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September - October 2020
Bottles and Extras
FOHBC
President’s Message John O’Neill Ferdinand Meyer V FMG Design, Inc. 101 Crawford Street Studio 1A Houston,1805 TexasRalston 77002 Avenue, Bel713.222.7979 x115 mont, California 94002 fmeyer@fohbc.org
650-619-8209 itting down at my desk, on this firstJoneill@risk-strategies.com back-to-work Monday after New
Years, I conjure up a vision of a stove with lots of pots-a-cooking. s yourlabeled newlyantique electedbottle representative, wanted to firstforward thank all The kettle events hasIus all looking to the the pastupand current officers board members the hard stretchofleading to the FOHBC 2016and Sacramento Nationalfor Antique Botwork in continuing to serve the FOHBC. Coming into this position I tle Convention & Expo this August. We have a coordination conference wanted a complete understanding what itortakes the call latertoinhave the week and plan to step it upof a notch two. to Weserve are also pleased that weand locked Springfield, Massachusetts for of ourthe 2017 Nationmembership, mostinmembers would have no idea work goal Bottle andboard by themembers, time you the readcommittee this message, the ingAntique on behind theConvention, scenes by the memFOHBC Antique Bottle Convention & Expo willout have bers and2018 theirNational individual and collective group efforts to put ourbeen announced for Cleveland, Ohio. have ourusteams in place and Bottles & Extras Magazine, planWe thereally shows, keep solvent, manage our wheels inaffairs, motion.attend I suppose should start thinking the 2019 the business to thewewebsite, undertake theabout enormous efConvention in the Southern Planningthose ahead hashave many benefits. forts of the Virtual Museum,Region. and recognize who served the
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hobby in an extraordinary capacity through our Hall of Fame. It’s no
The FOHBC is also proud to say that this March | April 2016 issue of small feat. I certainly took it for granted. The Postal Service delivered BOTTLES and EXTRAS is the first to be printed in full color, which me acosts magazine, opened the envelope, I read magazine covera to only us an Iadditional $184, an issue. Thisthe change prompted few cover and then gave it towe a friend, whowill hasnotice, now become member design revisions, which hope you such asa the Table of and receives ownofcopy. I reallyheaders. gave no We thought intoquite the collecContents and his a few the section receive a few retive efforts required to put out this fine publication, all in age come of ally nice compliments on how the magazine looks andthe have Covid-19 which is further challenging to our hobby in its ability to so far in a relative short number of years. Oh, and look for a new seccarryinonthegroup social called functions. So Kudos all those that tion backevents of the and magazine “Member PhototoGallery”. This new section is dedicated to the this fine happen. photography of antique bottles and volunteer their time in making glass. Please feel free to submit your images for consideration. We have started meet work your on the May | June and hope that you I call already this paragraph President. I amissue 62, married to my will consider authoring an article for the magazine. We are here help! wife Cheri for almost 40 years, have two grown children, Justintoand
Christen. My career in the insurance and risk management business is
Within this issue of BOTTLES please read proposed a second sort of marriage, and Iand amEXTRAS, now humbled that mythe family conbylaw updates and revisions that have been marked in red. All revisions tinues our fourth generation in insurance. I am a managing director at have been approved by the FOHBC Board of Directors. These bylaws Risk Strategies Company, a Boston-based insurance brokerage and have been amended and need to be reviewed by the FOHBC membership risk management I reside in Belmont, California, a small2016 town prior to the annual firm. general membership meeting at the FOHBC Nain an area that is affectionately referred to as Silicon Valley. tional Antique Bottle Convention & Expo in Sacramento, California by an affirmative vote of a majority of all votes cast by the eligible voters I call these next paragraphs I honestly in attendance, provided that ameet copythe of Collector. the proposed changesbelieve are made in our DNA is a member switch that either iseither turned on or by it’smail just or notbythere. available to each in advance, directly timely I call itinthe either have you don’t.website. I notice the“Collector Federation’sGene.” officialYou periodical or on ittheorFederation
think it first triggered at age six when my Godfather brought me a
In news, we ahead photography the Virtual boxother of pennies andare onemoving of those bluewith pressed cardboardforbooks that Museum have regional photography labs setwas up in show theand datehope and to mint mark. I think the original goal to regions keep to bottles both in a standard and 3-dimenmestart quietphotographing while my parents and Godparents had aformat nice dinner. I sionally. This effort is being Dewas fascinated by this and spearheaded putting thembyallMuseum in orderDirector, appealedAlan to my Maison. You may have met Alan at the Virtual Museum table during the need for structure and organization while unleashing a powerful yet FOHBC 2015 Chattanooga National Antique Bottle Show last August.
unknown force in the universe that has survived in me to this day.
