Pewter Collectors Club of America Announcements

Current Events and Announcements


$$ 2008/2009 Dues Notice $$ Dues Invoices for 2008/2009 have been emailed to those members that had previously accepted last years email dues notice from the club. Members without email or those who asked not to be emailed the dues notice have been sent their dues notice via the USPS. New to the emailed dues notice this year is the option to pay your dues using Paypal. Just click the Pay Now Button and it will open the Paypal site for our account. Fill in the requested information and select your method of payment. A Paypal account is not necessary to make your dues payment. Once again this year, anyone that does not want to receive their billing as an email should simply let Trudy & Fred know and they will remove you from the email billing and add you back to the conventional U.S. Mail system along with those that do not have active email addresses. Please make payments by April 30, 2008. Please Note: If you have not received a dues notice at this time please contact Trudy & Fred. email Membership Refining the annual dues notice and collection process, is an effort to be more time efficient and to save the club costly mailing and copying expenses. If anyone has any questions please fell free to contact Trudy & Fred. email Membership Spring 2008 National Meeting Advance Notice The Spring 2008 National PCCA meeting will be held at the Double Tree Hotel Annapolis, Maryland, the weekend of March 28 and 29, 2008. We will be hosted on Saturday by the Historic Annapolis Foundation with historic house tours. Sunday morning we will be hosted by the London Town Foundation for a tour of the "lost town". Meeting notices have been mailed to PCCA members. We want to encourage those interested in attending this meeting weekend to check the cut off dates and make your meeting and hotel reservations as soon as possible. For further information you may contact Sandra Lane at sycamorebend@verizon.net If anyone does not receive the meeting mailer with the complete schedule of the meeting weekend including the reservation form for the meeting itself, the hotel information and the banquet meal form you should contact Sandra Lane at sycamorebend@verizon.net Members of any organized pewter collecting society are cordially invited to attend any national meeting of the PCCA. All recipients are urged forward this announcement to any potentially interested party. For membership information email our membership chair . To be certain you receive your official notice and registration form please make sure that your current and correct address is on file. Double Tree Hotel Annapolis Historic Annapolis Foundation London Town Visit Annapolis links: http://www.visitannapolis.org/ http://www.ci.annapolis.md.us/info.asp?page=1713 * * * * * * * * * * IT'S HERE! The much anticipated new book by the PCCA and The John Carl Thomas Memorial Book Committee is available. Collecting Antique Pewter, What to Look For and What to Avoid was mailed to current PCCA Members in January 2007 and is now available for purchase. Click here for more information and how to order. *** * * * * Spring 2007 National Meeting A Success The Spring 2007 National PCCA meeting was held on April 20 and 21 in Burlington Vermont at the Wyndham Hotel overlooking Lake Champlain. Sandwiched between the violent Nor'easter and a second rainy front the sun shown on the PCCA. We had a beautiful, sunny and warm weekend for our special private tour of the Shelburne Museum and their pewter collection. On Friday evening after an introduction to Shelburne by Jean Burkes, Senior Curator at Shelburne Museum, we had two informative Collector's Choice presentations by Ken Goldberg and Dick Pencek. On Saturday morning we enjoyed the Shelburne collection with our group questions and discussions about the collection led by Melvyn Wolf and Wayne Hilt. Saturday afternoon was open for touring Burlington and the area on a beautiful afternoon or for closely following the Pook and Pook auction of the Shelley pewter and other early Americana collection. On Saturday evening there were more entertaining Collector's Choice presentations with Tom and Ellen O'Flaherty, Bill Snow and Greg Aurand and a Show and Tell led by Robert Werowinski and Melvyn Wolf. * * * * * Did you know?** That the Bibliography of American Pewter, see link on the navigation bar, is the most comprehensive list of books and references on Early American Pewter available.

Please note: Attendance to both national and regional meetings of the PCCA is limited to members in good standing and their guests. Before one can become a member of a regional group, one must first join the national organization. A new member in the national organization receives one free year of membership in a regional group. Dues in the regional groups varies but is only a nominal amount of a few dollars. See our Home page for membership information.