February 2022 Messenger

February 2022 Messenger

The MacKay Messenger

The Newsletter of MacKay United Church, New Edinburgh, Ottawa

www.mackayunited.ca

COLLECTIONS and COLLECTABLES

F e b r u a r y 2 0 2 2

Collect things that you love, that are authentic to you, and your house becomes your story. Erin Flett, textile designer.

The Elephants in the Room

Many different views were expressed by Council members, but in the end, consensus was reached. Council made the decision to be more honest with themselves and more transparent with the congregation. The church had been closed for long periods during the pandemic because it was felt that there was an obligation to keep congregants safe. But as time has moved on, there is a recognition that it is impossible to guarantee that if people come to church they won ’ t get COVID. When we re - open, the precautions re masking, proof of vaccine and social distancing will be maintained. There is a shortage of volunteers to assist in monitoring at the door, ushering etc. Think about it! Can you help? Join us for in - person Lenten services Sundays, March 6 to 27

By Susan Pitt W hen I started working at age 18, I was able to afford to travel and thus collect souvenirs from various destinations. I don ’ t know why elephants were my choice for a collection but maybe I wanted something to tell the story of travels and events. The only ones that I remember are the white marble mother with baby which I got when our first daughter Laura was born. The teapot on the right was given to me by our youngest daughter Emily. They all are reminders of vacations and happy occasions over many years. When I started researching material for this edition, Google kept turning up stories about debt collection! However, that is not what this is about and inside you will find some very interesting stories about collections and collectables. Enjoy.

Palm Sunday Service 10:30 April 3

Good Friday April 8

Now for some Good News...

Easter Sunday Service 10:30 April 10

By Eleanor Dunn M acKay will re - open for in - person services on Sunday, March 6th — the first Sunday in Lent. Yes — Ontario is starting to open up this week but at its emergency meeting last Wednesday evening, Council decided it would be impossible to get ready for an in - person service on such short notice. Council wants to make the re - opening special. Preparing for Lent with hope and a sense of renewal, with the Sunday, March 6 in - person service being the first step in the long road back. There may be a practice re - opening in February, but that will depend on a Council decision based on what ’ s happening in the city and the province, and advice from public health.

Inside this edition ~

• Bell Tower phase 2 completion • Peter ’ s Sabbatical Part 2 • Stamps, rugs, bottles & Barrels • Rarest collectables to ever exist

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The Spirit Inspires

Our Vision Seeking Spi ri tual Understanding in a welcoming communi ty

The New Creed

together in Christ open to the Spi ri t acting in service through God’s love for al l .

We are not alone,

We live in God’s world.

We believe in God:

Who has created and is creating,

Who has come in Jesus,

The Word made flesh,

Reverend Peter Woods

To reconcile and make new,

The Sabbatical continues …. S abbatical 2 is at the heart of how I ’ m spending the month of February. This is the last portion of the allotted time, and it ’ s such a gift of renewal and recreation … full of intellectual and musical pursuits. I ’ m so passionate about a developing idea that I ’ ll call ‘ Lyric Theology ’ for now. This has involved a close reading of Jan Zwicky ’ s poetry and philosophy, with many sideroads into her major influences (Plato/Wittgenstein …. plus varied musicians from J.S. Bach to Bill Evans). It ’ s been great to be in correspondence with Prof Zwicky through this time, as well as many phone and email exchanges with Prof Doug Hall (a key mentor to me and to many). It ’ s all about ‘ resonance ’, ‘ awe ’, ‘ wonder ’ but grounded in domestic life and tangible practices. Much of the inspiration leads back and forth from music to spirituality, in a rather seamless vision of wholeness. It ’ s the stuff of deep faith/vision/insight, affirming the radically transformative power of spirituality. One of the gifts of this work, from the sublime to the mundane, is that if feels as if it ’ s a wonderful confirmation of many of my own disparate insights from a lifetime of ministry. Zwicky, and her influences, have been an intellectual gift but also a deeply personal affirmation, particularly with regards to music ’ s path to the Sacred. One of my closest friends in ministry was the Rev. Larry Paul (Presbyterian holy man and pianist who died 3 - 4 years ago). He and I played gigs all over Lanark County for almost twenty years, and throughout that time he never stopped talking about his own backwoods - rooted vision of God. He called it ‘ dancehall theology ’, evolving out of countless late - night conversations about how the kingdom of God comes alive when the music starts. Zwicky ’ s lyric vision takes that musical and spiritual work to another level, embracing all the gigs and all the worship service and all the wonderful ‘ dancehall ’ relationships (in the church … and everywhere else!) as part of a great and holy continuum.

