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Larry Krug @ Rick Moses
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In This Issue...
 Follow Us on Twitter!
 ACC Club Directory - Is Your Information Current?
 Help Promote All Collecting Clubs
"A Collecting Club for Everything!"
Eva Zeisel dies at 105
Antiques Roadshow Announces 2012 Tour Cities
Club-Sponsored Shows, Conventions and Events
Red Wing Pottery Theft... be Diligent
 Red Wing Stoneware and Pottery Collectors Meet in Des Moines
Obama Collectors Ready for 2012
Upcoming Club-Sponsored Events
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Follow Us on Twitter!
Collecting Club convention news stories and show announcements are now being tweeted from the ACC News Service. To "follow" these tweets, to http://Twitter.com/CollectingClubs
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ACC Club Directory - Is Your Information Current?
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The ACC Club Directory is the largest collecting club directory on the Internet... and widely used. We updated club information on over 140 clubs during the first week of January. MAKE SURE YOUR CLUB OR ASSOCIATION IS LISTED. MAKE SURE THE INFORMATION IS UP-TO-DATE and lists the right contact person. Go to:
http://CollectingClubs.com
The Directory currently features nearly 6,300 collecting groups - one of the best ways to promote your club and recruit membership. If you have any questions relating to the club directory, you may contact ACC at: info@collectors.org
The many ways the Club Directory can be used: All clubs are listed in alphabetical order; and, with a click at the top of the topic category, all clubs are automatically changed to appear in topical order.
Two windows at the top of the directory allows users to search by topical category or by keywords - either keywords in the club title or the club description. This is why it is important to fully describe your club.
Clicking on the Advanced Search at the top of the directory allows the user to pull up all clubs in spcific service category. That is, all clubs offering young collector programs or member appraisals or having a membership directory... clubs having shows open to the public, having a speakers' bureau, offering a mentoring program, or offering internships or grants. Nearly 25 different service features are listed. When you update your club information, please remember to check off these service areas that your club or association offer. This also helps an interested perspective member to learn a little more about your club. To our knowledge, no other club directory offers this feature.
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Help Promote All Collecting Clubs
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If your club has a website, you can easily help promote all collecting clubs by placing a link on your site
to the ACC Club Directory. Simply place a link on your site to: http://CollectingClubs.com wherever you want to offer the Directory to your guests.
For a selection of link buttons or banners go to http://Collectors.Org/media/#Prop_CD Thanks.
ACC Note - We appreciate the growing number of clubs and societies which are placing links to the club directory on your site. This helps all clubs.
Interested in a reciprocal link? Your club information is already listed in the ACC Club Directory. Adding the club directory link to your website makes it reciprocal!
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"A Collecting Club for Everything!"
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When people review our ACC Club Directory we often hear the comment, "there must be a collecting club for everything!" While its not true that there is an organized collecting group for every collecting "whim," a really large number of collecting areas do have the benefit of being supported by a club or group. For this, collectors should be grateful.
While each year we get notification of a few clubs that have disbanded, we still have other "new" clubs contact us to be placed in our directory.
Although they have been around for a few years, two such clubs, "new" to us, we have heard from already in 2012 - one for collectors of coat hangers and the other supporting three monkeys collectors (see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil). Both clubs are now in our club directory database - Coat Hangers Museum and Collector's Club and Three-Monkeys Collectors International.
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Eva Zeisel dies at 105
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Pat Moore and Gene Grobman, Co-Presidents of the Eva Zeisel Forum quickly alerted their membership on Dec 30 that Eva Zeisel had passed away that morning.
Eva was highly regarded as a master of modern design, particularly in her stylish but simple lines of tableware, changing the look of American kitchens and dining rooms for decades. Her long life was a fascinaing one - from early days in Hungary where she was the art director of the state-run porcelain and glass industries, her year in solitary confinement in a Soviet prison accused of conspiring to assassinate Stalin, her flight from Austria when Hitler annexed the country, and finally to England and then to New York where she remained the rest of her life.
