Post by imakegarb on Oct 3, 2006 14:18:52 GMT
Greetings all!!
Anyone want any hubs and dies?
Several of my nonMasonic buds are, effectively, coiners. They make dies and hubs and make tokens and specialty coins, mostly for the fantasy, scificon, LARP market. As such, they often find existing dies and hubs and then adjust them to make coins more appropriate for their market (for instance, one fellow I know obtained a die used to make Pope John Paul II commemorative medals and turned it into a die to make a Klingon coin. Actually, was very nicely done, if you can imagine the Pope as a Klingon).
Anyway, one of these buds of mine recently sunk about $1,200 US into a HUGE collection of hubs and dies. Among them were about 700 of Freemasonic origin. He sent me photos of some of the more typical of these steel hubs and dies thinking, perhaps, I would be interested.
He said from what he's been able to determined, these make up the entire master-hub archival collection from STANG, Inc. (their logo, which he said is a very fancy "S", is on the backs) that manufactured them from the 1920s to the 1980s but has now parted with them.
I told him they are certainly beautiful and well done but that I am no coiner or token, uh, er. I also told him my jurisdiction really doesn't do much in the way of coins and tokens; and that the S&C we use has a yod in the center instead of a G, so much of the inventory would not work for us. So then he said he might try and do something in the Masonic market himself if I would concent to explaining what all the symbols mean (I politely declined). He then asked me if I'd let some of the my other buds know and I said yes.
From what he tells me, I think he'd sell the entire lot of them for a few hundred dollars.
Here are the photos he sent me:
Anyone want any hubs and dies?
Several of my nonMasonic buds are, effectively, coiners. They make dies and hubs and make tokens and specialty coins, mostly for the fantasy, scificon, LARP market. As such, they often find existing dies and hubs and then adjust them to make coins more appropriate for their market (for instance, one fellow I know obtained a die used to make Pope John Paul II commemorative medals and turned it into a die to make a Klingon coin. Actually, was very nicely done, if you can imagine the Pope as a Klingon).
Anyway, one of these buds of mine recently sunk about $1,200 US into a HUGE collection of hubs and dies. Among them were about 700 of Freemasonic origin. He sent me photos of some of the more typical of these steel hubs and dies thinking, perhaps, I would be interested.
He said from what he's been able to determined, these make up the entire master-hub archival collection from STANG, Inc. (their logo, which he said is a very fancy "S", is on the backs) that manufactured them from the 1920s to the 1980s but has now parted with them.
I told him they are certainly beautiful and well done but that I am no coiner or token, uh, er. I also told him my jurisdiction really doesn't do much in the way of coins and tokens; and that the S&C we use has a yod in the center instead of a G, so much of the inventory would not work for us. So then he said he might try and do something in the Masonic market himself if I would concent to explaining what all the symbols mean (I politely declined). He then asked me if I'd let some of the my other buds know and I said yes.
From what he tells me, I think he'd sell the entire lot of them for a few hundred dollars.
Here are the photos he sent me: