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the FOHBC 2009 National Bottle Show
July 31-Aug. 2, Pomona, California
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HOSTED BY THE LAHBC
We invite all Bottle &
Antique enthusiast's to attend - Sales Tables still available
but are going fast
So send in your
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A couple
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Randy Driskill, Norm Heckler
& Dave Maryo, 2008 EXPO FOHBC Auctioneers
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FOHBC 2008 EXPO
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AUCTION RESULTS
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From the
November-December 2008 Issue
- The York 2008 - Some "Pristine" Choices
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Dar Furda - LAHBC
If you want quantity
and variety attend an FOHBC EXPO; (this was the 9th one over a 32 year period). There
were 414 dealer tables. It was reported that 258 dealers and their dedicated
helpers managed their tables. Once inside the show room Ken and I started
running our eyes over the tables. At one point I snapped a picture of Mabel
Hicks holding up a Petal Fruit Jar valued at $4,000. There were many high-end
bottles and a wide range of other types. If you were looking for flasks,
figurals, poisons, inks, hutches, whiskeys, pharmacies, bitters and on and on,
you were in the right place! Old glass with color and crudity seemed abundant.
You might say that the show provided a “quality purchase waiting to happen.”
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From the
November-December 2008 Issue
Celebrating 150 Years of
Mason Jars / 1858-2008”
By Jim Sears and Joseph
Merkel
- This year, 2008, marks
the sesquicentennial of the Mason jar. Fifty years ago the Glass Container
Manufacturers Institute estimated that over 100 billion Mason jars had been
produced, and jars bearing the famous Nov. 30th 1858 date continue to be made
today. Early 1858-dated Mason jars offer a wide array of colors and embossing.
Examples, ranging in price from a few to sever hundred dollars are readily
available, making it possible for all collectors to enjoy these truly
fascinating historic glass vessels.
- John L. Mason was a
tinsmith in New York City when he invented a method of mass-producing metal
screw caps. In 1857, he patented the combination of a lathe and a metal chuck,
which turned sheets of metal into threaded caps. While Mason did produce some
of these caps for use on hand-made tin cans, he soon turned to glass vessels
which would accommodate his patent for lids. On October 23, 1858, Mason
patented a mold for blowing glass jars with a screw thread……
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