CountyHistorical Society in Lockport, updates on bottle shows they had attended. John Puzzo attended the Grand Rapids show, which he said was a success. There were 50 to 60 tables and over 100 people through the door. Bob Bunn went to South Carolina. There were 150 tables, and he estimated that there were over 400 people attending. They didn’t charge admission but asked for a donation. He said it was an interesting show but needed more organization. John also attended the Las Vegas show which had 200 tables in a new venue off the Strip. He noted that the show is reverting to more of an antiques show. Jeff Dahlberg went to the Milwaukee show, and the Neumanns said they did great. The May newsletter covered the details of Pete Peterson’s program on fruit jar closures. All of the jars had ground mouths and original closures. Pete showed an aqua pint and quart Electric Fruit Jar (with clamp); an amber pint and quart Safety (with wire
Midwest Regional News Joe Coulson 10515 Colingswood Lane Fishers, IN 46038 (317) 915-0665 jcoulson@leaderjar.com Hello, bottle collectors! Welcome to another installment of the Midwest Region news report.This time around we will cover the March and April newsletters that were sent in. We love to hear from the Midwest bottle clubs – keep sending in those news items! Antique Bottle Club of Northern Illinois (ABCNI) 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. In the April Pick and Probe newsletter, several club members gave brief
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N.Y., where members were given a tour of themuseum following a short business meeting. There was a Lockport Glass Works display, as well as other bottles and glass. An interesting and nicely illustrated article, "No Wonder Granny Had Such aHappy Childhood!" explored the many now-illegal drugs once commonly used in manymedicines in the 19th century. The drugs included heroin (a product was made bythe Bayer Co.), cocaine (often called Coca Wine and used in the Matine Mfg.Co.'s popular Maltine), cocaine toothache drops, opium for newborns, and more. The GBBCA currently has 42 paid memberships so far this year. The June speakerwas John Spagnoli on "Fruit Jars." Like several other clubs in the NE Region,meetings are held during the summer. Preparations for the 11th annual Show &Sale, to be held Sunday, Sept. 27th in Depew, N.Y., are underway. band closure); an aqua pint and quart The Pearl (with screw band and glass lid); an aqua pint A. Stone Philadelphia (lug with boss on top); an aqua pint The Sun (with J.P. Barstow clamp); a Lightning (with wire bail closure); a Winslow Jar 1870 (with brass wire); an aqua square shoulder Millville 1861(clamp with screw); an amber pint and quart The Leader (with wire clamp); and an aqua pint and quart Automatic Sealer (with round top). It was a great talk with beautiful examples of his jars. For information on joining the ABCNI, you may contact: Dorothy Furman, 26287 W. Marie Ave., Antioch, IL 60002. Circle City Bottle Club / Indianapolis Bottle Club According to the club’s March newsletter, this newly formed club had about 10 people show up at the February meeting. The best part was that everyone brought in something different to look at. There were all kinds of different bottles. There were a variety
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of Indianapolis medicine bottles. There was a fine collection of Pepsi bottles, from a Pepsi hutch to several straight-sided, including several amber straight- sided. Someone brought in a nice Indianapolis ink shaped like a turtle. There also were a couple of really nice Indianapolis milk bottles brought in. We learned there were over 320 dairies in Indianapolis alone – over a long period of time. Martin Van Zant is drumming up support for this new bottle club. 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 postal mail at 5997 Redcliff Lane North, Plainfield, IN 46168 or by telephone at 812-841-9495. Findlay Antique Bottle Club (FABC) Tom Brown (newsletter editor) of the FABC submitted its Whittle Marks newsletter. Tom typically reprints several articles for club members in their newsletter. In the April issue, the following articles were reprinted: “Got milk?” (newspaper article by Gene Kinn on the dairy history of Fostoria, Ohio); “Creative Juices – Embossed Dairy Style Ade Bottles” by Brian Wade (from Antique Bottle & Glass Collector, March 2009). In the May issue, were the following reprinted articles: “Canning History Fun Facts” (timeline of early significant events in fruit jar history); “Celebrating 150 Years of Mason jars – 1858 to 2008” by Jim Sears and Joseph Merkel (from FOHBC Bottles and Extras, Nov/Dec 2008). Thanks to Marianne Dow, the club is breaking new technology ground by participating in the world of internet social networking by maintaining a blog (http:// finbotclub.blogspot.com/) and Tweeting (http://twitter.com/FinBotClub). You can follow the happenings of the club on your computer at those places. The FABC has a good website with pictures from their annual shows. You should check it out: http://
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fabclub.freeyellow.com/home.html. Richard Elwood is the club president. Monthly club meetings are held at the University of Findlay. They usually have their annual show and sale in October. To find out more about their monthly newsletter, send a note to: Findlay Antique Bottle Club, P.O. Box 1329, Findlay, OH 45839. Huron Valley Bottle & Insulator Club (HVBIC) Michele and Shaun Kotlarsky are newsletter editors for The Embossing, the club's monthly newsletter. Bob Powell is the club president. The club meets quarterly in 2009. The HVBIC meetings are held the 2nd Monday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at the First National Bank, 8080 Challis Rd., Brighton, MI. You can find out much more about the HVBIC online at their website: http:// hvbic.org. Their monthly newsletter can be viewed there also. Iowa Antique Bottleers (IAB) Mark Wiseman (newsletter editor) and Mike Magee (secretary) do a wonderful job each month reporting the IAB happenings. Mark submitted the IAB newsletters for April and May. There were many historical newspaper article clippings reprinted in the April issue of the club’s newsletter. There were also some good descriptions of early businesses found in the book “The History of Dubuque County, Iowa” (published by Western Historical Company, Chicago, 1888). The following excerpt comes from that book: Peaslee’s Ale Brewery first came to the front in 1866, when the venture was undertaken on White street, with facilities for the manufacture of twenty-five barrels, which amount at that time more than equaled demand. Mr. Peaslee spent much time in experimenting, to, if possible, manufacture an ale both palatable and refreshing, as also wholesome, and free from alcohol as possible, and finally succeeded in his object, sending out a beverage that secured an almost universal reputation for purity and excellence. In its manufacture, great attention
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is paid to the selection of the grain, which is one of the main features in compounding ale of a superior quality, and has given that of Mr. Peaslee such wide celebrity. The grain must be full, round, heavy and sweet, sweated and seasoned in the stack. The grain is subjected to a process of steeping, and left to dry; when that is completed, the malting or germinating, in which the starch is converted into sugar, is proceeded with, the sugar then ferments, and the alcoholic portion of the ale is obtained. When the gluten and mucilage in the grain have been disposed of, and it becomes white, the malt is subjected to what is called kiln-drying, the moisture remaining being thereby expelled. The mashing process follows, during which the hops are introduced, supplemented by straining, cooling, etc., when yeast is added, and the fermentation allowed to continue under the most careful observation, until it is drawn off into casks, when the ale is placed in cool cellars, and is ready for commerce. In the year 1870, the sales of the establishment became so great that it was necessary for Mr. Peaslee to seek larger quarters and greater facilities. For that purpose he purchased the Continental, at the corner of Fourth and Iowa streets, a building formerly occupied by himself as an hotel, which he reconstructed into a splendid brewery. The basement is used as a storehouse, the first floor as a brewhouse and engine-room; the third floor for the malt, hops, etc., used in the manufacture, and the fourth floor as the cooper-shop. March 30, 1878, Mr. Peaslee deceased, since when his heirs have carried on the business, manufacturing 5,000 barrels of ale annually, requiring the services of fifteen men, at a monthly remuneration of $400. The business represents an investment of $30,000, and the product is shipped to all parts of the country, commanding an annual increased demand by reason of its purity and healthfulness. In the May newsletter it was reported that Mike Magee is hard at work on the Iowa Bottle Book update. If you have an unlisted Iowa bottle,
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then he would really appreciate it if you would send him a rubbing for inclusion in the upcoming Update book. Please contact: Mike Burggraaf at 641-469-6018 or email at QRSGLASS@IowaTelecom.net. The May newsletter had several reprints of old newspaper article clippings – included was this short one titled “Gold in Canned Fruit” (Cedar Rapids Weekly Gazette, August 22, 1895): Niles Mich., Aug. 17 – When Mrs. W. B. Goneau of Bangor, Elkhart county, was about to die last week, she called her thirteen children around her and told them where she had certain money secreted, of which they knew nothing. They already knew of $2,000 she had in the bank, but were astonished to learn that she had hidden gold and silver in fruit jars and in different parts of the house. After her death a search was made in different parts of the house and in the cellar $400 in gold and silver was found canned up in fruit jars, the coin being embedded in the fruit. The May newsletter also had a report by Mark Wiseman on the 38th annual Minnesota Antique Bottle, Advertising & Stoneware Show and Sale, which was held on March 29th: This show combines the efforts of two great bottle clubs, the North Star Historical Bottle Association and Minnesota's First Antique Bottle Club. This year’s show brought in over 250 people through the doors. It was a repeat of many years on the trip north on Saturday, stopping in antique stores in Clear Lake, Albert Lea, Owatonna and finally Cannon Falls. My definition of an antique mall’s quality is based on how many hutch sodas it contains. (A personal taste, but a good indicator). I did not buy much on the way up (shoes and digging trowels at the Fleet Farm). The Holiday Inn was pretty fancy, and we had fun meeting new and old friends at the hospitality room on Saturday night. Dennis Nygaard brought a stoneware match striker he had found on a construction site. The next morning, we found Tom Southard’s table was in a nicely window lighted long room. It was still a
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very cold winter gale outside, but once we had moved his boxes in and warmed up, there were lots of items to see and purchase. Tom brought a whole case of Hutches, among other items. Through the door we saw Clyde Jones and most of his family and relations (all the hunters), Jack and Jerry La Baume, Bruce Stottrup and his wife, Jeff Showers, Austin Fjerstad, Dennis Nygaard, Jeff Springer, Steve Ketcham, and so many others it is a long list of great friends. I bought more bottles like I always do, another quart hutch made it into my suitcase for the return trip. Just before lunch I rode the Light Rail train over to the Mall of America and then all the way downtown Minneapolis and back for only $1.75, what a neat cheap excursion! Everybody had a great time at the show and sales appeared to be very good based on all the bags being carried by the buyers. Thanks to all the Minnesota clubbers who put on this great annual event -- Doug Shilson, Steve Ketcham, Winnie and Brittney Shilson, Charlie Farley, Ron Feldhaus, Vern Dotseth, Dave Vollmer, Linda Sandell, Barbara Robertus, Steve Kahlenbeck, Greg Johnson and so many others. All helped make it a show worth remembering. 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 dog, the old truck, and various digging friends that join him. You can find out more about IAB membership ($15/yr.) from Tom Southard, 2815 Druid Hill, Des Moines, IA 50315. Jelly Jammers The editor and publisher of the Jelly Jammers Journal is Margaret Shaw. Club president is Pat Van Dyke. The spring issue of the Journal contained the following articles: “Curtis Brothers Company – Rochester, N.Y.;” “Greentown Glass – Indiana Tumbler and Goblet Co.;” “Layton’s Baking Powder – Greentown Packer Wares.” The information was compiled by Margaret Shaw from various sources. Margaret also wrote
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the following about a recent discovery of a new Greentown Jelly Glass: A few years back I met a man who told me there was an unusual jelly made by Greentown, and that he owned the only one reported at the time and that it was displayed at the Greentown Glass Museum (Greentown, Indiana). Through the years I have made three trips there trying to identify this jelly but never had any luck finding the jelly on display or anyone who could tell me about this example. Recently I decided to make another stab at this and made another trip to Greentown and found they have reorganized their displays and have done a remarkable job of presenting all of their glass. Lo and behold, I discovered a small display of their jellies and with them was the glass lidded jelly as they had it labeled. I thought I had hit the jackpot but more research showed that this jelly was just found in 2006 at a farm sale in Indiana. My original mystery was not as yet solved. What an amazing discovery was this original #102 OMN. (OMN is Original Manufacturer’s Number – the numbers that were used in the company’s catalogs for their jellies and bar goods). Ed and I were not allowed to take pictures in the museum, which gave me a new dilemma. However, the catalog picture was in the Greentown Glass book – published in 2005 – picturing the collection displayed in the museum. The actual jelly glass was not pictured – just its crude original catalog drawing. As you know, I don’t give up easily. The one person I knew that had the keys to the cases and could have helped me was in Florida. Next best course of action was to attend the Hoosier Antique Show in Indianapolis in April that was featuring early American Pattern Glass and the Greentown Glass Club Display. As I inquired about a collector that could help me with this dilemma I met the owner of the jelly. Judy Horner was the winning bidder at the auction where the jelly glass was sold. She recognized the lid from the milk glass lid of a creamer she owned thinking it
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had to be a Greentown piece. When she arrived home and referred to the Greentown Book she knew that she had found the one and only reported jelly with a lid! Their journal is published four times a year. Author Tom Caniff is one of the regular contributors.You can find out more about Jelly Jammers membership ($15/yr.) from Phyllis Pahlmann, 219 Cedar Dr., Chapin, IL 62628. Kalamazoo Antique Bottle Club (KABC) Al Holden (newsletter editor) reported the following in their March newsletter: "Wow, what a big turnout! I wasn't there, but Jack Short e-mailed me several photos of the meeting. It was sure great to see such a big crowd! Sorry that I don't have a whole lot of bottle news to report. I understand that you got a chance to see a rare cobalt cure bottle from New York State. Chuck Parker called to tell me it was a "Doctor Henion's Magic Cure for Malaria." Elmer Ogg dug this fine bottle --- he has dug some great stuff! I understand that this rare bottle is illustrated John Pastor's new American Glass Gallery auction site.The new auction web site is: http:// www.americanglassgallery.com. It is a very nice web site and I hope to be in on the next auction! What's happening? I was at the mirror shaving one morning right after first of January when I noticed a slight lump on the left side of my neck. I reached up and could feel firm tissue under the surface. I told my wife about it and we made a doctor's appointment. Just before the last club meeting, I had a meeting with my doctor who confirmed, after many tests, that I have cancer. Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the left tonsil is what it is called. My doctor did a tonsillectomy the day after the bottle club meeting and they found that it had spread to a lymph node. Hearing that was quite a rough blow, one that really rocked me to the core. Thankfully, they checked further and it had not spread to the lung or
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a n y o t h e r p l a c e . They tell me that this is a cancer that can be beate if caught early. Well, mine was caught early. All my life I have wanted to grow a beard but I have a couple bald spots on my beard area, like I do on the top of my head! I tried to grow a beard once, but I gave it up because I looked like Festus on Gun Smoke. If I would have had a nice full beard, I would have not found this cancer until way too late! As I said, this cancer can be beaten if caught early. The problem is that we have to fight it aggressively and fast. That means that I will have radiation treatments and chemotherapy at the same time, which is going to be really rough! Today, as I write this portion of the newsletter, it is Friday, February 27th, and this morning I had outpatient surgery. They installed what they call a Power Port. That is a small plastic cube a little larger than a game dice. It has a rubber top like a drum head. It was implanted under my skin in a small pocket the surgeon made. Attached at the bottom of the device is a plastic tube that is inserted into one of the larger veins near the heart. At the top of the device are three bumps, so that they can feel for the middle of the Power Port. The whole idea behind it is immediate access to a vein to insert the drugs and other fluids each time. Also, because the drugs will flow into a large vein, they can be absorbed and mixed with the blood more quickly, without the pain and burning. To continue, today, March 3rd, I went in for a P.E.G. insertion. That is the one operation I did not look forward to. It is a feeding tube inserted into my belly that goes directly into my stomach. They say that I may or may not need this, but in case I do, they want it ready. There is a chance that the radiation to my neck may make it too hard to swallow solid food. I don't write this to make you feel sorry for me, but I really covet your prayers. Also, anyone can get cancer, and many Americans do! I just want to say that if there is something going
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on in your life that puts you at higher risk, change direction! If you would like a greater persuader, go into downtown Kalamazoo and spend a few hours sitting in the lobby of the West Michigan Cancer Center and just take some time to observe the patients. Hey, maybe you will run into me! Thank you Kalamazoo Antique Bottle Club and the West Michigan Antique Bottle Club members for your get well cards. I mean this when I say I was deeply touched to see all of your signatures and well wishes! God has surely blessed me with a great bunch of friends! The Kalamazoo club has started posting meeting minutes on their webs i t e : h t t p : / / www.kalamazoobottleclub.org/ Chuck Parker 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 St. Midwest Antique Fruit Jar & Bottle Club (MAFJBC) The MAFJBC has members nationwide and is heavily fruit jarfocused. Meetings are held the first Sunday of the month at 1:30 p.m. in the Cantina at Minnetrista, which is located in Muncie, Ind. Dave Rittenhouse is president. At the March club meeting the program was “jars and bottles made outside of the United States.” Joe Coulson displayed an olive amber QT Crown (Canadian) fruit jar. Joe said that the Crown jar is a fun jar to collect, because you can get many nice colors for a very reasonable price ($US 100 give or take). Joe also displayed a dark amber midget PT Beaver (facing left) (chips at mouth). Joe mentioned that this is the rarest of the Beaver jars. According to Dick Roller in the Standard Fruit Jar Reference [1984]: “Made circa 1901 by Ontario Glass Co., Kingsville, Ontario, Canada, and circa 1902 Sydenham Glass Co., Wallaceburg, Ontario, Canada. These jars were made after the newly designed
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Frank O’Neill machines had been installed at the Kingsville plant in the Spring of 1901. By September 28, 1901, the Commoner & Glassworker reported that D.A. Gordon, of Sydenham Glass Co., had dismantled the Kingsville plant and taken the tools and machinery to Wallaceburg. The short span of time that machines were used at the Kingsville plant may account for the rarity of these jars. So far, all of the left-facing Beaver jars checked have been machine-made, with offset neck seams and interrupted threads.” Joe also brought a clear QT Agee Ideal. He purchased two of these jars several years ago on eBay from an Australian seller. So far, these are the only two reported examples known. Perhaps they were meant to compete with the Ball Ideal jar? They look very similar and have the Lightning beaded -style neck! Norman Barnett brought a letter that he had acquired many years ago. The letter was from the Mutual China Company (formerly Hollweg & Reese, in Indianapolis) announcing that the company was going out of business. Norm went to the sale and saw a large fruit jar that looked like black glass, but it was dark because it was filled with preserved pears. The fruit jar was a 4 gallon (Hero cross) Mason’s Patent Nov. 30TH 1858. The jar was not for sale, because the store owner thought that a family member wanted it. Norm left his phone number and was eventually contacted about buying the jar. He was finally able to purchase it after some negotiation. A jar of this size is very unusual and desirable! Club members were invited to attend Minnetrista’s “Can It!” exhibit, which celebrates 125 years of the Ball Jar. The exhibit includes historical photos, 125 years of examples of Ball jars, actual machinery used in early manufacturing, video, hands-on activities, live performances by Minnetrista Theatre Preserves, and an opportunity for visitors to add their own personal experiences to the exhibit. The exhibit runs until August 23. More details can
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be found at: http:// www.minnetrista.net/Visit/Calendar/ Exhibitions/CanIt.html The MAFJBC has a website: http://www.fruitjar.org. Meeting location details as well as lots and lots of pictures from their semi-annual shows can be found there. Minnesota’s 1st Antique Bottle Club (MFABC) Barb Robertus is editor of the MFABC newsletter, The Bottle Digger’s Dope. Linda Sandell takes care of the printing and mailing. The April issue had an Easter theme. Barb reported the following about the club’s recent bottle show (there were also several good pictures of the show): With our new location, even we “older” bottle show people became a bit confused as to entering. What a lovely hotel! Steve Ketcham certainly knew what a great place this would be. Sitting in my favorite place (information table) I get to see EVERYONE. The faces from one year ago, plus all our old favorites. We get caught up with all the stories (and in the future we are printing them – we found out people’s lives do include more than bottle collecting!). We missed some of those smiling faces from the Dakotas. The floods really hit hard, and the Roths and Tom Amb and Bob Barr could not attend the show due to high water everywhere. Next year, guys! Some wonderful bottles were purchased. Doug Shilson was all smiles with his Red Star Bitters from St. Paul. One gentleman asked if he could store his purchase behind the table, facing the wall! Of course, he had the most beautiful advertising NUDE woman you ever want to see. Very large poster size, and he was very diplomatic – covering all the “very important parts” with yellow Post-Its! It was so nice to see out-of-state member Eldon Platcek driving down from up North. I did see him leave with a few bundles – a good sign that bottles were doing well. I did not hear any gripes at all from dealers or buyers. It is so nice when we all put one year’s work into the show (and really most of
