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Bottle Digger Finds Rare 1890s Pasadena Fruit & Crystallizing Jelly Jar
Pasadena Fruit & Crystallizing Co. / Pasadena Cal. jar Ed Kuskie sent us this note:A Happy New Year over to you all as well !!! Great pictures and bottles with the articles, thanks !! I have...
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Rare SoCal Fruit Jar / Southern California Packing Co., Los Angeles /...
Here's another very scarce southern California jar, embossed SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PACKING CO.LOS ANGELES,CAL.This photo was posted on theAntique-Bottles.net Forumby fruit jar collector Tammy Johnson...
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Dairy Photos For Ohio Milk Bottle Collectors ~ Bordens, Driggs, Willow Creek,...
Joe Clevenger sent in these neat dairy photos and info, with this note:"I found some Ohio dairy pictures on the net. I paired the photos up with what information that I had and thought I would send it...
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Prince Rupert's Drop ~ Glass Blower's Magic Trick Captured in Slow Motion Video
This glass blobby-string thing will blow your mind when you see it explode in slow motion.Todd Knisely shared this awesome video about a glass blowing phenomena called a Prince Rupert's Drop.Here's the...
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19th Century San Jose ~ In a Bottle ~ New Bottle Collecting and History Book...
19th Century San Jose ~ In a Bottle ~ by Tobin GilmanI wanted to share this new book for a couple of reasons. One, of course it's about bottle collecting. But I am really impressed with how nice it...
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Rare Antique Folk Art Sand Paintings in Glass Bottles and Jars by A. Clemens
The artist who created these beautiful bottles in the late 1800's was Andrew Clemens (1857-1894) of McGregor, Iowa, who was a deaf-mute."... It's estimated that of the hundreds of sand art bottles...
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Naughty History of Valentine's Meat Juice in the Little Amber Bottle - Happy...
You don't need teeth to enjoy Valentine's Meat Juice!Aah, love. By Marianne DowValentine's Meat Juice has true love as it's raison d'être. Mann S. Valentine Jr. was desperate to save his dying wife,...
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Dr. Kilmer's Indian Cure / Navahoe Mineral Water / Charlie Ross Kidnapped in...
Potpourri for February 2014I Got the The Target BluesFYI -- New blue jars and demijohn bottle at Target. --...
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Rare Cobalt Blue Farmacia Zambeletti Medicine Bottle / Milano Italy / History...
DR.LO. ZAMBELETTI / MILANO cobalt medicine bottle (photo from Mike Urbanski)This beautiful bottle was posted on the Bottle Collectors Facebook page by Mike Urbanski. He was looking for any info about...
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The Other Rare Coca Cola Prototype Bottle Appears at the 2013 Indianapolis...
Photo Source: Joe Coulson, published in the Midwest Fruit Jar Club's newsletter. [Read the newsletter: PDF Link]The Un-Coca-Cola Proto-type BottleRarest of the rare: this one-of-a-kind Coca Cola...
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Bottle Collectors Digging March! Lions, Lambs, and Leprechauns on Vintage Labels
"March comes in like a Lion, and goes out like a Lamb." -- An old saying around since 1624.Apparently since glass containers are not allowed in the parades or out on the street, they use “go-cups”....
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Better Babies Brought to You by Milk ~ How Advertisers Sold Us Bigger Fatter...
Want to Keep Up With the Jones's Baby? Drink Milk ~ Lima Ohio's Better Babies Movement ~ 1916 ~ Vintage Lima Ohio Collectibles and HistoryGOT MILK?How did milk-fed babies became the chubby ideal? A...
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Who is The King of Pain? Ohio's Porter's Pain Cure Story ~ Antique Medicine...
W.L. Porter's Pain Cure Story ~ Antique Medicine Bottles ~ Lima Ohio Historyby Marianne DowPorter's Pain Cure / W.L. Porter Lima, O. embossed medicine bottle, circa 1870s.Embossed Porter's Cure of...
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Ohio's Two Royal Crest Dairies ~ History by Joe Clevenger ~ Vintage Milk Bottles
THE TWO ROYAL CREST DAIRIESby Joe Clevenger#1 - Royal Crest All Star DairyOren G. Hoffman began his career in the dairy business in 1913 at the Molen Dairy Company of Dayton. He worked at the Molen...
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Featuring Findlay ~ Vintage Findlay Ohio Collectibles ~ April 2014 Edition
Featuring Findlay Vintage Findlay Ohio Bottles and Advertising Items Here's the latest round up of vintage Findlay Ohio items recently seen at bottle shows, on ebay, or that readers have shared. Send...
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The Tricky Little Month of April ~ Taxes and Pranks ~ Happy April Fools Day
Watch out for those April Fools Day pranks!Ole Sir Taxy Waxy will have his due on April 15th!April's A Tricky Month!"Hold the bottle up to the light; you will see your dreams are always at the bottom."...
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Jacob Fleck: Findlay's Own Easter Egg Decorator ~ Fleck's Vintage Easter Egg Dye
Good Reads: An article about Findlay Ohio-born Jacob Fleck and his Easter Egg Dyes business, by Joe Terry._______________________________________________Findlay Antique Bottle Club Website - Facebook -...
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First Let's Kill All the Ad Men: Uncle Sam, Shakespeare and the Mad Men ~...
In honor of William Shakespeare's birthday celebration (April 26), I thought I'd rerun this post about the use of Shakespeare and Uncle Sam in vintage whiskey ads. On Facebook I posted a link to this...
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And All That FIZZ! What put the POP in soda pop? History from Quack Medicine...
Where'd you get that fizz?An interesting take on the history of soda pop by The Collectors Weekly's staff.It took until 1767 for the real breakthrough to happen when Joseph Priestley, the British...
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It's Showtime! May 2014: Mansfield Ohio Bottle Show // Columbia City Indiana...
What time is it? It's Bottle Show Time!THE MANSFIELD BOTTLE SHOW IS ALMOST HERE!Saturday May 10, 2013Make your hotel reservations now!Early Bird on Friday May 9 is well worth your $$ & time!Go to...
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