Category Archives: Stoneware

The latest bottle Scams with Velma Craft or Anicia Benson or Reginald Offutt etc.

Posted on 26 August 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

The latest bottle Scams with Velma Craft or Anicia Benson or Reginald Offutt etc. 26 August 2013 (Updated 28 August 2013) *** See Update Steven Dujardin below *** I’ve been reading the various scam reports and here’s what happened to … Continue reading →

Posted in Bitters, Historical Flasks, News, Pottery, Questions, Scams & Frauds, Stoneware | Tagged Anicia Benson, Chris Sadler, Clarksville, flag, Fraud, indiana, Jennifer Diefenderfer, New Albany, paypal, Red, Reginald Offutt, Ripoff, Scam, Steven Dujardin, Steven Lamb, Velma, Velma Craft | 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

43rd Annual Atlanta Antique Bottle Show

Posted on 16 July 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

43rd Annual Atlanta Antique Bottle Show by Jack Hewitt On June 8, 2013 the 43rd Annual Atlanta Antique Bottle Show was held in Smyrna, Georgia, just 15 minutes north of Atlanta. There were 80+ sales tables and Jim Sanders, long time … Continue reading →

Posted in Bitters, Bottle Shows, Club News, Collectors & Collections, Figural Bottles, FOHBC News, Folk Art, News, Pottery, Stoneware | Tagged atlanta, Beth Schubach, Bill Johnson, Bill Keys, Bill Peek, Bottle, Cheney Lambert, Curtis Marbut, Danny Gann, Dennis Humphrey, Ed Gray, Ed Provine, Georgia, Jack Hewitt, James Lee, James Smith, Jim Sanders, Jim Scharnagel, John Joiner, John Wood, Larry Schubach, Mabel Hicks, Mike Newman, Perry Driver, Pottery, Ray Behunin, Roscoe Googe, Sandy Gray, Shelby West, show, Skyler Alley, Smyrna, Steve Fitts, Steve Johnson, Steve Lambert, Terry Wright, Tom Hicks, Tom Lines, Vic Svenson, Wanda Lee | Leave a comment

Fantasy Jug Raffle and Saratoga Bottles to be featured at the 2013 Saratoga Show

Posted on 3 May 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Ferdinand, Roy Topka with the Bottle Museum in Ballston Spa here. Local collector and artisan Jim Healy (he was tickled pink by the mention of his good work in the current Bottles and Extras) created the attached Fantasy Jug for … Continue reading →

Posted in Advice, Art & Architecture, Bottle Shows, Mineral Water, Museums, News, Pottery, Stoneware | Tagged Ballston Spa, Bottle Museum in Ballston Spa, Jim Healy, John Rudzinski, National Bottle Museum, New York, Roy Topka, Saratoga | 1 Comment

Historical Canteens – Canteen Figural Bottles

Posted on 19 January 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

HISTORICAL CANTEENS Canteen Figural Bottles 19 July 2013 (R•102913) (R•012415) (R•022115) (R•082615) Jim Hagenbuch has one of the finest H. A. GRAEF’S SON N.Y. CANTEEN bottles I have ever seen at his Glass Works Auction #96 “Cabin Fever” auction that … Continue reading →

Posted in Auction News, Civil War, Figural Bottles, Flasks, Folk Art, History, Museums, Pottery, Stoneware, Water | Tagged A. S. Campbell Co. Boston, Acoma, Bulgari, Canteen, Chinese Ming Dynasty, Civil War, Cowan's, Eugene Smith, Glass Works Auctions, H.A. Graef, Holmegaard Glasværk, Hopi, Isaac Whitehead, Jim Hagenbuch, Kentucky, Korean War, Louisville, New York, Norman C. Heckler, Revolutionary War, Seigler | Leave a comment

A question regarding an “Old Taylor” find

Posted on 19 December 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

A question regarding an “Old Taylor” find 19 December 2012 IN EVERY APPLIANCE AND APPOINTMENT, OUR DISTILLERIES ARE THE MOST COMPLETE AND PERFECT IN AMERICA I was wondering if you could do an article on this Old Taylor bottle…maybe figure … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Digging and Finding, History, Liquor Merchant, Questions, Spirits, Stoneware, Whiskey | Tagged Aaron Hanshew, Bourbon, Buffalo Trace, Carlisle, Colonel, Distiller, Edmond Haynes Taylor, Frankfort, Glenn's Creek, Jacob Swigert Taylor, James Madison, Kenner Taylor, Kentucky, O.F.C., Old Taylor, Old Taylor Castle, Taylor, Whiskey, Zachary Taylor | 1 Comment

Shafer & Vater Whiskey Nips over at American Bottle Auctions

Posted on 30 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

S H A F E R & V A T E R WHISKEY NIPS When I was at Jeff Wichmann’s over at American Bottle Auctions yesterday I was kind of surprised that Jeff had all these ceramic … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Collectors & Collections, Display, Figural Bottles, Flasks, Glass Makers, History, Holiday, Humor - Lighter Side, Liquor Merchant, Spirits, Stoneware, Whiskey | Tagged American Bottle Auctions, Bourbon, Dennis Fox, Figural, figurines, German, Jeff Wichmann, nip, nipper, Sears Roebuck & Company, Shafer & Vater, Whiskey | Leave a comment

Saloons and Establishments from Yesteryear

Posted on 1 September 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Ketcham | Yesteryear Gallery Steve Ketcham Early American Bottles, Advertising, and Stoneware www.antiquebottledepot.com Saloons and Establishments from Yesteryear 01 September 2012 Presenting the fifth gallery of vintage pictures from up North as new material has come in from Steve Ketcham. This is … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Ales & Ciders, Barber Bottles, Bitters, Breweriana, Collectors & Collections, Druggist & Drugstore, Ephemera, Hair Tonics, History, Photography, Pottery, Shaving Mugs, Spirits, Stoneware, Whiskey | Tagged barber, Beer, Blatz, Brewery, Gluek, Illinois Glass Company, liquor, Michigan, milwaukee, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minnesota Stoneware Co., photography, Prohibition, Racine, Saloon, Steve Ketcham, Whiskey, Wisconsin, yesteryear | Leave a comment

Small Inkwell Bottles Page

Posted on 24 April 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

A stunning array of small inkwells has been posted on facebook over at Bottle Collectors of late. (includes various additions of importance from elsewhere) Small Inkwell Bottles Page 24 April 2012 A stunning array of small inkwells has been posted … Continue reading →

Posted in Collectors & Collections, Facebook, Glass Companies & Works, Inks, Stoneware | Tagged Ailings, annular, Baltimore, Bennington, blown three mold, Bottle Collectors, Charles Flint, cone, Connecticut, Covill, door knob, Facebook, geometric, George Ohr, Glass Works Auctions, Harrison's, igloo, Ink, inkwell, John April, Lucy Faulkner, Michael George, Mount Vernon Glassworks, Pitkin, pontil, redware, S.O. Dunbar, Star, Tea Kettle, Umbrella | 1 Comment

Bottles from the Augusta Arsenal

Posted on 19 April 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Bottles from the Augusta Arsenal 19 April 2012 I am at the Greenville-Spartanburg airport waiting for a flight back to Houston. I never know how I will be connected with bottles each day, so today was a surprise. I had … Continue reading →