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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

The Ultimate Hand – Royal Flush Bitters

Posted on 10 January 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

R O Y A L F L U S H B I T T E R S The ultimate hand to a poker player is the Royal Flush. The odds of drawing this hand in a five card … Continue reading →

Posted in Auction News, Bitters | Tagged American Glass Gallery, Cabin Fever, Connecticut, Glass Works Auctions, J. Quint, Jim Hagenbuch, New Haven, Royal Flush, Royal Flush Bitters | Leave a comment

B. E. Mann before he became a Professor Overnight

Posted on 8 January 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Extremely rare B. E. Mann’s Oriental Stomach Bitters bottle 08 January 2013 (R•103114 update with Chicago connections) (R•111915) “I dug a very rare bottle this weekend in Vicksburg, MS in a Confederate artillery camp that was also occupied by union … Continue reading →

Posted in Bitters, Civil War, Digging and Finding, eBay, History, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures | Tagged Benning, Benning E. Mann, bitters, Brant, chicago, Connecticut, Corey, eBay, Edward. Curtis, Fort Steele, Mann, Mississippi, Oriental, Peck, Professor, Shears, Stock, Vicksburg, Wyoming | 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

Pictures of the Week (06 January 2013)

Posted on 6 January 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

This is the first weekly round-up of some really nice photography from various antique bottle and glass web sites that have surfaced in the previous week. It seems that winter sunlight and new snow has influenced many of still life … Continue reading →

Posted in Apothecary, Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Demijohns, Display, Early American Glass, Historical Flasks, Inks, Insulators, Medicines & Cures, Peachridge Glass, Photography, Windows | Tagged Dale Mlasko, Dave Kam, Ferdinand Meyer V, Herbert Cable, James Campiglia, Jeff Noordsy, John Panella, Larry Baumann, Mark Rose, Mark Yates, Michael George, Rick Ciralli, Tom Marshall, Utah Antique Bottle Cliche | 1 Comment

Walker’s Vinegar Bitters bottled in Pastel Shades to “conceal the mess”

Posted on 3 January 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Dr. Walker’s California Vinegar Bitters “This ‘Bitters’ is one of the nastiest nostrums, introduced and largely sold by the most extensive and brazen advertising under the false pretense of being free from alcohol.” Walker’s Vinegar Bitters bottled in Pastel Shades … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Color Runs, Druggist & Drugstore, Ephemera, History, Medicines & Cures, Remedy | Tagged bitters, Brenton, california, Dr. Gibbon’s, Dr. Walker, Indian Vegetable Bitters, John Campbell Spence, John Harvey Kellogg, Joseph Walker, London, New York, pastel, R.H. McDonald & Company, Richard H. McDonald, Rick Hall, San Francisco, Stockton, Temperance, Vinegar | Leave a 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

Danny Catherino and his Great Bottle Hoard

Posted on 31 December 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

I received some interesting communications and pictures recently from Danny Catherino up in Philadelphia. I am going to leave the e-mails and pictures alone for the most part. I find these images and Danny really interesting. Obviously not the best … Continue reading →

Posted in Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Digging and Finding, Figural Bottles, Medicines & Cures, Soda Water | Tagged Danny Catherino, Drakes, Glass Works, Harmer Rooke, Jeff Wichmann, Jim Hagenbuch, Leighton's, Norman Heckler, Osbourns, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Bottle Club | Leave a comment

Pictures of the Week – 12 – 30 – 12

Posted on 30 December 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

This is the fourth weekly round-up of some really nice photography from various facebook and other glass web sites that have caught my eye. Of course this is subjective, but it is fun to see the composition, lighting and topic … Continue reading →

Posted in Bitters, eBay, Figural Bottles, Hair Tonics, Medicines & Cures, Photography | Tagged bitters, Bromo-Seltzer, Brown's Indian Queen, Charles Flint, Cindy Suter, Cram's Vegetable Hait Tonic, Daffy's Elixir, Dave Kam, Drakes, Eric Richter, Figural, Fisher's Seaweed Extract, Handyside's Rheumatic Cure, John April, John Panella, Joseph Bottone, Kilmers, Mike Holzwarth, photography, Price's Patent Candle Company, Randy Cobb, Steven Harris, Tom Marshall | 1 Comment

A Summer Day at Peachridge in 2007

Posted on 29 December 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

In 2007, Elizabeth and I commissioned our friend and professional photographer, Steve Harris, to spend the morning in our home taking pictures of windows and bottles. We gave him free reign and left him alone. A few of the photographs … Continue reading →