Drug Store and Antique Bottle Postcard Round Up

This postcard was on eBay with the title: EARLY DRUG STORE STOREFRONT OWL CIGARS TOM MOORE CIGARS RPPC KRUXO.

I couldn't resist doing a quick google search (as the seller had not), and I found that Dr. Everson was a druggist in Cawker City, Kansas, circa 1901.

The RPPC (real photo postcard) brought $18. Who knows if it might have gone for more if the seller had taken 5 minutes to do a little homework?

Info per these 3 google searches:

1) http://bit.ly/AaBKjp (dc everson drug store) which led to:

2) http://bit.ly/zRqzbu (dr dc everson cawker city kansas) which took me to:

3) http://bit.ly/xpWVdW -- According to "American druggist and pharmaceutical record, Volume 38, Jan. 1901", he may have had other locations -- "It is reported that DC Everson, druggist, of Cawker City, Kan., will shortly locate in Oklahoma."

[Here's my article on another unidentified postcard I researched for my 'Tique Talk blog -- Kahn's Sons Daily Market link.]

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More bottle themed postcards:

1936 Postcard Biltmore Dairy Farm Cows Milk Bottle North Carolina NC

This card sold for $110 on ebay (link). Read about the Vanderbilt family's Biltmore Estate Dairy Farm here.

Real photo postcard showing 5 Blue Lick Water Bottles and Old Hotel, Blue Lick Battlefield Park, Ky. Located near Maysville, Kentucky. (Still available on ebay here.) Blue Lick Spa history here.

This 1940s era linen Budweiser card only brought $9, while this next one, circa 1890s, sold for $138.

COCA COLA POSTCARD DATED 1933 WELDMECH FULL STREAMLINE BOTTLE TRUCK (failed to sell)

Here are some more, just-for-fun bottle themed cards:

Giant Milk Bottle Little 2nd Hand Shop Spokane WA (1980 postmark)

More bottle cards coming up soon. Come on back!

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Jackson MI Bottle Show Report - Jan. 18, 2011

This in from Mike Elling:

Stunning Jackson, Mississippi, Show Again Grows Wall-To-Wall 

in Trade Mart Exhibition Center

It was perfect weather for a January bottle show, sunny and mild as 135 dealers loaded 225 tables with bottles, jugs, fruit jars, soda bottles, milks, and other advertising items at the Trade Mart Center in the Jackson Fairgrounds on Friday night, January 18, 2012. 

Supper was provided to all vendors and their guests and to early admission buyers.  When the day opened for the general public  the place was filled wall to wall!  An estimated 600 visitors and buyers came through to enjoy a show still done with free parking and free admission!

Several exhibits were presented, mainly by dealers who also specialize in historic studies of their own. 

Ancestry Dot Com people came in searching through bins of post cards and old family photos to find former images of places and things to add to their histories. 

Diggers came in to discuss strategies for finding new areas to dig and search. 

The granddaughter of the Opelika Chero-Cola Bottling Company in Alabama came to my table expressly to find examples of the bottles her grandfather used to fill (I had none with me, but there is one in my inventory)!

Key to this show is people giving one another free advice:  Microwave a Moon Pie Cream Sandwich for 11 seconds on HIGH for best results revealed one, and Confederate Tombstones are always pointed on top to keep the Yankees from sitting comfortable on 'em, volunteered another.

If observers gage this show as the start of a good year or a bad year for collectors, it looks like 2012 will be another success!

Photo Captions: 

• Mike Elling of Tennessee, displayed a collection of Chero-Cola soda bottles from the state of Florida marketed from 1912 to 1947.
• Alan Wright, of Huntsville, Alabama, is user friendly judging from the Coca-Cola poster on his table.  Dealers Terry McCarn, of Cullman Alabama, and Robert Sledge of Florence, Alabama, check it out.
• Gordon Logan, of Calhoun City, Mississippi, takes a pause from sales of artifacts and soda bottles featuring Native Americans.
• Ed Provine of Memphis (left), admires rare Chero-Cola "Daisy Buchanan" framed poster from 1926.  Daisy is a charmed character from the Scot Fitzgerald tragic love story of the Lost Generation following World War 1, The Great Gatsby.  A new film version starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, is to be released in December of this year.  New owner Carl Barnett of Georgia found the rare poster a calendar top, a bargain at $350.

 

And John Sharp writes in with this update:

The Jackson newspaper, The Clarion Ledger, put the pictures their photographer took on the web. I think you will enjoy them. LINK

The Show was very successful -- 251 tables, 139 Dealers, 600-750 walk-in on Saturday.

Terre Haute Bottle Show Reports and Photo Album - Nov. 19, 2011

Sent in by Mike Elling:

All Bottlers;  The Terre Haute bottle show seems to get better every year.  One of the draws this year was a Friday night auction which was well attended and held a wide variety of material.  Done for the benefit of the local club, there was a ten percent commission charged to the sellers.  This year the club cleared $180, which helps to contain dues rates and other types of expenses.


At Terre Haute, dealers want to carry Coals to Newcastle because people there are very conscious of their bottle making factories and the bottlers of their past.  There is always a demand for local glass, labels, advertising, and promotional items from this western Indiana city in the Wabash River Valley.


There were 44 dealer tables and 250 visitors on Saturday, who still enjoy a free admission to the Shadows Auction Barn up on Maple Street.  The 2-hour spirited auction sold over $1800 on Friday night. 