Members of the Eva Zeisel Forum for a number of years have identified and documented the vast works of Eva Zeisel's creativity. http://EvaZeisel.org
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Antiques Roadshow Announces 2012 Tour Cities
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Reminder. This summer Antiques Roadshow will once again crisscross the country in search of new treasures for Season 17 of PBS's most watched show. The 2012 tour includes:
| Boston, Massachusetts | June 9 |
| Myrtle Beach, South Carolina | June 23 |
| Rapid City, South Dakota | July 14 |
| Cincinatti, Ohio | July 21 |
| Corpus Christi, Texas | August 4 |
| Seattle, Washington | August 18 |
Click on tickets to Apply on Line Now:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/tickets.html
Online ticket application started on January 3, 2012 and ends on April 16. Applicants can check the Roadshow website in mid-May to find out if they were selected. Applicants are selected at random to receive tickets. Your chances of being selected will depend on the number of eligible applicants for each city and are not affected by how early or late you apply within the application period. Tickets will be mailed to the successful applicants approximately three weeks prior to the event date. For additional rules visit the above roadshow tickets website.
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To apply for two free tickets to one of the 2012 Antiques Roadshow events, click on the above image or go to: http://pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/tickets.html
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Club-Sponsored Shows, Conventions and Events
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The Association of Collecting Clubs traditionally starts the new year tackling the new Club-Sponsored Shows, Conventions and Events Calendar for the coming year. Already, we are approaching 800 events listed for 2012 - is your show or convention listed?
This events calendar is promoted to the editors of the antiques and collectibles publications in the industry, on the ACC News Service and directly through the Collectors.Org website. According to Larry Krug, ACC co-founder, this is the only calendar on the Internet which specifically specializes in club events only; and, events across the entire spectrum of collecting. No matter if its a vintage automobile club, a gem and mineral club, coin club, stamp club, glass club, train club, bottle club, breweriana club, button club or any other type of group, your events can be listed, and at no cost.
Krug says, "Collectors who enjoy going to antique malls, shows, auctions or flea markets should also consider some of these specialty club events. All club shows are open to the public and have very nominal entrance fees, or free admission.
"Although some of the collecting clubs bill their conventions as "members-only" they often have portions of the convention open to the public, or the public can pay for membership at the registration desk."
The Club-Sponsored Events Calendar can be viewed at: http://Collectors.Org/Events If your event is not already listed, it can be entered on the submittal form at the top of the event list.
Also, if you have announcements, fliers or releases about your show, convention or other events, be sure ACC gets a copy - send electronically to: info@collectors.org or postal to: ACC, 18222 Flower Hill Way #299, Gaithersburg, MD 20879. To contact us by phone: 301.926.8663.
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Red Wing Pottery Theft... be Diligent
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Three months ago... back in November, the entire antiques and collectibles industry was shocked to hear about the theft of several hundred pieces of stoneware, restaurant ware and art pottery missing from a storage unit belonging to The Red Wing Collectors Society, headquartered in Red Wing, Minnesota. Most of it was planned to be used at their 2012 annual convention.
Good news. In mid-December, Stacy Wegner, RWCS Executive Director, provided an update - good progress had been made in recovering many of the items. After contacting about 50 antique shops in the Red Wing area, more than 150 pieces of the pottery that had been sold to an antique dealer in Lake City, Minnesota have now been returned. "The Red Wing Police helped us recover much more than expected," Wegner said. The Red Wing Police Department is looking into persons of interest and the investigation is ongoing. Their number is 651.267.2600.
We all sincerely hope that much more of the stolen pottery can be located and that the thieves are apprehended. Also, this is a stark reminder to all collecting clubs to be extra diligent in monitoring our upcoming shows and conventions... and, yes, even our storage units. With the continuing increase in the number of new television series featuring antiques and collectibles - and their values - a much broader general public is now watching... and, perhaps waiting for opportunities to take advantage.
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Red Wing Stoneware and Pottery Collectors Meet in Des Moines
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Despite the frigid temperatures, Des Moines will get a little warmer when members of the Red Wing Collectors Society join up for the group's Annual Mid-Winter GetTogether in Des Moines from February 10-12.
The RWCS is the organization devoted to those who collect a diverse line of crocks, jugs, churns, dinnerware and art pottery manufactured in Red Wing from the 1880's to 1960's. Hundreds of people from around the country are expected to attend the February event, which will help tie collectors over until the RWCS' highly anticipatd 35th anniversary at the National Convention in Red Wing, Minnesota in July.
Highlighting this year's GetTogether will be a keynote presentation on the "Past, Present and Future of Creating a World-Class Pottery Museum." The RWCS Foundation made the exciting announcement last month that it signed a purchase agreement for the Pottery Place Annex building in Red Wing to house the new Red Wing Pottery Museum, so the presentation will discuss how the current museum was developed, the process of finding the new location and creating a new museum.