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you don’t know how much work it is!) and it’s a hit! Membership in the MFABC is $10/yr. For more information, please contact Linda Sandell, 7735 Silver Lake Road #208, Moundsview, MN 55112. North Star Historical Bottle Association (NSHBA) Doug Shilson is newsletter editor for the North Star Historical Bottle News. Doug does a great job each month reporting the club’s latest happenings. He puts a lot of effort into recording all the details that take place. Steve Ketcham is the club president. The April issue of the club’s newsletter contained coverage (by Doug Shilson) of the meeting program on “Radam’s”: Our members who didn’t make it to this meeting sure missed a “doozy.” Two members gave a presentation on William Radam’s. First was Doug Shilson’s, which was a “mini” program titled “My quick presentation on William Radam.” His business in Minneapolis and his “agents”, one in particular, Mr. Ham, who happens to have been a druggist and more than likely sold the “Reddish” concoction in quart square amber bottles with the logo of a man beating back a skeleton. It also was sold in the gallon stoneware jugs the liquid came in. Ham’s Drug Stores were called “Eureka” and located at 1718 4th Avenue South, later on Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis. Then, like a side show in a tent on a hot Sunday noon, Wm Radam showed up. It’s True! No sooner than I sat down a man started yelling, telling us he “IS” Radam. He had a hat and a cane and slapped it on one of the tables grabbing our attention and started telling us about the virtues of his new found concoction! And how he discovered his cure-all for just about everything while in his home state of Texas. His new secret formula was found. Wm Radam was a truck farmer in Austin, Texas. Malaria broke out and Mr. Radam found a cure. He spent $10,000 to fund the
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cure-all. He knew that the government would not do it. So he funded his own “Cure.” Radam put his concoction in quart amber bottles that were embossed with a Man (perhaps Radam’s himself) beating the skeleton to death. His bottles were embossed: GERM. BACTERIA, OR / FUNGUS DESTROYER / LOGO OF A MAN BEATING A SKELETON / IN A SHIELD / CURES ALL DISEASES. Radam set up shop in many cities and using the local stoneware factory who made his handled One Gallon stoneware jugs in different strengths, of 1, 2, and 3. His agents were usually local druggists who sold his liquid. The jugs had Radam’s Microbe Killer printed on the shoulder, and on some stoneware jugs the same words were “embossed.” Still others the city’s name printed on them. Radam had 13 factories around the United States and England, and elsewhere. Dennis Nygaard was so effective in his rendition of William Radam selling his liquid that I wanted to buy a jug full. I mean, what more could I ask for? For $1, you can be cured by drinking his Reddish liquid. Thanks to Dennis for a great program! Our members missed one of the best! The death of Mr. Radam’s business started in Minneapolis, Minnesota, December 1913, to be exact, was the end. Condemned to be destructed were 539 boxes and 322 cartons of Microbe Killer taken from a Minneapolis warehouse. It was the first seizure of a nostrum contested under the “Sherley” Amendment in 1913. “The cases and jugs smashed and the cases and jugs were burned.” A picture shows a U.S. marshal, a chief of justice and five men unloading the many cartons (jugs) and bottles from a horse -drawn wagon from Minneapolis. Just what was in the reddish liquid? That was reportedly a cure for those pesky bad microbes in ones body! 0.59% of Sulphuric acid, plus 0.015% Sulphurous acid, plus 1 oz. of Red Wine and 99.381% of ordinary hydrant water. The price was $3 per gallon. Note – later this same liquid was used again. But this time by M.F. Schlesinger and the same home (warehouse) was sell-
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ing under the name: Cloro-Sulfo. It was now being used for the toilet and as a disinfectant. Note: Doug Shilson had this information from his Radam’s history collection, two Radam’s books written by the man himself, proclaiming that it was “Microbes” that were the culprit in one’s body. I had an 1892 issue and Steve Ketcham brought one 1890, which had a beautiful logo in gold on the front cover. A great program! The following short article, “Fakes or Reproductions or Copies? (Which is Which?),” appeared in the club’s May newsletter: Fake: Not genuine, to make up and attempt to pass off as genuine. Reproduction: To make a Copy. Copy: Reproduction or imitation of an original. Whatever you call them, they are all the same. Yes, those fakes keep on coming. Good ol’ eBay and their band of sellers just do not know what is and what isn’t real or fake. The almighty dollar sign rules. One of those is the amber bottle in the shape of a “Pig” with the embossed “Suffolk Bitters.” Only these fakes have the embossed words on ONE side only. If it were the real deal, it would also have the embossed words “Holbrook & Tucker / Boston” on the other side. But what the heck, the buyer only paid $369 plus eBay fees, etc. Oh, as in the past many times, when one fake goes for big bucks, it seems another one shows up. Only this time the same identical amber “Pig” went for $280. Where were the other second bidders? Probably found out and saved big bucks. And it seems in their description, has the same tired phrase! “Found in an old home when my grandfather collected bottles.” Or, Found in an old barn that has been in my family since the 1800s. Or, My Dad collected, and he passed away at the age of 90. But the one that I like the best was the one where the eBay seller kept going to his old Trunk in the attic. Month after month. ALL fakes and/or reproductions. From metal-ware (Pots and Pans) to old bottles to stoneware. Some BIG trunk? Ya sure you betcha! For more information on joining
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the NSHBA, please contact Doug Shilson: 3308 32 Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN 55406-2015. Ohio Bottle Club (OBC) Phyllis Koch (editor) and Donna Gray (secretary) always do a very nice job with The Ohio Swirl, the OBC’s newsletter. John Fifer is club president. The following article appeared in the March issue --- The De-Throne”, by an old Buckeye living in Paradise, Gary Beatty: Two Swirls ago, I read with keen interest that the next club program would be about Ohio Beers. I wanted so much to be with you as I now collect beers. Not just Ohio Beers, but any beer that catches my eye. I have beers that say Weiss Beer or Weiss Bier, or Lager, Ale, Pilsner, Stout, Porter, Bock, and Malt Liquor. While I am a teetotaler myself, and feel many a life has gone down to ruin for the sake of too much brew, I love the glass. In 1860, there were 1,269 breweries in America. By 1880, that number swelled to 2,272. In 2009 there are less than 50 notable ones, not counting micro-breweries. You might think Milwaukee was the Brewery mega city? You would be wrong, not even close. Brooklyn, New York had over 38 as well as Chicago and Philadelphia. I think Cleveland even had more. Years ago I was digging a privy at Bellaire, Ohio with Adam Koch and Bruce Desantis. We got down about seven feet and hit a glob of beers from Wheeling, West Virginia.They were crude, full of whittle and bubbles, in various shades of amber. We simply snubbed our noses at them; after all, we had grand aspirations of bitters, flasks, or sodas. They didn’t mean a thing to us. How I wished I had them now. Due to the economic times we live in, I no longer can afford the historicals, or bitters, or even most pontiled sodas. Like many of you I have been shut out of those areas by folks with deeper pockets. One day a friend stopped by with a book on yesterday’s beers. He bought a box of books at a
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garage sale and this book was in that box. He knew I loved old bottles and gave the book to me. Many years ago the late Paul Ballentine, my mentor in bottles, said to me, “Gary, buy all the books you can on early American glass and read and read them over and over.” That was great advice, and I did just that. Several days later I sat down and opened the beer book to read it. To say my eyes were opened would be to say the least. It was love at first read and first sight. I was hooked. Beers come in a variety of shapes and sizes as well as colors. Some of the embossings are incredible both in word, content, or picture form, or both. I have these colors in green alone, lime, citron, grass, celery, teal, emerald, Lockport, olive, 7-Up and pea. I have these shades of blue, cobalt, sapphire, blue aqua and teal. Every shade of amber including black, orange, puce, yellow and yellow green. My favorite colors are the cobalt and lime. I have 4 different lime beers and they are all from Sinatra’s town, the big windy, Chicago. Embossings are multiple and nothing short of fabulous. Dig this, a beer with a picture of the brewery building on it, from Utica, New York. I have some with the following: beer mugs, women, men, horse, elk, moose, eagle (one from Cleveland with a double eagle), bottles, flags, mermaids, seal, statue of Liberty, brewing machine, grain sack, barrel or barrels, anchors, soldiers, Star of David, Baltimore Monument, Washington, Indian, Bell and on and on. Embossed with every city you can imagine from Dobbs Ferry, New York to Milan, Ohio, home of Thomas Edison. Do you know what the best part about beers is? They are affordable and available. No one will ever tell me I have a boring, meaningless collection. I have history, color, shapes, stories of fortunes made and fortunes lost. I am 68 years young and having the time of my life collecting all those pints, quarts, ponies, splits, hutches, that the lovers of the brew threw away. Long after they are gone I have the real treasure, the bottles.
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Back to my purpose in writing this letter to my beloved club and beloved friends. The following month (February), the Swirl came with the various winners of best beers. Jim Salzwimmer, my friend, won for best color while Ed Oshaben, also a friend, won for best beer. If I could have been there I would have shown my cobalt beer from Lancaster, Ohio. I have always believed that the Henry C. Weavers from Lancaster is Ohio’s best bitters. I now believe my cobalt Forrest Rose quart blob from Lancaster is the King of Ohio Beers. Here is a short resume on the beer. It was put out by the Lancaster Brewing Co., successor to Ernst Becker Brewing Co., Lancaster, Ohio (1860-1889). The Lancaster Brewing Co. would later become the Lancaster Bottling Works. I date the bottle to be 1889-1890. The label is also mint and reads Forrest Rose Beer. There is a cemetery in town called Forest Rose where many of my relatives rest. There is also a Forrest Rose Street. Forrest Rose was a young white girl captured by the Wyandot tribe led by Chief Tarhe. Their camp and stronghold was Lancaster, which was first called Hock Hocking after the river. It would later be renamed New Lancaster by settlers from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Later on, the “New” was dropped. Legend has it that the Indians held Forrest captive in the great cave at the top of Mt. Pleasant. A young man by the name of Albert Sherwood was able to sneak into their camp while the braves were on a hunt and rescue Forrest. They headed northwest toward where Newark is, with the Wyandot Braves in hot pursuit. (my great grandmother was a Wyandot squaw). They came to the Great Black Bog (now called Buckeye Lake) and legend has it that Albert Sherwood swam across with Forrest Rose on his back. Once on the other side they fled west to the little village of Bowling Green where a tribe of friendly Shawnee camped. Forrest Rose of her own volition chose to stay with the Shawnee and lived out her life with them.
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Wow, doesn’t that smoke your socks? And you thought beers were boring? History, color, availability, and affordable. I will leave it to you readers to decide if my beer would have dethroned Ed or Jim, it really matters not, for the bottom line is they will always be more dear to me than the bottles, just as you who read this are. The greatest thing about collecting bottles lies not in the inanimate objects, but in the precious friends we collect along the way. In closing I would quote to you from a famous Buckeye, Mr. Bob Hope, “Thanks for the Memories.” If you ever get tired of snow, come on down, and we’ll spin some tropical music and tell stories. I won’t give you a beer, but I’ll give you a look at my discards from the past. Keep On Digging and Pursuing the Glass. 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 a t : h t t p : / / www.ohiobottleclub.com. Details about their milk bottle book can be found there also. Wabash Valley Antique Bottle & Pottery Club (WVABPC) Martin Van Zant is newsletter editor for The Wabash Cannonball, the WVABPC’s monthly newsletter. Peggy Zimmer is president. The April issue had an article by Bill Granger, “Bottle Hunting without a Shovel.”: I spent a couple of days this week hunting for old bottles, but not with a probe and shovel. I went out hitting antique shops and flea markets. Everybody has heard the stories of a rare flask or bitters turning up in an antique shop for next to nothing. Those finds are very infrequent but it is possible. Earlier this winter I picked up a mint light amber Drakes Plantation Bitters in a shop for under $50 and I’ve found other nice bargains as well. I just wish it would happen more often. The past two days, I hit at least 10 antique shops and a half-dozen flea
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markets. I didn’t buy a single thing from an antique shop but did find a few bottles in flea markets. The first day I spent a whole $5 in a flea market. I bought a blob beer from Chicago, a clean Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral and a nice druggist bottle from Knox, Indiana with an embossed mortar and pestal for a dollar a piece. I also picked up a Buggies Indianapolis dose glass for $2. The second day I did a little better at least in volume. Again it was in a flea market and not an antique shop. I bought a little
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display case full of bottles for $15. The case is probably worth most of the money. There were 22 bottles in the lot and most were just junkers. The one bottle I wanted was an amber Free Sample Warner’s Safe Cure. A few of the bottles may bring a dollar or two in my booth in the Hoosier Boy Antique Shop in Plainfield. As I was leaving the flea market I noticed a group of pint Ball Perfect Mason’s filled with buttons or marbles. Sure enough, one was a number 13 and I bought it for $2. Not a great
two days of hunting but at least I didn’t get skunked. A couple of bottles to keep and a few to sell so I can buy gas and do it all over again. Happy Hunting. The WVABPC holds monthly meetings 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.
A marvelous Florida stoneware display won the FOHBC ribbon for Louise O’Quinn of DeLand. Mike and Betty Jordan of Ocala won People’s Choice honors for their fruit jar display and Paul Conner of Jacksonville was awarded the M-T Bottle Club plaque for a milk glass
designs. Mann wanted to be "different" among other collectors and his "different" collection of throw-away sodas has grown to more than 2,000 bottles. It is among the premier collections exiting in the U.S. Then Clements featured PepsiCola guru Donnie Medlin, best known for owning one of the top Pepsi-Cola bottle and go-with collections in the n a t io n . Do n n i e al so c o l l e c t s "Crushes," and Clements downloaded eight color photos of some of the collection’s stars.
Southern Regional News Bill Baab 2352 Devere Street Augusta, GA 30904 (706) 736-8097 riverswamper@comcast.net What greater honor can an antique bottle club bestow upon a highly regarded member than to dedicate its 39th annual show and sale to his memory? That’s what the M-T Bottle Collectors Association Inc., did to honor longtime member and past president Charles Oliver Benton, who died at age 82 on Feb. 17 at Florida Hospital in DeLand following an extended illness. He started digging bottles in the early 1960s and soon amassed one of the finest collections of Florida Hutchinsons, at the same time becoming an authority on that variety. He displayed all 130 on shelves covering two walls of his DeLand home where visitors could enjoy looking at them. He later sold them. Survivors include Freda, his wife of 52 years; two daughters, Diane Benton of DeLand and Linda Stanley of Smithfield, Va., and a son, James Benton and wife Patricia of Bonifay, Fla. Bill Marks, editor of the club newsletter Diggers Dispatch, said the club set up a memorial table for Benton, who served as bottle show director for 17 years, at the show.
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display. The show was held March 20-21 at Volusia County Fairgrounds. The club has faced many challenges to its existence within the past year, but Marks said some younger members have stepped forward "with youthful ideas and a willingness to work. Now the picture has changed and there is a light in the club’s future." Bright, sparkling, educational, informative. All of those adjectives best describe what has become one of the Southern Region’s best club newsletters and, thanks to the Raleigh (N.C.) Bottle Club’s web site (raleighbottleclub@gmail.com), readers worldwide can enjoy what club members and regional editors do in Bottle Talk, edited by Marshall Clements. His outstanding computer design talents are highlighted in his April issue, which features "Diamonds Are A Mann’s Best Friend." Twenty-three color photos showing member Sterling Mann’s wonderful collection of disposable Coca-Cola bottles, most with embossed or paper-labeled diamond
If reading Johnnie Fletcher’s Oklahoma Territory News doesn’t whet your digging appetites, nothing will. His May issue of the newsletter of the Oklahoma Territory Bottle & Relic Club is a good example. Two great digging stories dominate the 16-page issue, in addition to other items of interest to club members. Johnnie joined friends Ed Tardy, Randy Yarberry and Kenny Burbrink in St. Joseph, Mo., and later Dan Moser, Christian Marll and Ed Stewart for a dig last November. "I must mention Kenny and his dowsing wires. You might laugh when you read about dowsing for privy pits, but I’ve seen Kenny using the wires. While I don’t understand how it happens, it really works," Fletcher said. "We checked on one of the spots Kenny had found with his wires and determined there was something down there (bricks or rocks) that shouldn’t have been there. I was taking a turn in
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the hole shoveling out dirt when I saw the flash of a bottle in the dirt. Brushing aside the dirt, I saw the side of a blob soda. That got my juices really flowing!" Turned out it was a rare Albert Andriano / & Son / St. Joseph, Mo. / FRL on the front and A&D.H.C. on the back. A Civil War vintage pickle jar with wreaths on the sides also came out of hole along with a Mexican / Mustang / Liniment / D.S. Barnes, an older version of a more common bottle. Another hole uncovered a pontiled Albert Adriano soda dug by Kenny and that excited all concerned. Later, a rare McGregor Bros. / St. Joseph, Mo. blob soda emerged from yet another pit dowsed by Kenny. In the April newsletter, Johnnie featured another dig in St. Joseph with friends Dan Moser and Francis Wilz. Moser had gotten permission to dig behind downtown buildings scheduled for demolition. He also had gotten permission from a friend to dig behind her home he thought dated to the 1870s. But Johnnie and Francis found a pit on the downtown site and opened it. A Davis & Co. / Druggist / St. Joseph, Mo., was thrown out with the first shovelful of dirt. Eleven J.T. Meadows / Druggist / St. Joseph, Mo., were found, along with a Louis Fuelling / St. Joseph Hutchinson.
Other digs that weekend uncovered a Dumke & Nash / St. Joseph, Mo., blob soda in perfect shape. Turns out that company was in business in 1876-77. Later, a Dumke & Gleitz blobtop as found as well as another Dumke & Nash. As usual, Johnnie downloads many color photos to complement his stories. Show and tell sessions at The State of Franklin (Tenn.) Antique Bottle and Collectors Association meetings reveal a diverse slate of relics not always in the shapes of bottles. During its March session, items produced included a small cast iron skillet from the Johnson City (Tenn.) Foundry and an aerial view (Wings over Kingsport) of Kingsport, Tenn. between 1938-68, according to a report in The Groundhog Gazette of April by Editor Melissa Milner. There also was a Buzz Cola, an embossed pint milk bottl;e from Springdale Dairy in Jonesboro, Tenn., and even a pint milk bottle from Columbia (S.C.) Dairies. Melissa used an article about the origins of soda and mineral waters from Tod von Mechow’s website: www.sodasandbeers.com. Pottery expert Donnie Garrett of Lexington, S.C., presented a program on Edgefield Disttrict and other pot-
Western Regional News Ken Lawler & “Dar” 6677 Oak Forest Drive Oak Park, CA 91377 (818) 889-5451 kenlawler@roadrunner.com
Ken Lawler and I are members of the 2009 FOHBC National Show “Host Club.” We thank you as members of the Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club for the support you have shown the FOHBC and the LAHBC in distributing show flyers and putting
advertising of the show in your newsletters. Many of you are planning on attending the show either as sellers or buyers and that, too, is very much appreciated. We leave you with a thought: Upon your return home from the show write a few paragraphs on your take of the show experience. Submit that experience to your respective editors for inclusion in your newsletters. You are a great group of folks. It is gratifying to know that we can count on you to help support our hobby.
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tery during the Horse Creek Bottle Club’s April meeting. He had spoken to club members before, but always brings something new. This time, it was a face jug from North Carolina turned and decorated by James Henry Stone. Garrett said the monkey jug was unique and was found in South Carolina. Stone worked in Jugtown, Buncombe County, N.C., in 1870 and 1880, according to Turners & Burners – The Folk Potters of North Carolina, by Charles G. Zug III. Garrett is compiling notes of his personal observations about pottery from the old Edgefield District of South Carolina and his friends are hoping he’ll have a book published. Some of his observations ("just my opinions") are startling, likely to be controversial, but many make sense. The May meeting featured Charles Hilton, another repeat guest, who offered a wonderful insight into his ever-growing collections of milk bottles and "go-withs." The last include a Detroit Industrial Vehicle Co. (DivCo) milk truck from the 1950s that he and friends restored, as well as a dairy’s delivery wagon from early in the 20th century, which he also restored. He specializes in local bottles and his collection dates from the late 1890s through the 1960s.
Antique Bottle Collectors of Colorado – Dump Digger’s Gazette There was The Passing of a Pioneer by Glen Preble in an earlier 2009 newsletter. It was an announcement of the death of David King Clint III, the founder of this club. “Dave was the consummate collector. From his early days of collecting bottle caps, marbles, matchbook covers and stamps he developed a love of trains while accompanying his father on numerous excursions to photograph cable cars and trains. Some of these trips took them to ghost towns and mining camps where he found bottles and learned how to dig for them. Years
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later, while living with his family in Central City he converted a room in their basement into a relic shop. Some fellow collectors who either consigned bottles or frequented the shop, together with Dave, began compiling a list of bottle collectors and discussing the possibility of forming a bottle club. That possibility turned into reality when the first meeting of the Antique Bottle Collectors of Colorado took place on November 10, 1965 with Dave Clint as the acting chairman. In addition to serving as the first president of the ABCC, Dave’s talents as a graphic artist were frequently tapped to design many of the early bottle show posters.” There is nothing liking stepping back in time to remember “the good old days.” Mike Bliss proved this by showing some slides of digging that was done many years ago. Comments were made on the unique clothing and hair styles. “The Denver dig was at the location of a ‘bottle dump’ that yielded a tremendous amount of great old bottles from the late 1800s. The Central City dig was at the location of an indoor privy that held some hard-to -find Central City bottles. Mike’s narrative really complemented the pictures and made you feel like you were there.” Keep those stories coming our way, Mike. Forty-Niner Historical Bottle Association – Bottle Bug Briefs Member Robert Quinn displayed his collection of various kinds of porcelain bottle tops. It was told that some diggers have dug them, but sometimes not realizing their value would throw them back in their holes. “The tops could be made of porcelain, celluloid, and on one, enamel on copper. The tops had corks on their base to affect an air-tight seal. Most of the corks have since disintegrated. The English stoppers had hard rubber seals. The tops were used as stoppers on whiskeys, bitters, back bar bottles, beers, jugs, mineral water and even on drug store bottles.” Robert was lucky to have accumulated at least 110 of these porcelain finds.
