FOHBC Reno 2022 Souvenir Program

R E N O 2 022 FOHBC National Antique Bottle Convention JULY 28–31 2022

WESTERN REGION

RENO 2022

Welcome to Reno

Ladies & Gents, Boys & Girls!

To the Biggest Antique Bottle & Glass Convention in the “Biggest Little City in the World!”

RENO 2022

From Your Host: FEDERATION OF HISTORICAL BOTTLE COLLECTORS

A WASHOE ZEPHYR

By John C. Tibbetts

A Washoe Zephyr helped blow up the enthusiasm which started the Antique Bottle Collectors Association (of California) back in 1959. A Washoe Zephyr is a very strong, cold wind that blows down the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevadas, crosses a valley over another mountain and down into Virginia City, Nevada, with full fury.

My wife, Edith, and I were scratching for old bottles on one side of the big Comstock tailing pile just below town during one of those furious blows. The current trash dump for the town was just upwind from us and we were continually bombarded by cartons, tins, ashes, sand and dust. It was miserable, but we had struck a spot with a lot of old miniatures, Jamaica gingers, Hostetter’s Bitters, etc. Any bottle digger knows what we did; we braced ourselves against the zephyr and kept on scratching. Later, we just had to get out of that wind so we climbed the sloping side of the tailings and into the car, wiped our hands and faces off somewhat, and drank coffee from our thermos.

While in the car, we noted another car clear down on the far end of the tailings. The hood was up and there were two people standing there. We assumed car trouble and walked down to see if we could help. We were surprised to find the car running and a man and a lady heating two cans of “beanie-weenies” on the hot manifold. We were more surprised to find they were dyed-in-the-wool bottle collectors and had been so for many years. The couple were “Toot” and Dorothy Garten of Carson City, Nevada. We spent the rest of the day talking bottles, bottle digging and where and when and how and why. We and they were extremely happy to find we were not the only crazy bottle diggers in the world. Before leaving for home, I vowed I would do what I could to form a club for bottle collectors if there was enough interest. Thanks to the zephyr for blowing us into their car!

After we returned to Sacramento, I wrote to five people I had heard of who were digging in “old” Sacramento, asking them to come to a meeting at our house to see if we could form a club for bottle collectors. The next meeting we had about 30 people and at the next slightly over 50.

About this time the Sacramento Bee newspaper called us about the hobby and then came out and took photos and picked up the article they had asked me to write.

A color photo appeared on the cover of the Sunday Magazine section with the article inside. Whoo-eee, did that pick up things where that zephyr left off! We had visitors and phone calls and letters like you wouldn’t believe. The crazy bottle collectors came out of the closet.

They wanted to know how to start a bottle club and get a copy of our constitution and bylaws. They came by to see our collection and sometimes to show us what they had. It was terrific and wonderful.

Many county and even state historical societies had us give talks and show our bottles. Many good, hard-working club members and Charlie Gardner, Helen McKearin, Dick Watson, Grace Kendrick and many others made our club a success. Over the next few years, we grew to about 3,000 families from coast to coast.

‘Tis an ill wind that bloweth no good. Have fun!

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Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

A Brief History About Reno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

FOHBC Officers and Team Reno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

President’s Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Convention Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

A Western ‘Historical’ Flask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

FOHBC Banquet Speaker–Eric McGuire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Reno Shootout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Silent Auction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Prizes & Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

General Membership Breakfast Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

C O N T E N T S

Team Bowling Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Seminar Schedule, Topics & Presenters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Reno 2022 Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Virtual Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Youth Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

FOHBC Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

AB&GC–Call for Articles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Call for Historical Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Auction Price Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Map of Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Showroom Floor Plan (Summit Pavilion) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Dealers & Assistants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Souvenir Program Proofreading: Alice Seeliger

Souvenir Program Design & Layout: Ferdinand Meyer V

Reno Downtown and GSR Main Level Floor Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

FOHBC Hall of Fame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

FOHBC National Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Two New Jim Healy Jug Creations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

FOHBC Honor Roll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Top 25 Western Whiskey Cylinders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Advertising Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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A Brief History of Reno

We have been here before with the FOHBC, first in 2006 and then, again, in 2012. It’s hard to forget if you were fortunate enough to attend. I think in each convention we played up the historic Reno arch lit up above the street with “The Biggest Little City in the World” proudly displayed. A symbol of Reno’s history, the historic arch now stretches across Lake Street near the Truckee River.

Reno began as the preferred crossing point of the Truckee River, an inland river that flows west to east from Lake Tahoe to Pyramid Lake, for travelers on their way to the California gold rush of the late 1840s and 50s. With the discovery of the Comstock Lode in the nearby 4

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Virginia City foothills in 1859, the river crossing became increasingly important for the growing trade in mining and agriculture. Reno was officially established in 1868, the same year that the transcontinental railroad, which paralleled the Truckee River, reached the town. In 1874, the University of Nevada was founded as a land-grant university, and in 1885, the primary campus was built on a rise of land overlooking Reno from the north. From its inception, the university was an integral component of the young town’s identity and contributed to Reno’s reputation as a cultural center. This was reflected in Reno’s nickname, “Biggest Little City in the World,” which arose as a result of the wide range of cosmopolitan amenities in a city of its relatively small size.

Reno became a quickie divorce destination in the early 1900s, and in 1931, Nevada legalized gambling. Reno was a front runner in creating the model of destination hotel/casino gaming—a model which has been replicated throughout the world. Virginia Street, the primary north/south arterial through downtown, developed into a commercial center of moderately scaled, locally owned destination hotel/casinos and retail stores. The transcontinental Lincoln Highway (now 4th street), passed through the heart of downtown and many motor lodges sprang up on either side of the RENO Virginia Street core to support booming post-war 2022 automobile tourism. For most of the 20th century, tourism and the gaming and entertainment industries formed the backbone of Reno’s economy.

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Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors

FOHBC Officers 2021–2022

Special Note: A new slate of FOHBC 2022–2024 officers will take effect after the FOHBC Reno 2022 Convention. See July–August 2022 issue of AB&GC.

President: John O’Neill, 1805 Ralston Avenue, Belmont, California 94002, phone: 650.619.8209, email: Joneill@risk-strategies.com

Director-at-Large: Ferdinand Meyer V, FMG Design, Inc., 101 Crawford Street, Studio 1A, Houston, Texas 77002, phone: 713.222.7979 x115, email: fmeyer@fmgdesign.com

First Vice-President: Jeff Wichmann, American Bottle Auctions, 915 28th Street, Sacramento, California 95816, phone: 800.806.7722, email: info@americanbottle.com

Director-at-Large: Richard Siri, PO Box 3818, Santa Rosa, California 95402, phone: 707.542.6438, email: rtsiri@sbcglobal.net

Second Vice-President: Michael Seeliger, N8211 Smith Road, Brooklyn, Wisconson 53521, phone: 608.575.2922, email: mwseeliger@gmail.com

Southern Region Director: Jake Smith, 29 Water Tank Drive, Talladega, Alabama 35160, phone: 256.267.0446, email: syl_bottleguy@yahoo.com

Secretary: Alice Seeliger, N8211 Smith Road, Brooklyn, Wisconsin 53521, phone: 608.575.1128, email: aliceajscreative@gmail.com

Western Region Director: Eric McGuire, 1732 Inverness Drive, Petaluma, California 94954, phone: 707.481.9145, email: etmcguire@comcast.net

Treasurer: James Berry, 200 Fort Plain Watershed Road, St. Johnsville, New York 13452, phone: 518.568.5683, email: jhberry10@yahoo.com Business Manager: Elizabeth Meyer, FMG Design, Inc., 101 Crawford Street, Studio 1A, Houston, Texas 77002, phone: 713.504.0628, email: fohbcmembers@gmail.com

Magazine Editor: Ferdinand and Elizabeth Meyer, FMG Design, Inc., 101 Crawford Street, Studio 1A, Houston, Texas 77002, FM phone: 713.222.7979 x115, email: fmeyer@fmgdesign.com EM phone: 713.504.0628 email: fohbcmembers@gmail.com

Team Reno Show Chairs: Richard & Bev Siri, PO Box 3818, Santa Rosa, California 95402, phone: 707.542.6438, email: rtsiri@sbcglobal.net Treasurer: DeAnna Jordt, P.O. Box 1121 Santa Rosa, California 95402, email: jljordt@yahoo.com Displays: John Burton, email: johncburton@msn.com Seminars: Eric McGuire, email: etmcguire@comcast.net 6

Convention Photographer: Gina Pellegrini, email: angelina.pellegrini@gmail.com Youth Events: Bella Alucema, email: izzybell1220@yahoo.com Design, Advertising & Public Relations: Ferdinand Meyer V, email: fmeyer@fmgdesign.com Virtual Museum Imaging: Alan DeMaison & Ferdinand Meyer V, email: a.demaison@sbcglobal.net and fmeyer@fmgdesign.com

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE John O’Neill

FOHBC President 1805 Ralston Avenue, Belmont, California 94002 Joneill@risk-strategies.com

I am thrilled and honored to welcome members and guests to our Western Region, FOHBC Reno 2022 National Antique Bottle Convention in “The Biggest Little City In The World,” Reno, Nevada. This FOHBC event is the first National we have hosted since the Covid Pandemic changed our lives and world.

The Reno-Sparks area is the second-largest metropolis in Nevada after the Las Vegas area.

It is primarily known for its Casino and Tourism Industry. Reno claims its name after Civil War Union Major General Jesse L. Reno, who was killed in action during the American Civil War Battle of South Mountain.

Nearby historical and fun attractions include the Virginia City Mining District, which offers many original buildings from the 1860-1900 era. This area produced a vast amount of silver extracted from the Comstock Mines used to finance much of the Civil War. A great deal of bottle digging was done in that community dating back to the late 1950s and early 1960s.

However, digging today is highly restricted, and anyone attempting such must have written permission from the landowner.

This show could not happen without the dedication over several years of Team Reno. A big thanks goes out to Richard and Beverly Siri, the Show Chairpersons; John Burton, display organizer; DeAnna Jordt, Show Treasurer; Eric McGuire, Seminars; Ferdinand Meyer, design, advertising, and marketing; Bella Alucema, Youth Events; and our incredible show photographer Gina (Pellegrini) Ott. During the show, the top 25 applied-top whiskey bottles, with a combined $1 million in value, will be on display and have never been seen in a public setting before. At our banquet, our keynote speaker is Eric McGuire, who will talk about Western Glass. Eric has been a contributing author to our magazines for years and holds a position on the FOHBC Board.

Some of our other activities will be the membership breakfast, a silent auction of antique bottles, the bowling tournament, and our famous bottle shootout. We will see the best Bay City Soda Water Bottles, J. F. Cutter Whiskey bottles, and Old Sachems Bitters and Wigwam Tonic.

The Reno Show always produces a robust turnout and is guaranteed to be a great time. I bet you will find something to add to your collection. We may not have seen our long-distance friends for some time with the pandemic, so please enjoy the show and renew your friendships with a great group of collectors.

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WESTERN WHISKEY DISPLAY Never Before Seen Together Antique bottle collectors were invited to participate in the centerpiece bottle display at the FOHBC Reno 2022 National Antique Bottle Convention from July 28th - July 31st, 2022 at the Grand Sierra Resort & Casino - Crystal Ballroom. This display is designed to show the best-of-the best of the Top 25 Western Whiskey bottles known.

The quintessential bottle that represents our old west is the iconic fifth-size whiskey bottle. As the new western frontier developed, the hard-driving, hard-drinking pioneers often turned to whiskey to lessen the burden of life. As a result, many whiskey dealers marketed their product in what was termed “glass labeled” bottles—that is, appealing bottles blown in molds heavily embossed with lettering and symbols usually reserved only for paper labels. They are generally highly desired by collectors and some were even produced in different colors and crudeness that make them aesthetically pleasing. Others are quite rare as well, which makes them even more precious. The FOHBC invited possessors of these rarities to participate in a joint display at the Reno convention in a secure display area on the Summit Pavilion showroom floor.

This display is expected to attract a special grouping of bottles that will easily approach one million dollars in total value. Such a display may never happen again and, with the help of the collecting community, will provide an attraction that, alone, is worth attending the RENO 2022 Convention to witness. Because of the monetary values involved, the display will be guarded with security and other methods not publicized.

Nearly everyone who possesses these rarities understands what constitutes bottles considered to be in the “Top 25.”

However, for more information you are invited to contact the show chairman, Richard Siri, at rtsiri@sbcglobal.net or 707.542.6438. Bottles must be in the secure Summit Pavilion display cabinet from Friday 11:30 am to show close on Sunday at 2:00 pm.

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Th ur s d a y • 2 8 Ju l y 2 0 2 2 8:00 am - Noon 8:00 am - 5:00 pm 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm*

FOHBC Board Meeting Table & Chair Set-Up VIP Reception (Dealers, Early Admission, Displayers, Speakers) Registration (Dealers, Early Admission, Banquet etc) Reno Shootout Bottle Registration Reno Shootout

Carson 1 Summit Pavilion Grand Salon Grand Salon Crystal Ballroom Crystal Ballroom

Display Storage 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Summit Pavilion *Only shelving, light boxes, hardware etc.

No bottles or glass etc!

Frid a y • 2 9 Ju l y 2 0 2 2 9:00 am - 5:00 pm 7:00 am - 8:30 am 7:00 am - Noon 9:00 am - Noon Noon - 1:00 pm 12:50 pm 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm 1:00 pm 5:00 pm 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm*

Registration & Ticket Sales General Membership Meeting Breakfast Dealer Unloading & Display Setup Seminars Showroom Closed Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Dealer and Early Admission 5 to 10 minute gap between dealer and Silent Auction Starts early admission so Showroom Closed for the Day dealers can get to their tables.

Cocktail Reception FOHBC Banquet

Summit Pavilion Crystal Rms 3, 4 & 5 Summit Pavilion Carson Rooms Summit Pavilion Summit Pavilion Summit Pavilion Summit Pavilion Youth Events.

Summit Pavilion Children’s Bottle Grab Bags & Grand Salon Scavenger Hunt Crystal Ballroom

Sa t ur d a y • 3 0 J u l y 2 0 2 2 7:00 am - 5:00 pm 8:00 am - 9:00 am 9:00 am - 5:00 pm 4:00 pm 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Registration & Ticket Sales Dealer and Early Buyer Admittance General Admission Silent Auction Ends Team Bowling Event

Summit Pavilion Youth Events.

Bottle Summit Pavilion Children’s Grab Bags & Summit Pavilion Scavenger Hunt Summit Pavilion GSR Bowling Center

Su nd a y • 3 1 J u l y 2 02 2 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Noon 2:00 pm

General Admission (Dealers 8:00 am) Display Awards Announced Convention Ends

*Estimated completion time. Raffles occur throughout show hours on Saturday & Sunday.

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A WESTERN HISTORICAL FLASK

By Eric McGuire could not possibly be allotted to fully describe the life of this unusually talented man.

I only give a few interesting facts for those who are not familiar with him, and if you reside in the West, and Wm. T. Coleman is not known to you, it is obvious that history is “not your thing.” The flask he produced is about as “historical” as could be attributed to a western bottle.

Fewer men who chose to find their fortune in the gold mines of California had a greater impact on the West than William Tell Coleman, who was born to Napoleon Bonaparte Coleman and Scithia Davis Chinn on the extra leap year day of February 29, 1824, in Cynthiana, Harrison County, Kentucky. His mother died in 1832, and his father died in 1833. Raised by relatives and his younger brother, DeWitt C. Coleman, the two headed west with the first news of gold discovery—over land.

There are numerous discrepancies and poorly documented accounts regarding his early life in California. Still, it is safe to say that Coleman was an industrious soul and clearly foresaw a path to wealth. Whether he and his brother acOne of Coleman’s earliest advertisements appeared in 1850. cumulated an initial “grubstake” is not clear; Daily Alta California, September 10, 1850 however, by 1850, he was successfully running his own “general merchandise and commission business” in San Francisco.

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[above] Wm. T. Coleman & Co (star) San Francisco flask

[below] Wm. T. Coleman & Co’s. warehouse, circa 1856, located on the corner of California and Front Streets in San Francisco. (In the far right of the picture)

William T. Coleman

His brother, DeWitt Coleman, decided to move north and opened a similar but smaller business in Portland, Oregon. By all early newspaper accounts, the business success of Wm. T. Coleman, along with partner Frank M. Randell, was nothing short of astronomical. The essential key to his meteoric rise appears to have been his shrewd and effective use of ships. His adver- William Coleman had an interest in rare or unusual liquors which soon tisements in the local papers offered goods, pri- became clear as noted in this early advertisement. Daily Alta California, marily groceries, coming from all over the world. October 7, 1850.

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He would occasionally accept human passengers in those early years; however, his early shipping venture was devoted almost entirely to consumable goods. Huge quantities of groceries and liquors were sold through his wholesale warehouse, located at California and Front Streets in San Francisco.

His “California Line” of passenger ships was begun after he moved his headquarters to New York City in 1856. He was a busy man, always on the go. This resulted in the establishment of several homes for Coleman and his family. Aside from his house in Yonkers, New York, known as Beechwood and located on the Hudson River, he had three residences in California, not including a fourth that he reputedly built in 1885. The latter was a “country house” at Shasta, California. (Sausalito News, Sausalito, California, October 15, 1885) Several references have noted that his favorite abode was the smallest, located in San Rafael, California.

By 1871, Coleman returned from New York to San Francisco, again making that city his primary headquarters, maintaining the shipping business and his “California Line,” which also catered to the movement of passengers. By this time, Coleman was aware of the newly developing rail system in the West, including the transcontinental railroad, which would significantly impact his passenger, clipper-ship business. As well as investing in railroads, he became diversified by investing heavily in salmon fishing, oranges, fruit, raisins, wines, and brandy, as well as borax. The last-named commodity is the item that literally destroyed his empire. He successfully cornered the market, but the removal of a government tariff on the item shifted his economic position, thus causing his financial ruin in 1888. An amazing testimonial to his business acumen and fairness, before Coleman left this earth, he completely paid off all his debts.

Aside from the high status gained by his wealth, Coleman was also famous for his role in San Francisco’s Committees of Vigilance in 1851 and 1856. San Francisco was so fraught with lawlessness, a good number of law-abiding citizens felt it necessary to usurp local law enforcement and created their own police force and juries and judgments against those who broke the law. This system worked in a somewhat precarious way along with the official city government, which didn’t condone this quasi justice, but it seemed to have co-existed in this difficult time. Vigilante Committee hangings were not uncommon and were often staged in public, probably as a potential deterrent to “would-be” criminals.

Wm. T. Coleman decided to retire from active business on December 31, 1867, with his company re-organizing under the name of two of his trusted partners, George Platt & Lewis Newton, and called Platt & Newton. He still maintained a financial interest in the new company as a “special partner,” but moving on to new ventures was his goal. The Daily Alta California noted—”If anyone does know how to rationally enjoy life it is just such large-hearted, hard-working men as Mr. Coleman, for his competency has been as fairly earned by honorable enterprise and close application to business, as though it had been gained by the severest manual labor.” (Daily Alta California, March 22, 1868) Judging from a myriad of businesses and activities Coleman continued to indulge in, any normal person would conclude that he actually didn’t retire. Coleman was living in Yonkers at this time and remained there until late 1870 or early 1871 when he moved back to San Francisco.

After moving back, he devoted considerable time to one of his favorite real estate projects.

He took a great interest in the relatively rural town of San Rafael, which was located close to San Francisco but possessed a nearly ideal climate and country charm. Aside from his house on Mission Street in San Rafael, Coleman purchased approximately 1200 acres of undeveloped land in Northeastern San Rafael about 1871. Known as the Coleman Addition, 12

he called it Magnolia Park. Coleman built a 12-acre nursery there and began planting trees on his property, which was mostly subdivided into acre-and-a-half lots. It is reported that he planted over 10,000 trees in order to beautify his development.

“Perhaps everybody does not know who is the proprietor of the fairest part of the domain of San Rafael. It is one of our merchant princes, Wm. T. Coleman, Esq., a name synonymous with public spirit, enterprise, self-reliance, and liberty—one of the representative men of the Western Coast—a great earnest soul, doing all that he does with all his might, and strewing life’s pathway with the results of his undertakings. It was under his facile hand and open purse that the town of San Rafael has learned to grow and blossom and thrive. He found its Northern Suburbs an open field – he has made it a garden of flowers. Long and tortuous avenues meander through his domains, some through a double row of acacias, some through Australian eucalyptus, others through locust, pine and cedar.” (Placer Herald, Placerville, California, April 17, 1875) Gathering no moss, in 1873, he involved himself in regaining his old firm, previously called Platt & Newton, and re-christened it “Wm. T. Coleman & Co.” William Tell Coleman died in San Francisco on December 22, 1893, and is buried in a family vault in St. Louis, Missouri. His wife, Caroline Page Coleman, died in Oakland, California, on May 12, 1896, and is also buried in St. Louis. Of their seven children, only two reached maturity: Carlton Chinn Coleman (1859-1895) and Robert Lewis Coleman (1870-1924).

The item of specific interest to bottle collectors is the extremely rare flask with Wm. T. COLEMAN SAN-FRANCISCO, enclosing a star em- The co-partnership notice dissolving Platt & Newton and re-establishing bossed on its face. To date, there is no evidence Wm. T. Coleman & Co. Sacramento Daily Union, June 3, 1873. for why or when this bottle was produced. It is safe to say that it was made within a very tight time period. Close examination of the bottle indicates it was probably blown in Europe and possibly France. The high-quality, clear glass and solid rod pontil suggest a style not unlike French perfume bottles of the period from the 1840s to about 1870. With a possible French connection, it may have held liquor such as cognac. The small half-pint size of the bottle indicates it may have contained expensive liquor, and Coleman produced the item as a “giveaway” for a special event.

Coleman was always a leading figure in a variety of important or festive events in California, and the bottle and contents may well have been another method for him to show appreciation to many of his important friends and to garner some recognition. Coleman was a master of advertising, with nary a single day going by that his name didn’t appear in a newspaper somewhere. Hopefully, in the near future, some obscure document will be uncovered that reveals the purpose of this rare memento of California’s past.

This historically important item could have been produced within the range of two time periods, both when Coleman’s headquarters were located in San Francisco, between 1850 and 1856, or between 1870 and 1888. The last date is when the firm of Wm. T. Coleman & Co. was finally dissolved. These two periods represented when Coleman resided in San 13

Francisco. To be sure, he maintained a number of other branches, but it is assumed that he would have blown SAN FRANCISCO into the bottle only if he was located there at that time.

Coleman shipping “trade cards,” produced in the late 1850s. The cards are a big deal among collectors, with most in the $400 to $1,000 range.

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FOHBC Banquet Speaker Eric McGuire

RENO BANQUET

Come relax with the FOHBC and your bottle friends and enjoy a cocktail from 5:30 to 6:30 pm before the FOHBC Banquet on Friday, July 29, at the GSR Grand Salon. A cash bar will be available for your favorite beverage.

During the FOHBC banquet in the Crystal Ballroom, Eric McGuire will be our featured speaker. Eric has been a long-time fixture in the world of bottle collecting, having been bitten in 1960. His interest began when digging was the only way to acquire the bottles he preferred—those with a Western origin. He would have it no other way since it was also the hunt that was part of the attraction of acquiring new finds.

Eric’s curiosity soon found him consulting various libraries and other archival sources to learn something of the history of his finds. He soon began sharing this information with other collectors.

