Daily Archives: 3 April 2011

Two New Lacour’s Bitters added to the Meyer Collection

My Lacour’s Color Run has Wings! Two (2) incredibly gorgeous Lacour’s Sarsapariphere Bitters joined my lone oldest amber variant Lacour’s. Both specimens came from the Robert Frank collection from Lompoc, California. The Variant 2 Yellow Green killer is heavy and … Continue reading

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Ferd gets a new Trophy!

Elizabeth created this photograph in Photoshop as a joke for Jeff Wichmann, owner of American Bottle Auctions, who posted a similar altered image of me holding my new Bryant’s Bitters cone. We jokingly spoofed the FOHBC and stated we wanted … Continue reading

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Nice Dr. Halls California Pepsin Bitters Snagged on eBay

A super rare H 11 – Dr. Thos Halls California Pepsin Wine Bitters showed up on eBay the other night. I already had a perfect example from the Grapentine Collection (see pictured). I went after this new one because it had a crude … Continue reading

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A couple of great Old Homesteads show up in Baltimore

Showing up at the Baltimore Antique Bottle Show in March 2011 were two classic bitters that were moving from the Jim Hagenbuch collection to Sandor Fuss, a rather new and advanced collector from Denver, Colorado. Sandor kept the emerald green Old Homestead and … Continue reading

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What’s in the Fridge?

Sometimes after a bottle show you just have to pull out your goodies and look at them. In this case we were in Jerry and Helen Forbes hotel room at the Marriott in Towson, Maryland after the Baltimore Antique Bottle … Continue reading

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Bunker Hill Pickle Lighthouse Color Run

Bunker Hill Pickle Lighthouse Color Run 03 April 2011 (R•070514) One of our favorite figural bottles in our collection. In the form of a lighthouse (Cape May Lighthouse), these great Pickle Bottles are embossed with the famous Bunker Hill Monument, two … Continue reading

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Baltimore Bottle Show March 2011

Baltimore Bottle Show March 2011 03 April 2011 The Baltimore Antique Bottle Club hosts the grandaddy and biggest of shows the first week of March each year. Wow. Elizabeth and I usually arrive on Thursday night, visit with business clients, … Continue reading

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