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Someone takes some good notes because it seems that a lot of show and tell items get recorded at every meeting. A premier western saloon whiskey tokens collection was brought in by Dean Wright. He also passed around a rare Placerville token. Mike McKillop brought in seven beer splits with their original porcelain stoppers. Here’s something out of the ordinary. Mike Peters showed pictures of a dive site in Victoria B.C. and several bottles he found diving at the site. Herb Yew had been out with his new metal detector and brought in a bag full of coins. Steve Abbott proudly showed his rare Snowflake porcelain top and a small wood barrel from Widdico mb e’ s/C alifornia/Peache s in Brandy. Steve even had a pint milk bottle from Jones Book Store/14242 0J St with a Star of David in the center. “Chuck Erickson came up with three rare Fredericksburg beers in clear glass quarts.” Clear glass quarts are rated as very scarce. “Jim Kuykendall won a square Sacramento Star Bitters. Mike Lake took the Roback's Barrel Bitters. Mike Henness picked a soda. Ed Rickner won the Dutch onion and Dean Wright picked the Pipifax Bitters.” At a different meeting, “Dean Wright won a cobalt Owen Casey soda. Steve Abbott took the IXL Bitters. Herb Yew won the Hostetter’s Bitters and Cathy Merwin picked the Hal Luhrs Whiskey.” Mike Henness believes a bottle can be “over-cleaned.” He brought a couple examples that he passed around to show that the embossing had become dull from trying to remove scratches. Golden Gate Historical Bottle Society – The Corker Here is President Gary Antone’s take when he has attended some of the annual shows of other clubs. “I’ve enjoyed both selling as a dealer and as a buyer. Each show has its own character and is fun in its own unique way. It’s always fun to see good friends and familiar faces make the rounds of each of these events. With the changing
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economy, we don’t know how it will impact all of us, but it appears more people are interested in selling items at the shows to get some extra cash. It’s also something that the family can do for free (or nominal fee) on a weekend. Sales also appear to be brisk for some of the higher-end items, with collectors being more selective on where they spend their money. Maybe in some odd way, we will benefit in some way or another.” Don’t forget, club members, Editor Darla can sure use an article here and there. She would settle for a few paragraphs on a “latest find” or a “special find.” Some of you folks who find those special bottles in antique shops can do a little research and come up with a few paragraphs. For those of you who dig, you can do the same kind of thing. You might even be able to supply a picture of yourself and your best “dig.” Think about it, folks, your club needs your efforts. By the way Gary, thank you for disseminating additional information so that others in our hobby can be made aware of events that are going on in a timely manner. Las Vegas Antique Bottles and Collectibles Club – The Punkin Seed (has been retired) Even though the traditional newsletter, The Punkin Seed has been retired, meeting minutes have been provided so we shall take it from there and learn what the club has been doing. The minutes start with a favorable comment in that the club has Jeff Rhodes as a new member and a woman named Annette as a possibility. Another piece of news is that Stan Pullen will be their show chairman for their 2010 show. We remember Stan being a very energetic show chairman popping back and forth in between tables and then back up front to help welcome folks to their 2009 show. Members were asked to vote on two areas of the club bylaws that were revised. Club members voted unanimously to accept the bylaw changes. Then the meeting moved onto Leslie showing a collection of his father’s World War I memorabilia. He
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showed his father’s helmet, photos, framed flag, and his uncle’s death notice. Joan Bitterman spoke about her collection of love tokens. It was explained that love tokens are old coins that were smoothed on one side and have romantic messages or initials engraved onto the smooth side of the coin. “Joan showed us some of her interesting collection and gave us the history of love tokens.” President Mike Presley says “Remember to be kind to others and especially be kind to yourself.” Not bad advice, Mike. We will try to remember this. Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club – The Whittlemark The President’s Message is something that we always look forward to reading. Dave Maryo effectively captures the best part of the whole meeting which is what members bring in for show and tell. Every other month the theme is member’s choice. In one of his messages Dave wrote that “Members brought in some very rare and interesting items for show and tell. The bottles ranged from the items found in Dave Garcia’s last dig to bottles purchased at the Morro Bay Show and the April Glassworks Auction. Dwayne Anthony brought in a very rare insulator and shared the insulator’s patent history. Dwayne also shared a great story about a lucky individual who found a box of extremely rare insulators in a junk shop. This was the type of rare find collectors dream about. We also had some interesting pictures of the Pacific Glass Works and items they produced.” At the same meeting Mike Polak was the lucky winner of the members only bottle which was a red amber J.H. Cutter western whiskey bottle. Another time Secretary Ken Lawler celebrated his birthday and won a yellow bitters bottle all on the same evening. Ken, I thought you were only supposed to take notes. Dave Maryo remarked that Ken broke Tom Hanna’s winning streak of the last two months. One of Tom’s lucky
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wins was a cobalt blue ammonia poison. What was the other one, Tom? The story goes that two guys named Dave went on a dig together. We won’t go into great detail here as I think it is possible that we might see a full accounting of it, accompanied by some killer pictures, in one of the issues of Bottles and Extras. However, we will report that after digging mundane bottles dig after dig, Dave Carvalho finally came up a winner! Northwestern Bottle Collectors Association – Glassblower We are so glad that John Burton has gotten his Glassblower resurrected and distributes it electronically. There is no limit to his vivid pictures and length of articles. He can include show announcements for other clubs to no end. In fact he devoted one whole issue to include the entire FOHBC 2009 National Show package. Much appreciated by the FOHBC and the LAHBC. President Eric McGuire has since become inspired to write his “Mold Ruminations” article. Eric started out by saying that “One of the great attributes of the Internet is that we can share thoughts, observations, ideas and otherwise blabber on line at little or no cost.” He explains that the pages of his article “contain a smattering of photos and historical facts that are connected with the central theme of bottle molds. Without them our interest in glass product containers would be completely different than what it is today. There is considerable information to learn about bottle molds by studying the glass containers made in them.” He says that his article contains random subjects tied together with bottle molds holding them all together. Show and tell items do not take a back seat during meetings. For example, George Guzman brought in an Americanus Club whiskey, Gessler clear German whiskey and a clear Roth whiskey. Lew Lambert brought in a blue whiskey and a yellow/green one. While neither bottle had embossing everyone appreciated the colors. Gary Ingols had showed some Jesse Moore fifth whiskies and three Jesse Moore Miniatures and a Wolf
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Wrenden whiskey. It seems that Richard Siri is into a new collection mode. He brought in a Creme pure rye Chicago and some Creme rye San Francisco. ”Richard said that the company moved from San Francisco to Chicago. He had all sizes from very small to quart size. Richard stated that he is looking for more.” If any of you want some information on this club here is Editor John Burton’s email: Johnburton@msn.com. You might want to contact someone regarding meetings, joining or whatever. If for some reason he cannot answer your questions, he can fast forward you to someone who can. Oregon Bottle Collectors Association – The Stumptown Report It seems that Julie Dennis has increased her interest in collecting and took on some research on behalf of Dennis Meng’s unlisted Geo. Zittmayer Portland whiskey. She delved into the “Portland Business Directories for the years 1885, 1887 and 1889,” listing years and locations of his business. Another resource listed the fact that George was a German immigrant. In the 1890-1891 Portland Oregon Business Directory, it showed that George had a partner named Daniel Kunkel. By the time Julie concluded her research she had listed at least four information sources and added an excerpt from “Whiskey Bottles & Liquor Containers from the State of Oregon” by John L. Thomas that further explained that later on Daniel Kunkel started his own business in Portland. Jim and Jean Burns were mentioned as new members from Vancouver via Alaska. A statement like that makes one wonder if they have been bringing in any bottles for show and tell that might have been from Alaska. Pat brought up the fact that he and Mark had been doing some digging. “The f irst bottle out of the hole was a nice cornflower blue cone ink. Mark then showed the last bottle out of the hole, which was a half-pint F. Zimmercontinued on page 57
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By Bruce Schank
[Editor’s Note: This article is a result of a weekend personal visit by author and long time collector Bruce W. Schank with friend and extremely long time collector Dick Watson] In attempting to do this series of articles on longtime, prominent fruit jar collectors, Dick Watson’s name came up. So I called to see if he’d allow me a small amount of time to visit. I explained what I was trying to accomplish, and he, of course, kindly agreed. I’ve seen Dick here and there at different shows before, but I really didn’t know him Dick Watson personally or can I say I knew anything about his collecting forte, either. I must say I was a bit disappointed when Dick told me all of his best colored 1858 jars were down at Wheaton Village on display, but he assured me that he still had enough good jars to
make my long trip more than worth my while. Of course, I had no idea what to expect when I arrived at Dick’s home. But the first thing I did notice when I pulled into the driveway and got out of my car was large windows full of glass. The way the sun was shining through tree branches and with the reflective light, I could just make out what looked like hundreds of incredibly colored bottles. My immediate reaction was to rub my eyes and take a second gander just to make sure I wasn’t imagining what I was actually seeing. “This couldn’t possibly be real now, could it?" I was saying to myself. Of course, from that vantage point, I had no idea what was in store for me when Dick finally opened his front door, and I entered that incredible home chock-full of historical items. I’ve been to a lot of places in my life including major
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museums as well as the homes of many friends to see their collections, but this really took the cake.
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I’ve heard the term “awestruck� used before for certain things, including meeting beautiful women, but never in my life did I ever think it would or could be used in this humble author's experience, especially in regards to glass. As I peered into the oversized foyer with the sun pouring through behind me, all I could see were glass cases on either side, full of an incredible array of bottles. As a lover of old glass and anything historical, too, including fruit jars, I was literally stupefied talking to Dick as I entered the main body of his home. Simply put, I was completely overwhelmed by the copius amount of eye candy, and it became apparent to me almost immediately that this was no ordinary home, and Dick was no ordinary collector. Dick was extremely warm and personal towards me as I queried him over and over concerning the cornucopia of stuff all around me. Since my main objective was fruit jars, I finally discovered a small treasure trove of early American jars right in front of me, including an amber oversized Cohansey.
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Elma, were hooked and off to the races looking for historic glass of all kinds. Dick has one of the largest and most complete collections of patent models of fruit jars in the country. According to Dick, these models
Now let’s start at the beginning. Dick was born in 1932 in Runnymeade, N.J., a working class man’s town. Dick’s grandfather started an electrical business in 1902 which his father took over for a few years. Dick subsequently owned and operated the business for 30 years before turning it over to his sons upon retiring. In 1958, Ball Corporation came out with a pamphlet celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Mason jar, and Dick came across that very pamphlet while at a little museum owned by the State of New Jersey in Batsto. Batsto was an old iron and glass village at one time in the 19th and early 20th century. While visiting there, Dick ventured into a small combination general store and post
office where he came across the pamphlet on the second floor along with all sorts of historic jars and bottles on display. The display was owned by a glass historian from South Jersey named Eddie Pfeiffer, and the next thing Dick knew he and his wife,
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anywhere in the country. Many of these cans came from the Norm Barnett collection.
originally came from O. Rundel Gilbert of Garrison, N.Y. Rundel sold these models to Dick Harris of northern New Jersey who, in turn, sold them to Al Vignon. Al then turned around and sold them to Dick. A very small portion of these patent models also came from Jerry McCann of Chicago. It is just amazing to behold, seeing this fantastic and unique display collection of these truly one-of-a-kind models, and all in one place. Dick also has an extensive collection of fruit preserve cans from the 1850s and 1 8 6 0 s . He probably has one of the best and most complete set of fruit preserve cans assembled
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It was just so incredibly overwhelming for this humble author to try and absorb the vast amount of fantastic early American glass and other historical items in every room, nook and cranny of Dick’s home in the brief amount of time I was actually there. Dick has everything from tobacco cans, advertising, shear cutters, to whistles, decoys, needle work from the very early 1800s, stoneware crocks, bitters, Saratoga Spring water bottles, flasks, continued on page 45
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Southern California History By Jim Sinsley The beginning of bottle collecting started for me about 1965. I had been a true collector since early childhood when I developed an interest in stamps and coins, thanks to gifts from relatives. A few years after getting married in 1961 to my modern-minded bride, Barbara (Barb), I was hired by my father’s real estate company to clean up in and around an 1884 house in Tustin, Orange County, California. The company had purchased it from the original owner’s estate, wanted to rent or sell it and wanted no junk around. I decided to start in the house to get everything out to where I could see what I was dealing with. I started in the attic and worked my way downward. I found myself attracted by certain things. Since my wife and I had aspirations of acquiring an ultramodern residence with Swedish Modern furniture (glass and chrome, black leather (Naugahyde) and walnut beauties), I couldn’t understand my attraction to things like glass containers. My wife’s dad was sort of a collector of antiques which my mother-in-law hated, and my own Dad kept nothing that wasn’t useful. My Mom had only a collection of china cups and saucers she had been given. They were housed in our only antique, a bow-front secretary that was a family piece and not even ours. It belonged to an aunt and we just sort of stored and used it. After a day’s work at the old house, I called Dad’s boss and asked what I should do with all the stuff I found and if I could keep any of it. He said he didn’t care what I did with it as long as it was gone and the property free of weeds and junk. I packed up a few items that were of particular interest and headed home. I unloaded the stuff into the garage of our rented home and my Dear Wifey came out to see what I was doing. The disgust on her face was quite evident and she wanted
nothing to do with any of it. She now knew how her mother felt when her dad brought home one of his "treasures." Moments of Discovery In the dingy attic of the Tustin place, I had found some interesting looking glass containers. They looked like bottles, but not like anything I had ever seen. One was vivid green in color, a flask with a crude-looking top. Another was very heavy with a short neck and a metal thingy inside (a Hutchinson soda). They were covered with dust and years of grime. As I was washing them off on the lawn, a rock hound neighbor who lived across the street came over. He recognized the old bottles and said, "Hey, there are people who collect these. They find them out in the desert where we collect minerals." He asked me where I found these and, after hearing my explanation, said: "I was told that sometimes they find bottles under houses." I returned to the Tustin property and the first thing I did was find an opening in the foundation wall and crawled under the house. Only a foot inside, I put my hand on what felt like a bottle. I slithered backward into the light. What I’d come out with started my collection big time. It was a Warner’s Safe Kidney & Liver Cure. Now I know that today, this is a low end item, but imagine it with respect to a brand new collector who didn’t yet know he was a bottle collector. I pulled two dozen or so more bottles from beneath the house, including what turned out to be a fairly rare Los Angeles Hutch soda with an anchor embossed in a slug plate and a Los Angeles wine bottle. Unfortunately, I didn’t know about privy digging at that time. I shared my finds visually with the rock hound, who told me about books written on the subject. The local library was a dead end, but then I found a copy of John C. Tibbitts’
1200 Bottles Priced, Copyright 1964. That was simply stunning. Spiders were not the only thing under the house that bit me. I was bitten by the Bottle Bug and suffer from its effects to this day. I placed a few of the more interesting, heavily embossed bottles including the Warner’s on the kitchen window sill. I enjoyed looking at them each day after getting home from work, not knowing why. I just did. One day I looked and they were not there. I panicked. I asked my Wifey. She said she was tired of them and had taken them out to the garage. I asserted my manly authority, waiting until she had gone someplace, and brought the bottles back into the kitchen. A week or so later, they were back in the garage. This scenario continued until I brought home a purple Kerr Economy fruit jar and placed it on the sill next to my "junk." That did the trick. That "junk" was now fine there except all had flowers stuck in them. We compromised. I could leave some of my "stuff" (notice the change of term) there and she would use them as flower vases as Her fruit jar had too big a mouth to hold flowers. One day, I brought home a small sun-colored amethyst jar with glass stopper that I paid $1.50 for, my very first bottle purchase, and p ut it next to the other "stuff." It stayed in the window, dinner remained out of my lap and I even got a kiss good night. I had found the keys to blissful collecting and marriage. Fruit jars and the color purple. So I started to look for and find and bring home jars and a few bottles. Our First Bottle Show A short time later, perhaps in 1964 or ‘65, I heard about a club that was putting on a bottle show in the little town of Julian, about 80 or 90 miles away. Bottle club? Bottle show? What was that all about? Since gasoline cost only 39 cents a gallon, we
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decided to check it out. Turned out it was one of the San Diego Bottle Club’s earlier organized shows. We walked in and right away I realized that we were not even in the top 95 percent of collectors. We knew nothing. We cruised back and forth all day, upstairs and downstairs, and asked at least 1,000 questions. We saw a sales display belonging to George Aschenbrenner. He had an amber Lightning fruit jar for sale. I believe his asking price was $25, w-aa-a-a-y-y beyond our budget for "stuff." But we were beside ourselves and even Barb was hooked. We would collect fruit jars. I guess because we asked so many questions, we were invited to attend a San Diego club picnic later that year. We met George and Ruth Aschenbrenner and their son, Bruce, Rurik "Rick" and Marjorie Kallis, Don and Cleone Frace, Ed McMahan, Cecil and Dolores Munsey, Jack and Connie
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Wolford, and quite a few others whose names escape me. Since we lived too far away from San Diego to regularly attend club meetings, it was suggested that we start our own club in Orange County. It also was suggested that we attend meetings of the Lo Angeles Historical Bottle Club to get acquainted with folks and ask for suggestions. We did that and became acquainted with Alex and Caroline Kerr, Jack Slattery, Don Mullaly, Phil Balkan, Bill and Virginia Rubendall, John and Ruth Ann Turk, Byron and Vicky Martin, Tom Eccles and many others. In the summer of 1967, Barb and I placed an ad in the local newspaper inviting anyone interested in starting a local bottle club to contact us by phone. Barb, a stay-at-home mom, was in charge of fielding the anticipated few calls. When I returned home after a few days at work, she asked me if we intended to become heavy drink-
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ers. She explained several callers had asked when the party was going to start and did we supply the booze or did they bring their own? Happily, Barb was able to explain the nature of our club and a few weeks later, some 20 people attended the organizational meeting of the Antique Bottle Club of Orange County in our Santa Ana home. In attendance were Marian and Tom Orr, Phil Lloyd, Eveline Pulatti, Ron and Nancy Mansur, Sim and Ruth Middleton, Henry and Madge Wall Birdie and Nelson Lonzo, Howard Garner and others whose names I have forgotten. I was elected the club’s first president and I’d never been president of anything! It was suggested we follow Roberts’ Rules of Order, but I didn’t know who this guy Roberts was and wasn’t used to following rules so we used a simplified, more casual form. Our club membership grew to about 400 at one point. One of our more ar-
Here’s the poster publicizing the first show presented in 1971 by The Antique Bottle Club of Orange County (courtesy of Jim & Barb Sinsley)
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tistic members designed the club logo featuring a G.W. Wells / Santa Ana, Calif. mug base Hutchinson soda and an orange with leaves. Learning Sessions In May 1968, the club scheduled an outing to a glass-blowing shop in Tijuana, Baja, Mexico. There we learned the techniques of how bottles were made in the United States in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. One of our first club digs was in Hemet, Calif., and someone discovered the levee banks along the Santa Ana River were common dumping grounds in the days before municipal landfills. On one of those digs, we uncovered a cache of clear glass objects that looked like light bulbs. One was embossed Audubon Utility / Mfg. Co. / Santa Ana / Calif. They turned out to be bird feeders and waters for bird cages. A large quantity of Owl Drug Store bottles were found as well as many nice fruit jars. Barb edited our club’s first newsletter, the Bottle Bulletin, and it quickly became known as one of the better newsletters in the hobby. Much of its success was due to the enthusiasm and contributions20of club members as well as the excellent direction provided by Barb. In those days, we shared newsletters with a number of clubs which served to keep a widespread number of people in tune with what the hobby was up to. Articles were borrowed and reprinted from other newsletters so that our members were aware of what was going on in San Bernardino, Sacramento or San Francisco. Several members did quite a bit of research on local companies that had been in business from 60 to 100 years ago. One of those articles turned into a series on the J.E. Taylor Co., of Santa Ana. Readers familiar with fruit jars will recognize the name as being embossed on light blue-aqua glass lid and bail jars: J.E. Taylor / Pure Foods / Santa Ana, Calif. All the jars were quarts in size and were packed with locally grown fruit and shipped nationwide. After we acquired our first exam-
