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The iPunty Rod Internet Newsletter Of The Little Rhody Bottle Club February 2003 This page is updated around the 1st week of every month   The LRBC will hold it's regular monthly meeting on February 11 at 7:30 PM at the Pontiac Library, 101 Greenwich Ave., Warwick, RI Club News A MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT Now that I've had a couple days (and a six pack) to recover from the Little Rhody Bottle Club Annual Show and Sale Sunday, I wanted to give you a quick update. The overall opinion at last night's monthly club meeting was that the club had an excellent show! Complaints were basically non existent. Even the weather cooperated. In past years we've experienced snow storms, rain and severe ice storms the night before. The show was sold out. We had 50 dealer tables, a club membership table and Rod Walck representing the Bottles and More Magazine. I can honestly say that we had people set up from 7 states. The final facts and figures are these. We had a total of 254 paid admissions including 35 early buyers. If we include the dealers, dealer's helpers and volunteers in the total count, we had over 350 at the show. I don't think I was able to sit down for more than twenty minutes. For me, personally, it was the best Little Rhody Bottle Show ever! I bought a nice amber demi-john for $10 and also 2 really good bottles that I need to research. They were a tall purple cologne and a base embossed black glass porter with a string lip. On behalf of the club I'd like to thank all of the volunteers who generously donated their time. They are Julie Narcovich, for the advertising, Jan Boyer, Dianne and Wes Seeman, Stanley Sorrentino, Denise Faubert, Russell Archambault, Tom Ross, Bill Rose, Rob Fahey, Mai Yang, Eric Correia, Gene McCain and Pam Pawlowski (That's me!! Art's secretary! Do you actually think he's talented enough to write this on his own?). I also had help from dealers who are not active club members. At the show dues were collected from almost 2 dozen people. We sold 2 club books and a T-shirt. Plans are already underway for improvements next year January 11, 2004. I need to remind everyone it is a new year and it may be time to pay your dues. Some of you are paid up for years. Many years! Spring is coming, which brings flowers, and ELECTIONS! I would like to step down as President, and allow someone else the opportunity to experience being the PRESIDENT!! Arthur Pawlowski LRBC President FROM OUR NEWSLETTER EDITOR by Julie Narcovich Hello everyone and welcome to a brand 'New Year'! Has anyone made it this far with their New Year's Resolution? I haven't but I am still working on it. Christmas was great for me as you all know from my last newsletter. I am now a proud homeowner in debt! I also now have my own private area to spend all of my free time tending to this very newsletter. My son loves his toy room. It is half the basement! Paul doesn't have a set spot yet. He will sooner or later. My cat Bennett loves all the free space to run and she goes crazy over the birds and squirrels she can now see out the window. In this January newsletter, you will find information on a few topics that I have recently read about from various places. I found them to be interesting and maybe you will too. Don't forget, club membership dues are due. Contact Arthur Pawlowski, our President or come to our next meeting, held on, February 11, 2003 at the Pontiac Public Library, 101 Greenwich Avenue, Warwick, RI, at 7:30 pm. We hope to see you there. The topic for February's meeting will be a Valentine's theme, so bring in any red or pink bottles you may have. Julie Narcovich Newsletter Editor Secretary JANUARY'S MEETING by Julie Narcovich January's meeting started at 7:37 pm with 17 members present, which includes our president, vice president secretary/newsletter editor and our librarian. The meeting started off welcoming our new member Peter McKenna, who was present and our other new members, Bill Henderson, Wayne Dixon and Bill Ruggieri Jr. (son of William Ruggieri Sr.). We received thank you letters from both the American Cancer Society and the National Bottle Museum from Saratoga. We made two donations to the National Bottle Museum for 2001 & 2002. $100 for each year. It has been voted on that our LRBC books be audited. Arthur Pawlowski and Ed Greer will be doing the audit, which was also voted on. An audit has not been done in a few years so the past 2 years will be audited. We had a "Show Finds' show and tell. Arthur brought in 3 great finds from the show. An amber demi john, a purple bottle and a green porter. Bob Lanpher showed us another great display of milk bottle in which some he purchased at the show. Such as Carpenter's Dairy, Burton and Waterman's dairy. Rob Fahey brought in a fabulous green pickle and a nice pottery bottle. They weren't his though. Ha! Ha! Mark Bryant brought in a small and large Rubi foam for the teeth. The large he purchased at the show to go with his little one and also brought in a wonderful codd bottle and two post cards from Rocky Point, dating back to 1912 & 1916. Mark Thatcher brought in some great sodas, other various bottles and a pontil bottle dug from a 1600's privy. WOW!!! I, myself brought in my collection of marbles I have found at the beach, a T.E. Hickey blob and a food bottle. Thank you to everyone for your show & tell and comments. We had a few comments/suggestions for next years show. We will be bringing a microphone and speakers to announce the various tables and other things going on. We also decided to have a raffle for a bottle or a 50/50 cash raffle. What do you think? Elections are coming up in April. We will also be voting on a show committee coordinator to get volunteers assigned to certain duties. This way here we won't have bored volunteers with nothing to do. At least we had too many volunteers instead of not enough. Also, we voted to increase next years show admission from $2 to $3. But if anyone brings in the LRBC show add, they will receive $1 off admission. Also at the meeting we discussed how our annual Little Rhody Bottle Club Show & Sale went… LITTLE RHODY BOTTLE SHOW The show was a great success!! Thank you to our many volunteers. Stanley Sorrentino, Jan Boyer, Eric Correira, Gene McCain, Bill Rose, Russ Archambault, Denise Faubert, Tom Ross, Wes & Diane Seeman, Rob Fahey and Mai Yang. Of course a special thanks to Arthur and Pamela Pawlowski for putting and holding everything together. We would also like to thank Rod Walck from BAM Magazine. Oh yeah, we all voted to get a subscription to BAM Magazine. There has been nothing but positive comments about the magazine. Many of the dealers that set tables up at the show made comments on how everything went so smoothly and they really enjoyed our 'chaos less' show!! Okay, what you have all been waiting to hear…Drum Roll Please…The LRBC collected $230 from member's club dues. We sold one tee-shirt for $12 and three books, totaling $75. We had 35 paid early admissions and 219 paid regular admission, for a total of $963 collected from the door. With all that and the money from tables we profited in excess of $1500!!! FYI Have you seen Sothebys.com lately? This famous auction house now has their online auctions run by Ebay. Online merchandise includes not only the "high end" items you would expect to see at this premier auction house, but also a selection of fascinating collectables. Take a look at: http://www.sothebys.com. MORE FYI An important word about photos and sunlight. You might know that a visible color has a lot to do with the light source. Artificial light can make bottles appear more red or green. Even worse, photos can be touched up when presented for sale on the internet. Even at bottle shows, light tables can play tricks with colors. You are well advised to judge a bottle in the sunlight. My photos are all taken in the bright West Virginia Sunshine to afford a fair picture for your viewing. Beware of funny colors, and always ask about the light source. Finally, if you are buying at a bottle show or at a shop, ask the owner if you can take the bottle over to the window to look at it. Usually this is no problem. You might find that Red Drakes Bitters is actually Amber!!! SOME BOTTLE INFORMATION by Julie Narcovich Just recently at our January meeting, I took out a soft covered book called, 'BOTTLE IDENTIFICATION'. This book I found to be extremely helpful to me in finding out exactly what kind of bottle I have. It tells of the molds number, size, what they come with and price. This book is old, 1965, but very resourceful. Come to our next meeting and ask Pamela, our Librarian to check it out. Michael Polak has just come out with his 2003 4th edition of BOTTLES: Identification and Price Guide. Three new chapters have been added, Cobalt Blue Medicine Bottles, Violin Bottles and Museum & Research Resources. The book has been updated as well as now it has 300 black & white photos and 16 pages of color photos. For more info, contact Mike Polak, PO BOX 30328, LONG BEACH, CA, 90853. His web address is www.bottlebible,com or you can email him at bottleking@earthlink.net. Upcoming Events FEBRUARY 1, 2003: Pennsylvania Antique Bottle, Breweriana and Advertising show Merchant's Square Antique Mall, 12th & Vultee Street, Allentown, Pa. Early birds 8am. General public, 9:30am - 2:30pm. For more information, contact Mark Zeppenfelt via mail at, 4881 Cypress Street, Wescosville, PA 18106. Or phone (610)391-0271. Or email uuubuy@aol.com FEBRUARY 2, 2003: The New Jersey Antique Bottle Club's 7th Annual Show & Sale Knights of Columbus Hall, 88 Jackson Street, South River, NJ 9am - 2pm. For more information, contact Joe Butewicz by phone at (732)238-3238 or via email botlman@aol.com FEBRUARY 23, 2003: Somers Antique Bottle Club's 33rd Annual Show & Sale 9am to 2pm early buyers 8am St Bernard's School West, Pearl Street, Enfield, CT. For more information, contact Rose Sokol, (860)7457688 or by email ptmanfredi@rcn.com MARCH 9, 2003: The Bucks-Mont 9th Annual Show & Sale 9am - 3pm Tylersport Fire Co., Rt 563, Tylersport, PA. For more information, contact Claude Wambold at (215)234-8413 or via email Arlene@netcarrier.com MARCH 30, 2003: The Empire State B C A Spring Bottle Show & Sale 9am - 3pm American Legion Valley Post #1468, 110 Academy Street, Syracuse, New York. CONTACT JIM KLERING, 4831 Cedarvale Rd., Syracuse, New York, 13215, (315)468-0416. APRIL 6, 2003: Genesee Valley Bottle Collector's 34th Annual Show & Sale 9am to 3pm Monroe County Fairgrounds, Minett Hall, Rt 15A & Calkins Road, Rochester, NY. For more information contact Tom Whipple at (585)554-3964 or via email jvbcadealerstables@hotmail.com APRIL 6, 2003: Yankee Pole Cat Insulator Club Annual Insulator & Bottle Show & Sale 8am to 2pm American Legion Hall, 566 Enfield Street, Enfield, CT. For more information contact John Rajpolt at (203)261-1190 or via email rajpolt@earthlink.net APRIL 13, 2003: New England Antique Bottle Club's 37th Annual Show & Sale 9:30am to 2:30pm Early buyers at 8:30am. At the Italian Heritage Center, 40 Westland Avenue, Portland, ME. For more information contact Jack Pelletier at (207)839-4389. Classified Ads Wanted: DO YOU HAVE A BOTTLE NOT LISTED IN ANTIQUE BOTTLES OF RHOSE 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. 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, SAUCES, & DEMI JOHNS: Call Jan Boyer: 401-539-2051 1/2 GAL. SPRING WATER BOTTLES WITH ARCHED SLUGPLATES: 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: Wanted by his granddaughter Donna. Please email her at: dhendrickson@wallace.com. CARDARELLI FARMS OR DAIRY 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 MIL 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. NARRAGANSETT & WAKEFIELD BOTTLES WANTED: Call David Gates at 401-783-2120 or by email, drg336@aol.com RI BEER: Wanted, RI beer advertising, signs, trays, flat and cone cans, etc. Contact Steve Bergquist by email at BEERRI@COX.NET GREERS BITTERS BOTTLES: Wanted, any bottles with Greer's bitter's on it. Contact Ed Greer by email at EDGREER26@AOL.COM WOONSOCKET BOTTLES: Wanted, all Woonsocket bottles and go-withs. Contact Russ Archambault by email at DEDDEDD@AOL.COM R.I. BOTTLES FROM: Wanted, all types of bottles and go-withs from these towns: Westerly, Bradford, Niantic, Watch Hill, Quonochontaug, Ashaway, Hopkinton, Hope Valley, Shannock, Richmond and Charlestown. Contact David Smith by email at 3smiths@mindspring.com BABCOCK BOTTLES: Wanted, any bottles with the name Babcock on it. Call Ed Babcock at 614-837-5123 or E-mail him kcocbab1@aol.com or snail mail at 480 Meadows Blvd., Pickerington, OH, 43147 DR. FLINTS BITTERS AND QUAKER BITTERS: I am also looking for RI medicines. E-mail Charlie Blanchette at bottleguy@aol.com INSULATORS: Singles or a collection, let me know what you have. Call Doug Macgilvary at 860-649-0477 MILK BOTTLES: Hennessey Dairy or Hennessey Dairy Farm wanted. Call Mike Hennessey at 508-699-0989 or e-mail him mhwolfgang@cs.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 Please direct comments or corrections here Back To Top