Upcoming NBS event

EVillageProwler

Folks,

One of our own is making a presentation coincident with this year's Baltimore ANA show. From the NBS e-newsletter that I just got:

Friday August 1, 2003, 11.30 AM
Numismatic Bibliomania Society Annual Meeting
Leonard Augsburger will present a paper entitled
"132 South Eden: House of Gold"

I've already read his paper, and it is both scholarly and interesting...

EVP

EVillageProwler

Another snippet from the e-newsletter, which I found VERY funny!

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THE FIRST SLABBED NUMISMATIC CATALOGUE

Fred Lake writes: "Reading about the upcoming auction(s) of
John J. Ford's library by Stack's/George Kolbe and the
description of John's insistence on acquiring material in the
best condition possible reminded me of his appearance at the
NBS General Meeting held in July, 1993.

There, John held up a catalog of the Stack's, March 17, 1993
sale of the Herman Halpern Collection of United States Paper
Money. This sale catalog had been mailed to him several times
by Stack's and each time the catalog was damaged in some
manner by the Post Office.

John contacted Martin Gengerke at Stack's and insisted on
receiving a pristine copy. Martin arranged to have the catalog
sandwiched between two pieces of Lucite and taped at the
edges very neatly with duct tape. Thus was born the first
"slabbed" catalog. I was fortunate enough to catch the famous
moment with my trusty Minolta and so preserved the record
of a catalog that could not be read, but would forever be in
Mint 70 condition. I believe the photo was published in
"The Asylum" that year.

As a postscript, I had the photo enlarged to 8 x 10 and
enclosed in a suitable wood frame with glass covering the
picture. Before packaging the frame for delivery to John, I
took the wrapping paper to my driveway and ran over it
several times with my truck, leaving some very distinct tire
marks. Needless to say, John was amazed that a package
could be run over by a truck and yet the contents were
undamaged."

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EVP