KRESS AUCTION SALE CATALOGS ON NEWMAN PORTAL

Kress Auction Sale Catalogs on Newman Portal

In viewing the scanning queue at the American Numismatic Society, a recently digitized run of Karl Kress auction sale catalogs caught my eye. Kress, based in Salzburg, was the successor to Otto Helbing (sale nos. 1-88), and numbering in the Kress series begins with no. 89 in 1944. (As an aside, I've always been curious how numismatic sales managed to continue in a war-torn continent – another subject for another day.)

Ted Buttrey's Numismatic Auction Catalogues and Fixed Price Lists details over 55,000 auction sale catalogs and fixed price lists in the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge University and is the first place to look for related bibliographic information. Buttrey notes sales no. 89 – 191, from 1944 to 1986, and nos. 89-157 are now available. John Spring's Ancient Coin Auction Catalogues identifies four of these sales (nos. 106, 110, 112, and 116) as significant for ancient numismatics. Many thanks to Lara Jacobs, who performs scanning and metadata processing at American Numismatic Society, under sponsorship of Newman Numismatic Portal.

Link to Karl Kress auction sale catalogs:
https://archive.org/details/newmannumismatic?tab=collection&query=kress&page=2&sort=-publicdate

Link to Ted Buttrey's Numismatic Auction Catalogues and Fixed Price Lists:
https://archive.org/details/buttreylists

 

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