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The
iPunty
Rod
Internet Newsletter
Of The Little Rhody Bottle Club
January 2000
This page is updated
around the 1st week
of every month
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The next
meeting of the LRBC will be held next January 11th,
at 7:30PM at
the Pontiac Library. The topic will be "SHOW
FINDS".
My apologies
for not updating for the past couple of months. It's been
one thing after another.
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Club News
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- December
Meeting
- The
club had it's annual Christmas dinner which was held this
year at the Chinese Buffet on Bald Hill Road, Warwick
and there was quite a turnout. The buffet boasts three
long islands of assorted Chinese and American foods as
well as a stir fry station where you can get fresh cooked
vegetables and meats. Quite an assortment. Everyone had
a good time and went away stuffed to the gills.
- According
to Steve, "The party was a great success!" Besides the
great food there were door prizes abound. One, a Lucite
letter opener won by Carl, had five of the new state quarters
embedded in it. Another Lucite piece also had five new
quarters in a disc. This one was won by Josie. Mary Greer
won a copy of the newest Antique Bottles Of Rhode Island
bottle book. Hope Sorrentino walked away with a beautiful
little plant for Christmas which was shaped like a tree
with some holly on the front and all nestled in a mug.
And last but not least, Pearl won a bottle of wine which
had been donated by Ed Greer.
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- LRBC
Y2K Show
- The
show is coming! Tables have been sold out for three months
and we're hoping for another repeat of last year's gate
breaking attendance. I've seen ads running on Cox Cable
Channel 18 for the show and credit Steve for ferreting
out the free advertising. There is also supposed to be
an article in the Providence Journal just before the show.
Hopefully these will help us again this year.
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- Nobody
Likes A Digger
by
Carl Pratt
- The
digger must remain humble. He's a curiosity and his actions
are relevant to survival.
- The
homeowner, with good reason, rejects the digger's intrusion.
He doesn't want holes dug. He doesn't want to be liable
for accidents and law suits. If there are artefacts on
his property, he doesn't want them removed. To probe his
yard is such a strange request that the homeowner may
not believe BOTTLES are what the digger is after.
- Common
replies heard are, "There's nothing here!" "I can't give
you permission. I'm only renting." "The tenants wouldn't
like it." "There's no back yard!" (even if there is a
back yard). Sometimes the owner misunderstands figuring
the bottle digger is looking for nickel returnables. Or
golf balls. Or even a lost dog.
- People
don't want anybody but themselves to get something for
nothing. They would rather leave the bottles buried rather
than to have them removed. And they wouldn't want to be
proved wrong after they've said, "There's nothing here."
- But
the digger argues: "The excavation of a site brings the
past into the present." Those who see this are gifted.
Those who record this are saviours. Those who lock the
past away in institutions actually bury it again.
- Our
government controls such an extensive array of settlements
that need investigating that they don't have the time
to waste battling the bottle digger. While paper work
is being shuffled, resources are disappearing.
- Ask
the man who makes the decisions if you can look on the
property and he'll say, "NO!" Get caught and you may be
arrested or fined. Show the government what you found
and it will be confiscated. Sell it and be taxed.
- Show
people what you found and they all want to know, "WHERE?"
Most interrogators wouldn't follow a digger's lead but
others aren't trustworthy. Lead them to a dump and they'll
come return without you. Even though no digger "owns"
a site, it is his obligation to protect it.
- Then
there are the customers who buy the bottles and glass.
They are offered it for less than the digger has invested
in this and other failed ventures and still expect it
for less than market value because it was dug.
- The
digger has no friends. Dogs bark. Bees sting. Police arrest.
Winter freezes. Roots relentlessly grasp in their long
fingers.
- The
people who threw the bottles away put them in places that
are not easily accessible. They reused the nice ones until
they were broken and then piled rocks on top of them when
they were thrown out to make sure that they were broken.
Kids and riflemen made sure the rest didn't survive.
- The
digger goes where he isn't wanted. In his dirty clothes
he looks like a vagrant. People think he isn't accomplishing
anything. When he comes home empty handed he thinks of
how else the day could have been used.
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Classified Ads
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Wanted:
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- RI
Bottles of all types. I am looking for ALL bottles
from RI, common and rare, clear and aqua, colored, medicines,
sodas, anything. Special interest in Rumford bottles and
go-withs. Contact Dave at 401-942-6634 or on the web at:
oaklawn@earthlink.net
- 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 in the book? If so, please
send the information to me for inclusion in a future revision
of the LRBC bottle book. Proper credit will be given and
all information is greatly appreciated. Send by email
to: oaklawn@earthlink.net
- Toy
Marbles. Will pay cash. Please call Jerry Biern at
401-826-3933
- Bitters,
Pepper Sauce, and Demi Johns always wanted.
Call Jan Boyer at 401-539-2051
- 1/2
gallon spring water bottles with arched slugplates.
I have 5, would like more! Call Art at 508-399-6427
- The
following people are not bottle collectors but are looking
for milk bottles from their family's dairy.
- Sam
Terzian / Pleasant View Dairy / Whitman, MA. Cal
Alice Tavitian at 781-447-5141
- Lodi
Dairy / Plymouth, MA. Cal Winthrop Pachard at
617-447-3966
- Homestead
Dairy / Erbeck / W. Bridgewater, MA. Call Dick
Cogswell at 508-586-6272
- Morton
Dairy / Foxboro, MA. Call Laurie Morris at 508-697-0392
- Ritchie
Dairy / Virginia. Call Sue Worden at 413-697-5492
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