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Subject: Re: Ray - I am in trouble...REAL TROUBLE!
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OK ... for now ...we shall see after Wood 46.
--- In colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com, "Byron Weston" <bkw11@p...>
wrote:
> Canadian collectors seem fairly well organized to me, John,
they're
> having a convention soon, if it hasn't already happened, and they
> have an specialty organization called, CATC, I believe. I've found
> Canadians to be much more broad minded than we Americans, and much
> more knowledgeable in areas such as Blacksmiths.
> My motives for belonging to the Blacksmith esig is simply that I
> might learn something from a few of these Canadians who obviously
> know much more about the subject than you or I, and if it relates
in
> some way with counterfeit halfpence all the better - such as
Gord's
> revelation about Wood 42.
> Good luck with your endeavor to impress the Canadians, you're
already
> off to a good start.
> Byron
>
> --- In colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com, johnmenc@o... wrote:
> > Byron - there are dozens upon dozens of specialties in U.S.
> Colonial
> > Coins - true the one's I frequent I try to dominate in terms of
> > knowledge and specimens. As an example I do not own one
> > Vermont,Fugio,Connecticut,etc.,at this time. As you know we only
> > have 17 eSIG Blacksmith members with only 11 of these being
serious
> > minus yourself since only 11 have also signed up in Blacksmith-
2,
> > since you already have tagged yourself as simply an onlooker -
no
> > problem - your just overviewing to make sure no Blacksmith which
is
> > posted has a Westonian obverse/reverse to one of your (sorry -
> our?)
> > families of British imports - why this number is not 110 members
at
> > this time does disturb me ... my only thought is that the
Canadians
> > simply are not as well organized as we are in terms of
> organizations
> > like C4 or EAC. New members join here all the time - Gord did
have
> > to track down markus and convince him to join - since then he
has
> > been a powerhouse! Going on the Internet and finding & joining
an
> > eSIG group is not that easy ... in my opinion it does take some
> > indirect advertising.
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com, "Byron Weston"
<bkw11@p...>
> > wrote:
> > > --- In colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com, johnmenc@o... wrote:
> > > > Ray - Here is the situation. Say you were in a particular
> > > collecting
> > > > niche of specialized tokens. Then - every couple of months
or
> so
> > > you
> > > > would discover a new variety. If you try to report there is
> > > > virtually no pulse from any other colectors in this field,
> since
> > > > most collectors have simply been "ballparking" the design
> > elements
> > > > to the closest already pictured variety for the last 100
years
> > from
> > > > major auction sales or a standard reference - even though
> > sometimes
> > > > its not even close. What do you do??? If you try to tell
them
> > its a
> > > > new die combination - you simply get no response - how would
> you
> > > > collect in this niche and how do you (if possible) change
the
> > > > mindset in this niche that a new discovery exist. What was
even
> > > more
> > > > amazing was I recieved an alert from a collector on two
> > specimens
> > > to
> > > > be offered on E-Bay saying these two particular specimens
were
> > not
> > > > of this varieties A & B but were of the varieties C & D but
in
> > > > reality they were actually new discovery specimens E & F!!!
> > > >
> > > > You can't make this stuff up ...
> > >
> > > No, you can't, John. Apparently you are disatisfied that every
> > > Canadian or member of the Blacksmith's egroup are not bowing
down
> > to
> > > you in awe by now, so you've brought your ego here - again. As
> you
> > > have already expoused, none of us here can ever hope to
achieve
> > your
> > > accomplishments or rise to your lofty heights, so I don't know
> > what
> > > good presenting your arguments here will do. If you're looking
> for
> > > someone to agree with your every word then I'd suggest
starting
> > your
> > > own egroup and letting in only Bill and the anonymous third
> person
> > > who always agrees with you and Bill.
> > > Byron
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