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The E-Sylum: Volume 24, Number 9, February 28, 2021, Article 15

MORE ON PAUL S. SZEGO

Readers submitted information about Paul S. Szego in response to Dave Hirt's query. Thanks! -Editor

John Byars writes:

"Assuming this is the right guy, maybe some of this will add to what the others will find.

Paul Stadler Szego born 7-17-1899 in Hungary
Wife Helen, daughter Clara, and son George – living in New York.
2-14-1927 Petition for Naturalization shows his occupation as Banknote Designer
1930 Census – New York - shows him as Banknote Designer
1940 Census – New York - shows him as Artist – Private Work
1942 Draft Card shows him working for Rand Mcnally Co. Inc in New York.
Draft card has his New York address marked out, now showing Washington, DC
Google Books shows that during the war he was working for the government in the Cartographic Branch."

Pete Smith writes:

"Attached are some facts about Paul S. Szago. He is mentioned in Gene Hessler's book, The Engraver's Line. "He was employed at the Hamilton BNCo and Central BNCo before 1930."

Here are Pete's notes, which confirm and add to John's. Pete included an image of Szago's tombstone. Thanks, everyone! -Editor

Name: Paul Stadler Szego Ph.D
Born: in Vespirm, Hungary on July 17, 1889
Father: Carl
Mother: Caroline
Wife: Helen Elek; Mildred Eleanor Sherry Szego, married July 8, 1949, in Los Angeles
Son: George
Daughter: Clara Szego Roberts
Education: Doctorate in history from Royal University in Budapest
Immigrated: Ellis Island, May 21, 1921, sailed on S.S. New Rochelle out of Bremen
Description (1921): 6ft, 133 lbs, brown hair, brown eyes Citizenship: 1927
Died: December 24, 1960, in hospital in Alexandria, Virginia
Auction: Sale number 1, June 19, 1937. Sale is available on Internet Archive.
Auction: Numismatic Fine Arts, December 14, 1989
Author: Collecting Greek Coins (1937)
Employment: Army Map Service
Address in 1937: 812 Broadway, NYC; He suffered a burglary of 60 ancient coins in 1937.
Address in 1956: 900 N. Wayne Street, Arlington, Virginia
Ad in The Numismatist: April 1956, page 508
Past President: Washington (DC) Numismatic Society: vice president and curator in 1953
Board Member: Middle Atlantic Numismatic Association, 1953

Dave Hirt writes:

"Thanks. WOW, Our readers are amazing!!"

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QUERY: DEALER PAUL S. SZEGO (https://www.coinbooks.org/v24/esylum_v24n08a18.html)

Wayne Homren, Editor

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