Status: U Return-Path: Received: from web5201.mail.yahoo.com ([216.115.106.95]) by strange.mail.mindspring.net (Earthlink Mail Service) with SMTP id tleqvo.18p.37kbi0u for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 19:23:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20010719232334.6882.qmail@web5201.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.12.103.48] by web5201.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 16:23:34 PDT Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 16:23:34 -0700 (PDT) From: MPCgram Subject: MPCGram 398 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 398 Thurski, July 19, 2001 More Ski on the Road by Larry "Ski" Smulczesnki What do Camp Perry in Northwest Ohio and Austin, Texas have in common? A couple of months ago Phil Goldstein wrote a neat travelogue for the Gram about our visit to Camp Perry after the MPC Fest to view the site of a World War II Prisoner of War Camp. In addition to the POW Camp, we also saw a small French box car that was on display. The box car was sent to the United States with gifts from the French in appreciation for all the food that was sent to France by the United States after WWII. We all thought that this was a neat monument to remember the difficult times that the French had to endure. As I told you last week, I've been in Austin, Texas for the last couple of weeks for the wedding of my youngest daughter. That event took place this past Saturday, and we had the reception in the VFW Hall in South Austin overlooking Town Lake. The building is a beautiful huge two-story turn of the century, stone house on a couple acre grassy knoll overlooking this lake. But as I approached the building, I was amazed to see an identical small French box car sitting adjacent to the house. My family could not see what I was so excited about, but to me seeing that box car was almost as thrilling as marrying off that last child. Both box cars are well preserved and have nice brass tablets explaining the purpose of their display. I wonder how many more of them are on display in other locations around the United States. Does anyone know of any others? Fred reviewed the movie "Ike" in the Gram a couple of weeks ago. He let me borrow it and I have since had a chance to review it. It is a great movie to watch and a lot more factual than "Pearl Harbor." It is a long movie running for four and a half hours on two cassettes, but it is professionally made with Robert Duvall starring as General Eisenhower and Lee Remick playing the part of his driver and aide. Fred has generously offered this movie to any Gram reader that wants to view it. We have decided that persons who want to view the tapes should send me a email to skifla@prodigy.net. I will mail it to first person who responds and start a list of people who want to view the movie after that. We will go through that list and readvertise after we exhaust it. The only cost to you is the mailing charges to the next person on the list. So get your reservations in quickly, since it is first come first served. There is no doubt that if you have an interest in the topics written about in the Gram you will enjoy this movie. Even more on Smileage Booklets by Phil Goldstein In response to Don Kolkmans article on Smileage Booklets, I have ascertained the following: There apparently were at least four variations to the booklets. All are discernable by either color of the cover/chits and the serial prefix. The denomination doesn't appear to differ between the different issues. My conclusion thus far, with very little proof or documentation to reinforce my theory, is the color changes are either to differentiate between issues , or locations (of which that does not seem logical) prefix color A Salmon B unknown at this time C Blue D Yellow I guess this is one more subject to be placed in that ever growing pile of subjects that needs research and input. Sticking in my two cents (can I get the change in MPC?) =============================================== Editorial ----------------------------------------------- I sure was surprised to see Ski's contrubution on the French Graritude box car above! That is because I had just clipped a small item from some publication in the last week about yet another car somewhere. The article does say where that one is, but the real interesting thing is that the article mentioned that 39 of the cars remain "in service," but no source was given for that information. Possibly one of our Internet wizzards can find a list of some or all of these great items. Such a list will make a nice list of places to visit as we gramsters move around the country! ============================================== Mail Call ----------------------------------------------- Dear Gram, Here is an important Texas paper money show for the Gram calendar. The Fourth Annual Paper Money & Historical Artifacts Show. Sheraton Grandhotel at Dallas/ Ft. Worth Airport. 