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The following is a list of Books, Magazines, Newsletters, DVD’s, Videos & Etc. in the ABCC Library. If you are a member of the ABCC and interested in any of these items, please contact our librarian, Sam Thatcher. You may email or call Sam before any ABCC meeting and he will gladly bring the items with him for you to check out on a monthly basis. You may contact Sam at dragica.1@q.com or 303-444-4389.

BOOKS

Album of Candy Containers Volume 2
American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestory – 1978
American Enterprise Vol. 3 – 1993
American Enterprise Vol. 4 – 1995
American Glass Bottles – 1977
American Poison Bottle –
American Sarsaparilla Bottles – 2004
American Whiskey Jug – 2002
Antique and Collectible Marbles – 1993
Antique Bottle Collector – 1971
Antique Western Bitters Bottles – 1999
Antique Whiskey Bottles – 1967
Antique Whiskey Bottles 2nd Edition – 1967
Artic Obsession – 1993
Beer Book – 1973
Bitters Bottles – 1965
Bitters Bottles – 1998
Bottle and Glass Handbook – 1968
Bottle Makers and their Marks – 1971
Bottled Before 1865
Bottlers Helper – 1988
Bottles Identification and Price Guide 2nd Edition – 1971
Bottles Identification and Price Guide 4th Edition – 2002
Bottles of Leadville – 1967
Bud Hastin’s Avon Encyclopedia – 1976
Cinders and Smoke – 1995
City and the Saloon – 1982
City of Denver
Collectors Book of Bottles – 1971
Collectors Price Guide to Bitters Bottles – 1992
Collectors Price Guide to Historical Bottles and Flasks – 1970
Colorado Ghost Towns Past and Present – 1993
Colorado on Glass – 1977
Coors Rocky Mountain Legend – 1998
Denver Golden Days and Apothecary Palaces – 1971
Dictionary of Soda and Mineral Water Bottles – 1968
Digger Odells Volume 8 – 1995
Digger Odells Volumes 1-6 – 1995
Early American Bottles and Flasks – 1971
Fakes and Reproductions – 2001
Fifty Years of Glass Making 1869-1919
Glass Insulators 4th Revision – 1976
Glass Milk Bottles, Their Makers and Their Marks – 1984
Grand Old American Bottles – 1964
Great American Pontiled Medicines – 1978
Guide to Colorado Merchant Tokens – 2004
H.H. Wagner His Company, His Bottles – 1974
Historic Denver 1858-1893 – 1973
Historic Leadville in Rare Photographs and Drawings – 1997
History of Denver – 1978
History of Leadville and Lake County Colorado – 1993
History of the Fremont Forest Experiment Station – 1967
History of Wyoming as Told in Bottles – 1973
Illustrated Guide to the Collectibles of Coca Cola – 1972
Indian Bottles and Brands – 1977
Introduction to Collecting Soda Pop Bottles – 1989
It’s a Bitters – 1967
It’s a Bitters volume 2 – 1969
It’s a Sarsaparilla – 1968
Ketchups, Pickles, and Sauces – 1980
King Pleasure Ruled in 1896
Kovels Bottles Price List 11th Edition – 1999
Labels and Leadville Lore – 2005
Leadvilles Ice Palace – 1993
Miracle on Cherry Creek – 1993
Nostrums and Quackery – 1911
Official Price Guide to Bottles – 1987
One For a Man and Two for a Horse – 1961
Paperweights and Other Curiosities – 1967
Pikes Peak Gold – 2000
Poison a Collectors Guide – 1969
Roots Grow Deep – 1952
Soda and Mineral Water Bottles and Bottlers of Colorado – 2005
Statues That Pour – 1965
Steuben Glass – 1948
Story of the American Historical Flask – 1953
Supplement to Bitters Bottles – 1968
Supplement to Glass Insulators – 1970
Tennessee Legend – 1992
They Laughed When I Sat Down – 1957
Those Were the Good Old Days – 1979
Tiffany Glass – 1998
Town of South Denver – 1991
U.S. Beer Labels – 2007
Udderly Delightful – 1992
Victorian Trade Cards – 1996
Western Blob Top Soda and Mineral Water Bottles – 1972
Whiskey Bottles of the Old West – 1977
Whitehall, Tatum and Co  - (catalog)
Wyoming Bottles – 2003
Yankee Glass – 1990

