Tag Archives: Brad Seigler

Looking back at the Tony Shank Bitters Collection – Part II

This is the second post of old 35 mm slides that were digitally converted by Tom Lines (Birmingham, Alabama). Sometime in the past Tom and Howard Crowe (Gold Hill, North Carolina) visited the famous Tony Shank collection of figural bitters. … Continue reading

Posted in Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Figural Bottles, History, Photography | Tagged , , , , , | 3 Comments

Cool Embossings 2

This is the second post in the series titled “Cool Embossings”. See Cool Bottle Embossings 1. As a designer, I just love seeing these images on bottles. So cool. This is a living and breathing post, meaning I would like to collect and … Continue reading

Posted in Spirits, Water, Whiskey | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Could this be a Texaco Gasoline Bottle?

Incoming question about a bottle. Thank you for the kind reply. Here are some pics of the Water Jug. Thick green, lots of bubbles, mold marks and striations and a nice deep Olive Green. It’s approx 18 and a half … Continue reading

Posted in History, Questions, Technology, Utility Bottles | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The little blue U.S.A. Hospital Bottle

I thank Brad….he is happy and I am happy. Can’t beat that! Brad Seigler visited with us at Peach Ridge recently, after the Houston Antique Bottle Show, (Read: 2012 Houston Antique Bottle Show – Rain or Shine!) and looked at my Bitters … Continue reading

Posted in Advice, Civil War, Collectors & Collections, Digging and Finding, Medicines & Cures, Peachridge Glass, Utility Bottles | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Barrel Series – I. Nelson’s Old Bourbon

I. NELSON’S OLD BOURBON | MAYSVILLE, KY In my determination to leave “no stone uncovered” in the Figural Barrel Series (see far below), I now write on the I. NELSON’S OLD BOURBON figural barrel. This bottle came out of left … Continue reading

Posted in Bottle Shows, Digging and Finding, eBay, Figural Bottles, Museums, Spirits, Whiskey | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Those miniature Globs and Pocket Flasks

We had a visitor (Brad Seigler) to see our collection at Peach Ridge this past weekend after the Houston Antique Bottle Show. In one of our bottle rooms, with the power figurals, Brad asked Elizabeth, my wife, about her favorite … Continue reading

Posted in Collectors & Collections, Early American Glass, Flasks, Freeblown Glass, Glass Companies & Works | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

2012 Houston Antique Bottle Show – Rain or Shine!

Well I missed the Friday ‘early bird’ set-up because my flight from the East Coast was 8 hours late and our airports were shut down for a good while backing all air traffic up. Seems like Houston had 10+ inches … Continue reading

Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Bottle Shows, Bottles and Extras, Civil War, Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Druggist & Drugstore, Ephemera, Figural Bottles, FOHBC News, Medicines & Cures, Painted Label, Soda Bottles | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Cool Bottle Embossings

The recent post for RADAM’S MICROBE KILLER (read: From Texas – Wm. Radam’s Microbe Killer) with the uniquely embossed patient beating off death and a skeleton, I started to think about other bottles and jars that had cool embossing. In this gathering … Continue reading

Posted in Ales & Ciders, Bitters, Breweriana, Cologne, Fruit Jars, Gin, Medicines & Cures, Mineral Water, Spirits, Whiskey | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

F. Stresau – A Texas Bitters (Courtney, Texas)

Correspondence in from Texas Medicine collector Brad Seigler from Justin, Texas: F. STRESAU – COURTNEY, TEXAS Here is the only Texas bitters I own. It is not embossed as such, but it has been proven to have contained a bitters. … Continue reading

Posted in Bitters, Collectors & Collections, History | Tagged , , , , , , , | 2 Comments