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WELCOME TO MY WEBSITE ,I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN THE ADIRONDACKS IN UPSTATE NEW YORK. I STARTED DIGGING BOTTLES WHEN I WAS 12 YRS OLD AND WE USED TO SELL THEM TO A GUY WHO TOOK THEM TO FLEA MARKETS.I REMEMBER SOME OF THE STUFF WE USED TO DIG AND RECALL ONE DUMP THAT PRODUCED 16 BUFFALO LITHIA WATERS. I SOLD THEM FOR 6.00 EACH,AND WAS OK WITH THAT (AT 12).THE ONE I DO WISH I STILL HAD WAS THE COLOR OF GASOLINE AND I GOT 25.00 FOR THAT ONE,PROBABLLY WORTH MUCH MORE TODAY. NEVER REALLY STOPPED SINCE THEN AS FAR AS COLLECTING,THEN ABOUT 9 YEARS AGO OR SO I FELL INTO A DEAL WITH A LONG TIME DEALER IN BOTTLES AND ALL ANTIQUES. I STRUCK A DEAL AND FOR BOXING UP 3 FULL STORIES OF ANTIQUES I GOT TO KEEP ALL THE BOTTLES AND STONEWARE.(65 PIECES) AND 6500 BOTTLES....I PULLED SOME GREAT STUFF OUT OF THE BUNCH AND REMEMBER HAVING CASES ALL OVER THE PLACE,6500 BOTTLES TAKES UP ALOT OF ROOM.ONE MORNING WENT OUT TO THE BOXES PILED IN YARD AND PULLED OUT A BINNEGERS CANNON AND A GW HOXIE THAT WAS THE FINEST IVE EVER SEEN,ALSO LOG CABIN BITTERS AND TONS OF BLOBS AND HUTCHS AND PANEL MEDICINES.I DECIDED TO START KEEPING POISONS AND ALOT OF THE STONE WARE AND TRADED/SOLD THE REST.I NOW HAVE A DEDICATED ROOM FOR MY OLD ADVERTISING AND BOTTLES AND HAVE COLLECTED ALOT OF POISONS AND LOTS OF BLOBS AND MEDICINES,MY FAVORITES ARE DIAMOND AND LATTICES -KC-1(WT CO.) AND HAVE PUT TOGETHER A SET OF 11 COBALT WITH STOPPERS (INCLUDING THE PEENED OUT SHOULDER VARIANT)AND THE 4 CLEARS INCLUDING THE GROUND STOPPER ONE AND THE EVER ELUSIVE MOSS GREEN. I ALSO LIKE PANEL MEDS AND BLOBS.WHISKEYS ARE ALSO SOMETHING I HAVE SOME OF,BUT POISONS,STONEWARE AND BLOBS ARE MY FAVORITES FOR SURE. OVER THE  YEARS I'VE BEEN IN ON SOME MASSIVE DIGS,COVERING HUGE AREAS AND DIGGING DOWN UP TO 15 FEET +,UPROOTED TREE'S AND BROUGHT SOME GREAT STUFF HOME. SOME OF THE GUY'S I DIG WITH HAVE GOTTEN GREAT STUFF AS WELL AND IT'S ALWAYS A TREASURE HUNT FOR ME. I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THE NEXT ONE COME OUT AND GET IT CLEANED UP,NOT ALWAYS WHOLE......BUT  I NEVER SEEM TO GROW TIRED OF TRYING THAT NEXT DUMP.I SEARCH AUCTIONS,SALES,INTERNET AS WELL FOR NEW ADDITIONS AND HAVE OVER THE YEARS GOT SOME REAL NICE STUFF,  EITHER FOR MY COLLECTION OR TO TRADE/SELL FOR A DIFFERENT PIECE FOR MY COLLECTION.THERE ARE FOR NEW COLLECTORS A LOT OF PLACES TO GET A COLLECTION GOING,YARD SALES,ANTIQUE SHOPS AND DIGGING.AS YOUR COLLECTION PROGRESSES AUCTIONS CARRY THE MID TO BETTER RANGE GLASS AND OF COURSE THERE IS ONLINE AUCTIONS,WHERE YOU CAN GET ABOUT ANYTHING. BOTTLE SHOWS ARE STILL ONE OF THE MOST INEXPENSIVE PLACES TO GET A NEW ADDITION AND YOU GET TO CHECK IT OUT IN PERSON,WHICH TO ME IS A HUGE PLUS. BARTERING AND PARTIAL TRADES ARE ALSO POSSIBILTIES AT SHOWS,UNLIKE AUCTIONS ECT. THE KEY HERE IS RESEARCH IT BEFORE YOU BUY IT,THERE ARE REPRODUCTION /DECOROTIVE BOTTLES OUT THERE THAT ARE VERY EASY TO MISTAKE EVEN WHEN A SEASONED COLLECTOR. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A REPRODUCTION AND WHAT I CLASSIFY AS DECOROTIVE IS A REPRODUCTION IS A COPY/FACSIMALY OF AN ACTUAL OLD BOTTLE. A DECOROTIVE IS LIKE THE WEATON COFFINS,THEY WERE NEVER PRODUCED TO ACTUALLY BE USED,STRICTLY DECOROTIVE. THERE ARE GREAT RESOURCES OUT THERE FOR BOTTLE COLLECTORS IF YOU SEARCH THEM OUT.SOME ARE OUTDATED BUT GREAT FOR REFERENCE AND IF YOU USE MANY SOURCES YOU CAN COME TO YOUR OWN DECISION. AUCTION HOUSES, EBAY, LIBRARIES, TOWN HALLS AND OTHERS ARE GREAT PLACES TO FIND INFORMATION. LOCAL AUCTIONS AND SALES ARE GOOD PLACES TO FIND AN ADDITION,. I HAVE A FAIRLY LARGE LIBRARY OF COLLECTABLES BOOKS,FEEL FREE TO ASK, I WILL BE GLAD TO HELP RESEARCH YOUR LATEST FIND.THE BOTTOM LINE IS ADDING TO YOUR COLLECTION THE BEST EXAMPLE YOU CAN AFFORD TO GET.  I TRY TO POST SOME OF THE STUFF DIGGERS & COLLECTORS NEWER TO THIS GREAT HOBBY WILL FIND. SITES WITH 5,000 DOLLAR BOTTLES ARE GREAT TO LOOK AT TOO,BUT NOT MANY OF US ARE GOING TO DIG OR FIND SOMETHING OF THAT CALIBER . I TRY AND ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS AND ENJOY HELPING OUT IN THE RESEARCH OF YOUR NEWEST FIND. GOOD LUCK THANKS FOR STOPPING AND BE SURE TO STOP BACK OFTEN AS I WILL BE CHANGING AND ADDING ON A REGULAR BASIS AS MY COLLECTION PROGRESSES & CHANGES.PLUS I REALLY ENJOY MY SITE ALOT AND ALWAYS WANT IT BETTER!! ENJOY!!   