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Artistic Interpretation, Antique Aqua Art or Pile of Glass?

Keef Mason posted this picture over at Bottle Collectors on facebook that I really liked. Keef, by the way, is from Scarborough, North Yorkshire. That must be in Pennsylvania. Anyway, we each celebrate bottles in different ways and this goes to show you that you can also stack them up like building blocks and pray that a fly passing by does not start the tumble. Great picture Keef. Best you try this.

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Rick DeMarsh sets up a Great Udolpho Wolfe’s Schnapps Page

The bottles listed are from the collection of Tom Doligale, an avid collector of Udolpho Wolfe’s bottles. Rick thought that with all the questions he receives about the Udolpho Wolfe bottles and the company, that a page would be the way to go and if your going to make a page on Udolpho Wolfe’s….Tom’s collection is where to look.

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Heckler Absentee Auction 98 News

A Premier Absentee Auction of: Early Glass, Bottles, Flasks, Pottery, Antiques, and Select Americana…more. Internet Bidding Begins: March 7th, at 9 A.M. Eastern, Closing: March 21st, 2012 at 10 P.M. Eastern

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Bavarian Bitters – Two Examples worth Comparing

Last May 2011, I was able to add the elusive B 34 Bavarian Bitters in the single line typographic arrangement, to my Bitters collection. Photography of this bottle was completed last week so now we can compare! This was a private purchase from collector, Brad Francis from Arkansas. This will join my other B 34.5 Bavarian Bitters in a 2-line typographic arrangement that I obtained from Glass Works Auctions in October 2009. These are both tough-to-get Bitters bottles with comparatively little information available.

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How Pitkin Flasks Were Formed

[PRG] Follow-up correction to process in which Pitkin Flasks were formed by Pitkin authority Dana Charlton-Zarro. PRG thanks Dana (pictured on left with the late Joe Zarro).

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Midwestern Rib Pattern Dip Molds

Hi Ferd, Wonderful post on the Pitkin flasks. The free blown process using dip molds gave the craftsmen of the time the artistic license to produce truly unique works of art. Dave (Maryo) PS. I attached a photo of original dip molds used at some northern Ohio glass factories. The photo was taken at the Hale Farm and Village in the early 1980s. PRG: Flask picture: courtesy Jeff Noordsy. Read More: Some Information on New England and Midwestern Pitkin Flasks (includes great article link from NE glass experts Jeff and Holly Noordsy).

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The XR Hartley’s Peruvian Bark Bitters from Muncie, Indiana

Interesting coincidence that I had business in Fort Wayne, Indiana and northwestern Ohio last week in small towns like Bryan, Archbold, Edgerton, Montpolier, Napoleon, Sherwood, Stryker and Wauseon. All locales somewhat near Muncie, Indiana where Hartley’s Peruvian Bark Bitters was made…

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Columbus Ohio Bottle Show & Sale Report

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A Day at the Sandwich Glass Museum

Spent a weekend in Sandwich MA last year. It was a great trip, and was really impressed with the new Sandwich Glass Museum. Here is my wife (Janet) enjoying the beautiful and colorful glass… what a great seat that was! Michael George

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Make Plans – 5 Bottle Shows this coming Weekend!

PHOENIX | WEST MICHIGAN | SARASOTA | INDIANA | CONNECTICUT

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Meet John Akers – A Collector and his Cartoons

I would like everyone to meet John Akers who is one extraordinary collector with a sense of humor. I really get a chuckle because John seems to know exactly which funny button to push for us passionate and sometimes crazy collectors and diggers…

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Just love this picture of a lone Insulator

Added as conclusion image to Telegraph & Telephone Poles carrying some Beautiful Glass. The stark contrast of this glass gem in this raw environment is amazing. Photo courtesy Shaun Kotlarsky.

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Amethyst T-Bar from Italy Posted by Shaun Kotlarsky

One of 5 Known Purple T-Bars from Italy 2 in US, 3 in Italy, one of which is still on a building I Traded this with Nora Coppo for my Clear MT1-BIS – Shaun Kotlarsky

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Some Information on New England and Midwestern Pitkin Flasks

Pitkin Flask: Small bottle of green glass in an ovoid and flattened shape made by the “Half-Post Method”. In this method a second pattern molded gather of glass is put over an optically blown flask. The first layer molded flask is turned one way and the second layer is turned the opposite way giving an interesting pattern. Then the flask is expanded to the ovoid and flattened shape.

