Dorset Antique Bottle Collectors Club

Despite the shortness between January and February’s meetings members had been busy with a good few attending the Elscar Show. They reported some good buys and a generally busy show. A few good purchases were evident in the best bought competition category. These were made on the floor and in the auction.

The competition brought out some fabulous local beers. Whilst not blessed with pictorials in Dorset the rare regional named beers made an appearance.

In the wake of David Burtons book one of the competition categories was an onion/wine bottle. This brought out the Dorset Sealed and some dated wines really nice to see in real life. Some of them actually featured in this standard reference.

The pot lid category drew out some belters.

Thanks to Mike who put on a display of local Bournemouth Poole and Christchurch chemist items. Potlids and chemist items to die for and a very nice Bournemouth inhaler.

Ahh !!!! struck down by the dreaded lurgy for the past several weeks and now recovered enough to post .  As posted earlier we didn’t hold the Jan meeting on the 1st as the hall was closed. I guess a few of us were also nursing our heads from the previous evenings festivities.

There was a good attendance with fifteen members remembering the meeting date change. Some bottles were re homed. I added some local lids with damage in a buy one get three free deal. Some rare local bottle fragments also appeared.

The competition entries were down in part to myself being disqualified in getting the dates wrong and bringing February entries by mistake I’ll blame the impending lurgi.

Coming events were discussed the BBR Winternational at Elsecar with a few members intending to attend.

We talked about our show and the start of the Flyer distribution at shows etc. Of course news and progress will be posted on the blog/website as a matter of course.

Russ Editor of ABC now resides in Dorset and he is a DABCC member he came along and we talked rattlers.

Next Month is Our AGM all current Committee members are willing to stand and any other nominees are welcome from within the membership. We will need a new competitions organizer in December as Steve after many years of doing the job wishes to take a break.