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ple of the jar, Barb located a son of the original J.E. Taylor and was able to interview him and obtain many items belonging to his family. Of particular interest was a leather-bound picture album containing never before published photos of the factory. That resulted in a series of articles not only of interest to collectors, but to local history buffs and historical societies. I was interested in Orange County history and in Santa Ana, my birthplace. I began what turned out to be the largest collection of Orange County bottles and other memorabilia ever assembled at the time. That collection, l ater sold to another collector, included every pharmacy and soda bottle we ever knew about. I currently own every known variant of Santa Ana sodas, a number of pharmacy bottles and one Anaheim whiskey flask. Read All About It! Mainstays of the hobby were the many books on bottle collecting written by John C. Tibbitts, Alice Kendrick, Donald Colcleaser, Lynn Blumenstein, Bill & Betty Wilson (later Betty Zumwalt), Pat and Bob Ferraro, George and Helen McKearin, Richard Watson, Carlyn Ring, Bob Barnett, Arleta Rodrigues, Frank Peters, Ron Burris and others. Some of those books, measured by today’s standards, are quite primitive, but for us early collectors they were magic. Old Bottle and Western Collector magazines also were great sources of information. The Antique Bottle Club of Orange County held its first show on Feb. 28, 1970 at the Retail Clerks Union Hall in Buena Park near Knott’s Berry Farm. In contrast to today’s shows, we had nearly as many displays as sales tables. Displays then were often elaborate affairs with props, showmanship and aesthetic appeal being almost as important as the collectibles. Don Frace, of San Diego, often set up what looked like an 1800s drug store, utilizing one of the finest collections of medicine bottles and gowiths. Fruit jar displays were not uncommonly found in a small kitchen
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display, complete with a bin table or a Mudgge Canner or perhaps a woodburning stove. We began attending bottle and jar shows in Oakland, Santa Rosa, Sacramento, San Diego, Los Angeles, Tulare, Fresno and Visalia in California, and Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada. We met the hobby’s pioneers such as John Tibbitts, John Fountain, Peck and Audie Markota, Richard, Bev and Ted Siri, Allen Wilson, Bob and Pat Ferraro, and many others. We saw displays and bottles that are legends today. I actually saw a California Clubhouse Whiskey and a cone Bryant’s Bitters change hands at two different shows. They commanded big bucks those days and would command even bigger bucks today. One of the displays I remember most was Allen Wilson’s "Nature’s Tiffany" display in Oakland, Calif. It contained bottles dug out of the mud flats in Benicia, Calif., where the combination of salt water, oil and mineral deposits made for a patina that is unmatched elsewhere. Getting Down and Dirty My first real digging experience came when Rick Kallis of San Diego invited us down for a weekend visit. He and I dug on a vacant lot near downtown San Diego, partly under the foundation of an old building. We sort of undermined the foundation,. But the building was to be demolished anyway. We dug an olive green ladies’ leg bitters and I won the draw. Rick was sort of upset, but got over it and later I enjoyed surprising him with it as a gift. Rick was one of the first to discover Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, great aides in helping to locate privies, and allowed me to buy for the cost of printing Orange County maps. I used those maps with great success. My digging buddies couldn’t figure out how I was so successful in finding privy pits and I didn’t reveal my secret until years later. Another subterranean adventure began after the state of California purchased an entire block in Santa Ana for a large building. Old houses were
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cleared away and after I’d marked every privy I could find, I organized a dig with three friends. We dug more than 15 pits that day, some as deep as eight feet, and unearthed hundreds of bottles from the late 1880s to the 1920s. In one pit, I dug about two dozen Piso’s Cure bottles ranging in color from nearly clear to aqua to amber to dark olive green and shades in between. We had all agreed that we’d each keep what we dug or trade for what we wanted. I acquired all the Orange County bottles dug that day that I didn’t already have in my collection. On another day, Phil Lloyd and I arrived at an 1890s house in Orange, Calif., where I had already been given permission to dig. We probed two pits. The house was occupied by renters who claimed we’d find nothing. Sound familiar? I opened the first hole and Phil opened the second. Mine turned out to be one of the more interesting pits I’d ever dug. The trash layers were so defined that one could almost visit with the occupants of those time periods. One layer obviously was from a fairly healthy family since there were few medicine bottles and no liquors. Another layer had more medicines along with household varieties, while yet another layer had lots of booze bottles and little else (but I did find a pair of brass knuckles, a highlight of all my digs!). Phil dug several Orange city pharmacy bottles that were unknown at the time and I was able to trade for them. Over the years, I had debated with myself and others on whether or not to specialize in one type of bottle or another. Bitters and historical flasks were attractive, but I would have had to buy them and had no budget for such things. Of course, we collected fruit jars and Barb liked them, but one day in 1969, I caught a real break, an opportunity of a lifetime. Opportunity Knocks and He Opens the Door I’d arrived home for a rare lunch break and found Barb talking with fellow club member Nancy Mansur. She was telling how an article about her family’s collecting had just been published in the Anaheim newspaper. They received a call from an Anaheim resident who had acquired a bunch of bottles from a family friend who lived with them, but had died. They didn’t know anything about the bottles, but had been told by the friend that they were valuable. Nancy and her husband, Ron, had been to see the collection and had made an offer for one or two of the bottles. No deal, it was all or nothing, they were told. So I asked Nancy if I could check out the collection and she offered her blessings. I knew little about bitters, flasks and other quality bottles, and I wasn’t sure if these were the real deal. I decided to make an offer based on what I could afford, quadruple it and write it on a piece of paper and hand it to the owners. To my shock, the offer was accepted. I was able to borrow $1,000 from my Mom after I promised to sell some of the bottles and pay her back. The collection turned out to be half bitters, half flasks. I enlisted the help of my friend, Jack Slattery, of the Los An-
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geles club, who was collecting historical flasks. He authenticated them and I decided to part with the flasks and keep the bitters. Jack bought some of the flasks and referred me to other collectors who’d buy the rest. The flasks included a GIX-38 or 39 B.P. & B. scroll in yellow olive (sold to Charles B.Gardner), a GV-8 Success to the Railroad (sold at a show), four or five For Pike’s Peak (sold to John Eatwell), and others. Bitters included the Suffolk Pig, National (ear of corn), W & Co. (pineapple), a couple of Drake’s Plantation, a Fish Bitters, ten-ringed barrel and several others. I was able to pay back Mom in a month, keep the bitters and have some sales stock/traders. I gave the Mansurs a few miscellaneous bottles including a figural shaped like a billyclub as finder’ s fees. A year or so before getting into the serious bitters collecting, we attended a Los Angeles club show where we stopped by the sales table of Frank Peters. He quickly became one of our favorite characters in the hobby and he was one in the most affectionate meaning of the term. He had a citron green Lightning pint we fell in love with and, despite the highest price we’d ever paid, we took it home. That purchase must have marked us as serious jar collectors because Frank invited us to attend the informal gathering of
Alex Kerr and Arleta Rodriquez were among the elite of Western fruit jar collectors (courtesy of Jim & Barb Sinsley)
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From left: George Moll, Mrs. Julian H. Toulouse, Dr. Toulouse, and Jim Sinsley chat about Dr. Toulouse’s new book on fruit jars (courtesy of Jim & Barb Sinsley) other "Jarheads" held at his and Fran’s Fresno home the Saturday after Thanksgiving. We packed up our daughters and celebrated our oldest girl’s birthday in the Peters home. There we became acquainted not only with the Peterses, but Alex and Caroline Kerr, Arleta Rodrigues, Ron Burris, Greg and Judy Bickford, Richard Dana, Bob Glover and many others who made up the backbone of the Western jar collecting scene. Some of my most vivid recollections are of my conversations with Alex Kerr and Dr. Julian Toulouse, not because of their celebrity status, but because their knowledge of jars and jar manufacture was right down my mechanical alley. Alex was a junior, son of Alexander, founder of the Kerr Glass Manufacturing Co., which had a factory in my hometown of Santa Ana. Barb and I had purchased a small house in Santa Ana and our next door neighbor was Ray Gentry, quality control manager at the factory. Ray had taken me to the factory and shown me around so I had good exposure as to how those glass containers were made. In 1968, after we were deep into fruit jar collecting, Alex arranged to have the Kerr 65th anniversary jars
produced. As a function of our Jarhead Get-Together, we all went to the plant and observed the jars’ manufacture. The result yielded a bunch of clear jars with swirls of cobalt, purple and amethyst. Ray Gentry brought me a case of 12 jars with amethyst or purple streaks. I foolishly let these slip through my fingers and I don’t own any of those anniversary jars today. By 1972, Barb and I had become sort of burned out by the bottle scene and decided to move on. Our girls were growing and developing interests of their own and we had been surprised by the arrival of our son. Some of the Folks Who Impressed Us: ALEX KERR – Alex and his wife, Caroline, were two of the finest people I have ever met. While they had considerably more money than most of their collecting contemporaries, they maintained a persona that made them one of us. The son of Alexander H. Kerr, founder of the Kerr Glass Manufacturing Co., about 1903, Alex was a company executive. But he also owned large retail (Kerr’s) and wholesale (Olympic) sporting goods companies in Beverly Hills,
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Calif. Both he and his wife were expert marksmen with shotguns and hunted birds around the world. Alex was on20the Olympic trap and skeet shooting team, They had the finest collection of fruit jars of that time and Alex also collected glass target balls, amassing a super fine collection. One of our most cherished memories is being invited to have dinner with them (their treat) on our wedding anniversary. JACK SLATTERY – A member of the Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club, Jack was a Hollywood celebrity and announcer for early television personality Art Linkletter’s House Party shows. He was just one of us collectors, no putting on airs. His specialty was historical flasks. His wife, Marge, made hand-painted Raggedy Ann and Andy Christmas ornaments. We bought several and still proudly display them each Christmas. DR. JULIAN TOULOUSE – He was an icon to many early bottle and jar collectors, having long been a tenured glass engineer with OwensIllinois Glass Co. He was the author of at least two books on glass manufacturing, including Bottle Makers and Their Marks. He was distinguished, learned and a terrific guy to boot! I met him only once at the home of George and Helene Moll in either Capistrano or Dana Point in 1971. She had arranged to have Dr. and Mrs. Toulouse visit their home on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean and our group came as well. The doctor signed his newly published book. RURIK "RICK" KALLIS – Rick and his wife, Marjorie, were not only collecting associates but became close friends. They were from San Diego, but lived in Orange County for awhile when Rick taught art at Orange Coast College. He was far more intelligent than most, had a fair number of quirks and was a shrewd trader. He was interested in history and older architecture and at one time made a living restoring old houses. The Kallises restored an old farmhouse in Lemon Grove, Calif., doing most of the work. It became a site for a number of TV commercials and movies.
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He practically put himself through college by digging old bottles and selling them. He liked to crawl beneath train stations where he found large numbers of bottles. FRANK PETERS – I guess I gravitate toward characters like Frank because I find them more interesting than "normal" people. Frank and his wife, Fran, were avid collectors who lived in Fresno. Fran collected perfume bottles, the real fancy ones, and Frank collected fruit jars. He dabbled in insulators and sold all manner of things at shows, but was a primary source for books on antiques and collectibles. Whenever he was in the southern part of the state, we’d play hosts, but he would never sleep in the house. He insisted on sleeping in his pickup camper which was overcrowded with stuff, but he said he was most comfortable there. (He could fart whenever he wanted and not feel embarrassed!). As a thank you gift, he once gave us an insulator with Santa Ana embossed on it. The New Beginning When we sold our collections, I truly thought I was through collecting anything. For about 17 years, I didn’t think about bottles, fruit jars, coins, stamps or anything else that wasn’t "useful." I’d turned into my Dad! In 1979, we moved from Southern California to the panhandle of northern Idaho, I went fishing, camping, dirt bike riding, skiing, etc., in my spare time. About 1988, I found myself at a yard sale and found a pretty purple insulator. My 17-year-old son, Devon, was with me and told me we needed it to go along with HIS Santa Ana insulator. I said, "What Santa Ana insulator?" He said, "the one I use for a door stop." I said, "We still have that?" He said, "I have it, it’s mine!" I said, "No it’s not, what makes you think it’s yours?" He said, "You didn’t even know I have it so it’s mine. Buy me this one to go with it!" "I said, "This insulator is priced $1 and NO insulator is worth more than 50 cents!" I bought it for him anyway. Devon has never let me forget that
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statement since I have paid quite a bit more than 50 cents for A LOT MORE insulators. So we attended many more yard sales and picked up more insulators. On a trip back from Southern California, we stopped for a bite to eat in a little burg in central Oregon. Next door was an antiques/junk shop and my Wifey went inside as I stayed out with the grandson. She came out and told me they had a Drake’s Plantation Bitters for sale . "So?" I asked. She asked how much it was worth and we argued. For some reason she wanted me to buy it, but I was afraid of the flood that would come. Well, it’s been flooding ever since and man, am I wet! Today, we have an impressive bitters collection, even better than the one in 1972, and a fair collection of low end historical flasks. We have a small but impressive fruit jar collection and about 1,000 insulators. Since, 1990, we have been active in the bottle and insulator collecting hobbies, attending every show and function we can. We have been to New England for Columbus Day activities at Norm Heckler’s (three times), even being invited into the Heckler home, a highlight for us nobodies. We viewed the collections of
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Gale and Bill Backhaus in their home, had our WAW-WAW story told by Ralph Finch in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector, and bought wonderful bottles from Murry Yanofski, Ed and Kathy Gray, Jim Hall, David Sidelinger, Ole Severson, George Waddy and John Hathaway at the magnificent Keene, New Hampshire show. We have met the likes of Bill Ham, John Thomas, Brad Francis, John Hiscox, Elvin Loader, Marc Lutsko, Jay Marks, Jim Mitchell, Rick Miller, Randy Mitchell, Nick Merten, David Meintz, Greg Price, Bill Tanner, Roger Terry, Ralph Van Brocklin, David Bethman, Jeff Wichmann and many others at three FOHBC Expos and other venues over the years. In 2007-2008, I sold my bitters and Warner’s collections and just sold (June 2009) my last saleable bitters on eBay. I’m still married to Barb and we have kept the flask and fruit jar collections and I am concentrating on insulators. That brings us up to date and I will be a collector until I die. Collectors collect! That’s what we do. Barb and I have enjoyed the hobby and treasure the friendships we have made. We would enjoy hearing from anyone. Jim@SinsleyStuff.Info
Collecting insulators yet another area of collecting enthusiastically approached by Jim and Barb Sinsley, circa 1996 (courtesy of Jim & Barb Sinsley)
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Australian Bush Devastation By Travis Dunn Weather predictions of a horror bushfire day early in February in south east Australia proved to be understated! February the 7th, 2009 will forever go down as one of the worst natural disasters ever to hit this country. Temperatures nudged 48 degrees Celsius and the wind howled at up to 120 km/h. We could only hope that no fires would start, unfortunately this were not the case. Several fires started, some through faulty electricity lines, some through arson! The worst fire started at Kilmore East, north of Melbourne, whilst another fire was lit at Murrindindi north east of Melbourne, these two fires would eventually meet. Emergency services were unable to cope with the sheer scale of the disaster, it would be weeks before the full scale of it would be fully known. Many towns were consumed in the flames, over 2,000 h om e s were lost and more than 170 people perished. It is impossible to imagine what it may have been like without being there, the stories that have come out of that day are nothing short of a nightmare. Several collectors lived in the fire affected areas. One of the stalwarts of the hobby in Australia, auctioneer Ross Roycroft was in the direct path of the bushfire. Along with his wife, Christine, and their
grandchildren, they fought the fire trying to save their house for well over an hour. Things became too much for them in the end, they were forced to retreat and take cover in the creek that was running through their property. Here they stayed for a couple of hours until the fire front had passed. Surveying the situation they found that they had lost literally everything, but they were amongst the lucky ones as they were fit and healthy. They have since begun the rebuilding process, they have started to accrue another collection and are doing amazingly well considering the circumstances that they have been through. Theirs is just one of hundreds of stories to come out of the day, all of which have a sad undertone. The one heartening thing to come from such a disaster is the amazing support that
has been received from fellow countrymen and from people right around the world. Over $350 million dollars was raised to assist those affected by the fires, many of which were uninsured, and assistance of all sorts has been offered from people from all walks of life. It sometimes takes a disaster to show the generous and kind nature of humanity, that is certainly the case here. Please spare a thought for those affected and hope that we never have such weather conditions anywhere in the world again which produced such a devastating effect, for there was literally no stopping this fire under those conditions. The bottles pictured here are just a few examples of ones that are gone forever! Related article next page
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One of the not so fortunate victims was Gavin Dunn son of June Dunn and brother to Travis Dunn, editors of The Australian Bottle & Collectables Review. Here is his story by his brother, Travis. Gavin was a victim of the fire, living in Flowerdale not too far from the Roycroft's. Gavin Dunn, born April 2, 1969 passed away February 7, 2009. The events of February 7th, 2009 will forever go down in our memories as the most shocking day in this country’s history. So many lives lost, so much property lost. Gavin had been living on his Flowerdale property for fifteen years. He loved living in FLowerdale, the lifestyle suited him to a tee. Being born to Russell (deceased) and June Dunn nearly forty years ago, he was exposed to the bottle collecting community for much of his life. He would, in his younger days, join his father and his two brothers on numerous excursions into the rugged bush, that was to eventually claim his life, in the search for historic sites in the hope of finding the odd bottle or two. Once he was old enough, his life went in a different direction, being a very independent person, he shied away from the collecting to lead his own life. He would always, however, be a collector at heart. He left school as soon as he could, gaining an appren-
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Small sampling of the devastation ticeship in the printing trade. Becoming fully qualified, things were going along smoothly until one fateful day when he was involved in a serious car accident. Having acquired a mild brain injury, he was unable to return to work. Receiving a payout from the TAC, this was used to buy his own property in Flowerdale, which he lived in ever since. Gavin had a love of motorbikes. His younger days saw him spending many hours on his motorcycles. He had a few incidences along the way, suffering a broken pelvis at one stage and on a separate occasion a broken leg. None of these were to deter him from riding. He had motorbikes right until the end. Gavin loved his animals, too. He always had dogs as companions and would do anything for his dogs. He could often be seen walking his dogs down the street to the local shop, although, it could be said the dogs were walking him. He is survived by his three children, twin teenage girls whom he rarely saw and his younger daughter Kim, with whom he had been spending some time. Gavin will be sadly missed by June (our mom), myself, and his other brother, Mark. We hope that he has gone onto a better place and does not argue too much with his father now that they have been reunited.
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Last Chance Reminder “SHOW TIME” August 1 - 2 This is it, folks, “Show Time” is near! Your trucks and cars have been cleaned and serviced or your plane reservations have been made. Some of you may even be riding together and sharing expenses. If the temptation is great enough, there is always a way to figure out how to get to Southern California and to Pomona. Remember the advertising says, “California or Bust.” Whether you have signed up as a dealer or you are on the acquiring end of this show, be prepared to walk and talk. Walk up to every table and check it out. As you are probably already aware as a buyer, you have to carefully check each bottle. To save time, you can ask the dealer if he has that particular bottle you are looking for. If he or she doesn’t have it, he or she might be able to tell you who might. Talk is something dealers do so well. If you are somewhat of a novice in some collecting categories, dealers can usually help answer your questions. Here is a motto to live by: “Buy it when you see it.” Some of us have learned if you walk away and then decide you want a particular item, chances are it will have sold before you get back to the dealer’s table. The best feature of a national show is that it is a two-day show. Imagine having two days to walk, talk and hopefully purchase. Be grateful for ATM machines and check books. You can always replenish your supply of funds. In some cases, you will be reuniting with some dealer friends and perhaps able to join them on Saturday night for some food, drink and information exchange. The most important feature of Saturday night is that time has been set aside, after the show closes, to take in some educational seminars. We have mentioned a few in the last two write-ups. We have not mentioned that there will be a seminar on the bottle cleaning process. Prior to Saturday night, you will notice that you will be able to witness the process happening right at the show. As advertised, you will be able to talk to folks who are willing to look at a bottle that you may want to bring in for appraisal. If you are a member of a bottle club, just think of how you will “wow” other members at “Show and Tell” with your California purchase(s). Our guess is that you will acquire some really nice finds. If so inclined you can write a little story about your “Recent Finds” for your club’s newsletter and even provide a picture of them as well. Note that the FOHBC 2009 National Show, hosted by the Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club (LAHBC), is another one of those history-making events. As supporters of our hobby we hope that you will join us in enjoying the Southern California Experience.
