Welcome to The E-Sylum: Volume 2, Number 36: September 5, 1999:
an electronic publication of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society.
SUBSCRIBER UPDATES
Our newest subscribers are longtime bibliophile and NBS
member Barry Tayman, former Asylum editor and U.S.
currency cataloguer Martin Gengerke, "Great Debate"
participant T. V. Buttrey, Nelson Wolbert, Daniel Demeo,
A. De Barros, Jack Wadlington, C. Benny Dietz, Ralf W.
Bopple of Stuttgart, Germany, J. Moens, Bill Sharp, Doug
Andrews, David Gracey, and just "Fred".
Welcome aboard, all! Our promotional flyer is doing its
job. This brings our subscriber count to 218.
BRYAN DOLLAR RESEARCH
New subscriber C. Benny Dietz writes: "I am interested in
joining as I am working on a project of auction appearances
of Bryan Dollars in what little spare time I have. I am a high
school history teacher, coin collector, numismatic book
collector, and collector of Bryan money (when I can afford
them)."
CANADIAN POLITICAL SCRIP RESEARCH
Dominic Labbé, of the Association des Numismates
Francophones du Canada recently requested some
research assistance on the COINS mailing list:
"I'm currently researching Canadian and Quebec
Political scrip (or tokens). If anyone has interests in
that topic or information about some of them, please
contact me at anfc@cam.org."
EMAIL ADDRESS UPDATES
Karl Moulton of Great American Sales reports that his
email address is now karlmoulton@worldnet.att.net requests
for his fixed price list of 20th century US auction catalogues
should be sent to that address.
Peter Irion, Librarian of the Token and Medal Society
(TAMS), who will be spending the next three months in Italy,
reports that "TAMS members can request books or research
from me through this email address: petervt@aol.com"
Darryl Atchison of County Cork, Ireland, compiler of an
extensive bibliography on Canadian numismatics, reports
that his email address is now: Atchisondf@hotmail.com
MOST HARSHLY WORDED RETURN POLICY
Fractional Currency Collectors Board President Tom O'Mara
writes: "Really enjoyed the "heads up" on the "Most Harshly
Worded Return Policy" from CAA's upcoming Fall Auction
Catalog. As a fractional collector, it always thrills me to see
that our "little" corner of the numismatic world continues to get
recognition in whatever way we can!!!
I hadn't looked at my catalog until I read this E-Sylum, and I
will always remember this description. I too have some equally
deplorable pieces and believe this lot would make a perfect
mate. Thanks again for the heads up.
The Bride of Frankenstein
Tom O'Mara"
SUBSCRIBER PROFILE: JOHN KRALJEVICH
One longtime E-Sylum subscriber is no-longer-so-young
numismatist extraordinaire John Kraljevich, son of ANA
Education Director Gail Baker, who sent this update on his
latest activities: "I'm happy as a pig in slop...actually graduated
from Virginia in four years ... wrote my thesis on "In God We
Trust" on coins and paper money (what were you expecting ...
a non-numismatic thesis out of me?) ... I'm now pursuing my
career in radio, which I've wanted to do for years...
I worked in radio in Charlottesville (market size:223) and now
have landed myself a position at KILO-FM, a hard rock outlet
based in Colorado Springs...this way I can work at a great
station with a national reputation, move up to market 94, and
abuse my mother's good charm for the occasional meal...
I work a few days a week at Ken Hallenbeck's coin shop, mostly
buying junk silver from the general public, but occasionally getting
shocked by a really great piece walking in off the street ... retail
is a whole different business but I'm thrilled to be able to stay
active in coins and work with Ken and Tom ... I've missed ANA
shows lately, but I'm there in spirit. I hope to be able to get to
EAC perhaps this year....and I don't plan on missing ANA 2000
in Philly ... anyway ... keep the E-Sylum coming ... I love
reading it."
John can be contacted c/o Ken Hallenbeck Coin Gallery, 711
N. Nevada, Colorado Springs, CO 80906, or via email at
kraljevich@go.com
"GREAT DEBATE" GOES ON
Angel Pietri of the Colonial Coin Collector's Club (C4) writes:
"Here are my comments on the Buttrey-Hodder argument for
The E-Sylum. I was not at the debate but in view of all the
controversy I have read Mr. Buttrey's article and all the recent
articles in Coin World. To call his research "superficial" amounts
in my opinion to flattery. His article is sheer speculation based on
his dislike of John Ford. I cannot describe his evidence as weak
because he simply presented no evidence."
Jim Spillman, founding editor of The Colonial Newsletter, adds:
"I went back and reread Buttrey's original paper in AJN #9 and -
in light of the current discussions - I now wonder exactly what it
was Buttrey was thinking/writing about - his illustrations were gold
assay strips (bars), but he simply referred to his subject matter as
False American Gold Bars or simply "gold bars".
Nowhere does he seem to recognize the purpose or usage of the
strips. Assay strips are considerably different from bullion gold
bars, or gold coinage. I suppose that I must reread Buttrey's
paper several more times before I can sort out all of his thinking;
it is not well written."
HEATH LITERARY AWARDS
The recently announced ANA Heath Literary Awards, given
to authors of articles published in The Numismatist, are all
E-Sylum subscribers! Congratulations, folks.
From the ANA Press Release:
"The first-place Heath Literary Award went to David W.
Lange for his four-part series "Assembling the Ideal 20th-
Century Type Set," featured in January through April. For
this distinction, he received an engraved silver medal,
certificate and $250 cash prize.
Presented to Richard Doty was the second-place award -
an engraved, bronze medal, a certificate and a $100 cash
prize - for "Making Do: Local Currency in Wartime Virginia"
in the September issue.
Lawrence J. Lee received third-place honors for "Pretty
Maids All in a Row," published in the December issue. For
this distinction, he received an engraved, bronze medal and
a certificate."
FEATURED WEB SITE
As reported by Larry Mitchell on the Numislit mailing list, "Folks
interested in archival photographs of U.S. Mint operations will be
pleased to know that NARA (National Archives & Records
Administration) is slowly but surely making a selection of these
photographs available via the web.
The NARA NAIL project (NARA Archival Information
Locator) will locate archival material in any media, but the
NAIL Digital Copies Search will be of especial interest to those
of us who collect photographs of early numismatic activities.
I just entered a search for "Mint" in "All Units" and "All Media"
and pulled up 72 photographs of such things as "Photograph of
San Francisco Mint employees in the Assayer's Office" and
"Photograph of San Francisco Mint employees working on the
account books." The primary address is:
http://www.nara.gov/nara/searchnail.html "
My favorite from the collection is "Photograph of destruction
outside the San Francisco Mint after the 1906 Earthquake and
Fire."
Beware - these pictures are large and take some time to
download without a fast internet connection.
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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