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The Mystery of the Glass Tombstone!

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VOLUME 38, #6 • October 2021 FRONT COVER:

AB&GC Bitters Columnist Bob Strickhart shares an interesting perspective and some scary thoughts on Halloween, including one of his favorite bottles, the tombstone-shaped "David Andrews Vegetable Jaundice Bitters."

Read all about it beginning on page 29.

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In This Issue:

Editors: Ralph Finch Bill Baab Jodi Hall

Letters to the Editor........................................................................... 2

Managing Editor Libby Smith The Medicine Chest John Panella Joe Widman New England Review Mike George Bitters Columnist Bob Strickhart Spouting off on Mineral Waters Donald Tucker Contributing Writers: Ralph Finch Kevin Sives Design, Layout & Production Jake Pluta

Heard it through the Grapevine......................................................... 4 The COVID Bottles of 2020, Part 2................................................... 7 JPF Remembered.............................................................................. 13 Blood From a Turnip?....................................................................... 14 Fruit Jar Rambles: Lutted's Cough Drops....................................... 17 Classified Advertisements................................................................. 22 Show Calendar.................................................................................. 25 No Trick, Just a Halloween Treat...................................................... 29 Stories About Books......................................................................... 32 Barn-Pick’n Good Deals................................................................... 34 Title Champions Pack a Punch!....................................................... 39 Medicine Chest: Gladstone's Celery & Pepsin................................ 40

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Coming in November: Charles Wharton, Jr., by Jack Sullivan Aviary Bitters?, by Bob Strickhart The Turk Comes Home and Brings a Friend, by Gary Beatty Fruit Jar Rambles: Long's California Preserves, by Tom Caniff Medicine Chest: Bottle Hunting in the Big Apple, by John Panella And other very cool stuff!

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LETTERS

to the Editor

The Spirits are Watching Hi, John, I was dusting the bottle shelves today when I got the eerie feeling that I was being watched. Turns out I was right.

This teal blue demijohn (at left) obviously contained “spirits” at one time… and still does. Happy Halloween.

Andy Agnew Cockeysville, Maryland

Quack Medicine Extraordinaire - Montana Harry Rides Again!

Hi, John, And the beat goes on. Thanks so much for keeping me in the loop about Montana Harry! I think you have proven the label’s authenticity and it adds color to the picture of Montana Harry.

What threw me off was the age of the original bottle, it was so early. But by the time the tooled-top smooth-based bottles were being produced, now that is a little more believable. At about that time there was an aura of mystique connected to the Native Americans and the pull of the ‘Old West’ itself, that at least one other company was cashing in on it, big time, the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company, who coincidently, also had their home base in Connecticut.

From all of the things we spoke about in our initial conversation, along with this new information, I tend to think that Montana Harry was a fictional character.

His story is just too good and it so much mimics the hundreds of dimestore western novels that were being churned out at that time. The names (Chief Kill Eagle, really?), places (Sweetwater Res), people (Col. Forsyth, Montana Harry), and facts (7th Calvary), are all such catchy

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sounding buzzwords, but they have no substance or are not in harmony with the history of Montana Harry.

At least the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company got a few things right. For example, one of their bottles is embossed Warme Springs Oregon, and there is a Warm {not Warme} Springs Indian Reservation in eastern Oregon. They were probably the business model that Montana Harry was trying to cash in on.

But Montana Harry just didn’t have the capital for embossed bottles and all of the advertising and hoopla that the Kickapoo medicine company put into their endeavor. It sounds like Montana Harry was the creation of a dreamy-eyed entrepreneur at the time of this country’s progressive era.

I am printing and storing all of the pictures and info you sent as who knows what new info will come to light once your info hits the pages of the bottle magazine. Again, thanks John. Montana Harry so typifies the patent medicine industry and is just one feature of bottle collecting that keeps it so entertaining!

Marc Lutsko Libby, Montana

Get to Know the New Mid-Maine Bottle Club!

First, a quick introduction. We are the Mid-Maine Antique Bottle Club, founded in 2014 by myself and Sam Fuller.

We both recognized the need for a Mainebased bottle show and for regular club meetings here in Maine.

We began with 6 members at our first meeting in an antique shop and grew to 10 members, meeting in various members’ homes, to now over 25 members regularly attending our monthly gatherings in our rented hall.

LETTERS

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Our meetings became so well attended that they started taking up 4 to 5 hours, with all the show and tells, buying, selling and presentations. We revised the format so that monthly meetings are now in the 3 hour range. The nice part is now we can have large meetings with plenty of time to enjoy our interests.

As a club, we needed to consider whether we would be an open club or a private group. After several club discussions, it was decided to keep the club small. We consider new memberships through a member’s recommendation and a club vote. Our members collect a wide variety of bottles, stoneware, insulators, marbles and related antiques. Several members are advanced collectors and some are newer collectors, but everyone has incredible enthusiasm to share and a strong desire to learn more about our hobby. It’s a great club!

Now we're in our seventh year and our goal of having a Maine-based show is only a few months away. We have a wonderful exhibition hall ready minutes from Portland and right off I-295. There's plenty of parking, food on site, and room for over 60 tables. We're very excited to host the show and hopefully we can continue our support of this great hobby by making our show an annual event for dealers and collectors alike.

Maine is a beautiful place to visit and our members are ready to welcome everybody to our inaugural show, the Mid-Maine Antique Bottle Show on November 7, 2021 at the Topsham Fairground Exhibition Hall in Topsham.

Please reach out to me anytime at 207832-1503, or email me at oldbottles@ outlook.com. Our website has show information at midmaineantiquebottleclub.com

Many thanks to all the collectors who have supported our club and our hobby in general. Best wishes to everyone for a great upcoming show season!

Sincerely, Paul McClure Show Chairman, MMABC

Alan’s A Rock Star

(from another fan of the Brit) Dear Ralph, Ralph, I really liked your recent Alan Blakeman write-up in AB&GC. I recall going to an English bottle show in Milton Keynes about 20 years ago. So much excitement was in the air, and Blakeman was the primary impetus.

Regards, Eric McGuire Petaluma, California

Alan Blakeman holding the giant pot lid that his daughter, Becks, used to sit on and watch TV.

Ralph replies: Dear Eric, an impetus?

Alan Blakeman is more like a rocket. Busy, busy, busy, and always on the go. Especially up. He loves to climb up rocks, the taller the better. He even has attached climbing holds to the back of his house, where before breakfast he could go out and climb up and down the building.

I have so many fond memories of him, and favorite photos. One I can’t find is of his daughter, “Becks,” who, as a child, would sit on a giant pot lid it to watch TV. That pot lid was once used in a Victorian window display.

One of the great things about Alan is that he helps connect the hobby from one side of the ocean to the other.

D

Alan also enjoyed the rock climbing hobby, and the taller the better.

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Heard it through the

Grapevine What Else Doesn’t Snag Our Interest These Days?

By Ralph Finch I occasionally think about barbed wire.

That doesn’t mean much, I often think about a lot of strange stuff that snags my interest. Last night I was thinking how I would deal being deserted on an island with only Rudy Giuliani for company.

We all know what we collect today, but what’s on the “forget it” list?

I even think of the old days, let’s say 40 or more years ago, when you would, on occasion, see a piece of barbed wire offered at a bottle show. In the far west, like in Vegas, you’d see lots of barbed wire and hundreds of sets of dice. But what else do we no longer see at shows?

How about those 1960s whisky bottles in a hundred different shapes (like Jim Beam bottles in the shape of Elvis), or those cheap-smelling Avon bottles in the shape of everything. How about 1980s Pez dispensers?

FYI: Wikipedia says that “one of the rarest of all Pez Disney dispensers is the 1973 Mary Poppins, which has no feet.

The non-painted version is worth around $750.” Oh, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! I just tossed mine last week into the trash. And does everyone remember the No. 1 Pez dealer, Ralph Riovo, who died in 2012. I’ve seen the delightful Ralph (and his sweetie) on trips to England where he’d go into a store and buy every Pez dispenser in the shop, since the UK had examples not available in the U.S. And remember those Beanie Babies, that went from really hot to a really stupid scam? The “Large Wallace and his Squad” was said to have been offered for $600,000! Most Beanies ultimately ended up in orphanages, or garage sales.

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This eBay item was offered by “Signed by Artist,” who added: “I have collected antique barbed wire and built displays since 1994. I take great pride in every display I build. You can own a true piece of the Old West. All cuts of barbed wire used are authentic pieces from history. All of the barbed wire that I use is taken off of old fences that have fenced the Old West for 100 years.” The item was offered with a buy-it-now price of $80, plus $22 for shipping.

And those (now) ho hum annual Christmas dishes or Mother’s Day dishes? See if you can get more than $3 for them, even if you paid $15 for them 40 years ago.

But for old old bottle collectors, we remember when so many glass and nonglass items turned up at shows that you rarely see today.

How about glass baby bottles? England had great varieties of interesting examples, there are books on them, and even a club (does it still exist?). Also FYI, I have a clear baby bottle embossed “Ralph’s Nursers,” purchased at a Garth (Ohio) auction for the “Alberta Rodgers **Patterson Collection.”

And milk bottles in general. Once there would be tables of them at shows. You’d even see a Thatcher. (Dr. Thatcher, a Potsdam druggist who is said to have invented the milk bottle.)

And glass fire extinguishers? There once were great examples and it’s been years since I last saw one at a bottle show.

(In early January, a massive collection of fire-fighting material, including at least 40 glass examples, was offered for $24,000 on eBay, but the usual examples seen on eBay are the common Red Comets.)

There is another “common” glass item I rarely see: glass so-called Christmas lights. They were always uncommon in the States, but when I visited the Mother Country, in the 1980s, every glass show and every antiques shop had dozens and dozens of them. And on my last visit?

Christmas lights were … extinguished.

Old-line U.S. collectors liked them, but now it’s tough to find one, and even writing to Santa won’t help, except for Robert Strickhart of New Jersey. Last December he became the king of Christmas lights (he must have really been a good boy). He

Heard it through the

Grapevine now has LOTS of them, and we will interview him about them in an upcoming issue of dAB&GC.

But bitters cards king Joe Gourd lamented something else we rarely see these days: “No bitters trade cards.”

And what about *goofus bottles? (Would you be goofy to collect one?) Or carnival glass? Milk glass? (Don’t cry over them.)

And John Pastor added something sad (and very important). “Well, this answer may not exactly be what you are looking for, but what about displays? We (unfortunately), rarely see displays at shows anymore. And good displays are even fewer and farther between. The Rochester (N.Y.) show and the annual Federation shows are the two that come to mind that still feature good — oftentimes great — displays). Some western shows still include displays. Good displays tend to educate and excite collectors.”

And metal beer cans, before glass bottles.

When was the last time you saw a conetop beer can? (I’ll drink to that.)

Another “old” collector added: Glass tank floats and doll parts.

And I would have said, Does anyone collect toasters? But I know the answer is YES! Years ago I interviewed a collector for the Detroit News, and now I know of at least four others. And I’m one of them.

And thimbles? Yep, I used to know collectors of them, but I can’t put my finger on who they are.

(OK, I’m wrong again. I just went on eBay, and found 222,221 results for salt and pepper shakers. I didn’t look to see how many were antique.)

FYI 2: Barb Wire is a 1996 superhero film that starred Pamela Anderson in the (if you pardon the expression) the titular role.

FYI 3: The Corning Museum notes that it possesses the “important blown glass and bottles, the collection of Alberta Rodgers Patterson, Slippery Rock, Penn.”

FYI 4: Wikipedia says: “A pie bird, pie vent, pie whistle, pie funnel or pie chimney is a hollow ceramic device, originating in Europe, shaped like a funnel, chimney, or up-stretched bird with open beak used for supporting or venting a pie. Pies with top crusts need to be vented, to allow steam to escape. Funnel-style steam vents have been placed in the center of fruit and meat pies during cooking since Victorian times; bird shapes came later.

And how about pie funnels? Pie? Like the value of pi is approximately 3.14? Nope, you zero. (If you still go “Huh?,” go to Wikipedia.) I would occasionally see a pie funnel in the U.S., but many in England, and know several collectors there who have dozens of different examples.

Oh, and matched salt and pepper shakers.

Does anyone still collect them? A hundred years ago, when Skinners (in Bolton, Mass.) was THE bottle auction house, Bob Skinner also offered a collection of — if I remember correctly — about 500 sets of salt and pepper shakers. Some were very impressive, and I even tried to get a few that were in the shape of delicate eggs. I should have spiced up my bidding, since I won zip. And that left a bad taste in my mouth.

FYI 1: Wikipedia says “goofus glass is pressed glass which was decorated with unfired enamel paint in the early 20th century in America by several prominent glass factories. Because it was mass produced and relatively cheap, it was given as premiums with purchases and awarded as prizes at fairs.”

A pie funnel? Collectors used to get steamed up looking for a good one.

My sweet Janet added: “Big antique oak furniture; in fact, any old wood furniture.”

Indeed, poorly made new furniture seems to rule. And, recently, the Finches were at an auction where high-grade and classy examples of old furniture went for a fraction of what we would have paid for them 30 or 40 years ago.

What have we missed? Or why? Add to the list by sending barbs to me at rfinch@ twmi.rr.com.

FYI 5: Wikipedia added: “Barbed wire is a type of steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strands. It is used to construct inexpensive fences and is used atop walls surrounding secured property.”

The first U.S. patent “was issued in 1867 to Lucien Smith of Kent, Ohio, who is regarded as the inventor. Joseph Glidden of DeKalb, Ill., received a patent for the modern invention in 1874 after he made modifications to previous versions.”

“The costs of fencing with lumber immediately prior to the invention of barbed wire can be found with the first farmers in the Fresno, Calif., area, who spent nearly $4,000 (equivalent to $85,000 in 2019) to have wood for fencing delivered in 1872.”

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The COVID Bottles of 2020 Part 2

By John Savastio

We left off last issue as John was digging on September 11, 2020. He had just found a large teal-colored bottle, a dazzling Stafford's Ink. In the interest of learning more about Stafford's, the following summary from Baybottles.com continues…

Figure 11: A clean Stafford’s master ink with the sun accentuating its lovely teal color.

Yes, My Master

40 Proof Shampoo

“After the purchase, the NYC directories list Stafford as a “stationer,” located at 42 Cedar St. (1859-60) and later as “ink” at 84 Cedar St. (1860-61). Advertisements began to appear at this time for “Stafford’s Combined Writing and Copying Fluid” and “Stafford’s Perfumed Violet Ink.” In early 1870, the business moved to 218 Pearl Street, where it remained until 1886, when he built a factory at 601 – 609 Washington Street. Per a feature in the 1888 American Stationer, ‘It is a plain brick structure, five stories high, 75 feet wide and 80 feet deep. Including the basement there are six floors, all of which are used in the manufacture of Stafford’s inks and Stickwell’s mucilage. The establishment is fitted with the best machinery and appliances for turning out perfect and uniform goods.’”

“After Samuel Spencer Stafford’s death in 1895, his son, William A.H. Stafford, took over leadership of the company (William had joined the business in 1872 at the age

of 16). The company incorporated in New York in 1903 with capital of $250,000.

Following William A. H. Stafford’s death in January of 1911, his son, William S Stafford, assumed the presidency.”

“The company continued to grow through the 1920s, but sales eventually declined. They’re still listed at their longtime location (Office: 622 Greenwich and Factory: 609 Washington) in the 1960 Manhattan telephone directory. Stafford’s was acquired by the R.T. French Company in the late 1970s.”

While Stafford’s story of building an ink empire is interesting, I have not been able to find a chronological history of Stafford’sbottles. Where are the older 1860s and 1880s bottles? I don’t recall ever seeing a Stafford’s ink bottle that dates before 1880, nor are there any to be found online. Were the early bottles all unembossed? If so, there should still be labeled Stafford’s ink bottles from this timeframe available. Any help solving this mystery will be appreciated.

The very next day after finding the Stafford’s master ink, in the very same hole, my good fortune continued. I had found a scarce local rectangular whiskey, and an Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, when around mid-afternoon, at close to eight feet down, the backside of a hair bottle revealed itself. I knew it was a hair bottle by its classic corset style design, and I was especially intrigued by its pure, extraordinary deep emerald color. Resisting my natural avaricious instincts that told me to go after the bottle like a construction worker with a jackhammer, the little angel over my shoulder instead prevailed upon me to play it safe. Thus, I very slowly and gingerly chipped it out as if it was a delicate ancient Egyptian artifact. When the bottle was finally released from its resting place of over 100 years, and I could see that it was indeed complete, my next obsessive thought was that it had to be embossed (as these cool hair bottles are too often blanks). And thus, when it was October 2021

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finally in my hands, I rejoiced as I read for the first time the distinctive angled embossing: “RIKER / NEW YORK.!”

(See Figure 12).

Hair Raising Stories, by Don Fadely, provides some background on Riker and his products: “William B. Riker was a patent Medicine Manufacturer in New York City starting around 1855. His business was at 353 Sixth Ave. from 1855 through 1868.

His business was still active into the 20th century as Wm. B. Riker & Son. According to Devner, he was selling a hair preparation called “Riker’s Septone” at least as early as 1878 and at least as late as 1907.

It was a product “for destroying dandruff germs.” Wm. B. Riker (or his sons) probably also sold “Riker’s American Hair Restorer.” He also marketed a product called “Riker’s American Face Powder.”

William B. Riker & Son Company registered a Trademark for a Hair Dressing and a Dandruff Remover in 1907.”

I was also able to find a picture of a beautifully labeled version of my diminutive 4 and ½ inch bottle that reads as follows: “RIKER’S / SEPTONE / SOAP / 20% ALCOHOL / LIQUID GREEN SOAP / A SHAMPOO / 2 ¾ Fld. Ozs. / RIKER LABORATORIES, INC. / DISTRIBUTORS. / NEW YORK BOSTON.” (See Figure 13).

Ah, so now I know my bottle is the Septone Shampoo product for destroying dandruff germs, and it’s 20 percent alcohol. I guess the booze either killed the dandruff germs or got them really hammered!

Peacock Blue It was a gray overcast and calm day in the upper 50s in mid-October. The geese were honking loudly, which, perhaps Figure 12: Ooh nice - the little emerald hair bottle is embossed!

Figure 13: An example of a fully labeled Riker’s Septone Shampoo telling us it’s 40 proof!

Figure 14: Straight on view accentuating the Riker’s corset shape.

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counterintuitively, I find soothing. It was late morning, and I was still digging my way down when at around five feet deep a bottle with a distinctive hair tonic form and stunning teal blue color suddenly appeared in the bottom of my hole. As it lay there in the bottom of my pit, I recognized the shape and color instantly.

The only question was whether it was an Ayer’s Hair Vigor or a Hall’s Hair Renewer. Within a zeptosecond it was in my hands and I read the embossing aloud: “AYER’S” / “HAIR VIGOR!” (see Figure 15). I was incredulous of my good fortune. I immediately got down on my hands and knees — no, not to pray — but to carefully sift through the dirt in a desperate attempt to find the coveted delicate blue glass stopper that goes with this bottle. Unfortunately, no luck with that. If anyone has a spare one, please PM me on Facebook.

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Don Fadely’s Hair Raising Stories tells us that, “In 1838 at the age of 20, James Cook Ayer started working as a clerk at Jacob Robbin’s Apothecary Shop in Ledyard, Conn. He worked there for three years, learning the trade and studying chemistry as well. During this time, he studied the material prescribed by the Harvard College curriculum. He also studied medicine under Dr. Samuel L. Dana of Lowell, Mass. He apparently became so familiar with pharmaceutical chemistry and medicine that later the University of Pennsylvania awarded him with a “Doctor of Medicine” degree.

“In 1841, with the help of his uncle (James Cook), he bought the Robbin’s Drug store and began to sell his own home remedies. He was very successful with his line of family remedies and paid off the store in three years. He eventually became a very rich man, owning his own factories as well as diversified investments such as sawmills in Florida and iron mines in Michigan.

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Figure 15: Ah, it’s an Ayer’s Hair Vigor. First one dug in 50 years of excavating.

Figure 16: The cleaned Ayer’s showing off its peacock blue color.

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“In the early years of its sale, Ayer’s Hair Vigor was in direct competition with Hall’s Hair Renewer. They were not in competition long though, because Ayer bought out Hall in 1870. Note that Ayer’s Hair Vigor and Hall’s Hair Renewer were very similar to each other. Early bottles for both products were oval, embossed only on the base, with tight wrappers around the entire bottles.”

Ah, but all that was to change dramatically. The 1908 Ayer’s Almanac made the following exciting announcement about the Hair Vigor: “The new bottle is of the finest and best flint glass, of a beautiful peacock-blue color. It is fitted with a practical and most unique patent shaker. The whole forms a decided ornament to any dressing table.”

Figure 17: Nine feet deep in an ash dump on my last dig of 2021.

Figure 18: An attractive little teapot with Albany City Hall transfer headed for the knick-knack shelf.

In A Century of Cures; Dr. A. C. Ayer & Co, Lowell, Mass, USA, A reference Guide

by Cliff and Linda Hoyt, the authors tell us the new teal Hair Vigor bottle was made from 1907 to 1913. From 1914 to 1930, the same shape and size bottle was machine made, and the color went to cobalt blue. However, the ABM cobalt Hair Vigors come in two variants, embossed and unembossed. Many of these cobalt blue bottles had their seams obliterated

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during the manufacturing process and can be recognized primarily by the Owens bottle machine circle on the base.

This is an example of the newer bottle, with its classic Victorian hair bottle shape and extraordinary color, far exceeding its plain, aqua, base embossed predecessor in appeal to collectors (at least in my opinion). I’m thrilled with the bottle and hope to someday come across an example of its “most unique patent shaker” that I can crown it with.

Finishing the Year in Style I knew that Saturday, December 12, 2020 would be my last dig of the year. I have dug through winters in upstate New York before, but it means clearing off snow and ice, then chopping through up to two feet of rock-hard frozen ground with a pickaxe. That was fine in my 20s and 30s but at nearly 60 it is no longer in the cards for me. To cinch the deal, two feet of snow was forecast for later in the week (and we ended up getting every inch of it).

As this story illustrates, it had been a very productive year for this bottle digger, with several exceptional finds going on display in my bottle room. Thus, I was hopeful that this, my final, conclusive digging day of 2020, the year of the pandemic, would be a good one. It was day two for me in an excavation I had started the week before at an out-of-town location, tipped off by a friend. I was on my way down to the nine feet deep mark (see Figure 17), which is about as deep as I go by myself and still throw ash out of the pit. I had found a decent one-gallon cream-colored 1900s-era style jug in nice condition, but with no transfer or script that would set it apart. As I dug into the virgin ash sidewalls, starting from the bottom, and working my way up, I found a nice tiny teapot (see Figure 18) with Albany City Hall colorfully illustrated on it. That was going to look great on my knick knack shelf. Aside from that, I was going long spells without finding anything significant.

