The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 4, January 25, 2004, Article 5

ANS DONATION AUCTION

  The Winter 2003 issue of American Numismatic Society
  magazine includes a progress report on fundraising for the
  Francis D. Campbell Library Chair by Library Committee
  Chairman John W. Adams.   Much progress has been
  made toward the $2 million goal.   "We are also driving
  toward broad participation with a goal of 500 individual
  contributions.  In coming months, our Library Chair
  brochures will be distributed in the catalogues of all the
  major auction houses.  Articles will appear in several of
  the numismatic journals published by the leading specialty
  groups.  And, we will climax our drive with a fun-packed
  (we promise) auction of donated books to be held at the
  ANA convention in Pittsburgh in August 2004."

  Actually, the auction will be off-site, a few blocks from
  the ANA convention itself.  "What we need now are your
  donations of suitable auction lots.  We seek books and
  related material with a minimum value of $300 per item,
  with all donations being tax deductible to the full extent of
  the law."   For more information on the auction, contact
  George Kolbe at gfk at numislit.com.

  I've already sent my check, and I hope many of our
  subscribers will support the drive as well.  I've also
  shipped a few items to George for the auction.  To whet
  the appetites of potential bidders, here are my clumsy
  descriptions of two of them (I'm sure George will do a
  far better job of writing them up in the catalogue):

    Catalogue of John W. Haseltine's Type Table of U.S.
    Dollars, Half Dollars & Quarter Dollars, 1881.
    Handwritten in ink on front endpaper is "M. L. Beistle /
    Shippensburg Pa / July 1 1922.
    Penciled notations (probably Beistle numbers) on many
    of the half dollar entries (lots 654-740).  Occasional
    additional notes.   After lot 664 (1795 half) is written
    "Gies" (probably A. C. Gies).   Remainder of catalog is
    clean.  Prices realized bound in back.  3/4 black leather
    and brown cloth boards. 8vo, 130pp.

   Application for Federal Employment (Standard Form 57,
   Revised May 1954, U.S. Civil Service Commission).
   Position: Curator of Numismatics
   Place: Washington, D.C.
   Applicant:  Hans Maurits F. Schulman, New York, NY.
   Four-page application filled out in ink.  Signed and dated
   by Hans Schulman on April 15, 1956.   Lists as references
   Clyde Trees, Director of Medallic Art Co.,  The Hon.
   Nellie Tayloe Ross, former U.S. Mint Director, and The
   Hon. R. Henry Norweb, Former Ambassador of the USA.
   Answered "No" to question 23, "Are you now, or have you
   ever been, a member of the Communist Party, U.S.A., or
   any other Communist organization?   4pp.

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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