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Table of Contents FOHBC Officer Listing 2010-2012...... 2 President’s Message.............................. 3 Recent Finds.......................................... 4 At Auction.............................................. 5 Shards of Wisdom................................. 6 A Book in Review............................... 10 FOHBC 2011 Contest Winners...........11

Legends of the Jar: Dave Hinson

By Bruce W. Schank........................... 25

New Mississippi Trade Mart Building

is Site of January Show................50

Alaska Bottle Collecting History

By Larry Smith..................................... 30

Show Time 2011 – 4th Annual Kansas

Bottle and Postcard Show

By Jerry Simmons.........................52

Arizona Collecting History

By Mike Miller.........................................32 The Multi-Millionaire and the Making

of “Old Crow”

By Jack Sullivan......................................36

13th Annual Terre Haute Bottle Show Brings Collectors Out..................12

The California Perfume Company:

1886-1939

By Rusty Mills..........................................40

Memphis or Bust! 2011 FOHBC Memphis National Show and Sale

By Ferdinand Meyer V................... 14

Harry Hall White: Bottle Archaeologist

and Researcher Extraordinaire

By Bill Baab . .................................... 44

New FOHBC Web Site … a Long

Time Coming

By Ferdinand Meyer V...................20

New Revelations on an Old Bottle

By Harvey S. Teal...............................47 This Old House

By Charles David Head...................... 49

In My Opinion:

Who Owns the Past?

By Boyd Beccue............................55 Michael Owens: His Invention

Revolutionized Making Bottles....59 Classified Ads & Ad Rate Info............63 FOHBC Show-Biz

Show Calendar Listings...............66 Membership Additions and Changes.....69 Membership Application.....................71 Membership Benefits.................................72

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

FOHBC Officers 2010-2012 President: Gene Bradberry, PO Box 341062,

Memphis, TN 38184; phone: 901-372-8428;

e-mail: Genebsa@comcast.net First Vice-President: Bob Ferraro, 515 Northridge Dr,

Boulder City, NV 89005; phone: 702-293-3114;

e-mail: mayorferraro@aol.com.

Second Vice-President: Ferdinand Meyer V, 101 Crawford,

Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; phone: 713-222-7979;

e-mail: fmeyer@fmgdesign.com.

Secretary: James Berry, 200 Fort Plain Watershed Rd, St. Johnsville, NY 13452; phone: 518-568-5683; e-mail: jhberry10@yahoo.com Treasurer: Gary Beatty, 3068 Jolivette Rd., North Port, FL 34288; phone: 941-276-1546; e-mail: tropicalbreezes@verizon.net Historian: Richard Watson, 10 S Wendover Rd,

Medford, NJ 08055; phone: 856-983-1364;

e-mail: crwatsonnj@verizon.net Editor: Martin Van Zant, 208 Urban St,

Danville, IN 46122; phone: 812-841-9495;

e-mail: mdvanzant@yahoo.com.

Merchandising Director: office vacant Membership Director: Jim Bender, PO Box 162,

Sprakers, NY 12166; phone: 518-673-8833;

e-mail: jim1@frontiernet.net Conventions Director: Tom Phillips, 6645 Green Shadows Ln., Memphis, TN 38119; phone: 901-277-4225;

e-mail: tomlisa.phillips@gmail.com

Business Manager: Alan DeMaison, 1605 Clipper Cove,

Painesville, OH 44077; phone: (H) 440-358-1223, (C) 440-796-7539; e-mail: a.demaison@sbcglobal.net Director-at-Large: Carl Sturm, 88 Sweetbriar Branch,

Longwood, FL 32750; phone:407-332-7689;

e-mail: glassmancarl@sprintmail.com Director-at-Large: Sheldon Baugh, 252 W Valley Dr,

Russellville, KY 42276; phone: 270-726-2712;

e-mail: shel6943@bellsouth.net Director-at-Large: John Pastor, PO Box 227,

New Hudson, MI 48165; phone: 248-486-0530;

e-mail: jpastor@americanglassgallery.com Midwest Region Director: Randee Kaiser, 2400 CR 4030, Holts Summit, MO 65043; phone: 573-896-9052; e-mail: pollypop47@yahoo.com Northeast Region Director: Ed Kuskie, 352 Pineview Dr,

Elizabeth, PA 15037; phone: 412-405-9061;

e-mail: bottlewizard@comcast.net.

Southern Region Director: Jack Hewitt, 1765 Potomac Ct,

Lawrenceville, GA 30043; phone: 770-856-6062,

e-mail: hewittja@bellsouth.net.

Western Region Director: Dave Maryo,

12634 Westway Ln, Victorville, CA 92392;

phone: 760-617-5788; e-mail: dmaryo@verizon.net Public Relations Director: Pam Salenak, 156 S. Pepper St., Orange, CA 92868; phone: 714-633-5775; e-mail: pselenak@yahoo.com

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Fohbc’s President’s Message Gene Bradberry

901-372-8428 genebsa@comcast.net On Thursday, July 28, the Board of Directors held a conference call and selected the following to fill unexpired terms of offices that had been vacated. The selections were unanimous.

Mike Newman, our current treasurer, had indicated before the convention that he would have to step down due to his wife’s ill health. After speaking with several members, the selection of Gary Beatty, of North Port, Fla., was made to fill the position of treasurer. Gary has been in bottle collecting for many years and actually previously served as a Federation officer including some time as treasurer while Dick Stockton was president. Gary is originally from Ohio and still collects Ohio bottles. He is currently serving as a Baptist minister in Florida.

A great big thanks to Mike Newman for stepping in and filling this post and doing a great job of it. Mike made an excellent report of our finances at the Memphis convention and his work is greatly appreciated.

The next appointment was Randee Kaiser of Holts Summit, Missouri to the position of Midwest Region Director.

Randee has been a longtime collector and is an enthusiastic supporter of the Federation. He, along with Mike Elling, is currently doing a column for Bottles and Extras on Applied Color Label sodas. Welcome aboard, Randee.

The next position is Public Relations Director. This position was vacated when Jim Berry moved to the Secretary’s position from that of P.R. Director. Pam Salenak, of Orange, Calif., comes highly recommended for this slot and we welcome her on board as well. She served as show chairman for the 2009 National Show in Pomona, Calif.

We are glad to have her expertise with us and she will be working closely with the Business Manager, Membership Director and myself to promote the Federation.

I as reflecting the other day on the paths the Federation has taken over the years and ran across a copy of our First Edition of Bottles and Extras after taking it over from Scott Grandstaff and Kitty Roach. The issue was March 1995.

It is amazing how far we have come in building a premier magazine chock full of great and varied content. Looking at the first issue reminds me of just how much effort goes into this publication each issue.

I want to personally thank not only our Editor, but people like Bill Baab who helps to edit the magazine each issue as well as the many contributing writers for their time and effort spent in developing, researching and producing such quality articles. A hearty thanks to all of the contributing writers! Speaking of the magazine content, it was decided by the Board of Directors to stop printing the regional reports in the magazine. Instead, they will now be available online as an integral part of our new Web site, www.FOHBC.org, starting with this issue. This space will now be utilized to

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print more articles submitted by our many talented writers.

I would like to take a moment and encourage each member of the Federation to consider starting a club in the area where you live. A club is what helps keep this hobby vibrant and moving forward. There is nothing more exciting than the formation of a new club and then holding a bottle show. I can reflect back on the time when our local club, the Memphis Bottle Collectors Club, held our first show in September 1967. We had just formed our club in Fdebruary of that year and had an informal show at a local flea market in July. Our first attempt at a real show as in September. I was the Show Chairman (and it seemed like almost perennial after that) and it was a great feeling to host a show and have collectors from many other states come. Many lasting friendships were developed from that early beginning. If you would like to start a club in your area, contact us and we can give you some ideas on starting one as well as a sample set of bylaws to help you get started. You may contact me or Membership Director Jim Bender.

Speaking of clubs and shows: We had a great show and convention in Memphis this year and everyone seemed to have a great time. A hearty thanks to all who helped make this show a success. Special thanks goes to Wayne Lowry for doing the reservations and table layout, June Lowry for doing the souvenir program and auction catalog, Tom Phillips and Ron Pevehouse for doing the auction setup, Bill Meier for the online part of the auction, Ed Provine for the displays, Don Ellis for being the auctioneer, and the many member of the Memphis Bottle Collectors Club for their efforts in the many, many ways they contributed to making the show a huge success.

A special section in the magazine this month is devoted to highlighting the show. A great big thanks to Ferd Meyer for coordinating this.

At the Federation banquet, Bill Baab was inducted into the Federation Hall of Fame with his many accomplishments being acknowledged. Additionally, there were three President’s Awards presented (there usually is only one given each year). This year, they went to Ferd Meyer for his work on the Web site, Tom Phillips and Ron Pevehouse for their untiring efforts in making the Federation 2011 Auction a success. Congratulations to you, Bill and many thanks to Ferd, Ron and Tom. Well, I have gone a little long this time, but just wanted to share these thoughts with you.

Don’t forget our Expo 2011 in Reno, Nevada. See the ad in this issue of the magazine and information also is available at www.FOHBC.org.

As always, Let’s Keep the Fun in Bottle Collecting.

Gene Bradberry, President, FOHBC

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Recent Finds This is a bottle recovered in the Florida Keys several years ago. The owner, Jon Simpson of P. O. Box 637, Oxford, FL 34484, would like to know if any of our readers knows what it was used for. It is about 8 1/2’ x 1” with a slight taper from shoulder to base. The base is very slightly pushed up in the center. The color is more blue than green.

Previous bottles of this shape that have been seen were a medium or dark green.

Surprise Find Sparks Curiosity

About Edgeley (N.D.) History Reprinted with permission from The Edgeley Mail Sometimes things just jump out at a person.One hears of treasures found at rummage sales, thrift stores, flea markets, in attics, etc. So it was for Jake Jacobson. He was strolling through a rummage sale and discovered the bottle pictured at right Edgeley Bottling Works, Edgeley, North Dakota imprinted on the beverage bottle.That’s all there was.

Curiosity brought him into The Edgeley Mail office. Did we know anything about Edgeley Bottling Works? Staff at The Mail office were unaware there had ever been a bottling company in town. Patty Wood Bartle suggested Jacobson try City Hall, the library, or maybe Budd Kipp (local resident).

Jacobson walked across the street and checked at City Hall.

Joe Neis (at City Hall) didn’t know anything more than The Mail office. He called Kipp, but, no info there either. Jacobson went to Edgeley Public Library and Lynda Dunn helped him find a short paragraph in the Edgeley 75th Anniversary book. It said, “At one time there was a soft drink bottling works in Edgeley. It was burned soon after it was opened and the Ver-

non house was built on the foundation. Harry Vernon still lives there in 1962.”

If anyone has additional information about this one-time business in Edgeley, please contact The Edgeley Mail. Both The Mail and Jacobson would be grateful.

By Patty Wood Bartle The Edgeley Mail Attn: Patty Wood Bartle P.O. Box 278 Edgeley, ND 58433 701-709-0242 edgeley125book@drtel.net All Cheroites: Well, getting an original copy of this famous mid-1920’s “Chero Girl at the Beach,” has not revealed exactly who the artist is. Google in all its glory fails to turn up any reasonable facsimile of such person. Close examination shows the cryptic name to be either “Peinert” or “Pemble.” Neither one seems to shed light on any artist of this period, which with the famous Chero Twist bottle must he after 1923.

One thing is for sure, Guy Hoff, Rolf Armstrong or Norman Rockwell it isn’t!

Photo Caption: Recent eBay auction allowed Elling to win this scarce CheroCola thin cardboard poster art, but its artist remains a mystery.

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

–Photo from eBay

Have something to share, tell us about it?

Have you been out finding some treasures?

Keep us informed, write to:

mdvanzant@yahoo.com

Martin Van Zant

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Danville IN 46122

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SOLD at auction SOLD

F & L SCHAUM B A LT I M O R E GLASSWORKS. Iron pontil. Here’s a very popular Baltimore water bottle in a medium olive color with some amber.

A gorgeous overall specimen with a drippy top, tons of whittle and just a speck of wear, which tells us it’s never been cleaned. A top specimen. $2,500

THE RIVER SWAMP AUGUSTA GEORGIA with embossed ALLIGATOR. 6 ½”. Tooled top. There aren’t a lot of medicines out there that elicit as much excitement as the River Swamp bottles. For good reason, too.

For a smaller bottle they pack a lot of

punch. With the great name, an amber bottle from Georgia with an embossed alligator and the fact that it’s a cure makes this one of the more desirable meds in the sale. Grades a 9.8. ExGrapentine. Super srike! $2,800 HYATT’S INFALLIBLE LIFE BALSAM N-Y. 9 ¾” Applied top and iron pontil. The Hyatt’s are a very early and often crude balsam that is seen in numerous colors, although they generally fall in the greens. This example we would consider a rich teal,

not unlike the third GW Merchant previously described. A gentleman who has since passed found this bottle in Sacramento many years ago. It has been in his collection since offering it in this auction today. This bottle remains exactly as it was found and rinsed out the day he pulled it from the ground, sometime in 1962 or 63. What’s amazing is the drip coming off the mouth remains perfect despite its effort to go elsewhere. A myriad of bubbles in the shoulder are also commended for not bursting as they swirl dangerously close to the surface.

The bottle is extremely crude with loads of whittle and includes numerous areas of particular crudity including a punched in iron pontil.

There is some very light haze on the exterior in some areas, w h i c h w e ’ v e simply left alone. Certainly one of the better Hyatt’s we’ve seen. Grades a 9.5 simply for the light haze. $1,800 AAA OLD VALLEY WHISKEY with embossed CROSS and initials G, MC, M & F in green. Single roll applied top. In our opinion, this is one of the most beautiful bottles in this sale.

Unfortunately, there is a resin repair on the left lower base. Talk about whittle, this color green is so seldom seen in

western whiskeys, that it is almost alarming when it is presented.

Thank fully the repair is on the base and although it is not perfect, it’s all you need. Whoever did it, placed a small green piece of paper under the resin to make sure this is not passed off as undamaged. Doesn’t it seem like the best ones have a problem?

Regardless of the repair, this one is stunning on the shelf.$2,600 J.H. CUTTER OLD BOURBON E. MARTIN & CO SOLE AGENTS. Single roll. The crown shoulder is considered one of the tougher pint flasks to exist. Made from 1873-77, it has a fifth that matches the embossing.

With probably a dozen or so known, they don’t come up often. This is a solid example with a strong strike and handsome amber tone. As I have mentioned, now is a great time to pick up a few of these western whiskeys, as it did not seem long ago that there was standing room only for buyers of such a rare flask. $5,000

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Coca-Cola Book is Out Title of the book is, simply, CocaCola. Need more be said?

The press release out of Coca-Cola Headquarters in Atlanta calls it “125 Years of Coca-Cola Bottled in a Book.”

The book celebrates a collection of the most iconic Coca-Cola photographs, advertisements, designs and memories from the worlds of film, fashion, art and social history. From James Brown to Run DMC and John F. Kennedy, each turn of the page transports the reader to a different decade.

Coca-Cola is available in two formats – a special limited edition and a standard edition.. The latter retails for $65. The special limited edition is handbound with color plates in an oversized linen clamshell box and retails for $650.

The books can be ordered online from www.assouline.com.

Coca-Cola also is releasing an iPad app, featuring a digital version of the book as well as bonus animated content. It is now available to download on iTunes for $4.99. It, too, is available from Assoulline.com and the App Store.

Edgefield Celebrates Pottery Past (and Present) EDGEFIELD, S.C. – A 16-footlong, wood-fired groundhog kiln in the style made famous by Edgefield District potters during the 19th century, opened July 2 for the first time after a three-day firing.

The celebration, which attracted nearly 300 pottery collectors, histori-

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ans and other enthusiasts, also marked the completion of the first year of the University of Illinois archaeological dig at the kiln site in Pottersville where Dr. Abner Landrum began making pottery around 1810. The team uncovered what is believed to be the largest groundhog kiln in the nation, all of 105 feet in length.

The new kiln project was named for and dedicated to benefactors Dr. Arthur F. and Esther Goldberg, of Closter, N.J., longtime collectors of Edgefield pottery.

After the firing, jugs and pots turned by master potter Steve Ferrell were sold at auction. Ferrell is celebrating his 20th year at the Old Edgefield Pottery.

Other wares turned by students at nearby Piedmont Tech also were for sale.

Bottles and Extras Carl Sturm said that you might be able to help me identify a bottle that I found recently in Virginia. It is a pint

whiskey bottle with this wording on the bottle.

The whiskey of long ago in the package of today. There is no other wording on the bottle, no federal law warning.

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Carl couldn’t help me identify the bottle. He passed your name and e-mail and thought you could help. I have attached several pictures. If they are not suitable for your publication, let me know and I can take other shots.

Thanks, Grant Grant Lehman Leesburg, VA 703 728-9547 glehman@tmg-dc.com Dear Editor My wife’s parents owned the 7Up Bottling Company from the 1950s to the 80s in Windsor, Ontario.

We have a few collector bottles that no one has seen around. We have a few bottles with her father’s last name on them: Valente Beverages, Windsor, Ontario.

I have a question. We have recently gone through files that we kept from the business and came upon the original recipe for the original (It contains) 7Up ingredients in typed-out form from the 60s. Is this worth anything? Thank you, Marino. veneziavalente@bell.net

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Bottles and Extras Letters to the Editor: Dear Editor: I joined FOHBC in the past week or so and recently rec’d my first issue (July/Aug 2011) of B&E … I loved it!

Well done!

My favorite articles were about Kansas digging (I’m a native Kansan) and the pot lids article … I tried to email Mr. Rex Barber how much I liked the article, but it “bounced.”

I look forward to many more issues of B&E! I’m excited as I’ll be attending my first show – here in Houston, Texas – tomorrow.

All My Best, Jim Schmidt http://civilwarmed.blogspot.com Hello B/E Thank you for your e-mail – I have renewed my membership and have been

enjoying the updated Website of the Federation. I renewed with the last name of my late husband, Joe Zarro, who, I am terribly sorrowed to tell you, passed away from a sudden, massive heart attack on May 11, 2011.

Thank you for your attention.

Regards, Dana Charlton Zarro

Baab Inducted into Hall of Fame MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Bill Baab, of Augusta, Georgia, longtime member of the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors and its former Southern Region editor, was inducted into the organization’s Hall of Fame during the Federation’s National Bottle Show and Sale in Memphis June 25.

