Hi All
I am posting this same message simultaneously on several boards in the Forum
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Hi All
I am posting this same message simultaneously on several boards in the Forum
The forum was started early 2011 by George, to whom goes full credit for everything
It started with a bang : Pat, Richy, Bill , me …. + a lot of lurkers
Then it seemed to stagnate in mid - 2011
Then suddenly in Q4/2011 a new influx : Tom, Steven , Charll, Misu, and a few others !
FANTASTIC !
My interest is solely MIPBs ( MODERN- era INSIDE PAINTED BOTTLES ) and as such I am building the biggest MIPB data base in the world which I distribute free of charge to any sincere collector on USB memory stick .
MIPB = anything painted post 1950 but it can also stray down to 1910-20 –ish period, which was the end of the “official” Middle –era
Hopefully, in the fullness of time, Bill Patrick will upload my entire data base to his amazing website
www.snuffbottlecollector.com so that it is on-line and openly accessible forever.
But, like a book, there's a difference to being able to read it on-line and having the real thing, and my data base is designed so that once it’s stored in your hard disc , you can search anything and everything in an instant instead of going on-line and waiting for long MB- size downloads to come on-screen.
I therefore have a request to you all as we enter 2012 and Year Two of the Forum
Please categorize all the MIPB info you have : pics of bottles, provenance details, emails, whatever ACCORDING TO ARTIST .
It’s as simple as that.
Just create a MSN file in your laptop under My Documents for every MIPB artist you have interest in and then file everything per artist in those files.
Name the files according to the artists’ names ( it does not matter how you spell them)
Eventually - and if you agree - I will ask you all to send me your MIPB files on USB memory sticks and I will merge all the files into one super DB, while at the same time acknowledging the source of every file of pics and data.
Then I will send back your USB sticks with the complete data base of everyone all merged
But I warn you …. You will need a 32 BG USB stick to accommodate the full DB ! My current DB is 8 GB and it will quickly grow to 20 GB after I scan/ crop/ title all the MIPB books I now have
I repeat : just store your stuff in files by artist and use whatever artist name spelling you like. I can rationalize all the names into standard pin yin and Chinese characters
Best wishes to you all, and especial thanks to George for 2012
FORUM YEAR TWO !
