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Date, time & Place

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Saturday 17 August 2013, 6.00pm Pot Luck Dinner, Ken & Malee Chin's, 29 Norton Park Avenue,
Fairfield, Lower Hutt. Telephone: 04 938 1488 E-Mail: Kenchin@ihug.co.nz
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Sunday 20 October 2013, 12.30pm Pot Luck Lunch, Colin & Dianne Ryder's, 20 Prospect Terrace,
Johnsonville. Telephone: 04 478 4391 E-Mail: rydercj@xtra.co.nz
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Saturday 11 January 2014, 6.00pm Barbecue, David & Rosie's, 11 Trevor Terrace, Paremata.
Telephone: 04 233 2997 E-Mail: minizv@gmail.com

Friday 21st - Sunday 23rd February 2014 AGM Weekend in Auckland - Details to be advised

If you want to hold a meeting please let one of the committee know.

BENEAGLES – “THE RARE PIKE”

(Editor's note: Peter submitted a larger article than this for issue 100
but much of it was the same as another article from Dave Allen
[Ceramics Report, page79], so apologies Peter for the heavy editing)

Most of us know and have in our collection many of Peter Thomson's
Beswick ceramics but how many of you have the pike flask? I have
been fortunate and lucky enough in my 20+ years of collecting to
have come across and bought the very rare and wonderful The
Sportsmans Flask “PIKE”. Most of us have the “TROUT,” which has
its mouth facing up, in our collection, whereas the “PIKE” is facing
downwards. I can count on both hands the times that I have seen it
but am fortunate enough to have it in my collection. Not only that, as
you can see, I have 4 variants of it.

An empty flask, similar to the one on the right, but with the top
missing, recently sold for US$39 on Ebay.

Peter Bonkovich

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