Bottles Mohawk - Mohawk Valley Antique Bottle Club
Transcription
Bottles Mohawk - Mohawk Valley Antique Bottle Club
Bottles Along the Issue No. 265 Mohawk June 2016 MONTHLY PUBLICATION OF THE MOHAWK VALLEY ANTIQUE BOTTLE CLUB ANNUAL CLUB PICNIC – THIS MONDAY – DETAILS PAGE 9 PLEASE ATTEND - BECAUSE WITHOUT YOU IT WOULDN’T BE THE SAME IT WOULDN’T BE THE SAME AND WE WOULD MISS YOU! Presidents Message... President’s Page … Now that our 22nd Annual Show and Sale is successfully behind us, the MVABC members can relax and enjoy each others’ company and lots of good food at the Annual Club Picnic at the Kirkland Town Park this coming Monday, June 13th. We dealt with some very rainy weather last year, so let’s hope that Monday will bring a nice day with sunshine. As always, members will be tailgating—buying and selling those hard to find bottle treasures! Thanks again to Carol Saporito and Frank Tomaino of the Oneida County Historical Society for the informative PowerPoint program called “What the Photographer Saw”. The program illustrated repairing damaged photos as well as colorizing black and white photos. I hope everyone is enjoying the beautiful weather we have been having. Even if you have to do gardening and lawn work, it still gives you the opportunity to be outside—some of you might even be taking the opportunity to do some digging! LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING EVERYONE AT THE PICNIC ON MONDAY! Monday! Best Regards, Kathy Capozzella . COMMITTEES: Mohawk Valley Antique Bottle Club, P O Box 4483, Utica, NY 13504 FACILITIES: Bernice Szablak, 28 Maple St, New York Mills, NY 13417 (315) 736-9270 HISTORIAN: Kevin Gallagher, 6073 Stokes-Lee Road, Lee Center, NY 13363, (315) 339-2598, Email: [email protected] LIBRARIAN: Jon Landers, 8646 Aitken Ave, Whitesboro, NY 13492, Phone: 768-7091 NEWSLETTER EDITOR: Jon Landers, 8646 Aitken Ave, Whitesboro, NY 13492, Phone: 768-7091 PHOTOGRAPHER: Polly Blunk, 2317 Holman City Road, Clayville, NY 13322, Phone (315) 839-5548, Email: [email protected] PROGRAMS: Ron Weir, P. O. 509, Oriskany, NY 13424, Phone: (315) 736-8138 MONTHLY RAFFLES: Tom Andriach, 100 E. Sycamore Street, Rome, NY 13440, (315) 339 – 4338, Email: [email protected] REFRESHMENTS: Dan & Amelia Weeden, 2511 Old State Road, Camden, NY 13316, (315) 245-2207 REFRESHMENTS LIST: Person needed to coordinate list. SHOW & SALE: Peter Bleiberg, 7 White Pine Road, New Hartford, N.Y. 13413, Phone: (315) 269-5360 Email:[email protected] SUNSHINE: Bernice Szablak, 28 Maple St, New York Mills, NY 13417 (315) 736-9270 COLLECTING ANTIQUE BOTTLES AMERICA’S GREATEST HOBBY Visit us on Facebook: mohawk valley bottle club CLUB NEWS ON THE FRONT PAGE A grouping of colorful and interesting bottles from the Mohawk Valley exemplifying the importance of color, yet showing that even aqua or clear glass is beautiful. The bottles are from the collections of several of our club members. 2016 BOTTLE SHOW & SALE We had a great Show & Sale. There were BOTTLES, BOTTLES, EVERYWHERE! Everyone seemed to have enjoyed our show. The dealers were happy. BOTTLE SHOW RAFFLE The winner of our beautiful flask from our bottle show raffle was Daniel Parmon of Little Falls. Daniel decided to take the flask instead of the $100. Thanks to everyone who bought and sold raffle tickets. Also, thanks to Jim Bender and Jim Berry who acquired the flask for our club to sell. REFRESHMENTS June 13 – Club Picnic, none needed. Details for picnic on page 9 of this newsletter. July 11 - Tom Andriach and Vinnie Casatelli . WHAT BOTTLE??? THIS IS OUR HISTORY In 1889 Louis Becker of Utica, NY was manufacturing a patent medicine. What was the name of this medicine? Answer: BECKER’S NEW ERA WHOOPING COUGH REMEDY See 1889 advertisement shown on left. Has anybody seen a bottle from this medicine? Copy of an advertisement from the July 20, 1889 issue of the UTICA OBSERVER Join Now! You can become a “2016” member of the Mohawk Valley Antique Bottle Club for just $12.00 Visit us on Facdbook: mohawk valley bottle club Oswego County Glass Our Neighbors to the North By Kiely Jo Malone On the north shore of Oneida Lake, in the town of Constantia is a small village with a great name and a great past. The village is Cleveland. It was named not after our twenty-second and twenty-fourth president, but after James