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  “What were the Old Days like Papa?” ... 2/10  
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  Carving Chips..... • “Kosher Carvings” −by Verne “V-Dubya” Walrafen ~ Story to follow in a future “BoTales” •
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  “Pour Féliciter • Happy New Year” −from Jerry Pardubicky ... 2/10  
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  Carving Chips..... • “The Immortality Coin” −by Arlo Herring ~ January 1991 ~ Story to follow in a future “BoTales” •
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Click to read all historical dossiers ... De Zwerver Dossier #36 [ stukken en brokken ] −by V-Dubya ... 1/10 
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  Carving Chips..... • Spring BoTales is Progressing •
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  Photograph Album ~ 2010 ... 1/10  
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  2010 OHNS Hobo Tokens ... 1/10  
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Click to read all historical dossiers De Zwerver Dossier #35 [ stukken en brokken ] −by V-Dubya ... 1/10 
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  2010 Prices Realized OHNS Auction #18 ... 1/10  
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  FUN2010 Mail and Floor Bid Auction Catalogue   Saturday, January 9, 2010  
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  FUN being had at F.U.N. in Orlando, Florida ... 1/10  
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  Time to pay your OHNS dues!     ... 1/10  
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  Carving Chips..... • A Christmas Package from the Hills of Kentucky! −from Bill Jameson •
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 ··· Appendix ···  Alpert's Artist Galleries Stephen P. “BigOne” Alpert, OHNS-LM10 ...  ··· Appendix ··· 
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WORK IN PROCESS
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Classic... $715 on eBay
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 Classic... $187 on eBay
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 Classic... $235 on eBay
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684  8 February 2010
“What were the Old Days like Papa?”
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  Carving Chips.....   • “Kosher Carvings” −by Verne “V-Dubya” Walrafen ~ Story to follow in a future “BoTales” •  
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5 February 2010
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“Pour Féliciter • Happy New Year”     −from Jerry “Jeff” Pardubicky - The Czech Hobo
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  Carving Chips.....   • “The Immortality Coin” −by Arlo Herring ~ January 1991 ~ Story to follow in a future “BoTales” •  
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Click to read all historical dossiers 680  27 January 2010
De Zwerver Dossier #36  [ stukken en brokken ]  −by V-Dubya
Keith Pedersen back from FUN all fired up to carve!
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 Keith Pedersen newest carving on a four inch novelty Indian/Buffalo round.
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Acquired on the FUN2010 Bourse Floor by Art DelFavero!
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 Classic... $89 on eBay
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 Steve Cox... $275 on eBay
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Bob Polk's Bookends... 24 Troy Ounces of Silver ~ 1.646 Pounds!
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 Bill Jameson eBay sale.
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 Medal from Steve Alpert's archives.
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Cinco de Arturo... Comission
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 John Hughey... $56 & $91 on eBay
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 Classic... $16 on eBay
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 Steve Cox... Comission
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Translation... “The Hobo File #36 [ bits and pieces ]”
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  Carving Chips.....   • Spring BoTales is Progressing •  
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678  19 January 2010
Photograph Album ~ 2010
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677  17 January 2010
2010 OHNS Hobo Tokens
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The annual OHNS hobo tokens for 2010 were stuck in the fall of 2009 and this year we are issuing the tokens in silver and
copper. The obverse pictures a classic “Virtuoso” carving and the reverse an original modern carving by Amy Armstrong.
100 of each metal were ordered. These are priced at $20 for the silver, $15 for the copper and $27.50 for the pair.
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 Dies by Sunshine Mint  
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Click to read all historical dossiers 676  13 January 2010
De Zwerver Dossier #35  [ stukken en brokken ]  −by V-Dubya
Marc Banks at FUN2010
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 Marc Banks... $4.75 “Find”
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 Meier Family Heirloom
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 Steve Cox... Commission
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 Mike Brannon at FUN2010
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Art DelFavero Demo Carving
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 “My client's three sons.”   −by Stephen D. Cox
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 Classic... $187 on eBay
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Classics... $53, $275 and $529 on eBay
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 Classics... $55 and $65 on eBay
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V-Dubya's daughters circa 1990 ...Sonya, Dawn & Natasha... −by Steven G. Adams
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 Howard Thomas... $93 & $64 eBay
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Translation... “The Hobo File #35 [ bits and pieces ]”
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9 January 2010
  2010 Prices Realized     OHNS Auction #18  
Individual “Prices Realized” are posted with each LOT description on the catalog pages.
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9 January 2010
2010 OHNS ELECTIONS... Every even-numbered year, OHNS holds elections to allow for new officers
and Board members. The BoTales Editor is appointed by the Board. An election will be held at the FUN Show
in Orlando, Jan. 9, 2010. If you would like to run for one of the offices or for a Board position, please submit your
name and the position that you wish to run for to our Secretary, at 12000 Sunset Ridge Drive, Ozawkie, KS 66070
or EMail him at walrafenATgmmnut.com.
Auction info provided here as a courtesy only.   The “official” auction catalog is the printed version and will have all the final editing shown in it.