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Crescent Bitters from Crescent City

NOLA, The Big Easy, Crescent City, N’awlins…all names for the great city of New Orleans, Louisiana. A late addition to the Fancy Gent Series of square Bitters is the Crescent Bitters. This bottle was obtained in December 2010 and was photographed last weekend as part of my annual February photography of new additions…

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From Bottle Collectors: Six nice Sunburst Flasks from Rick Ciralli

One of my personal favorite molds is the GVIII-18 from Coventry. I’m sure I speak on behalf of many out there. Handsome with the corrugated sides…(top picture) Can’t forget the good ol’ GVIII-16′s from Pitkin & Coventry (bottom picture)…Rick Ciralli

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Telegraph & Telephone Poles carrying some Beautiful Glass

I like juxtaposition in life and contrast. The unexpected beauty of finding and collecting glass insulators has always intrigued me. I wanted to do a post of some interesting historical pictures of telegraph and telephone pictures in a monotone, duotone and sepia tone range to illustrate the environments that these raw and ungainly poles and wires holding beautiful glass existed. There is obviously so much history associated with insulators. The crossover into railroading also interests me as telegraph lines many times followed railroad paths.

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A Nice Line-up of Dr. Townsend’s Sarsaparilla Bottles from Michael George

From Bottle Collectors: Dr. Townsends are pretty common bottles… but the range of varients and colors can be incredible!!

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Blob & Hutch Variant Picture posted by Dave Kyte

From Bottle Collectors: These are most of the blob and hutch variants that I have from Denhalter. Note the two U.T. (utah Territory). Dave Kyte

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75 Porcelain Telephone Signs & Related Items in next Pole Top Discoveries Auction!

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Double Pontiled Greeley’s Bourbon Bitters

Hi Ferd…Enjoyed looking at your recent post on the color run of Greeley’s. Especially liked the plum colored variant. Overall, very nice run. I thought you and your readers might be interested in a “pontiled” Greeley’s I’ve owned since the 1970s. Yes, it is pontiled, although Ring/Ham does not list this G101 variant. I have attached photos. It has a double pontil just like my O45 aqua Old Sachem as seen in the attached photo. The Greeley’s stands about a one-half inch shorter in height than typical Greeley’s. I always assumed the Greeley’s was made by a glassblower practicing his art early on. Any thoughts on your part? Jack (Stecher)

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Two nice Professor Byrne Stomach Bitters from David Kyle

Hi Again Ferd, Here’s the shot of my two “Prof. Byrne’s”. I talked to Dick Watson who saw the Green “Byrne’s” at the Keene Show before John put it up for auction, and he commented to me, “I’ve never seen a “Byrne’s” before with that much Green”. Dick and John Feldmann both have the Clear version!! I noticed a shot of you holding this bottle up with the caption under stating that It was GREEN—-Right on!! Was this also at the Keene Show? Anyway Ferd hope to see you soon, will attend the Morrow Bay show next month and the Reno Expo In July—- Take Care, Dave (Kyle). Read More: Professor Byrne and Landsberg – Some Highly Decorative Bottles Read More: Top three Bitters Bottles from last weekend

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Charles Flint and his Three Pottery Shelves

I started collecting small pottery inks when I was in my teens after digging my first one. I ended up with over 400 lol. They were packed away for over seven years and I said to my wife, “I miss my inks but there’s too many and no place to displayed them. She said, “Just take out your favorites ones” so I did and sold off the rest. I will post a photo of my other two shelves. It’s not easy being addicted to bottles.

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Edward Wilder and his Building Bottles

This weekend I was cataloging a bottle from Edward Wilder, who was a Wholesale Druggist in Louisville, Kentucky. I purchased the bottle from John Pastor at the Yankee Bottle Show in Keene, New Hampshire this past October 2011. Typically I would pass up on a bottle like this except for the fact that this bottle is related to a Edward Wilder Bitters bottle that I own, and I AM A BITTERS Collector…

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Peach colored Bourbon Whiskey Bitters added to Color Run

Yesterday I completed photography for two (2) new peachy coppery barrels that will join my run of the popular figural barrel form of the Bourbon Whiskey Bitters. It is rather difficult to put together a distinct color run as the barrels are usually in muddier, similar chameleon tones.

