Check these T. W. Dyott bottles out!

Posted on 9 September 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Check these T. W. Dyott bottles out!

09 September 2013

It has really been just fantastic lately to see researchers, collectors and writers submit information for posting on Peachridge Glass. The last exchanges with Stephen Atkinson have been perfect examples. Read: Henry Bolingers Maysville Glass-Works 1814-1825 and The New York State Glass Factories. In this case, Steve sent me an e-mail with some rather interesting information and imagery to share.

Ferdinand:

Check these T. W. Dyott bottles out! The Robertson’s and the small vial have had lip repairs but are about the rarest of all the collectable medicines. The vial has never been recorded (not one example!!) and the Dr. Robertson’s Family Medicine may have had ten examples show up in 80 years of glass collecting as attested to by Helen McKearin. Chris Rowell dug the Dyott vial in a deep privy in Philadelphia. The Robertson bottle was dug by Christian Raezer in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The paper labeled one, again never before seen. I acquired it in a trade for a damaged EG Booz bottle. I think the Dyott’s and the Lee medicine bottles out of Baltimore and New York City are about the rarest of all the collectable medicines. I have a huge write-up planned on Dyott and the Kennsington glass factory he owned. I will send you the finished pages in the next two weeks.

Dr. ROBERTSONS FAMILY MEDICINE

SOLD ONLY BY T W DYOTT

TW DYOTT embossed on a small vial type bottle

Paper labeled, square flint glass bottle labled T W DYOTT

I was at Dyottville while it was exposed during the archeological dig in the winter of 2011 and was invited to the site. This was the archy’s attempt at showing the public their work. When I inquired about getting a few bricks from the site they said I needed permission from Penn DOT (well, we know how that would have gone). They didn’t even offer Corning, Wheaton, Winterthur, or even the Smithsonian, all who had representatives at the site the same day I was there, anything from the site. All finds,which were immense, were going to the Penns Landing Museum and believe me, it wasn’t much of a display. A small 10 x 10 area, as most was just being stored. I have called Corning and Wheaton and neither entity ever received anything from the dig.

Dyott owned the factory in 1820 to 1840 but It was founded much earlier in 1770. The bricks that were recovered are from the oldest part of the factory in which I sent you pictures.

The photos I sent you are the following items:

The rectangular shaped bottle Embossed with Dr. ROBERTSONS FAMILY MEDICINE SOLD ONLY BY T W DYOTT. The name TW DYOTT embossed on a small vial type bottle and a paper labeled, square flint glass bottle labled T W DYOTT. The bricks from the site and the exposed foundations of the ovens and the factory walls at Dyottville are the other pictures. Enjoy.

Thanks again – Steve

The bricks from the site and the exposed foundations of the ovens and the factory walls at Dyottville

Beer Street and Gin Lane by William Hogarth

Posted on 8 September 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Beer Street and Gin Lane

William Hogarth

08 September 2013

William Hogarth

Beer Street and Gin Lane are two prints issued in 1751 by English artist William Hogarth in support of what would become the Gin Act.

they depict the evils of the consumption of gin as a contrast to the merits of drinking beer

Designed to be viewed alongside each other, they depict the evils of the consumption of gin as a contrast to the merits of drinking beer. At almost the same time and on the same subject, Hogarth’s friend Henry Fielding published An Inquiry into the Late Increase in Robbers. Issued together with The Four Stages of Cruelty, the prints continued a movement started in Industry and Idleness, away from depicting the laughable foibles of fashionable society (as he had done with Marriage à-la-mode) and towards a more cutting satire on the problems of poverty and crime.

On the simplest level, Hogarth portrays the inhabitants of Beer Street as happy and healthy, nourished by the native English ale, and those who live in Gin Lane as destroyed by their addiction to the foreign spirit of gin; but, as with so many of Hogarth’s works, closer inspection uncovers other targets of his satire, and reveals that the poverty of Gin Lane and the prosperity of Beer Street are more intimately connected than they at first appear. Gin Lane shows shocking scenes of infanticide, starvation, madness, decay and suicide, while Beer Street depicts industry, health, bonhomie and thriving commerce, but there are contrasts and subtle details that some critics believe allude to the prosperity of Beer Street as the cause of the misery found in Gin Lane. [Wikipedia]

Listen to NPR: ‘The Book Of Gin’ Distills A Spirited History

BEER STREET

Beer Street depicts industry, health, bonhomie and thriving commerce.

GIN LANE

Gin Lane shows shocking scenes of infanticide, starvation, madness, decay and suicide.

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Henry Bolingers Maysville Glass-Works 1814-1825

Posted on 8 September 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Henry Bolingers Maysville Glass-Works

1814-1825

by Stephen Atkinson

08 September 2013

The Kentucky glass industry begins with a gentleman with a colorfull past named John Henry Bolinger (known as Henry). Henry was born in 1761 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. In 1803, he was married in the First Reformed Church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania to Susan Anna Wigman who was born 1780. She was the daughter of Joachim Wigman. By 1805, the couple had moved west over the Alleghenies. They settled in Pittsburgh and Henry began to work for Colonel O’Hara at the glass works south of Pittsburgh. Soon Henry became involved in politics and he was elected as the High Constable of the city of Pittsburgh in the general election on March 15, 1806.

Henry Bolinger became involved in politics and he was elected as the High Constable of the city of Pittsburgh in the general election on March 15, 1806.

Things did not go so well for him as a few years later Henry found himself in debtors prison begging his creditors to be released. Henry’s reputation was tarnished now in Pittsburgh and it was time to move on.

Henry Bolinger found himself in debtors prison – March 3, 1812

In the autumn of 1813, Henry moved his family to Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky. It was here that Henry, now a middle aged man of 51 years of age, began to farm and sell tobacco and hemp. He became quite successful and invested his money wisely this time unlike back in Pittsburgh. As part of the town of Maysville hierarchy, he heard the concerns from the business owners and local residents. One common complaint was the high prices paid for glass imported from Pittsburgh. Henry saw the sandy silica beaches on the banks of the Ohio River in Maysville. Yet it was another very key ingredient in glass manufacture that made Maysville the perfect place for a glass works. Limestone was also present, and there was plenty of it as the town of Maysville was formerly called Limestone in the year 1799.

Henry saw first-hand the glass factories of Colonel Ohara and Albert Gallatin and how successful they were. He also remembered in his youth how Henry Stiegel, the glass mogul, had amassed a fortune making glass back in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. There were no glass factories yet in Ohio either and with Pittsburgh being the only glass center even remotely close he decided to set up his own glass works in town. His first business partners were John & Joseph Sumrall & Company. They were also the agents to sell the glass. They had a store front in Maysville.

Maysville Glass-Works now in operation notice – Maysville, January 19, 1815

In the next year, the Summrals got into financial difficulty and disolved their business with the partners they had, Scott, Trotter and Tilford. Bolinger soon realized running a glass works not only needed good experienced workers but also needed a constant supply of cash. Henry then enlisted the help of William Porter. Porter was a very influential business man and Henry saw this and immeadiatley made him a partner and agent. Mr. Porter promised the public that a much better grade of items would be being manufactured then the prior owners and agents had done.

Notice of new ownership for Maysville Glass-Works – February 2, 1816

Business was good for over a year.

Good, clean ashes needed at Maysville Glass-Works – November 9th, 1816

It was obvious who supplied this brewery with glass bottles.

Maysville Brewery advertisement, November 1st, 1816

Glass bottles were now being purchased from a great distance.

Lexington Porter and Ale Brewery advertisement – May 10, 1815

Then suddenly the works were put up for sale.

Maysville Glass-Works for sale notice – September 16, 1817

An unknown buyer was found and the works continued until the spring of 1825 when the fire would go out for the final time. In the end, the easier transportation from Pittsburgh and the many factories that existed created a flooded market where the wares were only worth half of what they were just three short years prior.

I believe the London Mustard styled bottle with the lettered embossing KENTUCKY, with a blow pipe pontil mark and rolled lip, were in fact an early product of this factory. The bottle has the beveled corners and wide mouth suggesting either Mustard or Chocolate as the content in the bottle.

About Stephen Atkinson

Stephen Atkinson, from Sewell, New Jersey has been collecting bottles and glass since he was 12 years old. He once dug an original EG Booz figural cabin bottle on Norris Street in Mantua, New Jersey in 1972 at 12 years old and traded it for six bitters bottles. Fast forward to 2012 and Stephen bought the exact bottle back at an estate auction in New Jersey!

His passion is for pre-1880 glass, as the majority of his collection consists of historical flasks, colonial era chestnut bottles, and whimsical end of day pieces of glass. He also has three rare T.W. Dyott bottles, an original Dr. Robertson’s family medicine; one of the rarest collectable American bottles, a T.W. Dyott vial bottle dug by Chris Rowell and a paper labeled T.W. Dyott bottle. He has researched many southern New Jersey glass works first hand by locating the original factory sites. The best piece in his collection is the Wistarburgh Glass Company ledger showing monies paid out to Caspar Wistar’s Children and their husbands and wives.

A little on HOBOKEN DE BIE & Co.

Posted on 8 September 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Cruising around the net the other day, I came across the picture below of the workers posing for a photo at the Hoboken de Bie & Co. gin distillery in Rotterdam that I thought was pretty cool. Looking for the source, I see that it was used as a recent image by NPR (National Public Radio) on a piece on gin. Brian Shultis, once I posted the picture on PRG Facebook, sent me a picture of a HOBOKEN DE BIE & Co. bottle as this was the brand initials on the gin barrels.

HOBOKEN DE BIE & Co. Crock – minibottlelibrary.com

A little on HOBOKEN DE BIE & Co.

08 September 2013

Workers pose for a photo at the Hoboken de Bie & Co. gin distillery in Rotterdam, Netherlands, circa 1900. By the end of the 19th century, cocktail culture had helped make gin a more respectable spirit.

Read or Listen to Story

‘The Book Of Gin’ Distills A Spirited History

Unlike a good martini, the story of gin isn’t smooth; it’s long, complex, sordid and, as Richard Barnett has discovered, it makes for tantalizing material. Barnett’s newly published The Book of Gin traces the liquor’s life, from its beginnings in alchemy to its current popularity among boutique distillers.

by NPR Staff

HOBOKEN DE BIE & Co.

HOBOKEN DE BIE & Co ” LA CATEDRAL ” ROTTERDAM, circa 1895, St. Laurens Church in Rotterdam – dating from 1409 AD – www.gin-bottles.com

Approx. 6.25″ tall, HOBOKEN DE BIE & Co bottle with seal reading HdB&C, circa 1870 – www.gin-bottles.com

Large Dutch “case gin” bottle marked A VAN HOBOKEN & Co. / ROTTERDAM and with maker’s seal, 1800s. – auction.sedwickcoins.com

A Van Hoboken &Co Rotterdam bottle – photobucket.com

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The New York State Glass Factories

Posted on 7 September 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

The New York State Glass Factories

Preface of a Series | New Amsterdam

by Stephen Atkinson

07 September 2013

Below is a 1640 map of New York City, known then as New Amsterdam. As you can see, the area was quite developed in 1640 and Glass Makers Street is marked in yellow the Canal Street in Blue.

makes a strong case for quite a bit of glass manufacture occurring on Glass Makers Street which proves beyond a doubt that dark green drinking vessels were being blown here in 1640.

The Canal made it quite easy and safe to load and unload products from ships. Tall arched bridges cross the Canal allowing ships easy passage beneath. One other neat feature is the wall that was built around the entire city for protection mainly from Native Americans but also from invading countries from Europe.

Glass Makers Street was in the heart of the manufacturing district and judging from this map, looked quite developed and very busy. To see New York City this developed in 1640 is amazing and something I can not recall that I learned about in school. This makes a strong case for quite a bit of glass manufacture occurring on this street which proves beyond a doubt that dark green drinking vessels were being blown here in 1640.

New Amsterdam was the first successful area in North America to manufacture glass continuously in the 17th century.

Evert Duycking came to America in 1638. By 1640 he had constructed his first glass house and manufactured mainly window glass. He soon realized the need for utilitarian glass but there were no master gaffers in the colony of New Amsterdam at the time. Soon master gaffers were being lured from Germany to come to New Amsterdam to blow glass. Evert who was a leading citizen in his day, was a general artisan who was succeeded in 1674 by one of his assistants, Jacob Melyer. His family was said to have made glass “unto the third and fourth generation.” Cornelis Dirkson, and members of the Jansen family, and other Dutch artisans also practised the art of glass-blowing in New York during the late 1600s.

His glass works made bulls-eyes, for the windows and doors of the early homes, and plain utilitarian bottles and all the hollow ware for the citizenry of New Amsterdam.

At the same time, Johannes Smedes who had been here quite a while, was allotted an area of land on which he erected a glassworks in 1654. The bordering path soon became known as Glass-makers Street. Smedes also had a neighbor, Jacob Melyer (mentioned above). After a few years in America, Johannes simplified his name, becoming Jan Smedes. He retired from the glass business in the same year that Peter Stuyvesant “retired” from the Governorship in 1670. His glass works made bulls-eyes, for the windows and doors of the early homes, and plain utilitarian bottles and all the hollow ware for the citizenry of New Amsterdam.

With the influx of German refugees from the Palitinate region in Germany, it wasn’t long before new glass houses would be established at present day Brooklyn, mid-town Manhattan, and Newburgh, New York. All of these were the direct result of the Glass House Company formed in 1750 by Lodewick Bamper, Samuel Bayard, Matthew Earnest, Christian Hertell, and a master gaffer, named Johann Martin Greiner from the Saxe-Weimar Palatinate region of present day Germany. Greiner, who also a few years later would be hired by Wilhelm Henry Stiegel in 1767, entered into partnership and organized the Glass House Company of New York.

This location was then known as New Found Land, where a stage coach road with a tavern had been established in the late 1600s when New York was under Dutch rule.

