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Vintage Dr Pepper-Clean Bottle
Item #: NEW-0016371

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Great condition on this 61/2 oz bottle.  Embossed, with Elkhart Indiana on the bottom.    

Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
Price: $6.50 USD
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T C Drew- F W Cook Brewing-Macon Ga BH
Item #: NEW-0016063

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This billhead is dated 1897.Insect damage on left edge, which could be easily trimmed. Some stains, see scan.   Drew sold beer from the F W Cook Brewing Co in Evansville Ind.

Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $32.50 USD
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N M Block BH-1889-Macon Ga-Beer
Item #: NEW-0016062

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N M Block was an agent for the Anheuser-Busch Co in St Louis Missouri.  Folds, clipped corner, stains a top, spindle hole and large corner crease.

Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $27.50 USD
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T C Drew-Macon Ga-F W Cook Brewing Co BH
Item #: NEW-0016059

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The graphics on this bill head is of the F W Cook Brewing Co in Evansville Indiana but this is for the Macon Branch managed by T C Drew.  It is dated 1897. Folds and light creases 

Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $37.50 USD
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A-N M Block-1890 Graphic BH-Macon Ga
Item #: NEW-0016056

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Great graphic on this bill head of the Christian Moerlein Brewing Co-Cincinnati Beer but the agent was A and N.M. Block in Macon. Acidic toning on the left side. 

Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $45.50 USD
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J W A Mason-Nelson Co-Mini Whiskey Jug-Macon Ga
Item #: NEW-0016049

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This mini-jug measures 3 and a quarter inches tall.  Nelson County Whiskey bottled for Macon Georgia.  Sorry for the rough scans.  My camera wasn't working at the time of this listing.  There are two chips on the lip and a chip near the bottom on the right hand side. There is a tiny chip on the bottom rim under GA.  No other problems. 

Shipping Weight: 2.2 lbs
Price: $465.50 USD
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F W Cook Brewing Co-Macon-1891-Invoice
Item #: NEW-0016021

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This is a small item which measures six by five and a half inches.  Spindle hole and large crease.  J Binswanger Manager for the Planter Oil, Ice & Cold Storage Co.  e   2 Dozen bottles of beer for $1.15.

F W Cook Brewing Company  Evansville Indiana  Beer 
Macon Ga.

Shipping Weight: 0.2 lb
Price: $12.50 USD
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Mini Whiskey Jug-Long Brothers-Macon Ga
Item #: NEW-0015844

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This miniature whiskey jug measures about 3 and 1/4 inches. It is in very nice condition.  Some rough areas on the bottom edge but they are glazed so it evidently was as made.  The name of the whiskey is Old Gum Springs, which was a Kentucky whiskey so it was bottled for Macon customers.

Shipping Weight: 2.5 lbs
Price: $575.50 USD
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Fort Hawkins Rye Whiskey Bottle-Macon Ga
Item #: NEW-0015843

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This is a rare and only known specimen of this great bottle.  Measures 8 and 1/4 by 4 inches. Mold marks, acid etching, light purple tone.  It is cloudy, has some small bubbles and a chip out of the band. A customer of mine has labeled this bottle a strap side slug plate flask.

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I was lucky to pick up this great whiskey bottle as the local collectors in Macon believed it to be a fantasy item, evidently because none of the bottle diggers had found another specimen.  I’m not a bottle digger but have developed a small collection of jugs and bottles and  I have a good eye, if I do say so.  This bottle was first introduced on the Vintage Macon Georgia Facebook by a woman who had found it in the rubble of a building which belonged to her family.  It was greeted with great enthusiasm, including some comments which were removed due to offers to buy, which is not allowed on the site.  You can read this thread by using the search function-Fort Hawkins.  The thread contains some useful information by two of the members which proves that such a brand existed.

I bought the bottle at a local antique store and though I feared it might be a fantasy item, I purchased it.  Later, I took it to the local flea market to show it to someone, who is recognized as a great picker and someone who knows about many things.  It turned out that he had seen the Facebook postings and he and the other Macon collectors had declared it bogus.  We argued a bit with him telling me why he felt that way, basically due to the fact that none of the diggers had found such a bottle.  He did give me the useful information of the Facebook posting so I was able to contact the original owner.  I will provide our interaction to the buyer but the following is the provenience:

"I found the bottle among some rubble in an old warehouse.  The warehouse was originally Macon Grocery built in the late 1800‘s located on the corner of Seventh St. and Mulberry.  The section of the warehouse where I found it was the old stable area where the houses that pulled the carts thru town were kept... (more info which will be provided)  My father owned this building and I sold it several months ago at an estate auction.  I put the bottle in the tag sale.”  She went on the say she didn’t price it and did not know what it sold for.  

I was told  that the owner of the antique booth had bought it for her bottle collector boyfriend who decided it was a fantasy piece.   Because I’m stubborn and had a good feeling about it, I took it to the Civil War show in Dalton, where I knew I could show it to several bottle collectors.  I showed it to three people, two of the top Tennessee bottle collectors who declared it to be genuine.  To put the cherry on the top, I showed it to Johnny Mack Nickels, a life long Maconite and recognised as an expert on all things Macon.  Johnny Mack said it was definitely a 1880's period bottle with acid etching by a skillful partisan of the period. 

The picture of the bottle on Facebook is better than mine as I had to use my scanner due to problems uploading from my camera. 

   

Shipping Weight: 2.3 lbs
Price: $1,000.00 USD
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Mini Whiskey Jug-R H Parker-Old Style-Nelson Co
Item #: NEW-0015842

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Nice little Kentucky whiskey jug.  There is a big chip out of the right lip and a tiny chip on the other side of the lip.  It is hard to see in the third scan, it just above the light line which is a reflection.

Shipping Weight: 2.3 lbs
Price: $200.00 USD
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Silver Bow County Retail Liquor Dealers Protective Assc Ribbon
Item #: NEW-0014881

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This is a rare ribbon from Butte Montana.  This was actually a national group which sought to combat the critics of the use of alcohol.  The ribbon measures 7 by 2 and a half inches.  Some very small stains in the flag and two pinholes visible when held to the light.

Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $87.50 USD
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Kentucky Whiskey Co-Macon Ga-1907 Billhead
Item #: NEW-0014662

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Someone did not pay their whiskey bill. Proprietor A Daus 

Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $10.50 USD
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W A Ferriell-Dealer-Straight Whiskies-New Hope Ky
Item #: NEW-0014441

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Advertising, calling card from a whiskey dealer in Nelson County Kentucky 

Shipping Weight: 0.1 lb
Price: $6.50 USD
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Louisville Tobacco Warehouse-Black Jack-Fancy Green Cancel
Item #: NEW-0013723

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Nice advertising cover from Ray & Co-Louisville Tobacco Warehouse in Louisville Kentucky.  1893.  Black Jack stamp with green fancy cancel.  See scan.  The back does have some pencil figuring.

Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $88.50 USD
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E G Hayes Distillers-Lawrenceburg Indiana
Item #: NEW-0013235

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Nice civil war era invoice dated in 1863                      

Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $37.50 USD
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Brookville Distillinery LH-Cincinnati-1900's-Whiskey
Item #: NEW-0013154

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I don't usually buy something with this many condition problems but thought there might be someone who collects items from this distillery that functioned in the early 1900's.  No date on the graphic letterhead which does show the building.  Folds, large corner creases, notch out of the bottom edge, a couple of grease spots and other minor wear.  The worst thing is the repair with the wrong type of scotch tape of the separation and large tear, inexpertly applied at that. Please study the condition carefully.

Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $11.50 USD
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Old South Whiskey Bottle-Real Photo Postcard
Item #: NEW-0013144

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Minor wear on this card which was never mailed.

Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $36.50 USD
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Mini Scratched Whiskey Jug-W K Franklin-329 Main Street
Item #: NEW-0012842

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Scratched into this miniature whiskey jug is "compliments of W K Franklin or W H Franklin 329 Main Street.  It was purchased in Nashville but have been unable to verify that the Company was in Nashville since there are so many Main Streets.  A couple of chips out of the lip and one on the bottom.

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Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
Price: $200.00 USD
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George Wiedemann Brewing Co-Newport Ky-1894
Item #: NEW-0012189

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Nice graphics of this small lettersheet which was actually mailed from Jacksonville Florida.  Here is some information found on the web about Wiedemann:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



George Wiedemann Sr. was born in Eisenach, Germany, in 1833, Wiedemann came to the United States as a young man in  1855. He moved to Newport, Kentucky in 1870. He was the founder of the George Wiedemenn Brewing Company, which became Kentucky's largest brewery. It was located at 601 Columbia Street in Newport, Kentucky. Wiedemann beer was synonymous with Newport. Wiedemann promoted itself as "America's only registered beer" and often used humorous radio commercials as part of its advertising campaigns.

Wiedemann married Agnes Rohman and they had six children. Newspaper accounts described Wiedemann as an honest man with a natural sociability and a dignified businessman.

On May 28, 1890, George Wiedemann became ill and died at his home at 188 East Third St in Newport. The business was continued to operate by his sons, George Jr. and Charles.

Wiedemann Brewing was merged with G. Heileman Brewing Company, in 1967 and was operated as Wiedemann Division, G. Heileman Brewing Company, Inc. The primary brands were Wiedemann Fine Beer, Royal Amber Beer, Blatz Beer/Cream Ale and other assorted Heileman labels. The brewery was closed in 1983




Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $48.50 USD
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William Davie Distillers-Paris Bourbon Co. Ky
Item #: NEW-0012145

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Two sides of information about an early liquor distiller in Bourbon County Kentucky that evidently was not in business very long.  Trimmed at top with no loss of information. Flyer is on newsprint paper.

1881-82 Flyer

Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
Price: $47.50 USD
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S Crabfrelder Distillers-Louisville
Item #: NEW-0012042

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No condition problems on this dug bottle other than the hazing which can be seen in the scan.  Measures six inches.

Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
Price: $11.50 USD
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Wines & Liquors-Richmond-Jenkins-Capers
Item #: NEW-0011929

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see scan

Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $5.50 USD
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Davidson-Clark Liquor-Baltimore MD
Item #: NEW-0011926

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Nice 1878 advertising lettersheet and cover from wholesale liquor dealers in Baltimore Maryland.  Clear cancel from Baltimore and fancy cancel on the advertising cover. Scan shows half of the letter but it is complete. 

Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $22.50 USD
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Bottle-Soda-Bottled by Coca-Cola-New Orleans
Item #: NEW-0011896

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I can't find anything out about this bottle  Embossed bottle reads Quality Beverages, Property of Coca Cola Bottling Company.  It has an unusual shape with four indented panels and stars  On the bottom New Orleans.  Large chip out of the side of the lip, some hazing and a chip out of one of the panels, a three inch line through the same two panels that appears not go all the way through the glass.  See scans. Eight inches tall.   

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Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
Price: $25.50 USD
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A Collector's Guide to Patent and Proprietary Medicine Bottles
Item #: NEW-0011507

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Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
Price: $27.50 USD
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National Brewery Co-St Louis Mo-Engraved Card
Item #: NEW-0011350

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Nineteenth century card for a company run by the Griesedieck family.  It is slightly smaller than a postcard.  Light corner crease and some unsightly stains on the left hand side. Heavy stock which has flaked off in an area on the back. See scan. Beer


Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $20.50 USD
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John Hauck Brewing-Cincinnati-1915 Invoice
Item #: NEW-0011303

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Pin holes at upper left hand corner, otherwise good. Beer 

Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $12.50 USD
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Bludwine Bottling Co-Bridgeport Conn-LS
Item #: NEW-0011168

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Unused letter sheet for the Connecticut and Rhode Island Bludwine Bottling Company.  ludwine originated in Watkinsville, GA around 1906. It was a fruit and grain based beverage intended as a temperance drink or alternative to alcohol..

Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $15.50 USD
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Mini Whiskey Jug-Brookhill-Gerrard County Ky
Item #: NEW-0010857

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This little jug measures three and a half inches tall.  Please view the scans to see the condition of this jug which includes cracks on one side and some imperfections in the glazing. 

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Shipping Weight: 2.5 lbs
Price: $315.50 USD
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John Endres-Pure Kentucky Whiskies-St Louis LH-Cover
Item #: NEW-0010842

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Long tear at upper fold.  1857 letterhead and cover

Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $27.50 USD
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Quinlain-Spotswood-St Louis-1873 LH
Item #: NEW-0010823

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Advertising cover comes with the advertising letterhead.  Engraving of whiskey barrels with names of Kentucky and Missouri liquor dealers.  Big Spring, Frankfort Kentucky, Boyle County Bourbon, Winchester Rye Whiskey ,Q Brothers & Sons Magenta St Louis and Q Brothers & Sons Copper Distilled Ky.  worn cover.

Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $37.50 USD
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O-So-Grape-Flat River Missouri LS
Item #: NEW-0010686

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Unused letter sheet with a bottle of O-So Grape.  Minor wear

Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $5.50 USD
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Glass Bottle Stoppers Lot
Item #: NEW-0010509

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This came along with some marbles I bought.  I don't need these right now but could have used them in the past.  Some are damaged.  The large one on the left has a bunged up bottom where it has chipped.  Could be smoothed out and still leave plenty of length.  The next one also has some large chips out of the bottom.  The large rounded one has a marble stuck in it.  The bottom left has a large chip on the bottom.  The green top has a chip on the bottom. It is probably off of a pharmacy bottle.  Both of the small round stoppers have chips out of the bottom.    

Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
Price: $45.50 USD
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Whiskey Dealers-Owensboro-Louisville
Item #: NEW-0010463

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Two bill heads from whiskey merchants. Monarch & Millett & Thomas & Pearce. See scans to view the condition.  There is a strip of paper on the left hand edges where they were cut out of an account book. 1882

Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $6.50 USD
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Green River Whiskey Token
Item #: NEW-0010218

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Green River Whiskey Kentucky  See scan to view the condition

Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $15.50 USD
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Ryan and Kennedy Bottle-Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
Item #: NEW-0010132

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Blob top bottle labeled Ryan and Kennedy.  There is an embossed mark on the bottom which indicates it was made by Cunningham & Ihmsen bottle blowers and makers in Pittsburgh that was in operation under that name between 1865-1878.  Imperfections that are to be expected in a dug state. There are some wavy lines in the top but they may have been in the original bottle.  I don't see any chips.  There is one line going down one side.  I'm describing it the best I can, not being an expert on bottles. .  My best guess is that it is a soda bottle.  It is ten and a half inches tall and twelve inches in diameter.

Shipping Weight: 3 lbs
Price: $27.50 USD
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Grand Old American Bottles-Larry Freeman
Item #: NEW-009731

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Important reference on American bottles.  Sometimes these old references have information that the newer bottle books don't.  Musty smell and tears to the dust cover.  Ink signature of previous owner along with an old price sticker.  Printed in 1964 by Century House. First Edition

Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
Price: $30.50 USD
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Waterman Ink Bottle
Item #: AME-008440

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Waterman's Ink is embossed on the bottle and part of the paper label is present. Good condition. Measures six and a quarter inches tall. That's scotch tape on the top of the bottle that is sticking out.

Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
Price: $27.50 USD
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Congress Hall Mini Whiskey Jug-Bainbridge Ga
Item #: NEW-008375

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Rare mini whiskey jug, "Compliments of Congress Hall Saloon Bainbridge Ga." Note that the handle is missing. There are also two very tiny chips, one on the edge of the lip and another just below the one on the lip. See scans. The dealer who sold me this jug said that it was dug many years ago on the grounds of the Congress Hall Saloon in Bainbridge. The collector sold this jug to him when a perfect specimen was recovered from the site recently.

