new display for Vermont Collection

[epgorge]

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

 

[annie44]

Very nice display case, Joel! Your Vermont collection has really grown!

 

[glass man]

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?

 

[capsoda]

Excellent display case Joel. It is nice not to have to worry about your treasures.

 

[epgorge]

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

 

[epgorge]

A John Moffat, Phoenix Bitters.

 

[epgorge]

 

[epgorge]

A nice clean For Pikes Peak flask, pint, to go with my quart Pikes Peak.

 

[epgorge]

A really nice Sands Sars

 

[epgorge]

a few given to me the other day...

Moxie Nerve Food (pat 85), nice....