DVD’s / VIDEOS

2001 Club Dig Video
An Infamous Visit with Two Remarkable Bottle Collectors
Buffalo Bill and Lookout Mountain
Capturing the Golden Past 1900-1950
Downtown Denver - Heart of the Queen
Flintknapping- (John McClard copy)
History of Louisville
History of Marble, Colorado- the town,the mill & the quarry
Hoover Dam 1931
John Eatwell’s Pikes Peak Talk
Leadville’s Grubstakes to Blasting Caps
Legends by The Denver Center for the Performing Arts
Louisville (The History of)
Mega Movers Episode 5: Lost & Found - (Rick Sinner copy)
Niwot, Colorado- Echoes of a Railroad Town - (Rick Sinner copy)
Portrait of Longmont - (Rick Sinner copy)
The Fall & Rise of the Steamboat Arabia- (Jan Racey copy)
Treasure of the Cripple Creek Mining District
Treasure Search The Bottle Hunters
Virginia City and The Comstock Lode

CATALOGS - MAGAZINES -     NEWSLETTERS

Antique Bottle and Glass Collector – Various Years Available (please ask)
Bottles and Extras – Various Years Available (please ask)
Dump Digger’s Gazette – Various Years Available (please ask)
Old Bottle Magazine – Various Years Available (please ask)
ABCC Program History
2022
​January -         "Board Members Favorite Collectibles" 
                        (Meeting sparsely attended due to weather)
February -        Meeting cancelled due to weather
March -            "Board Members Favorite Collectibles"
                       (Repeat performance of January program)
April -              "Bottle Bingo"
May -                "Colo Lard Tins & History of Meat Packing Industry"

                          by Jan Racey
September -     "Show & Tell"
October -         "ABCC Picnic, Tour of Holabird Warehouse, FOHBC
                        National Show in Reno, ABCC Show in Castle Rock"
                           by Rick Sinner
2021
January -         "No Meeting, Covid-19"
February -        "No Meeting, Covid-19"
March -            "No Meeting, Covid-19"
April -              "No Meeting, Covid-19"
May -                "Show & Tell"
September -      "Show & Tell"
October -          "Colorado Mineral Waters" by Dave Cheadle


2020
January -         "Bring Your Favorite Soda Bottles"
February -        "Colored Insulators" by Matt Poage
March -            "No Meeting, Covid-19"
April -              "No Meeting, Covid-19" 
May -               "No Meeting, Covid-19"
September -     "No Meeting, Covid-19"
October -         "No Meeting, Covid-19"

2019
January -         "Colorado Advertising Cream Pitchers" by Jan Racey
February -        "Colorado Bottle Openers" by Dan Mayo
March -             DVD on "Bottle Cleaning"
April -              "Bottle Bingo"
May -                DVD on "Morey Mercantile & other Colo Mercantiles"
September -      "Corning Museum of Glass" by Jan Racey
October -          "Gun Wa" by Deborah Harrison & Beau Schriever

2018
January -         "Show and Tell"
February -        "A Trip to Sky Cabin Antiques" by Sheryl & Dan Anderson
March -            "Colorado Town Tokens" by Dan Mayo
April -              "Bottle Bingo"
May -                "Colorado Insulators" by Eric Grace
September -      Technical Difficulties - No program given
October -          DVD on "2018 ABCC Bottle Show"

