Tag Archives: Mark Yates

Holloway’s Bitters from Syracuse

Holloway’s Bitters from Syracuse 13 April 2014 (082719) Well, finally we are seeing some great bottle pictures without snow in the background! What a winter! Spring has sprung. Yesterday, I was pleasantly surprised to see a labeled Holloway’s Bitters lady’s leg … Continue reading

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

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 … Continue reading

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Labeled Wyoming Cordial Bottle

Wyoming Cordial – Wyoming Remedies The Great Life Preserving Tonic and Blood Purifier C. H. Nearing and Mr. Wakefield of Homer, were in the place Monday selling patent medicines, salves, etc. Here is another bottle that a person at the … Continue reading

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Manchester Display Photo Gallery

More pictures from the FOHBC 2013 National Antique Bottle Show in Manchester, New Hampshire. Display awards were announced this past Sunday afternoon near the conclusion of the show. Congratulations are in order to Michael George and his Stoddard Glass Factory exhibit … Continue reading

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Manchester Seminar Pictures

Manchester, NH Seminars I wanted to get some pictures up as quickly as I could. Returned today from Manchester with Elizabeth. The seminars, simply put, were awesome, informative and well attended. It was truly hard to select a topic each … Continue reading

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2013 Bottle Battle Highlights

New England Bottle Battle I wanted to get some posts and pictures out as quickly as I could. It has been insane here in a good way. A few pictures have been put up on the PRG facebook page. The … Continue reading

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Blacking Bottles & a little more

B L A C K I N G This past week, a number of primarily eastern US collectors have been posting some really great pictures of Blacking bottles. I thought I would take a moment to nest a few images … Continue reading

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Pictures of the Week (06 January 2013)

This is the first weekly round-up of some really nice photography from various antique bottle and glass web sites that have surfaced in the previous week. It seems that winter sunlight and new snow has influenced many of still life … Continue reading

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“In keeping with the Dr. Townsend’s theme started by others”

Looks like we have some really nice dialog and pictures of older Dr. Townsend’s Sarsaparilla’s over at Early American Glass on facebook from the usual suspects like Rick Ciralli, Mark Yates, Jeff Noordsy, Woody Douglas, Matt Greig, Michael George, Taylor … Continue reading

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Shupp’s Grove 11th Annual Bottle Festival Pictures

I’ve always wanted to go to the Shupp’s Grove Bottle Festival as there are not to many bottles shows outdoors. This and the annual Heckler Columbus Day Event in Connecticut are the only ones that come to mind. I guess it … Continue reading

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