Medallic Art Collector

Thanking people on a website or in a book is always a risky enterprise because scatterbrained people like me always forget someone and then there are hard feelings about the omission. In this particular case, I am already looking back at four years of history and I have not kept a list of site collaborators or people who have been helpful in other ways.

So, to cut a long story short, if you have helped me along the way and I did not list you, please come forward and let me know that I forgot you and I will rectify it.

While they are on the list, I have to stress the contributions of a few authors on whose giant shoulders this website rests: David T. Alexander, Dick Johnson and Scott H. Miller. So much of this website is based on their research that I would have to acknowledge them just about everywhere. Instead, I do it here and only point out in a few places where I have some questions about details.

Without further ado and in no particular order, my thanks go to:

• My wife, who has suffered through my medallic obsession without complaint and only gentle amusement,
• My daughter, who helped me with artist research and wrote some of the biographies,
• David T. Alexander, who provided in-depth research and an example of how to do it through his wonderful book "American Art Medals 1909-1995" and also gave me encouragement through email,
• Dick Johnson, without whose reference works I would never have been able to identify so many medals,
• Scott H. Miller, for his wonderful book "Medallic Art of the American Numismatic Society, 1865-2014",
• Joseph Levine of Presidential Coin & Antique, who has sold me many treasures and has always been willing to share his expertise with me,
• Paul Bosco, in whose store I have spent way too much money,
• Bob Jaeger from Renaissance Man Antiques, who has granted me the use of images and praised my efforts,
• Chris Bach, a fellow collector who has shared images and knowledge,
• Elizabeth Helms of the National Sculpture Society, who has done research on NSS medals on my behalf and been a pleasure to deal with,
• Brian Holt, who allowed me the use of several ANS medal images,
• the creator of sallyjamesfarnham.org for his medallic images and the great artist biography,
• Chrystopher J Spicer, my first true collaborator who has volunteered to enter a bunch of Scandinavian artists and some of their medals,
• Lorraine Burns, for her help with documenting Albino Manca's beautiful Henry Hering Memorial Award,
• Harry Waterson, for his help with all things Julio Kilenyi,
• Loree Bourgoin, Sue Joffray, and Diana Atwood Johnson from Lyme Academy for their help with Elisabeth Gordon Chandler's record,
• Bob Slawsky for granting me the right to use images from his eBay store,
• Elsa Atson from the Chemical Heritage Foundation for researching the history of Chambellan's Lammot DuPont Safety Award plaque,
• Igor A. Osipov, a dedicated medal collector from Russia who is not afraid to voice opinions and helps out when he can,
• Kevin Nolan, a descendant of Ruth Walker Brooks who sent me a lot of information about her,
• Stephen Carofalo, for his help with documenting the Holland Society medals.