Return-Path: Received: from web5203.mail.yahoo.com ([216.115.106.97]) by osgood.mail.mindspring.net (Mindspring Mail Service) with SMTP id t5vk55.htr.30ahi43 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 22:51:01 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20010113035100.17234.qmail@web5203.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [152.163.197.183] by web5203.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 19:51:00 PST Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 19:51:00 -0800 (PST) From: MPCgram Subject: MPC Gram 223 To: mpcgram@yahoo.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ==================================================== MPC Gram ==================================================== Covering the Entire World of Military Numismatics ---------------------------------------------------- Series 002-Number 223 Saturday -13 January 2001 FUN and Weird Experiences by Howard A. Daniel, III There was an exhibit of MPC at the show! I discovered later it was set up by a former Navy guy from the Midwest. It was a complete type set and there were even series with matching digits! It was an excellent exhibit but I still had concerns about it. Have you ever known a Navy guy to ever save enough money past Saturday night to buy anything? I bet they are really owned by his wife and he is taking credit for her exhibit! Can you believe it is his collection? But my primary memory of the show is of four grown men, not boys, talking about the smallest details of MPC, AMC and related militaria they have seen on the bourse and what they acquired there. They talked for four hours without taking a breath!! This would not be so bad but half of them were sitting on my hotel room bed until almost 1AM. I need a full night's sleep or I just do not have all of my parts properly functioning the next day, but these guys are on a drug called MPC that allows them not to feel the lack of sleep. Can you believe it? On Friday, one of these rough and tumble men receives a telephone call from his wife that her cat needed to be put down the next day and he needed to leave the show a day early and be with her. The other three men were in shock that he was considering leaving the show early and possibly missing some piece appearing on the bourse. This man did not like the cat but he loves his wife, so he departed a day early to be with her. Can you believe it? I also received some harassment from these men because I arrived on Friday for FUN and departed Saturday afternoon. How can someone not be at the FUN Show for the full four days? I had driven down from Virginia to also visit with close friends and relatives. And arrangements had been made for me to have Sunday dinner with two of my godchildren and their families. These men, and I will not call them gentlemen, were lecturing me about my priorities. How can someone put relatives and friends ahead of numismatics and MPC? Can you believe it? After my hotel room's non-residents departed in the wee hours of the morning, one of my roomies stayed up to compose something on a notebook computer. He was loud enough to keep me awake for another hour while he was cursing, typing and trying to send out something with "gram" in the last part of its name. Instead of accomplishing this work earlier in the evening, he had to be involved in talking with the other men about the very last conversation about an American Express Vietnam office MPC wrapper. Can you believe it? I will not mention the names of the above men, but I am going to steer clear of them at my next numismatic event. And you had better believe this! Your "normal" friend, Howard ==================================================== Editorial ---------------------------------------------------- I think that the only other time that I commented on a lead story in an editorial was also to comment about one of Howard's submissions. Howard missed one of the important parts of dealing (and collecting too, for that matter.) It is important to know you clientele. That cat had the best feline MPC replacement collection on the planet. Furthermore he was a great collector. He got every single piece by scouring the floor of a well-known collector! ==================================================== Mail Call ---------------------------------------------------- =================================================== Departments --------------------------------------------------- WWII numismatics seminar at ANA Summer Seminar 2001 --------------------------------------------------- Not only does the scholarship fund have an official identity but also has a bank account! Any further donations should be paid to the order of "Military Numismatists Scholarship" and sent to: Military Numismatists c/o Marcus Turner 8103 East US Highway 36 Suite 163 Avon, IN 46123 THE UPDATED LIST OF SCHOLARSHIP BENEFACTORS 11/22/00. These folks have generously provided money or material to finance scholarships to the ANA WWII Numismatics seminar. Your contributions will help promote collecting WWII material and be greatly appreciated. Mike Cummings Ed B. Doug Bell R. A. Medina Harold MPCKid Kroll Bill McNese Marcus Turner Larry Ski Fred PK6 Joel Shafer World Wide Ventures John & Nancy Wilson Neil Shafer ----------------------------------------------------- MPC Fest II ----------------------------------------------------- MPC Fest is the annual feast of MPC. After some difficulties of coordination we have not changed the dates and tentatively scheduled 9-11 March 2001 for MPC Fest II. If these dates cause a problem, please write the gram immediately. ==================================================== Post/Base Exchange (PX/BX/NEX) Dump your dupes! Your classified advertisement for items for sale will be run here for free. Send your ads to the gram. This service is for everyone, most humble dealer or most advanced collector. The point is to make the gram more interesting. Send in a list of items for sale and we will list them here in the gram. In all cases confirm your order via email first. MPC Series 651 $10 uncirculated $250. Ian Marshall, please e-mail for confirmation. iam@total.net. MPC Series 681 $1 with aviator vignette CU, $17. verify at fred@papermoneyworld.com. =================================================== Staff: publisher and editor: Fred Schwan - fred@papermoneyworld.com; assistant editor - Phil Goldstein critic: Harold Kroll - MPCKid@papermoneyworld.com; index manager: Ed Beaman webmaster & technical advisor: Doug Bell - (Wiz): doug@papermoneyworld.com; The Boss: Judy Schwan ===== MPC Gram is published by BNR Press and papermoneyworld.com as a free service to the community of military money collectors. Your suggestions, criticisms, complaints, editorial contributions, letters, and even praise are very welcome. 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