He is a lifelong resident of California and was raised in Marin County, which makes up the North and coastal side of the San Francisco Bay. Because of his proximity to the city of San Francisco, he spent much of his free time digging in the sandy soil of that amazing city—a true Phoenix that arose from the promise of riches in the gold rush of 1849. This instant city brought with it the vitreous treasures that Eric so energetically sought in his younger years. Now, at 79 years of age, the shovel is used sparingly. Still, there are far more opportunities to find bottles uncovered by others, and there are even greater opportunities of researching the history of those old containers. As a result, Eric continues to author articles about various and sundry bottles that have essentially been cut off from their place in history as forgotten artifacts from our past.

After testing a few academic pursuits, including geology and business administration, he finally chose the field of geography, receiving BA and MA degrees at San Francisco State University. This led Eric to environmental planning, where he worked for most of his career, primarily in domestic water supply. He is now retired, and, beside the world of bottle collecting, he loves to indulge in family genealogy, photography, travel with his wife, Lisa, and visit with his family, which numbers eight children and a growing number of grandchildren. And, he says, don’t forget backcountry hiking. Eric will give a slide show account of some of his experiences interspersed with pictures that capture moments in time and are related to bottles...a program of interest to a small group of people...us bottle collectors!

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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-type whiskey fifth, Bay City Soda Water Co. bottle and Old Sachem Bitters and Wigwam Tonic. The merits of each bottle will be judged by a panel of veteran collectors experienced with each type. Each bottle entered into the competition will be given a unique code that represents the owner, so the judges will not know the identity of the owner until after final judging. Limit three bottles per category per person.

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GROUP 1: BAY CITY SODA WATER BOTTLES

The Bay City Soda Water Company was formed under the laws of the State of California in December 1870, with stock amounting to $100,000. It was the first incorporated soda water company in California. On April 27, 1872, the company trademarked its unique-styled bottles to deter imitators. Several mold and color variants are known so it will be very interesting to see what has been found in this family of Bay City soda bottles. With that in mind, this competition will truly be based solely on the aesthetic qualities embodied in each example. Color, condition and other characteristics of the glass will be the merits that will guide the judges to their decision of a first, second and third place winner. As is nearly always the case with antique bottles, some real surprises may emerge from the submitted entries, and this is what we are hoping to see. We urge anyone who has an example that they think is special to share it in a grouping that may never be witnessed again.

GROUP 2: J. F. CUTTER FIFTH WHISKEY BOTTLES

Just as with the Bay City Soda, the second ‘shootout’ will be with a decidedly western bottle with a similar historical beginning. The J. F. Cutter bourbon bottles were initially documented with a protective trade mark issued by the State of California on April 15, 1870, although the registrant, John F. Cutter, was actually a resident of Louisville, Kentucky when the trade mark was registered. Cutter worked closely with his San Francisco agent, Edward Martin, in attempting to corner the Cutter brand whiskey market. Much has been written about the brand and legal troubles that entangled it with the J. H. Cutter trade marks. It is safe to state that this whiskey was far more popular than soda water and many more examples and mold variants of the bottle were produced over the next three decades, but they all kept with the general theme of the registered trade mark. Some beautiful examples of this bottle have been found over the years and it will be exciting to see a representative grouping entered into this competition.

GROUP 3: OLD SACHEM BITTERS AND WIGWAM TONIC

This figural bitters barrel is a favorite among collectors. With a great name, the bottles come in a stunning array of colors. The label stated that it was “From an old Indian recipe in possession of the family of the proprietor for upwards of a century is now offered to the public as one of the most healthy and wholesome beverages extant and as a tonic is unsurpassed. Sold by principal grocers, druggists and hotels throughout the union. Endorsed by a professor at Yale College.” George Goodwin began manufacturing patent medicines in the 1840s at 76 Union in Boston. Around 1850, he and Dr. John O. Langley of Langley’s Bitters became partners and, in 1854, moved to 99 Union. By 1857, the firm was named Geo. C. Goodwin & Co., and had taken in William B. Hibbard as a junior partner. Goodwin retired in 1859 and his son, Charles C. Langley, and Hibbard ran the business. In 1863, they moved to 38 Hanover. Eventually the company became one of Boston’s largest wholesale drug firms. We will see some great examples in this category.

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WELCOME BIDDERS! Bid during the convention on 50 to 100 lots displayed at a secure area on the showroom floor.

Consign a bottle or related piece to our Silent Auction which will be held during showroom floor hours on Friday & Saturday 29 July to 30 July. Auction ends Saturday at 4:00 pm.

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10% consignment fee. 10% buyers fee. Minimum value on items $100.

Consignment fees on items that sell for over $2,000 will be charged at 7½%.

Items over $4,000, charged at 5%.

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Prizes and Drawings

Raffle: The FOHBC will be raffling a Jim Healy Reno 2022 commemorative stoneware jug [see page 89]. Tickets will be $2 each or three for $5. Play to win! See the jug at the front FOHBC tables.

Silent Auction: A second Jim Healy Reno 2022 jug will be in the Silent Auction [see page 89]. See the jug at the front FOHBC tables.

Drawings: A $1,000 donation has been given to the FOHBC Reno 2022 Convention from the Reno 2022 kitty to support a series of drawings during the public portion of the show on Saturday and Sunday. Vouchers will be given to the lucky winners to be spent at the show. Drawing Times: Saturday and Sunday every hour during show hours. The prize will be a coupon to give a dealer towards the purchase of a bottle. The dealer will then turn the coupon in to the front FOHBC desks for redemption for cash. There will also be a $100 prize (show gift certificate) announced at the banquet also donated by American Bottle Auctions.

WAKE UP! Annual FOHBC General Membership Breakfast Meeting Friday morning, July 29th, 2022 Crystal Rooms 3, 4 & 5 on the Casino Level. 7:30 am to 8:30 am. Early Birds can arrive at 7:00 am for Buffet.

This event is specifically for current and paid-up FOHBC members only and will be at no cost to attendees. Donations accepted! We encourage you to come and be part of the FOHBC by participating in this event, our once-a-year General Membership Meeting. Get the latest news on the Federation, the Virtual Museum and our hobby. You will be able to join the FOHBC, or renew membership prior to the breakfast.

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RENO 2022 TEAM BOWLING EVENT Saturday Evening, 30 July 2022, 7:00 to 9:00 pm In conjunction with the FOHBC Reno 2022 National Antique Bottle Convention Ok all you antique bottle people, it’s time to team up for the FOHBC Reno 2022 Bowling Event at the GSR Bowling Center!

Five per team whether it be bottle clubs, regions, collecting groups or just friends. Family members welcome. $25 per person for lane cost. Reserve your team now. Prizes and fun! Enjoy some serious family fun at the recently updated 50-lane GSR Bowling Center. Come try your skills on their all-new lanes. Some of the Bowling Center highlights include 50 Lanes, BESX Automatic Scoring System featuring Mad Games, You Toons, Signature Grids, Bowling Plus, and Facebook Game Connect, Blacklight Bowling featured every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night, 6 Lanes of HyperBowling–turn your lane into a ‘pinball-style’ arcade game, Professional Instruction (by appointment), Pool Tables and Shuffleboard. Contact Richard Siri, rtsiri@sbcglobal.net or Ferdinand Meyer V, fmeyer@fmgdesign.com

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present a variety of fascinating educational seminars at the FOHBC Reno 2022 National Antique Bottle Convention. We have a distinguished group of seminar presenters organized by seminar coordinator Eric McGuire.

Friday is the day the seminars will be held, four in all, from 9 am until 12 noon, GSR Carson Rooms on the Casino level. Some are simultaneous. Seminars are open to FOHBC members and the public.

Listed on the next pages are the seminar topics, the presenters and the room where these educational seminars will take place.

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Morgan Oyster Bed Bottle Finds + John Shroyer GSR Carson Rooms - Carson 1 & 2, 9:00 am, Friday Morning, 29 July 2022 John Shroyer is a native Californian born in Santa Monica and raised in Belmont, 25 miles south of San Francisco. He has lived on the San Francisco Peninsula since the age of 10 and currently lives in Redwood City for the past 30 years, where he and his wife, Jane, raised three sons. Since 1977, he has worked in real estate sales on the Peninsula and works for Golden Gate Sotheby’s International in San Carlos.

John says he was bitten by the “bottle bug” in 1968 at the age of 12. When John was in high school, at age 14, he met a friend in his PE class who found out that John was a bottle collector. His friend mentioned that he and his family also collected bottles that they would find out on the tidelands in the Bay while they were duck hunting. His friend wasn’t specific exactly where in the tidelands, but, after many questions, John discovered the approximate location of their hunting grounds. The keywords for John were “oyster shells.”

The bottles his friend described finding were mostly whiskey fifths lying in the mud. When John was finally invited to his friend’s parents’ home to see his father’s collection, John could not believe what he saw! They were actually picking bottles out of the mud, such as Gold Dust Whiskeys, JH Cutter whiskeys, Phoenix whiskeys, and more! It was a literal museum of rare whiskey bottles. It took him a while to figure out where the location of these treasures was, but he did.

Early in the 1970s, he discovered a huge pile of oyster shells across from one of the local sloughs. The only way to reach them was by boat, so John got his father and rowed over to the island at low tide in their canoe. Upon stepping out, he saw the neck of a bottle sticking out of the mud. Low and behold, it was a clear Gold Dust whiskey fifth—his first bottle from the San Francisco Bay mud. From that day on, John would visit the site multiple times a year and always came home with some treasure. He still visits the island and still finds bottles. It has been a lifelong hobby and passion that he shares with his family. He never knows what they will find, and even though the treasures he finds are few and far between, the thrill remains.

John’s talk will mainly be about the Morgan Oyster Beds and those who raised oysters in these areas. He will share what he has found over the last 48 years and why the bottles were preserved in this location beneath the oyster shells.

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Marbles + Jeff Wichmann GSR Carson Rooms - Carson 3, 10:00 am, Friday Morning, 29 July 2022 Jeff Wichmann founded American Bottle Auctions in 1993. What began as a parttime project grew over the following years and is now the only antique bottle auction on the west coast. A native Californian, Jeff has collected antique bottles for over 50 years. What first was called Pacific Glass Auctions in 1993 changed to American Bottle Auctions in 2001. They specialize in the appraisal, brokering, consigning, and auctioning of antique bottles and glass.

Over the past 27 years, Jeff has personally researched the history, evaluated the condition, and estimated the value of tens of thousands of items. Aside from his auction-related duties, he is often called upon to appraise the value of antique bottles. Jeff’s collecting interests include baseball, bonsai, marbles, stamps and coins, and a host of other pursuits.

Jeff’s bottle photography is loved by many in the business. His work is seen in Kovel’s Antique Bottle Price Guide, Warman’s Antique and Collectible Price Guide, and Bottles

by Michael Polak, among others.

His was the first bottle auction house to provide full-color, glossy catalogs sent to collectors at no charge. This was a major benefit to collectors because the true color of an antique bottle is a key factor in assessing its value. Next, he launched the first online antique bottle auction. Jeff’s accomplishments include auctioning a “Cassin’s Grape Brandy Bitters” for $155,000, possibly the most ever paid for an antique bottle at auction.

Numerous collectors use his book Antique Western Bitters Bottles as a reference for these highly sought-after bottles. He has appeared on television shows, including Cash and Treasures, a Travel Guide channel, and has been a guest speaker at numerous events. He has written many articles on bottle collecting. His website americanbottle.com provides loads of information and pictures on bottles and today’s hobby.

Jeff has had a strong interest in glass marbles for many years. He will help enlighten glass collectors on some of the nuances of this special field so closely connected to antique bottles.

Grace Brothers Brewing Company + John Burton GSR Carson Rooms - Carson 3, 11:00 am, Friday Morning, 29 July 2022 John Burton will be discussing the history of the Grace Brothers Brewing Company. A major force in the brewing industry, Grace Brothers was originally established in Santa Rosa, California, in the late nineteenth century and later expanded its operations throughout the West. John’s collection of historical photographs, bottles, cans, advertising and memorabilia from Grace Brothers is unparalleled.

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John C. Burton is a bar management consultant in northern California. He assists bar owners in setting up and furnishing new establishments, aiding fairgrounds and other organizations in reviewing and revamping existing drink service policies and procedures, providing curriculum development for vocational bartending schools across the United States and consulting for caterers and Sonoma County wineries, etc.

Today, John Burton is a member of the United States Bartenders Guild and serves as the Educational Director for the State of California Chapter of USBG. He was also instrumental in starting the San Francisco Area Chapter of the Guild.

In addition to his business interests, Burton is former President of the Northwestern Antique Bottle Collectors Club, on the Board of Directors of the 49er Chapter of the Beer Can Collectors of America, and is an active supporter of local museums and historical organizations, and their activities. Following years of diligent study and collection, John Burton is the leading authority on the Grace Brothers Brewery (1897-1966) Santa Rosa, California. Burton’s collection of bartender guides, beer, whiskey, and saloon memorabilia are rated as museum quality and has been viewed by members of the Antique Road Show and California Historical Society.

Dr. Charles Craig, Dr John Henion, and Hulbert H. Warner: Their connections, lawsuits, competition, and eventual business demise. + Michael Seeliger GSR Carson Rooms - Carson 1, 11:00 am, Friday Morning, 29 July 2022 This seminar will cover the initial development and success of Dr. Craig’s formula and the marketing and sales of his other various formulas.

We include Dr. Craig’s failures of his businesses and the sale of his original business to Warner.

We’ll discuss their working relationship, Craig’s departure from H.H. Warner & Co. and his unsuccessful attempts to revitalize his numerous product lines with Dr. Henion. We’ll explore the relationship between Dr. Craig and Dr. Henion, and “Dr. Henion’s Sure Cure for Malaria” packaged in a cobalt blue bottle with the Tippecanoe-style lip.

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We’ll also formalize the multiple theories about the lawsuits and trademark wars between Warner and Craig and demonstrate and show examples of the multitude of great bottles the two produced.

Michael Seeliger is from Brooklyn, Wisconsin and has collected and collaborated with Mike and Kathie Craig and their late father, Jack Craig, to amass the largest and most complete Warner collection ever seen. Michael has written two books on H.H. Warner and contributes articles to AB&GC magazine on the Warner and Craig empires as well as our bottle collecting hobby. He currently serves as 2nd vice president of the FOHBC and has been nominated to serve as President for 2022 -2024.

RENO 2022 DISPLAYS Ammonia Utility Bottles – David Hall California Mini Jugs – Ronald & Jeannett Barnes Demijohns – Alan Henderson Food Bottles – Lou Pellegrini Labeled Western Whiskeys – Richard Burgarella Miniatures – Ronald & Jeannett Barnes Prescription Bottles from Henry W. Davis Druggist Circa 1800s – Brian Bingham Reno Brewing Company – Russell & Kitty Umbraco Small Town California Whiskeys – Rick Siri U.S.A. Hospital Department Bottles – Henry Guillen Top 25 Western Whiskey Cylinders – Non-competitive Display S.S. Central America – Non-competitive Display

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Ballot Box at front FOHBC tables.

Best in Show and Most Educational ribbons and plaques will be given.

Announcement of the winners will occur on Sunday, July 31st between Noon and 1:00 pm.

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Thinking back to Flip Book Animation, it might remind some of us of early attempts to make an object or thing come to life.

According to Wikipedia, a flip book or flick book is a book with a series of pictures that vary gradually, from one page to the next, so that when the pages are turned rapidly, the pictures appear to animate by simulating motion or some other change. Flip books are often illustrated books for children, but may also be geared towards adults and employ a series of photographs rather than drawings. Flip books are not always separate books, but may appear as an added feature in ordinary books or magazines, often in the page corners. Software packages and websites are also available that convert digital video files into custom-made flip books.

Can you imagine finding a great bottle back then and really wanting to share it with your far away bottle friends? I guess you could illustrate the bottle from every angle or take a lot of sequential pictures. Then you just make your flip book. Easy, right? Well, we found a better way with 36 spectacular rotating images in high definition captured by our outstanding photographers. All this and more at the FOHBC Virtual Museum.

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Children’s Bottle Grab Bags Sat. & Sun., July 30th & 31st The FOHBC will provide approximately fifty (50) bottle grab bags for children ten and under during the General Admission hours of the show on Sat. & Sunday.

Each bag will have an antique bottle that was hand blown or machine made, in good condition and embossed. There will also be a “special” grab bag with a better bottle each of the two days so bring your child to the front FOHBC registration desk area of the GSR Summit Pavilion and ask for a bottle grab bag. Limit one bottle grab bag per child.

The FOHBC photographer, in some cases, if available, will take a photograph of the child opening the bag or playing bingo with permission from the parent or guardian. All children must be accompanied by an adult. Let’s support the next generation of bottle collectors!

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Bottle Scavenger Bingo Saturday, July 30th The FOHBC will encourage children from ages 8 on up to participate in an organized scavenger hunt at the GSR Summit Pavilion antique bottle showroom floor.

The FOHBC scavenger hunt organizers will prepare a list defining specific items, which the participants will seek to complete all items on the list, without purchasing them. Participants may work in small teams, although the rules will encourage individuals to participate. The goal is to find all or most of the items on the list. Awards will be presented on Saturday between 4:30 and 5:00 pm. Please register at the front FOHBC desk area.

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony GSR Summit Pavilion Friday, July 29th, 12:50 pm Watch the ribbon-cutting for the Reno 2022 National Antique Bottle Convention with Richard & Bev Siri, DeAnna Jordt, John Burton, Bella Alucema, Eric McGuire, Elizabeth & Ferdinand Meyer and other Team Reno members marking the official start of the bottle show. The event will start promptly 10 minutes before the doors open for dealers and early admission attendees.

Angelina Pellegrini Ott, photographer, grew up in a family full of active long-time members in the bottle-digging community. Born and raised in the California Bay Area, Gina has inherited her grandfather’s and father’s love for bottle digging and collecting.

She looks forward to continuing the family tradition by being part of the FOHBC community and the beautiful and fascinating hobby of collecting antiques. Gina is honored to be able to capture the moments of this year’s national convention and hopes to add to her growing collection of treasures.

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WANTED! Irresponsible collectors willing to pay reasonable prices for: Attractive, bubble-filled and pontiled snuff jars, pretty snuff jars or unusual snuff jars Ralph & Janet Finch, 34007 Hillside Ct., Farmington Hills, Mich. 48335.

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Ralph & Janet Finch, 34007 Hillside Ct., Farmington Hills, Mich. 48335 (248) 476-4893 or (810) 305-1368 or rfinch@twmi.rr.com or janloik@yahoo.com

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Provenance Lost The Perrine’s “Blue Bloods” in Philadelphia Whiskey San Francisco Glasshouse Disaster

Membership includes our bi-monthly 72-page plus covers magazine, Antique Bottle & Glass Collector, National Show VIP Access Rates, FOHBC Virtual Museum Full Access Pass, Bi-Monthly Newsletter, Access to online FOHBC Auction Price Report, Access to FOHBC website Members Portal for member list and archived historical information, free classified ad with membership and so much more!

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Antique Bottle & Glass Collector Our editor, staff and designers eagerly await helping you in any possible way.

We do the layout and design!

Please consider telling us about your collection or someone else’s. Tell us about your latest digging or picking adventure.

Write a fictional bottle story. Tell us about an area or component of antique bottle and glass collecting that you find interesting. Every bottle has a story. Tell us about your favorite medicine man, merchant, or proprietor who is related to our bottles or about a glasshouse. Write an auction or show report. Tell us about a club outing, or maybe a visit to a glass museum. Maybe it is something you have learned in the hobby or have concerns with. Really, the sky is the limit. Don’t be shy. Young or old, new to the hobby or a veteran, please unmask that author that is hiding inside!

Thank You! To submit a story, send a letter to the Editor, or have comments and concerns about Antique Bottle & Glass Collector, please contact the Editor, Elizabeth Meyer at fohbcmembers@gmail.com

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CALL FO R HISTO R ICAL IMA G E S The FOHBC, led by board member Michael Seeliger, has started a major new initiative to preserve our history.

We would like your assistance in locating potentially long-lost images before it is too late as they could be forgotten forever. We are looking for photographs, either in black and white or color, of the great collections, collectors, bottle shows and displays of yesteryear. Our goal is to gather, enhance and index this material digitally and make it available to our members and collectors for generations to come.

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We prefer images in digital format, jpg or pdf format, or original photos that we will scan and archive, or return.

Please specify. The highest resolution possible. Please caption each image. If you know of anyone who may have some of these images, like club historians, or old collectors, please let them know or provide contact info for them. We are also looking for older bottles books to scan and archive on our web sites. Thank you.

Michael Seeliger N8211 Smith Road Brooklyn, Wisconsin 53521 mwseeliger@gmail.com 608.575.2922

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$575 August 2017 Heckler Auction #154 84: “General Washington” And Bust – “E Pluribus Unum / T.W.D.” And Eagle Portrait Flask, Kensington Glass Works, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, 1820-1830. “Firecracker” Blue aquamarine with a strong olive tone, sheared mouth – pontil scar, pint; GI-14 (light exterior high point wear).

Bill and Betty Wilson collection.

26: “General Washington” And Bust – “E Pluribus Unum T.W.D.” And Eagle Portrait Flask, Kensington Glass Works, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, 1820-1830. “Firecracker” Medium red amber with a strong olive tone, sheared mouth – pontil scar, pint; (light exterior high point wear). GI-14.

Dr. Timoth Shuttle collection.

$15,690 September 2020 Glass Works Auctions #121 251: “General Washington” And Bust – “E Pluribus Unum / T.W.D.” And Eagle Portrait Flask, Kensington Glass Works, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, 1820-1830.

“Firecracker” Medium amber with a strong olive tone, sheared mouth – pontil scar, pint; (light exterior high point wear). GI-14. Dr. Gary and Arlette Johnson collection.

$15,690 September 2020 Glass Works Auctions #121 251: “General Washington” And Bust – “E Pluribus Unum / T.W.D.” And Eagle Portrait Flask, Kensington Glass Works, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, 1820-1830. “Firecracker” Medium amber with a strong olive tone, sheared mouth – pontil scar, pint; (light exterior high point wear). GI-14.

Tremont Labeth collection.

$65,520 February 2019 Heckler #180 215: “General Washington” And Bust - “E. Pluribus Unum / T.W.D” And Eagle Portrait Flask, Kensington Glass Works, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1826-1840. Medium cobalt blue, sheared mouth - pontil scar, pint; (light exterior high point wear). GI-14 Known as the “Firecracker Flask”, this iconic piece is both beautiful and historically important. Fine condition with bold embossing. Ex Edmund and Jayne Blaske collection, Dr. Charles and Jane Aprill collection.

Firecracker GI-14

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SUMMIT PAVILION

Dealers, early admissions, show officials and general attendees name tag badges must be worn before entering the Summit Pavilion. There will be no giving/sharing of nametag badges to individuals not listed on a sales table contract. Anyone found in the show area without a proper badge will not be allowed to remain.

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Dealers & Assistants Location

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Dealers and Displayers are listed in alphabetical order by the primary dealer’s last name.

List may not be totally accurate due to late table assignments after the printing of this souvenir program.

