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Tag Archives: california
Riddle, Fuller & Co. selling Celebrated California Bitters?
Riddle, Fuller & Co. selling Celebrated California Bitters? Council Bluffs, Iowa 27 December 2018 I recently received a couple of emails and newspaper clippings from Mark Wiseman, a experienced bottle collector from Iowa that included advertisements for unlisted bitters including Adler’s … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, History, liquor, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Questions, Spirits
Tagged advertisement, agent, Antique, bitters, Bottle, Broadway, california, Celebrated, Council Bluffs, dealer, Dr. Henley, Fuller, Furman, Iowa, IXL, judge, Kentucky, liquor, merchant, newspaper, Palmer's Block, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pottawattamie, Riddle, Samuel H. Riddle, sole, Wine
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Use Dr. Henley’s Celebrated California IXL Bitters
Use Dr. Henley’s Celebrated California IXL Bitters 21 December 2018 Dr. William Henley is associated with a wide variety of products ranging from bitters to various types of patent medicines. His bitters bottles, typically round cylinders, are highly prized collectibles … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Article Publications, Bitters, Color Runs, Druggist & Drugstore, Ephemera, History, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Tonics, Trade Cards
Tagged Antique, antique bottle, Arpad Haraszthy, bitters, Bottle, california, Celebrated, Color, Cure, Doctor, Dr. Henley, Druggist & Drugstore, Edward Vollmer, Eric McGuire, Eye Opener, Grape, grower, Isador Landsberger, IXL, Joe Gourd, Louis Gross, Medicine, Nevada, oculist, ok, oregon, physician, Portland, Root, San Francisco, Simon & Henry Epstein, Stephen Hubbell, Tonic, William Henley, Wine
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Dr. Jaffe’s Celebrated Cinchona Bitters Trademark Letter
Dr. Jaffe’s Celebrated Cinchona Bitters Trademark Letter 12 October 2017 I came across this 1880 Dr. Jaffe’s Celebrated Cinchona Bitters advertisement above while searching for support material for another post. The brand was advertised, using pretty much the same small … Continue reading
Posted in Bitters, Ephemera, History
Tagged bitters, california, Celebrated, Cinchona, E.L. Billings, Jaffe, letter, sacramento, trademark, William Price
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Early Damiana Bitters or is something wrong here?
Early Damiana Bitters or is something wrong here? The New, Wonderful & Only Certain Aphrodisiac 14 October 2016 (R•102516) Gary Beatty snagged this interesting Baja California Damiana Bitters with a label (pictured above) and wonders if it is a variant of … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, History, Medicines & Cures, Questions, Scams & Frauds
Tagged Alcatraz, Alfs, Aphrodisiac, Baja, bitters, Bruce Silva, Brune, california, Damiana, Gary Beatty, label, Melville M. Shearer, Naber, Presidio, san diego, San Francisco, William A. Winder, Winder & Shearer
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Lost California Bear found in North Carolina
Lost California Bear found in North Carolina 19 June 2016 Marty Vollmer, the South Carolina show chairman, called me and said a friend found an ad on Craigslist for a bottle with a bear on it. I asked if it … Continue reading
Posted in Collectors & Collections, Digging and Finding, Spirits, Whiskey
Tagged Bear, california, charlotte, Craigs List, David, Hurst, Jackson, Lost, Marty, Netarts, North Carolina, Old, oregon, Pioneer Whiskey, San Francisco, Vollmer, Wm. H. Spears
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California Sherry Wine Appetizer or Stomach Bitters
California Sherry Wine Appetizer or Stomach Bitters 10 April 2016 (R•041216) (R•041316) (R•090319) It looks like we may have an unlisted, labeled bitters here as I find no reference to the California Sherry Wine Appetizer or Stomach Bitters in the … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Medicines & Cures, Questions, Wine & Champagne
Tagged appetizer, bitters, california, George W., Henry Hartley, Joe Gourd, label, question, Sherry, St. George, Stomach, Vinyards, Wine, winery
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Happy Easter and a New Bitters for you
Happy Easter and a New Bitters for You! 27 March 2016 Always nice to hear from the digging crews, especially Jeff Milhalik as he has a special knack for finding easter eggs and digging up incredible bottles. Some of you … Continue reading
Posted in Bitters, Digging and Finding
Tagged bitters, california, Digging, Ed Kuskie, finding, Frazier, Herb, Jeff Mihalik, Mike Yancosky, Pittsburgh, privy, Speck and Morrow, unlisted
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Blue Gum Bitters – Stockton, California
Blue Gum Bitters A nice takeaway from the 2015 Downieville Antique Bottle Show 13 September 2015 Frank Ritz pulled me aside at the 2015 Downieville Antique Bottle Show to show me some bitters that he brought for sale. Most were pretty difficult … Continue reading
Posted in Bitters, History, Medicines & Cures
Tagged Asylum, Bill, bitters, blue, california, case, Downieville, Eucalyptus, exhibit, Frank, Gin, gum, Ham, Insane, Meyer, Ritz, Stockton, tree, Western
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Some other pictures from our 2015 West Coast Bottle Trip
Some other pictures from our 2015 West Coast Bottle Trip San Luis Obispo, Morro Bay, Big Sur, Carmel & Monterey 04 April 2015 This is a follow-up post to the “Salutes to the 2015 San Luis Obispo Antique Bottle Show – Morro … Continue reading
Posted in Bitters, Bottle Shows, News, Photography
Tagged bay, Big Sur, bottles, california, Carmel, Edward, Elizabeth, Formes, Garrapata, Helen, Jerry, Ken, mission, Monterey, Morro, San Luis Obispo, Weathersbee
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Mills’ Bitters – A. M. Gilman – Sole Proprietor
Mills’ Bitters – A. M. Gilman – Sole Proprietor 08 January 2015 Jeff Wichmann recently sold an excellent example of a Mill’s Bitters lady’s leg figural over at his newly formed American Bottle Auctions For Sale page. You don’t see or … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Figural Bottles, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures
Tagged california, Cassin, Cincinnati, Figural, Gilman, lady's, leg, Mills, San Francisco, Trube, Wichmann
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