Siouxland Redwingers Newsletter Volume 11, Issue 1 January, 2010 A Chapter of the Red Wing Collectors Society, Inc. http://siouxland.redwingcollectors.org Meeting News Commemorative News Upcoming Meetings The Winter 2010 Meeting At the Fall Meeting in Sioux WINTER MEETING February 12, 2010 will be at MidWinter in Des Falls 2010 Commemorative Holiday Inn, Illinois Room Moines, IA. Food will be Chairs Jon and Tammi 8:30 P.M. RWCS MidWinter provided, of course, so be Hawley gave their report. GetTogether sure to stop by the They revealed that the 2010 Des Moines, Iowa Siouxland Hospitality Room Commemorative has been SPRING MEETING in Room #126. chosen and is being April 24, 2010 Location TBD Our Spring Meeting location produced by Anders?n Stoneware of Grundy SUMMER MEETING is yet to be determined. July 8 2010 Remember this meeting will Center, Iowa. As usual, the Red Wing High School design for the piece will be Room TBD be our 10th Anniversary! 1:00 P.M. Bring ideas for a meeting revealed at the 2010 July RWCS Convention Convention. Look for order Red Wing, Minnesota location to MidWinter! forms in the near future! Show News Minutes Inside this issue: The Autumn 2009 meeting Meeting and Com- 1 In Des Moines during of Siouxland Redwingers, a memorative News MidWinter there will be an Chapter of the Red Wing Auction/Show 1 antique show. The Des Collectors Society, Inc. was News Moines Antique Spectacular held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Minutes 1-3 at the Iowa State Fair: September 26, 2009 at the Animal Learning Center East Pizza Ranch in Sioux Falls, 33rd & University. February Message from the 4 South Dakota. 16 adults, 3 President 12-14, 2010, Friday: 5PM- youths and 2 children were 9PM Saturday: 10AM-6PM Treasurer’s Report 5 present. Sunday: 11AM-4PM. Admission is $6, good for OLD BUSINESS: Pioneer Recipe 5 all weekend. This may be a MINUTES from the July 2009 good addition to your meeting were printed in the Want Ads, Current 6 MidWinter plans! SD Prices, Officers Newsletter. (Continued on page 2) Siouxland Redwingers Newsletter Page 2 Minutes (Continued from page 1) 2010 ELECTION OF OFFICERS: Election for two- year terms for President, Vice-President, Treasurer, TREASURERS REPORT: Michelle Heiberger and Secretary will be held at the Summer meeting. was unavailable to present a Treasurer’s Report. Jon Hawley is head of the Nominating Committee; contact him to announce your candidacy for one of BANNER DESIGN: Mary Lynn Headrick crafted a these offices. design for the banner that will be made and then displayed in down-town Red Wing, Minnesota JUST FOR FUN: Mike Headrick and Mary Rudd during annual conventions. Her design was each had amusing tales to tell about using jugs to approved by everyone present. prop doors open. Glenn Beall shared his unfortunate story about taking time off work to attend COMMEMORATIVE AUCTION: Ruth Beall’s $50 an auction near Scotland where his daughter’s 4th bid by proxy won her a regular 2009 Siouxland grade teacher was offering a cherry-band Commemorative. Mary Rudd’s $60 bid won her a advertising pitcher for consignment, only to be special 2009 Siouxland Commemorative. outbid by another enthusiast, thereby crushing Glenn’s dreams for a nice addition to his collection. NEW BUSINESS: SNEAK PREVIEW ABOUT RWCS EDUCATION: A DUNCAN AUCTION: Delbert and Bernice potential speaker to provide recipes for items made expressed thanks to all members of the Red Wing in crocks such as pickles, sauerkraut, and perhaps Collectors Society for helping promote, attending hooch led to a discussion about other unique uses and bidding at the auction of their collection on for crocks, such as storage for dog food, bird food, Saturday, September 6th. They offered thanks to toys, shoes, and magazines. That led to a topic Jon and Tammi Hawley and Glenn, Laura, about dead things unexpectedly found in crocks. Elizabeth, and Catherine Beall for helping their We had three winners: Tammi for fright as she once own family do some of the running for Houghton found the remains of a bat in a piece of Red Wing, Auction Services. Jon Hawley follows eBay Mike Headrick for largest dead animal for finding a closely, and noted that most of the buyers must rat in a 3-gallon elephant ear jug, and Glenn for have been seeking items for their own private quantity as he once purchased three mice on eBay collections because he hasn’t see many items and had them shipped to him in a Radam’s jug, plus formerly owned by Duncans in the weeks since he purchased six mice at an auction the day prior to the auction. this meeting. Congratulations, Tammi, Mike, and Glenn! 