Tag Archives: Whiskey

Who is I & L. M. Hellman of St. Louis, Missouri?

Posted on 9 April 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Who is I. & L. M. Hellman of St. Louis, Missouri? 09 April 2013 (R•011319) (R•110719) I received the following email and pictures from Matthew Levanti about a bottle embossed I & L. M. Hellman, St. Louis, Mo. This really … Continue reading →

Posted in Bitters, Bourbon, Club News, Digging and Finding, History, liquor, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Questions, Spirits, Tonics, Whiskey | Tagged Abraham, bitters, Bourbon, Brothers, Charles, Congress, crow, distilling, Gaines, Germany, Hangtown Bottle Necks, Hellman's, I & L. M. Hellman, Isaac, Isaac Hellman, legal, louis, M. Hellman, Matt Levanti, Mississippi, Missouri, Moritz, Orrick, Pine, Rye, Saint Louis, spirits, St. Louis, trademark, Whiskey, wholesale | Leave a comment

Looking back at Deadwood, South Dakota

Posted on 6 March 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Usually, I do not get much time to watch television, but when Elizabeth and I do, we usually sit together on Sunday evenings and tune in on the latest HBO series. Award winning drama and documentaries are the norm, all … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Photography, Spirits, Whiskey | Tagged Al Swearengen, Battle of Little Big Horn, Bella Union Saloon, Black Hills, Bodega Saloon, Calamity Jane, Charlie Utter, Colonel George Armstrong Custer, Dakota Territory, David Milch, Deadwood, Deadwood Central Railroad, E. B. Farnum, Gem Variety Theater, General George Crook, George Crook, George Hearst, Gold Rush, HBO, Homestake Mine, J.K.P. Miller, Jack McCall, Jeff Wichmann, Madam Dora DuFran, Madam Mollie Johnson, Martha Jane Canary, prostitude, Seth Bullock, Sioux Indians, Sol Star, South Dakota, spirits, Tom Miller, Treaty of Laramie, Whiskey, Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp | Leave a comment

Whiskey Cylinders Looking Strong in ABA Auction 57

Posted on 5 March 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

“Bottle Fiends Ranch in Deadwood, Black Hills.” Jeff Wichmann over at American Bottle Auctions recently wrote about Deadwood’s Bottle Bonanza which is a fantastic circa 1876, Deadwood stereo view titled in period manuscript “Bottle Fiends Ranch in Deadwood Black Hills.” With … Continue reading →

Posted in Auction News, History, Liquor Merchant, News, Spirits, Whiskey | Tagged American Bottle Auctions, Black Hills, Bourbon, Deadwood, G.W. Chesley, J.C. Nixon, Jeff Wichmann, Jockey Club, Kelloggs, Kentucky, R.T. Carroll, Renz, San Francisco, Seattle, Teakettle, Whiskey | Leave a comment

Two XR Tombstone Flasks containing Bitters (uh Whiskey)

Posted on 9 February 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

“If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.” Two XR Tombstone Flasks containing Bitters (uh Whiskey) 09 February 2013 (R•122117) It was nice to see two very … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Druggist & Drugstore, Ephemera, Flasks, Trade Cards, Whiskey | Tagged Arkansas, bitters, coffin, Corn Juice, duck, Elvin Moody, Ferdinand Meyer V, Fitzpatrick, Helena, Joe Gourd, Judge McKenzie, Kentucky, Kris Kernozicky, Louis Alexander Fitzpatrick, Louisville, R. A. Robinson & Co., Richard Alexander Robinson, Whiskey | Leave a comment

Whiskey Bottle Tombstone – Clayton, Alabama

Posted on 6 February 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

A wife told her husband that she’d make him a whiskey bottle-shaped tombstone if he didn’t stop drinking. He didn’t. Thank you to Dennis Humphrey for post inspiration. Bottle pictured above is a Dr. J. S. Woods Elixir medicine bottle … Continue reading →

