oz-riley
Well-Known Member
This is something I just had to share with you all here.
I specifically collect bottles, stoneware, pot lids etc from Warrnambool in Victoria Australia (my home town).
I have been chasing a pictorial dose cup from a local Chemist R. F. Kennedy for around 10 years, I have advertised in the local newspaper on many occasions in the hope one would turn up with out any success.
R.F Kennedy has one of the best trade marks around with a lighthouse with two ships on either side.
There is a spectacular pot lid from this company which is one of Australia’s best and there are numerous Chemist bottles and pill jars some with and some without the lighthouse.
Anyway back to the Dose Cup, I buy and sell on eBay and I have a saved search for 'Warrnambool' which I check almost everyday. Well you can imagine my surprise when one day about a month ago I did my usual search and a R. F . Kennedy Dose Cup popped onto my screen, I almost fell off my chair.
It was listed as a 'Shot Glass' and it was in the USA, obviously in the wrong category and country for this item and I had to check with the seller (well beg) because their terms were 'Will Sell to the USA only', I did the I will pay with BidPay and be a good boy dance and reluctantly the sell agreed to let me bid.
I wasted no time and put in a proxy bid of $400.00US, there was still around four days to go and after two of these had passed I was getting nervous and I upped my proxy bid to $600.00US.
I sit here now with this Dose cup sitting among my other Kennedy bottles, the auction ended and I was the only person to bid although I did put in two bids, the auctions final price was $9.99US.
I have a new faith in eBay, I found a bargain and what a bargain this is only the second one of these dose cups to turn up that I know of and believe me I have looked for one of these.
Anyway after an amount of guilt fell upon me I have now sent the seller another BidPay check of $200.00US as this is what I would have paid without any hesitation and I still feel I got a Bargain.
Always looking for good quality bottles etc from Warrnambool, let me know if you have any for sale
Thanks
Chris
I specifically collect bottles, stoneware, pot lids etc from Warrnambool in Victoria Australia (my home town).
I have been chasing a pictorial dose cup from a local Chemist R. F. Kennedy for around 10 years, I have advertised in the local newspaper on many occasions in the hope one would turn up with out any success.
R.F Kennedy has one of the best trade marks around with a lighthouse with two ships on either side.
There is a spectacular pot lid from this company which is one of Australia’s best and there are numerous Chemist bottles and pill jars some with and some without the lighthouse.
Anyway back to the Dose Cup, I buy and sell on eBay and I have a saved search for 'Warrnambool' which I check almost everyday. Well you can imagine my surprise when one day about a month ago I did my usual search and a R. F . Kennedy Dose Cup popped onto my screen, I almost fell off my chair.
It was listed as a 'Shot Glass' and it was in the USA, obviously in the wrong category and country for this item and I had to check with the seller (well beg) because their terms were 'Will Sell to the USA only', I did the I will pay with BidPay and be a good boy dance and reluctantly the sell agreed to let me bid.
I wasted no time and put in a proxy bid of $400.00US, there was still around four days to go and after two of these had passed I was getting nervous and I upped my proxy bid to $600.00US.
I sit here now with this Dose cup sitting among my other Kennedy bottles, the auction ended and I was the only person to bid although I did put in two bids, the auctions final price was $9.99US.
I have a new faith in eBay, I found a bargain and what a bargain this is only the second one of these dose cups to turn up that I know of and believe me I have looked for one of these.
Anyway after an amount of guilt fell upon me I have now sent the seller another BidPay check of $200.00US as this is what I would have paid without any hesitation and I still feel I got a Bargain.
Always looking for good quality bottles etc from Warrnambool, let me know if you have any for sale
Thanks
Chris
]...I knew there was a reason I liked to collect "cork tops bottles"....collectors are corkers[8D]...
