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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 987678, member: 57463&quot;]THE COLLECTORS</p><p><br /></p><p>Emanuel “Ed” Trompeter joined the navy before World War II and served as a radioman on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise. He was transferred to the seaplane tender U.S.S. Tangier where he was on station at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.&nbsp; Before retiring, he joined the Digital Data Bus Standards Committee, which provided infrastructure for electronic combat in the first Persian Gulf War. </p><p><br /></p><p>Working with the military, Trompeter, traveled extensively and discovered numismatics. As he explained to Coin World’s Beth Deisher for a July 3, 1991, interview: “I used to get up early on Sunday morning and want something to do. I would go places and do things. I would go to stamp shows, swap meets. You name it. I did it. One day, I ended up at a coin show, and I was intrigued by the coins.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Pursing a complete set of U. S. proof gold from 1859 to 1915, Ed Trompeter attended the 1982 Eliasberg sale. Also at that auction was Harry Bass.</p><p><br /></p><p>Harry Wesley Bass, Jr.,(1927-1998) grew up in a family oil business. As an adult, he was active in local politics in Dallas, a Republican Party activist in a heavily Democrat neighborhood. Extroverted and enthusiastic, he organized the Dallas Ski Club and worked hard to develop new facilities in Vail, Colorado. He bought his first collectible coin at age 39. The following year, he attended his first auction. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Eliasberg auction was the most complete collection of U.S. gold by type and variety, but it was not a complete set of U.S. gold coins in proof – and that was exactly what Ed Trompeter and Harry Bass both were after.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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