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Lewis’ Red Jacket Bitters – New Haven, Connecticut

Posted on 14 March 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

LEWIS’ RED JACKET BITTERS 14 March 2013 (R•012314-GWA image) While developing posts on Red Cloud Bitters and Red Jacket Bitters, who I affectionately call the Chicago “Indians”, I was reminded of the Lewis’ Red Jacket Bitters from New Haven, Connecticut. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Ephemera, History | Tagged bitters, Connecticut, Jacket, Lewis, New Haven, Red | Leave a comment

Blacking Bottles & a little more

Posted on 15 February 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

B L A C K I N G This past week, a number of primarily eastern US collectors have been posting some really great pictures of Blacking bottles. I thought I would take a moment to nest a few images … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Blacking, Ephemera, History, Trade Cards, Utility Bottles | Tagged A.A. Cooley, Bartlett, Black, blacking, Boot, Brian Wolff, Cole, Connecticut, Frank Miller, Gutta Percha, Hartford, Ivory Blacking, J. Healey, Jacquot & Co., James Becker, Japan, Jeff Noordsy, Keene, lampblack, Mark Yates, Masons, Michael George, Mount Vernon, New Hampshire, Paris, Polish, Race & Sheldon, Rockwood, Shoe | 1 Comment

To Smoke Opium is to get out of the Train (while it is still moving)

Posted on 14 February 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Apothecary, Druggist & Drugstore, Ephemera, History, Medicines & Cures, Snuff | Tagged Chinatown, Chinese, Dr. Munn, Jean Cocteau, McCormick & Co, New York, opium, San Francisco, Snuff | Leave a comment

Heroin – Purest and Best

Posted on 12 February 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

H E R O I N “In the City Market is the Meet Café. Followers of obsolete, unthinkable trades doodling in Etruscan, addicts of drugs not yet synthesized, pushers of souped-up harmine, junk reduced to pure habit offering precarious vegetable … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Medicines & Cures | Tagged Bayer, C. R. Alder Wright, codeine, diacetylmorphine, diamorphine, Elberfeld, Felix Hoffmann, Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Sertürner, German, Glyco-Heroin, Harrison Narcotics Tax Act, Heroin, Mesopotamia, Morphine, opium, poppy, William S. Burroughs | Leave a comment

The Amazing 7 Sutherland Sisters

Posted on 10 February 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

The Amazing 7 SUTHERLAND SISTERS Niagara County, New York Tami Barber posted this really great picture (see top above) of the 7 Sutherland Sisters over on Bottle Collectors on facebook. This really caught my eye as I was intrigued by the … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Article Publications, Druggist & Drugstore, Ephemera, Hair Tonics, History, Humor - Lighter Side, Medicines & Cures, Tonics | Tagged 7 Sisters, Barnum and Bailey's, Cambria, Dora Sutherland, Fletcher Sutherland, Grace Sutherland, Hair, Isabella Sutherland, Mary Sutherland, Naomi Sutherland, New York, Niagara County, Sarah Sutherland, Sisters, Sutherland, Tami Barber, Victoria Sutherland | Leave a comment

Dr. Flint’s Rhode Island Bitters Products

Posted on 9 February 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Try this and thou shalt be benefitted!! Dr. Flint’s Rhode Island Bitters Products 09 February 2013 (R•061914) (R•042815) (R•111815) Norman Heckler had a stellar example of a labeled Dr. Flint’s Stomach Bitters in his Auction 102 that closed earlier in … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Druggist & Drugstore, Ephemera, History, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Trade Cards | Tagged Alonzo Flint, Blake Dehler, Danny Cathreno, Dr. Flint, Ezra H. Flint, Flint & Company, George H. Flint, Harvey Flint, Henry Flint, Meyer, Norman Heckler, Old Dr. Warren's Quaker Bitters, Pawtucket, Providence, Quaker Bitters, Rhode Island | 1 Comment

Two XR Tombstone Flasks containing Bitters (uh Whiskey)

Posted on 9 February 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

“If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.” Two XR Tombstone Flasks containing Bitters (uh Whiskey) 09 February 2013 (R•122117) It was nice to see two very … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Druggist & Drugstore, Ephemera, Flasks, Trade Cards, Whiskey | Tagged Arkansas, bitters, coffin, Corn Juice, duck, Elvin Moody, Ferdinand Meyer V, Fitzpatrick, Helena, Joe Gourd, Judge McKenzie, Kentucky, Kris Kernozicky, Louis Alexander Fitzpatrick, Louisville, R. A. Robinson & Co., Richard Alexander Robinson, Whiskey | Leave a comment

Dr. J. W. Poland – Great New England Medicines

Posted on 7 February 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

DR. J.W. POLAND Dr. J. W. Poland – Great New England Medicines 07 February 2013 (R•061714) There was some real excitement to see a stellar example of a deep olive amber DR. J. W. POLAND (pictured above) medicine bottle recently in … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Auction News, Druggist & Drugstore, Early American Glass, Ephemera, Glass Companies & Works, Medicines & Cures, Remedy | Tagged Boston, Compound, Dr. J.W. Poland, Dr. J.W. Poland's Headache Killer, Dr. J.W. Poland's Humor-Doctor, Dr. J.W. Poland's White Pine Compound, Massachusetts, Medicine, Remedy, Stoddard, Throop Museum | 1 Comment

Some Great US Postal Advertising Covers & Cards

Posted on 26 January 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

As a United States stamp collector too, I find myself really enjoying patriotic covers and advertising covers related to history and antique bottle and glass collecting. I have assembled a few here to demonstrate my point. By combining a topic, … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Breweriana, Ephemera, History, Postage | Tagged Ayer's Sarsaparilla, Boone's Creek, Breinig's, Columbia, Cooper Shop, Cover, D.C.L. Scotch Whiskey, Dr. Kilmer & Co., Eagle Brewing Co., Gooch's Mexican Syrup, Hostetter's Bitters, Hunt's Remedy, Lawton's Indian Blood Syrup, Major & Knapp, Masten and Wells, Pabst Brewery, Paris Medicine Co., Patriotic, Perkins & Stearn, postage, Rub-No-More, Sarony, Seabury & Johnson, Speer's Vineyards, United States, Weisbrod & Hess, Wm McCully & Co. | Leave a comment

Photographs of People Drinking – Part V

Posted on 15 January 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Photographs of People Drinking – Part V PART V of a Series 15 January 2013 Presenting the Fifth Gallery of vintage pictures of “People Drinking”. This is a continuation of a series. See bottom of post for index. If you have … Continue reading →