The Richmond Area Bottle Collectors Association

RABCA is an active club of bottle enthusiasts that has been meeting monthly since 1970, now in the Dale Ruritan Club building, off of Rt. 10 just south of Chippenham Parkway (see map below). We meet on the 2nd Wednesday of February, April, May, September and November. The June meeting is a picnic, and we have a dinner in December. We have a program at each meeting, a raffle for bottles, and members bring in recent acquisitions for Show & Tell. Of course, there is always a lot of great discussions about bottles. Visitors are always welcome. Bruce Wadford is the club president, Tony Townsend is the VP, Marvin Croker is secretary / treasurer, and the co-show chairmen are Marvin and myself. Phil Townsend is our newsletter editor. Click here to email me or call (804) 739-2951 if you want more details about our meetings or activities.

As well as the 5 regular meetings we have a picnic in June and a Christmas dinner at a local restaurant. Our picnic is always especially fun  as there are activities such as a club raffle and an auction for members to sell bottles and go-withs. In the pictures above, going clockwise starting at the top left, is the sale of raffle tickets while members and guests just hang out and talk bottles, 3 guys who showed up and appeared friendly (so they must be bottle people), and a post-lunch serenade from club member and professional bluegrass/gospel musician, Jimmy Wooten. Each club member can put as many as 10 lots up for auction and this year’s bidding brought in more than $500 to sellers, the club getting 10% of each top bid.