SCOTT RUBIN LIBRARY PART TWO HIGHLIGHTS

Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers are conducting our mail-bid sale of Part Two of the P. Scott Rubin Library, which closes on Saturday, July 10, 2021. The 923-lot sale features material from the extraordinary library formed over the course of more than fifty years by Scott Rubin, of which highlights were sold in our Sale 157 last year. The auction is being held as a traditional mail-bid sale, for which the catalogue is available as a PDF. The present sale includes not only auction catalogues, but books, periodicals, and archival and ephemeral items. While most of the offerings focus on U.S. coins, a number of items pertain to ancient and world coins, and the sale includes something for everybody.

Some highlights of the sale include:

• Lot 180: a set of 43 consecutive Early American Coppers convention auction catalogues, 1977–2019, an important series of sales focusing on U.S. large cents and half cents
• Lot 290: an essentially complete set of 55 auction catalogues issued by Dayton, Ohio dealer James Kelly
• Lot 371: a nearly complete set of Numismatic Fine Arts auction catalogues, an important series for ancient coins
• Lot 385: a substantial run of Jess Peters auction catalogues featuring coins of the world, including 111 of the 129 catalogues issued
• Lot 431: a sizeable group of 32 auction catalogues issued by J.W. Scott (Scott & Co.), including a number of priced catalogues and two with plates
• Lot 450: an extensive collection of 140 R.M. Smythe (and Spink-Smythe) catalogues, highly important for paper money
• Lot 496: a group of 139 catalogues issued by Superior Stamp & Coin (Superior Galleries) focusing on United States issues
• Lot 725: the scarce first printing of Newman and Bressett’s 1962 The Fantastic 1804 Dollar, inscribed and signed by both authors
• Lot 800: James Garfield’s copy of the 1871 Mint Report, a scarce report that was sent to Garfield while he was a member of the House of Representatives (he was later elected president, and was the second U.S. president to be assassinated)
• Lot 917: a complete set of The Asylum, the quarterly publication of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society.

With estimates ranging from $10 to $750, the sale is being conducted as a traditional mail-bid sale. There is no printed catalogue: the PDF catalogue can be downloaded at numislit.com. Bids may be placed via post, email, fax or phone, but there will be no live online bidding. Bids may be placed at any time, and must be received by 5:00 pm Eastern Time on Saturday, July 10, 2021. See the Terms of Sale in the PDF catalogue for details.

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 numislit.com or email David Fanning at df@numislit.com. We look forward to your participation.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
SCOTT RUBIN LIBRARY PART TWO MAIL BID SALE (https://www.coinbooks.org/v24/esylum_v24n26a02.html)

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