Please make SURE you follow the writings and posts of Jim Schmidt at CIVIL WAR MEDICINE (AND WRITING) blog. I met Jim in Houston recently. He is really passionate about his work. You put him and Dan Cowman together and watch out for some major information! I found Jims latest post most interesting…
Jeff is my man. I look up to him as the ‘big guy’ in the bottle world. He took me in first and led me in the right direction on many fronts. Visit American Bottle Auctions. Hope to see you in Downieville Jeff.
I did an earlier post today about the circle J.H. Cutter planned shoot-out (see post) at the FOHBC Reno 2012 Expo and it got me remembering that Lance Westfall posted the following pictures on Western Glob Top Whiskies sometime last month and again on the FOHBC Facebook page. This is pretty cool. Lance says…
“A few years ago I drew a sketch of the J.F. Cutter Extra logo during a plane flight to Reno….after reading my John L. Thomas whiskey book! I also threw in the pick and shovel as the means for unearthing many of the old bottles we search for and collect. Recently, while on my honeymoon in Maui (Lahaina), my wife encouraged me to join in with her and get a tattoo of something I am passionate about. And although there is certainly much more to life than digging and collecting old glass, it is a pretty accurate representation of the things I love to do and what I focus on most during my free time. I decided to pass on a more generic tattoo like an eagle, flames, or barbed wire, and so chose something that was more unique to what I like”.
Tom Schumm proudly wears this new tattoo of a yellow olive colored Van Vliet jar. You may have noticed that this rare jar recently sold in Greg Spurgeon’s North American Glass auction for $23,500.00. Thanks to Marianne Dow for Tom’s info.
I have written about Chris Rowell before. He is an amazing guy in Baltimore that I met through the Baltimore Antique Bottle Club to which I belong. These are a few of his pictures from a dig last saturday. He and his digging buddies found a ‘sink’ that had been patched a few times. He further states…. “and yeah we take our privy digging very seriously around here. This one ended up being about a 20 footer and never got older then the 1880s”. I was tired and it was raining towards the end of the dig so I didn’t get a picture of all the bottles we found but here are the ones I brought home”. Since I don’t dig, I follow these types of adventures and dream. PRG
Some Nice Baltimore Bottles from Chris Rowell
Antique Bottles of Baltimore (Chris Rowell Website)
Portions of an email in from Richard Siri and Marty Hall who are the organizers for the FOHBC Reno Expo next July. (FOHBC 2012 Reno Expo)
Ferdinand:
Marty and I met last week in Reno and we figured the best bitters shoot out would be with using Drakes as both eastern and western collectors have them. For the whiskey shoot out we will go with the first sole agent J H Cutter in the circle. What do you think about a third contest using umbrella inks?
You could post a notice about these shoot outs on the FOHBC website and say something like, “Do you think you own the Best Drakes? Bring it to Reno in 2012. There will be an award given to the winner”.
RTS
I note in my FMV biography at the bottom of this page, that I also collect US Postage Stamps. One of my favorite areas is tax and revenue stamps. I thought I would provide Cecil Munsey’s (visit Cecil Munsey.com) latest post which includes his collection. Really cool stamps. Well designed. Click the cover for Pages 1-23 and the image beneath for pages 24-45.
Washing milk bottles, Briarcliff Farms, near New York, N.Y. U.S.A
Hello,
I am a consultant for a forthcoming exhibition in Austria on the history of biology, based on a book I wrote a few years ago (A Guinea Pig’s History of Biology, Harvard University Press, 2007). Like the book, the exhibition is based around the various plants and animals that helped scientists understand how inheritance and genetics work.
Among the important organisms to be included in the exhibition are fruit flies (Drosophila); when these were first brought into the lab in the early C20, they were kept in half-pint milk bottles, which is why I am contacting you. Around about 1905, Professor Thomas Hunt Morgan and his students at Columbia University helped themselves to empty milk bottles from New Yorkers doorsteps. We would like to include a typical US milk bottle from this period in the exhibition and I was wondering if any of your members might have one? Arrangements for shipping, insurance, etc would all be made by the staff of the Oberösterreichische Landesmuseen in Linz, Austria, but if you would be willing to circulate this request to your membership, please ask them to contact me in the first instance.
