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Table of Contents FOHBC Officer Listing 2010-12.... 2 Itchn’ to get into something

By Martin Van Zant............................... 20 President’s Message....................... 3 Columbus Ohio Bottle Show and Sale Recent Finds................................... 4 by Alan DeMaison................................. 22

Baltimore Bottle Show

by Ferdinand Meyer V....................38 Legends of the Jar

By Bruce W. Schank...........................48

At Auction...................................... 5 Rain Didn’t Dampen Spirits of A California Cure Athens Show Attendees

By Eric McGuire............................. 58

By Sam Evans........................................ 24 Shards of Wisdom.......................... 6 Teenager Wants to Compile Stories on Who do I contact at the FOHBC?.. 7 How Collectors Got Started

by Bill Baab.................................................26 New Mexico Bottle Collecting History

By Jerry Simmons........................ 10 The Big Dig of 2011 (Part 2)

By Bill Baab.......................................... 28 Standardized” Coca-Cola Bottles: 40th S.C. Bottle Club Show Contour Bottles Last of the Breed

By Bill Porter............................... 14 Tops the Rest of Them

By Bill Baab.....................................................32

Classified Ads & Ad Rate Info......62 FOHBC Show-Biz Show Calendar Listings.........65 Membership Directory..................70 Membership Application....................72

A Quack Cure with Real Medicinal Old Bottles Exploding in Popularity Benefits

By Steve Ketcham . ............................... 34

By Dave Maryo............................ 17

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Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors

Business & News

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

FOHBC Officers 2010-2012

President: Gene Bradberry, PO Box 341062,

Memphis, TN 38184; phone: (901) 372-8428;

e-mail: Genebsa@comcast.net First Vice-President: Bob Ferraro, 515 Northridge Dr,

Boulder City, NV 89005; phone: (702) 293-3114;

e-mail: mayorferraro@aol.com.

Second Vice-President: Ferdinand Meyer V, 101 Crawford,

Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; phone: (713) 222-7979;

e-mail: fmeyer@fmgdesign.com.

Secretary: James Berry, 200 Fort Plain Watershed Rd, St. johnsonville, NY 13452; phone: (518) 568-5683; e-mail: jhberry10@yahoo.com Treasurer: Gary Beatty, 3068 Jolivette Rd.,

North Port, FL 34288; phone: (941) 276-1546;

e-mail: tropicalbreezes@verizon.net Historian: Richard Watson, 10 S Wendover Rd,

Medford, NJ 08055; phone: (856) 983-1364;

e-mail: crwatsonnj@verizon.net Editor: Martin Van Zant, 208 Urban St,

Danville, IN 46122; phone: (812) 841-9495;

e-mail: mdvanzant@yahoo.com.

Merchandising Director: office vacant Membership Director: Jim Bender, PO Box 162,

Sprakers, NY 12166; phone: (518) 673-8833;

e-mail: jim1@frontiernet.net Conventions Director: Tom Phillips, P.O. Box 240296, Memphis, TN 38119; phone: (901) 277-4225; e-mail: tomlisa.phillips@gmail.com

Business Manager: Alan DeMaison, 1605 Clipper Cove,

Painesville, OH 44077; phone: (H) (440) 358-1223,

(C) (440) 796-7539; e-mail: a.demaison@sbcglobal.net Director-at-Large: Carl Sturm, 88 Sweetbriar Branch,

Longwood, FL 32750; phone: (407) 332-7689;

e-mail: glassmancarl@sprintmail.com Director-at-Large: Sheldon Baugh, 252 W Valley Dr,

Russellville, KY 42276; phone: (270) 726-2712;

e-mail: shel6943@bellsouth.net Director-at-Large: John Pastor, PO Box 227,

New Hudson, MI 48165; phone: (248) 486-0530;

e-mail: jpastor@americanglassgallery.com Midwest Region Director: Randee Kaiser, 2400 CR 4030,

Holts Summit, MO 65043; phone: (573) 896-9052;

e-mail: pollypop47@yahoo.com Northeast Region Director: Ed Kuskie, 352 Pineview Dr,

Elizabeth, PA 15037; phone: (412) 405-9061;

e-mail: bottlewizard@comcast.net.

Southern Region Director: Jack Hewitt, 1765 Potomac Ct,

Lawrenceville, GA 30043; phone: (770) 856-6062,

e-mail: hewittja@bellsouth.net.

Western Region Director: Dave Maryo,

12634 Westway Ln, Victorville, CA 92392;

phone: (760) 617-5788; e-mail: dmaryo@verizon.net Public Relations Director: Pam Selenak, 156 S. Pepper St., Orange, CA 92868; phone: (714) 633-5775; e-mail: pselenak@yahoo.com

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Fohbc President’s Message Gene Bradberry

(901) 372-8428 Genebsa@comcast.net

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e have just finished the time allotted for nominations for officers of the Federation and as there are no new nominations for any of the offices other than those selected by the nominating committee, there will no contested offices. I would like to thank Tom Lines of Birmingham, Ala., for his service as chairman for this year’s nominating committee as well as those who served on the committee.

Even though there are no contested offices, you will still be receiving a ballot for the election and I would appreciate a prompt return of those ballots since we would like to give the new officers coming in for the next two year term a vote of confidence from the entire membership. I would really appreciate your cooperation in this matter. Thanks in advance for your involvement in YOUR FEDERATION! RENO ! RENO ! RENO ! JULY 27-29, 2012 is the next big event on the calendar of the Federation. EXPO 2012 is promising to be a really big and grand event. If you haven’t made your reservations, do so today. It will be a fun-filled weekend with lots of great seminars as well as 2 1/2 days of Bottle Show and a great awards banquet on Friday evening.

At the banquet we will honor two collectors who will be inducted into the Hall of Fame for 2012. A write up on the two recipients will follow in the issue of Bottle & Extras following the convention. Go to the FOHBC website at FOHBC.ORG for convention information and download of the schedules and reservation forms. OR, contact Marty Hall at 1-775-852-6045 or 1-775-722-6065. I was at the National Show there in 2006 and it was a really great show. This one promises to be even greater !

Due to the fact that the Hall of Fame plaques and books have become very cumbersome to pack around to conventions, we are putting them on a DVD with a voice over explaining each recipient’s induction. This will be shown for the first time at the convention in RENO ! Don’t miss it ! It will be shown at the show during the convention.

I am having a new page added to the Bottles & Extras

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this month entitled, WHO DO I CONTACT ? to give you a quick look at where to go for Federation services. I hope this will make it a little easier for you to find things that are offered by the Federation for its membership.

Our NATIONAL CONVENTION FOR 2013 is set and, as the Northeast Region is hosting it, the selection has been made and the location is Manchester, New Hampshire for July 20-21, 2013. More details to come after the convention in RENO! We are making a concerted effort to set the convention sites out three to four years and we are currently working on the selection for 2014 as it will rotate to the Midwest Region for that year. The 2015 convention then rotates to the Southern Region. And of course the 2016 will again be the EXPO 2016 and that is open to any region. These notes are to just to give you a head’s up on the convention schedule. Thanks to our Conventions Director, Tom Phillips, for all of his efforts in securing the bids for the conventions and working with the host clubs in doing so. It is really appreciated. Cooperation is what makes things come together.

Clubs are encouraged to put in bids to host the NationalConvention as well as the EXPOs and working together we can have some really great shows. A letter is sent out to ALL clubs within a region when the event is coming your way by the conventions director and we encourage ALL clubs to participate. For information of what is required to host one of these events, contact our conventions director and he will send you the info for your consideration.

This month’s message is rather lengthy but I will close with this.

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” A quote from the great Mark Twain.

As always, “Let’s Keep The Fun In Bottle Collecting”.

Gene Bradberry, President, FOHBC

Have something to share, tell us about it? Have you been out finding some treasures? Keep us informed, write to: mdvanzant@yahoo.com or Martin Van Zant,208 Urban St., Danville Ind. 46122

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Recent Finds Pride of the Farm Factory in New York

Ohio Firm Used Stoneware Bottles

A firm called Naider & Baird began making tomato puree in Red Bank, N.J. One of the company’s salesmen, Edward Pritchett, in 1878 began experimenting with making ketchup from the puree.

When Naider and Baird failed, Pritchard opened a factory in New York, selling “Pride of the Farm Tomato Catsup” and “Eddy’s Brand” catsup.

Most of the information comes from the book, “Pure Ketchup, a history of America’s national condiment with recipes,” by Pride of the Farm Tomato Andrew F. Smith, University Catsup comes in an attractive of South Carolina Press, container (Photo by Bea Baab) 1996.

The “Pride of the Farm Tomato Catsup”was sold in 9.5inch aquamarine bottles and later in clear glass containers.

Many of the embossed aqua bottles have emerged from a 19th-early 20th century landfill in Augusta, Georgia.

Others have been listed on eBay, with “Buy It Now” prices ranging from $8.99 to $37. – BILL BAAB

A quart stoneware bottle stenciled The Madeya Rubber & Mfg. Co. / Akron, Ohio / Vulcanizing Solution was dug in a late 19th-early 20th century landfill in Augusta, Georgia recently.

Internet sources could not come up with information on the firm, but Webster’s Dictionary noted that vulcanizing is a process in which “crude rubber is treated with sulfur or its compounds and then subjected to heat in order to make it nonplastic and increase its strength and Stonware quart contained a elasticity.” liquid used in one of the many One of Akron’s Akron industries dealing nicknames is “The Rubber with rubber products. (Photo Capital of the World.”

by Bea Baab) A request for information was made to the Summit County Historical Society, but has gone unanswered. BILL BAAB

Dear Editor: While at work, I was trying to refill a woodchuck hole.

As I started, I discovered the woodchuck had kicked out an old glass 3-in-One Oil bottle.

I would like to know the approximate age of this bottle.

The WD-40 company suggested your website.

It is glass (shaded green) 5-1/4 inches high. On one side is “THREE IN ONE,” the other side has THREE IN ONE OIL CO., and on the bottom is S.G. The mold seams are from corner to the opposite corner under the lip.

Like I said, I would like to know the approximate age of this bottle. The value, I am sure, is only a couple of bucks on the market.

Thanks for any help you might give.

Steve Richman Williamson, N.Y.

Dear Steve: According to online sources, in 1894, George W. Cole, of Asbury Park, N.J., compounded a mixture to accomplish three things in connection with the care and maintenance of a bicycle -- a lubricant, a rust preventive and a cleaner.

His formula resulted in the famous 3-IN-ONE OIL. In 1905-1910, the product is marketed in green glass bottles having the name 3-IN-ONE in raised letters and stoppered by corks. Metal screw caps made their appearance in 1910 whiler the rest of the bottle remained the same.

In 1936, the product was marketed in small tin cans.

So your bottle is from 26 to 31 years old, depending upon the closure. And, you’re right. There is little market value in the bottles, whose value is less than a couple of bucks.

Sudden thought: That woodchuck might have burrowed into a trash pile and more “goodies” may lie just beneath the surface.

In 1995, the WD-40 Company acquired worldwide control of the product.

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SOLD at auction SOLD THE VAN VLIET JAR of 1881 correct original glass lid and correct original 3-piece iron clamp assembly in good shape with very little rust, shiny with seed bubbles. No damage except for chipping around the ground mouth. Scarce side-wire version and a fine example $800.00

GII-55 EAGLE/Grape Cluster Flask Open Pontil. QUART, AQUAMARINE, Closure: sheared and fire-polished lip. Appearance: shiny exterior with light high-point wear, trace of deposit on the interior: no damage. McKearin: GII-55 $180.00

CROWLEYTOWN Original UNLINED Zinc Cap w/ VERTICAL LUGS Fits: correct lid for various Croweytown Mason jars and also fits most standard Mason jars. Appearance: good untouched condition, has never been cleaned.

Condition: no damage, rare early vertical-lugged unlined Mason cap $385.00

Trade Mark LIGHTNING Quart LIME GREEN QUART, LIME GREEN, original matching color Lime Green glass lid and original wire clamp, seedy, whittly and sparkling glass. Normal nicking of the ground mouth Base: “PUTNAM 44” $550.00

HAMILTON & JONES Small Size 6-Inch WAX SEALER

Small size, measuring roughly 6-1/4 inches tall, glazed stoneware.

Closure: grooved ring wax sealer mouth finish. Condition: old shallow flake or scrape on the heel, late 1800’s. Scarce $365.00

HOOSIER JAR Original Glass Cap Standard Color: AQUAMARINE, Condition: nick on the top outer edge. Fits: HOOSIER JAR $186.00 Thanks to North American Glass and Greg Spurgeon for the use of the Auction Results, please visit his website at http://www.gregspurgeon.com or http:// www.hoosierjar.com/index.html

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Even a brief response from you would be deeply appreciated.

Sincerely, Kay Lambson kaylambson@mail.com Please forward to someone with knowledge of this bottle.

2012 Reno Expo Update As of March 13, 207 sales tables and 72 banquet tickets have been sold.

Now is a great time to get your contracts in and plan your trip if you haven’t signed up. May 4 is the deadline to get your advertisement in the souvenir program. Don’t miss the bottle event of the year!

2013 National Show Selection The 2013 FOHBC National Show location has been selected! Using a competitive bid process with the FOHBC member clubs in the Northeast region, the Merrimack Valley Bottle Club was chosen to host the National Show in Manchester, New Hampshire.

They will be assisted by the Little Rhody Bottle Club, New England Bottle Club, and Yankee Bottle Club.

FOHBC meetings and the banquet will be held Friday, July 19, 2013. Seminars, show set-up, and auction (if applicable) will be Saturday, July 20, 2013. The show will be open to the public on Sunday, July 21, 2013. Mike George and Maureen Crawford will be the show co-chairpersons. Contracts will be available on the FOHBC website July 20, 2012 Tom Phillips, Conventions Director

Friend, I dug a bottle out of the side of a canyon above Silverton Colorado in

1963, beautiful yellow amber (see through) and it fairly sparkled--no mars or blemishes. It was deeply embossed with the words: “Gun Wa’s Chinese Remedy” I returned home and wrote an article for “Desert Magazine” and mentioned that bottle, and I even drew a picture of it for that article.

They put the author down as Kay “Lamson” (on the cover no less) and I had always gone by the surname”Lambson.” Being partial to my name, that disappointed me, but I purchased a Desert Magazine in order to preserve the story for my posterity.

I later researched the bottle, the product, and the man who made and sold the “wonderful” product at medicine shows. His surname was Register, and he was a colorful character.

There is anoher interesting bottle that I found in 1962 or 63, high above Silverton, Colorado at a remote old mining site. It was a precarious trail we followed. The Lobdells, whom I was escorting (and driving) in their jeep called it a “Lady’s Leg”.

It was also a beautiful sparkling bottle, I believe it was green and was embossed with “Amaro de Felsina” and something else.

In your many and varied encounters with bottles, have you happened upon either of these bottles--or heard anything about them?

Can you so kind as to tell me anything about this bottle that I found while walking around in the Arizona desert?

On the bottom of the bottle it says: Federal Law Forbids Sale Or – Use Of This Bottle – The bottle also has on the bottom this information: M-87-G, D-134, 68 F 5 (the F is in a six sided symbol.

The bottle also seem to have glass stress marks in the shape of a swirl and is foggy.

I would like to know the date range of this bottle and the history of where it was made. Any help would be greatly appreciated !!!

Thank you – John Norma <4447njr@cox.net

Have something to share? Send in your shards to: Martin Van Zant

mdvanzant@yahoo.com

or 208 urban St. Danville, IN 46122

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Who do I contact at the FOHBC? Membership:

Business Manager - Alan DeMaison

Start a new club:

Membership Director - Jim Bender Attention Clubs! As a member club you are not only entitled to club insurance but you may place your entire show package for your show on the website as wellâ&#x20AC;Ś FOR FREE!

Federation Ribbons:

Secretary - Jim Berry

Club Membership:

Business Manager - Alan DeMaison or Membership Director - Jim Bender

Club Insurance:

Business Manager - Alan DeMaison

Website:

(show information, news for posting, updates): 2nd Vice President - Ferdinand Meyer V

Show Ads For Magazine:

(Bottles and Extras): Business Manager - Alan DeMaison

Hosting National Conventions:

Conventions Director - Tom Phillips

Slide Shows (Visual Material for Projection): Secretary - Jim Berry Writing Articles for Magazine:

(Bottles and Extras assistance): Bill Baab, 706.736.8097 or riverswamper@comcast.net, Martin Van Zant or mdvanzant@yahoo.com

Advertising in Magazine:

(Bottles and Extras): Business Manager - Alan DeMaison

Federation Contests:

Secretary - Jim Berry

Suggestions For Improving The FOHBC: President - Gene Bradberry

All of the above names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses can be found on the officers page in Bottles and Extras or on the FOHBC web site at FOHBC.org.

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27th Annual

ANTIQUE BOTTLE & ADVERTISING SHOW Memphis, Tennessee Agricenter International 7777 Walnut Grove Road Memphis, Tennessee 38120

Saturday, September 29, 2012 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Collectors from 25 States Early Admission Available

Quality Displays of Antique Bottles & Advertising Admission $5.00

Show Chairman

Gene Bradberry, P.O. Box 341062, Memphis, TN 38184 (901)372-8428

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New Mexico Bottle Collecting History

By Jerry Simmons

One of a series Any attempt to recapture the complete history of organized or semi organized bottle collecting in New Mexico is bound to have gaps, especially in the earlier years, due to the size of the state and the few who were involved early in the bobby.

This rendering of history is from my memory as early as 1964 when I became very interested in old western mining town history and the bottles/trash left behind. I was blessed to be living in a mining district as well as close to the farm and ranch homesteads in the area. These areas provided a lot of entertainment in the way of learning about the items found or dug.

I never really joined a club, but met a few of those who were involved in them. The following account will give the details, as best I know them at this time, of those individuals and groups that were aggressively hunting old bottles.

Mid to late 1950s: The National Park Service hired government archaeologists George Cattanach and Rex Wilson and assigned them to Fort Union National Monument to get it ready for public viewing. At least 1,500 bottles were uncovered during the 1956-58 excavations and I have cataloged and examined more than 1,400 of them.

Among those found were U.S.A. Hospital bottles, ginger beers, sodas, whiskeys, bitters, pepper sauces and other food containers.

Some years later, Wilson published a book, Bottles on the Western Frontier, and many of the bottles discovered were published in color on the book’s dust jacket.

It was this project that encouraged May Jones, of Nara Visa, N.M.., to begin her bottle work in the 1960s, some of which took her to Fort Union to converse with Wilson and see first hand the bottles that had been excavated. Her publication, Bottle Trail, got its start and many of her articles were published in Old Bottle Magazine. In 1961, Jones did bottle illustrations for Adele Reed’s Old Bottles and Ghost Towns.

Fort Union was established in 1851 as the guardian of the Santa Fe Trail. There were actually three different forts constructed close together. The second was built after the start of the Civil War in 1861. The third fort was constructed from 1862 to 1868. You can imagine the bottles used by the troops and officers during that period.

