GEORGE O. COLT: THE DIESINKER WHO DIED IN THE OUTHOUSE
The E-Sylum (11/21/2010)
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Katie Jaeger writes:
I tripped on this macabre but amusing 1870 news item while doing a general search on the term "die sinker" in the New York Times archive. I thought your readers might enjoy it. Does anyone know of works by this George O. Colt?
Here are a few images I snipped from the article. Colt's death was ruled accidental. -Editor
Dick Johnson adds:
Amusing! George O. Colt is not in my databank of coin, medal and token engravers.
Reminds me when I was going through Philadelphia Mint correspondence with Walter Breen in January 1954 and we found a letter where they ran out of toilet paper at the Mint in Philadelphia. The Superintendent made a frantic appeal by letter to the Treasury Department in Washington, DC.