Glass Works Auctions presents at absentee auction Premier Catalog Auction #157
Opens for bidding April 18, Closing April 25 & 26, 2022 (10pm)
P.O. Box 180, East Greenville, PA 18041
www.glassworksauctions.com
Info@glswrk-auction.com
(215) 679-5849

EAST GREENVILLE, PENN. — Glass Works Auctions’ Premier Auction #157 will be a two-part, timed closing affair, with Part 1 slated for Monday, April 25, and Part 2 to follow the next day, Tuesday, April 26. The online-only sale is packed with 263 lots of flasks, bitters, inks, target balls, fire grenades and black glass. Online bidding will be through www.glswrk-auction.com.

Expected top lots include an Old Sachem Bitters and Wigwam Tonic bottle ($20/30,000); a General Frank Cheatam’s Bitters bottle, Nashville, Tenn. ($6/8,000); a Traveller’s Bitters bottle, circa 1834-70, with motif of a walking man ($8/12,000); and an eagle New London Anchor Glassworks bottle ($8/12,000).

“The General Frank Cheatham’s bitters and the Traveller’s bitters — with the likeness of General Robert E. Lee — are important not only to collectors of bitters bottles, but also to collectors of Civil War material,” said James Hagenbuch, the owner of Glass Works Auctions.

Hagenbuch pointed to another important bottle in the sale — a blown, three-piece-mold geometric pan in cobalt blue ($7/9,000). “The cobalt blue blown three-piece mold pan is of extreme importance to collectors of early American glass,” he said. “Numerous pieces in this form exist in clear glass, but only on rare occasion is one available in the cobalt blue color.”

Other noteworthy bottles include a handled Whiskey bottle (“A.M. Bininger & Co. / No. 19 Broad St / New York”) which has an estimate of $2,5/3,500; a mallet-form wine bottle (“O/T/*S/ 1735”) ($2,5/3,500); a fire grenade (“Harden’s Improved – Grenade Fire – Extinguisher Pat – Oct. 7th, 1884”) expected to find a new owner for $2,5/3,500; and a “La Lafayette” bottle with a bust of Lafayette (“T.S.”) and Masonic Arch ($8/12,000).

Also offered will be an American pattern mold covered sugar bowl, emerald green, possibly Sandwich or Pittsburgh District, circa 1820-40 ($8/12,000); a target ball (“Bo’t of / Jas. Brown & Son / 136 Wood St / Pittsg. Pa. – Manufacturers and Dealers of Firearms”) ($2,5/4,500); a “Ditchett’s / Remedy For / ThePiles N-Y” ($4/6,000); and a “Talamon / Catarrh / And / Lung Cure” ($6/8,000).

The auction catalog will be online for viewing starting Thursday, April 14. All lots will be on display for preview in the Glass Works Auction gallery, April 14-24, by appointment only. To make an appointment, call 215-679-5849; or email info@glswrk-auction.com. The gallery is at 84 Main Street.

Over 250 lots of quality antique bottles, flasks, etc. Many from private collections! A full color catalog is available for $15.00
Consignments are currently being accepted for our upcoming auction!