Category Archives: Bottling Works

Electric Bitters Bucklen Laboratory Trade Card

Posted on 8 August 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Electric Bitters Trade Card 08 August 2013 Picked up this cool Electric Bitters trade card on ebay from Dave Cheadle with Dave’s Great Cards. Dave also had the Electric Bitters “Three Little Pigs” (read: Electric Bitters and the Three Little Pigs) … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Bottling Works, eBay, Medicines & Cures | Tagged Bucklens Arnica Salve, chicago, Dr. King's New Discovery, Electric Bitters, H. E. Bucklen & Co., Trade Card | Leave a comment

Moxie Bitters – So What is Moxie?

Posted on 26 July 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Moxie Bitters – So What is Moxie? I was pleasantly surprised to see an extremely rare, Moxie Bitters within the Moxie Bottles display by Dave Waris at the FOHBC 2013 National Antique Bottle Show in Manchester, New Hampshire this past weekend. … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Art & Architecture, Bitters, Bottle Shows, Bottling Works, Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Diving, Ephemera, Photography, Soda Bottles, Soft Drinks | Tagged Dave Waris, Dr. Augustin Thompson, gentian root, Lowell, Massachusetts, Moxie, Moxie Bitters | Leave a comment

Manchester Display Photo Gallery

Posted on 23 July 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

More pictures from the FOHBC 2013 National Antique Bottle Show in Manchester, New Hampshire. Display awards were announced this past Sunday afternoon near the conclusion of the show. Congratulations are in order to Michael George and his Stoddard Glass Factory exhibit … Continue reading →

Posted in Blown Glass, Bottle Shows, Bottling Works, Club News, Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Digging and Finding, Display, Early American Glass, Ephemera, Flasks, FOHBC News, Freeblown Glass, Ginger Ale, Glass Companies & Works, Glass Makers, History, Inks, Insulators, Medicines & Cures, Milk & Creamers, Mineral Water, Miniatures, News, Reproductions, Soda Bottles, Soda Water, Stoneware, Utility Bottles | Tagged award, Bob Kennerknecht, Bobby Hilton, Bonney, cone, Dale Murschell, Dave Olson, Dave Waris, Dennis Gionet, display, fohbc, fragments, Ginger Ale, Holly Noordsy, Ink, inkwells, Jeff Noordsy, Jim Bender, Jim Gray, Karen Gray, Ken Previtali, Kevin Kyle, Lyndeborough, Manchester, Mark Newton, Mark Yates, Michael George, Mount Vernon, Moxie, New England, New Jersey, Paul Richards, Reproductions, Rob Girouard, Sandwich, Soda, Stoddard, stoneware, sunburst, Tom Marshall, Wistarburgh | Leave a comment

Aromatic Schiedam Schnapps – Udolpho Wolfe

Posted on 26 May 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

AROMATIC SCHIEDAM SCHNAPPS UDOLPHO WOLFE 26 May 2013 I have to admit, many times when I write something about a brand or bottle is not because I know something, it is because I want to learn more and I am … Continue reading →

Posted in Bottling Works, Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Gin, History, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Questions, Schnapps, Spirits | Tagged Aromatic, Benjamin Wolfe, David H. Burke, German, Gin, Holland, jenever, Netherlands, New York, Revolutionary War, Schiedam, Schnapps, Tom Doligale, Udolpho Wolfe, Udolpho Wolfe Co. | Leave a comment

Jacob Youngblood and the Bernhard Soda Water Apparatus

Posted on 25 May 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Hello Sir, my name is Daniel and I have been collecting bottles for a few years now. I have recently acquired a very nice blob top bottle that is greenish and says YOUNG.BLOOD (see above) in big lettering around the … Continue reading →

Posted in Bottling Works, History, Mineral Water, Questions, Soda Water, Technology | Tagged Apparatus, Daniel Zern, Jacob Youngblood, Joseph Bernhard, Jungblut, Mineral Water, New Jersey, Philadelphia, pony, Red Bank, Soda, Tod von Mechow | Leave a comment

Singing along at Dyottville Glass Works

Posted on 8 May 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Singing along at Dyottville Glass Works 08 May 2013 For a number of reasons I have been searching through old Philadelphia directories searching for information. I couldn’t help but to get side tracked on Dyottville Glass Works again and in … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Blown Glass, Bottling Works, Early American Glass, Ephemera, Freeblown Glass, Glass Companies & Works, Glass Makers, History | Tagged boys, Dyott, Dyottville, Dyottville Glass Works, Eric Schmetterling, Glass Works, Paul Joseph Goodwin, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, T.W. Dyott | 1 Comment

Cleaning my Montana Hutches and Blobs

Posted on 21 March 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Montana Bottle News The latest from my pal James Campiglia up in Montana. Just a reminder, anyone can send me pictures and news of your collection or your bottle adventures. Let’s open the hobby up as much as possible. Ferdinand … Continue reading →

Posted in Bottling Works, Collectors & Collections, Digging and Finding, Hutches, Soda Bottles | Tagged A. Landt Livingston, A. Speckart, Bozeman, Butte, Butte City, Denhalter, Helena, James Campiglia, Merritt & Co., Montana, Speckart & Co., Territory, Wickes ghost town | Leave a comment

Leading up to Baltimore Glass Works

Posted on 11 December 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

LEADING UP TO BALTIMORE GLASS WORKS Looking for some answers… 11 December 1012 (R•091515) Baltimore flasks, Mr. Pollard says flatly, “come in the widest range of colors, the choicest tones of all.” WILLIAM C. POLLARD In Baltimore, glassmaking ranked as … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Blown Glass, Bottling Works, Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Early American Glass, Flasks, Glass Companies & Works, Glass Makers, Historical Flasks, History, Medicines & Cures, Questions, Technology, Windows | Tagged Adam Kohlenberg, Alexander Furnival, Amy Reed, Baltimore Glass Works, bitters, Chris Rowell, Corn For The World, Federal Hill Works, Frederick County, Frederick M. Amelung, Hughes-Street Works, Jacob Anhurtz, Jacob Frederick Dannwolf, John Amelung, John Frederick Magnus, Lewis Reppert, New Bremen Glassmanufactory, Patapsco River Glass House, Peter Engel, Phil Edmonds, Tom Lines, William C. Pollard | Leave a comment

Woods’ Baltimore City Directory – 1864

Posted on 10 December 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

I get asked all the time from collectors, especially in my collecting area of Bitters; “so what is happening?”, “heard about any new bottles?, “anything in the upcoming auction interest you?” or “are you going to the so and so … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Advice, Ales & Ciders, Bitters, Blown Glass, Bottling Works, Breweriana, Civil War, Collectors & Collections, Demijohns, Early American Glass, Flasks, Fruit Jars, Glass Companies & Works, Glass Makers, History, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Mineral Water, Peachridge Glass, Publications, Soda Water, Spirits, Tobacco, Tonics | Tagged A. Hoen & Co., B. G. Tubman & Co., Baker Bros. & Co., Baltimore, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Baltimore Glass Works, bitters, Boggs, Boyd, Chris Rowell, city, Civil War, Cottman, directory, ferdinand meyer, German, John Boyd, John W. Woods, Tonic, University of Maryland, Woods | 2 Comments

American Dialect Society and the origin of the word “jazz”

Posted on 18 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

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 →