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Latest News from the Findlay Antique Bottle Club

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Kalamazoo Celery Pepsin Bitters – Get Some for (from) your Wife

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Look at these 3 Babies in the Pole Top Discoveries’ Auction 66 – WOW

Pole Top Discoveries’ Auction 66
165 Insulators & 75 Porcelain Telephone Signs & Related Items
Online Bidding starts Sunday, February 19
Auction closes 10 P.M, Tuesday, February 28

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Three Cottage Ink Teasers from the next Glass Discoveries Auction

The Glass Discoveries, March auction will open with bidding in late February and close in March. Exact dates for the Glass Discoveries auction will be announced in the near future. Over 100 bottles, jars and flasks will be offered.

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Dr. Wonser’s U.S.A. Indian Root Bitters – Looking at Some Information and Colors

One of my favorite Bitters bottles and certainly one of the very top western Bitters bottles is the Dr. Wonser’s U.S.A. Indian Root Bitters. You virtually never see these heavily embossed bottles outside of the western shows or western auction houses such as American Bottle Auctions. Just about every great example resides in western collections though…

* updated material added by Michael Dolcini & picture by Dave Kyle.

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What is John Feldmann saying to Bob Ferraro?

[In from Jeff  (Froggy) Burkhardt...with obviously too much time on his hands]

F – Jeanine just found this archived picture. I love it! Got to caption it…it’s as though John’s telling or offering Bob something unbelievable (or a bit crazy) and I’m staring at Bob wondering if he’s going to “swallow” it! Not sure who the 4th fellow is; maybe a Kentucky dealer. Maybe something about Bob’s legendary, one-of-a kind W. WOLF PITSBURGH barrel.

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Benicia Iridescence and Patina on Bottles – Not a Sick Bottle

DUDE, that isn’t sick, it’s that beautiful “Benicia” iridescence. You never remove that. Some collectors pay a premium for it…

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Glass Works and Glass Factories – Hell on Earth?

To a little sand, a little alkali, and a little limestone, add considerable heat and a still greater amount of skill, might be taken as a brief recipe for the manufacture of a glass bottle.

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Boys in Glass Houses – Taking on the Mannerisms of Men

As the US industrialized, factory owners hired young workers for a variety of tasks. Especially in textile mills, mines and glass factories, children were often hired together with their parents. Many families depended on the children’s labor to make enough money for necessities…

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Bunker Hill Monument Figural Colognes

Yesterday I spent the day recording and moving some new bottle acquisitions around. One bottle that was a conversation piece on facebook was my new citron, SKILTON, FOOTE & COMPANY BUNKER HILL PICKLES / TRADE MARK, (Motif of monument) that I won in the Heckler | Thomas McCandless Auction III….

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Warm Sunshine and Glass Photographs from Mike Holzwarth

Nothing like some sun on glass to warm us up in February. Photos shared by Mike Holzwarth – Bottles he has dug over the years. This is a photo album that I will add to as Mike keeps adding pictures.

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Baltimore Antique Bottle Club’s 32nd Annual Show and Sale

This is the big one folks. My FAVORITE show. The largest one-day bottle show in the world with over 300 tables! The date is 04 March 2012 (Sunday) in Baltimore, Maryland. Free Bottle Appraisals, Admission $3.00, Information contact: Rick Lease (Show Chairman), 410.239.8918, baltojar@comcast.net, www.baltimorebottleclub.org, View Show Flyer

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A Dug Green Dr. Renz’s Herb Bitters

Hi Ferd, Here are some pics of another green Renz’s, this time a large letter variant. In the dirt and fresh from it with a hose rinse. Have a Great Day,Mike (Dolcini)

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A Pole Full of Beehives

I saw this posting by James Bancroft on his facebook page of a large pole full of beehives of 152′s and 154′s. I thought this was pretty neat. A few weeks ago I also saw miles of old poles and insulators on my drive from Winchester, Virginia to Lurray, Virginia on the scenic Stonewall Jackson Memorial Highway. Beehive is a nickname for primarily CD 145′s…

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Mexican Mustang Liniment – For Man & Beast

Here’s another all-healing Victorian wonder medicine, this time from the early 1850s, called Mexican Mustang Liniment. The main ingredient was rather startling: the Liniment appears to have been mostly crude petroleum oil. For Man & Beast. There is even a Trade Card showing a fallen lass and a horse with Mexican Mustang Liniment on its way!

