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Rights and Privileges of Membership
messydesk
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So I'm looking at this Franklin Mint Collectors Society folio and it enumerates the rights and privileges bestowed upon Society members. Two items intrigued me. The first is that members are ex-officio advisors to The Franklin Mint. Has anyone here (that would be willing to admit to having been a member of such an elite society) acted in that capacity?
The other item of interest was "use of the private Collectors Society Club Room, which will soon be established at The Franklin Mint." As yours truly has never gotten any closer to a private club room than the Red Carpet Club at O'Hare or the Lufthansa lounges in Frankfurt and Munich, what must have lain beyond the velvet ropes and heavy doors of the exclusive private Collectors Society Club Room at the Franklin Mint remains but a fantastic mystery. I can only imagine it being decorated with the finest orange and purple velours, vinyls, and shag carpets, with rare photographs, documents, and perhaps even galvanos not only of their moder, mid-'70s offerings, but also historic material dating back to the early '70s. Vast arrays of plates would wrap around the upper part of the wall in the bar area for your amazement while sipping sherry, listening to soothing music with a lot of "ba-ba-ba-ba" in the lyrics, and rubbing elbows with other collectibles elite, exchanging droll stories. In the vast landscape of 1970s collectibles, surely this club room was Xanadu. Or maybe it was more like a dentist's waiting room. Are there any here who were so privileged so see this club room and are no longer sworn to secrecy as to it trappings? Was Longacre taken here in the days of his youth to entice him with visions of the high life afforded those in the circles of international tax code?
The other item of interest was "use of the private Collectors Society Club Room, which will soon be established at The Franklin Mint." As yours truly has never gotten any closer to a private club room than the Red Carpet Club at O'Hare or the Lufthansa lounges in Frankfurt and Munich, what must have lain beyond the velvet ropes and heavy doors of the exclusive private Collectors Society Club Room at the Franklin Mint remains but a fantastic mystery. I can only imagine it being decorated with the finest orange and purple velours, vinyls, and shag carpets, with rare photographs, documents, and perhaps even galvanos not only of their moder, mid-'70s offerings, but also historic material dating back to the early '70s. Vast arrays of plates would wrap around the upper part of the wall in the bar area for your amazement while sipping sherry, listening to soothing music with a lot of "ba-ba-ba-ba" in the lyrics, and rubbing elbows with other collectibles elite, exchanging droll stories. In the vast landscape of 1970s collectibles, surely this club room was Xanadu. Or maybe it was more like a dentist's waiting room. Are there any here who were so privileged so see this club room and are no longer sworn to secrecy as to it trappings? Was Longacre taken here in the days of his youth to entice him with visions of the high life afforded those in the circles of international tax code?
John
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
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<< <i>... I can only imagine it being decorated with the finest orange and purple velours, vinyls, and shag carpets, ... >>
Not to mention the hide of the elusive Naugabeast.
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<< <i>... I can only imagine it being decorated with the finest orange and purple velours, vinyls, and shag carpets, ... >>
Not to mention the hide of the elusive Naugabeast.
OR the exclusive call girls ! ! !
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Any help locating any of these OBW rolls would be gratefully appreciated!
It was not in the best taste, appropriate but may offend the sensitive so I took it down, sorry guys.
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<< <i> Or maybe it was more like a dentist's waiting room. >>
I was thinking more along the line of the Massage parlors in Bangkok back in the late 1960's. And for the younster's that was a R&R spot for the guys in Viatman at the time.
Apparently they never did have enough members sign up to really fund the whole program.
This is as far as they ever did get.
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