Baab, 76, has been a collector of antique bottles since 1969. He joined the Federation in 1996. He began editing copy for Bottles and Extras and contributing stories while Dave Cheadle was the publication’s editor.

He was responsible for Kathy Hopson-Sathe becoming editor after Cheadle resigned by suggesting her to FOHBC President Ralph Van Brocklin. Baab also continued to edit copy under editors June Lowry, Jesse Sailer and Martin Van Zant.

Baab’s other contributions to the Federation included updating the FOHBC Hall of Fame and Honor Roll lists, compiling sketches of former FOHBC presidents and starting a monthly series devoted to the history of bottle collecting on a state by state basis.

Baab retired as outdoor editor and sports writer from The

IN REMBERENCE

By Joe Coulson I am sad to inform you that Charles Williams, of Muncie, Indiana, passed away on Monday, August 1, following a brief illness. He was 90 years of age.

Charles was a longtime member of the Midwest Antique Fruit Jar and Bottle Club. He supported and promoted the fruit jar hobby in many small ways.

He regularly attended our monthly club meetings and never missed our

Mike Newman (left) with Bill Baab. – Photo by Bea Baab Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle in 2000 after a 36-year career. He continues to edit the newspaper’s fishing page each week.

He was nominated to the Hall of Fame by former FOHBC treasurer Mike Newman, of Martinez, Georgia.

winter or summer jar shows when he was physically able to attend.

He was a farmer in Mt. Pleasant Township, a Delaware County 4-H tractor safety leader and supporter for more than 20 years.

He also was a member of the Mt. Pleasant Library and Mt. Pleasant Historical Alliance. He will always be remembered in our hearts and minds.

Surviving are his wife of 68 years, Brona Manring Williams; three children, Marilyn (Walt) Fite, of Grand Junction, Colo., Martha (John) Whit-

inger, of Monroe, Mich., and Larry Williams and his fiancé, Vita Wheat, of Muncie; 10 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a brother, Jessie, and a granddaughter, Debbie Fite.

Funeral service were conducted August 8 at Gant Funeral Home, Yorktown Chapel, and interment was in the Sunderland Cemetery south of Yorktown.

Memorials may be made to the Mt. Pleasant Library in Yorktown and Daleville Community Library in Daleville.

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Alice Creswick (1921-2011) – A Tribute RAVENNA, Mich. – Alice Creswick, 89, the originator of the Red Book, the No. 1 antique fruit jar reference book, died Thursday, July 7, 2011.

“She should be remembered as perhaps the last of the original ‘greats’ of the hobby,” said Joe Coulson, secretary of the Midwest Antique Fruit Jar & Bottle Club. “The hobby has been blessed with her contributions to it.”

She was born Alice Marie Tanis on Nov. 24, 1921, the daughter of Anthony and Magdalina (Korhorn) Tanis, emigrants from the Netherlands. They made their home on a small farm in the rural area of Tallmadge Township just west of the city of Grand Rapids, Mich.

One of Alice’s first jobs, according to her life story posted by Heritage Life Story Funeral Homes, was in the bookkeeping office of Jarvis and Barton Furniture Company. She later met Howard Creswick during World War II while he was serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps. They married May 23, 1947.

They became parents of three sons – Howard (born 1948), Steve (1952) and Nathan (1965).

When it came to material possessions, Alice’s collection of antique glass was her most prized belonging. After starting her own business as an antiques dealer, she went on to become a published writer. Her specialty and passion included fruit jars and fine glassware and she authored many books on the subject. Well versed, her continuing series of the Red Book numbering system saw six editions and the book is considered the “bible” for fruit jar collectors everywhere. The first Red Book was published in 1970.

Alice was a personal friend of the Kerr and Ball families, manufacturers of fruit jars.

“Our hobby long ago accepted the Red Book as the No. 1 reference book,” said Doug Leybourne, who took over publishing it when Alice decided to retire after Red Book No. 6. “While she was active, I sent her all the information I

Alice Creswick with her granddaughter, Katja Creswick.

– Courtesy of Nathan Creswick

could come up with. She felt I was the person who could carry on her work.”

He recalled when her first met Alice and her husband, Howard.

“It was a warm Sunday afternoon at the Allegan, Michigan antique market.

A book dealer nearby referred us to Alice. Being new to the fruit jar hobby, we had been looking for an accurate and complete reference to fruit jars, She was the author of that reference.

“Here was this wonderfully warm and welcoming lady among her tables of antiques and jars. Her smile was captivating and sincere. We talked and she told us about herself and how the Red Book came about. We became friends and corresponded often. I would look for varieties not listed and kept sending her information on new finds.

“Visiting Alice and Howard at their beautiful farm near Grand Rapids, Michigan was always a treat. Her wonderful office was in a loft above her antique shop and Howard was always nearby in his work shed with the radio blasting as he tinkered with a myriad of projects. I always came away a better and happier person for having seen them once again.

“One cold January evening in 1993, Alice called and asked me if I would carry on her work and take over the Red Book. Not really knowing what to say, I said yes. That began a wonderful new

Bottles and Extras phase of my life because of the people I met and places where I went in pursuit of material for upcoming editions, Because of her, many wonderful doors were opened that otherwise would not have been.

“Her work affected countless people in the hobby in many different ways. Perhaps, most notable, she passed on in her legacy of the Red Book, as the joy of the search. Alex Kerr told me that it was more rewarding to search for a wanted jar than it was to actually own it. By informing the hobby of the scope and depth of what truly is available in the category of fruit jars, she brought the thrill of the search to so many.

“We lost this beautiful person on July 7, 2011, but what she left behind will last for a long time.

“Farewell dear friend, (s) Doug Leybourne.”

Leybourne published Red Books Nos. 7, 8, 9 and 10, the last and latest in 2008. “I’m working on No. 11, but have no idea when it will be published,” he said.

What kind of person did he find in Alice Creswick?

“She was a very dear person, quite private in nature, and she wasn’t much for rubbing elbows. She collected a lot of things. I remember visiting her and seeing a bottle on her desk. It was embossed “Sure Shot for Bed Bugs.” I kidded her a lot about that bottle.”

In 1995, Leybourne nominated Alice for inclusion in the Federation’s Hall of Fame. The Federation board approved the nomination.

Alice was preceded in death by her husband, Howard, in January 2000. She is survived by her children, Howard (Marilyn) Creswick, Steven (Norma) Creswick, Nathan (Andrea) Creswick; a sister, Joan (James) McClurken; her brothers, Raymond (Florence) Tanis and Elbert (Maryann) Tanis; seven grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren.

At the family’s request, memorial contributions may be sent to the Hospice of Michigan, 989 Spaulding SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49301.

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The Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club Proudly Presents its 45th Annual

ANTIQUE BOTTLE, FRUIT JAR, ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLE SHOW AND SALE

The Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club was established in 1966. The club is the 5th Charter Member of the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors.

ONE DAY SHOW Saturday, September 10, 2011 9:00AM to 4:00PM Early Bird starts at 8:00AM Admission $3.00. Earlybird $5.00. *** $1.00 off admission with this flyer . *** Not Valid On Early Bird

Including insulators, small antiques, advertising, fruit jars, bottles, glass, postcards, primitive items galore with much much, much more!

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Bottles, stoneware, tins, pottery, advertising, ephemera, small collectibles, and table-top antiques.

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A Book in Review Glass in Northwest Ohio,

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

By Bill Baab

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

His current book is one of a trilogy that focuses on not only the glass factories that emerged following that discovery, but on two giants of the industry – Edward Libbey and Michael J. Owens. His book on Libbey book was published

by McFarland in May of this year. The Owens book (Michael Owens and the Glass Industry) has been available for some time. All are must reads for the serious collector and historian.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ceramic Makers’ Marks, by Erica Gibson A review

By Bill Baab

Broken pieces of porcelain and other dinner ware are common finds for collectors of antique bottles scouring trash pits, dumps and privies.

Many collectors check out the fancy makers’ marks on the bases of the plates and most have no idea of what they’re looking at. Many marks contain the words “Ironstone China.” Others show coats of arms and other insignias.

Who manufactured the plates and where and when? Few bottle collectors know the answers and this is what makes Erica Gibson’s book, “Ceramic Makers’ Marks,” invaluable.

The 350 marks described came from fragments unearthed in North American archaeological sites. They are of British, French, German and American origin and represent 112 different manufacturers from the mid 19th through the early 20th centuries.

Happily for collectors, Ms. Gibson has the manufacturers arranged in alphabetical order so it’s easy to quickly find the one whose mark may be found on a fragment and compare it to the photograph in the book.

I just wish I could have had this book in my hands many years ago while I was an active digger. Of course, I never saved any plate fragments, but I would have had I known this book was in the works.

The book, which comes in hardcover ($89) and soft cover ($24.95), is available from Left Coast Press, 1630 N. Main Street, No. 400,Walnut Creek, Calif. 94596. It’s all part of a series of Guides to Historical Artifacts so you may want to visit the publisher’s website at www.LCoastPress.com.

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FOHBC Contest Winners for 2011 Best Newsletter: 1. The Ohio Swirl (Ohio Bottle Club) 2. Oklahoma Territory News (Oklahoma Territory Bottle & Relic Club) 3. The Bottleneck (San Diego Antique Bottle & Collectibles Club)

Best Show Poster (7 entries): 1. Montana Bottle Collectors Association 2. Horse Creek Bottle Club, Warrenville, S.C. 3.Huron Valley Bottle & Insulator Club

Best True Story (9 entries): 1. Digging Germany, by Boyd Beccue 2. History of the Sebring (Fla.) Glassworks, by Dwight A. Pettit Jr. 3. A Couple Good Digging Days, or Thanks, Todd, for Leaving, by Johnnie Fletcher

Best researched story (5 entries): 1. The Breweries of Clinton, Iowa, by Mark Wiseman, Donald Roussin and Kevin Kious 2. San Diego’s First Coke Dealer, by Mike Bryant

Best Fiction (4 entries): 1. Down on the Farm, by Doug Shilson 2. The “Drool Factor,” by Bobby Vaughn

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13th Annual Terre Haute Bottle Show and Sale Brings Collectors Out

Above, left: Jim Williams, from Greencastle, Indiana and a dealer in rare glass insulators, holds a pair of popular “Mickey Mouse” designs used through the 1940s.

– Photo by Michael Elling

Above, right: Brian Ketner exhibited a 19th century fire grenade, intact, and full of carbon tetrachloride. Thrown at base of a fire, the glass burst and chemical was a fire suppressant. Brian is from Rosedale, Indiana.

– Photo by Michael Elling

Right: Tony Stringfellow shows an odd amber-streaked, throw-away Coke bottle of the 1970s. The clear/amber color indicates the furnace was still in transition when bottle was cast. It is a Midland Glass Company product probably made in the Terre Haute plant.

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Above: Tennessee soda dealer Mike Elling is shown ready for business on Saturday show day.

– Photo by Phil Bennett

Left: Jerry Higginbotham, of Terre Haute, builds and markets bottle lamps.

He uses a secret sand-blasting method to place enamel colors inside the glass.

He has been perfecting this skill for over 10 years.

– Photo by Michael Elling

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Merrimack Valley Antique Bottle Club Presents the 37th Annual

Lowell Antique Bottle Show & Sale Sunday September 25, 2011 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Early Buyers 8 a.m.

Early Buyer Admission - $15 General Admission - $3 Children under 12 Free

Lowell ELKS Club, 40 Old Ferry Rd, Lowell, MA (Take Exit 32 off US Rte 3 Then follow the signs.

Map also located on our web site)

80 Dealer Tables with Bottles, Postcards, Advertising, Stoneware, Fruit Jars, Insulators & Collectables Free Bottle Appraisals Free Parking Free Children’s Bottle Table Free $20 Door Prize Drawings For information contact: Cliff Hoyt: 978-458-6575 Maureen Crawford: 978-897-7327 Or visit our web site for: Maps, Directions, Dealer Contracts, Discount Coupons & more at: choyt48.home.comcast.net/mvbc.htm

“A Show with Moxie” Catered Lunch

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

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Dave Hinson

By Bruce W. Schank

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

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ave was born in September 1960 in Bakersfield, Calif., and also grew up there. He attended undergraduate college in Lubbock, Tex., where he met and married his lovely wife. He also went to graduate school at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif.

Dave currently works for the county of Los Angeles supervising a court investigations unit. (That sounds interesting.)

In the 1990s, Dave was busy on ‘listserves’ on the Internet (basically Internet e-mailing lists) focusing on a couple of popular television shows at the time (X-Files and Millennium) and those were a lot of fun for him. He wrote episode reviews and garnered tidbits of information about the shows’ respective story arcs. Back in the ’90s when the Internet was still new, a fan not only got to correspond with other people that were interested in their show but sometimes even some of the writers would be on the list and thus, one had the honor of corresponding with them as well.

Because of those “e-mailing Lists” Dave thought it would be an interesting idea to bring collectors together on the Internet by starting a similar list. At that time eGroups (later purchased by Yahoo) was an up and coming site and it was easy to sign up. He e-mailed various Federation folks he knew and other collectors and the list took off quickly.

I’ve never met Dave in person, but I have known him since I joined the Fruit Jar Group on Yahoo back in Febru-

Dave and Esther Hinson ary 2003. In 2004, Dave, who is the “Owner” of the Group queried for an assistant Moderator, and this humble author gladly accepted that responsibility. Dave and I are still Moderators of the Group to this day.

Extremely scarce Western Stoneware grouping..

26 Dave is also a former Bottles & Extras editor and writer of the “Western Region Report.” He is an eclectic collector and is partial to various green shaded jars including pint Atlas Strong Shoulder, Ball Perfect Mason and Improved Gem jars. Not surprisingly, he really likes most of his jars but the one favorite that stands out is his The Winslow Improved Valve Jar (half gallon) that has an almost perfectly preserved metal spring under the metal clamp and a label dated 1885. He’s also fond of two Southern California Packing Co. Los Angeles, Calif. Jars, the larger half gallon with an original label and both with original carrying handles. Finally, his collection of Los Angeles Olive Grower jars in various sizes (quart to one gallon.) Along with jars, he and his wife Esther also collect jelly glasses.

Dave first became interested in fruit jars during his adolescent years.

Collecting was something he and his dad did and continued doing during his elementary, junior and senior high years and in which was a positive activity keeping him out of trouble. During the summer between his fourth and fifth grade years his father worked as a land salesman in Tehachapi, Calif. at a place called Enchanted Lakes. There were actually seven small lakes on the ranch which included genuine Indian petro glyphs and a couple of Indian grinding rocks; the property had a Tom Sawyer feel – like lost island at Disneyland – that naturally got his imagination going about finding treasure.

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Rare Mexican jar of California, farmers grow an abundance of Apples and other fruit in the mountain community. The development company had converted an old circa 1910s farm house into the land office. Dave was quick to note that an old fruit cellar was still intact looking pretty much as it had since the time the ranch ceased operations in the 1950s.

Convinced he could find treasure, he spent many days staring through the slats of the old door covering the cellar observing partitioned boxes containing blue cylinders capped with grey metal tops (in his mind they were filled with coins or other valuables.) Despite warnings of possible rattle snake encounters (snakes are common residents in California mountain communities) his curiosity finally got the best of him and one day he cautiously ventured into that cellar to find what treasure might await him.

There were perhaps three dozen,

Very appealing assortment of green jars.

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That one find inspired his curiosity and started a relentless pursuit through junk stores, newspaper ads, jar lists advertised in the Antique Trader, and the cellars of his father’s Midwest relatives.

Dave and his dad thus went all over the place looking for jars. They used to buy wax sealers from a collector in Randsberg, Calif., and at that time that person was apparently a reasonably well known wax sealer collector and took trips back east to buy jars and antiques. Randsberg is still an old washed up desert mining town near Death Valley and Dave is clueless as to what that guy was doing

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Trio of jars, including one with rare label. there with his antique shop and family in the middle of nowhere.

Dave and his dad also met and visited with Ron Burris in Visalia, Calif.

Ron was a career educator and worked with developmentally disabled children at a hospital in Porterville. Years later Alex Kerr told him Ron sold out his collection sometime perhaps in the 1980s. (Collectors or those familiar with eBay might recall Ron’s name as he published an early series of books on antique fruit jars.) According to Dave, Ron’s house was crazy … It was literally a huge fruit jar collection. His garage was chock full too, Ron had all of his jars on display and none of them packed in boxes. By sheer numbers he

probably had the largest collection of anyone at the time. Dave believes he had well over 2,000 unique fruit jars at his house. As far as he knew Ron had the only complete original AE Bray amber example. He has no idea to whom that jar went.

During the Hinson family journeys they met the Settle family at the Tropico Gold Mine in Rosamond, Calif. and were charter members of the now defunct Golden State Treasure Hounds, a treasure, bottle and relic club in Bakersfield, Calif. He swapped jars with the Settles and to this day he still has an SCA pint QG (monogram) he got from them. After some time off for college, he took jars back up in the 80s when his

Nice colored Atlas pint line-up.

Front of a rare labeled jar kids were little plus it was a good excuse for various family vacations. (He never made it to one of the famous west coast get-togethers, however, because they didn’t allow children.)

The FOHBC Expo in 1988 in Las Vegas was when Dave talked to Granny Kath face to face. She was flattered and surprised to learn he read her column as a teen. His older son was two years of age at the time and there is a photo of him (Stephen) and Dave in Granny’s show report column on the ’88 expo.

As Dave and Esther dragged their children through antique malls/stores, flea markets and bottle shows when they were growing up (the boys are 20 and 23 now), they met Alex and

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Carolyn Kerr. Alex helped him with magazine articles in the 1990s. As any long time jar collector knows, Alex had “The” fruit jar collection in his heyday and Dave and his wife were blessed to spend some time at their house as part of the Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club.

Dave and Esther were at the Expo in Las Vegas searching up and down the aisles when they came upon a table with a trove of jars. They struck up a conversation with a woman there who had a beautiful smile, a bright and patient disposition and the gift of conversation. He remembers asking if she could reduce the sales price of a jar. He believed truly she would have loved to knock off a few bucks but without hesitation she told him she could not without first getting her husband’s approval. She confessed, she had once sold a jar for a price lower than listed on the sticker and it did not go over very well with her husband. Eventually her husband appeared at the table, our offer was denied but a friendship had begun. That was their introduction to Alex and Caroline Kerr.

According to Dave, until you really got to know him, (Alex) at first he seemed maybe a little rough on the edges; Caroline was like fine lace.

They truly complemented each other.

Alex took a shine to Dave and appreciated his love for and knowledge of fruit jars. Caroline embraced their children and always included them in bottle club gatherings at the Kerr home. Ever gracious, warm, and loving, Alex and Caroline became a part of Dave’s family!

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Teenage finds. my Bruhn corresponded once having noticed their jars wanted ad in the bottle magazine. Tommy was retiring from the hobby and he and his adult son were preparing to sell his collection.

Although Tommy was the collector in the family he mentioned how he and his family spent grand times scouring the countryside looking for rare finds.

Tommy and his family spent fond summers at a resort in Dave’s area called American Adventure – a camping country club in Leona Valley, Calif., on a local lake. Tommy was honest to a fault and Dave purchased several jars from his list. Tommy called him once saying that he had overlooked a microscopic nick on the lip of a Hemingray jar he’d purchased from his list. Dave has a milk glass Flaccus by which to remember a short but memorable friendship with Tommy.

Dave has a clear Kerr Self Sealing quart jar in the collection that has an interesting provenance. Alex produced it for a local collector after they had a serious discussion about ‘whittle marks.’

While Dave’s club was on a field trip to the old El Monte plant, Alex dem-

Appealing grouping of SCA jars.

onstrated the production of a jar on one of the manufacturing machines to show a club member what a jar might look like when blown in a cold metal mold.

The glass came out distorted, swirled and riddled with imperfection. Despite the term whittle mark, Alex was fond of chuckling when people would try and tell him that fruit jars were blown in wooden molds.

Dave and Ester missed the national show this year because they went to see their son in Oklahoma for his birthday.

He and his brother both live in Oklahoma, he’s in college and their older son is in the military. It was important because everyone will be moving to the DC area early next year so we felt we needed to go. Otherwise they still go to antiques swap meets on occasion and sometimes find a bargain or two on eBay. Unfortunately they haven’t been to a bottle club meeting in quite some time but do see club members at shows and local swap meets.

Dave has found that occasionally folks on eBay will overlook significant jars either because they are in a hurry, don’t think the jars are all that significant or they’re listed in the wrong category. That’s how he found a pint sized Everlasting Jar (Jar in banner) with a ZINC SCREW TOP, rather than the traditional metal clamp and glass lid for a relative steal and a Bamberger’s Newark for a just a few bucks. He also found a pint Fruit Keeper on “Buy it Now” for $15. About 15 years ago as early birds to the Las Vegas show they saw a green streaked Kerr Self Sealing mason with a bird swing (arc of glass inside the jar) that the gentleman had

Bottles and Extras on his table un-priced. He thinks he offered him $20 and the dealer took it – just pure blind luck but the kind we enjoy hearing about. The best jar Dave ever received from a relative was a half gallon Stone Mason Fruit Jar from his Aunt Lee’s cellar that she gave him absolutely for free. He considers that jar a family heirloom. Interestingly enough, Dave is one of the few collectors to tell me he has never broken a jar.

Dave and Esther are still actively collecting today and have more things than their house can hold. What’s been fun about the hobby for them, however, is being able to share their things with other collectors, making new friends and being able to visit other homes where jars and other antiques are put on display. He thinks it’s amazing the things a person can learn and the people you can meet in this hobby. For instance, getting to know and viewing the collection of Alex and Carolyn Kerr was wonderful for him. Although Dave claims he probably won’t be fortunate enough to obtain any of the big ticket items Alex had, he’s been fortunate enough to pick up a few good jars over the years and to meet so many interesting and wonderful people.

Dave offers the following practical advice: “Educate yourself … Information is key as well as talking to other seasoned collectors, borrow their expertise and learn from them. Get a copy of the new Red Book (if you don’t already have the current one.) There are also fruit jar pages on the Web where you can post wanted and for sale ads

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Dave and his dad.

A young glassman.

or search for jars (although belonging to a bottle club would likely be more informative.) If the new collector is near Indiana he/she should also check out the show of the Midwest Antique

Very nice line-up of tough California jars.

29 Fruit Jar and Bottle Club in Muncie, Indiana. Fruit Jar collectors from all over the country belong to the Indiana club.

Usually attendees visit each other’s rooms between show hours and a lot of jar talk and swapping goes on there.”

“The new collector could also become a member of the Federation. See the Website at www.fohbc.org The Federation also maintains a list of bottle shows the new collector might be able to attend and club meetings he/she might be able to attend. Many jar people attend local shows and are members of local bottle clubs. Join the Fruit Jar Collectors Internet Group http://groups. yahoo.com/group/fruitjars/ (Selling is not allowed on the list itself but there is a section to list jars for sale and your wants.) Steer away from damaged jars and beware of irradiated jars. You can check out A Primer on Fruit Jars by Dave Hinson. Internet: www.av.qnet. com/~glassman/info/b&e/primer.htm” Dave’s final thoughts: “Things have changed a lot over the years.

While eBay hasn’t killed the bottle show it’s certainly made an impact and the old time fruit jar list may have gone the way of the dodo bird. Fruit jars are also becoming more scarce at flea markets and bottle shows as items once referred to as ‘vintage’ or ‘collectible’ become more of the everyday. Even the ubiquitous Ball Perfect Mason, while still common, is noticeably less present than in days past. Experienced collectors might also do well for the hobby by getting involved in local organizations that promote local history and would benefit from the sharing of knowledge about the hobby. Perhaps returning to the old fashioned county fair with display entries would help promote jars and awareness about their significant role in American history.

I would encourage collectors to share the beauty of old jars and their historical importance with those in your local community and thereby encourage younger folks to join the hobby.”

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By Larry Smith Juneau, Alaska

I have lived in Alaska for more than 30 years and have been a digger most of that time.

brands embossed Juneau. laska has a big Joe Usibelli Jr., of Healy, mining history, Alaska probably has the best which started in collection of Alaskan bottles Juneau around 1880, including the Treadwell in the state and would be the best person to contact. He Mines and the mines up Gold owns the Usibelli Coal Mine Creek. Juneau, the state capital, in Healy. was built on the foundation of My best dig was an mining. adventure to Unga Island There are lots of places about six years ago. It’s an to go digging, but humans are not at the top of the food uninhabited island out in the Aleutian chain. From Juneau chain up here. The brown bear we flew to Anchorage, then to has been known to eat people Brown bears are hazards for Alaska bottle collectors.

Sandpoint where we chartered somewhere in Alaska every a 50-foot fishing boat to take us to the island. We had to year so we always pack firearms when going into the woods. get permission from the Unga Corporation which owns the A large percentage of bottles are found broken because island and we weren’t to touch the old Unga ghost town. of the rocky areas these sites sit on. Digging started back in We were also told that if any of the wild cows that roam the the 1960s. I have seen a wonderful collection dug by one of island gored us, we couldn’t sue the corporation. the first diggers. He was collecting western (whiskey) fifths All we wanted to do is dig around the Apollo Gold like myself and had a nice collection with a couple of really Mine. I was accompanied on the first trip to the island by rare fifths found up Gold Creek, glop top and tooled top my girlfriend, Alisa Higgins, and my son, Taylor Smith. examples. The tooled top amber Pioneer Bear fifth was a When the boat dropped us off (it was during May), it was smoker, light amber and hammered whittled. The other was blowing 40 knots, raining sideways and temperatures were an A.P. Hotaling globtop Portland fifth. in the 40s, very nasty. The captain said we could try again The money bottles have to be Alaska drug store bottles the next day, but I didn’t have the funds for another $500 from 1890 to 1910, little clear medicines that are easy to find when we kick into virgin diggings. They sell in the boat ride one way so we went for it. $100 to $1,000 price range. There are at least 10 different We found a place to pitch our tents that night and

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hunkered down. The next day, I knew we had to find some bottles fast or my crew would abandon ship on the dig. I didn’t think the weather would be so bad. We all had on full dress rain gear.

The boat captain had told us about the Sourdough Flats near the Apollo and we found a two-acre field with bottles sticking out of the grass everywhere.

Bonanza! We dug hard, but I could not believe the amount of unembossed bottles we found. They ran about 100 plain to every one embossed. We probably dug 500 bottles in all colors and just a handful embossed. But they were great: Four heavily whittled green Dr. Henley’s Wild Grape Root Bitters, a clear Eagle Glen Whiskey from San Francisco, lots of Hostetter’s Bitters, a whittled Crown Cocktails fifth, two red whittled Peruvian Bitters, a whittled Red Hand Beer from San Francisco and a few others.

Two of the Henley’s were on top of the ground where the wild cows walked through the grass and kicked them up. We dug two outhouses and the best of the Henley’s came from one. The dump was two to three feet deep and solid glass, 75 percent of which was broken. The water table was only a foot down and the Johnson grass made digging tough.

We were able to dig only a small percentage of the dump during the four days we were on the island. It was discouraging to find so few embossed ones.

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“… we found a two-acre field with bottles sticking out of the grass everywhere.

Bonanza!”

saw the bull, I didn’t think it was a big enough gun to stop it. Luckily, we kept our distance.

Our last night the weather kicked up again and our boat was scheduled to pick us up the next day. We were glad to leave. The site is so remote and even from Juneau it cost each of us $2,000 including air fare and boat charter. The island is just 10 miles from the mainland, but with 10-foot swells, a 50-foot boat was definitely needed.

If the site was easier to get to, we would all go back, but it isn’t.

Have something to share?

Tell us about it.

Have you been out finding some treasures?

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

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Arizona Collecting History

By Mike Miller

(EDITOR’S NOTE: Mike Miller started digging bottles back in Virginia in the mid-1970s. “Back then, we dug in old wagon dumps and I don’t remember anyone talking about privies. I used to cart the bottles on my bicycle and sold quite a few of them to an antiques dealer in the small town of Occoquan. I spent a lot of time digging in Minnieville, Va., which was an area of Civil War camps during the battles of Bull Run (Manassas), finding quite a few Civil War relics among the bottles.” He stepped away from the hobby until 1995 after having moved to Arizona).

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s far back as the mid-1950s, several individuals had begun collecting relics from the old ghost towns and the deserts of Arizona.

Included were old bottles used during the territorial and early statehood days. Though this early collecting usually consisted of looking for purple glass, these gatherers soon began noticing markings or embossings and began to categorize these bottles into groupings of type of use.

Bud Bassett, one of the first to collect, fit this mold while working for the U.S. Geodetic Survey in Northern Arizona. Working at a site near Holbrook, Bud recalled taking a daily trip several miles south of town and noticing hundreds of old bottles, many purpled by the sun, just lying on the ground. In time, he began to pick up the nicest colored of these, but left many embossed bottles behind because his primary interest was color.

As his collecting interest changed, the focus moved to collecting bottles from local businesses. In time, he assembled the most complete collection of Arizona Hutchinson sodas. Bud once spoke of finding two very rare Winslow Bottling Works Hutchinsons in a Winslow trading post. Having a shrewd eye for a good deal, Bud purchased one for his

PHOENIX BOTTLING WORKS PHOENIX A.T. With applied top 6 ½”.

Back to Arizona, to Phoenix specifically.

This hutchinson is the earliest example produced by the Phoenix Bottling Works.

In fact, it was made between 1884 and 1888, before Arizona became a state. The A.T. stands for Arizona Territory, and the applied top would back up the age of the bottle. This one is very heavily whittled and is a nice bluish aqua. There is a pressure type ding in the top, which is only visible as you turn the bottle to one side. A superb example with very minor damage. Without the flash we would grade this an 8. Winning Bid: $ 550 (ID: 10882) (Photo courtesy of Jeff Wichmann)

collection, but left the other. Today, the soda would bring well over $1,000, but back then it was just another small town bottle.

Other early pioneers of bottle collecting in the Grand Canyon State consisted of Jud May, Monroe Robinson, Dee Morris and Wes Fleming.

“I didn’t know enough to dig only a few feet down at that time,” May recalled, “as most of the bottles were under the bushes and leaves. I didn’t even bother with insulators as there were hundreds on the ground.”

Fleming and Bassett were the earliest collectors to locate the old Seventh Avenue dump in Phoenix.

Bud recalled the two digging partners spending days on end in the dump.

When the days were too hot, they dug by lantern light at night.

By the early 1960s, several new collectors had joined these pioneers and by 1966 plans were begun to form a collecting club. Early meetings were held at a farmhouse on the west end of McDowell Road in Phoenix Saturday afternoons after a day of digging to discuss the day’s finds and pass along information of the histories of the businesses which utilized the bottles.

Soon meetings were held at several different club members’ homes and then moved to the mineral museum at the state fairgrounds.

By then, the club membership had swelled to 15 couples and the name Arizona Treasures Unlimited was officially taken. In 1968, the first officers elected were Earl Cotton, president; Anne Colton, secretary, and Jack Miller (no kin to the writer), treasurer.

The first mechanical club dig was held that year at the Seventh Street dump. A backhoe was used to dig trenches and each digger rented a section of the trenches. Cost for these activities was shared by participating members and many good bottles were

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found, including territorial sodas and pharmacy bottles. their many finds were glob top whiskeys from California, In May of that landmark year, Jack Miller began Arizona territorial bottles and, while on a dig in the making drawings and listings of Arizona sodas, the first real Southern Arizona town of Douglas, the first known Arizona attempt to catalog the state’s various bottles. Jack continued Territorial whiskey flasks. his project for 21 years, listing his Jack Shirie, a sometimes digging 160th different soda in June of 1989. partner of Wayne’s, was noted for Soon after the listings began, Jack finding the first known examples and others started sharing historical of the E.E. Prowell, Phoenix, A.T., business information. pharmacy bottle (considered by many In 1969, the Phoenix club to be Arizona’s best) and an example “fragmented” into two separate clubs, of the Clifton, Ariz., crown soda (also members with specific interests in Arizona’s best). More importantly, digging and old bottles splitting to Jack was the first in Arizona to start to form the Pick & Shovel Antique Bottle keep a notebook on his digs. Details Club of Arizona. Jack soon created were kept of privy locations, what a newsletter called The Blister and was found and the strata of dig sites. began to share his drawings of Arizona These notes were very instrumental bottles with the remainder of the club in helping to date the bottles found. members.

Furthermore, Jack began painstaking It also was in 1969 that urban research of Arizona businesses renewal projects began in downtown well beyond what had been done Phoenix with the highlight being previously. This information was construction of a new civic center. utilized years later in establishing Though not easily accessible, the bottle dates during the writing of the site did yield some excellent bottles, present Arizona bottle identification including a lady leg Mills’ Bitters from book.

California, green Phoenix Bottling By the mid-1960s, activity in bottle Works, Arizona Territory Hutchinsons, collecting had also begun in Tucson, the only known example of a Yorba & starting in 1966 with urban renewal Co., Tucson, Ariz., drug store bottle project in downtown along Congress and the first known examples of Street. Connie Zielbauer, Jimmy pharmacy bottles from the ghost town Adams and Bob Marcum were some of Jerome, Arizona. of the earliest diggers on the scene.

Wayne Larson, a well-known Connie remembers that excavators digger from Phoenix, remembers were just blading off the tops of privies meeting a supervisor from the civic and trash pits and the three would dig center construction crew and being told the bottles from the remaining layers about the many great bottles that had just ahead of the machinery.

PRESCOTT BOTTLING WORKS been dug on the project. Later, Wayne Hillard Frey, who worked with PRESCOTT AT. Here we have an Arizona was invited to the gentleman’s home Jimmy and Connie at the Tucson Territory bottle, which appears to have and saw the line of Phoenix, A.T., Greyhound Bus Station and in 1968 been cleaned, and does have some light sodas that he had picked up on the site. joined in the digging, recalls one highpoint wear on the lettering. Grade: Upon stating that he would love to find well which produced 50 to 75 J.F.I. Overall, however, this is a very presentable one of the sodas, Wayne was handed (J.F. Innes) Tucson Hutchinson example, as these don’t turn up everyday. If one and told he could keep it. sodas. Connie remembers additional you can live with some minor distractions, Prior to this time, digging in the holes which produced many cobalt we would strongly recommend this one to Phoenix area was mostly confined to bottles including rare pumpkinseed anyone looking for a fairly solid example. the Seventh Avenue dump and later the flasks. Those early Tucson diggers Grades 8.4. Winning Bid: $ 375 (Left Bid: feed lots of the old Maricopa Packing also dug in many Southern Arizona’s $ 400 ID: 18569) (Photo courtesy of Jeff Company. But some club members ghost towns including Charleston, Wichmann) had begun seeking out new digging Millville, Contention City, Black sites, locating and excavating old outhouses. Early privy Diamond, Pearce and Johnson. Connie recollected digging hunters included Wayne and Jack Shirie. the amber B&B Union Soda Works tombstone Hutchinson Wayne was a prolific digger and along with his father in Charleston, slick cobalt Hutchinsons in Contention dug hundreds of privies in the Phoenix area. Included in City which years later would be attributed to C.F. Riley’s

34 Pioneer Soda Works in Tombstone, and finding the only known example of the C.F. Moss Benson crown soda in a dirt mound in Johnson.

By the 1970s, new collectors joined their older counterparts.

Bryan Grapentine had started digging bottles with the Phoenix club at the Seventh Avenue dump and through the years without a doubt amassed the most celebrated collection of bottles in Arizona. Jim Bright, a native Arizonan, specialized in milk bottles, authored the Arizona Milk Bottle list and collects to this day (in 2009). Mike Schroff joined in the Tucson digs and became an instrumental contributor in assembling information on Arizona bottles. Jim Burns became one of the most prolific diggers throughout the state, locating rarities such as the first Yuma Hutchinson and the only known Glendale pharmacy bottle example.

By the late 1970s, digging locations were becoming more scarce as urban renewal projects wound down or became less accessible.

The Seventh Avenue dump in Phoenix also closed after the tragic death of a non-club digger who had perished when his ill-advised tunnel collapsed. Though digging would continue, it was at this point the focus of collecting began shifting for many from digging to attending bottle shows. In 1977, the first Arizona bottle show was held at Del Webb’s Townhouse in downtown Phoenix.

The 1980s saw a continuance of the trend toward less digging and increased activity in pursuing bottles at shows, antique stores and flea markets. Though sites at the old Bisbee and Prescott dumps and the St. Mary’s dump in Tucson produced some good finds, most of the bottles now offered for sale were ones recycled from earlier digs or items found by non-collectors who were realizing their bottles were of interest to collectors.

By 1986, the Phoenix Bottle Show had grown to 286 dealer tables and the club name changed

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Bottles and Extras to the Phoenix Antiques, Bottles & Collectibles Club. Along with the name change, which reflected a desire to gain new members by expanding the club interests, came a new kind of collector which sought out old Arizona items in general as opposed to collecting specific categories.

For these collectors, bottles were only a part of their interests which included advertising, souvenir china, tokens, calendar plates, mining and Left top: THE WELLINGTON SALOON THE F.G. MCCOY CO INC. PRESCOTT ARIZ. 6 ½” half-pint. Here we have another oddly shaped flask from Arizona, this one from Prescott. The Wellington Saloon was located on Montezuma Street in1902 and it is believed that it closed in 1906. The bottom also reads, “DESIGN PAT. AUG 9 1898.” Considered a rare bottle, this is the first one we’ve seen.

Condition is terrific and would grade a solid 8.5 if not for the smallest of a tiny pressure dings the size of a nail head.

The bottle has never been cleaned and has some light stain. In spite of the super minor flaw, is still a real gem. Thanks again to Michael Miller. Est. $400-700.

MB $400 Winning Bid: $ 900 (Left Bid: $ 1,000 ID: 13547 ) (Photo courtesy of Jeff Wichmann) Left bottom: RETURN TO JOE GRIBBLE OLD CROW SALOON DOUGLAS, A.T. 6” Screw cap with ground lip. Close to a half-pint. Please note the catalog says, “A.Z.” while it is actually an Arizona Territory flask. One of Bryan’s passions, since he does live in Arizona, is Arizona bottles. This rare flask was made for a saloon that bordered Mexico. In 1903 Joe Gribble opened a saloon on 10th street called “The Whitehouse” and another called “The Old Crow”. A very rare bottle, this is certainly the first one we’ve seen and most likely the last. Joe’s flask grades an 8.5 with just a hint of light stain that would easily clean out. A highly sought after Arizona territory flask. Est. $1000-2000. MB $700.

Thanks go to Michael Miller for additional information on this bottle. Winning Bid: $ 4,600 (ID: 11010) (Photo courtesy of Jeff Wichmann)

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Throughout the 1990s and into the 21st century, the number of new bottle collectors in Arizona has remained fairly constant. Privy and dump digging have been reduced to infrequent attempts being made by men like Scott Given, Jim Dews, John Moody and myself, as well as older diggers such as Jim Bright.

In 1996, I became president of the PABC and rediscovered some of Jack Miller’s drawings in a pile of old newsletters given to me for safekeeping. The drawings, along with small snippets of historical information on Arizona businesses found sporadically throughout the newsletters, inspired me to begin a project to catalog every known Arizona embossed soda, beer, pharmacy, food and whiskey bottle. The drawings were complemented by historical information, photos of go-withs and price and rarity guides.

The first edition of A Collector’s Guide to Arizona Bottles & Stoneware, covering bottles from 1880 to 1920, was completed in 1999. Demand for information on soda bottles from the machine-made era, the second edition of the book was expanded to include embossed bottles from the 1880s to the 1940s.

Bryan Grapentine’s phenomenal collection hit the auction block during 2007 and 2008 with a series of auctions conducted by Jeff Wicher at American Bottle Auctions. Visitors to Bryan and Pearl Grapentine’s

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SELTZER BOTTLE BUBBLING WATER BISBEE BOTTLING WORKS REG. ARIZ. CONTENTS ONE QUART. 11 ¾”. With original spout. Here’s a seltzer from the bustling little town of Bisbee. For those unaware (as we were a few minutes ago) Bisbee was an early copper mining town in South Eastern Arizona. This seltzer is considered rare and is the first we’ve ever handled. It has the original metal spout and condition is generally a solid 8. A good one for the seltzer or Arizona collector. Winning Bid: $ 450 (ID: 18300) (Photo courtesy of Jeff Wichmann)

35 home could have told you that it was impossible to take in the whole collection in one trip. The auctions netted a record amount for the sale of an individual collection and, in addition to all of the other categories included, Arizona collectors were able to obtain some great pieces that rarely see the sales tables. Bryan has not stopped collecting, with his current interest Sandwich glass.

The present shows a great future for bottle collecting in Arizona, Though the days of the 200-plus-table shows are long gone, the last several years have seen an increase in the Arizona show which has once again grown to more than 100 tables.

Many of today’s collectors have followed the Hopwood model of collecting many categories, while others continue the tradition of specializing in only one. Local items seem to have an edge in interest over more national categories, although it is becoming difficult to find quality in either area.

The collecting community also reflects the entire spectrum of age group and experience level.

Bottle collecting pioneers such as Bud Bassett are still active in their pursuit of the last few bottles to complete their collections.

Although many collectors such as Jack Miller and Jack Shirie are no longer with us, Hillard Frey, Bryan Grapentine and Jim Bright continue to collect and are happy to help young collectors.

Second wave collectors such as Rick and Karen Hopwood, Cole Lewellen and Karen and myself have amassed large Arizona collections and newcomers like Brent VanDeman have moved into the forefront of the picture representing the future top collectors of the hobby in the state.

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The Multi-millionaire and the Making of “Old Crow” (Special to Bottles and Extras)

By Jack Sullivan

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rowing up, Edson Bradley probably could not tell sour mash from sweet corn, but in maturity he turned whiskey-making into abounding wealth. In the process, he made possible the rise of Old Crow bourbon – still one of America’s most popular whiskeys.

Bradley was born in 1852 and Edson Bradley birthplace grew up a large frame house in Roxbury, Connecticut where his father, Edson Sr, was a partner in a shoe manufacturing company. Although details about Edson Jr.’s early life are sketchy, he was born into money, well educated and eventually trained for a career in finance. While still in his twenties he became associated with Paris, Allen & Company, a leading New York and London financial and importing firm.

Immediately after the Civil War, members of the firm had become interested in whiskey production as an investment. They connected financially with Frankfort, Kentucky, distillers that included the estimable Colonel E.J. Taylor, a major force in Kentucky bourbon. Together the money men and the whiskey makers built a distillery in Frankfort, shown here). At the same time, they purchased the nearby Old Crow distillery, closed it down, and moved the operations to the new facility along with the brand name.

The Crow name had particular importance. A Scottish physician, James Crow (1789-1856) is credited by many for inventing the sour mash method of making whiskey and for being the father of modern bourbon. After his death, his recipe was handed down through several distillers until purchased by the Taylor group.

Through the years the Old Crow brand repeatedly has invoked James Crow’s heritage, including ads purportedly showing him delivering whiskey to the American statesman, Henry Clay.

In 1887, the firm incorporated in Kentucky as W.A. Gaines and Co. New York-based Marshall Allen of The W.A. Gaines Distillery, Frankfort, Ky. Paris became president and Bradley a vice president. Although the whiskey industry has always emphasized the backwoods, rustic nature of distilling, the truth is more complicated. New York Wall Street investors frequently were directly involved in the whiskey trade. Edson Bradley, the Eastern aristocrat, was among the most successful.

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September - October 2011 Almost immediately upon joining the distillery, the youthful Bradley was anointed the principal spokesman for the Gaines Company and represented its interests and those of the distilling industry on Wall Street and in the halls of Congress. The operation became highly profitable, selling the Old Crow brand nationwide. The distillery was expanded. A photo from the Kentucky Historical Society shows the enhanced facility.

A black crow early became a fixture on its

Old Crow shot glass

Depiction of James Crow

The Gaines Distillery, c. 1918

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An Old Crow Trade Card labels.

Bold millionaire and a kingpin of the and interesting American distilling industry. About advertising, this time he moved his family from exemplified by New York City to Washington, D.C. a racy trade card He bought a large Victorian home on and a giveaway fashionable DuPont Circle and tore it shot glass, were down to build the grandest mansion part of the success. the Nation’s Capitol had ever seen.

As the driving Bradley’s home was truly his force behind Old castle, featuring towers, turrets and Crow, Bradley soon stained glass windows. It contained a became a national Gothic chapel, an art gallery – to hold figure. In 1884, the his extensive collection of ceramics, New York Times tapestries and books – and a 500-seat identified him as a leader theater he called “Aladdin’s Palace.” of the Wine and Spirits Some interior rooms were transferred Exchange – an early intact from France. Almost instantly, attempt at a “Whiskey Trust.” In the the Bradleys became a regular item process, Bradley also was becoming on the society pages of Washington immensely wealthy. Soon the press newspapers. Edson’s daughter, Julia, was referring to Bradley as a liquor had a splashy and well-publicized

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The Bradley Newport mansion

Bradley’s New York drawing room

Above, left: Ad for Kirk Old Crow; above, right: Old Crow labeled bottle

Hellman’s Old Crow

Chapel in the Bradley DC home “coming out” party in 1894 that drew a crowd of the rich and powerful to his home.

At the same time, Bradley was finding that success had its downside. Because “Old Crow” had achieved national fame as a brand, other whiskey organizations were using some variation of the name on their products. Some of these were licensed bottlers, such as H.B. Kirk Company of New York and Thompson & Howe of Boston. Others simply appropriated the Crow name and prestige. W.A. Gaines Company sought to fend off this competition by registering the Old Crow trademark in 1887. When that move failed to deter the copycats, Bradley and his

Thompson & Howe Old Crow colleagues registered again in 1897 and repeated the process in 1904 and again in 1909.

The principal culprit was the Rock Springs Distilling Company

of Daviess County, Kentucky. It persisted in selling a whiskey it called Hellman’s Old Crow. Eventually the dispute found its way into the courts. A federal judge in Kentucky

Bottles and Extras decided for Bradley and the Gaines Company. That decision was reversed by a Federal Appeals Court. In 1918, the case found its way to the United States Supreme Court. The High Court ruled in favor of Bradley and ordered Rock Springs Distilling to “cease and desist” its use of the Old Crow name. We can speculate that at least a few of the Supreme Court justices had been guests at Bradley’s palatial Washington home.

Bradley’s victory quickly became a hollow one as National Prohibition was imposed a year later. His company struggled along until 1922 when it was dissolved and the Gaines distillery was left for a time abandoned and derelict. Now 70 years old and enormously wealthy from Old Crow profits, Bradley was restless.

He determined to leave Washington, move to fashionable Newport, Rhode Island, and, almost incredibly, to take his castle with him.

Brick by brick, tile by tile, the mansion was dismantled and transported to Rhode Island while the fascinated populace of Washington looked on. Ripley’s “Believe It or Not” highlighted the event for a national audience. In Newport, Bradley purchased a large existing home called Seaview Terrace. He joined the two structures to become one of the largest mansions in America. It featured 17 rooms on the first floor, 25 on the second, and 12 on the third.

He also bought a 20-room suite in the exclusive River House in New York City. Its sumptuous drawing room indicates the elegance of his life style. In both residences he kept his notable collection of fine art and ceramics.

Time, however, was catching up with the Bradleys. A few months after construction was completed on Seaview Terrace, Mrs. Bradley died there, age 76. Six years later in 1935, Edson, while on a trip to London, also died. He was 83. Today the mansion in Newport still stands. From 1966 to 1971, it was the setting for a spooky ABC daytime soap opera called “Dark

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Old Crow advertisement, c. 1938 Shadows.” The house currently serves as a dormitory for a local college.

The Old Crow brand survived and thrived. A 1926 magazine cartoon in the midst of Prohibition indicates the importance the brand had achieved with the public. Immediately after Repeal, American Medicinal Spirits Co. bought the Frankfort plant, renovated it and later turned it over to National Distillers Products Co. which purchased the brand name in 1947. That firm operated the distillery as W.A. Gaines until it went out of the whiskey business in 1985. National Distillers

then sold the brand and facility to the Jim Beam Brands Co. It shut the plant but has continued to market Old Crow. Regardless of ownership, the black bird has remained a constant in its merchandising.

–––––––––––––– Notes: The information for this article comes from a wide range of written and Internet sources. The Old Crow trade card is through the courtesy of Reggie Lynch. The photo of the shot glass is from Robin Preston and his www.prepro website. Portions of this article previously appeared in the Potomac Pontil, the monthly newsletter of the Potomac Bottle Club.

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The California Perfume Company

he year 1892 was especially significant in the history of an entrepreneurial venture pioneered by David Hall McConnell and his young bride, Lucy Hays. McConnell received a letter in 1892 from his previous employer, who was then in California, wherein he suggested that the name of the “Union Publishing House” be changed to the “California Perfume Company” to coincide with McConnell’s refocusing of this New York-based publishing company toward the exclusive manufacture and sale of perfumes, extracts, and other household consumables. “The name,” as McConnell’s previous boss purported, “provides the allusion to far away Californian fields, filled with beautiful flowers.” And the rest, as they say, is history.

1886-1939

By Rusty Mills

Chicago]. I took this up during my school vacation, and developed quite a faculty for talking, which I have since learned is quite essential, and has stood me well in hand many times.

My success in canvassing was such as to invite me into the same field the following year, and after two years’ hard work in the canvass, I was promoted from local canvasser to that of General Traveling Agent. As General Agent I traveled in nearly every state east of the Rocky Mountains; this gave me a valuable knowledge regarding the country; and my experience, both as canvasser and as General The second catalog of the California Perfume Agent, gave me a good Company, dated 1897. There are only three insight into human nature. known to exist.

It is uninteresting to you McConnell authored to follow me through the different work from Chicago a substantive article to New York and from New York to Atlanta, Georgia, detailing the historical and back to Chicago, and finally back to New York. development of the During all these years I represented in different ways California Perfume the same publishing company [the Union Publishing Company in 1903 House] with which I originally started as a canvasser; entitled, “the Great Oak.” canvassing, appointing and drilling agents; starting Following are key excerpts and drilling General Agents, and corresponding with from the Great Oak both after they once entered the field. My work as a article, punctuated with canvasser and on the road taught me not to enter right amplifying comments: into the everyday work of the canvasser and advise In 1878, when but and encourage, so as to obtain the best results. If I David H. McConnell, a mere lad, I left my learned to be anything, I learned to be practical. age 28, c. 1886, founder father’s farm located On my return from Chicago, I purchased the and president of the near Oswego City, entire business from my employer [Union Publishing California Perfume New York State. Here House, New York – at 126 Chambers Street, New Company I spent my boyhood York, N.Y.] and managed it myself for some time. days, and through During this time the one thing I learned successfully hard work and proper training developed a good, was how to sell goods to the consumer. strong, hardy, rugged constitution. When I started out My ambition was to manufacture a line of goods in the world “to make my fortune,” I had this positive that would be consumed, used up, and to sell it advantage over many who were less favored. through canvassing agents, direct from the factory to My first experience in the business world was the consumer. as a book agent [for the Union Publishing House, The starting of the perfume business was the result

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of most careful and thorough investigation, guided by or outfit, in the perfume business. Mrs. Albee was the experience of several years’ successful operation the only General Agent employed for the first six in the book business; that is, in selling goods direct months of the business. During that time she secured to the consumer or purchaser. I learned during this a number of good workers, some of whom are with time that the proper and most advantageous way of us today. It is, therefore, only befitting that we give selling goods was to be able to submit the goods her the honorary title of Mother of the California themselves to the people. In investigating this matter Perfume Company. For the system that we now use nearly every line of business was gone over, and it for distributing our goods is the system that was put seemed to me, then, as it has since been proved, that in practical operation by Mrs. Albee. the perfume business in As the business grew, its different branches through the work of our afforded the very best agents, we were forced possible opportunity to from time to time to build up a permanent increase our laboratory and well established space, and in 1895 we trade. Having once built our own laboratory decided that the perfume in Suffern, New York, business was the 32 miles out on the main business, the question line of the Erie Railroad. naturally presented This building has been itself, “By what name enlarged and remodeled are these perfumes to be three different times, known; by what name until today we have a is this company to be building 120 feet long, called?” The gentleman main building 50 feet who took me from the wide and the wing 30 farm as a boy became feet, all three stories in the past years, not and basement giving only my employer but us four working floors, Little Folks Set – 1912 my personal friend, and each floor having 4,800 after buying him out square feet of floor he moved to California, and while there wrote me space, or a total floor capacity of 17,200 feet. This glowing accounts of the country, and to him belongs building is equipped with the best possible machinery the idea of the name California, as associated with and latest devices for bottling goods and so on, until this business [from the letter received in 1892].

I feel we can truthfully say that there is not a plant I started the perfume business in a space scarcely of our kind in the country so large and so well fitted larger than an ordinary kitchen pantry [a single room for our business, as the laboratory of the California at 126 Chamber’s Street.] At first I manufactured but Perfume Company. five odors: Violet, White Rose, Heliotrope, Lily-ofAs well directed efforts and hard work must the-Valley, and Hyacinth. I soon found it necessary eventually win their way to the front, so the to increase the odors, and to add to the line other manufacturing end of the California Perfume articles for the toilet. Among those first put out were: Company grew out of my hands; that is to say, I found Shampoo Cream, Witch Hazel Cream, Almond that it was almost impossible for me to manufacture, Cream Balm, Tooth Paste, which afterwards was to give the personal attention to both manufacturing made in the Tooth Tablet, Toilet Waters, etc. and correspondence which the merits of each required.

As the business increased the laboratory must, Therefore, in 1896, I secured the services of the best of necessity grow, so that at the end of two years perfumer I could find, a gentleman who had been in [approximately 1894] I was occupying one entire the perfume business himself for 25 years and had floor in this building for manufacturing purposes the reputation in New York and vicinity for making alone. the finest perfumes on the American market [this While in the book business I had in my employ perfumer was Adolph Goetting, founder of Goetting & as General Traveling Agent, a Mrs. P.F.E. Albee, of Company, New York.] In order to secure his services Winchester, N.H. Mrs. Albee was one of the most I was obliged to buy out his business and close up successful General Agents I had in the book work, his laboratory, and he now has full charge of the and it was in her hands I placed the first sample case, manufacturing of every ounce of goods we put out.

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California Lavender Salts – 1898 Please see www.californiaperfumecompany.net to read the entire Great Oak article as well as much, much more on the history of the California Perfume Company.

The California Perfume Company (CPC) continued to grow and thrive in the succeeding years. A few of the company’s important historical milestones: the first catalog (text only) – 1896; the company’s first trademark (the Eureka trademark) used – 1898; the first national advertisement (1/4 page Roses perfume advertisement in Good Housekeeping magazine) – March, 1906; the main office moves from 126 Chambers Street to 31 Park Place in New York—1909; achieved the status of international

California Tooth Tablet - 1910 company with the opening of the Montreal, Canada office – 1914; won a gold medal award for quality at the PanamaPacific International Exposition in San Francisco – 1915; the Avon line of products introduced – 1928; the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval awarded to2 first set of CPC/Avon products – 1931; Mr. David H. McConnell died-20 January 1937 (and was succeeded by his son, David H. McConnell Jr. as the president of the California Perfume Company); the company was renamed Avon Products Inc., in honor of David H. McConnell Sr. – 6 October 1939.

