FinBotClub Newsletter for 05/01/2014

MAY 2014

April Showers Bring May Flowers

Isn't it appropriate that income tax month begins with April Fools Day and ends with cries of May Day!?

Happy Cinco de Mayo, and Happy Mothers Day!

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The Findlay Bottle Show - Sunday Oct. 15 2023 - Ohio's Best!

Sep 05, 2022 10:46 pm | noreply@blogger.com (Ms Dow Antiques)

2023 FINDLAY BOTTLE SHOW
We're pleased to announce our 46th annual show!
Sunday October 15, 2023

Old Mill Stream Centre on the Hancock County Fairgrounds

1017 E. Sandusky St., Findlay, Ohio

Come to the Best ~~Little~~ NEW and IMPROVED, BIGGER and BETTER Bottle Show in the MidWest!

NEW LOCATION – BIGGER and BETTER – MORE DEALER TABLES

And more outside space!

Mark your calendars now for Sunday October 15, 2023 for a great day of shopping, learning more about our collections and hobby, and especially making new friends and visiting with other folks who "speak bottle-ese".

We are excited to have all our bottle friends join us at this wonderful new show venue. Our new show location is a dream come true! The newly built facility, the OLD MILL STREAM CENTRE, has it all, with plenty of parking and room to grow!

It is located on the Hancock County Fairgrounds at 1017 E. Sandusky St., Findlay.

The show is on Sunday Oct. 15, with dealer-only set up on Saturday afternoon.

Directions from I-75, coming from North or South: take exit #157/Rt. 12 East, then go south on Main Cross to 568 then East to Sandusky St.

Public Show hours: 9am until 2pm – Admission is just $5

Early Bird Hours Sunday: 7-9am – Tickets are only $20 and includes complimentary Coffee and Donuts until 9am.

Early Bird Session is Sunday only, not Saturday.

Dealer set up is on Saturday October 14, 2023, 2-6pm. (You may bring boxes in starting at 1pm, but not set merchandise out until 2pm.)
Note: The club will NOT be serving dinner on Saturday.
We suggest you use the hotels at the I-75 / Rt. 224 / Exit 159 area.
For all show questions, contact Show Chairman FRED CURTIS 419-424-0486

Of course, the Findlay Bottle Show still has its best features:

Great dealers selling AND
Wonderful collectors shopping

The OLD MILL STREAM CENTRE has all the features that make for a great bottle show:

Room for more dealer tables
Wide aisles!
Excellent lighting, heating and air conditioning
Restrooms
Huge parking lot -- THE FAIRGROUNDS!
Space for outside dealer set up
Handicapped accessibility
Food concession inside w/seating
Dealer-only set-up on Saturday
Complimentary donuts and coffee for Early Birds and Dealers during Sunday morning set-up.

DEALER TABLES WILL GO FAST!

We always have tons of space outside, as long as the weather's good, so give Fred a call if you want to set up outside on SUNDAY ONLY!

Tons of new dealers, and our regular dealers will have tons of new merch, so plan to attend! It's going to be a great show!

Early bird admission gets in at 7am, with complimentary coffee and donuts!

Sunday October 15, 2023
Show hours: from 9am - 2pm
Admission is $5.00
Kids under 12 are free (w/adults)
Free appraisals w/paid admission
Plenty of FREE parking in a huge paved parking lot.
Show is in a heated building, w/restrooms, and a food concession inside.

Early Bird Hours: 7-9am – Tickets are only $20 and include complimentary Coffee and Donuts until 9am.
Early Bird Session is Sunday only, not Saturday.

Early Bird Buyers Admission on Sunday morning, from 7-9am, is just $20. You'll get first pick when the dealers are still setting up, and free donuts and coffee while they last!

There are several SUNDAY ONLY dealers inside who do NOT set up on Saturday, PLUS the outside dealers only set up on Sunday morning, so there's plenty of fresh merch to choose from for Sunday's Early Bird buyers!

