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Description of experiences in a French war prison of a German civil internee.

Robert Guerlain, A Prisoner in Germany. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1944.

Account of a French soldier who spent more than a year as a prisoner of war in one of the vast prison camps in Germany, 1940-1941.

Bruno R?ttinger, Das deutsche Gefangenenlagergeld sowie Gruben und Zechengeld 1914/1918. . Frankfurt a. M.: Adolph E. Cahn, 1922. V + 42 pp.

The most complete check-list of all kinds and varieties of the German internment camp money superseding previously published lists.

Many complete sets listed with very fine numismatic descriptions.

On internment camp money of Freistadt, Grodig, and Kleinm?nchen.

On Austrian war prisoners money "in the war prisoners' camp at Braunau, and struck in nickel-aluminum. All are of the same type and have a small square hole in the center." Also on war prisoners money used in the camps at Danzig-Troyl, Prussia, and Kleinm?nchen, Austria, with reproduction of several sets.

, "European War Prison Camp Tokens." The Numismatist, XXX , pp. 18-19.

Particularly on the prisoners money of the "k. u. k. Offiziersstation f?r Kriegsgefangene M?hling," , with reproductions.

On internment camp money issued in the present war.

On present war money issued for civilian internment camps.

Robert Guerlain, A Prisoner in Germany. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1944.

On pp. 71-73, information is found on prices and currency in German prison camps, during the period of 1939 to 1941.

German Capture Medal by Ludwig Gies

The description reads:

Prisonniers de guerre.

M?daille uniface coul?e en bronze par L. G. Un soldat allemand am?ne un soldat fran?ais, un russe, un anglais, un belge, un serbe et un indig?ne. Br. mm. 64. M?daille tr?s int?ressante. fl. 18.

Max Bernhart, Die M?nchener Medaillenkunst der Gegenwart. Munich-Berlin: R. Oldenbourg, 1917.

A photographic reproduction, 60 millimeters in diameter, is found on Plate 15, no. 102.

French War-Prisoner Medal of 1916

The description reads:

Pour nos prisonniers.

M?daille portative par O. Yencesse. Un poilus assis en attitude accabl?e. L?gende POUR NOS-PRISONNIERS. Rev. Une colombe portant dans son bec un rameau d'olivier, en bas. 1916. M?tal argent? mm. 26, coins arrondis. fl. 3.50.

German Camp Douglas Medal

, "German Prisoners' Art School," in The New York Times, Sunday, August 20, 1916, p. 12.

Civil War Prisons and Prisoners

Richard F. Hemmerlein, Prisons and Prisoners of the Civil War. Boston: The Christopher Publishing House, 1934.

A general survey of the history of the prisons and the treatment of prisoners during the Civil War, with select bibliography.

A. B. Sage's Historical Prison Tokens

Augustus B. Sage, Catalogue of Coins, Medals, and Tokens, No. 1, New York: February, 1859, p. 1.

Advertisement and description of the series of Sage's "Historical Tokens," nos. 1-10.

A. B. Sage, Catalogue of Coins, Medals, and Tokens, New York: June, 1859.

Historical Tokens:

No. 1. The Old Provoost Prison, 2 dies. No. 2. The Old City Hall, Wall Street. No. 3. Faneuil Hall, Boston. No. 4. Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia. No. 5. Old Jersey Prison Ship. No. 6. State House, Philadelphia, 2 dies. No. 7. Mount Vernon, Washington's Residence. No. 8. Old Hasbrook House, Newburgh. No. 9. Richmond Hill House, N. Y. No. 10. Washington's Head Quarters, Tappan. No. 11. Washington's Head Quarters, Valley Forge. No. 12. Sir Henry Clinton's House, N. Y. No. 13. The Old Swamp Church. No. 14. The Charter Oak.

"Upon receipt of .00, we will send a complete set of the above tokens to any place in the United States. The series will be continued from time to time."

Odds and Ends:

No. 1. Crystal Palace. No. 2. Old Sugar House. No. 3. Paul Morphy.

"The above series will be continued from time to time. Struck in good copper, and sold at the low price of 25 cents each."

Forrer's pertinent account on Sage's "Historical Tokens" must be corrected in accordance with the data given in the present essay.

"The Old Provoost" of New York

With a reproduction of "The Old Provoost," drawn by Alexander J. Davis and engraved by Alexander Anderson.

Frank Bergen Kelley, Historical Guide to the City of New York. Revised Edition. New York: The New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, 1913, p. 55.

"The Old Jersey Prison Ship"

Especially p. 14, note 3; p. 196; reproduction of an engraving of the "exterior view of the ship," facing p. 16.

, 1888. A Christmas Reminder: Being the Names of about Eight Thousand Persons, A Small Portion of the Number Confined on Board the British Prison Ships during the War of the Revolution. Brooklyn, N. Y.: Society of Old Brooklynites. 1888.

Containing the names of the "prisoners confined on board the British ship Jersey."

Henry R. Stiles, Letters from the Prisons and Prison-Ships of the Revolution. . New York: Privately printed, 1865.

Includes letters written on the Jersey.

Livingston's Sugar House

Rhinelander Sugar-House

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