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LEICHTWEIS, Louis  (active 1850-60) German-American engraver,
            diesinker, New York City.
            Born in Germany, ca 1824. Came to America prior 1850.
            Onetime partner in firm Leichtweis & Horter, 1856-58,
            with Charles Horter (q.v.). In 1970 Galdfelter gave this
            engraver's name Eichtweis, from misreading signed piece,
             later corrected. Only one of perhaps many Civil War
            tokens can be attributed to this engraver.

          T  O  K  E  N  S

1860ca Civil War Token . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  HG 211

          A  R  C  H  I  V  E  S

DS  Schenkman (David) Engravers, Diesinkers Databank.

          B I O G R A P H I C A L  R E F E R E N C E S

D15 {1957} Groce and Wallace p 392.
BF2 {1999} Falk. Who Was Who in American Art, p 2:1989.

          N U M I S M A T I C   R E F E R E N C E S

E10 {1970} Gladfelter (David). Civil War Die Sinkers. Journal of the Civil War Token
          Society 4:2 (Summer 1970) p 8-9 (incorrect name); 12:4 (Winter 1978) p 133 (author corrected himself).
S58 {1999} Rulau. Standard Catalog U.S. Tokens, p 192, 348 (first initial "E").
Mss Smith (Pete)  Private Mints in North America.
"There has been no scholar better qualified to create 'the American Forrer' than Dick Johnson."
-Cornelius C. Vermule III, Curator Emeritus
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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