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The
iPunty
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Internet Newsletter
Of The Little Rhody Bottle Club
November 1999
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 November 9th, at 7:30pm at the Pontiac Library.
The program topic will be "RI Labelled
Bottles".
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Club News
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- October
Meeting
- Sixteen
members gathered as we checked out the Internet. The computer
was set up for us at the library and Steve was at the
controls. Bob Lanpher had typed up a list of sites related
to bottles and each of those sites had links to others.
There really is an endless list of places to visit when
you're online.
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- One
of the first sites to come up was our own club's site,
http://home.earthlink.net/~oaklawn/lrbc.htm
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there you can access a whole bunch of other sites related
to bottles.
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- We
paid a visit to EBAY, one of the more popular auction
sites on the web and to show just how eclectic the auctions
are, Steve typed in things such as "caskets" and "skulls".
I suppose Halloween was in the air since there are some
bizarre auctions out there. Human skull anyone?
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- The
question was posed by a long time club member whether
or not the Internet was of any benefit to the club and
was it really necessary. This is a relatively new way
of communication and source of information for the common
household and one which will probably replace many of
the forms of communication we now have. Just as the telephone
replaced the telegraph, the Internet and personal computer
will eventually replace the telephone.
- Why
take a trip to the library? Most of the information you
need can be accessed over the Internet. Providence Public
Library is online and is adding more and more accessible
information all the time. You still have to be a card
carrying member, though. Without a card number you can't
access most of the library's online areas and if you want
to look up information which is now located in the archives
on microfiche, you'll have to pay a personal visit downtown.
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- There's
still a long way to go but it's getting bigger everyday.
I'd say advances are being made when a bottle collector
in Europe can log on to the Little Rhody Bottle Club's
site and see what we're up to. There's more to come.....
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- Looking
For Speakers
- Yes,
we're looking for speakers to give program presentations
at our meetings. Pam is looking into having a repeat presentation
put on by Virginia Williams, the lady who does the "Outhouse"
program. But it doesn't have to be someone from the 'outside',
either. Club members who want to talk about their collections,
digs they've been on, or anything else are welcome to
participate. Matt King is putting on a presentation for
the American National Glass Club at one of their meetings.
Maybe we can get him to do a presentation for us? Matt?
- Ed
Greer is looking into glass blowers in the area that we
could possibly visit on the night of one of our meetings.
This would be interesting.
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- Christmas
Party
- The
December meeting has always been a festive get together
where the Buffalo punch spices up the yule and the food
puts on the poundage. However, it was suggested this year
having the party at a restaurant instead of at the library.
Steve found a Chinese buffet that serves 150 different
kinds of food including American for those who don't like
Chinese. They have a room available for functions and
it would be a b.y.o.b. evening. We'll be voting on this
at the November meeting. Watch for your invitation in
the mail.
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- Door
Prizes
- A
suggestion was made to go back to having door prizes at
the meetings. This generated quite a bit of discussion
and the suggestions ranged from bottles to bottle cleaning
to lottery tickets. To be continued....
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- Digging
- Art
and Pam have been at it again only this time they hooked
up with Rob and Maureen for several weekends of digs.
The four of them got permission to dig at a lady's house
and they wasted no time digging up her backyard. The lady
was really cool, though. She brought them sandwiches for
lunch, shared the finds, and wanted all of the fragments.
- Among
the items found were several local antique pharmacy bottles,
a pint Banner fruit jar, a cute little glass doll's bench,
a glass syringe, a green glass perfume minus the atomizer,
a couple of crown top McLaughlin Soda Works bottles from
Woonsocket, and lots of crock and black glass shards.
Thankfully not too many clam shells or Bromos as is the
norm. Other sites have produced an abundance of these
but not here. I suppose shellfish and stomach remedies
went hand in hand.
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- July
At Brimfield
by
Matt King
- Not
many finds at Brimfield this time. I saw a few pontilled
medicines but all common and priced to the roof! Ron Rainka
always has a nice selection at J&J Field as does Carl
Pratt and Dave Fontaine, who had some nice aqua flasks.
Here's a place that's only a one or two hour drive and
I honestly suggest that the J&J show is the place
the bottle people set up.
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- Keene
Show
by
Pam Sroka
- Well,
this was the first time set up here for Art and I and
the sales were not what we expected. It's funny though
that we sold some of our "junk" and we're happy about
that, but the pontilled stuff and mineral waters didn't
sell although there was lots of interest in them. We were
set up next to the Lanphers so there was never a dull
moment and time flew by. Leo Goudreau was set up to our
left, and boy, did he have a good day!
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- When
we were getting ready to leave, Art went out to get his
hand truck and saw a soaking wet cardboard box at the
far end of the parking lot. No one was near it and he
thought, "Some people will leave their trash anywhere."
However, something told him to check it out and it's a
good thing. The box was packed solid with an assortment
of quality bottles. He was afraid to go back in and make
an announcement thinking false claims of ownership would
be made so he put the box in the truck and brought it
home.
- After
carefully unpacking the box, searching for some clue as
to the owner, and coming up empty, Art put in a call to
Creighton Hall, the show chairman for the Yankee Bottle
Club in Keene, NH. Did anyone report a missing box of
bottles? YES! Creighton said a dealer's assistant had
inadvertently left the box on the ground as they were
packing up. The assistant was only 90 miles away from
his home - in Delaware - when he remembered the box. He
put in a call to Creighton when he got home but no one
(at the time) had reported finding the box.
- Art
called the gentleman right away and left a message on
his answering machine. Not ten minutes later the phone
rang and a very relieved dealer described the contents
of the box to a tee. He and a friend took the drive up
from Delaware on the following Saturday to pick up his
bottles. They were going to the Albany show on Sunday
so this wasn't that much of a detour for them anyway.
They stayed two hours and we shared digging stories. He
had asked Art on the phone what he collected and Art told
him demijohns. He brought Art three nice demijohns as
a way of thanking him.
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- As
always with this hobby, we met some really nice people
and made some new friends. We exchanged business cards
and email addresses and discussed the fact that everything
happens for a reason. I'm hoping that's true. I gave them
directions to some antique shops in our area, maybe they
found something spectacular!
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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's 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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