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MESSAGE FROM
THE PRESIDENT
The Carnival
Pump, the quarterly newsletter of ICGA,
contains a Message from the President of
ICGA in each issue. Below is the current
Message, as well as links to previous
columns.
The Perfect Time for You
By Brian Pitman,
June 2010
 Next
month is our annual convention in Clarksville,
Indiana (right across the river from downtown
Louisville), and many of you have signed up to
be there. With a dynamite auction from Jim Seeck
of the John and Ruth Phillips collection, a
phenomenal display of peacock patterns featuring
presentations from Tom Mordini and Ron Britt, a
banquet seminar unlike anything you have seen
from Stacy and Desiree Wills, a hotel that has a
water park and plenty of amenities and southern
hospitality that our club hasn’t seen in a long
while, we sure hope to see many more of you
there. Carl Booker has included a registration
form and a schedule for your convenience in this
issue of the Carnival Pump, so please take a
moment to register.
I got to spend some quality time with Ruth
Phillips at the HOACGA convention earlier this
year, and you can tell that the decision to sell
her collection was not done lightly. There has
been much discussion in carnival glass circles
this year about the number of auctions and
collections available (which is really the same
as every other year in recent memory, isn’t it?)
Some have said that it is all the sellers’
faults, some blame the auctioneers and others
blame the current economy. Most forget to
embrace the silver lining, though. I can’t
remember a better time to buy some great
carnival glass than right now. People looking to
put together a beautiful collection can do so,
and perhaps even save a buck or two at the same
time.
I was speaking to an auctioneer the other day
about the current state of carnival glass, and
the auctioneer summed it up pretty well. “If you
are buying for the love of the glass, now is the
perfect time for you,” said this wise
auctioneer. “If you are buying for investment,
now is also the perfect time for you. Values
will go up, higher than ever before, in time.
You just need to have patience, buy the right
pieces with gorgeous color and iridescence, and
then just enjoy the glass until you are ready to
sell. You could make a great profit on your
glass, not to mention the joy it will bring you
displayed in your home.”
Of course, I couldn’t agree more. I think about
the great glass that will be at our convention
in the rooms, and then that beautiful (and rare
and valuable) auction glass from Ruth and John
just kicks it to the next level. If you love
carnival glass, then our convention will indeed
be the perfect time for you. In addition to the
opportunity you will find there, we will have
some of the best people in carnival glass around
to joke with, share with, and just plain enjoy.
So, whether you are in it for the love, the
people or the money, we have you covered with
this convention. Check out the schedule, the
lovely hotel and the auction glass, and then put
in that registration. Our hotel block isn’t open
forever, and our special rate included free
breakfast and much more. As usual, you may
contact me if you have any questions through my
email at
bpitman@woodsland.com, or you can call me at
(785) 274-9105. We are here for you, and we
can’t wait to see you!
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