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Victor S. Johnson Signature Series Cobalt Blue Grand Vertique Lamp with Cosmos Shade $389.95 Free Shipping! • Limited Production Lamp • Mosser Glass Font & Shade • Shade Hand Painted by Variety Glass of Beech Bottom, West Virginia • MaxBrite 502 Burner, your choice of brass or nickle • Certificate of Authenticity • Full-Line Stocking Dealers. Give us a call for all your replacement parts needs Limited Supply of 2017 Emerald Green Signature Grand Vertique Lamps with Opal White Shade also available! $329.95 COUNTRY STORE 1-866-333-5267 1-888-665-4989 New Braunfels, Texas 78130 Ocean Park, Washington 98640 [email protected] [email protected] Regional Meets and Shows Regional meets and trade shows are organized by Aladdin Knights for the benefit of collectors to buy, sell and trade. Call or email for information. We encourage you to attend, study, learn, collect and enjoy. Mideast—Richmond, IN Eastern—Somerset, PA Midwest—Johnston, IA Oct. 22 - 27, 2018 TBA, 2019 TBA, 2019 Show Sat. Oct. 27 Tom Small Judy Jansen Bob & Laura Daniels 814-634-5639 402-895-2073 309-385-2337 [email protected] 402-657-2853 cell [email protected] [email protected] Vintage Lamp Show —Chickasha, OK October 19-20, 2018 Mike Stuever 580-656-4033 [email protected] Valerie Wood to rent tables 405-403-4132 RE-LIGHT THE KNIGHT www.aladdinknights.org M—your renewal is due in March; if S—your renewal is due in September. The next number tells the year due. (Last is your personal Knight number.) S-18 Due Attention Aladdin Knights!! S-18 Due US and Canada: Renewal is due from Sept-Nov. 2018 to Nov. 2019 — US $25.00 Other countries — US $30.00 PayPal renewals accepted to [email protected] Please send money via family or friends Checks to: J. W. Courter MAIL TO: J. W. Courter, 550 Pioneer Ln., Calvert City, KY 42029 THANK YOU! Volume 47 No. 1 Aladdin is The Magic Name in Lamps September 2018 Aladdin Knights of The Mystic Light Bill Courter 46 years of news, history and collecting Knights—the finest group of Aladdin Aladdin lamps and lamp collectors in the world! Aladdin Knights have lived in all 50 states, Canada, England, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, Holland, Italy and other countries. More than 9,500 Lifetime Knights have been assigned during the past 46 years. The Aladdin Knights first gathered at the Nashville Flea Market in 1973. The convention term Gathering was created in 1976, General Knights in 1980 and Knights of the Roundtable in 1987. The first Genie in 1976 and first logo in 1977. I bought an Aladdin Corinthian The first auction was held in 1977, first Lamp for emergency light in 1965. It Majestic Pin in 1978, the first raffle quilt in cost $6.00 and was ready to light. I was 1979 and the first regional meet was held in "illuminated" by the Magic of the Aladdin Pennsylvania in 1979. light and began collecting the lamps and Gatherings are run by volunteers their history. We published two books and financed via registration, auction and on Aladdin lamps and history of the admission fees, raffle of quilts by Ladies of company: first in 1972 (revised in 1997) The Knights and sale of memorabilia. and 1987. I began writing The Mystic The success of Gatherings is attributed Light newsletter in 1973 with the goal to unselfish dedication of time, energy and to share discoveries, information and expertise of Aladdin Knights who plan, provide interchange among collectors. organize and conduct the activities and Tom Teeter suggested the name for events. No one is paid. Knights carry out our newsletter, taken from the original and perform many functions at their own “Order of Aladdin Knights of Mystic expense. Their reward is enjoyment of their Lights”. Aladdin company personnel hobby, making new friends, preservation were recognized in Mystic ceremonies of historical lighting and sharing their over 100 years ago. Officials were knowledge with others. And fun! appropriately called “High Mogul, In This Issue Bright Knight, Inner Guard, Restless Knight News ..............................................3 Knight and Good Knight.” Collectors today create their own unique “handles” Gathering News .....................................4-9 such as Bright Knight, Chimney Knight, Aladdin Auction July 12 ....................10-15 Dim Wick, Sage and Sir Lamps A-lot. Special Carey Auction .......................16-17 Collectors who subscribe to Chickasha Show & Mid-East Meet .......18 The Mystic Light are called Aladdin Aladdin News ..........................................21 Light Beams This newsletter begins our 47th year of writing The Mystic Light. That sounds like a long time but how did those years fly-by so fast? I believe the enjoyment of collecting both lamps and friends are reasons. And contributing to history. X X X X The 46th Gathering in Peoria was