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TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL DINNER

Date:         February 09, 2024                                   

Place:      The Palmetto Club  

Time:         

Social Time:  6:00 p.m.           Dinner        :  6:45 p.m.                                        

1231 Sumter Street,     Columbia, S.C.  29201

The Officers and Board are pleased to announce that our 26th Annual Dinner will be held on Friday, February 09, 2024.

Our speaker for the evening will be Claire Fraser, Vice-President of Estates & Collections, Fine Art & Silver Director, & Museum Services for Leland Little Auctions, Hillsborough, North Carolina.  Our speaker has been with Leland Little Auctions since 2004.  She attended Randolph Macon Woman’s College, held a Summer Fellowship at Historic Deerfield, and has worked with the North Carolina Museum of History and the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources.  She admits to always loving shiny things and found a passion for sterling silver flatware during a summer job as a bridal consultant at Hudson Belk department store.

As noted on the attached reservation form, we need to have your reservation NO LATER THAN MONDAY, FEBRUARY 05, 2024.  Should you have questions about the dinner, please feel free to contact me at 803.530.3697.

If you have not already done so, please include your dues with your reservation form ($30 for an individual and $45 for individual and one household member.
We look forward to sharing this special evening with you!!

Saturday, January 13, 2024
General members get-together

Join us for a fun and educational – the program will include:

1.  An expert panel to answer your questions about silver, silver plate, patterns, tips on cleaning, needed repairs and storage.  We also will try to identify any mystery silver you may want to bring with you to show the experts (maybe stump them).

2. Bring with you and show off your most interesting and/ or unusual silver find in 2023; or your prized South Carolina silver that you will share with us all. 

3. Finally, create your own reason to bring some silver to show everyone!
 

Our meeting will take place at the River District Church, 400 State Street in West Columbia 1/13/2024 starting at 11 am. 

Friday, February 9, 2024
SCSS Annual Dinner Friday

Save the date for the annual dinner.

Future tour in 2024

Charleston Museum to be scheduled for a future date in 2024

Date:    Friday, February 10, 2023                                

Place:  The Palmetto Club

Time:  Social time  6:00 p.m.                                                         

1231 Sumter Street Columbia, S.C.  29201Dinner         

7:00 p.m.                                                         

Contact Telephone:  803-799-1821

Mark your calendar and plan to attend the first South Carolina Silver Society, Inc. group gathering in 2021 on Friday, May 21.  We will travel to Belton, South Carolina for two home tours co-hosted by members Tim Drake and John LeHeup.  Tim is restoring his family’s old country home and it is full of antiques and silver items.  John lives a short distance away in the town of Belton and his house is full of antiques and silver as well.

Please read about the history of the Chicora Planation in the link below.  You do not want to miss out so start planning now.

A Short History of Chicora Plantation, Anderson County South Carolina

Sincerely,

Henry Brown,

President

It is time to renew your membership in the South Carolina Silver Society.  Please fill out the attached membership application with your dues ($25 for individual & $40 for Individual and one household member),    If your information has not changed or there are only minor changes, just email the changes when you mail your check (no application form needed).  Membership Form

PLEASE NOTE:  We would like to include your cell phone number in our information.

The officers and board of the Society wish you and yours Happy Holidays and a wonderful New Year!!

The South Carolina Silver Society annual meeting and dinner will be held Friday, February 7, 2020, in Columbia at the Palmetto Club. The guest speaker is Dr. Daniel Ackerman, Curator at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Old Salem.

Here is a link the Early Spring Edition of The Gadroon with pictures of our Annual Dinner Meeting and our trip to The Kaminski House Museum in Georgetown.  Thanks to Charlotte Crabtree for pictures of the dinner and Nancy Chambers and Barb Lewis for the pictures of Georgetown.

Please note Frank’s invitation on the last page to submit ideas for articles or other information to share in our newsletter.  Frank does a wonderful job on our newsletter and we need to support him – and our Society!!!

Elizabeth Walker (Gryphon Estate Silver) will be holding a Trunk Showing at Cricket Newman Designs in Columbia Wednesday through Friday,, March 13 – 15.  She invites us to visit with her. 

Judy

As announced at our Dinner Meeting last week, our next meeting will be a visit to The Kaminski House Museum, 1003 Front Street, Georgetown(29440).  We will meet at 1:00 pm on Saturday, February 23.  We will tour the house with special emphasis on the silver.  
We have selected The Kaminski House Museum as our service project for this year.  More information on work days as we inventory this collection will be posted.
Happy Valentine’s Day – hope a piece of silver is tucked in your box of chocolates!!!
Judy8