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Nevada: History of Bottle Collecting By Bob Ferraro EDITOR’S NOTE: Bob Ferraro was elected president of the Southern Nevada Bottle Collectors Club in 1971 and 1972. The club was formed in 1965 and later became the Las Vegas Bottle Collector’s Club in 1973. In that year, he was elected chairman of the Western Region of the Federation of Historical Bottle Clubs (as it was then called), serving in that capacity in 1974. In 1976, he was elected federation president and served through 1977. In 2007, he was asked to serve as second vice president of the federation and in 2008 was named first vice president. He also found time for politics. He was appointed to city council of Boulder City, Nev., in July of 1976 and won reelection to that post in 1977. He also was mayor of Boulder City for six terms (24 years), becoming, he said, the longest serving mayor in the country. In 2002, he was inducted into the FOHBC Hall of Fame. My interest in old bottles occurred in 1950 while I was in high school in northern Nevada. My folks were ranchers in Paradise Valley, a rural area about 40 miles east of Winnemucca. My mother had developed a strong interest in sun-colored, or more commonly called "purple" bottles that were quite prevalent in and around the mining camps. At this time in my life, I really had no interest in old bottles, but I would go out of my way to search the mining camps and ghost towns to find purple bottles for her. Over several years, my mother’s collection grew from just a few on the shelf to several shelves filled with purple glass. I believe it would be worth mentioning that my early school years were quite different from those of many students. While going to a three -room school house, there were six students in the first grade and I was the only student in the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh grades. I was joined by four other students in
the eighth grade. During my sophomore year of high school (all high school classes, as well as the seventh and eighth grades, were taught by a male teacher in one room), it became obvious that the high school would have to close the next year since state law required a minimum of five students to keep a high school functioning, For those of us who wanted to complete our high school education, we would have to go to the nearest school, which was 40 miles away in Winnemucca. I drove back and forth each day except during the treacherous winter months when I would stay with an aunt in Winnemucca. When I graduated from high school in 1953, my mother wanted me to take the purple bottle collection, but I still didn’t have any interest in bottles. Since I didn’t want to disappoint her, I simply asked if I could wait until I finished college. She agreed that this was an acceptable arrangement. As an undergraduate at the University of Nevada-Reno, I majored in general agriculture and for graduate school, I majored in range management. I earned both my bachelor’s and master’s degrees and remained at UNR for 10 years, conducting research and carrying out considerable agricultural work. Upon graduating from college in 1959, an unusual event occurred: I met two families from Fallon, Nev., who had started collecting bottles. One Sunday afternoon while visiting with them, they asked if I knew where we could all go look for old bottles. As I was thinking of places to go, I remembered an area in Virginia City, about a half-hour’s drive from the university, where I used to walk over and look for old coins and other relics. As I was telling Ray and Doris Alcorn and Ned and Grace Kendrick about the area in Virginia City that appeared to be a refuse or trash dump, they immediately wanted to go and determine if there might be any old
bottles there. That was all it took before we were on our way with our shovels in the trunk of Ned’s car. We parked near the area and in a few moments bottles of all descriptions were being unearthed. Thus started my serious bottle collecting in 1959. This was the beginning of the excavation which many referred to as the Church Lot since it was adjacent to the Catholic and Episcopal churches. For almost a year, we had this digging site to ourselves. Little by little, word got out, and I remember the times when I went there, I would find as many as 20 or 30 cars parked around the Church Lot. There were cars from California, Oregon, Idaho, Utah and, of course, Nevada. I have estimated that within the next three years, more than 20,000 bottles were dug there. So from 1959 until 1963, I personally dug nearly 100 J.H. Hotstetter’s Bitters, about 50 Lash’s Bitters, more than 1,000 pottery ale bottles, and well over 70 pottery seltzer bottles were unearthed. I also dug what I considered to be several quality bottles such as a green IXL Bitters, several Stephens and Jose sodas from Virginia City, a Choice Old Cabinet Bourbon Whiskey, a Jockey Club Whiskey, a W.A. Gaines Whiskey, a Gold Dust Kentucky Bourbon, six Bitter Whitches, many Nevada medicines including an aqua A.M. Cole, an aqua J.B.B. Lefevre, many colored pepper sauces, several cathedral pickles and more than 100 Congress Waters. Every day we dug in Virginia City turned into an exceptionally good digging day. With all that digging there, we would anxiously await Friday afternoons so we could attempt to find other sites to search for old bottles. And, yes, I did acquire my mother’s purple bottle collection. In fact, I still have a few of the deepercolored ones such as catsup and spice bottles in my general collection.
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In 1959,. I had come to know Edith and John Tibbitts and Elmer and Ruth Lester, members of the Sacramento Bottle Club. They enjoyed having visitors to discuss bottles and view their collections. Some may recall that John was newsletter editor for the Sacramento club and referred to his monthly publication as The Pontil. (He later published a book called "Chips from The Pontil.") One weekend, the Tibbitses and the Lesters invited me to come explore the redevelopment area in old Sacramento. While walking around the area, we came upon a number of derelict diggers who were sharing a wine bottle while digging near a crumbling brick wall. I was amazed that these on-site squatters had found several good sodas, including several green ones bearing iron pontils. For the most part, their bottles were for sale; however, they were acutely aware of the values of their treasures. I also remember in 1960 visiting John and Florence Fountain in Amador City, Calif., and being totally in awe of some of the bottles they had in their shop. The shop was located on a street with a very colorful name – Pig Turd Alley! I had become so fascinated with the variety of bottles I was finding or seeing in various collections, so I started to assemble an extensive collection of notes. My quest for information was insatiable. I would contact firms, both foreign and domestic, for information on the identifiable bottles in my collection or other people’s collections. Within a year, I had collected a considerable amount of information. In fact, in late 1969, I decided the information I had collected on the old glass containers should be made available to other enthusiasts. My first wife (Pat) and I published "The Past in Glass" in 1970 and within a year or so published our second book, "A Bottle Collector’s Book." Both were well-received over the next 15 years, with about 70,000 copies sold in the U.S., Canada and Europe. One evening after I had given a talk on old bottles to a group of collectors in Fallon, a nicely dressed man came up and asked if I could possibly stop and see him in his office at Harold’s Club in Reno where he was serving as curator for the museum and relic collections. A week later, I was in Reno so I went to see Ben Hathaway at Harold’s Club. While we were in his office visiting, he asked if I would like to accompany him to see Mrs. Dorothy Smith, the ex-wife of Harold Smith, owner of Harold’s Club. I told him I could take the time so we drove to her house in Reno. At her home, we were invited in, and Dorothy said: "I understand you collect old bottles." I admitted that I did, and that’s when she said, "let me show you something in the basement." As soon as we got down there, I counted about 50 partitioned cardboard boxes sitting on shelves. "Look and see what’s in those boxes," she said. It was unbelievable. Those boxes were filled with primarily whiskeys, various food bottles including cathedral pepper sauce and pickles, bitters, black glass, and household bottles such as inks, glues and blackings. She told me the bottles "had been purchased in
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1952 for $500 from a man in Sonoma, Calif., and they have never been out of those boxes. I want to sell them for exactly what they cost us in 1952." I told her I would like to purchase the collection,, but I would have to ask my wife. She said, "That’s fine, just let me know your decision in the next week or so." It was obvious the collection was worth more than $500. Since Pat and I had just had our first child, money was almost nonexistent, which meant I would have to get a loan from our bank. I was back in Reno within two days with five $100 bills to acquire the amazing collection. Upon returning home, I began calling other collectors who I knew would have an interest in the items I didn’t want. Within less than a day’s time, I had found others willing to spend far in excess of $500 for the pieces I didn’t want. To this day, I still have number of the Harold’s Club bottles in my personal collection. Another interesting acquisition that occurred involved Ray Alcorn. In the spring of 1960, we drove to the remote mining camp of Victor in Churchill County and within a couple of hours had filled several burlap bags with embossed whiskeys and bitters. It was just another example of what was available for little or no effort in those early days of collecting bottles. After about six months of earnest collecting, I realized that the sheer number of bottles in my collection had become staggering and unmanageable. There was absolutely no way of exhibiting that vast number so I made the decision to begin specializing. I couldn’t make up my mind at first, but after attending the Charles B. Gardner auction in 1975, I quickly realized I should specialize in figural bitters and whiskeys. So from 1976, I concentrated on these two categories of bottles. It became evident that there were quite a number of collectors who also liked these two categories. Figural bitters and whiskies are still the primary focal point of my collection. In addition, my Nevada bottle collection has expanded to where it has become the most complete collection that has ever been assembled from my home state.
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2009 FOHBC National Bottle Show Hosted by the Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club
California or Bust Banquet: Early Admission: Saturday, August 1 Sunday, August 2 General Admission: $5 Sunday, August 2
Friday, July 31 6:00 pm Sheraton Fairplex Hotel 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm 8:00 am to 9:00 am 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
Pomona Fairplex 1104 W McKinley Ave, Pomona, CA 91768 Show Chairman: Pam Selenak 156 S Pepper St Orange, CA 92868 (714) 633-5775 pselenak@yahoo.com
FOHBC Convention Director R. Wayne Lowry 401 Johnston Ct Raymore, MO 64083 (816) 318-0161 JarDoctor@aol.com
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Pretender or Actual Example? By Barry L. Bernas Problem I’ve known for quite some time that sale’s personnel from the Perfection Glass Company advertised non-flanged tumblers without an outer pattern right alongside their scalloped flange models1. Until just recently, however, it never occurred to me how I would recognize a flangeless specimen if I came across one. As fate would dictate, I came face to face with this perplexing dilemma quicker than I anticipated or would have liked. The encounter happened on January 25th, 2008 when my wife and I attended the first day of the Sixth Annual Winter Auction of Glass and Lighting at the Green Valley Auctions’ complex situated a few miles southeast of Harrisonburg, Virginia. In full sight within a box lot of early twentieth century milk glass mustard containers and tumblers was the possible candidate. At the time, I was so sure that I had discovered a Perfection Glass plain tumbler without a flange that I bought the box to get the potential contender. This article will evaluate if my purchase proved to be an actual model or if my mind only convinced me that it was the “real deal.” How did I tell the Difference? Usually, I take my identification material with me to any auction, sale or show that I attend. It is my support system and crutch. But on this occasion, those documents were neatly but uselessly stowed at home. As a result, I was forced to rely upon an aging memory that can be outright deceptive, if given the slightest chance. To decide on the spot if I had a contender or pretender, I was forced to use several major characteristics of the tumbler as my working aid. One was its construction. To the feel, the clear candidate was formed out of a good size gob of metal and had the weight and thickness to prove it. Its slight tinge of sun colored amethyst added more certainty to my deliberation. The prominent thickness of its base along with a circular concave depression underneath and a familiar petal design molded thereon kept me going down the path of certitude. With these data points firmly in hand, I compared them to a conjured image of a scalloped flange edition in my mind. Almost immediately, I was both convinced and unsure my tentative alignment of factors was correct. Let’s explore the same process after the fact with an expanded set of criteria to see if my purchase was a great addition to my collection or just another very old dust collector. Flangeless and Flanged Tumblers Figure 1 has my Green Valley purchase on the left and a scalloped flange example to its right. The contender is 3 15/16th inches tall and 3/16th inch in thickness. Its right-hand potential mate is 4 1/6th inches in height and 3/16th of an inch thick. Aside from a slightly
Figure 1 angled inward side wall and no scalloped flange, the left side model is quite similar in construction to its possible counterpart. One noticeable difference is the thickness of its base. It is 11/16th inch in length while the opposite tumbler has a smaller ½ inch measurement.
Figure 2 The underside of the base on each edition has more clues to consider. Figure 2 has my new acquisition on the left with a scalloped flange specimen on the right. At first look, both appear to be the same. However, upon closer inspection, there are several differences. For one, the level surface upon which the left glass sits is 1/4th inch in width. The same flat area on the right-hand model is 1/8th of an inch wide. Secondly, the circular concave depression begins at the innermost point after the 1/4th inch flat surface on the left side edition. This impression is 1 15/16th inches across and 5/16th of an inch deep in the center. The same feature on the right sample commences directly after a 1/8th inch slanted down and inward segment that follows the 1/8th inch wide flat surface. Its outer diameter is 1 7/8th inches with a center depth of 3/8th inch. A third dissimilarity is the design within the circular concave depression. The left edition is embossed and shows twenty-four petals around a central point. Opposite
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it, the same motif is debossed and consists of thirty petals oriented around a center spot. The last telltale difference can be seen in Figure 3. My non-flanged candidate on the left has an outer side wall that angles gradually inward until about 1/8th of an inch from its bottom end. At this spot, a radical slant inward and down ensues. On the right-hand example, its side wall starts a gentle curved inward segment about 3/8th inch above the bearing surface.
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which had the scalloped flange applied later in the production process. If this thought is valid, then the characteristics of each should be quite similar if not an exact match. In this case, there are too many different characteristics to account for any tolerances in the manufacturing process. Alas, it looks like I’ll have to continue my search because my mind was up to its old tricks! If you have a possible contender, please don’t hesitate to contact me directly so that your find can be documented and reported. Barry L. Bernas 239 Ridge Avenue Gettysburg, PA 17325 (717) 338-9539 BarryB6110@aol.com 1
Figure 3 Pretender or Actual Example? In spite of all my hopes, I believe my acquisition is a pretender vice an actual example. I presume a flangeless edition would have been made out of the same mold as one
Have You Seen A Scalloped Flange Tumbler? Part Two of Two, Barry L. Bernas, Bottles and Extras, November-December 2007, pgs. 54-55. This article contains more information about the advertised and known styles of this unique piece of tableware
Now we know there is a catalog for bottles!
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The Hutchinsons of Sydney By Zang Wood The following information was compiled by David Jones and supplied to me by Wayne Harris. I gratefully acknowledge and thank them and Trevor Pilgrim for their friendship, help and hard work. Three Sydney soda water companies used Hutchinson. They were: Pioneer Aerated Water Company Limited, 1887 - 1892. Sydney merchant John Hyam Nathan established the Pioneer Aerated Water Co. He had been a partner in a firm of Sydney importers, watchmakers, wholesale jewelers, and tobacco and cigar manufacturers. This firm also had a Melbourne branch and connections in London, Switzerland and France. In 1888, a new company, The Pioneer Aerated Water Company Limited was formed. This change netted Nathan 1250 pounds (approximately $2000) plus 200 fully paid-up shares in the new company of which a few were allocated to his nominee, Joseph Barnard Benjamin. The assets, at the time, included a patent filling machine, a patent American aerated water machine, a corking rack, a capsule machine, a cordial corking machine, and a marble fountain and fittings, a wagon, 2 horses with harness, 45 casks ranging in capacity from 5 to 300 gallons, two 800 gallon tanks, a copper boiler, colouring pans, buckets, crates, racks, and office equipment. Sugar, lemonade, cordial and seltzer bottles completed the inventory. In 1887, Benjamin registered a Diamond shaped label for “Moxie”, a new beverage described as a temperance drink. It originated in the US, where it was known as “Moxie Nerve Food”, a tonic claimed to be beneficial for numerous ailments. The Benjamin Co also acted as agents for Dr. Morse’s Sarsaparilla, made fruit champagnes, cordial, syrups, and aerated waters of all descriptions, according to a July, 1888 advertisement. J.B.B Benjamin and Co. managed the
works until 1890. Benjamin was also the proprietor of the American Exchange Hotel on George Street, Sydney, and the company was sole agent for Hutchinson patent bottles as well as Wagner & Todds aerated water machinery. Sydney brewers J.T. & J. Toohey filed a petition for Benjamin’s bankruptcy on July 17, 1889. Benjamin owed Toohey’s more than 416 pounds for liquors purchased for his hotel. His total debts were more than 1,800 pounds. The creditors included two other Sydney aerated water companies of the day. Benjamin confessed that he knew little about the hotel business! His bankruptcy also terminated his management of The Pioneer Works. Henry Thomas Garde took over the Pioneer Works. Between January and November, 1890, Garde purchased 4,032 split size (small 6 oz.) Codd’s patent bottles, citric acid, kegs of bicarbonate of soda, cream of tartar, sulphuric acid, casks of whiting, sweet orange oil, oil of cloves, bulk lime juice, ginger, orange peel, castor oil, quinine, essence of vanilla, raspberry, brandy colouring, oil of lemon, wintergreen, sassafras, and corks. Garde also ordered about 8,000 bottles from Sydney’s Botany Works in the first ten months of 1890. These presumably were also Codd’s patent bottles. The Codd bottles bear the figure of a “Pioneer” - a person wearing head gear, pantaloons, and what appears to be an axe-headed pike being carried in an “on-guard” position. It may portray a “guard” to represent “Gardes” name. It was registered by him as a trademark in August, 1889. The Hutchinson patent bottles were in three forms. One had the word “Pioneer” over “J.B. Benjamin” on one side with “Works” over “Sydney” on the other. The embossing is near the base. After Benjamin ceased being manager, another Hutchinson with Benjamin’s name erased was used. The third Hutchinson used was em-
bossed with the company name on one side and the monogrammed initials “PAW” in a shield on the other side. Garde also experienced financial difficulties borrowing from The Australian Banking Company Limited, issuing promissory notes which he could not honor, and getting in such a predicament that on November 3, 1890, he declared himself bankrupt. Redfern Cordial maker Joseph S. Carter, became manager of the Pioneer Works. However, it ceased operation by October, 1892.
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H.T. Smith & Co 1881 - 1908 Hugh Thomas Smith was born in 1836 near Bristol, England. He became a successful engineer but planned to emigrate to Australia with his brother aboard the sailing ship “Dunbar”. Hugh’s wife, Rebecca, wished to go to Canada, instead. She won out and they avoided Hugh’s brother’s fate when he was tragically drowned as the “Dunbar” was wrecked outside Sydney Heads on the night of August 20, 1857. (Moral: Listen to your wife). Hugh and Rebecca spent time touring in Canada before settling in Toronto. Hugh entered partnership with Thomas Millichamp and by 1859, the business was listed as a Brass foundry, and plumbing and gas fitting service at 95 Queen Street. Hugh entered the soda water manufacturing business in the late 1860s as evidenced by soda bottles bearing the date 1867. An advertisement in the Toronto City Directory proclaims Hugh as proprietor of “The Toronto Steam Soda-Water Manufactory”. By 1876, the factory was located at 13 Elizabeth Street. Hugh’s inventiveness and improvements, made to the aerated water machinery soon made him the leading manufacturer of soda fountains and dispensing apparatus, not only in Canada, but, also in the US according to his biography. Smith exhibited in the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, on a grand scale. Acting on the advice of the Australian Commissioners in Philadelphia, he shipped his exhibits to the 1877 Sydney show. He was awarded ten first place medals. He devoted several months to fitting gas lighting to New South Wales railway carriages before returning to Toronto. He returned to Sydney in 1879 with a new exhibit which won him additional awards and honors. He then toured Australia, exhibiting in Perth, Hobart, Adelaide, and other large exhibitions including the 1880-1881 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition. He had established a firm in Sydney which secured contracts to install gas lighting in Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, and Tasmanian
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railway carriages. Around 1881, Rebecca and children joined Hugh in Sydney, sailing aboard the American mailboat “Zealandia”. Hugh and a Mr. Hamilton traded as “Smith & Hamilton” manufacturers of “Needles Patent Gas Apparatus” at 43 Sussex Street, Sydney. In 1884, Hugh’s name was associated with “The Australian Wine Store” at 104 King Street, Newtown, a Sydney suburb. Hugh’s 23 year old son, Harry, established a cordial manufacturing business at 687 George Street, trading as H. Smith & Co. It appears that Hugh’s Toronto bottles (blob-top corkers embossed “HTS” monogram and “Toronto 1867” on one side, plus “H.T. Smith Steam Soda Water Maker”) and Matthews gravitating stopper patent bottles embossed with the same monogram, plus “H.T. Smith Toronto 1873” were not all left in Canada. The latter types are often recovered in Australia. Additionally, a Hutchinson patent bottle embossed “H.T. Smith” in curved letters above a “HTS” monogram, with “trade mark” either side, plus “Sydney” below, centered above “1884”. Smith died May 4, 1907, at his Sydney home “Toronto Villa”, and the company appears to have wound up in 1908. Rebecca died on June 4, 1910.
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Boston Aerated Water Works, 1889 - 1890 The factory was located in the heart of East Sydney, at 199 Liverpool Street. It is known that the factory produced various soda waters and Ginger beer. Bottles found to-date include Lamont’s Patent, Hutchinson’s patent and stoneware ginger beers. All are marked “Boston Aerated Water Works, Sydney”. Little is known about the company or its proprietors. It moved into it’s Liverpool Street location prior to October, 1889, but it had closed within a year. Zang Wood has collected Hutchinson Patent Bottles for more than 35 years. He is interested in purchasing any from Australia. If anyone can help, Zang, please keep him in mind. Please contact him at: ZangWood 1612 Camino Rio Farmington, NM 87401 (505) 327-1316
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continued from page 28 cures, food bottles, political hats, signs, slogans and torches, porcelain and tin plates from the very early 1800s, clocks, pictures, post cards, water bottles, demijohns, moulds, old food cans and so much more. It’s just simply amazing.
Dick does have some very nice early American fruit jars on display, some of which include Arthur’s Patent, A. Stone, Potter & Bodine and Dalbey jars. I was amazed to see an Arthur’s and A. Stone jar in half-pint size. I didn’t even know these jars existed in the smaller size. Dick was a very good friend of George McConnell. He related to me how George was over at his house one day and spied a Crowleytown jar in a size he didn‘t have, and asked Dick if he would sell it to him. Dick went to his glass cabinet, took out the jar and gave it to George. Dick then told him it was a gift. George was thrilled to say the least, and it’s moments such as those that make collecting what it’s all about -the people.
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Dick told me another very interesting story concerning some really good jars and bottles he acquired for the collection some 25 years ago. Once a month, Dick and his wife used to set up at a flea market in Rancocas, N.J. There he met some doctors' and lawyers’ wives who had time on their hands and so became involved in antiques, and all of them liked both Dick and Elma a lot. A few of them had shops in Mt. Holly, and one of the ladies was approached
by a woman who said she had many fruit jars and bottles she was looking to sell. Well, since she didn’t know much about fruit jars she told her to get in contact with Dick. The woman lived about ten miles away from Dick, so he went there as soon as possible to look over the items. When he got there he saw that she had many boxes of jars that she wanted to get rid of due to lack of space. As Dick looked through the boxes he found a green H&S quart, a full set of Haller’s with stopples and other assorted early glass fruit jars with stopples, too. It turned out her husband was a Philadelphia fireman and there was a fire in a building there. According to Dick, during the Civil War, the government used to commandeer many buildings and use them as makeshift hospitals. Well, this was one such building.
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couldn’t at that time. Then he heard the fire marshal talking about the building having to be taken down due to structural damage. The building was right at the edge of the street, and most of the bricks had been cooked by the intensity of the fire, so it was very dangerous. Well, he went back that night and cleaned all of the glass out of there.
