Page 3 - BBR magazine 140 - 30yrs issue

No 140 July - Sept 2014 BBR140
BBR’s Ed says “time for fun”
It’s that time of year again - the big National jamboree is upon us again. Simply the most fun you can have with bottles, potlids, advertising, saltglaze and tobacco pipes. We hope you’ll find this issue suitable reading in between
purchasing, selling and gossiping. AB always likes to mark anniversaries and with issue 140 we’re 35 years old. We don’t have middle age spread yet (well maybe a touch, eh AB?) but we do have some fantastic features for you this issue.
David Burton’s long anticipated (almost as long as the inks book I think!?) Antique Sealed Bottles 1640-1900, has its first airing here prior to publication in August. This is quite an event by any standards. I’m sure many of you will be discussing the high cover price (we’ve a special price offer mind) but you do get three volumes in one and this will be the standard guide for many, many years to come. I recently visited the Olympia Antiques fair where a specialist dealer had a single copy of German Stoneware, 1200-1900: Archaeology and Cultural History by David R.M. Gaimster (Oct 1997). The standard text on the subject I kick myself now for not buying it ten years ago: his copy was £450!
For this issue we preview and review it but as a bonus David has written an article on the history of BBR... no, not our BBR - Berry, Brothers and Rudd. On the trail of bottles for the book he unearthed treasures in
dusty corners of their shop. Mr Ault has opened his vaults too to show us
inside his dusty drawers.
We also have the best spread of mustards you are ever likely to find. This is one of those areas that has been consistently collected by quite a few of you but, strangely, is very little researched or written about. I’ve been busy and fleshed out a bit of history for each of the makers and for those of you still wanting more tang for your buck, we’ve even thrown in an extra piece on pontilled ‘London’ and French glass mustards.
After 35 years we think we are doing pretty well. Not just pretty pictures and
pound signs, but in depth articles and research, reviews, old AND the new
collecting areas, with the latest digging and buying news so you can gossip to your heart’s content during the bustle and tussle - and fun of the National.
Some of BBR’s backroom ‘team’...
Some of BBR’s backroom ‘team’...
Avid collectors to ‘mums’ - the BBR backroom squad, decision makers, photographers, researchers, feature writers, show organisers, subscriptions & distribution dept. L to R: Alan Blakeman, Guy Burch, Clare Bell, Katie (Tatie), Frank Burgin, Diana Snowdon, David Hampton, Rebecca Blakeman, & John Ault. - all overworked, underpaid, or unpaid, & there’s lots more regularly contributors! BBR, by collectors, for collectors
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