Category Archives: Cola

Plan Your FOHBC 2015 Chattanooga National Antique Bottle Show Vacation

Posted on 16 October 2014 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Plan Your FOHBC 2015 Chattanooga National Antique Bottle Show Vacation 16 October 2014 31 July – 02 August for Chattanooga in 2015! Start planning your vacation now and make the most of your trip to the 2015 FOHBC National Antique Bottle Show … Continue reading →

Posted in Advice, Bottle Shows, Civil War, Club News, Cola, FOHBC News, History, Museums, News | Tagged Chattanooga, fohbc, Hewitt, Joiner, museum, national, tour, vacation | Leave a comment

FOHBC 2014 Lexington National | Educational Displays

Posted on 14 August 2014 by Ferdinand Meyer V

FOHBC 2014 Lexington National | Educational Displays 14 August 2014 We ended up with thirteen education displays at the Lexington National that were as different from the recent Reno and Manchester National displays as possible. Interesting and interactive to some extent, they … Continue reading →

Posted in Advice, Apothecary, Bottle Shows, Bottles and Extras, Bourbon, Club News, Cola, Collectors & Collections, Display, Druggist & Drugstore, Ephemera, Flasks, FOHBC News, Fruit Jars, Glass Companies & Works, History, Medicines & Cures, News, Photography, Soda Bottles, Soft Drinks, Spirits, Technology, Virtual Museum, Whimsies, Whiskey | Tagged Baugh, Bender, Berry, celery, cola, Dadiras, display, educational, exhibit, fohbc, Hands, History, Hubbard, Kentucky, Lexington, Libbey, Lines, Midwest, Murschell, Phillips, reproduction, Selenak, Smith, Sproat, Veach, Virtualm museum, Watson, wood, Zoeller | Leave a comment

Drug Stores from Bygone Days

Posted on 10 April 2014 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Drug Stores from Bygone Days 10 April 2014 I know of some traffic routes now where I pass a Walgreens, Rite Aid, and CVS Pharmacy in succession. Usually when nearing a hospital. These homogenous drug stores and the drugs stores within grocery … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Art & Architecture, Cola, Display, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Medicines & Cures, Photography, Soft Drinks | Tagged Bertram, Bolton, Charles Young, corner, CVS, CW Heister, Dana Andrews, drug, Druggist & Drugstore, F.A. Cooke, Fiesta, History, Linders, Peoples, pharmacy, photography, Riker - Jaynes, Rite Aid, Shorpy, Walgreens | Leave a comment

Did N. A. Binks make an Alpine Bitters too?

Posted on 7 September 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

I wonder if the Alpine Bitters is the labeled bottle and the larger cylinder bottles are Fairmont and Clutch Rye? Could that be N.A. Bink with the tie? What about that Sheriff? Did N. A. Binks make an Alpine Bitters … Continue reading →

Posted in Bitters, Bottling Works, Breweriana, Cola, History, Liquor Merchant, Questions, Spirits | Tagged Alpine, Belgium, Bill Ham, bitters, City Bottling, Coca-Cola, Decanter, Dispensing, Escanaba, Fredonia, Germany, Herb, Mary Bink, Michael Bink, Michigan, N.A. Bink, Nicholas A. Bink, Rye, Saloon, tray, Victorian, Wisconsin | Leave a comment

Legendary Barto’s Great Gun Bitters added to Fuss Collection

Posted on 4 March 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Hi Ferdinand, It was great to catch up with you in Baltimore. I look forward to my next visit to Peachridge in April! Attached are a few phone pics of my new green Barto’s Great Gun Bitters from the Ring … Continue reading →

Posted in Article Publications, Blacking, Cola, Fire Grenades | Tagged Baltimore, Barto, Barto's, bitters, Colorado, Denver, great, gun, sandor fuss | 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

Ice Cold Collectibles Illinois – Scott Terrell

Posted on 8 September 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

I noticed a new facebook page called Ice Cold Collectibles Illinois last month developed by Scott Terrell. The graphics in particular on this cool Coca-Cola card pictured above caught my attention as Scott uses it as the primary art header … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Advice, Bottling Works, Cola, Collectors & Collections, Ephemera, Facebook, History, Photography, Soda Bottles | Tagged Alfred Eisenstaedt, atlanta, Coca-Cola, Coke, Facebook, Fayetteville, florida, Ice Cold Collectibles, illinois, Scott Terrell, Tampa, Utica | 1 Comment

If you wanna hang out you’ve got to take her out – Cocaine

Posted on 6 September 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

C O C A I N E “Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.” – Allen Ginsberg The Lure Not sure why I … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Cola, Druggist & Drugstore, Ephemera, Hair Tonics, History, Medicines & Cures | Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Ayer's, Burdette's, Coca, Coca-Cola, Cocaine, Cocoaine, drug, Druggist & Drugstore, Eric Clapton, Erythroxylon, Friedrich Gaedcke, Harrison Act, hydrochloride, Incas, Lloyd Cocaine Toothache Drops, Narcotic, patent medicines and other popular products and was soon sold over the counter in many forms at pharma, Pepto Cocaina, Sigmund Freud, South America, stimulant, Tawny Cocaine Port, Utah Antique Bottle Cliche | Leave a comment

A Coca-Cola Hutch story from Alabama

Posted on 10 May 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Sometimes I get emails and posts on my Peachridge Glass facebook page with little more than just a photograph, which happened in this case. It parked for a day or so until I really looked at the rather nice photograph … Continue reading →

Posted in Bitters, Cola, Collectors & Collections, Digging and Finding, Facebook, Figural Bottles, Hutches, Soda Bottles, Tonics | Tagged alabama, Birmingham, bitters, Bobby McGraw, Coca-Cola, Coke, Coleman's, Cullman, Dennis Humphrey, Ensley, hutch, Mobile, Northport, Pineapple, Tonic, W & Co | Leave a comment

I Bet None of You All Have Been to this Bottle Museum Yet!

Posted on 21 March 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

“I was born in 1926 … I’ve been collecting bottles for 70 years. I have hundreds of Coca-Cola bottles coming from all over the world, especially the United States … the oldest bottle dates back to 1915. I also collect … Continue reading →