Other New Mexico pioneer collectors included Elsie Simmons, of Truth or Consequences; Alkie and Pat Hicks, of the Roswell area; Carl and Ruth Stegamen, of Santa Fe, and Mr. and Mrs. Blackburn, of Gallup, N.M. Simmons searched for bottles around the old Fort Craig area south of Socorro where she had dug some rare early New Mexico

Ft. Union, North of Las Vegas, NM

Here’s just a portion of Fort Union site

USA Hospital Bottles run gamut of colors

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L - R: Lediard’s Celebrated OK Plantaion Bitters in amber, unknown and unembossed cabin - type in center and another Lediard’s in olive amber all came from Fort Union Supply Depot. The one on the right is embossed ST. LOUIS and is unlisted in the Ring-Ham Bitters Bottles Book. (Photos courtesy of Jerry Simmons)

New Mexico’s oldest (1878) known amber ales embossed Wm Carl & Co./ Santa Fee (2 ees) / N.M., and found at Fort Union

Pineapple - Shaped bitters dug in Fort Union Privy

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bottles and some U.S.A. Hospital items. The Hickses collected from mostly the southern part of the state and used old post office material to locate old towns and dig them. Three good areas they worked were Fort Stanton, Capitan (Billy the Kid turf) and Carthage.

Fort Craig was established in 1854 and was one of the largest and most important of the frontier forts in the West. It was one of eight forts situated along the primary north-south road in the Rio Grande Valley. It played crucial roles in the Civil War and Indian campaigns. The Fort Craig National Historic Site is located about 35 miles south of Socorro.

The Stegamens had amassed a goodly number of Santa Fe bottles from the old city dump prior to its closure and were members of the only Santa Fe club or group that existed for a time in the 1960s. I heard numerous rumors of good collecting that had been and was continuing to be done in the Fort Wingate dump area near Gallup. In the early 1990s, Lynn Loomis, of Albuquerque, bought a lot of bottles from Mrs. Blackburn. Fort Wingate is located seven miles east of Gallup along present day Interstate 40.

A woman from the Wilcox, Ariz., area was collecting bottles from that area as well as southwest New Mexico. She collected a lot of bottles from the forts in these areas and had amassed a sizeable collection of New Mexico Hutchinson sodas and some drugstore bottles. The bottles were eventually bought by Sam Michaels, of Mesa, Ariz., who sold them to Keith Austin, of Las Cruces, N.M., who sold them to Johnnie Fletcher, of Mustang, Okla., who then sold them to Ken Malone, of Wichita Falls, Texas and L:ynn Loomis, of Albuquerque, bought them from Ken. The largest groups of New Mexico Hutchinson sodas are in the collections of Loomis and Zang Wood.

Other clubs that existed during the early years were based in Carlsbad (Cave City Bottle Club) and Albuquerque (Roadrunner Bottle Club. Newsletter: Beep-Beep!).

The Hickses were involved to some degree with the Roswell group. I only heard that the Albuquerque group got in some good digging in old dumps and at construction sites.

In 2002, my son, Philip, and I purchased a couple of nicely embossed New Mexico bottles from Mariano Sandoval, who had kept the bottles from a couple of front end loader scoops from the excavation for the Albuquerque Convention Center in the 1960s. He shared with us that he kept chasing out people who were digging bottles out of the area he and his crew were trying to excavate. He finally wised up and decided to take a couple of scoops out and set them aside where the diggers couldn’t get to them and later get the bottles out for himself.

He described the choice area where the bottles were found as the dimensions of a 40-foot single wide mobile home – obviously a dump site behind a group of businesses. Bottles dated from the 1880s to early 1890s.

Ardel Scartaccini, of Golden, N.M., southwest of Santa Fe, was finding and selling bottles and rocks in her sales shop across from Rincon Mercantile Store. I first saw and heard

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about the finding and selling of old bottles in the area from Ardel. Her husband, Gene, worked as the foreman for my dad’s farm and ranch.

Park Center, of Cerrillos, N.M., was visiting northern New Mexico villages and acquiring old bottles from attics. He could speak Spanish, which allowed him to converse freely with Hispanic residents of the communities visited.

My family (Gerald, Jessie and Jerry Simmons) began collecting and digging in 1964-65 and began to explore the mining towns and homesteads near the Santa Fe / Albuquerque areas. I purchased bottles from Park Center and met the Stegamens of Santa Fe. Moro Montoya, of Albuquerque, was collecting and digging bottles in the mid to late 1960s. Many of his bottles were sold to Lynn Loomis of Albuquerque in the early 1990s.

Very possibly the oldest known glass bottle found in the state – a “camel bottle” in teal green with a pontil – was found by Montoya in the town of Algadones, N.M. This bottle likely was brought into the area during the Spanish Conquistador period (16th-17th centuries) of New Mexico’s history.

Dee Brechiesen and Ray and Melba Scott did a lot of collecting of tokens via metal detectors and would also find bottles. I would trade tokens I had found to Dee for bottles he had found. I eventually sold my first collection to Ray and Melba in 1974. Both the Scotts and Dee had started to collect New Mexico Hutchinsons and Dee eventually accumulated 21 to 23 of those before he passed away. His Hutch collection was purchased from his son by Bob Gallegos, of Albuquerque, about 2005.

Gene Pfeifer, of Albuquerque, collected a lot of items, including bottles, from Fort Wingate and southwestern New Mexico military sites, but focused on World War I items.

Metal detecting was Gene’s main way to discover.artifacts.

The June 1971 issue of Old Bottle Magazine, then published by Ken and Shirley Asher out of Bend, Ore., listed bottle clubs as well as businesses that sold bottles. Flinn’s Coin and Stamp Shop in Albuquerque, owned by Van Johnson; the Bottle Trading Post in Carlsbad, Krol’s Rock City and Mobile Park in Deming, and the Bottle Shack in Gallup were the businesses listed.

Those clubs and businesses were nearly nonexistent by the late 1970s, early 1980s, as interest in bottle collecting waned.

A few people remain active in related areas, including coins, tokens and militaria. Moro Montoya continues to collect, along with a few others like Brecheisen, the Scotts and Gene Pfiefer. I continued to collect in the Socorro area while in college. During the 1980s, there were a few active collectors, like Larry Jones of Tijeras, N.M., and Nick Smadder of Albuquerque, but no active clubs.

In the 1990s, I became acquainted with Lynn Loomis and we talked about starting a club. In the spring of 1995, the New Mexico Historical Bottle Society (NMHBS) was officially organized. Out of a list of 50 people, 15 joined. The group was

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L - R: Earliest New Mexico hutchinson is embossed Wiegand vertically. Center blobtop indented on the each side of the top for a wire bail. It’s embossed Schidamantle / Denver, N. M. Hutinson on the right is embossed Scherer & Wiegand / Santa Fe / N.M.

Three sizes of U.S. Marine Hospital Service bottles

Fort Marcy - Santa Fe, N.M. The privy that was only 1/2 excavated.

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not local in membership, but statewide. None of the earlier bottle diggers or club members were involved, except for Dee Brecheisen and myself. Charter or early members included Loomis, myself, Zang Wood, Sam Henderson, Bill Tanner, Mike Parish, Tino Romero, Greg and Marcia Hoglin. More people from other New Mexico cities joined and the society now numbers 36 members and counting.

The NMHBS joined the Enchantment Insulator Club to sponsor the 10th annual bottle and insulator show in Albuquerque in September of 1997. Mike Dickman, who collects poisons, and Bill Lockhart, a master researcher, joined the club, which sponsors two or three digs per year for Archaeologists check out types of club members. A Christmas party at my house has become a insulators found at Fort marcy near Santa popular event where show and tell, bottle programs and lots Fe, N.M. Man at left holding threadless of food and talk were experienced. insulator. Two others in black glass join By 2001, the NMHBS remained the only bottle club aqua Boston Bottling Works in the drawer. in the state. I remained its president until the summer of 2008 when I took a professorship in Kansas. Greg and Marcia Hoglins, the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vice president and secretary, respectively, stepped in to fill the top offices. The bottle shows and digs continued. The club membership remains at 35, with three from Arizona and one in Colorado. I played host to the Christmas party in December of 2008.

During 2007-2008 and an off work season for myself, my son, Philip, and I volunteered our bottle expertise to the office of Contract Archaeology in Santa Fe. Our job was to identify and catalog the glass materials found in a recent excavation of a portion of the grounds of old Fort Marcy near Santa Fe. Fort Marcy was constructed in 1846 on top of a flatTwo -tone fine china spittoon was used at topped hill about 650 yards northeast of Satna Feâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plaza.

Fort Marcy.

The city of Santa Fe acquired the site on the hill in 1961, landscaping it and establishing a scenic overlook of the city.

After the job was completed, there had been 10,000 pieces of glass, including bottles, that had been examined, identified and cataloged.

Later during that time period, I went on to get permission for a re-look at the bottles excavated at Fort Union 60 miles east of Santa Fe. I wanted to recapture some of the excavated bottle location information that had been lost at the site in the 1950s. I identified and cataloged all bottles for the Fort personnel and presented them a nice final color picture document of my work and findings.

From 2009 on, the NMHBS continued to prosper under the leadership of the Hoglins. The club is sponsoring more digs and continues to play a key role in the Jerry Simmons posted interesting facts about Fort Marcy, Union. annual bottle-insulator show.

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Standardized” Coca-Cola Bottles: Contour Bottles Last of the Breed

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hefamouscontouror“Hobbleskirt” was not the first standardized Coke Bottle. In fact, it was the last.

In late July of 1899, Benjamin Franklin Thomas and Joseph Brown Whitehead had returned from Atlanta to Chattanooga, Tenn., with their contract to bottle CocaCola. The only reservation Coca-Cola’s Asa Candler had expressed was that they do nothing to harm its already priceless trade mark.

By late in 1899, the Chattanooga bottling plant was in operation. It was incorporated on Dec. 9. Interestingly, the nearby Chattanooga Glass Company (located just across the Tennessee River in Georgia) did not begin operating until 1901. So who made those first Coca-Cola bottles? No one seems to know.

The new partners have left us with no clue. They were too busy arguing with each other to worry about our interests. One of their principal disagreements was about the color of the new bottle. Thomas believed it should be amber while Whitehead preferred clear glass.

Soon they agreed to disagree – and split up. Whitehead divided a map of the country into two parts and Thomas chose his half: the territory within a 50-mile radius of Chattanooga and much of the east coast (except for New England, which did not bottle until 1916), and the west coast. Thomas, of course, encouraged his bottlers to use amber glass. Most did most of the time.

The crudest-looking Chattanooga amber bottles (and surely Thomas used them in his own plant) do not name the state and have a large “J” in a diamond on their bases. If this is indeed a maker’s mark, it is not listed in Toulouse’s classic Bottle Makers and Their Marks.

An early clear bottle from Chattanooga that also omits any mention of its state has a small “C” within a diamond on its base.

Could this clear bottle date to the earliest period before the breakup? Both these bottles, as well as many other clear and early bottles from such plants as Nashville, Tenn. (established 1902) and Birmingham, Ala. (established 1902), have the script CocaCola embossed on the heel, the lower-most area of the side of the bottle.

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a paper label that further identified their product. While such heel script bottles are undoubtedly very early in Tennessee and other Southern states like Georgia, they can be very late from such states as Rhode Island where one heel script bottle is dated as late as 1924. Of course, Rhode Island is in the New England territory and that was a special case, as we shall see later.

Meanwhile, Whitehead, financed by J.T. Lupton, moved to Atlanta and began bottling there in 1900. His earliest bottles (at least the earliest “looking” bottles) are the large letter PROPERTY OF crown top heel scripts from Atlanta, Gainesville (established 1905) and a few other Georgia cities. Many of these have a “C” within a diamond mark (similar to that from Chattanooga) on their bases. Could these be from an early, as yet unknown bottle maker? Or, for that matter, could they be Chattanooga Glass Company products?

(This mark is not listed by Toulouse).

These large letter bottles did not remain long in production, but along with other heel types they were certainly among the first “standardized” Coke bottles. Only a few more plants opened in 1901, among them Cincinnati and Norfolk, Va., but things soon got rolling.

Soon, a more modest middle script with more normal size letters appeared and is seen from nearly every eastern city which bottled before 1908, often with the city in a rectangular slug plate (which could be easily changed). These bottles are well designed and often very colorful. They are immensely popular with collectors.

It seems likely that the bottle manufacturers themselves first tried to standardize their bottles in order to stay competitive.

About 1906, the Root Glass Company (established November 1901), of Terre Haute, Ind., began producing a frontshoulder script bottle with the city’s or bottler’s name prominently displayed in a center oval slug plate. This attractive type is found dated as late as 1911 at perhaps 10 or 12 bottling plants in Illinois, Louisiana, Nebraska, New York and North Carolina. and perhaps others. It was also copied by many other bottle manufacturers.

By 1908, Root was making a strangelooking, bottom-heavy heel script bottle

with “TRADE MARK REGISTERED” at the front side shoulder and “THIS BOTTLE NEVER SOLD” at the rear city side. These are known to me from Columbus, Ga. (established 1902) and Columbus, Ohio (established 1905) in clear glass and in amber (one is dated 1912) from Portland, Ore. (established 1907).

These two Root types were apparently contemporary. The slug plate type was probably directed at those bottlers who claimed their bottles by requiring a deposit (usually 5 cents at that time), while the funny looking heel script type went to those who preferred to claim their bottles by appealing to the honesty of the consumer..

I don’t know how a label could have been attached to one of these oval slug plate bottles without obscuring the slug plate, but I believe it was done.

Finally, probably late in 1912, Seymour Hirsch, Coca-Cola’s ever-harried patent attorney, tackled the problem of standardization himself. He ordered that all future bottles bear the trade mark on both shoulders and the base.

So the shoulder-to-shoulder base script Coke bottle was born, and the Coke bottle was “standardized” at last, except, of course, for those many bottlers who preferred to keep their own types – and did! Only the hobbleskirt would solve this thorny problem once and for all. But even that wasn’t a complete solution. At least one plant (Greenville, S.C.) continued ordering a straight-sided bottle that advertised its Verner Springs, until at least as late as 1937!

Many other straight sides with Spenserian script Trade Marks were issued long after they should not have been. Some of these were just careless errors, as in the cases of Richfield, Utah, and Winona, Minn., both of which are dated in the 30s, and Columbia, Mo., in the late 1920s.

Others may have been simply continuations of earlier bottles such as Auburn, Maine, which may be found dated 1924 and 1928.

Springvale, Maine occurs with the “R” within a triangle on the base, a symbol for Reed Glass that supposedly was in use from 1927 or later. Generally, any script straightsided dated after 1925 is considered to be an error, but we try to be a little more lenient with New England, since it was a bit “out of the loop,” we might say.

Bottles and Extras Strangely, the Hutchinson bottles, which are undeniably an earlier type, never seem to precede the crown tops at any given plant. A recent small hoard of Jasper, Ala., Hutches occurred with a similarly small number of middle script crown tops.

Jasper, as well as Bessemer, did not even begin operations until 1907, by which time several hundred plants were busily filling all the crown top bottles they could buy.

The fact that Hutchinson bottles were banned by the then new Food and Drug Administration the year before seems to have been irrelevant in rural Alabama at least. The only other named city to issue a script Hutchinson Coke bottle is Birmingham, which began operation in 1902. Interestingly, their Root Glass Company Hutchinson is a number behind their crown top – indicating that it was a less important bottle – at least as far as Root was concerned. And with a shelf life of 10 days or less, one can easily imagine it would not have seen more than very specialized use.

Yet as late as 1902, Biedenharn was still ordering Hutches. Perhaps he had developed a following down in Vicksburg, Miss. But watch out – many of these high grade survivors so prized by collectors today were made by Root Glass – indicating they cannot possibly date from before November 1901 when Root began operations.

The “PROPERTY OF” Hutch has been attributed to Atlanta, but I’m not sure on what grounds, except perhaps the wording is the same as on those early Whitehead bottles.

The story of crown top manufacturers could not be told in an hour (or a day), even if it was well understood, which it is not.

There are many different named manufacturers, which are fairly straight forward, but there also are apparently a great many unnamed ones and they can make any real understanding difficult.

Maybe next year, one of you can tackle this problem. I recommend you start with a copy of Toulouse’s book.

Hobbleskirts arrived on the scene slowly. Apparently, they did not begin to become available until early in 1917. The root bottles are dated (all Root bottles from 1909 onward are), and a collector friend who looks for these has found several dated 1917 and 1919, and of course many later dates. But he has seen only a couple dated 1918, which indicates there may have been some early resistance to the newfangled thing. No bottle I have ever heard of is

May - June 2012 dated 1916 and a letter dated in the fall of that year on display at the (now defunct) Schmidt Museum in Elizabethtown, Ky., says, “The new bottle should be available by early spring.”

An odd situation developed in which Spartanburg, S.C., had hobbleskirts in 1917, but little Lake City, S.C., was still ordering straight-sides in 1920. The older bottles seem to have been much loved and saved. (This situation repeated itself in the early 1960s when many small plants like the one in Montross, Va., on the northern neck began hoarding any embossed Coke bottles that came through the line. Many of these had the Montross name on the base).

The last era of personalized Coke bottles was ending. I know I hated to see it go. I despised the white-letter Coke bottles, as I call them. The ones I remember had blank bases. I still don’t think much of those. But now many of the early white letter bottles (those few that still had city names) are very hard to locate in nice condition. Those dated before 1964 are from named bottlers, so they are real and not the meaningless “random” base plates invented to satisfy customer demand from 1965 on.

Of course, many late embossed bottles are tough, too, but not those from Montross, Va. So I believe the straight-sides were saved, if not hoarded, while the 1915s, still unloved, were left to circulate in the same way the white letter bottles were 50 years later.

The earliest hobbleskirts, other than Root’s, have no date or manufacturer’s marks.

Often they have very thick base plates and very often they are that pretty light blue color.

By order of the Coca-Cola Company dated July 23, 1919, manufacturers had to identify their bottles with a discrete mark and usually a date. But they were still thickbased and blue for a while. All bottles before 1925 are bubbly. In that year, glass makers learned to draw the batch from the center, rather than at the top of the mix. That put an end to most of the bubbles.

City names were officially required by an order dates May 13, 1918, and the wording of this order answers a question I have always had about this: why did they need to use city names this late? By then, surely no one cared whose bottles they used anyway. But Coca-Cola did! Here is what was said: The city and state of each bottling plant location must be shown on the bottom of each bottle “so that we could

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There are many blank-based 1915s.

One would expect these to be the earliest bottles, but in fact, they tend to be the later dates of the 1915 patent period. I don’t know why this is, or why blank base bottles are very rarely seen from the 1923 patent date period (1928-38).

There are many unusual hobbleskirts, but none more so than the primitive handfinished ones produced by the Laurens (S.C.) Glass Works until 1919. That was the year they finally got a fully automatic bottle machine. The Laurens bottles are almost always a pretty bluish color, but I have one in green and one (believe it or not) that’s half blue and half green!

Coca-Cola wanted its bottles to be a standard “Georgia” (or really a Terre Haute) green color. But many bottle makers produced only beautiful blue-colored glass.

