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Posted By: Greg Theberge

Mike,

Funny you should mention John Kashmanian. He and my dad used to work together for years at the bank. While he was doing the baseball stuff, we were doing the beer. In fact, we just picked up a great photo of an anniversary party with rare beer bottles on the table from John. One of these days would love to get over to see his collection. John's a great guy.

As far as a book, there might be an avenue to go to that produces a VERY high quality product and it doesn't cost the author anything to get the book done. Of course, you should not expect to make a dime from the project, it's essentially just a labor of love and a nice thing to say you contributed to the hobby. I mentioned before that a group of us approached Schiffer Publishing with a proposal to produce a book on New England brewery advertising. The were head over heals on the project, as long as it contained relative price values for the pieces (of course, all of these values are long outdated by now).If there was an interest, I may still have some contacts through my dad. You can see the book on ebay at:

http://cgi.ebay.com/New-England-Breweriana-by-Dave-Lang-Gary-Cushman-H_W0QQitemZ320305331901QQihZ011QQcategoryZ378QQssP ageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

The only problem is that they do high quality photos. They came to the house and photographed five collections for our book. Might be difficult with everyone spread out.

Just some thoughts, but it would be a cool project.

Greg

edited to fix the link...something screwed up