GDG- News release from GBPA

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-- News Release --
Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association
PO Box 4087
986 Hanover Road
Gettysburg, PA 17325
33rd time is a charm for GBPA collector’s show
GETTYSBURG, June 27 – The 33rd annual edition of the Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association’s Civil War Collector’s Show held June 22-24 at the Eisenhower All Sports Center was the best one yet, especially in the enormous amount of artifacts and documents on display. Many Civil War collectors and buffs turn out to feast on the displays.
In addition to approximately 140 vendors who make the show possible, there were two other special incentives to attend. The Heritage Auction Galleries showed off the hundreds of items it was to sell over two days following the collector’s show, including a bejeweled silver and gold presentation sword given Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in 1864 and Gen. George Armstrong Custer’s personal battle flag sewn by his wife, Libby. 
The GBPA show also featured the first large-scale display of the Professor J. Howard Wert Collection of rare and fascinating artifacts. For the first time in over a century, the collection’s major pieces collected by the Wert-Houghtelin family members from the Revolutionary War through the Civil War era were on view together. The collection received the show’s “most educational” award for its outstanding walk through history.
“I hope our mutually-beneficial relationship with Heritage Auction Galleries is just beginning,“ said GBPA president Kathi Schue
GBPA’s proceeds from the collector’s show will go toward the continuing work to preserve and restore the historic Daniel Lady farm owned by the association and for other educational programs and projects.
Award’s presented by the GBPA to venders and exhibitors:
Best of Show -- Tim Wider: “From the Store to the War,” The dress of the Union Army officer supplied by Schuyler, Hartly and Graham.
Best Union Exhibit -- Paul Loane: “Six Caps - Six Stories,” Union hear gear.
Best Southern Exhibit -- John Frawner: “Confederate Cap Pouches & Richmond Depot Spurs.”
Best Photographic Award -- Rick Carlile: “Images of the Civil War,” Pards, Pairs and Groups.
Judge’s Choice Award -- Ed Max: “Civil War Photography of Pa. Soldiers & their Uniforms.
Most Educational Award -- The J. Howard Wert Gettysburg Collection.
The 2008 GBPA Civil War Collector’s Show will be June 27 - 29.
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