2018 Cleveland National Battle of the Bottles

2018 Cleveland National Battle of the Bottles Thursday, August 2nd 2018- 7:00 to 10:00 pm The FOHBC, at the FOHBC 2018 Cleveland National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo will hold a judged “Battle of the Bottles” competition at the Huntington Convention Center, [...]

Connecticut Yankees’ sodas documented in new book

Connecticut Yankees' sodas documented in new book By Bill Baab After penning a number of articles about 19th century soda water manufacturers and their bottles of his home state in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector magazine, William G. (Bill) Beckett [...]

2018-02-14T07:49:24-06:00February 14, 2018|Advice, Editor's Picks, History, News, Publications, Soda Water|1 Comment

Saratoga Bottle Collectors Society Members

Saratoga Bottle Collectors Society Members Attached you will find the Fall issue of The Spouter (number 103) Read Issue. I hope you can all open the attachment. If not, contact me and I will try again or just mail you [...]

How an interest that started almost 50 years ago manifested into a book on patent bottle closures – The back story to Saving the Fizz

How an interest that started almost 50 years ago manifested into a book on patent bottle closures The back story to Saving the Fizz 09 July 2017 Portrait of David Jones who collects antique glass and stoneware for Collector [...]

FOHBC 2016 Sacramento National Educational Displays

FOHBC 2016 Sacramento National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo | Educational Displays This year at the FOHBC 2016 Sacramento National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo, twenty (20) outstanding displays were presented. These included: Ken & Reine Salter • 17th-19th Century American & European [...]

FOHBC 2016 Sacramento National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo | Educational Seminars

FOHBC 2016 Sacramento National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo | Educational Seminars  Seminars | Lions Gate Hotel, Club Ballroom A & B, Friday, August 5th, 9:00 am - Noon Six (6) seminars will be presented by prominent collectors on various collecting [...]

Tommy Mitchiner inducted into the FOHBC Honor Roll

Tommy Mitchiner inducted into the FOHBC Honor Roll 03 April 2016 The FOHBC takes great pleasure in confirming that the late Thomas William "Tommy" Mitchiner, of Gordon, Georgia has been inducted into the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors Honor Roll. [...]

2015 Chattanooga National – The Displays

Labeled Jack Daniel bottles - History of Jack Daniel display   2015 Chattanooga National Antique Bottle Show The Displays: Convention Center Hall A Exceeding all expectations this year were the wonderful displays presented along the left wall of [...]

2015 Chattanooga National – Battle of Chattanooga Results

Battle of Chattanooga Bottle Competition: Chattanooga Convention Center, Ballroom H, 8:00 - 11:00 pm All Photography by Mallory Boyle unless noted The much anticipated Battle of Chattanooga bottle competition, which was coordinated and emceed by Mike Newman (Martinez, Ga.) was as [...]

Remembering Bob Harms

Remembering Bob Harms By John Panek and Ray Komorowski - 1st Chicago Bottle Club Our very own bottle hobby legend, Robert J. (Bob) Harms, died April 18 while vacationing at the home of his daughter (Dr. Terry) in Englewood, Florida. [...]

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