<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/377f1f07-9ae8-485f-8115-5744cd8b7943/9C85771D-F095-4C11-85EC-3D3CEBED2433/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/lifestyle/stories.nsf/everyday/story/CD265F937C64EA6F86257336005F9AF2?OpenDocument" href="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/lifestyle/stories.nsf/everyday/story/CD265F937C64EA6F86257336005F9AF2?OpenDocument" style="font-size: 11px;">www.stltoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/lifestyle/stories.nsf/everyday/story/CD265F937C64EA6F86257336005F9AF2?OpenDocument"><DIV class="head3" size="1">Convention indulges in matchless collectibles</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/lifestyle/stories.nsf/everyday/story/CD265F937C64EA6F86257336005F9AF2?OpenDocument"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD><IMG width="315" height="215" border="0" alt="Match books collected" src="http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/resources/match14flash.jpg" /><BR /><FONT size="1" class="caption">Match books collected by Bill Evans, of Grand Rapids, Michigan from St. Louis area hotels on display at The 67th Annual Rathkamp Matchcover Collectors at the Sheraton Westport Lakeside Chalet Hotel. </FONT><BR /><FONT size="1" class="byLine">(Stephanie S. Cordle/P-D)</FONT></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/lifestyle/stories.nsf/everyday/story/CD265F937C64EA6F86257336005F9AF2?OpenDocument"><DIV> Last week, about 300 collectors of matchbook covers lit upon the Sheraton West Port Hotel for the 67th-annual Rathkamp Matchcover Society Convention.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/lifestyle/stories.nsf/everyday/story/CD265F937C64EA6F86257336005F9AF2?OpenDocument"><DIV class="bullet"><A class="storyTitle" href="http://www.stltoday.com/mds/entertainment/slideshow/338" size="1">SLIDE SHOW: Matchbook Cover Society Convention</A></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/lifestyle/stories.nsf/everyday/story/CD265F937C64EA6F86257336005F9AF2?OpenDocument"><DIV> It should be noted that Lux's collection of 500,000 covers is by no means the biggest.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/lifestyle/stories.nsf/everyday/story/CD265F937C64EA6F86257336005F9AF2?OpenDocument"><DIV> Too bad the convention did not have a sample of the Holy Grail of matchcovers: the Lindbergh.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9C85771D-F095-4C11-85EC-3D3CEBED2433/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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