Saturday Oct. 14 is for dealers only. Sorry, no public early bird admission on Saturday. You must have a dealer contract.

There are always plenty of outside spaces available (weather permitting). Most years the day is nice enough, and we have several outside dealers. Even if it's cold, there are always a few hardy souls who set up out there. Keep your fingers and toes crossed for sunshine this year.

Contact Show Chairman, Fred Curtis (419-424-0486) for more info.

Read the dealer details below, and hope to see you there!

This is a wonderful location for us, and is much larger and newer than our old locations. In past years we have always sold out of dealer tables, and had a waiting list for cancellations.

8' Dealer tables are $40.00 each.
This new location will allow us to arrange the show layout as will best accommodate the number of tables needed.
Tables will still be assigned on a first-paid basis.

Call the show chairman to reserve your tables NOW!

Fred Curtis (419-424-0486)

If you can't make the show, call Fred by Oct. 1st to cancel and to receive a full refund of your payment. (Refunds may not be mailed out until after the show date.)
If your contract/payment is received after the tables are sold out, we will contact you. Don't worry, your payment will be cancelled / refunded / returned.

Note: Hotel names and phone numbers may not be current.

The best selection of hotels are at I-75 exit #159 / Rt 224
You can easily get to and from the hotels area and the bottle show. It's just a 10-15 minute drive. (Follow the same directions as above.)
There are many restaurants near the I-75 hotel area.
Google link to Findlay hotels listings: here
Call the hotel for your reservation asap.

Saturday's Dealer set-up will run from 2pm - 6pm.
Link to a list of all the nearby restaurants.

Here's a map to give you an idea. There are dozens of restaurants, from fast food to fancy, from Seafood, Italian, Pizza, Chinese or... you name it!

For all reservation and contract questions, contact Show Chairman:

FRED CURTIS 419-424-0486

8' Dealer tables are $40.00 each.
Full payment must accompany each contract.
Checks may be held until after the show.
Cancellations w/full refund accepted until Oct. 1^st.
Final table assignments will not be made until after October 1^st, since this new location will allow us to arrange the show layout as will best accommodate the number of tables needed. BUT...
Tables will still be assigned on a first-paid basis, so get your PAID contracts to Fred Curtis right away.
These details are subject to change until the contracts are released.

Contact Show Chairman, Fred Curtis (419-424-0486) for more info.
*No tables will be reserved until the printed contracts become available in May at the Mansfield Bottle Show.

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Some pix from previous shows:

2014:

Click to enlarge pix.

2013:

See more photos: 2012 -- 2011 -- 2010

Lou McFadden Milk Bottle Collection Auction September 2022

Aug 05, 2022 01:41 pm | noreply@blogger.com (Ms Dow Antiques)

Lou McFadden Milk Bottle Collection Auction September 2022

Lou and wife Sue were members of our bottle club. Sue writes to tell us about the upcoming auction of some of their huge dairy collection.

"Lou was a long-time milk bottle collector and loved being a part of the Findlay Club Bottle Show each Fall! We're planning an online auction of the remainder of Lou's collection, and wonder if you could post the attached ad for the auction to be held in September, 2022.

Please let me know if you have any questions! Thanks! Sue"

ONLINE BIDDING ONLY --

https://www.kaufman-auctions.com/auction/lou-mcfadden-milk-bottle-dispersal-auction-63319/details

Full catalog: https://bid.kaufman-auctions.com/auctions/catalog/id/32779/?items=100&page=1

Photos only: https://www.kaufman-auctions.com/auction/lou-mcfadden-milk-bottle-dispersal-auction-63319/photos

Bottle Auction Urbana Ohio Fairgrounds November 28

Nov 11, 2021 10:27 am | noreply@blogger.com (Ms Dow Antiques)

