More on Bowers & Merena's The Coin Collector

David Lange sent a comment regarding Bowers and Merena's Coin Collector, which was mentioned in the last issue of The E-Sylum. David writes "I'm looking forward to spending some time with The Coin Collector. I received all issues when new, but a tabloid newsletter was not the sort of thing I'd save. One issue has a photo of my cat Frasier guarding my collection of Bowers & Ruddy / Bowers & Merena catalogs. Can you find it?" Indeed we can, this was published in the Coin Collector issue of October 7, 1996. Q. David Bowers wrote in the caption

David Lange adds today "There he is---my favorite cat of all time. He loved to nap atop those catalogs. It may have had more to do with their being under the heat vent than with any numismatic inclination on his part."

We can not say for sure, but one of the catalogs on the shelf might have been the fixed price list of 1794 large cents, from the John W. Adams collection, sold by Bowers & Ruddy in 1982. The cat depicted on the cover of this catalog was an homage to Adams, a noted feline aficionado.

Image: David Lange's cat Frasier, from The Coin Collector #41

Image: Cover illustration from the John W. Adams 1794 large cent fixed price list

David adds:

Link to The Coin Collector on Newman Portal:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/publisherdetail/539529

Link to The Celebrated John W. Adams Collection of United States Large Cents of the Year 1794:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/578290

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
BOWERS & MERENA'S THE COIN COLLECTOR ON NNP(https://www.coinbooks.org/v23/esylum_v23n46a06.html)