49th S.C. Bottle Club show marks huge dealer, crowd by Bill Baab COLUMBIA, S.C. – The 49th annual South Carolina Bottle Club Show and Sale last April 23 was a rip-roaring success, attracting 174 dealers and a bumper crowd of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
RENO 2020 Shootout! This friendly competition will compare and judge three particular types of bottles from anyone who would like to enter examples that they own. The three judging events will be for the ‘best’ J. F. Cutter star shield [...]
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 [...]
Passing of my friend - John “Jerry” Strubel Hi Ferdinand, Just wanted to bring to the attention of the bottle collecting community concerning the passing of my friend - John “Jerry” Strubel. Jerry, (91), died on Sunday, May 15th 2016, [...]
Saratoga Type Bottle Collectors Society The other day I received a nice letter and poster from Bob Puckhaber. Bob is son of the late Bernhard Puckhaber who published the first guide to SARATOGAS Mineral Waters in 1976. I still have my [...]
Top Saratoga "Wanted" List Update 27 August 2015 [Special from Peachridge Glass] A couple of weeks before the FOHBC 2015 Chattanooga National, I received a simple e-mail from Neil Moore from Milford, Delaware that is represented below. Good morning, I [...]
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