The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 14, April 4, 2004, Article 19

GEORGE ESCOL SELLERS REMINISCENCES POSTED

  Jim Spilman  writes: "The Colonial Newsletter Foundation
  (CNLF ) has uploaded to the FILES section of CNLF-
  The First American Mint eSIG the pages which comprise
  Chapter 9 "The United States Mints" from Early Engineering
  Reminiscences (1815-40) of George Escol Sellers.  This
  material originally appeared in a series of articles in the
  American Machinist magazine.

  This is the only in-depth first-hand experiences that we know
  of regarding operations at the First U.S. Mint.  Sellers was
  75 years of age when he wrote his first article in this series -
  50 years after the events occurred.

  The material was edited by Eugene S. Ferguson and
  completed on 28 September 1964 and published  in 1965 as
  Bulletin 238  by the United States National Museum section
  of the Smithsonian Institution.  The book is a remarkable
  history of early American Technology that has been little known
  to history buffs and almost completely unknown to numismatists.
  The book is MUST reading for anyone with even the slightest
  interest in the technology of the era of the First U.S. Mint.

  Those of you who may be interested in this era of American
  Technology and The First Unites States Mint are invited to join
  with us at our new eSIG at eSIG."

  [I was delighted to purchase the Smithsonian Institution Bulletin
  238 during a visit to George Kolbe's home several years ago.
  The Sellers reminiscences are a remarkable document of
  operations at the first Mint.  -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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