Cleveland, who migrated from Petersboro, Connecticut in 1826. James Cleveland was a man of great initiative and immediately constructed a hotel and store which served as the nucleus of a growing community. In 1840, Anthony Landgraff came to found the glass industry. Born in Germany, where he learned his trade, he came to America in 1812 and began manufacturing glass at Vernon, in Oneida County, New York. When wood became scarce in Vernon, he moved to Cleveland with his four sons, and his son-in-law, George Cowarden. One of his sons, Harmon, is credited with creating some of the "offhand" pieces coming from the plant. The book," Landmarks of Oswego County" edited by John C. Churchill in 1859, describes Landgraff as "a man of pronounced ideas, active and influential in all public and private enterprises, and inaugurated many improvement in his art. He lived in advance of his time, and was more or less ridiculed for the theories he advocated - but since have been adopted." Anthony Landgraff chose Cleveland because of the thick strands of virgin hemlock surrounding the village. This was very important as enormous quantities of wood were needed for the furnaces. It was cut fine, about three feet in length and dried in ovens. The forest was so near that the choppers were able to pile logs against the drying house. In these days the accessibility of fuel spelled the difference between success and failure. The standard formula for making glass for the past two thousand years is composed of a melted mixture of sand and two oxides from a group of four; soda, potash, lime and lead. Cleveland used a combination of sand, limestone, soda ash and carbon. Pieces of glass attributed to the earliest period have a definite green tint from the iron present in the sand. For the first year the sand was laboriously boated across the lake from Verona, but in 1841 the finest grade of silica was found right in their front yard. This was dug by hand and hauled up to the factory in ox carts. Some of this Cleveland sand was used by Corning Glass in making the giant lens for the world's largest telescope atop Palomar Mountain. Landgraff constructed his own furnace. Mr. Fredrick Griesmyer, one time mayor of Cleveland, and selfappointed curator of its past, describes this furnace thus: "The melting furnace was about six by eight feet on the inside and the melting pots little larger than good sized water buckets. A single blower could and did carry and place them in the tempering oven." These first furnaces probably resembled a small pyramid with a great chimney at the top. The base of the furnace contained an ash pit about five feet deep. The cord wood was placed on grates over the pit. Approximately five feet above the grate were two shelves on which "the batch" was placed with holes so located that the blower could reach in for the gather. There were doors above and below the grate to allow removal of ashes and for stoking. Immediately above the Glory Hole, the furnace would slant up to an enormous chimney. The shelves, approximately four feet above the grating carry "the batch", the rough ingredients to be fused. Through the door at one end the fire is stoked and the job is begun of getting the heat up to 2600 degrees, necessary to melt the "the batch." It might take twelve to twenty hours to create a fire intense enough to reduce the ingredients to a fluid state. At the proper time messengers were dispatched to the nearby homes of the blowers who would immediately come and work until the supply was exhausted. Each blower gathered, blew, flattened, and sometimes cut his own glass. The work of the glass blower has always been arduous and in these early days exceptionally so. For their work the blowers received slightly more than a dollar a box which was considered very good pay at the time. Miss Frances Eggleson of Oswego, speaking before the Oswego County Historical Society in 1941, said, "The manner of selling the glass was in keeping with the character and primitive ways of small, local, independent manufacturers. In the middle of the century, Oneida Lake was connected by the Erie Canal by a side cut, and it was customary during navigation to load a canal boat with glass and peddle it out in the towns and villages along the canal from Troy and Albany to Lockport and Buffalo, often