According to Dick, everything was super clean. If a jar was supposed to have a closure then the jar had the correct one, and all of them were perfect. There were also olive oil and some pickle bottles in the mix. Dick said there was just a bunch of nice jars including three pint Haller jars with stopples that were all whittled. So the
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woman told him she had someone else already look at them, and she wanted to take bids. Dick told her he just didn’t want to get into a back and forth deal and asked her to get the other party’s highest bid that they would pay for the lot and after that call him. Then he would give her his highest bid, but he didn’t want to know what the other bid was at all.
So she called Dick back, and he went over again to give everything another look over. At that point Dick told her he’d give her $1,500 for the whole works. Well, the woman stuttered and said “you would, $1,500 you, you got them.” She was so excited she couldn’t contain herself. Dick happens to be one of those
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very fortunate and blessed collectors who just happened to be alive at the right time and also live in the right place. But it was also his insatiable passion for history and historic Americana that drove him on. You wouldn’t know though by talking or looking at him that he has probably the most complete and diverse collection of truly historic Americana in the entire country. Dick is just a warmhearted, down-to-earth person who loves to share his collection, life experiences and wonderful stories with whomever would give him the time. Dick claims what really helped spur him on was the fact that his wife was also into collecting many historical items too, and she didn’t mind him spending money. Dick’s thinking is very simple: once he’s bought and paid for something, he doesn’t worry about what it’s worth. Dick claims he isn’t just a jar collector, but I’d say he has some pretty fantastic stuff.
Notes: Dick Watson is currently the Historial for the FOHBC and has served on the board since approximately 1986 in some capacity and has been in the current position since 1988. He and his wife, Elma, joined the Federation of Historical Bottle Clubs (now Collectors) as Life members in the early 1980s. Looking for jar collections / jars to report on, contact: Bruce Schank (973) 214-5082 Email: fruitjars@optonline.net
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This is just a small sampling of the untold variety and numbers of items to be found at the “Watson Museum� in addition to fruit jars. Hope you enjoyed this glimpse at the collections.
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“Southern California Digs Don’t Exist” By David Garcia Everybody knows that Southern California digs don’t exist, or so I’ve heard. Fact is we have to work harder at getting them, but they are out there. . .in a “needle-in-thehay sort of way.” We won’t get anything as ancient as what comes out of Pennsylvania or New York, and rarely even get any good '80s stuff from San Francisco, but we have our fun none-the-less. Usually I dig with a good friend from the San Diego club, Lance Westfall, but he’d had just about enough of the “techno jobs” we’d been doing. They are costly, and backbreaking, and as holes go, the percentage is small that you get a great dig around here. I’m a knucklehead though, and I know how hard this town has been hit by diggers in the past, so I resort to concrete driveways and asphalt parking lots. The early biscuits soaked up all the gravy, and just when you think you’re gonna get an untouched, wide-open yard, you end up digging three or four ABDs (already-been -dug for those who aren’t up on the lingo). There is nothing more effective at taking the wind out of a digger’s sails than digging four holes with sack-lunches and plastic soda bottles at the six- to eight foot levels. Knowing that Lance was about to walk unless we found an “easy” dirt yard, we decided to try one out. The permission was easy, and right away I get leery. It’s the trouble-free permissions, the wide-open yards, the owners serving you lunch and lemonade. Those holes are almost certainly gonna be lame. So we get in, and picked up a hole in three minutes. Too easy. Lance and I ended up digging a fourteen-foot bomber that produced six bottles, one of which was a nice-sized Viole-Lopizich from Los Angeles, but that was the only noteworthy piece in the entire heavy wet clay, monster of a hole. A curious woman watching us from her balcony next door started to ask the usual, “what are you guys doing?” For me, that’s like asking me if I wanna dig your property, and I fired all the right stuff back at her. “History you can touch,” and how “the hole is like reading a book of local history from back to front.” Essentially we’re in a “time capsule.” She was VERY curious now, and I could tell she was hungry for more. I gave her my photo album, a key element for my door-knocks. She took it upstairs, and didn’t come back down for another hour plus, when she asked me if there was a hole on her property. I reeled her in, and showed her the 1891 maps which had her house drawn in. She mentioned seeing in my album that I have done concrete jobs, and mighty fine repairs, and that if I wanted to dig her privy I could. I was thankful, but Lance’d had enough of the “tech jobs” for a while. We had done three just the previous week, and they are costly, back-breaking and time consuming. When you go into one of these technos with high hopes and get semi-skunked, it hurts in more ways than one. I left it at that, and called Dave Carvalho in as my second-in-
command. He is blood-thirsty for digs, and has expressed as much to me. I knew he wouldn’t pass on an opportunity to dig in his home town, and when I told him who our gracious hostess was, it turned out that he knew her husband. This dig was locked in! Dave and I met at the site early Monday morning, but our gal was meditating and was not to be disturbed. So we had some food and scouted some other possibilities. We came back, and she was relaxed and ready to face her day. She runs one of the many sober-living homes in that town, and understandably needed her alone-time. We all chatted. She bounced between me and Dave on completely different subjects, and when satisfied, she walked us down to the spot I told her it would be. She kindly moved her car, and I ran out cord, started the generator, and got busy drilling probe holes. I got the dimensions, and hooked up my joke of a concrete saw. I could feel it was thick, and that my 3" scar wasn’t gonna cut it through. After the square was established, we took some wacks with the hammer to no avail. A very cool, very helpful man offered a bigger saw when we told him what was going on. So I took a ride and got the big boy. Got back with a full tank and began cutting. I saw dirt was kicking out, and I knew we got the right tool for the job. Now cut to dirt, we started in wacking it again with a ten pounder, and getting nowhere but tired. This stuff was thick, it was over-kill for a small driveway, and it was a slab that had been laid within the last five years and laid to last. Our very cool, very helpful friend came by and suggested we rent a jack-hammer. WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF THAT?!?!
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soda cans and Taco Bell bags. It’s not a good feeling. Well, we were on fire now, and about an hour in, we hit our first layer. There were rusty spikes and nails, pottery shards, and GLASS. I was using my favorite tool to tickle the bottom and sides, so as not to damage anything going nuts with a shovel. Then I scooped out the loose stuff I had piled up. A couple shovel throws, and I catch something that had just fallen out of the wall. I’ll pick it up, see that it’s no big deal, and continue slingin’ dirt. Wrong! This was the elusive Beacon pharmacy in a great four ounce size
Beacon Drug Co with no damage! I did it!!! I’ve wanted one of these ever since the first pharmacy book I bought. It was time to pay more serious attention to this hole. She was trying to say something. . .Then I get a 12-ounce local pharmacy, and
Motor cycle license plates - 1914, 1915, 1916 proceed to remove all the dirt that was sitting on it. With that, I get porcelain motorcycle license plates, 1914, ‘15, and ‘16. 1914 was the first state issued plate for California. Before that you got a number from Sacramento, and nailed house address numbers from the hardware store onto a thick piece of leather. Car plates are one thing, but motorcycle plates are GREEAAT! I decided it was Dave’s turn to get some. I was out of
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the hole getting a bite and taking pictures of what I just uncovered when I hear Dave gasping for air, and trying to say something. “He’s cut bad,” I thought. When I jump over the dirt pile to help, he has this kid-on-Christmas-morninggrin, saying “you’re not gonna believe this” and is holding a half-pint flask from a local saloon back in the day. If this hole didn’t produce anything else from here on out, we’ld both go home happy. But then Dave, still in the hole, says again, “you’re not going to believe this.” Then an aqua straight-sided Los Angeles Coca-Cola, then some more good local stuff. I get in and toss out some more goodies, but we’re still getting late stuff. Then I hit what I thought was hard-pan, but was a thick chunky layer of lime. We break through the lime, and we go back in time about ten years, and hit a cache of Los Angeles Soda Works Hutchies, but with a few of the impossible clear variant. Impossible because the clear glass was cheap, and rarely survived the drop. And out of three or four, one survived. And so, they are STILL rare. Then a clear San Francisco coffin flask rears its perfect head. I know a lot of you are probably thinking that we’re plumb crazy for g e t t i n g stoked on late stuff, but by the time everyone had i n d o o r plumbing, this late stuff was going into dumps. There was no reason for an ugly stinkhole in your yard. And for us local boys, this hole is the reason we dig. It was a
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Some nice bottles and license plates
Dave Carvalho finds his first Pepper Tree Saloon flask
Dave Garcia with San Pedro Pharmacies
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After the concrete, its time for the rebar! log-jammer, and it gave up some rare bottles, and some good memories. Not to mention these pictures that go into my resume book. It bottomed out at twelve feet, and we were bushed! It was about 7:30 p.m. by now, so Dave and I asked our hostess if a couple of her boys wanted to make a few bucks by filling in our hole. She lined that up while Dave and I got what we wanted into our trucks. Dave had the Morrow Bay show to pack for yet, so he split, and I stayed to baby-sit. Not to say that these fellas fresh from the fire-camp needed to be watched over. The two of them moved about three tons of dirt in about forty-five minutes. I had a hose in it during the fill to make sure it would settle good over night. We met back in the morning with materials for the perfect patch. The hole sank about 18" as expected, and I had
Patch finished and time to head home. loaded some chunks of concrete from a job-site anticipating it. Holes were drilled into all four sides of our cut hole to poke rebar into, and then it was time for the pour. With the concrete in, Dave made tracks to the show. I stuck around waiting for the mud to set enough for me to blend the driveway pattern into my patch. By the time I walked away, I had made a couple pals, got an excellent referral, got something I’d wanted for a long time, and did my best repair to date. We fight hard for our meals, but Southern Cal boys get’r done, and blow the myth out of the water.
David Garcia 1218 McDonald Ave Wilmington, CA 90744 (310) 834-6368 dcorridor@sbcglobal.net
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The Australian Connection, Part II By Rex Barber If you happen to be a history buff then the following three items are worth a read on “Google” as each is a great story in its own right. The maritime museum in the port city of Fremantle Western Australia is well worth a visit if you ever holiday over here as it houses shipwreck displays from this remote coastline. Inside the building is a quarter of the hull of the infamous Dutch shipwreck “BATAVIA,” recovered and reassembled displaying thousands of items, including bottles and bearded man stoneware jugs from the 1600s. More importantly for the connection are items and specie recovered from the American Trader “RAPID,” which shipwrecked on the Ningaloo Reef near North West Cape in 1811, before the Colony of Western Australia had been founded. The “RAPID” carried 280,000 pieces Early Traded Bottles from Coastal Settlements of eight and, after the captains burnt the hulk to stop any salvage attempt, the whole crew was whaling ship “CATALPA,” which assisted in the escape of able to row all the way back to Batavia ( Modern day Ja- six Irish Fenians in 1876. Earlier, John Boyle O’Reilly had escaped on another American whaler “GAZELLE” karta ). Items from this early American visitor are on show in and became the editor of a Boston newspaper. We were very lucky to be invited to have a fossick the maritime museum. Another American visitor of important note was the (search) and a dig at “HELLS GATE,” a convict depot that held Fenians sixty miles inland, and in appearance similar to your box canyons, with high granite natural walls on three sides. Western Australia was established as a free colony in 1829, but by the 1860s the colony needed help and received convicts to help in public works, roads, bridges, etc. At “HELLS GATE,” we found plenty of black glass bottles from that period such as “Six to the Gallon” and “Woods Portabella” embossed on the base, obviously from the prison guards. American whalers were operating in the Indian Ocean as early as 1789, and it is also recorded that at one time as many as 300 American, French , British and Australian ships were operating along the coast with many shore bases. If you are lucky enough to find such a site, you might recover bottles and artefacts American Whale Oil Pot and Anchor
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shown in the photographs. As mentioned in the previous article (January/February, 2009 issue of Bottles and Extras, page 26), many American miners came to Australia during the three major gold rush periods --- the Victorian fields of the 1850s, the Northern Queensland Fields of the 1870s and the main gold rush of Western Australia in the 1890s. However, it seems that only the international type bottles and collectables found in any quantity here are the likes of Warner's (Safe Cure) four cities, Holloways, Dr. Townsend's and some American pot lids. Some of the bottle digging that took place at these huge mining towns were on dumps that were thirty feet high, spreading over several acres in the case of Kalgoorlie and Boulder city. Coolgardie just twenty miles away had a tip about ten feet high over several acres and this now ghost town once held an international mining exposition in 1905. Unfortunately, these huge tips have gotten in the way of huge modern mining super pits that leave open cuts up to a mile deep or alternatively have been rehabilitated to minimize dust blowing over these
re-born townships. Because of the mining boom in Western Australia in recent years, and before the current 2009 recession our state population doubled to two million people and precast, stand-up town houses became very popular. For the serious bottle digger, this was terrible because no longer were blocks vacant that had once supported old buildings and their backyard dumps. No sooner had the old structure been torn down than a portable fence was placed around the site while the stand-up was constructed. Old school sites and sports grounds were traditionally build on rubbish dumps from the 1880s, as this was government ground. As smaller schools were closed for larger schools, these areas were quickly built over, allowing the bottle collector a very limited window of opportunity to have a dig. Some huge rubbish sites that were in use between 1880 and 1920 were deemed unsafe for the new urban expansion between 2000 and now, so huge excavators and trucking fleets cart these contaminated tips away to an enclosed site for deep burial, much to the dismay and frustration of the
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genuine diggers. But for all the sadness this causes the bottle collector there are still digs to be had, although not as productive as the period between 1970-1990. Gold mining and timber towns that are long abandoned, rail lines to long forgotten camp sites, old coastal ports and even telegraph lines servicing all the above are well worth a fossick (search). For example, the telegraph line that runs across the Nullarbor plains linking Western Australia with the rest of Australia had water tanks every ten miles for a camp site for the linemen and we recovered many good bottles from these, of which quite a lot had turned purple in the desert sun. It was along this treacherous coastline in the 1840s that the great explorer John Eyre was rescued by an American whaler after traversing from East to West and nearly dying of thirst and starvation. Rex Barber Quack cure pot lid collector PO Box 77 Cape, Western Australia 6271 61 8 9727 1984 Barbers_2@bigpond.com
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Bantam Bottles Appealing Space Savers But Not All are Considered “Samples” By Chuck Norris
Are you running low on shelf space, but still want more bottles? Or are you looking for a new category to collect, maybe something in the "go-with" category to tie to the bottles you already have. Consider collecting samples bottles. They take up only a fraction of the space that their full size counterparts do, are relatively inexpensive and normally dead ringers in color, shape and even labels as the normal sized bottles the various companies were trying to promote. What is a sample bottle? In basic terms, it was a bottled product, identified as a sample, either in the embossing on the bottle, on the box (if it had one), or on the label. It was not sold, but was given to a loyal customer or as a promotion to a potentially new customer. When you see a bottle that is not embossed with the word sample, or free sample, and it doesn’t have a label or box, how do you know if it was a sample bottle? Start with the size of the bottle. Samples, referred to as “give-aways,” by some, were always smaller than the product being sold by the same company. Sometimes, the size of the sample bottle was determined by the recommended dosage (medicine) on the full-size product. One example: “a wine glass of the product before bedtime.” That would require a larger bottle for one dose than a product that required “one teaspoonful, in a cup of hot water. “ Looking at my collection, I see an embossed sample hood, just over 2 inches tall, and a embossed Heather
Blossom sample at almost 6 inches tall. I would put the height limit on sample bottles at about 6 inches. Adding to the confusion on samples are the many terms being used by sellers on eBay, collectors, and authors of numerous bottle books to describe a bottle. Even as I write this article, I feel confident that someone might not agree with me, but here goes anyway: First, my favorite: Doing a search on eBay for “sample” will normally yield one or more hits for a bottle listed as a sample because it is embossed “this bottle not to be sold.” Definitely not a sample, the bottle is over 6 inches tall, a full size product, normally beer or soda, and the bottle may not have been for sale, but I guarantee the contents were being sold. The bottler just wanted his bottle back for reuse to another customer. Miniature Bottle: The Miniature Bottle Collectors Association defines this as a bottle under 6 inches tall. After looking at the web site, they don’t seem to limit their bottles to glass, age or product. So a 6-inch, 1890s sample whiskey, medicine, or condiment could be con sid ered a
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miniature bottle to many people. But, a 2-inch-tall pill bottle, or a 3-inch-tall perfume bottle, although miniatures by definition, are not samples
Trial Size Bottle: If not a true sample, it's really close to being one; but is normally larger in volume than a sample bottle, but smaller than the company’s normal-sized products. It was a marketing gimmick; selling a small amount of their product, describing what was in the bottle, or on the label, box, etc., hoping you liked it and would buy a full-sized bottle of their product. One of my favorite trial bottles is the “Try Me.” The embossed “Try Me,” with an embossed horizontal line below it, was a half-pint liquor bottle that was purchased by the customer. He was allowed to consume it down to the line for free; if he didn’t like it, he could return it (half full) for a full refund of what he paid. This practice didn’t seem to work out too well for the retailers for all the reasons you and I can think of. Did they top off the half returned bottle and sell it to the next guy? Did the customer drink the whole bottle, refill it half-way up with something else and then return it? Nips and Minis: Miniature size nips normally conjure up a picture in my mind of stoneware figural meant to hold liquor. It may have been a give-away (or not), but I don’t really consider them as samples. The term mini is short for some collectors for mini-jug, motto jug, or scratch jug. I am sure that most of these were give aways, or samples of the companies' wares. I’ll let the mini jug collectors elaborate on them.
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Complimentary: Another name for “free sample.” I have seen this embossed only on a few bottles that qualified as miniatures, and all were machine-made. Druggist Bottles: This is just another example of a small bottle that is often mistaken for a free sample. Druggists would normally order their bottles empty and in bulk. They would order them by size, ranging from 1 ounce to maybe a quart. They could get them embossed with their name, address, etc., or unembossed. Either way, they normally affixed a paper label to the bottle identifying what was in the bottle and dosing instructions, frequency, etc. I don’t consider any prescription drug bottle, regardless of size, as a sample. So, after all this, can we be 100% sure a bottle was a sample? Yes, if it is embossed and or labeled as such. Also, by using the above, one can rule out a lot of bottles as not samples. So, that just leaves us with the majority of the samples, those that did not say that they were samples, but are considered samples by myself and other collectors. Sometimes even the same company identified some of its samples and did not others.
I have been an avid bottle collector for 40 years and find beauty in all mold-blown bottles. My current pursuit is for sample American liquor and bitters bottles. I hope to add to my collection by buying or trading. { I usually have between 50 and 100 duplicates) I always love talking with collectors with similar interests, exchanging information, etc. Hope to hear from you! Chuck Norris (785) 845-8443 candk@gobluestreak.com
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continued from page 24 man 233 First St. Portland pumpkinseed. Pat showed more from the hole, including a gallon size crock, a Remember me ceramic cup, a Welch Bros. Druggist Portland Ogn. bottle, a sewing machine oil bottle, a Simmons and Heppner Druggists Albina, Ore. bottle, a blonde doll head and doll parts and some marbles.” Among some of Mark’s numerous finds, he had “an old clay pipe, a nice red and yellow onion skin marble, a Dr. Jayne’s bottle, a nice aqua peppersauce, a dome embossed Brookfield insulator, an aqua cone ink with a crude bent neck and a pumpkinseed.” Dennis is to be added to the digger contributors. He actually passed around “a clear perfume bottle, a cobalt blue square Woodard, Clarke and Co. Chemists, Portland, Oregon bottle, a cobalt blue base-embossed Woodard, Clarke bottle, a white and green ceramic mini handled crock, a clear square Phil Blumauer Pharmacy Cor. 4th and Morrison, Portland, Ore. Citrate and The Bureau Portland, Ore. (crown embossed) pumpkinseed.” Gene and Gus were digging together and found a green kickup base mini champagne and two Dallman’s whiskeys, one bimal and one machine made. Scott brought in what he dug back East. He showed a large cobalt blue J. Personeni Sole Agent & Importer New York bottle. He also had a large square and small round sizes of cobalt blue Peptenzymes and an old cobalt blue light bulb. Other members also brought in some interesting show and tell items, as well. I bet you thought that we were only going to report on “digger finds.” Not a chance. Here is what some of the other folks having been sharing. “Jim had a great set of three colors of Ayer’s Hair Vigor bottles in peacock, cobalt and teal blue. He also passed around a bright peacock blue Hemingray glass insulator that he got at a flea market for $10, a large cobalt blue pharmacy jar with a label under glass of Pulv.(erized) Digital(is), two varie-
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ties of the blue Casper Whiskey cylinders and an amber mini Rainier Beer Seattle U.S.A. bottle.” Julie (the researcher), brought in a variety of items. She showed a flower plate from Sellwood, a 1914 Madras Trading Co. calendar plate, a small picture plate with an early car from Oak Street in Hood River, a flour sifter from Maupin, Ore., two egg carton labels from Osborn’s Wolf Run Poultry Farm in Dufur, and an Oregon Dairy Co. metal egg separator. The two egg carton labels had to be a favorite find since she lives in Dufur. How cool is that! There is no end to the success of these Oregonian collectors. Keep digging and keep collecting! Phoenix Antique Bottles & Collectibles Club – The A-Z Collector President Brent reported that “In case you were not aware, we had to switch the club website to a new web host and everything is complete and working fine. I’d like to thank Stephen Salem and Chuck Blake for helping complete the necessary steps to accomplish this.” Brent also gave a “thumb’s up” to Lauren Kormylo for putting together a great club trip to Bisbee, Ariz. Brent said, “If you weren’t there, then you missed a great trip. The weather was perfect, the antique shops were loaded, and the food was excellent! On the way down my family visited Kartchner Caverns and on Sunday we did the Queen Mine Tour. These were both very neat attractions. I would really like to see the club come together and do another trip this year.” Karen Clifford-Anderson was thanked for recruiting three new members to the pack. They are Laura Ross, Kevin Jones and Heather Donnelly. Kevin and Heather collect piggy banks, Depression glass, coins, and paper weights. Charles Merron is another new member. It probably won’t be long before we will start hearing about what Charles collects. He might even get his picture in the newsletter. We will watch for more about Charles in the future.
