This show wears me out and this year took the cake. When we finally returned to Houston we were tired, spent and exhausted. It was a good feeling though, the kind of satisfaction you get from working outside all day, or visiting New York City or spending Christmas with the kids and family.
Read the rest in the May | June 2012 issue of Bottles and Extras which is available to all FOHBC Members. Become a member and get Bottles and Extras.
Adam Koch always giving away free bottle information
Dazzling group of Bitters and Inks displayed on glass shelves
Examples from The Saxe Collection | upcoming Glass International Auction
Large Demijohn proudly sits for all to admire
Lots of great bottles lined up in tiers for sale
Three killer Drakes Plantation Bitters on the Jeff Burkhardt sales table
Gorgeous Flasks with a Suffolk Bitters pig at the Ed & Kathy Gray table
Ed & Kathy Gray - GreatAntiqueBottles.com
One of my favorites at the Ed & Kathy Gray sales table
Bottles tagged for sale
Nice line-up of Cathedral Pickle Bottles
Indian keeping watch over a sales table
Glass Insulators
Jason Heckler and Mark Vuono at the Norman C. Heckler Tables.
Ferdinand Meyer table display (spool cabinet) with inks and Figurals
More glass and stoneware variety
Jim Scharnagel from Gainesville, Georgia - lull before the storm