Dr. Rattinger’s Herb & Root Bitters – St. Louis

Posted on 29 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Dr. Rattinger’s Herb & Root Bitters

St. Louis, Missouri

29 November 2012 (R•112613 – Clear Example Pic) (R•112813 – Trade Card) (R•092018)

An interesting Dr. Rattinger’s Herb & Root Bitters square (pictured on far left above) is on eBay now. The word ‘unlisted’ caught my attention and refers to the base embossing. A portion of the write-up on eBay is as follows:

Dr. Rattinger’s Herb & Root Bitters St. Louis Mo. Orange/Amber (see eBay listing)

[eBay: dendirtyd, Platte City, Missouri] This is a nice orange amber attic type condition bottle embossed Dr.Rattinger’s Herb & Root Bitters St. Louis, Mo. This bottle is unlisted I believe in the Ring & Ham Bitters bottle book, even in the supplement. They have no listing for the M.G. Co. on the base. This bottle is as crude and whittled as they get. The best one I have ever seen. Just a faint rinseable content stain and a pin point open bubble on the beveled edge. Excellent condition on this one and never in the ground. No chips,cracks or dings. The bid is for the one bottle only.

eBay Pictures

I have a pretty decent example of a Dr. Rattinger’s so the eBay post prompted me to try to look into the Doc a litter further. What a name huh? “Children, it’s time to go see Dr. Rattinger. He will make you feel better.” When I was in the first or second grade, we had a school nurse named Miss Pusey and our school Principal was named Mr. Fuchs. As a kid, I can remember us little torkers really having a field day with that. And I thought being named Ferdinand was tough as a kid! So here we have Dr. Rattinger, Actually a strong German name.

The Carlyn Ring and W.C. Ham listing in Bitters Bottles is as follows:

R 11 DR. RATTINGER’S HERB & ROOT BITTERS, circa 1860

DR. RATTINGER’S / HERB & ROOT BITTERS / ST. LOUIS MO. //
f // f // f //
R. Rattinger, M.D. 321 N. Fourth Street, St. Louis
9 1/8 x 2 3/4 (6 3/4)
Square, LTC, Applied mouth, Amber – Scarce; Clear – Extremely rare
Trade Mark No. 205, dated 1860, Also manufacturers of Rattinger’s Fever Drops.

There is actually a R 12 example that is slightly smaller and base embossed L.G. CO.

R 12 DR. RATTINGER’S HERB & ROOT BITTERS

DR. RATTINGER’S / HERB & ROOT BITTERS / ST. LOUIS MO. //
f // f // f // b // L.G. CO.
8 5/8 x 2 5/8 (6 5/8)
Square, Amber, LTC, Scarce

Rainer Rattinger was born in Bavaria, Germany about 1832 and was listed as a patent medicines manufacturer in St. Louis. His address is noted as being in the rear of 3211 S. 5th, in St. Louis at one time. He apparamtly lived in his shop as his residence address is listed as the same. Graduated Class of 1864 St. Louis Medical College. Dr. Rattinger was also an assistant Surgeon with the Union 40th Regiment Infantry Volunteers. He enlisted in 1865. There is also a listing for a Dr. Rattinger’s Bitters and Rattinger’s Medical Company in Sappington, Missouri. Rainer Rattinger’s wife was named Matilda. He had three daughters and one son. Dr. Rattinger died on January 17, 1897.

Front and back – Dr. Rattinger’s Herb and Root Bitters trade card – Joe Gourd Collection

Dr. Rattinger Gallery

Orange amber DR. RATTINGER’S HERB & ROOT BITTERS – Meyer Collection

292. “DR RATTINGER’S / HERB & ROOT BITTERS / ST. LOUIS MO.”, (Ring/Ham, R-11), Missouri, ca. 1885 – 1895, clear glass, 9 1/8”h, smooth base, 85% original label in part reads: ‘Dr. Rattinger’s Herb & Root Bitters, Prepared by R. Rattinger, M.D., Sole Proprietor, 2029 Sidney St. St. Louis, Mo.’ The bottle is perfect. A very rare bottle in colorless glass, especially with a label. Larry Umbreit Collection. – Glass Works Auctions – Auction #124

Clear DR. RATTINGER’S HERB & ROOT BITTERS – Faulkenberry Collection

Detail of clear DR. RATTINGER’S HERB & ROOT BITTERS – ebay November 2013

R. Rattinger Oath of Loyalty, June 26, 1866. Look at the five cent revenue stamp. Pretty cool.

Listing for Dr. Rattingers Bitters

Missouri Civil War Pensions, 40th Infantry Regiment, Field & Staff, Rattinger, Rainer, Rank: Asst. Surgeon, Date: May 23, 1892

Dr. Rattinger’s Family Medicines advertisement. – Cairo Daily Bulletin, August 11, 1871

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Sometimes it feels great to get things done!

Posted on 28 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Antique Bottle Eye Candy!

Ferdinand,

Have a look at these… Sometimes it feels great to get things done! My enclosed, properly lit cabinet came out wonderful. Now with a flip of a lightswitch I can enjoy my glass anytime! My theme as you can see is just some simple, fat, thick colors and different shapes. Antique Bottle Eye Candy!

Thanks for the fresh consistent updates to the website. It’s an honor for all the bottle collectors to have a site as nice and up to date as yours. It WILL keep the hobby alive, and it will keep me checking everyday! Take care!

Brett Weathersbee

[PRG] Thank you Brett. You did a great job and have a good eye for glass and how to display.

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Log Cabin Series – Drake’s Plantation Bitters

Posted on 28 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Log Cabin Series – Drake’s Plantation Bitters

28 November 2012 (R•090615) (R•090218) (R•110718)

D R A K E ‘ S P L A N T A T I O N

B I T T E R S

There is no bitters brand that has been written about, talked about, collected or simply admired more than the classic Drake’s Plantation Bitters figural log cabin. You also do not have to be a bitters or figural collector to have a Drakes. I see them in figural, medicine, Civil War, cure, tonic, remedy, Western and just about every other type of collection. Just about everybody wants a Drakes or two in their collection. Some like myself, go for color runs.

Origins of Drake’s Plantation Bitters or Old Homestead Tonic

[Excerpts from the Evening Star, Wednesday, October 15, 1862]

Drake’s Plantation Bitters or Old Homestead Tonic are put up in Patent Bottles, representing a Swiss cottage and are an adornment to the sideboard.

Drake’s Plantation Bitters or Old Homestead Tonic is made from St. Croix Rum, Sugar Cane plant and Calisaya or King’s Bark.

This medicinal make-up was unknown until the middle of the seventeenth century. The natives of Peru were generally supposed to have been long previously acquainted with its most wonderful medicinal qualities. Humbboldt makes favorable mention of the febrifuge qualities of this article as an antidote to Fever and Ague, Intermittent and Malarious Fevers, in his extensive South American travels.

The Countess, wife of the Viceroy of Peru, having in her own person experienced the beneficial effects of the bark, is said, on her return to Spain, in the year 1640, to have first introduced this remedy into Europe. After its introduction it was distributed and sold by the Jesuits, who are said to have obtained for it the enormous sum of its weight in silver. From this circumstance it was called Jesuit’s Powder, a title which it retained for many years.

In 1658, we are told that an Englishman by the name of Sir John Talbot employed it with great success in France, in the treatment of Fever and Ague, Dyspepsia, Nervous Affections, Loss of Appetite, Weakness and Debility, Palpitatation of the Heart, Diarrhea, &c, &c. under the name of English Powders; at length, in the year 1679, he sold the secret of its origin and preparation to Louis XIV., by whom was divulged. It is now the standard remedy, and is employed in the preparation of the Plantation Bitters.

On Peachridge Glass alone, there has been eight unique and dedicated posts (see below) on Drake’s.

Read: The “Blue-Green” Drakes Mystery

Read: Drake’s Plantation Bitters Label Question

Read: I brought a few of my Drakes to the Houston Show

Read: Information on the Drake’s Plantation Bitters Variants

Read: What is an Arabesque Drakes Plantation Bitters

Read: Drakes Plantation Bitters – Encased Postage

Read: One of the Crudest Drakes You Will Ever See

Read: Drake’s Plantation Bitters Article Raises Serious Questions – Cecil Munsey, PhD

So what do we do here when it has probably all been done before? Well….we can create a Drakes ‘Allstar Page’ or a ‘Best of Drakes’ page or a David Letterman styled ‘Top Ten Reasons to Collect Drake’s’ list. Let’s do that! I always disliked when musical groups did a compilation album but none-the-less, I am going to go deep in my files and show you why this bottle is so great. So here we go with the Top 1o Reasons to Collect Drakes. And by the way, these are my top 10 reasons. You can switch them around or have other reasons. That’s cool.

TOP 10 REASONS TO COLLECT DRAKE’S PLANTATION BITTERS

Reason #1o: Houston, We have a Patent on the Bottle

Some of the other cabin figurals have patents for the ingredients. Here we have an actual patent in 1862 for the cabin form bottle.

“Be it known that I, P. H. DRAKE of Binghamton, in the county of Broome and State of New York, have invented or produced a new and original Design for a Bottle…”

United States Patent Office – P. H. Drake of Binghamton, New York. Design for a Bottle – Specification forming part of a design No. 1538 dated February 18, 1862

Reason #9: Great Photographs of Tough Looking Characters Drinking Drake’s

There are a some great historical photographs of gents drinking Drake’s Plantation Bitters such as this young man posing with a mug and a bottle of Drakes. One can only hope that the bartender kept that mug frosty to make that Drake’s taste ‘oh so much better’. Obviously from his look, he has not had a drink yet…or maybe he just had a drink and froze.

Reason #8: You Can Find a Drake’s Just About Anywhere

Someone once said, “You could have lined up, end-to-end, all of the discarded Drake’s Plantation Bitters and created a glass line from New York to California…and back!” You find Drake’s in shipwrecks, privies, attics, under porches, behind walls, in grandmas pantry, in the barn, antique shops, yard sales, bottle shows, eBay, auctions, you name it. It is not really hard to find a Drake’s. It was not hard either to buy a Drakes on your way to the California gold fields or returning with your booty or lack thereof. Drake’s was sold everywhere.

A Drake’s Plantation Bitters bottle is excavated from the SS Republic shipwreck site, 1,700 feet below the ocean surface. A soft limpet suction device attached to the manipulator arm of Odyssey’s Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV), ZEUS delicately removes the bottle from the seabed. – Odyssey Marine Exploration

Drake’s Plantation Bitters fresh from a privy.

Encrusted Drake’s Plantation Bitters – Matthew T. Levanti

Reason #7: You get to Try to Figure out What S–T–1860–X means.

The cryptic slogan really locked the product into the minds of the public, bringing speculation as to its meaning. It was widely held that it meant Started Trade in 1860 with $10, but Drake later explained it in his post-war almanacs Morning Noon and Night. “It represents St. Croix—S.T. being the conventional equivalent of Saint, and 1-8-6-0 standing for the letters C-R-O-I, and so forming, with the concluding X, the word CROIX. Nothing can be more simple, or, it may be, more appropriate. St. Croix Rum is a stimulating basis of the Plantation Bitters, and it is, therefore in accordance with the fitness of things, that St. Croix should be the basis of their business shibboleth.”