I'VE ADDED A NEW SITE STORE AND HAS ALSO A  FEEDBACK PAGE FOR PRIOR SALES. PAYPAL ACCEPTED,PLEASE CHECK IT OUT, AND PLEASE CHECK BACK OFTEN   * NEW~ BOTTLE OF THE WEEK PAGE,SUBMIT YOUR FAVORITE  AND EVERY WEEK I WILL POST A NEW ONE!!  SEE BOTTLE OF THE WEEK PAGE FOR DETAILS,THANKS             QUESTIONS? PLEASE EMAIL ME AT  RICKSBOTTLEROOM@GMAIL.COM   EVERYTHING ON THE FOLLOWING PAGES PLUS SOME IS IN MY BOTTLEROOM, I'LL GET A PICTURE OF  IT UP SOON AS I  GET THE SHELVING AND DISPLAYS THE WAY I WANT. I REALLY ENJOY MY BOTTLEROOM/COLLECTION,I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE A DESIGNATED  BOTTLEROOM.                 CHECK OUT MY LINKS PAGE FOR LINKS TO OTHER GREAT BOTTLE /GLASS RELATED SITES* ENJOY.                                  ************************************************************************************************************************************************** ~THIS IS MY SET (SO FAR) OF DIAMOND AND LATTICES WITH THE STOPPERS, (ALL ARE WHITALL TATUM CO ) THERE ARE A FEW SIZES IN PARTICULAR THAT ARE HARD TO COME BY.(THE ONE WITH POISON PEENED OUT ON SHOULDER IS THE 3RD FROM THE RIGHT END,THATS WHY THOSE 2 ARE CLOSE TO SAME SIZE. VERY HARD TO OBTAIN.) THESE WERE FIRST INTRODUCED IN 1872. IT TOOK QUITE A FEW YEARS TO PUT TOGETHER A SET THIS SIZE,BUT ITS WORTH IT WHEN VIEWED IN PERSON.THESE ARE BLOWN IN THE MOLD BOTTLES AND DATE TO THE 1870-1910 ERA.THE REAL HEYDAY FOR POISON BOTTLES WAS 1870S-1930S RANGE.MY SMALLEST IS 2 1/2'' AND ON UP TO JUST OVER 12''.THEY ARE MY FAVORITE BOTTLES FOR SURE.FURTHER DOWN THE PAGE YOU WILL ALSO SEE MY GREEN AND CLEARS .   QUITE VALUABLE AS A SET, AND SOMETHING YOU CANNOT JUST GO OUT AND GATHER UP IN A SHORT TIME. MY NEXT 2 ARE AN AMBER (THERE ARE A FEW SIZES) AND THERE IS A CLEAR 7 INCH  VARIANT I WOULD LIKE TO GET.                                     THIS IS WHAT THE STOPPERS LOOK LIKE AND ARE PRETTY HARD TO COME BY (35.00-55.00) ,THERE ARE REPOS OF THESE MADE IN 60S,EASY TO SPOT AS THEY ARE PLASTIC AND GREENISH COLOR, STOPPERS ONLY CAME IN COBALT BOTTLES OTHER THAN THE GROUND CLEAR VERSIONS AND THE COBALT LABEL UNDER GLASS WITH THE NARROW OR FAT GROUND STOPPERS. BOTTLES WERE NOT ALWAYS ORDERED WITH STOPPERS AS THEY WERE OPTIONAL. THE STOPPERS CAN BE FOUND IN 2 SIZES AND EVEN THOUGH ITS BEEN SUGGESTED THAT 3 SIZES EXIST.THEY DONT.,NO CLEARS OR AMBERS OR GREENS (UNFORTUNATLY) I AM IN SEARCH OF 1 OF THE AMBER LATTICES, THEY CAME IN A FEW SIZES SO ANYONE HAS ONE PLEASE LET ME KNOW.THANKS!!!                 MY AWSOME,RARE GREEN LATTICE,THESE HAVE BECOME INCREASINGLY HARD TO GET HOLD OF.THEY WERE OBTAINABLE 5 YEARS AGO FOR 350-400.00 RANGE,THEY HAVE GONE UP AT A PRETTY REGULAR RATE SINCE. THE COBALT PEENED OUT SHOULDER VARIANT (SAID POISON) ALSO A RARE BOTTLE ,ALL 4 OF MY CLEAR LATTICES 1 HAS A GROUND STOPPER//THESE ARE ALSO THE W.T. CO. STYLE. I NEVER GROW TIRED OF LOOKING AT OLD BOTTLES OF ALL KINDS ...    THIS IS MY VERY LATEST ADDITION TO MY LATTICE COLLECTION, VERY SCARCE TOO RARE 2 3/8 INCHES TALL GROUND STOPPER 1870S CLEAR LATTICE. A PERFECT EXAMPLE. TO THE RIGHT IS AN UPDATED PICTURE OF THE CLEARS GROUPING, LOOKING FOR THE 7 INCH CLEAR.....GOT ONE??       The Whitall Tatum Company  In 1806, a man named James Lee opened a glassworks factory in Millville, New Jersey. This glassworks, located on Buck Street in the town of Millville, was later owned by the Whitall Tatum Company. Whitall Tatum would have fourteen owners over the first seventy-five years of its existence.Whitall Tatum, was the first glass factory in America. It operated from the early 1800s through 1938, located in Millville, NJ. The location was ideal for making glass because silica-based sand is plentiful in southern New Jersey, the Maurice River flowing through Millville provided a source of water, and plentiful forests provided energy for industrial processes. The Millville glass works was started in 1806 by James Lee and went through several changes of ownership. In 1838, John M Whitall became a partner in the business. He lived in Philadelphia and worked at the company's headquarters there. In 1845 after his brother Israel Franklin Whitall joined, the firm became Whitall, Brother & Company. Later, Edward Tatum also joined the partnership and in 1857 the name was again changed to Whitall Tatum & Company

