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Ferdinand Meyer V, FOHBC President, is a native of Baltimore, MD and has a BFA in Fine Art and Graphic Design from the Kansas City Art Institute and School of Design. Ferdinand is also a principal of FMG Design (nationally recognized design firm). Ferdinand is a passionate collector of American Historical Glass specializing in Bitters bottles, color runs and related classic figural bottles. Ferdinand is married to Elizabeth Jane Meyer and lives in Houston, TX with their daughter and three wonderful grandchildren. The Meyer’s are also very involved in Quarter Horses, Antiques and early United States Postage Stamps. |
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Bob Ferraro, FOHBC First Vice President, is a life time member of the FOHBC and has collected figural bitters and whiskeys and Nevada memorabilia for more than 45 years. He and his wife Connie have amassed the most complete collection of embossed and paper labeled bottles that has been assembled from Nevada. Bob is serving his second year as the first Vice President of the Federation. He was President of FOHBC from 1977 to 1979 and has been actively involved in many shows and activities relating to the Federation for the past forty years. |
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Jamie Houdeshell, FOHBC 2nd Vice President, is a native of Findlay, Ohio and has lived in various locations in Northwest Ohio for most of his life. When he was a child, Jaime got interested in collecting through his parents who were avid pressed glass collectors. Jaime has a general collection of bottles with an emphasis on eastern whiskeys, figural or fancy bitters, historical or figured flasks, and some select pieces of mid-western, pattern molded glass. Jaime is married to Cheri, who is a certified public accountant and have two teenage children named Ethan and Zoe. |
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Jim Berry, FOHBC Secretary, is a collector of colored inks, historical flasks, mineral waters and local history. Jim was born and raised in upstate New York. Jim has been married to Valeri for 38 years and have five children, three of which are in the Air Force and ten grandchildren.
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Gary Beatty, FOHBC Treasurer: Gary is a former FOHBC treasurer, Midwest Regional Director and First Vice President. Gary also served three terms as Ohio Bottle Club President and was instrumental in getting Harry Hall White, Richard Watson, and Doc Ford inducted into the FOHBC Hall of Fame. Gary and wife Betty are Life Members of the FOHBC. Gary is a graduate with a Bachelors degree from Midwestern Baptist College, Michigan, Trinity Baptist University Toledo, and a Doctorate of Divinity from Heritage Baptist College, Hopewell, IN. Gary and Betty collect square bitters, gins, schnapps, beers and Ohio. Gary has been digging, collecting and writing about bottles for 45 years. |
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Richard Watson, FOHBC Historian for the past 20 years, is a Federation Life Member and was elected to the FOHBC Hall Of Fame in 1968. Dick has been collecting since 1959 was was fortunate to know a number of the early collectors. He collects bottles of many types plus three mould decanters, patent models, fruit jars etc. He is also a longtime board member of Wheaton Arts, formerly Wheaton Village and he is a Board rep for the Museum Of American Glass where he is the Museum coordinator for annual FOHBC displays. He is the author of Bitters Bottles, 1965 and Bitters Bottle Supplement, 1968.
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Martin Van Zant, FOHBC Bottles and Extras Editor, has been collecting bottles since he was 17, when his stepfather took him on a dig. Martin collects historical Masonic flasks, Indiana blob beers, Indiana Pontiled Medicines, Indiana Bitters, Indiana Sodas and also Lightning Rod Balls on the side. Martin is the editor for two bottles clubs, Wabash Valley Antique Bottle and Pottery Club out of Terre Haute and the Circle City Antique Bottle Club out of Indianapolis. Martin states that his door is always open to talk bottles, and to take your stories, so give him a call or send him a message. |
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Sheldon Baugh, FOHBC Merchandising Director, has collected bottles since 1968. Like a lot of collectors, he loves all categories of bottles but his collection is primarily focused on Bitters and Shaker bottles. He has been married to his wife Brenda for 48 years and has 2 children and 2 granddaughters. Sheldon had an insurance agency that he owned and operated for 43 years and also served for 14 years as state representative and retired at the end of 2008. He is a life member of the federation and has also served as midwest director, vice president and president for two terms. |
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Jim Bender, FOHBC Membership Director, started collecting and digging bottles back in 1972 as a kid in school. Over the years he has collected groups of bitters, inks and Saratoga type mineral waters, which he has sold off. The past 15 years he has been collecting Union Clasping Hands Flasks as his main grouping along with many miscellaneous other bottles. He hope’s to be the first person to complete a set of Group XII bottles and is only a few bottles away! Best memory to date is the Gardner Sale. ‘’Even as a kid I knew GOOD when I saw it”. |
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Tom Phillips, FOHBC Conventions Director, is a collector of all categories of antique bottles, antique advertising, pottery, and general store items. Tom and his wife Lisa live in Memphis, Tennessee and have two children; Barbara and Kendall. Tom enjoys local area history as well. He has been an active collector and digger for nearly 40 years. |
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Alan DeMaison, FOHBC Business Manager, is a retired Math teacher and currently working as a Math consultant. He is a collector of Historical Flasks, violin bottles and Meadville Rye Whiskey Items. He is a member of the Ohio Bottle Club serving as past President and past Show chairman.
