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N E W S L E T T E R Midwinter Jaw Droppers Vol. 38 No. 2 NEWSLETTER A p r i l 2 0 1 3 MidWinter Jaw Droppers RWCS CONTACTS RWCS BUSINESS OFFICE PO Box 50 • 2000 Old West Main St. • Suite 302 In Pottery Place Mall • Red Wing, MN 55066-0050 651-388-4004 or 800-977-7927 • Fax: 651-388-4042 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: STACY WEGNER This [email protected] ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT: VACANT [email protected] Issue................ Web site: WWW.RedwINGCOLLECTORS.ORG BOARD OF DIRECTORS Page 3 NEWS BRIEFS, ABOUT THE COVER PRESIDENT: DAN DEPASQUALE 2717 Driftwood Dr. • Niagara Falls, NY 14304-4584 Page 4 MIDWINTER REVIew, 2013 CONVenTION News & NOTes 716-216-4194 • [email protected] Page 5 RWCS FOUndaTION SHARes New MUseUM FLOORPLans VICE PRESIDENT: ANN TUCKER 1121 Somonauk • Sycamore, IL 60178 Page 6 YOUNG COLLECTORS NEWS, MIDWINTER PHOTOS 815-751-5056 • [email protected] Page 8 MEMORIES OF AUNT BELLE SECRETARY: JOHN SAGAT Page 10 Red WIng SAFFRON WARE 7241 Emerson Ave. So. • Richfield, MN 55423-3067 612-861-0066 • [email protected] Page 12 2012 RWCS FINANCIAL REVIEW OLLECTING WITH ONNOR TREASURER: MARK COLLINS Page 13 C C 4724 N 112th Circle • Omaha, NE 68164-2119 Page 14 CLASSIFIED ADS 605-351-1700 • [email protected] Page 16 COLLECTING WITH CONNOR (CONTINUED) HISTORIAN: STEVE BROWN 2102 Hunter Ridge Ct. • Manitowoc, WI 54220 920-629-0970 • [email protected] MEMBERSHIP REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE: RUSSA ROBINSON 1970 Bowman Rd. • Stockton, CA 95206 A primary membership in the Red Wing Collectors Society is $25 annually and an as- 209-463-5179 • [email protected] sociate membership is $10. There must be at least one primary member per household in order to have associate REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE: JERRY ERDMANN membership. Members can pay for two years when renewing their membership. Contact W15416 Fair-Morr Rd. • Tigerton, WI 54486 the RWCS Business Office for additional details. The RWCS website is a safe and secure 715-535-2094 • [email protected] option for members to renew their membership, register for events and purchase AUCTION ManageR: BRUCE SELFRIDGE RWCS products, such as the annual Convention Commemorative. PO Box 1266 • Healdsburg, CA 95448 707-431-7753 • [email protected] NEWSLETTER EDITOR COMMEMORATIVE ManageR: BOB MORAWSKI 2130 S. Ridgeway Dr. • New Berlin, WI 53146 RWCS Member Rick Natynski 262-853-8269 • [email protected] PO Box 198 EDUCATION ManageR: GLENN BEALL Pewaukee, WI 53072 215 W. 7th St. • Logan, IA 51546-1221 [email protected] • 414-416-WING (9464) 712-644-2256 • [email protected] The Red Wing Collectors Society, Inc. Newsletter is published bi-monthly by the JULY CONVENTION SUPPORT PERSONNEL: Red Wing Collectors Society, Inc. Suite 300 • 2000 West Main Street Red Wing, MN 55066. Pre-registration – JIM & Joyce SuTHERLAND Phone: 651-388-4004 Fax: 651-388-4042 AND JIM & KAREN KEYS WWW.RedwINGCOLLECTORS.ORG Show & Sale – MARK GAMBUCCI 651-460-4565 Postmaster: Send address change to: Red Wing Collectors Society, Inc. Newsletter DALE ERICKSON 507-645-6771 PO Box 50 • Red Wing, MN 55066. uSPS 015-791; ISSN 1096-1259. [email protected] Copyright © 2013 by the Red Wing Collectors Society, Inc. All rights reserved. The Red Wing Collectors Society, Inc. does not guarantee Display Room – LAURA BEALL the accuracy of articles submitted by individual members. 605-464-5941 • [email protected] News Briefs KidsView will be ABUZZ at Convention ey, KidsView kids and parents – it’s that time of year again to start BUZZIN’ about this Hsummer’s Convention activities! Last year we talked about stoneware jugs and found out that some were called beehives, and one of our speakers, Doug Perkins, talked to us a little about bees and honey. Well, this year he will be back to show you more about bees and honey with some fun surprises! Speaking of surprises, we are going to have more new activities to go with some of our usual favorites! Your parents might be diggin’ Red Wing by buying up all the pieces they love, but this year, we’re going to be diggin’ in a different way. In order to do all these fun activities, KidsView is asking for volunteers to help during our sessions on Thursday and Friday. Again, we would like to thank the parents and volunteers who helped us last year. Without everyone’s help, our program cannot run so smoothly. Also, ABOUT THE COVER without your continued support and donations, KidsView would not be possible. Supporting s expected, some nice pieces turned up at this the future collectors of our Society ensures a future for the Society! Ayear’s MidWinter GetTogether. A sampling - KidsView co-chairs Aarika Floyd and Sue Jones Tagliapietra of