NEWMAN PORTAL ADDS ANS DUPLICATE U.S. AUCTIONS

One of the strengths of the American Numismatic Society library is the duplicate catalogs in the early U.S. auction sale series. Many of these contain annotations found nowhere else, making each copy effectively unique. Researchers have long learned to request all copies of a sale of interest, and ANS librarians (David Hill, previously Elizabeth Hahn Benge and Frank Campbell) have become well acquainted with their respective locations in the stacks.

A representative example is the Woodward sale of the Holland collection on April 28-May 1, 1863. Three copies are found, all priced, but one contains lot viewing notes not found in the others. Over 600 sale catalogs in the collection are represented by duplicate copies, and 200 of these are represented by triplicate copies. The ANS collection on Internet Archive now contains over 2,000 distinct sales, with coverage of John Adams' United States Numismatic Literature (vol. 1) at over 95%. In addition, many of the lesser known 19th century firms, not listed in Adams, are also represented, such as Joseph Leonard, M. Thomas, George Leavitt, etc.

The Newman Portal acknowledges ANS Librarian David Hill and Internet Archive associate John Graffeo for their ongoing participation in this effort.

Link to Woodward's sale of the Holland collection on the Newman Portal: https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/auctionlots?AucCoId=29&AuctionId=511196 (additional copies of the sale are linked at the lower left corner - "IAID 1," etc.)

Link to all auction catalogs on the Newman Portal: https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/auctioncompanies

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