WHITALL TATUM COMPANY
LETTERED PRESCRIPTION BOTTLES Handsome lettering adds greatly to the brilliancy and general appearance of a wellmade Prescription Bottle.It shows the public that the druggist whose name is blown in the glass has a prescription business important enough to warrant him in having bottles made especially for himself, and in considerable quantities.It is a proof of the dispenser's confidence and pride in his work, and gives the impression of care and thoroughness in every detail. WHITALL TATUM COMPANY MANUFACTURERS OF DRUGGISTS', CHEMISTS' AND PERFUMERS' GLASSWARE Manufacturers, Importers and Jobbers of DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES

Samuel Stockton White (1822-1879) was a Philadelphia dentist who in the mid 1840s began manufacturing porcelain teeth using feldspar. White gradually abandoned his practice for the manufacture of teeth, dental instruments and supplies. His porcelain teeth won the highest award at the Crystal Palace Exposition in London in 1851 and again at the Philadelphia Centennial of 1876. By the mid nineteenth century the S.S. White Company had become the largest manufacturer of dental instruments in the world. Branch offices for the sale of the firm's products were opened in New York (1846), Boston (1850), Brooklyn (1852), Chicago (1858), Atlanta (1891), Rochester (1897), New Orleans, Cincinnati, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Nashville, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Peoria, and Omaha. Branches were established abroad in Berlin (1897), St. Petersburg (1899), Toronto, London, Paris, Japan, and Australia. In 1881 the firm was incorporated, changing its name from the S.S. White Co. to the S.S. White Dental Manufacturing Co. The extensive plant of Johnston Bros., on Staten Island, New York, was acquired; it produced a large portion of the products marketed by the firm. The manufacture of teeth was discontinued in 1937. This company was the first to produce the all-metal dental chair, a flexible shaft engine, certain filling products, and precision steel instruments. It published the pioneering periodical, THE DENTAL COSMOS, from 1859 to 1936 (© SMITHSONIAN)

