September | 2025
27 September 2025 | Saturday Changing the host for this website as FatCow (now iPage) is super problematic and slow. The FOHBC and FMG websites have already been changed and are responding much better. Enjoy this picture from Mountain Crest Gardens. I get many of my small succulents from them in bulk form for propagation. Take a look at some of my recent photos from Peachridge Gardens.
26 September 2025| Friday A reminder that I am updating and adding new Bitters finds for Bitters Bottles Supplement 3 (BBs3). Example today: New listing for “Bitter Sultan.” “Good morning, Ferd. Don’t know if you caught this current eBay listing: Bitters Bottle Sultan Berni Brand Original Graphics Label Rare No Pontil | eBay. Made by Vlan Du Berni from Belgium. Nothing online that I could find. Have a good day. Regards…….Joe (Gourd)” New BBs3 number is s3B 112.2.
19 September 2025 | Friday Ferdinand, Digging through old newsletters from APBCA this morning and found this. Hope you enjoy. Vern (Huffstetler). My stepmother Jean (left), pop, Mary Riggins?, and Joan Cabaniss (right). Poison bottle collectors.
15 September 2025 | Monday
This Virtual Museum example represents an extremely rare, “E. Waters Troy. NY” master ink bottle which was hand-blown in an extraordinarily brilliant, clear yellow-green glass. Elisha Waters ink bottles can be found in many sizes, typically in aquamarine glass, and are recognizable by their cylindrical shape and design with the fluted, teardrop shoulders and applied flange mouths. The pontiled ink bottles are very sought after by ink collectors. Visit the Inks Gallery.
14 September 2025 | Sunday Jerry Forbes, my best bottle bud, says I need to attend “Dogs Anonymous.” I have to be very organized every morning when I feed the pack. We had three “guests” below, so it is not as bad as it looks!
05 September 2025 | Friday
The latest issue of Antique Bottle & Glass Collector mails late from Modern Litho in Missouri. Their Heidelberg Press had a breakdown, and a part from Germany was delayed. This is the last issue published by Peachridge Collections. I have worked on this magazine since the merger with Bottles and Extras in 2022 and have overseen the magazine for approximately 15 years. I certainly will miss it, but I will enjoy the newfound time!
03 September 2025 | Wednesday
This museum example represents a robust “Pike & Osgood Alterative Syrup” medicine bottle from Boston, Massachusetts that is ex James Chebalo collection. J. T. Gilman Pike was born about 1814 in Exeter, New Hampshire. He was a prominent and esteemed physician who practiced in the city of Boston. David Osgood was born in 1794 in Massachusetts and was also a well-known physician practicing in Boston. Pike and Osgood paired up in the mid to late 1840s to mid-1850s and had their last names embossed on a highly sought-after and desired patent medicine bottle. MEDICINES GALLERY. FOHBC Virtual Museum, Level 1, West Wing, OPEN 24-7-365. Now on a powerful new dedicated server.
01 September 2025 | Monday (Labor Day)
