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Blue Fish Bitters Has Collectors Reeling!
Collectors got more than they bargained for at the FOHBC National Bottle Show held in Pomona, CA this past weekend of August 1st. To everyone’s surprise Ferdinand Meyer and his beautiful wife Elizabeth just happened to show up with the catch of the show, this gorgeous cobalt blue Fish Bitters! Recently acquired from the Don Keating collection, this legendary bottle had most collectors speechless. It was just another reason to attend the Pomona show. There were some wonderful displays and a load of great bottles for sale and from those we asked, it was a great time for everyone. So how much did Ferdinand and Elizabeth have to fork out for this swimmingly beautiful bottle? Well, rumors had it in the six-figure category but as all fishermen know, the story gets bigger every time it’s told.
Ferdinand and Elizabeth Meyer with their recent catch. Looking like proud new parents, this was one bottle Ferdinand wasn’t going to let get away.	Richard Tucker with his first-prize winning display of historical flasks.
	A closer look at part of the Richard Tucker display. Excuse the colors on some as they were tough to capture with the lighting but they were a breathtaking group, all Washington flasks and all beautiful!

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Lou and Lisa Lambert and their stepson Nick Vallis sent us some pictures of their latest little dig. Lisa wrote: "How was the LA show ??? I really wanted to go but plans changed at the last minute and we opted for a dig instead. We dug a boarding house privy down 25' feet. At that level breathing was a problem and we hit water. Got over 100 1870s bottles. Highlights were: One beautiful yellow olive Nabob, Yellow cathedral green pickle, Jules Hauel potlid, burst lip western umbrella ink and a really nice Western pint union oval."

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The Bottle Market

Where Are we and Where we Will be During this Darn Recession?

By Jeff Wichmann

Well, here we are, smack dab in the middle of a recession. Despite the fact that George Bush denied it, Dick Cheney sneered at it (he sneers at everything) and John McCain said we are “fundamentally sound,” just look around. Jobs are being lost, housing values are down and retirement plans have been heading south for the last year or more. All is lost. Or is it?

We just had an auction, which happened to coincide with the downturn in the U.S. economy. It was our first recession auction. We were a little nervous. Looking around, it seemed like a lot of collectibles were holding up. Watching the Barrett-Jackson auto auctions, they seemed to be getting great prices for their classic cars. Baseball collectibles were garnering huge bids setting records everywhere. Paintings were a little down but they were so high to begin with that was bound to happen. Antique guns, marbles, rare toys, all holding their own. But where were bottles going? What would they do in this fairly modest auction? We had some pretty big hitters, a lot of good average pieces and some nice less expensive pieces with character. Not every bottle has to be worth a lot of money to shine like a diamond in the wind.

Well, as we assembled the auction, things were coming together. We had a few nice historical flasks, some rare and beautiful western pieces, a super little collection of western insulators and a bevy of oddball surprises. We knew the average pieces wouldn’t set any records, we include the lesser pieces to make sure we have something for everyone’s budget. Our main concern was the better, higher priced items, how would they fair?

We had a puce Drake’s we thought would do better; it was a bit of a disappointment at around $1500 with a 12% comission. A blue ammonia went for around $3,000 which wasn’t bad but a green one sold for $5,000. A fluke but who am I to say that a green one isn’t a nicer bottle? Maybe the battle over that bottle was predicated on the fact that both bitters had all the colors but green? Maybe the next one will sell for $2,000. Collectors thought whiskey bottles were hurting but we sold a Standard Old Bourbon for almost ten times their usual price, not bad. The two good flasks we had, a New London Glass Works in teal did double of what we thought it would, the same with an amethyst Major Ringold flask, over $4500. Some items floundered a bit but like the Fish’s Infallible, a number of them had come on the market lately and they were just over exposed. It was bought in as it did have a reserve. It may be the best example out there and at half the usual price; the seller didn’t want to take the huge loss. I don’t blame him. Also, once again we would have created an unfair price on a bottle most people have paid a great deal more for.

The overall feeling we came away with for auction 46 was that collectors are hesitant to bring out their good stuff right now because they feel they won’t get top dollar. From what we can tell, the opposite is true. Great bottles are selling for top dollar because they just aren’t coming out. With so few outstanding pieces hitting the market, the collectors with the money (of which there are plenty) are willing to go the extra mile to pay whatever they need to walk away a winner.

