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Tag Archives: Figural
The Two Other Plantation Bitters
The two other Plantation Bitters + another 05 September 2015 Just about all of us are familiar with the Drake’s Plantations Bitters figural log cabin bottle. Besides Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, you probably see more Drake’s at shows, at auctions and online than … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Auction News, Bitters, Digging and Finding, Figural Bottles, News
Tagged auction, bitters, cabin, Drakes, Figural, Frank, hagenbuch, Heckler, Log, Plantation, Prairie, roof, Star, thatched
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The Mike Dickman Collection
The Mike Dickman Collection I stumbled into a “bottle and barbed wire show” in Albuquerque 14 July 2015 Nice to hear from Mike Dickman here from Santa Fe, New Mexico which may be my favorite place to visit in the United … Continue reading
Posted in Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Display, Figural Bottles, Mineral Water, Photography, Poison Bottles
Tagged Albuquerque, bitters, collection, Dickman, Figural, fohbc, Mike, New Mexico, photography, Poison, Santa Fe
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By George, I Think I’ve Got It
By George, I Think I’ve Got It 02 June 2015 Incoming e-mail and pictures from bitters collector Lou Holis. This bottle is one of the classic figural bitters and a must-have for any bitters or figural collector. I must say, I … Continue reading
A question about French ‘Canteen Like’ Bottles
A question about French ‘Canteen Like’ Bottles 14 January 2015 Two years ago, I put together a fun post on a variety of historical canteen images. This is not my area of direct expertise, but I do find them fascinating and … Continue reading
Posted in Ancient Glass, Auction News, Collectors & Collections, Digging and Finding, Figural Bottles, Flasks, History, Questions, Utility Bottles
Tagged Bonaparte, bottles, Canteen, Figural, Florey, French, movie, Napoleon, Paris, Robert, Sotheby’s, television, Virginia
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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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Catawba Bitters labeled lady’s leg from New Haven
Catawba Bitters labeled lady’s leg from New Haven 26 August 2014 David Jackson (Read: David Jackson and his Applied Seal Bottles) posted these three pretty nice pictures of a Catawba Bitters green lady’s leg figural bottle with a label from Merrick & Moore … Continue reading
Posted in Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, Figural Bottles, History, Liquor Merchant
Tagged bitters, Catawba, Connecticut, David Jackson, Dr. Cannon, Druggist & Drugstore, Figural, lady's, leg, Lucius, merrick, Moore, New Haven, wholesale, William
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Pow! Gun Bottles
POW!! Gun Bottles 31 July 2014 There have been some pretty cool figural antique glass pistol and gun revolvers on the internet lately. I remember my father having a few of these bottles in a glass bowfront along with vintage glass clam … Continue reading
Posted in Figural Bottles, Flasks, Humor - Lighter Side
Tagged Bottle, Figural, Flask, Glass, gun, pistol, pow, revolver
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Corn n’ Fish at the 2014 Houston Antique Bottle Show
Corn n’ Fish at the 2014 Houston Antique Bottle Show 19 July 2014 Read from 2012: I brought a few of my Drakes to the Houston Show Read from 2013: Houston 2013 Antique Bottle Show – Showing Off Some of you may … Continue reading
Posted in Bitters, Bottle Shows, Collectors & Collections, Display, Figural Bottles
Tagged corn, display, Figural, fish, Houston, light, Rohrer
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The extremely rare Shurtleff’s Bitters from Bennington, Vermont
The extremely rare Shurtleff’s Bitters from Bennington, Vermont 31 May 2014 I always like opening my well worn Bitters Bottles books by Carlyn Ring and Bill Ham. Even though I’ve looked at the two books a million times, I always find something new and … Continue reading