Author: buildinglady

Greetings All,

Our hosts, Ken and Mary Russell, have released a tentative schedule for this year’s Convention.  In addition, two SBCS events have been added:  Friday night Meet and Greet for our Club at the Salty Iguana (directly across the street from the hotel) and our Board Meeting-Auction-Raffle event on Saturday night:

Wednesday June 5th:   Early Room Hopping

Thursday June 6th:

8 am            Bus#1 Leaves for Home Visits in Abilene and Lawrence Kansas (1 hour ride)

8.15 am       Bus#2 Leaves for Abilene/Lawrence Kansas

10 am          Hospitality Room opens

4.30 pm       New Member Orientation

11 pm          Room hopping ends

Friday June 7th

10-11 am      Seminar on Cleaning and Repairing Your Collection

11-Noon       Seminar on Collecting

1 – 4 pm        Two more Home Visits, near Kansas City

4 – 6:30 pm  SBCS Meet and Greet and Swap Meet, at the Salty Iguana*

6.50 pm         Buffet Opens (both Clubs)

Saturday June 8th

7-8 am          Auction Set Up ($5 fee per lot–auction averages about 200-300 lots)

8-11 am        Auction and Breakfast

1 – 3 pm        Two more Home Visit opportunities

3- 6 pm         Room Hopping

6 pm             Cash Bar opens

6.45 -8 pm   Dinner

8.15pm – ?    Our SBCS Board Meeting–Auction and Raffle*

 

 

 

New Year….New Opportunities

Our membership dues follow the calendar year.  If you need to join or renew use the tab above to be a part of the 2019 events.

Paid members can participate in a few more Kneisel Collection boxing events.  There will be a Spring Cleaning Box which will have animals, figures and periphery (non Building) items.

Later we hope to offer a Bigger and Better Box; these will be Buildings.

This year’s Convention will be in the Kansas City area on June 4-6th.  It will be at the Embassy Suites in Olathe; 913-353-9280 code SBC at $139/suite.

We are joining the Still Bank Collectors Club event.  The convention fee will be handled by them.  There is a full schedule, with five home visits, buffet, dinner, auction and room selling.  To fully participate a one year membership fee of $45 to the SBCCA is required.  Go to http://www.stillbankclub.com for more information.

Finally, RSL Auctions has an interesting auction coming up March 23-24th.   Check out Ray and Bre on YouTube as they visit the Elliotte And Liz Harold Collection which will be auctioned off.

Not all Souvenir Buildings are metal.  Here are a few plastic examples:

This time of year a special curated Building collection comes out of boxes and out on display.

Each lovingly wrapped in tissue -it is always a joy to rediscover their beauty when I place them on my Christmas tree.

I might be quirky but they all have a special perch on the tree.  And I try and place them so the lights make them sparkle

 

Hi All.  Happy Holidays! Thought I’d post this year’s card.  Does anybody else showcase their buildings this way?

Would love to see any examples.

 

 

Just a friendly reminder to all current 2018 members to take advantage of an opportunity to get mystery buildings from one of the best collections in our history.

For just $25 you get up to 5 minor items from Bob Kneisel’s estate.

Cool, huh?  Details are below on the original post

 

 

Just a few things for you to know about. 

Ward Smith’s collection is being offered by BP Auctions this Friday and Saturday September 14-15. It is listed on liveauctioneers.com.  Absentee biddings is open to those who register. 

Also, the 2019 Convention Hotel-the Embassy Suites in Olathe Kansas is now accepting reservations. Details: the Embassy Suites, Olathe, KS  (913)353-9280. Code SBC.    Dates:  June 4-8 (The $139 rate is good Sunday June 2 thru Sunday June 9). It can also be booked online. Just add the code. 

For those who like the home visits, the two big collections are on Thursday.  I know, it is not convenient for those of us working but….

Just thought I’d let you all know of these events. More on the this later.