Collecting the products and sundry memorabilia of this vast American company (that still dominates the cosmetics

Natoma Rolling Massage Cream – 1914

Bay Rum – 1915

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world as Avon Products, Heliotrope, Lily-of-theInc.) connects one with Valley, and Hyacinth). a rich history that spans The question is: under the industrialization and what name or banner maturation of our nation were the first products in its youth. Importantly, labeled? No one knows!

McConnell enabled 2) The first text-only and empowered women catalog was produced throughout the country in 1896, ten years after to earn a good, profitable the start of the company. living as door-to-door The second catalog, salespersons well before produced in 1897, the 19th Constitutional consisted of a few handAmendment to allow drawn illustrations to universal suffrage in 1920. compliment the wealth Early representatives’ sales of text. The 1898 and periodicals are replete 1899 catalogs continued with success stories and this same practice. testimonial pictures of Furthermore, early women earning the money CPC catalogs contained for motor vehicles and sparse pictures of even houses. McConnell the company’s many was an inspiration to untold products--and many numbers and his products products have never been were always of the best illustrated. Therefore, quality, and everything sold literally hundreds of came with his unconditional different products were money-back guarantee – a manufactured and sold groundbreaking approach by the CPC over the that absolutely bolstered company’s first two Rose Talcum – 1908 sales. decades with no illustration So then, the company known as the California Perfume or picture to guide the collector and enthusiast…

Company operated for just over 53 years, producing a wide so happy hunting! array of consumable goods for the customers and mounds 3) McConnell successfully reduced his costs to the of information and sales helps for the representatives. This customer by utilizing common bottles. That is amounts to a wealth of collecting potential! Some of the to say that McConnell did not produce propriety great finds that are still newly discovered ever day include glass containers for his liquid and powder perfumes, toilet waters, talcum powders, sachets, lavender products. A close examination of the CPC bottles salts, tooth tablets, shampoo creams, men’s sets, women’s compared with other perfume and household sets, soaps, food colorings, flavor extracts, laundry products, product suppliers of the era will clearly show the furniture polish, and so much more! use of common bottles. The value, therefore, rests The art of collecting CPC items can prove quite difficult, almost exclusively in the CPC label. A bottle with but ultimately, it is great fun! Following are a few collectors’ a mint label is worth much, a bottle without a label tips: is worth almost nothing.

1) Six years of perfume manufacturing and sales are This article only touches the very tip of the proverbial unaccounted for! The company began in 1886 with iceberg when considering the vastness of David H. McConnell’s purchase of the Union Publishing McConnell’s California Perfume Company. For more House. He started manufacturing his own perfume information on this subject, please visit the CPC Web site at products at that time (Violet, White Rose, www.californiaperfumecompany.net.

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Harry Hall White, Bottle Archaeologist and Researcher Extraordinaire

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hen Harry Hall White died in April of 1944 at the age of 60, collectors of early American antique glass, including bottles, lost a stalwart friend and researcher, but are still enjoying the fruits of his early labors.

He was a Chrysler Corporation engineer who, during his free time, explored and excavated the sites of many of the early glass houses in the Midwest, Northeast and New England.

He shared his research with many notables of the bottle collecting hobby

By Bill Baab

of his days, prompting legendary George McKearin to say in his book, American Glass (1941): “Harry Hall White is the outstanding pioneer in this field of research and investigation.”

McKearin went on to say that “the excavations to which we frequently referred, made over a period of 20 years or more by Harry Hall White on the sites of many glass houses, have been a source of almost priceless information and positive knowledge to collectors in practically every category of American glass. Not only is Mr. White a thorough student with a

valuable store of technical knowledge, but he is restrained and conservative in arriving at conclusions.”

Patient staffers at The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio came up with several references to White by scanning their Microfilm files for this writer. “The first meeting of the newly formed Society of Collectors will be held tomorrow evening at the Salle Moderne of Hotel Statler,” said a story published Sept. 17, 1933. Among those present was its newly elected president, “Harry Hall White, known for his collection of old glass.”

Obverse (left) and reverse of the rare A. Jackson Masonic historical flask first documented by Harry Hall White.

(Courtesy of Mark Vuono)

Bottles and Extras On May 3, 1937, another story said “the Women’s Civic Club of Cleveland Heights will hear about glass artistry.

Harry Hall White, of Detroit, formerly a Clevelander, comes to speak on the subject on which he is an authority. He will bring along several fine pieces to illustrate his talk.”

On March 9, 1941, The Plain Dealer reported that “Harry Hall White, of Detroit, an engineer of the Chrysler Motor Company, last night described to members of the Society of Collectors his research work in identifying articles of glass manufactured in the early 1800s by factories in Ohio and surrounding states. Factories which made the glass have disappeared.

“This hobby, in which he has ‘little competition,’ takes White mostly to small towns and remote places in search of clews which may lead to the factories’ former sites. After the general region is determined, he digs in various spots and sifts the dirt to salvage fragments of glass which bear identifying marks in color, design, shape or mold construction.”

The last reference to White in the Cleveland newspaper was in a story about the city’s sixth annual antiques show on Oct. 5, 1942. “Visiting the show was Harry Hall White of Detroit, an outstanding authority on American glass ware.”

White shared most of his research in articles written for The Magazine Antiques. Kathleen Luhrs, a staffer on the magazine that’s still being published, kindly sent copies of most of his articles written between the 1920s and 1940s.

The first was on the Kentucky Glass Works written in the February 1926 issue. As usual, White furnished photos of bottles from the Louisville glass houses (scroll flasks, ribbed or fluted types and eagle flasks) from his own vast collection.

To illustrate just how passionate a collector and archaeologist he was, here in his own words are excerpts from his Keene, New Hampshire story published in June 1927:

September - October 2011 “From the standpoint of possible discovery, the site of an old glass factory occupies, in my mind, relatively the same position as an old attic. The uncertainty and the chances of unexpected revelations of treasure exercise a constant lure.

In the exploration of an old factory location, one, and only one thing, is certain; namely: that the fragments of glass remaining there from days of early activity are permanent and

“The uncertainty and the chances of unexpected revelations of treasure exercise a constant lure.”

– Harry Hall White unchanging records … Some sites are not accessible: one that I know of is now occupied by a railroad station, another by a business block, while a third has been washed away by the changing course of a river, forever denying the explorer the joy of discovery.”

Not only was White able to excavate old glass house sites, but was able to interview surviving members of the factory families. “It has been my good fortune to have an interview with Frank H. James, son of Dr. James, the former owner who was associated with his father in the management of the (Lancaster, N.Y.) works. Mr. James has given me much information regarding the factory’s later products,” White wrote in the October 1927 issue of the magazine.

Bottles produced there included scroll flasks, urn and cornucopia flasks, Wishart’s Pine Tree Cordial, Flora Temple, C.W. Merchant, Warner’s Tippecanoe Bitters, Drake’s Plantation Bitters and Warner’s Safe Cure bottles.

He compiled a four-part series on the glass works of New York State and later even described a reproduction of the Jenny Lind flask made in Czechoslovakia (March 1931). “No

45 attempt was made to represent it as anything other than a copy useful as a lamp base,” he said.

He wrote a two-part series on the “Glass Monuments to Zebulon Pike,” he of Pike’s Peak fame, in the magazine’s September and October 1932 issues. Part II was a checklist of the known variants of Pike’s Peak flasks taken from Charles McMurray’s Collector’s Guide of Flasks and Bottles (1927) and Stephen Van Rensselaer’s Early American Bottles and Flasks (revised edition, 1926).

His discoveries of interest to bottle collecting and collectors are nothing short of amazing. For example, he asks in the January 1934 issue, “What Is a ‘Sheared’ Neck?” Edward Attlee Barber, one of the few early authorities on antique bottles, in his American Glassware, Old and New, published in 1900, asserted that, “In older forms the mouth was cut by shears while in a plastic or soft condition.”

White wasn’t satisfied with that being the case. He perused earlier authorities who wrote about early glass-blowing procedures and found in an 1840 Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines, the following statement: “He then lifts the bottle up at the end of the rod, and transfers it to the finisher, who touches the glass tube at the end of the pipe with a cold iron, cracks off the bottle smoothly at its mouth ring.” White found further references that “by application of cold iron or a drop of water, the neck can be separated from the blowpipe.”

White’s discovery of the Mantua, Ohio glass factory site, subsequent excavations and the study of “bushels” of shards revealed the existence of a historical flask that was unknown to the collecting world at that time. He described his finding evidence of the one-pint A(ndrew) Jackson – Masonic flask as “the outstanding single discovery made during this research.”

His four-part series published in The Magazine Antiques from December 1934 to November 1935 certainly bears that out. At that time, he had

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of the pillars, appears the triangular form of seven lighted discovered only shards of that flask. Here is what he had to tapers.” say in the November 1935 article: A few years later, a whole example of the flask was “Never did my highest hopes comprehend the pioneer discovered sitting on a timber of an old barn just a few discovery of an important early historical flask. However, miles from Mantua. Owned by pioneer one evening the revelation came when I was washing a bit of my treasure I have seldom undergone collector Neil C. Gest (who was inducted into the FOHBC Honor Roll in 1987), trove. I suddenly uncovered the familiar a more intensely the flask was made available to White Masonic emblem of the Holy Bible, the square and the compasses. I have dramatic experience than for further study, with details carried in seldom undergone a more intensely my subsequent search for his magazine article in December 1942.

McKearin, who devised a numbering dramatic experience than my subsequent additional fragments, and, and identification system for historical search for additional fragments, and, as flasks, designated this one as GI-70. these were found, the piece-by-piece as these were found, the reconstruction of the Jackson-Masonic Contemporary flask expert Mark Vuono, piece-by-piece of Stamford, Conn., knows of just three flask. When the work was complete I reconstruction of the in existence: one at an Ohio historical had retrieved from oblivion a flask of society, one at the Corning (N.Y.) Glass splendid proportions and of exceptional Jackson-Masonic flask.

Museum and one in his own collection. historical value. It bears the simple – Harry Hall White He kindly provided photos of the latter eloquent legend: A JACKSON / OHIO, to accompany this article.

Above the arc of Jackson’s name are the Other topics of White’s writings in the magazine include initials J T, standing for Jonathan Tinker, glassblower and The Albany (N.Y.) Glass Works (July 1936); Henry Rowe co-founder of the Mantua works.

Schoolcraft, Glassmaker (December 1938, February 1939), “The reverse is ornamented with more Masonic symbols April 1939); Pattern Molds and Pattern-Mold Glass (August than I have ever seen used before – the spade, the coffin and 1939); More Light on Coventry and Its Products (October a sprig of acacia. Above the usual beehive, and at the right 1940, November 1940, February 1941); The Willington Glass Company (August 1941); The Mantua Jackson– Masonic Flask (December 1942), and Glass Balls (June 1943).

The Plain Dealer on Sunday, April 9, 1944, published the following: “Harry Hall White, 60, consulting engineer with the National Farm Machinery Co-operative, Inc., of Indiana, nationally known authority on Early American Glass and a former resident of Cleveland,. died Friday in Shelbyville, Ind., while on a business trip.

“Mr. White, a resident of Cleveland for 25 years until he moved to Detroit in 1938, had collected Early American glassware for many years. He had completed several years of research work for a book on glass, but died before he started to write it.

“In 1938, he was elected the first president of the Cleveland Collectors Society, but moved to Detroit before he had a chance to serve. Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Jessie Jewitt White; a daughter, Mrs. E. Clay Ingram, and two sons, Roland A. and Ernest A. Ball.”

––––––––––––––––– In 1985, Harry Hall White was joined by Edmund R. and Jayne Blaske and John C. Tibbitts in the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors Hall of Fame.

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New Revelations on an Old Bottle

By Harvey S. Teal

When I returned home from work one evening in the mid 1960s, my spouse informed me someone had dropped by with a bottle for sale. Knowing a good bit about my collection, she recognized it as a bottle I did not have and told the gentleman to return at 6:30 p.m.

Promptly on the dot, he rung my door bell and for the first time, I saw a cornflower blue, graphite-pontiled soda embossed perpendicularly, H. Deming & Co., Columbia, S.C. Due to his not being able to sell the bottle in local antique shops and also knowing little or nothing about bottles, the asking price was a very modest sum which I quickly handed over.

This occurred very early in bottle collecting in Columbia and the relative value of bottles was yet to be established. However, since I knew this bottle was antebellum, that Sherman’s army had burned the city in February 1865 and this was the first one I had seen, it likely was rare.

As timed passed, I came to learn just how rare. Today, there are four examples of the bottle extant and four sherds. Unfortunately, the example I first acquired no longer exists. I sold it several years ago and it changed hands once and that collector suffered the loss of the bottle when it was crushed in a move. Let me hasten to add that I have since acquired another example of the bottle.

Being a historian and a researcher, after acquiring the bottle I immediately began to investigate H. Deming & Co., in city directories, old newspapers, church records, manuscript collections, history books on Columbia, banking and business account books, census of 1840, ‘50 and ‘60. Not one shred of information on H. Deming & Co., surfaced.

My longtime dear friend and fellow collector, Paul Jeter, joined in the search. In Columbia’s Past In Glass published by Jeter and me in 1976, we described our unsuccessful efforts to

Harvey S. Teal holding one of his two H. Deming & Co. soda water bottles.

(Courtesy of Harvey S. Teal)

discover information about H. Deming & Co./ For some 45 years, we often commiserated over not being able to unearth a single fact abut this firm.

However, we persevered.

On January 26, 2011, my door bell rang about 7:30 a.m. There stood Paul with a sheet of paper in his hand, which contained information about Deming coming to Columbia in 1852 to work in an armory. As “he” had done in the mid 1960s, H. Deming & Co., once again rang my door bell!

When Paul and I had begun our Deming search, computers and the Internet were yet to appear. After the advent of the Internet, starting about 2000 we had fruitlessly “Googled” H. Deming & Co., many times, but had not done so recently.

On January 26, Paul awoke about 3:30 a.m., logged onto his computer and Googled H. Deming & Co. once more. Upped popped the information just described. He waited until I was out of bed to drive across town and share his discovery.

Due to its deteriorating condition a

rare book, Genealogy of John Deming of Wethersfield, Conn., edited by Judson Keith Deming and published in 1904, had been placed online in 2007. It contained the information Paul discovered. That information plus information from subsequent research follows.

Horace Deming was born June 9, 1810. His widowed mother apprenticed him in 1818 for eight years to a blacksmith in Woodbury, Conn. He learned how to work metal and became a blacksmith himself. In 1845, he moved with his second wife and children to Springfield, Mass., and went to work in a gun-welding armory.

When he came to Columbia with his family in 1852 to “work in an armory,” it had too be The Palmetto Armory since that was the only one in town. In 1850, William Glaze, James Boatwright and Benjamin Flagg founded William Glaze & Co., and began operating The Palmetto Armory.

Earlier, William M. Glaze (18151883) formed a partnership with John Veal in 1838 in a general merchandise, jewelry and silversmith business for about three years. Glaze appears to have operated independently until forming a partnership with Thomas W. Radcliffe (1848-51) similar to the earlier partnership with Veal.

Boatwright was a prominent local banker and businessman who was also well known for his “Boatwright Cotton Gin.” Flagg had extensive experience in armament production in Millbury, Mass.

At this time, South Carolina sought to manufacture arms for the state militia due to the likelihood the state would secede from the Union, which it did 10 years later. The army was in a 154-foot-long, three-story building and the only armory in the nation south of the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry.

The Palmetto Armory landed a contract with the state in 1851 to produce several thousand swords,

48 bayonets, pistols and rifles. The armory needed many machinists and metal workers and began hiring. Horace Deming became one of its workers in 1852.

A local writer in 1853 described these out-of-state workers in this manner: Like all similar establishments, iy has been the means of introducing into the state many machinists and ironworkers, besides burnishers, stockers and other artisans, who turn out work in their line inferior to none made elsewhere. They have come with their families and settled with the intention of becoming industrious and productive citizens of the commonwealth.

While working for the armory, Deming helped produce swords, muskets, rifles, etc., which today sell for four-figure prices. His later soda water business produced bottles which also sell for similar prices. Some of the early silversmith work of Glaze and associates also sell in this range.

The Palmetto Armory contract with the state expired in December 1853 due to no further appropriations for arms manufacture. By March 9, 1854, William Glaze & Co., was using the Palmetto Iron Works name when advertising to purchase scrap iron.

His business was no longer an armory and it began producing boilers, steam engines, cotton gins and sugar cane mills. Glaze now needed workers with less arms production skills.

Horace Deming likely left Glaze’s employ about this time. The Deming genealogist-editor stated Horace also “was likely engaged in the business on his own account” while in Columbia.

We know what the business was: H. Deming & Co., soda water business.

We have learned nothing about the “& Co.” aspect of his business. Did he involve some of his fellow workers at the armory in the business, or did he tap into the northeastern soda water trade or that locally and associate someone who became a part of his business. We

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An 1865 photo of the ruins of the Palmetto Armory in Columbia, S.C., where Horace Deming worked.

(Photo by Richard Wearn, courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library)

Cornflower blue soda is South Carolina’s only antebellum soda bottle.

(Courtesy of Harvey S. Teal)

just don’t know. In any event, there is no evidence the business continued after he left Columbia.

In the 1850s, most soda water came into the state from northern companies.

A few companies in Charleston were bottling and selling soda water locally.

A number of resorts with hotels did develop in antebellum upstate South Carolina where mineral springs were located. However, water was not bottled and shipped out by them until much later.

We now know South Carolina soda water businesses with their own embossed bottles outside of Charleston are very rare. In fact, H. Deming & Co., bottles are the only known examples of antebellum soda water bottles in the state. During the Civ il War, two soda water firms with embossed bottles operated on Hilton Head Island.

Bottles and Extras The genealogy account stated Deming’s poor health led him to buy land in Iowa in 1855 and move there from Columbia with his family.

Unfortunately, he died near Alton, Ill., on the way in October 1855. Deming’s family returned to Connecticut and some of their children were living in 1904 This means his Columbia soda water business lasted about 18 months.

The Deming sodas have the typical shape of most soda water bottles of the 1850s and have graphite pontils.

However, their color is not typical. It is a shade of blue that is different from 99 percent of other blue sodas. One advanced collector says he has seen only one other soda water bottle with that color.

