NEWMAN PORTAL SCANS LARGE FORMAT CHAPMAN CATALOGS

Newman Numismatic Portal Scans Large Format Chapman Catalogs
From the Hamelberg Library

The Newman Portal has added a number of large format catalogs from the auction firms of Samuel H. and Henry Chapman. Combined with previous loans from Dan Hamelberg, the Portal now has over 120 of the 161 Chapman sales listed in Martin Gengerke’s American Numismatic Auctions. Included in this latest addition is a named and priced copy of the Stickney sale (1907), and the cataloger’s opening remarks resonate to the present time. “This celebrated collection has for many years been a mystery, as hardly any one of the present generation had seen anything of it…” wrote Henry Chapman, and today we similarly relate to the unveiling of collections quietly formed over a long period of time.

The Bushnell bid book (1882) is also here, the definitive record of one of the most important sales in American numismatics. Included as well are Mills (1904), Zabriskie (1909), Earle (1912), Jackman (1918), and others, many priced and named. John Ford, Jr. wrote in the August 1950 Numismatist “A complete set of the large size Chapman catalogs belongs in any numismatic library worthy of the name.” Most of our libraries fail by that standard, so we extend thanks to Dan Hamelberg for making this a virtual possibility to anyone with an Internet connection

To read the Chapman catalogs in the Newman collection on Internet Archive, see:
https://archive.org/details/newmannumismatic?and%5B%5D=chapman

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