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The iPunty Rod Internet Newsletter Of The Little Rhody Bottle Club October 2001 This page is updated around the 1st week of every month The next meeting of the LRBC will be held on October 9th at 7:30 p.m. at the Pontiac Library, 101 Greenwich Ave., Warwick, RI The evening's topics will be "Old Maps" and "Rumford Chemical Works". Club News September Meeting The attending members got right down to business during the first meeting after the summer break. The first topic on the agenda was one which has been hot for several years: to allow early entry at the show or not? Many points were debated, pros and cons to the idea, and in the end it was voted that early entry be allowed at our upcoming January 2002 show. The first thing to be discussed was whether to allow it at all. We are one of the few remaining shows that didn't allow early buyers. Times change and feelings were it was time we conformed to what has become an accepted practice. The second point was what time would early buyers be allowed? It was decided rather quickly that 9:00 would be a good time. Dealer set up is from 8:00 to 10:00 and that would give the dealers at least an hour to do their thing. Then came the question of what to charge for early admission. This actually proved to be the hardest point to decide on. Some said it should be the price of a table ($20.00). Others felt half of that would be fair. And after much debate, it was decided to split the difference and charge $15.00 per early admission. The final point was how to keep track of early buyers. The decision was made to have ID tags made up that every early buyer would have to wear. Regardless of what the members decided, there are going to be people complaining about one thing or another. This will be the test year and any problems will have to be noted and corrected for the next year's show. I guess we'll see how it goes.   LRBC Show & Sale - January 13, 2002 Contracts for our show in January will be included with the upcoming printed newsletter. If interested in setting up at the show, fill out and send in the contract immediately. DO NOT ASSUME YOU WILL GET A TABLE BECAUSE YOU ARE A MEMBER OR HAD A TABLE LAST YEAR. Tables are offered to club members first but you must reserve and do it quickly as all tables are sold out within a month's time. If you have a special preference as to where you'd like to be set up, please let Arthur know when you make your reservations. A new show flyer has been made up and printed. They debuted at the Chelmsford show and will be distributed at the Keene show and placed in antique shops and consignment shops around the area. A copy will be included in next month's newsletter. For online info go to the Show Flyer page. We will also be acquiring the Antique Bottle & Glass Collector Magazine show promotion package again this year. Ads in the magazine and a ribbon to be awarded at the show are just a couple of benefits.   Website News Littlerhodybottleclub.com is progressing along rather nicely! Our average daily visitor count for the last week of September was 74. Not too shabby for word of mouth promotion. The best day we had came in August when the high count was 129 individual vistors in one day. The site isn't even a year old yet and the total number of individual vistors to the site since inception is over 14,000. Sweet.   A Rumford Club? by Dave Andrews Over the summer I've had a number of people from different parts of the country contact me asking if there was a dedicated website for collectors of Rumford Chemical Works items. Right now there is no such site that I'm aware of. The bug was planted when a couple of people asked if I would develope the site but there needs to be enough interest to warrant the undertaking The site would be a place for gathering and sharing of information, displaying collections and new finds, selling and trading of Rumford only items, and pretty much anything else Rumford related. What do you think? Because we live in the state that gave birth to the Rumford Chemical works and, because it was this club who chose the teal Rumford bottle as the unofficial state bottle diplayed in the National Bottle Museum in NY, would such a site be beneficial to the collectors interested in the company? I need your feedback on this. Do you or don't you think a site would be a good idea? Send me an email at oaklawn@earthlink.net and put in your two cents. Upcoming Events October 6 - Woodstock, CT Norman Heckler & Co. Columbus Day Event 9 AM 79 Bradford Corner Road INFO: 860-974-1634 or online: http://www.hecklerauction.com/ColumbusDay.htm   October 7 - Hammonton, NY South Jersey Antique Bottle & Glass Club 18th Annual Show & Sale 10 AM to 4 PM Batsto Village, Rte. 542 (7 miles east of Hammonton) INFO: Paul DelGuercio, email: paulhavoc@excite.com   October 7 - Keene, NH Yankee Bottle Club 34th Annual Show & Sale 9 AM to 3 PM, early buyers 8 AM Keene High School, Arch Street INFO: Creighton Hall, PH: 603-352-2959   October 21 - Scriba, NY Empire State Bottle Collectors Assoc. 3rd Annual Show & Sale 9 AM to 3 PM Scriba Fire Hall, Rte. 104 East INFO: Barry Haynes, PH: 315-963-0922   October 28 - Baltimore, MD Mid-Atlantic 3rd Annual Bottle Show & Sale 9 AM to 3 PM Maryland State Fairgrounds, Timonium, MD (I-83 North of Baltimore) INFO: Bill Thomas, PH: 410-538-5558 or Rick Lease, PH: 410-239-8918   October 28 - Hamburg, NY Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Assoc. 3rd Annual Show & Sale 9 AM to 3 PM Erie County Fairgrounds, Grange Building INFO: Ed Potter, PH: 716-674-8890- or Steve Gartz, PH: 716-824-9660   November 11 - Oakland, NJ North Jersey Antique Bottle Collectors Assoc. Show & Sale 9 AM to 2 PM (early buyers 8 AM) Valley Middle School, Rte. 202 INFO: PH: 201-934-7486 or 516-454-8993 or email: njabca@juno.com   November 25 - Bethlehem, PA Forks of the Delaware Bottle Collectors Assoc. Show & Sale 9 AM to 3 PM (early buyers 7:30 AM) Bethlehem Catholic High School, Madison & Dewberry Aves. INFO: Bill Hegedus, PH: 610-264-5945   JANUARY 13, 2002 - So. Attleboro, MA Little Rhody Bottle Club Annual Show & Sale 10 AM to 2 PM (early buyers 9 AM) 304 Highland Ave. Rte. 123 (Exit 2B off of I-95) INFO: Art 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.com or write to: David Andrews, 192 Wilbur Ave., Cranston, RI 02921 Don't forget to check out the book online at: http://www.littlerhodybottleclub.com/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. Pontil Providence bottles. Looking for quality pontilled bottles from RI especially from Providence. Also looking for nice squat sodas i.e. Harvey, Marlor, etc. Please call Gary: 401-862-4200 or email at VMAXwarior@aol.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. For Sale: Scarce RI fire related bottle!! I have several of these scarce bottles for sale. Click here to see a representative photo. All are in excellent condition with some very light cloudiness inside. Bottles are 5-3/4" tall, clear, cylindrical with an eight paneled mug base and are embossed COMBINATION / LADDER CO. The company was in business beginning in the late 1800's in Providence. Price is $15.00 each (plus $3.95 for shipping). Email inquiries to: oaklawn@earthlink.net. Please direct comments or corrections to: dandrews@littlerhodybottleclub.com Back To Top