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The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors

Bottles and Extras

Vol. 19 No. 3

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Table of Contents Bottle Buzz................................................2 Recent Finds..............................................6 At Auction.............................................7

Conventions Director’s Report - York, Pa. EXPO R. Wayne Lowry...........................24

Happiness for Marvin and Lynn Bailey is a Business Always Going to Pot Bill Baab.....................................46

Poisonland - Early Bird Gets the Worm Mike Dickman.................................26

Whiskey Exonumia Jack Sullivan...............................49

Happiness for this Collector is Pursuing GayOla Bottles Bill Baab..................................28

The Knox Glass Bottle Co. Bill Lockhart,, Pete Schulz, Carol Serr and Bill Lindsey..............54

Panama Canal Cecil Munsey..............................31

FOHBC Membership Directory Additions ........................................64

Separating Glassware by Perfection Barry L. Bernas...........................34

Membership Information........................65

FOHBC Officer Listing 2006-2008............8 President’s Message...................................9 Regional Reports........................................10 “Cool” Aluminum Bottles Have Arrived Cecil Munsey...................................21 FOHBC Available Programs James Berry..................................23

Classified Ads and Ad Rate Information...66 More New Finds - Have You Seen My Theys?

Barry L. Bernas...........................39

FOHBC Show-Biz Show Calendar Listings............69

Chase & Co. Eric McGuire............................42

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News, Notes, Letters, etc.

Send Buzz Notes to: Kathy Hopson-Sathe at: kathy@thesodafizz.com or write: Buzz Notes, 341 Yellowstone Drive, Fletcher, NC 28732

Bottle Buzz Science Notes Making glass from sugar (but hold the sand)

By Henry Fountain Here’s one way to make bottle glass: Mix silica sand, soda ash and limestone, heat to about 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit and let cool.

Here’s another way, as described by Carlos Co of the University of Cincinnati and colleagues in the journal Nature Materials: Shake up some sugar, oil and a surfactant (a substance that tends to reduce the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved) that attracts both materials, heat it to about 250 degrees without further mixing and allow to dry out while cooling.

The new form of glass that results is an emulsion – like mayonnaise or salad dressing, in a way. Because it contains sugar instead of water, it is solid and hard like candy, and remarkably clear. And it still contains more than 50 percent liquid oil, which can diffuse through it. It’s somewhat like a sponge, Co said, with continuous solid areas and continuous liquid ones.

The researchers say that such sugar-oil glass might have applications in optical or sensing devices. Since it can be made with food-grade materials (the oil used was limonene, or orange oil), it might be useful in the food and pharmaceutical industries.

Co said that using a polymerizable compound in place of oil might also someday use it to fabricate nanoscale materials. In this case, the glass would act as a template, holding the compound in the sugar structure. After the compound was polymerized, the sugar could be simply dissolved away.

Could this also lead to edible, sweet tasting, bottles?

Fair use notice: Some material in this article was originally published by the sources above and is copyrighted. FOHBC, as a non-profit organization, offers 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 copyright owner(s). (Submitted by Cecil Munsey.)

----------------------------From Marshall Clements, editor of Bottle Talk, the newsletter of the Raleigh Bottle Club: I am sorry to bring the sad news that Bill Clark, long-time member of the Raleigh Bottle Club and close friend of many, has passed away after an extended illness.

----------------------------Bottle collectors mourn and salute the passing of Arnold Sierras Sr.

By Roger Hill, 522 Palmer Ln., Menlo Park, CA 94025; Cell: (650) 380-9712.

One of the early pioneers in bottle digging and collecting, a friend to all who knew him and a great ambassador for the hobby died on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 at the age of 79. He was also the proud father of and mentor to “bottle digging legends” – the Sierras Brothers: Arnold Junior, Robert, Fino and Vince!

I will never forget the first time I saw and met Arnold Senior “in action.” It was the 1970s; I was a teenager who stumbled upon a bunch of bottle diggers going at it alongside the 101 freeway in Redwood City, Ca. near where the old Frank’s Tannery stood from the 1880s until in burned down in the 1960s. It was also next to a broad slough which, from the mid-1850s, transported flatboats - loaded with freshly cut and milled redwood lumber - from the peninsula to build the exploding “gold rush” town of San Francisco. It was prime “old bottle” dumping grounds. Not knowing of this wonderfully crazy hobby, I stood there in awe as people dug holes in the ground and pulled out “glass treasures” – one after another. There were clear medicine bottles and food bottles; some even had writing on them. Suddenly I heard one digger exclaim – there’s Arnold Sierras. I watched as this

Bottles and Extras handsome and energetic man hurried across the site and went right to work, working his probe to quickly pick “his” spot. He quickly dug down his hole faster and deeper than everyone else around him. Before too long, I saw him disappear into the bottom and reappear holding a beautiful ornate, amber embossed bitters bottle – a broad smile spread across his face as he held it up to the sun!!! Several diggers came running over to check out his find – and I remember them saying something about the luck this guy Arnold has digging bottles. Yes there certainly is a large component of luck that goes into finding “great bottles” but, as his sons will tell you, there is so much more: passion, research, hard work and perhaps a spiritual “bottle energy” that attracts them to you! Arnold Senior had all these in spades and over the years; when he dug, it seems that the “great bottles found him!” I certainly was bitten by the bottle bug that day because of Arnold Senior’s incredible find, but more to the point was how open, warm and friendly he was to me and everyone else. He was respected and admired by others. When I called Dell Kenyon, founder of the San Jose Antique Bottle Collectors Association (first bottle club in California), to tell him of Arnold Senior’s passing, his first words were, “I used to dig in San Jose (good ‘ol days) with Arnold… he sure was a nice guy!” And that truly sums up his character… he was one of the best! You couldn’t hope to meet a nicer person than Arnold Senior!!!

He was born in Fresno, in the Central Valley of California. He grew up in a farming community and came to the Bay Area in search of a better job in the late 1940s. He became a carpenter and expert layer of hardwood floors – a profession into which his sons followed as well. He first started digging up bottles in 1958 in San Jose, Calif.

In those early days, old bottles weren’t worth much money – for Arnold Senior it was simply a great hobby… “Digging was about having fun and he truly appreciated finding these handmade works of art,” said Arnold Junior. He instilled these exemplary values in his boys at an early age and they too caught “the bug!” Arnold Senior was also a pioneer of both digging techniques and tools. He taught many diggers the art and experimented with different types of steel for making probes. He also devised one of the first “hammer probes” so necessary for getting through hardpack, asphalt etc. And Arnold was blessed to have dug in all the great spots: San Francisco,

Bottles and Extras San Jose, Oakland, Stockton, Sacramento and Nevada over the years. In 1971 the San Jose Bottle Club awarded and nicknamed him “The Dumbarton Kid” because he scoured the San Francisco Bay at low tide (near the Dumbarton Bridge) finding just about every old bottle imaginable! Everyone knows of the famous “Big Dig” in San Francisco in 1998. You could find Arnold Senior there filling in the holes as fast as his sons dug them! Arnold Jr. said, he will never forget the smile on his Dad’s face as so many fantastic bottles were unearthed. And to be there digging with his sons was a tribute to his lifelong love… his boys were now his legacy!!! To rival that famous dig, and perhaps even greater, was the Virginia Street “Old City” Dump (San Jose, Ca) in the late 1960s. Many rare globby whiskeys, and several Cassin’s Bitters, etc., came from that site… and Arnold Senior was there getting more than his fair share! Also during this time, Arnold Senior found the Russell City Dump in Hayward, Calif. where gigantic boxes were excavated in the bay mud in the 1800s into which nearby hotels, saloons and brothels dumped their trash. Arnold Junior told me that 85% of the bottles that came out of those pits were globby whiskeys… the majority of them “whole” – truly AMAZING for any seasoned digger to imagine!!! He also dug at the famous Embarcadero, San Francisco sites in the 1970s, punching through concrete basements of demolished buildings near the Transamerica Pyramid in what was originally the wharf area for the clipper ships jamming our gold rush shoreline. They scored boxes full of fantastic graphite pontiled soda bottles. In 1989 he dug many historic sites in and around Oakland after the Loma Prieta Earthquake when buildings were demolished to give him access to “the booty” which lay below. To summarize his lifelong passion and hobby, if there were bottles to be found, you can bet Arnold Sierras was there!!!

Some of Arnold’s spectacular finds over the years were: a super rare green Kreiss Beer with an embossed goat from Redwood City, Calif., a Durham Whiskey, Old Woodburn Whiskey, a Kentucky Gem, many super bitters bottles including the ultra-rare amber Cassin’s Bitters, many pontiled blob sodas including one of San Francisco’s earliest and rarest a cobalt CC&B, early S.F. beers with embossed figures which, American Bottle Auction’s Jeff Wichmann calls “scare as hen’s teeth,” colored Wonser’s Bitters, Gold Dust Whiskeys and many green fifths, some of which he dug

May-June 2008 and others which he traded for… one can only imagine such finds!!!

In Arnold Seniors later years, when he couldn’t dig much, Arnold Jr. told me that they would get back from late night digs at two or three in the morning… and as they opened the garage door, Arnold Sr. would jump out bed and run out to greet them, excited like a kid on Christmas morn, calling out “What did you find?” My friend and fellow digging buddy, Grant Bacon, who frequently digs with the Sierras brothers also, told me that he saw Arnold Senior just a couple of days before he was hospitalized.

He said he was out in the backyard happily washing up the newest batch of his sons’ “finds.”

And finally, in a poignant salute to a fulfilling life of fun and adventure, shared amongst us diggers and collectors, Arnold Senior’s dying words to his son Robert were to, “Keep on digging!”

Arnold you were truly a class act, we will all miss you dearly!!!

----------------------------REWARD OFFERED FOR RECOVERY OF STOLEN HUTCHINSON BOTTLES! February 28, 2008 I attended an antique bottle show in Henderson, Nevada on Feb. 15-16, 2008.

After the show several bottles were packaged in individual containers and double-boxed for shipment to me in Tampa.

When the box was delivered it was empty with the exception of internal packing material.

The missing Hutchinson bottles included: 1. ESCAMBIA / PEPSI COLA / BOTTLING CO. / PENSACOLA / FLA. (clear); 2. C. W. ARNOLD / SOUTH BEND, IND. (cobalt blue); 3. C. F. RILEY (Eureka, CA.) (cobalt blue); 4. DISTILLED / SODA WATER CO. / OF / ALASKA (aqua); and a 5. Codd bottle from South Africa (aqua).

I will pay a reward for any information leading to the arrest of the thief and return of these bottles. Please contact me via telephone at (813) 286-9686 or 813-888-7007 or send an E-mail to rbrown4134@aol.com.

Thank you, R. J. Brown ----------------------------Corrections: Kathy, I just got my copy of the magazine and

3 thought the article (“Fortune Chevalier and the Picture Castles 1890-1919,” Bottles and Extras, March/April 2008, pgs. 57-59) was well done but there were some errors in the dates. Chris Semon’s bar (the Bodega Saloon) was in 1890 not 98 (pg. 58 under heading, “The Picture Castles, 1890-1919,” first paragraph) and the first picture Castle was 1890 not 98 (same heading, fourth paragraph). Also where it says “With one exception, however, there is a square Castle...” (pg. 58, second paragraph under heading, “The Bottles”) it should say “there is a quart Castle.” Also under #6 it should say “...typical of the early 1900s bottles...” (pg. 59).

Thanks, Ben Kutzkey BKutzkey@aol.com Hi Kathy, FYI, my address/phone number are wrong in the last “Poisonland” (Vol. 19, # 2).

Correct info is: Mike Dickman 761 Viento Circle, Santa Fe, NM 87501 (505) 983-7043 Thanks!

Mike ----------------------------What’s on the minds of our young people?

My research on the subject in the title is admittedly light. It consists entirely of visiting this year’s Greater San Diego Science & Engineering Fair, where the work of 849 very smart students was displayed.

I love the science fair because for years I was one of the people who operated it and for the things I learn there.

As I wandered the aisles of the exhibit hall where the projects were arranged, what struck me the most was the emergence of common themes. First among them: bacteria awareness.

They could have devoted a wing just to the topic of bacteria, with one student after another documenting its presence everywhere, from lip gloss to steering wheels to the sign-in pen in the nurse’s office at school.

Many youngsters were called to this line of scientific inquiry, but the indisputable Queen had to be a seventh-grader.

Aided by a chemist in the water services department, the youngster compared the bacterial levels in the ice machines and toilet water at 18 San Diego hotels. At 13 of these fine establishments more bacteria turned up in the ice than in the toilets.

4 A case of filthy ice, or amazingly clean toilets? Ponder that riddle if the Federation ever holds its annual convention and show in San Diego and you are tempted to visit a hotel bar and order a Scotch and water on the rocks.

And speaking of libations, a second preoccupation of our budding scientists appears to be caffeine, particularly when it arrives in those calorie-laden concoctions known as energy drinks – you know, the beverages that come in those beautiful cans that some bottle collectors are beginning to collect (Bottles and Extras, Summer 2006 and March-April 2007).

Most of the students’ experiments with energy drinks “proved” an increase in abilities. It seemed there was no end to the benefits of caffeine – until one student fed cans of Monster Energy to his plants, hoping to increase their growth by 20 percent. Instead, he killed them.

And then there was my favorite that resulted in the knowledge that you should not clean your driveway with Coca-Cola because it stains the concrete an undesirable grayish brown. Who knew? Like most of you, I have read that there is almost no limits to what Coke will clean. As I said, who knew?

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May-June 2008 Dear Editor: I just want to express my appreciation for Joe Terry’s article in the May/June 2007 edition of your publication which I only just discovered. I come from an Italian-American family from Brooklyn, N.Y., so Easter in our house was always a favorite celebration.

These traditions continue with me and now my 8-year-old son. Even though my mother died in 1999, only recently did I discover her Easter items while unpacking more old boxes. She had assorted PAAS coloring kits dating from 1991, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998 and a Dudley one from 1999. She bought them and did not use them - us kids were long out of the house and since she lived by herself, she never did more than a few eggs. Only the 1991 box was open. We also had one Fleck’s Chick-Chick box which, given the sequence on the others, I believe was from 1996. It cost 99 cents and would have been bought in the N.Y.C. area.

My son, too excited to wait while I was thinking which one to “use up” first, ripped open the Fleck box which is identical to item number five in the Terry article. Well, he made

Bottles and Extras the decision and we had a great time coloring eggs!

Chick-Chick was a very popular brand in the New York area and preferable to PAAS before they switched to cold water dyes since it was easier to dissolve. I now live in Washington D.C. and it dawned on me that I had not seen a Chick-Chick box in a long time. The article was a delight to find, but how sad that another American classic has bit the dust. My son is a fan of Antiques Roadshow. I do not plan to tell him that his impetuousness may have robbed him of a collectible - he is constantly asking me if we have anything “old”. (Yes, your mom....)

Behind the front panel is a list of games and the coloring contest piece. I kept it to check and see if the contest was still going.

Now, I think I will just keep the panel as part of our Easter decorations. Thanks for featuring such an interesting story on the J. J. Fleck Company and Chick-Chick!

Regards, Eileen Kane, Washington, D.C. Ekane98@aol.com -----------------------------

H.C. OVERDICK / CINCINNATI. Sapphire blue, 8 3/4" tall, 12-sided, iron pontil, applied top. $2,325

Two stoneware crocks “Manfactured For Fredericksburg, Va.” $2,225 Indian Vegetable / and / Sarsaparilla / Bitters / Geo. C. Goodwin / Boston. $504.

DR. DANIELS’ wooden and lithographed tin horse, cattle and dog medicine store cabinet. $1,025 Straight-sided Ft. Meyers, Fla. CocaCola crowntop $2,025 [Not pictured.]

Ever see a bottle tree?

Tommy Mitchiner’s son, Ryan, “planted” a few bottles and look what sprang up!

Mitchiner, who lives in Gordon, Ga., stands in front of the latest addition to his bottle collection, a real “bottle tree.” (Photo by Bea Baab.)

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< Stone Mason Fruit Jar, Red Wing, Minn. $600 Target ball from England, amethyst in color. $314 >

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5 Left: Bill Baab of Augusta, Ga., holds a Clinton Bottling Works soda similar to the one he sent then-Gov. Jimmy Carter and the original note from Georgia’s govenor in 1974.

(Photo by Bea Baab.)

I gave Jimmy Carter an Augusta soda bottle and President Carter was given honorary FOHBC membership

By Bill Baab During the fall of 1974, I learned that newly elected Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter was a collector of antique bottles.

I was in my fifth year as a bottle collector and decided to give him a Clinton Bottling Works / Augusta, Ga., aqua blobtop soda water bottle dating to the 1880s. My friend and digging buddy, Drew E. Whitaker, from whom I’d heard about Jimmy Carter the collector, agreed to take the bottle to the state capitol.

Whitaker was the assistant chief conservation ranger at the time and his office was in Atlanta.

You can imagine my surprise and pleasure when I received this handwritten note from Gov. Carter dated Dec. 9, 1974: “Office of the Governor, Atlanta, from the desk of Jimmy Carter. To Bill Baab: “I am very excited and pleased with the beautiful Clinton soda bottle from Augusta.

I have spent a lot of time digging and feel a kinship with you and other bottle collectors.

I’d like to see your collection. Thank you very much! (s) Jimmy” Thirty-four years later, I regret not inviting the governor to check out my collection.

Perhaps it’s not too late. Maybe if I sent the former President a signed copy of my book, Augusta on Glass, with a belated invitation to visit. . .well, if a Secret Service agent knocks on my door. . .!

I sent the packet to him in care of The Carter Center in Atlanta. So far, no word by the time this was written in March, 2008.

Cecil Munsey’s interesting article, “Jimmy Carter & Billy Carter, Bottle Collector & Can Collector,” in the March-April issue of Bottles and Extras, stirred my recollections.

I also sent the ex-President a copy of the magazine. Happily, I’d saved his personal note to me.

Eleven years later, Carter had been elected President of the United States, becoming (so far as we know) the first bottle collector to hold that office. So the Rev. Gary Beatty of Ohio, who then was treasurer of the Federation of Historical Bottle Clubs (as it was then known), decided to make the President an honorary member.

Beatty, too, received a personal note, this one typed and dated August 16, 1985: “To Gary Beatty: “I am pleased to be a member in the Federation of Historical Bottle Clubs, and am honored by your kind expression of friendship.

“With my thanks and best wishes, “Sincerely, (s) Jimmy”

Above: Copy of the note received by Baab

by Jimmy Carter in 1974.

Above: Copy of the letter received by Gary Beatty, FOHBC treasurer, in 1985. [Courtesy of the National Bottle Museum, Ballston Spa, N.Y.]

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Recent FindS Figure 2

From Wayne and June Lowry, Raymore, Mo. This “The Standard Improved Fruit Jar” was dug in New Zealand last November and was acquired by us shortly thereafter.

Previous to this “improved” midget pint, it had only been reported in the quart and half-gallon size. Even though it is stained and cracked, we are elated to acquire it because it is a pint, which is our main area of collecting, plus it is a “new” old jar. [Figure 1] This is another example of items that are still out there to be found.

From Carl Sturm, Longwood, Fla. This month’s new find is absolutely the crudest piece of black glass that I have ever seen. It is a German, circa 1780, utility bottle, blown in a two- part wooden mould with a Figure 1 blow-pipe pontil scar. The wooden moulds were wetted down to prevent them from burning out so quickly. Apparently this mould was very wet and when the molten glass was put in the mould, steam formed and caused the crudeness that is seen in this specimen. It would be extremely hard if not impossible to duplicate this effect. It must be remembered that this was a utility bottle and not a piece of artwork.

This bottle is 8" in height, 6" in width and 3" in depth. The marks of the two-piece mould are apparent.

The pontil scar is weak but can be seen. The string is applied about 1/8" below the top of the bottle and tapers from the bottom to the top. A picture of a like bottle with a seal is pictured in Antique Glass Bottles

by Willy Van den Bossche on page 270. It does not have the crudness shown by the bottled pictured here.

[Figure 2]

Figure 3

From Tom Feltman, O’Fallon, Illinois: Here are some pictures of two rare pontiled blob top sodas I dug from a privy in St. Louis, Mo. First is a rare pontiled soda, TERRY & BARIL - MASSILLON, O. [Figure 3].

Second is an emerald green BRANDON & FEASBY - CAMP SPRING - SODA WATER - ST. LOUIS, MO. [Figure 4].

There are three variants of the Ohio bottle, all iron pontiled and date to the 1850s.

Besides the one pictured, one has Terry & Baril / Massilon, O (Massillon misspelled) and the other has large double outline letters spelling TERRY completely around the circumference of the bottle with John Terry / Massillon, O. in smaller letters. Of the three, John “Digger” Odell said that the John Terry bottle was the oldest and rarest. Terry likely took in a partner after getting established or either retiring. Odell also speculated that due to no smooth-based bottles being known, the firm apparently went out of business before the Civil War. The Brandon & Feasby soda water bottle is listed on Curt Faulkenberry’s list of scarce Missouri bottles as number three (Bottles and Extras, Spring 2003, pg. 47).

Figure 4

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At Auction Pint Mason’s Large Keystone Patent Nov. 30th 1858 - $1,900 This pint displays extra-sharp embossed lettering and brilliant glass throughout with no damage or stains whatsoever. The ground rim is perfect. A good deep yellow amber color. This variant with the large Keystone figure has been attributed to the Illinois Glass Co of Alton, Ill. The finest possible example of this rare pint Mason.

Estimated $2,000-$3,000.

Quart Black Glass Mason’s Patent Nov. 30th 1858 Reverse HGCo - $17,825.99 A black glass quart Mason (olive-black) that is totally opaque except under the brightest light source held very close. Embossed on the front “MASONS PATENT NOV 30TH 1858” and on the reverse with a large “HGCo” monogram for the Hemingray Glass Company. A rare survivor from the run of black glass jars that were made by Hemingray at their Covington, Ky. site in 1877.

Beautiful condition with no damage or stains. The finest example of this highly-appealing early jar, which is rarely seen for sale. Estimated $10,000$15,000.

Ouart Cobalt Mason’s Patent Nov. 30th, 1858 with damage - $3375 An extremely rare deep cobalt blue quart Mason attributed to Moore Bros of Clayton, NJ. This example will display as perfect, but is damaged on the mouth. A piece of the mouth broke out and has been glued back in place. It has been about 10 years since ANY example of this jar has come to the auction market. Current value for a mint example would be in the 25k range.

Pint Ball 3L Mason Upside Down Lettering - $600 A rare upside-down embossed “BALL (3L Loop) MASON” pint. Clear glass is free of damage. Estimated $600-$800.

Melissa Milner (423) 928-4445 mmilner12@chartertn.net

Midget Amber Mason’s Patent Nov. 30th 58 - $4,300 A rare original amber midget pint MASON with “58” instead of “1858”.

Possibly Ball made. Nice color with subtle bands of lighter and darker shades.

Sparkling glass throughout with no damage or stains. A choice example of this extremely scarce old colored midget that is rarely seen for sale. Estimated $4,000-$5,000.

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Federation of Historicial Bottle Collectors

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

FOHBC Officers 2006-2008 President : Carl Sturm, 88 Sweetbriar Branch, Longwood, FL 32750-2783; Phone: (407) 332-7689; E-mail: glassmancarl@sprintmail.com First Vice-President : Fred Capozzela, 1108 Rutger St., Utica, NY 13501; Phone: (315) 724-1026; E-mail: fcapozzella@hotmail.com Second Vice-President : Richard Siri, P.O. Box 3818, Santa Rosa, CA 95402; Phone: (707) 542-6438; E-mail: rtsiri@sbcglobal.net Secretary : Ed Provine, 401 Fawn Lake Dr., Millington, TN 38053; Phone: (901) 876-3296; E-mail: edprovine@bigriver.net 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 : Kathy Hopson-Sathe, 341 Yellowstone Dr., Fletcher, NC 28732; Phone: (423) 737-6710; E-mail: kathy@thesodafizz.com Merchandising Director : Kent Williams, 1835 Oak Terr., Newcastle, CA 95658; Phone: (916) 663-1265; E-mail: KentW@ppoa.org Membership Director : Gene Bradberry, P.O. Box 341062, Memphis, TN 38184; Phone: (901) 372-8428; E-mail: genebsa@comcast.net Convention Director : Wayne Lowry, 401 Johnston Ct., Raymore, MO 64083; Phone: (816) 318-0161; E-mail: JarDoctor@aol.com

Business Manager / Subscriptions: June Lowry, 401 Johnston Ct., Raymore, MO 64083; Phone: (816) 318-0160; E-mail: OSUBuckeyes71@aol.com Director-At-Large : John Pastor, 7288 Thorncrest Dr. SE, Ada, MI 49301; Phone: (616) 285-7604; E-mail: jpastor2000@sbcglobal.net Director-At-Large : Sheldon Baugh, 252 W. Valley Dr., Russelville, KY 42276; Phone: (270) 726-2712; Fax: (270) 726-7618; E-mail: shel6943@bellsouth.net Director-At-Large: Cecil Munsey, 13541 Willow Run Road, Poway, CA 92064-1733; Phone: (858) 487-7036; E-mail: cecilmunsey@cox.net Midwest Region Director : Ron Hands, 913 Parkside Dr., Wilson, NC 27896, Phone: (252) 265-6644; E-mail: rshands225@yahoo.com Northeast Region Director : Larry Fox, 5478 Route 21, Canandaigua, NY 14424; Phone: (585) 394-8958; E-mail: brerfox@frontiernet.net Southern Region Director : Edwin Herrold, 65 Laurel Loop, Maggie Valley, NC 28571; Phone: (828) 926-2513; E-mail: drbitters@mindspring.com Western Region Director : Bob Ferraro, 515 Northridge Dr., Boulder City, NV 89005; Phone: (702) 293-3114; E-mail: mayorferraro@aol.com Public Relations Director : James Berry, 200 Ft. Watershed Rd., St. Johnsville, NY 13452; Phone: (518) 568-5683, E-mail: max@klink.net

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President’s Message

President : J. Carl Sturm 88 Sweetbriar Branch Longwood, FL 32750 (407) 332-7689 glassmancarl@sprintmail.com

May-June President’s Message My comments this issue will be rather short and sweet as I will include the minutes of the board of directors meeting in Baltimore on March 1, 2008.

The EXPO 2008 at York, Pa. is shaping up very well so far. We have orders for 100 banquet attendees of the 250 available seats.

The host hotel has only 30 rooms left so we are 70% sold out for rooms and 37% sold out on table reservations. This is with three and a half months remaining. We also have commitments for 17 seminars and specialty meetings. Items for the auction are being solicited. We are holding the auction to 100 items. It will be a live auction with the ability to make prior bids online. If you have any items that you wish to consign please get in touch with Randy Driskill at www.bottleauction.com.

We need to get the minutes here so that you will know that your board of directors is taking care of business. Dig hard or buy well and watch your collection grow.

J. Carl Sturm, President Minutes: FOHBC Board of Directors Meeting March 1, 2008 Baltimore, Md. President J. Carl Sturm called the meeting to order at 10:05 a.m. Directors in attendance were Wayne Lowry, June Lowry, Richard Watson, John Pastor, Richard Siri, James Berry and Ed Herrold. Mr. Sturm took note that ten directors were necessary to form a quorum, eight were then present and three or four other directors would be arriving later that would be available to vote on matters requiring action. (Other directors arriving in time to vote were Bob Ferraro, Larry Fox, Ron Hands and Alan DeMaison) In the absence of Secretary Ed Provine, Ed Herrold was asked by Mr. Sturm to keep minutes of the meeting.

Convention Director Wayne Lowry reported on the financial results of the 2007 Collinsville, Ill. National Show, saying that while the books were still not closed out, the show would still net a profit of about

$2,000, with the auction making the difference between profit and loss.

As for the 2008 Expo in York, Pa., we are prepared to offer up to 600 sales tables. Mr. Lowry said we needed volunteer help for setting up and he was going to ask for assistance from the Baltimore club. There was a discussion of possible auction arrangements for an auction to be held in connection with the show.

Mr. Lowry stated that there were 17 educational seminars and specialty meetings arranged and more were likely. Ed Herrold volunteered to be available August 8 to make sure that the presenters had the necessary audio/visual aids for their presentations. Carl Sturm and Richard Siri volunteered to assist in obtaining advertising for the show program and John Pastor volunteered to assist Bill Baab with articles for the program.

In further discussion Mr. Lowry said he had developed a database of former club members, bottle collectors and others interested in the hobby of around 4,000 and suggested that we could use that as a mailing list to invite prospective members to join the FOHBC. He cited the success of a recent appeal to rejoin the FOHBC mailed to former clubs last fall. Since this would be a targeted mailing to “enthusiasts” we should expect a much more favorable return than the 2 per cent or so usually estimated for “blind” solicitations. John Pastor moved that the mailing be accomplished and Richard Siri seconded the motion. The motion passed 12-0.

The Federation received from Bill Baab, Mike Burggraaf, Mark Wiseman and the Iowa Antique Bottleers Club the nomination of Katie Foglesong to the FOHBC Honor Roll, to be awarded posthumously. She became a member of the Antique Bottle Collectors Association of California in 1965, helped found the Iowa Antique Bottleers in 1967 and served as club editor for 23 years.

She became Treasurer of the FOHBC in 1970. She passed away in 1995. The

nomination passed unanimously, 12 votes to 0.

Next were two nominations for FOHBC “Hall of Fame”: The first considered by the board was that of Betty (Wilson) Zumwalt, nominated

by Richard Siri, Bob Ferraro, Bill Ham and the Northwestern Bottle Collectors Association. Among other things, Betty coauthored with her husband, Bill Wilson, Spirit Bottles of the Old West, Western Bitters, and 19th Century Medicine in Glass.

Later, after her remarriage, Mrs. Zumwalt wrote, Ketchup, Pickles, Sauces –19 th Century Found in Glass. June Lowry moved for the acceptance of Betty (Wilson) Zumwalt for the “Hall of Fame”. Richard Siri seconded the motion and it passed 12-0.

Next for consideration was the nomination of J. Carl Sturm, for “Hall of Fame” as submitted by Bob Jochums, Bill Baab, Junne and Norman Barnett. FOHBC President then recused himself and turned the meeting over to Second Vice President Richard Siri who assumed the duties as chairman. June Lowry moved for approval of the nomination and Richard Watson seconded the motion. The nomination was approved 11-0 with Mr. Sturm abstaining.

Following the preceding vote, Mr. Sturm returned to chair the meeting. He said a nominating committee was needed for elections for new officers and directors for 2008-2010. Mr. Herrold volunteered to chair the nominating committee and Jim Berry, Richard Siri and Richard Watson were appointed committee members.

The Board discussed the progress of the FOHBC magazine. During this discussion, Mr. Sturm said that it was in his opinion that the magazine has become the “best magazine in the hobby!!” and several others expressed agreement.

There being no further business before the board, the meeting was adjourned.

Ed Herrold, Acting Secretary

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May-June 2008 going on. I have finally reached a point where I simply have too much on my plate. I will remain your Northeast Director, but simply can not perform both tasks any longer.

Now the good news: Chris Davis of Newark, N.Y., has agreed to step into the position of editor. Many will remember Chris from the many shows he attends across the states each year. Chris is an avid collector and an excellent writer. I am sure you will enjoy his contributions. Please support Chris in this effort. One of the things that will help Chris to effectively write for you will be

communication between the clubs and their editors. This has been difficult for me to establish during my time as editor. It is very important. Reports written from reading newsletters is very time consuming.

Newsletters often contain information a month or more old. When finally reported in the Northeast News, information can be four months old.

My suggestion would be for each club to have a designated person who could E-mail Chris news items to be considered for inclusion in his report. I will be working with Chris over the next few weeks to try and make this happen. My best to all; Larry

Some had thermometers, rock salt and other devices imbedded into the tops. Some of the buildings pictured are still standing, but many have become the victim of toll roads and progress.

wrecks were caused by storms, 22% due to fire or explosions, 8% sunken ships, 7% to collisions and 5% stranded. The number of shipwrecks per Great Lake Michigan 42%, Superior 18%, Huron 40%. The most dangerous month is November. The Great Lakes storm of 1913 claimed the lives of 254 sailors.”

You can find out more about the HVBIC online at their website: http://hvbic.org.

Their monthly newsletter can be viewed there also.

Northeast Regional News Larry Fox 5478 Route 21 Canandaigua, NY 14424 (585) 394-8958 brerfox@frontiernet.net Northeast News Bad news, then good news. First the bad news: After several years of being editor for the Northeast Region, I find it necessary to step down from this post. I have enjoyed trying to keep people informed of what is

Midwest Regional News Joe Coulson 10515 Collingswood Lane Fishers, Indiana 46038 (317) 915-0665 jcoulson@leaderjar.com Winter is nearly over, and you know what that means… more garage sales, flea markets, bottle shows and softer ground to dig in! Let’s see what the Midwest clubs were up to in January and February (and don’t forget to send in those news items, because we LOVE to hear from you).

Antique Bottle Club of Northern Illinois Dorothy Furman is the newsletter editor of the ABCNI. In the February newsletter, show chairman Greg Schuneman said that May 4th at the Brat Shop will tentatively be the time and place for the Antioch Bottle Club & Collectible Show & Sale. This will be the first Sunday in May. John Panek displayed his collection of advertising mirrors. “This collection was of large 3 ½-to-4-inch round mirrors dating from 1910 to the 1950s. He noted that these were very difficult to obtain and expensive.

Many of the larger mirrors featured pictorials of Chicago businesses prevalent in the early part of the 20th century. He noted that there were only three major manufacturers of the mirrors: Charles Kraver, the Parisian Novelty Co., and the Green Duck Co. Anything dated is very collectible and phone numbers with only 3 digits are very early.

These mirrors were given away by the many businesses in Chicago, including lodges, trucking, insurance and storage companies, bookstores, hotels and taverns.

Bottles and Extras

Findlay Antique Bottle Club Tom Brown (newsletter editor) of the FABC submitted its February newsletter (Whittle Marks). Tom typically reprints several Bottles and Extras articles for club members in their newsletter. Articles included “Bryan’s Top Shelf: Wild West ACL Soda Bottles” (by Bryan Grapentine, Bottles and Extras, September 1997) and “Gombault’s Caustic Balsam” (by Michael Smith).

The FABC has a good website with pictures from ita annual shows. You should check it out: http://fabclub.freeyellow.com/ home.html. Richard Elwood is the club president. To find out more about the monthly newsletter, Whittle Marks, send a note to: Findlay Antique Bottle Club, P.O. Box 1329, Findlay, OH 45839.

Huron Valley Bottle & Insulator Club Michele and Shaun Kotlarsky are newsletter editors for The Embossing, the monthly newsletter of the Huron Valley Bottle & Insulator Club.

For the March club meeting, they took a field trip to the Montrose Telephone Museum. “We had a walk-through tour of the museum which had many historic phones. Thank you notes have been sent to the museum for allowing us to sit in on its meeting where the topic was Great Lakes Shipwrecks. Mike Heberling had a slide show of the shipwrecks in Michigan. There have been an estimated 5,000 wrecks with 30,000 lives lost, or six per wreck. 52% of the

Iowa Antique Bottleers Mark Wiseman (newsletter editor) does a wonderful job each month reporting the IAB happenings. Mark submitted the IAB newsletters for February and March.

The meeting theme for the IAB January meeting was milk glass bottles (for the winter snows!) and plenty of milk glass items were brought along with other show and tell items. The club met at the Ames Library auditorium, which was “a wonderful room for a meeting, very large and set up with plenty of tables and chairs.” Wiseman brought the club’s milk glass bottle embossed “Keipps Dandruff Cure” (glued together) dug as a club in Colfax in 1999.

The newsletter had good information on Iowa bottle history, which included the Davenport Soda Bottlers and the Davenport Bottling Works from city directories (and some other bottlers and connected people).