Who works in us and others

By the Spirit.

We trust in God.

We are called to be

the Church:

To celebrate God’s presen ce,

To live with respect in Creation,

To love and serve others,

To seek justice and

resist evil,

To proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen,

Our judge and our hope.

In life, in death, in life

beyond death,

God is with us.

We are not alone.

Thanks be to God.

I am so grateful to have the time to pursue all of this through conversations online and in - person, with visits to Toronto and Montreal.

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Living our Vision

FROM OUR MISSION STATEMENT

In Christ ’ s name, we will live our vision … … by responsibly using our skills to build and sustain MacKay United Church, to care for and comfort others, and to seek justice, in the church, local community, and the world .

Welcome to MacKay United Church ~ founded 1875 ~

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39 Dufferin Road Ottawa, ON, K1M 2H3 Telephone (613) 749 - 8727

David Fraser Chair of Council G oogle told me that January (in Latin, Januarius) was named after Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and transitions. The new year has begun, so let us hope the transition will be to a world free of COVID - 19 and all its variants. I started writing this message on Sunday, January 9. It was my older brother ’ s 78th birthday, and being curious, I looked up some facts about that day in history. January 9, 1944 was a Sunday and 1944 was a leap year. Anyone born on that day is a Baby Boomer, their zodiac sign is Capricorn with Saturn as the ruling planet. You were also born in the Chinese Year of the Monkey, and your spirit animal is the Goose. In early December 2021, the world was still living with a pandemic. The COVID - 19 B.1.617.2 variant (Delta) was still active, but the newly identified B.1.1.529 variant called Omicron quickly became the dominant cause of infection. Although highly infectious, Omicron caused less severe disease, but the sheer number of infections overwhelmed our fragile health care systems. December at MacKay is normally a busy time. For December 2021, Worship was capitalizing on our ability to host in - person live and online services and other special events, including our Christmas Eve Service. But with Omicron case counts increasing daily, it did not look promising. Peter and I discussed our options and agreed that, for everyone ’ s safety, the scheduled Music & Meditation would be online only. Our

Contingency Team met via ZOOM on December 20th, and after a lengthy

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discussion, recommended services be online only until mid - January. A Council meeting on January 11th extended that decision to the end of January. An emergency Council meeting to review that decision was held January 26th. And the good news is … in - person services will resume March 6 - the first Sunday of Lent. As you know, Peter was on sabbatical from October to November. We were most fortunate to contract Rev. Laurie McKnight to lead us on our spiritual journey. Rev. Laurie and her husband, Grant, re - introduced “ Children ’ s Time ” to the service and treated young and old alike to some wonderful stories. She will be back from February 2 through March 3 while Peter

Council Executive David Fraser, Chair

Recording Secretary Sharon Cook Pastoral Emergencies 613 - 749 - 8727

completes his sabbatical. Be Blessed. Be a Blessing.

God Our Fortress

David A. Fraser MacKay Council Chair

Editor : Susan Pitt

Design : M.J. Czerny - Holownia

Did you know …

Proofing : Janice Rideout, Dennis Pitt

A coin collector is called a numismatist. A numismatist studies and collects coins from other places and time periods. The word comes from the Latin word numisma, meaning “ coin, currency ”. The word numismatist was coined—no pun intended.

