Slabaugh, Arlie R.

Publisher, hobby shop dealer, mail order promoter, and collector of periodicals related to the mail order business.

From the description of Arlie R. Slabaugh collection of direct mail literature, 1921-1953 and undated (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 317553286

Arlie R. Slabaugh of Oakland, Maryland, and Virginia, was born in 1925. He worked as a publisher, hobby shop dealer and mail order promoter. He was also a numismatic historian, an expert on Confederate States paper money, monies and medals from prisoners of war, and Japanese invasion money and wrote a book entitled Confederate States Paper Money, first published in 1961 by Whitman Publishing Company. During the 1930s and 1940s, he also published his own collector magazine, Hobby Spotlite .

• 1925: Born
• 1941: Joined the American Numismatic Association (ANA)
• 1954: Appointed the Associate Editor of Numismatic Scrapbook Magazine
• 1967: Began work for Franklin Mint
• 1981: Won the Numismatic Literary Guild Clemy Award
• 1989: Won the Krause Publications Ambassador Award
• 1991: Won the ANA's Medal of Merit
• 1997: Won the ANA's President's Award
• 2004: Won the ANA's Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2007: Died in Springfield, Pa.

From the guide to the Arlie R. Slabaugh Collection of Direct Mail Literature, 1921-1953 and undated, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)