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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Suarez, post: 3596514, member: 99239&quot;]I appreciate the sleuthing on these firms guys. Learned quite a bit!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll contribute a little anecdote of my own. I had the pleasure to meet David Sear at his hone several years ago and one of questions was regarding Freeman &amp; Sear. I assumed that&#039;s where he &quot;worked&quot; at but it turns out that he had no ongoing relationship with them. It&#039;s just one of those setups where your name has become a brand and can be &quot;leased&quot;. Not sure if they actually ever worked together.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back in the 80&#039;s and 90&#039;s Frank Sternberg was another big one that just went off the radar. I&#039;ve no idea if this was just a single guy named Frank who ran auctions or was an actual staffed company but he/them put out catalogs with high quality material for many years.</p><p><br /></p><p>More recently there was a company called Pecunem that seemed to be prolific in the low- to mid-tier material then *POOF* gone.</p><p><br /></p><p>Münzen und Medaillen turned out to be the zombie of the numismatic world dying and being reborn several times with different management teams.</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, back in the day, 50-100 years ago, there were the equivalents of NAC or what Heritage is for U.S. coins. Names like Leo Hamburg, Naville Ars Classica, Jacob Hirsch, Adolph Cahn and others were mostly based in Germany. Their top talent being Jewish by the mid-1930&#039;s conditions had deteriorated to the point where it was impossible to continue business. Some reopened in Switzerland and some I think simply gave up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rasiel[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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