American Bottle Auctions

Sacramento, CA

C2 I J

Balke, Kim & Judy

Orangeville, CA

SW E F G

Barber, Ed & Tami

North Bend, WA

B1 E

Barnes, Ron & Gary [Displays 5 & 6]

Chico, CA

Bava, Steve & Terri

Antioch, CA

Becker, Rocky & Oscar Moen

Puyallup, WA

Bell, Max

Auburn, CA

A1 L

Bernkopf, Eric & Debbie

Ogden, UT

B1 I

Bingham, Brian [Display 4]

Oceanside, CA

Bonner, Laura & Vin Maietta

Anderson, SC

SW B

Brisson, Cactus Joe & Brent Van Deman

Buckeye, AZ

C2 N

Bryant, Mike & Dixie

San Diego, CA

D1 F G

Burgarella, Richard [Display 2]

Santa Rosa, CA

C2 E

Burton, John

Santa Rosa, CA

C1 L

Buys, Christian & Dan Bell

Grand Junction, CO & Auburn, CA B1 B C

Campiglia, James & Rich Littlefield

Deadwood, CO & Littlefield, NV

D1 M N A1 F E1 J K L M

E2 B D2 D

Commacho, Daniel

E2 O

Craig, Michael & Kathie

Campbell, CA

Decker, Denny & Larry Peterson

Sedona, AZ

DeMaison, Alan [Virtual Museum Imaging]

Painesville, OH

Dennis, Jim &Julie

Dufor, OR

A2 J K

Diederich, Elmer & Jan

Big Timber, MT

NW I J

Dotson, Richard & Rick Hall

Needles & San Carlos, CA

E1 H I

Driver, Perry & Pat

Live Oak, FL

D2 M

Edde, Guy

Sparks, NV

A2 H

Edward, Ken & Mike Henness

Sutter Creek & Ione, CA

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SW I J K

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Egorov, Gary & Mike Egorov

Fresno, CA

B2 O P

Fahrenbruch, Michael & Joni Nugent

Reno, NV

SW O P

Forbes, Jerry & Helen

Big Sur, CA

Garfinkle, John & Marley Murray

Reno, NV

Gildea, Chuck & Allan Pollard

Laguna Hills & Long Beach, CA

Gregory, John & Frank

Glendora, CA

SW H

Guillen, Henry & Cecelia [Display 10]

Twentynine Palms, CA

C1 J K

Hadley, Pam

San Pedro, CA

D2 O P

Hall, David & Pinky [Display 3]

Wilmington, CA

Hartman, Stephen

Redding, CA

Hendricks, Pete & Shannon

Federal Way, WA

Henderson, Allen & David Sisson

Santa Rosa & Palo Alto, CA

Holibird, Fred [Displays 11, 12, 13]

Reno, NV

Hollibaugh, Ralph

Redding, CA

Hooper, Jeff & Jovy

Carlsborg, WA

Ikeda, Jerry & Eileen

Sacramento, CA

Jacobs, Jay

Kenwood, CA

A1 H I

Johnson, Jeff & Bob Lane

Parker & Pueblo, CO

A1 D E

Johnson, Tom & Clayton

Washoe Valley, NV

Kalinowski, Ed & Emily

Rocklin, CA

D1 D E

Keating, John & Iwona

Shelton, WA

B2 E

King, Jeff & Roberta Franklin

Igo, CA

E2 L

Koch, Roger & Jack

Yorba Linda, CA

A2 P

Koolery, Georgia & Sylvia

Nanaimo, BC, Canada

B1 H

Lake, Mike & Jessy Knutson (49er ABC)

Foresthill, CA

A1 J

Lambert, Lou & Leisa

Sebastopol, CA

C2 F

A1 A C2 A B C D1 H

E2 C NW M N C2 D E2 M N SW M N D2 N

D2 L

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Larson, Mike & Jim Johnson

Bellingham, WA

A2 0

Lines, Tom & Susan

Indian Springs, AL

B2 D C2 G H

Littlejohn, Terri & Mike Fiori Luthi, Bobby & Guy

San Jose, CA

B2 D

Malanowski, Mike & Divina Brown

Albion, NY

D1 C

Marreh, Dick & Jack Lucas

Rocklin & Concord, CA

C1 1

Mello, Steven & Stan Sherstobitoff

Paso Robles CA & Nelson BC Can.

Meyer, Bud

Castro Valley, CA

E2 P

Meyer, Patrick & Cheryal

Auburn, CA

A2 I

Meyer V, Ferdinand & Bill Ham

Houston, TX & Lakeport CA

Miller, Karen & Michael

Peoria, AZ

Nelson, Mark & Ron Fowler

Kirkland & Rochester WA

Nichols, Bill

Riggins, ID

C1 J H

Parry, Jack & Samantha Collins

Kingman, AZ

E1 D E

Paxton, Jerry & Ken

Bend, OR

A2 E F

Pellegrini, Lou & Bonnie [Display 7]

Los Altos, CA

Polak, Mike & Steve

Long Beach, CA

D1 J K L

Puckett, Lane & Michele

Virginia City, NV

C2 L M

Quinn, Roger & Jill

Paso Robles, CA

C2 K

Ritz, Frank & Laurel

Healdsburg, CA

B1 J

Rivera, Larry & Kathy

Freemont, CA

B2 A B C

Rogers, Dennis & Tom Spellman

Upland, CA

C1 A B C

Ronald, John & Gary Antone

Petaluma & Livermore, CA

Rothermel, Joe & Terry

Auburn, CA

Schuler, John & Anthony Taylor

Munden, NV & Brownsville, CA A2 A B C

Siri, Beverly

Santa Rosa, CA

B1 K

Siri, Richard

Santa Rosa, CA

B1 M N

Siri, Rick & Deloras [Display 8]

Santa Rosa, CA

B1 L

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A1 N NW K L A2 L M N

B1 F G B2 L M N

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Table C1 D E

Southworth, Mike & Chuck Erikson

Upland & Rocklin, CA

Spalding, Steve & Chris Buys

Ashland, OR & Grand Junction, CO B1 D

Swiechowicz, Ross & Fred

Easley & Anderson, SC

SW A

Taylor, Randy & Brian Cleghorn

Chico, CA

E1 F G

Thompson, Jay & Therese

Lakewood, CO

Tischler, Dean

Sparks, NV

A2 G

Tucker, Rich & Kathy

Newport Beach, CA

A1 G

Umbraco, Russell & Kitty [Display 9]

Reno, NV

B1 A

Van Loon, David & Tina Cronin

Leeds, UK

C1 F

Vick, Charles & Jim Biuin

Richmond & Lawrenceville, VA

D2 C

Vollmer, Marty & David Jackson

Lexington, SC & Greensboro, NC

D1 I

Wambolt, Merleen & Gene

Sparks, NV

Weaver, Mark & Gary

Kailua-Kona, HI

A1 B

Weaver, Alan & Jamie

Sedalia, MO

A1 C

Westfall, Larry & Lance

Poway, CA & Kuna, ID

Wichmann, Jeff & Dennis Fox

Sacramento, CA

Don Wippert & Dar Durda

Conoga Park & Oak Park, CA

D1 A B

Yount, Don & Linda

Ventura, CA

D1 D E

B2 I J K

B2 G H

SW C D C2 I J

FOHBC 2012 National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo (Grand Sierra Resort Summit Pavilion Show Start) Photograph Scott Selenak

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2020 The 2020 FOHBC Hall of Fame award was given by the FOHBC Board of Directors to Willy Van den Bossche, Schoten, Belgium. The formal presentation at the Reno 2020 National Antique Bottle Convention did not occur as the convention was canceled due to the Covid-19 Pandemic.

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2021 The 2021 FOHBC Hall of Fame award was given by the FOHBC Board of Directors to Ferdinand Meyer V, Houston, Texas. The formal presentation at the Syracuse 2021 National Antique Bottle Convention did not occur as the convention was canceled due to the Covid-19 Pandemic.

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In 1980, the Federation of Historical Bottle Clubs, in conjunction with its subsidiary, the National Bottle Museum, created the bottle collector’s Hall of Fame.

Nomination and induction into the Hall of Fame honors significant and enduring contributions to the bottle-collecting hobby. Descriptions of activities and achievements are gathered by the nominator(s). Distinguished services to the hobby are noted and documented. Successful candidates are then officially inducted into the Hall of Fame. All documentation is bound and filed in the FOHBC’s archives. The following pages summarize the accomplishments of these honored collectors. Note: Descriptions accurate (or current) as of time of induction.

1981 - Helen McKearin In recognition of her outstanding literary achievements in the field of research and writing, resulting in the publication of comprehensive reference books and periodicals on the subject of American glass and bottles. She co-authored American Glass with her father, George S. McKearin.

1983 - Charles Gardner Known as the “Father of Modern Day Bottle Collecting,” he was the link between past greats in the hobby, such as Stephen Van Rensselaer and George and Helen McKearin. He was a master collector for 45 years, stimulating the hobby’s growth to what it has become today–a vibrant collecting community filled with camaraderie and adventures.

1985 - Edmund R. & Jayne Blaske The Blaskes were dedicated collectors and researchers in the field of historical flasks. Teachers of many young and new collectors, they were popular banquet speakers, as well as active supporters of many local clubs, the Federation of Historical Bottle Clubs (now Collectors) and the National Bottle Museum in Ballston Spa, New York.

1985 - John C. Tibbitts Founder and first president of the first U.S. bottle club: the Antique Bottle Collectors Association of California. The club eventually had a national membership of more than 250 persons representing 23 states and was the model for the formation of many others. He was the first to edit a club newsletter. It was called The Pontil.

1985 - Harry Hall White A great bottle archaeologist, his excavations of glasshouses and research of public libraries produced sound data that was used by authors such as Kenneth Wilson and George McKearin in writing books that enriched the knowledge of glass collectors. “Harry Hall White is the outstanding pioneer in this field of research and investigation,” McKearin wrote in American Glass, published in 1941.

In November of 1926, his story on Early Pittsburgh Glass Houses was featured in the magazine Antiques to which he was a frequent contributor for more than two decades. Mr. White was born in 1884 and died in Shelbyville, Indiana, at the age of 60 in April 1944.

He was buried in Cleveland, Ohio.

1987 - Paul L. Ballentine A collector who became an authority on Midwestern glass, he was a noted author, speaker, collector, club founder, educator and friend. He will be remembered by members of a hobby that he promoted, preserved, advanced and loved. He was ably and lovingly supported by his wife, Mary.

1987 - Dr. Cecil Munsey, Ph.D Dr. Munsey was a bottle collecting pioneer noted for significant contributions to the organized hobby, not the least of which was his 1970 book, An Illustrated Guide to Collecting Bottles. He also authored The Illustrated Guide to the Collecting of Coca-Cola. He was 66

a skilled researcher, writer and editor.

1988 - Bernard C. Puckhaber He helped popularize the collecting of “Saratoga-type” mineral water bottles by writing and publishing a book, Saratogas in 1977. He helped further the educational aims of the Federation of Historical Bottle Clubs (now Collectors) and was instrumental in establishing the National Bottle Museum in Ballston Spa, New York.

1989 - George S. McKearin His commitment to bottle collecting resulted in extensive research and development of two major books with daughter Helen–American Glass and Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass. He spoke extensively throughout the United States and Europe and was consulted by major museums, collectors and auction houses. His unequaled early glass collection sold at auction in 1931-32, being dispersed in collections across the U.S. His figural (historical) flask identification chart remains the singular means of describing each specimen.

1990 - Jean Matthews Garrison She lived the FOHBC slogan: “The Federation of Historical Bottle Clubs (now Collectors) strive to promote, foster and encourage all activities toward the betterment of bottle collecting.” She became national chairman of the Federation in 1980 and served as public relations chairman for eight years. A life member of the Federation, Jean was active in no fewer than seven bottle clubs. Sam Fuss, in 1990 the Northeast Region chairman (now called director) said in nominating her to the FOHBC Hall of Fame, “She was like an auto spark plug getting things started and finding proper people to finish the job, a vote for Jean is a vote for America, motherhood and apple pie!” She did not live to enjoy her hobby’s ultimate honor, passing away in her sleep at Walter Reed Army Hospital on March 16, 1990.

1992 - Dr. George Herron He became a member of the original bottle club (in Sacramento, Calif.) in 1965 and two years later, “Doc” and his wife, Ruth, were among the original charter members of the Iowa Antique Bottleers established in 1967. He retained membership and leadership in that group and the hobby until his death. He began a regular column in Old Bottle Magazine called “Herron’s Hunches” in July of 1989.

1993 - Stephen “Peck” Markota The Federation’s first honorary director, Peck and his wife, Audie, dug, cleaned and collected bottles and researched, wrote and taught others about them. He helped found the Federation and later the Markotas published a book called Western Blob Top Sodas.

1993 - Verna L. Wagner Her tireless efforts in organizing the first national bottle show—the 1976 EXPO in St. Louis—set a standard of excellence. She was an officer and ambassador, in person and in print, for her local club and Federation and guided its growth, made lots of friends, and loved every minute of it.

1994 - Harold G. “Hal” Wagner His vision and chairmanship of the first national show gave lasting strength to the Federation and hobby. The Federation was not financially able to follow through on his suggestion to hold a national show in St. Louis during the nation’s Bicentennial Celebration in 1976. He volunteered to use his own money, to be reimbursed after show profits were collected. It was the crowning achievement in his three decades of local and national leadership.

1995 - Alice Creswick She took up the formidable task of documenting fruit jars and authoring The Red Book of Fruit Jars, among other publications, for a quarter of a century. She authored six editions of the Collector’s Guide to Old Fruit Jars, more commonly known as the Red Book, bringing to light more than 3,000 varieties of fruit jars.

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1995 - John C. Fountain A bottle-collecting pioneer, he operated the first bottle shop (in Sacramento, Calif.), was the first bottle wholesaler, wrote articles and co-authored three books about bottles. He also published the National Bottle Gazette, one of the first publications geared to the hobby.

He always saw to it that a full page was available for Federation use–free of charge.

1996 - Carlyn Ring Early collector and historian who amassed what was believed to be the most complete bitters collection, she wrote For Bitters Only, which became the primary reference of bitters bottle collecting. She later collaborated with California collector Bill Ham in publishing the massive Bitters Bottles book.

1997 - Doc Ford Considered one of the chief ambassadors of the bottle hobby, for 30 years he traveled the country supporting shows and displaying his collections, making many friends in and for the hobby.

1997 - Richard “Dick” Watson Author of the first major book on bitters collecting, Bitters Bottles (1965), setting a standard for all the bottle books that followed, he later published a supplement to the book (1968). His service to the Federation came at a time when leadership was greatly needed.

He and his wife, Elma, amassed outstanding collections of bitters and Saratoga waters. He later served as the Federation historian and was a long-time member of the board of directors.

1998 - Dr. Burton Spiller Giving lectures and writing articles, putting on programs and sharing his vast knowledge, Dr. Spiller worked tirelessly to promote our hobby.

1999 - Howard Dean His literary contributions and work with the Federation, the National Bottle Museum and bottle clubs have made a lasting and enduring impact on the hobby. His activities continued even into his 90s.

2002 - John Eatwell One of the giants of the hobby, he was the Federation’s first chairman (now called president), designed the organization’s first logo, and was the first to suggest the possibility of holding a national show. He was an active member of the Antique Bottle Collectors of Colorado since 1967, serving as its president. He was famous for his collection of Pike’s Peak flasks and co-authored (with David K. Clint III) the comprehensive and beautifully illustrated landmark book, Pike’s Peak Gold, in 2000.

2002 - Bob Ferraro Bob was president of the Federation from 1977-79, and was a collector since the mid-1950s. He built outstanding collections of figural bitters, eastern whiskeys and Nevada bottles. He co-authored, with first wife Pat, The Past in Glass (1963) and A Bottle Collector’s Book (1964). He continued to serve the Federation (first vice president 2008-14) and director at large (2015). He passed away in 2017.

2002 - Elma Watson The perfect helpmate to husband and Hall of Famer, Dick Watson, she was an important leader in the Federation, serving as treasurer for many years. She was co-chair of the 1994 National Show in Cherry Hill, N.J., and helped establish and arrange bottle exhibits at the Wheaton Museum and assisted with the establishment of the National Bottle Museum in Ballston Spa, New York. She was an important contributor to her husband’s books—Bitters Bottles (1965) and Supplement to Bitters Bottles (1968).

2003 - Norm & Junne Barnett Early Federation members, the Barnetts specialized in fruit jars. In 1972, Norm joined Roger Emory of Hagerstown, Indiana, to 68

organize the Midwest Antique Fruit Jar and Bottle Club. Norm served as president for all but 10 years of its existence and was show chairman at the same time. Junne served as club newsletter editor for 30 years, retiring in 2006. She did the souvenir program books for the FOHBC 25th anniversary show in Cherry Hill, New Jersey (1994) and the Nashville, Tennessee Expo (1996).

2007 - Bill Ham Avid bottle collector and author of numerous articles on historical glass, he collaborated with Carlyn Ring to produce the massive Bitters Bottles, as well as the Bitters Bottles Supplement. He also contributed to the revised Whiskey Bottles of the Old West. He is always willing to share his vast knowledge and has given many talks on his favorite subject to various organizations. Bill is also co-author or Bitters Bottles Supplement 2 published in 2020.

2008 - Betty Zumwalt She researched and co-wrote Spirits Bottles of the Old West with her first husband, Bill Wilson. They later published Western Bitters and 19th Century Medicine in Glass (1971). She was an active member of the first bottle club–the ABCA of California. She was instrumental, with Bill and Dick Hansen, in drawing up the first draft of the Federation bylaws. After parting with Bill, she researched and published Ketchup-Pickles-Sauces, 19th Century Food in Glass (1980). It has become the standard for this division of bottle collecting.

2008 - Tom Caniff Since 1995, Tom authored The Label Space (complemented by the photographic skills of wife, Deena) in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector. From 1999, he authored Fruit Jar Rambles in the same magazine. He entered the bottle collecting world in 1975, became active in Midwest collecting circles and served a term as president of the Jefferson County Antique Bottle Club in Steubenville, Ohio.

Tom served a two-year term as co-editor of the Federation newsletter (1978-80), was the Northeast Region newsletter editor from 1981-83 and served as editor of the Federation’s annual newsletter contest in 1995. He was vice president and president of the national Jelly Jammers between 1990-93. He is the recognized authority on the various Flaccus family companies and their food-packing competitors along the Ohio River. Tom passed away in 2022.

2008 - Junior Carl Sturm Completing his 19th straight year as a member of the FOHBC board of directors and his third term as president of the organization, Carl freely gave his time and himself for the betterment of the hobby and fellow collectors on a local and national scale. He became editor of The Federation Glassworks newsletter in 1988 and played a key role in the acquisition of Bottles and Extras, the magazine having been privately published by Scott Grandstaff and Kitty Roach, who gave it to the FOHBC as a gift. Carl’s favorites among his own collections are cures, half-pint pictorial flasks, black glass and tobacco tags.

2008 - Jim Hagenbuch After an accidental start (through marble collecting) landed him into the bottle-collecting hobby in the early 1970s, Jim Hagenbuch has become an authority on such diverse collectibles as pottery pigs and historical flasks. After the Firestone Tire and Rubber Plant at which he worked for 14 years closed its doors, he became a full-time bottle dealer to earn a living for himself, his wife, Janice, and daughter, Jessica. After Old Bottle Magazine and another publication went out of business in 1983, he decided to publish Antique Bottle & Glass Collector and the first issue came out in May 1984. It was an instant hit with collectors, and has become a forum for topics relating to bottles around the world. In 1986, he started Glass Works Auctions, selling reasonably priced, high-quality, full-color catalogs so potential buyers could see what they were bidding on, at the same time giving collectors options to obtain bottles not often seen. His catalogs have become collectors’ items.

2009 - Johnnie Fletcher A founder and several-times president of the Oklahoma Territory Bottle & Relic Club, Johnnie has served as editor of Oklahoma Territory News since the club was founded in 1987. In 1991, he published Oklahoma Drug Stores; in1994, he published the first edition of his Kansas Bottles 1854-1915; in 2006, he published the second edition of Oklahoma Bottles, and is working on a St. Joseph, Missouri, bottle reference book. He won FOHBC awards for best newsletter and best story in 2003. He was nominated for inclusion on the Federation Honor Roll, but board members voted him Hall of Fame status instead because of his important contributions to the hobby.

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2011 - Bill Baab A collector of antique bottles since 1969, Bill joined the Federation in 1996 and a few years later volunteered to become Southern Region editor when Mary Jane Ferguson was forced to resign because of illness. His goal was to improve the quality of FOHBC club newsletters by urging more historical research. His regional reports were designed to contain news of interest to all bottle collectors, leaving out items of interest only to member clubs. He updated the FOHBC Hall of Fame and Honor Roll lists. He also collected information to be used in sketches of the FOHBC presidents. His suggestion that errors of fact in stories published in Bottles and Extras be corrected in the following issue, thus raising the Federation’s credibility with members, was adopted. He also designed a style book for regional editors, following guidelines in The Associated Press Stylebook. Bill proofreads all stories and President’s Messages carried in Bottles and Extras. He also proofreads copy in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector, the National Fishing Lure Collectors Club Gazette, and Ralph Finch’s target ball newsletter On Target! In 2009, he inaugurated a series of state-by-state bottle collecting histories which continue today. He resigned as Southern Region editor in mid 2011. Bill was given President’s Awards from Ralph Van Brocklin (2004) and John Pastor (2006). Bill and his wife, Bea, self-published four books on Augusta bottles. He retired as outdoor editor and sports writer from The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle in 2000 after 36 years. He still edits the newspaper’s Friday fishing page each week.

2012 - Jack Sullivan Author of an incredible number of bottle and pottery-related stories, Jack Sullivan’s name has been a familiar one to collectors for many years. He has written extensively for collector publications in the U.S., England, Australia and Canada. A resident of Alexandria, Virginia, since 1965, he writes frequently for Bottles and Extras, the Ohio Bottle Club’s Ohio Swirl newsletter and the Potomac Pontil, the online publication of the Potomac Bottle Club. He is a member of both clubs. He also has written three self-published books on whiskey containers and other collectibles. Jack also maintains two online blogs devoted to aspects of collecting and history—“Bottles, Booze and Back Stories,” and “Those Pre-Prohibition Whiskey Men.” His collecting interests include glass and ceramic whiskey containers, whiskey collectibles, breweriana, hillbilly items and paperweights. Jack holds B.A. (1957) and M.A. (1960) degrees in journalism from Marquette and a PhD in international relations from American University (1969). He is married to Paula Boyer Sullivan and is the father of two sons, John, an icthyologist at Cornell University, and Brian, an entomologist with the U.S. Forest Service in Louisiana.

2012 - Warren Friedrich Warren was born in Southern California in 1954, the son of a World War II barnstormer and his University of Southern California-educated wife. Seeking a better environment for their only child, they set their sights on Nevada City, a tiny rural community in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and put down roots. While his parents worked, young Warren began to explore the area, spending his days miles from home, digging up artifacts. While his friends were spending hot summer afternoons in the coolness of a movie theater, Warren was picking his way through dark tunnels of long-abandoned mines. As he grew into adulthood, Warren continued to seriously collect bottles, amassing a modest collection of western bitters. He began traveling to bottle shows, meeting many like-minded people.

