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Table of Contents Bottle Buzz................................................2 Recent Finds..............................................5 FOHBC Officer Listing 2006-2008............6 President’s Message...................................7 Regional Reports........................................8 Revised Honor Roll / Hall of Fame Guidelines .............................................15 FOHBC 2007 Award Winners ............................................16 Piso’s Trio: One Step Ahead of the Law Jack Sullivan........................18 Saratoga Springs Donald Yates................................23

Grandfather’s achievements memorialized by grandson Bill Baab............................................24 Collecting Owl Drug Store Stuff: Whiskey Top Owls Jim Bilyeu.....................................27 New Collection Ideas Ed Faulkner................................28 The Dating Game: DeSteiger Glass Co. Bill Lockhart and the Bottle Research Group.......................................31 Have You Seen A Scalloped Flange Tumbler?

Part One of Two Barry L. Bernas.............................38

A Tin of Trouble Joe Terry.......................................48 Simplex Embossed and Unembossed Packer Jars Barry L. Bernas......................50 The Greenbrier Hotel Howard Dean...........................57 Tin Feeders, Good or Bad? Charles Harris.........................60 H. Wagener Brewing Co. Stan Sanders & Mickey Roach...62 Membership Information.........................65 Classified Ads and Ad Rate Information...66

Hollister Soda Works Chris Fahey.................................43

FOHBC Show-Biz Show Calendar Listings............69

Collecting the Ioway: Part 6: Beer Bottles Mike Burggraaf.........................44

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Bottle Buzz News, Notes, Letters, etc.

Send Buzz Notes to: Kathy Hopson-Sathe at: kathy@thesodafizz.com or write: Buzz Notes, 341 Yellowstone Drive, Fletcher, NC 28732

The passing of a real gentleman I was saddened when I learned of the passing of long time friend and western whiskey bottle author/dealer R.E. “Bob” Barnett. He was a real gentleman and friend of mine and hundreds of fellow western whiskey bottle collectors. I met Bob back in 1984 for the first time at the Santa Rosa, Calif., bottle show, and immediately learned that he was the most honest and fair man when it came to buying and selling western whiskies. I had just started collecting western fifths and marveled at Bob’s table of clean and shiny western fifths and shot glasses. I picked up a for sale list from him and took it home. Within a week I was calling Bob to see if any were still available for sale.

He sent me my first $35 whiskey and I was hooked! From that time on I purchased many bottles from him either at the shows, by mail, or from a phone call that he made to me knowing that I would want a whiskey that he had just purchased. He kept his prices within reason so even a person with a small income could afford a bottle now and then.

As I started to purchase the more expensive whiskies, I would sell the many cheaper bottles back to Bob at a price that he would set, knowing that he would sell these bottles to a person just getting started, at a price that they could afford, as he did for me years earlier. He made many people happy through the years, satisfying their bottle appetite and not draining their wallets.After getting to know Bob and his wife, June, I would spend many hours sitting at their table talking bottles, fishing, life, etc. They were both the nicest people that you could ever hope to meet.

I talked to Bob on the phone for a year or so after he got out of the hobby because of health reasons. It got increasingly hard to hold a conversation with him as his health deteriorated from year to year. I only wish I could have seen him in person as I know he, and especially I, would have liked that. I really cherish the little notes along with his autograph that he would write in the whiskey bottle books that I would purchase

from him.

My heart and thoughts are with June and her family. I do hope to see June in the near future.

I will have to take a trip to Lakeview, Oregon and give her a hug.

Bob did so much for the western whiskey bottle collector that we didn’t even know it until he left us. I, for one. wish I had at least one more day with him.

He was special and I will never forget him. He was one of a kind.

A Friend, Rich Lucchesi Santa Rosa, Calif.

In memory It is with great sadness that I advise of the June 4, 2007 passing of Robert Eugene “Bob” Barnett, one of the most-loved of the Western dealers and collectors. A man with an infectious smile and a gentleman noted for his honesty and integrity, he will be tremendously missed by those of us whose lives he touched. He leaves behind a woman equally loved by those in the West, June, his wife of 37 years.

Bob was born August 27, 1921 in Kootenai, Idaho and worked as a cattle buyer in Lakeview, Oregon until a couple of years ago, when his health began to worsen.

As the son of a teacher who dabbled in ranching, I spent a lot of hours in livestock auctions and Bob and I had some great conversations about how that business had changed over the years. A telephone call to him would start out about some specific bottle he had for sale and end up in an hourlong conversation about the West, ranching

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Like many of the other Western whiskey collectors, I purchased a lot of bottles and shot glasses from Bob over the years. In fact, it is safe to say that he built the lion’s share of my early collection for me and remained my prime source of clear Western flasks, even after I began to attend Western shows in the early 1990s. I’d guess that there are many others who would make similar statements. Bob was wise with his counsel, cautioning against getting too caught up in the “have to have it at any cost” frenzy. And, unusual for a dealer but so characteristic of Bob, he was always the first to apologize if he felt the price he was asking for an item was too high.

Bob’s contributions to the hobby were recognized by the FOHBC in 2002, at which time he was awarded inclusion in their Honor Roll. At that time, he was acknowledged for his authorship of four books (Pacific Coast Whiskey Bottles, 1979; Western Liquor Bottles, 1987; and Western Whiskey Bottles, 1992 and 1997). It was noted that these books played a significant role in establishing the collecting of Western whiskey bottles as a major specialty within the hobby.

One of the first bottles I bought from Bob is one of my favorites and will be a bottle I will always remember him by. A halfpint coffin flask from the San Francisco firm of Atzeroth & Bendel; the name of their bar is “The Fair Wind.” Bob, may you always have a fair wind at your back and may the Good Lord honor you as your friends and family honor your memory.

Ralph Van Brocklin Johnson City, Tenn.

Dear Larry (Fox, Northeastern Region Editor and Director), Please allow me to introduce myself, I am Mark R. Smith, the writer of the Long Island Antique Bottle Associations newsletter. I wanted to thank you very much for the all too kind words you wrote about the club’s newsletter “The Glory Hole” in the most recent issue of Bottles and Extras.

Our club has been around since the 1970s; I believe it was founded in 1972.

However, as with so many clubs, we have been suffering an erosion of our membership base for years, I think our club hit its peak membership in the early 1980s, and since then, we would gain one member, only to have two or three depart the club. I think the club hit absolute rock bottom a few years back, I believe it was in 2003 or ‘04, and we

Bottles and Extras talked about disbanding, but never got around to it because there was really no club officers left to do it, as we had not even elected a slate in some years. Membership was down to about 10 or 12 paid members.

The club suffered a very traumatic incident about this time involving a convicted child sex offender, and with the help of some brave souls, I seized the Presidency and the newsletter and he was expelled from the club.

With Laura’s help the club won the FOHBC Newsletter contest in 2005, and both of us treasure the beautiful plaque the FOHBC awarded us.

I wanted to bring some life back into the club, as we surely could not continue the way we were going, and with the support of the few members left, some drastic changes were undertaken. We gave up the clubs permanent meeting site, as I felt that it (the site) had become stale, and the club went back to its roots, to meeting in a different location for each meeting. The average attendance at a meeting was 5-7 people before hand, and at the very first meeting at a new location here in Sayville, 31 people showed up. I could not believe it, the people were standing as we only had 24 chairs! I really took the bull by the horns with all the new meetings, sending press releases to the newspapers for the local events listings, putting it on various websites when possible and practical.

The club has continued to meet at a variety of locations around Long Island, from Sayville to Wantagh, Roslyn, East Northport, Bellport and East Islip to name some. It sure works to bring out the people, as we are averaging over 20 people per meeting, and to date, have gained at least one new member at each, with a high of three new members at one meeting (Bellport).

When I say new member, I mean new, they have never had any connection in the past with the club. A number of former members have also renewed and we have about 24 or so paid members. The meetings are so much fun now. We do local bottles from the area where we are meeting so that people attending will see items that they can relate to. While as an advanced collector I do love seeing the rare or unusual bottle, if you want to get new people interested, you have to have material that they can relate to, and local bottles are the bait on the hook. The club is very, very lucky to have several members with extensive local beer, soda and dairy bottle collections, and they have been wonderful about bringing selected examples to the meetings. To watch someone’s face

September-October 2007 as they hold a bottle from the town they live in, that they never knew or heard of, is really special.

I hope that the club can stay afloat. I currently do quite a bit for the club and I have just been transferred to a different location and position. While I do not have to move (thank dear God for that), the new responsibilities are going to force me to suspend my extensive involvement in the club for the foreseeable future. If anyone will step forward, either an individual or group, to take it up remains to be seen. I will admit, I ended up with all the jobs one by one, as no one wanted to do them anymore.

I really love the hobby, and I am a Life Member of the FOHBC. Best to all, Mark R. Smith Larry, Mark Smith’s letter could have come from more than several clubs I know of. Some of the clubs have died and some have not.

Mark’s idea of emphasizing local history and bottles is a fine idea. The club here in San Diego has done exactly that.

Like Mark, I am more interested in bottles from everywhere but it is fun to watch the locals having such success with the local bottles.

I suggest that all local clubs get a copy of Mark’s letter – many of their addresses are in the recently released 2007-2008 FOHBC Membership Directory.

The organized hobby, in general, seems to be following the path of the Long Island Bottle Collectors Association.

Leadership and workers are sorely lacking. “What’s-in-it-for-me” seems to prevail as does a “something-for-nothing” philosophy.

I can’t find much of the original “I-lovebottles-and-their-history;-that’s-why-Icollect-them.”

Most of the email I get is “how-much-isit-worth?”

Cecil Munsey FOHBC Director-At-Large cecilmunsey@cox.net Dear Mr. Munsey, For me, this is a wonderful hobby, I love it and hope to still collect when I am 90!

I will tell you upfront that I am one of the “I collect bottles and love the history and story behind them, what they are worth is secondary to me and I research them and want to write a book about them” bottle collectors.

I do not collect rare or expensive bottles, my

3 area is strap-sided, coffin, shoofly and pumpkin seed flasks from N.Y.C./Brooklyn and Long Island. Most sell for $10 to $50 each. I started in the early 1970s, at about 10 or 12 years old (ha, I just dated myself, I am 46). I signed up as a Life Member of the FOHBC at the urging of the late Jean Garrison (she was such a super lady, one of my mentors in the hobby, along with Don Weinhardt), I would say in the early to mid 1980s.

Much of what you say is true, sad, but very true. I handle a lot of the things for our club, and had set a goal of getting it back on its feet, at least with some officers anyway, however, that may not come to be. The location that I work at has been closed, permanently, and I have been transferred. I will not be able to continue to do as much for the club and it does sadden me greatly to say that this could well be the end of the road for the Long Island Antique Bottle Association. While my line of attack was working, paid membership and attendance at the meetings was up, the club set up a website at www.libottle.org if you care to visit, the club was still relying heavily on me, and this could become its undoing.

To many today, history seems to be much less important to people, the pressure of just paying the bills is great for many, too many. This follows the overall trend in the country today of growing inequality and general fraying of the social compact.

Many trends reflect this, today every one has their own pension, a 401K, while a generation ago, most were covered by employer pension plans. Health care coverage will be next, watch. I also sit on the Board of Directors of my local historical society, the Sayville Historical Society, and we are suffering the same situation. A slow, but steady erosion in the membership of the Society, from a peak of 220 or so, we are currently at 140 or so (I do not recall the exact numbers). While the Society still can fill all the offices, it is pretty much the same people now, every one just changes chairs, there has been no new blood for a few years and the Nominating Committee has great trouble finding any takers outside of the current Board. I am sure that you have heard this before.

Much of the email received by me in regards to bottle questions involve what is it worth, who will pay for it, etc. A few want just the story behind the bottle, I would say it is about 75/25.

I just loved the latest issue of Bottles and

4 Extras, fantastic pieces as always. For wellwritten research on bottles, it can not be beat. All the membership owes a debt of gratitude to Kathy for her hard work as editor, and all the writers who have, and will, contribute to it. Without it, we have nothing to hold us together in the hobby.

Best to all, Mark R. Smith Dear Larry, Mark and Cecil, Your correspondence to each other has brought up important points that many are facing. Every thing said made good points, but there are a few important facts to be considered in these letters.

First, anything that works for one club can very well work for another and can definitely be worth trying. Mark has happened upon at least four ideas that are working for his club. First, he has changed the location of his meetings. Sometimes simple things are very effective and this is a good idea that may work for another club suffering from poor attendence due to a stale location. Second, he has enriched each meeting with interesting programs something I’ve heard other bottle clubs have done with success (and the programs haven’t always been about bottles, either).

Third, the club now has a website. (Any club wanting help creating a website, please do let me know. I would be happy to give you a hand with that.) And fourth, he has taken advantage of using the media for announcements about his club to get the word to those who might otherwise not know about it. (Many public service announcements are free.)

Another important thing is participation.

It takes more than one person to run a successful club (or show, etc.). Each club has gems that could be shining, even if they are diamonds in the rough. I, for one, know it is a whole lot better to lend a hand than just watch everyone else have all the fun.

(I had only done webpages before - never a print publication - when I was asked to become your editor. Imagine now if I had said “no” simply because I’d never done it before.) Just like this magazine you are holding in your hand - it took everyone listed in the Table of Contents to make it happen.

There is no way I could do this all by myself, and I wouldn’t want to. It is a combined effort - of editor, and those who help me edit, authors, and those who help them research, business manager, who coordinates with the printer, treasurer, who pays the expenses of printing, and printer’s

September-October 2007 staff - that turns out well.

Please remember this when your club needs someone - that someone is YOU. And also remember that no part is small - all are important.

Hoping to meet you at a bottle show soon, your editor, Kathy Hopson-Sathe Help!

The Bottle Research Group is looking for information on Clicquot Club soda bottles and any bottles with the letter “X” embossed on the bases. In both cases, we are interested in embossed bases, although we would like descriptions of the entire bottle. Many of the Clicquot Club bases have an embossed Eskimo or a large “X”; some also have initials, such as “AB” with the other base embossing.

We are also looking into any bottles with the letter “X” on the base. We have found a large “X” on the bases of a few soda bottles, usually with 1930 or 1931 date codes. Please understand that we are not buying bottles; we seek information. Thanks.

Please contact: Carol Serr, Jones & Stokes 9775 Businesspark Ave., Ste 200 San Diego CA 92131-1642 Ph: 858-578-8964 • FAX 858-578-0578 E-mail: cserr@jsanet.com

Bottles and Extras The full-color, 116-page August issue of Toy Collector Magazine is available to view or download free of charge at www.toycollectormagazine.com. (Please note, by the time of printing, other issues may be available.)

Junior collector featured Joshua Lambert, 8, of Northfield, Illinois, kicked off the opening of the Chicago Antique Market’s first Junior Collector Club as special guest speaker alongside his father, Daryle S. Lambert, author of the new book, 31 Steps To Your Millions In Antiques & Collectibles, on Saturday, June 30, 2007.

An avid collector with a keen eye for value, Joshua showcased his impressive collection from the many treasure hunts he and his father have taken together.

“The collecting bug bit Joshua when he was 3 years old,” says Joshua’s father.

When Joshua was 5, he decided he wanted to make his own money, so Daryle and his wife, Vickie, started several piggy banks for Joshua to save his own money, with one specifically for buying antiques and collectibles. Joshua eagerly learned how to count his money, and at house sales, he carefully calculated whether he had enough cash to purchase an item he liked.

Later, Joshua watched while his father used the internet to do research and check prices. He soon learned how to research and price out items himself. At house sales, he began to learn to bargain with the sellers, so he could buy items at the price he wanted, in order to profit if he wanted to sell them later.

“Collecting has been very beneficial to my relationship with Joshua,” says his dad.

“It has given us a great opportunity to grow very close to one another through this common interest. My wife also hunts for treasures on the weekend and it gives us a wonderful family activity. From an educational point of view, Joshua continues a “hands on” learning experience in history, math, art, computers, business and economics through this activity. The greatest part of all of this is that we get to spend a tremendous amount of time together. I believe parents would be doing their children a great service if they got involved in collecting and started their children collecting at an early age.”

Today, at 8 years old, Joshua, is a skilled collector, able to make good buying decisions. Of course, he doesn’t mind if his dad tags along

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Recent Find The readers might be interested in one of the bottles I purchased a few years ago. When I saw the bottle I knew it was an important piece and started research.

The bottle turned out to belong to a naval hero from the Civil War who was involved in many of the battles with the ironclads from both the North and the South.

The bottle was given to William E. LeRoy to commemorate his promotion to Commodore by a lantern company that supplied to the Navy. It is marked with a patent on the locking mechanism and I found the patent information on the lock that coincides with the promotion date.

I suspect the bottle was made at the Sandwich Glass Works but it could have been made by one of the many of the fine glass works on the east coast.

Naval officer William Edgar Leroy was born in New York on March 24, 1817. Beginning as a midshipman on January 11, 1832, he became lieutenant on July 13, 1843. Leroy served in the Mediterranean on Commander Issac Hull’s flagship, the Ohio, and was afterward attached to the steamer Princeton. In 1847, Leroy took part in the engagement with Mexican soldiers at Rio Aribiqua.

After promotion to commander on July 1, 1861, he was assigned to the steamer Keystone State of the South Atlantic squadron, where he was in on the capture of Fernandina, Florida in 1862, and in an engangement with iron-clads off Charleston, South Carolina a year later, in January, 1863.

In 1864, he commanded both the steam-sloop Oneida of the Western Gulf squadron and the Ossipee. In the latter vessel, he received the surrender of the Confederate ram Tennessee in the battle of Mobile Bay. Leroy was made captain July 25, 1866, commodore in July of 1870, rear admiral April 5, 1874, and in 1876, commanded the South Atlantic station. On March 20, 1884, he was placed on the retired list. Admiral Leroy was familiarly known as “the Chesterfield of the Navy.”

On the top of the lock, at the base of the dog, is stamped: “711 Walton Mf’g Works, N.Y.” On the side of the lock, around the pedestal, is engraved: “From Walton’s Mft. & Lantern Works, N.Y.” The bottle is etched: “Commodore Wm E. LeRoy, U.S.N.”

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Business & News The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors is a non-profit organization for collectors of historical bottles and related collectible items. Our primary goal is educational as it relates to the history and manufacture of historical bottles and related artifacts.

FOHBC Officers 2006-2008 President : Carl Sturm, 88 Sweetbriar Branch, Longwood, FL 32750-2783; Phone: (407) 332-7689; E-mail: glassmancarl@sprintmail.com First Vice-President : Fred Capozzela, 1108 Ritger St., Utica, NY 13501; Phone: (315) 724-1026; E-mail: fcapozzella@hotmail.com Second Vice-President : Richard Siri, P.O. Box 3818, Santa Rosa, CA 95402; Phone: (707) 542-6438; E-mail: rtsiri@sbcglobal.net Secretary : Ed Provine, 401 Fawn Lake Dr., Millington, TN 38053; Phone: (901) 876-3296; E-mail: eprovine@bigriver.net Treasurer : Alan DeMaison, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077; Phone: (440) 358-1223; E-mail: a.demaison@sbcglobal.net Historian : Richard Watson, 10 S.Wendover Rd., Medford, NJ 08055; Phone: (856) 983-1364; E-mail: crwatsonnj@comcast.net Editor : Kathy Hopson-Sathe, 341 Yellowstone Dr., Fletcher, NC 28732; Phone: (423) 737-6710; E-mail: kathy@thesodafizz.com Merchandising Director : Kent Williams, 1835 Oak Terr., Newcastle, CA 95658; Phone: (916) 663-1265; E-mail: KentW@ppoa.org Membership Director : Gene Bradberry, P.O. Box 341062, Memphis, TN 38184; Phone: (901) 372-8428; E-mail: genebsa@comcast.net Convention Director : Wayne Lowry, 401 Johnston Ct., Raymore, MO 64083; Phone: (816) 318-0161; E-mail: JarDoctor@aol.com

Business Manager / Subscriptions: June Lowry, 401 Johnston Ct., Raymore, MO 64083; Phone: (816) 318-0160; E-mail: OSUBuckeyes71@aol.com Director-At-Large : John Pastor, 7288 Thorncrest Dr. SE, Ada, MI 49301; Phone: (616) 285-7604; E-mail: jpastor2000@sbcglobal.net Director-At-Large : Sheldon Baugh, 252 W. Valley Dr., Russelville, KY 42276; Phone: (270) 726-2712; Fax: (270) 726-7618; E-mail: shel6943@bellsouth.net Director-At-Large: Cecil Munsey, 13541 Willow Run Road, Poway, CA 92064-1733; Phone: (858) 487-7036; E-mail: cecilmunsey@cox.net Midwest Region Director : Ron Hands, 913 Parkside Dr., Wilson, NC 27896, Phone: (252) 265-6644; E-mail: rshands225@yahoo.com Northeast Region Director : Larry Fox, 5478 Route 21, Canandaigua, NY 14424; Phone: (585) 394-8958; E-mail: brerfox@frontiernet.net Southern Region Director : Edwin Herrold, 65 Laurel Loop, Maggie Valley, NC 28571; Phone: (828) 926-2513; E-mail: drbitters@mindspring.com Western Region Director : Bob Ferraro, 515 Northridge Dr., Boulder City, NV 89005; Phone: (702) 293-3114; E-mail: mayorferraro@aol.com Public Relations Director : James Berry, 200 Ft. Watershed Rd., St. Johnsville, NY 13452; Phone: (518) 568-5683, E-mail: max@klink.net

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President’s Message

President : J. Carl Sturm 88 Sweetbriar Branch Longwood, FL 32750 (407) 332-7689 glassmancarl@sprintmail.com

July-August President’s Message The time to write a new President’s Message seems to come quicker every month. It appears that the President’s job is a lot more encompassing than it was my previous two terms. Our magazine, Bottles and Extras has added to the workload, but I believe it is the best hobby magazine existing at this time. Our membership is growing and it appears mainly because of the magazine. I have been blessed with a talented Board of Directors who are quick to do whatever is asked of them.

By the time this reaches you, our National Show in Collinsville, Ill., will be history. I hope that we will be able to report that it has done as well as we expect it to do at this point. It takes lot of work and organizing to put on a show of this magnitude. We hope that you, the membership, appreciate it.

I attended the National Insulator Association’s National Show held in Orlando, Fla. last month. I was the only “Bottle Person” in attendance. I set up a couple of tables and sold enough to pay for the tables. I also signed up two new individual members for the FOHBC and one

club membership. It was good to see some of my old friends whom I had met attending Bottle & Insulator Shows in the past.

If you talk up membership to enough people some of them will join. Talk to your friends and fellow collectors, get them to become members. If your club does not have a membership, remind them that they get FREE insurance for all club functions with their membership. Club membership is $75 per year and I know that when we held shows here in Orlando our insurance was costing us almost $300 per show. It’s an excellent reason for a club to belong to the FOHBC. In the next issue, I will report on the annual FOHBC Board of Directors meeting held at the show in Collinsville, Ill. Our schedule of printing will not allow the details to be included in this issue. Assimilation of the material and printing time of the magazine dictate that we have it ready for print at least two weeks prior to the date of the magazine.

That ensures that you will receive your magazine close to the first of the month listed on the cover.

I have been watching the prices of

bottles being sold on eBay. The good ones bring good prices with some of them breaking the records when two bidders want the same bottle. A straight-sided Coca-Cola bottle from Orlando, Fla. brought a price of $987.

Now I am checking all the Coca-Cola bottles.

One never knows what any individual bottle will bring. Speaking of eBay, be careful as there are many reproductions being sold there by either unscrupulous dealers or neophytes who don’t know the difference.

I make it a point to notify the seller if I recognize an item as a reproduction. They usually take the info to heart and comment on the item on their sale page. At least, I feel like I am doing my part to possibly keep a newer collector from overpaying for a reproduction.

I will be at the Jacksonville, Fla. show in September and the Savannah, Ga. show in October or early November. Stop by and say hello if you attend either show. In the meantime, dig hard or buy wisely and watch your collection grow.

J. Carl Sturm President FOHBC

Membership Directory Additions David Baumann 10241 Le Jean Dr. Midwest City, OK 73130 (405) 816-1340 Firstgencoltman@webtv.net Embossed pre-1920 Oklahoma bottles Bryan Grapentine bgrapentine@msn.com Scents, cologne, misc., glass items made at the Boston & Sandwich factory Benjamin & Nelia Kutzkey 163 Shephard Ln. Bishop, CA 93514 (760) 873-6635 bkutzkey@aol.com Whiskeys, beers

Michael J. Magee 638 Englewood Waterloo, IA 50701 digger4045@yahoo.com James & Joanne Scaturro P.O. Box 32 Bayville, NY 11709 (516) 628-0537 nash927@optonline.net Poisons, pickles, inks Ray A. & Esther Weimer 265 W. Branch Fishing Creek Rd. Roulette, PA 16746 (814) 544-7713

Lorraine Weiss Weiss Collectible Sales P.O. Box 661 Hopatcong, NJ 07843 (973) 398-0700 David Whitten drw90459@iglou.com

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September-October 2007 even discounted major items for the event. It is a one-of-a-kind restaurant housed in a building built in the early 1900s by a wealthy doctor. It is simply huge and was built from quarry stone. None of the original structure has been compromised.

Fred Cappozella and I will be putting together some ideas for entertainment, maybe a trip to the Utica Brewery. There is lots of memorabilia from the 1800s and a Tiffany chandelier which is one of a kind [priceless]. There will be more on this in the coming months. This is always the week before Mansfield, so mark your calendar it is well worth the trip.

The Genessee Valley Bottle Collectors Association of Rochester is excited to learn that there is a very good chance the antique

Northeast Regional News Larry Fox 5478 Route 21 Canandaigua, NY 14424 (585) 394-8958 brerfox@frontiernet.net Northeast News The Mohawk Valley Bottle guys from Whitesboro [Utica] New York have graciously invited the FOHBC to hold its northeast regional meeting with them next year. It will be the same weekend as the Utica Bottle Show.

The last time they hosted this event all had a fantastic time. It was held at the Beech’s family restaurant in Rome, N.Y. Beech’s had a fabulous menu for us and

Zion Dairy, Zion, Illinois.

Midwest Regional News Joe Coulson 10515 Collingswood Lane Fishers, Indiana 46038 (317) 915-0665 jcoulson@leaderjar.com What a wonderful summer it is shaping up to be! There has been plenty of warm and sunny weather for people to get outside and have fun. Speaking of fun, let’s see what has been going on lately in the Midwest bottle clubs...

Antique Bottle Club of Northern Illinois Dorothy Furman (newsletter editor) of the ABCNI submitted her club’s July newsletter. If you are interested in joining the ABCNI, you can contact Greg Schueneman (treasurer), 270 Stanley Avenue, Waukegan, IL 60085. President is Jeff Dahlberg.

At the June ABCNI meeting, Ron Newmann, Sr. delved into his vast collection of bottles and came up with some great Lake County Illinois pint milks. Included were A.L. Brumund Co., Co-operative Grading, P. Hagerstrom & Son, Alfred Johnson, Glen Flora Dairy, Finish Mercantile, North Shore Dairy, Mercantile Co., H. Peterson, Sanitary Milk Co., Spinney Run Farms, Waukegan Dairy Co., Grayslake Dairy, Grayslake Pure Milk, Lake Shore North Chicago Dairy, Anton Stritar N. Chicago, West End North Chicago, Round Lake Creamery, Rouse Dairy Mundelein, Scotts Dairy, Antioch and

Findlay Antique Bottle Club Tom Brown (newsletter editor) of the FABC reprinted several interesting articles in his May newsletter (Whittle Marks). The first was titled “Heroin and Aspirin, The Connection and The Collection!” by Cecil Munsey (from Bottles and Extras, Jan.Feb. 2007). A lot of research went into this article to tell the history of these products starting from the time of their invention. The second was “A New Idea for Ink Bottles – Paper,” by Ed & Lucy Faulkner (from Bottles and Extras, Fall 2006). “The first thing that comes to mind when thinking of ink bottles is the small and master size glass bottles.

But did you know that in the 1880s and earlier, a new innovative idea for containers was a paper bottle?”

The July newsletter contained more interesting reprinted articles. The first was “What’s in a Name? A Lot if it’s a Popular Fruit Jar,” by Tom Sproat (from Antique Bottle & Glass Collector, March 2007).

“Name recognition is important in most business ventures. Companies may use a trademark name for their product after the rights to the name have expired, to capitalize on the public’s recognition of that name.”

Another article was “Deco Pops: Names, Claims and Automobiles,” by Brian Wade (from AB&GC, June 2007). The article takes a look at the quirkier brand names and advertising.

The FABC has a nice website with pictures from its annual shows. You should

Bottles and Extras show will be returning next year. For years this was a very successful combination as both shows drew people for the other show.

The Rochester show will be the third weekend in April. This hopefully will provide a better chance of good weather than we have experienced the past three years.

Something worth mentioning from the Long Island Club: These guys started moving the location of their monthly meetings to different locations and found they got larger turnouts and also attracted new members. It has got to be worth a try. I am sure it works better in some areas than others, but hey! Nothing ventured - nothing gained.

Always waiting on you people for pertinent info for this column, but doesn’t seem to attract any attention.

Larry Fox

check it out: http://fabclub.freeyellow.com/ home.html. Their next show will be on October 21, 2007. Richard Elwood is the club president. To find out more about their monthly newsletter, Whittle Marks, send a note to: Findlay Antique Bottle Club, P.O. Box 1329, Findlay, OH 45839.

Iowa Antique Bottleers Mark Wiseman (newsletter editor) does a very nice job each month reporting the IAB happenings. A review of the 36th Annual Minneapolis Antique Bottle, Advertising and Stoneware Show and Sale was given in the May IAB newsletter. “To me it’s the Minneapolis show, but in reality it is a very fine effort of two great bottle clubs, the North Star Historical Bottle Association and Minnesota’s 1st Antique Bottle Club. These wonderful people have put on this show for 36 years! Like last year, I was accompanying Tom Southard to the show and we left Tom’s driveway before 9 a.m. Saturday. This year we were detouring to the eastern portion of Minnesota to go see Steve Showers and Dennis Nygaard. In order to find Steve we went through Northfield to Canon Falls and were directed to a really great antique mall on the south side of town. Dennis Nygaard and Steve have items and booths in this great mall.

There were lots of great bottles and some of the best stoneware I have ever seen offered throughout the mall. Of course, it is close to Red Wing. Then we headed to Steve’s house near Welch to tour his collection of bottles and stoneware, his really neat new addition on his house and the green house

Bottles and Extras full of Red Wing dug at the Red Wing dump.

Inside the green house is a Red Wing classroom of shards and complete stoneware. Following the tours we headed to the Day’s Inn arriving just in time for the great food at the Hospitality Room, and lots more bottle talk on Saturday night. Early in the morning it was time to set up on Sunday morning. I managed to purchase some very nice soda and beer bottles. There were many acquaintances, too many to mention. Tom said there were good sales, and I think everyone had a really fun time at the Minneapolis show again this year and thanks to all those Minnesota club people who made it possible this year - another success!”

The IAB newsletters always contain wonderful digging stories by Mark Wiseman. He has a regular column, “The Digger’s Scoop,” that tells of his local digging adventures with Elsie the pup, the old truck and various digging friends that join him. In fact, there were four pages in the May newsletter that came from Mark’s digging journal. You can find out more about IAB membership from Tom Southard, 2815 Druid Hill, Des Moines, IA 50315.