Huge Antique, Bottle, Jar & Advertising Auction

https://www.auctionzip.com/Listings/3603632.html

Sun Nov 28 - 11:00AM

384 Park Ave, Urbana, OH Click to Map

View Full Photo Gallery

1/2 Pt. Zanesville Flask
Washington crossing Delaware Milk Bottle
Lot M1
lot F1

    Attached Files    
Fruit Jar Listing  (DOCX)
Milk Bottle Listing  (DOCX)
Outstanding

Outstanding and important live and in person Antique Bottle Fruit Jar & Advertising Auction at the Champaign County Fairgrounds Featuring:

160 lots of Good Fruit Jars from a lifelong Northwest Pennsylvania collection. Includes Amber Globe, Lightning, Tobacco Jars, Millville Atmospheric, Colored 1858's, Wax Seal jars, Lot's of sets of pints, quarts & HG's. Colored Atlas including EZ seals and Masons, 15 midget Mason's, Woodbury, Protector, Dandy, Rare 1 Gallon HWP Lightning, Jumbo Peanut Butter Jars with lids, product jars, stoneware, early wax sealers and more. Nice jar lids. A great selection of jars! See attached listing & Photo gallery!

The Ohio Milk Bottle Collection of the late Larry Johnson of Columbus featuring 225 scarce to rare Ohio milk bottle lots. All areas of Ohio included. Includes Ohio Baby Face, Cop The Top, Hoppy, War, Ohio 1 Gallon jugs. Lots of Ohio milk caps. Nursing bottles and early dairy containers. Miniature Sheffield Bottles and metal carrier. Large lot of miniature milks including Borden's. Embossed creamers. Ohio Opener collection. Lots of dairy related paper advertising and letterheads. See attached Listing for Larry's Ohio bottle collection. 

Special consignment of milk bottles from the Ohio Bottle Club including Washington Crossing the Delaware Malec and Marek Quart from Cleveland. Nice amber California Bordens, Also nice bottles from Texas, Oklahoma, Idaho & more. See photo gallery & listing.  

Other Antique Bottles to include early medicines, historical flasks including amber 1/2 pint double eagle, black glass Hostetter's bitters, Dutch onions, case gins, sodas, beer, Storage jars & lots of other early bottles. Local bottles of all types to Clark, Montgomery, Logan, Miami, Champaign counties. See photo gallery for lots of pictures!

Advertising & Antiques including advertising tins, signs, nice large selection of advertising wood boxes and crates including local. Collection of 20 original Frank Leslie Civil War prints to be sold in 1 lot. Early labels including Temperance labels from Springfield. Large lot of advertising nail aprons, Early cast iron dog, Mickey Mouse Insulators, early Wooden Shoe Minster Ohio Serving Tray. Nice marble collection. Nice Victorian Art Glass. Early tin Coleman Cooler. Early glass candy containers. Nice selection of handled milk bottle carriers. Paper Store Display piece. Oil Bottles with spouts and carrier. #40 Dazey Churn. 

Early primitives and tools including large doll house, hay saws, single tress, early hand tools, cast iron, early gas stove and more.

Lots of stoneware including jar of over 100 turn of the century stoneware mini jugs excavated at the Robinson Clay Pottery in Akron Ohio. Mini stoneware collection, lots of misc. jugs and jars.   

Listing and pictures will be updated weekly. 

Special preview available Saturday November 27th from 10am-4pm. I would plan on bringing boxes as I will have some available but not enough for all. 

Food By John's Kettle Korn 

Auctioneers - Joe Hardin
              Ken Ludington 
Licensed & Bonded By the Ohio Dept. Of Agriculture

All announcements day of sale to take precedent. Not responsible for accidents. Local absentee bids accepted, pickup day of sale only. No Buyers Premium. Local sales tax of 7.25% applies. 

Terms: Cash, local checks, credit cards with 5% fee.

Findlay Bottle Show 2021 Major Success!

Oct 28, 2021 12:44 pm | noreply@blogger.com (Ms Dow Antiques)

We had a great show! Lots of treasures, and a lot of visiting, like a big bottle family reunion!

