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QuoteSingle Sheet of Hobby History Sells for $18K
Dr. Martin Campion, well-known wargamer and game designer, announces that a single sheet of paper he discovered in his filing cabinet between two conventional wargame magazines has just sold for $18,000 USD. Read the whole story to find out what this single paper was all about.
This typed & mimeographed item was from April 1970, entitled "Domesday Book #2". This brief publication (not to be confused with the original census of Britain, AD 1086) was the newsletter for the IFW / LGTSA* wargame club of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. It is of great historical import since it contained early drafts of the club's first 'house rules' for medieval wargames (1:20 scale), which were compiled as "Chainmail" (published first by Guidon Games and later by Tactical Studies & Rules), which in 1973 produced a spinoff, the Dungeons & Dragons game. (And the rest, as they say, is history.)
(* International Federation of Wargamers / Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association)
For more information, contact: Frank Mentzer, Box 591, Minocqua, WI 54548, (715) 356-0066, or GamesOfAmerica@aol.com.
Wow...just wow.
There is a certain memo from the early 1960s that I might pay a similar amount for if I ever had the money. In the book The Making of STAR TREK, a page shows a text reproduction of a memo about the filiming of "The Cage" with Jeffrey Hunter. It was about filiming that was going on that week.
The date on the original memo is the date I was born in 1964.
- Ed C.