Website : Janice Rideout

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Phi lately

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job. Napolean Hill

stamps from around the world. At a later stage I became more absorbed in the whole aspects of philately, especially when my health was at a low ebb and was unable to participate in sport for several years. Stamp collecting can be expensive, more particu- larly with high face value stamps that are less frequently used or seen. In my late teens I joined the Hastings & St Leonards Philate- lic Society (East Sussex, UK) and took the thematic route. By example I sought out stamps with birds and contributed in a very small way to the Society ’ s exhibition displays. In later life, I have continued to collect and for many years just UK first - day covers and in fact I still collect first - day covers from Bermuda – Cynthia ’ s old haunt. I doubt whether my collection has much value other than sentimental to me. Sometimes you think that you have stamps of great value only to be disap- pointed. Having helped someone at the church I was given a full sheet of UK, 1966, World Cup Football stamps. I thought at first that this kind gift was worth more than I deserved only to find out that although initially the stamps were printed in a very short run, the demand was such that several reprints were produced, and the stamps were worth just face value. Luckily, I have never collected stamps as a method of making money, purely as a simple hobby for the dark evenings and Covid - 19 lockdowns. As it so happens, in between my charity work, I am making a start on dividing up my stamp collection for the grandchildren. I was prompted by one of them Emily, asking me to leave it to her in my will! I was showing her stamps of the Royal Mail honouring the UK gold medal winners in the London Olympics. This is one of the rarest collectibles. The 1856 British Guiana One Cent Magenta ’ s journey from one cent stamp to $9.5 million collector ’ s item is a storied one. The stamp looks generally unremarkable. It is a single color with no imagery beyond an outlined square and bits of text, including the postal clerk ’ s initials. The stamp was originally created to supplement when the British government sent British Guiana 5,000 stamps rather than the requested 50,000. The postal clerk was in a pinch and commissioned the local newspaper to create temporary stamps for letters and papers until the real ones were sent in. These temporary stamps did their job well and, once more of the real stamps arrived, the postal service did their best to remove the temporary stamps from circulation. Most of the one cent newspaper stamps met their end in the trash heap— except for one. Once discovered, it was traded between multiple hands and governments and eventually became the most expensive stamp ever in 1914. Source: Rarest.org

Postage Stamps

By Dennis Pitt and Robert Bailey

Dennis S tamp collecting is one of the most popular hobbies in the world. Collecting postage stamps is often included in the term philately: the study of stamp design, type of paper and glue, security markings, method of printing and history. There are rare stamps worth millions of dollars. Following WWII, Bill Roller, my father ’ s RAF navigator settled in Southern Rhodesia and had a huge tobacco plantation with 100 native workers. In the 1960’ s the political climate changed, and the end was in sight for white minority rule. He and his new wife Trudy visited us in Kingston when they were permanently returning to their native Ireland. They had return air tickets to avoid suspicion of their true intent and were only allowed to take enough money out of the country for travelling expenses. They were not allowed to liquidate any of their assets in Southern Rhodesia. To salvage some capital Bill purchased three very valuable old postage stamps and put them on used envelopes to avoid detection. They looked like ordinary used stamps to me. Recently I told this story to Robert Bailey, the husband of my cousin Cynthia in Crowborough, England and he wrote about stamp collecting.

Robert

Stamps can be good currency and obviously, Bill was aware and took the right ones with some value. At the time of the upheavals in that part of Africa , many white farmers lost their livelihoods and settled elsewhere.

British Guiana 1856 1cent magenta 1 known in existence

I was first drawn to collecting stamps at a very young age when my grandfather gave me a selection of old envelopes with foreign stamps attached and an elderly lady who seemed to have friends in Switzerland offered me envelopes that I presume would have found their way into the wastepaper basket. My father, who received a great deal of correspondence in his job was another contributor. My specific interest developed through gaining basic general knowledge, much of which in many countries could be found on

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F o r k l i f t s a n d B e e s

I owe my l ife to my hobbies ~ especial ly stamp col lecting. Frankl in D. Roosevelt

Grant ’ s Collection

Ruth ’ s Limerick

By Grant Dilliland

By Ruth Brown

Bee Hummingbird

My collection is now on the mantle displayed - Small birds, sculpted and crafted and round the world made;

Miniature forklift truck collecting I n 1988 after working as a mechanic fixing forklifts for about fifteen years, I took a leap of faith and bought out a forklift business in Kingston. It came with about 20 different pieces of material handling equipment. One of the parts suppliers introduced me to a collection of his of miniature forklifts and I began collecting anything I could find that was a forklift or other material handling equipment. I searched Ebay constantly and visited every flea market I found for toys. I have a few tin toys from the 50’ s, 60’ s and a few dinky toys also.

But the bee hummingbird

Smallest bird, so I've heard,

Is the prize, for it ’ s real, though now stuffed, I ’ m afraid!

Community Collecting

Things MacKay collects:

By Norma McCord

United Church Women (UCW) T he UCW continue to meet monthly via ZOOM on the second Wednesday at 1 pm. Eleanor Dunn is the liaison with Church Council and Wendy Peters continues to lead the group. A reminder and a link to the ZOOM meeting are sent out previous to the meeting. If you wish to be included please notify Wendy at [email protected] or Janice at the office. The next meeting is Wednesday, February 9 at 1 pm. Any donations can be left at the church during office hours. As soon as in - person worship returns you can bring items on Sunday mornings. All three organisations also need funds . Partage Vanier's food bank needs non perishable nutritious food items. https://www.cscvanier.com/en/ community/food - bank Multifaith Housing collects afghans and quilts. https:// www.multifaithhousing.ca/ Many of you have interesting stories that go with your collections. MacKay collects practical items for several organisations. Each of these NGOs have interesting stories to share and they can be found on - line. Centre 507 needs toothpaste, toilet paper, socks , mittens or gloves, coffee, and warm winter jackets and boots. http:// www.centre507.org/

The collection now includes custom - built forklifts, toy forklifts, miniature models of actual forklifts and matchbox sized ones. On one trip to London England, I bought a few at Harrod ’ s and it cost me 50 pounds to ship them home. When I lived in Kingston, I had enough room in my man cave to actually display all 300 of them. When I left Kingston, I packed them away in plastic bins and other than a few Lego ones and two ride - on ones that I gave to my grand sons they are still all in bins in the basement of our cottage. I suppose I should sell them so the kids won ’ t have to deal with the dispersal when I am gone.

Did you know...

Tegestologists have a great excuse to spend time in bars since they collect coasters or beermats. They should probably team up with labeorphilists , or collectors of beer bottles.

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Southwest US col lections

A parure is the formal name given to a sui te of jewelry that matches.

house. The patterns are traditional — “ Ye - Be - Chai ” by weaver Rose Bia of Canyon de Chelly, AZ; “ Two Grey Hills ” by weaver Sarah Begay of Two Grey Hills, AZ.; “ Tree of Life ” and “ Rez Pictorial ” by weaver Ella Mae Begay of Monday Farm, AZ; and “ Storm ” by weaver Rosie Ben of Indian Wells, AZ.

Collecting or “ Cultural Appropriation? ”

By Eleanor Dunn M aybe it was all those John Ford westerns at the Linden Theatre Saturday matinees when I was a kid growing up in the ‘ Burgh. Ford made most of his

My brother - in - law lectured me on the importance of provenance when collecting. Fans of Antiques Roadshow know all about provenance. When purchasing Navajo weaving, it ’ s very important to get a photograph of the weaver with the piece you are buying, her name plus date of acquisition. This proof of authentication is very useful if you or heirs have to sell your

westerns on location — in Monument Valley — in Navajo country at the Four Corners, where testates of Arizona, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico meet. I had always been fascinated by the southwest.

Maybe it ’ s because I inherited a blanket/rug and a wall hanging when he and a fellow post - grad Harvard pal drove many miles of gravel in summer 1935, across the United States, spending time in the southwest. In 1995, my late husband and I spent many hours on a tour bus, travelling through the Four Corners region. One of my younger sisters and her husband had settled in Cottonwood, AZ, having left Alaska initially for Florida. Paul and I took time away from the tour to pay them a visit. They were collectors — mainly Navajo rugs and silver jewelry. I had seen similar when I visited a good friend and frequent travelling companion at her home in Palm Desert, CA. Maybe I was just envious and that ’ s what started me on collecting Navajo rugs and silver jewelry. My brother - in - law was an expert on silver jewelry. My sister had a magnificent squash blossom necklace. Hers was “ old pawn ” which made it quite valuable as old pawn silver is a much better quality, heavier than silver used by Navajo jewelry - makers in recent years. The squash blossom necklace I acquired is not old pawn — it ’ s hard to find these days. But I followed my brother - in - law ’ s advice when it came to purchasing my fetish necklace — the little animals on mine are all different. He also advised me on “ Navajo pearls ” — carving on each silver bead is a sign of old pawn — same is true for earrings. As to Navajo weaving, the little knotted fringe on each of the four corners of the piece indicate that it ’ s authentic Navajo. All my pieces are wall hangings , decorating the living room in my

