The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 10, March 11, 2007, Article 2

AUCTION CATALOG LIST AVAILABLE

Chris Hoelzle of Laguna Niguel, CA writes: "I have been working on a
multi-year project of organizing and cataloging my duplicate Numismatic
Auction Catalogs and Fixed Price Lists, and I would like to announce
that the project is now complete. Getting these catalogs organized was
quite a chore as I had to move and put them into storage for a while.

"I now have nearly 8,000 auction catalogs in my database and on the
shelves for trade or sale.

"I am an active collector of catalogs and price lists and would prefer
to trade rather than sell, but I am making these items available first
to our E-Sylum friends before any website or other auction announcements.

"The catalogs and fixed price lists cover US and world firms with an
emphasis on Ancient Coins. Contained are firms from A-Mark through
Harriet Wynter, with dates ranging from 1862 through 2007.

"I invite anyone interested in this numismatic literature to contact
me and I will be pleased to forward an MS-Excel spreadsheet of the
items that are available.  My email address is choelzle@cox.net."

[Chris also describes the database format he developed for representing
auction dates.  I've done something similar to this in the past when
itemizing auction catalogs - this may be of use of interest to others.
-Editor]

Chris writes: "I thought for a long time to develop a scheme that was
auto sorting by any database. I came up with the following scheme -
yes, it is a bit odd, but it works well for me.

"1994 06 - means June of 1994
1994 06 14 means June 14, 1994
1994 06 14,15 means a sale that happened on the 14th and 15th
  of June in 1994
1994 06 14-18 means a sale that happened from the 14th thru
  the 18th of 1994
1994 06 30,01 means a sale that happened on the 30th of June
  and the 1st of July of 1994 (I know it's clunky)
1994 06 30-03 means a sale that happened from the 30th of
  June thru the 3rd of July of 1994 (I know it's clunky)

"So this scheme, although having weaknesses, allows a database
to sort right off the bat by date"

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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