| September
6th, 2004 will be remembered as a day that almost destroyed the
better part
of a collection that had endured over five moves, two divorces,
countless shows and
three hurricanes over the past 25 years. Only hours before a 90
foot southern pine came crashing into the roof above, several
better bottles from one display window were cautiously placed in a safe area, including
September's featured pontiled soda.
Sadly, several other bottles were not so lucky, including a
rare, Baltimore Lord & Taylor iron pontiled whiskey barrel and a
civil war period citrate that had been sold and was awaiting
shipping . . . |
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Display bottles from the bottle
den collection that were moved from the window shelf to an
interior breakfast nook just moments before the window
shattered |
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