Paul Trouette Sr., Passed away June of 2016. He was born in Sausalito California January of 1934, a Veteran of the Korean War serving with the 82nd Airborne and the 187th Regimental Combat Team. These bottles were dug about 50 years ago, I can remember going over from were we lived in San Rafael to […]
Join us in our journey to pick up the elusive Don Mullally Collection. We had talked to a number of people about Don and the collection he might have. We knew he lived in Granada Hills, California but as for what his collection had in it or even if it was a collection we would […]
Last week I had a thought of visiting Ferdinand and Elizabeth Meyer at their house outside Houston in a place known as Brookshire, Texas off Peach Ridge Road. I’d never been after all these years and besides feeling like it was a personal sin not to have visited them in the past, my auction was […]
Wet Weather Turns to Collectors Fun! December 2012 started wet and wild for collectors headed for the Auburn Antique Bottle Show this year at the Auburn Fairgrounds. Apparently the five inches of rain and up to 50 mph winds on Saturday did nothing to damper collectors spirits as they headed up Highway 80 to check […]
Antique bottles are more popular than ever! Not since the 1970’s has the popularity of antique bottle collecting grown at such a rapid rate. The resurgence of collecting is due to many factors, but one major contributing factor is the rising popularity of Internet, and online auctions. Ebay.com, the world’s largest online marketplace, has helped […]
In the 1850’s, the West was a bustling, populated area full of rugged and optimistic people from all over the world. San Francisco was the center of this new world and one of the new industries that would begin there was the manufacturing of glass bottles. In 1858, Baker & Cutting became the first company […]