2010 COMMEMORATIVE: Jon and Tammi Hawley, chair for the 2010 commemorative, report SHOW & TELL: that all plans are progressing nicely. Anders?n Pottery is creating the piece. Mike Headrick – advertising flyer for hex bowls from Our Own Hardware from Christmas MEMBERSHIP: $10 dues will be due 01-01-2010 1937, originally priced at $1.25 but marked and delinquent 02-28-2010, at which time receipt down to $0.98, a 5” saffron bowl which was of newsletter will be suspended. 2010 cleaned with salon-grade hydrogen peroxide Commemorative can only be ordered and purchased from a beautician, and a 4 gallon purchased by members whose dues are current. ice water with birch leaves and a crisp blue (Note: In 2009, dues were waived for Siouxland stamp. Redwinger members in good standing.) Tammi Hawley – saffron 5# grease pail with handle. After Tammy gave an educational NEWSLETTER: Laura Beall asks that all items seminar at the 2009 Convention, a for the next newsletter be mailed or e-mailed to gentleman with 30 years of collecting her by December 1, 2009. experience sold it to Tammi for $100 rather Volume 11, Issue 1 Page 3 Minutes, Continued Red Wing Hint than $1200 as a thank-you. Tammi Glenn’s Helpful Red Wing Hint showed the 13” bowl she purchased from the Duncan auction as well. We lost power for a few hours the other night. I Jon Hawley – yellow hostess ware, and also realized something during this outage. Candles olive green near-hostess ware piece which are a little dangerous around the house, but not was purchased on eBay as a “Buy It Now” when you put them in 2 or 3 gallon crocks. We put selection for $15, and literature from “Over a big three wick candle in a 15 and it was quite & Back Yellow Ware,” a company that is bright with no danger of spreading or a cat reproducing Red Wing molds and is very knocking it over. Helpful hint: crocks can be used clearly marking their products as for safety. reproductions. Jon has requested a catalog from “Over and Back.” Mary Rudd – small advertising pieces, Mike thinks Bower made one for Weir/Western/ another, and a photograph of the headstone chosen for Norvin and Mary which features an engraving of a Red Left: The Wing picture, and a fake decal. Jon design for the shared that he has also seen real crocks Siouxland with fake decals popping up. Banner Glenn Beall – little brown pieces from Dickey approved at Clay, Sewer Pipe Manufacturers, and a the Fall matchbook from Diamond Jim’s. meeting. INVITATION: Jon & Tammi & Coralee & Quinn The banner Hawley will host a gathering at their home was immediately following the meeting and welcome designed by all to join them for refreshments. Mary Lynn Headrick and UPCOMING MEETINGS: will be flying at this The Winter meeting will be held on Friday, summer’s February 12, 2010 at 8:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Convention! in Des Moines, Iowa during the RWCS Mid-Winter Get-Together. Room #126 still will be the Siouxland Hospitality Room, but the meeting will be held elsewhere so that our group can be better accommodated; meeting location to be announced. The Spring meeting in South Dakota will be held on Saturday, April 24, 2010 at a location to be determined. The Summer meeting will be held on Thursday, July 8, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. Please remember to send during the Red Wing Collector’s Society annual in articles for the next convention in Red Wing, Minnesota. newsletter! It is your news, send it in! The meeting was adjourned. Respectfully submitted, Julie Ellen Beall, Secretary Siouxland Redwingers Newsletter Page 4 Message from the President by Glenn Beall Well how’s it going? I a little unusual. Handmade marbles have registered for When I was washing and every kind of MidWinter, have you? it out hair appeared. I weird tin toy or game Online registration is got six mice out of or – they even have pretty easy, so get to that jug. None were bacon band-aids, no it! Come listen to all harmed as they were kidding, and a the good speakers already dead, some a yodeling pickle. and eat (of course) in very long time. That There are a bunch of our chapter room. is a personal record, antique malls around Special food requests can anyone beat it? to snoop through, can be made via My old record was and also a Cabela’s. Glenn Beall’s new email. We can usually three and they were You will see a lot of chicken fount. find something in the sent in a Radam’s jug different things from Should he have it room you can eat and through the mail. what we normally see repaired? drink and it is part of One of our members in South Dakota.