HOW HOWARD DANIEL GOT MPCS WHOLESALE

I was going through my "black hole" library today and found a reference which lists the name of the dealer I sent all of my MPCs to during the Vietnam War from January 1966 to January 1973. It is Jim Wilson's House of Hobbies, Minong, WI 54859! I had forgotten about him.

Whenever there was a change to a new MPC series, I would visit my favorite bar in Saigon and look through the owner's stash of "worthless" old series notes. I would pick out the AU and better notes and pay her 10 Cents on the dollar. I would first set aside the replacements and notes I needed for my collection, then create several envelopes for what I sent to Mr. Wilson. I sent him hundreds of notes and he bought them at 10% over face! So many of the high grade MPCs that you have seen are from Jim Wilson selling them. His checks went to my bank account at the National Bank of Fort Lauderdale and not back to me in Vietnam.

I was also often the Pay NCO with a Pay Officer and I got a bunch of notes in my wallet ready to exchange for replacements when I saw them. I saw VERY few of them but I got all of them still in my collection.

Fred Schwan thinks I was breaking a regulation by mailing the "old" MPC back to the USA and selling it. Before I sent back my first envelope to Mr. Wilson, I visited the MACV Hqs JAG office and talked to a JAG officer about it. He told me that on "C Day", the old series became scrap paper and I could do anything I wanted to do with it.

I also bought many MPCs while I was back in Vietnam from 1989. In those early years back there, MPCs were all less than a US$ a piece. There were sometimes suitcases of them sitting in a shop and they included the VOID and/or Evidence MPCs, which I bought! But by the mid-1990s, the suitcases no longer appeared in the shops.

Hope you like this background information to many MPCs being in the USA and elsewhere because of what I did after "C Days" during my six years there and for five or six years from 1989.

The Master Sergeant Daniel

To read the complete issue, see:
MPC GRAM SERIES 11 No.2307 25 APRIL 2016 Fest XVII Report Part 2 (http://us13.campaign-archive1.com/?u=10eb366ab80344a56657e0d5d&id=2a83aa7f69&e=f71a788d6b)

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