[Steven James Anderson] I still firmly believe that had the ST been meant to imply “saint” for ST. Croix, there would not be a period after each letter on the encased postage, or a “dash” designation after each letter on the label. I have read each of the “Morning, Noon and Night” pamphlets cover to cover, and found no mention of the meaning of S-T-1860-X., The only historical account I referenced is; “The legend of the Plantation Bitters was that it meant “Sure thing in ten years from 1860.” That is, when the inventor had made the decoction, and submitted it to a friend as an invention and marketable article, the friend, so the story goes, told him that it was a sure thing for a fortune in ten years. So, acting on this thought, he had billed the United States, “S. T. 1860 X.,” and spent half a million advertising “S. T. 1860 X.,” before anybody knew what it was all about. From the book The Indian War of 1864 by Euene Ware. Chapter X. Rations of Whisky – Era of Bitters – Artemus Ward – Major

The first in order was ‘Plantation Bitters”; next, “Hostetter’s Bitters”; third, “Log Cabin Bitters.” By the time the war broke out these bitters had been advertised with an expenditure of money which at that time was thought remarkable. Plantation Bitters appeared in 1860, and every wall and fence and vacant place in the United States was placarded with the legend, “S. T. 1880 X.” For several months everybody was guessing what the sign meant. It was in the newspapers. It was distributed in handbills on the street. It was seen at every turn, “S. T. 1860 X.” After the world had long grown tired of guessing, there appeared the complete legend, “Plantation Bitters, S. T. 1860 X.” Plantation Bitters became the bottled liquor of the age. It was made out of alcohol, water and flavoring, and was really very attractive as to taste and results.

The legend of the Plantation Bitters was that it meant “Sure thing in ten years from 1860.” That is, when the inventor had made the decoction, and submitted it to a friend as an invention and marketable article, the friend, so the story goes, told him that it was a sure thing for a fortune in ten years. So, acting on this thought, he had billed the United States, “S. T. 1860 X.,” and spent half a million advertising “S. T. 1860 X.,” before anybody knew what it was all about. – The Indian War of 1864 by Eugene Ware

What do you think? Was Patrick Henry pulling our tail?

Drake’s Plantation Bitters newspaper advertisement with the cryptic S-T-1860-X phrase at the top.

Reason #6: Well you’ve got 4-Log, 5-Log, 6-Log, Arabesque and Variants Galore!

With the D 102, D 103, D 104, D 105, D 105.5, D 106, D 106.5, D 107, D 107.5, D 108, D 108.5, D 109 and D 110 listings in Carlyn Ring and W.C Hams Bitters Bottles and Bitters Bottles Supplement there is plenty to keep the Drake’s collector interested. For the most part, collectors have ignored the lesser variances and focused primarily on collecting 4-log or 6-log examples. With the Arabesques, the rare 5-logs and other anomalies such as this monster bulbous D 107 Drake’s Plantation Bitters pictured below, we can really have some fun and specialize in a particular area. You really can not do this with any other bitters bottle. We are even finding new variations without embossing, with chamfered corners, knobbed logs etc. There is much more discovery.

The unique D 107 Drake’s Plantation Bitters as pictured in Carlyn Ring and W.C. Ham Bitters Bottles Supplement.

Reason #5: Patrick Henry Drake was the P.T. Barnum of Advertising

“He had his slogan S-T-1860-X, painted on rocks, fences and sides of barns.”

Calling himself COLONEL Drake, Patrick Henry was an aggressive self promoter, and included advertising signs in every crate shipped to retailers. The crates salvaged from the riverboat Bertrand contained gilded glass signs promoting his bitters. He had his slogan S-T-1860-X, painted on rocks, fences and sides of barns. He advertised in about any newspaper that sold space, and had even unsuccessfully tried to have his S-T-1860-X slogan painted on Niagara Falls, Mount Ararat and even the pyramids in Egypt. There was even facsimile currency advertising his product as pictured below.

Drake’s Plantation Bitters “banknote” issued around 1863. A great advertising piece.

Plantation Bitters Stereoscopic Card, America, 1865 – 1875. Black and white photographic image depicting the Flume Gorge at Franconia, New Hampshire with “Plantation / Bitters” painted in big letters on a large boulder. – Meyer Collection

Reason #4: Where Else Can You See Three Top Hobbies Merging?

I was a stamp collector first. My father collected coins when I was a child. This is a ‘trifecta’ for me. Stamps, coins and bottles all joining together with Encased Postage.

On August 12, 1862, John Gault received a patent for his ‘Design for Encasing Government Stamps’—that is, a design for encasing stamps for use as currency. Gault’s plans called for the corners of a postage stamp to be wrapped around a cardboard circle. A thin, transparent piece of mica covered the stamp, and an outer metal frame held these items secure. A heavier brass backing, suitable for advertising purposes, completed the piece. The size of a quarter but much lighter in weight, the object encased stamps from the 1861 issue-the 1-cent, 3-cent, 5-cent, 10-cent, 12-cent, 24-cent, 30-cent, and 90-cent. Gault sold his encased postage at a small markup over the value of the enclosed stamp and the cost of production.

Reason #3: Ahhh…. The Gorgeous Revenue Stamps

Revenue stamps are the fine Persian rugs of stamp collecting and early American history and product taxation. You get to learn about a later Drake’s partner Demas Barnes who was a man of many talents. He served as a Congressman, trustee of the Brooklyn Bridge, director of the Long Island Railroad, and owner of proprietary medicine patents bought from various developers. The first private die stamps used by Barnes featured a facsimile of his signature at the bottom, with both his initials. They were issued in three denominations, all of which were issued in black from March of 1863 until early February, 1865. 723,184 of the one-cent, 202,650 of the two-cent and 1,619,483 of the four-cent stamps were issued on old paper. Look at these great examples below from rdhinstl.com.

Patrick Henry Drake and Demas Barnes formed a partnership in 1861 to manufacture and market Drake’s Plantation Bitters. In 1867 Barnes and Drake dissolved their partnership and Plantation Bitters was transferred to P.H. Drake & Company, with the dies to the horizontal Barnes stamps. The two-cent and four-cent dies were altered to include the new name and a picture of the distinctive log-cabin bottle Plantation Bitters was sold in. The two-cent stamps were issued from January, 1869 through June 21, 1871. 55,128 were printed on old paper. The four-cent stamps were issued from January, 1869 through March, 1875. 1,341,142 were printed on old paper, and 657,152 on silk paper. The copy above is on old paper. – rdhindstl.com

Reason #2: The Great Labels of the Drake’s Plantation Bitters

You learn from other great collectors such as Drake’s authority Brian Shultis: “This is the only black with gold lettering S.T. DRAKE’S PLANTATION BITTERS label I have ever seen. I thought it might be unique to the 5 log mold, but Micheal George had a 5 log with the normal white label (black lettering). This label has a log cabin pictured where the usual labels have a more Plantation type house. This is a real stumper for me. ANY INFO out there?”

And the #1 reason to collect Drake’s Plantation Bitters, you guessed it… Color!

Reason #1: Drop Dead Killer Colors

Of course I am going to say color as I specialize in color runs! The Drake’s Plantation Bitters come in more colors than any other bottle I can think of. Did you know that an old timer I know swears he saw an advertisement in 1940 for a cobalt blue Drake’s? He always says, when I remind him, that he is still looking for the magazine in his thousands of old magazines stacked in his house and garage. I am also hoping that I win the $500 million Power Ball Lottery today. Better odds than finding a cobalt blue Drake’s?

Drake’s Plantation Bitters in a Killer window color run display at the Jeff Burkhardt home.

6-log Drake’s Plantation Bitters colors. I still need to add my blue-green, pink and emerald green examples.

Select Listings:

1827: Patrick Henry Drake, Birth Date: 22 Feb 1827, Birth Place: Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, United States of America – U.S. Find a Grave Index

1849: Patrick Henry Drake, First Marriage Date: 10 Jun 1849, Father: Benjamin Drake, Spouse: Jane Eldridge Lewis, Child: Virginia Maria Drake, Julia Randall Drake – North American Family Histories

1850: P H Drake, [Patrick Henry Drake] Age:23, Birth Year: abt 1827, Birthplace: New York, Home in 1850: Ithaca, Tompkins, New York, USA, Gender: Male, Family Number: 556, Household Members: Maria Drake 53, P H Drake 23, Jane Drake 23, Mary Drake 24 – 1850 United States Federal Census

1854: Benjamin Drake [father], Physician, 151 E. Broadway – New York City Directory

186o: Patrick H Drake, Manufacturer, Age: 31, Birth Year: abt 1829, Gender: Male, Birth Place: New York, Home in 1860: Binghamton Ward 3, Broome, New York, Post Office: Binghamton, Dwelling Number: 456, Family Number: 487, Real Estate Value: 5000, Personal Estate Value: 1500, Household Members: Patrick H Drake 31, Jane E Drake 31, Virginia N Drake 10, Julia R Drake 3 – 1860 United States Federal Census

1861: Patrick Henry Drake and Demas S. Barnes formed a partnership in 1860 in New York City to manufacture and market Drake’s Plantation Bitters, initially called Plantation Toddy – History of Drug Containers and Their Labels By George B. Griffenhagen, Mary Bogard

1862: United States Patent Office (see above) – P. H. Drake of Binghamton, New York. Design for a Bottle – Specification forming part of a design No. 1538 dated February 18, 1862

1862: P H Drake and Co., Manufacturer, 47 Dey, Tax Year: 1862, State: New York – U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918

1863: P H Drake and Co., Manufacturer, 105 Liberty, Tax Year: 1863, State: New York – U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918

1867: Demas Barnes and Patrick Henry Drake dissolved their partnership and Plantation Bitters was transferred to P.H. Drake & Company

1867: P. H. Drake, Plantation Bitters, 21 Park Row, N.Y. – Brooklyn New York City Directory

1868: P. H. Drake & Co. [Patrick Henry Drake], Bitters, 21 Park Row, 105 Liberty – New York City Directory

1869: January 1st, 1869, P.H. Drake & Co., New York, sole right to manufacture and sell “Sazerac” Aromatic Bitters (advertisement above) – Bitters Bottles

1870: P H Drake [Patrick Henry Drake], Age in 1870: 43, Manufacturer Of Bitters, Birth Year: abt 1827, Birthplace: New York, Dwelling Number: 117, Home in 1870: New York, Ward 21, District 16 (2nd Enum), New York, New York, Inferred Spouse: J E Drake [Jane Eldridge Lewis], Inferred Children: Mary E Drake , Virginia Drake, J E Drake, Household Members: Mary E Drake 25, Virginia Drake 19, J E Drake 14, P H Drake 43, J E Drake 42 – 1870 United States Federal Census

1870: P. H. Drake & Co. [Patrick Henry Drake], Bitters, 55 Park Place – New York City Directory

