Figures 7	Barb Edmonson with Roger and Barbara Roy at their home in Ohio (left) and a sampling of the drawings and photos they produced for the second book.

She was also living on a limited income and the costs of creating a new book from scratch were prohibitive.   As a compromise, she re-issued Historic Shot Glasses with six new pages of listings added as an addendum.  She also updated the glass values.  She did this by gluing new price ranges over the old: on p. 70 of the revised addition, you can see where one of these scraps of paper escaped her attention and settled unnoticed over the drawing of a glass inscription!   The revised edition of Historic Shot Glasses was published in 1992 when she was 80 years old. [Figure 9]

After the revised edition was published, Barb disposed of her research materials and sold all but a few of her glasses via mailings to the collectors who had bought her books.   She then settled into researching the history of the Turner family (her ancestors) with all thoughts of pre-pro shot glasses put aside.  Eventually her advancing years caught up with her, even though with a wink she placed the blame for her failing health on her fondness for martinis.  Ultimately the end came quickly and she died on November 1, 2004.  Her ashes were scattered at sea following a service held in Bidwell Park, Chico.  Her friend Susan Murphy related that “It was a beautiful, sunny day in the Park for her celebration of life”. 

Figure 9:  The 1992 edition of Historic Shot Glasses.  One of the new price-range labels that she used to update values escaped Barb's attention and glued itself over a drawing illustrating a Four Roses shot glass (above)

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