More notes on the Thousand Model Directory

Pat Wilton is catalogued as Z 10, placing him in Ben Sorensen’s Z album, but he belongs with Rodhe in the A album. As Gene Eberle and Forrester Millard have their own (later) albums, they are noted in the signature AMG style as having a place in the A13 album/catalogue.

Frank Delos Coates is in the B album, but he is misplaced in the directory as B 9 (“F. Coates”) when he should be B 10.

Bill Harris fell out of the E album (I’ve seen instances where his image was effaced or disguised); he appears in the directory out of alphabetical order, hinting at loss and reclamation. 

Bob Meinhart, also in Album E, appears as Charles Meinhart in the directory.

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Notes on the AMG Thousand Model Directory

AMG’s Thousand Model Directory is the standard resource for model identifications during the Athletic Model Guild’s first decade in business, and the front matter includes a list of all the series published to date: A-Z, ZA-ZZ, YA-YZ, and XA-XC. Thumbing through the directory, I was struck by some of the models’ creative renaming, as well as the occasional error concerning the photo number or the album/catalogue.

The earliest one, from the A album, concerns Bob Rodhe, given in the directory as Rod Rodhe.

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