Shipping Weight: 2.3 lbs
Price: $555.50 USD
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John Kinney-Liquor Dealer-NY-1874 BH
Item #: NEW-007184

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see scan. somewhat dingy with spindle holes

Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $5.50 USD
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Day-Robinson-Ithaca N Y-Liquor Dealer
Item #: NEW-007168

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Early wine and liquor dealer in New York. See scan 1875 BH.  I can't find any history on this company 

Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $5.50 USD
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John Racky Rhine-Moselle Wines-N Y BH
Item #: AME-007106

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Neat old bill head for a dealer of wines. folds with tears to the folds

Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $5.50 USD
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Check-Coca-Cola Bottling
Item #: NEW-007068

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This 1927 Coke check is from the Citizens National Bank.

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Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $6.50 USD
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LH-Schlitz Beer-Nehi Bottling Co
Item #: AME-007067

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Graphic letterhead from a Bluefield Virginia company

Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $3.50 USD
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Christian Moerlein Brewing-Macon Ga BH
Item #: NEW-007066

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Nice graphics on this bill head from A and N M Block in Macon Georgia who were agents for the Christian Moerlein Brewing Company in Cincinnati Ohio. See scan to view the condition problems which includes a torn bottom corner and a coffee or water stain.


Here is a capsule of this famous company's history

Christian Moerlein was a Bavarian immigrant born in Truppach, Bavaria, in 1818.He traveled to America in 1841 after becoming an apprentice brewer and blacksmith. He settled in the neighborhood of Cincinnati Ohio known as Over-the-Rhine, a heavily populated neighborhood of mostly Germans and German-Americans. In 1853, Moerlein opened the Christian Moerlein Brewing Company.

In its first year of production, the Christian Moerlein Brewing Company produced 1,000 barrels of beer. Just over a decade later, 26,000 barrels were being produced annually.When production reached its peak, Christian Moerlein beer was being shipped to places as far as Europe and South America and was the only Cincinnati beer exported internationally. Moerlein died in 1897, but the company continued until Prohibition began. The company never recovered from Prohibition, and the brewery sat idle until the brand was reintroduced in 1981 by the Hudepohl Brewing Company.

 


A & N M Block
Macon Ga.


Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $20.50 USD
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Mini Whiskey Jug- Louisville Ky-N M Uri Co
Item #: NEW-007026

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This mini jug was distributed by the N M Uri and Company. "Old Style R H Parker" Nelson Company, Louisville. Very minor crazing and insignificant tiny chip on bottom. Note: This jug is sometimes sold as a UCV Reunion item but it is not.

This whiskey company was in Louisville Kentucky and were in business from 1893-1919.

N M Uri and Company

Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
Price: $405.50 USD
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F W Cook Brewing- Evansville Ind-1897 BH
Item #: NEW-006931

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Short billhead from Evansville Indiana. Staple hole and over all staining

Here is a link giving the history of the F W Cook Brewing Company

Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $16.50 USD
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Pepsi Cola Check Lot-Macon Georgia
Item #: NEW-006471

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One check is dated 194? and the other was cancelled in 1950

Shipping Weight: 1 lb
Price: $12.50 USD
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Coca-Cola Checks-Georgia Towns
Item #: NEW-006447

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Two checks in this lot. One, dated 193- from Cedartown Georgia and the other dated 1940 from Rome Georgia. Good condition.

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Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $15.50 USD
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Hayner Distilling-Atlanta Ga-1903 BH
Item #: NEW-006364

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Folds and ragged left hand edge.  The Hayner Distilling company was in other cities and were quite prominent in the early 1900's   Prohibition signaled the end of the company.

Shipping Weight: 0.13 lb
Price: $20.50 USD
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