The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 18, April 28, 2002, Article 15

FEUCHTWANGER RESEARCH

  The NBS web site has had a hand in fulfilling a number of
  research requests.  Curtis P. Schuh of Tucson, Arizona wrote:
  "Browsing the web, I came across an entry from one Dave
  Bowers who is building a database on Lewis Feuchtwanger.
  I currently am preparing an article on Feuchtwanger's
  mineralogical and gemological contributions.  Could you
  perhaps forward this message to Mr. Bowers so that perhaps
  we can share information?"

  Dave Bowers replied: "I have created a rather lengthy essay
  on Dr. F., which goes into his gem books (the first state of
  the first printing has his name spelled FEUCHTWANGRR,
  as you may know) but more concentrates on his tokens.

  This will be published this summer in a book, MORE
  ADVENTURES WITH RARE COINS.  Perhaps if you could
  bring me up to speed on what you have, etc., and what your
  publishing plans are, I would then take it from there.

  Feuchtwanger, German born, was a man of many talents.
  In mineralogy he published a treatise in 1838 that was well
  written, followed by later works on gems and minerals (of
  which I have copies). He also compounded "Feuchtwanger's
  Composition," a variation of packfong or argentan, popularly
  called "German silver," but at first called by him "American
  silver."  He also had a drugstore and display ("museum")
  with preserved reptiles and natural curiosities on display.

  Numismatically, he is remembered for a series of tokens
  circa 1834-1837, in particular his 1837-dated Feuchtwanger's
  Composition one-cent (as it was denominated on the reverse).
  When MORE ADVENTURES WITH RARE COINS is
  published among its illustrations will be a little leaflet L.F.
  distributed to congressmen in 1837 urging them to adopt his
  Composition for regular cent coinage.  In 1864 he issued a
  three-cent piece in limited numbers; these pieces are fairly
  elusive today, are usually seen in Mint State, and exist the
  extent of perhaps fewer than 30 specimens."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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