In order to obtain the required green, they added metals like copper to their mix.

During World War II, copper was needed for the war effort (some of us still remember the steel pennies of 1943).

You will find that many, if not most, of the Patent “D” bottles dated from the war years. Those from the Chattanooga Glass Company and Laurens Glass Works are of a more bluish tint than earlier or later ones.

This also applied to bottles from western Owens-Illinois plants.

Lynchburg, Va. Glass Works had a neat gray-colored bottle that’s very hard to find with city names and virtually all were dated “20.” I have seen one 1919.

Pink bottles were supposed to be a thing of the past by the hobbleskirt period, but they occurred at Laurens Glass in 1925 on 1915s and again in 1928 on 1923s. Some of these are occasionally offered in a deep purple color that was artificially enhanced (“nuked.”)

There are a few light blue 1923 bottles.

Those I have seen are usually Chattanooga Glass Company products dated 1929.

Speaking of color, I want to say a word about the amber hobbleskirts that are suddenly appearing everywhere. A few experimental dark amber hobbleskirts were made in the early 1960s. They have no city names and they were never put into circulation. Those that appear on the market with city names are being produced by a Florida dealer who sells them for $3 each at bottle shows as curiosities.

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A Quack Cure with Real Medicinal Benefits

By Dave Maryo Radium Radia Liniment was manufactured by the Radium Radia Company of Los Angeles.

Robert E Morrison, a prominent lawyer and politician, formed the company in Prescott, Arizona by issuing 100,000 shares of stock valued at $1 million on March 20th, 1905. Fellow lawyer H. A. Seymour applied for the trademark of “Radium Radia” with the U.S. Patent Office, but the registration was denied. The Radium Radia Company continued to use the trade mark name, a decision the new business might later regret. An advertisement with the story of the liniment’s discovery was published in the March 5th, 1905 edition of the Pittsburgh Press.

The advertisement announced that a miracle-producing mixture which banished pain was available at Pittsburg drug stores. Other very effective advertisements included endorsements from famous athletes of the time. The New York Giants baseball team endorsed the product and implied that liniment helped them to win the 1905 championship by allowing their players to stay in the game after relieving pain from injuries they incurred on the field. Another ad suggested that the liniment helped wrestler Tom Jenkins win the American heavyweight championship the same year.

Even the label on the Radium Radia bottle was a clever attempt at promotion showing before and after images of a man who used the liniment. Before the man used the product, he is shown as weak, bent over and requiring support from his cane. After treatment, he is shown standing upright and walking without needing the cane to help him stand. And, of course, the label also stated that the liniment was “never known to fail.”

Radium Radia was only one of many “radium” cures that were very popular in the early portion of the 1900s. Radium

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was made famous by Pierre and Marie Curie on December 21, 1898 when they discovered this new element that had high levels of radioactivity.

Entrepreneurs around the world quickly found uses for this newly discovered scientific wonder. In the world of medicine, radioactive products were thought to be beneficial for anything from dandruff to sexual virility. Scientists and physicians claimed the radioactive products provided a cure for all diseases. Over time it was discovered that radium’s health effects with continued use were more detrimental than helpful. The radiation released by radium caused damage to tissue and bone and in many cases led to cancer and premature death.

Luckily, Radium Radia did not contain any radium as the name implied. In fact, the ingredients were actually beneficial in reducing pain. The main ingredients were capsicum and turpentine. Capsicum is the powdered fruit from pepper plants and has been used in herbal treatments for over 3,000 years by Native Americans. Tribes native to Arizona around the time of the discovery of this miracle liniment were known to have rubbed powdered Cayenne pepper on their joints to

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relieve symptoms of arthritis.

Radium Radia used capsicum infused in oil (turpentine) to increase the rate of absorption in the skin and tissues where it was applied. Capsicum contains salicylate compounds similar to aspirin we commonly use today for pain relief.

The liniment relieved pain by blocking a natural chemical inside the body that allows pain impulses through the nervous system. Similar products are still on the market today. Both Heet and Watkins Red Oil contain capsicum infused in oils.

So if the Radium Radia liniment was beneficial in relieving pain, why did the product disappear from the market around 1906? This Western medicine got caught in the crossfire between the quack cures and the Pure Food & Drug Act. The decision to keep the “snappy” Radium name was ultimately the reason for the liniment’s demise. Most state and government agencies found the product “misbranded” under the new law as it did not contain any radium as the name implied. As a result, the liniment was banned from the market while other medicinal products containing radium continued to be sold for another 50 years.

Robert Morrison seemed to keep his interest in miracle

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cures even after his liniment was banned. In 1909, he was the chairman of an entertainment committee that welcomed President Taft to Prescott. On greeting the president, he handed him a glass of Hassayampa water and explained the waterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legendary properties. As the legend is told, anyone drinking Hassayampa water from below the river crossing would have trouble ever telling the truth again. Those drinking the water from above the crossing could never again tell a lie. It is not known if the water â&#x20AC;&#x153;curedâ&#x20AC;? the president, but it did have a great affect on the people of Prescott who saw him drink it. The crowd roared with approval and welcomed him to their town.

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itchn’ to get into something...

By Martin Van Zant

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ow, what a weird winter this year. I bet you all feel the same. Here's a little digging story for you. It was Saturday, March 18, and my friend and I were looking for something to do. It was already late in the day, but we were still itchn' to get into something.

Richard called me about 11 and said.

"I’m coming over -- have something for us." I couldn’t think of anything, then I remembered there was a lot in town. The house had burned last year and they just tore the place down. The lot was a wreck, and we had a floating permission from the backhoe driver. :) I met Richard up the street, only to remember I didn’t have any tools.

The digging machine was in the shop and all my tools were in it. I said the heck with it, so off to the shop we went.

I work at a school with a automotive repair shop. I found a janitor and he let us in. We swooped up two shovels and two probes and off we went.

The Goods The lot was messy with an orange tarp around it. Perfect, I thought. I went to the middle of the lot and Richard went to the side or edge of the lot which was on the alley. I stuck the probe twice and said this is it. Wow! I never get that lucky. Richard probed a few more times. "Are you sure?" he asked. We opened it up and down we went. Within a few minutes, Richard found pieces of an Allen's Lung Balsam and it looked early. Now we were between two and three feet down. Then a brick wall appeared, weird because we thought it was a wood-walled privy.

Richard got a little quiet and when someone gets quiet there is something there. He said, "I think I have a flask."

Then he handed me up the pieces.

Ahhhh, man! It was a nice pint size aqua Pikes Peak with an eagle on the back.

This came about the four-foot level and white wood ash started to appear, a nice thick white layer. Then it was my turn.

I found a round tubular medicine with

Land W on the base and a broken piece of pottery. About the same time the brick ran out on one side. All of a sudden, the bottles go from dating to the 1860s to 1900s. I started pulling out slicks left and right. Then a Martin’s Stove Polish and a clear hair tonic from Chicago and New York. YUCKKKKK! Where did this stuff come from and where did my wall go? It was really black dirt and a trashy layer just cock full of glass.

Unembossed glass, of course.

All of a sudden we hear a “whatcha doin over there?” The neighbors found us and were getting curious. Next thing you know the neighbor come over to check us out. Then he goes and gets his wife, who’s having a birthday party, to check us out. While the husband was watching me pull up unembossed medicines, the wife leaves and I spot a fruit jar above me. I stick my hand up to dig it out. I thought I would wiggle it a tad to see if it felt whole. I didn’t notice the hole in the back of the jar. I stuck

Bottles and Extras my pinky right up in the jar and cut the living daylight out of it.

Then I hear the wife again and this time she comes back with a whole load of people. So hear I peel my glove off with blood just pouring out. I’m trying to be calm and kinda hold my hand so no one knows. I’m bleeding down the back of my pants, on my shoes and all over the place. I calmly looked at her and said, would you happen to have a BandAid. She laughed and said, "why?" Then I showed her and off she went.

Richard and I spent the next half hour explaining our hobby.Everyone wanted to know how we knew there were bottles in that spot. We had the whole yard to dig, and why did we pick that spot. We spent another few minutes explaining how we do things and off they went. We gave them a pile of slicks to take with them. We ended up getting three permissions by talking to them.

My injury wasn’t all that bad.

It was Richard's turn to get in. He went back to the good side and started digging out the rest of the brick liner.

He found a rectangular medicine with a hinge mold base, aqua in color. Nice and early. He said, "I think I got one."

Nope, it was a broken, and he handed up the iron pontiled base first. Next came a gnarly rolled lip to a 10-inch tall pickle jar. He finally handed up the rest of the jar. It was complete -- completely broken. Richard stood up and said, "I think it’s the bottom. So I told him to go towards the back wall. After about three minutes, he said something's weird here, you need to check it out.

Sure enough it started turning into a clay layer. Then I saw it, a clay sewer pipe. Damn, the side wall was gone.

How lucky did we get, we found a two-foot wide bricklined privy with both edge walls missing. We were able to dig just the middle of the oldest pit.

However, we still have the newer pit and I think there should be one more other than that. We filled it in and told the neighbors we’d be back. We didn’t get any photos of the pit but here are a few pics of the bottles. Enjoy.

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Columbus Ohio Bottle Show and Sale

by Alan DeMaison

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ice weather greeted bottle enthusiasts on Friday night for the hospitality room and Saturday for the Columbus Bottle Show and Sale. The Columbus Bottle Show has a reputation for a great hospitality room going back to when Adam Koch was chairman. Former FOHBC Directors Joe Hardin and Jamie Houdeshell have continued the tradition. About 50 to 60 bottle collectors enjoyed great conversation while renewing friendships at the Baymont on Friday night. Pizza was on the menu along with plenty of munchies. Conversation centered on everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest purchases, upcoming shows and the particularly nice February weather.

The Baymont accommodated the bottle people by opening for breakfast earlier than normal. They served a nice variety breakfast. Offerings included waffles, French toast, and lots of coffee.

Many ate early to gain that valuable advantage of being at the show when it officially opened for business.

At 7 AM the action was intense with the dealers from the 135 tables of bottle and 50 early admissions either setting up or searching for that special collectable. A good crowd greeted me as I unloaded my boxes and it appeared that they were all eager buyers. It is so exciting, unpacking the boxes as quickly as possible and anticipating my searching the show for that special item. I did see a nice violin bottle that I should have purchased, but I hesitated and it was sold. I ran through the show seeing a nice variety of bottles with something for everyone. Milk bottles filled the east end of the hall.

The hallway was filled with collectors gathered for the 9 am regular admission. That second rush filled the hall with potential buyers. A nice crowd of 300 spent the next few hours hunting the tables for great buys.

I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t remember the last show that

Co-chairmen Joe Hardin and Jamie Houdeshell

Terry Crislip and FOHBC Director Dick Watson

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had so many collectors with such full bags as they walked around the show.

Columbus has always been on the same weekend as the Scottâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Antique Show, a relationship that has benefited all the collectors. The dealers bring their bottles and go-withs expecting a good number of bottle collectors.

After the show, we are compelled to take an out of the way side trip to German Village in Columbus for a great dinner at Schmidtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sausage Haus and Restaurant. There is always an hour wait for a table, but worth the wait. Their German Autobahn Buffet is my choice for a great taste treat.

Save room for the desserts.

As always, for me, it is never about buying (but I do like to buy) or selling (and I do like to sell), but it is more about friendships. Networking with other bottle collectors is well worth the effort. They can be your eyes and ears to adding to your collection. It was at Norm Hecklers this fall that I gained information about a full bottle of Meadville Rye Whiskey located in Corry, PA. Spend the time to plan a trip to your local bottle show and find a local restaurant with food to die for, you will not be disappointed.

Elaine and Alan DeMaison from Painesville, Ohio

John Wolf and Adam Koch

John Fifer from Brunswick, Ohio

Ohio Bottle Club members Bob Smith, Dennis Peine, Jim Tyson

Dan Ling, Shelocta, Pa and Jim Frustier Weatherly, Pa

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Rain Didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Dampen Spirits of Athens Show Attendees

By Sam Evans

Rick Shepherd, of Watkinsville, Ga., shows off a nice selection of sodas and seltzers. (Photos courtesy of Jeff Weinberg)

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THENS, Ga. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; It takes more than rain to keep collectors of antique bottles from attending a show, especially since it was the first ever held in a city better known as home of the Georgia Bulldogs.

By the time the inaugural Athens Antique Bottle, Pottery and Collectibles Show and Sale had gotten under way at 8:30 a.m., last March 3, the rain had ceased. A couple of dozen dealers were having their offerings checked out by more than 100 collectors in Trumps Banquet Hall on South Milledge Avenue.

There were serious longtime collectors such as Athens resident Jeff Weinberg trading and collecting straight-sided script Coca-Colas, while others looked for early bottles and pottery, Civil War collectibles, folk art and Georgiana.

Folk artist Jim Corder, of Elberton, Ga., offered a selection of awesome bird houses.

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Glenn Cook, of Crawford, Ga., was able to acquire many painted label bottles for his collection, by trading some Carolina bottles he had brought to the show.

Other notable collectors in attendance included Bill Wrenn, John Wood, Steve Johnson, Rick Sheffield, Andy Tull, Richard Gianferrara and Brent Jones were buying, selling and trading sodas. Also coming to the show were notable collectors like Calvin Ferguson, of Thomson, Ga., and others from nearby Washington and Augusta.

It was a real pleasure for me to visit not only with collectors I knew, but also with folks who are new to the hobby of collecting bottles and/or pottery.

The show helped me to finally meet folks like Archie Huffstettler from North Carolina. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d only spoken to him on the phone prior to the show. He was looking for the elusive Athens 3-Centa bottle. I was able to add 15 new bottles to my collection. I collect Athens sodas of all types, as well as all of the Coca-Cola hobbleskirt bottles from Georgia towns that had them. Currently, I have over 150 Athens soda bottles and more than 400 different Georgia hobbleskirt Coke bottles, including all the variations and colors The show wrapped up Saturday afternoon with clear skies and smiling collectors on their way back home to add their new finds to their collections. It was a lot of fun and I hope you;ll join us n ext year for the second annual show.

(Sam Evans can be reached at www.DixieSoda.com)

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Sandy Gray, of Marietta, Ga., completes a sale during the inaugural Athens, Ga., show.

Veteran collector Bill Wrenn, who is known for his mini jug collection, included a show case of them in this display.

He lives in Watkinsville, Ga.

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Teenager Wants to Compile Stories on How Collectors Got Started

by Bill Baab

Fifteen-year-old Caleigh (pronounced Kaylee) Cella, who is a member of the Hudson Valley Bottle Club, wants to hear from collectors of antique bottles on how they got started in the hobby.

It started for her when she visited Ferncliff Forest in Rhinebeck, New York.

“My Dad and I decided to take a hike that wonderful day to the Ferncliff fire tower. I was really scared when we were climbing up and down the stairs.

“On our way back to the car, we saw some old house foundations so we decided to take a look. When we got over there, I saw some broken glass pieces. I went over to the corner where they were and started to dig, “I was digging for quite some time, or so I thought was a long time, probably around 5 minutes, and there I saw it. The Rieges California Perfume bottle. The first bottle I had ever found!

“I was so excited, I jumped up and ran over to my Dad while saying, ‘Dad, Dad, look at it!’ The big smile on his face amazed me even more.

“From then on, I’ve been into digging and collecting bottles.

“I am a former member of the Raleigh (N.C.) Bottle Club. I am so passionate about this hobby that I decided to write a book on it, not about the value or origin of the bottles or insulators, but stories behind the collectors on how they got started in this hobby.

“If you are interested in putting your story in this book, please don’t hesitate to send an e-mail to caleigh. cella@aol.com. Thanks.”

NOTE: The first collector to send in his story was Bill Baab, of Augusta, Georgia, who was inducted into the FOHBC Hall of Fame in 2011. He started collecting in 1969, more than 40 years before Caleigh was born.

Caleigh Cella and her father show off some recent finds. (Courtesy of Caleigh Cella)

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The Big Dig of 2011 (Part 2)

By Bill Baab

Left to right: Mike Newman, Bill Baab, Bob Riddick with Backhoe Bucket Challenge Trophies presented

by Baab. Each of the “honorees” was hit by the bucket during The Big Dig of 2011. (Taken Dec. 3, 2011) EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second and last part of the story of the dig of a lifetime for five collectors from the Augusta, Georgia area.

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his landfill is so extensive, it is likely that our adventures will continue through 2012. Since the dump sits on a hill, standing rain water really hasn’t been a problem.

Jerry Newton’s backhoe boasts an extended arm which allows the bucket to scrape the hard gray clay bottom of the dump. Depth averages between 10 and 20 feet.

Let’s continue the day-by-day digging account: SEPT. 3, 2011: Seven Augusta Chero-Colas, a like number of Dixie Carbonating Company crown tops, two Augusta Mint Colas and two aqua E. Sheehan Hutchinsons were among the prizes dug on this hot, sweltering day. A blobtop Cochran / Belfast round-bottomed ginger ale was joined by five aqua Augusta Bludwine slug plate bottles, three E. Sheehan crown tops and a Baldowski Bottling Works from Augusta.

A Frog Pond Chill & Fever Cure, an XXX Dandelion Bitters (it looked like a common pre-Prohibition amber flask until Mike Newman rubbed off the mud), along with emerald

green Dr. Thatcher’s and Piso’s Cure for Consumption were among the finds.

Five LANDs, a Willett Drug Company, C.T. Goetchius & Bro., a Gardelle, Matheny, Cabaniss and Hansberger’s Pharmacy were among the drug store bottles found.

Twenty-eight straight-sided, intact Augusta Coca-Colas and three Nashville, Tenn., amber straight-sides were joined by a Coca-Cola Soda Water. A round quart South Carolina Dispensary (SCD monogram) was unearthed.

Pottery finds included a killer “tobacco spit” glaze, round-shouldered jug of the Crawford County, Ga., type.

Bob Riddick scraped off what appeared to be a one-gallon nondescript stacker jug and was surprised to see W.F. Hahn / Trenton, S.C. impressed on one shoulder. A Lewis Miles stacker jug from Aiken County, S.C., was joined by three Thomas Hahn stackers and (surprise!) an intact Jackson & Phelan brick (circa 1880s-90s) from Augusta.

Sept. 11, 2011: Before the day was over, some of the guys were moaning that this dig was probably the worst we experienced. You be the judge. Here’s what we found: Two Augusta Ice & Beverage Company crown tops, five Augusta Chero-Colas, eight E. Sheehan crown tops, one Camilla (Ga.) Ice & Cold Storage Bottlers crown top (the second one

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Blobtop and Hutchinson sodas, S.C. Dispensary flasks, round quarts, occupied this table. Cobalt blobtops were embossed Quinan & Studer / 1888 / Savannah, GA. (Taken Dec, 3 2011)

of the dig), a straight-sided Pepsi-Cola from Asheville, N.C., and an aqua E. Sheehan Hutchinson.

A Simmons Liver Regulator from St. Louis was joined by a Foley’s Kidney and Bladder Cure in amber. Drug store bottles found were from Gardelle (2), LAND (3), Perrin’s, West End Pharmacy, Cabaniss and Lake Pharmacy.