Midwest Antique Fruit Jar & Bottle Club The May issue of the Midwest Glass Chatter (the newsletter of the MAFJBC) contained many pictures from the club’s May meeting program, which were titled “Glass top seal lids, immersers or caps for fruit jars.” The program was a show and tell session and club members brought many interesting items.

Jean Harbron made the effort to bring the photos from her previous show display of glass top seal lids. It was very professionally done with 31 blown-up photos of glass lids. Dave Rittenhouse (club President) shared an aqua quart The American Art Pottery Association The 27th annual American Art Pottery Association’s annual convention, held in Cleveland, Ohio in late April, broke attendance records in “surpassing all of our expectations,” according to outgoing president Patti Bourgeois.

Impressive media coverage in northeast Ohio and supplemented by considerable paid advertising, show attendance set an AAPA record, almost reaching the 700 mark. Dealer space was sold out and nearly 40 exhibitors reported great sales.

Educational showcases assembled by

September-October 2007 T.A. Snider Preserve Co. He had purchased this jar 25 years ago without the correct lid.

Just recently he was able to purchase a group lot of junk lids that contained the correct lid for this jar! Dave also showed a clear pint Imperial Pat. April 20th 1886. This is another jar Dave bought about 25 years ago without the correct lid. The person selling it told him “you will never find a pintsize lid to go with it.” About two years ago Dave bought the correct lid with some minor damage and the seller of the lid told him “you will never find a pint jar to go with it.”

What a coincidence! Norman Barnett displayed a clear quart Mason’s (figure of immerser) Disk Immerser. When Norm first purchased this jar many years ago, it did not have the correct lid. Don Burkett did have a correct immerser lid, which Norm was able to obtain. Years later Norm acquired another correct immerser lid for this jar.

Surprisingly, Don Burkett in the meantime had acquired an example of this rare jar without the lid, and Norm was able to return the favor! Mike Keith brought a recent digging find – a stunning olive green Ball Standard wax sealer!

The MAFJBC has a website: http:// www.fruitjar.org. Meeting and membership details as well as lots of pictures from their semi-annual shows can be found there.

9 his native town of Simmern, Luxembourg.

Being a man of vision, he clearly foresaw that the tiny pioneer settlement, founded

by Thomas Andrew Holmes only five years before, was a good place in which to get a foothold. He must have foreseen that Shakopee was destined to grow and develop from its humble beginning of a few log houses into a thriving and prosperous community of commercial, spiritual, social and political importance. In 1872, Jacob Ries established a soda and pop factory. This business venture gave him an opportunity to help fill the initial surge in rising demand for these products by the American people.

Eight years later, in 1880, he tapped the present spring, appropriately naming it Rock Spring. The Rock Spring label is still being used and is produced by the Schweppes Company. ‘There’s springtime freshness in every bottle of Rock Spring Sparkling Water.

It’s as fresh and clear as the waters it comes from. So put spring in your life, put spring in your drink with Rock Spring Sparkling Water.’”

Membership in the MFABC is $10/yr. For more information, please contact Linda Sandell, 7735 Silver Lake Road #208, Moundsview, MN 55112.

Minnesota’s First Antique Bottle Club Gwen Seeley (newsletter editor) and Barbara Robertus (co-editor) do a very nice job each month with their newsletter, The Bottle Digger’s Dope. There are always plenty of pictures. The May newsletter showed pictures of Jacob Ries Bottling Works, Shakopee, Minnesota and presented some of its history.

“Jacob Ries came to Shakopee, Minnesota from Buffalo, New York in 1857, just three years after coming to America from

Ohio Bottle Club Phyllis Koch (editor) and Donna Gray (secretary) always do a very nice job with The Ohio Swirl, the OBC’s newsletter. Louis Fifer is the club President.

Nationally known Coca-Cola and advertising collector Chuck Young presented a special appraisal program for the club at their April meeting. Chuck, one of the original members of the club, has been appraising at the Olde Stark Antique Fair in Canton, Ohio. Members brought up to three items for appraisal and the variety of things reflected the many interests of club

volunteer members ranged from Modernist dinnerware designs by Viktor Schrekengost to a wide assortment in a “Cleveland Collects” showcase featuring a Bennett cream pitcher, Roseville Futura and decorated Rookwood.

Cowan Pottery Museum Associates assembled marvelous displays of Cowan Pottery and examples from Cleveland School Ceramics.

A pottery identification table for attendees was popular and door prizes announced hourly allowed winners to take their choice of a free, one-year AAPA membership, an American art pottery

reference book, or an educational VHS tape on the subject produced (and donated) by antiques experts Ralph and Terry Kovel.

An auction was held and some of the noteworthy pieces falling to the hammer included a Rookwood double vellum 6-inch vase, decorated in 1927 with pine cones, needles and branches by Elizabeth Lincoln on a red, green and blue background ($2,000).

Seminars were well-attended and included tips on photographing ceramics.

Readers interested in more about the association should check the web site at www.AmArtPot.org.

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members.

Bill Koster described the recent Mansfield 2007 Show. “Mother Nature provided the perfect, sunny weekend, first in many years. There were dealers from thirty states and Canada. Ninety plus early buyers and our great OBC volunteers made Friday an exciting day. Cap it off with four hundred plus at the world famous dinner, then the auction. I must say, it was a perfect day. Many kudos from dealers; strong sales were reported. Buyers were commenting on the great finds and the wide array of merchandise. The warm sunny weather put smiles on everyone’s face, especially the outside dealers. With just shy of 300 inside sales tables and many outside set-ups, you had to zip through the show Saturday. The usual three hundred public buyers joined the fun on Saturday. All volunteers deserve

special thanks for hosting the biggest show of 2007. What a great and memorable show!”

Ralph and Betty Bowman wrote a very interesting article for the May newsletter about how they got into the bottlecollecting hobby. They are original members of the OBC. The May newsletter also had a nice article, “The Black Cat Across Cleveland’s Path,” by Jack Sullivan. “Some people will walk across the street rather than have a black cat across their path. Bad luck, they say. But German immigrant cousins introduced the Black Cat brand of whiskey to Cleveland just after the Civil War and the Black Cat made them rich.”

For more information on joining the OBC, please contact Berny Baldwin (treasurer), 1931 Thorpe Circle, Brunswick, OH 44212.

Wabash Valley Antique Bottle & Pottery Club In the June edition of the The Wabash Cannonball, Martin Van Zant reported a brief story of a recent dig. “I found a lot of new bottles and it wasn’t until I hit the bottom did I find an OK bottle and even then it was just an Indianapolis Brewing bottle. I ran across about 12 of them in pretty good shape. The one thing I did find interesting is that one of the Indy Brewing bottles is different. One of them is embossed Brewin, instead of Brewing Co. It doesn’t look like it was peened out or ghosted, it just is not there.”

Club dues are $10/yr. For more information, please contact Gary Zimmer (treasurer), 10655 Atherton Rd., Rosedale, IN 47874.

color photos, including suspect pottery jugs from Harm’s Bar, “Yallerdorg Saloon” and 101 Ranch and 23 photos from Ed Tardy’s digging story in Arkansas City, Arkansas. An Iowa Digging story

by Mark Wiseman (with Elsie the Pup) capped the issue.

His July issue featured another article by Wiseman about collecting fossils in Graf, Iowa and digging for minerals in Galena, Illinois. The issue was capped by a story titled, “Digging in South St. Joe,” by Ed Stewart. This was in one of Fletcher’s favorite digging areas, St. Joseph, Missouri, and featured Johnnie and the author.

Results included five Dr. Seth Arnold’s Cough Killer bottles, three larger-sized Dr. W. Wittkowsky / St. Joseph, Mo., drug store bottles, two Hund & Eger Hutchinsons and one crown top from the same company, and other St. Joseph drug stores.

Melissa Milner edits The Groundhog Gazette, newsletter of The State of Franklin (Tenn.) Antique Bottles & Collectibles Association.

Her May issue celebrated the club’s ninth annual show and sale at which 83 tables were sold. She downloaded 13 blackand-white photos of show scenes. The June issue noted the club’s show-and-tell yielded a Clinchport (Va.) Drug Co., bottle from Richard Begley, a Cheer-O Coke and a Clinchfield Drug Co., bottle from Kingston, Tenn., shown by Brandon Horne, and Gerry Brown brought a Watauga Bottling Works bottle from Elizabethton, Tenn.

Melissa and husband, Fred, attended the

Mansfield, Ohio show, and Fred found and bought five demijohns. Melissa added an Air Tight Fruit jar (pontiled, dark aqua wax sealer quart) and a dark olive quart petal jar, also pontiled.

She also told of stopping in Clayton, Ga., on a trip at the “Antique Appliance Store” where they saw stoves and refrigerators.dating from the 1920s to the 1960s. Some had been restored, others were awaiting restoration. She downloaded black-and-white photos to show some of those “gems.”

Since taking over as Bottle Talk editor last December, Marshall Clements has treated his Raleigh (N.C.) Bottle Club members to a series of wonderful, colorful and informative newsletters.

His June issue featured the marvelous collection of White House and Speas vinegar product containers of member Skinning Medlin who, he describes, is “a hunter in the fall, a full-time Postman during the week, a Santa Claus at Christmas and a twenty-four hour, seven days a week, collector.

“It only takes a ‘skinny minute’ to realize you are looking at an extremely large and unique collection. . .housed in a 40x8-foot POD with floor to ceiling glass cases running the length of both sides. . .started by Skinny 10 years ago.”

Wonderful, sharp color photos included rare White House Vinegar decanters, White House “bubble jugs” and stoneware measuring pitchers, many from the O.L. Gregory Vinegar Company of Paducah, Ky. (These last items may have been

Southern Regional News Bill Baab 2352 Devere Street Augusta, GA 30904 (706) 736-8097 riverswamper@comcast.net Technology can be really wonderful and beneficial in many ways, but not in every way.

An example of the negative sort was provided to Johnnie Fletcher earlier this year

by David Baumann, a member of the Oklahoma Territory Bottle & Relic Club.

Fletcher, who edits Oklahoma Territory News, publicized that example in his June and July newsletters.

Here’s the story: Fletcher provided color pictures of a regular size Tishomingo, I.T. Hutchinson and a quart embossed JOHN DAHESTROM / TISHO-MINGO / IND. TER. Turns out the quart was faked, and was a Michigan bottle altered by Baumann. “He invested lots of time in the project,” Fletcher said. “He had to grind some letters off, change some and add others. It looks pretty good.”

Baumann wanted Fletcher to have a Tishomingo bottle, so he made that one just for him. It was just a joke to Baumann, but it raises the specter of a new technology that could yield other rare bottles that might “look pretty good,” but not be real. There are unscrupulous persons who will do anything to make a buck, even a dishonest one.

Fletcher’s June issue was loaded with

Bottles and Extras

Bottles and Extras manufactured by the Bauer Pottery Co., of Paducah, makers of many mini jugs).

A regular feature is a “Blast from the Past” photo, this one a giant Pepsi-Cola sign on the side of a Durham, N.C., building during the 1940s.

Clements published a Bottle Talk “Extra” dated July 4 in the patriotic colors of red, white and blue, featuring his cartoon character Blobtops on the cover. The issue featured 13 color photos of some of the show and tell items from the June club meeting.

Vernon Creech gave a presentation on Worley sodas, which originated in his hometown of Selma, N.C.. A rare amethyst Dunn, N.C., Christo Cola (Jerry Higgins), an equally rare slug plate and script Pepsi-Cola from Martinsville, Va. (Donnie Medlin) and an amber Mt. Vernon Springs Mineral Water from Ore Hill, N.C. (Donnie Medlin) were among the photos.

The Horse Creek Antique Bottle Club of Langley, S.C., enjoys a variety of programs, some of which are not related to

September-October 2007 bottles. The June meeting featured coin dealer Wayne Damron of Lexington, S.C., owner of Clein’s Rare Coins in Augusta. He spoke on “Coins of the Bible,” which featured real examples of the widow’s mite, shekels and other rare coins. Wayne’s goal is “to get kids interested in collecting at an early age and get them off street corners.”

He said that Caesar was the first emperor to have his likeness on a coin. “He thought he was a god,” Damron said. He has spoken to more than 10,000 people in 16 years about coin collecting.

No meeting was held in July, but member Harvey Teal gave a presentation in the August meeting. He talked about the impact railroads had during the Civil War. He spoke about the South Carolina Railroad, which once ran on tracks close to the Langley Community Center where our club meets. It was along that line that the Best Friend of Charleston operated. Harvey complemented his talk with artifacts from his extensive collection.

My long-awaited book, “Augusta on Glass,” is selling well, I am pleased to say. I was a sports writer, copy editor and outdoor editor of The Augusta Chronicle for 36 years and now suddenly I’m an author. I participated in a forum with 35 other authors and have spoken to civic clubs and other groups. It’s been fun talking about my favorite hobby.

In the club newsletter, Probe & Plunder, edited by me, some of the “plunder” found by members was listed. President Geneva Greene showed a T.R. & R.B. Tindal onegallon jug from Graniteville, S.C., and a Landrum half-gallon jug from the Old Edgefield District. She and husband Doug attended the Lumberton, N.C., show where they found a Moses bottle. Other finds included a “really pretty” green Grafton, Va., bottle dated 1929; slug plate crown tops from Florence, S.C., and W.D. Cass of Sumter, S.C., and a red-and-white, applied color label bottle marked Kist from Lane, S.C.

in his next newsletter.

Hey, Bill, we see that you are four short of the seven Sumpter drug bottles you are trying to collect.

We’ll have to keep our eyes open for the minijug you mention.

Maybe you should try advertising in Bottles and Extras for the jug, or maybe you already have that covered. It’s just a thought. What’s that old saying? I think it is something like, “anticipation is half the fun of collecting”.

Maybe not..

newsletter that we see that Mike Peters has found some answers and relief with his gall bladder and pancreas problems. None of this is pleasant and we hope that everyone soon returns to their old routines.

We also read that Barbara Moniz is retiring from the secretary and newsletter editor roles and plans on traveling and kicking back with her husband, Tom. We understand Barbara is planning on future “note free” meetings. Meanwhile, George Wagoner is signed up for a two-year term.

Good luck, George, in your new combo job as secretary and newsletter editor. We think Barbara will adapt quickly to her new role as retiree. We will probably be reading about the July club picnic in your next newsletter.

Western Regional News Ken Lawler & “Dar” 6677 Oak Forest Drive Oak Park, CA 91377 (818) 889-5451 kenlawler@roadrunner.com We are planning on attending four shows this summer. We have on our plate the Reno, Leadville, Helena and Collinsville shows. As we write our column, we realize that by the time you read the SeptemberOctober issue those shows will be history.

Most club picnic fires will be out and people’s thoughts will turn to the upcoming months. The clubs who take a “time out” for a couple of the summer months will be anxious to get back into full swing of club activities. We look forward to receiving your newsletters and to continuing our comments on your club activities. Now, let’s fast forward to see what has been happening out there in “club” land.

Oregon Bottle Collectors Association - The Stumptown Report The month of June has come and gone.

That means your club’s show in Aurora, Oregon has done the same. We realize that the receipts from your show go towards ensuring a show for next year. That is how it has to work. We look forward to seeing what Bill Bogynska has in his Treasurer’s Report

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Forty Niner Historical Bottle Association – Bottle Bug Briefs After reading the latest newsletter, it appears that Vice President Mike Henness is a busy guy. It seems that he enjoys putting on programs and sharing information on his finds with the club. It is stated in the June 27, 2007 newsletter, “He is the go-to guy for information on Foot Hill Sodas.” It further said that he was able to bring part of his extensive collection to the May meeting. We read that his bottles date from 1880 to 1910.

We bottle collectors never lose a step in our pursuit of adding to our collections.

Let’s have a time out for wishing some of the club members a complete recovery.

We have learned that newly-elected president Jerry Rickner had hip surgery and is doing well. However, maybe outgoing president Tom Lehr might have to sit in for Jerry for awhile longer. We hope by the next

Las Vegas Antique Bottles and Collectibles Club – The Punkin Seed The first item that got our attention, in your club newsletter, is the little note on the front page which tells us that June is “National Collectibles Recognition Month.”

We might want to add that the addiction of collecting is here to stay.

We realize that there has been much concern and uncertainty as to whether the LVABCC was going to have a bottle show in 2008. Quite a few dealers here in California, and even people from our own club, have been questioning us about it. It is a fact that the Vegas show has always been one of the shows that dealers look forward to every year. However, fears can

12 be set aside with the knowledge that the annual show will be held in 2008. We made a couple of phone calls to LVABCC members to check its status. Board member Madeline Johnsen was contacted and while we were chatting, she related what she knew, but suggested that we make another contact to get the latest information. Madeline did make a comment that the new area has a lot going for it and that she thinks the change of location will be a positive one. The second call was to Editor Dottie Daugherty. She confirmed that the show will be held at the Henderson Convention Center on February 15 and 16, 2008. As usual, Dottie, it was great talking to you.

It seems that all upcoming show issues have been worked out so that everyone concerned, can look forward to February, 2008. Congratulations to those club members who have worked hard to attain this victory.

We look forward to attending your show in Henderson.

Reno Antique Bottle Club – Digger’s Dirt We read that Willy Young has brought his fire grenade program home to his club. It sounds like your club was treated to viewing some new glass fire grenades and advertising. These must be some of the purchases made during Willy’s recent overseas trip that we’ve heard about. We love to report what’s up with the raffle.

June’s raffle consisted of what your newsletter calls “a Super Soda Nite.” There was a Breig and Schafer S.F. with an embossed fish, a Spreitzer & Co 1892 with an embossed eagle and a C. Schnerr & Co., Sacramento. In addition, there was a crown top Moxie with a partial label.

Here is a quote taken from the latest newsletter, “Digging News: Marty Hall did it again. He hit a big hole in Virginia City, which contained rare canning jars and awesome sodas. That is the up-side. The down side, the hole was right next to another neighbor’s property. Evidently there were two privies side by side; however, the property owner refused to let anyone dig on his side. After digging the first hole, Marty could see into the sides of the other privy. It appeared to be stacked with bottles, which looked a lot like whiskies. Very frustrating to see good bottles and have the property owner adamant about not crossing into his property. In time, Marty hopes to convince-or-bribe the owner to let him dig the hole someday. Marty, our advice is that he probably won’t be a “convince type guy.”

Maybe the bribe idea might work better.

September-October 2007 Better ask the “bottle god’s help” on this one.

Antique Bottle Collectors of Colorado – Dump Digger’s Gazette The big news is that the ABCC has obtained permission to hold a “club dig” on private property near Trinidad, Colorado.

The event will be held the weekend of August 18, 2007. The plan is to get started at 8 a.m., on Saturday, August 18. The dig may stretch over into Sunday. The dig is limited to club members and a maximum of 50 people. The location was a coal mining town from 1901 to 1933. The write-up in the May 2007 newsletter explains the event in detail with emphasis on digging etiquette and caution about being aware of the danger of rattlesnakes that are on the property. We realize how grateful and excited club members must feel.

Gazette Editor, Donald Hunt, is hoping to have a new format ready by next September. He says that the project will take more time than he originally estimated.

The Leadville show date is coming up fast. That is especially the case for those responsible for planning it. Barb and Jim Sundquist reported as of May 2 that they already had 48 paid tables. It is reported that the facility can handle up to 50 to 55 tables depending on the arrangement of the tables.

If anyone is into prospecting for gold and precious gems and minerals, you can go take a look at Leonard Leeper’s website: www.golddredgervideo.com. Leonard enlightened the club members at their April meeting about his hobby. It has been said that he hasn’t gotten rich with his hobby, but he has a lot of fun doing it. Sound familiar?

We think that in a future Gazette, we should be learning about how the July club picnic turned out and what treasures were “unearthed” at the August club dig. We will be sure to keep track of those two events and also try to report on how the July 28 club show turned out. Club members are really going to be busy supporting club activities this summer. Everybody have great fun and good sales!

Phoenix Antique Bottles & Collectibles Club – The A to Z Collector The first thing we noticed was how many guests you had at your May 2 meeting. We counted eight. Even though you didn’t have any new members that evening, perhaps one of those guests might get to thinking about signing up.

Bottles and Extras We would have liked to have been in attendance to have listened to Sharon Figura and Lee Coyne present their program on Roseville Pottery. It was interesting to learn that the pottery dates from about 1890 to 1954. Like anything else, prices were great years ago. Today, it is a different story. From the pictures in your newsletter there was no shortage of these pricey pieces. Those gals have quite an investment there.

We will be anxious to hear all about Kyle Husfloen’s June Program. We assume that it would not be a common occurrence for a club to be able to arrange to have the Editorat-Large of the Antique Trader present a program. Hopefully many members can dig around in their boxes and come up with items that they would like to get appraised. Like the newsletter states, “Remember, that an instant, verbal appraisal is just an opinion of value, without proper time to research the piece”. At least members could get an idea if they have something of value.

Carol, we read your Editor’s Notes and followed your line of shock. We hope that club members can come up with something to interest the media and encourage them to help advertise your upcoming show at a “reasonable” price. That was quite a comparison you gave about the recognition and enthusiasm you received from the media when you were dealing with cat shows in Pittsburgh. Hope you folks can come with some new approach to make the “media connection.”

Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club – The Whittlemark Well, as promised, we tuned in again to see how the auction and picnic turned out and here is the scoop. It seems that the auction was a record-breaker. The auction brought in over $1,200 which always goes toward defraying the club’s annual September show expenses. Eighteen members showed up and actively participated in the auction. According to an article in the June newsletter, “It was a lively, fun-filled evening with fast-paced laughter and bidding.” Compliments to those members who spent some time gathering their better finds to bring in for auction. The LAHBC is grateful to all club members who contributed to the evening’s recordbreaking event.

Someone spent time counting noses at the club picnic. They came up with the count of 24 members, one young son of a member, one eleven month old white feline, and five stray kittens that member Val

Bottles and Extras Wippert is caring for, until they can be adopted.

Bottles were brought in for the sales table. Pam Selenak covered it best in her President’s message, “I was impressed with the sales table. There was a lot of buying and selling of bottles. Excellent participation from Richard Dotson and Randy Driskill.”

The weather was ideal for such an outing.

In addition to bottle sales games were enjoyed and two bottles were raffled off.

There was an aqua ammonia bottle and an amber Wyeth & Bro., Philadelphia bottle.

President Pam lit a couple of fires under her famous marinated Tri-Tip. She also served barbequed, homemade sausages.

She says she buys a special kind of wood chips from a barbeque restaurant in Virgina City, Nev., that really gives her Tri-Tip its great flavor. There was so much food that she was packing up care packages for people to take home with them.

The club is gearing up for their annual Antique Bottle, Fruit Jar, Antiques and Collectibles Show and Sale on September 8 in Arcadia, California. The mailing of the show flyers will take place on July 14 at Don and Val Wippert’s home. Good luck with your show!

Washington Bottle Collectors Association – Ghost Town Echo In the May issue of the GTEN, Editor Red Kacalek asked for assistance in finding out who designed the cover of their newsletter. Well, Ron Fowler, who just happened to be the newsletter editor in 1981, responded with a copy of the December 1981 issue. It contained an article on how the front cover came into being. The Volume 1, Number 1 (1967) issue came out with a simple masthead listing the name “Ghost Town Echo.” The minutes of the Oct 13, 1967 meeting refer to the “unanimous decision to title our newspaper GHOST TOWN ECHO.” The January 1968 issue featured the New Look. Club member Clyde Tatham had an artist friend named Bob Davidson draw the now-familiar illustration which graces each cover of the newsletter. In a letter attached to the original drawing, Bob explains the reasons why the cattle brands are burned into the door and window frames of the old building. Many thanks to Ron Fowler for providing this bit of club history.

I wonder if Bob Davidson is still around?

There is so much more detail available in the updated artwork used for the June (BONUS) issue of the newsletter that it is really amazing. Ron also provided Red with

September-October 2007 back issues of the newsletter from late 1973 through the 1990s. Sure glad someone is thinking about history.

In the minutes from the May meeting, club members were mildly chastised for not having a display at the Chehalis, Wash., show. As a point of reference, the club had 47 displays at the 1970 Enumclaw Bottle Show. Red is urging members to put together a display for the Aurora, Ore., show. We hope someone took the time and effort to assemble a display for the show. It’s always nice to support other clubs and shows.

The club is taking a summer break so the next meeting and newsletter will be in September. We hope everyone will get in a little digging this summer.

Montana Bottle Collectors Association The club pulled off their big one. They had their bottle dig in an old ghost town that we made mention of in the July-August 2007 issue. President Bill Henness sent out his “Bottle Dig Highlights” email to announce the results of the dig. He starts out with “WOW-what a great time! I think out first event was a huge success.”

Bill mentioned that there were about 30 members present on Saturday. Here is part of what Bill wrote, “On Saturday, I believe the group dug and then filled at least 15 holes. That’s an awful lot of work. There were bottles found, especially beer bottles, and at the end of the day we had the bottle draw. That was well run. On Sunday, about 16 diggers showed up, less than the day before, but still with high spirits. There were a few good bottles found in the morning, but the last two hours of the day produced the most from several good holes. I can’t remember how many un-embossed amber whiskey flasks came from one particular hole, many still with glass stoppers.” At the close of his email he thanked Ray Thompson and Tom Brackman for getting things done. He remarked how well that everything seem to run, “from the dig to the bottle draw.” Ray served as DIG MASTER and Tom as FIELD COORDINATOR. Thanks went out from Bill, to the group of diggers pertaining to their respect for the old structures, closing holes per dig standards, picking up garbage and for being “LIGHT ON THE LAND.” Bill further stated during the club meeting, held before the dig, that it was decided that the club would have a picnic/ bottle swap during the Fort Benton Days celebration in Fort Benton, Mont. The picnic would be held on the weekend of June 2324. The Fort Benton Days celebrate old west

13 activities and the fireworks are the biggest and best around. Sherry Bruch agreed to be the chairperson for the picnic. We will try to give you a report on the club picnic in a future issue.

Actually, when we first heard the news of this club’s dig, we had no immediate thought of joining in on the event. However, a thought did strike us that the dig might be an interesting way to meet some folks in a club that we write about in our column. We also thought it would be a new experience to be a part of a ghost town dig. We hurriedly qualified as diggers by becoming members of the club. This was our first trip to Montana and it turned out to be a memorable one. It was a long haul, but we are glad that we made the effort.

We attended the meeting prior to the dig, and then joined the caravan that drove to the site. Once the group gathered at the site, Ray Thompson pointed in the direction of the previously probed holes that might be potential hot dig spots. Then people started wandering off with digging gear in hand to either select a probed hole, or investigate on their own. We felt that camaraderie was building. Most of the members started out digging in pairs. The excitement gained momentum as the quantity of bottles being dug increased. As many as four or five people started taking turns in some of the holes. Eager onlookers were grabbing bottles from the extended hands of the diggers that were down in those holes. Those bottles, that would become candidates for the draw, were strewn along the base of nearby bushes. Suddenly folks in other holes started hearing exclamations emanating from behind one of the old structures. It took those folks but a moment to abandon their less productive, or cleanedout holes and walk down behind one of the old structures where all of the excitement seemed to be coming from. Once there, they joined the others in peering down into the deep holes to watch the diggers unearth some treasures. The onlookers had to get up close to the edge of a hole and look down to see the top of a cap on the head of one of the diggers in that hole. Some were estimating the holes to have been dug to the depth of at least six to nine feet.

At the end of each day, the division of bottles was an event to witness. The first day people placed their finds on a card table out in the open in the brilliant Montana sunshine. Then the process of choosing began. After the draw, people left for the night and some of them came back again for

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another day of back-breaking labor, as Bill mentioned in his email. During the final day of digging, the weather changed for the worst, and the display of finds, dug that day, took place indoors in one of the few structurally sound buildings remaining at the site. Someone said that the building had been the former assayer’s office. There was no glass in the four windows in that onestory building and only one leak in the ceiling. Rain, wind, and a cooler temperature quickly brought out the heavy jackets.

People tended to huddle together as they contemplated their choices from the finds.

As this scene played out, a sense of history and dampness seemed to envelop us. This setting seemed so unreal. Imagine spending this kind of time in a ghost town where folks had lived, worked and died throughout at least 125 years.

An article on this historical club dig, accompanied by some of the pictures taken on the site, will appear in the July issue of the Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club’s newsletter, The Whittlemark. We will make sure that the Montana club gets a copy. We want to end by writing that we really appreciated spending a very interesting couple of days with club members on that site. We readily realize that this kind of event is not the usual setting for a club dig. If permission had not be sought after, and

granted, we would not be writing this report.

We want to extend our sincere compliments to the organizers, who worked so hard to make this club event possible.

San Diego Antique Bottle and Collectibles Club – The Bottleneck Front Page News from the June 2007 issue of The Bottleneck says, “We’re Back, Baby!”

According to the front page of The Bottleneck and the minutes taken at the May 18, 2007 meeting, the San Diego and San Bernardino bottle folks are going to host a show together! It will be the San Diego/San Bernardino Bottle & Collectibles Show, Saturday June 14, 2008. It will be held in a building that has over 9,000 square feet and two floors of display space. The location is the Al Bahr Shrine, 5440 Kearny Mesa Rd., San Diego, 92111.

The front page also has a reminder, “No Meetings in July or August.” Perhaps this time off will give some of you folks an opportunity to attend some of the bottle shows that are scheduled during those months. Maybe we will be reading a report in one of your future newsletters on the subject.

Board member Jon Lawson did a slide show presentation at the May meeting. It seems that he hit on a favorite topic of many

Bottles and Extras a collector. His program was summed up as being an intriguing talk on California and Western Bitters Bottles. In keeping with the program theme, members Rick Hall and Richard Dotson brought in some of their treasured bitters bottles for “Show-n-Tell.”

The subject of the club’s annual summer picnic was brought up by Vice President Larry Westfall. His suggested site is the Model Yacht Basin at Mission Bay. Editor Mike Bryant thought that there may be a problem with bringing glass to the area. The idea of whether “collectible glass” will be a problem for the proposed picnic site will be a subject to be discussed at the June meeting. It sounds like an introduction to bottle collecting is in order for the “public officials.” We are hopeful that all potential problems can be worked out and that the picnic can be held at Mission Bay. We look forward to a favorable report in a future newsletter.

If any of you attend a summer show, keep an eye out for us in either our beige club shirts and/or our Ken and Dar club nametags. We look forward to reading news about some good digging results. Hopefully, you’ll have some over the summer, in or out of the state. Undisclosed location news is always acceptable. This is enough of our humor. Go enjoy your summer!

Ken and Dar

Stolen bottle. Please help!

At the Atlanta Bottle Show August 11, 2007, a bottle was stolen from a box under my table. It is a label-under-glass fountain syrup bottle approximately 12" tall. The blue label reads “Celery=Cola” “You’ll Like It.’ I had the bottle with me to include in my exhibit at the National Bottle Show in Collinsville, Illinois. A report is on file with the Smyrna, Ga. Police.

If anyone tries to sell the bottle to you please notify me immediately. If you know of another bottle like this one, also please let me know so I don’t cause any problems for someone who legitimately owns another one of these. I have owned the bottle twentyfive years and it is the only one existing as far as I know. Bottle is pictured on the right.

You can reach me by telephone Toll-Free 1-866-840-9355.

Please pass this on to anyone who may be approached to buy this bottle.