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Three Killer Historical Portrait Flasks close at Heckler Last Night

Three (3) killer Historical Portrait Flasks closed last evening at Session III of The Thomas McCandless Collection auction. Call backs are now. Look at the prices for these three top shelf specimens…

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Old Continental Whiskey – One Spectacular Bottle

Without a doubt, the OLD CONTINENTAL WHISKEY is one of the most stunning, beautiful and spectacular bottles ever produced in a square form. With the embossed continental soldier, columned corners and arched panels, the Old Continental could be the centerpiece of any collection…

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Use a Penny for Scale

Some time ago, and we still laugh about it now, we had an interesting and unexpected learning experience on eBay when my wife bid on what she thought were some large (12” tall or so) dinosaurs for my grandson Nicholas. Nicholas loved dinosaurs and we wanted to buy some replacement and new dinosaurs that Adriana…

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Dr. Petzold’s Genuine German Bitters – Patent Medicine

My friend and Civil War author, Jim Schmidt sent me a link today for an eBay listing for a Baltimore Letterhead dated 1887 for a Dr. Petzold’s Genuine German Bitters – Patent Medicine. The listing on eBay reads as follows: Letterhead from Louis Petzold & Co., Proprietors of Dr. Petzold’s Genuine German Bitters, dated Baltimore, January 28, 1887 to Chas. Yockel. “A Tonic with Unsurpassed Medicinal Virtues – A Great Remedy for Dyspepsia, Malaria, Weakness, & c. & c.”

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Two J.H. CUTTER OLD BOURBON cylinders from Michael Dolcini

One of ‘em is green… I think it’s the one to the right. LOL (Mike)

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What is it about GREEN?

This is yet another picture from Dale Mlasko. Dale is a major collector of western glass and has some of the most drop dead gorgeous and rare bottles. Many are green. From Dale: For years, I have been attracted to Western bottles in the green color spectrum. I know of many other collectors who also covet “green” glass…

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FOHBC Bottles and Extras

Here is a collage I put together for the FOHBC web site last year. I think these covers are really cool. Bottles and Extras is a great magazine. Please become a member of the NEW FOHBC. We are growing rapidly. Many great things are on the horizon. The Winds of Change. I think we can get to 2,000 members in the next year. Also with Pam Selenak as Public Relations Director, we are now aggressively positioning the FOHBC as your organization. She is selling memberships left and right. We also are openly asking for articles and story contributions. There is so much to show and say.

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Miller’s Extra Old Bourbon

While hunting for Continental Whisky (note alternate spelling of whiskey) information online I came across some some wonderful pictures of MILLER’S EXTRA OLD BOURBON flasks and cylinders. I have to admit, I really do not know much about the bottle other than reading periodic posts on Western Glob Top Whiskies and seeing them show up at American Bottle Auctions. I’ve seen them before within collections but must have been distracted by other bottles to focus on the Millers Extra.

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See follow-up Addendums 1 & 2 for CAMPBELL & SEAMAN NEW YORK.

This includes advertisement provided by Eric McGuire, post by Tim Adams who owns a green example and Michael George with information on related Continental Whisky.

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Circle Cutter Whiskey Cylinders in a window from Michael Dolcini

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Look at this CAMPBELL & SEAMAN NEW YORK on eBay – WOW

Jerseynotsobad on eBay is selling this incredibly crude New York bottle on eBay that I have not seen before. This is a killer! You have got to see the character of this bad boy.

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Hadlock’s Vegetable Syrup – Iron Pontil sells on eBay

Here is a bottle I saw on eBay that has everything going for it. The HADLOCK’S VEGETABLE SYRUP with an iron pontil. The name, glass crudity, bottle shape, aqua coloration and seller photographs were off the charts. I dropped a square bid of 1k before I went to bed and awoke this AM to see that it sold for $1,025.00. Oh well. It is not a Bitters but wow! Congratulations to the buyer.

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Hi Ferd, I told you that one of these days I would take my meager little grouping of Pickles outside and take group photo. I put them on my wife’s potting bench and stuck the white plastic covered cardboard behind to soften the ugly Ivy covered wall. It’s cloudy today, but warm enough to take the glass outside. The largest is just shy of 14″. Cheers, Mike (Dolcini) [PRG] Really nice Mike! Will add to Cathedral Pickle Picture Page. Thanks!

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A Sampling of the Famous David P. Wilber Barber Bottle Collection

Mega collector and persona extraordinaire, Sandor Fuss, called me up yesterday all fired up about…and it was NOT about a world class historical flask or bitters bottle…are you ready…Barber Bottles. Apparently in his mineral business he crossed paths with David P. Wilber, who according to Sandor, has the definitive collection of Barber Bottles. Many are unique, extraordinarily rare and/or have records associated with them for price paid.

