MORE ON COIN RUBBINGS

I found more information on rubbings, some of it a bit more sophisticated than what we spoke of, involving certain types of paper and powdered graphite. The articles are both from The Numismatist: H.F. Bowker from July 1953: "Coin Reproductions", and S.G. Yasinitsky from September 1958: "Do It Yourself Illustrations".

In some issues of Mason's Coin and Stamp Collectors' Magazine from 1867, I saw that in the correspondence section there where instances where Mason is discussing a particular coin with a correspondent and he asks for a wax impression to be sent. Maybe I'll look for information on this; it seems like fun to try, and probably safer than my mis-adventure with rubbings.

When I decided to try rubbings, I realized that I didn't have a single pencil in the house. I went to Office Depot and found that I couldn't buy fewer than around a thousand pencils in a pack, so I went to a dollar store and got 10 terrible pencils for a dollar. Of course I had no sharpener either, so I bought two for a dollar.

When I tried to open the impervious prison that the sharpeners were sealed in, a sharp piece of plastic stuck under my fingernail. I'd like to kill the guy who invented those things. I immediately put iodine on it. A couple of days later, though, it became infected, and I'm still on an anti-biotic. So much for rubbings. What could possibly happen with hot wax?

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see: QUERY: COIN RUBBINGS (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v17n10a13.html)

Wayne Homren, Editor

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