In the IAB March newsletter, we learned that Katie Foglesong was being nominated for the Federation Honor Roll. Mark also reported on his trip to the Red Wing Collectors Society Mid-Winter Meeting in Des Moines over the weekend of February 8-9. A Red Wing 30-gallon salt glaze crock with a butterfly and cobalt debossed advertising lettering sold for a reported

Bottles and Extras $22,000. Saturday morning brought the educational sessions, and once again Steve Showers and his wife Phyllis had a big crowd for the Red Wing dump digging presentation. Steve had a whole table of items and gave away various examples of shards in drawings throughout the session.

The IAB is seriously pursuing rubbings (and photographs are helpful) of Iowa bottles that are unlisted in the book, The Antique Bottles of Iowa, 1846 – 1915.

Please contact Mike Burggraaf at 641-4696018 or QRSGLASS@iowatelecom.net.

The IAB newsletters always contain wonderful digging stories by 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 who join him. You can find out more about IAB membership ($15/yr.) from Tom Southard, 2815 Druid Hill, Des Moines, IA 50315.

Midwest Antique Fruit Jar & Bottle Club The MAFJBC has members nationwide and is heavily fruit jar-focused. The club has monthly meetings all year round. Dave Rittenhouse is the club president.

In the February Glass Chatter (their newsletter), Dave Rittenhouse reported some statistics from their winter show and sale. Dealers came from 12 states as well as Canada and 68 sales tables were sold. There were 155 people who came through the door (paid admissions). An article appeared in the Muncie Star on the Monday following the show. For show and tell at the club’s February meeting, club members brought items that they had purchased at the winter show. Lou Ebert also brought a wonderful collection of paperweights made by glass factory workers (whimsies made in their offhours).

Due to ill health, Rev. Phil Robinson has closed the Robinson Fruit Jar Museum in Muncie, Indiana. Dick Cole gave an update on progress of making a movie CD of Phil’s presentation “Parable of the Jars.” Phil gave this presentation at one of the club meetings last year. The CD will contain 24 minutes of footage with some additional digital pictures of jars. Cost will be $10 each, and they will be made available to whoever expresses an interest.

Club members were asked to bring jars or bottles with a company monogram on them for show and tell at the March meeting.

John Elwood also shared part of his collection of pickle jars at the meeting. John has been collecting pickle jars for a long

May-June 2008 time and showed many varieties to the attendees.

The MAFJBC has a website: http:// www.fruitjar.org. Meeting details as well as lots of pictures from their semi-annual shows can be found there. Their next show and sale will be July 13th in Muncie.

Minnesota’s First Antique Bottle Club Gwen Seeley forwarded copies of its January and February newsletters, The Bottle Digger’s Dope. Gwen reports that due to her health she finds it necessary to resign as editor. She will remain as co-editor, and Barb Robertus will assume her duties.

The January issue contained a reprinted article titled “Berliner Magen Bitters Company.” Part of the information in the article pertains to a bitters from the club’s Minnesota area. The newsletter also contained a book review of Land of Amber Waters by Doug Hoverson. It took the author 10 years to complete the book, and it is packed with anecdotes and Minnesota lore (University of Minnesota Press, 340 pages, $39.95).

The February newsletter had a Valentine’s theme. There were pictures of cupids and love birds, and a brief history of the origin of Valentine’s Day. The program for their meeting was “George Benz & Sons.

“George Benz was born in Osthofen, Germany in 1838. He emigrated to America in 1853, settling first in Chicago, then three years later coming to the frontier town of St. Paul, Minnesota Territory. At the height of its power, the Benz organization was impressive indeed. Their headquarters at 110 E. 3 rd Street occupied three stories; in addition, they used the cellars of several adjacent buildings for storage of their wines, liquors, ginger ale, porter and mineral water.

The Benz bottle most sought after by collectors is the famous ‘Geo. Benz and Sons Appetine Bitters’ which was advertised as ‘a tonic, an appetizer, a cocktail bitters.’”

Doug Shilson brought his beautiful Appetine Bitters plus others. Doug followed that bottle for many years, finally adding it to his collection. A picture in the newsletter showed Steve Ketcham holding the smaller version of the bottle.

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 Doug Shilson is newsletter editor for the North Star Historical Bottle News. Doug

11 does a great job each month reporting the club’s latest happenings.

The January newsletter contained wonderful reminisces of former club member Tim Verhey had who passed away. Doug says that “to report the past is to keep the history going for future generations on who contributed and why.”

Steve Ketcham (club president) reports that “our attendance for the February North Star Historical Bottle Association meeting was great! The program for the get-together was the annual BEST DUG contest. We saw some really rare beers, a number of nice whiskies, a couple of black glass George Benz Appetine Bitters and a whole lot of other great items. Though many of us no longer dig, we all enjoyed seeing the glass and stoneware pieces our many digging members harvested over the last year. And the stories were just as interesting as the finds themselves.”

Doug Shilson wrote an article for their March newsletter, “How Long Has It Been?

My thoughts from 1st Show 1967 to 2008, 41 years: “Yup. Forty-one years of having bottle shows here in Minnesota. And in some years we did the national bottle shows as well.

Every time I do a story on someone who has passed away, or has been a member of NSHBA and did great things for our hobby, I start to think of the good times with past and current members, plus others who had an impact on my life as a bottle collector.

Oh, I collect other items such as stoneware, advertising etc., but my main stream of items to collect is good ‘ol bottles.

“The start of it all was in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Snooping around Old Fort Snelling Hex and round towers (because there weren’t any other buildings standing but an old church). The change of Minneapolis & St. Paul was coming fast.

Especially the freeway system. The love of trying to be an archaeologist since I was knee high to a grasshopper got me going to look for anything that looked good to dig for. Bones, old bones, really old bones.

Fossils is what the experts called them. And I had boxes of them. Found many near the Mississippi. With strange-sounding names.

The diving craze hit us younger folks in the 1950s. Something called SCUBA (SelfContained Underwater Breathing Apparatus). Then the construction of the new freeways, billions of bottles were unearthed. No where to put them all. Trucks couldn’t get rid of them fast enough. Open dumps found many wannabe

12 archaeologists. The bottle craze is now under way. Where to put them all? What to do with all the ones we kept? And we spent many hours soaking and cleaning them.

“Who would be interested in these relics of the past? I did some research at the local library for some of the names embossed on the glass. Excited about the history I found, so I thought it would be a good idea to let others know. So, I went to the nearest source, the Ramsey Historical Society in St. Paul, Minn. ‘The Gibbs Farm Museum.’

Didn’t have a clue what to expect. Talked to the Lettermans who were the caretakers of this museum who had their monthly openhouse to see the donated antiques that were made long ago. After walking around the old farm house with those ‘creaking’ floors and steps, I looked for the person in charge and found Mr. Letterman and told him about my new-found hobby. He was very interested. I set up a date for one fall day in 1967. The only place we could fit was the big red barn, which was about 100 feet to the west of the main farm house. It was smelly, cold and dusty, a couple of buggies plus anything that an old barn would hold.

Not to mention the spider webs, and other little creatures that didn’t want to move over! The Lettermans said it’s yours for a few hours. They did all the advertising. Then I got a call from the Gibbs Farm Museum telling me it was getting calls from many interesting people asking about this newfound hobby called old bottle collecting.

‘Come and see for yourself.’ We did several shows in the next few years and one fall day brought in 1,400 strangers to see for themselves. Collectors who helped me in those early years were Winnie and Debbie Shilson. Wayne Shilson. Tim Verhey, Larry Schaaf, Steve Ketcham, Fran Rutherford, Shelly Donovan, Jim Haase, Owen Mattson.

In the farm house were Jean Donovan and Bev Ehrnreiter with their stained glass repair class. In those early years we even went to the Freeborn County, Minn. museum to show our collections. Yes, those were the years. 41 years, to be exact!”

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

Ohio Bottle Club Phyllis Koch (editor) and Donna Gray (secretary) always do a very nice job with The Ohio Swirl, the OBC’s newsletter. John Fifer is the club president.

The January issue contained an interesting article, “Passionate for Watch

May-June 2008 Fobs,” by Jack Sullivan (special to the Ohio Swirl). Jack became interested in the watch fob phenomenon through his story for the Swirl last May that depicted a watch fob from Black Cat Whiskey, the product of Cleveland’s Ullman-Eisentein Co. “Fobs were all the fashion about the turn of the 20th century. Businesses of all kinds gave them to customers as a way of getting their advertising walking around on the streets.”

In the February newsletter, Fifer said that “the Columbus Show is in the books.

Everyone had a good time and sold a lot of bottles. Adam Koch told everyone it was his last show to chair. He did pass it on to Joe Hardin, with the help of John Bartley (former chairman of the Dayton show) to continue on in the coming years. So the show in Columbus will go on. The Mansfield show (May 10th) is on its way. Bill Koster is having very good table sales.”

The program for the OBC’s January 31st meeting was “Auctions,” introduced by Bill Koster, and presented by long-time member Wilbur Bowers. Bill said that Wilbur has done the Mansfield auctions. Don Dzuro said that the club was almost out of its bottle book and more needed to be printed. A motion to print 100 books was approved.

Fifer suggested upgrading The Ohio Bottle Club website. He said the website could contain pictures, shows, events, maps, club information and sale items.

The February newsletter also contained articles by Jack Sullivan (“The Mercantile Arts of Coshocton”), Brian Gray (“Factories of 1866”) and Ralph Bowman (“Milk Bottles, Dairies, Etc.”).

For more information on joining the OBC, please contact Berny Baldwin (treasurer), 1931 Thorpe Circle, Brunswick, OH 44212.

Wabash Valley Antique Bottle & Pottery Club Martin Van Zant is newsletter editor for The Wabash Cannonball, the WVABPC’s monthly newsletter. Peggy Zimmer is the

Bottles and Extras club president.

In the January issue, Martin tells us of a recent shopping experience one day after work. “I walked in and started looking around the antique shop. There was an older lady who owns and operates this store.

There were a few bottles here and there and the normal antiques you find in the stores.

In the cases were a couple of fruit jars. I tried to finagle her down on the prices. She even made a couple of calls, but I couldn’t get them in my price range. I was trying to be cheap so I could make a little money on them. They were nice colors, but not that nice. We continued to talk as I ventured around and looked at all the wonderful antiques in her store. All of a sudden, she said, hey, wait a minute, I have a jar in my car if you’re interested. Sure, I said, what is it? She said, hang on a minute, I think it says Hoosier something on it. I didn’t flinch because a month earlier a student brought me in a supposedly Hoosier Jar that was in fact a Hoosier spice, white milk glass piece of nothing. Well, it wasn’t even a jar. So I didn’t even get my hopes up when this lady said she had something with Hoosier on it.

About five minutes later the lady went to her car and came back with a Hoosier Jar. Yes, a real one! I smiled as she handed me the jar and said well, this is nice, but it has the wrong lid, how much? She said she’ll take x bucks. I said is that the best you can do, and she said I’ll throw in the tax if you want it. I won’t tell you the price, but will tell you that it was rather cheap. Once she brought the bottle in I wouldn’t put it down.

I was done shopping after that. That made my day, my week, month and a great beginning to a new year. I went home and called all of my bottle buddies; well, most of them anyway.”

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.

Bottles and Extras

May-June 2008 struck paydirt with more than 30 drug store bottles representing six different stores coming to the surface. These were Kaffer & Benning, S.F. Stoll, S.O. Bereman, Taylor & Co., McPike & Fox and M. Noll, all from Atchison.

Then Fletcher chipped in with “The Lucky Shirt.” It adorned the stocky figure of David Baumann, who said he wore it while gambling at nearby Indian casinos. The two joined Dale Chlouber, curator of the Washington Irving Trail Museum located between Ripley and Stillwater, Okla. He had acquired permission from the Ripley City Council to go digging.

Best find of the day from a city park dig was a Perkins Bottling Works, Perkins, Okla., L.O. Martz, Proprietor Hutchinson in good shape.

Robert Creech’s visit to a local flea market netted a one-gallon stacker jug stenciled “E.A. LACKEY, Shipper and Dealer in WINES and LIQUORS, Hamlet, N.C. Shipping advantages not Equaled by any other Mail Order House in the South. Write for full Price List.”

Photos of the jug, whose top was glazed in Albany slip and bottom by Bristol glaze, were featured on the cover of Bottle Talk for March by editor Marshall Clements of the Raleigh Bottle Club, of which Creech is a member.

Club member Dean Haley shared three nice finds and Clements took photos of an Escambia Pepsi-Cola Hutchinson from Pensacola, Fla., a vertical script, double dot Pepsi from North Wilkesboro, N.C., and an Indian River Ginger Ale bottled by Pepsi in High Point, N.C. Donnie Medlin showed an unusual applied color label bottle with Pepsi on one side and Coca-Cola on the other, as well as a Pepsi look-alike PEP-KOLA and Kick Soda (showing a mule kicking the figure of a man sky-high).

Vernon Creech showed North Carolina Hutchinsons from Gastonia, Asheville and Greenville.

Clements also noted the death of longtime member and dealer Bill Clark, who was known as “Awesome Bill from Morrisville.” Clements said that he loved bottles for the thrill of buying and selling more than collecting.

The editor featured his cartoon, “The Blobtops” in various forms. “Bottle are a lot like people,” the caption reads. “They come in all sizes, shapes and colors, but once you clean their insides, they all turn out to be

Southern Regional News Bill Baab 2352 Devere Street Augusta, GA 30904 (706) 736-8097 riverswamper@comcast.net Editor Melissa Milner always fills The Groundhog Gazette with interesting photos and so the newsletter is enjoyed by fellow members from The State of Franklin (Tenn.)

Antique Bottle & Collectors Association.

One of the most interesting in the March issue shows the front and back of the Lyndon B. Johnson Canada Dry bottle, complete with the vice president’s seal. The bottles were made by the Laurens, S.C., Glass Works. When checking the first batch, employees were stunned to learn that the seal had been applied backward. Most of those error bottles were destroyed, but some were kept and every now and then make it into the public view.

The example shown in the newsletter has the seal applied correctly. The bottle was shown by Brandon Horne. Other show and tell bottles included a green 7-Up bottle reportedly made only in 1937 and a Frostie Old Fashion bottle from Greeneville, Tenn., both presented by Richard Begley.

Gerry Brown brought in some Bristol, Va., ephemera, including a Dixie Bottling Works billhead.

Mrs. Milner featured bitters as the main subject of her newsletter and downloaded seven black-and-white photos to complement the story.

Digging stories guaranteed to whet the imaginations of snowbound collectors everywhere are featured in the Oklahoma Territory News for March.

The main one featured was titled “An Arkansas Cistern Dig” written by Ed Tardy, one of the many friends of Johnnie Fletcher, president of the Oklahoma Territory Bottle & Relic Club and editor of the newsletter.

The story was told in color photos, 18 of them, with bottles ranging from local drug stores to a small Warner’s Safe Cure.

Next, Fletcher buddy Ed Stewart chimed in with a story, “A Change in Scenery Helps.” He, Kenny Burbrink and Fletcher had started digging in St. Joseph, Mo., but hadn’t found anything, so they decided to move to Atchison, Kan. They found the owner of a house, asked for and received permission to dig, and

13 pretty nice.”

Donnie Garrett of Lexington, S.C., an authority on pottery of the Old Edgefield (S.C.) District, spoke to 29 members of the Horse Creek Bottle Club in Warrenville, S.C., at the March meeting. He brought along some outstanding examples from his collection and the thrust of his talk was how to identify pots and jugs that aren’t signed or marked.

Neck designs and handle applications were among keys to such identification, Garrett noting that those made by Collin Rhodes, Thomas Chandler and the Landrum family, master potters all, were consistent distinctive in their own ways.

Garrett’s wife, Trish, said she has been trying to get her husband to share his vast knowledge of Edgefield pottery by writing a book. Garrett, 64, has been collecting since he was 19 years of age.

I edit the club’s Probe & Plunder newsletter and published a memorial edition honoring club member Byron Baynham of North Augusta, S.C., who died after a short illness in early March. The 60-year-old was proud to be a direct descendant of Joseph Gregory Baynham, the master potter from Trenton, S.C. Lee and Tammy Herron brought in a labeled plain S.C. Dispensary bottle, but authority Harvey Teal said the label was a fake. Herron paid only $12 for the unembossed bottle. Teal said a number of the fake label bottles have been circulating in this area.

----------------------------35th South Carolina Bottle Club Show and Sale

By Bill Baab, Southern Region Editor COLUMBIA, S.C. – What sort of magic lures collectors to antique bottle shows?

Perhaps it’s the chance to find something coveted or unexpected. Or maybe it’s something else.

For example, there’s pottery. Used to be, you might see a half-dozen, but not more than a dozen jugs, bowls or churns on the tables of antique bottle show dealers.

Nowadays pottery, especially Southern pottery in our area, plays a huge role in attracting collectors, and the 35th annual South Carolina Bottle Club’s Show and Sale Feb. 15-16 was no exception.

Contemporary as well as 19th century utilitarian stoneware crowded several of the tables. “Watch out for that camera bag,” Pete Wingard of aptly named Mud, Sweat and

14 Tears of Atlanta warned the writer. “You don’t want to knock any of this off the table.”

He was so right. I’d be sweating and close to tears and might have had to hock some of my better antique bottles had I accidentally knocked off one of his early Edgefield District (S.C.) pots. They are worth thousands of dollars. The rule is: You break, you pay.

He did give me one piece of good news, saying he’d sold a signed Washington Becham bee hive-shaped, Crawford County, Ga., jug (marked WB on the handle) for more than $1,200.

Our personal pottery collection sports a half-dozen, all one-gallon in size except for a two-gallon example. The latter has a tiny hole in its wall, revealing how thin-walled master potter Becham was able to turn his whiskey jugs. Why they didn’t collapse I don’t know.

Contemporary potters such as Robert and Harold Stevens of Lancaster, S.C., and Marvin Bailey of Kershaw, S.C., also displayed their latest creations. For someone who has been turning pots for only six months, Robert Stevens’ work showed a remarkable quality, and the writer couldn’t help but add a droll face jug, bright red tongue hanging out (the face jug’s, not mine!), to an ever-growing collection. His brother specializes in miniatures, which sometimes are harder to make than larger wares, and one of his tiny snake jugs now resides in my house. The Stevenses told me there was a move afoot to schedule a show in Lancaster later this year.

The Brothers Stevens - Robert (L) and Harold - from Lancaster, S.C., display a wide array of pottery pieces and faces turned at their shop.

May-June 2008

Marvin Bailey, Kershaw, S.C., master potter, shows off his “animal tree.”

Figurines were made by wife Lynn.

Bailey is a full-time master potter and he and his wife, Lynn, have come up with some neat creations, reflecting their senses of humor and imagination.

“Did you see the animal tree?” my wife, Bea, asked. Not only did we see them, but we bought one. The two-foot-high hollow “trunk” is populated by small and large possums, a gray squirrel, a robin redbreast, pair of bluebirds, birds’ nest with eggs, an owl, a black bear emerging from a hollow, its eyes on a beehive, another black bear climbing toward the hive, two woodpeckers, a bluejay and a crow! The wildlife is crafted

by Lynn.

“We had an outstanding selection of Edgefield pots, including one with Dave the Slave’s signature,” said S.C. Bottle Club show co-chairman (with Eric Warren) Marty Vollmer. “Walter and Bruce Smith of Augusta brought a pair of six-foot-tall wooden Indians and there was a wooden tank on another table, complete with spare parts.

“We also appreciated Mr. Butler and Bob French driving more than 1,000 miles from Maine with a high end selection of Colonial and later goodies.”

I stopped at Walter Smith (Augusta) the display sells Indians, 6 feet in table of Jeanie height, crafted by Chance of Filipino wood carvers.

Richmond Hill,

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Jeanie Chance, Richmond Hill, Ga., jewelry from antique bottles and china shards called “Outhouse Jewels.”

Ga., only to find fragments of the past – hundreds of ‘em. These are the criers, the broken pieces of china and glass found in 18th and 19th century dumps and privies.

Most diggers would leave them where they lay, but not Jeanie. She doesn’t let them go to waste, using her imagination and skill to create jewelry.

“You’re wearing history!” she exclaims.

She also designs shirts coveted by collectors of antique bottles. Walter and Bruce Smith of Augusta, Ga., wore tee shirts on which images of 19th century soda water bottles from their city were displayed. She and kinsman Paul Chance sported shirts with cloth replicas of Savannah sodas. She charges $45 for each shirt and later this year, my wife and I will be wearing shirts adorned

by River Swamp Chill & Fever Cures, Augusta’s venerated alligator bottles.

Jeanie and kinsman Paul Chance sport shirts she makes decorated with Savannah, Ga. soda bottles.

The show sold 152 tables to nearly 100 dealers, including 18 from Georgia, 17 from North Carolina, 48 from South Carolina, five each from Virginia and Florida, one from Buffalo, N.Y., and others from Maine, Alabama, Texas and Mississippi. A free table was given to Kathy Hopson-Sathe of Fletcher, N.C., editor of Bottles & Extras.

She is the Federation of Historical Bottle

Bottles and Extras Collectors representative and the S.C. Bottle Club is an affiliate.

“We had to turn away 45 others who wanted tables, so we may be looking at a change of venue next year,” Vollmer said of the show, which is probably No. 2 on the east coast in popularity and participation behind the Baltimore Bottle Club’s.

The West Columbia Sertoma Club handled the snack bar, with profits to go to a club charity. Vollmer said at least $4,000

May-June 2008 was raised in donations for the Boys and Girls Club of Columbia.

He was able to buy a giant cathedral pickle jar, aqua and amber Habenicht (Columbia) blobtops (the amber is super rare), and collector-dealer Vic Svensen of Charleston brought him a couple of mocha ware pots.

FACES IN THE CROWD: Bill Williams of Columbia, expert on worldwide glass

David Jackson, Greensboro, N.C., has been collecting bottles since diving for them when he was 14.

David has previously written for Bottles and Extras about Casper Whiskey and shared with the editor that he has a TV interview, as well as a lot of information, on his webpage: www.casperwhiskey.com.

15 ginger beers, now has a website. Check out glassgingerbeers.com. His is a fantastic collection. Randy Kiger of Rural Hall, N.C., whose huge Gay-Ola bottle collection will be featured in a future issue of Bottles & Extras. Donnie Medlin of Louisburg, N.C., king of the Pepsi-Cola collectors, and Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Clements of Raleigh, N.C. He is the talented editor of the Raleigh Bottle Club’s Bottle Talk newsletter.

Photos by Bill Baab and Kathy Sathe.

Terry West at brother Paul’s table showing S.C. Dispensary bottles in a case.

Inside the case is one of only three known in a pea-green color. Terry and Paul are from Charleston, S.C.

Mike Newman, Augusta, Ga.

Violin bottles on table of Bob & Sue Milam, all the way from Tampa, Fla. (They have set-up at the show for the past five years.)

Four tables full of pottery! Rob Rankin (pictured on left in the white cap), from Gastonia, S.C. and buddy, Jim Yates (Laurens, S.C.) provided enough pottery to tempt even a diehard soda bottle collector into the joy of owning clay. Rob was also kind enough to offer to sell me the whole four tables full just to prove it. According to Bill Baab, it would make a great “starter” collection because the larger pots are from the Edgefield District of South Carolina and date to the 1850s. Others in the eclectic display may hail from Georgia or North Carolina.

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Doug Williams (Ocean Isle Beach, N.C.) had a nice assortment of colored insulators.

Jim Scharnagel, Gainesville, Ga. Thanks to the S.C. Bottle Club for a great time!

Tommy Schimpf, Charleston, S.C., arranges his bottles.

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Chip Brewer, Charleston, S.C.

Ed Gray, Marietta, Ga. (behind bottles), with unidentified showgoer, explained to me how he put some spare hardwood he had lying around to a good use as a display shelf for his show table.

Doug Ballard, Strasburg, Va., gives a big smile on the last day of the show.

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Western Regional News Ken Lawler & “Dar” 6677 Oak Forest Drive Oak Park, CA 91377 (818) 889-5451 kenlawler@roadrunner.com Forty Niner Historical Bottle Association – Bottle Bug Briefs In the February 27, 2008 issue of this club’s newsletter, there was an intriguing invitation to the club’s March meeting. It reads like this “Program: Come to the meeting and learn about lazy Rs. Mike Lake is going to bring and talk about bottles with lazy Rs. These Rs are often found on California bottles. For show and tell see if you can find a lazy R on any of your bottles and bring them.” Now that kind of program should get some folks checking out their bottles. We will have to start looking at our California bottles.

It looks like the raffle bottles for March’s meeting are going to be well worth winning.

The bottles listed are “1- amber Marshall’s Bitters, 2- small size Avon Hoboken Gin, 3- clear Lindly & Co.. Sacramento whiskey, 4Southern Pacific Hospital DPT. Clear.”

Printouts of the 2007/2008 budget were passed out by Janis, the lady who holds the cash box for the club. In addition it was mentioned that the club had rented 110 sales tables and had 200 early lookers at their Auburn show. Janis reported their club is in good financial shape as a result of brisk rentals of sales tables and the money collected from raffle ticket sales.

Here’s a unique approach to a program. It sounded like fun. In January, the club had a bottle swap. “Each member brought in a fancy wrapped bottle and put it on the table. Numbers were given out to each person and when their number was called they picked a bottle and unwrapped it. The second person called could pick a bottle from the table or take away the bottle from the first person. The third person could pick a bottle from the table or take the bottle from the second person or any other picked bottle. A bottle could only be taken away twice. If you picked a good bottle, you could be sure someone else would take it. This went on until all of the bottles were picked from the table.

There were lots of oohs and aahs.” We think this game grabbed everyone’s attention. This seems like a great idea for a program.

Club “Show and Tell” sounded interesting.

“Barbara Moniz brought early squat Dutch bottles that she and her husband Tom bought

May-June 2008 in Florida on their vacation; Mike McKillop showed off his recently dug finds including a blue glass fire extinguisher; Kent Williams brought what at first looked like large demijohns but were actually round. There were beautiful cobalts and multicolored swirls; Ed Rickner showed some dug medicines; Max Bell displayed recently dug sodas and spice bottles and he also showed his new buckle book and offered them for sale. Tony Carlton showed a video of hummingbirds buzzing around his feeder, including a rare white hummingbird.”

The last comment included in the Show and Tell segment is “It’s good to see our members digging.”

We try to leave some of the best for the last of our report. The January meeting minutes also included raffle winners. “Kent Williams won the yellow Myer Seltzer Water bottle, Charles Holt got the pontiled snuff, Jerry Rickner won the miniature slug plate Crown Whiskey and Mike Henness picked the green Fredericksburg Beer.”

Antique Bottle Collectors of Colorado – Dump Digger’s Gazette The January 2008 issue of the Gazette announced Rick Sinner as their “new ABCC president!” In Rick’s first President’s Message, he thanked outgoing two-term president Mike Hofer for the fabulous job he has done. Past board members were thanked for their contributions and new board members were welcomed aboard. Rick also included in his message that he has a goal of attempting to keep club members informed of important Federation news, Bottles and Extras happenings and news from the Colorado Historical Society regarding exhibits and whatever else that might be of interest to the club.

The Club News section of the January issue mentioned that the final votes for the 2nd Baxter-Eatwell Award recipient have been tabulated and the winner will be announced at the February meeting.

Rick’s enthusiasm carried over into his President’s Message in the February newsletter where he reported that 50plus bodies showed up at the January meeting. He said “My unofficial count went way past 50 bodies and we had to set up extra tables to accommodate

17 everyone. How exciting is that?” He further reported that the program of John Hallinan’s collection of Colorado & Southern Railroad collectibles really helped draw a crowd.

There are pictures from John Hallinan’s program in the February Gazette that shows a smiling John sitting behind his display tables of multiple railroad lanterns, locks, keys and tickets. Those items are among several other priceless items that were displayed.

Rick is encouraging club members to help keep the momentum going for turn-out. He is suggesting if members know of people who haven’t attended for awhile that they should give them a call and extend an invitation to a meeting. As is usual in any club, guests are always welcomed. Rick says he’s had 30-plus years’ experience with the club. He brings to the attention of club members that “This hobby of ours is way too fragile to not invite as many people as possible who are interested in collecting.”

He further states “I would like to place more emphasis on the fun and excitement of collecting. Please help me accomplish these goals.”

This club has a “Traveling Library Display.” We saw the example of this when we attended their Leadville Show last year.

We learned that they have club members who have selected some of their better bottles to be displayed on a monthly basis.

As far as we know the club exhibit appears in a different Colorado library every month.

To learn more about this concept you might want to contact Rick Sinner so that he can further direct your interest. His email is rsinner@comcast.net.

We will look forward to reading a future newsletter to read the announcement of the winner of the Baxter-Eatwell Award.

Golden Gate Historical Bottle Society – The Corker “Prez Gary” Antone still intends to “reintroduce” an item in their newsletter that would personalize the newsletter information. He said the item is called “Members in the News.”

Gary had mentioned that he had taken some show flyers and contracts to the Anderson show in January. He also said that he saw some of his club members at the show. Some were involved in selling while others in buying. For some it was double duty. He mentioned Rick and Jackie Lindgren. We think that Rick would have been selling and that Jackie would have been

18 looking. We’ve seen Rick in action.

Additionally, he mentioned Tim and Fran Higgins and Steve Bava and Janet Bond.

Gary says that the club has some “new” faces. They are Richard and Jo Riefer from Concord and Nicholas Oestreich from Zephyer Cove, Nevada. Gary received a surprise phone call from Tom Digulla’s wife who informed Gary that previous member Tom is getting interested in bottle collecting again. There is something to be said about this hobby becoming addictive. Once you’re hooked, you’re hooked for life. Maybe that should be a bottle collector’s motto. Maybe it already is!

Gary’s President’s Message stated that the planning stage is behind them and now the important issue of advertising is ahead.

While Gary intends to hit the street with flyer distribution to all of the surrounding Northern California antique stores he is enlisting the help of other club members.

“I’m requesting each of you to look into your local sources for advertising, such as newspapers, publications, cable TV, radio, etc., that have public events listings where we can promote our show.”

While receiving new club members is a happy event; the news of the passing of a previous club member is the flip side of that coin. Gary reports that cancer took their once-active member Rod MacLean of El Sobrante. Rod “was always involved and lending a hand to the shows.”

Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club – The Whittlemark Pam Selenak has taken the presidential reins for a second term and reported in a recent President’s Message that she had purchased new club jackets and longsleeved club shirts. Several members have already purchased them; however, she says she still has some available.

In January, Don Wippert rolled his dolly into the meeting room. It contained his “Trunk from the Dump.” The trunk and its contents were his program. The contents were revealed a little at a time as he spun his tremendous story about how he acquired the trunk. His story is absolutely true and fascinating to hear. He went on to speculate that the previous owner of the trunk must have been a world traveler at the turn of the century. Members were mesmerized as trunk contents were revealed. Club members observed that the items inside were probably from such countries as China, Japan, India, Indonesia and Egypt. At one point Don unrolled a college graduation diploma from

May-June 2008 1920. The contents continued to reveal that a woman would have been the trunk’s owner. Her diploma read that she graduated with a degree in Automotive, Tractor and Aeroplane Engineering. Member Dave Carvalho enthusiastically commented that “Her whole life was in that trunk.” Members became aware that she must have been welltraveled and that she had picked up many interesting souvenirs. There was a black and white picture that gave a clue as to what the owner looked like as a young woman. Since the program, negatives found in that trunk and mentioned during the program were developed and shown to club members.

These additional photos made the mystery even more compelling.

The advertising for the club’s upcoming September Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show is fast taking shape. Dick Homme is the chairman of the club’s current advertising team. Team members consist of Dave Hall, Randy and Pam Selenak, Val Wippert, Dick Homme and Ken ‘n Dar. Show flyers will be distributed in some antique stores and at as many upcoming bottle shows as possible. Advertisements will be placed in magazines, antique newspapers, on websites and to radio stations.

Newsletter editor Blaine Greenman put an article in a recent issue of the club newsletter entitled “Bizarre Beginnings.”

The article is regarding a common household product, Lysol, which became a product in the 1890s and has had some “bizarre” usage. He included a 1924 Lysol advertisement that would draw a smile from anyone. Included are pictures of a cobalt blue Lysol and a brilliant emerald green Lysol.

Blaine is always encouraging other club members to submit articles as well. Blaine’s article contained six paragraphs and three pictures. The article filled up one page and was a quick and informative read. These kinds of articles are of a great help to any of the editors in the hobby. We live in a fastmoving society among busy people. Short is great!

Montana Bottle Collectors Association Congratulations are in order, because we have great news to report on this club. I think club president Bill Henness said it best: “Well, look at us! Here’s our first newsletter.” The plan is to issue a bi-monthly newsletter. In the “Letter from the Editor,” Sherrie Bruch states her plan. She says she needs membership help. She is asking such questions as “What would you like to see

Bottles and Extras in here?” She has already gotten some good suggestions. They are 1) Classifieds, 2) Recent Finds, 3) Digging Stories, 4) Bottle Tracks (your questions posed to club members with answers), 5) Bottle & Club photos sent in by you, 6) Membership Information, 7) Articles sent in by members on certain subjects and “Old News” articles from past bottle magazines or newsletters, 8) Tips on bottles, collecting, cleaning, repairing, where to find, etc…Now that should give everyone an idea or two to get them started responding to Sherrie.

Sherrie also has started a Calendar of Events column in her first issue. She has already listed upcoming events of interest.

She is looking to club members to let her know if there are any other events going on that she should be including in her column.

She has listed the ways you can contact her.

She plans to call six members and get permission to print their names, contact information and what they collect in each newsletter. There are six folks that already have been contacted and their information is in the first issue. What a great way to keep in touch especially when Montana club members tend to live in different parts of Montana and/or even out of state. They have four meetings a year and when this club has a meeting it is an all-out effort to do so. We think that some of the other clubs have to put forth that much “all-out effort” as well.

We admire your commitment as a club and as participating individuals. We are so excited to read and comment on your first newsletter. Remember club readers, Sherrie needs your help in keeping the newsletter interesting. Some of you already have started with the above-listed ideas. How about a newsletter naming contest?

New Mexico Historical Bottle Society President Dr. Jerry Simmons says you guys came back strong with your “meaty 7 pages” as called out in your Notes from the President. Jerry adds that the newsletter is filled with loads of color pictures and information. This is true. He further states that “There are some of you who still need to get pictures and articles to me for future newsletter use. Trips to shows, special collections around the country or globe that you could share (along with your story), special projects you have been involved with and so forth——all are welcome any time!”

Your January 26, 2008 NMHBS board

Bottles and Extras meeting notes reflect that there is lots of planning going on. Some of this planning involves trips that should be planned when the temperature is comfortable either in warmer or colder months. Some digger hints to ensure safety and successful digs is a great idea. Something like having a checklist built into each digger’s plan. Our hobby calls for being creative at satisfying the land owners by leaving their land almost as good as, or better than, we found it.

We have talked with club member Zang Wood at bottle shows. It was a special treat to read his October 2007 article on his trip to Chicago. It was a great account accompanied by the two great, colorful, pictures of Jim Hall’s collection of ink wells, barber bottles, glass canes and flasks. We could just imagine the smile on Zang’s face when he saw Bob Harms’ vast collection of Hutchinson bottles and go-withs. It is evident that both men have worked long and hard to collect what they have. The pictures tell the story. Good article, Zang.

The identified “digging pictures” and the end results of those pictures are fantastic. You folks sure know how to go do it and come out with some good finds. Watch out for that “good ‘ole’boy” Zang Wood in picture number 13.

You folks have fun, stay safe and share those great stories with your president so he can turn out more “meaty” newsletters.

Northwestern Bottle Collectors Association – The Outhouse Scoop At the January meeting, President Leisa Lambert brought up the suggestion that the club have a newsletter again. The thought is to issue a newsletter on a quarterly basis.

