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THE VOICE of the HOBBY Party RATHKAMP MA TCHCOVER SOCIETY THE VOICE OF THE HOBBY SINCE 1941 IRMs BULLETIN NO. 505 November!December 20031 by MikePrero Christmas is one of my favorite categories. It's filled with a myriad of very colorful and eye-catching covers, many of which are also Fancies. And making it all even better still, to my way of thinking, are all the sets and series available within this category-sets issued over the years by individuals, clubs, and businesses (especially i:'.-">mpll<T~~nt& i;jf :Ht>$ c~mplim,.:1h c<f the•. En,j:llr"' '#ml:l:i-.•*i1~s · Erupir11- ,'1\.atd,•<!!ltell ~t0 . \t}t(:p .!foP t;'' ., ...., "'~:< *' ·~ Party .#.f Christmas Party ·'{1:; Christmas Party &llrlsttnas Party Empire Empire Empire Empire MatchclWHr Club Matchcover Club Matcncnver Club Mat&bCtlY6J C!uh ftOGBl SN\HH ~OdER Sh\fiH Hont. NH~:v· Y<·:f~~ .. <:·~tr Nrt.w Y<:Jr~:. Gt:r N~rw Y·~rkClty -sn:t .. au~;:~ ·fi> Hn.::~1 ~lt!l, !le(:, $, HHI$ ...· .. $!!!!, Q·~· It, l$~~ '. w~u t{!>~~t ~~HtftJ: n~·«~t<<> mm (llll~~ ~*i¢S:I n~;§;!!~> >:um e:l\'1~« Mtl'.la~ nl1:~g~~~-. 2 RMS Bulletin November!December2003, No. 505 for $10 (check made out to RMS). Literally global The President's Message advertising for six months for only $10 ... can't beat that! Send text and check to the Ed. I hope you each have a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday season. Enjoy visiting with family Free Classified Ads For Our and friends. Savor the sights of the festive light displays, the sounds of the special music Next Issue! presentations and the aroma and tastes of the Holiday cooking. Cherish the "moment." It is a Our Jan/Feb issue is our annual FREE classified special time of year. ad issue. One per member, space permitting. This only happens once a year. Are you looking for It's a great time of year to catch up on trading something in particular, have some covers to sell, with your fellow collectors. Find a few new just want to make an announcement? Here's your collectors to trade with by checking the RMS or chance! Send them to the Ed. Please keep them as local club rosters and send a few covers to short as possible. The earlier you send them in, the someone you've never met. You may find a new better the chance that they will get in .... SO DON'T collector that can help you expand your own DAWDLE! collection. Happy Holidays! Sincerely, THE RMS BULLETIN The RMS Bulletin is a bimonthly publication of the Rathkamp Matchcover Society. RMS dues are $15 RMS President (single) for North America and $20 (single) for overseas. Add. family members are $4 each. Dues are to be submitted to Treasurer. All articles, advertisements, Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center comments, and letters should be sent to the Editor. Publication dates are: Sept., Nov., Jan, Mar., May, and Matchbooks Jul. Deadline for all submissions is 30 days before the publication month. This publication is owned by the Rathkamp Matchcover Society and is made available Great Lakes Matchcover Club President Mark for public distribution through first class (Canadian Quilling reports, "I received a great response from and overseas) and bulk mail rates. last issue's ad and am happy to report that it will enable us to send a nice check to the Center at the RMS WEB SITE: http://www.matchcover.org end of the year for the sale of some of the matchbooks. I'd also like to thank John & Stella RMS OFFICERS (2002-2004): Williams for selling some of the matchbooks at the President: Charles Specht, 2306 Belmore Dr., Cham~ match events they attended this year. It was a fun paign, IL 61821-6263 and worthwhile project, and we hope to do it again E-Mail: [email protected] for other museums and places~of-interest. I still lst V.P.: Morris Pasternak, 151 Cooperage Cres., have a few matchbooks left for anyone who'd still Richmond Hill, Ont. L4C 9K8 CAN 2nd V.P.: Grant Gehringer, 4761 Parkman Ct., like to order them. Annandale, VA 22003-5046 E-Mail: Grant. [email protected] Secretary: Shirley Sayers, 1290 Corporation St., Official Revision Date Coming Beaver, PA 15009 E-Mail: rlsms@stargate. net Up For RMS Web Site Membershipffreasurer: Terry Rowe, 1509 S. Dugan Rd., Urbana, OH 43078-9209 (937) 653-3947 E-mail: [email protected] All classified ads end their six-month run on Editor: Mike Prero, 12659 Eckard Way Auburn, CA December 31st. If s time to renew current ads 95603 Tel: (530) 885-3604 and/or send in new ones. 50 words+name,address E-Mail: Rmseditor@ev1. net RMS Bulletin November/December 2003, No. 505 3 banks and