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Fisher & Winston – Richmond, Virginia
Fisher & Winston – Richmond, Virginia 19 January 2014 I have had some conversations and correspondence with Frank Bishop (South Carolina) the past year or so and was intrigued when he sent me this...
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Where is the Doctor on Planett’s Bitters Advertising?
Where is the Doctor on Planett’s Bitters Advertising? 19 January 2014 In May 2012, I did a post on The Celestial Dr. Planett’s Bitters and came across various newspaper advertising centered from 1848...
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Dr. Dromgoole’s English Female Bitters & Yellow Fever
Dr. Dromgoole’s English Female Bitters & Yellow Fever 25 January 2014 “Within the oyster’s shell uncouth, The purest pearl may hide.” So with the afflictions that lurk among the females of our...
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Dr. Thos. H. Barnes Anti-Dyspeptic & Family Bitters
Dr. Thos. H. Barnes Anti-Dyspeptic & Family Bitters Keeping House & Selling Bitters 03 February 2014 James Viguerie mentioned in a recent e-mail, “For example for B 25 (Dr. Thos. H. Barnes...
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Burwell’s Virginia Bitters – Richmond
Burwell’s Virginia Bitters - Richmond 06 March 2014 (R•030714) I have been tracking the elusive and unlisted Burwell’s Virginia Bitters from Richmond for a year or two and was finally able to see an...
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The Winfree’s Bitters Family
The Winfree’s Bitters Family Winfree’s Aromatic Stomach Bitters, Winfree’s Bitters and Winfree’s Tonic Anti-Spasmodic and Alterative Bitters 07 March 2014 I picked up an extremely rare, Winfree’s...
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Two bitters that W. E. French was selling in Petersburg, Virginia
Two bitters that W. E. French was selling in Petersburg, Virginia 09 March 2014 I completed a post the other day on some extremely rare bitters put out by H. N. Winfree in Chester, Virginia and James...
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Is the Magic Bitters related to the Penn’s Pony Bitters?
Is the Magic Bitters related to the Penn’s Pony Bitters? 10 March 2014 (R•031214) At the Baltimore Antique Bottle Show the weekend before last, I was able to add a Magic Bitters, put out by Minetree...
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The unlisted Yaupon Bitters – Norfolk, Virginia
The unlisted Yaupon Bitters – Norfolk, Virginia or Vegetable Elixir of Life 11 March 2014 Bitters trade card authority Joe Gourd (Chicago, Illinois) sent me the pictured advertising trade card below...
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Could a mundane bottle of wine-flavored ginger ale be a descendent of a...
Could a mundane bottle of wine-flavored ginger ale be a descendent of a winery established in 1835? 24 June 2014 by Ken Previtali Two earlier PRG posts, one on Bininger’s Knickerbocker Wine Bitters and...
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Anti-Malarial Bitters, D. T. Everts & Company – Petersburg, Virginia
Anti-Malarial Bitters, D. T. Everts & Company – Petersburg, Virginia29 September 2014 (R•093014) (R•100314) Tom Leveille sent me the below pictures of the only known example of the open pontil and...
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The Beggs’ and their Dandelion Bitters
The Beggs’ and their Dandelion Bitters18 November 2014As a follow-up to both of the DeWitts Stomach Bitters posts, I thought it would be appropriate to do a post on Beggs Dandelion Bitters. Beggs and...
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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...
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Everything’s better with bitterquelle. . .
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...
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Schroeder’s German Bitters – Baltimore
Schroeder’s German Bitters – Baltimore 03 March 2015 Bob Ford with the Baltimore Antique Bottle Club posted the picture below of the extremely rare, and very uniquely designed Schroeder’s German...
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John T. Pendleton and his Pendleton’s Pineapple Bitters
The Nashville Wharf, photographed shortly after the American Civil War John T. Pendleton and his Pendleton’s Pineapple Bitters 07 May 2015 Yesterday I put up a post on C. G. Pendleton’s Tonic, The...
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Dr. Lamot’s Botanic Bitters
Dr. Lamot’s Botanic Bitters Where are you from? 18 May 2015 John Pastor has a rare Dr. Lamot’s Botanic Bitters square in his current American Glass Gallery Auction #14. I thought I would take a moment...
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Dr. Emanuel’s Sarsaparilla – Vicksburg
Dr. Emanuel’s Sarsaparilla – Vicksburg, Mississippi 05 June 2015 (R•060615) View of Vicksburg in 1855 “and none got too excited about it, but they wanted to buy it.” Incoming e-mail about an...
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Oliver O. Woodman’s Sarsaparilla – Vicksburg, Mississippi
Oliver O. Woodman’s Sarsaparilla – Vicksburg, Mississippi 06 June 2015 (R•062017) Yesterday we were in Mississippi posting on the Dr. Emanuel’s Sarsaparilla which is a great pontiled bottle from...
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Jackson’s Excelsior Bitters – Richmond, Virginia
Jackson’s Excelsior Bitters – Richmond, Virginia 19 October 2015 (R•102015) The Jackson’s Excelsior Bitters is an unlisted bitters that crossed my radar screen the other day. At first I thought it...
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