Thanks for your help.

Dennis Smith P O Box 1913 Buffalo, NY 14225 celerycola@yahoo.com

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Federaion of Historical Bottle Collectors

Honor Roll and/or Hall of Fame Guidelines Revised - 2007 FOHBC annually honors individuals, living or deceased, who have made significant contributions to the hobby of collecting bottles. Recognition is granted in two categories – FOHBC Honor Roll and/ or FOHBC Hall of Fame.

Difference: The “Honor Roll” was created mostly, but not exclusively, to honor worthy individuals who have contributed at the local/regional level.

The “Hall of Fame” was created to honor an individual who has contributed significantly at the national/international level.

[Applicants do not have to be placed on the Honor Roll before being nominated for inclusion in the Hall or Fame.]

Application for either of these awards can be made by FOHBC individual members, regions, clubs or affiliate organizations in good standing.

Nominees not elected will automatically be dropped from consideration but may be re-nominated in any subsequent year.

Nomination Limits: There is no limit on the number of persons that may be accepted for listing on the Honor Roll or Hall of Fame in any given year.

Nomination Deadline: All nominations received during February of any year will be submitted to the Board of Directors to be voted on in that year. A simple majority of votes by a quorum of the Board of Directors will constitute inclusion/election.

Nominations received after the February FOHBC Honor Roll 1987: George S. McKearin, Lura Malcolm Watkins, Stephen Van Rensselaer, Otha Wearin, James Gabel, Ezra Feinberg, Edgar Hoffman, James H. Thompson, Neil C. Gest, Frederick W. Hunter, Lowell Innes, Rhea Mansfield Knittle, Maude Wilkerson, Edwin Atlee Barber, Ruth Webb Lee, George Lorimer, Charles Baugh, Crawford Wettlaufer, Dale Kuhn, Earl Seigfreid, Parke G. Smith, Edwin Le Fevre, Charles McMurray, Sam Laidecker 1991: Dr. Julian H. Toulouse 1992: Ron Fowler 1993: Lew Roach

deadline will be held for consideration the following year.

Submissions: While there is no official application form; the following information must be submitted in detail (to the Federation President) with the nomination of each candidate: a. Name, street address, telephone number, and e-mail address of the nominee (if living). b. Name, street address, telephone number(s), and e-mail address of the individual, member-club, affiliate organization, region submitting the nomination. c. Chronological listing of the distinguished services, activities and their related contributions to the hobby, specifying the years of each service, contribution, or year(s) in which the achievement took place. d. Copies of all documents in support of the nomination shall be submitted with the application. Such documents may include copies of publications, writing, letters of support, transcripts, photographs and other printed and/or electronic materials which show that the nominee has made a significant contribution to the hobby.

Criteria required for nomination, in either category, of a significant contributor to the hobby shall include, but shall not be limited to or necessarily be required of a nominee are the following: a. Outstanding writing(s)/research in the field that furthered the 1995: Judge E. S. Mackenzie, Kenneth M. Wilson 2000: Sam Taylor 2001: R. E. (Bob) Barnett, John Thomas 2003: Neal Ferguson, Mary Jane Ferguson, Willy Van den Bossche 2005: Frank Sternad FOHBC Hall of Fame 1981: Helen McKearin 1983: Charles Gardner 1985: Edmund & Jayne Blaske, John Tibbits, Harry Hall White 1987: Paul Ballentine, Dr. Cecil Munsey 1988: Bernard Puckhaber

understanding of the history and production of bottles and glass or that significantly encouraged people to participate in the hobby, such as collectors writers/researchers, reporters of events and activities and organizers of significant activities and cooperation in the hobby that left a lasting and enduring impact upon the hobby. b. Outstanding achievement(s) above and beyond normal collecting, illustrating the expenditure and sharing of personal time, efforts, and professional expertise that significantly encouraged the growth of the hobby, the education of its members and the organization of its activities that left a lasting and enduring impact upon the hobby.

NOTE: Individuals selected for the Honor Roll will have their names (and year selected) placed on the actual large honor roll placard.

Accompanying the placard, that will be prominently displayed at each annual convention or four-year exposition, will be a file that will contain a photograph of the person and the materials submitted with the nomination.

Each individual elected to the Hall of Fame will have their name and photograph memorialized on an individual plaque that will be prominently displayed at each annual convention or four-year exposition. There will be a hardbound book that will contain a photograph of the person and the materials submitted with the nomination.

1989: George S. McKearin 1990: Jean M. Garrison 1992: Dr. George Herron 1993: Stephen “Peck” Markota, Verna “Vern” Wagner 1994: Harold “Hal” Wagner 1995: Alice Creswick, John C. Fountain 1996: Carlyn Ring 1997: Dick Watson, Doc Ford 1998: Dr. Burton Spiller 1999: Howard Dean 2002: John Eatwell, Bob Ferraro, Elma Watson 2003: Norman & Junne Barnett 2007: Bill Ham

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FOHBC 2007 Award Winners Presented at the Awards Banquet in Collinsville, Illinois, Friday, August 17, 2007 Best True Story: “Diving for Bottles Brought Two Clubs Together,” by Daniel Weeden (aka the Underwater Bottle Hound).

Published in Bottles Along the Mohawk, newsletter of the Mohawk Valley Antique Bottle Collectors I started diving in 1962, first for small items, such as fishing lures, and later for anchors and other larger goodies. We frequently found as many as 600 fishing lures and jigs on one bend of Fish Creek, at depths of five to twenty-five feet. Eventually, we graduated to the old rock pier on Oneida Lake where many boat anchors had been lost between the rocks. From one to twenty anchors would see the light of day during a typical dive.

By 1970 several of us, devoted divers all, decided to form a club, which we called the Central New York Scuba Club, and publish a newsletter, The Dive Light. The club sponsored monthly dives, although most of us dove far more often, with a partner, of course.

Although I had several diving partners over the year, Gary Washburn, at fifteen years, has the most seniority. During our

Second Best True Story: “How I Got Started In Collecting” by Adam Koch. Published in the Ohio Swirl, newsletter of the Ohio Bottle Club There are many ways to start and build a collection of bottles, stoneware or almost anything else. The easiest way, if you have unlimited funds, is to buy anything you want from individuals, at shows, auctions, sales, etc. By using this method you can build great collections in a very short time.

If you have limited funds, as is the case with most of us, you have to be more creative. A number of good collections have been built using various methods.

Several of our club members have good collections of bottles that were primarily assembled by digging, buying at garage and yard sales at low prices. This method will take many years, maybe a lifetime commitment.

The method I chose was a combination

days as a team, we dove many lakes and rivers in the Adirondacks. We became interested in old bottles and since every lake had some kind of local bottle in it, we soon began researching the history of these lakes, including Blue Mountain, Raquette, Sagamore and Tupper, among others.

One of the deepest underwater dumps we discovered was in Blue Mountain Lake.

Down at fifty feet, in cold, murky water, I would ssee a barrel stave rising out of the bottom. I would stick my arm in the mud, up to my shoulder, and feel many bottles just waiting to be recovered. Pulling my arm and a bottle or two out created a cloud of mud, and in a short time, I could see absolutely nothing. From then on, all searching was done by touch and grab. I’d fill up my “goody bag” with whatever came out of the bottom with no idea of whether these particular bottles were keepers or just junk.

In fact, it was so cloudy that it was impossible to see a fellow diver just a few feet away.

Probably our most productive dive occurred at the rather small Horseshoe Lake.

There we discovered round-bottomed bottles from Belfast, Ireland, stacked up like firewood in piles of 200 or more. Some were

still in the crates! We also brought up about nine different sized maple syrup bottles, again with hundreds in a pile, in fifteen to twenty feet of water. A first time diver would have had no difficulty finding bottles.

In about 1984, Gary and I heard that a bottle club, based in the Utica area, was being formed. That was the Mohawk Valley Antique Bottle Club. Our group soon joined and that was the beginning of a wonderful relationship because of our mutual interest in both bottles and stoneware.

I recently researched and dove Onondaga Lake because I knew there were stoneware bottles there just waiting for me. I first located the site of the old hotel and then of the pier.

My first dive produced a two-tone stoneware bottle, proving that I was I was in the right place. I am still diving Onondaga and still finding literally hundreds of bottles to show at the club’s meeetings.

I guess that I am very lucky to have found such an exciting hobby and to have also found two groups of like-minded collectors.

It is hard to explain the thrill of the hunt, but if you are interested in bottles and/or the history they represent, give diving, digging and bottle collecting a try.

of the above, with buying and selling at a profit to finance purchasing items for my own collection.

Thirty-five years ago, my ex-wife Linda and I happened to run into a situation with a distant relative of hers in southwestern Kentucky that opened our eyes to bottle collecting. Both of us have always had an interest in antiques, primarily early Americana.

Cousin John lived in a house that was built in the 1840s; the house at one time being a stagecoach stop. The sign from that period was still in the attic. Over the years, many of the family items seemed to gravitate to the house.

Cousin John was also quite a character.

Once wrongly convicted of murder around 1900, he spent some time in Federal prison.

The prominent family paid off the judge to find him innoce, but they convicted him anyway. Then they eventually paid off the prison guards to let him go and he left the

area on horseback going West across the Mississippi. During those years, Cousin John met many interesting people, such as the sheriff of Coffeyville, Kansas who arrested the Dalton Boys gang. The sheriff gave him three of the Dalton’s guns which were stolen from him by an antique dealer.

During the time he was running from the law he also befriended Pat Garrett and Calamity Jane.

Cousin John’s home ended up with over 130 years of family antiques.

Linda and I knew nothing about bottles.

One day we noticed a bottle sitting on the mantle that looked interesting. The bottle had a dried-up flower stuck in it and many years of dust on top of that. Cousin John was in his 90s, lived by himself, so house cleaning was out of the question. A very large house, four huge rooms, two upstairs and two downstairs, with four large openhearth fireplaces, it also had first and second porches across the front of the house with

Bottles and Extras a tin roof. In the back, it had an attached large kitchen with the old slave quarters still standing out back.

Linda asked Cousin John if we could buy the bottle on the mantle and he answered, “That old thing? Just take it!” Well, that was the beginning of our bottle collecting.

We were living in Amherst, N.Y., a suburb of Buffalo, at that time. During the next few months, we tried to find out something about the bottle with no success. Finally, we saw an ad in the paper for a bottle club meeting in Lockport, N.Y., so we went to the meeting with our one bottle. It was at this meeting we joined the Western New York Bottle Club.

There we also met Crawford Wettlaufer, a big time early bottle collector, who invited us to his house to see his collection. That was a real eye opener! Historical flasks, neilsea flaasks, perfumes and scents, Americana paintings and general antiques, furniture, etc., were all housed in a great mansion, complete with butler and maids.

Our bottle turned out to be an aqua, 1/2-pint Cornucopia Eagle open pontil and side headed flasks.

Best Research Article: “Ulysses S. Grant and His Whiskeys,” by Jack Sullivan. Published in the Ohio Swirl, newsletter of the Ohio Bottle Club.

September-October 2007 During those years, we met Louie Tardy from the Rochester area that was a great picker and all around scavenger at garage sales and flea markets in the area. Louis came up with a lot of stoneware pieces and was looking for someone to sell them to.

Meanwhile, we had moved back to Akron and joined the Ohio Bottle Club around 1970.

Louie would call me every few weeks when he had accumulated 12-15 pieces of decorated jugs and crocks. We would meet halfway, around Ripley, N.Y., and I would buy them from him. During those days, I was buying nicely decorated pieces in the $20-25 range, bring them back, pick out the nicest six or seven and sell the rest for more money to a local antique dealer. Everybody was happy because all of us made a little money. Plus, I added to my stoneware collection and had money to buy more stuff without having to dip into family finances.

During the last 17 years, since I met and married Phyllis, we have enhanced not only our stoneware collection, but also added some quality fruit jars, yelloware, mocha, blue and white stoneware and spongeware,

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In the last few years, I have befriended several old time collectors that I have been able to buy some nice things from to add to our collection.

Over the years, I have sold some things that I wish I still had, espeically a black 1858 Mason fruit jar and a yellow-amber Helms Railroad Mills quart jar. But I guess we can all say that.

At the end, we cannot forget to mention the great friendships we have developed over the years through our bottle collecting.

Almost all of our best friends are bottlerelated. We also miss the many friends that are no longer with us: Elma Watson, Marion McCandless, Frank Salzwimmer, Cliff Ford, Paul Ballentine, Mina and George Waidman, Paul Mendik and numerouos others.

We are still looking forward to our monthly bottle club meetings.

1st Place 2007 Newsletter: Bottle Talk, Raleigh Bottle Club, Marshall Clements, Editor

A longer version of this article, with additional illustrations, has already appeared in the January-February 2007 issue of Bottles and Extras, pages 59-61.

1st Place 2007 Show Flyer: Richmond Area Bottle Collectors Assoc., 36th Annual Show, Marvin Croker Show Chairman.

2nd Place 2007 Show Flyer: North West Bottle Collectors Association, 41st Annual Show, Bev Siri Show Chairman

2nd Place 2007 Newsletter: Glass Chatter, Mid West Antique Fruit Jar and Bottle Club, Joe Coulson, Editor

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Piso’s Trio: One Step Ahead of the Law

By Jack Sullivan Special to Bottles and Extras

...The consumption cures [are] perhaps the most devilish of all, in that they destroy hope where hope is struggling against bitter odds for existence...

— Samuel Hopkins Adams Just over the New York border in the western Pennsylvania town of Warren [Figure 1], as the Civil War raged, three men — a marketeer, a medic and a moneybags — created a partnership to produce one of America’s most notorious quack medicines.

It was called Piso’s Cure for Consumption.

Sold widely, it frequently is found in its several colors by bottle diggers all over America [Figure 2].

The marketeer was Ezra T. Hazeltine. The second of eight children of Edwin and Mary Abbott Hazeltine, he was born in 1836 and grew up in Busti, N.Y., a town inhabited by many of the Hazeltine clan. Busti also was the home of Captain Cephas Blodgett, whose fame was creating an early patent medicine he called Blodgett’s Balm. Its immodest slogan was: Greatest Little Painkiller of the Ages.

In 1859, age 23, Ezra married Rachel Knapp, also from a prominent Busti family.

They would produce three children. One year after their wedding they moved across state borders to nearby Warren. There Ezra — perhaps influenced by Captain Blodgett’s success — began to sell his own patent medicines locally.

Hazeltine soon joined up with Dr. Macajah C. Talbott, a medic who also was new in Warren. Talbott was the product of a hit-and-miss medical education. After attending a few classes in medicine, he set up as a doctor in Springfield, Ohio, for four years, then moved his practice to Kiantone, New York. After finishing his training at the Buffalo Medical School, he moved to Warren about 1861. Talbott was a volatile personality. Although insisting that the doctor’s natural disposition was toward kindness, the author of his obituary observed that when he sometimes saw the inhumanity of man raised against himself, he poured out his soul against the perpetrators and even thought of vengeance.

Enter the the moneybags. He was Myron Waters, a wealthy Warren businessman.

More than a decade before Hazeltine and

Figure 1: Postcard view of Warren, Pa.

Figure 2: Three Piso’s bottles in various colors.

Talbott arrived in town, Waters acquired a fortune and built for himself and his family a splendid mansion in a town that boasted many affluent families. Some years later, during a brief petroleum boom in Warren, Waters led a group of investors that financed the construction of a short-lived railroad to supply equipment to the oil field.

Dr. Talbott had invented a “cure” for tuberculosis, known widely at that time as “consumption.” However difficult a character, he hit it off well with Hazeltine, who had demonstrated a genius for marketing quack medicines. They decided to go into business producing a nostrum using Talbott’s formula with Waters bankrolling the operation. Founded in 1864,

Figure 3: Revenue stamp with Hazeltine’s signature.

their firm initially was called Hazeltine & Company; Ezra was made president, no doubt based on what one commentator called his “business tact and conscientiousness.” His signature on a proprietary revenue stamp indicates an individual with a firm hand and an orderly mind [Figure 3].

It was Hazeltine who decided to call Talbott’s potion “Piso’s Cure for Consumption.” It is unclear how he came up with the name “Piso’s” which he pronounced “pie-soz.” An ancient Roman family bore that name but its members were politicians, not physicians. Ezra set the cost at 25 cents a bottle and maintained it there for decades while many patent medicines sold for much more. Whether because of price or advertising, sales of the nostrum rose rapidly and attracted a national customer base.

Moving from its original quarters, the company in 1870 built a factory on a piece of land in the middle of the Allegheny River that flows by Warren. Known locally simply as “The Island,” the site was connected by a short bridge to the town. A Piso’s ad from that period states: Ten years ago we ventured to put a medicine on the market. It had been used for several years in our own vicinity with such good results that we were confident we might safely invest a considerable sum of money in machinery for its manufacture and to advertise it.

Advertise it, Piso’s Trio did. Shown here are some of the trade cards and ads that trumpeted the virtues of their patent medicine. ? The clear implications are that sexy ladies used it [Figure 4] but that the formula was safe enough for children [Figure 5]. Right from the start, however, the quack medicine had its critics in the medical and scientific professions and their allies in government. Piso’s Cure always was just one step ahead of official sanctions.

Talbott’s original formula for Piso’s Cure included opium and possibly other morphine derivatives. But the immediate post-Civil War era brought a revulsion against those drugs as many returning veterans had developed addictions to them as a result of treatment for their wounds.

Although Congress only later outlawed

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Figure 6: Cure for Consumption bottles.

Figure 4: Piso’s trade card with woman.

opium-derived ingredients in patent medicines, the Trio saw the ban coming and by 1872, according to company literature, eliminated opium and morphine from Piso’s ingredients. They later won a lawsuit on that score. The medicine still contained cannabis (marijuana), chloroform, and alcohol, but Piso’s label did not mention them [Figure 6].

The success of the consumption cure allowed the Trio to branch out into other products, including Piso’s Catarrh Cure and Piso’s Throat and Chest Salve. In 1883 the partners formed Macajah & Company (after Dr. Talbott’s first name) to market a “vaginal wafer” (in a pink box). Although this product was available only upon a doctor ’s prescription, some critics believed its advertising made exaggerated claims about the wafer’s benefits [Figure 7].

Figure 7: Macajah wafer package.

Figure 5: Piso’s trade card with child.

Figure 8: Hazeltine almanacs.

The company continued to advertise in singular ways. In 1879 Hazeltine issued the first of a series of annual almanacs.

Almanacs were a common giveaway of patent medicine dealers but his was unusual for being postage stamp sized at 2 by 1 3/8 inches, and best read with a magnifying glass. Shown here are examples from 1889 and 1893 [Figure 8]. The firm continued to issue these mini almanacs through 1917. Other advertising items included a jigsaw puzzle of the United States [Figure 9], a wooden peg game,

Figure 9: Jigsaw map of the U.S.

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Figure 10: Two ads giving testimonial to Piso’s Cure.

Figure 11: Piso’s enlarged factory, circa 1900.

Figure 12: Piso’s trademark.

short stories in miniature form, and a picture folio of sailing ships. All contained a pitch for Piso’s Cure and often testimonials from satisfied users about its benefits [Figure 10].

In 1886, as profits rolled in, Piso’s Trio erected a new brick factory building on The Island, greatly expanding their existing operation. A 1900 photograph shows the enlarged facility [Figure 11]. When Warren celebrated 100 years of its founding in 1895, Myron Waters was prominent on the Centennial Committee and Hazeltine was honored as a “representative businessman” of the town. A year earlier their firm’s name had been changed to The Piso Company and a distinctive new trademark adopted [Figure 12]. The firm continued to prosper and became the largest employer in Warren.

But a day of reckoning was dawning. In 1883 the Women’s Christian Temperance

Union (WCTU) created a unit designed to identify high alcoholic tonics and cures. The next year the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists began producing reports about false proprietary medicine claims. By 1899 Congress had made it a crime to use the mails to defraud and U.S. Post Office authorities began to take a hard look at mail-order consumption cures. In 1900, J.C. O’Day, a physician, wrote a popular article in which he claimed that earlier in his life, as a locomotive engineer, after freely imbibing Piso’s Cure for Consumption, he had hallucinated and nearly wrecked a train.

Dr. O’Day blamed cannabis indicta poisoning.

Although its advertising oozed with sincerity, Piso’s continued to be assertive in its claims to cure the often fatal disease.

One piece of its literature stated: We have not promised great things nor have we

Bottles and Extras claimed to have a specific or a cure-all. We have merely said that Piso’s Cure for Consumption will cure consumption.

Elsewhere Piso’s declared: It cannot be asserted that every case of consumption may be cured by this medicine but it is true that thousands of lives will be saved if they do not delay too long.

The year 1905 marked both the high and low point of the patent medicine industry in America. That year an estimated 50,000 different brands were produced with a value of more than two billion in today’s dollars.’

But 1905 also marked the beginning of the Colliers Magazine series by Samuel Hopkins Adams aimed at alerting the country to the dangers of quack medicines. Among the 264 nostrums specifically named by Adams, the consumption cures came in for special criticism.

From two New York Sunday papers on the same day Adams clipped nearly a score of ads categorically promising to cure consumption and other often fatal diseases.

He reproduced those false promises in “A Fraud’s Gallery” and disclosed what was contained in some purported remedies.

They included chloroform, opium, alcohol, and hashish, ingredients that actually could hasten the course of the diseases the ads promised to eradicate. Adams concluded his discussion by chastising people like Piso’s Trio: Every man who trades in this market, whether he pockets the profits of the maker, the purveyor, or the advertiser, takes toll of blood. He may not deceive himself here, for here the patent medicine business is nakedest, most cold-hearted. Relentless greed sets the trap, and death is partner in the enterprise.

Adams singled out Piso’s Cure for Consumption. Of it he said: Analysis shows the “cure” contains chloroform, alcohol, and apparently cannabis indica... It is, therefore, another of the remedies which cannot possibly cure consumption, but on the contrary, tend by their poisonous and debilitating drugs to undermine the victims’ stamina.

Apparently angry at such censure, Dr. Talbott fought back. At the time he was outgoing president of the Proprietary Medicine Association, the leading American lobbying group for his industry. In a farewell speech, Talbott railed at the U.S. medical establishment, declaring: You attack us because we cure your patients... No argument favoring the publication of our formulas was ever uttered which does not apply with equal force to your

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Figure 13: Piso’s Cure.

Figure 17: Piso’s Norman Rockwell ad (snow).

Figure 14: Mount Vernon postcard advertising Piso’s Cough & Cure.

Figure 15: Piso’s Remedy — three bottles.

Figure 16: Flood photo of “The Island,” April 1913.

prescriptions... It is pardonable in you to want to know these formulas, for they are good. But you must not ask us to reveal these valuable secrets, to do what you would not do yourselves. The public and

our lawmakers do not want your secrets nor ours, and it would be a damage to them to have them.

Nonetheless, ever the canny businessmen and sensing the crackdown to come, Piso’s Trio removed the “for consumption” from their labels and advertising in 1904 even before Adams began his series. The nostrum now targeted “coughs and colds” as conditions leading to tuberculosis. With passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act the following year, the Trio were forced to list the ingredients of their medicine, They made chloroform and cannabis a prominent feature of Piso’s labels [Figure 13].

The firm also turned increasingly to merchandising with patriotic themes, a common dodge for organizations under fire for dubious products. Piso’s gave away miniature copies of the music and lyrics for the National Anthem. It reprinted a patriotic story by the sitting Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Oliver Wendell Holmes. It issued a postcard showing Mount Vernon, home of the revered first President, George Washington [Figure 14]. All bore an advertisement for Piso’s Cure .

Regardless of these moves, the authorities were still on Piso’s trail.’ In 1907, the head of the Federal Drug Administration, Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, advised the proprietary medicine industry against using the word “cure” on their labels, except in cases beyond medical dispute. Shortly thereafter, Piso’s dropped the word from its ads and

became a “remedy” [Figure 15].

The firm took another hit in 1910 when a report of the Chemical Laboratory of the American Medical Association published an analysis of the Macajah wafer and debunked its false claims. The report stated: Probably if physicians realized that the same interests that control Piso’s Consumption Cure also control Micajah’s Medicated Uterine Wafers they would not be so ready to act as unpaid agents for the firm.

One by one the original Piso’s Trio passed from the scene, leaving control of the firm to other managers. Their successors had to contend with the gradual but conclusive tightening of rules on what proprietary medicines could claim and contain. By now all opium-derived products were banned and alcoholic content was under federal controls. Managers also had to cope with frequent floods on The Island that interrupted production for days. A photo shows the devastation from a 1913 inundation. [Figure 16].

As Piso’s continued to advertise and sell its medicine nationally, it commissioned an ad in 1920 from the famous American illustrator, Norman Rockwell [Figure 17].

The cost must have been considerable.

During that decade and the early 1930s its medicine ads also employed a fashionable “art deco” look [Figure 18]. Note that by now the price had risen to 35 cents a bottle.

Whether it was the effects of the Great Depression or the 1937 passage by

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Congress of the Marijuana Tax Act, effectively barring cannabis in medicine, Piso’s corporate life ended before World War II. For a time, however, a Warren pharmacist continued to concoct and sell cough medicine locally under that name. It no longer contained chloroform, an ingredient Congress in 1947 at last banned from consumer products.

The abandoned Piso’s factory on The Island was sold in 1951. By 2004 the buildings had been torn down and replaced by a parking garage. Thus disappeared the last vestiges of the thriving enterprise of a marketeer, a medic and a moneybags — the Trio who made Piso’s into a national best seller of fraudulent medicine, always just one step ahead of the law. Their legacy, such as it is, resides now in their bottles [Figure 19].

Figure 18: Piso’s 1930s ad (rain).

Jack Sullivan 4300 Ivanhoe Pl. Alexandria, VA 22304

******** Notes: Material for this article has been gathered from a wide range of sources, including the Internet. Among web references, The Antique Cannabis Book was most helpful. The postcard view of Warren (Figure 1) was provided through the courtesy of ePodunk. Photo views of the Piso factory and flood (Figures 11 and 16) are courtesy of the Warren Library Association.

Figure 19: Single clear Piso’s cure bottle.

“He says he’s a Federal Mine Inspector.”

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Saratoga Springs

by Don Yates 1785 1872 1866 1866 1868 1860 1868 1868 1871 1806 1880 1803 1792 1823-1833 1833-1846 1846-1856 1856-1866 1863-1885 1866-1872 1885-1889 1870 1873 1865 1871 1871 1793 1848-1861 1861-1863 1865-1885 1866-1872 1885-1889 1870 1869 1859 1868 1767 1868 1823 1871 1870 1808 1864 1840 1767 1863

A SPRING SARATOGA AETNA (ALSO VICHY) ARTESAN BALLSTON SPA BALLSTON SPRING BARREL = SELTZER BENEDICT SPRING BETHESDA SPRING BRIDGE GEYSER CHAMPION GEYSER CLARENDON = WASH. COESA SPRING COLUMBIAN CONGRESS SPRING John Clarke & Tom Lynch Dr. John Clarke Clarke & Company John Clark & John White Congress & Empire Spring Benjamin Hotchkiss Congress Spring Company CRYSTAL SPRING DEER PARK SPRING DIAMOND SPRING DUELL SPRING ELLIS SPRING EMPIRE SPRING GW Weston DA Knowlton Congress & Empire Co. Benjamin Hotchkiss Empire Spring Company ESMOND AND WRIGHT EUREKA SPRING EXCELSIOR SPRING EXCELSIOR ROCK SPRING FLAT ROCK = IMPERIAL FRANKLIN BASLTON SPA GEYSER SPRING GLACIER = CHAMPION GOVERNOR SPRING HAMILTON SPRING HATHORN SPRING HAYES WELL GEYSER HIGH ROCK SPRING HIGH ROCK CONGRESS

Note that the Congress & Empire Spring Company owned their own glass works and bottling house in 1871, as shown in the Saratoga City Directory.

Editor’s Note: This list of Saratoga Springs accompanied Don Yates’ article in the March-April 2007 issue of Bottles and Extras, pages 54-59. It was inadvertently left out of the original article.

1872 1867 1860 1840 1875 1871 1875 1866 1870 1870 1866 1870 1862 1866 1816 1870 1840 1860 1866 1816 1870 1770 1880 1876 1871 1868 1860 1890 1890 1865 1872 1863 1839 1866 1876 1868 1806 1868

HYPERION GEYSER IMPERIAL = FLAT ROCK IODINE = STAR = PRESIDENT INDIAN SPRING KARISTA SPRING KISSENGEN = TRITON SP. LINCOLN SPRING & BATH LOWS SPRING BALLSTON MINNEHAHA SPRING MONROE SPRING NEW SPRING BALLSTON ORENDA SPRING PARADISE = QUAKER SP. PARK SPRING BALSTON PAVILION SPRING PEERLESS SPRING POLARIS SPRING PRESIDENT = STAR = IODINE PUBLIC WELL BALLSTON PUTNAM SPRING QUAKER SPRING RED SPRING SARATOGA ROSEVELT SPRING ROUND LAKE SPRING SAN SOUCI GEYSER BALL. SELTZER SPRING = BARREL STAR = PRESIDENT = IODINE STATE SEAL SPRING Joseph Bruno Pavilion TEN SPRINGS TRITON = KISSENGEN UNION SPRING UNITED STATES SPRING US SPRING BALLSTON SPA VICHY = AETNA SPRING WASHINGTON BALLSTON WASHINGTON SARATOGA WHITE SULPHUR SPRING

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Grandfather’s achievements memorialized by grandson

By Bill Baab Joseph Napoleon (Joe) Bellavance may not be a name familiar to most collectors of antique bottles, milks in particular.

But Brad Routhier, one of his grandsons, is determined that the name of his grandfather, who died a day short of his 73rd birthday on July 3, 2001, will live on through a well-developed web site.

What follows are excerpts from this wonderful tribute to his grandfather.

Joe was born on the Fourth of July, 1928, in East Hardwick, Vermont to Aime and Beatrice Godbout Bellavance, becoming one of 14 siblings (8 boys, 6 girls).

The Bellavances purchased what was to become the family farm in 1946, adding 125 dairy cows and in 1949 started an Aime Bellavance & Son milk route, They designed red applied color labels for both round and “square” quarts and pints, along

with paper bottle caps to match.

They delivered milk to more than 400 local households in eight surrounding towns. During that period, quarts of their milk brought 17 cents, 1 cent below the stateregulated amount, for which Aime Bellavance was hauled into court.

He also supported the local Walden School by supplying all its milk for free. His was the first dairy farm in the area to offer both pasteurized and homogenized milk.

The Bellavance Dairy remained in operation until 1957 when it was sold to another family. The “A. Bellavance & Sons Dairy” milk bottles were mostly destroyed and are considered to be among the rarest of Vermont milks, Brad Routhier said. “My family has only four of them and I’m hoping this story will result in my being able to acquire more.”

After Joe Bellavance reached adulthood, he and his brother, Arthur, borrowed a truck from their father’s farm and hauled a load

The Bellavance Family Farm in East Hardwick, Vt. was purchased in 1946

by Aime and Beatrice Bellavance.

In 1949 Aime & Beatrice started a Milk Route (“Aime Bellavance & Sons”) where they delivered milk to over 400 local households in eight surrounding towns.

Aime Belavance & Sons were the first farm in the local area to both Pasteurize and Homogenize their milk.

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Many Vermont dairies are represented on the shelves, illustrated here is an assortment with green applied color labels.