The new building at the fairgrounds is perfect for a bottle show.

Already looking forward to next year's show!

Sad News: Larry Johnson aka Larry the Bottle Guy Obituary

Apr 08, 2020 12:49 pm | noreply@blogger.com (Ms Dow Antiques)

[See additional memorial info at bottom of the post, added 4-17-20]

Sad to report that Larry Johnson has passed away. Known to all as Larry the Bottle Guy, he was a long time collector and dealer, a fixture at bottle shows and the Springfield Extravaganza. Our condolences to Larry's Mom, family and friends. There will not be a funeral or memorial ceremony, as per Larry's wishes.

Joe Clevenger was a close friend, and shared some thoughts and memories of their years of collecting and selling at shows together:

Larry the Bottleman

Larry was born in Columbus, Ohio on March 16, 1948, to Homer Joseph and Alice Louise Johnson.

Larry's boyhood home was on Sinclair Road near the corner of East Lincoln Avenue. Behind their

home was the railroad and the Indianola Park. Larry would play in the park and along the railroad

tracks.

Larry's mom worked around the corner from their home at the neighborhood soda shop. After school

Larry would get off the bus at the soda shop and stay there until his mom's shift would end. Larry

would often talk about the great treats he would get there while he waited for his mom's shift to end.

After graduating from high school he attended Ohio State University for one year. He would rather

do the field work than the book work. So he dropped out due to poor grades.

He then worked for a few years at a variety of jobs. Not being the 9 to 5 type. He began working in

the antique business in 1972. In the early years he specialized in vintage clothing and antique furniture.

Over the years, Larry operated two antique shops in the Columbus area.

Larry closed the shops and moved back home to live with his parents. Larry then began to specialize

with the buying and selling of canning jars, Wheaton bottles, pictorial soda bottles and Ohio milk

bottles. Giving up the shops Larry began to set up at various flea market and antique malls.

I met Larry at the Farmer's Merchants Days flea market in 1995. At first I think he viewed me as a

pest. He quickly put me to work thinking it would get me to go away. It didn't work. He began to see

that I would be a good helper. So I began working with him at various shows across Ohio and Indiana.

Over the years Larry has spent a lot of time teaching me about bottles, jars and how the flea market

business works. He has also been a great source of information for dairy history.

In July of 2019, Larry began having painful spasms in his left arm. By August the spasms began to

become more frequent. After the Fall Extravaganza, Larry had a major seizure. He ended up in

Riverside Hospital for two weeks. At that time they found that he had a large tumor at the top of his

brain. Along with a mass on his right lung.

Over the fall he continued buying and selling along with short stays in the hospital and nursing

homes for various issues. Slowly over the fall Larry began to lose the use of his legs. By February he

was in a wheelchair most of the time.

In March, Larry had another seizure and ended up in the hospital. He quickly began going downhill.

Larry passed away on April 1, 2020. Larry was a good friend and partner in the business.

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Larry the Bottle Guy

Here are some links to read, and to write your own, memories of Larry Johnson the Bottle Guy. He is missed by so many people who met him over the years. The Facebook post alone was seen by almost 5000 people! RIP, Larry!

https://www.leafcremationohio.com/obituaries/Lawrence-Maxwell-Johnson?obId=12586988#/celebrationWall

https://www.forevermissed.com/larry-thebottleman-johnson/about

Early Bird Hours: 7-9am – Tickets are only $20 and include complimentary Coffee and Donuts until 9am.Early Bird Session is Sunday only, not Saturday.

Lou McFadden Milk Bottle Collection Auction September 2022

Huge Antique, Bottle, Jar & Advertising Auction

WE'RE HAPPY TO HELP

Early Bird Hours: 7-9am – Tickets are only $20 and include complimentary Coffee and Donuts until 9am.
Early Bird Session is Sunday only, not Saturday.