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Wednesday, 25 November 2015
Dr. Soule’s Hop Bitters being sold in Dublin, Ireland. Read: The Doyle’s & Soule’s Hop Bitters – Rochester, N.Y.
Tuesday, 24 November 2015
A couple of unlisted bitters. Allen’s Wahoo Bitters by F. Kingman in Hartford, Connecticut around 1880. This would seem to be different than the A 32 L … Allen’s Wahoo Tonic Bitters from Springfield, Massachusetts. Bill Ham has provided the following designation:
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A 31.5 Allen’s Wahoo Bitters, F. Kingman, Hartford, Connecticut, circa 1880
Also the Moss Brothers Iron Tonic Bitters from Lafayette, Louisiana in 1894. Bill Ham has provided the following:
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I 33.5 Iron Tonic Bitters, Moss Brothers & Co., Lafayette, Louisiana, 1894.
Sunday, 22 November 2015
Peruvian Bark Bitters
[Ellen Haas Faulkenberry] Was able to land this Wonderful unlisted Bitters bottle from a small town in North Central Missouri from the Belleville Bottle & Brewery Show – Thanks Lance. I just couldn’t believe my eyes when I first saw this wonderful bottle. Missouri has bitters bottles from Kansas City, St. Joe, St.Louis, Hannibal, Desoto and now Brookfield. What a wonderful show it turned out to be. Bill Ham has provided the following listing for BBS2:
G 106.5 GREEN’S PERUVIAN BARK BITTERS
CHAS. GREEN’S / PERUVIAN BARK BITTERS / BROOKFIELD. MO. // f // f // f // // b // W. T. & Co.
6 3/4 x 2 1/4 (4 1/2) 1/4
Square, Aqua, FM, Tooled lip, Extremely rare
Saturday, 21 November 2015
Here is reference to an unlisted Maguire’s Sarsaparilla Bitters put out by J. & C. Maguire, chemists & druggists (James & Constantine Maquire) in St. Louis in 1869. Bitters Bottles has an extensive listing for a labeled (M 10L) Maguire’s Cundurango Liver and Blood Bitters put out by the same folks. The ad was placed in The Leavenworth Times (Kansas), Saturday March 27, 1869.
The bottle below sold in the Bob & Late Marie Saxe Collection, Part 1 Absentee Auction 24, on March 22, 2012.
An open pontil J. & C. Maguire, Chemists & Druggists, St, Louis, Mo. in blue. Could this have held the bitters? – HistoricGlass.com
Thursaday, 19 November 2015
Left Philly for Miami last night. Lot more humidity here. The Professor Mann’s Oriental Stomach Bitters sold at Hecklers last night. Example from the Strong Museum.
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
Wrapping up business here in Reading, PA. Was thinking about Barto’s Great Gun Bitters as I had dinner in a historic building on the same street where is was produced. Working on a post for Democratic Bitters. Liked that labeled Dr. Flints Quaker Bitters that closed last night in AGG. It shows up every few years at auction houses. Here is another unlisted Vegetable Tonic Bitters reference below. Made by W.J. Moore and advertised in Fort Scott, Kansas in 1877.
Tuesday, 17 November 2015
Pretty cool labeled and embossed bitters I snagged from Maple Leaf Auctions this past Saturday in Ontario. Their write up: “The Gates Company of Middleton NS was a real Martime medicine success story. Fortunately for collectors, there are a great many bottles from this long-lived firm. One of their seminal products was Gates Life of Man Bitters, which was manufactured for a very long time. 90% of the bottles for this medicine were made from plain aqua coloured glass. This one is a beautiful rich deep sapphire blue. Better still – this bottle sports a full label extolling the virtues of the medicine. Dead mint! An important correction to this lot. While the box is an original Gates box, it is nowhere near as old as the bottle, so the box is not for this bottle.”
Sunday, 15 November 2015
Here is a very early, tongue twister, unlisted bitters. Boon’s Anti-Dyspeptic and Anti-Bilious Vegetable Tonic Bitters from George R. Sanders in Newbern, North Carolina in 1838 (Newbern Spectator, Friday, November 24, 1837).
Friday, 13 November 2015
Ferdinand, Dug a broken Youngblood’s Tonic Bitters in Galveston the other day. Honestly didn’t have a clue what it was so only saved the front panel and the lip. When I go back to the site, I am going to re-excavate the pit (it is just a tiny trash pit) and see if I can find enough to glue together a good part of the bottle. Pit was full of broken Hostetters, Wolfe’s Schnapps, etc…looked to be late 1860’s or maybe early 1870’s.
Thought you might be interested…it is a beautiful light amber color.
Best Regards,
Brandon DeWolfe, P.E.
READ: Youngblood’s Tonic Bitters – Galveston, Texas
READ: The rest of the story of Lorenzo D. Youngblood and his Tonic Bitters
Thursday, 12 November 2015
Neat early advertisement for Damiana Bitters from San Francisco. Placed in The Fresno Republican, August 25, 1877. I like the cactus.
Wednesday, 11 November 2015
Looks like an unlisted bitters. Cascara Burdock and Celery Tonic Bitters as referenced in the Victoria Daily Colonist advertisement on May 6, 1902.
Tuesday, 10 November 2015
Neat trade card for Mt Washington Glass Works on eBay.
Saturday, 07 November 2015
Cleaning up some bitters posts on a rainy Saturday. Check them out if you want.
Dr. Mackenzie’s or Dr. McKinzie Wild Cherry Bitters
Dandelion & Wild Cherry Bitters – Iowa
Willard’s Golden Seal Bitters – Taunton, Massachusetts
Wednesday, 04 November 2015
Early bird back from the east coast this AM. Groovin’ this Cannon’s Dyspeptic Bitters in John Pastors new auction.
“CANNON’S – DYSPEPTIC – BITTERS”, America, 1850 – 1860. Aquamarine, octagonal, applied square collar – blowpipe pontil scar, ht. 6″; (professionally cleaned to original luster; a ½” chip from the edge, and underside, of the square collar). An exciting fresh discovery and previously unknown mold, almost certainly from the W. M. Cannon Medicine Co, Washington, D.C. Believed to be the first intact pontiled example known from this company.
Note: the chip is on the side of the lip, and could easily be repaired, if desired.
Read: Cannon’s Dyspeptic Bitters – W. Morrow – Washington D.C. – Unlisted Find!
Sunday, 01 November 2015
Football Sunday. Good time to catch up on z’s and spend time with my grandson. Put up two posts earlier today. Only one bottle show today in Elkton, Maryland. Always wanted to go to that show. Heard a bottle I wanted from the Nolt Collection was returned at Conestoga Auctions. Bottle had an obvious polished lip chip. Need to review the Heckler auction as I saw that super killer labeled Old Continental Whiskey. Read: Old Continental Whiskey – One Spectacular Bottle