More Vermont milk bottles, these from Booth Bros. Dairy in Barre. Vt.

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States represented here in colorful labels are Nevada, New Mexico and New Jersey. At least one bottle from all 50 states is represented in the collection.

More milk bottles from Vermont. Centered is Dodd Lakeview Farms in North Hero, while the third one is from Kenolie Dairy in Newfane.

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The center shelf features “Seasons Greetings” bottles from 1994-2004.

Maryland and Massachusetts bottles.

Rare A. Bellavance & Sons bottles.

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Embossed milk bottles from Vermont.

A. Bellavance & Sons, East Hardwick, Vt. sign.

The item that topped the bottles for A. Bellavance & Sons.

of granite cemetery monuments out of Barre, Vermont to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. That sparked his father’s interest and soon the Aime Bellavance & Sons Trucking Company was organized.

The company has since grown into one of New England’s largest with more than 100 trucks and 200 trailers that serve all the lower 48 states, Canada and Mexico.

In 1988, Joe began collecting milk bottles as one of several hobbies, including bicycle restoration and golf. Two years later, he received a Christmas present from his wife – an old milk bottle from the family farm.

Palmer’s Milk

From that point on, Joe had found a hobby that not only would keep him busy for the last 13 years of his life, but added yet another topic for people to remember him by.

From the age of 8, Brad joined his grandfather on many searches for elusive milk bottles to add to the collection. Main focus was on Vermont bottles, but another goal was to collect at least one milk bottle from every state.

The stories, tips and adventures throughout those years helped Joe develop a collection of about 400 Vermont bottles, 200 various non-Vermont bottles and (about 1996) a complete state bottle collection capped by the discovery of an Alaska milk bottle.

“If you knew my grandfather or crossed paths with him during those 13 years of collecting, I would appreciate it if you’d e-mail me via our web site and tell me all about it,” Brad Routhier asks. “My address is routh20@hotmail.com.

Our web site is www.josephbellavance.com.”

Bill Baab 2352 Devere Street Augusta, GA 30904 (706) 736-8097 riverswamper@comcast.net

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September-October 2007 amber and green. Some of the products bottled were: whiskey, wine, olive oil, vinegar and probably toilet water (Florida water).

All examples that I have ever seen have one-winged Owls. I also have never seen a labeled green whiskey top, but old-time Owl collectors have told me that toilet water was marketed in these beauties.

The green is the rarest and brings a very nice price at sale. There is one other rare clear whiskey top of which I have only seen one and was told of one more, that being a large clear example with the Owl perched on the reversed side (left) of the pestle. This was probably an error in the manufacture of the mold.

The clear ones can also be found in suncolored amethyst which means glass generally manufactured prior to 1914. The

Collecting DRUG STORE Stuff By: Jim Bilyeu bilyeu@cebridge.net WHISKEY TOP OWLS Whiskey top Owl bottles are the Owl bottles that have the tops that were made famous in marketing whiskey from the 1800s to the 1920s. Closure was with a cork, aluminum colored cap and sometimes wire as a bail. These bottles come in clear,

27 amber ones can be found in dark amber, medium amber and honey amber. All are sought by collectors and all come in various strikes and conditions. The amber ones sometimes have many seed bubbles and are very beautiful, but the green one is like finding “gold.” I once saw a cobalt blue one at a bottle show, but it was badly stained. I found out later that it had been intentionally stained and colored - a fake!

Like all Owl Drug Store bottles there are variants to the height, size and of course the embossed Owl figure. I have provided a photograph of twelve bottles all with different Owls and height ranging from 11 ¾ inches to 6 1/4 inches.

Clear ones: 11 ¾ inches, 11 ½ inches, 11 inches, 10 3/ 8 inches, 8 inches, 6 ¼ inches Amber: 11 ¾ inches Green: 8 ¼ inches Who knows what else is out there?

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A Few Ideas for New Collections

By Ed Faulkner We have all become bottle collectors by different routes. Many dug a bottle or two and became hooked. Others became interested through a friend or came across a neat bottle in an antique shop or at a flea market. A few may have visited a bottle show for the first time and become addicted.

From then on, bottles are added as they are dug or found, joining the previous finds in what becomes â&#x20AC;&#x153;the collection.â&#x20AC;? At some point most collectors think about specializing to some degree or at least narrowing down their range of collecting.

Sometimes this comes from a lack of display space or perhaps the subtle urging of a spouse. Even the veteran collector may get burned out in his specialty or possibly complete his category as far as he can go. To those looking for a new type of bottle to collect, I have a few suggestions.

First off, make your new collection something that really interests you and is something fun to collect. Since most people start off collecting bottles from the area

Figure 11

where they live, I will avoid such obvious ideas as well as the traditional beers, bitters, inks, whiskies, and sodas. Hopefully you will find something in this article that will stimulate an interest in a whole new category.

Because paper and painted labels widen the field too far for this article, I will stick to ideas that apply to embossed bottles.

Most collections would be inexpensive and easy to get started. Here are some of those ideas: 1) Names - everyone probably picks up any bottle with their family name on it, but also consider bottles with your hometown, but not necessarily your state, on them. A great many town or city names are repeated in numerous states. A collection of some type of bottle (beer, soda, milk) each with a name starting with a letter Figure 7

Figure 3

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of the alphabet, A-Z would be a challenge. Beers and sodas in particular have a variety of interesting names on them (note the Geo. Zett blob in Figure 1). City names A-Z could be fun also and very challenging if you limit yourself to a particular type of bottle. Unexpected names such as California, Pa. are neat as well. I have always thought that no matter what your name, there is a bottle somewhere with that name on it. For example, the small Buffalo pharmacy bottle in Figure 2 is embossed with the name of Dorta Macierzynski, one of the more uncommon names that I have seen.

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2) Bottles that relate to or depict a particular ethnic group are interesting. I know that there are numerous collectors of Indian or Jewish related bottles. I have seen bottles that were probably American but were embossed in Russian.

3) Animals - there are tons of embossed animals that can be found. I am aware of bears, horses, lots of birds, wolverines, lions, elephants, snakes, deer, elk and moose. There surely are many more that I don’t recall at the moment or haven’t seen yet. Strangely, I don’t remember seeing any cats or dogs embossed on a bottle, but that may just be my old age. Figure 3 shows a horse head on the front (another is on the bottom) of a Hutch soda that is odd for another reason - it is embossed with the name, “Cleveland Liquor League Bottling Works Co.”. What was the Cleveland Liquor League and why did they have a soda bottling works? Figure 4 shows a real oddity from this category, also a Hutch. The cape-draped figure in the middle has what appears to be a bird nesting in his/her hair. Directly below the figure is the word “WILL.” I saw this at the Mansfield show last spring and the owner was gracious enough to let me photograph it for the article. This was a Chicago bottle < Figure 1

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29 dark to almost honey. It is common but shades of amber within a bottle have always appealed to me.

Figure 4 and many bottles from there in the late 1800s have really neat embossing.

4) Subgroups or specialties within a larger category, such as Weiss beers, ales, cherry sodas, red inks, bed bug poisons, veterinary medicines, or bottles with one particular shape of slug plate are all interesting possibilities.

5) Specific companies or products may have some special connection or memory for you or your family. If some particular soda was a big favorite in your childhood then it might be fun to gather examples from that time period.

6) Collecting a specific color is an old favorite of many people and doesn’t limit the type of bottle at all. You could even collect a specific shade or perhaps bottles with mixtures of two or more colors. This is a good one for shows because there is always something different to find in a particular color.

Figure 4 shows a small Valentine’s Meat Juice that has shades of amber from

Figure 6

7) For the ladies there are a variety of bottled products that were aimed to make women more attractive or to cure feminine illnesses. If you look there are lots more than just the Lydia Pinkham products, although Lydia Pinkhams could be a collection by themselves. Figure 6 is a Risley’s Philotoken, which was a “nervous antidote” and prevented miscarriages, among other things. There are a small number of bottles which have women’s names embossed on them, and these would make a neat collection. I know of a couple of whisky flasks and also other types as well. For example, the Hutch in Figure 7 is embossed, “Mrs. C. Yannes / Nuremberg, Pa.” 8) Product bottles for a specific use.

Medicines are a wide category and easy to get tired of because there are so many, but collecting treatments for one disease narrows things down enough to be manageable. Hair products are a neat area to collect because of the variety of sizes, shapes and great colors. You could start with the common open pontiled Bachelor’s Hair Dye (#1 and #2) and could include the beautiful multicolored barber bottles. Figure 8 shows what has to be one of the prettiest bottles in this category, the Ayers Hair Vigor with its distinctive peacock blue.

9) Fifty state collections of a specific type of bottle are popular. Hutch collections of all states can be completed and are not too expensive until you get to Alaska. The small individual pharmacy bottles or beers might be easier and less expensive.

10) A number of people collect the products of a particular glassworks.

This can produce an interesting group of glassware of all types and colors, not just

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bottles. Early glassworks routinely produced exceptional bottles.

11) A collection of different types of closures can make an interesting display, and if you venture into fruit jar closures, the examples are endless.

12) Bottles with an embossed date would make a varied grouping even if you stayed away from those with a patent date on the bottom.

13) Limited space? Collect bottles under 2" in height or some such height restriction. There are lots of these, especially in sample sizes. There are numerous examples less than 1" tall if you want a really small collection.

Figure 9 shows a variety of tiny bottles ranging from just less than 2.5” for the cobalt blue bottle to 1” for the smallest amber on the right.

14) I’m writing this on the 4th of July so the thought of patrioticthemed bottles jumps to mind.

There are many bottles embossed with eagles, flags, famous patriots, and even the Statue of Liberty. Given the numerous towns and cities with the name “Liberty,” that would make an interesting collection. The Statue of Liberty on the Liberty Bottling Works soda in Figure 10 is an example of a patriotic name as well as embossing.

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15) Error bottles that either have misspellings, inverted letters or are just poorly formed. Rotated or inverted slug plates are cool as well. This has always been one of my favorites. You might include in this area bottles whose mold has been reused by at least partially filling in old embossing and cutting new over some or all of the previous wording. The pair of inks in Figure 11 have several errors between them. The basic embossing is supposed to be, “J. S. Dunham / St. Louis Mo.” The left hand bottle has an “H” instead of an “M” at the end of “Dunham.”

The right hand bottle has the “o” of “Mo” moved up to the end of “Dunham” from the second line where the “M” sits alone. This bottle also has several unintended letters visible where the mold was recut from a previous use.

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16) If you want a really cheap collection of nice bottles, pick out ones which have cracks or other damage. If you are selective you can make an impressive display without putting out a whole lot of money. However, unless you find a similar minded collector,

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17) If you still haven’t seen anything above which would appeal to you as a new collection, consider my last idea, oddball bottles. There are always strangely shaped or unusually embossed bottles showing up at digs, flea markets or bottle shows. These often don’t fit well in a specific collection but are just fun to own and talk about. The 2.5" tall sample bottle in Figure 12 is a nice little oddball. It is embossed, ”Dr. Hands / Hours 2 To 3 P.M. / 7 To 8 P.M.” It doesn’t say where the good doctor may be found or what was his area of expertise, but you do know when to expect him to be there!

This article was originally aimed at the new collector, but I realized while writing it that most bottle people have a number of secondary collections and hopefully something here may inspire another fun area for the seasoned collectors as well.

Either way, I hope that you find some area to collect that is both interesting and brings a grin to your face when you find an new addition.

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The Dating Game: De Steiger Glass Co.

By Bill Lockhart, Carol Serr and Bill Lindsey Histories Phoenix Glass Co., La Salle, Illinois (1867-1878) The earliest glass operation in La Salle was an unnamed bottle factory that apparently began ca. 1860. The plant was unsuccessful, but virtually nothing else is known about it. The second factory in La Salle, the Phoenix Glass Co. plant, opened in 1867. The plant was originally a cooperative that manufactured window glass. The group incorporated ca. 1870 and remained in business until 1878 (Baldwin 1877:542; Etheridge, personal communication 2007; Past and Present 1877:302; Toulouse 1971:167).

De Steiger Glass Co., La Salle, Illinois (1878-ca. 1896) Joseph De Steiger and his three brothers moved from St. Louis to La Salle in 1878 (Link n.d.). The eldest brother, Joseph, was born ca. 1858 and was only 20 years old at the time of the move. Edward was a year younger. The family opened the De Steiger Glass Co., almost certainly replacing the earlier Phoenix Glass Co. This time, however, the emphasis was on container glass. A fire destroyed the plant in 1881, but it had been rebuilt by at least 1883, probably earlier (United States 1880; National Glass Budget 1909:4; Toulouse 1971:167-169).

The new operation had two factories, but a devastating fire destroyed both of them on the morning of November 5, 1883.

Rebuilding commenced February 4, 1884 (Decatur Review 11/7/1883; Decatur Herald 2/9/1884). William F. Modes, formerly with the Mississippi Glass Co., St. Louis, Missouri, a noted name in container manufacture for his entire life, became the manager of the factory at this time.

This decade was an interesting and intense period in the history of bottle manufacture. Valentine Blatz commissioned the first 26-ounce export beer bottle in 1873, and both the sale of bottled beer and the manufacture of export beer bottles skyrocketed the following year and for at least the next decade. The De Steiger plant was probably instigated as part

of that trend, and beer bottles were almost certainly the main product of the factory, based on both empirical and documentary evidence (as shown throughout this article).

Because of the bottle boom in the late 1870s-early 1880s: Blowers were so scarce that it was a very difficult matter to keep places filled, and so hard pressed was the De-Steiger (sic) company at La Salle that it was compelled to procure workmen from Germany and Sweden, their coming having been the advent of the twister or turn ware makers (National Glass Budget 1909:4) The manufacture of “twister or turn ware” was an important development. The turn-mold or paste-mold process began with the application of a paste to the inside of a two-piece mold.1 The gaffer (i.e., a highly skilled master glass blower) blew the bottle into the mold, then twisted or turned it around to remove traces of the mold seams. Turn-mold bottles were made in Europe prior to 1865 (Jones & Sullivan 1989:31; Switzer 1974:23-25), although how early they were used has not been determined. For a thorough discussion of the turn-mold process, see Lindsey (2007).

Although an attempt to design a mold for a seamless bottle was patented in the United States by C.D. Fox on April 29, 1873 (Pat. No. 138,323), it was not a turn-mold design (U.S. Patent Office 1873). Fox patented another device for making seamless wide-mouth containers or tableware on June 7, 1881, but it, too, did not use turn-mold technology. Despite the assertion by Toulouse (1969:532) that “several United States patents were granted in the 1870s and 1880s for ‘seamless bottles’ with and without turn molding,” we have been unable to find any other patents until the December 13, 1898, patent for a paste mold (No. 615,910) by Christian Z.F. Rott and Theodore C. Steimer (U.S. Patent Office 1898b).

Our conclusion is that the German and Swedish immigrants, imported by the De Steiger Glass Co., were probably the first “twister blowers” in the United States. It is highly likely that De Steiger attracted

these gaffers after the opening of the factory, and the transportation of these workers from Europe would certainly have taken some time. Thus, the probable date for their arrival and the concurrent instigation of the turn-mold process into the United States is 1879 or 1880. This confirms the ca. 1880 date initially set by Toulouse (1969:532) and hence accepted (e.g., Newman 1970:72; Jones & Sullivan 1989:31).

The De Steigers advertised their beer bottles in the Western Brewer2 from at least 1879 to March 1883 (Wilson & Caperton 1994:70). In 1883, P.R. De Steiger was president, A.F. De Steiger was secretary and treasurer, and W.F. Modes was superintendent. Four members of the family were connected with the glass works (La Salle and Peru Directory 1883). Along with national sales, the De Steigers made bottles for two local breweries as well as the city’s distillery. Yet another fire destroyed the two “glass ovens” at the plant in 1885, and it was “unclear whether the business survived the fire.” (Link n.d.). The end of advertising in the Western Brewer in 1883 may have indicated limitations in production even before the 1883 fire. Even if beer bottle production continued after 1883, it was almost certainly ended after the 1885 fire.

Following the 1885 fire, 60 or more De Steiger employees, “many of them German ‘twister blowers’” moved to the Streator Bottle & Glass Co., Streator, Illinois.

Business increased so much that Streator built a third furnace (Toulouse 1971:461462). The area where the group settled in Streator became known as “Twister Hill” (Toulouse 1969:532). At that point, the manufacture of turn-mold bottles transferred from De Steiger to Streator. The former De Steiger manager, William F. Modes, also moved to Streator.

Previous literature (e.g. Toulouse 1971:168) only listed two patents filed by the De Steigers. The real patent history is much more interesting. On February 4, 1886, Joseph L. De Steiger and Edward A. De Steiger filed for their first patent, a “Fruit-Jar.” They received Patent No. 340,428 on April 20, 1886 (U.S. Patent Office 1886). Oddly, William E. Marlett received Patent No. 433,901 on August 5,

32 1890, for “A Device for Operating the Doors to Elevator Shafts” and assigned the patent to the four De Steiger brothers (U.S. Patent Office 1890).

Many years later, on June 15, 1894, Joseph and Edward De Steiger next applied for a patent on a “Jar or Bottle Cover and Fastener” and received Patent No. 534,864 on February 26, 1895 (U.S. Patent Office 1895). Joseph, alone, filed for a patent on a “Fruit-Jar” on March 14, 1896, and received Patent No. 574,306 on December 29 of that year (U.S. Patent Office 1896).

Joseph and Edward filed yet another application on May 11, 1897, and received Patent No. 611,958 for a “Jar or Bottle Fastener” on October 4, 1898 (U.S. Patent Office 1898a).

On April 29, 1899, the brothers designed an improved clip for their 1896 closure and received Patent No. 640,332 for a “Jar Closure” on January 2, 1900.

Joseph filed his final application (in his name only) on May 3, 1906, for a “FruitJar Wrench” and received Patent No. 846,016 on March 5, 1907 (U.S. Patent Office 1907). This is the last known connection between the De Steiger family and the glass industry.

The final ending of the De Steiger plant is debatable. As noted above, Link (n.d.) found “unclear” evidence locally for the survival of the business after the 1885 fire.

The De Steiger Glass Co. was mentioned in connection with side tracks in the 1888 La Salle city ordinances (O’Conor 1888).

Ayres et al (1980:14-15), however, stated that a “firm titled ‘De Steiger & Co.’ of LaSalle (sic) was in existence in 1889.”

Rydquist (2002:4) noted that De Steiger was last listed in the National Bottlers Gazette in 1896, and Etheridge (personal communication 2007) stated that the De Steiger “bottle plant burned in 1899,” although that may refer to the bottle plant long after production had ceased.

De Steiger Glass Co., Buffalo, Iowa (1880-at least 1882) In 1880, the De Steiger Glass Co. of La Salle bought out the local glass works at Buffalo, Iowa. The plant had been erected in 1874 by Wilkinson & Co., then sold to Henry Dorman in 1876 (Larson 1983:33, 43; People of Scott County n.d.), but we have been unable to find the name of the factory. The Iowa State Gazeteer and Business Directory of 1882 listed a “DeSteiger Glass Co.” in Buffalo, Iowa (Labath 2006). Larson (1983:37) published

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an almost certainly apocryphal story about the gaffers at the factory, told by Ferdinand Bald (at the age of 89): Those glass blowers were beer bottle blowers[,] too. Someone would come in and ask them to blow them a bottle.

They’d say they would if the person would take the bottle to the brewery (only a short distance away, owned by John Bartberger) and get it filled up.

When the person would agree they’d blow a gallon bottle and insist they fill it.

Unfortunately, we have found no further information about this branch of the company.

Bottles and Marks One of De Steiger’s customers was Anheuser Busch. Plavchan (1969:75) noted the following from Anheuser Busch records: Prior to 1886 the main source[s] of beer bottles for the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association were four glass works: the Mississippi Glass Co. and the Lindell Glass Co. of St. Louis; the Pittsburgh City Glass Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and the DeSteiger (sic) Glass Co. of LaSalle, (sic) Illinois.

Busch (who actually ran the Anheuser Busch operation) almost certainly bought his first bottles from the two St. Louis companies, but he probably added De Steiger soon after. It would not be surprising if Cunninghams & Co. (Pittsburgh City Glass Co.), the most distant of the group, were not added until ca. 1879 or later.

Turn-Mold Bottles Although it is likely that De Steiger was the first American company to make turnmold bottles, the bottles, themselves, are very difficult to date. Examples have been found in 1880s contexts, and these were likely made by either De Steiger or Streator.

Unfortunately, the manufacturing technique creates no attributes for dating individual bottles [Figure 1].

DSGCo (ca. 1878-ca. 1896) Thus far, DSGCo is the only embossed mark discovered for the De Steiger Glass Co. Jones (1966:16) misidentified the mark

Figure 1: Turn-Mold Bottle Characteristics (Lindsey 2007) as belonging to Duncan Sons Glass Co. but admitted that was only a guess. She later speculated (Jones 1968:16) that the company might be the Dawes Manufacturing Co. or John L. Dawes, Sons & Co. (in business in Pittsburgh sometime prior to 1894) but again acknowledged that she was unsure. Toulouse (1971:167) only reported the mark on beer bottles and dated it “circa 1879 to 1896,” the entire duration of the De Steiger Glass Co. Thus far, we have only discovered DSGCo marks on beer bottles, liquor flasks, bitters bottles and fruit jars. Although Giarde discussed the mark in connection with milk bottles, it is highly unlikely that De Steiger made any milk containers.

Beer Bottles Bottle studies by Ayres et al.

(1980:unnumbered page), Brose & Rupp (1967:90), Herskovitz (1978:8), Jones (1966:7; 1968:16), Lockhart and Olszewski (1994), Mobley (2004), and Wilson (1981:114) all illustrated or described the DSGCo mark on beer bottle bases. The marks fit one of two patterns: 1) DSGCo in an arch at the top of the base [Figure 2]; or 2) DSGCo in an inverted arch at the bottom of the base [Figure 3].

The first variation has been recorded with accompanying numbers ranging from at 4 to 71 in the center of the base or occasionally no number. The second variation was always accompanied by letters, the sample ranging from B to O, as

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Figure 2: DSGCo Mark – Arched Variation (San Elizario)

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1880, although some were still made (e.g., Carl Conrad bottles) as late as 1882.

Although there is no firm date for the initial use of two-part finishes with rounded lower rings, they were probably not used until the late 1870s and continued to be in use until at least ca. 1915. All two-part finishes with sharp-edged lower rings were applied to the end of the neck. Applied finishes were the industry standard for export beer bottles until at least 1896.

Tooled finishes began to be used on some body-embossed beer bottles by ca. 1890 but were uncommon until after ca. 1896.

Tooled finishes completely dominated the industry by ca. 1900.

Fruit Jars Creswick (1987:48) illustrated a grooved-ring wax-sealer fruit jar in either aqua or lime green with the second variation of the DSGCo mark and a number 4 in the center of the base [Figure 4]. Roller (1983:110) described these wax sealers but noted the colors as green and amber.

Figure 3: DSGCo Mark – Inverted Arch Variation (TUR Collection) well as RBB and XI, again in the center of the base.3 The first variation included punctuation; in the second, punctuation was sometimes present and sometimes absent.

In all cases where punctuation was present, the periods were evenly interspersed between the letters – rather than the more typical spacing with punctuation immediately following the letter.

Our observation of the Tucson Urban Renewal collection revealed both marks on export beer bottle bases with a variety of applied, two-part finishes with sharp-edged lower rings. This suggests that De Steiger ceased making beer bottles (at least the generic type for the export trade) by the early 1880s. Two-part finishes on export beer bottles were intended for use with wired-down corks. Historic and empirical data explored by Lindsey (2007) and Lockhart (2006; 2007) suggest that lower rings of the finishes with sharp edges (whether in wedge or flared forms) were generally used on earlier bottles. Empirical evidence, from Fort Stanton, New Mexico, and the Tucson Urban Renewal (TUR)

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Other Bottle Types Ring (1988:[15]) listed a “D.S.C.CO” mark (in an inverted arch) on the base of a Millard’s Paris Bitters bottle. This is very likely a misreading of the DSGCo mark; the “tail” or serif on the letter “G” was often unclearly embossed. The bottle was square in cross section and amber in color. We have also discovered an example of a square bottle on eBay in light aqua color [Figure 5]. Freeman (1964:109) listed a single flask embossed DSGCo. An eBay auction showed a shoo-fly flask in light aqua color embossed on the base with “D.S.G.Co.” (inverted arch) and “1” (including the upper serif) in the center [Figure 6]. This and the wax sealer described above are the only examples we have seen of the inverted variation accompanied by a number instead of a letter or letters, as in the beer bottle examples.

Milk Bottles Giarde (1980:34) discussed the DSGCo mark in connection with dairy containers and noted that the mark “was not confirmed on milk bottles during research but the De Steiger family was connected to fruit jars which improves the possibility the company engaged in the manufacture of wide mouth dairy containers at some point in time.” We have found no other reference to milk bottle

Figure 4: DSGCo Mark on a GroovedRing, Wax-Sealer Fruit Jar (Creswick 1987:48)

Figure 5: DSGCo Mark on a Square Bottle (eBay)

Figure 6: DSGCo Mark on a Flask (eBay) production and consider it unlikely. Even if De Steiger had been in business until 1896, this was still the early days, and virtually all milk bottles were still patent protected and thus made by few companies.

No De Steiger patents were connected to milk bottles (usually called milk jars at that

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time).

Giarde (1980:35) went on to state that “suggestions that the DSGCo mark might be that of Duncan Sons Glass Company4 in the East cannot be totally rejected but seems unlikely.” Although Giarde discussed the possibility, the presence of the mark on so many beer bottles, and documentary evidence that De Steiger was one of the early makers of beer bottles for AnheuserBusch makes the identification of De Steiger as the user of the DSGCo mark almost absolute.

Fruit Jar Patents Creswick (1987:42) illustrated a jar with an IMPERIAL lid that bore the De Steigers’ 1886 patent [Figures 7 - 8].

Creswick (1987a:33-34) also showed a lid embossed “PATENTED / COLUMBIA /

Figure 7: Imperial Lid with De Steiger’s 1886 Patent (Creswick 1978:42)

Figure 8: De Steiger’s Patent, April 20, 1886 (U.S. Patent Office)

Bottles and Extras DEC 29th 1896” [Figure 9] – a patent held by the De Steiger brothers [Figures 10 12]. She described four variations of the jar, three of which only bear the COLUMBIA name on the lids. One has COLUMBIA embossed on the side. None of these bear the DSGCo marks. The lids illustrated by Creswick are obviously the ones shown in the patent documents. The various jars were made in colorless, aqua, and amber.

Creswick noted that the jars were made by the Whitney Glass Works and Illinois Glass Co. Roller (1983:92) also discussed the Columbia jars/lids and included an undated Illinois Glass Co. trade card that featured the Columbia and noted that the jars were made in pint, quart, and halfgallon sizes. He dated the jars late 1890s to 1910s “by several glasshouses, including

Figure 9: De Steiger’s Patent, December 29, 1896 (U.S. Patent Office)

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35 L-R: Figure 10: Lid for the COLUMBIA Jar with De Steiger’s 1896 Patent (Creswick 1987:33) Figure 11: A Variation of the COLUMBIA Jar (Creswick 1987:34) Figure 12: COLUMBIA Jar Base (Crewsick 1987:33)

Whitney . . . and Illinois Glass.”

The Columbia jars, with the name embossed on the body, appeared in Illinois Glass Catalogs until 1908 (an abridged variation of the 1906 catalog). By 1911, the “Columbia Preserve” was still offered, but the body no longer contained the embossed name [Figure 13]. This was not the same jar; however, the cap was significantly different – no longer the De Steiger patent (Illinois Glass Co. 1908:223; Putnam 1965:220). The embossed jars may be dated pretty reliably from ca. 1896 to ca. 1908, based on Illinois Glass data – too late to have been made by De Steiger.

Discussion and Conclusions Based on historical and archaeological evidence, we can make a few definitive statements about variations of the marks. Thus far, all reported beer bottles were amber in color, and beer bottles seem to have been made in far greater quantities than other types of glassware that are marked with the DSGCo log. De Steiger made at least beer and bitters bottles as well as flasks and fruit jars. Marks fall into two variations: 1. DSGCo in an arch at the top of the base (on beer bottles only) 2. DSGCo in a inverted arch at the bottom of the base (on beer and bitters bottles, flasks, fruit jars) The company may have actually been formed to manufacture export beer bottles (by far the most common style with the DSGCo mark) for Anheuser-Busch, so this may have been their only initial product. This line of reasoning further suggests that the arched variation of the DSGCo mark (#1 above) was used first and probably was the exclusive mark of the La Salle factory (18781885); the second mark was likely used by the Buffalo plant (1880ca. 1883) on a variety of container types.

This identification further reflects two observations and leads to two tentative conclusions. First, since the DSGCo mark in the arched format has only been found (at least in our sample and the literature) on beer bottles, the original plant probably exclusively made beer containers. Second, the Buffalo plant likely made both beer bottles and other container types (bitters, flasks, and waxsealer fruit jars).

Based on the presence of only sharp-edged lower rings on beer bottle finishes, we can also hypothesize that beer bottles were probably made from the inception of the business (1878) to the early 1880s.5 Coupled with the lack of advertising in the Western Brewer after 1883, the presence of only sharp lower rings suggests that beer bottle manufacture stoppeded about the time advertising ceased. This also coincides with the 1883 fire at La Salle. Beer

Figure 13: Columbia Jar in the Illinois Glass Co. 1908 Catalog (Illinois Glass Co. 1908:223) bottle manufacture may have been suspended after the plant was rebuilt.

This hypothesis does not quite fit with the conclusions that link each mark to a separate plant; it fails to account for the twoyear period from 1883 to 1885. The two years in contention may reflect at least three possibilities: 1) the hypothesis is incorrect; 2) beer bottles manufacture continued until 1885; or 3) the plant never actually resumed production.

Two interrelated final important historical aspects need to be addressed: fruit jar patents and the end of the company. It may be significant that the De Steigers’ first patent was filed on February 4, 1886, shortly after the disastrous (possibly final) fire. This almost certainly signaled De Steiger’s entry into the more progressive fruit jar business. Although the company had manufactured grooved-ring, wax-sealers earlier, the jars indicated by the patents concerned more advanced closure technology.

The patents seem to indicate a major change in De Steiger after the 1885 fire. The ad noted by Roller and the identification of Illinois Glass and Whitney as the manufacturers of the jars suggest that the De Steiger brothers may have become jobbers after the final fire rather then rebuilding the glass factory. The lack of information on the Buffalo plant after 1882 supports the idea. This would also explain a listing for “De Steiger & Co.” in 1889 and an 1896 mention. The adoption of a patent for “A Device for Operating the Doors to Elevator Shafts” may indicate that the brothers were only engaged in inventions and marketing after the fire.

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Operational dates of 1878-1885 fit the little empirical evidence we have. The dates fit within the ca. 1863-ca. 1891 time period when both Fort Union and Fort Bowie were occupied as well as the ca. 1880-1886 dates for San Elizario. However, further historical inquiry (e.g., a search of

September-October 2007 newspapers in La Salle, Illinois, and Buffalo, Iowa) could potentially be useful, especially during the 1886-1896 period in La Salle. We also need a much larger sample of bottles to examine.

Acknowledgments We would like to thank the Davenport Public Library, Davenport, Iowa, for

Resources:

Vista, New Mexico.