Leisa said she would talk to former editor John Burton to see if he has any recommendations. The idea of reinstating the newsletter took off and Prez Leisa took the helm as newsletter editor. We don’t know if the name of the newsletter was reinstated, too, or if this is a new name. However it came about, the name is very meaningful to this hobby. Locating a privy is every digger’s ideal goal.

New officers for 2008 are in place and this year’s planning has begun. The officers are President: Leisa Lambert, Vice President: Richard Wasson, Secretary: Ron Puccioni and Treasurer: Frank Ritz. The main point of early-on discussions in most every club is the planning for their annual show. This club is no different. They are starting to bring up ideas for their October 2008 show. There were proposals made, moved and seconded

May-June 2008 concerning timing for setting up tables, carrying in sales items, dealer set-up and the fee for “early lookers.”

Another positive discussion took place and a motion was made and seconded that the club recommend Betty Zumwalt to the “Federation’s Hall of Fame.”

Members always look forward to the Show and Tell portion of meetings. This is a chance for everyone to select their best item(s) to bring in for others to admire. Here is what members shared at their January meeting: “Frank Ritz showed a shot glass with William Jennings Bryant’s picture on it stating ‘Our Next President.’ Bryant was a Democratic presidential candidate in 1896, 1900 and 1908. Leisa Lambert had pictures of her and Louie’s latest dig which she passed around. Richard Siri showed his latest find — an applied top, inside screw W B Blanding whiskey. Chuck Ingrahm showed a clear pint whiskey flask embossed St. Ives Bar / John Beville, prop Mgr. / 600 Larkin st SF. Bill Ham passed around a Federation Hall of Fame Book.”

Leisa put her story in this first issue, but is hoping that future issues will contain other member stories, too. She puts it this way: “Please submit your dig or special find stories so we can share the news!” She tells the story involving a TV show contact from “Cash & Treasures.” Leisa and hubby Lou decided to go for it. The location would have to be convenient for the show hostess and two cameramen to set up and record this record-making event. Privy digging got underway with Lou in the “hole” and with Leisa up top and assistant son in charge of the “bucket pull.” The dig went on for two days with the discovery of at least 30 bottles. Leisa said that “The crew was blown away that we were digging in an old outhouse.” Lots of joking and laughter followed once the crew learned of this. Leisa says that their dig is still in production and should air late April, early May. It has been great to be able to write about your club. Ron, keep those secretarial notes coming our way and Leisa keep up the good work on publishing and distributing the Outhouse Scoop. Our note to other members is to remember that the newsletter is only as good as the news you help put in it.

Oregon Bottle Collectors Association – The Stumptown Report Secretary Bill Bogynska started out by commenting on the excellent turnout for their January meeting.

Mother Nature stepped in and helped

19 “flood” out the building the club holds its annual show in. A different building was suggested by fairgrounds officials, but members discussed the option and decided that it was not the greatest idea. A motion was made to cancel the show at that point.

The next show for this club will be held in Aurora in June.

According to Bill’s “Editor’s Report,” 15-year-old son William did some significant typing to help dad with the newsletter. It got typed and then mailed out by January 30. It sounds like Bill is going to have an inhouse assistant. Good team effort!

“The Log Cabin Saloon” article by Garth Ziegenhagen and the accompanying pictures of the Baker City Saloon and flasks is interesting to take a look at. Bill Bogynska says he owns a flask from that saloon. Garth says that the two Olympia-style flasks had to be made before 1913 when the name was changed to Baker. He says it has since changed back to Baker City. The bottle collecting hobby tends to encourage an interest in history such as called out in this article. A developing interest in history seems to become a natural go-with.

The January 11, 2008 meeting minutes state that the theme for Show and Tell was Oregon bottles. The minutes read like the large turnout resulted in a lot of members hauling in numerous bottles and other to talk about. We have selected some information out of the minutes to share with you. Will brought in an amber WM. Pfunder & Co. glass pill bottle and a rare light aqua indented panel Little’s Eureka Specific, Portland, Ore. Randy showed off his amber F.W. Schmidt / Reliable Druggist / Pendleton, Ore., drug bottle considered one of Oregon’s finest! Pete showed some classic rare Oregon mini-jugs, including a Heppner, Gold Hill, The Dalles and Joseph. “His grand finale was the one-of-a-kind top Oro Fino / Portland globby top whiskey, Oregon’s oldest.”

A list of “Recent Oregon Bottles on eBay” is included in the club’s newsletter.

Under that listing there is discussion about the frustration some buyers experience from eBay’s charging system. Then in closing, the discussion switched to the latest news that eBay has released saying that they are reducing insertion fees to lower your upfront cost to sell on eBay and adjusting final value fees. We believe that most bottle collecting enthusiasts would probably agree with the last point made under the listing “Please, let’s have a good old-fashioned bottle show!”

20 Phoenix Antique Bottles & Collectibles Club – The A to Z Collector President Brent VanDeman thanked Betty Hartnett for hosting the board of directors meeting at her house on January 23. Attendees also got the opportunity to browse through what Brent calls a “true museum of miniature antiques.” Brent also said that he would be bringing up several of the great ideas that came out of that meeting at the club’s February meeting.

The club’s board meeting minutes listed items discussed. One of the items listed caught our eye. Vice President Mike Miller suggested an Albuquerque trip to meet and share ideas with the Albuquerque bottle club, such as maybe a joint dig or a club trip to the Albuquerque show. California clubs are another option, particularly the Los Angeles club, which holds its annual show in September in Arcadia.

Steve Mares was the speaker for the February meeting. There is a picture showing Steve with his assortment of railroad keys, locks and lanterns. Some club members brought in some of their railroad collectibles as well which they discussed during their Show and Tell portion of the meeting. To give collecting a more personal touch, Brent brought an old Illinois Railroad lantern that belonged to his wife’s grandmother.

A head’s up for those readers who usually plan to attend the annual Quartzsite event. There is a report in the PABCC minutes for March 6, 2008 where Steve Mares said that the trip to Quartzsite was not fruitful for antique collecting. The town of Quartzsite is in the process of shutting down all vendors except those that deal in gems and minerals.

During the March New Business portion of the meeting, John Knirsch suggested holding the club’s April meeting at the Sanderson Ford Museum. He suggested getting together for dinner, hold a meeting and then top the evening off with a visit to the museum. The idea was accepted and the change of meeting venue was posted in the March newsletter. You folks should have a good bunch of members show up for this one!

San Diego Antique Bottle and Collectibles Club – The Bottleneck Sometimes a meeting can start off with a “bang!” However, sometimes they can also start off with a “thud.” In January, some members took off to their monthly bottle club meeting that was being held at the Joyce

May-June 2008 Beers Community Center. They arrived to find the place locked up! They learned that a fire had broken out during December in the restaurant next door. Water from the ceiling sprinklers damaged the carpets and tile in the center. The group decided to implement “Plan B” which involved driving up to Scripps Ranch to the Westfalls. The club’s January meeting turned out to be like the meetings that were held during the early days of bottle collecting. The 15 members first munched on goodies and then settled in around the dining room table. After the customary Pledge of Allegiance the meeting got underway.

Some members had never been to the Westfalls’ home so the group was treated to a tour of the house. The Westfalls had short notice, but they managed to offer tasty snacks and their dining room table for the meeting.

Editor Mike Bryant’s progress report on their June 14 bottle and collectibles show appears in their February 2008 club newsletter. He says that flyers have been printed and some have already been handed out. He further says that ads will appear shortly in bottle and antique magazines.

Westways Magazine will feature their show in their calendar section. He is urging all members to put forth effort to contact any newspapers or magazines that have lists of up-coming events and give them show details.

Mike said that he is donating a San Diego Hutch and two other San Diego bottles to be raffle prizes. He also challenges other club members to donate something.

Some volunteers have already mentioned they will help. Mike anticipates that additional volunteers will probably be needed to help out the day of the show. Club members remember to keep that in mind. You will want your first bottle show in eight years to be a great success.

Washington Bottle Collectors Association – Ghost Town Echo Editor “Red” Kacalek reports that he has received some information for future publications of their club newsletter. He also received some comments on how to improve their newsletter and subjects members would like to see in their newsletter. Red suggests that members let him know when someone attends a show or when a member has dug or bought a rare Washington treasure. This will make some great news for Red to share with his readers.

Niel Smith had stepped down from the

Bottles and Extras president’s seat and is now club secretary.

This left his seat vacant. During the club’s January meeting, Carmen Johnsen saw the need to volunteer to help the club. She has become the club’s new president. Thanks goes to Carmen for making the “sacrifice,” as Niel so aptly put it.

The floods in Chehalis shut down the club’s venue for their February show. The alternative was to have a February meeting!

The February meeting ended up being pretty exciting in that the evening’s topic was Washington State soda bottles. There were rare territorial Hutches, scarce crown top sodas, beautiful territorial items and also an Olympia Bottling Works box. Another exciting feature was that Quentin Borenson (welcomed back to the club) had some digging advice for club members. He says you have “to dig any pit to the max, as even new pits have resulted in older finds, especially sodas.”

Niel came to Red’s rescue and included a little digging story for the March issue of their newsletter. Niel says, “Red, you are always asking for digging news. From my end of town, we’ve started the year off since January, with some excellent results. Best finds out of a construction site include an imperial half-gallon whiskey from Seattle, an A.B. Steward W.T. drugstore and numerous other choice bottles, cobweb pumpkin seeds, etc. Pete & Chris hit another rich pit where Rainier beers and Pacific and Puget Hutches were found. The first pit of the year was the mother find, with three Cooper and Levy flasks unearthed from a pit that was most difficult to probe and dig. Last weekend, Kevin Wade and I had a great dig ala Quentin Borenson, digging those 20s/ 30s pits. We found tons of sellable bottles, the best finds being a porcelain enamel sign, and some better fruit jars.”

With the opportunities you guys run into, it seems that you had better leave your shovels sitting right by the front door so you can take off at a moment’s notice.

Continue your “unearthing” (pardon the pun) great finds. Keep on shoveling!

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“Cool” ALUMINUM BOTTLES have arrived!

Yet it’s still illegal in Fairbanks, Alaska, to give any kind of bottle of beer to a moose.

By Cecil Munsey Copyright © 2007 About 40 percent of all beer consumed comes out of cans, 43 percent from bottles – both glass and plastic – and 8 percent from the tap, according to the Beer Institute, which tracks industry trends.

Now there is a third kind of bottle for consumers and collectors to consider – aluminum (Figure 1)! On August 24, 2004, Pittsburgh Brewing Company (established in 1861), makers of Iron City Beer, introduced the first aluminum bottle in America to contain beer (Figure 2). About 20,000 cases of the new aluminum bottles were shipped initially to 28 states. (By January 2005, six months later, more than 2 million Iron City aluminum bottles had been sold.)

The brewery partnered with Alcoa, Inc., the world’s largest aluminum manufacturer, to produce the aluminum bottle that is supposed to keep beer colder for as much as 50 minutes longer than cans or glass bottles. Sounds possible since the bottles contain three times more aluminum than a 12-ounce aluminum beer can. According to CCL Container company that actually makes the impact-extruded (forced through a die) metal bottles, the package’s innate properties are: “Chill retention, recyclability, durability [and collectibility].

Those are a few reasons why the package appeals to consumers.” And, according to the pioneer user of aluminum bottles, Pittsburgh Brewing Company, “the consumers we tested say they think the bottles are ‘cool’.”

Further information from Pittsburgh Brewing Company is that aluminum bottles cost more than twice the price of glass bottles – about a nickel more per bottle.

It’s not the first time Alcoa has teamed up with the local brewery to put out a new product. Way back in 1962, the two put out the first pulltab beer cans, freeing beer drinkers of the need to carry openers with them. And in 1975, Reynolds (now Alcoa), introduced the Sta-Tab can – where the tab stays attached to the container – it is the most popular one on the market today.

Figure 1 But will the new aluminum bottles become collectors’ items? Of course they will. Recent searches of the Internet’s eBay auction site revealed 344 “items found for ‘aluminum bottle’.”

Among those was Mike Feinberg Co., which sells [collectible] “Air-Filled Iron City Aluminum Beer Bottles” for $3 apiece – Figure 2 when they have them.

More often than not, they are out of stock.

BOTTLE or CAN? Initially, some folks scoffed and said that the aluminum bottle is not a bottle, it’s made of metal so it’s a can.

It does bear a resemblance to the old conetop cans of the 1930s, which were essentially cans with bottle caps crimped on. But the dictionary says, “… a bottle is a container with a narrow neck and a mouth that can be plugged or capped.”

Pittsburg Brewing Company didn’t seem to care whether or not their container was a bottle or a can because, with the success of Iron City Beer in the new impact extruded aluminum bottle, they quickly introduced Iron City Light Beer (Figure 3) in the same package.

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Others have followed suit. Customer response, both consumer and collector, to the growing wave of aluminum bottles has been positive. Molson Canada released its latest entry into the beer market – the guarana-laced (Brazilian shrub, used as a tonic or stimulant) Molson Kick (Figure 4) in an aluminum bottle. The Molson Kick container is Canada’s first Fig. 4 aluminum beer bottle. It would look good in any collection of aluminum bottles.

Strong demand has also led AnheuserBusch to introduce three of its brands: Michelob Lager, Michelob Light and Anheuser World Select in 12-ounce aluminum bottles. Its flagship Budweiser brand was introduced in a 16-ounce aluminum bottle (Figure 5). Bud Light (Figure 6) became the fifth Anheuser-Busch brand to be launched in a collectible aluminum bottle. It was issued in a 16-ounce package.

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Heineken uses aluminum bottles for its Heineken ‘H2’ premium beer (Figure 7). Its minimalist design earned it the Oscar de L’Emballage award for innovation by the French “Institute for Packaging and Packing.” Any bottle collection’s aluminum bottle section would be greatly enhanced by the award-winning metal container.

An entry from Australia into the aluminum bottle market is Foster’s Crown

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Lager (Figure 8). Foster’s is Australia’s best-selling beer that was first introduced over a half-century ago to celebrate the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Until the introduction of the new aluminum bottles, it had been available only in glass bottles.

The new aluminum bottles are, interesting enough, made by CCL Container in North America and shipped to Australia.

WHO ELSE? A group of California winemakers and bottlers have joined together to form the Aluminum Bottle Consortium with the express purpose of marketing an array of aluminum wine bottles to the U.S. wine industry.

Pepsi-Cola North America recently introduced Mountain Dew, its popular carbonated soft drink, in a series of 12 limited-edition, 16-ounce impact-extruded

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aluminum bottles. The bottles called the Green Art series feature designs created by a variety of artists. The artists were given a plain, 16-ounce aluminum bottle and asked to create their expressions of Mountain Dew. Treating the bottles as a canvas, the artists used a variety of approaches and applications including tattoo design, cutand-paste materials, paint, charcoals and

computer graphics. The resulting bottles are attractive and colorful and easily considered as collectors’ items.

This series marks the first time a carbonated soft drink was packaged in an aluminum bottle in the U.S. Among the participating artists: Paul Rodriguez, a professional skateboarder sponsored by Mountain Dew, collaborated on a design with skater-turned-artist Chris Pastras to create one of the aluminum bottle designs featured here (Figure 9); another participating talent, tattoo artist Troy Denning, collaborated with New Era on a limited edition hat based on his design featured on one of the Mountain Dew aluminum bottles. (Figure 10).

Instead of collecting bottles which have stood the test of time and are of proven collectible value, this could be the time to gamble on current bottles that has every indication they will successfully stand that same test of time. “Cool” aluminum bottles could be a future antiques easy to acquire today. How many times have you wished you “… knew then what you know now?”

Cecil Munsey 13541 Willow Run Road, Poway, CA 92064-1733 (858) 487-7036 cecilmunsey@cox.net

Picture Perfect

There’s the Steelers, Heinz Ketsup and a true Pittsburgh icon, Iron City Beer.

The brewery has been making beer for well over 100 years.

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Iron City Brewing Company was formed by young German immigrant Edward Frauenheim in 1861 in the bustling river port known at the time as the “Smoky City.” The

mills were busy; there were jobs for all and the beer flowed freely. The business soon outgrew its original location on 17th Street and, in 1866, moved to a four-story brick building that the company built on the corner of Liberty Avenue and 34th Street, then worth an estimated $250,000.

Three years later, Iron City Brewery erected an additonal three-story building on the site, where it continues to operate today.

The two buildings carried an average stock of about 10,000 barrels and used state-of-the-art brewing equipment.

The first American brewery to produce a lager and the first to brew a true light beer, many more inventive products and packaging have been introduced by Iron City. Among them are: the snap-top can (1962), twist-off resealable bottle tops (1963), draft beer in cans, the original light beer, Mark V (1976), the first brewery to have its own presidential candidate, Dan Crawley of Churchill, Pa. and aluminum beer bottles (2004).

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The FEDERATION OF HISTORICAL BOTTLE COLLECTORS Available Programs One of the benefits available to individual members and affiliated clubs in good standing is the opportunity to rent slide programs for use at club meetings, shows and educational presentations to civic groups, schools, etc.

A list of the programs currently available follows. We encourage our members to make available additional presentations. Contact your Regional Board Representative or the FOHBC President if you have a taped program or slide presentation that you would like to share with the collecting community.

1. Glass Works Auctions, Part I Courtesy of Jim Hagenbuch – 80 slides 2. Glass Works Auctions, Part II Courtesy of Jim Hagenbuch – 80 slides 3. Glass Works Auctions, Part III Courtesy of Jim Hagenbuch – 80 slides (Items 1 – 3 show all of the colored pictures that appeared in the earlier auctions of the Glass Works Auctions. They demonstrate a nice array of bottles and glass items.)

4. The Judge MacKenzie Bottle Collection, Part I Courtesy of Norman Heckler & Co. – 30 slides 5. The Judge MacKenzie Bottle Collection, Part II Courtesy of Norman Heckler & Co. – 30 slides (Items 4 – 5 demonstrate items from the first two auctions of the Judge MacKenzie collection. Five or more items per slide, all excellent and in color.)

6. Flasks (19 half-pints, 44 pints, 22 quarts & 13 scroll flasks) From Gail Ross and the Zanesville Bottle Club – 103 slides 7. Expo ’88 – Las Vegas, Here We Come Tells of one clubs trip to the 1988 Expo in Las Vegas A number of displays pictured – 80 slides 8. Historical Flasks - plus demonstrates the numbering system for flasks included in McKearin’s book American Glass – 80 slides 9. The Bitter Past The Elvin Moody collection, now dispersed – 77 slides 10. William E Covill ink collection Slides from the preparation of his book – 63 slides 11. Food bottles The Elmer Lester collection – now dispersed – 40 slides 12. Traveling a New England bottle trail Shows a village from the 1790 – 1840 period including Old Sturbridge Village, Mass., bottles, molds & tools – 79 slides 13. Historical and pictorial flasks 1971 flask display at the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, Conn., and the George Austin collection, now dispersed – 109 slides 14. The Blaske collection, Dec. 1983 Pictures the flasks and early glass sold in this auction with prices realized – 60 slides 15. Kentucky and Southern Indiana bottles Pictures the best of the areas’ bottles and jugs.

Includes color slides of flasks, medicines, etc. – 80 slides 16. Fire grenade bottles Pictures colorful fire grenades of all types – 60 slides 17. Perfume, scent and cologne bottles Steigel, Sandwich and other scents in full color – 77 slides

18. Vacation ’74 with Charles Gardner Pictures Charles N. Gardner’s collection at his home in Conn.

This collection sold in two sessions in 1975 – 76.

Beautiful bottles in all categories – 65 slides 19. Expo ’96, Nashville, Tenn. auction Pictures the auction items presented in the FOHBC auction – 64 slides 20. Expo ’96, Nashville, Tenn. displays Pictures the many lovely displays at the 1996 Expo – 67 slides 21. Expo ’96, Nashville, Tenn.

Pictures of the Ohio Bottle Club trip to Nashville, the Bellar and Pennington collections, and general slides from the Expo – 65 slides (Items 19 – 21 courtesy of the Ohio Bottle Club) 22. Fruit jars Courtesy Ron Burris, Sequoia Bottle Club – 78 slides 23. Bottle fever Courtesy Sequoia Bottle Club – 80 slides 24. Happiness is a Bottle Courtesy Sequoia Bottle Club – 80 slides 25. A Parade of Bottles Courtesy Sequoia Bottle Club – 80 slides 26. New Jersey 3rd annual show Slides of members’ collections – 75 slides 27. Ohio Bottle Club 35th Show & Sale A documentation of the show in Lakeland, Ohio held September 14, 2003. Videotape format 28. 2004 Expo, Memphis Interviews with some of the dealers and presenting some of the sales items and displays at the Expo. Videotape format.

29. Author’s Forum, Memphis 2004 “Authoring Antique Bottle Books” Presentations by John Eatwell, Bill Ham, Dewey Heetderks and Jack Sullivan. This CD will assist prospective authors as they begin the process of putting their passion to print.

Guidelines for use: Rental fee per program is $15.00. Renting party is responsible for return shipping cost. All slide programs are in Kodak carousels and require a projector for viewing. Please do not open the carousels to change the order of the slides, etc. We require that the carousels carry $100.00 insurance coverage when returned. If the carousel is uninsured and lost or damaged, the renting party is responsible for reimbursing the FOHBC $1.00 per slide. Please request your program with adequate time allowed for shipping. Promptly return the slides when finished so that others may use them.

To rent one of the programs, please contact James Berry. 200 Ft. Watershed Rd., St. Johnsville, NY 13452; Ph: (518) 568-5683; Email: jhberry10@yahoo.com. Make checks payable to FOHBC.

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FOHBc 2008 yORk expO BOttle SHOw AuguSt 8 - 10, 2008 cOnventiOn diRectOR’S RepORt Over 4500 contracts were sent out in a mass mailing on March 1st. I did not have time to contact all of the clubs in the Eastern region for their dealer lists, so several potential dealers were not sent a contract. We do not want to miss anyone! If you have not received a contract, please contact me immediately and I will get one out to you. You can also print a copy of the contract from our FOHBC website www.FOHBC.com. Simply click on the York Expo link and look for the nine contract pages (the actual contract that you mail consists of two pages). If you are planning on setting up, you will need to get your contract in quickly. Several dealers have requested to sit by friends that have not sent in their contracts. I would suggest that you contact any friends intending to setup and remind them to act now!

Table assignments are based upon the contract receive date. The earliest entries will have the best locations.

Contracts have been coming in at a fast pace. The Toyota Arena will hold approximately 620 dealer tables and 40 display tables. As of April 12, 2008 the show is already 40% sold out! At this rate, the show will sell out around mid-June. As the word gets out that the show is filling up, it could sell out sooner. Wall space is going fast, but is still available. As a reminder, all contracts must be received by June 30th to be included in the souvenir program dealer’s list. We already have dealers from 32 states, Australia, Canada, England, Germany and New Zealand!

Important Schedule Change: We currently have 17 specialty meetings and seminars for Friday morning. Due to the overwhelming response, the seminars and specialty meetings will be starting Friday morning at 8 AM instead of 9AM. We will be allowing the dealers and displayers in at 7 AM (instead of 8 AM) Friday morning to unload their merchandise and setup their displays. We can still accommodate a few more meetings or seminars. Contact myself or Carl Sturm at (407) 332-7689 if you are interested.

Please consider advertising in our souvenir program. It is a great way for you to introduce yourself to other collectors that are not reached by other mediums. The souvenir program is given out to all dealers, displayers, buyers, and advertisers. The advertising money helps pay for the souvenir program and allows the FOHBC to keep table and admission prices down. The deadline for all advertising is 06/30/08. Following is the contact information.

West Region: Richard Siri (707) 542-6438 RTSiri@sbcglobal.net Cary955@gmail.com Midwest Region: Cary Adelman (773) 327-6075 East Region: Dick Watson (856) 983-1364 CRWatsonNJ@verizon.net For layout support contact June Lowry (816) 318-0160 or Kathy Hopson-Sathe (423) 737-6710.

The FOHBC awards banquet will be held at the Yorktowne Hotel. We already have 104 reservations. Maximum capacity is approximately 250. At this rate, it will also be a sellout. It is an “all you can eat” buffet and is being prepared by a two time Iron Chef award winner for the state of Pennsylvania. The speaker has not been selected. We currently have three great possibilities!!! Stay tuned. You do not need to be a member to attend! There will be a $500 raffle drawing to be spent at the show for one lucky attendee as well as several other drawings..

We currently have 17 quality displays and have space for several more. Please contact myself or Jere Hambleton at (717) 393-5175 if you would be willing to share your collection with us. This is always a highlight of the show.

The auction will be a live called auction called by Norm Heckler. Randy Driskill and Dave Maryo of BottleAuction.com will be the coordinators responsible accepting consignments and writing the catalog descriptions. All lots will be featured online for a prebidding session on the internet from July 26th to August 2nd at www.BottleAuction.com. . There will be no internet bidding during the live auction. An auctioneer assistant will be executing the top online absentee/blind bids from the floor. Catalogs will be available online or can be purchased via mail or phone. Consignment space is limited to approximately 75 quality lots. For more details and consignment submissions contact Randy at (760) 415-6549.

The Yorktowne hotel (our host) is already very close to sold out. There is not a hotel at the Toyota Arena. Several other hotels are listed on the contract pages. The York tourism bureau is providing a free shuttle service to and from the show for all hotels listed in the contract pages.. Reservations should be made through the tourism bureau at (717) 852-9675.

The first mass mailing of confirmations will be sent out by May 1st. If you do not receive one, contact me immediately to ensure that I have received your contract. Table assignments will not be made until the latter part of June in order to accommodate all special requests.

For all of the latest developments on the show, keep checking our website at www.FOHBC.com.

Hope to see you there. We are putting on a show for you!!!

Sincerely, R. Wayne Lowry, FOHBC Convention Director JarDoctor@aol.com - 401 Johnston Ct., Raymore, MO 64083 - (816) 318-0161

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FOHBC EXPO 2008 AUGUST 8-10 YORK, PENNSYLVANIA 600-800 tables capacity for the largest EXPO ever!

Plan to be there - donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss it!

Contracts also available for download online at: www.fohbc.com

AUCTION CONSIGNMENTS are being accepted.

Also sign up for SEMINARS and specialty meetings.

Contact R. WAYNE LOWRY 401 Johnston Ct., Raymore, MO 64083 (816) 318-0161 JarDoctor@aol.com

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by Mike Dickman The early bird gets the worm!

As with many folk adages, there is a great deal of truth in that one, as you are about to see: First, let’s set the stage for our tale of the early bird. We start with a very rare and desirable poison bottle, the KC-114, which I previously wrote about in Bottles and Extras (Vol. 14, No. 3). There are less than half a dozen KC-114s known, in two different sizes: 4 1/8" high and 5 ½: high.

All of the known examples were handblown into a mold and made from clear glass. In addition to their unique molded skull face on the obverse, all of the KC114s have the phrase, “Patd June 8, 1875” embossed on their base, but no other written embossing is on the bottles. The recently published American Poison Bottle Work Book and Price Guide estimates the value of a clear glass KC-114 as between $10,000 and $12,000, based upon the reported sales price of the most recent one sold.

Interestingly, all of the known examples to date have come out of Pennsylvania, including two of the 4 1 / 8 " KC-114s discovered by one lucky fellow at a Pennsylvania flea market.1 Suddenly, in the summer of 2006, there appeared on eBay a cobalt example of KC114, in the 4 1/8" size. It had the identical base embossing and was described to be in “excellent” condition apart from a tiny flake on the lip. It was listed by an eBay trading assistant located in Pennsylvania at a starting bid of $9.99 plus postage. (Trading assistants are essentially consignees authorized by eBay to sell other people’s goods on eBay, typically charging the consignor a small fee plus a percentage of the final sales price.) Not surprisingly, the bidding on this unique cobalt KC-114 started heating up from the get-go.

The Trading Assistant contracted several members of the Antique Poison Bottle Collectors Association – including this author, apparently obtaining my e-mail address from the club website – to inquire about the rarity and potential value of the bottle. He related that the bottle was dug from a Pennsylvania dump fifteen or so

Bottles and Extras feared he had not been such an early bird after all, because upon opening, the store’s employee told him the trading assistant was already gone on his way to a well-known antique bottle auction house in Pennsylvania. At Mr. X’s request, however, the employee called the trading assistant on his cell phone and he and Mr. X spoke at length while the former continued driving towards his destination.

Presumably, the cobalt gem was going to be consigned to public auction.

Mr. X and the trading assistant chatted amicably about the bottle and its history, rarity and value as the trading assistant drove. Mr. X was not pushy and decided in his own mind that he was not likely to acquire the bottle, notwithstanding his early rising. But that was okay with him. The two men said their goodbyes and Mr. X decided to have some breakfast before heading home. As he left the store and began walking across the street, however, the employee called him back. The trading assistant was on the phone again and wanted to talk to him. Again, the two men conversed for a while and the trading assistant felt out Mr. X as to the seriousness of his interest in the cobalt KC-114.

Perhaps it was the revelation that Mr. X was an early bird who had arisen in the dark, early hours of the pre-dawn morning

years earlier by an elderly local woman and her late husband, and that it had sat on her mantle until that fateful day in 2006 when she brought the bottle – carrying it in her pocketbook! – to the trading assistant. She said she’d be pleased to get $100 for the strange bottle, but the trading assistant had responded that they would be lucky to get $10. He listed it accordingly. To his, and his consignor’s, surprise, however, spirited and relentless bidding quickly pushed the price close to $3,000 by the end of the second day of the 7-day listing.

One of the bidders was Mr. X, a FOHBC member who wishes to remain anonymous.

By bidding, Mr. X was able to obtain the email address of the trading assistant and subsequently his phone number and physical address of his business. Mr. X decided he wanted to buy the bottle, but, knowing it would likely prove to be an expensive purchase, also decided that he needed to (in his words) “touch it, feel it, bite it” before he bought it.

Therefore, Mr. X became an early bird. Rising at about 3 o’clock a.m. on the third day after the listing first appeared, and leaving his pleasant abode at 4 a.m., Mr. X drove to the trading assistant’s store in order to arrive at its 9 a.m. opening. By then, the trading assistant had terminated the eBay listing and was fielding a constant stream of phone calls from interested buyers including, it is reported, the The unique cobalt KC-114 poison bottle dug in a Pennsylvania Sotheby’s auction dump and sold for the price of a new car. The design was house in New York patented on June 8, 1875, according to the base embossing, City. In fact, when making it one of the earliest American poison bottles.

Mr. X arrived, he

Bottles and Extras to make the drive, but for whatever reason, the trading assistant suddenly announced that he was turning around and driving back to the store. Would Mr. X wait for him? Of course he would, replied Mr. X, and so he did.

When the trading assistant returned, he showed the bottle to Mr. X, who examined it with a magnifying glass, looked at it under a black light and took it out to the sunshine to look at it more. The cobalt KC114 had good, honest base wear, some dust and spider webs inside from its many years of sitting on the mantle. The flake was inconsequential: two centimeters long, at most. The two men went to a restaurant and spent the next few hours talking, while the seller fielded phone call after phone call about the bottle. Finally, Mr. X made his first – and best – offer, and the trading assistant said, “It’s a deal!” They shook

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hands and made arrangements for payment.

The price? Your author is bound not to say, other than it was five figures and somewhat more than the author and his wife recently paid for a fully loaded 2008 Honda Civic.

However, there are literally millions of Honda Civics in the world – but there is just one cobalt KC-114.

The author does not know whether Mr. X actually bit the bottle before making his offer, but in the end, the early bird got the worm.

References: Kuhn, Rudy. Poison Bottle Workbook, Volumes I and II (privately published), and unpublished Volume III. Mr. Kuhn’s standardized numbering system for poison bottles was explained in an earlier “Poisonland” column. (Bottles and Extras, Volume 14, No. 3)

Less than half a dozen of the clear glass KC-114s are known, all found in various parts of Pennsylvania.

American Poison Bottle Work Book and Price Guide, published by the Antique Poison Bottle Collectors Association (APBCA).

A version of this article previously appeared in the quarterly Poison Bottle Newsletter, which is published by the APBCA. Dues are $18 per year. For more information, contact Joan Cabaniss, Secretary/Editor, 312 Summer Ln., Huddleston, VA 24104.

Mike Dickman P.O. Box 549 Santa Fe, NM 87504 (505) 983-7043 1

In my previous article, I mistakenly wrote that KC-114s have ground-glass stoppers, based on a photograph I had viewed. However, I have since learned that the stopper I observed was placed there by its owner and is not original to the bottle.

The KC-114s were not, in fact, made with ground mouths or stoppers.

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Happiness for this collector is pursuing Gay-Ola bottles

By Bill Baab Randy Kiger admits to sometimes getting strange looks during his search for Gay-Ola bottles, but the North Carolina collector just shrugs them off.

Back in the early 1900s when the GayOla Bottling Co., was organized, the term “gay” meant being happy, joyous, lighthearted, lively and merry, according to Webster’s New World Dictionary. In today’s world, however, the term is applied to homosexuals.

“I started collecting that brand of soft drink back in the 1990s because they were inexpensive,” Kiger said. “If some folks have a problem with that name, it doesn’t bother me.”

He has amassed a collection of more than 100 of the distinctively shaped bottles, most of which have four embossed “rings” or ribs encircling them. It is believed that the raised ridges helped consumers hold on to the bottles made slippery when pulled from boxes containing crushed ice.

His collection represents 81 cities and towns in 18 states with one each from only Maine (Bangor) and Missouri (Seneca).

Oddly enough, while the Carolinas,

Tennessee, Alabama and Florida are represented, there is none from Georgia.

There are multiple examples from the rest.

Gay-Ola was born as Gleeola in Birmingham, Ala., in February 1910 as a $100,000 company. But in October of that year, the firm was split into two $50,000 companies, according to researcher Dennis Smith of Buffalo, N.Y., in his self-published book, The Kola Wars: Birmingham.

Founder J.C. Wells took his Wells Cola.

Co., to Montgomery, Ala., while the other company – renamed Gay-Ola – moved to Memphis, Tenn.

Most Memphis examples are hardly among Kiger’s favorites. He considers them to be dull in appearance compared to some of the others.

On the earliest bottles, Gay-Ola is embossed in script on the shoulder, but was dropped after the company lost a suit to Coca-Cola in 1911, according to Smith.

In his book, The Original Coca-Cola Woman: Diva Brown and the Cola Wars, Smith reported that “The Coca-Cola Company took an immediate interest in the success of Gay-Ola, bringing their new

Gay-Ola fan, front.

Gay-Ola fan, back.

Randy Kiger holds a 24-ounce Gay-Ola from Madison, Ill.

competitor to court in February, 1911, on charges of trade mark infringement. The Gay-Ola Company won the initial lawsuit, but lost on appeal and was forced to change their script trade mark to block letter.”

Gay-Olas come in a wide range of colors, from aqua to bluish- and greenishaqua to clear to many shades of amber – dark chocolate to honey amber. Among the glass companies cashing in on the Gay-Ola bottlers’ trade were the D.O. Cunningham Glass Co., of Pittsburg, Pa., identifiable by its D.O.C. embossing; the Root Glass Co., of Terre Haute, Ind. (ROOT); the North Baltimore Bottle Glass Co., of North Baltimore, Ohio (N.B.B.G.CO); the American Glass Co., of Richmond, Va. (A.G.W.), and the Crown Bottling Co., of

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Muncie, Ind., which employed embossed crowns on the sides and bases of its GayOla bottles.

Two North Carolina bottles are among Kiger’s favorites and are among the earliest. An amber bottle is embossed GayOla in script and is from the Gay-Ola Bottling Works, Elk Park, N.C. That community isn’t to be found on present day maps.

The other is from Rocky Mount, N.C., which exists today, and isn’t even a GayOla. The Gay-Ola wannabe is in clear glass and embossed Drink Gay Kola (in script), It’s Better (one of Gay-Ola’s mottos), Gay Kola Co., Rocky Mount, N.C. In addition, six arrows pointed upward are embossed around the neck of the bottle, which was manufactured by the American Glass Works of Richmond, Va. It’s oddities like that and another from Summerland, S.C., now called Batesburg,

that keep Kiger’s interest from flagging.