He joined the local Mother Lode Antique Bottle Club, then the Federation, and in 1993 co-founded the Downieville Antique Bottle Show. He has authored articles for Antique Bottle & Glass Collector as well as Bottles and Extras. He has helped put on local shows and has a keen interest in encouraging a younger generation to get active in the hobby. Years of research led to the 2010 publication of the book, “Early Glassworks of California,” with revisions made in 2011.

2013 - Gene Bradberry In 2010, the FOHBC was in trouble. Internal squabbling was pushing the organization away from being the paternal parent of the hobby. Its future was bleak. In stepped Gene Bradberry as president, a job to which he was no stranger. He’d also served previously.

But this time it was different. A retired Memphis, Tennessee policeman, he quickly laid down his brand of law and, as a result, the FOHBC arose, like the phoenix, and headed in the right direction. Ed Provine, Gene’s long-time good friend and fellow collector, in his letter of nomination, pointed out that many collectors know of Bradberry’s dedication and hard work for the Federation. He joined the FOHBC in 1969 and quickly became active behind the scenes. He served as 2nd vice chairman (1971-72), chairman (1972-74), President (as chairmen became) (1988-94), Membership Director (1994-2000), Expo 2004 show chairman, 1st vice president (2004-06), Membership Director (2006-10), President (2010-2012) and Director at Large (2012-2018). He also found time to serve his Memphis Bottle Collectors Club and was show chairman. Gene passed away in 2017.

2013 - Alan Blakeman Worldwide fame, at least in the antique bottle collecting hobby, long preceded the publisher of British Bottle Review magazine.

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Through that medium, Blakeman has become the European spokesman and watchdog for the hobby. His magazine editor, Guy Burch, felt it was high time his boss received recognition from his peers. His peers unanimously agreed. The fact that Blakeman is a Brit did not matter. Other non-Americans have been honored by the FOHBC. “Anyone who knows Alan well will realize that money does not motivate him,” Burch said in his nomination. “He is simply in love with bottles and the related fields of pot lids and salt glaze stoneware (he was once a potter).” Based at Elsecar Heritage Centre in South Yorkshire, in addition to publishing the magazine, Blakeman organizes four auctions and four bottle and related packaging antique fairs per years. He is author of eleven books on the subject and publisher of three others.

2015 - Ralph Finch FOHBC Board members didn’t have to ask Ralph what he had been doing to promote the hobby of antique bottle collecting since he became involved nearly 50 years ago. His articles featuring bottles and well-known collectors in the field number more than 500 and have appeared in many of the hobby-related journals. In 1969, following his discovery of more bottle-bug-bitten people in his native Detroit, he played host in his apartment to a meeting that resulted in the organization of the Metropolitan Detroit Antique Bottle Club.

In 1994, he founded and published On Target! It is a newsletter geared to those who love and collect the glass spheres and it also led to Ralph building a collection that’s become “the largest and most important collection ever amassed.” Highly respected, Ralph, 75, and his expertise moved into the ketchup bottle world. He and his collection of some 1,800 have been featured in at least two TV documentaries. That he has a sense of humor can be found in many of his stories. Ralph has earned numerous awards, including a Distinguished Service Award (1969-1977) from his home club, a Journalism of Excellence Award from the Ohio Bottle Club as well as the 1981 Best of Show Award from the Genessee Valley Bottle Collectors Association for his target ball display. In 1979, he became a charter member of the National Bottle Museum Society and is a supporter of the museum in Ballston Spa, New York.

2016 - Jeff Wichmann Jeff Wichmann is a California native who has parlayed his vast knowledge of antique bottles and glass into a full-time, related business called American Bottle Auctions. His was the first auction house to provide full-color, glossy catalogs sent to interested collectors at no charge. He also launched what is believed to be the first online antique bottle auction. In 2013, Jeff was inducted onto the FOHBC Honor Roll, but given his increase in antique-bottle-collecting-related activities, including financial support of the Federation, the board of directors voted to move him up to the organization’s highest honor level. Photography of old glass is one of his strong points. He also shares his knowledge on his web site americanbottle.com. In 1999, he published The Best of the West - Antique Western Bitters Bottles, a book containing information of value to collectors of that genre.

2017 - Charles & Mark Vuono It’s hard to believe this father-son duo wasn’t nominated to the FOHBC Hall of Fame years ago because of their continuing contributions to the antique bottle hobby in general and the world of historical flasks in particular. Had it not been for his wife Grace’s love of all things antique, Stamford, Connecticut’s Charles Vuono might not have gotten out of his car and entered an antiques store, wondering why his wife was taking so long, and found himself checking out a historical flask. Of course, it wasn’t that simple, but such trips eventually led to his purchasing of and fascination with early American glass and his building a collection of historical flasks second to none in the world. He wasn’t satisfied to just place a bunch of beautiful flasks on a shelf, but he thirsted for the stories behind each.

And he satisfied that thirst, thanks to the availability of like-minded, pioneer collectors of his era who were pleased to share their early research with the latest enthusiast. Charles’ son, Mark, happily joined his father in their adventures to not only collect and document the stories behind the flasks, but also the early glass works that manufactured them. His father shared his knowledge with everyone who expressed an interest and, since his passing, Mark continued this tradition until his untimely death in 2020. To this day, thanks to his stories published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector magazine, as well as personal contact with collectors, his knowledge continues to inform the hobby. Mark’s passion has rubbed off on his son, Andrew, whose time in the limelight will come.

2018 - Richard Allen ”Dick” Roller Fruit jar enthusiast Richard Allen “Dick” Roller’s legacy continues to stay alive and well 20 years after his untimely death at age 67 in 1998. Historical material on fruit jars and their makers that Roller netted by years of tough research before the Internet Age is still being used by collectors and writers such as FOHBC Hall of Famer Tom Caniff, who continues to give Roller credit for facts outlined in Caniff’s monthly Fruit Jar Rambles in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector magazine. Like many others in the hobby, Dick was glad to share his new-found information, most of which corrected and/or eliminated erroneous stories that had been around for years.

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“When Dick started collecting and studying fruit jars, he was appalled by the conjecture, hearsay and inaccurate material in the fruit jar books that had been published,” said the late Vivian “Granny” Kath. “He decided then and there to do some serious research into the history of glasshouses and the jars they made.” Roller’s contributions are still to be found in the Fruit Jar newsletter, Fruit Jar Clearing House and New Fruit Jar Newsletter, but collectors really benefited from The Standard Fruit Jar Reference he published in 1983. Its information remains valid today.

2018 - Richard T. Siri For someone whose brother lit the fuse that sparked an interest in collecting historical bottles, Richard Siri has come a long way.

The first chapter in his story notes that his brother, Ted, was working on a road construction project in Willits, California in the mid 1960s and an 1890-1900 dump containing a pile of early Western whiskey bottles was uncovered. Fast forward to the present day, supported by his wife, Beverley, Richard, 77, is known for his extensive Western bottle collections having amassed one of the most complete Western bitters bottle collections, as well as extensive collections of whiskeys, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters and USA Hospital bottles, among other things. He is always willing to share his knowledge on his favorite subjects and that knowledge has found a public place inside many books, articles and exhibitions about antique bottles. He has held several offices within the Federation, most notably that as president in 2008. Richard co-chaired the FOHBC 2012 Reno National Antique Bottle Expo and the most recent, FOHBC 2016 Sacramento National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo. He is also a major supporter and an active member of the Northwestern Bottle Collectors Association. In 2009, Richard Siri first brought forth the concept of developing the FOHBC Virtual Museum. He now serves on the museum Board of Directors and he, along with his wife Beverley, is a major financial contributor to the museum.

2020 - Willy Van den Bossche Willy Van den Bossche is one of our hobby’s most distinguished individuals who was previously inducted onto the FOHBC Honor Roll in 2003. Born in Belgium in 1943, Willy became an industrial engineering graduate in 1967. He decided to specialize in glass technology, working two years as a chief plant engineer in an Antwerp bottle manufacturing industry in his native country. Naturally, this led to his collecting European antique bottles. From 1971 until his retirement in 2003, Willy worked as a chief patent examiner in the field of glass technology at the European Patent Office in Holland where he searched more than 4,000 glass patent applications from all over the world. In 2001, he penned his first major reference work, Antique Glass Bottles – Their History and Evolution (1500-1850).

The scholarly work, was self-described as “A Comprehensive, Illustrated Guide with a Worldwide Bibliography of Glass Bottles.” The 440-page book is illustrated by color photos of 770 European bottles, jars, and seals from his private collection. A second major reference work, Bibliography of Glass: From the Earliest Times to the Present, was published in 2012. Its 3,426 titles in 347 pages capped 10 years of research and was published in the English, French, German and Dutch languages. An updated digital edition with 4,210 titles was published in 2019. Not only authoring those works, during his life-in-glass history he built a 4,200-book personal library containing all the significant literature devoted to antique glass and glass bottles written in all languages. He is a member of several international associations dealing with the history of glass including the prestigious glass committee of the International Council of Museums. Today, he enjoys his retirement in his native country.

2021 - Ferdinand Meyer V Ferdinand Meyer V is a native of Baltimore, Maryland, and has a BFA in Fine Art and Graphic Design from the Kansas City Art Institute and School of Design. Ferdinand is the founding Principal of FMG Design, a nationally recognized design consultation firm, and is a passionate collector of American historical glass specializing in bitters bottles, color runs, and related classic figural bottles. He is married to Elizabeth Jane Meyer and lives in Houston, Texas with their daughter and three grandchildren. The Meyers are also very involved in Quarter horses, antiques, and early United States postage stamps. Ferdinand is the past 6-year President of the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, past Vice-President, and current Director at Large. Ferdinand is the director of many FOHBC projects including the FOHBC website, social media, magazine merger, the redesign of Bottles and Extras to Antique Bottle & Glass Collector and is one of the three founding members of the FOHBC Virtual Museum. Ferdinand has been on the national show chair teams for many years and is responsible for the design, look, and theme of these events along with the FOHBC design standards. He has written extensively for antique bottle and glass magazines and designed and put together Bitters Bottles Supplement 2, a 475-page volume of bitters bottles and related ephemera. He is also the creator of Peachridgeglass.com, an immense website, and resource for glass collectors encompassing over 50,000 images and thousands of blog posts. The Meyers’ collection was featured on the televised series Extreme Collectors.

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FOHBC National Events

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Why are you here? That’s an easy question, but the answer may not be. You might be here because of a chance to buy quality bottles for your collection. Or you might be here to visit with friends. Or it may be a combination of both answers, with a few personal reasons thrown in. Whatever the reason, the facts remain that you are happy to be here, and you plan to make the most of it.

Before 1976, when the Federation of Historical Bottle Clubs (as it was then known) held its first national show in St. Louis, antique bottle shows were strictly local or regional, attended mostly by collectors and members of the curious public who resided within those locales.

The FOHBC now conducts the biggest antique battle and glass event of the year using a three or four-day convention and expo format.

Let’s take a look at some of the past shows leading us up to the FOHBC Reno 2022 Antique Bottle Convention.

1976 National Antique Bottle & Jar Exposition – St. Louis, Missouri There is no doubt this show set the standards for those to follow. There were 140 outstanding displays of bottles and fruit jars, many of which had never been in the public view; 280 sales tables, and 4,000 collectors. Hal Wagner was chairman and Jerry Jones co-chairman of the event. The program featured articles by some of the legends of the hobby, including Helen McKearin, Alice Creswick, George Herron, William E. Covill Jr., Dr. Cecil Munsey, Dick Roller, John Wolf and Paul Ballentine. Ken and Shirley Asher, Old Bottle Magazine publishers, devoted 17 pages to photos of the displays, unfortunately, all in black and white, because color was expensive to print back in those days. There was a surprise awaiting visitors—a commemorative Expo bottle in the shape of a scroll flask with the Federation’s distinctive eagle on one side and crossed flags on the other. How many of these bottles sold during the Expo still exist?

1980 National Antique Bottle-Jar Exposition – Rosemont, Illinois The St. Louis extravaganza was a tough act to follow, but show chairman Ken Sosnowski and co-chairman Jim Hall did their darnedest and, in the opinions of those who were there, succeeded. There were 330 sales tables and 70 displays...the latter including a Hutchinson bottling display by Bob Harms and Sean Mullikin. Demonstrations on how Hutchinson bottles were actually filled were held every two hours. The 96-page program included articles by Betty Zumwalt, Bob Ferraro and Clevenger Glass Works’ Jim Travis, among others. Souvenirs included a commemorative paperweight to display owners, a miniature stoneware jug to those attending the banquet and suitably inscribed log cabin bottles in cobalt and amethyst made at the Clevenger factory which sold for $20 apiece.

1984 Antique Bottle, Jar & Insulator Exposition – Montgomery, Alabama After the two previous shows were held in the Midwest, the sunny South finally got a chance to shine and highlighted insulators on the cover of its 78-page program. Chairman James Robbins called the show “my dream come true.” Feature articles were written by Bernie Puckhaber (Saratogas), Dick Bowman (Insulators) and Dennis Smith (Pioneer Glass Works), among others. The latter also found time to put together an outstanding exhibit on Celery Cola (on which he is still THE authority). There were 32 exhibitors and 204 dealers listed in the program. There also was a heat wave as one might expect in the Deep South during the August show dates so visitors and hosts alike built up lots of sweat equity. One specially made quilt was raffled (and brought $3,400) and the other was auctioned (for $1,600). Profits from the two plus auction of a one-of-a-kind Federation bottle ($325) were donated to the Verbeck House/National Bottle Museum in Ballston Spa, New York.

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1988 Antique Bottle & Jar Exposition – Las Vegas, Nevada Show chairman Lou Pellegrini and his crew of volunteers “hit the jackpot,” according to comments from many of those who attended the Federation’s fourth Expo. There were 285 dealers set up on 365 tables and there were 53 displays. Show-goers likened the atmosphere as comparable to that of the St. Louis Expo and, while there were a few glitches, a bulk of the comments were positive.

Bob Harms had his traveling Hutchinson bottling machine there, while other displays ranged from Alex Kerr’s target balls and go-withs to a display of historical flasks. There was something to please just about everyone. There was no mention of Expo souvenirs.

1991 Bottle & Advertising Show – Memphis, Tennessee Display of a pair of $40,000 bottles owned by Frank Brockman was one of the highlights of the show at the Memphis Cook Convention Center. One was the Northbend-Tippecanoe Cabin and the other the sapphire blue Columbia-Eagle flask. “He brought them in from California at my request and we used them in our pre-show publicity,” said show chairman Gene Bradberry. “I borrowed the artwork for the full-color, slick-paper flyer from Norm Heckler and used it with his permission. We had 200 sales tables and (Atlanta collector) Bob Simmons handled some great displays. Heckler, Jim Hagenbuch and Dick and Elma Watson were among well-known collectors in attendance.” Bradberry’s idea at the time was to create a national show every year. “There were still those who wanted an Expo every four years so we compromised and had the national shows every year between the Expos.”

1992 Antique Bottle & Jar Exposition – Toledo, Ohio Show chairman Adam Koch and his Ohio Bottle Club volunteers had to get used to hearing exclamations of “Holy Toledo!” from excited visitors at the show at the Seagate Centre. A bulk of the comments from show-goers was highly positive. The program was the thickest ever, 110 pages counting the covers, with features by Ralph Finch, Bill Agee and Stanley and Isabel Sherwood. There were a bunch of specialty group meetings taking place, too—the Jelly Jammers and those who liked fruit jars, Saratoga Waters, painted label sodas, poisons, whimsies, glass knives, milk bottles and infant feeders. There was a chance for early buyers to get into the show in advance of the rest of the crowd and this did not sit well with many. But as one dealer among those manning a record 550 sales tables put it: “those people were there to buy and they did.” There were 60 displays, all outstanding.

1993 National Advertising & Bottle Show – Richmond, Virginia Somewhere in the Federation board of directors records, there is mention of someone who probably was suffering from bottle show withdrawal pains suggesting that instead of waiting another four years for an Expo to roll around, why not hold annual national shows.

This Virginia show was the first of many and it was a good one. “The show was great and went off without a hitch,” said Federation Chairman Gene Bradberry. There were 17 displays, including a genuine wagon showing off hundreds of medicine bottles and go-withs.

Post-show stories never gave a dealer count, but comments given to reporter Ralph Finch were mostly on the positive side.

The 25th Anniversary National Bottle & Advertising Show & National Convention – Cherry Hill, New Jersey The Federation was “born” in 1968 so the Silver Anniversary show was a special one, thanks to Dick and Elma Watson of New Jersey and Jerry McCann of Chicago. The Watsons had come up with the idea of a bus trip to Wheaton Village in Millville, New Jersey, and McCann got the ball (and the bus) rolling, according to a post-show article. The Federation rented the bus for $500 and each one who made the trip paid $10 that included the trip, admission to the museum and a box lunch. The next day, the Watsons arranged for a Wheaton glassblowing display to set up in the hotel parking lot. Collectors from Canada, England, Scotland, Germany, Grenada and the United States came to the show. Some of the visitors made it to the Watsons’ “bottle house.” Jon Panek of Deerfield, Illinois, said his visit there “was like dying and going to heaven!”

1995 National Bottle Show – Chicago, Illinois Dealers set up on 210 tables and there were 11 outstanding displays. Many visitors were able to take a Friday night cruise on the Chicago River and out into Lake Michigan. John Panek of Deerfield, Jerry McCann of Chicago and Barb and Bob Harms of Riverdale, Ill., came up with lots of neat extras not normally found at such shows. At previous shows, visitors lamented that two days was just too short. The complaints at this one were that the show was too long. Perhaps the 90-degree heat had something to do with that.

One of the most unusual items sold during Jim Hagenbuch’s Glassworks Auction was a salt-glazed jug imprinted with Lancaster Tonic Bitters / C.A. Wood & Co. / 37 Haverhill St. / Boston. It sold for $400. Hagenbuch’s 3-day-old van was stolen, and that was bad enough, but happily there were no bottles inside.

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1996 National Antique Bottle Exposition – Nashville, Tennessee “Music City, USA,” attracted 665 sales tables staffed by 461 dealers and many of those in attendance came in a vacation mode.

There were 45 displays. Bitters maven, Carlyn Ring, was named to the Federation Hall of Fame. Many visitors, among them non-smokers, enjoyed a trip to the Museum of Tobacco Art & History. Show chairman, Claude Bellar, and his staff of volunteers were lauded for their efforts. Norm Heckler conducted the auction and among noteworthy items were an 1820-30 Concentric Ring Flask that netted $20,000 and a cobalt Columbia Eagle Portrait Flask that garnered $21,000. There were no awards given for the displays, but each entrant received a commemorative bottle of Jack Daniel’s best stuff. Ken Anderson’s trailer, which held all of his Indian cures, go-withs and the great medicine wagon he displayed them in, escaped being damaged when the trailer broke loose from the hitch and wound up in a ditch. “It must have been Indian magic,” commented one observer.

1997 National Antique Bottle Show – Jacksonville, Florida The show was smaller than usual, with 120 dealers manning 160 tables, but enthusiasm was high for the first show held in the South since the 1993 affair in Richmond, Va. Dick Watson and Doc Ford were inducted into the FOHBC Hall of Fame. Carl Sturm celebrated his birthday and a slice of key lime pie with one candle was delivered to him. There were several outstanding displays, ranging from Wayne Boynton’s Celery Cola display to Ron Rasnake’s Pictorial Case Gins to Joe Brock’s Jacksonville’s Past in Glass, among others.

Another highlight was a dinner cruise up the St. Johns River.

1998 National Antique Bottle Show – Cincinnati, Ohio Burton Spiller gave a nostalgic talk about the early days of bottle collecting as he remembered them and that was one of the highlights at the Cincinnati Convention Center. Another event was more personal for Spiller, with his induction into the FOHBC Hall of Fame.

Fifteen terrific displays attracted lots of attention. There were 160 dealers’ tables and, at one of them, a dealer was going to put out some Beanie Babies. But show chairman Adam Koch was adamant that Beanie Babies had no place at an antique bottle show and sale. Good for him!

1999 National Antique Bottle Show – Cincinnati, Ohio No one made a bid to play host to this year’s show, so Adam Koch & Co. agreed to do a 2-peat. Howard Dean, long-time collector of Saratoga Springs bottles and author of many stories relating to the bottle hobby, was elected to the FOHBC Hall of Fame during this meeting. Kevin Sives, an FOHBC member and early user of the Internet, gave a user-friendly talk about using that medium to one’s advantage. There were two programs on inks and labeled inks by Keith Leeders and John Hinkle, respectively.

2000 National Antique Bottle Exposition – Denver, Colorado Dave Cheadle succeeded Dave Hinson as editor of Bottles and Extras and found time to give an educational talk on trade cards and bottles...one of the Rocky Mountain highs during the show. Sheryl Anderson was show chairman and did a remarkable job. There were new books galore from Pike’s Peak Gold by John Eatwell and David Clint III, Antique Glass Bottles by Willy Van den Bossche of Holland, and Bitters Bottles by Bill Ham and Carlyn Ring. Seven countries and 33 states were represented at the event and the Federation picked up 60 new members, according to post-show reports. It was noted that the first FOHBC convention was held in Denver back in 1969, presided over by John Eatwell.

2001 National Antique Bottle Show & Sale – Muncie, Indiana Thirteen exhibits featuring fruit jars, water bottles, poisons and show globes, among others, and 140 sales tables highlighted the show in “Fruit Jar Country, USA.” Future Federation president, Ralph Van Brocklin, gave a slide presentation on Western Whiskey Flasks. The show was chaired by Norman Barnett, with lots of help from his wife, Junne. The Federation made a nice profit via an auction conducted by Norm Heckler with lots ranging from inks to barber bottles. Collectors came from California, Colorado and Georgia. The Minnestrista Cultural Center housed a collection of patent models of fruit jars plus other exhibits relating to Muncie history and the Ball Brothers Fruit Jar Co. Visitors literally had a ball!

2002 National Antique Bottle Show & Sale – Syracuse, New York The 72-page program featured 16 pages of “Pride of New York” bottles in full color and is definitely a coveted collector’s item. Ralph Van Brocklin, who was elected FOHBC president, gave a seminar on Western Flasks, and George Waddy, a featured columnist in 78

Antique Bottle & Glass Collector, gave one on Saratoga Bottles. There was more on Saratogas inside the program written by authority, Howard Dean, while Kevin A. Sives wrote about New York glass houses of the 17th through 19th centuries. Elma Watson, John Eatwell and Mayor Bob Ferraro were inducted into the FOHBC Hall of Fame. Phyllis and Adam Koch wrote a touching tribute to Elma Watson in the September Bottles and Extras. Mrs. Watson died of cancer on August 26, 2002. There were 252 sales tables and 29 exhibits and the show’s auction conducted by Norm Heckler grossed $25,000.

2003 National Antique Bottle Show & Sale – Louisville, Kentucky More than 200 tables awaited early buyers at this show co-hosted by Wayne and June Lowry of Raymore, Missouri, after two years of planning. Long-time collectors, Norm and Junne Barnett, were inducted into the Federation Hall of Fame. They set up their famous collection of unusual fruit jar closures as one of 16 educational exhibits. Orville Seals of North Jackson, Ohio displayed more than 100 Louisville mini jugs (mostly from the Bauer Pottery). Norm Heckler called the auction which grossed more than $30,000.

