17 Mill Creek Terrace
Hampton, VA 23663
and his email is "Muehl@erols.com", if you want to contact
him. I pre-ordered a copy of his work because it does include Southeast
Asia.
Then I drove to nearby Fort Eustis to acquire a Department of
Defense vehicle decals for my Honda CR-V, but the office issuing them is only
open during the week. There is a 100% ID card check at the gates for
everyone
coming on to Fort Eustis and only a random check of the vehicles
with or without decals. Around the Washington, DC, area, there is a 100%
ID card check at the gates and all vehicles without decals are checked. So
I want
decals to eliminate most of my vehicle checks at Fort Belvoir and
elsewhere. No luck today, so I will come back during the week to acquire
them.
On the way back home, I drove back across the York River bridge
into Gloucester County and stopped at a weekend-only flea market. I found
a couple of items at the same store that has a bunch of MPC that I wrote about a
year or so ago. This time I found a "Junior Officers' Club" menu
dated Thursday, April 29, 1943. Can you imagine stuffed celery, orange
juice, shrimp cocktail, soup and Long Island Duckling with dressing for
$1.65? Those junior officers ate good! In the same folder, I found
an original U.S. Individual Income and Victory Tax Return for 1943. It is
marked "my copy" and for a Jack M, Wilkems(?). He worked at the Virginia
Engineering Company, Newport News Shipbuilding, and for an individual as a
carpenter. His "Net Victory Tax" on the final line of the form was $67.42.
I am gifting both of these items to Fred Schwan because I think the form
should at least be illustrated in the next "World War II Remembered" edition
somewhere near U.S. Treasury items. Both items cost me a grand
total
of $2.00. After the flea market, I drove home and started writing this before I
forgot something and/or changed my mind. I hope my little day trip has
something of interest to some of you Gramsters.
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EDITORIAL
It's always nice to find some new area to collect,
I guess thats how it all starts. He collects this, you collect that and
they collect the other. Then you all start talking to one another, and all of a
sudden, WW2 Remembered is written and published. Then before you know it you
have a bunch of people who decide they aren't the only weirdos collecting this
stuff! But with WW2 Remembered, and Catalog for MPC, and all the other reference
books being published now for a multitude of things, it does get difficult to
find a new niche. But once in a while, you do. I admit I did it with Military
Paybooks. Fred made a quick mention in the previous MPC Catalogs, but when I
started looking, I found no one collecting paybooks as a subject in whole. Now?
I've met one other, who lives overseas, and he specializes in UK &
Commonwealth Territories only. So, the moral? Don't ever let someone do you
thinking for you. Look, listen, make suggestions, always be willing to try
something new, never pass up the opportunity to create a name for yourself where
no one has done so before! Ass't Ed.
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MAIL
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Phil:
I was afraid that was the answer.
I had gone back & reread the 3rd & 4th MPC book materials on S-100 as
well as the WW II Remembered stuff. I happen to believe you are both
right; S-100 is not MPC and should not be
categorized as such.
BUT, as the precursor to true MPC (and as it is the first to carry a series
number in a manner like true MPC -- I understand the year-series differences) it
should have a more of a place in the introductory material than it does.
Most general collectors of paper and
other things military, while maybe aware of the fact that there are 'A' &
'B' forms of Series-100, generally never see the 'A' form of that paper.
The 'B' underprint is far and away what is out there for the public in the
monthly show, estate auction, cigar boxes in the attic, etc.
Hell, I don't need to argue that
with you -- you know all of that many times over. I still think it would
have been worthwhile to stick an up-to-date version of the WWII remembered page
concerning 'B' into MPC4. As long as the 'A' was going to be mentioned, so
should be the 'B' and as long as 'A' was to be charted, so should have been
'B'. Leave it to the professional collectors like you and Fred to argue
out the nuances of the situation.
A
sideline. I was very interested in Joe Boling's comments about looking for
collectibles in the various locations in Vietnam. That brought back many
memories. When I was there in '68, I did a lot wandering thru the market
stalls up & down the country (my job provided the opportunity to travel
across CTZ lines with great frequency) primarily looking for trade dollars but
willing to obtain copies of interesting looking paper -- I was
not serious
about foreign currency at that time. I found that on-the-street the 1964
Kennedy halves and the trade dollars generally were very identifiable as
counterfeit as most bore the same defects and felt/rang false. Colonel A. J.
Vinci (later of Florida Numismatic fame) had been an acquaintance at the
Pentagon. I mailed copies back to him for his verification that they were
indeed fakes. At the time I was there it was somewhat difficult to contact
the dealers whose names I had been given. Most everything was in shambles and I
was not generally focused on my
collecting interests.
In my year, though, I did obtain
several very nice Indochina bills and pre-partition Vietnamese paper. Once
I received a very well used Ho Chi Minh 5 or 10 Dong note in change from a
shopkeeper or
restaurateur who immediately became quite embarrassed that he
had given it to me, an American. I assured him I was not offended and
still have the note. Only in later years did I consider that he might have
been worried I
would turn him in as a subversive or perhaps that he had
given away something he valued. I was too surprised at receiving it to do
anything but put it away to mail back home to the wife who surely wondered at
all the strange stuff she was getting from me.
I had better quit rambling on &
on. I appreciate your reply concerning the S-100 AMC-MPC.
Thanks. You do a fine job with the Gram keep it going. Maybe we now call
you Editor and call Fred the Emeritus Editor?
Rusty Crawford
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
WESPMEX: 12 -14 April
Stamp, Coin and Paper
Money Expo
175 tables
Westchester County Center, Bronx River Pkwy, White
Plains, NY
ANA Seminar: 29 June to 5 July
W.W. II
numismatics seminar at ANA Summer Seminar, July 2002
Session I
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SCHOLARSHIP DONATIONS
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
or contact
Marcus at:
maturner@indy.rr.com
Dealers and resources for collectors:
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MPC CATALOG CORRECTIONS & ENHANCEMENTS
Page 18, Bottom - Users of Military Payment
Certificates
Check marks were omitted from production copies of books.
Please check off the following:
Australia:
641, 661, 681, 692
Canada:
461 through
and including 591
Korea:
641,
661, 681, 692
New Zealand: 641, 661, 681, 692
Thailand:
641, 661, 681, 692
United States: All
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Publisher and Editor:
Fred
Schwan -
MPCGram@yahoo.com