Mark and Lottie Salton’s extremely friendly relationship with the House of Künker led them to also involve Fritz Rudolf Künker in the dissolution of their magnificent life’s work. Dr Ursula Kampmann has put together a history of the Hamburger and Schlessinger families in a work which will be published by the Fritz Rudolf Künker numismatic publishing entity. We thank Ursula Kampmann for this special work, and all others who have contributed to it. On their behalf, we would like to especially thank our colleague Frau Alexandra Elflein-Schwier, who following the death of Mark Salton on 31 December 2005 took care of his wife Lottie in a most touching manner, and made sure that the memory of Lottie’s family the Aronsteins was kept alive. 

At the end of Ursula Kampmann’s work, a post-scriptum notably recorded the following: “It is a great honour for the House of Künker that Lottie and Mark Salton have stipulated in their will that their important numismatic collection should be auctioned jointly in New York and Osnabrück by the American auction house Stack’s Bowers Galleries and by Künker.” 

We pay respectful tribute to the lifetime achievement of these friends, who had lost everything, and are humbly grateful for the trust placed in us. May the auction of the Lottie and Mark Salton collection be another sign of reconciliation.