There are no records as to which glasshouse produced the bottles or how many. Due to the short time the company was in business, it likely had only one order for a few thousand bottles before the business closed.

Only four bottles are known to exist. I own two and the others are in private collections.

A few other facts about Horace Deming are in the genealogy such as birth/death dates of children and wives.

He had a daughter who died at a young age while in Columbia, but no church or pubic cemetery record of her could be located.

This story has an important message for researchers – Don’t Give Up. The information you seek may be on the next page of a book, in an old newspaper, on a tombstone in a cemetery, or on a dealer’s table at a bottle show, or just waiting for you to Google.

–––––––––––– P.S.: On February 22, 2011, H. Deming & Co., rang my door bell for the third time! Paul Jeter had acquired a bottle from a local collector during the past two years. The collector had dug it 15 years ago. Paul sold me his Deming on the 22nd.

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THIS OLD HOUSE

By Charles David Head © 2007

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his old house that I stand before was built in this hollow in the year nineteen o’four.

Its paint is long gone and the chimneys are tilted all the windows are broken the steps appear wilted.

The front porch is sagging the screen door is rotten the families have moved on this old house now forgotten.

But as I lean here against the mantle in front of the fireplace I can almost feel the warmth of a fire a scent of wood smoke there seems still a trace.

The bedrooms look so huge now that they are bare still I can hear the voice of the family on their knees by their beds in prayer.

Giving thanks unto God for his mercy and that by his eternal grace the crops did good this year no sorrows came that they had to face.

And up the stairway to the loft I can imagine little children’s feet running Ma, tell us one more ghost story before bedtime and let’s hope ol’ “bloody bones” don’t come a-thumping.

Now here in the kitchen where the flu still stands underneath it on the floor you can make out where the legs of the cast-iron cookstove left dents in the rug, being as heavy as it was stout.

Cornbread, red-eye gravy and grits along with cathead biscuits and pies of all kinds on that old Jacob’s range were cooked once upon a time.

And up there on the ceiling and over by the front door are the traces of copper wire where they ran electricity in fifty-four.

Plumbing was never installed in this house but there in the backyard a little ways out is where the privy once stood now only a hole in the ground and some tin perhaps.

The water from the spring has long since dried up the barn has fallen down where once stood the smokehouse is now a patch of barren ground.

Yet as I stand here in this yard underneath a big old hickory tree I can feel the presence of all the others who have stood here before me.

Moms and Dads, boys and girls grandpas and grandmas, neighbors galore this old house may now be empty but memories will linger on for evermore.

In loving memory of MARY Nov. 7, 1963 - Nov. 1, 2007 ––– THANKS FOR THE SUNSHINE!

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New Mississippi Trade Mart Building is Site of January Show New Mississippi Trade Mart building designed for ease and space.

Overhead view reveals wide aisles, full tables, and excellent crowds at this Mississippi January bottle and advertising show.

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Exterior view of new Mississippi Trade Mart building.

ith great relief, dealers and viewers alike welcomed the relocation of the January Mississippi Bottle Show to the modern Trade Mart Building located on the Mississippi State Fairgrounds in Jackson. The former building, though smaller with less rent, had been built during the period of the Second World War in Quonset hut style. It was showing recurring issues with heat and water. Show chairman, Rev. John Sharp, confided that because the show was expanding year by year, and with the nation’s economy beginning to improve, the show organizers felt it

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John Sharp is pleased with show’s continued success. The modern building is versatile, well heated and lighted, making everyone comfortable to look at glass. was time to go into a larger facility.

“Other antique and bottle shows watch our show with interest because as Mississippi goes, so goes the show’s for the rest of the year,” one observer said as he surveyed dealer preparation during busy Friday night setup.

This is a show that has not charged doorway admission, though that policy may change if expenses are not met. Until now dealer table rent has paid for all expenses, including a free catered supper during Friday setup.

This year’s show brought more than 100 dealers, 150 tables, and an unprecedented customer attendance of nearly 500 for the Saturday-only show.

Dealer Robert Sledge with very rare Elsie Milk Carton used during Borden Railroad Exhibit at state fairs following the Second World War. Robert is from Florence, Alabama.

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Show Time 2011– 4th Annual Kansas Bottle and Postcard Show

By Jerry Simmons

hanks to the hard work of Mike McJunkin, Jim Hovious, Jack Mullen and Laura Ediger, this year’s event was the biggest of the four years that the show has been sponsored by the Kansas Territory Bottle and Post Card Club of Hutchinson, Kansas.

Lots of pretty glass in the way of bottles, insulator and fruit jars were on display. Just a curious walk-through by a visitor would have been like going through a museum.

To add to this great display of anything glass and postcards were seven super displays of gorgeous, rare and unique glass- and bottlerelated items. Included in these displays were bottles, black glass and glass target balls on serving trays.

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All of the displays were very well done, good quality and educational. When it comes to take home the club and Federation awards, the following individuals took the honors: Display Theme: Black glass bottles Display Owner: John Moore, Wichita, Kan. Display Award: First Place Overall

Display Theme: Labeled ink bottles Display Owner: John Hinkle, Missouri Display Award: Second Place Overall

Display Theme: Target balls and glass fire grenades Display Owner: Mike McJunkin, Hutchinson, Kan., Display Award: Third Place Overall

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Other show specifics: The special raffle winner was David Knighten of Hutchison, Kansas who won a roll of twenty silver dollars.

Number of sales tables sold was seventy with fifty-five dealers The bottle club opted to go with a free will donation instead of an admission fee which netted $156.15.

Six individuals (including two couples) paid the club membership to join the club.

Display Theme: Patent medicine history and Dr. Kilmer’s Empire Display Owner: Jerry Simmons, Haviland, Kan., Display Award: Most Educational

Display Theme: Drugstore museum and bottles Display Owner: Jack Crispin, Lincoln, Kan. Display Award: People’s Choice award

Display Theme: Some bottles dug in Atchison, Kan. Display Owner: Johnnie Fletcher, Mustang, Okla.

Display Award: Award of Appreciation

Display Theme: Serving trays Display Owner: Jack Mullin, Hutchinson, Kan. Display Award: Award of Appreciation

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There were many other goodies to see, so let’s take a look at some nice people and nice items.  How many of the participants do you recognize in the pictures below???

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– In My Opinion – Who Owns The Past?

By Boyd Beccue

Who owns the past? At first glance you might think that is a silly lead to an opinion piece in Bottles and Extras.

You might answer that we all own the past. Well, in the opinion of a growing number of people, your answer would be wrong.

Who are these people? They are professional archaeologists or “academic archaeologists,” as I prefer to call them. Here I will simply call them academics.

The growing tendency of some academics to want to claim exclusive ownership of the past and all artifacts from the past has concerned me for some time. Recent events have made me realize that amateur archaeologists, including bottle collectors, metal detector hobbyists and others, are in danger of having our hobbies, our right to the past, taken away.

The first thing that really lit my fire on this subject was an episode of the PBS series “Time Team America.” A spin-off from the popular British show “Time Team,” the U.S. version lasted only one season, but took a gratuitous shot at bottle diggers in an episode about a dig at Fort James in South Dakota. Broadcast in August, 2009, the show started as an enjoyable exploration at the site of a short-lived Army post from the Civil War era. The tone changed, however, when the academics realized that parts of the site had been previously dug, apparently by bottle diggers. The hobby diggers who had beaten the academics to the site were referred to as “looters” over and over, in very hostile tones.

My dictionary defines “loot” as something unlawfully taken, or taken by plunder and pillage. The hobby diggers at Fort James had dug on pri-

vate property with the full knowledge and permission of the owners. They weren’t looters at all, except in the eyes of the academics. Following that episode, I went to the Time Team Website and posted a response to their false and inflammatory use of the word. I found I wasn’t alone in my concern about the show. You can go to www.pbs.org/opb/timeteam/blog and enjoy the discussion yourself.

One writer noted the disturbing tendency of one of the academics to refer to the horse soldiers stationed at Fort James as Calvary rather than cavalry. Another took issue with the use of the word Sioux to describe the local Native Americans, who are correctly known as Dakota. But the major issue on the blog was the Time Team accusation that anyone who digs for artifacts, other than an academic, is a looter. The Time Team explanation in defense of using the term “looter” took the standard tack of saying how important every little fragment of pottery is, how important context is at every site, and how the noble academics are heroes preserving knowledge for the masses. To all of which I say: BULL. While every shard may be informative if one is excavating an ancient Native American site, to suggest that this is the case when digging privies from the recent past is bunkum. The written record consisting of newspapers, letters, books, official documents, etc. tells us far more about the 1860s than broken china from a privy. Of course, the academics claim that there is knowledge to be gained from the littlest detail, but if we are talking about how much ketchup the locals used in 1863, what value does that really

have? Is it valuable enough to trample the rights of hobby diggers? Do we need a strict accounting of every chicken or beef bone to know that the soldiers ate chicken and beef? Of course not! The same is true of the tired “context” argument the academics keep propping up. Indeed, the silliness that often surrounds academic archaeology seems to be reaching new levels. The July-August 2009 issue of Archaeology contains an article extolling some academics that are preserving trash at the site of a hippie commune from the late 1960s. And who is doing this wonderful, important, cutting-edge work? The California State Archaeologist! That’s right – tax dollars at work; is there any wonder why California is in dire financial condition?

As for the argument that they are the only ones preserving the past for the public … try to get an academic to permit the average person to view and enjoy the millions of artifacts squirreled away in museum basements.

And don’t think for a minute that I exaggerate. The July-August 2011 issue of Archaeology, in an article about one 19th Century site in Australia, mentions that “More than 750,000 artifacts from the excavation at the Cumberland / Gloucester streets site in Sydney are stored in a warehouse … ” What the public sees in a museum is a tiny fraction of what they have, and only what they want us to see. I have taken bottles to schools, nursing homes and local museums on many occasions, and I know many of you do the same. Who is working to educate the public? I think it is more often the amateur hobby digger.

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56 academic hostility to bottle collectors and other hobbyists? What are the academics really after? Sadly, it may be that they want … everything. An interesting web site related to metal detecting can be found at www.metaldetecting-ghost-towns-of-the-east. com. In an interesting piece about metal detecting laws, written in 2006, author Frank Pandozzi answers the question in this way: “What is their agenda? Their agenda is to control every item of history. This includes every relic, artifact, coin, bottle, pottery and Indian arrowheads, etc., that lay beneath the ground … ” Perhaps Mr. Pandozzi takes his point too far, but then again maybe he is correct. Either way, it is an issue that every one of us should think about.

It is also important to remember that many of us often engage in what, for want of a better term, is rescue digging. Bottle diggers are often one jump ahead of heavy equipment which will destroy a site and all the artifacts it contains. Despite this obvious truth, some academics even say that saving those artifacts has no archaeological value and should be prohibited. Apparently, to them artifacts only have meaning or serve to preserve our history if someone with a degree in archaeology pulls them from the ground. I disagree. Objects which I and many other diggers have rescued from such places have often been donated to local museums or used in presentations to school children. We may lack a degree in archaeology, but the objects rescued have benefitted others on many occasions. Even if the bottle or other artifact is seen only by friends and family in a private collection, I would think reasonable people would believe that is preferable to simply letting the item be destroyed.

The academic attack on the rights of anyone other than an institutional academic with appropriate credentials is not new. In 1989, Michael Trinkley presented a paper at the 15th Annual Conference on South Carolina Archaeology. His title did a good job of

September - October 2011 revealing his biases: “Metal Detectors, Bottle Collectors and Other Things That Go Bump in the Night.” I’ll bet you didn’t know that we are such a scary bunch! Mr. Trinkley complained that “Bottle collectors in Charleston routinely ‘dig’ privies, destroying untold archaeological evidence.” He also complained about any positive view of the hobbyist, lamenting that “In Columbia, the NBC affiliate hosted ‘relic collectors’ glorifying the ‘hobby’ on a morning talk show.” The internal quotes are his and clearly reflect his scorn for any hobbyist who dares to search for what he obviously considers to be the exclusive property of the academic. He also was upset that relic collectors were exercising their constitutional right to petition the government and lobby Congress to open federal and state land to hobbyists.

Maybe his attitude is rare among academics, but I fear the opposite is true.

You can find Mr. Trinkley’s diatribe at the web site of the Chicora Foundation: www.chicora.org.

The academic crowd is even hostile to those who rescue items that the academic would never have the resources, ambition or talent to recover. In recent years, private companies have used hi-tech means to recover sunken artifacts from ocean depths once thought impossible. A company like Odyssey Marine Exploration spends millions to recover items that otherwise would never see the light of day. The artifacts are rescued after great effort and made available for study and to be purchased and collected by museums or private individuals, something the degree-holding crowd would likely never manage. And what is the academic response? They urge support for the “UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage.” Which in reality is just another effort to establish legal barriers against anyone else recovering objects from what they consider to be their private preserve, even if it is in ocean depths that the academic will never explore. I suppose we should

Bottles and Extras just trust the U.N. to respect the rights of American collectors, shouldn’t we?

Even Wikipedia has noted the hostility of the academic community. In the entry on “Historical Digging,” it notes that “Those excavating privies, cisterns, dumps, landfills and operating metal detectors and other groundpenetrating equipment on private property, are frequently targeted as “looters” by the professional archaeological community in general.” But in a refreshing example of fairness the article also notes that “For altering and disturbing sacred sites, burial grounds, and doing other things within ongoing sensitive areas without the full consent of all those connected to the places involved, professional archaeologists pursuing their own projects have also been routinely categorized as looters.”

Which brings me to an important point: it was only in relatively recent times that Native Americans were able to secure legislation to stop the destruction of their ancestors’ graves and the theft of sacred cultural objects by our supposedly high-minded archaeologists. Sadly, such protection for burial grounds and funeral objects are still not present in many other places around the world, and many academics continue their ageold practice of (dare I say it?) grave robbing. If you don’t believe me, subscribe to Archaeology. You will find many stories about academics digging up the graves of people who were laid to rest according to whatever belief system that group practiced, and how objects of religious significance once interred with the dead are stolen for some museum. Maybe the grave is hundreds or thousands of years old, but it is still someone’s grave. If the academic wants to play the morality card, who is more moral, more honorable: the hobbyist who digs privies and dumps from Victorian times, uncovering items thrown away as trash, or the academic who digs up the grave and grave goods (as the academic refers to his loot) of someone laid to rest according to his or her religious

Bottles and Extras beliefs? I will take the privy digger any day. I have dug many dumps and privs, but have never even considered digging up a Native American burial site. I would bet that the same is true of nearly all bottle collectors.

It is also interesting to note that the academics are not happy with a recent amendment to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. An opinion piece in the January/ February 2011 issue of Archaeology complains that the amendment “complicates the relationship between Native Americans and archaeologists.” It appears that the academics and museums may have to return a few more of the human remains and sacred burial goods stolen from Native American graves during the era when their brand of grave robbing was unrestricted.

And while we are on the subject of moral superiority, it may be instructive to look at another skeleton in the academic closet (pun most definitely intended). Famous museums around the world are filled with cultural artifacts which were taken from their native lands by means ranging from dubious acts of “purchase” to outright theft blatantly carried out in colonial or conquered nations. Want an example? Look no further than the “Elgin Marbles” in the British Museum, London. “Purchased” in Greece from the conquering Ottoman Turks by the British Ambassador, Lord Elgin, in the early 19th Century, the morally superior academics now in charge of those looted marble reliefs, ripped from the Parthenon, have for decades ignored the many requests of the Greek government seeking the return of part of one of the supreme cultural monuments of humanity. And the academics claim to be superior to hobby collectors and diggers who build collections of discarded bottles? Don’t make me laugh.

Sadly, it doesn’t have to be this way. Another example from the U.K. shows how matters can be managed for the benefit of all. Maybe it is because the U.K. is a country full of

September - October 2011 potential digging sites and ancient sites of real historical value, or maybe English Common Law has a better tradition of protecting the rights of property owners, but the Treasure Act of 1996 shows how things could be done here in the U.S. This law recognizes that under English law, a landowner has sole title to any archaeological artifacts found on his or her property. Artifacts of real historical significance are preserved for the public by requiring that treasure is to be reported to authorities, valued by a panel of experts and made available for sale to museums. If no museum can or will pay the established fair value, the owner retains all right to the items. A reasonable assessment of the effect of this law is that museums and the public have greatly benefitted by cooperation with hobby diggers.

The British law also provides a rational definition of treasure, which includes coins more than 300 years old, prehistoric objects, objects found with other defined treasure, and items which are substantially made from gold or silver but less than 300 years old that were deliberately hidden by unknown owners. It is easy to see that the Treasure Act does not concern itself with old bottles, jugs or the ordinary things English diggers find in privies or dumps. One wishes that laws in the U.S. were so sensible. And the British way seems to work in practice as well as on paper. In 2009, a metal detector hobbyist found a hoard of Saxon gold and jewels valued at over $3,000,000. Detecting on private property with permission of the farm owner, an unemployed former coffin factory worker located a treasure which caused a stir even in a country accustomed to objects from medieval history. He and the property owner are now millionaires and most of the nowfamous Saxon Hoard will shortly be in museums. I guess Parliament overlooked the importance of “context” when it passed the Treasure Act. Or, maybe they just saw through all the academic nonsense which permeates

57 the standard academic archaeologist’s view of “who owns the past”.

Shockingly, despite the “first dibs” provisions of the Treasure Act which protect the museums, some academics are still not happy. When another metal detector hunter found a rare Roman helmet in May, 2010, the museums were not able to raise the money needed to buy it, so it was sold at auction. The finder, again searching private property with permission, even showed the academics where it was found so that they could further explore the site. Apparently that was not enough for people who believe that they, and only they, own the past.

It might benefit the academic crowd to take advantage of the expertise of bottle collectors. While I reject the characterization of our members as looters, I would argue that “bottle expert” is a useful term the academics would benefit from using. Unfortunately, even when offered useful information by a collector, the academics are full of distain. An article in the November-December 2008 issue of Archaeology contained an article describing a dig in Jerusalem that turned up some artifacts from the late 19th Century. One find was described as a beer or wine bottle, while the photo showed that it was that most common of British soda bottles, a Codd. I wrote a short letter to the magazine offering that bit of information. The response was predictable. Yehiel Zelinger of the Israel Antiquities Authority replied that “It is possible that the bottle (emphasis mine) … was not for beer – but we don’t know enough about this particular bottle yet.” Apparently a hint from a lowly collector is not enough to stimulate the academic to learn more about the objects he finds, especially if the hint comes from someone he considers to be a looter. This personal example aside, I know many bottle diggers who are true experts and would be invaluable resources if the academic archaeologists were only willing to listen.