Ayres, James E., William Liesenbien, Lee Fratt, and Linda Eure 1980 “Beer Bottles from the Tucson Urban Renewal Project, Tucson, AZ.” Unpublished manuscript, Arizona State Museum Archives, RG5, Sg3, Series 2, Subseries 1, Folder 220.

1968 The Bottle Trail, Volume 9. Nara Vista, New Mexico.

Baldwin, Elmer 1877 History of La Salle County, Illinois.

Rand, McNally, Chicago, Illinois.

Brose, David S. and David W. Rupp 1967 “Glass Bottles from the Custer Road Dump Site.” Michigan Archaeologist 13(2):84-128.

Creswick, Alice 1987 The Fruit Jar Works, Vol. I, Listing Jars Made Circa 1820 to 1920’s. Douglas M. Leybourne, N. Muskegon, Michigan.

Jones, Olive and Catherine Sullivan 1989 The Parks Canada Glass Glossary for the Description of Containers, Tableware, Flat Glass, and Closures.

Parks Canada, Ottawa.

La Salle and Peru Directory 1883 La Salle and Peru Directory.

Cushing, Thomas & Co., Chicago.

Labath, Cathy 2006 “From the Iowa State Gazeteer and Business Directory 1882.” http:// ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ia/scott/ history/1882buf.txt Larson, Ronald D. 1983 Buffalo: Then and Now. St. Paul Lutheran Church, Davenport, Iowa.

Decatur Herald February 9, 1884.

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Freeman, Larry 1964 Grand Old American Bottles.

Century House, Watkins Glen, NY. Giarde, Jeffery L. 1980 Glass Milk Bottles: Their Makers and Marks. Time Travelers Press, Bryn Mawr, California.

Herskovitz, Robert M. 1978 Fort Bowie Material Culture.

University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Illinois Glass Company 1908 Illustrated Catalogue and Price List Illinois Glass Company: Manufacturers of Bottles and Glass Containers of Every Kind. Illinois Glass Company, St. Louis.

Jones, May 1966 The Bottle Trail, Volume 6. Nara

Lindsey, Bill 2007 “Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information Website.” http:// www.sha.org/bottle/index.htm Link, Christine n.d. “The Last of the deSteigers.”

Unciteded article at the LaSalle Public Library, LaSalle, Illinois.

Lockhart, Bill 2006 “The Bottles of Fort Stanton.”

Currently unpublished manuscript for Fort Stanton report.

2007 “The Origins and Life of the Export Beer Bottle.” Bottles and Extras 18(2):4957, 59.

Lockhart, Bill and Wanda Olszewski 1994 “Excavation and Analysis of a Nineteenth Century Bottle Pit in San Elizario, Texas.” The Artifact 32(1):2949. [Note that data cited comes from the actual record sheets]

Bottles and Extras furnishing information on the De Steiger branch in Buffalo, Iowa, and Laura Frizol, director of the La Salle Public Library, La Salle, Illinois, for information on the La Salle factory. Our gratitude also to Bruce Etheredge, LaSalle County Historical Society, Utica, Illinois. Our ongoing thanks to Douglas M. Leybourne, Jr., for letting us use the drawings from the Alice Creswick books in our articles.

McKearin, Helen and George McKearin 1941 American Glass. Crown Publishers, New York.

McKearin, Helen and Kenneth M. Wilson 1978 American Bottles & Flasks and Their Ancestry. Crown Publishers, New York.

Mobley, Bruce 2004 Dictionary of Embossed Beers. h t t p : / / w w w. o n e - m a n s - j u n k . c o m / beerbottlelibrary/1.htm Newman, T. Stell 1970 “A Dating Key for Post-Eighteenth Century Bottles.” Historical Archaeology 4:70-75.

National Glass Budget 1909 “The Export Beer Bottle.” National Glass Budget 25(7):4.

O’Conor, A. J. 1888 Revised Ordinances of the City of La Salle, Illinois, Prefaced with General Laws for the Incorporation of Cities and Villages of the State of Illinois. Chicago.

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Putnam, H. E. 1965 Bottle Identification. Privately printed, Jamestown, California.

Ring, Carlyn 1988 Up-Date For Bitters Only, Las

Bottles and Extras Vegas, 1988. Privately published.

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Privately published.

Rydquist, Peter 2002 “Common Glasshouse Maker’s Marks on Beer and Soda Bottles.” The Patomac Pontil. September:2-5.

Switzer, Ronald R. 1974 The Bertrand Bottles: A Study of 19th-Century Glass and Ceramic Containers. U. S. Dept. of Interior, National Park Service, Washington.

September-October 2007 United States Tenth U. S. Census, 1880.

1898b Patent No. 615,910 for a “Glass Mold.” December 13, 1898.

United States Patent Office 1873 Patent No. 138,323 for a “Fruit-Jar.” April 29, 1873.

1900 Patent No. 640,332 for a “Jar Closure.” January 2, 1900.

1886 Patent No. 340,428 for a “Fruit-Jar.” April 20, 1886.

1890 Patent No. 433,901 for a “A Device for Operating the Doors to Elevator Shafts.” August 5, 1890.

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Toulouse, Julian Harrison 1969 “A Primer on Mold Seams, Part 1.”

Western Collector 7(11):527-535.

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Thomas Nelson, New York.

1898a Patent No. 611,958 for a “Jar or Bottle Fastener.” October 4, 1898.

Footnotes: 1 Although the term “two-piece” mold appears often in the literature, it is slightly misleading. There was an actual two-piece mold that was used in the earlier days of molded bottle blowing, although this simple style was almost completely replaced by a mold with two side pieces and a baseplate, prior to the introduction of the export beer bottle. The baseplate could be in post or cup form, but post-bottom molds were the most common for beer bottle production during the 19th century.

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Wilson and Caperton (1994:70) recorded all beer bottle advertising in the Western Brewer between 1883 and 1890 as well as samples from issues between 1878 and 1882.

3 These numbers and letters only reflect examples reported by the sources we have found. Surely, the numbers began with “1”; letters began with “A.” 4 Although there was a John Duncan’s Sons connected with Lea & Perrins sauce bottles, this company was never associated with milk bottles to our knowledge. The

1907 Patent No. 846,016 for a Fruit-Jar Wrench.” March 5, 1907.

Wilson, John P. and Thomas J. Caperton 1994 “Fort Selden, New Mexico: Archaeological Investigations of the Latrines and Magazine, 1974-1976.” The Artifact 32(2-4):i-ix,1-145).

Wilson, Rex 1981 Bottles on the Western Frontier.

University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

meaning of this reference is very unclear.

Even though Giarde (1980:35) stated that the identification “cannot be totally rejected,” it is totally irrelevant, unless someone actually finds a bottle.

5 See Lockhart (2007) for a discussion on dating export beer bottles. Sharp lower rings were generally used on export beers between 1873 and ca. 1882. Beer bottles with the DSGCo logo and rounded lower rings have not been reported by any source, and we have not observed any bottles with them.

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Have You Seen A Scalloped Flange Tumbler?

Part One of Two

By Barry L. Bernas What is it?

In your “tiqueing” trips, have you ever come across a clear or patterned pressed glass tumbler with protrusions positioned just below the lip on the inner surface of the container? If you have, you probably stopped and wondered why anyone would manufacture such an item in the first place.

If you haven’t encountered an example of this type, that’s understandable. This early twentieth century piece of glassware wasn’t made for a very long period of time and thus, isn’t very available today.1 The name of this intriguing tableware item is derived from the tiny figurate slivers of glass that jut out around the interior top surface of the tumbler. Each one of these appendages is shaped like the tip of your little finger. Together they formed a permeable inside collar which kept solid

particles from reaching the lips of the person drinking from the glass.

In the Fall 2005 edition of Bottles and Extras, I showed a picture of one style of scalloped flange tumbler and briefly talked about when it made its début.2 In this article, I’m going to more fully chronicle the facts behind this and other vessels like it. In the process of accomplishing this objective, I’ll introduce you to the models of this unique specimen that were advertised and those actual samples that have been reported to me.

Tumbler Advertisements The Perfection Manufacturing Company of Washington, Pennsylvania promoted their scalloped flange tumbler in a series of five advertisements. The initial one is depicted in Figure 1. It appeared in the January 8th, 1903 edition of Crockery and Glass Journal.

Thereafter, the exact ad ran for consecutive weeks in the same publication from January 22nd through March 26.3 On the top left-hand is a clear scalloped flange tumbler identified as No. 40 C. The intended purpose for this slanted side wall specimen was as a glass for lemonade.

Below on the left is a hotel glass. This second clear example of a scalloped flange tumbler comes with straight sides and the identifier No. 52 C. Figure 2 contains the next sales announcement for this article. It was published only once. This instance was in the January 15th, 1903 issue of Crockery and Glass Journal.4 You’ll notice right off that only one of the scalloped flange tumblers in this illustration was a new example. On the top right is a distinctly-shaped and handled

Figure 1

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39 personnel at the Perfection Manufacturing Company changed the thrust of their two previous ads. Instead of the nearly exclusive emphasis on the scalloped flange tumbler, the updated consumer enticements simply included this novel item as one piece in a listing of the larger glassware product line available from this Borough of Washington concern.5 Figure 3 is the fourth promotion in this series. 6 As you can see, it indicates scalloped flange tumblers came in various styles. Although not shown with this defining feature, the water or lemonade tumblers on the right in this ad were new to Perfection Manufacturing’s group of products. Also, this electrotype is the first notice of a pattern being placed on a tumbler from this Washington business.

Beginning with the June 11 th, 1903 edition of Crockery and Glass Journal and going through August 13, the published copies of this trade publication carried the fifth edition of a differently styled marketing enticement sponsored by the Perfection Manufacturing Company. In them, the same No. 253 set appeared.7

Figure 2 version with no pattern on its outer surface.

This specimen carried the designation No. 88 B and was to hold soda.

Starting with the April 2, 1903 issue of Crockery and Glass Journal and running weekly thereafter until May 21, sales

Figure 3

Preparatory Comments In the tumbler sections that follow, I will show pictures of scalloped flange models that resemble the advertised examples in Figures 1-3. Along with the photograph, a description of the actual specimen will be provided.8 I think it is prudent to point out here that I only have the aforementioned ads to use as a comparative guide. As you will see, there are more variations of scalloped flange tumblers that have survived than were shown in this series of Perfection Manufacturing promotions.

Adding to this dilemma is the fact that I haven’t located a copy of a product brochure from the Perfection Manufacturing Company. I’m sure if I had found one, the other styles of known glassware would likely have been listed therein along with their individual specifications as to height and capacity.

As a result of these limitations, an exact determination can’t be made of which surviving tumbler within the next sections corresponds to which electrotype model in the aforementioned ads. Since precise details are lacking, any alignment I present is based solely upon my visual correlation.

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Figure 4 tumblers and their accompanying data sets that follow were either furnished by me or Adele and Orrin Klitzner of Andover, New Jersey.

Tumbler One Marketing personnel from the Perfection Manufacturing Company advertised tumbler No. 40 C in their first scalloped flange sales enticement.

Figure 4 has a picture of three models, one of which likely corresponds to the top left illustration in the January 8, 1903 promotion. My best estimate is that the middle specimen is the viable candidate.

The central sample in Figure 4 is clear in color, 5 9/16 inches tall and weighs twelve and three-fourth ounces. Its side wall angles inward from the tip of the lip to the bottom of the base. This part of the container is 3/16 of an inch in thickness. At the top, this scalloped flange model has an outer diameter of 3 5/16 inches. Upon reaching the opposite edge at the base, the corresponding measurement is 2 1/8 inches.

There is a 3/8 inch thickness of glass at the bottom of this scalloped flange tumbler.

The underneath portion upon which the vessel solidly rests has a 1/4 of an inch wide flat bearing surface. This feature is immediately succeeded by a 1/4 inch long indentation. The wall of this impression curves down and inward instead of descending in a straight or angled line. At its bottom edge, there is a flat and circularly shaped surface that is 1 3 / 8 inches in diameter. In the center of this feature, the embossed phrase (PAT APD FOR) is cut backwards. Of note, this announcement can be read correctly by looking down through the inside of the tumbler.` The middle version in Figure 4 has a 14-fluid ounce capacity when filled to

overflowing. Directly inside of its lip is a 3 /4 of an inch smooth circular region above the protruding border. Shaped in the form of a finger tip, fifteen sculpted objects are positioned on the inner surface of the glass.

These are angled up and outward at about a thirty degree slant.9 The left-hand model in Figure 4 is the next eligible representative for a No. 40 C designation. This angled scalloped flange tumbler is 4 5/8 inches in height, weighs eleven and one-fourth ounces and is 3/16 of an inch in thickness along its body. Its lip has an outer diameter of 3 1/4 inches while the same distance across the base measures 2 5/16 inches.

A 7/16 inch thick piece of glass appears at the bottom of this container. As with its center mate, a flat bearing surface of 1/4 inch width is the initial feature on the bottom side of the base. Next, a 1/4 inch circular depression ensues. The wall of this impression curves down and inward instead of descending in a straight or angled line.

At its bottom edge, there is a flat and circularly shaped surface that is 1 5/8 inches in diameter. In the center, the embossed phrase (PAT.APD.FOR) is cut backwards.

As was the case on the first No. 40 C candidate, this patent announcement can be read correctly by looking down through the inside of the tumbler.

As you peer inside of the far left example in Figure 4, the first thing you see is a 3/4 of an inch plain circular surface. It is followed by fifteen finger tip shaped objects that curve upward and out into the center of the glass. This model of scalloped flange tumbler holds eleven fluid ounces of liquid when computed at the top of the vessel.10 Completing the potential list for a No. 40 C designated scalloped flange tumbler

Bottles and Extras is the right-hand specimen in Figure 4. This version is 4 1/ 8 inches tall and weighs 11-ounces.11 Its side wall is 3/16 of an inch thick. The outer diameter of the lip and base is 3 7/16 and 2 3/8 inches, respectively.

When you look at the lower side wall of this container, the first thing you encounter is a ½ inch thickness of glass.

Unlike its compatriots on the left and in the center of Figure 4, the edge of the outer side wall on the far right specimen curves inward just above the bottom edge vice angling directly toward the juncture with the base. On the underneath portion, the first feature is a 1/4 inch wide flat bearing surface. Directly thereafter is a 5/16 of an inch deep circular area. The wall of this impression curves down and inward instead of descending in a straight or angled line.

At its bottom edge, there is a flat and circular surface with a diameter of 1 3/4 inches. The center of this area has the embossed phrase (PAT.APD.FOR) cut backwards. This abbreviation and word set can be read correctly by looking down through the inside of the tumbler.

The interior of this scalloped flange tumbler has an 11/16 of an inch long smooth circular surface at the top. Next, the finger tip-like objects project up and outward from the inner surface of the glass. These forms angle upward at an approximate thirty degree slant. Sixteen of them form the scalloped outline of the straining collar.

When filled to the overflow point, this example has a capacity of 12-fluid ounces.12 Tumbler Two The photograph in Figure 5 seems to match the printed example of a hotel glass, labeled No. 52 C, in Figures 1 and 2.

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Bottles and Extras As you can see, the pictured specimen has no pattern embossed on its exterior. It is clear in color with a 3/16 inch thickness.

The height of the vessel comes to 4 1/4 inches. At the top, the outer diameter of its lip is 3 1/4 inches. The side wall of the container is straight and ends at a base which has a 2 15/16 inches exterior diameter.

When grasped, my fingers, thumb and the palm of my hand encircle about twothirds of this tumbler. The wide circumference of the glass coupled with its 13-ounce weight makes it quite a handful for me to hold and manipulate.

The base on this version of a scalloped flange tumbler is approximately 9/16 of an inch in thickness. A slight inward curve at the end of the side wall merges expertly into the bearing surface on the underneath part of the glass. This flat surface is 3/16 of an inch in width. Directly thereafter, a 5/16 inch deep circular depression ensues. The wall of this impression curves down and inward instead of descending in a straight or angled line. At its bottom edge, there is a flat and circular surface which is 2 5/16 inches in diameter. In the center, the embossed phrase (PAT.APD.FOR.) is cut backwards. This alignment permits this announcement to be read correctly by looking down through the inside of the tumbler.

This model of scalloped flange tumbler holds eleven fluid ounces of liquid when filled to the tip. Inside of the lip of the glass, there is a 13/ 16 inch long circular plain surface just above the base of the scalloped flange collar. Seventeen finger tip shaped protrusions comprise this border. Their outer profile curves upward and out at an approximate thirty degree angle.13 Tumbler Three This unique version of a scalloped flange tumbler didn’t appear in any advertisement that I’ve encountered from the Perfection Manufacturing Company.

Seen in Figure 6, it comes from the collection of Adele and Orrin Klitzner.

Clear in color and without any embossed pattern on its exterior, this unique model is 5 inches tall and weighs 3/5 of a pound. Its outer lip has a diameter of 3 ½ inches. The side walls slope gently inward from the lip to about one-third of the way down the exterior. Thereafter, the remainder of the outer body is angled ever so slightly inward until it ends at a 2 inch wide base.

Besides its outer shape, another novel

September-October 2007 aspect about this specimen is the personalize engraving that appears on its exterior. Looking at the picture of it in Figure 6, you can clearly see a series of downwardly pointing flowers connected by a looping single strand of simulated vine.

Between each floral design are four ovals.

This arrangement was completed with the word Mother prominently placed in the center-front position.

On the underneath portion, the phrase (PAT.APD.FOR) is embossed backwards so that it can be read correctly by looking down through the inside of the tumbler.

This distinctive edition holds eight fluid ounces measured at the top of the flange.

When you peer down into the glass from above, the first thing you see is a 3/4 of an inch smooth circular region above the flange. The scalloped design of the collar is comprised of thirteen finger tip shaped objects that project outward from the inner surface. These facets are angled in an upward manner.

Look for Part Two of this article in the next issue of Bottles and Extras.

Endnotes: The worldwide Internet marketplace sponsored by eBay has helped to bring forth more examples of the scalloped flange tumbler. Without the expanded insight afforded by this website, the availability classification for this style of glass would have continued to be in the very scarce to rarely seen category. But even with the 1

Figure 6

41 advent of eBay, this particular article is still quite uncommon and illusive to those searching for it.

2 More Tableware from Fenn, Barry L. Bernas, Bottles and Extras, Fall 2005, pg.

61. In addition to the above reference, I discussed the scalloped flange tumbler briefly in another Bottles and Extras article and my book. More on Perfection, Barry L. Bernas, Bottles and Extras, December 2000, pg. 11 and Perfection Glass Company, One of Many Glass Houses in Washington, Pennsylvania, Barry L. Bernas, 239 Ridge Avenue, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 17325, 2005, pgs. 62-63.

3 Crockery and Glass Journal, January 8, 1903, pg. 52; Ibid, January 22, 1903, pg.

36; Ibid, January 29, 1903, pg. 36; Ibid, February 5, 1903, pg. 48; Ibid, February 12, 1903; Ibid, February 19, 1903, pg. 48; Ibid, February 26, 1903, pg. 48; Ibid, March 5, 1903, pg. 44; Ibid, March 12, 1903, pg.

36; Ibid, March 19, 1903, pg. 40 and Ibid, March 26, 1903, pg. 36. The text of the initial and subsequent ads for the Perfection Manufacturing scalloped flange tumbler reads as follows.“Our Patent Scalloped Flange Tumblers OUTSELL ALL OTHERS. Ice cannot enter the mouth or touch the lips, causing embarrassing sipping noise and chilling the teeth. Ice Cream in soda cannot touch the lips or soil them while Flange strains perfectly, leaving all cream, fruit, seeds, etc., in the glass.

Flange acts as cut off when removing cream with spoon. A perfect mixing glass and strainer. Elegance combined with comfort, convenience, cleanliness and economy.

Retailing at regular tumbler prices. Send for catalog of Perfection Flange Tumblers and Separating Oils, Vinegars, Decanters, Syrups, Bar and Water Bottles. Perfection Mfg. Co. Office and Factory, Washington, Penna. Astor House, New York, February 6th to 14th.”

4 Crockery and Glass Journal, January 15, 1903, pg. 18. The text of the second promotion for scalloped flange tumblers is quoted in the following sentences. “That Flange? OUR PATENT Scalloped Flange Tumblers OUTSELL ALL OTHERS. WHY? Ice cannot enter the mouth or touch the lips, causing embarrassing sipping noise and chilling the teeth. Ice Cream in soda cannot touch the lips or soil them while Flange strains perfectly, leaving all cream, fruit, seeds, etc., in the glass. Flange acts as cut off when removing cream with spoon. A perfect mixing glass and strainer.

Elegance combined with comfort,

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convenience, cleanliness and economy.

Retailing at regular tumbler prices. Send for catalog of Perfection Flange Tumblers and Separating Oils, Vinegars, Decanters, Syrups, Bar and Water Bottles Perfection Mfg. Co. Office and Factory, Washington, Penna. Monongahela House all This Month.”

5 Crockery and Glass Journal, April 2, 1903, pg. 11; Ibid, April 9, 1903, pg. 11; Ibid, April 16, 1903, pg. 11; Ibid, April 23, 1903, pg. 11; Ibid, April 30, 1903, pg. 11; Ibid, May 7, 1903, pg. 30; Ibid, May 14, 1903, pg. 32 and Ibid, May 21, 1903, pg.

28. These promotions were text only in design. Each one had the same wording. A representative sampling of the content from one such ad is provided. “SEPARATING G-L-A-S-S-W-A-R-E. Water Bottles, Decanters, Chilling Bottles, Rock and Rye Bottles, Cruets, Syrups, Bitters Bottles, Barbers’ Bottles, Flanged Tumblers.

Perfection Mfg. Co. Sole Manufacturers, Office and Factory, Washington, Penna.”

6 Crockery and Glass Journal, May 28, 1903, pg. 29 and Ibid, June 4, 1903, pg.

29.

7 Crockery and Glass Journal, June 11, 1903, pg. 29; Ibid, June 18, 1903, pg. 29; Ibid, June 25, 1903, pg. 29; Ibid, July 2, 1903, pg. 33; Ibid, July 9, 1903, pg. 29;

Ibid, July 16, 1903, pg. 29, Ibid, July 23, 1903, pg. 29; Ibid, July 30, 1903, pg. 29; August 6, 1903, pg. 32 and Ibid, August 13, 1903, pg. 36. On the left side of this new sales instrument, the glassware line up seen in Figure 3 was replaced by drawings.

These newly added sketches were of a separating chilling butter dish, a separating covered creamer, a covered sugar bowl and a spooner. Each piece was in the No. 253 or Colonial pattern. According to this Perfection Manufacturing announcement, these four pieces sold as a set for $1. (The product summary from Figure 3 was shifted from the left-hand to middle position for this set of ads. In the process, the first four items listed in the Figure 3 promotion were deleted because electrotype images of these articles were provided instead.) The last reference above was the final advertisement from Perfection Manufacturing. Starting with the following week, another series of ads commenced under sponsorship from the Perfection Glass Company.

8 In the case of the Colonial patterned tumbler (No. 253), I’ve located no actual example.

9 This is the only example of this model that I’ve encountered.

10 The picture and measurements for the left-hand example in Figure 4 were mine.

Bottles and Extras Mr. and Mrs. Klitzner have three other models akin to the one shown. Their two matching versions are 4 5/8 inches tall. Each has a mouth that measures 3 3/16 inches across the outer lip region. The nearly similar variety is 4 9/16 inches tall with a top area measurement of 3 3/16 inches in width. Of course, all of the Klitzner’s samples have the same number of finger tip shaped protrusions on the inside (15) and similar embossing styles (PAT.APD.FOR) on their bases.

11 I also know about a similar model that is 4 ¼ inches tall with a weight of eleven and one-fourth ounces.

12 There are two other examples of this tumbler. Adele and Orrin Klitzner have one version that approximates the same outline and measurements as the one described in the prior paragraphs. Their specimen is 4 ¼ inches in height. The outer diameter of its mouthis 3 3/8 inches. I have the second copy. It is 4 ¼ inches tall. Its mouth is 3 ½ inches in width at the outer lip. Both of the above have sixteen finger tip shaped protrusions on their inner side wall. Also, the phrase (PAT.APD.FOR) is embossed in the same fashion as that seen on the base of the sample on the right in Figure 4.

13 This is the only example of this model that I’ve encountered.

Letterhead offered recently on eBay for the Old Kentucky Liquor Co., Cripple Creek, Colo. dated Jan. 14, 1902.

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Holister Soda Works

By Chris Sabey, Pearl City, Hawaii From the investigation of old city directories and newspaper clippings, it has been determined that the first soda water company in Hawaii was ran by Messrs. H.R. Hollister and Hyland. The company surfaced in 1863 and early bottles read “H & H.” Then in the year 1868, Hollister set up Hollister Soda Works. The location was originally at the corner of Fort and Merchant Streets.

By 1875, Hollister expanded into the pharmacy and tobacco markets. Imported perfumery and toiletry items from Europe were also sold there. Early medicine bottles from Hollisters are very rare and quite scarce. Several sizes of medicine bottles were produced between three to six inches.

The smaller sizes, if available in the collector’s market, have been known to start from $200 and up in price range.

Around the year 1894, Hollister and Tahiti Lemonade Works (1888) merged into the Consolidated Soda Water Works, Ltd., then another soda works, Crystal (1884), merged into Consolidated. From 1890 to the end of the century, Consolidated was the top soda works in Honolulu.

Above: Mid-1800s Hollister & Co. advertisment.

Right: Hollister blob (mid-1880s to 1890), height 7-inches, base marked with a “dot” in the center. Color various shades of aqua.

Side view of Hollister’s on Fort Strteet. Second photo is of the front of the building.

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Collecting Bottles by State, The Ioway Part 6 - Beer Bottles

by Michael Burggraaf It’s been a while since you’ve heard from me but I’m back with more historical information about Iowa bottles. This is the sixth article in a continuing series of “Collecting Bottles by State, The Ioway.” This article will give some history and examples of the bottles used by various breweries and brewer’s agents. Like many states, the history of the brewing industry in Iowa can be traced back to the original immigrants that came to the Hawkeye state during the 1840 - 1890 time period. A large percentage of the original settlers in the early Iowa towns and cities were of German heritage, with ties to the brewing trade being a common tradition. Many of the early German immigrants found a ready market in the relatively unsettled state of Iowa and many quickly sent up small “backyard” or “basement” breweries to supply local demand. Beside various styles of beer, they also produced ale, porter and stout at these small hometown breweries. By the 1850s and 1860s, there were several breweries that were prospering and with the growing demand, larger facilities were required as the demand soon overwhelmed their original operations. As expected, the larger Mississippi river towns soon dominated the market with larger breweries, many with an output of ten to thirty barrels a day. The preferred method of selling beer at that time was in kegs or in barrels. It seems that few brewers used bottles for selling their products as difficulties in preserving the beer in bottles had not been perfected at that time.

There is one early example from Iowa that could be included in the beer category and that is an early black glass bottle used by Hornung of Dubuque, Iowa. The bottle is made of dense olive green glass, or black glass, with a large pickup base and what appears to be a refired pontil base. The bottom of the bottle is slightly irregular and the edges are rounded as typical of refired pontil bottles of this type, typically used for ale or porter. The bottle is embossed around the shoulder in large crude letters: HORNUNG & Co / DUBUQUE. The style and shape of the bottle is nearly identical to those used by a merchant in Galena, Illinois that bottled ale during this same time period. Further research lists five different breweries in Dubuque in the 1957-58 City Directory but the Hornung name is not among them. However, he is listed as Hornung & Co. under liquor dealers. He was not listed in any previous or post directories. While the bottle is not a true beer bottle, I’ve listed it here as it is typical of ale bottles used during this time. Of the two known examples, one was found in Wisconsin while the other was found under a porch of a cabin in Canada. Regardless of the contents, this bottle represents one of Iowa’s oldest and most desirable bottles.

By the 1870s and early 1880s, many breweries began to use bottles as a means to sell their products. While many surely used unembossed bottles with paper labels, eventually the larger and more prominent brewers began to use embossed bottles to promote their business and their products. One of the first brewers to use embossed bottles was the firm of A. H. Peaslee & Co., establishing his brewery in 1866 in Dubuque. Advertisements for the company list them as exclusive manufactures of XXX stock ale and porter.

Sales were reported to extend to the Dakotas, Colorado and even New Mexico. The bulk of their trade was in Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota and of course Iowa. Peak production lists the capacity of the brewery at 1,800 barrels of ale and 250 barrels of porter annually. The bottles used by Mr. Peaslee are quart-size with an oversized blob top. Some examples are made of typical amber glass while earlier examples are made of amber glass so dense that they appear black. Examples have been dug in Nebraska, South Dakota and Illinois and usually date in the 1870s.

Another method of bottling beer was the use of stoneware bottles. The Sioux City Brewery, operated by J. Franz & Co., is one of just a few Iowa brewers to use marked stoneware beer bottles.

The brewery was established in 1871 and their best production years were listed at 10,000 barrels annually. The small salt glazed bottles look to hold less than a pint as they are just over 7” in height. They are crudely made and the stamp is crude as well as it almost looks like the mark was impressed one letter at a time although this is highly unlikely. The debossed mark reads: FRANZ’S IVUX CITY. The unusual spelling of Sioux City only adds to the appeal of this early stoneware container.

Close-up of the debossed mark on the stoneware bottle for J. Franz & Co. Note the misspelling of Sioux City.

The early 1880s introduced a newer style of bottle for Iowa breweries to use. The pint- and quart-sized bottle with the typical bulge neck and a crude double collar neck were used by a limited number of Iowa brewers. The double collar examples usually are very crude and often display crudely hand-cut embossing.

Examples of this style bottle were used by Burghart & Fischer of Council Bluffs; H. Frahm of Davenport; A. Potthoff of Des Moines; Mrs. M. Eigenmann of Muscatine; Henne & Schleifer of Mt. Pleasant; the Kraner, Hoffman Brewery of Ottumwa; and the firm of Bensburg & Cheadle of Ottumwa.

The few examples that exist are all of amber glass, except for the Council Bluffs and Muscatine bottles, and all typically date from 1879 to 1888. There are other pre-1888 Iowa beer bottles from Iowa but they employed the use of the typical single blob top. Examples of early blob top beers exist from C. Magnus of Cedar Rapids; Geise & Linder of Council Bluffs; M. Hollenfelz of Dubuque; F. W. Anschutz of Keokuk; J. Auwerda of Keokuk; Leisy Bros.of Keokuk; and the Kraner, Hoffman brewery of Ottumwa.

Iowa enacted a major prohibitionary law in 1886 and by 1888 that law shut down much of the brewing industry in Iowa for a short period of time. This is a major reason for the lack of early beer bottles from Iowa. There are undoubtedly other merchants

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1850s black glass ale Hornung & Co., Dubuque.

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One of the first brewers to use embossed bottles was the firm of A. H. Peaslee & Co., establishing his brewery in 1866 in Dubuque.

Black glass example is on the left.

Trio of Magnus bottles from Cedar Rapids with closeup of the Magnus trademark in the inset.

Early 1880s double collar beer Kraner - Hoffman, Ottumwa, Iowa.

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By 1890, many of Iowaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s breweries were back in business and several new breweries would be established during this decade.

Nearly all of the embossed beer bottles used during this time frame are relatively plain with plain block style embossing within a round slugplate. Most used the common blob top lip and most were made of aqua glass with amber being used infrequently.