1872: P. H. Drake & Co., Bitters, 53 Park Place – Goulding’s Business Directory of New York

1877: P. H. Drake & Co. [Patrick Henry Drake], Patent Medicines, 53 Park Place – New York City Directory

1878: P. H. Drake & Co. [Patrick Henry Drake], Bitters, 53 Park Place – New York City Directory

1880: Patrick H. Drake, Chemist, Age: 57, Birth Date: Abt 1823, Birthplace: New York, Home in 1880: New York City, New York, New York, USA, Street: West 56th St, House Number: 38, Dwelling Number: 122, Relation to Head of House: Self (Head), Marital Status: Married, Spouse’s Name: Jane E. Drake, Father’s Birthplace: New York, Mother’s Birthplace: New York, Household Members: Patrick H. Drake 57, Jane E. Drake 51, Virginia Drake 28, Julia Drake 22 – 1880 United States Federal Census

1882: Patrick Henry Drake, Death 4 Nov 1882, Death Place: Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Cemetery: Spring Forest Cemetery, Burial or Cremation Place: Binghamton, Broome County, New York – U.S. Find a Grave Index

1882: Patrick H Drake, Merchant, Age: 55, Birth Date: abt 1827, Birth Place: Ithaca, New York, Death Date: 4 Nov 1882, Death Place: Boston, Massachusetts, Hotel Brunswick, Cause: Acute Pericarditis, Father: Benjamin Drake, Mother: Maud Drake – Massachusetts Death Records

1883: After Drakes death business operated by William P. Ward, Proprietor

1884: P. H. Drake & Co., Patent Medicines, 81 Beekman – New York City Directory

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The One Worth Coming Back To

Posted on 27 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

The One Worth Coming Back To

TOM LEVEILLE

Everyone who digs bottles at some point or another will have a situation that they are faced with, for one reason or another… “Stop”. The phrase worse than “NO” when asking permission.

“Stop”. The phrase worse than “NO” when asking permission.

It could be time constraints, weather, home owners, you name it. Having to stop digging when you aren’t finished, is something that you never want to do. It will addle a mind, let me tell you. Especially when your head hits the pillow. The hole becomes a story, a legend, spectacle even, in bottle talk. It is a harrowing thing to have to walk away from something undone. Though, there is a bit of magic maybe, serendipity as some would have it, when an opportunity arises that allows closure, or finished business.

It started in conversation, over privys that had been abandoned during digs, so the gang decided, the worst they could say is “no”. Permission was attained, and out came the tools, immediately we were finding mixed items in the top foot, which an unknowing team, would surely steer away if they were not aware of the love/hate situation that lie beneath them. The tenure of this dig was 10 years. A Pepsi bottle with the date of “2002” came out 3 feet down, but we knew, untold things lie 10 more feet down. So the story went, some weather had moved in, and the team before us called it quits, without getting to “the layer”. We dug 12 feet, through lunch stuffs and pieces to pontils that any team without knowing, would have long since canned it. Then, it happened. A bottle.. a WHOLE bottle! We hit “undug” and out they came, laid in the bottom of this privy were hundreds of stoneware & pottery pieces for us to glue, five pontiled medicines, a pontiled ink, and over THIRTY local pontiled sodas, four of which were intact. Boy what a blast we had, And “the privy that was” could finally be laid to rest.

Tom Leveille is a prolific digger, historian and collector of Virginia bottles. He asked if readers would be interested in some Virginia, Baltimore and Philadelphia digging stories with his hole moles Chris Rowell and Phil Edmonds. These guys are the best of the best. Tom is from Anchorage, Alaska and now resides in Newport, News Virginia.

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Log Cabin Series – Holtzermann’s Patent Stomach Bitters (2-Roof)

Posted on 26 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

The earlier 2-roof Holtzermann’s Patent Stomach Bitters

HOLTZERMANN’S PATENT STOMACH BITTERS

The Earlier 2-Roof Cabin

26 November 2012 (R•061014)

The later 4-roof Holtzermann’s Patent Stomach Bitters

Yesterday, I wrote about the later 4-roof (pictured directly above) Holtzermann’s Patent Stomach Bitters (read: Log Cabin Series – Holtzermann’s Patent Stomach Bitters Compound (4 Roof) and pretty much hung my hat on most of the information previously noted by Steve Sewell over at Antique-Bottles.net. The information Steve provided was fantastic though I have come across some other information that raisesa few questions. I believe the Holtzermann liquor business did, in fact, start with Jacob Daniel Holtzermann (born 1808) from Bremen, Germany and not Christopher August Holtzermann (born 1840) as Steve suggests.

J. D. Holtzermann advertisement – W.W. Reilly & Co.’s Ohio State Business Directory for 1854-5

The 1870 Federal Census (see below) does not mention a son named Christopher August Holtzermann in the Jacob Daniel Holtzermann family, unless he was omitted for some reason such as already leaving home. He could have been the first son of three and he did marry a few years earlier so this probably covers this question. Only the sons George and Louis Holtzermann are noted, and indicated as working as clerks in the liquor business, presumably with their father. I simply believe that the RootsWeb information is incorrect that Steve may have referenced or J.D. Holtzermann forgot he had a son Christopher, which I doubt. The patent records also list a J.D. Holtzermann patenting the product, not Christopher August Holtzermann.

I can almost believe my own thinking but I now find a newspaper article clipping from 1898 for the obituary of George Christopher Holtzermann. He was noted as the second son of Christopher August Holtzermann who was married to Elise Schetter. George Christopher was also listed as a grandson of J.D. Holtzermann.

Anyway, I need to untangle this. In the meantime, here are some nice pictures and information on the earlier 2-roof Holtzermann’s Patent Stomach Bitters (Note: GreatAntiquebottles.com example pictured at top of post).

Enlarged detail page advertisement of J.D. Holtzermann & Sons, Sole Manufacturer of Holtzermann’s Celebrated Stomach Bitters, Importers & Wholesale Dealers in Liquor – Piqua, Ohio – 1875 (see full page advertisement below)

The Carlyn Ring and W.C. Ham listing in Bitters Bottles is as follows:

H 155 HOLTZERMANN’S PATENT STOMACH BITTERS, Circa 1865 – 1875

// s // HOLTZERMANN’S ( sp ) / PATENT / STOMACH / BITTERS // sp // cabin // cabin // cabin // sp //
9 1/4 x 3 1/4 x 2 3/4 (5 1/8)
Rectangular cabin, Amber, LTC, Applied mouth, Scarce
Stylized logs like hoops on barrels

Holtzermann Listings

Jacob Daniel Holtzermann – born 1808 (Bremen, Germany) married to Johanna L. Dettmer – born 1808 (Bremen, Germany) – died 1887.

They had four children. George (born 1844), Louis (born 1850), Minnie (born 1854) and Helen (born 1856) *There is no mention of a Christopher August Holtzermann

RootsWeb info:

Christopher August Holtzermann
(born August 20, 1840 – died July 6, 1875)

Descendants of Heinrich Eberhard Holtzermann
Descendants of Christian Friedrich Schetter

Christopher August Holtzermann was born on Aug 20, 1840 in Piqua, Ohio. He was the son of Jacob Daniel Holtzermann and Johanna L. Dettmer.

He appeared on the 1850 Federal Census of Piqua, Washington Township, Miami County, Ohio in the household of his parents. He appeared on the 1860 Federal Census of Piqua, Miami County, Ohio in the household of his parents.

Christopher married Elise Schetter, daughter of Heinrich Friederich Ludwig Schetter and Tibetha Gertrude Holtzermann, on Nov 26, 1863 in Piqua.

Christopher and Elise appeared on the 1870 Federal Census of Piqua, Miami County, Ohio, enumerated July 1, 1870, with their children Johanna, George, Louis and Jacob and Elise’s mother and sister, Tibetha (Debertha) and Caroline. Also in the house were domestics Anna Schafer and Mary Kruise.

May 7, 1867 – Patent of 2-Roof Holtzermann’s Patent Stomach Bitters

Christopher died on July 6, 1875 in Piqua at the age of 34 years, 10 months and 16 days. He was buried on July 7, 1875 in Forest Hill Cemetery, Piqua.

Children of Christopher August Holtzermann and Elise Schetter:

*Notice conflicting dates and children below. Louis and George are constant but to young for the 1870 Federal Census.

Louis J. Holtzermann (Sep 18, 1864 – Nov, 1931)
George Holtzermann (1865 – Dec, 1898)
Johanna M. Holtzermann (Sep, 1867 – Sep, 1935)
Jacob Daniel Holtzermann (Sep 10, 1869 – Nov, 1911)

1870 – George and Louis Holtzermann both listed as liquor clerks in presumably their fathers store in Federal Census.

1875 – Illustration of J. D. Holtzermann & Sons Liquor in Piqua, Ohio

December 2, 1884 – Patent of 4-Roof Holtzermann’s Patent Stomach Bitters

Two different Coat of Arms are represented for the German Holtzermann name

Holtzermann Bitters, which are very extensively sold through Western Ohio, Indiana and Illinois – History of Miami County

Great illustration in the lower right of J.D. Holtzermann & Sons Liquor – 1875 (see detail above)

1870 Federal Census. Jacob D. Holtzermann listed as a Liquor Dealer. He was 61 years old in 1870. His sons George and Louis “Clerk in Liquor Store”, presumably the same store. His wife Johanna is also 61 years old. Both are from Hanover, Germany. Value or Real Estate: $23,100. Value of Personal Estate: $35,000.

Patent document for Jacob D. Holtzermann of Pique, Ohio dated May 7, 1867 [2-roof]

“Holtzermann’s – Patent / Stomach / Bitters”, America, 1865 – 1875. Medium to deep golden amber, rectangular cabin form, applied sloping collared mouth – smooth base, ht. 9 3/8”, R/H H#155. Certainly one of the classics of the early cabin bitters. – American Glass Gallery Auction #9

2-roof HOLTZERMANN’S PATENT STOMACH BITTERS in bright orange amber – American Bottle Auctions

2-roof HOLTZERMANN’S PATENT STOMACH BITERS in a pretty amber – Meyer Collection

Original Booz treadle type mold in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Mold boy has no heavy weight to lift other then the individual articles as they are removed from the mold and placed on the adjoining stand. Mass produced large in size heavy molds such as the Booz Bottle, Kellys Old Cabin Bitters, all of the Calabash flasks and some common whiskey bottles require the use of a treadle mold. The treadle mold is operated by the blower, opening and closing the mold by applying pressure to a lever with his foot. By using this method the mold boys job is much easier as the boys work is limited to removing the bottles from the mold as it is opened by the blower, in which the mold boy becomes a take-out helper rather then a mold boy. – Steve Sewell (Antique-Bottles.net)

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Log Cabin Series – Holtzermann’s Patent Stomach Bitters Compound (4 Roof)

Posted on 25 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

“Contains no poisonous drugs or added poison.”