With financial backing from the Dutch West Indies Company, they constructed their first glass factory at the present day site on the Hudson River in Newburgh, New York, 12 miles north of Manhattan on January 3rd, 1751. The second factory was established near Lodewick Bampers home in Brooklyn in 1754 and the last factory was built in December 1758, in what is now present day, mid-town Manhattan near a location which would now be located between 34th and 40th Streets, and 8th and 11th Avenues. This location was then known as New Found Land, where a stage coach road with a tavern had been established in the late 1600s when New York was under Dutch rule.

As a resident of southern New Jersey and an amateur glass historian at best, I have always been quite proud to have known that the first successful glass works in the colonies, The United Glass Company, was located just 15 miles from my home at Alloway, New Jersey, Salem County in 1738. Was it the first? Evidence seems to prove otherwise quite clearly. It now is quite evident to me that the English, when they ruled the Colonies in the late 1600s on and up to the American revolution, may have conveniently forgotten about the history above when assembling the records of the glass industry in the now United States.

As students of the early glass manufactured here in the United States it is time to give due diligence to the Dutch as the first at glass manufacture on a grand scale in North America.

As students of the early glass manufactured here in the United States, it is time to give due diligence to the Dutch as the first at glass manufacture on a grand scale in North America. Secondly we need to rethink that all the black glass bottles which turn up in large numbers were only produced in Europe in the glass centers of England, France and The Netherlands when in fact they were produced right here at home in New York City beginning as early as 1640. The sealed, dark glass wine bottles in the Van Cortland Museum from Mr. Bamper were most definitely produced here for the prominent citizenry of the colonies from Boston to New York to Philadelphia.

Was New Amsterdam first? Or as I am finding out now, by bits and pieces, a glass factory may have been erected by the Swedes and Finns in present day Wilmington, Delaware in 1638. It lasted for six years. If this account is true, then this attempt would have been two years prior to the Dutch at New Amsterdam. Stay tuned!

Mallet type bottle has a sheared lip, unseen on this type of large vessel.

About Stephen Atkinson

Read more in this series by Stephen Atkinson:

Newburgh (Glass House Co.) 1751-1759 | Part 1

Brooklyn (Glass House Co.) 1754-1758 | Part 2

Glass House Farm (Glass House Co) 1758-1772 | Part 3

Check these T. W. Dyott bottles out!

Henry Bolingers Maysville Glass-Works 1814-1825

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Did N. A. Binks make an Alpine Bitters too?

Posted on 7 September 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

The photo was taken in Escanaba, on Michigan’s upper peninsula. I wonder if the Alpine Bitters is the labeled bottle and the larger cylinder bottles are Fairmont and Clutch Rye? Could that be N.A. Bink with the tie? What about that Sheriff?

I wonder if the Alpine Bitters is the labeled bottle and the larger cylinder bottles are Fairmont and Clutch Rye? Could that be N.A. Bink with the tie? What about that Sheriff?

Did N. A. Binks make an Alpine Bitters too?

07 September 2013

Bill Ham and I were corresponding yesterday and comparing notes on the various Alpine Bitters brands. As you may be aware, I got side-tracked and went off on this rather exciting journey to look at a few of the rarer and unlisted Alpine Bitters.

Read: The Widemann & Chappas Alpine Stomach Bitters – Marysville

Read: Our Most Celebrated Alpine Stomach Bitters – Gehrmann’s, Ahrens, Co., NYC

Read: Otto Kornemann and his Alpine Bitters Statuette – New York

Read: Alpine Herb Bitters – Western Mountain Themed Square – San Francisco

The Mysterious E-mail

Just when I thought I had things ‘under control’ with the various Alpine Bitters, Bill sends me this mysterious e-mail:

Ferdinand – Does this work for the new things?

Serving Tray
A 34.5 N.A. Binks
“Drink Fairmont Rye, Ask for Alpine Bitters”, Escanaba, Mich.
16 inches long

Binks may have been a distributor for A 36 Alpine Bitters and Fairmont Rye. Tray pictures beautiful Victorian women. – Bill

Wow. Strange. Bill and Carlyn do have a rather diminutive listing for an Alpine Herb Bitters in Bitters Bottles and have assigned it A 36 (listing and picture below).

A 36 – Alpine Herb Bitters illustration, p60 Bitters Bottles

A 36 ALPINE HERB // sp // BITTERS // f //
10 x 2 3/4 (7 1/2) 1/4
Square, Amber and Yellow, 2 sp, LTC, Tooled lip, Rare

Other ‘Oddball’ Alpine Bitters References

While we are at it, let’s add in a few other Alpine Bitters ‘oddball’ references in Bitters Bottles. Maybe they are also linked to N. A. Binks, whoever that is?

Alpine Bitters Dispensing Barrel listings and illustrations, p60 Bitters Bottles

Alpine Bitters Decanter listing and illustration, p60 Bitters Bottles

Who is N.A. Binks?

“listed in various census reports and directories as a wholesale liquor dealer in 1893 and a saloon owner”

A quick search online pulls up references to a Bink and Coca-Cola in Escanaba, Michigan. Interesting. I really need to find out what “N. A.” stands for so I jump over to the powerful tool, Ancestry.com and type in N. A. Binks, 1890 (+/- 10 years), Escanaba, Michigan. I get some of the typical mis-connections and a few possibilities. You see, the United States census collectors hand wrote their entries so I see no direct links. I remove the ‘s’ from Bink and there he is, Nicholas A. Binks. I now can cross reference various records and confirm that in the years 1889 – 1910, a Nicholas A. Bink was listed in various census reports and directories as a wholesale liquor dealer in 1893 and a saloon owner in 1897 for instance.

Bink, Nicholas A. – Delta Ave. – Escanaba – 20 – bookkeeper, 1889, Escanaba City Directory

Bink, Nicholas A., sample rooms. Dealer in fine wines liquors, cigars and fresh beer, 1003, 1893-95 Escanaba Directory

Bink, Nicholas A., saloon, Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1897

Now that I have a full name, I go back and search for Nicholas A. Bink and get the following great information:

Nicholas A. Bink has been a resident of the city of Escanaba, Delta county, since he was a youth of nineteen years, and has been actively associated with the business interests of this vital community during a period of more than forty years, so that, as proprietor of the City Bottling works, he now ranks as one of the veteran business men of the city.

Mr. Bink was born at Fredonia, Wisconsin, September 7, 1866, and is a son of Michael and Mary K. Bink, the former of whom was born in Germany and the latter in Belgium. Michael Bink was a youth of fourteen years when he came to the United States, and after having been for a number of years actively identified with farm industry in Wisconsin he engaged in the hotel business at Belgium, Wisconsin, Ozaukee county, where also he conducted a general store and served a number of years as justice of the peace. He finally retired from active business and he passed the closing period of his life at West Bend, Wisconsin, where he died in 1922, at the venerable age of eighty-four years. He was a staunch supporter of the cause of the Democratic party and was a communicant of the Catholic church, as was also his wife, who died in 1921, at the age of seventy-five years.

engaged in the retail liquor business, and thereafter he conducted a substantial wholesale liquor business, under the title of Bink Wholesale Liquor and Supply company

The early education of Nicholas A. Bink was obtained mainly in the district schools of Wisconsin, and at the age of nineteen years he came to Escanaba, Michigan, and entered the employ of the Escanaba Brewing company, with which he continued his association three and one-half years. During the ensuing ten years he was here engaged in the retail liquor business, and thereafter he conducted a substantial wholesale liquor business, under the title of Bink Wholesale Liquor and Supply company, until the national prohibition laws came into effect. Since 1922 he has been the proprietor of the City Bottling works, and has developed a prosperous business in the bottling of aerated beverages and other “soft drinks.”

