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From: Ray Williams <njraywms@optonline.net>
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Hi Roy,
I agree. If Brian and Syd are reading posts to the colonial e-groups
and see something worthy of print, I'd encourage them to get the permission
of the person posting and print it. There's around 150 on this egroup,
which means that there are about 300 C4 members that don't read what's here.
Occassionally there are some very interesting posts, worthy of print and
possible further research.
Ray W
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roy Bonjour" <r.bonjour@worldnet.att.net>
To: <colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Colonial Numismatics] Re: Spiro Auction Envelope
> Ray:
> How about publishing things like this in the Newsletter????
> Roy
> Roy
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ray Williams" <njraywms@optonline.net>
> To: <colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 6:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [Colonial Numismatics] Re: Spiro Auction Envelope
>
>
> > Hi John!
> > I enjoyed your post very much! These are the type of stories that
we
> > and future numismatists would like to read about. But if the sources
> don't
> > share the information now, then it will be lost to future generations...
> > Thanks for the post,
> > Ray W
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <jmkleeberg@yahoo.com>
> > To: <colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 5:48 PM
> > Subject: [Colonial Numismatics] Re: Spiro Auction Envelope
> >
> >
> > > Burdette G. Johnson's company was St. Louis Stamp + Coin Co. He
started
> > in the coin
> > > business shortly after 1900. Eric Newman got to know him when Eric
was
> an
> > adolescent. Eric
> > > would go to downtown St. Louis every week to buy a coin. One day he
> tried
> > to buy a
> > > Connecticut copper from Johnson, and Johnson refused to sell it to
him -
> > because Eric did not
> > > know enough about the coin. So Johnson lent him a book, and when Eric
> > came back the
> > > following week Johnson quizzed Eric about Connecticut coppers, and
when
> > Johnson was
> > > satisfied that Eric knew enough, he sold the coin. Thereafter, every
> time
> > that Eric tried to buy a
> > > coin - he had to read a book first. Eric became Johnson's attorney
and
> > executor.
> > >
> > > Johnson was a wholesaler of coins, since he was the major distributor
> for
> > the Brand accumulation
> > > - he consigned coins all over - to Hans Schulman, to Celina Stamp and
> Coin
> > in Ohio, to Sam
> > > Koeppell in Los Angeles. Eric Newman and B. G. Johnson were also
able
> to
> > buy the
> > > collection of Colonel Green - the source of the five 1913 nickels.
> > >
> > > There are some more details about B. G. Johnson in my preface to the
> > sylloge of
> > > Massachusetts silver in the Pre-Federal COAC - some correspondence
that
> > gives a good idea
> > > of the man. He died in February 1947, when he had a heart attack on a
> > streetcar. Curiously
> > > enough I have never seen a photograph of Burdette G. Johnson. Eric
> > Newman said he had
> > > one, but when he asked his wife Evelyn where it was, and Evelyn said
> they
> > could find it - if they
> > > were to look over the house for a thousand years.
> > >
> > > There are a number of good sources for numismatic biography. I
believe
> > Pete Smith published
> > > his Names with Notes in book form as American Numismatic Biographies,
> but
> > I have not seen it.
> > > I have a number of sources of first resort. One is Warren Lapp +
> Herbert
> > Silberman's collection
> > > of articles from the Numismatist on large cents, which has
biographical
> > appendix - useful,
> > > although not always accurate. Obituaries in the Numismatist are
usually
> > an excellent source.
> > > And then one can go through indices of specialized periodicals, like
> Penny
> > Wise or the Colonial
> > > News Letter. Name auctions can be useful too - the Picker auction is
> one
> > of the best sources
> > > about Richard Picker, for example. John W. Adams' two volumes on US
> > auction catalogues
> > > have excellent short accounts of the auction houses - his account of
> > Charlie Wormser is very
> > > good.
> > >
> > > My favorite is the bit about William Hesslein. Adams writes, "History
> is
> > unkind to the petty
> > > crook." Hesslein disappeared with a bunch of people's checks (R. H.
> > Burnie, of California
> > > fractional gold fame, did the same - except Burnie disappeared with
the
> > checks AND a Spanish
> > > dancer). Eric Newman told me that around 1940 someone who had been
> > cheated by Hesslein
> > > caught sight of Hesslein waiting for a train in the New York City
> subway -
> > the train was
> > > approaching - Hesslein was very near the edge - suddenly Mr. Hesslein
> was
> > underneath the
> > > train - finis Mr. Hesslein. But I haven't been able to find a story
in
> > the New York Times that
> > > confirms this sticky end for Mr. Hesslein. The New York Times tends
to
> be
> > snobby, though - if it
> > > happened, it probably got a decent coverage in the NY Daily News,
which
> > isn't indexed, alas.
> > >
> > > Moral - don't run away with people's checks - AND stay away from the
> edge
> > of the platform!
> > >
> > > John Kleeberg
> > >
> > >
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