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From: "Geoffrey Stevens" <noe14oak@yahoo.com>
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--- In colonial-coins@y..., "Bob Merchant" <bobm@c...> wrote:
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> There are some well-known, numismatic-related names in this article
> about an invention by Jacob Perkins. James Akin may be somewhat
> overlooked by numismatists.
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> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1025968349
Hello Bob,
Not only do I personally know the man that is selling the item that
you are bringing attention to on E-bay, I have to inform you that it
is well known, as to the inventions of Jacob Perkins. He was a very
skilled silver-smith in Newburyport, Ma. in the end of the 1700s.
His anti-counterfieting devices are well known in the paper money
fraternity.
He is also credited with helping engraving 1788 Ma. coppers, and his
inventing a nail producing device, as well as a crude machine gun that
he demonstrated in France!!!!
Just look in your U.S. Coinage, hardbound, Garrett book to get a good
look. (page #152).
If you wish to see a "true discovery" about Jacob Perkins, than you
might want to look in C4 Newsletter, Spring 2001,Volume 9, #1. P.14
My Brother Chris actually made a discovery of a reference to Perkins'
proposed production of his funeral medals. This is important to anyone
who is an authority on Jacob Perkins.
By the way, not only do we both own specimens of his medals, my
Brother Chris and I also grew up about four miles from where Jacob
Perkins ran his business!
Geoff Stevens,
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