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Job Titles:

• Member of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers

Gerard A.J. Stodolski, through his firm, Gerard A.J. Stodolski, Incorporated, is engaged in the full-time business of buying, selling and appraising historic autographs, letters, manuscripts, documents, photographs, rare signed or inscribed first edition books and historical ephemera. Mr. Stodolski's interest in collecting and dealing in signed books and historic autograph material developed during his studies at Boston University, Harvard and Columbia in the late 70s and early 80s. He was still a student when he issued his first book and autograph list in 1978. Then, in 1983, Mr. Stodolski became a junior partner at the firm of Paul C. Richards, the leading autograph dealer and expert of his day. Three years later, he was voted an associate member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA).

Job Titles:

• Executive Vice - President of the Professional Autograph Dealers Association

Scott J. Winslow began work in the collectibles field in the late 1970's as a cataloguer and researcher for a prominent mail auction house specializing in Americana. After graduating from the University of New Hampshire's Whittemore School of Business & Economics in 1983, he founded his own firm, Scott J. Winslow Associates, and has been a full time, professional dealer in autographs and historical documents since 1985. Acknowledged as one of this nation's leading authorities in business history, Mr. Winslow conducts numerous auctions of historical documents and Americana with a special emphasis on business and financial history, and has produced more than one hundred large catalogs over the course of his career. Additionally, Mr. Winslow travels extensively in the United States as well as Europe so that he can keep abreast of his field's ever changing marketplace. As a result of his many years of experience both here and abroad, Mr. Winslow has accumulated an extensive database of information relating to the fields of his expertise. The ever expanding Winslow reference library contains virtually every important price reference guide, as well as related material necessary for the accurate evaluation of business history archives. Mr. Winslow is the current Executive Vice-President of the Professional Autograph Dealers Association [PADA], and the Chairman of the association's Ethics Committee. In addition, he has formerly served as PADA's President and Treasurer. Scott is also a member of numerous other associations and professional trade organizations. These include the Currency Dealers Association, Universal Autograph Collectors Club registered dealer, member and former President of the International Bond and Share Society, co-founder of the Professional Scripophily Traders Association, member of the American Numismatic Association, the Ephemera Society, American Political Items Collectors, Check Collectors Society, International Banknote Collectors Club, Currency Club of New England, and Society of Paper Money Collectors.