Reception for Bruce Cohen, Peace Corps/Morocco Director-designate

Silent Auction to Benefit (Bidder choice of 5 charities)

Friends of Morocco
Tangier-American Legation Museum Society
Terre des Enfants School for deaf students
AGIR:  Association de Soutein aux Malades du Sang. 
Solidarité feminine: Casablanca women’s shelter

Bids open 5:30 to 8:30

Please be sure to match the item you want with the item number on the bid sheet.  Items will be released to the winning bidder after verification of winning bid and receipt of payment.

Auction will close at 8:30 pm.  Winning bids will be announced shortly thereafter.

Friends of Morocco is a 503c3 non-profit and donations exceeding the value of the goods purchased may be tax deductible.

Thank you for your support.  

Item number 1.  Middle Atlas red rug.  
Zaine Confederation.  39x62”.
Donated by Paul Bartel
Starting price:  $100  

Item number 2.  Book Moroccan Carpets (retail $75.00) autographed by authors Brooke Pickering and W. Russell Pickering.  Second edition 1998.
Donated by W. Russell Pickering
Starting price:  $30

Item number 3.  Book: From The Far West (our Textile Museum book from 1980 retail $37.50) Autographed by author W. Russell Pickering. 
Donated by W. Russell Pickering
Starting price:  $15

Item number 4. Book Fabric Of Moroccan Life (retail $45.00), the 350 page book which documents the Indianapolis show scheduled for the Smithsonian Museum of African Art Summer 2003.
Donated by W. Russell Pickering
Starting price:  $20

Item number 5.  Middle Atlas red and white woven shawl.   32x55”
Donated by Paul Bartel
Starting price:  $20

Item number 6  Pottery Bowl brown and white
Donated by Paul Bartel
Starting price:  $2

Item number 7.  Brass plate 10” engraved 
Donated by Tim Resch
Starting price:  $15  

Item number 8.  Doll 10” in Anti Atlas blue costume
Donated by Tim Resch
Starting price:  $5  

Item number 9  Drum.  10” metal and leather
Donated by Paul Bartel
Starting price:  $30

Item number 10.  Jellaba Man’s wool brown Middle Atlas (see page 133 Fabric Of Moroccan Life)
Donated by Paul Bartel
Starting price:  $50

Item number 11.  Pillow pair white with diamonds shapes
Donated by Paul Bartel
Starting price:  $20

Item number 12.  Pillow brown with diamond shapes
Donated by Paul Bartel
Starting price:  $10

Item number 13.  Brass tray 27” diameter with carved wood collapsible stand
Donated by Tim Resch
Starting price:  $50

Item number 14.  Pottery and metal odorless ashtray
Donated by Tim Resch
Starting price:  $5

Item number 15.  Pottery pencil holder
Donated by Hassan Samrhouni
Starting price:  $1  

Item number 16.  Leather promotional wallet s
Donated by Hassan Samrhouni
Starting price:  $1

Item number 17.  Leather folder cover in 22-carat gold
Donated by Tim Resch
Starting price:  $10  

Item number 18.  Henna Body art book (used – retail value was $22.95) and 100 grams Henna 
Donated by Tim Resch
Starting price:  $10  

Item number 19.  Limited Edition free-standing desk calendar featuring paintings from Anne Marie Skye’s Moroccan travel sketchbook
Donated by Anne Marie Skye
Starting price:  $5