BBR’s Winter National weekend (Sat 31st Jan 1st Feb) is fast approaching comprised of an unreserved auction on the Saturday and a Show and Major auction on the Sunday.
BBR shows are very well attended, as the above picture shows, and well worth traveling to.
Having received my auction cat just before Christmas I’ve had a good look and there are some choice items for sale.
Contact BBR for details
Quite a scarce early Weymouth mineral appeared on Ebay recently and made a reasonable price of just over £30.
Just up loaded the known GB’s from Bournemouth and Poole . If you know of any more examples we would love to know and add to the record even if it’s a fragment. We would like to make the record as complete as possible.
When collecting the variations are also noted some of which are very subtle print amendments on the transfer. Others are differing pottery stamps. This can give us an idea when the bottle was in general use. With the larger companies the batches bought can also be identified.
Just to let you know that we are starting to think about our annual club show in May the show page has just been updated and is set to be modified and more detail added as the plan for 2015 show starts to come together.
Also just started to populate the Dorset Ginger beer record today will add more as time permits over the Christmas period.
The Dorset Club members were in party mood at this months meeting where both members and partners attended. To celebrate Christmas The Club put on a buffet and held its Christmas raffle.
The competitions this month were a couple of pictorial ginger beers. Some really nice ones turned up.
Siphons Palmer James blue from Bournemouth, South Western Mineral Water company lemon and a mint Solders Home Dorchester. They are generally not dug and cellar found nice local ones are hard to find especially colored ones. The standard South Western in blue is the first whole example to be found so far and was an entry in the best bought.
The three blue bottles winner was a Wadworths Cambridge dobson patent codd, Prices patent candle wedge shaped bottle and N.E Elands Hamilton. The best bought winner was the Purton Bromo Iodated Saline water.
The centenary of the St Leger cup naming all the Horses and Jockey’s was a worthy winner in the class 7 a cup.
Some of the girls preparing the raffle tickets for the grand raffle and a few of the prizes up for grabs.
Andy put on a classy local display of minerals and colored siphons. They included Marsh Blue, Laneys Bournemouth, Seymors Sherbourne amber, full color range of blue, pink and lime siphons from the South Western Mineral Water Co. A miniature Dorset mineral water Company Poole one of my favs. The rest of the minerals were also special both 10 and 6 oz Collis Gillingham blue lip codds. Clear and green marble Dorset south Trades codds Weymouth. And the full colour range of Weymouth Skittles. Not to mention the colored Riley’s patents Portland Mineral, Bournemouth Seltzers and Early Dorchester Hamiltons.
Thank to all for making it a truly memorable evening
Just about to hit the bookshelves is the new three volume book Antique Sealed Bottles 1640-1900 and the families who owned them by David Burton. Published by Antique collectors club ISBN: 978-1-85149-755-3. This has been long awaited in early glass collecting circles.
Volume 1 is concerned with History and evolution.
Volume II Dated and undated sealed bottles.
Volume III Crests and coats of arms.
Below is a sneak preview of the quality of the on offer. I had a good look at Kidlington show at a pre-print run copy. The set comes in a nice case.
RRP is £250 but considering the quality of the publication well worth the money if you can afford it. At the moment BBR are offering special hard to beat pre-print offer discount buy so hurry.
It is set to complement and bring up to date the earlier publications By Sheelah Ruggles-Brise (County Life 1949), Rodger Dumbrells (1973) and Willy Van den Bossche (2003) all accepted as standard references.
Quick notice to all club members that January’s club meeting has been changed to the Thurs 15th Jan not the 1st the hall is closed.
A few may have noticed that the competition list ran out in Dec this year I have just updated the competition lists for 2015.
It’s been about three months since starting this blog type website for the DABCC. I thought it was about time to let you all know how it’s going. We’ve had getting on for 2000 hits from places as far away as Canada Australia US India and most of Europe. All pretty good considering we are blogging about a niche hobby and are small regional UK club . We have received a few inquiries and comments which have been responded to. There’s been the expected spam as well which has been deleted To keep the site on track and in focus. We have tried to keep it simple and reflecting whats going on.
Thanks for the helpful feedback/comments concerning the blogs structure whilst they do not appear in the comments they are taken on board. still getting our heads around what sort of meaningful tags and how to categorize posts. The raw pictures have been re-sampled kept as small as possible without loosing essence of what they convey.
There are a few regular viewers so if you like what you see why don’t you follow us and keep up to date with new posts on the site? Relevant comments on the posts are also most welcome.
How are we going to develop in the coming months? The intention is to add a quick-view database on our regional bottles and advertising. The club produced its ‘Dorset Digger’ newsletter for many years some of the articles are worthy of a wider audience and will be uploaded as time permits. We will of course be blogging on current events through the months as they happen. So hopefully as you all revisit over the coming months you will see the changes.
Kindest regards
David
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