
Come with us to Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans July 16th - 20th 2008
The First International Symposium of Cocktail Shaker Collectors
Led by Stephen Visakay,
Myself and Jimbo Walker will also be on the panel. We'd love to meet you there!
Ann Rogers Tuennerman, Founder of Tales of the Cocktail, invites all vintage bar ware enthusiasts to the first International Symposium of Cocktail Shaker Collectors.
All
bar ware collectors, from beginner to advanced, including swizzle stick
collectors, are invited to meet others and exchange information and knowledge in
this first International Symposium held in conjunction with Tales of the
Cocktail July 16 to July 20, 2008 HOTEL MONTELEONE, NEW ORLEANS LA
contact Tales of the
Cocktail
Moderator Stephen Visakay, cocktail shaker scholar and author of Vintage Bar
Ware (Collector Books) will cover the history of the cocktail shaker from the
1800’s to the rise of cocktail culture today, how to still find vintage bar ware
at bargain prices, the care and cleaning of vintage bar ware, swizzle sticks and
collecting obsessions; why we collect. There will be a free drawing for five
hundred dollars worth of vintage bar ware.
*Symposium originally referred to a drinking party taking the form of a series
of speeches, both satirical and serious dating back to Plato in 385 B.C. The
Greek verb sympotein means “to drink together” and we will be doing that as well
as shaking drinks! Please bring your favorite cocktail shaker, vintage bar ware
items and swizzle sticks for display and discussion.
Crazy
for Cocktail Shakers
I buy, sell and
trade Vintage Cocktail Shakers and Barware!
What do you have? Napier, Revere, Chase?
My name is Mark Bigler and I've been collecting bar paraphernalia
for some time now in anticipation of my small basement bar that I was intent
on having built a few years ago. I was given a cocktail shaker quite a few
years ago for Christmas and I loved it, I saw an older glass shaker with a brass
top in an antique store here in Ogden, Utah and bought it immediately. Well
now since I had two, I guess that amounts to a collection and the search was on.
I then ran across a magazine article by Stephen Visakay and I was hooked!
Years ago my little bar was finally built and of course I had to have more.
Only a few of my shakers fit on my bar and I'm displaying them all over the house
thanks to my patient and understanding wife. I would love to hear how you
display yours and any more fun things about your collection.
Trades?
If you have some duplicates that
you would like to trade, I do too!!!