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Tag Archives: amber
Reed Brothers – Dealers in Drugs & School Books
Reed Brothers – Dealers in Drugs & School Books Reed’s Celebrated Overland Bitters 07 March 2019 I like that, …”Dealers in Drugs & School Books” and also “Proprietors of Reed’s Celebrated Overland Bitters.” Here is another super tough, extremely rare … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Digging and Finding, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures
Tagged amber, Antique, Birmingham, books, Bottle, Brothers, Celebrated, Daniel Whitinger, dealer, drugs, England, express, extremely, James Reed, Jeff Burkhardt, John Reed, Lincoln, Lorenz & Wightman, mail, Michael Reed, nebraska, Nebraska City, Overland, Pittsburgh, pony, rare, Reed, Reed's, S. S. Brock & Company, school, square, Territory
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Life Everlasting Bitters – Atlanta, Georgia
Life Everlasting Bitters – Atlanta, Georgia 01 November 2018 Here is a great bitters square that John Pastor had in his recent American Glass Gallery Auction #21 which closed earlier in the week. The picture at the top of the post … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Apothecary, Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Medicines & Cures
Tagged amber, American Glass Gallery, atlanta, auction, bitters, drug, Druggist & Drugstore, Everlasting, Georgia, Heinitsh, life, rare, square
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Caldwell’s Wine & Iron Bitters – Medina NY
Caldwell’s Wine & Iron Bitters – Medina NY 13 September 2018 (R•051019-FBN) The other day I did a post on the triangular Caldwell’s Herb Bitters which was centered around York and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It reminded me of another Caldwell named … Continue reading
Celebrated Crown Bitters – F. Chevalier Sole Agent
Celebrated Crown Stomach Bitters – F. Chevalier Sole Agent 17 January 2016 Here is a nice connection with whiskey and bitters bottles submitted by FOHBC Treasurer, Gary Beatty. I worked on the pictures a little bit to work with the post. … Continue reading
Posted in Article Publications, Bitters, Bottles and Extras, liquor, Questions, Stained Glass, Whiskey
Tagged amber, bitters, Bottles and Extras, castle, Chevalier, Fortune, Gary Beatty, Glass, liquor, Meyer, Old, Placerville, rare, sacramento, San Francisco, Schwartz, stained, Western, Whiskey, window
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Arabian Bitters – One Thousand and One Nights
Did you know that there is an Arabian Bitters from Savannah? I wonder what the product name was inspired from? Arabian Nights? Or maybe from a horse or some mystical place? Maybe from a dance or Aladdin’s Lamp? Let’s see … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Digging and Finding, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Medicines & Cures, Questions
Tagged Alvarez, amber, Arabian Bitters, Arabian Nights, bitters, clerk, Druggist & Drugstore, Fernandez, Fort Pulaski, Georgia, Houston, Jacob Weichselbaum, Joseph S. Lawrence, Lawrence & Weichselbaum, Lippman, pharmacist, pharmacy, physician, Robert Hinely, salesman, Savannah, square, texas, unlisted
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Not Brown – A “chocolate” Brown’s Celebrated Indian Herb Bitters
Not Brown – A “chocolate” Brown’s Celebrated Indian Herb Bitters 23 October 2012 (R•090516) There is a movement underfoot to diminish the celebration and collection of brown bottles and glass. I know of some major collectors who are discouraging this … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Bitters, Color, Figural Bottles
Tagged amber, bitters, brown, Brown's, Celebrated, Chocolate, Color, Herb, Indian, Queen
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Not Brown – Old Amber “Harvey’s Prairie Bitters”
Not Brown – Old Amber “Harvey’s Prairie Bitters” 10 October 2012 (R•052714) (R•061017) (R•111020) There is a movement underfoot to discourage the celebration and collection of brown bottles and glass. I know of major collectors discouraging this color and others … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Color
Tagged amber, brown, Dr. Burton Spiller, ferdinand meyer, Harvey Dunn, Harvey's Prairie Bitters, indiana, Judge Blaske, Marsh & Harvey
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The two embossed TEXAS Bitters
The two embossed TEXAS Bitters 17 July 2012 (R•032519) Seeing pictures of these two legendary Texas embossed bitters and meeting David Cole, who may have the most complete and extensive collection of Texas embossed blobs, hutches, crown tops and related … Continue reading
Large Willington Pickle Jar in a Teal Blue
With cathedral pickles in the news recently, (Read: The Amber Willington Cathedral Pickle Jar) (Read: MAJOR Cathedral Pickle Collection News) (Read: Early Blown Glass Blue CATHEDRAL PICKLE BOTTLE closes on eBay) it was good timing for Dennis Rogers to send Peachridge Glass three … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Collectors & Collections, Peachridge Glass, Pickle Jars, Virtual Museum
Tagged amber, Bottle, Dennis Rogers, jar, Norman C. Heckler, Pickle, teal blue, Wilington
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The big star in Hollywood, Mississippi is the Imperial Levee
An absolute favorite bottle of mine is the ‘Imperial / Levee / J. Noyes / Hollywood / Miss.‘ figural wine bottle. This bottle comes embossed with the typography noted above and un-embossed. The bottle was made somewhere between 1845 and … Continue reading
Posted in Civil War, Collectors & Collections, eBay, Facebook, Figural Bottles, History, Whiskey, Wine & Champagne
Tagged amber, Casper's Whiskey, Charles Aprill, cluster, cobalt, collection, grapes, Hollywood, Imperial, James Noyes, John April, Levee, Meyer, Mississippi, New Orleans, Plantation, stump, Tunica, Vicksburg, Whiskey, Wine
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