New To My Collection (been a long time)

[photolith]

Just got this Hawaiian Hutch today in Hawaii. Never thought I'd own an Hawaiian Hutchinson someday.

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Then another bottle I got at the Pittsburgh Bottle Club meeting. A T. Witchell soda bottle from about 1850 with a nice iron pontil.
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And a super cool Cumberland MD beer from about 1900.

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It seems to aping off the more well known Indianapolis Brewing Co,s bottle with the same imagery, which Ive had for about 14 years.

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[Patagoniandigger]

Beautiful purchases. They are all mint condition neat ones Congratulations! Al

 

[Patagoniandigger]

By the way you're good taken photos, maybe it's your best hobby.

 

[ROBBYBOBBY64]

Great pictures under lamp light, natural day light and in front of your computer screen. Bottle photography is not easy. Nice bottles also.

 

[photolith]

Some ginger beers I have, three are from England. One I found in Canton, OH where I work.

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And a attic mint May Drug Co bottle from about 1905 I found while taking photos in an abandoned house in the ghetto of California Kirkbride neighborhood of Pittsburgh last week behind a staircase.

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The drug stores location in about 1929 or so in downtown Pittsburgh. And a photo of the same location today. Luckily the Dollar Savings Bank survived on the side street. Note on the bottle how Pittsburgh is spelled Pittsburg. Pittsburgh was spelled without the h at the end from 1890-1911.

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On a sidenote, I used to live just two blocks away from this location and had no idea that the May Drug Co building was there. Also, I lived across the street from the very place that the most well known amongst collectors bitters bottles was made; the Dr. J. Hostetters Stomach Bitters. It blew my mind when I found a Dr. Js in an abandoned 1830's building in of all places, Hagerstown, MD a few months ago with a partially intact label. I have a few J Hostetters, never paid much attention to them as they're super common. But I looked at the address on the label and I was like, holy crap I used to live there.

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Here's an arcGIS map I look at regularly for historical data. Note the J Hostetters location on the bottom left. In its place today is a horrible ugly modernist 1960's skyscraper and a highway frontage road.

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J Hostetters Bitters Co building would be in the place I highlighted in this photo taken from Mt. Washington from about 1913.

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Hostteters had been in the same location in downtown Pittsburgh since at least 1870, as per this map from 1872.

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[photolith]

A few other bottles I've recently acquired.

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This one was leaking and some of the 120 some odd year old concoction got on my hand. I almost vommed from the smell. I gotta take the cork out and then filter the contents to get the old shitty cork out and then put the contents back in and re-cork it at some point.

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The original box

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The internal centerfold directions. The rest of the directions once unfolded are in differing European languages.
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And a rare unopened bottle of capers from about 1890.

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[photolith]

Also finally after three weeks got my supremely rare Holtzermanns Stomach Bitters, which to my knowledge is this certain labels only extant example. There are many other labeled examples of the Holtzermann's 4 sided cabin but all the other examples are with a dark shaded barrel.

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Untitled by photolitherland, on Flickr

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Also got my Hawaiian Hutch in the mail as I didn't want to break it coming back on the plane last week and shipped it to myself here in Pittsburgh.

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[hemihampton]

Nice Bottles. Do you have a Dr. Dimocks Tamarac Bitters or Herzbergs Bitters or Newmans Fruit Bitters? LEON.

 

[sandchip]

Great additions, man. So good to see you building your collection after the loss. That Hawaii hutch is killer. I always think of the cover of Cecil Munsey's classic book when I see that bottle. I lived in that book as a teenager and young man until it was in tatters. It taught me so much and steered the direction of what I collect today. That pontiled umbrella is a killer, too.

 

[ROBBYBOBBY64]

Good to here you are triumphantly rebuilding your lost collection. Each bottle you get will take a space in the wound until it is filled/healed. ROBBYBOBBY64