Twenty-two straight-sided Augusta Cokes emerged, bringing the grand total to 263 for the dig so far. Three Augusta Brewing Co., Bottling Dept. crowns were joined by three aqua Robert Portner blob tops and one Portner blob top quart.

Whiskeys found included a Harvard Rye, a Wright & Taylor, Louisville, Ky., an amber Robert Steel Importer, and a Southern Distilling Co., bottle from Baltimore. A tall, emerald green, base-embossed Congress Water and a Bitterquelle were found.

Miscellaneous bottles included a Wright Brothers Pond Lily Wash, two amber poisons, an aqua Carter’s master ink quart, T.P. Marshall, Macon, Ga., two different variants of emerald green Palmer perfumes, two sample bottles of Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp Root Kidney Cure, the top of a milk glass hen on a nest, an Augusta Ice & Beverage Co., Imperial Chocolate Milk half-pint, a Newbro Herpicide – Kills the Dandruff Germ, a Sol Bear (figure of a bear) wine from Wilmington, N.C., and a porcelain Georgia license plate, badly rusted, probably from the 19-teens.

Ceramics included four Thomas Hahn-type jugs, two Chinese ginger jars, a mini jug (sans handle) stenciled Sweet Mash Corn, Atlantic Coast Distilling Co., Jacksonville, Fla., a mini jug with floral decorations (probably Oriental) and a round-shouldered jug of undetermined origin.

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A few of the more than 450 straight-sided Coca-Colas excavated. Amber ones at far end of table were from Nashville, Tenn(Taken Dec. 3, 2011)

Sept. 18, 2011: Pat Oliver reached down into the muck and pulled out what might be the dig’s best bottle – a Dixie Carbonating Company Hutchinson! Only one was known to exist (in the author’s collection). The company was chartered in 1905 so the “Hutch” was probably the earliest bottle used. There are two or three variations of crown tops that followed. Now, if only we can come up with a Dixie Carbonating Co., Pepsi-Cola in great condition. We’ve dug a damaged example of this ultra-rare bottle, so who knows?

So, here’s how we fared the rest of the day, which was cloudy and cool for a change: a clear Bludwine (in a circular slug plate) from Jacksonville, Fla., five E. Sheehan aqua Hutches, a like number of E. Sheehan crown tops, 12 Dixie Carbonating Co., crown tops, seven Augusta Chero-Colas including one with the early script lettering, an aqua Clinton Bottling Works Hutch and a cobalt Quinan & Studer / 1888 / Savannah soda with its top broken by the backhoe.

Two Frog Pond Chill & Fever Cures, a large Horsey’s Antidote for Malaria, and three Simmons Liver Regulators from Macon, Ga., were joined by Augusta drug store bottles from Matheny (2), LAND (3), C.T. Goetchius & Bro., Gardelle, C.H. Howard, King & Hubbard and Perrin’s.

Another amber Coke from Nashville, Tenn., was followed by 70 Augusta straight-sided aqua Cokes (bringing the total to 312 for the dig). A tall Hayner Distillers with three cities (Dayton, Ohio, St. Paul, Minn., and Atlanta) embossed on its side was the only whiskey found (other than a bunch of plain pre-Prohibition types which we don’t record). The lone mineral water found was an amber Harris Lithia Springs from Harris Springs, S.C.

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Ceramic decorated rolling pin, probably originated in Germany, surfaced during one of the digs.

Miscellaneous bottles found included a tall, clear bottle embossed Scalp Food, Cranitonic Hair Food, Cranitonic Hair Food Co., Paris, London and N.Y. A Walton’s Dairy pint and a pair of hock wines completed that category.

Mike Newman, who is a banker by trade, came up with a ceramic savings bank (alas, no money inside). It later was attributed to the South Carolina Pottery Company. Two Thomas Hahn stacker jugs from North Augusta, an E.C. Brown stacker (Atlanta area), a ceramic pitcher with pour spout stenciled Armour’s, were joined by a Miles Mills round-shouldered jug. Brown was listed as a potter in the 1900 census in the Howell’s Mill area of Atlanta.

Crier of the day (actually, loud sobs!) was the bottom portion of a pot attributed to Pottersville (near present day Edgefield, S.C.). Had it been whole, it probably would have been worth $10,000!

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ept. 25, 2011: It was another slow day of digging, with only five straight-sided Augusta Cokes, another amber one from Nashville, Tenn., but no rarities among the sodas dug.

Cabaniss Drug Co., bottles large and small, joined C.T. Goetchius & Bro., N.L. Willett and a sunken paneled T.G. Howard with TGH monogram, different from previous ones known. Unfortunately, it was cracked.

A quart Augusta Brewing Co., crown top was joined by a “short” Hutchinson beer and a Robert Portner aqua quart.

Best find of the day was an aqua strap-sided flask with the embossed features of President Grover Cleveland. It was manufactured in the 1890s by the Atlanta Glass Co. Miscellaneous finds included a honey amber cone ink embossed Carter’s and 1897, a miniature Duffy’s Malt Whiskey and a miniature Garrett’s Wine.

Three Chinese ginger jars, two Thomas Hahn-type stacker jugs, an ugly brown and white jug with an abnormally long

pour spout and a green-glazed stacker attributed to William F. Hahn of Trenton, S.C., were among ceramic items found.

A clay pipe also found its way to the surface.

Oct. 2, 2011: One of the exciting times in the lives of us diggers is when somebody hollers “Jug!” The ceramic creation is either inside the backhoe bucket, or has been spotted in the hole. If it’s the latter, one of us (not me!) either rides the bucket into the hole (if it’s 10 feet or more down), or jumps into the hole (if it’s shallow and safe enough to do so).

That was the scenario late Sunday afternoon when Pat Oliver probed a huge, green-glazed jug and then dug it out.

There was another one behind that one, but not as good. It wasn’t long ago when the sight of a Thomas Hahn stacker jug from North Augusta (1898-1906) generated some excitement. But so many have been dug that the sight of yet another generates groans and a few four-letter words (but not from me!).

In addition to three Hahns, a Chinese soy sauce pot and ginger jar came to light after more than 100 years, but what could have been the best find came out in fragments.

An Augusta merchant’s jug – pieces of it – were salvaged.

The top part said “Compliments of” and the bottom part said “1019 Broad St., Augusta, Ga.” The part with the name was a no-show. The author checked Augusta city directories from 1895 through 1903. John C. Scott, Furniture & Stoves, occupied 1019-21 during 1895-96. He had become a grocer by 1896-97. In 1898, Caple & Co., Grocers had taken over at 1019 and the business continued until 1903 when grocer T.P. Beale took over. He lasted just a year. If I had to pick the name that was on the jug, I’d have to go with Caple & Co., since it was in business longer than the rest.

Among the sodas found were four E. Sheehan crown tops, seven Dixie Carbonating Co., crowns, a W.C. Terrell, Sylvania, Ga., crown (a Terrell from Wadley, Ga. is in the author’s collection), a Star Bottling Works, Oxford, Pa.,

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Spittoon (front left), “thunder mug” amoung 130 pieces of pottery dug from mill supply dump. (photos by Bea Baab) (Taken Dec. 3, 2011) Hutchinson, an aqua Clinton Bottling Works blobtop, a clear E. Sheehan Bottler Hutchinson, a ten pin-shaped Hire’s Root Beer, a Baldowski Bottling Works and two Augusta straightsided Pepsi-Colas.

Six LANDS, a “From King’s Pharmacy,” Broad & 13th (a rare form with a lip chip), three Mathenys, a Parr’s Pharmacy, three Watson Drug Stores. two Gardelles. two C.T. Goetchius & Bro., a Cabaniss and a rare amber LAND were among drug store bottles found.

Twelve Augusta straight-sided Cokes joined the 312 already excavated. There may be fewer because I have discovered some damaged bottles among the ones I’ve been washing. Beers included Robert Portner, Alexandra, Va., quart and pint blobtops.

Two S.C. Dispensary half-pint flasks, one pint flask and a round quart, all with the SCD monogram, plus a Paul Jones Whiskey with applied seal were found.

Mineral waters included an amber S.A.W. (Saratoga Arondack Water) crown top and a clear Glenn Springs crown top.

Miscellaneous bottles included a small, honey amber bottle embossed Physician’s Sample / Not To Be Sold. A large Garton’s HP Sauce and a small sample of the same stuff joined an aqua A-1 Sauce bottle, a marble desktop ink well and two tops to cobalt Wyeth dose bottles.

Oct. 16, 2011: We never know what’s going to come out of the dump. This time, 10 ten pin-shaped beers or sodas embossed CARL H. SCHULTZ / C-P (embossed crown-like emblem) M-S / Pat. May 1, 1868 / NEW YORK were among the dig’s surprises.

Also found were a bottle embossed Pride of the Farm Tomato Catsup, a green gin with applied seal embossed

Av. NIESSEN, a Pompeian Massage Cream jar, two cobalt lattice-work POISON bottles and an Abner Royce Pure Fruit Flavors, Cleveland, Ohio bottle.

Three “As You Like It” horse radish jars, three Thomas Hahn-type Albany slip stacker jugs and a jar stenciled Homemade Brand Preserves / Manufactured by / H.A. Johnson Co. / Boston were among the ceramic finds.

The usual straight-sided Cokes (16), two ice blue, machine-made 1915 Cokes, a Glenn Springs Mineral Water, Glenn Springs, S.C., seven E. Sheehan aqua crown tops, five Dixie Carbonating Co., clear crowns, a straight-sided Augusta Pepsi and a clear E. Sheehan / Bottler / Augusta, Ga. Hutch were among the parade of bottles.

We had a slight delay when two of the backhoe’s tires went flat. But Jerry Newton, owner of J & R Contracting & Design in Harlem, Ga., brought in a dump truck with built-in compressor and within a short while the digging continued.

Oct. 23, 2011: Six straight-sided Augusta Pepsi-Cola headed the list of sodas found. Two Baldowski Bottling Works bottles from Augusta (story is, he turned down the Coca-Cola franchise in 1902 because he thought his drinks tasted better!) joined four E. Sheehan crown tops and another E. Sheehan / Bottler / Augusta, Ga. Hutchinson.

The first Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters was unearthed, coming just after I commented to Mike Newman: “I am surprised that we haven’t dug any bitters!” A tiny bottle embossed Dr. King’s New Life Pills was found, as was a Simmons’ Liver Regulator, this one from Philadelphia, joining others embossed Macon, Ga., and St. Louis. A Globe Medicine Co., Spartanburg, S.C., also was found.

Large and medium-sized Cabanisses, two LANDs, two

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40th S.C. Bottle Club Show Tops the Rest of Them

By Bill Baab

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OLUMBIA, S.C. – “The show was fantastic!” exclaimed June Lowry.

“We had a great time!”

“We” included husband Wayne and Pomeranian “Pepper.” The latter snoozed beneath the Lowrys’sales tables, which included the famous “Jar Doctor” bottle and jar cleaning apparatus, as well as a batch of fruit jars.

The couple and dog, who hail from Raymore, Mo., were set up at the 40th annual South Carolina Bottle Club Show and Sale last Feb. 17-18 for their first time, but it won’t be their last.

“We sold a lot of Jar Doctor stuff and June sold a bunch of fruit jars,” he said. “We were so busy, we didn’t have time to look around. The show folks were very accommodating, putting us where it was an easy in-and-out.

“Our first impressions recorded the fact that people were very friendly. The show was so good that I think we’ll do it again.”

Show Chairman Marty Vollmer said “everything went great!” While the aisles were full on Friday, the first

What is it? Ken Dixon, of Charleston, S.C., found this brass bird on a chain while metal detecting near his home.

Pottery collectors all talk over finds at the show. Left to right: Eric Nygard and Tony Carr Jr., both of North Augusta, S.C.; Tommy Gandy, Hephzibah, Ga. and Ben Garris, Lexington, S.C.

Reggie Lynch, of Forest, Va., relaxes between sales. He is a regular participant at S.C. Bottle Club Shows (Photos by Bea Baab)

day, “Saturday was really strong for both sales and the crowd. As a result, we will donate at least $4,000 to the Boys and Girls Club of the Midlands, The Sertoma Club will probably get around $1,500 or so from donations at the door and snack bar proceeds.”

Club member Eric Warren, of Lexington, S.C., “was impressed by a couple of things: No complaints abut anything came my way. Saturday was very busy. I looked up and it was after 12 o’clock and it was still jam-packed.

“All in all, this was one of the best shows we have had. Marty does a great job and we can only hope for shows like this in the future.”

Rare pieces of Southern pottery vied with dozens of South Carolina Dispensary bottles, including some

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scarce examples, scattered over 153 sales tables. There was something of interest for every collector, including coins, stamps, books and ephemera.

The show was advertised as

the 39th annual, but longtime club member Harvey Teal, of Columbia, said that was a mistake. He was among the attendees at the first show in 1973 so he should know.

June Lowery and Pomeranian pet Pepper guard a collection of fruit jars for sale.

Master potter Marvin Bailey, of Lancaster, S.C., sports an incredible array of clay creations.

Paul and Jeanie Chance, of Savannah, Ga., sell necklaces Jeanie makes of odd pieces of china and antique glass dug by bottle collectors.

Any guesses as to what types of bottles are being sold by Tim Adams of Wilkesboro, N.C.? You can name your poison.

Here’s a closeup of one of Jeanie Chance’s beautiful necklaces - the pendant came from antique bottle glass.

Butch Alley, of Douglas, Ga., has made a sale from his eclectic accumulation of glass and pottery.

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Old Bottles Exploding in Popularity

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By Steve Ketcham

had seen the jar before. Just weeks ago at a local auction house it was in a lot of old bottles and jars.

I did not stay for the auction, nor did I leave a bid.

There was nothing too exciting as far as I could see.

A couple of weeks later, I found a few bottles and jars from that very auction lot on sale at a local antique shop.

Now able to pick and choose, I selected four items and had them wrapped. I paid for my purchases, placed them in my car, and drove home.

One of the four pieces I bought was an amber, labeled jar of absorbent gauze with a threaded metal lid. A quick look at the base told me the jar was not machine made, and the lip was likely ground. Because the original paper seal still covered the lid, I did not open the jar. Good thing.

I took pictures of the jar and planned to offer it on e-Bay. As I began to write the description, I realized that I had misread the label. I thought it read “boric acid.” A black crayon had been used to write a date or a price on the bottle, and the writing covered part of the label text. When I looked closer, I realized the label indicated that the gauze inside was treated with “picric acid.”

Recalling the many e-Bay and US Postal Service rules on shipping hazardous items, I decided I had better read up on picric acid. Plus, I could use the information I found to write the e-Bay listing.

A web site belonging to the University of Texas, San Marcos, offered a full page devoted to picric acid. The first paragraph began, “Picric acid, or Trinitrophenol, is, by far, one of the more dangerous chemicals being used today.”

They had my attention.

Long story short, picric acid is a first cousin to TNT. Notice the word “nitro” embedded in the larger, scientific name trinitrophenol. To insure stability, it is supposed to be kept moist. I doubted the contents of my jar had seen moisture in decades. Furthermore, the salts that form when the acid is dry can react violently when disturbed. The site described a scenario where an explosion could occur when a metal lid is unscrewed and particles of the dried acid, now a salt, are scraped between the metal lid and the glass jar.

The article elaborated on this particular point. It stated that to open a bottle having residue salts in the lid could cause enough friction to ignite an explosion large enough to blow up a small laboratory.

Under the Intervention portion of the picric acid treatise, the following advice was offered: “If old or previously unaccounted for bottles of picric acid are discovered, the following steps should be taken.

First and foremost: DO NOT TOUCH THE BOTTLE!”

This is the label that attracted the writer to this jar of picric acid. At first, he thought it read, “boric acid.”

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(Their caps, not mine.)

Finally, the treatise stated that the best method of disposal was to leave it to the local bomb squad.

It was at this point that I carefully carried the jar out of the house and called the fire department. They declined my offer to make the volatile vessel their problem, suggesting I get in touch with the county hazardous waste folks. I discovered that the county’s hazardous waste web site lists picric acid, along with TNT, as an item it will not accept.

The next call was to my neighbor, a member of the city’s police auxiliary. He told me that our city worked with other suburbs when it came to all things explosive. A call to the police department provided the phone number of the nearest suburb with a bomb squad. When I called them, they told me not to touch the stuff and that they were on their way.

I invited the officers in to view my collection as a means of explaining just how a fellow with very little chemistry background ended up with this very volatile vessel. They enjoyed the visit but did not linger. After all, a 100-year-old jar of picric acid was sitting in a frag bag on my driveway. Their final words to me: “You won’t be seeing this bottle again.” I was OK with that.

Moments later the bottle of picric acid was on its way to be detonated.

Now, when friends ask how the bottle business is going, I can honestly say, “Business is booming!”

The paper seal over the lid on the picric acid jar.

The words, “DO NOT BREAK THE SEAL” turned out to be very good advice.

The embossed side of the picric acid jar.

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From Cornwall, Vermont, FOHBC From members, Cornwall, Vermont, Holly and Jeff Noordsy.

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New Hudson, Michigan couple John Pastor and Liz Maxbauer of American Glass Galleries.

Both are FOHBC members.

John is also a Board Member who proudly wears his Fed name badge. They are also the owners and publishers of Antique Bottle and Glass Collector magazine.

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May - June 2012 Bottles and Extras With my consultation firm, FMG Design, I travel often (I am sitting on a plane to Los Angeles now working on my laptop).

This is great because it allows me to build business appointments in and around bottle show weekends. This, of course, helps with expenses but it is also more efficient to group events in a certain part of the country. Saves on the wear and tear of air travel too.

For this show, Elizabeth my wife and Sr. Vice President at FMG…yes, I am her boss, but only at work; we switch hats at home) and I started out this year by flying from Houston to Norfolk, Virginia on the Wednesday before the Baltimore show. This is after we have carefully packed two large china barrels with antique bottles and advance-shipped to our hotel.

After the glass departure, we packed six more travel bags of clothes, workout gear, business material and all the electronic gadgets to run our little world. This part alone is exhausting! I also hand-carried a few beauties for the show

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Fig 3: B&O (Baltimore and Ohio) Railroad Museum roundhouse

Business and Pleasure After landing in Norfolk, we rented a car and drove to Newport News, Virginia for meetings early Thursday morning. We stayed at hotel #1 in Newport News and had a nice, quiet dinner at a local, favorite Philly cheesesteak dive. On Thursday afternoon, we drove to Williamsburg for more meetings, we visited a construction site and moved on to hotel #2 in Fairfax, Virginia, outside of Washington. This positioning was important because Elizabeth had a client meeting in Fairfax in the morning and also in downtown Washington on Friday afternoon. We were able to find a really nice, trendy seafood restaurant that Thursday evening and had some great seafood and wine.

