Category Archives: Collectors & Collections

Stories from visits with the collectors and seeing their collections.

The many apostrophes of Udolpho Wolfe’s – Tom Doligale

Posted on 23 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

‘U;D`O:L”P.H-O W”O,L’F/E`S The apostrophe ( ’ although often rendered as ‘ ) is a punctuation mark, Leading Udolpho Wolfe’s Schnapps authority Tom Doligale has put together a truly amazing image gallery on the Bottle Collectors facebook page of the many … Continue reading →

Posted in Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Glass Makers, Photography, Schnapps | Tagged apostrophy, Bill Baab, Schnapps, Tom Doligale, Udolpho Wolfe | 2 Comments

Who doesn’t love Scroll Flasks?

Posted on 21 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Who doesn’t love Scroll Flasks? 21 November 2012 (R•052915) Being a color run ‘kinda-guy’ I just gotta’ say ‘‘Who doesn’t love Scroll Flasks?” Don’t cringe, I guess I coulda’ called this “Scrolling thru some Scrolls.” Anyway, credit for this post … Continue reading →

Posted in Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Early American Glass, Flasks, Glass Companies & Works, Historical Flasks | Tagged American Glass Gallery, Arabia, Clevenger Brothers, Color, Cowan's, Dana Charlton-Zarro, Flask, Fleur-de-lis, Glass International, Glass Works, Historic Bottles, Historic Glasshouse, Ian Simmonds, lancaster, McKearin, Mike Stephano, Mitchell, Newman, Norman C. Heckler, Saxe, Scroll, Vanderbilt | 1 Comment

The Tippecanoe Bitters Figural Log and Mushroom

Posted on 19 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

The Tippecanoe Bitters Figural Log and Mushroom 19 November 2012 Lance and Brianna Westfall (San Diego, California) were in H-Town (Bayou City) visiting family over the weekend. Lance said he was able to get in a few probes in Old … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Digging and Finding, Ephemera, Figural Bottles, History, Medicines & Cures, News, Questions, Tonics | Tagged Americans, Antique Gallery of Houston, Battle of Tippecanoe, Brianna Westfall, california, canoe, Dan Cowman, Drake's Plantation Bitters, Figural, Glass Works Auctions, Governor William Henry Harrison, H. H. Warner, Houston, Lance Westfall, Log, Meyer, Mushroom, Native, New York, Old Town Spring, Peach Ridge, Rochester, Safe Cure, san diego, Steve Jackson, Tecumseh, Tenskwatawa, Terry McMurray, Tippecanoe, Tippecanoe River, Wabash River | 1 Comment

Latest news from Outhouse Patrol up in Montana

Posted on 19 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

“We awoke to a very cold early October rainy morning after trying to sleep through high winds whistling through the broken out windows and creaking old door.” Always nice to hear from my friend James Campiglia and the Outhouse Patrol … Continue reading →

Posted in Collectors & Collections, Digging and Finding, FOHBC News, News | Tagged Auburn, Butte, Chis Rowell, Ghost Town, James Campiglia, Montana, Outhouse Patrol, privy | Leave a comment

Charles Lediard and his Liquor Products

Posted on 12 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

C H A R L E S L E D I A R D and his Liquor Products 12 November 2012 (R•020116) (R•061318) (R•070718) (R•082819) With my post the other day on OK PLANTATION Bitters (see: OK Plantation Bitters – the … Continue reading →

Posted in Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Digging and Finding, Figural Bottles, History, Spirits | Tagged bitters, C. Lediard, Charles Berlin, Charles Lediard, Charleston Mercury, Dick Watson, Eric McGuire, Franklin B. Hastings, Jacob Berlin, Lediard and Co., London, Lou Lambert, Mint Julep, Morning Call, New York, ok, Old Dominion, Plantation, St. Louis, Steve Mello, Stomach, The Southern Intelligencer | 5 Comments

OK Plantation Bitters – the “Big Boys”

Posted on 11 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

O K P L A N T A T I O N B I T T E R S the “B I G B O Y S” If you remember, some time back, towards the end … Continue reading →

Posted in Bitters, Bottle Shows, Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Digging and Finding, Facebook, Figural Bottles | Tagged 1840, 1863, 1868, Big Boy, Bob Currens, Brian Shultis, cabin, Dale Santos, Ed Barber, ferdinand meyer, Figural, Greg Sweet, Heckler, Jack Stecher, Jeff Noordsy, John Feldmann, John Panella, Ken Aldrich, Kentucky, locomotive, Mark Warne, Model Railroader, Odyssey, OK Plantation Bitters, Rick Ciralli, Tami Barber, Union Pacific, Vermont, White River Junction | 3 Comments

The low down on Submarine Poisons

Posted on 6 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

S U B M A R I N E P O I S O N B O T T L E S “So that it may goe under water unto the bottome, and so to come up … Continue reading →

Posted in Civil War, Collectors & Collections, Figural Bottles, History, Poison Bottles | Tagged Civil War, coffin, Ferdinand Meyer IV, Harper's Weekly, Poison, Skull, Sub, Submarine, Torpedo, William Bourne | Leave a comment

Looking at Coffin Poison Bottles

Posted on 5 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

C O F F I N P O I S O N B O T T L E S Recently I did a post on Skull Poison Bottles. There is no doubt, at least in my mind, that … Continue reading →

Posted in Collectors & Collections, Figural Bottles, History, Poison Bottles | Tagged Bottle, coffin, Ferdinand Meyer IV, Joan Cabanis, Monster, Poison, Skull | Leave a comment

“In keeping with the Dr. Townsend’s theme started by others”

Posted on 4 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Looks like we have some really nice dialog and pictures of older Dr. Townsend’s Sarsaparilla’s over at Early American Glass on facebook from the usual suspects like Rick Ciralli, Mark Yates, Jeff Noordsy, Woody Douglas, Matt Greig, Michael George, Taylor … Continue reading →

Posted in Collectors & Collections, Early American Glass, Facebook, Glass Companies & Works, Sarsaparilla | Tagged Albany Glassworks, Coventry, Dr. Townsend, Jeff Noordsy, Lancaster Glass Works, Lockport Glass Works, Mark Yates, Matt Greig, Matthew Tigue Levanti, Michael George, Mt Pleasant, Mt. Vernon Glass Works, Rick Ciralli, Stoddard, Taylor McBurney, Willington, Woody Douglas | Leave a comment

An eBay bottle leads to something much bigger!

Posted on 3 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

I was in southern California earlier in the week and was able to have dinner at a really fantastic Indian restaurant in San Bernardino with my friends Pam and Randy Selenak from Orange, California. During the course of dinner, Pam … Continue reading →