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Ale and Cider Bottles

Houston Ice and Brewing Co. – Magnolia Brewery

Posted on 10 November 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Houston Ice and Brewing Co. Magnolia Brewery 10 November 2013 The first time I can find Hugh Hamilton and the roots of the Houston Ice and Brewing Company is an 1887-88 listing within the Houston City Directory. He is located … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Ales & Ciders, Art & Architecture, Bottling Works, Breweriana, History | Tagged Bertrand Adoue, Bone-dry, Brewery, Brewing, crystal, Eugene Heiner, factory, Houston, Hugh Hamilton, Hyman Prince, ice, Magnolia, texas | Leave a comment

The Ginger Ale Page – Ken Previtali

Posted on 19 October 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

The GINGER ALE Page Ken Previtali 19 October 2013 (R•102713) (R•110213) One of the neat things about Peachridge Glass is the opportunity and doors it opens to correspond with collectors. I am constantly receiving new material and updating posts which … Continue reading →

Posted in Ales & Ciders, Art & Architecture, Article Publications, Bitters, Bottle Shows, Bottles and Extras, Collectors & Collections, Display, FOHBC News, Folk Art, Ginger Ale, History, Mineral Water, Peachridge Glass, Publications, Soda Bottles, Soft Drinks | Tagged Connecticut, diamond, Equinox Springs, Ginger Ale, Gordon, Gordon & Co's, Greta Garbo, Humphrey Bogart, Ken Previtali, Manchester, Old Crow, Waterbury, Wuppermann | 1 Comment

What about this New Orleans Malakoff Bitters?

Posted on 21 September 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

What about this New Orleans Malakoff Bitters? Malakoff Russian Stomach Bitters 21 September 2013 (updated 22 Sept 2013) (updated 25 September 2013) (R•060614) (R•o72314) (R•022219) (R•030419) An ebony and aged Ganymede, however, appeared with coffee, and told me “the Captn … Continue reading →

Posted in Ales & Ciders, Bitters, History, Humor - Lighter Side, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Questions, Tax Stamps, Trade Cards | Tagged Alphonse Walz, bitters, Courtney, Crimean, france, Frioux, Louisiana, Malakof, Malakoff, N. Kieffer, New Orleans, Nicholas Kieffer, Russian, San Antonio, Wayne Loschen | 1 Comment

Beer Street and Gin Lane by William Hogarth

Posted on 8 September 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Beer Street and Gin Lane William Hogarth 08 September 2013 Beer Street and Gin Lane are two prints issued in 1751 by English artist William Hogarth in support of what would become the Gin Act. they depict the evils of … Continue reading →

Posted in Advice, Ales & Ciders, Art & Architecture, Breweriana, Gin, History, Spirits | Tagged Beer, Gin, William Hogarth | Leave a comment

Buffalo Bayou, Buffalo Beer Tour & Buffalo Brewing Company

Posted on 4 May 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

The American Buffalo Buffalo Bayou, Buffalo Beer Tour & Buffalo Brewing Company 04 May 2013 Three things on my desk(top) or laptop today all dealing with the American Bison. First is the next segment in a series I am writing … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Advice, Ales & Ciders, Breweriana, Club News, Ephemera, History, News | Tagged bayou, Bison, Buffalo, Buffalo Brewing Company, Bufffalo, california, Herman H. Grau, Joe Guerra, New York, Pete Jablonski, sacramento, William E. Gerber | Leave a comment

What was here, Early Houston Advertisements – Part IIA

Posted on 5 April 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

What was here, Early Houston Advertisements – Part IIA 05 April 2013 THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1860 I was able to locate another issue of The Weekly Telegraph in Houston. The day was Tuesday, 20 April 1860. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Ales & Ciders, Apothecary, Bitters, Cordial, Demijohns, Druggist & Drugstore, Gin, Mineral Water, Sarsaparilla, Schnapps, Spirits, Tonics, Uncategorized, Whiskey, Wine & Champagne | Tagged . M. Bininger & Co., A. A. Peychaud, Ale Brewery, American Aromatic Bitter Cordial, Arabian Bitters, C. Ennis & Co, C.M. Jackson & Co, Clark & White, Demijohn, Dr. A. Siegismund, Dr. Hoofland's Celebrated German Bitters, Fernandez Alvarez & Co., H. J. Trube, Henry Sampson Co., J. Riordan, Mills Bitters, Philadelphia, Saratoga, Schnapps, Smith's Celebrated Sarsaparilla, W. H. Eliot & Co, W. Henry Eliot, Weekly Telegraph, Wolfe's Genuine Schiedam Schnapps | Leave a comment

