The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 41, October 10, 2004, Article 17

SOME CLINT HESTER INFORMATION FOUND

  In last week's issue, Ron Guth wrote: "Here's a question
  for your readers:    The name Clint Hester shows up in
  pedigree chains for the 1884 and 1885 Trade Dollars and
  I've seen the claim that  he was the consignor of those
  coins to the Menjou sale,  possibly with other rarities.
  Does anyone know from  whence that claim arose and
  whether or not it is true?"

  In response, David Gladfelter writes: "Clinton William
  Hester's obituary appears at 72 Numismatist 535 (1959).
  He lived in Los Angeles and was a "physiotherapist to the
  motion picture industry."  He was a native of Lincoln, NE,
  a World War I veteran who received a bronze Victory
  medal and the great seal of Nebraska for his service. He
  was a consignor to at least two Kosoff sales (according to
  Gengerke) but is not mentioned in the Menjou catalog.
  The 1884 and 1885 trade dollars have typically terse
  (for the time) Kosoff descriptions with no pedigree info
  whatsoever. Hester was apparently a regular customer of
  Kosoff's as I have at least one library edition sale catalog
  with his name on it. He was a frequent exhibitor at coin
  shows, and if he owned the trade dollars they would
  doubtless have been exhibited by him. Someone may
  remember having seen them in one of his exhibits. In a
  quick look through John Willem's book on the trade
  dollar one does not find mention of Hester.  This is a
  start."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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