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From the May-June
2010 Issue:
Louis Lacour - by - Eric McGuire and
Warren Friedrich
"There are three
separate molds from which the Lacours bitters bottles
were blown. All are very similar with only minor
variations detected. It is not possible to determine
which mold was made first or why more than one mold was
made for a bottle that didn't achieve production levels
great enough to cause a mold to wear out. We can
only speculate on a number of scenarios..."
"Click here to read the full
article"
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In memory of
Cary Adelman,
Black Glass Bottles - by - Cary Adelman
"In the last few years,
collecting Black Glass bottles has been gaining momentum
in the United States, though it's been popular for
decades in Europe and even longer in England. If
you begin to study, learn, and handle examples of these
early mostly free-blown bottles, your interest in them
is sure to grow, just as mine has."
"Click here to read the full
article"
2010 FOHBC
Contest Winners:
Show Posters (7
entries):
1. Huron Valley Bottle & Insulator
Club
2. Minnesota’s First/North Star
Bottle Club (dual poster) #2
3. Antique Bottle Club of San Diego
Club Newsletter
Awards (9 entries):
1. The Whittlemark, Los Angeles
Historical Bottle Club
2. The Ohio Swirl, Ohio Bottle Club
3. The Bottleneck, San Diego Antique
Bottles and Collectible Club
Writers’ Research
Articles (10 entries):
1. Jack Sullivan, Naughty, Naughty
Cincinnati (in The Ohio Swirl, April 2010)
2. Phyllis Koch, The Larkin Soap
Company (in The Ohio Swirl, August 2009)
3. Jack Sullivan, Toledo’s Woolson,
the Father of the Trade Card (in The Ohio Swirl, July
2009)
Original True
Stories (12 entries):
1, Johnnie Fletcher, Digging the Big
Pit, Oklahoma Territory News
2. Ed Stewart, Case of the
Masquerading Privy, Oklahoma Territory News
3. Bill Koster, The Coldest Dig, The
Ohio Swirl, March 2010
Fiction Award (2
entries)
1. Bobby Vaughn, Never Say Never
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