It was late in the day. The backfill resulting from my chipping away at the sides of the hole had reduced its depth to about six feet. I noted the nip in the air with each misty cloud of breath I exhaled in the setting sunlight. There was a vexing chunk of sheet metal on the side of the hole near my feet that I tripped over more than once, and it was time to get rid of the damn thing. Crouching down and grabbing it with both rawhide glove protected hands, and perhaps with a touch of rage as well, I used my leg strength to rip it out as I stood up. After tossing the accursed scrap to the side, I looked downwards where the flashing had been just a moment earlier and gasped in astonishment when I saw a small portion of a stoneware jug or crock exposed with blue slip block lettering. After patting myself to make sure this was not a dream, I took a picture (see Figure 19), and started video recording the dramatic event. Of course, the thought running through my mind was, “Please, please be complete!” As any digger can attest to, more often than not, big stoneware relics like this are typically not whole.

However, as I carefully exposed more of the object, I soon discovered that the top was there. This was a very encouraging sign, and it also told me it was a jug, and not a crock (which was cool as I prefer jugs). The other indication that the jug might be complete was that it was really stuck in there, and even with well over half of it exposed, I still could not free it from the crunchy ash. Thus, I continued to carefully chip away at the olden coal cinders around it, until it gave way to gravity and gently fell two inches to the bottom of the pit. I immediately grabbed it and turned it around. The handle was there, and I saw no damage of any kind!

Glorious! Next to read the blue block lettering: “J. DONOHUE” in an arch, with “WATERFORD, N.Y.” in a straightline underneath it (see Figure 20). There was also a large number 1 outlined at the top. Wow – I’d never seen it or heard of it, and it was local! I was overcome with joy and very, very grateful. As the sun was

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setting, at the very end of my very last day digging in 2020, I quietly and solemnly celebrated this moment, my most exciting discovery of the entire year.

Early in the new year, at our annual bottle club’s annual holiday party, the club’s stoneware expert, Art Dell, took a look at my find. After assessing the artifact and its design (particularly the top), he felt that while the Fort Edward Pottery was a possibility, he was confident its manufacture could be attributed to the prolific West Troy Pottery, and its age to the 1870s to 1890s. And while they were

Figure 19: The annoying sheet metal was ripped away to reveal this stunning sight.

Figure 20: The day’s dug jugs side by side.

scarce, he had seen a few, and in different sizes. I was happy to know a little more about this magnificent new piece in my collection. However, no one at the meeting, nor anyone I contacted through social media sites dedicated to stoneware, nor any website, could tell me anything about who P. Donohue was. I contacted the Waterford Historical Museum, who took the time to research their archives, and they had nothing.

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Finally, after very extensive research on Ancestry.com, I found entries in the 1887 to 1895 Troy, N.Y. city directories for a Philip Donohue, wholesale liquor dealer, in Waterford, N.Y. The 1894 entry, typical of those from the other years, reads as follows: “Donohue, Philip, wholesale liquors, 74 and 76 Broad, Waterford, boards Morgan House, do.” While it’s possible Philip was also in business earlier and/or later than 1887 to 1895, I will go with the evidence I have at this time and assume my jug is from this timeframe.

Given its appearance, I had thought the jug was older, but I am not an expert in stoneware. It’s possible Philip ordered the jugs in the first year or two he was in operation and was able to continue business with this inventory, thanks to customers who returned their jugs time and again for refills. Given the brevity of the directory entries, the many competitors he had in the wholesale liquor business, and the scarcity of jugs with his name emblazoned on them, I’m also concluding Philip never hit the big time.

He did hang on for at least nine years though, and I, as collector of historical glass and stoneware containers, am very grateful to him for his entrepreneurial spirit and perseverance. And I am thrilled to be the last person, for now, in the chain of events, and chain of ownership, that led to this jug eventually coming into my possession. It all started with Philip Donohue’s dream to start his own business and having the drive and wherewithal to make it happen. It also includes the West Troy Pottery and the craftsmen there who threw the jug on the wheel, glazed it, stenciled it, then fired it in a hellishly hot coal or wood fired kiln, where another worker shoveled in salt that vaporized and coated it in a beautiful shiny shellac. Once in Philip’s possession, the jug, full of his fine whiskey, would have been distributed to pubs and taverns and regularly returned for refill at Donohue’s establishment on Broad Street in Waterford. Finally, perhaps sometime after Philip went out of the business,

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and the jug no longer had purpose, the penultimate owner carefully placed it in the ash bin. The garbage men of the day would have hauled it off to the city’s landfill where perhaps the ash surrounding the jug in the container protected it just enough when it was dumped to prevent any harm. Lastly, a piece of sheet metal was serendipitously laid down over it that shielded it from any subsequent damage, setting it up for my discovery over 100 years later. It is ruminations like these that bring our hobby to life for me.

REFERENCES:

Conclusion

The Society for Historical Archeology:: https://sha. org/bottle/pdffiles/Dyottville.pdf

COVID made 2020 a tragic year and continues to do so into 2021. But thankfully, as I hope this story has illustrated, we bottle diggers have a fantastic hobby.

It allowed us a wonderful escape from all the masking and other constraints put upon our everyday lives, and the opportunity to temporarily evade the heartbreak and sadness that affected so many.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_ printing

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/telephones/signs http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index. php https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Wolfe_Bernheim Whisky Galore: A Celebration of Stoneware Whisky Jugs ... & More!; Alan Blakeman & Paul Bloomfield; Copyright BBR Publishing, March 2010.

Newburgh, New York City Directories: 1898, 1909 & 1928.

Symptoms of Disorder of the Digestive System; by S. Grover Graham; 1899.

Facebook Forum: “Antique Whiskey Bottles”

Bay Bottles.com Hair Raising Stories, by Don Fadely First Edition, 1992. Page 131.

A Century of Cures; Dr. A. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass, USA, A Reference Guide,

by Cliff and Linda Hoyt.

Ancestry.com

Figure 21: The virtually pristine P. DONOHUE jug glowing in the sun.

Does J.P.F. Sound Familiar?

Was he an important figure in early glass, or just a shop clerk?

By David Graci

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hea Mansfield Knittle, in her 1927 book, Early American Glass, wrote in the Introduction: “American glass is without doubt, the most obscure and also the most uncertain, illusive, and deceptive in the entire field of Americana.”

Their most interesting conclusion was that tradition was the source of Mr. Foster’s involvement in the Pitkin story.

“Neither tradition has as yet been proven, but as has been said elsewhere in connection with Foster, “manager” seems the more likely status.”

Works. The initials J.P.F., as clearly shown in Fig. 1112, are those of J.P. Foster who became superintendent of the Glass Works in 1810. Under “Pitkin Type Inkwells,” Covill writes: “One order to this glasshouse was for inkstands, now referred to as inkwells.” (pg 265)

She continued on with the Pitkin Glass Works and how it was erected in 1783 and believed to have operated continuously until 1830. Also mentioned, but with no source cited, was that in “1810, J.P. Foster, who had been the superintendent of the industry, took over the active management of the house.”

In their Reference Notes, (page 719, 102), Mrs. Knittle and Van Rensselaer, “both writers presumably obtained information about the works from members of the Pitkin and other local families.”

In my two-part article on “Pitkins Early Efforts,” in the February and March 2011 Antique Bottle & Glass Collector issues, the last mention found of J.P. Foster is in a For Sale ad. “In a convenient store with adjacent sheds, lately occupied by J.P. Foster, and the one half of the Glass Manufactory, with Store House, etc.”

That ad appeared on April 15, 1828, from the Connecticut Courant.

Also included was that Foster had “gone to Stoddard from Keene in 1842” (page 366). Foster’s name is not mentioned with any other glasshouse in Knittle’s book.

Helen McKearin and Kenneth Wilson, in their book, American Bottles & Flasks and Their Ancestry, 1978, continued the story of J.P. Foster, saying he “took over” the works, with another account stating that he became “active manager.” They wrote that the “mold for the J.P.F. might well have been a private mold, not a glassworks mold with initials of a manager or lessee.”

In a New York Times article of Aug. 23, 1981, titled “Rare Survivors of Glassmaking,” it was noted “a second Pitkin piece commemorating Mr. Foster’s taking over management of the company is a rare Pitkin inkwell made of green bottle glass in a square two-part mold and also emblazoned with the initials J.P.F.” This piece is on display at the Connecticut Historical Society Museum in Hartford, with another similar inkwell located at the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, Conn.

William E. Covill, Jr. 1971, in the first edition of Ink Bottles and Inkstands, writes, “An interesting inkwell is illustrated in Fig. 1111, (pg 267). This is a definite product of the Pitkin Glass

Perhaps Foster’s last connection with the Pitkin Glass Works was as a clerk in their store selling their merchandise.

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Image courtesy of The Connecticut Historical Society”

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You Can’t Get Blood out of a Turnip, but…

A vampire (aka sucker) is born every minute

By Ralph Finch

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o you need an antique bottle of holy water? You could almost get me to drink — I mean sink my teeth into — something that unusual.

Even more unusual than all the other odd items that fill the Finch Funhouse.

First, an explanation. Years ago I admitted to having a love affair with Sarah Michelle Gellar, who starred as “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (1997-2003). Thanks to co-workers at the newspaper, I had photos and TV show ephemera all over my desk.

(In fact, thanks to Netflix, we were able to rewatch the entire series.)

I have long had an interest in vampire movies and stories, and have a modest library of vampire books. Would you believe, one is a collection of erotic vampire stories? In those stories, you get more than a hickey. If you have a hunger for sex, try 1983’s “The Hunger,” where a love triangle develops between a beautiful-yet-dangerous vampire, played

by Catherine Deneuve, and David Bowie and Susan Sarandon.

Now, back to the beginning of this year, when I had a serious — call it grave — interest in Lot 708, described as: “Professor Blomberg, 20th century. Vampire Killing Kit including four stout oak stakes, mallet, ivory cross, a bottle labeled *holy water blessed at St. Ann’s, bottle labeled powdered flowers of garlic, bottle labeled brimstone (sulfur), a large-caliber pistol (Frontier Army .44, made in Belgium), five molded bullets, bullet mold,

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Common Book of Prayer dated 1772, and a vial labeled new and improved serum. All contained in a 19th-century brass mounted walnut burl box with green baize lined fitted interior.” (*Janet suggests that I could use a drop, or a gallon, of holy water.)

The seller, Ahlers & Ogletree of Atlanta, Ga., described that this lot’s box lid doesn’t close. Estimated at $2,000$4,000, it required an opening bid of $1,000. (Imagine a squeaking noise as the bid opens.)

There is one small problem with this, and similar creations of imaginative craftsmen who create various kits. Some are very elaborate, priced from $150 to $4,500 on eBay and at some auction houses, depending on how fancy (and how elaborate) the sales pitch. Most of them date back to the 1970s! One seller also offers “vampire fang necklace charm,” “werewolf claws,” or a piece of “big-foot hair.”

Some of these kits end up fetching big prices at auction. A few even end up in museums. These kits are often presented as if they were made in the early 19th century, but turn out to be modern creations. A kit may contain one or two genuine artifacts, but as a general rule these “genuine vampire-hunting kits” … well, they bite the big one. On the internet I found several references to “authentic vampire-killing kits,” one attributed to “master craftsman **Prof. Ernst Blomberg of Germany” and said to have sold for

$12,000 at Sotheby’s. (**A coincidence?

A man named Ernst Blomberg became one of Hitler’s most devoted followers.)

The Royal Armories Museum in Leeds, England, had a vampire kit on display that contained a few older items, such as a pistol from the 1850s, but the kit was a “novelty item” assembled around the 1970s.

So, if you ever buy one of these and think they are real antiques, only one word comes to mind. Sucker! Or, as the Brits might accurately say, You bloody fool!