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Lisa introduced Lauren Kormylo. Lisa said that Lauren attended Moore College of Arts in Philadelphia, graduating with a BFA in jewelry. She has been working as a goldsmith in Phoenix for 28 years. She and her husband Tom enjoy exploring the back roads of Arizona. They have a house in the boulders inYarnell where they go to get away from the city. Lauren collects Max Factor items, medicine tins, and Arts and Crafts collectibles. Lauren gave a program that she aptly called “The Arts and Crafts Movement.” She brought a great collection of lamps, linens, pottery, tiles, clocks, glasswork and small pieces of characteristic wooden furniture to further demonstrate the program subject matter. Here is something to leave you thinking. Under the “Did You Know About” column in a recent newsletter it was written that “A very rare Vaseline carnival glass Heart and Flowers plate made by Northwood sold for $25,000 (Jim Wroda Auction Services, Greenville, Ohio). The seller bought it for $30 awhile ago. It’s probably the only carnival glass plate Northwood made in Vaseline glass and only four examples are known. Looks like great antiques and collectibles can be good buys today.” Reno Antique Bottle Club – digger’s dirt New member Daryl Muzzi turned out with about 39 other folks to hear Philip Earl speak about the first train robbery in the West. He also gave the history of all the famous out-laws who robbed trains and banks in the early 1900s. “The Wells Fargo lost $41,000 in gold coins and $8,000 in silver bars, in the November 4th, 1870s Verdi robbery. Most of the loot was believed to have been hidden either on Peavine Mountain or stashed in Six Mile Canyon. It actually was probably recovered by the robbers when they were released from Carson City Prison.” Now here comes a modern-day fact, or at least some club members believe it may be so. “No one knows for sure, but Marty did find a $20.00 gold piece in Six Mile Canyon, while looking for bottles. (Might have been part of the
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great train robbery!)” The very same Marty gave a report on the bottle show in Las Vegas. He said that despite the economy there were lots of vendors and customers buying and selling. He purchased some club bottles for their annual Bingo Bottle Night. Some interesting collectibles were displayed. Patrick Winans had pictures of the Bottle Tree in Manhatten, Nevada. Bill Metscher showed old antique valentines sent from Tonopah and Goldfield. Richard Rauch had a huge aqua minnow trap. Mary Warth had a fantastic collection of invalid feeders and Helene showed both woven bottles and Indian baskets. President Jan Rutland sent her thank you to the club for its donation to the National Bottle Museum. If anyone is up near the Ballston Spa, New York area a trip to the museum is an eye opener. There is a quotation that is associated with this museum’s philosophy. The quotation is: “Preserving the History of Our Nation’s First Major Industry.” Some of us have dug old glass; while many of us are collectors of old glass. When you think about it collecting old glass has made historians out of the most curious among us. It is the feeling of club members that one can only hope that the legislators realize that the regulations controlling special events would effectively cancel vendors from doing business in Reno. This is in reference to business licenses for second-hand antique booth dealers and special event/activity vendors in Reno. We read that the outcome could be known within a short time. Hopefully it will be a favorable one, and that the matter can be laid to rest so that folks involved in this ongoing saga can get on with their lives. San Diego Antique Bottle and Collectibles Club – The Bottleneck President Mike and fellow members of the San Diego Club received a thank you letter from Jan Rutland, director and member of the Board of Trustees of the National Bottle Museum. This was in appreciation of this club’s fund-raiser auction proceeds being donated to the National Bottle
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Museum in Ballston Spa, New York. Mike has a picture and explanation of what he calls a “Strange Brew.” Mike tells the story like this: “I recently added this strange-looking bottle to my collection, thanks to fellow member Larry Westfall. It came out of the Benny Valerio collection, and is only the second one known. It is a label under glass beer bottle from the Flag Saloon in San Diego made to look like a tree stump. I had hoped that a trip to the California Room of the downtown library might shed some light on the purpose of this odd looking bottle. A celebration of some type surely would have been reported in the pages of the San Diego Union newspaper. I did find that the Flag Saloon was on the corner of the 4th & G Streets from 1906 until 1913, and the proprietor Gaston Baudrand died in 1916 and is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery. Unfortunately, the library stopped indexing the local newspapers from 1903 until the 1930s. That means someone would have to read seven years of daily newspapers in hopes of finding a mention of the saloon. That’s 2,555 individual papers! I have better things to do with my time, so I will leave that up to someone else.” If anyone is in Ocean Beach, California, the advisement is that you stop by the antique center at 4864 Newport Ave. Members Rick Hall, Tim Tuohy and Larry Westfall have spaces at this location. There are three pictures of their spaces in the newsletter with clever captions under each. You have Rick’s Relics, Larry’s Lair of Collectibles and Tim’s Treasures. We are curious. I think we might want to check this out. Another outing seemed to have drawn out some club members. There are colored pictures of Don Haradon and Frank Pekarek with what looks like a porcelain Weber’s Bread 3 for $1.00 sign standing between them. I wonder if one of them bought this sign or if it was just a “photo op?” One picture was of Kathy Pavlick and Frank Pekarek clutching a worn-looking “Foremost Dairy” sign between them. Maybe this is another porcelain example? There were various other pictures
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of the La Mesa Street Fair itself and a picture of Mike and Dixie Bryant taking a rest on a bench. Love that caption, Mike, “The Bottle Club President and his bride.” Club members seem to present a variety of programs. Mike mentioned one that Jim Walker gave on “date nails” and one the Westfalls have on “bottle cleaning.” At one point Dan Golden was a guest speaker and spoke on “antique telephones.” Washington Bottle & Collectors Association – Ghost Town Echo Gregg made a suggestion that the newsletter be distributed by email and copies run for those who need hard copies. Keith mentioned that many rock and gem clubs are doing their newsletters electronically. It was pointed out that the electronic version is beneficial in that you can have colored pictures and bonus photos. Show and tell folks came up with quite a variety. Items included stoneware, internal stoppers, Hutchinson sodas, buttons, food jars, jar ring boxes, soda fountain mugs, bisque, coffee/spice tins and commemorative bottles. Niel read somewhere that in New Zealand club members bring in their “favorite 5” for a theme. The club is going to give this a try. Everyone seemed to like the idea. Bill Bogynska, secretary, treasurer and editor for the Oregon Bottle Collectors Club, reported earlier in the year that the Oregon club has adopted the idea of awarding $10, $25 and $50 for the best three displays at their bottles shows. Editor Red reported that the idea of some kind of prize for the best displays might be something to think about. Red gives credit where credit is due. “I want to personally thank Tom Harmon, Marc Lutsko, Rick Miller and Ron Fowler for their recent contributions to the Ghost Town Echo Newsletter. It’s always appreciated when our club members participate and share their stories and pictures with the W.B.& C.A. membership. Thanks again, guys, and hopefully we’ll have some more contributors in the near
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future. Your digging stories, bottle show trip reports, treasures found at flea markets, antique shops or garage sales, historic information, advertising, etc. are always solicited for insertion into the newsletter.” Red has a sad tale to tell regarding his Bottle of the Month. He is calling on readers to let him know if they ever see another one of these bottles. His bottle is a clear, straight neck, quart cylinder whiskey from the California Wine House in Snohomish. He purchased this bottle in the early 80s. It was in near mint condition. It looked like it had spent its life on a shelf. It did not appear to be dug. At that time he got it home and decided to see if he could remove some of the inside and outside dirt and grease. Even though he used tepid water the bottle made the sound we all dread “PING.” Significant cracking had taken place. Red says that to his knowledge, “it is the only known copy in collectors hands. If any of our membership has or knows of another one, please let me know.” Red’s email is: ekacalek@ritzville.com Support your local club!! Get involved in this great hobby. Attend meetings. Become a club officer. If you need assistance finding a local club, your local editor or FOHBC Regional Director can supply you with a list of clubs in your area. See page two for a list of officers including your regional director.
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HELP/ASSISTANCE NEEDED!! History of Antique Bottle Collecting in the United States State-by-state survey by Bill Baab, Southern Region editor Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors. 2352 Devere Street Augusta, GA 30904-5202 (706) 736-8097 riverswamper@comcast.net Dear Fellow Collector(s): I have embarked on an ambitious project: Compiling a state-by-state history of bottle collecting in the U.S. I need your assistance. I feel it needs to be put into print before names, events and dates slowly slip into time, to be forgotten. Below is a list of things to be addressed. Don’t hesitate to add anything else on your own. Don’t worry about length. Once the survey has been completed, each state’s story will be told in Bottles & Extras, one state at a time. The following needs to be written in story form, starting with the earliest happening and winding up with the latest. If you feel uncomfortable about writing, just include as many facts, places, people and dates as possible. I am a retired journalist and can put it into story form. Be sure to sign your name and include mailing and e-mailing addresses and telephone numbers. If I have any questions, I’ll contact you. Once I get through editing your report, I’ll e-mail it to you to be checked for errors or omissions before publishing it in Bottles and Extras. Accuracy in everything is a must. 1. During what year did bottle collecting start in your state? In what areas, cities or towns did it first start? Who was (were) credited with getting the hobby started? Did any one thing or event or find lure them into the hobby before it became statewide? You may include yourself if you were one of the key people in the early days of collecting. 2. Are there any photographs of digs or individuals and collections available from the early days? If so, please have as many identified as to who’s in them, where photo was taken and when. 3. These state-by-state stories will be published under the byline(s) of those compiling the data. I also am interested in hearing how the compiler(s) got started in the hobby. 4. During the early digs, what were some of the prized bottles being found? Anything unusual dug? (One of my club members dug a Prince Albert tobacco tin with a $5 gold piece inside!) Finds also can include pottery, since many of us branched out into antique and contemporary ceramics after having started in bottles. 5. This is not the history of the Federation, but an individual’s or a club’s affiliation can be included. 6. Anyone have wild adventures during their pursuit of bottles? If so, please describe to the fullest just what happened, to whom, when (dates) and where.
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Notice - anyone interested in new show in Louisville, Kentucky This letter is to inform everyone that I'm in the process of putting together a new show for the Louisville area. This process is starting with a gathering of names of dealers wanting to set up at this new show. So far, we have a list of about 70 dealers from 7 states on the list. A date has not been set as of yet. We are waiting to get at least one hundred names on this list and then we, the dealers, will select a date that doesn't coincide with any popular shows that time of year. Then after a date is set, I will get a hall and all the necessary things to get this show on the road. Any dealers who would like to participate in this new Louisville show, can visit a new website for getting added to the list. Check out www.midwestbottleshow.com. This list so far has some very premier dealer/ collector names confirmed already. I’m looking at having a Saturday show with dealers and displays and possibly an auction. Thanks to all who are on the list already and soon Louisville will be back in action. Sincerely, Tom Doligale Crestwood,KY. 502-727-6118
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THE AUSTRALIAN BOTTLE & COLLECTABLES REVIEW
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For Sale: Western fifths: C.W. Stuarts – great example! F & PJ Cassins Golden Plantation – very light yellow amber color. Thos Taylor glop slug plate. Also original E.G. Booz cabin, Contact: Denny Bray, ph: (559) 5827011 (weekends), email: dennis.bray@att.net. For Sale: Black amber quart Magic Star fruit jar, dark green smooth lip Mason’s Patent 1858, pint Ball Perfection – no lid or band, amber quart cross above Mason’s Patent 1858, Fink & Nasse (Cohansey style), apple green quart cross above Mason’s Patent 1858. Contact: Phil Murphy, ph: (618) 345-3511, email: pmurfe@sbcglobal.net. For Sale: BOOKS: (1) Bitters Bottles and Supplement by R. Watson $70, (2) American Bottles and Flasks
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WANTED Wanted: Advertising stoneware from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana. Contact: Mike Parris, mnparris@comcast.net Wanted: Embossed drug store bottles “Sievert Drug Store”, 902 West 3rd Street or 902 West Fifth Street, Davenport, Iowa. Contact: Glenn Sievert, 20157 Sulsun Dr, Cupertino, CA 95014, ph: (408) 253-2834. Wanted: Philadelphia strap-sided or seamed whiskey flasks. I collect and catalog these and also collect Thomas H. Dillon (THD) Philadelphia mineral water bottles. Please contact me if you have in your collection or wish to sell. Contact: Art Miron, ph: (215) 2 4 8 - 4 6 1 2 , e m a i l : jestar484@verizon.net. Wanted: Your off colored ladies legs*** Contact: Herb Yue, ph: (530) 320-9419, email: hayyue2@jps.net. Wanted: MONTANA, MONTANT, MONTANA bottles, crocks, jugs, plates, advertising, whatever, etc. Also OWL DRUG bottles, western drug store bottles, GILLETT”S EXTRACT bottles, tins, etc. Also looking for small oval embossed or labeled pill bottles. Heart’s Desire: “Marsden’s Mountain City Cough Cure Kalispell Mont.” and “Meyer’s Sarsaparilla Helena Mont.” Contact: Marc Lutsko, 2267 Gold Rush Ave, Helena, MT 59601, ph: (406) 4224690, email: letsgo@montanasky.net. Wanted: Kuner Pickle Co., Denver, CO items – food tins, bottles, crocks, and related items. Contact: Robert Seifert, PO Box 3641, Estes Park, CO 80517, ph: (970) 586-6655, email: BobnMaryseif@msn.com.
Wanted: Kentucky drug store bottles embossed with the name of Kentucky towns – clear or colored. Will pay maximum prices. Mint condition or otherwise. Contact: James E Carter, 805 N Main, Tompkinsville, KY 42167, ph: (270) 487-0578 or (270) 427-1329. Wanted: Old OTT or KENNEDY embossed bottles (except common Dr. Kennedy’s), rarer POISON and INSECT bottles as well as Harrisburg, PA bottles (any type). Also any related poison or skull items to add to our collection. Contact: Charlie Kennedy, 4727 W Mohawk Dr, Beverly Hills, FL 34465, ph: (352) 270-9145, email: crkennedy@tampabay.rr.com. Wanted: Arizona items, Western dose glasses and pharmacy bottles – anything old Arizona: bottles, stoneware, advertising, calendar plates, signs, etc; Dose glasses and small pharmacy bottles (under 4”) from throughout the west. Also dose glasses from South Carolina, Alaska, and Hawaii. Small colored pharmacy bottles from South Carolina, North Carolina, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Delaware, Montana, and West Virginia. Contact: Michael Miller, ph: (623) 486-3123, email: helgramike@cox.net. Wanted: Souvenir china and scenic souvenir mustard glass in excellent condition showing views from American towns and villages, resorts, World’s Fairs, etc. avidly sought. Preference is for scenes from New York, Florida, and southeastern states and most states west of the Mississippi River. THANK YOU!, Contact:
Wanted: Western spice mills, peppersauces, and cobalt salt and pepper Contact: Mark Shimizu, sauce. email: mark-martha@comcast.net. Wanted: Fancy and figural bitters. Especially want the “classics”, (i.e. fish, corn, cabins, etc) in light colors. Also buying unusual colored demijohns, pine-tree tar cordials. Want large attic sodas/porters 7.5” plus in height; tee-pee forms also. Contact: Jeff Burkhardt, ph: (262) 377-9611, email: froglegs13@msn.com. Wanted: Top prices paid for top examples! – cabins, semi-cabins, western sodas, EC & M insulators, Lyon’s Powder and early western bitters. Contact: Denny Bray, ph: (559) 5827011 (weekends), email: dennis.bray@att.net. Wanted: The following bitters bottles using Ring/Ham numbers: H139, L66, C99, C173.9, D51, G19.5, H1, H1.5, H141, I24, K20, K76, L75, M72, M77.7, P132, W22, W53, W143, B22, B67, C69. Contact: Jamie Houdeshell, ph: (419) 722-3184, email: jhbottle@hotmail.com. Wanted: Ruby Hill Nevada medicine and Nevada whiskey flasks. Colored Nevada bottles. Contact: Marty Hall, ph: (775) 852-6045, email: rosemulley@charter.net. Wanted: Paducah, Kentucky items such as paper label whiskey bottles, whiskey jugs, advertising calendars and signs, souvenir spoons, etc. 35 year collector. Let me know what you have! Contact: BJ Summers, 233
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Wanted: California pontilled sodas, Jockey Club – square club house gin, pontilled square bottles, Booth and Sedgewicks, Volders, Torene and Wreath belt buckles from gold rush camps. Contact: Max Bell, ph: (530) 823-3315. Wanted: Rare poisons, sandwich colognes, target balls, figural bitters, teakettle inks, anything English, Contact: Bob Barbour, ph: (913) 248-1478, email: bbcr@everestkc.net. Wanted: Registered Puritan/Bottling Co/Helena/Mont/This Bottle not to be sold, blob top soda $75 more or less depending on condition. Hichman & Alward/druggists/ Virginia City, Mont – your best offer depending on condition. Montana drug stores. Contact: Henry Thies, PO Box 1363, Cut Bank, MT 59427, ph: (406) 873-2811, email: bottlerz@theglobal.net. Wanted: Kansas bottles, stoneware, advertising and relics. Bottles embossed with “Dr. J. Fogworth Indian Tonics and Elixers” any color, shape, or size. Contact: Mark Law, ph: (785) 246-1818, email: mlaw4@cox.net. Wanted: Always looking for better fruit jars. Especially looking for good colored improved style jars and unusual closured jars. Contact: Phil Murphy, ph: (618) 345-3511, email: pmurfe@sbcglobal.net. Wanted: Clyde Glassworks, Clyde NY bottles, flasks, fruit jars. Primitive. Clyde Glassworks, Clyde NY Warners, Dr. Kilmers, insulators. Flag Salt Remedy Co. Savannah NY 1882-1933 medicines – invoices – billheads – letters of Co Dr. William H Sweeting. Contact: John Spellman, PO Box 61, Savannah, NY 13146, email: Spellmanjc@tds.net. Wanted: Anything from Austin Pharmacy, Parsons, Kansas. Contact: R Wayne Lowry, ph: (816) 318-0161, email: JarDoctor@aol.com
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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.
July 4 & 5 Elsecar, England BBR 19th Annual Summer National Bottle Show & Sale (Saturday, 9am 5pm & Sunday 9am - 3pm), at the Elsecar Heritage Center, Elsecar, England. Info: Alan Blakeman, BBR Elsecar Heritage Center, Nr. Barnsley, S Yorks, S74 8HJ, England, ph: 011-44 1226 745156, email: sales@onlinebbr.com. July 9 - 11 Redwing, Minnesota Red Wing Collectors Society Annual Convention (9am - 1:30pm) at the Red Wing High School, Red Wing, MN.Info: www.redwingcollectors.org. July 10 - 12 Coralville, IA National Insulator Association 40th National Show & Sale at the Coralville Marriot Convention Center, Coralville, IA. Info: Larry Whitlock, 935 W 14th Ave, Marion, IA 52302, ph: (319) 377-4708, email: nia2009ia@q.com. July 12 Muncie, Indiana Midwest Antique Fruit Jar & Bottle Club’s LAST Summer Show & Sale (9am - 2pm), at the Horizon Convention Center, 401 S High St., Muncie, IN 47305. Info: Dave Rittenhouse, 1008 S 900 W, Farmland, IN 47340, ph: (765) 4 6 8 - 8 0 9 1, email: rittjman@aol.com or Jean Harbron, ph: (765) 644-4333. July 17 & 18 Ellensburg, Washing- ton Busted Ass Ranch Swap Meet at BAR, 41 Broadview Rd, Ellensburg, WA. Info: Dave Moffatt, ph: (509) 929-1719, email: moffattd@charter.net.
July 17 & 18 Adamstown, Pennsylvania Shupp’s Grove Bottle Festival (Saturday and Sunday 6am - dark, early buyers Friday 5pm) at Shupp’s Grove, Adamstown, PA. Info: Steve Guion, ph: (717) 262-5557 or Jere Hambleton, ph: (717) 393-5175, email: jshdetector@webtv.net. July 24 & 25 Birmingham, Alabama The Alabama Bottle Collectors, LLC Show & Sale, (Friday - early bird $25 4pm - 8pm, Saturday - public 8am 3pm), at the Bessemer Civic Center, Exit #108 off Interstate 20/59, Bessemer (Birmingham), AL. Info: Tom Lines, PO Box 382831, Birmingham, AL 35238, ph: (205) 987-0650 or (205) 410-2191 (days), email: bluecrab1949@hotmail.com. July 25 Drumheller, Alberta, Canada Western Canadian Insulator Collector Swap & Sale (10am - 2pm), at the Homestead Antique Museum, Drumheller, Alberta. Info: Lena, ph: (402) 823-3045, email: lbraman@telusplanet.net. July 25 Leadville, Colorado The Antique Bottle Collectors of Colorado’s Annual Show & Sale (9am - 4pm), at the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum Convention Center, 117 10th St, Leadville, CO. Info: Jim or Barb Sundquist, ph: (303) 674-4658. July 25 Birmingham, Alabama Alabama Bottle Collectors Annual Show & Sale (8am - 3pm), at the Bessemer Civic Center, Exit 108 on I20/59, Birmingham, AL Info: Tom Lines, PO Box 382831, Birmingham,
AL 35238, ph: (205) 410-2191, email: bluecrab1949@hotmail.com. July 25 Altoona, IA The Iowa Antique Bottleers 40th Annual Show & Sale (9am - 2pm), at the Meadows Events Center, Pairie Meadows Ractrack & Casino, I-80 Exit 142, Altoona, IA. Info: Tom Southard, 2815 Druid Hill Dr, DesMoines, IA 50315, ph: (515) 2826901. July 31, August 1 & 2 Pomona, California FOHBC is hosting The Annual National Show at the Pomona Fairplex, 1104 W. McKinley Ave., Pomona, CA 91768, Banquet – July 31 (6pm), Dealer unloading – August 1 (8am – 12 noon), Setup and early admission – August 1 (1pm – 5pm), General admission ($5) – August 2 (9am – 3pm). Info: Pam Selenak, 156 S Pepper St, Orange, CA 92868, ph: (714) 6335775, email: pselenak@yahoo.com or R Wayne Lowry, 401 Johnston Ct, Raymore, MO 64083, ph: (816) 3180161, email: JarDoctor@aol.com August 1 Ulm, Minnesota National Association of Beweriana Advertising Annual Convention (9am - 2pm) at New Ulm Holiday Inn, Ulm, MN. Info: Steve Ketcham, PO Box 24114, Edina, MN 55424, ph: (952) 9 2 0 - 4 2 0 5 , e m a i l : steve@antiquebottledepot.com. August 1 Chiloquin, Oregon Jefferson State Insulator Club late Summer Swap Meet at Mid Norris’ Insulator Ranch in Chiloquin, OR. Info: Mid Norris, ph: (541) 2812715, email: mudhen50@aol.com.
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(More) Sho-Biz August 8 Martinsburg, West Virginia The Chesapeake Bay Insulator Club’s 9th Annual Shenandoah Valley Insulator Show & Sale (9am - 2pm), at the Calvary United Methodist Church, 220 W Burke St, Martinsburg, WV. Info: Jeff Hollis, 56 Corning Way, Martinsburg, WV 25405, ph: (304) 263-6140, email: wvacampfire@verizon.net, http:// www.insulators.com/clubs/cbic. August 8 Vicksburg, Mississippi The 12th Annual Vicksburg Antique Bottle Show and Sale, (9am - 5pm), at the Battlefield Inn, 4137 I-20 N. Frontage Rd, (Exit 4-B), Vicksburg, MS. Info: Cason Schaffer, 107 Eastview Dr, Vicksburg, MS 39183, ph: (601) 638-1195. August 16 Poughkeepsie, New York Hudson Valley Bottle Club’s Annual Show & Sale (9am - 2pm), at the Poughkeepsie Elk Lodge #275, Poughkeepsie, NY 12602. Info: Art Church, 411 Hillside Lake Rd, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590, ph: (845) 221-4259, email: art3622@aol.com. August 22 & 23 Muncie, Indiana Hoosier Chapter of Coca-Cola Collectors Club, PO Box 387, Clear Creek, IN 47426 will be hosting their 13th annual swap meet (Saturday, August 22 9am - 6pm and Sunday, August 23 10am - 3pm) at the Horizon Convention Center, 401 S High St, Muncie, IN 47035 info: Alice Clark, email: c.alice@sbcglobal.net or Jeff Cummins, e ma i l : j c u mmins@bluemarble.net August 23 Ross, Ohio Tri-Stae Glass & Porcelain Insulator Show & Sale (8am - 4pm), at 1476 Hine Rd, Ross, OH 45013 (near Cincinnati). Info: Alan Hohnhorst, ph:
(513) 892-3720, email: porcinsco133@yahoo.com August 29 Salt Lake City, Utah Utah Antique Bottle and Collectibles Annual Show & Sale, (10am - 3pm, early buyers 8am), at the Redwood Multipurpose Center, 3100 South Redwood Rd, Salt Lake City. Info: Bob Campbell, 1123 E 2100 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84106, ph: (801) 4678636 or Rick Holt, email: rckholt@netscape.net. August 29 Helena, Montana Montana Big Sky Insulator Club’s 8th Swap Meet (9am - 3pm), at the Yuhas Millwork Company, 2201 Hauser Blvd, Helena, MT. Info: Ron Yuhas, 895 Lodestar Rd, Helena, MT. ph: (406) 443-6154 or (406) 439-4573, email: gramapig@bresnan.net or Montie McDowell, ph: (406) 2347391, email: montie@midrivers.com. August 29 Houston, Texas Lone Star Insulator Club’s 18th Annual Insulator and Collectible Show & Sale (9am - 4pm), at the Plaza Hotel, 7622 Katy Freeway, Houston, TX 77024. Info: Chris, ph: (281) 4619652, email: crenaudo@aol.com, Keith, ph: (979) 245-2558, email: keithebrooking@sbcglobal.net or Jeff, ph: (281) 648-4957, email: markwart@earthlink.net. September 12 Downieville, California The Downieville Antique Bottles and Collectibles Show & Sale (10am 3pm, early buyers 8am), at the Historic Hiway 49 Downieville School Gym, Downieville, CA. Info: Cherry Simi, ph: (530) 289-3659 or Tim or Fran Higgins, ph:(707) 745-1026, email: downievilleshow@oldwestbottles.com.
September 12 Arcadia, California Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club’s 42nd Annual Show & Sale (9am 4pm, early buyers 8am), at the Arcadia Masonic Lodge, 50 West Duarte Rd, Arcadia, CA. Info: Don Wippert, ph: (818) 346-9833 or Dick Homme, ph: (818) 362-3368, internet: www.lahbc.org September 13 Pekin, Illinois Pekin Bottle Collectors Associations 40th Annual Show & Sale (8am 3pm), Knights of Columbus, 715 N 11th St, Pekin, IL. Info: Jim Searle, 1003 Illinois, Pekin, IL 61554, ph: (309) 346-7804. September 18 & 19 Jacksonville, Florida Antique Bottle Collectors of North Florida 42nd Annual Show & Sale, Saturday, September 19, 8am to 3pm; early buyers Friday, September 18, 5pm to 8pm), at the Fraternal Order of Police Bldg., 5530 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville, FL. Info: Mike Skie, 3047 Julington Creek Road, Jacksonville, FL 32223, ph: (904) 710-0422 or Jackie McRae, ph: (904) 879-3696. September 20 Kirtland, Ohio Ohio Bottle Club’s 41st Annual Show & Sale (9am - 2pm, early buyers Saturday 7 - 9pm), Lakeland Community College, 1/4 mile south of I-90on Route 306, Kirtland, OH. Info: Robert Smith, ph: (440) 285-4184, email: rts2ride@windstram.net or Tim Kearns, ph: (440) 285-7576, email: tkearns4@aol.com. September 20 Winchester, Virginia The Apple Valley Bottle Collectors Club’s 35th Annual Show & Sale, (9am - 3pm, early buyers 7:30am), at the Mount Carmel Baptist Church, Family Life Center, 1309 Opequon Ave, Winchester, VA. Info: Richard
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(More) Sho-Biz Venskoske, 2038 Chestnut Grove Rd, Winchester, VA 22630, ph: (540) 247 -4429. September 26 Albuquerque, New Mexico Enchantment Insulator Club’s 22nd Annual Insulator, Bottle, Barbwire and Collectibles Show & Sale (8:30am - 4pm, dealer setup Friday, September 25, afternoon and evening), at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 9500 Constitution NE, Albuquerque, NM. Info: Mike Gay, ph: (505) 899-8755, email: cdn102@comcast.net, or Tom Katonak, 1024 Camino De Lucia, Corrales, NM 87048, ph: (505) 898-5592, email: tkatonak@comcast.net. September 26 Placerville, California 3rd Annual Golden State Insulator Club Show & Sale (9am - 3pm with setup 7:L30am) at the Placerville Fairgrounds, in the Marshall Building. RV access available, call 530-621- 5860 to reserve a RV spot. Info: Larry Shumaker, ph: (916) 415-1555, email: twooldshus@yahoo.com or Bill Rhode, ph: (530) 701-4377 email: norcalmud@yahoo.com September 27 Batsto, New Jersey North Jersey Antique Bottle Collectors Association’s Batsto Show & Sale, (9am - 4pm), at the Batsto Village/Wharton State Forest, 31 Batsto Rd, Hammonton, NJ Info: Joe Butewicz, ph: (732) 236-9945, email: botlman@msn.com. September 27 Depaw, New York Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors’ Annual Show & Sale, (9am - 3pm), at Polish Falcons Hall on Columbia (off Transit), Depew, NY Info: Dave Potter. Ph: (716) 771-1581 or Peter Jablonski, ph: (716) 440-7985, email: peterjablonski@roadrunner.com.:
September 27 Lowell, Massachusetts The Merrimack Valley Antique Bottle Club’s 35th Annual Show and Sale, (9am - 2pm, early buyers - 8am), at the Lowell Elks Club Hall, 40 Old Ferry Rd, Lowell, MA (exit 32 off US route 3 and follow the signs) Info: Cliff Hoyt, ph: (978) 458-6575, email: choyt48@comcast.net or Gary Koltookian, ph: (978) 256-9561. More information, maps, dealer contracts and discount coupons at choyt48.home.comcast.net/mvbc.htm October 3 Chesterfield, Virginia Richmond Antique Bottle Club’s Annual Show & Sale (9am - 3pm, early buyers 7:30am), at the Chesterfield County Fairgrounds, 1030 Courthouse Rd, Chesterfield, VA. Info: Marvin Croker, ph: (804) 275-1101 or Ed Faulkner, ph:(804) 739-2951, email: Faulkner@anqtiquebottles.com. October 3 Salem, Oregon Mid-Willamette Valley Insulator 12th Swap Meet (11am - last person leaves), Info: Nathan Lamkey, ph: (503) 580-5872, email: showinfo@natsulators.com, natsulators.com/show/. October 3 Point Pleasant, West Virginia West Virginia State Farm Museum Bottle Show and Sale, (9am - 3pm), at the West Virginia State Farm Museum (four miles North of Point Pleasant on State Route 62, then right on Fairgrounds Rd). Info: Charlie Perry, 39304 Bradbury Rd, Middleport, OH 45760 ph: (740) 992-5088, email: perrycola@suddenlink.net October 3 & 4 Elsecar, England BBR Fall Extravaganza Bottle Show & Sale (Saturday, 9am - 5pm & Sunday 9am - 3pm), at the Elsecar Heri-
tage Center, Elsecar, England. Info: Alan Blakeman, BBR Elsecar Heritage Center, Nr. Barnsley, S Yorks, S74 8HJ, England, ph: 011-44 1226 745156, email: sales@onlinebbr.com. October 4 Dryden, NY The Finger Lakes Bottle Collectors Assn’s 40th Annual Show and Sale, (9am - 3pm), at the Dryden Firehall on Route 13, Dryden, NY. Info: George Blaasch, ph: (607) 589-6436, email: gblaasch@aol.com or Tom Kanalley, ph: (607) 753-7250, email: tkanalle@twcny.rr.com.. Website: www.fingerlakescollecting.org. October 9 & 10 Phoenix, Arizona The Phoenix Antiques, Bottles and Collectibles Club’s Annual Show & Sale (Friday 10am - 5pm, early buyers 8am and Saturday 6am - 4pm), at the North Phoenix Baptist Church, 5757 N Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ. Info: Betty Hartnett, ph: (602) 317-4438 , email: bettchem@cox.net. October 9 & 10 Santa Rosa, California Northwestern Bottle Collectors Association’s Annual Show & Sale (Saturday 9am - 3pm, early buyers Friday 12noon - 6pm), at the Finley Building, Sonoma County Fairgrounds, Santa Rosa, CA. Info: Bev Siri, ph: (707) 542-6438, email: nbca@oldwestbottles.com. October 11 Keene, New Hampshire Yankee Bottle Club’s 42nd Annual Show & Sale (9am - 2:30pm, early buyers 8am), at the Keene High School, Arch Street, Keene, NH. Info: John Bemis, 28 Cross St, Keene, NH 03431, ph: (603) 352-5246 or Alan Rumrill, Historical Society of Cheshire County, PO Box 803, Keene, NH, ph:(603) 352-1895.
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FOHBC MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY ADDITIONS & CHANGES New Members Mary Ann Griffin 843 S Britain Rd Southbury, CT 06488
304-258-4300 dcurtin01@gmail.com Historical flasks, local items
Robert Mraz 4225 Bannister Rd Fair Oaks, CA 95628 916-961-5647 Pre-pro shot glasses
Richard & Patty Elwood 12710 Township Road 40 Dunkirk, OH 45836 419-759-3841 prelwood@wcoil.com Fruit jars, aladdin lamps, lightning rod balls
Barbara & Dale Santos 1921 Bell St Apt 126 Sacramento, CA 95825 916-920-3060 dabarlej@aol.com Historical flasks
Stephen Ertman 18 Campbell Ave. Suffern, NY 10901 845-357-3871 sertman@hydroqual.com Inks and Owl Drug Store pre-1900
Brian Wade 39 E 16th St Huntington Station, NY 11746 631-271-7226 brian.wade@att.net Sodas, blackglass, general
David Hall 134 Mill Chase Dr Strawberry Plains, TN 37871 865-607-9740 dipdog@comcast.net Mini jugs, salesman samples, patent medicines, miniature gun, knives, coins, figural, & advertising
Pat Winans 1050 Grandview Ave Reno, NV 89503 Bottles and stoneware
Changes Bob, Alex, & Austin Barbour 14207 W. 74th Terr. Shawnee, KS 66216 913-248-1478 bbcr@everestkc.net Poisons, bitters, Sandwich colognes, target balls David Carr 534 W. Palm Ln Phoenix, AZ 85003 602-253-6772 aznative56@hotmail.com Arizona bottles, sodas and whiskeys and black glass Dennis Curtin 185 Little Creek Trail Berkeley Springs, WV 25411
Tim Henson 2027 Bluejay Dr Webb City, MO 64870 417-624-6576 Chevelle_Godsmack@ yahoo.com Fruit jars Michael Hoffman 3135 Charter Club Dr Apt G Tarpon Springs, FL 34688 BNSaddoe@optonline.net Long Island bottles Jeff & Lourene Hooper 1305 Scrivner Rd Port Angeles, WA 98362 360-460-2791 jeffhoo4@hotmail.com Taget balls, token flasks, Palmer greens, pontiled medicines
Marc Lutsko 2267 Gold Rush Ave Helena, MT 59601 406-422-4690 letsgo@montanasky.net Montana bottles, Owl drug, western bottles Charles & June Marks 3110 Deer Trail Deland, FL 32724 386-736-7958 bmarks2@cfl.rr.com Florida drug store bottles and black glass Tom & Nancy Paskiewicz PO Box 118 North Billerica, MA 01862 978-663-6748 tomp342@comcast.net Bitters John Pastor PO Box 227 New Hudson, MI 48165 248-486-0530 Jpastor@americanglassgallery.com Flasks & pattern molded bottles Russ Smith ABC UK Denham Crafthole, Cornwall PL11 3BW England 011 44 1 503 230 323 Dr. Burton Spiller 22 Tobey Brook Pittsford, NY 14534 585-264-8968 bottlebug@aol.com Bitters, historical flasks, early tin advertising, souvenir china Roger Terry PO Box 42 Morgan, UT 84050 801-388-7840 soleagent@aol.com Western whiskey bottles and Utal liquor items
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John A. Wendler 896 Basalt Dr Vallejo, CA 94589 707-332-1509 j.wendler@sbcglobal.net California beer Amy Wendling PO Box 4094 Dublin, OH 43016 513-633-4849 Jars4aw@aol.com Fruit jars Las Vegas Bottles & Collectibles Club Inc Attn: Bernard Choma, Treasurer 9485 Lenox Crater St Las Vegas, NV 89148 702-262-0262 www.lasvegasBottleClub.c om Raleigh Bottle Club Attn: Sterling Mann 5416 Brushy Meadows Dr Euquay Varing, NC 27526 919-567-8008
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smann2@nc.rr.com www.raleighbottleclub.org Richmond Area Bottle Collector's Association Attn: Bruce Wadford, President 362 Dobbins Rd Blackstone, VA 23824 434-676-8942 mlwbwad@meckcom.net http://home.comcast.net/ ~edandlucy1/RABCA.html St. Louis Antique Bottle Collector's Assn. Attn: George Casnar 4455 Helterbrand Rd Festus, MO 63028 636-337-2326 vcasnar@aol.com Uwharrie Bottle Club Attn: Todd McSwain 8649 Eddins Poplin Rd Norwood, NC 28128 704-474-0552 mcswain8649@windstream .net
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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 dealer table rent • Access to a knowledge of the world of antique bottle collecting unavailable elsewhere • Contact information for clubs devoted to the study of historical bottles • A forum for your writings, articles, and editorials regarding the hobby • Participation in the nomination and selection of Federation members for the Honor Roll and Hall of Fame • Federation-sponsored writing, show poster, and newsletter-design contests • Free publication assistance for your book or manuscript • And more... We encourage Affiliated Bottle Club memberships by offering these additional benefits to your group: • Display advertising in Bottles and Extras at an increased discount of 50% • Insertion of your bottle club show ad on the Federation website to increase your show’s exposure • Links to your club website free of charge, as well as assistance with the creation of your website • Free Federation ribbon for Most Educational Display at your show • Slide programs for use at your club meetings • Participation in Federation sponsored insurance program for your club show and any other club sponsored activities Finally… We need your support! Our continued existence is dependent upon your participation as well as expanding our membership. The Federation is the only national organization devoted to the enjoyment, study, preservation, collection, and display of historical bottles. The FOHBC welcomes individuals who would like to contribute by running for Board positions or by sharing their expertise and volunteering their talents in other areas of interest such as contributions to our publications, assistance with the Federation’s National and EXPO shows, or through membership promotion. If you haven’t yet joined our organization, please do so and begin reaping the benefits. If you are already a member, please encourage your friends and fellow collectors to JOIN US!! For more information, questions, or to join the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, please contact: June Lowry FOHBC Business Manager 401 Johnston Ct. Raymore, MO 64083 816-318-0160 OSUBuckeyes71@aol.com or visit our home page on the web at www.FOHBC.com
WANTED Colored Pennsylvania Hutchinsons ASHLAND BOTTLING WORKS, ASHLAND (AMBER) F.J. BRENNAN, SHENANDOAH (YELLOW) J.C. BUFFUM & CO., PITTSBURG (ALL COLORS) A.K. CLARK, 41 CRAIG ST., ALLEGHENY (CITRON & AMBER) T.D. CUMMINGS, PHILA (OLIVE GREEN) EAGLE BOTTLING WORKS, YORK (AMBER) EXCELSIOR BOTTLING WORKS, ALLEGHENY CITY, PA (COBALT, AMBER, CITRON) PHIL FISHER, PITTSBURGH (CITRON) GOUDIE MOL & CO. ALLENTOWN (GREEN) KEYSTONE BOTTLING HOUSE, PITTSBURG (LT. COBALT) LAFFEY & HARRIGAN, JOHNSTOWN (COBALT)
P.H. REASBECK BRADDOCK (E. GREEN) RIDGEWAY BOTTLING WORKS, R. POWER (COBALT) ROYAL BOTTLING HOUSE, J. UNGLER, PITTSBURG (AMBER) P.J. SERWAZI, MANAYUNK (DEEP OLIVE) JOS. SMITH RENOVA, PA (OLIVE GREEN) SOUTHSIDE BOTTLING HOUSE (COBALT) SOUTHSIDE BOTTLING HOUSE, A.M. SCHADEMAN (AMBER & CITRON) T.I. (AMBER & COBALT) PITTSBURGH BOTTLE TURCHI BROS. PHILA (CITRON) UNION BOTTLING WORKS, PITTSBURG (CITRON)
I will purchase outright or trade for other colored Pennsylvania Hutchinsons. Please contact me at (813) 286-9686 or email at rbrown4134@aol.com for list of available colored hutch’s. R.J. BROWN, 4114 W. MULLEN AVENUE, TAMPA, FL 33609
!!! Don’t miss !!! Last Show Muncie, Indiana Sunday
July 12, 2009 9 am - 2 pm
WWW.FRUITJAR.ORG
Show Headquarters - Signature Inn Room Hopping Jelly Jammers - Saturday, July 11, 2009 - 10 am Fruit Jar Get-Together & Auction - Saturday, July 11, 2009 - 1:30 pm Make your own reservations with the hotel - 765-284-4200
Show Location - Horizon Convention Center Admission $2 Ample Space - Dealer tables still available Fantastic lighting
Show Chairman - David Rittenhouse 1008 S 900 W Farmland, IN 47340 765-468-8091 Show Information - Jean Harbron 765-644-4333
Periodicals FOHBC C/O June Lowry 401 Johnston Ct Raymore, MO 64083
US Postage Paid Kansas City, MO 64108
Please check your information and notify us of errors.
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