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The Passing of a Friend

Posted on March 4, 2021 by ABAstaff in Bottle Talk

The Passing of a Friend- Jeff Wichmann It is with great sadness I am writing this about a good friend we all just lost and one of the most important bottle collectors in our hobby, Robert Frank. Just 66, I first met Robert over 30 years ago, we somehow hit it off and we spent […]

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Auction 68 Preview

Posted on July 18, 2020 by ABAstaff in Bottle Talk, News

Auction 68 is set for July 24th, or as we say in the business, next week. Below are many of the bottles we are bringing to the auction block, simply click on a picture to see a larger picture. To say it is a little eclectic would be an understatement. Lots of historical flasks, some […]

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Paul Trouette

Posted on July 16, 2020 by ABAstaff in Bottle Library, Bottle Talk

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 […]

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FOHBC Story Sheds Light on American Bottle

Posted on June 21, 2020 by ABAstaff in Bottle Talk, News

We certainly appreciate the FOHBC’s premier magazine, Bottles and Extras doing this article on us. The writer, Steve Abbott has done numerous stories for them and when he asked about doing one on American Bottle, I said, “heck yea, we need all the publicity we can get.” So if you get a chance check it […]

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The Elusive Mullally Collection Coming to Auction

Posted on June 18, 2020 by ABAstaff in Bottle Talk, News, Uncategorized

Don Mullally was a collector from the very beginning of the hobby we all know and love. Don along with his wife, Mary Patterson, started the first bottle club in Los Angeles. Maybe even more important was his work with the Los Angeles City Park and after retirement, he became known as the Father of […]

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Picking Up The Don Mullally Collection

Posted on June 16, 2020 by ABAstaff in Bottle Library, Bottle Talk, News

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 […]

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Friends From the Bottle World

Posted on April 10, 2020 by ABAstaff in Bottle Talk, Photo Gallery

Over the years I’ve taken photographs of people and bottles at shows but they’ve just sat on my computer. In honor of Lou Lambert’s birthday and just because, I thought I had a little extra time on my hands, so I took a look and found some pictures of, well, just about everyone who were […]

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A Visit With Ferd and Liz Meyer and Virginia’s Jeffrey S. Evans Auction

Posted on March 5, 2020 by ABAstaff in Bottle Library, Bottle Talk, News, Photo Gallery

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 […]

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A Look Behind the Scenes of the Ken Fee Auction

Posted on December 18, 2019 by ABAstaff in Bottle Talk, News

When we have an auction, we like to share the experience for those that might be curious what we are doing behind the scenes. So, I am doing that within the bottle community, basically the people who’ve requested to receive a catalog or email. This particular auction, number 67 and known as the Ken Fee […]

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The Ken Fee Collection

Posted on October 2, 2019 by ABAstaff in Bottle Talk, News

The Ken Fee Collection was a rumor to me when I first got wind of it. I was told he had some good bottles and especially one bitters that was bigger than life itself, a Cassin’s Grape Brandy Bitters in an oddball color. It had been mentioned over the years as being blue or some […]

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The Passing of a Friend

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The Elusive Mullally Collection Coming to Auction

Friends From the Bottle World

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