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Toronto Bottle Show
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The
Collector
By Dave Engholme |
We stop,
occasionally casting an inquisitive eye about the room and ponder
various questions from the Collectors viewpoint.
Why collect? Many of us live in a symbiotic relationship between
the struggle to build retirement savings and an inarticulate zeal
to acquire some new goody. We harbour at least two mutually
compatible and driving passions, like stoneware and your favourite
winery or milk bottles and history, that, when combined, creates
an itch that must be scratched.
What is a Collector? We are the ones who spend the retirement,
delighted in the knowledge we have some fascinating doohickey to
look at and learn about, until we join a club and find ourselves
re-energized to acquire more ‘stuff’. To us, the notion of
divesting approaches sacrilege. But at some point, after our
better half relegates us to the doghouse because our collection
overflowed every room, rationality may prevail.
Enter the profit motive. This noble pursuit morphs the body to a
higher plane of existence. Innate chemistry transforms under the
drive to embrace free enterprise. This new lifestyle may restore
marital bliss for certain ambitious souls but leaves the rest of
us, after some anguish, mental gymnastics or loss of acuity,
squarely in the domain of the pure Collector.
Where have all the Collectors gone? Where are the newbies, those
nubile vessels of bilious ardor, bitten by the collector bug,
thinking it a malady and unable to satiate their misconstrued
lust. Where are the fifty-something’s, those vivacious alumnae of
the hard knock school who remember Mom throwing out neat medicine
bottles, who remember the man with the crocked spine delivering
milk to the house and who wonder what happened to the Museum’s
Canadiana collection. They yearn to reminisce, to reacquaint, to
find a treasure or to experience a visual feast of the sort found
at a bottle and nostalgia show.
Enter the Show. Since 1992, the Four Seasons Bottle Collectors
Clubs greatest accomplishment has been to host the Toronto Bottle
Show. This annual event is the largest regional show and sale of
its kind, boasting 100 tables with Dealers dedicated to offering a
staggering volume and selection of medicines, milks, stoneware,
sealers, sodas, insulators, beers, glass collectables, whimsies
and nostalgia in varieties sufficient to invigorate and satisfy
any Collector.
For the novice and seasoned enthusiast alike, this Show is your
best way to see, learn about and obtain one or more of your favourite doodads. |
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Updated
Monday May 04, 2009 |
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