Chicago Bottle Dig – Jigsaw Puzzle

Posted on 13 October 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Chicago Bottle Dig – Jigsaw Puzzle

13 October 2013

I received this interesting e-mail and pictures from Barry Rustin thru Alan DeMaison (FOHBC Business Manager) regarding a Chicago bottle dig. I contacted Barry with a few questions, and congratulated him on the dig and his fantastic pictures. Barry said his first quantity of puzzles have already been sold. He said he will produce a few more and send a photograph of the puzzle in a box that I requested. What a great idea and Christmas gift!

All Images: Barry Rustin Photography

Dear Alan:

Attached per our recent conversation are a few of the bottle shots recently taken after my dig from a Chicago area dump site. This garbage dump from the early 1900s had been built upon in approximately the late 1940s. The industrial building on that property recently was demolished.

The bottles came to my attention when a truck dumping fill dirt from that site was filling a hole across from my neighborhood Starbucks. After much coaxing, the truck driver finally divulged the location of the site.

In addition to bottles, a number of ceramic and metal objects of interest were also found. I have produced a jigsaw puzzle of FILE #1464 (first image below) and would like to offer them to your subscribers as an unusual gift idea. I think it makes for a challenging puzzle.

Let me know if you have any interest in either these photos or the story itself as a potential feature. Thank you for your time and interest.

Best wishes, Barry

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Frederick Stanger and John Marshall 1831-1832

Posted on 12 October 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Frederick Stanger and John Marshall 1831-1832

Part 1 by Stephen Atkinson

12 October 2013

Part 2: Thomas Wriggins Stanger and John Marshall 1832-1839

Part 3: The Isabella Glass works of Thomas Stanger 1841 to 1856

In 1831, John Marshall purchased land in what is now the border of Williamstown in Gloucester County and Winslow Township in Camden County, New Jersey. His daughter Elizabeth, had married Frederick Stanger’s son Phillip, who was one of the brothers that worked at Johannes Stengers (Stangers) glass works in Glassboro between 1780 and 1783.

The name of the small village where the factory was to be built was called Seven Causeways. This later was known as Brooklyn and later on as Old Brooklyn. Marshall had constructed a saw mill over the Four Mile Branch creek. He also erected a grist mill nearby and supplied it with power by damming up the Great Egg Harbor River. The two mills collectively became known as Marshall’s Mills. The grist mill failed due to a severe drought in the early 1830s. The saw mill was prosperous as heavy thick pines abound in the area.

1857 Map of the village of New Brooklyn – You can see on the map above, from the year 1857, two glass works in the small village. The one in the red vein on the map is the original 1831 Thomas Stanger and John Marshall Glass works. The glass works to the left of the bold name NEW BROOKLYN are the Isabella glass works of Thomas Stanger. The glass fragments and shards shown in this article are from the first 1831 works.

1861 map of the village of New Brooklyn – On this map from the year 1861, the northern original glass works are no longer shown and the other glass works are now called the Isabella Glass works of Thomas Stanger. Notice all of the property the Marshall and Stanger families owned. Glass factory’s were a two edged sword. They could make you rich in a instant and take it all away just as quickly.

The name Brooklyn is an anglicized name of the Dutch name Breuckelen, which was a small village in Holland, and it means a broken upland or marshy land. This description fits well with this area around New Brooklyn. About the year 1829, Marshall’s son-in-law, Frederick Stanger, began constructing a glass works between the saw mill and grist mill. He built the factory very similar to the one in Glassboro where he had worked as a 15 year old for Colonel’s Heston and Carpenter.

John Marshall was the majority owner of this partnership and Frederick Stanger was the practical glass maker who was to oversee the daily operations of the factory. Fredrick hired his second cousin Thomas Wriggins Stanger to help in the factory. Frederick’s father, Phillip and Thomas’s Grandfather Christian, were very important glass factory workers, and owner-operators from the late 1700s through the early 1800s. The first furnace was completed and ready for blast in September of 1831. The early output of this factory was window glass and utilitarian hollow ware. While on a trip to Philadelphia by stage coach, Frederick became trapped in the wilderness during a blizzard. He contracted pneumonia and soon died at the young age of 45.

The story of Frederick Stanger’s early life is a tragic one. He met his first wife Ann Marshall in Port Elizabeth while founding a glass works in 1809 with his Uncle Jacob, which his father Phillip called the Union Glass Works. It was while he resided in Cumberland County in Southern New Jersey, that he met his first wife, Ann Marshall, daughter of Randall Marshall, who bought a 1/4 interest in the Union Glass Works on June 6th, 1811.

Tragedy struck in 1815, when young Ann Marshall died giving birth to her daughter Ann. For Frederick and Randall, this was a serious blow to their well being. It was tough enough to run a glass factory early in the 19th century without having such a unfortunate an untimely death of a young wife and a daughter. It was this one event that triggered Frederick’s next move, but first he would gain another Marshall, as a father-in-law, as he would marry Elizabeth Marshall, daughter of John Marshall, Randalls brother. This marriage has made it difficult, to say the least, for genealogical historians tracing the Stanger and Marshall family roots.

Shown below are fragments of hollow ware and window glass found at the factory site in 2011 near the Atlantic City expressway. The colors found were light to dark aqua, blue aqua to a pale green to a deep blue green to a dark green and amber. Judging from the glass fragments I found, these glass works produced porter bottles, medicine vials, chestnut flasks and Demi-Johns. No charted historical flasks were thought to have been made at this factory as far as we know but they may have as workers, molds and factory ownerships changed hands quite often.

Axel Lindskog attended the Wright & Taylor Old Charter Distillery Event

Posted on 11 October 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Axel Lindskog attended the Wright & Taylor Old Charter Distillery Event

DR. LINWOOD CABINET BITTERS

11 October 2013

I recently added this unlisted color, extremely rare Dr. Linwood’s Cabinet Bitters to my collection from a listing on ebay. According to the seller, the bottle was dug in Chicago in the late 1970s – early 1980s, by Chicago father and son bottle diggers with two examples in two different colors being dug. At first, I was running into blank walls trying to search for information. I wanted to find out who was Dr. Linwood and who was A. Lindskog? Now that is a strong Swedish name.

First of all, the Carlyn Ring and W.C. Ham listing in Bitters Bottles is as follows:

L 94.5 DR. LINWOOD’S CABINET BITTERS

DR. LINWOOD’S / CABINET BITTERS / A. LINDSKOG / SOLE AGT. / FOR U. S. A. // f // f // f //
8 ¾ x 4 ¼ x 2 ½ (6) ¾
Rectangular, Amber and Aqua, LTC and LTCR, Applied mouth, Extremely rare
Examples dug in Chicago

My first sound hit occurred after I searched for an ‘A. Lindskog’ in Chicago. I knew this was a later bottle so anything centered around 1900 might work. It looks like a ‘Axle Lindskog attended this grand event for Wright & Taylor Distillery.

Wright & Taylor letterhead – PrePro.com

What is so cool about the event is the Pennsylvania Railroad “Old Charter Special” locomotive and passenger cars that were used to transport the liquor dealers from Chicago to Louisville, Kentucky and back. Man I wish I could of been on that train and at that event! You can see the train in the background of the group pose below. The story was reported in The Wine and Spirit Bulletin on June 1, 1916.

A BIG PARTY OF VISITORS TO OLD CHARTER DISTILLERY

June 1, 1916

Kentucky and Kentuckians are noted for their hospitality, and Kentucky distillers have always ranked in the forefront of hosts. A party of 100 liquor dealers from Chicago, Ill., and some nearby towns, who, on May 22nd and 23rd were the guests of Wright & Taylor, of Louisville, are now ready to proclaim the distilling company, its officers and representatives, as the pre-eminent hosts of Kentucky.

Look at this fantastic itinerary of events starting with “The Old Charter Special” leaving Chicago with the liquor dealers and arriving in Louisville.

Wright & Taylor Distiller bottle – ebay

Dated Material

According to PrePro.com, WRIGHT & TAYLOR was in business in Louisville, Kentucky from 1886 – 1919.

