* NEW FINDS

New "Finds"..ie...Previously unlisted "local" bottles & missce. Items.

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R.L.Harr Grocery @ 1920s nr Bristol,TN.

J W Waynick Steam Bottling Works/Bristol,Tenn

Baltimore Loop Seal closure 7 3/4" tall

J R Dickeys Indian Blood & Liver Pills wooden pill container

Bristol Wine & Liquor Co. watchfob

reverse of above watchfob

Cr: G.Harris

Aunt Dinah's Celery & Sarsaparilla Compound box & its labeled bottle,

embossed ANDREWS WINE OF LIFE ROOT. Previously known example is embossed St. Andrews Wine of Life Root. Also note on the box base, shown below: Design Patented Feb. 1899 and E.L. Andrews is noted as Owner. This too varies from the other known Aunt Dinah's box.

Cr; Rob Kesner

Cr: Rob Kesner

The above two pix show an advertising Trade Card for J.R. Dickey's Indian Blood & Liver Pills. The carciature side is of a barber witha razor strop.

1913 Bristol Ice Cream Co. Tray

cr: Kenneth Depew

WA Fincannon & Co Bristol Tenn

cr.Ralph VanBrocklin

cr:Ralph Van Brocklin

Battle Of Kings Mountain 1780--1976

Clevenger Bros Glass Works

E.A. Burson tradecard

cr:J.Gillispie

reverse of above

cr;J.Gillispie

Dickeys Blood Cure

Above rubbing sent to me years ago. I had hoped to buy the bottle or at least get a pic, but it was instead sold to a noted cure collector who ignored my request.

cr: Kenneth Depew

This Bristol Wine & Liquor Co. invoice notes that if one fills out both sides with names of potential customers, the remitter will recieve a free EAPG glass decanter.

cr:Kenneth Depew

cr.Ralph Van Brocklin

Hillcrest Dairy/Bristol Va qt.

Battle of Kings Mountain 1780-1976

Clevenger Bros Glass Works

If this scroll flask and it's amethyst counterpart on the left are not Bristol area Commemorative flasks, I don't know what else you'd call them. Made in celebration of the Bi-Centennial by Clevenger Bros. Glass works as part of a The Clevenger Collection , a series of Limited Edition Hand Blown Famous Old South Jersey Glass flasks.

cr: Bart Long

reverse of above

cr: Bart Long

M.R.Miller Humorous Trade Card

cr: Joe Lee

rev.of above trade card

This Dickey clock was on eBay July '08. Different color from others known.

Dixie Bottling Works-Bristol, Va

Malt Liquor overstamp

MP DYER BIG GEM SALOON Price List

Cr: Sam Crowder

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Sources - Bibliography

i)      Library of King College, Bristol,Tenn. - Newspaper Microfilms

ii)     Bristol,TN-VA Public Library - Newspaper Microfilms &  City Directories

iii)     1904 Bristol Herald Industrial Supplement

iv)     Bristol-Goodson Industry & Resources in 1885 -W.F.Henry/Reporter

v)    Witness To An Epoch - Chas.J. Harkrader

vi)     Double Destiny   - Robert Loving

vii)    Historic Sites of Sullivan County - Muriel Spoden

viii)   Bristol Tennessee-Virginia : A History - V.N. "Bud" Phillips

ix)     Spirits & Medicinal Bottles of Bristol, Tenn.-Va.   - Charlie Barnette

x)       The Passing Years   - Bristol Historical Association

xi)      City of Bristol @ 1915

xii)     A Pictorial History - Bristol Historical Association

xiii)    Whiskey, An American Pictorial History - Oscar Getz

xiv)    Prohibition, 13 Years That Changed America - Edward Behr

xv)     The Shadow Of The Bottle - Review & Herald Publishing Co.

xvi)    Historic Sullivan - Oliver Taylor

xvii)   One Year At A Time - Bristol - 1907 - Lonnie & Kim Blevins

xviii)   Honoring Our Heritage: Faces & Places From The Past -

                       Lonnie & Kim Blevins and Roy & Carolyn Williams

xvix)   Between the States: Bristol Tennessee - Virginia During the Civil War - V.N. "Bud" Phillips

xx)      Pioneers in Paradise - Bristol, Tenn-Va. - V.N. "Bud" Phillips

xxi)     A Good Place to Live - Bristol, Tenn-Va. - V.N. "Bud" Phillips

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