So, where is the bottle market right now? We feel it’s just fine and dandy. Great pieces, great prices, average pieces, average prices and occasionally great prices, occasionally not so great. That’s why they call it an auction. Anything can happen on any given day. Checking Ebay these days, there just isn’t the selection there was maybe a year ago. We believe it’s the lack of quality bottles versus the affect of a recession that’s holding things up. The big question is when a flood of high quality pieces come out, how will they do? We believe the buyers are there and they will do fine. Only time will tell and the economy is going to be a factor of course. In our minds, the good stuff will always do well and there’s always a market for just about anything of quality.

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BEING THERE AT THE RIGHT TIME

By Martin Lucich

It was one of those rare situations back in the 1970’s that luck was on our side. After walking behind some apartments, probing 3 holes, we needed permission to dig them. Elmer and I knocked on one of the rear doors and asked permission to dig. The occupant didn’t speak English but said yes anyway. It was obvious this was not the owner so we knew we could get kicked out at anytime. Even though we had "permission" we decided to park down the alley just in case there were any problems. We picked what we thought was the best hole to dig first and starting digging at a pretty fast rate. Elmer was the strongest so he did most of the digging.

As he got close to the bottom out came the first bottle of the hole, an eye opening apricot puce Chappas! Before I started to take it to the car out came a second. When I came back there was third one laying there next to the hole and soon the forth one was pulled out. Again I made a trip to the car only to find the fifth and sixth one sitting there next to the hole when I came back. Time to take another trip the car!

I came back to a hole that was almost done when out came the seventh one. I waited as Elmer started to work on another. Saving the best for last out of the bottom came the only green one. This was the icing on the cake. Another trip to the car I went.

Within minutes I came back and was leaning over the hole looking down watching Elmer scraping the last part of the bottom. I heard footsteps coming from behind me. The sound of jingling change in the pockets told me it was someone wearing slacks. I froze and as the person stopped behind me he said, "Hello, what are you doing?" I acted like I was doing nothing wrong, turned to answer him, said "Oh, Hi! we were just digging for old bottles." and turned my head down again, like nothing was wrong.

As it turned out, he said he owned the property, asked for our names, where we lived, and where our car was. We gave him fake names with no proof. We told him we were from out of town but we didn’t have a car. He could tell we weren’t being honest, told us to fill the hole, and at a fast pace went straight into the building; probably to call the police. I can tell you that was the fastest I have ever filled! We were out of there in about 3 minutes.

We knew quite a bit about bottles but these ones we have never seen before. Not knowing anything about them we proceeded to the Marysville Library and started the task of looking over years of microfilm of the local newspaper. We came across an ad that said "E. Widemann, Wholesale Liquor Dealers, corner of 3^rd and B st. Marysville". Imagine the feeling when we found out we dug them behind the E. Widemann Wholesale Liquor Warehouse! This was great news but still no mention of J. Chappaz. We now knew they were from Marysville but what did they contain. After spending some more time we found another advertisement saying E. Widemann proprietor of Alpine Stomach Bitters but no mention of J. Chappaz. Could it be these bottles were a bitters?

Finally we found an ad confirming our hopes; an ad with J. Chappaz, E. Widemann, and Alpine Stomach Bitters all together.  We felt like detectives who just solved a case!  And to top it off, there is a good chance that E. Widemann himself threw these bottles away!

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A lazy February day in Santa Cruz, California, two guys and a gal, out following intuition. Call it a fluke, a stroke of luck, a combination of smarts and luck; what happened that spring day some people might call a miracle.

Gary Venturini and Kenny Greg were a couple of new and inventive bottle diggers. They were in fact pioneers, studying early Sanborn maps and using metal probes before anyone else thought of it. It was the early 1970’s and although some people were interested in digging for bottles, Gary and Kenny took it to a new level.

One has to remember, old bottles were just that, trash that had been discarded in dumps, trash pits and of course outhouses, something not lost on Gary and Kenny. In the old days, they rarely had trash pick-ups so they brought their refuse to a dump. Sometimes, depending on where you lived, you simply dug a hole and tossed it in. Bottles were a precious commodity so they were reused, often many, many times. You went to your local bar and pulled out a bottle and refilled it. Men carried flasks full of whiskey, schnapps, gin, whatever their favorite choice was. A snort in the afternoon settled the nerves, made them feel just a little better. It wasn’t a big deal. Smoking was common and life expectancy alarmingly short. In fact, in the 1870’s, a Caucasian Man could count on living to the ripe old age of forty and a half years. Why not enjoy the small comforts of everyday life? Of course, it was those small comforts that likely led to their early demise, among other minor details, like the absence of vaccines and other medicines that would eventually bring that life expectancy up by a few decades.

Gary had been in this area of the Santa Cruz Mountains many times. He hunted there with his father as a boy. He knew it well. As he got older, his interest in old bottles began to grow. He had other interests, surfing and playing the saxophone, but bottles were a bright new interest and that day he felt like something was destined to happen.

"I had the feeling to go up there," Gary tells me over his cell phone. "We were always talking about finding a Cutter flask, we had found a lot of bottles but never a Cutter flask," he went on. "I walked there as a kid and it was like I was led there, right to the hole." "I walked right to it, put the probe in and hit the hole right away. It was just some strange intuition. Like it was meant to be." he confided. I just knew in the back of my head…there was going to be something." Gary was with Kenny and Kenny’s girlfriend Yvonne. "We were into probing stumps and had these short probes," he explains. "We dug a lot of bottles up to then but those were mostly outhouses in Oakland and San Francisco."

Diggers around the state knew about these guys from Santa Cruz. Although they sold much of what they dug, mostly the valuable bottles, divorce and life left him without most of the relics he spent years digging. Gary talked about their past adventures. Like the time he was digging with his friend and digging partner Chuck Reed and found a hole with a load of Baker & Cutting pickles, all broken. "It was amazing, they were all broken and in every color you could think of," he says. Gary is also undoubtedly the only digger to find two Kentucky Gem whiskey bottles, one of the rarest and most elusive western whiskey fifths known. "I found one with Kenny in Oakland and another with Gary Lavay, both in Oakland, west Oakland was a hot spot," he adds. Gary also found a California Clubhouse, often considered the top western whiskey. "We found a California Clubhouse in downtown San Francisco, it was in the fluff at the top, fill dirt, there really aren’t any whiskeys in downtown San Francisco because it’s so old," he says. They were the first to get indoor plumbing," he explains. Another story was something Kenny told me as a teenager. "We were driving past this house that had a sign in front saying it was the home of the first governor of California, Peter H. Burnett," he says. "We thought what the heck and headed around the back and found the outhouses." Kenny told me there were a number of holes, Gary doesn’t quite remember it as well but says,"we found a lot of hair bottles, some good ones."

So they continued to walk the walk Gary had been so used to. They went through the hills and continued to walk through a clearing past a barn and other debris. Gary said it just happened. "I walked right to it, saw this little area and put my probe in the ground." Suddenly he knew his intuition was all coming true. Gary knew he had an outhouse and he also suspected it was full of bottles. As he began to push away dirt, Kenny decided to look around and see if he could find another pit. As he watched Gary chipping away at the dirt, he turned to Gary and said, "find a Cutter flask."

Gary continued to dig away with the blade of a rusty shovel they found there. He said he started finding glass, black glass pieces, "a soda maybe, I don’t remember exactly the order but when Kenny returned, I had a Cutter flask lying there," he tells me with definite excitement just remembering the moment. "It was just so surreal, I mean he just says that and I find one just a few minutes later," he remembers. Some minor digging soon turned into a storm of excitement, all from this small pit in the ground. Another one appeared and the more they dug, the more bottles appeared. They needed to get some shovels. Kenny went back and soon returned with some real shovels while Gary and Yvonne continued digging. Together that day, in a five foot deep outhouse, they found six whole Crown Shoulder Cutter Whiskeys, seven J.F. Cutter Star & Shield flasks, a Cutter fifth, a green Jockey Club Gin, 13 unmarked ammonia bottles in different colors, a bevy of sodas (to help mellow the whiskey, no doubt), numerous western squares and a slew of other amazing bottles, both whole and broken. "The 13 flasks were just the whole ones," Gary points out. "There were other damaged ones."