Historian Harvey Teal of Columbia, S.C., said Summerland was an area located between Batesburg and Leesville.

“I know I haven’t found all the GayOlas that are in existence, but I just keep looking and hoping,” Kiger said. Lists of the bottles in his collection accompany this story and, if anyone has a Gay-Ola not on the list and wants to sell it, he can contact Kiger at his e-mail address of stillimsad@windstream.net, a takeoff on a 1960s song by The Yard Birds.

He started collecting old bottles at the tender age of 12 when, walking down his unpaved, rural highway after a road scraper had smoothed it, he found a Royal Crown Cola bottle stuck in the mud.

“I still have that bottle,” said the 52year-old employee of R.J. Reynolds Co. “I soon discovered flea markets and antique shops where I found more bottles and in

1982, I attended my first bottle show in Nashville, Tenn., and again in 1984 in Montgomery, Ala. I was really amazed at the selection and prices at those shows. I also check eBay listings on a regular basis.”

He didn’t stop with just Gay-Olas and has amassed huge collections of CheroColas, Mint Colas, Royal Crown and NEHI bottles and applied color label sodas, as well as North Carolina bottling works.

Ivy, his wife of 25 years, supports him and has a collection of early Barbie Dolls of her own.

Bibliography: The Original Coca-Cola Woman: Diva Brown and the Cola Wars, self-published and copyrighted 2004 by Dennis Smith, Buffalo, N.Y. (Excerpts used by permission of the author).

The Kola Wars: Birmingham, selfpublished and copyrighted 2007 by Dennis Smith, Buffalo, N.Y. (Excerpts used by permission of the author).

Gay-Ola Bottles in Randy Kiger Collection NOTE: Not all Memphis, Tenn. varieties listed. Most have Gay-Ola in script or block letters on shoulder. They are identified in the list.

16. 4-ring aqua Lilly Ice & Bottling Works, Pemberton, W. Va. 17. 4-ring clear Gay-Ola Bottling Works, Belzoni, Miss. M.D.V. on base.

18. Clear Gay-Ola Bottling Works in script.

M.D.V. on base.

19. Amber slug plate Gay-Ola in script, Eagle Soda Water Co., Pittsburg (no “h”), Pa. REGISTERED This Bottle Not To Be Sold (TBNTBS). D.O.C. 1176 on side near bottom.

20. Crab Orchard (in script) PRODUCTS ARE BETTER (block letters), Crab Orchard, Ky. Property of Crab Orchard Bottling Co. C.O. on base. Could be a GayOla bottle.

21. Aqua double-outline lettering, Gay-Ola in script. IT’S BETTER. TRADE MARK REGISTERED. Product of the Gay-Ola Bottling Co., Greenville, Ala. around lower sides. T-1 on base.

22. Same as above, except Huntsville, Ala. 23. Clear Gay-Ola, Gay-Ola Bottling Co., Talladega, Ala. 24. Clear Gay-Ola, Gay-Ola Bottling Co., Arkansas Fruit Cider Co., England, Ark., T-2 on base.

25. Clear Trade / Gay-Ola / Mark / REGISTERED / Summerland, S.C. Numeral 8 on base. Town name is now Batesburg.

26. 4-ring aqua John Forthoffer Bottling Works, Mt. Vernon, Ind. GAY-OLA on base. 32LP (Graham Glass Co.) Reg. 7 oz.

27. Glacier Bottling Works, Shelbyville, Ky. Gay-Ola on back. G on base.

28. 4-ring amber 6-1/2 Fl. Oz. / Gay-Ola

Bottling Works, Huntsville, Ala. G on base..

29. Amber Gay-Ola / IT”S BETTER / TRADE MARK REGISTERED / Property of Gay-Ola Bottling Co., Huntsville, Ala. This Bottle Not Sold. Small C in a diamond on base.

30. Aqua Gay-Ola / TRADE MARK REGISTERED / IT’S BETTER / W.M.D. & Son / Sullivan, Ind. Return This Bottle.

(Could be ROOT Glass Co.) 31. The Sand Rock Mineral Water Co., Canton, Ohio. On back: Gay-Ola, It’s Better. Reg. U.S. Patent Off. 32. Amber Gay-Ola (in script). It’s Better.

Reg. U.S. Patent Office. The Gay-Ola Bottling Works, Elk Park, N.C. Gay-Ola on base.

33. 4-ring clear Warsaw Bottling Co., Warsaw, N.C. Gay-Ola (in script). Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. The Improved Cola. A.G.W. 228 on base. American Glass Works, Richmond, Va. 34. Clear Gay-Ola in script. It’s Better. 7 Oz. Jacksonville Gay-Ola Bottling C o. (no state, but it’s Florida) TBNS. Fancy G on base.

35. REGISTERED . C. Muller & Co. / GayOla in script / Jacksonville, Fla.. TBNS And Must Be Returned, 23 on base.

36. Amber Corbin Ice & Carbonating Co., Inc. / Corbin, Ky. Gay-Ola near base.

ROOT on base and on the side near the bottom.

37. Amber Gay-Ola / It’s Better. Property of / Diamond / Bottling Works / Coal Creek, Tenn. TBNS. Fancy G on base.

38. Aqua Drink / Gay-Ola / Refreshes,

1. 4-ring aqua Harriman Bottling Works, Harriman, Tenn.

2. 4-ring amber Jackson Bottling Works, Jackson, Tenn.

3. 4-ring aqua Martin Bottling Works, Martin, Tenn.

4. 4-ring aqua Gallatin Bottling Works, Gallatin, Tenn.

5. 4-ring aqua Oneida Bottling Co., Oneida, Tenn. Patented 12/18/17.

6. 4-ring amber G.B. Co., of Shelbyville & Winchester, Tenn.

7. 4-ring clear slug plate Shelbyville & Winchester.

8. 4-ring clear Wytheville Bottling Co., Wytheville, Va. 9. 4-ring blue-aqua Wytheville Bottling Co., Wytheville, Va. 10.4-ring green-aqua Wytheville Bottling Co.,Wytheville, Va. 11. Clear Gay-Ola (on shoulder), Steiniger Bros., Wheeling, W. Va. 12. 4-ring aqua Fayette Bottle & Ice Co., Montgomery, W. Va. 13. 4-ring clear Fargo Mineral Springs Co., Ashtabula & Conneaut, Ohio.

14. 4-ring aqua Fargo Mineral Springs Co., Ashtabula & Conneaut, Ohio.

15. 3-ring Fargo Grape Co., Conneaut, Ohio. Gay-Ola go-with.

30 Invigorates. People’s Ice & Mfg. Co., (No city). 287 in diamond on base. 4 rings stop for label space. Trade / Gay-Ola in script / Mark. Registered. Net Contents 7 oz.

Charleston, S.C. 39. Clear Trade / Gay-Ola / Mark / REGISTERED. No town name. 8 on base.

40. Aqua The Gay-Ola Co., Owensboro, Ky. (all in script). REGISTERED. 41. 4-ring aqua Gay-Ola / Hopkinsville Bottling Works, Hopkinsville, Ky. 7 FLUID OZ. Gay-Ola on base.

42. 4-ring aqua Gay-Ola (block lettering) / Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. / Adams-Wilson Co. Clarksville, Tenn. Gay-Ola on base.

43. 4-ring amber, same as above.

44. 4-ring dark amber Indiana Bottling / Works / Indiana, Pa. The Improved Cola. I on base.

45. 4-ring aqua Hickman Bottling Works / Hickman, Ky. Cap. 7 OZ, Gay-Ola (block letters). Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. 46. 4-ring aqua Gay-Ola (block letters) Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. The Improved Cola. Gay-Ola Bottling Co. / 6-1/2 Fluid Ounces. Madison, Ill. Gay-Ola, 19S1 on base.

47. Amber Homer City Bottling Works, Homer City, Pa. Net Contents 7 Fl. Oz. 48. 4-ring aqua Gay-Ola (block letters) / Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.. / The Improved Cola / Oxford Bottling Works, Oxford, Miss. 0 in square on base.

49. 4-ring aqua Gay-Ola (block letters) / Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. / The Delta Mfg. Co. / Greenville, Miss. Gay-Ola on base.

50. 4-ring aqua Gay-Ola (block letters) / Durant / Bottling Works / Durant, Miss 61/2 Fl. Oz. on shoulder / Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. 51. Clear Drink Gay Kola / It’s Better / Gay Kola Co., in script / Rocky Mount, N.C. 6 upward-pointing arrows around shoulder.

A,G.W. 116-1 on base. A Gay-Ola wannabe.

52. 4-ring aqua Gay-Ola (block letters) / The Improved Cola Fancy S intertwined around B and W. Woodlawn, Pa. Contents 7 Fluid Ozs. 5-pointed small star on base.

D.O.C. S 5-1 on side near bottom.

53. 4-ring clear Gay-Ola (block lettering) / Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. / The Improved Cola.

Wurzburger / Ginger Ale Co. / Portsmouth, Va. A.G.W. 228 on base.

54. 4-ring clear Berkley Bottling Works / Capacity 7 Fluid Ounces / Berkley, Va. A.G.W. 228 on base.

55. 4-ring aqua Gay-Ola (block letters) / The Improved Cola Fordyce / Bottling / Works / Fordyce, Ark. Fordyce on base.

56. Aqua Gay-Ola (in script) . Trade Mark Registered / Vicksburg Bottling Co. / Vicksburg, Miss. V on base.

May-June 2008 57. Clear Gay-Ola (script) / Registered / Spartanburg, S.C. 8 on base.

58. Clear Gay-Ola (script) / Columbia, S.C. 8 on base.

59. Same as above except Orangeburg, S.C. 60. Clear Gay-Ola (script) / It’s Better / Trade Mark Registered. Spartanburg, South Carolina (all in script) T-2 on base.

61. 4-ring clear Gay-Ola (block letters) / 6-1/2 Fl. Oz. on shoulder / Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. Gay-Ola Co. / McMinnville, Tenn. G on base.

62. Amber J.C. Menhardt & Co. / Cincinnati, Ohio Gay-Ola in small script.

ROOT on base.

63. Aqua Gay-Ola in script on side / It’s Better / Trade Mark Registered. The Olney Bottling Works, Olney, Ill. T-2 on base.

64. 4-ring aqua Gay-Ola (block letters) / The Improved Cola / Q. Vonderheide / Batesville, Ind./ 7 Oz. ROOT on side near bottom.

65. Amber Gay-Ola (script) / It’s Better / Property of / Gay-Ola / Bottling Co. of Memphis / TBNS. Fancy G on base. One of several variants.

66. Aqua Gay-Ola (block letters) / The Improved Cola / Columbia, S.C. 67. Amber Gay-Ola (script) / Newport Bottling Works / Newport Tenn. Large C inside a diamond on base.

68. Amber tall Gay-Ola on base. Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. The Improved Cola. Coral Bottling Works, Coral, Pa. 69. Aqua Gay-Ola in script / Southern Phosphate Co. / Columbus, Miss. Never Sold / Return When Empty. B on base.

70. 4-ring aqua Gay-Ola (block letters) / Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. / Crystal Ice Cream & Bottling Works / Tupelo, Miss. ROOT on side near bottom. Gay-Ola on base.

71. Aqua Gay-Ola (in script) / It’s Better /

Circa 1900 pocket mirror / watch fob, “Drink Gay-Ola, sold on eBay for $191.

Bottles and Extras Trade Mark Registered / Property of the Gay-Ola Bottling Co., Brookhaven, Miss.

72. Clear Glacier Bottling Works / Shelbyville, Ky. G on base.

73. Aqua Crown Bottling Co.. / Gay-Ola (block letters) / Contents / “Crown” / 7 Fl. Oz. / Muncie, Ind. Embossed crown on base.

74. 4-ring aqua Gay-Ola (block letters) / Bottle Pat’d. Dec. 18, 1917 / 6-1/2 Fl. Oz. / The Improved Cola / Dixie Bottling Co. / Clarendon, Ark. Chatt. on side near bottom.

Small g inside 5-pointed star on base.

75. Greenish-aqua, Drink Gay-Ola (in script) / It’s Better / Shubuta Bottling Works / Shubuta, Miss. C.G. Co. 73 on side near bottom.

76. 4-ring clear Gay-Ola (block letters) / Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. / The Improved Cola / Lumberton, N.C. 77. Clear Trade / Gay-Ola / Mark / Registered / Bushnell Bottling Works, Bushnell, Fla. 78. 4-ring amber Gay-Ola (block letters) / Reg. U.S. pat. Off. / The Improved Cola / Canonsburg / Bottling & / Ice Cream / Works / Canonsburg, Pa. Contents 7 Fl. Ozs. S on base. D.O.C. 65-1 on side near bottom.

79. 4-ring aqua, same as above.

80. 4-ring aqua Gay-Ola (block letters) / The Improved Cola / Chas. Krzykwa Jr. / Shamokin, Pa. / Contents 7 Fl. Ozs. D.O.C. on side near bottom.

81. Aqua Gay-Ola (block letters) / The Improved Cola / Junior Soft Drink Co. / Dover O. JR on base.

82. 4-ring amber Gay-Ola (block letters) / Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. / The Improved Cola. P. Voelker / Registered / Cleveland, O. 4 on base.

83. 4-ring aqua Gay-Ola (block letters) / Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. / Bottled Pat’d. Dec. 18, 1917. Mound Bayou Bottling Works / Mound Bayou, Miss. G in 5-point star on base.

84. Same as above except Gay-Ola on base.

85. 4-ring aqua Gay-Ola (block letters) / Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. / The Improved Cola.

Akron Bottling Works / Cap. / Akron, O. / 7 Oz. / Property. G.R. on base.

86. Same as above, except clear.

87. 4-ring amber Gay-Ola (block letters) / Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. / The Improved Cola.

Mont Hall / Seneca, Mo. 88. 4-ring aqua Gay-Ola (block letters) / Registered / The Improved Cola. Gay-Ola Bottling Works / J.C. Wiesner / Proprietor / 7 Oz. / Hagerstown, Md. D.O.C. Continued to page 38.

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Forgotton or Ignored History Rediscovered and Presented Bottle Collecting in the Canal Zone Isthmus of Panama in 1968

By Cecil Munsey The organized hobby of collecting bottles began in Sacramento, California in 1959 with the establishment of the Antique Bottle Collectors Association (ABCA).

One of the first places outside the continental United States, where people became early adopters of the then curious activities of searching, finding and collecting old bottles, was in the Americanoccupied Isthmus of Panama where North and South America are connected.

An unknown newspaper writer presents a rare glimpse into those early days of bottle collecting in Panama in the following article from the May 1968 issue of The Panama Canal Review: â&#x20AC;&#x153;BOTTLE BUFFS READ HISTORY IN OLD GLASSâ&#x20AC;?

The clink of a spade striking glass is music to the ear of the bottle buff digging in hard ground. Carefully, diligently, and expectantly, he digs away not to break or mar the object which may be a rare specimen - or just another piece of broken glass. Searching for bottles which are no longer in use can be great fun and working toward a collection, an absorbing and satisfying hobby.

More than a dozen bottle enthusiasts in the Canal Zone pursue this fascinating activity. They are unsung historians who, by piecing together bits of information on bottles, are digging out facts about different areas and eras of culture. They have the fun of buying and selling or swapping their loot which may have come from the dump!

Bottle collecting is becoming more and more popular in the historically colorful Isthmus where Spanish, English and French pirates trod the trail from the Chagres River to Panama City. Years later, the 49ers used the same route to go from New York to the gold fields of California.

Many tossed their empties of whisky in the brush after quenching a tropical thirst.

Later still, thousands of construction workers on the Canal added their depleted bottles of bitters, whiskey and patent medicines to the debris on the Isthmus.

Much of this accumulation, bottles which were not broken or pulverized, plus bottles which once contained food, cosmetics, and

household liquids, now lie half buried in the jungle, in the sea, in old dumps and anywhere that man paused to feed himself and administer to his ailments.

Collectors rummaging for these early day bottles on the Las Cruces trail have found hand-blown bottles dating back to the 1860s, and flaws and colors of several finds indicate much older bottles. Very often they pick up pieces, necks and bottoms with blob seals. Finding one of these often gets a person hooked on bottles. More fortunate collectors have found valuable coins without too much effort.

Bottle collecting on the Isthmus does not involve a great deal of back-breaking digging. On weekends, collectors may be found scavenging old dumps, uncovering jungle growths and even donning scuba diving gear to search in the ocean. Remains of the original 25 Canal construction townsites are the most fertile grounds and have exposed many rare old bottles. Areas such as Gorgona, Culebra, Matachin, San Pablo, Las Cascadas, Lion Hill, Nombre de Dios and many other canal construction sites once inhabited by workers have left a legacy of beautiful black glass, clay, stoneware, aquamarine and other crudely made bottles. They have been found under sidewalks, beneath fallen tree trunks, in the water and in old bottle dumps. A collector knows that pieces of broken glass glistening in the distance my be the key to an old dump and a depression near an old building may have been a garbage dump and yield rare old bottles.

Taboga Island with its historic past has rewarded collectors with perhaps the most valuable specimens in terms of years. As far back as the 16th century, Taboga and its surrounding islands supplied provisions for Panama City. Galleons for the conquest of Peru were built here and these same ships, laden with gold treasures, stopped here where the riches were unloaded for an overland trip to the Atlantic coast of the Isthmus and from there on to Spain aboard ship.

Later, Taboga harbor was a hive of activities offering snug mooring, fresh water and supplies for vessels plying the Pacific. Ships from many nations stopped

at the Pacific Mail Steamship Company coal houses and machine shop and took on or deposited Welsh coal and bottles of medicine potions (some made by a Scotchwoman there). Canal Zone bottle collectors diving in Taboga Bay bring up these bottle of medicine potions, compounds of castor oil, soda water and whisky.

The soda water bottles, called tear drops by collectors, were often used as ballast in ships from England and Scotland. Several of these, filled with dirt, marine life and bearing barnacles are now in the possession of Canal Zone collectors. Some of the oldest Taboga bottles have been found by scuba diver collector Sgt. Dion Daugherty.

One of the finest specimens has been found by shell collector Elizabeth Ballerini (wife of a Gorgas Hospital doctor) on Kobbe Beach across from Taboga.

On the Atlantic side, bottle collectors Luke Palumbo and Jim Collins search for old bottles out toward Fort Sherman and San Lorenzo. Palumboâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collection contains several handblown bottles, black glass square bottles, inkwells and a variety of medicine containers. Bottle collecting is a family project with the Collins family which includes five children - all avid collectors. Their collection of approximately 300 specimens includes bottles and inkwells from many parts of the world. Of particular interest are several one-gallon moonshine jugs from Jamaica, France and the United States and medicine bottles which are embossed with porcelain.

Several bottles date prior to 1849, probably 1830s and early 40s and some bottles Collins dug in a village, which according to maps, dated back to 1763.

One of the first Canal Zone collectors was Adrien Bouche, member of a wellknown Canal Zone family, who began digging about 20 years ago when bottle collecting was little known on the Isthmus.

His collection, relatively small in number, is compensated by the high quality of his selections. Bouche believes that the most valuable bottles come from deep in the ground and that is where most of his come from - the old townsite dumps at Gorgona, La Pita, the Las Cruces trail and the sites

32 of towns in existence before canal construction days.

A Chinese rice vinegar jug and two lovely Chinese bottles which look like vases, and probably contained wine, are outstanding in the collection. These bottles may be an indication that Chinese had once established themselves as merchants of food in these areas. Several old beer bottles he found in La Pita (a signal station on the Cut), labeled Drew’s Doppell Kronenbier, are the only ones of this type to be found in the Isthmus. Perhaps a La Pita resident had a particular fondness for that German brew and imported it for his exclusive drinking pleasure.

A handblown bottle he picked up in Boquete showing the whittle marks of a wooden mold is truly a collector’s treasure.

Two dog bottles (having pictures of dogs) Bouche picked up in a drainage ditch excavation in Bocas del Toro, marked JJW Peters, one with a dog’s head and the other plain, are more than 100 years old.

In digging up these relics, Bouche has exposed such articles as old wood and coal burning stoves, grates, coins, iron beds, springs, high-button shoes, spittoons, clay pipes and any other objects of a bygone era.

Some of the bottles found in the entanglement of these articles have a film over the glass caused by the action of water seepage on the old imperfect glass. The glazed clay bottles he has found buried deep in the earth have an etching caused by alkaline substances which has worked on the clay over many years.

It is apparent that a large number of clay bottles (some made by Doulton)

May-June 2008 reached the Isthmus from England and Scotland. They are the most common bottles found in the Canal Zone collections.

These hardy empties were used (upside down) to outline graves and gardens. Their ruggedness is responsible for their surviving the ravages of time.

Frank Robinson, who is with the Hydrology Section of the Interoceanic Canal Studies, and his brother John, who began collecting in 1950, are among the early Canal Zone bottle buffs. Their parents also were Canal Zone bottle collectors before them. Frank Robinsons’s collection includes a variety of magnificent case bottles, the very dark bottles whose square shape allowed 12 bottles to be packed in a case. The elegant large bottles contained gin from Holland. Among his outstanding and beautiful case bottles is one picked up by a friend at an old abandoned tin mine in Australia.

James Fulton, a newcomer among the bottle collectors, has amassed a collection of approximately 1,500 specimens in about a year of bottle hunting. His most recent acquisition is a lovely demijohn found in the Interior of Panama which could be 150 years old. His large collection consists of every variety of bottle on the Isthmus.

There are clay beers, taper gins, bitters, cosmetics, Paraiso Springs Coca-Cola, wines, black glass, blue medicine, inks and many others. His favorite is the square Aromatic Schnappes bottle from Holland.

Fulton has found most of his bottles along the Canal and not more then two inches below the ground.

J.P. McLaren, chief of the Sanitation

Bottles and Extras Division and an enthusiastic collector, is currently displaying a bottle collection at the Canal Zone Library Museum. His remarkable collection of approximately 500 quality bottles includes beverages, household and patent medicine bottles from many parts of the world -the U.S., the Caribbean, many European countries and from as far off as India. He points out Canal Zone bottles which are collectors’ items simply because they are bottles of this area.

One of the oldest is a Niagara bottle embossed with the names J.E.Dumcombe, Canal Zone, R.P., and I.L. Maduro, Canal Zone, which contained soda water, lemonade and other sweetened carbonated beverages and has a marble in its pinched top to let out a jigger at a time. The same bottle has been found embossed “Isthmian Aerated Water Factory, Colon” showing the wide usage of all bottles for different beverages. Medicine bottles in the MacLaren collection bear such names as Pink Pills for Pale People, Lydia Pinkham’s; Blood Purifier, Benjamin’s Lung Balm, Davis’ Vegetable Pain Killer, Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy and Morse’s Indian Root Pills.

It is interesting to note that the patent medicine habit was a serious and dangerous one in the United States at the turn of the century. A mother who gave her child a dose of Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup was actually doping the child to sleep with opium! When our grandmothers nipped a bottle of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral for their colds, they were drinking a mixture of 34 percent heroin! A large number of these products found their way to the Canal Zone.

Bottles and Extras Bottle collectors usually classify their bottles according to the contents they once contained. Bottles for beverages probably have the most extensive assortment with bitters bottles taking the lead. When a stiff tax on the sale of gin and the number of pubs that went into effect in England, a surprising number of apothecary shops came into existence selling medicinal gin to help cure the ailments of the day. The practice carried across the Atlantic to the United States and a new product, bitters, was born and became very popular. More than 400 kinds of bitters were put on the market to relieve the aches, pains and thirst of our ancestors who enjoyed their liquor under the guise of cure-alls. Many of these are found in the Canal Zone bottle collections.

May-June 2008 Dating a bottle and getting the facts of a find may involve considerable research such as writing to companies, researching lists of businesses which have been inactive for many years and contacting other bottle collectors. The actual value of a bottle is not necessarily determined by age. A collector may be interested in embossed bottles, bottles of a certain age, color, shape or height, bottles of a particular method of manufacture or other categories according to his whims. Collectors know that bottles made from earliest times to about 1860 were free blown, made by a glassblower who dipped the end of his blowpipe into a pot of molten glass and the size and shape of the bottle was determined by blowing and reheating the bubble at the end of the blowpipe. The worker cut the glass from

33 the blowpipe leaving a rough scar referred to as a pontil mark. This mark is the surest sign of a valuable collectable bottle. Free blown bottles were never alike. They were often lopsided, had uneven walls and crudely applied lips, as the lip was applied after the bottle was shaped. Another sure sign of a very old bottle is a “sheared lip” (before 1840). The lip was formed by simply cutting the glass free of the blowpipe with a pair of shears, leaving the lip with a stovepipe look. After 1840, bottle makers applied a ring of glass around the sheared lip. Wooden molds were used from about 1800 to 1860. These molds were whittled from apple or maple wood and the bottles cast in these carved molds have the telltale whittle marks which collectors look for.

Continued on page 38.

Panama Canal History THE HISTORY OF the Panamanian isthmus, since Spaniards first landed on its shores in 1501, is a tale of treasure, treasure seekers and peoples exploited; of clashes among empires, nations, and cultures; of adventurers and builders; of magnificent dreams fulfilled and simple needs unmet. In the wake of Vasco Nuñez de Balboa’s torturous trek from the Atlantic to the Pacific in 1513, conquistadors seeking gold in Peru and beyond crossed the seas and recrossed with their treasures bound for Spain. The indigenous peoples who survived the diseases, massacres and enslavement of the conquest ultimately fled into the forest or across to the San Blas Islands.

Indian slaves were soon replaced by Africans.

A century before the English settled Massachusetts Bay, Panama was the crossroads and marketplace of the great Spanish Empire, the third richest colony of the New World. In the seventeenth century, however, the thriving colony fell prey to buccaneers of the growing English Empire, and Panama entered a period of decline and neglect that lasted until gold was discovered in California.

The geopolitical significance of Panama has been recognized since the early 1500s, when the Spanish monarchs considered digging a canal across the isthmus. United States interest, intensified in the 1850s by the California gold rush, resulted in the construction of a trans-isthmian railroad. In 1879, a

French company under the direction of Ferdinand de Lesseps, builder of the Suez Canal, began constructing a canal in Panama. The project fell victim to disease, faulty design and ultimately bankruptcy and was abandoned in 1889.

By the turn of the twentieth century, the United States had become convinced that a canal should be built to link the two oceans.

In addition to the geographic advantages of the isthmus, President Theodore Roosevelt was attracted by the separatist tendencies of Panama, then a department of Colombia. When Panama rebelled against Colombia in 1903, Roosevelt deployed United States naval vessels to discourage the Colombian forces and proudly claimed the role of midwife at the birth of the Republic of Panama.

Since its completion in 1914, the Panama Canal has been Panama’s economic base, and the United States presence has been the republic’s major source of frustration. The provisions of the treaty concluded in 1903 between John Hay and Philippe BunauVarilla (the Hay-BunauVarilla Treaty) granted the Canal Zone “in perpetuity” to the United States and made Panama a virtual protectorate of the United States. Relations with the United States in general, and the status of the Canal Zone in particular, long remained the overriding concerns of the formulators of Panama’s foreign policy and strongly influenced domestic politics and international relations.

Despite the negotiation of treaty

amendments in 1936 and 1955, limiting the freedom of the United States to intervene in Panama’s internal affairs, various problems between the two countries continued to generate resentment among Panamanians. Aside from the larger issue of jurisdiction over the zone—which split the country into two parts—Panamanians complained that they did not receive their fair share of the receipts from the canal, that commissaries in the zone had damaged their commercial interests, that Panamanian workers in the zone were discriminated against in economic and social matters, and that the large-scale presence of the United States military in the zone and in bases outside the zone cast a long shadow over national sovereignty.

After serious rioting in 1964 that indicated the intensity of nationalistic aspirations concerning the status of the canal, the United States agreed to enter into negotiations for a new treaty.

Meanwhile, studies relating to the construction of a new canal were undertaken. In 1971, after a four-year interlude, negotiations were renewed. In 1977, two new treaties were signed, one providing for Panamanian assumption of control over the canal in the year 2000 and the other providing for a permanent joint guarantee of the canal’s neutrality.

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A Third Round of Separating Glassware from Perfection

By Barry L. Bernas Update and Outline In the Summer 2004 issue of this magazine, I talked about a water bottle that separated. William Beach Fenn was issued a patent for it on March 30, 1897.

Examples of Mr. Fenn’s three part innovation have been found in several neck and bowl patterns. At a minimum, this distinctive piece of tableware was manufactured by three glass companies1 probably between December 1901 and October-November 1906. These firms were each located in Washington, Pennsylvania.2 A little more than a year later, the Fall 2005 edition of Bottles and Extras carried a follow up article in which more models of William B. Fenn’s detachable tableware were documented. In this version, four sizes of a Royal patterned decanter were pictured and described. The same descriptive process transpired for a Royal and Colonial syrup, a Colonial creamer, a Colonial butter dish and an unembossed scalloped flange tumbler.3 For this fourth companion piece, an assortment of jugs, cruets, squirt bottles and a rock and rye container will be presented.

Each one of these three piece specimens comes apart for easy filling and cleaning.

In addition, I want to record a recent find.

It is a Colonial patterned tumbler without a flange.4 Jugs Figure 1 shows a picture of two models in this category. The circa August-October 1903 catalog from the Perfection Glass Company titled The Evolution of Table Glass indicated this container was meant to hold water, claret or lemonade. On the left-hand side, the jug’s spherical bowl has the Royal design around its outer exterior.

Beside it on the right is the more straight lined and stylish Colonial version.

The former model was advertised in two other exterior motifs for the bottom section.

These were Imperial and Optic. See Figures 6 and 8 reported in Endnote 1 for more details. Any of the three different examples supposedly held forty-eight fluid ounces (3-pints). In the case of the latter, its vertical bowl came in a solitary size. This part of the Colonial jug could hold a half-

gallon or sixty-four ounces of liquid more or less.

When I positioned a straight edge ruler along a level but imaginary line across the top of this Royal jug, I found it had an approximate height of 9 ½ inches. Of note, this calculation was completed without a rubber sealing ring between the top and bottom sections. Its weight was figured at two pounds, four and three-fourths ounces.

As you can see in Figure 1, the top section on the left-hand example has eight flat surfaced panels joined in a side by side fashion around its outer circumference.

Also, the neck has a handle and a lip for pouring molded onto it. There was no embossing on the curved exterior vertical portion of the circular flange at the base of the top section. However, this wasn’t the case for its bottom edge. Along this underneath side, the following inscription was found – PAT D (D is smaller and elevated) MARCH 30 97 OTHERS PENDING. Turning our attention to the jug’s bowl, Figure 1

the Royal example is 4 7/8 inches tall. On the underside of its base, there is a floral design. It consists of a circle surrounded by twenty-four pointed petals. For a picture of this area, see Figure 10 (right side photograph) that appeared in the Endnote 1 reference.

On the right in Figure 1 is a picture of a jug in the Colonial motif.

This very attractive, tall and somewhat heavy piece of tableware is 10 3/8 inches in height and weighs three pounds, eleven and three-fourth ounces.

Aside from the similarities of a pouring lip, handle and overall shape, the tall top section on this specimen differs in one noticeable aspect from its paneled counterpart to the left. The prime dissimilarity is in the design on its outer surface.

Instead of eight flat surfaced exterior panels connected at their sides around the neck, the Colonial rendition has nine concave surfaced flutes with an ornate

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Figure 3

vertical separation feature between each one. In place of a single line that joined the flutes together on the paneled model, this more elaborate attribute served the same purpose of linking the overall pattern together. This visually appealing demarcation consists of two indented V-shaped vertically oriented grooves joined together at the top of their right and left angled interior sides. At the central intersection of the two Vs or along the tip of the central spine of the letter W, the normally thin line has been enhanced with cutouts, consisting of a diamond and elongated oval form. Neither the curved exterior side wall nor the bottom edge of the circular flange on the top part has any trace of embossing.

The cylindrical bowl with a Colonial motif is 5 7/ 16 inches tall. Around the outside, there are twelve concave surfaced panels joined together by the same ornate depressed W-shaped feature that was detailed in the description of the top section’s adornment.5 As you can see in the Figure 1 picture of this model, the vertical side wall of the Colonial bowl flared slightly outward as it approached the base. This decorative aspect gave the underneath segment a distinctive outer edge profile. Figure 11 in the Endnote 1 source shows just how this area was shaped. In addition, the bottom side had twenty-four indented petals arranged around a central point. Each of the four main clock directions (12, 3, 6 and 9) on this floral symbol is a leaf that is longer than its five mates contained in between in each of the four prime quadrants.

The separating jug could be used with

or without a stopper. Figure 2 has a drawing of this closing mechanism.

Cruets The late-1903 Perfection Fig. 2 Glass product catalog carried the following informational quotation about this category of Mr. Fenn’s patented ware.

“CRUETS are made in half pint sizes for oil and vinegar. In one pint sizes for catsup and salad dressing.” 6 This smaller piece of traditional tableware was made with the same Royal, Imperial or Optic designs on the spherical bowl models and the Colonial motif on the cylindrical specimen as were seen on the larger jugs. 7 In this instance, the two capacities mentioned in the excerpt held true for the former samples. However, for their Colonial cousin, the two available bottom parts came in either one-half pint or six ounce sizes Figure 3 highlights five separating cruets. Looking from the far left to the center, the three specimens with spherical bowls have either the Royal or Imperial motif molded onto their bottom half. On the right, two Colonial examples are shown.

On the extreme left in Figure 3, the nonstoppered and paneled neck example of a catsup or salad dressing Royal container is 6 3/4 inches in height and weighs fifteen and three-fourth ounces. Its capacity is one pint.

There is no embossing on the outer surface of the vertical but curved protruding downward flange at the base of the top section. However, on the bottom edge of

the same feature is the inscription: PATD. (dot under smaller and elevated D) MARCH 30-97 OTHERS PENDING. The bowl on the larger Royal patterned cruet is 3 9/16 inches in height. An inspection of its underneath segment reveals a circle with twenty pointed petals encircling it.

Right next to it on the right is a onehalf pint capacity oil and/or vinegar detachable vessel. Its stopper less height and overall weight are 5 3/ 8 inches and eleven and three-fourth ounces, respectively.

Inserted into the top of its molded pouring lip which was crafted onto the top of its paneled neck section is a vertically ribbed stopper. See the right-hand depiction in Figure 4. At the opposite end, the flange shows no trace of embossing whatsoever.8 The 2 7/8 inches tall bottom half has a Royal design embedded around its outer surface. As was the case with its larger size family member, the same floral-like symbol is on the base of this model.

In the middle in Figure 3 is a matching half pint Imperial version of a cruet. Facing forward in the photograph, the only difference between it and its counterpart to the left is the presence of embossing on the bottom edge of the flange at the base of its paneled top section. In this case, the following is marked on the underneath surface of this feature: PATD (smaller and elevated D) MARCH 30-91. Of note, the last digit in 91 was obviously a mold cutter’s error. It should have been 97.9 Continuing on to the right, the first cylindrically shaped Colonial model in Figure 3 is 5 5/8 inches in height without its vertically ribbed stopper. This 6-ounce

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Figure 5 example has a computed gross weight of fourteen and three-fourth ounces.

Unlike the elaborate Colonial pattern seen around the neck of the similarly patterned jug, the top section on this smaller edition is in the paneled style. Along the bottom edge of the protruding flange on this part is the same embossed phrase recorded for the Imperial example to the left in Figure 3.

The outer profile of the 3 inches tall bowl matches that of the jug. Likewise, the outer shape of its base and the elongated four petal floral symbol on its bottom side corresponds as well.

The far right side example in Figure 3 is a picture of an 8-ounce Colonial container. Its height less the glass stopper is 6 3/4 inches. The cruet’s weight with its closing piece installed is one pound nine ounces. You’ll notice that the stopper on this edition is different from the previous one shown. It is faceted with its top coming to a point. The left-hand edition in Figure 4 is germane.

