The 41st National Bottle and Collectables Exhibition was held at ASB Stadium, Auckland Sat and Sun the 26th and 27th March. Some images from the event are shown on the National Show Page.
Club magazines from the 70's, 80's and 90's now available in the members only area of this website.
The next Club meeting will be at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville Street, this Sunday 27 March, commencing promptly at 7.00 p.m. The collectable theme will be hand tools and the bottle theme will be labelled bottles. There will also be New Finds. Door charge is $3 per person, and there will be a $1 raffle. Contributions to forthcoming Club magazines are always eagerly sought. Please send these to Hugh via the contact page of this website. You can also place an advert in the magazine’s Trading Post pages, either for Items Wanted to Buy or To Sell.
The next Club meeting will be at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville Street, this Sunday 28 February, commencing promptly at 7.00 p.m. The collectable theme will be Valentines related, and the bottle theme will be perfume bottles. There will also be New Finds. Door charge is $3 per person, and there will be a $1 raffle. A Club magazine will be distributed at Sunday’s meeting, but contributions to forthcoming magazines are always eagerly sought. Please send these Hugh via the contact page of this website.
Links have been provided on the National Show page describing the 41st National Bottle & Collectables Exhibition, including where to download the schedule plus entry forms. New publications are described in the Whats Happening page.
The first Club meeting in 2016 will be at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville Street, this Sunday 31 January, commencing 7.00 p.m. The collectable theme will be holiday-related collectables and the bottle theme will be Hamilton/Torpedo bottles. There will also be New Finds. Door charge is $3 per person, and there will be a $1 raffle. You are invited to contribute to the February Club magazine. The cutoff date for contributions is 15 February. Please send these to Hugh via the contact page of this website.
Early club newsletters or magazines are being scanned and added to the members only area of this website. So far we have added the very first one from Sept 1976 as well as April 1977, April 1978, April and Sept 1979 and June 1980.
This year’s final Club meeting/barbecue will be at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville Street, this Sunday 29 November, commencing 6.00 p.m. Instead of themed Bottles or Collectables this month, you are invited to bring a Mystery Object. Door charge is $3 per person, and there will be a $1 raffle as usual. Members with a last name beginning A - M are asked to bring a salad, while those with a last name beginning N - Z are requested to bring a dessert. Please supply your own cutlery, plates, cups and liquid refreshments. The Club will provide barbecued meats.
Usually only a small proportion of a museum's collection is on display at any one time, but soon people from around he world will have access to more than 100,000 items from the Toitu Otago Settlers Museum. Read the article from the Otago Daily Times "Museum collection going online", by Craig Borley (Sat, 5 Sep 2015).
The What's Happening page has been updated, including the Harbour Bazaar (Lyttelton), Seaside Market (New Brighton), Linwood Rotary Market (Linwood Avenue School), Historic Oamaru Victorian celebrations, Akaroa Antique Fair (Area School) and the Members Bus trip (go here).
The next Club meeting will be on Sunday 25 October at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville Street, and will begin promptly at 7.00 p.m. The item of the night will be sports collectables, and the bottle(s) of the night will be 1960 bottles. There will also be new finds. Members are asked to bring no more than two items in this category. Articles for future club magazines are always welcome. Please send these to Hugh via the contact page of this website.
The next Club meeting will be on Sunday 27 September at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville Street, and will start promptly at 7.00 p.m.
The item of the night will be high tea collectables, and the bottle(s) of the night will be cream and milk bottles. There will also be new finds. Members are asked to bring no more than two items in this category.
The next Club meeting will be on Sunday 26 July at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville Street, and will start promptly at 7.00 pm. This will again be labeled a Special General Meeting, when further proposed amendments to the Club Rules (as a result of input from Club members) will be tabled. A copy of the proposed rules has been emailed to members. New amendments are in blue type.
Submitted by michael on Sun, 19/07/2015 - 04:54
For a number of months http://christchurchcollectables.nz/ has been a valid address for this website. We are retiring the address christchurchcollectables.org.nz. All that's changing is that we're dropping the "org" part. From 2 September 2015, the old address will no longer be valid as the domain registration will expire. Please update bookmarks to the new address. If you get lost, google us!
As notified at last month’s meeting, the next Club meeting on Sunday 28 June at 7.00 p.m. at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville Street, is also a Special General Meeting at which the proposed rule amendments will be circulated. The Collectable and Bottle of the Night will be farming related, and there will also be New Finds.

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