2004 National Antique Bottle Exposition – Memphis, Tennessee Ralph Van Brocklin closed out his last term as FOHBC president with the triumph that was this Expo. Chaired by his friend and longtime Federation member, Gene Bradberry, in the latter’s home town, the show featured 371 sales tables and 23 displays. Seminars included such topics as baby bottles, locating sites and digging them, black glass dating, fruit jars and bitters. Twelve authors got a chance to sign and sell their books. Jimmie Wood of Denver, North Carolina, was awarded the FOHBC People’s Choice ribbon for his stunning display of applied color label sodas from North and South Carolina. There also was a forum describing the trials and tribulations of becoming a book author, with Jack Sullivan, Dewey Heetderks, Jerry McCann, John Eatwell and Bill Ham chiming in.

2005 National Antique Bottle Show – Grand Rapids, Michigan Thirty one outstanding displays awaited visitors’ attention at the show where chairman John Pastor and his crew of volunteers did a marvelous job. Seminars were plentiful and first class, with Red Book author Doug Leybourne discoursing on fruit jar closures, Carl Sturm speaking about identification and dating of black glass bottles, Dann Louis talking about cures, Dan Simons on Michigan bottles, Wayne (Jar Doctor) Lowry about cleaning old bottles, Dr. Darell Erickson on infant feeders, Rick Ciralli about Connecticut glass and Mark Vuono on historical flasks. Norm Heckler again loaned his auctioneering talents to the Federation. One of the outstanding bottles sold was a green Drake’s Plantation Bitters for $10,500.

2006 National Antique Bottle Show – Reno, Nevada This was the first national show held in a Western state since the 2000 Expo in Denver, Colorado, and it was a roaring success, thanks to the efforts of FOHBC conventions director Wayne Lowry, show chairman Marty Hall and Reno-Sparks club members. There were 287 in line for early admission and 315 more for general admission, making for standing room only around the 266 sales tables.

A significant piece of Federation business was the approval to publish Bottles and Extras bi-monthly instead of quarterly. California collector Richard Siri was the keynote speaker and his discourse on Hostetter’s Bitters was complemented by his 190 variants of those well-known bottles. The displays drew this rave from Ralph Van Brocklin: “Hands down, THE BEST group of displays I have ever seen at a show!” Wonderful seminar topics ranging from target balls to historical bottle research were highlights of the meeting. Bottles and Extras editor, Kathy Hopson-Sathe, gave the show coverage more than 17 pages of the Fall issue and Van Brocklin did a masterful job of describing what went on.

2007 National Bottle Show – Collinsville, Illinois “Back To Where It All Began” was the theme at Collinsville’s Gateway Center, pointing to the inaugural national show held in 1976 across the Mississippi River in St. Louis, Missouri. Special pins were presented to “Long Timers” who attended both shows. Wayne (Jar Doctor) Lowry was show chairman, with assists from Curt and Ellen Faulkenberry, Jim and Debbie Taylor and Pat Jett. Wayne’s wife, June, business manager for the Federation, was stunned to receive the President’s Award from Carl Sturm. Seminars ranged from “Something for Everyone” by Jelly Jammer members Phyllis Pahlman and Margaret Shaw to “Chero-Cola - There’s None So Good” by Dennis Smith to “Using the Internet to Collect Bottles” by John “Digger” Odell to “Ink Symposium” by Keith Leeders, John Hinkel, Ed and Lucy Faulkner, Frank Starczek and Don Carroll. Long-time collectors and Federation members, Gene Bradberry and Ed Provine, did a show-and-tell session on early glass-blowing methods and tools of that trade. Other highlights included 19 outstanding displays. Greg Hawley, one of a group of treasure hunters who found and excavated the steamboat Arabia, was the banquet speaker.

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2008 National Antique Bottle Exposition – York, Pennsylvania Collectors from across the country and around the world (Australia, Germany, United Kingdom) made the trek to the ninth Federation Expo where they enjoyed seeing 32 terrific displays ranging from fruit jars to California perfumes. They also attended outstanding seminars on Saratoga waters, black glass, inks, the Lancaster, N.Y. Glass Works and the Kola Wars. Convention Director R. Wayne Lowry reported 415 sales tables had been sold. Perhaps the show’s only negative aspect came at the banquet where featured foods were in short supply and some of the 246 guests had to accept substitutes. The FOHBC Hall of Fame grew by four new inductees in Tom Caniff, Jim Hagenbuch, Carl Sturm and Betty Zumwalt. Steve Ketcham and the late Katie Foglesong were inducted onto the Honor Roll. Norm Heckler once again was the auctioneer for the Expo event, with an early, olive-green Wryghte’s Bitters / London the top lot with a $3,900 bid. Russ Smith of the United Kingdom and Rex and Joanna Barber of Australia penned views of the Expo from their perspectives in the November-December Bottles and Extras. Former FOHBC president, John Pastor, resigned as Midwest Region director and Jamie Houdeshell was named to take over the post. Mr. Pastor accepted the position of second vice president and remains on the board of directors. June Lowry became editor of Bottles and Extras after Kathy Hopson-Sathe was forced to step down because of illness.

2009 National Antique Bottle Show – Pomona, California Highlight of this show, host of which was the Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club, was the awards banquet during which many collectors received their just rewards. It was the first Federation National Show to be held on the West Coast and was ably chaired by Pam Selenak. Onlookers included collectors and dealers from Australia and England, as well as from 18 states. Outstanding exhibits included Richard Tucker’s historical flasks (winning the People’s Choice ribbon) and Terry Monteith’s well-displayed collection of demijohns and carboys which captured the FOHBC Most Educational ribbon. Alan DeMaison received the President’s Award for his outstanding contributions as Federation treasurer from Richard Siri. The FOHBC Hall of Fame gained another member in Johnnie Fletcher of the Oklahoma Territory Bottle & Relic Club. Johnnie was originally nominated by his friend, Ed Stewart, of Paola, Kansas, for inclusion on the FOHBC Honor Roll, but Johnnie’s dedication and contributions to the hobby led board members to vote him into the main shrine. Midwest Region Editor Joe Coulson’s Glass Chatter of the Midwest Antique Fruit Jar & Bottle Club was a first-class winner in the newsletter category. The Ohio Swirl, edited by Phyllis Koch of The Ohio Bottle Club, was second. Huron Valley Antique Bottle Club’s show flyer was first and the Antique Bottle Club of San Diego placed second. Jack Sullivan, of Alexandria, Va., won for the best researched article for “The Night the Axe Fell on Cleveland.” Dave Maryo, the host club’s president, was second with his article, “Forsha’s Balm is Endorsed by President Lincoln.” Mike Bryant won the best true story award for “The Snake in the Glass” and best fiction for “Ask Aunt Blabby.”

2010 National Antique Bottle Show -– Wilmington, Ohio Best thing about this show, those who attended would agree, was the Roberts Centre showroom with its well-lighted, wide aisles, offering plenty of room for 297 sales tables, 20 wonderful displays and hordes of people. Show chairman, Jamie Houdeshell, became ill a few days before the show, but co-chairman, Joe Hardin, and chief coordinator, Patty Elwood, stepped up. They were assisted by Jamie’s parents–Jim and Mira Houdeshell, as well as Richard Elwood and John and Margie Bailey. Jamie’s pet project was the auction and, thanks to his early efforts, the event grossed just shy of $20,000. A highlight of the show was the induction of Scott Grandstaff and Kitty Roach, of Happy Camp, California, into the FOHBC Honor Roll. Joining them was another Californian, Jeff Wichmann. Scott and Kitty founded the original Bottles and Extras magazine, eventually giving it to the Federation when it got too much for them.

Sheldon Baugh gave an educational talk about Ohio’s Shaker communities and displayed Shaker bottles from his own collection.

2011 National Show – Memphis, Tennessee FOHBC President, Gene Bradberry, played the perfect host as the Federation returned to the South for the first time since 2004.

That show also was held in Memphis, known for its downtown trolley cars and barbecue. Second Vice President, Ferdinand Meyer V, outlined his progress on the FOHBC website (FOHBC.org) and Virtual Museum during the semi-annual board meeting held prior to the show and sale. Seminars were held dealing with inks (John Hinkel), bitters (Ferdinand Meyer, Don Keating and Sheldon Baugh), odd-closured fruit jars (Dick Watson), German colognes (Carl Sturm) and applied-color-label sodas (Randee Kaiser). Seven outstanding displays sparked interest, with Base-Embossed Cylinder Whiskeys by Steve Schingler winning the Most Educational Award and Patented Labeled Medicines by Henry Tankersley garnering the People’s Choice Award. Ninety one lots were offered during the FOHBC National Auction, with the highlight of the sale the Morning Call Bitters going for $5,460, which was $1,460 over the high estimate.

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was the induction of Bill Baab, of Augusta, Georgia, into the FOHBC Hall of Fame. Former Federation Treasurer, Mike Newman, of Martinez, Georgia, nominated the 76-year-old Baab, who joined the Federation in 1996 and later became its Southern Region editor.

2012 National Antique Bottle Exposition – Reno, Nevada Those who were there at the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino included long-time collector and published author, Mike Polak, of Long Beach, California. Let’s hear all about it from Mike: “Over the years, I’ve attended a large number of club bottle shows, national shows and expos, and I need to say that the Reno 2012 Expo was absolutely fantastic and probably the best all-around show I’ve ever attended!” If that comment didn’t make show co-chairmen Marty Hall and Richard Siri proud, who knows what will? This was a show of “firsts” in the hobby. Complementing the thousands of words written about the show were a series of great color photos from the lenses of the first professional show photographer, Scott Selenak. (“There was so much action, my camera couldn’t stop firing,” he said later). Norman C. Heckler & Co. conducted the first “Drakes, Whiskey & Umbrella Ink Shootout” where more than 200 people showed up. Competing in back-to-back-to-back “duels” were Circle Cutter Whiskey cylinders, Drakes Plantation Bitters and umbrella inks. After all was said and done, Judges Bruce Silva, Dennis Bray and Ralph Hollibaugh awarded Steve Hubbell, of Gig Harbor, Washington, top billing in the Cutter category for his olive green-amber specimen. Drakes Judges Jeff Noordsy, Jeff Burkhardt and Rick Simi picked a blue-green example owned by Ferdinand Meyer V, of Houston, Texas as No. 1. Umbrella inks Judges Holly Noordsy, Bryan Grapentine and Jamie Houdeshell chose a mint and pontiled puce ink owned by Jim Jacobitz, of San Francisco. “I learned how to have a shootout with killer glass bullets and still remain friends,” said veteran collector Lou Lambert.

Two long-time contributors to the hobby, Warren Friedrich, of Grass Valley, Calif., and Jack Sullivan, of Alexandria, Va., were inducted into the FOHBC Hall of Fame. Fourteen scintillating displays ranged from David Hall’s fantastic assortment of E.G. Booz bottles to Dennis Bray’s outstanding EC&M insulators to eye candy Swirls, Whirls, Twists & Twirls from Dwayne Anthony, featuring bottles, fruit jars and insulators.

2013 National Antique Bottle Show – Manchester, New Hampshire When collectors of antique bottles and early glass think of New England, early glass works come to mind. Like Keene, Stoddard, Temple, Lyndeboro. “I had never seen so much world-class glass under one roof before,” said FOHBC Hall of Famer Bill Baab after having attended the Federation’s first National Show to be held in New England. The “roof” belonged to the Radisson Expo Center and the place was Manchester, New Hampshire July 19-21. Co-chairs Michael George and Maureen Crawford and their Merrimack Bottle Clubbers pulled out all the stops to make this show one attendees will remember for the rest of their lives.

Nine seminars covering as many different areas of collecting got the crowd going in the right direction early on Friday, July 19.

Presenters were Rick Ciralli, Connecticut Glasshouse Rarities; Tom Haunton, Last Links to the Past: 20th Century South Jersey Glass; Ian Simmonds, American Mold-Blown Tableware 1816-35; A Fresh Look at “Blown Three-Mold”; Michael George, New Hampshire Glass Factories and Products; George Waddy, Mineral Waters from Yankee Country; Jim George, Early 20th Century Milk Marketing in New England; Brian P. Wolff, Mount Vernon Glass Co. - History, Products, People; David Hoover, Uncovering Demijohns, and Al Morin, Markings and Seals Embossed on Milk Bottles. In addition to the glass and pottery offered by the 168 dealers present, collectors were treated to 17 displays of outstanding glass and pottery. The People’s Choice Award was won by Michael George for his awesome display of Stoddard glass, including inks, a flask with embossed U.S. flag (featured on the souvenir program’s front cover), medicines and utilities. Most Educational Award was won by Ken Previtali, of Glastonbury, Connecticut for his wonderful ginger ale bottle display, with many of the bottles displaying an astounding array of paper labels featuring great graphics. Other exhibitors were Tom Marshall (New England Inkwells), Mark Newton (Lyndeborough Glass), Dale Murschell (Wistarburgh Glass), Jeff and Holly Noordsy (Utilitarian Vessels from New England and New York State), Bob Kennerknecht (Sunburst Flasks), Dave Olson (Bonney Ink Bottles), Dave Waris (Moxie Bottles), Rob Girouard (Striped Sandwich Glass), Kevin Kyle (Blue Sodas), Dennis Gionet (Manchester-produced Bottles), Paul Richards (New Hampshire glass shards), Jim and Karen Gray (Stoneware Jugs), Bobby Heton (cone inks) and Jim Bender (Reproductions). The high quality of the exhibits made judges wish there were more awards to present.

Next came the New England Bottle Battle, sponsored by Norman C. Heckler & Co., and directed by Michael George, dressed in full 19th century regalia. Categories were Whimsical Objects, Colored Medicines and Utility Bottles. And the winners were: (Whimsical Objects), Kevin Sives, Appalachin, N.Y., for his handled E. Waters Ink; (Colored Medicines), Dr. Charles and Jane Aprill, New Orleans, half-gallon cobalt Dr. Wynkoops Sarsaparilla; (Utility Bottles), Rick Ciralli, Bristol, Conn., multi-sided utility bottle. Wrapping up the first night’s activities was the Madness in Manchester Auction put on by Jim Hagenbuch of Glass Works Auctions, with John Pappas the 81

auctioneer. One of the highlights was Lot No. 44, a wide-mouthed Sunburst flask/snuff jar in light greenish aqua. Pre-auction estimate was $40,000 to $60,000, but it sold for $24,000.

Inducted into the FOHBC Hall of Fame were Gene Bradberry, of Bartlett, Tenn., and Alan Blakeman, of the United Kingdom. Bradberry is a long-time Federation member, having served more than one term as its president, as well as in other capacities. Blakeman, publisher of British Bottle Review, is England’s “Mr. Bottle Man.” 2014 National Antique Bottle Show – Lexington, Kentucky It was Tom Phillips’ last show as Conventions Director and he made the most of it, teaming with co-chairmen Randee Kaiser and Sheldon Baugh to make the FOHBC’s first visit to Lexington and Blue Grass horse country most enjoyable. One hundred forty-seven dealers set up at 204 tables and offered a bounty of glass and ceramic treasures and most were ecstatic about their successful sales.

“One said that within an hour of setting up, he made over $3,000,” said Randee’s wife, Sue. “Another said he made four times the profit as what he usually collects at shows.” The numbers of early buyers (178) and general attendees (320) exceeded the numbers at past shows, said Phillips, whose good work was acknowledged when he received the President’s Award from FOHBC President Ferdinand Meyer V. The show was headquartered at the Hyatt Regency Hotel and held at the adjacent Lexington Center, a wonderful venue with lots of space, great lighting and enthusiastic staff.

Events got underway on Friday, August 1, with a series of six seminars: Jerry McCann’s Mid 1800s, The Evolution of Bottles Through Fruit Jars; The History of ACL Soda Bottles in Kentucky and Beyond, by Randee Kaiser; Here’s to Beers, by Gary Beatty; FOHBC Virtual Museum Progress, by Ferdinand Meyer V and Steve Libbey; The History and Evolution of the Shaker Herb and Medicine Industries by Sheldon Baugh, and Ohio River Privy Digging by Jeff Mihalik. All were entertaining and educational.

This show was notable for a number of “firsts.” A ribbon cutting with Randee and Sheldon utilizing the oversized scissors (enough ribbon was left over for next year’s Chattanooga show and 2016’s Sacramento show) opened the showroom doors. There was an appraisal table under the charge of Martin Van Zant (who became a Kentucky Colonel) and friends who saw a cool master ink, a Japanese balsam from Cincinnati, lots of Coca-Cola bottles, an aqua double eagle historical flask “and a ton of common stuff,” he said.

California antique bottle auctioneer Jeff Wichmann donated a cool $5,000 to be raffled in smaller segments. Scott Selenak, who has become the Federation’s chief photographer, recorded everything on his trusty digital cameras. Friday night’s banquet featured Michael “Mr. Bourbon” Veach as the guest speaker. He later signed copies of his book, Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey. Veach’s friend and co-author, Chet Zoeller, signed copies of his book, Bourbon in Kentucky, on the show’s final day.

Since Lexington is home to the Kentucky Derby, it was appropriate that the Federation hold its own Run for the Roses. Instead of Thoroughbreds, the contest featured wax sealer fruit jars, scroll flasks and Midwestern swirl decanters. FOHBC member Chip Cable videotaped the bottles and projected each onto a large screen. Sue Kaiser tracked down the finishers: WIN–Midwestern Swirl Decanter–John Pastor; New Hudson, Mich., Historical Scroll Flask–Steve Schingler, Braselton, Ga.; Wax Sealer Fruit Jar–Jerry McCann, Chicago, Il., PLACE: Midwestern Swirl Decanter–Tom Lines, Birmingham, Ala.; Historical Scroll Flask–John Pastor, New Hudson, Mich.; Wax Sealer Fruit Jar–Ryne Henrich, Crystal Lake, Ill., SHOW: Midwestern Scroll Flask–Dave Maryo, Victorville, Calif.; Historical Scroll Flask–Mike Henrich, Crystal Lake, Ill.; Wax Sealer Fruit Jar–Perry Driver, Live Oak, Fla. There were 13 educational displays running the gamut of subjects, with Tom Sproat’s 19th century glass-making tools winning the Federation’s Most Educational Award. Jim Hubbard’s outstanding display of Kentucky pocket flasks won the FOHBC Best of Show Award. Worth mentioning was Federation historian Dick Watson’s display tracing the history of the organization that started in 1969.

Unfortunately, Dick and David Olson, of Carver, Mass., were involved in an automobile accident just minutes away from Dick’s New Jersey home while heading to Lexington. Happily, both have since recovered. Another novel idea was the fancy hat contest, won with a bottle-and-horse-themed example worn by Leanne Peace. Capping the night’s activities was the “Thoroughbred Auction” conducted

by Jim Hagenbuch.

2015 National Antique Bottle Show – Chattanooga, Tennessee The Federation found itself on the right track after picking Chattanooga as the perfect site for its Southern Region national show July 31st to August 2nd. So “Choo-Choo to Chattanooga” was the theme engineered by great graphics on the show’s logo showing an old-time steam engine. Chattanooga itself was made famous by the Glenn Miller tune “Chattanooga Choo-Choo” sung or hummed 82

during the 1940s-50s: “Pardon me boys, is that the Chattanooga Choo-Choo?” Federation President Ferdinand Meyer V expressed it well in the lead of his main story in the September–October issue of Bottles and Extras: “The train arrived in all of its glory, met us at the station, and carried its passengers on a grand three-day excursion in the great southern city of Chattanooga, Tennessee. It left us with memories that will last a lifetime.” Show co-chairmen Jack Hewitt and John Joiner co-wielded the giant scissors to cut the ribbon allowing “passengers” to stream into the showroom of the Chattanooga Convention Center on Saturday afternoon. Dealers were allowed in first, then early buyers, instead of everybody en masse as in previous shows.

Opening the event on the evening of July 31 was the FOHBC Banquet and Awards session in the Marriott Hotel’s ballroom. It was preceded by a cocktail party during which old friends greeted each other and made new friends. Highlights included the induction of target ball collector and expert Ralph Finch, of Farmington Hills, Michigan, into the FOHBC Hall of Fame, and an amusing and emotional address by keynote speaker Tom Hicks, of Eatonton, Georgia. Hicks later became ill and, to his dismay, missed the show and the Rolling Thunder Auction held Saturday night. The Federation Board of Directors surprised President Meyer with a special award denoting his outstanding service not only to the Federation, but to the hobby as well. The President’s Award went to Jim Bender, of Sprakers, New York, “for his outstanding service as FOHBC historian.” Other honors were bestowed on winners in the club newsletters, show flyers, web sites, articles-research/information, best true story and best original fiction story categories.

Bottle-knowledgeable Mike Newman, of Martinez, Georgia, was the perfect emcee of the Battle of Chattanooga Bottle Competition capping the first day’s activities. He was ably assisted by Chip Cable of McMurrayville, Pennsylvania, who filmed and projected the images of each entry. Bob Riddick and Mark White, both of Lexington, South Carolina, checked each bottle and made sure each was returned to its respective owner. First-place winners were Dr. Charles Aprill, of New Orleans, for his 9 ½ inch tall, cobalt blue Wells, Miller, Prevost sauce bottle. Dr. Aprill is well-known for his love of cobalt blue bottles. Eric Schmetterling, of Moorestown, New Jersey, won the colored sodas category with his amethyst Blagroves Superior Aerated Mineral Waters, Brooklyn, New York, 10-sided, iron-pontiled, tenpin-shaped bottle. Best Bottle South of the Mason-Dixon Line winner was Dr. Aprill with his blue wine with embossed grapes and leaves. It was an unembossed variant of the Imperial Levee, J. Noyes, Hollywood, Miss. Judges also gave Dr. Aprill a firstplace tie with his pontiled blue Dr. Leriemondie’s Southern Bitters. It was unmarked, but known to be from Brookhaven, Mississippi.

Another innovation introduced by President Meyer was the membership breakfast on Saturday morning. Previous membership gatherings were held on Friday afternoons and were lightly attended since many show-goers did not arrive until later. This one attracted 110 members who voted to increase the Federation dues package to keep up with growing expenses and re-institute life memberships.

One of the best programs is the seminars held during the morning prior to the show’s opening. Presentations included: Charleston, South Carolina Colored Sodas by Tommy Schimpf; Every Bottle Has a Story, with Jack Sullivan and Ferdinand Meyer V; The History of Jack Daniel’s Whiskey by Mike Northcutt; Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware of the Edgefield District by Jim Witkowski of Charleston, South Carolina; The Evolution of the Coca-Cola Bottle by Doug McCoy and Bottle and Relic Digging by Rick Phillips and Paul Sampson.

Show scenes were documented by talented Mallory Boyle, Jack Hewitt’s daughter, and her photos were displayed throughout the Bottles and Extras issue featuring summaries of the show. Twelve wonderful, colorful and educational displays under the title of Great Southern Bottles were curated by Tom Lines, Birmingham, Ala., and Ed Provine, Millington, Tenn. “Best in Show Award” was presented to Mike Newman, Martinez, Ga., for his stunning array of colored sodas from Georgia and South Carolina. The “Most Educational Award” was given to Tom Sproat, Covington, Kentucky, for his display of glass-making tools. Other displays were Tenn-Cola, Gene Bradberry, Bartlett, Tenn.; Dale Murschell, Springfield, W. Va., paperweight perfume bottles; Walter Smith, Augusta, Ga., Edward Sheehan sodas from Augusta; Mike Jordan, Ocala, Fla., Hyacinth Vases; Bill Haley, Chattanooga, Glass Insulators; Amy Autenreith, Chattanooga, Houston Museum Bottles; Dennis Smith, Buffalo, N.Y., Celery Colas; Jim Berry, St. Johnsville, N.Y., Inks, and Mike Northcutt, Lynchburg, Tenn., History of Jack Daniel’s.