HERE IS A BLOWN IN MOLD 1880S RANGE TRIANGULAR POISON ABOUT 3 .5 INCHES TALL AND SEMI SCARCE. DOUGLAS EGYPTIAN LINIMENT, DOUGLAS & CO. NAPANEE ONT.CANADA. 1880S  HERE IS A 1870-80S RANGE CALMITOL BOTTLE THAT IS ABOUT 5+ INCHES AND PRETTY SCARCE. IT WAS A SKIN MEDICINE.

TO THE  LEFT IS A 7 INCH ROUND J.PERSONENI ,NEW YORK  IN COBALT. THIS IS A  MACH. MADE BOTTLE DATING TOO AROUND THE 1920,S BUT WITH LOTS OF APPEAL. EARLY CATCH PHRASE BOTTLE. MADE BY W.T.CO. AND EMBOSSED "BUY BARLOWS BIG BOTTLES BEFORE BAKING" 7 INCHES TALL AND DATED TOO 1870,S NICE  8+ INCH SALT MOUTH,  BLOWN IN MOLD AMBER PHARMACY BOTTLE FROM 1880,S RANGE. EMBOSSED "WISE'S TRITURATIONS AND MACHINE MADE TABLETS TRITURATES KANSAS CITY MO." NOT RARE BUT A NICE BOTTLE , I HAVE SEEN A FEW SIZES OF THESE.

HERES ANOTHER FRESH DUG BOTTLE CITRATO EFFERENCANCE, AN ITALIAN BOTTLE I THINK . NICE NECROSAN SPRAY FOR KILLING BUGS ON BODIES WITH A VERY UNIQUE GROUND LIP . HERE IS A VERY SCARCE NY BOTTLE FROM THE 1880-90S RANGE AND BLOWN IN MOLD. 6 INCHES TALL AND EMBOSSED HARRY HABERS MAGIC HAIR COLOURS

