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Jason R. Merrill
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Curator at Blackbird Finery. Bowties, cufflinks, antique sodas.

https://jasonrmerrill.carrd.co/
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Atlanta! The last vending event of the year for me. Winter Underland, Nov 29 from 6 to 10:30PM. Bringing all the antique & vintage cufflinks/accessories I can fit in my booth along with some other items that normally don't make it out of storage.

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A flyer for the "Winter Underland" event: subtitled "A Dark Holiday Market". Online tickets $8. Tickets at door $10. 12 and under FREE November 29, 2025, 6pm to 10:30pm Food Trucks, Performances, Charity Gift wrapping, Artists. IAM Local Lodge 709, 1032 South Marietta Pkwy SE, Marietta GA 30060
November 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Our youngest fur kid, Plum. Named after PG Wodehouse. #proofofcat
A black cat named Plum with his tongue almost fully extended caught mid-lick. His yellow eyes stare almost accusingly at the camera for intruding upon his grooming. That or he's hungry again.
August 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Where to find me at Dragon Con! More detail in Alt text.
Jason Merrill's Dragon Con 2025 schedule Title: Vintage Travel Accessories with Blackbird Finery Time: Sat 11:30 am Location: Augusta Courtland Grand (Length:1 Hour) Title: Weird Facts & Stories Hiding Behind Our Tea Time: Sat 01:00 pm Location: Macon Courtland Grand (Length:1 Hour) Title: The Temporal Formal: Belle Epoque Time: Sun 10:00 pm Location: Grand Ballroom Courtland Grand (Length:2.5 Hours)
August 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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If you see this, quote post with a Westminster Gold album cover. (seeing as how I accidentally posted the same as someone else)
October 23, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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If you see this, quote post with a Westminster Gold album cover.
October 23, 2024 at 5:26 PM
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Advertise your account with just one image
Screenshot from "The Dispenser's Soda Water Guide", Jan 1909. for: 93-Piff Paff Puff. Place in a glass the white of one egg, sweet cream, 2 ounces, and whip well. Then add chocolate syrup, 1 ½ ounces. Shake well, fill with carbonated water, pour into a 12-ounce glass and serve without straws.
October 19, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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Tonight's bill of fare... or at least dinner 122 years ago. Might go for the Faisans de Boneme Rotis this time. Was looking up the artist Louis Theophile Hingre and stumbled across this menu with today's date.
Menu design by Louis Theophile Hingre for Champagne Théophile Roederer & Co. The menu is for the "Banquet de MM. les Notaires" and is dated 8 Octobre 1902.
October 8, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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Could someone go back to 1889 and grab me both the shaving mug & milk shaker shown at the bottom of the page? I'll cover the customs fees...
A screen shot of a catalog page from the Meyer Brothers Drug Co. 1889 edition. At the top is an illustration of a shaving mug decorated with flowers. At the bottom is an illustration of a shaving mug with 2 side by side sections with a shaving brush resting in the top across both. Next to it is a picture of a 'milk shaker' A large, lidded canister clamped to a countertop with a wheel crank on the right hand side. There is a decorative plume on top of the lid.
October 6, 2024 at 5:43 PM
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7 digit club...
September 17, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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Come find me next weekend at Dragon Con! I will be presenting an Antique Soda Demo on Sat at 5:30 in Courtland Grand Augusta. Find out what a 'Foxy Grandpa' from 1909 tastes like...
A screenshot from the Dragon Con app showing the listing for "Facts Behind the Fizz" to be presented at the Courtland Grand Hotel Augusta Room Saturday August 31 at 5:30pm for 1 hour. Hosted by Jason R. Merrill
August 23, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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Really enjoyed Key City this year. Here are some shots of the Antique Soda Demo from last Friday night. The handout for this demo is the "KC 2024 Soda Noir.pdf" file found at tinyurl.com/sodaformulas.
The image is a 3x4 grid of smaller pictures. They all feature a middle aged white man wearing a white labcoat, black cravat, and black nitrile gloves. The labcoat sleeves are rolled up to the elbow. He is standing behind a table loaded with brightly colored syrup bottles making soda fountain drinks.
August 15, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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Next weekend come find me at Key City Steampunk in Gettysburg, PA! I will be in the vendors room all weekend with an unparalleled collection of antique and vintage gentlemen's accessories. Friday night at 8:30 will be my antique soda demonstration. Always a great show.
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Jason Merrill with a grey goatee is wearing a white apron and pouring a reddish syrup into a plastic shot glass.
August 5, 2024 at 1:24 AM
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Post a movie from the year you turned 18
The poster for the film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" 1986.
July 29, 2024 at 1:48 AM
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Saxe used a ton of alcohol though. his "Don't Care" syrup was basically Brandy along with the sugar, citric acid, & foaming agent to make it a soda syrup.
A screen shot from "Saxe's New Guide" published in 1897. It reads: SAXE'S NEW GUIDE pg59 NO. 44. DON'T CARE SYRUP Good Brandy 1⁄2 pint Simple Syrup 1 gallon Gum Foam 1 ounce Fruit Acid 1/4 ounces Mix.
June 17, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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I remember one night the kid cut off his right arm
In a bid to save a bit of power
He got fifty thousand watts
In a big acoustic tower
June 13, 2024 at 3:54 PM
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WONDER WORKER 
½ pint Lemon syrup 
½ pint Orange syrup 
½ pint Moxie syrup (or 1 bottle Moxie Soda)
1 ounce Spirits of juniper (or Gin Substitute)
2 quarts Simple syrup (skip - not needed)

The Soda Fountain. The Dispenser’s Formulary Or Soda Water Guide. 3rd ed. D.O. Haynes & Company, 1915.
The image is a screen grab of the formula for a soda called "Wonder Worker" from the 3rd edition of The Dispenser’s Formulary Or Soda Water Guide. 1915. The text reads: WONDER WORKER: Lemon syrup, Orange syrup, Moxie syrup, of each 1⁄2 pint; Spirits of juniper, 1 ounce; Simple syrup, 2 quarts.
June 10, 2024 at 12:41 AM
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Reskeet with pic and age.
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A gentleman in a dark purple waistcoat with a gold leaf pattern & lighter purple bow tie is wearing a white apron and black neoprene gloves. He is pouring a chocolate soda from one glass to another.
May 10, 2024 at 6:44 PM
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CONPossible will be hosting the Hospitality Suite at JordanCon this Sat, April 20, from 12 to 3pm. I will be making hand crafted sodas from 100yr old formulas for attendees. Hope to see you there!
A man in a white apron and black gloves, pouring a chocolate soda back and forth between two plastic glasses.
April 18, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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Next Show! 221B Con April 12-14, 2024 at the Atlanta Airport Marriott. 221bcon.com

Both vending and doing panels on vintage etiquette, gentlemen's accessories, and of course an antique soda demo.
A hand painted drugstore showcard circa 1940 stating "You as Always Welcome Here! and you can depend upon Quick Courteous Service" sitting in a display case of cuff links. Superimposed over the image are the logos for Blackbird Finery and 221B Con.
April 5, 2024 at 5:08 PM
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These are my Avengers... (jk)
December 19, 2023 at 10:10 PM
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@funranium.bsky.social I was going through some old stock and stumbled across this...
Mens ring with the initials BBE inscribed.
November 25, 2023 at 6:00 PM