at the Nobel Foundation, etc. Stockholm, Sweden
J. Schramek
entrance from Sturgatan 14
into Foundation hall
.. in Foundation building hall
Foundation Meeting Room, eg. for Nobel Committee
w/ 1961 Medicine Prize Diploma given to G. von Bekesy; apparently the only Diploma possessed by Foundation
at the (temporary) Nobel Museum
w/ model for permanent Nobel Museum
at a bookbinding plant in a south suburb, where Nobel Prize Diplomas are made
.. template of contemporary Medical Prize Diploma
in Foundation Office
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Awards of Outstanding International Importance to Statesmen and Heroines
In his
acclaimed 2005 book
,
The Economy of Prestige
,
Professor James F. English, (Chair of the English Dept. at
the U. of Pennsylvania)
acknowledges (on p. ix)
Jeffrey
"Nobel Jeff" Schramek and (on p. 158) relies on Schramek's
input regarding the history of sales of Nobel Prize medals.
Dr. English elaborates on Schramek's info on this history in the relevant footnote (found on p. 367); Dr. English also refers to Awards of Outstanding Intenational Importance in an enigmatic paragraph on pp. 173-74, with corresponding footnote on p. 369.
(World-Class Awards to Statesmen and Heroines)
See Economic Times (India) April 7, 2004 article by Vikram Doctor, "Nobel Price: way over Rs 10 lakh" quoting extensively (and fairly: "Schramek, a Chicago-based dealer, has the only Nobel for sale in the world") and describing J. Schramek's views, esp. about the appeal of the Nobel Prize, in an analysis of the Indian Government's offer of (a measly) $22,000 for return of the stolen 1913 Nobel medal of Rabindranath Tagore, an Indian national hero.
Aruna Srinivasan on her blog "
The Waves
," reacted on Thursday, April 8, 2004, in "Different strokes," to Mr. Doctor's story, by agreeing with J. Schramek's assessment of the Tagore medal situation, concluding: "There can be no prize tags for such treasures. Nor is India a rich country to offer such huge sacks of cash for the stolen national treasure.
But then, even in plain speak of economic calculations, do you get a fair idea of what we lost?
Or what we failed to preserve?"
See third section, "NEUTRONS FOR ALL," (on value of Sir J. Chadwick's Nobel set) in column, " Workers pipe up at K-25, told to flush their problem" by FRANK MUNGER, (munger@knews.com), Knoxville News Sentinel, November 5, 2003: "Chadwick's Nobel is a world treasure, worthy of being the focus of a museum," the Shramek Web site proclaims. "As gilt Best-Picture Oscars bring $15,000-$1.5 million, what might the best gold and hand-painted Nobel set be worth?
Answer: a lot.
See entry on J. Schramek's "Award Collection" on pp. 122-23 of the 2003 book Wild Chicago: The Companion Guidebook to the Wildly Popular Television Show
Click on the photo above to go to a page where you can play an Interview with J. Schramek which was telecast on Swedish National Television, during (the intermission of) the national telecast of the Nobel Prize ceremonies, on 10 December 2006. The subject was Sir James Chadwick's Nobel Prize group.
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