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- In our 31st year, the event is an annual collector show and sale often with a “Historical Display” and “Authors” section
- The Historical displays and Authors section bring forward private collections, the Authors section offers researchers in the bottle and pottery field a place to offer their works
- Largest and longest running National Antique Bottle and Stoneware show in Canada.
- Hosted by The Four Seasons Bottle Club of Toronto, a “NFP” group of collectors with a mandate to grow the collecting hobby
Perspective.
- Most collectors come to the show looking for the “opportunity” something unique to fit their collection
- Others visit for something they like for décor or vintage decorating
- Goods in this show are almost entirely of Canadian origin
- Dealers and customers will come in from across Canada
- Typical draw 350+
Scope of the Show
- Originally focussed on the history of Canadian antique bottles and related collectibles. Today we have evolved more into a resource and collector group for a wider range of interests!
- Offerings include.
o pops & sodas
o antique & quack medicines
o fruit & canning jars
o Coca-Cola
o insulators
o stoneware & earthenware
o ephemera & packaging
o vintage art glass
o milk & dairies
o ginger beers
o beers & liquors
o advertising signs & tins
Historical displays.
- The Historical displays section showcases early Canadian.
o Dairy bottles, one of them is war slogans this time
o Hamilton Sodas
o Syphons
o Stoneware, packaging before the advent of tins and bottles
Marketplace
- People come from Canada and the USA visit this one-day show.
- Typically, from the worlds of, Vintage, Bottle and Stoneware Collectors, Historical Societies, Museums, researchers, Interior and set designers,
