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Harbour Lights collectors, welcome a New Year and a new century. There is a lot of exciting news that will be up coming throughout the next several months. But let's kick off the New Year with an unusual but extremely interesting figurine from our friends at Harbour Lights. To commemorate the beginning of a new century, Harbour Lights has produced an exquisite rendition of Lady Liberty. The Statue of Liberty since 1886 has represented a symbol of this great nation's freedom, a gift from France that actually has been considered by mariners a beacon, guiding maritime traffic into New York harbor. This piece will be available from the first of this month throughout the remainder of the year with an ending availability of December 31, 2000. In conversations with many collectors through out the nation, I am hearing an overwhelming response of enthusiasm to this piece and remarks of appeal to a larger audience other than lighthouse collectors, especially those that fondly recall immigrating to America.
With the purchase of this piece, you will receive a booklet giving the history of Lady Liberty being a true sentinel. Also for the first time ever Harbour lights is introducing an antique collectors' coin. The suggested retail for the Lady Liberty figurine is $125.00.
Retirement news on December 31, 1999 Harbour Lights retired twelve lighthouses. As stated by the Harbour Lights company they have listened to the suggestions that collectors are looking for smaller edition sizes. These are some of the surprises that will be seen throughout the year with some new introductions being created with more limited availability. To quote Bill Younger, the founder of Harbour Lights, on the recent decision to retire a dozen sentinels, Bill felt "that most collectors choosing to acquire them would have already done so." Deciding to make room for new editions, it will accommodate more requests for collectors favorite sentinels. The recent retirees are: Brant Point, MA; Cape Meares, OR; Charlotte-Genesee, NY; Concord, MD; Ida Lewis, RI; Martinicus, ME; Mukilteo, WA; Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia; Point Pinos, CA; Saugerties, NY; Selkirk, NY; and Toledo Harbor, OH.
As we begin a New Year, it has been a practice of many to reflect and establish a new resolution or two. As readers of the Lighthouse Digest your involvement and awareness of the importance of lighthouses and the history they represent is very important. So this would be a great year to visit a lighthouse you have not seen, or contribute time or money to one of the many organizations that work so hard to restore and preserve our beacons throughout our nation.
Until next month "Keep the Flame."
Matt Rothman is the owner of the Lighthouse Trading Company, which is the original and leading source specializing in the secondary market of Harbour Lights. He can be contacted by mail at 112, Elio Circle, Limerick, PA 19468 or by calling him at (610)409-9336. Email LHTRADE1@aol.com or visit his web site www.lighthousetrading.com
This story appeared in the January 2000 edition of Lighthouse Digest Magazine. For subscription information about the print edition, click here.
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