ORIGINAL HOBO NICKEL SOCIETY, INC.
 A Florida Not-For-Profit Corporation
FUN2010  Mail and Floor Bid Auction
 to be held at the
Original Hobo Nickel Society Meeting
Saturday, January 9, 2010 at 10 a.m.
Orange County Convention Ctr, North Concourse
9400 Universal Boulevard, Orlando, Florida 32819
Individual “Prices Realized” are posted with each LOT description on the catalog pages.
$34,468.10 Auction Total
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Work Is Hard Here
Water
There Are Dogs
Man With Firearms
Here Lives A Kind Woman
Here Lives A Gentleman
Fresh Water Safe Camping
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9 January 2010
FUN being had at F.U.N. in Orlando, Florida
8 January 2010
Click to view “Visit to Original Hobo Nickel Society FUN Show Bourse Table” YouTube video.
Posted to “YouTube”... from Ralph Winter's cellphone! 		9 January 2010
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Nickel Carvers... Keith, Bob, Art, Owen, Don and Rollie.
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Time to pay your OHNS dues!
Is your name among the 178 on this list?
Membership due January 2010!Click to read the list
This list is an OHNS database “snapshot” as of 1/1/2010 and will not be updated as you pay your dues!
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  Carving Chips.....   • A Christmas Package from the Hills of Kentucky! −from Bill Jameson •  
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Click to view an enlargement of this carved coin.5¢     Click to view an enlargement of this carved coin.5¢     Click to view an enlargement of this carved coin.25¢     Click to view an enlargement of this carved coin.50¢     Click to view an enlargement of this carved coin.Morgan$1     Click to view an enlargement of this carved coin.50¢     Click to view an enlargement of this carved coin.S.B.A.$1     Click to view an enlargement of this carved coin.5¢     Click to view an enlargement of this carved coin.5¢
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• • • Appendices • • •
··· Appendix ···   “Alpert's Artist Galleries” ...too useful as a reference to permanently relegate to our ScrapBook!   ··· Appendix ···
 Alpert's Artist Galleries 
−by  Stephen P. “BigOne” Alpert, OHNS-LM10
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Chapter 4   from
The OHNS Hobo Nickel Guidebook
By Stephen P. Alpert
For The Original Hobo Nickel Society
2001
Photographs by Bill Fivaz, Stephen P. Alpert, and Coin World
( Not included on this webpage. )
Published by the
Original Hobo Nickel Society
www.hobonickels.org

We know the actual names of very few of the artists who made the old original hobo nickels. Bo and Bert are by far the best known of the original hobo nickel makers, and their lives are chronicled in detail in the two books by Del Romines. Other early makers of hobo nickels, who were prolific carvers and made pieces of a distinctive style, have been nicknamed (with their nickname put in quotes.) There are other early makers who signed their hobo nickels with their name or initials, but only one or two specimens are known by these artists.
Old Artists Whose Names We Know 
Old Nicknamed Artists 
Early Modern Artists (1980s to mid 1990s) 
Later Modern Artists (mid 1990s to present) 

··· Appendix ···   Experimental NEWS Item Display Boxes   ··· Appendix ···
··· Appendix ···   A Smorgasbord of Internet Language Resources   ··· Appendix ···
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