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Chico Bottle Show - 2/3/2010 10:31:54 AM    CALDIGR2 Posts: 2159 Joined: 6/20/2005 Status: offline The next CA show will be held by the Bidwell Bottle Club on 12-14 March at the Silver Dollar fairground in Chico. It has always been a fun show to attend and this year should be no different. We go up on Friday morning to attend dealer set-up and march around the room searching for goodies. The early admission is 5 bucks, a very small price to pay for the opportunity afforded the collector by being there as the stuff is being placed on the tables. Like at Auburn, the "feeding frenzies" are fun and interesting to participate in, or merely observe. The weather is usually nice at that time of year, with little chance of rain and temps in the 70s. See y'all there, if you can make it. _____________________________ Dig no privy before it's time. Post #: 1

RE: Chico Bottle Show - 2/3/2010 6:39:55 PM    ktbi Posts: 931 Joined: 6/7/2007 From: Vacaville, Ca. Status: online Hi Mike...I've been to the Chico show twice - last year I went on Friday.  I'm not an insulator collector, but they usually have a lot of them up there.  They are impressive though....Hope to see you there....Ron _____________________________ Will Buy/Sell/Trade for for Kidney Embossed Bottles (in reply to CALDIGR2) Post #: 2

RE: Chico Bottle Show - 3/5/2010 10:52:21 AM    BarbaraInCalif   Posts: 327 Joined: 9/21/2009 Status: offline One week away! Attachment (1) (in reply to ktbi) Post #: 3

RE: Chico Bottle Show - 3/5/2010 11:17:16 AM    CALDIGR2 Posts: 2159 Joined: 6/20/2005 Status: offline Friday it is. Our group has lunch at Sierra Nevada Brewery, a many year tradition. March around the aisles for a coupl'a hours, then go eat and return for more marching. Mike _____________________________ Dig no privy before it's time. (in reply to BarbaraInCalif) Post #: 4

RE: Chico Bottle Show - 3/13/2010 12:16:03 AM    CanYaDigIt Posts: 989 Joined: 2/5/2009 From: Back In Sac, CA Status: offline Great show today.  We had the kids with us so we only stayed about 4 1/2 hours.  Here's our take from the show. The group shot. Here's the four new blacks.  All dip molded and pontiled.  These pics don't do them any justice.  I'll get some sunlight shots tomorrow. Pontils Here's the amber demi and yellowish seam side flask Jen got. My son is 10 and recently became interested in bottles.  He really scored at this show.  He didn't spend a single dollar today.  Several of the guys at the show were just happy to see a young guy interested so they gave him bottles.  He has 10-12 descent bottles that were given to him at shows.  I think it's awesome because that generosity is really what is getting fueling his eagerness to learn.  He couldn't care less about bottles until someone gave him his first blob soda.  That first one's still his favorite too.  Thanks guys!!!  Here's his take. S.F. Whiskeys Sodas Spice Finally, here's what I got for the Sacramento collection.  Both are nice bottles.  The Bowman on the left is earlier BIMAL and comes in several sizes.  I was wanting a bigger one, but the feeding frenzy at the table devoured them before I even saw them.  Happy to get this one though.  The Gogings on the right is a pretty scarce bottle.  I passed up one in Auburn and regretted it after, so I was glad to find this one too.  These were the two exact bottle I was hoping to find today, and I did.  Didn't even see any colored ones there.  Maybe in Antioch. _____________________________ Comes a time when the blind man takes your hand, says "Don't you see" (in reply to CALDIGR2) Post #: 5

RE: Chico Bottle Show - 3/13/2010 12:38:07 AM    CALDIGR2 Posts: 2159 Joined: 6/20/2005 Status: offline We were there for 4 hours today, and I must say that the show was quite surprising, to say the least. Quite a number of both new to the market and freshly dug QUALITY Western bottles were offered. I bought nothing, but did steer friends to VERY nice things to acquire. As always, I was seriously looking for anything to add to my little grouping, but, for me anyway, there wasn't anything that I "needed". Sure, I could have purchased great bottles for resale, but that wasn't my mission. I would feel like crap if I bought a nice bottle for $XXX and turned it to a friend for $XXXX. Sorry, folks, but that's the way it is. Cold temps and steady rain dampened the day, and the attendance was light, but we had a good trip. My buds drove to my house from SF, which is out of the way for them, and, after a hearty breakfast, we hit it from here. Tomorrow is expected to be clear and cool, at only the low 60s, but we are gonna dig. Two "permishes" might pan out. We'll see whether, or not, a report is earned. _____________________________ Dig no privy before it's time. (in reply to CanYaDigIt) Post #: 6