Posted in Advice, Folk Art, Humor - Lighter Side, Medicines & Cures, Whiskey | Tagged alabama, Clayton, Dennis Humphrey, Gravestone, Tombstone, Whiskey, William T. Mullen | Leave a comment

Shipping Crates

Posted on 7 January 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

How about those old bottle boxes. The stories they might tell? Tami Barber Tami Barber attached the above picture of a stacked Richardson Coca-Cola Bottling Works, Lead, South Dakota and Anheuser Busch St. Louis, Mo. beer shipping crate to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Ales & Ciders, Bitters, Breweriana, Cola, Medicines & Cures, Milk & Creamers, Root Beer, Soda Bottles, Spirits, Whiskey | Tagged Baltimore, bitters, Box, C.W. Abbott & Co., Chamberlain & Co., Charles E. Hires Co., Coca-Cola, Dairylea, Dewar's, Dr. Peter Fahrney, Electric Bitters, Euclid Race, Father John's Medicines, Griel & Bro, Hire's Root Beer, Homer's Ginger Brandy, Hostetter's, Jeff Burkhardt, John Dewar & Sons, Kerosene, Lowell, Marlboro, Massachusetts, Mishler's Keystone, Peruna, Shipping Crate, Sloan's, Tami Barber, Texaco, Whiskey, whisky | 1 Comment

Louise Hawkins – The “Sylph”

Posted on 24 December 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

T h e S Y L P H A Sylph (also called sylphid) is a mythological creature in the Western tradition. The term originates in Paracelsus, who describes sylphs as invisible beings of the air, his elementals of air. … Continue reading →

Posted in Article Publications, Bitters, Civil War, Figural Bottles, History, Liquor Merchant, Spirits, Whiskey | Tagged Distillery, General John McDonald, General Orville E. Babcock, Great Whiskey Ring, James B. Kelly, John H. Garnhart, Kelly's Old Cabin Bitters, Louise Hawkins, Old Cabin Bitters, St. Louis, Sylph, Ulysses S. Grant., Washington D.C., Whiskey | Leave a comment

Log Cabin Series – Kelly’s Old Cabin Bitters

Posted on 22 December 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Log Cabin Series – Kelly’s Old Cabin Bitters 22 December 2012 (R•052714) KELLY’S OLD CABIN BITTERS Kelly Brand Development The Kelly’s Old Cabin Bitters is a dramatic example of a figural cabin with a story. With a number of great … Continue reading →

Posted in Article Publications, Bitters, Bottles and Extras, Figural Bottles, History, Liquor Merchant, Spirits, Tax Stamps, Whiskey | Tagged Belle Memphis, Bertrand, bitters, cabin, Colorado, Figural, Ft. Benton, Glassboro New Jersey, J. H. Garnhart & Co., James B. Kelly, John H. Garnhart, Kelly's, Log, Montana, New York, Old Cabin Bitters, President Grant, Ronald R. Switzer, St. Louis, Steve Sewell, Washington D.C., Whiskey, Whitney Glass Works | Leave a comment

20th Century Old Taylor Kentucky Bourbon Advertising

Posted on 20 December 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

COLONEL E. H. TAYLOR SINGLE BARREL Taylor was one of Kentucky’s original Bourbon aristocrats and was called the “father of the modern bourbon industry.” 20th Century Old Taylor Kentucky Bourbon Advertising 20 December 2012 Old Taylor Straight Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey was … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Bourbon, Ephemera, History, Liquor Merchant, Publications, Spirits, Whiskey | Tagged advertising, Bourbon, Colonel, E.H. Taylor, Edmund Haynes Taylor, Jr., Kentucky, Old Taylor Castle, Whiskey | Leave a comment

A question regarding an “Old Taylor” find

Posted on 19 December 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

A question regarding an “Old Taylor” find 19 December 2012 IN EVERY APPLIANCE AND APPOINTMENT, OUR DISTILLERIES ARE THE MOST COMPLETE AND PERFECT IN AMERICA I was wondering if you could do an article on this Old Taylor bottle…maybe figure … Continue reading →