HOLTZERMANN’S PATENT STOMACH BITTERS

The Later 4-Roof Cabin

25 November 2012 (R•061814) (R•071714) (R•052917) (R•022518) (R•101818)

Most bitters and figural collectors are very aware of the early 2-roof and later 4-roof molds for the rectangular Holtzermann’s Patent Stomach Bitters. Very few of us are aware of the history behind these bottles, including myself. I will start out today with the later bottle, the Ring/Ham H 154 4-Roof figural cabin. Do not expect to see a great array of colors as in the Old Homestead Wild Cherry Bitters as these bottles come in amber shades only. You will also see a great labeled example and a miniature in this post. I want to point out that Steve Sewell has done the lions share of earlier work on the Holtzermann family. His comments can be supported by other material I have reviewed online.

Patent document for Jacob D. Holtzermann of Pique, Ohio dated May 7, 1867 [2-roof]

The Carlyn Ring and W.C. Ham listing in Bitters Bottles is as follows:

H 154 HOLTZERMANN’S PATENT STOMACH BITTERS, Circa 1885 – 1895

// s // HOLTZERMANNS ( cu ) / PATENT / STOMACH / BITTERS // shingles // shingles // shingles // motif cabin // motif cabin // sp // motif cabin //
L…Holtzermannn’s Patent Stomach Bitters Compound, Ahrendt Sons Co.,
Sole Manufacturers, Toledo, Ohio
Ahrendt Sons Co. Sole Manufacturers Toledo, Ohio
9 3/4 x 3 3/8 x 2 3/4 (5 3/8)
Rectangular cabin, Amber, LTC, Applied mouth and Tooled lip, Common

Note: Realistic logs except between windows and between window and door. Letters of Holtzermann’s weakly embossed on most examples. There are some examples with very bold embossing with window panes showing. These examples are Scarce. This may be a different mold. There are at least four (4) variants with and without an apostrophe on Holtzermann’s.

Label: Established 1836. Recommended as a great appetizer and stomach tonic. Contains no poisonous drugs or added poison.

Advertised in 1889.

An advertisement with a bottle of Holtzermann’s Stomach Bitters set amongst fruit. “Holtzermann’s Stomach Bitters For Sale Here! J. D. Holtzermann & Sons, Wholesale Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Liquors. Cor. Of Main & Water Sts. Piqua, O.” No date. 17 x 22. Chromolithograph. *I am tying to track this down. From John Bartley: This was on display (see picture below) at an Ohio Bottle Club show a couple of years ago. I believe it belongs to Ted Christ. Using the same address, or at least on one of the other corners, “California Wine House/Main(e) and Water Sts./Piqua, Ohio.” (see picture to left)

Look closely at the bottle in the framed picture above. Unembossed, pontiled, Cabin-Form Holtzermann Bitters, America, 1860 – 1865. Golden amber, square with beveled corners, one full-length label panel having large dots along the edge, applied sloping collar with lightning-type closure added at a later point – red iron pontil scar, ht. 9 7/8″, attic mint! An extremely rare mold, and while not unique, is believe to be one of only a handful known to exist. Very distinctive and different from the preceding lot with evidence suggesting that it was likely blown for the Holtzermann Bitters Co. – American Glass Gallery

AHRENDT & SONS CO. , Toledo, Ohio.  1890-1915, The company used the brand name: “Crack Shot.”, Business name timeline:  Ahrendt & Hacker (1890-1895), Ahrendt & Sons (1900-1905), Ahrendt & Sons Co. (1906), The Ahrendt & Sons Co. (1914-1915), Address timeline: 604 Monroe (1890-1895), 522 Monroe (1900-1905), 512 Monroe (1906-1915) [pre-pro.com]

South east view of early Piqua, Ohio

Patentees for the Year 1884 – Holtzermann’s Celebrated Patent Stomach Bitters – J.D. Holtzermann & Co., December 2, 1884 [4-roof]

[Steve Sewell – Antique-Bottles.net] Christopher August Holtzermann was born on August 20, 1840 in Piqua, Ohio. He was the son of Jacob Daniel Holtzermann and Johanna L. Dettmer. He appeared on the 1850 Federal Census of Piqua, Washington Township, Miami County, Ohio in the household of his parents. He appeared on the 1860 Federal Census of Piqua, Miami County, Ohio in the household of his parents. Christopher married his second cousin Elise Schetter, daughter of Heinrich Friederich Ludwig Schetter and Tibetha Gertrude Holtzermann, on November 26, 1863 in Piqua. Christopher and Elise appeared on the 1870 Federal Census of Piqua, Miami County, Ohio, enumerated July 1, 1870, with their children Johanna, George, Louis and Jacob.

Piqua was originally a small hamlet originally developed as a combination of log/frame homes, small shops, taverns and inns, and small family-based industries. Early crossroads began the community’s growth as a marketing center for the surrounding farm lands. The first brick residences were constructed along Main Street in 1819 and began the community’s true architectural history. The first local building style reflected Federal style elements with very little ornamentation. These local Federal Style homes were very restrained by today’s standards, but in the 1820s and 1830s reflected prosperity and high style.

The completion of a segment of the Miami & Erie Canal to Piqua in 1837 promoted the next growth period up through 1860. Canal traffic encouraged the construction of shops fronting on both Main Street and the canal. Imposing Greek Revival Style homes began to be built within two blocks to the east and west of Main Street. These new homes added a wealth of architectural detail to the same basic rectangular design of the earlier Federal Style. The local commercial versions of the Greek Revival Style during the 1840s and 1850s, with their plain stone lintels, were a bit more modest in their use of architectural detailing. However, the builders of these solid two and three story brick shops began to change the street scape of the town by filling in the vacant lots and demolishing the log and frame shops along Main Street.

This commercial growth began pushing the residential center to Wayne Street and the manufacturing center to Spring Street. The Columbus, Piqua and Indiana Railroad reached the downtown in 1856 and led to the led to the third building boom from 1860 through 1880. During this era, the Italianate style flourished in both residential and commercial variations. Two and three story brick shops with narrow and elongated windows were built on Main Street. The first and largest of these new Italianate buildings was completed in the 1860s on the northwest corner of the square. For the next twenty years this style dominated the downtown with its restrained yet prominent window hood molds and cornice brackets. The long narrow open floor shops filled the first floors while the upper floors were reserved for residences, offices, and lodge halls.

It was in this last growth spurt in the early 1860s that Christopher August Holtzermann went in to business a local domestic Liquor Merchant and Druggist who had a small store at the corner of Main and Water Streets. On May 7, 1867 Charles August Holtzermann patented his formula for bitters -composed of pure spirits, sugar, orange peel, orange apple, oms root, galanga root, gentian root, calamus root, wormwood, ginger, cardamon seed, cassia, mace, nutmeg, cloves, and coriander seed. [PRG: I do not think this information is correct]

In 1871 he advertised “Holtzermann’s Stomach Bitters For Sale Here! August Holtzermann Wholesale Dealer in Foreign and Domestic Liquors. Located on the Corner of Main & Water Streets. Piqua, Ohio”.

Bitters Shot Glass, ‘Holtzermann’s / Celebrated / Stomach Bitters / J.D. Holtzermann & Co. / Piqua, Ohio’, (Ring/Ham, H-154), Oho, ca. 1890 – 1900, clear glass with etched lettering, 2 1/4”h, smooth base, tooled rim. Perfect condition. Extremely rare, very few, if any collectors of bitters shot glasses will have this one! – Glass Works Auctions – Auction 119

Back Bar Bottle, ‘Holtzermann’s / Stomach / Bitters’ (in white enamel script lettering), (Ring/Ham, pg. 285), Ohio, ca. 1885 – 1895, clear glass bottle, 10-vertical rib pattern twisted to the right, 11 1/8”h, smooth base, tooled lip. – Glass Works Auctions

Holtzermann’s Patent Stomach Bitters were very extensively sold throughout western Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.

The bitters were bottled in a two story (see above) Cabin Shaped bottle. Most Liquor merchants were still reeling from the Federal raids which had occurred in the late 1860’s on Liquor dealers who were accused of avoiding taxes on whiskey by simply calling their product bitters. Business went well and Christopher amassed a fortune in a short time. Business was still booming but Christopher fell ill in June of 1875. He never recovered and died a month later on Jul 6, 1875 in Piqua at the young age of 34. He was buried on July 7, 1875 in Forest Hill Cemetery, Piqua.

His son Louis J. Holtzermann was born on Sep 18, 1864, a second son Jacob Daniel Holtzermann was born on September 10th, 1869. With their fathers unexpected death first Louis and then Jacob were both forced to work at a very early age in the company store. Jacob was quite the business man by the age of 17 in 1886. He and his brother Louis were now expanding the business. J.D. Holtzermann & Co, Wholesale Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Liquors located at the Corner Of Main & Water Streets Piqua Ohio have sucessfuly opened a second business located in Minneapolis Minnesota. The large department store opened in 1887. They continued to carry the Bitters which had made them wealthy men at a young age.

The two roof bitters bottle embossed Holtzermann’s on one roof panel and Patent Stomach Bitters on the other evolved into the 4 roof version which was embossed on one roof Panel Holtermanns Patent Stomach Bitters. The cabin design lasted until 1885 and then a completely different version a 4 sided square one (see above) like most of the other bitters bottles of the day. The 2 roof variants are somewhat rare and proof versions of those are extremely rare. The square shaped 1885 to 1910 version which is embossed Holtzermanns/ Stomach/ Bitters on one panel and then on the opposite panel the embossing reads J. D. Holtzermann & Co./ Piqua O. is actually listed by Ring and Ham as extremely rare (actually listed as common). A small salesmen sized ( 4 1/2 inches tall ) (*actually 4″) 4 roof cabin version is also a rare bottle. A back bar bottle with a twisted neck embossed Holtzermanns Stomach Bitters is also listed as a very rare bottle.

Ring and Ham in their book list the original proprietor of Holtermanns Bitters as J D (Jacob Daniel ) Holtzermann and stated it was he who took out the patent in 1867. This was immpossible as he was not born until the end of 1869. It was his father Christopher or August as he was known in the German Community who first patented the bitters. [end Steve Sewell] *?* Jacob Daniel Holtzermann

Jacob Daniel Holtzerman was also a Minneapolis Department Store owner (“Holtzermann’s Chicago Store” – Chicago was apparently added to the name to glamourize it) who held a Masters Degree in International Law from Harvard. He was and a minor state politician. He was also the publisher of an isolationist weekly, the Minnesota Beacon and was a supporter of America First and an acquaintance of Charles Lindbergh. Holtzermann’s father or uncle was born in 1869 in Piqua, Ohio, and held the patent on Holtzermann’s Patent Stomach Bitters, a preparation intended to aid digestion (and which may have contained alcohol) but which is now mostly known for the collectibility of the bottles it came in. He and his brother Louis came to Minneapolis in 1887 and opened the store. It’s not clear whether Jacob died young, but Jacob D. Holtzermann, born in 1902, was either the son or nephew of the first Jacob D. He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1921, studied in Geneva and Munich, and received a Master’s in International Law from Harvard – and then came back and ran the store. He made numerous trips to Europe on buying expeditions. Whether because or in spite of his cosmopolitan outlook, Holtzermann was a staunch isolationist in the years leading up to World War II, and one of some influence, since he owned a local isolationist paper, The Minnesota Beacon. But unlike some America Firsters, he was not an anti-Semite. A Lutheran, he belonged to a local organization called the Roundtable of Christians and Jews (and this meant something, because Minneapolis was a very anti-Semitic city in those days). When Charles Lindbergh was making speeches which might have been open to interpretation as anti-Semitic, he wrote to the aviator urging him to repudiate such statements. Lindbergh did not. In later years Holtzermann was active in Republican politics and attempted to gain the nomination for State Senator in 1966; he died in 1969. The store closed a few years later. The building still stands and apartments in it are advertised as being in the “Historic Holtzermann Building.”

Fully labeled HOLTZERMANN’S PATENT STOMACH BITTERS at the FOHBC 2012 Reno Expo – Stecher Collection

John Bartley: This was on display at an Ohio Bottle Club show a couple of years ago. I believe it belongs to Ted Christ.

Labeled HOLTZERMANN’S PATENT STOMACH BITTERS – American Bottle Auctions office display

Red amber HOLTZERMANN’S PATENT STOMACH BITTERS – Meyer Collection

Dark amber with cork HOLTZERMANN’S PATENT STOMACH BITTERS – Meyer Collection

Bright Dark orange amber HOLTZERMANN’S PATENT STOMACH BITTERS – Meyer Collection

4″ tall sample HOLTZERMANN’S PATENT STOMACH BITTERS – Meyer Collection

Labeled miniature HOLTZERMANN’S PATENT STOMACH BITTERS (not an Andy Warhol painting) – ebay

“HOLTZERMANN’S / PATENT STOMACH BITTERS – J.D. HOLTZERMANN & CO / PIQUA, O.”, (Ring/Ham H-155.5), Ohio, ca. 1880 – 1890, medium root beer amber, 9 3/8”h, smooth base, tooled mouth. CONDITION: About perfect, (a pinhead in size flake is off the outer edge of the lip). Extremely rare, one of only a very few known examples! – Glass Works Auctions #102

Holtzermann’s Stomach Bitters trade card (reverse blank) – Joe Gourd Collection

J.D. Holtzermann & Co. letterhead signed by J.D. Holtzermann – ebay

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Log Cabin Series – Old Homestead Wild Cherry Bitters

Posted on 24 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Log Cabin Series – Old Homestead Wild Cherry Bitters

24 November 2012 (R•052814) (R•031817) (R•101818) (R•111218)

OLD FOLKS AT HOME!

O L D H O M E S T E A D

W I L D C H E R R Y B I T T E R S

Patronized by the medical profession, the military hospitals, as well as the bar, the saloon and the sideboard, they supply the desideratum so long demanded by the public as the Universal Friend.

With the holidays, it is finally time to do a comprehensive series on figural log cabin bottles. And wow, what a way to start with the widely popular Old Homestead Wild Cherry Bitters. As Wisconsin collector, Jeff Burkhardt reminds us, technically it is not a log cabin, but a clapboard-sided house bottle. None-the-less, it will be our starter and the Old Homestead is certainly grouped as a figural cabin.

Old Homestead Wild Cherry Bitters was trade marked in June 1863 by George Scott from Rome, New York. His design was patented in 1864 and was marketed by Thomas B. Slingerland & Company. They were partners.

George Scott was born in England in 1827 and was one of Rome, New Yorks oldest and best known residents. He came to the United States as a young child with his parents. The family located in Troy, New York. As a teen, young Geoge learned the printing trade from Horace N. Bill, who at that time published the Old Roman Citizen. After completing his apprenticeship, he and Alfred Sandford purchased the paper, their firm being called Sandford & Scott.

He later disposed of his interest in the paper and entered the drug business and located on Dominick Street in Troy eventually becoming the sole owner of a drug store. After a few years, he disposed of this business and moved to New York City and opened up a drug store on Beekman Street. While in New York, he perfected the formula for Old Homestead Wild Cherry Bitters, and returning to Rome, began its manufacture and sale on an extensive scale, partnering with Thomas Butler Slingerland. Their headquarters in Troy was on South James Street opposite Stanwix Hall. Slingerland was primarily a tobacco and cigar dealer.

With the death of his partner in the mid 1880s, Scott left the drug store concern and entered the real estate business. Later he would file a lawsuit against the Slingerland estate.

THOS. B. SLINGERLAND

Manufacturer and Jobber in

Patent Medicines, Havana Cigars

Old Homestead Wild Cherry Bitters come in a wide variety of drop-dead gorgeous colors such as the lemon yellow example pictured below which was previously sold by Ed and Kathy Gray with GreatAntiqueBottles.com.

There are a number of variants of the Old Homestead bottle which include 12 pane and 15 pane windows of which I can not find a good picture of the 15 pane variant. There is an illustration of the 15 pane variant in Bitters Bottles. There are also variants with the door ending above the base and another with the door going to the bottom of the bottle. You will see examples in this post. You will also see the ‘best of the best’ Old Homestead examples including the cobalt blue example and the emerald green example with the inside screw top. These examples are considered among the top bitters bottles.

Note: I am looking for advertising and labeled examples for this post.

“To the above are added Clove Buds, Orange, Carraway, Coriander and Snake Root. The whole is combined by a perfect chemical process, and under the immediate supervision of a skillful and scientific Pharmaceutist…are put up in patent bottles, representing a Swiss cottage, and are an ornament to the sideboard.”

New York Times, June 28, 1862 (Referencing Drake’s Plantation Bitters and Old Homestead Tonic)

What is interesting in the above advertising text is the reference to a Swiss cottage and the obvious use of a cabin figural form to be pleasing to the eye when placed in a sideboard.

The style of Ebenezer Zane’s Old Log Cabin reminds me of the Old Homestead Wild Cherry Bitters form. The first building erected in Wheeling built 1769, torn down 1908. This is the cabin to which Elizabeth Zane made her heroic dash for powder during the siege of Ft. Henry by the British and Indians. Postmarked 1909. – Historic Wheeling Wiki

Three OLD HOMESTEAD WILD CHERRY BITTERS (lots 23, 24 & 25) in the Carlyn Ring offering

The Carlyn Ring and W.C. Ham listing in Bitters Bottles is as follows:

O 37 OLD HOMESTEAD WILD CHERRY BITTERS, circa: 1860 (1863) – 1875

// s // OLD / HOMESTEAD / WILD CHERRY / BITTERS. // motif of shingles // PATENT // sp // motif shingles //
9 7/8 x 2 7/8 x (5 7/8) 3/16. Square cabin, LTC, Applied mouth, Amber, Common; Yellow, Lime, Puce and Olive yellow, Rare; Cobalt Blue, Extremely rare; Green and Amber with inside screw and glass stopper, Extremely rare.
T. B. Slingerland & Co., No 69 Beekman Street, New York

Label: Compounded from wild cherry bark and fruit, Jesuit’s bark, Prairie Red Bloom, Madaril Indian Orientalis and several other choice strengthening, purifying and life-giving medicinal agents, forming the most helpful and pleasant beverage, stimulating tonic, and cleansing bitters for improving the appetite giving tone and vital energy to the blood and system, unsurpassed for medicinal purposes for hotels, voyagers, family use etc.

These bitters are in an eminent degree strengthening, purifying, diuretic, stimulating and nourishing to the whole system, giving new life and activity to every organ and part alike, without that ever recurring reaction that follows the use of all other tonics and stimulants ever before discovered.

As a morning appetizer, no other tonic or stimulant in the universe can equal them. For disordered digestion, imperfect circulation of the blood and exhausted vital energy, they give permanent and prompt relief. They nourish the blood, replenish the system, and every nerve and muscle is made to fulfill its natural functions.

No beverage or stimulant has ever given such universal satisfaction. Patronized by the medical profession, the military hospitals, as well as the bar, the saloon and the sideboard, they supply the desideratum so long demanded by the public as the Universal Friend.

Trade Mark No. 3307, dated June 1863 by George Scott, Rome, New York. Design patented 1864.

Note: There are a number of variants of this bottle which include 12 pane and 15 pane windows with door ending above the base and going to bottom of the bottle. The Cobalt blue example, and the Emerald green with inside screw top example are considered among the top bitters bottles. Letterhead dated February 23, 1869, T. B. Slingerland, Rome NY.

Read: A couple of great Old Homesteads show up in Baltimore

The Bottles

“Whitney glass works had a huge presence in the city of New York in the mid 1800’s. The glass works clientele list of 1865 shows a Whitney Patent inside screw stopper for this bottle. It would be safe to assume that if they were producing inside screw stopper enclosures for this bottle that they would have access to the mold for the bottle as the tops were usually LTC type. I can’t see them importing topless bottles to put their inside screw stoppers on them. Although rare the bottle does exist. I also believe that they were produced in the Lancaster glass works in New York state and this alone explains the different colors we sometimes see in a lot of the bitters bottles.” – Steve Sewell (antique-bottles.net)

Newspaper clipping about a glass contract for Old Homestead Wild Cherry Bitters. It doesn’t specifically state the glass works but I believe they are referring to Pittsburgh (McKee & Brother(s)) – Brian Wolff

Collateral Pieces

Receipt reading Bought of T.B. Slingerland & Co., No. 69 Beekman Street, N.Y. – Old Homestead Wild Cherry Bitters, dated September 22, 1864. Reads: Receipt for, ‘4 Doz. Old Homestead Wild Cherry Bitters, 8.50 | 34.00’. – Meyer Collection

Receipt reading ‘Bought of T.B. Slingerland’, Rome, N.Y., January 1868 – Meyer Collection

Framed Slingerland & Co. Old Homestead Wild Cherry Bitters advertising – Meyer Collection

GALLERY

OLD HOMESTEAD WILD CHERRY BITTERS in yellow with slight green tone – Meyer Collection

[door going to bottom of the bottle] OLD HOMESTEAD WILD CHERRY BITTERS in a bright golden amber shading to light yellowish honey along the lower roof lines, square cabin form, applied sloping collared mouth – smooth base, ht. 9 ¼”, very near mint; R/H #O37. A bright, pretty example, lighter than normal, with nice strong embossing. – American Glass Gallery Auction #9

[door ending above the base of the bottle] OLD HOMESTEAD WILD CHERRY BITTERS in yellow amber – Meyer Collection

The famous cobalt blue OLD HOMESTEAD WILD CHERRY BITTERS – Fuss Collection

Puce OLD HOMESTEAD WILD CHERRY BITTERS – Stecher Collection

OLD HOMESTEAD WILD CHERRY BITTERS in orange amber – Meyer Collection

The only OLD HOMESTEAD WILD CHERRY BITTERS in dark green with screw cap – photo Bitters Bottles Supplement

Just an AMAZING Old Homestead Wild Cherry Bitters in WILD CHERRY! “OLD / HOMESTEAD / WILD CHERRY / BITTERS – PATENT”, America, 1865 – 1875. Gorgeous, medium-to-deep strawberry puce, cabin form, applied sloping collar – smooth base, ht. 9 3/8”, virtually attic mint; (a couple of tiny pinprick specks of roughness on the edge of the lip, otherwise perfect). R/H #O37. An extremely rare and desirable color, it has been more than 20 years since another example has been offered at auction. Provenance: Joe Kray collection, purchased at Cherry Hill, NJ Nat’l, 1994. Absolutely no amber is this one, a fabulous color. – American Glass Gallery

Labeled Old Homestead Wild Cherry Bitters – Cooperstown Museum in New York.