1835 – Axel E. Lindskog, born, Sweden, (wife Alma C.) occupation Saloon (1900 Federal Census)

1890 – Lindskog & Benson (Emil Lindskog and Albert Benson) grocers 448, 31st, Chicago City Directory

1895 – 1906 – Axel E. Lindskog, Saloon, 456 31st Street, Chicago City Directory

Just a neat Chicago saloon picture in the same time period. Steinmetz Saloon, South Loop, Chicago – 1898

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The Betterton Bitters brands – Knoxville, Tennessee

Posted on 10 October 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

The Betterton Bitters brands

Knoxville, Tennessee

View of Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, 1871 – drawn & published by A. Ruger.

10 October 2013 (R•110513) (R•032818)

While looking through the 1881 Internal Revenue Record and Customs Journal, I came across three unlisted bitters from Knoxville, Tennessee with the name Betterton attached. To this bitters collector, the excitement must compare to finding a new specials of fauna, bird, animal or bug deep in the Amazon jungle or an unlisted dinosaur to the archaeologist or a new planet to the astronomer. These bitters were listed in the IRS document as:

Betterton’s Evening Star Bitters (Knoxville, Tennessee)

Betterton’s Celebrated Corn Bitters (Knoxville, Tennessee)

Betterton’s Celebrated Apple Brandy Bitters (Knoxville, Tennessee)

Possible label only Eureka Bitters – McCLUNG & BETTERTON’S / KNOXVILLE, TENN. – Shultis Collection

EUREKA BITTERS ! advertisement, McClung & Betterton’s – 18 December 1870. Note Pepper Bros note on bottom.

My first stop in researching this brand led me to very informative web site Bristol, Tennessee – Virginia Collectible Bottles & History. Specifically, I found the following information about the Pepper family of Dr. Pepper fame.

PEPPER BROTHERS – Around 1858, a large family of Peppers relocated to Bristol (Tennessee) from Mt. Airy ( Rural Retreat), Virginia. This included James R. Pepper, William H. Pepper, Charles T. Pepper, Jessee H. Pepper, and John Givens Pepper. Charles and John Pepper purchased the business of Thomas & Campbell and operated as the Pepper Brothers Drug Store, located “at the sign of the Red Mortar“. The Pepper Brothers first advertising appears in October of 1866 and continued well into 1872.

In 1873, John Givens Pepper was located on Main Street and advertised as a “sole proprietor.” In 1873, Charles T. Pepper and William H. Pepper entered into a partnership with Dr. Jere Bunting. In 1875, John Pepper was having a new home constructed and while inspecting the second floor, fell and was fatally injured. In 1879, the Pepper & Bunting partnership was dissolved.

Charles T. Pepper was born in 1830. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1855. In November 1865, he became a member of the Bristol Masonic Fraternity. From 1870 to 1876, Pepper was a Bristol-Goodson City Councilman. In 1875, he is on the Board of the Bristol Academy of Medicine and is the Deacon of Central Presbyterian Church. In 1879, he is the Treasurer of the Bristol Academy of Medicine.

A May 1879 advertisement notes that Dr. Charles T. Pepper and Mrs. Pepper will erect another brick store. However, something occurred to change this plan, for in August of 1879, Charles and his family move back to Rural Retreat. There he opens a pharmacy soda fountain business (It is from here that the “legend” about the Dr. Pepper soft drink begins).

An 1892 advertisement notes Drs. Rhea & Pepper, Dentists.

In 1870, Pepper Brothers prepared and sold “Pepper’s Celebrated & Aperient Tonic Bitters.” They also sold McClung & Betterton’s Eureka Bitters, manufactured in Knoxville, Tennessee, Rosenheim’s Bitters, Plantation Bitters, and Stoughton’s Bitters.

An April 1871 advertisement for Pepper’s Aperient & Tonic Bitters, claimed it was for dyspepsia, diseases of the liver, stomach, headache, constipational, and all diseases arising from a torpid condition of the digestive organs.

The new listing for the forthcoming Bitters Bottles Supplement 2:

Newspaper Advertisement
P 43.1 PEPPER’S CELEBRATED APERIENT AND TONIC BITTERS, Pepper Bros. (ref. Dr. Pepper), Druggists and Apothecaries
Bristol News (Bristol, Tennessee), December 2, 1870

Pepper’s Celebrated & Aperient Tonic Bitters advertisement, Pepper Bros., Druggists and Apothecaries – Bristol News (Bristol, Tennessee), December 2, 1870

This information above confirmed and gave me the name of McClung and Betterton. A search online reveals the following advertisement for M’Clung & Betterton noting the Celebrated Evening Star Bitters and Eureka Bitters.

The new listing for the forthcoming Bitters Bottles Supplement 2:

Newspaper Advertisements
E 54.7 EUREKA BITTERS, McClung & Betterton, Sole Proprietor, Gay St., Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville Daily Chronicle, December 15, 1870, 1871

M’Clung & Bettertons advertisement noting Celebrated Evening Star Bitters and Eureka Bitters – Knoxville (Tennessee) Daily Chronicle – 1871

Searching further online we can establish the following information related to the Betterton name in this region:

Betterton (John N. Betterton) & Company listing – Norwood’s Knoxville Directory – 1884

John Nathan Betterton

1843 – J. N. Betterton born August 22, 1843 in Campbell County, Bedford, Virginia, Knox County Genealogy & History

1850 – J. N. Betterton, residence Campbell, Virginia, Federal Census

1855 – C. (Charles) M. McClung born May 12, 1855 in St. Louis, Missouri, Knox County Genealogy & History

1870 – John N. Betterton married Zephana Whitlow

1871 – M’Clung (also McClung) & Bettertons advertisement noting Celebrated Evening Star Bitters and Eureka Bitters – Knoxville (Tennessee) Daily Chronicle

1873 – J. W. Betterton & Bro, Wholesale Liquors, Tennessee State Directory

1876 – Betterton & Rollings (John N. Betterton and George W. Rollings) wholesale liquors, 207 Gay, Knoxville City Directory

1884 – John N. Betterton (Betterton & Co) Norwood’s Knoxville Directory

1884 – Betterton & Co (J N Betterton and Joseph H Whitlow) wholesale liquor dealers 220 Gay – Norwood’s Knoxville Directory (thru 1895 or so) (1895 located 214-216 Lucky)

1890 – T. F. Betterton, Annex Saloon, Cumberland St. (Bristol, Tennessee)

PRG: Online question I found – There was a T. F. Betterton in Bristol as a saloonist and an E. R Betterton in Chattanooga (see above flask picture) as a distiller. Which one was the Knoxville Betterton? Neither, It is John N. Betterton from Knoxville.

While researching this article, the following bitters have either been mentioned above or crossed my plate:

Apple Brandy Bitters (A 79.7) L … Pure Apple Brandy Bitters, Sanford, Chamberlane & Albers, Goodson, Virginia

Betterton’s Evening Star Bitters (Unlisted)

Betterton’s Celebrated Corn Bitters (Unlisted)

Betterton’s Celebrated Apple Brandy Bitters (Unlisted)

Grape Bitters

Home Bitters (New find)

McClung & Betterton’s Eureka Bitters (Unlisted)

Pepper Brothers (or Pepper’s) Celebrated Aperient & Tonic Bitters

Thomas & Campbell’s Stoughton Bitters

Geo. R. Anderson’s Scrofula Bitters

Bunting’s Tonic & Alterative Bitters or Bunting’s Tonic Bitters

Home Bitters – Betterton Bros. – Kingston, Tenn.

