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<p>[QUOTE="cpm9ball, post: 1988825, member: 24633"]I've been collecting medals for quite a long time now, and one thing I've found is that there are not that many specialized catalogs made available for medals from a particular event unless there were many, many different specimens. For example, the Columbian Exposition attracted many more exhibitors than the Philadelphia Exposition. To add to this, you have foreign participants like France, who normally print catalogs of their medals on an annual basis, but these catalogs include <b>everything</b> not just the medals of the exposition.</p><p><br /></p><p>For years, I tried searching for a comprehensive catalog of French medals of the 19th century, but it doesn't exist. If you wanted to purchase the individual catalogs for each year, it would cost you well over $2K.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cpm9ball, post: 1988825, member: 24633"]I've been collecting medals for quite a long time now, and one thing I've found is that there are not that many specialized catalogs made available for medals from a particular event unless there were many, many different specimens. For example, the Columbian Exposition attracted many more exhibitors than the Philadelphia Exposition. To add to this, you have foreign participants like France, who normally print catalogs of their medals on an annual basis, but these catalogs include [B]everything[/B] not just the medals of the exposition. For years, I tried searching for a comprehensive catalog of French medals of the 19th century, but it doesn't exist. If you wanted to purchase the individual catalogs for each year, it would cost you well over $2K. Chris[/QUOTE]
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