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Category Archives: Civil War
Mexican Bitters – Henry C. Weaver – Lancaster, O
MEXICAN BITTERS – HENRY C. WEAVER LANCASTER, OHIO “Just think he probably visited Henry Weavers bar and possible drank his bitters?” Ferd, how about you doing a small article with pictures on Peachridge about the bitters from my home town, … Continue reading
Posted in Bitters, Civil War, History, Questions
Tagged bitters, Cardington, Gary Beatty, Henry C. Lancaster, lancaster, Mexican Bitters, ohio, Ted Christ, William Tecumseh Sherman
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Who is I & L. M. Hellman of St. Louis, Missouri?
Hi Ferd, I was wondering if you have seen this square before? I am not seeing any others online although I do seem to remember seeing one before. This showed up for ‘show and tell’ at our first meeting of … Continue reading
Historical Canteens – Canteen Figural Bottles
HISTORICAL CANTEENS Jim Hagenbuch has one of the finest H. A. GRAEF’S SON N.Y. CANTEEN bottles I have ever seen at his Glass Works Auction #96 “Cabin Fever” auction that closes this coming Monday night (see image below). A similar … Continue reading
Posted in Auction News, Civil War, Figural Bottles, Flasks, Folk Art, History, Museums, Pottery, Stoneware, Water
Tagged A. S. Campbell Co. Boston, Acoma, Bulgari, Canteen, Chinese Ming Dynasty, Civil War, Cowan's, Eugene Smith, Glass Works Auctions, H.A. Graef, Holmegaard Glasværk, Hopi, Isaac Whitehead, Jim Hagenbuch, Kentucky, Korean War, Louisville, New York, Norman C. Heckler, Revolutionary War
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B. E. Mann before he became a Professor Overnight
Extremely rare B. E. Mann’s Oriental Stomach Bitters bottle “I dug a very rare bottle this weekend in Vicksburg, MS in a Confederate artillery camp that was also occupied by union soldiers post siege.” The listing header on ebay from … Continue reading
Posted in Bitters, Civil War, Digging and Finding, eBay
Tagged Benning, Benning E. Mann, bitters, chicago, Connecticut, eBay, Fort Steele, Mann, Mississippi, Oriental, Professor, Vicksburg, Wyoming
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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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Louise Hawkins – The “Sylph”
T h e S Y L P H A Sylph (also called sylphid) is a mythological creature in the Western tradition. The term originates in Paracelsus, who describes sylphs as invisible beings of the air, his elementals of air. … Continue reading
Posted in Article Publications, Bitters, Civil War, Figural Bottles, History, Liquor Merchant, Spirits, Whiskey
Tagged Distillery, General John McDonald, General Orville E. Babcock, Great Whiskey Ring, James B. Kelly, John H. Garnhart, Kelly's Old Cabin Bitters, Louise Hawkins, Old Cabin Bitters, St. Louis, Sylph, Ulysses S. Grant., Washington D.C., Whiskey
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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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