I don’t claim that there are not out-

58 laws in our hobby. Yes, there are those who dig without permission, or dig on protected federal land or Native American sites. There are those who ARE pot hunters who violate pre-Columbian Native American sites for profit.

But in my experience, such individuals are the exception. While we can acknowledge that not all academics rob the graves of ancient people, why can’t the academic see that the majority of hobbyists are decent folks who happen to have an interest in history and the energy to go out and find it?

One common claim by the academic is that the average hobby digger is simply looking for objects to sell, as if that is how the bottle collector makes his living. While I have sold dug bottles, as have most diggers, I would have starved to death long ago if that was my trade. I suspect that is true of nearly everyone reading this piece. I have never met a bottle collector who dug for profit. Given the hours of hard work, research, dry holes, cost of gas and the rest it would be a fool’s effort. Even if a collector sells a few bottles, I doubt if many even recoup the out-of-pocket cost of searching for productive sites. On the other hand (and this is an important point), the academic IS very often a professional digger who makes his or her living by digging for the past. While the objects being dug are almost never sold by the academic, he earns his living through institutional support, which often includes lots of taxpayer dollars. That is correct; your tax dollars often pay the wages of the academics who want to restrict your right to continue our wonderful hobby!

And restricted we will be, if we are not vigilant. Another thing which raises my hackles is an Oregon law which not only protects artifacts on government land, but restricts the right of the hobbyist to dig with permission on private property. (See Oregon Statutes sections 358.905 to .961) The “Shards

September - October 2011 of Wisdom” section of the NovemberDecember issue of Bottles and Extras discusses the efforts of some collectors to amend the Oregon statutes which prohibit digging on private property. Unfortunately, while the collectors found a legislator to introduce the amendment, as of this writing the bill remains mired in committee. It is still illegal to dig a 19th Century privy on private property in Oregon.

From what happened in Oregon, I think it is clear that we can’t just ignore what the academics think of bottle collectors, nor should we believe that their opinions are not a problem for our hobby. Let’s hope that the Oregon folks are successful in getting that example of bad government changed. If they don’t, such nonsense might spread. It matters little that the offensive part of the law would probably be found unconstitutional if challenged under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment. I seriously doubt if many bottle diggers will step forward and volunteer to violate the law and be prosecuted, hoping to win the case on appeal after a lengthy and expensive trial and journey through the appellate system. So, what is to be done?

I urge bottle clubs to begin monitoring bills introduced in their state legislatures to guard against something similar to the Oregon law happening elsewhere. With the search engines available today, it is a relatively easy task. Indeed, I also recommend that each club check their current statutes to see whether similar laws are already on the books. I am sure that when the Oregon law was passed it elicited little interest from the media and little debate in the legislature. It is likely that the academics behind the bill presented it as a simple measure to preserve history and archaeological sites of great importance. That the law would injure the rights of decent, lawabiding hobbyists was likely never given a moment’s consideration by

Bottles and Extras legislators. High-minded though such measures may seem, they also reflect a common attitude among many academics who really believe that the past belongs to them and them alone, and that they are the only ones who should be able to search for the tangible remains of our history.

While few bottle collectors complain about restrictions against digging Native American burial or occupation sites or digging on public property, our right to enjoy our hobby on private property, with the permission of the owners, is in danger from professional, academic diggers who claim the moral high ground. We must be sure that when they try to restrict our rights we counter by pointing out the real facts about exploring the past. The academics are not the only ones with an interest in or a right to study history. They may make their living digging with our tax dollars, but they have no right to keep us from pursuing our avocation. __________________ AUTHOR’S NOTE: I thought I would check on the progress of the Oregon legislation, Senate Bill 870, which is intended to correct the worst effects of the current anti-digging law in that state. I was not surprised to learn that the Oregon Legislature adjourned the 2011 session on June 30 with the bill still mired in the Judiciary Committee, where it had been since February 28. I do not know how the Oregon legislature functions and do not know if the bill is now dead, requiring it to be reintroduced in the 2012 session, or whether it might still be alive and possibly considered next year. Either way, I think this is a good example of why all diggers should be vigilant about any efforts to destroy their right to pursue a worthwhile and educational avocation.

-- Boyd Beccue

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Michael Owens: His Invention Revolutionized Making Bottles

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ichael J. Owens knew there had to be a better way to manufacture glass

are six fruit jar molds that are placed on a wheel-like frame.

The machine is moved up to the supply of liquid glass and the bottles. wheel, which operates horizon So, he invented one. tally, is started. As it brings each Oh, there were glass-making mold around to the open furnace, machines in existence before he it drops an inner mold into the came along during the early 20th glass. The air is sucked out of the century, but they had their limitamold and the vacuum causes the tions, not being fully automatic. liquid glass to rush into the mold The early ones came into the as it keeps moving on its circular glass manufacturing picture about journey. As it is about to leave the 1889. They were known as twosupply of molten glass, a knifelike man machines because one man trap covers the hole and the glass was required to gather the molten is confined. It almost instantly beglass and drop it into the machine molds and another man gins to congeal and before it travels three more feet, the had to push and pull levers and turn on air valves. inner mold separates and drops back, revealing the glass jar.

About 1899, George C. Pyle, inventor of the electric “It is held at the top by a permanent mold which has, in headlight for locomotives, invented and put into operation the meantime, formed at the neck of the jar. A pipe begins the first fruit jar manufacturing machine that required only to puff air through this neck and the molten glass begins to a single man to operate. It was called a one-man machine. swell like a fiery bubble the instant it is revealed to view.

Both early machines were emThen the divided mold, which is ployed at the Greenfield, Indiana the exact shape of the fruit jar, It seems only fitting Fruit Jar and Bottling Company closes with the glass inside and plant so the facility was a natural the molten mass is blown out into that the only place in the when it came to testing the Owens the shape of the jar. country where this machine, machines.

“Just before the mold gets invention of glass worker In fact, according to a news around to the furnace again, the story in the Hancock Democrat of fruit jar mold is lowered about a Michael J. Owens, Greenfield in its Art Supplement, foot and the mold that sucks up is to make fruit jars Page 7, of Sept. 16, 1909, three of the glass is brought into place for is in Indiana. the Owens machines were installed its dip into the molten glass. As it in the Greenfield plant … “set to clears the furnace with its glass, work at a schedule of 14 jars per minute for each machine, or the completed jar is dropped into a chute. It is still a cherry 7,300,000 per year, or about 20 million per year for the three. red, but perfectly molded, with trade marks and names be “Though the first three … have only just begun their ending blown into its side and its mouth completely finished. less grind, steps are being taken to increase their schedule to The process begins over and over again, round and round, 24 jars a minute for each machine, or a total of something minute after minute, hour after hour, week after week, withover 12 million a year or 25 million or so for the three.” out limits, if the electricity doesn’t fail and the supply of The Greenfield company was said to have the exclusive glass is unfailing. use of the first fully automatic machine in making fruit jars “The great advantage, of course, is that the newly made in this country. They eliminated the need for even a single jars are absolutely uniform in size and capacity, and the operator by being hitched up to electric motors. They move thickness of glass around the mouth also is of a uniform up in front of patented open ovens from which there is a thickness. This eliminates the old problem of the top breakconstant flow of molten glass. The machines do the rest and ing when covers were put on or taken off, and the women human aid is needed only to clear the jars out of the way as who were packing the jars had to be sure that each sliver they drop from the machine. of glass did not remain in the foodstuffs. The new machine “The principle of the machine is simple enough. There process prevents that.

NEWS ITEM: Toledoan Michael J. Owens, who invented the automatic bottle-blowing machine more than a century ago, was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May of 2007. A spokesman at the shrine in Akron, Ohio said Mr. Owens, who died in 1923, was credited with 49 patents, including machinery for making sheet glass and light bulbs. But his bottle-blowing machine revolutionized the glass container industry and is credited with eliminating child labor in the industry. – The Toledo Blade

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“From the economic point of view, it is figured that each machine operating at the rate of 14 jars per minute will make as many jars as 15 men could make in 24 hours. The men who take the jars out of the way are paid an unskilled day wage, saving the factory much money.

“It seems only fitting that the only place in the country where this machine, invention of glass worker Michael J. Owens, is to make fruit jars is in Indiana. Three-fourths of

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all the fruit jars made in the United States are made in this state and most of them in Muncie and Greenfield. A third center is Terre Haute and the only two other factories making fruit jars (in 1909) are at Coffeyville, Kansas and Washington, Pennsylvania. Some fruit jars are made at bottling plants as side products.”

NOTE: Modern versions of the Owens machine can produce up to a million bottles or jars a day.

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

(This is not legal advice, please consult an attorney.)

I give and bequeath to the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, P.O. Box 341062, Memphis, TN 38184, the sum of $____________ to be used as its Board of Directors determines.

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

Thank you for considering us in your donation plans.

Gene Bradberry, President Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors

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Classified Ads For sale For Sale: A whole collection of W.H. Jones - Boston Bottles & Jugs.

Contact: Chuck Brown, 1325 Cypress Dr., Richardson, TX 75080, ph:(972-235-4889, email: chukin@ aol.com For Sale: Duffy’s Malt Whiskey Collection - (Dove Tail Box - 2 Adv. Mirrors, 15-20 different bottles, self framed tin, $700.00 for all. Contact: Marvin Croker, 4718 Twila Ln., Richmond, VA 23234, ph: (804) 275 -1101

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Make checks payable to FOHBC (Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors) Send payment to: Alan DeMaison, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077 Send ad copy and/or questions to: Alan DeMaison, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077 phone: (H) 440-358-1223; (C) 440-796-7539; e-mail: a.demaison@sbcglobal.net

For Sale: Autographed, Pre-Pub, Kovels’ Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide, 2012, 44th edition, the source for current prices. 2,500 color photographs, 40,000 prices, 775 categories including bottles. Factory histories, marks, buying, selling, tips, fun facts, perserving treasures and more. Our 100th book! Go to Kovelsonlinestore.com; call 800 303- 1996 (M - F 8 AM - 5 PM), or send $27.95 plus $4.95 postage to Price Book 44th, Box 22900, Beachwood, OH 44122. Order Today.For Sale: 2 gallon Red Wing Imperial Stamped jug with advertising for E.L. Drewery: Draught and Bottled Goods, A.B.C. St. Louis Beer, Rock Spring Table Water, Western Commercial Co. Ltd. Saskatoon, Sask. Hairline bottom $950.00, 1 quart Honegger Bros. Liquer Merchants, Aberdeen, S.D. 1/4 inch hole in back $400.00 Contact: Pat Stambaugh, 7185 Lakeshore Dr. Lakecity, MN 55041 ph: (651) 3454446 email: pistam@mchsi.com

64 For Sale: Hutchinson Coca-Cola, Tuskegee, Ala. $3,000. Ma and Pa Kettle Ink $65.00. Large oval Amber Dr. Fenners Kidney & Back Ache Cure, etc. Near mint. $65.00, Amber near mint Alexanders Sure Cure for Malaria, etc. Dayton $36.00 Ale Crock Stencil Moerlein Nashville, Tenn. lip nick, $165.00, Blue Blob Top, Brownell/New Belsure, smooth base, beauty $150. Blue Blob Top, E. Ottenville/Nashville, Tenn., Clean $100, Green, clean blobtop, Bridgeton Glass Works/NJ smooth base. $45.00 Green, blobtop, Henry Kuck/Savannah, clean, nice $75.00, Contact: Tom Hicks, 532 Rabbitskip Rd. Eatonton, GA 31024, ph: (706) 485 - 9280, email: 65wareagle@bellsouth.net For Sale: Books on history of Northeast California, gold, Indians, logging, emigrant trails, Jim Beckworth, long board skiing, railroads, hiking trails, jeep trails, natural history, DVDs on Indians, gold rush, logging, history, gold nugget jewelry, note cards. Visit us online at www.plumasmuserum.org Wanted: Bitters, Sodas, Mineral waters, whiskies, medicines, pottery pigs, face jugs, etc. marked Ala. or Ga., Also Hicks items. Your consideration appreciated. Competitive prices paid.

Thanks, Support the FOHBC, our Organization. Contact: Tom Hicks, 532 Rabbitskip Rd. Eatonton, GA 31024, ph: (706) 485 - 9280, email: 65wareagle@bellsouth.net For Sale: I have many issues (years) of Bottle Magazines, Auction Catalogs, and a large library of Bottle and Glass books. I am winding down.

Prices are negotiable. I also have a few good bottles left. Contact: Bottle Bill Herbolsheimer, 6 Beech Cluster, Doylestown, PA 18901 Ph: 215-3407156 or raeherb@pinerunvillage.org For Sale: Old Almanacs: 1) 1908

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Bliss Native Herbs, Wash D.C. 31 pages perfect 1924; 2) MACDONALDS-the Atlas Compound, Binghampton, NY, 30 pages, very good; 3) Doans Directory-DOANS KIDNEY PILLS, Buffalo NY 33 pages, 1923, excelant condition. $10 each plus $1 poatage or take all 3 for $28 postpaid. Contact: Bill Herbolsheimer, 6 Beech Cluster, Doylestown, PA 18901 Ph: 215340-7156 or raeherb@pinerunvillage.org

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side Dr., Boulder City, NV 48005, ph: (702) 293 -3114, email: mayorferraro@aol.com Wanted: I’m within 5 Hutchinson sodas of completing my 3rd 50-state set. I now need: Alaska, Maine, New Mexico, Rhode Island and South Carolina. Also I’m within 12 straight-sided, crown top sodas of completing my first 50-State set.

All of these sodas have the circular embossing in a round slugplate. I need Alabama, Alaska, Delaware, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Hapshire, New Mexico, Utah, Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming. Mint or near mint examples of all sodas needed. Contact: Ed LeTard, 239 Maplewood Loop, Daphne, AL 36526, ph: (985) 788-6163 or email: eandeletard@ aol.com

For Sale: Hutch Sodas, all mint or VNM. 1) Allen & Richards/Horseshoe/Philada $5; 2) Hugh McFadden S. Bothlehem PA $6; 3) Star Bottling w/star South Sharon PA $7; 4)Horlacher etc. in script, Allentown PA $8; 5) Hollister Co. Honolulu $50. Postage & insurance xtra. Contact: Bill Herbolsheimer, 6 Beech Cluster, Doylestown, PA 18901 Ph: 215-340-7156 or rae- Wanted: Colored pontils and any herb@pinerunvillage.org good Georgia and Alabama BotWanted: Beer advertising jugs, to- tles. Thanks! Contact: Jimmy Bray, P.O. Box 517, Oglethorpe, GA 31068, ph: (478) 952-6706, email: landrut@windstream.net

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Wanted: Any bottles or other historical items related to Plumas County, California including Quincy, Greenville, Chester, Portola, LaPorte, Taylorsville. Prefer donations, but will consider reasonable offers. Contact: Plumas County Museum, 500 Jackson St, Quincy, CA 95971, ph: (530) 283-6320, email: Wanted: FFV Cookie Tins, Rich- pcmuseum@digitalpath.net. mond VA., Early VA & NC sodas & beers, Crocks, Warners Items Wanted: Jamaica gingers – emand Bottles Contact: Marvin Cro- bossed and or labeled bottles. Also ker, 4718 Twila Ln., Richmond, VA ginger extract and shipping boxes.

23234, ph: (804) 275 -1101 Thank you for your help. Contact: Richard Olson, PO Box 734, Lone Wanted: Seeking Figural Bitters Pine, CA 93545, ph: (760) 876and Whiskeys (Glass) in unusual 4667, email: lnrolson@yahoo.com colors for my personal collection.

Contact: Bob Ferraro, 515 Northkens, openers, corkscrews, etched glasses, glass or porcelain signs.

Redwing jugs or crocks with merchant advertising. Vitrolite glass beer signs. Contact: Pat Stambaugh, 7185 Lakeshore Dr. Lakecity, MN 55041 ph: (651) 345-4446 email: pistam@mchsi.com

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Wanted: Strap side green anchor flask any size. Contact: David Berry, ph: (317) 770-3758, email: PADRBerry@ameritech.net

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J. Dinet, A.J. Miller, Hutchinson & Co., Kelleher & Co., J. Evans, T. King, W. Kirk, J. Kirkpatrick, G. Ebey & Co., Handy’s compound, C. Koch, N. Aliff, H. Copley, Cairns Wanted: Anti-fat, Weight loss, Obe- & Co., H. Faatz, W. Lindsay. Scott sity bottles / cures and related. Also Garrow 630-450-2524 or whitebarany vitamin bottles and advertising. nantiques@comcast.net Contact: David Meinz, ph: (407) 854-8108, email: david@david- Wanted: items from Dow, Grafton meinz.com. and Otterville, Illinios. Dave Hall, 3405 Franor St., Alton, IL 62002 Wanted: RAWSONVILLE, MICH PH: 618-463-8819 email paleo56@ bottles or any bottles with RAWSON att.net name. Also seeking bottles from the cities of Hell, Paradise, and/or Cli- Wanted: Schnapps Bottling Co., max, Michigan. Contact: Michael, Charlotte NC; Seltzer bottle, C Vaph: (936) 329-8838. laer Bottling Works, Charlotte NC; Otto Wehner, Mecklenburg Bottling Wanted: Sacramento whiskey: Works, Charlotte NC; Fred Munzler, THEO. BLAUTH/WHOLESALE Charlotte NC; other blob tops, colWINE/&/LIQUOR DEALERS/ ored medicines, whiskeys or hutches SACRAMENTO, CAL. Barnett from Charlotte. Bob Morgan, 704#55. Contact: Steve Abbott, ph: 277-8109 or bmorgan@charlotteob(916) 631-8019, email: foabbott@ server.com comcast.net.

Wanted: H. L. Jackson strap side Wanted: bottles from Connecticut. flask, Blackstone, VA, any size. Also Open pontilled medicines, 19th cen- Virginia Slug Plate Sodas IM Crown, tury flasks, sodas, or any other in- Blob & Hutch. Contact: Bruce Wadteresting bottles from Connecticut. ford, 362 Dobbins Rd. Blackstone, Contact : Tom OShea, 213 Marta St. VA, 23824. Ph: 434-676-8942 or College Station, Tx 77845. 979-777- MLWBWAD@MECKCOM.NET 8809. bcstxo@yahoo.com.

