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CHARLES WORMSER AND THE MYSTERIOUS SLIDE MARKSAlan Weinberg writes: I knew Charles Wormser from my early New Jersey days visiting New Netherlands on 44th St NYC. He was the spitting image of his dad Moritz Wormser. I recall lot examination of some rare colonials including a choice 1790 Standish Barry 3d in an early 1960s New Netherlands auction and noticed on many colonials bright fresh slide marks on the coins, pointing them out to a concerned Charles W. We determined the source of these bright fresh apparent slide marks. The NN catalogue photographer was sliding the coins off the sharp edge of the photography glass. Back in those days, there were no slabs. Scary! Glad the practice was caught. Thanks. We don't seem to have had a photo of Charles Wormser before. I located one on the PCGS site (in Dave Bowers' Abe Kosoff: Dean of Numismatics book) and cropped it from a group photo. Here he is side-by-side with his father. Alan's right - spitting image! -Editor   Charles and Moritz Wormser  A 1964 photograph of directors and officers of the Professional Numismatists Guild. In the back row, standing, left to right: Lester Merkin, Charles Wormser, Dan Brown, Ben Dreiske; in the front row: Leo Young, Abe Kosoff (president at the time), Catherine Bullowa. To see the image on the PCGS site, see: To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see: See the article NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS later in this issue for Alan's recollection of Abe Kosoff. -Editor  Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@gmail.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum All Rights Reserved. NBS Home Page Contact the NBS webmaster 
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