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A Great Sunday Dig in Saginaw unearths a Steele’s Niagara Star Bitters

Bill and I were in a hurry to get out and dig Sunday, January 8th. We were on the way to an 1870′s saloon, which is still standing but abandoned in Saginaw, Michigan. It’s a rough end of town and I showed up with my fiancé Sarah before Bill showed up so I got to it. Almost immediately I probed the huge pit…

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Fighting Cocks and Roosters on Bottles

Connor Rush posted a neat blob on the FOHBC facebook page. Hello! Anybody have any bottles from Essex County, NJ? Here’s my best and rarest one, a pictorial blob from Montclair. I really liked the embossed rooster and the MEYER name on the bottle. The rooster reminded me of my XR Dr. Michael Cox’s Bitters with three (3) embossed fighting cocks which…

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My Lunch on Fiesta dinnerware at the Tea Room within the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley

This past week I had lunch with an associate of mine from my company FMG Design at the Tea Room at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley in historic Winchester, Virginia. This is always a nice experience with wonderful light lunches served on Fiesta dinnerware and tea served from modern design teapots…also look for a possible Old Home Bitters connection.

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A Legendary Barto’s Great Gun Bitters Changes Hands

With a shot that is sure to be heard clear around the world, Peachridge Glass announces the sale of a legendary, Reading, Pennsylvania figural bottle in the shape of a cannon. Not only is this bottle extremely rare, it is arguably the finest example in existence of a Barto’s Great Gun Bitters. With a chameleon like color…

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Some Gorgeous Depression Glass Table Settings

Today was filled with business in some neat historic places. We (an associate of mine Kim Cao, from FMG) started out in Winchester, Virginia and ended up with meetings in the town of Luray, Virginia. Instead of taking I-81 we drove the scenic Stonewall Jackson Memorial Highway…

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M. Keller Label over at Western Bitters News

Here is what remains of a California Wine Bitters label. This broken wine type bottle was dug a few years ago, and provides some insight on this great bitters. It is apparent that Keller bottled the California Wine Bitters in plain bottles either prior to, or subsequent to the embossed version. Notice how the embossed bottle mirrors the label almost exactly…the “chevron” insignia is also depicted in the same place on the label as on the embossed bottle. This is a “chicken or the egg” question as to which came first. Any thoughts?

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The triangular Balsdons Golden Bitters – Early New York

My next installment for triangular bitters is the extremely rare Balsdons Golden Bitters. My highly whittled example has a bold impression and was purchased in February 2006 from Glass Works Auction 76. Glass Works noted that the bottle was the first example that they had seen in 20 years. Please see the “Digging a Good Bitters Bottle” article by Gary Guest below. I believe that my bottle was found in the Brooklyn dig.

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Bottles From The Deep SS Republic Shipwreck Square Bitters Bottle on eBay and My BIG idea

I have noticed this eBay listing called “Bottles From The Deep SS Republic Shipwreck Square Bitters Bottle” Raised an eyebrow but then it gave me an idea…

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FOHBC January | February 2012 Issue Now On Stands!

 

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The big and robust Monongahela Rye Bitters

I did a post the other day on my Bromine – Union Salt Works bottle which led me to Allegheny City which is now part of Pittsburgh on the Monongahela River. This reminded me of my Monongahela Rye Bitters. It is also not often that the word ‘Rye’ is incorporated in a Bitters brand name.

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Didn’t realize that I possess a probable Stoddard Dr. Townsend’s

With the recent posts on the earlier Dr. Townsend’s, I went back through my digital files to find a bottle that has been resting on a remote window shelf with other Dr. Townsend’s and related “non-bitters” bottles. This fellow was purchased on eBay in 2003 (I started bottle collecting in 2002). I guess I just liked the crudeness and cork…

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Stoddard Glass – Updated Information from Michael George

Updated information provided by Michael George based on an exhibit he organized called “New Hampshire Glassmakers”. The Dr. Townsends bottle pictured in the recent Dr. Townsends post below is referenced. I thank Mike George for providing this information so quickly to replace a Wikipedia definition that needed updating. The update was suggested by Baltimore collector and digger Chris Rowell who I also think. Information is power.

