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Daily Dose December 2013
D e c e m b e r 2 0 1 3Tuesday, 31 December 2013 (New Years Eve)Can you believe it? Another year. Father times goes too fast. I sit here nursing a cup of coffee with a fire in the fireplace, three...
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Daily Dose January 2014
J a n u a r y 2 0 1 4Friday, 31 January 2014While working the “Hot on the trail of the elusive O.O.S.B.” post this morning, I was taken back to an old 2004 FOHBC EXPO article by Ralph Van Brocklin....
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Daily Dose | March 2014
M a r c h 2 0 1 4Monday, 31 March 2014Sunday, 30 March 2014Leaving Morro Bay today to go to Jerry Forbes place near Carmel. Had a great time at the show. Picked up a killer Webb’s Improved Stomach...
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Daily Dose | May 2014
MAY | 2 0 1 4Saturday, 31 May 2014Odd picture of the day. According to Marianne Dow, Charles B. Tripp, the armless man and Eli Bowen, the legless man, riding a tandem. ca. 1890s.Thursday, 29 May...
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Daily Dose | June 2014
JUNE | 2 0 1 4Friday, 27 June 2014Many western collectors heading to the Reno Antique Bottle & Collectibles Club 51st Annual Show & Sale at the Grand Sierra Resort today and tomorrow. I heard...
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Daily Dose | August 2014
AUGUST | 2 0 1 4Saturday, 30 August 2014Carl Hotkowski send me an original copy of the Connecticut Mirror newspaper from July 1820. There are a couple of bitters and medicine advertisements within....
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Daily Dose | September 2014
SEPTEMBER | 2 0 1 4Monday, 29 September 2014Kind of fun with all these extremely rare, listed and listed bitters that are surfacing. It is a great time to be a bitters collector. Hearing of an...
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Peachridge Glass: Mailbox Letters October – December 2014
Please feel free to send any antique bottle or glass questions to ferdinand@peachridgeglass.com. The information will be posted if relevant or of interest to the readers. I will try to answer or wait...
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Daily Dose | November 2014
NOVEMBER | 2 0 1 4Saturday, 29 November 2014Moosewood Bitters advertisement from the Boston Post on Monday, December 27, 1875. Wood, Pollard & Company Sole Agents for the United States. This...
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Daily Dose | December 2014
DECEMBER | 2 0 1 4Friday, 05 December 2014Took an ambulance today to the ER. Free Advice…”Do not stick arm in the middle of a dog fight”. Odd label from Heritage Auctions. I’ll check it out. Read...
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Daily Dose | May & June 2016
May & June | 2 0 1 6 Monday – 23 May 2016 Leaving for Louisville here shortly. Massive restorations aqnd renovations at Peach Ridge. Deep into inconvenience. Here is that unlisted Dr. Duncan’s...
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Daily Dose | July 2016
July | 2 0 1 6 28 July 2016 It is with great sadness that I report that Jerry & Helen Forbes, dear friends of ours, lost their house yesterday in the Soberanes Fire. Here is a PRG Facebook...
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Daily Dose | August • September 2 0 1 6
August • September | 2 0 1 6 24 September 2016 Wolford Z Whiskey mystery solved. “Hey Ferd, I think the following articles will explain the “Z” that is embossed on the WOLFORD bottle. – Best...
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Daily Dose | October • December 2 0 1 6
October • December | 2 0 1 6 29 December 2016 I have a bottle my Dad dug in Denver in the late 70’s. His name was Jim Bryan. The bottle is Hartwigs Alpine Stomach Bitters. It is the one listed in...
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Daily Dose | January • March 2 0 1 7
January • March | 2 0 1 7 20 March 2017 Cool Ardon Bitters wallet picked up by Robert Cohen. “I got this exceptionally rare Antique Leather Bitters Advertising Wallet, from Saint Louis.” Joe Gourd...
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Daily Dose | April • June 2 0 1 7
April • June | 2 0 1 7 28 June 2017 Dingen’s Napolean Cocktail Bitters from Buffalo, New York. Figural banjo. Pretty darn cool. Working on thirty-six (36) rotational photos taken by Alan DeMaison...
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Daily Dose | July • September 2 0 1 7
July • September | 2 0 1 7 15 August 2017 Ferd, here is the provenance on the Elk Bitters. It was found about a month ago at a farm auction at Smithville, MO. It was simply laying in a bucket on a...
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Daily Dose | October • December 2 0 1 7
October • December | 2 0 1 7 24 December 2017 | Sunday I like this Drake’s Plantation Bitters lot from the last Glass Works Auctions Auction 117 . 21 December 2017 | Thursday A nice advertising...
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Daily Dose | January • March 2018
January • March | 2 0 1 8 28 March 2018 | Wednesday NEW FIND! Example of a Betterton Brothers Home Bitters from Kingston, Tennessee. “Came out of a basement here in Roanoke. Guy had know idea where...
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Daily Dose | April • June 2018
April • June | 2 0 1 8 08 April 2018 | Sunday Hi Ferdinand, Found this ad in a 1860 Gardiner, Maine newspaper. Not sure if its unknown but found no reference online or in For Bitters Only. Not sure...
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