4440 W. John Carpenter Freeway, Irving Texas 75063. August 16-19 2001. More than 75 dealers. Lyn Knight's 40th Anniversary sale August 18, 2001. R. A. Medina Dear R. A. Thanks for the listing. It is now included in the calendar. Will you be there? Editor ================================================ Departments --------------------------------------------------- Calendar of events for Gramsters maintained by Howard Daniel, John Wilson and Gram staff ---------------------------------------------------- June 28-July 1, 2001, Mid America Coin Expo, Sponsored by Numismatic News, Rosemont Convention Center, Rosemont, IL Auction by B & M - No paper money. About 125 tables July 5-8, 2001, Clearwater Coin Show, Clearwater, FL Over 100 tables July 13-15, 2001, Eastern States Numismatic Expo, Brandywine Terrace, Claymont / Wilmington, DE Probably over 100 tables August 2-5, 2001, 42nd Blue Ridge Numismatic Association, Dalton, GA (about one hour drive from the ANA Atlanta convention the following week) Over 150 Dealers Auction by Lucien Birkler, Washington, D.C. from M & M August 4-5, 2001 Meridian Area Coin Club Coin & Currency Show, Howard Johnson Inn, Meridian, MS August 7-12, 2001, ANA Convention at the Cobb Galleria Center, Atlanta, GA The Fourth Annual Paper Money & Historical Artifacts Show. Sheraton Grand hotel at Dallas/ Ft. Worth Airport. 4440 W. John Carpenter Freeway, Irving Texas 75063. August 16-19 2001. More than 75 dealers. Lyn Knight's 40th Anniversary sale August 18, 2001. AUGUST 16-19. 2001, 41st Missouri Numismatic Society Coin Festival, Hilton St. Louis Airport St. Louis, MO August 17-19, 2001, Ohio Coin Expo, Cleveland, OH, 125 tables, August 23-26, 2001, CSNS Fall Convention hosted by the MSNS in Dearborn, MI Auction by NTL/Scotsman Coins, Hyatt Regency Dearborn August 23-25, 2001, New England Coin Expo, Holiday Inn, Mansfield, MA, 130 tables August 25-26, 2001, Golden State Coin Show, CSNS 109th Convention & NASC Masonic Temple Arcadia, CA August 31-Sept. 1-2, 2001, Ohio State Coin Show, Columbus Ohio Host CNS/COINS, Marriott North World Paper Money Fair, run by London Chapter of IBNS October 6/7, 2001 Spink Auction October 5, 2001 Phillips Auction October 4, 2001 My London Paper Money Fairs are: July 15/September 2/November 18, 2001 Important 2002 events Lyn Knight auction of Leo May collection, Chicago, Feb 2002 ANA spring show, Jacksonville FL, 7-9 March 2002. EXHIBIT APPLICATION DEADLINE 11 FEB 2002. [Joe Boling, John and Nancy Wilson confirmed in attendance] MPCFest III, Port Clinton, Ohio March 2002 WWII numismatics seminar at ANA Summer Seminar, July 2002 ANA summer show, New York City, 30 July-4 August 2002. EXHIBIT APPLICATION DEAD LINE 3 JUN 2002. --------------------------------------------------- Donations are now being accepted for scholarships to the 2002 "Military Money" course at the 2002 ANA Summer Seminar. Inquiries and donations should be sent to: Military Numismatists c/o Marcus Turner 8103 East US Highway 36 Suite 163 Avon, IN 46123 Dondors to 2002 Scholarship Fund Steve Feller Harold Kroll FINAL LIST OF SCHOLARSHIP BENEFACTORS for 2001 David Amey, Mr. Anonymous Donor, Mike Cummings, Sue and Keith Bauman, Ed B., Doug Bell, Tom Denly, Continental Coin Invensor, Inc., Denly's, Howard Daniel, R. A. Medina, Harold “MPCKid” Kroll, Leo "Paymaster" May, Mrs. R.C. Matherne, Bill McNease, Marv Mericle, Mel and Jeremy Steinberg, Marcus Turner, Larry Ski, Guido, Fred, PK6, Joel Shafer, World Wide Ventures, Pam West, John and Nancy Wilson, Neil Shafer, W. E. Yanchick, Mark Watson, Al Glaser, Phil Goldstein, Rod Hardy, Wesley Hardy, Gary Hicks, Jack Lippincott, Ian Marshall, Kevin Maloy, David Seelye, Nick Schrier, Elmer Smith, Dan Swartz, Tom Warburton, Dick Freyser, Tim Kyzivat ==================================================== 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. FOR SALE I am selling some duplicate chits as follows. The chits will be accompanied by colored copies of chit book covers. 1. U.S. Enlisted Men's Club, 17 Hupeh Road, Tsingtao China., 1 3/4" x 7/8", 5 cents, US Navy. Void after Dec 31, 1948. Tsingtao was a major operating base of the U.S. Navy from V.J. day until the communists took over in 1948. $25.00 each 2. 15th Air Force Rest Camp, U.S. Army, Quisisana Hotel, Capri, Italy. These 5 and 10 lire chits 2 1/2" x 1 1/4" were used in Jan, 1944 at the rest camp. $20.00 each. 3. Pacific Fleet commissioned Officers' Mess, Navy 3245, these .05, .10 and .25 chits measuring 2" x 7/8" were used on the island of Saipan. $35.00 for three 4. Commissioned Officers' Mess Club, U.S. Naval Repair Base, San Diego, Ca., these .05 and .10 chits measuring 2" x 7/8" were used at this base during WWII. It is at current location of 32nd street NOB. Who remembers the raunchy bars in Nasty City (National City). $10.00 each. 5. Commissioned Officers' Mess, Navy Yard, Pearl Harbor, stamped 28 April, 1945. These 2" by 7/8" chits, in a chit book facsimile signature of Harry H. Horowitz, chit values .05, .10 and .25; $25.00 for three. (will also consider trades of equivalent WWII era Navy chits.) Tom Koch email: kochfam@gte.net WANTED Collectors may submit lists of items wanted for their collections for listing here. Dealers and collectors who have these items are then encouraged to list them or sale in the above section. This is a trial, if you like it, send your list. =================================================== Staff: publisher and editor: Fred Schwan - fred@papermoneyworld.com; assistant editor - Phil Goldstein IWANTMYMPC@aol.com Tuesday columnist Joe Boling – JoeBoling@aol.com Thurski columnist Larry “Ski” Smulczenski – ski@papermoneyworld.com 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. 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