Volume 10 , Issue 51

101 Ranch Bottle

Charles says, "This is a photo of a stoneware bottle sold recently on Ebay for $100. The 101 ranch became famous for its Wild West show. It was located near Ponca City, OK. As some of you know I am a long time collector of antique bottles, mostly excavated from old wells, and former outhouse sites. After doing this for 40 years, the old back won?t allow it much any more, so most of my digging is on Ebay. The bottle shown was used most often for beer and mineral waters. Collectors commonly call them Ginger Beers.

Follow this link - 101 Ranch - to more information about the 101 Ranch, Wild West Show, and the founding Miller Brothers.

Also included is a shot of a shelf in my bottle room showing a selection of food bottles and mocha ware type bowls. Of particular interest are the cathedral pickle bottles; so called because the panels resemble cathedral church windows. The items in this photo date from 1he 1840?s to the 1890?s. All of this was excavated from former outhouse sites." -- Charles M. Cook in Louisiana Bayou Country
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