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new display for Vermont Collection - 6/22/2008 6:10:22 AM    epgorge Posts: 2398 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline A new display cabinet for the Vermont Collection. I was tiring of worrying about labels and cat breakage. Also, tired of dusting them. I picked this Waddell C Inc. (Greenfield, O.) up at an auction yesterday. There were so many display cases for sale, this one slipped through the radar and I picked it up for a song. If I find another, it will fit on top of this one. All the ones on the top shelf are a growing Vermont collection of medicines (etc) and druggist bottles. Some, came from fellow, forum members. The bottom shelf is filling with pontiled, flared and rolled lips or anything of particular value to me. Joel Attachment (1) _____________________________ Post #: 1

RE: new display for Vermont Collection - 6/22/2008 7:07:53 AM    annie44 Posts: 1076 Joined: 10/27/2005 Status: offline Very nice display case, Joel!  Your Vermont collection has really grown! (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 2

RE: new display for Vermont Collection - 6/22/2008 8:54:57 AM    glass man Posts: 1013 Joined: 1/30/2008 From: GEORGIA Status: offline GREAT LOOKING BOTTLES AND A DISPLAY CASE THAT IS SO NICE ,BECAUSE YOU CAN SEE THE BOTTLES FROM ALL ANGLES,AS THE BACK AND SIDES ARE GLASS.I love what I display my bottles on,but like you said ,I have to dust ,worry about BIRDS,etc. VERY NICE! ARE those bottles in the background on a window sill? < Message edited by glass man -- 6/22/2008 8:56:30 AM > _____________________________ Stand there's a midget standing tall and a giant beside him about to fall. Stand ..they will try to make you crawl and they know what you're saying makes sense and all.Stand don't you know you are free, Well at least in your mind if you wan to be. SLY (in reply to annie44) Post #: 3

RE: new display for Vermont Collection - 6/22/2008 12:46:42 PM    capsoda Posts: 7510 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Excellent display case Joel. It is nice not to have to worry about your treasures. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to glass man) Post #: 4

RE: new display for Vermont Collection - 7/1/2008 4:43:12 PM    epgorge Posts: 2398 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline Thanks!! It is nice for seeing all the way through. Problem is, which side do you put the best showing side of bottle toward? Yes, those are whiskey flasks to your right and medicines to the left. It is an old 19th century home and the window frames are 12 inches deep. They make for nice glass displays if you can find the thicker glass needed to span the window, but you still need to dust the darned things. I heat with wood so things can get pretty dusty in the winter. Yep, Annie it sure is growing. Each time I buy one, I say it is the last. I just got a John Moffat yesterday. What a desease. My most treasured Vermont bottles come from the Bill Lindsey collection. You can see one of the three Dr Green's Victorian cards in the side view picture. I picked that up from Bill. Underneath that is Paines druggist, Burlington. Later on the world would come to know the name from Paines Celery Compound, distributed by Wells Richardson & Co. of Burlington. Cap, I can't stop worrying regardless of what I do. We are all sitting on a valuable lot of breakables. Antiquities we pay to take care of. Hell, they'll be around longer than we will be. I still have to live through the grandkids I don't even know. If they are anything like their parents I had better baton down the hatches. Sorry it took so long to respond to this but I have been feeling my oats lately and getting out to more auctions and yardsales etc. A few of my finds to follow. Joel Attachment (1) < Message edited by epgorge -- 7/1/2008 4:54:56 PM > _____________________________ (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 5

RE: new display for Vermont Collection - 7/1/2008 4:57:50 PM    epgorge Posts: 2398 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline   A John Moffat, Phoenix Bitters. Attachment (1) < Message edited by epgorge -- 7/1/2008 5:00:11 PM > _____________________________ (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 6

RE: new display for Vermont Collection - 7/1/2008 5:01:25 PM    epgorge Posts: 2398 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline   Attachment (1) _____________________________ (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 7

RE: new display for Vermont Collection - 7/1/2008 5:03:31 PM    epgorge Posts: 2398 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline A nice clean For Pikes Peak flask, pint, to go with my quart Pikes Peak. Attachment (1) _____________________________ (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 8

RE: new display for Vermont Collection - 7/1/2008 5:05:30 PM    epgorge Posts: 2398 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline A really nice Sands Sars Attachment (1) _____________________________ (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 9

RE: new display for Vermont Collection - 7/1/2008 5:07:36 PM    epgorge Posts: 2398 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline a few given to me the other day... Moxie Nerve Food   (pat 85), nice.... Attachment (1) _____________________________ (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 10

RE: new display for Vermont Collection - 7/1/2008 5:09:11 PM    epgorge Posts: 2398 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline The little bottle to the right rear of the Moxie is a lazell Dalley (sp?)... picked it up for a buck at a yard sale. _____________________________ (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 11

RE: new display for Vermont Collection - 7/1/2008 5:13:10 PM    epgorge Posts: 2398 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline Skilton Foote pickles and a medicine I haven't identified yet, any help would be appreciated. Joel Attachment (1) _____________________________ (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 12

RE: new display for Vermont Collection - 7/1/2008 5:15:18 PM    epgorge Posts: 2398 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline a better shot of the medicine I haven't identified. When did colored labels start appearing? Thanks for the help and nice words. I am heading to another auction soon and will keep you posted. Joel Attachment (1) < Message edited by epgorge -- 7/1/2008 5:23:00 PM > _____________________________ (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 13

RE: new display for Vermont Collection - 7/1/2008 6:16:38 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 4733 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline My guess would be thats a Weeks & Potter medicine from Boston. They were a big company and made a lot of stuff. Probably 1890 +/- . Colored labels were used all through the 19th century , just more later than earlier... _____________________________ Looking for Frederick Maryland and Dr Fahrney Bottles 2008 Medicine Bottle Price Guide on CDROM http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/BottleBook2008.htm email http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/email.jpg (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 14

RE: new display for Vermont Collection - 7/1/2008 7:02:00 PM    Stardust   Posts: 593 Joined: 10/5/2007 Status: offline Joel, the display looks grrrrrrrrrreat! and everthing else around it looks fascinating. i'd love to just be poking around and seeing what you've got there. Where are you in Vermont? _____________________________ May you rest in peace my friend, sorry you had to leave us so suddenly ..... (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 15

RE: new display for Vermont Collection - 7/2/2008 12:07:11 AM    Penn Digger   Posts: 152 Joined: 5/12/2008 From: N Penn Status: offline Nice bottles and display case.  First time I ever saw bottles displayed in that type of case that weren't in an antique mall.  I like it. "Cat breakage?"  I know the feeling.  Mine have to be enclosed in our built in china cabinet on the first floor for now because my wife has five of the leaping critters.  I have one shelf (not window) high on an inside wall, no sunlight.  The rest are in boxes on the third floor. Last bottle you're going to buy?  Somehow I don't believe you mean it. What is on the shelves in the background? Show some pics of those please!!! Thanks for sharing. PD (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 16

RE: new display for Vermont Collection - 7/2/2008 7:40:29 AM    passthebottle   Posts: 240 Joined: 1/23/2007 Status: offline   Good job with the new display case. I love seeing how others display their collections, looks like you will soon be running out of room.   I don't like filling mine up to tight where the bottles are touching one another, so as I get new bottles to put on the shelf,before I put one up on the shelf one has to come off.   I like your Sands bottle, looks like it has some nice color. Almost pulled the trigger on a Skoda from Belfast Me.(amber)., but pulled out last second.... (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 17

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