It’s Show time!
By the time you get
this newsletter, well, who knows what will have
happened?
If it shows up on Friday, set your alarm for
6:00, or earlier, so you can get down to the
fairgrounds in time for the big show.
On the other hand, if it is Saturday. . . it
is already Show Time! Get down there we need you!
The show opens for club setup at 7:15 (for the club
set-up crew.) For the dealers the doors open at
8:00.
For the general public, the Kalamazoo Antique Bottle
Show is from 10:00 am to 2:30 pm on Saturday, April
6th.
Yes it is at the Kalamazoo County Fairgrounds & Expo
Center, 2900 Lake Street, Kalamazoo MI
49048.
Dealers, Name Tags must
be worn! Must be worn in a visible location in order
to gain entry at 8:00
am.
Please
note: you must furnish your own table covers.
Table
covers are no longer provided by the fairgrounds.
You must have a table cover!
So, if this newsletter reached you right after all
of the Hullabaloo, then don’t feel too bad, we
still have an April club meeting planned for Tuesday
April 9th!
As
your newsletter writer, it is hard for me when the
month starts on a Monday or Tuesday, because that
means the second Tuesday, our meeting day is fast
approaching!
So, let’s see; on Monday the 1st , I have
taxes done, then on Saturday the 6th is the bottle
show! In the mean time I write a
newsletter? Is this a dream? I’m going to be
busier than a privy digger who broke into a nest of
ground bees!
Did I mention I still work my business? This has
been a busy couple months for me. The spring thaw
was early this year, to say the least. I saw a sign
on the local car wash that said, “Nice Spring We Are
Having This Winter!”
Treasure hunters, were out way before the
Robins this spring! The popularity of treasure
hunting videos on You- Tube has driven metal
detector sales through the roof! I am thankful . .
. but my age is slowing me down.
Anyone interested in buying a well established
business with mountains of potential come see me!
All this flurry makes me get out of my easy chair
and start slinging hash. I come from a long line of
hash slingers!
Vince’s
Notes!
Well,
thanks to Vincent, I have some newsletter material I
can easily share in the copy-and-paste fashion.
1:
For the Bottle
Show: Vincent will be bringing a copy of
the Club Membership List for the main table at the
show.
(Current members
and workers get in free, be sure to get a name tag
at the front table.)
2:
Vincent asks me; “Is the Bottle Club's Non-Profit
Status up and current ?”
(This question was for me but I will take this
opportunity to update everyone.)
The last year the
K.A.B.C. $25.00 non-profit fee was paid, it was
paid by our last treasurer, Chuck Parker in 2018
. . . and was due again in 2019.
I attempted to pay the fee shortly after Chuck’s
passing, but there was something they needed . .
. and it was something that I didn’t have. Then,
sadly I dropped the ball.
I contacted them again last month. I was
told I can continue on, by simply paying the
arrearage of $250.00, or, start over for $25.00,
(which was recommended.)
I suggested that we would start over. The lady
told me that she would e-mail me the needed form
and a web-link where this could be taken care
of. She never did.
By the way, I was told It is not necessary that
a club be registered with the State as a
Non-Profit unless we are receiving donations.
I hope to check in with the State again before
the meeting . . . if time allows.
(You don’t
just call them, you call and wait, and get
disconnected . . . . .about 8 times.)
3.
At the APRIL &
MAY MEETING :
Our Club will be holding
nominations for all Club Officers: President,
Vice-President, Treasurer, and Secretary.
All positions are a
two year term. Elections to be held at the May 14,
2024 meeting.
4.
2024
Proposed Calendar of Events.
The National
Insulator Association's 55th Annual
Convention and Show: Saturday:June 29 and Sunday:
June 30,2024; Sat 9 AM-4 PM, Sun 9 AM-2 PM. The
Northern Indiana Event Center/ Orthwein Pavilion,
21565 Executive Pkwy, Elkhart IN. (574)-293-1191
The Indiana
Marble Show: August 7-10, 2024. The Wyndham
Gardens, 5750 Challenger Parkway, Fort Wayne
IN. Mike Adams: (317)-361-2274
West Michigan
Bottle Club & Kalamazoo Bottle Club's
2nd Annual Group Picnic: Sunday: August 18, 2024.
Brookside Park, Otsego MI 49078. Starting at 11 AM.
Details to be announced.
The Kalamazoo
Antique Bottle Club's First Annual Club Dig
Dates: Weekends of September 14 or 15, 2024 and
October 12 or 13. 2024. Details to be announced.
The Badger Marble
Show: September 19-21, 2024. The Comfort
Inn (608)-846-9100, 5025 County Hwy V, Deforrest,
WI Bill Bass (608)-723-6138
5.
The Bottle
Club's First Bottle Show Committee has
members Ashley Carlson, and Kevin Siegfried. We are
looking for one more person to join the committee.
6. The Bottle
Club is looking to form a Picnic Committee.
This committee will work on the Second Annual West
Michigan and Kalamazoo Bottle Clubs' group picnic,
scheduled for Sunday: August 18, 2024. Need two to
three members ?
Details to be announced.
LAST MONTH
My sign up sheet lists a group of
the very B.P.O.E.
As a little boy I was riding into Allegan with my
German grandpa. We drove past the Elk’s Lodge and I
asked, “Grandpa, what does B.P.O.E. mean?”
In his
German accent he replied starting with his version
of “Allan,”
“Owlund, dis itz de, Best Peoples On de Earth.”
He never told me otherwise and for decades I
believed him!
The sign in sheet
tells it all!
Ed Nickerson,
Brian Wages,
Katie Wages,
Gary Dean,
Kevin Siegfried,
Len Sheaffer,
Ashley Carlson,
Ron Smith,
Scott
Hendrichsen, Rob Knolle, Vincent Grossi and Allan Holden.
As usual, we had a
nice display of awesome bottles at our last
meeting!
Brian Wages displayed
a tall clear wine bottle, and my research suggests
it dates to around 1935 or later (based on the
embossing “Federal Law Prohibits”) It is from
Garrett & Co. American Wines.
Garrett & Company, was established in North
Carolina in 1835. The company was a manufacturer of
American wines using the, “indigenous Scuppernong
grape.”
Virginia Dare
was their most popular wine, named for the first child born
in America to English settlers.
Dare was born on Roanoke Island, which is also home
to the Mother Vine, a Scuppernong vine known to be
the oldest cultivated grapevine in the world. Pocahontas
and Minnehaha
were names of two other Garrett & Company wines.
The company moved to Norfolk, Virginia, in 1903,
after the growing temperance movement in the South
made North Carolina an unfriendly environment for a
wine business. By 1912, the spread of “dry counties”
northward compelled the business to relocate for a
final time to New York State. 
Eventually, nationwide Prohibition forced the
company to abandon its wine manufacturing
altogether. In the Dry years, the company
diversified into Virginia Dare flavoring extracts
and the sale of grapes for use in home wine making.
Pretty
darn neat history!
Scott Hendrichsen always has some great
treasures to display! Now that he is retired no
privy is safe!
Folks, I had a problem with my bottle
photos!
I was in need of a repair part for a metal detector.
It wasn’t an electronic component, but a nameless
hardware item. The young lady who was suppose to
help me in the parts department, could barely speak
English . . . and I was getting nowhere with my
verbal description . . . so I sent a photo.
Are there no English speaking workers anymore?
So, my best option was to e-mail a low resolution
photo.
You very likely know where this is going. I forgot
to return my camera to the higher resolution
for my bottle photos! 
Yes, I
got pictures, but not real good
ones!
Scott displayed a small ointment
bottle with the embossed form of a cross. How
perfect for the Easter Season!
Scott also has dug some Otsego, MI druggist bottles.
One bottle was a, Conrad Brother’s Druggist, Otsego, MI.
Dorothy
Dalrymple was a lady I knew from Otsego
who was considered the local historian, She compiled
local history in several volumes. I had hoped to
find out more about Conrad Bros. Druggist from her work.
Over her lifetime, Dorothy put together a collection
of 12 volumes of scrapbooks containing information
about the history of Otsego, Michigan.
The collection contains 1,719 pages, and a subject
index of over 34,000 entries. Subjects range from
the Airport, Civil War to World War II. Many believe
that Dorothy’s collection of scrapbooks is the only
consolidated history of the City of Otsego.
I did find in her index time line, the Conrad Bros Drug
Store as early as 1886 and as late as 1904.
Scott also has two variations of ‘Barnes
Druggist Otsego MI.’ druggist bottles.
Dorothy Daltymple
lists the Barnes
Drug Store 1891 to 1897 (from telephone
& telegraph records) then another mention was
found in 1953, which was likely in an obituary
mention.
While I was searching the Daltymple files, I figured
I would see what was listed by my family name, I
found a
“Holden,
Allan, Curtis” from 1970 files (Graduation)
It was fun
looking at the different sources where Dorothy
found her information.
My great, great grandfather Martin Harter and his wife Hester
where from Civil
War records. For Martin’s son, Charles Harter,
(My great grandfather) Dorothy’s source record
is listed under “Transportation.” In 1933 he was one of
the first in Otsego to hold a chauffeur’s
license. My grandmother used to tell me about
her grandpa’s huge shiny Packard! He used to
take folks all the way to Kalamazoo-and-back in the
same day! Zoom-Zoom!
Katie Wages
brought in some simply beautiful bottles! If you
love glass bottles in the form of true art,  you have to
love perfume bottles! I sure do!
The Federation
of Historic Bottle Collectors has been a
disappointment when it comes to early perfume
bottles.
I have a couple tiny, open pontil
scroll flask style perfume bottles that I treasure.
Katie showed us some stunning beauties!
Many of hers were the perfume atomizer bottles
from the DeVelbiss
Company.
I sure hope you can access the digital news letter
and see Katie’s awesome perfume bottles!
Dr. Allan DeVilbiss,
was a medical doctor specializing in nose and throat
medicine who started the DeVilbiss Manufacturing Company
in Toledo, Ohio,1888.
The company’s primary purpose was to manufacture and
sell DeVilbiss-invented spray atomizers, designed to
apply soothing medicinal coatings to patients’
throats.
His son Tom, joined the company in 1905, and by 1907
had convinced his father to go into the perfume
atomizer business, capitalizing on the company’s
spray technology and its established retail network
of drug stores.
DeVilbiss was
buying beautiful art glass bottles from the finest
sources in the world.
After World War I, with soldiers returning
from France with perfume for their sweethearts, the
popularity of perfume atomizers skyrocketed.
Sadly, Tom, Allan’s son, passed away at the
young age of 50, but he really took his father’s
invention to the moon! From perfume atomizers to the
finest automotive spray guns in the world . . . they
never stopped insisting on the highest quality.
I
purchased my DeVilbiss spray gun when I was in Auto
Body class in college in 1970. I have painted
countless numbers of cars, trucks, motor homes,
vans, choppers,  helmets and gas
tanks! All with my current gun, and I still
use, and treasure it! I just finished painting my
own motor home with it last summer!
The new automotive finish sprayers are “climate
friendly” high-pressure low-volume H.V.L.P. and I
would not trade my old school high emission green
house gas model for 100 of the new climate friendly
junk!
The Birth of Virginia Dare
August 18th, 1587
THEME
THIS MONTH, SHOW TREASURES!
There will be a $5.00
Table!
The Kalamazoo Antique Bottle
Club
Meets At the
Otsego Historic Society Museum
Meeting date is APRIL 9th at 7:00 pm
The Museum is located at 218 N. Farmer
St. Otsego, MI
Meeting
starts at 7:00
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