{"id":628,"date":"2026-01-03T14:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/?p=628"},"modified":"2026-01-03T14:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:44:18","slug":"scooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/2026\/01\/03\/scooter\/","title":{"rendered":"Scooter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Few will have missed the large collection of pre-pro glasses listed this past Summer by eBay seller visitoursite*yeoldebrew.com<\/a>. The owner of the site in question is Scott Bristoll, who is located in the Cincinnati area. I’ve been visiting his site for many years and purchased a beautiful reverse-on-glass Philadelphia distillery sign from him several years ago. It remains as one of my favorite non-shot glass collectibles, along with the paperweights (see previous post). And barrel stencils. Ummm……<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a collection like this pops up on eBay, one naturally wonders who the owner is – or was. Collections are assembled and then disassembled via eBay on a regular basis, either because a collector’s interests have moved on, they need funds to address a personal crisis, or they’re being sold off as a part of an estate. So who did this one belong to? Someone we knew, perhaps?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The listing contained sufficient rare offerings that it proved relatively easy to identify them as having been purchased ten or twelve years ago by eBay bidder s1c2o3o4t5e6r7<\/em>. He later changed his handle to whatchagot513<\/em>, but the person behind both IDs was John Richards, familiarly known as “Scooter”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had a few email exchanges with Scooter re his collecting interests, but can’t say that I knew him well. He was, well, let’s say an “exuberant” collector who would bid on anything pre-pro regardless of final bid price or what he was bidding on. He would get into serious bidding wars on common glasses, even if had 4 or 5 already. For a while, he was suctioning up every pre-pro glass that listed on eBay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hadn’t heard from Scooter in some time, so when his glasses started showing up on eBay, I messaged Scott to see if he’d acquired the collection. Sadly, it appears that he’s handling the glasses on the behalf of Scooter’s estate…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of Scooter’s more interesting acquisitions are shown below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Few will have missed the large collection of pre-pro glasses listed this past Summer by eBay seller visitoursite*yeoldebrew.com. The owner of the site in question is Scott Bristoll, who is located in the Cincinnati area. I’ve been visiting his site for many years and purchased a beautiful reverse-on-glass Philadelphia distillery sign from him several years … Continue reading “Scooter”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pre-pro.com\/new_and_shotworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}