Macbeth – Act IV – Scene 1 – William Shakespeare
[PRG] As a collector of Bitters Bottles I find this highly appropriate reading!
Ferdinand-
Thought you’d like a pic of my latest DRAKES line-up, now including the famous “Henness Pink Drakes” (Thanks again Mike!). My blue-green example is arguably the “BEST AND BLUEST” in existance, with little green showing. An Ex. Frank Kurczewski bottle, it is also full of character, with strong mold impression and pristine.
Share on Peachridge if you wish!
Regards,
JEFF (FROGGY) BURKHARDT
[PRG] Hmmm….. be interesting to compare this against MY pink Drakes!
Drakes Bitters Color Grouping - Burkhardt Collection
John Pastor has a nice example of a C.H. Swain’s Bourbon Bitters in his current American Glass Gallery Auction #7. The bottle is written up as follows:
“C.H. Swain’s – Bourbon – Bitters”, America, 1865 – 1870. Beautiful olive yellow, square with slightly tapering sides and beveled corners, applied sloping collared mouth – smooth base, ht. 9 ¼” width 2 ¾” (at shoulder) x 2 ½” (at base), virtually attic mint; (a little disturbance on the cover glass of a 1/8” narrow bubble on the shoulder, otherwise pristine). R/H #S 227. Gorgeous color and a very rare bitters from Chicago. Provenance: ex: Chris Batdorff collection. (See 1st picture below)
Beneath the picture I have provided two (2) pictures from my collection, one being the R/H 228 variant.
Read More: Interesting Swain’s Bourbon Bitters
C. H. Swain’s Bourbon Bitters – American Glass Gallery Auction #7
S 227 SWAINS BOURBON BITTERS, Circa 1860’s – 1870’s
C. H. SWAINS // BOURBON // BITTERS // f //
9 x 2 3/4 (6 7/8) 3/8
Square slightly tapered, Amber and yellow olive, LTC, Applied mouth, Rare
The LaPorte Union, March 14, 1866 – Keokuk newspaper advertisement:
A healthy tonic, gentle stimulant and unequalled morning appetizer. Prepared in ripe old bourbon whiskey. Free from grain oil, with flowers, buds and barks of the highest medicinal value. By increasing the appetite, assisting digestion, regulating bowels, and giving tone to the system, they impart strength to the body and cheerfulness to the mind.
C. H. Swain’s Bourbon Bitters (S 227) – Meyer Collection
S 228 SWAINS BOURBON BITTERS, Circa 1865 – 1875,
C. H. SWAINS // f // BOURBON / BITTERS // f //
C. H. Swain, proprietor 34 South Water Street Chicago, Illinois
9 x 2 5/8 (6 7/8) 3/8
Square, Amber, LTC, Applied mouth, Scarce
Panel tapers 1/8 inch wider at shoulder than at base
C. H. Swain’s Bourbon Bitters (S 228) – Meyer Collection
Writing about my granddaughter, Adriana this morning (read Granddaughter Adriana stirs up traffic at Balto Show – 2004) led me to the APBCA (American Poison Bottle Collectors Association) web site. Adriana is a member. She really took a liking to member Joan Cabanis at the Baltimore Antique Bottle Club Show sometime around 2003.
Poison Bottles - Adriana Meyer Collection
I thought I would post a little more information here. This is a strong group that is well represented.
Click for APBCA Membership Application:
Adriana Meyer – ACHA 2011 World Campion Finalist
Elizabeth just found these pictures which really made me smile. This is my granddaughter Adriana at the 2004 Baltimore Antique Bottle Show (visit Baltimore Antique Bottle Club). She must have been 7 years old or so. She will be 16 this December. She spends most of her time on horses now and with ACHA events. She is also a member of the Antique Poison Bottle Collectors Association. She really knows my bottles though. She will circle back eventually…I hope. Really proud of that girl.
Closing in on a transaction – look at her table traffic!
That is my father Ferdnand Meyer IV in the foreground
A smile will always increase sales!
Decisions…decisions…
Ferdinand:
Would you put this notice on the FOHBC website and Peachridge Glass.
This should be a eye opener for bottle collectors as well as insulator collectors.
Richard (Siri)
Dwayne Anthony, of Highland, CA, is an active bottle digger and has been collecting bottles and insulators since 1985. He began studying the effects of radiation and thermal exposure on antique glass insulators in the early 1990s. Shortly thereafter he teamed up with the National Insulator Association (NIA) to begin an ongoing educational program to assist collectors with identifying irradiated and thermally altered colors that are sporadically found in glass insulators. To aid in establishing an informative presentation and a comprehensive database, Dwayne has altered nearly 100 different glass insulator specimens and provided detailed reports on the results. He assembled a portable Altered Insulator Educational Exhibit that is shipped around the country to insulators shows, with all costs fully subsidized by an NIA educational fund. Due in part to these efforts, Dwayne has been awarded the National Insulator Association’s Outstanding Service Award and the distinguished Lifetime Membership Award.
Dwayne Anthony, with the support of the National Insulator Association, is pleased to offer this educational seminar concerning the effects of radiation and thermal exposure on vintage and antique glass. All discussion will be presented in an easy to follow format, with very little technical dialogue. The specimens exhibited during the seminar will be glass insulators from the mid/late 1800s to the early 1900s, however it should be noted that all collectible glassware can be susceptible to similar alterations. Collectors of antique glass in general, including bottles, should find this information informative, as well as thought provoking.
[PRG] email exerpt from Dwayne to Richard Siri who is responsible for setting up the Seminars at the FOHBC 2012 Reno Expo.
