Shipment: Pointe Aux Barques

Good Monday Afternoon!
Shipment left Friday 4 May via UPS.

AJC

Thanks for the update Tony! Looking forward to adding the LLOM to my collection.

ooohhh ... time to get exited?
...

Carolyn just emailed us ... She's got the lighthouse and is now waiting for the boxes!

Should go out next week ... Can't wait!!!!!

Spoke with Carolyn this evening, and she mentioned about 100 LLOM's available for purchase!

After shipping out the LLOM's that have been paid for, the Society will be selling to local lighthouse lovers.

If you haven't purchased yours, give her a call NOW!

The mail person, left a box today with my Pointe Aux Barques' - WOW, Carolyn was pretty fast with that... AND the piece looks great!

The number is written on the bottom as xxx, but NOT xxx / 300. The number is also written on the outside of the box like LE's. The anniversary backstamp is very well done and adds to the uniqueness. The piece is assigned a regular LL number (LL283).

I'm very happy to add this to the Great Lakes collecton, and may even be the first to do so

They are on the way folks, so keep an eye out for USPS.

Roger

Got mine today!
HCS

... this is killing me ...
...WHEN is someone going to show off and posting a picture of this lighthouse ...
(or do I have to wait for our own to arrive?)

It looks exactly like the Little Light on the Harbour Lights website. The bottom graphics is what makes it unique!
Bob

Received mine today.

bobo

MAybe I am doing something wrong... but I can't find it on the HL website. I looked every where I could think of and even tried the product search (by the name, just for "Michigan") ... nada ...

please ...

Got mine today also. Really looks nice.

My mistake, I thought this one was out already???
Maybe Paul can post one??
thanks,
Bob

Margret,

I was in the same situation as you are until just a few days ago. I was ready to pull my hair out -- until I realized that Mother Nature had already done it for me.

bobo

Remember that the LL will probably not be released until January or so, thus no image on the HL web site.

I got mine yesterday and it is a very nice piece. I had forgotten the total edition number so it was great to have it above in previous postings. As always these Forums sure are a big help!
Judy

... so we are back to my original plea...

I am itching to see this little light ...

But BobO ... please don't do yourself an injury!

Not a current Little Light - no photos on HarbourLights.com. Paul will get his from PABLS and I'm sure he'll provide us with a great photo!

I'm awaiting mine and should it arrive before Paul gets his, I'll post a medium quality image!

Hmmm...

Hilari got it in NY. LI Bob seems to have it. Bob O has it just a few towns away...

I'm starting to feel a little left out now.

I just received mine today...not to worry Greg it will get there.

Mine received this week by mule train Very nice LLOM! Last I heard, there were still some available for purchase. A worthy cause.

Mine arrived about 30 minutes ago:







IMHO, it's a nice little piece that will net about $3,000 for the Pointe Aux Barques Lighthouse Society. Money that will help interpret this important Lake Huron Lighthouse and add to the community pride of the 'Thumb' of Michigan.

Still a few score left to sell. Give Carolyn a call at 989-428-3035. Leave your name and number if you get their answering machine. Price is $27 each including Priority Mail shipping.

Thanks for the pictures John!
It looks like a brilliant little light!
Now I am looking forward to mine even more!!!
What a great fundraising idea!!!!!

We received ours last week.
Very nicely done.

I bought a couple, one for pictures and one for a club giveaway...



They were both over #170, Carolyn loves the Forum members!!

... she must do!

Got ours today! #107

What a beautiful model!!!!! Just wish we could attend the "birthday bash" in August!

I ordered this past Saturday and I just got #273 today. Must be getting near the end.

As of today, 101 pieces still remain.

Carolyn says she expects to sell them out before the 150th Anniversary celebration August 4-5.

The locals haven't yet discovered it as it is available only at the gift 'tent' which currently is only there and open on Saturdays. In July and August the sales tent will be open on Saturdays and Sundays.

She is very happy with how sales are going and with Harbour Lights.

"Tony was Fabulous! And so easy to work with!" according to Carolyn.

(Honest - you probably think I'm making this up just to make Tony feel good, right?)

If you are there August 4 or 5, you'll have a rare chance to climb the tower. No charge for the event. There is a dinner Saturday evening in a tent on the grounds that there is a charge for.

Carolyn called me this evening...(we are both Michiganders)!

She mentioned that there are 97 LLOM's available for purchase, and the gift shop at Point Aux Barques will be opening on June 30 and expects the LLOM will sell out due to offering this light to the locals!!!!

IF you have not purchased this light as of today, or know a non connected collector, give them the phone #989-428-3035
and info, and CALL Carolyn !

She also stated that she has had a positive experience with all of us, and she has received praise from her efforts too!

Good job everyone!!!

