Welcome to The E-sylum: Volume 2, Number 11: March 15, 1999:
an electronic publication of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society.
NEW SUBSCRIBERS
New subscribers this week are Jon Campbell, author
George Fuld, and dealer Allan Davisson. Welcome
aboard!
PUBLICITY
Larry Mitchell has continued his volunteer publicity
efforts, sending email announcements of our updated
web site to some seventy-five numismatists around the
web. I'll follow up with an invitation to subscribe to
the E-Sylum. Some of our subscribers are literature
dealers; would you send an invitation to the folks on
your mailing lists?
OTHER WEB SITES FOR THE BIBLIOPHILE
Our President Michael Sullivan passed on the
following list of "Digital Libraries" described recently
in the Individual Business Daily:
California Digital Library at http://www.cdlib.org/
Library of Congress at http://lcweb.loc.gov/
Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/
ANA LITERATURE EXHIBITS
For those of you planning to attend the annual
convention of the American Numismatic Association
this summer, it's not too soon to begin planning to
place an exhibit. We've been blessed with several
nice literature exhibits in recent years. Please consider
sharing some of your library and knowledge of literature
with fellow numismatists and bibliophiles. Contact the
ANA for signup forms: http://www.money.org/
MAX MEHL BUILDING COINS NEW LIFE
Under the category of "Things Found While Looking Up
Something Else", I discovered an article in the December
28, 1998 issue of the Business Press of Fort Worth about
the fate of the Mehl Building, former home of the B. Max
Mehl coin company.
"The 82-year-old building has been vacant since the early
80s when low-rent apartments filled its borders instead of
vaults and rare coins. But in its heyday, Mehl's office
occupied the first floor, and he rented apartments on the
second and third floors.
Iran McCarthy and Ray Boothe of Daedalus Development
formed the Max Mehl Building LLC with Michael Harrison
and building owner David Motheral to sink a hefty load of
redevelopment dollars into the dilapidating building.
McCarthy estimates the entire renovation project may reach
$1.5 million.
The three-story, 15,000-square-foot building needs extensive
work, but the ever optimistic renovation specialists of
Daedalus said the building is in 'good shape.'
The Max Mehl Building is on the city's historical highly
significant endangered list. The group plans to apply for
more historical designations in order to receive a 20 percent
tax credit, which will help offset some of the renovation
costs. It is located in the city's Fairmount Historical District.
'It's the most asked-about building on the street,' Boothe
said.
Many historical aspects remain in the building, making it
easier for Daedalus to recreate some of the building's
original features."
FEATURED WEB SITE
Purists may not consider them numismatic, but credit
cards are a form of money that's widely used, and
it's also widely collected. The American Credit
Card Collectors Society has a web page at:
http://www.delphi.com/creditcards/
Wayne Homren
Numismatic Bibliomania Society
The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a
non-profit organization promoting numismatic
literature. For more information please see
our web site at http://www.coinbooks.org/
There is a membership application available on
the web site. To join, print the application and
return it with your check to the address printed
on the application. For those without web access,
contact Dave Hirt, NBS Secretary-Treasurer,
5911 Quinn Orchard Road, Frederick, MD 21701
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