My great grandfathers bottle

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My great grandfathers bottle

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. Found this bottle at a display in the ghost town of Bode. My great grandfather ran this company. Pretty neat!
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That is so cool :clap: I have my GGF's 5 gallon whiskey jug with no provenance . Greatest value is to me and some of my kids . It is my intention to someday refill it and have it sittin in my living room until my kids open it for my wake .
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I have an almost similar story. When I lived with my father and stepmother, we lived on what used to be the Austin Powder Farm. It was an almost self-sustaining community, that manufactured dynamite. They had their own post office, general store, employee housing(which we lived in), train stop, etc. They even used to raise Beef-alo. Basically a cow-buffalo hybrid. It was in the town of Glenwillow, just south of Solon, Ohio. After a hidden store of dynamite went off(comparable to a simultaneous thunderstorm/earthquake), I was no longer allowed to play in the woods. Well... We were visiting family in Indiana, and found a near mint condition crate from the Austin Powder CO, at a random antique store. They wanted $225, and this was back in '92.
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We are hoping to look around at the local antique stores to find one of these bottles, the ghost town would not part with it!
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Bigbob wrote:We are hoping to look around at the local antique stores to find one of these bottles, the ghost town would not part with it!
A worthwhile quest . Check out TREASURENET . They are friendly folks and have a bottle section for collectables . Someone there might be holding one of those with no specific attachment to it that they might part with .
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:thumbup: Thanks truckinbutch, I'll check that out. My other great grandfather came from France ,opened the first French laundry in S F during the gold rush. Made enough money to buy land and started a vineyard. Made a burgandy! So I guess this is all in my blood
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Yes sir started in Tahoe and drove 395 to bishop
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My wife has done some more research on my great grandfather, here are some advertising cards from the company. It seems also that my GGF was also in a book titledMen of The Pacific Coast, a kind of who's who at the turn of the century
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Sorry bout that don't know why the first one posted three times!
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So as a Christmas present my wife was able to get a California bottling bottle!! :thumbup:
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Good stuff there Bob there are so many kids today that have no clue where they came from and don't care it kills me.
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Way cool. May just have to up your offer on that bottle.
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