collection.

My sister doesn ’ t wear her old pawn squash blossom necklace. She has it mounted in a shadow box, displayed on a wall in her living room in Cottonwood. I bought a shadow box with a view to mounting mine in similar fashion, but I still enjoy wearing it. There are probably some people who would accuse me of cultural appropriation, by wearing Navajo jewelry and hanging Navajo weaving in my house. I doubt that the weavers and jewelry - makers who sold me the wall hangings and the silver jewelry felt that way. They were earning their living.

Eleanor ’ s Navajo Rug collection

Ye - Be - Chai, Two Grey Hills, Tree of Life, Rez Pictorial

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Carvings and Stonework

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. William Morris, textile designer

Carving Club Santas

By Janice Rideout I love Christmas and I have a lot of Christmas decorations but my absolute favourites are the hand carved wooden Santa Clauses that have been gifted to me from my friends in the MacKay Carving Club over the many (many!) years that I have worked here at MacKay. The Carving Club was the vision of Rev. Dr Joe Burke who in 1989 applied for and was awarded a government grant of $25,000 to create a seniors carving group for retirees. My Dad, Terry Wells was one of the founding members of this group along with members of MacKay UC such as Howie McKay, Jane & Charlotte Witty and Don Geddes and others. Thirty three years later the Club is still going strong with a dedicated group of approximately 10 carvers meeting each Monday morning. Larry Reed and Ken MacDonald (our resident gardener) have been the Club presidents since I started working at MacKay and we became fast friends as they stopped and chatted with me each week.

Dennis of the MacKay Guies interviewed Alan Bowker, Chair of Property at MacKay; Ashley Kobarta, City of Ottawa Heritage Planning Department; and Jamie Marrs of John G. Cooke & Associates Ltd., a consulting engineering firm specializing in structural engineering and heritage restoration. Bell Tower Work By Alan Bowker J ust before Christmas we got a pleasant surprise: the scaffolding around the bell tower on the Dufferin Road side has been removed! Except for some painting of new wood that will be done next summer, major repairs to the buttresses, walls, and roof of the tower are now complete. This work of has involved: dismantling and rebuilding the buttresses; repointing and strengthening the nearby walls; installing copper/lead flashing and drip edges on the roofs to steer water away from the building; replacing the fascia along the Dufferin Road side of the church; and repairing a section of roof where water had leaked in. We are very pleased with the quality and appearance of the work, which was done on time and within the approved financial envelope. We have greatly appreciated the close attention to detail and the sound advice Cooke and Associates have provided at every turn, and the co - operation and professionalism of the lead contractor, Solid Masonry. We are grateful for grants from the City of Ottawa and EOORC, as well as contributions from the congregation and a major bequest to the church, which have allowed us to pay for this project without eating into our reserves. However, our capital fund is now depleted and donations to it would be most welcome as we build it back up for future projects.

From that first Christmas (2006) , they have been gifting me with wooden Santas that they carved and painted upstairs. Each one different from the next – tall and small – this one carrying a

stocking with my name on it, the other carrying a lantern, another with a big bag of toys or a wreath. Every year, my collection grew thanks to these talented carvers and at last count I had 24 in all! This year, Larry ’ s gift was a short little Santa carving holding a book with the wording “2020 - 21 The years we stayed gnome! ” Priceless!!

