Photographic Copies of the Newcomer Plates by B. Max Mehl.
Included are: (35) 8 inch x 10 color photographs printed on Fujicolor paper with a handwritten note "Copies of the Newcomer plates purchased by Don Kagin at the Kolbe 1993 ANA sale. Supposedly, only 4 or 5 copies were made." Waldo C. Newcomer (1867-1934) was one of the most active and important numismatists in the United States during the early 20th century. According to his obituary published in the September 1934 issue of The Numismatist, "With possibly one or two exceptions his series of U.S. coins was complete. His collection of territorial or private gold and pattern coins was also remarkably complete." In 1914 and 1919 Newcomer disposed of some of his duplicates via auction with B. Max Mehl, but the core of the collection remained intact until the early 1930s. A few years before his death, Newcomer sold most of his collection to Mehl. In the March 1932 issue of The Numismatist Mehl advertised that he had acquired "approximately four thousand different coins" and that a "Catalog is now in preparation, and when completed will serve as a real reference work on the entire American coinage." The catalog never happened, but a few sets of photographs were made of some of the United States gold and silver issues, along with territorial and commemorative gold coins. The photographs in this lot are copies of those that were made. The plates are remarkable with numerous rarities included, as an example, the 1825/4/1 Capped Head Left half eagle in Proof-67 Cameo that we sold in our Summer 2022 Global Showcase auction for $4,080,000.
From the Cardinal Collection Educational Foundation.

Estimate: $500