September – October 2025 issue of AB&GC online for Members!

Featuring a look at history of bottles seen through one retailer's bottles over many decades, what we might hope we'd find while acquiring another collection and a look at DP Co.'s poison bottles. Also great digging, finds, photographs, amusement, ACL's [...]

July – August 2025 issue of AB&GC online for Members!

While alcohol was prominent in the bitters and medicines of the late 1800s, this time the Canyontell medicine bottle itself poses as a whiskey.  And, featuring a cure that seems full of air, learn how Starkey and Palen sold oxygen [...]

May–June 2025 issue of AB&GC online for Members!

Read this super-cool issue on beautiful German marbles. Also great digging, finds, photographs, amusement, tragedy, witches, ACL's and history—all in this new issue! Antique Bottle & Glass Collector Vol. 36 No. 3 | May – June 2025 | No. 279 [...]

Houston 24 Expo – FOHBC General Membership Breakfast Meeting

MEMBERSHIP BREAKFAST MEETING The FOHBC bylaws require that the FOHBC Board of Directors conduct a membership meeting at the annual convention. A decade ago, we had the meeting on the convention’s first day, directly after the FOHBC board meeting and [...]

President’s Message November – December 2021

As President of the FOHBC, I would like to take this opportunity to address some comments that continue to be communicated to me. READ MORE

FOHBC President’s Message January 2021

So after my last column in the November-December issue of Bottles and Extras, I was kind of hoping for a deluge of great suggestions from our fellow members but sad to say I only received one single solitary email and [...]

FOHBC President’s Message – November 2020

In my inaugural issue of Bottles and Extras, I promised a State of the Union Address in the next issue and so here is what I believe faces us as a hobby and a group. Read More

FOHBC President’s Message

Autumn always seems to be the busiest time of year for me.This is true in all aspects of life, including the bottle hobby, as many clubs host a fall bottle show. READ FULL MESSAGE

President’s Message (July – August 2018)

It’s hard to believe that this will be my last President’s message for the FOHBC in Bottles and Extras. My, has time flown by. Six years as President and thirty-six issues of Bottles and Extras with me standing on a soap [...]

May June 2018 issue of Bottles and Extras mailed 16 April 2018

Bottles and Extras Vol. 29 No. 3 | May – June 2018 | No. 237    (Mailed 16 April 2018) Features: Soyer’s Perfect Sauce Alan DeMaison 16 The Five F’s of Privy Digging and why Digging Teams Sometimes Fail Jeff Mihalik 22 George W. Meredith [...]

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