NOTES: Ninety-two-year-old Dorothy “Tootsie” Hood, of Apison, Tenn., a long-time bottle collector, became a member of the FOHBC when her grandson bought the membership...a treasure trove of items from E. Dexter Loveridge of Wahoo Bitters fame was auctioned off...James Penrose came from far off New South Wales...Alicia Booth, Houston, Texas, donated a Success to the Railroad historical flask as a hat contest prize in honor of her late husband, Tom... Liz Maxbauer, New Hudson, Mich., won it... the Souvenir Program’s 107 pages carried features by Jack Sullivan and Charles David Head as well as a listing of the Top 25 Tennessee Bottles... there were 230 sales tables.

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2016 National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo - “Back to Our Roots” – Sacramento, California “A Celebration of People and Our Hobby:” That’s how FOHBC President Ferdinand Meyer V headed the lead story in the follow-up November-December issue of the Federation’s magazine, Bottles and Extras. The organization took root in 1969, some 10 years after John C. and Edith Tibbitts organized its predecessor, The Antique Bottle Collectors of California, in their Sacramento home. That club caught the imaginations of antique bottle collectors from “sea to shining sea,” including Charles Gardner, of New London, Connecticut, known as “The Father of Antique Bottle Collecting.”

Federation officers and board members pulled out all the stops to make this venture into Gold Rush Country a memorable and memory-making, strike-it-rich experience. First stop was the privately owned McClellan Conference Center and Lions Gate Hotel at the decommissioned McClellan Air Force Base (1935-2001) seven miles northeast at Sacramento. Sacramento resident, Jeff Wichmann, held an open house at his American Bottle Auctions office where visitors “ooooed” and “ahhhed” at his collection of outstanding historical bottles and related “goodies.” The Lions Gate General’s House played host to a reception for dealers and their assistants, early buyers, displayers and seminar conductors on Thursday evening (the first day of the event). The Sacramento Shootout followed that evening back at the hotel with whiskeys (Jesse Moore Sole Agent cylinders, U.S.A. Hospital Bottles and Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters) in the bottle battle. Richard Siri, who spearheaded the Shootout, found himself the hospital bottle winner. Dale Mlasko captured the top whiskey prize, while Mike Henness’s Hostetter’s topped that category. The inaugural FOHBC Membership Breakfast Meeting was held at the 2015 Chattanooga show and was a great success, so it was repeated on the Lions Gate Hotel patio. Nothing like free food to attract a crowd. A fine array of speakers presenting educational seminars on Warner’s Safe Cures and Products (Michael Seeliger, Mike and Kathie Craig), the A.W. Cudworth Business Journal (Tom Jacobs), Early American Scent Bottles (Chris Hartz), Early California Stoneware (John O’Neill), Red Wing Advertising Stoneware (Steve Ketcham) and Gold Rush Artifacts (John Schroyer) followed.

The mud flats at Benicia, California are unlovely to behold. Just when they revealed their hidden iridescent glass treasures is a matter of conjecture, but their unique colors were on a wonderful display called Benicia Glass–Nature’s Tiffany by Michael and Karen Peart.

It was just one of 20 outstanding displays of bottles, jars, miniatures, Owl Drug bottles, Hostetter’s Bitters and an apothecary cabinet filled with gems. The Warner’s Safe Bottles and Posters display took both “Best in Show” and “Most Educational” ribbons. Collectors holding early admission badges joined the rush of dealers into the McClellan Conference Center show room at 1 p.m., Friday. There was a bit of confusion when the supply of early admission badges gave out, but a runner was sent to a local office supply company for name stickers. The crowd may have been a record number for a first day and most were in a buying mood.

That set the stage for the FOHBC Cocktail Party and Banquet Friday evening. There had been 115 reservations, but 150 showed up to feast. Highlight of the meeting was an emotional speech by Betty Zumwalt, the 2008 FOHBC Hall of Fame inductee and noted authority on antique glass, as well as an author. Jeff Wichmann, who had been named to the Federation Honor Roll in 2010, was “bumped up” to the Hall of Fame following his many contributions to the bottle hobby. The late Tommy Mitchiner, of Gordon, Georgia, was placed on the Honor Roll for his role as the Peach State’s most famous antique bottle collector and researcher, particularly relating to the Savannah, Ga., bottles of John Ryan (1852-1870s). John Joiner, of Newnan, Georgia, was presented the President’s Award for an outstanding job at the 2015 Chattanooga National Antique Bottle Show. Mike Bryant, of the Antique Bottle Club of San Diego, hauled off four awards to lead club honors.

Show room doors opened at 9 a.m., Saturday, August 6, and almost 700 folks piled through the door. General admission tags gave out. A tour bus arrived loaded with Reno Antique Bottle Club members. The future of any hobby is its ability to attract younger members and Richard and Bev Siri were ready. The show’s co-chairmen had prepared 44 children’s grab bags, each filled with two or three newspaper-wrapped bottles from the Siri collection. The day was capped by the 49er Bottle Jamboree Auction conducted by Fred Holabird, president of Holabird Western Americana based in Reno, Nevada. Star of that western bottle-themed auction was an early yellow-green Gold Dust Whiskey from San Francisco (1871-74), a flawless example of only eight known. It brought $34,500 including the auction house premium. Eyes of 200 in-house bidders plus hundreds more online (including a collector aboard an aircraft carrier) shattered previous FOHBC auction records, according to President Meyer.

Also setting a record was the 134-page Souvenir Program, surely to become a favored collector’s item. Jim Bender and Bob Strickhart, co-chairmen of the 2017 National Show in Springfield, Massachusetts (August 3-6), may find it a hard “act” to follow. We shall see.

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2017 National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo – Springfield, Massachusetts When one thinks of Springfield, Massachusetts, the legendary Springfield rifle comes into the mind’s eyes of many people, but not antique bottles; that is, until the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors held its annual National Show and Exposition there. The four-day, high-caliber event (pun intended) started with the reception at historic Springfield Armory on August 3, setting the tone for the rest of the week. There was a small glitch not of the Federation’s making: A Tennessee company conducted an auction at the host hotel during the reception, leading to a future rule prohibiting such things from happening during FOHBC shows next year in Cleveland and in Augusta, Georgia in 2019 and beyond. Co-show chairmen Jim Bender and Bob Strickhart did an amazing job in taking control of the show. “We both felt it was what a show chairman does,” Bender said. “So everything good or bad was on us.”

The Sheridan Springfield Place Monarch Hotel was host for the show and the staff could not have been more helpful. The Springfield Bottle Battle took place in the MassMutual Center. These contests give collectors the opportunity to see rare examples of the best bottles known from that Massachusetts area. Judges Ed Gray, the bewigged Jim Hagenbuch and John Pastor were up to the challenge and didn’t go off half-cocked. The winner was Mike George with a very rare pontiled Phelps’s Arcanum. Jack Fortmeyer was runner up with a very rare Massachusetts Fire Extinguisher, and Ron Ranka was third with a super-rare, lavender-colored J&IEM monitor ink. Matt and Elizabeth Lacy and Louis and Lindsey Fifer made sure the event ran smoothly and Chip Cable again was present to videotape all of the bottles and show them on the big screen for everyone’s viewing pleasure. Here are the other categories, judges and winners: Best Sandwich Glass, Judges Eric McGuire, Greg Bair and Mike George. Ed Beard, first; Nick Wrobleski, second and third. Best Saratoga-Type Spring Water Bottle, Judges Jeff Ullman, Jim Berry, Jim Bender. Rich Strunk, first, peach-toned Excelsior Rock Springs quart; Strunk, second, rare beveled-corner John Clarke quart; Rick Ciralli, third, Lynch and Clarke quart.

Six seminars on varying subjects were held Friday morning and, as usual, attendees had to make up their minds which of the two held at the same time they wanted to attend. The FOHBC tried to remedy the situation by video-taping each, with plans to make the tapes available in the future. The programs were Glassmaking in New England (Michael George), The Marketing of Milk in the 1940s (Peter Bleiberg), Flask Classification 101 (Mark Vuono), Colors of Sandwich Glass (Wes Seeman), Excavations of The Mount Vernon Glassworks (Richard Strunk and Mark Yates) and Dr. Sweeting and the Flag Salt Remedy Co. (John M. Spellman).

The late Dick and Elma Watson were among the honorees at the Friday evening banquet, with Jim Bender, Bob Strickhart and Phyllis Koch sharing their memories of the Hall of Fame collectors and their collections. The Watsons’ son, Steve, presented an emotional Bender with a small flask of a man holding a flag that was a part of his parents’ collection. FOHBC President Ferdinand Meyer V enjoyed the moments when he inducted long-time collector and Mohawk Valley Antique Bottle Club founder, Jon Landers onto the Honor Roll and Charles and Mark Vuono into the Hall of Fame. Together, the father-son duo built what is believed to be the best collection of American historical flasks in existence. Ferdinand presented the annual President’s Award to five women for their hard work at the FOHBC 2016 Sacramento National Antique Bottle Show and Expo. They are Val Berry, Alicia Booth, Elizabeth Meyer, Linda Sheppard and Bev Siri.

Next came the Watson One Auction on Saturday morning, conducted by Jim Hagenbuch’s Glass Works Auctions and called by Jesse Sailor. The idea for the event came from the co-chairmen who knew Dick and Elma would have loved to be involved in the show.

Specially designed stickers in the shape of Massachusetts with the lot number, Springfield and the auction house logo were placed on each bottle. Another of the highlights came from Norman C. Heckler & Co. The auction house had no fewer than seven display tables placed in a living room setting, including tables and chairs and many spectacular bottles. Speaking of displays, Fran Hughes was credited for coordinating the set up of no fewer than 11 displays. The dealers in attendance voted Rick Ciralli’s Connecticut Glass the Best of Show Award. The People’s Choice and Most Educational were presented to Richard Campbell for his spectacular dose measure glasses.

The FOHBC Virtual Museum is gathering momentum. The brainchild of Richard Siri, the museum “is a digital and online expression of what one might find in a real museum, containing (but not limited to) images of bottle and glass.” There was a display held during the show. It revealed how the “spinner system” of photography works. Alan DeMaison demonstrated it for all the people who asked about it.

2018 National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo – Cleveland, Ohio Announcement that reception for the August 2-5 show would take place in the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame was music to the ears of many bottle collectors. That venue also inspired the post-show writer whose imagination led to “The FOHBC Rocks and Rolls Into 85

Cleveland” headline topping the show summary in the November–December issue of Bottles and Extras. Most events took place at the Huntington Convention Center across the street from the host hotel, the Marriott Downtown at Key Center. Show co-chairmen Matt Lacy and Louis Fifer, with considerable help from their wives, Elizabeth a​ nd Lindsey, Alan DeMaison, Adam and Phyllis Koch, a​ nd John Fifer (Team Cleveland) put together a program that appealed to the visiting collectors of antique bottles.

John Fifer and Rick Ciralli took charge of the “Battle of the Bottles” competition with Chip Cable and Tom Masiarik projecting each entry onto a large screen so that everybody in the crowd could enjoy a super view. Taking home special awards sponsored by John Pastor were first-place winners Jim Hall and his egg-shaped A.T. Blake soda, a unique Cincinnati bottle; Matt Lacy’s GII-126 electric blue eagle wreath flask in Midwestern Flask category, and John Fifer’s Mantua creamer in the Pattern Molded Tableware contest.

Runners-up in the Ohio Soda category were Jon Dickinson, cobalt-paneled David Baker soda from Cincinnati i​n second and third was Hall again for his paneled J. Printz soda from Zanesville, Ohio, John Fifer; placed second in Pattern Molded Tableware with a citron Kent pan and third was a 20-rib, yellow broken swirl flask made by the Franklin Glassworks. Matt Lacy’s amber Ravenna Glassworks iron-pontiled flask was runner-up in the Midwestern Flask category while Tom Lines’ yellow-green GII-69 cornucopia eagle was third.

Seminars occupying most of the second morning featured many knowledgeable folks, with Dennis and Nathan Huey revealing secrets of privy digging in Ohio; Jim Bender amazing his audience with the history of reproduction bottles...many of which looked like the real thing; Bill Barrett unveiling the histories behind Zanesville glass manufacturing companies; Tom Sproat showing off his considerable knowledge of the Hemingray Glass Company; exploring the Erie Canal through the eyes of Ohioan Bob Koren and a “Bitters” Journey traveled by Ohio Bottle Club member Ted Krist. Attendees at the annual membership breakfast held Friday morning got their last look at outgoing FOHBC President Ferdinand Meyer V who will be missed. “It was time,” he said, and then incoming FOHBC board members were introduced, including new President Matt Lacy. All face new challenges not only to the Federation, but to the hobby as a whole.

One notable change in traditional events was with the auction billed “Electric Auction.” The auction was held Saturday morning, and was managed and executed by the show chairs whilst being called by auctioneer Jesse Sailor instead of outsourced to an auction house. The overall expectation of the auction was not met, with less than ideal outcomes and minimal participation. Bidders wound up with quality glass at low prices. The main event was the FOHBC banquet held Friday evening, with guest speaker Terry Kovel, the renowned antiques expert. Among Ferdinand’s last official duties was the honoring of Richard Siri and Richard “Dick” Roller by inducting each into the FOHBC Hall of Fame. Then Ohioan Alan DeMaison was given the 2018 President’s Award for outstanding service. Among door prizes was a commemorative two-foot-long guitar and a souvenir jug turned and decorated by master potter Jim Healy. Linda Shepard won the guitar, while Patricia Sprang took home the jug.

Other show highlights included 15 outstanding displays. Tom Sproat’s “Glass Jars Made or Patented in Ohio before 1880” earned the Most Educational Display Award, while Ted Krist’s “Bitters” in all the bottles’ colorful glory grabbed the “Best in Show” award. Other displays included Duane Rader’s “Milk Bottles,” Roger Hardesty’s “Cleveland Advertising Stoneware,” Alan DeMaison’s “War Slogan Milk Bottles,” Phyllis Pahlmann’s “Jelly Glasses,” Berny Baldwin’s “Glasshouse Whimsey Turtles,” Jim Berry’s “Inks,” Jim Hall’s “Ohio Sodas, 1840 to 1860,” Dennis and Nathan Huey’s “Cleveland Ohio’s Sodas and Ales,” Jim Bender’s “FOHBC History,” Alan DeMaison’s “FOHBC Virtual Museum,” Brian Gray’s “Barber Bottles and Their Molds,” Jim Hagenbuch’s “A Selection of Midwestern Pattern Molded Glass” and Tim Kearns’ “Knowles, Taylor, Knowles Chinese Whiskey Jugs.”

Post-show comments by several of the attendees were mostly positive, but one was disappointed by the low turnout. “Unfortunately, the show was not well-supported by the bottle community” (in Ohio, as well as in the surrounding states), noted collector Jerry McCann, who lives in Illinois. “It was an opportunity lost for hundreds, no, thousands of collectors to make this show the spectacular event it should have been. And a lost opportunity to have experienced the bottle community at its best.”

2019 FOHBC 50th Anniversary National Show & Convention – Augusta, Georgia Teamwork. That was the key that led to the overall success on August 1-3 for the first Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors National Show & Convention ever held in Georgia. Making it even better was the fact that the Augusta show marked the 50th anniversary of the founding body. Instead of having the show directed by a chairman and co-chairman, it was decided to share the responsibilities with a six-member “consortium,” also called Team Augusta. Handling pre-show publicity and setting up the six seminars was Bill Baab.

Walter Smith, of Augusta, was in charge of the educational exhibits, including one of his own, while retired banker, Mike Newman, 86

of nearby Martinez, became the show treasurer. He also chaired the Sweet Georgia Peaches Bottle & Pottery competition and held an open house. Eric Warren and Marty Vollmer, from Lexington, S.C., signed up the dealers and set up tables on the 100,000 square foot showroom floor. Both have had plenty of practice because they are key players in a group conducting the South Carolina Bottle Club shows each February in Columbia. The team “quarterback” was Ferdinand Meyer V, of Houston, Texas, who dipped into his vast reservoir of national show knowledge garnered over the years and kept the team moving in the right direction. He was responsible for the layout, design, and contents of the 140-page Souvenir Program, national marketing, social media, and visual appearance for the show. We think we scored a touchdown!

The show venue at the massive Marriott Hotel and adjacent Augusta Convention Center with its huge Olmstead Hall showroom certainly played a key role. Centrally located in downtown Augusta, it was within walking distance of quality restaurants as well as next door to the Morris Museum of Art. Cooperation of hotel officials was front and foremost and our appreciation was expressed to hotel Manager Matt Ricker, Director of Events Robert Korzen, Convention Services Manager Casey Stringfield and Senior Convention Services Manager Marisa Barnes, Banquet Manager Brenda Corsano, Chief of Security Bill Tolbert, and his staff and Encore AV Director Rick Cook. All the pre-show meetings with those folks were cordial and professional and things got done.

The 15 educational displays featured a “first” subject for FOHBC national shows. Charles Hilton, of Graniteville, South Carolina, drove a restored 1956 Detroit Industrial Vehicle Company (DIVCO) milk truck through the open door and onto the showroom floor. Hilton owns the Augusta area’s best collection of local milk bottles and many were included in the display anchored by the first milk truck ever exhibited at a national FOHBC show, according to those who should know. Other displays featured Bludwine and Budwine bottles from Mark Williams of Athens, Ga.; Charles Axt Catawba Wine Bottles from Paul Chance, Savannah, Ga.; a fabulous 19th-century drug store display from Henry Tankersley, Tulsa, Okla.; Fruit Jar Patents (with an array of incredible closures) from Tom Sproat, Ryland Heights, Ky.; Historical Augusta Bottles from Augusta’s Walter Smith; Vintage Soda Water Brandology from Bob Pettit, Safety Harbor, Fla.; Celery Cola bottles from Dennis Smith, Buffalo, N.Y.; Koca Nola Soda bottles and a 50-gallon stoneware crock from Charles Head, South Pittsburg, Tenn.; Lubricating Oil Bottles from Vern Huffstetler of Graniteville, S.C.; Marty McMurtry and Chris Prince, Bottles from the S.C. Bottle Museum, Whitmire, S.C., and Edgefield District S.C. Pottery from Samuel Ford of Aiken, S.C. Security was extremely tight before and during the show, with Tolbert and his staff sharing high visibility with armed and uniformed Richmond County Sheriff’s Department deputies and officers. It was noted before the show that the FOHBC had reserved the right to search bags and boxes for contraband. No negative incidents took place, as far as can be determined.

Among the first-day highlights was Mike and Julie Newman’s Open House. All of their world-class antique bottle collection and some of their antique jugs and pots filled nearly every room of their home, including their spectacular bottle room upstairs. There the collection of historical flasks, early soda water bottles, and numerous patent medicines, many from Augusta, glowed from back-lighted glass display shelves. The Newmans also took the opportunity to honor one of Georgia’s best-known diggers and collectors in a room dedicated to the memory of Tommy Mitchiner (1946-2013). Stanley Gwinnett, another pioneer Georgia collector, also was honored.

Mitchiner’s widow, Sherry, and son, Ryan also were present. The latter was named for famous 19th century Savannah bottler John Ryan. Later that afternoon, the scene moved to the Augusta Museum of History where the FOHBC VIP Reception was held in the building’s rotunda. Visitors also moved up to the second floor where a small portion of the Bill & Bea Baab Antique Bottle Collection was on display. The Baabs in 2014 had donated 531 bottles which joined 88 Augusta drug store bottles given to the museum earlier.

There also were several pieces of local pottery and miscellaneous items in the display cases as well. Museum Executive Director Nancy Glaser went all out to add to the display and her efforts were appreciated by all in attendance.

That first day’s activities were capped by the Sweet Georgia Peaches Bottle & Pottery Competition which drew 38 examples of the finest Southern pottery, best Georgia bottles, and best Southern sodas. The event was held back in the Marriott. First-place winners were: The best piece of Southern pottery was judged to be a 3-gallon decorated storage jar attributed to master potter Collin Rhodes of South Carolina’s Edgefield District and owned by John LaFoy, Greenville, S.C. There was a silhouette of a buggy and driver on the obverse and a two-color flower on the reverse. The best Georgia bottle dated to the 1790s and on an applied seal was embossed Dr. G. Harral Druggist Savannah, Ga. The best Southern soda was a tear-drop-shaped, deep olive green Finley & Phin and came from Charleston, S.C., where its owner, Jamie Westendorff, resides. During the windup of the show on Saturday, August 3, Elizabeth Meyer of Houston, Texas added a Georgia Peaches jug to her national show collection by winning a silent auction. She also owns the Chattanooga Choo-Choo, Springfield Rifle, and Cleveland Guitar decorated jugs from previous national shows. Another jug featuring an Augusta Canal scene was won by Vaughn Jones, Statesboro, Ga., by raffle. New York state master potter, Jim Healy, designed and donated the Augusta jugs.

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The second day was kicked off by a series of six seminars on a variety of subjects and all drew a good number of interested collectors, much to the satisfaction of the presenters. Veteran antique bottle collector Harvey S. Teal, 91, of Columbia, S.C., and Karl Harrar, of nearby Aiken, S.C. started off the series. Teal spoke on South Carolina Local Flasks used during the 19th century prior to the establishment of the South Carolina Dispensary System in 1891. Harrar explained the workings of his ground-penetrating radar system instrumental in easily locating yesteryear’s privies and trash pits. Doug Herman Sr., of the nearby community of Martinez, related the backgrounds of his paternal and maternal grandfathers. The former helped establish the Augusta Brewing Company in 1888 and the latter operated Savannah bottler John Ryan’s Augusta Branch before establishing his own in 1880. Dennis Smith, of Buffalo, N.Y., is widely known as an expert on early sodas and spoke about the competition in his Kola Wars program. A museum class display of early Charleston, S.C., sodas highlighted the program presented by long-time collector, Tommy Schimpf, of that coastal city. Mark Williams, of Athens, Ga., showed off his expertise on Bludwine and (later) Budwine bottles.

Baab utilized a pair of giant scissors decorated with FOHBC and cut the ribbon opening the show to 170 dealers and 107 early buyers at 1 p.m., Friday. Five hours later, all gathered in the Oglethorpe Ball Room for the annual cocktail reception and awards banquet.

Among the main honors presented by FOHBC President Matt Lacy were a Special Lifetime Achievement Award to long-time member Sheldon Baugh, of Russellville, Ky., and the President’s Award given to Team Augusta member, Bill Baab, for his efforts in promoting the show.

Reno 2020 National Antique Bottle Convention – Reno, Navada Convention Canceled. Even with the best-laid plans it was just bad luck in Reno. Team Reno chaired by Richard Siri canceled the convention months prior to the big event due to the Covid-19 Pandemic arriving in full force that March. The FOHBC decided to reschedule the convention to 2022.

2021 Syracuse National Antique Bottle Show – Syracuse, New York Convention Canceled. Covid-19 just would not go away. Chairs Jim & Val Berry, and Jim Bender, recommended that the FOHBC pull the plug in the first quarter of 2021. With very few commitments from dealers and show attendees, the cancellation was announced to the hobby world. The convention was not rescheduled.

