- pint slug plate milk "CAPE FEAR DAIRY / WILMINGTON, N.C."
- crown top soda "GRANITE / BOTTLING WORKS / GRANITE FALLS, N.C."
- pint rectangular NC whiskey "LOWENSTEIN & Co / Old Harvest Corn Whiskey / Statesville, N.C."
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| Southeast Bottle Club PO Box 13736 Durham, NC 27709 | Email:
southeast@antiquebottles.com
Web: www.antiquebottles.com/southeast/ Phone: (919) 789-4545, FAX: (561) 760-6246 |
The Southeast Bottle Club is a non-profit organization serving the Southeastern United States. All meetings and events are open to the public, so drop by and check us out. We hope you'll consider joining the club. Club members receive the monthly newsletter via Email or postal mail, run free ads in this newsletter, and participate in all the fun and benefits the club has to offer. Free Email-only membership is also available - just ask. This newsletter is currently distributed to over 1,600 collectors. Info may be reprinted as long as credit is given.
The 2nd Southeast Bottle Club event is a Bottle Swap Meet on Saturday December 7th noon-2pm at Granddaddy's Antique Mall in Burlington, NC. There will be an educational presentation on NC milk bottles by John Patterson, the premier collector in this area.
Raffle Bottles for Dec 7th Meeting:
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FOR 36 YEARS I HAVE BEEN ACTIVE IN THE HOBBY. I HAVE BEEN BLESSED TO MAKE MANY FRIENDS THROUGH THE YEARS HAVING HAD SHOPS IN SAVANNAH AND SWAINSBORO AND HAVING PARTICIPATED IN BOTTLE SHOWS THROUGH OUT MANY PARTS OF OUR GREAT COUNTRY. I MUST SAY THAT THE FINEST PEOPLE I HAVE EVER KNOWN ARE PEOPLE THAT I MET IN THE BOTTLE HOBBY. IF ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WERE ONE HALF AS GOOD AS MOST OF THESE FOLKS WE WOULD NOT HAVE HAD THE TRAGEDIES OF THE RECENT DAYS. TO ALL MY FRIENDS I WOULD LIKE TO SAY A SINCERE THANKS FOR MAKING ME A PART OF YOUR LIVES. GOD BLESS YOU AND GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Understand Frank is looking for members to help take over the show chairman and newsletter editor positions. Sure hope someone out there will take over and keep up the Winchester tradition.
This show is traditionally a hot spot for White House Vinegar and Speas Vinegar items. The Ole' Time Vinegar Society held a meeting before the show.
Here are some pictures from the show (click any picture for full view close up). These photos were provided by Irving Robbins - thanks.
Some nice White House offerings by one of the dealers. |
Richard Venskoske and his wife Lola. |
Some of the crowd at the show. |
White House World's Fair bottle with original label. |
Here are some pictures from the show (click any picture for full view close up):
"Feeding Frenzy" forms to check out bottles offerred by Keith Parrish. |
Gary Guckert of NY had a beautiful offering of higher end bottles. |
The Baltimore Club was well represented by show chairman Bob Ford (left) and president Steve Charing (right). |
Lucy Faulkner, who once again trounced Reggie in the annual ink brag contest (wait till next year). |
Dave Tyree won 1st and People's Choice for his Virginia soda display. |
Reggie Lynch with his slotted shelf (no tools to assemble) that makes displaying "for sale" bottles easier for the buyer (easier to view) and seller (can squeeze more bottles into the limited table space). |
Here are some pictures from the Savannah Bottle Show held October 18-19 in Savannah GA. About 100 dealer tables were sold for this show. I attended and really enjoyed myself at this show. Great hospitality, and a big thanks to show chairmen David Powell and Russ Butler for making it happen.