28 March 2018

Example of a Betterton Brothers Home Bitters from Kingston, Tennessee. “Came out of a basement here in Roanoke. Guy had know idea where he got it.” – Travis Layman

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Bitters Stamped – 1881 Internal Revenue Record and Customs Journal

Posted on 9 October 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Bitters Stamped – 1881 Internal Revenue Record and Customs Journal

Published by P.V. Van Wyck & Company, 1881

09 October 2013 (R•042019)

Here is an interesting Internal Revenue document dated, April 19, 1881 that shows a list of bitters brands needing to be classified as medicinal bitters that when properly stamped may be sold by persons who have not paid special tax as liquor dealers. I like to find lists like these and do a cross reference with the Ring and Ham Bitters Bottles, Bitters Bottles Supplement and the draft Bill Ham forwarded me that I am referring to called Bitters Bottles Supplement 2.

What is interesting about this supplemental IRS list is that it includes quite a few unlisted bitters. Each will have to be cross-referenced with the books to see if they are not listed elsewhere, possibly under another name. Pretty exciting.

Messrs, Editors: Please publish the following supplementary list, to the lists which you have hereto before published, giving the names of compounds which this Office has decided, may, for the purposes of taxation under the Internal revenue law, be classed as medicinal bitters, and when properly stamped may be sold by persons who have not paid special tax as liquor dealers. Yours respectively,

GREEN B. RAUM, COMMISSIONER

Detail of list above from The Internal Revenue Record – April 19, 1881

Listed (found in Bitters Bottles and Bitters Bottles Supplement)

Bonekamp Maag Bitters (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) (B 152)

Caldwell’s Herb Bitters (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) (C 9)

Celery Bitters (Halifax Court House, Virginia) (C 102)

Clayton and Russell’s Celebrated Stomach Bitters (New York City) (C 170 L)

Fritsch’s Prussian Stomach Bitters (St. Louis, Missouri) Probable (F 92) Fritsch’s Prussian Bitters or (F 93) Fritsch Stomach Bitters

Family Bitters (Lynchburgh, Virginia) Probably (F 1.5) Clark & Thompson Family Tonic Bitters

Garnett’s Compound Vegetable Bitters (Richmond, Virginia) (G.5)

Hartwiz Karotowicz Stomach Bitters (New York City) Probably (L 106)

Old Carolina Bitters (Charleston, South Carolina) (O 20)

Rosenheim’s Celebrated Stomach Bitters (Baltimore, Maryland) Probably related to (R 96)

Steketee’s Blood Purifying Bitters (Grand Rapids, Michigan) (S 187.5 & S 188)

Strasberg Herb Bitters (Fond du Lac, Wisconsin) Probably Strassburg Bitters, Grand Rapids

Sumpter Bitters (Charleston, South Carolina) (S 221)

Sunny South Bitters (East Saginaw, Michigan)

Swiss Imported Bitters (Alspen Magenbetter) (New York City)

Warners Safe Bitters (Rochester, New York) (W 34)

Zu Zu Bitters (Baltimore, Maryland) (Z 9)

Unlisted – 1881 Internal Revenue Record and Customs Journal

Anti-Malarial Bitters

Anti-Malarial Bitters (Rocky Hill, South Carolina). Most likely talking about J. A. Mayes & Co., Mayesville, South Carolina (Drugs, Medicines, Groceries and Provisions). See newspaper advertisement below. Anti-Malarial Specific Tonic Bitters, January 1, 1870 – The Sumter Watchman, Wednesday, April 27, 1870

The new listing within the forthcoming Bitters Bottles Supplement 2:

IRS Listing and Newspaper Advertisement
A 75.5 ANTI-MALARIAL SPECIFIC TONIC BITTERS, Rocky Hill, South Carolina
J. A. Mayes & Co., Mayesville, South Carolina (Drugs, Medicines, Groceries and Provisions).
1881 Internal Revenue Record and Customs Journal
Anti-Malarial Specific Tonic Bitters, Jan. 1, 1870 – The Sumter Watchman, Wednesday, April 27, 1870

There is an (A.75) Anti-Malarial Bitters listed for reference only from Petersburg, Virginia. See newspaper advertisement below. Anti-Malarial Bitters, D. T. Everts & Co., Sole Proprietors, Petersburg, Va. – The Progress Index, Monday, March 18, 1867. There is also an update in Bitters Bottles Supplement 2.

Read: Anti-Malarial Bitters, D. T. Everts & Company – Petersburg, Virginia

Angelica Bitters

Angelica Bitters (Paris, Texas) No support information. Can not add to Bitters Bottles Supplement 2.

There is however, a newspaper advertisement below for an (A.58) Angelica Bitters or Poor Mans Tonic listed from Circleville, Ohio. George H. Fickardt’s Angelica Bitters. Sold for 25 cents bottle. See Bitters Bottles.

Here is a newspaper advertisement below for an unlisted Compound Angelica Bitters, prepared by L. Brewer & Co., 55, 57, 59 and 61 North Commerce Street, Mobile, Alabama. – Greenville Advocate, October 21, 1875.

The new listing within the forthcoming Bitters Bottles Supplement 2:

Newspaper Advertisement
C 206.5 COMPOUND ANGELICA BITTERS, L. Brewer & Co., 55, 57, 59 and 61 North Commerce Street, Mobile, Alabama
Greenville Advocate, October 21, 1875

Baer’s Liver Bitters

Baer’s Liver Bitters (Charleston, South Carolina). Probably talking about Dr. H. Baer, 131 Meeting Street, Charleston, South Carolina. He sold bitters at his drug store such as Hostetter’s Bitters, Plantation Bitters, Hufeland’s German Bitters, Stoughton Bitters and Wine Bitters. At this time, I have not seen any bitters reference with Baer’s name on it, so we will not yet list in Bitters Bottles Supplement 2. Advertisement below from The Charleston Daily News, Monday, March 15, 1869.

Bolivian Indian Cocoaine Bitters

Bolivian Indian Cocoaine Bitters (Plattsburgh, New York). Could be referencing Bolivian Bitters sold by Herman Berg, Jr. from Carlisle, Pennsylvania. At this time, I have not seen any bitters reference with Bolivian Indian Cocoaine Bitters from Plattsburgh, New York, so we will not yet list in Bitters Bottles Supplement 2. Advertisement: Weekly Herald, Thursday, May 4, 1893

Betterton Bitters

Betterton’s Evening Star Bitters (Knoxville, Tennessee)

Betterton’s Celebrated Corn Bitters (Knoxville, Tennessee)

Betterton’s Celebrated Apple Brandy Bitters (Knoxville, Tennessee)

Read: The Betterton Bitters brands, Knoxville, Tennessee

Black Cohosh Bitters

Black Cohosh Bitters (Pana, Illinois). Could be referencing Black Cohosh Bitters that poisoned many people as referenced in this newspaper article in The Pantagraph (Bloomington, Illinois), Monday, July 17, 1871. I have not seen any specific bitters reference with Black Cohosh Bitters from Pana, Illinois, so we will not yet list in Bitters Bottles Supplement 2.

California Stomach Bitters

California Stomach Bitters (Terre Haute, Indiana). There are so many California Bitters. I can not find any California bitters from Terre Haute, so we will not yet list in Bitters Bottles Supplement 2.

Read: Riddle, Fuller & Co. selling Celebrated California Bitters?

Read: California Bitters / Manufactured only by / J. G. Frisch San Francisco

Read: Use Dr. Henley’s Celebrated California IXL Bitters

Chamomile Bitters

Chamomile Bitters (Harrisonburg, Virginia). I can not find a Chamomile Bitters from Harrisonburg, Virginia. There is a (T 75) Tyree’s Chamomile Bitters from Staunton, Virginia which is relatively close in proximity. We can not list yet in Bitters Bottles Supplement 2.

Chill’s Boneset Bitters

Chill’s Boneset Bitters (Ninety Six, South Carolina) What a strange name for both the bitters and the location. I can’t find any support information on this bitters so we’ll hold off listing it in Bitters Bottles Supplement 2.