Mr. Bink has been an upright and reliable citizen and business man and has a host of friends in this section of the Upper Peninsula. He gives his political allegiance to the Republican party, he and his family are communicants of the Catholic church, and he is affiliated with the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. On the eighth of September, 1891, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Bink to Miss Anna Groos, who was born and reared in Escanaba and who is a daughter of the late Peter and Anna (Huffman) Groos, of whom more specific mention is made in the personal sketch of their son Dr. John O. Groos, elsewhere in this volume.

Another nice bit of information on Bink Wholesale Liquor and Supply Co:

was occupied in 1907-08 by Bink Wholesale Liquor and Supply Co., incorporated October 1, 1903, with Capital Stock of $30,000, N. A. Bink, manager (Polk 1907). After Prohibition began in 1919, Bink remained in business as the City Bottling Works, distributing “soft drinks” that included Bink’s Beverages (Fuller 1926: 267; Bink 2003). It has remained in business, becoming a Coca Cola franchisee in 1932 and becoming one of the Upper Peninsula’s largest distributors of soft drinks (Bink 2003).

And more on the Coca-Cola business:

Bink’s Coca-Cola was founded as Bink’s Wholesale Liquor and Supply Company on October 10, 1903 by Nicholas A. Bink. In December, 1921, the company became The City Bottling Works.

The second generation of ownership was with Nicholas J. Bink, the founder’s son. Bink’s Coca-Cola Bottling Company began selling Coca-Cola in 1931 and purchased the Coca-Cola franchise for Delta and Schoolcraft counties in 1936. In 1961, Bink’s purchased the franchise to sell Coca-Cola in Dickinson, Iron, and part of Florence, Menomonee and Marinette Counties.

Robert N. Bink, the founder’s grandson is the current president of Bink’s Coca-Cola. He represents the third generation in the family business. Robert has continued to provide growth to the Coca-Cola business and has maintained the status of being a Coca-Cola Bottler.

Nicholas R. Bink, general sales manager for Bink’s Coca-Cola, is the fourth generation in the business. Nick has continued to provide growth and superior service to Coca-Cola customers. As a father and son venture, Robert and Nick have recently partnered to form Bink’s Wines & Beverages. This new Bink enterprise currently services five counties in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan with fine wines from around the world.

The Serving Tray

Since we still have no Alpine Bitters mentioned with Nicholas A. Bink or Bink Wholesale Liquor and Supply Co., we need to look at this tray Bill references. Bill unfortunately, upon questioning, does not have an image of the Fairmont Rye serving tray, only the mysterious notation from his record from some years ago.

Crutch Rye Whiskey Escanaba, Michigan Advertising Tray, Escanaba, Michigan. Manufactured by American Can Co. Chicago. 13 1/4″ x 10 1/2″. – O’Gallerie Auctions

I start looking for images of the Fairmont Rye tray and ‘almost’ hit payola with a Bink Wholesale Liquor and Supply Co., tray image (above) with a Victorian woman. Unfortunately it says “CRUTCH RYE” instead of “Fairmont Rye”. Not a big stretch to think another similar tray may be out there. But where is the “Drink Clutch (or Fairmont) Rye, Ask for Alpine Bitters” copy? Could this be on this tray, and the copy mostly faded away or too small? Someone out there has these trays. Maybe they will surface.

I am now starting to think that Bink, since he was a wholesaler, was in the saloon businnes and had a liquor supply company, it is entirely possible that the Alpine Herb Bitters, Alpine Bitters Dispensing Barrels and Decanter pictured further above, may be related. No proof though. Someone owns these pieces out there. Bill and Carlyn had to get the information to create the listings in Bitters Bottles.

So we leave today with the mystery not solved and no concrete proof. I bet we can solve this.

A Little on Escanaba, Michigan

Mid 1800s Birds Eye View of Escanaba, Michigan, 1881

Wikipedia: Escanaba is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan, located in the banana belt on the state’s Upper Peninsula. The population was 12,616 at the 2010 census. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 13,140, making it the third-largest city in the Upper Peninsula after Marquette and Sault Ste. Marie. Named for the Escanaba River that flows into the Little Bay de Noc of Lake Michigan just north of the city.

Early Escanaba photograph. Look at the ships in the background.

Old Ludington Street Escanaba

Ludington Street Escanaba hand tint Post Card

The word “Escanaba” roughly translates from various regional native languages to “land of the red buck” although some people maintain that it refers to “flat rock”. Escanaba was an Ojibwa village in the early 19th century. As an American settlement, Escanaba began as a port town in the mid-19th century, gaining importance to the Union as a shipping point for iron ore, lumber and copper during the Civil War. In his poem “The Song of Hiawatha”, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow described how Hiawatha “crossed the rushing Esconaba” referring to the river. Located on Little Bay de Noc at the northern edge of Lake Michigan, Escanaba continues to serve as an important shipping point for iron ore to other Great Lakes ports, especially south to Chicago and northern Indiana. The local paper mill, for many years Mead Corporation’s Publishing Paper Division, is currently operated by NewPage Corporation; located on the outskirts of the city alongside the Escanaba River, it is now the area’s largest employer.

Ore Docks, Escanaba, Michigan 1870s

As shipping increased, a lighthouse was needed to warn of a sand shoals that reached out into Little Bay de Noc from Sand Point, a sandspit located just south of and adjacent to the harbor area. The United States Lighthouse Service approved construction of the Sand Point Lighthouse at a cost of $11,000. Construction began in the fall of 1867 and was completed in early spring 1868. It was deactivated in 1939, and was used by the United States Coast Guard to house seaman assigned to Escanaba. The building was completely restored to its original design in the late 1980s, and placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The U.P. Original Old Portable Sawmill located in Escanaba MI.

Escanaba Ore Docks

The Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad was closely linked with the lumbering and iron ore shipping of the region for many years, and now is playing an important role in the industrial activity of Escanaba and vicinity.

Escanaba Tree topping competition. This photo was orignally posted by World Champion Speed Climber Brian Bartow.

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The Widemann & Chappas Alpine Stomach Bitters – Marysville

Posted on 5 September 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Bottle examples in this post courtesy American Bottle Auctions

The Widemann & Chappas

Alpine Stomach Bitters

05 September 2013

This 1856 photograph shows the interior of the Golden Eagle Hotel and Bar with its beautiful birds and wood-accented décor. – Marysville. Ca. The exterior of the hotel is pictured at the bottom of this post.

