A&E of Bottles

[bearswede]

Recently, forum members were talking about looking for antique bottles in movies... And it got me to thinking about the subject of bottles as they relate to Arts & Entertainment...

I've always liked those Dutch masters paintings that had old onion-type bottles in them... So, we do indeed have bottles represented in the visual arts... And, I do know from prior research, Opodeldoc was mentioned in a short story by O'Henry... But poetry?

Just so happens I wrote one back in the '70's, if ya'll oblige me:

FEBRUARY 26, 1846
(Cody, William Frederick)

Wild Bill
You were born today
Wild Bill
Butcher of the plain
You were born today
With a bullet in your mouth
blood-smeared
leather tassels
You went butchering
With your good clothes on
those showman's
clothes of yours...

Wild Bill
You died today
Under the shit-caked hoof
of the buffalo
A two-bit bottle of bitters
Broken in your calloused hand...

RWJohnson

 

[capsoda]

You's just the bee's knees Ron.

I like it.[]

 

[Black_Boogers]

Hey Ron,

Cool poem... I think Wild Bill must've downed some "Big Bill's Best Bitters" in his day. []

Cool picture, too. Is that a .45 "Peacemaker" I see??!!??

I missed the posts about bottles in the movies, but I'm always excited to see the "Warner's Safe Cure" in Mary Poppins, and James Stewart made sure John Wayne was always stocked with a bottle of Laudenum in "The Shootist"!

Here's my replica 1851 Navy, .38. Fun to shoot..."I Love the Smell of Blackpowder in the Morning!!"

[]

 

[bearswede]

Fun to shoot..."I Love the Smell of Blackpowder in the Morning!!"

Yeah, Rick... Me too, altho I haven't shot my percussion pistol or my Hawkin in many a moon...

Yup, Army issue colt 45 replica...

Thanks, glad ya liked it!

Ron

 

[bearswede]

I like it.

Thankee, Cap...

d'joo say sumpin' bout sneezin' bees???

 

[capsoda]

You guys gona make me cry. I sold my sharp and authentic 1818 Kentucky squrrel gun back a few years.[X(]

Man, dout I could remember how to powder one now.[&o]

 

[bearswede]

I sold my sharp and authentic 1818 Kentucky squrrel gun

Did you have a Sharp's as well as the Kentucky squirrel gun, Warren?

Ron

PS... you could always look it up ina book, like I did...ROR

 

[capsoda]

Yeah Ron, I built the Sharp's from a kit. It was a 54 cal. and was a bitch to shoot. The Kentucky rifle was given to me by an elderly man who's daughter I dated.

Had one of those CFA, CSA, CAS, or what ever it was kit things that was suposed to look like a Civil war rifle and was a piece of inacurate crap. Built it and shot it a couple of times then got rid of it.

 

[BRIAN S.]

LOVE THOSE DRAKE'S!!


Rick

Me too !

 

[woody]

It's CVA, Warren.
Connecticut Valley Arms.

http://www.cva.com/

I shoot a Thompson Center Arms 50 cal. Hawken muzzleoader rifle.

I took a spikehorn with it last November.