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Tag Archives: Congress
Congress Bitters – The Great American Tonic!
Congress Bitters – The Great American Tonic! Dundas Dick & Co. – New York 15 January 2019 I have an amber rectangular embossed Congress Bitters bottle in my collection (pictured at the top of post) that I know nothing about. … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Apothecary, Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, Ephemera, History, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Remedy, Scams & Frauds, Tonics, Trade Cards
Tagged advertising, american, bitters, Bottle, Brooklyn, Broome, calendar, Capitol, capsules, castor oil, chemist, Congress, croton oil, Cure, Domenico Minneill, Druggist & Drugstore, Dundas Dick, Edinburgh, Fraud, J. C. Saur, Joe Gourd, Medicine, New York, pills, Poison, powders, Quinine, Remedy, Sandalwood, Schumacher & Ettlinger, Scotland, Seidlitine, Seidlitz, Tape worm, Thermaline, Tonic, Wooster
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Coleman’s Tonic Bitters – Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Coleman’s Tonic Bitters – Portsmouth, New Hampshire 23 October 2014 (R•102614) Bitters trade card authority Joe Gourd sent me the following e-mail in reference to the A.W. Coleman’s Anti-Dyspeptic and Tonic Bitters post. “Enjoyed your post on Coleman’s Bitters. While … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Apothecary, Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Medicines & Cures, Tonics, Trade Cards
Tagged advertising, Apothecary, bitters, card, Coleman, Congress, Druggist & Drugstore, Gourd, New Hampshire, Portsmouth, Rockingham, Tonic, trade, Vaughan
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The great William Allen’s Congress Bitters
The great William Allen’s Congress Bitters 26 May 2014 (R•011119) I have been looking for a reason for some time now to unveil a post on the great William Allen’s Congress Bitters. I now have one as John Pastor has … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Auction News, Bitters, Civil War, Collectors & Collections, Druggist & Drugstore, Ephemera, History, Milk & Creamers, Tax Stamps, Tonics, Trade Cards, Whiskey
Tagged A. E. Richardson, Allen, auction, bitters, Burlington, celery, Compound, Congress, Druggist & Drugstore, Fort Edwards, Gardner, New York, Paine's, Pastor, Richardson, Tonic, Vermont, wells, William, William W. Wells, William Wirt Henry
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Why can’t we find any information on Burnham’s Jaundice Bitters?
Why can’t we find any information on Burnham’s Jaundice Bitters? 26 April 2014 (Post update with NEW information 09 May 2014 – see bottom of post) It looks like I saved the toughest for last as I just can not find out who … Continue reading
Posted in Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Medicines & Cures, Questions
Tagged Andrew P. Preston, bitters, Brandon DeWolfe, Burnham, Congress, deputy, detective, jaundice, Jeremiah, Josiah, Marianne Dow, New Hampshire, Portsmouth, Strengthening, Vegetable
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Sterne’s Celebrated Congress Bourbon Bitters
Sterne’s Celebrated Congress Bourbon Bitters 3 November 2013 (R•101818) While looking at Bourbon Cordial advertising last night, I came across this wonderful lithograph of an early agriculture and hunting scene held by the the Library of Congress. The date is … Continue reading
Posted in Bitters, Bourbon, Cordial, History, Liquor Merchant, Questions, Spirits
Tagged bitters, Bourbon, Celebrated, Congress, Evan Williams, Kentucky, Louisville, Sterne
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Who is I & L. M. Hellman of St. Louis, Missouri?
Who is I. & L. M. Hellman of St. Louis, Missouri? 09 April 2013 (R•011319) (R•110719) I received the following email and pictures from Matthew Levanti about a bottle embossed I & L. M. Hellman, St. Louis, Mo. This really … Continue reading
Posted in Bitters, Bourbon, Club News, Digging and Finding, History, liquor, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Questions, Spirits, Tonics, Whiskey
Tagged Abraham, bitters, Bourbon, Brothers, Charles, Congress, crow, distilling, Gaines, Germany, Hangtown Bottle Necks, Hellman's, I & L. M. Hellman, Isaac, Isaac Hellman, legal, louis, M. Hellman, Matt Levanti, Mississippi, Missouri, Moritz, Orrick, Pine, Rye, Saint Louis, spirits, St. Louis, trademark, Whiskey, wholesale
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Some Nice Congress & Empire Spring Bottles – Shags to Riches
SHAGS TO RICHES (not by far) When Elizabeth and I first moved into the long vacant house on property we now affectionately call Peach Ridge, it had shag carpet (see above), an old decrepit boat in the garage and had … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art & Architecture, Article Publications, Auction News, Collectors & Collections, Humor - Lighter Side, Mineral Water, Peachridge Glass, Water, Whimsies, Windows
Tagged Buddy L, Columbian, Congress, Congress Park, delmarva, Drinking, Elizabeth, Empire, Glass Works Auctions, Houston, Mineral, New York, Peach Ridge, Saltillo, Saratoga, shag, Springs, water, Whimsie
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