Antique Bottle Fairs

Basicilly

Hi,

I recently became interested in antique bottle collecting and I am wondering if there are any antique bottle fairs or gatherings in Ireland?

Also, what are the best sites for buying bottles on?

ThanksJ

Judgement Day

I can recommend this magazine: http://www.abc-ukmag.co.uk/ and there used to be an annual fair in the Spa Hotel, Lucan. I think a sub to the mag will give you any info that you could possibly want.

Degsy

Basicilly wrote: »

Hi,

I recently became interested in antique bottle collecting and I am wondering if there are any antique bottle fairs or gatherings in Ireland?

Also, what are the best sites for buying bottles on?

ThanksJ

What kinds are you interested in collecting?

I have a modest collection myself and a few contacts in the hobby too..there are a handfull of people in Ireland who are serious collectors and they are tending to specialise in one form or another..as with nearly all antiques,the arse has largely dropped out of the market so be very carefull when buying.

Basicilly

Hi Degsy,

my father has a collection of bottles which my brother and i were thinking of creating a website for.

I guess i was wondering if there are others in Ireland who would like to add their bottles to a website and if it is worth puttting together something where Irish bottle collectors could trade bottles.

What do you think?

Thanks

Degsy

Basicilly wrote: »

Hi Degsy,

my father has a collection of bottles which my brother and i were thinking of creating a website for.

I guess i was wondering if there are others in Ireland who would like to add their bottles to a website and if it is worth puttting together something where Irish bottle collectors could trade bottles.

What do you think?

Thanks

Bera in mind that bottles are only really collected pre-1920's as thats when bottles were made by hand and not machine.
Also there are lots and lots of old but pretty valueless bottles knocking around so you should get an idea of whats collectable before you go to the trouble of setting up a website.
Genrally speaking the following bottles are teh most collected

Codds

Hamiltons

Poisons

Pictorial Ginger beers

Mallets

Belarmines

Onions

You may find other stuff is being collected but that's the broad collecting line.
Do you have any pics?

Basicilly

Cheers Degsy,
afraid i don't have any pics at the moment but i'm pretty sure alot of his collection are quite old. He definately has cods and poisons but i'm guessing he has some of the others you mention also.

I was thinking of putting a questionnaire together to see if there was any interest by bottle collectors to trade their bottles online. Any suggestions on the best place (physical location in Ireland eg bottle fair or online) would be best to distribute this.

Do you think many people would trade online or do they prefer to talk to collectors in person to examine the bottles?

Cheers

Degsy

Best bet is to create an account here

http://www.antique-bottles.net/

And simply ask about irish collecting..there are a few people on there from Ireland who should be able to help.

Basicilly

Thanks again Degsy:)

Draper

Basicilly wrote: »

Hi,

I recently became interested in antique bottle collecting and I am wondering if there are any antique bottle fairs or gatherings in Ireland?

Also, what are the best sites for buying bottles on?

ThanksJ

Hi,
There are a group of approximately 15 bottle collectors who meet about 4 times a year to chat and swap bottles such as ginger beers, creams, whiskey crocks, and match strickers etc. Its a great way of meeting other collectors and adding to your collection. The ABC magazine is definitely worth subscribing to as it features a regular article with photos, about what turns up at our meetings. The Irish article started with issue 46. If your on Facebook, check out 'Irish Antique Bottle Collectors', its just been set up.

Basicilly

Thanks a lot Draper, that meeting sounds like exactly what i'm looking for.

do you have details of when and where the next meeting will be or will this be put on facebook closer to the time.

Draper

In order to facilitate the lads from the north and the south, our meetings are held at Fitzpatrick's bar & Restaurant on the Carlingford road about 45 minutes north of Swords. Sometimes lads meet in Swords and travel the rest of the way together. We meet on a Saturday morning from about 11-30 till 2-30. Our next get together will be sometime in February, details will be on the Face book page in the next couple of weeks.

The idea of setting up the face book page is to promote the hobby by enabling collectors to get to know each other and to build on their collections through swaps.

Degsy

Draper wrote: »

In order to facilitate the lads from the north and the south, our meetings are held at Fitzpatrick's bar & Restaurant on the Carlingford road about 45 minutes north of Swords. Sometimes lads meet in Swords and travel the rest of the way together. We meet on a Saturday morning from about 11-30 till 2-30. Our next get together will be sometime in February, details will be on the Face book page in the next couple of weeks.

The idea of setting up the face book page is to promote the hobby by enabling collectors to get to know each other and to build on their collections through swaps.

Dave?

Draper

Does this mean last post has not been seen??

Degsy

Draper wrote: »

Does this mean last post has not been seen??

No i was just wondering if you're dave from swords..

Draper

Yep, the very one.

Degsy

Draper wrote: »

Yep, the very one.

G'day..we have met!

Draper

Degsy wrote: »

G'day..we have met!

Hi Degsy,
Where did we meet??

Degsy

Draper wrote: »

Hi Degsy,
Where did we meet??

Santry..we were trying to find the bottle dump before they built the aprtments..we didnt

Draper

Degsy wrote: »

Santry..we were trying to find the bottle dump before they built the aprtments..we didnt

Ah yes D. I remember now. Good to see your still active! Are you still at the number I last contacted you on??

Dr Strange

Hi guys, in order for this thread to continue on topic I would like to ask you to conduct any further personal communication via PM, please. Thanks.

Draper

Preusse wrote: »

Hi guys, in order for this thread to continue on topic I would like to ask you to conduct any further personal communication via PM, please. Thanks.

Hi Preusse

I'm new to the boards. Is there something Im doing wrong?? What is PM??

Dr Strange

Draper wrote: »

Hi Preusse

I'm new to the boards. Is there something Im doing wrong?? What is PM??

Hi and welcome to the forum Draper. No, nothing wrong as such but a lot of private talk would take away from the actual topic of the thread. That is why I ask you guys to take it to PM (PM = private message). You can click on a poster's name (left side of a post) and a list of possible options will open up. One of them is sending a private message to that poster and you can send messages to each other without anyone else seeing them. Hope this helps.

Draper

Hi Preusse

Thanks for that info. Was just unsure how it worked. Thanks again.

Basicilly

Thanks guys for your help and glad you got to hook up:) Will keep an eye on the facebook page and will get a subscripton of the mag you suggested.

Good luck with collecting!

Draper

Hi
I've been absent from the forum for some time now, but just to let you know that our Antique Bottle Collectors meetings are very much alive and kicking. There are plenty of items for sale or swap such as Codds, Gingerbeers, Minerals, Poisons and advertising etc, enough for everyone to add something new to their collections.

Our next get together at "Fitzpatricks" will be this coming Saturday Sept 7th from approx 11:30am. If your interested in bottle collecting, you can't afford to miss it!

Redrubies

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Dr Strange

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Redrubies

Right o. Will link. Sorry about that error.

Dr Strange

Thanks. Once you have the link here you can include your adverts text in full as well. Best of luck!