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NBS EVENTS AT THE 2018 ANA WORLD'S FAIR OF MONEYLAST CALL! Here's our final reminder of Numismatic Bibliomania Society events at this week's American Numismatic Association convention. -Editor Please visit us at Table 1414 on the bourse near the Kolbe & Fanning and Charles Davis Numismatic Literature tables.
1:00 to 2:30 NBS Symposium, Room 120C Speaker: Roger Burdette on research at the National Archives. FRIDAY, AUGUST 17 All events take place in the Philadelphia Convention Center. Send your photos (JPGs with captions) of NBS members and events from the ANA to nbsasylum@gmail.com by September 1 to be included in
The Asylum Fall issue. Dan Hamelberg adds: I am going to bring my M.A. Brown sale and plates to the ANA for NBS display. This was an SH & H Chapman sale on April 16-17, 1897 and was originally intended to be a large format plated catalog with four photographic plates of large cents. At the time, the Treasury Department was somewhat concerned about any U.S. coins or currencies being reproduced by a photographic process. Treasury agents gained information about the pending Chapman M.A. Brown Sale with photographic plates (could it be that some competitor was upset?) and they seized the original glass negatives and destroyed them before the catalogue could be completed. However, two sets of proof prints were produced before the glass negatives were taken. One of the sets was cut horizontally through the center so it could fit into the smaller size catalogue. The other set survived intact in its original full-size format. I can bring both sets of plates along with the firm's bid book containing prices and names. I also have a second copy with prices and names along with interesting notations. The Chapmans produced 46 total regular plated catalogs. The M.A. Brown sale plates are unique. Without U. S. Treasury glass negatives confiscation, the number of Chapman plated sales would have increased by one. Perhaps more plated catalogs might have been produced as well without the expectation of possible seizures of photographic plate negatives. In any event, the Chapman plated catalogs are considered a high point of late 19th and early 20th century plated coin auction catalogs produced in the United States, and a high point of any numismatic literature collection.  Each year at the ANA World's Fair of Money, the Numismatic Bibliomania Society conducts a benefit auction to raise funds for the organization. All items sold are donated to the NBS by members and 100% of the proceeds go to the NBS treasury. This year, we are trying to increase participation in the auction by distributing a catalogue of the sale to all NBS members so that members unable to attend in person can participate. You can download a PDF of the catalogue here . Absentee bids should be sent to David Fanning at df@numislit.com by the end of Thursday, August 16. The sale will take place on Friday, August 17 as part of the NBS General Meeting, to be held in Room 117 of the Philadelphia Convention Center from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Please read the terms of sale before bidding. Thank you for your support of the NBS! To download the catalogue, see: I'll arrive at the show mid-day Wednesday and stay through Saturday morning. I'm looking forward to the NBS meetings and all the other educational and social events of the show. I hope to see many of our E-Sylum readers there. And while you're at the show please visit our many current and past supporters who will have tables at the show. Here they are in numerical order (apologies if I've missed anyone!). E-Sylum Supporters With Tables At the Show THANK YOU! Please do stop by and let them know you appreciate their support for The E-Sylum, and encourage others to consider doing the same. It's a great way to get in front of thousands of the most active and engaged collectors in the U.S. and the world, and to support a great platform for numismatic information exchange. Don't forget to mention we also have an ANA Edition, which further reaches thousands of members of the American Numismatic Association. -Editor  Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@gmail.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum All Rights Reserved. NBS Home Page Contact the NBS webmaster 
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