in the way of barter for store goods and other supplies." The only product of the Cleveland factories was window glass. The canes, pitchers, bowls, chains, etc that have been found and authenticated are "offhand pieces", meaning that they were produced by the blower after hours from the left over batch. Miss Eggleson, whom we have just mentioned, was a collector of fine glass and illustrated her lecture with pitchers and basins that had been crafted by Cleveland craftsmen. These pitchers and basins were used on wash stands in the bedroom before the days of modern plumbing. George and Helen McKearin picture these on Plate 65 of their book, "American Glass". They write"Washbowls and pitchers, smaller bowls and pitchers, milk pans, bottles, rolling pins, hats, with balls, and so on are included among authenticated specimens of Cleveland glass. They are characterized by the sturdiness of form and breadth of body and neck. The only decorative technique we have encountered is the threading of the necks of the pitchers." I recently acquired for my own collection a very crudely constructed chain of light green tint. These chains were sold to saloons where they were festooned over the bar for purposes of decoration. The original plant was run by the Landgraff family until 1861, when it was taken over by William Sanders, for a brief period before passing into the hands of H. J. Caswell and Crawford Getman. Child's Business Directory of Oswego County for 1866-67 carry the ad, "Cleveland Glass Works, Caswell and Company, Manufacturers of window, coach, picture, sheet, and double-thick glass, H. J. Caswell, C. Getman, Wm. Foster, F. Farmer." Crawford Getman had a large interest in this operation and continued in control after Caswell retired in 1877. A picture of the workers standing before the factory at this time shows a force of about seventy men. It is evident that Getman supervised the most successful glass manufacturing operation in the village. In July, 1869, the factory was nearly destroyed by fire and completely demolished on New Year's Eve of 1881. Mr. Getman rebuilt a new and better factory on the same site. In 1851, the Union Glass Factory was organized as a stock company by Cleveland citizens, but after a couple years was re-organized under the control of William Foster, Forest Farmer, and Charles Kaltner, who ran it with success for more than twenty years, when it was sold to Crawford Getman in 1882, who ran it with his Cleveland factory until 1889, when he sold both plants to the United Glass Company. Crawford Getman left an indelible imprint on the village of Cleveland. He started as a bookkeeper for Anthony Landgraff and reputedly died a millionaire. It was evident that he was highly regarded as a community leader for his name is connected with a majority of business ventures of his era and was elected town supervisor in 1882. He ran the Hotel Getman which was advertised in an Oneida paper as one of the finest hotels on Oneida Lake with large and airy rooms. He also had a general store. The picture certificates were issued as pay to the workers and could be redeemed at his store. No one received actual currency for his work. Is it any wonder that Cleveland, New York was the birth place of our American Trade Unions? Frank Putney, a veteran of the Civil War, was secretary of the Cleveland Glass Company. He evolved a scheme of secret organization of workers. This was against the law but they held their meetings in a nearby ravine and exerted considerable influence in the factory. Mr. Samuel Gompers, who was then a young cigar worker, learned of the scheme and spent some days in Cleveland formulating ideas which ultimately gave birth to the American Federation of Labor. In later years, the Cleveland factory was converted into a modern plant, organized and re-organized, until it finally closed for good in 1912. Like many budding American industry it was unable to successfully adapt itself to our fast moving industrial tides. While this was an admirable location for a small operation, using wood as fuel it was not the most advantageous location for the assembly line production. The changing seasons come and go, and today the halcyon period of 1834-1874 is but a memory. At present there is little indication that Cleveland was once a thriving glass center. The Webb Lumber Company of Bernards Bay has started a housing development on Factory Street where the Union Company once stood and neighbors are using large pieces of "Cullet" or waste slag, as borders for their flower gardens. The ruins of the Sand Street plant, once owned by Crawford Getman now houses a thriving oil business and people living within a few miles of Cleveland hardly believe you when you speak of its past greatness. Anthony Landgraff was my great, great, great, great, great grandfather. My home is atop the site of the old Cleveland Glass Factory. During excavating - we discovered many walls and hallways that once was the factory. We obtained many large pieces of "Cullet" that adorn our yard and flower gardens. KielyJo Malone WHAT BOTTLE? Don’t MissPROGRAMS THIS IS OUR HISTORY Editor’s Note: Kiely Jo Malone is from Cleveland, NY, lives on the factory site and wrote this interesting thefactories Annual June 13 Although all the glass article. in Oswego County were window glass manufacturers, we should ANNUAL – RAIN ORlike SHINE PAVILION rememberCLUB that thePICNIC glass blowers there, otherUNDER glass blowers made “end of the day” free blown pieces for their For the June will pieces meet atare thehighly Kirkland Town to enjoy and our are Annual Club Picnic. Start arriving families andmeeting, friends. we These sought afterPark by collectors rare because many got broke beingat 5 PM, eat at 6 PM and continue until dark. We will have a large pavilion with electricity to use. Bring a dish items of everyday use. Below are some examples of free blown “end of the day” pieces made by glass workers. to pass, table setting and beverage. The club will provide hamburgers, chicken paddies, hot dogs, rolls and a charcoal fire for grilling. Honor us with your attendance! Bring some bottles to sell or trade (tailgating is encouraged). Family members are invited or a friend! A thank you to Vince Romanelli for making the arrangements for the picnic and Yvonne Wall for getting the food. CLUB PICNIC This Monday July 11 MILK BOTTLE PROGRAM JUNE 13 AT THE KIRKLAND TOWN PARK BOTTLE SHOWS RAIN OR SHINE July 16 & 17 ADAMSTOWN PENNSYLVANIA (Saturday & Sunday) FOR DETAILS & DIRECTIONS 16th Annual Shupps Grove Bottle Festival, Saturday SEE PAGE 9 & Sunday, 6:00 am to dusk, early buyers Friday 3:00 pm. At the famous “Shupp’s Grove”, 1686 Dry Tavern Road, Denver, Pennsylvania 17517, Contact: Steve Guion, 717.626.5557, [email protected] September 18 (Sunday) DEPEW,Above NEW left: YORK (BUFFALO SHOW) A glass chain, marble and other small items attributed to the Cleveland Glass Works. 18th Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association Annual Show and at thevessel. Polish Falcons Hall, 445 Above Right: A teal green aquamarine saucer andSale drinking Columbia Avenue, Depew, New York 14043, Sunday 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Set-up: 7:00 am to 9:00 am, Cost of admission: $2, Children under 12 free, Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association, gbbca.org, Contact: Joe Guerra, Secretary, Nina free Terrace, West Seneca, New York 14224, 716.674.5750, [email protected] Below: An aqua29footed blown pitcher. Below: An aqua free blown deep bowl. October 16 (Sunday) EAST SCRIBA, NEW YORK The Empire State Bottle Collectors Association presents the 18th Annual Fall Antiques, Bottles & More Show & Sale, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm; Setup: 7:00 am, Scriba Fire Hall, U.S. Route 104, East Scriba, New York, 2 miles East of City of Oswego. Admission $3 donation, Contact: Barry L. Haynes, P.O. Box 900, Mexico, New York 13114, 315.963.0922 or 315.963.3749 2016 FOHBC NATIONAL CONVENTION AND EXPO SET UP TEAM ALPHA 2016 SHOW IT WAS A GREAT SHOW Tom Andriach Photo DON’T MISS Bottle Nuts AT THE 45th MADISON BOUCKVILLE Antique Show With two tents full of antique bottles for sale August 15 - 21 (Monday – Sunday) FOR MORE INFO CONTACT: Jim Burns, 315.527.3269 Jim Bartholomew, 585.705.8106 WHAT BOTTLE??? THIS IS OUR HISTORY What master ink bottle with a label from Clinton, NY is listed with a photo in William Covill’s book, Ink Bottles and Ink Wells? The answer will appear in the next newsletter. PROGRAMS June 13 ANNUAL CLUB PICNIC – RAIN OR SHINE UNDER PAVILION For the June meeting, we will meet at the Kirkland Town Park