As far as the word ‘Chill’ is concerned, there is a (C45) Chill-Chilli Bitters listed in Bitters Bottles. An advertisement is represented below from the Lancaster Daily Intelligencer on Wednesday, September 29, 1880. The bitters was manufactured by Samuel A. Groff who had an office and laboratory at No. 248 North Queen Street and a wareroom at 240 Market Street in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

While searching for Chill Bitters, I did come across this unlisted Reed’s Kansas Chill Bitters noted in this “A New Alphabet” newspaper advertisement taken from the Iowa Point Weekly Enquirer on Friday, July 30, 1858. J. W. Reed was a druggist in Iowa Point, Iowa who sold his bitters for a dollar a bottle.

The new listing for the forthcoming Bitters Bottles Supplement 2:

Newspaper Advertisement, “A New Alphabet”
R 28.5 REED’S KANSAS CHILL BITTERS, J. W. Reed was a druggist in Iowa Point, Iowa who sold his bitters for a dollar a bottle.
Iowa Point Weekly Enquirer, Friday, July 30, 1858

Creole Bitters

Creole Bitters (Selma, Alabama). No support information. Can not add to Bitters Bottles Supplement 2.

What is interesting here is that there is an aqua Creole Bitters referenced in Bitters Bottles. There is no proprietor or manufacturer embossed on the bottle and a labeled example has not surfaced. Jim Hagenbuch at Glass Works Auctions recently sold an extremely rare example that is pictured below with the lot description.

189. “CREOLE BITTERS” – (indented label panel on the reverse), (Ring/Ham, 246.5), American, ca. 1860 – 1870, aqua, oval form, 10 3/8”h, smooth base, applied double collar mouth. Some light inside stain and a few light scratches, otherwise perfect. Very rare, the last one sold was in 1995!

I wonder if it is related to this unlisted Creole Bitters I found in the newspaper clipping from the Staunton Spectator on Tuesday, January 23, 1866. The time period is correct. The ad reads, “Established 1861, The Celebrated ‘Virginia’ Creole Bitters, Sole Manufacturer, D. S Huffard, Iron Front Warehouse, Governor St., Richmond, Va.”

The new listing for the forthcoming Bitters Bottles Supplement 2:

Newspaper Advertisement
C 246.5 CREOLE BITTERS, Established 1861, The Celebrated ‘Virginia’ Creole Bitters, Sole Manufacturer, D. S. Huffard, Iron Front Warehouse, Governor St., Richmond, Va.
Staunton Spectator (Virginia), Tuesday, January 23, 1866

Dandelion Bitters

Dandelion Bitters (Terre Haute, Indiana) No support information. Can not add to Bitters Bottles Supplement 2. There are many other Dandelion Bitters, some that I have posted on before such as:

What about this Tilton’s Dandelion Bitters?

Dr. Trowbridge’s Dandelion Bitters – Stamford, Connecticut

Lucius W. Bissell and his Dandelion Bitters

Lyman’s Dandelion Bitters – Bangor, Maine

Bond’s Dandelion Bitters – Fort Wayne, Indiana

Dandelion Bitters – The Great Herb Blood Remedy

The Beggs’ and their Dandelion Bitters

Dr. J.R.B. McClintock’s Dandelion Bitters – Philadelphia

Dr Grant’s Dandelion Bitters, New York.

Smith’s Gentian, Dandelion and Yellow Dock Bitters

Dandelion & Wild Cherry Bitters – Iowa

Electric Bitters

Electric Bitters (Lancaster, Missouri) No support information. Can not add to Bitters Bottles Supplement 2. There is a well known Electric Bitters out of Chicago.

Read: H.E. Bucklen & Company of Chicago – Electric Bitters

Forest Bitters

Forest Bitters (St. Louis, Missouri) No support information. Can not add to Bitters Bottles Supplement 2.

The Turner Brothers from New York City, Buffalo and San Francisco had their popular Turner’s Forest Wine Bitters. There are also two new listings in Bitters Bottles Supplement 2 for Dr. Bourbon’s Aromatic Forest Bitters.

Halland’s Strengthening Bitters

Halland’s Strengthening Bitters (Ottumwa, Iowa). No support information. Can not add to Bitters Bottles Supplement 2.

We might be talking about Bengt Magnus Halland or a family member who left difficult circumstances in Sweden to come to America, to Illinois in 1855. He sought out the Burlington Railroad to become a promoter of new lands in the promising west. His decision to focus on southwest Iowa was the beginning of the largest and most prosperous Swedish settlement in the state.

Old Kentucky Bitters

Henry Clay’s Old Kentucky Bitters (Lexington, Kentucky) No support information for Henry Clay component. Can not add to Bitters Bottles Supplement 2. There is this clipping below from the Chicago Tribune in 1909 that says that Old Kentucky Bitters have 30.31 Percentage of alcohol.

Indian Valley Bitters (St. Louis, Missouri)

Jepson and Rathburn’s Tonic Bitters (Utica New York)

Keystone Bitters (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) *unlikely Mishler’s Keystone Bitters

Minnesota Tonic Bitters (Maukato, Minnesota)

O.K. Bitters (Rocky Hill, Kentucky)

Old North State Bitters (Hickory, North Carolina)

Otto’s German Bitters (Pana, Illinois)

Peruvian Bitters (Wheeling, West Virginia)

Plant Bitters (Terry, Mississippi)

Rector’s Stomach Bitters (Lincoln, Nebraska)

Smoke’s Tonic Bitters (Winchester, Virginia)

Staunton Bitters (Staunton, Virginia)

Stone’s Celebrated Stomach Bitters (Home, Tennessee)

White Ash Bitters (Little Rock, Arkansas)

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Indian Blood Bitters – Fond du Lac, Wisconsin

Posted on 8 October 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Indian Blood Bitters

Fond du Lac, Wisconsin

09 October 2013

Mark Nelson posted the really nice picture above of an Indian Blood Bitters over on the facebook Bottle Collectors page. I like the setting with the other labeled bitters and the flat quilted lightning rod ball. I have not seen this extremely rare brand put out by the Sterling Medicine Company from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin before and was curious to find out more. A quick search online finds another example and a shipping crate that was sold previously on ebay.

I have three bitters from Fond du Lac. I have the Indian Blood Bitters, Burkart’s Homestead and now the Dr. Warren’s Universal Tonic Bitters. They are all sweet bitters and hard to find. I don’t know how I have been so lucky. I guess all I can say is being at the right place at the right time.

antique-bottles.net

PRG: *I am also also aware of a Strasberg (Straussburg?) Herb Bitters that is noted on an Internal Revenue document from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.

The Carlyn Ring and W. C. Ham listing in Bitters Bottles is as follows:

I 14 INDIAN BLOOD BITTERS

INDIAN BLOOD BITTERS / STERLING MED. CO. / FOND DU LAC. WIS. // f // f // f //
9 x 2 ¾ (6 ¾) ¼
Square, Amber, LTC, Tooled lip, 1 sp, Extremely rare

Extract from a court case involving Sterling Medicine Company and various members of the Marshall family from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin – North Western Reporter – 1881

Searching online, I find the above court case records that tie the Marshall name to Sterling Medicine Company in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin in 1881. Apparently, Samuel Marshall, from 1857 to 1870, when he died, held a recipe for Old Dr. Marshall’s Celebrated Liniment which he sold without a patent. His son, M. W. Marshall assumed the medicine sales after his fathers death leading up to the court case with his siblings in 1881. I would suspect that the Indian Blood Bitters was made somewhere around 1890, possibly only for a year or so based on the extremely rare rating.

Marshall’s Artic Lung Syrup – MrBottles

In 1897, M. W. Marshall (patent medicines) at is listed at 14-16 Oak Street. Sterling Medicine Company was located at 728 Main Street in the same year. In 1907 – 1913 there is a M. W. Medicine Co. (M. W. Marshall and Frank P. Marshall) listed at 250 Oak.

