May16, 2003
Greetings Accumulators!
This is probably the last Antiques & Collectibles Newsletter you'll receive
through the Topica Company. Thanks to the advice of several Alert
Accumulators, I am in the process of moving us to Yahoo. You will receive a
welcome letter from Yahoo Groups soon. Just wanted to let you know that the
email you get from them will be regarding this newsletter, so you don't
unsubscribe yourself when you see it.
FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF YOU STINK REALLY GOOD
If you're in the vicinity of Orlando, Florida, please tear yourself away
from the Back To The Future ride for an hour or so and attend the
International Perfume Bottle Association convention at the Orlando Hyatt
Hotel. More than 20,000 perfume bottles will be displayed this weekend. The
event attracts collectors and dealers from more than 20 countries and
includes the world's leading authorities and authors on the subject of
perfume bottles and fragrance. A highlight of the Orlando event will be the
introduction of a new Estée Lauder solid perfume with a three-dimensional
palm tree design. Lauder also is bringing The Estée Lauder Traveling Solid
Perfume Museum to Neiman Marcus/Millennium Mall in Orlando to coincide
with the convention dates. Other convention highlights include a
collectors' market, seminars and roundtables on topics such as solid
perfumes, perfume miniatures, reproductions and fakes, perfume labels and
ads, and Czechoslovakian masterpieces. I smell a very intereting weekend!
HAPPY ENDING DEPARTMENT
Demetra Christodoulou hid her personal treasure under a fig tree in the
garden of her house in Cyrpus after the Turkish invasion in 1974. She and
her family were forced to leave northern Cyprus and set up a new home in
the south of the island. Recently the 65-year old woman and her family
finally made a visit to their old home in Palekythro, a home now occupied
by a Turkish-Cypriot family. She saw the fig tree in the garden where she
had buried three bags of her most treasured possessions, reports the Cyprus
Mail. The current occupants of the house had dug up the garden and kept the
bags, which the family's two daughters presented to Demetra. The bags
contained Demetra's dowry, a set of silver spoons and forks, 200-year-old
earrings and cross and a precious pendant of the Virgin Mary. "The girls'
father had come across it while digging in the garden last October and they
kept it safe," said Demetra. After everyone stood around and had a good
cry, Demetra and her family returned to the south of Cyprus, but she says
she wants to return when she is calmer and can properly thank the resident
family. No word on what the Turkish Cypriot family has done with the giant
hole under the fig tree.
A WELL ENDOWED EXHIBIT
In our never-ending quest to inform you of interesting works of art, we
bring you news of the three Norwegian students who have compiled the
country's first penis gallery to help men be more content with what nature
has given them. Or so they say. They took photographs of the penises of 18
men, aged between 20 and 70, for the gallery. Einar Aakvaag, Ragnhild Dahl
Keller and Genevieve Hardeberg pictured the penises from six different
angles and measured them all. They told Norwegian daily, Verdens Gang: "Our
mission is to get the average penis out to the people. We wanted to show
that the penis exists in all variations and we wanted to break down the
visualisation from the media/internet of the great giga-penis." No word on
whether the models will be getting their own television shows (no wardrobe
department needed), or how they plan to cope with the left-out feelings of
the owners of giga-penises. Hey, thanks for getting the average penis out
to the people.
We're off to the theater tonight, Accumulators, and tomorrow morning it's
up to the country house to continue construction. I do so love power tools!
Have a great one, Accumulators. Don't forget about the switch to Yahoo
Groups. Happy hunting!
Best,
Judith
Best,
Judith
© 2003 Judith Katz-Schwartz. All rights reserved.
Antiques and Collectibles Newsletter #216
U.S. Library of Congress
ISSN 1520-4464
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