1st pic...top shelf...on the left are Clevenger Bros examples with the St. embossing.
On the right are ones with ST.
The aqua center Booz is a bi-centennial issue....1776-1976
bottom shelf: all Boozs bottles made in Italy in the 1960's.
2nd pic...top shelf...Albany Glass Works repos.
bottom shelf...Wheaton Booz bottles from the 1970's on the left.
next is a Wheaton blue Paul Revere cabin, then,
2 amber Booz made at Armstrong Glass co for Old Mr Boston Whiskey.
Last is a new cobalt Booz made in China.
Oh, Yum! I love my dug bottles, but I am also very fond of my Wheatons and Clevengers that I picked up for practically nothing at flea markets etc. I really like the colors, the texture of the glass and their proportions. Anybody ever visit the Wheaton Glass villiage and museum in Millville, NJ? It was quite a while since I was there, but they had many old fine bottles. Long ago, I once was visiting another bottle and glass forum, and the people there actually were nasty and made fun of me when I mentioned Wheatons. The wonderful thing about this board is the total lack of snobbery! []
Hi Bluebelle !
We wouldn't knock you for collecting what you like ! Everybody likes something different , that's why they make Chocolate and Vanilla !
I personally have a few Wheatons stuck around somewhere and often wondered how many different bottles they make.
I like the Clevenger's also. Some of these early Clevenger's are really good repro's and it takes a well trained eye to spot the Repro's from the originals.
Hey , we won't trash you here for collecting what you like that's for sure !
HAPPY COLLECTING ! Brian
Clevenger items are very collectible. Tom Haunton wrote a book on the Booz cabins....(he sells it on Ebay)...He assigned McKearin Numbers to all known variants....real & repo. The book comes with a CD....
There is also a catalog of the Clevenger Glass in the Wheaton Museum. Tom sells that too.
Wheaton made a repo of about every category of bottle there is: medicines, cures, bitters, historical flasks, inks, whiskey, in addition to their Presidential series, Astronaut series, Holly City bottles, and on & on...
Are the repos worth anything?
You betcha...
Heres' a completed auction on Ebay...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6178300654&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1