One brewery that strayed from the plain embossing was the Eagle Brewery operated

by Christian Magnus of Cedar Rapids. The Eagle Brewery had been established in 1859 but it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until 1868 that Christian Magnus became the sole proprietor of this large and highly successful brewery.

Beginning in the 1890s, Mr. Magnus had his familiar trademark embossed on many of his bottles. The trademark displays a large wooden keg with an eagle perched on top. There is a male worker tapping the keg into a stoneware jug. This makes for attractive embossing and one that would become very familiar in Iowa.

All of the Magnus bottles used during this era are aqua with either blob tops or Baltimore loop style blob lips. Sizes vary from quarts to pints to the hard to find split or pony beer size that is embossed only with the trademark. There are also Hutchinson sodas embossed with the trademark and base embossed C. MAGNUS, CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA. When Christian Magnus sold his interests in the brewery in 1898, the new owners renamed the company as The Magnus Brewing Company and used only crown top beer bottles without the use of the familiar trademark embossing. They did use a Hutchinson style bottle embossed with only block letters: THE MAGNUS BREWING CO., CEDAR RAPIDS, IA. All bottles with the embossed trademark can easily be dated to the 1890-1898 time frame.

The Magnus Brewery, like all other breweries in Iowa, was shut down at the end of 1915 due to a state wide prohibition law strictly enacted in 1916.

The 1890s also introduced the use of embossed bottles used by brewers agents.

A brewers agent was usually a liquor dealer or saloon operator that sold beer from one of the larger nationally known breweries.

It was also common practice for some of the larger soda bottling works in Iowa to also have a brewing agency. Schlitz, Pabst, The Fred Miller Brewing Co. and Anheuser

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Quart beer from The New Vienna Brewing Co., New Vienna, Iowa [Photo courtesy Bruce Mobley]

Labeled only blob beer from the Ottumwa Brewing & Ice Co.

The five sizes of amber blob beers from Iowa beginning with the Pony beer on the left to the picnic beer on the right.

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Typically, the bottles used are the same as those used by the larger breweries with slug plate embossing and blob top closures.

For some unknown reason, most examples from Iowa are the pint-size with very few quart-size examples. The main difference is the embossing which usually represents the name or establishment of the brewing agency as opposed to having the name of the brewery embossed. Burlington, Iowa seems to have the most examples of brewers agent bottles with no less than five different individuals that used embossed bottles. Of course other Iowa towns had embossed bottles used by brewers agents also and one bottle from Sioux City is embossed with the name of the saloon which was called THE BODEGA. One other bottle introduced during the 1890s was the use of a bright green bottle used by H. J. Witt, a prominent bottler in Davenport, Iowa. The bottles use a wire bail and a porcelain stopper to seal the blob top. They are embossed in a slugplate H. J. WITT / WIESS BEER / DAVENPORT, IA. The stoppers are usually marked H. J. WITT, DAVENPORT, IOWA. The bottles were made in amber and a deep green glass and also come in two sizes, a pint and a smaller pony beer.

H. J. Witt also carried on a brewing agency with the Wm. J. Lemp Brewing Company and the Val Blatz Brewing Company.

By the late 1890s, several breweries began to use the newer style crown top cap closure and by 1905 most all Iowa breweries had switched to using the crown top closure on their regular size bottles. Two firms in Burlington used a different style closure commonly referred to as a trim lip closure (illustrated below).

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A Tin of Trouble

by Joe Terry In World War II, the good guys wore drab green and the bad guys wore swastikas.

Imagine therefore, the consternation of a poor little Ohio pill maker whose diminutive containers displayed both. The medicine involved was Dr Edwards Olive Tablets and Frank M. Edwards was the proprietor of the misnamed pills.

The good doctor practiced medicine in the city of Portsmouth for many years. As any good physician knew, various medical complaints could be traced to constipation, and vice versa. If you didn’t “go,” you felt miserable. To this end, he compounded a pill composed of stramonium, podophyllum, aloin and cascarin. All are powerful botanicals, but the last three are especially good at prompting bowel action.

In conjunction with these pills, he prescribed olive oil to help his patients maintain regularity.

So successful were the pills, that in 1908, Frank applied for, and was granted, a trademark. It consisted of a swastika, a good luck symbol borrowed from Native American art. It was meant to represent the “Indian herbal lore” from which he devised his pills. He formed the Olive Tablet Company, listing its address as 440 Waller Street. On January 12, 1909, the state granted corporation status to his fledgling company. As a harbinger, the firm’s site was listed as Columbus, the state capitol.

Indeed, newspaper advertisements listed Portsmouth as late as 1911, but by 1912 were listing both Portsmouth and Columbus. By 1913 only the latter was listed and so it was to remain for over forty years. Frank was the president and general manager, and with the help of Frederick E. Rathburn, the company carried on a lucrative business. The pills came in two sizes of tin, the 10c and the 20c. The pills were coated in a bright green dye, and the tin containers also sported a green paint

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job. The swastika was displayed prominently across the front, superimposed with the words “Dr Edwards Olive Tablets Will Act.” [Figure 1] In 1913, the pills attracted the notice of the American Medical Association, who investigated them and their advertising.

They were found to contain no olive oil, making the advertising claims deceptive.

However, one early statement was certainly accurate. “Every little Olive Tablet has a movement all its own” was profoundly true, as the components to the pill were extremely powerful. As the pills worked, few people complained, and the report faded into obscurity.

When Frank moved the company to Columbus, the first spot chosen was at 8 E. Chestnut Street. A couple of years later it moved to 199 E. Gay, followed two years later by their last move, to 29 E. Fifth Street.

From 1917 until 1930 (the last directory I have for Columbus), the firm distributed the pill from that location. It is my belief that they remained in that locale until they closed.

The 1920s were good years, as they were for everyone, and even the 1930s weren’t bad. The pills worked and they were cheap, so they remained a big seller. However big changes were coming. The problem started in Germany, primarily with a man named Adolph Hitler. He was gaining power, and in 1935 his political party’s flag became the new German Flag. While the swastika

Figure 1

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of the Nazi Party was the reverse of the one used by Dr Edwards, few would notice the difference at a glance. No one wanted to be associated with Nazi Germany and its ideals. This was even more important due to the fact that the firm was spending a small fortune to advertise in national magazines, such as Farmer’s Wife, Woman’s Home Companion and Cosmopolitan.

The first change was to amputate a couple of arms off of the swastika. The “Will” and “Act” portions were removed, leaving an unusual looking device on the label. [Figure 2] This lasted until January 7, 1936, when a new logo was applied for.

This one showed Dr. Edwards face, in a circle, with the name of the medicine.

[Figure 3] The mark was renewed in 1940, strengthening Frank’s resolve not to be associated with the evil that was the Nazi party.

The firm had a certain amount of clout, exhibited by the fact that Rathburn was president of the Proprietary Association, a group of patent medicine manufacturers that had banded together some years before.

He stepped down in May of 1944. The firm lasted another decade, closing in 1956. The pills were sold to Plough and Company, an out of state pharmaceutical company. They in turn divested themselves of the product to The Oakhurst Company of Levittown, New York. Today, Oakhurst still sells Dr Edwards Olive Tablets, along with a bevy of other old time remedies.

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The Casper Heil Brewing Company and the Moehn (pronounced Main) Brewery were two dominate breweries in Burlington and were highly competitive. Both had large elaborate buildings to house their brewing operations. Moehn had a huge new brewery constructed in 1903 and Heil followed with a large new building of his own in 1904.

Both used the usual promotional items such as etched glasses and mugs, numerous advertising giveaways, and signs to promote their breweries.

While it is not known which brewery began the use of the trim lip bottle, it’s obvious not much time elapsed before the other began using the same style bottle. Evidently both switched over to the newer crown top bottle shortly thereafter as the trim lip bottles are harder to find than the newer crown top examples.

As stated before, both breweries were shut down after 1915. The Moehn Brewery building is still standing with its original tin sign on the front of the building.

Likewise, Casper Heil’s mansion still stands majestically on top of one of the hilltops in Burlington.

With the turn of the century, many of the smaller breweries were closing down as the larger Iowa breweries continued to dominate the market. One of the innovations used at this time by the larger breweries was the use of large half-gallon sized beer bottles commonly referred to as a “picnic” bottle because there was most likely enough beer in one container to easily refresh everyone present at a small picnic!

The picnic beer bottle is almost always made of amber glass, many times marked on the base with the A. B. Co. glasshouse mark, and employed the use of a blob top.

While many of the breweries were

September-October 2007 switching over to the more modern and efficient crown top closure, the picnic bottles continued to use the blob top with a wire closure and a porcelain stopper with a rubber seal. The use of picnic beer bottles seems to be limited to the mid-west states of Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin although there are a very few examples from other states. The bottles generally stand 13 to 14 inches tall and have large slugplates with plenty of room for embossing. Some have more attractive embossing than others such as the bottles from the DUBUQUE BREWING & MALTING CO. and the DAVENPORT BREWING CO. The most elaborate embossing however was used by the brewery from the small town of New Vienna, Iowa. The details on the slugplate show a large flying eagle with a banner perched on a globe. Smaller quart size versions of the New Vienna bottles exist but all with crown top lips. This picnic size bottle is perhaps the most desirable and hardest to obtain of all the picnic beer bottles from Iowa.

If you’re trying to amass a complete collection of the picnic beers from Iowa, be prepared for a challenge as there are several tough examples besides the New Vienna bottle.

The following is a list of all known embossed Iowa picnic beers: Clinton - Clinton Brewing Co. Davenport - Davenport Brewing Co. Davenport - Independent Brewing & Malting Co. Des Moines - P. Dapalonia Des Moines - Des Moines Brewing Co., two slug plate varieties and one in olive amber Dubuque - Dubuque Brewing & Malting Co. Dubuque - Dubuque Star Brewing Co., base embossed only Keokuk - Phil Glaser, two slug plate varieties

49 Keokuk - Pechstein & Nagel Maquoketa - Fritz Staemmele New Vienna - New Vienna Brewing Co. Ottumwa - Ottumwa Brewing & Ice Co. Many of the smaller Iowa breweries and some of the larger ones undoubtedly used unembossed bottles with paper labels. This was a big savings in expenses as embossed bottles were more expensive than the unembossed versions. Few paper labeled examples exist from the Iowa preprohibition era prior to 1916 but one example is shown here. The label is marked OTTUMWA Budd SELECT BEER / OTTUMWA BREWING & ICE CO. / OTTUMWA, IOWA. It also has the nice graphics of the eagle flying through the “O” which is very similar to the etching found on the beer glasses from this company. This brewery was established in 1905 and closed around 1913.

While this article dealt mainly with the older style beer bottles, there are a number of embossed crown top beers from Iowa which I won’t cover at this time.

Again, with the established statewide prohibition law enacted in Iowa in 1916, all the breweries in Iowa were forced to close their doors or switch over to manufacturing a nonalcoholic product.

Some of the larger breweries did attempt this but with limited success. What is left for bottle collectors is a limited number of embossed beer bottles from Iowa to collect.

As always, it’s the pursuit and the people you meet along the way that make our hobby so enjoyable and unique.

A special thanks to Bruce Mobley for the use of his pictures in this article.

Stay tuned for my next article which will describe the few liquor and whiskey bottles known from Iowa. As always, enjoy the hunt the people you meet during the journey!

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The SIMPLEX (within an elongated diamond) Embossed and Unembossed Series of Packers’ Jars

By Barry L. Bernas Introduction On July 21, 1902, William Beach Fenn entered into a written agreement with John Pratt Elkin. One clause in this contract required Mr. Fenn to invent a glass jar, patent it and assign the rights for it to the Republic Glass Manufacturing Company of Moosic, Pennsylvania. This firm was coowned by both gentlemen.

About nine months later, William B. Fenn showed Mr. Elkin a sample of the jar he had developed. He referred to his concept as “the Simplex jar.” This container was targeted at the packers of prepared foods and condiments.1 Honoring his word, Mr. Fenn proceeded to secure a patent for his idea.2 However, the jar wasn’t the subject. Instead, it was the sealing mechanism and an all glass screw cap which was the focus of his innovation. 3 Nevertheless, a specially designed vessel was needed to make his invention function properly. It is this container that will be subject of this article.

“The Simplex Jar” Known by several names,4 the jar which took William B. Fenn’s May 3, 1904 patented closure was by no means similar to the standard Mason style of container that was marketed for home canning. For one thing, the mouth of the container was either narrower than or wider than the usual fruit jar opening. For another, it sealed along the side of the threaded area instead of on the shoulder or lip. And finally, this packing jar came in sizes selected for marketing commercially prepared foods usually found on grocery store shelves vice the preservation of fruits or vegetables by homemakers.

Figure 1 shows a depiction of this jar from an early promotion.5

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Sizes At this juncture, I’d like to introduce the various capacities of the embossed

and unembossed containers identified by name in footnote i. This information was extracted from a Perfection Glass Company advertising circular and ware’s brochure and a Hazel-Atlas Glass Company catalog.6 Perfection officials stated their employees were capable of turning out a jar {SIMPLEX (arched), “SIMPLEX,” “SIMPLEX JAR” (within an elongated diamond), SIMPLEX (within an elongated diamond with letters conforming to the limits of the diamond) or SIMPLEX (within an elongated diamond)} in 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 26 and 32-ounce sizes. Later, Hazel-Atlas officers offered the same style of cylindrical container (SIMPLEX “ALL GLASS” JARS) in 8, 10, 12 and 15-ounce capacities. A paneled, 9-ounce version was also available from this firm.7 If you look in Red Book No. 9 under numbers 2632-2634 you will see this vessel listed in one-third pint (5 1/3-ounces), halfpint (8-ounces), pint (16-ounces) and quart (32-ounces) sizes.8 Between the capacities advertised by the two glass manufacturers and the actual examples shown later in this article, you will see that many more sizes of this packing jar remain undiscovered or just unreported.

Special Design Features Mr. Fenn’s patent application provided for two finish styles on “the Simplex jar.”

Both threaded regions were “…of sloping or conical form…”

One had a raised thread that merged into the container’s neck while the other had an indented groove or what William B. Fenn called a “…female thread.”

Either of these features was used in conjunction with a threaded rubber packing ring, the sloping or conical interior side wall of the all glass cover and the raised thread on the inner skirt of the screw cap to achieve a seal.9 As far as I’ve been able to determine, only the first or raised and merging thread type of finish was produced. The threaded area on this container had no side seams in it. The absence of them permitted a better airtight closure when the rubber packing tube was screwed down onto the thread.

The finish on this type of packing jar also had a vertical and noticeably reinforced neck. The patent submission didn’t mention this feature. Nevertheless, pattern makers probably recommended it to prevent any surface cracking within the finish associated with the stress that accompanied the tightening or untightening processes.

Regardless of why it was added to the container’s finish, this attribute was distinctive. At a minimum, it immediately identified a jar which could be sealed by the Fenn patented, 1904 registered screw type of cover. Look for this trait in all of the jar photographs that follow.

Observations Before moving on, I’d like to make some observations about the SIMPLEX series of jars that have been reported.

The first thing to take note of is that not all of the advertised sizes have been found. It stands to reason the more popular models would have been made in higher amounts. This probably accounts for their presence today over other versions which haven’t been discovered.

Another item to bring up concerns the capacity of this style of container. One would think it should be easy to state the volume of any of these vessels. However, when I was tabulating the volumetric capability of each SIMPLEX example from my collection, I noticed the jar could be classified differently depending upon which standard point was used as a reference.

For instance, of the twenty-four containers I compared in the 10-ounce category, each had an 8-ounce capacity at the shoulder parting line and a 10-ounce volume when filled to the lip. How does one group these containers? Are these specimens 8 or 10-ounce jars?10 After thinking about this issue for several weeks, I finally concluded the complete capacity of the container was most likely used to advertise the jar. 11 This would allow the buyer to know how much material the vessel could contain if it was filled to the lip.12 My third observation centers on the threaded region on each container. Two styles have been identified. Figure 2 has a

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picture of each one.

On the left, the thread on this jar starts at the lip and proceeds down and around this region until it merges into the top of the container’s neck. Throughout the course of this movement, the protruding semicircular form is clearly distinct and intact. Between the lines of the thread is a depressed area flush with the outer finish. For discussion purposes, I’ve called this example a complete thread or Style I. The right-hand model has the same thread starting point. It rotates down and around this region for a turn and a fifth more or less. At this point, the top portion of the thread becomes quarter circular and continues around the finish until it combines with the jar’s neck. Conversely, the bottom segment becomes flat completely filling the void between the outside of the thread and the outer finish until it joins the neck. This version is my selfnamed flat thread or Style II. Before I move on, there is a fourth observation to bring out about this style of packing jar. I’ve found no definitive evidence to say with any certainty where an item was made. The possible candidates are the Sterling,13 Perfection and Hazel-Atlas Glass companies. I’m convinced the jars that follow were made by these firms. I just don’t know where any individual example was manufactured. Perhaps with more time and data analysis, this issue will become clearer.

Jar Measurements For the following sections, I examined and measured each SIMPLEX (within an elongated diamond) embossed or unembossed model in my collection.14 The assemblage of data about each group should enable anyone to identify whether their jar has already been reported.

9-Ounce Models The number of samples for the nine ounce category was only five jars.

Their height without a screw cap ranged between 4 5/8 and 11 4 /16 inches. The preponderant (4) were 4 11/16 inches tall. Around the center of the jar’s outer body, the diameter of four of the five containers in this assembly was 2 ½ inches. The odd one measured 2 7/16 inches along the same line. The thickness of the side wall on this small selection of jars remained a constant. Each had a 1/8 of an inch density. Figure 3 has a picture of a representative sample of a 9-ounce version.

As you would assume, the weight of the five vessels minus their covers varied as well. The “gathering boy” scooped out between 8 and 8 ½-ounces of molten metal to make the five containers in this group.

The finishes on the 9-ounce specimens had the below measurements. At the top, the outer diameter of the lip was 13/4 inches for four specimens and 1 13/16 inches for the other. The threaded area was 7/16 inch in length across the board. All of the merging threads were 1/8 inch wide. One Style I and four Style II threaded region variants were noted. Below the sealing area was the neck. On every example, it was 3/16 inch in length and between

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2 and 2 1/16 inches in exterior diameter.

Moving on to the next part of the SIMPLEX jar, the shoulder length on all the examples in this group was 1/4 of an inch. For the most part, body measurements were 3 9/16 inches (3). However, two examples were also noted with side walls that were 3 ½ inches long.

There was no circular plate mold impression on the front or reverse side of any jar in this section; although, each of the models did have embossing on the front. The markings consisted of the word SIMPLEX surrounded by an elongated diamond. The height of this geometric form was a standard 1 1/4 inches. Its width was normally 1 11/16 inches. The only difference encountered was a 1 3/4 inches wide example on one specimen. The size of the capital letters in the word SIMPLEX was a uniform 1/4 inch. A capital letter “Y” comprised the middle component of the character “M” in the term SIMPLEX on each of the five samples in this congregation of vessels.15 The last part of the container was on its base. The majority or four of the bottoms tallied 1/4 inch in length. The deviant was 3/16 inch. Each base was of the cup bottom mold variety16 and had a 5 /8 inch in diameter valve mark in the center. There was no number on base of any 9-ounce example.

10-Ounce Models The sample size for this grouping was twenty-four jars. This vessel capacity was probably one of the most popular in the SIMPLEX series.

The height of the uncapped cylindrical containers ranged between 4 5/8 and 4 3/4 inches. Twenty were 4 11/16 inches tall. Of the other four, three were 4 5/8 inches tall and the last one came in at 4 3/4 inches. Around the mid-section of the jar’s body, the outer diameter of every one of my containers was measured at 2 ½ inches.

The thickness of the jar’s side wall remained a constant. Each of the twenty-four, 10-ounce models was 1/8 inch in density. See Figure 4 for a photograph of one of the jars under this category.

The weight of the 10-ounce vessels minus their covers varied.

This was undoubtedly due to the differing amounts of molten glass

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52 taken from the furnace by the “gathering boy” and placed into the mold on the semiautomatic machine for pressing and blowing the container. Although the eye and feel of the worker was refined over time, he gathered between 6 3/4 and 8 3/4 ounces of metal to make the containers in my database.

The measurements for the finish components were also fairly constant. For example, there were only two dimensions for the outer diameter of the jar’s mouth.

These were the same as those noted on the 9-ounce versions – 1 3/4 (14) and 1 13/16 (10) inches.17 The length of the threaded area on twenty containers was 7/16 of an inch.

For the other four, two were 3/8 inch and two were ½ inch. All threads were 1/8 inch wide and merged into the vessel’s neck. By far and away, the flat thread variant (20) out distanced the complete thread style (4) by a five to one margin. The neck on every 10-ounce example was 3/16 inch in length and between 2 and 2 1/16 inches in outer diameter.

Moving on to SIMPLEX jar’s body section, the shoulder length of all but one of the jars in this group was 1/4 inch. The lone dissimilar model had a 3 / 16 inch measurement. Sixteen measurements of 3 9/16 inches were noted for the area between the shoulder and bottom parting lines. In addition to these, two other tallies were also seen. Seven jars had sides that measured 3 ½ inches in length. One other came in at 3 7/16.

The front or back sides of the 10-ounce jar’s body had no indication of a plate mold being used on any specimen within this grouping. Each one did have embossing on the front which consisted of the word SIMPLEX surrounded by an elongated diamond. The height of the geometric form was usually 1 1/4 inches for twenty-two of the twenty-four specimens. Two versions of 1 3/16 inches were seen as well. The width of the same design was 1 11/16 inches on twenty-two examples. The only difference encountered was a 1 5/8 inches wide model seen on two samples. The size of the capital letters in the word SIMPLEX was a uniform 1 /4 inch. A capital letter “Y” comprised the middle component of the character “M” in the term SIMPLEX on each sample in this congregation of vessels.

The majority or twenty of the bases on jars under this heading tallied 1/4 inch in length. Ones of 3/16 (1) and 5/16 (3) of an inch were also found. The base on all twenty-four containers was of the cup

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bottom mold variety and had a 5/8 inch in diameter valve mark in the center. There was no number on the underneath side of any of the 10-ounce examples.

12-Ounce Models Unfortunately, I’ve a smaller cross section of jars to review in this grouping.

Instead of twenty-four as was seen in my second assembly, only five have been found for this section. More examples are needed in order to form a better statistical basis; however, for now this meager listing will have to suffice.

The SIMPLEX containers without covers in this section were between 5 1/8 (3) and 5 3/16 (2) inches tall. Their diameters ranged from 2 9/16 (2) up to 2 5/8 inches (3).

A standard thickness of 1/8 inch was seen throughout all five vessels. Figure 5 has a picture of a 12-ounce model.

Being made by a part hand and part machine process, you would expect the weights of these jars to be somewhat different and they were. Weights of the uncapped models ranged from 8 1/4 to 8 3/4-ounces.

Inspecting the finish area, I found the mouth of the 12-ounce SIMPLEX containers to have two outer diameters.

Four of the vessels had a 1 13/ 16 inches distance across while the other was 1 ¾ inches.18 The threaded section of each of the five vessels was 7/16 inch long. Wherever present, the merging thread had a constant width of 1/8 inch across the five examples.

Three of the four models had finishes similar to the right side example in Figure

2. The fifth jar’s threaded area resembled the left-hand version. The neck of every container came in at 3/16 inch in length with either a 2 or 2 1/16 inches diameter.

Turning to the body of the jar, the length of shoulder was always 1/4 inch. For the curved side walls, the top to bottom calculations were mostly 4 inches (4) with one exception. This odd version came in at 4 3/16 inches.

I didn’t detect the use of a plate mold on any of the five containers. All models were embossed. The following data sets comprised the measurements to the alleged trademark - SIMPLEX (within an elongated diamond): diamond height 1 1/4 inches on four examples, the other was 1 5/16 inches; diamond width - 1 11/16 inches and letter size 1/4 inch. Four of the five examples had the letter “Y” as the middle segment of the character “M” in the word SIMPLEX. The deviant showed the capital letter “V” in this position.

Each of the five specimens had a cup bottom mold base that was either 1/8 (1) or 1 /4 (4) inch long. The valve mark remained a constant 5/8 inch, regardless of the length of the base. Four of the jars had no number inside the circular machine feature. The other had the numeral 4 within this ring.19 13-Ounce Model The sample in this category consists of only one container.

Without a cover, this cylindrical jar was 5 7/8 inches tall. Its outer diameter, like some of its 12-ounce mates, measured 2 5/8 inches. The thickness of the side wall on this example was 1/8 of an inch. Figure 6 has this model displayed.

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Bottles and Extras The weight of this uncapped 13-ounce specimen was 10 ¼-ounces.

At the apex of its finish, the mouth on this lone vessel had an outer diameter of 1 3/4 inches.20 For the threaded segment, the length of it came in at 7/16 inch. The complete thread was 1/8 of an inch wide throughout. It merged into the jar’s neck.

The last component of the finish was 3/16 inch tall with an outer diameter of 2 inches.

The body section comes next. It starts off with a curved shoulder length of 1/4 of an inch. I computed the side wall measurement to be 4 7/8 inches.

Upon inspection, I couldn’t find any trace of a circular plate mold on the body of this singular example of a SIMPLEX (within an elongated diamond) embossed jar. The word – SIMPLEX – was cut into the mold with 1/ 4 inch tall letters. The dimensions of the surrounding diamond form were: height – 1 1/4 inches and width – 1 3/4 inches. A capital letter “V” was in the middle between the side posts of the third alphabetical character in the word SIMPLEX. On this 13-ounce version, the cup bottom mold style of base was 1/8 of an inch in vertical height. In the center of the underneath segment was an 11/16 inch in diameter valve mark with the number 5 inside of it.21 14-Ounce Models For this grouping, my survey encompassed nine containers.

All of the uncapped jars in this series but one had a length of 5 15/16 inches. The lonely outsider example was only 1/16 inch smaller (5 7/8). Horizontal distance across the center of these containers varied between 2 5/8 (7) and 2 11/16 (2) inches. The side wall thickness of all of the 14-ounce capable models was 1/ 8 of an inch. See Figure 7.

As expected, there was a swath of weights among these uncapped specimens.

These ranged from 9 to 11 1/4-ounces.

The mouth on the containers in this section was either 1 3/4 (3) or 1 13/16 (6) inches across the outside wall at the lip.22 Each threaded area had a length of 7/16 inch.

On it, the merging thread was a constant 1 /8 of an inch in width. Two of the nine examples were Style I. The remaining seven showed the Style II feature. Below the threaded area was the neck. All of the vessels had a 3/16 inch length for this part of the jar. Outer diameters for this segment measured between 2 and 2 1/16 inches across

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Figure 7 the center.

Between the base of the neck and the shoulder parting line, the curved shoulder on each of the nine containers was 1/4 of an inch. For the vertical side wall of the body, this part of the 14-ounce SIMPLEX grouping showed the most divergent measurements. Four models were 4 3/ 4 inches in length. Three came in at 4 13/16 inches. One was 4 7/8 inches. And the last

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All of the nine examples in this assemblage of containers didn’t show evidence of a plate mold on the front or back surface of the jar’s body. One third of the samples were embossed on the front.

Of these versions, the letters in the word SIMPLEX were 1/4 inch high. The diamond heights varied from 1 1/4 (2) to 1 5/16 (1) inches. Widths of the same trait also showed differences. These went from 1 11/16 (2) to 1 3/4 (1) inches across the geometric form.

Two of the three showed a large “V” as the center part of the “M” in the word SIMPLEX. The other had a capital “Y.” Every one of the bases in this grouping was of the cup bottom mold variety. Lengths of this part had the following fractional inch ranges: 1/8 (1), 3/16 (1), 1/4 (4) and 5/16 (3).

Two outer diameter dimensions for the valve mark were also noted. These were: 5 /8 and 11/16 of an inch. Eight of the nine containers had no other markings on their bases. The singular standout had the number 3 within the machine induced circular ring.23 15-Ounce Model Regrettably, the sample size for this group was a single example.

Without a cover, this cylindrical jar was 5 15 / 16 inches tall. Its outer diameter measured 2 11/16 inches around the central section of its body. The thickness of this specimen’s side wall was a 1 / 8 inch.

Figure 8 has a photograph of this model.

The weight of this uncapped 15-ounce capacity container was 9 3/4-ounces.

At the lip, the mouth on this vessel had an outer diameter of 1 7/8 inches.24 In the next portion of the finish, the length of the threaded segment came to 7/16 inch. The Style I kind of thread was 1/8 of an inch wide throughout and merged into the jar’s neck. The last component of the container’s first part was 1/8 inch tall with an outer diameter of 2 1/16 inches.

The subsequent section of the 15-ounce model was its body. It started off with a curved shoulder whose length could not be determined because there was no discernable shoulder parting line. This missing segment also hindered the computation of a side wall measurement.

Unlike the previously described SIMPLEX jars in this article, this unembossed specimen had a 1 15/16 inches in diameter plate mold mark on its front.25 There were other differences witnessed on this jar. Instead of a cup bottom mold

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style of base, this one sported a post bottom mold motif. Of course, this variation doesn’t have a bottom parting line so the length of the base cannot be tabulated.

Another dissimilar trait was the diameter of the value mark in the center of the underneath segment. It was 1 inch across with the number 12 inside of it.26 The least seen Style I kind of thread, absence of a shoulder and bottom parting line, a plate mold mark, a post bottom mold type of base and a larger diameter value mark differentiate this unembossed example of a SIMPLEX series jar from all others up to this point.

16-Ounce Models As was the case with other groups, there is a dearth of examples in this section. So far, I’ve been able to find only six jars to compare.

Two of the uncovered models were 5 7/8 inches tall. The remainder came in 1/16 of an inch taller or at 5 15/16 inches. Across their mid-section, the outer diameter of five of the containers was 2 7/8 inches. The sixth specimen had a distance around of 2 15/16 inches. Strangely, the thickness of the side wall was either 1/8 (3) or 3/16 (3) of an inch.

Figure 9 has a representative example of this jar.

Similar to its lower capacity counterparts, the weight of each uncapped vessel in this category varied between 10 3/ 4 and 12-ounces. Ironically, four

Figure 9

samples weighed in at the latter weight.

Unless this was a lucky coincidence, some sort of gob feeding device may have been added to the semiautomatic manufacturing process when these versions were pressed and blown.

Starting with the first part of the finish, the outer diameter of the lip on four of the SIMPLEX containers in this grouping were 1 15/ 16 inches. The other two showed a distance across of 2 inches. 27 For the threaded region, its length was a constant ½ inch per each rendition. Each thread was 1 /8 inch wide and merged into the top of the neck. Every specimen had a threaded area resembling the right-hand photo in Figure 2. Unlike previous kin, three containers showed a 3/16 inch long neck while the remaining examples were 1/4 of an inch. The outer diameter of the same part was either 2 3/16 (3) or 2 1/4 (3) inches across.

The curved shoulder was a standard 1 / 4 inch in length among all containers within this section. For the side wall, this vertical area of the 16-ounce jar’s body measured 4 13/16 inches in length for any member.

All of the six examples in this assembly didn’t show any evidence of a plate mold on the front or back surface of the jar’s body.

