Really great to see again that Bitters squares are getting top recognition. I just fell over when I saw this GREAT picture of a Dr. Hauseman’s German Bitters. Killer.
Millers Extra over at Western Bitters News writes…
Here is a western square which is a bit of a mystery to me. The Dr. Hauseman’s German Bitters was blown in a re-worked “small” Rosenbaum’s Bitters mold and the slugged out areas are easily visible. The small Rosenbaum’s are late 1860’s, and most reference material considers this a late 1870’s or 1880’s bottle. It just seems hard to imagine that the old Rosenbaum’s molds were just laying around for 10 years, and the effort to re tool the mold was necessary to create the Hauseman’s. It would seem that this bitters could be earlier than originally thought…possibly 1870-72. Has anyone found any advertising for this bottle? They are pretty rare, with maybe 3 squares known, and possibly one or two of the flask version. Overall this has to be one of the rarest of all western bitters, and a great piece of San Francisco history.
