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FLOREX 2018 COMMON SENSE
KISSIMMEE—FLOREX is the largest World Series of Philately show in the Southeast. Continued from Page 2
FLOREX 2018 will be held in a NEW LOCATION -- November 30, December 1 & 2 at The Streamline style with waterfall was popular from the mid-1930s to the late
the Osceola Heritage Park, Events Center, Hall B, in Kissimmee. The modern venue is 1940s with some spill over to the 1950s and is readily available today even though it
located 1 mile west of the intersection of the Florida Turnpike and 192. The show will has been maligned online by a seriously misinformed blogger who said it was poorly
feature up to 45 dealers from all over North America, occupying 59 booths. made and the pieces had no interior frame. Like any other style or period, it requires
FLOREX is sponsored by the Florida Stamp Dealers Association (www. examination of the individual pieces.
FloridaStampDealers.org) and hosted by members of the Central Florida Stamp Club Today the style of course is called Art Deco, a contraction of the Exposition’s original
(www.CentralFloridaStampClub.org). name but it is a term that wasn’t coined until the 1960s. It was a name never heard by
The FLOREX 2018 show theme is “100 Years of Air Mail Service”. This year’s show its original designers.
will feature up to 180 frames of competitive exhibits, representing nearly 2,900 pages
of material. Additional events will include; Youth area (with Buckets of Stamps, while
supplies last), USPS booth, door prizes, and a grand prize to be awarded at 2:30pm on
Sunday December 2, 2018.
Specific times and places for events may be found online as more information
becomes available at www.FLOREXStampShow.com. For additional information the
general Chairman of the show, Francis Ferguson, can be reached by phone at 407-493-
0956.

Ft. Myers

This bed from an Art Moderne bedroom set demonstrates the
striped veneer, the inlaid horizontal decoration and the
waterfall top edge that identifies the style.

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