Click any picture below for full view close up:
Bob Simmons and his grandson Will show an amber Savannah flask. |
Marie Youmans (Peyton's widow) shows a nice amber John Ryan that she picked up at the show. |
Russ Butler shows this amber quart flask embossed "W. H. Ray / SAVANNAH, GA." circa 1879-1880. Russ provided this info: William H. Ray was born in 1850 in Waterbury Connecticut. The eldest son of James Ray, an Irish grocer who moved to Savannah in 1858 and became one of the town's most successful bottlers. William Ray operated his grocery and liquor business on the east end of Bay Street on the edge of the river from 1879 to 1892. This is the only known example and first bottle that has turned up bearing William Ray's name. |
One of the two great display cases packed with many rare and lovely bottles. These cases are a great way to safely share bottles while allowing collectors a close up look. |
Marc Zorbo shows two Charleston sodas he dug: cobalt DAWSON & BLACKMAN and black J.L. KORNAHRENS. |
Chris Maloney (of Charleston SC) showed this "OLD SACHEM / BITTERS / AND / WIGWAM TONIC" barrel in a wild ginger ale color that he is currently running on eBay. See this closeup showing true color. |
The swap meet started around 10:00 am with several display tables full of insulators. During the day, several quality insulators found new homes with everyone taking home a jewel or two with them.
Lunch consisted of hamburgers and hot dogs with all the trimmings, baked ranch style beans (thanks Kathleen), potato salad and deserts. No one went hungry.
Club formation and business was discussed. Next meeting is planned for Spring of 2003. Info provided by president Tommy Snead, Email: Bhiveman@aol.com.
This amber 1/2 pint SC DISPENSARY union flask with partial label sold for $1,275 on eBay. Who says a label doesn't help! Also see picture of front. |
Usually a $100-200 bottle, this pristine example with full label sold for $548 on eBay. Also see full size with label and label closeup. |
Check out the great olive swirls in this half gallon Mason 1858 fruit jar that sold for $310 on eBay by xx78@msn.com. |
Green tinted SC DISPENSARY half pint rum bottle with palmetto tree sold $416 on eBay. |
Rory Martin sent in these pictures of an iron pontilled cathedral that he picked up recently at the Greensboro NC Big Flea Market (same Flea Market that will be going on the weekend of the Nov 10th Greensboro Bottle Show). |
This bottle embossed "BEAR LITHIA WATER / BEAR LITHIA WATER {across bear picture} / TRADEMARK / ELKTON, VA" sold for $329 on eBay. by Keith Blasdel. |
Shot glass that with acid etched words that read "Souvenir / {pair of clasped hands} / Welcome / GERMAN BAPTIST CONFERENCE / ROANOKE, VA 1899" and back reads "TAKE VICTOR LIVER SYRUP". Sold $54 on eBay. |
Info from seller Greg Spurgeon: These jars have been long-known in the fruit jar collecting hobby as reproductions. They were made in the fall of 1971. They came in several "dream colors"....cobalt blue, emerald green, milk glass, carnival glass, black purple and amber. They are easily recognized by their base marking of "971" which stood for the date of September 1971. They also have three vertical mold seams, unlike any antique Mason jar. They were not intended to fool anyone, but rather made as a fantasy item for collectors. The example shown sold for $34 on eBay. |
Stoneware Tenn pint beer stenciled "THE MOERLEIN-GERST-BREWING CO.OLD JUG LAGER FULLY MATURED, A VERITABLE LUXURY. THE FASHIONABLE BEVERAGE OF THE DAY. BRILLIANT IN COLOR, ABSOLUTELY PURE, STIMULATING, REJUVENATING. NASHVILLE, TENN. U.S.A". This variant with rooster is rarer than one with Tenn state seal. Sold on eBay by Frank Rains for $118. |
2 gallon stacker style jug stencilled with "HARLEY WICKAM / WHOLESALE LIQUOR DEALER / STONE MOUNTAIN, GA." sold for $90 on eBay. |
Thanks to Teddy Speas for passing along this info. This No Deposit / No Return 10 oz Coca-Cola bottle sold for $650 on eBay by Alan Wright. The no deposit bottles are the hot new category in soda bottle collecting. |
This center script slug plate "WILMINGTON, N.C. / Coca-Cola / BOTTLING CO." sold for $125 on eBay. |
Hutchinson soda embossed "PETEET SON'S / BOTTLING CO. / MADISON, GA" sold for $482 on eBay. |
Half gallon "LINCOLN LITHIA / TRADE MARK / SPRING WATER / L L W / REGISTERED MAY 1 1900 / LINCOLNTON, N.C." sold $151 on eBay. |
7" amber blob soda embossed "JOHN RYAN / 1866 / SAVANNAH, GA. / CIDER" sold $255 on eBay. |
Decorated pottery bottle signed on base by the late John Meaders and his wife. Sold $537 on eBay. |
Despite some minor damage, this bowling pin shaped "INDIAN ROCK / GINGER ALE / RICHMOND / PEPSI:COLA CO / RICHMOND / VA" sold for $651 on eBay. |
Clear bottle with amethyst tint embossed "REGISTERED / DR PEPPER / KING OF BEVERAGES / ARTESIAN / MFG & BOT CO. / WACO, TEX." sold $549 on eBay. |
The club is gearing up for it's 3rd annual show & sale on March 22, 2003 in the Holshouser Building on the NC State Fairgrounds in Raleigh, NC.
