William Heiss Jr. was a leading mineral and soda water manufacturer of his time. He used his expertise as being a coppersmith to develop a Mineral Water Apparatus that he marketed broadly from his shop in Philadelphia marked with a [...]
Bottles and Extras, the 72-page + covers, full-color magazine Bottles and Extras Vol. 32 No. 1 | January - February 2021 | No. 253 (Mailed 23 December 2020) Features: The Diary of a Digger Mark C. Wiseman 16 San Diego Soda [...]
In 1807, Dyott opened a drugstore, added “M.D.” to his name, and soon became the largest dealer of what he called ‘Family Medicines’ in the country. Among his better-selling products were his Dyott’s Infallible Worm Destroying Lozenges and Vegetable Nervous [...]
Our latest addition to the FOHBC Virtual Museum Foods & Sauces Gallery is a wonderful example of an amber Shriver's Baltimore Oyster Ketchup bottle imaged by our west coast team member Gina Pellegrini. Check her pictures out, they are outstanding. [...]
Dear Federation member and fans of the FOHBC Virtual Museum: Hallelujah! It is always nice to open the door of a new gallery that has been freshly painted and set up for displaying great bottles. Today we place our first [...]
Now on the newsstands for members. 72-pages of color and covers. The best writers, stories, news, and pictures. Chasing a Good Bitters, Toothpick holders catch bottle collector’s fancy, Dorlon & Shaffer Pickled Oysters, The “Hail Mary” Holtzermann’s, The Rakes from Shooting Creek: Legit liquor dealers, [...]
With COVID-19 canceling many events, bottle shows, and public gatherings and closing the museums that many of us visit, the FOHBC has decided to open our museum doors to all without membership or fees until the end of the [...]
FOHBC Virtual Museum NOW OPEN! As some of you may have heard, the FOHBC Virtual Museum opened at midnight on 01 January 2020 when we went from our construction mode to our Soft Opening. There is no place, anywhere, where [...]
November | December 2019 Bottles and Extras Mailed to Members! 25 October 2019 Featuring, "Everything was just Peaches & Cream in Augusta." 72-pages plus covers. All color. Subscribe now online. Bottles and Extras Vol. 30 No. 6 | November – [...]
2019 FOHBC 50th Anniversary National Antique Bottle Convention | Augusta, Georgia | Prizes and Drawings Augusta Convention Center | Olmstead Hall [03 August 2019] 15 September 2019 As a bonus to show-goers and dealers, the FOHBC raffled a Jim Healy [...]
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