However, every one of the samples was embossed with the design - SIMPLEX (within an elongated diamond). The letters in the word SIMPLEX were 1/4 inch high for two of the six samples. For the other four, these characters had a 5/16 of an inch height. The vertical size of the diamond form varied from 1 5/ 16 inches for five models to 1 3/ 4 inches for the last one.

Widths of the same trait showed no differences. Each distance across the center of the diamond was 1 7/8 inches. All six editions had a large “Y” as the center part of the “M” in the word SIMPLEX. Every model had a cup bottom mold design as its base. Heights of the last part of the container were equally split. Three jars had a 3/16 of an inch vertical length while the others showed a 1/4 inch version.

A 5/8 inch valve mark was on five of the vessels. The lone oddity showed an 11/16 of an inch circular machine mark. None of the candidates had a number embossed on their underneath side.

33-Ounce Model Only one example has been found for this category.

Coverless, this cylindrical jar was 6 7/8

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Figure 10 inches tall, 3 13/16 inches in outer diameter and 3/16 of an inch in thickness. Figure 10 has a photograph of this model.

The weight of this uncapped 33-ounce capacity container was 18 ½-ounces.

At the tip of the lip, this vessel had an outer diameter of 2 15/16 inches.28 In the next portion, the length of the threaded segment was 3/8 of an inch. The complete thread on this segment was 1/8 inch wide and merged into the jar’s neck. The last component was 1 /8 inch tall and carried an outer diameter of 3 1/16 inches.

The subsequent section of this quart plus model was its body. It started off with a curved shoulder whose length was 1 /4 inch. Due to the side seams ending at the bearing surface, a body length couldn’t be determined.

Unlike the majority of its prior cousins, this example of a SIMPLEX packing container had both a plate mold outline (2 5/8 inches in diameter)29 and embossing within it on the front of the jar. The large letters in the word SIMPLEX were 7/16 of an inch in height. The elongated diamond form was 1 11/16 inches tall and 2 ½ inches wide. A capital “V” formed the middle segment of the letter “M” in the prominent trademarked word.

The base on this model was of the post

Bottles and Extras bottom mold variety. Inside of the bearing surface was a 1 3/8 inches in diameter valve mark with the number 32 embossed within it.30 This container also had characteristics similar to the unembossed 15-ounce example. The design differences separate these two jars from the others described previously.

Summary When I started this discussion about the SIMPLEX series of packing jars, I indicated Perfection Glass advertised nine sizes and the Hazel-Atlas firm promoted four cylindrical and one paneled container with different capacities. After presenting my database information, I now feel confident that the 9, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 32-ounce models pitched by Perfection have been identified. The samplings from my files may also take care of the 10, 12 and 15ounce editions from the Wheeling, West Virginia based glass business as well. How the 13-ounce version fits into the mix is a mystery at this point.

Near the front of this article, I also mentioned that Red Book No. 9 carried the SIMPLEX jars in four sizes. Clearly, two of the four entries have been verified.31 In addition, other sizes have now been thoroughly documented for inclusion in subsequent updates to this superb reference document.

With the previous information serving as a backdrop, there are still other sizes of this vessel in undisclosed locations, waiting to be found and documented. According to my count, at the very least an 8, 9 (paneled), 18, 20 and 26-ounce SIMPLEX style of container still needs to be reported, photographed and measured. While you are out and about, keep an eye peeled, as they say, for these missing jars. Your pin money account could potentially grow larger if you are lucky enough to find one!

BLB Footnotes: i Originally called “the Simplex jar,” this container acquired other names over time.

These were: Simplex Packing Jar, The Simplex, “Simplex” Fruit Jar, SIMPLEX (arched), “SIMPLEX”, “SIMPLEX JAR” (within an elongated diamond), SIMPLEX (within an elongated diamond with letters conforming to the limits of the diamond), SIMPLEX (within an elongated diamond) and finally, SIMPLEX “ALL GLASS” JARS.

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Water was used to compute the fluid ounce capacity of each SIMPLEX (within an elongated diamond) embossed or unembossed packing jar. While examining several of the twenty-four containers, I also determined their dry capacity along with a filled weight. I undertook these last two measurements to see if the results revealed anything further about these jars.

Regrettably, they didn’t. iii I never came across a jar with any of the other names listed in footnote i. iv The middle component of the “M” in the name SIMPLEX could be a capital “Y”, a capital “V” or a small letter “v.” The significance, if any, of this mold peculiarity remains undetermined. v On the cup bottom mold style of base, there are no side seams after the bottom parting line. The post bottom mold kind has the side seams terminating at the bearing surface on the underneath part of the base. vi The 9-ounce and 10-ounce capacity SIMPLEX (within an elongated diamond) marked or unmarked jars took the same size of screw cap. vii The 9, 10 and 12-ounce SIMPLEX (within an elongated diamond) embossed and unembossed jars took the same size of all glass screw cap. viii This was the first numbered base on a 9, 10 or 12-ounce SIMPLEX (within an elongated diamond) inscribed or unmarked similar style of container. The number is 5 /16 of an inch tall. It is interesting to note that this model has the capital letter “V” as the middle component of the letter “M” in the word SIMPLEX. ix The 9, 10, 12 and 13-ounce SIMPLEX (within an elongated diamond) embossed and unembossed jars took the same size of all glass screw cap. x This was the second numbered base seen on a 9, 10, 12 or 13-ounce SIMPLEX (within an elongated diamond) inscribed or unmarked similar style of container. The number is 5/16 of an inch tall. It is interesting to note that the other base numbered 12-ounce model and this one had the capital letter “V” as the middle component of the letter “M” in the word SIMPLEX. xi The 9, 10, 12, 13 and 14-ounce SIMPLEX (within an elongated diamond) embossed and unembossed jars took the same size of all glass screw cap. xii This was the third numbered base seen on a 9, 10, 12, 13 or 14-ounce SIMPLEX (within an elongated diamond) inscribed or unmarked similar style of container. This

55 number is 5/16 of an inch tall. It is interesting to note that the other numbered 12 and 13ounce models and one of the two examples under this heading had the capital letter “V” as the middle component of the letter “M” in the word SIMPLEX. xiii The 9, 10, 12, 13, 14 and 15-ounce SIMPLEX (within an elongated diamond) embossed and unembossed jars took the same size of all glass screw cap. xiv This is the first SIMPLEX jar noted with this marking on it. xv This was the fourth numbered base seen on a 9, 10, 12, 13, 14 or 15-ounce SIMPLEX (within an elongated diamond) inscribed or unmarked similar style of container. The number is 5/16 of an inch tall. xvi The 16-ounce SIMPLEX (within an elongated diamond) embossed jars took a different size of all glass screw cap than their 9, 10, 12, 13, 14 and 15-ounce compatriots. This is the second size of screw cap noted. xvii The 33-ounce SIMPLEX (within an elongated diamond) embossed jar took a different size of all glass screw cap than its 16-ounce or 9, 10, 12, 13, 14 and 15-ounce compatriots. This is the third size of screw cap noted. xviii This is the second jar within the whole SIMPLEX series that showed a plate mold outline on its front. xix This was the fifth numbered base seen among the 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15 or 16-ounce SIMPLEX (within an elongated diamond) inscribed or unmarked style of container.

Unlike the other base numbered specimens, the digits on this edition are 7/16 of an inch tall. It is interesting to note that the other base numbered models less the unembossed model and this one had the capital letter “V” as the middle component of the letter “M” in the word SIMPLEX. xx The half pint or 8-ounce model still needs to be located. Since neither Perfection nor Hazel-Atlas officials promoted a one-third pint (5 1/ 3-ounce) container, I have my doubts whether an example will ever be available for measuring and photographing.

Endnotes: 1 District Court of the United States, for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Docket No. 2339.

2 Fruit Jar Patents Volume III 1900-1942, compiled by Dick Roller, Phoenix Press, Chicago, Illinois, December 1996, pgs.

154-156.

3 For more details about this screw cap, please consult the following book and/or

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article. Perfection Glass Company, One of Many Glass Houses in Washington, Pennsylvania, Barry L. Bernas, 239 Ridge Avenue, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 17325, 2005, pgs. III-XVIII. Cataloging Process for the Fenn-Designed, 1904 Patented, Screw Cap, Barry L. Bernas, The Guide To Collecting Fruit Jars Fruit Jar Annual Volume 10 - 2005, Jerome J. McCann, 5003 W. Berwyn Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 60630-1501, pgs. 4-20.

4 District Court of the United States, for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Docket No. 2339.

5 There is also an undistributed and undated pamphlet from the Republic Glass Manufacturing Company that has sizes for the Simplex Packing Jar and/or The Simplex container entered in it. This circa February to May 1903 booklet had the capacities of 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 26 and 32ounces listed for this container. For more details and/or a reproduced copy of this brochure, please see the following reference. Perfection Glass Company, One of Many Glass Houses in Washington, Pennsylvania, Barry L. Bernas, 239 Ridge Avenue, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 17325, 2005, pgs. XXXVIII-XL.

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District Court of the United States, for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Docket No. 2339 and 1908 Catalogue of the Hazel-Atlas Glass Company, reprinted

by Dick Cole, Minnetrista, 1200 North Minnetrista Parkway, Muncie, Indiana, 2004, pg. 41.

7 The Collector’s Guide to Old FRUIT JARS Red Book 9, Douglas M. Leybourne, Jr. P. O. Box 5417 North Muskegon, MI 49445, pg. 345.

8 Fruit Jar Patents Volume III 1900-1942, compiled by Dick Roller, Phoenix Press, Chicago, Illinois, December 1996, pg. 155.

9 In the trailing two references, I used the fill or shoulder parting line instead of the full up point at the lip to classify the volume of the SIMPLEX jars. This led to an alternative conclusion as to what size of all glass screw cap fit onto which container.

Cataloging Process for the Fenn-Designed, 1904 Patented, Screw Cap, Barry L. Bernas, The Guide To Collecting Fruit Jars Fruit Jar Annual Volume 10 – 2005, Jerome J. McCann, 5003 W. Berwyn Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 60630-1501, pgs. 13-14 and Evolution of the SIMPLEX in a Diamond All Glass Screw Cap, Barry L. Bernas, awaiting publication in The Guide

Bottles and Extras To Collecting Fruit Jars Fruit Jar Annual.

10 Fruit Jar News Clearing House, Dick Roller, Old Bottle Magazine, November 1977, pg. 19 and Ibid, December 1977, pg.

16. Mr. Roller addressed the same issue in the above two references. When these columns were published, an industry standard had been set, according to Mr. Bill Brantley of the Ball Corporation. He indicated “…the industry standard requires that the capacity of a jar when filled to the brim must be at least equal to the stated capacity of the jar.” This information influenced my choice.

11 The Simplex packing jar was first mentioned in a June 11, 1903 report contained in Crockery and Glass Journal.

I believe it was made at the works of the Sterling Glass Company in Washington, Pennsylvania and marketed by the Perfection Manufacturing Company of the same location. For more information, please look through the following two articles. The First SIMPLEX Screw Cap, Barry L. Bernas, Bottles and Extras, Winter 2006, pg. 30 and Perfection, Another Glasshouse in A Glass Town, Barry L. Bernas, Bottles and Extras, Spring 2005, pgs. 56-58.

Tradecard courtesy of Melissa Milner, Johnson City, Tenn.

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The Greenbrier Hotel

By Howard Dean George Francis Gimbel, my uncle, was born on March 26, 1888 in Hoboken, N.J. He attended public schools in West Hoboken (now Union City), where he had moved with his family. He became a printer and operated the Gimbel Press at the rear of their home at 314 Warren St. (now 11th St.). In 1920, at the age of 32, he went to White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., and worked at the worldfamous Greenbrier Hotel, where he was in charge of their print shop until he retired in 1952. This hotel is located on the west edge of White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier County, Virginia.

Our story all started when Nicholas and Kate Carpenter settled on Howard’s Creek about 1750. In 1752, Nicholas was killed in an Indian raid. Kate and her child were saved by hiding in the thick forest, now called Kate’s Mountain. Their land went through several owners, and in 1809, the Calwells built a small tavern near the spring and this was the beginning of the world famous resort.

The Lester Building, now used as a dormitory for the employees, is one of the oldest structures still standing. The spring enclosure dates back to about 1815. A cottage was built in 1834 that soon became

known as the President’s Cottage because many presidents made it their summer “white house.” Henry Clay was the first known prominent American to visit the spring in 1817. President Jackson is said to have been the first president to stay at the resort. However, many people came to enjoy the spa in the mid-1800s.

The Greenbrier soon became a five-star resort, and for most of its history, it was owned by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. It is now (2006) a wholly-owned subsidiary of CSX Corp. For the first 125 years, the resort was known as the White Sulphur Springs. The hotel was built in 1858 and in 1910, the C&O Railway became its owner. It was the C&O that built the Greenbrier Hotel in 1913. Soon tennis courts, golf courses, and other amenities were added. The old White and the Greenbrier hotels operated as separate units until 1922 when the old White was razed.

The owners, C&O, spent a few million dollars (in 1931) to improve and expand the number of rooms to a total of 580.

After Pearl Harbor, Cordell Hull (who later became our Secretary of State) suggested that the hotel house interned diplomats and other foreign suspects. On

The Old White Hotel was erected in 1858, including a gigantic dining room on the first floor. It seated 1,200 people, the largest in the country at the time. In 1869, the tracks of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway connected the Greenbrier Valley to eastern Virginia. The resort was then able to offer new kinds of food - pineapples, bananas, lobster, shrimp and soft-shell crabs - that had been out-of-reach during the stage-coach days. The railway also brought many more summertime guests to White Sulphur Springs. The grand hotel and dining room were filled by the bigger summertime crowds, arriving on the new railroad. The Old White Hotel was torn down in 1922, after the new Greenbrier Hotel was built next to it.

December 21, 1941, 159 Germans and Hungarians arrived by a special train. Soon after that came a contingent of Japenese to make the total number of internees about 1,400. These were soon exchanged for American diplomats (July, 1942) and the Greenbrier reopened for civilian use. This only lasted one month, as on September 1,

The Greenbrier Hotel, circa 1872.

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Greenbrier Hotel, circa 1915.

Aerial view of the Greenbrier, circa 1940.

Main Street entrance to the Greenbrier.

In 1910, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway purchased the historic resort property and embarked upon a major expansion. By 1913 the railroad had added The Greenbrier Hotel (the central portion of today’s hotel), a new Mineral Bath Department (the building that includes the Indoor Pool) and an 18-hole golf course (now called The Old White Course) designed by the most prominent golf architect of the day, Charles Blair Macdonald. In 1914, for the first time, the resort was open year round and that year President and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson spent their Easter holiday at The Greenbrier and Joseph and Rose Kennedy traveled down from Boston for their October honeymoon.

1942, the U.S. Army took it over and bought it for $3 million.

Many murals, pictures, engravings, etc., were hastily packed into storage, loaned to museums and/or donated to the Washington and Lee University. Some furnishings were auctioned off. The hotel was quickly converted into a hospital, and by November of 1942, the “Ashford General Hospital” was in business. Ashford specialized in vascular and neurological surgery and reached a peak of .2,720 patients. For four years the resort served as a surgical and rehabilitation center and 24,148 soldiers were admitted and treated at the facility.

Also, more than 2,000 prisoners of war were housed in a camp near the Greenbrier airport. Generals Jonathan Wainwright, B. Sommervell, Mark Clark, Dwight D. Eisenhower and retired Secretary of State Cordell Hull were among those who were

treated at the hospital.

Peace came, and the Ashford General Hospital closed on September 5, 1946. The railroad repurchased the property, and in April of 1948, celebrated its reopening. My Uncle George stayed through those hard years and had many stories to tell. I only wish I had taken notes as he talked. As I mentioned, he retired in 1952. Many improvements were made in 1954, 1962, 1974 and 1976.

The job of putting this elegant hotel back in business was an overwhelming task that was given to a woman, Dorothy Draper.

Some of the original historic furnishings were still in place, or could be taken from storage, and some which had been sold were able to be bought back. It was a huge undertaking that led to the opening party held on April 15-18, 1948. One socialite remarked there had been “nothing like it

since the Bradley Martin Ball in 1896,” and Cleveland Amory (a reporter) called it “the outstanding resort society function in modern history.” The Greenbrier was back in service as before, but there is more!

In the late 1950s, the U.S. government approached the Greenbrier for assistance in creating an Emergency Relocation Center to house Congress in the aftermath of a nuclear attack. This highly secret facility was built in conjunction with an above ground addition to the hotel, the West Virginia Wing, between 1959-1962. This is very interesting in itself, but does not belong in this article. Its secret was wellkept for years in spite of the fact that some employees of the hotel were in on the secret bunker until it was officially revealed in 1992 by an article in the Washington Post.

Public tours of this huge bunker are now available. For more information, see:

George F. Gimbel at Greenbrier Hotel, circa 1924.

Left, with other employees in the kitchen; above, at his printing press.

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Published by Donald Tucker, North Berwich, ME 03906, 2nd Ed., 2005

During the 1770s, a few years after the British and the French settled their differences in Europe and America (the “French and Indian War”), word began to spread through Virginia that the mineral springs at White Sulphur Springs would cure rheumatism. People flocked to the place from far and wide to drink from the spring waters there. They camped on the spot where the spring house (illustrated above) now stands.

washingtonpost.com/svr/local/daily/july/25/ brier1.htm.

It was in the late 1960s that I became a bottle collector and suddenly found out about the White Sulphur mineral water bottles and began a search for one. In the spring of 1980, just after I retired, I ran an ad in the OBX Bottle Magazine, then published in Bend, Ore., and soon received a letter from a collector in Spottswood, Va. Al Hickin, who had the bottle for sale at $75. It became mine! Some of you may recall Albert T. Hickin, a collector of flask and squat sodas, who became a good friend.

Lillian and I spent many happy hours with Al and Jane in their home, and between visits, we carried on a very interesting correspondence, mainly regarding antique bottles. I have often been tempted to write a story on “Letters from Al.” Maybe someday, I will. Al died in April of 1988, and Jane followed him a few months later.

Glassworks Auctions sold his collection.

My second White Sulphur Springs {arc}/Greenbrier/W.Va. was found in November of 1986 in a bottle show in New Orleans for $5, and it cleaned up nicely.

These are listed in Tucker’s book under M-60 and are described as: tall quart 9 7/8 x 3 1/2 inches in teal blue, aqua, amber and green. I think mine are aqua and teal blue.

But all are considered rare - no pontil.

Because West Virginia became a state

in 1863 from part of the state of Virginia, these later bottles are embossed: W.Va. The earlier ones are listed in Tucker’s book as M-59 and are embossed: White Sulphur {arc}/ Water / Greenbrier, Va. {rev. arc}.

These come in green and aqua, a variant in light emerald and light olive (with double collar), while the others have a blob top or flange. There is also one in light green with an iron pontil. All are rare or very rare.

My third bottle, one from Va., came as a result of my ad in a bottle magazine again.

So, I guess I’d have to agree that “it doesn’t cost to advertise, it pays.” I only wish my Uncle George could enjoy these with me.

Lillian and I have visited the Greenbrier on several occasions in recent years where I purchased a book on its history. I also spoke with several employees and asked about the bottles. No one knew about them, but the beautiful domed house is still there, and on its top is the stature of Hygeia, the Goddess of Health.

Howard J. Dean May 20, 2006 References: The Greenbrier Heritage, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, by William Olcott.

Historic Springs of the Virginias - a Pictorial History, by Stan Cohen, 1981.

Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 4103 Virginia Ave., SE, Charleston, West

White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier, W.Va. bottle.

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The Tin Feeder - Good or Bad?

By Charles Harris, Ooltewah, Tenn. 37373 relicnut@bellsouth.net For some unknown reason, I have always been fascinated by tin ware. This goes back to before my wife, Teresa, and I became interested in the challenging collecting field of baby bottles. Maybe this fascination is due to the antiquity of the item, maybe it is due to the handwork that goes into the creation of the tin item by the traveling tinker. I don’t really know the reasoning for my interest, but it is really there.

We own only one tin baby feeder and a tin invalid feeder at the present and bought the baby feeder a few years ago from Ros Berman at one of our ACIF (American Collectors of Infant Feeders) conventions.

At that time she mentioned that there are some reproductions on the market being sold to the unsuspecting. I listened to her, but didn’t actually fully comprehend what she was telling me. Needless to say, we’re always looking in antique shops for that rare occasion that I might find one of the tin baby feeders reposing on a shelf at a ridiculously low price — one that no other collector of tin ware has happened upon.

Well, that day finally appeared in an antique shop in Adamstown, Pa. this past spring. The shop had large quantities of tin ware for sale — most of it was being sold by an energetic 94 year old dealer.

There it was, that tin feeder hiding on one

of the shelves. Teresa came running to me with the comment: “Lookie, lookie at what I just found.” Yup, there it was — a tin baby feeder — not at that ridiculously low price, but at a fair price of about two-thirds of what they are now selling for.

I looked closely at it. I was excited, but deep down I was scared of it. I didn’t know why, but I was scared. “Ros, Ros, what was it that you had told me those few years ago?” I don’t remember, but I must have listened to you somewhat or else I wouldn’t be being doubtful now in my moment of triumph. We just finished visiting you at your wonderful General Store and museum in Cheltenham, Pa. just two days ago. I looked at all of your tin feeders, but never asked you about the reproductions again.

It just didn’t cross my mind.

Luckily Teresa had Ros’s telephone number in her cell phone. I called three times, but couldn’t make a good connection.

Finally I asked the antique store manager if I could take the feeder outside in the sunlight and photograph it. She said okay and came out and watched me taking photos. By this time I had just about convinced myself that our find was a good one.

While taking photos I looked inside and saw the remains of an oil in it on a very dark surface. I also saw remnants of steel

Some of the many tin baby feeders to be found in Ros Berman’s General Store. They are all handcrafted by traveling tinkers. Note that no two are alike. The left one has a side spout in relation to the handle. The second one has a flat top lid which is also hinged.

The right one has a smaller handle, is taller and skinnier and has a smaller knob on the spout.

Doesn’t this one also look good? It is the reproduction that we almost bought in Adamstown, Pa. And the price was right — only about two-thirds of the present retail price — very tempting, to say the least. wool from a cleaning. I had already concluded that the outer surface had been overcleaned and the steel wool and oil only verified this opinion.

Again I tried to call Ros and made a good connection from the front porch of the shop. On the phone I described what I was seeing and she convinced me to leave it at the shop for others to be fooled. I did take one of the shop’s business cards, just in case I changed my mind.

All of the features other than the lid looked good and period. Even the way the spout was fashioned on the inside of the

The dark inside of the lid and the old looking solder along with the oil and steel wool remnants almost convinced me that this tin baby feeder was original, just overcleaned.

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The size of the lead ball on the spout didn’t bother Ros, but the size of the hole in the ball did. As Ros said, “The flow from that hole would let enough milk pass to drown a baby.”

Here is the straight soldered seam on top of the lid along with the ring handle that covers the hole left in the top of the lid due to the soldering of the non-original type of lid construction.

Also the size of the ball on the end of the spout bothered me, but not Ros. body and soldered to the inside skin was correct looking. It terminated about 1/16 inch from the bottom and was tacked to the front wall for security. The lid may correctly be just a press fit onto the body of the feeder or it may be hinged. The press fit is more common since it takes fewer steps in the handcrafting of the tin baby feeders.

After we finally made it home I sent Ros a set of my photos of the tin feeder. About two weeks later she called me and verified the good decision that we had made on the phone earlier.

The primary feature that pointed to this tin feeder as being a reproduction was the features in the manufacture of the lid. ALL of the originals have either a domed or semi-domed lid that is evidently formed in a press of some sort or by hammering. The reproductions are made by cutting a piece of tin, pulling it around to itself at a straight line junction and soldering it to make a dome (see my photos). At the top of this soldered dome on the reproductions is usually found a little circular handle soldered to the lid to cover the hole at the peak.

Another feature that bothered me was the size of the lead knob on the end of the spout. This knob makes a bump that the baby can wrap its lips around. It also creates a knob that the cloth rag, chamois or pickled cow’s teat can be tied to and not accidentally pulled off by the nursing infant. It looked much too big for me.

The size didn’t bother Ros, but the size of the hole in the knob did bother her. She said that large of a hole would let enough milk pass to drown a baby. I’m sure that she was correct.

About the time that we had taken all of our photos, made telephone calls and made our decision not to purchase this wonderfully created reproduction, the lady that was running the shop at the time came up to me and told me that she shouldn’t open her mouth, but let us know that we had made a good decision.

Well, we didn’t come home with our prize — thank goodness, but we did find some other wonderful finds and purchases on our way home. And I actually did make one of those once in a lifetime

This sketch shows how the sucking tube or straw is formed on the inside of the tin baby feeder. The exit hole is small to hold down the flow of the milk. Also the straw portion terminates only about 1/16-inch from the inside of the bottom to make it easy for the infant to suck all the milk out of the feeder.

buys when I found a $700 pair of good Confederate Civil War Cavalry spurs in Beckley W.Va. for $18. Hee, hee. And it only took the shop owner 30 minutes to come back and open the case for me.

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H. WAGENER BREWING CO.

by Stan Sanders and Mickey Roach Photos by Mickey Roach One of the west’s great beer breweries (the oldest in Utah) was the H. Wagener Brewing Co., established in 1864 and incorporated in 1897. The Wagener Brewery and its associated history is one of the favorites amongst Utah breweriana history buffs and bottle collectors.

Unfortunately, there are no remnants or remains of the old brewery building that once stood near where Utah’s Hogle Zoo is located today. The plant burned down in 1913. Wagener produced a variety of beers and bottled them in labeled, as well as embossed, bottles. Only a very small number of the older embossed Wagener beer bottles have been found whole.

Happily, a number of advertising pieces, postcards, signs, and other historic memorabilia have survived to remind us of one of the great beer establishments in America.

The following history is quoted from page 65 of a booklet entitled: The “Colorado Midland Railway.”

“This country has fully awakened to the fact that we owe very much to our fellow citizens of German birth or extraction for leading our people into the paths of a national practice of practical temperance by setting an example of the use of pure beer, instead of the various decoctions of rye, wheat and corn; that

Front and back of an advertising card from H. Wagener Brewing Co.

Bottles and Extras the advantages to the general health and morals of our people have been vast and manifold goes without saying.

“Salt Lake has the honor of being the home of a brewing establishment, which produces as fine a quality of this article as can be found on either side of the Atlantic. A fact that has been fully attested to by all who ever have had the good fortune to quaff the product of the Wagener Brewing Company. This plant was established in 1864, and is the pioneer brewery of the state of Utah; it was incorporated thirty-five years later under a charter with the ample capital of $50,000, retaining, however, the same firm name.

“It covers in all about 152 acres of ground ‘situated 4 ½ miles east from the Mormon Temple in what is known as the Emigration Canon. This brewery is certainly to be congratulated on the popularity it has gained and the headway it has made with the general public, it having from year to year added new buildings and increased its capacity, until today it is the largest plant between Denver and San Francisco.

Early die-cut advertisement stand-up.

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Front of Wagener tradecard.

“Its product is delightfully clear and sparkling, only the finest California, Oregon and New York hops, and the best Utah and Idaho barley being used, and the purest of mountain spring water; an exceptional care being taken to have it always of uniform quality, it is no wonder that its product leads, having no superior and very few equals. The main building is an imposing three-story brick with a 200-foot frontage by 150 feet deep, fitted out with the most improved machinery with a 150-horse-power steam engine and two immense boilers, one fifty and the other twenty-five horse power, two huge brew vats, one with a capacity for eighty

Early bottle label.

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Early die-cut advertisement.

barrels and the other a thirty barrel capacity, and their ware and storage houses have a stock of 2,500 barrels always on hand. The other buildings are icehouses, bottling works and office buildings and the brew master’s residence.

The bottling works have the most improved machinery for the ready dispatch of business, their capacity being twenty-five barrels daily, having in use the improved gas system. The company puts up all its own ice, storing it in an icehouse built for that purpose right on the side of the mountain; and to show the enterprise of this concern, they have improved a magnificent natural park of 100 acres

Another early tradecard.

nearby as a summer resort, which is open to the public on Sundays. This park is handsomely laid out with beautiful shaded walks and drives, interspersed with trees, beautiful flowers and fountains. This company gives employment to fifty men, using twenty horses, for which they have their own stables, and eight heavy trucks and delivery wagons. This brewery is now on the high road to prosperity. It’s product having gained a most enviable reputation and being sent all over the western states and the entire inter-mountain region their trade increasing to such an extent that they contemplate erecting a new ice plant very soon. They export pale bottle

Early billhead, 1895.

1896 statement header from The Wagener Brewing Co.

Front of Wagener advertising tradecard.

Advertisement from a Salt Lake City publication showing illustrations of Wagener's products. Not labels compared to actual bottles in Stan Sanders’ collection.

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"Wasatch Beer" label.

"Imperial Extra Brew" label.

beer, and their output last year was 10,000 barrels. Their down-town office is located at 74 East First South, where they occupy the first floor and basement of a two-story brick, with a complete cold storage plant; they have the largest bottling trade in the city. This concern is decidedly a home industry and the use of their home-brewed beer is well exemplified in almost every retail establishment of this city. The president of the concern, Mr. C. H. Deere, is known from the Atlantic to the Pacific as one of the largest agricultural implement manufactures of the United

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Another Wagener Brewery label.

States, and a prominent gentleman among eastern capitalists.

Mr. Jacob Wisel, the Brew Master, is one of the most skilled master brewers in the country and he produces an article of the very best quality as thousands of beerdrinkers will gladly testify. He is a graduate from one of the famous brewing academies of Germany, learning his profession thoroughly and scientifically, and previous to his seven years with the present company, he was connected with the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company for three years. Mr. Wisel is forty-five

H. Wagener metal enamel Lager Beer sign.

years of age and has been a resident of this city the past fifteen years.

The general manager, who has the direct personal supervision of the establishment, is Mr. W.P. Kiser, a native of Iowa, forty years of age and a resident of Salt Lake City one and a half years.

His great executive ability is shown by the fifty-per-cent increase in their trade under his management, at last year being one of the best the brewery has seen for seven years. Altogether this is an institution of which Salt Lake may well be proud.â&#x20AC;?

Left: Extremely rare example of an embossed Henry Wagener Brewing Co. bottle.

Center: Labeled "Brown Stout" bottle, including contents.

Above: Wagener framed sign.

Right: Wagener Brewing Co. tray.

Bottom right: Vintage Wagener Brewing Company advertising trays from Stan Sanders' collection.

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WANTED Wanted: Embossed (not etched) advertising medicine DOSE (shot) glasses that advertise drug stores or pharmacies. My goal is to collect one from each U.S. state, but I am not even halfway there. Please contact: TRACY GERKEN, 1131 Kings Cross, Brunswick, GA 31525; Ph: (912) 269-2074 or E-mail: lgerken@bellsouth.net.

Wanted: Embossed South Carolina bottles, especially crown top slug plate soda bottles.

Contact: ERIC WARREN, 238 Farmdale Dr., Lexington, SC 29073; Ph: (803) 9518860; E-mail: scbottles@aol.com. Any South Carolina bottle questions, drop me a line.

Wanted: Tampa alligator Hutch. Highest price paid for FLA BREWING CO, TAMPA, FLA with embossed alligator. Must be Hutch finish, not Baltimore loop. Contact: R.J. BROWN, 4119 Crosswater Dr., Tampa, FL 33615, Ph: (813) 888-7007 or E-mail: RBrown4134@aol.com.

