The current issue of the TAMS Journal has an article about Charles Bushnell: Token and Medal Trailblazers by Pete Smith According to the artical, Bushnell wrote a book I thought had an amusing title: **************************************** An Arrangement of Tradesmen's Cards, Political Tokens, also Election Medals, Medalets, Etc. Current in the United States of America for the last Sixty Years, Described from the Originals, Chiefly in the Collection of the Author, with Engravings. *************************************** I seem to recall that Dave Bowers once said such titles were fairly common back in the 1800's. If you know a long numismatic title please post it. I count 37 words for Bushnell's book title.
"Miscellaneous Views of the Coins Struck By English Princes in France, COUNTERFEIT STERLINGS, COINS struck by the East India Company, Those in the West India Colonies, And in the ISLE of MAN. Also of Pattern Pieces for Gold and Silver Coins, and Gold Nobles struck Abroad in Imitation of English With Copper-Plates" (deep breath) by Thomas Snelling (1769, whew 53 words) I ran into this while researching the 1652 New England threepence that surfaced in the Netherlands 5-6 years ago, looking for the earliest image that could have been used to make a counterfeit. This book has plates of the NE shilling and sixpence, but not the threepence.
Yikes, 53 words. I don't even think I know 53 different words. Yeah, my conversations are kinda short. I'm pretty much at the end as soon as I begin. Bruce
I believe that too was customary. I also like what @KBBPLL said about such titles serving as a table of contents before someone actually invented one.
Wow. They sure were longwinded in the 18th and 19th centuries, weren't they? I love that old-style long-S on the Snelling title page. The word "struck" looks like "ftruck", and "those" like "thofe".
