Sunday,
March 30, 2008
RAFFLE
Raffle to benefit the Gibson House Museum
Drawing to take place at The Fairmont Copley Plaza, Boston
Suggested donation: $10 per ticket; five tickets for $40
1.
Dinner and a Show
The best seats in the house! Two tickets to the Huntington
Theatre Company’s production of The Cry
of the Reed. Tickets are
for April 16, 2008. Your evening includes dinner before or après
theatre at Brasserie Jo ($100 gift certificate).
Donated by Michael Duca and Jacqueline Blombach
Approximate value $190
2. The Works!
Salon Mario Russo has generously donated a wonderful package:
a haircut with Billy, manicure and pedicure with Elisabeth, and
to top it all off, a gift bag of Mario Russo products.
Donated by Salon Mario Russo
Approximate value $255
3. Interior Treasures
A beautiful silk cushion, damask pattern Pompeian Red with matching
trim and striped silk backing [photo]. An 18th-century Chinese
export plate, ca. 1750, finely painted in famille rose enamels.
Donated by Marcoz
Antiques and Polly Latham Asian Art
Approximate value $745
4. Celtic Green
Two tickets to a Boston
Celtics game for April 16, 2008. Seats
are in the front row, balcony. Dinner before tip-off is on
us with a $100 gift certificate to Ristorante
Toscano on Charles
Street.
Donated by Robert Goodof and Ruth Ann Kupfer
Approximate value $170
5. Warmth and Style
Designer-inspired custom-made black wool knit sweater with white
snowflake trim and black faceted buttons from Suzanne, Inc.
[photo].
Flat measurements: chest 19" (underarm to underarm), back
20" from
collar seam, sleeve 22" from shoulder seam, including 2"
cuff.
Donated by Suzanne Goldman and Merry Binger Wasserman
Approximate value $1200
6. Ooh La La!
A $100 gift certificate to Back Bay’s newest French restaurant – La
Voile. Dine in elegance wearing a 14-karat gold and black enamel
brooch with braided hair in center receptacle, ca. 1870.
Donated by Frances Duffly and Lady Annemarie Cameron
Approximate value $325
7. Beautiful Doorways
A framed set of three late 19th-century Beacon Hill doorway photographs.
Picture your door with a custom decorated holiday wreath [photo]
designed and made by a member of The Garden Club of the Back
Bay.
Donated by Charles Swift and The Garden Club of the Back Bay,
Inc.
Approximate value $400
8. Art and Design
“Dolores Loved Her New Look” is the name of this whimsical
wire sculpture on acrylic base by Brian Murphy. Also in this
package is a $100 gift certificate from Diseño Boston,
Latin Inspired Interiors, located in the South End.
Donated by Brian
Murphy—Totally Wired Sculpture and Diseño
Boston
Approximate value $500
9. His and Hers
For her, a moss jade ovoid brooch set in sterling, approximately
three inches long, ca. 1920 [photo]. For him, a mint green
silk tie from Vineyard Vines with custom designed swan motif.
And for
them both, the 14th edition of The
Congressional Club Cookbook autographed
by Congressman John F. Tierney.
Donated by Mary Ethel Grady, Blackstone’s
of Beacon Hill and Ruth Ann Kupfer
Approximate value $200
10. Boys of Summer
Take your best friend to Fenway Park and cheer for the Olde Towne
Team. These two tickets to a Red Sox game come with a baseball
signed by our ace – Josh Beckett!
Donated by the Boston Red Sox
Approximate value? Priceless!
11. Dining in Style
An exquisite pair of Davenport dinner plates in rare Imari with
purple, ca. 1805 [photo]. Mint condition!
Donated by Devonia – Antiques
for Dining
Approximate value $600
12. Organize and Beautify
Pull it all together with three hours of closet organization/consultation.
Get it all together with a $200 gift certificate towards your
choice of lampshades, custom trim, lamp refurbishing or rewiring.
Donated by Merry Binger Wasserman and Regency Antiques
approximate value $485
13.
This Is Not Your Grandfather’s Accordion
A medium-sized Accordion handbag, in brown leather, designed
and created by Bliss Lau.
Donated by The Ruby Door
Approximate value $485
14. Score!
Score two trips to the Garden with a pair of tickets for both
a Bruins game and a Celtics game (restrictions may apply).
Donated by the Boston
Bruins and the Boston Celtics
Approximate value $450
15. Like a Greek God
“Classical Apollo,” charcoal drawing on paper, 22” x
30”, by artist Nan Freeman (2003), framed. From the suite
of drawings Treasures of the Gibson House, drawn from the Gibson
family’s intimate personal collection of sculpture and
decorative arts: the Greek God Apollo in all his beauty and youth,
posing with arrows of love.
Donated by Nan Freeman
Approximate value $2,500
16. Luxury Travel to New York City
A trip to New York City for two people aboard the luxurious LimoLiner.
This is the ultimate in road travel with high-speed Internet
access, reclining leather seats, movies, light snacks and beverages.
Two tickets to The Museum of Modern Art are included with this
always popular raffle item.
Donated by LimoLiner, Inc. and The Museum of Modern Art
Approximate value $400
Raffle Ticket Instructions and Information
- Be sure to indicate, on each ticket, the number of the raffle
prize that you hope to win.
- You may put as many raffle tickets as you wish toward one
prize or allocate them to different prizes. If you do not indicate
a preferred prize, the committee will allocate the tickets.
- You do not need to be present to win a raffle prize.
- Make checks payable to The Gibson Society, Inc.
- Additional tickets will be available at the Special Benefit
Event on March 30, and at the Gibson House Museum, 137 Beacon
Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116. Telephone: 617-267-6338;
e-mail: info@thegibsonhouse.org.
- Proceeds benefit the preservation of the Gibson House Museum.
- Prizes may be subject to change, and some restrictions may
apply.
- Prizes may be subject to taxation.
Live Auction Tease
The following items will be offered at the event only, for bidding
in a Live Auction.
- A
Round of Golf for three people at the Maidstone Club, the famous
links course in East Hampton, Long Island. Greens fees included.
- The
Best Back Bay Walking Tour you will ever have by the new Gibson
House Executive Director, Charles Swift (12 people maximum).
Plus a family membership in the Boston Athenaeum and Acquired
Tastes, the exhibition catalog in an Athenaeum tote bag.
