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Vol 1 Number 65 July 13, 2000
News and Views
There has been a lot of interest in the last few weeks about the Japanese AMC. This has been fueled somewhat by the offer of the One Yen BEP replacement on ebay. The Japanese AMC can be confusing to the new collector since three printers contributed to printing the series--the BEP, the Japanese Finance Ministry Printing Bureau and Stecher-Traung. Of all the companies that printed MPC and AMC, Stecher-Traung is probably the company that we know the least about. Books have been written about the BEP and the American Banknote Co, articles about Forbes and we are uncovering more each year about the problems that Tudor Press had while printing MPC. But little has been found about Stecher-Traung other than that they printed most of the Japanese AMC in San Francisco, CA., used an italic "S" for a printers mark and Prefixed replacements with a "H."
Knowing the lack of information on Stecher-Traung, I was amazed when I came across a window sticker for the 5th War Bond Loan that was printed by these folks. However the credit at the bottom of the sticker reads "Stecher-Traung, Rochester, N.Y. 6,075M-5-8-44. Does that mean that S/T had a printing plant in New York? Or could this simply be a field office and the work was done in California. Not many items have been found that can be attributed to this printing firm. So keep your eyes open, as you never know when you might find something like this. By the way, the date of 5-8-44 is just prior to the start of the 5th War Loan which ran from Jun 12 to Jul 8. The 6,075M could possibly indicate a printing of 6,075,000. since the goal for the 5th War Loan was $16 Billion of which $6 Billion was targeted to individuals. If anyone has any knowledge of a Stecher-Traung plant in New York, we would sure like to hear about it. --Larry
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Numbers while in Hawaii: Cell phone (419) 349-1872, condo (808) 875 0575.
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Calendar
In this section we will highlight MPC chat, MPC Fest, and MPC gram events. Other events will be mentioned as they get close. For planning purposes see the papermoneyworld.com calendar of events.
The next major show is the American Numismatic Association Convention (August 9-13). This year the convention will be in Philadelphia. 25 years ago the ANA convention was one of the major events for paper money. Now with the development of so many successful paper money shows (and of course the MPC Fest), its importance has diminished, but it is still an important show. Because it is such a big and important show, you cannot help but find some good paper there. Marv Mericle's great MPC collection will NOT be on display as promissed because of family and administration problems. We are certainly sorry to hear about that, but hope that all goes well with Marv and that we will see the exhibit again soon.
I will be there the entire time and will be pleased to chat MPC with you!
Chat was not operating Sunday night. I do not know what the problem was, but it should be "fixed" for Monday night.
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MPC Gram
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Vol 1 Number 65 July 13, 2000
News and Views
There has been a lot of interest in the last few weeks about the Japanese AMC. This has been fueled somewhat by the offer of the One Yen BEP replacement on ebay. The Japanese AMC can be confusing to the new collector since three printers contributed to printing the series--the BEP, the Japanese Finance Ministry Printing Bureau and Stecher-Traung. Of all the companies that printed MPC and AMC, Stecher-Traung is probably the company that we know the least about. Books have been written about the BEP and the American Banknote Co, articles about Forbes and we are uncovering more each year about the problems that Tudor Press had while printing MPC. But little has been found about Stecher-Traung other than that they printed most of the Japanese AMC in San Francisco, CA., used an italic "S" for a printers mark and Prefixed replacements with a "H."
Knowing the lack of information on Stecher-Traung, I was amazed when I came across a window sticker for the 5th War Bond Loan that was printed by these folks. However the credit at the bottom of the sticker reads "Stecher-Traung, Rochester, N.Y. 6,075M-5-8-44. Does that mean that S/T had a printing plant in New York? Or could this simply be a field office and the work was done in California. Not many items have been found that can be attributed to this printing firm. So keep your eyes open, as you never know when you might find something like this. By the way, the date of 5-8-44 is just prior to the start of the 5th War Loan which ran from Jun 12 to Jul 8. The 6,075M could possibly indicate a printing of 6,075,000. since the goal for the 5th War Loan was $16 Billion of which $6 Billion was targeted to individuals. If anyone has any knowledge of a Stecher-Traung plant in New York, we would sure like to hear about it. --Larry
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Numbers while in Hawaii: Cell phone (419) 349-1872, condo (808) 875 0575.
========================================================
Letters
========================================================
Calendar
In this section we will highlight MPC chat, MPC Fest, and MPC gram events. Other events will be mentioned as they get close. For planning purposes see the papermoneyworld.com calendar of events.
The next major show is the American Numismatic Association Convention (August 9-13). This year the convention will be in Philadelphia. 25 years ago the ANA convention was one of the major events for paper money. Now with the development of so many successful paper money shows (and of course the MPC Fest), its importance has diminished, but it is still an important show. Because it is such a big and important show, you cannot help but find some good paper there. Marv Mericle's great MPC collection will NOT be on display as promissed because of family and administration problems. We are certainly sorry to hear about that, but hope that all goes well with Marv and that we will see the exhibit again soon.
I will be there the entire time and will be pleased to chat MPC with you!
Chat was not operating Sunday night. I do not know what the problem was, but it should be "fixed" for Monday night.
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Trading post
Your classified advertisement for items for sale will be run here for free. Send your ads to the gram
please respond to this address or to fred@papermoneyworld.com
Do You Yahoo!?
Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere!
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