At the time, the Cutter Crown Shoulder flasks were extremely rare. In fact, looking back even now, with around 15 examples at most in collections, they dug nearly half of the known examples. The J.F.Cutter Star & Shield was better known but some of the examples they found of both flasks are some of the best-known examples. A few years ago, the last Crown Shoulder sold that we know of sold in the $9,000 range. That’s three decades after the dig. "We found some amazing colored examples of both flasks," Gary points out. "I kept a brilliant yellow one with a crack in it, it was affordable," he laughs. There have been others passing hands in the years since "the dig" and it’s unlikely the proud new owners even know they are the same flasks that came out of the hole that day.

The dig is still talked about today. Kenny wrote a story for a bottle magazine not long after the dig called "Outhouse in the Sky," a story I read years ago but cannot find today. Gary asks if anyone has a copy, he’d love to see it. Most diggers will tell you to find a hole with so many whiskey rare flasks and other early western bottles is a once-in-a-lifetime event. John Thomas, in his definitive western whiskey book points out that," It is very unusual for more than two or three of these (early western whiskey bottles) to be dug by any one person no matter how large the collection, or how early the collector started." Ironically, he was speaking of western fifths, flasks are even rarer. The pictures are thanks to Gary as is much of the story. Kenny Gregg was found dead at his home years after the dig. Kenny was a great guy and we spent a good amount of time together despite our age difference, but his legacy will live on through the many incredible bottles the two unearthed together during the years they dug together.

As a teenager living in Aptos, Gary and Kenny were living legends. My friends and I fell in love with bottles, too. We weren’t old enough to have cars and we were pretty much relegated to hiking up the Old Mill and probing old stumps, just like our heroes. We couldn’t wait to go to the local antique shop run by Mary Schultz on the weekends. The guys would dig all night and leave their goods with Mary, providing their new finds for all of us to ohhh and awe over. It wasn’t like today, we didn’t care about chips or small cracks that much, it was just sheer joy of seeing these really old bottles, everything from a Wakelee’s Cameline to the day they brought in the base of a Laurel Palace Saloon whiskey, still only one known example exists. It was almost too much to believe. We would pour over Betty Zumwalt’s, Spirit Bottles of the Old West and the late John Thomas’, Whiskey Bottles of the Old West and lo and behold, see the same bottles at Mary’s on Saturday. Extraordinary bottles were a common occurrence at Mary’s, I remember a Neptune Bitters, a St. Nicholas Bitters, rare whiskeys, amazing sodas; literally hundreds and hundreds of every kind of bottle. This author is privileged to own one of the J.F. Cutter Star and Shield flasks dug that day purchased in the late 1980’s from a friend of Kenny’s, Gary Lavay.

Gary now lives with his wife Jan in Scotts Valley, CA and has become a softball fanatic, traveling the west in his motor home playing softball. He works for an insulation company and is content with the fact hat he’s not too far from retirement. He also collects arrowheads and is excited about his first Clovis point. "They were the first arrowheads ever made," he says excitedly. Gary has a son and daughter and now a great grandson. His interest in bottles is again at full steam and he realizes that being the top digger these days is a remote chance. A gifted athlete, at one time Gary Venturini was considered a world class surfer and according to those that knew him then claim he was one of the best surfers in the world. His home base was Santa Cruz and although he entered a few surfing contests, that was not his thing. "It’s something you can’t judge," he says. "I surfed as big as they get in Santa Cruz but the big money and the Maverick thing, it wasn’t happening then," Gary points out. "I surfed for the fun of it, for me it was personal." On one visit to his house years ago, Gary pulled out his sax and blew the house down. "I also play the flute," he adds.

So some thirty years later, we look back at three people who had a miraculous day filled with a kind of pre-arranged plan. Together, they dug the hole of a lifetime, shallow but filled to the brim with bottles many rare and all beautiful. "Dig a Cutter flask;" Kenny’s hopeful order was. Well dig a Cutter flask they did, a bakers dozen by anyone’s count. A miracle by many other’s.