Many thanks, Jim
Dr Jim Endersby
Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Sussex
* Mail: Arts Building A, Arts Road, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9RH
I received this email yesterday that I thought was interesting. I know there were a number of tables near me at the Houston Show full of Coke items. These guys are big and serious. I need to pay more attention to the oh so rare, Biedenharn Candy Co., Vicksburg, Mississippi bottles (see above) that show up every so often. Also need to visit the World of Coke Museum in Atlanta. Check them out. Especially the Virtual Museum which, as you may know, is my next big project for the hobby.
Hi Mr. Meyer,
I am Sharon Shanholtzer, Membership Director of The Coca-Cola Collectors Club. I am writing you in hopes you could give me some information in regards to your web site. The Coca-Cola Collectors Club is currently in the process of changing platforms and redesigning their web site. I am the chairperson of this project. I have been looking at other Collector Club’s sites, or which your Club’s is one.
I am very impressed with the layout and design of your site [editor note: FOHBC site]. I was trying to locate the design firm, or software system it was done by. The only thing I found was WordPress.org. This is a free program, correct? Did your Club do the current site with this program?
If you could fill me in on the details of your Club’s site, it would be greatly appreciated. We currently are looking at all possibilities for the redesign of our site.
Thank you for your time. If you would like to view are current site, it is at: www.cocacolaclub.org
Best Regards,
Sharon Shanholtzer
Membership Director
The Coca-Cola Collectors Club
Sharon@omegacps.com
sashanholtzer@juno.com
I grew up in Maryland and remember all of the corn fields I would see on my way to the Maryland and Delaware beaches in the summer. We would always stop at the fruit and vegetable stands and buy Silver Queen Corn. Makes my mouth water. Everything is fried and baked dry in this terrible drought in Texas so I thought I would play with and post my corn bottles!
National Bitters – Meyer Collection
Figural Whiskey Corns – Meyer Collection
Figural Corn Cologne – Meyer Collection
Fitzpatrick Whiskey Corn – Ex Meyer – Forbes Collection
Hi Ferd…
I love your site, and I’ve watched it grow since I found out about it through Jeff Wichmann [editor note: American Bottle Auctions]. You’ve done a wonderful job with it, as it’s very informative with what collectors are finding and collecting. I hope it will be here for many, many years… Good Job.
You probably don’t me, as I always kept a low profile… I use to collect rare pontiled or colored Sarsaparillas that I have sold years ago, and my late wife Kathie collected Cathedral Pickles for the last 40 years… I still have her collection, which consists of nearly 100 examples, just can’t part with them knowing how much she loved each and every one of them…
Her life long desire was to publish a book on just cathedral pickles and cathedral pepper sauce bottles, but sadly she never got around to it, and in later years when illness ravaged her body she lost interest, but she would always pick up one of her bottles and enjoy studying the mold form as she would handle each and every one over time…
Since her passing, I’ve tried to pick up where she left off with her dream of a cathedral book, but i haven’t had much success. She knew quite a bit about them, where many were blown, the years of manufacture, and which food packers used which styles. Sadly all the information she learned over the years was kept in her head, and i never really absorbed any information she shared with me.
I have contacted some collectors requesting information, but received very little. I’ve put out fliers at shows telling of my intentions and even handing copies to dealers, but never heard from anyone. I just don’t have the knowledge to do this on my own and i would love to do this in memory of my wife…
I was hoping, maybe, you would put a copy of my request on your site? A few years ago i ran an ad in Jim’s magazine, but there again I didn’t receive more than one reply. I’m sure there must be collectors out there who would like to share some knowledge for this long needed reference book, but the right haven’t seen it yet…
Ferd, if you can do this, I am truly grateful, But if there is a problem with my request, Then know, that I fully understand…
Respectfully
Bill Errera
Bill sent Peachridge Glass an earlier email with pictures of some of the subject bottles (click here). Bill’s email address is iluvtriess92@msn.com. Great material for the Virtual Museum. Hopefully this book can happen.
