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Does anyone have a picture of Izzy Switt?

saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,727 ✭✭✭
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I've never seen one, but I have an image of him as a short, balding, slightly hunched-over, 50-something guy wearing his pants too high and chomping on a wet cigar all day long. That's the stereotypical old-school Arch Street jewelry, coin dealer.

I couls see Danny DeVito play him in the movie, "Izzy's Switt's Excellent Adventure." image

If you have a pic of him, POST it please. I googled his name and there were lots of coins and a pic of Richard Nixon! image Izzy didn't look that that putz!

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  • garrynotgarrynot Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭


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  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,176 ✭✭✭✭✭
    pick one out

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    looks too honest to steal

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  • CalGoldCalGold Posts: 2,608 ✭✭
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    from the internet. Can't verify.

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  • saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,727 ✭✭✭
    Not Izzy, Cal.
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  • saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,727 ✭✭✭
    Along these likes but crustier....image


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  • pruebaspruebas Posts: 4,582 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If you have a good-enough reason, I suppose you can always write a letter to Mrs. Langbord.
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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,727 ✭✭✭
    I know because he doesn't fit the way I have Izzy pictured in my mind., Al!

    Anymore questions? Pffffffffffffffffffffffttt! image
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  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭
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    Oye, probably not image

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  • CalGoldCalGold Posts: 2,608 ✭✭
    Here's one taken under an assumed name while he was in the witness protection program.

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  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭
    I thought this was Jay

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    Pic taken just before making a trade

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  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭
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  • saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,727 ✭✭✭
    I Googled it AL. If you do so too, you'll see the pic of Nixon that I mentioned. Now was Izzy Nixon or that guy with the stuff in his hands?

    Oh...that handsome pic of me was when I was about 30 pounds heavier. I'm a lean and mean 200 pounds now! That's fighting weight! image
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  • habaracahabaraca Posts: 2,038 ✭✭✭✭✭
    my google search sent me back here
  • saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,727 ✭✭✭


    << <i>my google search sent me back here >>



    That's absolutely hilarious!!! image
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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,471 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    from the internet. Can't verify.

    CG >>



    When you google his name it lists this photo on s site written by a Leon Worden site where he interviews Barry Berke regarding the case with a caption below the photo that says it is, Sainty how do you knopw it isn't Izzy's pic since I assume you are being forthright and don't have one at this time? >>



    I would assume that the man with the large silver sombrero is indeed Mr. Switt.
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  • saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,727 ✭✭✭
    I don't WANT to be leaner, nor due to six months of loose bowels. image

    I'm not MEAN. I'm just a powerful man of the pen. image
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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,471 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>image >>



    That's Israel Bonds, Secret Agent Oy Oy Seven, in disguise.......

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  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,313 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Izzy is one of those 2 guys in the center photo of SG's sig line. The other guy is his righteous brother Izziah. Neither is fat or balding. image

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  • saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,727 ✭✭✭
    The only way I'd believe that picture was Switt would be if he was running with those giant coins.
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,512 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Why do you want a pic of Izzy Switt? Seems like a strange request.

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  • saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,727 ✭✭✭
    I had a strange urge.
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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,471 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Why do you want a pic of Izzy Switt? Seems like a strange request. >>



    He's gonna frame his 1933 with the picture of Izzy above it......
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  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I had a strange urge. >>




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  • Classof67Classof67 Posts: 1,502 ✭✭✭
    Man, you can't buy entertainment like this!imageimage
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  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,585 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The man was deadly as hell with a revolver-- he could "shoot the eye out of a one-eyed jack at 30 paces" ( Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show, page 144) and slept with a pet monkey named Jocko that he won in a poker match.

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  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
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    I have what is supposed to be an image of a young Izzy handing over what is to be the last of the coins he ever surrendered.
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hmmmm... if you rearrange the letters in Izzy Switt you get St. Wizzity..... an uncle of St. Guru..... image Cheers, RickO
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,512 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>Why do you want a pic of Izzy Switt? Seems like a strange request. >>



    He's gonna frame his 1933 with the picture of Izzy above it...... >>

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    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,471 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Man, you can't buy entertainment like this!imageimage >>



    Actually, you can, but only in certain counties in Nevada......

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  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭
    Abe: Yo Izzy, who was dat nudnik?

    Izzy: Meh, he's that Brahin boychick! Always thinks he can pull one over on old Izzy! image



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    Abe: Got a cigar?

    Izzy: Damn! Dat little pisher musta got 'em when I was lookin' at his stupid tchotchke!

  • StubbyMcNumbthumbsStubbyMcNumbthumbs Posts: 1,259 ✭
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    "...with his purchases from an estate sale in 1944."
  • WaterSportWaterSport Posts: 6,870 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sounds like the name of some 1970's porn movie producer.....

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  • ColonelJessupColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I know because he doesn't fit the way I have Izzy pictured in my mind., Al!

    Anymore questions? Pffffffffffffffffffffffttt! image >>



    No, your narcissism has never been in question.image
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  • DuCrozatDuCrozat Posts: 358


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    "...with his purchases from an estate sale in 1944." >>




    I wonder how much that woman cost him? Or did she come with the serving tray?
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,471 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    "...with his purchases from an estate sale in 1944." >>




    I wonder how much that woman cost him? Or did she come with the serving tray? >>



    His wife, Elizabeth, worked with him in the store. I would guess that that was her. Her brother, Edward Silver, was Switt's silent partner.

    TD
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  • NotSureNotSure Posts: 2,978 ✭✭✭
    I saw a VERY interesting show, on the Smithsonian channel....titled 'Hunt for The Double Eagle'. Anyone else see it? Very interesting piece in the tracking down of the '33 Double Eagles. Seems the 'chief cashier' named George McCann admittited to stealing coins from the Mint in Philly, and did a year in the slammer..., linking him to Switt. VERY interesting piece, that doesn't seem to be on again anytime soon. Here's the link to a 50 second clip....I DO have it on the DVR, and have a DVD recorder, so......

    They say you can see full episodes on the site, but I can't find the full episode on this one.
    I'll come up with something.
  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,105 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>my google search sent me back here >>



    That's absolutely hilarious!!! image >>


    And if you search Google images, you get Howlin' Wolf in the 2nd row.

    Would Snoop Dogg call him "Izzizzy?"
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  • JamesMurrayJamesMurray Posts: 4,036 ✭


    << <i>I saw a VERY interesting show, on the Smithsonian channel....titled 'Hunt for The Double Eagle'. Anyone else see it? Very interesting piece in the tracking down of the '33 Double Eagles. Seems the 'chief cashier' named George McCann admittited to stealing coins from the Mint in Philly, and did a year in the slammer..., linking him to Switt. VERY interesting piece, that doesn't seem to be on again anytime soon. Here's the link to a 50 second clip....I DO have it on the DVR, and have a DVD recorder, so......

    They say you can see full episodes on the site, but I can't find the full episode on this one. >>



    That is interesting , very much so. I can't recall if it was mentioned in the copious threads surrounding these coins that the cashier from the phillie mint done time in the pokey for nicking coins.
  • saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,727 ✭✭✭
    OK. I'm going to believe this is Izzy, even though I pictured him more like Danny DeVito. image

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  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,105 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How about Ned Beatty, then?
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  • saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,727 ✭✭✭


    << <i>How about Ned Beatty, then? >>



    Judging by that pic, yes, Ned looks like him.

    But to capture his persona it's still DeVito! image
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  • SportsModeratorSportsModerator Posts: 1,624 mod
    Jay

    How about Loretta Swit? Close enough?

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  • saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,727 ✭✭✭
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    Google is your friend!

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  • GeorgeKelloggGeorgeKellogg Posts: 1,251 ✭✭
    David Tripp's book Illegal Tender, page 166, contains this same photograph. Tripp identifies the man in the center of the photograph as Israel Switt, taken in July, 1944. As we know, Mr. Switt was also known as "Izzy."
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