Marshall’s Liniment Case Overview – The Commercial and Financial Chronicle – 1881

Indian Blood Bitters Sterling Med. Co Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin. This is a very nice example of a scarce bitters bottle from Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin that is embossed “Indian Blood Bitters Sterling Medicine Co. FOND DU LAC, WIS.” It has a tooled lip and lots of bubbles in the glass. No glassworks is given. – MrBottles

Sterling Medicine Company Shipping Crate

*NOTE: At first I thought this was the same Indian Blood Bitters, especially since the typography was in upper and lower case characters. Now I am thinking this crate might be for another, yet unlisted, Indian Blood Bitters from Portland, Ontario. It could be that T.K. Scovil (listed on crate wrapper) imported the Indian Blood Bitters from Fond du Lac and combined it with a number of other similar products in his ‘Family Medicine Chest’.

[ebay listing] Old family medicine chest, 8 3/8″ tall by 7 1/2″ long by 3 1/2″ wide. Held one bottle Indian Blood Bitters, 50 cents, one bottle Indian Cough Balsam, 50 cents, one bottle Indian Oil, 25 cents, one bottle Deckers Vegetable Pain Remedy, 25 cents, one bottle Deckers Horse and Cattle Liniment, 25 cents, two boxes Indian Pills, 50 cents and one box Deckers Carbolic Salve, 25 cents (that is what it states on one of the torn stained and loosely attached labels). The other labels decry the merits and uses for Indian Blood Bitters, Indian Cough Balsam and parts of three of the Deckers product labels.

Apparently Deckers Pain Remedy was good for bites from poisonous reptiles. Deckers Carbolic Salve was used in the war of 1854 according to the label. This wood crate has the original aged wood patina and shows its age but still a piece of the old west. On the top where there once existed a sliding top, there are small pieces missing at the very top which I have tried to show in the photos.

Indian Blood Bitters medicine crate – ebay

Indian Blood Bitters medicine crate – ebay

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Dr. Wynkoop’s Sarsaparilla – New York

Posted on 7 October 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

The large, 2 quart, blue Dr. Wynkoop’s Katharismic Honduras Sarsaparilla (right) next to a Bryant’s Stomach Bitters cone – Bill Ham Collection

DR. WYNKOOP’S SARSAPARILLA

New York

The four blue bottles and the far left, green bottle are all Dr. Wynkoop’s Sarsaparilla bottes – John Feldmann Collection

Dr. Wynkoop’s Katharismic Honduras Sarsaparilla

Wynkoop’s Tonic Mixture Warranted to Cure Fever and Ague

Wynkoop’s Iceland Pectoral

Lyon’s Kathairon

07 October 2013 (R•031619)

With the recent posts on the New York ‘big bottle’ sasparallia’s (Masury’s Compound Extract of Sarsaparilla and Wau-A-Hoo and Sands’ Sarsaparilla), I though it might be nice to follow up on a post for the well known, Wynkoop’s Sarsaparilla. So, who was this Wynkoop? Much has been written on the brand but alas, it seems a bit dated and unconnected. Maybe I can tie it together a bit.

What kind of pleasure could a writer set down to compose a panegyric while he was swallowing ‘Wynkoop’s Infallible Cure for the Fever and Ague’ having the hair removed from his chin by ‘Gouraud’s Incomparable Cream,’ while it was made to grow upon his head by the use of ‘Beal’s Never-failing Restorative,’ at the same moment drenching himself with ‘Sand’s Sarsaparilla,’ and submitting to the effect of ‘Comstock’s Certain Pain Extractor.’ Would any human being under such varied torments be disposed to speak well of any one thing while he was living martyr to the application of so many at the same time! No; flesh and blood could not stand it, and he would condemn the whole en masse, while he wished the inventors at the bottom of the sea.

The Knickerbocker (magazine) – 1847

Dr. Wynkoop’s Katharismic Honduras Sarsaparilla advertisement. The image in the center depicts “The Soldier’s Dream of Home,” a common image in the 19th century that pictorialized the poem “The Solider’s Dream” by the Scottish poet Thomas Campbell. – circa 1848

Wynkoop is a Dutch name. Some of the earliest American settlers, in as early as 1639, came from the Netherlands including Pieter Wynkoop (1638), Cornelies Evertsz Wynkoop, who settled in New Netherlands in 1651 and Carnelius Wynkoop, who landed in New York in 1658. During the 18th century, the Wynkoop settlers included Dirck Wynkoop, aged 47, arrived in New York in 1746 and Henry Wynkoop, who immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1777.

Wynkoop’s Katharismic Honduras Sarsaparilla advertisement – Syracuse, NY Daily Journal 1850

The Wynkoop of sarsaparilla fame was Robert Dunbar Wyncoop who was born on August 1, 1811 in Albany, New York. His father was James Wynkoop who was born in March 1769. He was the youngest son of Jacobus and Alida Myers Wynkoop. Due to wartime exigencies, his family moved from New York to Kingston and finally settled in Albany by the 1780s. Jacobus Wynkoop’s house was located near the waterfront in the third ward. In February 1791, James married North End neighbor Catalina (Catherine) Dunbar at the Albany Dutch church. By 1811, the marriage had produced five children.

In November 1794, the Albany Gazette noted that James Wynkoop was a grocer located at 21 Market Street. Two years later, he was identified as a fireman. In 1799, his personal property was valued under a third ward household. Beginning in 1800, he was identified on the census as the head of a household located where his father had been a decade earlier. By 1813, he had moved to the first ward where city directories identified him as a merchant living on South Market Street. James Wynkoop was dead in 1821, when his widow was identified as the householder on South Market Street. Wynkoop’s will passed probate in Albany County in February 1821. His widow survived until 1838.

Robert Dunbar Wynkoop the last of five children (James, John Henruy, Sarah, William & Robet Dunbar). Wynkoop was married to Almira Augusta Rollins (born February 24, 1816, died January 5, 1870, daughter of George and Catharine (Dolan), on 30 December 1840 in New York City. Three of their six children died early. Catherine Rollins Wynkoop, daughter (born 07 June 1845; died 11 March 1850), age 4 yrs., 9 months, died of scarlet fever. Their son, Augustus B. Wynkoop (born 12 March 1850), also died of scarlet fever at 2 years, 7 months old. Florence Parker Wynkoop lived to be six years old and died of diphtheria. This left Fannie Elizabeth, Frank Rollins and Helen Augusta Wynkoop.

Robert D. Wynkoop moved, around 1825, from Albany to New York, where he was a member of the firm of Heath, Wynkoop & Co., perfumers (from about 1855 – 1860). It was here that he produced his wonderful Dr. Wynkoop’s Katharismic Honduras Sarsaparilla. Wynkoop died on April 2, 1869, in Bergen, New Jersey.

Embossed “HEATH WYNKOOP & CO.” “PERFUMERS” Embossed on both side panels “NEW YORK”. 5.5″ tall.

As noted above, the earliest firm listings in directories state that Wynkoop was a perfumer, which I find interesting. Even his eventual partner Henry Heath and their business, Heath, Wynkoop & Company were listed and advertising as perfumers,

1855 – Heath, Wynkoop & Co., (Henry Heath & Robert D. Wynkoop), 63 Liberty, Trow’s New York City Directory

1856, 1860 – Heath, Wynkoop & Co., perfumers, 63 Liberty, Trow’s New York City Directory

1857, 1859 – Robert D. Wynkoop, perfumer, 63 Liberty, h Bergen, N.J. – New York City Directory

1859 – Heath, Wynkoop & Co., Perfumers, and proprietors of Lyon’s Kathairon, Lyon’s Indian Hair Dye, 63 Liberty, Trows New York City Directory

1859 – Heath, Wynkoop & Co., The Perfumer, New York, Heath, Wynkoop & Co., 1859-?, Held by: Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.

1860 – Henry Heath, perfumer, 63 Liberty, h 43 W. 15th – Trows New York City Directory

1860 – Wynkoop (refused), perfumer, 63 Liberty, – Trows New York City Directory

Heath, Wynkoop & Co. Pefumers advertisement – Hall’s Journal of Health – 1860

According to Dr. Richard Cannon, Robert D. Wynkoop received his training as a physician with his father in Albany, New York. He then established a medicinal laboratory and sales outlet in New York City in the 1840s. Wynkoop copyrighted the words “Dr. Wynkoop’s Katharismic Honduras Sarsaparilla” on November 16, 1847. Sometime in the late 1850s, the firm was billed as Health, Wynkoop & Co. located at 63 Liberty Street, New York.

