HARVEY STACK ON WHO WORKED AT STACK'S IN 1966

It is interesting and humbling that Scott Rubin is so well informed of the Stack's Family staff as it was comprised in 1966.

The staff consisted of three great elements, the Stack Family, the working cataloguers, and the wonderful honorary collectors (who used the Stack's offices somewhat like their second home) who did specialized cataloging and teaching to assure that the Stack's Catalogues were informative, and contained all information to make them all important sales.

THE STACK FAMILY

JOSEPH B. STACK, senior partner and brother of Morton, father of Benjamin and Norman
MORTON STACK, senior partner, father of Harvey G.
HARVEY G.STACK partner, son of Morton
BENJAMIN STACK partner, son of Joseph B.
NORMAN C. STACK partner, son of Joseph B.
LAWRENCE R. STACK, (part-time while attending school, later partner.)

Myself and Lawrence (Larry) are the only Stacks that still survive today, as the others, Morton, Joseph, Benjamin and Norman passed away in the later parts of the twentieth century.

STAFF

JAMES C. RISK, cataloguer of foreign coins
GEORGE WEYR, cataloguer of ancient and foreign coins
EDMUND MAY, catloguer or all world coins
ROSE ZELMAN, senior secretary
LILO STRUB, secretary
CAROL BICA, secretary to the foreign department
CLIFFORD THORPE, cataloguer of U.S coins
FRED KNOBLACH, cataloguer of Ancient coins (part time)
HANS HOLZER, cataloguer of world coins (part time)
HARVEY NELSON, salesman,
ROBERT JENOVE, salesman
LAWRENCE MARAN, auctioneer, customer, collector
HENRY G. SMITH, shipping and packing
HOWARD SANFORD, advertising
ELSA STEINMETZ, bookkeeper
HILDA GLATZER, assistant bookkeeper
JOSEPH PETRIK, Security guard, from Burns Agency

COLLECTORS AND SPECIALISTS
In addition to the list above, a group of collectors, specialists in their own area would partake as staff members from time to time, sorting coins, cataloging coins, showing auction lots and contributed to the Stack Family Operation. The list includes but is not limited to --

Dr. William Sheldon,
C.Douglas Smith,
Oscar Schilke,
Harold Bareford,
Joseph Spray,
Louis Werner,
John J. Pittman,
Martin Kortjohn,

DEALERS
... and a group of dealers who also considered themselves part Of the stack family when it came to numismatics. They all spent Time in the shop, and they include, but not limited to

Henry Grunthal,
Max L. Kaplan,
Hans M.F. Schulman, and
Thomas Wass

Many of these people were with us 20 years or more. Only a few are still alive.

As I have written before, the life style and numismatic scene in the 1960's was quite different than today. The collectors and dealers all worked together to keep the hobby growing, and the fraternalism of numismatics showed when the various clubs and groups decided to have a yearly convention in New York, and formed a convention each Spring hosted by 13 different clubs of the New York Metropolitan area.

That's one of the reasons that numismatists of New York received the honor of being called THE COIN CAPITOL OF THE WORLD.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see: QUERY: WHO WORKED AT STACK'S IN 1966? (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v14n11a08.html)

Wayne Homren, Editor

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