THE GREAT NBS AUCTION Öffentlichkeit Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 7, Number 33, August 15, 2004, Article 7
THE GREAT NBS AUCTION
Asylum Editor Tom Fort writes: "Most people think that the
auction to benefit the library chair for the ANS on Thursday
Night is the only numismatic literature sale of the ANA. Such
people are wrong. Another place to get truly unique
numismatic literary material will be the auction to benefit the
NBS at our Annual meeting on Friday, 20 August. Among
the items to be sold are:1. Christian Dekesel, "Jean Fois-Vaillant Antiquary of the King"
Original manuscript of lengthy essay sent to The Asylum for
25th anniversary issue. Includes a card signed by the author and
the original zip disks with essay in MS Word format.2. Pete Smith, Signed original manuscript of his article on
American Numismatic Pioneers that will appear in 25th
anniversary issue of The Asylum. Also includes a signed early
draft of this work.3. John Cunnally, Signed original manuscript, with illustrations,
of his essay on Renaissance numismatic works. Also included
are floppy disk and zip disk with same material that
accompanied the manuscript.4. Douglas Saville, Signed original manuscript of his memoirs
of 34 years at Spink and Son's Numismatic Book
department.5. Pete Smith, Signed original manuscript of his essay
6. Wayne K. Homren, Signed original manuscript of his
essay on the beginnings of The E-Sylum.7. David Fanning, Signed original manuscript of his bibliography
of the works of Walter Breen.8. Ink jet proof copy of The Asylum (meaning it is printed on
8.5x11 paper, on one side only), Summer 2004, signed by
E. Tomlinson Fort and Malgorzata Fort. Contains lots of
comments on Dekesel's article by Dr. Fort who holds a
PhD in Library Science and is the Head of Bibliographical
Services at Falk Library, University of Pittsburgh. Comments
and corrections by myself are more limited since I work
more from a screen text. This lot also includes all back up
CDs created as back-ups as work on the issue was in progress.9. Ink jet proof copy of The Asylum, Summer 2004, signed
and with extensive comments by editor in chief David
Fanning.10. Ink jet proof copy of The Asylum, Summer 2004, signed
and with comments by NBS president Pete Smith11. Printed and bound proof copy of The Asylum, Summer
2004. First version.12. Printed and bound proof copy of The Asylum, Summer
2004. Second version.13. E. Tomlinson Fort, "Barbarians within the gates: The mints
of Norman England under David I of Scotland." Signed
manuscript of presentation I shall be making at the ANA
on Wednesday.14. "A Million Bucks." Courtesy of Wayne Homren. An
original pack of Whitman Publishing play money from the
1960s still in its original packing.15. Ink jet proof copy of The Asylum, Winter 2003. Also
courtesy of Wayne Homren.16. "The E-Sylum." Printed proof pages of Wayne's
forthcoming book that will publish the first four years of
The E-Sylum. This consists of pages 8-27 and covers from
January 4, 1999 through June 13 1999.17. An error copy of the third printing of Hal Dunn's Tokens
and Medals Depicting the Carson City Mint. Donated by the
author. Rather than double sided pages, the printer's assistant
ran them as single sided. Also, one of the postcards depicting
the mint became detached and was remounted at a slight angle.
The author will supply a corrected copy when it becomes
available.18. Another of the same.
19. A rather large piece of numismatic ephemera donated by
Wayne Homren. Measuring 52 inches long by 14 1/2 inches
tall, it is a visual aid employed by Eric Newman at a talk he
gave April 5, 1992 at the St. Louis, MO convention of the
Early American Coppers club. It is a sketch of a feeding arm
used to move planchets into place for striking. Dusty from
storage but interesting. Signed and dated in ink by Eric.In view of the high prices people have been paying for numismatic
literary manuscripts at auction in recent years this may be your
chance to bid on historic material at reasonable prices. Don't
miss out. Remember that all funds do to the NBS. Also, those
who cannot make the ANA, George Kolbe has agreed to act
as the agent for any absentee bidders. George can be contacted
at GFK at numislit.com."- 2004-08-15
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