One can only imagine this dandy gentleman being served a bottle of Alpine Stomach Bitters at the Golden Eagle Hotel and Bar (pictured above) in 1856. Who knows, maybe this is Widemann and Chappas posing behind the bar? Probably not, as Widemann had his establishment at the Wisconsin House as you will see.

Again I made a trip to the car only to find the fifth and sixth one sitting there next to the hole when I came back. Time to take another trip to the car!

from A Quick Exit for Two Lucky Diggers

Over a year ago we looked at a post on the Alpine Herb Bitters by Thomas Taylor Company from San Francisco in 1888 and followed up recently with the Alpine Bitters put out by Kornemann & Co. in New York in 1869. An then we followed with a unlisted Alpine Stomach Bitters by Gehrmann, Ahrens Co. in Manhattan.

We now will re-look at the Alpine Stomach Bitters by Widemann & Chappas from Marysville, California.

Marysville Town Fire, 1851. This lithograph shows the bucket brigade that assisted in quelling the worst fire ever to hit Marysville. The entire city nearly burned to the ground, and the cost of damages was over one-half million dollars.

Reading up on Marysville is interesting, especially when you find that the city nearly burned to the ground in 1851. They must have reconstructed rather quickly because the Alpine Stomach Bitters was being marketed by E. Widemann and J. Chappas in 1864. Widemann even had a listing for his liquor store in a Marysville directory in 1855, just four years after the fire!

Looking in the Carlyn Ring and Bill Ham Bitters Bottles Supplement there is a listing for:

A 35.5 L…Alpine Celebrated Stomach Bitters
// s // E. WIDEMANN ( au ) / & / J. CHAPPAS
11 5/8 x 2 3/4 (5 7/8)
Round-lady’s leg, ARM, Applied mouth,
Puce, Very rare, Green, Extremely rare
Spelling on advertisement is WIDEMANN. On bottle the embossing is WIDEMAN which is slightly off center with a blank space where a second N could have been embossed.
Assumed identity, no labeled bottle known.
Widemann & Chappas was located at the Wisconsin House Corner B and Third St., Marysville, Calif. from approximaely 1864 to 1868.
Most known examples were dug in Marysville, Ca.

Jeff Wichmann published an excellent article over at American Bottle Auctions:

A Quick Exit for Two Lucky Diggers

by Marty Lucich

It was one of those rare situations back in the 1970s, for us, that day luck was on our side. After walking behind some apartments, probing three holes, we needed permission to dig them. Elmer and I knocked on one of the rear doors and asked permission to dig. The occupant didn’t speak English but said yes anyway. It was obvious this was not the owner so we knew we could get kicked out at anytime. Even though we had “permission” we decided to park down the alley just in case there were any problems. We picked what we thought was the best hole to dig first and starting digging at a pretty fast rate. Elmer was the strongest so he did most of the digging.

As he got close to the bottom out came the first bottle of the hole, an eye opening apricot puce E. Wideman / J. Chappaz! Before I started to take it to the car out came a second. I went to put then in the car and when I came back, there was third one lying there next to the hole and soon a fourth one was pulled out. Again I made a trip to the car only to find the fifth and sixth one sitting there next to the hole when I came back. Time to take another trip to the car!

Gorgeous green, E. WIDEMAN & J. CHAPPAS (reverse Z), Widemann misspelled Wideman – American Bottle Auctions

The puce E. WIDEMAN & J. CHAPPAS (reverse Z), Widemann misspelled Wideman – American Bottle Auctions

ADVERTISING

Widemann Important Notice – Marysville Daily Herald, 13 October 1855

Widemann advertisement, Marysville Daily Herald, 22 November 1855

Widemann advertisement, Marysville Daily Herald, 3 January 1856

E. Widemann, Celebrated Alpine Stomach Bitters advertisement (probably 1863) Chappas not listed.

Alpine Celebrated Stomach Bitters by E. Widemann & J. Chappas with a Depot in San Francisco. – 1864

Wideman & Chappas Alpine Bitters listing – Report of the Fourth Industrial Exhibition of the Mechanics’ Institute of the City of San Francisco – 1864 *Pictures exist of the Fourteenth Exhibition in 1879 but would not show this product.

Case Bitters, Widemann & Chappas and One hundred and forty-five cases Salutarus Bitters, Byrnes & Castree in Case 3 at the Fourth Industrial Exhibition of the Mechanics’ Institute of the City of San Francisco – Daily Alta California, 8 September 1864

E. Barthe & B. Pache, Successors to E. Widemann – Marysville Daily Appeal, March 9, 1872

TIMELINE

1854

Advertisement: Widemann, Importer and Wholesale Dealer in Wines, Liquors, Wisconsin House, Corner of B and 8d street, Marysville *Widemann not listed in 1853 Directory.

1855

Advertisement: Widemann, Importer and Dealer in Wines, Brandies, Liquors, Alcohols &c, Wisconsin House, Corner of B and 8d street, Marysville

1856

Advertisement: Widemann, Importer and Dealer in Wines, Brandies, Liquors, Alcohols &c, Wisconsin House, Corner of B and 8d street, Marysville

1857

Listing: Widemann, E., Wholesale Liquor Store, cor Third and B, Germany, 1857 Marysville Directory

1863

Advertisement: E. Widemann, Wholesale Dealer in Native Wines, Liquors, Cognacs and Provisions. Proprietor of the Celebrated Alpine Stomach Bitters, at the Wisconsin House, Corner of B and Third Street, Maryscille (Probsably 1863 as Chappas not listed) *see advertisement above.

1864

Listing: Wideman & Chappas Alpine Bitters listing – Report of the Fourth Industrial Exhibition of the Mechanics’ Institute of the City of San Francisco – 1864

Advertisement: Newspaper ad, Alpine Celebrated Stomach Bitters, Marysvile, California, 1864, Bitters Bottles

1867

Listing: E. Wideman, B St. & 3rd, Marysville, Yuba, California, liquors, Pacific Coast Directory, 1867

1872

Advertisement: E. Barthe & B. Pache, Successors to E. Widemann – Marysville Daily Appeal, March 9, 1872

Note: What is interesting, is that there are no strong listings for E. Widemann or J. Chappas in ancestry wen sites or forums, nor are there any other references or pictures of the Wisconsin House. It is only assumed that the bottles pictured were labeled and contained the Celebrated Alpine Stomach Bitters.