Which bottle best represents Halloween?

A: A witch bottle.

PHOTOS (clockwise, from top left): Lot 708, described as “Professor Blomberg, 20th century Vampire Killing Kit. Death to pain? Yep, death is a guarantee to end pain, or your money back.

The Royal Armories Museum in Leeds, England, has a not-so-genuine vampire-killing kit.

A trade card for Brown’s Iron Bitters ... but why does she have her foot on a bat?

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Go to FOHBC.org for hotel booking information, schedule and dealer contracts. Hotel rooms will go fast!

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TEAM RENO

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Fruit Jar Rambles Extra

By Tom Caniff — Photos by Deena Caniff

LUTTED’S COUGH DROPS It’s not a fruit jar, but it’s a damned nicelooking product jar. The aqua, ground-lip jar in Photo 1 is approximately 11” tall and sports an unmarked, silver-plated metal screw cap. Its shape is appealing, but it suffers in popularity from being embossed with only the letters J. L. on the side, while the reverse (Photo 2) has a large, embossed five-pointed star. The embossed open fivepointed star (Photo 3) is filled with Lutted’s somewhat faded label, featuring a colorful American flag in the center, and above and to the sides it appears to read “Lutted’s Uncle Sam Cough Drops.” The jar’s main identification, however, is carried on the base, which reads JAMES LUTTED BUFFALO, N.Y. U.S.A. James Oswald Lutted was born in Scotland, and after reportedly working a number of years as a sailor, he settled in Buffalo, New York, where he found work with Henry Hearne, an established candy manufacturer.

In 1869, James Lutted was reportedly working with Henry Hearne, but by Sept. 14, 1876, the BUFFALO COURIER was running advertising for “James Lutted & Co. Manufacturers of strictly Pure Confectionery,” at 315 Main Street. This name style continued at least through September 1878, but by October 22, 1883, ads were being run just under the name James Lutted, or Lutted’s Candy Factory.

A series of “Mary Had a Little Lamb” trade cards was copyrighted in 1882, by the Onondaga Lith. Co., of Syracuse, New York, but it’s uncertain just when they were used to promote Lutted’s Cough Drops. Figure A shows one of the cards, with Mary and her lamb entering the school: “All Little Girls and Boys Use Lutted’s S. P. Cough Drops Because They Will Cure Their Colds. For Sale Everywhere.”

We first found mention of Lutted’s cough drops in a Dec. 13, 1884 advertisement

PHOTO 1

PHOTO 3

PHOTO 2

FIGURE A

PHOTO 1: Eleven inch JAMES LUTTED jar.

PHOTO 2: Embossed star and paper label.

PHOTO 3: Star-shaped flag paper label.

FIGURE A: "Mary Had A Little Lamb" trade card.

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By Tom Caniff — Photos by Deena Caniff

in THE EVENING STAR, of Washington, D.C., under the heading “Local Mention.” The blurb reads simply “For sale by druggists generally, Lutted’s S. P. cough drop. Ask for sample.”

The June 24, 1889 BUFFALO EVENING NEWS carried an ad for “The Lutted Candy Co.,” under which name he operated until 1893, when the September 28 ARGUS, of Albany, New York, reported the “Voluntary dissolution of The Lutted Candy Company.” Lutted’s history after this dissolution is sketchy, but it includes his being “arrested in his place of business, corner of Main and Seneca streets...on the charge of embezzlement.” He subsequently moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, where he died in 1915.

Lutted had also marketed his S. P. cough drops in tins (Photo 4), and it’s the 7” tall, 4 1/4” square, yellow-and-black painted tin on the left that answers the question posed by the glass jar’s S. P. embossing, “What does S. P. actually refer to?” This square tin with a round press-on cap is lettered on the front LUTTED’S SANS PAREIL S P COUGH DROPS. “Sans Pareil” is a French tern meaning “peerless’”or “without equal.”

PHOTO 4: Two LUTTED'S COUGH DROP tins with press-on lids.

The rectangular, beveled-corner tin with a corresponding press-on lid on the right of our photo reads, LUTTED’S S. P. COUGH DROPS JAMES LUTTED. Prominent among the Lutted’s Cough Drop collectibles is a log cabin covereddish with lift-off roof, originally made by the Central Glass Co. of Wheeling, W.Va., which introduced the pattern in 1875 (Photo 5). The glass roof lid is embossed LUTTED’S S. P. COUGH DROPS. GENUINE HAS ‘J. L’ STAMPED ON EACH DROP, with the base of the cabin bottom embossed JAS. LUTTED BUFFALO. N.Y. U.S.A.

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PHOTO 5: LUTTED'S S. P. COUGH DROPS log cabin.

Fruit Jar Rambles Extra

By Tom Caniff — Photos by Deena Caniff

Figure B shows a depiction of this covered-dish that appeared in a Jan. 6, 1886 ad in the BUFFALO (New York) EVENING NEWS; the log cabin has “Lutted’s S. P. Cough Drops”on the lift-off roof, with “For Sale Everywhere” below the cabin.

A later ad found for Lutted’s cough drops was in THE LENOIR TOPIC, of Lenoir, North Carolina, on Dec.12, 1888. “A convenient and pleasant cough medicine will be found in Lutted’s S. P. cough drops, price 5c. Respectfully, PENROSE BALDWIN. For sale at Baldwin’s Drug Store.”

Our last dated reference to Lutted’s Cough Drops appeared in a billhead reading, “Buffalo, N.Y. Jan. 30, 1893 The Lutted Candy Co., Incorporated Manufacturing Confectioners By Steam Factory and Salesroom 27 and 29 Ellicott Street Specialties: Cough Drops, Penny Goods, Fine Chocolates, Show Cases.”

Figure C shows an earlier example of the same billhead dated Feb. 2, 1892.

Original Lutted log cabins are usually found in clear, with vaseline, blue, and amber reported. However, reproductions were being made in clear, amber, pink, green, and cobalt blue; reproduction lids are embossed only LUTTED’S S. P. COUGH DROPS, while the cabin bases bear only a planked wood grain design without the JAS. LUTTED lettering.

for the repro Lutted cabins is shown in Figure D, describing them as “New! Cobalt Collectibles. Our authentic antique reproductions are true cobalt glass.

‘Lutteds (sic) Cough Drops’ cabin: 7”h x 8 1/2”w... $29.90” And in Fall 2001, a NorthStyle catalog, of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, offered the “Lutted’s S. P. Cough Drops” log cabin in cobalt glass for $24.95.

per worm. A negro living in a house on the plantation where a small quantity of liquor was found was arrested and taken to Preston, but as yet no one has claimed the jar containing the buried money.”

–– Los Angeles [California] Herald, Volume XIV, Number 274, 16 September 1920.

HUNTS FOR STILL; DIGS UP TREASURE “AMERICUS, Ga. Sept. 16. — Digging into the ground on the Miller plantation, near Preston, in search of an illicit still, Sheriff C. M. Christian of Webster county recently unearthed a sealed glass fruit jar containing silver dollars, halves, quarters, dimes and nickels totaling $284.25. Nearby the sheriff found a stilling outfit, including a cop-

FIGURE B: 1886 ad featuring LUTTED'S S. P. COUGH DROPS log cabin.

FIGURE C: 1892 LUTTED CANDY CO. billhead listing their cough drops.

In February 1999, the ANTIQUE & COLLECTORS REPRODUCTION NEWS reported that “Reproductions of the Lutted log cabin have been made since about 1991. New pieces wholesale for $10-12 each. New colors most often seen are clear, amber and blue.” And as long as the molds for the repro cabins exist, it’s possible that still more color variations may be produced.

A December 1992 Yield House catalog ad, of North Conway, New Hampshire,

FIGURE D: 1992 catalog ad for LUTTED'S COUGH DROPS log cabin.

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WANTED

Greer #s of the mint state #1265 United States Syrup #1685 United States Syrup #1383 Dr. Perkins’ Syrup #5 Arthurs Renovating Syrup #778 Halls / Palingenesia / Or Regenerator

Also non Greer bottles of the mint state Dr. C.W. Robacks Scandinavien Blood Purifier Cincinnati, O, IP

Write, Call or Email

John Keating P.O. Box 13255 Olympia, WA 98508 360-628-9576 johnkeating473@yahoo.com

WANTED: Clarke’s Vegetable Sherry Wine Bitters, Sharon, Mass.

All bottle sizes & variants…pontil/smooth base. Also, ANY ephemera..newspaper ads, invoices, letterhead, etc.

THANK YOU. Charlie Martin Jr. 781-248-8620, or cemartinjr@comcast.net

Jointly sponsored by The Museum of Connecticut Glass and The Southern Connecticut Antique Bottle & Glass Collectors Association

Coventry Bottle Show

Bottle Show & Antiques Tailgate Event

Saturday, October 9, 2021 8 AM to 1 PM RAIN or SHINE The Museum of Connecticut Glass 289 North River Road (at blinking light on Route 44) Coventry, Connecticut 06238 Admission (9 AM): $4.00 Early Admission (8 AM): $15.00

Bottles, glass, stoneware & antiques offered for sale.

On the grounds of the historic Coventry Glass Works.

Museum Tours Available During the Show Dealer spaces available for $35.00 For Information or Dealer Contract Please Contact: Bob - 914-241-9597, rdsrla@optonline.net

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2021

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WE ARE BACK! 45th HVBIC BOTTLE & INSULATOR SHOW CHELSEA, MICH.

IT PAYS! A display ad this size costs only $35.00 for one month. What are you waiting for? Call us today!

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See show calendar in this magazine

ATTENTION READERS: Due to COVID-19 precautions, a number of upcoming bottle shows have been postponed or cancelled. Please check with local show chairperson to see if your favorite shows are affected.

We will have further updates in future issues as new information becomes available. Thanks.

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For Sale d FOR SALE: Books printed and bound "A History of the Des Moines Potteries with additional information on Boomsboro, Carlisle, Hartford and Palmyra." 214 pages, 65 color.

Cost $23 plus shipping. Media mail, add $4.50, Priority mail, add $6.00. MARK C. WISEMAN, 515-344-8333, 3505 Sheridan Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50310. 11/21 FELLOW COLLECTORS/DEALERS: Please, if at all possible, include a name and phone number with your advertisements.

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FOR SALE: Illinois bottles and marbles.

WANTED: Anything CARM! Illinois. Please call me or email. HeathersTreasures@frontier. com, 618-384-2223.

11/21 FOR SALE: I put out a quarterly list of 200 bottles and go withs. As I sell I add new. List goes across the country and covers the major bottle groups. JOHN RONALD, Phone: 707-762-8515, 1512 McGregor Ave, Petaluma CA 94954.

10/21 FOR SALE: The Old Coon - Whisky - Picture of Coon (on label) - label 90% - front back.

8 oz. 6 7/8" tall - rounded corners - $25. 3 1/2" tall rnd brown & white & green Mill Whiskey - S.M. Denison - Chillicothe, Ohio - $50. ROBERT BLACK, 1741 Glenmar Dr., Lancaster, OH 43130.

11/21

FOR SALE: Pluto Water America's Physic Poster with "Uncle Sam" holding a Pluto concentrated Spring Water bottle. From the Mebane Collection. Aliciab.wickman@gmail. com 11/21

Shows, Shops & Services d WEST VIRGINIA MEDICINE, BEER AND SODA COLLECTORS: Large, older collection (mostly dug) is in need of dispersal. Digger since the late 1960s has passed away. Looking for someone to assist in bringing his widow reasonable compensation. JIM, 317-512-1856. 10/21

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ATTENTION COLLECTORS (or the curious) - Don't miss the 54th ANNUAL GOLDEN GATE HISTORICAL BOTTLE SOCIETY'S BOTTLES, ANTIQUES AND COLLECTIBLES SHOW AND SALE at the Contra Costa Event Park (Sunset Hall) in Antioch CA. Friday, 4/22: noon to 5pm ($10) and Saturday, 4/23: 9am to 3pm (free). You'll find bottles, collectibles and "go-withs."

