SAD NEWS. Dan Cowman passed away according to an e-mail from Erika Nealy (Cowman), Dans daughter. This is terrible news. Just spent some time with Dan at the Houston Bottle Show as my table was next to his. Great guy [...]
McMurray Antiques & Auctions New Circa 1900 Drug Store Museum We were able to work with Terry McMurray on his full-page, inside back cover, advertisement within the FOHBC 2014 National Antique Bottle Show Souvenir Program. We didn't know about his new drug [...]
Botanic Iron Tonic Bitters trade card front - Joe Gourd Collection Botanic Medicine Company Tracking the Botanic Iron Tonic Bitters - Well, Joe Gourd has done it again with an e-mail containing a trade card showing three cats [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Winners - Manchester Display Photo Gallery Displays & Displayers + Awards Pushing out some pictures of the two displays that won awards at the FOHBC 2013 National Antique Bottle Show in Manchester, New Hampshire. Awards were announced this past [...]
Federation member James Schmidt continues to dazzle us with his writings and research with CIVIL WAR MEDICINE (AND WRITING). He also has a new book out called Galveston and the Civil War: An Island City in the Maelstrom. About James M. [...]
An incoming membership application email popped up on my radar yesterday. Under the comments section, from a collector named Greg Dean from Queensland, Australia, I read... "It would be good to have a category on the new web site for pot [...]
Marianne Dow over at the Findlay Bottle Club blog has been promoting this fellow making art with our bottles and bill-heads. We finally checked this guy out. His work is really good. Visit Old Paper Art MrCachet - Dave Dube Helena, Montana, United States [...]
In from one of newest Fed members and noted Civil War author Jim Schmidt…Make sure you visit his blog site and sign up to receive his posts. Part I of a 3-part series on “Burdock Blood Bitters” includes an 1883 letter from the [...]
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