MY PINK DREAM

07 August 2013 (R•102013)

Did I dream this? I can not remember. Was a Memory Bottle found recently that had a hint of a Drake’s Plantation Bitters within as the covered bottle structure? Was it at Manchester? When the attached memory pieces were removed, a “PINK” Drakes was revealed. My memory is foggy. I am tired. Now us Drakes collectors know there is no such thing as a “Pink” Drake’s right? Stay tuned. 

MEMORY BOTTLES

American Glass Gallery Auction 11

20 October 2011

“S T / Drake’s / 1860 / Plantation / X / Bitters – Patented / 1862″, America, 1862 – 1880. Light to medium pink with a slight salmon tone, cabin form with 6 logs above the label panel, applied sloping collar – smooth base, ht. 9 3/4″, near mint; (a 1/8″ surface bruise on one of the side logs; a couple of tissue-paper-thin open surface bubbles, a 3/8” tissue-paper-thin surface flake at edge of base, a touch of interior residue and a very hard-to-see, iridescent bruise at corner of base on reverse). R/H #D105. An exceedingly rare, light color, strong embossing. Exceptional! – American Glass Gallery Auction 11

This is the 1st time that this exceptional Drake’s Bitters Bottle is being offered to collectors since it’s “unveiling” from well over a century of being covered in plaster and trinkets, disguised as a folk art “memory bottle”. Although as noted, there are a handful of minor condition issues, they are all minor, and non-distracting.

“S T / Drake’s / 1860 / Plantation / X / Bitters – Patented / 1862”, America, 1862 – 1880. Light to medium pink with a slight salmon tone – American Glass Gallery Auction 11

It is one of the great colors for a Drake’s Cabin, every bit as difficult to obtain as a green example. Very few of even the advanced collectors will have one anywhere close to this on their shelf, particularly with this degree of pink, and in this light of a tone.