Katharismic was probably derived from the Greek word “Kathra” or “Kathario” meaning to cleanse, purify, or restore. Other products included Wynkoop’s Fever and Ague Cure, another great cobalt pontiled bottle, Wynkoop’s Iceland Pectoral, and Lyon’s Kathairon, probably from the same Greek word. Wynkoop sold his products to Demas Barnes and John Park about 1858. However, even in 1896, someone was putting out a Wynkoop’s Sarsaparilla according to the Peter Van Schaak’s Price Current & Illustrated Catalogue.

Dr. Wynkoop’s Katharismic Honduras Sarsaparilla

Embossed Dr. Wynkoop’s/Katharismic Honduras/Sarsaparilla on the front panel and New York on the side panel and varying in height from 9 7/8″ to 10 1/4″. These rectangular bottles are crude and often embossed lightly. Some have a double strike effect. These bottles occur with an open pontil, iron pontil, and a smooth base. A broken one was found with ‘Katharismic’ spelled ‘Kathmerithic’. A recently discovered variant is a 9 1/2″ tall, rectangular, cobalt, open pontiled bottle with a double ring collar rather than the usual single band tapered collar, embossed Dr. Wynkoop’s/Balsamic Honduras/Sarsaparilla on the front, and New York, on the side. Dr. Ira Baker’s / Honduras / Sarsaparilla, 10 1/2″ tall, smooth base, aqua. The variant embossed Wynkoop’s/Katharismic/Sarsaparilla/New York on the front is 9 5/8″ tall, rectangular, cobalt, and has an iron pontil. There is a sapphire blue variant the same height, with an iron pontil, embossed Wynkoop’s/Katharismic/Sarsaparilla on the front and New York on the side.

The “giant variant” is a most impressive bottle! It’s 12 3/4″ tall, rectangular, cobalt with an open pontil and embossed Wynkoop’s/Sarsaparilla/For The Blood/1/2 Gallon New York, all on the front panel.

Left: WYNKOOP'S / KATHARISMIC / SARSAPARILLA / NEW YORK. Right: WYNKOOP'S / KATHARISMIC HONDURAS / SARSAPARILLA. – Charles April

Left: WYNKOOP’S / KATHARISMIC / SARSAPARILLA / NEW YORK. Right: WYNKOOP’S / KATHARISMIC HONDURAS / SARSAPARILLA – Charles and Jane Aprill Collection

DR. WYNKOOP’S KATHARISMIC HONDURAS SARSAPARILLA, NEW YORK, New York, circa 1845 to 1860, medium emerald green, pontil scarred base, applied tapered collar mouth. Currently this is one of only two known examples in this color, all others being in cobalt blue.

Wynkoop’s Tonic Mixture Warranted to Cure Fever and Ague

Open pontil, Wynkoop & Cos. Tonic Mixture Warranted to Cure Fever & Ague New York in a medium cobalt blue.

Partially labeled Wynkoop’s Tonic Mixture Warranted to Cure Fever & Ague New York – American Bottle Auctions

“WYNKOOP & CO’S / TONIC MIXTURE / NEW YORK. – WARRANTED TO CURE – FEVER & AGUE”, (Odell, pg. 264), New York, ca. 1840 – 1860, cobalt blue, 6 3/4”h, open pontil, applied tapered collar mouth, 60% original label in part reads: ‘Wynkoop’s Fever and Ague Exterminator’. Deep blue color, huge open pontil, pristine perfect condition. If you are looking for the ultimate example of this bottle, this is the one you want! $8,500 – Glass Works Auctions – Special Direct Sale

Wynkoop’s Iceland Pectoral

Wynkoop’s Iceland Pectoral New York

c1860s Wynkoop’s Iceland Pectoral New York, N.Y. , Cork Top Aqua Medicine Bottle – ebay

Wynkoop’s The Iceland Pectoral advertisement – Daily Alta California, 26 January 1860

Lyon’s Kathairon

[from HairRaisingStories] Lyon’s Kathairon was the product of Emanuel Thomas Lyon starting around 1850. An advertisement in 1853 indicated that his business was at 161 Broadway, New York City. This was the same address the business was at when Demas Barnes was the Proprietor. An advertisement in 1873 indicated he (they) had over 30 years experience. It was sold by Demas Barnes & Co. during that time – he worked for them. Later, Heath, Wyncoop & Co. took over proprietorship (1859). The Lyon Mfg Co. registered the brand name “Kathairon” as a Trade Mark in 1893. The Proprietors at that time said that the brand name had been in use since 1850. Lyon’s Kathairon was still listed for sale at least as late as 1906.

Lyon’s Kathairon for the Skin and Hair, one of the many hair tonic bottles recovered from the wreck of the SS Republic, was advertised as a cure for baldness and gray hair. – Odyssey Marine Explorarion

Heath, Wynkoop & Co., advertisement for Lyon’s Kathairon – Hair Raising Stories

Lyon’s Kathairon advertisement, Heath, Wynkoop & Co. – California Farmer and Journal of Useful Sciences, July 24, 1857

Standard American Medicines for sale, Aickin Dispersing Chemist, Auckland – Auckland Star, 24 December 1877

Dr. Wynkoop’s Wild Wind Sarsaparilla Tin Metal Sign Reproduction

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Sands’ Sarsaparilla – New York

Posted on 6 October 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

SANDS’ SARSAPARILLA

ABRAHAM B. SANDS & CO.

CHEMISTS & APOTHECARIES

GRANITE BUILDINGS

273 BROADWAY, CORNER OF CHAMBER STREET,

NEW YORK

06 October 2013 (R•032514) (R•042219)

While working on the Masury’s Compound Extract of Sarsaparilla and Wau-A-Hoo post, I came across another brand of sarsaparilla that was a direct competitor of Masury.

The Sands brothers (Abraham, David & William) established their business at 100 Futon Street in the prominent Granite Buildings (pictured above) in New York City around 1835. Their Sands’ Sarsaparilla was first introduced at this time and was one of the many 19th-century patent medicines to emerge on the market as a sure cure for any and all afflictions.

Also constantly for sale, fresh Imported Swedish and German Leeches, received direct from Europe, and of our importation. They will be re-packed in the safe manner in which they are imported, so as to be sent to any part of the United States or Canada with perfect safety.

Listed then as Chemists and Apothecaries, they soon would become one of New York’s largest drug wholesalers. They were selling everything under the sun including medicines, perfumes, brushes, fancy articles, medicine chests, syrups for soda water, imported leeches and Saratoga waters from the springs of Congress, Union, Iodine and Pavilion.

Physicians’ Prescriptions, Family Medicines, Medicine Chests for Ships, Families, and Plantations, put up with the greatest care, accuracy, and neatness. Medicines put up at any hour of the night, by a competent person.

Abraham opened his first retail drug store sometime around 1840. In 1842 he expanded his horizons and opened a wholesale store at another location installing his brother David in the original retail store. By 1843, Sands has published a pamphlet (see further below) on the curative properties of their sarsaparilla product.

By 1851, David retired and was replaced by his brother William and the firm was listed as A. B. Sands & Co. They were advertising regularly in national newspapers (see further below).

After 1851, Sands & Co. became primarily a wholesale drug operation. Sands produced other products (Sand’s’ Remedy of Salt Rheum., Dr. McMunn’s Elixir of Opium, Roman Eye Balsam, Clove Anodyne Toothache Drops, Horehound Cough Syrup and Liquid Opeldoc) but his sarsaparilla was by far his best seller. Now A. B. & D. Sands & Co., they continued in business until 1875 when the company was dissolved and sold to Schieffelin & Co.

