The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 35, August 14, 2005, Article 1

WAYNE'S WORDS

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Quick quiz: Who was Israel Switt? You'll know soon enough
when you read our lead story. If you haven't heard the news
yet, prepare to have your socks knocked off.

Congratulations to the American Numismatic Society, whose
ANS Magazine is now published in full color. The Summer 2005
issue (Vol 4, No. 2) includes some very interesting and nicely
laid out articles, including the cover piece on posters and medals
of the birth of the Cold War, illustrated with some marvelous
posters uncovered in a basement room at the old ANS building
on Audubon Terrace. The old building was sold on March 11
to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Of special interest
to bibliophiles and researchers are articles on the ANS Photo file
(268,000 cards) and the photographic negative collection.

The August 2005 issue of the ANA's Numismatist magazine is
out as well, and this full-color publication features three articles
on another unusual topic, canine collectibles. Alan Stahl writes
that "Cornelius Vermeule's passion for puppies and numismatic art
inspired his longstanding collection of canine commemoratives,"
now part of the Princeton University Numismatic Collection.

While on the subject of August 2005 numismatic publications,
The Colonial Newsletter (vol 45, no. 2) deserves special mention.
The issue features two articles in which numismatic literature is
a key element. Roger Moore and Ray Williams write about their
observations on the Maris Plate of new Jersey copper coinage,
and Mark A. Sportack examines the "what we knew and when
and how we knew it" of the Somer Islands Hogge Money.

Wayne Homren
Numismatic Bibliomania Society

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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