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EARLIER COIN DEALER PHONE NUMBERS FOUNDA couple issues ago, Pete Smith issued a challenge to E-Sylum readers to come up with any earlier use of a phone number on a coin dealer catalog than Edgar Adams' 1913 listing. John L. (Jack) Howes writes: I was browsing a copy of The Numismatist from April 1910. Henry Chapman has a number listed for him as Bell Telephone, Walnut 2019. This was the only ad in the issue with a phone number including another full page ad by his brother S.H. Chapman. I looked further in some e-versions I have of The Numismatist. I found that in September 1908, Thomas Elder advertised his telephone number in one ad -- Grammercy 5899. It appears he dropped his number from subsequent ads. In the same issue, a company that went by the name of Divver from Atlanta had a number of North 1190. Henry Chapman did not start using a phone number until Jan 1909.
First, I have to say that anyone who browses century-old numismatic periodicals for fun is all right in my book. A bit daft (like all us bibliophiles, of course), but OK.
There may yet prove to be an earlier reference to a dealer phone number, but for now this 1908 Elder listing is the reigning champ. Thanks! -Editor
To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
THE EARLIEST COIN DEALER PHONE NUMBER?
(www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v16n53a14.html)
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