For more info, contact GARY ANTONE at 925-373-6758 or packrat49er@netscape. net.

3/22 TRI-STATE BOTTLE COLLECTORS AND DIGGERS CLUB SHOW & SALE, Sunday November 7, 2021, 9AM - 2 PM, at the Singerly Fire Hall, Elkton MD 21922. A great show with many dealers on hand selling sodas, medicines, poisons, milks, fruit jars, and other fine examples of antique bottles available for you to add to your collection! Also available for purchase, delicious food prepared by the Ladies Auxiliary. Don't miss this one! Contact DAVE BROWN, 302-388-9311, for information or a sales contract.

11/21 Bottles, Planters Peanut, Glass of the Depression Era, Lots of Antiques.

50 WEST ANTIQUES, 540-686-0291, 2480 Northwestern Pike, Winchester, VA 22603. 12/21

WANTED: Better Albany N.Y. bottles and flasks, L.Q.C. Wisharts in rare colors / all variants. Guilderland, N.Y. Stoneware. DON KELLY, dmebottles@aol.com, Phone: 518365-3783. 12/21 WANTED: OWL DRUG bottles, tins, boxes, paper, anything from the Owl Drug Company. MARC LUTSKO, Email: letsgo@montanasky.net, 406-293-6771, Box 97 Libby, MT 59923.

1/22 WANTED: Harley bottles of West Chester, Pa. and Philadelphia, Pa. The West Chester bottles (3) display either J. Harley, James Harley or E.M. Harley. The Phila. Bottles (3) display Edwd. Harley, Schul (Schuylkill) 4th & Market St., Philada or E. Harley, 802 Market St. or E. Harley, West Market St. These bottling business operated in the late 1840s through the early 1880s. BOB HARLEY, rwh220@Yahoo.com, Phone: 215-721-1107.

12/21 WANTED: U.S.A. Hospital Dept. and any pre-1866 embossed food bottles, mustards, early Baltimore, Wheeling, D.C., Alexandria sodas, beers (stoneware or glass) damage free.

BRUCE, cwaddic@yahoo.com, Phone: 703-307-7792. 12/21 WANTED: Colored Illinois and Missouri Sodas. Also Colored Fruit Jars. Top $$$ Paid. Call, text or email. STEVE KEHRER, kehrer00@gmail.com, 618-410-4142. 3/23

WANTED: Hobbleskirt embossed Coca-Cola bottles: 1915's, 1923's, D-Patent's 6oz's and 6 1/2 oz's. Collector will buy or trade. JIM GEORGES, georges77@twcny.rr.com or 315-662-7729.

7/21

WANTED: Celebrated Peninsular Bitters semi-cabin from Grand Rapids, Jerome National Bitters Detroit, Ancora Bitters from Menominee, Mich., Snake Bite Bitters, other bitters and mineral waters from Michigan and Mississippi. BRUCE SCHAD, brschad@ aol.com, 662-237-4365 or 662-299-7975, Carrollton, MS. 10/21

WANTED: PHILADELPHIA STRAPSIDED or Seamed Whiskey Flasks.

I collect and catalog these and also have an interest in Thomas H. Dillon (TD) Philadelphia mineral water bottles. Please contact me if you have any in your collection or wish to sell. ART MIRON, Email: jestar484@verizon.net, 215-248-4612. 6/22

WANTED: Signet Ink, 1 gallon solid white stoneware jug with handle, pour spout blue lettering stating "Russia Cement Co., Sole mf'rs of Signet Ink and LePage Glue".

Interested in any other Ink or Paste Stoneware that i do not already have. Call, email or text.

DAVID CURTIS, dcu8845@thewavz.com, 567-208-1676.

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WANTED: EMBOSSED CURES WANTED: Including these pontils: Avery's, Benson's, Bernard's, Brown's, Bull's, Burt's, Cannon's, Flander's, Frambe's Geoghegan's, Hamilton's, Jacob's, Lay's, McAdoo's, McElroy's, Parham's, Rhodes' Prov. R.I., Rohrer's, Rudolph's, Star-in's, Stone's, Toledo, Woodman's. ALSO BIMALS: Anchor, Bavarian Bitters, Beesting, Bixler's, Bliss, Boot's Indigestion, Bowanee, Bower's, Bradford's, Bromo Mineral, Bronson's, Bull's (Baltimore), Carey's CholiCura, Clement's Certain (green), Collins' Opium (aqua), Cowan's Certain, Davis Indian, Detchon's Infallible, Edelweiss, Electrofluid, Ewer's Arcanum, Forest Pine (unpontiled), Francisco's, Frog Pond 8", Green's King's Cure, Large Handyside's (chocolate amber), Helmer's, Hilleman's, Hinderman's, Holden's (green), Hungarian, Indian Mixture, JBF, Kauffman Phthisis, Keeley's (opium, neurotine, solution), Large Kellum's, Kid-Nee-Kure, Lenape's, Lindley's, Long's Malaria, Loryea (green), Marsden, McConnon Cough, Amber McLean's (8"), Miniotti's (clear), Morning Glory, Murphy K & L. Pageapfel's, Park's (clear), Peck's, Pennock's, Peterman's (green), Rattail, large River Swamp, Scott's (bird), Streetman's, Tremaine's, Vosburgh, Wadsworth (goat), Warner's K & L Rochester (green, aqua, clear), Wildwest, Wilkinson's, Wilson Footrot, Winan's (no Indian), York Corn Cure. Looking for many others, especially embossed with label, contents, box. Also would like data on unlisted cures for future Cure Book. JOHN WOLF, ohcures@yahoo. com, 937-275-1617, 1186 Latchwood Ave., Dayton, OH 45405.

2/22 WANTED: Strapside Flasks from NY Capital District and Utica. JOHN, ifishaway@msn. com, 518-393-1814.

10/21 WANTED: Dr. Boyce's Tonic Bitters, Rutland VT. bruceamaheu@icloud.net 10/21 WANTED: ACL's North and South Carolina BOTTLE BROTHER CHUCK, 704-7320373. BOTTLE BROTHER STAN, 704530-3941.

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WANTED: Albany & Troy, NY pre-1900 Beers, Sodas, Whiskeys, and Stoneware.

Albany Paintings especially David Lithgow Paintings. STEWART C. WAGNER, SWagner@NorthernIndustrial.com, Phone: 518-698-7325. 10/21 WANTED: George Troyansky New York seltzer bottles and any bottles from Croton On- Hudson, NY. 845-381-3059 text. 11/21 WANTED: WARNER Advertising, Bottles with Labels, Posters, Almanacs. Any WARNER or DR. CRAIG Bottles and Advertising. mwseeliger@gmail.com, Phone: 608-575-2922.

11/21 WANTED: Baltimore, D.C., Northern VA. Bottles. We buy collections. Call JEFF at 443-904-0566 or 410-335-1383. Call ROB at 443-417-0109. Leave message! J & R FINE JUNK AND COLLECTABLES 11/21 WANTED: Fitzgerald's Improved Invigorator with label; Arabian Elixter of Life, Dexter, ME. probably a label only bottle, any other Dexter, Maine medicines. RICK WHITNEY, history@dextermaine.info, 207-924-3443, 215 North Dexter Rd, Dexter, ME 04930.

10/21 WANTED: Ugly. Brown Bottles . . . with Eagles & Flags - open pontils - sheared lips.

Whittled and Crude - embossed or with Labels ... Keene or Stoddard, N.H. origin the best. ALSO, Bisque & China doll heads from priveys or dump diggin'. withington@ conknet.com, 603-478-3232. 10/21 WANTED: Looking for T. King Chicago True Blob Soda and Fort Dearborn Bottling Works Chicago Hutch Soda and AM Chicago Hutch Soda. GREGORY WATT, 815-3251865.

11/21 WANTED: Two Vermont drugstore bottles for research project. Need: JERICHO DRUGSTORE / JERICHO, VERMONT and DR. W. S. NAY / UNDERHILL, VT. Mint or near-mint please. DON FRITSCHEL, donfritschel@gmail.com 11/21

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WANTED: C. W. & W. W. BOYNTON / 1871 / PROVIDENCN / R.I. This is the variant where Providence is spelled wrong.

It is a porter with a double tapered collar.

It is number 54709AB on the http://www. sodasandbeers.com website. DAVID, stoddardglassman@aol.com, 802-855-3664.

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WANTED: Connecticut drug store, pharmacy or apothecary bottles. Embossed or labeled. We collect, research, and document old Connecticut drug stores. See; CTBottleMan.Com (Antique Connecticut Pharmacy and Drug Store Bottles). STEVE POULIOT, steve@ctbottleman.com, 860608-7208. 12/21

WANTED: OREGON Pre-Prohibition Shot Glasses, Advertising Crockery for Liquor, Mercantile and Druggists. Oregon Dose Glasses and Colored Medicine Bottles.

Eastern Oregon Hutchinson Sodas, Mini Jugs & Advertising Items. Dr. Vanderpool Medicines & Cures. Dufur, The Dalles, Oregon, C.J. Stubling and Umatilla House items. JIM DENNIS, 541-467-2760. 12/21

WANTED: PHARMACIES - Druggists Bottle - States Nebraska,, Missouri, Texas, RI, NH. All embossed front panel. Also wanted, Hayes Bottles - Soda, Medicine, Beer, Whiskey. PETER ARNDT, 201 E. Prairie St, Apt. 101, Sequim, WA 98382. 11/21

WANTED: Old letters, diaries, journals with interesting content; photos/images with interesting/unusual subject matter; old Ku Klux Klan items; African American/black related items; Civil Rights/Hippie culture items; unusual paper related, period. Please don't throw it out! Call me first. SUSAN FOX, 570-275-2590, 812 "B" St. Danville, PA 17821. 11/21 WANTED: Want to buy your signs - tin, paper, wood, reverse glass. 1850-1950. Any American Products. Great Graphics. KIM & MARY KOKLES, kckmjk@aol.com, 972240-1987.

12/21 WANTED: OHIO BITTERS I do not have. Seeking "Old Home Bitters" Laughlin & Bushfield Wheeling, W. Va. Thank you for your consideration. GARY BEATTY, bocatropicalbreezes@gmail.com, 941-2761546.

11/21 WANTED: Culpeper & Orange, VA. bottles.

Also, Ivanhoe, VA Lithia Water bottle with embossed Indian and New Kent, VA Lithia Water bottle with 2 men drilling well. 804357-8107. 11/21 WANTED: Barber bottles and shaving paper vases. Especially looking for Whitall Tatum & Company bottles. ED & KATHY GRAY, bottleguy1@gmail.com 12/21

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Show CALENDAR OCTOBER 1 & 2

OCTOBER 10

NOVEMBER 5 & 6

WILLIAMS, CALIFORNIA

KEENE, NEW HAMPSHIRE

JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA

3rd Annual Antique Bottles & Collectibles Show, (Sat. 9 AM to 3 PM; Early Bird Friday, 10:00 AM, $10), in the old gym behind the Sacramento Valley Museum, 1491 E Street, Williams, CA. Free Adm. Saturday.