Charlie Perry showed these two block letter bowling pin COCA-COLA bottles: amethyst tinted from NEWPORT NEWS, VA and aqua from HENDERSON, NC. |
Donnie Medlin showed this rare candy-stripe Dr Pepper. See close-up. |
Sterling Mann showed this Pepsi ink blotter from New Bern, which advertises "The Pepsin Drink", dating this unique piece around 1902-05. See close-up. |
Reggie Lynch showed his recently aquired collection of 3 different Old Nick Whiskey bottles from Williams, NC. A quart and pint are for lock box 26, and the other pint is for lock box 11. The two pints also have most of their original labels. |
Photo at right shows Chris Rowell, BABC member, showcasing his high-end Baltimore torpedo sodas and pontiled medicines at the club's October meeting.
The Baltimore Antique Bottle Club is gearing up for its 23rd Annual Show and Sale on March 2, 2003. It is the largest one-day bottle show in the world with over 300 tables and nearly 1,400 from the public attending this past show. Dealers form the 2002 show have right of retention. However, a good number reluctantly drop out for one reason or another. Therefore, the club is assembling a waiting list for those who wish to participate in the major bottle event. Vacant tables are filled according to the order of postmarkof the returned contract/payment. For more information, please contact show chairman Bob Ford at 410-531-9459 or Email him: bottles@comcast.net Or you may visit the club's website at www.antiquebottles.com/baltimore
Also see Antique Bottle Shows and Southeastern Antiquing & Collecting.
| Nov 10, 2002
Greensboro, NC | 1st annual Greensboro Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show & Sale on Sunday Nov 10, 2002 at the Farmer's Curb Market on 501 Yanceyville St, Greensboro, NC. Public admission 9am-3pm for $1. Dealer setup 6am-9am, 5 ft table $15, 10 ft table $25. Early buyers $10 7:30am. Info: David Jackson (336) 288-2677 or Reggie Lynch (919) 789-4545, PO Box 13736, Durham, NC 27709. Web: www.antiquebottles.com/greensboro/ |
| Nov 23, 2002
Bradenton, FL | The Sarasota-Manatee Antique Bottle Collectors 18th Annual "Tail-Gators" Outdoor Show & Swap Meet 9am-2pm at the Glass Blowers Union Hall Grounds, 3309 Ninth Street East, Bradenton, FL. Info: Ed Herrold, PO Box 18928, Sarasota, FL 34276. PH: (941) 923-6550. |
| Dec 7, 2002
Burlington, NC | Southeast Bottle Club hosts a Bottle Swap Meet on Saturday December 7th noon-2pm at Granddaddy's Antique Mall in Burlington, NC. Meet will include show & tell, swap meet (bring your bottles to sale), raffle, free appraisals, and an educational presentation on NC milk bottles by John Patterson. |
| Feb 1, 2003
Rome, GA | The West Georgia Bottle & Collectibles Club Show & Sale, Sat 8am-3pm at the Rome Civic Center, Turner McCall Blvd, Rome, GA. Info: Jerry Mitchell, PO Box 475, Bremen, GA 30110, Phone: (770) 537-3725, Email: mitjt@hotmail.com or Bob Jenkins, PH: (770) 834-0736. |
