Son MON ZAHN DTPA POM eu) JO SXovOVy [ENSNUp, PUB YES |EUONPEM eIPaYy aGueyxg ‘SKOUOYY GAUL [6 BuySayOD pue Apmis ayy sjowcud oO] uolepossy Aauopl [eUCHTIpelL, == Traditional Money Association ‘To promote the woah and collecting of Primitive Mondya, Exchange Mace, Traditions! "kn and Unudual Mote Of the world CONTENTS 2 ‘scoreua - epron Page i Copper from Heligolend Aosothee Keaton 4 = Phoenix-the bird of innortelity Cof Davidson 7 Dealers! Doings 3 eras rece Manders" Market 3 Sal aso European Bronse Axe 1b eer Borneo Bullet Meney 46 éditea's Nolet Another year finished - [ hope that your collections have increased in the Interim. Paul Dillingham's pregence of the sales scene was sorely missed but there are still plenty of items available if you look hard enough for them, Gur senbership nusbera are stil low but, hopefully, stable. Please try and get new members for the Club as the more we have the better it is for cur om collecting (more trades, atc.), From the point of view of the Journal ve would appreciate genbera' advice of any auctions, auction prices, sales lista, news jottinga, etc, relating to our hobby (remember, the Editor lives ‘down under! where Anerican and European prices and articles on primitive money are not often seen), Latest prices of items such as plate money, Tap stonea or any primitive moneys are always interesting to the other members. We ESPECIALLY need short (or long) articles for inoluaion in the Journal. Now for the comercial - FEES ARE NOW DUE, If you have not paid your 1986 fees please send the equivalent of Australian $4.50 ($2.50 within Australia). Sank drafts or currency notes #, US$, DM are all easily cashed here but personal cheques attract ‘ap to §2 in bank fees. Eileen and myself wish you a prosperous and happy New Year, All the Best to You and Yours, Col2 On a racent Leip to Sydnay I was rathen shocked by the increase in prices of some stamland iteas of Padmitive Money: # feu Guinea kina, plain staing with dot deconat ion 590 i few Guinea kina, staing of nassa shetés S70 and $725 # New Guinea nessa shell Aeadtands (1 have a simi fan one fon Laade at $35) 4730 # New Guinea necklaces of nasea shed with Carge tater shell percant $720 and 3740 # Naw Guinea small atondtade axe - Sepik 860 - #95 # New Guinea Adetom tride price, torage gazen snaié shell with woven cam decoration 5790 # a4 abe with "face" styte woven canedecoration fas depicted on 5 kina sanknote) 3350 # Sofomons "kina" {dati n'geta) with tortoisesiell fiad attachment 3760 Wote that the afove prices are from the Paution Society shop which dogs sell to visiting tourists. I've seen many of the alove type of items set for much fess at auctions such a4 Lawson’ 4, ee From the Australian "Financial Review", 17/10/85: Ethnographic Collection on the. Market, The financial plight of Britain's tertiary education institutions bas placed Sydney's Australian Museum in a sericus quandary. The Museum has beon advised that the George Erown ethnographical collection in the Hancock Museum attached to the University of Reweastle is on the market. Brown came from Bernard Cagtle near Durham, and was posted as a Wesleyan missionary in Samoa in 1860. In subsequent years he headed migsions in New Britain and New Guinea, all the time collecting exanplos of local culture, The Newcastle collectian of 3116 dtens comes from New Britain, the Trobriands and the Solomons, The Australian Museum is Australia's leading museum of the Pacific Islands and acquisition ef the Brown Collection would mike it the leading museum in the world for the Western Pacific, The problem is price. Sotheby's London, which appears to be the agont for the collection hag valued it at $1.25 million. continued page >