FOHBC General Membership Meeting at the 2014 Lexington National Antique Bottle Show

FOHBC General Membership Meeting at the 2014 Lexington National Antique Bottle Show 06 August 2014 The FOHBC General Membership Meeting at the Lexington National occurred from 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm on Friday, 01 August 2014. This is our traditional event to [...]

Bottle Identification: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère

Bottle Identification: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère Dear Mr. Meyer, I am writing you in your capacity of president of the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors. I have a scholarly question. The caveat is that it's about a bottle in [...]

Wyatt Earp’s Northern Saloon and Tonopah, Nevada

Wyatt Earp's Northern Saloon and Tonopah, Nevada Covers for the last nine issues of Bottles and Extras, the flagship magazine of the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors Ferdinand Meyer V | FOHBC President As a design and image [...]

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 [...]

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Color Measurement – Latest from Michael Seeliger

Michael Seeliger (Brooklyn, Wisconsin) has been periodically updating us with his progress on his work for a color spectrophotometer for use in determining the color for a particular bottle. This is really cutting edge work for our hobby. I included [...]

President’s Message (May June 2013)

I write this report today in April and notice that snowstorms and blizzards are in the forecast for the Rockies and tornadoes are projected in advance of a major weather front in the Plains.

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 [...]

“knife-edged” Pitkins made by “that guy”

This Sunday a week ago, the annual members' meeting of the Museum of Connecticut Glass was held at the Manchester Connecticut Historical Society. One of the highlights was an outstanding presentation by Tom Haunton on 20th Century South Jersey Glass. [...]

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 [...]

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