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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