• A full set of six fire grenades peaked auction excitement
• Notable for this show was the interest shown by young people who came curious and ready to browse.  That is Brandon Stepp helping his father at dealer table.
• A large Coca-Cola icon of the 20th century was a 40-inch porcelain button.  Tagged at $500, it brought a swift $350 at auction.
• Phil and Alicia Bennett study an early 20th century fire grenade won from the auction.  Filled with fire retardant, carbon tetrachloride, the thin glass container was thrown at the base of a fire to gain control over it.

This in from John Newman:

The dinner was ready on Friday evening at about 5PM when club members & bottle collectors started coming in for dinner & Auction. There was a lot of good items to w/a Coca-Cola porc. button sign 4ft in good cond, a Vicksburg hutch candy bottle which they said was the predecessor to Coca-Cola, many good fruit jars & bottles, Terre Haute beers & soda bottles.

We had 4 tables full of sale items & 13 fold-up Coca-Cola & Race car drivers cardboard displays. We had about 70 attending the Auction.


Saturday morning the doors opened at 7AM w/ dealers & earlybirds ready to go. We had 40 tables sold.

There was a lot of good items at the show and the customers were carrying out a lot of bags of purchases & smiling and so was the dealers.This may have been one of our better shows. And the auction was a success also.The customers started coming in early and was still coming in at 2PM closing time. The dealers were all happy. It was a good day. Everybody was looking forward to next year.

And a couple more pix from Ron Glasscock:

Bottle Collecting in the News: Vernor's Ginger Ale #antiques #bottles

Vernor's Ginger Ale - 'deliciously different' collectibles

Written by FRANK DeFRANK, The Macomb Daily (Mount Clemens)

This self-framed, embossed tin sign for Vernor's Ginger Ale measures 54 1/2 inches by 18 inches. Image courtesy of LiveAuctioneers.com Archive and Rich Penn Auctions. TROY, Mich. –   It started innocently enough for Keith Wunderlich. "I've always been interested in Detroit history and Detroit products," said Wunderlich, who does double duty as superintendent of New Haven Community Schools and an administrator in the neighboring L'Anse Creuse district. "Faygo, Better Made, Stroh's, Hudson's … about 30 years ago, I began picking up little bits and pieces of Detroit." Wunderlich's collection was modest; until one day he made a discovery while rummaging through the garage of his parents' home. "I stumbled across an old box of Vernor's (Ginger Ale) bottles," he said. "All of a sudden I had more Vernor's stuff than anything else. I decided to just concentrate on Vernor's." In the ensuing three decades, Wunderlich's collection grew. And grew. And grew. Today, hundreds of bottles, signs, clocks and countless other memorabilia are mounted or displayed in virtually every nook and cranny in the basement of his Troy home. The collection is both testament to Wunderlich's passion and a shrine to Vernor's, the historic Detroit company and the unique product it produces. Wunderlich will tell you how Detroit pharmacist James Vernor developed, almost by accident, the secret formula that would become Vernor's Ginger Ale. According to Wunderlich, and the company, Vernor left a batch of his syrup in an oak barrel for four years when he was called to join the Civil War. When he returned, he discovered the syrup's taste had improved with the aging. Vernor's Ginger Ale was born, and for decades the company advertised the drink as barrel-aged for four years. While the story's accuracy has been questioned, the success of the soft drink company is well-documented. For well over a century, Vernor's and Detroit were practically synonymous. Wunderlich has memorabilia to back up the claim. "Anything that says, 'Detroit's Drink' is really rare," he said. Among his favorite items: – A soda dispenser that dates to about 1910; – A 2-foot tall Vernor's gnome that was part of a factory tour of the bottling plant in the 1920s; – A James Vernor business card that reads, "pharmacist and florist;" – Countless signs, clocks and other items bearing the Vernor's logo. The collection even includes a couple of coin-operated (10 cents) soft drink cooler/dispensers that still function. "It eats up about $25 a month in electricity so they're not turned on very often," he said. Wunderlich's wife, Mary, indulges her husband's passion, provided he sticks to one unbreakable rule. The collection is restricted to the basement. "It can't be on the main floor," she said. Mary concedes the family—the Wunderlichs are parents of four children—are used to the Vernor's shrine, but when visitors see it for the first time, they are impressed. "To see their reaction is really fun," she said. Several years ago, three descendants of James Vernor heard about the collection and paid a visit. "They wanted everything," Wunderlich said. Wunderlich said he can't put a monetary value on his collection. Not that it matters. He has no plans to sell any of it. "The money isn't (as important) as the history," he said.

Washington Portrait Flask - Heckler Auction

 

Thanks to Ferdinand Meyer for keeping us informed on rare flasks and bitters bottles on his Peachridge Glass website. He just posted about this auction, and some of the top bids. Wonder what the final hammer prices will be? I'm sure he'll let you know!

http://www.peachridgeglass.com/2012/02/three-killer-historical-portrait-flasks-close-at-heckler-last-night/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=three-killer-historical-portrait-flasks-close-at-heckler-last-night

Three (3) killer Historical Portrait Flasks closed last evening at Session III of The Thomas McCandless Collection auction. Call backs are now. Look at the prices for these three top shelf specimens.

Lot: 183  Washington – Classical Bust Portrait Flask, Bridgeton Glass Works, Bridgeton, New Jersey, 1840-1860. Yellow with a topaz tone, sheared mouth – pontil scar, quart. GI-25 Unlisted and extremely rare beautiful color, strong embossing. An exceptional example. Ex Pardoe collection. Estimate: $10,000 – $20,000  Minimum bid: $5,000 Current Bid:  $45,000

Lot: 183 Washington - Classical Bust Portrait Flask - Heckler