The Richfield Bottle Show and Sale is tomorrow. Early admission is at 7:30 AM on Sunday followed by the show from 9 AM to 2 PM. Join the OBC for the hospitality room tonight at 6:30, great food. Make it a bottle weekend by staying at the Days Inn & Suites, join us for the hospitality room Saturday evening and the show on Sunday. Louis and Matt have negotiated a great rate at the Days Inn & Suites, Richfield that includes a hot breakfast buffet Sunday morning. Click on “Read More” to see pictures from last year.
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Insulator Show Richfield, OH
The 6th annual Oktoberfeat Insulator Show is Saturday September 10th at the Richfield Masonic Hall, 3750 Grant St., Richfield, OH starting at 10 AM. Free admission. Tables are still available for dealers. Just a quick note that the OBC Bottle Show & Sale is on that Sunday the 11th and also in Richfield, OH.
Ohio Gold Rush Days
The Buckeye Chapter of the GPAA presents “Ohio Gold Rush Days”, September 3 & 4 at beautiful GPAA Swank Claim, Bellville, Ohio. They are offering gold panning, common digs, metal detecting hunts, kids activities, food/equipment dealers, live auction and more. See the Flyer for more information or visit the website. This really looks like a lot of fun.
Glassworks Auction
The Glassworks is offering their “The Summer Extravaganza” with parts ending on August 29th, August 30th and August 31st. This auction has a wide variety of items and worth your time to explore. Good luck. Also, the OBC is scheduled to be at the Hartville Flea Market on August 20th.
Old Dr. J. Townsend Sarsaparilla
“Alan, here is a OLD DR. TOWNSEND SARSAPARILLA I picked up at Norm Hecklers several years ago. You were there also. It just so happened I was one on the very first to make the rounds. The first table I came to this jumped out at me I snatched it up. Several guys behind me ask to look at it while I quickly paid the guy. I didn’t have time to quibble and the price was cheap.” Best Regards, Gary Beatty. See all Gary’s pictures by clicking on “Read More”. Four of us including Roger Hardesty, Terry Crislip and Tim Kearns made the trip to the fall Keene Bottle Show.
Marble games program, a big hit!
Tim Ickes gave a very entertaining program for our June meeting on marble games. He displayed a wide variety of early marble games. The July meeting will feature our annual picnic meeting with KFC provided by the club. Each member is to bring a side dish and/or dessert to share. Click on “Read more” to see all the pictures from the June meeting.
Todd & HGTV
One of our very own club members(Ohio Bottle Club) was filmed for an upcoming HGTV special on “The Revolutionary War On The Tuscarawas – Fort Laurens Encampment”. Todd Knisley joined OBC members at the Hartville Flea market on Saturday July 9th to participate in the club membership drive. He stayed until a little after Noon and then packed up to join the 8th Pennsylvania Regiment which is part of the Brigade of the American Revolution, in Bolivar. The 8th Pennsylvania is a group of American Revolutionary War reenactors who meet to give impressions of 18th century military life. Todd was invited to participate in a reenactment at Fort Laurens in Bolivar Ohio. Todd was honored as being the only non-regimental member invited to be in attendance at the two-day event. As seen in the photos, Todd took Revolution era bottles that spanned from the French & Indian War, the American Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812, to not only show what items of the reenactment period would have looked like, but to show the transition before and after the period.
OBC at Shupp’s Grove 2016
Unfortunately I missed Friday which was dealer setup and early admission, but there was still plenty to see and handle on Saturday morning. Dealers rent spaces with tables and many times there are 2 and 3 tables on each space. Many Ohio Bottle Club members made the trip and with were pleased with their purchases. Should be a great “Best of” with all the great bottles. It is like a quality bottle show in a forest. I did find a rare Meadville Rye Whiskey advertising tin sign, it didn’t go home with me because I already have it in an original frame. See all the OBC members and friends by clicking on “Read More”.
FOHBC 2018 Cleveland National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo
The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors (FOHBC) is thrilled to announce the 2018 FOHBC National Antique Bottle Convention in Cleveland, Ohio on August 3rd – 5th, 2018. This mega event promises to deliver in ways we haven’t seen before!
The Convention will take place at the Cleveland Convention Center in beautiful downtown Cleveland and the Cleveland Marriott Downtown at Key Center will be our host hotel next door to the Convention Center. The newly transformed downtown Cleveland is sure to deliver on a one of a kind experience featuring attractions such as the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, Great Lakes Science Center, Horseshoe Casino, Metroparks Zoo and Westside Market that are sure to entice collectors of all ages.
Hartville in July
The OBC members descended upon the Hartville, OH flea market Saturday July 9. Ten members claimed 7 spaces to promote the OBC, educate the public and sell their merchandise. Adam Koch, Todd Knisley, Jim Cady, Matt & Elizabeth Lacy, John Fifer, Louis Fifer & Lindsay, Dave Keding, and Alan DeMaison represented the OBC. The new OBC banners brought attention to our group and can be used multiple times throughout the year. See “Read More” for pictures.
Gary Beatty honored
Our own OBC member, Gary Beatty recently was honored with a prize (super bottle) from AB & GC magazine for his story “Flora Temple”. Congratulations to Gary. Gary is the current FOHBC Treasurer and a former OBC President. The bottle is a C.W. MERCHANT, CHEMIST, LOCKPORT, N.Y. Gary also donated a bitters bottle that will be given away at the July club picnic.
Insulator Expo
The Insulator Collectors of America EXPO is approaching fast! This inaugural event, hosted by the Western Reserve Insulator Club, will begin on Friday, June 24th, at the Washington (PA) County Fairgrounds, with early admission in the afternoon…and the venue will conclude with a full day of activities on Saturday, which are open to the public for a nominal admission fee. There will be over 70 sales tables of insulators, railroad collectibles and miscellaneous go-withs, including antique bottles and glass collectibles, at the show venue. The show venue will include educational displays and four separate seminars, with topics on recent finds a historic railroad line, discussions of both early glass communication insulators and early Pittsburgh-area porcelain insulators, technologies employed today to “alter” vintage glass colors & appearances and a discussion of safety issues when using chemicals to clean glass collectibles.