another memorable event. I am pleased to report activities, auctions, and photos of those The Honey Mushroom in Oregon is the larg- who "made it happen." Everyone loved est living thing on the planet. On the surface, the hotel, the open center area, and the you would assume they are each separate and breakfast included in registration. individual. However, they are all connected and X X X X form part of the same humongous organism. We honored Sue Wood for her years of This giant mushroom is 2400 years old. It is dedication and service as Signmaker KRT actually all connected by a root system that (page 9). Sue drove to Peoria by herself stretches 3 square miles. and arrived Saturday at an intersection www.pbs.org/video/oregon-field-guide-humongous-fungus.. where she became confused. An accident You might think we are all separate damaged her car. On Sunday we drove individuals. However, we come together her home to Philo. Thanks to Bob Daniels as human beings who collect Aladdin who picked up her car and transported it lamps. Although we are independent to her home in Philo. on one level, we react and respond X X X X differently but also collectively. It is this same complex structure that connects I was deeply honored and surprised to all of us. The stories, experiences and receive the LeRoy Thwing Award by the frienships of collecting are the real reasons Rushlight Club at their Friday Dinner in we enjoy our Aladdin lamps. Peoria. X X X X I serve on the Board of the William Rogers Welcome New Knights: Clark Market House Yvon Lafontaine, Canada; Sherry Brendel, IL; Herman Schlageter, KY; Randy Rogers, Museum in Paducah. IL; Tom Wallin, IL; Mark Heuring, IL; We celebrated 50 Martha O. DeBlieu, NJ; Bruce Shamhart, years since founding IL; Rick Harness, IA; Donald Clinton, MO; in 1968. The week Betty L. Foster, TX and Sidney & Ramona after Peoria our banquet ceremonies Decker, TX. recognized those who made it possible. I Be well & keep in touch was pleased to prepare the program and historical booklet. The Mystic Light of the Aladdin Knights is published every X X X X other month for collectors of Aladdin lamps and related memo- rabilia. Subscription and knighthood is $25.00 per year, USA Our power was off for nearly two days and Canada; overseas $30.00. Collectors may correspond with due to storms end of June. Life without the editor by writing to J. W. Courter, Editor, Mystic Light, 550 Pioneer Ln, Calvert City, KY 42029. Phone 270-559-7900. Email: electric lights, computer and TV was like [email protected]. the "good old days." We lighted lamps Aladdin Knights are associate members of the National Association of Aladdin Lamp Collectors, Inc. (www.aladdincollec- and our Aladdin emitted 2000+ BTU at tors.org). Photographs and information submitted to the editor temperatures already excess 80. UGH! may also be used on the website www.aladdinknights.org, which complements this newsletter. We used flashlights too of course, and “ALADDIN” and Lox-On" are trademarks of Aladdin went to bed early. Industries LLC, Nashville, Tennessee. Copyright © 2018 by J. W. Courter. X X X X Reproduction in whole or in part is prohibited. 2 Mystic Light September 2018 Leroy L. Thwing Award Knight News. The Rushlight Club Family beyond relatives HAPPY BIRTHDAYS: Grace Farr 84 this September and Roy Farr 90 in November. BEST WISHES for speedy recovery for Joy Michmerhuizen after major surgery to remove a tumor that was a angiolypoma mass and not lymphoma. She has now had the stitches out and says it looks good. BEST WISHES for recovery from major surgery to Andrew Hunt who was unable to attend Gathering. BEST WISHES to Bob Culver who was unable to attend Gathering. BEST WISHES to Tom & Fran Small unable to attend Gathering. Tom more than week in hospital diagnosis mesothioloma. Says: "I'm doing reasonably well, will start chemotherapy the first week of September." CONDOLENSES to family & friends of Nigel Reyolds age 71 passed away on Aug. 21—a great loss to the historic lighting fraternity. CONDOLENSES to Fawn Leason & family upon passing of her mother Marylou Leason on August 8. Marylou enjoyed the Gathering and seeing her quilter friends. CONDOLENSES to Loretta Steber & family upon passing of husband Robert on March 4. Photo by MJ Howell CONDOLENSES to Patricia Verble & family Donna Schoenley, President Rushlight Club, upon passing of husband Paul on July 24. presented this award for outstanding service and contributions to the club and stimulat- CONDOLENSES to Vest-Levangie families ing interest in history of lighting. The Club, on recent passing of Cynthia Jane. formed in 1932, is the oldest lighting club. I am humble and proud to be recognized with the LeRoy Thwing Award by The Rushlight Club. An honor indeed! The Rushlight Club pub- lications and members have been important as I study lamps & lighting.