2012 Toronto Bottle Show was April 22

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I wrote about the Four Seasons Bottle Collectors Club Show and Sale on Dumpdiggers blog.
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Plenty of cool things to look at and lots to buy. There were forty dealers inside a hockey arena north of Toronto. If everyone brought a hundred items then that would be four thousand items for sale, under one roof.
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Here in Toronto the guys who make big bucks are the people who have day jobs digging holes in the ground for a living. The back tables at the show were occupied by the pottery kingpins - professional excavators - they are landscapers, commercial gas station tank replacers and another Toronto basement waterproofing contractor guy - these pros are paid to dig holes all day and so of course they are going to find stuff. The one dude above finds about a dozen good pieces of pottery a year and countless more old glass bottles. He sells the most stuff at these shows and usually has a fat wad of cash at the ends of the day, and that's all profit cause whatever they find is just gravy on top of a good day job. No doubt they have big collections at home too. The merchandise below is all from holes in the ground - pipe runs that hit privies or buried root cellars. Look at his treasure, for sale.

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enjoy the show
 

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Those are some awesome bottles! Love the color of the P.C. Flett and Co. crock.
 

Great pics. Thank you for sharing with us. Paul :)
 

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