Other educational sessions include talks on Red Wing dinnerware mysteries and reproductions, an interior decorator's ideas on decorating with Red Wing, always popular presentations about items dug from the Red Wing Pottery dump and a new presentation on Red Wing dug from old outhouse sites. KidsView will hold "Pottery of the Roaring 20s" themed activities for younger collectors to participate in.
The theme of this year's event is "Red Wing Speakesy" and attendees are encouraged to don their gangster suits, fedoras, flapper dresses and pearls to take part in the fun at the reception on Friday evening. A formal Show & Sale will run from 1:30 to 4pm on Saturday, Feb. 11 followed by an auction at 6pm - both of which are open to the public. All activities are held at the Holiday Inn & Suites, 4800 Merle Hay Road in Des Moines. For additional information visit the Red Wing website http://redwingcollectors.org
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Obama Political Items Collectors are Ready for 2012
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The OPIC, started during the campaign of 2008, is again gearing up for another campaign. According to Cary Jung, president, members collect political memorabilia of all kinds relating to the campaign, national convention, inauguration and to Obama, himself.
Although the members of OPIC usually have their own personal collections, the major mission of the club is to preserve and document the campaign history of President Obama; serve as an educational resource on his campaign items; and increase public interest in collecting political memorabilia, especially among youth. Jung explains, "each piece of memorabilia not only has the potential to excite voters, but may also hold an intrinsic value beyond the paper on which it is printed." Jung has documented thousands of Obama items that have sold at auction or on the Internet for a few dollars to a few hundred dollars. Like any other collectible, he says "often the scarcity or uniqueness of an item may determine its monetary and historic value."
The club produces a quarterly newsletter called TOPIC (The Obama Political Items Collectors) that features stories and discusses the current market value of memorabilia. OPIC is a chapter of the American Political Itms Collectors (APIC), the oldest political memorabilia organization of its kind in the country. The group has no ties with the White House or the Obama re-election campaign.
Will there be a specialty chapter created for whoever becomes the Republican candidate this year... probably there will be. APIC has a number of specialty chapters devoted to candidates - no matter whether they won or lost. The Carter Chapter, Kennedy Chapter and Bush Chapter are three of the most active, and the most recent chapter organized is the George McGovern chapter.
The OPIC website is: http://OPIC.home.comcast.net Carey Jung can be reached at opic@comcast.net
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Upcoming Club-Sponsored Events
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Some of the club-sponsored events planned for upcoming weeks are listed below. Other events and additional information at http://Collectors.org/Events
- Sunshine State Carnival Glass Association Convention
- Southeast Federation of Stamp Clubs Show
- American Philatelic Society AmeriStamp Expo
- Coca-Cola Club Fun Fest
- Amherst Railway Society Show
- New England Political Items Collectors Show
- San Diego Button Club Winter Meet
- Carriage Association of America Winter Carnival
- Four Lakes Postcard Club Show
- Garden State Breweriana Chapter Show
- Connecticut State Button Society Show
- Rome Bottle Club Annual Show
- Sarasota Philatelic Club Stamp Exposition
- International Plastic Modelers Jaxcon 2012
- San Diego Miniature Crafters Annual Show
- Big Apple Political Collectors Super Bowl Sunday Show
- New Jersey Antique Bottl Club Show
- Tucson Gem and Mineral Society Annual Show
- Bullfrog Chapter Brewery Collectors Super Bowl Show
- National Association of Watch & Clock Collectors Florida Meet
- Antique Automobile Club of America Annual Meeting
- Oregoon Agate and Mineral Society Annual Show
- Red Wing Collectors Society MidWinter GetTogether
- American Cribbage Congress
- South Florida Depression Glass Club Show
- Hart-Parr/Oliver Collectors Association Winter Meeting
- Brewery Collectibles Club of America Show
- Birmingham Philatelic Society ALAPEX Stamp Show
- Keystone Record Collectors Pennsylvania Music Expo
- American Coaster Enthusiasts Winter Warmup
- Central Brevard Rock and Gem Club Show
Make sure your convention chairman and show managers submit their events for the ACC Club-Sponsored Events Calendar at http://Collectors.Org/Events/
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That's all for now. Let us know any time that we can be of assistance.
"To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or
three hobbies, and they must be real"
Winston Churchill
Larry Krug & Rick Moses
Association of Collecting Clubs
18222 Flower Hill Way #299
Gaithersburg, MD 20879
301.926.8663
Info@Collectors.Org
http://Collectors.Org
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http://Tradeshow.Collectors.Org
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