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Reno Expo 2012 Antique Bottle and Collectible Show – Ad Spread

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The beautiful and triangular S (star) C Brown’s Herb Bitters

My continuing effort to document triangular bitters bottles leads us now to the extremely rare, S (star) C Brown’s Herb Bitters from Philadelphia. The Brown’s was an elusive and tough bottle for me to obtain. It was first offered to me by a bottle broker from the East Coast for big dollars and I foolishly passed because I was not familiar with the bottle (probably classified it in my mind as a three-sided square bitters – Ha!). Boy was I wrong. I was finally able to track the example down…

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Texas Window – Some Random Thoughts on a Gray Day

As I sit here in Alexandria, Louisiana after two (2) miserable, gray, rainy days (you may have heard about all of the rain Monday in Houston that followed me here), I post this picture that makes me feel better. There is nothing like glass and natural light to fuel your passion…

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The Fancy Pontil and Fancy Cancel

Tom Doligale posted this picture over at the Bottle Collectors Facebook Page of an ornately patterned pontil mark. The pontil pattern reminded me of fancy cancellation on an early United States postage stamps, an area of high interest to me.

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Bromine – Union Salt Works – Gorgeous Allegheny City Bottle

Sitting on one of my bottle shelves is this gorgeous Bromine – Union Salt Works bottle from old Allegheny City (today part of Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania. Not knowing really too much, I purchased it from a Glass Works Auction in 2004 because of the color, embossing and stopper which was consider original. Since then, I haven’t seen to many of these (actually none) and wonder if they come in any other colors. Truly a magnificent bottle.

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The extremely rare, triangular Wahoo Chamomile Bitters

I have a smaller, extremely rare triangular bitters called the Wahoo Chamomile Bitters which reminds me of other more well known bitters with similar names such as the Jacob Pinkerton Wahoo & Calisaya Bitters and of course the popular E. Dexter Loveridge’s Wahoo Bitters (I love that name!…not just Dexter but E. Dexter Loveridge).

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Sanitarium Bitters & Hi Hi Bitters – No doubt what you are getting here!

Very efficient in neuralgia, rheumatism and in all morbid conditions due to depression of the nervous and cerebral system. A nice concoction and bottle to brighten up your stay.

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The triangular Hagan’s Dyspepsia Bitters – Atlantic City, New Jersey

My second post for triangular bitters bottles (see first post: The Triangular O.H.P. Rose’s Peruvian King Bitters) leads me south from Rhode Island (home of the OHP Rose’s Bitters) to Atlantic City for the Hagan’s Dyspepsia Bitters. The bottle reminds me of one of my favorite HBO series Boardwalk Empire which occurs during the prohibition era. The Hagan’s was produced earlier in Atlantic City from 1865 – 1880.

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The Triangular O.H.P. Rose’s Peruvian King Bitters

Taylor McBurney from South Kingstown, Rhode Island posted on the Bottle Collectors Facebook Page: Dug a neat farm dump today. Someone had hit it before me, but I found a nice pharmacy bottle they missed. A lot of criers there, including an OHP Rose triangular bitters, a St. Drake’s cabin bitters, and an Udolfo Wolfes. Dana Charlton-Zarro (New York City) followed up with the question “What is an OHP Rose?”…

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Abbott’s Aromatic Bitters – A Later Bitters with Class

In a separate area of my house and away from the gorgeous ‘heavy-hitter’s in my bitters collection sits the later bitters bottles. Many of these bottles are labeled and some contain original contents. It is for these reasons that they sit like the one legged ‘Tin Soldier’ away from my other toys. They are usually not ‘window’ bottles and need an area away from natural light to protect the contents and labels…

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What is an Arabesque Drakes Plantation Bitters

I thought I would take a moment to explain and picture the primary differences between the rarer mold D102 Arabesque Drakes Plantation Bitters and other Drakes Plantation Bitters which do not have the rectangle around the word BITTERS. The Arabesque Drakes also has a scroll motif as noted in the picture below. These Arabesque Drakes are typically very weakly…

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Drakes Plantation Bitters – Encased Postage

In early 1862, just months after the American Civil War erupted, people predicted the hard times and shortages looming ahead and began hoarding resources, coins included. Many millions of dollars in gold and silver coins and even copper-nickel cents disappeared from the market as a result of this hoarding. Coins consequently commanded a premium over paper money…

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One of the Crudest Drakes You Will Ever See

Rick DeMarsh over at RicksBottleroom.com asked me to send a picture of my favorite Drakes Plantation Bitters. This is darn near impossible. I did send him a neat soft straw yellow example as one to look at instead of one of my green examples. Well anyway, I was looking at my run and remembered this special Arabesque Drakes. It really is a heavy, crude monster…

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Upcoming Auctions

Glass Works Auctions “Ides of March” 27 Feb – 19 March 2012

Norman C. Heckler & Company – 07 March – 21 March 2012

Pole Top Discoveries Auction #66 – 19 Feb – 28 Feb 2012

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