The top section on this model carries the paneled motif around its midriff just like its shorter brother to the left. On this particular edition, embossing was found around the bottom edge of the top’s vertical and circular flange. It read: PATD (line under a smaller and elevated D) MARCH 30 97 OTHERS PENDING.10 The cylindrically shaped, 3 3/4 inches tall bowl on the right-hand in Figure 3 has the same exterior base design and bottom side flower-like insignia as the Colonial jug and Colonial six ounce cruet.

Stoppers for the Fenn patented cruets came in three shapes and two designs. Two

closures were faceted and had pointed or round topside profiles. The third had vertical ribs and came to a point at its apex.

Figure 4 has a photograph of each style of stopper.

Figure 4 Squirt Bottles Looking in The Evolution of Table Glass once more, the above category of ware was described by Perfection Glass marketers in the following way.

SQUIRT BOTTLES for bar or barbers’ use, soda water fountains, table use, Worcestershire sauce, pepper sauce, etc.

These bottles are made with a solid glass top, neck and squirt are one piece of glass, making it the most sanitary squirt bottle in the market, or made in pints for shampooing, etc.”

Squirt bottles were made in the same four bowl patterns as were the jugs and cruets. Figure 5 shows models in three of the four motifs. The only one I haven’t come across yet is the Optic model.

In addition, the Perfection pamphlet stated this kind of vessel came in both half pint and pint sizes for the Royal, Imperial and Optic bowl patterns. Additionally, the Colonial bottom was turned out with 6 and 8-ounce volumes.

Right off you’ll notice that there are two sizes, three neck lengths, one top section style and three bowl patterns depicted on

the squirt bottles in Figure 5.

Grouped by twos on the left and right are four half pint examples in either a Royal or Imperial design. Each example in the left-hand duet is about 7 5/ 16 inches in height, weighs approximately twelve ounces and has around a 4 3/4 inches long neck. Their right side brethren in the same bowl patterns have a top section that is shorter. The corresponding calculations for these specimens are height approximately 6 1/8 inches, weight around ten and onehalf ounces and a neck length of about 3 5/8 inches.11 Regardless of the length, the top part on these squirt bottles are all in the paneled style. Only one of the longer necked models has embossing on the bottom edge of the protruding flange under the annular bead. In that location, the inscription is : PATD. (dot under the smaller and elevated D) MARCH 30-97.

The spherically contoured bowls on the two left and two right side squirt bottles in Figure 5 are approximately 2 13/16 inches in height. Their bases each carry the circle surrounded by twenty petals design.

As we’ve seen in the jug and cruet sections, the Colonial version usual deviated slightly from the norms tabulated for the spherical based specimens. This fact continued to hold true under this heading as well. The example in Figure 5 is 8 1/4 inches tall, weighs one pound eight and one-fourth ounces and has a stoutly molded neck that is 4 11/16 inches in height.

Instead of the Colonial motif around the outer top section, this edition is equipped with the paneled style. At the base of the neck, the vertically curved exterior side wall on the protruding flange has the following

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embossing on it – PATD. (dot under the smaller and elevated D) MARCH 30-97 (dot). The bottom edge of the same feature is unembossed.

The cylindrical bottom on the middle bottle in Figure 5 is 3 3/4 inches in height.

Capable of holding one-half pint of liquid, it has the same outer profile, base outline and elongated twenty-four petal insignia that was witnessed on the other Colonial models in this article.

Rock and Rye Bottle Here is what the drafter of the circa late1903 Perfection Glass product catalog had to say about this particular back bar style of bottle.

“ROCK AND RYE BOTTLES. Rock Candy can be placed whole in the bowl: made in quarts and three pints, with handsome nickel cap. The only perfect bottle manufactured for this purpose.”

As noted in the above endorsement, this distinctive model was able to be purchased with a capacity of either two or three pints.

Unlike other specimens in the Perfection line of separating ware, it was only marketed in the Imperial and Optic patterns.

On the left in Figure 6, there is an extract of a rock and rye bottle and cap in the Imperial design from The Evolution of Table Glass. To the right, an actual production example is shown, regrettably, without its metal cover.

The two pint edition on the right-hand is 8 7/16 inches tall. It weighs one pound, nine and one-half ounces.

From its polished lip to its embossed bottom edge, the top section is 4 5/16 inches in height. It comes with ten vice eight flat

Figure 6

surfaced panels that are joined side to side around the circumference of the lower top to just above the annular bead sections of the neck. As I mentioned, there is a raised inscription along the bottom edge of the circular vertical flange. It reads PAT D (smaller and elevated D) MARCH 30 97 OTHERS PENDING. The Imperial style of spherical bowl on the right side in Figure 6 is 4 3/8 inches tall. The underneath portion of its base sports the same design as seen on the bottom of the Royal patterned jug.

37 top to bottom. There was no flared outward aspect above the base as was seen on other Colonial patterned ware in this article.

Overall, this attractively decorated container weighs 8 ¾-ounces. On the underneath side, the same floral design as was described on the Colonial jug, two Colonial cruets and the Colonial squirt bottle is present on this example as well.

Figure 7

Wrap Up In this article, I’ve documented twelve out of twenty-five possible specimens of tableware either patented or inspired by William B. Fenn. The individual items that were advertised by the Perfection Glass Company but remain unrecorded are: an Imperial and Optic 3-pint jug; an Imperial and Optic one pint and Optic one-half pint cruet; a one pint Royal, Imperial and Optic plus a one-half pint Optic and 6-ounce Colonial squirt bottle and finally; a three pint Imperial and Optic and a two pint Optic rock and rye bottle.

I’d deeply appreciate your help in rounding out my database on the missing items. If you can be of assistance in this matter, please don’t hesitate to contact me directly.

BLB

Colonial Tumbler On a recent stopover in southwestern Pennsylvania, my wife and I found the nonflanged Colonial tumbler pictured in Figure 7. Desperately hoping for a good home, it was hiding in plain view inside one display case in an antiques shop on Route 19 just over the hill from Canonsburg. Fortunately for us, we had previously seen its electrotype in the Perfection Glass Company’s brochure. This minor piece of valuable information allowed us both to quickly recognize it as an actual example of this hard to find glass.

This Colonial tumbler is 4 1 / 16 inches in height. Across the top, it measures 2 15/16 inches. The same distance over the base comes to 2 3 / 4 inches. Of note, the outer side wall on this model angled slightly inward from

Footnotes: 1 These glass makers were the Novelty Glass Works, the Sterling Glass Company and the Perfection Glass Company.

2 “More Tableware from Fenn,” Barry L. Bernas, Bottles and Extras, Fall 2005, pgs. 59-62. “Made For Perfection,” Barry L.Bernas, Bottles and Extras, Summer 2004, pgs. 17-19 and Perfection Glass Company, One of Many Glass Houses in Washington, Pennsylvania, Barry L. Bernas, 239 Ridge Avenue, Gettysburg, PA 17325, pgs. 3-4 and 52-70.

3 “Have You Seen a Scalloped Flange Tumbler?” is the third expose in a series about tableware either patented or inspired

by William B. Fenn. At the time this piece was submitted for publication, I hadn’t found a Colonial patterned tumbler.

4 Perfection Glass Company, One of Many Glass Houses in Washington, Pennsylvania, Barry L. Bernas, 239 Ridge Avenue, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 17325, pg. 57.

5 The sequencing pattern of a diamond and oval form was slightly different on the bowl’s outer surface than the one seen on the exterior of the neck piece. The demarcation line on the former started out

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with three diamonds. On the latter example, two diamonds topped this W-shaped separator. Thereafter on each version, the single oval followed by the single diamond design continued one after the other throughout the course of the Ws top central spine until two diamonds completed the design at the bottom.

6 Perfection Glass Company, One of Many Glass Houses in Washington, Pennsylvania, Barry L. Bernas, 239 Ridge Avenue, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 17325, pg. 57.

7 “Patents Issued to William Beach Fenn (Part 1 of 2),” Barry L. Bernas, Bottles and Extras, January-February 2007, pgs. 30-32.

For patent and advertising facts on the spherical and cylindrical models of a separating cruet, please consult the above reference.

I’ve seen similar size cruets with embossing on the bottom edge of the flange as well. The inscriptions were usually some minor variation of two root phrases: PATD MARCH 30-97 or PATD MARCH 30 97 OTHERS PENDING. 9 In addition to the 91 error, I’ve seen other examples with an 8 or 0 instead of the number 9.

10 On the other example in my collection, there wasn’t any embossing on this feature.

11 The longer edition of a paneled neck was the only one shown on the squirt bottles with a spherical bottom in the Perfection Glass Company brochure. Why two different lengths were manufactured for the smaller capacity version is anyone’s guess.

If you have a thought on this issue, I’d like to hear your supposition.

Happiness for this Collector is Pursuing Gay-Ola Bottles, by Bill Baab Continued from page 30.

Bottling Works, Huntsville, Ala. Big 5point star with G inside on base.

100. Same as above, except Greenville, Ala. Small star with g inside on base.

101. Same as above except amber.

102. 4-ring amber Gay-Ola (block letters) / Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. Whiton Gay-Ola / Bottling Works / Crossville, Ala. G on base.

103. Clear, tall Art-Deco Gay-Ola (block letters) / The Improved Cola / with 8 panels.

Bottle Not Sold. 7 oz. Capacity. E.E. Bottling Co., Bangor, Maine 104.

Aqua 24 Fl. Ozs. “REGISTERED” Gay-Ola Bottling Co., Madison, Ill.

89. Aqua Gay-Ola (block letters) / Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. / The Improved Cola. Reinhard / Bottling / Works / Cumberland, Md..

Contents 7 Fluid Ozs. D.O.C. 90. Same as above except chocolate amber and no Cumberland, Md. 5 on side near bottom.

91. 4-ring honey amber Hopkinsville, Ky. Gay-Ola on base. Similar to No. 41.

92. 4-ring Gay-Ola (block letters). Gay-Ola Bottling Works, Owensboro, Ky. Gay-Ola on base.

93. Clear Gay-Ola (block letters) / Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. / The Improved Cola. Rapides Bottling Works / Alexandria, La. 94. 4-ring clear Gay-Ola (block letters) / Reg. U.S. Pat. Off./ The Improved Cola.

A.P. Moresi / Jeanerette, La. NTBS. 95. Aqua Gay-Ola (block letters) / Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. / The Improved Cola. W.B.W., Wynne, Ark. 96. 4-ring aqua Gay-Ola (block letters) / Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. / The Improved Cola.

Marvell Bottling / Works / Marvell, Ark. 97. 4-ring amber Gay-Ola (block letters)/ Registered. Section / Gay-Ola / Bottling Works. No state, but it’s Section, Ala. N.B.B.G. Co. (North Baltimore Bottle & Glass Co.) and 1917 on side near bottom.

98. 4-ring aqua Gay-Ola (block letters) / Registered. Prattville / Bottling Works / Prattville, Ala. G on base.

99. 4-ring aqua Gay-Ola (block letters) Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. 6-1/2 Fl. Oz. Gay-Ola

Gay-Ola bottled by the Salvo & Berdon Candy Co., Natchez, Miss.

Bottles and Extras The Panama Canal, by Cecil Munsey Continued from page 33.

The molds were in two, three, four or five pieces. The glassblower blew a few puffs lowering a glass lump into the hollow mold and then continued blowing into the tube until the glass was forced against the sides of the mold. Raised letters were whittled in the molds and the molten glass took the shape of the container. Ninety percent of the bottles made before 1904 were not embossed. Before the Civil War, instructions for taking a medicine or the name of a firm was written on a piece of paper and tied to the neck of the bottle.

Molds were replaced by semi-automatic machines and then in 1903 as automatic bottle-making machine came into existence. But it was 10 years before machinery replaced hand blown mass production of bottles.

The fascination of searching for these bottles that reveal what our Isthmian forefathers drank, ate and used to cure their ailments has captured the fancy of several other Canal Zone collectors such as Alwyn Sprague, Carl Glass, Kenneth Manthorne, Al Chandler, Robert Stewart, Edward McFarland, Charles Rheberg, Gustave Bliss, Karl Longley, Lois Harrison, and Judy Williams [most of whom were members of the original club – ABCA of Sacramento, Inc.].

Cecil Munsey 13541 Willow Run Road Poway, CA 92064-1733 (858) 487-7036 cecilmunsey@cox.net

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More New Finds

By Barry L. Bernas Meet Some of My “Theys” How often have you heard someone say, “They” did such and such or “They” caused something to happen or “They” expected this or that? I don’t know about you but the use by others of this anonymous pronoun often leaves me in a quandary as to who “they” really are.

In this article, you won’t be left in the dark wondering who my “theys” happen to be. Here is what I mean. The specimens herein were graciously reported to me by other hobbyists. In each instance, an interested collector set aside time to share their find with all of us. My heartfelt thankfulness goes out to every one of these individuals who went beyond the norm.

This write-up will be as much about the presentation of new items as it is a tribute to some of my “theys.”

Find One The first piece to be unveiled is pictured in Figure 1. It was sent in by Perfection separating tableware aficionados Adele and Orrin Klitzner of Andover, New Jersey.

This quite uncommon version of a scalloped flange tumbler is similar in outer profile to the engraved model depicted as Figure 6 in the first reference in endnote 1. 1 In this case, the Klitzners’ new acquisition isn’t as tall as its counterpart.

Being 4 inches in height, this model has an outer diameter at the lip of 3 ½ inches.

The same measurement across its base comes to 2 inches. Approximately eight and one-half ounces of molten metal were used to form this edition.

Figure 1

Below the lip on the tumbler’s top inner surface are twelve objects that have a finger tip shape to them. These curved, angled and inward facing projections are mounted in a circular fashion to form the flange around the interior circumference of the vessel. The volume of this model is about eight ounces when calculated at the base of the scalloped flange.

The underneath portion of the base on Find One matches that of the Klitzners’ other sample shown as Figure 6 in the article Have You Seen a Scalloped Flange Tumbler? The phrase - PAT. APD. FOR – is embossed backwards thereon so that the announcement can be read correctly by looking down through the tumbler’s mouth.

Thanks to Adele and Orrin for sharing your find with others and adding another scalloped flange tumbler to my growing records.

Find Two The photograph in Figure 2 was forwarded along with a detailed description of the fluted tumbler by Mike Black of Bangor, Pennsylvania.

Around the exterior of this prepared food container are eight flat-surfaced panels. Each flute is straight-sided with a rounded upward top and a horizontal bottom part. The panels are joined at their sides around the circumference of this packers’ tumbler.

This model is 3 3/4 inches in height. It

Figure 2

39 seals along its Anchor finish with a 63-millimeter size of metal push-down cap.

The octagonal base on this specimen is shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3

As you can see, it has the Capstan Glass Company’s trademark embossed in the center. Below it is the number 52.

Mike’s find can be placed under the number 3 entry in Chapter Eleven within the book, Tumblers, Jars and Bottles.2 Thanks to him, we now know there is at least one more size of container in this style.

Find Three My third report isn’t exactly a recent discovery but in my opinion still classifies as a new find because I haven’t previously published details about it.

At a past Ohio Bottle Club-sponsored show and sale in Mansfield, Bob Rhinberger of Quincy, Illinois allowed me to examine, measure and photograph his example of a Russell Uhl-patented all-glass screw cap.3 For those of you familiar with this fruit jar cover, you’ll recall that it is usually found with two styles of wording along with the inscription PATD DEC. 5. 05. embossed on its top or inner surface.4 However, Mr. Rhinberger’s sealer in Figure 4 appears to have no embossing on either the indented top or nearly flat inner

Figure 4

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Figure 5

surface of the cover.

This screw cap has a Hat profile. Figure 5 is germane.

The curved and straight outer surface of the band at the base of its outer skirt is 1 /4 of an inch in length. Precisely positioned around the circumference of the outer skirt are twelve grippers. Individually, these traits are completely formed and have a cannon barrel shape. Not depicted in Figure 5 is the cover’s bottom edge. On this edition, this area is rounded with a semicircular-shaped raised ring on it.

At first glance, what appeared to be an unembossed model of a Russell Uhlpatented closure proved to be an illusion when the inner surface of Bob’s sealer was closely examined. See Figure 6.

Figure 6

When subjected to very close scrutiny, lightly pressed embossed lettering was discovered on this specimen’s inner surface.

It read (dot) SIMPLEX GLASS CAP (dot) around the top segment with FOR MASON JARS opposite it. Unfortunately, only a partial inscription in the center was visible.

Out of the normal phrase – PATD DEC. 5.

05. – only the abbreviation PAT was discernable.

For those interested in placing this edition into a catalog, the following listing would belong to it – Group I - 4.1.2.a.2.c. a.2.b.2.c.3.d.3.e.1.f.12.5 In the future, if you run across a seemingly unembossed Uhl style of screw cap, I recommend you inspect it thoroughly. It could be another lightly pressed model just like the one owned by Bob Rhinberger.

Find Four At the 2007 Baltimore Antique Bottle Club’s 27th Annual Show and Sale, Dodd Delph of Gambrills, Maryland reported the fourth “newbie.” Mr. Delph is an avid digger and glass collector. Over the past several years, he has faithfully added to my database for Capstan ware by providing me with shards, broken pieces and whole examples of dug Capstan marked containers that were previously not known to exist. Many of his finds are listed and/or pictured in Tumblers, Jars and Bottles.

Figure 7 contains a photograph of a plain surfaced tumbler from the Capstan Glass Company. It is 3 1 / 8 inches tall and seals with a 55 millimeter size of push-down Figure 7 metal cap. The outer diameter of its circular base is 1 11/16 inches. On the underneath side is a Capstan trademark embossed boldly in the center with the number 519 under it.

As was the case with Mike Black, Dodd continues to be a staunch supporter of my effort to find and document as many Capstan Glass food containers as possible.

For those with a copy of Tumblers, Jars and Bottles, this find can be penned in right before number 522 under the “C” or Standard Line section in Chapter Five.

Find Five My fifth report documents another find from the same Baltimore event mentioned in Find Four. Its owner was Russell Crupe of Avella, Pennsylvania. Because of his indepth knowledge about the history of the Hazel, Atlas and Hazel Atlas Glass companies and the products manufactured by their employees, he is known widely by the moniker “Mr. Atlas.”

In addition to fruit jars, another passion for Russ is the pursuit of glass or china pieces made in or around Washington, Pennsylvania. While engaged in his search for these kinds of ware, he too has unselfishly looked for unreported examples from the Anchor, Capstan or Perfection Glass Companies and shared with me those that he has found. Figure 8 shows one of these items.

This scarce two pint decanter is 8 1/4 inches in height.6 It has a paneled neck,

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standard Optic patterned bowl and an original curved top faceted-type of stopper.

The paneled style of top section is 4 1/8 inches tall. Around its exterior are ten flatsurfaced flutes of equal height, width and shape. These distinctive traits have rounded upward tops and curved downward bottoms. They are joined side by side around the circumference of the neck. The outer diameter of the circular flange at its base is 3 inches. There is no embossing on either the outer surface of the curved vertical part or the flat bottom edge of this downwardly projecting feature.

A nickel plated zinc screw band joins the paneled top with the Optic patterned bottom on this bottle.7 The decanter’s bowl is 4 7/16 inches tall.

It has a smooth outer surface. Along its inner side wall are eighteen adjoined panels. These uniformly contoured attributes curve outward from the interior side wall. On the elevated underneath side is a circular design comprised of a circle with twenty-four pointed petals surrounding it. The Perfection Glass Company advertised this style as their Optic or No. 254 design.8 Up to the time when Russ Crupe found this model in an antiques mall along Interstate 70 just outside of Springfield, Ohio and brought it to the Baltimore show, I had only seen the ad for this specimen in the circa-1903 Perfection catalog. But thanks to Russ, we now have another piece of William B. Fenn’s patented separating tableware to add to our listing of documented examples.

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Find Six The penultimate discovery again comes by way of the Klitzners. They seem to be able to turn up odd pieces of Perfection’s separating tableware faster than anyone else I know. To them, I extend a bravo for their uncanny success and a deeply grateful thanks for their willingness to share data about their finds.

Figure 9

The one-half pint capacity squirt bottle with a long neck and Imperial patterned bowl in Figure 9 isn’t new.9 But what is different about Orrin and Adele’s trio is that they came with engraving on the outer surface of the bowl. Figure 10 is germane.

Pictured therein are the bottoms of the Klitzners’ three squirt bottles. The left model carries the word - checkerberry.

Directly beside it, the second specimen has ginger marked on it. And on the left, the third version is engraved with the phrase – hot drops. Obviously, these examples were meant to grace a table and act as a dispenser for a specific liquid seasoning.

Each of the Find Six containers is 7 1/4 inches in height. Along the bottom edge on their elongated necks is the following embossing: PATD. MARCH 30-97 OTHERS PENDING (NOTE: The capital D in the abbreviation PATD is smaller in size, elevated and has a dot under it). The top and bottom sections are held together by a nickel-coated zinc screw band.

Figure 11 contains a picture of the base on one of these samples.

The design on the underneath side has twenty, pointed top, debossed petals Figure 11 around a circle.

In my opinion, it resembles a daisy.

This is only the second piece of Perfection ware that has been found with engraving on it.10 Orrin and Adele Klitzner told me their threesome was purchased from the electronic marketplace – eBay. It just goes to show you that this venue continues to be a lucrative site for new finds.

Find Seven The last find comes from Galen Ware of Connellsville, Pennsylvania. Back in May 2007, he brought a box of Capstanmade goodies to the Ohio Bottle Club’s annual show in Mansfield. One of the items therein was the nappy tumbler depicted in Figure 12.

Figure 10

Figure 12

41 This petite food container is clear in color. It is 2 ½ inches tall and has a 70-millimeter Anchor finish with knurling.

Beneath the tumbler’s finish is a side wall that slants inward to a 2 1/ 4 inches in diameter base. The markings on the bottom side can be seen in Figure 13 Figure 13.

The Capstan Glass Company’s trademark is squarely in the center. Below the capstan emblem is the mold number 306. Above the nautical logo is the probable mold series digit 2.

For those with a copy of my Capstan Glass book,11 Galen Ware’s contribution can be placed under the NUMERIC INVENTORY NAPPY TUMBLERS section between numbers 305 and 308 in Chapter Five.

My gratitude goes out to Mr. Ware for bringing this additional piece of Capstan back into the limelight from the garage of his anonymous associate.12 You Can Help, Too I’m always on the lookout for or interested in receiving information about previously unreported pieces from the Anchor, Capstan and Perfection Glass companies. As you have just seen, several individuals have been helping me out already in this personal quest. If you run across an item that you suspect comes from the above firms or that hasn’t been documented in either my books or articles in Bottles and Extras, I would be grateful if you would contact me directly to share what you have uncovered. I’m looking forward to you becoming one on my “theys.”

BLB Footnotes: 1 “Have You Seen a Scalloped Flange Tumbler?,” Barry L. Bernas, Bottles and Extras. Part One, Sept.-Oct.2007, pgs.3842 and Part Two, Nov.-Dec. 2008, pgs. 5460. This article shows the advertised and currently known examples of scalloped flange and flangeless tumblers. “More Tableware from Fenn,” Barry L. Bernas, Bottles and Extras, Fall 2005, pg. 61 and “A Third Round of Separating Glassware Continued on page 53.

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Chase & Co. Soda Water Manufacturers in Gold Rush California

By Eric McGuire This story should, rightfully, begin on Nantucket Island off the coast of mainland Massachusetts. A haven for persecuted Quakers, a handful of the religious sect populated the island in the late 1600s.

Living in relative harmony with the native Indian population, the group remained isolated from the mainland and slowly increased in numbers. The original families intermarried into a tight-knit, extended family community. In fact, one observer, upon visiting his island relatives in 1846, noted: “Another trait of character which no one can mistake or dispute is that whenever one goes among them, if he can show any Nantucket Blood in his veins, he is received as one of OUR people and is acknowledged as a cousin even to the 4th or 5th generation. But if he is no extract from Nantucket, he is a stranger and is spoken of as such and called a stranger even in their public records – unless indeed he connects by marriage with them – then they will own him.” 1 By the early 1700s, Nantucketers discovered whaling and during the following decades built upon this overwhelmingly dominant economic resource, prospering greatly and becoming the third largest city in Massachusetts. A whaling fleet of 85 vessels plied the waters of the earth with a ready market for the products derived from whales – mostly the oil. Beginning in the mid-19th century, a turn of unrelated events brought the demise of prosperity for this whaling town – the discovery of oil in Pennsylvania; the silting

of Nantucket’s harbor; a series of disastrous conflagrations, the last on July 13, 1846; a decline in whale populations; and the coup de gras, the discovery of gold in California, which literally depopulated the ailing town.

Between 1840 and 1870, the population of Nantucket decreased from almost 10,000 to a little more than 4,000.2 The town languished for nearly one hundred years until the profits from tourism bolstered its stature to a world-class recreation destination.

The names of its earliest residents are repeated many times over such that some have become synonymous with its heritage.

Surnames such as Chase, Coffin, Folger, Coleman, Starbuck and Macy are readily identifiable as having a Nantucket connection. 3 The subjects of this investigation were typical of many who left Nantucket Island for the potential riches awaiting in California. It is not clear which brother was the dominant force behind the establishment of one of California’s pioneer soda water bottling ventures. Chase & Co. included both James Franklin Chase and Frederick Coffin Chase, sons of Franklin Chase and Nancy Ellis. James was born in Nantucket on November 7, 1816 and Frederick was born there on August 5, 1821.4 As with many of Nantucket’s male residents, their father, Franklin Chase, was a seaman. He was captain of the ship North America when it left port on September 2, 1824. His ship arrived home in November 1827, with 2,015 barrels of sperm whale oil on board. He is reported as dying at sea in 1825, so it is assumed he lost his life on this voyage.5 Indeed, it is likely that the Chase family

Nantucket, Massachusetts as it appeared in 1858.

Bottles and Extras had first-hand knowledge of San Francisco prior to the brother’s arrival during the gold rush. Initially, San Francisco, known as Yerba Buena until 1847, was under the control of the Spanish and after 1821, the Mexican government, until 1846 when it was claimed by the United States. The ships of Nantucket regularly plied the waters of the Pacific Northwest during the first half of the nineteenth century since the otter fur trade was quite lucrative as was the Mexican hide trade – helping to bolster the economy of the declining Nantucket whaling industry.

The 1850 census for Nantucket lists James F. Chase as a “mariner,” and he very well could have had first-hand knowledge of San Francisco early in its unfolding, during its Mexican period.6 Frederick’s Nantucket occupation was described as a “tin plate worker” and a “tinman.”

The culture of Nantucket was such that any able-bodied man, including husbands and fathers, could be absent and at sea for a period of years. Imagine, if you will, the anxiety of loved ones waiting back in Nantucket, not knowing if they would ever see significant populations of their male counterparts. Deaths at sea were common, as evidenced by Nantucket’s death records.

So it may not have been that unusual for both James and Frederick Chase to have left their families in Nantucket while they established a business in California. James had married Phebe Macy in Nantucket in 1848. Frederick married Delia Maria Coleman and also left two children behind; Walter S. Chase, born Dec. 11, 1846, and Arthur Stephens Chase, born June 30,1848.

Shortly after the discovery of gold, the brothers Chase, with possibly other family members, determined to blitz California’s soda water business like no others. While their San Francisco factory was undoubtedly the largest, they also established branches in Marysville and Stockton, thereby covering three of California’s four largest cities at the time.

No records suggest why they decided to stay away from Sacramento; however, it was likely given consideration as well. Perhaps it was the already established competition

by Addison Boley, Martin Rancich and others.

Marysville was the practical up-river port for the eastern Sacramento Valley, located on the Feather River at its confluence with the Yuba River, thus servicing the mining communities between Oroville and Grass Valley in the northern

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San Francisco as depicted on the eve of the Gold Rush.

Sierra Nevada gold region. Likewise, Chase & Co. as a soda water manufacturer Stockton was its southern counterpart with in California is a cautionary advertisement virtually no ship passage any further south in the Daily Alta California that began on on the San Joaquin River, thus being the May 1, 1852, which advised against using main port for the southern Sierra Nevada bottles marked with the names of Lynde & mines – generally from Sutter Creek to the Putnam, as they were the property of F.C. Mariposa region. Therefore, both cities had Chase & Co., successors.

Lynde & Putnam found the necessity to excellent potential for growth.

It is not clear exactly when the Chase run a similar advertisement beginning in brothers arrived in California; however, October 1851, which alluded to the Frederick is noted in the 1852 California widespread theft of their bottles by other While the State census as a soda water manufacturer soda water dealers. advertisement shown above documents the in San Francisco.

By Aug. 17, 1853, Frederick Chase was succession of Lynde & Putnam to Chase & a founding officer of Pioneer Engine Co., Co., it does not necessarily establish a firm No. 5 of Marysville. He served as an beginning date for Chase, except to confirm alderman for Marysville in 1854. Further, the existence of the company by May 1, he was a charter member of the Marysville 1852.

San Francisco was built almost entirely Society of California Pioneers, organized in 1869, wherein he gave his date of arrival of wood during its gold-rush years. Major in California as 1849. His photograph conflagrations tried successively to exists on a photomontage of pioneers living obliterate this new city from the face of the in Marysville that is in the possession of earth. However, the residents were resilient, the Yuba County Library ( Photo No. 106 and money so available that it continued to mushroom. Six major fires destroyed much of the montage).

James F. Chase was treasurer of the of the city from December 1849 to June Yuba Engine Company, No. 2, organized 1851. Overshadowed by these huge infernos in Marysville on May 23, 1853, which were a number of smaller fires, as on May infers that he was a resident of Marysville 31, 1854, over forty structures were consumed for a loss of about $44,000 – at least by that date.7 The earliest documented evidence of hardly worth mentioning compared to previous fires. The soda works building constructed by Chase, pictured in the accompanying advertisement, had recently been constructed. Fortunately for Chase, he had just sold the building to Abel

This advertisement, which ran in the Daily Alta (San Francisco, California) during April 1854, marked the end of the Chase & Co. soda water establishment.

Ad, circa May 1852.

43 Cudworth who succeeded Chase and was operating his Eagle Soda Works there at the time of the 1854 fire. Loss was estimated at $8,000. 8 For James Chase, participation in the odyssey of formative California came to an end on June 2, 1857. The Marysville Daily Herald reported on an incident that occurred in the mining town of Oroville, about 25 miles north of Marysville: “….Chase was killed by a shoemaker named John Coleman. It appeared that Chase went into Coleman’s shop, put on a pair of boots and started out without saying anything about paying for them, whereupon Coleman followed him across the street and commenced an attack upon him, first knocking him down with his fist and then kicking him in the face and on his body, so severely as to cause his death in a few minutes.”9 This event exemplifies the time and place of the early western life of California, where there were copious amounts of whiskey, gold and testosterone. Competition for fabulous wealth, which had been attained by some, caused men to lose perspective of societal structure, which was skewed by the very reason that people had suddenly populated this country – gold!

Frederick Chase maintained some interest in the manufacture of soda water in Marysville until 1863, although he had no more bottles embossed with his name.

This was followed by a number of other occupations during his residency in Marysville. He was a well driller for the longest period. At about the same time that he celebrated his 59th birthday, Frederick began working for E.C. Ross & Co. of Marysville, peddling tin-ware, etc., in the classic style often seen in films set in the time period of the 19th century – with two horses teamed to a wagon loaded with clanking cups and pots – truly a door-todoor salesman in the country style.

In 1880, Wheatland, a nearby agricultural community located in Yuba County, California, had just been plagued by a terrible fire that destroyed, among other buildings, the Masonic Hall. While plying his trade in the countryside surrounding Marysville, Frederick stopped his team in front of a saloon in the town of Nicolaus, Sutter County, about 15 miles south of Marysville, on the Sacramento River, to read a newspaper account of the Wheatland fire. The Marysville Daily Appeal documented Chase’s actions as he entered the saloon to read the newspaper;

44 “He had barely stepped inside the door when his horses started to run away. He followed in hasty pursuit, and in grasping at the head of one of the animals for the lines got hold of the halter, and in some way became so entangled that he fell prostrate, when both wheels of his wagon passed over his breast, breaking two ribs and causing injuries which proved fatal the following night.”10 His final request was that his body be conveyed to Marysville and buried beside his brother in the City Cemetery, where he reposes to this day. Thus ended the last direct knowledge of the history of Chase & Co., and the story behind why, and how, they chose to open three branches of their soda water bottling venture in three California gold rush communities simultaneously. Both Chase brothers were violently killed in accidents separated by

May-June 2008 23 years – neither returning to their families and homeland on Nantucket Island.

Frederick’s youngest son, Arthur S. Chase, eventually left Nantucket and followed his father to California, making Marysville his home beginning in the late 1860s. On September 22, 1877, Arthur married Alta Octavia Warner in Nevada City, California, where she and her eleven siblings were living with her parents, George W. Warner and Sophia Ann Gill.

Arthur was not one to stay at home much and chose a life in sales. His tumultuous marriage was marked by at least two divorces initiated by Alta, the last occurring in 1905 when she sued for desertion.11 Two months later, he lost his real estate sales job and seems to have disappeared from California.12 Two daughters were born to Arthur and Alta Chase, which ended the Chase surname legacy in California begun by the gold rush soda water bottler, Frederick C. Chase, and his brother, James.

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Frederick C. Chase died September 2, 1880, at the Western Hotel in Nicolaus, Sutter County, California.

THE BOTTLES Two distinct molds were used to produce the Chase & Co. bottles. Probably the first to be produced is embossed with CHASE & CO. / MINERAL WATER / SAN FRANCISCO / CAL. The embossing is all contained within a removable plate (generally termed a “slug plate”) that was inserted into the side of a standard mold.

This method allowed for the same bottle mold to be easily reused by changing the lettered plate with a different name in the future. All specimens noted are blown in shades of green glass and exhibit iron

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Probably the first to be produced is embossed with CHASE & CO. / MINERAL WATER / SAN FRANCISCO / CAL.

The second mold are embossed CHASE & CO. / MINERAL WATER / SAN FRANCISCO / STOCKTON / MARYSVILLE / CAL.

pontils.

Bottles from the second mold, also in the form of typical pint soda bottles of the day, are blown in shades of green glass, and embossed CHASE & CO. / MINERAL WATER / SAN FRANCISCO / STOCKTON / MARYSVILLE / CAL. The mold for these bottles was proprietary, generally termed a private mold – that is, all embossing was cut into the side of the mold without the use of a slug plate, thus the mold could not be easily reused without major modification. All examples exhibit iron pontils which is consistent with their age. This variant was probably used only

in Marysville and Stockton, for excavations in San Francisco have rarely unearthed the “three cities” bottle. Overall, fewer examples of this bottle are known compared with the “single city” San Francisco variant. With little doubt, the bottles were blown at an East Coast glass factory, possibly in the Boston area.

Endnotes: 1 Charnes, Georgene Gilliam, “Diary of a Trip to Nantucket, 1846”. Published in Historic Nantucket, Vol. 53, No. 4 (Fall 2004) 2 Oldham, Elizabeth, “Nantucket in a

45 Nutshell”. Published in Historic Nantucket (Winter, 2000).

3 Counted among other far more successful Nantucketers are Roland H. Macy, whose name is still emblazoned on large department stores across the nation. For San Francisco, another famous Nantucket native was James A. Folger, whose name is still an institution in the world of coffee.

And, speaking of coffee, that other company having stores on every other corner throughout the world, Starbuck’s, is a name derived from one of the company founder’s favorite books – Moby Dick. Starbuck is Herman Melville’s fictional character, yet derived from some historical truth, who was the first mate of the whaler Pequod. Not surprisingly, the name is synonymous with Nantucket whaling life.

4 There is some question about the veracity of these dates (derived from the William C. Folger genealogical records), however, church records show that James was baptized April 19, 1818, and Frederick was baptized on October 6, 1822.

