I would like to ask for information on Eduard Kann, the authority on Chinese silver and gold coins. I have a fairly thick file on him already, including letters and copies of letters he wrote. I would like copies of any correspondence from Kann which might provide biographical information or information on his collections.

Kann's collection of Chinese coins was bought in the 1950's by a doctor, but in 40 years of asking, I have been unable to learn his name. If anyone knows who this mysterious doctor was, I would certainly like to know. It was he or his heirs who consigned Kann's collection for sale in 1971.

Most collectors are unaware that Kann wrote a long manuscript catalog of Chinese paper money in the 1950's but was unable to get it published. He gave the manuscript to Dwight Musser shortly before his death, but it has disappeared. Kann wrote an historical survey of Chinese paper money in 46 installments in the Far Eastern Economic Review in the 1950's, but that was not a catalog.