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Spring 2025 Auction
May 23, 2025 10:00 AM PT - June 01, 2025 7:00 PM PT
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Peruvian Bitters
Applied top, circa late 1880s. Beautiful crude glass full of whittle.
Lot # 41
Opening Bid
$100.00
Lash's Kidney & Liver Bitters / The Best Cathartic And Blood Purifier
Applied top, circa 1890s. A beautiful example just loaded with whittle.
Lot # 42
Opening Bid
$100.00
Bennet's Celebrated Stomach Bitters / Jos. N Souther & Co. Sole Proprietors San Francisco
This is the second variant of the Bennet's bitters dating to the late 1870s. This mold comes in both tooled and applied tops. Often seen in straight amber, this example is a bright yellow amber and loaded full of seed bubbles. There are two very shallow in making open bubbles on front of the bottle, see photos.
Lot # 43
Opening Bid
$200.00
African Stomach Bitters / Spruance Stanley & Co.
This is a beautiful applied top example of a red whittled African Stomach Bitters. Loaded with whittle and very light swirls, it's going to be tough finding a better example than this.
Lot # 44
Opening Bid
$100.00
J.A Gilka Berlin Bitters
Applied top, circa 1890s. Gilkas might be common, but swirled examples like this are not! Not only is it swirled, it's much lighter than most examples in a nice apricot amber color. Just a shovel scuff or two, great condition.
Lot # 45
Opening Bid
$100.00
Norman Bitters Doctor Bohlins
Tooled top, circa 1892. This rare Western bitters was a product of The Norman Bitters Co. based in Santa Clara, California. Their agent was M. Mentor who owned the San Jose Drug Store during the 1890s.
Lot # 46
Opening Bid
$100.00
W.F. Severa / Stomach Bitters
Tooled top. A scarce bitters from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Lot # 47
Opening Bid
$50.00
Suffolk Bitters Philbrook & Tucker Boston
Applied top, early 1870s. Here is a popular figural bitters from Boston in the form of a pig. Some wear under 'Suffolk' as well as the base of the bottle, or the 'feet' in this case. One minuscule fleabite on the lip too small to photograph. See photos.
Lot # 48
Opening Bid
$400.00
Bryant's Stomach Bitters
Applied top, late 1850s. This appears to have a very faint sticky ball pontil. This is a shipwreck example of the Bryant's ladies leg from New York. As is typical with the shipwreck examples, this does have some etching to the glass. Overall, a strong example with great provenance! There is a bubble on the dot in the base that opened. See photos.
Lot # 49
Opening Bid
$800.00
S.B. Rothenberg Sole Agent U.S.
Applied top, milk glass, 1890s. These nearly unique case gin shaped bottles held "Berliner Magen Bitters", a product well advertised by S.B. Rothenberg while they were located in Oakland during the 1880s and 1890s.
Lot # 50
Opening Bid
$70.00
Freeblown Black Glass Ale
Freeblown, sticky ball pontil, 9" tall circa 1830-1850.
Lot # 51
Opening Bid
$50.00
Morville AAA Backbar
Whiskey backbar. Moreville AAA was a popular brand of whiskey around the turn of the century represented by Louis Taussig & Co. as the sole agent. See lot # 88, a pocket calendar from Louis Taussig & Co. advertising Morville AAA.
Lot # 52
Opening Bid
$80.00
Cranberry Swirled Decanter
Spirits backbar or decanter circa 1900. A beautiful cranberry swirled design!
Lot # 53
Opening Bid
$50.00
Early American Cologne
Open pontil, 6" tall. A crude cologne bottle circa 1840-1855 with an extremely misshaped top.
Lot # 55
Opening Bid
$50.00
Dyottville Glass Works Phila.
Iron pontiled, two piece mold, 11 1/4" tall. Medium olive green. This is the variant without Patent on the shoulder, likely mid to late 1850s.
Lot # 56
Opening Bid
$40.00
Lilienthal Teardrop flask
No embossing on base. This is a scarce 1870s screw cap flask from the famous San Francisco liquor merchant Lilienthal & Co. There is a fingernail chip on the threads in the top, but with the cap on, it displays great. Thomas # 41.
Lot # 57
Opening Bid
$200.00
Burlingame Whiskey The Height of Perfection Bottled by Bertin & Lepori
These 'bark' or Faux Bois flasks were very popular in the 1910-1915 time frame. Likely a holiday promo bottle. Label on back that reads "Compliments of Bilard & Caravelli Crescent City. Compliments of the Season".
Lot # 58
Opening Bid
$50.00
Bininger's Travelers Guide A.M. Bininger & Co. No. 19 Broad St N.Y.
Applied top 1/2 pint pocket flask in a nice golden amber. Great condition.
Lot # 59
Opening Bid
$150.00
Pittsburgh Eagle Historical Flask
Applied top, pint, smooth base, circa 1860-1870. Possibly GII-106.
Lot # 60
Opening Bid
$80.00