savings & loans. And the series! I can't think of any category that is so consistently dominated by so many large, stock-design series. They come in all sizes-lOs, 20s, 30, 40s, Jewels-mostly 20s, though. The majority of these covers are front-strike, since the anti­ smoking campaigns were beginning by the 1970s, and so were serious incursions of foreign-made matchbooks into the domestic sales place. I currently have 5,489 covers in my Christmas collection, and a rough estimate would be that certainly at least half of those covers are parts of sets and series. In fact, I used to have my Christmas collection organized by colors, which presented a rather striking organizational method, but, after awhile, I found that so many nice sets were being broken up in order to sort the covers out by color that I decided to rearrange everything alphabetically. So, now all the sets are intact, and most of the stock series are, as well, since I alphabetize those by the text on the outside rather than the business advertising on the inside. Everytime I page through all these wonderfully attractive covers, it's actually a little depressing-in the sense that this used to be one of the biggest, most popular type of cover to produce (as well as collect), and they all, every one of them, promote 'peace and good will to all', and yet they've dwindled down to almost nothing these days. Ah, it's too bad ... we've let something nice slip through our fingers ... but, of course, you can always recapture the times with such a Christmas collection! 4 RMS Bulletin November/December 2003, No. 505 Odd Sounding Towns [Jimmie Close, FL, sent these in as a follow-up to the Jul/Aug issue's articleJ The late Carl Cushing, NM: Bea and I had done Alabama: Bug Tussle, Scratch Ankle, Smut Eye some profitable collecting in downtown Las Vegas Arizona: Arsenic Tubs and were planning to spend the night in Flagstaff Arkansas: Toad Suck on the way home. Flagstaff had a foot of snow on Colorado: Purgatory the ground, and it was snowing heavily, so we Indiana: Correct finally holed up in Holbrook. After checking into Kentucky: Monkeys Eyebrow a motel, we set off walking to a recommended Louisiana: Natchitoches restaurant seeking matches on the way. We ate and Massachusetts: Brimstone Corner, Piety Corner started back on the other side of the street. We Maryland: Accident stopped off at a Best Western, but it only had Missouri: Knob Knoster Nationals. A man was checking in, but we paid no Mississippi: Hot Coffee, Why Not attention. A block down the street, a police car N. Carolina: Kill Devil Hills with flashing lights pulled up in front of us. The Oklahoma: Bugtussle, Slapout officer got out and told us to step in front of the Oregon: Halfway headlights. He also wanted our wallets. Pennsylvania: King of Prussia Tennessee: Chitlin Switch, Frog Jump I asked what we were supposed to have done. He. Texas: Cut and Shoot, Uncertain (+ Deaf said, "You stole a hundred dollar bill." Smith county) Meanwhile, going through our wallets, of course Washsington: Cle Elum, Humptulips he found no such bill. "Get into the car. We' II go back to the Best Western," he said. The clerk told [andfi·omJames Willard, MD ... ] the officer we couldn't possibly have stolen anything. It was the man checking in who had said Maryland: Flintstone, Friendsville, Dog Wood, we'd taken his money. Burnt Woods, Ancient Oak, Hunting Corner, Ruster Acres We sat in the police car for about half an hour while the officer found our accuser and tried to get Editorial some kind of coherent statement from him. The man had a large wad of $1 00 bills and was very 2004 Is Coming! belligerent. He finally conceded that he might have counted wrong. The ofTicer took us to where he With the new year right had picked us up and apologized, saying that the around the corner, one wonders man seemed a bit mentally deficient. I didn't feel it has in store for the hobby. We've that was an adequate explanation for the fiasco, undergone a number of changes in the last 15 but I wasn't about to argue. For all that, we didn't Will 2004 be better? worse? different? get any matches of any significance. Much depends on you, the membership. Will Have a favorite story that highlights your be active? Will you be supportive? Will you determination? Send it in, by all means. ffyou can help with your clubs' activities, publicize the e-mail it in to me, all the better, because I won 't hobby, bring in new members? have to retype it.... The Ed. Time will tell. RMS Bulletin November/December2003, No.
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