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A New Medal for 'Ivanhoe's' Rebecca

Readers of nIvanhoe,m the novel by Sir Walter Scott, psob- ably never knew that the hero ine , Rebecca, was patterned on an American women, Rebecca Gratx . A forthcoming medal will mark her induction into t h e Jewish-Arnes.ican Ha11 of Fame at the Magnes Museum in Rcrkcley , C a l l i f . Its I,aauance on March 4 , t h e 2110th anniversary of her b i r t h w i . 1 1 a l so spotli~ht the many accmp- 1.j shmenta of this tru1.y remarkable woman.

M i s s Gsatz was a m e m b e r of one of the nation9s outstanding Jewish families. The Cratxcs made numerous contsibution~ to A m e r - ican life and to t h e be t t erment of American J e w s in the 18th and E 9th ccntur fes . Pol i sh-barn Rernard G r a t x and h i s younger brother, Michael , w e r e psomi.ncnt sh ippers and traders on America's east, coast in the late 1700s. nuring the Revalutl.on, they furnished suppies to t h e Continental Amy. a

In 1793 * Michael G r a t x establ ishcd Gratxhurg, a settlement in upstate New York. In 1 8 5 6 h i s Ron, Hyman, founded Gratz C o l l - ege of Philadelphia, t h e f irst J e w i sh teacher-trai ning i n s t i tut- i o n ' i n the United States. Another son, Joseph, became a director of the Philadelphia Institrurt;ion for t h e Instruction .of the Deaf.

Rebecca, Michael" daughter, was the jewel. of t h e dynasty. tn her 21at y e a r , she bccnmc secretary of the Female Association for the Relief of Women and Children in Reduced Circumstanc~s. T,n 18 1.5, at t h e age of 3 4 , s h e h e l p found t h e P h i l a d e l p h i a Orphan S o c i e t y . Then, i n 1838, she made perhaps h e r greatest contr ibut - i o n by founding the Hebrew Sunday School S o c i e t y . T n doing s o , she launched an educational movement which survives to this clay and forms ehe baais far a l l Jewish re l ig ious education in Amer- ica. She never married but made a home I'or h e r unmarried broth- ers and reared t h e nine orphaned children of hct s ister , Rachel Moses.

Author Washington Irving, a f r i e n d of t h e G r a t x family was i n d i r e c t l y responsible for gainink M i a ~ Gratx her measure o f lit- Prasy fame. I n 1817, while v i s i t i n g Walter Scott, he spoke in g2owi.ng terms of h e r beauty, goodness, charm and sweetness. He t o l d of her many ghi . lankhropics , her loyalty to friends and t h e great admiration .in which she was h e l d by a l l . S i r Walter dccid- cd at once to introduce a J e w i s h Fcma3.t character w i t h j u s t such qualities as the heroine of nXvanhoe,n a work thcn in progress. M e named her Rchecca to underscore the source of his in sp i s ra t ion .

Washineon I r v i n g a l s o played a role in bringing about a noteworthy o i l portrait of Miss Gratx . It WAS throrlgla his i . n t ro - duction t h a t s h e m e t Thomas S u l l y , a I c a d i n ~ American a r i s t of the day. He captured her charm and beauty on canvas. That port- rait s e w e d as t h e basis Tor t h e medal. ?lr Sully is known t;o nu- m i s m a t i s t s for a scr ics of exquisite sketches which C h r i s t i a n Go- brccht used i n preparing t h e famous silver dollar patterns of 1836-38.

In an introdalction to the "Letters of Rebecca G r a t ~ , ~ Rah- hi Bavid Philipson wrote that she was mbeautiful in face , arist- ocratic in bearing, d i g n i f i e d i n manner, noble of soul and pure of h e a r t . " He thcn borrowed a phrosc from novelist George Eliot to add that "were a l l v i r t u c and rel ig ion dead, she" make them n e w l y , being what she was."

M i s s Cratz d i e d i n 1869 at t h e age of 88 and was mourned as . - one of the foremost women in America.

The Gratz medal w a s fashioned by Gerta Rien Wiener sf B e r k - eley, an accamplishcd octogenarian scultrcss who a.l,xo has d e ~ i g n - cd a number of other m ~ d a l s in the Jewish-American Hall of Famc series . Like the 12 previous i s s u e s , i t i s an exccptisnally large piece and has an eye-ea tchfn~ rounded trapexodd shape.

A 10-karat gold version, heavi.lly ovtrXaid with 24-kara t g o l d , weighs close to t h r e e troy ounces and conta ins m o r e than 1 . 2 ounces of pure old. A t i s priced at $ 1 , 2 50. Silver, pewter and bronze vers ions weigh m o r e khan 2.5 troy ounces each. The s i l - ver variety i s .999 fine- and i s priced at $120. The pewter and bronze pieces cost $ 3 0 and $ 1 5 , respectively. Mintages are l omi ted to 35 examples in ~ o l . d , 100 in silvcr, 50 in pewter and 350 in 'bronze,

Mancy raised throuah sale of t h e medals will h e l p fund tdu- ca t iana l projects of the nan-profit Magnes Muscum, an i n s t i t u t i o n known as "The Jewish Museum of the W e s t . " Accordingly, accardingly, museum s fS . ic ia 'Es say, h a l f the cast of any purchase can be vi.cwcd as a tax-deductible c o n t r i b u t i o n . Sale of the 12 previous medals

has ra ised mare than $$O,OOO for the museum. Pteviaua honorees, dating back to 1 9 6 9 , have included Albert E i n - s t e i n , tmis Bran- d e i s , George Gershwin , Herbert H . tchman, G o l d a Meir, C s v i Stsausa and Jonas Salk. order^ may be sent to t h e M a p c s Museum, 2 9 1 1 Russell Street, R e r k e l e y , C a l i f . 94705.

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APRIL 1 1 , 1981 PEMRROKE, O N T A R I O . . . . . . . . . . BFMRROKE CENTENNIAL COIN CLUB'S

Annual Coin E x h i b i t i o n , East End Mall, Pernbrakt , OntarLo.

F o r information . . Bernie Wafker 5 2 3 - 7 2 0 8 .

MAY 9 - 3 0 , 1981 FREDERICTON, NEW BRUNSWICK*a**a ATLANTfC PROVINCES W I S M A T T C

ASSOCIATION'S Annual Spring R a l l y K c d d y k Motor Tnn,

. Forest H i l l Road, Frtdcr ic ton , N e w Rrunswiek.

Far i n f o m a t i a n . , . Fredericton Yumismatic S o c i e t y P.0, nox 4 4 5 , Frcdricton, N .R .

MAY 21-24, 1981 MISSTSSAUCA, OYTARXO.t....,...., SPRING TOREX COLLECTTBSE SHOW

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Minsissauga , Ontar io ,

JULY 15-18, 1981 .......*....... INTERPAM 81 f nternational Paper Money a

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JULY 22-26 , 1981 TORONTO, ONTARTO.............-..CANADIAN WMTSMATJC ASSOCIATIONtS

1981 International Convent ion , Royal Y ork Hotel, Toronto, Ontar io . For in format ion . . . Toronto C o i n Club

P.0. Box Rh5, Adelaide St; P.O. Toronto, Ont.

OCTOBER 18th; $981 TtLtSONBURCE, O N T A R L O . . . . . . . . . TTLLSONBVRGE CbZN CZUBtS

Annuat Coin Show, Tilaonhusge Community C c n t s ~ ,

Tillaonburge, O n t a r i o . For information ... D. Mitchcner

1 Myrtle St; Tillaonburge, Ontar io ,

LATE NOTICE:

MAY loth, 19.81 INGERSOLL, O N T A R T O . - * . * . * * . * XNGERSOLL COIN CLUB'S

Mini Coin Show l..ion Hall Thames St; JngtssolX, O n t a ~ i o *

F o r i a f ormation. . Tom M a ~ t e f s 823 Van Street, London, O n t a r i o .

The Scarburnugh C o i n Club held it^ 3rd Annual Junior Display w i t h their segualar rnacti.ng on March 4th; 1981 at the Cadashrook Community Centre, 9 1 Eastpnrk Rlvd, Scarboroujzh. The 3 j u n i o r s who placed were:

1st. - Clayton Johston 2nd.- Glenn Jcanes 3rd. - Earl Melmkay

The judges had a very tough t i m e judging as a l l the displays were very we31 presented and were w i t h i n a few po in t s of one another.

A f t e r a coffee break a attendance d r a w waR held and t h e junior hope chest w a s paaacd around, a silent auction concluded t h e evening.

The 154th meeting of t h e C i t y of O t t a w a Coin Club was held an Monday, February 23rd at the W a r Museum. Rob Flood s tar ted t h e business mettinc by informing t h e rntmhers to his knowled~e that no members bcrc sick. The 50 /50 draw was won by a new junior m e m b e r , Rrent Porter. There w e r e 25 members and R guest who were cordially welcome.

B e r n i e Walker sug~ested to the m e m b e r s that they might like to attend the c o i n ahow organized by Pembroke Centennial Coin Club at the East End Mall . Pembroke , on April I l t h .

The p r e s i d e n t informed rnernbcra that a c o n s t i t u t i o n c o m m i t t e e was bcinc formed. The funct ion of t h i s committee, consist in^ of Len Fletcher, Paul N-D and T o m McFtrron, will be to re-write and m o d i f y the clubtn c o n s t i t u t i o n ,

Paul H-D reported on t h ~ customs law regarding c o i n s i n an- s w e r to a quest ion posed by Dick Nash at the last meeting. J R t h ~

of a l l coins which are or w e r e legal tender in the country OF issue, being brought into Canada by a Canadian resi ,dent , no duty is payable. Duty is payable on m e d a l s less than I 0 0 years o l d and on jewelry .

T h e fol.l.owi.ng n e w members were voted i n t o t h e Club: I

B r e n t Porter Tom RegFfs E . F i t x p a t r i c k t u c i o Toncat i A 1 Davies.

Paul W - I l reported t h a t on a recent t r i p back to Engl.and. he found t h e m a r k e t for all Engl i sh coins , except for choice material quite depressed. C o i n d e a l e r s were apparent ly t r y i n g to reduce in- . v e n t o r y , and many w e r e putting t h e money i n t o medals.

- R t r n i e Walker reported an a v i s i t to Montrealrs bi-monthly c o i n s i r o w at the Hote l Windsor. Bernie found the bourse a c t i v e . but the prices being charged wnra very high.

After a short break , members heard a talk by Prank Pesco on the modesn Japanese coi-nage (1868 to date) and t h i s p c ~ i o d in covered by the three emperors Meiji Taisho and Shawa Emperor Riro- hity, who still reigns, The t a l k was illustrated with a d i s p l a y of s a m e of Frankts own coins.

- Frank" t a l k wan concluded 14th t h e recent comrnernorativas, e . E . Olympic and Expo Coins, and the famous Tf loating 1 yen h d d g

af a l u m i n i u m .

The evening was concluded w i t h an 3 0 l o t a u c t i o n , conducted by PAL N-D w i t h the ablc ass i s tance of Tom McFcrron.

0!WhWh & DTSTRTCK C O I N CLUB C 3 5

The February meeting of the Oshawa Q D i s t s i c k Catn Club was held On February 22 with s i x t y members and guest present. The m e e t - . i n g WRS chai~cd by Derek Gillette thc Vice-President do of thp absence of t.hc P r e s i d e n t Henry Burke who was on O . N . A . buinesa.

There was an O.N.A. slide presentat ion on C o i n s sf t h e Mari- t i m e s , which nas enjoyed by a l l . A lively auct ion was conducted. -

C o f f e e and Donuts was served at the c l o s e d of t h e meet ing .

The next regular meeting will be h e f d on March 22nd, 1981, at t h e Valleyview Park Club Hwse. Doors open at 1 2 noon till 4:30 P.M.

CANADl AN WMI.WATIC ASSOCXATION C7 3

The Canadian N u m i s m a t i c A a ~ a c i e t i o n will part ic ipate in an Educational Forum at t h e Ppring P a l l y of thc At1,antj.c Provinces Kumismat,ic Assoc iat ion , whi.ch will bc held in Freder ic ton , N ,R, on May 9 and 10 , 1981.

Three speakers have been chasen to present papers.

John Regitko of T o r o n t o , t h e F i r s t V3ce-Presi .dent of the CVA will speak on major m i n t i n g errors of t h e Royal Canadian Mint.

Grant Monk of London, t h e Young Numismatists Chairman QP the CMA, will speak on Ephsairn Brasher and his doubloon.

Ray G r e ~ o r y of Cookstown, CWA Club Liaison Chaj m a n , will speak on the pre-Confederation coi.nage and paper money of Wppcr Canada hetween 1800 and 1858.

XNGERSOLL COXN CLllB C 5 9

T h e Ingersoll C o i n Club m e t Monday, Febrary 16th at R:QO P.M. sharp , i ,n t h e Senior CEOixens room at the Lions Iial l on Tharncs St.

The meeting was called to order by the President Tom Hasters and he welcome everyone prtnet5t . He introduced two new members,

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Ted Presswell and Alan Wcstra,

The membership draw was won by Howard Whi t f i e ld . Share the Wealth D r a w was won by Jack G r i f f e n ,

S t e l l a H d g e and her h e l p e r s served refreshments .

The feature For t h e evening was a educational talk by Stella Hadgc, entitiled "The Theme i s Goldn ,

A lively 4 0 l.ot a u c t i o n concluded the evening.

NORTH YORK COIN CLUB C74 -

The February meeting of t h e North York Cofn Club was held on February 24 th ; at the North Yask Memorial Community H a l f , 5 0 90 Yonge Street , Wi.l.f.owdaF.e, Ontario. Pres ident 11asvey Farrow wclcmed t h e members and guests to t h e 21st. Anniversary Meeting.

Mr. J.A. Pratt's name was drawn For the on time attendance ' draw, as he was not in a t t e n d a n c e , t h e prize will 'be $ 6 . 0 0 far the March meeting-,

John R c g i t k o Rave a report on t h e upcoming C.N.A. Convent- i o n i n J u l y . fewett gave an update report on t h e O.M.A. 19th Annual Conventl.on to be held at t h e Skylon Tower, Niagata Fa1 Is, O n t a r i o , April 24-26th, a l s o Alan Cornish gave a report on the procress of Coin Week Canada Committee.

The President accepted a trophy on behalf of the Club, do- nated by M s . J c w e t t . The tropy to be known as t h e RPeoples Choice Trophyn w i l l , be awarded annual ly at the annual show 50 the person displaying at the show, and w h o m exhibit i s voted by *he general public ka be the Best of Show. -

The feature event of the even in^ was a talk and a s l i d e pr'ewentation of Architectural Medal by P a u l Johnson. Paul% s l i d e s brought out some of the fine details and a t h r e e dimen~ional affect of the exterior and in ter ior of some s f t h e great cnthadals and other buildings OF Europe.

Two charter m e m b e r s , M r s Graham and F-larvey Farrow, who have been with t h e club continzwusly during i t s twenty-one years, were on hand to celebrate the club's 2Tst Dir tday . A birthday cake m a d e from t w o large cakes w d s served with other refreshments by Jean O m .

The winners of sa f f l e s prizes w e r e , Murray R a i g e n t , Frank Dennis, Ron P o s t i l l , M r m Graham, Dan Rowyer, Ernest Ctnoaka , Norm Bel . s ten , M ~ R B t a t t y , Albert Kasrnan, tuci2lc Calson.

h Party Tat auction was conducted by G l e n Williams and assisted by Basil Latham.

The thnui4l Coin Show that w a s held on March 7th- was e success. A l l t h e Display space w a s f i l l a d and the bourse dealers reported that they had a s u c c e n s ~ u l day. Rob Fortes and E l m e r Workman were the Di~play fudges .

WATERLOO C61N SOCIETY C1

The February meeting w a s he ld an the 17t-h; of February at. the Waterloo P u b l i c Library, 3 5 Albert Street, Waterloo, Ontario.

President Harold Marshall was unable to at tend t h e meeting and Don Robb chai red it for him.

T h e r e were 22 m e m b e r s and mest presen t , one of the poorest attendances i.n sevcra?, meetiwn. The 8 orc3sck draw was won by 'Rodger Zabizewaki.

The Feature draw winners w e r e as fol3,aws;

I st prize Scot t t inton 2nd prize ltaig D o u ~ l n s 3rd prize Scot t Linton

1966 Silver W.C.S. Medal 1972 Pat. Set Scatt i , sh f pun$ note.

Wrn Gordon donated the 1979 Edition of Charlton" Standard CataXog~le of Canadian Coins and Alexander t i n t o n donated the 1977

E d i t i o n of "Standard Catalowe of World Coinsm to t h e Ljbrasy .

Don Robb conducted a Coin Q w i . 2 on NewfoundEand C o i n s . also he conducted the Auction,

STRATFORD C O I N CLUR C 2 0

The Febrary meeting of t h e Stratford Coin C l u b was h e l d on F e b r u a ~ y 9th, 1951 at the Kiwani~ Community Centre, takesi .de Dr; S t s a t f o r d , at 8:00 sharp.

The attendence was very disappointing as only 27 member turned out *

Roy Nollingshcad eavc an excellent talk on Newfoundland Coins; illustrated w i t h a type set and s l i d e s from t h e 0,N.A. Audio Library,

The a u c t i ~ n turned out to be a Eraat success w i t h s p i r i t e d bidding by those present, A t the close Acre was coffee. cookies, chocolate milk served.

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MUMIS-PROBE o issoby LC. Levaquo, FCIWRSRM '

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Polish Doubling and the 1979 "Double Date " Cents. .. What are 1979 "Double Date" Cents? M O S ~ collectors have seen them advertised or have at least heard about them. Thcy*rre commonly referred to as 'Ye-engraved date" or "re-cut datew cents, The fact is +*'

t h a t they arc neither of these. The doubling of one or rnorc of the 5 d i g i t s of t h e date on many 1979 Canadian cents is technically known as "'machine polish doublingt' and it's one o f the most common forms of 4 .

-4 doubling found on coins. There is a g e n e r ~ l tendency t o label any coin with doubled letters, numbers and/or part of t h e des ign as

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"re-engraved" or l're-cut". cE '4 U 2

RE-ENGRAVED: ~e-engraving ( ~ r r e c u t t i n g ) , as defined in the second e w edition of Alan Herbert's t W f f i c i a l Pricc Guide to M i n t Errors and U

1E traricties" Ifor which I had the fionos to serve on the Advisory Panel) , refers to 4 t h e operation 6s b e i n g : "Any work on t h e d i e or huh with engraving -*

F- tools, other than punches,,to add to the dcsign, strengthen weak areas of the dcsign, correct mistakes in the design or t o promote m e t a l flow i n t o constricted areas of t h c d e s i g n , ' V e p u n c h i n g , on t h e other hand, involves the use of small punches usually bearing a single letter or number.

D I E POLISHING: For various reasons, most dies are polished several times during t h e i r useful lives. This is done by hand or with the use of a power-driven rotating tool which.abrasivcly polishes or smooths the surface of the die. The operation is somewhat like smoothing a rough piece of wood with sandpaper, but much finer. T h l s polishing involves the removal of a thin layer of the die's surface meta l which usually reduces the sharpness of some of the d e t a i l ( l e t t er s , numbers, designs, e t c . ) . Most collectors arc familiar with the "Arnprio~" silver dollars. These are good examples ~f what can happen when a d i e is ovsrpolished, In this case, repeated polishing eventually removed some of t h e waterlines. Although such variet ies arc t r i v i a l , they arc nevertheless popular.

The polishing operation may also reduce the size of a letter (or number, etc.), since the c a v i t y of a character in t h e d i e is'\ shaped (tapered s i d e s ) and t h e more surface metal is removed by polishing, the narrower a character t e n d s to become. On t h e other hand, when the polishing tool also goes down into t h e character, it will usually be enlarged, because the s i d e walls of the character are abrasively ground outward. This reduction or en3argerncnt may result in the appearance of "thick and th in4 ' or "large and mall" dates (or letters). Of course, this doesn' t mean that any difference in s ize between the date on a Riven coin w i t h t h a t on another is necessarily caused by d i e polishing, but more often t han not, it is. True "largo and small'" numbers, letters, dates, etc. are usually t h e result of using an individual lcttcr punch or logotype (a punch bearing two or mare characters) in which the size of t h e character is at least 113 mallcr or larger than t h e standard size f o r a coin of the sme d a t ~ and type.-

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POL1 SH DOUELI NG . (Gont&t!&r

POLISHED DIE DOUBLING: Itqs import lnt to keep in mind that the design on the face of a d i e is sunken, as opposed to t h e raised design on a coin, The operation of polishing a d i e can sometimes r e s u l t in the doubling of letters, numbers or a part of the design which, I n t u r n , will be = + CI

symmetrically transferred to all coins s truck by this particular die. r? %

This phenomenon, referred to as "polish doublingt\ takes two basic farms ,.3 L- -3 The first is called "Inside Polish Doublingw. Th5s is caused when

the' rotating polishing tool reaches down i n t o a letter, number or d e i g n '4 elemcn t (which is below the dfe'a surfacel and grinds a -ma1 l piece out o f the ,

s i d e m w a l l ' ' o f t h e character. This results in an appearanceof dmbl in~: of the desfan element which will manifest itself on the s truck coin. C.

The s e c ~ n d form is called "Outside Polish Doubling" and is caused when -Z

the revolving a b r a ~ i v e polishing tool comes up and out of a letter, 22 e number or d e s i g n clement and f a l , l s back shaply onto t h e die, thusdigging a shallow depression in t h e die's surface next to, but outside, the character it j u s t came out of. Thcse d l e grooves produce a corsespondlng raised area an the coin%ssurface, usually roughly matching t h e o u t l i n e o f t h e design element, but somewhat more irregular and often incomplete.

INSIDE .POLISH DOUBLING

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OTHER EXAMPLES OF POLISH DOUB&ING: There are many other Canadian coins which are frequently labled and sold as 'Ye-engraved" but arc actual ly common polish doubl ing . Perhaps the best known are the 1962 and 1967 f i v c - c e n t plcces which are commonly referred to as "doublc date" or "re-engraved date"'.

ARE 1979 CENTS WITH POLISH DOUBLING SCARCE? Definitely not - in any sense of the word. Polish doubling I s one of t h e most common forms of doubling found on modern coins (the lmst common t y p is "Ejection Doubling" w hich is txplorcd in dep th I n my a r t i c f c p h l ished in t k December 1979 i s s u e of "The Canadian hrnismatfc Journal*] . My Own experience s h o w s t h a t One O u t of every t e n I979 cents picked out of circulation has one or more d i g i t s (usually 2 or 3 ) of the date showing machine polish doubling. So, despite claims by one well-known dealer tha t these cgins are "destined to increase in price", the fact remafns t h a t 1979 cents with polish doubllng are far too common to have any tmrthwhite investment potential.

ARE THEY FUN TO COLLECT? of course! with a l i t t le patience, you can pick out quite a number of different varieties from circulation showing various degrees and shapes of doubling involving one ta all four numbers of t h e date .

BUT ARE THEY VALUABLE? Yes, some varieties can be worth up to each!

ONTARIO NUMISMATIC ASSOCIATION Gnuen tim

COIN & STAMP SHOW Host Club:

GARA FALLS COIN CLUB

at the SKYLON TOWER Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

FRIDAY, APRIL 24 1981 - 1030 am. - 9:00 p.m.

SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1981 - 1030 em. - 9:00 p.m

SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 1981 10.30 am. - 600 p.m.

1911 DOLLAR OH DISPLAY

@ DEALERS e DISPLAYS D O O R DRAWS @AUCTION

EIUURSlE CHAIAMAH: GEORGE SHAVE CHAIRMAW MARG SMITH R.R. 3 CO-CHAlRMAH: MEL FISKE WAINF LEET, OHTAUIO LaS IVO

7795 BEAVERDAMSROAD IAGARA FALLS, ONTAR10 P2H tR6

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YOUR HOST MmOR INN me MOTEL "F ABULOW H Q S t RESTAURANT .FLFCENSED)

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ROOM PRE-RESERVATION

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NAME of G R O U P . * . Ontario Kwismatic Association 19th Annual Convention. A p r i l 24-26, 3981

...... DATE of A R R T V A Z . . * . . . . . . . . . . * - . . . TIME of ARRIVAL E.T.A.

........... ............... DATE of DEPARTURE NUHT3ER of N I G H T S

ROOM RATES

IBDJIPER EACH EXTRA PERSOY SAME R00Y

TYPE of ACCOMHODATION ........... RATE...., NO. P E R . , . . . . .

TOTAL. .$, ........ SO$ DEPOSIT' REQUIRE AT RPOKXNG,..S.......

Thfa ia essential to hold boaking end process reservation. Confirmation forwarded upon recei.pt of d e p o s i t .

Hajor Credit Cards Honoured ........ ............... V I S A , AMERICAN EXPRESSr MASTER CHARGE, DINERS ,..#..,

( p l e a s e c i r c l e ) Mail to... B r u c e R . W a t t 1 153 Northridge St, Oshawa, O n t .

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