KOLBE & FANNING SALE 152 ANNOUNCED

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The E-Sylum: Volume 22, Number 13, March 31, 2019, Article 3

KOLBE & FANNING SALE 152 ANNOUNCED

Kolbe & Fanning's next numismatic literature sale will close April 27, 2019. Here's the announcement. -Editor

Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers are announcing our Sale 152, which will be held on Saturday, April 27, 2019. The 441-lot sale is entirely devoted to North American numismatics (though a number of important catalogues issued by American dealers offering ancient and foreign coins are also included). Material from the libraries of Doug Robins, Philip J. Carrigan and John P. Donoghue are featured, as are special offerings from the libraries of Reed Hawn, Del Bland and Q. David Bowers. The sale will be of particular interest to collectors of Canadian coins, medals, tokens and paper money.

Some highlights of the sale include:

Grant's set of Loubat Medallic History of the United States of America

Lot 263

Lot 263: President Ulysses S. Grant's set of Loubat's Medallic History of the United States of America, presented by the author to the subject of two of the medals described and depicted therein

Lots 324 and 411

Lot 324: all four of Wayte Raymond's W.W.C. Wilson sales, including the rare fourth sale (1928)

Lot 411: an unpublished work on the William Wood coinage, written by Robert Vlack and Philip Keller and annotated by Walter Breen.

Lots 111 and 217

Lot 111: an attractive copy of the 1911 Stanislaus Siedlecki catalogue with photographic plates, part of a consignment from legendary collector Reed Hawn featuring nearly every large-format plated Chapman catalogue

Lot 217: over 100 Jeffrey Hoare sale catalogues, many being Doug and Rita Robins's annotated saleroom copies

Hickox Historical Account of American Coinage

Hutchings's California Magazine san Francisco Mint article

Lots 214 and 228

Lot 214: a handsome copy of Hickcox's 1858 Historical Account of American Coinage

Lot 228: James Hutchings's illustrated 1856 account of the San Francisco Mint

Lots 341 and 439

Lot 341: a set of Doug Robins's fixed price list, A Collector's Item, from his own library

Lot 439: Andrew Zabriskie's rare 1873 catalogue of medals honoring Abraham Lincoln

The printed catalogue of Sale 152 will be mailed to active customers in the near future. A PDF of the printed catalogue has been posted to our main website at numislit.com for those who prefer that format. Bids placed via post, email, fax or phone must be received by Friday, April 26, the day before the sale, in order for them to be processed. Advance absentee bids may also be placed at any time online at bid.numislit.com; live internet bidding will be available during the sale itself through the same platform.

Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers LLC is a licensed and bonded auction firm in the State of Ohio. For more information, please see the Kolbe & Fanning website at bid.numislit.com or email David Fanning at df@numislit.com.

Wayne Homren, Editor

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