A. B. & D. Sands Wholesale Druggists, advertisement – W.W. Reilly & Co.’s Ohio State Business Directory … for 1854-5

You might think that sarsaparilla would be made from extract of the sarsaparilla plant, a tropical vine distantly related to the lily, but you’d be wrong. It was originally made (artificial flavors have taken over now, of course) from a blend of birch oil and sassafras, the dried root bark of the sassafras tree. Sassafras was widely used as a home remedy in the nineteenth century — taken in sufficient doses, it induces sweating, which some people thought was a good thing. Sarsaparilla apparently made its debut as a patent medicine, an easy-to-take form of sassafras, much as Coca-Cola was first marketed in 1885 as a remedy for hangovers and headaches. – Cecil Adams

Sands’ Sarsaparilla advertisement – 1852 New York City Directory

B.A. Fahnestock & Co., New York advertisement for A. B. & D. Sands & Co. Wholesale Druggists an an advertisement for Sands’ Sarsaparilla – New York, 1857

Using possibly the largest newspaper advertisement bottle image, Sands’ Sarsaparilla in Quart Bottles for Purifying the Blood – The Summit County Beacon, Wednesday, February 12, 1851

Advertisement for Sands’ Sarsaparilla New York – Utica NY Oneida Morning Herald – 1850

Pictured at left is a copy of a Sand’s Sarsaparilla advertisement. The second variant of the Sand’s bottle, on the right side of the ad, is being filled with the sarsaparilla product. Sand’s sarsaparilla was “The Very Best Remedy for Purifying the Blood” – Western Bitters News

Abraham B. Sands’s Sarsaparilla, Patent Medicine certificate – December 18, 1843

[Read Pamphlet Below]

Cover – Facts in relation to important cures effected by the use of Sands’ Sarsaparilla (1843)

Inside page – Facts in relation to important cures effected by the use of Sands’ Sarsaparilla (1843)

Back cover – Facts in relation to important cures effected by the use of Sands’ Sarsaparilla (1843)

Truly amazing that Sands’ Sarsaparilla cured the deformity of this mans nose! – Facts in relation to important cures effected by the use of Sands’ Sarsaparilla (1843)

Sands’ Sarsaparilla advertisement – The Gleaner – December 15, 1846

Sands’ Sarsaparilla advertisement – The Hunter (San Francisco) – Saturday, July 15 1860

Pictured at left is the earliest example of the Sands Sarsaparilla. It has widely beveled corners and is embossed on three panels SANDS SARSAPARILLA NEW YORK. The Sand’s Sarsaparilla was distributed throughout the Sierra County gold rush country. Open pontil examples of the Sand’s have been found in the settlements of Chaparral Hill, Excelsior and Monte Cristo. These bottles are considered very scarce but as with all gold rush era bottles are highly collectable. The Sand’s that I have examined, that were recovered from Sierra County, are usually pretty crude, highly whittled and usually come out of the ground without mineral staining. Pictured at right is the later variant of the Sands bottle that was produced sometime after 1858. It still has a pontil base, but is a larger size, different shape, and has “GENUINE” embossed on one panel. One whole example of the second variant of the Sands was recovered from the gold rush settlement of Excelsior in the early 1990’s. Two examples were recovered from Plum Valley and another mint example was un-earthed at Brandy City by a Nevada City digger. Numerous broken examples have been found at Monte Cristo, Poker Flat, Chaparral Hill and Rattlesnake. This variant of the Sands is considered more common than the earlier example with the widely beveled corners but is still a scarce and collectable gold rush bottle. – Western Bitters News

Four rectangular, aquamarine bottles retrieved from the Jacksonville “Blue China” wreck site are embossed with the company and product name, SANDS’S SARSAPARILLA // NEW YORK. The four examples are believed to be the earliest variant of the product introduced by Abraham B. and David Sands. – Odyssey’s Virtual Museum

Pontiled, Aqua SANDS // SARSAPARILLA // NEW YORK, 6 1/8” – Vermont Medicines

Blueish aqua, iron pontiled Sands’ Sarsaparilla – ebay

Blueish aqua, iron pontiled Sands’ Sarsaparilla – ebay

Aqua, open pontil Sands’ Sarsaparilla – ebay

A “SANDS SARSAPARILLA/GENUINE/NEW YORK” with an iron pontil. This came from an archaeological excavation in Visalia, California. This site dated to 1850s to 1860s. Our crew removed the wooden floor of the existing structure and exposed a number of intact refuse deposits. The property had been used historically as a beer garden, music shop and saddle maker, etc. Found this bottle in about 30 pieces. – DSMc

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Masury’s Compound Extract of Sarsaparilla and Wau-A-Hoo

Posted on 5 October 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Masury’s Compound Extract of Sarsaparilla and Wau-A-Hoo

ROCHESTER, NEW YORK

05 October 2013 (Rev•101113) (Rev•101213) (Rev•101613)

A number of us bitters collectors have sarsaparilla bottles in our collection and of course there are others that specialize in collecting sarsaparilla. Up on ebay now is a killer bottle that really caught my attention. I suppose the raw beauty of the pictures grabbed my attention first and I had not heard of Masury’s Compound Extract of Sarsaparilla before. This bottle size is actually 2 quarts!

THE LARGEST BOTTLE IN THE WORLD

ONE DOLLAR

Recently I did a series of bitters posts with brands with “WAHOO” in the name. Notice that the advertisement below tags on “WAU-A-HOO” to the sarsparilla name. The ebay listing is as follows:

Super Rare “MASURY’S SARSAPARILLA COMPOUND / J.T. HAWK’S ” Crude & Awesome!

For your consideration is a super rare applied top aqua “Masury’s Sarsaparilla Compound / J. & T. Hawk’s / Rochester N.Y.” in three fancy indented panels. This bottle will make a huge presence on any shelf! Standing just over 11 1/2″ tall by almost 4 3/8″ wide, and 2 1/2″ deep, this example is purely hammered with whittle. Excellent crudeness, just look at the twisted neck and huge gloppy top. I hate to part with this one, but it’s time it found a new home. This is likely not a dug bottle, clean and super nice condition. The word “sarsaparilla” is a little light, but easily readable. No chips, cracks, dings, or distracting stain. Please see pictures for full description Bid with confidence, you may not see this bottle or an example this nice again. You will not be disappointed in this bottle. – bottledave2002 (100% Positive Feedback)

The iron pontiled blue ones are even nicer!! One whole one that I know of. I have seen 3 or 4 of the aqua ones. You can see from the comparison to the Wisharts, it is a BIG bottle!

Mark Yates

[From Matts Collectibles Antique Medicines]

Around 1850 there was a lot of competition between sarsaparilla compound medicine makers. Two of the biggest selling products were A B & D Sand’s Sarsaparilla and Masury’s Sarsaparilla. These companies were always looking for gimmicks to help peddle thier nostrums. One successful approach was to offer a larger bottle for the same money. The customer would feel like they were getting a real deal while there would be little increased cost in manufacturing.

Both medicines sold in massive quart bottles and their advertising emphasized the volume deal. The proprietors of Masury’s Sarsaparilla, J & T Hawks of Rochester, decided to go for broke and they produced the product in an enormous two quart bottle which they claimed was the largest in the world. Apparently customers were not enthralled with this huge bottle and a relatively few seemed to have sold. It may have just been too big to haul home from the market or the manufacturing cost may have caught up with them.

The 1850 advertisement indicates the medicine price was $1.00, quite a lot of money in at the time. Note near the bottle the claim “The Largest Bottle in the World”

Pontiled, blue, MASURY’S SARSAPARILLA CATHARTIC – According to Robert Hinely, sold on ebay a few years back for $17,500

Pontiled MASURY’S SARSAPARILLA CATHARTIC

Large size. Dug, broken and re-assembled J T HAWKS MASURY’S SARSAPARILLA COMPOUND.