I found myself alone Friday morning in the hotel in Fairfax with a goal of having my bottle collecting friends Jerry and Helen Forbes, who had just arrived in Baltimore the evening before from Carmel, California, pick me up at Penn Station in downtown Baltimore. This meant I had to find a subway, which was one block from the hotel, and take two connections to the majestic Union Station in Washington where I would connect on an Amtrak Acela to Baltimore. Elizabeth had taken our rental car for her Washington meetings and she fortunately kept our large luggage. Traveling light, I was able to sneak in a few conference calls and even do a post on my Peachridge Glass web site and update the FOHBC web site during this passage from Washington to Baltimore.

Fig 4: BaltimoreÕs Washington Monument Bottle - photo Chris Rowell

Jerry and Helen were a little late as they had trouble with their GPS, but when they did arrive at the train station they were hungry, so we went down to Camden Yards (home of the Baltimore Orioles and called the Ballpark that Forever Changed Baseball) and had lunch at a really great local lounge full of Oriole memorabilia and neighborhood color. Classic crab cakes were ordered and consumed. Coming to, in my opinion, the best baseball stadium architecturally in the country, was no accident. I wanted to show my friends this marvel that set the benchmark for many new stadiums and also to visit the adjacent Geppi’s Entertainment Museum. I simply love this place. Great old American toys from each decade in wood-paneled rooms, rare comic books, movie posters and enough memories to make you really stop and think of how it used to be when things were so simple growing up.

Fig 5: Maryland Crab Cake platter at By The Docks in Middle River

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Next on the agenda was the B&O (Baltimore and Ohio) Railroad Museum [see Fig: 3], which is one of the finest train museums in the country. Most of the famous equipment and locomotives are housed in their signature roundhouse.

Some of these pieces are pictured on classic Success To The Railroad [see Fig: 2] historical flasks. I also was able to take the Forbes by the famous old Bromo Seltzer tower (There used to be a cobalt blue bottle on top) and the Washington Monument at Mount Vernon Place [see Fig: 4]. This monument is pictured on a number of great bottles including the Corn For The World historical flasks and the famous figural that is owned by Baltimore collector, digger and historian Chris Rowell [see Fig: 4].

Travelling up the I-83 expressway to Towson, Maryland in Friday rush hour, bumper-to-bumper traffic allowed us to meet at 6:00 p.m. with incoming Pam Selenak (FOHBC Public Relations Director) from Orange, California and Bill Ham from Lakeport, California at hotel #3. As planned, Elizabeth was also just getting in from Washington. We were a bit tired but we still managed to have more crab cakes and a few Cadillac Margaritas which Jerry and I seem to like when we are together.

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9:00Elizabeth a.m. to 1:00 filled every minute of the bottles show up. the room was in order, conference line was set up and coffee also when the first ‘under the table’ and ‘under the radar’ allotted time. Elizabeth and I even arrived early to make sure hot. the These arewas theinthings 2nd Vice President does case show up. room order,a conference line was set upinand coffee It is bottles also frustrating because you have a ‘Dealers Only’ rule you hot. everThese wondered.

I did, however, get the extra task are the things a 2nd Vice President doesthis in case that prevented our wives from helping us (Jerry was my yearyou of chairing the meeting our President, It is also frustrating because you have a ‘Dealers Only’ rule ever wondered.

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Between us, this is odd because why would via conference from their Memphis and Boulder City locales helper) or other big name collectors from getting in the door berry and 1st Vice President, Bob Ferraro would participate people want to fly to the most famous and because best bottle show due via to conference travel conflicts.

All Memphis other board membersCity were set-up.

Between us, this is odd why would from their and Boulder locales and for miss the Saturday action?

It is kind of amusing to me,show present which was good news. people want to fly to the most famous and best bottle due to travel conflicts. All other board members were actually, as you see theaction? big fishIt with unmatched name and miss thedo Saturday is kind of amusing to me, present which was good news. tags actually, and the same name tag on 10 different people.

I am name a The meeting went great. It is so nice to see all of the board as you do see the big fish with unmatched geographically remote member of the Baltimore Bottle members rowing together and singing from the same sheet and the same name tag on 10 different people. I am a The meeting went great. It is so nice to see all of the board Club,tags and they certainly run member a tight ship model show, of music.

Membership is up and and singing many great things aresheet geographically remote of and the a Baltimore Bottle members rowing together from the same but wow, this is too much.

There was also the disapplanned for our membership base and the hobby in general.

Club, and they certainly run a tight ship andvery a model show, of music. Membership is up and many great things are pointing fact that the big time was dealers By the way, you canmembership read the meeting notesthe onhobby the FOHBC but wow, thismany is tooofmuch.

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May - June 2012 Bottles and Extras Makes my mouth water now. Some advice: Never order Maryland crab cakes from a menu when you are not in Maryland.

Of course, this is subjective, and I am biased being from Maryland, but I will flat out say that I love the crab cakes at The Most Incredible Sunday Ever

By The Docks in Middle River [see Fig: 5] and think they are possibly the best I have ever had. Most locals may have With repositioned major action moving to Sunday, much other ideas because there are just so many great places to get activity occurred from 6:30 to 8:00 a.m. prior to when the crab cakes in Maryland. By The Docks is about 15 minutes public was let in. Big time bottles were viewed outside in car from the bottle show and from the looks of the place and trunks, under the tables and in discrete areas hoping for wait staff, has been at the location for a long time. This some early sunlight. I am talking about a Smith’s Druid annual dinner has become a tradition after Saturday evening Bitters barrel in yellow, a gorgeous gasoline-colored OK when we shut down at dealer set-up around 8:00 p.m. This Plantation, pontiled scroll flasks that were driven in from year our group consisted of Adam and Phyllis Koch, Dick Columbus, Ohio, a half-pint Pittsburgh area, Charter/Oak Watson, Bill Ham, Pam Selenak, Jerry and Helen Forbes and historical flask [see Fig: 10] a Monongehela Rye Bitters that Elizabeth and myself. Like any Maryland crab cakes, no was just found, a killer Dr. Goodin’s Gentian Bitters in aqua, bread filler or other stuff, just good crab meat in a big patty, two Napoleon Cocktail Bitters banjos, a Traveller’s Bitters seared perfectly golden brown with the right amount of Old Bay seasoning.

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by Pam Selenak (Public Relations Director) who signed up quite a few new members. Our ranks are growing for the first time in years!

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May - June 2012 Bottles and Extras (sic), a Best Bitters in America, an incredible Figural Saluting Soldier [see: Fig: 9] and quite a few other sightings and transactions that I witnessed. Some heavy glass was moving around. This is the most exciting time. The zenith of the Baltimore Bottle Show and the moment I cherish the most.

This is when you really have to be on your toes.

It was interesting that some of my dealer friends were so busy selling that they missed some of the action. It is just a matter of being in the right place at the right time. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get me wrong, I was a bit luckier this year to see some great bottles, but in many cases I am in the wrong place at the wrong time. That is part of the game and part of the hunt that occurs at every level, in every area of the Baltimore Bottle Show. Positioning is so very important. Just like when that Kansas City Queen walked in the door at the St. Joseph, Missouri show recently. I cry when I think about that one!

Jim Berry (Secretary) also manned The Federation table. Jim specializes in marketing and has really great ideas to get the Federation new members and attention.

Fig 9: Figural Soldier Saluting - Ed & Kathy Gray table

Fig 10: Eagle/Charter Oak half pint historical flask

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We finished up Sunday evening having a quiet dinner at the We finished up Sunday evening having a quiet with dinner at the hotel with friends as we had yet more business clients with friends as Monday. we had yet with clients inhotel Baltimore all day A more flight business at 5:00 p.m. from in Baltimore all day Monday.

5:00 to p.m. from Baltimore to Houston deliveredAusflight backathome Peach Baltimore to Houston delivered backthat home to Peach Ridge late Sunday.

We saw our fiveusdogs I missed so Ridgeand lateweSunday.

We our saw bed, our five dogs that I missed much dived into which is always so greatso much and weindived into our is always so great after sleeping hotel beds.

Oh,bed, and which Elizabeth and I were up after sleeping in to hotel beds.

Oh, and Elizabeth I were the next morning head to downtown Houstonand to visit myup the next to head to downtown Houston to Truly, visit my office and morning staff. Everything reloads and starts again.

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[Editor’s Note: This article is a result of long time collector and author Bruce W. Schank reaching out to long time collector Jim O’Connor.] first met Jim way back at the Winter Muncie, Ind., show in 2008. Both he and his son John were walking the halls with a couple of outrageous colored jars in their hands. My first thoughts were, “Holy cow! One of those jars is exactly what I’d love to have.” I even offered what I believed was a fair price to no avail. Little did I know at that time that I would be doing these articles and that I would get the chance to go to Jim’s home and get his story. Of course, I’ve seen Jim at various Winter Muncie shows since then and the 2011 Mansfield, Ohio show and he always has great jars when I see him. Both Jim and his son John have fabulous fruit jar collections and between the both of them it’s all quite spectacular to behold.

When I arrived at Jim’s home, I didn’t know what to expect. It was a modest ranch in a modest neighborhood.

As I waited patiently for him, I noticed a beat up old red compact pulling up behind me and in the car was Jim. He was very congenial and seemed happy that I was there and I was happy to be there, too. When I entered his home I was nicely surprised by the first items I saw. Two nice one gallon jars, two rare half pint salesman sample jars and best of all, in the living room a shelf full of just about the best amber jars possible that you can assemble in any line-up. My head was already swimming with all of these outrageous fruit jars when he tells me his collection is really in the basement. I gulped and said okay, let me get a hold of myself and then we’ll go down stairs and take a look-see.

By the way, I was really impressed by his living room floor. It was made of antique bricks and was extremely appealing to the eyes. As a matter of fact, I was floored (pun intended) by the sheer amount of antiques in Jim’s home. He collects so many different things including weather vanes,

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lightning rod balls, insulators, sodas, beers, tins, bottle openers, phones, bells, toys, miniature whiskeys and more.

Jim has amassed an incredible amount of fantastic treasures from yesteryears and they all blew my mind. Every nook and cranny in his home has something neat and exciting to see.

All I know is I was thinking to myself that this man knows his stuff and he gets around. The sheer mass of the items he has everywhere is mind boggling.

As I walked down into his basement or should I say antique lair, I was astounded by what I saw. Stuff everywhere and anywhere and, yes, there were great jars in many cabinets strategically placed around the basement. It was really cool being down there. Everywhere I looked was a new discovery of some sort. Unfortunately I did not have the proper amount of time to digest all that I saw and all that I needed to do but I made the best of what time I did have.

Extremely rare half pint salesman sample fruit jars.

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Jim also grew up there and went to St. Ambrose College in Davenport, Iowa where he received his BA degree. Afterwards he went to the Quad City School of Jim’s living room floor was handmade with antique bricks Technology and then acquired a position at the Oakdale TB Sanatorium in Iowa City as the head of the Laboratory. He then went to the University of Iowa for graduate studies and received a Masters in Microbiology and Immunology. Then he took a position at the University of Iowa in the Pathology Dept. in the clinical Laboratory Science Program and remained there for 34 years before retiring in 2001.

According to Jim, he has been running around scouring Iowa since his retirement for anything and everything and I must say, after seeing the sheer amount of stuff he has he’s accomplished quite a lot.

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another jar besides that one. Jim would frequently go and take the clamp and lid off of the jar and he just thought it was really neat. Jim actually started collecting fruit jars when he was 30 years old, but that early experience with that pint amber Globe is what drew him in. He was mainly an insulator collector in 1968 but he thought they were becoming too expensive so he became interested in fruit jars and weather vanes and went crazy on them.

Little did he know what would become of insulator and fruit prices down the road? rom the beginning, Jim always liked colored 1858s and that’s what he started out collecting and although he also thinks Globes are the neatest looking jars, the 1858 colors just dazzle him. Then he started coming across tough jars in amber so he just naturally wanted to find more different types of jars in general that were amber in color and difficult to find.

And believe me; he has lots of gorgeous amber jars in his collection that would make anyone envious including yours truly. Amazingly, for most of Jim’s collecting life he was a “closet collector.” He never belonged to a Bottle Club but he did set up at a few different shows namely the Cedar Rapids Show. He told me he also collected anything that caught his fancy for many years.

He’s owned a lot of really good bottles in his day but He met Leon Shores way back in the 70s and bought a good many good jars from him including the Gem gallon, an all original Van Vliet quart and a few nicely colored 1858 quarts. For about five or six years whatever profit Jim would make at bottle shows, he would turn it immediately around and buy a good jar from Leon. He also knew John Christianson with whom he had some dealings. He did get a bottle magazine back then and he would see ads about different shows and always wanted to go. He told me that when the kids were young he really couldn’t afford hardly anything let alone drive eight hours to a show and stay overnight.

The two main shows Jim now attends are Muncie and Mansfield. Although he’s been coming to Muncie for the last 10 years, Jim told me he wished he had known about it sooner because that is where you see unbelievable

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jars and best of all meet really nice people. He’s made many friends due to Muncie.

What I find amazing is how Jim has picked up so many good jars over the years for practically nothing such as amber HG and quart N.C.L. Co jars for $60 and $50, respectively.

All of his N.C.L. jars came out of farm house auctions in the Wellman and Kalona areas. Jim would go there and stand all day long waiting for a particular jar to finally come up for sale which usually was at the end of the day. One day 35 years ago, Jim saw a ¼ pint National 1876 jar in someone’s house. He tried to buy it then, but the owner wouldn’t sell at that time. So he put his name in the jar and over the years stopped by many times inquiring about it. Finally, three years ago the owner decided he would sell it, only by this time he had spoken to so-called experts and knew what the jar was worth. Jim claimed he hemmed and hawed but realized that if he really wanted it he’d have to pay so he did. After all, according to Jim there are only four known examples including his jar? One must remember, it’s not always about price but about opportunity. drooled as Jim told me about the olive-amber pint 3L Balll Mason with amber swirls he bought one time for only $40. He said there were two of them there and his wife wouldn’t let him buy the second jar because he was spending too much money. Later defying his wife, Jim called the guy One of Jim’s many cabinets full of great colored jars. back, but the owner of the jar decided he wasn’t going to sell it any longer. He told Jim, “Nope, nope, I’m going to keep it. I kind of like it.” As he told me about the jar I gasped and started feeling ill thinking about that wonderful second jar and the unbelievable missed opportunity. Maybe that’s why I personally don’t involve my other half when it comes to buying jars because it would only put a chink in my style. The hobby is best off left up to the collector as far as I’m concerned. I’ve learned the hard way too that once an opportunity has passed you by it usually doesn’t materialize again.

Jim told me a long but very interesting A few of the many insulators in Jim’s collection. story about an amber N.C.L. midget he acquired many years ago. He was at the Rochester, Minnesota Flea Market (which is just down the road from the Mayo Clinic). Jim walked into a shop and saw a midget 1858 jar in a case. He couldn’t tell what it was so he asked the owner if she could open the case so he could look at the jar. The midget was amber and as he was looking at the jar he thought to himself, “This jar is going to turn out to be a repro midget.” Then he felt embossing on the back of the jar so he turned the jar around and low and behold N.C.L. embossed on the back. The owner had $300 on the jar and Jim asked what her best price was for the jar. The owner said she could take $250 for the jar and Jim said fine. As he was writing out the check he asked her if she happened Very nice Leader jars.

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to have anymore amber midget jars like this one. Well, she said, “I had one only 1 ½ hours ago but I sold it.” She told him that the guy who bought the jar didn’t even haggle and just started writing out a check and she thought, “Boy, I must have under sold that so that’s why I put $300 on this jar.” he ever curious person that he is, Jim asked if by chance she knew who the guy was and she said, “Yes, I have it right here on the bill of sale.” The buyer just happened to be the head person who ran the bottle show up in Minneapolis. By sheer luck, Jim and his son John were hooking up the next day to his home in what was a prearranged meeting. Jar Karma? So when they arrived there they asked him how the amber midget was that he bought yesterday.

The guy was stunned and asked how in the world they could know that. Jim told him how he bought one also from the same lady. He was very surprised and said, “What, did she have another one?” Jim told him she had this in the case and showed him the N.C.L. midget. You bought one only a 1 ½ before I got there and said, “You bought an N.C.L,. too.” He said, “No, I bought an amber 1858 with a peened out Hero Cross on the back.” He told Jim he’d much rather have the N.C.L. midget, but of course Jim wasn’t going to sell it. Yet before Jim and John left his home, John ended up buying that midget from him. Wow, opportunity at its best.

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lady at a flea market in Iowa City. Looking around her table he didn’t see anything he was interested in. Shortly after he left, a lady came by and happened to see a box behind a curtain by another table. She noticed there were some jars in the box and asked if they were for sale. The lady who owned the table said, “Well, I brought those for a man from Cedar Rapids who was interested in some jars I had, but if you’re interested in them, I’ll sell them to you.” So she brings the box to the table and there’s an amber N.C.L. midget sitting in the box and she sells it to the lady for a mere $40. Incredibly, that’s the amber midget Jim ended up buying. How Sweet It IS! Later on the guy who was promised the jars came by and asked to look at his jars especially the amber N.C.L. midget.

All I can say is Wow! I lusted for a few of these jars.

Nice colored lightning rod balls. Notice the old phone.

More of Jim’s many treasures in his Antique Lair.

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So she told him straight faced that she sold it. According to Jim (chuckling about it), the guy just absolutely lost it. He started ranting “That was my jar. You brought it down for me” and literally cursed the lady out and called her every name in the book. He also said, “You sold a jar for $40 that should be several thousands of dollars” and continued cursing the lady out. After his outrageous temper tantrum the lady told him she would never sell him another jar ever again. nd there’s yet another unbelievable twist to all of this. What no one knew was that that lady had another amber N.C.L. midget at home. What are the odds of that? Jim ended up getting that second amber N.C.L. midget from her about a year or so later when she was set up at the show in Minnesota. And even more incredible as it sounds, she sold Jim the jar for the same price as he bought the first jar for from the other lady.

There’s a valuable lesson to be learned here and it’s as follows: 1. You get more with honey than with vinegar. 2.

The early bird gets the worm. 3. Always look thoroughly when out exploring because it’s a possibility you can pass by a great opportunity simply due to oversight. 4. Always ask someone if they have other jars like the one you are buying when you find a good jar. 5. Luck or jar karma goes hand in hand with hard work, determination, beating the bushes and being knowledgeable.

I really enjoyed talking and visiting with Jim. He’s a good ole boy with a great sense of humor and he not only knows how to tell a good story, he has plenty of them to tell.

I will definitely visit with Jim the next time I find myself in Iowa and this time I’ll make sure I have more time to spend because it’s worth the time and effort.

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Unfortunately, the blue 1858 quart is stained but it looks nice

Jim holding the 1st jar he ever bought.

Two one gallon jars and a nice colored 1858 quart.

Some great colored Lightnings.

More nice colored Lightnings and Globes.

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A California Cure

By Eric McGuire

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t was gold, no doubt, that brought the young Englishborn Francis Lundy Such to California and, like so many others, he soon drifted from the Sierra Nevada mines back to the San Francisco Bay area.