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Jim Healy comes through again with two new commemorative jugs for our Reno 2022 National Antique Bottle Convention!

RENO 2022 Jug #1 Raffle Tickets for $2 each or 3 for $5.

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On July 25, 1986, Dr. Cecil Munsey, of Poway, California, sent a memo to Marilyn Schmieding, FOHBC Western Region representative, that the FOHBC “seriously consider establishing an ‘Honor Roll’ of people who have contributed significantly to bottle collecting. The Honor Roll would not replace the Hall of Fame, the greatest honor the hobby can bestow, but only supplement it.” The FOHBC Board of Directors adopted the idea and it was put into place the following year. The following pages summarize the accomplishments of these honored collectors. Note: Descriptions accurate (or current) as of time of induction.

1987 The following were nominated by The Ohio Bottle Club, Gary Beatty, President. Research was conducted by Paul Ballentine, Springfield, Ohio, and Gary Beatty, Galion, Ohio. “The Reward of True Excellence is to Obtain Honor.” The list was updated with capsule comments on each honoree (when available) by then Southern Region editor Bill Baab during 2008-2010, with help from Mary Ballentine, Sheldon Baugh, Ralph Finch, Norm Heckler, Cecil Munsey, Richard Siri, Dick Watson, Ralph Van Brocklin, Bruce Silva and Garth Ziegenhagen.

George S. McKearin, co-author (with daughter Helen) of American Glass, noted authority on early American glass in general, not just bottles.

Malcolm Watkins and Lura Woodside Watkins. Malcolm enjoyed an extensive career at the Smithsonian Institution, was curator of several collections including ceramics and glass. He was a pioneer in the field of historic archaeology. Lura, his mother, was a pioneer in the study of American cultural history, and collected extensively at New England’s unexplored pottery kiln sites. She later donated her collection to the Smithsonian. She was the author of Cambridge Glass, 1818-1888, The Story of the New England Glass Company.

Stephen Van Rensselaer, was one of the earliest individuals to collect and study early bottles (1920s). His Early American Bottles and Flasks was published in 1926. It was revised in 1929. His research for the time was nearly impeccable, since he was able to interview “former glassblowers, their wives, relatives and others who were familiar with local history and tradition.” The book was reprinted in 1969.

Otha Wearin was a congressman during the early Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration, and became an authority on figural bottles. He authored a book called Statues That Pour.

James Gabel, early collector.

Ezra Feinberg, early collector.

Edgar F. Hoffman, of Maplewood, N.J., was a collector in the 1930s-50s who specialized in historical flasks, although he collected others such as bitters, sodas and figurals, according to his early 1950s correspondence with prominent Alabama collector Doy McCall.

Hoffman became an expert on early glass and sold some to prominent collectors such as Charles B. Gardner of New London, Conn.

James H. Thompson was the author of Bitters Bottles (1947), the first specialty bottle book. He cited George McKearin, Sam Laidacker and Charles B. Gardner among the list of contributors to the book, which describes 500 bitters, as well as “amusing lore of the Bitters Era.” Neil C. Gest, Mechanicsberg, Ohio, was a flask collector, researcher, writer, contributor to The Magazine Antiques. He was well-known for collecting rare Midwestern glass. He co-wrote (with Parke G. Smith) a feature story on glassmakers Johann Baltazar Kramer and 90

his son, George, in the March 1939 issue of The Magazine Antiques. The Kramers were associated with the Stiegel factory and those of Frederick County, Maryland, particularly Amelung, and with the New Geneva and Greensboro works. Gest also wrote the foreword to the Parke-Bernet auction catalog describing the early American glass collection of William W. Wood III of Piqua, Ohio, in 1942.

Frederick W. Hunter, collector and archaeologist of the Harry Hall White type.

Lowell Innes was one of the country’s foremost experts and museum consultants on 19th century American glass making. As the leading authority on Pittsburgh glass, he wrote many articles and lectured widely on the subject. He was responsible for the first public exhibitions of Pittsburgh glass in the early 1940s. Author of the book, Pittsburgh Glass 1797-1891. He died in 1985.

Rhea Mansfield Knittle was a prolific author and early authority (1920s) on glass, silver and pewter. She was one of the founders of and contributors to The Magazine Antiques from its inception in 1923. One of her books was Early American Glass.

Maude Wilkerson owned a “Mom and Pop” motel and operated a bottle museum in Camdenton, Missouri, and was a contributor to Old Bottle Magazine for many years. Guests at her motel could enter the museum in an adjacent building for free. Bottles were displayed in cases around a room and many early bottle collectors went out of their way during the 1960s–70s to see what she had. She and Honor Roll honoree, Otha Wearin, were good friends and made many bottle trades over the years. After she died, some 1,900 items were moved to Skinner’s auction gallery in Bolton, Mass., and an auction was held there in 1976. Numerous glass candy containers were among the items sold.

Edwin Atlee Barber was an author who recognized the importance of early ceramics. Among his books was one about lead-glazed pottery written in the 1930s. He also authored one on early American bottles. He also authored American Glassware Old and New. It was published in 1900.

Ruth Webb Lee authored books on antique fakes and reproductions, Victorian glass patterns, Sandwich glass and early American Pressed Glass, most published in the 1930s-40s.

George Horace Lorimer was an early editor of The Saturday Evening Post. It was published weekly in Philadelphia and its origins dated to Benjamin Franklin’s day. The Post was the most prominent magazine in Philadelphia along with Collier’s. He did publish (on Oct. 16, 1929) Edwin Lefevre’s story, “Why I Collect Empty Bottles.” Lorimer started collecting during the early 1920s, mostly great historical flasks and diamond-daisy types. His collection was donated to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and is always partially on display. His philosophy on money was reflected in a quote published by investment firm Charles Schwab in the fall of 2009: “It’s good to have money and the things money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.”

Charles Baugh, with his wife, Roxy, of Menton, Ohio, pieced together a collection of early American glass that ranked at the top in rarity, condition, perfection of form and workmanship. The Baughs also made a thorough study of the fields in which they were interested.

Crawford Wettlaufer became an authority on early American glass and never hesitated to share his knowledge and collection, which contained many rarities, with other collectors.

Dale Kuhn, of Ohio, was a pharmacist who had amassed a wonderful collection of glass that eventually was sold by Garth’s auction house near Delaware, Ohio. The sale gave modern collectors an opportunity to buy treasured items that previously had not been available. There were no bottle shows during his era and the only recourse collectors had was to buy from some of the many lists sent through the mails, or advertised in the antique journals.

Earl Seigfreid. Early collector.

Parke G. Smith was a collector and authority on early American flasks. He authored bottle-related stories in The Magazine Antiques (See Neil C. Gest) and other publications during the 1930s and 1940s.

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Edwin LeFevre was an early collector of bottles. His main claim to fame came when he authored a story, “Why I Collect Empty Bottles,” in the Saturday Evening Post of Oct. 16, 1929.

Charles McMurray was a well-known antiques dealer in Dayton, Ohio. He wrote articles for local newspapers and in 1927 published a small black handbook on bottles, using items from his own collection for the photos. In 1970, a Connecticut bookseller sent out a list of bottle books for sale. On the list was a small black handbook the bookseller said was authored by Charles B. Gardner and himself.

Turned out that Gardner had only priced the bottles in the book, which was nearly identical in every way to McMurray’s 1927 book.

Sam Laidacker was the author of two excellent books on blue China dishes. He also published a small magazine or paper on antiques in general. He operated an antiques shop in Bristol, Pa., and was considered an authority on antique bottles. He relocated to Bloomsburg, Pa., in the late 1960s and continued to deal from a large mansion and carriage house. His father was collecting flasks and Kentucky rifles in the early 1900s. His brother, John, had 1,000 historical flasks to sell in the mid-1960s. Sam’s son, Jack, became an authority on guns and military medals and an author on the subject. Sam also did cataloging for many of the prominent auction houses across the country. He helped FOHBC Hall of Famers Dick and Elma Watson develop an expertise in antique bottles and sold them many that became the foundation for their extensive collection.

1991 Dr. Julian Harrison Toulouse was a student of glass containers for more than 30 years. He was chief engineer and manager of quality control and operations research and later consultant to the Owens-Illinois Glass Company. He was chief of the glass container section of the War Production Board during World War II. He was the author of Fruit Jars: A Collector’s Manual, in 1969 and Bottle Makers and Their Marks in 1971.

1992 Ron Fowler was born in 1947 and is retired from the SAFECO Insurance Co. He became interested in bottles and their histories while serving as manager of the Triple R Ranch in Olympia, Wash. He discovered the ranch’s dump and excavated it over a period of several years. He researched the bottles he uncovered. He maintains a worldwide correspondence with fellow bottle collectors. He was a monthly columnist for Old Bottle Magazine from 1983 to 1986. The author of six books on bottle collecting, he received FOHBC awards for research and editing. He established the Hutchinson Bottle Collectors’ Association in 2007 and continues compiling data while documenting the existence of more than 15,000 Hutchinson bottles.

1993 Lew and Lois Roach were from the original group of pioneer western collectors from Sacramento, Calif. They put together a marvelous collection of label-under-glass back bar whiskeys and Lew became the authority on that variety. Lew designed, printed and hand-colored the first multi-colored show poster in 1968 for the Golden Gate Historical Bottle Society Inc. The show was held in Alameda, Calif., May 25-26. After the show, the poster was presented to FOHBC Hall of Famer Dr. Cecil Munsey, one of the poster’s admirers.

1995 Judge Edward S. MacKenzie began collecting by accident in 1959 during recuperation from a heart condition. His physician had ordered him to take walks and the judge found a few old bottles en route and became curious about them. Inspired by his wife, Romie, he and she eventually put together one of the finest general bottle collections in the world in their Brooksville, Florida home. The collection had eventually grown to more than 7,000. The first of a series of auctions was conducted by Norm Heckler Sr., on October 7, 1994. “This collection coming on the market carries the same weight, is similar in importance, as the glass collections of Charles Gardner, Edmund Blaske and even Paul Richards,” Heckler noted. MacKenzie died in 1994.

Kenneth M. Wilson was an early collector, book author and distinguished glass expert. He was the director of collections and preservation at Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum. He teamed up with the famous Helen McKearin to write American Bottles & Flasks and Their Ancestry (1978), an update of George S. and Helen McKearin’s 1941 classic American Glass. Wilson also authored New England Glass and Glass-making on his own.

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2000 Sam Taylor was a pharmacist and member of the St. Louis Bottle Club. He had one of the best collections of pharmaceutical items in the U.S. He transformed his basement into an early drug store atmosphere, displaying his great collection. Supported by his wife, Eloise, he shared his enthusiasm by inviting numerous collectors who happened to be in the area into their home and shared their hospitality and tremendous knowledge. It was like stepping into an early drug store of the past if you were lucky enough to be invited.

The Taylors, who had no children, frequently attended the Mansfield, Ohio Bottle Show and stationed themselves near the front entrance. They were easily identified by their traveling companion, “Edith,” a full-blooded English bulldog of massive proportions, who spent most of her time sleeping behind their tables. When the dog passed away, she was mourned by all the collectors who had come to know her.

2001 Robert Eugene (Bob) Barnett was born in Kootenai, Idaho on August 27, 1921 and was bitten by the bottle bug later in life than most, becoming active in the hobby about 1970. He specifically liked Western whiskies. He enjoyed what he called “a revolving collection,” buying and selling large numbers of bottles, most of which never stayed on his shelves more than a month or two. During the early 1970s, Bob and his wife, June, became permanent fixtures at just about every show west of the Rockies. He also began to mail monthly lists of western whiskies to an ever-growing number of collectors. His reputation for honesty, integrity and fairness was legendary. In 1979, Bob parlayed his vast knowledge into publishing his first book, Pacific Coast Whiskey Bottles. He published Western Liquor Bottles in 1987 and Western Whiskey Bottles in 1992 and 1997. He died June 4, 2007 in Lakeview, Oregon.

John Thomas was a collector, researcher and historian whose efforts contributed very significantly to the understanding of Western whiskey bottles as well as bottle collecting in general. He is perhaps best known among collectors for his research and publishing of Whiskey Bottles of the Old West (1969). His next book was Picnics, Coffins, Shoo-Flies (1974). He also authored Whiskey Bottles and Liquor Containers from the State of Washington and Whiskey Bottles and Liquor Containers from the State of Oregon (1998).

His long-time hobby was the collecting of Western whiskey bottles, shot glasses and related advertising. He was a significant factor in creating a broad interest in the history and collecting of these bottles through his contributions to the hobby. He died in 2000.

2003 Neal and Mary Jane Ferguson, of Nashville, Tenn., were early collectors who in 1965 founded the Middle Tennessee Antique Bottle Club in Nashville. They were life members of the Federation. Quiet and unassuming, Neal was a driving force in the antique bottle hobby in Tennessee and an acknowledged expert on Nashville bottles. His special interests included Nashville sodas and he conducted extensive research into the Diehl and Lord, Ottenville and McCormack companies. He wrote many articles for his club newsletter as well as for the Federation. Mary Jane was a constant help to her husband and was involved in all aspects of the Federation and the hobby with him. She was Southern Region editor of the Federation until ill health forced her to retire during the 1990s.

Willy Van den Bossche Willy Van den Bossche was born in Belgium in 1943 where he graduated in industrial engineering in 1967 and then specialized in glass technology. For two years he worked as a Chief Plant Engineer in the bottle making industry in Antwerp (Belgium) where he started collecting bottles. From 1971 until his retirement, he worked as a Chief Patent Examiner in the field of glass technology at the European Patent Office (EPO) in Holland where he searched more than 4000 glass patent applications worldwide. In 1999, he authored the International Patent Classification in the field of Glass Technology (C03B) for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). For more than 50 years he has been a pioneer and a serious collector of European antique glass bottles (1500-1850) and utility glass, as well as all literature on glass, the art of glass and glassmaking from all over the world. In 2001, after capping 12 years of research and development, he authored his first major reference work Antique Glass Bottles – Their History and Evolution (1500-1850) – A Comprehensive, Illustrated Guide –With a World-wide Bibliography of Glass Bottles (440 p. with 770 European bottles, jars and seals illustrating in full color his entire private bottle collection). In 2012, he authored his second major reference work Bibliography of Glass: From the Earliest Times to the Present (347 p., 3426 titles) spending 10 years preparing this book in four languages (English, French, German and Dutch). His most important glass library (4,200 books) contains all the significant literature devoted to antique glass and glass bottles world-wide in all languages. Willy is a member of several international associations for the history of glass including the Glass Comity of the International Council of Museums (ICOM/Glass). He has lectured and written many articles on antique bottles and glass. He retired in 2003 and lives in Belgium.

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2005 Frank Sternad is a graduate of the University of California School of Pharmacy. He has worked as a community pharmacist for 40 years. He is a historian who has studied and written about medicine for a number of publications, including those that specialize in collecting antique bottles. He has consulted with many collectors and is known for his vast knowledge of patent and proprietary medicine histories.

2008 Katie Foglesong was a charter member and spark plug of the Iowa Antique Bottleers. She also was an early secretary of the Federation of Historical Bottle Clubs (later Collectors) and privately published an entertaining little book, Trials and Trails of a Bottle Collector.

Steve Ketcham began collecting antique bottles, advertising and stoneware in 1967 while still in high school. While attending the University of Minnesota, he began digging for bottles along the Mississippi River banks near the campus. He became charter member No. 11 of the North Star Historical Bottle Association in 1970 and a couple of years later joined Minnesota’s First Antique Bottle Club.

He began attending regional meetings of the FOHBC in 1973, later serving as assistant chairman and then chairman of the Midwest Region. He established the Federation’s writers’ contest and served as chairman for several years. He was Federation president from 1982-84 and served on the board from 1982-98. A prolific writer, Steve contributes articles to Bottles and Extras and Antique Bottle & Glass Collector.

2010 The contributions to the bottle collecting hobby by Scott Grandstaff and Kitty Roach commenced in 1988 when the magazine Bottles and Extras took form on the kitchen table of their home in Happy Camp, California. With the help and support of FOHBC Hall of Famer ,Dr. Cecil Munsey, of Poway, California, they published their first edition in 1989. In 1995, when the publication had grown too big for both of them, they decided to turn over the magazine and subscribers list to the FOHBC at no charge. Bottles and Extras (now Antique Bottle & Glass Collector in 2022) has become the Federation’s most tangible asset.

Native Californian Jeff Wichmann has been a collector of antique bottles for more than 40 years. In 1990, he established Pacific Glass Auctions, changing the name in 2001 to American Bottle Auctions. His was the first bottle auction house to provide full-color glossy catalogs sent to collectors at no charge. Other innovations that benefited collectors included launching the first online antique bottle auction. He published americanbottle.com, a website loaded with news and features of interest to collectors. His bottle photography is considered by many to be the best in the business. In 1999, he published The Best of the West - Antique Western Bitters Bottles, considered one of the top resources for researchers.

2016 Thomas William “Tommy” Mitchiner. The antique bottle collecting hobby for Tommy Mitchiner, of Gordon, Georgia, started in 1966 following a newspaper article about people digging in Savannah, Georgia and finding lots of John Ryan sodas and other bottles.

Between that year and 2013 when he passed away, Mitchiner had become Georgia’s most famous bottle collector and had amassed a huge collection of John Ryan sodas, many in rare colors, that was never duplicated. He became known as “the King of John Ryan Soda Collectors.” In addition, he conducted lots of research in the days before the Internet and became well-known throughout the Southeast as an authority not only on Savannah and many Georgia bottles, but hand-painted marbles and figural smoking pipes, most of which he dug from hundreds of privies in the coastal city. He willingly shared that hard-earned knowledge with any collector who asked. Mitchiner also had become an expert in cleaning dug bottles and many a collection owes its brilliance to that expertise.

2017 Jon Landers. The hobby of collecting antique bottles attracts many people from all walks of life. After joining, many seem to disappear off the face of the earth, never to be heard from again. That isn’t true for Jon Landers, of Utica, New York. Not only was he a founding father of the Mohawk Valley Antique Bottle Club in 1994, he also holds active membership in many other bottle clubs and historical societies and organizations. Once he started his collections of local bottles, he decided to investigate the histories behind them: Who made them, when and where? Answers to some of his questions weren’t immediately forthcoming so that meant Jon, with the support of his wife, Sue, had to spend much of his free time pursuing documentary evidence at sources such as libraries and 94

newspaper archives. One of his outstanding efforts dealt with the history of the Mount Vernon Glassworks of which he has become an authority. He soon learned that research is an important part of the antique bottle hobby and was thrilled to find answers to questions that had eluded him. That research led him to the stories behind bottle-related businesses and the people who had developed them.

Best of all, Jon shares each bit of information with fellow collectors by writing and posting stories in his club’s newsletter, “Bottles Along the Mohawk,” which he has edited since the club’s founding. He’s never missed an issue during those 22 years. He also helped develop mohawkvalleybottleclub.com, the club website.

rd 53 Annual Bottle Show & Sale at the Double Tree Hilton, 5000 West 127th Street, Alsip, Illinois 60803

Show Chairpersons are Jen and Mario Pisterzi, (219) 306-5702, mariopisterzi@yahoo.com

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Warner’s Collectors Kathie & Michael Craig Alice & Michael Seeliger 408.591.6510 warnerbottleman@gmail.com

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H.H. Warner–His Company & His Bottles 2.0 available at show.

Books by Willy Van den Bossche: Photo of his international major reference works “Antique Glass Bottles” (2001) and “Bibliography of Glass” (Printed book 2012 & Digital updated edition 2019) illustrating in full colour his entire private bottle collection (2001) and glass library (2019).

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For more than 50 years, Willy Van den Bossche (Belgium, 1943) has been a pioneer and a serious collector of European antique glass bottles (15001850) and utility glass, as well as all literature on glass, the art of glass and glassmaking from all over the world in all languages. In 2003 he was inducted in the FOHBC “Honor Roll” and in 2020 into the FOHBC “Hall of Fame.”

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WANTED - ST LOUIS BOT TLES

Top $$$ paid for dark green and yellow mineral Looking for colored water by pontil Sodas, Black Glass Hassinger & Ales, Pontiled Medicines, O’Brien and other Pontiled Inks, Bitters etc. colored sodas.

Theo Adams 3728 Fair Oaks Drive Granite City, Illinois 62040 618.781.4806 Stlouissoda@aol.com

Also need aqua Wake & Co. and other St. Louis aqua pontil and smooth base sodas.

UNDER DEVELOPMENT FOHBC Virtual Museum Cures Gallery Featuring bottles from the collections of Bruce Shephard and Bob Jochums with research by the consignors.

This developing museum is dedicated to exhibiting, preserving, researching and providing education about historical glass made in the numerous glassworks of Connecticut.

This statewide museum is located in the National Register's only designated National Historic Glass Factory District.

The site includes an original two-story residence, circa 1812-14, built for Capt. John Turner, one of several incorporators of the Coventry Glass Company (and later one of the founders of the Ellenville [N.Y.] Glass Company). Located in Coventry, CT at the intersection of Rt. 44 and North River Road, the museum is open for special events or by request.

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Collecting, Purveying Vintage & Historic Western Railroadiana

Always after Hardware, Signs, Old Photos & Paper.*Especially seeking pre-1900 Lanterns & RR marked Glass Globes!

Steve Spalding|Ashland, Oregon 541-944-4811

steve@ironhorsegallery.com

Four (4) Reno 2022 T-Shirts for sale at the front FOHBC Tables.

Get ‘em while they last!

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Dr. Thomas A. Jacobs The Pre Prohibition San Francisco Beer Guy Also... Buffalo and Ruhstaller Breweries Sacramento & El Dorado Brewery Stockton, Bottles, Signs: Tin, porcelain, reversed glass, paper, stained glass, Trays, Steins/etched glasses, Calendars, Lithographs.

I especially love original PHOTOGRAPHS of full brewery, work crews, wagons, Paper items, Ephemera— Anything relating to history of San Francisco brewing and beer bottling, Buffalo, Ruhstaller, and El Dorado Breweries.

I have the largest existing collection and am always looking to add new material that I do not already have.

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Da v e Kyle - Collector of E xtraordina ry Bit t e rs

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NEW – Bitters Bottles Supplement 2, Hard Cover - 474 Pages US $99.95 This monumental effort culminates a massive amount of work over many years. Carefully verified and cross referenced with Bill Ham’s collected information and the Peachridge Glass database with 40,000 plus images and hundreds of files of obscure bitters.

Lots of new bottles and information since 2004 when Bitters Bottles Supplement was published.

Color plate sections on rare bitters, bitters facsimile bank notes, bitters postal covers, bitters almanacs, shell cards and tokens. For ephemera, the great museum-destined archives of Dan Cowman, Joe Gourd and Ben Swanson, among others, have been included. Additionally, the Index has been totally re-done to include all three books. Every documented bitters ever produced, and their makers, have been indexed.

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State of Franklin Antique Bottles & Collectible Assoc.

25th Annual Show & Sale Saturday May 6th, 2023 9:00 am until 3:00 pm Gray, Tennessee off I-26 at Exit 13 Appalachian Fairground

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Bottles, Antiques, Collectibles, Insulators, Great Displays, Raffles, Appraisals and near Amusement Parks, Beaches, and Hollywood.

