Misleading Coin Advertising... really not a new thing... From 1935
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If you think that the subject of coin dealers and false advertising is something new...then enjoy this following paper which was read during a 1935 meeting of the Westchester County Coin Club!
Three weeks and seven days ago, our Secretary brought forth on this table a new resoluction, conceived in the recesses of his soul and dedicated to the proposition that nearly all coin dealers are "gyps."
Now we are engaged in a great numimatic war, testing whether our Secretary, or any Secretary so deceived and so misled, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those dealers who continually falsify and deceive us.
It is althogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot convict, we cannot even jail these dealers.
The brave old numismatists, living and dead, who have struggled with these dealers, have been sleigh-ridden far beyond our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what malicious advertsising sworn to annihilate those evil dealers who have thus far so ignobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, - that from these scoundrel dealers we take increased devotion to that cause for which these termites give their last red cent for false advertising, - that we here highly resolve that these dealers shall die in vain, -that this Westchester County Coin Club, under Guttag, shall have a New Deal from Coin Dealers, - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Three weeks and seven days ago, our Secretary brought forth on this table a new resoluction, conceived in the recesses of his soul and dedicated to the proposition that nearly all coin dealers are "gyps."
Now we are engaged in a great numimatic war, testing whether our Secretary, or any Secretary so deceived and so misled, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those dealers who continually falsify and deceive us.
It is althogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot convict, we cannot even jail these dealers.
The brave old numismatists, living and dead, who have struggled with these dealers, have been sleigh-ridden far beyond our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what malicious advertsising sworn to annihilate those evil dealers who have thus far so ignobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, - that from these scoundrel dealers we take increased devotion to that cause for which these termites give their last red cent for false advertising, - that we here highly resolve that these dealers shall die in vain, -that this Westchester County Coin Club, under Guttag, shall have a New Deal from Coin Dealers, - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Jon Lerner - Scarsdale Coin - www.CoinHelp.com
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I wonder what happened to put them over them edge.
It's like a 1935 declaration of independence.
Thanks for showing.
-Mark
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