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 S. D. BALDWIN'S LINIMENTStephen Dexter Baldwin was born about 1806 in Windsor, Berkshire, Massachusetts, the youngest of six children. Shortly after his birth, Stephen and his family moved to Riga,...
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 More on S.D. BALDWIN'S LINIMENTAs an addendum to the previous write-up on Baldwin’s Liniment, it is true that additional batches of the bottle were blown at a later date. Neatly made tooled top...
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  F. M. MODESTO – SODA WATER An early view of I Street in Modesto, California, with its notoriously poor street conditions. The root of the name coming from the Spanish word for ‘modesty’, it has...
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 CALIFORNIA MINERAL SPRINGS LABELSSitting on the edge of two of the largest geological plates on our earth, California is dotted with a plethora of mineral springs often created by deep-seated...
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                           * OREGON TRADE MARKS* Just as in the State of Californiato its south, Oregonadopted a trademark law in the mid-1860s to help protect trade names used by proprietors doing...
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 Drs. DarrinFun Stuff!Sometimes ya just gotta roll your eyes at the gimmicks that folks came up with to fleece an ignorant and unsuspecting public.Here's a fun, oddball, pair of quack items focusing on...
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 CALIFORNIAWALNUT SAUCE  This interesting and rare sauce bottle has been very difficult to document, with scant information about its proprietor. The best available clue about its origin is embossed on...
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DR. HERDAN AND HIS PACIFIC SELF HELPER COMPANYÂ Born in Bucharest, Romania about 1864, MoscuI. Herdan came to the United States sometime between 1884 and 1890. His early years in the U.S. are a little...
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 C.C. DALL AND HIS COLUMBIA SODA WORKS This sketch should really begin with William L. Dall, the brother of C.C. Dall. Just prior to the discovery of gold in California, the Pacific Mail Steamship...
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   FOUTS SPRINGS  Mineral water has been a rich resource of California for many years. Tucked into the lee side of SnowMountain, and within MendocinoNational Forest is a mineral spring resort first...
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Not exactly a whiskey but... I'll bet a lot of it was consumed on this auspicious occasion! This is an interesting piece which will appeal to many collectors of various genres. It is a dance card for...
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     COLUSA SODA WORKS Small town soda water works in California seldom used embossed bottles as far back as the 1870’s. One exception is the river town of Colusa, the governmental seat of...
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 CLASSEN SPARKLING This unusual bottle has had many collectors bewildered with precisely what it represents. They are not very numerous and the majority were found in the ‘big dig’ of about 1998 in San...
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 THE STAR REMEDIESTwo related medicinal bottles are found in this ‘package’. STAR REMEDY NO. 1, and STAR REMEDY NO. 2. Although heavily advertised throughout the west for about one year, from August...
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 NICHOLS’ INFALLIBLE INJECTION  The Hawley family was first noted in San Francisco in 1856 when the father of our subject, Hawley William Baxter, was listed in the San Francisco city directory as a...
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 SAN LUIS OBISPO SODA WATER WORKS Santo Carlo Ceribelli was born in Italy, probably in Lombardia, about 1828, and likely departed Italy from the port city of Genoa with his wife, Antonetta. The couple...
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 A VIST TO THE SAN FRANCISCO GLASS WORKS Firsthand newspaper descriptions to the activities at various glass works are available but not common. They are all different in how the observer describes the...
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  THE OTHER CASSIN BOTTLE                                             By Eric McGuire It has been nearly 52 years since I first wrote about this bottle in THE CORKER, the November 1972 issue of the...
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                       UDOLPHO WOLFE There are times when unexpected information pops up that is encountered when least expected. About 15 years ago I found the following pages in...
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           Bondy Brother's Belt ManufRS  Cast Clasps                         By Nicholas Kane  Recently, a unique clasp drew my attention that was discovered by a...
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 NOLAN’S BESSEMER COMPOUND Born in St. Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, on September 1, 1860, his father was James Nolan, and mother, Mary McCormack. He is first noted in the 1880 U.S. Census for San...
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     VERDIER SIPHON BOTTLE UPDATEBack in 2012 I wrote an article on the unusual E. Verdier siphon bottles produced in San Francisco. (Bottles & Extras, Jan - Feb 2012) I mentioned that...
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 THE LINCOLN JAR A very few of these elusive jars have turned up in West Coast collections. Some have assumed that they may have a Western origin, but the proof has been difficult to determine. Some...
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