Wanted: Koca Nola soda bottles, go-withs and antique bottles from: Belfonte, Bridgeport, Scottsboro and Stevenson, Alabama; Battlecreek, Copenhagen,

Deptfort, Jasper, Ketchall, Monteagle, New River, South Pittsburg, Tracy City and Whitwell, Tennessee. Top prices paid! Contact: CHARLES HEAD, 23549001, P.O. Box 150160, Atlanta, GA 30315.

Wanted: Any botttles with the name Baumgartner. Also bottles from Crown Point or Valparaiso, Ind. Contact: KEITH BAUMGARTNER, 377 Shady Ln., #43, El Cajon, CA 92021 or E-mail: Baumskinner@cox.net.

Wanted: Wm W. Well’s Liniment, Freehold, N.J. open or iron pontil. Also want smooth-base Belmar, N.J. version.

Contact: BOB RANDOLPH, 1564 Horseshoe Dr., Manasquan, NJ 087362704; Ph: (732) 223-6938 or E-mail: randgal@aol.com.

Wanted: Early Western bitters, Cassin’s, Lacour ’s, Squarza. All conditions considered. Contact: WARREN FRIEDRICH, 11422 Ridge Rd., Nevada City, CA 95959, Ph; (530) 265-5204 or Email: warrenls6@msn.com.

Wanted: Sodas: Colored, sided, ten pin.

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Classified Ads Also colored Hutches from anywhere in USA. We are also interested in barber bottles and historical flasks. One or a whole collection. Free appraisels. Contact: JIM & JODI HALL, 5158 Conifer Ln., Gurnee, IL 50031; Ph: (847) 249-3715 or E-mail: Jim_Hall@baxter.com.

Wanted: Collector of Hemingray Glass Co. items including bottles, fruit jars, flasks, glass oil cans, tobacco jars, oil lamps, refrigerator bottles, tableware, battery jars, insulators, etc. As well as historical documentation (letterheads, catalogs, etc.). Always looking to add to my collection. All calls and E-mails promptly returned.

Contact: BOB STAHR, Ph: (630) 231-4171 or E-mail: Bob@Hemingray.com.

Wanted: Porcelain or celluloid bottle stopples with advertising on them. No Hutters, please. Foreign ok. Contact: ROGER, E-mail: natomarose@earthlink.net.

Wanted: ARIZONA BOTTLES! I am always looking for any embossed Arizona soda, whiskey or drug bottles. This includes any Arizona embossed ABM sodas. Also searching for any (Oklahoma, Montana, Dakota, Utah, etc.) territorial Hutch or crown sodas. I will buy singles or whole collections. Top $$$ paid!!!

Please contact: BRENT VANDEMAN, Ph: (602) 818-6490 or E-mail: azokie99@cox.net. Thanks for your help!!!

Wanted: Polar Star Cough Cure. Any related items with Polor Star. Boxes (Polar Star). Bottles with labels (Polar Star). Contact: EDGAR DETWILER, 36650 Syracuse St., Ocean View, DE 19970.

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Wanted: Colored embossed Michigan beers. Contact: ROBERT McLACHLAN, 5191 Moore Rd., Cass City, MI 48726; Ph: (989) 872-2798.

Wanted: Bottles from Modesto, California. Also bottles embossed with Frazier. Contact: MERVIN R. FRAZIER, 1216 Trombetta Ave., Modesto, CA 95350; Ph: (209) 522-1209.

Wanted: Looking for RARE San Diego, Calif. milk bottles and associated dairy collectibles. Contact: FRANK PEKAREK, 814 Mary Ct., National City, CA 91950; Ph: (619) 470-0680 or E-mail: SDbottleman@aol.com.

Wanted: Buying Missouri pre-pro whiskey: jugs, labeld bottles, shot glasses, advertising. Will buy complete collections or individual items. Please price and describe. Contact: FRED SWEENEY, P.O. Box 936, Shawnee Mission, KS 66201; Ph: (913) 962-2100 or E-mail: Fred@creekspeak.com.

Wanted: Embossed Cures! There are at least 1400 of ‘em that I don’t have, so if you have one or more that you’re willing to part with and they’re solid (so they can be tumbled, if necessary) and not as common as dirt, send me an E-mail or letter. Thanks. Contact: BOB JOCHUMS, 4118 Centennial Trail, Duluth, GA 30096-4245 or E-mail: bobnshari@comcast.net.

Wanted: Old Jordan Whiskey items. Contact: MIKE JORDAN, 310 SW 35th St., Ocala, FL 34474; Ph: (352) 291-1024 or E-mail: Orbod@earthlink.net.

Wanted: Old drug store bottles, tins, patent medicines, signs, scales, cabinets, quack devices, advertising showglobes, pillrollers, catalogs, etc. One item or “building full.” We pay great prices! Generous finder’s fee for successful leads. SAVE THIS AD! Please visit our website: www.surecureantiques.com. We are always buying and selling. Contact: CRAIG A. MAXWELL, The Roosa and Ratliff Drug Company, 3553 Springdale Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45251; Ph: (513) 741-8653; E-mail: Surecure@earthlink.net or on the Web: www.surecureantiques.com.

Wanted: Bellingham, Whatcom, and Sehome, Washington bottles and souvenir china from same locations. Contact: JOHN RAUCH, PH: (360) 733-5513.

Wanted: Hutch-style Green Cove Springs Florida mineral water.

Paying top $. Call GARY at (904) 759-0583 ANYTIME. Wanted: Any bottles, stoneware and advertising pieces from Kansas. Bottles can be embossed and/or labeled. Especially looking for: Otto Kuehne Preserving Company, Topeka Vinegar Works, C.R. Jones Wholesale Liquors Topeka, Herboldshiemer Topeka - blob soda. Any colored whiskey or ale from Atchison, Ks., Dr. J. Fogworth Independence, Mo. Contact: MARK LAW, 5129 N.W. Arroya Dr., Topeka, KS 66618; PH: (785) 246-1818 or Email: mlaw4@cox.net.

Wanted: Cyrus Noble whiskey advertising. Reno Brewing Co. items. Carnival & stretch glass. Western liquor advertising.

Contact: RUSSELL UMBRACO, 10195 Silver Knolls Blvd., Reno, NV 89508; Ph: (775) 972-7007 or E-mail: russellu1@juno.com.

Ray Komorowski 127 S. Cuyler, Oak Park, IL 60302 (708) 848-7947 - komo8@comcast.net

Wanted: H.L. Jackson & The Olympia strap-sided flasks, Blackstone, Va., in any size. Also, Va. slug plate sodas. Contact: BRUCE WADFORD, 362 Dobbins Rd., Blackstone, VA 23824; Ph: (434) 676-8942 or E-mail: mlwbwad@meckcom.net.

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Classified Ads Wanted: Western whiskey clear fifth: I. DeTurk Vineyard, Santa Rosa, Cal. Also looking for San Francisco pumpkinseed flasks and shot glasses. Contact: RICH LUCCHES, 4746 Bradford Ct., Santa Rosa, CA 95405; Ph: (707) 539-1289 or E-mail: richard.c.lucchesi@worldnet.att.net.

Wanted: Baltimore, Md. colored or pontiled sodas and beers (torpedos, squats, tenpins).

Baltimore, Md. BIM beer bottles and stoneware bottles. Highest prices paid. Free quotes given. Damaged bottles ok. Thank you. Contact: CHRIS VAUGHT, Ph: (410) 490-8071 or E-mail: redbeardrelics@aol.com.

Wanted: Colored Western citrate bottles.

Cobalt, ambers and greens. Especially looking for a cobalt Fresno and the 2 cobalt ones from Vallejo and a cobalt one from Pacific Grove. Contact: PAT, Ph: (707) 7451026 or E-mail: cobaltbluu@sbcglobal.net.

Wanted: Early New England glass, especially blown 3-mold, Stoddard glass, colored pontiled medicines, colored pontiled inks, etc. Also figural Bennington pottery items.

Also scarcer Saratoga-type mineral water bottles. Contact: DON FRITSCHEL, 1996 Hardscrabble Pl., Boulder, CO 80305; Ph: (303) 499-2437 or E-mail: donfrits@aol.com.

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Wanted: FOR BOOK: 1858 & 1862 Hostetter & Smith Bitters Co. Almanacs. Contact: DOUG SHILSON, 3308-32 Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN 55406-2015; E-mail: bittersdug@aol.com.

Wanted: American Carbonator & Bottler, National Bottler Gazette or similar (sodarelated) magazines to use for reference material. Have copies of these magazines but don’t want to sell them? Will also pay expenses for good copies (scanned images or hardcopies) of pages from your issue(s).

Also wanted: Older reference books related to soda bottles, their companies and history to add to the PSBCA library. Contact: KATHY HOPSON-SATHE, 341 Yellowstone Dr., Fletcher, NC 28732; Ph: (423) 737-6710 or E-mail: kathy@thesodafizz.com.

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FOHBC SHO-BIZ FOHBC Sho-Biz is published in the interest of the hobby. Federation affiliated clubs are noted. Information on up-coming collecting events is welcome, but space is limited.

Please send at least four months in advance, including telephone number, to: FOHBC Sho-Biz, c/o Kathy Hopson-Sathe, 341 Yellowstone Dr., Fletcher, NC 28732, or E-mail: kathy@thesodafizz.com. Show schedules are subject to change. Please call ahead before traveling long distances.

All listings published here will also be published on the web site at http://www.fohbc.com.

SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER 8 - TULSA, OKLAHOMA The Tulsa Antiques & Bottle Club 31st Annual Show & Sale (8 AM - 4 PM) in the Tulsa Flea Market at the Tulsa Fairgrounds, 21st & Yale, Tulsa, Oklahoma. INFO: RICHARD CARR, 4 Gawf Place, Muskogee, OK, 74403, PH: (918) 687-4150 or JERRY CALLISON, PO Box 582251, Tulsa, OK 74158, PH: (918) 834-4895.

SEPTEMBER 8 - ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA The Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club's Antique Bottle, Fruit Jar, Antiques & Collectibles Show & Sale (Sat. 9 AM - 4 PM, Adm. $2.50; Early Bird 8 AM, Adm. $5) at the Arcadia Masonic Temple, 50 West Duarte Rd., Arcadia, California. INFO: DON WIPPERT, PH: (818) 346-9833 or DICK HOMME, PH: (818) 3623368, Website: www.lahbc.org.

SEPTEMBER 8 - MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN The West Michigan Antique Bottle Club's 7th Annual Summer Show & Sale (Sat. 9 AM 1 PM, Set-up 7 - 9 AM) at the Jones Auditorium, 2300 Henry St., Muskegon, Michigan. INFO: ELMER OGG, Show Chairman, PH: (231) 7987335 or E-mail: eogg@nortonshores.org. or STEVE DEBOODE, Co-Chairman, PH: (616) 667-0214, E-mail: thebottleguy@comcast.net.

SEPTEMBER 9 - LEWES, DELAWARE The Delmarva Antique Bottle Club's 15th Annual Show & Sale (Sun. 9 AM - 3 PM, Early Buyers 7:30 AM) at the Cape Henlopen High School, Lewes, Delaware. INFO: PETER BEAMAN, 28947 Lewes Georgetown Hwy., Lewes, DE 19958; PH: (302) 684-5055 or E-mail: oldngnu@comcast.net.

SEPTEMBER 9 - PEKIN, ILLINOIS Pekin Bottle Collectors Assoc. 38th Annual Show & Sale (8 AM - 3 PM) at the Knights of Columbus, 715 N. 11th St., Pekin, Illinois.

INFO: JIM MORGAN, 48 Harvester Lane, Canton, IL 61520, PH: (309) 649-1946 or JIM SEARLE, 1003 Illinois, Pekin, IL 61554, PH: (309) 346-7804.

SEPTEMBER 14-15 - ASHEVILLE, N C Western North Carolina Antique Bottle & Collectibles Annual Show & Sale,(Fri. noon - 7 PM & Sat. 8 AM - 2 PM) at the Woodfin Community Center, Community Drive, Asheville, North Carolina. INFO: TIM BRANCH, PH: (828) 669-5486, E-mail: timothy.branch@att.net or ROY SMITH, PH: (828) 667-1396. New Location !

SEPTEMBER 14-15 - UNION, S C Annual Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show & Sale (Fri. 1 - 6 PM & Sat. 8 AM - 2 PM) at the Union County Fairgrounds, Hwy 176 by-pass, Union, South Carolina. INFO: MIKE SANDERS, 1008 Bishop Rd, Union, SC. 29379,

PH: (864) 427-9340 or RUSS SANDERS, 193 Bailey Rd., Suffalo, SC. 29321, PH: (864) 427-2454 SEPTEMBER 14-19 - HARRISBURG, PA All-Dairy Antiques & Collectibles 10th Annual Show & Sale (Fri. 2 - 7 PM, Sat. thru Wed. 8 AM - 5 PM) at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. INFO: CHARLES A. LITLE, PH: (717) 423-6789 or LOLLY LESHER, (717) 7872905.

SEPTEMBER 15 - DOWNIEVILLE, CA The Downieville Bottle Club's Historic Downieville Antique Bottles & Collectibles 1st Show & Sale (Sat. 10 AM - 4 PM; Early Bird 8 AM - 10 AM, $5; Set-up Fri. 2 - 5 PM) at the Downieville School, 130 School St., Downieville, California. Dealer BBQ get together Fri. night at the old Downieville Brewery hosted by the Simis. The 1870s Saloon will be open for this show event. Beautiful scenic Gold Rush town setting in the mountains on the banks of the Yuba & Downie Rivers. INFO: LOU or LEISA LAMBERT, Show Coordinators, P.O. Box 322, Graton, CA 95444, PH: (707) 823-8845 or Email: blumoon2@comcast.net or RICK or CHERRY SIMI, P.O. Box 115, Downieville, CA 95936, PH: (530) 289-3659 or E-mail: seeme@sccn.net.

SEPTEMBER 15 - SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH The Utah Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show & Sale (Sat. 9 AM - 1 PM, $1 Adm.; Early Adm. 8 AM, Adm. $10) at the Redwood Multipurpose Center, 3100 South Redwood Rd., Salt Lake City, Utah. INFO: BOB CAMPBELL, 1123 E 2100S, Salt Lake City, UT 84106, PH: (801) 467-8636, E-mail: rckholt@netscape.

SEPTEMBER 15-16 - THERMOPOLIS, WY The Hot Springs Greater Learning Foundation's Big Horn Basin Antique & Bottle Show & Sale (Sat. 9 AM - 4 PM; Sun. 10 AM - 3 PM) at the old Armory in Thermopolis, Wyoming. INFO: ED CAPEN, 526 Clark St., Thermopolis, WY 82443, PH: (307) 921-8120, E-mail: ed_capon@yahoo.com.

SEPTEMBER 16 - KIRTLAND, OHIO The Ohio Bottle Clubs 39th Annual Show & Sale, (9 AM - 2 PM, Early Buyers Sat. 7 - 9 pm) at the Lakeland Community College, South of I-90 on Route 306, Kirtland, Ohio.

INFO: ROBERT SMITH, PH: (440) 285-4184, E-mail: rts2ride@adelphia.net or TIM KEARNS, PH: (440) 285-7576, E-mail: tkearns4@aol.com.

SEPTEMBER 16 - WINCHESTER, VA Apple Valley Bottle Collectors Club, Inc.'s 33rd Annual Show & Sale (Sun. 9 AM - 3 PM, Adm. $3, 65+ free, Early Adm. 7:30 AM, $10) at the

Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, Family Life Center, 1300 Opequon Ave. (just off Pleasant Valley Rd.), Winchester, Virginia. Over 40 dealers in antique bottles, milks, Coca-Cola, White House vinegar, postcards, table top collectibles, etc.

INFO: RICHARD M. VENSKOSKE, 4496 Martinsburg Pike, Clear Brook, VA 22624, PH: (540) 247-4429.

SEPTEMBER 22 - JACKSONVILLE, FL The Antique Bottle Collectors of North Florida's 40th Annual Show & Sale (Sat. 8 AM - 3 PM; Early Buyers, Fri. 5 - 8 PM) at the Fraternal Order of Police Bldg., 5530 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville, Florida. INFO: MIKE SKIE, PH: (904) 710-0422 or JACKIE MCRAE, PH: (904) 879-3696.

SEPTEMBER 22 - GAINESVILLE, FL The 3rd Annual Floridiana Show (Sat. 9 AM 3 PM) at the Matheson Museum, 513 East University Ave., Gainesville, Florida.

A variety of Florida antiques & collectibles.

INFO: MATHESON MUSEUM, PH: (352) 378-2280, E-mail: communityrelations@ mathesonmuseum.org.

SEPTEMBER 29 - ALBUQUERQUE, N M The New Mexico Historical Bottle Society's 20th Annual Bottle, Insulator & Collectible Show (Sat. 8:30 AM - 4 PM, Adm. $3, Fri. Set-up) at the New Mexico State Fair Grounds, Flowers & Arts Bldg. (State Fair Grounds between Louisiana and San Pedro Streets, just south of I-40), Albuquerque, New Mexico. 50 tables, many hotels in vacinity, free bottle and insulator appraisals, civil war items. INFO: MIKE GAY, Show Chairman, PH: (505) 8998755, E-mail: cdn102@comcast.net or JERRY SIMMONS, Pres. N.M. Historical Bottle Society, 1463 State Rd. 344, Sandia Park, NM 87047, PH: (505) 281-5223, E-mail: jerrysimmons@earthlink.net.

SEPTEMBER 30 - CHELSEA, MICHIGAN The Huron Valley Bottle & Insulator Club's 31st Annual Show & Sale (Sun. Adm. $2, Set-up 6 AM) at the Village Conference Center, Comfort Inn, I-94 & M-52, Exit 159, Chelsea, Michigan Food on site, well lit room, plenty of space, easy-to-find location, 8-foot tables $25, large parking area.. INFO: MICHELE, Box 210-145, Auburn Hills, MI 48321-0145; PH: (248) 6731650, E-mail: michelek@mac.com or PAT YOUNG, Club President, PH: (517) 223-3461; Website: www.insulators.com/clubs/hvbic.

SEPTEMBER 30 - DEPEW, NEW YORK The Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association Annual Bottles, Antiques, Postcards Show (Sun. 10 AM - 3 PM, Adm. $2) at NEW LOCATION, Polish Falcons Hall, 445 Columbia Ave. (off Transit Rd.), Depew, New York. Sales

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Tables $20. INFO: ED POTTER, Dealer Chairman, PH: (716) 674-8890 or PETER JABLONSKI, PH: (716) 440-7985, E-mail: PeterJablonski@adelphia.net.

SEPTEMBER 30 - LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS The Merrimack Valley Antique Bottle Club's 33rd Annual Show & Sale (9 AM - 2 PM, Early Buyers 8 AM) at the Lowell Elks Club Hall, 40 Old Ferry Road, (take Exit 32 off US Rt. 3 and follow signs). INFO: CLIFF HOYT: (978) 458-6575 or GARY KOLTOOKIAN, PH: (978) 256-9561.

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SEPTEMBER 30 - HAMMONTON, NEW JERSEY South Jersey's Antique Bottle and Glass Club, Inc. 24th Annual Antique Show (9 AM - 4 PM) at Historic Batsto Village, Hammonton, New Jersey, INFO: PAUL A. DELGUERCIO, 548 Spring Rd., Hammonton, NJ 08037 PH: (609) 352-7104. Email: paulhavoc@comcast.net.

SEPTEMBER 30 - BATSTO VILLAGE, NEW JERSEY South Jersey's Antique Bottle & Glass Club 24th Annual Batsto Village Show & Sale (9 AM - 4 PM) at the Historic Batsto Village, Hammonton, New Jersey. INFO: PAUL A DELGUERCIO, 548 Spring Road, Hammonton, NJ 08037, PH: (609) 352-7104, E-mail: paulhavoc@comcast.net.

OCTOBER OCTOBER 6 - RICHMOND, VIRGINIA The Richmond Area Bottle Collectors Association's 36th Annual Show & Sale (9 AM - 3 PM, Early Buyers 7:30 AM) at the Showplace Annex, 3002 Mechanicsville Tpk, Richmond, Virginia. INFO: MARVIN CROKER, PH: (804) 275-1101 or ED FAULKNER, PH: (804) 7392951 or E-mail: faulkner@antiquebottles.com.

OCTOBER 6 - POINT PLEASANT, WEST VIRGINIA The West Virginia State Farm Museum Bottle Show (9 AM - 3 PM) at the West Virginia State Farm Museum (Rt, 62, 4 mi. North of Point Pleasant, turn Right onto Fairgrounds Road, Museum is 1 mi. on the Right), Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Bottle show is held in conjunction with the Fall Festival, featuring live music, home-cooked meals, apple butter & cider, quilt show, tractor pull, corn meal, sorghum, steam engine show, etc.

INFO: CHARLIE PERRY, 39304 Bradbury Rd., Middleport, OH 45760, PH: (740) 992-5088, E-mail: perrycola@suddenlink.net.

OCTOBER 7 - KEENE, NEW HAMPSHIRE Yankee Bottle Club's 40th Annual Show & Sale (9 AM - 2:30 PM, Early Buyers 8 AM) at the Keene High School, Arch Street, Keene, New Hampshire. INFO: CREIGHTON G. HALL, 382 Court Street, Keene, NH 03431, PH: (603) 352-2959.

OCTOBER 7 - ELSECAR, ENGLAND BBR 'Autumn Extravaganza' Show ( 9 AM - 3 PM) at the Elsecar Heritage Center, Elsecar, England. INFO: ALAN BLAKEMAN, BBR Elsecar Heritage Center, Nr. Barnsley, S. Yorks, S74 8HJ, England, PH: 011-44 1226 745156, E-mail: sales@onlinebbr.com.

OCTOBER 12-13 - PHOENIX, ARIZONA The Phoenix Antiques, Bottles & Collectibles Club's Show & Sale (Fri. Early Buyers, 10 AM - 1 PM, Adm. $10, 1 - 6 PM, Gen. Adm. $3; Sat. 8 AM - 4 PM, $3) at the North Phoenix Baptist Church, 5757 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, Arizona. Antiques, bottles & collectibles of all kinds.

Raffle prizes, dealer potluck, 10,000 sq. ft. with over 100 tables. Free parking. INFO: CHARLES & JULIE BLAKE, PH: (602) 938-7277, E-mail: dig632@hotmail.com, Website: www.phoenixantiquesclub.org.

OCTOBER 12-13 - SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA The Northwestern Bottle Collectors Association's 41st Annual Show (Sat. 9 AM - 3 PM, Free Adm.; Fri. Set-up 12 - 7 PM, Early Entry Adm. $10) at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds, Finley Hall Bldg., Santa Rosa, California. INFO: BEV SIRI, PH: (707) 542-6438.

OCTOBER 12-13 - MORRISTOWN, TENNESSEE The Tennessee Valley Traders & Collectors Club and the Morristown Parks and Recreation Department 4th Annual Antiques, Bottles, Glass &

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Collectibles Show & Sale (Fri. 12 - 6 PM, Sat. 8 AM - 3 PM) at the Talley Ward Bldg., 321 South James Street (directly across from MorristownHamblem East High School), Morristown, Tennessee. Free admission, free parking. 75 tables of collectibles, antiques, bottles, milks, fruit jars, tokens, coins, license plates, politicals, arrowheads, J.F.G., old toys and postcards, etc. INFO: BILL HENDERSON, PH: (423) 581-8386, Email: BillHenderson@Musfiber.com.

OCTOBER 12-13 - MONCKS CORNER, SOUTH CAROLINA The Berkeley Citizens, Inc.'s First Annual Berkeley Antique Bottle & Collectible Show & Sale (Fri. 2 - 6 PM; Sat. 9 AM - 3 PM, Adm. $3; Setup, Fri. 11 AM - 1:45 PM) at Berkeley Industries, 132 Citizens Lane, Moncks Corner, South Carolina. 25,000 sq. ft. bldg. Live Auction at 2 PM on Saturday. Free parking. Holiday Inn Express in MC & Econo Lodge in Goose Creek - more hotel info in dealer packet. Mention show.

Show endorsed by the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce. INFO: LIBBY KILGALLEN, Dev. Cord., or KATE SINGLETARY, Adm. Asst., P.O. Drawer 429, Moncks Corner, SC 29461; PH: (843) 761-0316, E-mail: 2007BottleShow@BCIServices.org. Complete dealer packet available at the Website: www.berkeleycitizens.org.

OCTOBER 14 - BEDFORD, PENNSYLVANIA Bedford County Antique Bottle Club 30th Annual Show & Sale (9 AM 1 PM, Early Buyers 7 AM) at the Bedford County Fairgrounds 4H Building, Bedford, Pennsylvania. INFO: LEO McKENZIE, PH: (814) 695-0128 or CHARLES HAZLETT, PH: (814) 695-0128.

OCTOBER 20 - CANYONVILLE, OREGON Jefferson State Antique Bottle & Collectible Show & Sale (9 AM - 3 PM; Dealer Setup & Early Buyers Oct. 19th Noon – 7PM). We’re Back!

Seven Feathers Hotel & Casino Resort, 146 Chief Miwaleta Ln. (I 5 - Exit 99), Canyonville, Oregon 97417. INFO: BRUCE SILVA, PO Box 1565, Jacksonville, Or. 97530, PH: 541-899-8411, E-mail: jsglass@intergate.com, Show website: http://www.ecandm.com/canyonville/.

OCTOBER 21 - SCRIBA, NEW YORK The Empire State Bottle Collectors Assoc. 9th Annual Fall Show & Sale (9 AM - 3 PM) at the Scriba Volunteer Fire Departmet, U.S. Rt. 104, Scriba, New York. INFO: BARRY HAYNES, PO Box 900, Mexico, NY 13114, PH: (315) 963-0922 or (315) 963-3749.

OCTOBER 21 - CAMBRIDGE, ONTARIO, CANADA The NSA Auctions Cambridge 12th Annual Bottle Show (Sun. 9 AM 2 PM, Early Bird 7 AM, Adm. $3) at the Beehive Room in Hespeler Arena, Ellis Ave., Hespeler, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. Featuring bottles, insulators, fruit jars, stoneware, pottery. Lunch counter, free parking & friendly dealers available. INFO: ROBIN NEWTON-SMITH or NICHOLE NEWTON-SMITH, 88 Cedar St., Cambridge, Ontario, Canada N1S 1V8, PH: (519) 623-6302, E-mail: info@nsaauctions.com.

OCTOBER 27 - ALBANY, NEW YORK Capital District Antique Bottle & Insulator Club 11th Annual Show & Sale, (Sat. 9 AM - 2:30 PM) at the St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church, 440 Whitehall Road, Albany, New York. INFO: BOB LATHAM, PH: (518) 463-1053, E-mail: blath@capital.net or FRAN HUGHES, PH: (518) 377-7134, E-mail: fhughes3@nycap.rr.com.

OCTOBER 27 - SAVANNAH, GEORGIA The 10th Annual Savannah Antique Bottle Show (Sat. 9 AM - 3 PM, Early Buyers Fri. 3 PM) at the National Guard Armory on Eisenhower Drive, Savannah, Georgia. INFO: DAVID POWELL, 2617 Salcedo Ave., Savannah, GA. 31406, PH: (912) 355-7479, or RUSS BUTLER, E-mail: oldglass99@yahoo.com This years show will have a special tribute to Tommy Mitchiner for 40 years of digging in Savannah.

OCTOBER 28 - GLENDALE HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS The 1st Chicago Bottle Club's 38th Annual Show & Sale (Sun. 9 AM - 2 PM) at the Ramada Inn, 780 E. North Ave. (1/2 block W of I-355), Glendale Heights, Illinois. INFO: JOHN & CLAUDIA PANEK, 1790 Hickory Knoll, Deerfield, IL 60015, PH: (847) 945-5493, E-mail: paperbottle1@aol.com.

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11th ANNUAL CAPITAL DISTRICT ANTIQUE BOTTLE, INSULATOR & TABLE-TOP COLLECTIBLES SHOW OCTOBER 27TH, 2007 9 AM - 2:30 PM ST. SOPHIA GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH 440 WHITEHALL ROAD, ALBANY, NEW YORK GEN. ADM. $3 No Early Adm. 80 PLUS SALES TABLES AVAILABLE HOT FOOD AND BEVERAGES WILL BE AVAILABLE

Featuring 80+ TTables ables Directions: New York State Thruway (I-90 East) to Exit 24. Continue on I-90 East. Take Exit 4 (Slingerlands, New York Route 85 South). Proceed to Krumkill Road exit. At the traffic light at the end of the exit ramp, turn left onto the bridge that crosses the highway. At the traffic light, turn right and continue around the curve to the traffic light. Turn right onto New Scotland Avenue. At the second traffic light, turn left onto Whitehall Road. Saint Sophia is on the right (approximately Âź mile

FOR DEALER CONTRACTS and GENERAL SHOW INFORMATION 18) 337 7 7-7 1 34 (E-mail CONT A CT CONTA CT:: FRAN HUGHES at (5 (51 7-71 fhughes3@nycap.rr.com)

~ RENO ~ Antique Bottle & Collectibles Club 44th Annual Show & Sale

Saturday July 21, 2007

2007 Jefferson State Antique Bottle & Collectible Show

Reno/Sparks Convention Center 4590 South Virginia Street

Saturday, October 20, 2007 9 AM - 3 PM

Saturday Show: 9:00 A.M - 3:00 P.M. Admission $3.00

Seven Feathers Hotel & Casino Resort I-5 Exit 99

Friday Dealer Setup; 10:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. Friday Early Bird: 12:00 P.M. - $10

Dealer Set-up & Early Bird Adm. Friday, October 19, Noon - 7 PM

Canyonville, Oregon

Show Info: Willy Young (775) 746-0922 Show Reservations: Helen Walker (775) 345-0171

Walkin Apprasials Onsite live auction action!

Over 100 Tables !

Bruce Silva P.O. Box 1565 Jacksonville, OR 97530 (541) 899-8411 jsglass@intergate.com

BOTTLES - COINS - TOKENS ADVERTISING - INSULATORS ANTIQUES - AND MORE!

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Berkeley Citizens, Inc. Presents

The First Annual Berkeley Antique Bottle Show & Sale

Friday, October 12, 2007 2 PM - 6 PM Saturday, October 13, 2007 9 AM - 3 PM 132 Citizens Ln., Moncks Corner, South Carolina EARLY REGISTRATION, APPLICATION & $40 FEE IN BY AUGUST 1, 2007 LATE REGISTRATION APPLICATION & $60 FEE IN BY OCTOBER 1, 2007 25,000 SQ. FT. BUILDING MONITORED FOR FIRE & SECURITY 24 HOURS A DAY, 7 DAYS A WEEK AMPLE PARKING AVAILABLE & OVERFLOW PARKING IN A NEARBY SHOPPING CENTER FOR DEALERS NATIONAL & LOCAL ADVERTISING - NEWSPAPERS, WEB SITES, TRADE SHOW MAGAZINES, ETC.

CONTACT INFORMAION: LIBBY KILGALLEN, SHOW CHAIRMAN PHONE: (843) 761-0316 E-MAIL: 2007BOTTLESHOW@BCISERVICES.ORG COMPLETE DEALER PACKET AVAILABLE AT: WWW.BERKELEYCITIZENS.ORG Berkeley Citizens, Inc. is a not-for-profit 201(c)3 agency.

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