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The E-Sylum: Volume 4, Number 40, September 30, 2001, Article 10 DEATS' DOGGED PURSUIT From the description of lot 369 in the Kolbe Bergman sale (Hiram Deats' set of the American Journal of Numismatics) comes this description of "an act of conspicuous excess" that true bibliophiles are sometimes prone to: "..according to his biography by Stanley Bierman, "he retained for most of his lifetime his greatest treasure, his philatelic library." The same, presumably, was true of his numismatic library. He was single-minded in acquiring missing items. Bierman relates that "In an act of conspicuous excess, Deats purchased 25,000 philatelic periodicals from the P.M. Wolsieffer Library in October 1892, for the express purpose of acquiring a single issue of an obscure Chicago periodical." Bierman goes on to note that the present whereabouts of this extremely rare publication is unknown."

Wayne Homren, Editor

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