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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Paperweight Collectors Association
Crossing my Facebook radar on Peachridge Glass today was a link to the Paperweight Collectors Association page. Of course, this led me to some further searches to develop this post. We have a few paperweights but really don’t know too much about … Continue reading
Posted in Club News, Paperweights, Peachridge Glass
Tagged Paper Weights, Paperweight Collectors Association, PCA, Peach Ridge
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Bottle Buildings and Automobile Images
This is an end-of-the-year post capturing some images of buildings and cars with architectural and design aspects tying back to bottles. I just love this kind of stuff. Most of it is gone now, only archived in our memories, in … Continue reading
Edward Drummond Libbey, American Glassmaker
Some good information in from Ken Previtali: Hello Ferd, Here’s a book (Edward Drummond Libbey, American Glassmaker by Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.) that I discovered recently that was interesting for a number of reasons; including a great early history of the … Continue reading
What did the Architect have in mind when Designing this Building?
Prohibition Champagne: Now the Hard Rock Hotel, the Carbide and Carbon Building was built during the Prohibition in Chicago by Daniel and Hubert Burnham to resemble a champagne bottle with a foil top. While most buildings in Chicago at the … Continue reading
Midwest Antique Fruit Jar and Bottle Club presents the famous Fruit Jars Show and Sale
From the Findlay Antique Bottle Club Posting: 08 January 2012…It’s just a few days until the January Muncie event, with the infamous 3-days of room-hopping and the Saturday Get Together meeting at the Signature Inn Hotel, followed by the Sunday Fruit Jar & Bottle … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Auction News, Bottle Shows, Fruit Jars, Jelly & Jam, News
Tagged Fruit Jar, indiana, Jam, Jelly & Jam, Muncie
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Happy New Year from Peachridge Glass
[from Wikipedia] The New Year is the day that marks the time of the beginning of a new calendar year, and is the day on which the year count of the specific calendar used is incremented. For many cultures, the … Continue reading
Posted in Bitters Bottles, Figural Bottles, Holiday
Tagged 2012, New Years, prosperous
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H.P. Herb Wild Cherry Bitters – Another Roped Corner Fancy Gent
I am nearing the conclusion of writing about Roped Corner squares (at least in my bitters collection). Of course, some new bottle addition could change this statement, but as of this moment, this series is limited and includes the previously … Continue reading
Heckler Presents First Opportunity Auction
Heckler Presents First Opportunity Auction Internet Only Auction Opens Today at 9 A.M. Eastern An 80 Lot Absentee Internet Auction Including: Bitters Bottles, Whiskeys, Historical Flasks, Fruit Jars, Inks, Medicines, Fire Grenades and More..
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Article Publications, Bitters Bottles, Ephemera, History, Miniatures
Tagged Abbott's Aromatic Bitters, Baltimore, bitters, cocktail, Manhattan, maryland
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Rohrer’s Expectoral Wild Cherry Tonic
While cleaning my glass shelves yesterday in anticipation of a visit from noted Civil War Medicine author James Schmidt, I spent a few extra moments polishing two of my favorite bottles, the highly ornate, Rohrer’s Expectoral Wild Cherry Tonic (pictured above). … Continue reading