| 词条 | Raleigh DeGeer Amyx |
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| name = Raleigh DeGeer Amyx | image = Raleigh-degeer-amyx-in-library-permission-given.jpg | alt = | caption = Raleigh DeGeer Amyx in his library, October 2011 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1938}} | birth_place = Kansas City, Kansas | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = American | website = The Raleigh DeGeer Amyx collection | known_for = Collector of historical memorabilia | occupation = Historian, collector }}Raleigh DeGeer Amyx (born 1938) is an American collector of Presidential, Americana, military, sports, NASA, and Olympic artifacts, including gold, silver, and bronze winners medals presented to athletes.[1] Early life, educationAmyx was born in 1938 in Kansas City, Kansas, and later moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he resided during the World War II years. In 1945, his father, Eugene Raleigh Amyx, accepted a transfer by his employer Johnson & Johnson, to Louisville, Kentucky. There Raleigh was raised until his graduation from Atherton High School.[2][3] CareerAmyx served in the U.S. Army and worked at the FBI.[2] At one time he served in the Investigation Division, which included the kidnapping and white slave trade units. He served as a Messenger to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. In 1957 Hoover presented an inscribed and signed sepia-toned photo to Amyx.[2][6] About the same time, Amyx was asked by the Director's Office to take a message to the then Majority Leader of the United States Senate, Lyndon B. Johnson, and to then Senator John F. Kennedy.[2] While in the Senate Office with Kennedy, Amyx asked him to inscribe and sign a photograph, to which he obliged.[2] Later Amyx became an Association Executive,[9] overseeing and co-authoring the Gymnastics Safety Manual.[10] Following a near-fatal bout with throat cancer,[2] Amyx founded American Heritage Manuscripts and Collectibles.[6] CollectorAmyx claims he started collecting at age seven, when he "opened" a museum consisting of some coins, stamps, butterflies and a dead bat. Admission was 2 cents.[6] Amyx's large private collection as an adult is specialized in Presidential, Sports, Military, and NASA collectibles, particularly those owned and used by famous Americans.[14][15] Presidential collectionIn the early 1980s, Amyx claims he saw Backstairs at the White House, a television mini-series adapted from the book My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House by Lillian Rogers Parks, who had been a housekeeper and seamstress at the White House for thirty years. Amyx was inspired to gather mementos from former White House employees into a collection, and placed numerous advertisements in the Washington Post. One response said, "You don't know who to leave all this stuff to. You'd be out on a walk with the president and he would say 'Here's a little something for you'....We took it for granted in those days. It was just work. Now it's history."[6] Amyx has stated he recognized the historical importance of both the items and the stories, and gathered signed provenance letters from each contributor to authenticate the items.[6] Amyx has since worked with some 100 people who have held long-term household positions for First Families since the days of Herbert Hoover, and some whose parents and/or grandparents served in the White House as far back as the 19th century. His official White House china collection ranks as the world's second-largest privately owned such collection. One piece from the collection was traded to Robert L. McNeil and is featured in the book American Presidential China.[14] Another item in the collection is President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Rolex Datejust, which is the 150,000th officially-certified Rolex Chronometer made. This watch was featured in Jake's Rolex World Magazine.[19] Sports collectionAmyx has a collection of sports collectibles relating to baseball, football, boxing, horse racing and the Olympics. Amyx possesses three official Super Bowl rings presented to Washington Redskins players in 1982, 1987, and 1991.[20]
According to the Olympian Collectors Club, his Olympic Medal and memorabilia collection ranks within the top four collections in the world.[1] His collection includes over 50 Olympic medals in gold, silver, and bronze dating back to 1896.[1] He is a member of the International Society of Olympic Historians, with research interests in the Olympic Movement, Olympic history, promotion of Olympic Games, and Olympic gymnastics. Media presenceAmyx has acquired, authenticated, and appraised historical items for collectors and for entities such as the Smithsonian Institution.[2] Portions of the Raleigh DeGeer Amyx Presidential collection have been exhibited at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum.[6] He has made national television appearances, such as on Good Morning America. His collection was filmed by ABC. In addition to TV, a number of newspaper and book references[25][26][27] have mentioned him and his collection. Auction companies, such as RR Auction, have also published articles and videos featuring Raleigh DeGeer Amyx.[15] References1. ^1 Olympian Collectors Club 2008, 2009 [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Wealth Perspectives, July 2010 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite news| title = Relics Make American History : Memorabilia Collector Has Presidential Aspirations| first = Walt| last = Harrington| url = http://articles.latimes.com/1985-12-20/news/vw-5231_1_throat-cance| newspaper = Los Angeles Times| date = December 20, 1985| accessdate = 2011-07-20}} 4. ^1 Encyclopedia of Associations, Volume 3, Part 3 edited by Frederick G. Ruffner, Margaret Fisk 5. ^1 Gymnastics Safety Manual: the Official Manual of the United States By United States Gymnastics Safety Association, Eugene Wettstone and Raleigh DeGeer Amyx 6. ^1 2 American Presidential China: the Robert L. McNeil Jr. Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art / Susan Gray Detweiler (page 76) 7. ^1 {{cite news| title = Super Bowl Rings Now in Hands of Collector| first = Todd| last = Shields| url = http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19970125&slug=2520623| newspaper = The Washington Post| date = January 25, 1997| accessdate = 2011-07-20}} 8. ^1 {{cite news| title = Rolex| first = | last = | url = http://rolexblog.blogspot.com/| newspaper = Jake's Rolex World Magazine Team| publisher = | date = | accessdate = 2011-07-20}} 9. ^1 {{cite book|last=Jordan|first=Charles|title=The Official Price Guide To Collectibles Of The '50s and '60s|year=1987|publisher=Random House|location=New York|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VvveNS1loMoC&dq=the+official+price+guide+to+collectibles+of+the+50s+and+60s|isbn=0-87637-548-4|ref=harv|pages=143–148}} 10. ^1 {{cite news |title = Manuscripts |url = http://www.manuscript.org/2009manuscripts.html |newspaper = Manuscripts Vol. 41 |publisher = Manuscript Society US |date = |accessdate = |deadurl = yes |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110720174118/http://www.manuscript.org/2009manuscripts.html |archivedate = 2011-07-20 |df = }} 11. ^1 {{cite news| title = Historical and Popular Culture Americana| first = Thomas D.| last = Slater| url = | publisher = | date = | accessdate = }} 12. ^1 {{cite news| title = Season's Greetings From the White House By Presidential Christmas| first = Mary Evans| last = Seeley| url = | date = June 2007| accessdate = }} 13. ^1 2 {{cite web| title = Raleigh DeGeer Amyx Collection live auction preview from RR Auction | first = RR | last = Auction| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJEaHhvRQpQ| date = July 2014| accessdate = }} 14. ^1 {{cite web| title = Atherton High School Class of 1956 Living Yearbook| url = http://neseabirds.com/Atherton/classmatesA.htm| date = 2011| accessdate = December 18, 2014}} }} External links{{Commons category|Raleigh DeGeer Amyx}}
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