Hello Folks!

Welcome back to another platform done by me.  A lot of things have happened during the past months.  But let me start with the beginning!  First of all I have become a Lifetime Member of LANSA.  The idea has kept coming to me, so after having had a good dialogue in letters with Arthur C. Matz I decided to change my status.  Now, I will not have to worry about the annual payment anymore..

Some of you may already have noticed.  Yes, I have a new address, since we have moved to another house.  It is only a small journey of about 3 kilometers.  However, I can assure you moving takes a lot of time and energy for painting and everything.  So for the past months paper money is something I have only been dreaming about!

Going away!  However, I am very confident about the future.  I have a lot of appetite on paper money.  Thus I am looking very much forward to going to PaperMoney 99 in Maastricht, Holland.  In case you are in the neighborhood, it is during the days 16th to 18th of April 1999.  It will be my second visit to the show and certainly not the last.

Before that I will be going to France or as a matter of fact Paris.  I am looking very much forward to it, as it seems very likely I will get the chance to meet Nick Chawalla, another member of LANSA.  I think it will be great to meet another fellow-collector. I am not too used with it.

New catalogue!  When I say I am confident about the future, I also come to think about the fact that Colin Bruce III and his collegues have been working on a new edition of Pick's Paper Money, volume I.  I have recently sent in my contributions for the catalogue, so I am curious to see the book.

I am a loyal supporter of these different books about paper money coming from Krause publications.  It is my experience that they give me a lot of information and knowledge that would have been hard to get otherwise.

Good Idea!  Now returning to Nick Chawalla again.  he has gotten an excellent idea.  I want to tell you about it, since Nick would appreciate some help from other collectors.  That is one point.  Another is that there is a lot of talk about getting more people onboard the ship of paper money collectors.  Well, here is someone trying to do something.

His idea is that he has created a whole exhibition of paper money.  He wants to get involved with collectors everywhere, so that they together can arrange local exhibitions which hundreds of different banknotes from more than a hundred countries.

When visiting this exhibition I am sure people will find out, both children and adults, that collecting paper money is much more fun than collecting stamps, etc.  If you want to know more about the project, write to Nick right away.  His address is:  Nick Chawalla, 28 Rue Du Dr. Heulin, F-75017 Paris, France.

Send a mail or fax!  The world is in rapid change, even most of the time I would say.  Technology plays a major role in almost every household.  In the past year I have gotten anew computer, a fax and admission to the Internet.  As a consequence I can only call upon all the readers to send me a fax or soon an email.  I am trying to get it in function.  Write and comment on the platform, etc.  Anything.  Look forward to your comments...