But in 1850, at age 21, Such discovered a rich calcium carbonate deposit on the northwest flank of Mount Diablo in Contra Costa County. It wasn’t gold, but he recognized its possibilities in the production of lime for the rapidly expanding building trade in San Francisco.

For the next decade, Such focused his attention on the sale of lime, the primary ingredient in mortar and plaster. It has been said that he was the first to introduce local lime to San Francisco, but this cannot be substantiated.

A newspaper advertisement for Such’s Mt. Diablo lime that appeared in the San Francisco Bulletin beginning May 20, 1858. Apparently he had a working relationship with Isaac Davis and Albion Jordan, two partners who controlled the other major limestone deposit which was located south of San Francisco in Santa Cruz. That deposit was later owned by the extremely successful Henry Cowell.

Such married San Francisco resident Mrs. Rosina Sloan, a native of New York, in 1855 at Benicia, California (1). They continued their residence in Martinez, in Contra Costa County, an inland port town just opposite Benicia on the south side of Carquinez Strait, for the duration of the time that Such was involved with the Mount Diablo lime business.

In the same year of his marriage, he also became a naturalized citizen, apparently satisfied with making California his permanent home..On May 25, 1856, their son, Frank P. Such, was born, followed by Josephine in 1857 and William in December 1861.

Frank P. Such married Sarah Black in 1881, but the marriage was unsuccessful. He ultimately shot and killed himself at the Massasoit Hotel in Tacoma, Washington, a victim of alcoholism at age 33, on March 12, 1890. Josephine married Walter Turrell and moved to Tacoma where she became a prominent Women’s Christian Temperance Union writer (2).

Meanwhile, Frank L. Such and partner W.E. Whitney constructed a lime kiln that could produce 3,000 barrels of lime per month and apparently met with some success.(3).

His mining interests took another turn when he pioneered the development of the Cumberland Coal Mine in Nortonville within the Black Diamond Mining District on the flanks of Mount Diablo.

By the 1860s, he apparently divested himself of mining interests and took a completely different career direction. In 1866, Such was the operator of a dairy ranch in Noe Valley, the southernmost section of San Francisco. He was first in partnership with others, but by the mid 1870s, he operated the San Miguel Ranch Dairy by himself.

The first of two similarly styled ads that ran in the San Francisco Chronicle for a four month period in 1874. The trade mark device shown in the ad was not officially registered at the state or federal level.

There is no clear evidence of what induced Such to enter the patent medicine business about this time. Still maintaining his dairy, he advertised his CALIFORNIA HERB CURE FOR ASTHMA for a period of four months, from July to November of 1874. He placed ads in the San Francisco Chronicle, but no other marketing effort has been discovered to date – hardly a lesson learned from really successful medicine vendors who realized that success depended upon spending considerable sums on advertising.

One can only wonder if he was blinded by the obvious success of some medicine makers and thought it would be worth a try to break into that potentially lucrative market.

With the scarcity of bottles and apparent short duration of his active marketing efforts, it can be only conjectured that the attempt was a failure.

The demise of Such’s California cure may have been a matter of timing. Much of the West was populated by charlatans who preyed upon the ignorance of the uneducated

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populace by offering worthless 1900, His wife, Rosina, died in that city Sources: remedies for sale. By the mid 1870s, on June 3, 1901. William T. Such died 1. New York Times, May 17, 1855 several of the western states began in Berkeley on April 6, 1931. Although 2. San Francisco Chronicle, March 13, enacting laws to either regulate or married three times, he produced no 1890 prohibit such activities. It was no children. The only child of Francis Such 3. History if Contra Costa County, secret among residents that specific to produce children was Josephine. Two California, 1917, Page 451 regulations needed to be enforced. girls were born to her and Walter Turrell 4. Daly Alta California, Jan. 16, 1875 Preceding regulation in California, – Beatrice May and Hope.

5. After much debate, California the Nevada legislature proposed an act The bottles blown for Such’s finally passed a regulating law in April early in 1875 to rid its state of quacks medicine are unmistakably of San 1876. Section 12 of the law handled and vendors of worthless medicines. Francisco origin, produced by either the sale of medicine by those without The bill’s author noted: the San Francisco or Pacific glass proper medical license by stating, “any “The main point in the bill is to works. The lettering style on the bottle itinerant vendor of any drug, nostrum, prevent quacks from swindling the mold exhibited the curve leg of the ointment, or appliances of any kind, lame, halt and blind. A number of letter “R,” which was a familiar style intended for the treatment of disease professed medicos from San Francisco, of a local machinist. or injury, or who shall, by writing or now perambulating Nevada, will be Examples are so rare that it is printing, or any other method, publicly compelled to return to Winter quarters difficult to determine the potential for profess to cure or treat diseases, injury, at the Bay, if the bill becomes law.”(4) color variants. They likely were all or deformity, by any drug, nostrum, Could it be that Such predicted a blown in medium aqua-colored glass manipulation, or other expedient, shall short life in the medicine business and on a short production run. pay a license of one hundred dollars a gave it up, as many others did? He month, to be collected in the usual way.” had gained a solid reputation in the 6. San Francisco Chronicle, June 28, 1884 community with his dairy operations 7. San Francisco Bulletin, July 30, 1888. and perhaps he feared tarnishment. (5) Such continued to have an interest in the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay and in 1884 he became a founding member and director of the newly formed Alameda Water Company.

Its function was to primarily serve the city of Oakland; however, it actually became the main water source for the nearby city of Berkeley.

(6) In 1888, Such moved his Approximately 8.25 inches in height and embossed SUCH’S / CALIFORNIA CURE FOR ASTHMA / & LUNG DISEASES. Smooth base with a circular depression. dairy operation to Berkeley and transported his milk westward across the bay to San Francisco each day. (7) By this time, Such’s son, William Thomas Such, was managing the dairy which he continued to do after his farther’s death. The William T. Such Building at 2140 Oxford Street in Berkeley is historical landmark No. 43, as designated by the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission.

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Continued from page 31 Mathenys, one Howard, one The King Pharmacy, two Gardelles, one Watson and one Goetchius were among the drug store bottles found.

A half-pint S.C. Dispensary (monogram) and an unembossed pint dispensary were joined by a tall amber quart embossed Hollywood Whiskey.

Suppose Clark Gable drank from that one? Nahhhh! More like Buster Keaton.

A beautiful cobalt bottle embossed Reed & Carnrick, Jersey City, N.J., a Pride of the Farm Tomato Catsup, a small coaster stenciled SOUTHERN (railroad, perhaps?), a Corolla’s Hair Tonic from New York, a rare (one of a kind so far) Walton’s Dairy (Augusta) quart and a Glover’s Imperial Distemper Cure were among miscellaneous bottles found.

Ceramic objects included seven Hahn-type stackers, another browntopped white jar stenciled Homemade Brand Preserves / Manufactured by / H.A. Johnson Co., Boston, an AUGUSTA BLOCK brick , a Chinese soy sauce pot and tiger whiskey and a tall jar stamped The Madeya Rubber & Mfg. Co., Akron, Ohio, Vulcanizing Solution.

Bob Riddick, who’s been keeping up with the jugs, told me we now have 100.

Oct. 30, 2011: After I published a dairy history book a few weeks before this dig, a previously unknown quart embossed J.L. Gilchrist came out of the ground. No city name is on the round quart, but I knew its background. James Littleberry Gilchrist was the owner of Highland Heights Dairy off Berckmans Road in Augusta, just down from the famed Augusta National Golf Club. Family members interviewed a few years ago were vague about the possibility of embossed bottles. Now we all know of their existence.

A slug plate aqua Reynolds Bros., Washington, Ga., crown top (the clear ones are rare), a tiny milk glass bottle embossed Mme. Robbinaire, Atlanta, Ga., and a pontiled French perfume (some call it a wine tester) were among miscellaneous items dug.

Twelve clear Dixie Carbonating Company crown tops were joined by two Chero-Colas (one from Macon, Ga.), five E. Sheehan Hutchinsons, a Mint Cola and two Baldowski Bottling Works. Patent medicines included a

May - June 2012 Barry’s Tricopherous for the Hair, an aqua Dr. Cheney’s Expectorant from Covington, Ga., and a clear Dr. W.M. Pitts’ Carminative, Thomson, Geo. An aqua R.H. Land was joined by four clear LAND bottles from R.H.’s son, while other drugs store bottles were from Gardelle (2), Alexander (2), C.T. Goetchius & Bro. (2), C.T. Goetchius & Co., and Matheny.

Fifty-one straight-sided Cokes joined the 300-odd previously dug, bringing the total as of Nov. 1 to 432. Jugs found included a stacker stamped R.B., probably standing for Robert Boyles, of Union County, S.C., and a mini jug stenciled Compliments of / S.W. Brown Cor. / Savannah Road & Maybury. It is believed to be a Savannah merchant’s jug.

Nov. 6, 2011: A small size amber Horsey’s Antidote for Malaria (Augusta) was joined by a Lake View Pharmacy / Cor. Broad & Crawford Ave., Augusta, Ga., bottle, the first I’d seen. There are other Lake View bottle varieties.

Seven Dixie Carbonating Co., crowns, an aqua E. Sheehan Hutchinson and aqua E. Sheehan crown top emerged, along with a Sparta, Ga., Chero-Cola.

Another amber Nashville, Tenn., straightsided Coke was joined by 30 Augusta straight-sides. We now have dug 462 straight-sided Cokes, most from Augusta.

An amber Robert Portner blobtop, a clear Portner crown top,, an aqua Augusta Brewing Co., Bottling Dept., and an aqua quart Augusta Brewing Co., crown top were among the beers found. A clear round quart S.C. Dispensary was the lone whiskey found.

A Harris Springs (S.C.) Lithia Water was the only mineral water of the day. A bottle embossed Warranted Flask / Bianchi Wine Co. / 261 Main St. / Orange, N.J., a broken Mulberry, Fla., straight-sided Coke, two emerald green capers bottles, an emerald green Palmer perfume and an amber ribbed poison were among the miscellaneous items dug.

First ceramic piece to come out of the ground was a rolling pin with blue decorations. A small yellow glaze bowl marked Depose, a whole mini jug stenciled The O.L. Gregory Vinegar Co., Elko County, pure apple juice vinegar, Paducah, Ky., and a cobalt slip-decorated

Bottles and Extras (flowers) wax sealer storage jar were among other prizes. Cobalt slip-decorated pieces are rare in the South.

The backhoe’s thermostat malfunctioned, causing the machine to run hot, but the mechanical skills of owner Jerry Newton and Ben Garris soon got it running again. Garris is Bob Riddick’s friend who enjoys helping out on digs.

Nov. 13, 2011: Mike Newman was going to heave the little bottle back into the dirt pile, but had second thoughts.

He scraped off the mud from the Sauer’s Extract-type bottle and learned that it was a Burdashaw’s Diarrhoea & Dysentery Cure from Hartwell, Ga.! That was among the highlights of the day’s dig.

Bob Riddick owns a Burdashaw’s from McCormick, S.C., and I sold one to famed Ohio cure collector John Wolf for $75 years ago.

An Augusta Brewing Co., Bottling Dept. Pepsi-Cola and a beautiful cobalt Sharp & Dohme poison with skull and crossbones also were found. Sharp & Dohme was established in Baltimore in 1860 and issued a number of poison bottles of various sizes and shapes.

Sodas found included a damaged Honea Path, S.C., Bottling Works and a previously unknown Freestone Bottling Works from Sparta, Ga., also cracked.

Ceramic finds included a pitcher on which was scratched Jos. L. Freedman / Pure Vinegar / Paducah, Ky. It was likely manufactured by the Bauer Pottery Company of Paducah, which made most of the mini jugs found in the United States.

Speaking of mini jugs, one stenciled Jones Bros. & Co. / Manufacturers of / Cider & Vinegar / Louisville, Ky., also was found.

A round-shouldered jug with most of its glaze gone and a Thomas Hahn-type stacker jug joined a Chinese soy sauce pot and two ginger beers.

Thirteen straight-sided Augusta Cokes and two amber examples from Nashville, Tenn., were dug. That brings the straight-sided total to 475 for the dig.

Nov. 20, 2011: Another straight-sided Augusta Pepsi-Cola was joined by a clear flask embossed “Shoomaker’s Famous Resort, 1331 Pa. Ave., Washington, D.C.” A story on this resort will be published in a future issue of Bottles and Extras.

Other finds included an eight-sided

Bottles and Extras W. Edwards & Son / Embrocation for the / Hooping Cough, a McCormick & Co. Bee Brand three-sided cobalt poison, and a cobalt John Wyeth & Bro., dose bottle with cap.

Ceramic finds included a mini jug stenciled Compliments of / W.C. Williams, Gro. / Augusta, Ga. Missing its handle, it is an unlisted Augusta piece.

Nov. 26, 2011: An alligator crawled out of the muck in which it had been buried for more than a century. The small, heavily embossed River Swamp Chill & Fever Cure featuring the embossed gator was discovered by Mike Newman, who was intently watching the piles of bottles and mud being dumped by the backhoe bucket. Newman danced a little jig in celebration of the rare circa 1885 Augusta bottle. (After the dig, he performed a different kind of dance when his bootless feet encountered a bed of sand spurs!)

An Edenfield Bottling Works, Millen, Ga., joined 40 straight-sided Augusta Cokes. Millen is located 50 miles south of Augusta. A rare Aiken (S.C.) Vigor-Vim soda was joined by a Davis / Allendale, S..C., soda, a rare bottle, but it was cracked. Another deep cobalt Quinan & Studer / 1888 / Savannah, Ga. soda was found.

Drug store bottles included one embossed From King’s, Broad & 15th Sts., Augusta, Ga. C.T. Goetchius & Bro. (2), LAND (2), King & Hubbard, Hahn’s, Gardelle (2), Perrin & Land (2) and Alexander emerged.

Ceramic objects included a mini jug stenciled Jones Bros. & Co. / Blue Grass Belle Vinegar / Louisville, Ky. Newman got everyone’s attention when the backhoe bucket grazed his head while he was out of sight of operator Jerry Newton in the 10-foot-deep hole. There was lots of blood, but the cut turned out to be superficial, happily.

Nov. 27, 2011: A beautiful alkaline green-glazed stacker attributed to William F. Hahn was found on just our second back-to-back dig, made possible by the Thanksgiving holidays.

Fifty-one straight-sided Cokes, a straight-sided Pepsi-Cola from Augusta, a rare Artesian Bottling Works, Warrenville, S.C. (with a chipped top), and a Crown Carbonating Co., Hamlet, N.C.. were

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A Horehound & Marshmallow, Old Time Cure for Coughs, Colds and Grippe, was found. It was one of several concoctions developed by druggist L.A. Gardelle during the last part of the 19th century. A Dr. Miles’ New Heart Cure was joined by a GFP for Women, made by the Gerstle Medicine Co., of Chattanooga, Tenn.

Miscellaneous finds included a White Stone Springs (S.C.) mineral water, a Sumter (S.C.) Bottling Works Hutchinson, a P.O. M. Co., souvenir miniature brick, a half-gallon Buffalo Lithia Water and an umembossed ink with pen rests on each side of the spout found by Pat Oliver during the cleanup..

Dec. 3, 2011: We conducted our first split of the finds, which included hundreds of straight-sided Cokes, dozens of Dixie Carbonating Co., crown tops, 130 pieces of pottery and many other bottles.

The author presented Mike Newman and Bob Riddick with Backhoe Bucket Challenge Trophies consisting of mounted yellow hard hats commemorating their heads’ collisions with the bucket earlier in the year. I also mandated that anyone digging in the hole while the backhoe is being operated must wear hard hats from here on out.

The author and his wife provided hamburgers cooked by property owner Mark Branum on a grill, soft drinks and a triple chocolate bundt (available from Sam’s) for dessert.

The picks went smoothly with each of the five team members getting their hearts’ desires in glass and pottery. Next split will take place in June 2012.

Dec. 17, 2011: Backhoe operator Jerry Newton couldn’t make it to this dig, but loaned his No. 2 backhoe. Pat Oliver hadn’t run such a machine for years, but did a great job, with Mike Newman and Bob Riddick on duty to pick up the goodies. I was there for a half-day, then had to leave.

Goodies included a Denmark, S.C. straight-sided Pepsi-Cola (rare), 16 straight-sided Augusta Cokes and a few other local sodas. Drug store bottles from Augusta’s Gardelle, Tessier’s, Hansberger’s, Goetchius (large size), Matheny’s, Land and Jas. P. Smith were

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A large amber patent medicine, Mystic Wine of Life from Bristol, Tenn., was joined by an Augusta Brewing Co. Hutch and a small Wyeth dose bottle.

Ceramic finds included four stacker jugs including one marked Hahn.

Meanwhile, Riddick and Newman started counting the dreaded BromoSeltzers and related little blue bottles that had been dug over the year. There were 481 small, 462 medium, 53 mediumlarge and just 14 large. Added to the total were 22 others that had been involved in a sale earlier in the year for a grand total of 1,032. There also were 158 BromoQuinine bottles.

I brought home one Bromo of each size. The rest will be disposed of through various outlets. I am told they sell well in antiques stores in the Charleston, S.C., area. Frankly, I wouldn’t give you 10 cents for any of them, although I well remember being thrilled by them when I first started digging more than 40 years ago.

Dec. 26, 2011: The last dig of the year started slowly, but wound up with a bang. Jerry Newton returned as backhoe operator, starting about 8:30 a.m., and winding up after dark. I don’t see how he does it. Sitting in that seat all day, except for a lunch break, would wear me out.

Twenty-nine straight-sided Cokes, all from Augusta, and one amber Coke from Nashville, Tenn. quickly filled up a box.

A Millirons Bottling Works from Macon, Ga., and a H.D. Smith from Tennille, Ga., represented the out-of-town crown tops.

Smith was known as “Soda Water Smith” in his tiny hometown in Washington County some 60-odd miles from Augusta.

A scarce E. Sheehan / Bottler / Hutchinson was among the sodas dug.

Two monogram (SCD) South Carolina Dispensaries were the only whiskeys dug.

A Bromo Seltzer advertising tile came out of the ground intact.

Six Hahn-type stacker jugs, a handled Prussian mineral water, an alkaline glazed chipped pitcher attributed to an Edgefield, S.C., pottery. and a mini jug (sans handle, top) stenciled Metropolitan Club / Freiberg & Kahn / Cincinnati were among ceramic finds.

Next year: The Big Dig Continues.