2017
January -         DVD on "Colorado Drug Store Bottles" by Glen Preble
February -        DVD on "Western Glass Manufacturing Co" by Eric Grace
March -            DVD on "Colorado Trade Tokens" by Dan Mayo
April -              DVD on "Festival of Mountain & Plain" by Dan & Sheryl A.
May -                "Bottle Bingo"
September -      DVD on "2017 ABCC Bottle Show
October -          DVD on "Colorado Saloon Tokens & Mirrors" by Dan Mayo

2016 
January -         DVD on "Colorado License Plates" by Jim Gummo
February -        DVD on "Pikes Peak Flasks" by Mike Reed
March -            DVD on "Mining Collectibles" by Dan Mayo
April -              "Bottle Bingo"
May -                DVD on "Southern Colorado Collectibles" by Bob Lane
September -      Video - "2016 ABCC Bottle Show"
 October -         DVD on "Colored US & Colo. Drug Bottles" by Glen Preble

​2015 
January -         DVD on "Beer Commercials 1950's-1970's"
February -        DVD of "Colorado Dairy Industry" by Jan Racey
March -            "Tivoli, I Love It" program by Glen Preble
April -              DVD on "Collecting License Plates"
May -                "J.S. Schueler Soda Bottling Co" by Jan Racey & Glen P.
September -      "Bottle Bingo"
October -         DVD - "2015 Bottle Show"

2014
January -         "History of Colfax Ave" DVD
February -        "History of 3 Colo Bottling Wks" by Jan Racey & Glen Preble
March -            "Stereo Cards & Stereoscopes" by Marsha Evanoff
April -              "Firefighting Toys & Collectibles" by Gerald Michals
May -                "Collecting Mining Stock Certificates" by Ed Raines
September -      "Slides of Leadville Show & Ouray Pharmacy Museum"

October -          "Bottle Bingo"
2013

January -         “History of Leadville” DVD
February -       “History of American Glass” by Thomas Cotter
March -           “Dating Colo Bottles, Manufactures & Marks” by Jan Racey
April -             “History of Louisville” DVD
May -              “Bent’s Old Fort & Pink Poodle Soda” by Thatchers
September -     “Slides of the Leadville Bottle Show”
October -         “Beer! Boulder’s History on Tap” by Rick Sinner
2012
January -         “Beer Memorabilia” by Paul Rhane
February -       “History of Marble, Colorado” DVD
March -           “Valentine’s & St Patrick’s Trade Cards” by Dave Cheadle
April -             “Buffalo Bill” by Steve Friesen
May -              “Bottle Bingo”
September -     “Slides of Leadville Show & EXPO 2012 Show in Reno”
October -         “History of Golden, Colorado” DVD
2011
January -         “Colo Mining Memorabilia” by Leo Stambaugh
February -       “Bottle Bingo”
March -           “Depression Glass” by Ken Grubenoff
April -             “Colo Mining Memorabilia” by Leo Stambaugh
                        (Repeat program)
May -              “Treasure of the Cripple Creek Mining District” DVD
September -     “Slides of the Leadville Bottle Show & Club Picnic”
October -         “Document Conservation and
                         Archival Framing” by Bob Gammill
2010
January -         “Colorado Ghost Towns” DVD - Robert Brown collection
February -       “Club Inventory Auction”
March -           “History of Niwot, Colorado” DVD
April -             “Lithography Printing” by Dave Cheadle
May -              “Flintknapping” DVD – CANCELLED  -technical problems
September -     “Slides of the Leadville Bottle Show & Club Picnic”
October -         “Flintknapping” DVD
2009
January -         “Fall Theme Trade Cards" by Dave Cheadle
February -       “Mega Movers” steam shovel DVD
March -           “Colorado Merchant Trade Tokens” by Bob DeWitt
April -             “History of Beer” by Steve Presley
May -              “Colorado Industries of the Past” by Bill Reich
September -     “Slides of the Leadville Bottle Show & Club Picnic”
October -         “Steamboat Arabia” DVD