                                                LYSOL DISINFECTANT

      Referring to a report from Germany, where a Mr. Fulde has cured foul brood by means of a new disinfectant, lysol. Dr. C. D. Miller asked in Gleanings, page88. "What's lysol? and will It work as well in the English language as in the German?" The editor remarks thereon: "I should be interested, also. In knowing whether the disease stayed away. Perhaps Mr. Uravenhorst will answer the question."Yes, I will answer the question according to the best Information I can get. I have not tried lysol, because I did not know of It before September of last year. The new disinfectant has been manufactured for a few years by Schiilke & Mayr, at Hamburg, Germany. They produced it from coaltar. It has a brown color, and smells like tar. In Germany It is to be had In every drugstore, and perhaps in America also. Mr. Fulde purchased a bottle of lysol for 2j£ cents, and therewith cured his bees, which were badly infected with foul brood. He took ten pounds of sugarsyrup, boiled and skimmed it, and mixed it up with 24 drops of lysol and 4 drops of carbolic acid. He gave a colony a soup-plate full of this food. After three days he found the sick larvae dry in their cells, and In a lapse of three weeks not a trace of foul brood was to be found In his colonies. They were sound, and did swarm. Later he has fed lysol in the same way, particularly In the spring, to protect his bees against foul brood. He never saw a trace of it again. That's all I know about lysol. I hope some of the German and American bee-keepers will try the new disinfectant. It would be a great benefit to bee-keeping if lysol should prove to be a remedy for such a rapidly spreading disease as foul brood. Then it would be a trifle for every one to cure the malady himself. However, I confess that I do not have such confidence in lysol as Mr. Fulde has. Experienced bee-keepers in Germany, and I myself, too, are of the oplpion that the disease will disappear, oftentimes, without any cure other than a good honey-flow, when good sound honey is coming in, and that most of the remedies tried in such cases did not cure foul brood at all. The good honey-flow only, did it, nothing more. Hundreds of remedies have been recommended, but, when tried, they would not work as was claimed. May be that, in one or the other case, the remedy was not used as 11 should have been; but I think most of the recommended remedies are worthless, and rest upon illusion. On account of the importance of the matter, it may not be out of the way to report concernIng a disinfectant that I have used nearly twenty years, with such results, that, for my part, I hold the foul brood question as fully solved. I have had to fight hard against foul brood, as I resided In Brunswick, and, later,, here in Wilsnack; but I have never lost one colony by It. I had to guard my apiaries against neighboring bees infected with foul brood, in apiaries only a thousand paces, or less than half a mile, distant. Well, it was a very bad position for myself; but I have fought it out. In a few cases, where the neighboring apiaries were lost by foul brood, I have found iu some of my hives slight traces of the disease. However, they disappeared swiftly by my treatment. I used, and have used till to-day, although I have not at present any apiaries near by that are Infected with foul brood, carbolic acid—not the refined article you get at the drugstore Iu the shape of white crystals, but black and unrefined carbolic acid, which Is intermingled with coal-tar, and mostly used as paint. Refined carbolic acid is too strong, and the sanative power of the tar Is absent In it. I am of the opinion that just the tar, in connection with the carbolic acid, has much to do In the cure of foul brood, as Dr. Preuss said. He was the first bee-keeper who studied foul brood.

PRETTY SCARCE GERMAN IRREGULAR HEX LYSOL POISON WITH PORCELIN STOPPER,I LUCKED INTO 20 YRS.AGO. 

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THIS A VERY SCARCE BOTTLE FROM S.SMITH,GREEN MOUNTAIN RENOVATOR EAST GEORGIA VERMONT. 7 INCHES TALL AND IN GREAT SHAPE WITH GROUND STOPPER AND EMBOSSED J.E.MOORE & CO.4158 BROADWAY ALBANY, NY. TRADE MARK MONOGRAM AND VERY SCARCE BOTTLE DATING TOO 1870,S RANGE NOT A MILLION DOLLAR BOTTLE BUT 1880,S RANGE STANDING 8 INCHES AND CLEAN AND CRUDE. SANFRANSICO GAS AND LIGHT CO. AMMONIA

 VAPO CRESOLINE SETUP, THE BOTTLE ON RIGHT IN PICTURE IS A VERY RARE VARIANT OF THE NORMALLY BUMP COVERED BOTTLES,NEVER SEEN ANOTHER.1880,S RANGECAN'T IMAGINE BURNING THESE INSIDE, I LIT ONE ONCE AND FILLED THE PAN....WOW,NASTY STUFF.THE 5 INCH COBALT VARIANT ON RIGHT.

 MY 2 PRETTY SCARCE FAVORITE AMMONIAS,THESE AER A COUPLE YOU RARLY SEE. ROSS BROTHERS EDINBUURGH (GREAT CITY I WAS THERE IN NAVY) AND R.C. HUNTER & CO.ALSO FROM EDINBURGH .DATED TOO 1880S RANGE. PROFESSOR W.H.PEEKES  MEDICINE (IN REPLACED SLUG PLATE) FROM NEW YORK  AND DATED TOO 1880S,STANDING 9 INCHES TALL.   A VERY CRUDE AND SUPER CLEAN POISON FROM S.SAVILLE & SON LEEDS WITH POISON ON FRON AND REAR SHOULDERS.

THESE ARE FROM THE 1860S AND ARE SOME I DUG AT THE AGE OF 14 IN UPSTATE NY,I HAVE QUITE A FEW AND GRAB MORE WHEN I CAN. I THINK THEY HAVE ALOT OF CLASS. EACH ONE IS DIFFERENT EVEN IN THE SAME VARIANT LINES

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