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Tag Archives: Historical
Historical Flasks worth watching in American Glass Gallery Auction #9
American Glass Gallery | Auction #9 Just getting a notification today that American Glass Gallery has opened the Internet portal for their exciting Auction #9. I was also able to closely look at the auction catalog during my 3+ hour … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Auction News, Collectors & Collections, Early American Glass, Flasks, Glass Companies & Works, Historical Flasks, News
Tagged American Glass Gallery, Anchor, Baltimore, Blaske, circled the folowing, Connecticut, Coventry, Eagle, flasks, Fleur-de-lis, George McKearin, GI-83, GI-84, GII-31, GIV-13a, GIV-14, GIX-41, GVIII-25, Historical, Jeff Noordsy, John Pastor, John Robinson, Kentucky, Lafayette, Louisville, Mark Vuono, maryland, Masonic, Moulded, Pattern, Paul Richards, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, sandor fuss, Scroll, Spiller, sunburst, Terry Gillis
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FOHBC 2009 Pomona National Display Videos
F O H B C D I S P L A Y S E R I E S Alan DeMaison (FOHBC Business Manager pictured to left) has been working hard of late putting together videos of the displays … Continue reading
Posted in Bottle Shows, Bottling Works, Club News, Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Demijohns, Digging and Finding, Display, Early American Glass, Flasks, FOHBC News, Glass Companies & Works, Historical Flasks, Hutches, Jelly & Jam, News, Photography, Pottery
Tagged Alan DeMaison, american, Bob Ferraro, Bottle, california, Carboys, Covered, David Hall, Demijohns, Denver, Dick Homme, display, Elaine DeMaison, flasks, fohbc, Graveyard, Historical, hutch, Hutchinson, jars, Jelly & Jam, Lance Westfall, national, Native, Nevada, Pomona, Pottery, Richard Siri, richard tucker, video
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American Bottles in the Charles B. Gardner Collection
The Lure of the Empty Bottle As the Norman C. Heckler Auction 100 – The Warren C. Lane, Jr. Esquire Collection of Historical Flasks winds down and ends this Wednesday evening, 17 October 2012, I thought it might be appropriate to … Continue reading
Posted in Article Publications, Auction News, Collectors & Collections, Early American Glass, Flasks, Historical Flasks, History, News
Tagged Bill Baab, Charles B. Gardner, Connecticut, Flask, Historical, Jared Spencer, Manchester, Norman C. Heckler, Stephen Van Rensselaer, Warren C. Lane
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Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club Show Report & Newsletter
I would like to applaud Dave Maryo (FOHBC Western Director, Prez Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club) and the LAHBC for being on the forefront in the Antique Bottle and Glass world with their club newsletter The Whittlemark, the dissemination of the … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Bottle Shows, Club News, FOHBC News, News
Tagged Bottle, club, Dave Maryo, Historical, LAHBC, Los Angeles, newsletter, Pam Selenak, Randy Selenak
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Post Office against Diggers? Hmmmm
Incoming email from James Campaglia. See Outhouse Patrol On Friday Aug 24th, a friend and I went to the state run historical society (McFarland Curatorial Center) in Virginia City, Montana to see what they could show us that had been … Continue reading
Posted in Digging and Finding, History, News
Tagged artifacts, Digging, Historical, James Campiglia, McFarland Curatorial Center, Montana, outhouse, Outhouse Patrol, Post Office, Society, Virginia City
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Eagle embossed flasks for Independence Day
The boys and girls are really letting the eagles fly over on Early American Glass on facebook. Look at these GREAT pictures. I will continue to add pictures throughout the day as I suspect more will leave their perches. Have … Continue reading
Posted in Early American Glass, Facebook, Flasks, Historical Flasks, Holiday, Photography
Tagged 4th of July, Cody Zeleny, Dale Santos, Dana Charlton-Zarro, Double Eagle, Eagle, Eric Correla, Flask, GI-14, GI-26, GII-62, GII-70, GII-79, GIV-1, Greg Sweet, GV-10, GV-8, Historical, Independence, Michael George, Mike Brauser, Pantaloon, Rick Ciralli, sandor fuss, Willington
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GIV-26 found…Maybe I should have been an Electrician?
Ferdinand, I thought I would share some pictures with you of a rare find. To my knowledge, none of these have shown up in over 20+ years. Very few examples of this bottle are known to exist. An old house … Continue reading
Privy Digging – The Hole Story
The purpose of privy digging is the salvage of antique bottles and everyday household artifacts from the past. Privy Digging – The Hole Story 02 June 2012 Privy digging is the process of locating and investigating the contents of defunct … Continue reading
Posted in Article Publications, Digging and Finding, History, Questions
Tagged bottles, brick, Chris Rowell, Digging, dipped, finding, Historical, holes, Jeff Mihalik, John Nicholson, Matthew Tigue Levanti, Mike Singleton, Nic Meyer, outhouse, pits, privy, privy digging, salvage, Steven Greene, stone, vault, wells, wood
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FOHBC January | February 2012 Issue Now On Stands!
The latest issue of the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors (FOHBC) signature magazine Bottles and Extras is now available to members! This is a great magazine. In addition to other benefits, members of The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors (FOHBC) will receive a full … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Article Publications, Club News, FOHBC News, News, Publications
Tagged Bottle Collectors, Bottles and Extras, Federation, fohbc, Historical, membership
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Liking this Color for a Lafayette/Masonic Historical Flask
Lot #94 LAFAYETTE/MASONIC. GI-89 Half-pint, 6 ½”. 1815-30. Pontil. Another bottle from the West Virginia cache, this is an unusual light to medium green and entirely outside the standard olives or ambers. We’ve seen a fair amount of Lafayette flasks … Continue reading
Posted in Auction News, Flasks, Historical Flasks
Tagged American Bottle Auctions, Flask, Historical, Lafayette, Masonic
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