Federation member Alicia Booth, is heading up the nomination proBottles on the scene I wasofficers ten years old andthe outPresident, hiking cess for came the election of all when Federation including in thePresident(s), woods finding my first bottles inBusiness the Santa Cruz Mountains. Vice Secretary, Treasurer, Manager, Membership
The dead horse in the dump was just too appealing to pass up. A
few years later the local San Bruno library also had a display of old
Director, Relations Director, Conventions Director, bottles asPublic a promotion for an upcoming Bottle Show by theHistorian, PeninMerchandising Director,Club. Directors-at-Large (3), and Region sula Bottle Collectors The librarian suggested a book Directors called (4). elections occur Bottles every two Any officer and may the run rest for sucHowThese to Collect Antique by years. John C. Tibbitts, as cessive terms. This committee has prepared a slate of nominations they say is history. I probably owe them a new copy as a am sure Ifor each and isdown listedinbelow. It is important to Inote member woreoffice the pages that book. To this day can that still any recall every desiring to run for inany page in that book myoffice mind.in the Federation may file a nomination form with the Election Committee (in accordance with procedures approved by the membership and instituted by the Election Committee) At one of the bottle club meetings I met John Shroyer, one of my indicating the office they desire to run for. The deadline for filing this closest of almost forty years, who shares the same passion is April friend 1st 2016. We have seen successful campaigns by our memberfor old bottles, and whose collector Gene may be more severe, but ship before so if you want to run for a position, please let Alicia know. without a proper diagnosis by a team of professionals that’s purely You and reach her at this email address, alicia@cis-houston.org. You speculation on mya part. days we onetake another asking will be receiving ballotThese for voting so call please the time to vote.
about a bottle on Ebay, or an auction saying do you think I should President: Ferdinand Meyer V need that” buyFOHBC that (hoping for a response of “no, you really don’t Candidates Houston, Texas but all too frequently the answer is of course you should buy it). is the slate of FOHBC MyHere wife now believes rare, oneVice of kind and only one known First President: Sheldon Baughare recommended candidates fakeputnews terms. She doesn’t believe anything is rare based on the Russellville, Kentucky forth by the nominating number of(Alicia bottles You can’t even display what you have committee Booth, we have. Second Vice President: Gene Bradberry Chairperson) for 2014 so why would you- 2016. buy more? It’s a perfectly rational question asked Bartlett, Tennessee slate is being irrational put forth for collector. Honestly, I know she is right and to aTheperfectly your consideration and anyone Secretary: I amdesiring sureto she is not the only sufferingJames wife Berry or husband out there run for office may Johnsville, New York facing this dilemma. be nominated by going to the Maybe it’s time to offer another service for Treasurer: Gary to Beatty obsessive counseling our members. Could be website andcollecting printing out a addiction North Port, Florida nomination form. Then, mail or a real money maker in the long run. email to Alicia Booth, 11502 Historian: Jim Bender Burgoyne Drive, Houston, Texas Sprakers, New York I have collected Pot Lids, San Francisco Glass, Western Sodas, 77077. alicia@cis-houston.org Western Medicines, BeersVan andZant Brewery Material and Closing date for nominations San Francisco Editor: Martin I have offat midnight. collections Danville, of Pot Lids, San Francisco Glass, Westis Aprilsold 1, 2016 Indiana will Medicines, etc. Well, you get the point. I like to ern Additional Sodas,nominations Western Director: Val Berry be printed alongside theand slate then Merchandising build collections I move on to the next area of interest. My Johnsville, New York proposed by the nominating good friend Pellegrini, also a past FOHBC officer has tried to committee andLouie will be listed Membership Director: Linda nickname me Flip, resisted the new name tag.Sheppard My current in the May-June 2016 issuebut I have Sprakers, New YorkFlasks, and I ended up BOTTLES and EXTRAS alongSan Francisco areaof of interest is the Saloon with a short of eachgood friend the late Ralph Van Brocklin a large part trading withbiomy Conventions Director: Louis Fifer candidate.
of my California Stoneware Collection for his pumpkinseed and Brunswick, Ohio coffin flask collection. I also collect Wells & Hope Tin Litho AdverBusiness Manager: Elizabeth Meyer tising Signs, which were made in the 1870s and 1880s. Houston, Texas
Ferraro I have made a lot of great Director-at-Large: friendships over theBob years, all forged from Boulder City, Nevada our common interests in bottles and glass across the United States. Over the last five years I have tried to attend every National Show Director-at-Large: Steve Ketcham and enjoyed them all, seeing different parts of our great country. Edina, Minnesota Director-at-Large: John Pastor
In the next Bottles and Extras I propose to provide you, The Newissue Hudson, Michigan Members, with a State of the Union address. This will be a candid Midwest Region Director: Matt Lacy non-political sharing of data for your review. Austinburg, Ohio The data will enlighten you about the realities as to where our membership stands today, Region Director: Andrew Vuono what the future may hold, Northeast and the challenges facing the organizaStamford, Connecticut tion. I respectfully ask you the Members to consider providing your Southern Director: Hands thoughts and solutions. Right now I Region am committed toRon speaking Wilson, North Carolina with every current or past officer to obtain their opinions on the top two issues they see facing the organization and their Western Region Director: Eric proposed McGuire solutions. Remember this Petaluma, is your organization, so in closing I will California leave you with the slightlyPublic alteredRelations words ofDirector: John F. Kennedy, “ask Rick DeMarsh not what the FOHBC can do for you ask what you can do for your Ballston Spa, New York FOHBC.”