Editor’s Note: The J.F. Cutter flasks, also known as the star and shield because of the embossing pattern are still highly prized by bottle collectors today. Listed in Thomas as Number 9 in the flask section, according to Thomas they were made from 1870-80. They are presently listed at an average price of $2,000 according to his price guide. The J.H.Cutter E. Martin & Co. Sole Agents with crown on shoulder was made from 1873-77 according to Thomas. He points out that the embossing is identical, like the star & shield, to the bottle or fifth version. Thomas also points out that six were dug in an outhouse dig in Santa Cruz, California in the 1970’s. He should know as he was one of the first to hear about it. The price? "We sold the crown shoulders for $500 apiece and the star & shields for $250," Gary says firmly. "I kept one cracked one and a root beer amber example," which he sold years later and years ago. John Thomas tells the story of a person who bought one of the Crown Shoulder flasks and got home and broke it. He immediately called Gary back and bought another. Thomas said that as of 2002 there were more than a dozen of these around. He also points out it is a very difficult flask to obtain and that it will most likely end up being one of the top ten western flasks. Gary Venturini emailed me after remembering that in addition to the six Crown Shoulder flasks he found, he also found one in Oakland so the total rises to seven. For more information on the history of Cutter Whiskey, see Thomas’ Whiskey Bottles of the Old West.

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by Jeff Wichmann

When this beautiful but somewhat damaged reverse painted Hostetter’s Bitters sign was sent to us we were very excited. After doing some research we realized that to anyone’s knowledge, this was the only example of this rare sign anyone had ever seen. Well, as you look at these two pictures it was the beginning of the end as the paint on the reverse kept crusting off, it became apparent it wasn’t going to last long. Even hours after taking these photographs, it got worse. An email to Richard Siri came as a surprise to him and American Bottle Auctions. It was a very rare design. There are numerous Hostetter’s advertising pieces but none like this. We eventually made a deal and two years later, he had a specialist recreate the sign. The results were stunning, as you’ll see below.

So history lives on in the form of this Hostetter’s reverse painted advertising sign. Richard had eight made and most have been purchased. As you can see, the reason it took two years to re-create this beautiful sign was the unbelievable detail involved in making it a true replica of the original in every way. The detail in the soldier on the horse slaying the dragon alone is breathtaking. If you are interested in obtaining one of these beautiful pieces, give us a call at American Bottle Auctions. 1800-806-7722. I believe Richard has maybe one or two left.

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The Golden Gate Historical Bottle Society Presents
43rd Annual Antiques and Collectibles Show
Saturday April 18th 2009 from 9 AM to 3 PM
Admission is FREE
At the Solano County Fairgrounds
McCormick Hall, Vallejo, CA Across from Six Flags Discovery Kingdom
Early Buyers - Friday 12:00 Noon to 6 PM $10 Admission
Dealer Setup Friday the 17th 12:00 Noon to 6 PM
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Phone: 925-373-6758

Montana Bottle Collectors’ Association 8th Annual Antique Bottle, Insulator, Collectable and Advertising Show and Sale
Friday June 5 & Saturday June 6
Butte Civic Center, 1340 Harrison Ave., Butte MT.
Friday June 5, dealers in at 3 pm with early birds 4 to 8 pm.
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Saturday June 13, 2009
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
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8^th Annual Greensboro Antique Bottle, Pottery & Collectibles Show & Sale
Sunday November 22, 2009
Indoors at the Farmer's Curb Market
501 Yanceyville St, Greensboro, NC.
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Dealer setup 7am - 9am No Early Buyers.
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Here's a list of upcoming bottle shows for Fall 2009, from the www.antiquebottles.com/shows.html show calendar.

• Jul 24-25 Birmingham, AL
• Aug 7 Mebane, NC (big bottle auction)
• Aug 8 Vicksburg, MS
• Aug 16 Poughkeepsie, NY
• Aug 29 Houston, TX
• Sep 13 Lewes, DE
• Sep 18-19 Jacksonville, FL
• Sep 20 Kirtland, OH
• Sep 20 Winchester, VA
• Sep 26 Raleigh, NC
• Sep 27 Basto, NJ
• Sep 27 Lowell, MA
• Sep 27 Depew, NY
• Oct 3 Point Pleasant, WV
• Oct 3 Chesterfield, VA (moved from Richmond, VA)
• Oct 4 Dryden, NY
• Oct 11 Keene, NH
• Oct 16-17 Monck's Corner, SC
• Oct 16-17 Savannah, GA
• Oct 18 Findlay, OH
• Nov 1 Elkton, MD
• Nov 14 Belleville, IL
• Nov 22 Greensboro, NC
• Nov 29 Bethlehem, PA

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2010 National Show
August 7 - 8, 2010
Roberts Center - Wilmington, Ohio
Info: R. Wayne Lowry 816-318-0161 or email:[email protected]

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