5 Eliza Starbuck Barney Genealogical Record. Nantucket Historical Association – Updated August 2006.

6 U.S. Federal Census, Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts. 1850 (Ancestry. Com, pg. 40, line 7) 7 Lewis Publishing Co., A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California. Chicago. 1891 8 San Francisco Herald (San Francisco, California) June 1, 1854.

9 Marysville Daily Herald, June 4, 1857 10 The Daily Appeal, Marysville, Calif., September 4, 1880 11 The Saturday Bee (Sacramento, Calif.), July 22, 1905 12 Ibid, September 30, 1905 13 Arthur and Alta Chase’s daughter, Lulu Warner Chase, died in 1930, in Long Beach. Lulu’s husband, Rudolph Pabst, died in San Francisco in 1918.

Eric McGuire 1732 Inverness Dr. Petaluma, CA 94954 (707) 778-2255 etmcguire@comcast.net

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Happiness for Marvin and Lynn Bailey is a Business Always Going to Pot

By Bill Baab

Lynn and Marvin Bailey flanked by dozens of their pottery creations.

KERSHAW, S.C. – The nation’s economy isn’t exactly what you’d call robust, gasoline and oil prices continue to rise, but Marvin and Lynn Bailey both quit their day jobs in order to go to pot.

Pot as in pottery. Face jugs. Folk art.

They’re not rolling in cash, but they’re happy.

Marvin, 48, a native of Lancaster, S.C., and Lynn, 33, a Great Falls, S.C., native, have been married nine years. She met him in a greenhouse operated by his father, Joe, in the Elgin community.

“I was told he was real quiet, but he talked my ears off the first two days I was there,” Lynn said. “It was love at first sight for me,” said Marvin.

He developed a fondness for pottery, thanks to his father, Joe, who loved collecting art pottery like Roseville and Rookwood. “Every now and then, he’d pick up a piece of North Carolina pottery and I got the collecting bug.”

His wife noted that “he always collected pottery and sold antiques on the side, even when he was working at the greenhouse.”

He left the greenhouse business and started making pots and selling antiques full time in 2001. Until two years ago, Lynn was working at a full-time job and the couple also were planning to become foster parents.

“I first started making vases and flower pots, later getting into face jugs, and my business took off when I started attending pottery festivals in the Carolinas and Georgia,” Marvin said. “Then I branched out into doing folk art.”

Grinning trio of hog riders carry watermelon (center), mini face jugs.

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Astonishment shows plainly on the face of this pot, complete with handled lid.

What great folk art! A recent visit to his antique store/studio in downtown Kershaw revealed tables loaded with wares to be taken to the Catawba Valley Pottery Festival in Hickory, N.C. A photo is worth a thousand words, so check out those accompanying this article. Are they neat or what?

Marvin regards himself as one who is

Note what the owl is gripping in its talons. always looking to improve.

“The funnest part of what I do comes when I’m on the wheel and the clay is still damp. I get lost in thought sometimes although I am concentrating on what I’m turning. The harder work is applying faces to the jugs and glazing them. I use porcelain for eyes and teeth. You almost have to become a chemist to understand glazes and

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Here’s a face jug with a skin problem.

those we use have come from trial and error.”

Lynn’s contributions include making all the animals and figurines except the snakes.

That’s Marvin’s job and his coral snake creations so far are unique to the trade. If a creature needs scales, the Baileys use onion sacks whose fabric is pressed against the still-wet clay.

Check out this devil-faced jug.

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Rude face jugs, their tongues sticking out, flank two-headed chicken.

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Jug’s face doesn’t look thrilled to be surrounded by coral snake jugs.

Lynn Bailey’s sculpted bird dog (above) and pig mamas with hungry brood (below).

From left, a face pot and a pair of face jugs shows Bailey’s wide range of talent.

Photos by Bill and Bea Baab.

The Baileys admit that quitting their “day jobs” was a gamble, but Marvin is going to sell his antiques inventory and move his studio back to his home in the Elgin community. Then he’ll be able to devote all of his time to making pots.

“I like to think that by becoming a potter, I am helping preserve a Southern tradition,” he said.

“If we can continue to live the lifestyle to which we have become accustomed and be as happy as we are, that’s how we’ll do it,” Lynn said. “We also are looking forward to becoming foster parents. Marvin’s Dad and Mom are very proud of him, too, and both of us are so happy and thankful to be where we’re at.”

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The Wondrous World of Whiskey Exonumia

By Jack Sullivan My interest in pre-Prohibition whiskey distilleries and brands has taken new directions from time to time and so it did while I was writing an article on Baltimore’s Monticello Rye that appeared in the last Bottles and Extras. A Monticello “coin” came up for sale on eBay and I bought it (Figure 1a). Ensuing research opened up to me a whole new collecting world — whiskey exonumia.

Literally the word means “out of” nummus, the Latin world for coin.

Exonumia basically refers to coin-like objects, such as tokens and medallions, although some collectors expand the definition to include even watch fobs and badges. The word was coined in 1960 by Russ Rulau, a noted researcher and author on the subject, and is found in some dictionaries. Whiskey exonumia, to my thinking, generally falls into six categories: 1) spinner/flippers, 2) redeemable tokens, 3) good luck pieces, 4) fob/key chains, 5) sports schedules and 6) simply advertising.

This article examines each of them.

Flippers & Spinners The Monticello token is a spinner/ flipper. It was kept on the bar as a gambling device for patrons to decide who would pay for the next drink. The distiller’s idea was to suggest to contestants to make their drinks Monticello Rye. No doubt a bottle of the stuff was close by on the bar.

Black & Gold Rye issued an example with the face of a donkey on one side and the legend: “Heads you win...if you drink Black and Gold Rye.” The flip side (Figure 1b) shows the backside of the donkey and admonishes: “Tails you lose...if you don’t drink Black and Gold Rye.” This whiskey was the product of the G. Froehlich Co. of Newark, N.Y., which registered the brand with the U.S. government in 1912. An Old Granddad flip coin left nothing to chance (Figure 1c). The top is the familiar bust of Granddad himself, with the legend: “Head of the Bourbon Family.” The other side has been left blank.

Flippers could be used in one of two ways: through a typical coin toss to the floor or sent spinning on edge until it fell over.

Spinners, on the other hand, were kept flat on the bar and pointed either to the person getting a free drink or, conversely, to the loser who would be made to pay.

Spinners have a telltale bump on one side, as shown in the coin on the left in Figure 1d from Park & Tilford, distillers of Louisville, Ky. The side with the horse faced down the bar while spin was applied and the individual to whom it pointed was “it.” In this token it appears that the “pointee” was a winner, signaled by the horseshoe — a traditional American symbol of luck. Park & Tilford was founded in the late 1800s, survived Prohibition, and produced whiskey and industrial alcohol

into the 1950s. The firm was purchased by Schenley Distilling about 1955.

Being at the end of the pointer more often was unlucky. A token from Jesse Moore (Figure 1e) says “Your Turn.” The Moore firm also had Louisville roots, but sold nationwide, at one time boasting outlets in 13 major American cities from New York to San Francisco. It did not survive Prohibition.

The Brown Foreman spinner arrow (Figure 1f) is up front about the bad news: “All right...You pay.” The flip side of this spinner (Figure 1g) features a bottle of “Bottoms Up” whiskey from one of America’s most successful distilleries.

Found in 1870 by George Garvin Brown, a pharmaceutical salesman, with an investment of $5,500, Brown Foreman currently is a multimillion-dollar enterprise. Old Forester is its flagship brand.

Probably a post-Prohibition spinner (Figure 1h), an example from Paul Jones is positively blunt in its message: “Buy,” it commands of whomever the arrow faces.

For further information on this Frankfort, Ky., distiller, see my Bottles and Extras article, Summer 2006.

Redeemable Tokens According to the experts, the heyday of trade tokens occurred about the time of the United States Centennial in 1876.

Fig. 1a: Monticello Rye flipper - heads

Fig. 1b: Black & Gold Rye - tails

Fig. 1c: Old Granddad fipper - heads

Fig. 1d: Park & Tilford spinner - both sides

Fig. 1e: Jesse Moore spinner - top

Fig. 1f: Brown Foreman spinner - top

Fig. 1g: Brown Foreman spinner - bottom

Fig. 1h: Paul Jones spinner - both sides

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Fig. 2a: Jack Daniel’s side #1

Fig. 2f: Hollywood Whiskey - triangle

Fig. 2k: Paducah Club side #1

Fig 2b: Jack Daniel’s side #2

Fig. 2c: Clarke Bros. side #1

Fig. 2g: Echo Springs side #1

Fig. 2h: Echo Springs side #2

Fig. 2l:

Paducah Club side #2

Fig. 2m: Old Fitzgerald

Companies began to vie with one another in issuing metal pieces, often utilitarian and worth a fixed amount: 25 cents, one haircut, one admission or, for whiskey — one drink or one bottle. A very early example is a hexagonal token reputed to be from Jack Daniel’s (Figures 2a, 2b) that could be redeemed for 25 cents on whiskey.

A more handsome pre-Prohibition example, with an art deco design, is from Clarke Bros. Distillery of Peoria, Ill. (Figures 2c, 2d). It came in at least two versions, one promising a free drink and the other a free “highball.”

This company was founded by C.S. Clarke in 1862 to manufacture diverse spirits and alcohol. In 1888, it reincorporated and concentrated on making and selling Clarke’s Pure Rye, until Prohibition.

Hollywood Whiskey, a brand originating far from California, offered both oval (Figure 2e) and triangle (Figure 2f) tokens. The oval generously could be redeemed for a full pint of whiskey. The triangle was less explicit but cautions the owner to be discreet. Both items are blank on the bottom. Hollywood Whiskey was registered as a brand of the B. W. Allen Co.of New York City in 1886 and again in 1907 by The Hollywood Company of NYC. According to the experts, very few trade tokens were made of aluminum before 1890. Until that time the metal sold at about $2 an ounce, twice the value of silver. With improved methods of refining, the price fell sharply, making aluminum feasible for tokens. Thus an Echo Springs token (Figures 2g, 2h), despite its modern appearance, can be dated from 1890-1918. Redeemable whiskey tokens have been illegal from Prohibition to the present day. One like this sold last year on eBay for $214.

Bonnie Bros. & Co. of Louisville, Ky., promised a shot of its Big Rock Whiskey to anyone presenting their token (Figure 2i) and assured the bartender that the company would redeem it. This firm appears in city directories from 1895 to 1918. It registered the Big Rock brand in 1906. Other Bonnie whiskeys included Nelson Club, Old Joe B. Frazier, and Bonnie Rye.

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Fig. 2d: Clarke Bros.

- side #2

Fig. 2i: Big Rock Whiskey

Fig. 2e: Hollywood Whiskey - oval

Fig. 2j:

Palace Saloon

Saloons also issued tokens good for whiskey.

The Palace Saloon in Austin, Texas would give the bearer a free drink without restriction. Their token featured “Parole,” a famous race horse of the period that nevertheless finished out of the money in the 1876 Kentucky Derby (Figure 2j).

A vintage example that advertised Paducah Club (Figure 2k) seems notoriously stingy at being worth only 2 and ½ cents (Figure 2l). Paducah Club was registered as a brand in 1905 by LoebBloom & Co. of that Kentucky city.

The last redeemable shown here, (Figure 2m) was never cashed.

Executives at the Stitzer-Weller facility in Louisville about 1969 decided it was time to reinstate the venerable trade token for its flagship brand, Old Fitzgerald. A number of tokens offering a free drink were manufactured. Subsequently, federal officers caught wind of the idea, pronounced it illegal, and stopped distribution.

Most tokens were destroyed but a few were kept by distillery workers, perhaps as souvenirs to the follies of their bosses.

Good Luck Pieces A third category of whiskey exonumia is the good luck pieces. Of these, the most common were issued by Green River Whiskey. The front bears the trademark picture of the man and horse (Figure 3a) while the rear (Figure 3b) features three traditional good luck symbols: the horseshoe, a wishbone and a four-leaf clover. The meaning is enforced by the legend: “It is lucky to drink Green River Whiskey.” This distillery was founded by J.W. McCulloch in Owensboro, Ky., in 1885.

The Four-Cee Whiskey token (Figures 3c, 3d) featured the familiar symbols and added one that today would be highly politically incorrect — the swastika — at that time considered a Native

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Fig 3f:

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Fig 3b: Green River side #2

Fig 3c: Four-Cee side #1

Fig 3d: Four-Cee side #2

Fig. 3e: Sunny Brook side #1

Fig. 3g: Tioga Rye both sides

Fig. 3h: Schenley Reserve

Fig. 3i: Old Crow

Fig 3j: Jim Beam with hole

American good luck sign. The motto around the rim reads: “Membership Emblem of the Don’t Worry Club.” It would not be long until Hitler’s swastika gave many people much to worry about. This was a brand from E.N. Cook & Co. of Buffalo, N.Y., founded in 1879 by Cook and partner Gustav Fleischman. They are said to have owned two distilleries in Buffalo, one of which apparently was Buffalo Distilling, founded in 1895. Both operations ceased in 1918.

The swastika symbol appeared on a number of good luck pieces. Among them was an item from Sunny Brook “Pure Food” Whiskey (Figures 3d, 3e). Sunny Brook was founded in 1891 by the Chicago-based Rosenfield Bros., who owned a distillery

in Louisville. Although production of the brand was halted by Prohibition, it later was revived by Jim Beam.

Some good luck pieces contained a copper penny inside an aluminum rim. Like the Tioga Rye token (Figure 3g) they usually had the motto: “Keep me and you will never go broke. In this case the penny is a 1903 Indian head. Tioga Rye was registered as a brand in 1905 by Raphael & Zeugschmidt of Pittsburgh. “Smooth, sociable” Schenley Reserve Whiskey provided a 1950 Lincoln head penny and plenty of good luck symbols (Figure 3h).

Originally a Canadian firm, it listed a New York City address.

Another post-Prohibition example is an attractive pocket piece from Old Crow of

Fig. 4a: Old Kirk star side #1

Fig. 4b: Old Kirk star side #2

Fig. 4c: Seagrams “Legion” - side #1

Fig 4e: Beam Medallion

Fig. 4f: Harper “Columbus” medal

Fig. 4g: Old Granddad

Frankfort, Ky. (Figure 3i). One of the few brands to survive Prohibition, it also issued a wooden good luck piece featuring its famous bird. These and other Old Crow tokens were flung to crowds from floats as part of Mardi Gras celebrations.

While a Jim Beam token (Figure 3j), does not specifically mention good luck, its shape is revealing. When I was a boy, carrying a Chinese coin with a center hole was considered good luck. Even today some claim that a Chinese coin in the pocket attracts wealth. Beam’s token may reflect that superstition.

Watch Fobs and Key Chains Another form of whiskey exonumia features a loop or hole. Some may have been meant to be worn as a medallion on a chain, perhaps as a watch fob, or to hold keys, either externally or in a pocket.

The Old Kirk Whiskey piece (Figures 4a,4b) clearly was meant to be worn outside. Its star Fig 4d: Seagrams points would have “Legion” - side #2 shredded a pocket. This brand was registered in 1906 by a firm founded

by Anson Parsons Hotaling. He came to California in 1852 as a miner during the Gold Rush and stayed to be San Francisco’s largest whiskey wholesaler.

Fig. 4h: James Pepper After his death, family

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Fig. 5c: Mount Vernon Rye

Fig. 5d: Johnny Walker - both sides

(Figure 4g) probably is post-Pro since the concept of “proof” (percentage of alcohol) did not emerge until after Prohibition.Compare the bust of the old gent to the one in Figure 1c.The James Pepper token (Figure 4h) celebrates the Fig 5e: George founding of the firm by Elijah Fig. 5f: George Dickel Dickel - side #1 Pepper of Lexington, Ky., in - side #2 1780. The token reproduces the members continued the business until famous painting of the American Prohibition.

Revolution, “The Spirit of ‘76.” Schenley Many of these items are postbought the brand in the early 1930s and Prohibition, such as the 1937 tribute to a phased it out about 1960. national convention of the American Legion in New York. The front depicts a World War I soldier against the skyline of Sports Schedules After World War II, whiskey Manhattan (Figure 4c). The back merchandisers began to understand the admonishes us to “think before you drink” importance of linking their products to but to say Seagrams (Figure 4d). A popular American sports.

Denied access to handsome medallion from Jim Beam th advertising on radio and TV, some issued (Figure 4e) celebrates the 200 anniversary tokens, usually aluminum, listing the dates of Jacob Beam’s first sale of whiskey in of baseball and football games.

Sunny 1795 from his small farm distillery in Brook Whiskey (Figure 5a) showed Detroit Washington County, Ky. The distillery was Tiger fans their home games in 1951 named after Jacob’s grandson, James.

An excellent design is from the I.W. (Figure. 5b). In 1950 Mount Vernon Rye Harper Distilling Company of Louisville (see my B&E article, Summer 2005) issued reproducing one of four gold medals the the schedule for the Cincinnati Reds firm was awarded in the early 1900s (Figure 5c).

As professional football grew in (Figure 4f). This one depicts Christopher popularity, even foreign whiskey makers Columbus as he first stepped ashore in the took notice.

Johnny Walker Scotch (Fig. 5d) New World. Founded by the Bernheim issued a token with the New York Jets brothers, Bernard and I.W., soon after the games for 1972 (Fig. 5e).

That was a season Civil War, the distillery later became in which Joe Namath was hurt and the team another Schenley purchase. finished 7-7.

Other examples are more difficult to The Miami Dolphins did much better date. The Old Granddad with a loop

Fig. 6a: Old Government Whiskey

Fig. 6b: Toole’s Irish side #1

Fig. 6c: Toole’s Irish side #2

on the 1974 schedule issued by George Dickel Whiskey, making the playoffs (Fig. 5f, 5g). The Dickel operation was founded by a Nashville whiskey rectifier and wholesaler who bought a distillery in 1870 that operated until 1910 when Tennessee went dry. After Prohibition Schenley Distillery bought the rights to the facility and moved it to Tullahoma, Tennessee.

Simply Advertising Clearly, whiskey exonumia could serve real uses: They facilitated gambling, paid for drinks, anchored watches, secured keys and presumably brought good luck. Other items, however, had no discernible functional purpose. They existed entirely for their advertising value. But many have an intrinsic interest that has resulted in their being preserved and collected.

A favorite of mine is the pre-Pro token from Old Government Whiskey depicting a splendid eagle and shield (Figure 6a).

The flip side is blank. This brand was registered by William Wolff & Co. of San Francisco in 1897. The company appears to have ceased business in 1910, at which point the brand continued to be distributed by the Rathjens Mercantile Co. of San Francisco until 1918.

Another vintage example is from Toole’s Whiskies with an ingenious “eye” motif (Figure 6b) This liquor claimed to be the “Crame (Cream) of Irish Whiskey” and emanated from F. Toole & Co. of London (Figure 6c). The Scottish motif of thistle flowers was the well-recognized symbol of Hannah & Hogg, highly successful whiskey merchandisers of preProhibition Chicago (Figure 6d). The opposite side lists the firm’s addresses, including its ownership of the fashionable downtown Brevoort Fig. 6d: Hannah & Hogg Hotel.

Another Chicago-

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Fig. 6f: Cream Pure Rye - side #2

Fig. 6g: George Stagg - side #1

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Fig. 6h: George Stagg - side #2

based outfit, the Dallemand Co., issued a pre-Pro aluminum token with its elaborate monogram (Figures 6e,6f). This firm, that also had roots in San Francisco, was in the business of whiskey wholesaling from 1885-1918. Cream Pure Rye was its flagship brand. Dallemand’s labels also included Old Joe Murphy and Old Ripy.

Ending on a modern note, this handsome token (Figure 6g) from the George T. Stagg Co., of Frankfort, Ky., and New York City probably was issued in 1992 for the 500th anniversary of Columbus

landing in America. The initials “O.F.C.” on the flip side (Figure 6h) refer to Old Fire Copper, the name by which the distillery was known at its founding. Since Stagg’s death in the early 1890s, the facility has gone through a series of owners. Today the brand is a limited-production bourbon distributed by Buffalo Trace Distillery, currently operating at the original Stagg site.

The items shown here represent more than 100 years of whiskey-related tokens and medallions. Thousands of others exist.

References: Material for this article has been drawn from a wide variety of Internet and printed sources. “United States Trade Tokens, 1866-1899” by Russell Rulau (Krause, 1983) contains important information on early exonumia. Portions of this article earlier appeared in the Potomac Pontil.

More New Finds, by Barry L. Bernas Continued from page 41.

Brookside, Alabama; Don Burkett of Monroe, Michigan and Wayne and June Lowry of Raymore, Missouri.

4 “Cataloging a Russell Uhl-Patented, Glass Screw Cap,” Barry L. Bernas, Bottles and Extras, Spring 2004, pgs. 29-33. For those unfamiliar with this sealer, the above article will provide more details about it.

5 Ibid, pgs. 30-33 and Perfection Glass Company, One of Many Glass Houses in Washington, Pennsylvania, Barry L. Bernas, 239 Ridge Avenue, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 2005, pg. XXIX. The identification, classification and cataloging process for the Russell Uhl-patented screw cap was initially laid out in the first reference. The second one updated the methodology to its current status.

6 The height was calculated without the stopper being in place.

7 On the Internet, I’ve seen the composition of this threaded metal coupling device be described as being made of anywhere from pewter to nickel. However, in Company literature only two kinds were offered for sale.

One was the coated version that I’ve described and the other was uncoated and made of tin.

8 The Evolution of Table Glass is the title of the circa August to October 1903 product catalog from the Perfection Glass Company, Washington, Pennsylvania. Please consult the following references for more information about the Optic motif. Perfection Glass Company, One of Many Glass Houses in Washington, Pennsylvania, Barry L. Bernas, 239 Ridge Avenue, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 2005, pg. 55 and “The William B. Fenn Patented Water Bottle,

Made For Perfection,” Barry L. Bernas, Bottles and Extras, Summer 2004, pg. 18.

9 The Evolution of Table Glass, updated (circa August to October 1903), Perfection Glass Company, Washington, Pennsylvania (product catalog); Perfection Glass Company, One of Many Glass Houses in Washington, Pennsylvania, Barry L. Bernas, 239 Ridge Avenue, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 2005, pgs.

58-59 and 69; “If it separates, it’s perfection.”

Identification and Price Guide for PERFECTION Tableware, Barry L. Bernas, 239 Ridge Avenue, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 17325, 2006, pg. 4 and A Third Round of Separating Glassware from Perfection, Barry L. Bernas, Bottles and Extras, May-June, 2008. Each of the above references lists this model of squirt bottle.

10 “Have You Seen a Scalloped Flange Tumbler?,” Barry L. Bernas, Bottles and Extras. Part One, Sept.-Oct.2007, pgs.38-42 and Part Two, Nov.-Dec. 2008, pgs. 54-60.

This article documents a flared scalloped flange tumbler with the word – Mother – engraved on it.

11 Tumblers, Jars and Bottles; A Product Identification Guide for the Capstan Glass Company, South Connellsville, Pennsylvania, Barry L. Bernas, 239 Ridge Avenue, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 17325, pg. 60.

12 “Updating of the Cataloging Process for the Russell Uhl Patented Cover,” Barry L. Bernas, Bottles and Extras, future edition and Capstan’s Applied Color Tumblers, Barry L. Bernas, Bottles and Extras, March-April 2007, pgs. 23-25. The above two articles contain more examples provided by Galen Ware.

from Perfection,” Barry L. Bernas, Bottles and Extras, May-June, 2008. In addition to the more comprehensive accounting in the first article above, the second write-up previously reported a Hotel or Style 52 scalloped flange container as Figure 10. The third round report documents the existence of a flangeless Colonial tumbler, previously shown in advertisements as Figures 3 and 8 in the initial reference, which was unavailable when the first article was written. The actual specimens documented in these articles constitute the known editions of a scalloped flange or flangeless tumbler made by the Sterling and Perfection Glass Companies of Washington, Pennsylvania.

2 Tumblers, Jars and Bottles; A Product Identification Guide for the Capstan Glass Company, South Connellsville, Pennsylvania, Barry L. Bernas, 239 Ridge Avenue, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 17325, pg. 136. “A Look at the Capstan Glass Fluted Tumbler Series,” Barry L. Bernas, Bottles and Extras, March-April 2008, pgs. 37-40. Mike Black’s fluted version can also be placed in the mold number section under the second entry for the Fluted Outer Surface-Plain Inner Surface grouping in this article.

3 Over the past several years, Mr. Rhinberger has allowed me to examine and measure over forty examples of this style of screw cap that he has in his collection. Other collectors have also contributed to my database on this cover. They are: Bobby Butler of

Whether considered as a separate collection or as providing a rich source of “go withs” for whiskey bottle, jug or shot glass aficionados, the wondrous world of whiskey exonumia offers virtually limitless possibilities.

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The Knox Glass Bottle Co.

By Bill Lockhart, Pete Schulz, Carol Serr and Bill LIndsay One of the authors (Lockhart 2004) wrote his first study about glass marks of the Knox conglomerate, identifying the T-in-a-keystone mark as the logo used by the Knox plant in Palestine, Texas. Because it was based on preliminary research, the study was lacking many details. The following is a greatly improved version.

Lockhart was fortunate to interview Jack Underwood, nephew of the founder of Knox, in 2004. Underwood shared memories of his father, Chester, and of Knox after 1932. He also provided a copy of the Knox News, the newsletter of the corporation.

History Knox Glass Bottle Co. (1917-1968) – Overview Roy Underwood was the power behind the Knox Glass Bottle Company. Born on July 27, 1887, he began his career in glass as a boy at the Crescent Glass Bottle Company and soon learned glass blowing.

He organized the Marienville Glass Company in 1914. Just three years later, in 1917, he moved to Knox, Pennsylvania, and organized the Knox Glass Bottle Company (Glass Industry 1951a:562; Knox News 1951a:1-2; Toulouse 1971:293).

Early on, Knox had several “affiliates,” the earliest of which were the Wightman Bottle & Glass Mfg. Co., the Knox plant, Marienville, and the Eden Glass Co. Later, Knox purchased existing plants and built new ones.

Toulouse (1971:294) suggested that it was “generally assumed that in most of [the additional factories] local money was teamed with Roy R. Underwood’s management and promotion ability in exchange for stock.” Apparently, this exchange of stock eventually resulted in complete Knox takeovers. Having “Glass Bottle Co.” as part of the name almost became a Knox trade mark.

In 1929, Knox joined with Frank O’Neill of the O’Neill Machine Co., Toledo, Ohio, to make the Knox-O’Neill machine. The Glass Industry noted that “the new machine is said to incorporate all the advantages of suction feed and do away with many of the disadvantages of the gob feeder” (Glass Industry 1929a:18). By October, the Knox-O’Neill Glass Co. had

sold 95 of the machines to the Carr-Lowrey Glass Co., Whitall-Tatum Co., OwensIllinois Glass Co., and used two itself at the Knox, Pennsylvania, factory (American Glass Review 1929b:15; Glass Industry 1929b:251). By at least 1935, the company was known as Knox Glass Associates, Inc. Roy’s younger brother, Chester, joined the Knox management and eventually began a southern expansion of the company, beginning with the Knox Glass Bottle Company of Mississippi at Jackson in 1932.

Chester opened a second southern plant at Palestine, Texas, in 1941. After Roy’s death on October 16, 1951, Chester took over the operation of Knox (Glass Industry 1951b:568; Toulouse 1971:271-272).

However, he found himself in a difficult position. The company was in financial trouble and he began selling off some of the Knox plants to retain solvency. The other stockholders executed a proxy raid and ejected Chester from power. Along with his sons, Dick and Jack, Chester started the Underwood Glass Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1956 (Toulouse 1971:294, 297; Underwood interview).

In 1956, Knox Bottle was renamed the Knox Glass Co., Inc. and divided into northern and southern sections (Toulouse 1971:297). Knox officially became a subsidiary of Hunt Foods & Industries, Inc., on October 15, 1965 (Modern Brewery Age 1965:3). The Glass Container Corporation acquired the ten remaining Knoxorganization plants in 1968 (Toulouse 1971:297). See Table 1 for the list of factories.

Factories Marienville Glass Co., (1914-1968) Roy Underwood established the Marienville Glass Co. in 1914 (Knox News 1951b:6). Although the plant burned in early 1922, it was completely rebuilt by February 1923 (Glass Worker 1923:9).

Marienville was originally unrelated to Knox, even though Underwood was the president of both corporations. Underwood made the position of Knox toward Marienville clear in 1925: The Knox Glass Bottle Company, Knox, Pa., is not connected in any way with the Marienville Glass Company which

Bottles and Extras has been widely reported as having been taken over by the former concern. R. R. Underwood of the Knox company states that while that company is not interested, he is personally interested and that it is quite possible that the Knox company will purchase a goodly portion of the Marienville company’s output (Glass Industry 1925:136).

By 1926, all four Knox affiliates used Lynch machines with Miller feeders and were gradually phasing out hand shops (American Glass Review 1926:15). In 1927, Marienville made “flint prescriptions, vials, patent, proprietary, liquors and flasks” at one continuous tank with three rings. The list was amended to include amber glass the following year, although the products remained constant (American Glass Review 1927:139; 1928:141). The Marienville Glass Co. became officially affiliated with Knox in 1929 1 (Ceramic Age 1933c:119).

A series of explosions, followed by a fire, destroyed the Marienville factory (for the fourth time) on June 2, 1930.

Rebuilding began almost immediately (McKean County Miner 1930:6), with the new plant expanded to two continuous tanks with six rings. In 1932, the plant added fruit jars. With the repeal of Prohibition, the plant converted primarily to the production of beer bottles in April 1933. Marienville was intended to handle the bulk of beer bottle orders for Knox. The factory increased to eight rings in 1935 and made “flint and amber, proprietary, beers, liquors and specialties.” By 1942, the plant used ten rings and noted “8 feeders.

Machine” in 1944 (American Glass Review 1930:92; 1932:75-76; 1935:88; 1942:103; 1944:103; Ceramic Age 1933c:119; New Castle News 1933:2; McKean County Democrat 1933). The operation cut back to a single furnace in 1947and was producing wine bottles, glass jugs and widemouth containers in 1954 (Toulouse 1971:295; Oil City Derrick 1955).

Knox Glass Bottle Co., Knox, Pennsylvania (1917-1968) On March 10, 1917, the Warren Mirror announced the formation of a new corporation with a capital of $35,000. With W. I. McDowell as president and Roy R. Underwood as secretary and general manager, the Knox Glass Bottle Co. in Knox, Pennsylvania, was expected to begin blowing glass on June 1. The plant began

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Table 1 - Knox Plants and Dates to the Knox Sale in 1968 Company Marienville Glass Company

Location

Dates

Marienville, Pennsylvania

1914-1968*

Knox Glass Bottle Co.

Knox, Pennsylvania

1917-1968

Wightman Bottle & Glass Mfg. Co.

Parker’s Landing, Pennsylvania

1921**-1968

Eden Glass Co.

Knox, Pennsylvania

1925-1928

Pennsylvania Bottle Co.

Sheffield, Pennsylvania

1927-1952

Oil City Glass Bottle Co.

Oil City, Pennsylvania

1930-1952

Knox Glass Bottle Co. of Mississippi

Jackson, Mississippi

1932-1968

Metro Glass Bottle Co.

Jersey City, New Jersey

1935-1949

Knox Canada, Ltd.

Oshawa, Ontario

1939-1940

Knox Glass Bottle Co. of Mississippi

Palestine, Texas

1941-1985

Lincoln Glass Bottle Co.

Lincoln, Illinois

1942-1952

Seaboard Glass Bottle Co.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1943-1947

Denver Glass Bottle Co.

Denver, Colorado

1943-1951

Midwest Glass Co.

Gas City, Indiana

1951-1968

Knox Glass Co.

Danielson, Connecticut

1958-1968

Knox Glass Co.

Atlanta, Georgia

1961-1968

Knox Glass Co.

Baltimore, Maryland

1961-1968

* Marienville was affiliated with Knox in 1926 (Toulouse 1971:298). with a single four-ring tank that serviced “eight hand blow shops” making prescription ware (Glass Industry 1942:93; Glass Worker 1917:1). Underwood was to retain his position until 1935 and actually ran the company (Toulouse 1971:298).

According to the Knox News (1951b:6), the company built a second plant in the city of Knox in 1922, although this may actually refer to the Eden Glass Co. (see below). We have not found that date referenced by any other source. By 1926, all four Knox affiliates used Lynch machines with Miller feeders and were gradually phasing out hand shops (American Glass Review 1926:15).

In 1927, the Knox Glass Bottle Co. was only listed in Knox, Pennsylvania. The Knox plant made “prescriptions and vials” at that point on a single continuous tank.

By the following year, the plant had added another tank and listed milk bottles. A 1928 ad noted that Knox specialized in prescription, proprietary, perfumery, and milk bottles in amber and flint glass. It also noted that Knox had grown from one to six factories since 1917, while “the national demand for bottles has not increased to such an extent. The demand for Knox Bottles

has developed our small beginning into a national institution. There must be a reason” (American Glass Review 1927:137; 1928:138-139).

In 1929, Knox No. 1 specialized in prescription bottles and Knox No. 2 (both in Knox, Pennsylvania) made miscellaneous bottles (Oil City Derrick 1929a:1). At the same time, the listing for Knox plants in general was enlarged to “prescription and proprietary ware; flint and amber beverages; packers and preservers; bottle specialties; milk jars” in 1929. The same listing continued until at least 1936. By 1942, milk bottles had been dropped from the list, but the plant had added carbonated beverages. Fruit jars became a new listing in 1943 (American Glass Review 1929b:100; 1936:93; 1943:102).

After a three-year shutdown, Underwood opened a new plant on a new site at Knox shortly before his death in 1951. Tank capacity was 130 tons, and production was estimated at seven carloads per day. Among the machines were two Knox W. D. machines. On the first full day of operation, “four-ounce peroxide bottles, pint wine flasks and quart black

bottles were augmented by pint juice bottles and tavern-style no-deposit beer bottles” (Oil City Blizzard, 1951). The operation closed again, the following year, but even as the company was eliminating other plants, expansion at Knox continued, with the erection of a large new warehouse and eleven new batch silos for storage of raw materials. After a nine-month shutdown, the new facilities opened in early 1953. In 1954, the Knox facility was still concentrating on amber ware, producing beer, liquor, bleach and pharmaceutical bottles (Oil City Derrick 1953a; 1953b; 1955). One of the Knox locations put in a new unit for making emerald green glass in 1958 (Food Packer 1958:37).

Wightman Bottle & Glass Mfg. Co., Parker’s Landing, Pennsylvania (19211952) 2 Knox Glass Bottle Co. of Parker, Parker (formerly Parker’s Landing), Pennsylvania (1952-1968) The Wightman Bottle & Glass Co. of Parker’s Landing, Pennsylvania, became a Knox affiliate in 1921, although the plant retained its name and identity became a Knox affiliate in 1921, although the plant

56 retained its name and identity (Cole 2003; Knox News 1951b:6). By 1926, all four Knox affiliates (including Wightman) used Lynch machines with Miller feeders and were gradually phasing out hand shops (American Glass Review 1926:15). A 1927 ad (American Glass Review 1927:136) listed both the Wightman Bottle & Glass Mfg. Co. and the Marienville Glass Co. as “affiliated companies.” The ad also claimed that Knox made “Just Good Bottles.”

The Parker’s Landing plant burned in June 1929 and the company became “financially strained.” Underwood bought the remains and rebuilt the factory as a Knox unit, still retaining the Wightman name (Toulouse 1971:295). The new factory included a $150,000 tank that doubled the output of the unit (Titusville Herald 1929:1). Under Knox, the plant made amber glass bottles and milk bottles (Olean Herald 1929:8). The Knox decision to sell the milk production to the Thatcher Mfg. Co. in 1932 required a change of product at the Wightman plant (Oil City Derrick 1932:11). Unfortunately, we have not discovered the changed products. After the 1952 reorganization, the plant was renamed the Knox Glass Bottle Co. of Parker. Knox built an addition to the factory in 1956 (Goldinger & Fetters [1999]:58).