Info: SLIM or CHRISTY EDWARDS, PH: 530.473.2502, Email: closethegatefenceco@ yahoo.com

New Location! The Yankee Bottle Club’s 53rd Annual Show & Sale, (9 AM to 2:00 PM, early buyers 8 AM), at the Keene Ice facility, 380 Marlboro Street, Keene, NH. Info: ALAN RUMRILL, PO Box 803, Keene, NH 03431. PH: 603.352.1895, Email: director@hsccnh.org. Website: www. yankeebottleclub.org

Antique Bottle Collectors of North Florida Show & Sale, (General adm. Sat. 8AM to 2PM; Early buyers Fri. 2PM - 7PM, $50; 3PM - 7PM, $40; 5PM - 7PM, $20), at the Fraternal Order of Police Bldg, 5530 Beach Blvd, Jacksonville. Sat. Free Adm! Info: MIKE SKIE, PH: 904.710.0422; or: CORY, email: jaxbottleshow@yahoo.com

OCTOBER 2

OCTOBER 17

NOVEMBER 7

CHESTERFIELD, VIRGINIA The Richmond Area Bottle Collectors Assoc. presents the 49th Richmond Antique Bottle and Collectible Show and Sale, (9AM to 3PM; Early adm. $10 at 7:30 am), at the Chesterfield County Fairgrounds, 10300 Courthouse Rd, Chesterfield, VA 23832.

Adm. $3. Info: MARVIN CROKER, PH. 804.275.1101 or ED FAULKNER, 804.739.2951; RichBottleClub@comcast.net OCTOBER 3 CHELSEA, MICHIGAN The Huron Valley Bottle and Insulator Club Annual Show, 9 am to 3 pm at the Comfort Inn Conference Center, 1645 Commerce Park Drive, Chelsea, Michigan. North off I-94 at M-52 exit. For more information or table reservations, contact: ROD KRUPKA at 248-627-6351 or rod.krupka@yahoo.com OCTOBER 9 COVENTRY, CONNECTICUT The Southern Connecticut Antique Bottle Collector Association and the Museum of Connecticut Glass, Bottle Show and Antiques Tailgate Event, (9 AM to 1 PM, Early Adm. 8 AM, $15), outdoors on the grounds of the historic Coventry Glass Works, 289 North River Road, Coventry, CT (at blinking light on Route 44). Adm. $4. Museum tours available during the show. For more info. or dealer contracts, please contact: BOB, PH: 914.241.9597; Email: rdsrla@ optonline.net

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FINDLAY, OHIO Findlay Antique Bottle Club's 44th Annual Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show & Sale, (9 AM to 2 PM; early bird Sun. 7 AM $10), at the Hancock County Fairgrounds, 1017 E. Sandusky St., Findlay, OH. Adm. $2, Children under 12 Free! Info: Show Chairman FRED CURTIS, 419.424.0486; Email: finbotclub@gmail.com, Website: http://finbotclub.blogspot.com

TOPSHAM, MAINE New, 1st Annual Mid-Maine Antique Bottle Show, (9 AM to 2 PM; Early buyers 8 AM, $15), at the Topsham, Maine Fairgrounds Exhibit Hall, 54 Elm St., Topsham. Presented by the Mid-Maine Antique Bottle Club. Adm. $2. Info: PAUL McCLURE, Ph. 207.832.1503; email: oldbottles@outlook. com

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MACUNGIE, PENNSYLVANIA

ELKTON, MARYLAND

New Date - New Location! Forks of the Delaware Bottle Collectors Association 47th Annual Show & Sale (9AM to 2PM, early buyers 7:30 AM), at the Macungie Park Hall, Macungie, PA, Info: BILL HEGEDUS, PH: 610.264.3130; email: forksofthedelawarebottles@hotmail.com.

The Tri-State Bottle Collectors and Diggers Club 48th Annual Show & Sale (9 AM to 2 PM), at the Singerly Fire Hall, Routes 279 & 213, Elkton, MD. Info: DAVE BROWN, PH: 302.388.9311, email: dbrown3942@comcast.net

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JEFFERSON, GEORGIA

BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI

50th Annual Southeastern (formerly Atlanta), Antique Bottle Show & Sale, (Fri. 3PM to 8PM Dealer setup and Early adm. $10; Sat. 9AM to 2PM, General adm.), at the Jefferson Civic Center, 65 Kissam St., Jefferson, GA 30549. Free bottles for kids, appraisals, and prizes on Saturday. Info: JACK HEWITT, Box 12126 Big Canoe, Jasper, GA 30143. PH: 770.856.6062, or: BILL JOHNSON, 770.823.2626, Email: bj3605@ comcast.net. Sponsored by the R.M. Rose Co. Distillers, and Cagle Auction Co.

NEW LOCATION – NEW DATE! Presented by the Olde Guys Digging Club of The Mississippi Gulf Coast, the 4th Annual Mississippi Gulf Coast Bottle & Collectibles Show & Sale, (9:00 AM to 5 PM; Dealer set-up Friday, Noon to 5 PM and Sat. 8 - 9 AM, Early Buyers $20 during dealer setup), at the St. Martin Community Center, 15008 LeMoyne Blvd., Biloxi, Mississipi.

39532. Free Admission Saturday. Info: PETER TAGGARD, 645 Village Lane South, Mandeville, Louisiana 70471, Phone 985.373.6487, Email: petertaggard@yahoo. com, or NORMAN BLEULER, 6446 Woolmarket Rd., Biloxi, Mississippi 39532.

Phone: 228.392.9148.

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FEBRUARY 5

BELLEVILLE, ILLINOIS

TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS

DeFUNIAK SPRINGS, FLORIDA

Eastside Antique Bottle, Jar & Brewery Collectibles Annual Show & Sale, (9AM to 2PM, early buyers 7AM, $20), at the Belleclair Fairgrounds, 200 S. Belt East, Belleville, IL (15 minutes from St. Louis). Adm. $2.

Info: KEVIN KIOUS, PH. 618.346.2634, whoisthealeman@aol.com

The Little Rhody Bottle Club Annual Show & Sale, (9:00 AM to 3 PM, early buyers 8:00 AM, $15), at the Holiday Inn, 700 Myles Standish Blvd., Taunton, MA (off Exit 9, Rt. 495). Adm. $3. Info: BILL or LINDA ROSE, Email: sierramadre@comcast.net PH: 508.880.4929.

The Emerald Coast Bottle Collectors Inc., 20th Annual Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show & Sale, (8 AM to 2 PM), at the DeFuniak Springs Community Center, 361 N. 10th Street, DeFuniak Springs, Florida 32433. Free Adm, Free Appraisals! Info: RICHARD KRAMERICH, PO Box 241, Pensacola, Florida 32591. Email: shards@ bellsouth.net, Ph. or text: 850.435.5425.

NOVEMBER 13 ROYAL OAK, MICHIGAN The Metropolitan Detroit Antique Bottle Club's 38th Annual Antique Bottle Show, (9:30 AM to 3 PM), at the Royal Oak Elks Lodge, 2401 E. Fourth St., Royal Oak. Adm. $2, Free appraisals. Info: MIKE BRODZIK, 586.219.9980, Email: bottlemike@outlook.com NOVEMBER 14

JANUARY 15 MUNCIE, INDIANA The Midwest Antique Fruit Jar and Bottle Club Annual Show & Sale (9 AM to 2 PM), at the Horizon Convention Center, 401 S. High St., Muncie, IN. 47305.

Info: COLLEEN & JERRY DIXON, PH: 765.748.3117, Email: ckdixon7618@att. net, or: DAVE RITTENHOUSE, 1008 S. 900 W, Farmland, IN 47340. PH: 765.625.0561.

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51st Annual Show & Sale, (9AM to 2 PM; Early buyers 8AM, $15), at the Pompton Lakes Elks Lodge No.1895, 1 Perrin Ave, Pompton Lakes, NJ. Adm. $3. Info: ED, PH: 201.493.

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JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI

NOVEMBER 14 PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA New Location! The Pittsburgh Antique Bottle Club’s 51st Annual Show & Sale, (9 AM to 2 PM, early buyers 7 AM), at the Elizabeth VFD Event Center, 107 Market Street, Elizabeth, PA. Info: BOB DeCROO, 694 Fayette City Rd., Fayette City, PA 15438. PH: 724.326.8741, or, JAY HAWKINS, 1280 Mt. Pleasant Rd., West Newton, PA 15089, web: www.PittsburghAntiqueBottleClub.org PH: 724.872.6013.

DECEMBER 4 TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA The Wabash Valley Antique Bottle & Pottery Club 23 Annual Show, (9AM to 2PM), at the Vigo County Fairgrounds, 133 Fairgrounds Drive, Terre Haute. Info: MARTY PLASCAK, 7210 E. Gross Dr., Terre Haute, IN 47802. Email: mplascak@ma.rr.com

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The Mississippi Antique Bottle, Advertising & Collectibles Show, (Sat. 9AM to 4PM; Friday, early adm. 12PM to 7PM, $25), at the Fairgrounds Trade Mart Building, 1207 Mississippi St., Jackson, MS. Info: CHERYL COMANS, PH: 601.218.3505; Email: cherylcomans@gmail.com JANUARY 23

FEBRUARY 13 MANVILLE, NEW JERSEY New Jersey Antique Bottle Club (NJABC), 26th Annual Show & Sale, (9 AM to 2 PM) at the V.F.W. of Manville, New Jersey, 600 Washington Ave, Manville, NJ 08835.

Admission $3, no early buyers. Info: KEVIN KYLE, 230 Cedarville Rd, East Windsor, NJ 08520. PH. 609.209.4034, Email: bottlediggerkev@aol.com or, JOHN LAWREY, 908.813.2334.

JULY 28 - AUGUST 1, 2022 RENO, NEVADA FOHBC 2022 National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo, Grand Sierra Resort & Casino. Information: RICHARD SIRI, email: rtsiri@sbcglobal.net, or FERDINAND MEYER V, email: fmeyer@fmgdesign.com. FOHBC National Convention – Western Region.

BAYPORT, NEW YORK The Long Island Antique Bottle Association is pleased to announce their Annual Show & Sale, Sunday, January 23, (10 AM to 3 PM), at the Girl Scouts of Suffolk County Juliette Low Friendship Center, Lakeview Avenue, Bayport, NY, donation $3, Children 16 & under FREE. Info: MARK SMITH, 10 Holmes Court, Sayville, NY 11782. PH: 631.589.9027; Email: libottle@optonline.net

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No Trick, Just a Halloween Treat So, Happy October!

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hy do ghosts like to use elevators? Simple, they like having their spirits lifted. And did you know that ghosts themselves are scared most of the time? That’s because they don’t have any guts. Yeah, I know, I’ve been socially distancing far too long.

It’s that time of the year when fall envelopes us, we’re tired of seeing campaign signs on the side of the road as election day is around the corner and we start to think of Thanksgiving and Christmas. It’s a time for pumpkins, harvesting and of course, Halloween. Before I even get into it, I want to make it clear that I am not a tremendous fan of Halloween. I’ll explain why shortly, but first, let’s take a peek at a bit of Halloween history.

Halloween is of Christian origin. The word “Halloween” means “Saints’ evening.” Its roots date to a Scottish term for All Hallows’ Eve (the evening before All Hallows’ Day). In Scottish, the word “eve” is even, and this is contracted to e’en.

Over time, (All) Hallow(s) E(v)en evolved into Halloween. Christians originally meant Halloween to mean All Hallow’s Eve or “Saints evening” as October 31 is the day before “All Saints Day,” November 1, the day when we remember the dead, including saints (hallows) and all those dearly departed.

When I think of Halloween I usually think of trick-or-treating, which is related to what was once known as guising and souling. Guising was the act of disguising in costume and souling had to do with a traditional cake known as a soul mass cake made in remembrance of the dead.