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Pam Selenak, FOHBC Public Relations Director, is a native of Bartlett, Illinois and lives in Orange, California. Pam is married to Randy Selenak and is a registered nurse for 28 years specializing in surgery. She has been the President and Vice President of the Los Angelas Historical Bottle Club, Show Chairman for the 2009 FOHBC National in Pomona. She is interested in quack medicines, civil war medical memorabilia, western glass. Her other interests are traveling, scuba diving, camping in the desert, hiking, and mostly enjoying the company of close friends. She loves meeting new people and hearing their stories |
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Gene Bradberry, FOHBC Director-at-Large, is a retired Memphis policeman, and has a BS degree in police administration from Memphis State University. Gene was one of the founding members of the Memphis Bottle Collectors Club. He Joined the ABCA in 1968 and was past president. He has run many bottle shows including the Memphis Expo in 2004 and the Memphis National in 2011. Gene has been collecting bottles since 1966 and is also a Life Member of the FOHBC. Gene has been married for 51 years to his high school sweetheart and has two sons and five grandchildren. He has also been involved in Scouting for 64 years. |
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John R. Pastor, FOHBC Director-at-Large, has been a collector, dealer, auctioneer and appraiser of antique bottles, flasks, and related glass for more than 35 years and is a widely recognized authority of antique bottles, historical flasks and related glass. This experience has brought a broad knowledge of the field and the valued trust of his colleagues and customers alike |
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John E. Panek, FOHBC Director-at-Large, is a native of Deerfield, Illinois and a lifetime member of the FOHBC. John previously served the FOHBC as vice president, secretary and was co-chairman of the 1995 Chicago National Show. He is an active member of the Antique Bottle Club of Northern Illinois and the 1st Chicago Bottle Club, having been president of both clubs, and has been the longtime show chairman of the Chicago club. John has been digging, collecting and researching bottles and stoneware since 1971 and specializes in Chicago bottles and ephemera as well as historical flasks and ACL sodas. John is married to his wife Claudia and have 4 children and 5 grandchildren. |
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Randee Kaiser, FOHBC Midwest Region Director, is a retired healthcare professional and along with his wife Susan, is a long-time collector of applied color-label sodas. Other areas of interest include art deco embossed sodas, army medical chinaware and civil war history. Randee and his wife attend six to eight bottle shows a year throughout the midwest region and always enjoy meeting collectors, talking bottles and promoting the bottle collecting hobby. |
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Ed Kuskie, FOHBC Northeast Region Director, started collecting old bottles when he was 12 years old. It all began when his Dad took him to an old ravine farm dump that was not too far from where he lives now. Ed then went to his first bottle show in the late 1970’s in Anaheim, California off of Crescent Street. He recalls that his mom took him and gave him $30 to spend on bottles, and that he got there late, in the last hour of the show! He says the rest is history. These precious experiences fueled his passion for bottle collecting as a boy and have remained with him throughout life. |
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Jack A. Hewitt, FOHBC Southern Region Director, is a second generation antique bottle collector and dealer. Jack has been collecting bottles and early American glass for over 40 years. He has been show chairman for the Atlanta Antique Bottle Show for over twenty years. He is also a dealer in general antiques and a USPAP (Uniform Standard for Professional Appraisal Practice) qualified personal property appraiser specializing in bottles, glass, and other antiques. Jack and his wife Kim live in the Atlanta area. |
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Dave Maryo, FOHBC Western Region Director, has a passion for Early Historic Glass. Dave specializes in American free blown glass from the colonial period to the mid 19th century. Dave started collecting bottles as a child in the 1960’s. Dave is married to Cynthia Joan Maryo, both are originally from Cleveland Ohio. The Maryo’s live in Victorville California and also enjoy antiques, works of art, and fine wines. |