Early buyers $15 at 8 AM – General Admission Free 10 AM to 3 PM Club Members All Day Entry

For Dealer Information email donwippert1@gmail.com or call 818-610-9332 or contact Chuck Gildea 949-351-7620 105

Coming this October to Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania

100 Dealer Tables Across Two Floors

RICHARD CARNEY

ARTIFACT ARTIST

Always buying high-end glass fragments and dug artifacts.

If it fits, it ships. Send to me from wherever you are.

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NW Missouri Insulator and Bottle Show & Sale

Display space available and displays welcome.

Border States Antique Show & Sale

Display space available and displays welcome.

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Sacramento Valley Museum Antique Bottle Show Bottles – Collectibles – Antiques

30 Sept. & 01 October 2022 1492 E St., Williams, California

Friday Sept 30th Early admission $25 8:00-10:00 am Admission $10 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Saturday October 1st Admission $5 8:00 am - 3:00 pm

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WANTED: QUALITY 19TH CENTURY WESTERN BOTTLES AND BOTTLE EPHEMERA Bitters, Liquor (whiskey and beer), Medicine, Ammonia, Mineral Water, Ink, Jamaica Ginger, Hair And Soda Bottles

Top Dollar Paid Single Items Or Collections Trading Also An Option Contact: Stephen Hubbell Phone: (253) 851-7036 (home) (253) 773-6382 (work) Email: morpheus@centurytel.net

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BEST TO THE FOHBC AND RENO 2022 The MACKINTOSH Family

Columbus Collective Museums home of The World Famous Lunch Box Museum invites you to see 7 Museums under one roof!

The Lunch Box Museum The Royal Crown Cola Museum The Chero-Cola Museum The Nehi Museum The Georgia Radio Museum & Hall of Fame The Car Museum

OPEN 10-6 MON-SAT

thelunchboxmuseum.com Columbus GA

Call Allen (706) 332-6378

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TOP 25 WESTERN WHISKEY CYLINDERS The quintessential bottle that represents our old west is the iconic fifth-size whiskey bottle. As the new western frontier developed, the hard-driving, hard-drinking pioneers often turned to whiskey to lessen the burden of life. As a result, many whiskey dealers marketed their product in what was termed “glass labeled” bottles—that is, appealing bottles blown in molds heavily embossed with lettering and symbols usually reserved only for paper labels. They are generally highly desired by collectors and some were even produced in different colors and crudeness that make them aesthetically pleasing. Others are quite rare as well, which makes them even more precious.

#1 – CALIFORNIA CLUB HOUSE

PURE BOURBON, IMPORTED ONLY BY JNO C. MORRISON (Monogram) 316 SAC. ST. S.F. The “California Club House” bottle is considered one of the premier brands to collectors of California whiskey bottles. It was produced between 1872 and 1874. There are nine or so known in shades of amber.

#2 – LAUREL PALACE, J. G. KAHMAN

N. W. CORNER BUSH & KEARNY SAN FRANCISCO “Laurel Palace” is named after a magnificent saloon that first opened at 2 o’clock on Wednesday, July 10, 1872, in San Francisco.

With characteristic courtesy, ladies were allowed to enter first to see all the beauty that J. G. Kahman injected in his elaborate masterpiece saloon. On the following day, the official inauguration occurred with the general public. One example known.

#3 – OLD WOODBURN WHISKEY

M R C & CO. (Monogram) N. VAN BERGEN & CO. AGENTS SAN FRANCISCO “Old Woodburn Whiskey” is one of the most desirable of the early western whiskey bottles. It was produced in the mid-1870s with only three specimens known.

#4 – [Aqua] TEA KETTLE OLD BOURBON (Embossed Tea Kettle) TRADE MARK SHEA, BOCQUERAZ & MCKEE AGENTS SAN FRANCISCO

“Tea Kettles” are great picture whiskeys cherished by collectors. They are the predecessor to the “Tea Cup Extra Old Bourbon” bottles.

The example blown in aquamarine glass is considered unique as it is the only undamaged example known. A repaired example can be found in another well-known collection. John Thomas reported that for a long time, only pieces had been found in digs until a complete example was found in the 1970s in Virginia City, Nevada.

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#5 – KENTUCKY GEM SOUR MASH COPPER DISTILLED WHISKEY AGENTS T. G. COCKRILL & CO. SAN FRANCISCO “Kentucky Gem Whiskey” is one of the most sought-after western fifths in antique bottle collecting circles.

It is believed that there are less than five examples known.

#6 – GOLD DUST KENTUCKY BOURBON

BARKHOUSE BROS. & CO. TRADE MARK (Embossed Horse) JOHN VAN BERGEN & CO. SOLE AGENTS John Van Bergen, from Germany, is first noted in Sacramento, California in 1850. His “Gold Dust” bottles have it all with a great name, history, and bottle design. The typography and embossing and the pictorial horse are spectacular and the bottles can be found in great glass colors.

#7 – GOLDEN PLANTATION WHISKEY FPJ & C MONOGRAM F. & P.J. CASSIN AGT’S O.K. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL

Brothers, Francis and Patrick Joseph Cassin need no introduction to collectors of western bottles.

Their Cassin’s Grape Brandy Bitters bottle is a classic, highly sought after, and high-value container first marketed about 1867. Six years later, the Cassins introduced another iconic bottle in the form of their “O.K. Golden Plantation Whiskey.” The earliest record of its introduction to the market was found in December 1873, when the “beautiful glass labeled bottles” were advertised.

#8 – WEIL BROTHERS WINE AND LIQUOR MERCHANTS SAN FRANCISCO There is only only one known example of the “Weil Brothers” bottle and it is in a light amber four-piece mold sixth cylinder size with an applied top. The bottle is in the style of whiskeys from the late 1860s to early 1870s.

#9 – DURHAM WHISKEY (Embossed Bull) E. CHIELOVICH & CO.

The extremely rare “Durham Whiskey” bottle is recognized by the prominent embossing of a Durham Bull. The bottles occur with and without a round glass “foot” that is centered on the opposite side of the bottle, opposite the bull. The foot allowed the bottle to be set on its side, making it less vulnerable to tipping over. Both molds are extremely rare and come in shades of yellow amber, medium amber, and dark amber. Full and broken examples have been found at Angels Camp, along the Feather River, in Santa Rosa, and in the San Francisco Bay area.

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#10 – LAUREL CROWN OLD BOURBON WH & CO. (Embossed Crown and Barrel) WM. HOELSCHER & CO. SOLE AGENTS. S.F. A NO. 1 “Laurel Crown Old Bourbon” is an extremely rare western whiskey bottle with a short shelf life. Unfortunately, William Hoelscher chose to infringe on the look and brand of the popular “J. H. Cutter” whiskey and its reputation. The case went to court and he lost and had to discard his bottles, probably in San Francisco Bay where a few examples have been found over the years.

Nowadays, only seven or so complete bottles exist, probably for this reason.

#11 – F. CHEVALIER & CO WHISKEY MERCHANTS PACIFIC COAST AGENTS

When you think of Fortune Chevalier Whiskey you think of their bottles embossed “Old Bourbon Castle Whiskey” or better yet, the Chevalier bottles with the embossed “castle.”

This fifth cylinder Chevalier is in the form of a small demijohn with an unusual shape.

#12 – S. T. SUITS

WALKER BROS SOLE AGENTS KY. BOURBON Samuel Taylor Suit was born in Bladensburg, Maryland in 1832. His name is embosed on a very rare and desirable fifth cherished by collectors. The cylinder bottles have an applied mouth with a ring and were probably made in a San Francisco glasshouse from 1872 to 1874. Only applied-top whiskey from Utah.

#13 – JEWEL OLD BOURBON

JOHN S. BOWMAN & CO. SOLE AGENTS S.F. The “Jewel Old Bourbon” bottle made by John S. Bowman is extremely rare. John L. Thomas in Whiskey Bottles of the Old West notes that the first known Bowman was dug near Silver Peak, Nevada in 1969.

Not many examples have shown up since. The bottle is a fifth and has an applied mouth.

#14 – OLD PIONEER WHISKEY

(Embossed Walking Bear) WM. H. SPEARS & CO. FENKHAUSEN & BRAUNSCHWEIGER SOLE AGENTS, S.F. The Old Pioneer Whiskey fifth is extremely popular with collectors as it pictures an embossed walking bear. Amandus Fenkhausen was born in 1825 in Hamburg, Germany, and was among San Francisco’s most successful liquor merchants. In 1875, Amandus took on another partner, Herman Braunschweiger, and retained the business name of A. Fenkhausen & Co. This partnership prompted yet another move and name change, this time to 414 Front Street where an 1880 San Francisco Business Directory found the partners under the banner of Fenkhausen & Braunschweiger.

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#15 – BEAR GRASS KENTUCKY BOURBON

(Embossed Bear Head) BRAUNSCHWEIGER & BUMSTED SOLE AGENTS S.F. “Bear Grass Kentucky Bourbon” was put out by Herman Braunschweiger and Edward H. Bumsted who were sole agents for the brand in San Francisco, California. This very rare, applied top bottle was only produced for a year or so making it hard to come by.

#16 – BOTTLED BY N. AHRENS

19 MKT. COR. STEURT ST. WARRANTED AS REPRESENTED ON LABEL The “N. Ahrens” is one of several 1890s German-made, red amber whiskey bottles. The bottle has a comparatively short neck, heavy whittle pattern and a small applied top. In 1969, two examples were known.

One was dug in Santa Clara, California in the late 1970s, and one was dug in downtown Pittsburg, California. Another surfaced with a chipped base that was dug in Redwood City.

#17 – MILLER’S EXTRA OLD BOURBON

MARTIN & CO. TRADE MARK (Monogram) Two “Miller’s Extra” fifths were found along the Oregon coast. The first one of these to ever surface was obtained by John shield in Dexter, Oregon in 1967.

#18 – EVANS & O’BRIEN No 222 MAIN STREET STOCKTON The “Evans and O’Brien” bottle is the only early Stockton, California whiskey known, and appears to be older and cruder than the San Francisco whiskeys of the 1870s.

This is probably one of the oldest of the western applied top whiskeys.

#19 – JOCKEY CLUB WHISKEY G. W. CHESLEY & CO. S.F.

The “Jockey Club Whiskey” bottle is early and was produced and sold between 1873 and 1876.

It is one of the few whiskeys found in a sixth size opposed to a fifth.

These bottles are very rare and most examples are found in shades of amber.

#20 – UNITED WE STAND

OLD BOURBON WHISKEY WILMERDING & CO. SOLE AGENTS S.F. CAL Amber, applied top bottle typically with a tall neck. The glass usually has a slight reddish hue and the embossing is slightly flattened.

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#21 – CHEVALIERS OLD CASTLE WHISKEY (Spiral Neck) F. CHEVALIER & CO. PROPRIETORS SAN FRANCISCO, CAL

This bottle is one that you will remember as it has a spiral neck and is the only known whiskey to have this look. There are only ten or so examples in collections so it is pretty rare.

#22 – THOS. TAYLOR & CO. IMPORTERS VIRGINIA, N.

Virginia City, Nevada bottles, found in fifth and sixths, are cherished by collectors as they exude the “Gold Rush” era of America. It is thought that the “Thos. Taylor & Co. Importers, Virginia N.” fifth bottles date from 1865 to 1874.

#23 – BOTTLED BY J. GUNDLACH & CO. (JG & Co. Monogram) CALIFORNIA WINES & BRANDIES SAN FRANCISCO

The extremely rare “J. Gundlach” bottles have an applied top and occur in both amber and clear.

The amber examples are American while the clear examples are German-made. The bottles usually have very whittley glass.

As of 1969, there were about five of the amber Gundlachs known.

#24 – PRIDE OF KENTUCKY OLD BOURBON LIVINGSTON & CO. SOLE AGENTS

The “Pride of Kentucky” bottle is a great example of the relationship of good old Kentucky bourbon and agents in California who represented and distributed the brand to Golden State pioneers.

This cylinder fifth is found in various shades of amber with some examples transitioning to a greenish tone on the amber glass color.

#25 – J. MOORE OLD BOURBON TRADE MARK (Embossed Antlers) E. CHIELOVICH & CO. SOLE AGENTS “J. Moore Old Bourbon” bottles with the Trade Mark “Antlers” are extremely popular with western glass and whiskey bottle collectors in general. The bottles range in color from yellow-amber to red-amber, to shades of green-amber and have applied tops.

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Dana Charlton-Zarro—collecting New England Pitkin Flasks

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BODIE BOTTLES WANTED! We are the #1 buyers of Bodie, California Ghost Town & all Eastern California Bottles and associated memorabilia. Seeking A.B. Stewart & Kuhlmann Bros Drugs, Pearson Bros. Soda, Occidental Hotel & Bodie Bottling Works Seltzers, Bohemian Lager Beer (labeled) & more!

Also, Inyo Soda Works, T. Shone, Inyo Bottling Works, Coso Hot Springs, and any Milk Bottles.

Look for our new book to be out soon “Antique Bottles of Bodie and Eastern California.” 229 color pages of all Bodie Bottles & go-withs, plus Eastern California Bottles (Drug, Dairy, Beer, Soda, Whiskey & Mineral Water).

The only Bodie bottle book ever published!

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The FOHBC is archiving and indexing past issues of AB&GC for member enjoyment and research. Visit FOHBC.org Member Portal.

EARLY AMERICAN BOTTLES, STONEWARE & ADVERTISING Especially seeking pre-Prohibition Minnesota and Wisconsin brewery advertising and Red Wing stoneware advertising liquor jugs.

STEVE KETCHAM

Box 24114, Edina, MN 55424 952.221.0915 Please visit us at www.antiquebottledepot.com or reach us at steve@antiquebottledepot.com

RCGLASS Rick Ciralli Sunday Sept 18, 2022 9:00 am to 2:00 pm Polish Falcons Hall 445 Columbia Ave Depew, New York Admission - $4.00 (Children under 12 free)

Free Appraisals

Collector & Dealer specializing in select antiques, early bottles, historical flasks, early American pattern glass, stoneware & more...

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Information & Contracts:

Tom Karapantso (716) 487-9645 tomar@stny.rr.com Peter Jablonski (716) 440-7985 peterjablonski@roadrunner.com Joe Guerra (716) 207-9948 jguerra@roadrunner.com Tables $30, $15 for 2nd table if available.

Set-up Sunday 7:00 to 9:00 am

High Quality Georgia and South Carolina Colored Sodas Wanted by Serious Collector Mike Newman 706.829.8060 thenewm@aol.com

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American Poison Bottles Joan C. Cabaniss jjcab@b2xonline.com 540.297.4498, 312 Summer Lane Huddleston, Virginia 24104

Please support Bitters Bottles Research Carlyn Ring

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THE FINDLEY ANTIQUE BOTTLE CLUB 45TH ANNUAL

ANTIQUE BOTTLE AND COLLECTIBLES SHOW AND SALE Sunday October 16, 2022 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Native Southern Californian still needs the sample bottle embossed “Souvenir First Water

from Los Angeles Aqueduct November 5th, 1913”

HANCOCK COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS 1017 E. SANDUSKY ST. FINDLAY, OHIO 45840

Free Parking, Admission $2 Under 12 Free Hot Food and Beverages Available Bottles, Stoneware, Fruit Jars, Collectibles, Insulators, Advertising, Small Antiques, Free Appraisals w/Paid Asdm Email: finbotclub@gmail.com Website: finbotclub.blogspot.com

Dealer Info: Fred Curtis 419-424-0486 Early Bird Adm. Sunday Only 7-9 a.m. $10 Non-Profit Club / Member fohbc.org

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Marty Vollmer (803) 629-8553 martyvollmer@aol.com

Supporting the FOHBC and the hobby since 1972

Midwest Antique Fruit Jar & Bottle Club

In loving memory of Tom Booth, life-time antique bottle collector

The Midwest Antique Fruit Jar and Bottle Club is an organization of people interested in collecting and learning about fruit jars and bottles. While the club is headquartered in the Midwest (Indiana), we have members from all over the country and some in Canada. Find out more at: •Our website: FruitJar.org •Facebook Page: Midwest Antique Fruit Jar & Bottle Club •Famous annual Show and Sale every third Saturday in January in Muncie, Indiana.

Alicia Booth Wickman

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FOHBC Success to the FOHBC and the Reno 2022 National Antique Bottle Convention

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Red Book #12

The Collectors Guide to Old Fruit Jars

To order: Visit our website at redbookjars.com or order direct from the author

Douglas M. Leybourne, Jr. P.O. Box 5417, North Muskegon, MI 49445 redbookdml@gmail.com $45 postpaid within United States Non U.S. orders - postage extra

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For Further Information Contact: Mike McJunkin, 620-728-8304, scarleits@cox.net or Mark Law, 785-224-4836, kansasbottles@gmail.com Sponsored by: Kansas Territory Bottle & Post Card Club (Member: FOHBC)

57th Annual 2023

Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show/Sale

Las Vegas Antique Bottles & Collectibles Club

Every February!

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Darryl Wagner, 816-719-0801 14615 Skyview Ave., Smithville, MO 64089 nwmoshow@dwagnerkc.com

Mark Law, 785-224-4836 5129 NW Arroyo Dr., Topeka, KS 66618 kansasbottles@gmail.com

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49er Historical Bottle Association

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Dale & Barbara Santos Collectors of extraordinary colored Demijohns dabarlej@aol.com Mike Dickman Old Bottles Buy~Sell~Trade

PO Box 549, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504, 505-983-7043

Insuring Antiques & Collectibles for over 31+ years.

Coverage available for Collectors and Dealers Contact our office today!

PO Box 4389 Davidson, NC 28036

800.287.7127 www.aciginsurance.com

Pouring histories from empty bottles is what I love to do.

Antique bottle collections are enhanced when histories of distillers, brewers, patent medicine men and others can be found through research.

Bea and I hope you enjoy the show.

Bill Baab

Ron Hands Collector of Early American Fruit Jars 330.338.3455 rshands1957@gmail.com

1102 Kingswood Road, NW Wilson, NC 27896

WANTED Fine bottles of all types. Barber bottles, Flasks, Bitters, Inks, etc.

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Immediate Payment - No Premiums Free Appraisals Available

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Gary Beatty, member of “The Great Ohio Bottle Club” and past Treasurer of the FOHBC and “Purveyor of Good Will”, wishes all in attendance at Reno 2022 a great time of fellowship, and super buying or selling. Track me down and say hello because even an old cur dog needs a pat on the head once in a while. Always remember...

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Cutting Horses - Barrel Racer Poison Bottle Collector

Ronald Barnes 530-370-3742

Wanted Samples Glass & Crockery 3” to 6” Tall California

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Send me your email address and I’ll send you my detailed lists.

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Buying Western whiskeys, sodas, and bitters, figural bitters, flasks, and inks.

Joe Rothermel 253-218-9767 Also buying advertising items. One item or entire collection.

I have been buying and selling antique bottles for over 50 years.

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1st Chicago Bottle Club Show - 95 A Coin & Silver Shop (Tom Philips) - 58 Addy Meyer - 133 Alicia in Memory of Tom - 127 American Bottle Auctions - Inside Front Cover American Digger Magazine - 108 American Glass Gallery - Inside Back Cover Andrew Koutsoukos (Whiskey Cylinders) - 100 Antique Bottle Club of San Diego - 132 Antiques & Collectibles Insurance Group - 132 Bill & Bea Baab - 132 Bill & Jill Insulators - 73 Bitters Bottles books and Supplements (Bill Ham) - 102 Bob Jochums (Cures for Sale) - 133 Border States Antique Show & Sale - 107 Bottle Tree Antiques Farm (John & Mary Bray) - 128 Carlyn Ring - 125 Charlie Martin Jr., Clarke’s Bitters - 132 Chip Cable (Pittsburgh Bottles Wanted) - 97 Chris Bubash - 119 Columbus Collective Museums - 111 Coventry Bottle & Glass Show - 125 Dale & Barbara Santos - Demijohns - 132 Dana Charlton Zarro (NE Pitkins) - 118 Dave Kyle - 102 Dean Tischler - 118 Early Georgia Sodas (David Kyle Rakes) - 103 Eric McGuire - 16 Ferd & Jeane Meyer - 40 Findlay Bottle Show - 126 FMG Design, Inc. - 131 FOHBC Virtual Museum - 33 Forks of the Delaware Bottle Show - 106 Gary Beatty - 133 Georgia Collective Museums - 111 Ginger Ale - 133 Glass International, LLC (Decaro) - 120 Glass Works Auctions - 24 & 25 Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Show - 124 Hawaii Historical Bottle Collector’s Club - 133 Jim Healy - 89 Joe Rothermel - 134 Heckler Auctions - Back Cover Henry & Toni Johnson - 108 Holabird Western Americana Collections - 42 Houston Bottle Show - 129 Houston Museum of Natural Science – Houston 24 - 36 & 37 Hutchinson Kansas Antique Bottle Show - 130 International Perfume Bottle Association - 31 Jeff (froggy) Burkhardt - 109 Jeffrey S. Evans & Assoc. - 43 Jelly Jammers - 105 Jerry & Helen Forbes - 45 Jim Bender, Bininger - 124 Jim & Jodi Hall - 132 John O’Neill (Jules Hauel) - 60 & 61 John O’Neill (Western pocket flasks) - 63

John & Wanda Joiner (Chestnuts) - 45 JR’s Antique Bottles - 128 Lawrence Kansas Antique Bottle Show - 131 Los Angeles Antique Bottle Show - 105 Marty Vollmer - 126 McMurray Antiques & Auctions - 40 Michael George - 99 Michael Mackintosh - 111 Midwest Antique Fruit Jar & Bottle Club - 127 Mike Dickman - 132 Mike & Julie Newman - 125 Dale Mlasko - 75 Missouri Insulator & Bottle Show - 107 Mr. Bottles - Steven Libbey - 118 Museum of Connecticut Glass - 98 National Assoc. of Milk Bottle Collectors - 109 National Bottle Museum - 88 National Insulator Association (NIA) - 63 North American Glass (Auctions) - 22 Northwestern Santa Rosa Show - 97 Ohio Bottle Club - 129 Painted Soda Bottle Collector Assoc. - 104 Peachridge Glass - 41 Poison Bottles (Joan Cabaniss) - 125 Ralph & Janet Finch (Snuff) - 44 Ralph & Janet Finch (Painted Bottles) - 44 Red Book #12 - 129 Rich & Kathy Tucker - 59 Richard Carney - 106 Richard Siri - 16 Rick & Berny Baldwin - 133 Rick Ciralli (RC Glass) - 124 Ronald Barnes - 133 Ron Hands (Fruit Jars) - 132 Russell & Kitty Umbraco - 133 Sacramento Valley Museum Bottle Show - 109 Sandor P. Fuss - 38 & 39 SodasandBeers.com - 127 Southeastern Antique Bottle Show - 126 Steve Spalding - 99 Spiritschweppes - 128 S.S. Central America Exhibit - 17 State of Franklin Annual Show - 103 St. Louis Antique Bottle Show - 92 Stephen Hubbell - 110 Steve Abbott - 128 Theo Adams (St. Louis Bottles) - 98 Tod von Mechow - 126 Tom Chapman - 118 Tom Jacobs - 101 Tom Pettit (Vintage Soda Bottle Collector) - 104 VM Cures Gallery (Jochums & Shephard) - 98 Walter Smith Furniture Doctor - 128 Warner’s Collectors (Craig & Seeliger) - 96 Willy Van den Bossche - 96 Wisconsin Antique & Advertising Club - 135 Witherell’s - 74

American Glass Gallery:

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