Category Archives: Soda Water

I was a very close friend of Tommy Mitchiner

Posted on 30 August 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

I was a very close friend of Tommy Mitchiner 30 August 2013 | By Mike Newman I was a very close friend of Tommy Mitchiner, as our relationship went back 32 years. I was just a newlywed with no money … Continue reading →

Posted in Collectors & Collections, Digging and Finding, News, Soda Water | Tagged Digging, Mike Newman, Savannah, Tommy Mitchiner | Leave a comment

Manchester Display Photo Gallery

Posted on 23 July 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

More pictures from the FOHBC 2013 National Antique Bottle Show in Manchester, New Hampshire. Display awards were announced this past Sunday afternoon near the conclusion of the show. Congratulations are in order to Michael George and his Stoddard Glass Factory exhibit … Continue reading →

Posted in Blown Glass, Bottle Shows, Bottling Works, Club News, Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Digging and Finding, Display, Early American Glass, Ephemera, Flasks, FOHBC News, Freeblown Glass, Ginger Ale, Glass Companies & Works, Glass Makers, History, Inks, Insulators, Medicines & Cures, Milk & Creamers, Mineral Water, Miniatures, News, Reproductions, Soda Bottles, Soda Water, Stoneware, Utility Bottles | Tagged award, Bob Kennerknecht, Bobby Hilton, Bonney, cone, Dale Murschell, Dave Olson, Dave Waris, Dennis Gionet, display, fohbc, fragments, Ginger Ale, Holly Noordsy, Ink, inkwells, Jeff Noordsy, Jim Bender, Jim Gray, Karen Gray, Ken Previtali, Kevin Kyle, Lyndeborough, Manchester, Mark Newton, Mark Yates, Michael George, Mount Vernon, Moxie, New England, New Jersey, Paul Richards, Reproductions, Rob Girouard, Sandwich, Soda, Stoddard, stoneware, sunburst, Tom Marshall, Wistarburgh | Leave a comment

Manchester Seminar Pictures

Posted on 22 July 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Manchester, NH Seminars I wanted to get some pictures up as quickly as I could. Returned today from Manchester with Elizabeth. The seminars, simply put, were awesome, informative and well attended. It was truly hard to select a topic each … Continue reading →

Posted in Advice, Bottle Shows, Club News, Collectors & Collections, Demijohns, Early American Glass, FOHBC News, Freeblown Glass, Glass Companies & Works, Glass Makers, History, Milk & Creamers, Mineral Water, News, Soda Water | Tagged Al Morin, blown three mold, Brian Wolff, Connecticut, David Hoover, Demijohns, fohbc, George Waddy, glasshouse, Ian Simmonds, Jim George, Manchester, Mark Yates, Michael George, Milk, Mount Vernon Glass Co., New Hampshire, Rick Ciralli, seminars, Soda Water, South Jersey, Thomas Haunton | Leave a comment

Colored Pontiled St. Louis Sodas – Feltman Collection

Posted on 28 June 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Colored Pontiled St. Louis Sodas Tom Feltman Collection 28 June 2013 My wife said I will probably die in a privy and I told her SO BE IT. Hello Ferdinand, I live near St. Louis, Mo. and have been digging … Continue reading →

Posted in Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Digging and Finding, Display, Mineral Water, Soda Water | Tagged Brandon & Pease, C. Abel & Co., J. Cairns & Co., Landsberg's Century Bitters, M & W, Missouri, pontil, R & J Adams, Soda, St. Louis, Tom Feltman | 3 Comments

Jacob Youngblood and the Bernhard Soda Water Apparatus

Posted on 25 May 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Hello Sir, my name is Daniel and I have been collecting bottles for a few years now. I have recently acquired a very nice blob top bottle that is greenish and says YOUNG.BLOOD (see above) in big lettering around the … Continue reading →

Posted in Bottling Works, History, Mineral Water, Questions, Soda Water, Technology | Tagged Apparatus, Daniel Zern, Jacob Youngblood, Joseph Bernhard, Jungblut, Mineral Water, New Jersey, Philadelphia, pony, Red Bank, Soda, Tod von Mechow | Leave a comment

Danny Catherino and his Great Bottle Hoard

Posted on 31 December 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

I received some interesting communications and pictures recently from Danny Catherino up in Philadelphia. I am going to leave the e-mails and pictures alone for the most part. I find these images and Danny really interesting. Obviously not the best … Continue reading →

Posted in Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Digging and Finding, Figural Bottles, Medicines & Cures, Soda Water | Tagged Danny Catherino, Drakes, Glass Works, Harmer Rooke, Jeff Wichmann, Jim Hagenbuch, Leighton's, Norman Heckler, Osbourns, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Bottle Club | Leave a comment

Woods’ Baltimore City Directory – 1864

Posted on 10 December 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

I get asked all the time from collectors, especially in my collecting area of Bitters; “so what is happening?”, “heard about any new bottles?, “anything in the upcoming auction interest you?” or “are you going to the so and so … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Advice, Ales & Ciders, Bitters, Blown Glass, Bottling Works, Breweriana, Civil War, Collectors & Collections, Demijohns, Early American Glass, Flasks, Fruit Jars, Glass Companies & Works, Glass Makers, History, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Mineral Water, Peachridge Glass, Publications, Soda Water, Spirits, Tobacco, Tonics | Tagged A. Hoen & Co., B. G. Tubman & Co., Baker Bros. & Co., Baltimore, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Baltimore Glass Works, bitters, Boggs, Boyd, Chris Rowell, city, Civil War, Cottman, directory, ferdinand meyer, German, John Boyd, John W. Woods, Tonic, University of Maryland, Woods | 2 Comments

The One Worth Coming Back To

Posted on 27 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

The One Worth Coming Back To TOM LEVEILLE Everyone who digs bottles at some point or another will have a situation that they are faced with, for one reason or another… “Stop”. The phrase worse than “NO” when asking permission. … Continue reading →

Posted in Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Digging and Finding, Soda Water | Tagged Baltimore, Chris Rowell, Digging, Newport News, Phil Edmonds, Philadelphia, Richmond, Tom Leveille, Virginia | Leave a comment

Could we have a 2016 Mega Expo and a 2020 International Antique Glass Festival?

Posted on 9 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Hi Ferdinand, I went to the Springfield Insulator show last weekend and was approached by three different high end insulator people about exploring the possibility of the Federation and NIA getting together in the future to collaborate on a national … Continue reading →

Posted in Advice, Bottle Shows, Breweriana, Club News, Early American Glass, FOHBC News, Fruit Jars, Insulators, News, Perfume, Poison Bottles, Questions, Soda Water | Tagged APBCA, Event, Expo, festival, fohbc, international, Jamie Houdeshell, NAMBC, national, NIA, Quilt, show, VBCA | 5 Comments

An eBay bottle leads to something much bigger!

Posted on 3 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

I was in southern California earlier in the week and was able to have dinner at a really fantastic Indian restaurant in San Bernardino with my friends Pam and Randy Selenak from Orange, California. During the course of dinner, Pam … Continue reading →