Eden Glass Co., Knox, Pennsylvania (1925-1927) In 1925, the Eden Glass Co., a Knox affiliate, opened at Knox, Pennsylvania, adjacent to the original Knox plant. The plant originally operated “two Lynch machines each with a Wm. J. Milller feeder and five hand shops.” This was the full productive capability for the continuous tank (American Glass Review 1926:15).

The plant was built primarily for the manufacture of “laboratory and amber glass” (Glass Worker 1925:12). On December 22, 1926, the stockholders voted “to transfer all property and assets of the company to the Knox Glass Bottle company” effective January 1, 1927 (Oil City Derrick 1926:11). Thereafter, it was usually impossible to distinguish the original Eden and Knox plants in reports on the company’s operations in the city.

Pennsylvania Bottle Co., Sheffield, Pennsylvania (1926-1952) Underwood next opened the Pennsylvania Bottle Co. at Sheffield,

May-June 2008 Pennsylvania, in 1926 replacing the former, bankrupt, Sheffield Glass Bottle Co. Fire had destroyed the older factory on January 29, but Knox began construction on the new one on February 17. The Simplex Engineering Co. completed the new installation in time to light the first fire on April 20, 1926, and the plant began operations on May 17. The renewed operation used a single tank to supply six O’Neill feeders and automatic machines (Glass Industry 1926:181).

The plant did not appear in the 1927 Glass Factory Year Book, but it was listed with R. R. Underwood as president in the 1928 edition, making “prescription ware, flint beverages, packers and preservers, milk jars, bottle specialties” by machine at one continuous tank with five rings. By 1931, the plant was up to six rings. The listing continued to be the same until at least 1936 (American Glass Review 1927; 1928:94; 1931:88). In 1932, however, milk bottle production ceased, when Knox sold that portion of the business to the Thatcher Mfg. Co. (Oil City Derrick 1932:11).

In 1933, the Sheffield plant pioneered “colored inscriptions” on prescription bottles (Ceramic Age 1933a:86). Although the process was never popular for prescriptions, the Owens-Illinois Glass Co. named the method Applied Color Lettering the following year and it became the standard for labeling soda and milk bottles.

Knox closed the decorating plant in 1935, transferring the work to the Oil City unit.

The plant was reopened in May 1937 3 (McKean County Democrat 1935a:3; Williamsport Gazette and Bulletin 1937:2).

By 1942, the plant had seven rings and was making “flint glass wide mouth and narrow mouth food packers and preservers ware, liquor ware, beer bottles, ammonia bottles, private mould work” (American Glass Review 1942:106). In 1951, in the face of “a sharp curtailment of orders due to unstable business conditions, “Knox laid off about 100 workers and shipped three of the plant’s seven machines to the new acquisition in Gas City.” The following year, the name was changed to the Knox Glass Bottle Co. of Sheffield, but the factory closed in 1953 (Warren Times-Mirror 1951; Toulouse 1971:295, 333-334, 532). This was probably another plant sold in the unpopular 1952 decision by Chester Underwood.

Sheffield Glass had consisted of three plants, at Sheffield and Wilcox, both in Pennsylvania, and Columbus, Ohio. Knox

Bottles and Extras immediately closed the Columbus plant after the purchase (Warren Mirror 1928:5).

Pennsylvania Bottle Co., Wilcox, Pennsylvania (1927-ca. 1932) When Knox moved into the Wilcox plant in June 1927, the factory was already set up to make amber bottles and “a miscellaneous line of drugware” (Oil City Derrick 1927a:3). The plant used three O’Neill feeders and automatic machines (Glass Industry 1926:181). However, a disastrous fire destroyed the unit on July 25, 1927. The plant was almost new, having been rebuilt by the Sheffield Glass Bottle Co. after an earlier fire in 1925. Knox again rebuilt the factory in 1928 (Oil City Derrick 1927b:1; Warren Mirror 1927:12; Warren Tribune 1928:5). We have found no reference to the closing of the Wilcox plant, but the city was not listed in ads after 1932.

Oil City Glass Bottle Co., Oil City, Pennsylvania (1930-1952) The Oil City Glass Bottle Co. at Oil City, Pennsylvania, was built in 1930, and this is an excellent example of Roy Underwood’s use of local capital to enlarge production by building new factories. In December 1929, Underwood met with local businessmen at Oil City and created a new corporation with a capital stock of $100,000. Underwood and his Knox associates would only own 20% of the stock, while the remaining 80% was controlled by local people. A single tank, operating two Knox-O’Neill suction machines was expected to begin production on May 1, 1930 (Oil City Derrick 1929a:1-3).

The Oil City and Jackson plants were known as the “Depression Factories” because of their construction in the early years of the Great Depression (Glass Industry 1942:93). W. K. Rolland, a local investor, described why Knox chose Oil City as a site. He noted that for Knox, this was “merely a step in an expansion program they have outlined for several years ahead.”

The location was chosen because “Oil City has a very satisfactory labor situation: excellent transportation facilities ... excellent power facilities ... low industrial rates on power ... a friendly cooperative spirit towards incoming industries” (Oil City Derrick 1929b:1).

The Oil City plant made “flint prescription and proprietary ware” at one continuous tank with three machines in 1931. The factory added another machine

Bottles and Extras in 1933 and two more by 1942 for a total of six (American Glass Review 1930:93; 1931:87; 1933:69; 1942:104-105). Knox closed the plant in 1948 but reopened it with a larger furnace supporting “three Knox W-D machines, one Lynch 10 machine and on five section HartfordEmpire I. S. Machine” (Warren TimesMirror 1959:2). Oil City was one of the branches sold in Chester Underwood’s unpopular 1952 decision. The now independent factory renamed itself the Oil City Glass Co. (Oil City Blizzard 1952; Toulouse 1971:298).

Knox Glass Bottle Co. of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi (1932-1968) Chester Underwood searched the South for a good location for a new Knox plant.

He fell in love with Jackson, Mississippi, and rebuilt the former Dixie Glass Mfg. Co. plant there in 1932. The factory added two new machines in 1933 (Ceramic Age 1933b:119; Glass Industry 1942:93; Toulouse 1971:296, 298). This was the first plant built “under the Underwood aegis alone.” Chester moved to Jackson and operated the Southern plants until he became president of Knox upon his brother’s death in 1951 (Toulouse 1971:296, 271-272).

In 1934, the Knox Glass Bottle Co. of Mississippi made “bottles and containers, milk jars” at one continuous tank. The list was amended to “packers and preservers ware, bottle specialties, private mold work” in 1935, and the list remained the same until at least 1936. By 1942, the list had changed to “prescription and proprietary ware, packers and preservers, flint beverages, fruit jars, bottle specialties; private mould work.” In 1954 the factory was credited with liquor, wine and pharmaceutical bottles, as well as wide mouth and miscellaneous ware (American Glass Review 1934:95; 1935:87; 1942:102; Oil City Derrick 1955).

Metro Glass Bottle Co., Jersey City, New Jersey (1935-1949) The Metro Bottle Co., a jobber, opened at Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1916 and began operating a small hand plant in 1931.

Knox bought the company and built a new factory in 1935. Knox sent several Marienville employees to Jersey City in early October to help the new plant get off to a good start (McKean County Democrat 1935b:2).

This was a typical Underwood

May-June 2008 organization. Roy Underwood worked with Emanual M. Terner, the main backer of Metro, to form the Metro Glass Bottle Co., a Knox associate. Using local financing, the new corporation built a new plant with one continuous tank and four machines. In 1939, the plant was enlarged to two tanks.

Local interests, backing Terner, purchased the plant back from Knox in 1949, added a third tank in 1950, and a fourth by 1957 (Glass Industry 1942:93; Toulouse 1971:296, 298, 342-343). By 1942, Metro made a “general line of wide mouth and narrow neck containers, including beers and liquors. Flint and Amber,” still at two continuous tanks (American Glass Review 1942:104).

Canadian Knox Glass Co., Ltd., Oshawa, Ontario (1939-1940) Underwood announced plans for the Canadian Knox Glass Co., Ltd. at Oshawa, Ontario, in April 1939 (Glass Packer 1939:237). Knox actually obtained a federal charter on February 1, 1939, and rented buildings to establish the Knox presence in Canada. The new plant made a number of wine, soda, vinegar, sauce and mayonnaise bottles, but the Dominion Glass Co. purchased the property on May 14, 1940, for $618,270. Dominion continued to sell the existing stock of bottles until 1942 (King 1987:151, 156).

Knox Glass Bottle Co. of Mississippi, Palestine, Texas (1941-1968) In 1942, a reporter for the Glass Industry noted: “On a plot of ground that at this time last year was a cotton field, now stands a modern Knox Glass Bottle Company plant.” The Palestine, Texas, plant opened on July 5, 1941, after only 95 days of construction. The latest Knox addition sported a 90-ton furnace, fired by natural gas. The eighth in the sequence of Knox plants, Palestine’s furnace supplied “four Lynch 10 machines, a Lynch J P machine, and a Lynch J P M machine through six forehearths and feeders.” The unit produced containers for “soft drinks, beverages, foods, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, extracts, wines and liquors, fruit, and, in fact, glass containers of every description” in 1942 and reportedly was making liquor, wine and pharmaceutical bottles, as well as miscellaneous and wide-mouth containers, twelve years later (Glass Industry 1942:9193; Oil City Derrick 1955). The Palestine plant broke ground in June 1957 to build a

57 special factory for making amber glass (Food Packer 1958:37). Eventually, the plant provided jobs for almost 500 local citizens and became the town’s most important industry.

Lincoln Glass Bottle Co., Lincoln, Illinois (1942-1952) Knox established the Lincoln Glass Bottle Co. at Lincoln, Illinois, on October 21, 1942. 4 The branch used a single continuous tank with five machines to make amber beer bottles for Anheuser Busch and was open from 1942 until 1952 when it was sold to the Obear-Nester Glass Co., East St. Louis, Illinois (American Glass Review 1943:174; Oil City Derrick 1942:10; Toulouse 1971:296, 298; Underwood interview).

Seaboard Glass Bottle Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1943-1947) Knox purchased the J.T. & A. Hamilton Co. On February 1, 1943 and renamed it the Seaboard Glass Bottle Co. Knox retained J.T. Hamilton as an officer. The plant had two continuous tanks with modern forming machines. The factory was already equipped to make perfume and cosmetic bottles, as well as milk containers.

Although Seaboard was a separate corporation, the entire output of the plant was sold through Knox. The company operated the factory until 1947 and tore it down (American Glass Review 1943:104105; 1944:169-170; Oil City Derrick 1943:2; Toulouse 1971:290-291, 296, 298; 455).

Denver Glass Bottle Co., Denver, Colorado (1946-1951) The Denver plant opened at 35th and Wazee Streets on May 12, 1946. The factory made amber and colorless bottles and jars in sizes ranging from ½-ounce to 32-ounce containers. A second plant was being contemplated while the first was still being constructed (Glass Industry 1926:351; Rocky Mountain News March 12, 1948). Despite all the fanfare, the plant closed on December 10, 1951 (Toulouse 1971:296, 298).

Midwest Glass Co., Gas City, Indiana (1951-1968) The Midwest Glass Company, Gas City, Indiana (formerly the Slick Glass Co.), became part of Knox in 1951 and remained until the sale to the Glass Container Corp. in 1968 (Toulouse 1971:296, 298).

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Dover Glass Bottle Co., Dover, Delaware (1951) At the time of Roy Underwood’s death in 1951, a plant in Dover, Delaware, was reported as being under construction (Glass Industry 1951a:562). We have found no other record of the factory, and work was probably discontinued during Chester Underwood’s downsizing in 1952.

Knox Glass Co., Danielson, Connecticut (1958-1968) This was the first plant built during the second surge of Knox expansion. The company constructed the initial plant at Danielson, Connecticut in 1958 to produce a “broad line” of flint glass containers (Food Packer 1958:37). Using a unique three-handled shovel, Ray Rich, chairman and president of Knox, was joined by the governor of Connecticut and a labor leader to break ground for the new Danielson, Connecticut, plant in August 1964 (American Brewer 1964:40).

Knox Glass Co., Atlanta, Georgia (19611968) Knox opened a new plant in Atlanta, Georgia in 1961 (Simpson 1962:64; Toulouse 1971:298). Plans for the factory included two furnaces intended for flint and

Figure 1: Knox Mason (Creswick 1987:79)

Figure 2: Knox K-in-a-Keystone Mason and Figure 3: Knox-in-a-Circle Genuine Mason (Creswick 1987:79)

amber glass. Future projections, however, included an increase in capacity to produce Georgia green (for Coke bottles) and emerald green glass (Glass Industry 1960b:156).

Knox Glass Co., Baltimore, Maryland (1959-1968) Knox acquired the Buck Glass Co., Baltimore, Maryland, in 1959 5 and renamed the plant as its own (Glass Industry 1960a:68).

Containers and Marks A list of marks is presented in Table 2.

Knox The “Knox” logo appeared on fruit jars in at least three formats. A round jar was made, embossed with “Knox (upwardly slanted) / Mason” in script letters, during the 1930s (Creswick 1987b:79; Roller 1983:186) (Figure 1).

A “rounded square” jar was embossed “KNOX / {K in a keystone} / MASON, made in the 1930s to 1940s (Roller 1983:186). Creswick (1987b:79) noted four slight variations of the jar (Figure 2).

According to Toulouse (1969:175), the range extended from 1924 to 1951.

“Knox” (with an initial capital, then

Table 2 - Known Keystone Manufacturer’s Marks and Dates Used Mark D F J K L LP M N O P P R R S T U W

Company Denver Glass Bottle Co. C.L. Flaccus Glass Co.*** Knox Glass Bottle Co. of Mississippi Knox Glass Bottle Co. Lincoln Glass Bottle Co. Pennsylvania Bottle Co. Metro Glass Co.*** Newborn Glass Co.*** Oil City Glass Co. Wightman Bottle & Glass Co.* Honesdale Cut Glass Co.** C.F. Rumpp & Sons** *** Helen & Phil Rosso, Wholesale Glass Dealers, Inc.*** Seaboard Glass Bottle Co. Knox Glass Bottle Co. of Mississippi Pennsylvania Bottle Co. Westmoreland Glass Co. ***

Location Denver, CO Pittsburgh, PA Jackson, MS Knox, PA Lincoln, IL Wilcox, PA Jersey City, NJ Royersford, PA Oil City, PA Parkers Landing, PA Honesdale, PA Philadelphia, PA Internet Pittsburgh, PA Palestine, TX Sheffield, PA Grapeville, PA

Dates 1946-1951 ca. 1914-ca. 1920 1932-1952 1932-1968 1942-1952 1940-1952 1935-1949 ca. 1920-ca. 1925 1930-1952 1930-1952 1864-1937 1892-?

1969-present 1943-1947 1941-1952 1930-1952 1910-1986

* The Wightman family had been in the glass business since at least 1841, but the plant did not become a Knox affiliate until 1921. The factory was wholly owned by Knox in 1929. ** These are tableware marks. *** Not Knox.

Bottles and Extras lower-case letters), surrounded by a circle, was embossed above “Genuine / MASON” on another “rounded square” variation (Figure 3) that was made during the 1940s or 1950s (Creswick 1987b:79; Roller 1983:186).

May-June 2008 (Figure 5) from its inception in 1932 (Toulouse 1971:271) until 1952, when Chester Underwood was ousted, and all plants switched to K in a keystone.

Knoxall Knoxall was trade marked (No. 188,175) by R. R. Underwood of the Knox Glass Bottle Co. on August 19, 1924. Knox renewed the trade mark on August 19, 1944 (U.S. Patent Office 1944). The trade mark was stenciled on cases rather than embossed on bottles.

Figure 5: J-in-a-Keystone mark.

Figure 4: D-in-a-Keystone mark.

D in a Keystone (1946-1952) Some soft drink bottles are embossed on the bases with D in a keystone (Figure 4). In our sample, both the “D” and the keystone were a bit cruder than those on most Knox bottles, and the “D” bottles lacked the typical three-part code used by Knox. According to Jack Underwood, the bottles were probably made by the Denver plant, which opened in 1946. According to Toulouse (1971:298), Knox closed the plant in 1951.

F in a Keystone (ca. 1914-at least 1920) F in a Keystone, used by the C. L. Flaccus Glass Company was unrelated to the Knox factories, and this is addressed in Lockhart et al (2007b:41).

J in a Circle (ca. 1932) Robert Wagner, Hazelhurst, Mississippi, reported a bottle used by the Hazelhurst Bottling Works during the ca.

1936-1938 period. The base was embossed with the K-in-a-keystone mark typical of Knox but it also had a J-in-a-circle mark beside the keystone. Jack Underwood suggested that the initial molds used by the Jackson, Mississippi, plant were probably sent down from the main Knox plant with the K-in-a-keystone mark already on them.

Engravers at the Jackson branch probably added the J-in-a-circle mark to distinguish their new plant. It is also likely that new baseplates with J in a keystone were substituted for those from the main plant as soon as possible, so the J-in-a-circle mark combined with the K-in-a-keystone mark was probably only used during the first year, 1932.

mark for all Knox plants.” Neither author cited the source for his information, but Peterson used trade mark data from the U.S. Patent Office. It is therefore likely that the use of the mark began in 1932.6 The mark was certainly used until the sale to the Glass Container Corp.

Toulouse did not mention any manufacturer’s mark for the Marienville Glass Co.; however, a 1964 table of glass trademarks compiled by Owens-Illinois noted that Marienville used the K-in-akeystone mark after it became part of Knox (Berge 1980:83). In her earliest table of manufacturer’s marks, Jones (1965:[22]) noted the K-in-a-keystone mark as being used by the Marienville plant.

Unfortunately, she did not name her source, but it may have been the same table.

No specific marks are known for the plants at Danielson, Connecticut (built in 1959) and Atlanta, Georgia (built in 1961) or for the former Buck Glass Co, Baltimore, Maryland, that joined Knox in 1961. It is virtually certain that all of them only used the K-in-a-keystone mark that was apparently mandated to all Knox plants about 1952.

L in a Keystone (1942-1952) The L-in-a-keystone mark was used by the Lincoln Glass Bottle Company, a Knox plant established in Lincoln, Illinois, in 1942 (Figure 7). The company used the mark until the ousting of Chester Underwood in 1952 (Underwood interview).

K in a Keystone (Knox, Pennsylvania: 1932-1968; all surviving plants ca. 19521968) Peterson (1968:49) claimed that the Kin-a-keystone mark was first used by Knox Glass in 1932 (Figure 6). Toulouse (1971:293) dated the mark 1924 to 1968 and added that it was later the “general

HOM-PAK (1943-1947) The HOM-PAK was used by the Seaboard Glass Bottle Co., the Knox factory at Pittsburgh, on jars from 1943 to 1947.

HOM-PAK was used in conjunction with the S-in-a-keystone mark (described below).

J in a Keystone (1932-1952) The Knox Glass Bottle Co., Jackson, Mississippi, used the J-in-a-keystone mark

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Figure 7: L-in-a-Keystone mark.

Figure 6: K-in-a-Keystone mark.

LP in a Keystone (1940-1952) Toulouse noted that LP in a keystone was used by the Pennsylvania Bottle Co., Sheffield and Wilcox, Pennsylvania, from 1940 to 1952. The initials stand for both Lummis and Pennsylvania (see next entry).

Pennsylvania Glass made the bottles, and

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Lummis was the distributor. However, Pennsylvania Glass may have distributed some of its own bottles prior to the 1952 reorganization. Although the Pennsylvania Bottle Co. began in 1927, there was no reason for the “L” until Lummis was organized in 1940. Toulouse (1971:506) also stated that the Pennsylvania Bottle Co. used the U-in-a-keystone mark. We have not seen or heard of actual examples of the block LP-in-a-keystone mark. It seems likely that the plant used the “U” mark for bottles not distributed by Lummis (see next entry).

LP in a Keystone (1940-1952) The Lummis Glass Company of New York, New York, used the LP-in-a-keystone mark from 1940 to 1952, although the letters were in italics (Figure 8). However, Lummis was a distributor for the Pennsylvania Bottle Company and not an actual manufacturer (Figure 9). The bottles, themselves, were actually made by the Pennsylvania Glass Co. Lummis remained in business for at least three years after the Pennsylvania Bottle Co. closed in 1952 (Toulouse 1971:335). Lummis advertised itself as “sole distributors for Pennsylvania Bottle Company,” suggesting that the manufacturer, itself, had no need of the block-letter mark (American Glass Review 1942:109).

Bottles and Extras P in a Keystone (1930-1952) Toulouse (1971:293) noted that the P-in-a-keystone mark was used by the Wightman plant, Pittsburgh, from 1930 to 1952. Since Wightman became a Knox acquisition in 1929 and Knox rebuilt the plant, 1930 is a likely year for the mark to have begun use. It was used until the 1952 reorganization.

Pullin (1986:257) claimed the P-in-akeystone mark was also used by the Honesdale Cut Glass Co., Honesdale, Pennsylvania, in business from 1864 to 1937. The mark was used on cut glass ca.

1916. The mark could have been used by both companies; the use by Wightman was much later.

Figure 9: Lummis ad.

(American Glass Review 1943:109)

M in a Keystone (1935-1949) The Metro Glass Bottle Co. used the Min-a-keystone mark from its inception in 1935, until Knox sold the plant in 1949 (Figure 10). After 1949, the plant used an “M” in a horizontally elongated hexagon (Toulouse 1971:342).

R in a Keystone (ca. 1892) (1969-present) Another unrelated mark is a glass rooster marked with an “R” in a keystone.

That does not fit any of the possible Knox companies, nor were tableware or decorative glass a primary function of any Knox plant. According to Pullin (1986:275), the R-in-a-keystone mark was registered in 1892 for tableware by C. F. Rumpp & Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A more recent user of the mark is Helen and Phil Russo, Wholesale Glass Dealers, Inc. The couple, located in Southern Pennsylvania, have been wholesaling hen-on-nest glass dishes since 1969. They contract with various glass companies to manufacture the pieces under the Russo keystone trademark (Russo & Russo 2004; 2005).

S in a Keystone (1943-1947) The Seaboard Glass Bottle Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, used the S-in-akeystone mark from the date Knox purchased it from J.T. & A. Hamilton (1943) to the factory’s closure in 1947 (Figure 11).

Figure 8: LP-in-a-Keystone mark. [Whitten]

LUSTRE in a Keystone (ca. 1890-ca.

1900) Another mark, not represented on the table because it had no connection to Knox, is an upwardly slanted, script “Lustre”in a keystone found on the shoulders of some fruit jars. This was probably used from about 1890 to about 1900 by R. E. Tongue & Bros. of Philadelphia, a wholesaler in glassware, lamp chimneys, and pottery.

The company sold a jar embossed LUSTRE on the front with a lid marked Toungues Lustre Jar (Creswick 1987a:108).

Figure 10: M-in-a-Keystone mark.

N in a Keystone (ca. 1920-ca. 1925) Another mark unrelated to Knox, the N in a Keystone was used by the Newborn Glass Co. O in a Keystone (1930-1952) The Oil City Glass Bottle Co. used an O-in-a-keystone mark from its inception in 1930 until the company became independent of Knox in 1952 (Toulouse 1971:398-399).

Figure 11: S-in-a-Keystone mark.

Bottles and Extras T in a Keystone (1941-1952) Both Jimmy Odom and Jack Underwood confirmed that the Palestine, Texas, plant used the T-in-a-keystone manufacturer’s mark on soda bottles and jars made at the factory. The “T” in the keystone probably stood for Texas, since the “P” was already in use by the Wightman Bottle & Glass Company, at Parker’s Landing, Pennsylvania. The T-in-akeystone mark was used by the Palestine plant from 1941 until 1952, when the entire Knox system adopted the K-in-a-keystone mark.

U in a Keystone (1930-1952) Toulouse (1971:293) noted that this was the mark of the Sheffield, Pennsylvania, plant, used from 1929 to 1953, although the plant was more likely sold in 1952. The early date is also probably a year early. If the K-in-a-keystone was not adopted until 1930, it is unlikely that any other keystone marks were used by Knox plants prior to that time.

This is a more likely initial mark for the plant than the block LP in a keystone (see LP in a Keystone above) and may have been used until 1952. Unfortunately, Toulouse failed to explain his reasons for assigning this mark to Sheffield. The obvious connection is to Underwood, but it seems he would have used the mark on one of his more prominent plants.

W in a Keystone (ca. 1910-at least 1986) Unrelated to Knox, this mark was described by Pullin (1986:33) as used by the Westmoreland Glass Co., Grapeville, Pennsylvania, “registered circa 1910.”

K9 The State of Massachusetts required bottle manufacturers selling milk containers to dairies within its jurisdiction to emboss a “seal” on each bottle from 1909 to 1947. This replaced the system used during the preceding decade whereby the state required each dairy to have embossed on its bottles a “seal.” The specific “seal” used by Knox contained the “K9” designation.

Marks of K9, K-9, or K.9 are found on bottles, both with or without a Thatcher mark. These bottles lack date codes, although Giarde (1980:118-119) suggested a date range from the 1920s to the late 1930s. Giarde attempted to explain the marks but finally concluded, “In the final analysis it can only be said that K9 milk

May-June 2008 bottles should be attributed to Thatcher.

Beyond that, the K9 will remain a mystery until some researcher finds the answer.”

The researchers have arrived.

A complicating piece of evidence is the listing of the mark as belonging to the Knox Glass Bottle Co. in the 1928 Massachusetts Bulletin (Schadlich and Schadlich 1989).

Blodget (2006:8) also identified “K9” in the Massachusetts seal as the mark identifying Knox. The earliest listing we have found for milk bottle production by Knox was 1930 (American Glass Review 1930:91), although it had to have begun at least two years earlier.

The resolution of these apparently conflicting lines of evidence is fairly simple.

In December, 1932, Thatcher “purchased bottle machines, molds and name-plates, certain Hartford Empire licenses relating to the manufacture and sale of milk bottles, and good-will, etc., of Knox Glass Bottle Co., of Knox, Pa.” (Oil City Derrick 1932:11; Porter 1935:1518). Bottles exhibiting both the K9 designation and a Thatcher mark were clearly made by Thatcher after 1932. Bottles with an embossed K9 but lacking any Thatcher mark were presumably made by Knox before the Thatcher purchase.

The “K” in the mark obviously indicated Knox, but the number “9” is less obvious. Although this line of inquiry has yet to be fully researched, about 1910, a national numbering system for milk bottle manufacturers was set in place. This was probably not an official federal government notation, but it was used consistently by virtually all milk bottle manufacturers. The number “1,” for example, was assigned to the Lockport Glass Co. and was consistently used by that company in conjunction with the LGCo mark. Fidelity Glass Co. marked its bottles FG2 until the Atlantic Bottle Co. purchased the company and began using a mark of ABC2. This system continued in sequential order to at least 52 (the L52 mark used by Lamb Glass Co.). The number “9” was assigned to Knox.

These marks are found in at least three locations and configurations on milk bottles. “K9” is found on Massachusetts shoulder seals only in the “MASS / K9 / SEAL” format, a configuration officially adopted in 1918, although it was used by at least 1914 (Figure 12). The mark is also embossed on the heels of milk bottles, with and without the Massachusetts seal. A more unusual configuration is “SEALED / K9” in a circular plate mold on the shoulder.

61 We have not discovered a specific reason for this usage. [Most of the foregoing discussion was originally published in Lockhart et al.

2007a:60-61.]

Knox Codes Jack Underwood explained the components of the Knox system of mold numbers on bottle bases.

Figure 12: The numbers were Massachusetts K9 embossed in three seal. (Milk Dealer sections: a two1934) digit numeral followed by a dash; a single, capital letter followed by another dash; and a final oneor two-digit numeral (e.g. 54-B-10). The first two-digits identify the “number for the set of molds;” the letter represents the type of container (B = Beverages); and the final two numerals signify the capacity of the container (e.g. 10 = 10 ounces). Even if the first two digits seem to denote a year (as in the 54 example from an El Paso soft drink bottle), it is coincidental rather than a date code.

Other two-digit codes appear to be date codes – but are not. Some bottles with the J-in-a-keystone mark, for example, appear have a date code to the right of the manufacturer’s marks during the 1950s or 1960s (such as A53, A57, or 67). Since the Jackson, Mississippi, plant, like the rest of Knox, adopted the K-in-a-keystone mark in 1952, these codes in conjunction with the “J” mark are obviously not date codes.

We have not yet deciphered their meanings.

Other Keystone Marks Several companies used the keystone mark with no enclosed letter, especially on jars.

Discussion and Conclusions The history of Knox is very straight forward, showing the development of a conglomerate and its eventual decline and sale. Roy Underwood was undoubtedly a giant of the glass industry and a tremendous success. The company’s marks are common on bottles throughout the United States, except the West Coast.

62 The choice of letters to insert in the keystone is generally fairly obvious, although inconsistent. Most letters reflect the name of the plant (M for Metro, S for Seaboard) or the city of operation (J for Jackson, P for Parker’s Landing), although sometimes both the city and plan names were identical (K for Knox, L for Lincoln).

However, the T for the Palestine plant likely indicated Texas. The LP for both Lummis and the Pennsylvania Glass Co., while different, is also pretty obvious.

However the use of LP, LP, and U – all for the Sheffield, Pennsylvania, plant – requires a bit of discussion and speculation. Since the Lummis Glass Co., a jobber, distributed products for Sheffield, the italicized LP in a keystone makes sense.

The block LP is more difficult to justify, and it may not exist. First, if Lummis distributed the Sheffield glass, why would the company need a second mark? If it did use another mark – presumably for products it distributed for itself, why include the “L” for Lummis. An entirely separate mark would seem more appropriate.

According to Toulouse – who did not explain the reason for his assertion – the letter “U” in the keystone was a third mark connected to the Sheffield factory.

The connection to Roy Underwood is both obvious and uncharacteristic.

If Underwood wished to display his ego in that fashion, why would he not have selected the original Marienville plant or the one at Knox, the flagship factory for the firm? The series of marks for Sheffield just does not make sense. At this point, we have been unable to find an actual example of either the block LP in a keystone or the U in a keystone. It is possible that the “U” mark was only used by Sheffield from its inception until the introduction of Lummis in 1940.

Acknowledgments We want to thank David Andrews directing us to Jimmy Odom, a former worker at the Palestine, Texas, Knox plant.

Jimmy, in turn, put us in touch with Jack Underwood, nephew of the Knox founder, Roy Underwood, a former Knox plant manager, and later owner of the Underwood Glass Co. Thanks also to Robert Wagner for sharing his information on the early Knox Mississippi bottles with us.

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Footnotes: 1 Toulouse (1971:298) placed the date of connection with Knox at 1926.

2 The position of the Wightman plant in the Knox scheme is somewhat mysterious. In 1840 or 1841, Thomas Wightman was a junior partner in William McCully & Co., the owners of several Pittsburgh glass plants. When the partnership dissolved in 1851, Wightman joined Frederick Lorenz as Lorenz & Wightman, and they apparently broke up in 1854. In 1863, the sons, Moses Lorenz and Thomas Wightman, Jr., teamed up with Alexander Nimick to form another Lorenz & Wightman. The younger Wightman struck out on his own as Thomas Wightman & Co. in 1874. The firm became a limited partnership from 1883 to 1893 and operated under the name of the Thomas Wightman Glass Co. from 1893 to 1916. The company became the Wightman Bottle & Glass Co. in 1916 and changed a final time to the Wightman Bottle & Glass Mfg. Co. about 1927.

3 There is a bit of confusion here. The Democrat stated that the Sheffield plant would continue production “as long as the present glass furnace holds out,” likely one or two weeks. The Gazette and Bulletin, however, noted that the factory had been idle since 1932. This probably means that the decorating plant was a separate unit from the factory.

4 Glass Industry (1942:93) put the year (incorrectly) at 1941.

5 Toulouse (1971:298) erroneously placed the date of acquisition at 1961.

6 This makes it highly likely that none of the Knox keystone marks were used until 1932. However, this only affects marks used by the Oil City, Wightman, and Pennsylvania Bottle Co. plants, all currently dated beginning 1930. All others were already dated at 1932 or later.

Pending further research, we have not changed dates on the three factories in this article.

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Steven Saunders 3174 W Terrace Cr. Benson, AZ 85602 Steve3174@ureach.com Northeast Ohio beer, milk, soda, whiskey Bruce Shephard 14516 Nettle Creek Rd. Tampa, FL 33624 813-960-8081 shephardmd@verizon.net Cures Jack Shifflett 16447 Old Mill Rd. Lewes, DE 19958 (302) 645-8551 Robert E. Shreckengost 1132 State Route 1025 New Bethlehem, PA 16242 (814) 275-1827 Infant feeders Donald Simons 10352 Halsey Rd. Grand Blanc, MI 48439 (810) 695-0433 DonaldSimons@juno.com Beer, soda, stoneware, mineral water bottles from Flint, Bay City, and Saginaw, Michigan Larry (Lawrence) Smith, III 122 Rosewood Cir. Jupiter, FL 33458 (868) 743-7278 Bottlenut1@juno.com West Palm Beach, Miami and Key West bottles Royal Sutton 62 Dallas Village Shopping Ctr #303 Dallas, PA 18612 cowboysandindians1898@ ccomm.com Paul Vance 20 Union Church Rd. Dillsburg, PA 17019 (717) 432-2870 Bottles and early glass Mark Yates 2063 Stanley Rd. Cazenovia, NY 13035 (315) 655-8556 mlyates@twcny.rr.com Saratoga type mineral waters

Mike Rust 915 Nashville Rd. Coulterville, IL 62237 (618) 758-2794 rmrconstructioncompany@yahoo.com

New Clubs Hudson Valley Bottle Club Attn: Art Church 411 Hillside Lake Rd. Wappingers Falls, NY 12590 (845) 221-4259 Jelly Jammers Attn: Pat VanDyke 2917 E. Jackson Blvd.

Elkhart, IN 46516 (574) 295-1183 dcquiltbear@aol.com Piedmont Bottle & Pottery Club Attn: Johnny McAulay 16412 Amber Field Dr. Huntersville, NC 28078 (704) 719-7108 McAulaytime@aol.com antiquebottles.com/piedmont Uwharrie Bottle Club Attn: Todd McSwain 8649 Eddins Poplin Rd. Norwood, NC 28128 (704) 438-0305 mcswain8649@alltel.net

Changes Phil Townsend 2373 Locust Hill Blvd.

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Send to: MIKE CURTO, 2439 E. 63rd St., Brooklyn, NY 11234.

FOR SALE: THE COLORED HUTCHINSON BOOK Additional, 1999 1st Edition copies are now available.

Limited to 200 copies. Plastic protected, 416 pages. Spiral bound. 293 bottle illustrations with complete information on each. 126 Hutchinson bottles in full-color.

Media mail postpaid. $46.

W.H. HUTCHINSON 1889 BOTTLERS SUPPLY CATALOG. Reprint photocopy. Plastic protected. Spiral bound. 36 pages. Much information with illustrations. Media mail postpaid. $12. W.H. HUTCHINSON 1917 CATALOG AND PRICE LIST. Reprint photocopy. Plastic protected. Spiral bound. 2 pages of original catalog on each page. Great reference. Index. Much information with illustrations. Media mail postpaid. $18. Buy both catalogs for $27 or all three for $65. Check or money order to: ZANG WOOD, 1612 Camino Rio, Farmington, NM 87401.

FOR SALE: Bottles! Go to: http:// w w w. h i s t o r i c b o t t l e s . c o m / bottlesforsale.htm. ( Bill Lindsay, Klamath Falls, Oregon.)

FOR SALE: Rare quart salt glaze jug.

