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The iPunty Rod Internet Newsletter Of The Little Rhody Bottle Club December 2002 This page is updated around the 1st week of every month The LRBC will hold it's regular monthly meeting in conjunction with our annual Christmas / holiday party which will be held at 7:00pm, December 10th at the Royal Buffet, 272 Garfield Ave., Cranston (in the Narragansett Brewery Parkade across from Lowe's) Club News A MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT HI EVERYONE, The year is nearing the end, and the holidays and parties are approaching very rapidly. This month we have Thanksgiving and most of us are already making plans or giving it thought. Next month I would like to have both are meeting and our Annual Club Christmas Party on December 10th at 7pm at the Royal Buffet in Cranston. Our January meeting will be after the bottle show, so we really need to meet in December to make our last minute plans for the show.. The Club requires a team effort to have a quality show that we can all be a part of and be proud of. At this point, we may or may not have enough volunteers. Please contact me if you would like to be a part of our volunteer team for the bottle show. Currently the show has 32 tables paid for, with confirmations mailed out. I expect to receive payment for another four with in the next 7 days. This leaves only 4 single tables left. Please do NOT assume you have a table! If I have not received your contract and check. There is limited dealer space!! Happy Holidays to all! I hope to see you at the next meeting/Christmas Party. Sincerely, Arthur Pawlowski President OUR UPCOMING BOTTLE SHOW by Julie Narcovich January's Annual Bottle Show will once again bring many fun and exciting memories and hopefully LOTS of MONEY$$$ So if you would like to be a part of the 'Behind the scenes', join are volunteers list for that day. It is only a few hours or so. We already have ROB FAHEY, DENISE FAUBERT, RUSS ARCHAMBAULT, DAVE ANDREWS, ARTHUR & PAMELA PAWLOWSKI, DIANE & WES SEEMAN, BILL ROSE AND ME, JULIE NARCOVICH. Come join us!! Remember just a few tables left. Call Art now or you will miss out!! Our Annual Bottle Show will be advertised in the, 'Town B', Providence Journal, What's Happening Section and also oso.com, What's Happening. If anyone can put a free ad somewhere that we have not already thought of, contact Art Pawlowski. Thank you!! NOVEMBER MEETING by Julie Narcovich Novembers meeting was fantastic!! I would like to start off by welcoming our three newest members, Jim and Jade Sullivan and Mark Thatcher. Yes he is David's brother. All three new members brought in some wonderful bottles from their collection!!! We had the honor of having Mrs. Mary Frances Bush and Mr. Bob Bush to do an exciting presentation on Matchbooks. Mary Frances and Bob of Bristol, RI, have been collecting matchbook covers for over 50 years and just about 10 years ago, they found out there was a club for people who collect matchbook covers. They are very active in the hobby and belong to the Rathcamp Match cover Society as well as the New England Match cover Club and the Connecticut Match cover Club. They exhibit at shows and often win for their exhibits. In 200, Mary Frances won Best of Show at a convention held in Pittsburg for a panel of hotel match covers. Bob and Mary Frances especially enjoy collecting match covers with a Rhode Island connection. Bob and Mary Frances are also active in the Rhode Island Post Card Club. Bob was President of the club for a number of years and both set up at almost every meeting of the club and handle the post card exhibit panels at the clubs annual October show. At our meeting Mary Frances and Bob brought in a nice variety of match covers. They had round match holders, flat ones, square ones, rectangles, you name it. They together have collected over 80,000 match covers!!! Over 5000 of the match covers are from Rhode Island. My favorite display was the 'Portuguese Hippies'. We learned of many different kinds and styles of match covers, such as, rainbow (iridescent look), contour (has shape), display (a stand up display of many things), spot striker (a place on the front of the cover involved in the picture), amongst many, many more! Salem cigarettes did a match cover for each zodiac sign. Accept for…..cancer. Thank you Bob and Mary Frances for your presentation. We all learned a great deal and your collection was just tremendous to look at. Our meeting began at 9pm. There were 18 people present, including our president, librarian and our newsletter editor/secretary(me). We voted on when and where to have our Christmas Party and Decembers meeting. A unanimous vote of the party and the meeting to be held at the same time. So, our Annual Christmas Party and December's meeting will be held at the Royal Buffet. We have the private room at the ROYAL BUFFET, (This is a Chinese, American, Italian & Japanese Restaurant) 272 Garfield Avenue, Cranston, R.I. (BREWERY PARKADE, ACROSS FROM LOWES). This is the old Narragansett Brewery site. December 10th at 7 P.M. The club will be paying for the meal, and we will have to pay for our own beer and alcoholic beverages. RSVP- by December 8th contact Pam @ 401-647-3585. We had a show and tell at the end of our meeting. Bob Lanpher, Jim & Jade Sullivan, Mark Bryant, Mark Thatcher, Bill Rose, Art Pawlowski and Myself all brought in our fabulous finds to show and tell about. Our meeting came to an end a bit past 9:30. Thanks for staying and I know everyone had a great time.   A LETTER FROM OUR NEWSLETTER EDITOR by Julie Narcovich Hello. I hope everyone is enjoying 2002 as best we can!! Thanksgiving and the holidays are coming up and you know what that means…FOOD=WEIGHT GAIN!! Make sure you stuff yourself with bottles instead of a lot of fattening foods. Has anyone gone to visit Bobarino's bottle collection that I had mentioned a couple newsletters back? It is still there in Warren and it is still very nice to see. While you're in Warren, check out all the fantastic antique stores throughout the local area there. I am so glad to see a better turnout at November's meeting. We all had a great time and there was a lot of yummies and drinks. Pam brought some nice antique looking soda bottles, but they were new, so we drank it. Yes I did bring fruit. Why is that so odd? Don't worry, the angel food cake didn't go to waste. My boys ate it! I did miss not having some yummy EGGROLlS. You know who you are!!!! I have a few letters coming soon that I will put in next months newsletter. They are from bottle club members who want to share there bottling stories. If you would like to as well, email me or snail mail me. I will be more than happy to put it here. Oh yeah, if you have not already found out, your current link to LITTLERHODYBOTTLECLUB.COM is no longer good. Our new site address is LITTLERHODYBOTTLECLUB.ORG Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and I cannot wait to see you all at the Christmas Party. Remember food and soda is on the club so RSVP to Pam by December 8, 2002. Thank you, Julie Narcovich Editor/Secretary ***TAYLOR MC BURNEY-WHERE WERE YOU? WE WERE ALL LOOKING FORWARD TO MEETING OUR YOUNGEST NEW MEMER. WE HOPE TO SEE YOU AT THE CHRISTMAS PARTY/ DECEMBER'S MEETING!!! ***   IN MEMORY OF RUTH TILLY by Julie Narcovich IT IS WITH DEEP SADNESS THAT WE REPORT THE LOSS OF RUTH TILLY OF EAST GREENWICH. RUTH DIED A FEW WEEKS AGO AFTER A LONG AND ACTIVE LIFE. SHE WAS A LONG-STANDING AND CHARTER MEMBER OF THE LITTLE RHODY BOTTLE CLUB. IN FACT, THE VERY FIRST MEETING OF THE CLUB WAS HELD AT HER HOME. OUR DEEPEST SYMPATHY IS EXTENDED TO HER FAMILY.   ANTIQUE-BOTTLES.NET There is a new free resource for antique bottle collectors and associated interests at http://www.antique-bottles.net Please take a look and see what you think. The forums are incredibly versatile and could, over time, become a wonderful resource for our hobby. Please help get this project off the ground and if you have any suggestions or ideas for improving the forums please email me or post a message on the 'Using the Forum, Suggestions' thread. Ideas for new threads or moderators especially welcome. Regards, - Roger roger@antique-bottles.net http://www.antique-bottles.net Upcoming Events JANUARY 12, 2003 - SOUTH ATTLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS The Little Rhody Bottle Club's Annual Show & Sale 10 AM to 2 PM K of C Hall, 304 Highland Avenue, Rte. 123 Info: ARTHUR PAWLOWSKI, PH: (401) 647-3585 or email at blobtops@aol.com Classified Ads Wanted: Do you have RI bottles which are not listed in Antique Bottles Of Rhode Island? Or maybe you have a bottle in a color or size that is not listed? If so, please send the information to me for inclusion. Proper credit will be given and all information is greatly appreciated. Send by email to: dandrews@littlerhodybottleclub.org or write to: David Andrews, 192 Wilbur Ave., Cranston, RI 02921 Don't forget to check out the book online at: http://www.littlerhodybottleclub.org/bottlebook/abofri Bottle collections. Always buying pre-1900 bottles and jars as well as painted sodas, milks, crocks, fruit jars, etc. Call Arthur: 401-647-3585 New England utility bottles. Call Rob Fahey: 508-520-4632 Toy marbles. Will pay cash. Call Jerry Biern: 401-826-3933 Bitters, Peppersauce, and Demi-Johns. Call Jan Boyer: 401-539-2051 1/2 gallon spring water bottles with arched slugplate. Preferably with bail and closure. Please call Art: 401-647-3585 or email: blobtops@aol.com Seltzer water bottles. Wanted in various colors such as red, cobalt, pink, and yellow. Please call Angelo: 401-421-3782 Woonsocket milk bottle - Carl Hendrickson Dairy. Wanted by his granddaughter Donna. Please email her at: dhendrickson@wallace.com. Cardarelli Farms or Dairy Milk bottles. LRBC member always buying any bottles or other items from the dairy. Please contact Mike Cardarelli at 401-941-7112 or by email at: cardarelli@juno.com. Thank You. Christensen Milk Bottles. My grandmother and grandfather had a dairy in Easton, MA in the early 1900's. We are looking to buy several of the pressed glass milk bottles with their name on them (that's Christensen with an "e"). If you have any or know where I can buy some, please contact the grandson, Chuck Elmes: gce@touchinfo.com or call 800-242-8486 ext 102. Thanks! Bottles with Denniston on them. Would like to acquire two sodas from RI embossed DENNISTON & CO. / NEWPORT, R.I. and THOS. DENNISTON / BOTTLER / NEWPORT / R.I. or other bottles or variations with the name. Please contact Father John Denniston, 400 Main Street Huntington, NY 11743 or by email at: fdenniston@hotmail.com. Many thanks for your assistance. DO YOU HAVE AN AD YOU WOULD LIKE LISTED IN OUR NEWSLETTER FOR FREE? CONTACT ME, JULIE NARCOVICH VIA EMAIL, NARCOVICH@AOL.COM OR PHONE ME AT 401-721-2168. STONEWARE AND HUTCHS: Wanted, stoneware bottles and hutch's with the words BEER or BREWERY on them. Contact Dave Graci by email at STONEBOTLE@AOL.COM BOTTLES WANTED: Historical flasks, early glass, and good bottles wanted to buy. Highest prices paid for exceptional quality items. One or a whole collection. Contact Norman Heckler, 860-974-1634, or info@hecklerauction.com. RHODE ISLAND AND TAYLOR BOTTLES WANTED: Any bottles that have the name Taylor on them. (Especially Taylor's Pharmacy.) All Rhode Island bottles such as, bitters, cosmetic, food, household, ink, medicine, old mineral waters, whiskey, etc. I am not interested in soda, new mineral waters and milk bottles. Contact Taylor McBurney at (401)789-1079. Please direct comments or corrections to: dandrews@littlerhodybottleclub.org Back To Top