A work team was created on April 15, 2005, to help organize and guide the process of working with Harbour Lights to select, sculpt and produce an exclusive Harbour Lights lighthouse available only through the Collector Forums.
The team includes (in alphabetical order)
John Chidester (JChidester)
Rich Felter (flacoastie)
Dave Hannum (Dave H)
Daniel Kirsch (DANIEL)
Bob McKeon (Bob M)
Bob Ott (Bob Ott)
Mike Walsh (CanaFan)
Dave and John organized a team from the forum members that had early participation in the discussions of this project. The group is made up of members from around the country with diverse regional interests.
The team is a good sampling of different viewpoints and all are ardent collectors. We feel that this team approach will and has generated good feedback on this project for and on behalf of all forum members.
This was our first announcement of the existence of first harbour lights forum exclusive work team.
The idea of the forum exclusive was generated by Bob Mckeon and was quickly accepted by the forum members. A team was developed and was able to communicate across the forum thru a private team member access in what I called “the under ground pipeline” The team at this point have made over 500 post discussing and working out all the details. The team had many hurdles to jump. Who gets what numbers, how many for each collector, should it be for forum members only, which lighthouse, how much, how big, just to name a few.
The one thing that the team pulled off, is the size of the lighthouse. The exclusive is not going to be a LLOM size or even a super LLOM size. Proportionally speaking the Erie Land light is going to be the size of a LE. At 5” to 6” tall. It will be similar to the Cockspur GA Lighthouse (HL508) and Concord Point MD (HL186). The light shall never be resulptured by HL or will it have a GLOW represent it. It will be an exclusive of only 500 made. This will not be an accessory but will be the only LE made for that light. To be able to say that you have all the LE’s you will have to have this lighthouse. To be able to have all the great lake lights limited editions you will have to have this light.
The Erie Land light is not like the gold event. Even if you can’t acquire the gold event piece there are thousands of the same light that are produced as Limited editions and can be purchased reasonably. This is not the same as the many rare variations that even though they are rare there are more common LE or even glows of the same light to fill the collecting needs.
Except for the point Loma mini and the Pharos collection this is one of the two smallest productions that Harbour Lights has done. The other being the Bailey Harbour. The work team wanted to have a forum exclusive that would be special and the best way of doing that was making the small production and a size proportional to a L.E. We expect a secondary market of greater than what you pay for it. We by no means want our forum members to buy and sell the ELL (Erie Land Light) to make a profit on it. We designed it to be rare so that you can have something special that is worth more than what you paid for it. We also are allowing each member to purchase two, so members can have an extra for a friend or a family member.
The secondary Market highs for this year on ebay for the following are:
1.Bailey Harbour...$30 retail..............$140 ebay
2.Point Loma mini..FREE....................$200 ebay
3.The Pharos....$239 retail(+$40shipping)..$380 ebay
