This article is actually running in this week's paper - I seriously think I should cover it. Seriously.
Open salt collectors to meet
The quarterly meeting of the Open Salt Collectors – Atlantic Region (OSCAR) will be held May 3 at Bluff Point Community League in Kilmarnock at 10:30 a.m. The term "open salt" refers to small open dishes that hold salt for use at table. They were in use among the upper classes in the centuries before salt sellers were invented. They are often made of glass, silver or china.
The event will include a short business meeting, a show-and-tell session, a picnic lunch, a program, “The Asian Arts in Open Salts,” followed by a buy-and-sell session. Members are encouraged to bring a display of open salts with the theme “Chesapeake.”
During the show-and-tell, members show their latest additions or a favorite item from their collections, and tell their latest salt collecting stories. Attendees are invited to ask questions. The program will be presented by Leigh Trimble, owner of Main Street Fine Arts and Antiques in Kilmarnock. Trimbel is knowledgeable in many areas of collecting, having been an antique dealer and collector for most of her life. Members are encouraged to bring in their Asian salts, such as enamels, Imari, Satsuma, Peking glass or any other Asian salt about which they would like to know more.
The meeting will be hosted by Nina Robertson. She is an authority on open salts and the co-author, with Sandra Jzyk, of The Open Salt Compendium published in 2002 by Schiffer Publishing. The book has become a favorite reference for open salt collectors.
The fee is $12.50 which covers lunch. In an effort to attract new members, there is no charge for first-time visitors. The meeting is open to anyone interested in open salt collecting. Reservations are necessary in order to prepare the luncheon. Call Nina Robertson at ...
7 comments:
The really interesting part is that the little things that hold the salt are called "salt cellars" not "salt sellers" which would include the manager of the local Food Lion, etc.!
Jayne
Boy, if you wanted to hear all my salt collecting stories we'd have to make this a month long event. One time, I purchased a rare Uzbek amber salt dish in the shape of a dove from a Chechen arms dealer while buying my morning coffee. Guy had no idea its history traced back to the lost tenth panel of the original Amber room in the Catherine Palace. Sometimes the Chechen's can't tell the difference between a salt dip and a open salt. I mean seriously.
ah - yes - small town newspapers. you gotta love the typos too. but its no where near as bad as the time the sheriff resigned from pubic office.
someone recently gave us salt dishes with a lids from a trip to morocco. i bet martha stewart has a collection.
exciting stuff! (I noticed the salt 'sellers' thing too...gimme a break!)
Hey, happy birthday by the way!!!
for some reason, I am cracking up that this group calls itself OSCAR.
we have some of these. i heart them.
what i'm wondering, though, is where is the little spoon collector society? salt cellars are worthless without the dippers.
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