2014 FOHBC National Antique Bottle Show Progress Report

2014 FOHBC National Antique Bottle Show Progress Report Lexington, Kentucky The final preparations for the 2014 FOHBC National Antique Bottle Show in Lexington, Kentucky are now under way. Show Co-chairs, Randee Kaiser and Sheldon Baugh, along with Conventions Director Tom [...]

Chattanooga announced for 2015 National Antique Bottle Show

August 1-3 for Chattanooga in 2015! Latest Update - 19 June 2014 [Click for Contract - Will be available last week of July 2014] Chattanooga National News 19 June 2014 - Southern Region Bottle Collage Developed 13 May 2014 - Show Logo Developed The [...]

2014 National Antique Bottle Show Seminars

FOHBC National Antique Bottle Show Lexington, Kentucky Seminars Tom Phillips, FOHBC Conventions Director, Sheldon Baugh and Randee Kaiser, show co-chairs, and Dr. James D. Houdeshell, seminar coordinator for the 2014 FOHBC National Antique Bottle Show in Lexington, Kentucky have arranged for six [...]

President’s Message (May – June 2014)

Spring has finally Sprung. What a winter! It is early April when I write this report and I have already been in storms in California, Kentucky and Texas this week and I see some areas will be getting tornadoes and [...]

President’s Message (March – April 2014)

This Sunday morning, the customary fire (at least this year) is present in the fire place and I watch for the first hints of morning as I nurse my coffee. I sit here waiting for everyone else (wife, grandchildren, sleep-over [...]

Jim Bender and his Union Clasping Hands flasks

Jim Bender and his Union Clasping Hands flasks I took a few photos this morning of some of my Union Clasping Hands flasks and thought I would pass a few on. Jim Bender (FOHBC Membership Director) These type of flasks [...]

2014 New Jersey Antique Bottle Show Report

Manville New Jersey Bottle Show by Jim Bender | FOHBC Membership Director   The New Jersey Antique Bottle Collectors Club held its 18th annual bottle show on February 2, 2014 in Manville, New Jersey. For years, this show was known [...]

2014 Lexington National Planning Field Trip

Meeting with Lexington Convention and Visitors Bureau, Director of Services, Bond Jacobs (second from left) are from left to right, National Show Co-chairs Sheldon Baugh and Randee Kaiser and 2nd Vice President Jamie Houdeshell and FOHBC Conventions Director, Tom [...]

President’s Message (September – October 2013)

Can you believe it? Another great National Show goes down in the record books. My head is still spinning with all of the great events and action. My hat is off and we sincerely need to thank all of those [...]

The devotion that so many of us feel toward the objects that we collect

Hello Ferdinand: My brother-in-law recently came for a visit and while here I showed him some of our more interesting sodas. Of course, I rattled on and gave him a brief dissertation. He later wrote this thoughtful email and I [...]

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