Mansfield Event Recruiting and Raffle

[DougCooper]

Comrades - we still have room in the ranks in all three companies but please hurry - registration closes next week as we need to get the money to the Pleasant Hill coordinator by March 1. If you need more time because your schedule is uncertain, let us know and we will put you down as a possible.

Note that this event will be filmed by folks supporting the Preservation effort who have won laurels for several PBS documentaries on history subjects.

Posted here is the raffle prize detail again and procedures. Thanks to mail checks from Jeff Drier (2nd donation) and Andrew Willenbring we passed $1300 today with 7 weeks to go. Donations will be accepted up to the moment before we pull them back out of the knapsack (or barrel at the rate we are going).

Remember you do NOT have to be present to win and you now have 20 chances (added 3 pair of Mickey Black socks). If yours is a winning ticket we will track you down!

$20 buys 5 tickets

Prizes:

1. US Sack Coat and Trousers or CS Tait jacket and trousers by Chris Daley
2. Any style shoes by Tom Mattimore
3. Four (4) CS Gardner pattern wooden canteens by Sam Doolin
4. CS 58 cal cartridge box with Hughes Prendergast and Snow box sling or CS 69 cal Wayne and McKensie copy of the 39 pattern box by Cary Davisson
5. US forage cap or CS enlisted kepi by Greg Starbuck
6. St Louis Variant Cincinnati Depot smoothside canteen by Orchard Hill
7. US Springfield musket sling by James Owens
8. Two (2) camp hats, socks, balaklava, and two (2) pairs wristers by Karin Timour
9. Pair of homespun wool socks by Pamela Lind
10. Three (3) pair of Mickey Black cotton socks

Check out also the beautiful copy of an original CS homespun quilt by Mike Anderson - a separate raffle over on www.skilletlicker.com

See also great deals for preservation (portion of each sale to Mansfield):
1. British Import blankets by Waterside Woolens (Kaegy Noble) see example at - http://members.aol.com/theqmstores/newitems.htm
2. 5 Mex War and 5 Isaac & Campbell British knapsacks by Ethan Rogers - go to - http://erogers_tarredgoods.tripod.c...dgoods/id9.html
3. Various US and CS cartridge boxes and slings or belts by Cary Davisson at Orchard Hill - go to www.orchardhillsutlery.com

find paypal buttons at www.cjdaley.com/Jan04 and www.cwcahps.com (go to preservation link then Mansfield)

by mail send a check or MO made out to Doug Cooper (with Mansfield in memo line) to:

Mansfield Preservation Raffle
C/O Doug Cooper
2162 N Sevenoaks Way
Eagle, ID 83616

please include your e-mail so I can pass your ticket #'s to you

Keep it going ladies and gentleman, and as always thanks!

[DougCooper]

Raffle donation deadlines

Folks - deadlines for getting your money in are as follows:

By mail - must be postmarked by Mar 15, 2004

By paypal - March 25, 2004

In person at Mansfield, Sunday noon to me, somewhere on the road approaching Pleasant Hill.

I fly out March 29 for the event and hence the deadlines above.

Note: any donations received after the ticket deadlines will be held and the donor contacted to inquire whether he or she wishes their money back (no tickets).

thanks!

we passed $1400 today thanks to Rob Westbrook - second and third donations from the first man to step up back on Jan 6, and Mike Chapman, our leading living historian/preservationist with his second donation. Thanks Mike and Rob! This gets us to the level of the retail value of all the prizes and is a great thank you to these superb makers of authentic gear.

[DougCooper]

Karin Timour Raffle Prize details

This is when I really hate the fact that as the coordinator of the raffle I cannot buy tickets :(

Check out these details on Karin's prizes. You know the extraordinary quality of her work, and getting one of these items for a $5 raffle ticket has to be knitted goods deal of the century:

Balaclava: Made as a copy of the surviving balaclava in the Museum of the Confederacy.

Camp Hats:
Union EOG: Red/White/Blue tam o' shanter pictured on page 189.

Confederate EOG: Stocking Cap worn by Kent Ewing, pictured on page 159, colors of the hat based one pictured in George Caleb Bingham's 1845 painting of two men in a boat on the Missouri.

Socks:
1 pair Socks for the AOT from the directions on Scott McKay's 10th Texas Website; Printed in the Macon, Georgia Daily Telegraph and Confederate of January 26, 1864.

1 pair of the blue and white socks from the collection of the Museum of the Confederacy, as pictured in Confederate Echoes of Glory, page 175.

Wristers:
2 pair wristers based on the United States Sanitary Commission pattern printed in the U.S. Sanitary Commission Bulletin of February 1, 1865.

Sincerely,
Karin