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 […]
In his fourth updated edition of his book on cabin bottles, Thomas Haunton has stepped it up a notch and presented some of the most amazing cabin bottles on the planet today. New pictures and descriptions of highly desirable and rare examples of some new cabins both very old and the Clevenger reproductions surely make […]
Diversity and Outstanding Workmanship Define Peltier It’s been a while since a new marble book has hit the market and with great pleasure I can announce the new effort by Sami Arim along with Mike Johnson and Gino Baffany, as they take us on a photographic tour of Peltier Marbles titled PELTIER GLASS TOY MARBLES […]
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 […]
By Jeff Wichmann Fred Holabird has written Volume II in his The Nevada Bottle Book series, this one focusing on drug store bottles from Nevada. At 480 pages, this beats his previous book on Nevada sodas, whiskeys, beers and dairy and other bottles by over 130 pages. To say it is a massive undertaking is […]
We recently received a copy of a fine new book titled TeaKettle Ink Price and Reference Guide 2016 written by Joe L. Mathews Jr. The terrific full-color pictures in this 51-page hardcover book are alone worth the price of admission. Mathew’s work delves into the history, colors, and the different types of teakettle inkwells and includes […]
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 […]
It’s April 27th and American Bottle Auction finished their 61st auction last night with a roar. We want to thank all the people that bid in the auction whether they won anything or not. I thought I would write some thoughts down on what we thought of the sale, anybody have another C.A. Slack for […]
This Hobby Has Changed by Jeff Wichmann Having been a collector of antique bottles since the 1970’s, I have watched as the hobby has gone from a national past time to a whimper and back again. Like any hobby that involves assembling various objects for display or simply for the astute collector to sit and […]
