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QUESTIONS ?

The FOHBC Answer Panel of EXPERTS

Have a question about an old bottle?

The listing below may contain just the right person to ask. This is the FOHBC Answer Panel - all Federation members. Look over the categories for which each collector has agreed to take questions. If you can't find the category that fits your question, choose a member who'll answer "General Inquiries". Then send an Email to the address given. That's all there is to it... except wait for an answer. 

There are only a couple of details to remember:
First: No monetary questions will be answered.  The best sources for these answers are Price Guides.
Second: Inappropriate questions will be deleted and not answered, so keep it clean, please...

We continue to add individuals with expertise as they are identified.

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By REGIONS

NORTHEAST Region

Connecticut, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington DC  

SOUTHERN Region

Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma,  South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas

  • Bill Baab
    Georgia and South Carolina bottles in general, Augusta bottles in particular. Large network of collector-friends for queries about southern bitters, sodas, black glass, etc. 

  • Tom Lines
    Alabama bottles

  • Ron & Sue Rasnake
    Gins, Black Glass

  • Carl Sturm
    Cures, Flasks, Glass works

  • Ralph Van Brocklin
    Western whiskey flasks, minijugs, Tennessee bottles

  • Bill Wrenn
    Strap side flasks, advertising jugs

MIDWESTERN Region

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ohio, Wisconsin
  • Rick Baldwin
    Victorian Christmas lights, glass chemistry and color, insulators
  • Norm Barnett
    Fruit jars, all aspects
  • Alan DeMaison
    Violin bottles, Meadville, Pennsylvania, rye whiskey
  • Steve Ketcham
    Quack meds, flasks, barber bottles, brewiana/beer bottles, glass and bottle production, bottle-related advertising (trade cards, signs, trays, etc.)
  • Doug Leybourne
    Fruit jars, all aspects
  • Wayne & June Lowry
    Fruit jars, bottle cleaning
  • David & Kathy Nader
    Root beer soda and related items - mid 1800s to present, calabash bottles - mid 1800s
  • John Pastor
    Bitters, historical flasks, pattern-molded flasks, general inquiries
  • Joe Terry
    Ohio patent medicines and drugstore bottles, US patents, NW Ohio glass factories, NW Ohio bottles
  • Don Yates
    American beverage, Ginger beers.

WESTERN Region

Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho,  Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming

  • Bryan Grapentine
    Inks, Bitters, early American scents, Arizona and Canadian bottles
  • Steve Goodenow
    Hawaiian bottles
  • Steve Gould
    Hawaiian bottles, especially Hawaiian BIMAL bottles
  • Dave Hinson
    Fruit jars, all aspects
  • Cecil Munsey
    General inquiries, historical aspects of bottle collecting
  • Mike Polak
    Nevada bottles, whiskeys, medicines, searching, digging and identification of bottles
  • R. J. Reid
    Figural glass bottles, Montana bottles and violin bottles.
  • Ralph Van Brocklin
    Western whiskey flasks, minijugs, Tennessee bottles
  • Kent Williams
    Roman glass, black glass, dating, typing all categories

 

INTERNATIONAL

  • Phil Culhane 
    Canadian bottles and Ginger Beers
  • Greg Dean
    Potlids from USA and Australia
  • Rob & Kath Goodacre
    All things British!  Inks, poisons, black glass, creampots, ginger beers, Christmas lights, potlids, torpedos, baby nursers, foods

By AREAS OF COLLECTING

BASICS

BARBER BOTTLES

BEER

BITTERS

BLACK GLASS

BLOWN GLASS

BOTTLE CLEANING

BOTTLE & GLASS REPAIRS

CURES

FIGURAL

FIRE INSURANCE MAPS

FOODS

FRUIT JARS

GIN BOTTLES

GINGER BEERS

HISTORICAL FLASKS

HISTORIC GLASS BOTTLE DATING & IDENTIFICATION 

INKS

GLASSWORKS

MANUFACTURERS MARKS

MEDICINES

MIDWESTERN GLASS

By AREAS of COLLECTING (con't)

MILK BOTTLES

MISCELLANEOUS

POISONS

POTTERY

SODA

TOKENS

VETERINARY MEDICINE

WESTERN GLASS

WHISKEY

By STATES

ALABAMA

ARIZONA

CALIFORNIA

COLORADO

  • Frank Baxter, Phone: (719) 545-2515

  • Rick Sinner
    Boulder County

GEORGIA

HAWAII

ILLINOIS

KANSAS

MARYLAND

MICHIGAN

MINNESOTA

MONTANA

NEVADA

NEW MEXICO

NEW YORK

NORTH CAROLINA

OHIO

  • James Houdeshell, Phone: (419) 422-0066 

OREGON

PENNSYLVANIA 

SOUTH CAROLINA

SOUTH DAKOTA

TENNESSEE 

TEXAS

UTAH

VIRGINIA

  • Charlie Barnett
    Bristol, Virginia

  • Frank Kowalski, Phone: (540) 877-1093
    N Shenandoah Valley

WISCONSIN

WYOMING 

MEXICO



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