\OLD HOMESTEAD WILD CHERRY BITTERS in yellow green – photo Bitters Bottles Supplement

OLD HOMESTEAD WILD CHERRY BITTERS in a fabulous window color run – Burkhardt Collection

Four OLD HOMESTEAD WILD CHERRY BITTERS lined up in the legendary windows of the John Feldmann collection

Considerably bright window shot of two legendary OLD HOMESTEAD WILD CHERRY BITTERS. The emerald green example is now in the Sandor Fuss collection. The lemon yellow example is in the Bill Taylor collection. Note inside screw and glass stopper for the emerald green example.

Select Listings:

1827: George Scott was born in England in 1827.

1849: Mr Thomas B Slingerland Marriage on 10 Sep 1849 to Frances M Terry – Christian Intelligencer of the Reformed Dutch Church, 1849, New York

1862: Thos B Slingerland, perfumery , Stanwix across canal – Boyd´s Directory of Rome, Camden and Oneida, 1862-63

1863: Old Homestead Wild Cherry Bitters Trade Mark No. 3307, dated June 1863 by George Scott, Rome, New York. Design patented 1864.

1864: Newspaper advertisement (below): “Old Folk’s At Home!” Old Homestead Wild Cherry Bitters, T. B. Slingerland & Co., Proprietors, 69 Beekman Street, N.Y. – Bloomville Mirror, New York – 1864

1864: Thomas B Slingerland, manufacturer perfumery & patent medicine, 67 Washington – Boyd´s Directory of Rome, Camden and Oneida, 1864-65

1865: Newspaper advertisement (below): “Stand Down The Hall” Old Homestead Wild Cherry Bitters, T. B. Singerland (sic) & Co., Proprietors, 69 Beekman Street, N.Y. – Reading Times, Wednesday, July 19, 1865

1866: Thomas B Slingerland, chemist and perfumer, h 123 James – Rome, New York, City Directory, 1866

1868: Newspaper notice (below): “Other Articles in the Hall” – George Scott present in the Hall, Old Homestead Wild Cherry Bitters, T.B. Slingerland manufactures it at 197 Chrystie Street, N.Y – “Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society – The Gift of Charles L. Flint of Boston (H.C. 1849) June 27, 1868

1870: Thos Slingerland, Age in 1870: 43, Birth Year: abt 1827, Birthplace: New York, Dwelling Number: 215, Home in 1870: Rome Ward 5, Oneida, New York, Dealer In Patent Medicines, Personal Estate Value: 5000, Real Estate Value: 10000, Inferred Spouse: Frances Slingerland (40), Inferred Children: Lorrie Slingerland (20) – 1870 United States Federal Census

1873: Thomas B Slingerland, patent medicines, h 123 James – Kimball’s Rome City Directory, 1873-74

1874: Patent: 1,541. – Cigars. – THOMAS B. SLINGERLAND, Rome, N.Y. Application filed November 15, 1873. “‘Roman Emperor.’” 1,542. – Cigars and Tobacco. – Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, 1874

1877: Thomas B Slingerland, cigars and tobacco, h 123 James – Rome, New York, City Directory, 1877

1880: Thomas B. Slingerland, Age: 54, Manufacturer of Medicine, Birth Date: Abt 1826, Birthplace: New York, Home in 1880: Rome, Oneida, New York, Street: James Street, House Number: 123, Dwelling Number: 156, Spouse’s Name: Frances Slingerland, Father’s Birthplace: New York, Mother’s Birthplace: New York – 1880 United States Federal Census

1880: Thos B Slingerland, medicines and cigars, h 123 James – Rome, New York, City Directory, 1880

1887: Lawsuit: George Scott, v. Frances M. Slingerland, as Exr’x, etc., of Thomas B. Slingerland, deceased, Respt –(Supreme Court, General Term, Fourth Department, Filed April, 1887.) – The New York State Reporter

Ex: Action by the plaintiff to recover for labor and services alleged to have been performed for defendant’s testator, at his request, under an employment and in pursuance of a. contract in the manufacture and sale of a compound known as “The Old Homestead Wild Cherry Bitters,” in a peculiarly shaped bottle, for which the plaintif held the patent, which bottle was known as a “cottage bottle.” The referee has found as a fact, viz.: “That there was no contract entered into between George Scott, the plaintiff in this action, and said Thomas B. Slingerland, deceased, as appears in the paper offered and received in evidence, marked Exhibit 2, and that the evidence fails to show that any cause of action stated in the complaint in this action existed in favor of the said plaintiif as against the said defendant.”

1909: George Scott obituary. “George Scott Passes Away” – The Rome Daily Sentinel, January 5, 1909.

Posted in Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Druggist & Drugstore, Figural Bottles, History, Liquor Merchant, Tonics | Tagged Beekman, Brian Wolff, Burkhardt, cabin, cottage, Drug Store, Ebenezer Zane, Ed Gray, Figural, Fuss, George Scott, John Feldmann, Kathy Gray, Log, Meyer, New York, Old Homestead, Series, Stecher, Steve Sewell, T. B. Slingerland, Taylor, Thomas B. Slingerland, Troy, Wild Cherry Bitters | 4 Comments

Bottles on the Steamship SS Republic

Posted on 24 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Constructed in 1853 and launched at Fells Point, Baltimore. Christened as the Tennessee on August 31.

BOTTLES ON THE

S T E A M S H I P S S R E P U B L I C

24 November 2012

I wanted to circle back after honing up on the Steamboat Arabia (Read: Looking for Bottles Carried on the Steamboat Arabia) and Steamboat Bertrand (Read: Looking at some of the Bitters Bottles on the steamboat Bertrand – Part 1 and Looking at some of the Bitters Bottles on the steamboat Bertrand – Part 2 posts to look again at the bottles on the Steamship SS Republic. Over the years, these three ships and their booty have gotten intermixed in my mind and these posts have helped sort them out.

I have touched on the SS Republic before though more ‘tongue in cheek’. Read: Bottles From The Deep SS Republic Shipwreck Square Bitters Bottle on eBay and My Big Idea

SS Republic

[Wikipedia] The SS Republic was a sidewheel steamship, originally named Tennessee (also named USS Mobile for a time). The SS Republic was lost in a hurricane off the coast of Georgia in October 1865, en route to New Orleans. In 2003, the wreck was located 100 miles off the coast of Savannah, Georgia. The artifacts are on display in selected museums, along with video stories about passengers and crew members.

Early Years

1853: Constructed and launched at Fells Point, Baltimore (see picture above). Christened as the Tennessee on August 31. First used as a merchant vessel in commercial service transporting passengers and cargo.

1855: The Tennessee was sent on the first trans-Atlantic crossing from Baltimore.

The ship, built in Baltimore, Maryland, for the famed War of 1812 Veteran, James Hooper, was launched in 1853, as the Tennessee. She began her service as a merchant vessel plying the Baltimore – Charleston route. Not long afterward, she was sent on the first trans-Atlantic crossing by a Baltimore steamship, sailing to Southampton, England, and Le Havre, France. A short time later Tennessee was used to open the first regular passenger steamship service between New York City and Central America.

1856: First regular passenger steamship service between New York City and Central America.

1856-57: Sailed the Nicaragua route transporting “49’ers” to the eastern shores of Panama and Nicaragua to travel to California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. The Tennessee delivered the last group of “immigrants” volunteering as mercenary soldiers for William Walker in Nicaragua.

During the California Gold Rush, the Tennessee transported “49’ers” to the eastern shores of Panama and Nicaragua to travel to California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. The Tennessee delivered the last group of “immigrants” volunteering as mercenary soldiers for William Walker in Nicaragua, and, after defeat of Walker’s forces, took home hundreds of disconsolate, defeated survivors.

1857: In commercial service transporting passengers and cargo from New York to New Orleans, and also from New Orleans to Vera Cruz, Mexico.

Tennessee for several years regularly served the Vera Cruz, Mexico – New Orleans route, often transporting immigrants to America as well as large sums of Mexican gold and silver. She was tied up in harbor at New Orleans when the American Civil War began on April 12, 1861.

Civil War Service

1861: At the outbreak of the Civil War the Tennessee was trapped in port at New Orleans, Louisiana, and was seized for use as a Confederate blockade runner as the CSS Tennessee.

At the outbreak of the Civil War she was trapped in port at New Orleans, Louisiana, and was seized for use as a Confederate blockade runner as the CSS Tennessee in 1861, although she was never able to escape blockade of the New Orleans harbor. After the Union capture of New Orleans, the ship was put into armed Union service, including as the flagship of United States Navy Admiral David G. Farragut for the conclusion of the Mississippi Campaign. As USS Tennessee, she was not only a fast and effective blockade ship in the West Gulf Squadron, but also a powerful gunship used to bombard Ft. Morgan during the Battle of Mobile Bay.

1862: After the Union capture of New Orleans, the ship was put into armed Union service, including as the flagship of United States Navy Admiral David G. Farragut for the conclusion of the Mississippi River Campaign.

1862-64: Other notable Civil War naval service included participation in the the Gulf Coast Blockade and the Battle of Mobile Bay.

1864: Name changed to USS Mobile after the Union’s Victory at the Battle of Mobile Bay to avoid confusion with the captured confederate ironclad also named Tennessee

In September, 1864, she was renamed USS Mobile to allow a famous Confederate armored ram ship to carry the name Tennessee after its capture. This second CSS Tennessee had been taken during a dramatic encounter at Mobile Bay. USS Mobile was damaged in a hurricane off the mouth of the Rio Grande in October, 1864, and sent to New York for repair. Upon inspection, the ship was judged too expensive to re-fit and was taken out of U.S. Navy commission in December, 1864. She was sold at auction in March, 1865, renamed SS Republic, repaired, and soon returned to the New York – New Orleans route hauling passengers and cargo. She was lost on her fifth civilian voyage after the war.

1865: Bought at auction by Russell Sturgis and investment group; repaired and refitted, then renamed the SS Republic and returned to a New York-New Orleans run in May

Wreck

October 18, 1865: The SS Republic leaves its New York pier bound for New Orleans loaded with a reported “$400,000 in specie.”

The Republic left New York on October 18, bound for New Orleans. According to her captain, she was carrying passengers and a cargo of $400,000 in coins, mostly in gold $10 and $20 pieces, intended for use as hard currency after the Civil War. The city of New Orleans, captured largely intact by the Union in 1862, had been the southern hub of Federal war efforts and was a thriving, busy city – but due to war, “hard money” (or gold and silver coin) was in very short supply.

October 23 1865: In the morning, the SS Republic encounters a gale which turns into a “perfect hurricane” before night, when the steamer was possibly off Carolina.

