The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 36, September 5, 2004, Article 3

ANS LIBRARY SALE REPORT

  Chiming in with additional information on the recent fundraising
  auction for the American Numismatic Society Library chair
  fund, John W. Adams writes: "On Thursday evening of the
  American Numismatic Association convention, the ANS
  conducted its auction of 50 donated lots of numismatic literature,
  all of which were valuable and many of which were especially
  interesting. The attendance was "dampened" somewhat by the
  heavy rains to which Pittsburgh treated us.  Nonetheless, 40
  hardy bibliophiles gathered for what proved to be a truly
  memorable occasion.  Ye editor Wayne Homren had provided
  us with a simpatico setting at the upstairs of Tambellinis
  Restaurant. George Kolbe had performed his usual world-class
  cataloguing.  And Denis Loring called the auction of his life - we
  were in stitches from start to finish.

  The auction was buttressed by a plethora of generous mailbids
  but nothing could top lot 1, a special edition of Adams on Indian
  peace medals: after a furious floor fight, it hammered down at
  $1,250 whence an unnamed officer of the ANS closed everyone
  out with a bid of $10,000 !!  Matters continued uphill from there.
  The final tally was $89,500, an obviously meaningful gift to the
  Francis D.Campbell Library Chair. Gold stars to Homren, Kolbe
  and Loring.  Many more gold stars to the bibliophiles who
  donated and those who bid."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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