Tag Archives: Mineral

Top Saratoga “Wanted” List Update

Posted on 27 August 2015 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Top Saratoga “Wanted” List Update 27 August 2015 A couple of weeks before the FOHBC 2015 Chattanooga National, I received a simple e-mail from Neil Moore from Milford, Delaware that is represented below. Good morning, I read your comments regarding … Continue reading →

Posted in Advice, Bottle Shows, Collectors & Collections, FOHBC News, Mineral Water, News, Water | Tagged Bernie, Chattanooga, etna, fohbc, Glacier, Hyperion, Lake, Mineral, Moore, Neil, New York, Paradise, Puckhaber, round, Sans, Saratoga, Seltzer, Souci, spring, Triton, Union, Wanted, Washington | Leave a comment

Everything’s better with bitterquelle. . .

Posted on 4 March 2015 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Everything’s better with bitterquelle… by Ken Previtali 04 March 2015 (R•071415) Reading the recent post on Hunyadi Janos reminded me of how the details of what we might consider commonplace can be intriguing. What could be more commonplace than water? … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Article Publications, Bottling Works, Collectors & Collections, Ephemera, Ginger Ale, History, Medicines & Cures, Mineral Water, Painted Label, Soda Bottles, Soda Water, Soft Drinks, Water | Tagged Ale, Andreas, Baltimore, Belfast, bell, Bergman, bitter, Bitterquelle, bottler, Crook, Ginger, Greenbrier, Hunyadi, Janos, Manitou, Mineral, Previtali, Ross, Salutaris, Saxlehner, Scherer, Seaman, Shasta, spring, Stockton, Sulphur, Virginia, water, White | Leave a comment

Beautiful Minerals with a Selection of Exquisite Barber Bottles

Posted on 14 February 2015 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Beautiful Minerals with a Selection of Exquisite Barber Bottles 14 February 2015 Now here is a display that you don’t come across too often at antique bottle shows. Check out this email from Sandor P. Fuss reporting from the Tucson … Continue reading →

Posted in Barber Bottles, Collectors & Collections, Cologne, Display, News | Tagged Arizona, barber, bottles, collection, convention, exhibit, Fuss, gem, Mineral, Sandor, Spann, Tucson, Wilbur | Leave a comment

Is the Hunyadi Janos Saxlehner’s Bitterquelle a bitters bottle?

Posted on 1 February 2015 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Is the Hunyadi Janos Saxlehner’s Bitterquelle a bitters bottle? 01 February 2015 (R•020215) No, the Hunyadi Janos Saxlehner’s Bitterquelle is not a bitters bottle so let’s get that out-of-the-way, right quick. Most new bitters collectors, including myself, remember seeing a Bitterquelle either … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Bottling Works, Ephemera, History, Medicines & Cures, Mineral Water, Postage, Trade Cards, Water | Tagged Andreas, Aperient, Bitterquelle, bitters, Bottle, Buda, Budapest, card, French, Hungary, Hunyadi, Janos, Laxative, Mineral, postal, Saxlehner, spring, water | Leave a comment

Syracuse Springs collection

Posted on 8 July 2014 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Syracuse Springs collection 08 July 2014 Good Evening Ferd, I thoroughly enjoy Peachridge and thought you might want to post some pictures of my Syracuse Springs collection. I have 24 different examples (seven quarts, four half-pints, and thirteen pints). I … Continue reading →

Posted in Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Display, Mineral Water | Tagged collection, Color, Kantor, Mineral, New York, Springs, Syracuse, water | Leave a comment

The Union Spring Bottle

Posted on 19 June 2014 by Ferdinand Meyer V

The Union Spring Bottle Number 9 on the Bernhard Puckhaber list of the ‘Ten Most Wanted Saratogas’ 19 June 2014 (updated with Union Spring info same day) The other night, at the closing of Glass Works Auctions | Auction 102, I noticed this good-looking, … Continue reading →

Posted in Auction News, History, Mineral Water | Tagged Bernhard Puckhaber, Excelsior, Hotel, house, Marianne Dow, Mineral, New York, opera, Saratoga, spring, Stu Elman, Union, water | Leave a comment

The Honorable Stephen Buhrer and his Gentian Bitters

Posted on 7 February 2014 by Ferdinand Meyer V

The Honorable Stephen Buhrer and his Gentian Bitters 07 February 2014 As the trade card above and his advertising depicts, Stephen Buhrer was truly and honorable man, he worked hard and was blessed from above. He also put out Buhrer’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Ephemera, History, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Mineral Water, Spirits, Trade Cards | Tagged bitters, Buhrer, Cleveland, cooper, Gentian, Germany, Gourd, Kemler, liquor, Merwin, Meyer, Mineral, ohio, Schneider, spirits, Stephen, Tuscarawas, wicker, Zoar | Leave a comment

J. Boardman & Co. – New York – Mineral Waters

Posted on 21 October 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

J. Boardman & Co. – New York – Mineral Waters 21 October 2013 Over the last decade or so, I have only seen two examples that came out of the ground in New York City (and heard of a third … Continue reading →

Posted in Auction News, Color Runs, Digging and Finding, Facebook, Mineral Water, Questions, Soda Water | Tagged Biro, Boardman, Broadway, Goldfrank, Kramerich, Mineral, New York, Pastor, Tim Henson, water, Wilmington | 1 Comment

Avon Mineral Springs – the “Saratoga” of Western N.Y.

Posted on 31 August 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

AVON MINERAL SPRINGS the “Saratoga” of Western N.Y. by Jack Stecher 31 August 2013 “Grimace was the prevailing feature on the face of the new-comer when swallowing the beverage of the fountain” Back in 2005 I published an article on … Continue reading →

Posted in Article Publications, Bottling Works, Collectors & Collections, Digging and Finding, History, Mineral Water, Water | Tagged American Hotel, avon, Avon Cure, Bath, Canawaugus, Capt. Asa Nowlen, Congress Hall, Congress Park, Don Tucker, Dr. Derick Knickerbocker, Dr. O. D. Phelps, Genesee River, Jack Stecher, Knickerbocker Hall, Les Buell, Livingston Inn, Longs, Lower, Magnesia, Maureen Kingston, Mineral, Nehemiah Houghton, New Spring, New York, Seneca, Springs, The Sanitarium, Tucker, United States Hotel, Upper | Leave a comment

A Few Extraordinary Texas Bottles

Posted on 20 August 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

A Few Extraordinary Texas Bottles 20 August 2013 I am finally going to get off my butt, and right an article on my decade long chase of Texas patent med bottles, and submit it to bottles & extras. If they … Continue reading →