J HAWK’S… Stoneware Jug – Image source unknown

Advertisement for Masury’s Sarsaparilla Compound and Sarsaparilla and Cathartic – The Canada Directory – 1851

Advertisement for Masury’s Compound Extract of Sarsaparilla and Wau-A-Hoo – Utica NY Oneida Morning Herald – 1850

Advertisement for Masury’s Compound Extract of Sarsaparilla and Wau-A-Hoo – Utica NY Oneida Morning Herald – 1850

Some other Big Sarsaparilla Bottles: Sands’ Sarsaparilla

Read: Sands’ Sarsaparilla – New York

Advertisement for Sands’ Sarsaparilla New York – Utica NY Oneida Morning Herald – 1850

Some other Big Sarsaparilla Bottles: Wynkoop’s Sarsaparilla

Read: Dr. Wynkoop’s Sarsaparilla – New York

Half gallon Dr. Wynkoop’s Sarsaparilla next to the tall Bryant’s Stomach Bitters cone – Bill Ham Collection

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Canteen Bitters – John Hart & Co. – Lancaster PA

Posted on 4 October 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

CANTEEN BITTERS

JOHN HART & CO. – LANCASTER PA

FOR ALL DISORDERS OF THE STOMACH

04 October 2013 (R•100915) (R•123120)

Scarcely a man was there who had not his canteen full; the most of the boys had already become inebriated, and were making an unwarrantable amount of noise. . . Before the close of that eventful day there may possibly have been ten sober men remaining in the regiment; but I doubt it.

The Pennsylvania Reserves at Manassas: A Drunken State of Mind

I have not thought about my Canteen Bitters (pictured above) from Lancaster, Pennsylvania in a number of years. It was only when I started receiving e-mails and facebook prompts alerting me to a nice example showing up and eventually being put on sale on ebay, that I decided to do a post. What a great bottle and color.

Canteen is such an interesting name. John Hart & Co. put out this brand along with the rather well known, figural heart bottle (pictured below). I am kind of surprised he did not do a similar canteen figural bottle. He did have Trade-Mark 7111 – Bitters – filed by Hart & Myers, Lancaster, Pa. dated 11 March 1879 for “the figure of a canteen and the word-symbol ‘Canteen.’ I can not locate this art but I bet it is pretty cool.

Read: Historical Canteens – Canteen Figural Bottles

My Canteen Bitters example came from the Roger Long collection and prior to that, the Chris Batdorff collection. I actually made a trip up to Pennsylvania to see the Long collection prior to auction.

Likewise, a few Bucktails pried open a boxcar and discovered about a dozen bottles of whiskey that were intended for use by the Pennsylvania Reserves’ medical director. The story, unfortunately, had a less than happy ending. The Bucktails began to drink from other bottles in the stash. A soldier tried to warn his companions that what they were drinking was “no bitters at all,” but they continued to imbibe. The bottles actually contained laudanum, and two men died the next day from ingesting the bitter-tasting narcotic.

The Pennsylvania Reserves at Manassas: A Drunken State of Mind

The example on ebay was titled and described:

Ultra Rare Antique CANTEEN BITTERS bottle, John Hart & Co., Lancaster, PA, Deep Green. Estate Fresh from Lancaster, PA, Circa 1860’s to 1870’s, Size: 9 13/16″ tall, 3 3/8″ across the base, corner to corner, Great Color! Lockwood green, Smooth Base, Long Tapered Collar with a ring beneath, applied, Nice clean pressing, Retains an old, possibly original cork stopper, No cracks. Has a chip on the lip of the collar, about 1/4″ long, and 3/16″ wide; a small chip/bruise on the base approx 1/8″ X 1/8″. tje497 (99.5% Positive feedback)

The listing in Bitters Bottles Supplement 3:

C 34 CANTEEN BITTERS / FOR ALL DISORDERS OF THE STOMACH // JOHN HART & CO / LANCASTER PA // CANTEEN BITTERS FOR ALL DISORDERS OF THE STOMACH // f //
9 7/8 x 2 ¾ (7 ¼) 5/8
Square, LTCR, Applied mouth, Blue-green, Emerald: Scarce, Pale green, Amber, Extremely rare
Trade-Mark No. 7,100, Registered March 11, 1879, to John Hart and Abraham A. Myers, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Our trade-mark consists of the word “Canteen Bitters” with a stack of four muskets, and a canteen suspended by a strap from the top of the interlocking bayonets. On the face of said canteen are the letters “Canteen Bitters” and beneath it are two knapsacks, and the whole has been inclosed (sic) within an ornamental border.
See C 34 in Bitters Bottles and s2C 34, corrected spelling and trade mark info update.

John Hart & Co. Canteen Bitters, Lancaster, PA, Green Bottle that reads, “Canteen Bitters for all Disorders of the Stomach, John Hart & Co., Lancaster, PA.” 9 1/2 .” Condition: Very Fine. Ex: Nolt Collection – Conestoga Auctions

Very Rare John Hart & Co. Canteen Bitters, Lancaster, PA. Possibly unique Amber Bottle (Identical to Green Bottle) that reads, “Canteen Bitters for all Disorders of the Stomach. John Hart & Co., Lancaster, PA.” 9 1/2.” (Note: This RARE variety is the ONLY one known to date.) Condition: Fine. Ex: Nolt Collection – Conestoga Auctions

John Hart & Co. Canteen Bitters, Lancaster, PA., Ex: Roger Long collection and prior to that, the Chris Batdorff collection – Meyer Collection

Trade-Mark No. 7,100, Registered March 11, 1879, to John Hart and Abraham A. Myers, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Our trade-mark consists of the word “Canteen Bitters” with a stack of four muskets, and a canteen suspended by a strap from the top of the interlocking bayonets. On the face of said canteen are the letters “Canteen Bitters” and beneath it are two knapsacks, and the whole has been inclosed (sic) within an ornamental border.

John Hart

Most information supports John Hart being born in Pennsylvania about 1837 and being the son of immigrants from Baden, Germany. He was married to Elizabeth Atkinson. In the 1860 Federal Census, he was listed as a barber in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. An 1868 advertisement says Prof. John Hart. The 1870 census lists him as the “Manuf. of Hair Restorer.” An 1879-80 Lancaster Directory lists Hart (Professor of Elocution) as a manufacturer of Canteen Bitters and Neufeld’s Italian Balm (Francis L. Neufeld, Pastor). Address 111. S. Queen. During this period, his partner was Abraham A. Myers. I believe this bitters was only put out for a short duration of time, possibly only in 1879 and 1880. Very few examples are know. I suspect the Scarce rating may be a bit to wide.

Hart listings in the 1879-80 Lancaster City Directory

Canteen Bitters – Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office – 1879

Label registration for John Hart and Abraham A. Myers for Neufeld’s Italian Balm – 1877

Neufeld’s Italian Balm advertisement – 1868

FATHER NEUFELD’S ITALIAN BALM

The Greatest Remedy in tbe World for CHOLERA MORBUS, DYSENTERY, DiARRHCEA, COLIC, STOMACH CRAMPS, RHEUMATISM, HEADACHE, NEURALGIA, TOOTHACHE. PAINS IN THE LIMBS, BRUISES, CUTS, SPRAINS, BURNS, SCALDS, Etc., Etc.

Rev. Francis L. Neufeld, M. D., the discoverer of this wonderful Remedy, is Pastor of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Lancaster City, Pa. He discovered the Italian Balm a number of years ago, but only manufactured it on a small scale for the use of his parishioners and neighbors. Its fame, however, spread with astonishing rapidity, and the demand for it be-came so pressing that Father Neufeld concluded to transfer it to the hands of a responsible person, who would present it to the public in a uniform manner, at a reasonable price.

To WHOM IT MAT CONCERN: This Is to Certify that I have this day transferred to Prof. John Hart all right, title and interest in the Balm originally prepared by me, and known as Neufeld’s Italian Balm. The Balm will be manufactured with the same care, and according to the original recipe. Prof. Hart having received from me personal instructions in its preparation.

FRANCIS L. NEUFELD

Lancaster, Pa., July 1st, 1868.

Ask for Neufeld’s Italian Balm, and take no other. If your druggist does not keep it, he will send and get it for you. All orders shall be addressed to:

JOHN HART & CO.

John Hart & Co. Lancaster, Pa. amber heart shape bottle – Liveauctioneers.com

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