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*Consecutive issues with no changes FOR SALE: Mining artifacts for Digital Copy and or camera ready copy preferred but not required for display ads sale from blasting cap tins, miner’s candlesticks to ore cars and heavy ***** 50% Discount ***** iron items. Railroadians and Western Americana. Check out my eBay For FOHBC member clubs store and auction The Mine Shop c/o sanjuanslim. Steve Rush at (970) 249All ads must be paid for in advance 2309 or nevsmith@ridgwayco.net Make checks payable to FOHBC (Federation of historical Bottle Collectors) FOR SALE: Demijohns #1) olive Send Payment to: green & amber, ovoid, 22” tall, 1860Alan DeMaison, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077 80, applied lip, wobbly, near mint, Send AD copy and/or questions to: $200; #2) green, 3 piece mold, pontilled, Alan DeMaison, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077 ovoid, have host of thatch covering, 18” tall, near mint, $200; olive-green, more Ph:(h) 440-358-1223, (c) 440-796-7539 cylinder type, 3 piece mold, applied lip, e-mail: a.demaison@sbcglobel.net 22” tall, 1860-80, near mint, $265; tealgreen/blue, 18” tall, pontilled, almost AD Deadlines kidney shaped, huge applied lip,thick, near mint, $400; #5) green, 16” tall, 3 Issue Date Deadline piece mold, pontilled, embossed 11 ½ January/February November 1 symbol, ovoid, almost kidney shaped, January 1 near mint, $300. Will trade for bitters, March/April May/June March 1 pepper sauces or indian artifacts. Jan Boyer, P.O. Box 53, Wyoming, RI, July/August May 9 02898, (401) 539-2051, or boyerinri@ September/October July 5 yahoo.com November/December September 1

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Bottles and Extras FOR SALE: Home Bitters Saint Louis MO. This is a color that is very, very hard to come by. It is a yellow with a slight olive tone. It is darker in the top area and in the base area. It has indented panels and is an earlier variant. This bottle was dug several years ago and has never been cleaned, you could leave it as is or clean it and it would be sparkling mint and show off the true color. $475 obo. Theo Adams, 3728 Fair Oaks Dr., Granite City, IL 62040 or (618) 781-4806 FOR SALE: I HAVE 70 BOTTLES FOR SALE: 18 BLOBS, 36 HUTCH’S, 1 GRAVITATOR, 1 WILLIAM ROORBACH, 2 SIPHONS, 2 SPRING WATER, 6 MISCELLANEOUS, 4 FLASKS. $1800.00 AND I WILL SPLIT THE MAILING COSTS. SEND A SASE FOR THE LIST TO ZANG WOOD, 1612 CAMINO RIO, FARMINGTON, NM 87401. THANK YOU VETERANS. FOR SALE: I have a couple of Cassin’s Grape Brandy Bitters bottles in damaged condition. Both are the very rare variant 1 design with the deep inset panels. One is light golden amber, the other is dark amber. Call (530) 271-5757 anytime. Warren Friedrich, 16930 Charles Way, Grass Valley, CA 95949 or warrenls6@sbcglobal.net

wanted WANTED: Needed for an upcoming display. GVII-3 E.G. Booz’s Old Cabin Whiskey made by Whitney Glass Works, Glassboro, NJ. Straight roof. I’m looking for one that has some issues or small damage, but still displays well. This way I can keep my costs down. Please call, write or mail photos to David A. Hall, P.O. Box 761, Wilmington, CA 90748 at (310) 8346368, leave message WANTED: FLORIDA WATERS, also FloridaWatershapedperfumersandembossed Florida Water shaped with only a company name. Labeled only Florida Waters. (I plan on being at the Reno Expo if you are a seller please bring any you feel are rare) Please no common Murray & Lanman. Jim Mayfield jimandmem@Qnet.com or (760) 377-3245

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WANTED: Wisconsin antique bottles and stoneware. I collect bitters, whiskey, soda, beer, druggist, medicine, jars, or any other category with emphasis on applied lip, colored or better quality items. Contact Peter Maas at pmaas@ att.net or (414) 852-1500

any size from any state. Call (270) 5424347, ask for Warren

WANTED: Washington State advertising stoneware, crocks, jugs, bowls, and rolling pins. Also, mini jugs from other states. Mike Parris, 27433 Lofall Ct. N.W., Poulsbo, WA 98370 or mnparris@comcast.net

WANTED: Lacour’s Sarsapariphere Bitters or Cassin’s Grape Brandy Bitters in aqua coloration. Also seeking other early Western bitters bottles such as G.A. Simon’s Medicated Aromatic Bitters, Alex Von Humboldts Stomach Bitters, Dr. Boerhaaves Stomach Bitters.

Warren Friedrich 16930 Charles Way, Grass Valley, CA 95949 (530) 2715757 or warrenls6@sbcglobal.net

WANTED: ½ pint union flask with cannon on the back in colors other than aqua. Jim Bender (518) 673-8833 or jim1@frontiernet.net WANTED: Globe fruit jars with color swirls in the glass and anything with Southern California Packing Co., Los Angeles, CA. on it. Contact: John Swearingen at (805) 492-5036, leave message if no answer.

WANTED: Modoc Indian Bottles, any bottles with Modoc on them. Bill Reeves, P.O. Box 252, Cedarville, CA 96104 at (530) 279-6304 WANTED: Kansas bottles & stoneware, Otto Kuehne bottles, stoneware & advertising. Also seeking Dr. J. Fogworth embossed bottles & stoneware. Contact Mark Law at (785) 224-4836 or mlaw4@cox.net WANTED: Wisconsin postcards and Wisconsin beers. Contact Audrey Belter at (520) 868-5704 WANTED: Colorado embossed bottles from mining towns. Mining artifacts of all types wanted. Steve Rush at (970) 249-2309 or nevsmith@ridgwayco.net WANTED: 1861 Hostetters Almanac with pictures of Hostetter on the front cover in very good to mint condition.

Any Hostetter paper that I don’t have.

Iron pontil Hostetter’s Bitters Bottle in very good to mint condition. Douglas Shilson, 3308 – 32 Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55406-2015 or (612) 721-4165 or bittersdug@aol.com WANTED: Green River Whiskey jugs “The Whiskey Without a Headache”,

WANTED: College and Delaware milk bottles. Rowland Hearn, 10 Wordsworth Drive, Wilmington, DE 19808 or (302) 994-2036

WANTED: Old locks and keys. L.A. bottles in colors (unusual). Have bottles to sell or trade. Bob Hirsch, 10541 Bluefield Ave., Whittier, CA 90604 or (562) 941-6979 WANTED: Collections Wanted.

Recently retired from job, now a bottle dealer, buying bottles for resale. I’ll travel the eastern US from Texas to Tennessee to Mass to Ohio. Sodas and medicines preferred. Will buy other bottles but all must be priced right for resale. See me at Houston Bottle Show, July b14. Jay’s Emporium, P.O. Box 3642, Victoria, TX 77903 or jamast@ suddenlink.net or (361) 649-8221 WANTED: Minnesota early squat sodas and colored hutchinsons, also Minnesota strap side flasks, all colors.

Looking for Old Townsends and Old Townsend Sarsaparilla’s pontiled, all colors. James Haase, 43 Adams Blvd., Silver Bay, MN 55614 or (218) 2263060 WANTED: Pre-Prohibition, Baltimore blob top beer bottles and go-withs. Also looking for crockery beers and cone-top cans. Chuck Meyer, 1602 Pinnade Rd., Towson, MD 21286 or (410) 296-7991 or mdbldgpermits@comcast.net WANTED: The following bottles from Chicago: John A. Lomax- any color, size, shape. Also Nayeau Tonic, amber, round blob top. Contact: Ray Komorowski, (708) 848-7947 or komo8@att.net

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Membership Benefits

The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors cordially invites you to join a dedicated group of individuals and clubs who collect, study and display the treasured glass and ceramic gems of yesteryear.

The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors (FOHBC) is a non-profit organization supporting collectors of historical bottles, flasks, jars, and related items. The goal of the FOHBC is to promote the collection, study, preservation and display of historical bottles and related artifacts and to share this information with other collectors and individuals.

Federation membership is open to any individual or club interested in the enjoyment and study of antique bottles. The Federation publication, Bottles and Extras, is well known throughout the hobby world as the leading publication for those interested in bottles and “go-withs”. The magazine includes articles of historical interest, stories chronicling the hobby and the history of bottle collecting, digging stories, regional news, show reports, advertisements, show listings, and an auction directory. Bottles and Extras is truly the place to go when information is needed about this popular and growing hobby.

In addition to providing strength to a national/international organization devoted to the welfare of the hobby, your FOHBC membership benefits include: • A full year subscription the Federation’s official bi-monthly publication, Bottles and Extras • One free ad per yearly membership of 60 words for use for “wanted” items, trade offers, etc.

• Eligibility for a discount at FOHBC sponsored shows (National or EXPOs) towards “early admission” or dealer table rent • Access to a knowledge of the world of antique bottle collecting unavailable elsewhere • Contact information for clubs devoted to the study of historical bottles • A forum for your writings, articles, and editorials regarding the hobby • Participation in the nomination and selection of Federation members for the Honor Roll and Hall of Fame • Federation-sponsored writing, show poster, and newsletter-design contests • Free publication assistance for your book or manuscript • And more...

We encourage Affiliated Bottle Club memberships by offering these additional benefits to your group: • Display advertising in Bottles and Extras at an increased discount of 50% • Insertion of your bottle club show ad on the Federation website to increase your show’s exposure • Links to your club website free of charge, as well as assistance with the creation of your website • Free Federation ribbon for Most Educational Display at your show • Slide programs for use at your club meetings • Participation in Federation sponsored insurance program for your club show and any other club sponsored activities Finally…

We need your support! Our continued existence is dependent upon your participation as well as expanding our membership. The Federation is the only national organization devoted to the enjoyment, study, preservation, collection, and display of historical bottles.

The FOHBC welcomes individuals who would like to contribute by running for Board positions or by sharing their expertise and volunteering their talents in other areas of interest such as contributions to our publications, assistance with the Federation’s National and EXPO shows, or through membership promotion.

If you haven’t yet joined our organization, please do so and begin reaping the benefits. If you are already a member, please encourage your friends and fellow collectors to JOIN US!!

For more information, questions, or to join the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, please contact:

Alan DeMaison 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077 phone: (H) 440-358-1223, (C) 440-796-7539 e-mail: a.demaison@sbcglobal.net

or visit our home page on the web at www.FOHBC.org

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FOHBC Sho-Biz

Calendar of shows and related events FOHBC Sho-Biz is published in the interest of the hobby. Federation affiliated clubs are connotated with FOHBC logo.

Insulator shows (courtesy of Crown Jewels) are indicated with an insulator. Information on up-coming collecting events is welcome, but space is limited.

Please send at least three months in advance, including telephone number to: FOHBC Sho-Biz, C/O Alan DeMaison, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077 or e-mail: a.demaison@sbcglobal.net Show schedules are subject to change. Please call before traveling long distances.

All listings published here will also be published on the website: http://www.FOHBC.org

May 5 Gray, Tennessee The State of Franklin Antique Bottles & Collectibles Association announces the 14th Annual State of Franklin Antique Bottle & Collectibles Association Show & Sale, Farm and Home Building at the Appalachian Fairgrounds, Chapel Street, Gray, Tennessee 37615, NEW ONE DAY SHOW, Saturday 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, No Early Buyers, Set-up Saturday 7:00 am – 9:00 am, Free Admission, www.sfabca.com, Melissa Milner, Show Chairman, 230 Rock House Road, Johnson City, Tennessee 37601, Tele: 423.928.4445, mmilner12@chartertn.net May 6 Antioch, Illinois Antique Bottle Club of Northern Illinois 37th Annual Antiques, Bottles & Collectibles Show & Sale 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Antioch Senior Center, 817 Holbeck, Antioch, Illinois 60002.

Free Admission, Free Appraisals.

For information call John Puzzo at 815.338.7582 or Greg Schueneman at 847.623.7572 May 6 Brick, New Jersey Jersey Shore Bottle Club’s 40th Antique Bottles, Post Cards and Local Memorabilia Show and Sale, Brick Elks, 2491 Hooper Avenue, Brick, New Jersey 08723, Sunday, 06 May 2012, 8:30 am to 2:00 pm, No early admission, Set-up 7:00 am Sunday, Admission: $3.00, Contact: Monte Boshko, Show Chairman, 365 16th Avenue, Brick, New Jersey 08724, 732.887.2116, e-mail: mjb142@comcast.net

May 6 Utica, New York The Mohawk Valley Antique Bottle Club’s 18th Annual Antique Bottle Show and Sale, Sunday, 9:00 am – 2:30 pm at the Sons of Italy, 644 Bleecker Street, Utica, New York, Cost of admission: $3.00, Info & contracts: Peter Bleiberg, 7 White Pine Road, New Hartford, New York, Tele: 315.735.5430, Email: PMBleiberg@aol.com, website: mohawkvalleybottleclub.com May 11 & 12 Mansfield, Ohio The Ohio Bottle Club’s 34th Mansfield Antique Bottle & Advertising Show & Sale, (9:00 am – 2:00 pm), early buyers Friday 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm) at the Richland County Fairgrounds, Mansfield, Ohio, Info: Bill Koster, Tele: 330.690.2794 or Ohio Bottle Club, PO Box 585, Barberton, Ohio 44203, www.ohiobottleclub.com May 12 Ballston Spa, New York Annual Saratoga Bottle Show, Ballston Spa High School, 220 Ballston Avenue, Ballston Spa, New York 12020, Saturday, 9:30 am to 3:00 pm, No Early Admission, Set-up: Friday, 11 May, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm, Saturday, 12 May, 7:00 am, General Admission: $3.00, Children $1.00, National Bottle Museum, Contact: Roy Topka, Chairman, 76 Milton Avenue, Ballston Spa, New York 12020, Tele: 518-8857589, E-mail: nbottlemuseum@verizon. net, www.nationalbottlemuseum.org/ May 18 & 19 Columbia City, Indiana Columbia City, Indiana Insulator, Bottle & Antique Show at the Whitley County 4H Fairgrounds, 581 W. Squawbuck

Road, Just off of US 30 in Columbia City, Indiana and one mile South on Lincoln Way, Friday, 18 May, Dealer Set-up from noon to 3:00 pm, Show from 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Seminar from 7:00 to 8:00, Saturday, 19 May, Dealer set-up from 6:00 am to 9:00 am, Show from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, First 8 foot table is $25.00, additional tables $20.00. Display tables available, first come, first served. Contact: Chuck Dittmar: 260.485.7669, 5209 Forest Grove Drive, Fort Wayne, Indiana 46835 or Gene Hawkins: gene. hawkins@mchsi.com May 18 & 19 Kent, Washington The Washington Bottle and Collectors’ Association’s Annual Spring Antique Bottle, Insulator, Collectibles and Relics Show and Sale (New Location !!), Kent Commons, 525 4th Ave N., Kent Washington, Saturday 9:00 am to 3:00 pm Early admission: Friday 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm, Set up: Friday 11:00 am and Saturday 8:00 am, Admission: Early buyers Friday $5.00 – Free admission to the show Saturday. The Washington Bottle and Collectors’ Association, www. wbcaweb.org/, Contact: Niel Smith 206.783.0215 wbcaweb@gmail.com, Pete Hendricks 253.335.1732, Robin Harrison (Insulators) 206.522.2135 robin3250@comcast.net May 19 Coventry, Connecticut The Museum of Connecticut Glass, Bottle and Glass Show, Saturday, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm, early buyers 8:00 am, at the Museum of Connecticut Glass, Route 44 and North River Road, Coventry, Connecticut, Info: www. glassmuseum.org, Jan Ratushny, P.O.

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(More) Sho-Biz 242, Eastford, Connecticut 06242, Tele: 860.428.4585, email: janratushny@aol.com May 20 Hammonton, New Jersey The New Jersey Antique Bottle Club presents the 2nd Annual New Jersey Bottle Show at the Hammonton Volunteer Fire Company #2, 51 N. White Horse Pike, Hammonton, New Jersey 08037, Sunday, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, No early admission, 7:00 am set up, $3.00 admission, www. newjerseyantiquebottleclub.com, Paul DelGuercio, Show Chairman, 548 Spring Road, Hammonton, New Jersey 08037, Tele: 856.252.7730, paulhavoc@comcast.net

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May 20 Washington, Pennsylvania The Washington County Antique Bottle Club presents the 38th Annual Washington County Antique Bottle Show & Sale at the Alpine Star Lodge, 735 Jefferson Avenue, Washington, Pennsylvania 15312, Sunday 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, Set-up Sunday at 7:00 am, $3.00 admission, Attn: Russ Crupe, President/Show Chairman, 52 Cherry Road, Avella, Pennsylvania 15312, 412.298.783, heidirus@gmail.com0 May 24-27 Corning, New York The 3rd Annual Glassfest “A celebration of glass and the fire arts in Americas’s Crystal City”. This years festivities will include live glass making, a fine arts show on Market Street, live music, beer and wine tasting, an 8k run, Historic District walking tours and other events.

For more information go to www. glassfest.org May 31 - June 02 Grantville (Hershey), Pennsylvania The National Association of Milk Bottle Collectors (NAMBC), 32nd Annual Convention at the Holiday Inn,

Grantville (Hershey), Pennsylvania, at the junction of I-80 and I-81. Info: Penny Gottlieb, 18 Pond Place, Cos Cob Connecticut 06807, Tele: 203.869.8411. email: PennyGottlieb18@gmail.com, website: milkbottlecollectors.com June 1 & 2 Butte, Montana The Montana Bottle Collectors’ Association 11th Annual Antique Bottle, Insulator, Collectible & Advertising Show & Sale, (Saturday 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, early buyers Friday 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm), at the Butte Civic Center Annex, 1340 Harrison Avenue, Butte, Montana, Info: James Campiglia, Tele: 805.689.0125 or 406- 219- 3293, email: chipsbottles@bresnan.net June 2 San Diego, California San Diego 2012 Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show and Sale at the Al Bahr Shrine Temple, 5440 Kearny Mesa Road, San Diego, California 92111, Saturday, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Early admission, 8:00 am, Set up 7:30 am. Early Bird Admission: $10.00, General Admission: $2.00, San Diego Antique Bottle and Collectibles Club, www.sdbottleclub.org, Contact: Jim Walker, Tele: 858.490.9019, E-mail: jfw@internetter.com June 2 Raleigh, North Carolina 10th Annual Raleigh Bottle Club Show, North Carolina State Fairgrounds, 1025 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh, North Carolina 27607, Open to Public at 9:00 am, No Early Admission, Dealer Set-up: 7:00 am – 8:00 am, Admission $3.00, The Raleigh Bottle Club, Raleighbottleclub. org, Contact: Whitt Stallings, Show Chair, 4826 Brookhaven Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina 27612, Tele: 919.781.6339, E-mail: awhittstallings@ planetebay.net

June 9 Smyrna, Georgia 42nd Annual Atlanta Antique Bottle Show and Sale, Smyrna Community Center, 200 Village Green, Smyrna, Georgia 30080, Saturday 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, Early Admission: Saturday 6:00 am to 9:00 am, Set-up: Saturday 6:00 am to 9:00 am, Admission for show & early admission: $3.00 and $10.00 for early birds, Atlanta Bottle Club, Contact Name: Jack Hewitt, Co-Chairman, 1765 Potomac Court, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30043, 770.963.0220, email: Hewittja@bellsouth.net June 9 Aurora, Oregon The Oregon Bottle Association 2012 Summer Antique Bottle Show & Sale, American Legion Hall, 3rd and Main Streets, Aurora, Oregon, Saturday, 09 June, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Early admission, Friday afternoon, 08 June, 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm, Set-up: Friday, 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm, Saturday, 8:00 am to 9:00 am, Admission: Early bird $5.00, regular admission asks for a donation. Oregon Bottle Collectors Association, Contact: Jim or Julie Dennis, 541.467.2760, jmdennis@ hotmail.com July 7 Tulsa, Oklahoma The Tulsa Antiques and Bottle Club 35th Annual Bottle and 4th Annual Antique Advertising Show from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm at the Tulsa Flea Market in the Quik Trip Center at the Tulsa Fairgrounds, 21st Street and Yale Avenue, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Free admission, no early buyers. Dealer setup Friday, 06 July from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm and Saturday, 07 July from 6:00 am to 8:00 am. 150 show tables plus a 250 table flea market.

