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Richard Bond
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Richard E.
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1945 - 2013
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Restaurant Ware Collectors Network

It is with so much sadness that we, Dick’s friends at the Restaurant Ware Collectors Network, learned of his passing. Dick joined the RWCN on Halloween day of 2002, and for more than a decade he served as our unofficial heart and soul. Officially, he was the RWCN’s IDwiki Administrator; many of us thought of him as our lead researcher, too. No one was more dedicated to the RWCN community, as apparent by his final RWCN posting on March 13 from his hospital bed. And no one has contributed more photos and countless hours of research to the IDwiki than Dick. There were many times that he would buy a piece of china, not because he needed it or really wanted it, but just for its pattern or topmark so that he could add it to the IDwiki. His collection of Syracuse China, most particularly service plates, would fill a room in a museum. The forums and IDwiki are both so much richer for his enthusiasm and skill for research, his wicked sly sense of humor and his warmth and camaraderie. In person, Dick spoke with a distinct Maine accent, and so many of us enjoyed that he wrote with one, too. What most of us didn’t know was that Dick’s personal attire matched his vivid personality. His favorite outfits, except for the coldest days in Northeast Maine, included a Navy watch cap with Army Air Corps pilot wings pin, a cotton turtleneck shirt, a cable knit sweater, Red Wing work boots and a kilt. Yes, kilt. He loved to brag on his great-looking gams! We’ll never be able to look at a piece of restaurant ware with an Indian topmark, an elegant service plate or a Syracuse Nature Studies poppy plate without thinking of him. And not another Ides of March will pass when we won’t miss him either. We send our heartfelt sympathy to Dick’s family and friends in Maine.
Thursday March 21, 2013 at 12:00 am
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