M.C.R., Corner Third and Market Streets, Maysville, Ky. $325. Rare quart size pinch backbar bottle with original stopper from Chattanooga, Tenn. Special Deys Spring in gold filled lettering. $150. One half-pint aqua G.I.X - 37 scroll flask. $115. Shipping and insurance included in prices. Contact: THOMAS NOEL, 1385 Norsworthy Rd., Kirksey, KY 42054, Ph: (270) 489-2440 or E-mail: jugging@mchsi.com.

FOR SALE: U.S.A. Hospital 6 1/4” size, emerald green. Killer! $2000. Coca-Cola Bottling Works, Phoenix, Ariz. aqua crown, mint: $200. One-wing cobalt three-sided Owl Drug Co., 2 1/8” Mint. $150. Contact: HENRY GUILLEN, Ph: (761) 367-6009.

FOR SALE: Hawaiian bottles & stone artifacts. Contact: STEVE GOODENOW, 625 Iolani Ave., PH, Honolulu, HI 96813, Ph: (808) 526-3245, E-mail: helpnow@hawaii.rr.com or see www.hawaiiancollectibles.com.

FOR SALE: A COLLECTOR’S GUIDE TO ARIZONA BOTTLES & STONEWARE newly expanded Second Edition. Sodas,

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Historical information on businesses, photographs & advertisements. Hundreds of bottles listed. 274 pages, including drawings of all known embossed bottles from 1880 to 1940. $40 postpaid. Send payments to: MICHAEL MILLER, 9214 W. Gary Rd., Peoria AZ 85345, Ph: (623) 486-3123 or E-mail: helgramike@cox.net.

FOR SALE: Pond’s Extract Veterinary Remedy (embossed) 9 1/4" x 3 1/2" with lip chip. Rare! Aqua. $100. SMALLER THAN THE GIANT 14" x 6" but QUITE A PIECE! Contact: CHRIS HILL, Ph: (845) 649-4104 or E-mail: Chris_Hill@crvi.org.

FOR SALE: 1/2 pint milk bottles, clear, perfect. 1) Pyro (red) HENDRICKS / DAIRIES / PERKASIE, PENNA, 1894.

Rooster & sunrise on reverse (plus motto) S25. 2) In a keystone, KEYSTONE DAIRY CO. / BRISTOL, PA., $26. 3) SUPPLEE / WILLS-JONES, S. on reverse, nearly perfect. $15. 4) GUSTAFSON’S / PHONE 30 / RICE LAKE, WISC., in a round slug plate, perfect. $20. Or buy them all (4) for $75 plus p@i.

Contact: WILLIAM HERBOLSHEIMER, 6 Beech Cluster, Doylestown, PA 18901-2134 or Ph: (215) 340-7156.

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FOR SALE: Nevada meds, beer cans, license plates, ash trays, unique 1950 Zanzibar Club liquor - gaming license, unique 1949 cloth wall hanging school map of Reno, Washoe County, about perfect.

For price list, send SASE to: Nevada Stuff, P.O. Box 412, Dayton, NV 89403 or Ph: (775) 246-0142 (Loren Love).

FOR SALE: Old bottles for sale at Raging Bull Antiques Mall, Big Timber, Montana.

Bottles, postcards, Western antiques, Navajo rugs, old furniture, great old advertising. “Expect the unexpected!” 25 dealers with great items. See booth #33.

JAMES CAMPIGLIA for bottles, advertising, casino chips, etc. Off I-90 downtown 60 miles from Bozeman. Open 10 am - 5 pm Mon.-Sat. Ph: (406) 932-7777.

FOR SALE: Digger Odell’s Pontil Medicine Encyclopedia 2007 $55.00 plus $4.50 shipping. 55 page price guide included. Check me out on the web at www.bottlebooks.com.

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WANTED Wanted: Tampa alligator Hutch. Highest price paid for FLA BREWING CO, TAMPA, FLA with embossed alligator. Must be Hutch finish, not Baltimore loop. Contact: R.J. BROWN, 4119 Crosswater Dr., Tampa, FL 33615, Ph: (813) 888-7007 or E-mail: RBrown4134@aol.com.

Wanted: Your Western whiskey want list of bottles that you need for your collection.

Let our sources work for you. Please be specific and include price ranges for your “wants.” Send to: Bret Heinemann, P.O. Box 291, Atascadero, CA 93423 or E-mail to: heinemann@netzero.com.

Wanted: Fruit Jar Newsletter issues: April 1981, June 1981 through March 1982, July 1982, September 1982, December 1982 through June 1983, August 1983, October 1983 through January 1984, March 1984, July 1984 through November 1984, January 1985 through February 1985, April 1985 through September 1985. Contact: JUNE LOWRY, Ph: (816) 318-0160, E-mail: JAL121053@aol.com.

Wanted: Sealfast Sold By jars, unusual Hirsch items, unusual Flaccus items and/or unusual pint jars. Contact: R. WAYNE LOWRY, Ph: (816) 318-0161, E-mail: JarDoctor@aol.com.

Wanted: Bottle-related books for the FOHBC and PSBCA reference library. Especially anything about soda bottles. Copies acceptible. Call or E-mail first to see if I have it. Contact: Kathy Hopson-Sathe, 341 Yellowstone Dr., Fletcher, NC 28732, Ph: (423) 737-6710 or E-mail: kathy@thesodafizz.com.

Wanted: J. Esposito “flag” and J. Esposito “Koca Nola” Philadelphia, Pa. Hutchinson sodas in any color. Contact: RJ BROWN, 4114 W. Mulden Ave., Tampa, FL 33609.

Wanted: Stoneware: Pre-prohibition advertising jugs, crocks, pitchers, churns, rolling pins from all states and all sizes. Will pay premium prices for jugs from small towns and saloons. Also want pre-prohibition shotglasses, signs, corkscrews, tokens and backbar bottles. Contact: THOMAS NOEL, 1385 Norsworthy Rd., Kirksey, KY 42054, Ph: (270) 489-2440 or E-mail: jugging@mchsi.com.

Wanted: Kentucky, especially Louisville, Ky. pre-pro whiskey and beer bottles plus shot glasses. Any distillery paper items. Also, western whiskey merchant Jno. H. Graves pre-pro bottles and shot glasses. Graves was from San Jose, Calif. Contact: DON MEYER, 2918 Lexham Rd., Louisville, KY 40220 or E-mail: dgravesmeyer@yahoo.com.

Wanted: Delaware bottles - milk, soda, beer & medicine. Contact: JOHN PATTERSON, 20 Boston Pl., Newcastle, DE 19720, Ph: (302) 653-6435 or E-mail: johndpatt@comcast.net.

May-June 2008 Wanted: Crowleytown Mason jars lid Redbook #9 listing #1774. Please contact: TOM GROVE, 6030 Harmony Grove Rd., Dover PA 17315 or E-mail: mossyhorns66@yahoo.com.

Wanted: American potlids, colored umbrella pontil inks, quart color U.S.A. Hospital bottles. Contact: HENRY GUILLEN, Ph: (761) 367-6009.

Wanted: Kuner Pickle Co., Denver, Colo. items; food tins; bottles; crocks and related items. Contact: BOB SEIFERT, P.O. Box 3641, Estes Park, CO 80517; Ph: (970) 5866655 or E-mail: BobnMarySeif@msn.com.

Wamted: Small stoneware canning jars.

Weir, Macomb, Sherwood with stenciled / printed advertising. Round-bodied, ballshaped Weir jars. White Macomb wax sealer, sealing wax boxes with hard red wax, lids, bales and clamps for stoneware jars.

Contact: MARVIN YOUNG, 4031 Larkin Ln., Midlothian, VA 23112, E-mail: marvinlyoung@mindspring.com.

Wanted: Hawaiian artifacts and stones. Contact: STEVE GOODENOW, 625 Iolani Ave., PH, Honolulu, HI 96813, Ph: (808) 526-3245, E-mail: hellpnow@hawaii.rr.com.

Wanted: Union clasping hands flasks. Still need several molds. Love colored ones.

Contact: JAMES R. BENDER, P.O. Box 162, Sprakers, NY 12166, Ph: (518) 673-8833 or E-mail: Jim1@frontiernet.net.

Wanted: Old shot glasses or medicine cups with embossed drug store advertising.

Especially need one from Ariz., Hawaii, Idaho, Nev., S.C., Utah and Wyo. druggists. Also interested in any from Ga. or Fla., and other interesting dose glasses. Will buy single glasses or entire collections. Thanks.

Contact: TRACY GERKEN, 1131 Kings Cross, Brunswick, GA 31525, Ph: (912) 2654660 or E-mail: 1gerken@bellsouth.net.

Wanted: Looking for any style of unembossed American bottles that have swirls, streaks or striations of other colors running through them. I pay a lot for the fancy specimens with heavy dark swirls in them. Must be unembossed. Contact: MARTY HALL, 15430 Sylvester Rd., Reno, NV 89521, Ph: (775) 852-6045, E-mail: rosemuley@charter.net.

Wanted: Montana, Montana, 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, P.O. Box 590, Libby, MT 59923, Ph: (406) 293-4048 or E-mail: letsgo@montanasky.net.

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Western dose glasses: Alaska, Hawaii, Montana, Idaho, New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, California and South Carolina.

Also territorial. Small (under 4”) western pharmacy bottles. Contact: MICHAEL MILLER, 9214 W. Gary Rd., Peoria AZ 85345, Ph: (623) 486-3123 or E-mail: helgramike@cox.net.

Wanted: Old Arizona collector looking for Arizona soda, drugstore and milk bottles; anything related to Arizona. Also western whiskeys, sodas and beers. Contact: COLE LEWELLEN, Ph: (480) 983-3171 (home) or (480) 766-3468 (cell) or E-mail: JModel18@mchsi.com.

Wanted: West Palm Beach bottles. I collect early medicines, Hutch sodas and straightsided Cokes. I have plenty for trade from Key West, Miami and West Palm Beach.

Thanks! Please contact: LARRY SMITH, Ph: (561) 743-7278 or E-mail: bottlenut1@juno.com.

Wanted: Rare English and American poisons, Sandwich colognes, figural bitters, pontiled medicines. Contact: BOB BARBOUR, Ph: (913) 248-1478 or E-mail: bbcr@everestkc.net.

Wanted: Interested in embossed bottles from Comfort and Boerne, Texas. They are tough, but they are out there. Please E-mail me with descriptions and price. Contact: JEFF TODD, 220 Los Indios Ranch Rd, Boerne, TX, 78006, E-mail: blkblt5@gmail.com.

Wanted: Western spice mills peppersauces / cathedral pickles E-mail: Mark-Martha@comcast.net.

Wanted: Austin Pharmacy items from Parsons, Kansas - ANYTHING! It belonged to our son-in-law’s grandfather.

E-mail: JarDoctor@aol.com.

Wanted: Items relating to or from Paducah, Ky., including but not limited to bottles, jugs, calendars, thermometers, fraternal ribbons and medals, books, ephemeral. Long time collector always looking to add to my collection, SPECIAL INTEREST IN PAPER LABEL WHISKEY BOTTLES, E-mail: bjsummers@mchsi.com.

Wanted: Rare flasks & veterinary items. “Go withs” desirable. Any Ellenville Glassworks items. Contact: TIM HILL, Ph: (845) 4345307or E-mail: Thill3@hvc.rr.com.

Wanted: NAPA Soda Springs bottles, advertising, ephemera or go-withs. Contact: JOHN O’NEILL, 1805 Ralsten Ave, Belmont, CA 94002, Ph: (650)619-8209 or E-mail: joneill@croins.com.

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Wanted: Target balls, rare colored pontiled medicines with damage for specimens, Ligonier Pennsylvania embossed bottles, Dr. D. Jaynes advertising, Port Angeles Washington and Olympic peninsula real photo post cards, old trapping lure bottles. Call JEFF at (360) 460-2791.

Wanted: St. Louis bitters bottles - Landsberg, Eagle, Bremen, Stonewall Jackson - ALL Rare St. Louis bitters. Beers - E. Anaheuser, Volkman, Corone Brewery, Brinkworth-Nolker. ANY colored St. Louis blob soda bottles. Pre-pro advertising signs. WWII Uniforms and caps. TOP PRICES PAID so please contact before you sell. Contact: CURT FAULKENBERRY, Ph: (636) 797-5220 or E-mail: Stlbottlebabe@yahoo.com.

Wanted: Tennessee bottles, whiskey jugs, license plates. Contact: RONNIE ADAMS, 516 Oakleaf Ln, Seymour TN 37865, Ph: (865) 573-5867.

Wanted: Ohio blue-decorated stoneware, sewer tile birdhouses, weathervanes, miniature advertising bricks. Also, Lawrenceville, North Hampton, Donnelsville, Dialton, Anlo, Dodo, Forgy, Tremont City, Eagle City, Springfield and other Clark County Ohio items.

Contact: JOHN BARTLEY, Ph: (937) 964-8080 or E-mail: jbartley@woh.rr.com or donnelscreekantiques.com.

Wanted: True blob sodas from Illinois. Also looking for bitters and pontiled bottles from WANTED Illinois and Chicago.

Levitan and Bagan, Chicago, Ill. Always looking for bottles of any/all kind(s). any type of adv.

Seltzer and soda bottles are known. stoneware from Company operated by my great-grandfather Illinois, especially during the early 1900s.

Redwing items. Call Known to have been delivered at some time MIKE at (815) 455by Seipp’s Brewery wagons 5834.

Tony Hofeld 8724 Ferris Avenue Morton Grove, IL 60053 Ph: (847) 966-0909 E-mail: ahofeld@aol.com KETCHUP, PICKLES, SAUCES 19th Century Food in Glass 498 pages of pictures & research of glass containers the early food industry utilized.

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FOHBC SHO-BIZ FOHBC Sho-Biz is published in the interest of the hobby. Federation affiliated clubs are noted. Information on up-coming collecting events is welcome, but space is limited.

Please send at least four months in advance, including telephone number, to: FOHBC Sho-Biz, c/o Kathy Hopson-Sathe, 341 Yellowstone Dr., Fletcher, NC 28732, or E-mail: kathy@thesodafizz.com. Show schedules are subject to change. Please call ahead before traveling long distances.

All listings published here will also be published on the web site at http://www.fohbc.com.

MAY 2-3 - GRAY, TENNESSEE The State of Franklin Antique Bottle & Collectibles Association's 10th Annual Show & Sale (Sat. 8 AM - 2 PM, Free Adm.; Early Buyers & Setup, Fri. 12 PM - 5 PM, Adm. $10) at the Appalachian Fairgrounds (Johnson City, Tenn.-Bristol, Tenn. area), Gray, Tennessee. 150 tables available. INFO: MELISSA MILNER, PH: (423) 928-4445 or E-mail: mmilner12@chartertn.net; Website: www.sfabca.com.

MAY 4 - WHITESBORO, NEW YORK The Mohawk Valley Antique Bottle Club's 14th Annual Show & Sale (9 AM - 2:30 PM) at the Utica Curling Club, 8300 Clark Mills Road, Whitesboro, New York. INFO: PETER BLEIBERG, 7 White Pine Road, New Hartford, NY 13413, PH: (315) 735-5430, Email: pmbleiberg@aol.com.

MAY 9-10 - CHEHALIS, WASHINGTON The Washington Bottle Collector's Association & Emerald City Insulator Club's Spring Show (Sat. 9 AM - 4 PM; Fri. Early Buyers 1 - 7 PM, $5 Adm.) at the Southwest Washington Fairgrounds, Chehalis, Washington. INFO: WARREN LHOTKA, PH: (206) 329-8412, E-mail: wlbottleguy@yahoo.com or ROBIN HARRISON, PH: (206) 522-2135 or robin3250@comcast.net.

MAY 10 - MANSFIELD, OHIO The Ohio Bottle Club's 30th Annual Mansfield Antique Bottle & Advertising Show & Sale (8 AM - 2 PM; Early Buyers Fri. 2 - 6 PM) at the Richland County Fairgrounds, Trimble Rd. Exit, U.S. Rt. 30, Mansfield, Ohio. INFO: BILL KOSTER, PO Box 585, Barberton, OH 44203, PH: (330) 6902794.

MAY 11 - MINSTEAD, ENGLAND The Dorset Antique Bottle Club's Bottle & Collectors Fair (10:30 AM - 2:30 PM, Early Buyers 9:15 AM) at the Minstead Village Hall (off the M-27 at Junction 1), Minstead, England. INFO: MIKE SQUIRES, 30 Latimer Road, Bournemourh, Dorset, BH9 1JZ, England, PH: 011 44 1202 522047.

MAY 17 - LINCOLNTON, NORTH CAROLINA The Piedmont Bottle & Pottery Club's 2nd Annual Antique Bottles & Pottery Show & Sale (Sat. 9 AM - 3 PM, Adm. $1 donation; Set-up 8 - 8:50 AM) at the James Warren Citizen's Center, 115 West Main St., Lincolnton, North Carolina. Free appraisals.

INFO: JOHNNY MCAULAY, Club Pres., 16412 Amber Field Dr., Huntersville, NC 28078, PH: (704) 719-7108, E-mail: mcaulaytime@aol.com or CHUCK RASH, Treasurer., 1553 Redbud Rd., Lincolnton, NC 28095, PH: (704) 732-0373, E-mail: bottlebrother@hotmail.com or JOHN PATTERSON, PH: (704) 636-9510; Website: www.antiquebottles.com/piedmont/ MAY 17 - TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA The 2nd Annual Tallahassee Antique Bottle Show & Sale (Sat. 9 AM - 3 PM, Adm. $3; Set-up Fri. 4:30 - 8 PM and Sat. 7:30 - 9 AM, $10) at the Tallahassee Elk's Lodge, 276 N. Magnolia Dr. (easily accessed from I-10 and US Hwy 90), Tallahassee, Florida. INFO: BRITT KEEN, 1144 Azalea Dr., Tallahassee, FL 32301, PH: (850) 877-4490, E-mail: britt_keen@hotmail.com, Website: www.floridabottles.com.

MAY 18 WASHINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA The Washington County Antique Bottle Club's 34th Annual Antique Bottle Show & Sale (9 AM - 2 PM, Donation $3) at the Alpine Star Lounge, 735 Jefferson Ave. (From I70, Exit 17), Washington, Pennsylvania. INFO: RUSS CRUPE, 52 Cherry Road, Avella, PA 15312, PH: (724) 345-3653 or (412) 298-7831, E-mail: heidirus@gmail.com.

MAY 18 - BRICK, NEW JERSEY The Jersey Shore Bottle Club's 36th Antique Bottle, Post Card & Local Memorabilia Show & Sale (Sun. 8:30 AM - 2 PM) at the Brick Elks, 2491 Hooper Ave (Old Hooper Ave) Brick, New Jersey. INFO: RICH PEAL 732267-2528 or E-mail manodirt@msn.com.

MAY 31 - ROSEVILLE, OHIO The Roseville Historical Society Antique Bottle Show & Sale (Sat. 9 AM - 3 PM, Adm.

$2; Set-up Fri. 4:30 - 6 PM, Sat. 7:30 AM) at the Roseville Historical Society Museum, 140 S. Main St., Roseville, Ohio. INFO: KATHY LYNCH, 3820 Koval Ln., Lake Ridge, VA 22192-7422, PH: (703) 670-8722, E-mail: roseville_ohio@yalhoo.com.

MAY 31 - COVENTRY, CONNECTICUT The Museum of Connecticut Glass" 3rd Annual Bottle & Glass Show & Sale, (8 AM - 1 PM) at the the Historic Coventry Museum grounds, Route 44 & North River Road, Coventry Connecticut. INFO: JAN A. RATUSHNY, PO Box 242, Eastford, CT 06242, PH: (860) 428-4585, E-mail: janratushny@aol.com.

JUNE 5-7 - GRANTVILLE (HERSHEY), PENNSYLVANIA The National Association of Milk Bottle Collectors (NAMBC) Annual Convention (.) at the Holiday Inn, Grantville (Hershey), Pennsylvania. Displays, seminars, awards banquet, Sundae on Saturday ice cream social, auction. Registration necessary ($10 for members, $12 nonmembers). INFO: Penny Gottlieb, 18 Pond Pl., Cos Cob, CT 06807, PH: (203) 869-8411, E-mail: gottmilk@msn.com. More info available on website: www.milkbottlecollectors.com.

JUNE 6-7 - KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE The East Tenn. Antique Bottle & Collectibles Society Show (Fri. 10 AM - $ PM, Sat. 9 AM - 4 PM) at the Kerbela Shrine Temple, Knoxville, Tennessee. Tables $35, $25 additional. INFO: BILLIE MCNAMARA, PH: (865) 933-6137, E-mail: info@etabcs.org, Website: www.etabcs.org.

JUNE 6-7 - LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA The Robeson Antique Bottle Club's Annual Bottle, Coin & Collectible Show & Sale (Fri..

3 - 9 PM; Sat. 9 AM - 1 PM) at the Expo and Farmer's Market, 1027 US 74 East, Lumberton North Carolina. INFO: PAUL VALENTI, PH: (910) 738-3074, 456 Boone Rd., Lumberton, NC 28360 or MITCHELL McCORMICK, PH: (910) 628-6245 or BRET LEE, Email: dex@intrstar.net.

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JUNE 7 - BALLSTON SPA, NEW YORK The National Bottle Museum's Annual Show & Sale (Sat. 9:30 AM - 2:30 PM) at the Ballston Spa High School, Ballston Spa, New York. INFO: NATIONAL BOTTLE MUSEUM, 76 Milton Ave., Ballston Spa, NY 12020, PH: (518) 885-7589, E-mail: nbm@crisny.org.

JUNE 13-14, - AURORA, OREGON Oregon Bottle Collectors Association's Summer Show & Sale (Free Admission, donations accepted, Fri. 1 - 6 PM; Sat. 9 AM - 3 PM) at the American Legion Hall, 3rd & Main St., Aurora, Oregon. INFO: SCOTT SLOWTER, PH (503) 645-0560 or MARK JUNKER, PH: (503) 231-1235 or BILL BOGYNSKA, PH (503 )657-1726 or Email: billb@easystreet.net JUNE 14 - SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA The Antique Bottle Club of San Diego's Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show & Sale (Sat. 9 AM - 4 PM, Adm. $2, Set-up 6:39 AM, Early Adm. 8 AM, $5) at the Al Bahr Shrine Temple, 5440 Kearny Mesa Rd., San Diego, California. Two floors, 9,000 sq. ft., 100+ tables, free parking, displays, discounts to area attractions.

INFO: JIM WALKER, PH: (585) 490-9019, E-mail: jfw@internetter.com. Website: www.sdbottleclub.org.

JUNE 21 - HOUSTON, TEXAS The Antique Bottles, Advertising & Collectibles Show & Sale (Sat. 8:30 AM - 3 PM, Adm. $2; Early Adm. Fri. 6:30 - 10:30 PM, $10) at the Houston Hobby Airport Marriott Hotel, 9100 Gulf Freeway (I-45 S - College Ave./Airport Blvd. Exit), Houston, Texas. Antique bottles, fruit jars, Coca-Cola, Inks, tip trays, Dr. Pepper, soda water bottles, soda cans, breweriana, glass insulators, paper collectibles, Texas memorabilia, 7-Up, Orange Crush, Borden's, drug store collectibles, advertising items, oil company items, plates and much more. INFO: BARBARA J. PUCKETT, 904 W. Temple St., Houston, TX 77009, PH: (713) 862-1690 or Cell: (713) 409-9940, Fax: (713) 785-9567 or Email: bjcoll@hotmail.com.

JULY 12-13 - BUTTE, MONTANA The Montana Bottle Collectors Association's 6th Annual Show & Sale (Sat. 10 AM - 3 PM, Sun. 10 AM - 3 PM; Dealer Sset up and Early Bird, Sat. 8 AM - !0 AM, Adm. $5) at Montana College of Technology Gym, in the old historic mining town of Butte, Montana, which is hosting the National Folk Festival. Estimated festival attendance 50,000 +. A fun filled week-end. INFO: BILL HENNESS, 5430 Wagon Wheel Dr., Helena, MT 59602: PH. (406) 458-6548, Email: bhenness@bresnan.net, or TOM BRACKMAN, 2575 Winchester Dr., East Helena, MT 59635: PH. (406) 227-5301, E-mail: brackman@bresnan.net.

JULY 13 - MUNCIE, INDIANA The Midwest Antique Fruit Jar & Bottle Clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Show & Sale (Sun. 9 AM - 2 PM, Adm. $2) at the Horizon Convention Center, Muncie, Indiana. INFO: DAVID RITTENHOUSE, 1008 S. 900 W., Farmland, IN 47340; PH: (765) 468-8091 or NORM BARNETT, PH: (812) 5875560.

JULY 18-19 - RENO, NEVADA The Reno Antique Bottle & Collectibles Club's 45th Annual Show & Sale (9 AM - 3 PM; Early Buyers, Fri. Noon - 6 PM) at the Reno/ Sparks Convention Center, 4590 South Virginia St., North Entrance, Reno, Nevada. INFO: WILLY YOUNG, PH: (775) 746-0922 or

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JULY 19-20 - ADAMSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA The 7th Annual Shupp's Grove Bottle Festival (Sat.- Sun. 6 AM to dark; Fri. Dealer Set-up 2 PM followed by Early Buyers 5 PM) at Shupp's Grove in Adamstown, Pennsylvania. INFO: STEVE GUION, E-mail: sguoin124@comcast.net or JERE HAMBLETON, E-mail: jshdetector@ webtv.net or PH: (717) 393-5175.

JULY 26 - BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA Alabama Bottle Collectors Annual Show & Sale (8 AM - 3 PM) at the Bessemer Civic Center (Exit #108 on I-20/59), Birmingham, Alabama. INFO: TOM LINES, PO Box 382831, Birmingham, AL 35238, PH: (205) 410-2191, E-mail: bluecrab1949@hotmail.com.

JULY 26 - LEADVILLE, COLORADO The Antique Bottle Collectors of Colorado 2008 Show (9 AM - 4 PM, $3 Adm.) at the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum Convention Center, 117 10th St., Leadville, Colorado. Free Parking.

INFO: JIM or BARB SUNDQUIST, Ph: (303) 674-4658.

JULY 28 - DES MOINES, IOWA The Iowa Antique Bottleers 39th Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show & Sale (Sat. 9 AM - 2 PM, Adm. $2, children free) at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, Animal Learning Center (at East Univ. Ave. & East 30th), Des Moines, Iowa. Featuring antique bottles, fruit jars, stoneware, insulators, lighning rod items, advertising, brewerania and educational displays. Door prizes every hour. INFO: TOM SOUTHARD, 2815 Druid Hill Dr., Des Moines, IA 20315, PH: (515) 282-6901.

AUGUST 8-10 - YORK, PENNSYLVANIA EXPO The 2008 FOHBC EXPO (Fri. Seminars and Specialty Meetings in AM; Set-up, Early Adm. 1 - 5 PM, Banquet 6:30 PM; Sat. 9 AM - 5 PM, Early Adm. 7 - 9 AM; Sun. 9 AM - 3 PM) at the York Fairgrounds, York, Pennsylvania. 600-800 tables capacity for the largest EXPO ever! For consignments, contracts and INFO: R. WAYNE LOWRY, 401 Johnston Ct., Raymore, MO 64083, PH: (816) 318-0161, E-mail: JarDoctor@aol.com.

SEPTEMBER 13 - DOWNIEVILLE, CALIFORNIA The Historic Downieville Antique Bottles & Collectibles Show (Sat. 8 AM - 3 PM; Early Bird, 8 AM - 10 AM, Adm. $10) at the Downieville School Gym, 130 School St., Downieville, California. Show is featuring a Western Bitters bonanza, a fabulous display of Western Bitters.

There will be two raffles: one for a beautiful gold specimen mined from The Original 16 to 1 mine in Sierra County and the other for an awesome underground mine tour for 4 in the same mine. INFO: LOU or LEISA LAMBERT, PH: (707) 823-8845, E-mail: maxbitters@comcast.net or RICK or CHERRY SIMI, PH: (530) 2893659, E-mail: seeme@sccn.net.

SEPTEMBER 13 - ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA The Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club's 41st Annual Show & Sale Send your show information to: Show Biz, 341 Yellowstone Dr., Fletcher, NC 28732 kathy@thesodafizz.com or use the online form at: www.fohbc.com

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(Sat. 9 AM - 4 PM, $2.50 Adm.; Set-up 6 AM, Earlybird 8 AM< $5 Adm.) at the Arcadia Masonic Temple, 50 West Duarte Rd., Arcadia, California. INFO: DON WIPPERT, 22224 Wyandotte, Canoga Park, CA 91303; PH: (818) 346-9833 or DICK HOMME, 15446 Cobalt St., #172, Sylmar, CA 91342, PH: (818) 362-3368. Website: www.lahbc.org.

SEPTEMBER 28 - LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS The Merrimack Valley Antique Bottle Club 34th Annual Show & Sale (9 AM - 2 PM, Early Buyers at 8 AM) at the Lowell Elks Club, 40 Old Ferry Rd, Lowell, Massachusetts. INFO: CLIFF HOYT, PH: (978) 458-6575 or GARY KOLTOOKIAN, PH: (978) 256-9561, Website: choyt48.home.comcast.net/mvbc.htm.

SEPTEMBER 20 - SMYRNA, GEORGIA The Atlanta Antique Bottle Show and Sale 38th annual show (9 AM - 4 PM, Early Buyers, 6 AM - 9 AM) at the Smyrna Community Center, 200 Village Green Circle, Smyrna, Georgia. INFO: JACK HEWITT, 1765 Potomac CT., Lawrenceville, GA., 30043, PH: (770)963-0220 or JOHN JOINER, PH: (770)-502-9565, E-mail propjj@bellsouth.net.

SEPTEMBER 28 - DEPEW, NEW YORK The Greater Buffalo Bottle Show (9 AM - 2 PM, Adm. $3) at the Polish Falcons Hall Columbia (off Transit), Depew, New York.

Breweriana, insulators, stoneware, tabletop antiques, postcards.

INFO: DAVE POTTER, PH: (716) 668-9131, E-mail: dave_potter@verizon.net or PETER JABLONSKI, PH: (716) 4407985, E-mail: Peterjablonski@adelphia.net.

SEPTEMBER 20 - JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA The Antique Bottle Collectors of North Florida's 41st Annual Show & Sale (Sat. 8 AM - 3 PM, Early Buyers Fri. 5 - 8 PM) at the Fraternal Order of Police Bldg., 5530 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville, Florida. INFO: MIKE SKIE, 3047 Julington Creek Rd., Jacksonville, FL 32223, PH: (904) 710-0422 or JACKIE MCRAE, PH: (904) 879-3696.

OCTOBER 5 - CHELSEA, MICHIGAN The Huron Valley Bottle & Insulator 33rd Annual Show (Sun. 9 AM - 2 PM, $2, Set-up, 6 AM)) at the Chelsea Conference Center, 1645 Commerce Park Dr., Chelsea, Michigan. Kids under 12 free., free appraisals, free items for kids, free parking, food available on site, variety of glass. INFO: MICHELE KOTLARSKY, Pres., Box 210145, Auburn Hills, M I 48321-0145, PH: (248) 673-1650, E-mail: MicheleK@mac.com or MIKE BRUNER, Show Host, 6576 Balmoral Terr., Clarkston, MI 48346, PH: (248) 425-3223, E-mail: abbottt4girl@sbcglobal.net. Website: http://hvbic.org.

SEPTEMBER 21 - WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA The Apple Valley Bottle Collectors Club 34th Annual Show & Sale (9 AM - 3 PM, Early Buyers 7:30 AM) at the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church Family Life Center, 1309 Opequon Ave, Winchester, Virginia.

INFO: RICHARD M., VENSKOSKE, 2038 Chestnut Grove Rd., Winchester, VA. 22603, PH: (540) 247-4429.

Save the date San Diego 2008 Antique Bottle & Collectible Show & Sale

Sat., June 14, 2008 Al Bahr Shrine Temple 5441 Kearny Mesa Rd. San Diego, California 92111

DISPLAYS RAFFLES

Two Floors, 9,000 Sq. Ft. 100+ Tables Come for the day, spend the weekend Close to hotels, beaches, Sea World & the Zoo Dealer Set-up “Early Bird” General Admission

6:30 AM 8:00 AM $5 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM $2

Kids under 12 - Free with Adult Mike Bryant, Chairman INFO: JIM WALKER (858) 490-9019 jfw@internetter.com www.sdbottleclub.org DISCOUNTS TO AREA ATTRACTIONS

FREE PARKING

AWARDS FOR DISPLAYS

MIDWEST ANTIQUE FRUIT JAR AND BOTTLE CLUB WWW.FRUITJAR.ORG SHOW HEADQUARTERS - SIGNATURE INN Room Hopping Jelly Jammers - Sat. July 12, 2008 - 10 am Fruit Jar Get Together & Auction - Sat. July 12, 2007 - 1:30 pm Make your own reservations with the hotel - (765) 284-4200 SHOW LOCAITON - HORIZON CONVENTION CENTER Adm. $2 Ample Space - Dealer tables still available - Fantastic lighting SHOW CHAIRMAN - David Rittenhouse 1008 S. 900 W. Farmland, IN 47340 (765) 468-8091 or Norm Barnett (812) 587-5560

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~ RENO ~ Antique Bottle & Collectibles Club 45th Annual Show & Sale

Saturday July 19, 2008 Reno/Sparks Convention Center 4590 South Virginia Street Saturday Show: 9:00 A.M - 3:00 P.M. Admission $3.00 Friday Dealer Setup; 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Friday Early Bird: 12:00 P.M. - $10 Show Info: Willy Young (775) 746-0922 Show Reservations: Helen Walker (775) 345-0171

Over 100 Tables !

BOTTLES - COINS - TOKENS ADVERTISING - INSULATORS ANTIQUES - AND MORE!

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ANTIQUE BOTTLE COLLECTORS OF COLORADO SHOW 2008 Antiques

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Photo Courtesy of Chris Buys: Historic Leadville in Rare Photographs & Drawings

HISTORIC LEADVILLE JULY 26, 2008 9 AM to 4 PM $3 Adm. Dealer Setup: 6 AM

National Mining Hall of Fame & Museum Convention Center 117 10th Street

INFO: Jim & Barbara Sundquist (303) 674-4658 E-mail: barbsund@msn.com

YORK, PENNSYLVANIA Souvenir Program Run an ad in the program!

Color or B/W printing available Articles on various categories in our hobby by prominent collectors

For more information, contact:

R. Wayne Lowry 401 Johnston Ct. Raymore, MO 64083 (816) 318-0161 JarDoctor@aol.com

WANTED Costa Rica and Republic of Panama Hutchinsons

BUY or TRADE Highest Prices Paid < H.A. Ralu, Colon, R.P. Guillermo Jegel, Cartago, Costa Rico >

R.J. Brown 4119 Crosswater Drive Tampa, FL 33615 RBrown4134@aol.com Auction consignments are being accepted.

Contact Wayne Lowry.

813-888-7007

EXPO 2008 AUGUST 8-10, 2008 YORK, PENNSYLVANIA York Fairgrounds York, Pennsylvania SHOW TIMES: Saturday 9 AM - 5 PM Sunday 9 AM - 3 PM 600-800 tables capacity for the largest EXPO ever!

Plan to be there - donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss it!

INFORMATION: R. Wayne Lowry 401 Johnston Ct., Raymore, MO 64083 (816) 318-0161 - JarDoctor@aol.com

Schedule of Events: Thurs., Aug. 7: FOHBC Meetings Fri., Aug. 8: Seminars & Specialty Meetings begin at 8 AM Dealers put items under table Set-up & Early Adm. 1 - 5 PM Banquet 6:30 PM Sat., Aug. 9: Set-Up & Early Adm. 7 - 9 AM Gen. Adm. 9 AM - 5 PM Auction 7 PM Sun., Aug. 10: Gen. Adm. 9 AM - 3 PM

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