Souling was a practice where “soulers,” which usually consisted of the poor and children, would go door to door at Halloween singing and saying prayers to the souls of the dead.

Today, with “chainsaw movies” and all sorts of “Haunted Hay Rides,” Halloween has become a big event for young and old. My friend, Kevin Kyle, operates a haunted experience at his farm here in New Jersey and I’m told that if you are into that kind of thing, it’s spectacular.

But this is where I depart with those who love this day.

I’m not into scaring the crap out of children or anyone for that matter. I think it’s sort of nutty. We spend most of our time telling our children we’re here to protect them and that everything is OK and good. Then we turn around and say “Boo?” Too much of a mixed message. I never equated being scared with having fun. Some folks claim that they’ve never been scared and I find that very difficult to believe. If you’ve ever been in a really

Tombstone-form David Andrews Vegetable Jaundice Bitters bottle.

tough situation, you would know that there is no fun in dodging a bullet when someone’s shooting at you. So, if it’s your cup of tea, go get ‘em, but I’ll sit that one out. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the kids in costume that come to the door, the Wizard of Oz is still one of my favorites and there’s nothing like a great roller coaster ride at Great Adventure. Just leave the chainsaws for the firewood.

I thought of how I could tie Halloween into bitters collecting and it wasn’t long before David Andrews Vegetable Jaundice Bitters from Providence, Rhode Island came to mind. If you don’t know the bottle, you’re probably still scratching your head as there’s little in that name that would make you think of Halloween.

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If you know the bottle, it’s pretty clear that the Andrews Bitters is probably the best choice for the day as the bottle is clearly shaped in the form of a tombstone.

In my mind, as we’re talking about the eve of the day we honor and remember the dead, it couldn’t be more fitting for a tombstone-shaped bottle to be the bitters bottle of choice.

Let’s take a closer look at this great tombstone-shaped bottle. The bottle is listed in Bitters Bottles by Ring/Ham as following: A 57 DAVID ANDREWS / VEGETABLE / JAUNDICE / BITTERS / PROVIDENCE / R.I. 8 x 4 1/4 x 1 3/8 (6 1/4) 1/4 Rectangular, Aqua, STC, LTC, & LTCR, Rough Pontil Mark, Applied mouth Scarce The shape is what makes this bottle such a standout, there are few that are as broad and narrow. If you’ve never seen the bottle and you look at these measurements, you can tell it is a flat, broad bottle that is not deep (or wide) at all. Other bitters claim to have a “tombstone” shape, but few if any really bring you to thinking of a grave marker like this bottle. Perhaps the bottle manufacturer or even David Andrews himself wanted you to think that if you didn’t use his product, you knew where your next phase of your life was going to be, and the shape was a warning that if you didn’t use this product, you’d be in need of a tombstone soon.

Whatever the logic behind the shape, it is a mystery, as is any information about David Andrews. We can tell by the rough pontil that the bottle should date to 1860 or earlier and the glass character supports this timeline. Most of the specimens I’ve seen have a crude, early feel to them.

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Andrews is going to have to remain a mystery for now. My only clues to any David Andrews in Providence, R.I., refers to two listings in a Providence Directory from 1844 of a David Andrews who was listed as a grocer and another David Andrews who was a cashier at the Commercial Bank. Not much to go on and mentions in newspapers, as well as advertisements and trade cards, are pretty much non-existent.

While information about Mr. Andrews is scarce, so are these early crude bottles.

Ring/Ham estimates that there are only between 75 and 150 of these bottles available to collectors, and records of sale seem to prove this true. Over the 20-plus years period of time I collected data for my bitters price guide, Big Bob’s Best Bitters, I was only able to list merely eight individual records of this bottle coming to auction. During that time the highest price paid for an example was in August of 2007 when an example in mint condition realized $3,360, the price including the buyer’s premium. If you were to try and buy one today, I would imagine you would have to spend at least a couple thousand for a good example. I can only say that this leaves you with something to shoot for and when and if you get your chance and you can afford it, don’t hesitate; these bottles don’t surface often.

There is one piece of history I can share about this bottle and it involves the time when I purchased the example that still sits on my shelf. I had only seen the bottle one other time and had seen it a couple of times in auction catalogues. I thought it was terrific then, as I do now. What a crude, cool bottle with its shape, rough pontil and ancient-looking embossing.

The opportunity came to me in Nashville during the 1996 FOHBC Expo. On a table with a number of really remarkable

This is Elma Watson’s line drawing of the David Andrews Bitters.

bottles was this great David Andrews laying flat on the table of Mr. Norm Heckler. Having three children to think of always came first for me, so I didn’t have an unlimited supply of disposal cash.

Norm and I were able to mutually agree upon the sum of $650, and looking back, it was probably one of the better deals I’ve ever made. Norm was content and I was really excited to put this great bottle on my shelf. Thanks again, Norm.

So there you have it, a truly unique, oneof-a-kind type of bottle. If you are able to dredge up some David Andrews information, of if you have questions or comments, don’t hesitate to give me a call. In the meantime, stay safe and good hunting!

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Stories About Books Libraries reveal what is between the covers, and what motivates and moves a reader

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n the August issue of AB&GC, Kevin Sives revealed what the many books on his shelves meant to him, and of how they made him a better collector, and a happier collector. Indeed, people who don’t have libraries won’t really understand what they are missing.

People who write, or read, can tell you how words on paper can come alive, inspire you and educate you. And, trust me, I was late to enter the world of reading or writing.

It would make for an interesting story (but I admit I’m biased) to interview every writer, or even just someone with a library large or small, and ask them what was the first book that inspired them, or their favorite book. For me, it was Mark Twain and as teenager, late at night with a flashlight, reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (published in 1885).

As an adult it was discovering the adventures in James Clavell’s Shogun, published in 1975. It was an incredible 1,152-page book and the only disappointment was knowing that each page turned was taking me one page closer to the end. (It was the story of John Blackthorne, around 1600, the first Englishman to reach Japan.)

Later, it was Middlesex, revealing the experiences of a man born as a girl, whose memory not only took him back to his birth but before that!

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But I digress. Let’s go back to books, libraries, and the antiques hobby.

were published by Ralph and Terry Kovel of Cleveland.

As I said, I was a retarded adolescent reader, but becoming a journalist merged with being a collector, so that by the time I retired to my current condo I had wallto-wall bookshelves and display cases.

The total project cost more than my first home (which was a jewel, by the way.)

There are eight glass display cases and 17 built-in bookcases plus maybe eight freestanding bookcases.*

But there are whole sections of bookcases dealing with: movies and actors; travel (around the world and across the U.S., and especially about London); U.S. history, especially presidents; war, from centuries back involving our problems with King George on up.

My favorite free-standing bookcase is the one next to our bed, and contains forty unread books. Why unread? There are times when well-meaning friends force a book on you — “You must read this” — and won’t take no for an answer. Finally, I accept the book and tell them “It’ll be put on the bookcase next to the bed.”

(Heck, I haven’t read a book in bed since Huck Finn.)

And while I have given away hundreds and hundreds of books, my shelves are stacked with books, magazines, auction catalogs and … trust me, the volume of it (pardon the pun) causes Janet to make me promise that I will somehow get rid of some of this stuff.

There are so many books on collectibles: toys (so many types), dolls, dishes, knives, mouse traps, carousel horses, folk art, porcelain, kitchenalia, tools, scientific items, buttons, etc., etc. And so many of them

And world history. England and big on China and the whole Far East. Japan has its own, and large, section.

Like Kevin, glass bottles take the lion’s share (and somewhat glass-related, such as Pure Ketchup, the history of … well, you make the leap). That book, three copies, one hard bound, one soft bound, and one signed by the author. In fact, the ketchups are always within reach in case a quick ketchup question arises. Or lunch.

But pure glass takes the lion’s share: marbles, European glass, fruit jars, historic flasks, bitters, beer, etc., etc.

And bottles related to specific areas, like Western stuff, or New England glass or even specific cities.

And glass publications. Many of Alan Blakeman’s issues of the BBR are here, along with many of the first bottle monthlies: The OBX, (the Old Bottle Magazine), Jerry McCann’s ABW (Antique Bottle World), every issue of the AB&GC, and my personal fave, On

Target!, the Journal for Collectors of Antique Target Balls.

And bottle-related stuff: trade cards, advertising, specific glasshouses or specific glass people.

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The bibles are all there, back to the first fruit jar publications, from Arleta Rodrigues to Alice Creswick to Douglas Leybourne (and Jerry McCann, too).

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And the “glass godfathers and godmothers”: Ken Wilson, Helen and George McKearin, Dick Watson …

And all the auction catalogs from the major sales: Gardner, Blaske, Roy Brown, Burt Spiller and on and on.

But it is comfortable to have them around, like when collectors are chatting and ask, “When did such-and-such flask sell? At what auction, and for how much?” You walk over to the shelf and find the answer.

Maybe the bottle sold at a Skinner auction, or a Heckler event, or one of Hagenbuch’s Glass Works sales, or John Pastor’s AGG offerings, or even back to one of the Harmer-Rooke sales in New York City.

Finding the answer and sharing it adds to the hobby’s camaraderie.

Nice.

Hmmmm. I was always aware I had a lot of stuff, but…

Recently, I was exchanging emails with my “pen-pal,” Terry Kovel, the Cleveland queen of antiques publishing, more books and articles than I can count. My 1,000 hobby articles are but a tiny fraction of what she has written/published. And, at age 94, Terry still loves the hobby.

Terry recently revealed, “Did I ever tell you I have 22,000 books here in my research library, all about antiques and collecting, including shelves of bottle magazines and books. Hiding somewhere is my catalog from the Gardener sale. We went to the auction.”

TOP: One corner of one bookcase, with glass and collectible references.

ABOVE: About one half of the material I gathered for researching the world of early target and exhibition shooting.

Enjoy and share your information. Knowing about the hobby’s past and present make the future even more enjoyable.

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Barn-Pick’n Good Deals Sometimes the best digging is above the ground

By Eddie De Block

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t’s not every day I say, “Hey, let’s go to a yard sale.” Actually, I almost never say anything; it’s the wife who usually makes the first move on that subject.

So, in trying to give a little respect back for her tolerating my passion for glass, I compromise and go driving around the countryside.

Now, some may think I’m not going to waste my time going to yard sales and such to look at baby clothes and household stuff. Well, my friends, I’m sure a lot of you know by now sometimes you can be just going with the flow listening to the wife banter about a pair of shoes for $3 and all of a sudden, BAM, there it is.

Right in front of you is a nice old bottle.

Well, yes, it’s happened to me, but lately I’ve been more specific about the sales we go to. The wife too. So far this year I’ve hit at least a half dozen barn sales and come out shining like a gem on the back end of it all.

John Panella knows what I mean. He sees it first hand as soon as I get home. So, anyway, back in late May we went to an estate sale down in Paramus, N.J., about 90 minutes from me here in Dingmans Ferry, Pa. This was a liquidation sale of 45 years’ worth of collectibles from comics

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and cards to Hot Wheels and, yes, bottles.

I was like a kid in a candy store!

The wife, not knowing much, was just grabbing stuff, while I was being particular. She kept asking, “What about this one?” and I would say yes or no.

Robinson Ransbottom 4 galllon jug.

At the end of that sale I spent a total of $90 and walked out with 26 blob tops and about a half dozen Hutchinson soda bottles and a really nice vintage Yuengling tin sign, virtually a New Old Stock sign.

Wow! Game on from here on out!

Now, don’t think for one minute I’ve hung up my shovel, but I’m not getting any younger at 56 years old, and I’ve been riddled with injuries the past five years with two ankle surgeries, a triple hernia surgery and a shoulder surgery and have had a half dozen torn ligaments in said ankle as I write this.