October 24, 1865: The paddlewheels stall and can’t carry the engine past dead center. The SS Republic is left powerless, drifting and at the mercy of the elements. Steam is raised on the donkey boiler to start the pumps.

On the fifth day of her voyage, a hurricane off the coast of Georgia proved too strong for the ship. By evening, her hull was leaking so badly that the fire in the boiler was extinguished, and she stalled in heavy seas, taking on water faster than her crew and passengers could bail her. At 4 pm on October 25, 1865, she sank. The passengers and crew escaped in four lifeboats and a makeshift raft, but 40-foot seas throughout the night made keeping them afloat a serious challenge. It was not until two days later, on October 27 that the survivors, now desperate with thirst, were found by the sailing ship Horace Beals. On October 29, the steamer General Hooker had been sent to look for the Republic, and rendezvoused with Horace Beals. The passengers were transferred and taken to Charleston. Most of the passengers and crew survived, although several were lost on the raft before they could be rescued. All the coins were lost.

October 25, 1865: At 9am, the “donkey boiler” fails and water pours into the hold. The crew begins work on a makeshift raft and prepares the lifeboats. At 1:30 pm the lifeboats and raft begin launching. At 4:00 pm, when all but 21 people were in the boats, the SS Republic sank suddenly. All passengers and crewmen safely make it into a lifeboat or raft except for two men who are last seen trying to swim through the ship’s floating debris. Captain Young is pulled down with the sinking ship, but he narrowly escapes and swims to the safety of a lifeboat.

October 26, 1865: Lifeboat #1, under the command of the Republic’s captain, is rescued by the brig John W. Lovitt.

October 27, 1865: Lifeboat #2 is rescued in the afternoon by the schooner Willie Dill. Lifeboat #3 is spotted and rescued late on the 27th by the barkentine Horace Beals.

October 29, 1865: Lifeboat #4 rescued after four nights at sea by the schooner Harper.

November 2, 1865: The raft, which departed with 14 to 18 people aboard, is spotted off Cape Hatteras by the U.S. Navy steamship, USS Tioga. Only two people remained on the raft to be rescued. The others disoriented by thirst and heat, leaped into the sea and drowned swimming toward what they falsely envisioned to have been land.

A photo mosaic image of the SS Republic steamship wreck, sunk in 1865, laying on ocean floor off Georgia, and assembled from hundreds of photos taken by Odyssey Marine Exploration’s remote-controlled submarine “Zeus.” – Odyssey Marine Exploration

Rediscovery

In August 2003, the wreck of the Republic was located by Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc., a commercial archaeology company in Tampa, Florida. She was found about 100 miles southeast of Savannah, Georgia, in about 1,700 feet of water. A salvage effort recovered about one-third of the rare 19th century gold and silver coins carried aboard, worth an estimated $75 million. Most of the hull of the ship is now gone, but the rudder, parts of the paddle wheel and the steam engine are still present. The search and recovery effort was depicted in a National Geographic Society TV documentary Civil War Gold.

There is also a book about the search and recovery, Lost Gold of the Republic. Many artifacts, from the 14,000 salvaged, plus silver coins from the 51,000 coins collected, are on display in selected museums. Artifacts have been on display in Tampa, New Orleans, Detroit, Elberta, Hot Springs, and Oklahoma City. The displays also present video stories about passengers and crew members, and where they moved years after the wreck. Lifeboats had been found and rescued at different times.

SS Republic is currently the subject of a lawsuit over the gold recovery, as E. Lee Spence claims in a lawsuit that Odyssey Marine used his information in their efforts to locate the wreck. A judge in South Carolina has ruled that the case may proceed in that state, reversing his own earlier decision.

Reference: Odyssey Marine Exploration

Read: U.S. Gold Coins: Holding the California Gold Rush in the Palm of Your Hand

A book in my collection, Bottles from the Deep – Ellen C. Gerth

A variety of bottles and ceramic ware were discovered on the Republic wreck site. Nearly 14,000 artifacts were excavated; most were likely shipped as cargo, but some of the items such as the sturdy ironstone china featured here could have been used on the ship as well. – Odyssey Marine Exploration

Silver coins spill from an eroded wooden barrel on the SS Republic shipwreck site. – Odyssey Marine Exploration

Bottles of beer recovered from the wreck of the SS Republic – Odyssey Marine Exploration

A bottle of berries, as found on the ocean floor amid the wreck of the SS Republic. – Odyssey Marine Exploration

Odyssey Marine Director of Conservation Fred Van de Walle shows a cathedral-pattered pickle bottle, one of 8,000 bottles taken from the wreck of the SS Republic.

1865 SS Republic Shipwreck Treasure Registered Bottle (see below) – on eBay now

1865 SS Republic Shipwreck Treasure Registered Bottle, more RARE than coins! – on eBay now

An assortment of glass bottles and artifacts recovered from the wreck of the SS Repulic, a small sampling of the over 14,000 bottles and artifacts excavated from the site. – Odyssey Marine Exploration

Lediard’s Morning Call Bitters Bottle. Lediard’s Morning Call was one of the may bitters bottles shipped aboard the SS Republic bound for New Orleans. The product of New York liquor merchant Charles lediard, the tonic was advertised as an “invigorating cordial bitter.” Less than a dozen examples were excavated from the site. – Odyssey Marine Exploration

A case gin bottle from the SS Republic, one of over 8,000 bottles recovered from the shipwreck site. – Odyssey Marine Exploration

Cathedral pickle bottles recovered from the SS Republic shipwreck site. These bottles once stored a variety of preserved foods important in the 19th-century American diet. – Odyssey Marine Exploration

Master ink bottles recovered from the wreck of the SS Republic were produced in varying shades of aqua, amber and green glass and feature a distinctive pouring spout for the efficient dispensing of liquid ink. – Odyssey Marine Exploration

Cathedral pepper sauce bottles recovered from the SS Republic shipwreck site. Pepper sauces were an important staple in 19th-century America, commonly used to season meat that had spoiled due to a lack of cold storage. – Odyssey Marine Exploration

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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 and various apostrophes for Udolpho Wolfes. Tom has cornered the market and truly has an outstanding collection.

The apostrophe and comma certainly poised challenges for early mold makers. Great job Tom with this wonderful look at glass typography. FYI, Tom has many more examples as this is just a taste.

The Apostrophe

The apostrophe ( ’ although often rendered as ‘ ) is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritic mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet or certain other alphabets. In English, it serves three purposes:

1) The marking of the omission of one or more letters (as in the contraction of do not to don’t).

2) The marking of possessive case (as in the cat’s whiskers).

3) The marking as plural of written items that are not words established in English orthography (as in P’s and Q’s, the late 1950’s). (This is considered incorrect by some; see Use in forming certain plurals. The use of the apostrophe to form plurals of proper words, as in apple’s, banana’s, etc., is universally considered incorrect.)

According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), ‘apostrophe’ comes ultimately from Greek ἡ ἀπόστροφος [προσῳδία] (hē apóstrophos [prosōidía], “[the accent of] ‘turning away’, or elision”), through Latin and French. The apostrophe usually looks the same as a closing single quotation mark, although they have different meanings. The apostrophe also looks similar to the prime symbol ( ′ ), which is used to indicate measurement in feet or arcminutes, as well as for various mathematical purposes, and the ʻokina ( ʻ ), which represents a glottal stop in Polynesian languages.

Good Lord. No wonder the English language is so tough. As a board member of the FOHBC, I have the luxury of having super proof-reader Bill Baab looking at my President’s Message and Bottles and Extras articles. I have to smile as Bill usually adds a hundred or so punctuation marks, usually comma’s and apostrophe’s to each article. One of these days I might get it!

One of the classic mis-uses of the apostrophe mark can be seen when viewing the variant 1 Cassin’s from the variant 2 Cassin,s – Warren Friedrich

The prismatic apostrophe

The minimalist apostrophe and squished in ‘s’

The equidistant apostrophe

Big boy hook apostrophe

King Kong apostrophe

Rising balloon apostrophe

The submerged apostrophe

The Hurricane apostrophe

Elephant Head apostrophe

Blob of Glass apostrophe

The Comma apostrophe

Trigger apostrophe

Back-swirl apostrophe

Match the serif apostrophe

Crescent Moon apostrophe

The Dimple apostrophe

Bent Slug apostrophe

The Part of the ‘S’ apostrophe

Tadpole apostrophe

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

White Seal Pure Rye – Hulman & Beggs – Terre Haute, Indiana

Posted on 23 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

W H I T E S E A L P U R E R Y E

White Seal Pure Rye – Hulman & Beggs trade card, Terre Haute, Indiana, James Modrell Representative (front) – Dave’s Great Cards (eBay)

White Seal Pure Rye – Hulman & Beggs – Terre Haute, Indiana

23 November 2012

I was looking on eBay yesterday and saw this great trade card presented by Dave’s Great Cards. Dave really comes across some cool and rare items as I have a number of them in my collection. I just love the art here and have to admit, I do not know anything about the product White Seal Pure Rye or the liquor merchant Hulman & Beggs. So my thought was to find a bottle with a label and see if the label matched, in any way, the trade card art above.

White Seal Pure Rye – Hulman & Beggs trade card reverse of above – Dave’s Great Cards (eBay)

Looking online, I see a great quote by the recently inducted FOHBC Hall of Fame recipient Jack Sullivan referencing the same art, though framed in a larger advertising sign.

“The sign advertising White Seal Whiskey points up another frequent scheme for showing female nudity: Place the ladies in a mythical or Oriental scene. Here a pair of young lovers — she bare breasted — are being escorted down their river of love on a flower garlanded boat by no fewer than five totally nude river nereids. This was a very popular bar sign from the Hulman and Beggs Company of Terre Haute, Indiana. Herman Hulman, progenitor of the famous Hulman motor racing family, was in the liquor business for many years but his alliance with John Beggs apparently lasted only from 1894 to 1896.”

JACK SULLIVAN

Here is where it gets interesting as Jack’s comment and other references also talk about the name Hulman and motor racing.

[Wikipedia] Anton “Big Tone” Hulman, Jr. (February 11, 1901 – October 27, 1977) was a businessman from Terre Haute, Indiana who rescued the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1945 and made the Indianapolis 500 popular.

Hulman is probably best known for buying the dilapidated Indianapolis Motor Speedway from a group led by World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker immediately after World War II. Influenced by three-time Indy 500 winner Wilbur Shaw (who became the track’s president in the early years of the Hulman regime), Hulman made numerous improvements to the track in time for the race to be held in 1946.

Following Shaw’s death in a plane crash on October 30, 1954, Hulman stepped into his soon-to-be-familiar role as the “face” of the Speedway. He followed the tradition of launching the Indianapolis 500 with the command, “Gentlemen, start your engines!” Into the 1970s, despite the fact he’d given the command so many times before, he would always practice it extensively beforehand, and on race day, he would invariably pull a card containing the famous words: “GENNNNNTLEMENNNNN, STARRRRRT YOURRRRRR ENNNNNNNGINES!” from the pocket of his suit as he stepped to the microphone. Luke Walton, who with Wilbur Shaw had founded the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network, was for many years a sportscaster and worked annually with Tony (and later with Mrs. Hulman) to ensure each word was delivered with the proper emphasis.