these pieces are displayed on this issue’s cover – Thank You, Office Volunteers ranging from the front-stamped 8 gallon ‘single-P’ water cooler that sold Wednesday, Feb. 6 to the e thank Deb Gullickson, Heidi Hahlen, Ralph Ryan and Mike & Cindy Becker for once blue and yellow Chromoline vase and candlesticks Wagain volunteering in the office to help with data entry, mailings and other projects. that sold in the auction the following Saturday There are a number of projects that members can do right from the comfort of their own night. home, including website content development, social media postings and the distribution of promotional materials for Convention and membership. The front-stamped 20 gallon butterfly crock shown above that RWCS Member Dave Jones brought for RWCS eBay Listing Reminder sale had a cool story. A few years back he bought lease note that the RWCS listings on eBay are intended to help attract new members. We ask a different signed 20 gallon butterfly crock at an Pcurrent members to please renew their membership on the RWCS website or call the office, auction in Greenleaf, Kan. when an elderly lady came because it costs the Society more to sell on eBay. Thank you! up to him and told him she had one just like it at home. He followed her back to her place and she took Three Longtime RWCS Members Die at Age 92 him to her old limestone storm cellar out in the yard. WCS Charter Member Helen Bell died on Feb. 11. In addition to “She told me to be careful because there were Rhelping form the RWCS, she was deeply involved in the Red Wing snakes down there, but I didn’t care,” Dave recalls. community for most of her life; she served on the boards of numerous “I went down there with my flashlight and sure organizations like the Red Wing Public Library and did an incred- enough – there was a snake and a 20 gallon ible amount of work for St. Joseph Catholic Church and the Goodhue butterfly crock – just like she said there would be.” Historical Society. In 1982 she was named the Red Wing Educator of the Unfortunately he didn’t get a deal on the crock – he Year and also received the WCCO Good Neighbor Award. paid $1,950 for the one at the auction and she held Helen presented many educational sessions at RWCS Conventions, firm at that price. But he sold it for the same price at often speaking under the title “Memories of a Pottery Worker’s MidWinter to a collector who always wanted one. Daughter.” She was inducted into the RWCS Hall of Fame in 2001. She is survived by twin grand-nieces, four godchildren, the Pat & Lois Barry Bell The 1893 World Expo stoneware bank being sold by family and the Edward & Mary Maranda family, plus many other cousins and friends. Steve Showers was yet another of his impressive dump finds. As we’ll discuss in the June issue of theRWCS Longtime RWCS Member Evelyn Stein, the mother of RWCS Rep. at Large Russa Robinson, Newsletter, fellow dump digger and RWCS Member died on Feb. 26. She taught kindergarten at Central School in Tracy, Calif. for 30 years; she and Dennis Nygaard called in Steve and a couple of other her late husband of 68 years were very active in the community. The George & Evelyn Stein High diggers to help when he found a vein of bank shards in School in Tracy is named in their honor. (George passed away in October 2011.) the dump. Each digger left with a complete bank. Evelyn was an avid collector of Nokomis art pottery; her display (pictured below) won the People’s Choice Award at the 2008 Convention. Not all the pieces pictured on the covered were for She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, sale, though. RWCS Members Mark & Marie Latta Russa & Mike Robinson, three grandchildren showed the unusual lunch hour dinnerware creamer and six great-grandchildren. She died shortly they picked up at an antique shop on the way to Des Moines. The price? Only $12. What a find! after learning that her sixth grandchild, Andrew, RWCS Member Scott Spompinato found the Rocky had been born earlier that day. Mountain Root Beer mug at the Des Moines Antique RWCS Charter Member Kathryn Schroeder Spectacular after the doors opened on Friday, Feb. 8. died on March 3. She resided in McFarland, Wis. with her husband, John since 1959. She RWCS Member Dave Kuffel brought the 20 lb. loved antiquing, spending time outdoors and butter crock with “J. Dusek, Chicago” advertising sharing time with family. Kathryn is survived by to show. A mirror helped show that the “20 lbs.” her daughter, son and three grandchildren. Her and wing stamps were present on the opposite side – the only example he’s ever seen with both husband, John, passed away in 2002. The family McHose T.J. Member courtesy of RWCS Image advertising and the other stamps.
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