I’ve learned to ease up a bit and take the easy road once in awhile to search for treasures. So, continuing: On July 24, 2021, we hit up a barn sale not 10 minutes from my house. A mere stone’s throw over the Delaware River into the small but very old town of Layton, N.J. The early birds were already rifling through the main barn and small garage out front.

Buffalo Lithia Spring Water.

PHOTOS (clockwise, from top left): The vintage Yuengling tin sign.

Unmarked 8 panel ground lip tobacco jar.

U. Botta & Co. 3 galllon jug.

Mariani 5 galllon wine/liquor jug.

Cilentana Corporation 5 gallon jug.

A group photo of the barn sale finds.

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THIS PAGE PHOTOS (clockwise, from top left): A John Koenig blob top.

SCA David Boyle blob top (ironically this is a distant relation to my wife!)

Bolen & Byrne blob top.

J.A. GILKA red puce schnapps/bitters.

GEM fruit jar with original closure.

Lash’s bitters.

FOLLOWING PAGE PHOTOS (clockwise, from top left): Thos. Evan’s blob top.

Tiffany & Allen paneled mineral water blob.

Zimmer & Joly tombstone slugplate Hutch.

Masons #9 Patent jar.

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I had told the owner, “I’m here to see what old bottles you have.” He led me to a shed behind the barn about five feet wide and ten feet long and said: “That whole back corner is boxes of bottles; have at it.”

And have at it we did.

The wife was pulling out Xerox copy paper boxes all marked on what was inside so it made the picking a bit faster. Again, it was “What about this one?” and again I said yes or no while I looked more carefully and stood guard at the door, while more people were trying to climb into a corner one person could fit into.

“When I’m finished here you can have at it,” is all I had to say. So, we continued our search and after going through thirty or so boxes and a few milk crates we pulled it all out onto the lawn away from the hoard of barn-pickin’ zombies.

The owner came over and I asked him: “How much for these three boxes?” I was expecting to have to haggle since he took a long pause, which seemed like an eternity, and said: “Forty bucks.”

No fighting this deal, I just handed him two $20 bills and said thank you very much. So I left there with all kinds of jars and extra lids and a nice Lash’s Bitters and a nice Buffalo Lithia mineral water bottle and a host of other stuff. Got a nice vintage scale that’s on point with the weight and a nice WW2 50-Cal. ammo box to boot. A successful day indeed.

Now it was the wife’s turn, so we ventured up to another sale and along the way we saw another sale at a vacant car dealership parking lot. Not much to spark her interest but …

There on the table was a 4-gallon Robinson Ransbottom whiskey jug. Of course, I had to ask: “How much for the jug?”

The woman’s reply, $30. I snatched it up and said, “Have a good day.”

On to the next sale. Nothing for me, but the wife got a few things for her venture into jewelry sales and I saw a decent 1960s Topps baseball poster of a Cleveland IndiOctober 2021

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ans player. Not my team, and do not get worried Mr. Panella, as I’m a Yankee fan! I got it for my daughter’s boyfriend, who is a Cleveland fan, and that’s that.

I think we hit two or three more sales on the big loop back home and I never left my truck for those last few. I was content, to say the least. The wife got what she wanted and I made out like a bandit along with her help, too, so thank you, Annie, for being a team player and getting those hands dirty on my behalf!

A shout out to Jim Eifler for his input on my Paterson, N.J., picks at the Paramus, N.J., sale. Your expertise is well appreciated!

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Title Champions Pack a Punch!

Mike Beardsley poses with the monster fruit jar.

Like a new puppy it loves to jump up on your lap.

And in this corner…

Here is a follow-up to Mike’s great article in the September AB&GC

By Mike Beardsley

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ust east of Syracuse, N.Y., you can find Madison County, a lightly populated, mostly rural, but lovely slice of New York State. It’s an unlikely place to find two World Champions, but both boxing legend Carmen Basilio (Welterweight and Middleweight Champion of the World) and his nephew Billy Backus (Welterweight Champion of the World) called Madison County home. With the recent discovery of another true heavyweight, Madison County may be able to claim yet another World Champion.

In this corner, straight from a sale in southern Madison County and weighing in at a strapping 22 pounds, comes what may be one of the largest fruit jars ever made? This potential World Champion wax sealer stands 11 ¾ inches high and measures 15 ¼ inches across at the handles. As have so many heavyweights before him this newcomer has a big mouth: a full 7 ¾ inches in diameter.

And talk about capacity, this behemoth can handle 5 and ¼ gallons before getting full: an incredible 672 ounces.

I first spotted this promising rookie sitting quietly on a stool at an online

auction preview. The auctioneer’s online photo included no ruler or scale, and the description consisted of “brown glazed crock.” I was expecting to find yet another standard, two-quart stoneware wax sealer.

Nothing prepared me for the shock of meeting this oversized contender in person. I was sucker punched, and let out an audible gasp.

A successful bid enabled me to bring this big boy home. Like a new puppy he loves to jump up on your lap or settle into my favorite recliner. He’s not much for training, but then his credentials may have already landed him some titles in the Canning Hall of Fame without even lacing up the gloves. It appears that this jar has never been previously reported.

If so, it’s in good company.

Decades ago my Dad (Leigh Beardsley) and I discovered the first Griswold Fruit Jar (RB 1156), the first Mansfield “jar on a jar” (RB 1618), and my wife and I turned up the first X-Ray Fruit Jar (RB 3383). We were “scouts” for Alice Creswick, as it were. My Dad would have been pleased with this knockout.

Was this wax sealer actually made to be used or was it perhaps a “one-off” prepared as an advertising draw for a booth at a fair or an exposition? At the risk of being slugged, I’ll say that this bruiser appears to have more in common with a sewer pipe than with Grandma’s jelly jar, but, as they say, “It is what it is.”

Here’s the takeaway. If you enjoy online auctions try to attend the open house if at all possible. You just might find yourself surprised by a true contender!

r FYI: Dad was true to his word about not being a fruit jar collector. He never saved a single jar for himself. The really wonderful collection of colored Mason jars was a collection that I put together over the years. I had them here at my home in Chittenango for many years, then along came kids and other priorities, and I finally, reluctantly parted with the collection: black glass, a breath-taking teal, etc., etc. That collection and a F. A. Bunnell Empire jar from Syracuse were the only jars that I kept for myself.

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By John Panella and Joe Widman

GLADSTONE’S CELERY AND PEPSIN COMPOUND Was it a panacea, booze or medicine? The quicker pickerupper — an infallible boost for daily living.

It took a while to pick out a topic for this month’s column after finishing the Fahrney piece with Phil Edmonds. I wore out three pairs of sneakers walking the roads through “Fahrney Country” from our last column. Jacob Fahrney and his family were prolific, and encompassed an entangled web of history, culture, patent medicine and medical quackery. Confusing at times, the article was the type of inspiring piece of work and education that we bottle enthusiasts crave.

This month, I’m trying to keep it simple yet incorporate breakthrough new facts and conversation about another classic nostrum of the past, Gladstone’s Celery and Pepsin Compound. Many states were required to not sell it in apothecary druggist stock due its alcoholic content. It sold in saloons and liquor stores! Top shelf, in promotional label-under-glass back bar bottles in engraved dispensing displays.

Make no doubt about it, it carried a wallop, was a quick cure, sometimes toxic, but usually a slow, satisfying but later agonizing poison. It was very popular!

Funny how we seem to always gravitate to a “forbidden fruit.” It offered cheap thrills and safety from hangover. Prohibitionists had their doubts, but sly business management teams kept it in production long enough to create an empire. It was a money-making machine and created a new progeny of toadstool millionaires.

TOP: Label on reverse side of Gladstone bottle.

BOTTOM: Celery and Pepsin Compound ad.

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TOP ROW: Beautiful and rare label-underglass Gladstone's Celery and Pepsin bar back bottle; Attractive labeled Gladstone's Celery and Pepsin Compound bottle.

BOTTOM ROW: Interesting reverse label on the Gladstone's bar back bottle; Gladstone's trade card; Trade card for Celerina, a Gladstone's competitor, from the Rio Chemical Co., St. Louis.

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SOME OF GLADSTONE'S RIVALS IN THE CELERY COMPOOUND BUSINESS TOP ROW: A beautiful labeled Kola Celery and Pepsin Tonic bottle, Gordon Hugi collection; Close-up of a wonderful label for Compound Extract of Celery, from the Nelson, Baker & Co., Detroit, Mich.

BOTTOM ROW: Elixir Celery Compound was a competitor and one of many of that listed coca in their list of ingredients; Kalamazoo Celery and Sarsaparilla Compound was another competitor listing coca in their ingredients; Paine's Celery Compound was one of the largest rivals.

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By John Panella and Joe Widman

Oops, they forgot to mention Gladstone’s coca content. Due to not enough factual information recovery in my research, pictures and advertising will just have to tell the story here without lengthy historical connections. Just keeping it simple, and letting the pictures tell the story.

Labels on Bottle

Atlas Celery Phosphates Vitalizer, A Physical and Intellectual Tonic, labeled bottle with original box.

They say it all. It was just what the doctor ordered, just follow directions closely.

All ailments, digestive, physical, social, mental, psychological and imagined due your chemical imbalance will disappear, your blood will be pure again and it is guaranteed fast-acting — but beware of slight altered gait and blurry vision when leaving the saloon. These are just side effects of being completely cured! Constant use required, as stated on their trade cards and advertising. The label indicates it as being for the nerves, stomach and brain. It contained celery and pepsin, soda mint and “other ingredients prized in the medical world.”

It seems that either by being listed on the label or mixed in as an “extra ingredient” coca was in the picture. Gladstone manufactured this product, as well as: Dyspepsia Remedy, Ginger Brandy, Medicator (interesting name), and Stomach Bitters, each preserved in strong alcohol for freshness.

Close-up of the label on a Celerina bottle with absolutely toxic ingredients, put up by the Rio Chemical Co., New York, U.S.A.

Enforcement and control of medicinal ingredients in this era was virtually nonexistent. Fines were levied when Pure Food & Drug Act of 1906 regulations were violated and medicine companies always paid the ridiculously trivial fines or were just given a warning. Laissez-faire capitalism was in the mix here, with the government’s policy being mostly “hands off” toward the many violators.

It is a proven fact that the term “celery” more often than not referred to cocacontaining medicines and medically com-

pounded liquors. Many labeling examples exist where celery compounds list coca as the No. 1 ingredient. It became out of style when society started recognizing the bad side effects and mental and physical addiction to the drug cocaine. If they imbibed at all, temperance people who felt that these were medicinal compounds steered clear of anything with any narcotics on the label, such as alcohol, coca and its derivatives.

Directions for Use When taken with whiskey it “will partially, if not wholly, allay the evil effects.”

It is a delightful eye-opener but also the perfect night cap. “After over-eating, overdrinking, or a night out, it is the only thing to take. It is a perfect tonic and ideal dyspeptic remedy. In all disorders of the nervous system, brought about by over-work, mental strains, alcoholic and other excesses this remedy is without equal.” Using the product will “build up and strengthen the most shattered nervous system and weakest stomach.”

Another panacea, it was sold everywhere, It was easy to take and well worth the price. Another gem in the crown of America’s unrestricted patent medicines in the “Golden Age of Medicine.”

Need I Say More?

The captioned pictures and advertising will show you the truth about many celery elixers, I am confident! It was no coincidence that all of these concoctions contained coca.

Enjoy these visuals into our past, and embrace basic common sense. If these medicinal liquor/medicines were around today, it would knock our current energy drink industry right on its butt. That’s the rest of the story.

— John Panella October 2021

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