The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 47, November 24, 2002, Article 15

WELL, YOU HAVE TO START SOMEWHERE

  From Arlyn Sieber's book on Krause Publishing, "Pioneer
  Publisher," comes this anecdote about early efforts of Cliff
  Mischler and Chet Krause to compile listings for the first
  Standard Catalog of World Coins:

  "Chet and Cliff gathered the listings they had accumulated
  so far and took inventory.  While Cliff concentrated on
  Numismatic News and Coins Magazine, Chet set out to
  fill in the gaps in the world-coin listings.  He started working
  the phones.  Who collects Belgian coins?  Who's an
  authority on Japan?  Who knows something about Middle
  East?  Among those his networking drummed up was Colin
  Bruce in upstate New York.  By day, Colin worked on
  rehabilitating heavy construction equipment.  By night and
  on weekends, he worked on his world-coin collection and
  dabbled as a dealer at local coin shows.

  He was also an expert on coins of India and agreed to
  review the listings for this fledgling Red Book of world
  coins.

  "Send me everything you have so far," Colin told Cliff on
  the phone one day.

  Cliff responded by shipping a ream of blank paper."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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