Here’s a link to some of my research (follow the links at the bottom to see some pics of samples I could bring along): http://www.nia.org/altered/index.htm
Dwayne
Open-Wire Insulator Services, http://www.open-wire.com
Just a FEW altered insulators pictured
I wrote a post earlier today about Sullivan Auctioneers and their Jim & Linda Baier Auction Listing. Read…
LRB’s! – Sullivan Auctioneers – The Jim & Linda Baier Collection
Here are some more nice cropped pictures…
Blue Milk Glass Barnett Pleated Round balls and pendents
Antique Car and Moon and Star Lightning Rod Balls
Facing Pair of Cows Weathervane
Stacked Hexagons on Weathervane
Rooster and Thompson Flat Quilt pattern Lightning Rod Balls
Pair of Facing Sheep and Plain Round BMG Balls
Three Pigs and Barnett Pleated Rounds
Prancing Horse
Ruby Red Quilt and Plain Rounds with matching Pendants
Silver Mercury Plain Round and Pendants
Stacked Arrows and Stained Glass
Boy would I like to be in this room...
Received a really interesting Auction poster from Sullivan Auctioneers. Have not heard of these folks. A little research shows a lot of farm equipment and land sale auctions. BUT…. look at all these really GREAT lightning rod balls, pendents and vanes. WOW! Now we are talking! From their Auction Listing
Selling an extremely impressive, very large collection of weather vanes, lightning rods, lightning balls and finials. Also selling advertising signs, guns, vintage Coke machine and many other neat & unusual items. Complete collection being moved from Ft. Madison, IA to Sullivan Auction Site, Hwy. 136 East, Hamilton, IL for this sit-down style catalogued auction. Live internet bidding will be offered! The “Baier” Collection, Jim & Linda Baier – Sellers.
Fantastic offering of weathervanes to include: Several styles and sizes of cows; several styles and sizes of pigs; several styles and sizes of trotting, prancing, walking and circus horses; other weathervanes such as antique cars, sheep, chickens, donkey, corn and others. Hundreds of lightning rod glass balls including various Mercury in numerous colors, also cobalt and other blue colors, sun color Amethyst SCA, amber, milk glass, ruby red, white, red, other various shades; nice selection of hanging tear drop pendant style glass balls with colors such as cobalt blue, gold Mercury, red, silver Mercury, blue milk glass and others (some of these appear to be NOS); other weathervanes with colored glass inserts, many of which have advertising such as Black Swan Co., Barnett, Kretzer, Miller, James, Electra, other glass inserted kite tails such as red hearts and balls, shooting stars, yellow slag, ball and arrow and many, many others; other lightning rod related items will include SCA sharp pleat pumpkin 5″ ball, SCA sharp pleat 5 1/2″ ball, chestnut balls, caramel slag doorknob ball, green milk glass ball, amber & clear green ribbed grape 4 1/2″ ball, Barnett 4 1/2″ balls in green and cobalt colors, ribbed grape ball, Barnett “round ribbed” blue balls, SCA raised quilt and sharp pleat balls, flat quilt Mercury balls in several colors, D&S balls in slag, cobalt blue, silver, gold and amber mercury, other milk glass swirl balls in white and blue, several Hawkeye lightning balls; large quantity of other related items such as finials, lightning rod stands, brackets, related advertising signs, etc.
Stack of Orange Milk Glass balls on a vane
A number of gorgeous weathervanes adorned with various lightning rod balls
Yellow amber Shinn and Barnett Pleated Round balls
Great looking Thompson Flat Quilts stacked high
Two Cole Swirls with a Flat Quilt. Look at those arrows!
Ouch - amazing
Three National Ribbed Grapes
Figural corn vane and Raised Quilt LRB
What a display of Hawkeye accessories
National Lightning Rod products - Look at those Diddle Blitzens on top row
Stack of great looking Ruby Red balls
04 – 06 November 2011 (Friday – Sunday) Springfield, Ohio The 41st Mid-Ohio Insulator Show (dealer set up at noon on the 4th with collectors in at 3:00 pm) at the Clark County Fairgropunds. Springfield, Ohio, www.insulators.info/shows/springfield, Info: Steve Blair, 740.852.3148, CSB50@sbcglobal.net or Glenn Drummond, 334.257.3100, glenn@patent-1871.com
05 November 2011 (Saturday) Jacksonville, Florida Antique Bottle Collectors of North Florida’s 44th Annual Show & Sale (8:00 am – 3:00 pm with early buyers Friday 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm) at the Fraternal Order of Police Building, 5530 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville, Florida, Mike Skie, 3047 Julington Creek Rd, Jacksonville, Florida 32223, 904.710.0422 or Jackie McRae 904.879.3696
06 November 2011 (Sunday) Royal Oak, Michigan The Metropolitan Detroit Antique Bottle Club’s 29th Antique Bottle Show & Sale, (9:30 am to 3:00 pm) at the Royal Oak Elks Lodge #1523, 2401 E. Fourth Street, Royal Oak, Michigan. $2.00 Admission. Info: Michael Brodzik 586.219.9980, bottlemike@wowway.com or Bruce Heckman, 248.760.1722, hisser@comcast.net
06 November 2011 (Sunday) Elkton, Maryland The Tri-State Bottle Collectors and Diggers Club 39th Annual Show & Sale (9:00 am to 2:00 pm) at the Singerly Fire Hall, Routes 279 & 213, Elkton, Maryland. Info: Dave Brown, 302.738.9960, dbrown3942@comcast.net
2011 - Figural Fish Bitters in a color line (Meyer Collection)
Jerry Forbes just sent me this picture. Made me smile. Miss my bottles and bottle friends. Cold, gloomy and lonely here in my hotel in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
The last time this run was photographed in 2007, the blue fish had not joined the school.
2007 - Victorian Room (Meyer Collection)