MARYVILLE FLASKS

Mountainbrook Whiskey, John L. Stewart, Marysville, Cal & W.W. Ward Grotto Marysville from Western Flasks by Ralph Van Brocklin

EARLY MARYSVILLE, CALIFORNIA

In 1842, John Sutter leased part of his Rancho New Helvetia land to Theodore Cordua, a native of Mecklenburg in Germany, who raised livestock and, in 1843, built a home and trading post he called New Mecklenburg.[2] The trading post and home was situated at what would later become the southern end of ‘D’ Street, Marysville’s main street. In 1844, the Mexican government granted Cordua his own land grant, Rancho Honcut.
In 1848, a former employee of Cordua, Charles Covillaud, discovered riches in the gold fields and bought half of the Cordua ranch. Then, in January 1849, Michael C. Nye and William Foster Nye, brothers-in-law to Covillaud’s wife, Mary Murphy, bought the other half of the Cordua ranch. They later sold their interest to Covillaud. In October of the same year, Covillaud sold most of the ranch to Jose Ramirez, John Sampson, and Theodore Sicard. In the days of the Gold Rush, the ranch was a stopping point for riverboats from Sacramento and San Francisco that carried miners on their way to the digging grounds. A sign on the roadside as one enters Marysville carries the slogan: “Gateway to The Gold Fields.” Read More on Wikipedia

Read: THE TOWN OF MARYSVILLE from the Marysville Herald, August 1850

The town of Marysville is geographically speaking, in a position to become one of the most important in the Eureka State. It already numbers three thousand
inhabitants, celebrated for their industry, commercial enterprise, and public spirit.

Tidbits

A small brewery was built in Marysville by John Rueger, in 1852, corner of First and C streets. Its successor is the present California Brewery, owned by Gotlieb Sieber. There are six men employed here and the annual manufacture is over thirty-five thousand gallons. In the great flood of 1875 the brewery sustained a loss of about six thousand dollars, and in April, of the same year, it was destroyed by fire. A new frame building has since been erected. – Yuba County, California History

About 1856, an ale brewery was built on Feather river at the foot of Third street, by an Englishman, but it was not long operated, and was converted in 1859, into a beer brewery by a man named Meyer. This was in operation but a few years. – Yuba County, California History

Wine was made in Marysville, by J.M. Ramirez, as early as 1855, though none was made for the market prior to 1859, when Charles Covillaud, who had been making small quantities for several years, commenced its manufacture on a larger scale. A great deal of wine is now throughout the county, by a number of persons who have vineyards. The largest vineyard and winery near Marysville is that of Grass Bros. They commenced the manufacture as early as 1863, and now have twenty-five acres of vineyard. This, at an average of one thousand vines to the acre, makes a total of twenty-five thousand vines, which are of forty-three varieties. They have made as high as seventeen thousand gallons of seven varieties of wine in one year. Last year their manufacture was, however, but four thousand five hundred gallons. Some of the wine made here is shipped direct to the East, but the larger portion is sold in San Francisco. Two of the finest varieties of grapes, cultivated here, were imported from South America, by J. M. Ramirez; they are the Rose of Peru, and the Chile Rose. – Yuba County, California History

A soda water and sarsaparilla factory was started in 1865. It is located at No. 82, Second street, and two men are employed there; L. Belding is the proprietor. – Yuba County, California History

May 20, 1872, the Johnston Wine and Brandy Manufacturing Co. was formed for the manufacture of those liquors by the Johnston process. The capital stock was $100,000, divided into one thousand shares. Of this, about $27,000 were
subscribed. That year a large quantity of both wine and brandy was made, but on account of the low price, the company became involved in debt, and was finally compelled to discontinue their business. – Yuba County, California History

Golden Eagle Hotel and Bar in Marysville, California, 1856 – Historic Downtown Marysville – The Golden Eagle Hotel, a three-story brick building containing forty rooms, was erected in 1862 by A. Farnham.

Marysville D. Street. Although the exact date is uncertain, records indicate that sometime in the 1850s, Marysville received over 1.75 inches of rain in less than 15 minutes. – Historic Downtown Marysville

Banking House of Decker & Jewett, 60 D. Street, Marysville

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Different bottles same color, same bottles different colors

Posted on 5 September 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Different bottles same color, same bottles different colors…

Steve Mello

05 September 2013

More: Steve Mello with a Window Shade and Bottles

Mello2

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Our Most Celebrated Alpine Stomach Bitters

Posted on 4 September 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Advertisement Gehrmann, Ahrens & Co., importers and distillers, Manufacturers of Our Most Celebrated Alpine Stomach Bitters – New York City Directory, 1862 & 1865

“Our Most Celebrated” Alpine Stomach Bitters

GEHRMANN, AHRENS & CO. | NYC

04 September 2013 (R•081919)

Good grief, this is a tough one. All I can find is a Ludwig Gehrmann and a John Ahrens in New York City in and around 1865. They represented Gehrmann, Ahrens & Co., who put out “Our Most Celebrated” Alpine Stomach Bitters. They were located on 26 Canal Street in the heart of lower Manhattan. The stories surrounding this neighborhood are amazing.

The new listing in Bitters Bottles Supplement 2:

Advertisement
A 37.5 ALPINE STOMACH BITTERS, Wines and Liquors. Gehrmann, Ahrens & Co., Importers of Brandies, Rums, Whiskies, Gins, Wines, &c., Manufacturers of Our Most Celebrated Alpine Stomach Bitters, No. 26, Canal Street, Cor. of Rutgers St., New York., New York City Directory, 1862 and 1865.

This is not about the Alpine Herb Bitters represented by Thomas Taylor Company from San Francisco in 1888 nor the Alpine Bitters put out by Kornemann & Co. in New York in 1869. Another Alpine Bitters! And yes, I am aware of the E. Widemann “Alpine Stomach Bitters“. Stay tuned on that one.

Group street-front pose on Hudson Street – circa 1865

1865 City Mortality in NYC

CITY MORTALITY. — From the City Inspector’s report it appears that 660 deaths occurred in this city during the past week – 106 men, 100 women, 262 boys and 192 girls – being an increase of 106 upon the mortality of the previous week, and of 50 upon that of the corresponding week of 1864. Of the deceased 416 were children under five years of age. The mortality of the principal diseases were as follows Cholera infantum, 148; consumption, 59; infantile marasmus, 56; convulsions, 45; diarrhoea, 32; dysentery. 20; croup, 5; bilious fever, 5; typhus fever, 24; scarlet fever, 8; inflammation of the lungs, 32; small-pox, 8. – New York Times – July 19, 1865

Listings:

Gehrmann, Adolph, 159 First ave., Trow’s New York City Directory, 1865

Gehrmann, Ludwig, distiller, 26 Canal, Trow’s New York City Directory, 1865

Gehrmann, Ludwig, liquors, 26 Canal, New York City Directory, 1868, 1869

Gehrmann, Ahrens & Co., importers and distillers, 26 Canal, Trow’s New York City Directory, 1865

Ahrens, John G. H., distiller, 26 Canal, Trow’s New York City Directory, 1865

Ahrens, Jno G. H., retail, 89 Murray, Bonfort’s Wine and Liquor Trade Directory for the United States, 1875

Ahrens, John G. H., wines, 89 Murray, City Directories of New York City, 1878

Various Gehrmann listings – Trow’s New York City Directory, 1865

Rectifying Establishment Explosion:

EXPLOSION IN RUTGERS-STREET. — At about 8 o’clock yesterday morning a copper-still exploded in Mr. LUDWIG GEHRMANN‘s rectifying establishment, at Nos. 2 Rutgers and 26 Canal-streets, and THEODORE HUNGER, of Division-street, and JOHN ENGLER, were severely cut, bruised and scalded. Mr. HUNGER was taken home, and a policeman removed ENGLER to Bellevue Hospital. Mr. GEHRMANN has $6,500 insurance against fire in the New-Amsterdam office. He estimates his loss at $150. – New York Times – July 19, 1865

Disastrous Fire, New York Times, July 14, 1865

A photograph of Barnum’s American Museum, New York City – 1858

Read: Total Destruction of Barnum’s American Museum. Nine Other Buildings Burned to the Ground. LOSS ESTIMATED AT $1,000,000.

