The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 17, April 21, 2002, Article 5

ROVELSTAD ELGIN ARCHIVE

  One more item on the topic of U.S. commemoratives:
  The current issue of the Bowers and Merena Galleries
  Rare Coin Review (#146) offers an archive of material
  "relating to the 1936 Elgin commemorative half dollar:
  correspondence from Gloria Rovelstad, the widow of
  the sculptor, Trygve Rovelstad...  Included are telegrams
  from the Treasury Department, correspondence from
  Trygve Rovelstad, ... relating to the commemorative half
  dollar, its design, the models, and so on." (p64)

  [See The E-Sylum volume 4, numbers 29 & 41 for
  discussions of Rovelstad's Pioneer Family Memorial in
  Elgin, IL. -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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