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I recently bought complete year sets of 1947 and 1966...I saw them as cheap at $6.00 per year plus shipping....total was $17.00. I have to say the difference in the quality of the photo's on the older issues is superior to todays. I also prefer the content. (I'm talking about the 1947 issues) The advertising is interesting, but seen one, seen them all. The articles seem to have much more depth to them, and cover subjects such as Background of the Higley coppers, Alaska copper plate money, Early coins of the Philippines (Including 30 high quality photo's of coins restruck or countermarked for use in the Philippines), The Birth of Numismatic Science, as well as Continental currency and The Coins of Vermont. Railroad and other transportation tokens take up several pages in one issue...great pics and descriptions. For you Vermont collectors, the April 1947 issue has a 23 page article on Vermonts with detailed descriptions and high quality pics of 34 obv/rev Vermonts, including the
mules. The last picture and description, 1788 No. 35 (R6) is of a "New variety" discovered by Damon G. Douglas of Caldwell NJ, it being the reverse of No. 18 previously described with a different obverse. The coin is very obviously an overstrike on an Irish halfpenny.....etc ...Damon Douglass was the ANA VP at this time.
In another issue. Max Schwartz, the ANA's main guy in NYC calls on other collectors of tokens...all sorts of tokens, to get together and trade amongst each other, establishing contact through the classified section. This because dealers usually just sell these cheap pieces in bulk and don't attribute or describe them leaving collectors with a large number of duplicates.
The 1947 ANA convention was held in Buffalo, and the October issue has a wonderful description and photo's of the event happenings including awards and exhibits. An earlier 1947 issue calling on people to hurry and make reservations(June 1947) has a terrific photo of Main Street Buffalo at night...looks like times square to me...teeming with 1940's sedans and white lights. "Hotel Accommodations Becoming Limited" Hotel Statler...As of late April, rooms at the following rates are no longer available.
1.-Single Rooms, #3.50 and $5.00 per day
2.-Double Bedded Rooms, $5.75, $7.25, and $9.00 per day
3.-Rooms with twin beds, $9.00 and $11.00 per day
4.-Suites $12.25 and $15.50 per day
There is so much more. The letters to the editor, new and renewed applications for membership, obituaries....many well known names, some not so known.
In the editor's corner, on page 110 of the January 1947 issue is a letter from A. Bernard Shore of Hollywood. Mr Bernard was a makeup artist for Max Factor and an ANA member. He writes that when Fred Fredricks, chief hair stylist of the studio was styling the wig which George Saunders will wear as Charles the Second in "Forever Amber", "I noticed that he was using a blown-up photograph of a Charles II coin as a model. I found that he had borrowed a gold "broad" or 20 shilling piece from Kenneth Lee in Glendale, and had had it photographed to get an absolutely authentic likeness for his wig designing." (With this letter is a photo of a man holding a large photo of the coin mentioned)
I rambled a bit, but hope you all get the point. There is a lot of inexpensive good reading out there if you look for it....sort of a historical readers digest for coin collectors. I didn't care for the 1966 editions nearly as much. I will concentrate on the issues through the 50's.
Steve
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<DIV>I recently bought complete year sets of 1947 and 1966...I saw them as cheap at $6.00 per year plus shipping....total was $17.00. I have to say the difference in the quality of the photo's on the older issues is superior to todays. I also prefer the content. (I'm talking about the 1947 issues) The advertising is interesting, but seen one, seen them all. The articles seem to have much more depth to them, and cover subjects such as Background of the Higley coppers, Alaska copper plate money, Early coins of the Philippines (Including 30 high quality photo's of coins restruck or countermarked for use in the Philippines), The Birth of Numismatic Science, as well as Continental currency and The Coins of Vermont. Railroad and other transportation tokens take up several pages in one issue...great pics and descriptions. For you Vermont collectors, the April 1947 issue has a 23 page article on Vermonts with detailed descriptions and high
quality pics of 34 obv/rev Vermonts, including the mules. The last picture and description, 1788 No. 35 (R6) is of a "New variety" discovered by Damon G. Douglas of Caldwell NJ, it being the reverse of No. 18 previously described with a different obverse. The coin is very obviously an overstrike on an Irish halfpenny.....etc ...Damon Douglass was the ANA VP at this time. </DIV>
<DIV>In another issue. Max Schwartz, the ANA's main guy in NYC calls on other collectors of tokens...all sorts of tokens, to get together and trade amongst each other, establishing contact through the classified section. This because dealers usually just sell these cheap pieces in bulk and don't attribute or describe them leaving collectors with a large number of duplicates. </DIV>
<DIV>The 1947 ANA convention was held in Buffalo, and the October issue has a wonderful description and photo's of the event happenings including awards and exhibits. An earlier 1947 issue calling on people to hurry and make reservations(June 1947) has a terrific photo of Main Street Buffalo at night...looks like times square to me...teeming with 1940's sedans and white lights. "Hotel Accommodations Becoming Limited" Hotel Statler...As of late April, rooms at the following rates are no longer available.</DIV>
<DIV>1.-Single Rooms, #3.50 and $5.00 per day</DIV>
<DIV>2.-Double Bedded Rooms, $5.75, $7.25, and $9.00 per day</DIV>
<DIV>3.-Rooms with twin beds, $9.00 and $11.00 per day</DIV>
<DIV>4.-Suites $12.25 and $15.50 per day</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>There is so much more. The letters to the editor, new and renewed applications for membership, obituaries....many well known names, some not so known. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>In the editor's corner, on page 110 of the January 1947 issue is a letter from A. Bernard Shore of Hollywood. Mr Bernard was a makeup artist for Max Factor and an ANA member. He writes that when Fred Fredricks, chief hair stylist of the studio was styling the wig which George Saunders will wear as Charles the Second in "Forever Amber", "I noticed that he was using a blown-up photograph of a Charles II coin as a model. I found that he had borrowed a gold "broad" or 20 shilling piece from Kenneth Lee in Glendale, and had had it photographed to get an absolutely authentic likeness for his wig designing." (With this letter is a photo of a man holding a large photo of the coin mentioned)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I rambled a bit, but hope you all get the point. There is a lot of inexpensive good reading out there if you look for it....sort of a historical readers digest for coin collectors. I didn't care for the 1966 editions nearly as much. I will concentrate on the issues through the 50's.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> Steve</DIV></DIV><p>
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