26 Canal Street | Gehrmann, Ahrens & Co:

Canal Street takes its name from a canal that was dug in the early 19th century to drain a contaminated and disease-ridden Collect Pond into the Hudson River. The pond was filled in 1811, and Canal Street was completed in 1820 following the angled path the canal had.

Corner of Canal and Broadway, NYC – circa 1834

Watch: Short Documentary “Forgotten New York, Canal Street”

26 Canal Street today:

Losing some of its charm for sure, 26 Canal Street today.

see 26 Canal Street now

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Otto Kornemann and his Alpine Bitters Statuette

Posted on 4 September 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Otto Kornemann and Julius Jungbluth

Alpine Bitters Statuette & Trademark

04 September 2013

First of all, we are not talking about the western, Alpine Herb Bitters put out by Thomas Taylor Company in San Francisco. We are however, speaking of the Alpine Bitters manufactured and marketed by Otto Kornemann & Julius Jungbluth in New York City. These two actually had a design patent for a statuette or “ornamental device, intended more especially for bars of drinking-houses, hotels, and saloons where Alpine Bitters is offered for sale.” They also had a “new and original design for a trade-mark for distinguishing and identifying the true Alpine Bitters as manufactured and sold by”…

What prompted this post today was finding this Alpine Bitters advertisement below in the Galveston Bulletin dated Wednesday, March 8, 1871. Why so far away? Why no bottles? Again, every bottle or brand has a story.

These bitters are the pure extracts of herbs and roots, which grew only on the mountains of Switzerland and the Alpine regions..

Alpine Bitters, Kornemann & Co., New York advertisement – Flake’s Semi-Weekly Galveston Bulletin. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 99, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 8, 1871

Select Listings:

Kornemann & Co. (Otto Kornemann & Julius Jungbluth) S. Cedar, The Trow City Directory Co.’s, Formerly Wilson’s, Copartnership and Corporation Directory of New York City, 1866

Kornemann & Co., imps. 8 cedar, City Directories of New York, 1866

Design Patent: 3517, Statuette, Otto Kornemann & Julius Jungbluth, New York City, Scientific American, Volume 20, 1869

Trade Mark: 4,005, Otto Kornemann & Julius Jungbluth, New York, NY

No known embossed Alpine Bitters bottles exist to my knowledge though there is a notation in the Bitters Bottles book by Carlyn Ring and W.C. Ham for an Alpine Bitters by Kornemann & Co. which is:

A 35 ALPINE BITTERS
For Sale Only By Korenmann & Co., (sp: Kornemann) importers and sole agents. 8 Cedar Street, New York. The popular European tonic and anti-dyspeptic elixir. Made entirely of roots and herbs.

The new listing in Bitters Bottles Supplement 2:

Advertisement
A 35 ALPINE BITTERS, State Agent for Alpine Bitters, Kornemann & Co., 8 Cedar street, New York. These celebrated Swiss Bitters are a very agreeable stomach Strengthening tonic. The popular European tonic and anti-dyspeptic elixir. Made entirely of roots and herbs., Flake’s Semi-Weekly Galveston Bulletin. (Galveston, Texas.), March 8, 1871
Design Patent 3517: Statuette, Otto Kornemann & Julius Jungbluth, New York City, June 1, 1869.
Trade Mark 4,005: New and original design for a trade-mark for distinguishing and identifying the true Alpine Bitters as manufactured and sold by us, Otto Kornemann and Julius Jungbluth, United States Patent Office 1870

Design Patent 3517

“ornamental device, intended more especially for bars of drinking-houses, hotels, and saloons where Alpine Bitters is offered for sale.”

Design Patent 3517: Statuette, Otto Kornemann & Julius Jungbluth, New York City

Design Patent 3517: Statuette, Otto Kornemann & Julius Jungbluth, New York City

Trade Mark 4,005

“new and original design for a trade-mark for distinguishing and identifying the true Alpine Bitters as manufactured and sold by us”

Otto Kornemann and Julius Jungbluth Trademark beneath a Hoffheimer Bavarian Bitters brand trademark. – United States Patent Office 1870

Otto Kornemann and Julius Jungbluth Trademark 4,005

Otto Kornemann and Julius Jungbluth Trademark 4,005 – United States Patent Office, May 3, 1870

KORNEMANN & CO. bottle

The only Kornemann bottle picture (horizontal below) I could find was over at Antique-bottles.net. I believe this might be the bottle with an applied label reading Alpine Bitters. According to jkeeney (bottle lister), the bottle is embossed with “KORNEMANN & CO”. The seam stops at the beginning of the neck. It is 10 1/2″ high by 2 3/4″ diameter. The bottle is 12 sided that stops at the shoulder.

“Very interesting! Two examples of an amber bottle embossed simply ‘Julius Jungbluth’, same shape as the Kornemann bottle, were found years ago in Alta, Utah. Always wondered where they were from and what they contained.” – Roger Terry

Above horizontal picture embossed only “KORNEMANN & CO.“. Also depicted above is a “JULIUS JUNGBLUTH” embossed bottle noted by Roger Terry.

Lawsuit

Mention of lawsuit by Otto Kornemann and Julius Jungbluth – Michigan Reports Advance Sheets, 1873

Kornemann, O., importer of peat moss

PRG Note: I have a feeling that this is the same Otto Kornemann but have not made a definitive link.

ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK: THE METROPOLIS OF TO-DAY (1888)

OTTO KORNEMANN, Importer of Peat Moss for Stable Bedding No. 14 Piatt Street. Among the most active and enterprising general importers from Europe is Mr. Otto Komemann of No. 14 Piatt Street. There are few, if any, in the metropolis possessed of his wide range of practical experience, and his sound judgment in introducing goods specially demanded by the American public. A native of Germany, Mr. Kornemann has now been a resident of the United States, for upward of thirty-two years, and since 1877 has been actively engaged in business at his present stand as the leading importer of chemically -pure glycerine and glycerine for high explosives, the excellent standard of which is universally acknowledged. He has developed business of great magnitude with influential connections, both at home and abroad. He is the importer of the famous O. K. brand peat moss stable bedding, as yet a novelty in our country, though it has been in use for years past on the continent. A description of this article and its many virtues will prove highly interesting to all owners of horses, and those who keep themselves well informed upon the improvements of the age. Peat moss bedding is the only perfect article for bedding in the world; the manure is deodorized by it, thereby producing pure air, while horses’ feet undergo a radical change, inasmuch as they become soft, and the universal verdict is that horses’ feet rendered tender and inflamed by the stone pavements of cities are soothed and cooled in the most remarkable maner; horses also require less grooming, owing to the cleansing properties of the moss. From the economical point of view it has no equal, from one to two bales sufficing for one horse per year. Were these alone the only recommendations it would be by far the best bedding in existence, but to them is to be added the important fact that the bedding when removed is the richest manure known, charged full of ammonia, worth from $7.50 to $25 per ton* for the fertilizing material absorbed, while it keeps the soil moist for a longer period, after rain, than any other substance. Peat moss manure is one of the richest fertilizers known, and the demand far exceeds the supply. We recommend all horse owners, as well as managers of large stables, to send to Mr. Kornemann for his circular and testimonials, and test a sample bale of this truly wonderful bedding, now so rapidly replacing straw and all other substances there for. Mr. Kornemann’is a merchant of sterling integrity, and exercises a liberal policy, being worthy of the marked success achieved.

