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Original Hobo Nickel Society WebSite
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Bill Jameson... aka Bill Zach
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Crude? Absolutely! ...but Original or Modern?
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Modern and Recent Carvers
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Gallery Mint Museum Hobo Tokens
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Original Hobo Nickel Society Tokens
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I'm Peddling As Fast As I Can!
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Enlargement scans available on WWW and ScrapBook CD-ROM.
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Original Hobo Nickel Society WebSite
Ron Landis has long been a champion of the OHNS and I want to add my own
recommendation to his. Check out the COOL website that
the OHNS is building at
Link:www.HoboNickels.org. Be sure
and bookmark this location and watch the OHNS grow. Along with the OHNS
news and related links you will find
Link:Membership
Application/Renewal and
Link:Hobo Nickel Quality
Designation forms there for your use.
The OHNS Board of Directors just re-defined the OHNS's mission statement
at their annual meeting January 8, 2001 at the FUN Convention in Orlando,
Florida. There was a long discussion about the increase of modern hobo
nickels and examples of high-quality modern carvings were passed around.
Some were carved in the "old style" and were aged to duplicate what we
have always referred to as "original" carvings. These were close enough
in style to fool any collector or authenticator.
It was decided that each coin should stand or fall on its own merits.
"Modern" carvings by Frank Brazzell, John Durosa, J. Allen and J. Press,
to name a few, have gained new respect and have found eager collectors.
Modern carvers, such as Ron Landis and Sam Alfono, have brought nickel
carving to new heights and their superior artwork is agressively collected
- many times bringing more than "original" examples. They have taken away
the "stigma" connected with modern hobo nickels.
The board decided to include - embrace even - all modern hobo nickels
and their carvers and I applaud this action by the OHNS Board. All hobo
nickels, original to modern, their carvers and their collectors are now
explicitly included as a part of the OHNS.
EMail:Verne R. Walrafen, OHNS#620
I've just submitted a slight reworking of the Britt, Iowa token
ScrapBook subject
to OHNS for possible publishing in a
future issue of BO TALES.
You can view my draft article here:
Link:National Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa.
I encourage you to follow my example and submit your own article(s).
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Bill Jameson... aka Bill Zach
My current favorite modern carvers are Bill Jameson and Ron Landis. There
are several other tremendously talented carvers working today but I have
no experience with any of them as yet. The OHNS's quarterly publication
BO TALES for the spring of 2001 has a neat article featuring
Bill entitled Hobo Carver Billzach.... I won't try to
quote the complete article here since it is quite lengthy and I do not have
the illustrations that came with it.
In separate personal correspondence Bill told me that he has carved about
600 nickels to date. He has just now decided to start a sequential numbering
of his creations as they are completed. He is also working on a book in which
he hopes to illustrate many of his carved nickel creations to date.
Bill recommends the Joyce Romines reference book on Hobo Nickels. There are
two different "Romines" books (so you have to be certain which one you are
ordering should you decide to acquire a copy); 1)
Romines, Delma K.
Hobo nickels, prisoner nickels, shop tokens, modern
engravings; an extensive study of hobo nickels
Newbury Park (CA), Lonesome John, 1982. 106p. ill. 22cm. and 2)
Romines, Joyce Ann
The Hobo nickel, an exclusive upgrade of Hobo nickel
artistry [2nd ed]. Tucker, J & D Coins, 1996.
107p. ill. 28cm. Paper cover. My search engine returns many online
book sellers that include a Romines book in their inventory. The price is
generally just less than $30+sh. I won't put any of those links in this article
because they will likely go stale and because I couldn't be comprehensive in
my coverage of the available sellers.
I will be creating an individual webpage for Bill soon. It is as yet untitled
and I will create it
Link:here when time allows.
EMail:Verne R. Walrafen
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Click for
enlargement
Crude
creation using a nice 1913-D Buffalo nickel
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Crude? Absolutely! ...but Original or Modern?
Actually I just don't care! I suppose I would value this piece a bit
more if I knew it was "original" but not a whole lot more. What would
make me value it considerably higher, and be willing to pay a heck of
a lot more for it, would be having it carved by Ron Landis or Bill Zach.
Of course it wouldn't be this crude if either of those two gentlemen had
been involved it its creation.
EMail:Verne R. Walrafen
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Modern and Recent Carvers
I'm not certain just where I am going with this yet. Check back later and see
what I come up with.
EMail:Verne R. Walrafen
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Gallery Mint Museum Hobo Tokens
- by Ron Landis
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Link:Stand-alone printable GMM Hobo Token page.
All these images are the property of the Gallery Mint Museum. I am using
them here to save myself a LOT
of work so we should be sure to give Mitch Hight credit for his work in
creating these scans. If I can find time
I will replace some of these with my own scans but don't hold your breath
until that happens...
I'm a bit swamped right now. EMail:Verne R. Walrafen
Gallery Mint Museum Box706 EurekaSprings AR
72632
OrderDesk:(888)558-MINT(6468)
Questions:(501)253-5055
Website:www.gallerymint.com
EMail:GalleryMintMuseum
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Original Hobo Nickel Society Tokens
- by Ron Landis
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Britt Hobo
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Click on ANY image for an enlargement.
Link:Stand-alone printable OHNS Token page.
The most recent sale of any of these pieces that I know of was a March 14, 2001
sale on eBay of the
1992 "Hop On" token for $51+sh. The only other source that I am aware of is
directly from OHNS
and they only have some very recent pieces. You can contact:
EMail:Fred (Fenwick) Benson
or write to:
Fred Benson, 9862 Hawthorn Glen, Grosse Ile, Michigan 48138.
I've tried to acquire additional pieces from Ron Landis and he simply doesn't
have any.
He sends every piece struck to OHNS to distribute. Good Luck!
EMail:Verne R. Walrafen
Original Hobo Nickel Society,
Attn: Verne R. Walrafen
12000 Sunset Ridge Drive, Ozawkie, KS 66070-6045
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Click for
Obverse or
Reverse enlargement
92UnshavenStubbleHoboOHNS 95"AllAboard"EngineOHNS
Trial Strike Of 1995 OHNS Reverse Die In Copper
Using an earlier 1992 OHNS die as the obverse.
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I'm Peddling As Fast As I Can!
I am working on a set of overlapping ScrapBook subjects on Ron's GMM Hobo
Tokens, Original Hobo Nickel Society Hobo Tokens and Carved Hobo Nickels.
I am planning on adding a bit about other current or recent carvers to
flesh out the subject(s). This is building up to a huge amount of scans
and effort so please be patient with me and I'll eventually (probably right
after the ides of April) get new subjects posted.
EMail:Verne R. Walrafen
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I am looking for a strike of
92UnshavenStubbleHoboOHNS paired with 94BuffaloOHNS on a nickel
planchet.
This is the normal issue for this piece as it was created in 1994.
I
have extra OHNS tokens for trading purposes only...none for sale.
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