to enjoy our Annual Club Picnic. Start arriving at 5 PM, eat at 6 PM and continue until dark. We will have a large pavilion with electricity to use. Bring a dish to pass, table setting and beverage. The club will provide hamburgers, chicken patties, hot dogs, rolls and a charcoal fire for grilling. Honor us with your attendance! Bring some bottles to sell or trade (tailgating is encouraged). Family members and friends are invited! A thank you to Vince Romanelli for making the arrangements for the picnic and Yvonne Wall for getting the food. EASY DIRECTIONS TO THE CLUB PICNIC, MONDAY NIGHT – ARRIVE 5 PM – EAT 6 PM Coming from the Utica area on Route 12B, go into Clinton and take a left at the second traffic light (the Homestead Saving and Loan building is on the left corner, Don’s Rok is on the right). Proceed 1 mile toward Deansboro; you will pass a McDonald’s restaurant and Hannaford’s Supermarket on the left. At one mile, turn left onto Post Street. There will be a sign with an arrow on the left where you turn that reads: “KIRKLAND TOWN PARK”, proceed 8/10 of a mile to the park. The park is on the left. July 11 PROGRAM ON MILK BOTTLE COLLECTING DO YOU LIKE MILK BOTTLES? If the answer is yes – DON’T MISS THIS PROGRAM! In addition to our program on milk bottles our club will be giving away 5 free memberships to the National Association of Milk Bottle Collectors (NAMBC) to support milk bottle collecting. With each membership comes 12 monthly issues of the Milk Route which is the monthly newsletter of the NAMBC. Our own Peter Bleiberg is the editor of this newsletter which is printed in color. We also will have some special guests at this meeting. BOTTLE SHOWS July 16 - 17 (Saturday & Sunday) ADAMSTOWN PENNSYLVANIA - 16th Annual Shupps Grove Bottle Festival, 6:00 am to dusk, early buyers Friday 3:00 pm. At the famous “Shupp’s Grove”, 1686 Dry Tavern Road, Denver, Pennsylvania 17517, Contact: Steve Guion, 717.626.5557,[email protected] August 4-7 (Thursday – Sunday) SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA FOHBC 2016 National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo – Western Region at the McClellan Conference Center, Host Hotel: Lions Gate Hotel. Room Reservations – Show Information: Richard & Beverley Siri, Show Chairman & Co-Chair, 707.542.6438,[email protected] or or Eric McGuire, Western Region Director, [email protected] Contracts: Warren Friedrich, 530.271.5757, [email protected]. More info at FOHBC.org, FOHBC National Convention – Western Region August 15 – 21 (Monday – Sunday) BOUCKVILLE, NEW YORK – BOTTLE NUTS AT BOUCKVILLE 45th Annual Madison-Bouckville Antique Show, Outdoor antiques and collectibles including two huge bottle tents! Over 2,000 dealers and vendors located on scenic Route 20, Bouckville, New York, Contact: Jim Burns, 315.527.3269, Jim Bartholomew, 585.705.8106 September 18 (Sunday) DEPEW, NEW YORK (BUFFALO SHOW) 18th Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association Annual Show and Sale at the Polish Falcons Hall, 445 Columbia Avenue, Depew, New York 14043, Sunday 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Set-up: 7:00 am to 9:00 am, Cost of admission: $2, Children under 12 free, Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association, gbbca.org, Contact: Joe Guerra, Secretary, 29 Nina Terrace, West Seneca, New York 14224, 716.674.5750, [email protected], FOHBC Member Club Visit us on Facebook: mohawk valley bottle club Mohawk Valley Antique Bottle Club Newsletter Editor Jon Landers 8646 Aitken Avenue Whitesboro, NY 13492 Phone (315) 768-7091 Email: [email protected] Address Service Requested DON’T MISS THE June 13th PICNIC Monday Night – 6:00 PM At the Kirkland Town Park See Page 9 for details & directions New York Mills ************************************* ***************** FIRST CLASS MAIL ***************** Mohawk Valley Antique Bottle Club … History in a Bottle Visit our website: mohawkvalleybottleclub.com PRESIDENT Kathy Capozzella 1108 Rutger Street Utica, NY 13501 (315) 724-1026 Email: [email protected] VICE PRESIDENT Dave Mount 592 Albany Road West Winfield, NY 13491 (315) 822-9991 SECRETARY REHM, Debra 5182 Westmoreland Road Whitesboro, N. Y. 13492 (315) 736-4705 TREASURER Peter Bleiberg 7 White Pine Road New Hartford, NY 13413 (315) 735-5430 Email: [email protected]