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From Barrels to Taxes T h e t a x c o l l e c t o r mu s t l o v e po o r p e o p l e , h e ’ s c r e a t i n g s o ma n y o f t h em . B i l l V a ug h a n , Ame r i c a n c o l umn i s t a n d a u t h o r

Biscuit Barrels Collection

By Wendy Peters M y collection of Biscuit Barrels started with warm memories as a child of the one kept filled with biscuits at my aunt ’ s house. It started when I moved to Ottawa and with time on my hands (before children) I went to Estate sales. Some of them are from established English companies such as Royal Doulton and Wedgwood, some have no mark. They were very popular in the early 1900’ s and the barrels are mostly ceramic, but there is one pottery barrel which was designed by a Miss Partington, who worked at Royal Doulton from 1880 - 1912. One of the barrels , a gift from Australian friends, was previously owned by the wife of the Prime Minister of Australia, Joseph Cook, 1913 - 1914. With our family growing , I had to give up Estate sale hunting, but I still keep an eye open at Antique shows - there is always space for a special one more!

MacKay ’ s Collection By David Fraser

This Messenger ’ s theme is about collections. Rather than talking about my collections, I wish to remind everyone that MacKay, like most churches, houses a wonderful collection within

And let us not forget the most common collectors of all …

her walls. Here are a few. The oak table and the altar chairs in the narthex were purchased for the Service of Dedication of the New Church in 1910 using funds contributed by “ The Sunshine Girls ”. In the sanctuary we

And pray, who are you? ”

have those beautiful stained - glass windows, the Baptismal Font, and the Gordon Bennett Archival Cabinet, where one can see the silver Communion flagon, ewer and the individual glass Communion cups and

Said the Violet blue

To the bee with surprise

At his wonderful size,

wooden serving tray. The trowel that Thomas Rankin used to lay the cornerstone of the 1910 church is also on display. In the vestry one finds the original Communion Table from the 1875 church and the Centennial Tapestry. The small booklet called “ MacKay United Church—Founded 1875, Its History &

In her eyeglass of dew.

“ I, madam, ” quoth he,

“ Am a publican Bee,

Collecting the tax

Its Builders ” lists these treasures and more. It was originally published for Doors Open Ottawa for the 135 Anniversary and revised for the 140. If you do not already have the booklet, I urge you to acquire it from the office and use it as a guide to check out all these treasures.

Of honey and wax

“ Have you nothing for me?

- John B. Tabb, American poet

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Ant iquing is al l about the journey, the thr i l l of f inding the objects of your desi re. Bowkers Bottles

By Alan Bowker D uring our posting in Guyana in the late 1990s, Carolyn and I acquired a collection of bottles, ranging from as early as 1720 to the mid to late nineteenth century. They are objects of beauty, a study in the evolution of manufacturing technology, and a window into the lives of the people who made and used them. When the two bottles pictured here were made, about 1760, the Seven Years ’ War was raging in Europe, Quebec had just fallen to the British and the British East India Company had consolidated its hold on India. The Paris salons and Amsterdam and London coffee houses, and the ubiquitous British cup of tea, were made possible by sugar from the Caribbean, grown on large plantations by slave labour. The Dutch West India Company had three groups of plantations in the interior of what is now Guyana. Demerara sugar and Demerara rum were already winning the reputation for quality they enjoy today. But at a cost. The aboriginal inhabitants had been pushed into the interior and the mortality rate among enslaved Africans was high. A series of slave revolts culminated in a major uprising in 1763 under the leadership of “ Cuffy ” (Kofi), which was only put down by troops from neighbouring

colonies. Cuffy is a national hero in Guyana today. After 1815 these colonies became British Guiana, and slavery was abolished in the 1830s. Now about the bottles. The ones from the eighteenth century were made in factories in England and Holland. They were blown by hand and each has its individual shape. The onion - shaped bottles were for wine; the square ones,

