Reno 2022! July 28 – July 31 2022

It's hard to believe that after almost four years of planning, the FOHBC RENO 2022 National Antique Bottle Convention is here! Remember our 2020 convention was canceled due the first year Covid pandemic outbreak. Hey, if you want to get [...]

July–August 2022 Issue features Charleston’s Eli Gatchell Soda Water

Antique Bottle & Glass Collector Vol. 33 No. 4 | July – August 2022 | No. 262   (Mailed 14 June 2022. Visit the FOHBC Members Portal to read online) Features: Cheers to the Privy Double Addendum Jeff Mihalik 16 Jones’ Empire Ink–He [...]

Archiving past issues of Antique Bottle & Glass Collector

As you may know, the FOHBC is working backward and archiving and indexing all past issues of Antique Bottle & Glass Collector. The first two months of 2022 and the year 2021 are complete. No more running to the closet [...]

Tom Caniff, a great hobbyist, is gone

Tom Caniff, a great hobbyist, is gone Sad notes, compiled by Ralph Finch Tom was an impressive collector, an intense researcher, a fire department chief, a fruit jar expert, and a keeper of pets, including stuffed toys, turtles, snakes and cats—a [...]

May–June 2022 issue of AB&GC hits the newsstands!

Antique Bottle & Glass Collector Vol. 33 No. 2 | May – June 2022 | No. 261.  (Mailed 18 April 2022. Visit the FOHBC Members Portal to read online) Features: The House Had an Illness Fred DeCarlo 14 The Wisconsin Connection Michael Seeliger 35 The case [...]

The 49th Annual Milwaukee Antique Bottle & Advertising Show

The 49th Annual Milwaukee Antique Bottle & Advertising Show The Milwaukee Antique Bottle Show was held on February 6, 2022, and was a great success and was exceptionally well attended. The show was moved to a new venue, the Waukesha [...]

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Inagural issue of Antique Bottle & Glass Collector posts to members

ANTIQUE BOTTLE & GLASS COLLECTOR March – April 2022 We are excited to say that our inaugural issue of Antique Bottle & Glass Collector was mailed to FOHBC Members on Friday, 11 February 2022—four days ahead of schedule! FOHBC members [...]

The bottle digging and collecting community has lost a giant—Johnnie Fletcher

The bottle digging and collecting community has lost a giant. Johnnie Fletcher passed away on January 21 after a long battle with cancer. Johnnie was an avid and very successful privy digger, starting in the 1980s. He dug thousands of [...]

Top 25 Whiskey Display at Reno 22!

Top 25 Western Whiskey Display • Friday, July 29th, Sat., July 30th & Sun. July 31st [Showroom hours] Summit Pavilion You are invited to participate in the centerpiece Top 25 Western Whiskey Bottle Display at the FOHBC Reno 2022 National [...]

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