Music, like coins and everything else, will be affected by time, tastes and technology...... you do not have to like it, just recognize it. Cheers, RickO
After his death in 1921. Henry Chapman handled the sale of Caruso's extensive collection.
""""In response to Carl Honore's note about musicians and numismatics, Steve Pellegrini writes: "I wonder if Carl noticed Lot #7 in the upcoming Kolbe auction. It offers the Henry Chapman catalogue for the 1923 NYC sale of Enrico Caruso's extensive collection of gold coins. The great singer's knowledge and acumen of ancient numismatics was well known and respected during his ifetime.
When a courtier informed Italian King Victor Emmanuel that Caruso had just acquired a particularly fine specimen of rare Roman gold, he remarked with a sigh, "If I were Caruso then I too could afford to buy such a coin". -- If you've ever read the catalogues of Hans Schulman's marathon 1967 sale of the King's collection then you'll know that no crocodile tears need be shed for Old Vic Savoy or his coin collection."""""
"""And then I gather my faculties together and call for my valet. He comes rushing in quite cool, and, without any tremor in his voice, says: “It is nothing.” But all the same he advises me to dress quickly and go into the open, lest the hotel fall and crush us to powder. By this time the plaster on the ceiling has fallen in a great shower, covering the bed and the carpet and the furniture, and I, to, begin to think it is time to “get busy.”""""
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""""In response to Carl Honore's note about musicians and
numismatics, Steve Pellegrini writes: "I wonder if Carl
noticed Lot #7 in the upcoming Kolbe auction. It offers
the Henry Chapman catalogue for the 1923 NYC sale
of Enrico Caruso's extensive collection of gold coins.
The great singer's knowledge and acumen of ancient
numismatics was well known and respected during his
ifetime.
When a courtier informed Italian King Victor Emmanuel
that Caruso had just acquired a particularly fine specimen
of rare Roman gold, he remarked with a sigh, "If I were
Caruso then I too could afford to buy such a coin". --
If you've ever read the catalogues of Hans Schulman's
marathon 1967 sale of the King's collection then you'll
know that no crocodile tears need be shed for Old Vic
Savoy or his coin collection."""""
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"""And then I gather my faculties together and call for my valet. He comes rushing in quite cool, and, without any tremor in his voice, says: “It is nothing.” But all the same he advises me to dress quickly and go into the open, lest the hotel fall and crush us to powder. By this time the plaster on the ceiling has fallen in a great shower, covering the bed and the carpet and the furniture, and I, to, begin to think it is time to “get busy.”""""
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....lots of aftershocks.
Thanks for catching the typo.