goodman1966
Well-Known Member
So Saturday about 4:30 one of the antique shops I frequent calls me and asks, "You collect Shreveport bottles, right ?"
Yes I said, turns out he has this hutch a guy brought in this morning. He closes in 30 minutes. I'm too far away to make it in time. I ask him to describe it. Embossed " August J. Bogel Shreveport La. Aqua". Now I'm getting a little excited. I've never held one, just saw them in pictures. The all important question, how much? 45$
That's at the top end for this hutch. But after looking for one since 2004, I can't pass on it. I just hoped it was in good shape. It was.
August was born in Hanover, Germany in 1836. He sailed to America in 1851, 14 years old, alone. First stop New York. Then New Orleans were here lived through the yellow fever epidemics of 1853 and 1856. In 1856 he moved to Franklin La. He moved to Baton Rogue to serve when the Civil War started. After the war he moved to Bayou Sara. Finally in 1874 he moved the druggist buisness he had started to Shreveport. It was said to be the largest store in town at the time. He started bottling in 1879. He passed in 1897, but his son William ran the store until 1903. Now I have to find one of his druggist bottles. Lol here are the pics.
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Yes I said, turns out he has this hutch a guy brought in this morning. He closes in 30 minutes. I'm too far away to make it in time. I ask him to describe it. Embossed " August J. Bogel Shreveport La. Aqua". Now I'm getting a little excited. I've never held one, just saw them in pictures. The all important question, how much? 45$
That's at the top end for this hutch. But after looking for one since 2004, I can't pass on it. I just hoped it was in good shape. It was.
August was born in Hanover, Germany in 1836. He sailed to America in 1851, 14 years old, alone. First stop New York. Then New Orleans were here lived through the yellow fever epidemics of 1853 and 1856. In 1856 he moved to Franklin La. He moved to Baton Rogue to serve when the Civil War started. After the war he moved to Bayou Sara. Finally in 1874 he moved the druggist buisness he had started to Shreveport. It was said to be the largest store in town at the time. He started bottling in 1879. He passed in 1897, but his son William ran the store until 1903. Now I have to find one of his druggist bottles. Lol here are the pics.
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