The Pointe Aux Barques Lighthouse Society will be receiving two Artist's Proofs from Harbour Lights.

One will be of the special Pointe Aux Barques Little Light. It is the ONLY AP made of this piece.

The other will be an AP of the new GLOW version of Whitefish Point MI.

Details aren't worked out yet on how these will be sold, but the group is considering either a silent auction during the August 4 event OR selling it via eBay.

I've said to them that the most money will probably be made if Harbour Lights collectors have a shot at purchasing it rather than someone who happens to attend the dinner that evening.

Let's hear from some of you - would you like to have a chance to purchase one of these two special AP pieces? Would an eBay sale be best or what's your idea on how the PABLS can 'maximize' their income from these pieces for the benefit of preserving Pointe Aux Barques Lighthouse?

Would the average "eBayer" know enough to know the real value of pieces like these? I doubt it.

A silent auction seems like a good idea to me. At lleast then the bidders are folks who know what rare thing they are about to buy.

But then an auction at a certain kind of dinner has been known to raise amazing amounts, provided the auctioneer knows his/her stuff.

Two words: deep pockets

We all have observed some serious money changing hands in the names of charities and HL collecting. They could maximize their income on these pieces if the right people have a shot at them.

I consider eBay as a bargain hunter's stomping grounds. A silent auction utilizing mail-in bids may be the best bet on this. It will probably at least double what would be collected via an eBay auction.

Bob

I agree with Bob M. Stay away from EBay.

bobo

What about a raffle with a set amount of chances. The total amount of the chances would be what PABLS society would like to make from these.

Gives everyone a chance, not just those with big bucks.

What you are describing is not a silent auction, but a sealed bid auction.

A silent auction is conducted by people adding their name to a list along with a bid that 'tops' the previous bid.

A sealed bid implies that anyone can submit a bid by a specific deadline when all bids are opened and the highest bid is accepted.

In the silent auction case, subsequent bidders are motivated by the ability to buy the piece for a known amount over the previous bidder.

To participate in the silent auction, you need to attend the event which will be about 120 miles north of Detroit and cost you $30 for the dinner. How many of those attending will know the true value of a 1/1 AP? Of course not knowing the true value might cause some participants to overbid.

To sell it on eBay, you would need to do publicity while the piece is for sale -- on these Collector Forums for example, or AT the dinner event (with the auction to close the next day) or even in the local weekly paper.

Some see eBay as a place where bottom feeders buy. It's also where sellers without knowledge set low prices, not knowing what they really have.

EBay also allows you to set a reserve price. If the piece doesn't bring the reserve, then you can sell it in some other way.

Some will recall that a number of HL102 originals and Coquille Rivers have brought strong prices on eBay. And you don't have to be in Port Hope MI on August 4 to buy it.

The sealed bid auction would be my mid-choice, but to be fair, it needs to be conducted by MAIL, not eMail. All bids are to be opened at the same time. There is not 'build-up' by announcing along the way what the current high bid is.

Loon was posting while I was composing. The raffle has some benefits. For example, the drawing could be held only after a set number of tickets are sold. So if you wanted to raise $500 from the AP Pointe Aux Barques, you could sell 100 $5 tickets or 500 $1 tickets. The ticket buyers know their odds of winning going in.

However, it sets the maximum you could earn from the piece. It MIGHT have sold for more (or might have sold for less) in other ways. And if you can't dispose of all the planned tickets, you have some obligation to close the ticket sales by a certain date.

One variation is that you can sell all the tickets you can between now and a future date. Might be 1,000 $1 tickets sold. The buyers don't know their odds in this variation.

Do you remember the live Silent Auction that the Houston Light Keepers held for the golden Eddystone? The eddystone went for $4,000
Bidders with computers could check a website and follow the live action and made bids by email or phone.

http://www.lighthousekeepers.com/cgi-bin/forumscgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=36;t=000081

My #273 only shows the date of 18 on the tower. I can see a little bit of the 5. There is like a little piece of foreign material/or extra matter painted over that covers the majority of the 5 and the 7. Did anyone else get one like this?

What I remember was no audio and the video was down a lot. This kind of technology is way beyond what the PABLS can do or would do in such a rural area.

The $4K for a gold was at the peak of gold prices. We're talking about an AP of a Little Light.

Finally ordered and recieved mine. Don't really collect LLOM's but figured it was for a good cause. Nice little piece.

Mike

The celebration is this weekend. I think Roger was going to try to attend. Hopefully he will get some pictures if he does.

Does anyone know what the society decided to do about the AP of their special Little Light? I know several ideas and options were discussed earlier in this thread.

Foound my own answers.

The Pointe Aux Barques folks will have a silent auction for both the Little Light AP and the Whitefish GLOW AP this coming Saturday. Here is the information I received: