MacDaddyRico Posted November 10, 2017 Author Share Posted November 10, 2017 So here's the updated Group Shot...and my Vendor Badges for these shows... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddyRico Posted March 5, 2018 Author Share Posted March 5, 2018 My second round of donations to the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum include an original Salesman's Incentive Brochure in mint condition, and a set each of the incentives themselves in silver plate and gold plate, and complete with their original packaging materials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddyRico Posted May 9, 2018 Author Share Posted May 9, 2018 A month or three ago I'd contacted another museum about a donation of these intriguing old banks, and they recently responded... The collection is currently in their possession and the committee will decide whether they'll accept and keep them or decline and send them back to me...I was under the impression that they've already been accepted..Oh, well...every museum has their procedures... The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan will be my seventh American Museum...and it is located just on the other side of Detroit from where these banks were made..! This collection is missing three specimens...the 3 rarest of the model types...perhaps in time I'll find them and make another offer... The second picture shows the shiny gold chrome Commemorative Satellite Bank I swapped out for the matte gold non-commemorative model pictured with the group... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyman Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 I'm about an hour away from the Henry Ford. I'm sure I'll see them someday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddyRico Posted May 9, 2018 Author Share Posted May 9, 2018 Just now, Andyman said: I'm about an hour away from the Henry Ford. I'm sure I'll see them someday. Thanks, Andyman, but there's no guarantee that they will be displayed. I don't believe any museum promises to display donations. But...I am hoping they will be, with the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing approaching next year... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddyRico Posted May 10, 2018 Author Share Posted May 10, 2018 The Seven Institutions: Early Space Exploration Museum at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor's Complex on Cape Canaveral Cosmosphere in Kansas U.S.S. Intrepid Museum in New York City Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C. U.S. Air Force Museum in Warner Robins, Georgia Queens Museum in New York City Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddyRico Posted August 25, 2018 Author Share Posted August 25, 2018 Update on the Henry Ford donations... They've been accepted..! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddyRico Posted August 25, 2018 Author Share Posted August 25, 2018 On 3/5/2018 at 12:37 PM, MacDaddyRico said: My second round of donations to the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum include an original Salesman's Incentive Brochure in mint condition, and a set each of the incentives themselves in silver plate and gold plate, and complete with their original packaging materials. I recently offered my remaining brochure and a set each of incentives to the Henry Ford as well... Awaiting their response... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddyRico Posted October 15, 2018 Author Share Posted October 15, 2018 It so happens that the next Astronaut Autograph Show will be held in Houston, Texas...at a museum... The new Lone Star Flight Museum is hosting several events the first week of November, when the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation will be hosting its annual Space Rendezvous for the first time in a new location after ten years at Cape Canaveral, Florida... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddyRico Posted November 8, 2018 Author Share Posted November 8, 2018 On 10/14/2018 at 8:35 PM, MacDaddyRico said: It so happens that the next Astronaut Autograph Show will be held in Houston, Texas...at a museum... The new Lone Star Flight Museum is hosting several events the first week of November, when the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation will be hosting its annual Space Rendezvous for the first time in a new location after ten years at Cape Canaveral, Florida... My display at the Lone Star Museum... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddyRico Posted November 8, 2018 Author Share Posted November 8, 2018 My donation to my local Bank of America branch, who helped make this all possible... This Astro Mfg Berzac Creation Guided Missile Bank, originally patented in 1957 and first produced after 1960, was later re-issued by Vacumet in 1975. Most were painted white due to the stickers which accompanied the banks (printed on white paper stock and commemorating America's Bicentennial,) but I decided to customize a few in a variety of finishes, including two Peter Max's and a Charles Fazzino commissions, four U.S. Military commemoratives (of which the Army specimen was sold to an astronaut at the Astronaut Autograph Show,) a Lone Star Museum specimen (which I donated to them this past Saturday at the Show) and an Enterprise Truck Rental specimen (which I gifted to my local branch.) The people at Enterprise and Bank of America got a huge kick out of them, as did the CEO of the Lone Star Museum, who made a big deal out of launching a penny into the bank by reciting the count down, "5-4-3-2-1!" These banks are a blast! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddyRico Posted June 27, 2019 Author Share Posted June 27, 2019 Update: 6/27/19 Latest great American Museum to have an interest is the J.F.K. Presidential Library & Museum in Boston, Mass. Awaiting word... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golddalek Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 I like Buzz Aldrin....The man stays active. God Bless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddyRico Posted July 18, 2019 Author Share Posted July 18, 2019 1 hour ago, Golddalek said: I like Buzz Aldrin....The man stays active. God Bless. Yes, they all do these days especially due to the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddyRico Posted July 29, 2019 Author Share Posted July 29, 2019 On 5/9/2018 at 7:47 PM, Andyman said: I'm about an hour away from the Henry Ford. I'm sure I'll see them someday. So...the Henry Ford Museum currently has a Destination Moon Bank on display in their Pop-Up Exhibit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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