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Category Archives: Ales & Ciders
Buffalo Bayou, Buffalo Beer Tour & Buffalo Brewing Company
The American Buffalo Three things on my desk(top) or laptop today all dealing with the American Bison. First is the next segment in a series I am writing about Houston history including Allen’s Landing and Buffalo Bayou. You can read … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Advice, Ales & Ciders, Breweriana, Club News, Ephemera, History, News
Tagged bayou, Bison, Buffalo, Buffalo Brewing Company, Bufffalo, california, Herman H. Grau, Joe Guerra, New York, Pete Jablonski, sacramento, William E. Gerber
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What was here, Early Houston Advertisements – Part IIA
THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1860 I was able to locate another issue of The Weekly Telegraph in Houston. The day was Tuesday, 20 April 1860. This is nine years prior to the previous issue of The Houston Telegraph … Continue reading
Posted in Ales & Ciders, Apothecary, Bitters, Cordial, Demijohns, Druggist & Drugstore, Gin, Mineral Water, Sarsaparilla, Schnapps, Spirits, Tonics, Uncategorized, Whiskey, Wine & Champagne
Tagged . M. Bininger & Co., A. A. Peychaud, Ale Brewery, American Aromatic Bitter Cordial, Arabian Bitters, C. Ennis & Co, C.M. Jackson & Co, Clark & White, Demijohn, Dr. A. Siegismund, Dr. Hoofland's Celebrated German Bitters, Fernandez Alvarez & Co., H. J. Trube, Henry Sampson Co., J. Riordan, Mills Bitters, Philadelphia, Saratoga, Schnapps, Smith's Celebrated Sarsaparilla, W. H. Eliot & Co, W. Henry Eliot, Weekly Telegraph, Wolfe's Genuine Schiedam Schnapps
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Big Bill Best Bitters
BIG BILL BEST BITTERS STOMACH-MAGEN Alcohol 21% Guaranteed by Liebenthal Bros. & Co. under The Food and Drugs Act, June 30th 1906 As a companion post to the Royal Flush Bitters article (Read: The Ultimate Hand – Royal Flush Bitters), I … Continue reading
Patent Medicine Proprietary Revenue Stamps
Proprietary Stamps The first revenue stamps in United States were produced to collect taxes on liquor in 18th-century America and were known as Supervisors’ Seals. These revenue stamps were embossed and known as the First Federal Issue. Later, new tax laws were … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Ales & Ciders, Bitters, Civil War, Cordial, Ephemera, History, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Perfume, Tax Stamps, Tobacco
Tagged B.F.M. Toiuletine, Bennett Pieters & Co, Benton's Pine Tree Tar Troches, Brown's Vegetable Oriental Hair Renewer, cigar, Civil War, Corning & Tappan, Dalley's Galvanic Horse Salve, Dr. Crook's Wine of Tar, Dr. Harter Medicine Company, Dr. M. Lanes Celebrated Liver Pills, Dr. M.L. Byrn's Olio de Flora, Dr. Weaver's Compound Extract of Fireweed, Duponco's Golden Periodical Pills, Edward Wilder Stomach Bitters, Eric Jackson Revenues, Fleming Brothers, Internal Revenue Service, J.C. Ayer & Co., J.W. Campion's Pine Tree Tar Cordial, Jeremiah Curtis & Son Proprietors, L.M. Green, L.Q.C. Wishart, Lactopeptine, Ladd & Coffin, Lundborg's Perfumery, Matches, Medicines, Meyer & Co., Mrs. S.A. Allen's Hair Restorer, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, Poland's Magic Powders, Proprietary Stamp, R.V. Pierce, Red Jacket Stomach Bitters, S.D. Howe Proprietor, Schenk's Mandrake Pills, Schenks Pulmonic Syrup, Schenks Seaweed Tonic, Supervisors’ Seals, tax, tobacco, United States, Vogeler, Walker & Taylor, young
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1865 San Francisco Directory – All Quiet before the Quake
SAN FRANCISCO – 1865 Interesting to look at the innocence of an 1865 San Francisco business directory right before the first great earth quake. With all of the great advertisements, the city must have been prospering and booming. I wonder … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Ales & Ciders, Bitters, Breweriana, Glass Companies & Works, History, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Mineral Water, Museums, Spirits, Whiskey, Wine & Champagne
Tagged 1865, bitters, California Wine Bitters, Cassin's Grape Brandy Bitters, directory, Distillery, Dow's, Earthquake, Francis Cassin, Glass, Hoelscher & Wieland, J.H. Cutter's O.K. No. 1 Bourbon Whisky, Lacour's Bitters, Louis Lacour, M. Keller, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Gray, Pacific Congress Water, Pacific Glass Works, Pacific Museum, Quartz, Rosenbaums, Sainsevain's, Sam Clemens, San Francisco, Sonoma Red and White Wines, Steamer Day, Telegraph Hill, Thomas E. Finley, Vincent Squarza
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Woods’ Baltimore City Directory – 1864
I get asked all the time from collectors, especially in my collecting area of Bitters; “so what is happening?”, “heard about any new bottles?, “anything in the upcoming auction interest you?” or “are you going to the so and so … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Advice, Ales & Ciders, Bitters, Blown Glass, Bottling Works, Breweriana, Civil War, Collectors & Collections, Demijohns, Early American Glass, Flasks, Fruit Jars, Glass Companies & Works, Glass Makers, History, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Mineral Water, Peachridge Glass, Publications, Soda Water, Spirits, Tobacco, Tonics
Tagged A. Hoen & Co., B. G. Tubman & Co., Baker Bros. & Co., Baltimore, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Baltimore Glass Works, bitters, Boggs, Boyd, Chris Rowell, city, Civil War, Cottman, directory, ferdinand meyer, German, John Boyd, John W. Woods, Tonic, University of Maryland, Woods
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Log Cabin Series – Perrine’s Apple Ginger – Philadelphia
P E R R I N E ‘S A P P L E G I N G E R Here is an interesting figural log cabin and ‘Fancy Square’ called Perrine’s Apple Ginger from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The bottle … Continue reading
Posted in Ales & Ciders, Figural Bottles, History, Liquor Merchant, Spirits, Whiskey
Tagged Apple, cabin, Figural, Front, Ginger, J.S. Perrine & Son, Log, Nuline, Perrine, Perrine's, Philadelphia, seriers, Terry Kovel, water
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Vintage Indian Queen, Princess & Maiden Advertising
Well I took a left turn today as I finished up the Indian Queen Series. I have to say, I was a bit disappointed that I could not find any advertising for the Browns, Mohawk, Pharazyn, Longs or Kansas City … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Ales & Ciders, Art & Architecture, Bitters, Breweriana, eBay, Ephemera, Figural Bottles, History, Root Beer, Trade Cards
Tagged advertising, Indian, Maiden, princess, Queen
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