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Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014
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Tami Guy, Ladies Auxiliary President with Stanley Schoppe Jr., Greg Hollinger Post Quartmaster, Pat Hailey Becraft and Kyle Guy
VFW Awards On Saturday Feb. 15 the VFW Post 10574 in Colonial Beach presented awards for the Teacher of the Year, the Voice of Democracy and the Patriot’s Pen. The Patriot’s Pen is conducted nationwide; this VFW sponsored youth essay competition gives students an opportunity to write essays expressing their views on
Democracy. The essay by Pat Hailey Becraft of Colonial Beach Middle School made it to the District and State level. Voice of Democracy has been the Veterans of Foreign Wars’ premier scholarship program. Students compose by writing and recording a broadcast script on an annual patriotic theme. This year’s theme was Why I’m Optimistic About our Nation’s Future. More than 50,000 high school students compete for
this scholarship each year. This year’s winner was Kyle Guy of Washington and Lee High School. Kyle came in second at District Level. The VFW launched the Smart/ Maher National Citizenship Education Teacher award in 1999 to recognize classroom teachers for promoting citizenship education. Stanley Schoppe Jr. of Washington & Lee of Westmoreland was the recipient of this year’s award voted on by the students.
Riverview Inn Showings Top: On Feb. 15, Tom Pixley, Commander of American Legion Post #148, presented a check to Tim Trivett for the CB Fire Department. Shelly Payne with the school board accepted a check for the School as post members looked on. Above: Phyllis Hood, President of the Ladies’ Auxiliary, presented a check to Tim Trivett for the fire department’s efforts to save the school. Shelly Payne also accepted a check.
Shortly after the Second World War, a couple assigned to Japan bought these four sterling silver tumblers. They are marked “Sterling 950”, and are in excellent condition, but the owners do not know the name of the company that made them. They also do not know the Henry Lane weight of each Hull tumbler. They are not engraved or monogrammed. These pieces are typical of Japanese silver production. Japanese sterling always is 950, whereas American and British sterling are 925. These figures indicate the silver content per ounce. American coin silver is 90, meaning it is 90% silver. German silver is 800, and Hungarian is 600, meaning the alloy content is 20% and 40% respectively. After the War, Japan plunged into the silver industry, finding a ready market in the Americans who came to occupy the country, and bought in great quantities. As a rule, Japanese sterling pieces, as with Mexican ones, bring significantly less on the market than American sterling. In part, this reduced value results from the lesser quality and appearance. I suggest weighing each tumbler to ascertain the silver value, remembering that silver per ounce is
Local artist Velia Jacobo, the manager of Riverview Inn, opened her display at Riverview Inn when all other galleries shut down for the Second Friday Artwalk. The waterfall above her is the featured work of Olga Farneth, a well-known local artist/teacher who has come out of retirement to begin showing her work again. All other work is by Jacobo. Works from both artists will be on display all month, and Farneth plans to have a much larger collection next month in March. calculated by troy weight, rather than by avoirdupois weight. Obviously, they are worth more than the pure silver value. As a retail value, each is worth $150. American ones would be almost twice as much. A set of four is worth more than the total of individual items. The absence of engraving or a monogram is an asset, as engraved ones bring less, and frequently wind up being sold for weight, with an ultimate fate of being melted for scrap. Particularly in the early 1980s, when the Hunt brothers were trying to corner the silver market, many fine pieces of sterling ended by being melted. When the bubble burst soon thereafter, they had been lost forever. Happy Antiquing!
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