The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 39, September 11, 2005, Article 5

NEW ORLEANS NUMISMATIC LIBRARY SAVED

Fred Lake writes: "A marvelous escape from the floodwaters
of Hurricane Katrina----Clarence Rareshide, a prominent
paper money dealer and attorney from New Orleans, passed
away this year and his widow had been in discussions with our
company (Lake Books) for some time regarding the disposition
of his very fine numismatic library. Liz Rareshide watched the
reports of the developing storm and decided to do a rush job
of packing over 1,000 pounds of books so that they would
not be subjected to the ravages of the flood she knew would
be coming.

The books were shipped on the Friday just prior to the landfall
of the storm and all fifteen cartons arrived at our location on
Wednesday of that week. We have catalogued much of the
collection and quite a bit of it will appear in our sale #81 which
has a closing date of October 18, 2005.

Mrs. Rareshide has since heard that her home in downtown
New Orleans has been heavily damaged by the floodwaters.
We are appreciative of her efforts that saved many fine reference
books that will be enjoyed by others in the years to come."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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