The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 1, January 4, 2004, Article 6

NBS HISTORY

The Numismatic Bibliomania Society was founded in 1979.
We will celebrate our 25th anniversary at the 2004 convention
of the American Numismatic Association in Pittsburgh this
August. For more information, I encourage all E-Sylum readers
to see Joel Orosz' capsule history of our organization on our
web site at
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_asylum_history.html

"More than 100 numismatic bibliomaniacs met during the
Cincinnati convention to attend the meeting of the newly-formed
Numismatic Bibliomania Society. The meeting was an
outgrowth of an informal gathering in St. Louis at the 1979 ANA
Convention when approximately a dozen bibliomaniacs gathered
for a dinner and discussed forming an organization for numismatic
book and catalog collectors.

With these somewhat redundant sentences, an unsigned article
on page 2712 of the November, 1980 issue of The Numismatist
announced the birth of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society.
The article, which occupied a full page, was headed "New Society
for Bibliomaniacs Meets at Convention," and included photos of
NBS "Chairman" George Frederick Kolbe and the featured
speaker at the first meeting, John J. Ford, Jr. The "Cincinnati
Convention" referred to was the 89th anniversary convention of
the American Numismatic Association (ANA) held in the Queen
City August 18-23, 1980. Here it was (in the Bamboo Room of
Stouffer's Cincinnati Towers on August 18 at 8 p.m.) that the
NBS was delivered, but it was a long time aborning."

[I remember that meeting well, and believe it was there that I
first signed up as an NBS member. Ford gave a great talk,
which I believe was later transcribed and published in the
NBS print journal, The Asylum. -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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