The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 17, April 21, 2002, Article 10

SCOTT COIN COLLECTOR'S JOURNAL QUESTIONS

  Bob Leonard writes: "I'm still researching small California
  gold for the 2nd edition of Breen-Gillio and have a question.
  There is an item in the August, 1881 issue of Scott's The
  Coin Collector's Journal on this subject.  When this issue
  was actually published?  (Sometimes journals are quite late,
  while magazines for newsstand sale have a "pull date" instead
  of the actual month.)   Do any copies survive with
  postmarked mailing envelopes, or postmarked covers?"
  [Now there's a good example of the research value of
  numismatic ephemera!  -Editor]

  "Did any of Scott's contemporaries review the August,
  1881 issue, and, if so, on what date?  Are there any other
  clues from the contents (I don't have the whole issue, just
  copies of two pages.)  Any help your readers can render
  will be much appreciated."

  [My set of the Scott CCJ is from the Nelson Thorson library.
  It's bound, and there are no covers or mailing envelopes
  present.    I located nothing in the August or September
  issues to indicate a publication or mailing date, although the
  September issue states that the "auction sale of the Blake
  collection mentioned in our last issue" had not been published
  yet.  -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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