Back when the late Dick Bowman was putting out a sales list each fall, hardly a year went by that I didn't order at least one or two pieces. Anyway, one year, I eagerly (but carefully) unpacked the box of goodies when it arrived, and at one point, hello! I don't remember asking about a gray WFG 134?! Looking it over, I soon noticed the sticker inside: FREE. It instantly became one of my favorites, and it's not going anywhere.

I wonder... how many others have a piece they cherish that they'd bought from Dick at one point? Let's see some pictures!

PS: There is one piece that I once owned that I would love to know its whereabouts - it is a VNM+ CD 121 WGM in deep purple with steam swirls (and which had a triangular mold repair at the base). When I bought it off one of Dick's sales lists, he said it was the best purple 121 WGM he'd handled up to that point (this was before impurities in glass commanded the premium they do now). When my collecting focus changed in the early '90s, it was one of the pieces I decided to let go (and one of my regrets). I sold it (and a straw 162.4) to Kenn Stobbe, then living in Omaha - I understand he has long since left the hobby. Who picked up his collection?