Presidents Message (January – February 2015)

I really cannot believe how fast time flies by. I sometimes, amusingly to myself, create arbitrary gauges of distance and time. For instance, the distance from the larger United Airlines planes at O’Hare Airport in Chicago to the smaller United [...]

Presidents Message (September – October 2014)

11 August 2014: The 2014 Lexington National has come and gone but it is still very much on many of our minds. Debriefing, accounting reports, web posts, image cataloging and the push to get an article in this issue of [...]

Figural Bitters in the Dave Kyle Collection

Dave Kyle and his Figural Bitters 03 April 2014 by Ferdinand Meyer V [Reposted from Peachridge Glass] Often, when I travel to bottle shows around the country, I am afforded the luxury of visiting some fantastic collections and meeting with [...]

The Great Morro Bay Bottle Show

2014 Morro Bay Bottle Show San Luis Obispo Bottle Society by Ferdinand Meyer V 05 April 2014 [Reposted from Peachridge Glass] I have always heard that the Morro Bay, California bottle show, put on by the San Luis Obispo Bottle [...]

2014 National Antique Bottle Show Seminars

FOHBC National Antique Bottle Show Lexington, Kentucky Seminars Tom Phillips, FOHBC Conventions Director, Sheldon Baugh and Randee Kaiser, show co-chairs, and Dr. James D. Houdeshell, seminar coordinator for the 2014 FOHBC National Antique Bottle Show in Lexington, Kentucky have arranged for six [...]

President’s Message (May – June 2014)

Spring has finally Sprung. What a winter! It is early April when I write this report and I have already been in storms in California, Kentucky and Texas this week and I see some areas will be getting tornadoes and [...]

President’s Message (March – April 2014)

This Sunday morning, the customary fire (at least this year) is present in the fire place and I watch for the first hints of morning as I nurse my coffee. I sit here waiting for everyone else (wife, grandchildren, sleep-over [...]

President’s Message (January – February 2014)

I am sitting here catching my breath and gathering my thoughts on a flight from Houston to Chicago. I’ll change planes at O’Hare for a smaller jet to Fort Wayne, Indiana so I can meet with my clients throughout the [...]

President’s Message (November – December 2013)

It is always interesting to straddle months and seasons during times of change. I started last week in the extreme heat in Houston and finished the week deep in the Sierra Mountains in Downieville, California with a morning mountain chill. [...]

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President’s Message (September – October 2013)

Can you believe it? Another great National Show goes down in the record books. My head is still spinning with all of the great events and action. My hat is off and we sincerely need to thank all of those [...]

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