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Category Archives: Soda Water
Jacob Youngblood and the Bernhard Soda Water Apparatus
Hello Sir, my name is Daniel and I have been collecting bottles for a few years now. I have recently acquired a very nice blob top bottle that is greenish and says YOUNG.BLOOD (see above) in big lettering around the … Continue reading
Posted in Bottling Works, History, Mineral Water, Questions, Soda Water, Technology
Tagged Apparatus, Daniel Zern, Jacob Youngblood, Joseph Bernhard, Jungblut, Mineral Water, New Jersey, Philadelphia, pony, Red Bank, Soda, Tod von Mechow
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Danny Catherino and his Great Bottle Hoard
I received some interesting communications and pictures recently from Danny Catherino up in Philadelphia. I am going to leave the e-mails and pictures alone for the most part. I find these images and Danny really interesting. Obviously not the best … Continue reading
Posted in Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Digging and Finding, Figural Bottles, Medicines & Cures, Soda Water
Tagged Danny Catherino, Drakes, Glass Works, Harmer Rooke, Jeff Wichmann, Jim Hagenbuch, Leighton's, Norman Heckler, Osbourns, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Bottle Club
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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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The One Worth Coming Back To
The One Worth Coming Back To TOM LEVEILLE Everyone who digs bottles at some point or another will have a situation that they are faced with, for one reason or another… “Stop”. The phrase worse than “NO” when asking permission. … Continue reading
Could we have a 2016 Mega Expo and a 2020 International Antique Glass Festival?
Hi Ferdinand, I went to the Springfield Insulator show last weekend and was approached by three different high end insulator people about exploring the possibility of the Federation and NIA getting together in the future to collaborate on a national … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Bottle Shows, Breweriana, Club News, Early American Glass, FOHBC News, Fruit Jars, Insulators, News, Perfume, Poison Bottles, Questions, Soda Water
Tagged APBCA, Event, Expo, festival, fohbc, international, Jamie Houdeshell, NAMBC, national, NIA, Quilt, show, VBCA
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An eBay bottle leads to something much bigger!
I was in southern California earlier in the week and was able to have dinner at a really fantastic Indian restaurant in San Bernardino with my friends Pam and Randy Selenak from Orange, California. During the course of dinner, Pam … Continue reading
Posted in Collectors & Collections, Digging and Finding, eBay, Ephemera, FOHBC News, History, Museums, News, Postage, Soda Water
Tagged california, eBay, G.W. Mine, Garden Grove, Gold Point, Great Western Mine, museum, Ora Mae Wiley, Orange, Orange Antique Circle, Owen Casey Eagle Soda Works, Pam Selenak, Post Office, postal, Randy Selenak, Senator Harry Wiley
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W.H. Hutchinson Display – Reno Expo
D I S P L A Y S E R I E S W.H. Hutchinson - Zang Wood Read More: Three HutchBook Milestones Here is the next in the series of expanded coverage of the wonderful displays at the 2012 FOHBC Reno … Continue reading
A lot of Collectors find Dyottville fascinating
Hi again Ferdinand, A lot of collectors find Dyottville fascinating; Here are three Dyottville cylinders including the “Class of 1846″ example on the left (Fig:1). That one and the center are both two-part mold, iron pontiled 1840′s to 1850′s, and could possibly … Continue reading
Posted in Collectors & Collections, Early American Glass, Flasks, Glass Companies & Works, Glass Makers, Historical Flasks, History, Soda Bottles, Soda Water, Spirits
Tagged 1846, Calabash, cylinder, Daniel Sheets, Dyottville, Eric Richter, furnaces, gaffer, Glass, green, GXV-22, Hugh Duffy, Leer, Lehr, McKearin, Patent, Rickett, Sheets and Duffy, Thomas W. Dyott, Whiskey
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“Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!”
PARIS HORTON KEACH – BALTIMORE It is very gratifying and exciting when I start down a path and doors start opening. Yesterday I saw a gorgeous picture of Keach soda water bottles from Baltimore in a color run on facebook … Continue reading
Posted in Auction News, Civil War, Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Digging and Finding, Figural Bottles, History, Postage, Questions, Soda Water
Tagged Admiral Farragut, Baltimore, Bottle Den, Chris Rowell, Paris Horton Keach, Soda Water, Ten-pin, Torpedo, What great ingrediants!., Wil Martindale
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Nevada Bottle Pics to help prime the Reno Expo!
Hi Ferdinand, Here’s a few pictures of 6 Nevada sodas (and a couple extra of a crude & bubbly green WS Wright). Maybe some other collectors can send in some of their favorite Nevada bottle pics to help prime the … Continue reading