Jigsaw Puzzle made from a Chicago Dig

Jigsaw Puzzle made from a Chicago Dig We received this interesting e-mail and pictures from Barry Rustin thru Alan DeMaison (FOHBC Business Manager) regarding a Chicago bottle dig. I contacted Barry with a few questions, and congratulated him on the [...]

Avon Mineral Springs – the “Saratoga” of Western N.Y.

AVON MINERAL SPRINGS the “Saratoga” of Western N.Y. by FOHBC member Jack Stecher  “Grimace was the prevailing feature on the face of the new-comer when swallowing the beverage of the fountain” Back in 2005 I published an article on the [...]

Tips for Finding Antique Glass Bottles with a Metal Detector

Tips for Finding Antique Glass Bottles with a Metal Detector By Michael Bernzweig About the author: Michael Bernzweig manages metal detectors in Southborough, MA. He has written extensively on the subject of metal detecting since the mid 1980s. He has traveled [...]

2013-08-15T16:47:39-05:00August 15, 2013|Advice, Digs & Finds, Questions|0 Comments

Manchester National Photo Gallery of Displays

Displays & Displayers More pictures from the FOHBC 2013 National Antique Bottle Show in Manchester, New Hampshire. Display awards were announced this past Sunday afternoon near the conclusion of the show. Congratulations are in order to Michael George and his Stoddard [...]

Hawaii – Unidentified Objects Found! Treasure Hunting 2013

Something to look forward to in Bottles and Extras Unidentified Objects Found! Treasure Hunting 2013 Martin & Ferdinand, I wanted to follow up with you about a phone message I left regarding an article for Bottles and Extras and provide [...]

Collector Rights

Hey Ferd, I hope you are doing well, but there is an urgent and quite frightening matter that I need to discuss with you. There was a post back before the Expo that pertained to laws being passed affecting bottle [...]

Found some Charles Gardner pieces Out Pickin’

Hi Ferdinand, Please read below before you view the pictures. I was out pickin' today and scored two amazing items; both Charles Gardner Collection pieces. They are not bottles, but items I think may be a bit more rare. I [...]

2009 Pomona National Display Videos

F O H B C    D I S P L A Y    S E R I E S Alan DeMaison (FOHBC Business Manager pictured to left) has been working hard of late putting together videos of the displays [...]

Barber Bottles and my Father

Jack & Kim Hewitt – Jack is the Southern Region Director for the FOHBC Incoming email from Jack Hewitt our FOHBC Southern Regional Director: I had an interesting thing happen a few weeks ago and I thought it [...]

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