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Happy New Year
Sit back and open a bottle of Claret and toast the New Year! (Claret style bottle)
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Western Wines
Here is a photo of what I believe to be the oldest and newest western blown wines. The mold on the left is usually found in early 1870s, possibly late 1860s layers, I have seen them next to Wormser...
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Success At The Oakland Glass Works
Apparently the Oakland Glass Works was indeed successful at the manufacture of claret bottles. It is interesting to note that the difficulty in manufacturing this type of bottle was actually with the...
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Paul O Burns Wine Co.
With all the discussion on the OGW wine bottles in the previous post I thought we could take a look at this unusual wine bottle in the Dwyer collection of Forbestown California. Embossed in a applied...
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Oh-GeeDub?
Dug this claret in San Jose. It is 12 inches tall with an applied top, and a faint mold line around the shoulder. There are diagonal twist marks below the shoulder indicative if a "twist". Is this an...
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Here are some of the OGW marked bottles I have found over the years. I also have the usual amber square bitters and a jake, but haven't located the box they are hiding in.I'll see if I can enlarge this...
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From Eric McGuire
Rick,Also, I finally located the OGW jake. Pictures are attached.Eric WOW! - First one of these I have seen. Guess I should start looking at the base of those unembossed Jakes at the bottle shows....
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There has been some confusion on the date of the Anderson show and this year's show date is shown above. I wish someone from the Anderson Club would send out some sort of info on their upcoming show...
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Western Inks
From a Previous Post by Golden PlantationHere’s grouping of some of the Western blown inks we‘ve dug in California over the years, circa 1868-74. The large master is e.r. and embossed “PACIFIC GLASS...
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Western Unembossed Squares ?
Looking back at some of the previous pictures submitted to the WBN on a snowy Sunday and ran across this interesting one from J.F. Cutter ExtraThanks for the picture J.F are these still sitting on your...
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From Cal49er
I was looking at some of my western manufactured wines and spices on a rainy day. Brightened this day right up. MAXYep, that will brighten up even a snowy day. Thanks for the awesome pictures Max....
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"Wines"
Here is an ad put out on 2/27/1867 in the Daily Alta that lends credence to the theory that western glass houses of the 1860s used the term "wines" to describe what we collectors now refer to as...
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So...What are these?
There seems to be a lot of terminology as to bottle types in the early ads. Are these still gin, and champagne?
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CONNELL'S MOONPLANT !
Now here’s a bottle that has always intrigued me. Just the name alone is strange, CONNELL’S BRAHMINICAL MOONPLANT EAST INDIAN REMEDIES, and the embossing with a pair of feet with stars surrounding...
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If You Didn't Know.....
American Bottle Auctions – Auction 63 is Now Open for Bidding!Part One is Underway. The first of our two-part Madruga/O’Neill western auction is open for viewing and bidding starts today! Part one is...
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Update: The Santa Rosa Antique Bottle & Collectibles show will be held on May 6th & 7th, 2017. The first weekend in May will now continue to be our annual date. Our venue had a change in staff...
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St. Clair's Hair Lotion
1872 advertisementHoward St. Clair Chemist Boston, Mass. Western ? Blown in the east and distributed in the west? Well?...... - rs -Hey Rick:Hope all is well your way. The rain here has been...
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St. Clair's Hair Lotion Again
Here is 2 Different St. Clair's Hair Lotions, the darker one is what I have seen as Typical, the Lighter color ones I have not seen a lot of, its also got a nice Benicia Effect to it, is Cruder, The...
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