Kornemann on Steamship?

A STEAM-SHIP SUNK AT SEA.; THE POMMERANIA RUN DOWN BY AN IRON BARK. FIFTY-EIGHT LIVES REPORTED LOST. A MIDNIGHT COLLISION OFF FOLKESTONE THE GREAT STEAM-SHIP STRUCK AMIDSHIPS BY A BARK UNDER FULL HEADWAY STRUGGLES OF THE PASSENGERS AND CREW FOR LIFE HEROIC CONDUCT OF CAPT. SCHWENSEN LISTS OF THE SAVED AND LOST THE CARGO AND ITS VALUE.

I am not certain but by looking at the many articles that are available online, it looks like Otto Kornemann survived this historic steamship disaster. This is a possibility that this is the same Otto Kornemann. I am working on the connection.

Otto Kornemann listed as one of the survivors– Terrible Collision in the Channel, Serious Loss of Life, The Daily Telegraph, November 27th, 1878

Read: The Story of the Disaster

STEAMSHIPS COLLISION, 1878. Fatal collision between the German steamship ‘Pommerania’ and the Welsh bark ‘Moel Eilian,’ near Dungeness Point, in the British Channel, 26 November 1878. Contemporary wood engraving.

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Check these T. W. Dyott bottles out!

09 September 2013

Dr. ROBERTSONS FAMILY MEDICINE

SOLD ONLY BY T W DYOTT

TW DYOTT embossed on a small vial type bottle

Paper labeled, square flint glass bottle labled T W DYOTT

The bricks from the site and the exposed foundations of the ovens and the factory walls at Dyottville

Beer Street and Gin Lane

William Hogarth

08 September 2013

they depict the evils of the consumption of gin as a contrast to the merits of drinking beer

BEER STREET

Beer Street depicts industry, health, bonhomie and thriving commerce.

GIN LANE

Gin Lane shows shocking scenes of infanticide, starvation, madness, decay and suicide.

Henry Bolingers Maysville Glass-Works

1814-1825

by Stephen Atkinson

08 September 2013

About Stephen Atkinson

A little on HOBOKEN DE BIE & Co.

08 September 2013

‘The Book Of Gin’ Distills A Spirited History

by NPR Staff

HOBOKEN DE BIE & Co.

The New York State Glass Factories

Preface of a Series | New Amsterdam

by Stephen Atkinson

07 September 2013

makes a strong case for quite a bit of glass manufacture occurring on Glass Makers Street which proves beyond a doubt that dark green drinking vessels were being blown here in 1640.

New Amsterdam was the first successful area in North America to manufacture glass continuously in the 17th century.

His glass works made bulls-eyes, for the windows and doors of the early homes, and plain utilitarian bottles and all the hollow ware for the citizenry of New Amsterdam.

This location was then known as New Found Land, where a stage coach road with a tavern had been established in the late 1600s when New York was under Dutch rule.

As students of the early glass manufactured here in the United States it is time to give due diligence to the Dutch as the first at glass manufacture on a grand scale in North America.

Mallet type bottle has a sheared lip, unseen on this type of large vessel.

About Stephen Atkinson

I wonder if the Alpine Bitters is the labeled bottle and the larger cylinder bottles are Fairmont and Clutch Rye? Could that be N.A. Bink with the tie? What about that Sheriff?

Did N. A. Binks make an Alpine Bitters too?

07 September 2013

The Mysterious E-mail

Ferdinand – Does this work for the new things?

Other ‘Oddball’ Alpine Bitters References

Who is N.A. Binks?

“listed in various census reports and directories as a wholesale liquor dealer in 1893 and a saloon owner”

engaged in the retail liquor business, and thereafter he conducted a substantial wholesale liquor business, under the title of Bink Wholesale Liquor and Supply company

The Serving Tray

A Little on Escanaba, Michigan

Bottle examples in this post courtesy American Bottle Auctions

The Widemann & Chappas

Alpine Stomach Bitters

05 September 2013

Again I made a trip to the car only to find the fifth and sixth one sitting there next to the hole when I came back. Time to take another trip to the car!

from A Quick Exit for Two Lucky Diggers

A Quick Exit for Two Lucky Diggers

ADVERTISING

TIMELINE

1854

1855

1856

1857

1863

1864

1867

1872

MARYVILLE FLASKS

EARLY MARYSVILLE, CALIFORNIA

The town of Marysville is geographically speaking, in a position to become one of the most important in the Eureka State. It already numbers three thousand inhabitants, celebrated for their industry, commercial enterprise, and public spirit.

Tidbits

Different bottles same color, same bottles different colors…

Steve Mello

05 September 2013

“Our Most Celebrated” Alpine Stomach Bitters

GEHRMANN, AHRENS & CO. | NYC

04 September 2013 (R•081919)

Advertisement A 37.5 ALPINE STOMACH BITTERS, Wines and Liquors. Gehrmann, Ahrens & Co., Importers of Brandies, Rums, Whiskies, Gins, Wines, &c., Manufacturers of Our Most Celebrated Alpine Stomach Bitters, No. 26, Canal Street, Cor. of Rutgers St., New York., New York City Directory, 1862 and 1865.

1865 City Mortality in NYC

Listings:

Rectifying Establishment Explosion:

Disastrous Fire, New York Times, July 14, 1865

26 Canal Street | Gehrmann, Ahrens & Co:

The town of Marysville is geographically speaking, in a position to become one of the most important in the Eureka State. It already numbers three thousand
inhabitants, celebrated for their industry, commercial enterprise, and public spirit.

Advertisement
A 37.5 ALPINE STOMACH BITTERS, Wines and Liquors. Gehrmann, Ahrens & Co., Importers of Brandies, Rums, Whiskies, Gins, Wines, &c., Manufacturers of Our Most Celebrated Alpine Stomach Bitters, No. 26, Canal Street, Cor. of Rutgers St., New York., New York City Directory, 1862 and 1865.

A 35 ALPINE BITTERS
For Sale Only By Korenmann & Co., (sp: Kornemann) importers and sole agents. 8 Cedar Street, New York. The popular European tonic and anti-dyspeptic elixir. Made entirely of roots and herbs.