RE: Chico Bottle Show - 3/13/2010 12:41:17 AM    CanYaDigIt Posts: 989 Joined: 2/5/2009 From: Back In Sac, CA Status: offline Good luck!!! _____________________________ Comes a time when the blind man takes your hand, says "Don't you see" (in reply to CALDIGR2) Post #: 7

RE: Chico Bottle Show - 3/14/2010 11:46:06 AM    CALDIGR2 Posts: 2159 Joined: 6/20/2005 Status: offline Here's another Chico show "find". Nice, very scarce whiskey. One of the "top ten", it's a J.Moore/Old Bourbon/E.Chielovich/Sole agents fifth. Super heavy embossing and whittled to death. Sorry about the poor pic, I took it in a hurry yesterday morning. _____________________________ Dig no privy before it's time. (in reply to CanYaDigIt) Post #: 8

RE: Chico Bottle Show - 3/14/2010 3:45:34 PM    CanYaDigIt Posts: 989 Joined: 2/5/2009 From: Back In Sac, CA Status: offline That's a killer whiskey Mike.  Is it yours?  Do you have any Moore or Cutter flasks?  I like the Moore's, but the flasks gonna take me a while. _____________________________ Comes a time when the blind man takes your hand, says "Don't you see" (in reply to CALDIGR2) Post #: 9

RE: Chico Bottle Show - 3/14/2010 4:46:07 PM    BarbaraInCalif   Posts: 327 Joined: 9/21/2009 Status: offline We attended the Chico show on Friday afternoon. The plan had been to go on Saturday, but between the rain not allowing us to work and our power being out, Friday was a better day to leave the farm. It was not a good time to be at the show though. We arrived at 2:30, but by 4:15 the vendors started covering up their bottles and by 6 just about everyone was gone. The show was advertised to run from 10 to 7. There was a lot I did not get to see. Our round trip was 257 miles! I orginally posted this in a different thread (just in case my complaint seems redundant). Granted, there were very few buyers by that time, but is this early closing a common occurrence? What is the best time to attend a show? (in reply to CanYaDigIt) Post #: 10

RE: Chico Bottle Show - 3/14/2010 7:44:55 PM    CALDIGR2 Posts: 2159 Joined: 6/20/2005 Status: offline Barbara, the sad fact was that the bad weather and serious cold in the room put people into the "let's get out of here" mode. We arrived at 0945 and departed by 1430. Blowing rain and miserable driving conditions both ways. I'm sorry that you missed the action, but it was all weather related. had it been a warm sunny day things would have been good. The whiskey was shown to me, but rather than buy it and have to double my money to someone, I just grabbed Mike Lake and let him have it. I knew that he had been looking for that bottles for years, so, to me, it was the right way to deal with the situation. _____________________________ Dig no privy before it's time. (in reply to BarbaraInCalif) Post #: 11

RE: Chico Bottle Show - 3/14/2010 7:54:50 PM    Lordbud   Posts: 2246 Joined: 6/16/2005 From: San Jose Status: offline For me as a longtime low-end collector I've had both good and bad luck attending "early lookers/set-up" shows , whether or not the weather was "cooperating"...but I can say as far as shows go, I've bought 95% of my "show bottles" at the regular Saturday sale day most shows open on for the public... _____________________________ Jason San Francisco Bay Area bottles and go-withs. (in reply to CALDIGR2) Post #: 12

RE: Chico Bottle Show - 3/15/2010 9:13:22 PM    Indianabottledigger   Posts: 265 Joined: 8/2/2009 From: Indiana Status: offline Hello all western collectors I have a question for ya. My digging buddy has a nice blob amber quart california PoP Beer bottle that says chicago Ill on the back side of it? Just looking for any info you might be able to give me about it im trying to get it off of him and not sure what a fair trade or money exchange may be. Sorry about posting this here but since it says california thought someone might know.?? Thanks (in reply to Lordbud) Post #: 13

RE: Chico Bottle Show - 3/23/2010 8:44:39 PM    westernbittersnut   Posts: 131 Joined: 3/25/2008 Status: offline I have a friend that has that same quart bottle in green. I also do not know what value these have. He is wanting to sell his also. (in reply to Indianabottledigger) Post #: 14

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