Please make plans to attend the Houston 24 Bayou City Sunset Auction on Saturday evening, 03 August 2024 at Hotel ZaZa (Grapevine and Room with a View – 11th Floor). We are excited to announce that Crowded House Auctions (Martin Van Zant and “Balsam” Bill Granger) are heading up this event for the FOHBC. There will be 100 pieces (+/-) in the auction that will be called live and be listed online for bidding approximately one week before the event.
We are looking for exciting consignment items to parallel the “uniqueness” of Houston 24. Think eclectic and outside the box…i.e., related glass art, ephemera, books, basket of items, minerals, advertising, dinosaur bone, stamps, coins, jewelry, etc. Things that are fun and you may not see elsewhere in all the similar antique bottle and glass auctions. If you ship piece(s) to Elizabeth, the FOHBC will waive the consignment cost which is a great deal saving you money! We can only do this because of our generous HMNS support and underwriting. See Consignment Form. A value of $250 and above for each item is suggested. We will need your item(s) shipped to Houston sooner rather than later so we can photograph, put in the printed catalog and the online catalog. The address is noted on the consignment form.
A few teasers (look for more items and pictures in coming days and eventually a printed catalog and online bid listing:
- Mineral Water: “Ponce De Leon Spring Water St. Augustine Fla” Saratoga-type bottle. Extremely rare. Arguably the “top” Florida mineral water bottle.
- Glass Art: Ghosting glass plate negatives of old-time songs from glass artist Rick Carney and Sea Glass of Maine.
- Bitters: Warner’s Tippecanoe XXX Bitters (labeled), J. T. Wigging Gentian Bitters (x-rare), Browns Indian Queen Bitters, Pontiled aqua Old Sachem Bitters and Wigwam Tonic figural barrel, Pucey Hostetters with full label, G. & F. Stresau – Courtney, Texas (bitters), Caldwells Bitters iron pontil
- Historical Flasks: Pittsburgh Double Eagle quart, Union Calabash flasks (GI-35, Gardner #2550 and GXIII-5, Gardner 1914, both rough pontil, GXII-43 and GXIII-4, both iron pontil, GXIII-46 and GI-102, both rough pontil.
- Stoneware: Two extremely rare handled Fulper jugs,
- Fantasy: Drakes Plantation Bitters H24 commemorative bottle (Sapphire Blue Fantasy variant)
- Jugs: Jim Healy H24 commemorative jug.
- Spirits: Very large case gin bottle,
- Framed Advertising: J.F. Cutter Whiskey reverse glass painted sign, Hostetter’s reverse glass painted sign, Pearl Lager Beer large framed brewing advertisement, Warner’s Safe Yeast/Tippecanoe Tonic Bitters poster, Wonsers U.S.A. Label Proof
- Mineral: Outstanding bicolor Chinese fluorite crystal group. Comes with custom-made display base. Retail value $20k
- Drugstore: Emerald green “Irion Drug Co. Tyler, Texas“
- Freeblown: Pattern Molded Bi-Colored Creamer, Pattern Molded Bi-Colored Sugar Bowl
- Medicines & Cures: Wm. Radam’s Microbe Killer (error bottle)
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