Big Bill Best Bitters

Posted on 10 January 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

BIG BILL BEST BITTERS STOMACH-MAGEN 10 January 2013 (R•102013) Alcohol 21% Guaranteed by Liebenthal Bros. & Co. under The Food and Drugs Act, June 30th 1906 As a companion post to the Royal Flush Bitters article (Read: The Ultimate Hand – … Continue reading →

Posted in Ales & Ciders, Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Figural Bottles | Tagged Best, Big, Big Bill Best, Bill, bitters, Figural, Glass Works Auctions, Meyer, Royal Flush Bitters, Socialist Party, William Dudley Haywood, William Howard Taft | Leave a comment

Shipping Crates

Posted on 7 January 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

How about those old bottle boxes. The stories they might tell? Tami Barber Tami Barber attached the above picture of a stacked Richardson Coca-Cola Bottling Works, Lead, South Dakota and Anheuser Busch St. Louis, Mo. beer shipping crate to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Ales & Ciders, Bitters, Breweriana, Cola, Medicines & Cures, Milk & Creamers, Root Beer, Soda Bottles, Spirits, Whiskey | Tagged Baltimore, bitters, Box, C.W. Abbott & Co., Chamberlain & Co., Charles E. Hires Co., Coca-Cola, Dairylea, Dewar's, Dr. Peter Fahrney, Electric Bitters, Euclid Race, Father John's Medicines, Griel & Bro, Hire's Root Beer, Homer's Ginger Brandy, Hostetter's, Jeff Burkhardt, John Dewar & Sons, Kerosene, Lowell, Marlboro, Massachusetts, Mishler's Keystone, Peruna, Shipping Crate, Sloan's, Tami Barber, Texaco, Whiskey, whisky | 1 Comment

Patent Medicine Proprietary Revenue Stamps

Posted on 2 January 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Proprietary Stamps The first revenue stamps in United States were produced to collect taxes on liquor in 18th-century America and were known as Supervisors’ Seals. These revenue stamps were embossed and known as the First Federal Issue. Later, new tax laws were … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Ales & Ciders, Bitters, Civil War, Cordial, Ephemera, History, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Perfume, Tax Stamps, Tobacco | Tagged B.F.M. Toiuletine, Bennett Pieters & Co, Benton's Pine Tree Tar Troches, Brown's Vegetable Oriental Hair Renewer, cigar, Civil War, Corning & Tappan, Dalley's Galvanic Horse Salve, Dr. Crook's Wine of Tar, Dr. Harter Medicine Company, Dr. M. Lanes Celebrated Liver Pills, Dr. M.L. Byrn's Olio de Flora, Dr. Weaver's Compound Extract of Fireweed, Duponco's Golden Periodical Pills, Edward Wilder Stomach Bitters, Eric Jackson Revenues, Fleming Brothers, Internal Revenue Service, J.C. Ayer & Co., J.W. Campion's Pine Tree Tar Cordial, Jeremiah Curtis & Son Proprietors, L.M. Green, L.Q.C. Wishart, Lactopeptine, Ladd & Coffin, Lundborg's Perfumery, Matches, Medicines, Meyer & Co., Mrs. S.A. Allen's Hair Restorer, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, Poland's Magic Powders, Proprietary Stamp, R.V. Pierce, Red Jacket Stomach Bitters, S.D. Howe Proprietor, Schenk's Mandrake Pills, Schenks Pulmonic Syrup, Schenks Seaweed Tonic, Supervisors’ Seals, tax, tobacco, United States, Vogeler, Walker & Taylor, young | Leave a comment

1865 San Francisco Directory – All Quiet before the Quake

Posted on 27 December 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

1865 San Francisco Directory All Quiet before the Quake SAN FRANCISCO – 1865 27 December 2012 Interesting to look at the innocence of an 1865 San Francisco business directory right before the first great earth quake. With all of the … Continue reading →