The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 33, August 15, 2004, Article 7

THE GREAT NBS AUCTION

  Asylum Editor Tom Fort writes: "Most people think that the
  auction to benefit the library chair for the ANS on Thursday
  Night is the only numismatic literature sale of the ANA.  Such
  people are wrong.  Another place to get truly unique
  numismatic literary material will be the auction to benefit the
  NBS at our Annual meeting on Friday, 20 August. Among
  the items to be sold are:

 1. Christian Dekesel, "Jean Fois-Vaillant Antiquary of the King"
  Original manuscript of lengthy essay sent to The Asylum for
  25th anniversary issue. Includes a card signed by the author and
  the original zip disks with essay in MS Word format.

 2. Pete Smith, Signed original manuscript of his article on
    American Numismatic Pioneers that will appear in 25th
    anniversary issue of The Asylum. Also includes a signed early
    draft of this work.

  3. John Cunnally, Signed original manuscript, with illustrations,
    of his essay on Renaissance numismatic works. Also included
    are floppy disk and zip disk with same material that
    accompanied the manuscript.

  4. Douglas Saville, Signed original manuscript of his memoirs
      of 34 years at Spink and Son's Numismatic Book
      department.

  5. Pete Smith, Signed original manuscript of his essay

  6. Wayne K. Homren, Signed original manuscript of his
      essay on the beginnings of The E-Sylum.

  7. David Fanning, Signed original manuscript of his bibliography
      of the works of Walter Breen.

   8. Ink jet proof copy of The Asylum (meaning it is printed on
       8.5x11 paper, on one side only), Summer 2004, signed by
       E. Tomlinson Fort and Malgorzata Fort. Contains lots of
       comments on Dekesel's article by Dr. Fort who holds a
       PhD in Library Science and is the Head of Bibliographical
      Services at Falk Library, University of Pittsburgh. Comments
      and corrections by myself are more limited since I work
      more from a screen text. This lot also includes all back up
      CDs created as back-ups as work on the issue was in progress.

  9. Ink jet proof copy of The Asylum, Summer 2004, signed
      and with extensive comments by editor in chief David
      Fanning.

  10. Ink jet proof copy of The Asylum, Summer 2004, signed
        and with comments by NBS president Pete Smith

  11. Printed and bound proof copy of The Asylum, Summer
        2004. First version.

  12. Printed and bound proof  copy of The Asylum, Summer
         2004. Second version.

  13. E. Tomlinson Fort, "Barbarians within the gates: The mints
       of Norman England under David I of Scotland." Signed
       manuscript of presentation I shall be making at the ANA
       on Wednesday.

  14. "A Million Bucks." Courtesy of Wayne Homren. An
       original pack of Whitman Publishing play money from the
       1960s still in its original packing.

  15. Ink jet proof copy of The Asylum, Winter 2003. Also
         courtesy of Wayne Homren.

  16. "The E-Sylum." Printed proof pages of Wayne's
      forthcoming book that will publish the first four years of
      The E-Sylum. This consists of pages 8-27 and covers from
      January 4, 1999 through June 13 1999.

  17. An error copy of the third printing of Hal Dunn's Tokens
     and Medals Depicting the Carson City Mint. Donated by the
     author. Rather than double sided pages, the printer's assistant
     ran them as single sided. Also, one of the postcards depicting
    the mint became detached and was remounted at a slight angle.
    The author will supply a corrected copy when it becomes
    available.

  18. Another of the same.

  19.  A rather large piece of numismatic ephemera donated by
      Wayne Homren.  Measuring 52 inches long by 14 1/2 inches
      tall, it is a visual aid employed by Eric Newman at a talk he
      gave April 5, 1992 at the St. Louis, MO convention of the
      Early American Coppers club.  It is a sketch of a feeding arm
      used to move planchets into place for striking.  Dusty from
      storage but interesting.  Signed and dated in ink by Eric.

  In view of the high prices people have been paying for numismatic
  literary manuscripts at auction in recent years this may be your
  chance to bid on historic material at reasonable prices. Don't
  miss out. Remember that all funds do to the NBS. Also, those
  who cannot make the ANA, George Kolbe has agreed to act
  as the agent for any absentee bidders. George can be contacted
  at GFK at numislit.com."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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