Kolbe's List No. 49: frustrating, or fun?
Dentuck
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From George Frederick Kolbe's list no. 49:
"After the 2007 move, George Frederick Kolbe / Fine Numismatic Books discovered thousands of excess numismatic publications put aside over the past quarter century. Some are offered for sale here. . . . Items are listed as they were encountered; there is no index." [emphasis added]
What follows is a list of 1,179 numismatic books, catalogs, monographs, etc., starting with Pellicer i Bru and ending with Schweikart --- with everything from A to Z in between, in no particular order!
Or seemingly no particular order.... I've only spent a few minutes scouring the list's excessively abundant riches, and I do see the occasional pattern emerging... a short run of publications relating to Chinese coins here, another short run of German books there.... but even those "patterns" seem random, with no internal logic (alphabetical or thematic). They truly appear random, as the catalog copy notes ("listed as they were encountered").
This makes for a fun, treasure-hunting feeling, like exploring an old book shop in disarray. But it's also a bit frustrating, not being able to scan by author name or by theme.
I think he's forcing us to read the entire catalog. Cleverness, thy name is Kolbe!
"After the 2007 move, George Frederick Kolbe / Fine Numismatic Books discovered thousands of excess numismatic publications put aside over the past quarter century. Some are offered for sale here. . . . Items are listed as they were encountered; there is no index." [emphasis added]
What follows is a list of 1,179 numismatic books, catalogs, monographs, etc., starting with Pellicer i Bru and ending with Schweikart --- with everything from A to Z in between, in no particular order!
Or seemingly no particular order.... I've only spent a few minutes scouring the list's excessively abundant riches, and I do see the occasional pattern emerging... a short run of publications relating to Chinese coins here, another short run of German books there.... but even those "patterns" seem random, with no internal logic (alphabetical or thematic). They truly appear random, as the catalog copy notes ("listed as they were encountered").
This makes for a fun, treasure-hunting feeling, like exploring an old book shop in disarray. But it's also a bit frustrating, not being able to scan by author name or by theme.
I think he's forcing us to read the entire catalog. Cleverness, thy name is Kolbe!
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I need to print the list and take a look. It is on the "to do" list, and I will do it righy now!!
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
<< <i>How did I miss this thread the first time, and how did my assistant not inform me of it? Those are two questions I need to find the answers to.
I need to print the list and take a look. It is on the "to do" list, and I will do it righy now!! >>
My goodness, Dentuck...you've done it now... Longacre is in such a frothy frenzy that he has done something that he rarely, if ever, does... he has "commited" a typo
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<< <i>How did I miss this thread the first time, and how did my assistant not inform me of it? Those are two questions I need to find the answers to.
I need to print the list and take a look. It is on the "to do" list, and I will do it righy now!! >>
My goodness, Dentuck...you've done it now... Longacre is in such a frothy frenzy that he has done something that he rarely, if ever, does... he has "commited" a typo
Larry-- the boards know that Longacre's fingers are too genteel to touch a typewriter's keys, and his executive assistant does the posts via dication. I will need to fire her immediately.
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
> his executive assistant does the posts via dication
Ahhhh, but we were all under the impression Mr. Longacre proofed her work before the reply to thread button was clicked. Are you sure the typo isn't in fact direct evidence of a Monday Morning frothy frenzy? It seems to quack like a duck and walk like a duck
Now if it were 1,179 rare colonial coins that were offered to me at a substantial discount to their current market value, I think I could make the time.
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
More worthy of the "Frothy Frenzy" sticker of approval is David Sklow's recent announcement of QDB deaccessions. It appears to be much of the source material used for QDB's California Gold Rush History, but it is hard to say for sure from the information so far released.
With Mssrs. Fanning and Sklow now doing regular auction sales in addition to Mr. Kolbe & Mr. Davis, there is lots of material to choose from lately. And let us not forget our own FirstMint who has been issuing fixed price lists for quite a long time.