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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
These interesting bottles are known by collectors as the odd sized whiskey shaped amber bottle but mostly they are the antique bottle with the Sphinx on it. Collectors of western bitters and bottles in general are always on the lookout for picture whiskeys and although we’ve seen race horses, eagles, a Phoenix and deer […]
RETRACTION I need to apologize. Earlier this year I ran a series of articles about the theft of some Wonser Bitters bottles from the Piper Opera House. In those articles I misstated some facts concerning Jeff Wichmann. Jeff Wichmann was not a “principle” or an “architect” of the theft. The “Investigative Report”that I told you […]
As the years march on and we look back 50 years or so at antique bottle collecting, there were a lot of people that began the hobby with wonder and astonishment at the time, the Heineman father and son team were certainly part of that era. Darrell and his son Bret were two characters who […]