Read: Herman’s Whiskey Started the Hulman Engines

There is abundant information online including text mentioning their names from the local libraries:

The initial board consisted of William Riley McKeen, Herman Hulman, Deloss W. Minshall, Josephus Collett, Willard Kidder and Robert Nixon, president of the company. Located at the southwest corner of First and Wilson streets on the same grounds used by pioneer Terre Haute distillers Ezra Smith, Horace Button and Alexander McGregor in the 1840s, the distillery was managed by Crawford Fairbanks and John H. Beggs.

TERRE HAUTE — The second annual Licensed Saloonkeepers’ League of Indiana meeting was staged in Terre Haute on Sept. 14-16, 1893. After the delegates met in Bindley Hall, they were entertained at a banquet at the wholesale liquor firm of Hulman & Beggs which had just moved into its new five-story building, 25-27 Ninth St. at the corner of Cherry Street.

The Terre Haute Express newspaper described the firm and the event: “Herman Hulman Jr. and J. E. Beggs are both young men, the former being 27 and the latter 31 years of age. On Oct. 5, 1892, these young men formed a partnership and relieved Mr. H. Hulman Sr. of the ownership and management of the wholesale liquor department of H. Hulman.

“In assuming the great expense of entertaining their friends with such a banquet, the firm had shown their appreciation of the retailers of Illinois and Indiana.

“The large room at the rear of the offices on the first floor was tastefully decorated with flags and bunting and converted into a temporary banquet hall. The lunch was served by Caterer Sage, who was under instructions to spare neither pains nor expense in preparing a menu in harmony with the numerous other progressive strides made by Hulman & Beggs.” [Terre Haute Express 1892]

Question #1: Does anyone have a bottle and or labeled example of the White Seal Pure Rye or the the Hulman & Begg’s Wild Cherry Biters?

Question #2: Trying to link Beggs Dandelion Bitters – Chicago (note: there was a Chicago office for Hulman & Beggs) *Seeing a Charles W. Beggs on patent.

Great Web Site: www.pre-pro.com Distillers & Importers, Most leading brands of Sour Mash Whiskies and Ryes. Serving all your pre-Prohibition Research and Collecting Needs.

G A L L E R Y

Hulman & Beggs, Wholesale Liquors (picture of building exterior) – Vigo County Public Library

Exterior Hulman & Beggs showing workers – Indiana State University & pre-pro.com

Hulman and Beggs (arched script) / (picture of a large building with horses and carts in the foreground and a sign on the roof that reads: HULMAN AND BEGGS WHOLESALE LIQUORS) – pre-pro.com

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Dr. Rattinger’s Herb & Root Bitters

St. Louis, Missouri

29 November 2012 (R•112613 – Clear Example Pic) (R•112813 – Trade Card) (R•092018)

Dr. Rattinger’s Herb & Root Bitters St. Louis Mo. Orange/Amber (see eBay listing)

eBay Pictures

R 11 DR. RATTINGER’S HERB & ROOT BITTERS, circa 1860

DR. RATTINGER’S / HERB & ROOT BITTERS / ST. LOUIS MO. // f // f // f // R. Rattinger, M.D. 321 N. Fourth Street, St. Louis 9 1/8 x 2 3/4 (6 3/4) Square, LTC, Applied mouth, Amber – Scarce; Clear – Extremely rare Trade Mark No. 205, dated 1860, Also manufacturers of Rattinger’s Fever Drops.

R 12 DR. RATTINGER’S HERB & ROOT BITTERS

DR. RATTINGER’S / HERB & ROOT BITTERS / ST. LOUIS MO. // f // f // f // b // L.G. CO. 8 5/8 x 2 5/8 (6 5/8) Square, Amber, LTC, Scarce

Dr. Rattinger Gallery

Antique Bottle Eye Candy!

Ferdinand,

Have a look at these… Sometimes it feels great to get things done! My enclosed, properly lit cabinet came out wonderful. Now with a flip of a lightswitch I can enjoy my glass anytime! My theme as you can see is just some simple, fat, thick colors and different shapes. Antique Bottle Eye Candy!

Thanks for the fresh consistent updates to the website. It’s an honor for all the bottle collectors to have a site as nice and up to date as yours. It WILL keep the hobby alive, and it will keep me checking everyday! Take care!

Brett Weathersbee

Log Cabin Series – Drake’s Plantation Bitters

28 November 2012 (R•090615) (R•090218) (R•110718)

D R A K E ‘ S P L A N T A T I O N

B I T T E R S

Origins of Drake’s Plantation Bitters or Old Homestead Tonic

[Excerpts from the Evening Star, Wednesday, October 15, 1862]

TOP 10 REASONS TO COLLECT DRAKE’S PLANTATION BITTERS

Reason #1o: Houston, We have a Patent on the Bottle

“Be it known that I, P. H. DRAKE of Binghamton, in the county of Broome and State of New York, have invented or produced a new and original Design for a Bottle…”

Reason #9: Great Photographs of Tough Looking Characters Drinking Drake’s

Reason #8: You Can Find a Drake’s Just About Anywhere

Reason #7: You get to Try to Figure out What S–T–1860–X means.

Reason #6: Well you’ve got 4-Log, 5-Log, 6-Log, Arabesque and Variants Galore!

Reason #5: Patrick Henry Drake was the P.T. Barnum of Advertising

“He had his slogan S-T-1860-X, painted on rocks, fences and sides of barns.”

Reason #4: Where Else Can You See Three Top Hobbies Merging?

Reason #3: Ahhh…. The Gorgeous Revenue Stamps

Reason #2: The Great Labels of the Drake’s Plantation Bitters

And the #1 reason to collect Drake’s Plantation Bitters, you guessed it… Color!

Reason #1: Drop Dead Killer Colors

Select Listings:

1827: Patrick Henry Drake, Birth Date: 22 Feb 1827, Birth Place: Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, United States of America – U.S. Find a Grave Index

1849: Patrick Henry Drake, First Marriage Date: 10 Jun 1849, Father: Benjamin Drake, Spouse: Jane Eldridge Lewis, Child: Virginia Maria Drake, Julia Randall Drake – North American Family Histories

1850: P H Drake, [Patrick Henry Drake] Age:23, Birth Year: abt 1827, Birthplace: New York, Home in 1850: Ithaca, Tompkins, New York, USA, Gender: Male, Family Number: 556, Household Members: Maria Drake 53, P H Drake 23, Jane Drake 23, Mary Drake 24 – 1850 United States Federal Census

1854: Benjamin Drake [father], Physician, 151 E. Broadway – New York City Directory

1861: Patrick Henry Drake and Demas S. Barnes formed a partnership in 1860 in New York City to manufacture and market Drake’s Plantation Bitters, initially called Plantation Toddy – History of Drug Containers and Their Labels By George B. Griffenhagen, Mary Bogard

1862: United States Patent Office (see above) – P. H. Drake of Binghamton, New York. Design for a Bottle – Specification forming part of a design No. 1538 dated February 18, 1862

1862: P H Drake and Co., Manufacturer, 47 Dey, Tax Year: 1862, State: New York – U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918

1863: P H Drake and Co., Manufacturer, 105 Liberty, Tax Year: 1863, State: New York – U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918

1867: Demas Barnes and Patrick Henry Drake dissolved their partnership and Plantation Bitters was transferred to P.H. Drake & Company

1867: P. H. Drake, Plantation Bitters, 21 Park Row, N.Y. – Brooklyn New York City Directory

1868: P. H. Drake & Co. [Patrick Henry Drake], Bitters, 21 Park Row, 105 Liberty – New York City Directory

1869: January 1st, 1869, P.H. Drake & Co., New York, sole right to manufacture and sell “Sazerac” Aromatic Bitters (advertisement above) – Bitters Bottles

1870: P. H. Drake & Co. [Patrick Henry Drake], Bitters, 55 Park Place – New York City Directory

1872: P. H. Drake & Co., Bitters, 53 Park Place – Goulding’s Business Directory of New York

1877: P. H. Drake & Co. [Patrick Henry Drake], Patent Medicines, 53 Park Place – New York City Directory

1878: P. H. Drake & Co. [Patrick Henry Drake], Bitters, 53 Park Place – New York City Directory

1882: Patrick Henry Drake, Death 4 Nov 1882, Death Place: Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Cemetery: Spring Forest Cemetery, Burial or Cremation Place: Binghamton, Broome County, New York – U.S. Find a Grave Index

1882: Patrick H Drake, Merchant, Age: 55, Birth Date: abt 1827, Birth Place: Ithaca, New York, Death Date: 4 Nov 1882, Death Place: Boston, Massachusetts, Hotel Brunswick, Cause: Acute Pericarditis, Father: Benjamin Drake, Mother: Maud Drake – Massachusetts Death Records

1883: After Drakes death business operated by William P. Ward, Proprietor

1884: P. H. Drake & Co., Patent Medicines, 81 Beekman – New York City Directory

The One Worth Coming Back To

TOM LEVEILLE

“Stop”. The phrase worse than “NO” when asking permission.

HOLTZERMANN’S PATENT STOMACH BITTERS

The Earlier 2-Roof Cabin

26 November 2012 (R•061014)

Holtzermann Listings

RootsWeb info:

“Contains no poisonous drugs or added poison.”

HOLTZERMANN’S PATENT STOMACH BITTERS

The Later 4-Roof Cabin

25 November 2012 (R•061814) (R•071714) (R•052917) (R•022518) (R•101818)

H 154 HOLTZERMANN’S PATENT STOMACH BITTERS, Circa 1885 – 1895

Label: Established 1836. Recommended as a great appetizer and stomach tonic. Contains no poisonous drugs or added poison.

Advertised in 1889.

Log Cabin Series – Old Homestead Wild Cherry Bitters

24 November 2012 (R•052814) (R•031817) (R•101818) (R•111218)

OLD FOLKS AT HOME!

O L D H O M E S T E A D

W I L D C H E R R Y B I T T E R S

Patronized by the medical profession, the military hospitals, as well as the bar, the saloon and the sideboard, they supply the desideratum so long demanded by the public as the Universal Friend.

THOS. B. SLINGERLAND

Manufacturer and Jobber in

Patent Medicines, Havana Cigars

DR. RATTINGER’S / HERB & ROOT BITTERS / ST. LOUIS MO. //
f // f // f //
R. Rattinger, M.D. 321 N. Fourth Street, St. Louis
9 1/8 x 2 3/4 (6 3/4)
Square, LTC, Applied mouth, Amber – Scarce; Clear – Extremely rare
Trade Mark No. 205, dated 1860, Also manufacturers of Rattinger’s Fever Drops.

DR. RATTINGER’S / HERB & ROOT BITTERS / ST. LOUIS MO. //
f // f // f // b // L.G. CO.
8 5/8 x 2 5/8 (6 5/8)
Square, Amber, LTC, Scarce