It is 27 November and I am sitting in my studio on a Monday after the Thanksgiving holiday. I am grateful and in the spirit. You see, today is the day I start playing traditional Christmas music here in the [...]
Mohawk Valley Antique Bottle Club has a Great Two Days Day 1 I am running a bit behind with my show reports because the past three weeks has been filled with bottle activities. I have been to the Rochester bottle [...]
Our moods, bottle collecting activities and general well-being are affected by weather and influenced by the climate changes, seasons and temperature. Where and how the wind blows sets our course. Yes, I know, I always seem to weave the weather [...]
This is an interesting issue of Bottles and Extras because the word or feelings associated with the color brown and amber are evident throughout. First, I write this message after Thanksgiving on 30 November. November is a brown month as many [...]
History's Corner occurs in each BOTTLES and EXTRAS issue in memory of Dick Watson - longtime FOHBC Historian Charles R. ( Dick) Watson Series initiated and coordinated by Jim Bender, FOHBC Historian November | December 2018 issue of [...]
Well… last issue I said that we would be putting full coverage of the FOHBC 2016 Sacramento National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo in the November December issue of BOTTLES and EXTRAS and we kind of did. Thirty-two pages of [...]
Rich, Mark and Brian ready for digging at Mt Vernon Glassworks. Mt Vernon Glassworks Project 16 October 2016 From the November-December 2016 issue of BOTTLES and EXTRAS. Dear FOHBC Members: Please consider opening your investigative mind and [...]
September October 2016 BOTTLES and EXTRAS mails this week! The September October 2016 BOTTLES and EXTRAS mails to FOHBC members this week! This issue features OK Plantation Bitters - The Big Boys by Ferdinand Meyer V, Savannah Bottler John Ryan’s Fame has spread [...]
Elizabeth, my granddaughter Isabella, Coco our Weimaraner and I just returned from the mega FOHBC 2016 Sacramento National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo and are finally catching our breath after almost two years of planning. We welcome that it is [...]
Official Sacramento National Convention Photographer - Gina Pellegrini 12 August 2016 The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors (FOHBC) is extremely proud and pleased that Angelina Pellegrini agreed to volunteer her time to be our official photographer for the FOHBC 2016 Sacramento [...]
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