Various [Wayne Homren, compiler]. BINDERS 60, 63 & 64: AUCTION CATALOGUES. Includes the following: 1) Ed. Frossard’s 50 Auction Sale of Coins (February 19–20, 1886); 2) Ben G. Green’s LXX-LXXI Public Auction Sales (July 26–27, 1912); 3) John W. Haseltine’s S.W. Chubbuck Sale (February 25–28, 1873); 4) John W. Haseltine’s Sixtieth Sale: Isaac F. Wood (July 5–7, 1882), hand-priced and with PRL, and Eighty-Second Sale (November 6–7, 1884, hand-priced); 5) Samuel Hatch’s Catalogue of a Collection of Coins and Medals (October 19, 1866, partly priced but in very faded ink); 6) J.C. Morgenthau’s Sale No. 397 (April 12, 1939); 7) Wayte Raymond’s The Pierpont Morgan Collection (1953) and Mail Bid Sale January 31, 1939; 8) S.H. & H. Chapman blank 1880s bid sheet; 9) reprints of the Beckwith and Frossard collection plates; 10) reprints of the Sargent and Cleneay collection plates; 11) reprints of the Winsor collection plates; 12) W. Elliot Woodward’s 54th Sale (December 28–29, 1882, hand-priced with plate); 13) S.H. Morgan’s hand-priced copy of Woodward’s Mickley sale (October 28, 1867); 14) Jos. B. Burleigh’s Postage Stamp Sale in Baltimore (May 18, 1882) and Coin Sale in Baltimore (January 25, 1882); 15) John W. Haseltine’s October 29–30, 1872 catalogue of the C.N. Bodey collection; 16) Thomas L. Elder’s June 1–3, 1922 and May 13–15, 1937 sales (the latter with PRL); 17) William Hesslein catalogues: January 18–19, 1924; November 18–19, 1927; and March 29–30, 1928; 18) Henry H. Leeds & Co.’s Sale of Martha Washington Half Dime (June 28–29, 1860, partly priced); 19) R.W. Mercer’s Coin Sale (May 23, 1879, hand-priced); 20) Stack’s Auction Sale (November 25, 1939); 21) three Stack’s postcards from the 1947 ANA Convention; 22) Schulman and Kreisberg postcards; 23) Geo. A. Leavitt & Co.’s Priced Catalogue of Coins, Medals, Continental Money and Postage Stamps, Being the Collection of Benjamin Haines (April 11–12, 1872, hand-priced); 24) Sullivan Bros & Libbie Catalogue of a Collection of Coins and Medals (January 23, 1883, hand-priced); 25) United States Coin Co.’s Catalogue of the Very Fine Collection of United States Silver Coins Formed by the Late Geo. B. Delaney (November 21, 1912), Collection of Fine United States Coins (June 26, 1913), Catalogue of a Remarkable Collection of Hard Times Tokens... (November 9, 1915, partly priced), and Catalogue Collections of Hard Times Tokens, California Gold Coins and United States Cents (January 21, 1916); and 26) W. Elliot Woodward’s Sixty-Seventh Sale: The Levick Collection (May 26–29, 1884) and Eighty-Fourth Sale: The Tilton Collection (April 20, 1886). Generally fine or nearly so. Three of the binders from Wayne Homren’s collection of numismatic ephemera, these being devoted to early auction catalogues. The Chubbuck sale (1873) is one of Haseltine’s most important catalogues. Adams rates it an A overall: “Washington Funeral Medal in gold. NE shilling. 1823 and 1827 25¢.” Samuel Winchester Chubbuck (1799–1875) was a telegraphic pioneer, though neither Haseltine nor Attinelli have much to say about him. The printed prices realized list of the Isaac F. Wood collection sale, held by Haseltine in July 1882, is considerably more rare than the catalogue itself. Woodward’s 54th sale is the Maas collection. Very scarce with the plate, which depicts European silver, a copper Continental Currency dollar, a Masonic piece and American store cards. Woodward’s Mickley sale is perhaps the most important of the catalogues here present, and this copy is interesting for being S.H. Morgan’s personal hand-priced copy. The 1860 Leeds sale is unusual. The collection of Jacob Glosser, Attinelli wrote of it (page 19) that: “This catalogue is of the usual 8vo size, but is printed and bound differently, the width being of the usual height, and vice-versa, the sale advertised did not take place; the collection was withdrawn, re-catalogued, and sold by Messrs. Bangs, Merwin & Co., on the 12th of July following.” The 1884 Levick sale is very important. Adams A: “Definitive store cards, hard times tokens with many of the former in silver. Bouquet sous. 54 gold patterns. Standish 3¢.” Joseph N.T. Levick was a major figure in the early days of American numismatics. His collection of American storecards, “The Money of the Merchants,” was unsurpassed, and is one of the most desirable sale catalogues in the Woodward series. The United States Coin Company sales are always interesting and are difficult to collect. Includes some other scare and notable sales, as well as the useful coin plate reprints. Ex Wayne Homren Library.
Price realized | 450 USD |
Starting price | 200 USD |
Estimate | 300 USD |