MemoriesandMiscellany

I well remember the day about 1947 that my Father brought home a framed picture of dogs playing poker, given to him by a dent...

From time to time I am asked to look at an artifact, often a whiskey jug, and provide the owner with an idea of its value. It is alway...

William Gibson, the well-known science fiction writer and the man who first coined the term “cyberspace,” is fascinated with eBay. In a ...

At the risk of seeming to “beat a dead horse,” I return to the subject of Beam bottles, specifically decanters in its self-vaunted “Executi...

Almost two decades ago, I wrote an article entitled “Who Made America’s Whiskey Ceramics?” At that time I was convinced that most, if not...

In Hillsboro, a Southwestern Ohio farming town, just before Christmas 1873, 70 women left the Presbyterian Church and marched downtown to sa...

Perhaps it is the mystique of the cigar that renders its merchandising so colorful and flamboyant. For years cigar labels and cigar bands ...