Contact Richard Carr (a bottle guy) at 918.687.4150 or 918.478.6119 or Henry Tankersley (an advertising guy) at 918.481.3820 or 918.663.3218

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(More) Sho-Biz July 7 & 8 Elsecar, Yorkshire England The 22nd UK Summer National Saturday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Sunday Show & Auction, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Auction 11:00 am. Elsecar Heritage Center, Nr Barnsley, S Yorks, S74 8HJ, England. Info: BBR 00441226 745156, email: sales@onlinebbr.com July 11 – 14 Muncie, Indiana Fruit Jar Show JAR-B-Q at the Signature Inn, 3400 N. Chadam Lane, Muncie Indiana. Free admission to roomhop-shopping, auction and seminars.

Open to the public. Hotel reservations: 765.284.4200, Show info: Jerry McCann, fjar@aol.com 773.777.0443 or Marianne Dow finbotclub@gmail. com 419.455.1112 Show website: finbotclub.blogspot.com July 14 Houston, Texas Houston Antique Bottles, Advertising and Collectibles Show and Sale at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 12801 Northwest Freeway, Houston, Texas 77040, Saturday, 8:30 am to 3:00 pm, Early admission: Friday, 6:00 -10:30 pm, Admission: Saturday -$2.00, Early admission: Friday – $10.00, Contact: Barbara J. Puckett, 907 W. Temple, Houston, Texas 77009, Tele: 713.862.1690 (H) 713.409.9940 (C), E-mail: bpuckett77009@yahoo.com July 21 Leadville, Colorado Antique Bottle Collectors of Colorado’s 8th Annual Show & Sale (9:00 am – 4:00 pm with setup at 6:00 am). $3 admission, at the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum Convention Center, 117 W 10th St, Leadville, Colorado, Jim and Barb Sundquist, 2861 Olympia Lane, Evergreen, Colorsado 80439, 303.674.4658

July 21 &22 Adamstown, Pennsylvania The 11th Annual Shupp’s Grove Bottle Festival, (Saturday & Sunday, 6:00 am to dusk, early buyers Friday 3:00 pm, at the famous “Shupp’s Grove’, 1686 Dry Tavern Road, Denver, Pennsylvania 17517, Info: Steve Guion, Tele: 717.626.5557, email: affinityinsurance@dejazzd.com July 27 – 29 Reno, Nevada (The Biggest Little City in the World) Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors presents EXPO 2012 Antique Bottle and Collectable Show at the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino, Reno, Nevada, Early Admission: Friday, 27 July 1:30 pm – 6:00 pm, Banquet: Friday, 27 July 7:00 pm, Dealer setup/Early admission: Saturday, 28 July, 7:00 am – 9:00 am, General Admission: Saturday, 28 July, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm, General Admission: Sunday, 29 July 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Marty Hall, Show Chairman, tele: 775.852.6045 or cell: 775.772.6065, rosemuley@charter. net, Visitor Information: Reno-Tahoe Visitors Center, 800.FOR.RENO, www.VisitRenoTahoe.com, Host Hotel: Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 East Second Street, Reno, Nevada, 89595, 800.425.9074, www.grandsierraresort. com, Download contract FOHBC July 27 – 29 Birmingham, Alabama The Alabama Bottle Collectors annual Birmingham Antique Bottle & Folk Pottery Show, Bessemer Civic Center , Friday, 27 July 2012 for Dealer Set-Up and Early Buyers (Early Buyers $10 per person) 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm. Dealer tables will be available again for $35 per 8-foot table. We will again serve a COMPLIMENTARY pizza buffet dinner Friday evening for our Dealers and Early Buyers. Saturday 28 July

2012, 8:00 am thru 3:00 pm, FREE Admission, Special Group Displays: Alabama Whiskey Bottles & Flasks plus Alabama Pottery, Contact: Tom Lines ALBottleCollectors@Hotmail. com or call 205.410.2191 July 28 Altoona, Iowa The Iowa Antique Botleers 43rd Annual Antique Bottle & Colectibles Show & Sale (9:00 am to 2:00 pm), at the Meadows Events Center, Prarie Meadows Racetrack & Casino (I-80 Exit 142), Altoona, Iowa, Info: Tom Southard, 2815 Druid Hill Drive, Des Moines, Iowa 50315, Tele: 515.490.9590 July 29 Coventry, Connecticut Southern Connecticut Antique Bottle and Glass Collectors Association 41st Annual Show, (9:00 am to 1:00 pm, early buyers 8:00 am), to be held outdoors at the Museum of Connecticut Glass, corner of Route 44 & North River Road, Coventry, Connecticut, Info: Lfranz465@hotmail.com, Contact: Bruce Mitchell, tele: 203.799.2570 August 12 – 19 Bouckville, New York Madison-Bouckville Antique Show, outdoor antiques, collectibles including two huge bottle tents. Over 2,000 dealers and vendors located on scenic Route 20, Bouckville, New York (see Antique Bottle and Glass Collector article, November, 2011) Info: Larry Fox 585.354.8072 or Jim Mitchell 813.684.2834.

August 18 Urbana, Ohio Third Urbana, Ohio Antique Bottle and Jar Show (9:30 am to 3:00 pm; dealer set-up, 8:00 am. NO EARLY ADMISSION), at the Champaign County Fairgrounds, 384 Park Avenue,

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(More) Sho-Biz Urbana, Ohio 43078. Antique bottles, fruit jars, flasks, inks, stoneware, milks, insulators, bitters, advertising, tabletop antiques and more. The Urbana Paper and Advertising Show will be in an adjacent building. $1.00 Admission for both benefits a Junior 4-H Council.

Information: Steve Goddard, 5890 Valley Pike, Urbana, Ohio 43078, 937.788.2058, stevegoddard@woh. rr.com or John Bartley, PO Box 53, North Hampton, Ohio 45349, 937.964.8080, jbartley@woh.rr.com | August 19 Poughkeepsie, New York 25th Annual Mid Hudson Bottle Show, Poughkeepsie, New York, Elks Lodge 275, 29 Overocker Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12603, Sunday 9:00 am – 2:30 pm for General Admission. Early Admission is 8:00 am – 9:00 am, $15.00.

Set-up: 6:00 am Sunday, $2.00 General Admission. Hudson Valley Bottle Club. Contact: Art Church, Treasurer, 411 Hillside Lake Road, Wappingers Falls, New York 12590, 845.221.4259, Email: art3622@aol.com September 23 Depew, New York 14th Annual Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Annual Show & Sale, Polish Falcons Hall, 445 Columbia Avenue, Depew, New York 14043, Sunday 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Set up: Sunday 7:00 am to 9:00 am, tables $20.00, additional tables $10.00, Admission: $2.00, children under 12 free, http://gbbca. org, Contact: Joe Guerra (Secretary), 29 Nina Terrace, West Seneca, New York 14224, 716.674.5750, e-mail: jguerra3@roadrunner.com, Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association September 29 Santa Ana, California New Date & New Location The Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club’s 46th Annual Antique Bottle, Fruit Jar,

Antiques & Collectibles Show & Sale will be held at the Santa Ana Elks Lodge, 212 Elk Lane, Santa Ana, California 92701, Dealer setup: 7:00 am – 9:00 am; Early Buyers: $5.00 – 8:00 am – 4:00 pm; General Admission: $3.00 – 9:00 am – 4:00 pm. Info Contact: Don Wippert 818.346.9833 or Email: donwippert@yahoo.com Dick Homme 818.362.3368 September 23 Lowell, Massachusetts Merrimack Valley Antique Bottle Club’s 38th Annual Show and Sale, General Admission: 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Early Buyers 8:00 am, Location: Lowell Elks Club Hall, 40 Old Ferry Road, Lowell, Massachusetts 01854 (take exit 32 off US Rt. 3 and follow the signs).

For information contact: Cliff Hoyt: 978.458.6575 or Maureen Crawford: 978.897.7327 Additional information, maps, dealer contracts, and discount coupons available at: http://choyt48. home.comcast.net/mvbc.htm October 5 & 6 Canyonville, Oregon Jefferson State Antique Bottle, Insulator & Collectible Show & Sale at the Seven Feathers Casino Resort, I-5 Exit 99, 146 Chief Miwaleta Lane, Canyonville, Oregon 97417, Saturday – October 6th, 2012 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Free Admission! Dealer setup 05 October from 12:00 noon to 7:00 pm and 06 October from 7:00 am to 9:00 am. Early lookers 12:00 noon to 7:00 pm Friday & 8:00 am – 9:00 am Saturday – $10.00. Jefferson State Antique Bottle Collectors www. ecandm.com/canyonville October 6 Richmond, Virginia Richmond 41st Antique Bottle Show and Sale, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Admission: $3.00, Early Admission: 7:30 am, $10.00, Chesterfield County

Fairgrounds, 10300 Courthouse Road, Chesterfield, Virginia 23832, Info: RichBottleClub@comcast.net or Marvin Croker 804.275.1101 or Ed Faulkner 804.739.2951 October 6 & 7 Elsecar, Yorkshire, England Autumn Extravaganza Weekend Saturday, 500+ lot auction, Doors open 9:00 am, auction 11:00 am. Sunday show and auction – 8:30 am to 2:00 pm.

Auction 11:00 am, Elsecar Heritage Centre, Nr Barnsley, S. Yorks, S74 8HJ, England, Info: BBR 00441226 745156, email: sales@onlinebbr.com October 13 Santa Rosa, California Northwestern Bottle Collectors Association Annual Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show, Santa Rosa Veterans Building, 1351 Maple Avenue, Santa Rosa, California, Saturday, 13 October 2012, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Early admission, Friday 12 October 2012, 12:00 noon to 6:00 pm, Free admission, Early admission $10.00, Contact: Bev Siri, tele: 707.542.6438, email: rtsiri@sbcglobal. net or John Burton, tele: 707.318.2469, email: johnburton@msn.com October 21 Findlay, Ohio 36th Annual Findlay Antique Bottle Show (9:00 am – 2:00 pm, early buyers 7:00 am) at the Old Barn Auction House, 10040 St. Rt. 224 West, Findlay, Ohio. Directions: Go West on SR224 from I-75 (exit 159). Admission: $2.00, Early-Bird Admission: $10.00 (“Dealer-only” set-up & dinner on Saturday, 20 October) Info: Showchairman is Fred Curtis 419.424.0486 or Marianne Dow finbotclub@gmail. com, 419.455.1112 Club website: finbotclub.blogspot.com

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(More) Sho-Biz November 11 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Annual Pittsburgh Antique Bottle Club’s Annual Show at The Ice Garden, Rostraver Twp., Gallitin Road and Route 51 North, Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania 15089, Sunday 11 November, General admission: $3.00, Show time: 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, Early admission: $25.00, 7:00 am – 9:00 am, Set up time: Hospitality dinner and boxes under table Saturday night 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Set up Sunday: 7:00 am – 9:00 am, 1st table $30.00, 2nd & 3rd tables: $25.00, Pittsburgh Antique Bottle Club, Contact: Jay Hawkins, Secretary, 1280 Mt. Pleasant Road, West Newton, Pennsylvania 15089, Tele: 724.872.6013, E-mail: Lhawkins63@msn.com

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November 17 Milford, Ohio St. Andrew Antique Bottle Show (9:00 am – 1:00 pm) with Early Admission at 7:00 am for $15.00. $4 admission, at St. Andrew Parish Center (2 minutes from I-275) 553 Main Street in Milford, Ohio, Information: Steve Singer, 1684 Autumn Oak Drive, Batavia, Ohio 45103, Tele: 513.732.2793, singersams@yahoo.com

July 20 & 21 Manchester, New Hampshire Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors presents the 2013 National Antique Bottle Show at the Radisson of New Hampshire Expo Center. Quality collectors from across the USA will be gathered for the first National Show to be offered in New England. Stay tuned for more information!

Where there’s a will there’s a way to leave Donations to the FOHBC Did you know the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors is a 501C(3) charitable organization? How does that affect you? It allows tax deductions for any and all donations to the FOHBC. You might also consider a bequest in your will to the FOHBC. This could be a certain amount of money or part or all of your bottle collection.

The appraised value of your collection would be able to be deducted from your taxes.

(This is not legal advice, please consult an attorney) I give and bequeath to the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077, the sum of $____________ to be used as its Board of Directors determines.

The same type wording could be used for bequeathing your collection or part of it, however, before donating your collection (or part of it), you would need the collection appraised by a professional appraiser with knowledge of bottles and their market values. This is the amount that would be tax deductible.

Thank you for considering us in your donation plans.

Gene Bradberry, President Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors

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FOHBC MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY New Members Bill Nichols & Garylene Porter P.O. Box 61762 Boulder City, NV 89006 702-469-5789 Fruit Jars Serr Carol 3682 Fairway Dr. LaMesa, CA 91941-8049 619-698-1242 LoveOldBottles@aol.com bottle date codes mostly Frank A.Console 4156 Arizona Dr. San Diego, CA 92104-1760 619-295-0696 Hires Collectibles, old unusual tools, fruit jars, signs, old telephones, insulators, etc.

Lance Westfall 11237 Paseo Montanoso #66 San Diego, CA 92131 858-722-0425 lance.westfall@hotmail.com Western Fifths, western sodas, unembossed western glass in colors David Bruce P.O. Box 1178 Darling, Victoria 3145 Australia +61 407-821767 davidbruce733@gmail.com Seals, Australia Wines, blood cures Mike Lake 4604 Bromwich Ct. Rocklin, CA 95677 916-496-1817 mike_r_lake@hotmail.com Mike Lee 238 Lee Road Ray City, GA 31645 229-247-1040 mlee@leeassoc.net Southern Stoneware

Kenny Burbrink 818 Main Halstead, KS 67056 316-217-5740 kburbrink67@yahoo.com John McNeil 110 S. State Street Apt #7 Merrill, WI 54452 715-536-3880 groundfisher56@yahoo.com Fruit jars and related items Rick Wheeler 2508 Upper River Rd. Great Falls, MT 59405 406-788-0123 Doug Stryker 268 Western Oaks New Braunfels, TX 78132 512-586-5071 30below@satx.rr.com ACL soda bottles, soda bottle caps, soda cans & soda go-withs such as toppers & displays Mark Legare 144 Sanborn St. Franklin, NH 03235 603-934-2526 Everything, bitters, barrels Kenneth Adams 20501 63rd Place W. Lynnwood, WA 98036-7340 425-775-8338 rx4health@comcast.net Pharmacy bottles & related items.

Medical items, US Army Medical Department items Michael Mackey P.O. 118 Pond Eddy, NY 12770 570-491-2307 mack46L@hughes.net Quart hutchinsons, locals from Sullivan County NY & Pike County, PA

James S.Haase 42Adams Boulevard Silver Bay, MN 55614 218-226-3060 Mike Ratliff 209 Central Ave Palatka, FL 32177 386-328-0168 palatkacollector@yahoo.com Putnam County Florida(Palatka, Crescent City, Pomona Park, Welaka, Melrose, Interlachen,Ocklawaha River, St. Johns River) pre 1920 Items.

Additional comments: Drugstore bottles and go-withs are my primary interest.

Jeffrey S.Evans P.O. Box 2638 Harrisonburg, VA 22801 540-434-3939 jeff@jeffreysevans.com Shenandoah Valley of Virginia folk pottery Leo Goudreau 11 Richfield Ave. Ware, MA 01082 413-530-7251 leophoenix@comcast.net All Types of bottles Steve Bird 10643 Chestnut St. Los Alamitos, CA 90720 562-234-2157 steve023@socal.rr.com Bitters Connor Rush 53 High St. Glenridge, NJ 07028 973-743-7257 connor.rush23@gmail.com NJ sodas & beers, Orange NJ, Glenridge, Montclair, Bloomfield Ray Buch 10 Duke Ct. Pittstown, NJ 08867 908-735-5014 buchray@aol.com NJ sodas & beers

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FOHBC MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY Fritz Wilmanns N 62 W 5988 Columbia Rd. Cedarbury, WI 53012 414-581-6283 fawilmanns@yahoo.com Bob Riddick 1450 Roscoe Rd. Lexington, SC 29073 803-957-4807 cbarid@aol.com

New club Hemet Valley Antique Bottle And Collectables Club Gwen Leavy P.O. Box 2652 Hemet, CA 92546 818-425-9358 gwennj@msn.com

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Warren Friedrich 16930 Charles Way Grass Valley, CA 95949 530-271-5757 warrenls6@msn.com Early western bitters bottles

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John & Margie Bartley PO Box 53 North Hampton, OH 45349 937-964-8080 jbartley@woh.rr.com Ohio stoneware, sewer tile birdhouses, weathervanes, Victorian Christmas lights, Ohio pontiled medicines

Henry Guillen bottles2012@roadrunner.com

Barry Theurer 2023 Market Street Ext. Middletown, PA. 17057 717-939-1849 bktheurer@aol.com Bottles, blob tops, hutches stoneware from Harrisburg, PA

1st Chicago Bottle Club Attn: Craig Wright P.O. Box 351 Western Springs, IL 60558

Pat Whitman P.O. Box 531 Greenville, CA 95947 530-990-0561 oldstuffantiques@gotsky.com Hutch Sodas, Palmer Perfumes. deLee figures and dolls

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Make checks payable to FOHBC (Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors) Send payment to: Alan DeMasion, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077 Notice to Members Please check your mailing label for correctness and your membership expiration date. This will insure you continue to receive Bottles and Extras without interruption. If moving, please send in a change of address, Contact: FOHBC Business Manager: Alan DeMaison, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077; phone: (H) 440-358-1223, (C) 440-796-7539; e-mail: a.demaison@sbcglobal.net

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Bottles and Extras Individual and Affiliated Club Information

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For Membership, complete the following application or signup at www.fohbc.org (Please Print) Do you wish to be listed in the printed membership directory? (name, address, phone number, email address and what you collect) { } Yes { } No

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*Associate Membership is available to members of the immeadiate family of any adult holding an Individual Membership. Children of ages 21 or older must have their own individual membership.

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Please make checks or money orders payable to Fohbc and mail to: FOHBC Membership, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville OH 44077 Effective 9/2011

Affiliated Club Membership for only $75.00 with liability insurance for all club sponsered events, 50% discount on advertising in the B & E, plus much more, Contact: Alan DeMaison, FOHBC Business Manager 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville OH 44077 440-358-1223 or a.demaison@sbcglobal.net

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