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Beer Bottle Museum of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

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I stumbled across the Beer Bottle Museum today while online.

https://www.tbbm.org/

Anybody familiar with this museum? Their web site says tours are available ranging from $50 to $150 per person depending on how many people are in your group. I am wondering if this museum is simply somebody's personal collection and they are offering to show people around their basement. The pictures look cool but I don't plan on spending that much to see the bottles in person.

Just wondering . . .


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Re: Beer Bottle Museum of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

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I plugged the address into Google Maps and looked at Street View and it's a house. My assumption is that it's somebody's personal collection in a basement.
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Chas (the owner) is a regular poster on the Facebook bottle groups.

Prices seem pretty high for a basement museum....
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That's Charles Ford. he used to live in Michigan & likes Michigan Bottles. I've sold him a few Bottles from Michigan & not from Michigan.
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I'm on Chas's group page on FB. He does have some impressive bottles, many I've watched go through eBay and then be posted by him a few days later. Some were quite pricey. Maybe he's trying to cover his cost of his bottle purchases. Still seams high to see a personal collection, could be more to the story though.
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