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The E-Sylum:  Volume 4, Number 45, November 4, 2001, Article 6

MASON'S PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY    

  Bill Malkmus writes: "I ran across a one-page thing in an old   
  (August 1967, p. 630) World Coins magazine (now defunct)   
  headed "Early US Collectors Photograph."  It's about a large   
  photo, titled "Mason's Photographic Gallery of the Coin   
  Collectors of the United States No. 1" with some 48 oval   
  cameo portraits numbered and identified below.    

  The caption reads: "A rare early photograph showing 48 of   
  the U. S.' leading early numismatists, probably produced by   
  Philadelphia coin dealer E. B. Mason Jr. (frame 44) in   
  1867-1869 was recently uncovered by New York City   
  professional numismatist Aaron Feldman.  Such notables are   
  shown as Joseph J. Mickley (frame 1) of Philadelphia,   
  America's first known coin collector; Matthew W. Dickeson,   
  Philadelphia (frame 2); William J. Jenks, Philadelphia (frame   
  7); Captain John W. Haseltine, Philadelphia (frame 20);   
  James A. Bolen, Springfield, Mass. (frame 23), and others.   
  The photo (possibly unique) was stolen in 1859 and remained   
  unknown until 1967."    

  Idle questions which come to mind are:  Have any reprints   
  been made of this photo that anyone knows about? and was   
  there ever any follow-up with a "No. 2," etc.?"    

  [This photo  has been written up before, but I'll let one of   
  our E-Sylum readers bring us up to date.  -Editor]   

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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