Wanted: Large Styrofoam covered ARIZONA BOTTLES WANT- soda bottles. N. C. medicines, botED! I am always looking for any tles embossed “Clements” or “MarEmbossed Arizona Soda, Whisky, shall”. Contact: Marshall Clements or Drug bottles, Arizona embossed 2129 Black Walnut Farm Rd. HillsABM Sodas, Arizona JUGS, any borough, NC 27278 Ph: 919-423Territorial Hutch or Crown Sodas 8557 or blobtop@gmail.com (Oklahoma, Montana, Dakota, Utah, ETC.). I will buy single bottles or Wanted: Strap side; coffin; Shoowhole collections. Top $$$ Paid!! fly; pumpkinseed flasks from Long Please contact Brent Van Deman Island, Brooklyn and New York City. at cell 602-818-6490 (please leave Contact: Mark R. Smith 10 Holmes message) or home 623-935-1498 or Ct., Sayville, NY 11782 Ph: 631email azokie99@cox.net 589-9027 or Libottle@optonline.net Wanted: Dr Langley’s Root & Herb Wanted: Stoneware bottles marked: Bitters, large sizes only all address-

es. Colored or aqua, smooth bases or pontiled. Mint specimens only. One or a collection. Top price paid!! Also other colored or fancy bitters. Call now, so you are not sorry later! Contact: Ask for Randolph, 415-5184124, 7AM-7PM PST Wanted: Drug store bottles or hutches from Montana or Montana Territory. Also cobalt blue Owl Drug bottles. I have good hutch’s from most of the states to trade, if you prefer.

Contact: Bottle Bill Herbolsheimer, 6 Beech Cluster, Doylestown, PA 18901 Ph: 215-340-7156 or raeherb@pinerunvillage.org Wanted: Embossed or labeled bottles from Portville, NY; Belivar, NY, Friendship, NY; Cuba, NY, Olean, NY, Richburg, NY; Allegany, NY; prior to 1920. Also any bottle embossed E. Anthony, pontiled, Scovill MFG Co., Photographic Chemical or Photographic Defender. Contact: David Pupo, 563 Raven Way, Naples, FL 34110 Cell: 585-610-3329

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FOHBC Sho-Biz

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

Insulator shows (courtesy of Crown Jewels) are indicated with an insulator. Information on up-coming collecting events is welcome, but space is limited.

Please send at least three months in advance, including telephone number to: FOHBC Sho-Biz, C/O Alan DeMaison, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077 or E-mail: a.demaison@sbcglobal.net. Show schedules are subject to change. Please call before traveling long distances.

All listings published here will also be published on the Website: http://www.FOHBC.com.

September 10 Arcadia, California The Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club’s 45th Annual Show & Sale (9am - 4pm admission $3 with early buyers admission $5 at 8am), at the Arcadia Masonic Lodge, 50 West Duarte Rd, Arcadia, CA. Con- tact: Don Wippert (chairman), ph: (818) 346-9833 or Dick Homme, ph: (818) 362-3368, website: www.lahbc.org.

September, 10 Downieville, California Downieville 10th Annual Historic Bottle Show & Sale (10am - 3pm, early lookers 8am - 10am - $10) at the Downieville School Gym, Info: Rick Simi, 433 Main St, Downieville, CA 95936, ph: (530) 289-3659, email: ricksimi@att.net.

September 11 Lewes, Delaware Delmarva Antique Bottle Club’s 18th Annual Antique Bottle, Advertising, and Collectibles Show &sale (9am – 3pm with dealer setup at 6:30am) at the Beacon Middle School, Route 24, Lewes, DE. Info: Kathy Moon, email: kdmoon@verizon.net or Michele Buckler, ph: (302) 645-0576, email: gemwrap@comcast.net

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September 11 Pekin, Illinois Pekin Bottle Collectors Association 42nd Annual Show and Sale (8:00 am – 3:00 pm) at the Knights of Columbus, 715 N.11th Street in Pekin, Illinois Jim Searle, 1003 Illinois Street, Pekin, Illinois 61554, Tele: 309.346.7804 September 12 East Belleville, Illinios Eastside Spectacular #5 Combined

Brewery Collectibles Show. Saturday, 9 am - 3 pm @ Belleclair Fairgrounds, 200 S Belt East Belleville, IL(15 minutes from St. Louis) Over 250 Table of Collectibles for Sale. Free Parking. Admission $2.00 - 9am, Early Admission $20.00 - 7am For Info Contact: Kevin Kious (618) 346 - 2634, whoisthealeman@aol.com or Curt Faulkenberry (636) 797 - 5220

September 25 Depew, New York Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association’s 13th Annual Show & Sale (9am – 2pm $2 admission with setup 7am – 9am) at the Polish Falcons Hall, 445 Columbia Ave, Depew, NY. Info: Dave Potter, ph: (716) 771-1581, email: potter8151@roadrunner.com FOHBC Club

September 18 (Saturday) Albany, New York The Capital Region Antique Bottle & Insulator Club 15th Annual Show & Sale (9:00 am – 2:30 pm) at the Polish Community Center, 225 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York, Jason Privler, Show Chairman, 518.453.1445, nyscapitol@yahoo.com

September 25 Chelsea, Michigan The Huron Valley Bottle and Insulator Club 36th Annual Show and Sale, (9:00 am – 2:00 pm), at the Village Conference Center, Commerce Park Drive next to the Comfort Inn, Chelsea (Exit 159 off I-94), Mike Bruner, 248.425.3223 or Rod Krupka, 248.627.6351, rod. krupka@yahoo.com, www.hvbic.org

September 24 Albuquerque, New Mexico New Mexico Historical Bottle Society and Enchantment Insulator Club.

Present the 24th Annual show and sale.

Saturday, Hours 8:30 am - 4:00 pm.

Friday night set up for dealers.

NEW LOCATION - Grace Church, 6901 San Antonio Dr NE, Albuquerque, NM 87109 Free Admission, Free Parking For more info contact---Mike Gay (505)899-8755, cdn102@comcast. net Tom Katonak (505)898-5592, tkatonak@comcast.net Or Greg Hoglin (505)864-6634, lostcity5th@aol.com September 25 Hammonton, New Jersey New Jersey Antique Bottle Club’s First Annual Hammonton, New Jersey Show & Sale (9am – 3pm) at the Hammonton Volunteer Fire Company #2, 51 N White Horse Pike, Hammonton, NJ 08037, Info: Paul Delguercio, ph: (856) 2527730, email: paulhavoc@comcast.net.

September 25 Lowell, Massachusetts The Merrimack Valley Antique Bottle Club’s 37th Annual Show & Sale (9am – 2pm, early buyers 8am) at the Lowell Elks Club Hall, 40 Old Ferry Rd (take exit 21 off US Route 3 and follow the signs). Info: Cliff Hoyt, ph: (978) 4586575 or Maureen Crawford, ph: (978) 897-7327, email: mcrawf@comcast.net, choyt458.home.comcast.net/mvbc.htm October 1 Chesterfield, Virginia Richmond Area Bottle Club’s 40th Annual Show & Sale (9am – 3pm $3, early admission 7:30am $10), at the Chesterfield County Fairgrounds, 10300 Courthouse Rd, Chesterfield, VA 23832, Info: Marvin Croker, ph: (804) 275-1101 or Ed Faulkner, ph: (804) 739-2951 or email: RichBottleClub@ comcast.net.

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(More) Sho-Biz October 8 Woodstock, Connecticut 12th Annual Heckler Columbus Day Weekend Event “McCandless Memorial Event”. Throughout the Day, 9:00 am – 11:00 am Auction Preview, 9:00 am – 2:00 pm Old-Fashioned Tailgate Party, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Preview 19 October & 16 November 2011 McCandless Absentee Auctions, 11:00 am Live Auction of 75 McCandless Collection Items, 12:30 pm McCandless Memorial Cook-out. Visit Heckler for more information.

October 9 Keene, New Hampshire The Yankee Bottle Club’s 44th Annual Show & Sale, 9:00 am to 2:30 pm, early buyers at 8:00 am, at the Keene High School, Arch Street, Keene, New Hampshire, Info: John E. Bemis, 28 Cross Street, Keene, New Hampshire, 603.352.5246 or Alan Rumrill, Historical Society of Cheshire County, PO Box 803, Keene, New Hampshire 03431, 603.352.1895 October 14 & 15 Canyonville, Oregon (Friday & Saturday) Canyonville, Oregon Jefferson State Antique Bottle, Insulator & Collectible Show & Sale at the Seven Feathers Casino Resort.

Regular Saturday admission is FREE! Early Admission: Early buyers are permitted AT A COST OF TEN DOLLARS ($10) PER PERSON. Right on I-5 at Exit 99, you can Expect the Best! Info: Bruce Silva, Show Chairman, P.O. Box 1565, Jacksonville, Oregon 97530, 541.899.8411, jsglass@q.com, Website: www.ecandm.com/canyonville/ October 16 Findlay, Ohio Findlay Antique Bottle Club’s 35th Annual Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show & Sale (9:00 am – 3:00 pm; Early Bird – Sunday 7:00 am – 9:00

am – $10.00) at the ‘Old Barn Auction House’, one mile west of I-75 on Rt.224, Findlay, Ohio. Table info: Fred Curtis 419.424.0486, other info see website: finbotclub.blogspot.com or contact Marianne Dow @ finbotclub@ gmail.com October 16 Scriba, New York The Empire State Bottle Collectors Association’s 13th Annual Show Show & Sale, (9:00 am to 3:00 pm) at the Scriba Fire Hall, US Route 104 East, Scriba, New York (2 miles east of Oswego), Info: Barry Haynes, PO Box 900, Mexico, New York 13114, 315.963.0922 or John Goley, ByGolley@msn.com, Club info: www. esbca.weebly.com October 21 - 22 Santa Rosa, California Northwestern Bottle Collectors Association’s Annual Show & Sale (Friday early buyer $10 noon – 6pm, general admission Saturday 9am – 3pm) at the Santa Rosa Veterans Building, 1351 Maple Ave, Santa Rosa, CA (across from the fairgrounds). Info: Bev Siri, ph: (707) 542-6438.

October 30 Glendale Heights, Illinois 1st Chicago Bottle Club’s 42nd Annual Show & Sale (9:00 am – 2:00 pm), at the Ramada Inn & Suites, 780 E. North Avenue (1/2 block W. of I-355), Glendale Heights, John & Claudia Panek, P.O. Box 287, Deerfield, Illinois 60015, 847.945.5493, paperbottle1@aol.com November 4 – 6 Springfield, Ohio The 41st Mid-Ohio Insulator Show (dealer set up at noon on 4th with collectors in at 3pm – 3pm on the 6th) at the Clark County Fairgrounds, Springfield, OH. Download information from www.insulators.info/

shows/springfield. Info: Steve Blair, ph: (740) 852-3148, email: CSB50@ sbcglobal.net or Glenn Drummond, ph: (334) 257-3100, email: glenn@ patent-1871.com.

November 5 Jacksonville, Florida Antique Bottle Collectors of North Florida’s 44th Annual Show & Sale (8am - 3pm with early buyers Friday 5pm - 8pm) at the Fraternal Order of Police Building, 5530 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville, FL. Info: Mike Skie, 3047 Julington Creek Rd, Jacksonville, RL 32223, ph: (904) 710-0422 or Jackie McRae, ph: (904) 879-3696 November 6 Elkton, Maryland 39th Annual Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show and Sale, Table top antiques, advertising. Sunday 9am - 2 pm, Singerly Fire Hall, Routes 279 & 213 (I-95, exit 109A) Elkton MD, Admission $3.00 under 12 free Contact: Dave Brown, 302-738-9960 or dbrown3942@comcast.net (Tri-State Bottle Collectors and Diggers Club, Inc) November 6 Royal Oak, Michigan The Metropolitan Detroit Antique Bottle Club’s 29th Annual Antique Bottle Show & Sale (9:30am – 3pm $2 admission) at the Royal Oak Elks Lodge #1523, 2401 E Fourth St, Royal Oak, MI. Info: Michael Brodzik, ph: (586) 219-9980, email: bottlemike@ wowway.com or Bruce Heckman, ph: (248) 760-1722, email: hisser@ comcast.net.

November 12 Belleville, Illinois Eastside Antique Bottle, Jar & Brewery Colectibles 5th Annual Show & Sale, (9:00 am to 3:00 pm, early buyers 7:00 am), at the Belleclair Fairgrounds, 200 South Belt East, Belleville, Illinois (15

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(More) Sho-Biz minutes from St. Louis), Info: Kevin Kious, 618.346.2634, whoisthealeman@aol.com or Curt Faulkenberry, 636.797.5220 November 13 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The Pittsburgh Antique Bottle Club’s Annual Show & Sale (9am – 2pm $3, early admission 7am $25) at The Ice Garden, Rostraver Twp, Exit 46B off I70 to Rt 51 North 4.1 miles. Info: Bob DeCroo, 694 Fayette City Rd, Fayette City, PA 15438, ph: (724) 326-8741 or Jay Hawkins, 1280 Pleasant Rd, West Newton, PA 15089, ph: (724) 872-6013.

November 19 Milford, Ohio St. Andrew Church Antique Bottle Show St. Andrew Parish Center, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm, Early Admission $15 (7:00 am) 533 Main Street, Milford, Ohio. Information: Steve Singer, 513.732.2793, singersams@yahoo. com St. Andrew is located at 553 Main St. in historic Milford, Ohio. Five minutes from I-275 (exit 57) and less than 2 miles from a Holiday Inn Express (513-831-7829) and Homewood Suites (513-248-4663)

November 20 Greensboro, North Carolina 10th Annual Greensboro Antique Bottle, Pottery & Collectibles Show & Sale indoors at the Farmer’s Curb Market on 501 Yanceyville St, Greensboro, North, Carolina, Public admission 9:00 am3:00 pm for $1. Free appraisals. Dealer setup 7:00 am-9:00 am, No Early Buyers. Info: Reggie Lynch 704.221.6489. www.antiquebottles.com/greensboro December 3 Auburn, California 49er Antique Bottle & Antique Show “The Best in the West” (9am – 3pm, early admission Friday $10 noon – 7pm) at the Gold Country Fairgrounds, Auburn, CA. Info: Mike McKillop, 117 A Estates Ct, Roseville, CA 95678, ph: (916) 3671829, email: pville1871@yahoo.com February 24 & 25 Phoenix, Arizona The Phoenix Antiques Bottles & Collectibles Club, Joined by the AZ Antiques & Collectibles Club Antique Show, Friday 24 February 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Early Bird at 2:00 pm., Saturday, 25 February 9:00 am – 4:00 pm.

Info: bettchem@cox.net, phoenixantiquesclub.org

April 1 Bloomington, Minnesota 41st Minnesota Antique Bottle, Advertising and Stoneware Show & Sale at the Crowne Plaza & Suites Airport, 34th Avenue South and American Boulevard, Bloomington, Minnesota 55425, Sunday, 9:30 am – 2:30 pm. No early admission. Set-up Sunday 6:30 am – 9:30 am. Admission is $5.00, Steve Ketcham is Show Chairman, Box 24114, Edina, Minnesota 55424, 952.221.0915, steve@ antiquebottledepot.com.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

johnhiscox@yahoo.com All Antique glass and bottles.

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

Leather repairer, cleaners, dyes etc.

ACL Soda Bottles, other bottles

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

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

Notice to Members Please check your mailing label for correctness and your membership expiration date.

This will insure you continue to receive Bottles and Extras without interruption. If moving, please send in a change of address.

Contact: Alan DeMaison, FOHBC Business Manager 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077 phone: (H) 440-358-1223; (C) 440-796-7539 e-mail: a.demaison@sbcglobal.net

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Bottle and Extras Individual and Affiliated Club Membership Information Membership in the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors includes:

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

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

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

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

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Membership Benefits

The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors cordially invites you to join a dedicated group of individuals and clubs who collect, study and display the treasured glass and ceramic gems of yesteryear.

The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors (FOHBC) is a non-profit organization supporting collectors of historical bottles, flasks, jars, and related items. The goal of the FOHBC is to promote the collection, study, preservation and display of historical bottles and related artifacts and to share this information with other collectors and individuals.

Federation membership is open to any individual or club interested in the enjoyment and study of antique bottles. The Federation publication, Bottles and Extras, is well known throughout the hobby world as the leading publication for those interested in bottles and “go-withs”. The magazine includes articles of historical interest, stories chronicling the hobby and the history of bottle collecting, digging stories, regional news, show reports, advertisements, show listings, and an auction directory. Bottles and Extras is truly the place to go when information is needed about this popular and growing hobby.

In addition to providing strength to a national/international organization devoted to the welfare of the hobby, your FOHBC membership benefits include: • A full year subscription the Federation’s official bi-monthly publication, Bottles and Extras • One free ad per yearly membership of 60 words for use for “wanted” items, trade offers, etc.

• Eligibility for a discount at FOHBC sponsored shows (National or EXPOs) towards “early admission” or dealer table rent • Access to a knowledge of the world of antique bottle collecting unavailable elsewhere • Contact information for clubs devoted to the study of historical bottles • A forum for your writings, articles, and editorials regarding the hobby • Participation in the nomination and selection of Federation members for the Honor Roll and Hall of Fame • Federation-sponsored writing, show poster, and newsletter-design contests • Free publication assistance for your book or manuscript • And more...

We encourage Affiliated Bottle Club memberships by offering these additional benefits to your group: • Display advertising in Bottles and Extras at an increased discount of 50% • Insertion of your bottle club show ad on the Federation website to increase your show’s exposure • Links to your club website free of charge, as well as assistance with the creation of your website • Free Federation ribbon for Most Educational Display at your show • Slide programs for use at your club meetings • Participation in Federation sponsored insurance program for your club show and any other club sponsored activities Finally…

We need your support! Our continued existence is dependent upon your participation as well as expanding our membership. The Federation is the only national organization devoted to the enjoyment, study, preservation, collection, and display of historical bottles.

The FOHBC welcomes individuals who would like to contribute by running for Board positions or by sharing their expertise and volunteering their talents in other areas of interest such as contributions to our publications, assistance with the Federation’s National and EXPO shows, or through membership promotion.

If you haven’t yet joined our organization, please do so and begin reaping the benefits. If you are already a member, please encourage your friends and fellow collectors to JOIN US!!

For more information, questions, or to join the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, please contact:

Alan DeMaison 1605 Clipper Cove Painesville, OH 44077 phone: (H) 440-358-1223; (C) 440-796-7539; e-mail: a.demaison@sbcglobal.net

or visit our home page on the Web at www.FOHBC.org

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