Born in West Patterson, New Jersey. Dealer in New York. Affiliated with the White Oak Trading Co., Great Britain Coin Co., Trans-Africa Development Company and QWERTYUIO Press. Unmarried.

He produced copies of the Continental Currency about 1962 and cast copies of a Nova Constellation Quint. He produced the "Bashlow restrikes" of Confederate cents. More than 30,000 pieces were struck in various metals in 1961.

In 1962 he was expelled from the ANA. He died in a mysterious hotel fire in Zaragoza, Spain. The death toll was estimated at eighty victims. It remains undetermined if the cause was accidental or terrorism.

Russell Rulau wrote, “he died in a mysterious hotel fire in Spain in which he was the only fatality. (NN 2/16/99) This was untrue.

Obit NN 7/28/1979; bio: E-Sylum 5/1/22

Bashlow was a friend of Walter Breen and publisher with Oliver Layton Press Breen's book on Greek Love (1964) under the pseudonym of J.Z. Eglinton and the International Journal of Greek Love. Also author and publishers of 1001 Ways to Beat the Draft (1966).