blown into a box, were for gin. The necks were fire - polished and the bottoms, where the glass was broken off, still have sharp edges. By the nineteenth century, bottles were manufactured by machines, with fused glass necks and more regular shapes and sizes. Our collection includes wine, beer, gin, and seltzer bottles (one with the “ Schweppes ” label in raised letters), ceramic jugs and bottles, medicine bottles, and ink bottles from New Brunswick (they were sealed and full of ink – you broke off the neck and used them as inkwells). In the eighteenth century bottles were used as ballast in ships that had taken sugar and other products to Europe and were returning with smaller cargoes of supplies. Wine and liquor were shipped in casks and decanted for sale into these bottles, sealed with corks. Many empty bottles sent to plantations found their way into the rivers and “ black creeks ” – so named because organic matter from the rainforest gave the water the colour of tea. There they rested, on soft silt, with no tides to roll them about, no salt

or chemicals in the soft water to leach or discolour them. Some entrepreneurial Guyanese scoured the river bottoms and sold bottles on the local market. The best dealers researched the literature and provided accurate information on where they came from and when they were made. An unlikely collection from an unlikely place, artifacts from other times with a thousand untold stories.

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S t a y i n g C o n n e c t e d

There is no WiFi in the forest but I promise you will find a better connection .

The Rarest Collectibles to Ever Exist Rarest.org Collectibles prove that what started as a childhood hobby or passion can spiral into auction wars worth millions of dollars. The business of collectibles is a profitable one, transforming something like a one cent stamp into a priceless artifact. Whether it ’ s amassing coins, cards, or wines, there is a rare collectible for every enthusiast. Read below to discover some of the most unique collectibles to ever exist. To read more about these items go to Rarest.org and type in Collectables. 10. Black Lotus Magic the Gathering Card. $166,000, 1100 copies, one of the rarest and most powerful Magic the Gathering cards. Is on the Reserved List meaning the company has promised to never reproduce an exact replica of the original card.

Sunday Services—Staying Connected

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9. Captain America 128 Page Issue. $15,000, copies unknown but thought to be very few. It was only released in Canada, making it hard to come by today. 8. 1933 Saint - Gaudens Gold Double Eagle Coin . $7,950,000, about 20 copies. Most copies of this coin were melted down by the US government to create gold bars. 7. Lorraine Schwartz Barbie Doll. $7,500, 12 copies. The doll was a special addition that came with real diamonds rumored to cost $25,000. 6. 2012 Penfolds Ampoule with 2004 Kalimna Block 42 Cabernet Sauvignon . $130,000, 12 copies. The ampoules are handmade with artistic and scientific precision.

Music and Meditation ONLINE Tuesday, February 1 at 7 pm . Theme is ‘ Wintering ’. Poetry curated by Carolyn Sutherland and music by Peter Woods, Lu Frattaroli, Tim Jackson. Vimeo https://vimeo.com/670771492 March 8 - April 12 at 7 pm . Weekly series of Tuesday evening Music and Medication are scheduled IN PERSON (regulations permitting) and ONLINE throughout the season of Lent on Vimeo and FB LIVE. Peter will have guest musicians each week. Pastoral Care wants to be sure that anyone who needs it will be included in MacKay ’ s Prayers each week. You are invited to contact the Office in order to share names of those that you want to have included on the Prayer list. Choir The choir continued to meet via Zoom during the last closure and will resume in - person when it is deemed safe. Please contact Mitchell Wright join this great group of singers. [email protected]

5. T206 Doyle Error Baseball Card. $414,750, 9 copies. The card lists the wrong team. Joe Doyle only won 21 games over five seasons, meaning that this card would probably be worthless without its error. 4. Number One Trainer Pokemon Card. $90,000, 7 copies. One of seven championship cards made specifically to enter the 1999 Secret Super battle.

Why is a collection of songs called an album?

3. 1856 British Guiana One Cent Magenta - see page 4.

In the days of 78 rpm gramophone records, if you wanted a piece of music longer than about 4 minutes, such as a symphony, it had to be spread over several discs. These discs would be sold together in paper sleeves bound like a book, so it resembled a photograph album or stamp album, so it was called an album. –Wikipedia

2. 1964 GI Joe Prototype. $20,000, 1 in existence. It is the model for all future GI Joe figurines, considered to be the toy industry ’ s first action figure, that is, the first doll marketed to boys. 1. “ Once Upon a Time in Shaolin ”. $2 million, 1 copy. It is a one of a kind “ secret ” album from an internationally acclaimed hip hop group the Wu - Tang Clan.

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