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Monthly Archives: November 2012
White Seal Pure Rye – Hulman & Beggs – Terre Haute, Indiana
W H I T E S E A L P U R E R Y E White Seal Pure Rye – Hulman & Beggs – Terre Haute, Indiana 23 November 2012 I was looking on eBay yesterday … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Advice, Ephemera, FOHBC News, Liquor Merchant, Questions, Shot Glasses, Spirits, Trade Cards, Whiskey
Tagged Anton Hulman, Daves Great Cards, Eddie Rickenbacker, Herman Hulman, Hulman & Beggs, indiana, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Jack Sullivan, James Modrell, John H. Beggs, Rye, Terre Haute, Trade Card, White Seal Pure Rye, Wilbur Shaw
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Who doesn’t love Scroll Flasks?
Who doesn’t love Scroll Flasks? 21 November 2012 (R•052915) Being a color run ‘kinda-guy’ I just gotta’ say ‘‘Who doesn’t love Scroll Flasks?” Don’t cringe, I guess I coulda’ called this “Scrolling thru some Scrolls.” Anyway, credit for this post … Continue reading
Posted in Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Early American Glass, Flasks, Glass Companies & Works, Historical Flasks
Tagged American Glass Gallery, Arabia, Clevenger Brothers, Color, Cowan's, Dana Charlton-Zarro, Flask, Fleur-de-lis, Glass International, Glass Works, Historic Bottles, Historic Glasshouse, Ian Simmonds, lancaster, McKearin, Mike Stephano, Mitchell, Newman, Norman C. Heckler, Saxe, Scroll, Vanderbilt
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A couple of Jesse Moore Old Bourbon questions?
A couple of Jesse Moore Old Bourbon questions? 21 November 2012 Two incoming Jesse Moore questions to PRG that Lance Westfall was kind enough to help me sort out. I find it really interesting to look at the eastern and … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Bourbon, Color Runs, Flasks, Questions, Spirits, Whiskey
Tagged Bourbon, california, cylinder, Dale Mlasko, E. Chielovich & Co., eastern, Germany, J Moore, Jeff Wichmann, Jesse Moore, Kentucky, Lance Westfall, Larry Westfall, Louisville, Rye, San Francisco, Western, Whiskey
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The Tippecanoe Bitters Figural Log and Mushroom
The Tippecanoe Bitters Figural Log and Mushroom 19 November 2012 Lance and Brianna Westfall (San Diego, California) were in H-Town (Bayou City) visiting family over the weekend. Lance said he was able to get in a few probes in Old … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Digging and Finding, Ephemera, Figural Bottles, History, Medicines & Cures, News, Questions, Tonics
Tagged Americans, Antique Gallery of Houston, Battle of Tippecanoe, Brianna Westfall, california, canoe, Dan Cowman, Drake's Plantation Bitters, Figural, Glass Works Auctions, Governor William Henry Harrison, H. H. Warner, Houston, Lance Westfall, Log, Meyer, Mushroom, Native, New York, Old Town Spring, Peach Ridge, Rochester, Safe Cure, san diego, Steve Jackson, Tecumseh, Tenskwatawa, Terry McMurray, Tippecanoe, Tippecanoe River, Wabash River
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Latest news from Outhouse Patrol up in Montana
“We awoke to a very cold early October rainy morning after trying to sleep through high winds whistling through the broken out windows and creaking old door.” Always nice to hear from my friend James Campiglia and the Outhouse Patrol … Continue reading
Posted in Collectors & Collections, Digging and Finding, FOHBC News, News
Tagged Auburn, Butte, Chis Rowell, Ghost Town, James Campiglia, Montana, Outhouse Patrol, privy
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American Dialect Society and the origin of the word “jazz”
J A Z Z An interesting question that Mike Bryant (San Diego Antique Bottle and Collectibles Club) forwarded… I have added the pictures for post support. If anyone can help with bottle and/or advertising images and information it would be … Continue reading
Dr Zabriskie’s Bitters – Jersey City, New Jersey
Dr Zabriskie’s Bitters – Jersey City, New Jersey 17 November 2012 (R•022518) New Jersey has certainly been in the news of late with the terrible destruction from Hurricane Sandy which has been just tragic. I now see that the inane show … Continue reading
Posted in Auction News, Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Medicines & Cures
Tagged American Glass Gallery, bitters, Cornelius Zabriskie, David A. Zabriskie, Dr. John B. Zabriskie, Jersey City, John Pastor, moonstone, New Jersey, Paramus, Passaic, Peter Zabriskie, Polish, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Tenant House
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Looking for Bottles Carried on the Steamboat Arabia
T H E S T E A M B O A T A R A B I A Looking at famed Civil War author Jim Schmidt’s interview with Andrew W. Hall and the Galveston-Houston Packet this morning made me … Continue reading
Posted in Bitters, Digging and Finding, Dinnerware, Display, Flasks, History, Museums, Questions, Treasure
Tagged Arabia, Bertrand, Bob Hawley, bottles, Captain William Terrill, cargo, Elisha Sortor, Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri, Missouri River, museum, paddlewheel, Parkville, Quindaro Bend, Steamboat, Treasure, William Boyd
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A labeled Dr. Hopkin’s Union Stomach Bitters
A labeled Dr. Hopkin’s Union Stomach Bitters 15 November 2012 (R110614) “It is priced at 75 cents – pretty good since it ‘cures’ pretty much EVERYTHING.” I have said this many times before, and I will say it again. “It … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Medicines & Cures, Questions, Sarsaparilla
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