Bob Kebler writes:

Two months ago (in the 4/22 and 4/29 issues) you noted a couple of submissions about the passing of Bernard Edison (R. Tettenhorst or Tett). During 2014 - 2016 I was privileged and honored to be able to collect and organize the R. Tettenhorst Archival Collection, which was donated to the Newman Numismatic Portal in 2017 and was scanned into the portal in 2018.

In these records is a fascinating group of material in which Tett, who was fluent in French, visited the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris in 1995 to see the coins that were in the Vattamare exhibit. I include a summary of the items from my listing of Tett's material.

Tett learned of an exhibition of half cents, large cents, and other US coins at the Bibliotheque Nationale in 1861. The Alexandre Vattemare Collection was described in the exhibition catalog, and it is one of the earliest half cent collections described in the literature.

The material includes: